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55KRC Thursday Show - Warren Davidson, Chuck Klein, Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: 505.
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  Speaker 3: A 55K RC. The Talk Station. Friday Eve.
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  Speaker 1: Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea what was going on. You know what?
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  Speaker 3: I kind of feel the same way. Thank you, Joe Strecker,
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  Speaker 3: for the soundbite. Joe Strecker, executive producer. My name is
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  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas, host of the 55KRC Morning Show, which you
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  Speaker 3: can find online, 55KRC. iHeart. com. I encourage you to do that
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  Speaker 3: because the podcast page is there if you can't listen
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  Speaker 3: live to the often controversial comments of Judge Anna Napolitano.
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  Speaker 3: That was the case yesterday. Donald Neal, Americans for Prosperity,
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  Speaker 3: not giving up. Got some legislative work to do, says AFP.
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  Speaker 3: And they're hard at work trying to advance some really
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  Speaker 3: critically important things here in the state of Ohio before
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  Speaker 3: the Republicans lose their supermajority. The big picture with Jack
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  Speaker 3: Atherton yesterday, Groucho and the national debt. Always informative and
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  Speaker 3: quite often comical. Appreciate Jack Atherton joining the program. And
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  Speaker 3: what is coming up on the program? Thank you, Joe Strecker,
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  Speaker 3: again for the lineup. Congressman Warren Davidson. Got a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things to go over with Congressman Davidson, including what's
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  Speaker 3: going to be happening between now and when everyone goes home.
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  Speaker 3: Beyond that, Jim Jordan, of course, named the minority leader,
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  Speaker 3: and Pete Hegseth obviously didn't get impeached the other day.
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  Speaker 3: They tabled that resolution from Congressman Massey. Democrats are going
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  Speaker 3: to dust it off and try it again. Although, swirling controversy,
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  Speaker 3: I guess the measure would have passed, except a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the Democrats didn't bother showing up. Yeah, more than
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  Speaker 3: enough to have allowed that legislation to pass. Some claim
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  Speaker 3: they were stuck in traffic.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's so damn important you get in and vote on
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  Speaker 3: something like that. Don't you plan ahead? Anyway, swirling criticisms
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  Speaker 3: within the ranks of the Democrat Party. Not my concern
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  Speaker 3: right now. My concern, Chuck Klein, coming up at 8.05.
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  Speaker 3: I had the honor and privilege of lunch with Peter
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  Speaker 3: Bronson yesterday. Good friend. He's just a great guy to
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  Speaker 3: talk to. Brilliant writer in his own right. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: he's a publisher. He told me about Chuck Klein, who's
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  Speaker 3: coming up in the morning show, coming at 8.05. written
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  Speaker 3: a book circa 1967, which is a continuation of his
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  Speaker 3: prolific writer, this man is, historical fiction in the case
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  Speaker 3: of circa 1967. It's a follow-up story about the protagonist
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  Speaker 3: that we were introduced to in circa 1957. And all
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  Speaker 3: of the events are based on stuff that actually happened
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  Speaker 3: in Chuck Klein's life. Now, I really wish Chuck was
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  Speaker 3: going to be in studio because Peter was waxing poetic
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  Speaker 3: about it. And you're going to love this guy. He's
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  Speaker 3: a law enforcement officer, private investigator, firefighter, car guy. He's
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  Speaker 3: written all kinds of things about cars. And he's a
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  Speaker 3: gun guy, too, in addition to having, well, some serious skills,
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  Speaker 3: tactical training. He's written a whole bunch of articles and
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  Speaker 3: books about firearms.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like my kind of guy, at least in my wheelhouse.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Klein, 805. We'll talk about circa 1967, and of course,
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  Speaker 3: it being Friday Eve. Jay Ratliff. Jay Ratliff with aviation stories,
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  Speaker 3: including the crazy guy who tried to break into the cabin.
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  Speaker 3: Turns out that guy was a migrant who, well, asserted
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  Speaker 3: previously he was transgender and had HIV in order to
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  Speaker 3: stay in the country because he feared for his own life.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a transgender person in my country. They're going to
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  Speaker 3: kill me. Now, Mr. Neckbeard... That ain't going to fly.
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  Speaker 3: Honduran Roni Alexander Gomez Alberto claimed he had a bomb
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  Speaker 3: when he tried to storm the cockpit of United Flight 2174.
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  Speaker 3: So that, among the articles and stories we'll talk about
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  Speaker 3: with Jay Ratliff. Love talking with you. 513-749-5500. 800-823-TALK. Pound
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  Speaker 3: 550 on AT & T phones. Risk running a little
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  Speaker 3: bit over. Yesterday, Veterans Day, and I found this wonderful article,
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  Speaker 3: James Freeman, talking about James Freeman. Capers Jr., who just
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  Speaker 3: recently was awarded the Medal of Honor earlier this year,
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  Speaker 3: and since yesterday was Veterans Day, this is the kind
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  Speaker 3: of badassery that we should always salute. And that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of the point of James Freeman highlighting this guy. White
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  Speaker 3: House Ceremony June, Trump presented the Medal of Honor to
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  Speaker 3: retired Marine Corps Major James Capers Jr., a legend among
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  Speaker 3: Marines deserving to be celebrated every American household, and I
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  Speaker 3: would argue every day. 1966, he was a platoon sergeant.
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  Speaker 3: receive a rare battlefield promotion to second lieutenant. And columnist
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  Speaker 3: at the Charlotte Observer, Ethan Rock, wrote about this and
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  Speaker 3: how he came about being awarded, not winning, the Medal
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  Speaker 3: of Honor. He was on what was called Team Broadminded
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  Speaker 3: for their tactical efficiency. That's the name of Mr. Capers
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  Speaker 3: and his men in Vietnam. So, Mr. Rock writes, by
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  Speaker 3: March 1967, Marines of 3rd Force Recon in Vietnam had
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  Speaker 3: likely killed or wounded hundreds of enemy soldiers, but many
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  Speaker 3: of the 39 Marines who originally deployed in April 1966
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  Speaker 3: had become casualties themselves. The survivors were battle-fatigued, shorthanded, waiting
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  Speaker 3: to be relieved by another 4th Recon unit when Capers
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  Speaker 3: was given orders to locate a suspected North Vietnamese regimental
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  Speaker 3: base camp near Phu Loc. He gathered the team broad-minded
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  Speaker 3: core members, Ron Yerman, Cabra's trusted assistant, team leader and
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  Speaker 3: first radio operator, Sergeant Richard Kripow, another seasoned sergeant and
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  Speaker 3: the team's second radio operator, and Billy Ray, a.k.a. Doc Smith,
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  Speaker 3: the team's medical corpsman. Kripow recalled, he asked us if
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  Speaker 3: we would volunteer to go on our last combat patrol
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  Speaker 3: into an almost impossible situation. He said, I've been ordered
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  Speaker 3: to go, but you don't have to. The sergeants and
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  Speaker 3: the corpsmen looked at each other. There was no question.
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  Speaker 3: Where you go, we go, Krapow said.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Rock described the end of the four-day patrol. The team
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  Speaker 3: found four booby-trap trails, likely ambush sites, which Capers reported
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  Speaker 3: to M Company commander, who then ordered Capers to take
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  Speaker 3: his team back through the sites. Capers' men knew the
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  Speaker 3: commander was essentially using the reconnaissance team as bait. to
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  Speaker 3: flush out the enemy forces so the regular infantry could
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  Speaker 3: swoop in for the kind of large battle the big
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  Speaker 3: brass strategy demanded at the time. On the last day
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  Speaker 3: of the patrol, April 3rd, Capers and his nine-man team
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  Speaker 3: maneuvered slowly and carefully, identifying and withdrawing from three ambush sites.
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  Speaker 3: As the team was about to withdraw from a fourth,
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  Speaker 3: the team's war dog, Canine, King was the canine's name,
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  Speaker 3: he alerted. Then the Claymore mines detonated. Massive nightmarish explosions
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  Speaker 3: swallowed the team in a shockwave of steel balls that
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  Speaker 3: punched through limbs and torsos. More than a dozen North
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  Speaker 3: Vietnamese soldiers opened fire from two directions, with rifles, machine guns,
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  Speaker 3: and grenades wounding every member of the team. The initial
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  Speaker 3: blast killed King and knocked Capers against a tree, leaving
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  Speaker 3: his body punctured in 14 places and his right leg broken.
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  Speaker 3: As Freeman notes, most of us career civilians would probably
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  Speaker 3: figure that 14 body punctures and a broken leg are
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  Speaker 3: enough to call a day, but Capers had not yet
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  Speaker 3: even begun to fight. Capers ordered Yerman to redistribute the
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  Speaker 3: team's ammo, pull the injured men into a tight perimeter. Smith,
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  Speaker 3: bleeding from his neck and face, sprinted from man to man,
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  Speaker 3: treating and dressing their wounds. Capers kept firing his rifle
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  Speaker 3: and throwing grenades as he shouted orders. Smith gave Capers
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  Speaker 3: a shot of morphine, then darted away to treat other Marines.
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  Speaker 3: As Yerman called for help from the grunts and worked
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  Speaker 3: on getting medical evacuation helicopters inbound, Capers ordered Krapow to
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  Speaker 3: call in mortars dangerously close to the Marines' position, a
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  Speaker 3: risky gamble that silenced the enemy guns. Capers told his men,
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to die on this trail. We're going home,
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  Speaker 3: and we're going home like Marines. With help from the
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  Speaker 3: line grunts, team broad-minded hobbled down a winding, rain-swept trail
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  Speaker 3: toward the helicopter landing zone. Capers used his rifle like
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  Speaker 3: a cane, limping along, blood sloshing in his jungle boots.
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  Speaker 3: At the landing zone, with bullets whipping and cracking around him, Capers,
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  Speaker 3: barely clinging to consciousness, refused to board the helicopter until
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  Speaker 3: every last man and his dog's body were aboard. When
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  Speaker 3: the aircraft struggled to take off under the weight of
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  Speaker 3: its load, Capers yelled to the crew chief, it's no good,
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  Speaker 3: and tried to sacrifice himself by exiting the aircraft so
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  Speaker 3: it could get in the air. The crew chief pulled
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  Speaker 3: him back inside twice before the pilot managed to gain
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  Speaker 3: some speed and lift off. His Medal of Honor citation notes,
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  Speaker 3: by his bold leadership, undaunted courage, and complete dedication to duty,
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  Speaker 3: Second Lieutenant Capers reflected great credit upon himself and upheld
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  Speaker 3: the highest tradition of the Marine Corps. and the United
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  Speaker 3: States Naval Service. Perhaps most surprising for a contemporary audience,
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  Speaker 3: Freeman writes, was he was willing to sacrifice everything for
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  Speaker 3: a flawed country that was too often still failing to
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  Speaker 3: protect his God-given rights. It's notable, Mr. Capers, a black man.
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  Speaker 3: In 1943, Capers' family fled the Jim Crow South to Baltimore, Maryland.
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  Speaker 3: Four of his seven brothers and sisters died before age 10.
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  Speaker 3: When Caperson enlisted in the Marines in 1956, his father
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  Speaker 3: drove him to the train station and explained that he
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  Speaker 3: would always have to perform better than his peers if
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  Speaker 3: he wanted to succeed. Quote, the Marine Corps did not
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  Speaker 3: welcome individuals like me, Capers said, but the hierarchy thought,
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  Speaker 3: if he's got the skills, at least give him the
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  Speaker 3: chance to try, and that's all I really wanted. Even
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  Speaker 3: after his exemplary service in Vietnam earned Major Capers the
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  Speaker 3: battlefield commission, Reporter Rock notes, still, Capers understood that any
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  Speaker 3: failure could reinforce racist beliefs about whether black Marines should
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  Speaker 3: become officers. He said, had I drowned on a dive
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  Speaker 3: mission or had I made the wrong decision, then it
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  Speaker 3: would have given the naysayers fodder for saying, we knew
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  Speaker 3: we shouldn't commission those guys, so I couldn't fail, he said.
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  Speaker 3: I had to succeed. I had to make sure I
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  Speaker 3: kept my troops alive. after receiving the Medal of Honor
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  Speaker 3: from Trump. Capers was inducted into the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes.
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  Speaker 3: Capers said at that ceremony, Your applause reminds me of
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  Speaker 3: some dark days, of some brave men who are not
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  Speaker 3: here today, so I'll speak for them. This is the
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  Speaker 3: greatest country in the world. I fought for that flag.
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  Speaker 3: I believed in it. He rolled in his wheelchair alongside
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  Speaker 3: close friends and family members down a long Pentagon hallway
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  Speaker 3: as hundreds of friends, supporters, and distinguished guests gave a
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  Speaker 3: long overdue hero's reception. As he stared up with a
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  Speaker 3: proud smile at a sea of applauding admirers, he reached
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  Speaker 3: out to shake hands and expressed his thanks with a
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  Speaker 3: sharp salute. Thanks to you, Major Capers. It's a wonderful story. Heroism.
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  Speaker 3: And a man who, you know, wasn't treated quite well
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  Speaker 3: by his own country, but knew what this country stands for.
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  Speaker 3: And he was willing to die for it. Wish we
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  Speaker 3: had more people like him around. 517-55-KRC-TALK. Station 513-749-5500-800-823-TALK. Pound
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  Speaker 3: 550 on AT & T phones. Don't go away. I'll
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  Speaker 4: Freeze.
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  Speaker 6: Great.
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  Speaker 5: 513-749-5500-800-823-TALK.
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  Speaker 3: Pound 550 on AT & T phones. Of course, Friday
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  Speaker 3: Eve means tomorrow's Friday. Duh, that, of course, means Tech
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  Speaker 3: Friday with Dave Hatter, 630. And I bring that up
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  Speaker 3: just to remind you every Friday at 630, it's appointment listening.
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  Speaker 3: Extremely valuable information Dave passes along. And stuff like this. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is only going to get worse. We've
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  Speaker 3: had this happen around our neighboring school. Somebody calls in
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  Speaker 3: a bomb threat. It's a hoax, right? Well, how about
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  Speaker 3: on a thousands of threats? of email threats coming in
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  Speaker 3: at one time. That's what happened yesterday. Hoax bomb threats
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  Speaker 3: emailed to thousands of schools across Italy, including Ireland, Scotland,
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  Speaker 3: and Northern Ireland. Bomb threats described as a wave of threats. And,
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  Speaker 3: of course, you recall the airports being closed. That's happened
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  Speaker 3: quite a few times. Same thing, bomb threats being called.
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  Speaker 3: In this particular case, Italy's education ministry said the email
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  Speaker 3: reached roughly 6,000 1,000 schools and 300 of them at
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  Speaker 3: least were evacuated. The email read, We have come to
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  Speaker 3: annihilate you. We will carry out a genocide against the Italians.
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  Speaker 3: Claimed that a powerful device, that's in quotes, was left
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  Speaker 3: in a plastic bag with a remote detonator. Another line
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  Speaker 3: claimed a bomb had been planted in the engine of
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  Speaker 3: the prime minister's car. Signed, Mikhail Atropov, leader of the
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  Speaker 3: Vilyat of misogynist stand. Cute. Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney wrote
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  Speaker 3: in social media, no element has emerged that would suggest
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  Speaker 3: a concrete danger. Said the alert seemed attributable to a
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  Speaker 3: strategy to generate harm and concern.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Education Minister there put the count of the affected schools
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  Speaker 3: at 312 and said a concrete risk is practically non-existent.
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  Speaker 3: Defense Minister Guido Corsetto said the threats are aimed to
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  Speaker 3: spread fear and create anxiety. I imagine they would. They
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  Speaker 3: say the email was traced to a compromised account in
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  Speaker 3: Taiwan's Dei University, possibly, although not affirmatively, stated a former
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  Speaker 3: student's account. Reuters reported the same purported actor claimed responsibility
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  Speaker 3: for an email bomb threat sent last Friday to newsrooms
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  Speaker 3: in Ireland and Bulgaria. Ireland, about 400 schools, got the
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  Speaker 3: email yesterday morning, along with schools in Dublin. So threats
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  Speaker 3: are only going to increase, I presume. And the question is,
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  Speaker 3: how do you go about your life if constant threats
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  Speaker 3: are coming in literally from the four corners of the world?
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  Speaker 3: You think about Taiwan, hell and gone from Italy. Anybody
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  Speaker 3: can drop a dime anywhere. So we're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to measure and learn what we're going to take seriously
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  Speaker 3: or not because, you know, like COVID-19, you have the
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  Speaker 3: kids at home all the time. And I can also imagine, look,
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah, if you're going to get kids to eat
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  Speaker 3: Tide Pods because it's a social media challenge, they're willing
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  Speaker 3: to harm themselves and force poison down their throat just
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  Speaker 3: because the other kids are doing it and you're going
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  Speaker 3: to get your social media account clicked on more. What
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  Speaker 3: if this became a fad? It'd be tough being a
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  Speaker 3: parent these days if every single day your kid's going
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  Speaker 3: off to school, somebody's dialing in a bomb threat or
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  Speaker 3: emailing a bomb threat. Frightening stuff. Crazy world we live in. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
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  Speaker 3: Pound 550 on your AT & T phone while the
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  Speaker 3: Iranians are promising to bomb literally anything and anyone that
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  Speaker 3: is American off the face of the earth. Iran assassins
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  Speaker 3: are on the loose. Don't go away. We've got more
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  Speaker 3: to talk about. The local stories or phone calls, either
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  Speaker 3: way you go, it's 525 right now. 55KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 6: 55KRC.
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  Speaker 5: The free iHeartRadio app is.
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  Speaker 3: Wait for the next segment to end, Brian. That's when
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  Speaker 3: you'll do the traffic report.
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  Speaker 7: 513-749-5500.
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  Speaker 8: 810-823-TALK.
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  Speaker 3: Hot 550 on your AT & T phone. Bat crap
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  Speaker 3: insane and illustrative of the left wing. They're violent people,
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  Speaker 3: these left wingers. I thought it was the evil right
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  Speaker 3: wing folks who want to go around and murder everybody
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  Speaker 3: and get all slappy and punchy. And it turns out
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  Speaker 3: the left wingers are doing it all the time. You
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  Speaker 3: know why? Because they can't respond to arguments. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I advance a logical and reasonable thing. Economics. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 3: talk about dollars and cents. You people screaming for Medicare
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  Speaker 3: for all. Okay, the price tag comes in at $ 40 trillion.
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  Speaker 3: How are you going to pay for it? Simple question.
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  Speaker 3: And what do you get? Well, you're a racist or
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  Speaker 3: some stupid insult that has nothing to do with the
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  Speaker 3: underlying content of the argument you want to get involved with.
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  Speaker 3: The substantive debate. How we get from point A to
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  Speaker 3: point B. No, they'll be threatening to kill you or actually,
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  Speaker 3: you know, engaging in efforts to literally kill you. Like
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  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk, for example. Which leads me to Miami University.
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  Speaker 3: This obviously, I mean, you look at it and you think,
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  Speaker 3: something's going on with this poor child. Her eyes kind
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  Speaker 3: of stare in two different directions. A lot of social
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  Speaker 3: media commentary on that, focusing on her looks, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to do that. I'm going to focus on
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  Speaker 3: what Alexandra Patterson, 19 years old, did the other day.
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  Speaker 3: Now she's under investigation, actually been charged with crimes. Specifically,
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  Speaker 3: she was arrested for aggravated menacing, four counts, inducing panic,
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  Speaker 3: making terroristic threats, and telecommunications harassment. Her bond, $ 170, 000. What
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  Speaker 3: did she do? She expressed her desire to have anti-abortion
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  Speaker 3: students killed. Someone who is really protective of the right
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  Speaker 3: to kill babies wants to move on and go after
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  Speaker 3: adult people who are looking to protect the interests of
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  Speaker 3: the unborn. They have different opinions on when life begins, Ms. Patterson.
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  Speaker 3: You know you might want to let them go and
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  Speaker 3: have their little day and make their arguments. Pro-life students
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  Speaker 3: had an information booth set up at Armstrong Student Center
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  Speaker 3: October 28th. That's when court documents say Patterson posted a
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  Speaker 3: threatening message on social media. She wrote on something called
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  Speaker 3: Yik Yak, which is described as an app where college
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  Speaker 3: students can talk, comment, and share information online. And anonymously,
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  Speaker 3: of course, apparently any Miami University student in the area
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  Speaker 3: of October 28th could see her Yik Yak post, which read,
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  Speaker 3: how many dining dollars to Kirk the anti-abortion table at Armstrong? Now,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what Kirk means because a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people on social media are like, I thought they were
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  Speaker 3: talking about Captain Kirk. No, Kirk or Kirk has been
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  Speaker 3: used online as slang to shoot, kill, or yes, assassinate somebody.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's kind of like 86. Left-wingers. University of
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  Speaker 3: Cincinnati students raising concerns about living conditions at a place
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  Speaker 3: called C.P. Cincy describes an off-campus apartment complex. Not a
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  Speaker 3: great place to be living. UC sophomore Tori Diggs, speaking
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  Speaker 3: with Fox 19's Brooklyn Andrews, said she'd exhausted every option
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  Speaker 3: to address safety and sanitary issues. Had to move back
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  Speaker 3: home to Columbus. While still attending classes at UC, she
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  Speaker 3: needed a place to sleep. Tired of staying quiet about
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  Speaker 3: living conditions, she said, quote, it kind of feels like
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  Speaker 3: there is no way out for us, especially with all
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  Speaker 3: these traumatic events. She went to social media to vent
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: her spleen. My roommate found mold in her closet. We
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: had trash piling up on every single floor. There was
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: probably like two or three weeks worth of trash. And
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: then it caused us to have rodents, mice, etc. there
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: was rodent poop everywhere. Halloween weekend, we had a drive-by
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: shooting in our lobby. And then shortly after that, the
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: top floor of our garage, the fourth floor, we had
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: all the windows of all the cars broken out. Almost
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: everybody's car, she said. Went on to say the debris
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: was not cleaned up for days afterwards. and we were
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: supposed to get security in place by last Thursday, which
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: still has not been put in place. Nearly a couple
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: weeks after the bullets hit the building, she said a
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: boarded-up door is the only thing keeping residents in and
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: the public out. Fox 19, for its part, contacted CP's
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Cincy Leasing Office multiple times.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Ready?
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Staff members hung up when Fox 19 asked for a comment.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I'm hoping there will be some follow-up on that one.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: So we move over to other stories. Let's see what
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Corey's got this morning. Corey, welcome to the program. Happy
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Friday Eve to you. Joe, you want to let Corey on, please?
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: There you go, Corey.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: All right, here you now. I don't know if you're
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: familiar with Mark Smith.
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: He has a show called Four Boxes Diner. He brought
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: up something over the weekend on Fox News that Democrats
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: have a plan to They have a pact created about
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: the Electoral College where so far there's 22 states that
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: have went into agreement that they're going to give all
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: their Electoral College votes to the popular vote regardless how
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: people in their state vote. Well, after last week, nine
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: more states are going to sign on to that, like Virginia, Nevada, Arizona,
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: stuff like that. And that will give them more than
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: 270 electoral college votes. And they say they're going to
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: do it. They're already signing on. Virginia just signed it yesterday.
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: And there will never be another Republican elected again because
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: of it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Well, that's what happens when you get rid of the
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: electoral college. I mean, look at any state with a massive,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: heavily concentrated blue city. I mean, look at Illinois. The
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: entire state is basically red with the exception of Cook
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: County and some of the surrounding counties. That's where the
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: massive population is.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: You're going to get overwhelmed with blue votes, and you're right.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: You'll never see a Republican in office again under those circumstances.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: It's why the founders were brilliant in having an electoral college. And,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: of course, that's a huge impediment to the Democrats winning.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Can't have that. Let's take the one thing, or at
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: least one of the things, that guarantees at least some
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: balance in the United States of America. They get rid
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: of that, and you can just basically pull the flag out. Corey,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: appreciate it, man. Stay frosty. 535, coming up, it's 535,
• 22:31
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• 22:34
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• 22:36
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• 22:42
  Speaker 3: The headline on this one just really irked me.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Such a....
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Orlando woman charged with battery and witness tampering after Pokemon
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: card dispute. Now let's just let the record be clear.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I think Pokemon cards are the absolute dumbest thing. Anything
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: along the lines of collectibles like that. You got a
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: company that for whatever reason has tapped into the psychology
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: of people who think I want to hoard and collect
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: these unique and they're not unique items. And, oh, here's
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: the company. Let's only print out a smaller number, and
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: that way they will be more valuable, and people will
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: then search high and low looking for them, although they
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: could easily just print more. Anyway, you draw your own conclusions. And, yes,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: my son's 32, and these things were around when he
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: was a little tiny Todd, so he has a handful
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: of them. I never could understand them even then. So
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: we go to Orlando, Florida, where a woman's now facing
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: battery witness tampering charges after police say an argument involving
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: her ex-boyfriend's Pokemon cards escalated into a physical confrontation and
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: attempts to stop him from calling 911. Nadia Hussein, 23
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: years old, arrested first week of November, according to the
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Orlando Police Department. Affidavit said the dispute began after Hussein's
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: ex-boyfriend asked her to leave his apartment. She refused. Responding
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: officer wrote that she reviewed video showing the man telling
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Hussein he would call security if she didn't leave. And
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: according to the affidavit, Hussein struck his phone, knocking it
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: to the ground, then hit him several times on his
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: head and body while demanding that he delete the recording.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: You know, and I think about that, too. In the
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: middle of a domestic dispute, this guy got his phone
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: out and started recording it? I'm glad I don't live
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: in that immediately recording world. I... I often forget I
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: even have a camera on my phone. Anyhow, police said
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Hussein approached his Pokemon trading cards on a living room table.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Hussein told the officer she grabbed the cards and noticed
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: that doing so affected her ex-boyfriend's behavior. The man eventually
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: walked Hussein to her car, returned to his apartment, and
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: locked the door. According to his account in the affidavit,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Hussein returned asking for a bong that she'd left inside
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: the apartment. He said she promised not to enter, but
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: then forced her way inside when he partially opened the
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: door to hand her the bong. Hussein acknowledged that she
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: barged into the apartment. According to the court, man told
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: police Hussein, he grabbed Hussein by her belt, tried to
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: pull her from her bathroom, from the bathroom, while repeatedly
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: asking her to leave. She told investigators they became physical
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: with each other after she re-entered. Police said she struck
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: his phone several times to prevent him from calling 911.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Dispatchers received the 911 hang-up call from his number, according
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: to the affidavit. Neighbors eventually helped get Hussein out of
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: the apartment. Affidavit list charges domestic battery witness tampering to
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: hinder communication with a law enforcement officer doesn't lift a
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: theft charge involving the Pokemon cards. Just walk away. Oh, look,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: continuing a theme here on the 55KRC morning show, Stack
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: is Stupid This Day. We go to South Carolina where
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: a man's been arrested and accused of leaving his Six-year-old
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: daughter asleep outside of a Target store overnight to hold
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: his place in line for what's coming, Pokemon cards.
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: 35-year-old should be doing something better with his money and time,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: John Michael Dooley. had been waiting with his daughter outside
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: the store Friday in Charleston's West Ashley District. A crowd
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: had gathered overnight in the hopes of buying newly released
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Pokemon card set. That's hard to read. Police arrived at
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: the store at 2.30 in the morning after receiving reports
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: of an unattended child. Witnesses told officers that Dooley gave
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: his daughter a pillow and blanket sometime after 1 a.m.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: before leaving her asleep in line. He didn't return. after
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: an hour, which prompted the crowd to call the police.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Dillard returned to the store and was then arrested. During
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: the police interview, he admitted he'd gone home and left
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: his daughter unattended so that he could keep his place
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: in line. Charged with unlawful conduct toward a child, police
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: said the girl was unarmed and placed in an emergency
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: protective custody. Give him the award. Let's see here. Nashville
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Metropolitan Police Department Said former NFL coach Rex Ryan was
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: arrested yesterday. Outstanding warrant stemming from a hit and run
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: in which he struck two pedestrians with his truck. Police
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: said Ryan driving shortly before midnight last Thursday, 4th Avenue, Broadway.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Victims were crossing Broadway with a walk sign when Ryan
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: turned right in his pickup truck and ran over both victims' feet.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: You moron. Chuck actually made contact with one of the victims'
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: legs as well. Police said Ryan kept going. He came
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: to a stop at a red light where the victims
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: waved down Ryan. Victims told authorities Ryan stepped out of
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: the truck to argue with them, got back in his truck,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: and then drove away. Of course, the victims took photos
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: of the license plate as well as Ryan. Arrested, charged
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: with two counts of leaving the scene of an accident,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: two counts of failure to give information slash render aid,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: two counts of failure to obey a traffic signal bond
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: set at six thousand dollars.
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Isn't that the truth? Get in touch with Fast and
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Pro Roofing. You'd be so happy you're working with them.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: The Talk Station. 550-55-KRC, The Talk Station. Before I get
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: back to the stack of stupids, we've got Steve on
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: the line. Hey, Steve, thanks for calling this morning, and
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: happy Friday Eve to.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: You, sir.
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: Hopefully this will make me stand out from the stack
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: of stupid and not suck me into it and be
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: part of the stack of stupid. But I guess since
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: I'm calling during the stack of stupid time period, I
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: am part of the stack of stupid. I wanted to
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: and I called you the day after the election and
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: I said one thing I recognized is I don't think
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: the way the majority of people in the United States
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: think anymore. And I thought that was a shame. I
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: also guess I don't think the way numerous people, not
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: the majority, but numerous people in the United States do,
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: where they would stand in line, adults, a 35-year-old or
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: even worse, put your six-year-old child there, to buy a
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: Pokemon card. Now, I do have to tell you something.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: I am a coin collector, but they're worth money because
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: the ones I collect were never intended to be saved.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: They were dumped into circulation.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: They were used.
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: So when anybody that's trying to buy a collectible card,
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: and it's something that's specifically issued directly to people collecting,
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: it will never be worth much money.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: Because even coins, even coins today, modern coins produced, sold
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: directly to collectors, are never going to be worth much
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: because they're not rare because they're all pristine.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: So that's just my two cents.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: No, and they're collectible.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: It doesn't have any intrinsic value. It's like the fiat currency.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: What's a dollar bill actually worth, the paper on which
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: it's printed? Well, you know, Pokemon cards' worth is, I suppose,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: the value is determined by the number of people who
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: are willing to stand in line, even at age 35,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: to go out and buy these things because the perception
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: is that they have some rare quality about them that
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: makes them intrinsically valuable just based on that. Well, as
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: long as the people out there in the world kind
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: of perceive it that way, They will have some value
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: because someone's willing to buy them from you. Oh, look,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: you've got the Pokemon card they only made $ 100 of.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: I'll give you X number of dollars for it. It's rare.
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: Could he not have found a homeless derelict to stand
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: in line and hold his place and flip him a 20?
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: I mean, is that an option?
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Let us count the ways. Or maybe just not bring
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: the 6-year-old out at 2 o'clock in the morning to
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: stand in line for Pokemon cards. There's an option. Appreciate it, Steve.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Police in Michigan say the father of a high school
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: student caught, of course, on camera defecating in the hallway
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: of a rival school during a district championship football game.
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: What?
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Grosse Pointe High School officials say the father of a
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Bedford High School student entered Grosse Pointe South High School
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: without permission Friday night during the football game between the
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: two schools and took a bowel movement in the hallway. Whoa,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: that's a lot of feces. Yes, one resident had this
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: to say. It seems very immature for a parent to
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: act that way. Yeah, no kidding. Officers investigating the incident
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: caught on camera, as I mentioned. They say the father
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: got into the school through a door that had been
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: left open for a scheduled band concert. School security footage
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: shows a man walk past multiple bathrooms before then defecating
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: on the hallway floor. Police used the video to identify
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: the guy during the investigation. He reportedly said he had
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: experienced a medical emergency. However, police say they're still looking
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: into the incident. According to public schools and their statement,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: behavior wholly unacceptable, inconsistent with the standard of conduct and
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: respect that the district expects of anyone entering its school facilities.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Police report's been filed, he said. Superintendent Carl Schultz said
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: it reads the statement saying, at Bedford Public Schools, we
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: hold our students and staff and community to high standards
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: of safety, respect, and sportsmanship. We're fully cooperating with the
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: host district and law enforcement. That will be the bed
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: for public schools. I guess that's where this guy actually
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: came from. His job goes there. One resident said, not
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: surprised by the incident, given the current state of youth sports. Honestly,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: these days with youth sports and parents and the way
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: people get into their feelings, nothing surprises me. People are animals.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Close quote.
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: And on that note, we'll go to Waco, Texas, where
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: a 21-year-old Texas man is behind bars after stabbing his
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: mom at a Target store. Galveston. Why are you doing that?
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Elijah Verzeno. Anyway, whatever. 21 years old, he stabbed his
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: mom in the neck at a Target, claiming the Illuminati
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: told him to do it. charged with assault of a
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: family member causing serious bodily injury. Luminosity, for those not
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: in the know, secret society founded in 1776 that is
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: now the subject of conspiracy theories like lizard people. Waco
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: police dispatched for a domestic disturbance involving a stabbing about
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: 2.30 in the afternoon this past Sunday. Officers found the victim,
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Ashley Norwood, lying on the floor next to a pool
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: of blood. Stab wound to the left side of her neck.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Bystanders helped the victim sit up when officers arrived so
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: she could speak at the time. She could not speak
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: at the time, they said. Witnesses provided a description of
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: what happened. Camera footage was resumed. They saw Norwood and
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Verzeno walking around the store's optical area. Describes Verzeno stabbing
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: his mom with a knife and then running out of
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: the store right afterwards. He called police about 4 o'clock
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: that afternoon. He was then found a jack-in-a-box across the
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: street from the Target where the stabbing occurred, wearing the
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: same clothing the witnesses previously had described. When officers found him,
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: it appeared that he was trying to get rid of
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: the blanket and other items witnesses described by throwing him
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: in the trash and washing the blood off of his hands.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Didn't really work out too well. Bond set at $ 100, 000.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Norwood taken to the hospital, underwent surgery, and is described
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: as in stable condition as of the reporting. 556-55KRC, the
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: talk station. The Illuminati made me do it. Six o'clock hour,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: wide open. Give me a call. We'll talk about some topics.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Got plenty to go on. in the absence of a
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: selection on your part. Either way, I'll be right back.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Here we are.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: It's not just another headline. iHeartRadio.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: It's 606 at 55 KRC, the talk station, Friday Eve.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: My name is Brian Thomas, host of this program, guest director,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: executive producer of the program, and Congressman Warren Davidson, first
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: guest of the morning, at least so far as scheduled guests.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Congressman Warren Davidson coming up in an hour. Plenty of
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: things to talk about, including his friend and colleague Jim
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Jordan being elevated to the House Minority Leader. Plus, we'll
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: talk about Pete Hegseth and what's coming up in the
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: short term. Are the Republicans or actually the representatives of
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: the Senate just going to pack it up and go home?
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Are they actually going to get some work done while
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: they still maintain a majority? I like to think that's
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: the latter. Maybe Congressman Davidson can offer some insight into that.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Looking forward to having him back on the show in
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: an hour. Chuck Klein should be a great, great conversation.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Chuck Klein, local author. Police officer, private investigator. He's a
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: car guy. He's a gun guy. Just this amazing background, raconteur.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: He's a writer. Wrote a book called Circa 1957, which
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: included a character that he reintroduces in the book we'll
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: talk about at 805, Circa 1967. It's a fictional account
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: that's steeped in real-life events and things that Chuck experiences
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: as a younger man. while working in law enforcement and
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: other exciting areas. Jay Ratliff, it is Thursday, so we're
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: going to talk with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff, of course,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: at the tail end of the show, starting at 8.30.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Jay, and good morning again to my wife
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: in Phoenix. At least I get her back tonight. You know,
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: it's at this time, when you've been married for such
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: a long time, kind of take things for granted and
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: realize how much your spouse does around the house that
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: you may not give her credit for. So let me
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: acknowledge that. All you guys out there, You married out
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: of your league, outkicked your coverage like I did, take
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: some stock in the fact that they take great care
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: of you. Wonderful, wonderful thing. Good morning to my beautiful wife.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Pivoting over, I got all this information about the Iranians.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: I mentioned the phone-in attack on schools. I'm not quite
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: sure the Iranians can be blamed for that, but bomb
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: threats being phoned into thousands and thousands of schools in Europe.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: But the Iranians also having a go at it. And
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: saying out loud, like they're going to hit our U.S. bases,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Major General Moshe Rezaei, he's the Iran's Supreme National Security
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Council Secretary, we may even target some U.S. military bases
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: in European countries. If American aircraft take off from them
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: and come to Iran to bomb it, then we will
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: strike that base as well. He said, noting that Iran's
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: capabilities stand far greater than on the first day of war.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Interesting that. You think that's a bold statement, or do
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: you think he's telling the truth? Well, I'm leaning toward
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: the latter. Noting Yarzov Trofimov's article about, well, cheaper ballistic
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: missiles shaking up the entire concept of battle. Technological advances
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: making ballistic missiles cheaper and more precise have allowed Iran
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: and the Houthis of Yemen to strike foes across the
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Middle East. Development and spread of these weapons... Once the
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: preserve of nuclear superpowers mean that military doctrines around the
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: globe are going to need profound change and very quickly. Now,
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: the drone revolution unfolding in Ukraine, this transformation has strategic
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: implications worldwide, including for the U.S. military posture in Europe
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: and Asia, as key military and infrastructure assets become increasingly vulnerable.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Thanks to advances in ballistic missiles, even non-state actors are
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: able to operate at significant ranges, redefining what deep-state what
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: deep battle space is. This is the, I mean, you
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: got to observe, this is the world we live in.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: These things kind of off the shelf, cheap, cheap to make, inexpensive.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: They don't require a guy behind the stick of an
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: airplane to operate them. And yeah, you can bomb all the,
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: the hell out of all the normal, regular, traditional military,
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: the aircraft, the, the, the, the ships at sea, blow
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: up submarines land-based missile launching targets but as long as
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: you can churn out these inexpensive weapons that are accurate
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: now wasn't that long ago it was remember remember the
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: scud missiles so the the iraqis used to lob they
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: just kind of randomly threw them up in the air
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: and just well let's hope it hits something yeah those
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: days are long gone long gone everything is a fixed
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: target now. This year, Iran managed to inflict serious damage
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: on U.S. military bases, forcing the abandonment of key military
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: installations in the Persian Gulf. Meanwhile, Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis continuously
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: striking Saudi Arabia airports and energy facilities, putting economic pressure
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: on their immensely wealthy adversary. Both the U.S. and allies
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: in the region are starting to run short of interceptors
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: like Patriots and THAAD systems, which are the main defenses
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: against ballistic missiles. Beyond that, the global shortage has left
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: Ukraine unprotected against salvos from Russian missiles aimed at its
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: energy grid and key bridges and factories. Implications of this
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: imbalance are profound in the way the U.S. military operates.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Since World War II, Washington has used a network of
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: bases around the globe to protect its allies and keep
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: rival powers in check. But today, it turns out, These
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: bases are vulnerable even to third- and fourth-rate military forces
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: like those of Iran and the Houthis, located hundreds or
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: even thousand miles away. China, Russia, and North Korea possess
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: much bigger and more sophisticated ballistic missile arsenals. Current production
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: of these missiles heavily outpaces the manufacturing of interceptors by
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: the U.S. and allies. The Pentagon asked about this challenge,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: didn't immediately respond to the request for comment. Jennifer Kavanaugh,
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Director of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities, that's a think
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: tank advocating restraint in American foreign policy, said, well, what
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: the war in Iran has shown us is not only
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: is the U.S. military fragile in terms of its stockpiles,
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: but also the way the U.S. plans to fight doesn't
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: work in the current era. U.S. way of war relies
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: heavily on the ability to operate from forward bases and
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: protect these bases, but we see from the Middle East
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: that these bases, the way they've been constructed, are simply
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: not defensible, even against a weak adversary. Hmm.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: U.S.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: And allied military officials acknowledge that the new ballistic missile
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: threat must lead to a rethinking of America's military posture worldwide,
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: especially considering the shortage of interceptors, which... Apparently, our U.S.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: military industrial base can't fix for several years. So far,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: no decisions on how this adaptation is going to take
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: place or what it will entail. Fabian Hintz, missile expert
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: at Conflict Armament Research Organization. For a long time, these
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: systems were so inaccurate that they didn't have a lot
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: of conventional value, especially over longer ranges. But what we
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: have seen in the last few decades is the development
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: of increasingly precise ballistic missiles, originally by some of the
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: more advanced parties, and now this technology is spreading around
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: the world. The Western way of war was always about
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: securing air superiority or air supremacy really fast. But now,
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: even if your adversary doesn't have advanced air capabilities, they
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: may still be able to strike your rear with missiles.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: And this is a major difference from the Western way
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: of war that we have seen over the past few decades.
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Few things shorter to supply now than ballistic missile interceptors.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: You've got, of course, the Middle East situation in conflict.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Everybody's hands out to buy more of these, and, of course,
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: the Ukrainians have been clamoring for them for a long time.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: But they are extraordinarily costly, and they are extraordinarily advanced.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: Only a handful of Western manufacturers even make them. Lockheed Martin,
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: unable to cope with the surging global demand, its order
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: books for Patriot Pac-3s and THAAD interceptors lasts well into
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: the 2030s. Meanwhile, Houthis have shown the barriers to becoming
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: a ballistic missile power are falling fast, with odds stacked
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: towards the attacker in the foreseeable future, said Fabian Hoffman,
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: a missile expert. He said, even the United States, with
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: its industrial capacity, is not prepared to defend against an
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: attacker that builds ballistic missiles at industrial scale. And the
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: the distance at which these things can travel is also increasing.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: They're going to be able to shoot them thousands of
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: miles with some measure of accuracy, which means, again, the
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Iranians have said it over and over again, and I'm
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: not quite sure what this means for us and how
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: we approach the Iranians moving forward. Obviously, the technology exists. Obviously,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: they have expressed a willingness to hit targets that really
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: kind of unrelated to the war, well, tangentially related to it.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: But if we're going to go in and bomb their
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: territory and bomb their infrastructure and kill their people, then,
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: of course, they have at least an argument that they
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: can do the same thing to us. And look, now
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: we've got people who hold up in military bases because
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: their own personal lives have been threatened. Iranian assassins on
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: the loose. Scott Bassett knows all about it. So do
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: other leaders in our country. And, sadly, we're all within
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: reach these days on some level or another. I remember
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: a day, and it seemed like yesterday, you couldn't buy
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: a drone. Go ahead and choose from the hundreds readily
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: available at Amazon. Bobby's on the phone. Hang on, brother.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: I will get your call when we come back. 620-55-KRC-D
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Talk Station, 55KRC. iHeart. com for your podcast page. Congressman Warren Davidson
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: after the top of the hour news. First guest of
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: the morning. Got a caller online here. Bobby's decided to hold.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you holding over the break there, Bobby. Welcome to
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: the program.
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: Well, happy Thursday, my friend.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: It's over and under Thursday, Bobby. How did I slip that?
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: That slipped my mind.
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, it couldn't slip your mind, my brother, because, you know,
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: it's just like all these city officials. If they say
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: it enough, they think everybody will believe their rhetoric.
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: That's true. That's true.
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: We're handicapping it today, my friend.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: What are you going with? This is the over and
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: under on violent crime in the greater Cincinnati area. So
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: we do this every, well, Bobby calls in every week
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: to provide us with his insights.
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: Well, there's so many followers in this city. And after
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: the mayor's remark on the state of the city, and
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: we hear the interim chief and the city manager making
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: their remarks, and it even comes down to our poor
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: union representatives at the police department. They believe everything these
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: city officials say. So we're going to handicap it today
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: at one and a half. We don't want to break
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: the rhetoric. Take the over.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, you always take the over. That is
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: a rather remarkably low figure of late. It's been like
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: three and a half or in that area, Bobby.
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: Well, I don't want to contradict the mayor's statements on
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: the remarks of the state of the city. And we've
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: got all these other top-notch city officials say, oh, well,
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: murder's down, murder's down. Well, what about everything else? They
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: don't want to talk about the truth. It's all you
• 46:17
  Speaker 6: can do is to find out exactly what did happen
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: down in Cincinnati.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: That is true.
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: So we're just following the same dumb rhetoric, one and
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: a half.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: Why do they keep the— shot spotter figures from us, Bobby.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: I always like to ask that one out loud because
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: that would be a reflection of how many people are
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: squeezing off rounds as opposed to how many rounds actually
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: hit somebody. And don't you think squeezing off rounds is
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: a sign of violence, Bobby? I mean, we're not celebrating
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Fourth of July here running around squeezing rounds in the
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: air like crazies in the Middle East with their AKs
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: just randomly firing into the air and enjoy a celebration
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: of something nonsensical. This is actually people shooting at people.
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: When you discharge a firearm in the city limits, it's
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: a violation.
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: Now, my wonder about this is where are all the cartridges?
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: All the pin indentations on the back of the cartridges
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: tell exactly what weapon they come from. How about the
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: fingerprints on the cartridges? Do they ever go ahead and
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: cross-reference anything? Where's the big– do they have a whole
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: floor down City Hall or something where they keep all
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: this ammunition, cartridges, spent cartridges someplace where they can categorize them?
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: No idea.
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: I mean, what the hell are they doing down there?
• 47:31
  Speaker 6: Nobody does know. Does the city officials know? Does the
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: police officials know? Do your union representatives know? They know.
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: They're just like anybody else. They don't want to talk
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: about it.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: Well, I guess with the limited number of police officers
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: we've got in the ever-shrinking ranks of the Cincinnati Police Department,
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: maybe they don't have enough investigators to do the work
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: that you're talking about, fingerprint, checking the bounds out, seeing
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: if they match up with other rounds that are being
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: used in other crimes that they've identified. Maybe they're just
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: picking them up and reloading them.
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: Why don't they go ahead and get the DCI down
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: here out of the state and go ahead and let
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: them check into it? I don't want people to know.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Well, that's pretty darn obvious. Now, yeah, what is actually
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: going on remains to be seen. I don't know. I'm
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: speculating myself. But, yeah, they definitely want you to believe
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: what they're saying, not what you're hearing and seeing with
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: your own eyes, most notably people who actually have to
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: deal with violence every day of their lives downtown. Frightening stuff,
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: one and a half is the over and under. Bobby's
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: going over as he typically does. We'll regroup on this
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: one next week after the weekend there, Bobby. 624, you
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: can feel free to give me a call, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: I've got local stories coming up, but first, real quick word.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: Epic Epoch, however you want to pronounce it, both pronunciations
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: are correct. Go to The Epoch Times and check out
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Janice Heisel's article on the Claremont County Veterans Services. She
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: heard me talking with Steve Belzo and called me up
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: the other day and said, who are you talking to
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: about this Uber for veterans? And I mean, that's gotta
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: be the Claremont County veteran services because they offer free
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: transportation for veterans to get to their medical appointments. So
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: who's the contact? I said, Steve Belzo, just call Claremont
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: County veteran services. The guy lives there. You'll reach him.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: And she did. And so with that, she interviewed Steve
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: as well as Lou Gordon. That's the number two man
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: over at the Claremont County Veterans Services Commission, and wrote
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: this wonderful, glowing article, Veterans Help Veterans Door-to-Door in Ohio. Subcaption,
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: an Ohio agency consists largely of veterans helping veterans funded
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: with county property taxes and provides a surprising array of services.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: So Janice, good morning. I know she regularly listens to
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: the 55 Kersing Morning. She and I appreciate that. She
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: writes some great articles over at the Epoch Times. So
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: Check this one out. And congratulations to Steve and Lou
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: and all those folks at the Claremont County Veterans Services,
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: not just for the recognition that Janice provided you, but
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: for doing such a great job. And there are wonderful
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: little snippets and stories in here showing what they do
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: each and every day of the week. So on the
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: heels of Veterans Day yesterday, wonderful article, Janice. Thanks a lot.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: And I'll again encourage my listeners to go to TheEpicTimes.com
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: and read it for themselves. 625 right now, 55KRC, the
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: talk station. How about pain? You're living with pain, heading
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: on into the holidays, dealing with that nasty, never-going-away station.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: 630-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Time for some local stories. This is awfully,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: awfully sad. Where are your firearms and how do you
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: store them? We go to Williamsburg. Two-year-old was shot yesterday
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: evening outside a home in Claremont County. Police responded to
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: the 100 block of South 3rd in Williamsburg about quarter
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: to four in the afternoon for a report of a
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: boy who accidentally shot himself. According to Williamsburg Police Sergeant
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: Merv Clemens, the child's dad was outside cleaning items out
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: of his vehicle with all four doors open. The toddler
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: was outside with him. The boy climbed into the passenger seat,
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: opened the center console, according to Sergeant Clemens. Inside, a
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: magnetic holster with a 9mm handgun attached. Clemens said the
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: child grabbed the gun and accidentally shot himself in the leg.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: A medical helicopter to fly him to Cincinnati Children's. Medical
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: staff said the boy is expected to be okay since
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: the bullet missed his artery and bone. Thank God. When
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: asked if they were planning on pressing charges against the dad,
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: Clemens said that they are discussing what to do with
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Claremont County prosecutors. Don't get caught with a negligent storage charge.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: Man killed in an explosion that sparked a large house
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: fire in southeastern Indiana. It happened late Tuesday. According to
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: the Ripley County Coroner's Office, flames broke out between 9
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: and 10.30 p.m. in the 37-hundred block of West County
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: Road 350 South in Versailles. The explosion blew off the
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: roof of the home, which is leveled. The picture of
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: it is devastating. It looks like a bomb dropped on it,
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: which is exactly what one of the guys living on
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: the street over where the explosion happened. It's like a
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: bomb went off. It's like a missile went off or something.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: This guy said he was in his garage. We heard
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: this large boom, blasts loud enough to make his dog
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: start barking. Then he described his total devastation, which again
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: is well documented by the photograph from Fox 19's report
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: on this. Fire officials said they found the victim's body
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: inside the rubble. Coroner's office hasn't identified the man, but
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: said he was the only person found dead at the scene.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Ripley County Emergency Management Agency and Ripley County Sheriff's Office
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: both warned the public to avoid the area while fire
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: crews scrambled to contain the flames. Fire marshal plans to
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: be on the scene to investigate. That was later yesterday.
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: No word on what caused the explosion, at least as
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: of the last reporting over from Fox 19. Eric says,
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: your car is not a holster. Well stated, Eric. Motorcyclist. Dad,
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: I hate reading stories about motorcyclists dying, although I rarely
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: ever ride my motorcycle anymore. Have you ever noticed how
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: crazy people are on the roads these days? I don't
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: mind it in my car, but, man, getting cold feet
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: on a bike, and we got a dead motorcyclist following
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: a hit-and-run crash in Butler County. Happened yesterday afternoon about 2.30,
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: intersection of Riley-Millville Road and Bunker Hill Woods Road, Riley Township.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: According to witnesses, vehicle was traveling east on Riley-Millville Road,
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: tried to turn left onto Bunker Hill Woods Road, crossing
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: the path of a motorcycle heading westbound. Sheriff's deputy said
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: the motorcycle struck the rear passenger side of the vehicle
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: before traveling off the road. Driver of the vehicle fled
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: the area without stopping. Motorcyclist died at the scene. Butler
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: County Sheriff's Office serious traffic accident reconstruction team responded to
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: investigate and process the crash scene. Deputy is going to
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: be releasing the suspect's vehicle description as more information becomes available.
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I don't know, you look at her face and
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: you think, okay, this sounds right. It sounds logical looking
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: at a kid like this, a 19-year-old. This is a
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: kid from Miami University. This really kind of irks me.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: Just an illustration of the angry volatility of the left
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: wanting to go around getting all killy and shooty on everybody.
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: Alexandra Patterson, 19 years old again, used the assassination of
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk as a way to express her desire to
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: have anti-abortion students killed. It's all about the killing, isn't it, Alexandra?
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: Pro-life students had an information booth inside Armstrong Student Center
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: on October 28th when court documents say this twisted person
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: posted a threatening message on social media saying the following.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: How many dining dollars to Kirk the anti-abortion table in Armstrong?
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: This on something called Yik Yak, which is an online
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: account where anonymous users can post random posts, remain anonymous
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: to the college student's And any Miami University student can
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: use this and would have gotten this message had they
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: had that app open on the 28th. Kirk, in case
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: you missed the memo, is an online phrase referring to
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: slang for shooting, killing, or assassinating someone. It's kind of
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: like 86, 47. Remember that one? Yeah, Kirk or Kirked,
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: meaning how many dining dollars to kill the anti-abortion table
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: in Armstrong is how that would translate. which resulted in
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: Patterson being arrested on November 2nd and on the following charges,
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: aggravated menacing, four counts, inducing panic, making terroristic threat, and
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: telecommunications harassment, eight counts, and a sizable bond, $ 170, 000. Wow. Obviously,
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: not in Hamilton County. This would be Butler County, where
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: they actually care about things like that.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: 635.
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: 640-55-KRC, the talk station. Jumping over the phones and opportunity
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: for you to call, too. Love to hear from you. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: Pound 550 on AT & T phones. Let's see what
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: Mississippi James has got today. James, welcome back to the
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: morning show. Happy Friday Eve.
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Dr. Bryan. Come in peace.
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: Love everybody.
• 56:04
  Speaker 5: There's nothing you can do about it. Okay.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: With that caveat.
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: What's on my mind is the Senate race. I'm in
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: Mississippi now. And this Senate race that just happened. You know,
• 56:17
  Speaker 5: first time a black been in Senate since the Reconstruction, 1800.
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: First time the Democrat in 40 years. Now, the Fox
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: talking point is it was the money. It was the
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: money that got poured into Mississippi. And I'm like, come on, people.
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: You think that's the only factor that this man was
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: able to beat out? beat out, what's her name, Senator Hyde-Smith.
• 56:45
  Speaker 5: It's more than just the money that was poured in here.
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: It's time to look at the real facts and move forward.
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: You know, because you had Latinos, you had whites that
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: crossed over and voted for this man. You know, you
• 57:00
  Speaker 5: had blacks that came out that had not voted since Obama.
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: So it was more than just the money. That's doing
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: a disservice. You know, you have to look at what
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: people was upset about down here.
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: That big, beautiful bill, you know, Trump gave made the
• 57:19
  Speaker 5: tax break permanent to the people that's making over 600,000.
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: So if you weren't making over 600,000 are, you was
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: a poor person. You actually got some cuts in your life.
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: There was a lot more in the building than any
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: tax breaks for rich people. But you know, that aside, uh, yeah, the,
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: the full chickens come home to roost reality of the big,
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: beautiful little hasn't really manifested itself yet. And I think
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: that's one of the, and I've read this as a,
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: by way of analysis from other people that are smarter
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: than me, Democrats didn't really run on promises on how
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: they were going to address the issues that they ran on.
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: Affordability is a big one. We're going to fix the problem. Affordability, affordability,
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: without saying how they're going to do it. The theory
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: being that if you just wait a little bit longer,
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: like the price of gas dropping almost immediately after the election, that,
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: Prices will gradually, the inflation rather, will gradually taper off.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: But nobody believes, and I think people are duped into
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: thinking that, like, for example, the bag of chips that
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: now costs $ 5 for 14 ounces when it used to
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: cost $ 3 for 18 or 16 ounces is ever going
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: to go back to the original size and the original price.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: That is not going to happen. It's just not. And
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: maybe it'll slow down inflation, but I'm just waiting around
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: to see if they have something specific that they plan
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: on doing to bring that about. Otherwise, I think they're
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: going to keep their feet, their popcorn out, their feet up,
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: and just let, well, the one big beautiful bill and
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: other things naturally resolve themselves. Like, for example, ending the
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: war with Iran. However that gets ended, I think most
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: people presume that things will stabilize in the Middle East
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: to a certain degree, and oil will stabilize as well.
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: Who knows? I'm an above-the-board strategy guy here. This energy
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: bill they're talking about, getting rid of the regulations. And
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: I'm going to ask Congressman Davidson about that because this
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: is the bipartisan bill. They're supposed to grease the skids
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: for all projects. So you green folks, you can get
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: what you want at taxpayer expense. But energy companies can start.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: drilling more we can get pipelines going you know we
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: can get rid of problems like the xl pipeline which
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: was on then off and on then off why because
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: of the regulatory scheme and burdens that all these businesses
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: face how can anyone choose to invest what will ultimately
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: be billions of dollars in a long-term project they won't
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: know the end result of for like 10 plus years
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: We are guilty of cutting our own throats. So let's
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: get that taken care of. That would be for the
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: benefit of everybody. Manufacturing is coming back little by little.
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: This is something else the Democrats can maybe take credit
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: for down the road. Automobile manufacturing plants are being built.
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: Promises to invest in the United States because, well, I
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: don't know. Is it the tariffs that are working to
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: that end? Is it just the United States is a
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: better place to be in terms of business and industry
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: and investment? Whatever. It's happening. It doesn't bear fruit yet.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: But it's happening. It'll be construction jobs. It'll be long-term
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: manufacturing jobs. Those will all bear fruit down the road. Why?
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: Because things don't happen instantly. We're in an immediate gratification world.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: We've got to have it right blank. And now the
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: price of chips is too high. I want to change.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: I'm mad. Question. Is that an embrace of the Democratic insanity?
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: Does this mean our anger vote, the evil orange man vote,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: or the I hate the price of fill-in-the-blank vote, if
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: this was what did it, Does anybody believe the Democrats
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: have a solution for that? Are we now running down
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: the DSA platform road where the ideas that they've brought forth,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: like Medicare for all, they can't explain how they're going
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: to pay for it? As well as a million other
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: things coming out of the left-wing side of the Democratic
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: Party that nobody's put any flesh on the bones of
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: the blanket statement, we're going to do this. Yeah, wait
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: for it. That It's not going to happen. 645, 55,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: KRC Talk Station, Greg Eng. 55, 44 in the Senate.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: And James talking about Scott Cullum, first black Democrat to
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  Speaker 3: win a Senate seat, beating Cindy Hyde-Smith. And as of
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: the current tally right now, what separates them is 0.48%,
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  Speaker 3: which is, by my math, and I'm ready to be
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: standing corrected, 462 votes separate them. The Independent got 2.1%
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: of the votes or 20,000 votes. So if Ty Penkins
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: wasn't in that race, I guess you'd be parsing through
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: the aftermath of that. Who would have gotten those votes
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: had they gone, had it just been Colm and Hyde-Smith?
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: But clearly every vote counts. Let's see what Carl's got. Greg,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: hang on. You're next. Carl, thanks for calling this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Friday Eve.
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  Speaker 10: Happy Friday Eve. Hey, Brian, did you happen to see
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 10: the video yesterday of the Bidens being in Ireland?
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Wasn't that something?
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And the attacks on the Biden, I guess they
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: were throwing milk or something at, at the Biden family
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: overshadowed the reason they were there, which was so Hunter
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: Biden could get an award. Yeah. What? For, uh, the
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  Speaker 3: ever loving blank.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: He was for his contributions to public discourse of all things. And, uh,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 10: A spokesperson said the Biden family left without incident, that
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 10: basically it was a peaceful protest or whatever. But if
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 10: your listeners go to try to find the video, NBCNews.com
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 10: had a short video out there, but they want to
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 10: go to X.com and watch the videos that the students
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 10: had taken over there because they are more lengthy and
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 10: they show what happened at the melee or whatever. But
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 10: it's really hard to fathom that the oldest university in
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 10: Ireland that was founded in 1592, 434 years ago, and
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 10: is now the leading university in Ireland, would honor Hunter Biden.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, I would understand if they honored Joe Biden
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 10: being the ex-president and everything. And I don't know if
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 10: you saw the photograph, but Joe, who's 83, does not look.
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  Speaker 6: Well at all in the photograph.
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  Speaker 3: He does not.
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  Speaker 10: And the bloggers are blogging the right-wing party for the melee.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 10: Actually, it was like pro-Palestinian protesters. But the right-wingers in Ireland,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 10: they are not pro-Palestine. They're the ones who want their
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 10: country back. They're tired of seeing the pro-Palestine flags, murals,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 10: and graffiti around the country.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: If you talk to the established population in Europe or
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: Ireland or even England, they probably would all with a
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: straight face say, yeah, our culture is being taken away
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: from us. You know, we're Irish here, and we do
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: have thousands of years of history here on this island
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: of ours, and we are losing grasp over it, thanks
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: to our elected officials. I mean, they would like a
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump-type person to close the borders. But, you know,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: when you're part of the European Union, it's a little
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: difficult to do that. You are out of your element.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: You can't control your own space because you entered into
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: that collective that they call the European Union. Appreciate the call, man.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: Really do. And, yeah, Joe Biden, our Hunter Biden, what
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: the hell did he do? The discourse that he brought
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: forth was all related to the shenanigans and the corruption
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: surrounding Hunter Biden, his drug use, his prostitution use, being
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: on the board of Burisma when he had no experience
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: in the oil and gas industry. I mean, the whole
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: thing is just a scandal. Thank you for providing diversionary
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: topics the mainstream media could go after while avoiding the
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: really important stuff that impacts the American people. or something
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: to that effect. Greg, thanks for calling this morning. Welcome
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: to the morning show.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, good morning, Brian. I, uh, I wanted to call
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 11: and follow up. You mentioned stop riding your motorcycle because
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 11: the crazy drivers, and I can't be the only guy
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 11: seeing this. And admittedly, it's been about 50 years since
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 11: I took driver's ed, but when did we start teaching
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 11: people that it's okay to make a left-hand turn on
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 11: a red light? I, uh, other people have had to
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 11: see this. I've been amazed. I've seen it several times
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 11: and some of them have cut it very close.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know it was a growing phenomenon, Greg, to
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: be honest with you, but that does not shock me
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  Speaker 3: at all. People are getting worse every damn day at
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: being able to operate a car. You know, part of
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: me wants to say, well, thank God for autonomous driving vehicles.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: We can get these idiots away from the steering wheel
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: because they clearly don't have the information to operate a
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: vehicle safely on their own. But, The other part of
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: me knows that that's just going to bring more about
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: more dumbing down of people's ability to drive on their own.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: In the absence of that technology, you're going to have
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: even worse drivers out there. Left on red. 6.55 at 55KRC,
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  Speaker 3: the talk station. Stick around. Congressman Warren Davidson. We're going
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: to see anything going on. It's 7.05. Fast approaching 7.06
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: here at the 55KRC morning show. Love this time of week.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: regularly get to hear from. The man that's on the
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: phone right now, welcome back to the 55KRC Morning Show,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: a man who will still be congressman after the first
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: of the year, Warren Davidson. Welcome back to the program,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: my friend. It's a pleasure having you on, as always.
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  Speaker 6: Likewise, Brian. Thank you.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: So everybody going to pack it up and run home?
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: We've got some work to do here, Congressman Davidson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a pretty strong let's get something
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: done mindset. I don't know that people were surprised by
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: the direction of the election, but By the magnitude of it,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: people are still kind of taking that in. It's like, wow,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: what was that? So people are definitely taking note of
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: what the voters had to say. I was really happy
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: to come back and move a step in the right
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: direction by selecting Jim Jordan to be our leader. Good
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: news for the country. Good news for Ohio. And I
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: think good news for Republicans. I think we're going to
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: finally have a better consensus on what is a Republican vote.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: Well, and that's the time of reflection. I read this
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: interesting analysis by Mike Wilson, the founder of the Tea
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: Party here locally, and he said, yeah, you can go
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: ahead and scream about the election being stolen, but don't
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: hide behind that without being introspective. And you need to
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: focus on perhaps why, assuming the election was proper, on
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: why we took such a bloodbath last week. Let's talk
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: about it. Let's engage in a discussion. Let's find the
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: right path, which I've always gone with traditional fiscal responsibility,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: limited government, and free market because I think that's all
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: the Republican Party should stand for. But that's me, my
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: sphincter with my opinion. But Jim Jordan's selection, I think,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: was an excellent choice if for no other reason. He's
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: like the wartime concierge. They're expecting investigation after investigation after investigation. And, man,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: this guy is great at what he does. He's been
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: demonstrably proven to be a great investigator and tenacious as hell.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: He's going to be a good fighter against maybe overreach
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: of the Democrats. Your thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's what he kind of built his
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: brand in the public consciousness, because there's been an awful
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: lot of that over the last, you know, frankly, decade
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: with President Trump. That became the whole dynamic for a
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: lot of things. I mean, he really kind of raised
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: his profile on the Benghazi issue when Trey Gowdy was
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: leading the effort there. But Jim Jordan sort of stood
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: out on that oversight of Benghazi. But before that, I mean,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: he was the leader on cut, cap and balance issues.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: That got our fiscal house in order. So, I mean,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: I think we're going to have a strong policy shop.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: We're going to lay out good ideas on affordability. I mean,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: I've already been talking with colleagues. I think there's a
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: better path forward on health care. I think there's a
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: better path forward on housing. Even though we did pass
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: a housing bill last Congress that hasn't hit the markets yet,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of things that will move
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: in the right direction policy-wise. Look, Democrats came in and
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: started off by bad ideas. I'll just say, look, a
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: good thing that happened yesterday is the Richard Starr Act
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: passed on Veterans Day, passed the House, and a House
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: version of it also passed. that has pay-fors of it. So,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: you know, Republican version and Democrat version both passed to
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: be able to make sure that we do a little
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: better job of taking care of veterans. And that's probably
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: the most bipartisan thing that we have going right now.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Thankfully, support of the American veteran is still popular even
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: on the Democratic side of the ledger. I imagine the
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: DSA wing probably was not in favor of doing that,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: but that's just my speculation. Congressman Davidson, I didn't see
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: the final vote.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I think they even voted with the rest of
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: the Democrats on that one. But, yeah, I'm not sure
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: the DSA actually wants us to have a military. They
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: don't even want us to have prisons or borders.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: Or police.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: They are the crazy people. And there are going to
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: be more of them here. So hopefully that does not endure.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: Do you expect the Democrats to overread their victory? I mean,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: you can't deny they had an overwhelming victory, but I
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: don't personally believe, and we're still going to deal with
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: the aftermath as we assess what is going to happen
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: next and where the American people actually are. But I
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: do not believe for a moment that this swath down
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: the middle, the sort of maybe centrist Democrats to the
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: extent they exist, maybe the only loosely affiliated with the
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: Republican Party In the last presidential election, voters, those from
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: the swath of blacks that voted for Trump, the swath
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: of Hispanics that voted for Trump, the union people who
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: abandoned their traditional party loyalty and voted for Trump, apparently
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: not exactly a cohesive coalition that was easy to keep together.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: I think that's what they defected. But I do not
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: for a moment believe they defected the Democrats because they
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: want some guy playing in high school basketball against their girls.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: That's exactly right. I mean they elected some pretty crazy
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: people like Al Sayed up in Michigan that are all
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: aboard with all the radical, crazy wing of their party.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: But internally, they have a big feud because the traditional
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: Democrats are trying to hold on to what defines a Democrat.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: And they know they're not going to keep winning places.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: You're not going to become senator of Mississippi– trying to
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: pretend that you don't know the difference between men and
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: women and calling Mother's Day birthing person's day and stuff.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: That's not going to hold anywhere with some of these
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: seats that they were able to flip this time. That's
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: not the reason they won. So talking with some of
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: the more stable, sane Democrats, they know that, but they've
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: also got their own feud over some of those things. And, yeah,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: I think that's the reality of the country. I mean,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: if you were paying attention to voters— There were a
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: lot of people that felt unheard, and they went out
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: on election day and basically vented. You're not listening. And Democrats,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: I think, broadly know that that wasn't an embrace of
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: all their ideas, but it was a rejection of the
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: results that Republicans failed to deliver.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: Well, Donald Trump has sort of outwardly suggested he'd be
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: open to some bipartisanship, and to pick the issue, I
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: think immigration was one of them, but Do you think
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: for a moment, Congressman Davidson, that we're going to see
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  Speaker 3: perhaps a return to some like sort of perhaps Tip
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: O'Neill brokered bipartisanship that we saw under Reagan or the
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: Newt Gingrich bipartisan solutions that were negotiated under the Clinton administration?
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: Do you see those days returning given the Democrats crisis
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  Speaker 3: and where they're going to go as a party? And
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: of course, the Republicans introspection about where they need to
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  Speaker 3: go as a party. Is that an opportunity to return
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  Speaker 3: to some semblance of order or do you think those
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: days are gone?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it seems improbable with the current cast of characters,
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  Speaker 2: but there are things that we've been hopeful that we
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: could do together and agree on. I think we're pretty
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: far apart on immigration. I mean, just remember, look, last fall,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: Democrats worked together to shut the whole government down because
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: they didn't want to fund ICE and Border Patrol. That
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: isn't an immigration issue. We don't want a border that exists.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: We don't want to We want to keep sanctuary cities.
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  Speaker 2: And you can't reconcile that. It's the same. President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: even in his first term, said, hey, I'm willing to
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: work with Pelosi and Schumer on DACA. I mean, these
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: are kids that their parents brought them into the country.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: They didn't truly break the law. Their parents did when
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: they were little kids. So they've really known no other
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: home than the United States. They grow up and they
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: don't really have a defined legal status there. He's like,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: I'm willing to work with you on them, but their
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  Speaker 2: parents broke the law, so we can't just keep all
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: the chain migration issues, and they suddenly can have a
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: path to being citizens because we worked to deal with
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: the kids. And the Democrats said, we're out. Basically, we
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: get everything, including amnesty, or we're going to give nothing.
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  Speaker 2: They want to keep the political issue alive. Maybe there's
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: a different mindset over there, but I think that's the
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: same mindset President Trump has. And I think that's where
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: even Stephen Miller would maybe agree on something there in
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: exchange for some more enduring reform that's going to lock
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: in the policies that are working. I mean we do
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: finally have a secure border. And for the life of me,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: a secure border and crime in general, like how is
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: enforcing the law partisan? I mean it isn't for the
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: vast majority of the country, but you get to places
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: like Hamilton County. They're getting rid of all the Republican judges.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They're handcuffing the police to keep them from doing their jobs.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: And somehow a small faction of the public supports that.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: And somehow that wins on Election Day. I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: how that could happen.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: I don't either. And you have to note, though, in
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: going into 2024, one of the reasons that everyone's attributing
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: to Donald Trump getting elected is because he promised to
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: be tough on border security. He delivered on that, and
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: I think people are happy about it. The problem is
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: this backlash, or at least perceived backlash, to the overzealous
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: enforcement of rounding up folks that have been here, some
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  Speaker 3: for a long time, and this has rubbed some people
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  Speaker 3: the wrong way. I can't gauge the public temperature on that.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: I know some of the actions of ICE probably were
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: a little overzealous, but that has been given really a
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: lot of credit to why Donald, well, the Republican Party
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 3: lost in this election. Border security, good, but enforcement and
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: removal of illegal immigrants may be a little too much.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: It's Is that policy going to change? Do you think
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: that's an accurate read, at least in part of the vote?
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  Speaker 2: I think that's accurate for the sentiment for a lot
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: of people. And talking with some of my colleagues from Texas,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: that was definitely one of the factors in Texas. And,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, there's a lot of Latino voters
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: in Texas. The majority of them actually vote Republican in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: But they said, hey, what you're doing there is wrong.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: And that was sort of the tone shift that was
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: underway when Mark Wayne Mullen became president. Homeland Security Secretary.
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  Speaker 2: They've been trying to go differently. I think one of
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  Speaker 2: the most basic things is you do get sympathetic to
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  Speaker 2: somebody who's been in the United States for 10 years
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: and they get a mortgage on a house. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: if you're here unlawfully, how do you even have a
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: bank account? Some of the most basic things like just
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  Speaker 2: holding really every bank, every financial institution, they're supposed to
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: spy on their customers. They spy on you and me.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: They have these suspicious activity reports, cash transaction reports, know
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: your customer laws that they're supposed to do. I mean,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: you don't get to operate a bank if you don't
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: do that, right? So that's part of the condition of
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: operating a bank. Somehow they're a black box and they
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: don't know anything when it comes to whether you're even
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: lawfully present in the United States. And, you know, why?
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: Because they like doing the business. They like the, you know,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: wire transfers back to Pick your country. And that's a
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: big part of a lot of countries' economy is the
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: repatriated money from the United States. And so it seems
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: like the Somalis became experts at how to get it
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: repatriated out of the United States and to get extra
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: from all of our fraud, waste, and abuse that we're seeing.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: So hopefully we can shut down the fraud, waste, and abuse,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: and a big part of that's just following the money.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: And that would be a lot of leverage without all
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: the confrontational SWAT teams stacked at the door and all
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: that stuff. It'll be safer for the public, too.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you completely. And come on, the ability
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: of the federal government to launch compliance investigation, regulatory compliance investigation,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: that's what Eric Holder used as a threat to banks
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: when he wanted them to stop doing businesses with certain
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: companies and politically affiliated groups. So that, I suppose, would
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 3: work against banks insofar as enforcement of the obligations they
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: have to determine the person is a citizen before handing
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: out a bank account. More with Congressman Davidson, including a
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  Speaker 3: comment about HEGSA. See the talk station. 721-55-KERA, see the
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  Speaker 3: talk station. Congressman Warren Davidson on the line. All right,
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  Speaker 3: 119th Congress got some days to get things done. I
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: know one of the, before we get to HEGSA and
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: a comment or two about that, this so-called bipartisan regulatory
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: reform insofar as getting projects done on a more expedited basis,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: ending the big giant question marks that continue to float
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: around any given project, Favorite illustration on this one, of course,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: the XL pipeline, which is approved, then it's denied, then
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: it's pulled, the plug pulled, and environmental lawsuits filed. They
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: start from scratch over and over again. That's got to end,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: and it sounds like there's some bipartisanship willingness to end that.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: Where is that particular bill, and do you see it
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: passing before you guys go home for the year?
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  Speaker 2: There are Democrats that actually say they want it. It
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: really breaks the Green New Deal grip of the radicals
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: in their party, so that might be a chance to
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: see them cross over and support Republicans. So you make
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: it bipartisan because otherwise when they go to put it in–
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: if they do it when they're in the majority, they're
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: going to have a hard time passing the rule because
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: the radical wing of their party will be out.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I think there may be some common ground there because
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: there are Democrats that realize that we probably should generate
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: some electricity. And if we are going to deliver on
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: lower gas prices, we're probably going to actually have to
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: have some refineries and make it OK to get oil
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: and gas in the United States. I mean, you get
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: Democrats in charge of Texas, the world's biggest oil field, basically,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: at this point. And I think some of those Democrats
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: are going to have to break the mold on the, hey,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: we can only do wind and solar nonsense. So there
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: is a chance, I think, we get that done before
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: the end of the year. And permitting reform broadly, I think,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: took some progress. I mean, we got modest permitting reform
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: in the housing bill because people realize, hey, if you
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: don't build more houses, it's going to be really hard
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: to get prices down unless you just crash the market.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: So there are things we could have done that I
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: think would have moved housing in the right direction. I've
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: already talked with colleagues a lot about those. So I
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: think we're going to have another good housing bill in
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: the next Congress. But we already got progress on permitting
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: reform there. So I feel like there's a bipartisan way
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: to do something.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad to hear that. I just am praying
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 3: that permitting reform goes through. We're in a huge, huge
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 3: issue with energy supply here. Of course, data centers, I think,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: and again, I always go back to small modular reactors,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: which seem to be the ultimate solution to all of
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: our problems. Carbon-free, abundant production, small, small space. These things
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 3: sit on about the size of a shipping container. We
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: need to grease the skids for those and then let
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: these large data companies go ahead and buy them and
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: bring them to their projects. That's just one solution for
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 3: a growing problem. Our electricity demands are not going to
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: taper off.
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  Speaker 2: No, and look, the administration's moving forward on that, and
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: they couldn't get enough support to get some of that
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: reform through Congress, unfortunately. And they just said, we don't
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: have to wait. We're putting them on military installations. We
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: control the installation. We're going to put them in. And
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: that's already underway. So the small modular reactors are getting
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: turbo boosted because of Defense Production Act.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Use on military bases. And I think when you prove
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: that use case, I think the adoption is going to
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: be big. And, you know, for the climate people that say, Oh,
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: you know, CO2 is somehow going to kill the planet
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: and not just make plants grow. Then, then we're going
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: to have nuclear and it doesn't have any CO2, no
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: carbon from the reactors. And these are very safe and stable.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: And hopefully they prove to be that way. They certainly
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: have been when they're used and even in a different way,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: You know, you've got nuclear-powered ships since the 50s, right?
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: So this isn't like, oh, we just figured this out.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's been in use.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was just getting ready to say that. When you're
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 3: done with your comments, I was going to say, right
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 3: now I hear my submariner friend, Curbage Mike, screaming, hey,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: we've been using them since the 50s. You know, it's
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 3: like this actually works. Anyway, can you stick around? Because
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: we haven't talked about HEGSF and maybe a couple other
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: items on the agenda. Unless you don't have time, Congressman,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: I certainly understand.
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  Speaker 6: Happy to chat. Thanks, Brian.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: Fantastic. In lieu of local stories, more with Congressman Warren Davidson. Again,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: thank you to the voters. 7.30 on a Thursday, talking
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 3: with Congressman Warren Davidson here on the 55KRC Morning Show.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: Pivoting over to the impeachment resolution was referred back to
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: committee yesterday. Apparently Democrats weren't interested in showing up. 11
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: of them weren't there. Seven Republicans weren't there for the vote,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 3: but the tabling passed 211 to 204. And you were
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 3: in favor of tabling it. You voted for tabling it
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: in spite of the fact that I just want to
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: get some clarity on this because I know my listeners
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: are curious because back in September, the motion on a
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: War Powers resolution directing the House to remove troops from
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 3: Iran passed 220 to 204 with your vote for passage.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: How do you differentiate the War Powers vote to the
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: vote yesterday, Congressman Davidson?
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: Well, scapegoating P. Hegseth for a duty Congress shirt is,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: And a decision President Trump made is wrong. It's not
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: unprecedented that the president would take the country to war
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: without congressional authorization, but it is unconstitutional. So that's where
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: this burden and blame lies. And what Democrats want, and
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: at least one Republican apparently, which is disappointing because we're
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: good friends, is to have everyone in the chain of
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: command second guess the commander in chief. And Congress isn't
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: even fully second-guessing the commander-in-chief, right? So we haven't gotten
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: the War Powers Resolution across the House and Senate. And
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: some people say, well, if we ever do, it's still unconstitutional.
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  Speaker 6: Great.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: Well, it's never been tested. No president's ever taken it
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: to court. And it's never happened where both the House
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: and Senate put this on the president's desk. And so
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: if we do, I suspect it will be tested in court.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: And ultimately— I almost guarantee you Democrats and Republicans are
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: going to work together to fund the government by December 11th,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: but they'll fund the war when they fund the government.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: And if they can't get the votes to fund just
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: the war in Iran, they'll probably fund the war in
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: Iran and Ukraine. I mean, this is how crazy D.C.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 6: Is, right?
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: So instead of doing things the right way and going
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: to the people that really were on the ballot looking
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: at Congress, and saying, well, let's get the resolve to
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: do it, then this is just a way to just
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: blame shift. And I think the other thing is, if
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: you look at the articles, it also wanted to impeach
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth for treating the cartels as enemies of our country. Now,
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: to me, they're enemies of our country, and it's about
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: darn time we started treating them that way. So smoking
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: the drug boats, to me, is a great thing. Finding
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: the cartels where they are, they're killing Americans. Drugs are bad,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: but they're not supposed to be poisoned. They're killing Americans
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: to the tune of hundreds of thousands of people. They're
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: welcoming our sanctuary cities. The sanctuary cities want them there.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: Democrats all voted to impeach Hegseth for going after the cartels. And,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: of course, so Republicans thankfully said, no, we're not going
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: to go after Hegseth for doing something that he should
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: be doing. So I think it was just a bad
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: resolution personally, and I'm glad we referred it back to committee.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the resolution, I suppose, came up because of the
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: failure of Congress to do something that was in the
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: scope of its authority, the exclusive authority to declare war
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 3: rest with Congress. And again, going back to the War
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 3: Powers Resolution, it does give the president some flexibility in
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 3: terms of dealing with imminent threats. Question, what's an imminent threat?
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 3: This is what's being debated. Now, Judge Napolitano on yesterday
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 3: with some very controversial remarks, he loved the fact that
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: Massey filed this motion. He thinks that Hegs should have
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 3: resigned in the face of the illegal order to make
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: these attacks. Question, is it an illegal order? I mean,
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 3: Napolitano suggested something along the lines of a Nuremberg defense.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 3: It doesn't work. You can't say I was ordered to
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: do it when it's clearly unlawful, but is it clearly
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 3: unlawful given the state of the law and the fact
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: that every president since FDR has operated in a war
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 3: theater this way?
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's the problem. I do believe
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: it's unconstitutional, but that doesn't mean there's a law against it, right?
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: So that's part of the problem that we had. When
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: you look at Matt Taibbi's exposure of the Twitter files, right,
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: it was a conspiracy theory to believe that the federal
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: government was silencing critics for their approved plans on COVID, right? So- Obviously,
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: that was happening. Everyone knew it was. But the left
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: would go out and pretend, just like they pretended Joe
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: Biden was saying the whole time, that it wasn't happening.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: And when Musk bought Twitter, that's what made them truly
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: hate him. He exposed the fact that, no, this is
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: going on, and here's the emails from the FBI. They
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: were coordinating and targeting. They were also debanking people for
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: political views. So they won't debank people that aren't even
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: lawfully in our country, but they'll debank you for your
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: political views. So they're not there to enforce the law.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: They're there to wield power. So that's the selective application
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: of Democrats. But we couldn't take action other than firing
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: people because it's not a crime. So there are things
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: like that that we're trying to embed in the criminal
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: code so that if the federal government does things that
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: deny your constitutionally protected rights– that there is culpability there.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: We got some of that reform in FISA. If you're
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: abusing your access to foreign intelligence data to go after Americans,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: we have criminal penalties in the version that passed the House.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: But it's not clear that it would be a crime
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: to carry out the orders of the President of the
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: United States. And in a way, in particular, that's unprecedented.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: So what would have been, that's not unprecedented for the
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: President to do, what would be unprecedented is is to
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: go after the secretary of war or secretary of defense.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: It would be unprecedented to go after the generals. But
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: that's exactly what the seditious six, Alyssa Slotkin, Jason Crowe,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: Mark Kelly, and Chrissy Houlihan and two others, they were
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: going after– they want to go down into the rank
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: and file members and say, oh, well, you know, if
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: you were on a ship at the ocean and you
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: loaded a round into the tubes on the ship and
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: it was shot, well, you were a criminal. They want
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: to I mean, these are the guys that want to
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: read Miranda rights to people on the battlefield. I mean,
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: you can't wage war that way.
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  Speaker 5: This is crazy.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: It would completely cripple warfighters. But that's consistent. They might
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: not want to take credit for completely closing the Department
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: of Defense. Well, they make the daggone place useless. And
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: that's why they hate Pegasus. He's like, no, the military
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: exists to fight and win wars. It doesn't exist for
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: your woke ideology and Your studies about white rage and
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: LGBTQI plus nonsense. Climate change is not the biggest threat
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: that the Department of War, Department of Defense should be
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: dealing with. Democrats had all these crazy things and he's
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: undoing that and the troops love him for it.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: Which makes the Democrats hate him even more. So why
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: would we pander to this nonsense? So I'm really disappointed
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: that any Republican would think about supporting this idea.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 3: And I understand that all day long. It's just the
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 3: confusion based upon the legal predicate that exists and, again,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 3: has existed for so many presidencies. It's almost as if,
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: you know, why would you go after Hegseth? All the
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: presidents have done this. It's almost like a waiver or
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 3: a stoppel argument in the law. No, you've done it
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 3: over and over and over again with no legal challenges.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 3: It's basically de facto the law that you can go
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 3: ahead and wage war on a whim if you're president
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 3: of the United States of America. So it's a problem.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: But Hegseth has done a wonderful, wonderful thing. I mean,
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 3: recruiting's up. physical fitness up, you know, the back to
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 3: doing exercises, you know, and learning how to be, well,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 3: people who break things and kill people, which is the
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: role of the American military. And I salute him for
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: all that work. Finally, are we going to finish an
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 3: appropriations process or with a debt ceiling coming up, are
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: we going to see a government shutdown or is it
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 3: in the Democrats' interest to get something solidified before next Congress?
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's going to be really interesting to see how
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: they play that. Obviously, for Republicans, we want to clear
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: the debt limit while we are in the majority so
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: that the Democrats don't have leverage to push crazy stuff.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: They're not going to use the leverage to get their–
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: sound money and restore balanced budgets, right? They're going to
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: use it like they tried before to shut down ICE
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: or Border Patrol or make sure we do some kind
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: of amnesty deal or something. So you don't want to
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: give the Democrats something that they can use as leverage,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: but that's a little bit of a zero-sum game. They
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: want to have it as leverage going into the next Congress.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: So I think one of the real goals for Republicans
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: is to make sure we find a way to increase
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: the debt limit And unfortunately, the debt limit hasn't worked
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: as an idea because it's essentially saying we're going to
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: default on money that we already agreed to spend. So
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: the real fight on spending is when you agree to
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: do the spending. So in a lot of people's view,
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: and certainly mine, is when you say, well, we're not
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: going to increase the debt limit. Well, that's like saying
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to pay for the charges that I
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: made with my credit card. No, you made the charges.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: You're going to have to pay them. So I think
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: the challenge has been if you say, hey, I need more–
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: a higher credit limit on my credit card because I've
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: got other spending I'm doing here, well– Usually you say, well,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: how are you going to pay it back?
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 6: And we don't do that.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: So that should be part of the negotiation and say,
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: there's a plan to get our spending under control. I
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: assure you in the current state of affairs, there is
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: not going to be a plan to get our spending
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: under control by the end of the year.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 3: Indeed. And real quick, I have to throw in, I
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 3: have never heard any Democrat, any socialist, whatever, explain how
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 3: we can afford Medicare for all. They keep saying they're
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 3: going to bring it around. That's going to increase our
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 3: debt by basically double over 10 years. Has anybody explained
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: to you the payment methodology for that, Congressman Davidson, before
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 3: we part company?
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: They keep it simple. They just say tax the rich.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, the math doesn't work, but they always say
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 2: tax the rich. That'll pay for everything. And it's like
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: even if you confiscate the wealth and somehow it could
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: magically regenerate next year, it still wouldn't keep paying for
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: some of the things that they're trying to do.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I did the numbers. If you take all the wealth
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 3: away from all the billionaires here in the United States
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 3: of America, you end up on the high side with
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 3: about $ 8 to $ 8 to $ 9 trillion, which is basically
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 3: a couple of years of funding for Medicare for all.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 3: And then they won't be making any money because you've
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 3: confiscated everything. So Congressman Warren Davidson, always a distinct pleasure
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 3: having you on the morning show. I appreciate you coming
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 3: on and talking with my listeners and me. And I
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 3: wish you all the best to get something done before
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 3: we move into next year.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, likewise, Brian.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 6: God bless you and all your listeners.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 3: Back at you, sir. Look forward to next week and
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 3: doing this all over again. 741 right now, 55 KRC.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 3: Should be a great conversation up at the top of
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 3: the air news with Chuck Klein. He's a, well, I mean,
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 3: he's written a lot, a lot of books and quite
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 3: the raconteur he is. He's got an amazing background, police officer, firefighter,
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 3: private investigator. Written a book previously called Circa 1950 or 1957.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 3: And this book, the follow-up with the same characters, it's
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 3: kind of like a, It's a work of fiction, but
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 3: it involves all kinds of nonfiction elements, all from his experience.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 3: This one's called Circa 1967. We'll get to that, plus
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 3: Jay Ratliff in the 8 o'clock hour. And meanwhile, I
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: want to get to Barton Swain's analysis of the election
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 3: and what we might see going forward. And I thought
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 3: it was brilliant. Makes some really good points. It starts out,
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 3: you know, underappreciated fact for the midterm elections. Voters didn't
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 3: plump for Democrats by unexpectedly wide margins because they like Democrats.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 3: He referred to the widely circulated NBC published shortly before
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 3: the election. 29% of voters view Democrats positively. 29. 38%
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 3: have a favorable view of Republicans. So it's not what
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: they're offering. But moving away from that, Americans last week
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 3: expressed their frustration with President Trump. But the issues cited
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 3: to pollsters don't quite explain the scale of the electoral carnage.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 3: The economy, shambolic immigration roundups, the Iran war. Inflation. has
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 3: canceled a good bit of wage growth, true, but the
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 3: economy hums along. Immigration raids and the war have mostly
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 3: removed themselves from the front pages lately. And how closely
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 3: has the public followed the Trump family crypto shenanigans? Right,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 3: I don't think either too closely. The common denominator, chaos,
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 3: he writes. Mr. Trump's mercurial war policy corresponds to undulating
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 3: gas prices, and he keeps himself in the headlines for
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 3: the wrong reasons, an obsession with the White House ballroom,
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 3: the Arc de Trumpf. Reflecting pool, additive sense of bedlam,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 3: perplexing vendettas against John Bolton for writing a book, James
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 3: Comey for a photo of his seashells, John Cornyn for
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 3: insufficient loyalty, and Republican lawmakers in Indiana for qualms about
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 3: the gerrymandering map. Hence, the misalignment between the Democrats' win
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 3: and their attractiveness to voters. Would-be Democrats also ran, or
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 3: would-be Democratic also ran, won offices across the country. Would-be
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 3: also ran in a normal year. North Carolina's mostly rural
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 3: 14th congressional district decided a wonderful instance. The Democrat, Lakeisha Womack,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 3: defeated incumbent Tim Moore. Three years earlier, the state legislature
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 3: had redrawn the district west of Charlotte to make it
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 3: more Republican. Yet, 51% went with Womack. Even though Polk
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 3: County authorities served her with a felony warrant at a
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 3: campaign event October 11th, that warrant, which was issued back
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 3: in 2020, alleges that she rented a car in 2019
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 3: and never returned it. Whatever the merits of the case
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 3: against her, the district plainly didn't move leftward because a
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 3: majority saw the merits of Ms. Womack's character and her
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 3: readiness to serve. She won for the same reason Democratic
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 3: nobodies beat incumbents elsewhere, because a lot of people in
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 3: the middle have a sense that Trump has spun out
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 3: of control and requires a check. And I agree with
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 3: that analysis. I mean, who am I but a guy
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 3: with an opinion, but I think that's true. Writing in
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 3: these pages, Wall Street Journal, Irving Kristol alluded to the
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 3: political scientist Martin Diamond's dictum that American democracy is based
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 3: on one key assumption, that people are usually sensible but
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 3: rarely wise. Readers can judge if these people acted either
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 3: sensibly or wisely by licensing one form of chaos to
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 3: restrain another, but that's what they did November 3rd. Incoming
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 3: Democratic majority gives no signal that it's ready to play
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 3: the part of rational, grown-up opposition. In ordinary times, an
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 3: electoral victory by minority caucus, like the one congressional Democrats
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 3: achieved last week, would ensure the elevation of its leadership. Yet,
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 3: restive factions in both houses and Senate hinted at coming confrontations.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 3: In the House, the size of the far-left, quote-unquote, squad,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 3: now calling itself the block, has more than doubled. to
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 3: 16 members and has additional allies on specific radical items.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 3: For its part, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the only rational
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 3: candidate for Speaker, doesn't seem inclined to waste time in
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 3: voters pursuing an all-for-show agenda set by the Democratic Socialists
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 3: of America. Medicare for all, a transgender bill of rights,
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 3: abolishing immigrations and customs enforcement, and so on. A pointless
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 3: and bruising fight for the speakership of the sort Republicans
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 3: staged three years ago It may not happen in January,
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 3: but the ideological and attitudinal difference are wider on the
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 3: Democrat side than they were in the GOP in 2023.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 3: So don't expect a display of sanity and cohesion. In
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 3: the Senate, spokesman for Chris Van Hollen said the Maryland
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 3: Democrat has, quote, received an outpouring of calls on running
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 3: for majority leader, close quote, leaving one to wonder if
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 3: calls on running is the same as calls to run.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 3: Van Hollen, first elected to Congress in 2002, was for
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 3: many years a supporter of Israel, but has suddenly indulged
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 3: the talk of Israeli war crimes and ethnic cleansing. a
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 3: transformation sure to appeal to the zealots currently populating the
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 3: Democratic base. If a recent pass is a prelude, these zealots,
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 3: particularly ones attached to the moneyed activist groups, will oblige
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 3: elected Democrats to engage in performative madness. The House effort
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 3: to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, authored by, of course,
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 3: Thomas Massey, attracted no other Republican votes but 203 Democratic ones.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 3: For the latter, the exercise signaled to the party's hardline progressives, voters,
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 3: that it feels their energy. They'll be back for more
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 3: and won't settle for gestures. A pair of stories, this
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 3: is funny, one from the Boston Globe in September, the
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 3: other from the Philadelphia Inquirer in October, offers a glimpse
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 3: of the lunacy licensed by Democrats in the Trump years
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 3: and now emboldened. by the midterm elections. In both cases,
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 3: well-meaning progressive entrepreneurs opened bars catering to customers of LGBTQ
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 3: and otherwise identitarian persuasions. And in both cases, the experiment
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: ended on demented accusations of racism, misogyny, ableism, and transphobia,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 3: all from among the LGBTQ community that these businesses were
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 3: trying to cater to. Both establishments folded, their owners bowing
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 3: to budgetary and ideological reality A year from now, both
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 3: parties will start figuring out who can best win the
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: White House. An easy prediction. Of the two nominees, voters
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 3: will prefer the one who seems less deranged and behaves
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 3: like a normal adult. Barton Swain. Great, great point. Let's
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 3: get a local author on the phone. He's going to
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 3: be on at 805 Chuck Klein. It should be a
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 3: fascinating book. We'll talk about circumnavigation. Well, since yesterday when
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 3: I was first alerted by my dear friend Peter Bronson, yes,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 3: the author and publisher Peter Bronson, former Enquirer editorial columnist,
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 3: Chuck Klein has joined the program here. He brings extensive
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 3: real-world law enforcement background to his fiction, which is a
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 3: book we're going to be talking about here coming up.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 3: Before turning to writing, he was a certified police officer
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 3: here in Ohio, Woodlawn Terrace Park, Amberley Village. He's still
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 3: a resident of Ohio, local author we call him. He's
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 3: a deputy sheriff in Switzerland County, Indiana as well. Worked
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 3: as a licensed private investigator, police photography instructor, firearms instructor,
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 3: and he's also a car guy. You got a lot of,
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 3: I got a lot of things that align with your interests.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 3: Chuck Klein, welcome to The Morning Show. Here to talk
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: about your new book, an extension from the prior book,
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 3: circa 1957. Fast forward 10 years, circa 1967. Good to
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 3: have you on, Chuck.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 4: It's hardly 8 o'clock in the morning.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 6: Is anybody awake at this hour?
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 3: I get up at 2.30, Chuck.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 6: I've come off a three-day drunk later than this. Are
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 6: we on the air?
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 3: We are on the air. Man, I've got to get
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 3: up at 2.30, 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. five days
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 3: a week, Chuck. 8 o'clock is nothing.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay. Well, that's great. You're talking about police officers.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 4: I was a cop, and I've written for police magazines,
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 4: written police books and stuff. Let's get one thing straight
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 4: about cops. You know, they're really in the news. American
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 4: police officers are not the enemy.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 4: Nor are they hand holders, social workers, jackbooted thugs or heroes.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 6: However, yeah, however, these... However, evildoers.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 4: May deem them the enemy. They may become hand holders
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 4: when comfort is needed or social workers when helping the
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 4: indigent and even jackbooted thugs when breaking down doors to
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 4: protect the protectees from evildoers. And when heroic acts are required, well,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 4: we've seen example after example of that.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 3: Well, Chuck, I salute you for your service to the
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: community as a police officer and a firefighter as well.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 3: My sister retired from the Cincinnati Police Department about five
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 3: or so years ago as a lieutenant, served for more
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 3: than 25 years in the Cincinnati Police Department, and I
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 3: lived her life parallel to her. I heard all the stories,
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 3: the sacrifice, the psychological trauma, the filth that you have
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 3: to deal with on a day-in and day-out basis, and
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 3: it can't be understated the difficulty that job presents, but
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 3: that's why I always like to give strong recognition to
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 3: law enforcement officers, and of course to you too, sir,
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: for being one. But you bring all of that background,
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 3: your private investigation, your law enforcement experience to the books
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 3: that you write. And this is, do you call it
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 3: a sequel circa 1967? Because you introduced the protagonist, Paul Auer,
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 3: in the book, prior book, circa 1957. So let's talk
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 3: about this, Chuck.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, the latest book, circa 1967, is It's got
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 4: car chases.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 6: And gun battles. Uh-oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 4: I'm allowed to say gun on the air now that
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 4: the Democrats are in control?
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 3: You are talking to a proud firearm owner and Second
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 3: Amendment fan and believer. Yes, you are talking to the
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 3: right audience here. Nobody has any problems with firearms ownership. And,
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 3: in fact, I encourage people to go out and buy
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 3: one if they don't own one yet and start taking
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 3: classes because you know it. You're a firearms instructor. You
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 3: have to learn how to competently operate that firearm so
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 3: you can use it to your advantage if it ever
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 3: becomes necessary.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been doing that. I've carried a gun or
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 4: had one close at hand all of my adult life,
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 4: and certainly well before they had permits and constitutional carry
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 4: and stuff.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 6: But, hey, you know.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 4: When you're a private eye, you got to carry a gun,
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 4: whether the law out there or not, because there's bad
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 4: guys out there that, well, they'll take you out for that.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 4: So I got a lot of these stories in this
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 4: book circa 1967. It's subtitled Unyielding Mindset Street Cop Turns
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 4: PI Collides with Anarchy.
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  Speaker 6: Anarchy?
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it's got a main theme running through here
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  Speaker 4: about an anti-American group that– called JEWS, J-E-W-S, for Jewish
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 4: Esoteric Watchdog Society that infiltrates and goes after the TRO
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 4: for the rightful owners, which is a group out to
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 4: take over the United States. So that's part of the
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 4: theme of this thing, and it involves a.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 6: Lot of stuff, including a lot.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 4: Of it is historically, technically correct, and autobiographical. I mean,
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 4: the first book in this series circa 1957, um, was
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 4: fully autobiographical. I mean, it was my story, and I
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 4: couldn't make up better stuff than what really happened, and
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 4: that book became a cult, and then I came up
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 4: with this Circa 67 sequel, and now I'm working on
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 4: Circa 2000, which would be a complete trilogy of this thing.
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  Speaker 3: That would be great. Explain to my listening audience the
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 3: predicate for the 1957 year, your first book, Circa 1957,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 3: which presumably acts as a springboard to this new book
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 3: we're talking about today, Circa 1967, but why 57?
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 4: Well, it's a coming-of-age book set during that period of time.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 6: It covers the three years, 54 years, 56, 7.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 4: 8, 9, and 60 of a boy in Cincinnati coming
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 4: of age. All the scenes are set in Cincinnati, and
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 4: the stories are all real stories about, you know— Coming
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 4: of age stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of juvenile sex and juvenile delinquency.
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  Speaker 3: The beatnik era.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, what?
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 3: I said the beatnik era. That was the preceded the
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 3: hippie era. I'm always fascinated by that change in cultural
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 3: shift beginning of the late 50s and all the way
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 3: through the late 60s here in America. I'm glad you
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 3: chose the time frame. I guess is really where I'm
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 3: going with it, Chuck.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, the time frame between the two books runs
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 4: all the way through 2000. Circa 67 runs from 1960
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 4: to 2000, and then circa 2000 will run on further
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 4: than that. I haven't finished that yet. Um, this stuff
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 4: is all available. Uh, and all, all, if anyone know
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 4: about me is on my website, chuckkline.com.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 3: Checking it out right now, Chuck, there's a lot of
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 3: info there and what a background you've got. It's obviously
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 3: these stories that, you know, you lived in your life.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 3: I suppose that it, you know, as an independent, as
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 3: a local author here, and again, chili dog press published
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 3: it and good morning to, uh, Peter Bronson, I imagine
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 3: is listening right now. Um, Authors, I guess, and I've
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 3: read it and heard it before from authors and also
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 3: read it in articles about authors. You get your inspiration
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 3: from your own life. People are typically writing about themselves,
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 3: even if it's only loosely related. But with your background,
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 3: you've got a lot of great stories that you incorporate
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 3: into this fiction work. It's historical fiction.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And Pete Bronson, great guy. You talk about him. When
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 4: he was editor of the Inquirer, I was writing regular
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 4: columns for him in the– I forget what the column
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 4: was called, but a regular editorial column. So that really
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 4: gave me a boost, and he and I became friends
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 4: since then, and we're still in touch. Yeah, he's a
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 4: great guy.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 3: No question about it. All right, so who is this
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 3: book going to appeal to? People who obviously like cars, guns,
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 3: and intrigue? Because I'm curious about the anarchy element here.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, it's a police thriller type. A lot of
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 6: police stuff in there, and I don't want to give
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 6: it away. You've got to read the book. It's about
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 6: a takeover, a.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 4: Possible takeover that hints at 9-11, which doesn't come until.
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 6: Right. The next volume. Yeah.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I heard you said you have one or two guns.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 6: What's your favorite gun?
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 3: Well, I suppose it depends on which day, but overall,
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 3: if I had to choose in terms of handguns, the
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 3: 1911 style or the modern 9mm 2011 style, I'd love...
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 3: 1911 styles. But in terms of long guns, clearly AR
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 3: platform is a superior, easy to use, easy to operate,
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 3: and you could give it to a child and they
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 3: can hit what they're aiming at. I'm just, I know
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 3: that boils it down a little overly simplistic, but yeah,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 3: those two platforms. But I own a multitude of different
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 3: calibers and types of guns, including a 45-70 lever action,
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 3: which is great to hand over to someone who's not
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 3: used to shooting rifles on the range. Here, try this.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got each of those things. I love the 1911.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 4: My son now has a 1911A1 that my father bought
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 4: brand new in 1934.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 6: Oh, no kidding. It's just beautiful. So we still got
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 6: that in the family. I don't know.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 4: For handguns, I'm partial to the Glock 19 and.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 6: 45 caliber. I'm a. 45 guy.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 4: The 19... Uh, I've never been a 19 guy because
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 4: they're too difficult to reload. Um, and they just weren't
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 4: the big, when I started shooting 45 was it.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 6: And I stuck with that.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I just, it's a, it's a crisp trigger on
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 3: a 45. You know, you're right there. You're on top
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 3: of it. I just, again, it's a great weapon. Uh,
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 3: but again, I've got SIGs and, you know, uh, I've got, uh,
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 3: Smith and Wesson, you know, 44 revolver, you know, the
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 3: J frame hammerless. So you never have to worry about
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 3: it jamming or, or malfunctioning. I mean, it's just, A
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 3: whole variety of them. Just collected them over the years.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 3: I'm not a guy who sells guns. Like, I'm going
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 3: to sell this back to the store and buy a
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 3: new one. No, I just keep it.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I wish I could have done that with
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 4: a lot of my guns. I could never afford to
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 4: keep them all at the same time. I'm really partial
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 4: to double-barrel shotguns. The old ones, I've only got two left.
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 4: I've got a Fox Sterling Werther made in 1948, a
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 4: 20-gauge double 26-inch barrels.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 6: I made the Woodford. That was my hunting gun.
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 4: But a lot of my handguns, Well, I got them
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 4: for free because when I was writing articles, when I
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 4: was the editor for PI Magazine, I could get guns
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 4: for free. They sent me guns to write about, and
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 4: they didn't want the guns back. Well, everybody was Smith & Wesson.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 4: Smith & Wesson always wanted their gun back, but I
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 4: don't know. The other ones didn't want the guns back
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 4: because it would be a used gun, and gun makers,
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 4: you can't sell used guns. so i got to keep
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 4: some pretty cool stuff i you know i got a
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 4: i got a dan wesson um nice 357 revolver with
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 4: with all three barrels um oh yeah that's cool.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 3: Dan wesson fire superior firearm yeah and i'm a big
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 3: shotgun fan as well i like i belong to milford
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 3: gun club at least i used to and shoot skeet
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 3: and trap and i've got a bunch of over and
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 3: unders as well i just say keep a mixed bag
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 3: of variety always got something there and Learned a valuable
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 3: lesson a long time ago. At some point, people get
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 3: a run on ammo, and there won't be any ammo
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 3: available or it'll be really, really expensive. So I learned
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 3: a long time ago, Chuck Klein, buy it when it's
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 3: on sale, and then you'll have it because you're going
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 3: to use it on the range. You'll have it available
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 3: when times get tough or when supplies get low, and
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 3: it happens from time to time. It's like another surge
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 3: in gun ownership.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, very good.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 4: The ammo could be the currency when things go south
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 4: and dollars don't mean anything anymore. The ammo is the
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 4: only thing that you can actually identify. Somebody with gold coins,
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 4: how do you know it's gold?
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 3: Chuck, what good is it? If you're talking post-apocalyptic, post-fiat
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 3: currency world, What the hell are you going to do
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 3: with a nugget of gold? You can't eat it.
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, even a gold coin that could be
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 4: worth $ 2, 000 where you can't walk into any place and
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 4: buy a loaf of bread with a $ 2, 000 gold coin.
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 4: You know how you get changed. But if the trading
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 4: medium is ammunition. Well, okay, you give me 1038 special
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 4: loads and I'll give you a loaf of bread.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 6: Exactly. Then you've got something you can barter with.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 3: Right. I always say it's food, it's ammo, and maybe liquor, vodka, post-apocalyptic,
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 3: laying a big supply. Chuck, it has been a fantastic
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 3: time talking with you. I did expect that we'd get
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 3: off on a tangent or two away from your book,
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 3: knowing what Peter Bronson told me yesterday, circa 1967. Unyielding
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 3: Mindset Street Cop Turned PI Collides with Anarchy. Get a
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 3: copy of it at 55KRC. com. You can get it there
• 1:53:26
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• 1:53:32
  Speaker 3: Call it what you will. It's that time of week
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 3: I always thoroughly enjoy talking aviation news with iHeartMedia aviation
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 3: expert Jay Radliff. Jay, I saw your Facebook post from
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 3: yesterday on Veterans Day. I guess you got to attend
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 3: a really nice Veterans Day parade.
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 12: I did down in Savannah. That was their 80th annual.
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 12: And Brian, they've got flags that hang over the parade
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 12: route for about five blocks.
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 6: And they told me.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 12: That those flags were from fallen soldiers. And the families
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 12: had donated them so that they could.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 6: Hang above the parade.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 6: And I thought that was very.
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 3: Very moving.
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 12: It was a nice time. And, of course, this is
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 12: Veterans Week. I think you're ending the week emceeing something,
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 12: aren't you?
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 3: Ending the week in what? Oh, yeah, the Honor Flight
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 3: bourbon event.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 12: Oh, yeah, let's not forget about that.
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a big deal.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 12: I'm sorry that Sherry and I are not in town
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 12: to be there with you, brother, because, you know, I'm
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 12: a big fan of Honor Flight. And Cheryl and Tom
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 12: do a great job, of course. They always brag on
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 12: the Ziegler girls, Tessa and Ray and their mom, Rachel,
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 12: and all the ones that are connected with that great,
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 12: great organization.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 6: So I'm just thrilled you're there.
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, very, very pleased about that. And, you know,
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 3: another salute to the American veteran, Frank Wettenkamp, who is
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 3: a World War II veteran. He'll be in studio tomorrow.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 3: He is just so sharp at 105 years old, I
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 3: think he is. Sorry, Joe. Just 100. Joe's correcting the record.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 12: Yeah, don't age him too much.
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 6: Well, that's great.
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 12: I'm looking forward to it. You had another great interview
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 12: this week with Jack Atherton. You're on fire this week, brother.
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 3: No, they are on fire. I merely get to facilitate
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 3: their brilliance. So, yeah, I'm just a mere pawn in
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 3: the game of life. Jay Ratliff. I entered the story.
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 3: I presume that you're talking about United Flight 2174 in
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 3: the notes section. We talk about a flight from Newark.
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 3: I had a passenger try to access the cockpit. This
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 3: guy apparently in the country illegally from Honduran. And he
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 3: was able to establish some temporary status here by claiming
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 3: he was transgender and was therefore going to be prosecuted
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 3: or persecuted in his home country. So that bought him
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 3: time here. But lo and behold, turns out he made
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 3: a bomb threat, tried to hijack an airplane.
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 12: Yeah, he's walking down the aisle with a backpack and
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 12: saying he's got a bomb in it. And of course,
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 12: once the cockpits made aware of what's taking place, they
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 12: turned the transponder to 75 with 100, which sends out the.
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 12: The signal that possible hijacking in place that only communicates
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 12: air traffic control, but the United flights as well. It
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 12: was called a level four event, meaning they didn't know
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 12: if it was the first of many or just what,
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 12: but it puts everybody on notice. Once the plane landed,
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 12: he was taken into custody. Typically, you could face up
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 12: to 10 years in prison. But with these individuals, I
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 12: don't know what's going to happen. So they could face
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 12: prison time.
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 6: They could not.
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 12: I don't know if they try to deport them and
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 12: they try to get back or exactly what's going to
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 12: happen here. But, yeah, certainly some anxious moments for people
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 12: aboard that flight.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'd say. Well, apparently now you can make a
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 3: first-class Frontier Airlines reservation for travel coming up in March.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 3: First time ever. What's the development with Frontier?
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm a big fan of Frontier. They were the
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 12: ones that led, of course, the low-cost carriers into Cincinnati
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 12: when they brought their one flight a day to Denver
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 12: down from Dayton to Cincinnati. And they have been hearing
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 12: from customers saying, look, we'd like not only extra legroom,
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 12: but we'd like a first-class section. And they're willing to
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 12: pay for it. So Frontier said, okay, we'll do it.
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 12: And they're following the lead of a lot of other
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 12: low-cost carriers. They're putting in both premium seats and now
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 12: first-class seats. And as of this week, you can actually
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 12: begin booking Frontier first class seats for travel after March.
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 6: And I know a lot of our listeners.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 12: Are very savvy by buying the reservations or making them
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 12: way in advance. And as you do, you lock in
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 12: those lower fares, which is great. And Frontier is an
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 12: incredible airline to fly. So I was just thrilled to
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 12: see this because I prefer the extra leg room. I'll
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 12: pay a couple extra bucks to sit up front of
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 12: an airplane. And to be able to do that, not
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 12: only do you get off the airplane early, which I like,
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 12: but you've got the extra legroom, which is good. And, yeah,
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 12: I think Frontier is really, really going to benefit from this,
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 12: and I'm thrilled to see it.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a nice development. So I guess when you
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 3: talk about booking flights early to get the discount, the
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 3: discount's still available, but I presume based upon the cost
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 3: of jet fuel and the scarcity of supplies, generally speaking,
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 3: that the low fare isn't like the old days low fare.
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 12: Well, you know, buy them far enough in advance, and
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 12: they're not bad, especially when it comes to Frontier. Yeah,
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 12: and when we come back later, you can ask me
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 12: about how artificial intelligence is being used by some people
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 12: to look for those fares.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 3: As I stare at the late, late edition to the
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 3: list topics for you, United Airlines banning AI agents from
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 3: booking flights on behalf of travelers. You know, I'm glad
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 3: you mentioned it because I wanted to talk to you
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 3: about it. Dave Hatter last week warned about people giving
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 3: AI access to their investment accounts. So they can make investments. Like,
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking, who in the hell would give that kind
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 3: of information to AI?
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 12: Brian, so many people, as you know, are looking for
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 12: something that'll day trade for them or.
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 6: Trade stocks for them. Just do something that's going to
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 6: make me a ton of money that I don't have
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 6: to do anything about.
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 12: And sadly, they're letting their guard down. And Dave's all
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 12: over that, where you are, in essence, turning the keys
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 12: of your finances over to something that could be hacked.
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 3: And that's the concern United was expressing on behalf of
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 3: their own clients. You know, if you're using AI, you
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 3: could have a real security risk going on here. We're
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 3: not going to abide. I guess I'm really curious to
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 3: know how United Airlines knows that you are, in fact,
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 3: using AI.
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 12: Well, I can dive into it now if we've got time. But, yeah,
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 12: a lot of people are using, like, Expedia, travel advisors
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 12: and others that are teaming up with artificial intelligence companies.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 12: And these AI programs can help you look for the
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 12: lowest fares in certain markets. So what's happening is passengers
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 12: are saying, hey, I'm just going to turn my travel
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 12: planning over to this AI program so that when it
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 12: spots the fare I want, it'll make the reservation I want,
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 12: and boom, it's done, and it'll save me a great.
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 6: Deal of time.
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  Speaker 12: United's coming out saying, no, no, no, we don't want
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  Speaker 12: to have a third party in here. We're going to
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 12: deal directly with the customer. which I find incredibly, incredibly
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  Speaker 12: interesting because United uses artificial intelligence to make sure that
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 12: their fares are as high as they can be.
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  Speaker 6: So that they can get.
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  Speaker 12: The highest possible profit.
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  Speaker 6: So United's saying, we can use it. You can't.
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  Speaker 7: Sounds like Congress.
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  Speaker 3: So they're really not looking at being paternalistic with the purchasers.
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  Speaker 3: They just want to maintain the opportunity to get the
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  Speaker 3: highest fare out of them. Shocking business model.
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  Speaker 6: There you go.
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  Speaker 12: But other airlines are embracing the AI platform, saying, look,
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  Speaker 12: you know, we're okay with people. As long as you're
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  Speaker 12: making reservations on us, you know, we don't care if
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 12: your dog's doing it.
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  Speaker 6: Just bring them on.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go away. We'll continue with Jay Radcliffe, our media
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  Speaker 3: aviation expert. And, of course, mention about stocks there. You did. DayTradeFun.com.
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  Speaker 3: Find Jay. It's 836-55KRC, the talk station. Don't go away. 55KRC,
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 3: the talk station. Whoa. Jay Radcliffe has it. He's our
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 3: aviation expert. iHeartMedia is the entire iHeartMedia network. More near misses. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I love reading about these, Jay Ratliff. Give me another
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  Speaker 3: reason to not really be interested in flying. How about
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 3: we go to Los Angeles for the first one?
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  Speaker 12: Oh, you're talking about the Air France American Airlines dance
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  Speaker 12: they were doing. Yeah, we had two flights preparing to
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  Speaker 12: take off from parallel runways. You had Air France cleared
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  Speaker 12: to take off first. So they start rolling down the runway.
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  Speaker 6: They go airborne.
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  Speaker 12: And flight path basically means for them just to go
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  Speaker 12: straight ahead and climb. American Airlines runway to their left
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  Speaker 12: behind them, release for takeoff.
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  Speaker 6: Off they go.
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  Speaker 12: But for some inexplicable reason, the air france, the crew
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  Speaker 12: turned left instead of continuing straight. Brian, as they were
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  Speaker 12: doing that, it was bringing them directly into the flight
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  Speaker 12: path of this American Airlines jet. So a very alert
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  Speaker 12: air traffic controller, thank you. Immediately saw what was going on,
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  Speaker 12: gave both crew members instructions, which they both immediately adhered to. And,
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  Speaker 12: you know, I think the vertical separation was 400 feet, which.
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  Speaker 6: Was way closer than what we want.
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  Speaker 12: And the combined passenger count of both airplanes, if I'm
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 12: not mistaken, was just at 500 passengers. So you're talking
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  Speaker 12: about something that could.
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  Speaker 6: Have been absolutely horrific.
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  Speaker 12: Air France has yet to release a statement explaining what
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  Speaker 12: might have happened. The FAA and, of course, the National
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 12: Transportation Safety Board investigating, trying to find out exactly what
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  Speaker 12: took place so that we can learn from it to
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 12: try to prevent whatever miscommunication took place to never happen again.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Before we get to the other near miss, I saw
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  Speaker 3: that that. horrific Lear jet crash with that young pilot.
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  Speaker 3: They found the black box. Did you get any update
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 3: on what they determined off of it, or has it
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  Speaker 3: yet to be released?
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  Speaker 12: They've not yet released some of the specifics. Typically, they'll
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 12: release part of the transcript, if they can, earlier in
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 12: the investigation. But once we reach about the 30-day mark,
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 12: The NTSB tends to be pretty quiet until the investigation
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 12: is finalized, until the 11, 12-month mark when everything is
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 12: released in a final report. One of the big questions is,
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 12: what was the discussions by the crew leading up to
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 12: those storms that the air traffic controllers were recommending that
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 12: they go around one way or another, and the crew decided,
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 12: or the captain did, to instead proceed directly through the storm?
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  Speaker 6: So we don't know, and.
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  Speaker 12: A lot of people are saying that blame is clearly
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  Speaker 12: at his feet. I'm never going to use the word
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  Speaker 12: clearly in an early part of an investigation because we
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 12: don't know if there was mechanical situations or what was
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 12: taking place. Hopefully that black box will glean or provide
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 12: the necessary information for investigators so that they can determine
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 12: what either the issue or issues were because a lot
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 12: of times we have contributing causes that cause that horrific accident.
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  Speaker 6: We've got to learn from it. I'm confident we will.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my first experience with even understanding that icing on
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  Speaker 3: the wings is a problem, and a lot of people
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 3: are suspecting that maybe ice builds up on the wings, which, well,
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 3: defeats the plane's ability to have lift and basically just
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 3: drops out of the sky. So I remember, and I
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 3: know I've mentioned this story to you, it was on
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  Speaker 3: the Bengals flight. We went out to Denver. It was
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 3: back when the Bengals were on 55KRC. My dad gave
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 3: me an opportunity to go with him, so I... Quickly said,
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 3: hell yeah, I'm going. But we were sitting on the
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 3: tarmac in Denver getting ready to come home, and the
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 3: Bengals were all on the plane and everything, and it's
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 3: been snowing, and it's been snowing, and we're sitting there.
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  Speaker 3: We've been out there for a while, and my dad
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 3: looks not white as a sheet, but, I mean, he
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 3: looks nervous, and his hands are holding on to the armrest,
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, what the hell's wrong with him? He's
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 3: not a nervous flyer. So we end up getting in
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 3: the air, and guess what? Finally, I was a little
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 3: worried about ice on the wings. We'd been sitting there
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  Speaker 3: for such a long time. There's a protocol for that.
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  Speaker 3: They're supposed to go over and get the ice hosed
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  Speaker 3: off the wings before they take off after a certain
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 3: amount of time. Is there a mechanism, like have they
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 3: developed a plane that maybe has heated wings or some
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 3: other ability to de-ice the wing if you run into
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 3: this problem while you're airborne?
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 12: Well, they do, but the de-icing mechanisms can easily be
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 12: overwhelmed if you have a large amount of ice that
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 12: accumulates in a quick period of time. The systems aren't
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 12: designed to, in essence, accommodate that much ice in a
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 12: very short span of time, and it tends to take time.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 12: right onto the wing surface, which makes it very, very
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 12: difficult to be removed. And that's one of the reasons why,
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 12: as you fly, it just doesn't fly off. It becomes
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 12: a permanent part of the wing until, you know, you
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 12: get to an altitude where maybe it.
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 6: Can start to melt off a bit.
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  Speaker 12: But by then, you've lost control of the aircraft, and
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 12: typically you're at such a speed, all hope of controlling
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 12: that aircraft is lost. And in the case of that Learjet,
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  Speaker 12: I think they had 90 seconds of flight time after
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 12: the ice began to accumulate to the time it crashed
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 12: in the ground. And when you're talking about being at
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 12: the altitude they were at, yeah, it was just... You know,
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 12: it was just horrific in so many different ways. And, again,
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  Speaker 12: I think we're going to see some things in here
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 12: that we're going to see from the report where the
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 12: crew did all they could, and we'll probably see things
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 12: that maybe could have been done differently.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 12: We don't know the specifics of things, and that's why
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 12: I'm always very careful on things as far as stating,
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 12: because we don't know. Because a lot of times we
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 12: think it's obviously crew error, and we find out, wait
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 12: a minute, there was a mechanical situation with the aircraft
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 12: that prevented the crew from doing this, this, or that.
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  Speaker 6: So we don't know.
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 3: Don't know, but presumably we will find out. Don't go away.
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  Speaker 3: More with Jay Radcliffe, including near miss in Miami, and
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 3: apparently American Airlines is preparing for a big day, maybe
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 3: the biggest. H-48 on a Thursday. Brian Thomas with iHeartMedia
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 3: aviation expert Jay Radcliffe wrapping up the show with yet
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  Speaker 3: another near miss. This one on the ground, we talked
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 3: about one of these last week, Jay. How in God's
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 3: name does that happen?
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  Speaker 12: Well, they're called runway incursions, and they happen literally every
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 12: day at some airport around the country where maybe you've
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 12: got a plane that's taxing and somebody crosses it with
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 12: a piece of ground equipment or another plane.
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  Speaker 6: And that's what happened here.
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  Speaker 12: Lufthansa coming in 747, having landed, taxing it to the
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 12: normal speed to the gate. And then you had an
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 12: American Airlines jet that was taxing as well. and was
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 12: in the process of crossing the runway in front of it,
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 12: and the Lufthansa crew had to slam on the brakes. Now,
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 12: the aircraft didn't get real close to colliding, which was
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 12: good news. The air traffic controller was all over the
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 12: American Airlines crew saying, you know, you're turning every other
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 12: way than what we're directing you. So it sounded like
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 12: it was the fault of American Airlines. Brian, until you
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 12: go back and listen to the air traffic control tape,
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 12: And then you see that it was the controller that
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 12: seemed to be confused, gave multiple different directions to the
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 12: American Airlines flight crew who was doing their best to
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 12: try to keep up. And I understand the confusion because
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 12: even the controller called him by the wrong flight number
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 12: one time. So I think some retraining may be in
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 12: place here. And I'm not laying this one at the
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 12: feet of the ground crew. as far as American Airlines pilots.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 12: I think it was the air traffic controller here. But yeah,
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 12: we have these runway incursions and different things happen on
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 12: a daily basis. But because of the fact that we
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 12: are having some ones that maybe are on video or
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 12: different types of things, every one of these is going
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 12: to get quite a bit of attention. But, you know,
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 12: we have these, like the go-arounds. The go-arounds happen maybe
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 12: one out of every, or maybe two out of every
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 12: thousand flights. So if you've got 28,000, 30,000 flights in
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 12: a day, you're going to have several of these where
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 12: the crew comes in and goes around.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Imperfect world out there, Jay Ratliff. American Airlines.
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  Speaker 6: We have a plan for everything.
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 3: We do.
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  Speaker 6: That's the idea.
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  Speaker 12: A plan for everything.
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  Speaker 3: Moving over, American Airlines, preparing for what you call maybe
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 3: their biggest day ever?
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 12: That's what they're saying. And, you know, if an airline's
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 12: been around for like 96 years since 1930, when they.
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 6: Say we're about to have one of our.
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 12: Biggest days ever, yeah, they're talking about excuse me, I
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 12: think 8 million people in a week that are going
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 12: to be flying during the airline's busiest travel week, of course,
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 12: the week of Thanksgiving. And they're talking about the Sunday
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 12: after Thanksgiving, which is always the busiest day. Brian, having
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 12: 7,000 and I think 21 flights that day alone scheduled,
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 12: that's a departure every three seconds. So it's going to
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 12: be a big deal for American Airlines and for other carriers.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 12: And I always smile when I think of American because
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 12: American is the result of 80 different companies. You talk
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 12: about Pac-Man on steroids, that's American Airlines. Most airlines are
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 12: made up of maybe 10, 15, 20 airlines that they
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 12: have acquired throughout their history.
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  Speaker 6: Not American.
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  Speaker 12: 80 different companies make up American Airlines.
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  Speaker 11: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I go back in my mind and I think,
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 3: remember TWA? Remember Eastern Airlines? Whatever happened to all this?
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 3: Did you say America is responsible for basically absorbing all this?
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 3: Because I know Eastern, I think they went bankrupt. Well,
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 3: not all of them.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, you know, like Western, Delta grabbed. The Northwest,
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 12: Delta grabbed. And you had others that were taken.
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 6: But yeah, U.S.
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  Speaker 12: Airways, America West, a lot of these just gobbled into
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 12: that American Airlines machine. Bigger doesn't mean better because they're
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 12: still struggling financially.
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  Speaker 5: No.
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 12: And, Brian, I mean, that's just a massive thought when
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 12: you think that they have gotten– now, some of these
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 12: were small mail carriers and different things back in the day,
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 12: but still, I don't care, 80 different companies that are airlines.
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 12: That's a significant number.
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 3: No question about it. All right, as we usually do,
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 3: let's end on hub delays, find out what's going on.
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 3: I know there's a Nor'easter going on somewhere. What's this
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 3: going to do to air travel, Jay?
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 12: Yeah, that's the big issue right now. A lot of
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 12: concern for people that are traveling towards the Northeast, especially
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 12: over the weekend, is we've got the possibility there for
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 12: some really bad weather. Airlines are issuing waivers, so if
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 12: you're flying to or through any of the affected areas,
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 12: you can change your reservation absent a change fee, which
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 12: is nice. but obviously make sure the airlines have a
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 12: way to get ahold of you. And some of this
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 12: could create problems where getting into a specific airport aren't possible.
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 12: And you may be given the option of saying, Hey, look,
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 12: just get me to an airport.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 6: That's close.
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 12: Like if you're trying to get into Cincinnati, get me
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 12: to Dayton, Columbus, Louisville, Lexington, just get me close. And
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 12: then I'll pay for my own way to get home
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 12: from there. That may be some, a card that has
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 12: to be played there. this weekend as well we'll we'll
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 12: see how things are going but the airlines are keeping
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 12: a close eye on it and they're certainly going to
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 12: respond as it is the good news is brian this
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 12: isn't the week of thanksgiving so if we're going to
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 12: have a nor'easter let's get.
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 3: It out of the way now there's always a bright
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 3: spot jay ratliff always and if you can't find it
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 3: directly you got to kind of search for it but
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 3: there's something positive out there going on in the world
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 3: just look for it and cling to that in most
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 3: desperate times we find ourselves in Jay Ratliff, I appreciate
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 3: you coming to the program every week, and I enjoy
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 3: the conversations and the topics, and we'll do it again
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 3: next week. And as always, between now and then, best
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 3: of health and love to you and your better half.