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55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Susan Luken · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: This was rather interesting that you heard the top of
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Speaker 1: the our news. Looks like we're going to be paying
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Speaker 1: more than three bucks a gallon for gasoline until next year.
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Speaker 1: Energy Secretary Christwright said that just yesterday he and others
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Speaker 1: have chimed in on this. Treasury Secretary Scott Pssent last
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Speaker 1: week said he predicted gas prices would fall to the
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Speaker 1: three dollars a gallon range over this summer. Trump said
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Speaker 1: that gas prices may remain elevated until November. So different people,
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Speaker 1: different sphincters, different ideas, all of them predicting. Ultimately, though,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be blow three bucks a gallon as
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Speaker 1: soon as we get this situation in Iran sorted out.
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Speaker 1: The problem with Iran apparently as you think, well, we
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Speaker 1: got a deal to open the straight up and then
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Speaker 1: the next day you don't have a deal. Yeah, that
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Speaker 1: is an internal problem with the rad You have the
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Speaker 1: diplomats within the diplomats in the Iranian government saying one thing,
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Speaker 1: embracing the concept of resolution of the conflict, and then
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Speaker 1: you have the hardliners in Iran who want to keep controlled.
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Speaker 1: They're the ones that controlled the military, the Revolutionary Guard.
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Speaker 1: They're the ones that shut the straight back down but
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Speaker 1: on again, off again straight, so open straits closed until
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Speaker 1: they get their act together. You have obviously volatility. But
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Speaker 1: I saw that three dollar gallon and I thought, man,
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Speaker 1: it's four dollars and six cents nationally that's the average,
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Speaker 1: and that's oh my god, that's awful. That's a lot.
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Speaker 1: So I'm watching to have and to have not over
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Speaker 1: the weekend, Old nineteen forties movie featuring Humphrey Bogart Lauren McCall,
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Speaker 1: first movie they worked with. And so they're in Martinique
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Speaker 1: and Humphrey Bogart's for a higher fishing boat got and
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Speaker 1: there's a scene where one of his clients wants to
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Speaker 1: go out of the fishing boat the search. They're hunting
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Speaker 1: for big game fish, and Bogart says, I need gasoline,
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Speaker 1: asking basically the client to pay for the price of gasoline,
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Speaker 1: and he says, well how much. Bogart says, twenty eight
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Speaker 1: cents a gallon times whatever forty gallons or whatever he bought.
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Speaker 1: He came up with some really low figure. My wife
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Speaker 1: and I look at each other, twenty eight cents a gallon.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine twenty eight cents a gallon? Well, when
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Speaker 1: you factor in inflation. We've been dealing with the high
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Speaker 1: price of gasoline for a long time. So this is
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty. You know what the price of gasoline wasn't
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty. If you a rate for inflation, that twenty
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Speaker 1: eight cents translated to north of six dollars per gallon,
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Speaker 1: So it wasn't that long ago. You know, we were
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Speaker 1: facing higher gasoline prices, not because of a conflict started
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Speaker 1: by evil Orange Man, but because we decided that we
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Speaker 1: were well not going to tap into our own energy resources.
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Speaker 1: We were going to artificially drive the price of gasoline up.
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Speaker 1: In other just for the purposes of pushing you to
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Speaker 1: drive an electric vehicle subsidized by the taxpayers. Let's force
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Speaker 1: the price up artificially through legislation or through cutting our
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Speaker 1: own throats, and not tap into our own resources, making
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Speaker 1: life difficult, environmental challenges, blah blah blah. We go on
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Speaker 1: and on and on all the impediments placed into the
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Speaker 1: system by the left to prevent us from achieving a
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Speaker 1: very affordable level of reliable energy. So you have conflicts
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Speaker 1: that come and go, and you have the price gasoline.
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Speaker 1: Once you remove the conflict, will most assuredly it was
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Speaker 1: slow down or drop. The volatility has disappeared. It's a
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Speaker 1: temporary volatility caused by well conflict, unlike the legislatively in career,
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Speaker 1: legislatively induced increased prices of fuel. And because while they
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Speaker 1: want to, I suppose manipulate and control your world, maybe,
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Speaker 1: as I've come to believe over the years, intentionally starvar
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Speaker 1: economy to make us less productive. Yeah, five seventeen Right now,
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Speaker 1: if if have cauriocity the talk station, feel free to
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Speaker 1: chime in more to talk about coming up. And oh look,
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Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati broke around on a brand new
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Speaker 1: green energy project. Thank god we get another solar farm
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Speaker 1: here in the city of Cincinnati. Five seventeen, figure around
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Speaker 1: the right back, what's happening?
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Speaker 2: You fly with his lucky You will use sports.
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Speaker 1: Update until five point forty One of the overnight news
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Speaker 1: guys come in this morning and say, hey, southbound seventy
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Speaker 1: one and seventy five at earl Anger is shut down.
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Speaker 1: Apparently a pedestrian was hitting the road and his initial report,
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Speaker 1: the initial report he read on that was that it
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Speaker 1: might likely still remain shut down through rush hour, or
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Speaker 1: at least until rush hour. Hopefully Chuck Ingram, we give
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Speaker 1: us all the details on that five forty when we
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Speaker 1: get that first traffic update. So just heads up to
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Speaker 1: the extent he was accurate about that. You got a
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Speaker 1: problem there again. Seventy one and seventy five earl Anger
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Speaker 1: five one three, seven, nine fifty eight hundred and two
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Speaker 1: to three talk Coon FI fifty on at and T phone,
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Speaker 1: looking forward to Christopher Smitheman's comment on the breaking ground
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Speaker 1: of the green energy project. Hey, look, those keeping track
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Speaker 1: of the antics and whereabouts of have to have Parwall
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Speaker 1: Mayor of the City of Cincinntai. He does tend to
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Speaker 1: show up at ribbon cutting, Tadley absent for a lot
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Speaker 1: of other events that happened that we think a mayor's
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Speaker 1: presence might do us all some good. But these are
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Speaker 1: one of the things that I hate the most about
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Speaker 1: city government. These the decision making that goes on their
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Speaker 1: city officials. Broke ground a brand new green energy project
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Speaker 1: happened in Wittenhills, and they were there with the shovels
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Speaker 1: out on Friday. Mayor have Tabb Parvall, of course he
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Speaker 1: was there Center Hill solar ray project they claim is
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Speaker 1: going to develop ten megawatts of solar energy. They keep
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Speaker 1: reminding you that Center Hill's landfill site and therefore apparently
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Speaker 1: a brownfield site. And boy, this is the only thing
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Speaker 1: you can do with the brownfield site is I use
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Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars put a bunch of panels, solar panels that
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Speaker 1: will require maintenance, upkeep, and help support the Chinese Communist
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Speaker 1: Party through their acquisition. But boy, we'll be able to
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Speaker 1: green virtue signal, won't we? Green virtue signal? I love
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Speaker 1: they continually refer to this as an investment. When I
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Speaker 1: think of investment, I like to think of returns on investment.
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Speaker 1: So I think that it's a bit foggy out there
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Speaker 1: in the world of how much this is going to
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Speaker 1: cost versus what they think the return is. But it
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Speaker 1: does give you the green virtue signaling. Parlwall said, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: We've long been proud to be on the cutting edge
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Speaker 1: of environmental action and innovation investments into climate resilience and
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Speaker 1: the green economy. It is part of what puts us
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Speaker 1: on the map of what makes me so confident about
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Speaker 1: our future as a city. Just as importantly, it's part
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Speaker 1: of what will protect us from the extreme uncertainty we
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Speaker 1: are seeing around the nation and world when it comes
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Speaker 1: to rising energy costs, all the solar project's going to
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Speaker 1: protect us from the rising energy costs. Huh. Going back
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Speaker 1: to my points on how the energy prices have gone up,
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Speaker 1: it's pursuing this green nirvana that has caused the price
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Speaker 1: to go up. All of these these so called green
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Speaker 1: energy products can't exist without, yes, taxpayer dollars being offloaded
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Speaker 1: to purchase whatever green power production method you're going to buy.
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Speaker 1: The solar panels, the windmills, the battery storage, hooking those
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Speaker 1: particular producers of electricity and occasional producers of electricity up
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Speaker 1: to the grid. All that costs gazillions of dollars. If
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Speaker 1: you didn't go down that road, would energy really be
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Speaker 1: that expensive? Twenty four million dollars project developed and maintained
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Speaker 1: by a company called you Power Energy, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: what e power. Here we go, enter non governmental organization,
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Speaker 1: You Power. We bring a wealth of knowledge and experience
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Speaker 1: and a clean, renewable energy. You should check out their
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Speaker 1: website Youpower Energy dot com. Yep, that's who says the contract.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how much they're making off of this,
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Speaker 1: but they're all about being community focused they're all about, well,
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Speaker 1: here's energy justice according to you. Powers Front pays our
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Speaker 1: own website, Energy Justice, smaller renewable energy power plants replace
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Speaker 1: large coal fired plants. Oh okay, solar balances the power
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Speaker 1: grid efficiency and millions of energy storage batteries and evs
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Speaker 1: connected to the grid. Uh just because you say it,
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Speaker 1: does it mean it's good? Anyway? They're quite the woke company.
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Speaker 1: You can read all about them. They're all about equity
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Speaker 1: and community and resilience, energy, just this all over the place.
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Speaker 1: And if you know what energy justice is, would you
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Speaker 1: please let me know because I'm kind of gray on
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Speaker 1: that concept too. Joe, you have any concept energy justice?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 1: I know I'm at a loss five twenty five If
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Speaker 1: you five caresy detox station five one three, seven, four
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Speaker 1: nine fifty five eight two three talk. We got other
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Speaker 1: local stories to get in into or phone calls. Either
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Speaker 1: way we go. Plus, the stack is stupid coming up
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Speaker 1: at five forty, be.
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Speaker 4: Right back, epic fury.
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Speaker 5: How much.
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Speaker 1: I think that isn't a rhetorical question, Mike Curbage. Mike
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Speaker 1: would have to have Purloll show up to a small
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Speaker 1: modular reactor ribbon cutting ceremony of course, you'd get an
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Speaker 1: abundance of power out of a small modular reactor without
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Speaker 1: producing any carbon dioxide. I suppose you could put it
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Speaker 1: in a brown field site. It sounds like a great
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Speaker 1: idea alternative, Mike. But compared to twenty four million dollars
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Speaker 1: going to the Chinese Communist Party for acquisition of solar panels,
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Speaker 1: not quite sure how much it would cost to a
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Speaker 1: small modular reactor given the regulatory hurdles. Yes, that certain
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Speaker 1: potentially nefarious types who have placed in the way of progress.
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Speaker 1: Five one, three, seven, four nine fifty hred eight two
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Speaker 1: three Talk Local Stories. Sixty seven year old man arrested
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Speaker 1: after a standoff that lasted more than six hours happened
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Speaker 1: Friday night. Accord to the Coring Township Police, Abdullah Mustafa
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Speaker 1: has been arrested now facing charges of flodia's assault, having
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Speaker 1: weapons under disability, unlawful restraint, inducing panic, and domestic violence.
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Speaker 1: Officers called a twenty hundred block a Royal Glen Drive
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Speaker 1: about eight eight o'clock in the evening for report of
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Speaker 1: a possible hostage situation. They were told a man possibly
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Speaker 1: holding a woman at gunpoint, was inside the homes. Officers
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Speaker 1: confirmed the hostage situation called the Hamilton County Police Association
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Speaker 1: SWAT Team. Woman did escape the home unharmed, taking the safety.
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Speaker 1: SWAT members negotiated with a man again. Abdullah moused offa
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Speaker 1: for more than six hours, and after that failed, police
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Speaker 1: executed a search warrant on the home and took him
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Speaker 1: into custody. He was then taken on Hamilton County Just
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Speaker 1: the Center. Do you have any information about the incident?
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Speaker 1: Corean Township Police love to hear from you. Five to one,
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Speaker 1: three three two one, cops. I have one three three
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Speaker 1: two one cops. Bill requiring the test strips, making test
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Speaker 1: strips mandatory and bars. Apparently, renewed interest is being generated
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Speaker 1: after a Middletown bartender got arrested for sexual abuse may
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Speaker 1: have an award. Joe forty year old Clinton Barnes, Middletown,
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Speaker 1: charged with rape and sexual battery after he drugged a
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Speaker 1: victim in September of last year and sexually assaulted them.
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Speaker 1: Barnes arranged last Wednesday. Judge Oda and Warren County ordered
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Speaker 1: a temporary protection order. Court records show that Barnes, as
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Speaker 1: a bart or, was matther a bartender a pleasure in
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Speaker 1: bar on Main Street. Mason. Not clear at this point
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Speaker 1: whether the victim was a customer of the bar when
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Speaker 1: the alleged crime occurrent. Meanwhile, state lawmakers like Senator Bill
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Speaker 1: de Mora been proposing a bill to help people protect me,
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Speaker 1: protect from spike drinks tomorrow. Quota of saying, anything like
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Speaker 1: this could be prevented if there are test strips available
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Speaker 1: that bars are men dated to have. Anyone can answer
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Speaker 1: for those strips. They have to be provided to you
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Speaker 1: and you can test your drink. End of the statement,
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Speaker 1: I mean having the bartender do it is horrible. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Center Bill two forty eight calls for bars and restaurants
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Speaker 1: to provide the dape rate drug test kits for customers.
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Speaker 1: Senator to morral highlight and the gravity issue, saying spiking
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Speaker 1: drinks is a nightly occurrence across the state, saying it
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Speaker 1: happens all too frequently. Giving this tool allow especially women
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Speaker 1: to test their drinks so they don't get spiked and
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Speaker 1: then something bad happens to them afterwards, like what happened
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Speaker 1: to Mason. Built then a sign of the Judiciary Committee
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Speaker 1: as a hearing next month. David Fornshell, Warren County Prosecutors
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Speaker 1: said Clinton Barnes has now been indicted on two felony charges,
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Speaker 1: being held in the Warden County Jail. Obviously, this is
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Speaker 1: Warren County and not Hamilton County. A one hundred thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars cash bond got some good judges out more in
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Speaker 1: kind of, don't they. Oh, let's see what Tom's got
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Speaker 1: this morning. Tom, welcome to the morning showing a very
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Speaker 1: happy Monday to you.
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Speaker 4: Sir.
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Speaker 6: Hey, Hey, good morning. I hope you had a good weekend.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, wonderful weekend. Just realize I'm getting old. As I
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Speaker 1: mentioned my daughter's turning thirty tomorrow. I just can't. I
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Speaker 1: am reeling over that. When Tom, she.
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Speaker 6: I know mine, Mine just turned thirty one and octover.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, I get it, I get it. Yep, yep
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Speaker 6: every time. Yeah I got. I got to go home
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Speaker 6: this past weekend, uh Saturday, Saturday night and yesterday, so
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Speaker 6: I got to play with play with the granddaughter and
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Speaker 6: the grand puppy and all that good stuff. So it
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Speaker 6: was it was a nice little, quick little go home
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Speaker 6: and come back. And I did. I did using my
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Speaker 6: fuel points.
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Speaker 3: I did get.
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Speaker 6: Gassed for two forty eight yesterday. Absolutely cool gas. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: I mean it's a buck off for the with the
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Speaker 6: fuel points. But still it's nice to see it's coming down.
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Speaker 6: And just because people or are happy that the prices
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Speaker 6: are lower, doesn't mean we're happy with the prices the
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Speaker 6: way they are. They still want them to come down.
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Speaker 6: They still need to keep coming, especially that diesel. That
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Speaker 6: diesel needs to come down.
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Speaker 1: That's yeah, five dollars in change yesterday.
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Speaker 6: That just affects everything. Yeah, you're you're a dog lover,
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Speaker 6: I know, and you have a dog I have had
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Speaker 6: for a while. And one of the more irritating things
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Speaker 6: in a neighborhood is a dog that does not stop barking. People,
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Speaker 6: Please train your dogs to stop barking. Figure out figure
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Speaker 6: out a way to get to train them to you know,
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Speaker 6: ain't bar a couple of times, let me know something's
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Speaker 6: going on. And when I tell you we're good and
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Speaker 6: shut up.
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Speaker 1: You know, I will admit the Thomas household hands are
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Speaker 1: not clean in that regard. When our grandpuppy Dolly is
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Speaker 1: over and and Liam, those two get together, they're protecting
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Speaker 1: the yard from literally anything that moves in the world. Right,
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Speaker 1: and and apologies to those out there who don't own
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Speaker 1: dogs in the neighborhoo like any other the neighborhood. If
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Speaker 1: you're a dog owner, your dog barks lot. It becomes
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Speaker 1: it's like that line from the Blues Brothers. How often
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Speaker 1: does the train go by so often you won't even notice?
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Speaker 1: How often do the dogs so often that the owners
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Speaker 1: just don't even hear it anymore? Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. This this this thing you were
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Speaker 6: just talking about with this, uh, these test trips, this
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Speaker 6: is another government mandated thing that I mean, look, I
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Speaker 6: feel bad for people to have to do through stuff
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Speaker 6: like that. That's a terrible should never happen, and there
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Speaker 6: should be I mean as saying there should be laws
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Speaker 6: to protect people. There are laws out there. You I'll
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Speaker 6: have to do that.
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Speaker 3: But to to.
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Speaker 6: Force a business to have to provide something for you you're
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Speaker 6: the one going out, yes you know, you're you're the
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Speaker 6: one who has decided to invite in alcohol, yes you know. Uh,
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Speaker 6: and you're the one putting yourself at risk. Why is
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Speaker 6: it the business's responsibility and government mandated they have to
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Speaker 6: do this. I just it's just one more thing government's
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Speaker 6: intruding in. And I don't know, I I don't even
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Speaker 6: know what the political strife the people are that are
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Speaker 6: coming up with these ideas. But we have to stop
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Speaker 6: telling businesses you have to do this, you have to
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Speaker 6: do that, you know. I mean, there's there's enough laws
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Speaker 6: on the books, there's enough rules in regulation. You wonder
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Speaker 6: why things cost the way they do because of all
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Speaker 6: the rules and regulations. So we gotta stop. We we
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Speaker 6: got to stop doing that kind of crap. We gotta
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Speaker 6: you know, we got to elect people who are going
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Speaker 6: to be more common sense and do things that are
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Speaker 6: going to help the community, not make it more difficult
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Speaker 6: to live. So, of course that usually means don't vote Democrat,
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Speaker 6: have a great.
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Speaker 1: Thing to do the same time that a great week.
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Speaker 1: Five one three, seven, five hundred, eight hundred eight two
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Speaker 1: Oh, I guess Lea mol did have a right when
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Speaker 1: Winsor on the program last Friday. You got the smither Van,
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Speaker 1: You've got crime Stoper. Bad Guy of the Week Todd
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Speaker 1: Zenzer was on the program last week. Citizen Watchdog Todd Zenzer.
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Speaker 1: What a great guy he is. Plenty of shenanigans. He's
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Speaker 1: been reporting on of Layton downtown Sinceatia as well. Got
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Speaker 1: a real problem with non governmental organizations of what a
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Speaker 1: growing phenomenon we're all becoming aware of across this country.
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Speaker 1: Everywhere you turn, your tax payer dollars are going out
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Speaker 1: to these so called NGOs, which really are a loosely
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Speaker 1: knit conglomerate of a bunch of Marxist organizations. And I
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Speaker 1: have no idea what the kind of return on your
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Speaker 1: tax payer dollar investment they claim they're providing to you.
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Speaker 1: I am very suspicious. Anyway, over to the stack of
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Speaker 1: stupid Olympia Washington. Got an inmate there Thurston County Jail,
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Speaker 1: facing additional charges on top of the ones he was
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Speaker 1: brought in for. According to the Thurston County Seroff's office
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Speaker 1: guy being booked for to stick violence being escorted through
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Speaker 1: the facility when a correction sergeant saw him making movements
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Speaker 1: with his hands toward the back of his pants and
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Speaker 1: a sergeant intervene found the inmate was quote attempting to
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Speaker 1: shove a small amount of suspected fentant fentanyl into his
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Speaker 1: rectal cavity close quote why are you doing that? Rectum
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Speaker 1: nearly killed him? Sorry, pair fought over control of the drugs.
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Speaker 1: The inmate then try you ready, then try to eat
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Speaker 1: the narcotics. Stop from doing so, According to the sheriff's
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Speaker 1: report of the inmate book for possession controlled substance in
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Speaker 1: a correctional facility. There you go, Hey Joe, did you
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Speaker 1: have a toss across game in there too? For South
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Speaker 1: Park fans, You're going back quite a few years for
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Speaker 1: that one, aren't you. Go To Morrisville, North Carolina, judges
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Speaker 1: order the town of Morrisville to release footage of Mayor
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Speaker 1: Chris Carney in the town hall after hours. Pantless ruling
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Speaker 1: came after local news WBTV fout of lawsuits against the
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Speaker 1: town for refusing to release the closed caption footage. Judges
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Speaker 1: ruling determined that the videos are indeed public records. Court
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Speaker 1: rejected the Town of Morville's arguments that the footage should
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Speaker 1: be considered sensitive security information that could be used to
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Speaker 1: quote reverse engineer close quote building layout information. Oh, come on,
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Speaker 1: that's a stretch. Judge order the town officials either released
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Speaker 1: of the footage to the local news within five business days,
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Speaker 1: are submitted to the court for in camera review, and
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Speaker 1: propose redactions and the legal reasoning behind them. Back in
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Speaker 1: October of twenty twenty four, Mayor Carney went the town
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Speaker 1: hall after midnight with a woman who was receiving taxpair
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Speaker 1: dollars as a communications consultant. Why did I just want
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Speaker 1: to say Iris Rowley's name out loud, Joe, this is
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Speaker 1: a consultant. Maybe that's why. Anyway, motion detectors set off,
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Speaker 1: sending police to the town hall. Incident received widespread media
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Speaker 1: attention and recently led to Morrisville Town commissioners voting four
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Speaker 1: to two for a no confidence vote against Mayor Chris Carney. Carney,
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Speaker 1: speaking with news around the time of the incident in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, there's no video of me in my
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Speaker 1: office or anything. I mean, it's all about me in
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Speaker 1: the hallways. I can't imagine anything that will be pressing
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Speaker 1: me going to the bathroom. Wells quote whatever. Twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: six Morrisville employees fought lawsuits telling a different story. Jeff Noble,
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Speaker 1: former IT employee, fought a suit against the town in
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Speaker 1: January twenty sixth, claiming he was retaliated against after discovering
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Speaker 1: surveillan's video of Carney in the town hall after hours
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Speaker 1: with his pants off. He said, you can see the
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Speaker 1: mayor at least a couple different occasions without wearing pants,
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Speaker 1: which is a very big issue. That's unethical. Former IT
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Speaker 1: director Chris Lee fought a suit in March this year,
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Speaker 1: claiming he was fired because of how he handled surveillance
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Speaker 1: footage of Carney, claiming the town leaders pressured him to
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Speaker 1: celest his suppress or rather delete the video unrelated photos.
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Speaker 1: Lee said to review the footage from multiple camera angles,
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Speaker 1: described seeing Carne and the communications consultant and of the
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Speaker 1: building after hours, and that he saw the pair go
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Speaker 1: upstairs into an office and remain there for an extended
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Speaker 1: period of time, he said, and then after midnight again
20:33
Speaker 1: you see back and forth to the bathroom a couple
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Speaker 1: of times and then eventually, you know, I did see
20:38
Speaker 1: him come out and there was no clothing whatsoever on there,
20:43
Speaker 1: And you can very directly see that close quote. And
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Speaker 1: his lawsuit, Lee claims the video shows Carne in a
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Speaker 1: state of partial or complete undress, with his genitalia exposed
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Speaker 1: and his guess, his bits apparently at attention. If I
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Speaker 1: can they call it that.
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Speaker 7: Way, it's doing idiot things because they're idiots.
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Speaker 4: Oh my god.
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Speaker 1: Five forty six, Jay, You're next, right out of the gate.
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Speaker 4: You don't mind holding the talk station.
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Speaker 1: Five fifty five Krcity talk station Monday. Happy one to
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Speaker 1: ya Smithmen, Christopher smithment at seven. Apparently a lot of
21:23
Speaker 1: violence of the last several days. You saw post from
21:25
Speaker 1: Signal ninety nine summarizing these past several days. But we
21:28
Speaker 1: got our new solar farm in spite of the fact that,
21:30
Speaker 1: well the city of Cincinnati seems to be falling apart
21:32
Speaker 1: with violence. Let's go to the phones. Jay was kind
21:34
Speaker 1: of enough to hold over the break. Welcome back, Jay,
21:36
Speaker 1: Happy Monday to you, Hey, Happy.
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Speaker 8: Monday, Brian.
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Speaker 9: Hey.
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Speaker 8: Wanted to build on your comments about these NGOs. You know,
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Speaker 8: my my frustration with the Trump administration and sometimes they
21:48
Speaker 8: can move very fast, and at other times it is
21:52
Speaker 8: seems like same old, same old federal government glacially slow progress.
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Speaker 8: And recently I was a credit JD Vance on the
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Speaker 8: speed with what she's going after fraud. But but but here,
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Speaker 8: here's the point. It's the last headline I saw on
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Speaker 8: where we're at with fraud is one state, California. They've
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Speaker 8: identified potentially six hundred million dollars of fraud. That's how
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Speaker 8: much Ohio gave the Cleveland Browns.
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Speaker 1: That you dropping the bucket.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and they've got thirty days. These these these NGOs
22:28
Speaker 8: have thirty days to respond. We have a midterm election
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Speaker 8: in two hundred days. We don't have thirty days.
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Speaker 3: My my.
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Speaker 8: What I think would be a great idea, like what
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Speaker 8: Corporate America would do, is you would shut down the
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Speaker 8: funding to all these NGOs immediately. You would shut down
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Speaker 8: illegal or you shut down all immigration immediately until we
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Speaker 8: get our head wrapped around and get this thing in
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Speaker 8: control and figure out what's going on across to all
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Speaker 8: fifty states. That's the kind of speed I'm looking for.
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Speaker 1: That's a worthy comparison, because you and I could talk
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Speaker 1: for hours and hours and hours on all the reasons
23:05
Speaker 1: why corporate America is so much more efficient than government.
23:08
Speaker 1: There in lies the problem. Government isn't it's broke, it's
23:11
Speaker 1: it's litigious. They've created so many legal impediments of getting
23:16
Speaker 1: something done too well. For example, like like the power
23:19
Speaker 1: of the purse exists in congress. If you go ahead
23:21
Speaker 1: and have a Congress that have approved all this ridiculous
23:24
Speaker 1: funding for all these nonsensical programs, and you try to
23:27
Speaker 1: stop that from happening, guess what. Someone runs into court
23:29
Speaker 1: and says, the President has issued an unlawful executive order
23:33
Speaker 1: stopping the money that Congress has ordered to flow. Welcome
23:37
Speaker 1: back to something corporate America would never do. It would
23:39
Speaker 1: realize the error of its mistake and say, what the
23:41
Speaker 1: hell were we thinking when we did that stop the
23:43
Speaker 1: money from going out the door? Okay, they're just I
23:47
Speaker 1: mean those are apples the oranges comparison. That's the frustrating thing,
23:50
Speaker 1: Jay America. The government component of it should run more
23:54
Speaker 1: like you and I run our households right dollar.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, and if there was something that was executive order
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Speaker 8: worthy or at least try, you might be right. The
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Speaker 8: Democrats may take as well, at least try as opposed
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Speaker 8: to we're gonna go after one state and give everybody
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Speaker 8: thirty days to respond on six hundred million bucks. It's
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Speaker 8: almost why bother, what's the point? I would like to
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Speaker 8: see them pick up the speed. Trump has shown that
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Speaker 8: he is willing to take on the risk and go
24:27
Speaker 8: to court on the different sorts of things. I can't
24:30
Speaker 8: think of anything more worthy than our national debt, which
24:33
Speaker 8: I think is our biggest national security concern, national security risk, yep.
24:38
Speaker 8: And I just it's uh, you know, it's it to me, Brian,
24:41
Speaker 8: I can't understand when the Democrats are out of power,
24:44
Speaker 8: they they win. When they're in power, they win bigger.
24:48
Speaker 8: When Republicans have all three houses, they shrugged their shoulders
24:52
Speaker 8: to say, we don't have the votes. Well, it's very
24:56
Speaker 8: odd to me that there's no path to victory ever
24:59
Speaker 8: for republic.
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Speaker 1: Well, it does show you how entranced the left wingers are,
25:03
Speaker 1: and it does it reveals to you what you and
25:05
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to believe that the collective Democrat Party,
25:09
Speaker 1: with the exceptional like Fetterman all are willing to embrace
25:12
Speaker 1: this far left winging of the Democrat Party lockstep unison.
25:16
Speaker 1: They have moved that far and in spite of how
25:19
Speaker 1: crazy it seems to people like you and me, and
25:20
Speaker 1: yet they're willing to just stay together. Can you find
25:24
Speaker 1: have you ever seen a moment in time like the
25:25
Speaker 1: state of OHO's a great illustration getting the Republicans who
25:29
Speaker 1: agree on anything. It's like hurting cats. Republicans can be
25:32
Speaker 1: their own worst enemy. Get on the same page. I
25:36
Speaker 1: suppose someone out there screaming about Thomas Massey being the
25:41
Speaker 1: fly in the ointment. But you know what, at least
25:42
Speaker 1: he is true to his oath of office a podium
25:47
Speaker 1: of a Constitution of the United States of America. But
25:53
Speaker 1: I'm as frustrated as you are. Jay, Trust me, my friend,
25:56
Speaker 1: Trust me. Five efty five ifty five KR City Talks
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Speaker 1: stays to stick around, got a whole hour to talk
25:59
Speaker 1: and then hour. I love to hear from you if
26:01
Speaker 1: there's something you'd like to talk about. I do have
26:04
Speaker 1: a lot of stories to get through in the absence
26:05
Speaker 1: of phone calls. We'll do that coming up at the
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Speaker 1: top of the hour. Here the top stories of the day,
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Speaker 1: Percie the Talk station. It's six oh six here fifty
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Speaker 1: Hos tod the fifty five Carsent Morrens Show, and God
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Speaker 1: bless Joe Strecker. He is back where he belongs, on
26:26
Speaker 1: the nails of his father's passing and all the the
26:30
Speaker 1: emotional devastation that goes along with that. And I certainly
26:32
Speaker 1: understand that is great to see Joe Strecker back where
26:35
Speaker 1: he belongs. I missed you, Joe, mister Joe. Without Joe,
26:37
Speaker 1: the show doesn't go or at least doesn't go as swimmingly.
26:40
Speaker 1: But I do appreciate Sean McMahon covering for Joe when
26:42
Speaker 1: he's gone, and I wish him all the best on
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Speaker 1: his new career and miss Sean being around as well.
26:47
Speaker 1: Seven see five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty eight
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Speaker 1: hundred eighty two to three talk pound five fifty on
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Speaker 1: AT and T phones. You want to call in feel
26:53
Speaker 1: free coming up. It's Christopher Smithman at seven twenty and
26:56
Speaker 1: he's got to empower you. Someone are In addition to
26:58
Speaker 1: the petition that he did get a p roval to
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Speaker 1: circulate requiring the council members to approve the hiring and
27:04
Speaker 1: firing of the police and Fire chief. Of course, I
27:06
Speaker 1: hope you understand the genesis of the need for that petition,
27:09
Speaker 1: although the arguments against it pretty damn shallow from my perspective.
27:13
Speaker 1: Christ will be talking about that coming up at seven
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Speaker 1: twenty and also his Empower You seminar that's taken place
27:18
Speaker 1: on Thursday. Learn firsthand about Christopher Smith and things need
27:21
Speaker 1: to be done with the City of Cincinnati for it
27:23
Speaker 1: to be successful moving forward, and of course tapping into
27:26
Speaker 1: his experience with the being a council person, a council
27:29
Speaker 1: member of the City of Cincinnati, and you can learn
27:32
Speaker 1: his thoughts about the current anti police, anti cop policies
27:35
Speaker 1: in the city. What about the current mayor aftab pur
27:37
Speaker 1: Of all lots of good questions. Of course he was
27:40
Speaker 1: there if you wanted to see aftab par of boll live.
27:42
Speaker 1: He just got a wait for a ribbon coming cutting ceremony.
27:44
Speaker 1: And we now have the ground broken for the new
27:46
Speaker 1: green energy project. Just laughing my collective butt off over
27:51
Speaker 1: the idea of that one, born of the idea of
27:53
Speaker 1: getting carbon out of It's a green project, right, we
27:55
Speaker 1: need get carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, so we
27:57
Speaker 1: build solar panels, you know, and buy him from Chinese
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Speaker 1: Communist Party and again I don't know by comparison to
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Speaker 1: powering the city of Cincinnati or some component of it
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Speaker 1: using traditional methods, if it's appropriate for a city to
28:11
Speaker 1: go off on a tear and get some NGO to
28:14
Speaker 1: run a solar plant for us. And yes, we do
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Speaker 1: have another one that will be you power Energy? What
28:21
Speaker 1: are you power energy? One word dot com. You can
28:24
Speaker 1: check them out yourself. That's the ones that are being
28:25
Speaker 1: charged with this green energy project. And oh, joy of joys.
28:30
Speaker 1: But I wanted to pivot over on that one speaking
28:35
Speaker 1: of NGOs, and I could probably if we had more
28:38
Speaker 1: information and the information that Todd Zenzer goes after a
28:41
Speaker 1: citizen watchdog. He is tracking who gets money from the
28:44
Speaker 1: City of Cincinnatia, all these NGOs. But it's a little
28:47
Speaker 1: difficult to figure out what in the hell you the
28:49
Speaker 1: city taxpayer getting in return for these NGOs receiving hundreds
28:53
Speaker 1: of thousands, if not millions, of the taxpayer dollars from
28:55
Speaker 1: the city. Swirling question marks. I think it's all a
28:58
Speaker 1: big scam and that we are learning more and more
29:03
Speaker 1: and more. You know, Trump gets elected, the Doge Department
29:05
Speaker 1: goes out, we find out about USA and we're funding
29:08
Speaker 1: shrimp on treadmills and you think to yourself, how is
29:11
Speaker 1: that happening? How did that get approved? Well, that's on
29:16
Speaker 1: a federal level. You can bury anything in federal spunt spending,
29:19
Speaker 1: right man. We learned a little more and more every
29:22
Speaker 1: single day to Jay out there. This is a learning
29:24
Speaker 1: curve for American American people. We weren't talking a whole
29:27
Speaker 1: lot about NGOs and their shenanigans that long ago. And
29:30
Speaker 1: then you know, your eyes get open to the nine
29:32
Speaker 1: billion dollar rip off reality of Minnesota. Yeah, the leering centers,
29:37
Speaker 1: and then your eyes get open to all the fraud
29:39
Speaker 1: wasted abuse out in California with the senior facilities and
29:44
Speaker 1: every single program. We learn more every day once people
29:47
Speaker 1: start looking for fraud wasted abuse there.
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Speaker 4: It is.
29:51
Speaker 1: Go back to the PPP loans, Go back to the
29:54
Speaker 1: COVID egg that was passed unanimously, with the exception of
29:57
Speaker 1: Congressman Thomas Massy, the only person to vote against two
30:00
Speaker 1: trillion dollars COVID package. What did that get you? A
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Speaker 1: lot of fraud wasted abuse And this one was mind
30:08
Speaker 1: blonging to me, James hold On, Go to Boston Mayor
30:15
Speaker 1: Michelle lou Her office is now having to deny reports
30:19
Speaker 1: that that city funds taxpayer dollars were used to support
30:23
Speaker 1: a program offering LGBTQ migrants money for wellness perks. Now
30:32
Speaker 1: there's a local advocacy group that ever ngo advocacy group.
30:36
Speaker 1: Out Newcomers is the name of it. One word all caps,
30:40
Speaker 1: out newcomers. What if that's outing them over the newcomers
30:45
Speaker 1: objections or not? But anyway, there's a group advertised benefits
30:50
Speaker 1: it's Belonging Matters program, So Out Newcomers rolls out it's
30:53
Speaker 1: Belonging Matters program and program and plans to provide yoga,
30:58
Speaker 1: arts and recreational servi rus to a subset of the
31:01
Speaker 1: broader illegal immigrant community, the LGBTQ migrant community. So Bostonian
31:08
Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars going to fund an organization that is involved
31:12
Speaker 1: in of course, everybody needs yoga, that's a human right.
31:16
Speaker 1: We can't deny that of illegal immigrants, can we? What
31:20
Speaker 1: the ever love and hell planet did I wake up
31:22
Speaker 1: on the idea. This is even being discussed whether the
31:27
Speaker 1: Mayor's office is arguing that no, no, we didn't specifically
31:30
Speaker 1: use these funds to support that program, and it's not
31:32
Speaker 1: as much as we were we thought it was, and
31:34
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the program's grant was only seventy five
31:37
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, not the larger figure that's been widely You're
31:39
Speaker 1: funding illegal immigrant yoga, that's a thing, Fox News reported.
31:49
Speaker 1: Dispute highlights conflicting claims about what the Belonging Matters program
31:53
Speaker 1: actually offered and whether any cityback fundy was tied to
31:56
Speaker 1: those benefits, drawing scrutiny over how Austin distributes and oversees
32:01
Speaker 1: grants to outside advocacy groups. And isn't it a wonderful
32:04
Speaker 1: thing that people are now scrutinizing this stuff. Thank you
32:10
Speaker 1: Todd Zenzer for being the local scrutinizer of such nonsense. Now,
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Speaker 1: this Outcomers Organization ANDNGO Listen is one of forty five
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Speaker 1: recipients of larger than two hundred thousand dollars grants supporting
32:22
Speaker 1: the lgbt communities in Boston. So there's a whole bunch
32:25
Speaker 1: of organizations out there for the sole purpose of supporting
32:28
Speaker 1: whatever that means. The LGBTQ Plus Group two hundred thousand
32:35
Speaker 1: figure approved last year by the Mayor as part of
32:39
Speaker 1: the Mayor's Office LGBTQ Plus Advancement. They have a Mayor's
32:44
Speaker 1: Office LGBTQ Plus Advance and they call it MOLA Outcomer's
32:55
Speaker 1: awarded seventy five hundred dollar mini grant associated with this project. Okay,
32:59
Speaker 1: that that happened. It's only seventy five hundred dollars, Thomas, Yeah,
33:03
Speaker 1: but look what it's going for. Since when our wellness
33:08
Speaker 1: allowances needed for this kind of thing, our Studio Boston
33:12
Speaker 1: funded a program that is modest and need based. This
33:18
Speaker 1: organization said it provides small vouchers of less than fifty
33:22
Speaker 1: dollars to eligible LGBTQ plus migrants living in Boston to
33:26
Speaker 1: access limited wellness supports such as haircuts, acupuncture, or massage.
33:33
Speaker 1: Close quote. They actually issued a press release to tell
33:36
Speaker 1: the Bostonian taxpayers that were given out free haircuts, acupuncture,
33:40
Speaker 1: and massage to a subset of the broader LGBTQ plus community,
33:45
Speaker 1: which apparently has not been served well enough in Boston,
33:48
Speaker 1: which is why they had to allocate hundreds of thousands
33:50
Speaker 1: of dollars and have forty five separate NGO organizations driven
33:53
Speaker 1: to protect the LGBTQ plus or Advance whatever that means
33:57
Speaker 1: the lgbt CUT plus community, but not the whole one.
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Speaker 1: Just the migrant component of it. Outcomers did not respond
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Speaker 1: to requests for comment from Fox News and how many
34:15
Speaker 1: registrants expected to join or how many of enrolled so far.
34:18
Speaker 1: The group announced just last week that it had a
34:20
Speaker 1: temporary suspended program due to security threats. Where did Out
34:26
Speaker 1: Newcomers come from? It was founded by sal kan Quote,
34:30
Speaker 1: a queer journalist originally from Pakistan. Out Newcomers described itself
34:37
Speaker 1: as a grassroots and volunteer run organization based in the
34:40
Speaker 1: Greater Boston area focused on community led to advocacy, resource navigation,
34:47
Speaker 1: and collective care. Someone wrote WTF question mark after that,
34:52
Speaker 1: because I don't know what the hell that means either,
34:54
Speaker 1: And I guaranteed officials in Bostonian from the mayor all
34:56
Speaker 1: the way down don't know it either, but you, but
35:02
Speaker 1: they got the virtue signal, they got to spend the
35:05
Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars, and I'm sure they're limited in Boston as
35:08
Speaker 1: well to hand out to NGOs serving a portion of
35:11
Speaker 1: the LGBTQ plus community. And of course those folks would
35:15
Speaker 1: be more than happy to work on the campaign to
35:16
Speaker 1: reelect the mayor and the council members who approve this
35:19
Speaker 1: kind of payment. That's what it's all about. And this
35:24
Speaker 1: is just one of a multitude of these NGOs in
35:27
Speaker 1: one city in the United States, Boston. We've got our own. Columbus,
35:32
Speaker 1: I'm sure has its own, Cleveland has its own. And
35:36
Speaker 1: to Jay out there, yeah, you know, the state of Ohio,
35:39
Speaker 1: I guess has its own sort of kind of not
35:41
Speaker 1: an NGO. But it's even worse, isn't it. Jay, six
35:46
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars going to fund a stadium build for
35:50
Speaker 1: a multi billion dollar worth family. Go ahead and try
35:56
Speaker 1: to explain that and justify that one to me, because
35:57
Speaker 1: I really struggle with that one. Six point fifteen fifty
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Speaker 1: five KR. See the talk station Mississippi, James, you will
36:03
Speaker 1: be first station. It is five six twenty one. If
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Speaker 1: I have car, see the talk station. See I caught myself,
36:14
Speaker 1: Paul up almost said five twenty one. She's been giving
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Speaker 1: me a hard time lately, saying I misstate the time
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Speaker 1: all the time. Correct me if I'm wrong. Please, Joe Strecker,
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Speaker 1: God bless you back being back and person who cracks
36:24
Speaker 1: me regularly, don't you, Joe, Let's go to the phone
36:26
Speaker 1: in Mississippi. James. Thanks for calling back, man. It's good
36:28
Speaker 1: to hear from you today.
36:30
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Brian, I come in peace, love everybody,
36:34
Speaker 3: and there's nothing you can do about it.
36:36
Speaker 1: Love how you start off on that foot every time, James.
36:38
Speaker 1: Good to hear from you again.
36:40
Speaker 3: Hey, two quick points, And maybe Chris Neverman can speak
36:45
Speaker 3: to this now. His petition that he has coming up,
36:48
Speaker 3: that's being circulated and I need to read it myself.
36:52
Speaker 3: But does that effect issue five? If this petition can
36:57
Speaker 3: get changed, it's your five half particular things about choosing
37:02
Speaker 3: the police chief and fire chiefs. So would his petition
37:06
Speaker 3: have any effect on that? I would it make it
37:09
Speaker 3: null involved?
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Speaker 1: I don't think it does. It's merely it just changes
37:14
Speaker 1: the charter to require council members to have some say
37:18
Speaker 1: in hiring and firing. I don't know how that would
37:20
Speaker 1: impact anything else. It's just right now the city manager
37:22
Speaker 1: has exclusive control over hiring and firing with no input,
37:26
Speaker 1: although behind the scenes I suspect she probably gets a
37:28
Speaker 1: lot of input from people who are politically minded anyway.
37:32
Speaker 1: But it just puts control in the UH in the
37:34
Speaker 1: hands of elected officials, which is good. It will require
37:37
Speaker 1: them to talk about the hiring and firing decision making.
37:40
Speaker 1: That means you know, when you have police Chief Thiji
37:42
Speaker 1: and the crosshairs, the city manager can't just put her
37:45
Speaker 1: on administrative leave for no reason. Council would have to
37:47
Speaker 1: look at this and say, wait a second, why are
37:49
Speaker 1: we considering putting Thiji on administrative leave or firing her?
37:53
Speaker 1: Let's talk about it haram form form. So it just
37:57
Speaker 1: merely is a different way of hiring and firing, right, and.
38:00
Speaker 3: I like him to speak on it. It will affect
38:03
Speaker 3: it to hire. And the next point you speak of
38:06
Speaker 3: the NGOs, and I guess that'll be the same as
38:08
Speaker 3: private business. Now, what's happening in my hometown of Meride, Mississippi.
38:15
Speaker 3: They got the private business they've been pushing for years. Well,
38:19
Speaker 3: now they have come out with another source of money
38:22
Speaker 3: that goes to the consultant. So the consultant come out
38:27
Speaker 3: here the private business, what to do? How to do it?
38:31
Speaker 3: Tax pill are paying double money now, so it's like,
38:35
Speaker 3: my goodness, you need to get me a consultant business.
38:39
Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: See, that's exactly right. That's the point that's being made here.
38:43
Speaker 1: The word gets around you know, well, we're not attacking
38:46
Speaker 1: the Somali community because the people of color. We're attacking
38:49
Speaker 1: the Samali community in Minnesota because they caught onto exactly
38:52
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. James, Wait a second, you're telling
38:55
Speaker 1: me that it's that easy to open a not for
38:58
Speaker 1: profit leering center, get government funds and there's no oversight,
39:02
Speaker 1: there's no control. I don't even have to have children
39:04
Speaker 1: in the learing center and I can get money. Right,
39:08
Speaker 1: word gets around. Yeah, you know what, put another layer
39:10
Speaker 1: of consulting in there. A lot of these these ng A,
39:12
Speaker 1: these outside businesses that were running learing centers also started
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Speaker 1: operating other subsidiary companies to basically take further advantage of
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Speaker 1: the fraud that they were perpetrating on the American taxpayers.
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Speaker 1: It's a snowball effect, James, and.
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Speaker 3: I think it's short of time to look about, you know,
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Speaker 3: going back in the house again, bringing jobs in the house,
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Speaker 3: or an insanity or going.
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Speaker 1: Back to my point on just looking at this one
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Speaker 1: funding mechanism from Boston, the LGBTQ plus migrant component of
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Speaker 1: that community. Maybe we just need to say, wait a second. No,
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Speaker 1: it's not a question of whether it's in house or outouse.
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Speaker 1: It's a question of whether the government should be dealing
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Speaker 1: with it in any way, shape or form. Hmmm, do
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Speaker 1: we have adequate resources to fund roads, building, an infrastructure
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Speaker 1: and police and fire? Maybe not. Maybe we should focus
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Speaker 1: on that things that benefit literally everyone, regardless of political stripe,
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Speaker 1: and don't pull out random segments of the society and
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Speaker 1: tell them that they're in need of government money i e.
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Speaker 1: Taxpayer money, strength, the size of government. Don't decide whether
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Speaker 1: or not it's an in house or outside of house function.
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Speaker 1: Just don't do it. That's the springboard. Let's have an informed,
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Speaker 1: outlaud discussion upfront about every single dollar that's being requested
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Speaker 1: from anyone and find out if it's a priority for
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Speaker 1: the citizenry at large. You'll find it, well, probably not
40:41
Speaker 1: for the vast majority of these outside funded organizations, James,
40:43
Speaker 1: but it makes them a good salary. Label yourself an NGO.
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Speaker 1: You can pay yourself a couple hundred thousand dollars a
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Speaker 1: year ahead of an NGO corporate. But we're not for profit.
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Speaker 1: It makes it sound really sweet and good, but that's
40:54
Speaker 1: fat bank for a lot of people, and they don't
40:56
Speaker 1: have to deliver on any return on the taxpayer expenditure. No,
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Speaker 1: but we're serving the interest of yes in what way
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Speaker 1: no one ever follows up and asks in what way? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're funding your own damn interest from what I can see.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, James, appreciate it. Snow's Lakeside Tavern, James, if
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Speaker 1: forward to seven twenty with Christopher Spinnaman. Then we get
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Speaker 1: to answered Mississippi James questions. I know the petition for
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Speaker 1: the change in hiring and firing of a police chief
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Speaker 1: and fire chief has been approved. It's now needs to
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Speaker 1: be circulated. They need sixty nine hundred signatures. I think
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Speaker 1: by the beginning of September was the date that I
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Speaker 1: in stable condition at least according to Dan Police said
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Speaker 1: man arrested after a standoff lasting more than six hours.
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Speaker 1: Township Police, Abdullah Mustafa arrested in facing charge of Flunny's
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Speaker 1: Association SWAT Team, who arrived at the scene. The woman
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Speaker 1: did escape unharmed, courting the police officers. SWAT team members
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Speaker 1: negotiated with a man, this Abdullah Mustapha guy for more
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Speaker 1: than six hours. That failed, so the police executed a
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Speaker 1: search warrant in the home and took him into custody.
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Speaker 1: He was taken to the Hamilton County Justice Center. They're
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Speaker 1: still looking for information if you have any. According to
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Speaker 1: Five one three three two one Cops. Five one three
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Speaker 1: three two one Cops. Joe comment this morning for one
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Speaker 1: of the callers, is this a good idea? And should
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Speaker 1: businesses be required to provide uh test strips bar owners
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Speaker 1: out there? We have a bill that would make those
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Speaker 1: test strips mandatory and bars, and it has been floating
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Speaker 1: around out there, but apparently this has regained new interest
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Speaker 1: because we have a Middletown bartender that just got arrested
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Speaker 1: for sexual abuse. His name Clinton Barnes, forty, charged with
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Speaker 1: rape and sexual battery after he allegedly drugged a victim
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Speaker 1: in September last year and then sexually assaulted the victim.
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Speaker 1: That's according to the indictment arranged last Wednesday. Judge Oda
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Speaker 1: in Warren County ordered a temporary protection order. Barnes described
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Speaker 1: as a bartender a pleasure in bar on Main Street
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Speaker 1: in Mason. Not clear if the victim was a customer there.
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Speaker 1: State lawmakers, Senator to Bill Demora specifically proposed to build
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Speaker 1: to protect people from spiked drinks. He said anything like
45:05
Speaker 1: this could be prevented if there was a test strip
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Speaker 1: available at bars or if they're mandated to have these
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Speaker 1: test strips. Anyone can ask for one, then they have
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Speaker 1: to be provided to you and you can test your drink.
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Speaker 1: I mean, having a b bartender do it is horrible.
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Speaker 1: Close quote from tomorrow if you're interested in reading it.
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Speaker 1: Legislation is Center Bill two forty eight calls for bars
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Speaker 1: and restaurants to provide date rape drug testing kits for customers.
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Speaker 1: Senator Morris said, the gravity of the issue is what's
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Speaker 1: pushing this. Spiking drinks is a nightly occurrence across the state.
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Speaker 1: He asserted. Bill's been assigned to the Judiciary Committee and
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Speaker 1: hearing last month. David Forornshell, Warren County Prosecutor, said Clinton
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Speaker 1: Barnes has been indicted on two felony charges, now being
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Speaker 1: held with the Warren County Jail on nearly one hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars cash bond, at least as of the time.
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Speaker 1: Fox nine teen Ali Hennert reported on the story, and
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Speaker 1: as caller pointed out, you know you're going to dictate
45:57
Speaker 1: the terms conditions how business runs. It's business. You don't
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Speaker 1: have a duty to anticipate criminal conduct at your bar,
46:06
Speaker 1: and you know, as a concerned parent, always warned someone
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Speaker 1: never to leave their drink unattended. I suppose that there
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Speaker 1: are widely available test strips out in the world. You
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Speaker 1: can buy them and keep them with you as a
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Speaker 1: responsible parent. Maybe you want to buy some for your
46:21
Speaker 1: young people heading off into bars. I think about college
46:24
Speaker 1: students heading off to college and the perils and the
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Speaker 1: problems that they might face as well. So I just
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Speaker 1: don't know if ordering bars to pay for this is
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Speaker 1: the right thing to do. Five three seven fifty eight
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Speaker 1: two three talk Maybe you get a different thought on that.
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Speaker 1: More to talk about coming up, But first a word
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Speaker 1: the talk station. It's six forty year fifty five KR
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Speaker 1: City Talk Station. Happy Monday, two hundred and fiftyth Independence
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Speaker 1: Day celebration this year we're how happy?
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Speaker 4: You know? Happy?
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Speaker 1: I remember what was the two hundred, two hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty years. It'ld be a beautiful thing we should be
46:59
Speaker 1: put And I know that there's a whole lot of
47:02
Speaker 1: folks out there that have no pride in the United
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Speaker 1: States of America at all. It's being baked into the
47:06
Speaker 1: cake and our education system, which is really troubling. Look
47:09
Speaker 1: at Chicago Public Schools declaring May one, May Day, Yes,
47:13
Speaker 1: that May Day a day of civil action. Tell me
47:15
Speaker 1: our kids aren't in doctrination camps. You know what we
47:17
Speaker 1: need to do. We need to get them into preschool
47:19
Speaker 1: pre k education so the state can have them all
47:22
Speaker 1: and indoctrinate them from the moment they're pulled from the womb.
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Speaker 1: Chicago Public Schools Teachers Union, Yeah, May first day of
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Speaker 1: civil action. Although classes are supposed to be in session,
47:35
Speaker 1: they pushed the pushel or a resolution designated May first
47:41
Speaker 1: aka International Workers Day. It's a big day for the
47:45
Speaker 1: communists out there, calling it now a civic action and
47:49
Speaker 1: defense of public education day for teachers and students. Since
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Speaker 1: our Teachers Union vice president Jackson Potter, if we still
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Speaker 1: want to have democracy in the mid terms of November,
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Speaker 1: public schools that provide our students with quality education and
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Speaker 1: unions to defend workers' rights, that it's up to every
48:09
Speaker 1: Chicago to stand up for what we believe in and
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Speaker 1: show the authoritarian billionaire in Washington that when he breaks
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Speaker 1: every rule, we will not go along with business as usual.
48:21
Speaker 1: Close quote there. As the head of the union. It's
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Speaker 1: all about what they believe in, and of course what
48:27
Speaker 1: they believe in is what your children will believe in.
48:29
Speaker 1: And of course be out in the streets helping them out.
48:31
Speaker 1: They're spreading their message. CPS confirmed May first will be
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Speaker 1: considered a full instructional day, with students and staff expected
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Speaker 1: to attend. However, there's that word, so to say. Public
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Speaker 1: schools pointed out that, well, schools, individual schools can allow
48:50
Speaker 1: optional participation. That's end quote in civil engagement events end
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Speaker 1: quotes for students who wish to attend protests and take
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Speaker 1: part in civil activities during the school day, and under
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Speaker 1: state laws, you don't think there be any prodding from
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Speaker 1: the teachers in the classrooms about that. Yahhh, are you
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Speaker 1: going to be going out and engaging in civil action?
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Speaker 2: Young man?
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Speaker 1: Court to the CPS statement, principles may extend the existing
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Speaker 1: authority to provide students the opportunity to participate in events
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Speaker 1: and field trips, including civic engagements, on May first during
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Speaker 1: the school day. Schools that wish to participate must follow
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Speaker 1: the existing student travel policy and normal field trip procedures.
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Speaker 1: Cour to the CBS, students between the ages of six
49:40
Speaker 1: and where grade six and twelve are allowed one excused
49:44
Speaker 1: absence per school year to attend civic engagement events, so
49:49
Speaker 1: long as they obtain parental permission and that the event
49:52
Speaker 1: is open to the public and sponsored by a ready
49:56
Speaker 1: sponsored by a nonprofit organization or a governmental agency. And
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Speaker 1: of course you can go to a nonprofit sponsored event
50:02
Speaker 1: or a governmental agency sponsored event. Why well, because I
50:05
Speaker 1: figure they figure the ideological thing is all baked into
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Speaker 1: the cake. This is going to be some left wing
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Speaker 1: organization event, but it'll be tied the person who tries
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Speaker 1: to go to a conservative event. You think you can
50:15
Speaker 1: get a day off of school in Chicago public schools
50:17
Speaker 1: if you want to go to a Charlie Kirk event. Yeah,
50:20
Speaker 1: I know now. They also confirmed that future May Days
50:26
Speaker 1: could be considered professional development days for the teachers. I
50:30
Speaker 1: guess they have some mandatory continuing education learning requirements to
50:36
Speaker 1: maintain licensure or something. Of course, attending a left winging
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Speaker 1: pro Marxist Workers Day celebration event would be great professional development,
50:46
Speaker 1: wouldn't it. In doctrination camps, folks, That's what these things are.
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Speaker 1: In doctrination camps five KRCD Talk Station.
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Speaker 4: D five KRC the talk station.
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Speaker 1: It is six forty nine, right, now for the five
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Speaker 1: KRCD Talk station. Look forward to Christopher Smidman coming up
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Speaker 1: at seven twenty with the Smither event. You can get
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Speaker 1: me coffee, like, I'd love to hear from you five
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Speaker 1: one three seven nine fifty eight hundred two three Talk.
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Speaker 1: And I saw this report on you know, my friend
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Speaker 1: Jay has been calling in like, how can we have
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Speaker 1: an acted faster on getting out for getting rid of fraud,
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Speaker 1: waste and abuse. Jd Vance is in charge of fraud,
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Speaker 1: wasting abuse.
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Speaker 4: Damn it?
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Speaker 1: How come he hasn't done anything already? I mean, and
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Speaker 1: I always respond it's like listen, it takes forever, you know. Fortunately,
51:36
Speaker 1: it's now become on most people's radar that there's this
51:39
Speaker 1: much fraud, waste and abuse going on in government allough
51:41
Speaker 1: It's something I've been commenting on for years and years
51:43
Speaker 1: and years, but great more people are paying attention to it.
51:45
Speaker 1: We now have a czar JD Vance in charge of
51:47
Speaker 1: ferreting it out. Kind of started with Doge. We got
51:49
Speaker 1: a lot of a big eye full of the crazy
51:52
Speaker 1: crap that we're spending our money on and they're spending
51:54
Speaker 1: our money on. Now the micro more micro analysis is
51:57
Speaker 1: showing up at cities all around the United States, and
51:59
Speaker 1: we find out all these NGOs being funded and all
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Speaker 1: the fraud, waste and abuse, and how could it possibly
52:04
Speaker 1: be this way fine pivoting over to voter fraud. And
52:07
Speaker 1: I think about Maureen on this one, because we go
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Speaker 1: back years on that one talking about that. Yes, over
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Speaker 1: the weekend, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmei Dillon
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Speaker 1: on with host Maria Bartirom on the Sunday Morning Futures
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Speaker 1: Co Show, giving us some new information about the tens
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Speaker 1: of thousands of dead people that are still listed as
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Speaker 1: active voters. Trump administration had to sue, now here's an impediment.
52:35
Speaker 1: You're a bluestate. Do you benefit from having people who
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Speaker 1: are listed as who are literally dead, listed as active voters?
52:45
Speaker 1: Why would you not want to clean up your voter
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Speaker 1: roles at least to give the appearance of propriety. Obviously
52:52
Speaker 1: there's some nefarious benefit that's going to the Democrats on this.
52:55
Speaker 1: I don't know of any Republicans who aren't interested in
52:57
Speaker 1: trying to get the voter roles cleaned up and get
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Speaker 1: dead people off of them. Not to mention illegal immigrants
53:03
Speaker 1: that may be voting in federal elections. She had a
53:05
Speaker 1: comment or two about that as well. So the Trump
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Speaker 1: administration had to sue a bunch of states because they
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Speaker 1: wouldn't turn over their voter roles. They have to do
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Speaker 1: it in order to comply with the National Voter Registration
53:17
Speaker 1: app the Help America Vote Act, and other federal laws
53:19
Speaker 1: into protecting the rights to vote. States are obligated to
53:23
Speaker 1: provide the information. So why would they stand in the
53:25
Speaker 1: way of it? Anyway, So the lawsuits go out and
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Speaker 1: harmony don't. States are not in compliance, Armid said, even
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Speaker 1: the ones who want to, even the ones who want to, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's that bad. So for the ones that we've run
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Speaker 1: so far. Another of the analysis they've conducted from the
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Speaker 1: data that they actually has been produced to the federal government,
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Speaker 1: sixty million voter records that we've run, Harmid said, we
53:51
Speaker 1: found at least three hundred and fifty thousand dead people
53:55
Speaker 1: currently on the voter rolls and those jurisdictions. Again, that's
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Speaker 1: a slice of the broader voting population. Three hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty thousand, said me. He said, we refer to approximately
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Speaker 1: twenty five thousand people with no citizenship records to the
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Speaker 1: Department of Homeland security to look at, you know, dig
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Speaker 1: into further to see to the extent to which people voted.
54:19
Speaker 1: I'm in touch with voting rights activists who are showing
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Speaker 1: the information about people who have voted who are not
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Speaker 1: American citizens. So the left told us this never happens,
54:27
Speaker 1: and that's a myth. It definitely happened. Dylan also pointed
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Speaker 1: out the despite the Civil Rights Act in nineteen sixty
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Speaker 1: giving the Attorney General access to voting roles to ensure
54:40
Speaker 1: compliance with the Civil Rights Act in nineteen sixty, multiple
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Speaker 1: states have refused to hand over that data. I mean.
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Speaker 1: Dylan had this to say, I'm suing twenty nine states
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Speaker 1: in the District of Columbia for the refusal to give
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Speaker 1: us the voter rolls to which the Attorney General or
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Speaker 1: the acting Attorney General is entitled under the the nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixties Civil Rights Act. We're expediting the appeals in these cases.
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Speaker 1: There'll be an appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court of
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Speaker 1: Appeals and the Sixth Circuit soon. That is the response.
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Speaker 1: Because these states refuse to hand over information the federal
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Speaker 1: government is entitled to, they won't let them have it.
55:20
Speaker 1: That I can say that that are mean Dylan, the
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Speaker 1: Trump administration has had to engage in litigation the law
55:27
Speaker 1: specifically allows. And of course, if you look at it
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Speaker 1: from the perspective, wouldn't a Democrat attorney general want to
55:36
Speaker 1: enforce the Civil Rights Act in nineteen sixty that's the
55:41
Speaker 1: that's the predicate for giving attorney general access to the
55:45
Speaker 1: documents and information. The states say no, And you know,
55:52
Speaker 1: it's a foregone conclusion that the information will be produced
55:55
Speaker 1: because the law mandates it. So why would they subject
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Speaker 1: their constituents through to this exercise? They the Democrat leaders
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Speaker 1: of the various states who won't comply with the request,
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Speaker 1: lawful as it may be, from the federal government to
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Speaker 1: clean up the voter roles, which is really the point
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Speaker 1: of all this. They're fighting to keep the roles corrupt.
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Speaker 1: And what's behind that? Can you draw any other conclusion
56:26
Speaker 1: but reach but something nefarious? Can you draw any other
56:30
Speaker 1: conclusion other than they want folks who are not eligible
56:35
Speaker 1: to vote, like dead people, to be able to cast
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Speaker 1: a vote. Most notably, I would say I'm going on
56:43
Speaker 1: a wing in a prayer guest, but I'd be willing
56:44
Speaker 1: to bet a substantial amount of money that there's a
56:47
Speaker 1: lot of well, legal ballot gathering, and there's a lot
56:51
Speaker 1: of mail in voting, and there's a lot of no
56:53
Speaker 1: obligation to present proof by photo identification of exactly who
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Speaker 1: you are in order to prove you're the person that's
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Speaker 1: allowed to vote in the state. Right, this whole thing
57:05
Speaker 1: boils down to being able to play fast and loose
57:06
Speaker 1: and to be having options to have people not entitled
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Speaker 1: to vote vote unlawfully. What other possible conclusion could one reach?
57:16
Speaker 1: A couple of callers on Oh, Maureen, there you are.
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Speaker 1: I was hoping you're hearing me talking this morning. If
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Speaker 1: you don't mind holding I am out of time in
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Speaker 1: the segment. I'll be right back at from the top
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Speaker 1: of the air News. Then we'll get the Christopher smithment
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Speaker 1: at seven twenty the iHeartRadio app where we put the
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Speaker 1: about car seev talkstations on Thomas Wish Never Wroe a
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Speaker 1: very happy Monday and finding you to stick around all morning.
57:51
Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman coming up to the next segment seven to
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Speaker 1: twenty for the smither Van. We've got a lot to
57:55
Speaker 1: talk about, including his petition to change the way the
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Speaker 1: city elects An hires and fires rather police and fire chief.
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Speaker 1: Lu's got an empower you sum in our company on
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Speaker 1: Thursday talking about CDs and saying it's future that it's
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Speaker 1: seven twenty Monday, Monday. Fast forward one hour to eight
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Speaker 1: oh five. Brian Jamee. Fuel costs could affect vacation plans
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Speaker 1: Topic one, stating the obvious how tax free filing systems
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Speaker 1: went from a quarter of a million users to zero.
58:19
Speaker 1: And finally, this one's got me alarmed. New social security
58:23
Speaker 1: proposal would cap payments to the wealthy, which sounds me
58:28
Speaker 1: like a means tested even though you paid into it
58:30
Speaker 1: your entire life. If you really did successfully with your
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Speaker 1: four to one K program, otherwise, just did well with investing,
58:36
Speaker 1: or however you prepared for your own retirement, maybe they'll
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Speaker 1: take it away, this Social security from you because well
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Speaker 1: you did the right thing. Doesn't make sense to me.
58:43
Speaker 1: Susan looking for Judge Susan Lucan joins a program at
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Speaker 1: eight forty the meantime, over to the phones, Thank you
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Speaker 1: for holding ron hold on marien Is first, Maureen, good
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Speaker 1: to hear from me. Happy Monday to you.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, Brian. You know anytime you cover that subject
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Speaker 9: I'm going to call in.
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Speaker 1: I know, see Martin, I was just testing you to
58:58
Speaker 1: see if you're out there. I wonder if Maureen's awake
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Speaker 1: and listening this morning, and I'm glad you.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm out here anyway. But another important interview with
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Speaker 9: Maria Bartoloma this weekend was with Cash Btel.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: He also doubled down on the voter fraud and how
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Speaker 9: that's going to be exposed very soon. Another interview that
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Speaker 9: was really important with John Solomon, a great journalist. He
59:19
Speaker 9: was on with Benny Johnson, and he described what he's
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Speaker 9: calling hypersonic clarity, where a lot of the information about
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Speaker 9: the Russia collusion hoax is going to come out, the
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Speaker 9: voter fraud is going to come out, and it's all
59:29
Speaker 9: going to come out pretty soon.
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Speaker 1: It was all indication, okay, which teams way back, hold
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Speaker 1: on going back to our earlier interactions involving voter fraud.
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Speaker 1: Real early on the twenty twenty election, everybody was screaming
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Speaker 1: about Donald Trump got it ripped off from him. You
59:42
Speaker 1: were one of those and what are we going to do?
59:44
Speaker 1: What's going to happen? And you were, of course of
59:46
Speaker 1: the mind that Donald Trump actually won the election was
59:48
Speaker 1: somehow going to be reinstated. I said, that's an impossibility.
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Speaker 1: Fast forward to now, but I kept saying, it's going
59:54
Speaker 1: to take forever to accumulate the information. You got to
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Speaker 1: wait for it. It's like the wheels of justice. They
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Speaker 1: spend very slowly. You're going to have to have a
1:00:00
Speaker 1: case that actually moves forward with discovery to find out
1:00:04
Speaker 1: about what's going on behind the scenes. Here we are
1:00:07
Speaker 1: six years later and you're expecting this to come out soon.
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Speaker 1: That's government action for you, right there, Maureen.
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Speaker 9: Well another thing too, it's going to tie together the
1:00:18
Speaker 9: same group of people that are in the Russia, Colujah, hoax,
1:00:21
Speaker 9: Uranium one, all those things are going to come out.
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Speaker 9: I don't know if you noticed that President Trump was
1:00:26
Speaker 9: very vocal about the fact that we get the uranium
1:00:30
Speaker 9: dust from irant. I think my prediction, I think I
1:00:33
Speaker 9: mentioned this to you a few weeks ago. I think
1:00:35
Speaker 9: once they investigate that Dusk and look at the isotope planet,
1:00:38
Speaker 9: they're going to find that it's tied to uranium one,
1:00:40
Speaker 9: which will bring in Hillary and we'll bring in Obama
1:00:43
Speaker 9: and their deal with Russia and selling twenty percent of
1:00:46
Speaker 9: the uranium to them, and then it was maybe possibly
1:00:49
Speaker 9: transferred to Iran and that sort of thing. So I
1:00:52
Speaker 9: think they're all going to be tied up in this
1:00:54
Speaker 9: grand conspiracy that John Solomon talks about, and they're all
1:00:57
Speaker 9: going to go down really soon.
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Speaker 1: Well I hope they do go down if all this
1:01:00
Speaker 1: proves to be true. But just just clarify something for me, Marine,
1:01:03
Speaker 1: because I'm not real clear on the science. When you
1:01:04
Speaker 1: mentioned the uranium dust, are they Are you saying that
1:01:07
Speaker 1: these isotopes or this dust can be specifically traced to
1:01:10
Speaker 1: a particular source of uranium because I'm okay, yes, I'll
1:01:14
Speaker 1: take you out your word.
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Speaker 3: On that one.
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Speaker 1: I just that you know, I'm not a nuclear science Okay, are.
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Speaker 9: All over it? And I can't wait.
1:01:25
Speaker 1: You have had your popcorn out now for years? Yes,
1:01:28
Speaker 1: I know, and it takes forever. And I wish this
1:01:30
Speaker 1: all went quicker and we had the truth quicker than
1:01:32
Speaker 1: we do. But you know, going back to the whole
1:01:34
Speaker 1: voting roles, when you've got multiple states standing in the
1:01:36
Speaker 1: way of their legal obligation. You know, if if if
1:01:41
Speaker 1: Hammiat had found how me eat Dylan found three hundred
1:01:47
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dead people still listed as eligible to vote,
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Speaker 1: and that's in the states that actually complied with the
1:01:53
Speaker 1: with the documentary request. What of the twenty nine states
1:01:56
Speaker 1: and the District of Columbia who so far refused to
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Speaker 1: give the voter roles. Do you think there will be
1:02:01
Speaker 1: more in those blue states or fewer than the onestate
1:02:04
Speaker 1: already uncovered.
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Speaker 9: Yes, there's probably going to be more. And those people
1:02:08
Speaker 9: that are involved in covering it up, like secretaries of States,
1:02:11
Speaker 9: they aren't beyond repup reproach. They're going down to He's
1:02:15
Speaker 9: taken down the whole. I think, the whole system, the
1:02:19
Speaker 9: deep state. He's exposing it all and I really do
1:02:23
Speaker 9: believe that, and they are, you know how I you
1:02:26
Speaker 9: know how I talk about how he plays the song
1:02:27
Speaker 9: Nessum dorma on a lot of his rallies, which means
1:02:30
Speaker 9: at dawn we will win. From the movie some of
1:02:33
Speaker 9: All Fears, And I think you mentioned your friend Andy,
1:02:35
Speaker 9: who's a military SI up also with that. Yeah, I
1:02:39
Speaker 9: do believe that that's coming close. So if there is
1:02:42
Speaker 9: a nuclear scare, people don't panic. It will be on
1:02:46
Speaker 9: the precipice of that, but it will be fine.
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Speaker 1: But it's lining up big things in the future. I'd
1:02:53
Speaker 1: wish you had an over under on how long we
1:02:55
Speaker 1: have to continue keeping our popcorn out until we get
1:02:58
Speaker 1: some bomb being dropped a lot on the lines of
1:03:00
Speaker 1: exposing this criminal behavior behind the scenes.
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Speaker 9: I'd be before the before, maybe before July fourth, because
1:03:07
Speaker 9: there's going to be two hundred and fiftieth wedding or
1:03:10
Speaker 9: anniversary for our country and a lot of things are
1:03:13
Speaker 9: going to be wrapped up by then. And also there's
1:03:15
Speaker 9: a big prayer thing on May seventeenth that Trump is
1:03:18
Speaker 9: going to be involved in, and that's going to help
1:03:20
Speaker 9: a lot too. It's going to go a long way.
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Speaker 1: Well, most notably all that happening before the November elections.
1:03:25
Speaker 1: And they better get darn well ahead of the November elections.
1:03:28
Speaker 1: They hope they have any of this exposed having an
1:03:30
Speaker 1: impact on the elections. Maureen, I certainly appreciate it. Keep
1:03:34
Speaker 1: you stay in touch, please eight seven twelve. Right now,
1:03:37
Speaker 1: let me get Ron. Ron's cotting up the whole Ron,
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Speaker 1: welcome to the program. Happy Monday to you, Hey, Happy Monday.
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Speaker 5: I love your show. Really wanted to talk to you
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Speaker 5: this morning about that word fraud broad in the mind
1:03:50
Speaker 5: of perhaps the average uninformed voter, doesn't conjure up the
1:03:54
Speaker 5: extent of the crime that's actually being committed. You know,
1:03:58
Speaker 5: when like let's say all these places that have uncleaned
1:04:03
Speaker 5: roles for voting that have dead people still registered to vote,
1:04:08
Speaker 5: that's fraud.
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Speaker 4: But if a.
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Speaker 5: Ballot is actually cast in the name of one of
1:04:13
Speaker 5: those individuals, that becomes theft. They're stealing my vote because
1:04:18
Speaker 5: chances are that's going to vote opposite.
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Speaker 3: The way that I do.
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Speaker 5: Now, when it comes to all of this fraud, waste
1:04:26
Speaker 5: and abuse of government funds, those words I believe are
1:04:29
Speaker 5: the language of a left because it doesn't have the
1:04:32
Speaker 5: impact that it should. What the fraud is is when
1:04:36
Speaker 5: a company is created that it is fraudulent, that is
1:04:40
Speaker 5: not really let's say it's a daycare, that's not a daycare.
1:04:43
Speaker 5: Theft happens when they apply for and receive your money
1:04:47
Speaker 5: and my money for that fraudulent company. And I think
1:04:51
Speaker 5: we would do ourselves as favor in the future that
1:04:55
Speaker 5: we have before us if we choose to include the
1:04:59
Speaker 5: word theft theft of your money.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's also even every tax payer.
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Speaker 1: Even beyond that. Ron I wrote down Rico because the
1:05:08
Speaker 1: level of organization and the size and scope of the
1:05:12
Speaker 1: whole concept, like when you think of the leering centers
1:05:14
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, that is a collective group of coordinated individuals
1:05:19
Speaker 1: that are conducting criminal activities stealing taxpayers always do fraud
1:05:24
Speaker 1: in organizations, that's organized crime.
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Speaker 5: That's RICO, organized theft, organized stealing.
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Speaker 6: You got it.
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Speaker 5: I just would like to hear that word theft and
1:05:32
Speaker 5: stealing of our money more often than the word fraud alone.
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Speaker 1: I will be my best to incorporate the incorporate that
1:05:38
Speaker 1: into the lexicon, ron, I promise. And where where's the
1:05:42
Speaker 1: RICO actions?
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Speaker 4: Right?
1:05:44
Speaker 1: Two or more criminal acts in furtherance of a conspiracy
1:05:47
Speaker 1: is enough to charge you under RICO and lock you
1:05:49
Speaker 1: into big boy prison for a long time. They use
1:05:52
Speaker 1: it all the time. That's how they went after the
1:05:53
Speaker 1: mob and the mafia. Oh my god. But if you
1:05:55
Speaker 1: do it with the members of the Somali community who
1:05:57
Speaker 1: commit fraud and commit crime on an organized level, then
1:06:00
Speaker 1: apparently that means you're racist or something. Where's my Italian
1:06:03
Speaker 1: American friends out there screaming about the racism involved in
1:06:07
Speaker 1: going after organized crime? And so far as mafia activity
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Speaker 1: is concerned, do you ever hear that used as a
1:06:12
Speaker 1: successful argument?
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Speaker 4: Ron?
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Speaker 1: You can't do that you're attacking the Italian Americans. No,
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Speaker 1: the retort would be, we're attacking a criminal organization just
1:06:23
Speaker 1: happened to be members of the Italian community, giving the
1:06:26
Speaker 1: rest of the Italian community a bad name, which is
1:06:28
Speaker 1: what I've often heard from the Italian community. You're making
1:06:30
Speaker 1: this all look bad. Well, okay, seven fifteen to fifty
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Speaker 1: five krc detalk station. Come to rescue me from myself.
1:06:37
Speaker 1: Christopher Smimen up next after I mentioned.
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Speaker 4: You shouldn't.
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Speaker 1: Seven nineteen at fifty five KRSD talk station. It's Monday,
1:06:48
Speaker 1: which means it is that time. I always look forward
1:06:49
Speaker 1: to Monday at this time. Christopher smith and former Vice
1:06:52
Speaker 1: mayor of the City of Cincinnati. It remains vocal. Wow.
1:06:55
Speaker 1: Actually in certain cases a critic of the antics of
1:06:57
Speaker 1: Downtown Cincinnati. Council members as well as the mayor have
1:07:00
Speaker 1: to have purvol Cheryl long Iris rolling everybody else behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes. Christopher Smithman for the smither event, Welcome back,
1:07:05
Speaker 1: my friend, always loving having on the fifty five KRCY
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Speaker 1: Morning show.
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Speaker 3: Brother, thanks for having me on. I know you know
1:07:12
Speaker 3: what I'm going to talk about, but I'm gonna say
1:07:15
Speaker 3: I'm gonna connect dots this morning. You know it's going
1:07:18
Speaker 3: to be connected dots, but you know, we're rolling out
1:07:21
Speaker 3: a petition and we're trying to address the chaos that
1:07:27
Speaker 3: you've been talking about on your radio show. Everybody knows
1:07:32
Speaker 3: who's been watching. The hiring of a second law firm
1:07:37
Speaker 3: to determine why they have terminated or placed Chief dg
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Speaker 3: On administratively makes no sense, no, and we know that
1:07:47
Speaker 3: we're burning money doing it. Frost, Brown and Todd is
1:07:51
Speaker 3: a very reparable law firm, and they couldn't find anything.
1:07:56
Speaker 3: They tried to come up with some adjectives, but they
1:07:59
Speaker 3: really couldn't find anything because nothing is in her file,
1:08:06
Speaker 3: nothing for thirty five years. So this is the chaos
1:08:10
Speaker 3: at city, Paul, and I'm gonna connect some dots this
1:08:13
Speaker 3: morning on why I think these things are happening. So
1:08:18
Speaker 3: we had this big brawl in downtown Cincinnati and members
1:08:23
Speaker 3: of council, city manager and mayor said go arrest to
1:08:27
Speaker 3: white people, and Alex Travinski was that person escapegoat. And
1:08:35
Speaker 3: at the end of the day they went to Chief
1:08:37
Speaker 3: Figi and said sign off on these on this arrest warrant.
1:08:45
Speaker 3: And I bet you the mayor and the manager, maybe
1:08:49
Speaker 3: a member of Council were all present making phone calls
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Speaker 3: to the chief saying I want you to sign off
1:08:56
Speaker 3: on this arrest warrant and I'm going to connect this
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Speaker 3: to the petition, and Chief said no, I'm not going
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Speaker 3: to do that. They also then went to the two
1:09:06
Speaker 3: detectives who had said I've investigated this and Alex Travinsky
1:09:12
Speaker 3: is not guilty of anything. As a matter of fact,
1:09:15
Speaker 3: he got his butt kicked down there, and matter of fact,
1:09:18
Speaker 3: he didn't start the fight. Because I can show you
1:09:20
Speaker 3: the video. I can show you where the fight started
1:09:24
Speaker 3: if you want to see it, mayor Purevaal. He didn't
1:09:26
Speaker 3: want to see it. Those two detectives said I'm not
1:09:29
Speaker 3: going to sign off. So then they went to a
1:09:33
Speaker 3: captain who is now the interim chief and said will
1:09:38
Speaker 3: you signe off on this? And he said he would.
1:09:41
Speaker 3: Now the word is his thought process was, I don't
1:09:44
Speaker 3: want anybody else to be impacted by this, so I'm
1:09:47
Speaker 3: going to sign off on it. But he now has
1:09:50
Speaker 3: been elevated as she Fiji was moved out into the
1:09:54
Speaker 3: interim position. And so the reality of it is we
1:09:58
Speaker 3: now know all charges have been dropped. We know that
1:10:02
Speaker 3: this scape goat of from City council. We're talking about
1:10:05
Speaker 3: the mayor, the manager. Most of the members of council
1:10:08
Speaker 3: were standing at that press conference demanding that a white
1:10:11
Speaker 3: person be arrested. That Chief Fiji stood up to the
1:10:15
Speaker 3: city Hall, to the administration and said, I won't do it.
1:10:20
Speaker 3: Just the timing of it of saying it's now time
1:10:23
Speaker 3: for you to go. We don't want to hear and
1:10:26
Speaker 3: I want to share with everybody listening. Look for the
1:10:30
Speaker 3: FBI to be involved. This is serious. If you if
1:10:34
Speaker 3: the mayor and the manager and any member of council,
1:10:37
Speaker 3: we're trying to get a law enforcement officer to sign
1:10:42
Speaker 3: off on something that they know is not true. That
1:10:45
Speaker 3: is a problem. That is corruption. And I'm letting you
1:10:50
Speaker 3: know that that Alex Stravinski, you know, I'm not talking
1:10:54
Speaker 3: directly to his lawyer. This is just my compence sense.
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Speaker 3: This will be the next massive lawsuit against the City
1:11:00
Speaker 3: of Cincinnati in federal court. And when they walk in
1:11:04
Speaker 3: and depose those detectives. When they deposed, she FIGI, she's
1:11:10
Speaker 3: gonna tell the whole story. She's gonna sit that that
1:11:13
Speaker 3: had nothing. I'm gonna tell you everything. Why they would
1:11:17
Speaker 3: say administrative leaving not termination is because what she Figi
1:11:21
Speaker 3: knows what they don't want her to talk about, and
1:11:25
Speaker 3: they're not smart enough to know that under deposition, she's
1:11:27
Speaker 3: not lying for anybody. She's gonna tell the whole truth,
1:11:30
Speaker 3: nothing but the truth. And somebody at City Hall's going down.
1:11:35
Speaker 3: And it's not gonna be a year, it'll be a
1:11:37
Speaker 3: three year lost too, It'll be something massive. But at
1:11:40
Speaker 3: the end of the day, I believe that this was
1:11:42
Speaker 3: the thing that lit the wick that this city manager
1:11:46
Speaker 3: decided without conversating with city Halls, no member of council.
1:11:51
Speaker 3: This is what she says. She says she didn't conversate
1:11:54
Speaker 3: with the mayor, which I don't believe, and decide that
1:11:56
Speaker 3: she was gonna get rid of shef Figi. She was
1:11:59
Speaker 3: the fault person for this whole case.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Old statements from the former vice mayor of the city
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Speaker 1: is sincene and more to break down. We're gonna bring
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Speaker 1: Christopher back and talk about some of these more of
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Speaker 1: this on this issue seven twenty five right now fifty
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Speaker 1: five or Station bron townis a former vice mayor of
1:12:13
Speaker 1: the city St. Christopher's smitheman do what we call the
1:12:15
Speaker 1: Smith event. Christopher Smithman, you got this petition and apparently
1:12:19
Speaker 1: now it's been approved. I know there seem to be
1:12:21
Speaker 1: some wrinkle in your petition to change how police and
1:12:24
Speaker 1: fire chiefs are hired and fired in the city, But
1:12:26
Speaker 1: it's a charter amendment that would require a majority of
1:12:28
Speaker 1: city council to fill or vacate, in other words, fire
1:12:32
Speaker 1: the top positions. You would need seven of the nine
1:12:34
Speaker 1: council members, and of course they would engage, hopefully in
1:12:37
Speaker 1: a thoughtful debate about hiring and firing. Some people are
1:12:39
Speaker 1: against this now with the background of what you just
1:12:41
Speaker 1: talked about with Alex Stravinsky, meant the group that some
1:12:45
Speaker 1: of the council members, the city manager demanding that a
1:12:49
Speaker 1: charge be filed against the men when there was no
1:12:51
Speaker 1: criminal conduct reported by the officers on the scene. Let
1:12:54
Speaker 1: me ask you a question. They're gonna put these two
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Speaker 1: in the same context. Uh, it was Cincinnati, Scott Warptmon
1:13:00
Speaker 1: since a enquires wartman who was interviewing, have to have
1:13:02
Speaker 1: purble about this amendment that you're proposing. But also Scotti Johnson,
1:13:06
Speaker 1: former police officer now councilman. Scottie Johnson said this amendment
1:13:10
Speaker 1: would be reckless, claiming that a police chief having to
1:13:13
Speaker 1: answer to nine council members would be chaotic, saying that
1:13:16
Speaker 1: most people on council don't have a clue what the
1:13:18
Speaker 1: sinsint police chief or fire chief even does. Wait a second,
1:13:22
Speaker 1: didn't they intervene and force well ultimately interim police Chief
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Speaker 1: Henny to issue a citation when no one else in
1:13:30
Speaker 1: including Police Chief Fiji, thought that there was a crime
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Speaker 1: there and would not cite the guy. Aren't they already
1:13:37
Speaker 1: micromanaging the conduct of the police chief, Christopher. I know
1:13:41
Speaker 1: it's a rhetorical string and babbling question, but you get
1:13:44
Speaker 1: the point.
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Speaker 3: No, No, The only thing that I would add is
1:13:47
Speaker 3: we have to make sure that we continue to remind
1:13:50
Speaker 3: your listening audience that they said a white person. They
1:13:54
Speaker 3: didn't say an American. They didn't just say a man
1:13:57
Speaker 3: or what they said, I'll go and arrest a white
1:14:01
Speaker 3: and that's right. And at that point, if you remember,
1:14:06
Speaker 3: the Chair of Law in Public Safety's Gotti Johnson said
1:14:09
Speaker 3: he's got one in the chamber, right. I mean, there
1:14:12
Speaker 3: was some very wild language that was being used around
1:14:16
Speaker 3: this incident, and all of them were wrong. In all
1:14:20
Speaker 3: of them were wrong. Yes, they were all wrong. All
1:14:24
Speaker 3: of them could have gone down and said, hey, I'd
1:14:26
Speaker 3: like to see all of the video. I'm the chair
1:14:29
Speaker 3: of law in Public Safety, I'm the city manager, I'm
1:14:31
Speaker 3: the mayor, and see that Alex Stravinsky did not start
1:14:35
Speaker 3: that fight. And what kills me is this was going
1:14:39
Speaker 3: into an election. We can't forget that when they were
1:14:43
Speaker 3: trying to gin up emotional responses from Black Americans that
1:14:49
Speaker 3: lived in Cincinnati by saying, hey, let's play to the
1:14:54
Speaker 3: worst and lowest common denominator. They were playing what we
1:14:59
Speaker 3: call race pow going into the election. And they didn't
1:15:03
Speaker 3: care whether they destroyed Alex Stravinsky's reputation. They didn't care
1:15:08
Speaker 3: when they arrested him. And that's why he should file
1:15:11
Speaker 3: a lawsuit for one hundred million dollars. Jesus, he should
1:15:15
Speaker 3: file a lawsuit like every other black American has filed
1:15:20
Speaker 3: against municipalities for civil rights issues. He should do the same.
1:15:26
Speaker 3: It'll be one of those cases where the country's going
1:15:29
Speaker 3: to have to ask the question to white Americans, Black Americans,
1:15:33
Speaker 3: Latino Americans, and Asian Americans have the same right. Is
1:15:38
Speaker 3: racism real? I say it is. I say it was
1:15:42
Speaker 3: racist that they stood at that press conference and demanded
1:15:46
Speaker 3: that a white person be arrested. It is so I
1:15:48
Speaker 3: don't need to hear I don't need to hear from
1:15:50
Speaker 3: this mayor or any member of council about what I'm doing.
1:15:55
Speaker 3: As far as a petition. Here's what's really happening. The
1:15:58
Speaker 3: mayor is really controlling this with a hit in hand.
1:16:02
Speaker 3: There's no way the city manager terminates any fire chief,
1:16:06
Speaker 3: any police chief without the knowledge of the mayor period
1:16:10
Speaker 3: and so the mayor wants to hold their power. City
1:16:13
Speaker 3: council wants to deny. They don't want to really be involved.
1:16:16
Speaker 3: If you go ask the nine members of council, if
1:16:18
Speaker 3: you ask anybody in the media, they are chasing these
1:16:22
Speaker 3: nine members of council around no comment, no comment, I
1:16:25
Speaker 3: don't really know what's going on. The city manager made
1:16:27
Speaker 3: the decision. She didn't talk to me. That's what they like,
1:16:31
Speaker 3: no accountability bringing the nine members of council. When would
1:16:36
Speaker 3: you hear an elected say I really don't want to
1:16:38
Speaker 3: have any more power, meaning the petition empowers them, It
1:16:42
Speaker 3: gives it. It takes power away from the city manager
1:16:45
Speaker 3: and gives it to the nine members of council. They
1:16:47
Speaker 3: don't want the power because they want to stand in
1:16:50
Speaker 3: front of all of us and say, I don't know,
1:16:52
Speaker 3: I have no idea, but they're the hit in hand.
1:16:55
Speaker 3: They're the ones that are really pulling the puppet strength
1:16:58
Speaker 3: of the manager, and we don't know about it. And
1:17:00
Speaker 3: I'm saying, listen this, Cincinnati, please listen to this type
1:17:05
Speaker 3: of advice, this type of constructive, very serious advice from
1:17:10
Speaker 3: the former vice mayor. This is a very good petition
1:17:13
Speaker 3: that citizens of Cincinnati should sign and we should vote
1:17:17
Speaker 3: in the affirmative get when it gets on the ballot
1:17:19
Speaker 3: in November.
1:17:19
Speaker 1: Got till September fourth to get sixty nine hundred signatures,
1:17:22
Speaker 1: and I have all the confidence in the world people
1:17:24
Speaker 1: will sign at Christopher. But doesn't what you just say
1:17:27
Speaker 1: make more absurd? Aftab Pervol's response when asked about your petition,
1:17:31
Speaker 1: he said, it seems concerning to make decisions around our
1:17:35
Speaker 1: city's key public safety leadership more political. There is nothing
1:17:40
Speaker 1: political going on behind the scenes as things exist, is there,
1:17:43
Speaker 1: Christopher Jeeze Louise right, And when.
1:17:46
Speaker 3: We come back, we can talk about somebody who's not
1:17:49
Speaker 3: even elected, who's not an administrator, who's a consultant by
1:17:53
Speaker 3: the name of Iren Browley, who's right down there in
1:17:57
Speaker 3: city Hall, having the full year of the city manager
1:18:02
Speaker 3: and really directing the decisions of our police department.
1:18:05
Speaker 1: Through her, and maybe one of the people advocating make
1:18:08
Speaker 1: sure a white guy got charged in that brawl.
1:18:10
Speaker 2: Hmmm.
1:18:10
Speaker 3: I will speculate on that, and the depositions is all
1:18:15
Speaker 3: going to come out.
1:18:15
Speaker 1: That certainly will be a wonderful gift from litigation. Don't
1:18:20
Speaker 1: go away. More with Christopher Smithman, including a little rundown
1:18:22
Speaker 1: about his upcoming empower You seminar on Thursday, seven pm
1:18:25
Speaker 1: of what the future is for the City of Cincinnati.
1:18:28
Speaker 1: Pause for a moment. Let me mention my friends. At
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Speaker 4: Mason and left see the talk station.
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Speaker 1: without further ado. More with Christopher Smithman has got the
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Speaker 1: power You Seminar coming up, But you want to get
1:18:47
Speaker 1: a little bit more to talk about. Maybe the Irish
1:18:50
Speaker 1: Roly consultant issue is also crept into the equation here, Christopher.
1:18:53
Speaker 1: That also political if she's involved, it's political.
1:18:57
Speaker 3: It is, And what I want to be clear about
1:18:59
Speaker 3: is the reason Alex Travinsky's case is going to be
1:19:03
Speaker 3: so significant and will make national news is that there
1:19:07
Speaker 3: is this narrative that black Americans can't be racist that
1:19:13
Speaker 3: is not true. And so what is going to be
1:19:16
Speaker 3: proven in the court of law is you're going to
1:19:18
Speaker 3: have an elected official who has all the power, the President,
1:19:22
Speaker 3: pro tim, the Chair of Law and Public Safety, the
1:19:25
Speaker 3: Vice mayor of the city, the mayor of the city,
1:19:28
Speaker 3: all saying go out and arrest the white person, and
1:19:31
Speaker 3: directing our highest officer, our police chief, to go and
1:19:36
Speaker 3: execute that arrest. And when she refused, and then they
1:19:40
Speaker 3: went to the detectives, and the detectives refused, they found
1:19:43
Speaker 3: somebody who would tie off on it all based on race.
1:19:47
Speaker 3: And so this notion that black Americans can't be racist
1:19:52
Speaker 3: is going to be challenged in federal court. It is
1:19:54
Speaker 3: going to be an astronomical case because it's gonna it's
1:19:58
Speaker 3: gonna show, it's gonna really send up a title way
1:20:01
Speaker 3: across our fifty states. Everybody better wake up that the
1:20:04
Speaker 3: human condition of race is with all of us. There
1:20:08
Speaker 3: is no race that can't be racist. Period. You can
1:20:12
Speaker 3: make judgments, there is no race that can't be prejudiced, right,
1:20:16
Speaker 3: You can prejudge, and then you could take it to
1:20:18
Speaker 3: the next levels. Matter of fact, I have prejudices myself.
1:20:22
Speaker 3: I do not like selfish people that really bother me.
1:20:25
Speaker 3: That is a prejudgment that I have and I have
1:20:28
Speaker 3: to work through it. So prejudices occur. Everybody isn't a racist,
1:20:32
Speaker 3: but your race in itself does not pull you out
1:20:36
Speaker 3: and say I can't make decisions based on race. And
1:20:40
Speaker 3: so when you have all of these electors with all
1:20:42
Speaker 3: of this power, the whole government standing out of mic
1:20:45
Speaker 3: saying you better arrest a white person, don't tell me
1:20:49
Speaker 3: that's not racism. That's exactly what that was. And here's
1:20:53
Speaker 3: a man who got his head kicked in like a
1:20:56
Speaker 3: football for everybody to see, for the whole world to witness,
1:21:01
Speaker 3: by black Americans just because he was standing out there white.
1:21:05
Speaker 3: Because what they lied about is they said he used
1:21:07
Speaker 3: the in word. There's no proof of that. There's no
1:21:10
Speaker 3: video of that. If you heard the inn word, you
1:21:14
Speaker 3: couldn't tell whether it was those in the crowd using
1:21:16
Speaker 3: the in word or whether it was somebody that was
1:21:18
Speaker 3: getting their head kicked in using the in word. There's
1:21:21
Speaker 3: no proof of that. Here's the proof we have. He
1:21:24
Speaker 3: didn't start to fight. Somebody came and punched him in
1:21:27
Speaker 3: the back. We got that on video, and we know
1:21:29
Speaker 3: that members of council stood and told the whole city,
1:21:32
Speaker 3: you're better go arrest a white person and guess what
1:21:36
Speaker 3: that is racism? And that's what I want to share
1:21:39
Speaker 3: with the whole world this morning, that black Americans can
1:21:43
Speaker 3: be racist. And we absolutely saw it on that day.
1:21:46
Speaker 3: It was the worst of the worst. A President pro
1:21:49
Speaker 3: tim that said they got what they deserved. The President
1:21:53
Speaker 3: pro Tem a black American. And you've got the Chair
1:21:56
Speaker 3: of Law and Public Stake to who's saying my petition
1:21:59
Speaker 3: is bad, saying go out there, I got one in
1:22:01
Speaker 3: the chamber. Yeah, and now we know that everything they
1:22:04
Speaker 3: said was a lie.
1:22:05
Speaker 1: And say we want if you want to draw conclusions
1:22:07
Speaker 1: that are negative to Alex Stravinsky, pivot over to Holly,
1:22:10
Speaker 1: because the day that the President pro Ten was referred
1:22:12
Speaker 1: to was not just Alex getting what he deserved, but
1:22:15
Speaker 1: also Holly, who got punched in the face, merely rendering
1:22:18
Speaker 1: aid to someone who's the victim of the beat down
1:22:20
Speaker 1: that was directed at her as well.
1:22:23
Speaker 3: Can you imagine love in the box watching that video?
1:22:27
Speaker 3: Can you imagine any of us in there saying this
1:22:30
Speaker 3: makes any sense, and so the city better get ready
1:22:33
Speaker 3: with what we call a judgment bomb, right, meaning meaning
1:22:37
Speaker 3: so many judgment bonds have happened due to in the
1:22:40
Speaker 3: in the in the in the early two thousands, in
1:22:43
Speaker 3: the in the nineties police misconduct. There are things that
1:22:47
Speaker 3: happen that were bad in this city that birthed the
1:22:50
Speaker 3: collaborative agreement that needed to be changed within our police culture,
1:22:54
Speaker 3: not just here but across the country. But this is
1:22:56
Speaker 3: an example of where you have government where blacklack Americans
1:23:00
Speaker 3: are in power. And they were telling everybody in the
1:23:03
Speaker 3: city in the region, you better go arrest a white person.
1:23:07
Speaker 3: And they found a person named Alex Travinsky. They arrested him.
1:23:12
Speaker 3: And by the way, the judge that said no charges,
1:23:15
Speaker 3: black American blackmail judge said, listen, we're throwing We're throwing that.
1:23:21
Speaker 3: We're throwing the charges out. So good luck city hall,
1:23:24
Speaker 3: good luck Irish slowly, good luck all of you people
1:23:28
Speaker 3: who had conversations with Chief Fiji and directed her to
1:23:31
Speaker 3: arrest somebody. Because when this case is all over and
1:23:35
Speaker 3: she's sitting down for a deposition, if she says that
1:23:39
Speaker 3: the mayor did call me that the city manager did
1:23:42
Speaker 3: call me, that I heard from the chair maybe of
1:23:46
Speaker 3: Law and Public Safety, that maybe I heard from the
1:23:48
Speaker 3: Vice mayor. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is going to
1:23:52
Speaker 3: get involved if they're not involved already, and if they
1:23:55
Speaker 3: aren't involved, they should get involved.
1:23:58
Speaker 1: If I was a betting man, Chris Froud had my
1:23:59
Speaker 1: money down on them being involved. So I'll tell you
1:24:04
Speaker 1: what you've got to power you sminar coming up on Thursday.
1:24:06
Speaker 1: We're gonna pause, bring it back and let's talk about
1:24:08
Speaker 1: a little bit what you're gonna be talking about coming
1:24:10
Speaker 1: up seven forty five right now, one more with Christopher
1:24:12
Speaker 1: Smith before we get the money money Brian seven forty nine.
1:24:15
Speaker 1: I thinking about krcity Talk stationan Brian Thomas with Christopher
1:24:18
Speaker 1: Smithman wrapping up a Monday Morning Smith event. Here we'll
1:24:21
Speaker 1: hear from Brian James up the top of the our
1:24:22
Speaker 1: news Monday Monday's Brian James, a bunch of topics with him,
1:24:25
Speaker 1: and real quick here, Christopher, I know you're doing it
1:24:27
Speaker 1: in a seminar Empower You Thursday night, seven pm at
1:24:30
Speaker 1: the empower Use Seminars Studio or log in from home.
1:24:33
Speaker 1: Empower You America dot Org. And I know you're gonna
1:24:36
Speaker 1: be talking about the future of the city of Cincinnati.
1:24:38
Speaker 1: I just have to get this out because it's driving
1:24:41
Speaker 1: me crazy. Christopher, our wonderful lords and masters the City
1:24:44
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati, the mayors and a bunch of council people
1:24:46
Speaker 1: showed up on I guess Friday to put a shovel
1:24:53
Speaker 1: in the ground, Oh Lord of Lord's great wonderful the
1:24:55
Speaker 1: Center Hill Solo RA project, which they claim is going
1:24:58
Speaker 1: to develop ten mega watts solar power energy paid for
1:25:01
Speaker 1: by twenty four million dollars. It's going to be managed
1:25:05
Speaker 1: by an outside entity called UPower Energy, which I looked
1:25:08
Speaker 1: up as kind of a real woke so called energy
1:25:11
Speaker 1: provider or consolidated or whatever they do. But it's farmed out.
1:25:16
Speaker 1: I don't know what the purpose of this, Christopher, is,
1:25:17
Speaker 1: but to the extendus and efforts for the City of
1:25:20
Speaker 1: Cincinnati to have an impact globally. I just look in
1:25:23
Speaker 1: the four years of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine.
1:25:28
Speaker 1: That war has generated three hundred and eleven million metric
1:25:32
Speaker 1: tons of carbon dioxide, which volume is contributed is comparable
1:25:37
Speaker 1: to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of France and half
1:25:40
Speaker 1: of Germany every single year, So two entire countries worth
1:25:44
Speaker 1: of carbon dioxide has been belched out in the world
1:25:47
Speaker 1: because of one conflict. Now that doesn't take into account
1:25:50
Speaker 1: all the volcanoes that have blown up, the wildfires that
1:25:52
Speaker 1: have gone on, the other military conflicts raging in the
1:25:54
Speaker 1: world that have also put out tons and tons of
1:25:56
Speaker 1: carbon dioxide in the world. Do you think the city
1:25:58
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati can have any m pat globally on carbon dioxide?
1:26:02
Speaker 1: Don't answer it. I know the answer is no. So
1:26:04
Speaker 1: why in God's name of the spending valuable and scarce
1:26:06
Speaker 1: city taxpayer dollars to do this crap?
1:26:10
Speaker 3: It's because of its value signally to their base. They
1:26:14
Speaker 3: want to run for something else. So imagine a commercial
1:26:18
Speaker 3: where they're in a primary, not a general election, and
1:26:22
Speaker 3: they want to say I've done something. This is seeding
1:26:24
Speaker 3: red meat to their base. But if they're doing something,
1:26:30
Speaker 3: they don't.
1:26:31
Speaker 1: But it's not doing anything.
1:26:33
Speaker 3: It's just it's telling you're you're logical. It's not that
1:26:37
Speaker 3: this is this is them playing politics with our money.
1:26:40
Speaker 3: If it were their money, they never do it kidding.
1:26:42
Speaker 3: But when they're in a primary, watch what I tell you,
1:26:45
Speaker 3: Watch mayor pure Vall with a commercial highlighting this project.
1:26:49
Speaker 3: Oh ya running for Congress, running for running for president,
1:26:53
Speaker 3: in his mind, running for governor. Right, he's going to
1:26:56
Speaker 3: he's going to highlight this, but he's willing to spend
1:26:59
Speaker 3: our millions and millions and millions of dollars in order
1:27:02
Speaker 3: for him to do it. We know that it's meaningless.
1:27:06
Speaker 3: We know that it's a it's a it's a mess.
1:27:08
Speaker 3: And what makes it even crazy is that we have
1:27:11
Speaker 3: a thirty something million dollar deficit at the same time.
1:27:14
Speaker 3: And what they're going to try to tell the tell
1:27:16
Speaker 3: the citizens of Cinciniety in some way this is going
1:27:19
Speaker 3: to impact the deficit. We're gonna save money. And that's
1:27:21
Speaker 3: that's your point. This is a waste of money, it's
1:27:24
Speaker 3: a waste of time. And if you talk to any
1:27:27
Speaker 3: dealership right now, anybody's running a dealership what cars, aren't
1:27:32
Speaker 3: selling electric cars. They're sitting there right because the reality
1:27:37
Speaker 3: of it is, there's a backlash. The city one day
1:27:40
Speaker 3: said they wanted an electric fire truck. I mean, the
1:27:43
Speaker 3: reality of it is, Look, look, none of this stuff
1:27:45
Speaker 3: makes sense. And so that's why you see. Now what
1:27:49
Speaker 3: does make sense is making a cars more efficient gas
1:27:52
Speaker 3: vehicles more efficient, which is absolutely happening. Your vehicle is
1:27:56
Speaker 3: more efficient today than it was thirty years ago, ten
1:27:59
Speaker 3: years ago, five years ago, no question about it. Right.
1:28:02
Speaker 3: But electric cars are bougie, meaning you have to have
1:28:05
Speaker 3: an electric car and a gas car. If you're going
1:28:08
Speaker 3: from Cincinnati to Detroit four hundred miles, or you're trying
1:28:11
Speaker 3: to go from here to Florida, you can't go on
1:28:13
Speaker 3: one charge, and there isn't a system in place to
1:28:17
Speaker 3: support an electric car. So all of those liberal people
1:28:20
Speaker 3: out there that are driving cars and trying to make
1:28:22
Speaker 3: us feel bad about it, the reality of it is
1:28:24
Speaker 3: you and I know it is literally just value signaling,
1:28:28
Speaker 3: or it is some type of economic statement. I can
1:28:31
Speaker 3: afford this car and another car because you cannot have both.
1:28:35
Speaker 3: You've gotta have one. It's the truth. It's the truth.
1:28:38
Speaker 3: I'm driving this electric car. You can see it. But
1:28:41
Speaker 3: when they park that car and they're taking their family
1:28:42
Speaker 3: to Florida, they don't get in that electric car because
1:28:45
Speaker 3: there is not a system in place in order to
1:28:48
Speaker 3: charge that car. Now to your point of this, wonderful
1:28:51
Speaker 3: Dan raganall, that's how I tie empower you. What a
1:28:55
Speaker 3: wonderful organization, wonderful people who've been working and working and
1:28:59
Speaker 3: work to just educate. Meaning they're saying, I want to
1:29:03
Speaker 3: empower all of you out here with information. And I'm
1:29:07
Speaker 3: honored months ago that they have invited me to come
1:29:10
Speaker 3: and talk. And so there'll be a number of issues
1:29:13
Speaker 3: that I will talk about. Our budget deficit. For example,
1:29:17
Speaker 3: you'll hear me talk about the Cincinnati Pension Plan, the
1:29:21
Speaker 3: retirement system plan, which is very, very important to taxpayers
1:29:25
Speaker 3: in the City of Cincinnati. You're hearing me talk about
1:29:27
Speaker 3: the police department and the pension and the negotiations of
1:29:31
Speaker 3: the FOP right that coming up right now, You're going
1:29:34
Speaker 3: to have the fire department coming in with their negotiations.
1:29:37
Speaker 3: That's why you see city Hall saying I'm broke, I'm broke,
1:29:40
Speaker 3: I'm broke, I'm broke, because they know that Police, Fire
1:29:44
Speaker 3: asks me and Code are coming to the table to
1:29:46
Speaker 3: negotiate their contracts and they always do this during those negotiations.
1:29:51
Speaker 3: But this mayor doesn't have good sense because he's out
1:29:53
Speaker 3: here spending money on music venues, on solar panels over
1:29:58
Speaker 3: here giving eight point one million dollars to people downtown
1:30:01
Speaker 3: who are involved in a riot. They are just throwing
1:30:04
Speaker 3: money all around, but when they get to the table
1:30:06
Speaker 3: they tell everybody else that's pro But I'm just so
1:30:08
Speaker 3: honored to be there and participate and empower you and me.
1:30:13
Speaker 3: Just they're giving information because it's really nonpartisan. It's just
1:30:18
Speaker 3: here's the information. And then people citizens are able to
1:30:20
Speaker 3: ask questions about what is actually going on, and that's
1:30:24
Speaker 3: the key. But I want to end by telling you this,
1:30:27
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas. I want everybody to just close their eyes
1:30:31
Speaker 3: as we close out, and I want you to think
1:30:34
Speaker 3: about a press conference of all white people, a white mayor,
1:30:39
Speaker 3: a white city manager, a majority white members of council.
1:30:43
Speaker 3: Close your eyes and think about that. And there's an
1:30:45
Speaker 3: incident in downtown Cincinnati where white citizens are beating the
1:30:50
Speaker 3: hell out of black Americans in the middle of the street,
1:30:53
Speaker 3: kicking them in the head, acting like they're in some
1:30:56
Speaker 3: wrestling www power, slamming them to the ground right, punching
1:31:03
Speaker 3: them and knocking them out. Imagine white citizens doing that
1:31:07
Speaker 3: collectively to five or ten black Americans in the middle
1:31:10
Speaker 3: of downtown Cincinnati. Imagine that, and imagine these white electors
1:31:14
Speaker 3: get on the mic and say, at the end of
1:31:16
Speaker 3: this and you better go and arrest a Black Americans.
1:31:23
Speaker 3: You better arrest are black Americans. Tell me if you
1:31:27
Speaker 3: wouldn't see an uproar on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News everywhere,
1:31:33
Speaker 3: Tell me that Irish Roly wouldn't be marching in downtown
1:31:36
Speaker 3: Cincinnati if there were a group of white people beating
1:31:39
Speaker 3: up Black Americans like animals in the middle, punching Holly,
1:31:43
Speaker 3: a black woman in the face and knocking her out.
1:31:46
Speaker 3: Where all of us thought that black woman was dead.
1:31:49
Speaker 3: This was a white woman. Right. They're so in bold
1:31:52
Speaker 3: in that city hall that they think that they can
1:31:55
Speaker 3: go on a mic as Black Americans in our culture,
1:31:59
Speaker 3: this is this democratic in a base and say go
1:32:03
Speaker 3: arrest a white person who has now been completely vindicated, Yeah,
1:32:08
Speaker 3: completely vindicated. If anybody who's listening to this knows that
1:32:12
Speaker 3: if this was reverse, right, if black, if white people
1:32:16
Speaker 3: were on a mic and saying the same thing, we
1:32:18
Speaker 3: would have holy crap breaking out in the city of
1:32:21
Speaker 3: Cincinnati right now. Why didn't it break out here? Well
1:32:25
Speaker 3: this scene Black Americans can be racist, and we've got
1:32:29
Speaker 3: to hold them accountable in court here.
1:32:31
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1:32:44
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1:32:47
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Speaker 1: very happy Monday and expressing very happy thoughts that I
1:33:02
Speaker 1: see Joe Strecker back. Whey belongs in the executive producer booth.
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Speaker 1: Good having you back, Joe Strecker, and God rest to
1:33:07
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Speaker 1: Morning Show, Brian James, from all with Financier to what
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1:33:17
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely good to hear your voice as well, and
1:33:20
Speaker 7: I echo your thoughts on this Streker family.
1:33:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it, Brian James. I see that
1:33:25
Speaker 1: Air Canada. I think this air Canada is just an
1:33:28
Speaker 1: illustration of a lot of changes coming our way as
1:33:30
Speaker 1: a consequence of the increase in jet fuel prices. Of course,
1:33:33
Speaker 1: we're all struggling with an increase in fuel prices, and
1:33:35
Speaker 1: real quick, I just had to point this out before
1:33:37
Speaker 1: you get pivot over to airic Canada. What it's done
1:33:40
Speaker 1: in the price of jet fuel. My wife and I
1:33:42
Speaker 1: were watching an old movie from nineteen forties, and it
1:33:45
Speaker 1: was a boguard movie to have him to have not
1:33:47
Speaker 1: And he's a boat captain and he tells his client
1:33:49
Speaker 1: he needs to fill the tank up. And the guy says, well,
1:33:52
Speaker 1: how much is that going to be? And so Humphrey
1:33:54
Speaker 1: Berger says, well, twenty eight cents a gallon mult times
1:33:56
Speaker 1: TI forty forty gallons. And we're looking at each other like,
1:33:59
Speaker 1: twenty eight sense of gallon?
1:34:01
Speaker 2: Oh my god, twenty is that American sense?
1:34:04
Speaker 9: Really?
1:34:04
Speaker 2: Well?
1:34:05
Speaker 1: You know the funny thing about it is I immediately
1:34:06
Speaker 1: went over to an inflation calculator. What was a dollar
1:34:09
Speaker 1: worth of nineteen forty versus what it's worth today? You
1:34:12
Speaker 1: know what that twenty eight cents translates into modern dollars.
1:34:15
Speaker 1: Tell me six dollars and change so it wasn't as
1:34:19
Speaker 1: good as it sounded, So you know, you got to
1:34:22
Speaker 1: keep inflation in there. And to that end, I just
1:34:25
Speaker 1: look at the price of gasoline during COVID and as
1:34:27
Speaker 1: a consequence of some of the green initiatives that have
1:34:29
Speaker 1: gone in, our refusal to drill and tap in and
1:34:31
Speaker 1: all that kind of thing, it artificially drives the price up.
1:34:34
Speaker 1: It's out there. It could be a part of the
1:34:36
Speaker 1: pool of you know, gas or oil or jet fuel
1:34:39
Speaker 1: that's out in the world. So that's an artificial creation.
1:34:42
Speaker 1: This war is a temporary phenomenon that has not stopped
1:34:46
Speaker 1: necessarily the existence of oil or its future production. It's
1:34:51
Speaker 1: only held it back because, of course there's a conflict
1:34:54
Speaker 1: in the straight of Horror Moves, which deals with twenty
1:34:56
Speaker 1: percent of the world's energy and other resources. But it's
1:34:58
Speaker 1: certainly having a profound impact, and it's resulting in some
1:35:01
Speaker 1: significant changes in airlines, notably back to Air Canada, Bryant
1:35:05
Speaker 1: Air Canada.
1:35:06
Speaker 2: Suffering a little bit.
1:35:07
Speaker 7: So so jet fuel has jumped from two dollars and
1:35:10
Speaker 7: fifty cents to about four dollars and thirty two cents
1:35:12
Speaker 7: per gallon. You know, it's kind of funny I never
1:35:14
Speaker 7: really thought about it, but that's close to what I
1:35:16
Speaker 7: think of when I when I stand at the pump.
1:35:17
Speaker 1: And I guess the other day five cents for premium.
1:35:23
Speaker 3: Yeah.
1:35:23
Speaker 7: But the airlines complaining about exactly well, I mean, we're
1:35:26
Speaker 7: all used to what it used to be and we
1:35:28
Speaker 7: weren't prepared quite for what it is. And that that
1:35:31
Speaker 7: that applies whether you're driving a minivan or seven forty seven.
1:35:34
Speaker 1: I guess so.
1:35:35
Speaker 7: Uh so, Air Canada has decided to pull the trigger
1:35:38
Speaker 7: to make some adjustments for their own budgets. You know,
1:35:41
Speaker 7: some of us spend less at the grocery store. Well,
1:35:43
Speaker 7: Air Canada suspends flights, so there are fewer flights from
1:35:46
Speaker 7: JFK to Toronto and Montreal from June to October. And
1:35:51
Speaker 7: they're just they're they're basically saying, some of these routes
1:35:53
Speaker 7: are no economically feasible. It's just not going to work
1:35:56
Speaker 7: anymore for the temporary, you know, for the time being,
1:35:58
Speaker 7: we hope.
1:35:58
Speaker 1: We'll see, okay, economics feasibility. And I asked myself, is
1:36:04
Speaker 1: it that they can't find the fuel to buy at
1:36:08
Speaker 1: a higher price, or I mean my fault was, why
1:36:10
Speaker 1: not just increase the fare? To cover the additional fuel costs.
1:36:13
Speaker 1: It could still be economically feasible to fly these smaller routes,
1:36:16
Speaker 1: but you're gonna have to pay ahole of a lot
1:36:18
Speaker 1: more for the ticket. Or is it the fact that
1:36:19
Speaker 1: they just can't find enough aircraft fuel to go around
1:36:22
Speaker 1: their fleet and deal with the larger one.
1:36:25
Speaker 7: I think your ear analysis there leaves out the other half, right,
1:36:27
Speaker 7: So yeah, they could do it. They could pay for
1:36:29
Speaker 7: the fuel and raise the and cover the cost by
1:36:31
Speaker 7: raising it. But I think what they're saying is it's
1:36:33
Speaker 7: not economically feasible from a standpoint of yeah, we could
1:36:35
Speaker 7: do that, but who will buy those tickets? So their
1:36:38
Speaker 7: their analysis is saying that, while you're correct, is not
1:36:42
Speaker 7: a supply problem. The supply is there, we have access
1:36:44
Speaker 7: to it. It's is it worth trying to sell these
1:36:47
Speaker 7: routes because people are going to say, forget it, I
1:36:48
Speaker 7: just don't need to go to these places, or I'll.
1:36:50
Speaker 2: Just find another airline.
1:36:51
Speaker 1: Well, in the old days, you could always count on
1:36:53
Speaker 1: business travelers. They had to fly, they had to, you know,
1:36:56
Speaker 1: get to where they were going to conduct business meetings,
1:36:58
Speaker 1: and so they could fall back on the business customers
1:37:01
Speaker 1: who always ended up playing full full fair anyway, at
1:37:03
Speaker 1: least by comparison to we out here in the unwashed
1:37:06
Speaker 1: masses who buy early so we can get as savings
1:37:08
Speaker 1: on it. But I guess after COVID people realize you
1:37:11
Speaker 1: can get on a Zoom conference and you know, you
1:37:13
Speaker 1: don't have to fly to New York City to conduct
1:37:15
Speaker 1: business from Montreal exactly.
1:37:17
Speaker 7: So that's why they're a lot quicker to cancel these routes,
1:37:19
Speaker 7: because because the potential customers are a lot quicker to say,
1:37:23
Speaker 7: forget it, We'll just switch all these in person meetings
1:37:25
Speaker 7: to Zoom and we'll save on the bar tab at
1:37:27
Speaker 7: the end of the night too. So it's affecting a
1:37:29
Speaker 7: lot of different areas. But we have to look at night.
1:37:31
Speaker 7: It's not just the price of fuel, it's the way
1:37:34
Speaker 7: we make decisions. COVID had an awfully large impact. I
1:37:36
Speaker 7: could say that from my own employer, we do stuff
1:37:38
Speaker 7: a lot more or a lot less, you know, a
1:37:41
Speaker 7: lot less travel to get everybody together. It's just easier.
1:37:43
Speaker 7: And it's easier on lives too, right. It's fun for
1:37:46
Speaker 7: you know, fun to see the crowd maybe once a
1:37:47
Speaker 7: year or so, but you know, once a quarter.
1:37:49
Speaker 2: That kind of thing.
1:37:50
Speaker 7: Those things I think are dead and gone, and people
1:37:53
Speaker 7: are just much more quick to pivot to react to
1:37:55
Speaker 7: these headlines.
1:37:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand that, and I guess the other component,
1:38:00
Speaker 1: at least for Air Canada, they do have they're going
1:38:03
Speaker 1: to continue flying into Newark and ltle Guardia, So it's
1:38:07
Speaker 1: not like they're not going to be getting anybody into
1:38:09
Speaker 1: the greater New York City area. They just decided that
1:38:11
Speaker 1: it was I guess more convenient to stick with Newark
1:38:13
Speaker 1: and LaGuardia. So if you do have to fly from Montreal,
1:38:16
Speaker 1: at least you can get to an airline an airport
1:38:19
Speaker 1: that's closed.
1:38:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
1:38:21
Speaker 7: And so let's not just because we're focused on Air Canada.
1:38:24
Speaker 7: That's just the headline that hit the right the airline. Yeah,
1:38:27
Speaker 7: but yeah, the routes they're suspending, they're going to eliminate
1:38:30
Speaker 7: about one percent of their network, which really isn't In
1:38:32
Speaker 7: some of these routes you would say, okay, yeah, that's
1:38:34
Speaker 7: a big city like Salt Lake City is suspended until
1:38:36
Speaker 7: twenty twenty seven. Uh, the vaunted Vancouver to Fort McMurray
1:38:40
Speaker 7: route has been suspended. Also, you can no longer get
1:38:43
Speaker 7: to from Toronto to yellow Knight, right right.
1:38:46
Speaker 1: That's so funny that you mentioned this too, because they
1:38:48
Speaker 1: circled those in the article. Like, I don't even I'd
1:38:51
Speaker 1: never even heard of Fort McMurray or yellow Knife, not
1:38:53
Speaker 1: that I have any you know, expertise in geography, but
1:38:57
Speaker 1: I suspect that ending flights to Fort McMurray and yellow
1:38:59
Speaker 1: Nie really aren't going to impact a whole lot of people.
1:39:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're probably gonna survive this.
1:39:03
Speaker 7: So you can tell which parts of these headlines were
1:39:05
Speaker 7: in the big font, which was in the little font.
1:39:07
Speaker 1: Well, and we can keep hearing reports. Give it some time,
1:39:11
Speaker 1: Give it some time, and these prices will go down.
1:39:13
Speaker 1: And I think that's inevitable. I can't admit, well, here
1:39:15
Speaker 1: I am being optimistic about how long this conflict's going
1:39:17
Speaker 1: to laugh, but.
1:39:18
Speaker 2: I think you said that a month ago.
1:39:19
Speaker 1: I know, if the conflict ends, then this impediment will
1:39:22
Speaker 1: disappear and things ultimately will get back on track again.
1:39:26
Speaker 1: This isn't some legislation that will need to be repealed.
1:39:28
Speaker 1: This isn't some lack of supply that you know, a
1:39:31
Speaker 1: supply that was online that completely disappeared. This is the
1:39:34
Speaker 1: obvious perils of war. When you engage in it.
1:39:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I always look at the market.
1:39:39
Speaker 7: The stock market is a great indicator of the overall
1:39:42
Speaker 7: mood of the planet and how we're going to react to,
1:39:45
Speaker 7: you know, whatever the headlines are. So if you take
1:39:47
Speaker 7: this headline this morning that Iran has closed the straight
1:39:49
Speaker 7: of hormones, which I guess that was yesterday's headline, you
1:39:52
Speaker 7: know that you travel us back thirty years and read
1:39:55
Speaker 7: that headline, what happens? That's out and out panic because
1:39:57
Speaker 7: we have choked off that. You know, the only oil
1:39:59
Speaker 7: supply before the United States was a leader in oil production, right,
1:40:02
Speaker 7: that would have been a huge impact right now futures
1:40:05
Speaker 7: as we're sitting here down about a half percent. So
1:40:07
Speaker 7: we kind of wink at these things now it's just
1:40:09
Speaker 7: not that big of a deal. Not to mention, we
1:40:10
Speaker 7: are desensitized to crazy headlines. Evan knows in the last
1:40:14
Speaker 7: really ten years, you know, honestly, going back to September eleventh,
1:40:18
Speaker 7: I remember when before September eleventh, breaking news was really
1:40:21
Speaker 7: breaking news. Ever since September eleventh, breaking news, it will say,
1:40:24
Speaker 7: breaking news. No changes announced at the whatever meeting, So
1:40:28
Speaker 7: everything is breaking news nowaday nowadays, and our politicians have
1:40:31
Speaker 7: doubled down on that, and that has desensitized us to
1:40:34
Speaker 7: these crazy headlines, which I don't think is the worst thing,
1:40:36
Speaker 7: because it's keeping us from making knee jerk decisions on
1:40:39
Speaker 7: our on our long term plans. I know my clients
1:40:42
Speaker 7: are a lot calmer with crazy headlines than they were,
1:40:45
Speaker 7: you know, twenty years ago.
1:40:46
Speaker 1: Well, and that is a good thing, it really is.
1:40:48
Speaker 1: So there you have it. And you know, the big
1:40:51
Speaker 1: problem with Ron apparently and the start of the on again,
1:40:54
Speaker 1: off again negotiations. The straits open, know, the straits closed.
1:40:57
Speaker 1: We're not shooting each other. We're shooting each other. Apparently.
1:41:00
Speaker 1: The Iranians are divided between political leaders who seem to
1:41:03
Speaker 1: want to sit down on the table and come up
1:41:05
Speaker 1: with some resolution. And then of course the military hardliners
1:41:07
Speaker 1: are with the Revolutionary Guard, who do not want to
1:41:09
Speaker 1: give up their power and are pursuing a more warlike posture.
1:41:14
Speaker 1: So once they get their act together, maybe we'll have
1:41:17
Speaker 1: some semblance of peace in within the within the Iranian government.
1:41:21
Speaker 1: But until they figured out who's in charge, it looks
1:41:23
Speaker 1: like it's on again, off again into the future. Brian,
1:41:26
Speaker 1: that's my understanding.
1:41:27
Speaker 7: Yeah, until then, headline whiplash so we'll just have to
1:41:29
Speaker 7: learn to tolerate it. But and we do have an
1:41:31
Speaker 7: administration that wants to throw gas on that fire to
1:41:34
Speaker 7: force a you know, to force a resolution sooner rather
1:41:37
Speaker 7: than later by simply saying that, you know, it's staying
1:41:39
Speaker 7: things that aren't necessarily true.
1:41:41
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. We could have another
1:41:43
Speaker 1: hour long discussion on that, but we're not going to.
1:41:45
Speaker 1: We're gonna pivot over to how tax free filing system,
1:41:48
Speaker 1: you know, having the IRS do your taxes for you
1:41:50
Speaker 1: apparently victim of effective marketing.
1:41:53
Speaker 4: But ive KRC the talk station.
1:41:57
Speaker 1: Hey nineteen, if you do, you have KRCDTALKX station. Happy
1:42:00
Speaker 1: Day money under Brian James. I'm all with financials on
1:42:02
Speaker 1: the phone. We'll get to these money matters. But before
1:42:04
Speaker 1: we pivot off of Air Canada trekers like one of
1:42:07
Speaker 1: those two cities you guys were talking about, Fort McMurray
1:42:10
Speaker 1: and Yellowknife, So don't worry about it. Those are nowhere
1:42:13
Speaker 1: near the United States. Fort McMurray somewhere near Calgary and
1:42:16
Speaker 1: Yellowknife up in the Northwest Territories. According to Jostracker, somewhere
1:42:21
Speaker 1: up in the Northwest Territory.
1:42:22
Speaker 2: Show it's furiously changing his summer vacation plan. Right, it
1:42:25
Speaker 2: really is you and I are on our own. He's
1:42:27
Speaker 2: got to deal he's got to deal with this.
1:42:29
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, I looked up a real fun fact, Brian James,
1:42:32
Speaker 1: and I think I discovered the reason, not only behind
1:42:34
Speaker 1: why that no one's using this this free file portal
1:42:38
Speaker 1: from the IRS to have the IRS do their taxes.
1:42:40
Speaker 1: And you'll dive into the meat potatoes of that one.
1:42:42
Speaker 1: But real quickly, I think I've stumbled on the reality
1:42:44
Speaker 1: of why you and I can't have a flat tax one.
1:42:47
Speaker 1: They manipulate the hell out of our behavior using the
1:42:49
Speaker 1: tax code. But apparently it is a multi, multi multi
1:42:53
Speaker 1: billion dollar industry. Taxpayers spend, according to artificial intelligence anyway,
1:42:57
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty eight billion annually and out of
1:43:00
Speaker 1: hocket costs for tax preparation. But when you account for
1:43:02
Speaker 1: the time spent the total economic compliance burden, it's north
1:43:06
Speaker 1: of four hundred and sixty four billion dollars every year.
1:43:10
Speaker 1: That is an entire industry built on a complex tax code.
1:43:13
Speaker 7: Brian James and I think we've also identified at the
1:43:16
Speaker 7: same time the reason that we haven't heard about that
1:43:19
Speaker 7: doing our taxes on an index card thing from Trump's
1:43:22
Speaker 7: first campaign, right, that went away immediately. There's a lot
1:43:24
Speaker 7: of money in bureaucracy, unfortunately, and that's literally what this is.
1:43:28
Speaker 7: So you know, let me give you a perfect example.
1:43:30
Speaker 7: We all do our taxes twice. Right, we do our thing.
1:43:33
Speaker 7: We either you know, we're using TurboTax or whatever the
1:43:36
Speaker 7: tax layer, whatever the software is, or you're paying somebody
1:43:38
Speaker 7: to do it. You submit your taxes and then the
1:43:41
Speaker 7: taxing authorities will look at it too to make sure
1:43:43
Speaker 7: you didn't screw it up.
1:43:44
Speaker 1: Good point.
1:43:44
Speaker 2: And that's at the federal level.
1:43:45
Speaker 1: The state.
1:43:46
Speaker 7: Look, I have a client who happens live in California,
1:43:47
Speaker 7: and know there's a lot of passion around that in
1:43:49
Speaker 7: California is a high spendy tax state, of course, but this,
1:43:53
Speaker 7: this client of mine sold some property way back in
1:43:55
Speaker 7: twenty twenty one, and we're due. I'm not going to
1:43:58
Speaker 7: claim to be an expert in California taxes, but.
1:44:00
Speaker 2: They were due.
1:44:01
Speaker 7: The way it works out there a distribution from the
1:44:04
Speaker 7: state of California totally thirty eight thousand dollars. And these
1:44:07
Speaker 7: are not bazillionaires. This is a family that owned a
1:44:09
Speaker 7: couple rental properties, not that big of a deal. California
1:44:11
Speaker 7: came to them and said, hey, this four year deadline
1:44:14
Speaker 7: is sneaking up on you. If you're not going to
1:44:15
Speaker 7: refile your twenty one taxes, we're going to keep your
1:44:17
Speaker 7: thirty eight thousand dollars. And it occurred to me, we
1:44:20
Speaker 7: do our taxes twice California did their taxes correctly and
1:44:23
Speaker 7: informed them that they had overpaid.
1:44:25
Speaker 2: So why are we doing this? Why can't we turn
1:44:27
Speaker 2: the whole thing around.
1:44:28
Speaker 7: Tell me what you think my taxes are, government, and
1:44:31
Speaker 7: give me some time to review it, and then I
1:44:33
Speaker 7: will either approve or fight it. Why am I doing
1:44:35
Speaker 7: them just so that you can turn around and do them?
1:44:37
Speaker 7: But's you just mentioned it? Because there's a half a
1:44:39
Speaker 7: trillion dollars moving around this industry.
1:44:41
Speaker 1: Man, that is just so so hard to fathom. And
1:44:44
Speaker 1: then to me, you know, my Libertonian and my little
1:44:47
Speaker 1: ill libertarian coming through here. But I just really detest,
1:44:51
Speaker 1: regardless of the amount of money that we spent in
1:44:52
Speaker 1: the economy that's built around a complex tax code, I
1:44:55
Speaker 1: just really detest that our government uses it to manipulate
1:44:57
Speaker 1: our behavior. I mean, businesses make this decisions that they
1:45:00
Speaker 1: never would make, just because it in yours to their
1:45:03
Speaker 1: benefit under some provision that was written into the tax code,
1:45:06
Speaker 1: many times just for that specific company or industry. So
1:45:11
Speaker 1: it's the ultimate vehicle of control, oh absolutely.
1:45:14
Speaker 2: And lobbying itself.
1:45:16
Speaker 7: Lobbying is a massive industry in this country, and everything that,
1:45:20
Speaker 7: everything the sun shines on within the United States can
1:45:22
Speaker 7: be turned into profit. And that is just how we
1:45:24
Speaker 7: run this society, and we have for hundreds of years.
1:45:27
Speaker 7: If you want, people come all the time this time
1:45:28
Speaker 7: of year going how can I lower my taxes?
1:45:30
Speaker 2: How can I lower my taxes?
1:45:31
Speaker 1: Well?
1:45:31
Speaker 2: Are you a W two wage slave? Do you own
1:45:34
Speaker 2: a business?
1:45:34
Speaker 3: No?
1:45:34
Speaker 2: Do you own property? Do you own rental real?
1:45:36
Speaker 4: No? No?
1:45:36
Speaker 2: No, no, Well you lost all your deductions.
1:45:38
Speaker 7: You're not even keeping receipts at good will anymore because
1:45:41
Speaker 7: of the way they adjusted the standard deduction. The tax benefits,
1:45:44
Speaker 7: the tax and the ability to manipulate the tax code goes.
1:45:47
Speaker 2: To the highest payers. Right, That's where the that's where
1:45:49
Speaker 2: the lobbying happens.
1:45:50
Speaker 7: That's where the ability to find loopholes, not even loopholes,
1:45:53
Speaker 7: just straight up laws. You know, there's all kinds of
1:45:55
Speaker 7: things out there. If you're curious about this, look up
1:45:57
Speaker 7: something called qualified business income, where if you're the right
1:46:01
Speaker 7: kind of business, you just get to you just get
1:46:02
Speaker 7: a twenty percent credit on your taxes. There are a
1:46:04
Speaker 7: lot of ways to degenerate, to move properties around and
1:46:08
Speaker 7: do ten thirty five tax free exchanges on real estate,
1:46:10
Speaker 7: all that stuff. If you've never heard of it, then
1:46:12
Speaker 7: you probably aren't one of those people. But that's what
1:46:15
Speaker 7: we elect. We elect people to Congress who put those
1:46:17
Speaker 7: types of rules in place and take away the benefits
1:46:20
Speaker 7: on the other end. Here's another one that occurred to
1:46:22
Speaker 7: me over the weekend. Can you hear them rolling? I'm
1:46:23
Speaker 7: getting my soapbox a little bit.
1:46:25
Speaker 1: I'm with you, brother.
1:46:26
Speaker 7: So here's another one that occurred to me. I had
1:46:27
Speaker 7: a client last week. We were trying to figure out
1:46:30
Speaker 7: where this wroth portion of his four oh one K
1:46:32
Speaker 7: came from, and I was kicking myself. I should haven't
1:46:34
Speaker 7: seen this coming. He suddenly has a rough He hadn't
1:46:36
Speaker 7: chosen that because he wants the pre tax benefits. Well
1:46:38
Speaker 7: what Then we finally realized that it came automatically because
1:46:42
Speaker 7: he was using the catchup provision. Right if you're over
1:46:44
Speaker 7: thirty or over fifty, rather you can put dollars over
1:46:47
Speaker 7: thirty thousand dollars into your four oh one k. The
1:46:50
Speaker 7: first twenty four or so is you can be whatever
1:46:53
Speaker 7: you want, pre tax or roth. That's your choice. But
1:46:55
Speaker 7: now new rule for twenty twenty six it has to
1:46:57
Speaker 7: be wroth. You do not have a choice. So if
1:46:59
Speaker 7: you were one to to use that catch up to
1:47:01
Speaker 7: save taxes, you just lost a deduction. That's how it's
1:47:04
Speaker 7: little things like this how we pay for all these
1:47:06
Speaker 7: tax cuts that we purport to give, but you're not
1:47:08
Speaker 7: getting one. As a wage slave trying to take advantage
1:47:12
Speaker 7: of that pre tax catchup, you now have to pay taxes.
1:47:15
Speaker 2: Ought to put it on the raw side. That's not
1:47:16
Speaker 2: the end of the world. But you didn't get a.
1:47:17
Speaker 1: Choice in you didn't get a choice. Brian James, We're
1:47:20
Speaker 1: going to cut a little alarming for some folks out
1:47:23
Speaker 1: there when it comes made me mad, so I can
1:47:25
Speaker 1: hear it, man, But you know what, I share your
1:47:27
Speaker 1: anger along those lines coming up the six figure limit
1:47:31
Speaker 1: for Social Security? Wait what social Security reform? You probably
1:47:36
Speaker 1: aren't gonna like it from my friends out there that
1:47:38
Speaker 1: may be made a little bit more and paid more
1:47:39
Speaker 1: into the program. But change is going to have to come.
1:47:42
Speaker 1: It's going to be a train wreck if it doesn't.
1:47:44
Speaker 1: So hey twenty nine here I think about Kercity Talks
1:47:47
Speaker 1: Station one more segment with Money Monday, Brian James, more
1:47:50
Speaker 1: or financial. This one's gonna bother some people. It's going
1:47:54
Speaker 1: to be a welcome embrace from the wealth redistributionist out
1:47:57
Speaker 1: there in the world. We have to start from the
1:47:59
Speaker 1: proposition security is broken. Call it what you want, but
1:48:02
Speaker 1: that's how I'm going to boil it down and define it.
1:48:04
Speaker 1: So now they're proposing potential fixes. This is a white
1:48:07
Speaker 1: paper being circulated by some groups saying, well, we need
1:48:09
Speaker 1: to cap the amount that goes out into the world,
1:48:12
Speaker 1: in other words, income based determination of what your social
1:48:14
Speaker 1: security benefits are going to be. Brian, I don't know.
1:48:18
Speaker 1: Increase progressivity is mentioned specifically here. How's this going to
1:48:24
Speaker 1: work and is this going to actually fly? Brian James.
1:48:27
Speaker 7: Well, let's first of all kind of set the table
1:48:29
Speaker 7: a little bit here. This is not actual policy that
1:48:31
Speaker 7: has hit the floor of Congress. This is coming from
1:48:33
Speaker 7: the Committite for a Responsible Federal Budget. They're just a
1:48:36
Speaker 7: think tank. They are fairly nonpartisan, though, and so they
1:48:41
Speaker 7: mainly focus on reducing on the federal defferences, debt reduction,
1:48:44
Speaker 7: that kind of stuff, long term sustainabilities of programs like
1:48:47
Speaker 7: Social Security and Medicare, and they've been around for close
1:48:49
Speaker 7: to fifty years, so probably an opinion worth listening to.
1:48:52
Speaker 7: At the end of the day, you know what you
1:48:53
Speaker 7: just hinted at. So security is broken, that math don't
1:48:56
Speaker 7: math anymore. That not enough flowing in to fulfill what
1:48:59
Speaker 7: needs to flow out. And there's only two levers we
1:49:02
Speaker 7: can pull. We can either increase the inflow or we
1:49:04
Speaker 7: can decrease the outflow, and this would happens to fall
1:49:08
Speaker 7: in that second category. So what they are proposing capping
1:49:12
Speaker 7: Social Security benefits at one hundred thousand dollars a year
1:49:15
Speaker 7: for married couples and fifty thousand dollars for individuals who
1:49:17
Speaker 7: are at full retirement age, and this would adjust based
1:49:20
Speaker 7: on claiming age, maybe one hundred and twenty four thousand
1:49:22
Speaker 7: if you wait until seventy or it's lower. There's a
1:49:25
Speaker 7: lower limit if you claim at sixty two, and that
1:49:27
Speaker 7: basically matches the ages that you can.
1:49:30
Speaker 2: File for Social Security. So the point of this is
1:49:32
Speaker 2: a very.
1:49:33
Speaker 7: Targeted benefit cap on high earners, not a universal cut
1:49:36
Speaker 7: across the board. So what we're talking about again is
1:49:38
Speaker 7: reducing the outflow to fix Social Security. So you can
1:49:42
Speaker 7: guess who's not going to like this and who's gonna
1:49:45
Speaker 7: love it. And I would bet that if this ever
1:49:47
Speaker 7: hits the floor of Congress, it would be shot down
1:49:50
Speaker 7: very quickly because it's too easy to yell and scream
1:49:52
Speaker 7: about how we're reducing benefits that people paid for. Well,
1:49:55
Speaker 7: you know, this always provides a welcome opportunity to do
1:49:58
Speaker 7: what if What if we didn't have so Security and
1:50:00
Speaker 7: I actually put into a four toh one k roth
1:50:03
Speaker 7: or whatever personal account every paycheck the money they take
1:50:08
Speaker 7: out for Social Security, if I was able to keep
1:50:09
Speaker 7: it myself, and maybe I was mandated to withhold it
1:50:12
Speaker 7: and put it into an investment account, what would that
1:50:15
Speaker 7: translate into in terms of a monthly check at retirement
1:50:20
Speaker 7: versus what we are told were allowed to have from
1:50:23
Speaker 7: federal government briand chains.
1:50:24
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it would be It would be enormous.
1:50:26
Speaker 7: I'm not enormous the reason to do it, But what
1:50:28
Speaker 7: you're doing is you're saying, Okay, I want to put
1:50:30
Speaker 7: it in the stock market because my four one k
1:50:31
Speaker 7: has worked out well for me for the last half
1:50:33
Speaker 7: century or so. Yeah, and that's a true statement. The
1:50:37
Speaker 7: Social Security, though, is mainly funded by extremely safe investments.
1:50:41
Speaker 7: And and here's the big problem, those extremely safe investments.
1:50:44
Speaker 7: While we were enjoying our two and three percent mortgages,
1:50:47
Speaker 7: those extremely safe investments were also yielding the same interest
1:50:51
Speaker 7: that we were paying on those mortgages, roughly that two
1:50:53
Speaker 7: and three percent. Meanwhile, Social Security has baked in those
1:50:57
Speaker 7: eight percent increases. Every year you don't file for it,
1:51:00
Speaker 7: you get an eight percent increase. And that is hard math.
1:51:02
Speaker 7: It doesn't float based on inflation, it doesn't float based
1:51:05
Speaker 7: on interest. It's just plain eight percent.
1:51:07
Speaker 1: Isn't that an easier fix? Brian? Maybe just tie it
1:51:09
Speaker 1: to inflation. I know you're gonna have some spikes when
1:51:11
Speaker 1: inflation is high, but yeah, most of the time you're
1:51:14
Speaker 1: riding around two three percent, right, you.
1:51:16
Speaker 7: Would think, And I think that I think that maybe,
1:51:18
Speaker 7: and I'm kind of speculating a little bit, maybe that
1:51:20
Speaker 7: fixed eight percent increase is what they baked in forever
1:51:23
Speaker 7: ago to go to offset the fact that they are
1:51:26
Speaker 7: investing pretty conservatively. And so I don't know, I don't
1:51:30
Speaker 7: even like the way I said. I'm just trying to
1:51:31
Speaker 7: think through that. Why would we have baked painted ourselves
1:51:34
Speaker 7: into a corner like this? But regardless, you know, there
1:51:37
Speaker 7: are a lot of proposals coming. Nobody's gonna bring one
1:51:39
Speaker 7: of these to the floor of Congress until our backs
1:51:41
Speaker 7: are against the wall, meaning that you know, we're seven
1:51:45
Speaker 7: or eight years away from when we're supposedly going to
1:51:47
Speaker 7: be hitting the skids here. That means we are just
1:51:50
Speaker 7: now starting to elect the senators. Remember senators have six
1:51:53
Speaker 7: year terms. Oh, we are finally starting to put the
1:51:55
Speaker 7: people in office who will be in office when we
1:51:57
Speaker 7: finally hit this. Some of these people will be involved
1:52:00
Speaker 7: on the floor and a debate to decide which way
1:52:02
Speaker 7: are we going to go. We're going to reduce the outflows,
1:52:03
Speaker 7: We're going to increase the inflows. There are unteen bazillion
1:52:06
Speaker 7: ways that we can do either of those things. But
1:52:08
Speaker 7: at the end of the day, that's all it is.
1:52:10
Speaker 7: So the people we're electing now are the ones who
1:52:13
Speaker 7: will be involved in those discussions, and no question about it.
1:52:16
Speaker 1: Well, if they don't do anything, you're going to expect
1:52:17
Speaker 1: what is it a preticted to be a twenty five
1:52:19
Speaker 1: percent cut from whatever you're planning on getting right now?
1:52:22
Speaker 2: That's one of the proposals, right.
1:52:23
Speaker 7: It could be as simple as let's just cut everybody's
1:52:25
Speaker 7: benefits by twenty four percent. And actually, when I do
1:52:27
Speaker 7: financial planning for people who are in this situation, I'm
1:52:29
Speaker 7: in my early fifties.
1:52:30
Speaker 2: This is going to affect affect me.
1:52:31
Speaker 1: Whatever it is.
1:52:32
Speaker 7: Then we'll do I want people to understand the impact
1:52:35
Speaker 7: of it. Let's do the hunky door approach. Everything happens
1:52:37
Speaker 7: exactly as you were told it would. You get exactly
1:52:39
Speaker 7: the dollar amount on your Social Security report, and then
1:52:41
Speaker 7: let's run it again, and we're going to knock off
1:52:43
Speaker 7: twenty five percent from that Social Security income stream and
1:52:46
Speaker 7: make sure that you can make that gap if it
1:52:48
Speaker 7: does happen.
1:52:49
Speaker 1: Oh, Brian James, we all have our popcorn out on
1:52:51
Speaker 1: this one. But let's face it, this has been a
1:52:53
Speaker 1: train wreck unfolding in slow motion since I was in
1:52:56
Speaker 1: high school or maybe before that.
1:52:58
Speaker 7: It was one of the very first pop planning financial
1:53:00
Speaker 7: planning techniques that I learned, not technique but issues that
1:53:03
Speaker 7: I learned as a young CFP, and I remember thinking
1:53:06
Speaker 7: at the time, oh my gosh, this is gonna happen tomorrow.
1:53:08
Speaker 7: That was thirty years ago. Brian, we just keep kicking
1:53:11
Speaker 7: the can. We always worry about it, but.
1:53:13
Speaker 2: We never do anything about it.
1:53:14
Speaker 7: So the best thing I can do is, like I
1:53:16
Speaker 7: just said, let's run your numbers both ways and see
1:53:18
Speaker 7: if this is really something you.
1:53:19
Speaker 2: Have to sweat.
1:53:20
Speaker 1: Yep. Love that scenario you present there, the best case
1:53:23
Speaker 1: scenario all the way to the worst possible Oh my god,
1:53:25
Speaker 1: we're all going to die scenario. So and you get
1:53:27
Speaker 1: confidence when you look at it over the course of
1:53:30
Speaker 1: how your investment plan has worked out. And hopefully you
1:53:33
Speaker 1: have someone in your corner helping you out with that.
1:53:34
Speaker 1: And I appreciate, Brian James what you're doing for your clients,
1:53:37
Speaker 1: and thank you for spending time with my listeners and
1:53:38
Speaker 1: me every Monday for this important segment.
1:53:40
Speaker 2: You bet you we will talk to you next week.
1:53:42
Speaker 2: And go Reds.
1:53:43
Speaker 1: Go Reds eight thirty five right now if you about
1:53:45
Speaker 1: KC City Talk station and go Magistrate Susan Luken. She's
1:53:49
Speaker 1: running form municipal court judge and we're going to learn
1:53:51
Speaker 1: what she's all about. Got choices. Elections have matter, seriously,
1:53:54
Speaker 1: you need to find out about your judicial elections too.
1:53:57
Speaker 1: Most most people don't have experience with you at the
1:54:00
Speaker 1: court system. It's difficult because you know, if you're voting
1:54:02
Speaker 1: by party, the candidates aren't listed, are ord although if
1:54:06
Speaker 1: they are endorsed, will appear on your party's blue or
1:54:08
Speaker 1: pink slip as the case may be. One of the
1:54:10
Speaker 1: candidates running for juvenile let's see here it's a juvenile
1:54:14
Speaker 1: court judge and the website Lucan l u k E
1:54:17
Speaker 1: N four that's the word for juvenile court dot com
1:54:20
Speaker 1: is we're going to final the information about Susan Lucan,
1:54:22
Speaker 1: who's joining the program this morning to talk about her
1:54:25
Speaker 1: run for judge. Welcome, Magistrate Lucan. It's a pleasure to
1:54:27
Speaker 1: have you on today. Good morning, Brian than having no
1:54:31
Speaker 1: it's really my pleasure. In two thousand and six, you
1:54:34
Speaker 1: were let's see here you left private practice and congratulations
1:54:38
Speaker 1: you two are a double bearcat. I was an undergrad
1:54:40
Speaker 1: at UC and also went under yay, double bearcat, so
1:54:43
Speaker 1: that's you graduate from U see College of Law, my
1:54:46
Speaker 1: alma mater. In two thousand and two, you went over
1:54:48
Speaker 1: to Dinsmore and Shoal which speaks volumes about your your
1:54:51
Speaker 1: your law school performance. Congratulations. Being a member of Law Review,
1:54:55
Speaker 1: I went to moot court anyway, So you got called
1:54:58
Speaker 1: a public service, so you left private practice and started
1:55:01
Speaker 1: working with Hamilton County Kurts Courts is a law cork.
1:55:04
Speaker 1: But then you moved on to being a point of magistrate.
1:55:06
Speaker 1: So let's talk about your background. Why being a magistrate
1:55:08
Speaker 1: is such a wonderful stepping stone to becoming a juvenile
1:55:11
Speaker 1: court judge.
1:55:12
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I love that. So I started out
1:55:16
Speaker 10: actually in juvenile court, and I started off as a
1:55:18
Speaker 10: delinquency magistrate. It was it was separated a little bit
1:55:21
Speaker 10: differently than I loved that job. It was one of
1:55:23
Speaker 10: my favorite jobs. So we did delinquency and child custody
1:55:27
Speaker 10: and did that for a while. That was actually the
1:55:31
Speaker 10: time when Tracy Hunter that that whole debacle sort have happened,
1:55:35
Speaker 10: and I was recruited to come over to the Court
1:55:37
Speaker 10: of common Places in a minute, and I did that
1:55:39
Speaker 10: for a number of years, and that was actually a
1:55:41
Speaker 10: great and it's really important for juvenile court because juvenile
1:55:45
Speaker 10: court actually also runs a detention and have a clerk's
1:55:49
Speaker 10: office too, so it's really important because they also have
1:55:52
Speaker 10: a huge budget. And that's a whole other topic maybe
1:55:55
Speaker 10: for another time. Then I went back to juvenile court
1:55:59
Speaker 10: for a second payer at this home and was working
1:56:01
Speaker 10: under mours of powers and again love that job. And
1:56:04
Speaker 10: then I will be a court both as a magistrate
1:56:07
Speaker 10: and as a court administrator. And so now as a
1:56:09
Speaker 10: magistrate and a courre administrator in probate Court, I do
1:56:12
Speaker 10: both adoptions and health socket and we're working every day
1:56:17
Speaker 10: to really get you know, people treatment and bring safe
1:56:21
Speaker 10: and stable you know, just bring in a stability to
1:56:24
Speaker 10: people's lives. I love the foster to adopt cases because
1:56:27
Speaker 10: I get to see what it's court and then you know,
1:56:30
Speaker 10: other end just bring stability to these children. They're just
1:56:34
Speaker 10: amazing stories. So I really love join that well.
1:56:37
Speaker 1: I can understand certainly how rewarding it is to help
1:56:39
Speaker 1: some juvenile maybe get out of the path, this sort
1:56:42
Speaker 1: of maybe criminal path they happen to be on. And
1:56:45
Speaker 1: let's face it, nothing but problems with the juveniles these days.
1:56:48
Speaker 1: And I got to ask you, sort of point blank,
1:56:49
Speaker 1: what the hell is wrong with kids these days? It
1:56:52
Speaker 1: just seems to me more and more violent actions by
1:56:55
Speaker 1: young people who you'd never meet. You know, maybe I'm
1:56:58
Speaker 1: just revealing my age, straight looking, but you never heard
1:57:02
Speaker 1: of the level of violence and out of control behavior
1:57:05
Speaker 1: when I was a younger person. Maybe it's the internet.
1:57:07
Speaker 1: We just get these things reported on us. But these
1:57:10
Speaker 1: street takeovers, young people, you know, engaging in gun crimes,
1:57:14
Speaker 1: which seemed to be be that it didn't happen very much,
1:57:17
Speaker 1: not that long ago. Since you've been so involved with
1:57:20
Speaker 1: juveniles these days, can you trace it to anything in particular?
1:57:23
Speaker 1: Have you learned something throughout your experience working with you
1:57:25
Speaker 1: andiles over the years.
1:57:27
Speaker 10: Well, you know, it's Brent, that is so true. And
1:57:30
Speaker 10: I'll tell you when I first started in juvenile court
1:57:32
Speaker 10: in twenty eleven, it was nothing like it is now.
1:57:35
Speaker 10: And you know, the way that they were running things
1:57:38
Speaker 10: was a little bit different and it did need to change.
1:57:40
Speaker 10: Things have changed, but you know, and I'm not sure
1:57:43
Speaker 10: I think in twenty twenty there was really a change,
1:57:46
Speaker 10: and there is definitely has been just a sick and
1:57:50
Speaker 10: just a surge in juvenile violence and just disorder and
1:57:55
Speaker 10: violence has just has just risen.
1:57:58
Speaker 9: It is just just crazy.
1:58:01
Speaker 10: And I think Ken Kilber really hit the nail on
1:58:03
Speaker 10: the head last summer in twenty twenty five, and I
1:58:05
Speaker 10: think it was about July. He said that in his
1:58:09
Speaker 10: twenty five years he had never seen anything like that.
1:58:11
Speaker 10: He said, it was out of control. We have kids
1:58:13
Speaker 10: who are stealing cars to steal guns and then they're
1:58:16
Speaker 10: shooting each other. And what this matters and how this
1:58:20
Speaker 10: impacts juvenile court is what's been going on.
1:58:22
Speaker 3: And this really searched in.
1:58:24
Speaker 10: Twenty twenty three. And what's happening is that when these
1:58:27
Speaker 10: kids are picked up, they go to juvenile court and
1:58:29
Speaker 10: they're either released good detention or at their first peering.
1:58:32
Speaker 10: And so these are kids who they have and this
1:58:35
Speaker 10: never happened when I was at juvenile court. They have,
1:58:38
Speaker 10: really they have. They have serious charges, right, so they
1:58:41
Speaker 10: have violent charges, sometimes with gun charges, and they're not
1:58:45
Speaker 10: being held and so there's not bond in juvenile court
1:58:47
Speaker 10: because all kids are presumed indigen right, so they're either
1:58:50
Speaker 10: held or they're released sometimes with the MU but they're
1:58:54
Speaker 10: not being held and they're going out. They're picking them
1:58:57
Speaker 10: charges or god for good sometimes more a strateges, and
1:59:01
Speaker 10: they're still not being held. So there's no accountability in
1:59:04
Speaker 10: the system. And these kids aren't stupid, right, no, they
1:59:08
Speaker 10: know that there's no account of they know that they
1:59:09
Speaker 10: can keep doing it, and it's just had devastating consequences.
1:59:13
Speaker 10: For our community and for these kids.
1:59:15
Speaker 1: Ahudge, that's I was hoping that you would say that
1:59:19
Speaker 1: it has obviously devastated the community generally speaking, but the
1:59:23
Speaker 1: kids because I wrote down this, this soft on crime
1:59:26
Speaker 1: approach that we seem to have embraced over the past
1:59:29
Speaker 1: ten years or however long, that as a result of
1:59:31
Speaker 1: these kids becoming so wise at hell, I'm not going
1:59:34
Speaker 1: to get caught.
1:59:34
Speaker 4: You know.
1:59:35
Speaker 1: It's like that song from a If you're under eighteen,
1:59:38
Speaker 1: you aren't going to be doing any time. They kind
1:59:40
Speaker 1: of they have become aware of this. It can't be
1:59:42
Speaker 1: good for them, the individuals who are engaging this activity.
1:59:46
Speaker 1: To me, it's like passing a kid out of the
1:59:49
Speaker 1: fourth grade into the fifth when they haven't mastered the
1:59:51
Speaker 1: skills of fourth grade. You're sending them on into no
1:59:54
Speaker 1: man's lay without the necessary They need punishment, they need discipline.
1:59:57
Speaker 1: They need to come to understanding that there is a
2:00:00
Speaker 1: societal cost that is that must be paid for their crime.
2:00:06
Speaker 10: Right, they need an intervention. Right, we have to stop it.
2:00:10
Speaker 10: They need an intervention. And if there's not an appropriate intervention,
2:00:14
Speaker 10: but it's there, there's nothing in the way to keep
2:00:18
Speaker 10: them from a lifelong pattern of crime. So talking to
2:00:22
Speaker 10: Leah de Gloca the other day, who before becoming a judge,
2:00:25
Speaker 10: she the time as a juvenile prosecutor, and she had
2:00:29
Speaker 10: someone on her docket who is now going to end
2:00:32
Speaker 10: up going to adult prison, who she saw all the
2:00:34
Speaker 10: time in juvenile court. And you know, this is what's happening.
2:00:38
Speaker 10: And you know, the City of Cincinnati had a report
2:00:41
Speaker 10: that they did last year in twenty twenty five. And
2:00:43
Speaker 10: one of the other things that I find frustrating is
2:00:44
Speaker 10: that we have some public officials who are saying crime
2:00:46
Speaker 10: is down, crimes down, and you can do anything you
2:00:50
Speaker 10: want with statistics, you know that. But even the inquire said,
2:00:53
Speaker 10: I think in the beginning of the year in January
2:00:56
Speaker 10: that youth shootings remained stubbornly high. Well, I don't know
2:00:59
Speaker 10: how you feel about it. Shooting was byan but I
2:01:00
Speaker 10: think they're a problem. Yeah, and yeah, especially when they're
2:01:04
Speaker 10: committed by youth who tend to be, you know, a
2:01:07
Speaker 10: lot more volatile and not quite as rational as adults.
2:01:10
Speaker 10: You know, they're much more impulsive. So you know, when
2:01:14
Speaker 10: you have shootings and you have these street takeovers and
2:01:17
Speaker 10: you have youth, you know, still engaging this. So the
2:01:20
Speaker 10: city of Cincinnati did this report on youth violence, disorder
2:01:24
Speaker 10: and shootings back in twenty twenty five, and they recognize
2:01:27
Speaker 10: that in twenty twenty three there was a surge and
2:01:30
Speaker 10: you know, violent offenses committed by youth. But the other
2:01:33
Speaker 10: things to recognized too, was that that there was a
2:01:37
Speaker 10: percent and create in victims of youth with shootings. And
2:01:41
Speaker 10: so not only are youth committing these offenses, but a
2:01:45
Speaker 10: lot of the victimization, a lot of the victims are
2:01:47
Speaker 10: other youth. So protecting by not intervening, well, yeah, exactly,
2:01:52
Speaker 10: by not intervening, we're not protecting the other youth in
2:01:54
Speaker 10: our community, and we're not protecting our community. And so
2:01:57
Speaker 10: I think right now we're just doing a real disservice.
2:02:00
Speaker 10: And I can't tell you when I tell people that
2:02:03
Speaker 10: I used to be a magistrate in juvenile court, or
2:02:06
Speaker 10: that even when I was considering running, or now that
2:02:08
Speaker 10: I'm running, how many people have reached out to me
2:02:10
Speaker 10: who were either victims or their children were victims, and
2:02:13
Speaker 10: they're thanking me for what I'm doing. So I'm really
2:02:16
Speaker 10: getting a tremendous amount of support.
2:02:18
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Speaker 1: it sounds like a fantastic idea to me, Susan Lucan
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Speaker 1: paus from I would like to bring it back after
2:02:33
Speaker 1: this brief break to ask you because a lot of
2:02:35
Speaker 1: screaming and yelling among the general community about wait a minute,
2:02:38
Speaker 1: we need to hold parents accountable. They don't care where
2:02:40
Speaker 1: their kid is at two o'clock in the morning out
2:02:42
Speaker 1: up pass curfew, and they don't care when the person
2:02:44
Speaker 1: gets erected in other words, Lesta. In other words, they
2:02:46
Speaker 1: start screaming out at the system for interfering with little
2:02:50
Speaker 1: Johnny and boy he could never do anything wrong. Can
2:02:53
Speaker 1: parents in any way, shape or form be held at
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Speaker 1: com where you find Susan Logan currently magistrate running for
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Speaker 1: Juvenile Court judge here in Hamilton County and this is
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Speaker 1: her this is her sweet spot obviously with her background,
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Speaker 1: and you can learn more about the h the thumbnail
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Speaker 1: sketch she gave us this morning she has been integrally
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Speaker 1: involved with the juvenile juveniles generally speaking, in the area
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Speaker 1: for a long time. She pointed out, it's her passion.
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Speaker 1: Sounds like she's got some great understanding. It's one thing,
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Speaker 1: Magistrate Lucan, if the system has decided to pursue some
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Speaker 1: sort of modern theory of criminal justice and not hold
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Speaker 1: these violent offenders, even though their youths are quite violent,
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Speaker 1: not holding them accountable, not punishing them, not setting them
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Speaker 1: on the right path, but kind of sending them through
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Speaker 1: the revolving door of justice just because they're kids. We
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Speaker 1: can't do this to kids. We don't want to give
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Speaker 1: kids a record. Well, it's one thing if the system
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Speaker 1: is doing that, but what are the parents that the
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Speaker 1: parents are also joining the fund. They don't want to
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Speaker 1: take care of where, they don't want to care about
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Speaker 1: where their children are at night, the fact that some
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Speaker 1: kid could be out at two o'clock in the morning
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Speaker 1: and some person at home doesn't really care. And if
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Speaker 1: they get in the criminal justice system, the mom and
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Speaker 1: dad or wonder the two or whoever. The exposed guardian
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Speaker 1: is a screaming at the system for bothering to prosecute
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Speaker 1: their young people. This just makes it worse. Can parents, guardians,
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Speaker 1: legal guardians be held accountable when the young people commit crimes? Judge,
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Speaker 1: do you have any say on that? Or is that
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Speaker 1: an advisory opinion?
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Speaker 10: You know, I think it's I think it's a pense
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Speaker 10: and I think it's I think it's limited, and I
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Speaker 10: think it's been under utilized, and I think that, you know,
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Speaker 10: that's a really good question for somebody like Mike Odioso,
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Speaker 10: so who's at one of our state reps, and it's like, hey,
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Speaker 10: is there something is the thing more that we can do?
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Speaker 10: And I'm also someone who does not believe in judicial activism,
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Speaker 10: so I think that that's something that really could talk
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Speaker 10: to our state legislatures about because is there anything that
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Speaker 10: we can do. So in the first part of the segment,
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Speaker 10: I had mentioned too that that City of Cincinnati report
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Speaker 10: on Youth violence, disorder and shootings, And one of the
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Speaker 10: things that I believe was noted in that work is
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Speaker 10: that one of the things that we're starting to see
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Speaker 10: now it's not just disinterested parents who aren't doing enough
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Speaker 10: to parent, but what we're saying now are we see
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Speaker 10: parents that are act engaging in you know, like fighting
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Speaker 10: with ors, like participating and encouraging kids to fight. Yeah,
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Speaker 10: so obviously parents parents could be prosecuted now too. But
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Speaker 10: you know, this is taking bad parenting to a whole
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Speaker 10: new level. So it really has you know, when you
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Speaker 10: would asked at the beginning of the segment, you know,
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Speaker 10: what do I think might be the cause of some
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Speaker 10: of us? And like I said, I think it really
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Speaker 10: started in twenty twenty, you know, I don't I don't know.
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Speaker 10: I don't know if you know COVID was part of it.
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Speaker 10: I don't know, if you know, we really had a
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Speaker 10: change in the judiciary in twenty twenty, and we had
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Speaker 10: it at the adult level, you know, in so in court,
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Speaker 10: and you know, we've had a lot of changes. So
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Speaker 10: you know, I'm not sure exactly what the cause was,
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Speaker 10: but we've been a dramatic I think changed in some ways.
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Speaker 1: And like I said, are you suggesting maybe maybe I'm
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Speaker 1: hearing something Susan Lucan for Juvenile Court judge. Is it
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Speaker 1: that the parents, as well as at least many in
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Speaker 1: elected capacity, have embraced this whole notion that the system
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Speaker 1: is inherently corrupt and racist and biased, and therefore there's
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Speaker 1: no way that young Johnny even though he's wielding a handgun,
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Speaker 1: can be held responsible for himself because it's society's fault
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Speaker 1: for his crimes.
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Speaker 10: I'm sure that there are I'm sure that there are
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Speaker 10: people who feel that way. I'm sure that there are
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Speaker 10: people who believe that and.
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Speaker 1: May have it bled over into and invested the judicial
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Speaker 1: system here in Hamilton County. It certainly seems to be
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Speaker 1: Brian Thomas's perception of that. You don't need to share
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Speaker 1: my feelings on that judge. You are running for juvenile
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Speaker 1: court judge in Hamilton County. I wouldn't want to send
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Speaker 1: you off on the wrong path running as this is
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Speaker 1: ultimately question Republican or Democrat, which provides my listeners some
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Speaker 1: presumably at least based on history and circumstances, some guidance
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Speaker 1: as to whether you are a judicial activist. If he's
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Speaker 1: someone who's more someone who just interprets the law, go
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Speaker 1: ahead and set us on the right path, Susan, Yeah.
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Speaker 10: So I am not a judicial activist. I believe in
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Speaker 10: interpreting the law. I believe in the powers and that
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Speaker 10: judges need to stay in their lane. Well, I believe
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Speaker 10: we all need to stay in our own lane in
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Speaker 10: terms of separation of powers. I am running as a Republican,
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Speaker 10: so I will be on the primary ballot as a Republican.
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Speaker 10: I'll be the only Republican running for Hamilton County Junile Court.
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Speaker 10: But I think you've explained to your listeners these are
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Speaker 10: at the trial level. They are nonpartisan races, and so
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Speaker 10: when you see these ballots in November, you will not
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Speaker 10: see a party designation on the ballot. So it's really
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Speaker 10: important to get your sample ballot. And so in Hamilton County,
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Speaker 10: the Republican Party typically doesn't endorse until after the primary,
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Speaker 10: and so endorsements have not come out yet, so you're
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Speaker 10: not going to see this for a little while. Party
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Speaker 10: leaderships and transition right now, so you may not see
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Speaker 10: endorsements till a little bit later in May, possibly not
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Speaker 10: until early June. So look for those. Yeah, so those
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Speaker 10: those are going to come out I think a little
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Speaker 10: bit later.
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Speaker 1: But the important component is you're not You're not running
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Speaker 1: a pose. It's you and on into November and we
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Speaker 1: can then vote for Susan looking for juvenile court judge.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're all.
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Speaker 10: I would love to have your appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Well, you and I are going to be talking before
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Speaker 1: the November election again because I like what I'm hearing,
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Speaker 1: Susan lookan, and I think you get the right concept.
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Speaker 1: And of course your long term involvement with juveniles makes
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Speaker 1: you an ideal candidate for Juvenile Court judge in Hamilton County.
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Speaker 1: So head on over, folks, look in for Juvenile Court
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Speaker 1: dot com. Susan, it's been a real pleasure having you
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Speaker 1: on the show. I wish you the best of luck
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Speaker 1: and we'll talk again before November for sure.
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Speaker 10: Thanks so much, Byan.
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Speaker 9: I really appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: My absolute pleasure. Take care of yourself, have a wonderful week.
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