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Gary Jeff in for Brian Thomas 7/23/26 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Two hundred million lasting era and fifty years old age.
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  Speaker 2: Just just because.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty five cares he the talk station, so.
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  Speaker 4: You get.
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  Speaker 2: The sounds of Depeche moo ringing out on your radio
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  Speaker 2: this morning because it is the birthday of the lead songwriter, keyboardist, guitarists,
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  Speaker 2: and fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, along with
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the members of the group, Martin Gore,
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  Speaker 2: born this day in London, England, in nineteen sixty one.
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  Speaker 2: He is sixty four years old. Sixty five years old, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to your senior years, your golden years, Martin. Really
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  Speaker 2: tough to believe that it's been forty years plus, and
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  Speaker 2: yes it has since I first heard this song. It
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  Speaker 2: is Thursday, July twenty third, twenty twenty six. Before we
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  Speaker 2: look ahead and look back at significant events and people
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  Speaker 2: tied to this particular data in history, including but not
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  Speaker 2: limited to these. Nineteen oh three, ford Ford motorc sold
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  Speaker 2: its first car, a Model A, for eight hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty dollars. And if you think and that's a bargain,
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  Speaker 2: a car for eight hundred and fifty dollars, well, if
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  Speaker 2: you use a consumer price index in today's money, it's
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  Speaker 2: about thirty two thousand dollars. If you use the GDP
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  Speaker 2: deflation index, it's about twenty four thousand dollars. It was
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  Speaker 2: the first one sold by Ford, so you can imagine
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  Speaker 2: it was a pretty pricey endeavor to buy a car
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen oh three. Eventually Ford would get it down
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  Speaker 2: with the assembly line and a car that everyone could
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  Speaker 2: afford if they could stand a drive one the Model
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  Speaker 2: T but the Model A first one rolled off the
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  Speaker 2: lot today in nineteen oh three. The date in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty sixty seven, brother, it was a night at actually
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  Speaker 2: five days of deadly rioting in Detroit, all sparked by
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  Speaker 2: an early morning police raid on an unlicensed bar, resulted
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  Speaker 2: in forty three deaths all over an unlicensed bar. I
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  Speaker 2: remember this well, even though it has been forty four
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  Speaker 2: years ago. Nineteen eighty two actor Vic Morrow, two Child
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  Speaker 2: Store stars Micah Dinlee and Renashin ye Chin killed when
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  Speaker 2: a helicopter crashed on them during the filming of a
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  Speaker 2: Vietnam war scene for the Twilight Zone movie. They originally
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  Speaker 2: indicted the director John Landis and four associates. They were
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  Speaker 2: acquitted of manslaughter charges later a year later, and this
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  Speaker 2: could have been deadly, but it wasn't. But the reason
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  Speaker 2: this air Canada Boeing sixty seven had to glide down
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  Speaker 2: to a safe emergency landing is because it ran out
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  Speaker 2: of fuel flying from Montreal to Edmonton. This the year
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  Speaker 2: was nineteen eighty three. Why did it run out of
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  Speaker 2: fuel because the fuel had been erroneously measured in pounds
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  Speaker 2: instead of kilograms at a time when Canada was converting
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  Speaker 2: to metric. I told youa metric was a bad idea Canada,
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  Speaker 2: but you just wouldn't listen. It was July twenty third,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety when President George H. W. Bush announced his
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  Speaker 2: choice of David Souter of New Hampshire to be on
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  Speaker 2: the highest court in the land, succeeding retiring Justice William J.
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  Speaker 2: Brennan on the Supreme Court. It was nineteen nineteen ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: America mostly was watching the Summer Olympic Games from Atlanta,
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  Speaker 2: when Kerrie Strug, in spite of having two tor ligaments,
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  Speaker 2: vaulted her way and tumbled her way to gold to
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  Speaker 2: bring the gold medal home to the USA and the
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  Speaker 2: women's team. Good old Kerrie Strug. A year later, the
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  Speaker 2: search for Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of Gianni Versace
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  Speaker 2: and others into as police found his body in a houseboat.
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  Speaker 2: Miami Beach killed himself. Nineteen ninety nine. On this state,
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  Speaker 2: Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a US
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  Speaker 2: space flight as a shuttle. Columbia blasted off their mission
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  Speaker 2: to deploy the world's most powerful X ray telescope, the
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  Speaker 2: Chandra X ray Observatory this date. In two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 2: Massachusetts Attorney General issued a report saying clergy members and
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  Speaker 2: others in the Boston Archdiocese had probably sexually abused more
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  Speaker 2: than one thousand people over a period of six decades.
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  Speaker 2: Tiger Woods became the first player since Tom Watson to
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  Speaker 2: win consecutive British Open titles. Watson did it in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty two and eighty three. Tiger did it in two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and five, two thousand and six. Ah Yes, The
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  Speaker 2: curse of twenty seven in rock and roll. In popular
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  Speaker 2: music continued on this state in twenty eleven, when singer
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  Speaker 2: Amy Winehouse found dead in her London home from accidental
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  Speaker 2: alcohol poisoning. Told me to go to rehabit I said no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: A year later, Penn State's football program all but leveled
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  Speaker 2: by penalties for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child
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  Speaker 2: sex abuse scandal. The NCAA imposed an unprecedented sixty million
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  Speaker 2: dollar fine on the school, a four year band from
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  Speaker 2: postseason play, and a cut in a number of football scholarships.
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  Speaker 2: The school could award. Much different case in in Great
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  Speaker 2: Britain than in twenty nineteen when Boris Johnson became the
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  Speaker 2: country's Prime Minister leading the Conservative Party. Now the Labor
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  Speaker 2: Party is back in charge and it's gone way left
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  Speaker 2: in the UK, as if it could get any more left.
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  Speaker 2: The new Prime Minister Burnham, who did not win a
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  Speaker 2: majority of the votes, but his party did well, dogging
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  Speaker 2: Margaret Thatcher, the great iron Lady of Conservatism in Great
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  Speaker 2: Britain and in this state. In twenty twenty one, The Indians,
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  Speaker 2: they'd been that since nineteen fifteen, announced that it would
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  Speaker 2: get a new name in Cleveland, the Guardians. At the
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  Speaker 2: end of the twenty twenty one season, I'd still in
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  Speaker 2: my head and sometimes out loud, call them the Cleveland Indians.
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  Speaker 2: I can't help it. Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy
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  Speaker 2: is ninety today. Actor Ronnie Cox is eighty eight. What
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  Speaker 2: a great body of work for that guy. Huh. David Essex,
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  Speaker 2: who sang rock On in the seventies, is seventy nine
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  Speaker 2: and still rocking on. Woody Harrelson turned sixty five. Mentioned
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  Speaker 2: Martin goreb depeche Mode. Eric Lesal, the actor and director
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  Speaker 2: is sixty four. Slash from Guns n' Roses as a
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  Speaker 2: birthday to day, he's sixty one. NBA Basketball Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Famer Gary Payton turns fifty eight. Raphae o' Warnack, the
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  Speaker 2: so called reverend and senator from Georgia, is fifty seven.
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  Speaker 2: What a great name. Charisma Carpenter, the actress, is fifty six.
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  Speaker 2: Alison Kraus was one of the most fantastic voices in
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  Speaker 2: country music or any kind of music. Gosh, he sounds
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  Speaker 2: like an angel is fifty five. R and B singer
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  Speaker 2: Dalvin de Grade of Jodas fifty four. Marlon Wayans has
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  Speaker 2: a birthday fifty four. Katherine Hahn, Stephanie Marsh, Michelle Williams,
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  Speaker 2: actor Paul Wesley, and actor Daniel Radcliffe. That's right. Harry
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  Speaker 2: Potter is thirty seven. If if they caught him in
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  Speaker 2: the halls at Hogwarts right now, they'd probably have him arrested,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe they should. If it's your birthday, I trust
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  Speaker 2: and hope and pray it is the best day ever
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  Speaker 2: and you get to spend it with the people you love,
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  Speaker 2: doing the things you love to do. And that's truly
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  Speaker 2: my wish for you. Jeff is on the line, We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk to him and maybe you as the morning moves along.
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  Speaker 2: Five P one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred
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  Speaker 2: is the number. I'm gary Jeff Walker and for Brian
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  Speaker 2: Thomas on fifty five KRC the Talk Station.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you love movies? Is it the emotion, the spectacle?
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  Speaker 2: Not exactly your typical July Weather sixty right now at
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  Speaker 2: fifty five KRC, the Talk Station.
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  Speaker 1: How many roads master man walk down before you call
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  Speaker 1: him a man?
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  Speaker 2: I missed a birthday and Joe was quick to tell
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  Speaker 2: me if if it's your birthday, I'm sorry about that too,
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  Speaker 2: But I don't have the master lists from God on
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  Speaker 2: every birthday. Monica Lewinsky is fifty three today. Before Joe
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  Speaker 2: said she turned and the scandal into a nice career,
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  Speaker 2: I said, what does she do? She's an activist? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: what does that mean? Monica Samille Lewinsky is fifty three.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Days, Young Lady. Happy Days went to Lewis and
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  Speaker 2: Clark College in the London School of Economics, where they
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  Speaker 2: taught her sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, amongst
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  Speaker 2: other things. Five one, three, five hundred is the number
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  Speaker 2: to get in touch. And Jeff has chimed in early
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  Speaker 2: this morning. Jeff, how are we, hey.
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  Speaker 5: Morning Gary, Jeff.
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  Speaker 6: What's going on down there with the brass Ass, the
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  Speaker 6: brass Mule.
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  Speaker 7: And now Huddles.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know the news, don't you know? The news?
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  Speaker 7: UH got to bring in Monica.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, no, the news is UH. And I knew
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  Speaker 2: this weeks ago when it happened the city of Newport
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  Speaker 2: purchased the brass Ass, the brass bull and Huddles. Did
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  Speaker 2: you not know that?
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  Speaker 6: I just noticed it on the news this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I know they're just coming out with the news now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why they were keeping it hush hush,
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  Speaker 2: because everybody who was up close and personal in that
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  Speaker 2: situation knew what had happened. And anyway, that's the story, Jeff,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll elaborate here as we get off the line
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  Speaker 2: with you. Some strange things going on the phone line
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  Speaker 2: on Jeff's side, there. Don't know what that sound was anyway,
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  Speaker 2: but it's hard to tell with our phone lines. Seriously, anyway,
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  Speaker 2: when and I've told this story now multiple times to
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  Speaker 2: multiple people, so I'm getting pretty good at it. I
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  Speaker 2: think you go ahead and rate my storytelling skills. In
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  Speaker 2: about a year and a half ago, in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: are Mina Lee Mina, our beloved Mina passed after a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good fight against you know, copd emphysema. The old
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  Speaker 2: gal couldn't breathe and it was a struggle, and she
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  Speaker 2: had multiple other ailments, but she passed, and the family
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  Speaker 2: inherited the businesses and all the property, not only in
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  Speaker 2: the six hundred block of Mammoth, but they had properties
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  Speaker 2: elsewhere in Newport, and I'm not sure if that got
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  Speaker 2: sold or not. And the family always wanted to sell
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  Speaker 2: those properties. They didn't want a part of the business,
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  Speaker 2: and it wasn't necessary early on moral grounds. They just
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to have to work that hard, if you
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  Speaker 2: want to be honest. It had been a family business
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  Speaker 2: for over fifty years, and her husband, Roger Peterson, who
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  Speaker 2: I know very very well, had gotten sick right before
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  Speaker 2: mine had died, had cancer, and I am so glad
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  Speaker 2: to say, praise God that he is healed now, but
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  Speaker 2: he's also eighty three and he did not want to
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  Speaker 2: continue to work that hard after working all his life
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  Speaker 2: in the entertainment business in Newport. He wants to spend
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  Speaker 2: the rest of his days enjoying what's left. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't blame him for that. So the properties reverted to
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  Speaker 2: her daughter Bobby Jean and and then to her sons
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  Speaker 2: minus grandsons, and Galen and Lyndon ran as best they
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  Speaker 2: could the properties until they could find a proper buyer.
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  Speaker 2: They finally did. In the city of Newport. Who wants
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  Speaker 2: to get away from the specter of all the police
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  Speaker 2: calls they say that came to those properties. They wanted
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  Speaker 2: to be more family friendly, and they looked at it
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  Speaker 2: as an investment towards the future of Newport, which you
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  Speaker 2: can't argue. You know, if they can sell or lease
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  Speaker 2: to these corporate entities that are taking over small town
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  Speaker 2: America all over the country, sure they will. So I imagine
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  Speaker 2: they'll probably be a Starbucks, maybe a fitness center in
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  Speaker 2: one of the properties, who knows, But there will be
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  Speaker 2: no more adult entertainment as it was in the past.
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  Speaker 2: In the bad old days. And I can't tell you
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  Speaker 2: whether I think that's good or bad. It's just a change,
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  Speaker 2: and a change was inevitable. The brass Ass and the
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  Speaker 2: Brass Bull were the last vestiges of the so called
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  Speaker 2: dance clubs or adult gentlemen's clubs in the area. They
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  Speaker 2: are gone now and gone for good. And the bar
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  Speaker 2: where I worked for sixteen and a half years huddles.
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  Speaker 2: Some people might call it a den of iniquity. I
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  Speaker 2: called it my place of employment is also gone for good.
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  Speaker 2: And I wish the city of Newport, well, I just
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  Speaker 2: hope there's not any kind of graft or underhanded dealing
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  Speaker 2: or any other kind of smoky back room hidden stuff
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  Speaker 2: going on with the city and big corporate interests. But
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  Speaker 2: you never know. You never know. So that's the story.
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  Speaker 2: In a nutshell, you had willing sellers, the family of
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  Speaker 2: Mina Lee, and a willing buyer who was trying to
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  Speaker 2: get the adult entertainment monkey off. It's back in the
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  Speaker 2: city of Newport, and thus you have the story. Five
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  Speaker 2: twenty five at fifty five KRC, the talk station, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of apps like the Sun Gary jeff In for
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  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas once again thank you for letting me in
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  Speaker 2: and be a part of your morning. If you're still there.
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  Speaker 2: Of course you may have tuned in at five oh
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  Speaker 2: five or five oh six. Whenever we came on the air,
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  Speaker 2: I said, oh my gosh, that guy again. We had
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  Speaker 2: to deal with him last week, and he's back. Where's
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  Speaker 2: Dan Carroll? Where's Kevin Gordon? Not Gary Jeff again? But yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's me some change and uh, let's see Tom's an
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  Speaker 2: early riser this morning. He's usually out there anyway, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: good morning, how are you today?
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, gry Jeff?
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  Speaker 5: And I can't speak for anybody else, but I'm glad
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  Speaker 5: to hear that you're on. Well, thank you, I appreciate you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: your your your list of of the things are happening
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  Speaker 5: on this day. I definitely enjoy that. So it was
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  Speaker 5: particularly that caught my attention. Now you didn't mention her specifically,
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  Speaker 5: but since you mentioned Carrie Strug, it brought me farther
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  Speaker 5: back to my days as a youngster, and I was
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  Speaker 5: rather enthralled with Mary Lou written oh yeah, and actually
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  Speaker 5: got to actually got to meet her outside of you
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  Speaker 5: remember forth Fair Mall that the building that used to
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  Speaker 5: be up there at short levels. It's now a dirt lot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: wow haw things at Yeah. I got to meet her
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  Speaker 5: out in front of bigs years ago.
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  Speaker 2: When I first got to Cincinnati in in the mid nineties,
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  Speaker 2: there were nightclubs out there at Forest Frair Mall, and
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  Speaker 2: I remember going to I think it was a remote
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  Speaker 2: for a Halloween thing, that big metroplex of of nightclubs
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  Speaker 2: out there, A paid gig for the radio station, and
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  Speaker 2: I was dressed up. I had a for Halloween. I
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  Speaker 2: had a little ceramic flower pot, one of those tiny
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  Speaker 2: ones on top strap to my head, and I had
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  Speaker 2: an even smaller one that I put up to my mouth,
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  Speaker 2: and I had a cigarette through it that was taped
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  Speaker 2: to it. And I was a pot smoking pothead for Halloween.
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  Speaker 5: They used to have what two movie theaters and.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it was crazy.
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  Speaker 7: It was huge.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, now it's I Drew. I remember driving by it
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  Speaker 5: about a month ago, and I'm out of town a lot. Uh,
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  Speaker 5: so I drove by it. I saw that there's nothing.
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  Speaker 5: I went Holy Toledo. I couldn't believe it. So that
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  Speaker 5: was that was for my For another listeners named Brian.
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  Speaker 5: He spells his name with a y. By the way,
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  Speaker 5: so anyway, I did want to I did want to
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  Speaker 5: comment make my somewhat regular complaint about some driving that
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  Speaker 5: goes on. Look, I understand if you're on the highway,
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  Speaker 5: if you don't want to go as fast as me
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  Speaker 5: or others, no problem. Do what you do, but you know,
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  Speaker 5: maybe try to get out of the way. And if, if,
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  Speaker 5: for if, somehow or other, I'm able to get around you,
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  Speaker 5: that's not the time for you to speed up and
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  Speaker 5: make sure I can't pass you. If you want to
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  Speaker 5: go to seventy whatever, go do your thing. But if
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  Speaker 5: I want to do seventy five or more whatever and
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  Speaker 5: I'm getting around you, don't speed up. Don't decide you
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  Speaker 5: know what Now I'm not gonna let you, and come on,
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  Speaker 5: let's let's be courteous. Let me buy you, then you
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  Speaker 5: can speed up. Just just another just something I wanted
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  Speaker 5: to point out, along with don't vote Democrat, have a
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  Speaker 5: great day, gear all right.
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  Speaker 2: I was waiting for the don't vote Democrat. I knew
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  Speaker 2: that was coming. I don't know. Sometimes it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: fun just to just to say no, no, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to win this race. You want to go loaded faster.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go a little bit faster. Let's all
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  Speaker 2: go a little bit faster. The next thing you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're both doing about one hundred mph in a fifty
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  Speaker 2: five zone and threatening everyone's lives. No, he's right, though,
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  Speaker 2: at a certain point you go the speed you're comfortable
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  Speaker 2: with and let the other person get the ticket, not you.
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  Speaker 2: And five thirty three, here's Bobby, Bobby, good morning, Well.
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  Speaker 9: Good morning to you, my brother face flag family.
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  Speaker 7: Collect your bargain. Glad to hear your voice again.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, thank you.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, it's handicaped Thursday. Yep, we were having a big
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  Speaker 9: pistobal downtown. People are gonna be on the streets and
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  Speaker 9: you know, we've over this rainstorms and this heat wave
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  Speaker 9: we hit and it's gonna beautiful weather and people are
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  Speaker 9: gonna be out on the street. We're putting a handicap
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  Speaker 9: at six beat downs at the music festival area.
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  Speaker 2: You know I'm gonna go I'm gonna go the under
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  Speaker 2: on that, Bobby, And let me explain my reasoning. As
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned, the temperatures are down and the humidity is down.
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  Speaker 2: When the heat and humidity, say, when the de point
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  Speaker 2: gets above seventy seventy five, it gets into that miserable
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  Speaker 2: tropical kind of range, and the heat cranks up to
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  Speaker 2: about ninety ninety five. With the heat index one hundred,
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  Speaker 2: you can expect more beatdowns and more violence. It seems
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  Speaker 2: to match the heat, the humidity, violence, They all go
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  Speaker 2: up at the same time. I think it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: more comfortable, and I think people will be more chilled out.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to go with four.
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  Speaker 7: I think you're pretty close. That's a good uh, that's
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  Speaker 7: a good view of it.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe we can get you one of those contracts with
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  Speaker 9: the city to go ahead and advise them some things.
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  Speaker 2: I can't control the weather.
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  Speaker 8: But.
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  Speaker 7: They can't control anything, so.
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  Speaker 2: Right about that. You're right about that they can't. So
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  Speaker 2: so you say six, I say four. Uh, I tell
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  Speaker 2: you what We'll see where we're at tomorrow morning. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: sounds like because I'll be back in tomorrow morning. God
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  Speaker 2: will great. All right, thanks, It's five thirty five at
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  Speaker 2: fifty five k r C the talk station.
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  Speaker 10: Gas prices, these growth prices a cost of living control
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  Speaker 10: to get him off.
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  Speaker 1: Till then put that bottle to home and pulled the
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  Speaker 1: trigger to find the drag away his men, not this show.
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  Speaker 1: It's time. It was bigger then the strange she had
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  Speaker 1: to get up off her found her with her face
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  Speaker 1: down in the pillow, Clay into his picture for de
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  Speaker 1: plaid her next to him indeed the willow by saying
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  Speaker 1: Whiskey Love.
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  Speaker 4: Loa.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't her voice like just so much beautiful? Happy birthday
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  Speaker 2: to Alison Maria Kraus this morning, fifty five, great fiddler,
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  Speaker 2: two and music producer. She made her first recording at
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  Speaker 2: the age of fourteen and signed with Rounder Records in
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  Speaker 2: Nashville in nineteen eighty five. Her first solo album released
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty seven. I got to see Alison Krause
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  Speaker 2: in a songwriters in the round thing at the famous
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  Speaker 2: Bluebird Cafe, which is one of the great legendary songwriter
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  Speaker 2: haunts in Nashville. And to get a showcase at the Bluebird,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta know somebody. Even before you're somebody, you know somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you can get your shot at the blue Bird.
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  Speaker 2: We're all of the music execs in Nashville used to
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  Speaker 2: hang out looking for young talent like Alison Krause. And
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  Speaker 2: I saw Alison Krause. It was probably in the late
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighties early nineteen nineties. She was already on the scene,
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  Speaker 2: but she was in a songwriters in the round and
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  Speaker 2: in these little events, it literally was they would sit
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  Speaker 2: in a circle, like three or four of these aspiring
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: young songwriters would sit in a circle, and sometimes they
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  Speaker 2: would pass the guitar to one another, an acoustic guitar,
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  Speaker 2: and sing one of their songs that they'd written, and
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  Speaker 2: then passed the guitar to the next person and they
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: would sing one of their songs. It was kind of like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you got that, well, listen to what I got. It
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  Speaker 2: was one of the coolest things. It was standing room
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  Speaker 2: only too, one of the coolest nights I can remember
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  Speaker 2: musically at that time. Alison Kraus was a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Alison was a little bit heavier at that time. Not
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  Speaker 2: going to use the F word, but she was. She
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  Speaker 2: was pleasantly plump, so to speak. And the word was
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  Speaker 2: in those Nashville circles. I don't know if it's true
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  Speaker 2: or not, they said, Alison, you could be a star
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  Speaker 2: with that voice, the songs you write, what you do,
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  Speaker 2: you should be a star. But at the time there
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: was a movement in Nashville, maybe still today of I mean, famously,
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  Speaker 2: we noa wanoa Judd was told that she had to
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  Speaker 2: lose some weight, she had to get in shape if
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  Speaker 2: she was going to make the most of her talent
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  Speaker 2: maximize it. But Allison went through a transformation where she
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  Speaker 2: finally lost the weight. She was with Union Station then
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  Speaker 2: still plays with him to this day and is one
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  Speaker 2: of the biggest stars in country and bluegrass music, and
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  Speaker 2: rightfully so, because she is immensely talented. And like I
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  Speaker 2: always say, if you don't like Alison Krause, you don't
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  Speaker 2: like music, and that's fine. But Happy birthday to Alison Krause.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing voice, amazing talent, amazing writer, amazing producer, amazing fiddle player,
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  Speaker 2: one of my favorites. I guess you couldn't tell five
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  Speaker 2: on three seven, four nine fifty five hundred. When I
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  Speaker 2: come back, I'm going to talk about whiteness and my
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  Speaker 2: own whiteness and how there's not an iota of guilt
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  Speaker 2: about my whiteness because there are still people were spouting
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  Speaker 2: that nonsense. They happen to be white, and it drives
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  Speaker 2: me crazy. Every time I hear anybody disparaging the fact
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  Speaker 2: that they or anyone else happened to be light skin colored.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Drives me to distraction and I'll rant next. It's five
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  Speaker 2: forty five at fifty five krs the talk station.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you love movies? Is it the emotion?
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  Speaker 11: The five krs the talk station?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing? It's a Thursday morning. I'm Gary Jeff
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  Speaker 2: Walker and this is fifty five KARC the Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: So every time I hear things like America was built
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  Speaker 2: on the back of slavery by black and brown people,
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  Speaker 2: I go, yeah, was also built on the backs and
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  Speaker 2: the hard work of people with light skin, white people,
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  Speaker 2: people like my ancestors. It wasn't just black and brown people.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: It was a whole lot of white people. We were
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: the majority of the country. We still are, and a
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: lot of the hard work that our ancestors did contributed
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  Speaker 2: to where we are today in this country. Yeah, there
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: were black and brown people. There were people who were slaves.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: There were people who weren't slaves. The revisionist history got
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: a close up this week courtesy of the Trump administration
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: and Republicans in Congress, when the Smithsonian was put to
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: task for focusing and for telling children about things that
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: aren't necessarily part of our history and framing it as history.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you I'm sure you remember during
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: the whole Black Lives Matter nonsense of twenty twenty and
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, which proved to be a scam. By
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: the way, nobody talks about the outright fraud that that
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: movement was. It was really something else. It wasn't about
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: civil rights, and all of the all of the politicians
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: and the white guilters who were pandering to BLM and
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: that movement, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer kneeling because they were
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  Speaker 2: white and they were guilty of oppressing people of color.
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud to be who I am. I'm proud of
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  Speaker 2: who my ancestors were not proud of my skin color.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't I couldn't help it. I didn't do anything
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  Speaker 2: to make myself white. I'm not ashamed of it either,
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  Speaker 2: nor should I be, nor should you be if you
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  Speaker 2: happen to be white, just like you shouldn't be ashamed
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  Speaker 2: if you're black or brown, and no one should think
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  Speaker 2: less of you. We're all individuals, we're all human beings.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: I believe we're all made in the image of God.
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  Speaker 2: We're like we're like snowflakes, but in a good way,
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  Speaker 2: because there are no two of us that are exactly
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  Speaker 2: alike in the Constitution, The Bill of Rights was written
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  Speaker 2: for individuals, not groups. Not protected groups were all protected
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  Speaker 2: by those things as individuals. This is not a they
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  Speaker 2: them kind of society. It's you and you and you
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  Speaker 2: and me and you and you and him and her
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  Speaker 2: kind of society. And there is simply nothing wrong with
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: being white or having white parents are having white ancestors
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make us superior to people who aren't white, but
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: it certainly doesn't make us inferior either. The whole pitting
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: different pigmentations against each other is a construct of bigoted divisioners,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: people who want to divide us, people who want to
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: foment hate, whether they be black who are doing it
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: or they who are white doing it. And I am
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  Speaker 2: just sick and tired of being told that I owe
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  Speaker 2: someone who has black or brown skin something because I
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: have white skin, because I don't. Yeah, if I made
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: a bet and didn't pay it off, that, yeah, I
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: owe them something. Has nothing to do with the color
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  Speaker 2: of our skin either one of us, and the worst,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: the worst perpetrators of this myth in America today happen
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: to be white. Oh the guilt that I feel for
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: slavery for oppression for Jim Crow, well, I don't know,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: did you did you have slaves on your plantation? Well know,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: were you alive at the time that was going on. No,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: but it's my fault people who looked like me. No,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: it's not your fault. Those people are long dead and
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: the people who were oppressed are long dead. We've gotten
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: rid of that in our society because we're an ever
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  Speaker 2: evolving experiment, not perfect, never be perfect, because we're human beings.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Perfection will not occur in any society no matter what
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: system you use, capitalism, socialism, communism, which, by the way,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: those never work. Those last two. Capitalism is the one
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: that comes closest to being the fairest for everybody. No
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: society will ever be perfect until King Jesus comes back
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  Speaker 2: to this earth and rules, and that is going to
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  Speaker 2: happen someday. But I am not ashamed of being white.
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  Speaker 2: And no one will ever tell me that I owe
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  Speaker 2: somebody else something who is not white because I'm white.
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  Speaker 2: Just ain't happening. Reparations, You can kiss my grits. My
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: friend Peter Bronson will join us on the phone right
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: after the top of the hour, at least that's what's
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: planned this morning on fifty five KARC, the talk.
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  Speaker 3: Stations celebrating the station.
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  Speaker 2: Ah Yes, the Mississippi Queen reminded that tropical Storm Bertha
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  Speaker 2: is barreling down on the Mississippi and Louisiana coast, not
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  Speaker 2: making it ashore already this morning on this Thursday, July
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  Speaker 2: twenty third, twenty twenty six, Gary jeff In for Brian,
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  Speaker 2: and I was pleased last week I was trying to
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  Speaker 2: get to this first guest of the morning on last
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: week he was unavailable because he's a very busy guy
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  Speaker 2: and very prolific guy and just as always moving and
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: shaking and doing things. But he said I'm available next week.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: I said, let's go for it. My friend and author
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Peter Bronson is first off this morning in this half hour,
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't prepare anything necessarily specific to talk about
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  Speaker 2: with Pete. But I don't have to because we have
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  Speaker 2: a rapport. We've been talking for years now, we've been
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  Speaker 2: friends for a while, and uh, I just know if
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking to Pete, everything's gonna gonna go well because
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  Speaker 2: we just have that kind of relationship. Peter Bronson, good morning,
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  Speaker 2: and welcome to the show. How are you, sir.
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing great this morning, and it's always good to
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  Speaker 6: be with you.
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  Speaker 7: Gary, Jeff.
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  Speaker 6: I would just have been that introduction to say good friends.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely yeah, and brother and brothers in Christ which yeah,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: which we we we talk about from time to time.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: And I was I was on a little rant before
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  Speaker 2: the top of the hour, and I was talking about
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  Speaker 2: how our society, our free free market, capitalized capitalism society
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  Speaker 2: in this country is not perfect, and our record as
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: a country is not perfect. We haven't always treated each
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  Speaker 2: other the best, and we still don't to this day.
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  Speaker 2: But we make we make headway, we we make change,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we're always getting there. The Declaration of
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  Speaker 2: Independence was a kind of an aspirational document. It was
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: where we want to go, This is who we want
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  Speaker 2: to be. It's not that we were there all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, at all at once in seventeen seventy six
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  Speaker 2: and didn't have to do anything, or that the Bill
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  Speaker 2: of Rights, I mean, they're keep on having to be
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: amendments to our constitution here and there, and there's a
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: process for that. You don't just don't just can at
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: all because the winds of political change blow and junk
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: it like the Democrat socialists of America. Some of them
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: want to do right now with the entire constitution and
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: our way of government. But I was making the point.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: I was making the point Peter, that they'll never be
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  Speaker 2: a perfect society anywhere on Earth, no matter what system
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: is used, until Jesus returns. Do you agree or disagree?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely, we have mankind as a fallen nature. We
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: are prone to sin and inconsiderate. We can be cruel
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: to other people, we can hurt each other. And one
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  Speaker 6: of the most dangerous things I think on earth is
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  Speaker 6: any group of people who thinks they have all the
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: answers and that if you just put us in control,
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: we can play God. And that's basically the whole communist
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: theory is that if you just get the right experts
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  Speaker 6: and the right people in the room, you're going to
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: figure out a way to make everybody equal.
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: Well, we're not meant to be equal.
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: We are created to be have equal opportunities, but we're not.
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: The outcome is not meant to be equal. We're supposed
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: to strive and we're supposed to learn things as we
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: go along our journey through life and ultimately finds as
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  Speaker 6: the declaration says we can pursue happiness and.
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  Speaker 2: Find it right. And as you said, it's not guaranteeing
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  Speaker 2: equal outcomes. And when you believe and you pray to God, God,
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  Speaker 2: God hears and answers all prayers in his time. And
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  Speaker 2: it does not mean that the outcome is going to
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  Speaker 2: change for you as far as what you perceive you
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: want the outcome to be. It doesn't guarantee you're going
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  Speaker 2: to get the outcome you want just because you pray,
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  Speaker 2: and doesn't mean that God isn't real or he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: listen or he doesn't answer prayers because you don't get
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  Speaker 2: the outcome that you think you should have.
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  Speaker 6: You know, if I could get if I could get
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  Speaker 6: the outcome I wanted, like so I can be ten
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  Speaker 6: and a vending machine and getting the cheese puffs I want,
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  Speaker 6: then that would make me God, wouldn't it, because I
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  Speaker 6: would be in control of God. Yeah, that's not how
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  Speaker 6: it works.
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  Speaker 12: I'm not God.
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  Speaker 6: No, and everybody else is lucky.
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  Speaker 2: On Yes, I agree.
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  Speaker 11: I feel you were.
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  Speaker 6: Saying about that, what you're saying about the US, it
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  Speaker 6: reminded me of that great quote from Churchill. It's the
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: worst system except for all the rest. The American experiment
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: is by far head and shoulders. It's done more for
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: quality of life, happiness, pursuit of pursuit of happiness, freedom, liberty,
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: all these things that we cherish. It's done so much
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: more for that, all of that than any other system
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: on earth. And yet you have these people where, uh,
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: they're just sunk in ignorance and bitterness and envy, which,
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: by the way, Churchill called.
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: The religion of greed, right, and.
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: I just it's just baffling to see people resort to
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: that after it's failed in so many cases.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Well, with all this envy that is leading the chart
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: of Democrats, Socialists of America, and communism again that is
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: surging in some quarters in this country right now. Politically,
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: it's the idea that because someone else has something that
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: you don't, to get what you want, you have to
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: take it from them. And it's called theft, is what
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: that is, and that's what this current movement is all about.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: It's about theft. Income distribution or redistribution of wealth means
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: taking something away from someone else to give it to
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: someone else who's not willing to work for it or
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: it hasn't come to them yet. And the whole idea
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: of that has been fostered in our academics, in some
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: cases insidiously into our church communities, especially in the last
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: forty to fifty years. And that's where it's most dangerous.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: If you get a guy like James Tallerico in Texas
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: who's talking about his faith and his Christian faith, and
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: he says all these highly unscriptural things and Unamerican things
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: to bolster his arguments, you know, like there are multiple
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: genders and God is non binary. I look at God
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: the Father, and you know, while you may not see
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: he or is she there, these this this actually, this mentality,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: this philosophy has actually crept its way into Christian churches
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: in this country and others, And that, to me is
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: the most despicable thing.
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: Read. It's just what Jesus warned us about, false prophets
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: and people who would lead us astray. You know, when
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: we talk about this, I have to remember too that
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: in all of these cases where communism and socialism and
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: this kind of tyranny has been imposed, it ultimately devolves
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: into a kleptocracy. In other words, there is a very
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: small group of people at the very top who plunder
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: and take not for to make everybody equal, but to
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: make themselves way above equal. And that's why you see
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: where Putin lives in this unbelievable palace, where you see
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: the communist dictators around the world stashing money in Swiss
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: bank accounts. It is such a perverted and warped system.
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: It really is fundamentally way off track for human nature.
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: I think, but you know what we've done. These things
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: only can thrive. It's like a German and Petrie dish.
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: It can only thrive if that has the right medium
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: to multiply, and that requires that you sum that might
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: be off track, that there has to be great grievances
• 46:17
  Speaker 6: among the people. I don't see that in America today,
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: but I do see how young people would be frustrated
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: with some of the fossils we have in Congress and
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: in the Senate, people who are so entrenched and so corrupt,
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: who have gone to this public service primarily as a
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: way to serve themselves. And I can see that frustration.
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: I share it, but communism is really not the answer.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: No, sir, nice enough to hang around for another segment or.
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: Two, Pete, sure, sure.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, good. I don't want to hold
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: you back from your usually just incredibly busy, hectic schedule.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Peter Bronson our guest in this half hour on the
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Morning Show at six sixteen at fifty five KRC, the
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: talk station, our.
• 47:05
  Speaker 13: Rheart Radio Music Festival, the talk station.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Twenty minutes past the hour, I'm going to press my
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: luck and abuse our relationship and try and get Peter
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Bronson our guests for a couple more segments, including this one. Peter,
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: welcome back to the show and thanks for being with
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: us this morning. Thanks for making time. I wanted to
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: concentrate in this little segment and talk about some of
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: your wonderful books. Peter continues to churn out some of
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: the greatest local history books that I think have ever
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: been written, at least in this age, and most of
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: them are still all available. And I wanted to focus
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: primarily right now on Forbidden Fruit, since Cities Underworld and
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: the Beverly Hills Supper Club Blaze because something I'm very
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: familiar with because I worked at Hub the Bar there
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: on Mama Street for sixteen and a half years and
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: it closed permanently along with its sister businesses, The Brass
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: A and the Brass Bull. The last vestiges of Newport's
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: let's say, well, say Dark Past or you know that
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: that kind of CD, that CD kind of underworld that
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: ruled Newport City. Yes, Sin City ruled Newport for fifty
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: sixty seventy years.
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: YEA.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: What did you think when you heard of the final
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: permanent closing of that after doing so much research for
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: Forbidden Fruit about the whole area and organized crime and
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: everything else that was a part of that community for
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: so long.
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: Well, I'd say it's no loss to the community. It
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: is that last remnant of the wild past when Newport
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: was known as Little Mexico and it was totally wild.
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: So you know, there is sort of a nostalgic piece
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: of that, I suppose. You know, Newport has really fought
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: hard to change. I think what goes underappreciated is how
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: hard the reformers had to battle to overcome who were
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: called at that time the liberals, which I think is
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: appropriate today. But they're called liberals because they believed that
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: porn and prostitution and illegal gambling and all the vices
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: that the mob brought to Newport were the only way
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: that city could thrive. And the reformers said, no, that's
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: not true. We can make a better community. We don't
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: have to have this. We don't have to have sections
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: a time where our children can't walk. So they did
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: win in the end, but it was a long battle
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: and many court battles. Many elections went their way and
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: then went the other way, and Newport took a step backward.
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: But you know, people should remember that there are people
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: that really fought hard and risked a lot, including their
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: own lives, to oppose the mob and change Newport to
• 50:08
  Speaker 6: what it is today.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, and I just I just worked at
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: a bar, which is not necessarily you know, the worst
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: place or the best place to be, depending on someone's proclivities,
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: and you know, if it becomes an interference in the
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: rest of their lives, you know, but it was my
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: main source of employment for a long time. And to
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: be honest, back to our discussion in the last segment,
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: I actually, well I'm still working kind of in that industry,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: more food service related now. In the aftermath of Huddles closing,
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: I actually prayed that there would be a way for
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: me to get out of that. For a long time,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: I just couldn't see my way out.
• 50:58
  Speaker 7: And so.
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: It's as the Lord answered your prayer.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Well, kind of, I said, there's got to be a
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: there's got to be another way besides just relying on
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: this for my income. And while I'm still still working
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: at places that serve alcohol, two of the places I'm
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: working now in the aftermath of that also have food
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: as a component of the It's not strictly just a
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: den of iniquity drenched in alcohol. So it's a little
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: bit it's a little bit, a little bit different, and
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of like, are you.
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: A little bit are you a little bit sad about
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: the regulars? And yeah, the little family that collects around
• 51:43
  Speaker 6: a place like that because it was a neighborhood, yes,
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: a kind of a cheers in its way, Yes, it was.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: And that's probably the hardest part of it, you know.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: For about twelve years of the sixteen that I worked
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: at Huddles, Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Thanksgiving
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: in the fourth of July my two favorite holidays in America,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: And for twelve of those years, I would make the
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: entire Thanksgiving meal turkey and gravy, homemade gravy, mashed potatoes,
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: green beans, my sauteed Brussels sprouts, and I would bring
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: them to the bar on Thanksgiving Day because Thursday was
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: one of my days at Huddles and there were there
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: was over a decade of Thanksgivings I spent with whoever
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: come in. And my whole motto was I didn't charge anything.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: I said, if you buy a drink, you can eat,
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: join us. And it was a great sharing. And you
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: talk about that family element of the people who came
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: there and made some lasting friendships with people over Thanksgiving
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: dinner at Huddles, and I'll miss stuff like that.
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I can see that that you probably got to
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: know a lot of people who maybe had a rough life,
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: or maybe they're just the characters or just you know.
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: And you, Gary, Jeff, just since I've known you, you've
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: changed a lot and you've become a much stronger Christian.
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: And I'm sure that part of that was evident to them.
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: And good on you, man, God bless you well.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: You know we're all works in progress. Peter. Yeah, you know,
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite things to say is that God's
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: not finished with me that yet, Thank.
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: God, Praise God.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what one more segment. I want to
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: talk about a couple more books that are essential. Peter
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Bronson that people need to know about if they don't already,
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: and they should by now. Peter Bronson our guests this morning.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: It's six twenty seven, Gary Jeffen for Brian Thomas on
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: fifty five KRC the Talk Station. Financial peace of mind
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: doesn't come from guessing.
• 54:08
  Speaker 11: It comes to RC the Talk Station.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Peter Bronson's books are so well researched, no AI and
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: so well written and ought to be required in local
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: public school history classes as great lessons, as required reads.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: I think not only Forbidden Fruit we talked about earlier,
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: but a book that is similar in many ways because
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: of the ties to organized crime and the fight against it.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: Not in our town. Just give me a quick Peter capsulization,
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: maybe a minute capsulization on what not in our Town
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: is about.
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: Well, thank you for that those kind words, Gary jeff
• 54:49
  Speaker 6: And interesting that you'd mentioned about being available in public schools.
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: I intentionally wrote these books so that there would be
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: nothing in them that would be a problem for children
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: of the age of ten and above. And I've had
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: some interesting reviews from ten year olds who really enjoyed them,
• 55:07
  Speaker 6: especially the one about the Civil War. So not in
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: our town. The reason I wrote that is because after
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: I did Forbidden Fruit, I was out speaking and signing
• 55:16
  Speaker 6: books and people kept asking, so what was going on
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: in Cincinnati. Well, Newport was sin city, and you didn't
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: the mob want to get in. Yes, they did want
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: to get a foothold in Cincinnati, and thanks to some
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: key citizens, including the late Si Lease and others like
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: machine gun Bob Meldon, one of our famous Cincinnati police detectives,
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: there was an unwritten rule that the mob would stay
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: on the south side.
• 55:45
  Speaker 7: Of the Ohio River.
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: Now, eventually the mob did come to Cincinnati kind of
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: in a trojan horse, and that trojan horse was Larry Flint,
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: who people think, wow, Larry Flint was just this great
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: entreprener who started with a little bar in Dayton and
• 56:02
  Speaker 6: made it this multi multimillion, hundreds of millions hustler empire.
• 56:07
  Speaker 6: Well that's not true. Larry Flint bankrupted eleven bars in Dayton.
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: He was a total business failure, and he showed up
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: in Cincinnati with a bankroll of eight hundred thousand dollars
• 56:18
  Speaker 6: that was loaned to him by the Cleveland mob. So
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: he was mobbed up from the get go, and in fact,
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: when he was shot, the FBI was absolutely certain that
• 56:29
  Speaker 6: this was a mob hit because he was late in
• 56:32
  Speaker 6: his payments. It turned out to be otherwise, But that's
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: how sure everybody was, because the FBI knew very well
• 56:38
  Speaker 6: that Larry Flint was part of the mob.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: The Man who Saved Cincinnati talk about it.
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: Yes, Yes, that was such a fun book. Who could
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: match for a character lou Wallace, who was unfairly made
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: the scapegoat at Shilah because Grant, because of Grant's failures.
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: Who was sent to Cincinnati at the darkest hour when
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: the city was about to surrender to the Confederates, who
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: arrived and said, take down the white flag, Cincinnati will
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: defend itself. He successfully stopped an invasion of Cincinnati by
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: ten thousand Confederates. He did the same thing to save Washington,
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: d c. Later in the war, he became territorial governor
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: of New Mexico, where he fought Billy the Kid and
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: captured him. He put down a range war, he fought Geronimo.
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: He was just the most incredible guy. And during all this,
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: among many other things that he did in the meantime,
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: he wrote the classic book Ben Her which well know
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: is that great movie with Charlton Heston, which still holds
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: and shares the record for most oscars ever for a movie.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: All right, quick hits here promised land.
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: Oh, this is very fun. I took it back a
• 57:56
  Speaker 6: little bit further in history because I was curious about
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: the first settlers who came to Cincinnati in the seventeen
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: eighties and late seventeen seventies. And these were mostly Revolutionary
• 58:07
  Speaker 6: war veterans who couldn't be paid because the treasury was broke,
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: so that the government said, we'll give you some free
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: land in the Ohio territory. Well, this territory where we
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: stand today was then known as the Miami Slaughterhouse because
• 58:22
  Speaker 6: the Miami and the Shawnee tribes were.
• 58:25
  Speaker 7: So brutal and so.
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: Warlike, and really good warriors by the way, they were
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: their tactically sound. Washington tried to defeat the Union Confederation
• 58:37
  Speaker 6: three times. The first two were utter failures. His armies
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: that were sent against the Confederation were surrounded and slaughtered.
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: One was known as the Battle of a Thousand Slain,
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: when more than a thousand of the militia and their
• 58:51
  Speaker 6: families were killed in middle Ohio. Finally, he sends this
• 58:56
  Speaker 6: guy who is a no good scoundrel. After the War
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: of the Revolutionary War, his name was Matt Anthony Wayne.
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: But Matt Anthony was one heck of a soldier. And
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: he went up to the Battle of Fallen Timbers and
• 59:10
  Speaker 6: by defeating the Indian Confederation and the British who were
• 59:13
  Speaker 6: their backers, much the way Iran his back Tomas, the
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: British were doing that with the tribes, and he defeated them,
• 59:21
  Speaker 6: and he set the entire Northwest Territory free for expansion
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: and settlement. Today this state might be part of Canada
• 59:30
  Speaker 6: if not for Matt Anthony Wayne.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Behind the lines of course, about the police collaborative
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: after the Timothy Thomas riots. Timothy Thomas Riots in two
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: thousand and one Magical History Tour, which is a collection
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: of but eight short stories Peter that all relate to
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: history here in Cincinnati.
• 59:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, five short stories and one guide to ten spots
• 59:56
  Speaker 6: of local history where people can go and soak it
• 59:58
  Speaker 6: up and learn more about the incredible, rich past that
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 6: we have in Cincinnati. You know, people forget that we
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 6: were called the Queen City because we were the dominant
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: city in the West at that time. This was the
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 6: western boundary for settlement of the rest of the country,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: and we still are a fantastic city, but we were
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 6: the city in those days, and the people that came
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 6: here were incredibly tough, and so we have in this
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 6: latest One Magical History Tour, we do five short stories
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 6: to tell you about some of the great notable people
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: and events in our past. One of them is Cincinnati's
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: in Ohio's first serial killer. It was a woman and
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: that's a fascinating story. We tell another story about the
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 6: Shaker community in Whitewater and help you understand what they
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 6: were all about. And then we have one about a
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: guy from Wilmington who goes out west on the Oregon Trail,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 6: leads the wagon train, fights a duel, settles Kansas, and
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 6: he eventually was so respected as the governor of the
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 6: Kansas Territory that when Colorado was just beginning to be
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 6: a state, their capital city was named after him. He's
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 6: a guy from Wilmington named James W. Denver, and Denver,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 6: Colorado still has his portrait in their capital.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: How about that Chili Dog Press that's your personal publishing
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: company and where people can find your books? I mean
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: all over the place, but is it just yeah, all.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 6: The local bookstores. But also if you want to get
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 6: a signed copy, just sign on the Chili Dog Press
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 6: and I'll be glad to get one for you.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I mean, your time is precious.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: All of our time is precious. But I appreciate you
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: joining us this morning, Peter, what a treat.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 6: Glad to be with you, Garry Jeff, I always have.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: A good time with you, absolutely, Peter Bronson on the
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: Morning show on fifty five KRC, the talk.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: Station at National Heritage Academies.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: Part of the declassified documents released by President Trump last
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: week illustrating attempts by foreign actors to influence US elections,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: including the Communist Chinese Party. They also show how American
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: intelligence agencies tried to downplay election related connections and may
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: still are. This was a quote from FBI agent Niki
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: Flores back in twenty twenty to a colleague amid disagreements
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: between various analysts and agencies about how best to frame
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: intelligence reports related to the Communist Chinese parties in our elections.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: She said, and I quote, I'm basically running a shadow
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: government across the FBI at this point. That should send
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: chills up your spine if you did not believe the
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: FBI was corrupt and overly politicized and weaponized against not
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: only President Trump, but against the American people's wants and desires.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: These documents do tell it all, and you know they
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: were the documents were the declassified doctors poop pooh, They
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: don't prove anything. I'm basically running a shadow government across
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: the FBI at this point. That's what she believed. She
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: was a longtime intelligence analyst for the FBI served as
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: the agency's election security lead for the twenty twenty elections.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: She was all also managing all intelligence and strategic function
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: for the FBI's counterintelligence program. In twenty twenty two, she
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: was appointed analyst in charge of the Intelligence Division of
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: the agency's Washington Field office, the first person to hold
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: that position. Some analysts in the intelligence community were fighting
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: to include language about China influencing US elections in agency reports.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: Flores consistently argued against it. She pushed for a narrative
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: that there was no evidence of seting intervention or intention,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: although we note there was an awareness of this potential effect,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: she wrote in an email at the time. So this
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: one unelected appointed bureaucrat within the FBI was purposely blocking
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: from her office information that showed that the Communist Chinese
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: Party was interfering in an effective way in our elections
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty election. What happened in the twenty twenty
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: presidential election. We were all told it was on the
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: up and up that Joe Biden actually won that election
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: over Donald Trump, where we all sold a bill of
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: goods headed by our intelligence agencies who claimed that it
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: wasn't true. Food for thought. Real quickly before we go
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: to break, Steve, on the subject of reparations, Good morning.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: Good morning, how are you doing fine?
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 5: I wanted to make the case that.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 14: Islam and the DNC should pay the reparations. After all,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 14: it was the Islamist not the Islamo fascists that we
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 14: have today, but the precursor to that were the Islamists
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 14: who went into the villages the peaceful Africans West African villagers,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 14: put them in chains and brought them to the ships.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 14: The Dutch and British ships sailed them across the ocean
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 14: to the future what would be the future colonies of
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 14: the United States and sold them into slavery. Now granted
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 14: ninety six percent of the slaves brought to the New
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 14: World did not come to this area. They went to
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 14: South Central area, mostly Caribbean slaves, so that's a whole
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 14: other issue.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 5: But they brought them over here, sold them into slavery, and.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 14: They, I believe, are the ones that should be paying
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 14: the because they got rich off of the sale of
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 14: these human beings.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: Steve, Steve fair enough, but I don't think anyone in
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: the twenty first century should be paying reparations to anyone
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: people who did not own slaves or trade slaves being
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: asked to pay people who were never slaves. That slave
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: ship has sailed, and while it was awful, it's part
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: of history. It's not part of our now, except in
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: the countries where slavery still exists, and there are many
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: of them, but not here, not for a long time.
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• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: you wanted to talk about voting.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I when I talk about the topic that you
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 12: had going early about the racial issues in our city
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 12: and everywhere, that it reminds me of a story back
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 12: in twenty sixteen, I was volunteering outside the Board of
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 12: Elections to pass out the pink sample ballots and along
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 12: with the I went there to show up because a
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 12: friend asked me to help her out, so I did.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 12: She handed me a stack of the sample ballot, the
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 12: pink ones, and it had also with it a pamphlet
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 12: promoting the Frederick Douglas Foundation of Ohio. Under the assumption
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 12: that somebody was a Republican the coming to get the
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 12: pink ballot, they would maybe want to be a part
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 12: of this club. And just for I'm sure you know
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 12: who Frederick Douglas is. He's a black man who supported
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 12: Abraham Lincoln back in the time of the Civil War.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 12: He was a strict abolitionist. He was a prolific speaker
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 12: and a community leader. You know, he was just great
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 12: for the black community back then. So anyway, this pamphlet
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 12: had his picture on the front.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 6: So a group of.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 12: Women came up. They happened to be black, and they
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 12: had their young son. One of them had their young
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 12: son with them came up to me and I handed
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 12: them the ballot along with the Frederick Douglas pamphlet, and
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 12: then they thanked me and they went on across the
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 12: street to enter the Board of Elections, and the group
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 12: handing out the blue sample ballots came up to them,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 12: and I watched them and they were talking to them,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 12: and then they came They marched back to me with
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 12: their things I had given them. They crumpled them up,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 12: threw them in my face, said that I tried to
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 12: trick them because there was a black man on the
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 12: front of my material. And then they spit on me,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 12: and then they went on, you know, on their way,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 12: and I at first I was shocked. I thought, what
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 12: in the world just happened. I assumed people knew that
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 12: when they took the ballot that's you know, pink was Republican,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 12: blue was Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever.
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  Speaker 12: So then what happened was I just felt sorry for them.
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  Speaker 12: I was angry at first, and then I actually felt
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  Speaker 12: sorry for the little boy, because he what chance does
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  Speaker 12: he have to grow up and not know that the
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  Speaker 12: party that's supposed that they that they are buying into
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  Speaker 12: is not really have, does not really have their best
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  Speaker 12: interest at heart, because they didn't understand the whole Frederick
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  Speaker 12: Douglass movement and how it promotes civic leadership and personal
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  Speaker 12: responsibility based values and civic engagement for the Black community.
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  Speaker 12: And and he's going to miss out on all that,
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  Speaker 12: and and he's going to look at people like me
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  Speaker 12: as a person that that's against them, when in actuality
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  Speaker 12: it was the opposite. So I just thought that was
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  Speaker 12: really sad.
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  Speaker 2: Linden. Lyndon Baines Johnson was a prophet in the U
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  Speaker 2: during his term, and and of course he's seen as
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  Speaker 2: the great champion of the Civil Rights Act and the
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  Speaker 2: voting the Civil Rights Voting Act, and also was the
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  Speaker 2: champion of welfare, particularly for black people in this country.
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  Speaker 2: And Lyndon Baines Johnson, when he was in his Oval
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  Speaker 2: office talking to someone on the phone, actually said we're
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  Speaker 2: going to give them, as in black people in this country,
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  Speaker 2: only he didn't use the word black people. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to give them something, not enough to really make a difference,
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  Speaker 2: but enough to get them to vote Democrat for the
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  Speaker 2: next two hundred years. And it's all a result of
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: Lyndon Baines Johnson and this insidious plan to convince black
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  Speaker 2: people in the United States that the Democrat Party had
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: their backs simply by awarding them funds out of the treasury,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: through welfare and through the Great Society. Now, yes, white
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  Speaker 2: people also take advantage of that system of government redistribution
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: of wealth. But Lyndon Baines Johnson's quote was, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to give those and words a little bit, not enough
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  Speaker 2: to make a difference, but enough that they will vote
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  Speaker 2: Democrat for the next two hundred years. Well, we're sixty
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  Speaker 2: years in and sadly, the whole segment of our society
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  Speaker 2: in this country is convinced that the Party of slavery
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  Speaker 2: has their backs. Warren Davidson coming up next on fifty
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  Speaker 2: five KRC, the Talk station.
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  Speaker 3: Celebrating two RC the talk station.
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  Speaker 13: I heard Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Good Morning almost six minutes after the hour seven of
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  Speaker 2: six Eastern. That is on this Thursday morning, July twenty third,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, Gary Jeff Walker in for Brian Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: and yes, Brian will be back on Monday. For those
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  Speaker 2: of you interested and inquiring minds who want to know,
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  Speaker 2: our guest now is a regularly scheduled guest at this time.
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  Speaker 2: He is the Congressman from the House of Representatives of
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  Speaker 2: Ohio's eighth district. And he is also as you know,
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  Speaker 2: if he's your congressman, or if you know anything about
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  Speaker 2: the man at all. No, he is was a proud
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  Speaker 2: member of our military, part of the third Infantry Division
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  Speaker 2: right out of high school in nineteen eighty eight, station
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  Speaker 2: in Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall. Went
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  Speaker 2: on to West Point, graduated in nineteen ninety five with
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: an officer's commission part of the seventy fifth Ranger Regiment,
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  Speaker 2: the one hundred and first Airborne Division, the Old Guard,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: where he served as an officer in the US Army's
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  Speaker 2: ceremonial unit, the third US Infantry Regiment Separate. Separated honorably
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  Speaker 2: from the military in two thousand as a captain and
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  Speaker 2: serving honorably in the House of Representatives for the last
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  Speaker 2: few years. Congressman Warren Davidson, Welcome back to the show.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, my friend.
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  Speaker 7: I'm glad to join you, Gary, Jeff's great to hear
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  Speaker 7: you and look forward to chatting today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's start with the hard stuff, and I guess
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  Speaker 2: most of the news is heart stuff. But the dignified,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: the dignified return the dignified coming home yesterday at Dover
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: Air Base, and the President of course was there and said,
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  Speaker 2: it's the hardest thing that he has to do as
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  Speaker 2: commander in chief because he sent people into harm's way.
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  Speaker 2: And four more Americans have died in combat in our
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  Speaker 2: e operations against Iran in the Middle East, the youngest nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: the oldest thirty, with lots of plans for their futures
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  Speaker 2: that now have been those plans eradicated on this earth.
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  Speaker 2: And we believe and pray that they're in glory now
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  Speaker 2: and above all of this turmoil that we face on
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  Speaker 2: this planet. But as a congressman and also as an
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  Speaker 2: officer in the army, as a captain, what are your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts when you think about, you know, these people who
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  Speaker 2: have literally given their lives for the United States of America,
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  Speaker 2: an oath that you also took.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, there's nothing really more somber you think about it.
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  Speaker 7: I had a couple of friends who were there for
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  Speaker 7: that yesterday talk with them about the event, and I remember,
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  Speaker 7: you know what you mentioned. I had served in the
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  Speaker 7: Old Guard. You know, first job I had there was
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  Speaker 7: cast a bee teen leader.
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  Speaker 6: Those are the.
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  Speaker 7: Guys that carry the casket, set it over the top
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  Speaker 7: of the gravesite, pulled the flag off the casket, folded
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  Speaker 7: very crisply, and then at the head of the column,
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  Speaker 7: I would a salute flag with my saber, put the
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  Speaker 7: saber in the sheath, and then take it and present
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  Speaker 7: it to the next a ken. I mean, you give
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  Speaker 7: that to a widow who's you know, ninety and World
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  Speaker 7: War II veteran life well lived. That's still sad, but
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  Speaker 7: it's just absolutely tragic when you present it to a
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  Speaker 7: twenty something with a with a two or three year
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  Speaker 7: old tugging at her skirt, you know, it's a tough
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  Speaker 7: it's a tough thing. And I think that's where, you know,
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  Speaker 7: one of the most serious things. I think, just as
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  Speaker 7: the President says, he feels an obligation because he truly
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  Speaker 7: is the commander in chief, we've made the decision of
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  Speaker 7: what to do. But I also feel because of that
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  Speaker 7: that's Look, the Constitution laid out an obligation for Congress
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  Speaker 7: to vote to send our wars, not to be passive
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  Speaker 7: and just quietly sit there and fund them. We're supposed
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  Speaker 7: to hold the executive accountable for defining the mission. We're
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  Speaker 7: authorizing the mission for funding a war that can be won,
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  Speaker 7: for multiplying our allies instead of our enemies, and then
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  Speaker 7: equipping these men and women with everything they need to
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  Speaker 7: accomplish the mission we gave them, and then only once
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  Speaker 7: declaring victory. I don't think there's a more serious obligation
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  Speaker 7: that our country has. And you think about the cost
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  Speaker 7: of war. Those people gave their lives, and we were
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 7: fighting over how to properly care for our veterans just
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 7: last week, and to do it, we said, we're going
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  Speaker 7: to have to pay for it, but okay, we need
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  Speaker 7: to do it. It broke down because we couldn't have
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  Speaker 7: three on the pay floor. This week. We're funding a
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  Speaker 7: war that we won't even vote to authorize. And I really,
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  Speaker 7: I really, it just it eats at me, man, it does.
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  Speaker 2: President George W. Bush said the the only regret he
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  Speaker 2: had from his two terms as president is when he
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  Speaker 2: was on that carrier with the mission accomplished banner and
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  Speaker 2: you say you declare victory once and kind of he
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  Speaker 2: felt like he and and history has proven he jumped
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  Speaker 2: the gun on that, and uh, what's it going to
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  Speaker 2: take for us to say we were victorious in this endeavor?
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  Speaker 2: Congressman David Davidson in Iran. What is it going to take?
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  Speaker 7: You have to figure out the mission, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: so you could you could pick any number of missions.
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  Speaker 7: But early on some of the things they said is
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  Speaker 7: we want to sure a Ran never has a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 7: I think that was already on track. They had some
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  Speaker 7: nuclear material, but they did not have a nuclear weapon,
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  Speaker 7: despite a you know, decades of work that had held
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  Speaker 7: and and then we said we're going to keep the
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  Speaker 7: straight up horror moves open, and that that hasn't gone
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  Speaker 7: entirely well. We said we're going to destroy their missile
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  Speaker 7: making capability, and they're still making capability. They certainly have
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  Speaker 7: a lot in stockpile. We said we were going to
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  Speaker 7: destroy their navy and the true navy ships. We've we've
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  Speaker 7: sunk a lot of the real big warships because they
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 7: were big targets. But they're still using some mines and
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  Speaker 7: fast attack boats and drones to control the straight So
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  Speaker 7: not I wouldn't say control it, but just caused just
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  Speaker 7: enough chaos to make it too costly for people to
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  Speaker 7: risk losing their ship and for insurance companies to say, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: we're going to cover you if you decided to go
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  Speaker 7: through the through the strait.
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  Speaker 2: How many more dignified transfers are we going to have
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  Speaker 2: to endure as a nation too? Because it is looking
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  Speaker 2: more and more like a full out, full scale combat
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  Speaker 2: mission war with Iran uh and and the President has
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  Speaker 2: insisted that they keep on firing on these ships in
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  Speaker 2: the Straits of horror moves and and the neighbors in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East who are on our side. Uh supposedly,
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  Speaker 2: he says, power stations and civilian targets are now I
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  Speaker 2: think he's been almost two You don't want to see
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  Speaker 2: civilian injuries, uh, you know, if you can avoid it,
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  Speaker 2: And he's been trying to avoid that. He's said over
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  Speaker 2: and over again during his presidential terms that he hates
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  Speaker 2: killing people. He doesn't want to be responsible for killing people.
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  Speaker 2: And the simple truth of the matter is that so
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  Speaker 2: called innocence are going to be killed if this is
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  Speaker 2: a mission that has a positive result in the end,
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  Speaker 2: don't you think?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, you know, you can't put the toothpaste back
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  Speaker 7: in the tube, right, I mean, I think on February
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  Speaker 7: twenty eighth, we had other options. But now things are different,
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  Speaker 7: you know. So the war's been waged up to now,
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  Speaker 7: and it is a war. It's an insult to those
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  Speaker 7: who've given their lives to say that it's something less
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  Speaker 7: than a world. They died on a deployment. Now they
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  Speaker 7: died in a war. Yeah, and this has not been
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  Speaker 7: declared or authorized or even well defined yet. And I
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  Speaker 7: think that's that's where the moral obligation kicks in. But
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  Speaker 7: you know, to your point, you have to pick a mission.
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  Speaker 7: And look, the United States, we could occupy Iran if
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  Speaker 7: we too, we could kill everything alive in Iran. And
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  Speaker 7: that wouldn't be a just way to wage the war.
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  Speaker 7: When you're selective about it. You could do things and
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 7: be overly selective and not do well. And you could
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 7: spend twenty years in a place far smaller, far weaker,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 7: and far less sophisticated like Afghanistan, and with twenty years
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  Speaker 7: and trillions of dollars, wind up with the Taliban controlling Afghanistan.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 7: And that's where like a lot of the veterans I
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 7: know are exasperated, because part of the reason President Trump
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 7: resonated so much was he said, you know, no more
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 7: endless words. And you still see people you know trotting
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 7: out on Fox News nightly talking about you know, essentially
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 7: the same phrase, as much as it takes, as long
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  Speaker 7: as it takes, we need to be premiered for another
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  Speaker 7: twenty year commitment with bombings to hold off their capability.
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  Speaker 7: And that's kind of a low intensity conflict versus a
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 7: high intensity conflict kind of approach at best. That's what
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 7: a lot of people have appetite for. But I think
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  Speaker 7: this is why like Congress needs to vote, because our
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  Speaker 7: multit needs to know that when we go to war,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 7: the country is at war. It's not just some low
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  Speaker 7: grade thing where they're being sent off to. And I
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  Speaker 7: really think that is going to be one of the keys.
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  Speaker 7: What mission do people support? I will tell you most
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  Speaker 7: people don't think we should do a ground war in Iran,
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  Speaker 7: and you take that off the table. Air power alone
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  Speaker 7: doesn't produce regime change. The blockade it is a very
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  Speaker 7: effective strategy. I think we could have done that. I
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  Speaker 7: pleaded for that case on February twenty second, almost a
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  Speaker 7: full week before the twenty eighth when the bombing started.
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  Speaker 7: And part of the reason for the blockade is, you know,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 7: we had maximum pressure in the first Trump administration, where
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  Speaker 7: we had sanctions and countries were bypassing them, you know,
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  Speaker 7: the Europeans in particular, you know, China and India, you know,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 7: were bypassing them. They were getting Iranian oil below market
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 7: rices and they found that irresistible. So the sanctions regime
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  Speaker 7: had become very ineffective. Well, if you you know, having
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 7: to have the United States Navy, we could control every
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 7: ship in the whole Gulf of Arabia. We don't have
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 7: to worry about the straight up or moves. We can
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 7: go after any Iranian ship we want and control control
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  Speaker 7: that outcome, and then you know, the sanctions don't get
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  Speaker 7: evated anymore. That puts pressure on the country. And ultimately,
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  Speaker 7: when you've made it clear to the Iranian people, the
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  Speaker 7: rank and file, ordinary citizens, that they can't have a
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  Speaker 7: different future, that you just can't have the IRGC and
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 7: control your country, there's a big appetite for that, and
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  Speaker 7: I think those things were going well. But the RGC
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  Speaker 7: killed thirty forty thousand other people. So if you think
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  Speaker 7: about in America, if the British had killed you know,
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 7: Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, John Adams, yeah, you know, George Washington,
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 7: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, you know, all these people, Patrick, Henry,
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  Speaker 7: Paul Revere, doctor Warren, these kinds of things, plus you know,
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  Speaker 7: ten thousand more people. I mean, would the American Revolution
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  Speaker 7: have im possible? Well, that's basically what happened right before
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  Speaker 7: we started this campaign. Even then, you know, an airstrike,
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  Speaker 7: I don't it was a decapitation. I don't think would
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  Speaker 7: have produced you know, regime change right away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So the IRGC is a very powerful military force, and
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  Speaker 7: I think that's where you have to be smart about
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 7: the mission you picked, because if you put one out
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 7: there that isn't feasible well, or the public doesn't get behind,
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  Speaker 7: then it's going to be hard to achieve the mission.
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Davidson, it's it's time for a break. Hang on,
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  Speaker 2: we'll we'll talk a little bit more with Warren Davidson
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  Speaker 2: as we continue on this Thursday morning at seven eighteen
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  Speaker 2: at fifty five KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 13: What if we told you Matt david was screaming.
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  Speaker 2: About the continuing war with Iran. Laarren, let's put a
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: some kind of a positive face, because we haven't had
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of positive things to talk about thus far,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: and maybe there's not that much as far as a
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: light at the end of this tunnel or array of hope.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think is the best possible outcome at
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  Speaker 2: this point?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Look, I mean the positive thing is is our
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 7: military is still the most capable lethal force in the
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 7: world that's ever known. And look the capability that's been
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 7: on display. I mean the precision, the excellence, I mean
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 7: the ability to shoot down missiles. It's a fluke that
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 7: something gets through the air defense right now in that
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 7: sec is amazing. So tactically and operationally you can say
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 7: that's great. This strategy is the part, and I think
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 7: you have to match that to what the resolve is.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 7: And I look, my view is America wants to look
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 7: strong in the world stage. It's not in our interest
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 7: to be viewed as driven off the battlefield by anyone.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 7: And I think we need to focus on freedom and
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 7: navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. The question is what's
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 7: the best way to do that, And I really think
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 7: the getting the neighboring states to take a more active
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 7: role in it is the smart way to do it.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 7: And the idea that you would charge a toll, there's
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 7: a toll to go through nearly every waterway in the world.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 7: If you want to go through Turkey, they charge a fee.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 7: If you want to go through the Panama count Canal,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 7: they charge a fee. If you want to go through
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 7: the Saint Lawrence Seaway, they charge a fee. This is
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 7: not an uncommon thing around the world, and in fact,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 7: it's more common. It's more rare that there's no fee
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 7: charged in something like that. Now, part of why they
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 7: don't is it's not like one country controls the straight
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 7: up hoourmuse. In a normal scenario, the whole Persian Gulf
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 7: has lots of folks shipping through it, and I think
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 7: if you get those folk to collaborate together, it would
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 7: give them something shared to work on, and if they
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 7: have that revenue, that's a way for them to rebuild
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 7: from the war. Uh. You know the country that doesn't
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 7: border that region though, is the United States of America.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 7: So I think maybe one of the most productive things
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 7: we could do is facilitate that dialogue between countries like Oman,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 7: Saudi Arabia, you know, Bahrain, and say, look, you guys,
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 7: sit down and figure out what you're thinking about, and
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 7: you tell us how do we how do we restore
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 7: order here? And if the answer is as well Iran
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 7: can do whatever they want and keep selling oil in
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 7: Chinese y wand to China oil. Then we're not leaving.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 7: I mean, the blockades on. But if the answer is is,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 7: you know, we can all get along and we're gonna
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 7: settle settle oil in dollars as we always had before. Uh,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 7: that that restores the effectiveness of the sanctions regime, That
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 7: restores order in the region, and it helps us find
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 7: a way to extract So I look, I think the
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  Speaker 7: blockade is something that we should have done before the strikes. Personally,
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  Speaker 7: you can't go back and undo that. But nevertheless, look
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  Speaker 7: the Ayatola and the IRGC, the leadership that was killed
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  Speaker 7: in the decapitation strike, these are evil people. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: they just killed tens of thousands of their own countrymen.
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  Speaker 7: Even if they hadn't been evil before that, but they've
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  Speaker 7: done plenty of bad things before that, so it certainly
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  Speaker 7: was not an unjust action, nor was it an unprecedented action.
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  Speaker 7: So I think that's just the reality we confront But
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  Speaker 7: it did leave in power some of them even more hardliners.
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  Speaker 7: So the more that we go to war with the hardliners,
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  Speaker 7: the more vindicated the hardliners become. In a way, it
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  Speaker 7: helps consolidate their grip on power. So I think if
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  Speaker 7: you do more, and that was the point of the
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  Speaker 7: MoU was to get the people that want a different
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  Speaker 7: future for Iran to have hope and say, you know,
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  Speaker 7: we might be able to do this. The question is,
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  Speaker 7: can those people even stay at the negotiating table within
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  Speaker 7: the Iranian regime. I'm not sure that's possible at this point,
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  Speaker 7: but that I think is probably the best outcome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I from everything I've heard Congressman Davidson, less than
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  Speaker 2: ten percent of the Iranian population is actually down with
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: the IRGC and the theocratic rulership, the hard line Islamis.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, you're talking about a country of ninety
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  Speaker 2: million people that's as big as two Texas is and
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  Speaker 2: only like nine to ten million of them are in
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  Speaker 2: favor of this, maybe at the most. And we did
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  Speaker 2: this decapitation strikes at first. I think it's still possible,
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  Speaker 2: with the help of Israeli intelligence to get rid of
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  Speaker 2: the IRGC almost completely, couldn't you.
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  Speaker 7: Well in theory? Yeah, but the airpower. Look, we didn't
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  Speaker 7: even get a regime change in Serbia with airpower. Alian
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 7: it takes troops on the ground, historically, right, And when
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 7: you look at the terrain there, Yeah, it's a country,
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 7: you know, two Texas, four times the size of California.
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  Speaker 7: It's a big place. It's an insanely mountainous place, so
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 7: large parts of it aren't inhabited. Inhabited, they've got concentrations
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 7: in cities like Tehran and on the coast with population.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 7: They've got massive tunnel networks, and the terrain doesn't really
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 7: isn't well suited to an occupying army. That's why historically
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 7: they haven't been occupied. You know, they've had you know,
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 7: the Persian Empire has been an occupier at times. But
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 7: the terrain is hard, and so when you fight in
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 7: those kinds of conditions, you know, the casualty count gets high.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 7: And you know that's a question, is that is that
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  Speaker 7: the system you want? Could you force a regime change? Sure,
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 7: you could do denossification if you really are committed enough
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 7: to it. It wasn't a low cost to do that
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  Speaker 7: in Germany. No, but the terrain, the train in Iran
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 7: is different. So uh, but yeah, you can keep you know,
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 7: killing the enemy and usually historically when you've killed about
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 7: thirty percent of an enemy force, they start getting ready
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 7: to negotiate yet of high number.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know, I know that we we bombed relentlessly
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: and mercilessly the city of Dresden, Germany and World War
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: two because and there were no military targets there. Uh,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: it was just tens of thousands of civilians died because
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: that's what it took to break the back of UH
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: of support in the European theater. That was then this
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: is now. Congressman Davidson, thank you so much for your
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  Speaker 2: time this morning, and godspeed and our prayers go out
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: to the families of those that have perished in this
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: war thus far, including the four that we saw during
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: the dignified transfer at Dovery yesterday. God bless you.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Thanks Gary, Jeff, God bless you and all your.
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  Speaker 11: Listeners the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: So Back in twenty twenty, engineers from the Klinger's Group,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: a national firm offices in Cincinnati, concluded that the existing
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: Madison Road bridge over Duck Creek is part of the
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: community's flooding problem. We saw the incredibly horrid flooding this
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: past twosday day, and then they got hit with another
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: round in places like Mount Lookout in Oakley, east of
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: my seventy one. It's seventy one itself was closed, as
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: you know, last it was the last Friday by that
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: first round of flooding seventy one, the interstate, a major
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: interstate in this country, closed by water over the road.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 2: But Cincinnati, the City of Cincinnati, didn't follow the flood
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: upgrade advice from that engineering report six years ago. An
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: entering and this engineering firm recommended that Cincinnati replace a
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: bridge over Duck Creek and Oakley to reduce the risk
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: of flooding, eliminate the need for a flood gate, and
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: lower insurance costs for the property owners. But the city
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: didn't build a bridge, and the problem and again you
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: it's an unknowable how much protection a new bridge might
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: have provided with the rainfall that did fall. I mean,
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: we had like four inches in an hour at one
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: point in certain communities. But because the concrete foundation, which
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: was built almost one hundred years ago, according to this
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: report from Cincinnati dot Com, stands on both sides of
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: the creek bed, the water flowing through the creek is
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: forced into just this little narrow passage, making it more
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: likely to flood when the water level rises. The existing bridge,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: according to the report is a severe restriction to the
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: flood flows in Duck Creek, and their report noted that
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 2: a new bridge would stand higher and support columns would
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: be further apart or farther apart, creating a wider passage
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 2: through which the water in the creek would flow and
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: reducing the likelihood that the bridge and road would be
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: were run by floodwater. That's in Oakley, But we got
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: so much rain all at once. Could it have been
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: avoided completely anyway, even with the new construction. So the
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: current bridge and floodgate, which did not close during the
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: heavy rain back last Friday, did not offer a level
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: of flood control that the new bridge, they said would,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: So they said that even flood insurance requirements for properties
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: upstream would be positively impacted if they built a new bridge,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: So your insurance might not be skyrocketing to try and
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: cover the cost of what mother nature can do. And
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: maintenance would no longer be an issue because the new
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: bridge would eliminate the need for the flood gate and
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: the railroad style crossing gates that blocked roadway win floodwaters
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: just in Oakley. But my gosh, you saw the inundation
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: in Mount Healthy with the storm, sewers just overrun by
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: all that water all at once. No worries about that
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: this weekend, thankfully, as people continue to clean up zips
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: over in Mount Healthy has to have a new floor installed.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: Many other businesses as well that get hit by two
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: rounds of this heavy rain. And it's weird for the
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: month of July too around here to have that kind
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: of weather pattern. But yet you never know. Climate is
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: not weather, but climate always changes. And if you don't
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: like the weather in Cincinnati, wait about five minutes, it'll change.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: Gary Jeffen for Brian at seven thirty eight at fifty
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: five KRC, the talk station Zimmer Heating and Cooling has
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: been ensuring comfort and if station five one fifty five
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: hundred the number to get in touch if you would
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: like to chime into the conversations. Dennis has a word
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: or two on the flooding we were talking about and
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: what the city of Cincinnati maybe should have done but
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: didn't do in Oakley and Duck Creek and other places
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: that were severely affected by just the incredible downpour and
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: the flooding that ensued. Dennis, good morning, you're in the air.
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  Speaker 16: Let's just focus on Oakleigh as one example of the
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 16: callousness and absolute stupidity of the voters and the city
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 16: council in Cincinnati, there influence over the engineering department and
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 16: superseding sanity completely. The reality is is that the flooding
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 16: in just one company probably destroyed a little over one
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 16: hundred million dollars worth of equipment and business. The biomedical
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 16: firm that makes exotic surgical equipment, and it serves the
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 16: entire world supply of this technology, and it's gone. It's
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 16: filled up with the water, sewage laden water, and that's
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 16: the source of epidemics. And I don't think that these
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 16: idiots really are to care about anybody in the region.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 16: Cincinnati is the hub of the region and I just
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 16: came down Harrison Avenue. I'm dodging these idiot speed bumps
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 16: in the middle of every lane, and it drops the
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 16: traffic down the fire or ten miles an hour or
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 16: you're going to damage your suspension or causing accident. I mean,
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 16: people are crossing over into the double yellow line on
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 16: the office side, and that and the bike paths, And
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 16: this woke crap that has invested the city's thinking is
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 16: so vicious that the region will not survive and draw
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 16: businesses in. It really ought to. Cincinnati's is a beautiful place,
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 16: and it takes a real pack of church to undo
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 16: the work of hundreds of thousands of the good people
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 16: of this region, the investment in traffic and water control.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 16: I'll tell you what. I was talking to the county
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 16: engineer several years ago at a fundraiser and I asked
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 16: him to say he was looking forward because nobody talked
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 16: to him about nothing. And I asked him, I said, hey,
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 16: building a road, don't you first have to control the water.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 16: And he kind of furked on up. We had a
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 16: forty minute conversation with a guy that's worth just You
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 16: can't pay a guy like that enough in consoling brash
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 16: off the day, and you start ignoring the people that
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 16: work and do the engineering and the construction. You've got
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 16: people that know how things happen. And when the politicians
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 16: and the electorate are foolish enough to put into positions
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 16: of power that choose to follow a philosophy or an
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 16: agenda over the fundamental responsibilities of a city. We're looking
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 16: at epidemics, typhoid things that come from dirty water, and
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 16: they did it to us again. It's just like the
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 16: Palisade fires. You've got some fools out in la that
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 16: want to re engineer the society for these fifteen minute
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 16: cities where everybody's on a frigging bicycle like we're in Beijing.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 16: That isn't gonna work. This is in America, and this
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 16: is where people get things done and we don't waste
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 16: resources on woke crap that does no good for anybody.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 16: The Harrison Hill, incidentally, they've got a pipe trail going
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 16: up what used to be the Ray Lane. Let me
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 16: see somebody go off that thing without an electric motor
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 16: on a bicycle. Anyway, that's my tirade for the morning.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 16: You only get one.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: Well, it was well worth it. Thank you very much
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: for filling up my airwaves. There was some valuable content,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 2: that is, Dennis, was some very salient points about the
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: idiocy of not only Cincinnati, but a lot of other
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: places where the woken infection has invaded and is literally
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 2: ruining places where you like to call home. Talk to
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 2: my friend Kim Rice who has Keepsake Photography there and
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: Mount Healthy here. In just a few moments, as we
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 2: continue this morning on fifty five KRCV talk station at seven.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 11: Your import car service needs. There's only one place you
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 11: should head to, and that's.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 2: For a hard time, because I get all your silly
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 2: mounts confused. Here Mount Adams, Mount, Auburn, Mount Healthy, Mount Lookout.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: It was Mount Lookout where Delta the street became a
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: river with that massive, record setting rainfall. And we know
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 2: somebody very intimately who is a good friend of ours,
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: who works there at Keepsake Photography, and she joins us
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: now for a few minutes, Kim Rice, you were watching
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: the carnage and filming it live on your phone as
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: the rain came down and the floods and the storm
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: sewers overran the you know, their capacity with this rain.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: Can you good morning, by the way, It's good to
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: talk to you.
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  Speaker 17: Good morning, Gay Jeff.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: Can you describe what that was like?
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 17: It was the craziest thing I've ever seen. I've been
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 17: down there for thirty eight years and we have had
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 17: storms like this in the past. It's this one was
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 17: the worst I've ever seen. We have had the waters
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 17: come up to the sidewalk before, and a lot of
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 17: the businesses around me have had many, you know, floods
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 17: like this into their shops. I was lucky this time
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 17: it did come up over the sidewalk and the water
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 17: just rose so fast it was crazy. I took video
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 17: at ten till six Friday night where it was just
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 17: coming up to the sidewalk. By six thirty it was
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 17: looked like a lake, not even a river. I mean
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 17: the whole part of Mount Lookout Square, the roads and
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 17: the people driving through it. It was crazy. We had
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 17: some water peeping through the walls in the back of
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 17: my building.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 14: It was.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 17: It was bad for us, but not near as bad
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 17: for my neighboring businesses.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 17: Zips and that whole building with crystollery and dark stellion tattoo.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 17: They got nailed bad. So did dell Wood, Redmore, the
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 17: Red Moore Event Center. They got nailed bad.
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 8: It was.
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 17: It was a crazy scene.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you said you've been there at Keepsake Photography.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 2: They're on Delton Mount Lookout Square for thirty eight years.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: Zips has been there for one hundred years, and they
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 2: famously they have been having this celebration this year and
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 2: now they are closed for who knows how long. They
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 2: have to replace the whole building.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 17: Yeah, that whole building. They have to get all new floors. Yes,
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 17: and what that entails is crazy because it's they're gonna
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 17: have to close for weeks. Well this thinks they can
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 17: be open hopefully by the weekend. So yeah, this is
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 17: the most important time to support the small businesses and
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 17: Hyde Park, Mount Lookout, Oakleigh, pleasant Ridge. I mean, all
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 17: of those communities have been devastated.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 2: Well, is there anything that could have prevented this flooding?
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 2: Is there any kind of engineering answer for where you
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: are in Mount Lookout that could have kept this from happening.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 17: The sewer system can't handle those heavy rains. That was
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 17: the problem with some of these buildings. The water was
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 17: coming out of the toilets and the sphinks, which is terrible.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 17: So yeah, it's these rains, you know, they come hard
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 17: and fast. But the sewer system needs to be repaired updated, yes,
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 17: And they want to do all this building. They want
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 17: to add more development. Which development's not bad, but it's
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 17: not good in some locations.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 2: Infrastructure has to be able to support the extra buildings,
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 2: correct and.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 17: All that concrete. Yeah that you know, it takes away
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 17: the trees and the grass that absorbs the water. And
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 17: they want to continue to build, which is not good.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I know that you have been such an
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 2: integral part of that community there in Mount Lookout for
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 2: all this time. And it's one of the most talented
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: photographers I know, and she is helping out on many
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 2: many occasions. Kim Rice, godspeed. I'm glad that your building
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: is sound and okay. And you also have tenants that
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: rent from you in that building, are they okay?
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 17: Well, that was just the one tenant Canine Crunch had there.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 17: That part of my building butts up against the hillside
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 17: that goes up to Lookout Circle and the water must
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 17: have just been flowing down that hillside. And we have
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 17: French trains back there, and they were working because the
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 17: water was shooting out through my alley into the into delta,
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 17: but it just was too much for it to handle
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 17: and water was coming through the walls. So we were
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 17: Friday night, we were there quite late, uh, mopping and
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 17: using the shop back and then it happened again. Uh
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 17: it was that Tuesday afternoon and we got a little
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 17: bit more water, but not near as bad. But a
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 17: lot of the businesses got again on Tuesday. So they
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 17: were cleaning up from Friday, and you know they had
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 17: to again.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, all right, well we're thinking of you, dear and
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 2: all of your neighbors.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 17: Yes, the support now looked out, and all the small
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 17: communities around us.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 7: You got it.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: Thanks Kim. Rice with us this morning on fifty five KRC,
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 2: the talk station.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 10: Another Master Class update is coming up a hard radio.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: At five minutes after eight o'clock on a Thursday morning, Gary,
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 2: Jeff walking with you. And it's been nearly a month,
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 2: month and a half ago that I first talked to
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: our next guest about the journey he and a buddy
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: from the military were going to embark upon. And on
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 2: July fourteenth, they left out of San Diego, California, on
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: a track all the way across the country in a
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: tandem bike ride for charity. The ride going from San
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: Diego to our nation's capital, the Pentagon in Washington, to Shanksville,
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 2: Pennsylvania to the nine to eleven Memorial Ground zero to
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: raise money for tunnel to towers in the twenty fifth
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 2: anniversary of nine to eleven. And they are about halfway
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: across the country, so I thought it was high time
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 2: we get an update from our bike riding friends, Jim
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 2: Serger and his buddy Corey Hardy. Jim, good morning, how
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: are we good morning.
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  Speaker 13: Gary, Jeff, thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 14: We are good.
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  Speaker 13: We are good. Just like you stated, we are halfway through.
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  Speaker 18: We are about forty miles outside of Missouri, so we're
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 18: in Kansas.
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  Speaker 13: Everything is going very well, very well.
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  Speaker 2: So how are you faring physically, my friend.
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  Speaker 13: Well, truth be told.
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  Speaker 18: Coming out of California, everything was great, you know, seventy
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  Speaker 18: five degrees right by the ocean, and then we got
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 18: on the other side of the mountains on the east
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  Speaker 18: side of me at about one hundred and fifteen degrees,
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 18: So everything was going well. And we alternated every hour
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 18: every two hours to make it through northern Arizona. And
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 18: then as I got into almost Utah, I could hardly breathe.
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  Speaker 13: I had a massive headache. And the altitude.
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  Speaker 18: Basically went from about twenty five hundred up to about
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  Speaker 18: seven thousand. And that's where Corey comes into play, because
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 18: Corey's from Montana, and I said, this is about time
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 18: for you to start rocking it out. You said, Jimmy,
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 18: no problem. So Corey was used to the altitude. I
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 18: was not, So I handled the flat areas and Corey
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 18: would climb the mountains.
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  Speaker 13: So as we got.
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  Speaker 18: Across into where they filmed Forrest Gump. We got some
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 18: nice shots of us riding down and riding back up.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 18: And as we approached into Colorado, there was a nine thousand,
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 18: nine hundred foot elevation. Corey went straight up eight miles
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 18: straight up the hill, and the reward we agreed on
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 18: would be you get to fly down for climbing. And
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 18: Corey climbed up and zoomed down about fifty nine miles
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 18: an hour for thirteen miles straight, didn't pedal one time,
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 18: got down to the bottom and he said, okay, Jimmy,
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 18: your turn, and then I would cycle where it's predominantly flat.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 18: And then we hit what's called Wolf Creek Pass where
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 18: the Continental Divide is, and Corey said, I got this
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 18: eleven thousand feet straight up nine and a half miles.
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  Speaker 13: And Corey zoomed and zoomed and zoomed.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 18: And did not take one break climbing up that mountain,
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 18: got all the way up to the top.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 13: I took the picture. He's like, I'll see at the
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 13: bottom in about thirty minutes. And he got up to
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  Speaker 13: sixty two miles.
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 18: An hour going down the Continental Divide at Wolf Creek passed,
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 18: and then we approached into Kansas and it was beautiful,
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 18: all flat and took us in there and I've been
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 18: riding and riding, riding, and then we hit what Dorothy
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 18: would say is a world win.
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  Speaker 13: Right, my goodness, the crosswinds, the headwinds. So we're doing
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 13: really well. It's going really well.
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 18: We stopped at probably ten or eleven fire stations from
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 18: San Diego to Oceanside, Arizona, Utah, introduced ourselves.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 13: I gave them a Tunnel to.
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  Speaker 18: Towers book that I created, and we got a patch
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 18: from every fire department so far.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 13: And what we're going to do is we're going to.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 18: Put that patch up at the bar right next to
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 18: the World Trade Center where all the patches are first
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 18: responders go. And they've been so receptive, so receptive, just
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 18: telling their stories about where they were on nine to eleven,
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 18: how it impacted their life. And a couple folks dropped
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 18: everything and headed all the way to the ground zero
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 18: to help out.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 13: So that's the mission.
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 18: The mission is Tunnel to Towers twenty fifth anniversary.
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 13: So every time I ride, my.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 18: Legs are hurt, and I say this is for somebody else,
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 18: no complaint in Jimmy, And that's what our goal has
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 18: been tunnel to towers period.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you, Jim. Now you were in the Navy, right, correct?
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 13: And together?
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: Oh I thought Corey was in the Marines.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 13: No, sir, he looks tougher than me, but he was
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 13: in the Navy.
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, he looks tougher, but he was in the Navy.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 2: See because when I thought that Corey was in the
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 2: Marines and you were in the Navy, what I'd always heard,
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: especially from Marines, is the Navy is the branch of
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 2: the service that makes coffee for the Marines. And I
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 2: wondered if you were making coffee for Corey on the
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 2: trip one percent.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 13: Yes, that is a good folklore, but it is a
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 13: little bit of truth to that.
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 18: We did drop off a lot of manes, and then
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 18: I would go back in and eat three meals and
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 18: shave and take a nice hot shower. And then they
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 18: would come in dredged in sand, you know, sweating like
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 18: crazy and haven't eaten in three days.
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 13: And I said, would you guys like a cup of coffee?
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 7: I just made this for you.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 13: So, yes, that's the old joke. You are absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 18: But now Corey and I served on the USS Independence
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 18: Aircraft carrier CB sixty two that is now Mothball. We
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 18: served in Yakuska, Japan together and we became buddies out there.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 18: That's what the military is about. And first responders as
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 18: camaradity across the board, and it has been special.
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 13: So I hadn't seen Corey in thirty years, and I
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 13: called him up.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 18: I said, how about you and I do something bigger
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 18: than ourselves and celebrate our heroes and give back to
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 18: those that have given so much in the ultimate sacrifice.
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 13: And he said, Jimmy, I'm in. Let's go. So we've
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 13: been busting it out across and.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 18: We'll be in Missouri here probably well before noon, and
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 18: then we'll just keep creeping along.
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  Speaker 2: So you're so good, Jim, you are better men than I.
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine riding a bike from San Diego across
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 2: the entire continent to our nation's capital and to Shanksville
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 2: and to the nine to eleven Memorial there in New
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 2: York City. And so are you still on target? For
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 2: you were hoping to make it in twenty days? Where
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 2: are we at on this around one hundred.
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 18: We're about one hundred and fifty miles behind right now.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 18: There was a couple of things we ran into. We
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 18: ran into major Monsoon's Weather Service advisory.
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 13: So the day same day Cincinnati got hit the.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 18: First round with storms in Mount Lookout, flag Staff was
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 18: getting the same thing, so we were behind. So then
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 18: when we got into Colorado, there was a little bit
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 18: of a fire about ten miles up, about thirteen hundred acres,
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 18: and we could not breathe at all, so we loaded
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 18: up the bikes and pulled off.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 13: So safety first, you know, we're unfamiliar with this territory.
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 13: But the cool thing was is.
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 18: When I broke in from Colorado into Kansas, the very
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 18: first store had a Home City Ice box and I
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 18: had to pull over and get the old Cincinnati founded
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 18: Home City Ice right there. So my little community ice
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 18: company right there was well represented in Kansas.
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 13: So big shout at the Home City Ice there in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic. Now, I know you've written books before. Are you
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 2: planning on writing a book about this journey?
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 13: You know, I've kept the journal the whole time, very
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 13: in depth.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 18: From the first time. I actually told my wife back
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 18: in early November that I'd like to do this. So
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 18: I've kept a journal day to day and over the
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 18: last fourteen days since I started venturing out to California
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 18: and then pulling back east towards the Pentagon. I've written
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 18: everything down with hundreds and hundreds of pictures, and Corey's
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 18: been behind it taking pictures as well. So yes, there
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 18: is a book on the horizon, you guarantee it. And
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 18: anything we can do to help Totals with Towers, that's
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 18: the mission here.
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 13: Yeah, we give the royalties back.
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're having We just had the dignified transfer of
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 2: four more America's fallen America's heroes from the combat mission
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 2: in Iran and in the Middle East and Tunnel to Towers.
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: This is just another reason why people should support Tunnel
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 2: to Towers. What they do for the families of those
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 2: who have given everything, not only the catastrophic injuries, but
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 2: surely the deaths as well of these brave heroes. And
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 2: if you want to help Jim and Corey raise money
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 2: money for Tunnel to Towers, you can go to Jim's
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 2: website Jimserger dot com. That's j I. M. S. E.
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 2: R G E R dot com and there's a Tunnel
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 2: to Towers icon there on the page right Jim.
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 13: Yes, sir, right there easy's busy.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 18: Just click it right there and automatically takes us to
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 18: our Tunnel to Towers page, just like you said, and
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 18: any domination is terrific.
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 13: Five bucks, twenty bucks, anything will help.
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 18: It goes to help those who have helped us so much, firefighters, police,
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 18: first responders, military, all across the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Well, God bless you, godspeed on the rest of your trip,
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  Speaker 2: and I will definitely I will continue to keep tabs
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 2: on you and make sure you're still still hoofing and
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 2: going uh still peddling along across the country. Jim Serger
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 2: and Corey Hardy on their way for Tunnel to Towers
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 2: in the twenty fifth anniversary of nine to eleven in
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 2: this year and in twenty twenty six. Man, you guys
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 2: are guys are something else. I appreciate your time as.
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  Speaker 13: Thanks for having me on. Gary, Jeff, you appreciate what you're.
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  Speaker 2: Doing all right. Eight fifteen now at fifty five KRS
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  Speaker 2: the talk station our Ryheart Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Music Festival pre sensed by Capitol West.
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  Speaker 2: Eight nineteen at fifty five krc DE talk station. Earlier
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 2: this week, guy named Fred Anderson got in touch with me.
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 2: He is a He is a public relations guru here
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 2: in town, and he's always pushing something or another. He's
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 2: good at it though. He's good at it, and he
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 2: was telling me about the third annual Loveland Shorts Film Festival.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 2: So my question first is who is filming people in
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 2: shorts and Loveland? And should I even think about watching
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 2: the films? Well, the guy who was the founder of
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 2: that film festival and Fred have joined us in studio
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 2: and they're here to talk about it now, Joe, if
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 2: you'll turn on their mics, we have Gary Giver.
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  Speaker 19: Good morning Gary, Jeff. I always heard you were a giver.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 19: I love to give, especially around Christmas.
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 2: Gary Giver. Now, tell me about the origins of this festival.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 19: Well, I am part of the Lovedon Stage Company and
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 19: I was looking for other types of entertainment to bring
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 19: into the stage company other than just theatrical performances.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, So I love.
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 19: Short films and came up the idea of bringing a
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 19: film festival. I also do a music series in conjunction
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 19: with coal Mine Records, well, bringing in their artists.
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, but film festival.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 19: I was looking for things that could be done in
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 19: just a night or a weekend and not using the
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 19: theater when it was in use for performances or preparing
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 19: for the performance.
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 2: So where do you have the film festival?
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 19: Well, it is at Love and Stage Company Theater, Okay,
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 19: in Loveland, Ohio.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 2: Okay. So what kind of films are you featuring?
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 19: Well, we do short films twenty minutes or less, all
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 19: bit the Loveland Shorts Film Festival. So the genres that
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 19: we have are horror, comedy, romance, animation, documentaries. And this
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 19: year we are introducing a new genre, family friendly films,
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 19: so people can actually, you know, feel comfortable bringing you know,
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 19: their kids in to see it.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 2: All right, family friendly films, yes, so it won't be
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 2: like the drags show they had at the Cincinnati Zoo
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 2: last week or anything like that.
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 11: Well, we hope not, we hope, okay.
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 2: And these these are filmmakers from all over the world.
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 19: We have films submitted from all over the world. This
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 19: year we had films from Russia, Japan, England, Mexico, Lithuania,
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 19: and Estonia. Local filmmakers as well, a lot of local filmmakers.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 19: That always amazed me the talent that we have in
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 19: this area. We actually have a couple films from the
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 19: Loveland area.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Okay, very nice, very nice. I mean, are these
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  Speaker 2: are these many times? Are they first time filmmakers? Are
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 2: they veteran filmmakers they've been making films for a while
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 2: or what both.
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  Speaker 19: We really encourage first time filmmakers because it's just amazing
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 19: that somebody sits on an idea and they think about
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 19: it for years and then they decide to make the
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 19: film and they're just so passionate about it. One of
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 19: our awards that we award to the different categories is
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 19: first time filmmaker. And then we also have a veteran
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 19: filmmakers that have been doing this for five, ten, twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, and when is this going on?
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  Speaker 19: So it is July thirty first, August first, and the
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 19: awards ceremony is August second.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what I mean? Do you have a name? I mean,
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 2: the Academy has the Oscars, there's the Emmys, there's the Tony's.
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 2: And do you have a name for your awards?
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 19: The Loveland Shorts Film Festival Award, So we shall have
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 19: a specific You should call them the Shorties.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. You should call them
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 2: the shorties. I love it. If you know I'm going
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 2: to trademark that sell it to you. How about that?
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 2: How about the short Lovely the short lovelies in the
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 2: Lovely Shorts?
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  Speaker 19: Great idea. I'm not sure how much I can pay
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 19: for it?
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 2: Well, great idea. Well see, yeah, is there what's the
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 2: charge for people to come and view the films?
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 19: So we have different categories that people can select. One
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 19: is a VIP pass that's thirty dollars a day, so
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 19: that includes a coffee hour, coming to the workshops, the screenings,
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 19: after parties, and we also do a pre event for
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 19: our VIP ticket holders on Thursday night that is a RSVP.
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 2: Only oh okay, and also the family.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 19: Yeah, we have the Family Friendly special on Friday morning.
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  Speaker 19: But another ticket option is just a standard day pass,
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 19: so that gets you into the films, the screenings, the workshops,
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 19: and the coffee hour. And then if people don't have
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 19: time to spend the entire day there, they can at
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 19: the ticket window on the day of the festival, they
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 19: can buy a ten dollars ticket to see a specific
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 19: block of films. Okay, so our blocks run anywhere. The
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 19: Family Friendly section runs for an hour. Most of the
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 19: blocks run for an hour and a half. On Saturday, evening.
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 19: We have a two hour block to close out the
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 19: festival before the awards.
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 2: Oh very good.
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 11: I tell you what.
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 2: We'll come back and just have a little clip from
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 2: one of the films, a music clip we're going to play,
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 2: and we'll talk a little bit more about the leveland
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 2: Shorts Film Festival, which again kicks in a week from
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 2: tomorrow in July thirty. First at the leveland Stage Theater
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 2: and find out what's is there?
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 19: Popcorn if you want to bring popcorn, absolutely okay.
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 2: So you don't provide popcorn, not even for VIPs, but
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 2: if you can bring some pop bring some popcorn if
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 2: you like, okay, because I can't. I can't watch movies
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 2: without some hot buttered popcorn. Eight twenty six at fifty
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 2: five KRC, The talk Station.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 3: Overdose deaths, once thought unsolvable.
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 16: We have made four of us what we'll call cold cases.
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  Speaker 11: Fifty five KRS The talk Station.
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  Speaker 4: Why Canny, Candy, Candy Sell.
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  Speaker 1: I know you'll think I'd lie and see others before.
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  Speaker 3: I saw your name and number.
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  Speaker 4: And got.
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  Speaker 2: A remix of the classic eight six seven five three
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 2: oh nine. It's done originally by Tommy two Tone in
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 2: the nineteen eighties. I know I played it when it
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 2: was new on the radio. And uh, and that's actually
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 2: Tommy two Tone in that revamp from one of the
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 2: films in the Loveland Shorts Film Festival. Which film is that?
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 13: From?
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 7: Here?
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  Speaker 19: It is a I failed to mention. One of our
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 19: genres is music videos. Okay, So that is one of
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 19: the music video films that was submitted.
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 2: Okay. Did Tommy submit that himself?
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 19: No, it was from a filmmaker in Saginaw, Michigan. I
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 19: think his name is Drake Welton. And but actually the
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 19: band is no Resolve there out of Michigan. But Tommy
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 19: two Tone is actually performing with the band for in the.
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 2: Value in the video. Okay. I his actual name is
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 2: Tommy Tucker, Okay. And I knew him after the fact.
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 2: I got to meet him going into another band show
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 2: in Nashville when I worked in Nashville, and he had
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  Speaker 2: remembered me from meeting him at a concert back when
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 2: the song was out when the record was a hit
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 2: back in the early eighties. And here we are meeting
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 2: up many years later. He's out of music, he's teaching.
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 2: He was a history teacher at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: That was his original degree before he got into music.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice to see that he's still getting his hand
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  Speaker 2: in in the machine, you know, to have fun with that. Now.
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  Speaker 15: I don't know if Tommy is going to be at
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 15: the festival himself, but I think Gary, didn't you say
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  Speaker 15: the filmmaker is planning to come.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, the filmmaker is coming down for the festival. And ye,
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  Speaker 19: I don't know if Tommy, I doubt it, but it
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  Speaker 19: would be nice if he was there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he wouldn't remember me, but I definitely remember
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 2: that encounter, the couple of encounters I had with Tommy
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 2: Tucker two tone cool stuff. You know, there were so
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 2: many of those many How many music videos do you
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  Speaker 2: have in the film festival?
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  Speaker 19: I think we had eight submitted and we are showing
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  Speaker 19: three in the film festival. Now excuse me four?
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  Speaker 13: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Who votes for the awards?
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  Speaker 19: Well, let me take just a minute to explain the process,
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  Speaker 19: all right, Because we had twenty three screeners. These are
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  Speaker 19: people that use that view every film or films that
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 19: are assigned to them, and we use a rubric where
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 19: we have six film related questions, like about the actors,
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 19: about the technical aspects. Just so everybody's voting on the
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 19: same thing. Every film that we have has seven at
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 19: least seven screeners looking at it, Okay, So they vote
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  Speaker 19: on that. And then we have a curation team, a
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  Speaker 19: much smaller team that selects the films for the festival.
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  Speaker 19: And from that we have a nominating team that selects
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 19: the team the films that will be nominated for the awards.
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  Speaker 19: Then we have five independent judges that are in the
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 19: film industry that will judge the films for the awards.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, very very cool. One of the judges.
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  Speaker 15: I don't know who all the judges are, but one
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  Speaker 15: of them is a former ABC Disney executive producer director.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so these are people.
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  Speaker 15: These are real film industry professionals.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I'd rather see the average slub be able to vote.
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  Speaker 2: But that's okay. So how do people get tickets?
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 19: Well, so we have a website Lovelandfilmfest dot org, so
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  Speaker 19: they can that's our website. They can learn more about
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 19: the festival and that's where they can get tickets, or
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  Speaker 19: they can go to the Loveland Stage Company website and
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  Speaker 19: buy tickets.
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  Speaker 2: There also all right Fantastic and the family Friendly Family
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  Speaker 2: Friendly Friday.
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  Speaker 14: Is that what?
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  Speaker 2: The session is? Family friendly? Next Friday, a week from tomorrow.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, that's Friday morning. I believe it starts at eleven
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  Speaker 19: and runs until noon. And again, tickets for that event
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  Speaker 19: are five dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Oh great. The Loveland Shorts Film Festival and if you've
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 2: I think, if you've been filming people in shorts in Loveland,
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 2: people wearing shorts in Loveland, you should maybe make a
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  Speaker 2: submission for year number four because I think that would
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  Speaker 2: be a fine short film. We'll think about that. Who
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  Speaker 2: wear short shorts?
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  Speaker 19: We wear shorts, and if you're coming to the festival,
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  Speaker 19: wear shorts.
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Great. Gary Giver a founder of the Loveland Shorts
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  Speaker 2: Film Festival. This is the third annual coming up next
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  Speaker 2: week Friday and Saturday, and the awards on Sundays. It
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  Speaker 2: was corrected at leveland Stage Theater there. Thanks gentlemen, have
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  Speaker 2: a fantastic weekend and look forward to next weekend.
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  Speaker 19: Jerry, Jeff, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: You bet you a breaking back on fifty five KRC
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  Speaker 2: the talk station.
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  Speaker 11: Insulate your home with you.
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 2: Congressman Morren Davidson, as we do every Thursday here on
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 2: the morning show. And if you heard that, you know,
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 2: he didn't have a whole lot of positive things to
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 2: say about where we are with the war in Iran.
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 2: And as he mentioned, let's let's make no mistake, this
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 2: is a war. It's not an excursion, it's not an
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 2: operation at this point, and by many measures, we're kind
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 2: of behind the eight ball because maybe we didn't do
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 2: things we should have done at points previous. But he
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 2: also mentioned, and I agree with him, this was not
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  Speaker 2: a war of choice. The timing may have been of choice,
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 2: and it may have been a poor choice, may have
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 2: been a good choice as far as when we did
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  Speaker 2: what we have done, but this was forty seven years
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 2: coming President Trump making up for what other presidents have
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 2: not done, and not because it was always intractable, and
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 2: it was always it's always going to be difficult, obviously,
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 2: but it flew in the face of actually campaign promises.
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 2: One of the things that I've appreciated about President Trump
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 2: is that, for the most part, he has kept his
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 2: campaign promises. He did his best to keep what he
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 2: had promised in the first term, and I believe he's
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 2: done his best to keep to what he has promised
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 2: in the second term. Let's not make this a forever
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 2: war though, because he promised no more forever wars, no
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 2: more endless wars. He didn't promise no more wars, no
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 2: more foreign wars. He promised no more endless wars. And
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 2: at this point things are you know, again, We're not
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 2: at the twenty year mark like we were with Afghanistan.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 2: We're not at seven or eight years in like with Iraq.
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  Speaker 2: But it is getting a little long in the tooth
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 2: for American's taste, especially after Afghanistan and Iraq and everything
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 2: that we went through there and the prolongated war, protracted
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 2: war in Vietnam. Of course that seemed like what's the mission?
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 2: But the President is saying now this week that the
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 2: US will hit Iran's power plants, plant power plants, and
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 2: bridges if Tehran or the IRGC continues to attack ships
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 2: in the Gulf, in the Straight of Hormuz and the
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 2: neighbors of Iran in the Middle East who have been
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 2: on our side. I don't know what's going to happen.
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 2: You don't know what's going to happen, and none of
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 2: us are experts on what should happen next. But the
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 2: fact is we're there now, and I think the point
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 2: is we've got We've got to find a way to
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 2: finish this and soon, not just for political reasons, not
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 2: for the price of oil, but a final settling of
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 2: the score. When Iran took our country's embassy, American citizens hostage.
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 2: International embassies are supposed to be American soil. The US
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 2: embassy in Tehran was American soil. That was attacked by
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 2: the revolutionary Iranians. That was American soil. That's a declaration
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 2: of war. When you attack American soil, that was a
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 2: declaration of war. And I don't think we ever responded
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 2: correctly to that declaration. We finally did respond, maybe forty
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 2: seven years too late, and maybe that's the biggest problem.
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 2: Fred on the subject of Iran, your thoughts, well, my.
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 8: Thoughts are that things are going along absolutely fabulously in
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 8: Iran when you look at the fact that you know,
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 8: you're right on the money there with the fact that
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 8: this should have been dealt with a long time ago.
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 8: But now Trump is dealing with it, and the way
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 8: he is dealing with it is going to give us
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 8: long term stability in it. All of the people around
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 8: Iran now are turning on Iran and they're supporting our
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 8: position because they don't want any more of this long
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 8: term problem.
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 13: Either.
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 8: The Kurds are now starting to move in ground forces
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 8: in there and you know, taking up the fact that
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 8: we don't have to go in on the ground on it.
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 8: So that's perfect. The other part of it is when
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 8: you look at the losses that the military has had
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 8: under these Trump wars, we're losing fewer people in war
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 8: than we lose in training.
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, that's an excellent point, Fred, And
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 2: and that's two reasons for that.
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 2: One is because because of technology, warfare has radically changed.
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 2: A lot more of it is sitting behind a computer
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 2: keyboard in front of a screen, you know, with with
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 2: the technology we have. And the other part is he's
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 2: been very very careful in particular, and I believe that
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 2: the President does understand, uh, asking someone to put their
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 2: life on the line, and he does not do that
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 2: easily or casually.
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 8: Well, this is a wrap up mission here for the
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 8: other things that are going on. When you look at
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 8: all the evil money that's been running around the world,
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 8: a lot of it is run through Iran, and a
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 8: lot of it was run through Venezuela.
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 5: And and look at what we've.
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 8: Done once, Once those those financial faucets are cut off,
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 8: the deep state is going to be, you know, starving
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 8: on the lines out there. So this is a wrap
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 8: up war that is going to end, could be the
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 8: end of war permanently for a while, or at least
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 8: for a good long time.
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, And when Venezuela happened, I said, this
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 2: is as much about communists China and their ambitions in
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 2: South America as it is the illegal drug and the
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 2: fentanyl issue, or the cocaine issue and Maduro's obvious criminality.
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 2: This has as much to do with China, and I
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 2: think I think Iran has as much to do with
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 2: China as it's twofold. It is answering a declaration of
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 2: war that the Iotolas and the Islamist issued back in
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy nine. And it is about China because so
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 2: much of that Iranian oil was going to China cheaply,
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 2: because China was circumventing the sanctions that we had put
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 2: on Iran to try and detur their nuclear ambitions. Anyway,
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 2: back to wrap up in just a few it's eight
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  Speaker 2: forty eight. Garry Jeffinn for Bryan on fifty five KRC
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  Speaker 2: the talk station high and it gets hot and humid,
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 2: I mean like real hot and real humid a lot
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 2: of places, especially down south Mississippi or that state. If
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 2: you've ever been in Mississippi in July or August, you
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 2: know how uncomfortably hot it can be, and it can
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 2: move someone to you know, down less clothing than maybe
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 2: they would at other times of the year. Well, in
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 2: the town of Ellisville, Mississippi, which has a population of
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 2: like forty six hundred people, it would be one of
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 2: those prime targets for a he haw salute, remember those.
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 2: A woman, Uh, it may have been the heat, it
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 2: may have been the humidity, it may have been the stupidity,
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 2: or it may have been the pot was driving completely
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 2: naked erradically. When the police stopped her in the town
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 2: of Ellisville, they discovered that driver Caitlin Maxwell, aged twenty two,
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 2: was unencumbered by any clothing. I love that word. Not naked,
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 2: not naked as a jaybird. Unencumbered by clothing sounds like
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 2: my wife. My wife doesn't like to wear clothes, but
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 2: it's usually just in the house, not driving around. When
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 2: police pulled her over driving erratically, they discovered in her
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 2: twenty seventeen Dodge Challenger, which wreaked a pot by the way,
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 2: and I'd say that'd be unsurprisingly to me looking at
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 2: the rest of this story, appeared to be under the influence,
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 2: and I think that's quite possible as well. I wasn't there.
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 2: I didn't get the toxicology report. The search of the
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 2: vehicle turned up also a glock handgun at her feet,
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 2: because if you're driving naked in a car and you're
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 2: high on marijuana, you want to make sure you've got
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 2: some protection, right, another block wedged between the passenger seat
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 2: and the center console, and in the trunk a third
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 2: block and two a off AR fifteens which appeared to
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 2: be an outfitted with a switch that would make I'm
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 2: fully automatic. An arrestment or arrest of assortment of felony
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 2: and misdemeanor counts Maxwell's arrested for. During police questioning, Maxwell
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 2: said that her boyfriend Sean Cooley used a three D
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 2: printer to make switches for the Air fifteen singuess, and
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 2: a subsequent arrest at Cooley's residence resulted in the arrest
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 2: for possession of machine gun conversion devices and the seizure
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 2: of small arsenal, Not like she didn't have a small
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 2: arsenal in the car when she was driving nude. But
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 2: I blame the heat and the humidity of Mississippi, not
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 2: the pot, not the paranoia. It just got too hot.
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 2: Chances are if she hadn't been high and naked, she
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 2: might have gotten away with it all, and nobody would
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 2: have been the wiser. Perhaps we'll be back with you
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 2: tomorrow morning.