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55KRC Thursday Show - Congressman Davidson, Eric Conroy, Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 505.
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  Speaker 2: The 55KRC.
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  Speaker 1: The Talk Station.
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  Speaker 3: Friday Eve. I had no idea what was going on. Well,
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  Speaker 3: neither do I. A lot of times I don't. Anyhow,
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  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas right here. Glad to be glad to see
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  Speaker 3: Joe Strucker where he belongs. As I always like to
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  Speaker 3: point out, executive producer Joe Strucker, making sure the show
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  Speaker 3: goes and lining up guests here on the 55 KRC
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  Speaker 3: morning show, including 705 with Congressman Warren Davidson. Got some
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  Speaker 3: great stuff to talk about with Congressman Warren Davidson, including U.S.
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  Speaker 3: economy is doing really, really well. You know, reading all
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  Speaker 3: these articles, you know, job growth is up, inflation measure,
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  Speaker 3: the key inflation measure is down, lower than expected, the
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  Speaker 3: economy is accelerating. Flying in the face of the narrative
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  Speaker 3: that we're all going to die, it reminded me of
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  Speaker 3: downtown Cincinnati where you have the elected officials saying, there's
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  Speaker 3: no crime. We have no crime down here. It's an illusion.
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  Speaker 3: You're just making things up. Well, we're surrounded by articles
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  Speaker 3: about gloom and doom. The economy is terrible. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: wait a minute. The statistics don't bear that out. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Pretty overwhelming. We can go over the details, some of
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  Speaker 3: the statistics that came out, but by all general measures,
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  Speaker 3: with the loan exception of gasoline being very expensive, it's
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  Speaker 3: not knocking us back on our heels economically speaking. Spending
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  Speaker 3: is up and business purchases are up, so it's all
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  Speaker 3: good news out there. I guess you just got to
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  Speaker 3: look for it. I wonder if anybody else is reporting
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  Speaker 3: it other than conservative outlets. Anyway, Congressman Davidson will talk
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  Speaker 3: about that. We'll also talk about the three bills that
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  Speaker 3: actually have really broad support from Americans who were passed
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  Speaker 3: by the House. The ban on congressional stock trading, protecting
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  Speaker 3: families from electric rate hikes, and voter ID, the SAVE Act. Well,
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  Speaker 3: Chuckie Schumer's got different ideas for those things, even though
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  Speaker 3: basically 80% of Americans want those. 80% of Americans means, well,
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  Speaker 3: people from all political stripes. Look, those enjoy bipartisan support.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer, screw you people. We can't give Trump an
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  Speaker 3: election year victory. That's it. They know it's what we want.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a sad reflection of the reality we live
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  Speaker 3: in right now. Something that's good for the American people.
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  Speaker 3: You would think that since so many people are interested
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  Speaker 3: in these pieces of legislation, they put aside their Trump
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  Speaker 3: derangement syndrome for just a moment. put aside their other
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  Speaker 3: political difference just a moment and deliver for the American people.
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  Speaker 3: And they could even come out and say it that way. Look,
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  Speaker 3: we don't want to give Donald Trump a victory and
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  Speaker 3: ahead of, and we don't even do this as a
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump victory. You know why? Because we Democrats are
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  Speaker 3: joining with Republicans requiring both sides to get together to
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  Speaker 3: pass these pieces of legislation. In spite of the fact,
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's going to go around and want to take
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  Speaker 3: credit for all of it. We also supported it. Ergo,
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  Speaker 3: we can take credit for it. So support your Democrat candidate.
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  Speaker 3: And fundamentally, uh, I know that it'd be a cold
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  Speaker 3: day in hell when Chuckie Schumer would do that, but
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  Speaker 3: this is what we're up against here. So we've got
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  Speaker 3: unemployment rate lowest in Ohio history. Lots of figures out
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  Speaker 3: of August. Bringing manufacturing back to Ohio, encouraging investment. Sounds
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  Speaker 3: very much Ramaswamy-esque, doesn't it? Biden-era Title IX rescinded. That's
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  Speaker 3: what the Trump administration did. So your daughter won't have
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  Speaker 3: to pay against a burly, hairy, oversized man. And Trump's
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  Speaker 3: $ 810 million OMB rescissions under the Impound Control Act cut
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  Speaker 3: subsidies for illegals and foreign nationals and DEI programs. So further,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's kind of like doge work still being done.
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  Speaker 3: Good stuff with Congressman Warren Davidson. Eric Conroy, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's running for Congress against Greg Lansman. Eric's been on
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  Speaker 3: the program before. Good guy he is. He may be
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  Speaker 3: in studio, but he will be joining the program at 8.05,
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  Speaker 3: whether he calls in or walks on in. I'll take
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  Speaker 3: him either way. We'll hear from Eric Conroy at 8.05.
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  Speaker 3: And then, of course, Big day for Jay Ratliff, iHeartMedia
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  Speaker 3: aviation expert, considering this what could have been a very
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  Speaker 3: 9-11-style attack yesterday. And the ripple effect is profound. This
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  Speaker 3: is an act of heroism. This is one of those
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  Speaker 3: going to go down in history as one guy stepping
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  Speaker 3: up to the plate and preventing absolute meltdown and chaos.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's believed that the co-pilot on this flight from
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  Speaker 3: Tel Aviv to Dubai is the one who stabbed the
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  Speaker 3: pilot and then endeavored to crash the plane into the ground. Frightening.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you look at the trajectory. This plane did
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  Speaker 3: a nosedive after the co-pilot stabbed the pilot.
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  Speaker 2: And it.
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  Speaker 3: They fought for five minutes, apparently, after they regained control
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  Speaker 3: of the plane. They disabled or pulled the terrorist out
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  Speaker 3: of the cockpit, the co-pilot. And a lot of details
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  Speaker 3: on that have come out. But then wrestled and struggled
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  Speaker 3: to get the plane back on track because it had
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  Speaker 3: been damaged by the rapid dive. The plane lost 15,000
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  Speaker 3: feet in less than a minute. And apparently that ruined
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  Speaker 3: one of the stabilizers.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: It was actually a section of the plane's rudder, which
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  Speaker 3: controls side-to-side movements, ripped from the tail, as shown by
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  Speaker 3: images of the aircraft after it landed. So that's serious,
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  Speaker 3: and I can't wait to Jay Ratliff enlightens me and
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  Speaker 3: us collectively on how that can possibly happen. But that's
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  Speaker 3: how horrific it was. It dropped from above 30,000 feet
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  Speaker 3: to just over 10,000 feet in a matter of a minute.
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  Speaker 3: And that obviously resulted in a bunch of people having
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  Speaker 3: to change their underwear, if I can be half-joking about
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  Speaker 3: the harrowing reality of this. Co-pilot stabbed the plane's captain.
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  Speaker 3: Captain fought back, was able, by all accounts, to open
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  Speaker 3: the cockpit door, which allowed the heroes to run in.
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  Speaker 3: Yaniv Hayon, passenger. He's the one. He and another man
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  Speaker 3: found the door was unlocked. It was blocked by the
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  Speaker 3: pilot who was stabbed, so they shoved it open. That's
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  Speaker 3: when he saw the injured captain on the ground. As
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  Speaker 3: the attacking pilot hovered over the controls, he said, I
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  Speaker 3: grabbed the attacker, put him in a chokehold, and took
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  Speaker 3: him outside the cockpit. Now, while those guys got medical care, fortunately,
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  Speaker 3: there were another couple of pilots on board. How fortuitous
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  Speaker 3: was this? Apparently on board to operate the next flight,
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  Speaker 3: they took control of the plane. And that's when they
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  Speaker 3: fought to stabilize the plane. And fortunately, they were able
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  Speaker 3: to do it and landed the plane successfully. They apparently
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  Speaker 3: issued a radio signal early on signaling a general emergency.
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  Speaker 3: They called a squawk 7700. But then, of course, several
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  Speaker 3: minutes later, they changed it to an alert code signaling
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  Speaker 3: unlawful interference, which is an attempt to jeopardize the safety
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  Speaker 3: of the airplane, like hijacking. Pilots steered the plane to
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  Speaker 3: an emergency landing site in the Saudi city of Tabuk.
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  Speaker 3: About 170 passengers. Safe, accounted for, still alive thanks to
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  Speaker 3: the amazing act of heroism. Just amazing. Now, they've initially
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  Speaker 3: identified the co-pilot as, I guess, an Omani guy. Don't
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  Speaker 3: yet have a theory about the motive or whether others
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  Speaker 3: might have been involved. And the pilot... identified by the
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  Speaker 3: Indian embassy as Smit Machar. Now, that's pretty wild. Moving
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  Speaker 3: aside the cultural differences in language, M-A-C-H-C-H-H-R, there seems to
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  Speaker 3: be a consonant missing in there. Anyway, he was called
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  Speaker 3: brave and was getting the medical care he needed. Fortunately,
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  Speaker 3: he did not die. Now, Fly Dubai, the airline in
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  Speaker 3: this one, said it was suspending flights to and from
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  Speaker 3: Israel while the investigation into the incident continues, but it's
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  Speaker 3: odd because one of the few airlines that actually flies
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  Speaker 3: in and out of Israel, Fly Dubai, in defiance of,
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  Speaker 3: of course, the Iranians who threaten any country who does
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  Speaker 3: any business with Israel. And therein lies the big challenge, because,
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  Speaker 3: of course, if this is the one airline that's actually
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  Speaker 3: flying people in and out of Israel to other places,
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  Speaker 3: if a terrorist attack blows the plane up or otherwise
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  Speaker 3: results in a mass death like this, then they might
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  Speaker 3: be inclined to stop those flights. Like, you know, getting
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  Speaker 3: a boat through the Strait of Hormuz when the Iranians
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  Speaker 3: are threatened to blow everything up. It tends to bring
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  Speaker 3: things to a screeching halt. And it reminded me, in post-9-11,
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  Speaker 3: And my dad thinking that they were actually going to
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  Speaker 3: be going to France the next day. Yes, 9-11. My
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  Speaker 3: parents would be leaving on 9-12 to go to France
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  Speaker 3: on vacation. Dad was thoroughly convinced after 9-11 that the
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  Speaker 3: planes would be flying the next day because there wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be a safer day to fly ever in the history
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  Speaker 3: of air travel, thought my dad. Well, the authorities had
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  Speaker 3: different ideas about it. We all know what happened to
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  Speaker 3: the economy, the stock market tanked and all that. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if this was, I don't know because thankfully
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  Speaker 3: it didn't happen. But, you know, if you're speculating and
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  Speaker 3: wondering if the Iranians had anything to do with it,
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  Speaker 3: I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that
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  Speaker 3: they did because it helps them. It disrupts commerce and industry.
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  Speaker 3: It shows that they can still be a threat to
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  Speaker 3: the region. And the Iranians had been persuading countries like
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  Speaker 3: the United Arab Emirates to cut air links from the
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  Speaker 3: country under threat of, yeah, like being blown up or
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  Speaker 3: being targeted.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: Again, Jay Ratt will be talking about this, but in
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  Speaker 3: the final analysis, it's amazing what one or just a
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  Speaker 3: couple of people can accomplish with this. reminded that Flight
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  Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh sacrificed their life to save many other people.
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  Speaker 3: We have no idea what might have happened had they
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  Speaker 3: not engaged in an act of heroism and sacrificed their
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  Speaker 3: own life for the good of the order, for the
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  Speaker 3: betterment of mankind and This one at least didn't happen.
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  Speaker 3: Thank God. 515-55KRC, the talk station. Gary, hang on, brother.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be happy to get your call. Just looked up
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  Speaker 3: and saw you on the call screen, but we'll be
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  Speaker 3: Ken Comer on cameras in the parking lots, which are
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: now going to be a thing in the city of Cincinnati.
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: And I'm going to grab New Hampshire Gary's call here,
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: but it's 10 minutes until the strike begins. Apparently, the
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: Princeton City School buses aren't going to run today because, well,
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: they're in the middle of a contract dispute. Union leadership
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  Speaker 3: and first informed first student incorporated, which is the contractor.
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  Speaker 3: that drivers will be walking off the job at 5.30
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  Speaker 3: this morning. So it sucks to be you, and apparently
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  Speaker 3: the backlog of people dropping off children with automobiles at
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  Speaker 3: Princeton is going to be a real pain because even
• 11:19
  Speaker 3: with bus service, it's reported that it can get really
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  Speaker 3: backed up up there. So gird your loins, prepare yourself.
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  Speaker 3: You have been forewarned. Let's see what Gary's got this morning. Gary,
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  Speaker 3: welcome to the show, and happy Friday Eve to you.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Brian.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, this is a real paradox that we're in, as
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  Speaker 7: I see it, with the Dubai flights. One hand, we're
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  Speaker 7: in a green pilot shortage, and they're talking about going
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  Speaker 7: down to one pilot and letting them take care of that.
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  Speaker 7: That would have been a disaster. But on the other hand,
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  Speaker 7: we're finding out that this is not the first, second,
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  Speaker 7: or third time that pilots have tried to commit suicide
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  Speaker 7: or have committed suicide. in a plane by crashing it
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  Speaker 7: down in the last 10 years. So maybe they ought
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  Speaker 7: to go to three pilots. But then the question comes,
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  Speaker 7: where are you going to get the qualified pilots?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if there's a demand in the world and pilots,
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  Speaker 3: I understand, make a decent living. Maybe people will go
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  Speaker 3: off to pilot school and become airline pilots. You know,
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  Speaker 3: where there's a demand and where the salary dangling salary
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  Speaker 3: carrot is there, you tend to end up finding people
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  Speaker 3: that are willing to take those positions. But it does
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  Speaker 3: take time. You've got to adjust to it. I can't
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  Speaker 3: imagine them requiring three pilots, though. I guess it was
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  Speaker 3: the Air Egypt Flight 990 along with the French Alps
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  Speaker 3: Flight 9525, which both of them were rammed into the
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  Speaker 3: ground by someone intentionally flying me into the ground or
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  Speaker 3: in the water. That led to the requirements that two
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  Speaker 3: crew members be in the cockpit at all times. I
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  Speaker 3: just can't really quite imagine three being in there. There
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  Speaker 3: used to be a navigator there. Remember those days? You've
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  Speaker 3: got to watch old movies to see that.
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  Speaker 7: Well, they call them jump seat pilots, and most of
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  Speaker 7: them get shuttled around from one airport to another. And,
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  Speaker 7: you know, there's always usually a pilot on, you know,
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  Speaker 7: one out of every probably half the flights because they're
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  Speaker 7: shuffling around. from point A to point B.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I guess that was the case here because there
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  Speaker 3: was two extra pilots that I guess were going to
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  Speaker 3: be taking over controls onto the next flight.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so here's the problem. When I say fully qualified,
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  Speaker 7: I don't mean DEI. A lot of these airlines are
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  Speaker 7: hiring people that are really kind of questionable about their backgrounds. Like,
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  Speaker 7: for example, this was an Indian pilot you know, flying
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  Speaker 7: for Dubai, right? And the reason that the co-pilot wasn't
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  Speaker 7: able to fly domestically in Israel is because there was
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  Speaker 7: some sort of a domestic thing. They had to have
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  Speaker 7: somebody not, you know, because they have internal regulations, kind
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  Speaker 7: of like the United States. We just don't allow anybody
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  Speaker 7: to run in our domestic areas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like vetting requirements or like having an English language
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  Speaker 3: requirement to drive a truck in the United States of America.
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  Speaker 3: Not every country in the world has that. Everybody's entitled
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  Speaker 3: to their own rules and regulations for what they perceive
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  Speaker 3: to be threats to their population and their people, so
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  Speaker 3: that's fine.
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  Speaker 7: Well, no, no, I'm saying that's fine. I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. What's your point on DE? How did
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  Speaker 3: that creep in here? Because I'm thinking to myself, geez,
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  Speaker 3: we're overwhelmed in a society that thinks DEI is important. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you might have a doctor performing surgery on
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  Speaker 3: you that only got to the level of being approved
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  Speaker 3: for surgery because, well, he passed the DEI smell test.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is a problem that's pervasive in society.
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  Speaker 7: I believe that it was United Airlines, or it was
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  Speaker 7: either United or American, said that over 50% of their
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  Speaker 7: hires between now and 2030 were only going to be
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  Speaker 7: DEI hires. That was their goal. I don't know if
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  Speaker 7: they still stuck to it.
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  Speaker 3: How could they stick to something if their goal is
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  Speaker 3: to achieve a DEI level that they can't find qualified
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  Speaker 3: people within the subset of people they want to hire?
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  Speaker 3: That's when you walk away from your stupid rule that
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  Speaker 3: has nothing to do with anything except virtue signaling.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's true. What they were thinking of is they
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  Speaker 7: have an unusually large crash team. crash or what is
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  Speaker 7: it say incident incident reports from most of their hires
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  Speaker 7: because they're rushing process.
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  Speaker 3: I don't I haven't seen that I have to take
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  Speaker 3: your word for it but you know again this is
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  Speaker 3: a problem that transcends any particular industry you know welcome
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  Speaker 3: to airline pilots we're all putting our lives in the
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  Speaker 3: hands of somebody else at some point which is why
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  Speaker 3: we should insist on oh I don't know merit as
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  Speaker 3: the only qualifier for any given position Appreciate it, Gary.
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  Speaker 3: $ 750 million? Well, why don't you turn to one of
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  Speaker 3: the many piles of cash you've got that You seem
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: to be able to access in random times, again, going
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: back to these $ 600 million that you pulled out of
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  Speaker 3: the unclaimed funds pile of money for the Cleveland Browns Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody complained about that. It's up here on the 55KRC
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  Speaker 3: Morning Show. Good morning, Jay. Bobby, welcome to the show, man.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Friday Eve to you.
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  Speaker 8: Well, good morning to you, my friend. Faith, flag, family,
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  Speaker 8: and you know the rest.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 8: What would you like to discuss today?
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  Speaker 3: You called, man. I can't make stuff up for you, Bobby.
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  Speaker 8: You don't have to make stuff up for me. Just
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: pull anything out of the air. We're going to handicap
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  Speaker 8: it today.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's Thursday. Two and a half.
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  Speaker 3: It is Thursday. Well, wait a second. Is today one
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  Speaker 3: of the days in the county? Because it was 1230
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: this morning that a person got shot. 400 block of
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  Speaker 3: Grand Avenue. All right. It started right out of the gate, man.
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  Speaker 3: So is that already one on the road to 2.5?
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  Speaker 3: Joe says yes, it is. Today's included.
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  Speaker 7: They're all included, my friend. I'm just worried about one thing.
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  Speaker 7: Spent cartridges.
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  Speaker 8: How many spent cartridges have they accumulated this year?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, if we had the ShotSpotter technology and
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: you and I were given the information about how many
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  Speaker 3: rounds were squeezed off, we wouldn't have to go collect
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  Speaker 3: shell casings. We'd just count the number of gunfire we hear.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know yourself, when you put a shell casing
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: and stuff in a magazine, you have a lot of
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: fingerprints on those things.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: True.
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: And there's ballistics on the shell casings and everything from
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: each individual firearm. True. Now, why don't they accumulate those?
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: Where are they at? And have they been checking them for,
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: you know, consistency? That's what I want to know. You'd
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: have thousands of them.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: You probably would.
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: Well, they got a special room that they keep them in.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Right. Spent casing storage facility. They probably have a request
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: for funding for that because it's not in the budget, Bobby.
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: Well, maybe the BTI could take care of it.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Perhaps, Bobby, the smarter criminals would start using shotguns because
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: there is no rifling using a shotgun shell, nor is
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: there a spent casing evidence on any given spent casing,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: at least as I understand it from a shotgun. They're
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: not unique.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: All I know, my friend, is just a sad situation,
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: and it truly is.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Moving away from the practical realities of leaving evidence laying around, yes,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: you were dead on right on that, Bobby. So two
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: and a half, are you going under in the name
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: of optimism, or are you just going to go ahead
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: and give it up and say over because we've already
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: started counting this morning?
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: I'm a very optimistic person, but, you know, I've got
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: to take the over.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I kind of thought you'd go that way. That's where
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: the smart money goes. Bobby, appreciate it, man. 2.5 says Bobby.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Keep your counter going. All right. so new security rules
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: for parking lots. It's passed. As dumb as it is,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: we had FOP President Ken Cobran talking about this brilliant
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: idea to keep guns from being stolen out of cars
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: requiring 24-hour days, seven-day security cameras or on-site staff and
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: other security members for Right, parking garages and parking lots.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: They say about 200 properties downtown could be affected, including
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: city-owned facilities. Going back to the fund statistic, 324 firearms
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: stolen from vehicles last year, 100 of which roughly were
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: used in the commission of crime. Going back to Bobby's point,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: under the version advanced by the city council's budget finance
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: and governance committee, parking garages would need to either have
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: an attendant on site during operating hours, Or cameras covering
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: vehicle and pedestrian entrances and exits. Now, I paused when
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I said during operating hours. Well, I don't know what
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: operating hours are for a parking garage. Some of them
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: then close. So if they're closed, does that mean there
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: are no cars in there that might have firearms inside them?
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: The devil's always in the details, isn't it? Surface parking
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: lots would have different requirements based on their layout. Operators
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: could use on-site staff or a combination of cameras and
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: perimeter security. Lots without a perimeter could use cameras designed
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: to cover the entire parking area. I'm just reading what's
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: been reported. New lighting standards apparently in the rules for
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: parking lots and garage. Better visibility, they claim, will help
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: deter theft and improve safety. All those neighborhoods without streetlights, Joe,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: they could use this as an illustration. Well, wait a second.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: You're responsible for lighting in any given neighborhood, city council.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Can we have some lights, please? Well, you can't offload
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: that expenditure to any given property owner, which they've taken
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: advantage of right here. Well, parking lot owners can afford
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: this expenditure. Make them do it. Ann Albee, or Ann Albee, rather,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: quoted as saying, since that council member, you're keeping track,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Ann Albee, she's one of them, A parking lot would
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: require either an attendant present or having cameras at the
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: entrances and exits of parking lots. If there is a
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: perimeter or fence or something, you can have cameras at
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: the entrance and exit or an attendant. If there is
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: no perimeter or anything, you can have an attendant or
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: have cameras that somehow cover the entire space. Close quote.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Nice.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Anyway, I'm guessing, does the perimeter just mean a fence?
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Does it mean a parking garage that is, you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: bordered by other adjacent buildings that don't allow free flow
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: and access in and out of the garage itself? You
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: don't think Albie knows, Joe? Okay, I'm kind of puzzling
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: over that myself. City officials have, here, let me quote
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Nina Oliverio from the Cincinnati Exchange. City officials have cited
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: police data showing that more than 70% of stolen firearms
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: come from vehicles and that many vehicle thefts occur in
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: surface parking areas. So hold on here. 30% of the
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: firearms that have been stolen out there aren't even involved
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: in this so-called solution. And some vehicles that have firearms
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: stolen from them aren't in parking garages or parking lots
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: like Charmaine McGuffey's driveway. So this isn't going to solve
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: the problem completely. I don't think anybody ever thought it was, but,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: you know, they guys have to protect their funny baloney
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: job and act like they're doing something. And as Ken
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Cobra pointed out the other day, you want to lower crime,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: direct your attention to the court systems in Hamilton County.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: And my listening audience can vote for tough on crime judges,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: not renewing the current slated judges, which have all been
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: demonstrably soft on crime, leading to a broadly perceived and
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: understood problem with recidivism. There's no concern over being prosecuted
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: in this county. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. Feel free to give me
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: a call. Got a stack.
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: Of 55KRC Detox Station.
• 24:02
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• 24:07
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• 24:10
  Speaker 3: who called earlier, listen when you're in New Hampshire. Or
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: listen to it wherever you happen to be. My wife
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: uses the iHeartMedia app. Good morning, Paulette. See here. Over
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: to the stack of stupid. We go to a Kroger
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: in Rosenberg, Texas. 4.30 in the morning over the weekend
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: on Sunday. Employees were stocking the shelves. The store had
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: not yet been opened. And then an SUV drove right
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: through the glass in the front of the store into
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: the Kroger. According to Rosenberg police in their Facebook post,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: on Sunday, September 27th, about 4.28, a known Male individual
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: intentionally accelerated into Kroger causing extensive damage to the pharmacy entrance.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Further investigation revealed the driver, you ready, needed to use
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: the restroom and was upset the doors were locked.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: What?
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Thank God no injuries reported. The idiot James Mansell Lancaster Jr.,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: 6D Natchez, Mississippi resident. According to the New York Times,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: he created about $ 50, 000 worth of damage to the store.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I love this. It was not revealed whether he made
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: it to the restroom that he crashed into the store
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: to use. Charged with criminal mischief causing greater than $ 30, 000
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: in property damage and less than $ 150, 000, therefore a third-degree felony.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: It was in the Fort Bend County Jail last report. Now,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: this is odd. Kroger officials said they wouldn't release the
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: security footage of the incident.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: What?
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: The safety of our associates and customers is one of
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: our core values. What's that got to do with releasing
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: the security footage? It would be rather interesting to see that. Anyway,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: assuming he's charged, I'm certain the prosecutors get a hold
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: of it. Maybe you'll end up seeing it. 29-year-old mom
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: arrested after police said she left her four children at
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: home while she went on a cruise. Idiots doing idiot
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: things because they're idiots. Nathalie Belisere. Arrested and charged with
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: four counts of child neglect. Judge said you were arrested
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: for four counts of child neglect. Official said that September 24th,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: she posted what appeared to be a cruise ticket for
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Carnival Cruise Line on social media. Same day, she allegedly
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: told a man, maybe the father of her two-month-old daughter.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Maybe she doesn't know who the father is. I don't know. Anyway,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: she told this guy that she will be, quote, dropping
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: the children off with their great-grandmother, close quote. The judge
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: said one baby. The baby was born in July of
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: this year. Who just leaves a baby alone like that?
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Good question. A few days later, the man said he
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: went to the home and found the children there all alone.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Police kicked the door in, I guess, forced their way
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: in anyway, found the children hiding in the bathroom. There
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: are words from the arrest report. Children appear to be shaken.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: The investigators say this Belize Zare woman left all four
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: children alone, including a two-month-old, a two-year-old, and with no
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: adult supervision at all. traveled out of town aboard the
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: cruise ship, disembarked, and was arrested at the Port of
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Miami where officers were waiting for her, taken into custody
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: in the North Miami Beach Police Department. And, of course,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: the judge said, you can't have contact with your children.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Who does that?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: You moron.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: It's worse than that.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: 545.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: 55 KRCD Talk Station. Hey, Joe, what's the likelihood that
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: those children will end up in front of a juvenile
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: court judge in some court sometime down the road? Highly.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: He's going with you over on that. Don't go away.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: We've got... Talk Station. 550-55 KRCD Talk Station. Back to
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: the stack of stupid. We've got to just walk away here, Joe.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: San Antonio, Texas. We've got a woman accused of deliberately
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: driving into her former boyfriend and another woman. Dion Isaiah...
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Kazuko Edwards Carpio. There's a mouthful.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: What?
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: That's her name. Charged with murder and aggravated assault with
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: a deadly weapon in connection with the incident. Arrest report
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: says officers were called to the data point drive after
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: reports that someone in a silver SUV had hit a
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: person in a parking lot. Officers found a victim with
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: serious injuries. Arrest report says the person was taken to
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: the hospital where they died. Second person also hit but
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: did survive. The surviving victim had dated Edwards Carpio for
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: about six years. He told investigators she repeatedly texted and
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: called him after learning he was dating a woman, the
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: woman who was ultimately killed by her running into her.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Ben said he and the woman were walking away from
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Wendy's toward a nearby residence when this crazy lady drove
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: slowly alongside them and called out. Security guard approached the
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: SUV and told her to leave him alone. Men said
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: to investigators he heard the SUV's tire screech, then saw
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Edwards Carpio accelerate and hit both victims. He was thrown
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: onto the hood of the vehicle before falling to the ground,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: injuring his ankle and back. Witnesses told investigators the woman
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: was dragged underneath the SUV before a rear tire ran
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: over her. Witnesses said the SUV swerved toward both of
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: the victims before it hit them. Witness said the driver
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: turned around, drove back toward the victims, and looked out
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: the driver's side window before leaving. Video was recorded by
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: a witness. Of course it was. Police traced the SUV
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: license plate to this Edwards Carpeole woman. A surviving victim
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: identified her as the driver, and she is now held
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: in the Baxter County Jail with a bond of $ 400, 000.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Just walk away. Indeed. Keep that in mind. Pennsylvania woman's
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: been charged after she allegedly threatened a neighbor with a pitchfork.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: That woman, 58-year-old Susan Shea... Greenville, Pennsylvania, charged after allegedly
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: threatening her neighbor with a pitchfork. Troopers got to the
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: scene after being called by the man who reported an
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: ongoing disturbance. The man said Shea had harassed and threatened
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: him and his son. Responding officer reported seeing Shea dancing
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: with a pitchfork. That's in the report.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: What?
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: And yelling at a neighbor from across the street. Officer
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: ordered her back in the home. Neighbors say she'd been
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: dragging that pitchfork up and down the street in front
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: of the home while threatening him and screaming obscenities. Shay
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: was demanding compensation for her chickens, or in her words,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: she'll burn both of his house and his son's house
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: down with his family and their families in it. No
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: mention in the report what the hell happened to Shay's
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: chickens that would prompt her to make such a statement. Anyway,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: authorities said Shay can be heard on the video. You
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: guys are going to have nightmares of my face. I'm
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: the new Freddy Krueger. Apparently, she also threatened to kill
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: a dog that belonged to the neighbor's son. Now, she
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: did this while on probation from a prior conviction for
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: simple assault and disorderly conduct. She's been charged with misdemeanor
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: counts of making terroristic threat and harassment and summary charges
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: of disorderly conduct and harassment. No comment about when her
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: next court appearance is, so I can't let you know
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: in advance if you want to show up. Thank you,
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Joe Strecker. Heated argument between two brothers in Groveland, Florida.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Deputies say they showed up at noon. to a home
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: on State Road 33 in Groveland after receiving a report
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: about a shooting. Officers got there. They learned the two
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: brothers had been arguing about an accusation of theft, but
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: that as the argument escalated, the victim threw a ceramic
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: bowl toward the suspect. Why are you doing that? According
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: to press release, the suspect then went inside the residence,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: retrieved a rifle, pointed it toward the victim, and then
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: squeezed off multiple rounds in the victim's direction.
• 31:52
  Speaker 10: Huh.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Just walk away.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Several rounds hit the home, but no injuries were reported. Again,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: fortunately for that, SWAT team showed up. Officers confirmed that
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: the suspect, Brian Keith Stevens, was taken to custody without incident.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: The investigation remains active.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: And finally.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Rochester, New York. Practicing attorney from Rochester now facing federal
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: charges after attempting to smuggle cell phones, marijuana, and tobacco
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: into a federal prison in Youngstown.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: You moron.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Ivy Collins Harris attempted to bring contraband to the Northeast
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Ohio Corrections Center. Investigator sees 57 grams of weed, 1,090
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: grams of tobacco, eight iPhones, and multiple chargers. Where was
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: she hiding all this stuff, Joe?
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: The aristocrat.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: She identified herself as a returnee representing a couple of inmates,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: stopped by a security checkpoint before she could get into
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: the prison. That's when officers found two vacuum-sealed packages of
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: tobacco and weed upside down in a brown accordion folder.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: That's where it was, Joe. Phone and chargers also found
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: inside a couple of laptops with their internal components removed,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: making space for the attempted smuggled cell phones. She's been
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: a New York attorney admitted by the New York State
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Bar since 2024, now charged with attempting to provide contraband
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: in a prison released from jail on a $ 20, 000 bond.
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: 555-5KRC-V-Talk-Station.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Plenty to talk about at 6 o'clock. I'm going to
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: get Congressman Warren Davis. It's 606-55KRC-V-Talk-Station. Happy Friday Eve. Ryan Thomas,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: I am host of the 55KRC Morning Show. Joe Strucker
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: is the executive producer. You want to call in, Joe
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: will take your call, put you up on the call screen,
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: and I will be more than happy to talk to you. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Pound 550 on AT & T phones. Before I get
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: to our first caller in this hour, hang on, Congressman
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Warren Davidson. He'll be joining the program coming up in
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: one hour. 705 with Congressman Davidson. Democrats just blocked three
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: things that most all Americans want. In many polls, it
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: shows that, yeah, we want the SAVE Act. we want
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: the Congress to be prevented from engaging in insider trading. And,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: of course, some protection from electric great heights. Moreno teed
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: up that bill requiring data centers to pay for it.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Chuckie Schumer says no. Can't have that.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Well, can't give evil orange man a victory. We're going
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: into November. We don't want him to be able to
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: crow about a victory. But, again, as I point out,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: these are bipartisan issues, and they should put down their
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: damn political differences and provide us something that we actually want.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Congressman Davidson on that and so much more, including Ohio's
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: unemployment rate is the lowest in history. And the economy
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: is doing really well in spite of Democrats and the
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: media telling you you don't believe your own eyes in
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: the reality. No, it's terrible out there. New data came
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: out the other day suggesting the economy is on a roll.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Eric Conroy running for Congress against Greg Lansman. Vote Conroy,
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: not Lansman. He'll join the program at 8.05. And then,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: of course, big day for Jay Ratliff, the iHeartMedia aviation expert,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: noting that that cockpit stabbing and effort to, well, take
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: over a plane, engage in a terrorist act by killing
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: all the crew members and maybe even flying the plane
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: into something on the ground. But when you read the
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: details of this harrowing thing and the heroism, we've got
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: a lot to break down with Jay Ratliff on that
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: one topic, but we've got so much more to talk
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: about with Jay and a lot more to talk about
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: with Congressman Davidson and maybe something to talk about with Jay,
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: who was kind enough to call in. Jay, welcome to
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: the morning show. Happy Friday Eve.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: Hey, happy Friday, Brian. Hey, I've got a story out
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: of Northeast Ohio. It kind of shows some of the, again,
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: shines light on the public school spending and greed and
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: corruptness that's going on there. Back in February in Trumbull County,
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Trumbull County was pushing through, the commissioners were pushing through
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: property tax relief in the form of property tax credits.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: And it wasn't much. I think it was $ 6 million
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: across five different school districts or maybe even more than
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: that number.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: Of school districts.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: And one of the, so five of the superintendents of
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: the school districts had an emergency meeting and got together,
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: of course, and got in front of the Warren County
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: or Trumbull County commissioners and to make their case that
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: they couldn't do without a dollar less. And one of
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: them was Brian Knight from Liberty Local Schools. And he
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: went on the record saying that, and I think his
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: school was going to be impacted with, I think it
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: was like $ 400, 000. And this is a school that provides
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: breakfast and lunch during summer when school is out to
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: the community. But he told the commissioners that they're not
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: frivolous spending here. And if these cuts happen, they're going
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: to make some tough decisions. Well, recently he did make
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: a decision, which was to take advantage of the tuition
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: reimbursement program at the school. And he went back to
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: get his PhD that cost about $ 60, 000. But I'm sure
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: that this is somebody who doesn't pay into their pension.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: The taxpayers pay both halves.
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: Of the pension for these.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: Superintendents. But I'm sure that that PhD will cure all
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: the ills of.
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: All of the school districts.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: And I would encourage listeners, go to a school board meeting,
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: find out if that tuition reimbursement is in your school.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: And if it is, shut it down. What our schools
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: don't need is any more education with the educators. What
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: they need is reading, writing, arithmetic. We need to get
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: the 50% absenteeism problem fixed. And we need to have
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: something better than a failed product of can't read, can't write,
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: and overly educated administrators and teachers.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Well, who could argue with that? I don't know if
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: these superintendents are covered by a collective bargaining agreement, but
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: unions have contracts and they negotiate it, and I'm sure
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: they negotiated themselves a tuition reimbursement in there.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're not. They're not part of the union. But
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: they don't need to fight against the union because there's
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: no profit motive, Brian. It doesn't matter. So why not
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: let the union have whatever they want? But even if
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: it is something that the union has negotiated– All you
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: property taxpayers out there, time to show up at the
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: school board meeting and understand what is in the budget
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: of those schools whenever they start crying poor mouth that
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: they can't do without a dollar less. Since when did
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: the schools start having to be the community cafeteria? Remember
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: during COVID, all the cars were showing up and they
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: were handing out, quote, free pizzas? That's your property tax.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: And now it's open all summer long for kids that
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: want to come in and have breakfast and lunch. And
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: I know somebody will say, yeah, but they can't eat
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: anywhere else. Well, first of all, prove it. How do
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: we know that that's true? Is it means tested? And
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: since when has that become the responsibility of the public
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: school to be the community trough during the summer when
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: it shut the school down? When, when, when school's not
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: in session, it's, it's not the, you know, it's, it's
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: not the public cafeteria.
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Well, you have staff, obviously it has to prepare the meals, electricity,
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: all the resources that go into keeping the building open,
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: security issues.
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: A multitude of things on a building that probably should
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: be shut down. It is a great question to ask. Well,
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: how is it that the schools became responsible for this? Well,
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: it's because they have direct connection with the children. What
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: other entity out there, you know, it deals with some, well,
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: That is if that child and that child's family choose
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: to participate in the program. So it's a selective thing.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: And I got to wonder whether or not they have
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: transportation to get kids into the school's lunch program over
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: the summer. You think they have that too, Jay?
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, I bet they do.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: But I remember watching the free pizza handout on TV
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: when COVID was happening. I'm looking at all these cars
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: going through, and I'm thinking, nicer than mine, newer than mine.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: Every one of them was like, It was a couple-year-old,
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: pretty nice car. I wasn't a fan of heaps running
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: through there. It's wide open. Anybody wants free pizzas, come
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: on in. We're not going to ask any questions. So
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: it goes on and on and on and on. But
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: the hypocrisy of Brian Knight, the superintendent of Liberty Local Schools,
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: is just one example of what goes on again and
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: again and again in our communist, woke indoctrination camps called.
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: The public school.
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: Where we can't do without a dollar less for the children,
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: but you can pay for my $ 60, 000, at least $ 60, 000 PhD.
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: It helps him.
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: It's going to help his resume quite a bit, but
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: I don't think the people in the community or the
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: kids are going to feel any upside of him getting
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: his PhD.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I agree with you completely. And let's go back to.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: Have a good day, Brian.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: You too, Jay. Which party is the party of no
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: school choice for you? The teachers' unions are on record
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: that they exist to serve the interest of the teachers
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: and not the children. That's what collective bargaining is all about.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: They're not sitting around at the negotiation table hammering out
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: details about children's education. The board of a school board
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: does that, right? Unions are not establishing the protocols and
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: the parameters for education. Your school board is going to
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: do that. What they are in there is they're negotiating
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: more money for their own pockets, more benefits and things like,
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: I guess, tuition reimbursement. That has nothing to do with
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: your child's education. Which party is backed by the teachers union,
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: the protectionist organization designed to serve the interests of the teachers?
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: And fine, I don't really necessarily have a problem with that.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: That's why they exist. It's like the FOP. They exist
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: for the benefit of police officers.
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: But.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: The party that is backed by these teachers union, the
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: protectionist teachers union, who does not care about your children,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: apparently Democrats, the party against giving you a choice in
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: your child's education, regardless of whether your property tax dollars
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: are going to go down as a consequence of you
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: choosing another school, at least you can benefit your child.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Put your child ahead in terms of your prioritization. Make
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: a sacrifice for your child. So many parents do that.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: And if you know you're going to go to an
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: education environment where your kid is just going to be indoctrinated,
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: and it's a race toward mediocrity at best, you can
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: do your child a lifetime benefit by putting them someplace else.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: And why wouldn't anybody embrace that? Even if you're someone
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: who's not inclined to take advantage of it. Why would
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: you deprive someone else of an opportunity for choice? Listen,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: you know, you can vote for the Democrats if you want,
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: but you're not voting in your child's best interest, at
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: least on that one very charged political topic. 615-55KRC, the
• 43:06
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• 43:09
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• 43:17
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• 43:18
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• 43:22
  Speaker 3: Down 550 on AT & T phones. And here's something striking.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: It's a meme, but, you know, sometimes these memes just
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: tend to, like, wow. That's a good point. Coming on
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: the heels of my comments about choice in education. And, again,
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: I struggle with anybody who rejects that outright. I really do.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, who's in a better position to make choices
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: for their children than the parents? And, yes, we can
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: all name illustrations of parents who are unsuitable parents. But
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: this is the world we live. Parents have rights, and
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: that's just an extension of one of the rights. Only
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: people stopping you from that education choice are our elected
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: officials and, of course, pushed to do things they might
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: otherwise allow us to do by teachers' union and the
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: lobbying dollars and the votes that they recommend. That is
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: a block of solid voters, those teachers' unions. So just
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: one issue. And then here's this meme. How far has
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: the left really gone, it asks. You can strangle your kids.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: drive a car or truck at an ICE officer, stab
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: someone at a track meet, shoot a CEO in the head,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: and they'll support you. They'll raise money in your name,
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: protest in the streets for you, and fight to set
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: you free. And all that is truth. Contrast that with
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: if your name's Charlie Kirk and you get assassinated on
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: a college campus for having a debate, they'll celebrate your death,
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: desecrate your memorials, and treat the anniversary like a holiday.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: That isn't normal, and it should concern every American. That's,
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: I think, a really great point. Memes can do wonders
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: for boiling things down to its finest terms. Let's see
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: what Jamie's got this morning. Jamie, thanks for calling the
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: morning show. Welcome, and happy Friday Eve.
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, Brian. Thank you again. I know I
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: thank you every time, but I appreciate your highlight of
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: our school crisis. I just wanted to recommend two documentaries
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: for people who have not tuned in to the danger
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: of the teachers' union. One is called Waiting for Superman.
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: It's an older documentary, but it's still very accurate today
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: with how the teachers' unions, you know, have infiltrated the
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: public school system and don't support kids. The other one
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: is a newer one. It's called Death of Recess, and
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: it's on Angel Studios, and it's basically a documentary by
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: a dad who had just had a baby And he
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: was seeking out information for his daughter. And it's pretty eye-opening.
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: I've been in this for 30 years, and I was
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: completely shocked. And I've left it saying it's worse than
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: we think. It's just unbelievable. I actually sat with a
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: local school board member and asked him how the unions
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: have such a stronghold on these boards. They don't really
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: have official authority, but things are written into the teacher's
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: contracts that, you know, they don't really tie their hands,
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: but they choose to have their hands tied, you know,
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: as an excuse to not really do what they need
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: to do. But it's pretty incredible how they do work
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: against the kids. And I don't think most people really
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: understand the depth of it.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: Well, Jamie, and I think about you quite often when
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: I do mention school choice and those issues. You are
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: involved with Montessori education. Am I correct in that?
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: Well, just briefly explain to those out there in the
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: listening audience who are fearful of what kind of challenge
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: they're going to face in educating their young people or
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: choosing an alternative path. You really do make it quite
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: easy to make that choice in your particular school, but
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: Just a word or two of support for those families
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: who really maybe are desirous of getting their children out
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: of the indoctrination camp that are public schools and help
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: them overcome their fears of, can I really manage educating
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: my children alternatively?
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: I mean, first of all, our kids are worth it.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah. I'd like to think so.
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: I understand families are challenged with all kinds of things
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: like both parents working and schedules and such. childhood is
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: actually not that long of a time and the schools are,
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: we are in such a challenge because the kids are
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: absolutely not getting what they need. In fact, they're getting
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: things that they don't need. First, I would say, pray
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: about it. Second, I would say, you know, look around
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: at what you have private school wise. Unfortunately, we don't
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: have enough private schools to really support all the families
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: that would like to make a different choice. But homeschooling,
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: particularly in Ohio, is amazing. I know in our community
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: we have all sorts of resources and moms who are
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: doing incredible things and co-ops and sharing teaching. It can happen.
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: It can happen.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: It does happen. Again, I'll go back to my neighbors.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: They've got two toddlers, and they're engaged in that process.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: They take on some roles in educating a group of
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: children collectively. And then other parents help as well. There
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: are massive quantities of resources online, education tools, plans for education,
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: all of it. It's all there. You just have to
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: take a moment of time and look for it and
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: reach out to those people in your community you know
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: that are already doing it and pursuing alternative education options
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: like Jamie. Obviously, it's worked out quite well for her,
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: and she's fully aware of the dangers of the public
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: school education system. Learn more and more about that every day,
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: and it's just damn frightening considering how dumb our children
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: are when they leave public education. Thank you very much
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: for the call. William's on the phone. William, hold on
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: one second. It's already 627. The Talk Station. It's 631.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: It's Friday Eve.
• 49:02
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Joe and I are going back and forth because Bobby,
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: who does the over and under on how many people
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: are going to die or be involved in violent crime
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: in downtown Cincinnati, He called two and a half, and
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: he properly called the over because, of course, at 1230
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: this morning, we had someone shot. in, uh, East Price Hill,
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: 400 block of grand Avenue, 1230 this morning. That's where
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: the police found a man shot. He's expected to recover
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: and we don't have any other information on that. And
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Joe just forward to this one to me because he
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: said chuck was talking about it hang on william one
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: person in custody after an early morning road rage shooting
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: on i-75 which led to a crash ohio 747 325
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: this morning they got reports of a gunfire on the
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: highway emergency call logs say the driver told dispatchers a
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: black pickup truck was weaving aggressively through traffic wow this
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: sounds familiar to brian thomas Poor the pickup driver pulled
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: alongside him, drew a gun, and shot at his vehicle. Thankfully,
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: that didn't happen, but I did have a guy try
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: to kill me in a very similar fashion. It is
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: not a pleasant thing to have to go through. Anyway,
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: that's two. We had a stabbing in Mount Washington. Authorities
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: identified a suspect stabbing in Mount Washington. This happened early
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: yesterday morning. Trenda Mayhew accused of stabbing Michael Campbell to death,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: facing charges of murder and felonious assault. According to the
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: complaint filed in the Hamlin County Municipal Court, This morning,
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: she is scheduled to be in court. Going to hang
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: out there. Go ahead. Police say the stabbing occurred near
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: Beachmont Avenue and Ranchville Drive about 4 o'clock in the morning.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: And sorry, my friends at Princeton School, I guess the
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: strike is on, the bus strike, leaving you without transportation.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: According to union leadership, they walked off the job at
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: 5.30 this morning, unless there's been an update on that,
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: as far as the reporting goes, as of 5.30 this morning.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: There they did, pretty much. And cameras and security guards
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: come into parking lots and garages in downtown Cincinnati. Yes,
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: city council voted and moved forward with that. I think
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: the vote was overwhelming, an 8-1 vote. Good luck being
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: a parking lot owner or a garage owner downtown. Apparently
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: there's 200 of them that are going to be impacted
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: by this, and who really truly thinks this is going
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: to achieve anything at all? Let's see. William's on the phone. William,
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: thanks for bearing with me while I got a few
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: local stories in. Welcome to the program. Happy Friday Eve.
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: Two topics.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: I was successful in getting the potholes on exit 12
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: southbound of Interstate 75, but yesterday I'm driving back from
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: the airport, and there are numerous potholes, so I don't
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: know how many different ways I've complained.
• 51:41
  Speaker 11: Through Facebook, your program, etc. So there is some progress.
• 51:45
  Speaker 11: Somebody's listening. I just wish I knew which one of
• 51:48
  Speaker 11: those they actually paid attention to.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: So I hope it was your show. You're talking about
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: potholes in Northern Kentucky, William?
• 51:55
  Speaker 8: Oh, absolutely.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, obviously we have a pervasive pothole
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: problem in the tri-state, generally speaking. So, you know, within
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: the city, we know we have a massive backlog of
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: roads that need to be paved. So they've been dealing
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: with this challenge for years and years. I'm not quite
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: sure which jurisdiction is responsible for those roads because you've
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: got federal roads, you've got state roads or county roads,
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: and you've got city rules or roads. So, you know,
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: somebody out there is responsible. That's what taxpayer dollars are for.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: District 6.
• 52:20
  Speaker 8: District 6. Okay.
• 52:22
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Well, maybe there's an elected official out there. Go ahead.
• 52:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 52:26
  Speaker 11: Secondly, I wonder how many people realize the like-minded people
• 52:32
  Speaker 11: that are running our schools. We're supporting that because we're
• 52:36
  Speaker 11: paying with our tax dollars. And I've worked in the
• 52:39
  Speaker 11: school systems, and I can tell you most of them
• 52:42
  Speaker 11: are very far left. That is the mindset teachers are.
• 52:47
  Speaker 11: And we're paying for this stuff and getting poor results.
• 52:51
  Speaker 11: I don't know how to fix it.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: School choice. I've been screaming out loud about that since
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: the concept entered my field of vision. That's the answer. Competition.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: Fewer people are getting enrolled in public schools. You might
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: ask yourself why that might be because more and more
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: in more states, more jurisdictions, the option is available to
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: go someplace else. That frightens the teachers unions because the
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: fewer students they have, the less money they can ask for.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: We're not growing anymore.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: They might have to shut down buildings in the name of, well,
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: controlling budgets. All good things.
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: Why?
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: Because competition showed up. And that might force them to
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: teach children what's important for their futures. Reading, writing, arithmetic,
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: things that are involved in careers. not woke ideology and
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: left-wing politics that will not serve their interests whatsoever. Maybe
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: also study history a little bit more. Maybe learn civics.
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: You got one in three American citizens that don't know
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: the three branches of government. Yeah, that's a failure of
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: education right there. Let's work on that. The way you
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: drive them toward that is force them to compete with
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: institutions that are achieving that here. Let me give a
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: shout out to my friends at, uh, Cincinnati Classical Academy.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: So many people are clamoring to get into that institution
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: that they've got a waiting list a mile and a
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: half long. That's where you want to be, among other
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: choices available. 636, 55KRCD Talk Station. Competition is good.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Talk Station.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: 641, 55KRCD Talk Station. Happy Friday Eve. Looking forward to
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  Speaker 3: Congressman Warren Davidson joining the program at the top of
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  Speaker 3: the hour news. And one of the things we can
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  Speaker 3: talk about with him, among other multitude of topics, The
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  Speaker 3: economy's doing great. I drew a parallel between downtown Cincinnati
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  Speaker 3: and our elected officials saying, there's no crime down here,
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  Speaker 3: there's no crime down here, even on the heels of
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  Speaker 3: two shootings and a stabbing five minutes ago. But your
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: eyes see something and your elected officials say another. But
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: in here, it's kind of the polar opposite. Mainstream media,
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  Speaker 3: notably Democrats... are telling you how terrible things are to
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  Speaker 3: the Trump economy. It's, oh, my God, this war is
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  Speaker 3: killing everybody, and it's raising the price of gasoline. It's
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  Speaker 3: like the one thing that's being impacted by this. Say
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  Speaker 3: we went about the value of the war or no
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  Speaker 3: value of the war. The reality, of course, is that
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  Speaker 3: it's caused the price of the pump to go up,
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  Speaker 3: but everything else seems to be going along swimmingly, and
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  Speaker 3: apparently we haven't been impacted, at least in terms of
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  Speaker 3: our spending. Commerce Department raised the GDP growth estimate For
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  Speaker 3: the first quarter to 2.5 from 2.1, new data comes out.
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  Speaker 3: They do this all again. Upward revisions of the GDP
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  Speaker 3: growth stem partly from reduced inflation estimates. Yes, the inflation
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  Speaker 3: rate has dropped. But business investment and consumer spending, they say,
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  Speaker 3: are the bigger part of the story, stronger than economists
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  Speaker 3: even ever thought. Business investment revised up half a point
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  Speaker 3: to 9% thanks to higher spending on intellectual property and
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  Speaker 3: structures tied to AI. Yes, those billions of dollars going
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  Speaker 3: into AI are nearing to the overall economic benefit. Commerce
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  Speaker 3: Department says the data centers drove the increase. Information processing
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  Speaker 3: equipment contributed to stronger consumer spending. We're buying stuff and things.
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  Speaker 3: Consumer spending. That's you and me growing faster than personal
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  Speaker 3: income in recent quarters. They suggest maybe that's because of
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  Speaker 3: the booming stock market. Get a load of this. Only
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  Speaker 3: in America. It was recently reported by Fidelity, the number
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  Speaker 3: of Americans with more than $ 1 million in the company's
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  Speaker 3: 401k plans. So Fidelity Investments, their shareholders or their investors,
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  Speaker 3: surged 19% the number of folks with a million dollars
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  Speaker 3: or more Up 19% in just the second quarter. It
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  Speaker 3: is now up to a record $ 769, 000. And that's where
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  Speaker 3: I say only in America. Now, if you're not part
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  Speaker 3: of that bandwagon, I understand. But this is one of
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  Speaker 3: those things. It's the joy of compounding interest over time. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: you most assuredly will get there with some prudent savings
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  Speaker 3: over your employment. Corporate profits in the second quarter rose 20.8%
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  Speaker 3: from a year earlier. And you know what that means?
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  Speaker 3: something that's proven time and time again, their profits rise
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  Speaker 3: pretty damn significantly. Guess what else arises? Right, taxes flowing
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  Speaker 3: into state and federal coffers. Big, beautiful bill, reduce the
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  Speaker 3: tax burden on businesses, and they go out and spend
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  Speaker 3: that money, resulting in more profit and more taxes going
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  Speaker 3: into government. That's just a fact of life. Democrats hate
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  Speaker 3: hearing that. They want to tax you more because, oh,
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  Speaker 3: my God, and they don't get a handle on their
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  Speaker 3: spending problem. They'll never address that, but they just say
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  Speaker 3: the solution is to charge you more in taxes so
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  Speaker 3: we can deal with the problems that we, the Democrat Party,
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  Speaker 3: created along with the Republican help. $ 40 trillion in debt. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: we'll just tax our way out of that hole. No,
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  Speaker 3: you can grow your way out of it if you
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  Speaker 3: stop spending more than you take in. Gee, get away
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  Speaker 3: from businesses, reduce their tax and regulatory burdens. Profits jump
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  Speaker 3: through the roof. They hire more people, and that's another
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  Speaker 3: figure that came out. Private sector job growth rebounded in September.
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  Speaker 3: Payrolls increased by 90,000 people.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
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  Speaker 3: Evil orange man. Not so much of a problem in
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  Speaker 3: the general when you look at the global economy or
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  Speaker 3: the macro economy. Last year's tax bill phased out green
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  Speaker 3: energy subsidies. made reforms to food stamps that have reduced
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  Speaker 3: enrollment to pre-pandemic levels.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: There were a lot of people getting food stamps that
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  Speaker 3: weren't eligible. They even found millionaires receiving food stamps. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we've got an oversight problem. And there's that fun fact
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  Speaker 3: about economic growth. Buoyed tax revenue. Wall Street Journal reports
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  Speaker 3: the tax revenue increased 3% during the first 11 months
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  Speaker 3: of this fiscal year. In spite of how you feel
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  Speaker 3: about the economy, tax revenue is up, driven by its
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  Speaker 3: strong economy. Declines in corporate tax revenue owing to the
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  Speaker 3: tax bill were more than offset by income tax revenue,
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  Speaker 3: which increased 8% to $ 189 billion after accounting for carve-outs recently.
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  Speaker 3: tips and overtime. Somebody wrote, ha! Exclamation point three times.
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  Speaker 3: That would have been me. So, I'm sure Davidson may
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  Speaker 3: have a word or two on that. That is great news.
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  Speaker 3: We all benefit from that, even if we don't feel it.
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  Speaker 3: It's going on all around us. That's reality. Hopefully it
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  Speaker 3: sets in before November when you go in and do
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  Speaker 3: something really extraordinarily stupid and vote for, well, the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: and all of the baggage that goes along with Democrats,
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: including no school choice. And, well, gender mutilation for prepubescent
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  Speaker 3: children or something. It's just the party of craziness. So
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: ignore the gas price, look at all the other economic data,
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  Speaker 3: and be appreciative of the fact that things are going really,
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  Speaker 3: really well in this country, and we should not change course. 647-55KRC,
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  Speaker 3: the talk station. Hit it, 652-55KRC, the talk station. Happy
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  Speaker 3: Friday Eve. Congressman Davidson at the top of the hour news.
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  Speaker 3: Governor DeWine said he'd sign the gas tax holiday bill
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  Speaker 3: into law yesterday, and today's the day it's probably going
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  Speaker 3: to kick in because it was overwhelmingly passed. Mike DeWine
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  Speaker 3: previously saying, no, no, no, no, no, we can't afford
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  Speaker 3: the $ 750 million hit when we will be taken away
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  Speaker 3: from us in terms of tax revenue generated from the
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  Speaker 3: gas tax. They've overcome that. The general fund is where
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  Speaker 3: the money is going to come from, and you're going
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  Speaker 3: to get relief in the form of, well, removal of
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  Speaker 3: the gas tax. Roughly 30, what is it, 38 cents
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  Speaker 3: a gallon. Diesel's more. It's north of 40 cents. Some
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  Speaker 3: of the Democrat lawmakers in opposition to this, whoa, it's
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  Speaker 3: only $ 3 a week for the average person. Okay, go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and cling to that. But I thought about this
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  Speaker 3: in the context of the price of gasoline because what
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  Speaker 3: do the Democrats want? You know where I'm going. Barack
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  Speaker 3: Obama told you they wanted the price of gas to
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  Speaker 3: go up. If the price of gas doesn't go up,
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  Speaker 3: you're not inclined to go over and get an electric vehicle. Hmm,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: can't afford an electric vehicle here. We're going to incentivize
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  Speaker 3: it by giving you a massive tax credit to go
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  Speaker 3: buy one. That didn't even work very well. So, They
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  Speaker 3: intentionally increase the price of gasoline through regulations and not
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  Speaker 3: drilling and canceling drilling things and closing this, that, and
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  Speaker 3: the other thing, coal plants, gas plants, everything. Whatever they
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  Speaker 3: can do to make the price of gas go up
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  Speaker 3: so you're driven to an EV. Whatever nefarious motivation they
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  Speaker 3: have behind that, I understand why that might be the
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  Speaker 3: choice people would make, right? Because I've got friends doing that.
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  Speaker 3: The other day, my friend was going out into some
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  Speaker 3: other state because apparently the e-vehicle that he wanted and
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  Speaker 3: he and his wife wanted to buy isn't available locally,
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  Speaker 3: and he's going off and buying one. And he jokingly
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  Speaker 3: said something about the price of gasoline. No, what are
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  Speaker 3: you paying to pump premium gas in your car, man?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to have to worry about that anymore. Well,
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  Speaker 3: that's the reaction the left wanted, isn't it? So I
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  Speaker 3: don't really understand why they're all complaining about this. It's
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  Speaker 3: a reality that they wanted brought about based upon the regulations.
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  Speaker 3: The reality that they wanted was achieved because we started
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  Speaker 3: dropping bombs on Iran, and who kind of thought that
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  Speaker 3: that would really ripple effect the entire world into higher
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  Speaker 3: gasoline prices? But there it is, landing in your lap. People,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, are now choosing maybe to buy more EVs
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  Speaker 3: or hybrids. They're all the rage these days, and in fact,
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  Speaker 3: the number of those vehicles purchased has gone up. So
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  Speaker 3: market forces at work, bringing about a result that the
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  Speaker 3: left did not want to achieve via market forces. They
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  Speaker 3: wanted to achieve it via regulation and legislation. So are
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  Speaker 3: you going to vote for that? As we stare at
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  Speaker 3: Mike DeWine getting ready to give us some measure of
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  Speaker 3: relief with a gas tax holiday, relief from market forces.
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  Speaker 3: Somewhere in all of this, it's supposed to make sense.
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  Speaker 3: But if you're voting for the Democrats because you're pissed
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  Speaker 3: off about the price of gas... You know where I'm going.
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  Speaker 3: You're voting for the party that will, when the market
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  Speaker 3: forces return and the price of gasoline settles down and
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  Speaker 3: stabilizes and goes down because we get past the conflict
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  Speaker 3: in the Middle East or we work ourselves around the
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  Speaker 3: Strait of Hormuz, they're going to cause it to go
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  Speaker 3: back up because they still want you to buy electric vehicles,
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever.
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  Speaker 3: 6.55. Maybe Congressman Davidson can comment on that. We've got
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  Speaker 3: an endless number of topics we can go over with
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  Speaker 3: Congressman Davidson.
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  Speaker 7: 7-0-6.
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  Speaker 3: 55 KRC Talk Station. Happy Friday. Brian Thomas, always pleased
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  Speaker 3: to welcome to the 55 KRC Morning Show. Proudly representing
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  Speaker 3: Ohio's 8th District. It's Congressman Warren Davidson. Congressman Davidson, welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't know it, but you are running for re-election
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  Speaker 3: and early voting begins Tuesday, correct?
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  Speaker 9: I hope a lot of other people know it, Brian.
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  Speaker 9: I'm on the ballot this time. Love to have everyone
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  Speaker 9: vote for me and Vote for all the good people.
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  Speaker 9: They're easier to identify. They get R's by their name.
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  Speaker 3: That is correct.
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  Speaker 9: Go out and vote for the people that are trying
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  Speaker 9: to save our country from the people that are working
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  Speaker 9: to destroy it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I only bring it up because you've had many
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  Speaker 3: occasions to mention your campaign and that you are running
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  Speaker 3: for re-election here on the 55KRC Morning Show. I just
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  Speaker 3: viewed it as a sign of confidence, although I'm not
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  Speaker 3: taking the role for granted, that you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: automatically get re-elected. Of course, people need to get out
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  Speaker 3: and vote for you, but you've got a solid, solid
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  Speaker 3: base of voters that support you in the 8th District,
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  Speaker 3: Congressman Davidson, and I think there's a reason for that.
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  Speaker 3: It's because you're doing such a wonderful job.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I appreciate your confidence and the support of a
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  Speaker 9: lot of folks, but look, there's a lot of new people.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, Hamilton County is now the biggest portion of
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  Speaker 9: the district, so this map kind of cuts things a
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  Speaker 9: little differently where the lines are. So, you know, places
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  Speaker 9: like Montgomery, Blue Ash, Amberley Village that weren't, they're currently
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  Speaker 9: in the 1st District, represented by Greg Lansman, and But
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  Speaker 9: those are drawn now in the 8th District. So I
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  Speaker 9: was out knocking doors this past week, and people didn't
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  Speaker 9: realize that their district lines had moved. So I think
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  Speaker 9: there are a lot of people that are going to
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  Speaker 9: go out on– whenever they vote, they'll get their ballot
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  Speaker 9: by mail or they'll go vote early or they'll go
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  Speaker 9: vote on Election Day. And they'll look at the ballot
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  Speaker 9: and go, wait, what's this? And so that's the big thing.
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  Speaker 9: On the east side of Hamilton County, we have a
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  Speaker 9: lot of that area now in the 8th District. So–
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  Speaker 9: Big shift, and hopefully people know, and I'd love to
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  Speaker 9: have their support.
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  Speaker 3: And I've had quite a few listeners who are very
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  Speaker 3: disappointed that you're no longer their congressman after the change.
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  Speaker 3: So DavidsonForCongress.com. Get over there and help them out. Again,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: get out and vote on Tuesday and just get it
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  Speaker 3: over with and vote Republican, as Congressman Davidson suggested. It's
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  Speaker 3: the only way to go. Now, let us start with
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: the Ohio August unemployment rate. On the heels of this
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  Speaker 3: great news that I read about the U.S. economy, Some
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  Speaker 3: revised numbers have gone up. Our GDP has gone up.
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  Speaker 3: The amount of tax dollars flowing into the federal and
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  Speaker 3: state coffers has gone up. Business has increased like 20%
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  Speaker 3: compared to last year. There's spending. People are hiring. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: with the exception of the price of gasoline, Congressman Davidson,
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  Speaker 3: everything seems to be going swimmingly, in large part swimmingly.
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  Speaker 3: So Trump presidency is paying off, and it's paying off
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  Speaker 3: here in Ohio with the lowest unemployment rate in Ohio's history.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of really good news
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  Speaker 9: out there in the economy, and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 9: folks working to make sure that doesn't get out. It's
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  Speaker 9: like I expect 51 intelligence agencies, former intelligence officers, will
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  Speaker 9: come out any day now and say, oh, this is
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  Speaker 9: all some sort of Russian plot to say the economy
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  Speaker 9: is going fine. Look, they're expensive things. They haven't somehow
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  Speaker 9: magically gotten cheaper, but the rate of growth and the
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  Speaker 9: spending in the economy is looking strong. And the manufacturing
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  Speaker 9: sector in particular, I mean, that's been been humming. And
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  Speaker 9: a lot of that investment's happening right here in Ohio,
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  Speaker 9: southwest Ohio in particular. So there are plenty of signs
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  Speaker 9: of good life in the economy. And with the cost
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  Speaker 9: of gas, I mean, the Ohio legislature came in yesterday.
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  Speaker 9: Vivek Ramaswamy asked for it. They came in early. and
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  Speaker 9: they're going to have a tax holiday on gas prices
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  Speaker 9: through the end of this year. So that ought to
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  Speaker 9: show up on the pump this week, and people will
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  Speaker 9: feel it.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, $ 0.
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  Speaker 9: 40 a gallon, almost $ 0. 30- something, I think, on gas, and
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  Speaker 9: plus $ 0. 40 on diesel. So it'll be a big deal
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  Speaker 9: for people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm sure Amy Acton is going to take
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  Speaker 3: credit for it, because literally every article I read, and
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  Speaker 3: I saw four articles on the gas tax relief in Ohio,
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  Speaker 3: and every single one of them said, Amy Acton said
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  Speaker 3: it first, and Vivek Ramaswamy came out a couple hours
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  Speaker 3: later and also joined in the party to get rid
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  Speaker 3: of the gas tax for at least some measure of time.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know. It just seems to me that
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  Speaker 3: neither maybe should get credit for it because currently the
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  Speaker 3: Republicans in Columbus under Governor Mike DeWine, I hate to
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  Speaker 3: give him any credit for it, they accomplished it before
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  Speaker 3: the election. So bully for us. They finally did something
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  Speaker 3: that helps Ohioans.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and look, this is the controlled media. They'll go
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  Speaker 9: out there and run out the narrative. I mean, I
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  Speaker 9: had a town hall with, I don't know, 250, 300
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  Speaker 9: people up in Dark County, a rural part of the district,
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  Speaker 9: and they were concerned about not just data centers but
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 9: high-powered lines. They have an eminent domain issue where high-powered
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 9: power lines are coming through, and no one likes eminent domain,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 9: even the people that are using it. Certainly, people don't
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 9: want something sort of force-fed to their backyard. And so
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 9: people were concerned about it. They're concerned about the health
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 9: effects of high frequency or high power power lines. So
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  Speaker 9: we introduced a bill following that to get a study.
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  Speaker 9: The last federal study of it was 99. And so
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 9: we went on, did the research, said, hey, we'll share
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  Speaker 9: with you. Well, there's not a lot. There's a lot
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  Speaker 9: of private sector research on it. So let's get a
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  Speaker 9: federal study of it. And as I introduced the bill,
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  Speaker 9: the local press interviewed my opponent about the bill. They
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  Speaker 9: never even called me about the bill. So this is
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  Speaker 9: the a par for the course. It's called the Charge Act.
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  Speaker 9: So we're trying to make sure that we trust the science.
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  Speaker 9: Let's get the science out there published. But fair enough,
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  Speaker 9: when the federal government puts it out, you ought to
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  Speaker 9: rightly look at it with a little bit of skepticism
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  Speaker 9: and say, okay, what part of this is true?
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  Speaker 3: Well, maybe AI will answer that question for us, Congressman Davidson.
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  Speaker 9: People are turning to it in big measure, right? So
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  Speaker 9: the capabilities are amazing, but, you know, you're still the
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  Speaker 9: human factor. You look at things and, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 9: that's not correct. This is not correct. So it's still
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  Speaker 9: got a little ways to go. I will say when
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 9: you look at Siri and just say talk to text,
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  Speaker 9: it makes a lot of errors.
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  Speaker 7: But when you look.
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  Speaker 9: At some of these models like Clotter, you know, chat, GTP,
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  Speaker 9: X is Grok, it spits out some pretty impressive answers.
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  Speaker 9: So the capabilities dynamic, I mean, I think everybody that
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  Speaker 9: I know is working to you. How do I integrate
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  Speaker 9: this with what I already do to kind of keep
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  Speaker 9: up with, you know, the capabilities, the productivity is amazing.
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  Speaker 9: I did a financial model with a chat or a
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  Speaker 9: plod and, and, in 20 hours of working with this
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  Speaker 9: on financial modeling, I mean, it probably did the work
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  Speaker 9: that had a former staffer do about four months worth
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  Speaker 9: of work, and it spit out this multi-tab spreadsheet, and
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  Speaker 9: it's pretty accurate. We're fact-checking it against prior work, and
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  Speaker 9: I mean, it's an impressive tool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I had a friend who did the exact
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: same thing, Congressman Davidson, and it really was mind-blowing to
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  Speaker 3: hear him go through the process. You know, I just
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  Speaker 3: went over the to AI and I gave him all
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: of the information about my small business. He's been, he
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: opened his doors about a year and a half or
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: two years ago and he was trying to do a
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: business strategy. And I guess there are consultants, or at
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: least I should probably use the word were consultants that
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: you would pay to do this kind of analysis. And
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: it probably would have cost a lot. He had this
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: whole thing. It was like 20 plus pages churned out.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: He said it was absolutely amazing. Great suggestions, great ideas,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: all with the real numbers that came from his business.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: So the more information you give these programs to do
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: this type of thing, the more accurate they are. But
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: it didn't take any time at all. And he's like,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: I've been using it. It's great. So all I see
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: with that, though, is it's amazing. It's wonderful. Obviously very beneficial.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: But who used to do that work before AI came along?
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: And what are those people doing now for jobs?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's the concern. But, you know, productivity– maybe one
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 9: of the best stories about productivity I heard is they
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 9: went to the Panama Canal when they were building it.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 9: And they're like, you know, hey, why is everybody using shovels? Well,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 9: it's a jobs program, and it's going to help everybody
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 9: have more work. And they're like, why not use spoons?
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great point.
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  Speaker 9: You use the technology that's available, and you become better
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 9: at that. And on balance, it does– tend to grow.
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  Speaker 9: You remember, you know, all through history, there's like, oh,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 9: we're doomed.
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  Speaker 7: Well, not really.
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  Speaker 9: We keep getting higher quality of life. I mean, the
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 9: Malthusians thought everyone was going to starve. And now look
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 9: at ag. I mean, it's more productive than ever.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're going to bring Congressman Davidson back after the
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: break to talk about the three bills that all Americans
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: want that the Senate Democrats just blocked. They do not
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: want to give anything by way of relief to us
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: in the name of, well, not giving Donald Trump something
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: he can grow about. More with Congressman Davidson at 715
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: right now, 55KRC, the talk station. I get to make... KRC,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: the talk station. 718, 55KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: with Congressman Warren Davidson. Vote Davidson. Get out and vote. Tuesday,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: you can start early voting and why even bother waiting
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: and vote Republican, please, dear God. Eric Conroy is going
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: to join the program after 8 o'clock hour, 8.05. He,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: of course, is running against Greg Lansman. And good morning, Steve.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: Thank you for serving my country or our country militarily.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: And he is reminding folks, my friend Steve, who is
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: angry or upset that you are no longer his congressman,
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: but pointing out that Hamilton County is the west side anyway,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: half of which is now Eric Conroy potential territory. So
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: you have a choice between Lansman and Conroy in Hamilton County.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: So vote appropriately. Senate Democrats, what is with Chuckie Schumer?
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: There was a poll out. And I suppose if you
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: just asked any random person who's not familiar with the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: issue and said, what do you think? Should lawmakers in
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: Congress be banned from trading stocks on insider trading? I
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: can't imagine a single human being say, well, they can
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: do that. No, they should be banned because they have
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: access to all the inside information, and you and I
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: would be criminally charged if we traded on insider information. So, yeah.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: And according to a poll back from 2023, and I
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: know how we feel about polls, 86% of Americans, both
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: sides of the political spectrum, said, Right. They should be
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: banned from trading stocks. So they had an opportunity to
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: do that in the Senate yesterday, but Chuckie Schumer said no.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: Also saying no to the SAVE Act. And there was
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: one other issue I believe you wanted to chime in on.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: The data center issue about the power bill that Bernie
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: Moreno was behind. What is the deal here? This is
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: all about denying Trump what he could argue is a victory,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: but it would be a victory for all Americans?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, look, the Senate Democrats have put partisan advantage
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 9: over the interest of Americans, over the interest of Ohioans.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 9: They're doing that. Look, there are party line bills like
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 9: the Save America Act, which is 80 percent polling with
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 9: public on voter ID and only citizens vote. And look,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 9: they say, oh, that doesn't happen. Well, they're in the
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 9: process of removing 50,000 noncitizens from the voter rolls in Arizona.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 9: And they're having to do that county by county because
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 9: the state controlled by Democrats, isn't helping. So they're finding
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 9: illegals on the ballot. And part of the reason is
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 9: they don't have a good tool to detect it. So
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 9: Save America does that. But when you call the votes,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 9: despite it being 80% with the public, it breaks on
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 9: party lines in the House and Senate. So not all
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 9: the bills. We have 700 bills that have passed the
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 9: House that are laying in inventory over there in the Senate.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 9: Some of them are really important, like Save America. And
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 9: we've got a recent one that passed 417-3. You think
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 9: in the House, well, this isn't partisan. Even the Democrats
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 9: are like, yeah, this is a common-sense bill. It's called
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 9: the Ratepayer Protection Plan so that if you're putting in
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 9: a high-demand thing like a data center that you take
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 9: into account, is this going to raise the rates of
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 9: other ratepayers? So average households, are their rates going to
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 9: get jacked up because we put all this extra demand
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 9: on the power without adding capacity? And passed 417 to
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 9: 3 in the House. And it can't get past the
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 9: 60-vote rule in the Senate– I think it had 57 votes–
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 9: because John Husted is the lead sponsor in the Senate.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 9: They wouldn't give John Husted a win because they want
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 9: to help Sherrod Brown. So it's all politics all the time,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 9: and Democrats unfortunately aren't getting hit for their obstruction. I
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 9: mean there is a 60-vote rule in the Senate. There's
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 9: been a lot of pressure on Senate Republicans to change it.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 9: I will say when Democrats have had the majority in
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 9: the Senate– We've used it to block things that we
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 9: thought were bad ideas. So they have their rules, but
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 9: it's obstruction by Democrats. And again, these things sometimes in
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 9: the House, like this Ratepayer Protection Act, it would make
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 9: a difference for households. It isn't partisan in the least,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 9: but they still want to obstruct because they feel like, well,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 9: we want to keep the pressure on John Husted. We
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 9: don't want to see him get a win in the homestretch.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt about it. Anything they can do, that's what
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 3: they're going to do. And, of course, the media is
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: not going to do the conservative side of the ledger
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: any favors in accurately reporting on this. Oh, by the way,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: the Senate denied you what you want in overwhelming numbers. Crazy. Well,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: here's something that, well, honestly, I keep trying to point
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: people out what the realities of the Democrats are with
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: this obvious DSA takeover. You know, you... Hmm. I... The
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: gender mutilation thing is driving me crazy. It always had.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 3: But also the idea that men can play against women
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: in sports. Biden just rescinded the Title IX rules under
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 3: the Biden administration. And this is so important. And, again,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: I go back to this. Does this have a political stripe,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: Congressman Davidson? I know it does for the Democrats. But
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: what sane human being with a daughter would want them
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 3: to have to face competing with a larger, stronger, in
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 3: most all cases, man? That is insane from a position.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 3: I don't get why this is traction for some Democrats
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: or why they are angry about the rescission of the
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 3: Biden era Title IX rules.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, look, they are trying to keep the emphasis off
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 9: of that in the election cycle when the votes are called.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 9: when the votes are called, it becomes partisan. Now in
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 9: Southwest Ohio, it's not that partisan. We pulled it a
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 9: couple of years ago. And I think 86% agree that
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 9: men shouldn't compete against women in sports. There's a whole
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 9: reason we created women's sports, you know? So this is
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 9: just the reality.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: Isn't that the point of title nine?
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 9: That look track, track and field sports, cross country. And
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 9: my daughter was a runner. She ran in college. My
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 9: son was on varsity and, but he wasn't as, you know,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 9: so he's technically slightly faster than her, but you know,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 9: he was a kind of an average high school runner.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 9: She went to state, you know, I mean, there's a
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 9: difference physiologically. You have categories for a reason. And so,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 9: you know, women aren't going to get a fair shake, uh,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 9: if men are blended into the sports and okay, this
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 9: is a little different. They're doing hormones or doing other things.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 9: People are like, look, sort that out outside of the arena. And, uh,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 9: This is the law in Ohio, and it's the practice
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 9: right now in the country because of executive orders from
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 9: the administration. I mean, Cincinnati Children's Gender Clinic is now
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 9: kind of closed, sort of. I think it's embedded in
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 9: everything else, but it's a different issue. So fundamentally, why
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 9: do people keep talking about this? Because they see it
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 9: as a basic fairness thing.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 9: But when the politics come in, Democrats consistently vote on this.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 9: And The agenda on that, look, when MASH was on,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 9: I mean, they were pointing this out to say, look,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 9: this guy has a mental disorder, right? So he was
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 9: trying to get kicked out of the army so he
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 9: wouldn't have to be in the Korean War.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, Clinger.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Clinger, right? So this is a lot of people
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 9: too young to remember this. story, but this is a
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 9: mainstream TV because they know, yeah, everybody knows that's a
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 9: guy wearing a dress. And the whole point was something's off.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 9: And people just blew past it because they know, look,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 9: this is all a shtick for this guy. But the
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 9: reality is a lot of people do start to believe
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 9: for whatever reason, all right, I should be a man
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 9: or I should be a woman and cross it all up.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 9: Sort that out outside of the arena. And I think
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 9: that's broadly public, you know, public mindset until you vote.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 9: But that's the tip of the iceberg on the Democrat
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 9: socialist agenda. I mean, look, the open border isn't open
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 9: anymore because we have a president that is securing it,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 9: and we have a Congress that has funded a secure border.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 9: The minute Democrats had a chance to obstruct in the Senate,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 9: they blocked funding for ICE and Border Patrol. And the
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 9: only way that we were able to contain the problem
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 9: is because in 2025 we had passed a big, beautiful
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 9: bill that provided a surge of funding to Homeland Security
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 9: so they could do an increased level of activity. So
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 9: they were draining that cash. We didn't provide the funding
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 9: so you could maintain current operations. We provided it for
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 9: the surge. And they were draining that. It took nine
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 9: months to fix this issue because Democrats, particularly in the Senate,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 9: were obstructing on funding ICE and Border Patrol. So they
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 9: want to do this to all layers. I mean, Democrat
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 9: socialists literally want to get rid of the Senate because
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 9: of their agenda. They want to pack the Supreme Court. Mondami,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 9: the mayor of New York, is saying, hey, I got
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 9: elected on a Democrat socialist platform. I will govern with
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 9: a Democrat socialist platform. So this is who is increasingly
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 9: controlling the Democrat Party. So no matter how disappointed you
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 9: are in things that haven't gotten done yet, You can't
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 9: turn the country over to people that are actively working
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 9: to undermine our country. And look, ground you won't defend,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 9: you can't hold. So you got to go out there
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 9: and hold ground and then at least pick it back up.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 9: I think we're going to have a chance if we
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 9: can hold our majorities to really build momentum here. And
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 9: you're going to see the economy continue to grow. You're
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 9: going to see an increased focus on America first on
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 9: a lot of levels. And I'm excited about it.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 3: Well, and the Trump administration and Congressman Davidson, part of
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 3: it's trying to find fraud, waste, and abuse and cut
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 3: funding for things like, oh, illegals, foreign nationals, and DEI programs.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: We're going to bring Congressman Davidson back to talk about
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 3: $ 810 million in Office of Management budget rescissions thanks to
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 3: the Trump administration, at least looking out for our bottom
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: line to some degree. 728-55-KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: with Congressman Warren Davidson. Appreciate his willingness to talk with
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: my listening audience and me. About these important issues. And
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: real quick, Congressman Davidson, one of the listeners just chimed
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: in to me via instant message. I want to know
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: if you would just say a word in favor of
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 3: Eric Conroy, who's running against Greg Lansman. That race is
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: a lot more challenging than your race currently. So do
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: you have some thoughts or comments from our listening audience
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: about the importance of that race?
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 9: Well, look, this is the thing. You know, we need reinforcements.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 9: Why are we not going to get certain things done
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 9: that could get done? Well, a big part's the Senate.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 9: So we've got to hold that and make sure Sherrod
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 9: Brown stays fired and elect John Husted. But part of
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 9: the reason my district's far more competitive is to make
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 9: sure that Greg Lansman's district's more competitive. And we have
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 9: a chance to elect a great American, Eric Conroy, you know,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 9: Grew up on the west side, went to Elder High School,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 9: went to the Air Force Academy, did well in the
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 9: Air Force, got out, worked for the CIA for a while,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 9: got into the private sector, had success there. Wants to
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 9: come back home and serve his country in a different way.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 9: I think he'll be a great guy to serve with.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 9: He's got a lot of support, and I hope everyone
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 9: will join the momentum and get Eric Conroy over the
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 9: finish line, send me one more ally there so we
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 9: can get more things done.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 3: No doubt about it. In spite of the fact that
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 3: Democrats hate finding fraud, waste, and abuse because I think somehow,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 3: in some way, I think every nongovernmental organization gets a
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 3: handout on the taxpayer dollars, ends up funneling some of
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: that money back to the people who handed it to them,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: the Democrats. But nonetheless, Donald Trump and the administration continues
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 3: to forge ahead and, well, cut where cuts can be made,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: including rescissions from the Office of Management and Budget under
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 3: the Impoundment Control Act. Let my listeners know about this one.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so the Impoundment Control Act creates consequences if you
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 9: misuse federal money. If you spend money that you're not
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 9: supposed to, you're supposed to get in trouble. So I
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 9: was hoping that we could use that to kind of
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 9: pull back the $ 2 billion they gave to a nonprofit
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 9: Stacey Abrams created, and they were trying to shovel gold
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 9: bars off the Titanic. In their own words, in the
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 9: wake of the 2024 election, they were trying to get
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 9: the cash out. One of the people they got to
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 9: cash out to was Stacey Abrams, $ 2 billion. Talk about fraud, waste,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 9: and abuse. I mean, this is a nonprofit that hadn't
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 9: done a dime worth of business until they got $ 2
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 9: billion shoved at them. So what does the Impoundment Control
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 9: Act do? Well, it lets the government not cut the check.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 9: So the Office of Management and Budget, that's the wonky
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 9: office that cuts the checks, disperses the money to the
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 9: other agencies. They've looked at it and said, look, we
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 9: are We're looking at a situation where some of these
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 9: grants are just going to illegal immigration. They're funding something
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 9: that we're trying to shut down. It's working at cross purposes.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 9: We're not going to make the grants that we're going
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 9: to facilitate illegal immigration. We're not going to make the
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 9: grants that are funding transgender activities that we are shutting
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 9: down with our health care. We are not going to
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 9: make the grants that are funding DEI initiatives that we
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 9: just shut down. And all that together adds up to,
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 9: I think, $ 810 million. So, you know, but it's a start, right?
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 9: So it's not going to balance the budget right away,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 9: but it is directionally the right way. It's authorized by
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 9: the U.N. Palma Control Act. And Democrats and, frankly, some
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 9: Republicans are like, wait, you can't do that. You can't
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 9: not spend the money. You have to spend all the money.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 9: And so that's what they're trying to do is rein
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 9: it in, and not just on willy-nilly things, but things
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 9: that are clearly not in the American interest.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 3: Not in the American interest. Like so many of the
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 3: things that Doge revealed right when it started doing an
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 3: analysis under the USAID program, which the Democrats pulled their
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 3: hair out and screamed and wailed and gnashed teeth because
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 3: all these crazy projects that we found out were being funded,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 3: not to the interest of the American people. You know,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: shrimp on treadmill or transgender prostitutes in China. I mean,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 3: the list is just absolutely mind-boggling. And when that's brought
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 3: to the attention of the American public, I mean, sane
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 3: people react and say– First off, I can't believe we
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: were funding that in the first place. What idiot approved
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 3: my taxpayer labor going to any of those given projects?
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: But there's so much fraud, waste, and abuse and so
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: much failure of oversight. So you can say all day
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 3: long and make a great argument for one of these programs,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 3: but if no one like an inspector general is looking
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 3: where the money is spent and who got their hands
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: on it and whether they even accomplished the goal that
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 3: they were given the money to accomplish... That isn't being done.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 3: So all of this is just ripe for fraud, waste
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 3: and abuse, which it's being confirmed. There was a lot
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 3: of fraud, waste and abuse out in these programs. That's good.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 3: We get rid of the fraud, waste and abuse. But
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 3: why are the Democrats so upset about that, Congressman Davidson?
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 3: Can I ask that question sort of in a direct way?
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: What's the problem with that?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, here's why they were so mad about Doge is
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 9: Doge was saying, wait, wait, let's follow the money. We
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 9: don't have a good enough accounting system to follow the money.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 9: So Doge came in and followed your money, tax dollars,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 9: who we're paying what, right? And they're mad that you're
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 9: finding it because, wait, we're paying how much to who?
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 9: And your leering centers were funding leering centers. Last week,
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 9: we talked about people that were fraudulently enrolled in Obamacare.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 9: Why would states not crack down on people fraudulently enrolled
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 9: in Obamacare? Well, they get nine federal dollars for every
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 9: dollar they spend. So in California, why would they want
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 9: to stop people from fraudulently enrolling in Obamacare when for
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 9: every state dollar they put in, they get nine federal dollars?
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 9: So as much as 50 percent of the Obamacare dollars
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 9: that we're putting out there, no wonder health care spending
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 9: is going through the roof because you've got more dollars
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 9: flowing into it everywhere. So when you have more dollars
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 9: going at the same amount of stuff, what happens? The
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 9: price goes up. And this is exactly what Obamacare has done.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 9: And they say the remedy is, well, let the government
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 9: take over the whole thing. Well, no, they would still
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 9: have federal dollars paying for all of it and private
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 9: people benefiting from it. And this is exactly why the
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 9: Democrats want their non-government organizations are fully funded by the government.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 7: In a lot of cases.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 9: And it redistributes the wealth to these organizations. And then
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 9: they spend the money, blowing it back into their campaign money.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 9: We found this with ActBlue, where they're getting money and
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 9: they're falsely attributing it to, you know, sweet little old ladies.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 9: And they go out and interview them and they're like, well,
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 9: good heavens, no, I don't have $ 60, 000 to give to anybody,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 9: let alone any political candidates. Well, it says right here
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 9: on the Federal Election Commission report that you gave $ 61, 000
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 9: over the past X years. No, I didn't do that. Well, Okay,
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 9: how is that happening? They're laundering the money through all
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 9: these things that they're doing, and Doge was finding all that.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 9: So they are still putting this to use today. Doge
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 9: is still in operation. We're not doing as much with
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 9: the productivity side of that as I would like to see,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 9: but this rescissions is one component. of doing the same
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 9: kinds of things of shutting down fraud, waste, and abuse.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 9: The vice president's leading a task force on this. We
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 9: treated an extra office in the Department of Justice just
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 9: to find and prosecute the people committing these fraudulent activities.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 9: Including in Ohio, you have a bunch of Medicaid fraud,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 9: in Columbus in particular, shutting those kinds of things down
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 9: and prosecuting people. When is somebody going to jail?
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 5: Soon.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 9: They've made arrests in a lot of these fraud cases.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 9: And the trials are starting to get underway.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 3: It does take time. That's why I've always told my
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 3: listening audience, you know, they're going to find it. You
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 3: just got to wait for it. It's evidence gathering. It's enough,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: you know, gathering of evidence. If you're going to do
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 3: a criminal prosecution to prove guilty on a reasonable doubt,
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 3: putting it all together, filing the charges, maybe doing indictments.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: It's a long process, but at least this administration is
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 3: doing it. Because if you look backward, I don't think
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 3: any administration at any time in our country's history has
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 3: done a good enough job to monitor where our taxpayer
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 3: dollars are being spent.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 9: Yeah, look, I mean, that's something that should be unifying,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 9: I think, for a lot of the public it is. And,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 9: you know, the good thing is, is that the illicit finance,
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 9: when you're ripping off the regular public, and this is
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 9: the committee I chair, the subcommittee for national security and
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 9: illicit finance, if you're going after little old ladies, scamming
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 9: them in scam centers, there's no partisanship there. So it's
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 9: great to have something that we can work on, that
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 9: we agree on. We've had bipartisan legislation that's passed this
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 9: Congress that's helping– bolster this scam detection operations. They just
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 9: recently shut down one with $ 17 billion. They're scamming people
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 9: out at $ 10, 000, $ 15, 000, $ 25, 000 at a time, but it's
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 9: adding up to billions of dollars. A lot of what's
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 9: behind it are basically cartels. Sadly, some of it is
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 9: also they're trafficking people, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and other ways.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 9: They're earning their freedom by scamming enough people. And then
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 9: they'll say it gives them at least some level of
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 9: hope to get out of the bad circumstance they're in.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 9: Sick stuff. So at least the level of depravity isn't
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 9: to where they're willing to let you be formally ripped
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 9: off by others, but they're all in when it comes
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 9: to letting the government conspire to rip you off with
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 9: your tax dollars. So it's a little bit inconsistent there
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 9: by my Democrat colleagues.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you just have a question mark puzzling over
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 3: how they could be against this, somebody's getting the money.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 3: And I think that's a clear indicator that, you know what? Well,
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 3: it's a funding source for us. We won't admit it
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 3: out loud, but what other possible reason could they be
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 3: for against finding fraud and abuse in American taxpayer dollar expenses.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 3: We all work for it. We all pay regardless of
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 3: political stripe into the pot, and they have an obligation
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 3: to mind it. Unless, of course, it's taking away something
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: that is extraordinarily valuable to their lifeline, and I think
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 3: that's exactly where we land on this, Congressman Davidson. I
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 3: appreciate it.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's why I keep going back to Act Blue.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 9: I mean, that's the conduit for a lot of this. But,
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 9: you know, Stacey Abrams is one of the tells. Like, seriously,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 9: why would you give This nonprofit of all the things,
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 9: $ 2 billion. They've done nothing. Well, because Stacey Abrams was
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 9: carrying a lot of water for the Democrat team. And
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 9: it's all going to go back out into community organizers.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 9: I guess this is what people wonder when Barack Obama
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 9: was first running. What is a community organizer?
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 7: What does that qualify you to do?
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 9: Well, you're seeing it. That's what it qualifies you to do.
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  Speaker 3: Those worthless college degrees have to turn into something, Congressman Davidson.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you coming on the program. Get out and vote.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 3: You can start on Tuesday. Vote, of course, for Congressman Davidson. And,
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 3: of course, also vote for Eric Conroy, who's going to
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 3: join the program after the top of the hour news.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 3: Congressman Davidson, thanks again. I appreciate this, and I look
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: forward to having you back on the show real soon
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 3: and wish you the best of luck. 806 at 55KRC,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 3: the talk station. Brian Thomas welcoming into the studio and
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 3: staring right at him. He's Eric Conroy. He's running against
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 3: Greg Lansman and got the endorsement of a, Congressman Warren Davidson,
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 3: who would love you working cooperatively with him in Congress
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 3: after the election. And I'm sure you're doing that. You
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 3: see eye to eye with him on most of all
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: the major issues. And I know you're running for Congress
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: to fight for the working families and, well, keep our
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 3: community safe and make Ohio a better place. Congressman Davidson
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 3: is talking about we are on the right track. We
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 3: get the lowest unemployment rate in Ohio's history, along with
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 3: all this wonderful economic data that's just been released about
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 3: how well the Trump administration is doing. how the coffers
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 3: of the federal and state governments have increased because of
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 3: the success and increased revenues in business by lower taxes.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 3: Lower taxes equal more money. It always works out that way.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 3: Democrats don't want to even admit that. But welcome in studio,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 3: Eric Conroy. Find him online at ericconroy.com. Help him out.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 3: Get a yard sign. Good to have you back in.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: Hey, Brian.
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  Speaker 10: Thanks for having me. And we're about five weeks out
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 10: from the election. It's a big year here in Ohio.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 10: We've got my race. We've got the governor's race and
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 10: the Senate race. And I think as we move along
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 10: over these next five weeks, we have to do exactly
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 10: what you said, which is really tout the accomplishments of
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 10: this party over the last two years, including a lot
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 10: of those great economic accomplishments. And I don't think we
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 10: talk enough about the big, beautiful bill from last year
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 10: as well, in terms of no taxes on tips, no
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 10: taxes on overtime, and really putting money back into the
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 10: pockets of working class families. That is really what makes
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 10: our economy thrive, is getting that money back into the
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 10: hands of families to spend it how they see fit.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 3: Well, and the same thing goes with businesses. Those evil corporations.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 3: The DSA screams out loud all day long about the
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 3: very businesses that employ all of us, and me included.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 3: Second quarter profits from corporations rose 20.8% from last year.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 4: 20.8%.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 3: And more jobs out there. Our payroll increased by $ 90, 000.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 3: All the economic data is revised forecast up. And inflation,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 3: in fact, Revise downward.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 10: And this is what happens when you have great Republican
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 10: economic policies. It's less regulations, less taxes, and cheap energy
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 10: as well. And when we have those three points really
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 10: working in motion, we're going to have an economic boom.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: And we've seen that.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 10: Over the last few years. I think I saw one stat.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 10: For every one regulation that goes on the books, the
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 10: administration wants to cut four.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, is it four now?
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: I think it's four now.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 3: I think when Trump first proposed it, it was two
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 3: for every one.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: I think it might have increased.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 3: I think we can afford to go nine, honestly.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: I think we can cut quite a few, right?
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 10: And cutting regulations is really what's going to make this
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 10: economy boom. And we need that business-friendly environment here in
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 10: southwest Ohio as well.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 3: Well, and everybody in the listening audience knows who regularly
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 3: listens to me, I'm a huge fan of this nuclear
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 3: renaissance we're having, the small modular reactors, you know, off
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 3: the shelf, ready to go, easily installed, something that AI
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 3: centers and their billions of dollars can probably afford themselves,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 3: maybe provide us a little extra electricity perhaps, or at
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 3: least not tax the good with them. The Trump administration
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 3: has greased the skids to allow this magical thing to happen.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 3: This is something the Democrats are against, and the green
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 3: people are. Eric Conroy, how in God's name can green
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 3: people be against nuclear energy when it doesn't produce any
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 3: of the damn carbon dioxide they want us to remove?
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: It's a great question, right?
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 10: And we've had this technology on naval ships and submarines
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 10: for a very long time.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 3: Good morning, cribbage Mike, my submariner friend.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 10: And to bring that technology back home and using it
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 10: in a novel way, I think these are great common
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 10: sense policies that Republicans are pitching nowadays. Why not bring
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 10: that to AI data centers and other ways that we
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 10: can use it across the community? to keep our energy going,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 10: and that'll bring energy prices down by having more sources
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 10: of energy and help us grow.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: And electricity demand continues to grow. You know, this wonderful
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 3: electrified world that the green folks want us to live
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 3: in requires a constant, reliable source of energy. So the
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 3: answer to everyone's prayers on both sides of that argument
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 3: is nuclear power. But no, they don't want us to
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 3: have it. You know, I'm convinced the left is just
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 3: angry about America's continued success. Anything that they can do
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 3: to stop success in this country, they want to do it.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 3: They want to stop AI, as if you could stop
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 3: that from going. Bernie Sanders submitted a bill to put
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 3: the brakes on the whole thing. And these economic numbers
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 3: that came in, Eric, they're giving a lot of credit
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 3: to the billions of dollars that are being spent on
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 3: artificial intelligence. The construction jobs are bringing more money to
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 3: the economy. All of this is really good. They want
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 3: to stop it in its tracks.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 10: Well, look, the Democratic Party has no ideas and no solutions.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 10: Even the primary results on the Democratic Party this year
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 10: are frightening. There's no such thing as a moderate, blue-dog
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 10: Democratic Party anymore. That party does not exist. Your father's
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 10: Democratic Party does not exist anymore. I mean, I saw
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 10: one stat a couple weeks ago. 60% of Democrats now
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 10: view socialism favorably. And, of course, we know a wing
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 10: of that includes Democrats Despairing the police, rewriting the Constitution,
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 10: and getting.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: Rid of the Senate. This is crazy talk.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 3: And open borders.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: And open borders, right?
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 10: And a lot of these Democrats, like my opponent Greg Lansman,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 10: campaign as this squishy moderate back here in the Midwest
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 10: and then go and vote for all the leftist policies
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 10: in D.C. And this is extremely disingenuous to voters and
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 10: the citizens here.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 3: Well, ask any elected official who's been in Congress and
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 3: had to deal with the pressure that they get. Some
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 3: people can stand up to pressure. You know, say we
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 3: went to Congressman Massey. He stood up to everybody. He
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 3: was in favor of the Constitution. He understood it and
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 3: defended it all. day long in good times and in bad.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 3: He didn't find any convenient time to ignore the language
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 3: of the Constitution. So he was able to buck the
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: system and successfully for a very long time. You know,
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 3: do you really trust Greg Lansman to stand up and
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 3: say no to the woke ideology that the Democrat Party
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 3: has become? saying no to maybe lopping off young people's
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 3: genitals in the name of gender transition, allowing women to,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 3: or making women to compete against men in sports, which
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 3: is insane. I mean, we can go on and on
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 3: and on.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 10: And look, we need people who are there for the
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 10: right reasons, who are going to stand on their principles.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 10: And my opponent, Greg Lansman, is obviously not doing that.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 10: This is a guy who broke the Stock Act in 2025,
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 10: which is a federal law. went back and rewrote three
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 10: years worth of financial disclosures, covering up dozens of trades
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 10: worth over a million dollars. Brian, he's tripled, tripled his
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 10: net worth in less than three years on the Hill.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 10: So not only is this guy advocating for woke leftist policies,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 10: but he's there for the entirely wrong reasons. Clearly he
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 10: took a page on a Nancy Pelosi's playbook when he
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 10: worked for her in his younger days.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 3: First off, I guess I'd love to know who his
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 3: financial advisor is. Yeah. If my wife and I could
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 3: triple our current retirement holdings in three years, that would
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 3: make me a very happy guy.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: Brian, you wouldn't have to work here anymore.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 3: You could go retire. I'm already there. Don't remind me, man.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 3: I'm already there. But it'd be so much more there
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 3: if that were to happen. But I find it odd.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 3: And I haven't seen any local reporting on that issue.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 3: If it was a negative campaign ad you're running and
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 3: maybe it was prevaricating a little bit, maybe some half-truths,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 3: I imagine local media will be all over that like
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 3: white on rice.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 10: It is black and white. He broke a federal law.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 10: And now he's trying to lie to the voters on
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 10: this campaign and expect that they won't notice.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: And, yeah, you're right. Unfortunately, we have not had too
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: many local media outlets pick it up.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 10: This is something our lovely Cincinnati Inquirer could pick up
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 10: from time to time, but they're not doing it.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: You have to ask yourself the question, why?
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 3: There's some good reporters, 5, 9, 12, and 19 around, too.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 3: This is important to local readers and, of course— It
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 3: seems like a subject matter that's worthy of discussion because
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 3: it is a key element in your point about Greg
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 3: Lansman and why you're a better choice. But the local
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 3: media does seem to be interested in where you grew up.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's very bizarre. They seem very focused on the
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 10: wrong topics, right? We have an incumbent congressman who broke
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 10: the law and who's there for the wrong reasons.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: And we need to get people who are there for
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: the right reasons, right? And we've talked about my background before.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: I've served.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 10: 14 years in the air force and the CIA. And
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 10: I'm promised to go to DC to be a great
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 10: advocate for this region and to do it for the
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 10: right reasons.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 3: Well, I'd like to hope so. You also work for
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 3: the CIA. I guess, you know, my, my faith in
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 3: all government institutions has dropped tremendously, but it's also a
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 3: job of the CIA. When I saw some of the, uh,
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 3: the whistleblowers that came out in the wake of the
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 3: Fauci thing. And I, I, Is there something that can
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 3: be done there from your perspective? You've been inside. You
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 3: know what it's like. I'm sure you can defend so
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 3: many elements of it, and I agree. But everything in
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 3: federal government needs fixing, and that kind of stuff really
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 3: screamed out loud.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 10: Well, I'm for government reform and accountability across the board,
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 10: not just my previous workplaces, but across the board, because
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 10: I saw the fraud, waste, and abuse, whether that was
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 10: in the intelligence community or in the defense department.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 3: In the defense department.
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 10: Over my time there. And these are your taxpayer dollars, Brian.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 10: We should be using them way more efficiently than we
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 10: currently are, and we're not doing it. And to go
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 10: back to your point about the CIA or maybe other
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 10: places that I worked at, there are great people in
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 10: the field.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: I was overseas.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 10: I was in war zones and in Europe doing the
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 10: job and doing some very hard work. At the same time,
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 10: those people in the field need better leadership. In D.C.,
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 10: you need to get away from the political games as well.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 3: That's the point. The CIA, of all things, shouldn't be
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 3: politicized to the extent that the resources are being used
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 3: to lie to the American people. And that's the case
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 3: with the Fauci and having all that control and that
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: direction and hiding evidence afterwards about the post-COVID investigation that
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 3: that guy was charged with doing, the whistleblower was charged
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 3: with doing it. I mean, he came from within the CIA, too.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 10: Well, let me tip my hat to Senator Bernie Moreno
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 10: for giving Fauci hell on the Hill earlier this summer.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 10: I mean, what a great interaction that was, finally holding
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 10: him accountable for the nonsense.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: From a few years ago.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: Dr.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 3: Fauci, who got a pardon from Joe Biden. Well, maybe.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 3: I think the auto pen is more aware of that
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: than Joe Biden was. Anyway, we'll continue with Eric Conroy. EricConroy.com. Look,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 3: there's a donate button in the upper right-hand corner. It's
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 3: not too late to donate.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: The Talk Station.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 3: 820-55-KRCD Talk Station, erikconroy.com, Erickson Studio, talking about why he's
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 3: a far better candidate than Greg Lansman. Voting for Lansman,
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 3: you're voting for a Democratic Socialist of America, principles and policies,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 3: because who among us thinks he'll stand up to his
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 3: colleagues if elected? So let's not do that. And let's
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 3: talk about, real quick here, I know that, is it
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's going to be in Vandalia this Saturday for
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 3: a fundraiser or a rally of some sort? Are you
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 3: going to be able to make that, Eric? I had
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 3: to ask because I think some of my listeners probably
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 3: would like to meet you.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: No, I myself am in a bit of a logistical
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 10: pickle that day. My one and only sister is getting married.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 3: Family is a priority.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: Downtown.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 10: So we're going to see what we can do. But
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 10: since my sister's getting married, it's a bit of a
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 10: complicated day.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 3: All right, well, pivoting over to, real quick, I've got
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 3: to interject this while I know you're here to answer it.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: I know you're a Geta fan because your commercial runs it.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 3: You had a Geta tip, a special way of eating
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 3: Geta that I think only people in Cincinnati could fully
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 3: embrace and understand. First off, because it's Geta, but second off,
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 3: because it involves Cincinnati-style chili.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 8: Here we go.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 10: So here's my secret chili recipe, Brian. Go to any
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 10: of the old-school... Chili parlors around town, right?
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 3: Camp Washington.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: Camp Washington.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 10: Order a three-way and then ask for a slice of
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 10: geta in between the chili and the cheese. I'm telling you,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 10: it's life-changing.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 3: All right, you won me over. It sounds surprisingly awesome.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about internal polling. You had off-air
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 3: at one point expressed some, like everybody does, skepticism toward
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 3: the national polling, which has the Democrats even sometimes beyond
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 3: the margin of error ahead of Republicans. I find it
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 3: a little difficult to believe in Stomach. Again, going back
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 3: to your point, what in the hell are the Democrats
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 3: running on with the exception of the DSA-type platform stuff
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 3: you get from El-Sayed and Zorhan Mamdami? But have you
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 3: done some internal polling? Do you at least think it's
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 3: more reliable? What is it showing right now?
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 2: We do.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 10: And as a little bit of a background, as a
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 10: reminder for your listeners, Ohio District 1 was redrawn this
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 10: year into a 53% Republican district, which makes it one
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 10: of the few flippable seats. around the country and one
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 10: that could determine control of the house. And we have
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 10: done some polling and we're within the margin of error,
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 10: which is terrific. And right where you want to be
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 10: heading into October. Uh, we've been very thrilled with all
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 10: the attention, the excitement we've gotten around the race. Uh,
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 10: we had the vice president, uh, in town a couple,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 10: a little over a month ago, I got to take
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 10: him to Price Hill, Chile and serve out Coney dogs
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 10: and beers to the lovely patrons and, uh, and Price
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 10: Hill with the vice president. And we're also getting a
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 10: lot of support, uh, as well. We're expecting, uh, probably
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 10: over $ 10 million in national support.
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, big national money coming in.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: Which is great, right? Well, I would hope so.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 3: You just pointed out it's a flippable seat. Damn, they
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 3: should do that to ensure that the House is controlled
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 3: by the Republicans.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 10: And that already includes a $ 4 million investment from the
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 10: Congressional Leadership Fund and some other groups as well. So
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 10: we're going to have the resources to tell the story
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 10: of Greg Lansman and why he's unfit for Congress and
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 10: also win this race and bring some common sense conservative
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 10: leadership back to Southwest Ohio.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 3: And reminding voters or listeners and the listening audience, early
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 3: voting starts again on Tuesday. And I learned it just
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 3: the other day, or at least was reminded of it.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 3: If you vote early, once you've cast your vote, you're
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 3: no longer going to get mailings and be inundated with
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 3: those kind of phone calls and everything. They remove you
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 3: from the list so they can put somebody else on
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 3: and make sure it's covered. So there's some welcome relief
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 3: right there.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 3: The biggest issue seems to be, Eric Conroy, since you're
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 3: going to have some measure of control over it. affordability.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 3: We've got a difficult situation going on out there with inflation,
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 3: although the recent numbers do suggest we have a booming economy.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 3: What does Eric Conroy, Congressman Eric Conroy, do about affordability?
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 10: Well, firstly, Brian, I think affordability is probably the defining
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 10: issue of this decade and probably the next as well.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 10: Our economy and the world economy has changed quite a
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 10: bit over the last 20 to 30 years. I think
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 10: here locally, we need to think about long-term planning and
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 10: short-term relief as well. And I think along the lines
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 10: of long-term planning, we need to find great pathways for
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 10: our youth.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: And I'm a big.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 10: Advocate of trade schools here in the region. And the
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 10: traditional four-year degree does not work out as well as
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 10: it used to. And I think promoting trade schools is
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 10: a great way to not only provide great economic opportunity,
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 10: but also blunt the blow that AI is making on
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 10: the job market as well. AI is not going to
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 10: take away an electrician's job or an HVAC specialist's job
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 10: anytime soon. So I think we need to promote those
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 10: paths more.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 3: As frightening as the Chinese robots appear, they're not ready
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 3: for primetime yet.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they have opposable thumbs.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know that they do either, but no one's
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 3: going to start welcoming in an AI-driven drone or a
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 3: robot into their home to fix the plumbing. That's a
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 3: great point. Those are reliable and long-lasting careers.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 10: But in addition to long-term planning, I think we need
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 10: to do short-term relief as well. And I think the big,
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 10: beautiful bill last year was a great start. No taxes
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 10: on tips, no taxes on overtime. And really making sure
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 10: we're putting money back into the pockets of taxpayers at
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 10: the lowest level who know how to spend their money
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 10: the wisest, as opposed to big government.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 3: Eric Conroy, he deserves your vote. Lansman certainly does not.
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 3: You can draw your own conclusions, but go to his website,
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 3: check out where he is on the issues. There's a
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 3: donate button, as I mentioned earlier. And again, early voting
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 3: starts Tuesday. So if you get it out of the way,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 3: at least you're not going to be inundated with political
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 3: ads and you've gotten the job done. I mean, Drew
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 3: Pappas from Anderson Township was on the other day pointing
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 3: out that the loss of 5,000 people who stayed at
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 3: home resulted in Anderson Township now being run by Democrats.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 3: Formerly hard right, very reliably right wing for want of
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 3: 5,000 bodies that voted in the prior election. This is
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 3: what it means. You've got to get out and vote.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 3: Eric Conroy, I wish you all the best. And of course,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 3: if you want to come back on the program between
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 3: now and the election, you've got a welcome place here.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: Brian, hey, thanks as always for having me.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 3: It's my pleasure. It is 8.30 on a Thursday. Love
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 3: this time of week. Even though the first subject matter
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 3: is not a pleasant one, it turned out pretty good,
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 3: all things considered. But nobody likes to see a hijacker
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 3: or anybody get stabbed on an airplane. Welcome back, iHeartMedia
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 3: aviation expert Jay Radliff. As I mentioned to you yesterday,
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 3: I guess your phone's been ringing off the hook the
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 3: last couple of days.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 12: It has been going, been crazy, that's for sure. And,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 12: you know, as you mentioned, fortunately it was a good
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 12: news story versus what it could have been on so
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 12: many other levels.
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 3: No question about it. And the first question I have,
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 3: and I'll let you get into the details and fill
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 3: in the blanks for us. A section of the plane's
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 3: rudder was ripped from the tail as a consequence of
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 3: this thing going almost directly into the ground 15,000 feet.
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 3: It was at 34,000, and for like in one minute
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 3: it dropped 15 or so thousand feet. I just found
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 3: it surprising that apparently it pushed the plane to the
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 3: limits of its engineering abilities, and that's how the piece
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 3: ripped off the tail. Have you ever heard of that
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 3: happening before, Jay?
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 8: I have.
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 12: And if you look at the speed, if you look
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 12: at the flight data that we have right now, which
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 12: is preliminary information, it actually exceeded the operational limits. So
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 12: that's how much stress that 737-800 was on as it
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 12: was diving. And yes, part of the vertical stabilizer, the
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 12: part that sticks up in the rear of the aircraft,
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 12: the back of it was damaged. When I saw that picture,
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 12: my first thought was American Airlines 587. Now, you may
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 12: not remember the number, but it was right after 9-11.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 12: It was November of that year. We had American Airlines
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 12: flight out of Kennedy that had that vertical stabilizer, that
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 12: same piece, come completely off the aircraft. Crew lost the
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 12: ability to control the airplane.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 2: Down it went.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 12: Killed 260 passengers, five people on the ground. And When
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 12: I looked at that, I thought, how close did they
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 12: get to that entire stabilizer coming off that aircraft? And
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 12: if that had been it, all 180 souls on board
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 12: plus anybody.
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 2: On the ground would have been lost.
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 12: So, you know, that was a miracle on top of
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 12: all the other miracles that took place because that airplane
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 12: was pushed to the limit and beyond as it went
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 12: through that plummet that you talked about in a minute
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 12: or so. And it was just unbelievable. And then to
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 12: realize what the passengers were going through in the back,
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 12: not knowing what was going on. Yeah, you don't know
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 12: if it's a mechanical problem. Your first thought isn't necessarily terrorism.
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 12: It's normally, oh, my gosh, something's happened to the airplane,
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 12: and we're going to crash, and we're going to die.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 2: So you've got all of these things ongoing.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 12: And then when the aircraft comes to limit levels off
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 12: a bit, Then you've got the commotion in front of
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 12: the aircraft, and then it's a totally different scenario in
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 12: your mind where, oh, my gosh, somebody may be trying
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 12: to take over this airplane. And, you know, you've got
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 12: a captain that is stabbed by his first officer and
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 12: somehow is able to change the transponder on the aircraft
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 12: to 7,500, meaning aircraft in distress. He is continuing to
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 12: be attacked and is able to change that to 7,700.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 12: which is, well, I think it was 7,700.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 2: First and 7,500.
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 12: The last one being hijacking scenario, and that's when you
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 12: have the military intercepts that are immediately launched, if not before,
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 12: to escort or, if need be, take the airplane down
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 12: if it's going to.
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 2: Be used as a missile as it was in 9-11.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 3: So while he's being stabbed or otherwise attacked, he's got
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 3: to change that distress signal. He has to issue first
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 3: one and then change it over to the one that
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 3: reflects that it's actually terrorism. And also, it's been widely
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 3: reported that he also had to release the cockpit door
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 3: so somebody else could come in and save him or
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 3: otherwise save the passengers on the airplane. I mean, that
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 3: guy was multitasking.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 12: It was unbelievable what he was doing as he was
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 12: being severely injured in the process. Because apparently his injuries
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 12: are very, very serious. Once he got the door open, then.
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 12: Aid can be, could be rendered where you've got, you know,
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 12: pilots rushing in to help you. You had dentists, you
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 12: had plumbers, you had different people from all walks of
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 12: life that were there to assist as need be.
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 2: And, you know, all of us have.
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 12: Been reminded about American Airlines flight 93 situation. And, and
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 12: I've had some people say, well, Jay, you know, that,
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 12: that pilot, the first officer might've been buckled in, you know,
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 12: how easy would it be to remove him from the aircraft?
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, a lot of.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 12: People have seen those quick release harnesses. the five-point ones
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 12: that pilots put on, all you've got to do is
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 12: turn the middle dial on all five release. It's quick
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 12: release designed that way to get out of the airplane quickly.
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 2: If need be.
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 12: So it would be easy to undo that seatbelt to
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 12: get the first officer out. And then, you know, thankfully
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 12: you've got, yeah, here you go, pilots on board that
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 12: can take over to help land that airplane safely. So
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 12: you just had so many things that were ongoing with this. And,
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 12: of course, we still have to figure out what the
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 12: intent was. and those types of things. But Brian, the
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 12: other thing that crossed my mind is, I don't know
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 12: what flight Dubai, because that's the airline that this occurred with,
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 12: I don't know what their policy is when one of
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 12: the crew members leaves the cockpit to go to the lavatory.
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 3: It used to be they would just.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 12: Leave one person up there. Now, after a German wings
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 12: flight a number of years ago where the captain went
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 12: to the lavatory First officer locked the door and then
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 12: flew it into a mountain, killing everybody on board.
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  Speaker 3: I remember that.
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  Speaker 12: Most international airlines adopted what we do here in the
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  Speaker 12: United States, where a pilot leaves, a flight attendant steps in,
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  Speaker 12: and then.
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  Speaker 2: The door is shut.
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  Speaker 12: You always have two people in the cockpit at all times,
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  Speaker 12: just as a safety precaution. I don't know what Flight
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  Speaker 12: Dubai's policy is, but I was thinking, what would have
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  Speaker 12: happened had the captain gone to the lavatory? Would the
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 12: door have been locked and then all hope is lost?
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  Speaker 12: So there's all kinds of different scenarios here about what
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 12: if could have happened. But what I do know is this.
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  Speaker 12: We're going to learn a lot, and we're going to
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 12: make aviation safer as a result of this.
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  Speaker 2: Now, my other question.
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  Speaker 12: Is, okay, if this guy was stabbing the captain, did
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  Speaker 12: he have a knife? And if so, how did that
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  Speaker 12: knife get on board the aircraft? Was he screened before
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 12: he was allowed to board the aircraft? Because in some countries,
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 12: pilots are randomly screened. Sometimes pilots are not screened. Flight
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 12: attendants might be randomly screened. We know that employees here
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 12: in the United States many times are not screened between
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 12: the time they go from the parking lot to the
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 12: tarmac to work on an airplane. So there's a lot
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 12: of questions here within the investigation that are going to
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 12: have to be addressed and answered. That's going to kind
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 12: of give us a bigger picture of what happened. And
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  Speaker 12: I'm telling you, there's so many things to this and
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 12: so many moving parts in different directions. It's going to
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 12: be a while before we get all the answers that
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 12: we're looking for right now.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and we will continue because I still have questions
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  Speaker 3: I need to ask of Jay Radliff, iHeartMedia aviation expert.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get back to him right after these brief words.
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  Speaker 2: 55KRC.
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  Speaker 3: Talk station. You ever been in a cockpit before? Jay
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 3: Radliff has. He's iHeartMedia aviation expert. He is nationwide. We
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 3: are lucky here on the 55KRC morning show to get
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 3: him every Thursday for a few segments and continuing the
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 3: conversation about this, well, fly Dubai flight 1073. I had
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 3: to ask you about this because... recognizing that the stabilizer
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 3: had been ripped off the plane after the rapid descent.
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 3: We have the pilot who is obviously incapable of flying
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 3: the plane, co-pilot, clearly out of commission after they wrestled
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 3: him out of the cockpit. Fortunately, there were two other pilots,
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 3: at least on the plane, who were able to land it.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I'm wondering, first off, would a random human
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  Speaker 3: being like you see in the movies all the time
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  Speaker 3: be able to right that plane without a stabilizer, that's
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 3: something you need an experienced pilot to even manage. Jay,
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  Speaker 3: can you even comment on that?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I mean, they had part of the vertical stabilizer
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 12: that was still there and intact. So there was, even
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 12: though some operational limits with regards to how well they
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 12: could fly the airplane, they were able to maintain control.
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  Speaker 12: Would the average Joe Blow get up there and be
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 12: able to land it? A lot of these aircraft are
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 12: incredibly automated, and you could walk through a series of
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 12: sequences that could allow the aircraft to come in and land.
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  Speaker 12: But obviously, you never want that to.
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  Speaker 2: Be the case.
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  Speaker 12: And again, the pilots who are on board, most of
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 12: the time when you've got airplanes that are flying, you've
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 12: got either a deadheading crew or replacement crew that's on
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 12: board the aircraft that are there that can render assistance.
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  Speaker 12: You're talking about commercial pilots that have flown for thousands
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 12: and thousands of hours that are there if possible. And
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 12: when all this was transpiring in the initial moments, I
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 12: was wondering, did we have a crew in the cockpit
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  Speaker 12: that flying as a deadheading in the jump seats, or
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 12: were they in the back? Because we kept hearing these
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 12: reports where people had broken in to the cockpit. And
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 12: I'm thinking you can't break into the cockpit with these
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 12: reinforced doors. Something had to happen to get those doors
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 12: opened up. So, you know, we have had explosive decompressions where,
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 12: like the Southwest flight over Pennsylvania, where the passenger was killed, where,
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  Speaker 12: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Part of the The door fell off, yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, and we had that situation with Alaska Airlines where
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 12: that door does get ripped open in the cockpit. But
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 12: it takes a very, very serious event for that type
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  Speaker 12: of scenario to happen. The average person or people trying
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 12: to pound open a door is not going to happen.
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  Speaker 12: And as we indicated in the last segment, just what
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 12: heroic efforts were involved to try to, A, fight off
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 12: somebody who's trying to attack and kill you, and still
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 12: have the presence of mind to get to that door
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  Speaker 12: and get it open, both unlocked and then open it
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 12: so that other people can come in and assist. So,
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  Speaker 12: I mean, it is the stuff that movies are made of,
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  Speaker 12: and it's going to be unbelievable when we see everything
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 12: that has taken place here. But, again, you know, the
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 12: whole idea is how did the knife get on board
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 12: if it was a knife, and, you know, did this
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 12: person have any intent, and do we have to worry
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 12: about other pilots?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and you stumbled right into the question I wanted
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 3: to get to before we take a break here. I've
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  Speaker 3: read on multiple locations they do background checks for pilots
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 3: before they're put in a cockpit, but they do ongoing,
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 3: like regular, every once in a while, they do just
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 3: like looking at social media and whether this guy had
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 3: been radicalized because if he passed the initial background check,
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 3: that doesn't mean the guy couldn't be radicalized by some
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 3: crazy fundamentalist organization sometime down the road. That may have
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 3: been what happened.
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  Speaker 12: Well, if something's brought up, to someone's attention, and it
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 12: becomes known to the company. The company more than likely
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 12: is going to look into it to find out what
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 12: may be going on. But as far as an ongoing
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 12: requalification in that regard, typically not. You've got your flight
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 12: physicals and the training and the other recurrent stuff that
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 12: you have to do as an ongoing part of your job. But,
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 12: you know, for the most part, you've got a lot
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 12: of airlines around the world. And how many times have
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 12: you and I talked about this? where there's a shortage
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 12: of pilots in a lot of areas, and they really
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 12: need to get as many pilots as they can.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 2: Brian, it's so bad.
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  Speaker 12: I think it was Pakistan International Airlines, PIA, that they
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 12: found out a number of years ago that a third
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 12: of their pilots had fake pilot license.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, great.
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  Speaker 5: Now, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Note to self, do not fly that airline. But that.
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 12: If that can happen, then obviously other things can as well. Look,
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 12: I've talked to a lot of people that learned to
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 12: fly here in the States. There weren't any job openings.
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 12: They went overseas, and they were able to fly with
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 12: Emirates or Qatar or Qantas or one of these other
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 12: carriers that had a massive hiring need, and they were
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 12: able to jump in, fill that need, and go from there.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 12: I'm not suggesting that these airlines would have a substandard
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 12: hiring practice, but they When you're desperate to fill a position,
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 12: just how deep do you go?
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 2: We don't know.
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  Speaker 12: So, again, just all the questions that need to be
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 12: answered here, and hopefully we'll get all the answers that
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 12: we need.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we live in a country where they apply DEI
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 3: standards to pilots as well, so they can achieve some
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 3: sort of UN-approved color chart in terms of the color
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 3: of people's skin and not talk about merit. So I
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 3: guess it should come no surprise that in a pilot
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 3: shortage area, they're willing to hire people that, well, show
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 3: up to work or show up to that application with the–
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 3: or interview with the suicide vest on, metaphorically.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and.
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  Speaker 12: It's, again, we're going to learn from this. And I'm
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 12: glad we're learning absent of anybody dying up to this point.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 12: And the idea that the people on board that airplane
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 12: got to see their families. And, I mean, there's going
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 12: to be a lot of emotional baggage that everybody's going
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 12: to carry forward on this. And it's not a matter of,
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 12: you know, you shake it off and away you go. Yeah,
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 12: if you're a trained pilot, a military pilot or somebody
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 12: that knows what you're doing, and even then you might
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 12: have issues, the normal passenger that goes through this and
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 12: it being such a public event that everybody's talking about
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 12: and will be for a period of time, I mean,
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 12: there's going to be counseling, medication, all kinds of things
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 12: that these men and women and children are going to
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 12: have to go through for some time when it becomes
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 12: even more apparent how close they came to whatever it
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 12: might have been. because we talk about the structural integrity
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 12: of that vertical stabilizer, but then you also have the
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 12: intent of the person that was trying to take over
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 12: the airplane to.
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 2: Do Lord knows what.
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  Speaker 3: Lord knows what, and certainly we'll find out at some point. Pause.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 3: We'll bring Jay Ratliff for one more segment here on
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 3: the 55KRC Morning Show. It's 847, 848 at 55KRC. The
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 3: Talk Station. It's 851 at 55KRC, the talk station. Talking
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 3: with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff. We get the benefit
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 3: of his company every Thursday beginning at 830. And you'll
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 3: find this discussion over on the podcast page at 55KRC. iHeart. com.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 3: Jay Ratliff, you know, I'm surprised I have your list
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 3: of topics and try to maybe move away from the
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 3: fly-to-buy incident. And I'm sure we'll have a lot more
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 3: to unpackage between now and next Thursday and we learn more.
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 3: But there was nothing here about the Boeing 737 MAX
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 3: software update that apparently there was a problem with, or
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 3: at least it sounded suspiciously like the update that they
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 3: didn't let anybody know about. Jay, do you have a
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 3: comment on that one?
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 12: Well, I mean, this is a situation where there was
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 12: part of the flight management system that disengaged right as
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 12: the aircraft was on final approach. And it had to
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 12: do with the automated system and then it coming off
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 12: of that. And then at the last minute, the pilots
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 12: had to to do what they.
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 2: Needed to do.
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 12: And it was a number of years ago that airlines
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 12: started reporting issues with this. Boeing said, we've looked into this.
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 12: Nothing to see here. So it was later that the
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 12: Federal Aviation Administration looked a little closer and said, time
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 12: out here. You know, we need to have this looked
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 12: at so much in fact that you have airlines like,
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 12: I think, United and Southwest that have told Boeing, look,
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 12: when you deliver our next Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 12: are of this series, We want the old software package,
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 12: not the new updated one, but the old software package.
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 12: Because yes, once again, it appears that I don't know
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 12: if it's a matter of, hey, let's see how little
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 12: we can pay people to do things as we did
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 12: in the Boeing MAX situation on the MCAS system, where
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 12: we're paying people who paid 20 bucks an hour in
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 12: India to develop the system that ended up, you know,
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 12: malfunctioning and killing 346 people on two flights. But, you know,
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 12: the FAA, you know, is stepping in saying, look, this
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 12: has got to get fixed. It's got to get fixed now.
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 12: And I'm glad to see that because once again, when
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 12: Boeing was made aware of a situation, maybe they knew
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 12: there was a problem, opted not to do anything, or
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 12: maybe they just totally were.
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 7: Ignorant of the fact that there was an issue.
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 12: But we found out in the Boeing MAX issue seven
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 12: years ago that Yes, they were very aware of the
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 12: situation involving the MCAS system and the stalling thing and
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 12: all of the things that were the problems with what
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 12: they had. And their internal decision was, we know there's
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 12: a problem, and we're going to fix it in the
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 12: future on future ones, and we'll get it worked out. Well, obviously,
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 12: people died in the process. I don't know, obviously, about
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 12: the thought process or what's going on here, but it was,
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 12: like you said.
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 2: Eerily similar.
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 3: Eerily similar.
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 2: To the Boeing of old, and it just makes you shudder.
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 3: It does, and it just blows my mind that they
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 3: have that cavalier attitude. This has not been a day
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 3: of easing the concerns of the reluctant flyer Jay Ratliff,
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 3: but there's your aviation news for the week as relayed
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 3: to you by our great iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff. Jay,
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 3: thank you so much for your time today breaking down
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 3: the issues. We'll do it again next Friday, and as always,
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 3: between now and then, I hope you and your better
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 3: half have a fantastic, wonderful week, and best of health
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 3: and love to both of you.
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 2: Always good to.
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 12: Talk to you, and if I can throw in real quick,
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 12: if you're going through Dallas or Chicago today, look for delays.
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 12: Get to the airport early.
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Appreciate that brief hub delay. Jay,
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 3: take care, brother. It's 855.