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55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, CCVS, Napolitano · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: A listener to lunch, enjoy, meets some new people and
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Speaker 1: have some fun, make some friends, some real human connections.
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Speaker 1: Just a nice thing. And that's why I enjoy listener lunch.
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Speaker 1: But the extent you know you're there, you want to
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Speaker 1: say hi to me, listen, I'm the most open available person.
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Speaker 1: Just walk up, reach out your handshake hands, say hi.
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Speaker 1: I try to go around the room and say hi
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Speaker 1: to everybody, and quite often I don't get to do that,
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Speaker 1: and you know, somebody will be walking out after having
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Speaker 1: lunch like, oh, I wanted to talk to you. It's like, well,
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Speaker 1: you got to come over and say hi to me.
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Speaker 1: So that's all I want to interject on that listener
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Speaker 1: lunch Anderson Pub and Girls the place to be. So
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Speaker 1: I hope to see you there. Big Picture with Jack Atherdan,
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Speaker 1: I dearly love a Wednesday because at seven oh five
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Speaker 1: we get the brilliance of Jack Atherden weaving history and
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Speaker 1: modern political topics together and making tremendous sense every Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: with notable exceptions. Today, I don't know where he's going
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Speaker 1: to go. This is why we get enjoy the whole all.
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Speaker 1: We enjoy the fun together and discover what jack'skind has
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Speaker 1: on his mind together at the same time, clothes make
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Speaker 1: the man all right. I can't unfold that one. That's
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Speaker 1: why we have Jack seven oh five for that, follow
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Speaker 1: by Donald and Neil. It is Wednesday, Donald and Neil
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Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperity. We're talking about that one small step
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Speaker 1: campaign and get some information on how you and I
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Speaker 1: can help out. The AFP makes it so easy to
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Speaker 1: get involved politically here in the state of Ohioan Lord
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Speaker 1: knows we need it. I saw we have some interesting
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Speaker 1: information about the budget, the capital budget. Get to that
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Speaker 1: in a moment, you know. And honestly, I was looking
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Speaker 1: a Joe Internet research guru, Joe Stracker. I didn't see
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Speaker 1: any reference to the Cleveland Browns money if that was
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Speaker 1: in the capitol budget, the six hundred million dollars which
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Speaker 1: is supposedly in there. Now there's a whole lot of
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Speaker 1: money that's going to other projects in the Cleveland area.
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Speaker 1: Why because well, the Cleveland Browns are moving to Brook
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Speaker 1: Park and apparently leaving a hole in the attractions that
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Speaker 1: I guess folks otherwise would have gone to Cleveland to
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Speaker 1: see the Cleveland Browns. So other money from the taxpayers
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Speaker 1: going to other projects. In Cleveland, but I guess all
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Speaker 1: eighty eight communities are going to get some slice of
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Speaker 1: the taxpayer dollars in the capitol budget. So we'll talk
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Speaker 1: a little bit about that, perhaps with Donovan and Neil.
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Speaker 1: See what we got the flag retirement ceremony.
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Speaker 2: Is Ken Williamson going to join us for that one, Joe.
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Speaker 1: Claremont County Veterans Services, I'm gonna be talking about the
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Speaker 1: club the flag retirement ceremony. It's the sixteenth annual Vietnam
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Speaker 1: Veterans of America Flagg Retirement Ceremony. And I get the
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Speaker 1: joy and privilege of just sort of facilitating And it's
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Speaker 1: not a whole lot for Brian Thomas to do the
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Speaker 1: flag retirement serremony except enjoy the amazing respect that the
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Speaker 1: veterans have for the American flag. Steve Ham's out there
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Speaker 1: and he's been at this for years and years. Steve
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Speaker 1: knows about etiquette, and you learn about the flag, what
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Speaker 1: the stars and stripes mean. The Boy Scouts are going
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Speaker 1: to be there, which is always a great thing. I
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Speaker 1: like the fact that there are still Boy Scout troops
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Speaker 1: out there. So we hear from the Vietnam Veterans Association
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Speaker 1: we'll hear from the couple of speakers see the ceremony
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Speaker 1: and the proper way to retire a flag, of course,
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Speaker 1: separating it and then properly destroying it by burning it.
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Speaker 1: And the first eighteen people who bring a flag to
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Speaker 1: the flag retirement ceremony Saturday, June sixth, we'll receive a
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Speaker 1: free three foot by five foot flag. If your flag
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Speaker 1: is tattered, if your flag is not you know, up
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Speaker 1: to snuff, it needs to be taken down. That's where
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Speaker 1: Steve Tam came in. Veteran Steve Tam and he he
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Speaker 1: would drive around and when he would see a tattered
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Speaker 1: flag somebody's house, somebody's business, just pull over his car,
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Speaker 1: knock on the door and explain to the homeowner a
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Speaker 1: business owner that flag needs to be taken down. It's
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Speaker 1: a sign of respect to only fly a non tattered,
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Speaker 1: appropriate looking American flag. I think that's what started this
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Speaker 1: all off. So the whole event's coming up again Saturday
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Speaker 1: to get all the details at seven forty on morning
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Speaker 1: s today plus Judge in a Naponocano a nation of
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Speaker 1: suspects that is the subject matter of today's conversation with
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Speaker 1: the judge. So oh one PM is the Star time,
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Speaker 1: by the way, for the flag retirement ceremony at the
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Speaker 1: Union Township Civic Center Amphitheater. Again, we'll hear more about
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Speaker 1: it later on the program. I'd love to hear from you.
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Speaker 1: Five one, three, seven, nine, fifty five hundred, eight hundred
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Speaker 1: and eighty to two three talk found by fifty on
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Speaker 1: AT and T funds real quick here house three point
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Speaker 1: seven billion dollar capital fund. They are proud that it
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Speaker 1: funds well projects in all eighty eight counties here in
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Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. Arts and Infrastructure is where a
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Speaker 1: lot of it's going. And uh, I you know, WCPU
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Speaker 1: is Morgan true who loves to talk about himself and
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Speaker 1: his reporting on information that we all need. I try
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Speaker 1: to leave yourself out of it, Morgan. It's not about
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Speaker 1: you asked the question. Just say when asked, so and
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Speaker 1: so said, don't say I asked. This is me And
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry being critical of you, man, but it it's
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Speaker 1: a distraction anyway. As he reports talking to Representative Jamie
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Speaker 1: Klender in an interview, I suppose both the Rock and
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Speaker 1: Roll Hall of Fame and the Museum of Art and
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Speaker 1: Cleveland set to receive two million dollars each and I
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Speaker 1: scratch my head over why is the Rock and Roll
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame getting public taxpayer dollars?
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Speaker 2: Right? Okay?
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Speaker 1: Uh, Cleveland Metro Parks gets three quarter of a million
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Speaker 1: dollars for already a sailing center. Joe, when was the
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Speaker 1: last time you took your yacht out of your your
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Speaker 1: your sailboat out? Christopher crossed for more. You're going well
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Speaker 1: way way back. Sailing takes me away, Joe. I guess
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Speaker 1: if you're you know, a boat enthusiast, you got a
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Speaker 1: new center or we'll get one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, A good point show.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to the earworm, I probably will be hearing that
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Speaker 1: song for the rest of the blank. And and don't
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Speaker 1: suggest alternative earwarm songs. I'm gonna run around in that
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Speaker 1: office or in that in that studio production booth years
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Speaker 1: and and and and meet you to.
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Speaker 2: A paulp Not that I would really do that.
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Speaker 1: So Calendar, when asked about these projects, I guess Morgan
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Speaker 1: specifically said, ah, yeah, these projects, all these projects up
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Speaker 1: in northeast Ohio are are really to replace the hole
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Speaker 1: that the Browns Stadium would leave now that it's moving
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Speaker 1: to Brook Park. Response from a representative Calendar, I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of it is. So wait a second, and
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Speaker 1: again the mystery surrounding the six hundred million dollars that
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Speaker 1: they were going to give to the Cleveland Browns. I
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Speaker 1: assumed that, you know, since it was coming out of
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Speaker 1: the unclaimed funds pot of slush fund money they got,
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Speaker 1: that's still gonna happen. So if that's looming the background,
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Speaker 1: still they give money to the Browns so they can
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Speaker 1: improve their brook Park facility and whatever they're going to
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Speaker 1: do with it. And then gee, the whole left in
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland area because the Browns are gone, requires now
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Speaker 1: more xpayer dollars so they can put stuff and things
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Speaker 1: there to try to bring people into the greater Cleveland area. Okay,
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Speaker 1: question how many people?
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Speaker 2: What is?
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Speaker 1: What do you think that they do a study on
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Speaker 1: the return on investment, like how much money will be
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Speaker 1: generated from a sailing center. I don't even know anybody
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Speaker 1: that sales. I mean, I know people have boats, but
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Speaker 1: you know they have motors on them. So too many
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Speaker 1: questions swirling around on that one. But everybody's got his
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Speaker 1: hand in the cookie jar. Everyone's promised something, and of
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Speaker 1: course schools are going to get a lot of this.
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Speaker 1: We eliminate property that acause I guess these schools will
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Speaker 1: still get money's because in the capital budget from Ohio.
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Speaker 1: But apparently six hundred million dollars has been earmarked for
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Speaker 1: K through twelve classrooms facilitated through the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission.
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Speaker 1: This massive funding injection is aimed at direct name directly
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Speaker 1: at building assistance and modernization for local school districts. So
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Speaker 1: maybe that is where the money will ultimately come from.
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Speaker 1: The representatives will have to sit down pen in hand
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Speaker 1: and break down how much money each and every school
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Speaker 1: district in various counties are going to get for their
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Speaker 1: various construction projects. Will we eliminate property tax in the
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Speaker 1: state of Ohio. That's still a swirling question as well,
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Speaker 1: and it is a very complicating thing.
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Speaker 2: So all right, priorities, priorities.
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Speaker 1: That's why we have elections and maybe people who can
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Speaker 1: make better the choices when it comes to the prioritization
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Speaker 1: and the spending of taxpayer dollars. A lot's going on
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Speaker 1: in the world, including we won't know actually about the
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Speaker 1: governor's race in California. I suppose and I batcrap in
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Speaker 1: Sanity Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has now advanced to
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Speaker 1: the runoff election. Karen, let it all burn down and
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Speaker 1: die while I'm on vacation, Bass, Karen incompetent, Bass, idiot
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Speaker 1: when you hear talk, I'm sorry. I'm just being a
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Speaker 1: realist and stating the truth. But the voters of LA
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Speaker 1: have spoken. It's kind of like Cincinnati, isn't it. Joe
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Speaker 1: five sixteen, Feel free to call five one three, seven
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Speaker 1: four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight to
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Speaker 1: two three talker with pound five fifty on AT and
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Speaker 1: T phone. Oh look, more shooting and fighting. But it
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Speaker 1: is fove twenty one. Hey fifty five KRC talk station. Okay,
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Speaker 1: second fish stay Mark are yesterday, speaking to UH Congressional
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Speaker 1: Committee about the whole situation with Iran, suggested the war's over.
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Speaker 2: This was yesterday. Hold that thought.
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Speaker 1: First public congressional testimony since the launch of Operation Epic Fury.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: There is the prospect prospect before us which could happen today,
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Speaker 1: That will be yesterday. It could happen tomorrow today it didn't.
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Speaker 1: It can happen next week. Hold your breath. For the
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Speaker 1: first time, certainly in my memory, they the Iranians have
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Speaker 1: agreed to negotiate aspects of their nuclear program that just
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Speaker 1: a month ago, that just a year ago, they were
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Speaker 1: refusing to even mention. They have to announce very clearly
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Speaker 1: the straits are now open. They're not charging a toll.
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Speaker 1: These are again our list of demands. As he's telling
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Speaker 1: the Iridians what they must do in order to resolve
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Speaker 1: this conflict, which the Iranians aren't going to do. We
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Speaker 1: will help remove the minds that they put there and
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Speaker 1: they will not fire on ships. Ruby arguing that any
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Speaker 1: future agreement would have to address both Irons and Richmond
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Speaker 1: infrastructure in the stockpile of highly rich uranium. It would
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Speaker 1: have to deal with that question, Ruby has said, referring
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Speaker 1: to the Richmond capabilities, and would have to deal with
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Speaker 1: the highly enriched uranium that they currently are in possession of.
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Speaker 1: Does that sound familiar to anybody? How many times have
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Speaker 1: you heard that over the past. I don't know. Since
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Speaker 1: Operation Epic Fury began and Rubio's remarks just after Trump
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Speaker 1: was pushing backed against the Irani media reports that said
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Speaker 1: that the negotiations were over. Trump referred to that as
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Speaker 1: fake news. Reports from the Islamic Republic i e. That
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Speaker 1: the US has stopped speaking, and a few days ago
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Speaker 1: they're false and erroneous. The conversations between us have been
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Speaker 1: going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago,
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Speaker 1: two days ago, one day ago, and today being yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Where they lead one never knows, he said, as I
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Speaker 1: told Iran it's time, one way or another for you
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Speaker 1: to make a deal. That you've been doing this for
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Speaker 1: forty seven years and it cannot be allowed to go
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Speaker 1: on any longer. Headlines This morning, US Iran trade heavy
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Speaker 1: fire in Persian Gulf, testing fragiles ceasefire. Apparently we were
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Speaker 1: added again exchanging fire. We struck an empty oil tanker
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Speaker 1: that was attempting to breach the blockade. See, we've got
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Speaker 1: their ports shut down and they can't use them. They
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Speaker 1: of course have the Strait of Hormus shut down, so
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Speaker 1: both sides have really the capability of doing that. So
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Speaker 1: this ship was attempting to deal with Iranian ports in
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Speaker 1: one way or another, transferring oil.
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Speaker 2: We shot it.
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Speaker 1: We told them we were going to do that much
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Speaker 1: in the same way they say, if you try to
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Speaker 1: get boats of the straight of horror moves, we're going
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Speaker 1: to blow them up or shoot them, which they have
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Speaker 1: been doing. Latest episode among the most intense fighting. This
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Speaker 1: is from this morning. Today's fighting in months came after
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Speaker 1: as diplomatic efforts have stalled, which flies right in the
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Speaker 1: face of what Marco Rubio and Donald Trump are saying yesterday,
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Speaker 1: despite the heavy fire at US Central Commands said yesterday
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Speaker 1: evening or last night that the tenuous ceasefire was still ongoing. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: I've got to remark again, if you're shooting at each other,
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Speaker 1: it just seems to me definitionally that you cannot say
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Speaker 1: you're in the middle of a ceasefire. We disabled the
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Speaker 1: empty oil tanker that was attempting to breach the blockade
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Speaker 1: and load oil at Iran's carg Island. That's the port shutdown.
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Speaker 1: Iran then launched an attack at Seville. Mariners see this
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Speaker 1: is them shutting down the Strait of horm moves are
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Speaker 1: making good on their claim that they keep it shut down,
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Speaker 1: that we're trying to transit to Persian golf. So here
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Speaker 1: we've enforcing our blockade, they're forcing their blockade. Apparently, we
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Speaker 1: shot down three of the drones and conducted what Sencom
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Speaker 1: called self defense strikes on the Iranian military ground control
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Speaker 1: stations at Kashem Island. Which is right there at the
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Speaker 1: mouth of the Straight of horm Moves, giving Tehran control
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Speaker 1: over ship's movement through the crucial waterway. So one of
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Speaker 1: the points at which Iran can launch missiles, but not
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Speaker 1: the only one. And we learned from Daniel Davis yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's at the point where we just need
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Speaker 1: to pull the plug and put it in an l column.
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Speaker 1: And if you don't believe your ears that that's his conclusion,
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Speaker 1: just listen to how he lays that out. Go to
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Speaker 1: the podcast page fifty five Karsey dot com. And for
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Speaker 1: everyone who said, you know, he's a terrible guest, I
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Speaker 1: can't believe he's saying what he's saying early on when
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Speaker 1: he was predicting exactly what is going on now, In
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Speaker 1: other words, that the Iranians maintain enough missiles and enough
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Speaker 1: hardware and enough drones to really effectively keep the Straight
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Speaker 1: of Horror mouves shut down.
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Speaker 2: They are.
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Speaker 1: Now apparently we've been able to stealthily bring some of
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Speaker 1: these ships through the Strait of Horror moves wide reporting
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Speaker 1: on that just the other day, I guess we're able
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Speaker 1: to do it. The ships go dark and we're able
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Speaker 1: to scoot them through somehow, but it's not open in
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Speaker 1: the sense you can get a regular, regular order of
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Speaker 1: business traffic back and forth. Again, the Iranians maintain a
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Speaker 1: significant stranglehold on that area. So but definitely check it out.
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Speaker 1: I hate to, you know, I even asked him. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's this whole idea. We have the biggest damn military ever,
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Speaker 1: overwhelmingly bigger than the Iranians. And I asked him out loud,
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Speaker 1: I said, do the Iranians take inspiration again? When you're
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Speaker 1: talking about the religious conviction of the Iranians? This is
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Speaker 1: beyond their perception of relative military might, and whether if
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Speaker 1: we got into a shooting war, boots on the ground
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Speaker 1: back and forth, whether they could actually defend themselves against
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Speaker 1: the United States. That's not what we're at right now.
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Speaker 1: Of course, we don't have the will to do that
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Speaker 1: right now, and if we did, we're gonna be there forever.
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Speaker 1: Thinking then about Afghanistan, the Russians tried it. We tried it,
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Speaker 1: and effectively, after decades of money, treasure, lives lost, nothing
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Speaker 1: was ultimately accomplished. I said, Daniel, do the Iranians take
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Speaker 1: inspiration from the fact that Afghanistan and these crazy Muslim
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Speaker 1: fanatics were able to fend off attacks from both two
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Speaker 1: of the world's biggest military powers. Boiled down. Yes they do.
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Speaker 1: Five twenty seven fifty five Kcity Talk Station, Bobby hang on,
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Speaker 1: get your call after we get back.
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Speaker 2: I want to mention no.
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Speaker 1: Karma five one three, seven hundred, eight hundred and eighty
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Speaker 1: two to three talk on five fifty on eight and
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Speaker 1: T Phondes Tom Holder on a second. Bobby was in
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Speaker 1: front of you. Bobby, welcome on the program. You're reverend under.
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Speaker 1: It was under and that's a good thing because a
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Speaker 1: lot of less people got shot than you anticipated.
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Speaker 2: Happy Wednesday.
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Speaker 3: You we uh, we forgot to mention last Thursday that
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Speaker 3: these street takeovers they count for three.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, go ahead, retroactively change the rules so
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Speaker 1: you come up with a better number.
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Speaker 2: Three. No, I'm kidding.
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Speaker 3: We had We had some of our bidding patrons and
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Speaker 3: they say said, well, what about these takeovers and street takeovers?
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Speaker 3: He'll they just had one down pay Course Stadium the
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Speaker 3: other day.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
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Speaker 1: We made national headlines. We along with Charlotte, North Carolina, Clearwater, Florida,
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Speaker 1: and Naperville, Illinois. Fox News national reporting. So we're along
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Speaker 1: in there. With the rest of these the street takeovers
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Speaker 1: and becoming a growing phenomenon across this country. What is
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Speaker 1: it all about clicks on social media? These idiots just
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Speaker 1: wanted to film their antics and put them up on
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Speaker 1: social media because I don't know, it makes them cool
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Speaker 1: or something. Anyhow, go ahead, Bobby, what's your point?
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Speaker 3: Well, my only point is brother, faith, like family, just
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Speaker 3: be prepared for what's.
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Speaker 2: Going on around you.
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Speaker 3: I've prayed all I could kill you.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly what gota wait till, wait till eight fifteen,
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Speaker 1: and I'll be doing a spot for twenty two to
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Speaker 1: three firearms located on Route four between Mason and Lebanon.
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Speaker 1: To Bobby's point, appreciated Bobby, Tom, Welcome to the morning
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Speaker 1: show and a happy Wednesday to usar.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, good morning. And it sounds like if Joe
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Speaker 4: were to switch the bumper music to yacht rock, you
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Speaker 4: get a little hostile very you you have an allergic reaction
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Speaker 4: to yacht rock music.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he does.
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Speaker 4: That timing on that commercial was really good.
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Speaker 2: It was hilarious.
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Speaker 1: I'm serious. I thought you'd put it in there, but
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Speaker 1: he told me. What was that commercial? Identified as in
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Speaker 1: the data iHeart podcast number one.
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Speaker 2: He had no idea what that even meant.
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Speaker 1: And yet of course he's got a rundown that he
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Speaker 1: must play the commercials at the appropriate time. So I guess, right,
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Speaker 1: maybe a little life comedic miracle happening, good stuff.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you got all these uh, all these idiots or
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Speaker 4: we're we're here in Ohio. Got all these guys are well,
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Speaker 4: we live in Ohio, okay, and you got basically Republicans
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Speaker 4: running that state, and we're out of viewed from idiots
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Speaker 4: either way. They spend money, throw money around and stuff,
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Speaker 4: and uh, you know, of course a lot of these
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Speaker 4: are a little smaller municipalities cities or counties or whatever,
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Speaker 4: and a lot of those are run by Democrats. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: what do you what do you do to get people
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Speaker 4: to start spending money properly? And the only thing we
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Speaker 4: can do is as common everyday people and voters is
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Speaker 4: is make noise about it, you know. And I don't
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Speaker 4: mean do it violently, of course, I'm just talking about
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Speaker 4: you know, writing people, calling people up, you know, whatever,
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Speaker 4: something you gotta you gotta gotta make your voice hurt.
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Speaker 4: Of course, the best way to make your voice hers
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Speaker 4: at the ballot box. And uh, you know, we're we're
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Speaker 4: just talking about vote for people who are gonna, you know,
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Speaker 4: do something sensible with your money. That's your money they're using, Uh,
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Speaker 4: it's not their money. So that's just a big pot
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Speaker 4: of money. You know, let's just throw it at this,
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Speaker 4: Let's just throw it at that. You know, let's gives
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Speaker 4: one hundred million dollars away to a billion dollar organization,
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Speaker 4: you know, stuff like that. So, you know, it's it
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Speaker 4: seems like we all have stuff better to do with
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Speaker 4: our lives. But they're taking your money and they're they're
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Speaker 4: spending to do what they want with it. And the
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Speaker 4: only way they were doing it is because we're letting
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Speaker 4: them get away with it. So true, First of all,
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Speaker 4: make some noise, figure out a way to make your
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Speaker 4: voice heard, and of course, most importantly, don't vote Democrats.
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Speaker 4: Have a great dub.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Tom, appreciate the message as always. Five one three seven,
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Speaker 1: I recommend it earlier. The Daniel Davis Deep Dive get
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Speaker 1: his breakdown. Maybe it's time for check one in thet
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Speaker 1: L column. He have to say that out loud, but
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Speaker 1: it maybe we are there inside Scoop at Bride Part News,
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Speaker 1: John Hayward, he didn't have a whole lot of positive
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Speaker 1: things to say about the status with the Iran US war.
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Speaker 1: Tom Zaustawski we the People Convention. Also there fifty five
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Speaker 1: about artificial intelligence and don't believe the lies about it.
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Speaker 1: There are some terrible things that go along with AI,
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Speaker 1: like the chat GPT reality and people go nuts thinking
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Speaker 1: they're actually talking with a real human being and allow
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Speaker 1: the chat GPT to influence them and getting them to
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Speaker 1: do terrible things themselves, like committing suicide, which reminds me
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Speaker 1: it's Male Suicide Prevention Month or its awareness month for
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Speaker 1: mental health from men.
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Speaker 2: Get some help.
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Speaker 1: If you were struggling suicide hotline, what is that nine
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Speaker 1: eight h oh National Suicide Hotline. Keep that in the
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Speaker 1: back of your mind. There is legitimate help out there
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Speaker 1: for folks who are struggling with that. And my buddy
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Speaker 1: Eric had posted a meme about the celebrities that we
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Speaker 1: know that took their own lives. And I was always
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Speaker 1: a huge and I still am a huge Chris Cornell fan,
20:52
Speaker 1: and the idea he had two concerts back to back
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Speaker 1: one I can't remember what night of the week. Let's
20:57
Speaker 1: just say Friday night he did the concert and he
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Speaker 1: was going to have another one the following night. I
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Speaker 1: think the last thing you said to the crowd, if
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Speaker 1: I recall it correctly, was you know, the people, the
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Speaker 1: people for tomorrow night's show are going to really wish
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Speaker 1: they were here.
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Speaker 2: Tonight.
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Speaker 1: And then he went home and took his life. That
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Speaker 1: is a struggle right there, planning that that foreign advance anyway,
21:22
Speaker 1: while trying to pivot over to something a little bit
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Speaker 1: more light harder.
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Speaker 2: These stack is stupid.
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Speaker 1: A woman facing two felony charges in connection with a
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Speaker 1: late night road rage incident happened at a Cane's Chicken
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Speaker 1: Fingers in Homestead, Florida. Thirty said the incident happened Sunday.
21:36
Speaker 1: It changed the location on Eighth Street involved a crash
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Speaker 1: into both person and a pickup truck. Homestead police said
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Speaker 1: a woman was in the restaurant's drive through just before
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Speaker 1: one forty five am when Amber Nicole Collier, who's thirty two,
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Speaker 1: drove recklessly, in the report, through the parking lot. It
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Speaker 1: went the wrong way through the through the line, almost
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Speaker 1: hitting the victims car, said. The victim drove to the
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Speaker 1: stop sign told Collier to drive more carefully, which enraged Collier.
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Speaker 1: Courted police eventually say the woman quote, you're a rapist
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Speaker 1: and a cracker. I'm going to kill you close quote
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Speaker 1: while trying to hit the victim with her vehicle. Please
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Speaker 1: send another woman in the passenger see the victim's car
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Speaker 1: got out, Collier, accord to the report, take a look
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Speaker 1: at her and then rammed into her. Fortunately, I guess
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Speaker 1: only bruising her elbow.
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Speaker 5: Do what the hell?
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Speaker 1: Collier then took off and hit a pickup truck in
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Speaker 1: the process. Report states that Collier took off and Mi
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Speaker 1: mid aid Sheriff's office deputy eventually pulled her over about
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Speaker 1: six miles away from the restaurant. Collier previous arrested in
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Speaker 1: April sixth after another traffic incident. Records indicate the rest
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Speaker 1: report that she steed through a school zone just outside
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Speaker 1: Miami Gardens. Told the deputy trying to pull her over, quote,
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Speaker 1: I'm not pulling over clothes quote, although she eventually did.
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Speaker 1: Thorida said the stop was short lived. After tolling the deputy,
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Speaker 1: I'm dropping my kids off. She then took off again
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Speaker 1: and the motorcycle deputy had to try to stop her again. Apparently,
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Speaker 1: she eventually stopped outside of the school and the deputy
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Speaker 1: took her into custody. Thorty said during that incident, she
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Speaker 1: yelled f U.
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Speaker 2: N word.
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Speaker 1: And said when she gets out of jail, she was
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Speaker 1: going to kill the officer. In the most recent case,
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Speaker 1: she's now facing charge of attempt aggravated battery with a
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Speaker 1: deadly weapon, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and leaving
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Speaker 1: the scene of a crash causing property damage. As of Monday,
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Speaker 1: she was being held in the Turner Guildford Night Correctional
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Speaker 1: Center on a seventy five hundred dollars bond, which seems
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Speaker 1: awfully low, although since she was still being held, apparently
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Speaker 1: that was outside of her financial means.
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Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman and doing what I asked him to do
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Speaker 1: yesterday to remind me. To remind you, if you're a
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Speaker 1: resident of the City of Cincinnati, registered voter, get on
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Speaker 1: over to Jim and Jackson signed the petition to bring
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Speaker 1: about some reform in connection with the hiring and firing
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Speaker 1: a police and fire chiefs. The argument from some of
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Speaker 1: the council members apparently is that it will bring too
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Speaker 1: much politics into the equation if we take the responsibility
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Speaker 1: away from where it lays right now, solely in the
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Speaker 1: hands of the city manager who makes these decisions with
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Speaker 1: I guess only the input of mayraft have pro ball,
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Speaker 1: but God knows, we have no idea, leaving everyone to
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Speaker 1: speculate on why it is someone was hired for the
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Speaker 1: position or fired from the position, which we all know
24:57
Speaker 1: former fire chief Washington sitting around with his popcorn out
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Speaker 1: waiting to get a big fat paycheck because he was
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Speaker 1: well wrongfully terminated. Huh what predicate? What basis did they
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Speaker 1: have or did she sherlong have to fire the fire chief?
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Speaker 1: Apparently none, which is why a judge said he was
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Speaker 1: wrongfully terminated and that he could go after her individually.
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Speaker 1: Very rare occurrence that So it isn't more political, it's less.
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Speaker 1: It brings out into the open the reasons why any
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Speaker 1: particular individual is hired or fired. That's transparency, is what
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Speaker 1: that is. So sign the petition. Let's bring that reality.
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Speaker 1: Seven of the council members must approve or disapprove of
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Speaker 1: the hiring and firing. I think that's a great development.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Christopher. Back to the stack is stupid. We
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Speaker 1: got local boy here, Cincinnati man accused of breaking into
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Speaker 1: a victim's home, taking a shower and eating food, and
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Speaker 1: then stealing a pair of pants.
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Speaker 2: Why are you doing that?
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Speaker 1: Don't know if we'll find out me ten thousand block A,
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Speaker 1: Leghurst Court Monday. According to the court documents, Travis Deaton
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Speaker 1: went into the victims home by quote stealth clothes quote
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Speaker 1: before making use of their shower and hygiene products without permission.
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Speaker 1: Court to documents, he stole a pair of pants and
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Speaker 1: a belt belonging to the victim, and eate prepackaged eight
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Speaker 1: a pre packaged.
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Speaker 2: Meal from the home.
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Speaker 1: Court documents so they showed that all the accusations are
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Speaker 1: based on a witness statement, video evidence, and the fact
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Speaker 1: that Deton was found wearing the victim's clothes.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Husband and wife facing child neglect charges after Broward County
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Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office, Florida, of Course, said one of the young
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Speaker 1: daughters tested positive for cocaine. Authorities took Charles Bernard Adams
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Speaker 1: forty two, and Alexander Shane Adams, thirty four, both a
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Speaker 1: Pamado Beach, into custody court to the sheriff report, the
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Speaker 1: parents of two they were parents of two daughters or
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Speaker 1: are two and fourty years old. Report didn't stay which
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Speaker 1: of the two girls tested positive for the drug, but
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Speaker 1: deputies were called to the homes last Thursday after medics
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Speaker 1: took one of the girls of the hospital when she
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Speaker 1: was found unresponsive. Corded investigators. Charles Adams told them he
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Speaker 1: had put the girl to bed for a nap around
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Speaker 1: noon and the couple took a nap as well. Charles
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Speaker 1: Adams told deputies he was awoken by the girl and
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Speaker 1: her shallow breathing, which led him to call nine to
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Speaker 1: one one. Medics took the girl to the hospital and
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Speaker 1: test that's where she tested positive for cocaine. Thority said
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Speaker 1: both Charles and Alexandra Adams tested positive for multiple drugs,
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Speaker 1: including a fetamines, benzo diazepines and cratom. How do you
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Speaker 1: sleep with all that crap in your system?
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Speaker 2: Joe?
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Speaker 1: Do you have any idea anyway? Workers with the Florida
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Speaker 1: Department of Child and Family Service girl custody parents are
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Speaker 1: now facing two counts of child neglect Judge Jordan. Both
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Speaker 1: held on a thirty thousand bond a dollar bond. If
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Speaker 1: they bond out, they're not to have contact with their
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Speaker 1: daughters and must be submitted to a drug test as
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Speaker 1: well as GPS monitoring. Apparently Charles couldn't make bail. As
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Speaker 1: of the other day, he was still locked up in
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Speaker 1: the facilities and in badcrap global warming or climate change
28:19
Speaker 1: insanity and with a wash in excess wine. Apparently nobody's
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Speaker 1: drinking anymore, according to the officials in Australia, where they
28:29
Speaker 1: have two hundred and sixty three million liters of glut wine,
28:33
Speaker 1: meaning it's wine ready to drink, but can't sell it
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Speaker 1: on the open market. But it was an interesting reality
28:40
Speaker 1: according to the authorities. They are quoted in the news source.
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Speaker 1: The amount of wine consumed globally last year dropped to
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty one levels when the world population was forty
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Speaker 1: percent of its current size. So what are they planning
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Speaker 1: on doing with the extra wine in Australia? Use it
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Speaker 1: as a source of ethanol so you can burn it
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Speaker 1: in your gas tank. They say this, two hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty three million leaders of wine could produce thirty million
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Speaker 1: leaders of ethanol. Great, I guess how much money will
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Speaker 1: it take to turn the wine into ethanol? How much
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Speaker 1: money did it take to create the wine in the
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Speaker 1: first instance? Whatever, drink more, we won't have that problem.
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Speaker 1: Are gonna remind folks throughout them this morning. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: be Anderson Puppin Crow, I promised Christopher SMITHM and I
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Speaker 1: regularly remind folks to sign the petition to get the
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Speaker 1: council members involved in hiring and fire decisions related to
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Speaker 1: the Chief of Police and the fire chief. You can
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Speaker 1: find the petition at Jim Jackson the River. Go there
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Speaker 1: Tuesday through Saturday. Sign the petition if you're a registered
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Speaker 1: voter in the city of Sincenati trying to get that
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Speaker 1: job done. Good morning, Christopher Smithman. Morning to everybody listening audience.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you tuning in number fifty five carse dot
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Speaker 1: com so you can check the podcast now when you
30:13
Speaker 1: can't listen live. I mentioned a couple of times the
30:15
Speaker 1: discussion I had yesterday with Daniel Davis Deep Dive, and
30:18
Speaker 1: we did talk about oil because I keep hearing from
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Speaker 1: the administration we're washing oil, we got all the oil
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Speaker 1: we need, blah blah blah. And he said, no, no,
30:26
Speaker 1: we're in that importer of oil. And of course the
30:28
Speaker 1: event is oil and oil is different from the Sweet
30:30
Speaker 1: Texas crew, different refining operations. We can refine some we can't.
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Speaker 1: That's our own problem that we don't build more refineries
30:36
Speaker 1: or have the ability to create more gasoline and diesel
30:39
Speaker 1: fuel here in the United States and then be lawsuits,
30:42
Speaker 1: environmental regulations and like a huge impediment to our own
30:45
Speaker 1: national security, of course, the ability to have enough gasoline
30:47
Speaker 1: for our at least our own country. But the problem
30:50
Speaker 1: is of course one of a global market with oil
30:53
Speaker 1: straight of horn Moo's still closed. In spite of the
30:55
Speaker 1: fact that Marco Ribio said yesterday it looks like it's
30:57
Speaker 1: all over. The war over now SCE to the Congress,
31:02
Speaker 1: and then we find out in a wake this morning
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Speaker 1: to the realization that no, we're shooting missiles and bombs
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Speaker 1: at each other, heavy fire in the Persian Gulf. You know,
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Speaker 1: we thought we shooted boats that are trying to you know,
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Speaker 1: get into the Iranian boards, Iranian shoot it ships that
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Speaker 1: are trying to grow through the Strait of horn Moves.
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Speaker 1: They're launching missiles at Kuwait and boh Rain this morning.
31:23
Speaker 1: It ain't over. It ain't over, and really a bleak
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Speaker 1: outlook from Daniel Davis. Just listen to what he had
31:31
Speaker 1: to say if you have cares dot.
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Speaker 2: Com for that.
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Speaker 1: We're still waiting and we're probably gonna be waiting for
31:35
Speaker 1: a while. California Governor's Way, Republican Steve Hilton, and Democrats
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Speaker 1: Zavi Orbisara. Now we're leading the unofficial early returns this
31:42
Speaker 1: morning again, all the votes haven't been tabulated. California widely
31:46
Speaker 1: criticized because it'll probably be next year, maybe about June,
31:50
Speaker 1: before we figure out the outcome of the election. Given it,
31:52
Speaker 1: you can pretty much vote anytime you damn well please.
31:55
Speaker 1: And Hilton was a Trump supported but a Republican. And
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Speaker 1: remember this is a jungle primary, so the top two
32:04
Speaker 1: candidates get to go into a runoff in the general election.
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Speaker 1: So it's nice to see a Republican in the top
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Speaker 1: two positions, right. Let's hope he maintains that kind of
32:17
Speaker 1: lead after the voting is finally tabulated. Now they had
32:21
Speaker 1: everybody that's a citizen of the state of California, I
32:24
Speaker 1: think running for governor. You may be called Tom Steyer,
32:26
Speaker 1: billionaire Hedge fund founder, environmental activists. He's in third place
32:31
Speaker 1: at least as of this morning. Again, the ballots will
32:33
Speaker 1: continued to be cap tabulated. But get a load of this.
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Speaker 1: Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, Republican Democrat candidate's former Democratic
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Speaker 1: Representative Katie Porter, San Jose Mayor Matt Mayhan, former Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles mayor Antonio Villa Gurosa State Superintendent Public Instruction Tony
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Speaker 1: Thurman just a few examples cited by Fox News among
32:55
Speaker 1: the sixty one candidates that.
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Speaker 2: Were on the ballot.
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Speaker 1: So, if Helton actually becomes governor, he'll be the first
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Speaker 1: one since Schwarzenegger back in two thousand and six when
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Speaker 1: he got reelected. Can we even hope that that's going
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Speaker 1: to happen for the state of California? Or is it
33:12
Speaker 1: too late for the State of California to turn and
33:14
Speaker 1: to write to the ship, the sinking ship that is California.
33:18
Speaker 1: And speaking of representation, we've get a lot of screaming
33:20
Speaker 1: and wailing and gnashing the teeth from individuals, Black individuals, notably,
33:25
Speaker 1: thinking they've been disenfranchised with this redistricting. And the suggestion
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Speaker 1: is that you've deprived black voters of the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: be represented by a black candidate. And I always scratch
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Speaker 1: my head and think, no, this is all about Democrats.
33:35
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with the color of the skin,
33:37
Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that Democrats believe they have
33:39
Speaker 1: an earned monopoly on black votes. Scary as that may be,
33:43
Speaker 1: of course, history demonstrates that it's the Democrat Party that
33:46
Speaker 1: was responsible for the KKK, Jim Crow and all the
33:49
Speaker 1: other evils that many people in the black community struggled under.
33:56
Speaker 1: But I say, you can be represented by anybody. Barack
33:59
Speaker 1: Obama got elected to Vice largely in because a lot
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Speaker 1: of white people voted for Barack Obama. And I look
34:04
Speaker 1: at this rancho rio a rio rancho pharmacist, Republican into Damka.
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Speaker 1: They call a d D for short, because people like
34:14
Speaker 1: me find it difficult to pronounce a name that begins
34:16
Speaker 1: with nd D d Amaca anyway, d d ak powrek.
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Speaker 7: She is.
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Speaker 1: There's a photograph for her. A black woman, conservative pharmacist
34:29
Speaker 1: and business owner won the GOP nomination for New Mexico
34:33
Speaker 1: Congressional District one. Described as the child of Nigerian immigrants,
34:37
Speaker 1: the first generation Nigerian American has lived in New Mexico
34:40
Speaker 1: since the nineteen nineties. She founded something called Olive Tree
34:44
Speaker 1: Compounding Pharmacy. Focus on her campaign message on look at
34:47
Speaker 1: this economic growth, opportunity, cutting waste and abuse. That sounds
34:52
Speaker 1: like solid platform to run on. I'll vote for a
34:54
Speaker 1: candidate with that solid platform to vote on, as opposed
34:57
Speaker 1: to someone who thinks there's forty seven genders and wants
35:00
Speaker 1: to throw all kinds of money at ridiculous, nonsensical welfare
35:03
Speaker 1: programs and not be interested in referring out fraud, waste,
35:05
Speaker 1: and abuse, just merely growing the size of government. Hm,
35:09
Speaker 1: a conservative policy got her the win.
35:13
Speaker 2: Huh.
35:13
Speaker 1: So white people can actually go out and support and
35:16
Speaker 1: vote for a black person to represent them. Why not
35:20
Speaker 1: because of the color of her skin, because of what
35:21
Speaker 1: she is running on? And isn't that the point That
35:30
Speaker 1: stuff drives me out.
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Speaker 2: Of my mind.
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Speaker 1: Oh and something that may put a smile on your face,
35:34
Speaker 1: as it has put a smile on mine. Before I
35:36
Speaker 1: get back to oil. The United Nations, which I have
35:42
Speaker 1: struggled to figure out what in the hell value the
35:44
Speaker 1: United Nations actually has. It is now dealing with a
35:49
Speaker 1: what they are calling a severe financial crisis, its worst
35:53
Speaker 1: financial crisis in history. UN officials are warning that the
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Speaker 1: organization could run out of cash by mid August. Why
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Speaker 1: because China and the United States are withholding billions of
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Speaker 1: dollars to the United Nations. US Secretary General Antonio Guteraris
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Speaker 1: warning that the organization, in his words, is in a
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Speaker 1: race to bankruptcy. So I need the very real prospect
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Speaker 1: of the financial collapse of our organization. Why because member
36:21
Speaker 1: states are delaying contributions. Humm, we the United States, oh,
36:26
Speaker 1: more than four billion dollars in unpaid assessments and peacekeeping contributions.
36:33
Speaker 1: Someone circled that and put a question mark there. There's
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Speaker 1: so many conflicts in the world. I don't know what
36:39
Speaker 1: the UN has by way of involvement or input or
36:41
Speaker 1: insight or maybe solutions to offer. As have you ever
36:45
Speaker 1: heard about the UN being involved in the war we've
36:47
Speaker 1: got going on with the Iranians? Joe, did I miss
36:50
Speaker 1: reporting on that. I'm sure someone's chimed in on that,
36:53
Speaker 1: but not actually a huge force in dealing with a
36:56
Speaker 1: global peace or peace keeping anyway. China, for its part, oh,
36:59
Speaker 1: was about five hundred million, little bit less than that. Washington, Beijing,
37:05
Speaker 1: two countries are responsible for forty two percent of the
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Speaker 1: United Nations funding. Someone wrote wtf after that? How was
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Speaker 1: it that we became on the hook for I think
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Speaker 1: it's twenty one or so percent of all of the
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Speaker 1: UN funding. Trump administration has been withholding this money, pushing
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Speaker 1: for changes at the United Nation, calling it bloated, inefficient,
37:29
Speaker 1: and resistant to reform. I think that accurately sums it up.
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Speaker 1: And when you have nations that actually run around murdering
37:36
Speaker 1: people because they're homosexuals, or murdering people because they disagree
37:40
Speaker 1: with the regime, throwing them off buildings, and those folks
37:43
Speaker 1: end up on the Human Rights Commissions at the United Nations.
37:45
Speaker 1: You know, you have a real problem on your hands now. We,
37:49
Speaker 1: of course, were withdrawn from a variety of un affiliated
37:51
Speaker 1: agencies and programs like the World Health Organization, which came
37:54
Speaker 1: under fire during COVID nineteen. Do you feel like you've
37:56
Speaker 1: been lied to on that one? This in a broader
37:59
Speaker 1: effort to reduce four and spending and redirect taxpayer dollars
38:01
Speaker 1: toward it domestic priorities. I guess we are keeping ourselves
38:04
Speaker 1: at the forefront of our own best interest, at least
38:06
Speaker 1: under the Trump administration. See, you know that's why people
38:09
Speaker 1: got Congress and Massy right. He was against all funding
38:14
Speaker 1: for foreign nations. This wasn't him being anti Semitic. And
38:17
Speaker 1: they have been charges thrown around about some more claims
38:20
Speaker 1: of anti semitism, but not regarding Congressman Massy. But he's
38:23
Speaker 1: against foreign aid funding. Why we got problems in our
38:26
Speaker 1: own country. We can't pay our own bills, Why would
38:28
Speaker 1: we want to go fund the rest of the World.
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Speaker 1: Good point, US officials over as far as the UN
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Speaker 1: are concerned, said future funding got to be tied to
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Speaker 1: deeper cost cutting measures, workforce reductions, travel restrictions, and greater
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Speaker 1: reliance on technology to reduce expenses. Good They have done
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Speaker 1: some pairing. They threw out three thousand secretary positions, closed
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Speaker 1: some offices, shortened interpreters schedules, and reduced to operating expenses
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Speaker 1: at the New York headquarters. Also delayed maintenance projects, implemented
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Speaker 1: energy saving measures throughout UN facilities. This is a consequence
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Speaker 1: of the austerity measures they've done at the UN because
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Speaker 1: we're not paying our bill, China joining us in that
39:09
Speaker 1: that that that refusal to pay. I honestly, I really
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Speaker 1: don't think i'd weep if you in close those doors,
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Speaker 1: because I haven't seen any return on our investment. And
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Speaker 1: you know what, if we didn't have to shoulder the
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Speaker 1: burden of the vast majority of these expenses there, I
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Speaker 1: would at least appreciate it being a little bit more fair.
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Speaker 1: Six sixteen fifty five Kirsteve Talk station. Feel free to
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Speaker 1: give me a call five one three, seven four nine
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Speaker 1: Sailors out there, Cleveland, Now, welcome back to the Morning show.
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Speaker 1: Good to hear from you. Gotta go sailing with your
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Speaker 1: new center when it gets built.
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Speaker 2: Play low.
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Speaker 8: No, I've never been on a sail boat, and I
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Speaker 8: don't think I have any idea how to run one.
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Speaker 8: So does that seem like I will I will stay
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Speaker 8: on shore?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: And does that seem like an everyday common man kind
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Speaker 1: of allocation of state tax fair dollar resources? You know
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Speaker 1: how many people have sailboats? If that's assuming it it's
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Speaker 1: limited to sailboats, why else would you call it a
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Speaker 1: sailing center?
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Speaker 2: But okay, whatever, Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, Well, I apologize, but I'm going to be
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Speaker 8: the petty that guy I'm calling as a grammar nazi.
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Speaker 8: I was beaten over the head with grammar by my
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Speaker 8: freshman English professor, and you know, he has basically been
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Speaker 8: in my head for the last forty five years. And
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Speaker 8: I heard your spot for the fireplace company, and I said, said, okay,
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Speaker 8: he just mentioned you need to stop too, and I
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Speaker 8: think it's supposed to be stop at somebody needs to
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Speaker 8: talk together.
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Speaker 1: Now now, now you know that's a live spot. I
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Speaker 1: am reading copy on the fly, and I admit to
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Speaker 1: being grammatically incorrect when I'm trying to do is stream
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Speaker 1: of consciousness push from my friends at Chimneycare fireplace and stuff.
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Speaker 1: And I also admit to not being perfect, although I
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Speaker 1: never mind being corrected when I'm wrong. But listen, you know,
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Speaker 1: go ahead, get a sit here behind the microphone and
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Speaker 1: try to keep your thoughts organized about the topics you
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Speaker 1: want to go over on the morning show and segue
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Speaker 1: into a live spot where you're staring at a page
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Speaker 1: and a half of copy points and you're trying to
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Speaker 1: convey information to the listening audience while also maintaining perfect grammar.
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Speaker 1: Not gonna happen when it's Brian Thomas, somebody else fill
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Speaker 1: the role.
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Speaker 8: Understood, well, again, I apologize for being that guy.
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Speaker 1: That's okay, man, I know it's in good faith and comedy. Okay,
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Speaker 1: enjoy your sailing center out, go on your dinghy Joes,
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Speaker 1: and no, I don't want Christopher Cross incorporated into the
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Speaker 1: bumper music. Let that one sit there, Doobie Brothers. Where'd
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Speaker 1: that come from? Jesus throws his hand up. He just
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Speaker 1: pull that out of your head, it's the first thing
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Speaker 1: that came in your mind. Oh, because they're in the
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Speaker 1: yacht rock commercial. Now, I was thinking of sailing because
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Speaker 1: it applies obviously directly to a sailing center. And go
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Speaker 1: ahead and run through the capital budget for the state
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Speaker 1: of Ohio and see who's getting the money. Lots of
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Speaker 1: arts projects, you know, And I have to observe.
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Speaker 2: With money that flows in.
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Speaker 1: It's one thing if money is flowing into something that
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Speaker 1: we all can use, like the highway systems or roads
42:34
Speaker 1: and you know, infrastructure and bridges and things like that.
42:37
Speaker 1: When they start hand selecting items that again, like the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland brown Stadium or a sailing center, clearly that is
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Speaker 1: not designed for the masses generally speaking. And when private
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Speaker 1: institutions and entities start getting the money, that really bothers
42:53
Speaker 1: me too. But don't sweat at folks. The Farmer Music
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Speaker 1: Center in Hamilton County, you know, the new one, the
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Speaker 1: one that's also going to be relying presumably on city
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Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars that were never asked for. Farmer Music Center
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Speaker 1: is set to get two point five million dollars. How
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Speaker 1: many music venues do we have in the greater Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: area and how many do we need and I know
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Speaker 1: there were two music venues out at the site where
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Speaker 1: the Farmer Music Center's going to go. We have P
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Speaker 1: and C Pavilion in Riverbedd right, God knows we need
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Speaker 1: a third. Anybody missed the sunlight pool that was available
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Speaker 2: The local talk station six point thirty, the fifty five
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Speaker 1: Yes, listener to lunch Lench Wednesday Wednesday, Anderson Public Girls
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Speaker 1: where I'm going to be seeing Mike submar Submarine or
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Speaker 1: Mike aka Cribbage Mike who just sent me a text
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Speaker 1: because he's a security expert at the hard Rock casino.
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Speaker 1: When you heard me mention or just sort of jokingly
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Speaker 1: refer to the multitude of music venues we have in
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Speaker 1: the greater Cincinnati area, including Northern Kentucky of course, the
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Speaker 1: Brady Center. We've got Riverbam, we got PNC, and now
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Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars going over to the Farmer
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Speaker 1: Music Center. Okay, fine, plus the taft and uh I I.
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Speaker 2: Could go on.
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Speaker 1: And I could have mentioned the concerts they have next
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Speaker 1: to the hard Rock Casino, but apparently not. When you
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Speaker 1: heard me talk about the concert venues, he said, hard
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Speaker 1: Rock Casino for the first time in thirteen years is
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Speaker 1: having no outdoor concerts and according to Mike, because of
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Speaker 1: the oversaturations of outdoor concert venues see it apg yues.
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Speaker 1: I'll see at Anderson pubc grill this morning, Mike, and
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Speaker 1: thank you for that. One uh five on three seven
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Speaker 1: four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight two to
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Speaker 1: over to local stories. One person dead and another in custody,
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Speaker 1: this because of a stabbing Tuesday night at Skyline in Norwood.
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Speaker 1: Norwood Police Department said the stabbing happened inside the Skyline
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Speaker 1: of Montgomery Road. Multiple people in the area speaking with
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Speaker 1: Fox nineteen Good Morning so the victim was a woman
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Speaker 1: who worked at Skyline, but nor Would police have not
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Speaker 1: provided any information about the victims. Suspect, identified in court
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Speaker 1: documents as thirty seven year old Rick Wright, charged with
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Speaker 1: one count of murder. Some video that a local person
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Speaker 1: took shows a man being taken out of the nearby
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Speaker 1: bank and handcuffs. Man's faces blurred because police said they
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Speaker 1: are not certain that he was connected with the issue.
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Speaker 1: Norwood Skyline was close at least as the reporting not
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Speaker 1: clear if the restaurant will reopen it yesterday afternoon. I
45:54
Speaker 1: guess if you drive on over today and find out,
45:56
Speaker 1: I presume it's back open Skyline, that's exactly where you
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Speaker 1: think someone might get it stabbed. Go to Lawrenceburg, Indiana,
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Speaker 1: man fired multiple rounds from an AR fifteen rifle from
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Speaker 1: his second floor apartment. This happened early Saturday morning, leaving
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Speaker 1: bullet holes throughout a Lawrenceburg apartment complex and fortunately missing
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Speaker 1: a sleeping five year old, although the reporting from Ali
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Speaker 1: Lenard again Fox nineteen said narrowly missing the child, No
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Speaker 1: one was injured. At nol Park Apartments, which is the
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Speaker 1: recipient of the bullet holes. Three o'clock in the morning
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Speaker 1: on Sunday, police said Jared Rezzo fired multiple rounds from
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Speaker 1: that second floor apartment, ring camera video capturing the gunfire,
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Speaker 1: neighbors yelling to others to get down. One round went
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Speaker 1: through the wall of an apartment, stopping just above the
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Speaker 1: bed of this five year old girl. According to resident
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Speaker 1: Taylor Richmond, my heart definitely sank. I didn't expect to
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Speaker 1: see all those my children. That's the only thing that
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Speaker 1: was going through my mind.
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 1: Maintenance manager of the complex sleeping in his apartment near
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Speaker 1: his wife and young children when he was walking by
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Speaker 1: the gunfire, he said from the window, there's five holes
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Speaker 1: in the windows, another one through the door. Not sure
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Speaker 1: if there were any others fired, but right now we
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Speaker 1: have fifteen or sixteen holes in are sighting from shrapnel
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Speaker 1: or bullets. Property manager Michelle Auckland showed the bullet holes
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Speaker 1: to Fox nineteen. So someone getting all shooty Rezo now
47:28
Speaker 1: in the Deyborn County jail charged with criminal recklessness and intimidation.
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Speaker 1: Appeared in court Monday morning. Is still in the jail
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Speaker 1: on a two undred and fifty thousand dollars surety bond
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Speaker 1: plus a fifty thousand dollars cash Crazy world we live in,
47:43
Speaker 1: isn't it? And finally this is an interesting one. On
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Speaker 1: the heels of that story, a House Supreme Court said
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Speaker 1: a man with a criminal history of domestic violence can
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Speaker 1: petition a state court to get his gun rights restored.
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Speaker 1: Six to one majority opinion authored by Justice Pat DeWine.
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Speaker 1: He was convicted of domestic violence twenty years ago lost
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Speaker 1: his gun rights under state and federal law. In twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three, this man, Patrick Heffley, tried to get his
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Speaker 1: rights restored through the state courts. Chilcourt denied the restoration,
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Speaker 1: saying Heffley is blocked by federal law from possessing firearms
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Speaker 1: because he was convicted of a felony domestic violence charge.
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Speaker 1: State and federal law puts him in a buying clenty.
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Speaker 1: He can't get his gun right back until the federal
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Speaker 1: prohibition is removed, and he can't get the federal prohibition
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Speaker 1: removed until the state restores his rights. He lost to
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Speaker 1: the trial court, it was reversed on appeal, and of
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Speaker 1: course you know that it was ultimately the decision from
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Speaker 1: the Hio Supreme Court. Ohio Supreme Court said state law
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Speaker 1: gives the court the discretionary authority to restore this guy's
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Speaker 1: gun rights if he has led a law abiding life
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Speaker 1: and appears likely to continue to do so. He was
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Speaker 1: convicted a fourth degree felony domestic violence in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and six, served a year in prison for that, and
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Speaker 1: had two miss or domestic violence convictions in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and two thousand and four. Under federal law, people lose
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Speaker 1: the rights when they're convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence or
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Speaker 1: subject or protection or state law often doesn't even deal
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Speaker 1: with that. So he's able to try to get it back,
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Speaker 1: at least according to the House Supreme Court, he can try.
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Speaker 1: Someone's going to render a decision based upon that effort.
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Speaker 1: Six thirty six Here ififtyvice.
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Speaker 2: The talk station.
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Speaker 1: At six forty here fifty five ker Ce talk Station
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Speaker 1: Big Picture with Jack Addaton.
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Speaker 2: That takes place after the top of the.
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Speaker 1: Our News every Wednesday at that time, and that is
49:39
Speaker 1: something really worth listening to. He's brilliant, puts a lot
49:43
Speaker 1: of thought and energy into his commentary, always weaving history
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Speaker 1: in with modern events. And well, it can only presume
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Speaker 1: that's what he's going to be doing today. But I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing right now what the subject matter is. Clothes make
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Speaker 1: the man. We'll find out together after the top of
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Speaker 1: the UR News. Fast forward a little less than an hour.
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Speaker 1: At seven thirty, Donald and Neil returns the State tre
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Speaker 1: for Americans for Prosperity. One small step campaign. Please get
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Speaker 1: involved in the election. We need to have a huge turnout. We,
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Speaker 1: of course, conservative minded people or little el libertarian minded
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Speaker 1: people in my case, need to get out in big
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Speaker 1: force this November, Lord Almighty, we do not need Amy lockdown.
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Speaker 1: Acting as the next governor of the state of Ohio.
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Speaker 1: Flag retirement ceremonies coming up. I will be there Saturday
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Speaker 1: at a Union I Colts Partner I Colts Road is
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Speaker 1: the is the is the address. It's the Sorry the
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Speaker 1: Veterans Vietnam Veterans of America six forty nine flag Retirement
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Speaker 1: ceremony starting at one pm. Union Township Civic Center Amphitheater
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Speaker 1: is the venue. I was struggling with. It's on I
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Speaker 1: Colts Road, but anyway, that's the place to be Saturday.
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Speaker 1: We're going to hear from the Climate Couty Veterans Services
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Speaker 1: about that. I've been blessed to be a part of
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Speaker 1: that wonderful ceremony for the I don't know for how
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Speaker 1: long it's been. This is the sixteenth annual. Have I
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Speaker 1: been doing it that long? Maybe find out from them.
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Speaker 1: At seven point forty judgent of time on at eight
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Speaker 1: thirty the subject matter Gitmo and torture revisited. Frightening stuff
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Speaker 1: down there going on at getmo anyway, how do you
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Speaker 1: feel about this? I know I was really upset when
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden released oil from the Strategic Petroleum Oil Reserve,
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Speaker 1: hanging his hat on the Russian invasion of Ukraine back
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, but really was designed to well
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Speaker 1: lower the price of gasoline to make his administration look better.
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Speaker 1: The largest single drawl down in the reserves fifty year
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Speaker 1: history under Joe Biden one hundred and eighty million barrels. Frightening, though,
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Speaker 1: go ahead and say you're right, Yeah, damnit. He shouldn't
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Speaker 1: have done that. Well, apparently Donald Trump's doe at two
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Speaker 1: and we now are finally coming to realize here as
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Speaker 1: I see the Newsweek reporting on this, the United States
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Speaker 1: is draining the Strategic Petroleum Oil Reserve to stabilize the
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Speaker 1: global energy markets because of the war in Iran. And
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Speaker 1: then the amount is getting pretty low. Three hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty five point one million barrel of barrels of oil
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Speaker 1: in the SPR that'd be the end of May three
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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four point two million, one week prior,
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Speaker 1: down over fifty million barrels since the conflict began, and
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Speaker 1: at the lowest level since April of twenty four and
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Speaker 1: at the current pace, according to gas Buddy analyst Patrick Dehan,
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Speaker 1: days away from reaching levels that we haven't seen since
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Speaker 1: August of nineteen eighty three when it was in the
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Speaker 1: initial fill up stage. Donald Trump also was a critic
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Speaker 1: of Joe Biden, calling it he saying he recklessly drained
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Speaker 1: the SPR during the twenty twenty two energy crisis and
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Speaker 1: pledged during the inauguration to bring America's energy reserves right
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Speaker 1: to the top, in other words, refill the SPR. And
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Speaker 1: that's when you do it when the price of oil
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Speaker 1: is really low, right, Well, it's not. It's called an
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Speaker 1: emergency response tool. The Department of Energy dubs it. Such
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Speaker 1: supplies have been in the past used the increased amounts
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Speaker 1: of available crud on the market and put downward pressure
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Speaker 1: on prices during what they call significant disruptions and oil
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Speaker 1: supplies that threaten the US economy. Well, I know Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump has said we are a washing in oil, and
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Speaker 1: that's a common I made to Daniel Davis Yester, and
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Speaker 1: I was talking to him about it, and he kind
53:08
Speaker 1: of bursts that bubble and interjected a bit of reality.
53:13
Speaker 1: And this sort of confirms that. So when do we
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Speaker 1: have releases Operation Desert Storm in nineteen ninety one after
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Speaker 1: Hurricane Katrina damaged facilities in the Gulf. You know five
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Speaker 1: the Libyan Civil War and the disruptions were caused by that,
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Speaker 1: caused by that, and of course the one I just mentioned,
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Speaker 1: most recently the twenty twenty two Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Speaker 1: that Joe Biden. Joe Biden used as a predicate and
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Speaker 1: when he launched his campaign at twenty twenty four, Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump said the Strategic National Reserves which I filled up,
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Speaker 1: had been virtually drained in order to keep gasoline prices
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Speaker 1: lowered just prior to the election. Prior to the Iran war,
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Speaker 1: the administration said was successfully refilling and repairing the SBR
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Speaker 1: after Biden's draining a lot of it. Yet in March
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Speaker 1: of this year, this one flew underneath my radar, Trump
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Speaker 1: and now that it was re releasing one hundred and
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Speaker 1: seventy two million barrels from the spr over one hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty days as part of the global push to
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Speaker 1: lower energy prices brought about by the disruptions from the
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Speaker 1: Gulf or the Straight of Horror Moose situation. Bob McNally,
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Speaker 1: President of repeating. An energy group consulting firm the SPR
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Speaker 1: was irresponsibly depleted for many years prior to the horror
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Speaker 1: moose crisis, and refilling it will also take many years
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Speaker 1: and require congressional appropriations. One market analyst talking about the
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Speaker 1: drawdown said, well, it may listed lots of criticism and
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Speaker 1: prove a political liability for Trump. This has been a
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Speaker 1: key factor in keeping crude oil prices suppressed well, pivoting
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Speaker 1: back to the idea that we're washing oil. If we're
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Speaker 1: a washing oil, why would be we touching the SPR
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Speaker 1: in the first place. If we're drilling more oil than
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Speaker 1: we can manage, if we are a net exporter of oil,
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Speaker 1: which apparently maybe not true, why do we need to
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Speaker 1: rely on this? And I'm going to go back and
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Speaker 1: move away from the obvious disruptions in the oil supply
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Speaker 1: because of the straight of horror moves, closure and the
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Speaker 1: violence in the war going on between the United States,
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Speaker 1: Israel and the Iranians. Aren't we supposed to want high
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Speaker 1: gasoline prices?
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Speaker 2: Huh?
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Speaker 1: I thought the green global warming climate change alarmists said
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Speaker 1: we need high gas prices to push people over to
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Speaker 1: electric vehicles. Huh what happened to that. Why is it
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Speaker 1: a bad thing?
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Speaker 4: Now?
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Speaker 1: Why is it a terrible thing for Americans to have
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Speaker 1: to pay I don't know, four fifty five bucks a
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Speaker 1: gallon for gas when that's exactly what the protocol, the plans,
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Speaker 1: and the and the desire of the global warming climate
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Speaker 1: change folks wanted. This is obviously bringing about a reality
55:43
Speaker 1: that they were pushing for through regulation, manipulation, tax incentives.
55:51
Speaker 1: Telling you that your exhalation was killing the planet. Crazy.
55:56
Speaker 1: So I'm going to be critical of this, and I
55:59
Speaker 1: think I'm in tied to do that. It's a two
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Speaker 1: way street when it comes to this kind of argument
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Speaker 1: in conversations six forty seven. Maybe you disagree with me,
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Speaker 1: feel free to call. But I first want to mention
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Speaker 2: Happy Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: A couple of head scratchers over here in front of me.
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Speaker 1: As we have a few minutes left in this hour
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Speaker 1: before we get to the big picture with Jack Evan
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Speaker 1: and I got it lefting at this The Texas Department
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Speaker 1: of Public Safety will be giving commercial driver's license knowledge
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Speaker 1: tests only in English. See this is the Department of
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Speaker 1: Transportation's effort to ensure that people are safe on the road.
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Speaker 1: We have a lot of perhaps illegal immigrants, but people
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Speaker 1: who are not fluent in English and can't read road signs,
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Speaker 1: which obviously creates a hazard on the roads. Is so
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Speaker 1: Department of Transportations effort under the Trump administration ensure that
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Speaker 1: all new licensed commercial drivers had the communication skills necessary
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Speaker 1: to operate the vehicle safely on well Texas road. That's
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Speaker 1: the announcement from the Texas Department of Public Safety. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're going to follow the Trump administration's lead on this.
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Speaker 1: We are going to ensure that our drivers can speak English.
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Speaker 1: Apparently one of the developments just happened banning interpreters, which
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Speaker 1: suggests me that you could bring an interpreter into the
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Speaker 1: English language commercial driver's licensed test. What's the point of
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Speaker 1: the test? Then, well they closed that loophole and another
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Speaker 1: head scratcher. Oh and yes, Eric, I know Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: did try to refill the Strategic Petroleum oil Reserve during
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Speaker 1: his first term, and maybe Congress did try to stop them.
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Speaker 1: But Donald Trump is the one that's been running around
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Speaker 1: saying about how we are a washing oil and a
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Speaker 1: net exporter. If the latter point is true. We are
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Speaker 1: a net exporter, and noting that we are pulling oil
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Speaker 1: out of the strategic petroleum oil reserves, are we exporting
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Speaker 1: strategic petroleum.
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Speaker 2: Oil reserve oil?
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Speaker 1: I thought that was therefore national emergency or you know, conflict. Anyhow,
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Speaker 1: moving over to the head scratcher. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you're familiar with James Talerico. He is a Democratic Senate
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Speaker 1: candidate from Texas, and he is previously on record for believing,
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Speaker 1: or at least saying out loud, he believed that there
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Speaker 1: were six genders, six biological sexes. I've heard some people
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Speaker 1: say more than that, and you know it's comical if
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Speaker 1: you read it on the internet, it's true. Anyway, he
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Speaker 1: was asked the other day if he still believed that
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Speaker 1: there are six biological sexes. He has now backed off
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Speaker 1: since he has won the nominee to be the Democratic
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Speaker 1: Senate candidate in Texas.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: I know there are two sexes, men and women. I
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Speaker 1: also know there's a very small percentage of people who
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Speaker 1: have these chromosomal abnormalities, and I believe they deserve to
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Speaker 1: be treated with dignity and respect. Well, I think all
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Speaker 1: people to get deserve to be treated with dignity in respect,
58:58
Speaker 1: I don't believe that someone can tell me that there
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Speaker 1: are more than two sexes.
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Speaker 2: Apparently he's now on board.
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Speaker 1: Why because he's running for Senate in Texas, and I'm
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Speaker 1: certain that the vast majority of Texans also believe that
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Speaker 1: there are only two sexes.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: In so far as chromosomal abnormalities are, I don't think
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Speaker 1: the LGBT movement is all about at least the T
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Speaker 1: movement is about people with legitimate chromosomal abnormalities like the
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Speaker 1: xx y Y or the double x Y or however
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Speaker 1: that works. No scientists am I, But I do know
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Speaker 1: there are things like hermaphrodites, people have mixed genitalia, that
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Speaker 1: kind of thing that's a legitimate biological problem if I
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Speaker 1: can summarize it or stated as a problem. Abnormality most definitely,
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Speaker 1: but is an infinitesimal fraction. And the people running around
59:46
Speaker 1: telling you that you can say what sex you are
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Speaker 1: are not talking about folks the chromosomal abnormalities. They're trying
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Speaker 1: to tell you that you need to take them at
59:55
Speaker 1: their word and believe that a man can actually be
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Speaker 1: a biological woman, because they say seven of six here
1:00:03
Speaker 1: I figure out canosy do you talk station being a
1:00:06
Speaker 1: Wednesday which is also a listener Lunch Wednesday and Midicine
1:00:09
Speaker 1: Pub and girl hope to see you there. It is
1:00:11
Speaker 1: that time of week when we are blessed with the
1:00:14
Speaker 1: brilliance of Jack Atherden with the big pictures. What we'd
1:00:17
Speaker 1: like to call this segment Welcome back Jack Avid and
1:00:19
Speaker 1: it's just always a thrill to heavy on my show.
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Speaker 9: Thanks so much, friend. Most of the guys listening are
1:00:26
Speaker 9: not the biggest fans of chick flicks, but inspired by
1:00:31
Speaker 9: one of the most stylish and fun movies Amesley and
1:00:34
Speaker 9: I have seen in a long time, The Devil Wears
1:00:37
Speaker 9: Prada too. Let's talk Brian about fashion and society. I
1:00:43
Speaker 9: don't mean high society, and forgive the bad pun, we're
1:00:47
Speaker 9: gonna skirt the question of women's fashion. I haven't managed
1:00:51
Speaker 9: to stay married forty three years by critiquing women's fashion,
1:00:55
Speaker 9: although as you know, both our wives always look marvelous.
1:01:00
Speaker 9: My outfit of choice and retirement is a T shirt
1:01:03
Speaker 9: and jim shorts, not because I'm a bodybuilder, as you know,
1:01:08
Speaker 9: just following the trend of guys today looking casual.
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Speaker 1: Do you have a lot you have tube socks and
1:01:15
Speaker 1: are you wearing tubes of always looked kids?
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Speaker 2: Hey, Jack can't wear me?
1:01:20
Speaker 1: Oh I just had to interject and inquire whether that
1:01:22
Speaker 1: T shirt and short comba was also including tube socks
1:01:25
Speaker 1: and sandals at the same time.
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Speaker 9: No no, I managed to get in a pair of stinkers,
1:01:31
Speaker 9: old fashioned sneakers. You know me?
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Speaker 2: Okay, now, kids, Kids have.
1:01:37
Speaker 9: Always looked like kids, whether they were ductailed greasers in
1:01:40
Speaker 9: the nineteen fifties or hippies who grew their hair longer
1:01:44
Speaker 9: than rapunzels, right down to the grunge kids of today
1:01:47
Speaker 9: who make homeless guys look like beau Brummel. Does anybody
1:01:52
Speaker 9: remember bau Brummel. He invented what came to be proper
1:01:57
Speaker 9: clothing for husbands, father office workers, what used to be
1:02:02
Speaker 9: called grown ups. He also invented democracy when it came
1:02:07
Speaker 9: to modern clothing. Because fashion history Brian reflects political history.
1:02:13
Speaker 9: You knew we'd get there. When society was run by aristocrats,
1:02:18
Speaker 9: the nobility unfurled its feathers like peacocks. In Shakespeare's time,
1:02:23
Speaker 9: courtiers sported bejeweled doublets. They displayed their legs in silk hothes.
1:02:29
Speaker 9: Louis the fourteenth of France went a mincing step further,
1:02:32
Speaker 9: decreeing that only noblemen were permitted to wear get this
1:02:37
Speaker 9: ruby red high heels, and King Louis wore wigs that
1:02:42
Speaker 9: made shares look like a buzz cut. Through the first
1:02:45
Speaker 9: decades of American independence, dandies in France and Britain replaced
1:02:50
Speaker 9: bathing with perfume and makeup. Aau Brummel changed all that
1:02:57
Speaker 9: he didn't have the money for jewels and embroidered gold vests,
1:03:01
Speaker 9: So the Beau convinces society, including the Prince of Wales,
1:03:05
Speaker 9: that ornate clothes are vulgar. Instead, this new arbiter of
1:03:10
Speaker 9: fashion insisted that a gentleman be clean and simply elegant,
1:03:14
Speaker 9: never join attention to himself. The bou invented modern suits.
1:03:20
Speaker 9: Think of the way mister Darcy dresses in pride and prejudice.
1:03:23
Speaker 9: Contrast our founding fathers, who were tough guys, but still
1:03:27
Speaker 9: they had powdered wigs, and they wore silken doublets and
1:03:32
Speaker 9: things like that. And think of President Lincoln just a
1:03:36
Speaker 9: few decades later, with his simple black suit and stove
1:03:39
Speaker 9: pipe hat. Speaking of presidents, how about Ronald Reagan, who
1:03:43
Speaker 9: like President Trump never entered the Oval Office without a
1:03:47
Speaker 9: suit and tie out of respect for the office. Counterculture
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Speaker 9: Marxists protested all of that, and not just presidents. They
1:03:56
Speaker 9: mocked anyone who dressed like a capitalist tool inspired by
1:04:01
Speaker 9: beau Brummel. Hippies really were rebelling against their buttoned down fathers.
1:04:07
Speaker 9: They were attacking the greatest generation that won World War II.
1:04:10
Speaker 9: We built the free world and spoiled their kids. We're
1:04:14
Speaker 9: still living with that, with socialists down for the struggle.
1:04:18
Speaker 9: Forget is that the beau Brummel business suit gave every
1:04:23
Speaker 9: man a chance to improve his lot in life. It
1:04:26
Speaker 9: let the growing middle class dress like the upper class.
1:04:30
Speaker 9: Of course, the rich could order suits from Italy Savile Row.
1:04:34
Speaker 9: Carrie Grant had the suits he wore in movies tailored
1:04:37
Speaker 9: for him in London. A Hollywood film crew Brian, as
1:04:41
Speaker 9: a practical joke, ordered an identical suit as the one
1:04:44
Speaker 9: he got from Savile Row, and they gave it to
1:04:46
Speaker 9: a monkey. Carrie Grant was not amused. But even if
1:04:51
Speaker 9: you couldn't afford a London tailor, dressing in a suit
1:04:54
Speaker 9: in time meant you were a proud member of America's
1:04:58
Speaker 9: fluid up mobile, free market economy, a breadwinner, a man
1:05:05
Speaker 9: with a family and civic responsibilities. Now, don't get me wrong, friends,
1:05:11
Speaker 9: somebody gave me Fred Hauser. Thank you for this an
1:05:14
Speaker 9: autographed photo of Elon Musk, who is no less a
1:05:18
Speaker 9: visionary entrepreneur because he prefers T shirts and sneakers. But
1:05:23
Speaker 9: many other guys today who post COVID work from home,
1:05:27
Speaker 9: if they work at all. The number of people not
1:05:29
Speaker 9: looking for work is another thing we can talk about.
1:05:31
Speaker 9: Sometime they dress like arrested adolescents, and too often they
1:05:37
Speaker 9: vote like arrested adolescents. They're taught by leftist media and
1:05:42
Speaker 9: social media that America is and always has been unjust.
1:05:47
Speaker 9: They dress like pro hamas protesters at Columbia and Harvard.
1:05:53
Speaker 9: Americans used to say, clothes make demand, and back when
1:05:57
Speaker 9: we had men who dressed for the next job they wanted,
1:06:01
Speaker 9: they did so once in a while for a business meeting.
1:06:04
Speaker 9: We're just for a date night with your wife, why
1:06:07
Speaker 9: not dress in your Sunday best now, Brian, I can
1:06:11
Speaker 9: hear my wife saying, stop talking and get your good
1:06:14
Speaker 9: suit back from the dry cleaners. But one last thing,
1:06:17
Speaker 9: and I know you will agree with me. My friend
1:06:20
Speaker 9: there's no more honorable suit of clothes than a military
1:06:24
Speaker 9: or police uniform or the ordinary work clothes worn on
1:06:28
Speaker 9: the job by the men and women who make our
1:06:31
Speaker 9: country run. So what do you say?
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Speaker 1: I agree with you absolutely in that last point. I
1:06:35
Speaker 1: guess the interesting question is, isn't it sort of a
1:06:39
Speaker 1: societal creation what constitutes appropriate dress at any given moment
1:06:45
Speaker 1: in history? How is it that red high heeled shoes
1:06:48
Speaker 1: were once the approved sophisticated You know, who in the
1:06:51
Speaker 1: hell came up with that rule that was widely accepted?
1:06:53
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, who whose idea was that?
1:06:57
Speaker 1: And how did it become the norm to have that
1:07:00
Speaker 1: respectability meant wearing a suit? Not any problem with the concept,
1:07:03
Speaker 1: but you know, if if I'm wearing a suit and
1:07:06
Speaker 1: tied to a Reds game when it's ninety degrees out,
1:07:08
Speaker 1: I think that's a stupid choice. But that's what people did.
1:07:11
Speaker 1: Part of the reason why is because you could only
1:07:13
Speaker 1: afford one suit, and many people wore that suit day
1:07:17
Speaker 1: in and day out. And I'm sure it got kind
1:07:19
Speaker 1: of gaming back in the nineteen twenties when you had
1:07:21
Speaker 1: your same suit over and over again, probably made of wool,
1:07:23
Speaker 1: But that was the society accepted and expected clothing wear.
1:07:27
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of guys would rather have been
1:07:29
Speaker 1: in T shirts and shorts or whatever the modern version
1:07:31
Speaker 1: of it was back then. I know I would. I
1:07:33
Speaker 1: remember casual Fridays. I wore a suit every single day
1:07:36
Speaker 1: of the week, suit and time when I was practicing
1:07:38
Speaker 1: law in Chicago, along came casual Fridays. To the delight
1:07:41
Speaker 1: of all the you know, sophisticated, well healed lawyers who
1:07:44
Speaker 1: were representing multi millionaire clients. We couldn't wait for Fridays.
1:07:49
Speaker 1: And then it became the well you can dress casually business.
1:07:52
Speaker 1: Casual was always a business in front of it, So
1:07:54
Speaker 1: you couldn't wear you know, tube tops or whatever, but
1:07:57
Speaker 1: casual unless you were going to court. Court, there was
1:08:00
Speaker 1: an expectation you show up in a suit. I know
1:08:02
Speaker 1: that's gone by the wayside, and I know that seems
1:08:04
Speaker 1: disrespectful to the court and quite often perceive to be
1:08:06
Speaker 1: so when people show up in shorts and T shirts.
1:08:08
Speaker 1: But not everybody can afford a suit and the laundry
1:08:12
Speaker 1: bill that goes along with it. And I think that's
1:08:13
Speaker 1: the reason we kind of gravitated over toward this more
1:08:16
Speaker 1: relaxed approach to business where people who can't afford the
1:08:19
Speaker 1: laundry bill and the suits and the shirts that go
1:08:21
Speaker 1: along with it. I remember having shirts starched and dry
1:08:25
Speaker 1: clean a buck fifty a pop back in the nineties,
1:08:28
Speaker 1: and that was rather expensive, but it was something that
1:08:30
Speaker 1: we all took care of and paid for. My wife
1:08:32
Speaker 1: had to wear suits to work every single day. So
1:08:35
Speaker 1: there seems to be a real weird balance here. But
1:08:37
Speaker 1: it's whatever society perceives to be appropriate is what is acceptable.
1:08:42
Speaker 1: And I think we have gone a little bit more
1:08:44
Speaker 1: way over over the line when it comes to wearing
1:08:47
Speaker 1: yoga pants literally everywhere. I roll my eyes at that,
1:08:51
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm not the one making society's rules.
1:08:54
Speaker 1: Jack your retort to those observations, I have no retort.
1:08:58
Speaker 9: It's a free country, a nudist colony, if you like.
1:09:01
Speaker 9: I'm just certain the way that we dress is a
1:09:04
Speaker 9: reflection of the kind of society we have. And of
1:09:06
Speaker 9: course I'm not suggesting that big government ought to mandate
1:09:10
Speaker 9: the way people do. That's the leftis. After the Communist Revolution,
1:09:16
Speaker 9: Malse Tung ordered men to wear his signature mausuit if
1:09:20
Speaker 9: they weren't in a military uniform. That order was relaxed
1:09:24
Speaker 9: only after Joan Lai and Dungshaoping opened China up to
1:09:27
Speaker 9: some measure of capitalism, and American multinationals move their factories
1:09:32
Speaker 9: and jobs to China, which Trump is trying to reverse. Today,
1:09:36
Speaker 9: Jijiungping is less interested in building up a red Chinese
1:09:40
Speaker 9: middle class. So who knows. Maybe those common uniforms are
1:09:43
Speaker 9: going to come back. But yes, people can do what
1:09:45
Speaker 9: they like, they can speak the way they like. We've
1:09:48
Speaker 9: got a segment on profanity coming up soon. Of course,
1:09:51
Speaker 9: we've talked about music and the quality of movies today.
1:09:55
Speaker 9: Free society, but not necessarily the society that.
1:09:59
Speaker 1: Works best for us, right, and I listen dictates from government,
1:10:03
Speaker 1: of course I'm going to reject, and most notably if
1:10:05
Speaker 1: it comes to something as individual as clothing choices. But again,
1:10:08
Speaker 1: what is accepted broadly by any given society really is
1:10:12
Speaker 1: ultimately what dictates what is appropriate and inappropriate. And I
1:10:15
Speaker 1: look over the globe and see different societies with different
1:10:18
Speaker 1: garb and wear, and I scratch my head over their choices.
1:10:21
Speaker 1: But then again, I don't live in their particular culture.
1:10:23
Speaker 1: I'm not advocating running around looking like a slob jack.
1:10:26
Speaker 1: It's just that you know, over time, things dramatically change,
1:10:29
Speaker 1: and I sure as hell don't want to go back
1:10:31
Speaker 1: to a time when society has an expectation that we
1:10:34
Speaker 1: all wear wigs and high heeled shoes, because if we
1:10:37
Speaker 1: go in that direction, then I'm going to be the
1:10:38
Speaker 1: one people are looking at, going that guy doesn't know
1:10:40
Speaker 1: how to dress it appropriately, and I'll be going, Yep,
1:10:43
Speaker 1: I guess I'm the modern day of a modern day
1:10:45
Speaker 1: hippie because I'm walking around in my old business casual attire,
1:10:48
Speaker 1: which at one point in time used to be societally acceptable.
1:10:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Well, the whole point of my talk was that the
1:10:55
Speaker 9: way we dressed used to reflect the fact that you
1:10:57
Speaker 9: had to be an aristocrat to be respect When we
1:11:01
Speaker 9: got to the point where men dressed in what was
1:11:03
Speaker 9: considered a respectable fashion and one that allowed them to
1:11:07
Speaker 9: move up the social ladder, America was doing quite well.
1:11:10
Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 1: And then you can always think of Fetterman, who I
1:11:14
Speaker 1: don't think did the senator service by walking around in
1:11:16
Speaker 1: sweatpants and T shirts. So there's always that kind of guy. Oh,
1:11:19
Speaker 1: and I got to make a quick comment on hats, Jack.
1:11:21
Speaker 1: His hats always drive me crazy. If it's a functional hat. Fine,
1:11:25
Speaker 1: it keeps the rain off you, it keeps the sun
1:11:27
Speaker 1: from beaten down. But stupid hats have always been a
1:11:29
Speaker 1: problem for me, you know, like the bobbies that stand
1:11:31
Speaker 1: outside and guard the London with those giant fur hats.
1:11:36
Speaker 1: I mean, what point do those things serve other than
1:11:38
Speaker 1: some sort of connection with history? And when did it
1:11:40
Speaker 1: become a functional hat? When did that type of hat?
1:11:44
Speaker 1: Why was it designated for the military wear under that
1:11:48
Speaker 1: circumstance when I think some other form of hat would
1:11:50
Speaker 1: be far more functional and a lot more comfortable and
1:11:53
Speaker 1: of course less expensive.
1:11:55
Speaker 9: Britain is making a lot of money off tourists and
1:11:57
Speaker 9: then a lot of tourists take pictures of themselves now
1:12:00
Speaker 9: to those guys. Yeah, speaking of hats, you know, it's
1:12:02
Speaker 9: interesting how fashion does change. Clark Gable is the one
1:12:07
Speaker 9: who got a lot of men stopping wearing undershirts rights
1:12:11
Speaker 9: and the movie had happened one night. Yeah you took
1:12:13
Speaker 9: off your shirt and he was just Clark Gable JFK
1:12:18
Speaker 9: at his inauguration didn't want to wear a hat. And
1:12:22
Speaker 9: the hat business really went downhill after that because people said,
1:12:25
Speaker 9: look at that guy with his full head of hair.
1:12:27
Speaker 9: I don't need a hat.
1:12:28
Speaker 1: So what we need is modern social media influencers who
1:12:31
Speaker 1: will bring brack a, bring back a higher expectation of
1:12:35
Speaker 1: clothing wear so we all do look at least a
1:12:37
Speaker 1: little more respectable, not like we're off to a gym.
1:12:41
Speaker 1: Jack evident, always fun, always brilliant. Appreciate our banter back
1:12:44
Speaker 1: and forth. And I appreciate you and you're being on
1:12:47
Speaker 1: the program as always. I wish you and you better
1:12:49
Speaker 1: have Amsley a wonderful week. Much health and love to
1:12:52
Speaker 1: both of you. And we'll do this again, Actually not
1:12:54
Speaker 1: next Wednesday. I'm off from my cancer recovery week, but
1:12:57
Speaker 1: we'll do it again in two weeks. Yeah, and take
1:12:59
Speaker 1: care of your hey, Thanks, I appreciate that very much,
1:13:02
Speaker 1: Love you brother. Have a great week, seven nineteen if
1:13:04
Speaker 1: you Kashan, Happy Wednesday, listener lunch Anderson Pub and Grill.
1:13:10
Speaker 1: Someday maybe we'll see Donovan Meil from Americans for Prosperity
1:13:13
Speaker 1: and a listener lunch. I don't know that it's going
1:13:15
Speaker 1: to be today, and I'm not putting them on the spot,
1:13:16
Speaker 1: but welcome back Donovan Meil from Americans for Prosperity talking
1:13:19
Speaker 1: about the Ohio Small One Small Step campaign. Could you
1:13:23
Speaker 1: have you back on the show as always, Welcome back, Brian.
1:13:26
Speaker 7: Glad to be back, and I'd love to do one
1:13:28
Speaker 7: of those listener lunches.
1:13:29
Speaker 3: That would be awesome.
1:13:30
Speaker 1: First Wednesday I absent a holiday interruption or sickness or illness,
1:13:34
Speaker 1: but you can always count on the first Wednesday of
1:13:36
Speaker 1: the month for the listener lunch. We go all over
1:13:38
Speaker 1: town and the whole point of it was to support,
1:13:41
Speaker 1: you know, local restaurants, mom and pop restaurants, but also
1:13:44
Speaker 1: just to get people out of whatever the rut they're in,
1:13:46
Speaker 1: because that's what I used to be in when I
1:13:48
Speaker 1: was working at Anthem, you know in cube Land, and
1:13:50
Speaker 1: every six weeks or so, we just like, let's just
1:13:52
Speaker 1: go out of the building and have lunch sometime and
1:13:54
Speaker 1: get the crew out and we'd always enjoy it was
1:13:56
Speaker 1: really lighthearted. We'd all, you know, joke around. You weren't
1:13:59
Speaker 1: in a business environm so you could be a little
1:14:01
Speaker 1: looser with your language, and you know, it was just fun.
1:14:04
Speaker 1: It's like, we need to do that, so everybody's invited.
1:14:06
Speaker 1: It's not about me, It's about getting out of your
1:14:08
Speaker 1: rut and supporting a local restaurant that probably can't afford
1:14:11
Speaker 1: advertising dollars, but maybe going to a place you've never
1:14:14
Speaker 1: been to. And you know what, man, I've been I've
1:14:16
Speaker 1: been on radio twenty years in December, and we've been
1:14:18
Speaker 1: doing listener lunches here in the morning show for nineteen
1:14:21
Speaker 1: of those years. I have just been blessed with making
1:14:24
Speaker 1: so many friends, but also seeing friendships made. I walk
1:14:28
Speaker 1: into the room and there are tables filled with the
1:14:30
Speaker 1: same groups of people that they didn't know each other
1:14:32
Speaker 1: before listener Lunch came along, and now they're just like
1:14:35
Speaker 1: great friends. They make a point of meeting each other,
1:14:37
Speaker 1: and everyone has smiles on their faces. It just is
1:14:39
Speaker 1: really it's one of the highlights of my day and
1:14:42
Speaker 1: month and year because it gives me a boost of
1:14:45
Speaker 1: I don't know, not confidence or anything, but it makes
1:14:47
Speaker 1: me feel better about life. So I can walk into
1:14:49
Speaker 1: one of those things feeling really blue and down about
1:14:51
Speaker 1: the state of affairs in the world. I come out
1:14:53
Speaker 1: feeling energized just because of the fellowship that goes on. So, yeah,
1:14:56
Speaker 1: you're always everybody's welcome at a listener lunch.
1:14:58
Speaker 2: Donovan, Oh, that's awesome. I love it. Thanks, Thanks great.
1:15:02
Speaker 1: That's the point of the concept has nothing to do
1:15:04
Speaker 1: with me. I can't imagine anybody driving anywhere to see me.
1:15:07
Speaker 1: But boyd you have a great meal and great fellowship.
1:15:09
Speaker 1: That's what it's about. So maybe someday, Donovan. But you
1:15:12
Speaker 1: didn't call to talk about lunch. You called talk about
1:15:14
Speaker 1: the once a Small Step campaign we talked about this
1:15:18
Speaker 1: last week. Got any updates from my listening audience?
1:15:21
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is you know, this is sort of what
1:15:23
Speaker 7: our team's focused on right now, because what's more important
1:15:26
Speaker 7: We're going It all boils down to it, other than
1:15:27
Speaker 7: listener lunch. What's more important than celebrating our nation's two
1:15:31
Speaker 7: hundred and fiftieth birthday. And as I mentioned last week
1:15:35
Speaker 7: to you and your listeners, our national tourists coming to
1:15:38
Speaker 7: Ohio June twenty second. We've actually locked in a few speakers.
1:15:43
Speaker 7: I was I wanted to debut them actually announcing them
1:15:45
Speaker 7: on your show. Here was on the final list. But
1:15:48
Speaker 7: the initial slate of folks includes moms on a mom
1:15:53
Speaker 7: on a mission, some Hispanic leaders here in the state
1:15:56
Speaker 7: of Ohio, a veteran, and a veteran who has sacrificed lot.
1:16:00
Speaker 7: It's going to be a big event, Brian, and we're
1:16:02
Speaker 7: just really excited to have folks be able to come
1:16:04
Speaker 7: out and join us.
1:16:05
Speaker 1: You're gonna have any musical acts, Donovan. Of course, my
1:16:08
Speaker 1: tongue is in my cheek thinking about the whole Donald
1:16:10
Speaker 1: Trump effort to get musical acts together, and nobody's sort
1:16:13
Speaker 1: of pulling the plug on it. Although the musical acts
1:16:15
Speaker 1: that the plug was pulled on, I didn't realize those
1:16:17
Speaker 1: folks were still alive or even still artists.
1:16:20
Speaker 2: But whatever, we so we.
1:16:24
Speaker 7: Ese have been different in every state. Actually, in all seriousness, well,
1:16:29
Speaker 7: what we found is people are really there to celebrate America.
1:16:34
Speaker 7: In fact, you know, one of the things we found
1:16:36
Speaker 7: is some of the programming actually sort of slows down
1:16:39
Speaker 7: the overall vibe of the the the the experience, and
1:16:42
Speaker 7: so you know, there'll be some tunes of course playing there,
1:16:45
Speaker 7: and I think the speakers we've got are going to
1:16:47
Speaker 7: do a great job of inspiring folks. But what we found,
1:16:50
Speaker 7: you know, I think this will be the seventh event
1:16:52
Speaker 7: when it comes to Ohio. They've done so far this year.
1:16:56
Speaker 7: It's actually really just been about people showing up in
1:16:58
Speaker 7: patriotic garb, celebrating America, signing the declaration of independence that
1:17:04
Speaker 7: we have on display there. We have a booth set
1:17:07
Speaker 7: up where people talk about what it is that they
1:17:09
Speaker 7: love about America. You believe that Brian people actually going
1:17:12
Speaker 7: on camera testifying about what it is that they love
1:17:15
Speaker 7: about this great nation. And it just you get that
1:17:18
Speaker 7: and you get that energy, and you know, you refill
1:17:21
Speaker 7: that cup that is you know, patriotism, and you leave
1:17:25
Speaker 7: there we're renewed with it, like a renewed commitment to
1:17:28
Speaker 7: go out and help, you know, either achieve your own
1:17:31
Speaker 7: American dream or help make it possible for others to
1:17:34
Speaker 7: achieve that. It's it's powerful stuff and I'm honored that
1:17:37
Speaker 7: our state's one of twelve that gets to have this happen.
1:17:41
Speaker 1: It just just breaks my heart so much. Donin and
1:17:44
Speaker 1: I know see people just disparaging America and never ever
1:17:47
Speaker 1: focusing on all of the wonderful accomplishments that this the
1:17:51
Speaker 1: most wildly successful nation the planet has ever seen, has
1:17:54
Speaker 1: been able to bring to the world. Instead, we focus
1:17:57
Speaker 1: on the warts and the scabs, and and and the
1:17:59
Speaker 1: the ills and evils that, yes, we the United States
1:18:02
Speaker 1: of America, have engaged in. But I'd like to think
1:18:04
Speaker 1: we've evolved a lot and that we are a better
1:18:07
Speaker 1: nation each and every day, and you can point to
1:18:09
Speaker 1: all of those improvements in our nation from its founding
1:18:11
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years ago to today. We're not
1:18:14
Speaker 1: the same place, but it was the founding principles that
1:18:16
Speaker 1: allowed us to achieve this level of greatness and evolve
1:18:20
Speaker 1: and become better. You know, people don't want to focus
1:18:24
Speaker 1: on the fact that we have corrected so many of
1:18:26
Speaker 1: the ills of the past. They just cling to them.
1:18:28
Speaker 1: And what is the nefarious reason for that? I mean,
1:18:30
Speaker 1: why do we want to dwell on something that happened
1:18:32
Speaker 1: so long ago when we have so much success and
1:18:35
Speaker 1: improvement that we can point to and say, see, we're
1:18:37
Speaker 1: better than we can point to a million countries around
1:18:40
Speaker 1: the world overstatement, I know, and talk about how they've
1:18:42
Speaker 1: never improved their situation and things are still miserable for
1:18:45
Speaker 1: their own populations. It's heartbreaking to me.
1:18:47
Speaker 7: Donovant, Well, you can't make everybody happy, I liken it
1:18:52
Speaker 7: to you know, I don't want to get confusings here
1:18:54
Speaker 7: with faith, and not all your listeners I know are
1:18:56
Speaker 7: probably people of faith, but to me, it's a faith element,
1:18:59
Speaker 7: right you. You know, if you're like me, I've had
1:19:04
Speaker 7: experiences where I get closer to my faith and further
1:19:06
Speaker 7: from my faith right. But I think when you for me,
1:19:10
Speaker 7: at least going to church, recommitting to my faith and
1:19:15
Speaker 7: reconnecting to some of those core tenants, you know, have
1:19:17
Speaker 7: an impact on me in a positive way and moves
1:19:20
Speaker 7: me closer to where I think, not only do my
1:19:22
Speaker 7: does my mom want me to be, but probably where
1:19:24
Speaker 7: I know as a person that I need to be right,
1:19:26
Speaker 7: same thing with our same thing with our country right,
1:19:29
Speaker 7: and that you can fall away from it. You can
1:19:31
Speaker 7: you feel this distance or you see something or hear
1:19:33
Speaker 7: something in the news, or God forbid to read something
1:19:35
Speaker 7: on social media and says I, I grasses greener on the.
1:19:39
Speaker 8: Other side, I just don't.
1:19:41
Speaker 7: You know, maybe I'm not as proud as I think
1:19:43
Speaker 7: I am of the nation that I'm blessed to be
1:19:44
Speaker 7: born in. But you know, when you come to again
1:19:47
Speaker 7: a plug in this event, you come to an event
1:19:48
Speaker 7: like this, or you know, you get involved, like we
1:19:50
Speaker 7: see volunteers and activists do every day at AFP. They
1:19:55
Speaker 7: come out of that experience knocking doors, going to a rally,
1:19:59
Speaker 7: attending and event like this with that sort of renewed
1:20:02
Speaker 7: spirit for civic duty, for being involved and so I
1:20:06
Speaker 7: would challenge folks to use this opportunity because they're feeling
1:20:09
Speaker 7: that way weeks out from our nation's birthday, to make
1:20:12
Speaker 7: that commitment drive an hour and a half north of that.
1:20:14
Speaker 7: In fact, we have a bus that we're putting together
1:20:17
Speaker 7: for southwest Ohio to even bring you up if you
1:20:19
Speaker 7: can't drive up, but gives you an event, can give
1:20:22
Speaker 7: you that opportunity to feel that we're an in spirit
1:20:24
Speaker 7: for our nation and we'd love to be that, you know,
1:20:26
Speaker 7: be able to have many of your listeners join us
1:20:28
Speaker 7: up there June twenty second.
1:20:30
Speaker 1: It's that shot of patriotism you get when you go
1:20:32
Speaker 1: to the honor fly tri State return Home celebration. That's
1:20:34
Speaker 1: one of those kind of things, renewed sense of patriotism,
1:20:37
Speaker 1: and Lord knows we could all use it, and it's
1:20:39
Speaker 1: something we should regularly try to find in our lives
1:20:42
Speaker 1: because we do have the best country in the world
1:20:44
Speaker 1: has ever seen. Well, you talked about the what, which
1:20:46
Speaker 1: is the two hundre and fiftieth? What about the where
1:20:48
Speaker 1: and the when? Don it Than and Neil?
1:20:51
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's going to be in Columbus at Scott's Miracle
1:20:54
Speaker 7: Grow Turf Field. That's the Columbus Crew Soccer Stadium in Columbus, Ohio,
1:21:00
Speaker 7: five o'clock Monday June twenty second, five pm Monday June
1:21:04
Speaker 7: twenty second. We'll have it an event up there. We
1:21:06
Speaker 7: do have buses coming in. In fact, George Brunneman for
1:21:09
Speaker 7: more Store Liberty started promoting some of that.
1:21:11
Speaker 4: So if you need, your listeners know.
1:21:13
Speaker 7: George, reach out to George Brunnman, reach out to your
1:21:15
Speaker 7: friends at Restore Liberty. Let them know you want to
1:21:18
Speaker 7: get on the bus to the AFP of America to
1:21:20
Speaker 7: fifty event. We're putting it together. We'll have about fifty
1:21:23
Speaker 7: five seats available for that for that group out of
1:21:26
Speaker 7: southwest Ohio, so we can make it easy for you
1:21:29
Speaker 7: to get there.
1:21:29
Speaker 1: Even fantastic and I appreciate you doing that, and shout
1:21:33
Speaker 1: out to George. He's an outstanding guy. And let us
1:21:36
Speaker 1: remind my listening audience, Donovan, how important it is to
1:21:39
Speaker 1: rally the troops to get into the polls in November.
1:21:43
Speaker 7: Oh without a staff. I mean that is so you know,
1:21:46
Speaker 7: you renew that spirit for America and then do your
1:21:49
Speaker 7: American duty, get out and vote better. Yet, we know
1:21:52
Speaker 7: your listeners are going to vote. Brian they need to
1:21:54
Speaker 7: get involved in the campaign alongside AFP Action inside our
1:21:58
Speaker 7: team to make sure to remind people, their friends and
1:22:00
Speaker 7: neighbors in the community to go vote. It's this country's
1:22:04
Speaker 7: too important to let it slip through and not put
1:22:06
Speaker 7: an hour of your own time into your civic duty.
1:22:08
Speaker 1: Here Lord knows it's worth getting off your bottom and
1:22:10
Speaker 1: get into the polls just to keep Amy Acting from
1:22:13
Speaker 1: being run next governor, because I don't want to go
1:22:14
Speaker 1: through another lockdown. Donovan and the Americans for Prosperity, mister
1:22:19
Speaker 1: patriot himself get a renewed sense of patriotism June twenty second.
1:22:22
Speaker 1: Get the details at AFP Action, correct.
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Speaker 7: Donovan, actually a too fifty Ohio like America to fifty
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Speaker 2: A two fifty Ohio dot com. But e the talk station.
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Speaker 1: Seven if you're about KCD talk station or the Happy
1:22:45
Speaker 1: Wednesday to you in studio, the return of Clima County
1:22:49
Speaker 1: Veteran Service Commission Steve Belzo, who's got to be talking
1:22:51
Speaker 1: about Flag Day? Steve Bells. It's always great having you
1:22:53
Speaker 1: in the studio. And I see that I guess Ken
1:22:56
Speaker 1: Williamson handed off the flag retirement ceremony announcement to you,
1:22:59
Speaker 1: and that's a okay. It's at Union Township Civic Amphitheater
1:23:03
Speaker 1: on this Saturday, June sixth, one pm along with the
1:23:06
Speaker 1: Boy Scout Scot Troop four fifty two. I've been doing
1:23:09
Speaker 1: this for years. They've always invited me over. It is
1:23:13
Speaker 1: such a I wish it was more well attended, and
1:23:16
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons you're here to talk about it.
1:23:18
Speaker 1: But it's just such a neat ceremony. You learn about
1:23:20
Speaker 1: the having respect for the flag, and it was a
1:23:23
Speaker 1: Steve tam is just a beautiful guy. I mean, he's
1:23:26
Speaker 1: gonna kick this thing off.
1:23:27
Speaker 2: He would drive.
1:23:28
Speaker 1: Around and if he saw a tattered flag one should
1:23:32
Speaker 1: have been retired in a home or a business, he
1:23:35
Speaker 1: pulled right on over and just knocking the door and say, hey, hey,
1:23:37
Speaker 1: it's time to get that flag down. You know, if
1:23:40
Speaker 1: you don't have one, I'll give you one.
1:23:41
Speaker 10: I have commissioners that carry them in their vehicles and
1:23:44
Speaker 10: they'll stop and just change them out. I think that's right,
1:23:47
Speaker 10: that's great exactly. But it's part of the patriotic bone.
1:23:51
Speaker 1: It is, you know, the symbol of our country. It is,
1:23:54
Speaker 1: you know, and I always feel so proud of what
1:23:58
Speaker 1: it represents. And to me, I always boil it down. Freedom.
1:24:02
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one thing I truly believe in his freedom.
1:24:04
Speaker 1: You have your own version of what you perceive freedom
1:24:06
Speaker 1: to be. You can be your own person. In the
1:24:08
Speaker 1: United States of America, you worship whatever religion you want.
1:24:10
Speaker 1: You can speak your mind with our free speech freedom.
1:24:13
Speaker 1: There's no other country in the world.
1:24:15
Speaker 10: Well, I'll tell you, being around this world many times,
1:24:19
Speaker 10: there are few symbols that are globally recognized, and our
1:24:24
Speaker 10: American flag is one of them.
1:24:27
Speaker 2: Amen.
1:24:28
Speaker 1: And so many people trying to tear it down and
1:24:30
Speaker 1: turn it into something that it's not a symbol of,
1:24:34
Speaker 1: you know, anger, division, you know, evil and.
1:24:37
Speaker 2: Stopping on it.
1:24:38
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't want a loss thing. You
1:24:40
Speaker 1: can't burn it up because that's part of freedom and speech.
1:24:42
Speaker 1: But you know what, I have such a profound level
1:24:44
Speaker 1: of respect. It always breaks my heart to see that
1:24:46
Speaker 1: people would do that.
1:24:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, desecrating the flag.
1:24:50
Speaker 10: You're yeah, there wasn't a band aid you pulled off.
1:24:53
Speaker 10: I hapen to have an arm removed there where the
1:24:55
Speaker 10: bad aid says. But nonetheless, it's one of those the
1:24:59
Speaker 10: p event to retire and dispose of a flag. It
1:25:04
Speaker 10: is discreet, It is not a celebration. No, it is
1:25:09
Speaker 10: meant to be honored the way we would a loved one.
1:25:13
Speaker 6: In a cemetery.
1:25:14
Speaker 2: Exactly. That's what it's all about.
1:25:16
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, there is a way to properly dispose of
1:25:19
Speaker 1: a flag when it's end of its useful life. You're
1:25:21
Speaker 1: supposed to celebrate it and honor it by placing it
1:25:24
Speaker 1: in you know, And we'll walk through all of the
1:25:26
Speaker 1: steps on Saturday and how that's properly done. But it
1:25:30
Speaker 1: is an event much like a funeral.
1:25:32
Speaker 10: Because we live in this What it represents the democracy
1:25:36
Speaker 10: of this nation. However, you you look at our democracy,
1:25:41
Speaker 10: we are still the most democratic, fair based country on
1:25:48
Speaker 10: the face of this earth.
1:25:50
Speaker 1: A man or with Steve Belzow, we'll talk about the
1:25:52
Speaker 1: flag retirement ceremony. After the brief words of USA insulation
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Speaker 1: and taking the name in a patriotic way USA Premium
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Speaker 1: forty nine actually fifty five KCD talk station Flag Retirement
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Speaker 1: Ceremony this Saturday, one pm be at the Union Township
1:26:08
Speaker 1: Civic Center Amphitheater. First eighteen people who show up and
1:26:11
Speaker 1: bring a flag that needs to be retired are going
1:26:13
Speaker 1: to receive a brand new and four free three foot
1:26:16
Speaker 1: by five foot flag at the end of the ceremony
1:26:18
Speaker 1: because you need to take down your old tatter flag.
1:26:20
Speaker 1: They call them unserviceable and they need to be retired.
1:26:24
Speaker 1: Steve Belzo, Clement County Veteran Services. Before we get to
1:26:26
Speaker 1: the reason for Flag Day and what it is unserviceable,
1:26:30
Speaker 1: what does it mean to be unserviceable? I mean there's
1:26:32
Speaker 1: degrees of flag age out.
1:26:34
Speaker 2: There in the world.
1:26:35
Speaker 1: When at what point would Steve Tams start knocking on
1:26:38
Speaker 1: your door and telling you to get the thing down
1:26:40
Speaker 1: and properly, properly retire it.
1:26:42
Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely, there is a I don't want to say
1:26:47
Speaker 10: a militaristic, draconian look at the flag, but yet there
1:26:51
Speaker 10: is right so unserviceable. Does the flag without rip or
1:26:56
Speaker 10: tear look exceedingly weathered? Are the are the colors faded?
1:27:01
Speaker 10: It's time to replace the flag. Aside from that, as
1:27:05
Speaker 10: soon as the flag starts to tearing right and you've
1:27:08
Speaker 10: got these frayed ends flying off, or how many have
1:27:11
Speaker 10: we seen driving down a road that there's like thirteen
1:27:14
Speaker 10: streamers because the flags coming apart, it's like, bring the
1:27:18
Speaker 10: thing down. And that's when it's unserviceable, is when it
1:27:22
Speaker 10: does not look new anymore. Basically, right, it's starting to
1:27:26
Speaker 10: tear their weather rised. Right, they're made out of a
1:27:28
Speaker 10: nylon now that they're supposed to take the higher winds
1:27:31
Speaker 10: and the rain. But after about two years, the sun
1:27:34
Speaker 10: degrades anything that it had for some sort of construction
1:27:38
Speaker 10: that it just starts to come apart.
1:27:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, or sooner.
1:27:40
Speaker 1: In the case, we fly our flag every single day
1:27:43
Speaker 1: at the Thomas Household in the sun and you know,
1:27:45
Speaker 1: sometimes the rain. I know you're supposed to be taking
1:27:47
Speaker 1: them down at appropriate times and not fly them at
1:27:49
Speaker 1: night unless they're illuminated too.
1:27:50
Speaker 6: Oh, thank you very much, Chitching, Brian, got it.
1:27:53
Speaker 2: I know the rules.
1:27:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, why because I've been doing the flag retirement ceremony
1:27:57
Speaker 1: for a lot of years.
1:27:59
Speaker 10: I've got boy scouts my head.
1:28:00
Speaker 2: I got it down.
1:28:01
Speaker 1: At least go back to what is flag Day and
1:28:03
Speaker 1: what is the history behind flag days?
1:28:05
Speaker 2: Deep?
1:28:05
Speaker 10: Oh, my gosh, flag Day It is from seventeen seventy seven.
1:28:08
Speaker 10: I mean, if you can think about seventeen seventy seven
1:28:12
Speaker 10: and the recognition of our American flag extends all the
1:28:17
Speaker 10: way back to then of just the liberty. If you
1:28:20
Speaker 10: can put yourself in the revolutionary soldiers and community members
1:28:27
Speaker 10: of this new nation and what that flag represented to them.
1:28:34
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, right, yeah, today we're taking it for granted.
1:28:37
Speaker 10: But let's go back to the beginning and what did
1:28:40
Speaker 10: it mean to those beginning settlers to have their first
1:28:43
Speaker 10: flag approved by the Second Continental Congress, the thirteen red
1:28:48
Speaker 10: and white stripes, the blue field, and the thirteen circling stars.
1:28:53
Speaker 1: And still within memory of the Revolutionary War which brought
1:28:56
Speaker 1: about the creation of the flag.
1:28:59
Speaker 10: In seventeen seventy seven, the war still going on. Well,
1:29:01
Speaker 10: valid point on that right, seventy six we wrote the independence, Well,
1:29:04
Speaker 10: what didn't mean we were independent? We were still fighting
1:29:07
Speaker 10: for it until seventy eight.
1:29:08
Speaker 2: Valid point.
1:29:09
Speaker 10: So there's to raise old glory then young glory in
1:29:13
Speaker 10: seventeen seventy seven. That was a a rallying cry. Right,
1:29:19
Speaker 10: when you bring a country together behind a single symbol
1:29:22
Speaker 10: like that, it's huge.
1:29:24
Speaker 1: Well, going back, and you said, I hit the nail
1:29:26
Speaker 1: on the head about taking the flag down at night
1:29:28
Speaker 1: unless it's illuminated. But are there other rules for flying
1:29:31
Speaker 1: a flag outside.
1:29:34
Speaker 10: There is so when when the United States flag should
1:29:40
Speaker 10: never touch the ground, right that I know? So when
1:29:43
Speaker 10: you see people bringing a flag down, it is meant
1:29:46
Speaker 10: to be caught at the bottom and not be draped
1:29:49
Speaker 10: on the ground until you can unhook it from the
1:29:51
Speaker 10: morning points. Secondly, some people pull it down and then
1:29:54
Speaker 10: they there's a proper folding technique to retire it for
1:29:56
Speaker 10: the evening. So flying it outside, it's should never be
1:30:01
Speaker 10: so large that it's hitting the ground. It should be
1:30:03
Speaker 10: illuminated from sunset till sunrise, or take it down at night.
1:30:09
Speaker 10: There's so many automatic battery charged lights that are out
1:30:14
Speaker 10: there now.
1:30:15
Speaker 6: That are solar powered.
1:30:16
Speaker 10: It's it's so easy to just have a spotlight on
1:30:19
Speaker 10: the flag if it's inconvenient at sunrise or sundown. Even
1:30:24
Speaker 10: the branches don't agree when we raise colors or retire
1:30:28
Speaker 10: them in the evening. The Marine Corps in the Army
1:30:30
Speaker 10: do it at different times, Is that right?
1:30:32
Speaker 6: It is?
1:30:32
Speaker 10: Yeah, So the Marine Corps does it at zero seven,
1:30:35
Speaker 10: but we take it down at sunset. I think the
1:30:37
Speaker 10: Army does it at sunrise and takes it down at
1:30:39
Speaker 10: like seventeen hundred. Right, So you guys fight right. Well, absolutely,
1:30:45
Speaker 10: it's no different than you and your brothers. Right, No,
1:30:47
Speaker 10: Mom had two left feet. No, it was that right,
1:30:49
Speaker 10: So it's it's the same type of thing. But yet
1:30:52
Speaker 10: it's it's a it's a good argument over how do
1:30:55
Speaker 10: we respect this thing and the fact that we are
1:30:57
Speaker 10: respecting our flag. So there's a certain premers are coming
1:31:02
Speaker 10: to flying the flag respectively outside, and then it should
1:31:05
Speaker 10: always be at the utmost highest peak if you're flying
1:31:09
Speaker 10: it with other flags, if another flag pole is next
1:31:13
Speaker 10: to it, the American flag should be at the right.
1:31:16
Speaker 10: Now whose perspective? Now, if it's the homeowner, the flag
1:31:20
Speaker 10: should be on the right, and the other state or
1:31:23
Speaker 10: federal flag should be on the left. But if I'm
1:31:26
Speaker 10: in a church and I walk in and I see
1:31:28
Speaker 10: a church flag and I see the American flag, well
1:31:30
Speaker 10: where do they go?
1:31:31
Speaker 6: Which side? Do I wear them on or do I
1:31:34
Speaker 6: post them on?
1:31:35
Speaker 10: Well, if it's on the stage with the pastor, the
1:31:37
Speaker 10: American flag is to the pastor's right, the church flag
1:31:41
Speaker 10: is to his left. But if they're forward of the pastor,
1:31:44
Speaker 10: the colors now represent the congregation. And now I have
1:31:48
Speaker 10: to flip the flags that the American flags to the
1:31:50
Speaker 10: right and the church flag is on the left.
1:31:54
Speaker 2: Have to start writing things down.
1:31:57
Speaker 10: But this is to give it proper respet act of
1:32:01
Speaker 10: who it is representing as a group, So as a
1:32:05
Speaker 10: pastor on the stage, supporting the pastor and the church.
1:32:11
Speaker 6: The only time.
1:32:12
Speaker 10: A flag flies higher than the American flag is during
1:32:16
Speaker 10: church services aboard a naval vessel.
1:32:21
Speaker 1: Okay, And how does that have a How did they
1:32:24
Speaker 1: come about with that different rule?
1:32:26
Speaker 6: That is a great question when you don't ask the navy.
1:32:30
Speaker 1: And then here's the swirling question, and maybe a little
1:32:32
Speaker 1: too wead dwelling for the purposes of this general discussion
1:32:35
Speaker 1: about just having respect for the flag, when do you
1:32:39
Speaker 1: fly it at half mass? My wife and I be
1:32:41
Speaker 1: driving around and that big flag at half mass, I'm like, well,
1:32:45
Speaker 1: maybe somebody in the business that the business owner died,
1:32:48
Speaker 1: or someone within the business, because not all the flags
1:32:49
Speaker 1: are being flown at half mass?
1:32:51
Speaker 2: Is there some general set of rules for that.
1:32:52
Speaker 10: So there's both federal and state So the state can
1:32:56
Speaker 10: ask right that everybody fly their flag at half mass.
1:33:00
Speaker 10: A state senator passes, a former governor passes, it's typically
1:33:04
Speaker 10: someone of previous prominence within the state, right that the
1:33:09
Speaker 10: governor wants to recognize maybe it was a state trooper
1:33:12
Speaker 10: that was killed over a rodent cent or something, and
1:33:15
Speaker 10: so they'll half mast a flag. And business owners who
1:33:19
Speaker 10: are flying the American flag, and we see large construction
1:33:22
Speaker 10: companies just have like TQL has just mammos. We call
1:33:25
Speaker 10: it a holiday flag. That's the size of a flag
1:33:28
Speaker 10: they're flying. Right, So you would monitor a state website
1:33:31
Speaker 10: to know when to half mass. The state's not going
1:33:34
Speaker 10: to publish to everybody.
1:33:36
Speaker 6: Oh, by the.
1:33:36
Speaker 10: Way, Joey Johnson down on this road, did you know
1:33:38
Speaker 10: if you have a flag, right, But the state has
1:33:41
Speaker 10: a website that you can go to to view their
1:33:44
Speaker 10: directions over flying half mass. And then federally, we know
1:33:47
Speaker 10: the federal holidays, and a US senator passes, a former
1:33:51
Speaker 10: president passes, there will be a proclamation to fly the
1:33:54
Speaker 10: flags at half mass for determined amount of period.
1:33:57
Speaker 1: All right, Oh that makes sense to me. Still can
1:34:00
Speaker 1: fused about the whole pastor situation in the church, But
1:34:03
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not going to be responsible for that
1:34:05
Speaker 1: decision making. Just fly a flag, respect it, take care
1:34:09
Speaker 1: of it, retire it when it's appropriate. And I think
1:34:11
Speaker 1: any casual observer could look at a flag and know
1:34:14
Speaker 1: one way or another whether it's ready to retire, and
1:34:16
Speaker 1: if it is, bring it to the flag retirement ceremony
1:34:18
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Speaker 2: Six fifty five krc DE talk station. Happy Wednesday.
1:34:27
Speaker 1: Yes, it is. Listening to Lunch Wednesday. We'll be at
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Speaker 1: Anderson Pub and Grill had up to see you there.
1:34:33
Speaker 1: I know I'm going to be seeing my summary inter
1:34:35
Speaker 1: friend Mike. He just chimed in Navy morning colors, eight
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Speaker 1: o'clock evening colors sunset.
1:34:41
Speaker 2: There you go.
1:34:41
Speaker 1: Everybody's got their own rule, which gives our service members
1:34:43
Speaker 1: something to fight about. And speaking of service members, I
1:34:45
Speaker 1: did want to bring up the fact that it is
1:34:47
Speaker 1: a men's mental health Awareness month, and I was talking
1:34:50
Speaker 1: with Steve Belzer from the Klement County Veteran Services about
1:34:53
Speaker 1: that and kind of wanted to bring it up. But
1:34:55
Speaker 1: since the topic in the subject matter was of course
1:34:57
Speaker 1: flag etiquette, the Flag Day and the flag retire ironment
1:35:00
Speaker 1: ceremony that's taking place on Saturday, I wanted to keep
1:35:02
Speaker 1: it out of the equation. I'm pleased to pass along
1:35:06
Speaker 1: considering and the sad realities. Of course, veterans commit suicide
1:35:10
Speaker 1: at a much higher rate than the general population, A
1:35:12
Speaker 1: little suicide is too much. But in terms of the statistics,
1:35:15
Speaker 1: it's just it's frightening and I don't understand the reason
1:35:19
Speaker 1: behind it. It's not for me to understand, but I'm
1:35:21
Speaker 1: just passing a lot. That's reality. But what was twenty
1:35:27
Speaker 1: two veteran service A veteran or I guess maybe even
1:35:32
Speaker 1: active duty service members committing suicide on a daily basis
1:35:35
Speaker 1: is down about twenty five percent to seventeen. So it
1:35:39
Speaker 1: may be that veterans are seeking more and more help
1:35:42
Speaker 1: that is out there and available. I always support the VA,
1:35:45
Speaker 1: and the VA has absolutely outstanding mental health benefits for
1:35:49
Speaker 1: the veteran community, So you know, it's really important to
1:35:53
Speaker 1: get a grip on that. And if you are struggling
1:35:55
Speaker 1: with suicidal ideation, please, for everyone in your life and
1:36:00
Speaker 1: obviously for yourself, there's help out there. Just make sure
1:36:03
Speaker 1: you know about this. The National Suicide Hotline, which is
1:36:06
Speaker 1: nine eight eight nine eight eight.
1:36:10
Speaker 2: Think about it like that.
1:36:10
Speaker 1: You think about nine to one one, so suicidal ideation'
1:36:14
Speaker 1: let's get that number down a lot, please and do
1:36:18
Speaker 1: what you can along those lines. Let us see here
1:36:22
Speaker 1: I talked about this a little bit earlier at the
1:36:24
Speaker 1: top of the our news that I guess we're at
1:36:26
Speaker 1: it again in terms of fighting. And oddly enough, on
1:36:30
Speaker 1: the heels of yesterday's comments from Marco Ruby as well
1:36:32
Speaker 1: as Donald Trump. You thought yesterday things were going to
1:36:34
Speaker 1: be over, because he did say the war is over.
1:36:37
Speaker 1: Marco Ruby, Rubya did his first congressional testimony since the
1:36:40
Speaker 1: launch of Operation Epic Fury. So as of yesterday, there
1:36:44
Speaker 1: is a prospect, he said, which could happen today. It
1:36:46
Speaker 1: could happen to Mark, could happened next week. For the
1:36:48
Speaker 1: first time, certainly in my memory, they the Iridians have
1:36:51
Speaker 1: agreed to negotiate aspects of the nuclear program, which over
1:36:56
Speaker 1: just over a month ago, and of course all the
1:36:58
Speaker 1: way into last year and prior they were refused to
1:37:00
Speaker 1: even mention his words. And of course he's sticking to
1:37:04
Speaker 1: the terms that Donald Trump has been demanding for a
1:37:06
Speaker 1: long time. Open up the straits of horror, moves, remove
1:37:09
Speaker 1: the minds. We'll help do it, and of course limit
1:37:12
Speaker 1: the nuclear enrichment program, things that the Iranians have refused
1:37:16
Speaker 1: to do. Well, it ain't over, because, of course we
1:37:22
Speaker 1: were trading fire into this morning, exchange heavy fire, as
1:37:27
Speaker 1: it's been described. We have the Iranians launching attack drones
1:37:36
Speaker 1: at civilian watercraft. Going back to the keeping the strait
1:37:41
Speaker 1: of horror moves close, which I know people will kind
1:37:43
Speaker 1: of Daniel Davis can rub you the wrong way in
1:37:45
Speaker 1: terms of his outlook on the war, but I think
1:37:46
Speaker 1: he's a very pragmatic and practical guy. I we have
1:37:50
Speaker 1: not opened the strait of horror moves because apparently we
1:37:52
Speaker 1: can't do that. If American military can't do it, then
1:37:55
Speaker 1: how could anybody. It's too easy with modern military. Well,
1:38:01
Speaker 1: I guess with modern warfare generally, we're relying on inexpensive
1:38:04
Speaker 1: little drones. They're hard to catch, they're hard to see,
1:38:07
Speaker 1: and if you want to see what it's like to
1:38:09
Speaker 1: be a Ukrainian soldier, for example, pivoting over to that
1:38:12
Speaker 1: field of combat. Grand Thumb like the M one. Grand
1:38:17
Speaker 1: Grand Thumb is a YouTube. He's a firearms expert, ex
1:38:21
Speaker 1: military and he does all kinds of gun reviews and everything.
1:38:24
Speaker 1: He did a show with some Ukrainian soldiers sort of
1:38:29
Speaker 1: simulating what it's like to be in a situation with
1:38:33
Speaker 1: drones flying around. They explain how the drones are used,
1:38:36
Speaker 1: they explain how difficult it is and how you basically
1:38:38
Speaker 1: have to not move when these drones are flying around.
1:38:41
Speaker 1: But when you encounter them, I used to think that, oh,
1:38:44
Speaker 1: come on, if you had a shotgun and you were
1:38:46
Speaker 1: decent on the skie trap or five stand or sporting
1:38:50
Speaker 1: clay realm, if you're a hunter generally speaking, oh I
1:38:52
Speaker 1: could hit that.
1:38:53
Speaker 2: I could hit that. Oh my god, No.
1:38:57
Speaker 1: It's a hell of a lot more difficult. You have
1:38:59
Speaker 1: these experience guys who are marksmen having a struggle trying
1:39:02
Speaker 1: to knock one of those babies out of the sky.
1:39:04
Speaker 1: They fly at an unbelievably fast pace and they zip
1:39:08
Speaker 1: around like nobody's business. So grand thumb. Search for that.
1:39:12
Speaker 1: You can see it for yourself and then you have
1:39:13
Speaker 1: a sort of a realistic picture. But that's the kind
1:39:16
Speaker 1: of thing we're facing over there. And they're easy to manufacture,
1:39:20
Speaker 1: and they're cheap, and I imagine the Chinese Communist Party
1:39:23
Speaker 1: is more than happy to ferry some of those drones
1:39:25
Speaker 1: on an unlimited basis into the Iranian So it's a constant.
1:39:28
Speaker 1: You can't overcome that struggle, which is why the strait
1:39:31
Speaker 1: of horror mouves can remain closed in the face of
1:39:32
Speaker 1: the world's most powerful navy and military, but of course
1:39:37
Speaker 1: it's streets run in two ways because we're keeping the
1:39:39
Speaker 1: Iranian ports closed, and it becomes a battle of attrition.
1:39:42
Speaker 1: Who's going to be able to hold out longer. So
1:39:45
Speaker 1: we blew up a boat that was trying to get
1:39:47
Speaker 1: to or at least from the Iranian ports. Of course,
1:39:49
Speaker 1: that's us upholding the port closure. They're of course shooting
1:39:54
Speaker 1: ats civilian boats that are trying to make it through
1:39:56
Speaker 1: the Strait of Horrmus because they've got it closed. And
1:39:59
Speaker 1: the Iranians all so, responding to our strikes, shot ballistic
1:40:02
Speaker 1: missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain. We have military bases in
1:40:07
Speaker 1: both places. They were successfully shot down. At least two
1:40:11
Speaker 1: of the missiles that fired at Kuwait fell short or
1:40:14
Speaker 1: alternatively broke apart in the air. Three missiles launched a
1:40:17
Speaker 1: Bahrain intercepted by the United States as well as the
1:40:19
Speaker 1: Bahrain air defenses, but apparently one of the airports got
1:40:27
Speaker 1: hit and some people were injured. So there's that threat
1:40:31
Speaker 1: that continues to remain. But on the heels of just
1:40:34
Speaker 1: yesterday in the comments that sounded so positive, we seem
1:40:37
Speaker 1: to be added again, and I struggled to kind of
1:40:39
Speaker 1: come to grips with the idea that they're still saying
1:40:42
Speaker 1: that this is in a ceasefire. If people are shooting
1:40:46
Speaker 1: missiles at each other, how could we be in a ceasefire?
1:40:51
Speaker 1: So five three, seven, four, nine fifty, five hundred, eight
1:40:54
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty two to three talk pound five to
1:40:56
Speaker 1: fifty on AT and T phones, love to hear from you.
1:41:00
Speaker 1: And Jack Avan had made a comment about job openings
1:41:03
Speaker 1: and why young I guess men aren't interested in going
1:41:06
Speaker 1: out and getting jobs anymore these days. Some interesting information
1:41:09
Speaker 1: sort of confirming what he had to say about that
1:41:12
Speaker 1: job openings hit their highest level. Openings available positions for
1:41:16
Speaker 1: you and me highest level nearly a couple of years.
1:41:20
Speaker 1: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, seven seven point
1:41:23
Speaker 1: six million jobs are available out there. That's a lot,
1:41:28
Speaker 1: a surge of almost a little over three quarters of
1:41:31
Speaker 1: a million jobs from the prior month and the highest
1:41:33
Speaker 1: level since May of twenty twenty four. Jumping openings puts
1:41:38
Speaker 1: the available jobs above the total number of unemployed workers.
1:41:43
Speaker 1: And I can hear those open border fans out there going, see,
1:41:45
Speaker 1: that's what you need illegal immigrants for. We need more
1:41:47
Speaker 1: immigrant forces in here. But the fact remains there are
1:41:51
Speaker 1: more jobs available and apparently people who aren't employed. But
1:41:55
Speaker 1: I also remember that we now have a work obligation
1:41:58
Speaker 1: for social welfare. Yeah, if you want to get some,
1:42:00
Speaker 1: you got to at least step up to the plate
1:42:02
Speaker 1: and try. If you are an able bodied human being
1:42:04
Speaker 1: of working age, you need to try and get a job.
1:42:09
Speaker 1: And apparently there's no excuse for not trying to get one,
1:42:11
Speaker 1: because the whole bunch of them out there waiting for you.
1:42:16
Speaker 1: Join the system, Join the growing well the ranks of taxpayers.
1:42:20
Speaker 1: Taxpayers who complain about the taxation being too high because
1:42:25
Speaker 1: they're working for a living, only to have the federal
1:42:27
Speaker 1: government liberate a large chunk of their labor from the
1:42:30
Speaker 1: paycheck to pay for what stupid things.
1:42:35
Speaker 2: And maybe if you.
1:42:35
Speaker 1: Were paying into the taxation system, you might pay closer
1:42:39
Speaker 1: attention why you're working, and you also might want to
1:42:42
Speaker 1: consider where the money's going and make a comment or
1:42:45
Speaker 1: two about it. Enjoy the growing ranks of critics of
1:42:48
Speaker 1: the bloated, insane federal government and in many cases state governments.
1:42:53
Speaker 1: I'm not going to let them be excused, but growing
1:42:55
Speaker 1: ranks of unhappy taxpayers because you see how much fraud
1:42:59
Speaker 1: wark and abuses going out in the world, and that
1:43:02
Speaker 1: represents your going to work and getting up and participating
1:43:05
Speaker 1: and trying to put food on the table for your family.
1:43:09
Speaker 1: We need more people like that. And something I alluded
1:43:13
Speaker 1: to earlier in the program when Bobby called and I said,
1:43:15
Speaker 1: you know what, Bobby, I'll be doing a commercial for
1:43:17
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Speaker 2: And talk station. It's eight nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Ifify about Kercity talk Station at a Wednesday listener lunch
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Speaker 1: Anderson Pub and grow And before I get to the
1:43:30
Speaker 1: phones and you can call too. I got more into
1:43:32
Speaker 1: line one moment Marie five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty,
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Speaker 1: five hundred and eight hundred eight two three talks found
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Speaker 1: five fifty on eight and t funds. Just to conclude
1:43:38
Speaker 1: my thoughts, one more thing you want to complain about
1:43:40
Speaker 1: if you are a taxpayer in the state of Ohio anyway,
1:43:43
Speaker 1: how about the capital budget they dis released yesterday, including
1:43:46
Speaker 1: here great two point five million for the Farmer Music Center. Yeah,
1:43:50
Speaker 1: that's the one the city of Cincinnati might be contributing
1:43:52
Speaker 1: to as well, even though they didn't need the city's
1:43:55
Speaker 1: money to build it, and it's by to the fact
1:43:56
Speaker 1: that we already have more music venues than we need.
1:43:59
Speaker 2: Uh.
1:43:59
Speaker 1: But take comfort in knowing that they allocated two million
1:44:03
Speaker 1: dollars to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame up
1:44:05
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, and Cleveland will also be the beneficiary of
1:44:08
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars which we're going to
1:44:10
Speaker 1: put to build a sailing center at Cleveland Metro Parks.
1:44:16
Speaker 1: I know sailing is a wildly popular thing. People of
1:44:19
Speaker 1: all socioeconomic places get down their sailboats and they go sailing.
1:44:25
Speaker 1: So of course that is an appropriate use of tax
1:44:28
Speaker 1: payer dollars. Jumping over to the phone, Hey, Mareene, thanks
1:44:31
Speaker 1: for calling this morning. It's always a pleasure hearing from you.
1:44:34
Speaker 11: Good morning, Brian. I just wanted to cover three top
1:44:37
Speaker 11: stories that are kind of percolating behind the scenes. One
1:44:40
Speaker 11: of them Tina Peters, who I've called in a few
1:44:43
Speaker 11: times about. She's a county clerk from the Say Arizona.
1:44:46
Speaker 11: She was arrested for doing what's called a trusted build
1:44:50
Speaker 11: of the Dominion machines in Colorado. During the twenty twenty election.
1:44:54
Speaker 11: The release of her from prison, Trump gave her a
1:44:57
Speaker 11: pardon and then the governor Polis ignored it until just
1:45:01
Speaker 11: June first, she just got out, and that's said to
1:45:04
Speaker 11: maybe trigger a lot of exposure about the twenty twenty
1:45:07
Speaker 11: election fraught.
1:45:09
Speaker 2: It was real quick ont June.
1:45:11
Speaker 1: First, real quick on that. The reason she was incarcerated, well.
1:45:16
Speaker 11: It's kind of vague. They're trying to say that she
1:45:19
Speaker 11: had an unauthorized person come in. Okay, she suspected something
1:45:23
Speaker 11: was wrong. She knew that the dominion representatives were coming
1:45:25
Speaker 11: in to do some updating to the machines, and she
1:45:30
Speaker 11: wanted to get a picture, a snapshot of it ahead
1:45:33
Speaker 11: of time to see if anything was changed later or
1:45:36
Speaker 11: just to have, you know, kind of a ground zero
1:45:39
Speaker 11: of what was occurring when she was on there, you know,
1:45:41
Speaker 11: when she was on watch. Okay, well, they came in,
1:45:44
Speaker 11: but she took pictures at a time she brought up
1:45:46
Speaker 11: per Verson that supposedly very you know, authorized to do that,
1:45:51
Speaker 11: and then she then they came in and they took
1:45:55
Speaker 11: pictures or they did what they had to do and
1:45:58
Speaker 11: updated it or whatever, and there was a discrepancy in
1:46:02
Speaker 11: what she had at the time of her being county
1:46:05
Speaker 11: clerk at the time of the twenty prection and when
1:46:07
Speaker 11: they came in to do what they had to do,
1:46:10
Speaker 11: and therefore they said she I don't know if they
1:46:13
Speaker 11: said I don't know if tampered is the word, or
1:46:15
Speaker 11: had an unauthorized person not the correct credentials doing what
1:46:20
Speaker 11: The part where she wanted to verify what was She.
1:46:24
Speaker 1: Was convicted in Guelpy on a reasonable doubt for going
1:46:27
Speaker 1: in and taking.
1:46:27
Speaker 11: A picture, yeah, or something about doing something with the machines.
1:46:32
Speaker 1: Well in a world where we had murderers out after
1:46:34
Speaker 1: a moment in time, and it's kind of interesting that
1:46:36
Speaker 1: they actually even bothered to incarceraate her for that. But
1:46:39
Speaker 1: she's out pardoned by Trump and you're arguing, or you're
1:46:41
Speaker 1: suggesting that we're going to get some information finally about this.
1:46:45
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, she's filed a suit against them.
1:46:48
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I imagine.
1:46:49
Speaker 11: She was in for two over two years. Yeah, and
1:46:52
Speaker 11: she was subjected to nine which is crazy.
1:46:56
Speaker 1: They let child rape this out in parole. Go ahead, Maureene,
1:46:59
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Another couple of the topics.
1:47:02
Speaker 11: Yeah, that'll be coming to the surface, pricing, and I
1:47:05
Speaker 11: think you'll be starting to hear her name a little
1:47:07
Speaker 11: bit more. The other one, I think is important. Was
1:47:09
Speaker 11: Trump just signed an executive order called the Restoring Integrity
1:47:13
Speaker 11: to America's Financial System, and that's targeting back accounts some
1:47:16
Speaker 11: financial networks connected to legal immigration. So he's saying in
1:47:20
Speaker 11: his true social post that he's going to be returning
1:47:23
Speaker 11: a lot of that money to the taxpayer. So we'll
1:47:25
Speaker 11: keep our popcorn out on that one. And then the
1:47:28
Speaker 11: third third story was just the other day. Well, the
1:47:32
Speaker 11: rest happened in January, but the information didn't come out
1:47:35
Speaker 11: till yesterday about an arrest in Detroit or recent foreign
1:47:39
Speaker 11: then were found carrying vials of the monkey pox virus
1:47:43
Speaker 11: oh no, deactivated, seventeen bials of deactivated monkey pox files
1:47:49
Speaker 11: and one vial of the chicken pox virus and two
1:47:51
Speaker 11: vials of human DNA. So I keep an eye out
1:47:54
Speaker 11: for that story because that's about to hit the van
1:47:58
Speaker 11: with the monkey pox and another person got bit by
1:48:01
Speaker 11: a monkey in the lab. It's all unlinding before the election.
1:48:07
Speaker 11: But one other thing, I know you're going to have
1:48:08
Speaker 11: your guests on about GIPMO. I'm very interested in that subject,
1:48:12
Speaker 11: as you know that. I bring it up a lot.
1:48:15
Speaker 11: If you could get a chance, maybe ask them if
1:48:17
Speaker 11: it's true. That they did an expansion of a geriatric
1:48:19
Speaker 11: wing on Guantanamo Bay. I'm wondering if that'll tie to
1:48:23
Speaker 11: the Fort Pierce, Florida investigations and grand jury that's going
1:48:27
Speaker 11: on right now with some high level politicians.
1:48:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is.
1:48:30
Speaker 1: This is a judge Anapaultan are revisiting the well a
1:48:34
Speaker 1: prosecution that is in its fifteenth year, including colleague Shaik Mohammed,
1:48:39
Speaker 1: as well as a graphic description of what we put
1:48:45
Speaker 1: that man through. And I'm not defending colleague Shake Mohammed,
1:48:48
Speaker 1: and I know a lot of people out there. We'll
1:48:49
Speaker 1: screw that guy. He's a terrorist. But the horror that
1:48:53
Speaker 1: this man went through and the torture that they put
1:48:56
Speaker 1: him through in order to exact confessions is just it's
1:49:00
Speaker 1: beyond my comprehension. And I would, honestly, I would say
1:49:05
Speaker 1: anything that my torturer would want me to say if
1:49:08
Speaker 1: I had gone through what this man went through. This
1:49:11
Speaker 1: all goes down to the credibility of any statement that
1:49:13
Speaker 1: is given under torture. And I was quick to think
1:49:16
Speaker 1: about Apostle Peter, who denied Christ three times, because of
1:49:21
Speaker 1: course the Romans probably would have dispatched his life, you know,
1:49:23
Speaker 1: taking his life from him if he had admitted to
1:49:25
Speaker 1: being friends with and hanging out with Jesus Christ. Depends
1:49:28
Speaker 1: on what you're facing, whether or not you're going to
1:49:30
Speaker 1: say something it's true or not true. So that's what
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Speaker 1: the subject matters about. I don't know that it's okay.
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Speaker 11: I'm misunderstood. I didn't really judge on him every Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Maureen, you know judge on everyone. I knew.
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Speaker 11: I know you have him, but I thought you had
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Speaker 11: somebody that was going to talk more on my concerns
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Speaker 11: at that one time.
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Speaker 1: No, your concerns are always welcome here in the morning show.
1:49:49
Speaker 1: And thanks for giving us something to watch, Maureen. We'll
1:49:51
Speaker 1: call her the pattern observer. Maureen, you know I love you,
1:49:53
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1:49:58
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Speaker 2: Get and Torture the talk station.
1:50:05
Speaker 1: Hey thirty one fifty five care see de talk station
1:50:07
Speaker 1: Love this time of the week. Get to hear from
1:50:09
Speaker 1: Judge Annapolitano. Judging Freedom is his podcast, follow him where
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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. We'll deal with his subject matter
1:50:16
Speaker 1: on today's Judging Freedom. Late at the end of the segment,
1:50:18
Speaker 1: as we always do, but in the meantime, welcome back,
1:50:21
Speaker 1: Judge Ennita Polatano. Always a pleasure of having you on
1:50:23
Speaker 1: the program. And it was with great horror I read
1:50:25
Speaker 1: your column get mo and torture revisited, sort of a
1:50:30
Speaker 1: painful to deal with recap of the fifteenth year of
1:50:33
Speaker 1: the prosecution of colleague Sheik Muhammed and going into this, Judge,
1:50:37
Speaker 1: it's kind of my response to you, and my emails suggested.
1:50:40
Speaker 1: You know, I know there are people out in the
1:50:41
Speaker 1: world because I've talked to so many of them. Screw
1:50:44
Speaker 1: that guy. He's a terrorist, he hates America. I don't
1:50:47
Speaker 1: care what they did to him. He deserves whatever he got.
1:50:50
Speaker 1: But it's bigger and more more important than that. And
1:50:53
Speaker 1: who among us would not say whatever our torturers wanted
1:50:58
Speaker 1: us to say if we were being subject to the
1:51:00
Speaker 1: kind of violence this man was subjected to. I just
1:51:03
Speaker 1: sign up to unaform whatever the look, Brian, this is
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Speaker 1: what we're going to do to you over the next
1:51:08
Speaker 1: several years. If you don't tell us what we want
1:51:10
Speaker 1: I find tell me what you want me to tell you,
1:51:13
Speaker 1: I'll sign this is That's what happens. With torture. I mean,
1:51:17
Speaker 1: apostle Peter denied Jesus Christ three times and they didn't
1:51:20
Speaker 1: even torture him. He just knew his life was in
1:51:22
Speaker 1: jeopardy because of the Romans.
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Speaker 5: The ex CIA agents and other government officials who have
1:51:31
Speaker 5: participated in and orchestrated torture, as well as some of
1:51:35
Speaker 5: the psychologists who have devised it, have said the exact
1:51:39
Speaker 5: same thing that you did. After a while, the victim
1:51:43
Speaker 5: tells the tortures whatever he or she thinks they want
1:51:47
Speaker 5: to hear, and it often doesn't correspond with reality. In
1:51:51
Speaker 5: this case, the torture went on for three years, and
1:51:55
Speaker 5: then there were admissions. Then there was in Guantanamo Bay
1:51:59
Speaker 5: a second of interrogators who did not torture FBI, as
1:52:04
Speaker 5: well as military and US intelligence, and again there were admissions.
1:52:10
Speaker 5: So the argument is, was his personal will so attenuated,
1:52:15
Speaker 5: was his fear of the power of interrogators so extraordinary
1:52:20
Speaker 5: that he would tell the second set what he thought
1:52:24
Speaker 5: they wanted to hear. That's the issue before this judge.
1:52:29
Speaker 5: The whole prosecution is a serious stain on the American
1:52:34
Speaker 5: judicial system because Lindsey Graham talked George W. Bush into
1:52:40
Speaker 5: making this a military prosecution. If this had been a
1:52:43
Speaker 5: criminal prosecution in Lower Manhattan, in Federal Court, which is
1:52:46
Speaker 5: the principal place where the attacks occurred, where the world
1:52:49
Speaker 5: trade towers were, this case would have been resolved many,
1:52:53
Speaker 5: many years ago. But here we are fifteen years of litigation,
1:52:58
Speaker 5: five judges, forty four thousand pages of documents for the
1:53:03
Speaker 5: newest judge to review, and no trial dates set yet
1:53:09
Speaker 5: where he's on his sixth set of prosecutors. I mean,
1:53:13
Speaker 5: this is just a monstrosity from the point of view
1:53:17
Speaker 5: of American justice. And I understand the argument of your
1:53:22
Speaker 5: great listeners, who have such antipathy towards anybody that would
1:53:27
Speaker 5: do what he admitted to doing. But if you allow
1:53:31
Speaker 5: the government the slightest opening, if you allow the government
1:53:36
Speaker 5: to get away with torture and denying due process, in
1:53:40
Speaker 5: one instance, they'll drive a truck through it, and you
1:53:45
Speaker 5: never know who that truck will hit.
1:53:50
Speaker 1: Right going back to you know again, if I was
1:53:54
Speaker 1: arrested by some government who headed out for me and
1:53:56
Speaker 1: let me just put ourselves in the en the situation
1:53:59
Speaker 1: of maybe a January six protester, Oh, they weren't prea
1:54:02
Speaker 1: they were just doing whatever, the point being a lot
1:54:04
Speaker 1: of them got arrested, a lot of them. People feel
1:54:06
Speaker 1: that they were ill treated. But if they subjected the
1:54:08
Speaker 1: January sixth protester to this type of torture, which I
1:54:10
Speaker 1: think needs to be explained, because the original torture, as
1:54:13
Speaker 1: you boy, as you as you explained, waterboard one hundred
1:54:16
Speaker 1: and eighty three times, hung by his wrist while naked
1:54:18
Speaker 1: in a well lit walk in refrigerator where he was
1:54:21
Speaker 1: freezing and couldn't sleep for days, head smashed repeatedly against
1:54:24
Speaker 1: wooden walls, his rectum through which he was fed so
1:54:30
Speaker 1: brutalized that he bled for months, often ingesting into his intestines,
1:54:34
Speaker 1: his own blood and fecal material.
1:54:37
Speaker 2: That's round one. And then they bring.
1:54:39
Speaker 1: About and they say, well, you're gonna get round two
1:54:43
Speaker 1: unless you tell the judge that you weren't tortured.
1:54:47
Speaker 2: Is that the setup for.
1:54:48
Speaker 5: This, Yes, you bet, it's a setup for this. It
1:54:51
Speaker 5: was so repellent that two sets of prosecutors ago not
1:54:57
Speaker 5: the current prosecutors, but their predecessors, initiated plea agreements. The
1:55:02
Speaker 5: prosecutors said the defense council, now that we know everything
1:55:06
Speaker 5: that happened to this guy, we can't ethically defend this
1:55:09
Speaker 5: in a public courtroom, or when we go back to
1:55:12
Speaker 5: the US, we won't have our because this is happening
1:55:14
Speaker 5: in Cuba. We won't have our licenses to practice law.
1:55:18
Speaker 5: So the government initiates plea agreements. A plea agreement is
1:55:21
Speaker 5: entered into, it's agreed to by defense counsel, it's agreed
1:55:25
Speaker 5: to by the defendants. It's agreed to by the prosecutors.
1:55:28
Speaker 5: It's agreed to by the General and the Pentagon supervising
1:55:31
Speaker 5: all the prosecutions. There are many prosecutions going on at Gittmo.
1:55:35
Speaker 5: This is just the most notorious one, and it's agreed
1:55:38
Speaker 5: to by the trial judge. Then the Secretary of Defense says,
1:55:42
Speaker 5: I don't agree, fires the General who agreed. He withdraws
1:55:46
Speaker 5: the Pentagon's approval. The trial judge says, too little, too late,
1:55:51
Speaker 5: Secretary of Austin. The trial judge is reversed by an
1:55:54
Speaker 5: appellate court, which says Austin has the final say it's
1:55:58
Speaker 5: not too little, too late. The trial judge resigns, the
1:56:01
Speaker 5: prosecutors resigned, A new prosecutorial team comes in, a new
1:56:06
Speaker 5: trial judge comes in. That judge spends a year reading
1:56:09
Speaker 5: forty four thousand pages of documents.
1:56:11
Speaker 3: You can't make this up.
1:56:12
Speaker 5: Brian and announced this week he's going to rule this
1:56:16
Speaker 5: summer on whether the confession made to the second team
1:56:22
Speaker 5: of interrogators, the ones that threatened a torture but didn't
1:56:25
Speaker 5: actually torture, can be read to the jury. Can That's
1:56:30
Speaker 5: where we.
1:56:31
Speaker 1: Are in that particular hearing and in considering that ruling
1:56:35
Speaker 1: ken the court. Is the court going to be privy
1:56:38
Speaker 1: to the torture he went through in the first round,
1:56:40
Speaker 1: which certainly had an influence on this man in dealing
1:56:43
Speaker 1: with the second inquiry because he knew what was coming
1:56:45
Speaker 1: his way if he didn't concede.
1:56:48
Speaker 5: Yes, Yes, this trial judge before he can rule, has
1:56:51
Speaker 5: to read everything. His predecessor is immediate predecessor, the one
1:56:56
Speaker 5: who signed off on the guilty Plea held hours an
1:56:59
Speaker 5: hour of testimony from the defendants themselves, from government psychiatrists
1:57:06
Speaker 5: and from a defense psychiatrists about the effect of torture.
1:57:11
Speaker 5: Even the government psychiatrists admitted that the effect of brutalizing
1:57:16
Speaker 5: torture can be so extreme that the victim will tell
1:57:20
Speaker 5: anybody from his cellmate to the person bringing him food,
1:57:24
Speaker 5: to his wife on the phone, anybody what he thinks
1:57:27
Speaker 5: they want to hear because of the horrific fear of
1:57:32
Speaker 5: going through the torture.
1:57:33
Speaker 6: Again.
1:57:33
Speaker 5: What's interesting here is the second set of interrogators was
1:57:37
Speaker 5: led by an FBI agent with thirty years experience. Did
1:57:42
Speaker 5: he read these people? They're Miranda warnings? He forgot now
1:57:50
Speaker 5: in a police station. That's the end of it.
1:57:53
Speaker 2: It is you don't read the Miranda warnings.
1:57:55
Speaker 5: No matter what the defendant says, that jury doesn't hear it.
1:58:00
Speaker 1: None of this evidence would be introduced in a criminal
1:58:02
Speaker 1: court in the United States because it's you know that
1:58:04
Speaker 1: old the way you boiled inns like fruit of the
1:58:06
Speaker 1: poisonous tree. You can't beat a confession out of a
1:58:09
Speaker 1: person and have that confession be admissible, Like you can't
1:58:11
Speaker 1: kick in a door without a warrant, grab evidence and
1:58:14
Speaker 1: present it in court because it will be suppressed because
1:58:16
Speaker 1: you violated the constitutional rights of the owner of the
1:58:18
Speaker 1: home whose door you kicked in. None of this would
1:58:21
Speaker 1: be admissible, meaning they wouldn't have a case.
1:58:24
Speaker 3: Correct.
1:58:24
Speaker 5: Theoretically, the same laws are applying here. But you know,
1:58:28
Speaker 5: military justice is to justices, military music is to music.
1:58:32
Speaker 5: This is just taking forever, in part because of the
1:58:37
Speaker 5: military procedure that no judge can stay for longer than
1:58:42
Speaker 5: three years. It's time for him to get promoted or retired.
1:58:46
Speaker 5: Great Lindsey Graham forgot to tell that to George Bush
1:58:49
Speaker 5: when they set up this system.
1:58:51
Speaker 1: What a bizarre law of course. That sounds like something
1:58:54
Speaker 1: was created in order to allow this to happen. It's
1:58:56
Speaker 1: like people over at the CIA who won't produce documents
1:58:59
Speaker 1: even though they've been ordered by law to produce them.
1:59:02
Speaker 1: They wait around for another administration and then the issue
1:59:04
Speaker 1: sort of goes away. Just wait for the next administration,
1:59:07
Speaker 1: and we won't have to deal with the problem we're
1:59:09
Speaker 1: presented with right now.
1:59:10
Speaker 2: It's like waiting around.
1:59:11
Speaker 1: It's like a battle of attrition three years for a
1:59:13
Speaker 1: judge in a complex case like this, when it takes
1:59:16
Speaker 1: about three years to get up to speed in order
1:59:18
Speaker 1: to even hear the case, there's something fundamentally wrong with that,
1:59:21
Speaker 1: your honor, I'll make.
1:59:22
Speaker 5: To make matters even worse. When the defendants told their
1:59:27
Speaker 5: lawyers that they believed the torture was videotape, the defendants
1:59:32
Speaker 5: subpoened the tapes. They disappeared, They disappeared.
1:59:39
Speaker 2: That never happens. That never happens, your honor. Nothing to
1:59:43
Speaker 2: see here.
1:59:44
Speaker 1: So if you had to guess, I know how Judge
1:59:46
Speaker 1: Enna Paula Tana would rule in that case if you're
1:59:48
Speaker 1: the military tribunal judge. But what do you anticipate this
1:59:51
Speaker 1: judge is going to do in resolving this just a
1:59:53
Speaker 1: tea lea freeing ask.
1:59:55
Speaker 5: I think he's going to suppress the evidence. And before
1:59:59
Speaker 5: you're viewers start throwing eggs at the screen, there is
2:00:06
Speaker 5: much evidence of his guilt lawfully obtained. The government doesn't
2:00:11
Speaker 5: even need these confessions in order to convict, but the
2:00:17
Speaker 5: government wants to use them just because that's the way
2:00:20
Speaker 5: the government is.
2:00:21
Speaker 1: Okay, and I appreciate you bringing that back up because
2:00:24
Speaker 1: that point serves as the predicate for why so many
2:00:26
Speaker 1: people would say, well, screw this guy, he's a terrorist.
2:00:28
Speaker 1: I don't care what they do to him. But again,
2:00:31
Speaker 1: we're talking about torture here, and when you put it
2:00:33
Speaker 1: out and beyond its confines in this situation, any government
2:00:37
Speaker 1: would do it like they play fast and loose with
2:00:39
Speaker 1: everything anymore. We don't want this going on, so we
2:00:42
Speaker 1: will figure out only fifteen years later to finally going
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Speaker 1: me get an answer to the question Judgennapolitano, Judging Freedom
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Speaker 1: is your podcast. Who are you going to be speaking
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Speaker 5: I have Aaron mante Pepe Escobar from the Saint Petersburg
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Speaker 5: Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg Mosque, Larry Johnson, who says
2:01:05
Speaker 5: Pakistani intel told him Iran does have a new clear weapon.
2:01:11
Speaker 2: Oh jeez.
2:01:12
Speaker 5: And Phil Giraldi complaining quite properly about section two two
2:01:17
Speaker 5: four of the National Defense Authorization Act, which would automatically
2:01:22
Speaker 5: give Israeli officials access to American top secret information as.
2:01:27
Speaker 6: A matter of law.
2:01:30
Speaker 5: Oh, would you know that that is in the legislation.
2:01:34
Speaker 1: No, I did not, which is why I reacted exactly
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Speaker 1: the way I did. I'm in a state of disbelief
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