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55KRC Tuesday Show - Tom Z, Breitbart, Deep Dive · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 505.
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  Speaker 2: The 55K RC Detox Station. Happy Tuesday. Rush to your mark.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like it or not, it pretty much is. Can't
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  Speaker 2: do anything about it. All you do is, well, pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to it, analyze it, and try to figure out
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  Speaker 2: what's going on in the world, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not always easy as we swirl around the existential questions
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  Speaker 2: that artificial intelligence poses while also balancing that against the
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  Speaker 2: political reality that maybe all this is ginned up as
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  Speaker 2: we move forward toward November since the Democrats have nothing
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  Speaker 2: to run on except their left wing, well, their foray
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  Speaker 2: into socialism and communism, which is taking over the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 2: Any policy positions, anything they're advocating for that would cause
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  Speaker 2: you to vote for them other than we hate what's
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  Speaker 2: going on right now economically and insofar as, well, the
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  Speaker 2: craziness that artificial intelligence is unleashing on the world. Some good,
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  Speaker 2: some bad. And, of course, the raging war in the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East, which is impacting the price of gasoline.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So who's got a solution for that? I'm waiting. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: coming up. Maybe Tom Zawistowski does. WeThePeopleConvention.org's Tom Zawistowski, first
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  Speaker 2: guest on the morning show, official guest anyway. You can
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  Speaker 2: be a guest by just calling me up. Tom Zawistowski
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  Speaker 2: at 730. And the continuing theme, what's Tom been saying?
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's been saying, you need to get out and vote,
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  Speaker 2: conservatives at least anyway. Hold your nose if you have to,
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  Speaker 2: but don't vote Democrat because you're voting for the DSA fundamentally,
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  Speaker 2: and basically that is the reality of it. Coming up
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  Speaker 2: at 8.05, Inside Scoop with Breitbart News. Today, the Breitbart
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  Speaker 2: News investigative reporter Lowell Caulfield will be talking about child
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  Speaker 2: sex cases and the horror of child sex cases. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe you can speculate on this. I
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  Speaker 2: think part of what we deal with since the Internet's
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  Speaker 2: landed in our lap is everything that goes on in
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  Speaker 2: the world is right in front of you at all times.
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  Speaker 2: So a question, are there more child molesters in the world?
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  Speaker 2: Are there more teachers taking advantage of students in the
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  Speaker 2: classroom or relating to students that they are interacting with
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  Speaker 2: as a consequence of them being teachers for these students?
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  Speaker 2: Are there more pedophiles in the world, generally speaking? Or
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  Speaker 2: are we just finding them now that the Internet is
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  Speaker 2: out there and it's easy to track them? Or that
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  Speaker 2: the Internet's out there and we find a local story
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  Speaker 2: from some school district in a city you've never heard
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  Speaker 2: of in middle America that had a pedophile teacher that
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  Speaker 2: got busted and is being thrown in jail and prosecuted?
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  Speaker 2: But when you read the stories that Lowell has written,
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  Speaker 2: and we're Breitbart generally speaking, but all over, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God, we seem to have this epidemic of child
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  Speaker 2: molesters in the world. As far as I'm concerned, line
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  Speaker 2: them all up and shoot them. But I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: in the death penalty. I'm just sort of tongue-in-cheek saying
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  Speaker 2: something like that. But if there is a crime that's
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  Speaker 2: worthy of it, I think it's someone who would take
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  Speaker 2: advantage of a child along those lines. I do not
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  Speaker 2: understand it. But Lowell's got some crazy, crazy stories. to
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  Speaker 2: talk about along these lines. That'll be the 805, followed
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  Speaker 2: by the Daniel Davis deep dive. Gee, what are we
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  Speaker 2: talking about with Daniel Davis? Yes, Iran. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. Pound
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  Speaker 2: 550 on AT & T phones. And real quick, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get to more about AI. But when Obama sticks his
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  Speaker 2: head out and then starts talking about the AI apocalypse
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  Speaker 2: and that the Democrats need to make this a big
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  Speaker 2: campaign issue and that the Democrats need to own this...
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  Speaker 2: There's a red flag for me. I do believe there
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  Speaker 2: are real genuine concerns related to artificial intelligence. Maybe the
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  Speaker 2: brakes need to be tapped, although no one's stopping the
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  Speaker 2: executives from these AI companies from going ahead and voluntarily
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  Speaker 2: tapping the brakes. China says no. They came out the
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  Speaker 2: other day and said, what are you talking about? We're
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  Speaker 2: not doing anything. We're going to move forward with it. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: and I might interject. China has been busily building power plants.
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  Speaker 2: All the while, we have spent trillions of dollars on
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  Speaker 2: the alleged climate catastrophe that our personal coal and gas
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  Speaker 2: plants are producing. Not China's, mind you. Not India's. Not Turkey's.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody else in the world is belching out pollution. They're
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  Speaker 2: not at fault. We, evil corporate America, need to hobble ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: along with Europe as well, ruin our own economies, and
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  Speaker 2: allow the Chinese to move forward building coal plants like
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  Speaker 2: one a day for however long they, of course... can
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  Speaker 2: manage the transition, I suppose, if they have the infrastructure
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  Speaker 2: and power generation abilities to go ahead and drive electric
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  Speaker 2: vehicles all over the place. To not have to worry
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  Speaker 2: about oil as much, I guess. Our failure is that
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  Speaker 2: we haven't kept up with the power demand needs. Definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Try to build a power plant these days. Although I
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  Speaker 2: saw the EPA did get rid of the ridiculous Biden-era
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  Speaker 2: climate rules, which by all reports are costing $ 300 billion
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  Speaker 2: for the energy industry. Yes, greenhouse gas regulations for coal
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  Speaker 2: and natural gas fire power plants were re-rolled back yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: thank God. Why were those regulations in there in the
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  Speaker 2: first place?
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Your exhalation is killing you. Well, they convinced everyone of
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  Speaker 2: that nonsense a long time ago. You bought into it.
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  Speaker 2: I guess maybe that was the crisis of the day. Today,
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  Speaker 2: it's artificial intelligence. Moving over, oil executives say, well, we
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  Speaker 2: have a real problem on our hands insofar as the
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  Speaker 2: fuel crisis is concerned. There's a reference in here that
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  Speaker 2: made me think of the Daniel Davis dive. He's pointed
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  Speaker 2: out many times, much to the chagrin of at least
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  Speaker 2: a couple of my listeners, that Iran is and has
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  Speaker 2: always been suffering, and they can manage suffering through our
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  Speaker 2: economic blockade. I take that at face value. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how anybody can disagree with that. The Iranians have
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  Speaker 2: been under economic pressure for decades. But in any event,
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  Speaker 2: commercial fuel stocks around the world have been depleted. We've
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  Speaker 2: been sucking up all the available crude we have, and
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  Speaker 2: strategic crude reserves are in a position where we can't
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  Speaker 2: really tap them much further. Going to give Benoit, Maureen,
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  Speaker 2: and Colin Eaton over at the Journal credit for the
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  Speaker 2: breakdown on this one. So we have attacks against the
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  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia pipeline, which was Saudi Arabia's route around the
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  Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz. 4% global oil running through that one.
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  Speaker 2: It's blown up. Estimates vary widely on how quickly they'll
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  Speaker 2: be able to put that one together. You've got the
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  Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz, obviously blocked by the Iranians, and then
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  Speaker 2: you have the other strait on the other side now,
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  Speaker 2: Yamani Houthi, the militant terrorist groups have now blocked that strait.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: So what do we got here? So you've got the
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  Speaker 2: crucial pipeline from Saudi Arabia shut down. And according to
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  Speaker 2: Chief Executive Mike Wirth, Guy Everett's CEO, or Guy Everett Chevron,
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  Speaker 2: Chief Executive, All these mechanisms help to mitigate the price
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  Speaker 2: and supply risk, meaning tapping the strategic petroleum reserves and
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  Speaker 2: the Saudi Arabia workaround for the Strait of Hormuz. Those
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  Speaker 2: have largely now played out, he said, and we don't
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  Speaker 2: have nearly the buffers in the system that we did
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  Speaker 2: to begin with. It's hard to predict where oil prices
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  Speaker 2: are going to go, he pointed out. But at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: it's difficult to envision prices are going to come down quickly.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I wish I could tell you that I
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  Speaker 2: saw some reason why things would ease, but it's difficult
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  Speaker 2: right now to see that happening. Stating the obvious, a
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  Speaker 2: little cold-water dose of reality. The Iranians aren't negotiating with us.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's saying, and I think it's uniformly agreed, that whether
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  Speaker 2: they say it out loud or not, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: run this thing out through the election. Some are even
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  Speaker 2: expecting an October surprise from the Iranians. Maybe a nuclear
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  Speaker 2: bomb blowing off. The Pekak Mountain has been active, alive,
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  Speaker 2: and well. That's where the nuclear, well, whatever enriched nuclear
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  Speaker 2: uranium was parked. When we blew it up the first time,
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  Speaker 2: by all accounts, satellite imagery says there has been more
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  Speaker 2: activity in pickaxe in and out and rebuilding of that
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  Speaker 2: over the past several months than they have seen ever. Hmm,
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  Speaker 2: that's frightening. So you can expect this thing to go
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  Speaker 2: out through November. Are you going to vote Democrat because, well,
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  Speaker 2: your gasoline price is through the roof? Is that logical?
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  Speaker 2: Ask yourself that question. You're going to vote for the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat Socialists of America? Think about it. They say veteran
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  Speaker 2: energy advisors say that with no resolution to the Iranian war,
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  Speaker 2: the situation risks spinning out of control. Oh, goody. Diesel
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  Speaker 2: prices are through the roof. $ 6. 23 a gallon yesterday. Gasoline, $ 4. 32,
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  Speaker 2: at least if you listen to AAA. It varies. I
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  Speaker 2: looked across the street when I pulled into the Towers
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  Speaker 2: of Kenwood this morning. It was about $ 3. 80, $ 3. 90 a gallon.
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  Speaker 6: Varies, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Try buying gasoline in California. White House sees two levers
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  Speaker 2: it can pull to ease prices.
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  Speaker 4: Ready?
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  Speaker 2: Boosting production in Venezuela, which requires buy-in from a lot
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  Speaker 2: of oil companies who are still hesitant to deal with
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  Speaker 2: a shaky government and a tenuous relationship between the United
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  Speaker 2: States and the Venezuelan leaders, leaders which may not be
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  Speaker 2: in power if they have an election. One of many
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  Speaker 2: stumbling blocks.
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  Speaker 2: Unless Donald Trump decides the United States is going to
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  Speaker 2: start getting in the oil business, which he's already done
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  Speaker 2: to a certain degree, are we going to go in
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  Speaker 2: and build our own production there, the United States of
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  Speaker 2: America Oil Company? No, I don't want to go down
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  Speaker 2: that road. In recent months, U.S. officials have focused on
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  Speaker 2: striking deals that are expected to bolster Venezuela's oil production,
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  Speaker 2: meeting with refining executives, discussing raising the nation's fuel-making capacity. Fine,
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  Speaker 2: but If you get them to agree and buy into that,
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  Speaker 2: it's still going to take time to build that stuff
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  Speaker 2: and get oil online. So I don't mind starting the process.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the right thing to do because the
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  Speaker 2: demand for oil and gas is not going to go
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  Speaker 2: away ever. There's also building more refining capacity here in
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  Speaker 2: the United States. How long is that going to take?
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  Speaker 2: I asked that question yesterday. Go ahead and speculate. If
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  Speaker 2: you got rid of all the rules and regulations that
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  Speaker 2: are impediments to building a refinery, how long would it
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  Speaker 2: still take to build one? When's the best time to
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  Speaker 2: plant a tree? 20 years ago, right? And also the
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  Speaker 2: old adage, the journey of a thousand miles begins with
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  Speaker 2: a step. That step needs to take place before you
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  Speaker 2: can start on your journey. So let's get the damn
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  Speaker 2: thing started, right? Some CEO and energy advisors say they've
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  Speaker 2: been alarmed in recent weeks as the conflict is picked
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  Speaker 2: back up. Of course, the Mideast conflict. Ships and energy
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure hit in both directions. You can get some through,
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  Speaker 2: but not all of it. It's unstable. The insurance market
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  Speaker 2: doesn't like it, and the cost of getting a boat through,
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  Speaker 2: just insurance has gone through the roof. And here's something
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  Speaker 2: that reminded me of the Daniel Davis deep dive. Will
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  Speaker 2: Van Lowe, he's apparently the founder and CEO of something
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  Speaker 2: called Quantum Capital Group. He said, you know, the advantages
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  Speaker 2: of most negotiations usually go to the side that has
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  Speaker 2: time on their side and is willing to be patient. Now,
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  Speaker 2: one can make the argument we have time on our side,
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  Speaker 2: time on our side that is, well, made more problematic
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  Speaker 2: because the price of gasoline and diesels keeps going up
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  Speaker 2: and up and up. The Houthis got one side, the
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  Speaker 2: Iranians have the other, at least to a certain degree,
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  Speaker 2: blowing things up and stifling the oil flowing out. The
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  Speaker 2: Iranians are hoping to wait it out through the November election, so, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the Democrats will get in office. What are the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats going to do, by the way? Are they just
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  Speaker 2: going to pull the plug? Are they going to pull
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  Speaker 2: an Afghanistan there? leaving the Iranians and the Houthis in
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  Speaker 2: control still of oil flowing in and out of the region?
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  Speaker 2: Can someone answer that question for me? And this guy
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  Speaker 2: also said, and this is the thing that reminded me
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  Speaker 2: of the Daniel Davis Deep Dive comments in the past, Iran,
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  Speaker 2: he said, is willing to suffer. Their people have already
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  Speaker 2: suffered a lot for more decades. And I can imagine...
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to call it schadenfreude,
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  Speaker 2: but if you pull the Iranian people and they don't
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  Speaker 2: like what we have done with them, let's just assume that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, dealing with somebody who's pro-Iranian Revolutionary Guard or something,
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  Speaker 2: but would you be willing to tighten your belt in
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  Speaker 2: order to bring about pain to your adversary, your enemy?
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  Speaker 2: You willing to tighten your belt to bring about, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe an election that will do serious damage to the
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  Speaker 2: current administration? You'd be willing to deal with, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: like World War II allocations and rationing. We went through
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  Speaker 2: a lot of pain in World War II, not as
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  Speaker 2: much as most countries in the world that actually saw
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  Speaker 2: war on their homeland. But you know what? It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: easy for us here, but what did we do as
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  Speaker 2: a nation? We sucked it up in the name of winning.
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  Speaker 2: And I can imagine, of course, the Iranians are used
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  Speaker 2: to this type of suffering that's been going on for decades.
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  Speaker 2: The idea of sucking it up and biding time Will
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  Speaker 2: that inure to the Iranians' advantage or to the advantage
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  Speaker 2: of the United States? It's kind of a war of
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  Speaker 2: attrition we've got going on here. Swirling questions, but so
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  Speaker 2: far as your belief that tomorrow you're going to wake
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  Speaker 2: up and gas is going to be back to $ 3. 50
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  Speaker 2: a gallon or something even lower, as Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 2: promised in the past, I wouldn't hold my breath. So
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  Speaker 2: how is that going to impact your vote in November,
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  Speaker 2: considering the Democrats— are offering literally nothing by way of
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  Speaker 2: getting out of the perils that confront us right now.
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  Speaker 2: Except ginning you up with fear. 519 right now, 55KRC
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  Speaker 2: I guess. Had a couple of callers yesterday, Tom included.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we'll hear from Tom this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Tom. If you're out there, good morning to
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  Speaker 2: the listening audience. I appreciate everyone tuning in. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy hearing from folks. Feel free to call 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: Bound by 50 on AT & T phones. One of
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: the segments I love the most on the morning show,
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: 630 on a Friday with Tech Friday's Dave Hatter. This
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: will freak you out. Relating to literally nothing really important
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  Speaker 2: in the world. People are all wigged out about AI
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  Speaker 2: and what it might do. Get in a Waymo vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently it is monitoring everything you do. Four o'clock in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, according to Los Angeles Times, a Waymo vehicle
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  Speaker 2: pulled over and contacted the police because the company detected a, quote,
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  Speaker 2: violation of terms of service involving a firearm. Two passengers
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  Speaker 2: picked up a Waymo and were picked up by the police,
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  Speaker 2: I guess. The passengers described as cooperating fully with the police,
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  Speaker 2: but the car itself made the executive decision to pull over.
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  Speaker 2: Police Department of San Francisco released a statement, said they
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  Speaker 2: received a report of two passengers in an autonomous vehicle
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  Speaker 2: with a firearm. Got to the scene. Officers searched. They
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  Speaker 2: found a loaded AR-style assault rifle, modern sporting rifle, and
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  Speaker 2: they say it was a ghost gun. Whether or not
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  Speaker 2: it was a ghost gun or not, don't care. Marijuana
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  Speaker 2: and mace spray were also allegedly found on one of
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  Speaker 2: the two suspects. Suspects taken into custody, booked, but names
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  Speaker 2: weren't released. The car detected the firearm?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I call that creepy. And I guess because it's California
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  Speaker 2: where I suppose people don't have a Second Amendment right
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  Speaker 2: to keep and bear arms. Something to just consider as
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  Speaker 2: you are, well, faced with the choice of using Waymo
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  Speaker 2: or not. Driverless cars? My wife says no. She won't
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  Speaker 2: even get into one. My Second Amendment-loving friends, what's your
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  Speaker 2: take on that one? I don't know what business Waymo
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  Speaker 2: has making decisions along those lines. No reports that the
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  Speaker 2: guys were shooting it. No reports that it was brandished.
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  Speaker 2: No reports of anything going wrong in the backseat of
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  Speaker 2: the car. 525-55KRCD Talk Station. Try to make it so, anyone? 513-729-5500-800-823-TALK.
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  Speaker 2: Real quick here, Tom, bear with me. I'll get your
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  Speaker 2: call in a moment. Others can feel free to call
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  Speaker 2: in behind Tom. And I just.
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  Speaker 2: Again, elections have consequences. Cincinnati residents have gone about two
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  Speaker 2: weeks without any trash pickup. According to the city, some
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  Speaker 2: Department of Public Service staff called out sick, which it said,
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  Speaker 2: in their words, impacted the number of routes completed. Some
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  Speaker 2: are reporting that they haven't had their trash picked up
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  Speaker 2: since September 3rd. I'm looking at the calendar. It's the 15th,
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  Speaker 2: unless I got that wrong. Some called in sick huh
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  Speaker 2: well now if joe strecker called in sick i wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have a producer for the morning show that would be
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  Speaker 2: a real problem because there's one except when there are
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  Speaker 2: fill-ins how many people in the department of sanitation or
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  Speaker 2: whatever department is called in the downtown Cincinnati called in
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  Speaker 2: sick that they can't pick up trash for more than
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  Speaker 2: two weeks or a couple of weeks In the statement
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  Speaker 2: sent to, well, in this particular case, Fox 19, City
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  Speaker 2: said normal staffing operations were back up and running yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and residents whose normal garbage day falls near the end
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  Speaker 2: of the week said, well, they're still worried. One resident
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  Speaker 2: quoted as saying, what do they think is going to
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  Speaker 2: happen when Thursday comes? It's going to be trash everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: We're not receiving the public service that we are entitled to,
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  Speaker 2: and we pay for core services from government. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: not an issue for the administration. Now, the city said
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  Speaker 2: it posted messages on all of its social media accounts
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  Speaker 2: last week to let the residents know of the staffing shortages,
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  Speaker 2: and they provided a list of neighborhoods with impacted routes. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: here we are from the city. We're giving you advance notice.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: We are not going to be doing our job, and
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: these streets will be littered with trash that is not
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: going to be picked up. Sucks to be you, but
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: we gave you advance notice. Tom, welcome to the morning show,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: and a happy Tuesday to you. Thanks for calling in.
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: Hey, good morning. I don't really think you need advance
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: notice to know your garbage is picked up.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the why.
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: I think it's kind of obvious.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Do you buy into that? I mean, how many employees
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: called off sick?
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: It doesn't matter as long as Iris Rowley and her
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: people are all getting paid and all the money's flowing
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: in that direction, then we're fine. Everything will be fine.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: We need a new NGO to handle garbage collection.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: A woke NGO. Now we're talking. Woke garbage collection.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: Let's see if she's got another relative that could be
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: in the garbage business. In the mob, don't they do
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: some of their stuff through the garbage business?
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's sort of widely understood that, at least historically speaking,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: there was mob connections to the sanitation industry. Concrete. Concrete, right.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Well, concrete they used to get rid of people who
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: didn't cooperate. Of course. Anyway, wow, we went down a rabbit.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Trail, Yes, we did.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Listen, it's a 5 o'clock hour.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: Waymo cars.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: They're on my nay-nay list. We went by one of
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: those when I was out in L.A.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: A few weeks ago.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: We actually were on some freeway.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: They got 9,000 freeways out there.
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: And we're going by this car, and I'm seeing all
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: the cameras all around the outside. I'm like, oh, that's interesting.
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: And then there's zero people. Zero human beings inside that car.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: I don't think so.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Isn't that weird?
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, think about this now. Usually, if there's a problem,
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: it's because a human caused the problem, right?
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: I mean, if it wasn't for people, everything would be fine. True.
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: But I want a person behind the wheel of a car.
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: You know, that thing is moving, and there needs to
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: be an alert, conscious human being behind that capable person.
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: You know what I mean?
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Listen, Tom, I'm chuckling because fast forward X number of years,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: and it's going to be like the people who were
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: freaked out over the Wright Brothers flying machine. And we
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: can look back and laugh at that. And, you know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: fast forward, let's say 10 years, how many years, we're
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: going to have a recording of Tom freaking out over
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the driverless cars that are literally everywhere. Soon enough, they'll
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: take away a human being's ability to even operate an
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: automobile because we represent too much of a harm to
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: the general public because we make mistakes, and all those
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Waymos never make mistakes.
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: And how long ago was that movie that Will Smith did,
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: that iRobot movie, where the cars, they were pretty much
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: driving themselves, and you could sit there and read a
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: book or do work on your lap? I mean, it
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: sounds cool, but it's a very bad idea. It's just
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: too many things can go wrong, and you're going to give—
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: How much are we going to give away so we
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: can have convenience? I mean, really, how lazy are we?
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: You know, and that kind of brings me over into
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: the talk about politics. You know, a lot of times
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: people are voting for Democrats because they're lazy. They don't
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: want to take care of themselves. They don't want to
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: be responsible for themselves. You know, they don't want to
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: provide for themselves or their family. Oh, somebody else can
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: do it. And, you know, you might as well go
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: outside and go out in the street and tell all
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: your neighbors, hey, I'm going to be lazy. I want
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: you to pay all my bills. That's pretty much what
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: you're doing when you're asking the government to put the
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: bill for all your stuff. You're not asking the government
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: to do it. You're asking your neighbors to do it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: You're asking other people that actually pay taxes. You're asking
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: them to pay your way, to take care of you,
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: feed you, feed your family. That's laziness. That's ridiculous. And
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: I can't stand that crap. You had something you.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Were going to say. I also think it's immoral and unethical.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm on record many times saying I think
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: you owe the world an obligation to feed, clothe, and
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: shelter yourself. At minimum, you should be able to cover yourself.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: And if everybody operated under that, we would all have
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: an understanding of our obligations. And those who are not
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: capable of covering for themselves are truly the ones in need.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Cognitive impairments, physical impairments, an inability to participate in the
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: workforce because of something concrete and identifiable, maybe curable, maybe not.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: But you would have this small subset of the population
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: that are truly in need. And we've transformed the society
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: into this concept of, well, you know, you don't have
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: to lift a finger to do anything. It's A-OK because of, oh,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know, the system is broken or something. It's
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: unfair or something. I don't know how that relieves anybody
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: the obligation to take care of themselves at minimum.
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: It doesn't relieve them. It just gives lazy people an excuse.
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: And to switch over real quick to the gas prices,
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: if you're going to vote Democrat, because you don't like
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: the current gas prices, what do you think the gas
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: prices are going to do if the Democrats take over?
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: You think they're going to get better? I mean, what,
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: four years ago, it was as bad, if not worse,
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: and there was no war going on. There was no
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: fight over oil going on. So, yeah, that's that's that's
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: a stupid reason to vote for Democrat. So save your freedom,
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: save your money. Don't be stupid and don't vote Democrat.
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: Have a great day, Brian.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: And, you know, at least Trump is arguing. And I
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: think it's true. If you could magically end the conflict
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: in the Middle East right now, boom, it's over. Traffic's
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: flowing through the various straits. The price would go down.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: And that's what he's promising. Now, when that happens is
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: the real challenge here. It was a lot more complicated
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: in the final analysis than I think Donald Trump thought
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: it was going to be to overthrow the Iranian government. Okay.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: But to Tom's point, and one that they're on record,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: the Democrats are, the price of gasoline will go up.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: We're killing the planet by driving cars. You will drive
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: an electric vehicle. You will not get cheap power generated.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: We're going to use wind and solar to create enough
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: power to move the planet forward, which will never happen.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: So this is the solution from them, which is continuing
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: on a path of outrageously expensive gasoline. It'll just be
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: a different motivation. This time, the price of gas is
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: because carbon dioxide or something. We need to get it
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: out of the environment, so we're going to make it unaffordable. See,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: that's no timeline, no ending in sight, no relief being
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: offered by the opposing party. There's your choices. Relief at
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: some point. Or no relief ever.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: 536-55-KERCY.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: The Talk Station covers Cincy. An important phone call. And again,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I'm going to point to my... The Talk Station. It
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: is 541 on a Tuesday. Thursdays, we get iHeartMedia aviation
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: expert Jay Ratliff on 830 every Tuesday. I enjoy that segment.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: He's a good man. And one of the stories he
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: might talk about, although I doubt it since I'm talking
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: about it now. American Airlines flight 1779 departed Baltimore, Washington... Oh,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: by the way, I'm in the stack of stupid. Baltimore,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Washington International... 9 p.m. Friday, September 11th, two hours behind schedule,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: according to public flight tracking data. Flight landed in Miami late.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: En route to Florida, flight attendants alerted the cockpit crew
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: to a disturbance involving a passenger in row 9. As
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: if row 9 is important, it's not. According to the
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, The lead flight attendant
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: reported that a female passenger, again, seat 9D specifically, completely
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: undressed and engaged in what are described as indecent acts
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: in view of nearby passengers. Why are you doing that?
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: We'll never find out. Message dated the incident was required
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: to be reported at American Airlines Integrated Operations Center and
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: that law enforcement should be requested. In fact, it was.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Flight continued to Miami without diverting. Law enforcement officers waiting
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: at the gate when it landed said the passenger was
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: taken into custody. Here's the answer to the question. We
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: don't know. It remains unclear what specific measures the cabin
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: crew took during the flight to manage the discernments or
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: why the woman got undressed or what specific lewd acts
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: she engaged in. Phrasing. Just walk away, Joe. Get this
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: finger on the sound bite. Florida woman facing charges after
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: deputies say she threw a bucket of feces onto a
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: neighbor that she had accused of sleeping with her husband.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Just walk away.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Why didn't she throw it on her husband? Anyway, Yersey
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Esperanza Machado Rivera. There's a mouthful. 50 years old, arrested
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: on charges of burglary and battery after she allegedly threw
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: this bucket of feces on her next-door neighbor. Judge Minzy
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Glazer during the suspect's bond court hearing had this to say.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: So this is an interesting case. She thinks the neighbor's
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: having relations with her husband, so she pushes her away
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: into the victim's house and then throws poop on the victim. Whoa,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: that's a lot of feces. Apparently it was. Let's see
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: if we find out where it came from. Deputy said
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: in an arrest report that this Rivera woman and the
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: victim lived separate sides of a split trailer in a
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: mobile home park near Miami Gardens. As is tradition. Amen.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Quarter from 6 p.m. last Monday, suspect went to the
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: victim's side of the trailer and began banging on the door.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Victim answered. Rivera accused her of having sexual relationships with
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: her husband, then forced her way into the victim's home,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: shoved her... shoved her and then threw the bucket of
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: human feces onto her and then left. Machado Rivera told
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: a witness before the incident, quote, she pooped in a
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: bucket to throw it in the victim's face, close quote.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: That's where the origin was. How about that? However, she
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: told deputies in a later interview that she was simply
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: trying to get rid of the bucket of caca, her word,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: that she'd been using because her toilet was broken. Whatever.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Denying entering the victim's home or throwing The feces on her.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Ordered to be held without bond, awaiting trial. Wow. Hamilton County,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: she would have gotten a cup of juice and a
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: cookie and a pat on the back. And probably had
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: the charges dismissed. 545-55-KRC, the talk station. Fasten pro-roof and
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: call the best. KRC, the talk station. 550-855-C-D-TALK-STATION. Brian Thomas
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: right here with A Stack is Stupid. You can call me, though,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: if you'd like. 513-749-5500-800-823-TALK or pound 550 on AT &
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: T phones. 65-year-old Vicki Kim. She's got a problem on
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: her hands. She's been charged with suspicion of murder after
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: police found her husband dead in their home in Palm Desert, California.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: Just walk away.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Amen, brother. I wrote love, honor, and cherish on the
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: top of this one, thinking of the marriage vows. September 4th,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: deputies called to the house 10 o'clock in the morning
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: for an unknown trouble call. That was in the report.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Deputies got there. They found a person with traumatic injuries
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: consistent with physical assault, and that person was pronounced dead.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: uh it was her husband vicky kim's husband they said
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: that she had inflicted great bodily harm on him using
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: a flagpole phrasing booked into jail if he took her
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: into custody apparently over the last year prosecutors filed five
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: domestic violence cases against this looney tune between September of
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: last year and January of this year, in advance of
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: her husband's death. Also, she was previously charged with first-degree
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: domestic terroristic threatening. No details on this one for allegedly
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: making a bomb threat at Keohone International Airport on the
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Big Island in Hawaii.
• 30:17
  Speaker 9: What?
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Five domestic violence. You know, I read something like that.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I'm in no situation where I tolerate that. My wife
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: knows this. I would expect my wife not to tolerate
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: crap either. Five domestic violence calls? Who broke the marriage
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: vows first? Someone did not love, honor, and cherish someone
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: to the point where domestic violence broke out. I think
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: it's time to walk away. People would be happier, and
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: one person would still be alive. Seminole County, Florida. A
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Florida man arrested after he was caught wearing only a
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: G-string underwear and sneakers in a Target parking lot. Police
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: reports that Seminole County deputies responded to the call Sunday
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: about a man outside of the car and, of course,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: touching himself. Deputy identified him as 41-year-old Nicholas Lydick. He
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: told the deputy he was outside his car changing because
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: he got wet.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: What?
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Inside his car, the deputy found a backpack full of
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: women's underwear and sex toys.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: There's no flag for us.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: In this case, you are right. Taken into custody, charged
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: with indecent exposure. He also has a conviction from another
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Florida county from last year, not shocking, for indecent exposure
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: of sexual organs. Recidivist. We stay in Florida where authorities
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: say a woman was hospitalized with major burns after a
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: stranger set her on fire while she was pumping gas.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: 8 p.m. last Thursday, a mobile gas station in St. Petersburg, Florida,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: where police say 41-year-old Eleanor Crawford walked up to the victim,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: who was also 41, while she was pumping gas and
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: used a lighter to ignite gasoline. Victim described as seriously injured,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: suffering second-degree burns, taken to the hospital. Her SUV car
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: and gas pump also engulfed in flames. Officers arrested Crawford
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: a couple of blocks away from the scene, now facing
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: charges of attempted murder, arson. Police say Crawford didn't even
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: know the victim, and they have no understanding of the motive.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Bail in that particular case? $ 350, 000. I presume this woman
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: who looks like she's a poster child for the faces
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: of meth probably is not out on bail. Drugs are bad.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: No question. What is art? Contemporary art exhibit. had an
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: unexpected turn of events when an art collector offered $ 4, 000
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: for what he thought was, and they describe it as,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: an experimental sculpture. And I'm thinking of a duct tape
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: banana on the wall, which in the hearts and minds
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: of some people constitutes valuable art. In this particular case,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: the quote-unquote artwork was a broken vacuum cleaner that was
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: used by the cleaning staff. It was garbage. Incident happened
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: during the opening night of an introductory exhibition showcasing emerging
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: contemporary artists at a place called Marino Gallery. The vacuum
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: had been left in a corner of the gallery after
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: it quit work earlier in the day. According to staff,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: the cleaner had been used throughout the week to vacuum
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the exhibition floor before its motor gave out. Rather than
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: throw it away, a member of the cleaning crew left
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: it beside a wall while waiting for it to be removed.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: That's when some visiting collector noticed it. There's an idea.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I like that. It's art. I'm going to buy it.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Believing the vacuum to be untitled conceptual work, he actually
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: offered $ 4, 000. Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: The offer was accepted, well, at least initially. Confusion apparently
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: became apparent when the gallery employee went looking for the
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: vacuum cleaner after the collector asked for information about the
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: artist and the work certificate of authenticity. Moron. We thought
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: he was joking at first, then we realized he was
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: completely serious. They said, that's the cleaner's vacuum. Collector then
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: informed the object had never been part of the exhibition,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: simply left there after breaking down. $ 4, 000 sale canceled. Vacuum
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: removed from the gallery later that evening. I think the
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: member of the cleaning crew should have claimed ownership for it.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: That's art. I put it there. Just shy of 556-55KRC-D
• 34:43
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• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Feel free to give me a call. But regardless, I
• 34:47
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• 34:49
  Speaker 6: It's a disgrace that it happened.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: If you look at that.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: It's 606-55KRC-D Talk Station. Everybody, have a happy Tuesday. Try
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: to make it so anyway. Stick around all morning if
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: you can. I appreciate that. Tom Zalastowski is going to
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: be back on the program today. He called in yesterday.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Anybody can do that like Tom did yesterday. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: WeThePeopleConvention.org's Tom Zalastowski joins the program at 730. And continuing
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: to bang the drum of the need to get out
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: and vote. A lot of distractions coming your way. Just
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: always step back from the realities of the pain we're
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: living through, temporary as they may be, and ask yourself
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: this question. Okay, if the Republicans are bad and evil
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: orange man has brought this pain down upon us, What
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: are the Democrats offering by way of response? What are
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: they promising to do? I mean, all of the promises
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: over the past 20 years have related to jacking up
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: the price of gasoline, for example, the name of getting
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: rid of carbon dioxide or whatever. Fine, you're going to
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: get that. This is exactly what they planned for. The
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: regulations they put in place that Donald Trump's busily revoking,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: thank you very much, were designed to cause this problem.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Independent of a war, So I keep going back to
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: the fact that, yes, the war will be over at
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: some point. What the world's going to look like afterwards,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: we don't know. But presumably everybody on the planet wants
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: a resumption of normal flows of oil because we're all
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: feeling the pain from it. If that were to happen,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: the price would go down. Okay, well, the regulations are
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: in place. The Democrats are in office. They're going to
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: continue and maybe get worse, probably get worse. So you're
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: asking for and be voting for more pain longer term.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Do they have an answer to A.I.? Latest crisis, some
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: are saying it's ginned up. After reflecting upon it a
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: little bit, and when you got Obama coming out of
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: the woodwork and starting talking about we need to harness
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: this AI apocalypse alarm just in time for the midterms,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: then I get a red flag flowing in my face going,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: wait a second, something's wrong here. Now, go back to
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: the Anthropic founder who kind of started the alarm bell,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: this Amodi guy, CEO of Anthropic. He issued that essay
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: over the weekend, and he said he wants, quote, the
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: right combination of governments to provide some kind of joint
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: governance to control the technology. I'm uncomfortable. Government didn't build
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: this technology. Apparently, Anthropic founder CEO Dario Modi is a
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: big Democrat-aligned guy, but put that aside for a moment.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Until you start putting the, you line up, The issues
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: and the topics going on here is like, well, maybe
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: there is something suspicious going on here. Are we really
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: all going to die? Is this something we really need
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: to put the brakes on? The Chinese responded. The Chinese
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: foreign minister yesterday said AI, and this is the whole
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: question about the China moving forward, they're not going to
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: put a pause on it. They're not going to stop
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: developing AI. They want to dominate the race. Of course
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: they do. AI is a consequential technology for the well-being
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: of all humanity. This is the quote from the Chinese
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: foreign minister. All parties should jointly promote the open and
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: inclusive development of AI for good and for all. Fear-mongering, confrontation,
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: and vicious competition will only hamper the efforts toward sound
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: global AI governance, which serves no one's interest. Huh, so
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: you got anthropic CEO calling for a combination of governments
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: for some kind of joint governance to control the technology.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: And here you have the Chinese Communist Party pretty much
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: saying the same thing. I find that a suspiciously odd alignment. Trump,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: on the other hand, says this is all nonsense. Truth
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: social media post yesterday, AI taking over the world, destroying
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: humanity and all other things is bad, is a hoax.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: No different from Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, impeachment
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two, and all the
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: other hoaxes and scams that America was forced to endure
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: through the deconstructionist and deviant foul play and illegal conduct.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: He was on a roll there, wasn't he? President Xi
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: of China just announced that China will be doing absolutely
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: nothing to stand in the way of AI or its future.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Google recently stated they want to build a massive plant
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: in Finland all because they are finding permitting too difficult
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: in the United States. I'm not happy about this. I
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: want them to change their thinking. AI and data centers
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: will be the greatest economic development engine in history, bigger
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: than oil, gold, diamonds, or even the internet, he wrote.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I will not be stopped by brilliantly run destructive forces
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: during the term of President Donald Trump. On the heels
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: of his comments on Sunday, So where are we? I
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: think Gerard Baker made some good observations about this. Is
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: there a problem out there with AI? Yeah, probably. But
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: is it this existential threat we've been referring to, something
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: we really need to get alarmed about? Or is it
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: really just ginned up fear in advance of the campaign
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: or the election in November? Which takes me back to
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: my point. What are the Democrats offering to save us
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: from the evils of the world that we're currently facing?
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard jack squat other than to stop it altogether,
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: which would be a gift to the Chinese Communist Party.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Gerard Baker writes, We're advised to put our affairs in order,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: stop contributing to our pensions, and prepare for the extermination
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: of humanity. One day, equity markets are drunk on the
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: prospect that artificial intelligence will cure cancer, improve Shakespeare, and
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: make airplanes take off on time. Next, the quants have
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: to figure out the discounted present value of the world
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: as a post-apocalyptic wasteland in 2030. I like to look
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: on the bright side. He writes, two major worries about
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: AI have seized the public attention over the summer. That
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: demand for capital to fund AI investments has expanded so
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: much that it's pricing out U.S. treasury bonds in debt
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: markets and the cost of hyperscale data centers to local communities,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: which have stirred a popular revolt. Well, fear no more.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: What are rising mortgage rates and utility bills when you've
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: been neutralized by some bioweapon engineered by a collective of
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: scheming AI agents? recursively self-improving their way to planetary domination.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: The dichotomous promise of AI was always this, boom or doom.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Almost every AI expert I, Gerard Baker, have spoken with
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: in the past few years has been on one or
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: the other end of the spectrum, often both. There's no
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: middle ground. Bond and equity markets suggested until now that
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: the boomers were on top. Now, thanks to some startling
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: revelations about AI agents collaborating deceptively to outwit their human overlords,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: doomers are ascendant. And I remind you, maybe it's because
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: of the November election. The episode is produced. Panic was
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: an incident in which AI agents, supposedly under the control
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: of open AI, broke out of their constraints during a trial,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: worked together to hack their way into Hugging Face, a
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: development platform, covered their own tracks. AI did all that.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: This weekend, Anthropic CEO Daryl Amodi issued a warning that
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: was immediately backed up by rival Sam Altman of OpenAI.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: And what is troubling to me in this, interjecting my thoughts,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Elon Musk, and that was the curveball that was thrown
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: because he's not the guy that was normally buddy up
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: with a bunch of leftists, but he was there joining
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: in the concern. Amodi said the swarming AI agents like
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: those that attacked Hugging Face could, in his words, take
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: over the entire internet. In six to 12 months, following
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: claims by a former researcher at his company that industry
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: leaders believe AI could, in his words, kill us all,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Amodi called for restraint and regulation. As he termed it,
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: pacing the frontier would mean placing outside monitors, scratch my head,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: with employee-level access and AI jobs, cooperation between AI companies,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: and I flagged that one yesterday, Sherman antitrust concerns, which
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: he wants to get in front of, He wants to
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: alleviate legally, regulatorily, the concern that collaboration among these big
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: companies together might subject them to some liability. Yeah, they're
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: worried about that. That's one of the things they want
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: to get in front of. And actions to ensure China
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: doesn't take advantage of American restraint. Modi's call for action
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: greeted with withering cynicism by those who think the big
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: AI companies are hyping the threat so they can frighten
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: us into creating an environment in which they can kill
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: off competition. Some of the observations that my listeners made
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: yesterday calling into the morning show. I appreciate that. Kamath Palahapatiya.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: That's as close as I'm going to get. Kamath, sorry.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Highly successful tech investor. He posted this on X. Dario
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: makes the case to stop open source and concentrate enormous
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: technological and economic power with anthropic. Baker observes the suspicion
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: is reasonable. What better way to protect your trillion-dollar valuation
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: to market dominance of a massively profitable growth industry than
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: to claim that the technology you've built is so dangerous
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: that tight limits on further competitive opportunities are imperative and
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: that you and your big corporate rivals should be exempt
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: from antitrust enforcement so you collaborate to save the planet?
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: That's a good observation right there. What Amodi may have
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: in mind is exactly the sort of quote-unquote regulation that
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: has come to characterize much of the American crony capitalism
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: the past 20 years or so. A cozy relationship between
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: entrenched corporate interests and the supposedly independent government bodies that
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: regulate them. Regulatory capture, as it is known. I, Gerard Baker,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: a natural skeptic of alarmism and suspicious whenever a company
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: tells me the government must do something. That's a good point.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: We've been told for the past 70 years that unless
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: government acts, life on the planet is about to be
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: extinguished by nuclear weapons, climate change, Y2K, pandemics. We're still waiting.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: But you don't have to believe that AI is going
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: to destroy the planet to recognize that it poses challenges
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: to our way of life that no technology has represented before.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: To read the reports of the Hugging Face incident is
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: to get a glimpse of not only the potential peril itself,
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: but perhaps more disturbingly, of the genuine alarm it induced
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: in those already most steeped in the potential of AI.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: The researchers, the people who built this technology, were wigged
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: out by that event. And that's a legitimate point. That
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: really did happen. At least 100% of the reporting said
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: this experiment with AI did break through the parameters and
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: did unlawfully and illegally hack it into hugging face. And
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: he concludes, we can't yet know the ultimate threat or
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: promise of AI, but we do know the immediate landscape
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: of the risk. Do nothing, and we could unleash the
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: power of machines to develop so fast it'll be too
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: late for us to do anything. Do too much, and
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: we could give China the crucial advantage in a potentially
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: existential competition for the technology. And then go ahead and
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: contemplating whether or not any of these dangers are true
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: and whether or not we are going to fall behind
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: in the battle. Throw in politics on that. And the
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: need for an issue to get people to the polls
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: in a couple of, we're down to weeks, aren't we?
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: And that's independent of reality of AI being good or
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: evil or somewhere in between. Elections, well, they need issues
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: and they need alarmism to get people to the polls.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: And maybe it's more about that than anything that we
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: need to concern ourselves overly with. I don't know. Gerard
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: Baker doesn't know. We're still trying to figure it out.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: But you can't overlook the politics. The stakes are so
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: high that to let this decision be made along our
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: usual entrenched political and ideological lines, to regulate or not
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: to regulate, would be an error. Perhaps these calls for
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: intervention and restraint are self-dealing by powerful vested interests. Doesn't
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: make them wrong. Still trying to sort this out. I
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: think you made a valuable point along those lines. 619.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Bobby's on the phone. Hang on, brother. Got to stop.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: It is 623 coming with 624. Got time for one call. Jay,
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: you're going to have to hang on because I thought
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: about you yesterday. You called in, wanted to know where
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: the hell J.D. Vance was. We got some, well, an
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: article that came out literally yesterday afternoon. So some positive
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: steps toward dealing with fraud. But in the meantime, let's
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: get Bobby's call in. He was first. Bobby, welcome to
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: The Morning Show.
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: Morning, Brian.
• 47:58
  Speaker 7: Faith Flagg family in the 72-hour window. If you're not
• 48:01
  Speaker 7: prepared for the first three days, you're not going to
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: be able to get prepared.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: And preparation includes owning a firearm, right, Bobby?
• 48:09
  Speaker 7: Well, you remember when we had the incident with 9-11
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: 25 years ago, the first thing they did was shut
• 48:16
  Speaker 7: off all FFL. You couldn't get a firearm or ammo.
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: So just remember that.
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: When it comes.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: That's why I stock up. I was a Boy Scout, Bobby.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Be prepared. There's words to live by in any given circumstance.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Be a little bit forward-thinking about life, generally speaking. It
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: may keep you out of troubles. Red flags are flying
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: all over the place for a variety of things we
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: need to take into consideration.
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: That's what nap toolboxes are for, my friend.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
• 48:46
  Speaker 7: We had another incident at Woodlawn last night. I think
• 48:50
  Speaker 7: it was a fatality. I don't know for sure.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: I haven't got all the information.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Is that the one where a 17-year-old is facing murder
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: charges after prosecutors said he shot four? Oh, that was
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: two separate incidents.
• 49:02
  Speaker 7: Oh, this is last night.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Last night. I don't have that in my local stories.
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: They don't want to tell people.
• 49:08
  Speaker 7: You know how they do, the police department.
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: But I got one question.
• 49:11
  Speaker 7: When you have all your city officials in from, you know,
• 49:16
  Speaker 7: FOP and everybody else, how many shell casings have they
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: gathered up this year? Where are they located at? Have
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: they processed them?
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Are they being reloaded?
• 49:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you've got hundreds of thousands of shell
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: casings they've apparently picked up.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: What are they doing with them? I think maybe hundreds
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: of thousands is a bit of an overstatement, Bobby.
• 49:39
  Speaker 7: Well, they can pick up 250 to 400 shell cases
• 49:44
  Speaker 7: every week.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's accurate. I would have to admit I would
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: be speculating to know because, let's face it, that's not
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: the kind of information our elected officials are going to
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: give us. They won't even let us know how many
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: times ShotSpotter has been kicked off or where the ShotSpotter
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: has alerted officers to gunfire. So, yeah, don't hold your
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: breath waiting for that. Sound advice as always, Bobby. Appreciate it.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: They can't pick up your garbage. They're not going to
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: provide you the number of shell casings. 626 right now. Jay,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: hang on, brother. 55KRC, the talk station. The talk station.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: 631 at 55KRC, the talk station.
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: 5137495500.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: 800-823-TALK. 950 on AT & T phones. Jay, I'll get
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: you in just a second. Chiming in. Yeah, Bobby was
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: talking about the killing. It happened last night. Redding Road
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: and Amberlawn Avenue. That will be Roselawn. One person was detained.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: Suspect vehicle remained at the scene. Police blocked off the road.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Body spotted lying in the road along with several articles
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: of clothing near a Jeep. No confirmation or additional details
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: on the scene. That's the most recent report about WCPO.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Christopher Smitheman, it's on his radar. He just texted me
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: about that one after Bobby's comment. Roselawn. Middle class, black neighborhood,
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Ward 7 were the highest areas for African-American turnout in
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: the city. And I looked on my map how your
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: neighborhood voted for the mayor that was released by the
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Enquirer after the last election. Roselawn, solid blue, which means
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: 85 to 100 percent Aftab, Pearl Ball, and the current administration,
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: who are obviously anti-law enforcement. Jay, thanks for indulging me there.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. Thanks for calling in, as always.
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, Brian. Hey, go ahead.
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: I'd like you to go first on if you've got
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: good news on the J.D.
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: Vance Task Force.
• 51:27
  Speaker 10: Let's have it.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: It is a step. Vance announced yesterday that they have
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: barred 870,000 people from getting any future federal loans because
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: they're suspected of defrauding the government with a paycheck protection
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: loan or something like that during pandemics. say they accounted
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: for $ 50 billion in bogus small business loans. Letters have
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: gone out this week telling these 870,000 people that they
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: are banned. Instead, if you screwed the American taxpayer, the
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: federal government is now going to say you're cut off.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Said it isn't a punishment for past behavior as much
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: as it's an assessment for their risk of potential future
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: problems and cheating and ripping off the government. So They've
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: identified them. Again, I pointed out yesterday the whole reality
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: of prosecuting someone requires gathering of evidence, the evidentiary chain,
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: the presentation of evidence, making of a case, filing the papers,
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: accusing them of a crime, and going through the entire
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: due process. And you're looking at 870,000 potential criminals. You
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: can only imagine how long it's going to take to
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: go after each and every one of those claims and
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: try to claw back whatever amount of money any of
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: these individuals stole from us. But he's doing something....
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: No doubt about it.
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: And let me give you my frame of reference of
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: why I'm critical. $ 7 trillion budget, 2.7 million federal employees.
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: In corporate America, many different places I've worked, I was
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: the guy who was in charge of removing the waste
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: and getting this business back to profitability, a turnaround guy.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: Ah, there's that word though. Why were you doing that?
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Because of profitability. There is no profitability in government. They
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: don't care.
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: Well, and that is the point for all of us.
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: I mean, we would, we would be making great strides
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: and putting money back to profit. But if we didn't
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: get back to profitability, our jobs were still in line.
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: And I, many times I heard from the top boss,
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: the CEO, uh, You guys are doing good work, but
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: we're still underwater. And until we get back to break
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: even or above, it doesn't really matter. It's nice work,
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: but you got to go do more. Whenever we are
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: $ 40 trillion in debt, and this year I heard that
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: we're going to put another $ 1. 5 trillion at the end
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: of this year. That's the only scoreboard that matters. You know,
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: you hear Trump talk about he's going to give out
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: $ 5, 000 if he can buy all of our votes.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: I was waiting for that.
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Moreno's in the process of drafting the bill to do
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: just that. I'm thinking you and I and everybody who's
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: out there going, yeah, I want $ 5, 000. They took too
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: much out of it. We have $ 40 trillion in the hole.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: That's extra stuff and things that we have already received
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: from the government. Why not pay down the damn debt
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: with the $ 1. 2 trillion ask for this $ 5, 000 check thing
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: going on?
• 54:17
  Speaker 8: That is my point.
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: That is the only scoreboard that matters, not intentions, not
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: that we're going to shut it off. It is, we
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: are 40 trillion in debt. We're going to add another
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: one and a half trillion this year. And when Trump
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: says he's going to pay for these $ 5, 000 from all
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: the money that's coming in from tariffs.
• 54:35
  Speaker 8: Didn't we see that $ 40.
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: Trillion going down instead of up if everything is coming
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: up roses?
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: You got my vote for that.
• 54:42
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 54:43
  Speaker 8: So kudos to J.D.
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: Vance for doing something, but in corporate America, the answer
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: would be, nice try, slugger. You need to go faster.
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: You need to stay off.
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: The view or privatize this.
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: Privatize this and bring in some forensics accountants and bring
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: in a group of people that know how to do it,
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: not a Yale-trained attorney. But with 2.7 million employees and
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: a $ 7 trillion budget, I would expect more, like news
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: saying that we're now down to 39%.
• 55:11
  Speaker 10: 38.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Jay.
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: 37.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Jay, if an outside accounting firm were hired to review
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: your private corporate business, wouldn't your private corporate business have
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: all the records required by law for them to keep
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: for forensic accounting? Yes. They have to do it. We
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: can't even audit the Pentagon budget because they don't have
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: any of the receipts, Jay. It's a great idea. Nothing.
• 55:38
  Speaker 8: Exactly.
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: That's my point, Brian.
• 55:40
  Speaker 7: That's my point.
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: It's all, it's all, it's all smoke and mirrors until
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: that $ 40 trillion in debt starts coming down. So, you know,
• 55:49
  Speaker 5: a headline here and a headline there that we're going
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: to shut something off, but nobody's going to prison. It's
• 55:54
  Speaker 5: how much has been clawed back. And from what I
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: can tell him, how much real money has been clawed
• 55:58
  Speaker 5: back 50 billion. You know what we gave Argentina for
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: a bailout?
• 56:04
  Speaker 10: $ 40 billion.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: At least they're talking about it. At least they're doing
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: something because about five minutes ago in historical times, they
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: weren't doing anything. They were letting it go out, knowing
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: full well all the fraud, waste, and abuse that existed.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: We just don't have time for it, nor are we
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: really obligated to look after it because we're in the government.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: We don't have a profit motive. We have no incentive
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: to ferret out fraud, waste, and abuse. Come on. It's
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: only the taxpayers' labor that we're wasting. There's the point
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: that needs to be hammered home. That's why we do
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: it here on the morning show, Jay, because the more
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: we talk about it, the more people will wake up
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: to the reality that the problem is them spending. Both
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: sides of the political ledger deserve to be horsewhipped metaphorically
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: for what they've done to us.
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: Period.
• 56:47
  Speaker 10: Agreed.
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: Agreed. And this is, you know, Tom's out of town.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: He's going to say, hey, vote. You shut up.
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: Hold your nose. I love the guy. But I think
• 56:55
  Speaker 5: what's happening right now is that there's a game of
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: chicken going on between the flaccid Republican Party that has
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: told us to show up and hold our nose and
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: vote and the conservatives that say, do you think you
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: have that kind of power over me? Now, I'm not
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: speaking personally, but I think that that's what's going on
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: to where the Republicans– party should have picked better candidates,
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: should have better policies, and they sure as hell should
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: have had better execution for the amount of time and
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: faith that the American people put in them.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: And Jay, with that sort of attitude and that reflecting
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: back in time, if we're going to play that game,
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: then the Republican party should have held its policy platform
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: that's been in existence since I was pre-political when I
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: was a little kid. Fiscal responsibility. It was always the
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: flag waved by the Republican Party. Ronald Reagan was concerned
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: about the budget, but it hadn't reached a trillion dollars yet.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: And what did they do? Years and years and years
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: of promising fiscal responsibility and doing jack squat about it. Hey,
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: don't worry, Jay. Mitch McConnell's back on the job today, apparently. Thanks, brother.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: Always appreciate your calls. Feel free to give me a ring.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: 638 at 55 KRC, the talk station. USA Insulation, outstanding product.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: 643 at 55 KRC, the talk station. One moment, Mike.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: Talking to Money Monday's Brian James yesterday about ways you
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: can curb the expense in your grocery bill. And I
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: brought up Starbucks coffee. You can pay $ 6 for a
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: cup of coffee. Go out and buy yourself a couple
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: of pounds of coffee at Costco. It's great coffee. You
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: can make 30 pots with it and save yourself heap
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: loads of money. And then I just see one of
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: these Babylon Bee memes. Starbucks promises free coffee if you
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: can correctly identify the gender of your barista. Thank you,
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Babylon Bee, for that humor. Mike, thanks for calling this morning.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Happy Tuesday to you.
• 58:44
  Speaker 9: Hi, Brian.
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: Real quick about the Lindsay Clancy case.
• 58:48
  Speaker 8: We were talking about it.
• 58:49
  Speaker 9: At work, and if you're a lawyer and everything, you
• 58:51
  Speaker 9: might know. How are they going to seat another jury.
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: For this trial with all the thing and everything that's
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: out there?
• 58:57
  Speaker 10: Are they going to get the Amish or something?
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: That's actually a good idea. Target the Amish community with
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: the jury duty notices. The answer to the question, Mike,
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: no idea.
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you can come up with an
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: impartial jury with something as televised as widely as that.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: But I will note, Mike, I have not paid any
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: attention to really any of it except for the random
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: headline that crosses my field of vision when I'm preparing
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: for stories here to talk about on the morning show.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: I don't understand how, I know, trust me, in that
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: particular case, the murder of three young children, it's horrific.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. How could anyone ever do that? But that's
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: pretty much the sum and substance of what I know.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: So I could be, well, a neutral, independent juror. There
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: are some that exist out there. That's what voir dire
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: is all about. You get the jury pool assembled and
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: the lawyers ask questions. And one has to question the
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: judicial process. And I know people are now more regularly
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: lying in spite of the fact they've taken an oath.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: But You've got to trust people when they answer questions
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: that they aren't biased and that they will be, you know,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: open-minded in determining guilt beyond a reasonable doubt or not. But, yeah, very,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: very complicated. 645-55-KRC, the talk station. Zimmer Heating and Air.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: The talk station. It is 650-55-KRC, the talk station. Tom Zawistowski,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: We The People Convention at 730. Bottom of the next hour.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: Hope you can stick around for that. And feel free
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: to give me a call if you like. Oh, it's okay, Jay.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: $ 56 million. That was what was saved. Maybe. Assuming the
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: Senate passes what the House of Representatives passed yesterday. The bipartisan,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: oh my God, it's bipartisanship resulting in a $ 56 million savings. Whopping.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: The Common Sense Act. It blocks the Treasury from minting
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: any more pennies. except for collector coins, apparently. And a
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: framework has been put into place for cash transactions to
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: be rounded to the nearest five cents, so there's no
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: more need for pennies. That was something that wasn't done before.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: A previous law was passed and also went through the
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: Senate directing the federal government to stop minting pennies, but
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: that legislation didn't include any language regarding rounding out cash payments,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: which this one does. One exception will be provided for
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: cash wages have to be rounded upwards if the total
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: is not divisible by five cents. They do note that
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: the existing pennies out in the world will remain legal tender.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: So we haven't produced any pennies since November of last year.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: But an act of Congress, if signed by President Trump,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: would ensure that a future administration doesn't reverse course and
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: start minting them again. So because pennies now cost three
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: times more than their value to produce, at least as
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: of last year, maybe even more. Now here's your savings.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: This act, if, if it gets signed into law, we'll
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: save us $ 56 million. Listen, I'm not against what they're
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: doing here. Um, Obviously, it is wasteful to print a
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: coin that costs three times more than its value. They
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: also said the new legislation is going to change the
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: composite of the nickel, so it'll be made from a
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: cheaper form of metal. So they'll be saving money on
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: minting the nickel as well. Look, he's back. Mitch McConnell. Look,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: there he is. There's a picture of him. Spoke to
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: the press yesterday outside the Senate chamber. First public appearance
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: in months. See, I can be critical of this because
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: why were we kept in the dark about this? But
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: he's there. He's going to vote on the farm bill.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's why, well, he didn't just resign or retire.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: He said, I must admit, after two weeks, and he
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: corrected himself, two decades of dodging your questions, I wasn't
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: sure how many of you would be here today. I
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: thought that was a rather interesting statement considering these swirling
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: problems we're having here in the state of Ohio with
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Amy Acton refusing to answer any questions. He's basically on
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: record right there saying he's been dodging people for two decades.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: Odd statement. So he's prepared to work on the Senate
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: Farm Bill. Made his first vote since returning to the
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: chamber yesterday. And here's another interesting observation. He didn't answer
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: any direct questions. And I guess that means he didn't
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: have to answer any direct questions about his wife. Long
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: suspected to have some measure of involvement with the Chinese
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: Communist Party and her trip to China three days after
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: he was hospitalized in circumstances which led us to believe
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: he was in grave condition.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 7: Huh.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: Anybody investigate that one? Anybody ask questions about that one?
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: And finally, going back to the $ 1. 2 trillion measure to
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: give everybody $ 5, 000, Bernie Marina is apparently working on it.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: And I'm with Jay on that one, that if we're
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: going to take in, we have $ 1. 2 trillion laying around,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: that it should go to get rid of some of
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: the debt that we've accrued. I wonder what not, if
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: he lowered $ 40 trillion by $ 1 trillion, I wonder what
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: that would amount to in terms of annual debt service.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's a sizable amount, but any little bit
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: we can take away from that is in the right direction.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Five grand, he wrote, I will get a bill ready
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: so that we can get the Trump dividend passed immediately
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: after the November 3rd election because Republicans and America will win.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: Some are suggesting this is an effort to buy votes. Now,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: it's not unlawful to offer a cash payment to everybody
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: in the United States of America because that does not
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: bear a political stripe. Now, you can't bribe voters to
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: vote for a specific party. Of course, offering you $ 5, 000
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: might make you inclined to vote for the party that's
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: giving you the money. We all know about that. But
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: universal payout promises usually, or at least in the past,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: have qualified as broad campaign pledges. So, fine. But from
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: my perspective, given the $ 40 trillion national debt we face,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: and the fact that we, anybody living right now, has
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: enjoyed some measure of the benefits of spending more than
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: they take in in government to the tune of $ 40 trillion.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: We've already gotten $ 5, 000. We've already gotten more than that.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: Let's pay down the debt. I think that's a good
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: first step, cutting the expenses of government. Talk Station.
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  Speaker 2: It is Tuesday. Regular feature on the 55KRC Morning Show
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  Speaker 2: on a Tuesday. Being at 730 is Tom Zawistowski. He
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: chimed in yesterday here on the morning show. You can
• 1:06:02
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• 1:06:05
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• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll elaborate a little bit more then. We
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: need to get out and vote. Right, Tom? Tom is
• 1:06:12
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• 1:06:14
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  Speaker 2: into it. Anyway, Monday, Monday with Brian James and this
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: Smith event. Is it really episode 154?
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: Anyway, talking about the violence in downtown Cincinnati. Of course,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: we had that murder last night in Roselawn area, which
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: Christopher pointed out, very wealthy, middle class, suburb, or, well, environment,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: enclave in the city of Cincinnati. 85 to 100% blue
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: vote last November. Violence pretty much everywhere. Plus trash collection.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: There's another problem for the city of Cincinnati. A thousand
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: people still haven't gotten their trash collected for the last
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks because some people called in sick. That's
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: what they claim anyway. What else? I guess if you
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: know what Amy Acton's planning to do on property taxes,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: we've got a real problem on our hands. And I
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: saw this post from Commissioner Ryan Batty, who is a
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: commissioner in District 4, Sedgwick County Government Commissioner. Nice observation
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: he made. He said, this was shared with me by
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: a friend, talking about rising valuation of property taxes impacting
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: working class families and, of course, aging adults. This is
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: a post he put up. My neighbor finished paying off
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: her house in 2004. She bought it in 1994 for $ 78, 000,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: 30 years of payments, $ 593 a month. Now she's 74.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: She gets $ 1, 910 a month for Social Security, which he
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: adds up, of course, $ 22, 920 a year. The place two
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: doors down sold for $ 615, 000 last spring, so the county
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: reassessed hers to match. Now her tax bill is $ 8, 100
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: a Or $ 675 a month. And then the Post reminds
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: you that she paid $ 593 a month to buy the house.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: Now she's got to pay a lot more than that
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: just to keep it. 30 years of payments ended in
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: a bill that went up. Of course, the obvious point,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: the deed says she owns it. The county bills her
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: like she's renting it. Who's going to fix the property
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: tax problem? Are we going to vote to eradicate it
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: completely and let our elected officials sort it all out?
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: Good question. And I looked up what Amy Acton was proposing,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: and it might save this particular person, assuming their income
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: is not north of $ 50, 000, but she's proposing, at least
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: as I've heard since she's not been asked questions about
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: it because she won't answer questions, raising the household income
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: limit for seniors and disabled adults from $ 41, 000 to $ 50, 000.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: That would be a whopping $ 9, 000 increase in the homestead expansion.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: You know, one proposal that's been floated around out there,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: if you're a senior on fixed income, just don't have
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: to pay taxes anymore. Anyhow, and of course, Well, let's
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: take Pappas first. Maureen is on an airplane right now,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: but she alerted me to a couple of different things,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: and one about which I knew. What's going to be
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: the October surprise? It's time for swirling speculation. I saw
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: an article over on Newsmax. University of Chicago security expert
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: Robert Pape saying, listen, Iran is going to get into
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: an October surprise. Of course, the Iranians are pissed off
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: at Trump. They want to see him lose. They're going
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: to hold out this thing regardless of whether it's a
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: surprise or not. Through the November election, everyone's acknowledged it,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: including Donald Trump. So there's an obvious one, but it
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: could get worse than that. Maureen also chimed in on
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: a completely separate October surprise. Maybe a little more challenging
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: for all of us, but let's see what former Anderson
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: Township trustee Drew Pappas has to say. Drew, good morning.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: I appreciate your calls to the morning show.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Brian.
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  Speaker 9: Listen, I can't top Maureen. You know, she's monitoring and
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 9: texting from an airplane. I mean, that is dedication.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I did call her. I said, why don't you
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: call in and chime in on this? We can walk
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: into the conspiracy theory or pattern observation. She says, no,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: I'm boarding a plane, and if I start talking on
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: the phone, they'll probably chuck me off. So she's on
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: her way back to Florida.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 4: Good for her.
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  Speaker 9: Listen, and hello, Maureen. Listen, I sense your frustration each
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 9: and every day, and I sense Jay's frustration. I know
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 9: where he's coming from, you know, the– a pox on
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 9: both houses type mentality because, you know, what we need
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 9: to do and what's being done are inherently two different things. However,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 9: I just got to remind you, and not necessarily meaning
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 9: that you don't know, but sometimes we forget, if a politician,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 9: anybody running for office, whatever office it actually would be
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 9: up and down the ballot, would say what really needs
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 9: to be done to fix our financial house, they wouldn't
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 9: get elected dog catcher. Because people don't want to hear it.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 9: I mean, we have collectively, and I don't mean everybody.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 9: I'm not speaking for everybody here, but I'm speaking society.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 9: We don't want to hear it. We want to hear
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 9: everything's going to be okay. Everything's going to be fine.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 9: Don't worry about it. And, you know, so what we're
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 9: doing is, to be truthful, And everyone says, well, I'm
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 9: tired of choosing the lesser of two evils, right?
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  Speaker 4: People say that.
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  Speaker 9: I hear it all the time. I'm tired of choosing
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 9: the lesser of two evils. Well, the lesser of two
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 9: evils is what's going to win the election. What needs
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  Speaker 9: to be elect or what the person that can fix
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 9: the problem or is going to give you that strong medicine,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 9: rip the Band-Aid off type person is. It's never going
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 9: to win an election because the American public just doesn't.
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  Speaker 4: Want to tolerate.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 9: They're not going to elect that. They don't want it.
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  Speaker 9: And that's the reason we're in the boat we're in.
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  Speaker 2: So we are living in a collective state of denial,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: and we don't want to be told the truth, and
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: we don't want to deal with the hard realities of
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: what we need to save the country. You know, the
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: word existential comes up so often anymore, it just kind
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: of blur over it anymore. The $ 40 trillion and growing
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: every single day debt is the reality that is the
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: existential threat to our government. Whether or not AI kills
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: us tomorrow or next year, it's immaterial. We are on
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: a trajectory of absolute failure. Bankruptcy. The end of the
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: fiat currency. I mean, all of the problems that would
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: go along with that, they're immeasurable. I mean, there would
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: just be global, literally global chaos if the dollar were
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: to collapse because we are too, well, selfish? Too afraid
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  Speaker 2: to deal with the truth?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: It'd be cats and dogs living together, general mayhem. But
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 9: at the end of.
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  Speaker 4: The day, the only.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 9: So yeah, a lot of elections, because of the people
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 9: on the ballot, the people that have won the primaries,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 9: the people that are surviving the process and have a
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 9: generally good shot of getting elected are your better choices
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  Speaker 9: on the Republican side.
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  Speaker 4: For example, I.
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  Speaker 9: Given the videos that are coming out, given– I'm still
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 9: waiting on– I know you are. I'm still waiting on
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 9: the major news networks to correct each and every social
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 9: media post and report about the apparent assassination attempt on Dr.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: Amy Atkins.
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  Speaker 9: That was absolutely and positively false. And I'm still waiting
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 9: on that correction. But the news nowadays, it's the drive-by media.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 9: We take our shots and we just keep driving by.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 9: Their damage is done because your low-information voter sees that
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 9: one headline, doesn't do any follow-up, doesn't really watch much else,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 9: and then says, oh, my God, someone tried to assassinate
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 9: Amy Atkins. What an absurd statement to make given the
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 9: video that both you and I have seen with the video,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 9: the most important video not being released yet, which is
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 9: of the apparent.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 4: Assailant or the alleged assailant.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 4: We have a clear we have a clear race here.
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  Speaker 9: In Ohio where actually the choices we have here in
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  Speaker 9: Ohio on the gubernatorial race are not the lesser of
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 9: two evils by any stretch. We are talking about one
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 9: person who is fundamentally Vivek Ramaswamy, who is fundamentally a
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 9: transformative candidate. He has not been in politics. He has
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 9: built businesses. He has built wealth. And it's facing the voters,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 9: facing the press everywhere he goes. He takes he takes
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 9: questions off the cuff, talks to the voters.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: And we have another candidate who is quite simply.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 9: Hiding in the Biden basement, avoiding the voters, having her
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 9: thug staff. That wasn't when you said yesterday, the one
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 9: thing I want to correct on yesterday, you said somebody,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 9: you know, got in the way. That was a staffer
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 9: of Amy Acton's that was pushing the guy out of
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 9: the way.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 4: That wasn't just a volunteer. That was a staffer.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 9: Because they have marching orders. Don't let anyone next to
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 9: this woman. She cannot speak. She has no ability to
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 9: think on her feet. She is a Kamala Harris type candidate.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 9: On many levels, given her, not only her speech pattern,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 9: but apparently her choice of beverage.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't elaborate to that degree. I agree. If they
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: were being honest with you, rather than just Amy Acton's
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: not taking questions, you can't film her. They would have
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: said exactly the reasons why you can't take pictures of
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: Amy Acton or ask her questions. But yeah, clearly they
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: were with her in some capacity because they're uttering these
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: words and issuing these admonishments. While she's standing right next
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: to them, if they had no affiliation with her campaign,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: she would have said, who in the hell are you
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: and why are you trying to protect me? So good point, obviously.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: But yeah, watch the video.
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  Speaker 4: I hope everybody just listened. The younger folks, I.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 9: Saw some videos yesterday of them questioning younger folks in
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 9: Michigan about who they're, and I'm talking college age. I
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 9: don't know if I sound like an old fart, but
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 9: the simple fact of the matter is the younger folks
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 9: need to be educated, and we need, quite simply, every Republican,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 9: every conservative, every independent that cares, that may not have
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 9: voted this last election cycle or prior election cycles, get
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 9: off your duff. Go to the polls and vote because
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 9: you're going to wake up the day after election and,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 9: you know, it might be a different direction. And you're
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 9: going to say, gosh, you know, how did that happen? Well,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 9: it happens when people stay home and don't vote. If
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 9: we just show up to the polls, we vote, we win.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 9: It's pretty much that simple. So we need everybody that
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 9: you have 30 days here in Ohio to vote. There's
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 9: literally no excuse. Every registered voter in Ohio got an
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 9: absentee ballot application.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 4: OK, from the secretary of state.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: So you can vote.
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  Speaker 9: It's very, very easy to vote. And not only should
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 9: you vote, talk to your neighbors, bring bring five people,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 9: bring 10 people, get them to vote. That's what we
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 9: need in the election cycle to turn the tide.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 8: Rant.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: Well, and that rant will certainly be echoed by Tom
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: Zawistowski at the bottom of the air. We can't utter
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: it enough until now in the election. Got to get
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: the memo out. Got to get the word out. And, yes,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: it's easy to bring a couple of people with you.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, if your kids aren't inclined to vote, if
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: they're voting age, just get them in the car and say,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: come on, you're going to go vote.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: No, no, do it later.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: No, you're doing it now. Just get in the car
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  Speaker 2: and go. It's easy to do.
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  Speaker 5: Amen.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: And participate. Amen. And doubling down on what you. And,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: you know, Christopher Smithman's listening to you going on a tear,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: and he just texted me. I love Pappas.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: Amen.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: I'll echo that. Right, right.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. Christopher Smitherman is my brother
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 4: by another mother.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 11: Amen.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: You can get no argument from me. See you around.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: You got a call? Feel free to give me a call. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: Might not be able to get to the conspiracy theories
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: floating around about the October surprise. Maybe we can go
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: in a different direction if you choose to do so.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: But a direction I'm going literally right after the 55
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: Kersomorning Show is to 4NEXT, Tom Zawistowski, WeThePeopleConvention.org. And every
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: Friday at 8.30, we hear from Jack Windsor from the
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: Iowa Press Network. And since we're on the topic of
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: Amy Acton, a real quick refresher course he put on
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: his post just yesterday. Remember, Acton was the face of
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: Ohio's COVID lockdown. March 12, 2020, she said, and in
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: her words, quote, the math is over 100,000, close quote,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: Ohioans infected. Well, as Jack noted, Ohio had five confirmed cases.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: The next day she said, well, I'm saying I'm guesstimating.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: And schools closed on the guesstimate number of 100,000, the
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: first state in Ohio, I guess, or in the country,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: the first state in the country to close schools. Florida,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: on the other hand, went the opposite direction. And wow, look,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: they're still there. Two Ohio judges ruled her orders were
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: unlawful beyond her authority. The legislators stripped the health director's
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: emergency powers over DeWine's veto, notably DeWine again protecting Amy
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: Acton at the time. She quit the job in June
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: 2020 and now running for governor. It will not take
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: any questions about any of that. Can't reflect on hindsight.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: Did you do the right thing? Was it erroneous, the
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: information you relied upon? Upon what information did you choose
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: to close the schools? Any regrets? Nothing. We won't get
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: any answers from her at all. Running for governor of
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: a state. And, you know, I think I just have
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: to reject polling out of hand. I mean, is Vivek
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: Ramaswamy that much of a threat to you? that for
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: whatever reason you wouldn't vote for him. God, he's so
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: much more qualified. This woman is not qualified. And she
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: never even treated patients. I don't know if that's critical.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: If you have a doctor, I guess you made it
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: through med school, you got a medical license, but not
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: treating patients, so you're not really a diagnostician. And I
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: don't know that she's ever been noted as being an
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: expert on viruses and the spreading of viruses. You got choices.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: You need to get out and vote. And it bothers
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: me to be speaking to someone who is in the
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: listening audience, and I can see and hear you sort
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: of in my mind's eye, that you don't want to
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: vote for Ramaswamy. Over your dead body would you vote
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: for acting, but you're still not inclined to vote for Ramaswamy.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 10: Why?
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: What specific reason is it? 725. 55 care CD talk station.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: Maybe Tom can answer that question. Maybe Tom's heard on
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: the grapevine or for whatever reason, where is the reluctance
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: coming from? When we have a demonstrably better candidate than
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: hide in the basin, Amy Acton, which in and of
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: itself as a campaign strategy should preclude anyone from elected office.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: Tom's next seven 25 right now, 55 care CD talk station.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: You got pain, not. It is seven 29 on a Tuesday.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: That time of week, you get to hear from Tom
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: Zawistowski from wethepeopleconvention.org. Head on over to his website, bookmark it,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: check out his weekly podcast. Boy, he goes on a tear, too. Tom,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: your most recent podcast is more than two hours long.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: Good to have you back on the program, my friend.
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  Speaker 6: Always good to be with you, Brian, and to talk
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 6: about these really important topics because literally the fate of
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 6: our nation is at stake and really all of our
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 6: individual freedom, liberty, and prosperity is at stake. So this
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 6: isn't just idle conversation, folks. This is as serious as
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 6: it gets.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: It is. All you need to do is read the
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: Democratic Socialist of America platform. It's right there. They didn't
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: even try to cover it up. I mean, I remember
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: a day, and I know you do, Tom, because we're
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: a little bit older than the young people these days
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: that buy into this nonsense. If you said anything remotely
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: close to the platform from the DSA, you would be
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: drummed out of town, labeled a communist, and probably deported
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: to some country you have no connection with. I know
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: that's an overstatement, but I mean... Being a communist slash
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: socialist used to carry a toxic label with it in
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: this country, and you couldn't even admit that you were one.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: They hid behind neoliberal Democrat policies, but they're not even
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: hiding it. They want to destroy the Constitution. And that's
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: not an understatement. Tom, you've read the platform. You know,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: how does this gain traction in America? And again, going
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: back to my swirling question mark, how can anybody have
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: a problem with Vivek Ramaswamy compared to Amy Acton?
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's, you know, that's really the question. And again,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 6: the problem is this. We in the conservative movement since
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 6: the Tea Party started, you know, we've kind of just
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 6: got into this habit of just drilling down to the
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 6: minutia of everything. And we're to the point now where
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 6: we can't see the forest for the trees. It's real simple.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 6: The difference between the Republicans with all their flaws, and yeah,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 6: we hate them and all that stuff, and the Democrat
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 6: Socialist says, the Republicans aren't going to put you in prison.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 6: They're not going to steal your wealth. They're not going
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 6: to destroy the Constitution. They're not going to get rid
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 6: of the police and ICE. The other side, the quote
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 6: unquote Democrats who don't exist anymore, are saying explicitly, we're
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 6: going to do this. And oh, it'll be good for you.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 6: Trust us. And that's just a lie. But you and I,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 6: we're trying to get through to the average American to say,
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 6: wake up. They're not kidding. This is going to happen.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 6: And if you don't vote this November, it will be
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 6: the worst thing you've ever done in your life. Now,
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 6: I know that sounds like, oh, Tom, come on, man,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 6: what are you kidding? I said in my podcast this
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 6: past weekend that we have a chance in six weeks
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 6: to do more to defeat communism and socialism and Islam
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 6: than any time since World War II. In six weeks,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 6: you can show up and vote and we can literally
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 6: make the Democrat, socialist, communist, Islamic party go the way
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 6: of the Whigs. And you don't have to go to
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 6: Normandy and die to do it. You don't have to
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 6: go to the Philippines. You don't have to jump out
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 6: of an airplane in a parachute to do it. You
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 6: got to show up with a fricking ballot. That's all
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 6: you got to do to defeat communism. And people want
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 6: to argue with me about it. It's insane.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and you know, the, the, the, The arguments they're
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: making in advance of their platform don't pass a litmus test.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: Don't even come close. If you are paying attention, there's
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: a giant if. So few people are paying attention. It's
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: interesting because I'll be interviewing Bill O'Reilly later this week
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: about his new book, Confronting America. And he talks about this.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: You get in an echo chamber. You believe a meme.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: The other people believe a meme. And it's echoed around
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: your echo chamber. And you believe it to be hardcore
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: fact when it's nothing more than some nonsensical meme proposition.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: When real information, for example, numbers crunched by the recognized
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: and reputable Cato Institute, show you that if they implement
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: one single Medicare for Medicaid for all, they call it
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: Medicare for all, implementing that alone would cost $ 75 trillion.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, between $ 75 $ 30 or $ 40 and $ 75 trillion.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: One line item on their platform. We already got $ 40
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: trillion in the hole. We can't afford it. The government
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: doesn't take that much in. So in order to fund
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: their goal, this lofty goal, we're going to obviously be
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: running the printing press more, which is, of course, going
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: to lead to even more inflation. Just one little item, Tom.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: It fails across the economic reality test.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but nobody on the left, ABC, NBC, CBS, they
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 6: haven't done the Cato analysis, have they?
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 6: They haven't gone out and said to people, you can
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 6: read it at wethepeopleconvention.org. I just posted it this morning.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 6: It details. Will Kane did a nice video about this.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 6: And so why? Because we're all being gaslit. Just like
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 6: the Amy Acton was attacked is a campaign psyop. That's
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 6: what it is. She didn't get attacked. We know that's true.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 6: But what happened? They ran with it. And, oh, poor
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 6: Amy Acton, a woman, got attacked. It's just nonsense. We
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 6: have to stay focused. We have to vote hard. in
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 6: our own best personal interest. You're not voting for Republicans
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 6: or Democrats or acting or a big, you're voting for you.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 6: What's in your best interest. What's in your best interest
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 6: is to defeat every Democrat you possibly can. Cause that's
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 6: where the real threat is to you right now.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: We'll continue with we, the people convention.org Tom Zawistowski after
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: first a word for, and no, it won't work on politics.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: Odor exit, of course, suspension policy. 740 at 55KRCG Talk Station.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas with WeThePeopleConvention.org's Tom Zawistowski. You know, as we
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: were talking there, you know, since the Democrats, DSA anyway,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: they literally want to get rid of the Constitution. Again,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: don't believe Brian Thomas. Read it. I don't have to,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not falling on the sword or making
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: something up by saying that out loud. It's a platform.
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  Speaker 2: And I was thinking about the Iranians as you were
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  Speaker 2: going on your tear there, Tom Zawistowski. Do you think
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  Speaker 2: And I know it requires speculation, but do you think
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  Speaker 2: the situation for the Iranian people would be somewhat different
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the balance of power if they were
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  Speaker 2: able to keep and bear arms, Tom?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my goodness gracious. Yeah, there's a reason why no
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 6: other country has a Second Amendment, right? And there's a
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 6: reason why our founders... you know, put that in. And,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 6: you know, I think it's made all the difference. And yet,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 6: you know, people just say, oh, let's get rid of
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 6: the Second Amendment, right? We'll have social workers solve our
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 6: crimes and stuff. Yeah, it's ludicrous. It's real simple. The
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 6: fight is between individual freedom, liberty, and prosperity. You taking
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 6: care of your life, having responsibility for your success or
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 6: failure versus state control. They decide what you get, where
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 6: you live, what health care you get, what food you get.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 6: That's the decision, folks. And we pretend like it doesn't exist.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 6: But you were talking earlier about the debt and about
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 6: the programs that cost so much money. We're already a
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  Speaker 6: socialist country.
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  Speaker 5: We are.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we're trying to stop socialism. What is... is
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 6: our education system?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 6: What is our healthcare system? What is our economic system?
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 6: You got the Fed this week. They're saying it's going
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 6: to raise interest rates. Why is that? Because they're trying
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 6: to defeat Donald Trump. Because they're trying to stop us
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 6: from getting our individual freedom, liberty, and prosperity. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 6: is right. We should have the lowest interest rates in
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 6: the world. Why don't we? Because they don't want us
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 6: to get our freedom and liberty. They want to control us.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 6: And this is the same thing with the debt. And
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 6: I'm going to try to convince you of this. I
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 6: know you'll push back. I don't want you to ever
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  Speaker 6: say again that we're broke. I don't want you to
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  Speaker 6: ever say again that we have $ 40 trillion in debt.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 6: That's not true. Go to wethepeopleconvention.org, go to the search
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  Speaker 6: box and type debt. You will see that not only
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 6: are we not broke, not only are we not in debt,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 6: we have $ 700 trillion in net worth. 700 trillion dollars
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  Speaker 6: this 40 trillion dollar debt is a.
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  Speaker 2: Lie well it's illiquid isn't it tactic it's illiquid.
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  Speaker 6: Because if you're right if you had 140 if you
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 6: don't say you own private you were rich you own
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 6: a piece of private was worth 140 million dollars and
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 6: you had a you'd run up a debt of 40
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 6: million dollars for a business activity or whatever are you
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 6: broke Or would you sell a third of your land
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 6: to pay off the $ 40 billion in debt?
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  Speaker 2: That goes to my point.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 6: Stop trying to lie to me about this crap.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: We're not in debt. You've got to sell it. I
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: guess that's the point. Yeah, we've got massive quantities of
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: power and resources and natural resources and everything else that
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: goes along with it, an economy that generates literally trillions
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: and trillions of dollars a year. I hear you.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 6: Lease it. You don't have to sell it. Just lease it.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 6: The mining rights, the drilling rights, the building rights. Shut up.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 6: And the Democrats, you say that they go crazy. Oh,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 6: you're going to spoil our natural parks and our natural resources.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 6: Shut up. The federal government owns half the land west
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 6: of the Mississippi.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 4: Half the land.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 6: What's that worth? It's worth $ 150 trillion. That's what it's worth.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 6: How come it's not on our balance sheet? How come
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 6: they keep lying to us? And again, gas prices. You
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 6: think gas prices are up right now before the election
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 6: because the Houthis took a port on the Red Sea?
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 6: That's garbage. The gas prices are what they are because
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 6: the globalists, the banks, the big oil companies want Donald
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 6: Trump to lose because he's the only one challenging the
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 6: central banks and all this, folks. You're being gaslit. It's
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 6: all propaganda and it's all election interference.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: Well, I will observe refineries seem to be operating at
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: maximum capacity. Why don't we have more refineries? Because, well,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: woke leftist policies prevent us from building something that we
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: obviously desperately need. Tom, has the demand for global oil
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: and gas resources ever gone down, ever? No. It's always
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: gone up. Even when we've been building windmill farms, which
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: apparently don't spoil the land and the gorgeous, epic beauty
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: that people would claim exists in the Arctic, because they're
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: right there in Indiana, covering the landscape. Boy, that's off.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but those wind farms don't pay taxes. They got
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 6: all kinds of taxes, but we got to tax those
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 6: data centers. Right? Again, folks, you got to get out
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 6: of the matrix. You got to get out of the
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 6: propaganda and try to see the truth. Listen to Brian
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 6: Thomas's show. Listen to the people he brings on who
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 6: are trying to help you understand that none of this
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 6: is real. It's all contrived. And we are in a chance.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 6: We have a great chance, you and I, to tip
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 6: the scales once and for all. And that's in six weeks.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: Let's pause. We'll bring Tom Zawistowski for a little bit
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: more spleen vent today. I'm enjoying our back and forth
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: this morning, Tom, as I hope.
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  Speaker 4: Station.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: 750 at 55 KRC, the talk station. It's Tuesday. Finished
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: up at 7 o'clock hour with Tom Zawistowski from wethepeopleconvention.org.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously, continuing a theme here, we do need to
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: get in and vote for Republicans in November and stop
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: this socialist shift. You know, Tom, everything that the socialists
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: leftists offer is... You pointed out government control. Whatever it
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: happens to be, they are going to own property. They
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: are going to own and run businesses. They are going
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: to protect us because they don't want us to have
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: our own right to protect ourselves. They're going to protect us.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: And they do such a wonderful job at all of
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: this right now, Tom. This is the crazy thing. It's
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 2: literally the definition of stupidity going back and doing the
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: same thing over and over again and expecting a better result.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: And every time we give the government an opportunity to
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: do something in times of crisis, oh, my God, COVID,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: we need a paycheck protection loan. They do a crappy job.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: And yet we keep suggesting, they keep suggesting, that government
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: has the answer. So all those folks out there that
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: you were talking about that are going to be responsible,
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: if we pursue this direction, we stop the socialist nightmare
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: from taking hold in November, we're left to our own devices, perhaps,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: on some level, Tom. That scares the crap out of
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of people. People who have maybe been underserved
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: by our education system, government solution, problems unfold. Ignorance prevails because...
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: Government does a crappy job educating our children. So you're
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: out in the world with a poor education. You're thinking
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: to yourself, I can't survive on my own. I don't
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: have the skill sets. I can't find a job. Oh,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: my God, what am I going to do without a
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: government solution? This is the table they have prepared for
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: people by putting them in that position.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's the way they've done it for 75 years, right?
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 6: That's the whole thing. Black people, you can't even get
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 6: a driver's license. We have to help you vote. That's
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 6: an insult. We know it's a total racist trope, but
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 6: they keep saying it. And for some people, it resonates.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 6: But we have to rise above this. And so I'm
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 6: really appealing to your listeners. This is not a game.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 6: It's not politics as usual. This might be, I guess
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 6: you'd call it the end game, Brian, wouldn't you say?
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, whether you're talking about AI or you're talking about,
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 6: you know, the Democrat socialists, you know, taking back the
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 6: House and spending the next two years impeaching Trump.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: Which they promised to do.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 6: It's the end of your life, of everything you've had
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 6: in your whole life. It's going to happen this, if
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 6: you don't show up to vote, this November 3rd. I
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 6: can't make it any clearer. And that's not an idle threat.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 6: And so, you know, listen to Brian. Listen to his guests.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 6: Go to wethepeopleconvention.org. They're not hiding it. They're saying we're
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 6: going to do it. And, you know, we talked yesterday
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 6: morning and you've been talking some about this IT and
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 6: this AI thing. You know, we want to regulate AI.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 6: And that fits right into what you just said. All
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 6: I can think back to is, remember section 230 for
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 6: the internet? Remember when they said, oh, social media, you know,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 6: you can't sue them like regular companies because, oh, no
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 6: one knows what the internet's going to do and what
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 6: could happen. Guess what they're trying to do with this
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 6: artificially induced panic about AI is going to kill all
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 6: of you. Seems it has a lot to do with
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 6: section two 30 for AI and antitrust.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: It's antitrust too. I kind of stumbled upon that on
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: my own the other day. And then, Oh, lo and behold,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: all the reporting on this, once it was unpackaged, you
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: know what? Maybe this is kind of a false flag
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: operation going on. This isn't an existential threat. This is
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: the industry trying to get ahead of things and secure
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: the legislation that'll protect it from the liability they otherwise
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: would face like every other company in the world.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 5: See?
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 6: And that's crony capitalism, not capitalism. This is the problem.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 6: When you and I were growing up, even when Joe
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 6: was growing up, The government broke up monopolies. They broke
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 6: up the phone companies. They broke up Exxon and those guys.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 6: In the last 30 years, the government has created monopolies
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 6: so they could control us. And it started with COVID.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 6: It didn't start with COVID. Part of it was COVID.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 6: What are they doing with COVID? Geez, you know, the
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 6: Restaurant Association has to get together and set guidelines for
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 6: how you can go to a restaurant for COVID. And
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 6: guess what? McDonald's and Pizza Hut and Applebee's were all
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 6: on the Restaurant Association and they put regulations up that
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 6: the mom and pops could not deal with. And they
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 6: put their competition out of business. This AI deal for
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 6: regulation is to stop open source AI. which you and
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 6: I would benefit from, which would give us the ability
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 6: to fight back. They're trying to seal it off and say, oh, no,
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 6: only these two or three companies can be AI. No
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 6: one else need apply. And they're using the government to
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 6: do it. That's not a free marketplace. That's not what
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 6: America stands for. That's not in our best interest.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: And, you know, Tom's not making that stuff up because
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: who was it the other day just popped his head
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: up in support of all these regulations and Barack Obama.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 6: And then Bernie Sanders just happened to have the bill
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 6: ready to go.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: Did you notice that? Just happened to be there.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. What a coincidence.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: That's it, Tom. Just a coincidence. Nothing to see here.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: Go back to your lives. Go back to your Netflix streaming.
• 1:38:21
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• 1:38:27
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• 1:38:29
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• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: cases that you regularly report on. And this really seems
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: to be a growing phenomenon. And I'm going to pose
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: a question to you, Lowell, before we get started, because
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  Speaker 2: I think I know the answer based upon your September
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 2: 11th article about teacher sexual misconduct being rampant. When I
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  Speaker 2: was a kid, high school, I was aware at the time,
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: as were I think every single kid in my high
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: school graduating class, there were two teachers, both of them
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: men in this particular case, that were involved with girls
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: in the student body. Now, it was kind of like
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: a nudge, nudge, wink, wink kind of thing, and it
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 2: went on, and it just happened. I went to law
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: school with a buddy who recounted a story that he
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: and one of his 16-year-old, I believe at the time, friends,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: this was rural Kentucky, had a threesome with one of their.
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  Speaker 3: Teachers, a.
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  Speaker 2: It's been going on, and it's been going on since
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: I was a kid back in the 80s in high school,
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: and it seems to be a growing phenomenon. Lowell, is
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: it that the Internet exists and therefore we see it more?
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: Is it because teachers have not gotten the memo that
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: digital technology records all of the communications that they have
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: engaged in with these young people, so they're going to
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: get caught? Or is this happening more and more often?
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 2: Is it statistically increasing, Lowell?
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  Speaker 3: Well, in the past 20—well, thanks for having me on, Brian,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 3: first of all. Oh, I love it. The interesting thing
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 3: is in the past two decades, it's become much more rampant.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: And there's several reasons for that. And one of them
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 3: is the internet, but it's the internet in the sense
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 3: that teachers and students can now communicate secretly. They can
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 3: pass to each other photos back and forth. There can
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 3: be grooming that goes on. When I was a kid,
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 3: we didn't have that kind of thing. Our teacher wasn't
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  Speaker 3: going to slip me a note. Plus, every teacher I
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 3: had in high school, I had no desire to be around.
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 3: They were much older. You know, Mrs. Salter, she was
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 3: like 55 and very mean. Now there's so many more
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 3: younger teachers because there's a teacher shortage. And so they
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 3: put like 22, 24, 25-year-old teachers in connection with kids
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 3: that are 17, 16. And that kind of sexual thing
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 3: can develop. There's also another reason for the increase, and
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 3: that is they call it a culture of permissiveness.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: Is that in school districts, you know, like you saw
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 3: the grooming behavior going on in your school. People don't
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 3: report that. Other teachers aren't going to report that. They
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 3: don't want to disrupt the harmony. You don't want to
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 3: accuse a fellow colleague of something. And then there's another
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 3: phenomenon they got. They call it passing the trash. When
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 3: a teacher gets caught doing this, they assign them to
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 3: another school or else they give them a recommendation to
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 3: go join another school district.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that sounds like a Catholic Church way of dealing
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 2: with it.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 3: This makes the Catholic Church thing. I talked to the
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 3: top researcher in the country on this, and she said
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 3: this makes the Catholic Church thing look like child play.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 3: You know, when I first came to work at Breitbart
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 3: a year ago, and before that I'd written a number
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 3: of true crime books and doing documentaries for, you know,
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 3: television and a bunch of other stuff, all very crime related.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 3: Every week I'd get an assignment, another teacher, another teacher.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 3: And most of them were women having relationships with younger boys.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 3: Kind of remember the Van Halen song.
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  Speaker 2: Hot for Teacher? Hot for Teacher, of course I do.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: Right. But the tabloid coverage, you know, would kind of
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 3: almost pornographically play on that. But actually... As you noticed,
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 3: the vast majority of stuff that goes on is actually
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 3: men teachers with younger girls. And it's interesting, they have
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 3: two different grooming methods. A female teacher when she's grooming
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 3: a young guy. And this stuff is crazy. I mean,
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 3: some of these kids are 13 and 14 years old boys.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's special education teachers. Often the teachers are married
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 3: and have kids. I mean, it's absolutely nuts. They will
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 3: send them like sexual material, first of all, you know,
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 3: like flirtatious stuff, then nude pictures and things like that.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 3: But when a man teacher grooms a young girl, he
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 3: convinces her that he's in love with her and she's
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 3: in love with him. And there's no talk of sex
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 3: or anything, but it eventually goes to that. So, yeah,
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 3: it's an amazing thing. The great thing is the Trump
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 3: administration has become aware of this and the Department of Education,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 3: and they got a big crackdown going on. to try
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 3: and stop this, you know, pass the trash idea. They're
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 3: doing an investigation of the Los Angeles school district on this,
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 3: and they've got 20 other school districts in their sites
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 3: that try to stop it. Because, you know, all the administrators,
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 3: you know, and fellow teachers have to help stop this.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 3: It's pretty apparent when something like this is going on.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: But there's a tragedy to all this. You know, when
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 3: I was In middle school, I think it was middle school,
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 3: early high school, I had this great science teacher. And
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 3: we were really into, like, chemistry and stuff. And he
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 3: took a bunch of us up on a private kind of,
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 3: you know, field trip to this place that did laboratory equipment.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 3: We bought a bunch of laboratory equipment. That cannot happen today.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 3: You cannot go with a teacher in a car on
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 3: a thing because... it becomes a grooming thing.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 3: That's the real tragedy of this, is that the real
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 3: good relationships are getting ruined.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 2: Well, I want to double back on something, a very
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 2: astute observation from you, Lowell, that the opportunity is created
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: because of the communications in social media. Maybe assignments are
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 2: doled out through a text from some teacher, but the
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 2: idea that a teacher could communicate directly at any given
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 2: moment of the day. I think that's a really important
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 2: part of Hammer Home, which would explain why this is
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 2: a growing phenomenon and not just one that's being uncovered
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: because of the paper trail they find themselves leaving. And
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 2: I can't get over that. You have an adult teacher
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: in a room that clearly, I don't care what, you know,
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 2: you have ignorance of law is no excuse, but I
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 2: think every human being on the planet, once they reach adulthood,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 2: knows damn well that it's unlawful, illegal, immoral, and is
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 2: prosecutable if you have sex with a a 12 year
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: old or 13 year old. So knowing that they still
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: engage in these communications, they, they take video of their
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 2: sexual antics. They take nude pictures of themselves and send
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: them to students. I mean, that to me reflects oblivion
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: and ignorance beyond anything I can even comprehend.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 3: Fortunately, one of the things I learned about in covering
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 3: it doing, I mean, literally decades of covering crime and
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 3: trying to understand the criminal mind, the, The thing that
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 3: any criminal likes is the pursuit. Even a bank robber
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 3: preparing for the bank robbery is the high rather than
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 3: doing the bank robbery. It's kind of a dopamine hit
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 3: that takes place. When somebody is going to score for drugs,
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 3: the highest they're going to be is on their way
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 3: to score the drugs. This is the same kind of thing.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 3: The chase is more exciting than the catch. So the
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 3: fact that they can do this on the internet is
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 3: the high, that they can develop this kind of relationship.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 3: And Snapchat seems to be a favorite. And they've been
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 3: busted so many times on Snapchat because you can go
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 3: to Snapchat with a search warrant, right?
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 3: And then private email and then FaceTime. FaceTime is a favorite.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 3: Uh, but it's crazy. I mean, there's been, I've got,
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 3: I've covered cases here, but I've got one and I
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 3: was thinking, you know, this is Ohio. I know your,
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 3: your audience is Ohio and Kentucky. There's a 28 year
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 3: old Ohio teacher pled guilty earlier this year for a
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 3: sexual relationship with a 15 year old whom she reportedly
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 3: inundate with hundreds of calls and thousands of learned texts. Uh,
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 3: good news is nearby Kentucky. He just passed the law
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 3: in July and anti yeah.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 3: Anti-grooming law. And, uh, they can try to pounce before
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 3: sex actually happens if they start seeing inappropriate communications and
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 3: things like that. But yeah, it's, I mean, every week
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 3: I work, I know there's one coming that I'm going
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 3: to write about.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this. You know, I'm always looking,
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 2: is this a nefarious element to what's going on or
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 2: is just this part of the woke reality we're dealing with?
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: Young people, K through six, being introduced to this broad
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 2: spectrum of gender, whatever the gender realities those people live,
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 2: whatever fantasy world they live in. But it necessarily, like transgender,
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 2: necessarily requires you to discuss sexual behavior. Why is someone
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: gay or lesbian? Because they like to have sex with
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 2: members of the same sex. That's a horse of a
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: different color for me because you must engage in topics
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 2: involving sexual relations. That seems to me an avenue to
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: get a teacher's foot in the door to have broader,
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 2: perhaps more vivid conversations with these individuals, again, through social media,
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: however they interact with these young people they're trying to groom.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 2: The topic itself has been brought into the classroom.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 3: Well, absolutely. That actually starts at five years old. Sexual
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 3: education in most schools starts at five years old. By
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 3: the time they're eight, they're taught how to masturbate. I mean,
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 3: it's insane. But you're right. You used to go to
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 3: your teacher on a private meeting and say, how do
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 3: I get the diction right? I can't seem to write
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 3: a good first paragraph. Now you're going to their office
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 3: and talking about, I don't quite understand the sexual relationships that.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 2: Are going on between you.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 3: Two men, can you help explain that? Like you said,
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 3: it opens up the subject. It's wide open. We have
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 3: this whole, I say the culture of permissiveness is not
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 3: only in the school districts, it's in society. I mean,
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 3: you can log on at 12 and start watching porn.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 3: It's ubiquitous. Sex is ubiquitous.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 2: And the other surprising thing, of course, all of the
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: stories that we're talking about here that you've written about
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 2: and so many others involving female teachers having sexual relations
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: with young boys, that to me is just, maybe, I
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: suppose we've all come to the realization at this moment
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: in time, it isn't only men who have libidos. I
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: guess women have equal, uncontrollable sexual urges, so we're all
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 2: on equal playing field when it comes to our desire
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: to The cutoff point is whether they're a minor or
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 2: an adult, Lowell. And I remember dating. Everybody has that chase.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 2: They love the chase, the excitement. I'm getting ready to
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 2: go on a date. But you're doing it with an
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 2: adult or someone your own age. That's a normal thing
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 2: to experience when you're in a relationship or pursuing a relationship.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: But the idea that it exists between an adult person
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 2: and a young person, it's just twisted, man. How do
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: we get rid of this? How did this become a
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: phenomenon where it's almost socially acceptable to have sex with
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 2: a little kid?
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 3: No, it's– there's actually people that– and I haven't written
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 3: about this, but I've heard there's organizations that are trying
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 3: to actually promote pedophilia.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 2: That it's– Well, NAMBLA, right?
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, right.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 3: That was– thanks for reminding me of that, who was
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 3: doing that.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 2: Man-Boy Love Association. I mean– Okay, go ahead. I don't
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: mean to interrupt, man, but that didn't even exist is mind-blowing.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 3: Well, here's the myth, okay? It's like the Van Halen song.
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 3: I actually imprinted... The great thing about writing for Breitbart
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 3: is I can make it multimedia. I can put videos
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 3: in my stories, and I put a link to that
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 3: great Van Halen song, Hot for Teacher, right? And the
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 3: myth is it's a cool thing to have if you're
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 3: a young boy, but I've, I've done research into the
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 3: young boys and this affects them for life. It kind
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 3: of screws them up because, because the teacher is very predatory.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 3: This is not like a relationship. Although you remember the
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 3: Mary Kay Luterno case with the, the, the one that
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 3: she ended up marrying the guy when he got older
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 3: and all that. Remember that one? That was like kind
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 3: of the first one. Uh, But in most cases, it's
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 3: a predatory relationship. It's a control power relationship. It's not
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 3: a healthy relationship. It's not like, you know, hey, I'm
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 3: 14 and I'm dating a 24 year old. It's not
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 3: like I'm a 23 year old guy dating a cougar.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 3: You know, these are not adults. Boys really don't come
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 3: out of adolescence till they're around 24 or 25. So, yeah,
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 3: it will affect them for life. I had one guy
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 3: that was in one of my stories, and he was
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 3: just warning everybody. He says, you think this is cool?
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 3: This is not cool. This has screwed up my whole life.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 2: Well, and your September 11th report does quote some of
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 2: the young people who were impacted by this, and they
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 2: were profoundly impacted. So it's a child. Boy, girl, it's
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 2: a child. You're going to screw their life up. And
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 2: I talk low as though someone in the listening audience
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 2: is this person. It's kind of the way I view
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 2: it when I'm on a morning show. So I'm talking
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 2: to you, pervert. Stop it. It's terrible on children. What
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 2: is it? This seems to me just to be begging
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 2: for parental involvement. You are letting the world know, Lowell,
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 2: that this is out here. It's worse than anybody ever
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 2: could have conceived it to be. What do we need
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 2: to do? Stay in touch with our children. Talk with
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 2: them regularly. Get them off social media. Is there any
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 2: simple solution, Lowell?
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 3: We have a society where both mother and father are
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 3: required to work. I would say, because we've got to
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 3: pay so many taxes. So you need both couple, an
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 3: entire couple, or you've got a single mom. Now, my
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 3: daughter is a single mom. She's pretty much overwhelmed all
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 3: the time. She's so busy. She's got so many things
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 3: to do. There isn't the scrutiny by parents, right? Remember
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 3: the latchkey kids?
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 3: We're raising latchkey kids. They come home. They go, we
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 3: don't know what they're doing. And now we don't know
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 3: what they're doing on the Internet.
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 2: And 24-7 porn.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 7: Exactly.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 2: So the Latke kid comes in, logs onto the porn site,
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 2: then engages in social media discussions with his or her teacher,
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: and the rest seems to be history. We've made it
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 2: really easy for this to happen. We need to get
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: on top of it. We need to pay closer attention
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 2: and maybe get our kids off social media. I know
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: that's a big ask, Lowell, but that seems to be
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 2: the solution to the whole problem. Lowell Caulfield. It's been
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 2: great having you on the show. I look forward to
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 2: having you back on again. We do this segment every
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 2: week with somebody from the Breitbart staff, and it's been
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: a great conversation. Frightening, but enlightening. And, of course, this
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: is the kind of information that we're going to find
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 2: on Breitbart. Lowell, I hope we get to do it
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 2: again soon.
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 3: Fantastic. I look forward to it.
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 2: Take care, my friend. Have a wonderful week. It's 820.
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 2: 828 at 55 KRC Detox Station, it being Tuesday at
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 2: this time, it is that time. We get the Daniel
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 2: Davis Deep Dive appointment listening here on the 55 KRC
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 2: Morning Show with the retired Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis joining
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 2: the show to talk about, well, of course, we're going
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: to go back to the war with Iran that's going on.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 2: Daniel Davis, it's great seeing you. I get the benefit
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 2: of that and always a pleasure having you on the
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 2: 55 KRC Morning Show, my friend.
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 10: And it's always a pleasure to be here, Brian.
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me. I think it's illustrative and it
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 2: helps to understand what's going on in the Middle East. Notably,
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 2: we all know where the Strait of Hormuz is, right?
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 2: We all know it's a choke point. We all know
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 2: that this has been the problem with getting oil in
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 2: and out of the region from Kuwait all the way through.
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 2: But the Arabian Peninsula has another side, and that's where
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 2: we find the Red Sea and a similar choke point,
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 2: which where do these guys come from? The Houthi rebels
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 2: who apparently have taken over that choke point. So we've got,
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 2: and they're aligned with the Iranians. It Can you talk
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 2: about this development? Obviously, it creates much more havoc in
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 2: the region. It's the same thing going on on both
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 2: sides of the Arabian Peninsula. This one's launched out of Yemen.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 2: They've taken control over some little island right in the
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 2: middle of the choke point. So clearly, this is going
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 2: to present problems. But it's been reported, and I read,
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 2: I think it was a Wall Street Journal, the Houthis
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 2: have 350,000, effectively, soldiers in their arsenal or in their army,
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 2: along with drones and missiles and rockets and everything else.
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 2: They do.
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 10: And, you know, we've we've referred to them in the West,
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 10: especially the main mainstream media as the Houthi rebels forever.
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 11: And so you kind of get in your mind sort
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 11: of like Luke Skywalker and the rebels, you know, band
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 11: of men hiding in the forest or something.
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 10: These guys are basically they they.
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 11: Have been in control of 80 percent of the population
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 11: in Yemen since basically the Yemen civil war and Saudi
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 11: Arabia took the side of the 20 percent. And everybody
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 11: decided in the West that we would recognize the 20%
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 11: as the legal government of Yemen. So it kind of
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 11: gives the impression that that's the bigger side, but it's not.
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 11: The bigger side, numerically, is the Houthi side. It's called
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 11: Ansar Allah. That's what they refer to themselves as. And
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 11: they have been expanding their military capacity really since about,
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 11: really since 2022 is when they started hitting the bigger
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 11: capabilities to have their own missile factories, And they also did,
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 11: they learned from Iran, too, and they built most of
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 11: them underground, so it's nearly impossible for us to get to,
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 11: drone factories, et cetera. But then they also have a
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 11: large ground contingent, and for the first time ever, they're
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 11: actually marching on territory so far just in Saudi-controlled Yemen
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 11: portions of it. But there's a risk that they could
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 11: move north into areas where they have a lot of
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 11: co-religionists in their version of Shia Islam, in some of
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 11: the southern parts of Saudi proper. So it's unclear how
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 11: far they can go, because so far the Saudi group
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 11: has just performed abysmally in the field.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: What is their goal? Boiling it down, I guess they're
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 2: obviously aligned with the Iranians. The Iranians, I presume, in
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 2: some way, shape, or form, assist... The Houthis, perhaps militarily
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 2: or otherwise, maybe it goes the other direction. I understand
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 2: that they are facilitating the movement of oil from the
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: Iranians to keep Iranian government funded on some level, but
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 2: what's the goal for the Houthis in this?
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 11: Yeah, the Houthis, their primary objective, they are generally aligned
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 11: with Iran, but they're definitely not the subordinate allies. proxy
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 11: force like they're also often referred to, they have their
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 11: own issue. They have been fighting basically a war with
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 11: Saudi Arabia since 2015, which went, I think, from 2021
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 11: or 2022, went into a sort of a ceasefire kind
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 11: of situation. But then the Saudi Arabia side decided to
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 11: put a big blockade, like what we're doing with Iran,
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 11: on Yemen. And they were, you know, completely blocking them
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 11: off from all kinds of stuff and putting them under
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 11: a lot of economic privation. And so now then they say,
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 11: all right, we're no longer going to accept that.
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 10: That's what's driving them right now.
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 11: They're using the Bab al-Mandab, that strait in the bottom
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 11: part of the Red Sea you mentioned, as the leveraged
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 11: to force Saudi Arabia to stop their blockade.
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 10: That's their objective right now.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 11: It's to force Saudi Arabia to stop the war and
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 11: to stop its blockade. They say until that happens, they're
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 11: going to continue to hit Saudi oil infrastructure, and they
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 11: just hit a huge pipeline pumping station that prevents them
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 11: from getting like almost four million barrels a day out
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 11: to the Yanbu so they even have a chance to
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 11: get it through Suez. So right now there's a huge
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 11: problem for the Saudi oil. And until Saudi Arabia does
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 11: what the Yemenis are telling them, this war is going
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 11: to continue.
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 2: What specifically are the Yemenis expecting from Saudi Arabia?
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 10: They want them to lift the blockade. That literally is
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 10: their primary objective.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 2: And how would that impact our relationship with Saudi Arabia?
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 2: Assuming that, listen, we can't deal with the hassle. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: they're very well armed, these Houthis, and they keep bombing us.
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  Speaker 2: We need to keep production up, so we'll concede. What
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  Speaker 2: does Saudi Arabia then give the Houthis, unless it's enough
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  Speaker 2: for them to just get the oil, the straight open, because,
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  Speaker 2: of course, on the other side, they want to charge
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  Speaker 2: tolls and regulate traffic. The Iranians do. So if the
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  Speaker 2: Houthis aren't after that, then what do, will the Houthis
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  Speaker 2: then sort of give up this? They're not interested in
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  Speaker 2: impacting America. They're solely interested in dealing with Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to make sure there's a separation. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That is correct.
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  Speaker 11: And they have made that clear to the White House.
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  Speaker 11: They've made it clear publicly. In fact, they have also said, listen,
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  Speaker 11: even though we have the physical control now of the
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  Speaker 11: Bab al-Mandab, we only are closing it to Saudi traffic,
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  Speaker 11: Saudi oil, Saudi production products.
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  Speaker 10: In or out, but everybody else is free to go.
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  Speaker 11: So there is still traffic flowing through for every other
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  Speaker 11: country that's going through there.
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  Speaker 10: Everyone else has been able to traffic.
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  Speaker 11: So they've been very specific about who they stop and
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  Speaker 11: who they don't stop.
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  Speaker 2: Now that suggests to me, and here's where you get
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  Speaker 2: to break it down for us, Daniel Davis, deep dive,
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  Speaker 2: that that situation may be, I don't want to use
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  Speaker 2: the word easily, but could be resolved in a simple way.
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  Speaker 2: What's the risk to Saudi Arabia?
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  Speaker 10: Now, it's simple for us because Saudi Arabia has to
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  Speaker 10: stand down.
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  Speaker 11: They have to stop blocking them. And I think that's
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  Speaker 11: where it's going to eventually go. Of course, it's going
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  Speaker 11: to result in a lot of loss of face and
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  Speaker 11: a loss of embarrassment, et cetera. But so far, I mean,
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  Speaker 11: all the way through when the Houthis were interdicting Red
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  Speaker 11: Sea traffic going into Israel. During the fighting, the active
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  Speaker 11: portion of the Hamas war, when the other side does
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  Speaker 11: what they have asked them to do, the Houthis do
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  Speaker 11: what they promised. So when Israel stopped, you know, when
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  Speaker 11: they had the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, they stopped
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  Speaker 11: interdicting Israeli traffic. So if Saudi Arabia stops its blockade,
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  Speaker 11: there's reason to believe that they would then comply and
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  Speaker 11: stop their blockage of Saudi traffic.
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  Speaker 2: Would they resume bombing targets in Saudi Arabia?
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  Speaker 11: No, I mean, cause they don't have any, the whole
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  Speaker 11: purpose of that is not to conquer Saudi Arabia. It's
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  Speaker 11: to force them to lift the blockade so that they
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  Speaker 11: can do this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: These can be normal traffic. And I think they would
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  Speaker 11: be more than satisfied with that.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, someone could go negotiate that one. It seems Daniel Davis.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but the challenge is.
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  Speaker 10: In Saudi Arabia is begging.
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  Speaker 11: They're begging, uh, the, this new Mecca accord, they're begging, uh, Pakistan,
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  Speaker 11: they're bagging Turkey to come and help them. They've gotten
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  Speaker 11: on the phone with President Trump saying, hey, I need
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  Speaker 11: your military help. And so far, nobody's willing to do it.
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  Speaker 11: Nobody wants to get into this war that I think,
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  Speaker 11: like you're saying, they go, dude, just lift the blockade
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  Speaker 11: and the thing's over with. We're not going to go
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  Speaker 11: in and start a war just because you don't want
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  Speaker 11: to lift a blockade. And so I think that's where it's.
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  Speaker 10: Going to stay.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, that obviously gives the Houthis down the road,
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  Speaker 2: they could ponder, well... Maybe we want something else, and
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  Speaker 2: all we need to do is get that is to
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  Speaker 2: shut down the Strait again because we have the leverage
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  Speaker 2: there because our physical presence is there and boats can't
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  Speaker 2: get through without the risk of being blown up.
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  Speaker 11: Except that Saudi Arabia does have, and they have been
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  Speaker 11: launching significant airstrikes for the last 48 hours, so the
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  Speaker 11: Houthis are getting pummeled from the air, but they have
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  Speaker 11: a large enough force that they can endure it, and
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  Speaker 11: they're willing to make that sacrifice as long as it's
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 11: moving towards an objective, but once they have it, I mean,
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  Speaker 11: they don't want bombs falling down on them from the
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  Speaker 11: Saudi airspace. So Saudi Arabia is not without capability here
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  Speaker 11: is the bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: Understood. And pivoting over from the Red Sea back to
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 2: the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, I don't
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 2: think it takes much to conclude that this war ain't
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 2: going anywhere at least until after the November elections. I
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 2: think the Iranians have made that pretty darn clear. I
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 2: know Donald Trump has said it out loud. That seems
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  Speaker 2: to be something obvious. They're hoping to bring about pain
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  Speaker 2: to the Trump administration along with, well, getting the concessions
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 2: that they've been looking for.
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  Speaker 10: Well, both sides are doing literally the same thing.
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  Speaker 11: The Iranian side is trying to bring economic pain on
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  Speaker 11: President Trump by keeping pain on basically the rest of
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  Speaker 11: the world through the blockage of their portion of the strait.
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  Speaker 10: And then President Trump is doing the same thing. He's like, no,
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  Speaker 10: we're going to outlast you.
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  Speaker 11: We're going to keep Operation Epic, whatever they call the thing,
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 11: outcast or whatever this economic thing.
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  Speaker 10: And they're saying, who's going to blink first?
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  Speaker 11: And There's no pathway for either side to give in
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  Speaker 11: anytime soon. I don't think the elections have anything to
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  Speaker 11: do with anything. That's just a date on our calendar,
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  Speaker 11: but it has nothing to do with the fundamentals of
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 11: this war.
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  Speaker 10: So right now, there's no path.
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  Speaker 11: There's no diplomacy being talked about.
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  Speaker 10: There's nothing but both sides trying to say, no, I'm.
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  Speaker 11: Going to squeeze you harder. No, I'm going to squeeze
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 11: you harder. And this is going to continue on. And
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 11: we're all losers in this. And let's be clear on this.
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 11: There's no path, in my view, that we're going to
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 11: squeeze Iran hard enough to make them cry uncle, as
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 11: Trump says sometimes.
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  Speaker 10: It's just not going to happen.
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  Speaker 11: They'll be eating grass before they submit to anything the
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 11: United States has done.
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  Speaker 10: They can suffer a lot. I don't know we can
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 10: suffer that long.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you're not alone in your conclusions in that regard.
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 2: Every once in a while, I get a listener, oh,
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 2: I don't believe what this Daniel Davis guy is saying. But,
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 2: you know, So I keep reminding people, over time, you've
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 2: been on this program a lot over the last several years,
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 2: and what you have suggested typically comes true, Daniel Davis.
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 2: You're prescient along those lines. Listen, I get it.
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  Speaker 11: People don't like what I'm saying, but it's the fundamentals,
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  Speaker 11: and I'm just calling it like it is.
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  Speaker 10: I know, man.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I get it. If I had some counterpoint that
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 2: could sort of negate what you're saying to me, I
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 2: certainly would utter it. I just I the fog of
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 2: war is one component. The realities of history and the
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 2: Iranians been around for so damn long living under terrible
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 2: economic conditions. They seem to have grown accustomed to it.
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 2: They're callous to it. And they have this religious will
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 2: behind them, which transcends anything that politics deals with. I mean,
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 2: religion takes us into a whole new realm. Now, I
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 2: got to ask you for.
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  Speaker 10: Religion, culture and history.
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  Speaker 7: You're right.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 10: Those are a powerful mix.
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  Speaker 11: And when somebody has designed that that's their in their
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 11: nature and their character, they'll die that way. Just like
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 11: we would just like just look at what we did
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 11: after 9-11, after Pearl Harbor.
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  Speaker 10: It's in our DNA, too. And we just dare.
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  Speaker 11: Not think that this side, because we don't like them,
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 11: won't react the same way that we do.
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  Speaker 2: Well, pivoting over real quick here before we part, company,
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 2: Daniel Davis, you had mentioned bringing about this economic hardship
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 2: on the world. And, of course, we are all feeling
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 2: the results in the form of let's just look at
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 2: diesel fuel prices. Donald Trump asked Zelensky to not bomb
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 2: Russian diesel production facilities. And, of course, Russia says that's
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 2: great and we won't bomb their production facilities. I just don't–
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 2: I can't comprehend that. I don't know which side we
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 2: are on, but telling Russia not to bomb something that might–
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 2: or telling Zelensky not to bomb something that might be
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 2: in Zelensky's best interest just doesn't seem normal. Is it
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 2: that bad that if any of the diesel production facilities
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 2: in Russia get blown up, it's going to make things
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 2: that much worse?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I mean, it is causing a problem.
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  Speaker 11: See, because Russia has historically been a diesel– refined product diesel–
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 11: But now then they've stopped all the export because the
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 11: refinement positions have been hit by the Ukrainian side. So
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 11: now then they're just keeping it for their domestic and
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 11: military use. And so they're saying we're not going to
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 11: send it out. Well, that combined with what's going on
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 11: in the Middle East is putting a huge problem globally
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 11: on diesel.
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  Speaker 10: You see it's having an impact here, but it's.
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 2: Even bigger in Europe.
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  Speaker 11: And therefore the cost of everything that gets transported with diesel,
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 11: and that means on ships or on the big trucks,
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 11: is also going to start going up.
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  Speaker 10: And so it's a real problem.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, if the world's, the globe's historically largest economic and
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 2: military powerhouse in the world could just build refineries. Interesting concept,
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 2: the United States actually building a refinery to satisfy even
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 2: at minimum its own needs, let alone the huge demand
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 2: on the globe. That seems to be a very capitalist concept.
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 2: The world demands diesel. There aren't enough diesel barrels out there. Hey,
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 2: why don't we build a refinery?
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 5: Sorry.
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 11: Well, I mean, it takes a little time to do
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 11: that because prior to this war, this system was working fine.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 10: We were making plenty of money.
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 11: The system was supplied with all the stuff that it
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 11: needs from all the different producers. And now things have
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 11: changed and nobody wants to put this money out because
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 11: they're going, well, once the war over, we'll go back
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 11: to the way it was.
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  Speaker 10: And, Yeah, it's a it's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you're in a global competition with regard to
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 2: fuel supply and you are the most, uh, stable producer of, uh,
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 2: of diesel fuel, I think people would like to do
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 2: business with you rather than some war torn middle Eastern country,
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 2: which has never seen peace in 2000 years. Just a thought,
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 2: Daniel Davis, deep dive every week here at 55 care.
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• 2:08:20
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• 2:08:22
  Speaker 2: time that you spend with my listening audience every week, Daniel.