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

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  Speaker 1: 505-555-KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the way the news goes.
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  Speaker 1: It is indeed the way the news goes. Brian Thomas
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  Speaker 1: right here. Glad to be here. Hope you had a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful three-day weekend. If to the extent you had one,
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  Speaker 1: hope you had a wonderful Labor Day. And maybe you
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  Speaker 1: saw the fireworks. Got a little hung up in Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: so we didn't make the fireworks. Planted on going there,
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  Speaker 1: but did watch them on television. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Really amazing. Although, did anybody notice that my wife, Paulette,
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  Speaker 1: said something about, where's all the red, white, and blue?
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  Speaker 1: the colors of the fireworks. They were really eerie, kind
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  Speaker 1: of ethereal, a lot of green, this haze that seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be over and everything. Anyway, it was one thing
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  Speaker 1: she observed, but wow, really, truly impressive. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of bigger and bigger things, I guess. You
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  Speaker 1: he belongs. And, of course, the rundown attributed to Joe
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  Speaker 1: Strecker for lining up the guests here on the 55
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  Speaker 1: KRC Morning Show. Extra special day today. With a Smith event.
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  Speaker 1: We usually get it on Monday since we were off yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Tuesday Smith event. So 7.05 with the former
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  Speaker 1: vice mayor of the city of Cincinnati. A little bit early, too.
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  Speaker 1: Normally 7.15 on a Monday. Followed by, it is Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Zawistowski. WeThePeopleConvention.org's Tom Zawistowski. Again, the ongoing message all
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  Speaker 1: the way through November. You've got to get out and vote,
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  Speaker 1: my conservative friends, my libertarian friends, my friends who are
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  Speaker 1: not Marxists.
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  Speaker 4: Ahem.
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  Speaker 1: And he'll be explaining, Tom will, the Barn billboard campaign.
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  Speaker 1: That's at 7.30. Inside Scoop with Breitbart News. It is Tuesday. Today,
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  Speaker 1: Kurt Zendulka returns. He's the London deputy editor. What in
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  Speaker 1: the hell's going on in Europe? Got a real wild
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  Speaker 1: upset in Germany. The Saxony-Anhalt region, they got states within
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  Speaker 1: the country of Germany. It's kind of like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: saying Texas voted 44% for the AFD. It'll be the
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  Speaker 1: right-wing coalition or right-wing party that Folks are gravitating to,
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  Speaker 1: widely reported, you know, I've got to rely on information
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  Speaker 1: provided to me by others, but immigration, energy policy. Germany's
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  Speaker 1: going down the toilet insofar as what its energy policy is.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen the layoffs, for example, over at the
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  Speaker 1: German automobile manufacturers, Volkswagen, laying off like a total of
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  Speaker 1: 100,000 people, just recently announced 50,000. Profound ripple effect. If
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  Speaker 1: the German automobile industry goes down the toilet, wow, the
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  Speaker 1: ripple effect is going to be profound. You know, like,
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  Speaker 1: for example, the steel industry will get a ripple effect impact.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody related to manufacture of any particular given component in
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  Speaker 1: an automobile is going to be impacted. So, obviously, there's
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  Speaker 1: somewhat of a revolt going on over there. Exit polls
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  Speaker 1: say the alternative for Germany party AFD, 44% of the
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  Speaker 1: vote in this particular region, strongest showing to date. a 23%
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  Speaker 1: gain from five years ago. The CDU, the center-right Christian Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: they've been riding a wave of victory after victory after
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  Speaker 1: victory for years. They've got less than 18%, down 20
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  Speaker 1: points from the prior total. And then you've got the
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  Speaker 1: other far-left policies, the center-left Social Democrats, the left party,
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  Speaker 1: and the Greens bringing up the rear with less than 10%
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  Speaker 1: support each. Now, compounding, this is what Kurt Zendelka is
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  Speaker 1: going to maybe explain to us, the coalition government. Now,
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  Speaker 1: does the far-right AFD party join forces with the far-left parties,
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  Speaker 1: the Greens and the Socialists and the Communists? That seems
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  Speaker 1: like unlikely bedfellows, but if you want a coalition government,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have the numbers. And right now, AFD
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have enough for the coalition government. So many are
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  Speaker 1: calling for what they say are snap elections rather than
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  Speaker 1: try to form a coalition government in Germany with these
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  Speaker 1: weird bedfellows because the CDU will not will not play
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  Speaker 1: nicely with the AFD. They're on record. They will not
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  Speaker 1: join a coalition government, even though they're closer politically to
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  Speaker 1: the AFD than these Green parties. So snap elections in
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  Speaker 1: order to solidify the AFD's popularity and maybe get rid
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  Speaker 1: of some of the Greens of the CDU folks with
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  Speaker 1: snap elections, giving the AFD a coalition government. Keep your
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  Speaker 1: popcorn out if you're following that kind of thing. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: Kurt will shed some light on that. Daniel Davis, deep dive.
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  Speaker 1: It is Tuesday. We get him every Tuesday at 8.30pm.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we'll be talking about the Iranian situation as
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  Speaker 1: we see that oil, $ 100 a barrel for oil, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe go up to $ 120. Yeah, but, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: one interesting thing going on here, at least insofar as
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  Speaker 1: the Iranians go. Oh, tail end of the program, Jack
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  Speaker 1: Potter from Galaxy Cuttings is going to explain why that
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  Speaker 1: product is so awesome, and it is. Iran's oil export
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  Speaker 1: revenue is drying up. So in the middle of this
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  Speaker 1: economic warfare we're having with the Iranians, and they are
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  Speaker 1: promising more heavy kinetic strikes, promising, well, larger retaliatory strikes
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  Speaker 1: if the United States, as it did over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: blows up more Iranian boats. Anyway, the revenue is drying up.
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  Speaker 1: The question is, can they outlast the awful economy? Will
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  Speaker 1: this bring them, this awful economy, bring them to the table?
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  Speaker 1: Many people, I know Daniel Davis is on record time
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  Speaker 1: after time after time saying they're not going to give up.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to give up, and some are still
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  Speaker 1: saying that. But it is having a profound effect, the
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  Speaker 1: economic sanctions on the Iranians. No Iranian crude has crossed
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  Speaker 1: the United States blockade since it was reinstated in mid-July. Kepler,
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  Speaker 1: the ship tracking company, is confirming this. Now, Iran apparently
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  Speaker 1: is still loading small amounts of oil onto tankers. but
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  Speaker 1: they can't get those tankers out of the Gulf. It's
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  Speaker 1: also reported the volume of Iranian crude already on vessels
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  Speaker 1: outside of the Block A has fallen. This is stuff
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  Speaker 1: pumped out of the ground and placed on a boat, right? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the amount of that is about 29 million barrels. It
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  Speaker 1: used to be 90 million barrels. They say it could
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  Speaker 1: run out next month. According to Kepler again, Gulf oil
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  Speaker 1: officials who run checks to see whether their customers are
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  Speaker 1: buying before settling the monthly price for their oil say
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  Speaker 1: they have found few Iranian cargoes changing hands. This is
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  Speaker 1: depriving Tehran of the, well, the primary source of foreign currency.
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  Speaker 1: The value of the Iranian rial is just gone into
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  Speaker 1: the toilet. Inflationary pressures are overwhelming the Iranians. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: How is this going to play out over time? Gulf
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  Speaker 1: officials and analysts are warning that tightening vice could instead
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  Speaker 1: provoke more Iranian retaliation, which is what they were saying
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Now, we hit three Iranian oil tankers
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Iran then launched ballistic missiles toward two
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  Speaker 1: Navy warships and also the Saudi Arabian folks. And that's
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  Speaker 1: where I think the Iranian effort, or at least out
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  Speaker 1: loud statements, are directed toward the oil producers in the region.
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  Speaker 1: because that, of course, is going to profoundly impact global
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  Speaker 1: oil supplies. Let's see. Iran loaded 255,000 barrels every day
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  Speaker 1: inside the Gulf in August, 85% below the February to
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  Speaker 1: April averages. And, again, they loaded them, but they're not
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere because of the U.S. blockade. And they're also
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  Speaker 1: worried about the Iranian's ability to start repumping oil to
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  Speaker 1: the extent this crisis ever goes away or a resolution
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  Speaker 1: is reached.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Diplomatic effort to end the war that led to the
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  Speaker 1: memorandum of understanding between us in June and the Iranians.
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  Speaker 1: allowed Tehran to move substantial volumes of oil overseas for
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  Speaker 1: later delivery, and the country has reported, Wall Street Journal
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  Speaker 1: on this one, is still living off the profit from
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  Speaker 1: those barrels, but that lifeline is now disappearing. Kepler, again,
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  Speaker 1: tracking the shipping, estimates that current deliveries of about a
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  Speaker 1: million barrels a day mostly go to China and could
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  Speaker 1: exhaust the store of Iranian oil on the water by mid-October.
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  Speaker 1: And the payments for the previously delivered cargoes, which are
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  Speaker 1: still coming in, will dry up by mid-December. Obviously, after
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  Speaker 1: the election, and whether the payment's drying up is what
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  Speaker 1: puts Iran over the edge economically remains to be seen,
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  Speaker 1: but Iran's going to ride this thing out through the
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  Speaker 1: November election. And the United Arab Emirates and other countries
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  Speaker 1: are finding ways to go around the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 1: It just takes a little time, but, you know, alternative
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  Speaker 1: routes are available. It just takes time to develop them.
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  Speaker 1: Back over to the price of oil here in the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America. Largest, I guess it was the
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  Speaker 1: highest price we paid yesterday. I don't know if there's
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  Speaker 1: a record of all time, but yeah, gas through the roof.
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  Speaker 1: Oil is up to a six-week high. As of yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: Brent crude about $ 100 a barrel. Because, well, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the United States, Iran, and the reported attack on the
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Aramco facilities. Iranians might try to take those out.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, all following the weekend escalation, pointed out that
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  Speaker 1: we blew up some boats and the Iranians responded as well.
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  Speaker 1: No word on the Saudi Aramco oil facility and how
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  Speaker 1: badly it was hit. Kind of swirling question marks floating
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  Speaker 1: around that one. So analysts cited by the Financial Times, ready?
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  Speaker 1: Brace yourself, gird the loins. Warn that oil could. Every
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  Speaker 1: time I read that word. It's like with weather reports. Could, might, may,
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  Speaker 1: but then it might not. And it could climb as
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  Speaker 1: high as $ 120 a barrel if attacks on shipping routes intensify.
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  Speaker 1: And we were there already. Brent was up $ 126 a
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  Speaker 1: barrel late April. And it then fell to above $ 70
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  Speaker 1: in early July. Yes, the up and down realities of
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  Speaker 1: oil production in the, well, crazy world we find ourselves in.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if we're going to find any stability. But,
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  Speaker 1: of course, my observation suggests that the Iranians are going
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  Speaker 1: to keep plugging away and keep making things very difficult
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  Speaker 1: for all of us. As we go into November, are
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  Speaker 1: you going to give the Iranians what they want? You're
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  Speaker 1: going to vote socialism? You're going to vote communism? I
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  Speaker 1: would like to think not. 516-503-749-5500, 800-823-TACO with pound 550
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  Speaker 1: even if you're in New Hampshire. Right, New Hampshire? Gary,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to the morning show. Happy Tuesday.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Brian. I'll just say I hope everybody had
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  Speaker 6: a nice weekend, you and Joe, and pray for you
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  Speaker 6: and your families. Thank you, man.
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  Speaker 1: Really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 6: I just want to give my two thoughts on this
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  Speaker 6: drone warfare and pipelines and oil. But it has more
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  Speaker 6: to do with drone warfare, the mechanical warfare with new technology.
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  Speaker 6: We're basically entering a new industrial revolution with warfare and
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  Speaker 6: just everything. It's going to change everything the way we live.
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  Speaker 6: I can imagine that you see the drone shows. And
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  Speaker 6: they're now delivering those off trucks and mass swarms. And
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  Speaker 6: in my mind as a soldier, I think, okay, somebody
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  Speaker 6: would drop one of those off at an airport or
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  Speaker 6: at a fireworks demonstration, Thanksgiving Day parade, Super Bowl, and
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  Speaker 6: just the mask. It would be a 9-11. And just
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  Speaker 6: people panicking, running and running over people, getting out of
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  Speaker 6: the way, whether they had bombs on them or not, or,
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  Speaker 6: you know, incendiaries. We also, there was an example, the
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  Speaker 6: Naval Academy was welcoming Parents' Day. I saw this on YouTube,
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  Speaker 6: and they had one of the, I think it was
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  Speaker 6: a junior, did an experiment where he threw a, drone,
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  Speaker 6: and eventually he threw it, he went on the parade
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  Speaker 6: ground for the parents and the alumni. He was just
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  Speaker 6: flying overhead. Nobody knew it. And then eventually he took
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  Speaker 6: the drone and he threw it to the banner of
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  Speaker 6: welcome alumni.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 6: And it was right on the parade ground. And his
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  Speaker 6: example is, this can happen anytime at any place. And they're,
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  Speaker 6: you know, the Naval Academy was really mad, but His
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  Speaker 6: point was both.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: They have a war. And yes, they have run these
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  Speaker 6: scenarios and they know that this is possible. But the
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  Speaker 6: point is, is nothing being done to do this. And
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  Speaker 6: you're going to have to act fast. You know, electrical grids,
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  Speaker 6: you know, here in the States or just anywhere just
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  Speaker 6: to create a shortage to raise the price. Anybody, any
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  Speaker 6: country and nobody's really going to know who did it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that is true.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: All these questions need to be, you know, they need
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  Speaker 6: to start thinking about this stuff, or maybe they are,
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  Speaker 6: and they're just.
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  Speaker 1: Not telling us. Well, you know there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: that going on out there in New Hampshire, Gary, studying it,
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  Speaker 1: looking at it, you know, calculating what the future of
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  Speaker 1: warfare is going to look like, what the future of
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  Speaker 1: terrorist attacks is going to look like. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: saw this article out of Germany. Prosecutors in Saxony over
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  Speaker 1: in Germany found a total of 21 explosive devices outside
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  Speaker 1: of electric grid generation facilities. high-voltage power lines, and just
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  Speaker 1: basically the threat to the infrastructure. And I thought about
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  Speaker 1: this in the context of what you were saying. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: those drones can be used literally by anybody. You can
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  Speaker 1: buy them off of Amazon. They've got a pretty heavy payload.
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  Speaker 1: You can load a bomb onto them if you want to.
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  Speaker 1: And knowing how easy that is and how many times
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  Speaker 1: that that has happened, we can point to individual illustrations
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  Speaker 1: of someone doing something nefarious with a drone. Can we
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  Speaker 1: take any comfort... maybe premature, but that attacks like that
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  Speaker 1: haven't gone on and aren't more pervasive. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: technology is literally everywhere. And these electric generation stations, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: look around the corner from where you live out in
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  Speaker 1: the suburbs. Oh, there's one. You know, we've heard about
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  Speaker 1: attacks using firearms. And of course, here's explosive devices, homemade,
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  Speaker 1: improvised explosive devices near power facilities. But That it hasn't
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  Speaker 1: happened more often and we don't get these attacks on
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  Speaker 1: a more regular basis. Can we take any comfort from that?
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for some way to come up with a
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  Speaker 1: positive spin on this. Yeah, you can't deny it. It
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  Speaker 1: is an industrial revolution. Creepy Orwellian version of industrial revolution,
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  Speaker 1: but here we are. We're staring it in the face.
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  Speaker 1: And what's it going to mean for all of us
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  Speaker 1: down the road? I really struggle to figure that out myself. Unsettling?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on AT & T phones. Got
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  Speaker 1: to take a break, Joe. Is it that time?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Tom, hang on. I see you're up there. I would
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  Speaker 1: more than please. Look up. Tom couldn't hang around this
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  Speaker 1: morning anyhow. Good morning, Tom. You can take his place. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK,
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  Speaker 1: or pound 550 on AT & T phone.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Havas, that's his name. I read the reports about
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  Speaker 1: Amy Acton and this incident involving this Patrick Havas guy,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not defending him for a moment. Anyway, she's
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  Speaker 1: speaking at the Canfield Fair the other day. This guy
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  Speaker 1: got arrested, Patrick Havas. He forced his way through the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Depending on which report you read, he either lunged at
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  Speaker 1: Acton or pushed through the crowd. It's widely reported either
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  Speaker 1: two people or several people were injured, but Not seriously.
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  Speaker 1: He knocked them down while holding a cell phone as
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  Speaker 1: if he was endeavoring to record himself asking Dr. Amy
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  Speaker 1: Acton a question. Now, law enforcement figures jumped in. They
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  Speaker 1: got Amy Acton's security detail, which includes Ohio State troopers.
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  Speaker 1: They arrested this guy. Turns out he's packing heat. I
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  Speaker 1: read that he had a taser on him, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of firearms, some reports saying that he had brass knuckles on.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't pull any of those out. And it's important,
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  Speaker 1: I think, to know Canfield Fair does allow firearms in
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  Speaker 1: most areas. So he wasn't brandishing a firearm. And again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not defending this guy. I don't think someone in
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  Speaker 1: a crowd of people, fans or people interested in hearing
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  Speaker 1: Amy Acton's message, holding up a cell phone, that does
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  Speaker 1: not invite the use of deadly force. So if you've
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  Speaker 1: got a guy with a cell phone pushing his way
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  Speaker 1: through the crowd, it might seem a little threatening, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: especially you've got the Charlie Kirk things in the world
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  Speaker 1: going on, death threats all over the place, politicians and
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  Speaker 1: others being threatened on a regular basis. So, yeah, heightened
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  Speaker 1: level of concern and awareness, but a guy pushing through
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  Speaker 1: a crowd with a cell phone I don't think would
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  Speaker 1: justify perhaps the use of deadly force, so we have
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  Speaker 1: something less than. So, but connecting this and enter his brother,
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  Speaker 1: Andrew James Havas. who apparently has been involved in law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: He had, well, been, I guess, involved with a 15-year-old,
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  Speaker 1: misconduct with a minor, prior conviction, and he had to
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  Speaker 1: resign from a volunteer position with Senator Houston's campaign. So
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  Speaker 1: pivot over from the guy with the cell phone getting
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  Speaker 1: arrested for, you know, knocking people over, and go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and tie it into the Houston campaign with Andrew James Havis.
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  Speaker 1: We had nothing to do with the incident involving Acton,
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  Speaker 1: but it does provide some nice fodder to connect this
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  Speaker 1: perv with a campaign of John Husted He didn't disclose
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  Speaker 1: to the Houston campaign that he got in trouble with
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement involving a 15-year-old, and when the Houston campaign
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  Speaker 1: found out about it, he was asked to resign. That's
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  Speaker 1: the normal response from the Houston campaign, so I would
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  Speaker 1: argue nothing to see there. But wow. You'd think this
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  Speaker 1: was a lot worse than it actually has been reported.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay. Witnesses said Amy Acton helped injured attendees after
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  Speaker 1: the suspect was detained. Not serious injuries, again. Did she
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: give him masks, though? Is that what you said? Oh,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: that's good. Since I assisted a principal facing additional sexual
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: battery charges after a second high school student came forward,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Stephen Barton, 43, indicted on five counts of sexual battery
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: and one misdemeanor count of grooming. Happened on September 4th,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: according to court records. Booked in the Hamilton County Justice
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Center late August on 1- felony count of sexual battery
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: after security camera footage showed him inappropriately touching a 16-year-old
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: with his hand. He has worked as an Aiken New
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Tech High School assistant principal in College Hill since 2024.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: The additional charges now stem from a second Aiken New
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Tech high school student contacting Cincinnati police. When Barton first
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: appeared to court on April 28th, detectives said it was
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: possible there were more victims. Barton has been removed from
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: duty and will have no contact with students while the
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: criminal district investigations are underway. That, according to the Cincinnati
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Public Schools statement. Still listed, though, as College Hill's school
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: assistant principal as of just a couple days ago. Posted
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: $ 75, 000 bond after his first court appearance. I guess he's
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: expected back in court today. if you're not doing anything.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: One person in the hospital after a shooting at a
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: birthday party happened Sunday in Norwood, according to newly released
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: 911 calls. Caller told dispatcher, I don't know, but please
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: get here now. Someone is shot in the face. On
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: another call, dispatcher worked to calm someone amid screaming and crying.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Are you safe? Okay, okay, are you safe? They're coming.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: They're coming, sweetheart. They're coming. That's the words of the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: dispatcher to the disraught person who called him. Witness called 911,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: said the victim was working as security at an event,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: not involved in any conflict. He was leaving. He was
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: security at the door making sure nobody got in, and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: they started shooting outside. That's the words of the caller.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Neighbors said they saw a large crowd at the rental
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: property before a dozen gunshots rang out. Callers reacting in disbelief.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: It's a birthday party. What in the hell is going
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: on here? Police said the victim was taken to UC
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Medical Center. Police still looking for the person with the gun.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Victim's condition not been released. If you have any information
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: on this shooting, please, the Norwood Police Department would love
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: to hear from you. Two children hospitalized after a near
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: drowning in Westchester happened yesterday. 7700 block of Cedar Creek Drive,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: about 6 p.m. Two siblings, age 3 and 4. taken
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: to Children's Hospital in Liberty, then flowed to Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Sergeant Kevin Watson, interviewed by Fox 19, said the four-year-old
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: was breathing with a pulse when first responders arrived. The
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: three-year-old had a pulse but was not breathing. Sergeant Watson
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: said the incident appears to be accidental. A pool where
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the children were found has a gate with a latch.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: It's unknown how the children got through. Over the Rhine
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: woman accused of threatening to shoot up, her words, Adel
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: High Township Daycare. See, you hear that and you're like, why?
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: What?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Let's find out. 29-year-old Jayden Rankin, being held to the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Hamilton County Justice Center, at least was on misdemeanor charges
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: of inducing panic in court yesterday. She's out on bond.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Delhi Township Police alleged the offense occurred last Friday. She
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: was arrested Saturday. Her affidavit said she did knowingly cause
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: alarm and threat of physical harm by staffing. She was
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: going to shoot up the school on Anderson Ferry Road.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Delhi Kinder Care is the place the facility serves newborn
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: babies starting at six weeks through children age five and six.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: What possible... reason could you have to say something like
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that 535 at 55 krc the talk station 540 happy
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: tuesday tomorrow listen lunch gonna be a turf club they're
• 23:32
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• 23:34
  Speaker 1: wednesday you can get dinner there on a wednesday but
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: turf club laws on the morning show shows up and
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: we love turkish at least i do subjective giant burger
• 23:42
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• 23:45
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• 23:46
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• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Over to the stack of stupid where we have a British-Nigerian,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: not hyphenated, British-Nigerian influencer, social media influencer. He's dead because
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: of a botched penis enlargement procedure in Thailand.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: What?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Igho Uberibo. You know what his nickname is?
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Tiny.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Tiny. Ego, quote, tiny, close quote, uber-ebo, 43. Does that
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: suggest something? Anyway, he's vacationing in Bangkok with his wife. Phrasing.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Waiting for that, Joe. Underwent the procedure. Happened on March 5th. Afterward,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: while a couple was receiving a massage, he began to
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: complain of chest pain, suffered repeated loss of consciousness before
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: being taken to the hospital. At the hospital, he was
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: unable to respond to questions coherently, ultimately died of a
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: pulmonary embolism before the staff could perform a CT scan
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: to figure out what in the hell was going on.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: They say doctors performed CPR on him for more than
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: 100 minutes. Post-mortem examination determined that hydraulic acid and lidocaine
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: used in the injection is what is responsible for the embolism.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Described as having 185,000 Instagram followers, known for his lavish lifestyle. Now,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: hold on a second. Are you telling me? Someone can
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: clear the record on this. Anybody in the listening audience
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: have 185,000 Instagram followers? Do you have enough money as
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: a consequence of that to own a $ 1. 1 million home
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and a $ 600, 000 apartment in London?
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: No.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Dad. I didn't think so. Anyway, after his death,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: he was buried in London in a gold coffin described
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: as costing north of $ 745, 000. Fun facts in case you're
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: inclined to maybe consider one of these hydraulic acid penile fillers.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: $ 9, 000.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: And lasts between six and nine months.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: There's no flag.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I was waiting for that. Well, we're in Florida where
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: a nude woman was spotted pleasuring herself in public. She
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: told police... She just wanted to, quote, feel good, close quote,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I guess so. Aaliyah Walda, 31 years old, observed by
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: police and civilian witnesses, quote, laying down on a wooden
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: pallet without any clothes, fully naked, close quote, this happened
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: in the morning. Allegedly seen manipulating herself, I'm just going
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: to cut this sentence off there, in a sexually stimulating manner. St.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Petersburg Police Department officer confronted her. Waldo reportedly spontaneously stated
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: that she just wanted to feel good. She was atop
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: a pallet directly across from the entrance of a construction
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: site where multiple people were working at the time of
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the incident. Cop noted that no articles of clothing were
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: found in her immediate area. Charged with exposure of sexual
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: organs locked up in lieu of a $ 500 bond. It's
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a misdemeanor count. She does have a rap sheet, includes
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: felony convictions for battery on a law enforcement officer and,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: oh look, narcotics possession. Also, misdemeanor convictions of theft, prostitution,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and witness tampering.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: The Aristocrats.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Joe. Evansville, Indiana, a 53-year-old woman was arrested
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: after recording a blood alcohol concentration nearly four times the
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: legal limit. Court of the Vandenberg County Sheriff's Office... They
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: got a call about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Possible
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: drunk driver crossing the yellow lines and running people off
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the road. Person who called followed the driver to a
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: parking lot of a restaurant and waited for the police
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: to show up. Sheriff's office said Heather Pratt Posner arrested
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: outside of the restaurant. She refused to give a breath
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: sample at the scene. She later ended up blowing. 301
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: at the jail. That's three and a half hours after
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: being arrested. Authorities found, count them, two empty vodka bottles.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Plus three-fourths of a bottle of vodka and a bottle
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: of wine in her car. Charged with driving a vehicle
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: while intoxicated. She was held without bond. Foreign exchange. Get
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: your car into a foreign exchange. Save some money. And
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: get your car fixed right to your satisfaction.
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: 550-55-KRC, the talk station. Looking forward to 7.05 with a
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: special Tuesday Smith event. Tom Zawistowski, Weed People Convention at 7.30.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: What the hell is the Barn Billboard campaign? Tom's going
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: to explain that to us. Fast forward to 8.05 with
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the inside scoops. Kurt Zadulka, the London deputy editor on
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: what's going on in Europe, and the Daniel Davis deep
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: dive on Iran. That'll be at 8.30. Feel free to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: give me a call. Beyond that, over to the Stack
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: is Stupid. Go to stcharles.com. where we have a Missouri
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: middle school principal accused of possessing child porn and under arrest.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: According to the St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Daniel Ott,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: maybe an award winner this morning, charged with one kind
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: of possessing child porn, booked to the St. Charles County
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Jail on a $ 500, 000 bond. According to school officials, he's
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: been an assistant principal at Hollenbeck Middle School. Investigators say
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Ott spoke with others on apps like Kik and Telegram.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Who are your children talking with about the sexual abuse
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: of children while mentioning that he was a middle school
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: principal and speaking explicitly about girls in middle school? Authorities
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: say Ott told one user, are you ready, quote, some
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: eighth graders are hot as hell, close quote. I know, Joe,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: that was kind of my reaction as well. Bravo cause
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: statement stated the investigators also found multiple child sexual abuse
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: materials on his phone. Placed on leave after his arrest,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: according to letters sent by the superintendent. They say no
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: indication that any Hollenbeck Middle School students were involved in
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the alleged crimes. Although I suppose we should keep our
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: powders dry and wait for it. Here he is, the
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: biggest douche of the universe. In all the galaxies, there's
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: no bigger.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Douche than you.
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: You've reached the top, the pinnacle of douche-dom. Good going, douche.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Your dreams have come true.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Eighth graders, dude. Eighth graders. We go to Houston, Texas.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Got a man killed in a hit and run on
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the Gulf Freeway after jumping out of a moving vehicle
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: while arguing with his sister. Why are you doing that?
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: According to Houston police, 2.30 in the morning. Crash. closed
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: all inbound lanes until just before 7 in the morning.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: According to the Houston Police Department, a man driving from
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Whiskey River Nightclub with his girlfriend in the passenger seat
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and his girlfriend's brother in the back seat. Authorities say
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the siblings started a fight. Reasons unknown. And the brother
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: punched and fought his sister from behind.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: What? I know.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Investigators said the brother got so upset that he tried
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: to jump out of the vehicle's window. Police said the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: man's sister and his sister's boyfriend tried to stop him,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: but he eventually opened the pickup's door and stepped out
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: of the freeway while the vehicle was going, are you ready,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: 60 miles an hour.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Anybody ever try to open a car door while the
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: car's going 60 miles an hour? I can't imagine that's
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: a very easy thing to do. Anyway, he was successful
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: at doing it. Witnesses behind the pickup swerved to avoid
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: this guy. But a white Chevy Camaro ran over him
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: and kept driving. That's how he got killed. Anyway, according
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: to the police department, they still haven't found the Chevy Camaro.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: It's still out there. 56-year-old man sentenced to 40 years
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: in life in state prison for shooting to death an
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: off-duty security guard during a fight outside a Hawthorne fast
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: food restaurant. Happened more than a couple of years ago,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: but justice can be slow, but justice came to Daryl
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Deshaun Fletcher. September 4th, a month after the jury convicted
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: him of a second-degree murder in the shooting of 57-year-old
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Eddie McAllister. Two inside the fabulous Char-Broiled Burgers, that's the
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: name of the joint, waiting for their food orders when
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: they started talking to each other and then began arguing.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: McAllister got his food, then went outside in the parking lot,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Less than 10 seconds later, Fletcher got his food, went outside,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: sat on the ground, and challenged McAllister to a fight.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: During the fight, McAllister knocked Fletcher to the ground. Fletcher's
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: gun fell from a concealed area. Jerry, what do you
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: think that concealed area was? It was in a concealed area.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: That could have been. Oh, by the way, Joe said
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: prison personnel. Anyway, while on his hands and knees and
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: with McAllister on top of him, Fletcher grabbed the gun,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: shot McAllister in the chest. Then picked up the gun,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: walked to his car, and drove away. Two people at
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: the restaurant recorded the fight and the shooting on their
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: cell phones. Of course they did. Plus, there is surveillance
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: video at the restaurant shocking literally no one. While getting booked,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Fletcher allegedly told the officer that his interests included family
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: time with his son and, quote, I just blanked it up.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Close quote. Yeah. Why they were arguing not included in
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the trial brief filed by prosecutors. Whether the two men
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: even knew each other is not clear. Family members of
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: McAllister speaking with local news after his killing said that
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: he stopped to get something to eat after getting off work.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: As an unarmed security guard someplace. Father of four. Fletcher
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: identified quickly by detectives and tracked down to a nearby
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: city and arrested the same day as the shooting. Prior
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: to the trial, Fletcher pleaded no contest to one count
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: each of felon in possession of a firearm and felon
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: in possession of ammunition. Can't unring that bell. 556-55KRC, the
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• 34:32
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• 34:37
  Speaker 1: right here wishing everybody a very happy Tuesday and Friday.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Hoping that everyone had a wonderful weekend. I certainly did,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and thanks to my family for that. Coming up, 55
• 34:47
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• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Smith event. Christopher's going to join us since he wasn't
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: here yesterday. They had a best-of show. I hope you
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: enjoyed that yesterday to the extent you were listening. Tom
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Zawistowski returns, wethepeopleconvention.org is where you find Tom's website, his
• 35:01
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• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the Barn Billboard campaign is here in Ohio. Get out
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: and vote. says Tom Z. 8.05 with Inside Scoop, Breitbart News,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the return of Kurt Zendelka, the Breitbart News London deputy
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: editor on what's going on in Europe. And I can
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: only presume that he wants to talk about the Germany
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: election with the one particular region of Germany going AFD
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: in a very big way. Not enough to give it
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: a ruling government, but maybe snap elections will solidify that.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: We'll see. I just find it very odd politically in
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Germany that the right-wing AFD would actually join forces maybe
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: with the Marxists in order to get a coalition government. Yeah,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: good luck ironing out your differences. Daniel Davis with the
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: inside scoop off. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis at 830
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: for the Daniel Davis Deep Dive. Yes, we'll be talking
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: about Iran. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on AT & T phones.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Before we get to anything else, let's see what CJ's
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: got to say. CJ, thanks for calling this morning. Happy Tuesday.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, happy Tuesday to you and a great start to
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: this short week for you.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: I have a.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Real concern with Donald Trump right now going into these
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: midterms that he is getting advice from people who are
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: only telling him that everything's rosy. And that's always a
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: concern of every president. It doesn't matter who the party
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: is because it always seems in midterms that The exec,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: whoever's president, is fighting against what's going on in the country.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: They're always fighting against that. And you're seeing that right now.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: But I think Trump's taking this a step further, especially
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: that was most evident with this J.D. Vance out of
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: nowhere thing where we're going to start giving people $ 9, 000
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: to stay at home.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Yep, I'm holding the article. CJ, I knew you were
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: going to bring that up. I pulled the article up.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I'm staring at it right now. Let married couples with
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: one stay-at-home spouse tap federal child care subsidies. This is
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: an idea J.D. Vance had previously articulated. Parent-based child care. Yeah,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: government funds to take care of your own kids. CJ?
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Sounds Sandra's ass.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Doesn't it? Yeah, I get the concept.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: I appreciate the intent. But the road to destruction is
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: laid with good intentions, as they say. You talk about
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: corruption and just everything along the road that we've seen
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: with these child care centers. This could be an absolute disaster.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: And number two, whatever happened to Republicans saying the welfare
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: state needed to be dismantled or reined back? I'm old
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: enough to remember in 1994, that Bill Clinton was told
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: if you veto the welfare reform bill one more time,
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: you're going to lose to, of all people, Bob Dole
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: in the election. And so he had to sign the
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: welfare reform bill in order to win the election. I
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: don't understand where the Republicans are going with this. I
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: think Trump is unfortunately listening to too much J.D. Vance,
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: who in reality has got a lot of liberal leanings
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: and It is going to be a very interesting 2028
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: with him running because it is not going to be
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: a traditional, even Trumpian, or definitely not a Reagan-style campaign.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no. But, CJ, you don't really
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: believe that Trump himself is a Reagan-esque type president, do you?
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: No, not at all.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: In fact, I think he's more a Bill Clinton president.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Democrat than he is a Republican, and he acts like it,
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: and I see it all the time in him. And
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: that's why he has such a large following throughout the
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: country in places like Ohio, which is a traditional purple state,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: goes very heavy towards Trump because he can attract Democrats
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: in ways that he can't. But when you go to
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: places like Texas or where you see more Reagan-esque style Republicanisms,
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: he really struggles, like in New Hampshire and other places.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Well, there's no question about it. I mean, I've always
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: observed Donald Trump as sort of having his own party.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: It's the party of what's good for Donald Trump. And
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: that actually could be the party of what's good for America.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: But he goes about it in a different way that
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: is not traditional at all, as you've observed. And J.D.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Vance doubling down on this just the other day. And
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: I don't. this one just blew my mind. It's like
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: joining forces and the United States taking an interest in
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Venezuelan oil companies while partnering up with Scheinbaum and that
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: business guy. How is it that we are going to
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: own oil companies in Venezuela? I mean, that sounds like
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: ownership of the means of production, doesn't it, C.J.
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: And it's really frustrating. And I really struggle. I'm going
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: to end up voting because you have all of these
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: DSA candidates running around. But is Trump really that much
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: different when we own all of these companies now stock
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: as the U.S.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: Government? We own Intel.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: We own all of these chip-making companies. We have a
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: good percentage of ownership of it. And Trump is really
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: saying to these DSA people, you're not that far off.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: I may not like the end result you have, but
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: we're going to do some of this stuff. And that's
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: really dangerous. It really scares me as to where we're
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: heading right now. And unfortunately, Trump is leading it by
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: buying these companies, as you mentioned, Venezuela with the oil companies.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Why does the U.S. government have to own it? We
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: don't need to own it. Let the Venezuelan people own it.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: I thought this was, you know, we were America first. Well,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: that means you allow Venezuela, and granted you tell them
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: no China, but let the people of Venezuela own their
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: oil because this is what led the Chavez in the
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: first place in the late 90s.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: My only answer to why he might have gone down
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: that road is to give the oil companies who are
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: going to have to invest in Venezuela after being burned
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: when they nationalized the oil interest and took away the
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: private property of oil companies who had invested so many
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: billions of dollars in Venezuelan oil production. They've been burned once.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: They don't want to get burned again. So I guess
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Trump's response is, well, if the United States government has
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: an ownership interest in the Venezuelan oil companies, you're going
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: to get the stability that you're looking for. Presidential elections
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: in Venezuela may be going to happen. I know Scheinbaum's
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: not viewed as a legitimate leader anyway, so you have
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: a new administration, maybe one that's not favorable to America.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: That's obviously a real concern for oil companies. Is the
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: investment going to be worth it? Real problems. But, you know,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: populism is all the rage these days, and that just
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: seems to be the effort. We have expensive oil. What's
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: the answer to that? Let's unleash all the Venezuelan oil,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: the massive reserves. We're going to refine it. We're going
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: to own it. You know, it sounds really good if
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: you're a cheerleader for the United States, but then pivoting
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: over and analyzing how this is brought about, you're right
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the crosshairs of socialism, ownership of
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: the means of production, which I can't abide. So, yeah,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I think we're on the same page on that one, CJ.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: No doubt about it. And I guess I have to
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: ask out loud, you know, well, turning over to this
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: new Harvard Caps Harris poll, which may be giving us
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: a little bit of hope. Maybe the poll finds 77%
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: of registered voters under the age of 25. Right? That's
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: right there in the heart of the socialists, these young
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: people who are dumb, who've been deprived of an education
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: that involves logic and reason and critical thinking. And yet,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that we all tend to
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: attribute this group of people to be one of the
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: flag wavers for socialism and Marxism, 77% under 25 believe
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: their paycheck should be based on merit, this is in quotes,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: merit and value of their work. More prevalent among older voters,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: that perception. Good, you'd expect that. 68% of young voters
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: say they want their own home. They want to own
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: their own home. These Orhan Mamdami's of the world believe
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: and have declared, stated on the record, that private property
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: and especially home ownership is a weapon of white supremacy.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: His words, not mine. At least, Sia Weaver, his director
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: of the Office to Protect Tenants, has that mindset, but
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: so does Mom Dommy. That's how she ended up in
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: the role. Private property ownership is a weapon of white supremacy.
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Okay. To the black friends and the listening audience who
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: own their own home, how do you feel about that declaration? Anyway,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: he's called for seizing the means of production, nationalizing large
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: corporations and essential industries. One of the Democratic nominees for
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: New York's 7th Congressional District, a woman named Claire Valdez,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: wants to nationalize the airlines. Mamdami himself plans to establish
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: city-owned grocery stores. You've heard about that. Pay no rent,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: no taxes. There was an article the other day about
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: an actual legitimate private-owned grocery store in one of these neighborhoods,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: four blocks from the soon-to-be-opened Mamdami discount 30% grocery stores.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: This poor guy's got everything you could ever hope to
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: want in a supermarket in New York City, and he's
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: going to be put out of business. He's like, this
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: is it. It's going to be the end. According to
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: this poll, this is all out of touch, these weird
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: ideas out of touch with young voters. 70% want to
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: own their own business. 63% still see America as the
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: land of opportunity. So, question. Wall Street Journal asking this
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: rhetorical question. What accounts for the divergence between their stated
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: views and the ideology that they claim to endorse? Here
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: we are, 250th anniversary of the nation's independence from Britain.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: And all the success that we have since the Declaration
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: of Independence. The same poll asked Americans if they have
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: a favorable view of America. Here's where the nefarious social
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: media has really landed and has been very successful. For
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: all the age groups, 74% said, yeah, we have a
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: favorable view. Only 52% of those under 25 had a
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: favorable view, and nearly 40% like China. Now, it was
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: noted that this had happened before. Back in the late 1960s,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: young people were asked about their attitudes toward patriotism. 1969,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: only 35% of college students said patriotism was an important
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: value compared with 60% of non-college people. However, now the
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: share of 18 to 24-year-olds who attend college has doubled
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: since then. And, of course, the institutions of higher learning,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: busy producing what Journal described as the dumbest generation, one
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: that succumbs easily to the social media sirens championing socialism,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: while in reality they earn for the same old elephants
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: the American dream their parents wanted, owning a home, getting
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: paid for their merit. Starting a business, traditional capitalism concepts.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: And I gave a journal credit. It's Mark Penn and
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Andrew Stein. Penn happened to be a pollster for Bill
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: and Hillary Clinton, chairman of Harris Poll. So, yes, another poll.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Scratch your head over whether it has any legitimacy, but
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: it's the schools that are the problem. And someone else
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: has ID'd that as a big problem, too. Do that
• 46:34
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• 46:40
  Speaker 7: 622.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: KRC Detox Station. Coming up 623. He's at it again.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Speaking about Mondami and his socialist policies, which I guess
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: young people least pay lip service to until you ask
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: them real hardcore questions about what they really want out
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: of life. That's when the traditional norms tend to pop up.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Let's hope that they understand that when they go in
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: to vote to the extent they vote in November. Speaking
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: of Mamdami, couldn't believe, well, I guess I can believe it.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: What an insult. Mamdami signed a 9-11 executive order. This
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: was last Friday. Now, behind him is Police Commissioner Jessica
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Tisch and also his chief counsel. He selected, and Mamdami did,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: he selected Ramzi Qasem.
• 47:32
  Speaker 7: Hmm.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: He's a University of New York law professor who happened
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: to have represented Ahmed al-Darby, who is an al-Qaeda operative
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: that was convicted in the 2002 bombing of a French
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: oil tanker. And brother-in-law of 9-11 Pentagon hijacker Khalid al-Mihdar.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Close enough. This is a day of remembrance. 9-11 remembrance.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Of course, the 25th anniversary of the deadly attacks coming up.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: So after he signs this day of remembrance, I guess
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: petition or acknowledgement or declaration, rather, I suppose, more properly stated,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: he gives the police commissioner, Tish, the pen, the signatory pen,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: the ceremonial pen, the one that people get when it
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: sort of is a gift. Oh, you were there for
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: the signing. Here, have one. Handing the pen over to Tish,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: he said, can you please pass this? Pass it to
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the lawyer, Counsel Ramzi Qasem, who represented the 9-11 folks.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Apparently the video shows this guy smirking, taking the souvenir pen.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Retired New York Police Department Detective Michael Alizar, speaking with
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: the New York Post, said the move was calculated. He
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: said 9-11 families did not come to watch the mayor
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: spotlight a lawyer whose docket intersects with the ideology that
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: killed their relatives in that he used the pen as
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: a prop, used Tish, the police commissioner, as a prop.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: It was calculated, Alzar said. It happened during a ceremony
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: meant to be about the victims and no one else.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: 9-11 families didn't come to City Hall to watch Mom
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Dommy spotlight someone whose work intersects with the very ideology
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: that took their loved ones. Commissioner Jessica Tiss was reduced
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: to a prop rather than acknowledging her role as the
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: leader of the New York Police Department.
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: That's the type of person he is. Mayor of the
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: city of New York. That just sent chills down the
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: spines of what I would argue are What normal people.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: I know normal is harder to find this day and age,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: but wow. What an absolute insult to those poor 9-11 victims.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: 625 right now, 55 KRC, the talk station. Local stories
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: coming up. The talk station. It is 631 at 55 KRC,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: the talk station. Listener lunch tomorrow, Turf Club. Hope to
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: see you at the Turf Club. About 1130. Everybody's welcome.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: be a good time and uh listener lunch crew i
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: guess is all that's going to be there unless board
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: gets out and people think they need to go to
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: the turf club on a wednesday when it's normally not
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: open for lunch anyway the venue is secured and i'm
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: very much looking forward to it next month real quick
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: here um listener lunch is going to be at uh
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: jim and jack's on the river we try to put
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: it there uh we're putting it there because it's a
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: great place to go size wise um venue wise and
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: with the election fast approaching it'll be the last listener
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: lunch before the election And with Jim and Jack's up
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: for sale, whether or not it will be open in
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: the future, I don't know. But maybe an opportunity to
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: say goodbye to Jim and Jack's, at least under the
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: current ownership. And I wish the current owners all the
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: luck in the world in their future after the sale
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: of the restaurant. Hopefully they'll get to sell it, too.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Over to local stories. We have an Ohio woman outcharged
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: with threatening to shoot up a Delhi Township Daycare Center.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Jaden Rankin, 29 years old, was being held at the
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Hamilton County Justice Center on misdemeanor charges of inducing panic
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: and aggravated menacing. She was in court yesterday, I guess
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: got released on a $ 5, 000 bond. I read one place
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: where she was on an ankle monitor as well. Anyway,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: offense apparently occurred Friday. According to the police department, she
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: was arrested on Saturday. According to the affidavit, she did
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: knowingly cause harm and the threat of physical harm by
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: stating she was going to shoot up the school. The
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: address in the affidavit suggests it's the Delhi Kinder Care
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: on Anderson Ferry Road, which, according to reports, serves newborn
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: babies beginning at six weeks old through children five to
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: six years old. Florence Police Department investigating after an overnight
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: single vehicle crash that left a 52-year-old man dead. About
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: 1.30 in the morning Monday, Burlington Pike near Cavalier Boulevard
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: in Florence. Authorities say a preliminary investigation revealed the motorcycle rider,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: later identified as Troy Cherry of Union, Kentucky, lost control
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: of a motorcycle. It went off the road and he
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: rammed into a utility pole. Florence EMS took him to
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: UC Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. Cause of
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: crash remains under investigation. Florence police do say, though, that, quote,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: alcohol may be a contributing factor, close quote. Two children
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: hospitalized after near-drowning in Westchester happened on yesterday's 7700 block
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: of Cedar Creek Drive, 6 p.m. Siblings aged 3 and
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: 4 taken to Children's Hospital in Liberty then flowed to
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Children's Hospital Medical Center, according to the Westchester Police Department's
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Kevin Watson, who said the 4-year-old was breathing with a
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: pulse when the first responders showed up. The 3-year-old had
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: a pulse but was not breathing. The incident happened to
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: be accidental, appears to be accidental, according to Sgt. Watson.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: The pool does have a gate with a latch. Not
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: known how the children got through that or into the pool. So,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: investigation ongoing. One person in the hospital after a shooting
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: at a birthday party happened in Norwood Sunday morning. According
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: to newly released 911 calls, and thanks to Kennedy Cooper
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: over Fox 19 reporting, caller told dispatcher, I don't know,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: but please get here now. Someone is shot in the face.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Witness who called 911 said the victim was working security
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: at the event. but not involved in a conflict. According
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: to the caller, he was leaving. He was security at
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: the door, making sure nobody got in, and they started
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: shooting outside, and everybody ran in. Neighbors say the large
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: crowd at the, I believe, Airbnb rental property. Having a
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: party there, but that's when the dozens of gunshots rang out.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: One caller reacted with disbelief. It's a birthday party. What
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: the blank?
• 53:47
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Police still searching for the person squeezing off the rounds.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Victim's condition has not been released, but if you have
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: any information about anything that went on at this event,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: please call the Norwood Police Department. Please. And finally, Cincinnati
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Assistant Principal, our award winner from this morning, additional sexual
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: battery charges after a second high school student came forward.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: 43-year-old Stephen Barton indicted on five felony counts of sexual
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: battery and one misdemeanor count of grooming. That was September 4th.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: He was booked into the Hamilton County Justice Center previously,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: August 28th, on one felony count of sexual battery. This
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: after security camera footage showed him inappropriately touching a 16-year-old
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: with his hands. He was at Aiken New Tech High
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: School acting as an assistant principal. He was there since 2024,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: according to the records. The additional charges stem from a
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: second Aiken New Tech High School student contacting the Cincinnati
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Police Department. So when he first appeared in court on
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: August 28th, the detectives said it was possible there were
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: more victims and enter the new charges. He's been removed
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: from duty and will have no contact with students while
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: the criminal and district investigations are underway. That, according to
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: a statement from the Cincinnati Public Schools. Posted his $ 75, 000
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: bond after the August 28th court appearance. Expected to return
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: in court today. So, like I say, if you're not
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: doing anything, you can come down and cheer on the
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: prosecutor's office. 636 right now at 55 KRC, the talk station.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Care Fireplace and Stowe.
• 55:22
  Speaker 7: KRC, the talk station.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: 641-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Now, I noticed in an article, Marissa Street,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: she's an educator, a former educator. She wrote in a
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: sort of an observational, if you want to call it
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: an opinion piece for Fox News on education. If you're
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: a business owner out there, I have heard from so
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: many business owners of this very problem that she writes of.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: you know, with this wave of socialism and Marxism and
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: capturing the hearts and minds of these young ignorant children
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: who went to college and got a worthless degree and
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: had these, these, this ideology pounded into their head without
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: anybody questioning it or even bothering to do a historical
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: analysis of the failures of socialism and communism across that spectrum,
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: all across this world of ours over the decades and millennia. But,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: What do you business owners think about this? Because this
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: is exactly what I've heard from business owners. Now, Marissa writes,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: you know, America has nearly 7 million unfilled jobs. Some
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: of those positions remain open because employers can't find workers
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: with the right technical skills. But, and here's the big but,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: ask business owners directly and you hear something different. Too
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: many candidates can't show up on time. Struggle to take
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: initiative or accept constructive criticism. They can't solve problems without
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: detailed instructions, nor can they handle the ordinary setback without
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: falling apart. Politicians and opponents might blame globalization, automation, or
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: data centers are looking in the wrong buildings. The crisis
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: didn't happen in the workplace. It began in the classroom. Now,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Marissa Street. points out that she was an educator and
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: a school administrator before running an educational non-for-profit, which is
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: where she is now. She goes, I watched this happen
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: from inside. Schools gradually abandoned one of the most important responsibilities,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: to build character. Too many schools stopped teaching reading, writing,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: and arithmetic. Sure, but they also stopped teaching resilience, responsibility, perseverance,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: and initiative. The idea that a child's feelings matter more
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: than his or her performance became a paramount concern in schools.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: The child-centered classroom sounds compassionate. Who wouldn't want children to
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: come first? But there's a real difference between putting a
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: child first and teaching them that they are the center
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: of the universe. Educators were increasingly discouraged from giving failing grades,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: from delivering honest criticism, or from enforcing meaningful consequences. Participation
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: trophies replaced accomplishment. Inflated grades replaced excellence. Protecting self-esteem became
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: more important than preparing students for adulthood. That's backward. A
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: child doesn't build confidence by being told that he or
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: she is wonderful. Do it by doing something difficult and
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: discovering that they can concede or succeed. Take away that
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: difficulty and you've handed the child an unearned feeling of accomplishment,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: which is not the same thing at all. Eliminating homework.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Lowering standards. Minimizing testing might lower stress and ease disappointment,
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: but pressure, deadlines, competitions, and failure are not obstacles to growth.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: They're often a student's greatest teachers. And I paused when
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: I read that, and I think, you know, every bad
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: thing that ever happened to me in my life, you know,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: has been a learning experience that I came out the
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: other side having gone through the pain of whatever it
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: happened to be, learned something from it, used it as
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: a building block in my life for handling future challenges. Right.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: All the bad was good on some level. I think
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: about holding a kid back and, oh, my God, you're
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: going to feel bad. You can't keep him in fourth grade.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: What about his class? Yeah, what about him? How much
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: damage are you doing to that poor child by letting
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: him move forward into the next grade when they don't
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: even know what the hell they're doing to the fourth grade? Instead,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: too many classrooms became paint-by-numbers exercises. Follow the rubric. Memorize
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: the answer. Don't take risks. Wait for instructions. Too many
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: schools become unrealistic experiments where students rarely experience meaningful consequences
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: until they leave the schoolhouse. Is it really surprising young
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: employees expect so little from themselves? The adults around them
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: expected so little of them for 13 years. This might
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: help explain the rise of quiet quitting, of constant workplace grievances,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: and of an instinct to look for a lawyer instead
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: of a lesson after receiving a negative feedback. Beneath all
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: of this lies a grave misunderstanding of human nature. Schools
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: try to protect children from disappointment, unfairness, conflict, adversity, as
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: though those realities could somehow be eliminated from life. But
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: education should prepare students for reality, not shelter them from it.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Children should learn about responsibility instead of envy. Virtue instead
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: of victimhood. Perseverance instead of excuses. They should learn character
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: is built through discipline, humility, and personal responsibility. You read
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: that and you're thinking, hmm, maybe you've discovered the reality
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: of why our children are told that their excrement doesn't
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: stink and they don't do anything wrong and that they
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: are entitled to something. Victimhood. Marxism. Do you read that
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: into that? Without those lessons, the hard lessons, students reach
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: adulthood believing every disappointment must be somebody else's fault. Then
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: reality arrives all at once. Business owners regularly describe interviewing
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: graduates with impressive degrees but who expect executive positions before
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: they've demonstrated that executive ability. They expect flexibility before responsibility,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: promotion before performance, and praise before productivity. These expectations come
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: with their school diplomas, and the fancier the school, the
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: higher the expectations. No matter the school, most American students
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: have been taught how to regurgitate facts without thinking critically.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: This is why, when asked to solve a problem independently,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: too many responded, nobody told me I had to think
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: about that. When given constructive criticism, they don't ask how
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: to improve. They ask to speak with HR. The only
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: reason America's workforce isn't even in worse shape is because
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: we're still benefiting from the work ethic of previous generations,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: people who believe work is an obligation before it's an
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: emotional experience. That inheritance, sadly, running out. Schools have devoted
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: enormous energy to social-emotional learning, to identify identity-based curricula and
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: lessons centered on collective grievance. When was the last time
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: you saw a school-wide program dedicated to teaching morality, or humility,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: or courage, or personal responsibility? The virtues built America. Those did.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: And they used to define America's workforce. And employers are
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: rightly right to be frustrated. They're aiming their frustrations at
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: the wrong target if they only blame young workers. The
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: problem was manufactured long before these graduates ever filled out
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: a job application. The battle today between personal responsibility and
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: collective grievance didn't begin in corporate boardrooms or on social
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: media or on factory floors. It began in the classroom.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: And where do you think the teachers that began it
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: in the classroom came from?
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: The good news is the solution begins in the same place.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Education got us into this mess. Only education can get
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: us out. Or maybe, folks, maybe not relying on the
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: education to get us out. Maybe ignoring and going a
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: different direction educationally. Headline, Americans without college degrees are having
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: one of the best job markets in years. Unemployment among
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: younger workers who didn't go to college has rarely been
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: lower in recent decades. It's the opposite story for college grads. Oh,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: maybe people have discovered the answer. Don't get a higher
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: education degree. Avoid the woke ideology. Avoid the debt. Hit
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: the ground running out of high school with the trade.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: It's happening all over the place. 648 right now, 55KRC
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: Detox Station. Speaking of trades, call an electric.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 7: 55KRC Detox Station. 653 at 55KRC Detox Station.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: Christopher Smith with a Tuesday edition of the Smith event
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: after the top of the hour news. And, you know,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: if you don't have a college degree, it's OK. I
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: mentioned the headline from The Wall Street Journal. Those without
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: college degrees. It is the best job market in decades.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: Unemployment rate for workers between 22 and 30 were 34
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: who've never graduated from college. It's been two decades since
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: the unemployment rate was this low. Two groups. Now, you
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: had the college degrees and the non-college degrees. Apparently, over time,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: if you look historically speaking, they track each other in
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: good and bad economic times. But now, not so. Those
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: with no college degree have one of the greatest employment
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: opportunities out there. Those with college education, one of the
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: worst opportunities. They say those with advanced degrees are in
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: fields such as science and technology having an even harder
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: time than usual. AI creeping into the equation. Coders, I think,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: is probably one of the worst positions you can be in.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Ask Dave Adder about that. AI generating code out for you.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: You don't have to have a computer programmer to turn
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: it out anymore. Anyway, they say it's supply and demand.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: There aren't enough skilled tradespeople to go around.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: Older generations are retiring. They also cite drops in immigration
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: as one of the other reasons. But the point being,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: there's some great opportunities out here for genuine career. For
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: all those young people who claim to be socialists and
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: nonetheless still want to own their own house or own
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: their own business, the quickest path, I think, to owning
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: your own business is start out in the trades. One
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: of my neighbors is an independent plumber. I'd look across
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: the street. I'd see his plumbing truck out there every day.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: He does fine. He's got a house. He's got a wife, kids, family,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. He's doing great. How about that? Didn't
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: have to go to college. At least I assume he
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: didn't go to college. So, So the more physical and
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: in-person the work is, the lower the unemployment tends to
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: be by that occupation's own historical standards. And the other
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: thing I note, and salute to all the hard laborer
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: workers out there, the deadliest jobs were ranked. A site
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: called Money Geek, I guess, tracks this kind of thing.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: Logging workers, in terms of fatalities per 100,000, number one
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: with a bullet, logging workers, and salute to them. at
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: 110.4 per 100,000. Roofers are on the list. Fast and
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: Pro Roofing, good morning. Be careful up there. 48.7 deaths
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: per 100,000. And all of these are trades. Structural and
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: iron steel workers, refuse recyclable collectors, construction trades, mining operators. Yeah,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: I guess more risk goes with those jobs. But there
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: are some damn good jobs if you're willing to absorb
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: the risk. Christopher Smitheman after the top of the hour news,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: plus Tom Zawistowski on barn billboard campaign. WeThePeopleConvention.org. Tom, it's 730.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 6: America.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: That's one small step for man.
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  Speaker 7: 7-0-5.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: Here at 55 Care City Talk Station. It's Tuesday, but
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: still get the benefit of Christopher Smitherman, former Vice Mayor
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: of the City of Cincinnati. Normally hear from Christopher at
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: 720 on a Monday. We get him today at 7-0-5.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Christopher Smitherman, my friend. How are you doing lately?
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: I'm doing good. Thanks for having me on, Brian. I
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: really want to jump in. Because I know we have
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: limited time. And I want to highlight because, you know,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: a week ago I said, hey, Jerry Maguire, those moments
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: will begin to happen after Labor Day weekend. And so,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: you know, I've been watching Amy Atkins running me. And,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: you know, as he's putting out information, he is working
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 4: very hard to to define Vivek Ramaswamy as something as other, quote, unquote, other, right?
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 4: This is the dog whistle that he's really not an Ohioan.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 4: He's really not an Ohio State fan. Matter of fact,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: the message that went out is he looks like a Texan.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 4: I went to the Ohio State University and graduated and
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: went to my share of football games. And I didn't
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: look at Vivek Ramaswamy in that stadium and say he
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: looks like a Texan. It doesn't matter what he's wearing.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: Christopher, I don't even know what the hell that means.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: What the hell.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: Does that mean? What it means, Brian Thomas, is that's
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 4: the dog whistle of the 21st century with the Dixiecrats.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 4: They're just trying to use things that he cannot control.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: This man is Indian. He has a beautiful family, beautiful children,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 4: a great father, a businessman. He was raised in Ohio
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: and went to St. X over here in the city
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: of Cincinnati, high school. What in the world? Does David
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 4: Pepper think that he can get out on social media
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: and define this man as other? He's very smart. He
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 4: went to Yale or Harvard. What's his objective? His objective
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: is to tell you he's not really one of us.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 7: He's other.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: Right. That's the dog whistle of the Democratic Party. And
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 4: they're trying to divide independents like myself. Republicans, conservatives, moderates, liberals,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 4: however they define themselves, to look at this man other
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: than what he is, an American citizen who's worked very hard,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: who's successful, who has a beautiful family, and is here
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: to fight for Ohioans. Now, their side of the ticket,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 4: Brian Thomas, might disagree with public policy. They might disagree
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: with him. But let's not get into the identity politics, right?
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 4: The reason they go there is they cannot debate on
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 4: the issues. So why is Amy acting saying she won't
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 4: do a debate? Let's tell the truth.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 7: Here's what it is.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 4: She can't stand on a platform with Vivek Ramaswamy and
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: answer these simple questions. Where are you on transgender people...
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: swimming against girls, being in locker rooms, participating in girls' sports. Why?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 4: Because Ohioans, this is not California. This is not New York.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: And so when she gets on that stage and she says, listen,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 4: I really, Vivek and I are really eye to eye
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: on this, right? All of a sudden her base turns
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: on her.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: That's what happens. That's what she's worried about. She's not
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: worried about. She's been saying, well, I just can't be
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 4: on the same stage with Vivek Ramaswamy because he's not
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: a good guy or whatever. That's the craziness. She cannot
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: and does not want her base to see where she
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: really is. If he asks the question, where are you
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: on police? And she says, I want to reimagine the police.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 4: I want to defund the police. If she doesn't say
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: she wants to defund, reimagine and those kinds of things.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 4: Her base will turn on her. But Ohio is still
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: a rural state, right? At the end of the day,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: you can talk about Columbus and Cincinnati and Toledo. If
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: rural Ohio shows up and votes for Vivek Ramaswamy for governor,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 4: he's going to win. That's reality. And so she cannot
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 4: signal to those farmers, I gave you two issues, if
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: they ask her about guns, she's going to have a
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 4: very murky answer about where she is on guns. She
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 4: is avoiding the debate, Brian Thomas, because she doesn't want
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: to answer the question. That's where we are.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Well, and on the couple of policy points you brought up,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: let's say, you know, men participating against women in sports.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: You and I both know, I mean, even if you
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: don't believe in polls, the vast majority of clear thinking,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: common sense, logical and reasonable people don't want men to
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: participate against the girls. It ruins women's sports. It'll turn them.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: It'll just eradicate basically the concept of women's sports. and
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: ultimately be dominated by the physically superior men. So that's
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: a winning argument. No man in women's sports is a
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: winning argument across the political spectrum. So she could embrace that,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: knowing it is the dominant political viewpoint, and maybe lose.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: What percentage, seriously, if you had to guess, what percentage
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: of Democrats are willing to die on the hill of
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: men participating against women in sports? Two to three percent.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: Two to three percent. All right, so she gains.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 4: Enough for her to lose the election.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she gains... No. She gains the rural voters that
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: you just mentioned on that issue by saying out loud
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: she's not in favor of men participating in sports. So
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: she loses a couple of points if Democrats are still
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: going to go out and vote for her. Doesn't she
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: come out on top by embracing the common-sense position that
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: most of us hold?
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: She doesn't. Because the rural voters, if they show up,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: they're going to ultimately vote for Vivek Ramaswamy for any
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: number of other issues. What she does is she loses
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 4: in her base, where her base is saying, hey, listen,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about data centers. I want to
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 4: talk about transgender peoples participating in girls' sports. I'm sharing
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 4: with you that she doesn't want to get caught on that.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 4: a state. This is like Kentucky. We're in Ohio. We're
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 4: bordered by Indiana. She doesn't want to have that debate,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 4: Brian Thomas, because it doesn't fly here. It doesn't pass
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 4: the mustard. Those 80%, if you took this same debate
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 4: to California, she'd love to debate Vivek Ramaswamy there. If
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 4: we were on the East Coast, and this is New
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 4: York City, she would demand a vote for Vivek Ramaswamy.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 4: Vivek is running for governor of the state of Ohio.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 4: This is not Virginia. It's not New York. It's not California.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 4: She doesn't want to get caught out there on these
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 4: issues that her base is passionate about because this might
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 4: be a 3% or 4% change or difference in who
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: becomes the governor and who doesn't. I'm sharing with everybody
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 4: listening to me, if Amy Atkin refuses to debate for governor,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: we are a state that makes presidents. of the United
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: States of America. She's unwilling to stand toe to toe
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 4: and share what her positions are. No one in their
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: right mind should be voting for her. That is absolutely
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 4: insane in my opinion. And I think all of us,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 4: meaning no matter what local station is hearing this across
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 4: the state of Ohio, no matter what their political leaning is,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 4: we all should be demanding democracy right now and demanding
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 4: that she get on a stage, then toe to toe
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 4: and debate. She doesn't get to hide in her basement.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 4: and tell us what she's not going to do, and
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 4: then say, I'm strong, and I want to be the
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 4: governor of Ohio, right? No, I want a governor that's
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 4: going to fight for Ohioans, and if you can't just
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 4: stand on a stage with your opponent, you're not somebody
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 4: worthy for me to vote for, whether you're a Democrat
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 4: or Republican or Independent.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: That's just pure weakness, Christopher. Demonstrable, pure weakness. I mean,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: you're going to be in a position running the state
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: of Ohio where you're going to have to deal with
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: all kinds of challenges, both in public and in debate
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: forums and in dealing with political oppositions, and I mean,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: It's part of the job. I mean, the debate is basically,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: it gives us an opportunity to judge whether she's going
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: to be a decent governor, not just on the issues,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: but whether she can handle herself on her feet. I
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: think she agrees that she can't. Her people says that
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: she can't or say that she can't, and so she's
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: not going to debate.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 4: That's right. If I were running for mayor of the
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: city of Cincinnati and I said I'm not going to
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: debate whoever that opponent is, Brian Thomas would As friendly
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 4: and as good friends as we are, you would not
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 4: allow me to get away with that.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 4: I'm asking you to apply the same pressure on Amy Atkins.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 4: This is about democracy. It's not about personality. It's about
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 4: this woman is literally trying to avoid violence. telling the
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 4: state of Ohio what she's going to do. And every
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 4: news station should be demanding a debate, period. That's democracy.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 4: You don't get to say, I'm not going to have
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 4: the debate. But I tell everybody listening to this show,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 4: if this was Christopher Smitherman and I was running for mayor,
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 4: And I said, oh, I'm not going to stand on
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 4: a stage and debate the opposition or the opponent that
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 4: I'm running against. Brian Thomas would not let me get away.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: With that at all. Christopher, you and I are such
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: good friends. I'd like to think that ahead of that
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: out loud announcement that you're not going to debate, that
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: you would have run it by me first. Brian, I'm
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: thinking about saying I'm not going to debate. And you
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: know what the answer I would have said, what I
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: would have said to you, you can hear the expletives
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: coming out of my mouth right now, right? What are
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: you talking about, man? Don't go away.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: We'll continue with Christopher Smith. After I mentioned Gate of
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: Heaven Summit. Just shy of 719 here, 55 KRC, the
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: talk station. Brian Thomas with Christopher Smith and doing a
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: Tuesday edition of the Monday Morning Smith event. Christopher, what
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: else is on your mind today, my friend?
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  Speaker 4: So as we talk about this race for Governor Brian Thomas,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 4: there's a discussion that I want to have coming out
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 4: of Labor Day weekend. And I want to say happy
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 4: Labor Day weekend to everyone. I'm a person that supports
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 4: collective bargaining and police departments across the state, fire departments
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 4: across the state, teachers across the state have collective bargaining.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 4: It is the law, right? And so what you're having
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 4: is a discussion by the Democratic Party who wants you
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 4: to believe that other candidates, whoever they are across the ticket,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 4: but if they're specifically Republicans, that they're against collective bargaining
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 4: and they're going to change the law in some kind
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 4: of way, which is insane. Okay, here's what I want
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 4: to say to those union workers out there, those iron workers,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: those carpenters, those bricklayers, those electricians out there as examples
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 4: that who are in skilled trades. where your unions, the AFL-CIO,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: might be trying to tell you through those sample ballots
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 4: to not vote for Vivek Ramaswamy or not vote for
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 4: this particular Republican or only vote for Democrats. This race
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 4: is not about collective bargaining. The race in Ohio is
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 4: about socialism and communism coming to our state. That is
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 4: what this race is about. And those union workers and
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 4: their fathers and their grandfathers who fought in World War II,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 4: that generation that you highlight all the time, Brian Thomas,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 4: on your show that's dying off, that they have an
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 4: obligation to hold the line in Ohio. And what this
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 4: race is about is about people who do not love
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 4: the flag, who want to tell you they do not
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 4: love our country. This race is about people to say,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 4: I don't like my military. This race is about our
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 4: country and what we stand for and what our values are,
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 4: that we believe in family values. We believe in moms
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 4: and dads and guardians and grandparents being in the lives
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 4: of our children. And so if you're a union guy
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 4: out there coming out of Labor Day weekend and you've
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 4: got the AFL-CIO breathing down your neck trying to tell
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: you that this race is about collective bargaining, that is
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 4: absolutely nonsense. This race is about our country, dude. This
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 4: race is about the basic values, and I do not
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 4: want to look like California and New York. So I'm
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 4: telling those iron workers out there, those plumbers and pipefitters,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 4: those firefighters and those police officers and those schoolteachers out there,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 4: Please do not drink the Kool-Aid. Stay focused. And what
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 4: you're seeing coming out of New York, whether it's communism,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 4: whether it is socialism, whatever they want to call it,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 4: This ticket on the other side wants to bring it here.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 4: They will be operating through executive orders. It will be
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 4: way too late. And I'm asking them to look at
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 4: their fathers and their grandfathers. This is not the Democratic
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 4: Party that their grandfathers voted for. These are not the
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: blue dog Democrats of that time. This is something very different,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 4: and it makes this race very serious, and why I'm
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 4: supporting a Vivek Ramaswamy over the other team.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I suppose to the union workers who think it
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: might be in their best interest to vote Communists is
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: what I'm just going to, in a broad brush, label
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: the Democrat Party these days. Who hires the construction workers, Christopher?
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: Who builds the buildings and does the projects that the
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: union workers work for? I mean, big companies with private
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: interests and profit margins and motivations. I mean, you know,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: I don't quite understand where they think all their jobs
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: are going to come from in the aftermath of electing
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: socialists into office, Christopher. It just doesn't make any sense.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 4: Well, the issue for them, Brian, is that I believe
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 4: that union workers out here who are incredibly smart, right?
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 4: You're not an iron worker out here or a plumber
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 4: or a pipe fitter, and you don't have a high IQ.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: You know what you're doing, and they make a lot
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: of money, right? But I'm sharing with you that coming
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 4: out of Labor Day weekend, no matter where they were,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 4: whatever amusement park they were at, Right. This notion that
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 4: they had to vote for that Democratic ticket because their
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 4: unions were telling them so. I'm suggesting to them, please
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 4: vote our country, vote your grandfather's Democratic Party. And you
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 4: cannot vote for this ticket in good consciousness. You've got
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 4: to take a look at Vivek Ramaswamy because you've got
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 4: people in your neighbors who are running around with yard
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 4: signs that say, I'm a socialist, I'm a communist. And
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 4: their own Democratic Party, like a Congressman Greg Lansman, won't
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 4: even won't even walk out on a mic and say, listen, man,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 4: I don't support communism and I don't support socialism. That
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 4: is way too far for me.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 4: He'll never say that. Right. So that silence I'm trying
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 4: to share with your listening audience. It's not just what
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 4: a politician says. It's what they don't say.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 6: And so you.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 4: Don't see them out there challenging this, Brian. That's why
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 4: they never come on your show. They're scared to come
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: on the Brian Thomas show because you're going to ask
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 4: them some tough questions, right? That's why they can't be
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 4: booked here.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: They're not tough questions, Christopher. If you're running for office,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: you have a campaign platform. It's fair game to ask them.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: I don't view any of those questions as tough. It's
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: just reality. Are you in favor of men playing against
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: women in sports? Period. That's a real genuine issue for
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: elected officials these days, so it's fair game. If you
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: can't answer the question, you shouldn't even be running for office.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: Going back to your point about Amy Acton.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm going to say we've got a lot
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 4: of people who are in the National Guard, for example.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 4: Are you comfortable with the other side, the Amy Atkin,
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 4: deploying our National Guard when it makes sense, or a
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 4: Vivek Ramaswamy? I am more comfortable with Vivek making those
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 4: decisions on my behalf because at the bottom line, he
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 4: supports our military. So if you're somebody out there and
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 4: you are saying, man, I'm a Democrat and I've just
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 4: got to vote down the Democratic ticket– You are literally
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 4: undermining your country in this moment. I'm not saying 20,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 4: 30 years ago. I'm talking about in this moment. If
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 4: you have blue dog Democrats right now trying to run
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 4: for mayor, Anywhere in the state of Ohio, whether it's Columbus, Toledo, Dayton, Cincinnati,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 4: they would not win. This is not the Democratic Party
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 4: that the union people recognize, and I just want to
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 4: highlight that. And I'm going to say one thing. I'm
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 4: going to say a couple sentences about identity politics. The
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 4: Democrats are going after the white males. That's their objective, right?
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 4: So they feel like they have the white females. So
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 4: the only way they can come out and get the
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 4: white males is they have to say, we got to
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 4: go after the unions. We have to make sure that
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 4: the AFL-CIO is strong with their tickets. And we want
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 4: these white males who are out here every day working
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 4: in the bitter cold. whose grandparents have been voting in
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 4: the Democratic Party because of collective bargaining, we've got to
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 4: make Vivek the monster or the boogeyman in the room.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 4: And that's what David Pepper was trying to do when
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 4: he said, hey, Vivek Ramaswamy is actually a Texan as
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 4: he stands in the Ohio State Coliseum supporting the Ohio
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 4: State University's football team. That is actually the whistle, right?
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 4: That is actually the new wave whistle is not to
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 4: use those flowery words, is to call the other side other.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 4: You understand what I'm saying?
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: Get racist.
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  Speaker 6: That's where we are, baby. Yeah. Ooh.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 4: That's where we are, baby.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: First of all, I lamented the other day when I
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: heard a Republican or saw a post-Republican, he's not one
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: of us. That sounds remarkably dissimilar to what Peppers kind
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: of say, doesn't it?
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 4: It does.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 4: And see, that's where they're going in the race. And
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 4: if Republicans and independents and reasonable and rational blue dog Democrats,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 4: if they take that bait, right, all of a sudden
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 4: they're going to wake up and the state of Ohio
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 4: is going to be swimming in a direction that they
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 4: don't even recognize. They can't recognize their party. Don't believe me.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 4: They'll wake up and not recognize the state of Ohio.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman, always a pleasure having the show, whether it's
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: Monday or Tuesday. Thank you so much for having me on.
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  Speaker 4: Anytime.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: Standard practice here in the 55 KRC Morning Show. Welcome back.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: Tom Zawistowski. You can find him online, and I recommend
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: you do. WeThePeopleConvention.org. Check out the information there. He's really
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: trying to motivate everybody to get off their butts and
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: get out, and even if you have to hold your nose,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: get out and vote. Like Christopher was saying, got to
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: vote conservative, vote Republican, even if they aren't as conservative
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: as you might want, even if they aren't maybe your
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: same skin color or something. Going back to Smitherman's point
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: about Vivek Ramaswamy, he's a demonstrably better candidate than Amy Acton,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: but Got more than that race going on, don't we,
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: Tom Zalastowski? Welcome back to the 55KRC Morning Show, my friend.
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  Speaker 7: Well, good morning to you. I hope you and Joe
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 7: and all your listeners had a fantastic Labor Day weekend.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 7: I probably had the best one with my family in years.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 7: It was nothing fancy, just a plain old picnic type thing,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 7: but what a great weekend and really is awesome. And
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 7: then I got to hire Christopher Smith as a consultant.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 7: Thanks for setting the table for this conversation. He did
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 7: an awesome job because he's absolutely right. The threat is
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 7: about the communist takeover of our government or more likely
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 7: the destruction of our government. And so we're trying to
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 7: figure out creative ways to fight that and message that.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 7: And I sent out an email this morning explaining that
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 7: that's not as easy as it sounds because I know
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 7: what we want to say, but we aren't talking the
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 7: same language anymore, Brian. I mean, it's just, you know,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 7: they don't know what commies are. They don't know, you know,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 7: what socialism is.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: No, that is exactly right. And of course, going back
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: to the education system, I mean, it's baked into the cake,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: this whole woke ideology and nobody is responsible for the
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: problems that befall them. No one wants to have anything
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: bad happen to them. And when it does, it's somebody
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: else's fault. And that allows you to walk right into communism.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: It's not your fault you didn't get a good education
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: or you didn't pursue opportunities. It's the billionaire's fault. It's
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: their fault. They're the source of everybody's trouble. Stir that
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: pot of class envy. That's Marxism, man. And it's a nice...
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: You know, like a blanket embrace when someone in political
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: power or seeking political power does maintain that it's not
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: your fault. You don't have anything to do with your
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: own circumstances. We're going to blame somebody else. It's easy
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: to follow that. I mean, it just makes perfect sense
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: that it's appealing, but it's a veneer on lies.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 7: So the question is, how do you counter that narrative?
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 7: That's our challenge. And, you know, I put out an
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 7: email today. I said, here's our normal billboard would say,
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 7: vote like your life depends on it. Elect every Republican
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 7: to defeat the commie Dems. And I put that out
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 7: and people wrote back and said, yeah, Tom, the problem
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 7: is no one under 60 knows what a commie is.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 7: So it won't affect them at all. They don't know.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 7: They think socialism is good. So we spent the weekend.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 7: doing research on linguistics and youth culture and words to
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 7: try to figure out what words could we put on
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 7: a giant billboard that would communicate to them that communism
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 7: is bad without using those words.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: All right, let's pause. We'll bring Tom Zee back to
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: talk about just that and this broader barn billboard program. 741.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: The 55KRCD talk station, wethepeopleconvention.org. That's Tom Zalastassi's website. Talking
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: to Tom Z. And talking about young people not even
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: understanding what socialism is, and yet they go around parroting
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: it and saying they want it. Tom, your observations are
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: in line with the new Harvard Caps-Harris poll, finding that 77%
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: of voters under 25 believe their paychecks should be based
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: on merit and value of their work.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: They want to own their own home by large percentages.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: They want to own their own businesses by large percentages.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: And yet when you ask them if they like socialism,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: they tend to embrace it, which kind of proves your point,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: doesn't it? But, you know, when you talk about they
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: don't know what socialism is, if you read the DSA platform,
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: it is socialism. The problem is the next step. Okay,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: I'm reading the, you know, nationalizing private industry, the elimination
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: of private property. Pick one. The problem is, I suppose
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: the immediate knee-jerk reaction to the uninformed and ignorant is, yeah,
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: that sounds good. The whole covetous greed envy thing, that
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: sounds good, that sounds good. But they never can work
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: the math. And nor do they calculate the incalculable, I
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: would argue, interjecting in there, Loss of freedoms and liberties
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: that go along with enacting a socialist platform. You are
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: deprived of choices. If the government owns the means of production,
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: if the government is responsible for the ownership of property,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: I guess it's okay for government to own property, but
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: not private people, Tom. Then you are beholden to whoever's
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: in government to decide whether or not you have access
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: to any of these things. It's scary.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 7: Well, it is scary. Remember that? I think it was
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 7: a movie phrase where they said, what we have here
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 7: is a failure to communicate.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 7: Because we were talking past each other. And so, you know,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 7: the Barn Billboard program, just to give your guys, your
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 7: listeners a history, is that back in 2020, after, in 2016,
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 7: we elected President Trump because we destroyed the left on
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 7: Facebook and social media. So what they did is they said, oh,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 7: we're going to ban you guys from social media. And
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 7: we were stuck trying to find other ways to communicate.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 7: So I went and tried to buy billboards from Lamar
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 7: and the big billboard companies. And oh, yeah, they said, well,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 7: we won't sell you billboards to promote Trump. Like, how
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 7: is that legal? I don't know. We fought it. So
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 7: what we did, we said, OK, all right, screw you.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 7: We're going to go to farmers and commercial buildings, and
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 7: we're going to say, if you have a barn on
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 7: a major highway, we will pay. The We The People
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 7: Convention through our Freedom For All PAC, okay, freedomforallpac.org, we
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 7: will pay to produce a 20-foot by 40-foot banner if
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 7: you will hang it on your building. And we got
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 7: over 100 buildings in Ohio to put them up, and
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 7: we were getting like 3 million exposures a day. So
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 7: we're going to do that again. And if any of
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 7: your listeners have a building or a barn on a
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 7: major road, you'll go to Freedom For All. Freedom, F-O-R-A-L-L-P-A-C.org. Freedomforallpack.org.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 7: You'll learn all about it. Just click and send us
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 7: an email. Say, I want one. Here's what size. And
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 7: we'll pay for it and ship it to you. The
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 7: question is, what the heck's the message? So we did
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 7: a bunch of research with social media and stuff like that.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 7: And you're right about that poll. The young people, it
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 7: kind of boils down to no American likes people taking
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 7: their stuff and giving it to someone else. And that's
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 7: really what socialism and communism is. So on the email
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 7: I sent out today and on the billboard samples you'll
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 7: see at freedomforallpact.org, we've come up with some phrasing that
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 7: describes socialism and communism without saying those words. So one
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 7: of them says, Free for them, paid for by you.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 7: Vote to stop the Democrat socialist threat. Vote Republican. Well,
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 7: isn't that what it's about? It's free for them, free housing,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 7: free school, but who pays for that? The other one
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 7: says free for them, taken from you. Because that's what
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 7: Mondami's doing, right? He's taking it and giving it to
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 7: somebody else. And then, you know, we're trying to toy with,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 7: do we have to say the words vote for Republicans?
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 7: So we have one that says, free for them, paid
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 7: for by you, vote to stop the dangerous Democrat socialist threat.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 7: It never says vote Republican, but it's implied. So we're
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 7: asking people to help us figure out what wording is effective.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: Well, and that seems to boil down to the message
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: we get from most days. Tom, our listener, calls in
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock, 530 hour, don't vote Democrat.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a catchphrase.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: It's not that you're voting Republican. It's you're not voting
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: for someone that is inherently destructive to the future of
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: the United States of America. I don't know how else
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: to phrase it, Tom.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I say I like to say vote for yourself,
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 7: vote in your own best personal interest. Now, that means
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 7: you're going to elect every Republican with a pulse, even
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 7: though you're not happy with them. But that's what you're
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 7: really doing. You're voting for yourself and for your country.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: Well, isn't that revealing that you put it that way, Tom?
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: When you vote for yourself, it suggests that you have
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: something that you have a vested interest in that you
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: want to keep. You realize the unfairness of someone randomly
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: and arbitrarily reaching over and picking your pocket for something
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: that you work for. Maybe therein lies the revelation because
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: the young, woke socialists probably, and I've seen statistics, most
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: of them have some kind of highfalutin college degree, worthless
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: as it is. They can't vote for their own self-interest
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: because they're not looking at something that's valuable. They don't
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: have a home. They don't have a job. They don't
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: have an income. They apparently have no future because they've
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: got some kind of, I don't know, ethnic studies degree
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: and a master's degree in it and there's not a
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: job for them. So they're angry. They feel like they've
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: wasted their life. They're in debt. They can't vote for
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: their own self-interest because there is no self-interest to stick to,
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: to hold up for, to fight for. They're desperate and
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: they're afraid. That's where socialism creeps in.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it plays on fear. And I don't know if
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 7: any of your listeners go to the Daily Wire website
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 7: and Matt Walsh, but he has a video about communism.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 7: What is communism? To remind us. And wow, go watch
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 7: that short video. It'll just blow your mind because we've
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 7: just forgotten all the atrocities. So it's up to us
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 7: to remind them. But how do you do that in
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 7: the world of soundbites?
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 4: Maybe.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: Study post-World War II Berlin. The wall was to keep
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: people in. Maybe study Fidel Castro since the revolution. The
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: denial of freedom to travel was designed to imprison the
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: populace so they couldn't leave. How about post-revolution Soviet Union
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: where they murdered tens of millions of people, sent them
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: off to the gulags in mass quantities, the people who
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: didn't abide and didn't believe in communism. Go over to
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: China and look at the post-revolution in China. Murdering, murdering,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: murdering your political opposition. It's just over and over again. Murder.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 7: That's what Christopher was doing a great job, right? He
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 7: was saying to these construction workers and union workers, This
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 7: is not your father's Democrat Party. These are not people
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 7: who love America. They hate everything about America. And if
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 7: you go to the DSA website, it tells you our
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 7: goal is to destroy America. Real simple, okay? Now, at freedomforallpac.org,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 7: you'll also see some flyers. Simple one-page flyers that kind
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 7: of say, here's what they're about. Here's why you got
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 7: to vote against them. And you can copy those flyers
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 7: and start handing them out. We did a color one.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 7: It's real nice, but we did a black and white
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 7: one that takes less ink so you can print it
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 7: on your printer. Go to freedomforallpack.org and download those flyers
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 7: and start handing them out and educate people.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: Tom Zawistowski can't thank you enough for how easy you
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: make it for everyone to get off the butts and
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: get engaged and get involved. I can't beg enough for
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: my listeners to do just that. We have a real
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: threat facing us in November. And if we don't put
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: the brakes on it and stop it in its tracks,
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: we can just all kiss it goodbye, Tom.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 7: They're going to take our stuff. Mark it down. There's
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 7: no doubt about it. They're going to take your property,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 7: your wealth. This is not a joke. This is not
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 7: a game. And here's the advantage we have, Brian. This
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 7: is a great advantage. They can say, oh, Trump is
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 7: a fascist. But he never goes around and says, I'm
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 7: a fascist and I'm going to do fascist things. They
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 7: got to make their case. They're actually saying, we're going
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 7: to destroy the Constitution. Get rid of the Senate. Get
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 7: rid of the presidency. Get rid of the Department of War.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 7: We're going to take your homes. We're going to take
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 7: your apartments. they're saying it out front don't believe me
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 7: just go to the dsa website go to the we
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 7: the people convention website you'll see the clips they're not
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 7: kidding they're serious you better be serious about protecting your
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 7: own personal you know wealth and freedom.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: And liberty tom's passion is genuine it comes from the
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: heart and comes out of profound concern for the future
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: of our country and of course here in the state
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: of ohio as well tom zawistowski wethepeopleconvention.org. We'll do this
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: again next Tuesday. Keep up the great work, my friend.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 7: Thank you. Have a great week, guys.
• 1:38:34
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• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: wishing everyone a very happy Tuesday. Always looking forward to
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: this time of week. We get the benefit of the
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: inside scoop with Breitbart News. The return today of Kurt Zendelka,
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: who's the Breitbart News London Deputy Editor and got a
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: lot to talk about with Kurt this morning in Breitbart,
• 1:38:51
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• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: Very valuable in preparation for the 55KRC Morning Show and
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: outstanding reporting. Kurt, welcome back to the Morning Show, my friend.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure having you on the program.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 7: Thanks for having me again, Brian.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess if you look back, Donald Trump got
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: elected over the, uh, Kamala Harris may have been one
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: of the reasons because she was nobody's favorite candidate, but
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: One of the reasons I would argue is the open
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: borders policy under Joe Biden. People were concerned about it.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: It was a legitimate concern. We faced a lot of crime.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: We are concerned that, like, it's as if the globe's
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: prison systems were let out and encouraged to go to
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: the border here. And we've seen that happen before with
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: the boat lift in Cuba back in, what was it,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: the 80s or 90s? Anyway, Donald Trump wins. Border gets closed.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: Night and day, you can see it. It appears to me,
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: based upon quite a few events, are they related, Kurt Zendalka?
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: You've got the problem going on in Britain. Nigel Farage
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: warning about the serious civil disturbance. I guess Britain's finally
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: said no mas. They had illegal immigrants coming from the
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: French coast into Portsmouth. Well, Britain's rose up and blocked
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: them the other day. Interesting development. You go over in
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: Spain with that Sueta city. Their entire population was 50,000 people.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: And in, what, one day or two days? An equivalent
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: amount of illegal immigrants swarmed into that city that doubled
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: the population overnight. What a disaster that had to be. And,
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: of course, that's encouraged by Spain's government. Open borders. Make
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: them all citizens. European Union going through some real struggles
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: with this one. Some, like Italy, are saying, we don't
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: want them here. We're going to close the borders down.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: You go to Germany where the AFD won the other
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: day in that very large province.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: Illegal immigrants. Kurt, I guess people are waking up that
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: their countries are under threat.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: You're certainly right, Brian. I mean, it's just going to
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: be a question of whether or not the political systems
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: respond or not. And I think one of the most
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 2: like concerning things about what's happened over the weekend in Britain,
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: we saw basically what might be the start of, of
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: sort of vigilantism in response to the fact that, that
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: the British government refuses to act, refuses to stop these
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: boats from coming across the English channel from France. And what,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: What was remarkable about Sunday was that you had this boat,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: this dinghy, probably bought by a people smuggler group operating
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: in France. Around 140 people crammed into this rubber little boat.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 6: Amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And it was about 100 or so miles from where
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: they normally go. So pretty much over the past six years,
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: we've been seeing some boats set off from Calais in
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: France get picked up. by the British border force, literally,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 2: and brought to the port of Dover. What was interesting
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: about this one was that it was 100 miles down
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: the coast, and it just randomly entered the town of Portsmouth,
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 2: the city of Portsmouth. And if you don't know, Portsmouth
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 2: is one of the homes of the Royal Navy, long
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 2: tradition of naval warfare. And some of the locals there
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: just said, hey, we're not having this. And as soon
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: as they saw the boat coming, they immediately rushed to
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: the marina set up a blockade, and we're literally blocking
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: the police from allowing these illegal immigrants to come into
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 2: the country. Remarkable scenes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's shocking that vigilantism, if you want to call
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: it that, and I think that's an accurate title to
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: apply to this, is on the rise because the elected
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: officials in the UK are not representing the interests of
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: their own people, or perhaps better stated, they're prioritizing the
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants coming in over the interest of the British population.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, if your government is failing you and they
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: refuse to deal with the problem you perceive, then of
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: course you're going to start taking matters into your own hands.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: You can't wait around for elections. Elections have consequences, and
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: apparently they don't there.
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  Speaker 2: You're exactly right. I mean, the thing is that we have,
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 2: on the one hand, we have Nigel Farage, the Brexit leader,
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: leader of the Reform UK party, waiting in the wings.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: He just signed a remarkable agreement with the potential future
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 2: prime minister of France last week, saying that if they
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: both get elected, they will send all the boats back
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: to France. No French leader has ever agreed to that.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 2: So there's this potential agreement on the table. But there
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: is no election, potentially, for at least another year or two.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: And we keep on seeing these boats arrive, and Fraud
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: is saying, hey, look, our best solution to this is
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: actually democracy. But the people have been waiting for over
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 2: a decade for a democratic solution, and no government has
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: been providing it to them. And so I think tensions
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: are very high, and Farage is warning the government, saying, look,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: you're on the precipice of widespread civil unrest if you
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: don't actually do something about this. And I don't see
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: any possibility of the government actually doing it. So it's
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: definitely some dicey times ahead in Britain.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: Well, the people on the ground in Britain, are they
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: feeling the downsides of this unchecked, unregulated migrant flow? I
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: know there are certain areas, at least it's been reported,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: and I've read stories about it, where it's like no-go
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: zone for the police. I mean, the British police won't
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: even go into certain neighborhoods which have been taken over
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: by various different outside communities, be they Muslim or anything else.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's frightening if your own country's rules and
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: laws can't be enforced in any given area.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're completely right, Ryan. And specifically to this, I
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 2: think what you're speaking to is actually more of a
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 2: problem of legal immigration, how much certain towns have been
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 2: taken over by mass immigration allowed by the government. But
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 2: specifically for these illegal boat migrants, they are taken from
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 2: the shore by the police and immediately brought to hotels
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: across the country that are booked by the government. And
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 2: then the people in these towns are saying, you've just
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 2: dumped hundreds of basically unvetted boats young military age males
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 2: in the middle of our towns. We have no idea.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 2: And look, constantly we are seeing almost like every week
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: or so another horrendous headline. I mean, literally in Portsmouth
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 2: just last week, an Iraqi illegal migrant got arrested for
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 2: raping a teenage boy on the same streets where this
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: latest boat came. So the people are very much aware
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 2: of the dangers that this pose. There are reports that
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 2: the Iranian regime are trying to use this open border
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: influx through the English Channel to sneak in IRGC agents
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 2: into the UK. There have been terrorists that have come
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 2: through this route before. So people are definitely aware of it.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 2: And that's one of the things. When we saw one
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 2: of the leaders of this group that tried to enact
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: a blockade against these migrants coming into Portsmouth, he was
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 2: literally shouting at the police, have you vetted these people?
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: Do you know if they're working for ISIS? Do you
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: know if they're working for Boko Haram?
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 7: What are you doing?
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 2: And, of course, they're not vetting them at all. They're
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: just putting them on a caravan and putting them into
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 2: the countryside.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: Well, and as you describe it, I'm listening, and, wow,
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened here. The uncounted masses showed up.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: They crossed the border. And we start putting them up
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: in hotels in various cities. Sanctuary cities are declared. And
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: the whole same process and practices put into place here,
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: as is happening there, as is happening all throughout the
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: European Union, this is, I mean, you just step back
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: from it, you can see the coordinated level of activity
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: regarding this global population shift. Have you reached any conclusions yourself,
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: Kurt Zendalka?
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I think, look, there's, I think there's, you know,
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 2: there's multiple motivations, I think, coinciding. You know, I think
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 2: there are certainly the corporate interests as far as trying
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: to drive down the cost of labor throughout the West
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: as far as big business goes. That's a big driver
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 2: of a lot of this. But I think there is
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 2: also just this new faction of the left and a
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 2: lot of their allies in the third world, essentially, that
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 2: are looking to transform the demographics and transform democracy. I
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 2: think that's clearly what's happening. It's the same playbook in
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 2: every country. So we can't just act as though it's
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 2: not happening.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: No, it clearly is because we now have a Democratic
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: Socialist of America party and they are full on, their
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: party platform is full on Marxist communist, Kurt. It's just,
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man. I'll be 61 here in a couple
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: of weeks. I just can't believe in my lifetime we
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: have gone from a nation of, you know, generally speaking,
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: traditional American values. And I guess those are racist now
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: or something, Kurt, whatever the memo is that went out
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: at some point, but have gone such a far shift
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: over to the left. It's becoming a genuine existential threat. Well,
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: the folks in Morocco understand that. This Sueta city, if
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: I'm pronouncing it correctly, had that horrific population explosion. The
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants were using that country or that province as
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: a vehicle to get into Spain, where the government in
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: Spain will embrace them and make them naturalized citizens. Am
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: I overstating the case, Kurt?
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: I think that's certainly what the illegal migrants were thinking.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: And I mean, that's why So when we saw this
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 2: mass influx of around 80,000 people, which is almost exactly
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 2: the population of this city, remarkable, just overnight, the flooding
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 2: of the border in July, I think a lot of
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: them thought, hey, look, Spain has an open borders policy.
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: They just enacted an amnesty deal, potentially legalizing a million. people.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 2: They'll probably do it again. If I get on Spanish territory,
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 2: I could likely get EU residency and then I could
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: move anywhere in the EU because of their internal open borders.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 2: But what I think is interesting about what some of
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 2: this polling is suggesting is that the Spanish people are
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 2: actually putting a lot of this blame on the Moroccan government. 90%
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: are saying that they think that the Moroccan government was
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: behind this. And I think the Moroccan government has a
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 2: different motivation. This small city has been under Spanish control
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 2: for hundreds of years on the coast of North Africa,
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 2: right on the border of Morocco. I think the Moroccan
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: government wants to take over that city. And I think
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 2: a lot of the Spanish think.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 7: That as well.
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  Speaker 2: And if they could flood it, literally with enough Moroccans
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  Speaker 2: to like double the population, then who's to say it's
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  Speaker 2: not theirs, right? And we had this remarkable internal report
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  Speaker 2: last week from the National Police of Spain saying that
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  Speaker 2: they have evidence that there were Moroccan agents, both plainclothes
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: and in uniform, directing the migrants in July where to
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 2: go on the day of the invasion. So I think
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  Speaker 2: there's some evidence that Morocco might actually be behind all this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, OK, I don't know if it's devil's advocate, but
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  Speaker 1: the Moroccan government, if it has that policy position, if
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: its ultimate goal is to flood that territory in order
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: to take it over, that wouldn't be successful were it
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  Speaker 1: not for Spain's open borders policy and granting amnesty to
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  Speaker 1: these million or so, maybe even more down the road.
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  Speaker 1: That's the vehicle that helped them accomplish the goal to
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: the extent it was their goal. Completely.
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  Speaker 2: And look, this is a socialist government in Madrid. And
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: the people are not letting the Sanchez government off the
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 2: hook either. There's over 70% are directly blaming the Sanchez
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 2: government as well. And look, this came right after the
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 2: Spanish Supreme Court, of course, controlled by lefties, said just
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: weeks prior to the invasion that anyone arriving by water
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: can't be pushed back. And this city is like literally
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: on the coast and you have Morocco on one side
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 2: and Soweto on the other side. and it's divided by
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: a little fence. So literally all these migrants had to
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: do is walk a few feet out into the water,
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 2: and then technically they're arriving by sea, and they can't
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 2: be pushed back. It's just, you know, it's completely, you're
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: completely right, this would not be happening without the facility
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  Speaker 2: of the Spanish government.
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  Speaker 1: Well, left-wing policies have ruined Germans' economy. If the energy
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: policy wasn't bad enough, open borders and immigration obviously straining
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: the German government. and they had something to say about
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: it over the weekend. Saxony-Einhold, which is one of the
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: larger provinces within Germany, it's kind of like saying Texas
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: voted a certain way within the United States, within Germany,
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: is this Saxony-Einhold. One of the, I guess, lesser economically
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: successful provinces, but they went full-on AFD, the conservative, rather,
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: labeled often as right-wing, but certainly the party that advocates
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: closing borders. That's what put them over the top, and
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: that's what resulted in their significant victory over the CDU party,
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: which has been in power forever. I know they don't
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: have enough for a coalition government. Do you think snap
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: elections will be called, Kurt, so they can get enough
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  Speaker 1: more AFD party members on the slate to make a
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: coalition government?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's certainly going to be possible. We're going
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 2: to see over the next weeks whether or not a
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 2: coalition can be formed. I think the CDU, which is
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 2: the so-called conservatives, really conservatives in name only in Germany,
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 2: That's the party of formerly of Angela Merkel, you might remember,
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 2: who essentially started the European Union migrant crisis. Their government
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 2: right now in Berlin is the so-called conservatives joining with
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 2: the social Democrats to keep the AFD out of power.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 2: So they're already used to these so-called conservatives joining with
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 2: the left. And I think they're going to try to
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 2: form a minority government in Saxony, potentially with the Green Party,
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 2: one of the most radical left parties there is in
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: the country, and also Die Linke, which is literally called
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 2: the left party. And they are the direct descendant of
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 2: the governing communist ruling party of East Germany before the
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 2: Berlin Wall fell. And you might have a situation where
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 2: the conservatives, so-called conservatives, are literally pairing up with the
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 2: communists of former East Germany, of the Soviet times, just
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 2: to keep the AFD out of power. I don't know
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 2: if they'll be successful, but they're certainly going to try
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 2: to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Kurt Zendalka, the Breitbart News London deputy editor, I've
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: also read that maybe even the AFD will line up
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: with the Marxists and the Green Party if they can
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: get a coalition government. I don't know how they wrestle
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: policy-wise over their disparate chasm that exists between their two
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: political ideologies, but however you can get a ruling coalition
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: seems to be the way to go, so much so
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: that those polar opposite parties might get together. That's pretty unlikely, though,
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: isn't it, Kurt?
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  Speaker 2: Well, so I very much doubt, like basically Die Linke,
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 2: the left party, the Greens, the Social Democrats, they will
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: never party with the AFD. And CDU probably never either,
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 2: the so-called conservatives. There is one interesting party on the wings, BSW,
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 2: which is the party vehicle for Sarah Wagenknecht. And she's
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 2: formerly of the left party who's sort of trying to
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 2: be like a leftist populist. I'm for borders. I'm against
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 2: the Ukraine war. We're sort of, you know, basically sort
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 2: of a left wing populist for, you know, sort of
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: left wing economics, but sensible on the border. They might
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 2: try to come to some sort of agreement, but it's
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 2: going to be difficult. And so I think, you know,
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 2: eventually there are going to have to be more elections.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 2: But I think just as far as this goes, I
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 2: don't even know if it's necessarily in the AFD's interest
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 2: to actually get into power anytime soon. Because right now,
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 2: you can just let the system fail around you and
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 2: you have sort of a clean record and saying, we
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 2: offer a genuine alternative rather than partnering with the system.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 7: Let it collapse.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 2: And in a couple of years when there's a general election,
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 2: actually take real power.
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: And hopefully rack up some more victories between now and then.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: It's still political analysis, as we expect from you, Kurt Zendalka.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: We'll be reading what you write over at Breitbart.com. And
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: my listeners will bookmark it to the extent they already
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: have it. We'll talk again next Tuesday. Thank God for
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: you and the team at Breitbart. Kurt, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Daniel Davis, my friends. Good to see you,
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  Speaker 1: and good to have you back on the program.
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  Speaker 5: Always good to be here, Brian. Thanks for having me back.
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  Speaker 1: Did I say wash, rinse, repeat ever when we started out?
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: We're tit for tat. We blew up a few Iranian
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: oil tankers. I guess the blockade's still in effect. Iran
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: responds by launching attacks on Saudi's Aramco facilities, which I think,
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: and correct me if I'm wrong, that seems to be
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: the message that's being projected by the Iranians now. We
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: are going to go after all of the oil infrastructure
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: of all the various countries that are surrounding us, including
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: the Saudis, if you pick on us, if you hit us.
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe I missed something on that, but obviously it's driving.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was actually Ansar Allah, the Houthis that attacked
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 5: the Saudi Aramco targets, and that was in direct response
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 5: to 121 Saudi attacks into the Houthis areas throughout Yemen, etc.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 5: And so those.
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  Speaker 1: Are kind of.
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  Speaker 5: Separate issues, but they're obviously core— associated, but they're not
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 5: directly coordinated. Ansar Allah has their own issue going on
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 5: with Saudi Arabia, has since 2015. So that's been kind
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 5: of simmering in the background. But you are correct that
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 5: Iran has said that any further attacks against their, especially
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 5: against the oil tankers, which the U.S. hit after the
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 5: last round when Saudi Arabia, I'm sorry, Iran attacked some U.S.
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 5: warships with a couple of missiles.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Response was to hit Iranian oil tankers, and Iran has
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 5: now said that any further action like that will respond
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 5: in hitting the energy structure everywhere else. So far that
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 5: hasn't been tested, but I wouldn't put my money on
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 5: them not doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what is the current situation with the Iranian oil?
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  Speaker 1: I just saw this article in the Wall Street Journal,
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: Georgi Kanchev and Somerset, Iran's oil dollars drying up. It
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: seems to me that the Iranian oil is stuck. And
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: they've run out of places to put the stuff that's
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: out of the ground, so they're winding down the output
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: from their wells. Some have previously suggested doing that may
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: render those wells useless in the future. But inflation's run away.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: The people are dealing with tremendous economic struggles. The rial
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: is down significantly. I have listened to you and your
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: comments about the Iranians really being tough and having thick
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: skin and callous. They've dealt with this before, and I
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: believe it. They're certainly going to outlast the November elections
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: in this economic warfare. But where do you see it
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: going from here? One report showed that, and this is
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: something I've kind of been expecting, it takes time to
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: come up with alternative routes. But United Arab Emirates apparently
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: is getting its oil out without having to use the
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: strait so there are alternative paths that are developing ultimately
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: i guess with the hope they're going to leave the
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: iranians on isolated state daniel yeah it it's.
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  Speaker 5: Not zero there there is iranian oil getting out through
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 5: various forces i mean they have 10 000 kilometers of
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 5: land border and then uh rail junctions etc there's the
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 5: caspian sea and there are still some ships getting through
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 5: one way or the other, leakers or whatever. It's not
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 5: a huge amount. But the problem is that the overall
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 5: Persian Gulf is still about 40% of what it was pre-war,
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 5: and some days it's not even that much. So it's
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 5: better than it was for our side, but it is
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 5: definitely not what it needs to be. And now you
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 5: see with Saudi Aramco getting hit because a lot of
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 5: theirs has been going out through the Red Sea. With
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 5: the Houthis having some action over there, that also is
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 5: starting to go down. And everything matters about the global
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 5: amount going on. So we may brag about knocking down
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 5: a lot of the Iranian oil, but that still keeps
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 5: it off the global market, and that's a problem for everybody.
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 5: So this is not solving any problem and drifting along
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 5: at 40%, 30%. That's not going to help the global
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 5: economy because we still are using down our strategic petroleum reserves.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 5: So we've got to stop that, or this is not
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 5: going to help us out long-term. whether the midterms happen
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 5: or not. I mean, whether this happens before or after
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 5: the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I saw Iran has just released this new
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: restricted zone, I guess, in their mind, defining where the
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: oil can ferry through or not. Do they really have
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: any control on declaring this? It seems like it just
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: came out of nowhere, and this is the way it is,
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: but we're still blocking their ports, and we're still trying
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: to use American military ships and U.S. forces to ferry
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: boats out along the southern route. I Does this mean anything,
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: their most recent declaration?
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 5: It does, precisely because of what you just pointed out,
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 5: that UAE and some others are succeeding at getting oil
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 5: out without having to go through the strait. So they're
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 5: out through Fujairah and some of the other ports that
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 5: are further south of that. And so the Iranians are saying, okay,
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 5: we're going to extend the zone. Instead of just in
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 5: the strait itself, we're going to extend it further to
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 5: the Gulf of Oman side. so that it covers that
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 5: area there. They have, of course, all kinds of long-range drones,
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 5: long-range missiles, medium-range, short-range, etc. They've got plenty of ordnance
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 5: to bring that under attack, so we'll see if they
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 5: actually do it. But they definitely have the capacity if
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 5: they want to extend that zone to those areas as well.
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: Does it seem to you that the number of attacks
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: from the Iranian side has waned a little? I just...
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  Speaker 1: I know we were talking about tit-for-tat warfare, and, you know,
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: if you hit one of our boats, we're going to
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: launch a strike at something. But it seems the Iranians,
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: they talk a loud game about their ability to launch
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: a larger-scale attack, and they, of course, have threatened it,
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: that they haven't done that, though. Does that suggest anything
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: to you, Daniel? Well, they haven't.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they have obviously done it before, and we
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 5: were unable to stop it. So the missiles are still
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 5: the same issue as before, is that they're not intercepting
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 5: that much, and the Iranian stuff is getting through. What
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 5: they have done still is hit periodic oil tankers, but
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 5: they have not yet gone back again after hard targets
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 5: like the Kuwait or Saudi Arabia or U.S. stations or Jordan, etc.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 5: Those are still in the crosshairs. Now, we can only
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 5: surmise as to why they haven't done that yet. But
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 5: here in the last 48 hours, they've been a lot
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 5: more verbose in claiming that they're going to hit all
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 5: those things again the next time something gets hit. And
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 5: I mean, they can do it. We don't know why
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 5: they have withheld so far, but we'll see what happens
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 5: because it's inevitable. There's definitely going to be another one
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 5: because understand we need to keep in mind there is
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 5: no ceasefire. There's no memorandum of understanding. That's all expired.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 5: There is a state of war, but it's just kind of. like, well,
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 5: now what? Because there's no end, but there's also, it's
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 5: just kind of a lull period. We don't know if
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 5: this is a lull while they're building up stockpile and
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 5: they're getting ready to hit. Does it mean that they're
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 5: losing capacity? I mean, we can guess to that. I
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 5: would think it's probably the former than the latter.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: Well, I think we can all assume that there's some
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: significant economic problems going on within the Iranians, the global
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: sanctions that brought that about. Their inflation is obvious, but
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: Is there an exit strategy? Considering this, if we could
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: call this current, what was going on right now, a stalemate.
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's an accurate thing, but it
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: doesn't seem like any site is giving anything and we're
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: not going anywhere. We're just sort of sitting in the
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: same cycle right now with ports being blockaded and the
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: occasional bomb blowing off and the obviously instability and insecurity
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: that the shipping companies are having. So nothing's really going
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: through by comparison. What's an exit strategy, Daniel? Have you
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: come up with one? Anybody consult you on that?
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, there is one, and it was called the
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 5: Memorandum of Understanding. That was going to work for literally everyone,
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 5: but there are too many people that don't want anything
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 5: to work for the Iranian side. They only want it
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 5: to work for our side, and that's going to be
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 5: kind of a big stick in the mud because the
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 5: Iranians are going to participate in something that only they
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 5: lose from and that the U.S. side wins, slash Israelis.
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 5: And so we're going to have to find some kind
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 5: of mutual, beneficial, or acceptable way out. And right now...
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 5: President Trump just tweeted out yesterday, or true social doubt,
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 5: that no, Iran is going to lose. And once they lose,
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 5: then all the oil will come out. So he kind
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 5: of ramped the rhetoric back up and said, you know,
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 5: we're not even looking for a negotiated settlement. We're just
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 5: going to win.
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: And militarily, that's what he said.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 5: There's no path to win, so I don't know what
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 5: he means by that, but that is not moving us
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 5: in the direction of getting this over.
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: Well, clearly they have leverage. That they have leverage suggests
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: if you want to negotiate some sort of resolution, you're
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: going to have to make some kind of concession to
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: acknowledge the leverage that they've got.
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 5: Well, you would think. I mean, that's the way that
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 5: rational people would think. I'm telling you, the frustrating part
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 5: for me, Brian, is that we have that in our
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 5: hand with the MOU. That was going to work for us.
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 5: That was going to work for everybody. Iran still would
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 5: never have had a chance to go to a nuclear weapon.
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 5: All of our weapons are still there. We can still
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 5: go back and hit Pickaxe Mountain if we needed to
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 5: and all that kind of stuff. None of that would
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 5: have changed, but the oil would have been flowing again.
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 5: We had a deal on the table, and I don't
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 5: understand why we— got rid of it by going back
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  Speaker 5: to an attacking again. So now here we are, there
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  Speaker 5: is right now, I guess a stalemate is really the
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  Speaker 5: only thing you can accurately call this because it's not resolved.
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  Speaker 5: There's no action diplomatically to get it resolved. There's no
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  Speaker 5: military action going on. There's no military solution. even if
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  Speaker 5: we tried. So that leaves us in this weird place
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  Speaker 5: where there's about 40% or so getting out, and you've
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  Speaker 5: got to buy hook and buy crook, but you can't
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  Speaker 5: base your global economy off of that. And look, we're
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 5: already in a diesel crisis. We're in a jet fuel crisis.
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  Speaker 5: Now that it has started to bite, European carriers are
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  Speaker 5: starting to trim their Long-range routes, and the prices are
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  Speaker 5: starting to go up, too. There's just not enough of
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  Speaker 5: that coming out. Forty percent won't cut it, Brian. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, now you have the issue in Russia with
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  Speaker 5: the Russian-Ukraine war that because of their Ukrainian strikes on
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  Speaker 5: the Russian infrastructure, they're not exporting any diesel, which is
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  Speaker 5: compounding the problem. So that means your diesel goes up.
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  Speaker 5: right there, you know, in the good old U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Of A.
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  Speaker 5: So it affects everybody. This is not sustainable is the
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  Speaker 5: bottom line.
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  Speaker 1: No question about it. If only we would build more
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  Speaker 1: refineries to maybe deal with some of the ups and
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  Speaker 1: downs in diesel. Moving away from that, though, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad you pivoted over to Russia and Ukraine. The AFD
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  Speaker 1: won that very large province in Germany. It is described
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  Speaker 1: widely as a pro-Russian movement, the AFD. I know they're conservative.
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  Speaker 1: I know they crack down on borders. They believe in
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  Speaker 1: border security and they appreciate what's going on in the
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: European Union. But What does it mean that if that
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: party were to take over Germany, get a ruling coalition perhaps,
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: since they are leaning pro-Russia in this conflict, is that
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  Speaker 1: significant or is it symbolic?
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  Speaker 7: It's huge.
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  Speaker 5: It's hugely significant. And it's not that they're pro-Russia per se,
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  Speaker 5: that they're saying, let's just have normalized relations with Russia
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  Speaker 5: so we're not antagonistic against them, so we're not basically
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  Speaker 5: setting ourselves up for potential future war against Russia. That
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 5: sentiment is starting to spread everywhere. among the people throughout Europe.
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  Speaker 5: And that's, that's a major shot across the bow because the, the,
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  Speaker 5: the current ruling government in Germany better start paying attention
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  Speaker 5: instead of just saying, Oh, we're trying to outlaw them.
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  Speaker 5: That's never going to work.
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  Speaker 4: That's good.
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  Speaker 5: That has already because of the warnings that, that the
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  Speaker 5: government has given right now against the AFD. It's just
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 5: making more people go to them. And, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: have similar issues going on in France. Marie Le Pen
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  Speaker 5: may finally break through and win the next presidential election.
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  Speaker 5: They're trending in that direction because the people are sick
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  Speaker 5: and tired of these stupid wars and supporting war that
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  Speaker 5: can't be won against the largest nuclear superpower on the planet.
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  Speaker 5: And they're tired of spending all their money on something
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  Speaker 5: that can't succeed and doesn't need to be fought. And
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  Speaker 5: I think if the governments that are currently in place
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  Speaker 5: right now They'll start paying a lot more attention a
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  Speaker 5: lot faster. This is going to go south for them.
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  Speaker 1: It's true. And when your population has already a diminished
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: perception of your government, and then your government says you
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: can't be a member of a particular party or we're
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: going to outlaw it, obviously that's marketing for AFD without question.
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  Speaker 1: I get that point. You're telling me what? Something must
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: be good over there that they're offering if this government
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: is telling me I can't have it. Daniel Davis, Deep Dive.
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  Speaker 1: Find his podcast wherever you find your podcasts. Find him
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  Speaker 1: here on the 55 KRC Morning Show on Tuesdays beginning
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  Speaker 1: at 830. Always a fascinating conversation, my friend. I'll look
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: forward to next week doing it again.