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55KRC Thursday Show - Cong Davidson, Signal 99, Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Words here mean something.
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Speaker 2: If I haven't built up calluses and a thicker skin
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Speaker 2: by now, I'm never going to have one.
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Speaker 3: Today at 3 on 55KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 4: 505.
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Speaker 3: The 55KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 5: Friday Eve. I had no idea what.
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Speaker 3: Was going on. Thank you. Summing it up pretty well
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Speaker 3: right there with the soundbite. Brian Thomas right here. Glad
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Speaker 3: to be here. And I appreciate Joe Strecker, executive producer
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Speaker 3: of the 55 KRC Morning Show, being where he needs
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Speaker 3: to be, which is in the executive producer production booth.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Joe. And yesterday, real quick here, Congressman Warren
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Speaker 3: Davidson on the F55 KRC Morning Show today, 7.05. Now
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Speaker 3: that we have an impending lame duck session, will anything
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Speaker 3: get done? And my prediction is, here, I'm going out
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Speaker 3: on a limb. Subpoenas, investigations, maybe even an impeachment. You
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Speaker 3: got Heg Zeth's head on the chopping block, potentially, and
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Speaker 3: nothing else will get done. Trump's got a veto pen.
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Speaker 3: They don't have a veto-proof majority. And, you know, what
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Speaker 3: will the Democrats advance by way of platform? Are they
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Speaker 3: going to view yesterday as a referendum on the craziness
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Speaker 3: that exists within the left wing of the Democrat Party,
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Speaker 3: a growing coalition of, I don't know, Marxists, essentially? Most
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Speaker 3: people are suggesting that the Democrats shouldn't read too much
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Speaker 3: into it and that this was all a vote against
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Speaker 3: evil orange man, Donald Trump. That was my take on it. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, with J.D. Vance's, and we'll get to this
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Speaker 3: a little bit more, maybe you have a comment on it.
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Speaker 6: J.D.
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Speaker 3: Vance is blaming all of this terrible outcome for the
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Speaker 3: Republicans on Tuesday for the war. And there are other
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Speaker 3: reasons that people cited exit polling pretty accurate when you're
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Speaker 3: talking to people after they're done voting. But that it
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Speaker 3: was a lot to do with, of course, artificial intelligence
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Speaker 3: was an issue. It was in full display the other day.
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Speaker 3: And AI took it on the chin, which resulted in
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Speaker 3: the markets going through the roof yesterday. What a weird
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Speaker 3: reality that was. And there's an explanation for that. But J.D.
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Speaker 3: Vance laying this whole thing, this catastrophe on the war,
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Speaker 3: and I think a lot of it had to do
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Speaker 3: with that. Of course, energy, prices, affordability, all of it
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Speaker 3: really big in why people voted the way they did.
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Speaker 3: And if you look at the shift, you know, Trump essentially,
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Speaker 3: I'll put it at the feet of Trump. We always
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Speaker 3: put it at the feet of the president in charge
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Speaker 3: at the time. used up all his political capital among
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Speaker 3: the black votes and the Hispanic votes. The Hispanics turned
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Speaker 3: their backs completely on Trump and way, I mean, they
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Speaker 3: had moved way over for Trump in 2024, and now
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Speaker 3: they shifted way over to the left, most suggesting it
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Speaker 3: was his harsh immigration policies with regard to ICE activities,
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Speaker 3: not the shutting down of the border, which ultimately got
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Speaker 3: him elected, including a sizable portion of the Hispanic voters.
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Speaker 3: But because of, you know, this some perceived to be
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Speaker 3: overzealous deportation program that has been going on with ICE.
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Speaker 3: And the optics aren't really good for a lot of folks. But,
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Speaker 3: you know, I didn't come to the conclusion that had
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Speaker 3: a profound impact on the election. I'm just listening to
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Speaker 3: what all of the, yes, we can go back to
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Speaker 3: believing polls. Well, that's the suggestion anyway. Exit polls and
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Speaker 3: other polls, really high on the list of reasons why.
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Speaker 3: Things went so bad. But it wasn't people leaving the
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Speaker 3: polling booth saying, I like and embrace the Democrat platform
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Speaker 3: because there wasn't one. They pounded the drum of evil
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Speaker 3: orange man and basically the affordability issue. Easy things to target.
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Speaker 3: Of course, they're used to going after Trump. They've been
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Speaker 3: doing it for 10 years. So affordability. And are the
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Speaker 3: Democrats offering an explanation on how they're going to deal
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Speaker 3: with affordability, how they're going to lower inflation? No, of
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Speaker 3: course they can't. So now becomes a test between now
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Speaker 3: and the presidential election in 2028. Yeah, we're already in
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Speaker 3: election season. It never ends. They're going to have to
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Speaker 3: prove the American voters that they have a recipe for success,
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Speaker 3: that they can do something that will improve our lives. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: good luck. Good luck. It's going to be interesting. But anyway,
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Speaker 3: I want to, from the bottom of my heart, and 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK,
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Speaker 3: pound 550 on your AT & T phone. It looks, though,
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Speaker 3: I will observe very briefly, because we can elaborate on
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Speaker 3: this and you can draw your own conclusions as well,
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Speaker 3: we all are, that it now is going to be
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Speaker 3: politically acceptable within the ranks of the Republican Party to
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Speaker 3: criticize Donald Trump, which is in essence a little bit
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Speaker 3: what J.D. Vance did the other day. And Josh Gerth
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Speaker 3: was at lunch yesterday, the Republican Party chairman here in
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Speaker 3: Hamilton County, and He was feeling very– look, based upon
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Speaker 3: my reading of his face, he's not very happy. And
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Speaker 3: I think he's casting a lot of blame on himself
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Speaker 3: for no reason. Josh, you did a great job. He
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Speaker 3: has vowed to stick with it. He's not going anywhere.
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Speaker 3: He's going to join– he's going to, you know, shared services,
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Speaker 3: get all the surrounding counties who are now facing perhaps
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Speaker 3: a blue erosion of the red that they are so
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Speaker 3: strong in in Butler County, Claremont County, Warren County, working together.
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Speaker 3: So he's got a plan for the future. But, you know, Josh,
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Speaker 3: you did a great job. It's not your fault. Going
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Speaker 3: back to Donald Trump, J.D. Vance's criticism of this war,
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Speaker 3: I suggested to Gerth, because he showed me the text
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Speaker 3: that J.D. Vance sent out the other day articulating very
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Speaker 3: lengthy reasons why he suffered this blue wave, focusing exclusively
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Speaker 3: on the war in spite of other criticisms that exit
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Speaker 3: polling shows that they voted for Democrats because of, but
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Speaker 3: I thought, well, you know, J.D. Vance wants to be president.
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Speaker 3: He is going to have to distance himself from, yes,
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Speaker 3: evil orange man, or it's going to be a critical
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Speaker 3: issue in the race in 2028. Maybe this is the
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Speaker 3: beginning of that happening. Because if he is, you know,
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Speaker 3: lockstep viewed as a Trump supporter and always Trumper, et cetera,
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Speaker 3: that's going to really clobber him in the 2028 election.
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Speaker 3: So the beginning of the move away, the open, out
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Speaker 3: loud criticism of Trump and some of his policies, and
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Speaker 3: basically Many are arguing maybe this will temper Trump. And
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Speaker 3: a lot of, you know, hindsight 2020 analysis about Trump
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Speaker 3: not doing himself any favors with what he focused on
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Speaker 3: a lot toward the end of the election. It was
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Speaker 3: almost as if, you know, don't worry about inflation. Don't
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Speaker 3: worry about affordability. Look at the waiting pool I got here.
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Speaker 3: Look at my triumphal arts. Look at the ballroom. Focusing
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Speaker 3: a lot on these public works projects in and around D.C. primarily.
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Speaker 3: that most of us really were appreciative of the fact
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Speaker 3: that D.C. doesn't look like a hellhole, that our nation's
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Speaker 3: capital can be proudly displayed, but a list of priorities
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Speaker 3: for the American voters when it costs north of $ 4,
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Speaker 3: almost $ 5 a gallon of gasoline and groceries are expensive
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Speaker 3: and we can all trace a lot of this to
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Speaker 3: the war. Many people are observing that, yes, the tariffs
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Speaker 3: had a profound impact on the price that you and
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Speaker 3: I were paying. Obviously, that was a Trump thing. He
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Speaker 3: did it unilaterally. That's, you know, the issues we're facing now.
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Speaker 3: So where this goes and how the Democrats end up
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Speaker 3: reacting to it and what they do, are they going
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Speaker 3: to temper themselves? Are they going to go full on
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Speaker 3: with their woke agenda? I hope that that's what they do.
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Speaker 3: I hope they do perceive this to be a referendum
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Speaker 3: on their insanity. Ignoring evil orange man and that protest
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Speaker 3: vote that so many people made the other day and
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Speaker 3: just focusing on, well, great, now we can have men
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Speaker 3: playing against your young women in high school sports, or
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Speaker 3: pick another woke ideological principle that they embrace that no
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Speaker 3: one really collectively wants. So go after it, have fun,
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Speaker 3: and see how that works out for America, who will
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Speaker 3: still be waiting around for politicians to do something to
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Speaker 3: correct the outrageous cost of, well, everything. Housing's an issue, right? Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I know. Affordability, generally speaking, across the board. What can
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Speaker 3: the Democrats do? I don't think they have an answer
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Speaker 3: to that question. So they win on evil orange men,
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Speaker 3: but now they're going to have to bring the goods.
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Speaker 3: Now they're going to have to come up with solutions.
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Speaker 3: Now they're going to have to actually answer questions.
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Speaker 7: Dr.
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Speaker 3: Amy Acton can't hide in your basement anymore as your
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Speaker 3: gubernatorial elect here in the state of Ohio. What are
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Speaker 3: you planning on doing for Ohioans? Many think that it's
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Speaker 3: going to be an erosion of conservative-minded principles, like perhaps
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Speaker 3: rolling back education reform here in Ohio. Raising taxes. And
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Speaker 3: that's on their agenda, to raise taxes. And maybe now
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Speaker 3: that the election's over, we can get them to actually
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Speaker 3: answer questions like, hey, you Medicare-for-all folks, can you at
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Speaker 3: least explain to the American people, oh, this is such
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Speaker 3: a great concept on paper and conceptually as a philosophical idea,
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Speaker 3: How are you going to afford it, given its $ 40- plus
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Speaker 3: trillion price tag over a mere 10 years? Go ahead,
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Speaker 3: scoop up all the billionaires' assets and wealth. We've been
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Speaker 3: down this road a million times. There aren't enough of
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Speaker 3: those evil rich people that you so demonize to fund
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Speaker 3: everything that you want. There aren't enough of them to
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Speaker 3: fund Medicare for All, for example, so why even bother
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Speaker 3: articulating that? Well, maybe because they believe the American people
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Speaker 3: are so stupid that It is affordable. No, sure, we
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Speaker 3: can afford that. We just got to go after those
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Speaker 3: rich people. Ignoring the ripple effect that that has on
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Speaker 3: the economy, taxation, the revenues flowing into government, for example,
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Speaker 3: the more you tax rich people, the less money actually
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Speaker 3: flows into government. it stifles development it stifles investment it
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Speaker 3: stifles job creation it's it's at minimum it's a zero-sum
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Speaker 3: game raising the taxes reducing the revenue so it's it's
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Speaker 3: just it's bat crap insanity so now's the time to
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Speaker 3: start answering questions And, you know, when they don't deliver
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Speaker 3: on that promise and they keep moving forward with impeachment
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Speaker 3: investigations or subpoenas or whatever, and some of them may
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Speaker 3: very well be justified, I've got no problem if there's
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Speaker 3: something untoward, illegal going on within the administration. I don't
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Speaker 3: care if it's a Republican or Democrat administration. I don't
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Speaker 3: want it happening. Politics can be corrupt regardless of where
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Speaker 3: you come from. And if there's corruption out there within
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Speaker 3: the Trump administration, I sure as hell hope it's found out. But,
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Speaker 3: you know, there is the argument that it's just going
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Speaker 3: to be a lawfare and that the only reason they're
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Speaker 3: going to be bringing things up is just to, well,
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Speaker 3: obviously taint the presidency and present this idea that there
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Speaker 3: is corruption. But I doubt they'll bring the goods on that,
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Speaker 3: the receipts, as we like to say. Balls in their
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Speaker 3: court now. We're going to have to live with the aftermath.
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Speaker 7: 503-749-5500.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of bringing receipts, after Congressman Warren Davidson said, In
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Speaker 3: the 7 o'clock hour, we'll have a little bit of time,
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Speaker 3: but then we'll get Signal 99 returning at 8.05 to
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Speaker 3: talk about the election postmortem, doubling down on watching what
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Speaker 3: the judges are doing. And you know what? We've got
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Speaker 3: citizen watchdog Todd Zinser looking out for the dollars and
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Speaker 3: cents in downtown Cincinnati. We've got Signal 99 looking out
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Speaker 3: for the entire county and the region in terms of, well,
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Speaker 3: law enforcement, crime, and judicial shenanigans, if I can boil
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Speaker 3: it down to that. Yeah, Judge Blum remains the juvenile court. Judge, wonderful. 517-55-KRC,
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Speaker 3: the talk station. Got a couple of callers online. Looking
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Speaker 3: forward to having James and Steve and your calls as well.
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Speaker 3: Love the analysis. You can provide opinions or like sphincters.
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Speaker 3: We've all got them. We're just trying to reach the
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Speaker 3: truth and come up with a conclusion. That's why I
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Speaker 3: love talking with listeners. Don't go away.
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Speaker 1: This is 55-KRC.
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Speaker 8: On a Friday, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on AT &
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Speaker 2: Check it out online.
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Speaker 3: PeterBobKersey.iHeart.com, Judge Anna Napolitano, Hammond County Republican Party, Josh Gerth
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Speaker 3: from yesterday, the little post-mortem. And again, Josh, chin up, brother.
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Speaker 3: And I will really quickly, before I get to Steve
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Speaker 3: and James, thank the listeners yesterday. What a wonderful opportunity
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Speaker 3: it was to sort of remind me personally, but also
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Speaker 3: try to help others not to feel really bad. If
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Speaker 3: you're walking around feeling, you know, terrible, and there are
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Speaker 3: a lot of reasons, of course, to feel badly about it, but,
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Speaker 3: you know... This is where we are. There is nothing
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Speaker 3: you can do about it. It's like trying to go
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Speaker 3: to sleep at night. If you're letting all the troubles
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Speaker 3: of the day and tomorrow get through your head, there's
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Speaker 3: nothing you're going to accomplish by letting it ruin your
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Speaker 3: night's sleep. You're not going to do anything to change
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Speaker 3: what happened. You can't unring the bell of what happened.
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Speaker 3: You can't, you know, figure out what you're going to
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Speaker 3: be doing tomorrow when you're trying to sleep. Sleep is
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Speaker 3: the most important thing. So positivity, not letting this defeat
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Speaker 3: get under your skin and ruin your day because you
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Speaker 3: know what that means? It means they win. It's like
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Speaker 3: we relish the fact that they're all suffering from Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump living rent-free in their brain. That's kind of a
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Speaker 3: schadenfreude gift that we get. They're crazy because of Trump,
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Speaker 3: but you know what? That spilled over to a lot
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Speaker 3: of people who voted against him yesterday or Tuesday. But
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Speaker 3: don't let it be you. A lot of smiles yesterday
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Speaker 3: at listener lunch, a lot of pleasant comments, reminders about
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Speaker 3: how good we still have it here in America in
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Speaker 3: spite of the loss on Tuesday. So God bless each
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Speaker 3: and every one of you. It's just one of the
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Speaker 3: really uplifting things that I get personally from listener lunch.
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Speaker 3: I am not alone. Let's see what Steve's got. Steve,
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Speaker 3: thanks for indulging me there and holding while I got
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Speaker 3: that out of my system. Welcome to The Morning Show.
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Speaker 7: Brian, best of wishes for health to you and your
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Speaker 7: loved ones and the listeners.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.
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Speaker 9: I was going to mention, Glenn Beck pointed out that
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Speaker 9: the Democrats are.
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Speaker 7: Going to be drunk on power and power.
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Speaker 9: I wanted to ask you, because I don't believe that's
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Speaker 9: totally true.
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Speaker 3: I don't either.
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Speaker 9: I'm thinking Amy Acton's going to be drunk.
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Speaker 8: I'm going with boxed wine.
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Speaker 9: So should we place bets? I'm going boxed wine.
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Speaker 7: What do you say?
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Speaker 3: Safe bet. Safe bet. Boat a box. Three bottles for,
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Speaker 3: what is it, $ 19.
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Speaker 6: 99?
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Speaker 3: You get three bottles of wine. It's award-winning.
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Speaker 9: I'm Kamala box wine.
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Speaker 3: Box wine. You get more bang for your buck. Yeah. Same,
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Speaker 3: same ABV is an expensive bottle of wine, but you
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Speaker 3: get more for less.
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Speaker 9: It's trying to add a little levity here.
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Speaker 3: Steve, I'll take it anytime. I enjoy a levity. Cause
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Speaker 3: you know, if you don't have, if you can't laugh, right.
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Speaker 3: It's like yesterday, you don't walk around feeling miserable. Don't
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Speaker 3: let them have, don't let it happen. Mississippi James, welcome
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Speaker 3: to the show, my friend. Happy Friday Eve.
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Speaker 10: Good morning, Dr.
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Speaker 6: Bryan. I come in peace.
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Speaker 10: Love everyone.
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Speaker 6: There's nothing you can do about it.
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Speaker 3: And I bet the word pendulum is on your mind.
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Speaker 3: I thought of you yesterday when we all realized collectively
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Speaker 3: the pendulum indeed swung. The question is what it means.
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Speaker 6: Well, it's an opportunity. And the way I look at it,
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Speaker 6: the politicians are just supposed to be the voice of
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Speaker 6: the people's And see, we the people should get together
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Speaker 6: and drive the narrative as to what we need and
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Speaker 6: we want. But if we keep leaving it up to
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Speaker 6: the politician, that's all about money, power, and control. So
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Speaker 6: they're going to do what they want to do. But
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Speaker 6: when it comes down to the common person, daily living, activities,
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Speaker 6: like I say, food, insurance, safety, we've got to come
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Speaker 6: together on this end and send it up to them.
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Speaker 6: for them to use the laws they already have or
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Speaker 6: make new laws. But if we leave it for them
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Speaker 6: to come down, that's sort of like that trickle-down theory.
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Speaker 6: It dries up when it gets down to us. So
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Speaker 6: we as the people have got to come together and
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Speaker 6: forget all this Trump shenanigan and all what the Democrats
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Speaker 6: are going to do going after the orange man, all
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Speaker 6: that's diversionary. Let's come together as people's Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I agree it is an opportunity to do just that,
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Speaker 3: but I really don't think in this political environment it
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Speaker 3: can happen because of this absolute stark division. The Democrats
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Speaker 3: will not approve anything that Trump even remotely supports, and
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Speaker 3: the Trump side of the ledger, the Republicans won't endorse
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Speaker 3: anything that the Democrats push forward even remotely. So this
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Speaker 3: isn't like Tip O'Neill and the Reagan election when Reagan
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Speaker 3: was president. I mean, they were able to come together.
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Speaker 3: Same thing in the Clinton administration when the Republicans took over.
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Speaker 3: Everybody sort of worked together for the common good. At
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Speaker 3: least it appears that way with hindsight because we all
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Speaker 3: ended up benefiting from the Ronald Reagan presidency economically. The
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Speaker 3: growth was just insane. But he was able to do
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Speaker 3: that and accomplish that because the Democrats were willing to
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Speaker 3: work with the president to achieve that goal. We had
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Speaker 3: a balanced budget because, well, the Democrats worked with Newt
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Speaker 3: Gingrich during the Clinton administration to achieve, well, wow, what
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Speaker 3: a balanced budget. And it's been decades since that happened.
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Speaker 3: So there's great things that can be accomplished if your
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Speaker 3: point is taken, James, that they think about us first,
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Speaker 3: not their own vested personal interests. And this is a
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Speaker 3: sort of an anguished cry at both Republicans and Democrats.
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Speaker 3: They only seem to care about their own narcissistic heads.
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Speaker 3: in their own backyard. And yeah, like the, I'll just
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Speaker 3: throw it out there, the military industrial complex, you'll have
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Speaker 3: Republicans who maybe out loud say they're deficit hawks, deficit hawks,
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Speaker 3: but then they'll approve massive spending because, oh, well, we've
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Speaker 3: got Raytheon in our backyard and there's no way we
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Speaker 3: can go against them. Same thing with farm issues. Ethanol
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Speaker 3: in my gas tank, screw all of you. Well, we've
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Speaker 3: got to do that because we have a farm lobby.
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Speaker 3: We need to appease the farm lobby. Okay, fine. This seat,
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Speaker 3: It goes around. It's everywhere. And this is the first
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Speaker 3: two things that just came to my mind. I'm sure
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Speaker 3: we could write volumes or books on these crazy protectionists
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Speaker 3: and these individuals and elected officials who would think of
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Speaker 3: nothing but themselves and their next election, ignoring us, the people.
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Speaker 3: And it's in the Democrats' corner now, James. 527-55-KRC-D Talk Station.
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Speaker 3: Stick around. If you ever have a tickle in your
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Speaker 3: throat and you can't get it to stop, sorry for
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Speaker 3: the extended cough button pause there. I'll see if I
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Speaker 3: can recover. While we take Bobby's call, I guess it
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Speaker 3: is Thursday, over and under time. Bobby, ahead of that,
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Speaker 3: just let me tell you, Fox 19 reporting that there
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Speaker 3: are social media flyers going all over town, downtown, that
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Speaker 3: there is another big gathering, a shutdown party this Saturday.
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Speaker 3: The flyer advertises what it is calling Hood Takeover Part
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Speaker 3: 2 taking place this Saturday. Probably on short by, maybe
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Speaker 3: the BP will get attacked again, but community leaders and
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Speaker 3: council members are urging people not to take over the street.
19:33
Speaker 3: So you got that possibly happening, Bobby. How does that
19:35
Speaker 3: factor into your over and under on violent crime?
19:38
Speaker 7: We expect it, my friend. Face, flag, family, and firearms.
19:42
Speaker 7: You keep those in your air outside areas and you'll
19:45
Speaker 7: keep your safety.
19:46
Speaker 3: Yeah that's true freedom yeah i'm i'm a huge advocate.
19:51
Speaker 7: One thing i'd like to do we're going to handicap
19:53
Speaker 7: it at three and a half again we've had a
19:54
Speaker 7: few murder well yes since we've had a few murders
19:57
Speaker 7: during the week we're just going to be very positive
20:00
Speaker 7: this weekend we know just take the over but you
20:03
Speaker 7: know we're still we'll put it at three and a.
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Speaker 3: Half you know i do you always take the over Yes. Okay. See,
20:09
Speaker 3: I misrecognition. I had texted Joe Strecker because there was
20:13
Speaker 3: violence last weekend for the street takeover and all the
20:15
Speaker 3: other violent activities. I said, I thought you took the under.
20:18
Speaker 3: And I said, well, Bobby should have taken the over.
20:20
Speaker 3: And Joe's response, he always takes the over. It's like
20:23
Speaker 3: he corrected me. So I just want to make sure
20:25
Speaker 3: Joe and I are clear on the record. So 3.5
20:27
Speaker 3: violent crimes in the area and you're going over. And
20:31
Speaker 3: I think that's the safest bet, sadly.
20:34
Speaker 7: I know, and it's a sad situation.
20:36
Speaker 3: You know, Bobby, they always talk about Cincinnati being 10
20:39
Speaker 3: years behind, so the world will end and we won't
20:41
Speaker 3: know about it until 10 years later, and that's kind
20:43
Speaker 3: of a comforting feeling. But I guess do we have
20:46
Speaker 3: to wait 10 years before the city has a decrease
20:49
Speaker 3: in violent crime? Because apparently crime is at the all-time
20:52
Speaker 3: low historically across the entire country, just not here.
20:57
Speaker 7: It's not just going to be in Cincinnati. It'll be
21:01
Speaker 7: in 14 of the 15 counties of the state. I'd
21:04
Speaker 7: like to say one thing about the election, if I can.
21:06
Speaker 7: It won't take a second.
21:07
Speaker 11: Go ahead.
21:08
Speaker 7: I'd like to go ahead and congratulate V-Bake, who won
21:11
Speaker 7: 75 out of 88 counties.
21:14
Speaker 6: Yeah.
21:15
Speaker 7: You cannot control the Cincinnati-Hamilton County when it comes to Democrats.
21:20
Speaker 7: You cannot control Columbus, Youngstown, Cleveland. They have a well-oiled machine.
21:25
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter who you put in there. They need
21:29
Speaker 7: to figure out how to handle it in a different manner,
21:31
Speaker 7: but they don't want to listen.
21:32
Speaker 3: They want to talk about.
21:34
Speaker 7: The Spanish votes and everything. It's not that. They're controlling
21:38
Speaker 7: the urban areas, and they're controlling the votes.
21:42
Speaker 3: Bobby, it's the well-oiled machine. They've been a well-oiled machine,
21:45
Speaker 3: the Democratic Party, for a long time, even before they
21:47
Speaker 3: went full-on communist. They are all interconnected. Most of them,
21:50
Speaker 3: I think, don't have jobs. They have nothing else to
21:51
Speaker 3: do but involve in social media and stick around and
21:54
Speaker 3: wait for these events to be called to go out
21:55
Speaker 3: and vote because they're so well-oiled. They're so dedicated to
21:59
Speaker 3: their left-wing cause. It is a religion for the Democrats.
22:05
Speaker 3: I wish the Republican Party had that concept. I wish
22:08
Speaker 3: it was more like a religion within the Republican Party.
22:10
Speaker 3: Fiscal responsibility, limited government, free markets. Let's stick to those
22:13
Speaker 3: three core principles. Maybe we could turn it into a religion.
22:17
Speaker 3: Government does not have the answers to our problems. Of
22:19
Speaker 3: those waiting around for government to solve the problems in
22:21
Speaker 3: their individual world, You've got a long, long wait, and
22:25
Speaker 3: whatever the government will do by way of legislation, policy,
22:29
Speaker 3: or practice, let me guarantee you, as it has been
22:31
Speaker 3: in all cases, almost 100% of the time, they will
22:35
Speaker 3: fail you. It will cost a whole lot of money,
22:37
Speaker 3: and very little will get accomplished, and we'll have some
22:39
Speaker 3: permanently enshrined program in government that we will continue to fund,
22:42
Speaker 3: further imperiling our fiat currency because of the reckless printing press,
22:47
Speaker 3: which keeps us going. and an additional $ 2 trillion a
22:50
Speaker 3: year beyond the tax revenue that's taken in. This is
22:53
Speaker 3: going to collapse at some point. That's what I'm worried about, Bobby.
22:57
Speaker 7: Oh, I agree. 14 counties, and all of them are
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Speaker 7: run by Democratic mayors, Democratic city councils. It is a
23:04
Speaker 7: well-oiled machine. They need to worry about how to control
23:07
Speaker 7: the situation, except worry, well, we've got so many suburban
23:12
Speaker 7: housewives that didn't vote, or we have some in the
23:14
Speaker 7: Spanish community. It has nothing to do with it. They
23:19
Speaker 7: don't know how to handle it in an insurgency operation.
23:25
Speaker 7: You already know who the enemy is. They're in the cities.
23:28
Speaker 7: They're in the counties. Control it. Peaceful protest.
23:33
Speaker 3: Well, that's going to require some organization and taking it
23:36
Speaker 3: to a level that the Republicans have never taken it to, Bobby.
23:40
Speaker 3: See what happens. Go ahead. Go organize, Bobby. Get the
23:43
Speaker 3: people out on the street. See what can happen. Take care, brother.
23:46
Speaker 3: Three and a half. Bobby's over. Take care, man. We'll
23:49
Speaker 3: talk again, I'm sure, soon. Corey, hang on, brother. I'll
23:53
Speaker 3: get you a call right after the break here. Got
23:54
Speaker 3: to take a break. I want to strongly encourage people.
23:56
Speaker 7: To talk station.
24:01
Speaker 3: It's 540 55 care CD talk station. Get over to
24:04
Speaker 3: the phones. Get Corey's call here in a second. Good morning.
24:07
Speaker 3: Steve is listening, streaming through the iHeartMedia, apparently having some
24:10
Speaker 3: difficulties with the streamer going in and out. I don't know.
24:13
Speaker 3: Sometimes that is an isolated problem. Sometimes it Well, it's
24:16
Speaker 3: just the problem generally for all. So apologies for that
24:19
Speaker 3: if it's going on. It is out of Joe and
24:21
Speaker 3: my hands. All we can do is report it to
24:24
Speaker 3: some distant bureaucratic entity within the iHeartMedia network, and hopefully
24:28
Speaker 3: somebody will fix it. Isn't that right, Joe?
24:31
Speaker 7: Yes.
24:33
Speaker 3: Let's get her to the phones here. Corey, thanks for
24:35
Speaker 3: holding up for the break there. Welcome to the program.
24:38
Speaker 6: Morning.
24:39
Speaker 7: I'm streaming this.
24:40
Speaker 8: Morning as well from Northern Ohio, and it's been fine.
24:42
Speaker 3: Oh, good.
24:42
Speaker 6: Good night.
24:44
Speaker 8: Going back to Bobby, I always thought we need an
24:47
Speaker 8: electoral college system at a state level to fix a
24:50
Speaker 8: lot of it. You think Ohio's bad? 75 to 9
24:55
Speaker 8: or whatever it was. Look at Illinois.
24:57
Speaker 3: Oh, I know. Remember 2011?
24:59
Speaker 8: Something like 111. Or 109 of the 112 counties for
25:03
Speaker 8: the Republican, but yet Cook County still took everything.
25:08
Speaker 3: Yes, man, I lived that nightmare. When you're a conservative
25:12
Speaker 3: in Chicago, you know how difficult it is anyway. You
25:14
Speaker 3: just kind of keep your head down and keep your
25:15
Speaker 3: mouth shut because it's not worth trying to campaign for
25:18
Speaker 3: your side of the ledger. But knowing full well it's
25:20
Speaker 3: an exercise in futility, the vast majority of people in
25:23
Speaker 3: Illinois are conservatives. It's the weight of Chicago's overwhelming population numbers.
25:29
Speaker 3: This is why the left wants to eradicate the electoral
25:32
Speaker 3: college in this land.
25:35
Speaker 8: Anyway, the reason for my call, I think one of
25:38
Speaker 8: the biggest problems that came out of the election would
25:41
Speaker 8: be the appointment of judges on the Supreme Court. Clarence
25:45
Speaker 8: Thomas and Alito are 76 to 77 years old. The
25:50
Speaker 8: Republicans don't have a realistic chance of getting the Senate
25:53
Speaker 8: back until something like, what, 2032? And God forbid something
25:59
Speaker 8: happens to one of those two prior to that.
26:02
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
26:03
Speaker 8: There's no way the Democrat-controlled Senate is going to let
26:07
Speaker 8: Trump appoint one of his conservative judges to the Supreme Court.
26:11
Speaker 3: Not a chance. They'll leave it vacant.
26:13
Speaker 8: Yeah, they'll leave it vacant until they get their guy
26:15
Speaker 8: in there to appoint who they want.
26:16
Speaker 5: Yep.
26:17
Speaker 8: And realistically, like I said... There's too many seats. I
26:21
Speaker 8: don't see it getting flipped for a long time, 2032,
26:25
Speaker 8: if not longer, before the Republicans have a chance to
26:28
Speaker 8: appoint judges who they want.
26:31
Speaker 3: I hear your concern, and I cannot deny that that
26:34
Speaker 3: is a distinct possibility. But as I pointed out earlier,
26:37
Speaker 3: the Democrats have a couple of years now to sort
26:39
Speaker 3: of figure out how they're going to deliver on their
26:41
Speaker 3: affordability message and not go full-on rabid woke, because if
26:44
Speaker 3: they do, I think that tenuous relationship the independents have
26:48
Speaker 3: to any party will disappear and then maybe go back
26:51
Speaker 3: over to the Republicans' advantage. You know, if you're bat-crap
26:54
Speaker 3: insane and independent voters are like, I hate Republicans, I
26:57
Speaker 3: hate Democrats, I've got to go vote for one or
26:59
Speaker 3: the other, and that's all I've got in a two-party system,
27:02
Speaker 3: which one is going to represent my interests more? There
27:04
Speaker 3: is no lock on independence with either party.
27:08
Speaker 8: Well, I think they are going to go full-blown woke,
27:12
Speaker 8: because they're already talking about it. They're already talking about
27:15
Speaker 8: stacking the court with 13 Republicans judges on the Supreme
27:20
Speaker 8: Court versus the current nine.
27:21
Speaker 3: Well, that's different. That's on the legal side of the ledger.
27:26
Speaker 3: I'm talking about going full woke on policies and legislation
27:29
Speaker 3: and advancing, you know, men competing against women and these,
27:33
Speaker 3: you know, these crazy ideas within the Democrat Party that
27:37
Speaker 3: do not resonate among the larger, broader population. They're just
27:41
Speaker 3: not popular ideas. But here's the problem.
27:46
Speaker 8: I think you're wrong on that, I think they're going
27:48
Speaker 8: to go full-blown on everything they can because they got
27:51
Speaker 8: the ball. And unlike Republicans, when Democrats have.
27:53
Speaker 7: The opportunity, they seize it.
27:56
Speaker 8: And they will do everything they can in their power
27:59
Speaker 8: to get what they want. Damn whatever comes after that.
28:02
Speaker 8: As long as they get what they want, that's all
28:05
Speaker 8: that matters.
28:05
Speaker 3: You may be right. And that is a political option
28:08
Speaker 3: for them that I hope they pursue. I mean, if
28:11
Speaker 3: they're smart, they won't do that because Donald Trump's still
28:14
Speaker 3: wielding the executive veto pen. So they'll use up a
28:19
Speaker 3: lot of maybe this short-lived political capital they got back
28:23
Speaker 3: in the independent realm, and maybe things will change for
28:26
Speaker 3: the next election cycle. I think it's a possibility. I
28:29
Speaker 3: know you're not right. I know I'm not right. I
28:31
Speaker 3: know both of us, either of us could be right.
28:34
Speaker 3: It's just question marks now, but it is something the
28:37
Speaker 3: Democrats are going to have to deal with. How they
28:40
Speaker 3: take Tuesday, which most pundits are saying was a referendum
28:46
Speaker 3: on Trump, not an embrace of leftist Democrat policies. It's
28:53
Speaker 3: their decision moving forward. We get to kick back and
28:57
Speaker 3: just enjoy or have disdain for the reality of it.
28:59
Speaker 3: But I think if they maintain a moderate position moving forward,
29:03
Speaker 3: they will solidify some of these independent votes. But I
29:06
Speaker 3: hope they go full on woke so everyone will realize
29:09
Speaker 3: what they mean, what they say. 545-85-KERCITY-TALK-STATION. Stack is stupid
29:14
Speaker 3: or more phone calls either way. That stack is stupid. Wow.
29:23
Speaker 3: This is just weird. Apparently, throuples and foursomes, multi-partner relationships
29:30
Speaker 3: in West Hollywood, they just passed an ordinance on Tuesday.
29:33
Speaker 3: Speaking of left-wing bat crap and insanity, now four people
29:37
Speaker 3: can register as collective domestic partners. in West Hollywood. Measure
29:44
Speaker 3: specifically allows people in relationships involving multiple partners to officially
29:48
Speaker 3: register with the city, granting them certain rights like hospital visitation,
29:52
Speaker 3: additional tenant protections. That doesn't give them broad access like
29:57
Speaker 3: typical domestic partners have. You know, you're Quote, unquote, married,
30:00
Speaker 3: but you're not married. Measure extends to legal protections of
30:03
Speaker 3: registered partners requiring health care facilities and city-operated jails to
30:07
Speaker 3: recognize their visitation rights. It also provides housing protection by
30:10
Speaker 3: preventing landlords from terminating or refusing to renew a lease
30:14
Speaker 3: when a partner remains in the rental property. Yeah, that's
30:19
Speaker 3: the direction we're moving in. Oh, yeah, Virginia, now you
30:21
Speaker 3: can get an abortion like two seconds before the baby
30:23
Speaker 3: is ready to come out on its own. That's a
30:26
Speaker 3: loosely boiled-down version of what they just passed there. So,
30:29
Speaker 3: you know, you get elections that have significant consequences. And
30:32
Speaker 3: since it is iHeartMedia Aviation Expert Day with Jay Ratliff
30:35
Speaker 3: at 8.30, and it is not on his list, let's
30:37
Speaker 3: go to the stack of stupid for this one. While
30:42
Speaker 3: seated in a passenger seat waiting in a Florida airport,
30:48
Speaker 3: a male traveler allegedly unbuttoned his pants, and began urinating
30:53
Speaker 3: in the direction of a couple and their seven-year-old son.
30:57
Speaker 3: Why are you doing that? According to the police, who
31:00
Speaker 3: said the child and his mother, in fact, were splashed
31:03
Speaker 3: with urine. Criminal complaint alleges Lawrence Rabin, 48, was across
31:08
Speaker 3: from a family near the gate inside Terminal 3 at
31:10
Speaker 3: Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport. That's when he exposed himself.
31:13
Speaker 3: Happened at 11.30 in the morning on Tuesday. According to police,
31:18
Speaker 3: as Rabin urinated toward the family, Brittany Purdy and her
31:21
Speaker 3: son were, quote, struck by the urine, close quote, as
31:24
Speaker 3: Rabin exposed himself and began urinating several other passengers dispersed
31:29
Speaker 3: from the area. It's in the arrest report. He's a
31:32
Speaker 3: Fort Lauderdale resident, subsequently arrested, booked into the county jail
31:35
Speaker 3: on misdemeanor battery, indecent exposure, and disorderly intoxication counts. There
31:39
Speaker 3: it is, Joe. Also charged with felony for allegedly causing
31:43
Speaker 3: a minor to have contact with bodily fluids. That is
31:45
Speaker 3: a charge. Court records don't indicate whether he was waiting
31:49
Speaker 3: to board a flight in a secured area or just
31:50
Speaker 3: hanging out. Described as a divorced father of two young boys. Oh,
31:56
Speaker 3: that's a good one, Joe. I forgot about that. I
31:57
Speaker 3: didn't even realize the softball I just lobbed. Phrasing. He's
32:04
Speaker 3: a divorced father of two young boys. Yeah, that divorce
32:07
Speaker 3: is shocking, isn't it? Anyway, project manager for a kitchen
32:10
Speaker 3: remodeling firm. And he has a rap sheet. Shocking, no one. Hey, look,
32:18
Speaker 3: this could be Ohio. Except it's Quebec. Just wait for it.
32:22
Speaker 3: Expect similar reports here in Ohio local news, perhaps related
32:26
Speaker 3: to Governor Amy Acton. That's kind of what I'm thinking.
32:28
Speaker 3: We've got a mayor of a small town in north
32:30
Speaker 3: Montreal now facing five charges of theft for taking bottles
32:35
Speaker 3: of Bacardi rum from a liquor store and leaving without paying.
32:38
Speaker 3: Because this is Quebec. It's Crown prosecutors who charged the...
32:44
Speaker 3: Sinan Delaxmeyer, I'm probably pronouncing that incorrect. It's French. Anyway,
32:48
Speaker 3: John Dalzell, who also happens to be a former Montreal
32:51
Speaker 3: police officer with theft under $ 5, 000 for multiple offenses. He
32:56
Speaker 3: stole from a state liquor store. I don't know what
32:58
Speaker 3: they call it. It's the Société d'Alcool du Québec. I
33:03
Speaker 3: read that as a state liquor store anyway. He stole
33:06
Speaker 3: a bottle of Bacardi on each date on the charge sheet.
33:11
Speaker 3: He pleaded not guilty to all the counts. described as
33:14
Speaker 3: running unopposed for mayor in 2025. According to the spokesperson,
33:18
Speaker 3: I said the organizations aware of the charges can't comment
33:21
Speaker 3: due to the ongoing legal proceedings. They said, we take
33:24
Speaker 3: this situation seriously and understand the concerns it may raise.
33:28
Speaker 6: True.
33:30
Speaker 3: Except here it'll be boxed wine, right, Joe? They don't
33:39
Speaker 3: even make Boone's Farm anymore, do they? I think you
33:42
Speaker 3: can still get Mad Dog 2020, though. I could be
33:45
Speaker 3: wrong on that. Haven't gone that down that road since, like, what,
33:50
Speaker 3: senior in high school or something? Matt, if you don't
33:52
Speaker 3: mind holding on, we got out of time. It's 5.55 already.
33:54
Speaker 3: I didn't even get too much of the stack. It's stupid,
33:56
Speaker 3: but it's okay. See the talk station. It's 606-55-KRC, the
34:01
Speaker 3: talk station.
34:02
Speaker 5: Friday Eve.
34:06
Speaker 3: And one hour from now, Congressman Warren Davidson returns from
34:08
Speaker 3: the program. We'll get his post-election, post-mortem, as we've been
34:11
Speaker 3: calling it. And also Signal 99, the return with her
34:14
Speaker 3: analysis of the election here, most notably the judicial elections,
34:17
Speaker 3: which is just a real heartbreaker. I just don't understand
34:20
Speaker 3: how people don't want to eliminate crime by electing better judges,
34:23
Speaker 3: and that is a direct correlation between the crime we've
34:26
Speaker 3: got here and just soft on crime judiciary. But, again,
34:29
Speaker 3: it is what it is. We'll live with it. We'll
34:31
Speaker 3: deal with it. And hopefully, hopefully, God, that something will
34:34
Speaker 3: right the ship at some point. Jay Ratliff, iHeartMedia aviation expert,
34:36
Speaker 3: closing out the show as he does every week, and
34:38
Speaker 3: thank God for Jay. We have a lot to talk about,
34:40
Speaker 3: including that airplane crash. What a horror show that thing was. Man,
34:45
Speaker 3: that video just sticks in your mind. Again, thanks to
34:47
Speaker 3: everybody who made it to Listener Lunch yesterday. God bless
34:49
Speaker 3: each and every one of you. It was an uplifting
34:51
Speaker 3: moment in time when I expected just really a lot
34:53
Speaker 3: of gloom and doom. That's the great thing about my listeners.
34:56
Speaker 3: We know we've got a lot to be thankful for
34:58
Speaker 3: in spite of the challenges we face politically. And what
35:01
Speaker 3: does it mean now going forward? We're going to get
35:03
Speaker 3: to that in a minute. But first, Matt's been kind
35:04
Speaker 3: enough to hold over the break. Matt, welcome to the
35:06
Speaker 3: show and happy Friday Eve to you.
35:08
Speaker 11: Yeah, happy Friday, Keith, Brian. Yeah, I was wondering about
35:12
Speaker 11: that crash, too. They came in at, when they hit
35:15
Speaker 11: the ground, they were going faster than the top speed,
35:19
Speaker 11: the recommended top speed of that jet.
35:21
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I just thought, why would they.
35:23
Speaker 11: Be going that fast? And I'll see if Jay Ratliff
35:26
Speaker 11: has a comment on that, why they were going more.
35:28
Speaker 3: Right out of the gate, he will. It's on his list.
35:30
Speaker 3: But I think the problem was, and one of the
35:32
Speaker 3: suggestions is, A chunk of the plane flew off. The
35:36
Speaker 3: stabilizer was found like four miles away. Questioned whether the
35:41
Speaker 3: plane had already exceeded its tolerances, and it broke off because,
35:44
Speaker 3: remember the prior one we had, were they actually able
35:46
Speaker 3: to pull the plane out? It went three times beyond
35:48
Speaker 3: the design load forces, the stresses. It wasn't supposed to
35:53
Speaker 3: be able to pull out, yet it did. In this
35:55
Speaker 3: particular case, it looks like it was not capable of
35:57
Speaker 3: pulling out. And, of course, when she was on a
35:59
Speaker 3: downward trajectory, the plane only kept increasing and increasing in
36:02
Speaker 3: speed because nothing could be done about it. And it
36:04
Speaker 3: just slammed into the ground north of the speed of
36:07
Speaker 3: sound from what I heard. So Jay will break it
36:09
Speaker 3: all down for us. But, yeah, they're not quite sure
36:12
Speaker 3: what it was. Pilot error, structural brakes, problems with the
36:16
Speaker 3: death corner, which I read about, which I didn't know existed.
36:19
Speaker 3: I'm going to definitely ask Jay about that because it
36:21
Speaker 3: sounds scary as hell. Anyway, so real quick here. And
36:26
Speaker 3: props to Mike Wilson, member of the Tea Party. Mike
36:28
Speaker 3: Wilson is still very politically active, and he's a great analyst.
36:31
Speaker 3: One of the points he made is, you know, if
36:32
Speaker 3: you're on the left, don't count your chickens before their hats.
36:34
Speaker 3: The worst problem in politics is being out of power.
36:36
Speaker 3: The second worst problem of politics is being in power.
36:40
Speaker 3: Massive structural issues with our current economy. We stand on
36:43
Speaker 3: the precipice of a massive AI and robotics-driven productivity gain
36:46
Speaker 3: that could make us collectively even more fabulously wealthy than
36:49
Speaker 3: we already are. Also on the edge of a fiscal
36:51
Speaker 3: cliff of accumulated debt compounded by Democratic changes that are
36:54
Speaker 3: the longer-term drivers of inflation and cost-of-living issues. You now
36:59
Speaker 3: own navigating this problem and having promised a change in
37:02
Speaker 3: a direction with limited ability to deliver. Then he had
37:06
Speaker 3: some further analysis, but that allows me to pivot over
37:08
Speaker 3: to the Wall Street Journal. Made a good point on this, too.
37:09
Speaker 3: Will Democrats misread their victory? This goes back to what
37:12
Speaker 3: they're going to do with it. Are they going to
37:13
Speaker 3: get drunk with power and go full-on commie? Many of
37:16
Speaker 3: them want to. So here they write, Democrats won an
37:19
Speaker 3: historic midterm election victory Tuesday, and congratulations on having real
37:23
Speaker 3: legislative power. The question now is what lessons Democrats will
37:29
Speaker 3: take from their triumph and whether they'll return to the
37:31
Speaker 3: same mistakes of the Biden era that cost them so
37:33
Speaker 3: dearly in 2024. The first essential lesson is that voters
37:37
Speaker 3: are handing Democrats power because they wanted to rebuke President Trump.
37:42
Speaker 3: They think he failed to deliver on his promise to
37:44
Speaker 3: lower prices. They don't like his excesses on the rule
37:46
Speaker 3: of law, tariffs, mass deportation, and crony cashing in. Voters
37:51
Speaker 3: weren't endorsing the Democratic Party, which stands at 29% approval
37:56
Speaker 3: rating at the latest NBC poll, and I guess polls
37:58
Speaker 3: now are believable. Anyway, below even the 38% for the
38:02
Speaker 3: Republican Party, voters weren't embracing Democratic policy agenda since the
38:06
Speaker 3: party didn't offer one. Candidates chanted Trump. like an incantation,
38:12
Speaker 3: and then talked about cost and corruption. They offered little
38:14
Speaker 3: specificity about how to reduce costs. Some candidates even hid
38:18
Speaker 3: in the basement and didn't answer any damn questions. One
38:21
Speaker 3: Democratic priority is sure to be investigating the executive branch
38:24
Speaker 3: and the Trump family businesses, and some oversight is warranted.
38:28
Speaker 6: Mr.
38:28
Speaker 3: Trump's misuse of the pardon power as cryptocurrency plays and
38:31
Speaker 3: Don Jr. 's investment in firms that do business with
38:33
Speaker 3: the government are all worthy subjects, and I agree with
38:36
Speaker 3: the journal on that. Maybe it's not corrupt, maybe it is,
38:38
Speaker 3: but if it is corrupt, then don't we want to
38:40
Speaker 3: know about it? Ditto for the government loans or investment
38:44
Speaker 3: in private firms, especially those in which Trump family companies
38:48
Speaker 3: have stakes. Yes, a worthy target. More scrutiny on policy
38:52
Speaker 3: matters could also be usefully informative. Who really throttled Ukraine's
38:57
Speaker 3: Starshield satellite access? And let's learn more about the U.S.
39:00
Speaker 3: agreement with the Alejandro Bencourt, the administration's politically connected partner,
39:05
Speaker 3: and its preferential deal to exploit Venezuelan oil resources. The
39:09
Speaker 3: political danger is that Democrats won't be able to control themselves.
39:14
Speaker 3: They didn't in Trump's first term, and it cost them politically.
39:17
Speaker 3: One key test will be whether they can resist the
39:19
Speaker 3: calls to impeach him again. Nancy Pelosi didn't, and her
39:22
Speaker 3: efforts merely solidified President Republican support. Unless Democrats uncover something
39:27
Speaker 3: serious enough to get Republican senators to convict after a
39:30
Speaker 3: House impeachment, they would be wise to settle for oversight
39:33
Speaker 3: and informing voters. That's the lesser of how hog-wild they
39:38
Speaker 3: could go. Legislatively, the next two years will feature the
39:42
Speaker 3: frustrations of divided government. Unfortunately for the country, given the
39:45
Speaker 3: $ 40 trillion-plus debt, and last year's $ 2 trillion deficit, Congress
39:51
Speaker 3: typically papers over disagreements by spending even more. Did Democrats
39:57
Speaker 3: learn a lesson from Mr. Biden's spending binge which fueled
39:59
Speaker 3: the inflation that cost him re-election? As workers worry about
40:03
Speaker 3: energy prices, will the party go straight back to climate
40:06
Speaker 3: mandates and subsidies for expensive electric cars? Ditto for the
40:12
Speaker 3: ideological excesses from Mr. Biden's time. Democrats push hard for H.R. 1,
40:17
Speaker 3: the bill to nationalize election rules on California's model, including
40:20
Speaker 3: overriding state laws against ballot harvesting. Will that reappear? Likely
40:25
Speaker 3: new House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries has called for dramatic Supreme
40:29
Speaker 3: Court reform. Notice the emphasis that's in quotes. Which won't
40:33
Speaker 3: get Mr. Trump's signature. But if Mr. Jeffries keeps talking
40:37
Speaker 3: that way, it will be a serious reason for voters
40:39
Speaker 3: not to trust his party with total power in 2029.
40:43
Speaker 3: If he and likely Senate Leader Chuck Schumer want a
40:45
Speaker 3: better path, they could seek compromise with Republicans to benefit
40:50
Speaker 3: the country. Wouldn't that be an interesting thought? Permitting reform
40:54
Speaker 3: is one example. Another might be immigration.
40:57
Speaker 1: Mr.
40:58
Speaker 3: Trump has sometimes spoken of wanting to help dreamers brought
41:01
Speaker 3: into the U.S. as children. Democrats, meantime, have castigated President
41:05
Speaker 3: for killing the border bill negotiated in 2024 by Oklahoma
41:08
Speaker 3: Senator James Lankford, which would have codified stricter legal standards
41:12
Speaker 3: for asylum. Such a change to the statute is worth Mr.
41:16
Speaker 3: Trump's support since it would outlast him and make it
41:18
Speaker 3: harder for the next president to reopen the southern border.
41:21
Speaker 3: One difficulty for Democrats will be the radicals in their ranks.
41:25
Speaker 3: The House squad will double in size and the socialist
41:30
Speaker 3: left will feel empowered. New York Representative-elect Dariaza Olivia Chevalier,
41:36
Speaker 3: big mouthful that one, has argued that it's immoral to
41:39
Speaker 3: deport even violent criminals. Senator-elect Abdul Al-Sayed wants to purge
41:46
Speaker 3: Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman for the offense of believing
41:49
Speaker 3: Israel is a right to defend itself. Representative Jamie Raskin,
41:54
Speaker 3: top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has floated a
41:56
Speaker 3: Supreme Court with 13 justices. None of that will improve
42:02
Speaker 3: the Democrat Party's approval rating. It could also lead to
42:06
Speaker 3: voters to conclude in 2028 that the post-Trump Republican Party
42:11
Speaker 3: doesn't look so bad after all. And that's where I
42:14
Speaker 3: think the beginning of this distancing among Republicans is going
42:17
Speaker 3: to take place. It began the other day with J.D.
42:19
Speaker 3: Vance being critical and saying we lost the election because
42:21
Speaker 3: of the war. The war, which, of course, lays at
42:24
Speaker 3: the feet of Donald Trump and his decision to do
42:26
Speaker 3: so in spite of the fact that a lot of
42:27
Speaker 3: advisers told him it shouldn't be done. He's moving away
42:34
Speaker 3: from the orange man. And you're seeing other criticisms, too.
42:36
Speaker 3: I believe it was DeSantis came out swinging against maybe
42:40
Speaker 3: some of the Trump policies as well. Now, the chains
42:43
Speaker 3: of criticizing Donald Trump or the idea that criticizing Trump
42:48
Speaker 3: is verboten, in my estimation, have begun. He can't run
42:53
Speaker 3: for re-election. He's, I think, proven on Tuesday to be
42:57
Speaker 3: toxic to the American voters. He didn't make good on
43:00
Speaker 3: a lot of his campaign promises. Some of them were far, far,
43:03
Speaker 3: far too, well, overzealous. Like, I'm going to end inflation
43:07
Speaker 3: day one. Democrats... Now you've got to make good on
43:10
Speaker 3: your promise that you're going to deal with affordability, and
43:12
Speaker 3: good luck with that one.
43:13
Speaker 7: Yeah.
43:16
Speaker 3: Wait for it, all you independent voters who shifted over
43:18
Speaker 3: to the blue side. Wait to be disappointed. And then
43:21
Speaker 3: how are you going to react next time around with
43:22
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Speaker 5: 55KRC. iHeart. com.
43:39
Speaker 3: Podcast and your iHeartMedia app. And Steve's still reporting some outages,
43:43
Speaker 3: but nobody else is chiming in on that. So maybe Steve,
43:46
Speaker 3: reboot or something like that with your system.
43:48
Speaker 5: I don't know.
43:49
Speaker 3: Anyway, sweeping, but perhaps more consequential, this election on Tuesday.
43:55
Speaker 3: Downstate ballots is another focus of another editorial column. Democrats
44:00
Speaker 3: flipped at least 12 legislative chambers and five governorships. Nevada, Texas, Georgia, Iowa,
44:07
Speaker 3: and oh yeah, Ohio. And Alaska Statehouse is still in play,
44:13
Speaker 3: as is that Senate race with the decoy Dan candidate
44:17
Speaker 3: having gotten about 4,000 votes. So that's still in play
44:19
Speaker 3: right there. Well, anyway, that could give Democrats control of 30,
44:23
Speaker 3: the most since 1993 of the Alaska Statehouse. Democrats poised
44:28
Speaker 3: to control governorships in 22 states now. That's up from 16.
44:34
Speaker 3: Republicans lost Texas and Georgia. Lost both legislative chambers in
44:39
Speaker 3: New Hampshire and, well, GOP Governor Kelly Ayotte barely hung on.
44:45
Speaker 3: So Tuesday votes give Democrats complete control over Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona,
44:50
Speaker 3: and Nevada. Yes, both House, Senate, and the gubernatorial race.
44:55
Speaker 3: With the exception of Minnesota and Nevada, they are all
44:58
Speaker 3: states that Republicans won control of in 2010. Which power
45:07
Speaker 3: was used, the journal observes, to make reforms on taxes, education,
45:11
Speaker 3: union power, and more, like right-to-work states. So here's the
45:14
Speaker 3: prediction from the journal. Nevada Republican Governor Joe Lombardo's defeat
45:20
Speaker 3: means the state's right-to-work law in jeopardy. Democrats take over,
45:25
Speaker 3: and that's obviously a gift to the union. Democrats take
45:28
Speaker 3: over the Wisconsin legislature and return the government to union
45:30
Speaker 3: control to Madison. So say goodbye to Act 10 collective
45:34
Speaker 3: bargaining reform and right-to-work law. Minnesota, described as the left's
45:39
Speaker 3: Midwest model. Wisconsin's 7.65% top income tax is already the
45:46
Speaker 3: 10th highest in the United States. Save Minnesota at 10.85%.
45:53
Speaker 3: And it's about to go up, suggests the Journal. Wisconsin
45:56
Speaker 3: Democrats all but certain to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. Democrat
46:00
Speaker 3: governors in Georgia and Texas, the new ones, will also
46:03
Speaker 3: try to cut a deal with the remaining GOP legislators
46:05
Speaker 3: to do the same. That will be increasing Medicaid. If
46:08
Speaker 3: I said Medicare, I apologize. Expand it. My friends who
46:14
Speaker 3: agree and love free choice in education, it's on the
46:16
Speaker 3: line now. And, you know, this is, again, something perhaps
46:21
Speaker 3: if the Democrats go for that will, well, repel independents, conservatives,
46:25
Speaker 3: any person who has children that wants an opportunity for
46:28
Speaker 3: choice in education. Universal education saving accounts will likely be
46:32
Speaker 3: a casualty of the new Democratic trifecta in Arizona. It's
46:37
Speaker 3: right-to-work law and flat 2.5% income tax also at risk,
46:41
Speaker 3: so expect taxes to go up. California Democrats, they suggest,
46:45
Speaker 3: probably ecstatic that Democrats will soon run Nevada and Arizona
46:49
Speaker 3: so they have less economic competition. GOP collapse will shrink
46:55
Speaker 3: laboratories of pro-growth policies like the tax cuts and school
46:58
Speaker 3: choice expansions in Iowa, Georgia, Ohio, and Texas. Oddly, some
47:05
Speaker 3: GOP legislators in Georgia and Texas oppose education savings accounts
47:08
Speaker 3: and probably will work with Democrats to roll them back.
47:13
Speaker 3: Other than public unions, the biggest winner Tuesday, the plaintiff's bar.
47:17
Speaker 3: This is their conclusion, but They said, don't be surprised
47:20
Speaker 3: if Republicans work with new Democratic governors to declare open
47:23
Speaker 3: lawsuit season on business. Driving up costs. Republicans also, they observe,
47:32
Speaker 3: lost state court races. 9-0 majority in the Texas Supreme Court,
47:36
Speaker 3: shrinking to 5-4. Democrats appear to have gained a seat
47:41
Speaker 3: on Ohio's court, and they did. Now, the GOP majority
47:45
Speaker 3: here is 5-2. It means less of a judicial check
47:49
Speaker 3: on Democratic governors who seek to impose their left-wing agendas
47:52
Speaker 3: by executive fiat, and certainly some will. And they say
47:56
Speaker 3: don't rule out mid-decade redistricting in states where Democrats have
47:59
Speaker 3: seized control. It could set up Democrats for even bigger
48:01
Speaker 3: gains in Congress in 2028. Remember how Democrats complained the
48:05
Speaker 3: gerrymanders after the 2010 midterms entrenched GOP power in state houses?
48:10
Speaker 3: Unless the GOP reverses some of this year's state losses
48:12
Speaker 3: in 2028 or 2030, Democrats will be poised after the
48:15
Speaker 3: next census to lock in their state dominance for a decade.
48:21
Speaker 3: A rare bright spot, they observed, for the GOP was Florida.
48:27
Speaker 3: Only one of the ten largest states where Republicans actually
48:31
Speaker 3: still run the government. Credit to GOP governance over three decades. Notably,
48:35
Speaker 3: Governor Ron dissent is his eight reforming years, but even
48:38
Speaker 3: there they won races more narrowly than any recent election.
48:44
Speaker 3: They conclude, the journal does, the states are reform teams
48:47
Speaker 3: for political talent, less for labs and test labs for
48:50
Speaker 3: government reform. Tragedy of Tuesday is that owing to Mr.
48:54
Speaker 3: Trump's second-turn dissent, a generation of conservative state reform is
48:57
Speaker 3: in peril and young political leaders are out of office.
49:01
Speaker 3: And it's going back to the independent voters. They are
49:03
Speaker 3: not politically connected and they're pissed off. Which is what
49:09
Speaker 3: brought about Tuesday. Democrats or Republicans rather never had a
49:12
Speaker 3: solid hold on Hispanic and the inroads they made on
49:16
Speaker 3: the Hispanic community and the black community. Not a solid hold.
49:20
Speaker 3: It was a step in the right direction. He could
49:21
Speaker 3: have delivered on it. Not capable of doing so in
49:24
Speaker 3: this crazy political climate. Of course, the inflation situation was
49:28
Speaker 3: around long before Trump came to office, but we all
49:30
Speaker 3: know what the war did. It exacerbated an already existing problem.
49:34
Speaker 3: That tenuous connection on really loosely affiliated independent voters just
49:39
Speaker 3: disappeared overnight it's a pissed off vote is really all
49:43
Speaker 3: i can put it what is going to be done
49:46
Speaker 3: of it and the republicans have the same challenges going
49:48
Speaker 3: forward i've just already suggested nobody said i'm wrong but
49:51
Speaker 3: that maybe you're now it's it's you're free to criticize
49:54
Speaker 3: trump to distance yourself from him so if you're running
49:57
Speaker 3: again and in 2028 then you aren't going to be
49:59
Speaker 3: labeled a you know a minion of donald trump who
50:02
Speaker 3: knows Just crazy political times we find ourselves in now,
50:07
Speaker 3: but we've had these before. 626 right now, 55KRC, the
50:10
Speaker 3: talk station.
50:11
Speaker 7: 55KRC, the talk station.
50:14
Speaker 3: 631, 55KRC, the talk station. Hey, the street taker was
50:16
Speaker 3: so successful last week with two police officers getting beat up,
50:21
Speaker 3: dozens and dozens of people getting arrested. According to local news,
50:25
Speaker 3: over at Fox 19 reporting on this, a social media
50:27
Speaker 3: flyer says, hey, we're going to do it again on Saturday.
50:34
Speaker 3: Say what, Joe? At least they're reporting it.
50:38
Speaker 6: True.
50:40
Speaker 3: Thanks to Signal 99, who's going to be joining us
50:42
Speaker 3: at 8.05 about the election post-mortem, her version of that.
50:45
Speaker 3: She's the one that brought it to our attention that
50:47
Speaker 3: there was a brawl in Clifton over the weekend. Anyhow,
50:51
Speaker 3: the flyer that's circulating is advertising what it is calling
50:56
Speaker 3: Hood Takeover Part 2. About all the information about the
51:02
Speaker 3: flyer we got going on, is it a smart idea
51:04
Speaker 3: to do this again? Don't think so. Reverend Damon Lynch saying, hey, hey, hey,
51:07
Speaker 3: you can't take over the hood on a Saturday night
51:09
Speaker 3: at 11 p.m. You take over the hood by joining
51:11
Speaker 3: the community council and advocating for change. In other words,
51:14
Speaker 3: constructive criticism. But I don't really think that people that
51:17
Speaker 3: are doing street takeovers give a flying crap about politics.
51:21
Speaker 3: I don't think they're out there out of frustration. I
51:24
Speaker 3: think they're out there because they outnumber the cops and
51:25
Speaker 3: they can get away with anything they want, my theory.
51:29
Speaker 3: Mark Jeffries chimed in. What happened last weekend in Short
51:32
Speaker 3: Vine was appalling. There's no other word for it. Utter chaos.
51:34
Speaker 3: The fact that the two officers were attacked and beaten,
51:37
Speaker 3: one of whom ended up in the hospital, is really unacceptable.
51:40
Speaker 3: Lisey's speaking out. He's on Council's Public Safety and Governance Committee.
51:45
Speaker 3: Jeffries said that he's going to call upon the police department,
51:48
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Police, and other experts, I'm doing my quote fingers
51:51
Speaker 3: with that because I don't know who that is, to
51:53
Speaker 3: figure out what resources they might need to help stop
51:56
Speaker 3: the gatherings, including more officers or Putting drones in the air.
52:00
Speaker 3: Whether that acts as a deterrent, I suppose, remains to
52:02
Speaker 3: be seen. What are your children doing on Saturday night?
52:06
Speaker 5: Hmm.
52:06
Speaker 3: 84-year-old woman accused of stabbing a man in the chest.
52:10
Speaker 3: Happened Halloween. According to court records, Laverne Smith of Kennedy
52:14
Speaker 3: Heights being held without bond at the Hamilton County Justice Center.
52:17
Speaker 3: Facing one count of felonious assault. Since I police alleged
52:21
Speaker 3: she stabbed the victim with a large knife inside a
52:24
Speaker 3: vehicle in the 5500 block of Lester Road in Pleasant
52:26
Speaker 3: Ridge on Saturday. A man believed to be holding a
52:33
Speaker 3: woman hostage was taken into custody after a SWAT standoff
52:36
Speaker 3: happened in Taylor Mill Wednesday night. Taylor Mill police responded
52:39
Speaker 3: to the home on Mason Road near Morton Drive after
52:41
Speaker 3: a 911 caller said a man had fired a gun
52:44
Speaker 3: and was possibly holding a woman inside or against her will.
52:47
Speaker 3: Officers managed to get the woman to safely out of
52:49
Speaker 3: the house. Police officer James Mills said SWAT set up
52:51
Speaker 3: a perimeter, didn't know if the man was barricaded inside
52:54
Speaker 3: the home or had taken off. Investigators worked to get
52:56
Speaker 3: a search warrant. Officers spotted the suspect in the woods
52:59
Speaker 3: behind the house. According to police, John Patrick Adkins, 55,
53:05
Speaker 3: arrested without further incident, booked into the Kenton County Detention Center,
53:08
Speaker 3: facing several charges, including wanton endangerment, assault, unlawful imprisonment, according
53:13
Speaker 3: to the police chief. Thank you, Joe. Suspects under arrest.
53:23
Speaker 3: An 18-year-old woman died in an accidental shooting. It happened
53:26
Speaker 3: on Tuesday this week. Lindbergh Borden, who's 19, he's been
53:30
Speaker 3: charged with reckless homicide and tampering with evidence being held
53:33
Speaker 3: on a $ 200, 000 bond. Police said he fled a homicide
53:38
Speaker 3: scene with a semi-automatic handgun described as a Glock 19 9mm.
53:41
Speaker 3: I'm going to default and say it was a black
53:47
Speaker 3: Glock 19. See, the reporting's a little weak on here.
53:50
Speaker 3: Jennifer Edwards Baker, I appreciate your reporting. You know, but
53:52
Speaker 3: you got to give us the color of the gun
53:54
Speaker 3: because apparently that's an important thing these days. Anyway, officers
53:57
Speaker 3: respond at 1 a.m. to Beekman Street near the Dempsey
54:00
Speaker 3: Street intersection, North Fairmont. Woman had called 911 reporting that
54:04
Speaker 3: her boyfriend shot her friend. Amira Overstreet pronounced dead at
54:10
Speaker 3: the scene. Gordon called Overstreet's mom and told her that
54:13
Speaker 3: she had just accidentally shot her daughter. Mom told Fox 19,
54:17
Speaker 3: she's my baby. She was kind. She was silly. Obviously heartbroken.
54:25
Speaker 3: You'll learn how to properly hold and use a firearm.
54:27
Speaker 3: Keep your finger off the trigger unless you're planning on
54:30
Speaker 3: actually intending to shoot someone. Just a couple of real
54:32
Speaker 3: quick fun tips.
54:35
Speaker 1: 5KRC, the talk station.
54:37
Speaker 3: It's 640, 5KRC, the talk station. Friday Eve. I regularly
54:43
Speaker 3: reference Maureen, who calls in quite often with her pattern observations.
54:46
Speaker 3: She was at Lister Lunch yesterday. Good morning, Maureen, who
54:48
Speaker 3: sent me in a, I mentioned Signal 99. Signal 99
54:52
Speaker 3: made the national news but not local news concerning that
54:55
Speaker 3: last weekend beatdown or mob rule takeover, whatever you want
54:59
Speaker 3: to call it. Police officers being attacked by the local community.
55:04
Speaker 3: Just disgusting. But over at Gateway Pundit, she did get
55:09
Speaker 3: credit or the collective that is Signal 99. The clip
55:12
Speaker 3: posted by the account Signal 99 Cincinnati captures the event
55:15
Speaker 3: and assaults. And does not show the officer being jumped
55:18
Speaker 3: on at the beginning of the attack, but does show
55:20
Speaker 3: the beating that ensued after the original attack. So good morning, Maureen.
55:24
Speaker 3: Thanks for sending me the link. And it was great
55:26
Speaker 3: seeing you yesterday. And again, thanks to all the folks
55:28
Speaker 3: that showed up at Anderson Pub. Just really an uplifting
55:31
Speaker 3: experience on an otherwise dreary, dreary day. And tomorrow, of course,
55:35
Speaker 3: we get to Jack Windsor from the Howe Press Network,
55:39
Speaker 3: who had quite a few comments on his site the
55:41
Speaker 3: other day. But we also get Tech Friday with Dave Hatter,
55:44
Speaker 3: and they're at it again. He's constantly beating the drum
55:47
Speaker 3: of Internet of Things devices. And personally, if there's any
55:51
Speaker 3: reality to this concern expressed by multiple governments about stocking
55:55
Speaker 3: in some supplies so you can live well without outside
55:58
Speaker 3: resources for at least three days, if I was a
56:01
Speaker 3: betting man, I wouldn't think it's going to be like
56:03
Speaker 3: a bomb here blowing up or something along those lines.
56:06
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be the lights going out
56:08
Speaker 3: because of hackings. And you got another illustration of this
56:11
Speaker 3: related to Internet of Things devices. If anything is hooked
56:14
Speaker 3: up to the Internet, Dave's warned us for years now,
56:16
Speaker 3: it is subject to a hack because apparently the designers
56:19
Speaker 3: of this stuff didn't give a whit's concern about security.
56:23
Speaker 3: So once again, after it happened in October, Monday, freezers
56:26
Speaker 3: in supermarkets all across Europe jacked the temperatures up. Some
56:32
Speaker 3: went up to 120 degrees. These are freezers forcing all
56:35
Speaker 3: these businesses to throw out what they're described as dumpsters
56:38
Speaker 3: worth of products. unsalable frozen seafood, vegetables, anything that melted,
56:45
Speaker 3: they were wheeling them out and throwing away. IKEA said
56:48
Speaker 3: an incident hit their refrigerators and freezers in Belgium, which,
56:51
Speaker 3: of course, impacted their food market. Who goes to an
56:54
Speaker 3: IKEA to eat? Anyway, hit at least half a dozen
56:58
Speaker 3: more countries in Europe. Spurring Investigations. into what in the
57:04
Speaker 3: hell's going on, and illustrating, of course, how even mundane
57:08
Speaker 3: physical infrastructure is susceptible to hacking. You know, like they
57:10
Speaker 3: can get into your system using your stupid Internet of
57:13
Speaker 3: Things coffee maker? This same kind of incident happened in mid-October,
57:19
Speaker 3: hack disrupting the refrigeration system at 700 French supermarkets. The hackers'
57:27
Speaker 3: motives still unknown. Found a way to take control of
57:30
Speaker 3: the internet-based computers that supermarket change and refrigeration firms use
57:34
Speaker 3: to oversee the systems. Outdated software has been identified, and
57:39
Speaker 3: Dave's always talking about that. You've got to keep your
57:41
Speaker 3: systems upgraded all the time. Hacks were a reminder of
57:45
Speaker 3: the rapidly evolving threat of the cyberattacks and an era
57:48
Speaker 3: of artificial intelligence and internet-connected devices. Everything from smart TVs
57:52
Speaker 3: to robot lawnmowers and coffee makers. And that stupid portable
57:56
Speaker 3: air conditioner I just got. The replacement for my earlier
58:00
Speaker 3: non-internet air conditioner. How dumb is it that your portable
58:04
Speaker 3: air conditioner is hooked up to an app? It's right
58:07
Speaker 3: there in front of you, and it has a remote control.
58:10
Speaker 3: You don't need an app. Well, you got one anyway.
58:12
Speaker 3: Don't buy these things or don't hook them up. I'm
58:16
Speaker 3: just echoing Dave. I'm not a security expert anyway. You
58:18
Speaker 3: can see what happens here. Bugs that let hackers gain
58:22
Speaker 3: remote control of internet-facing systems are commonplace. According to one
58:26
Speaker 3: AI cybersecurity guy, a guy named Matt Suchi, he quoted
58:28
Speaker 3: in the article, before they were rare, but in the
58:30
Speaker 3: last couple of months there have been an avalanche of them,
58:32
Speaker 3: these attacks. Why do you think that might be? Well,
58:38
Speaker 3: artificial intelligence. It helps the hackers exploit and find the
58:44
Speaker 3: holes in these systems. Maybe there's a silver lining in
58:48
Speaker 3: all this. If AI can find and ferret out ways
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Speaker 3: to break into systems revealing where these problems lie... then
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Speaker 3: our experts can use that knowledge and fix the problem.
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Speaker 3: And you better worry about this because hackers have already
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Speaker 3: exploited weaknesses in, yeah, water utilities, networking devices, and yes,
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Speaker 3: the all-important power plants. They point out these advancements in
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Speaker 3: AI risk turbocharging, the discovery of these vulnerabilities in the future,
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Speaker 3: and apparently it's already unfolding right now. And this is
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Speaker 3: something that, you know, elected officials of both political stripes
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Speaker 3: or all political stripes can really work together to our
59:26
Speaker 3: collective advantage. They're busy contemplating putting curbs on AI. Fine,
59:32
Speaker 3: good luck with our politicians figuring it out first and
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Speaker 3: then coming up with solutions that are beneficial to us
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Speaker 3: collectively without being too stifling in terms of the technology's growth.
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Speaker 3: But you're talking about software developers here, independent of AI,
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Speaker 3: just building devices that are hooked up to the Internet
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Speaker 3: and who, as Dave has told us over and over again,
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Speaker 3: do not care about security. Is there a political, is
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Speaker 3: there a legislative solution to force someone to consider security?
1:00:03
Speaker 3: Is this like a product liability default where we can
1:00:06
Speaker 3: recover damages for software developers and Internet of Things devices
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Speaker 3: who didn't contemplate security? And how would that work out?
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Speaker 3: Because Davis himself pointed out, I wrote code for years
1:00:15
Speaker 3: and years. I have made some of the mistakes in
1:00:18
Speaker 3: my own coding efforts that have allowed access. We're all
1:00:22
Speaker 3: not perfect. These are folks that know what they're doing
1:00:24
Speaker 3: in terms of coding, and yet They can't cover for
1:00:27
Speaker 3: all contingencies. So maybe artificial intelligence does have a role
1:00:30
Speaker 3: to play here in providing that level of security. But
1:00:34
Speaker 3: it really is frightening stuff. And again, going back to it,
1:00:37
Speaker 3: if there are this many holes in the system, holes
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Speaker 3: that have already been demonstrated and documented, like hits on
1:00:42
Speaker 3: water utilities and power plants, that's one thing to take
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Speaker 3: into account. What am I going to do if the
1:00:49
Speaker 3: lights go out? Access to cash is really... I'll throw
1:00:54
Speaker 3: this out there. If there's a cybersecurity expert beyond Dave
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Speaker 3: Hatter that can answer this one, is anybody worried about
1:00:59
Speaker 3: their 401ks and retirement savings accounts? I mean, I know
1:01:03
Speaker 3: I can figure out how much is on mine, and
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Speaker 3: how do I do that? I log in and find out.
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Speaker 3: What sort of social chaos would ensue? And I'm always
1:01:14
Speaker 3: worried about my 401k account because, you know, communists elected
1:01:18
Speaker 3: into Congress can decide they want to take as much
1:01:21
Speaker 3: as they can. damn well please because it hasn't been
1:01:25
Speaker 3: taxed yet. But I think a bigger concern for me
1:01:29
Speaker 3: is that just suddenly, poof, it's gone. I'd love to
1:01:35
Speaker 3: know what kind of backup systems are out there for
1:01:37
Speaker 3: all of our financial information because we are all living
1:01:40
Speaker 3: with a monetary system that effectively is ones and zeros
1:01:43
Speaker 3: unless you've got a stack of cash laying around 647, 55, KRC,
1:01:45
Speaker 3: Detox Station, and even if you've got a stack of.
1:01:54
Speaker 3: 652-55-KRCD Talk Station. Interesting congratulations from Ilyan Omar. Talking about
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Speaker 3: the eight Muslims now serving in Congress. Congratulating the Abdul
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Speaker 3: El-Sayed character from Democratic for his Senate victory. Congratulations, Abdul El-Sayed.
1:02:14
Speaker 3: You turned that inshallah to alamudulillah, whatever it is. I'm
1:02:22
Speaker 3: not hip on the language. Inshallah, God willing, and this
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Speaker 3: other word, which I'm fumbling over, means praise be to God.
1:02:32
Speaker 3: Democratic Socialists of America. Lots of Muslim candidates enjoying victory
1:02:37
Speaker 3: these days. I think a cosmic seismic shift in Americans'
1:02:40
Speaker 3: population and demographic makeup. And then there's this political shift,
1:02:43
Speaker 3: the Democratic Socialists of America. And you should read their platform.
1:02:46
Speaker 3: I even mentioned this to Napolitano the other day. They
1:02:48
Speaker 3: want to get rid of the Constitution, and he fully
1:02:51
Speaker 3: agreed with that assessment. Their platform says it. But they
1:02:56
Speaker 3: were crowing yesterday celebrating their racking up more than 50
1:03:00
Speaker 3: election victories. These will be, you know, lower-level elections, but
1:03:04
Speaker 3: a lot of big ones, too, as Ilyan Omar did
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Speaker 3: in her congratulating Abdul El-Sayed. The essay said on Wednesday
1:03:11
Speaker 3: in their statement, workers, and get a load of the statement,
1:03:15
Speaker 3: workers deserve more, and a reality where all of us
1:03:20
Speaker 3: live with dignity and hope is closer than we think.
1:03:27
Speaker 3: The job's not done, though. Tomorrow, that'll be today. We
1:03:30
Speaker 3: continue organizing, fighting, and winning for the working class. Well, okay,
1:03:37
Speaker 3: live with dignity and hope. Well, that's entirely up to you.
1:03:40
Speaker 3: I mean, whether you perceive yourself living in dignity and hope,
1:03:43
Speaker 3: you know, it probably aren't because you believe that that
1:03:45
Speaker 3: some guy down the road who's making more than you
1:03:47
Speaker 3: is evil and bad, and, oh, my God, it sucks
1:03:49
Speaker 3: that there's unfairness in the world, and how can he
1:03:52
Speaker 3: be so wealthy and me not? Yeah, get over it.
1:03:55
Speaker 3: It's never, ever, ever been equality. When they try equality,
1:03:58
Speaker 3: the whole system comes crashing down. This is the reality
1:04:01
Speaker 3: of Marxism when it sets in. But note what he
1:04:03
Speaker 3: had to say. We've got to continue organizing, which I
1:04:06
Speaker 3: will give them tremendous credit for doing. Boy, they sure
1:04:11
Speaker 3: got the Democrats off their butts the other day, didn't they?
1:04:13
Speaker 3: They are organized like nobody's business. Fighting. Fighting what? The man,
1:04:19
Speaker 3: the system? Capitalism, I think, is the answer to that question.
1:04:23
Speaker 3: And winning for the working class. All right, yeah, wait
1:04:26
Speaker 3: for it, working class. How are they going to deliver
1:04:28
Speaker 3: on that? Now, I know they'll probably expand some social
1:04:31
Speaker 3: welfare programs designed for people who aren't working, and you,
1:04:35
Speaker 3: the labor union or non-union, are going to be the
1:04:37
Speaker 3: one footing the bill for it because someone's got to.
1:04:39
Speaker 3: There aren't enough billionaires to go after to fund their programs.
1:04:42
Speaker 3: Just a fiscal reality they're going to have to address.
1:04:47
Speaker 3: They were having a big Watch part of these DSA
1:04:50
Speaker 3: folks at the New York City Wall of the War
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Speaker 3: for the Story or a Story or whatever. 2028 is
1:04:56
Speaker 3: ours for the taking. That's their suggestion. And that's their belief.
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Speaker 3: Are we going to let that happen?
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Speaker 1: 655.
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Speaker 3: Hard work needs to be done from this point forward.
1:05:08
Speaker 3: Hard work. It's 7 0 6 F 55 care CD
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Speaker 3: talk station Friday Eve. And that time of week, we
1:05:14
Speaker 3: get the blessing of, and thankfully we will continue to
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Speaker 3: get the blessings of Congressman Warren Davidson. Joining the program,
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Speaker 3: Congressman Davidson, congratulations on your victory. One of the bright
1:05:22
Speaker 3: spots in Tuesday's otherwise dreary election results. Uh, good to
1:05:26
Speaker 3: hear from you. How you feeling about it? Congressman Davidson.
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Speaker 10: Well, I'm first of all, thankful to the people of
1:05:33
Speaker 10: Ohio's eighth district and all the people that were helpful
1:05:35
Speaker 10: to support our team. Uh, It's an honor to get
1:05:39
Speaker 10: to continue representing the 8th District in these new lines.
1:05:42
Speaker 10: We knew it would be more competitive, but that was
1:05:45
Speaker 10: a lot more competitive than even in our race. We
1:05:48
Speaker 10: had it kind of accurately pegged, but around the country,
1:05:50
Speaker 10: I don't think anyone had that kind of an outcome model.
1:05:55
Speaker 10: We thought, okay, well, we'll probably lose some seats. We
1:05:58
Speaker 10: started looking at some of the numbers and said, well,
1:06:00
Speaker 10: it's hard to believe these polls. This is looking more
1:06:03
Speaker 10: like 06 than 2018. And the reality is it was
1:06:07
Speaker 10: a bigger shift than even 06. It was a pretty
1:06:09
Speaker 10: big shift all over the country.
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Speaker 3: Well, and I suppose, and I've been talking about this
1:06:15
Speaker 3: this morning, I'm not the only one who's been commenting
1:06:17
Speaker 3: or editorializing about it. The Democrats, they're in a position
1:06:19
Speaker 3: where they're going to have to deliver. They ran on
1:06:21
Speaker 3: evil orange man and affordability, promising that they're going to
1:06:24
Speaker 3: make things more affordable. And of course, a vote against
1:06:27
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, a lot of people embrace that. And maybe
1:06:29
Speaker 3: that's exactly what Tuesday was, a protest against Donald Trump
1:06:33
Speaker 3: more so than any given election. Because some pretty piss-poor candidates,
1:06:36
Speaker 3: if I can call them that, and I just did,
1:06:38
Speaker 3: won and prevailed over otherwise more demonstrably, well, proven candidates,
1:06:46
Speaker 3: folks who actually can deliver, folks who have knowledge and
1:06:49
Speaker 3: experience in the role. And we can point to Amy Acton,
1:06:51
Speaker 3: but more fundamentally, what are they now going to do
1:06:55
Speaker 3: in the next two years in a lame duck session?
1:06:57
Speaker 3: Are they going to deliver on affordability? Is that even possible?
1:07:00
Speaker 3: I mean, I Are they going to try to play
1:07:03
Speaker 3: nice with the Republicans, or are they going to go
1:07:05
Speaker 3: full-on woke and take this as a mandate for all
1:07:08
Speaker 3: of their lunacy? Congressman Davidson, I know it's a compound question,
1:07:12
Speaker 3: but it's all just packed up inside my pea brain
1:07:16
Speaker 3: this morning.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, look, they did campaign on affordability, but
1:07:24
Speaker 10: even as the polls were starting to come in, the
1:07:26
Speaker 10: first message was lawyer up, right? So they're going to
1:07:29
Speaker 10: continue the lawfare campaign. woke, weaponized government is definitely part
1:07:33
Speaker 10: of the kit bag. They can't help themselves. That's what
1:07:37
Speaker 10: really fuels their rage. It's Orange Man bad. The good
1:07:42
Speaker 10: news is they ended moral relativism. They now agree in
1:07:46
Speaker 10: objective truth. They haven't calibrated it yet. For them, Donald
1:07:50
Speaker 10: Trump has become everything bad. It seemed to be part
1:07:54
Speaker 10: of what fueled their turnout in this election. But I
1:07:57
Speaker 10: think there's more to it than that because Republicans had
1:08:00
Speaker 10: big turnout, too, and a lot of places they changed
1:08:03
Speaker 10: their votes.
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Speaker 6: J.D.
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Speaker 10: Vance kind of gave voice to that. Hey, our polling
1:08:07
Speaker 10: said this would happen. We polled people and said, why
1:08:09
Speaker 10: did it happen? And particularly with young people, they felt
1:08:14
Speaker 10: betrayed on two things in particular, the war and on affordability.
1:08:19
Speaker 10: If you look in rural states, Ohio's rural areas, we
1:08:22
Speaker 10: saw it in our own district. I mean, Dark County
1:08:24
Speaker 10: in the north, huge ag county, normally the biggest ag
1:08:28
Speaker 10: county in the state of Ohio. Iowa, Kansas, they all flipped.
1:08:33
Speaker 10: So it's more than that on affordability. The tariffs and
1:08:38
Speaker 10: policies that are hurting them, people are saying, hey, we
1:08:42
Speaker 10: can't keep doing this and gaslighting isn't going to lower
1:08:49
Speaker 10: the cost of gas, groceries, homes, or health care. And
1:08:54
Speaker 10: the reality is socialism won't either. So some of the
1:08:57
Speaker 10: protest vote wasn't like, oh, let's embrace social It was,
1:09:02
Speaker 10: you guys aren't listening. You're out there saying everything's fine.
1:09:05
Speaker 10: Just bootstrap up. I bought a house when I was 15%. Great. Well,
1:09:09
Speaker 10: the house was like two times the median income back then.
1:09:12
Speaker 10: Median homes were like two, three times the median income. Now,
1:09:16
Speaker 10: median homes are six times the median income. That's a
1:09:19
Speaker 10: whole different equation. And I think a lot of young
1:09:22
Speaker 10: people felt like they weren't being heard on that. And
1:09:24
Speaker 10: a lot of rural people felt they weren't being heard
1:09:26
Speaker 10: on that. And then the war in Iran, similar. People
1:09:30
Speaker 10: just said, hey, you know, the message in 24 was clear.
1:09:35
Speaker 10: We don't want these wars. And it's unpopular with the
1:09:38
Speaker 10: young people who would have to fight them. But it
1:09:41
Speaker 10: looks like it's pretty unpopular with nearly everyone else, too.
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Speaker 3: It does. And my belief is that Donald Trump was
1:09:49
Speaker 3: able to cobble together a pretty loose group of people,
1:09:52
Speaker 3: at least insofar as their political affiliation, that wide, ever-growing
1:09:56
Speaker 3: swath of independents. But he also was able to pull
1:09:59
Speaker 3: away a sizable number of Hispanic and black voters going
1:10:02
Speaker 3: into the presidential election, which helped him win. Clearly, that
1:10:06
Speaker 3: was not a lasting relationship. So independents are rather fickle folks,
1:10:09
Speaker 3: and when you don't deliver on your promise of no
1:10:11
Speaker 3: more wars and affordability, That's going to cause the fickle,
1:10:16
Speaker 3: unaffiliated to pivot over to the other side. I think
1:10:18
Speaker 3: that's what happened. So what the Republican Party needs to
1:10:20
Speaker 3: do is kind of figure out a way to reclaim
1:10:23
Speaker 3: those folks that it had temporarily. At least there was
1:10:25
Speaker 3: something appealing in the Republican message to get those people
1:10:28
Speaker 3: over on the Republican side of the ledger. How are
1:10:30
Speaker 3: we going to go about getting them back?
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Speaker 10: Well, I think just candor. I mean, I think J.D.
1:10:35
Speaker 10: Vance laid out a good example of that in his post.
1:10:39
Speaker 10: You know, things that, oh, well, we don't really want to.
1:10:41
Speaker 10: touch that subject. We don't necessarily want to own this subject.
1:10:45
Speaker 6: He's just candid.
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Speaker 10: Here's what our data was saying. And, you know, here's
1:10:49
Speaker 10: what we think that means so far. And I think
1:10:52
Speaker 10: that's the, you know, the start is, you know, bad
1:10:54
Speaker 10: news doesn't get better with time. You just got to
1:10:56
Speaker 10: take in the assessment and adjust. And, you know, we'll
1:11:01
Speaker 10: see where it goes.
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Speaker 3: But I think.
1:11:04
Speaker 10: Donald Trump, to your point, put together a very fragile coalition.
1:11:07
Speaker 10: The GOP, really, that's been the challenge is we don't
1:11:11
Speaker 10: have a unifying theme. The Democrats don't either, but they
1:11:13
Speaker 10: were able to unite around Trump is bad. We weren't
1:11:17
Speaker 10: able to build unity around anything without Trump on the ballot.
1:11:21
Speaker 10: Unity was Trump is uniting us. Without that, we were seeing, well,
1:11:25
Speaker 10: that's not working. And even to the areas that it was,
1:11:29
Speaker 10: I mean, there was the little civil war. We saw
1:11:31
Speaker 10: that firsthand right there in the Cincinnati media market with
1:11:35
Speaker 10: an important part of the faction. So, you know, the
1:11:37
Speaker 10: more libertarian wing of our party, it isn't the majority
1:11:40
Speaker 10: of the party. No libertarian even did well in a race.
1:11:43
Speaker 10: But it's got to.
1:11:44
Speaker 6: Be part of it.
1:11:46
Speaker 10: And if it isn't, Well, then that's a problem. I
1:11:49
Speaker 10: mean part of the message with Donald Trump and certainly
1:11:52
Speaker 10: the J.D. Vance pick and his ongoing messaging is these
1:11:56
Speaker 10: neocons that are anxious for more wars in more places,
1:11:59
Speaker 10: they can't keep driving our agenda. They're bankrupting our country,
1:12:04
Speaker 10: and they're undermining everything about the coalition. And that's kind
1:12:08
Speaker 10: of a T-intersection. You can't have both wings of that.
1:12:12
Speaker 10: in an enduring way. Donald Trump did through the 2024 election,
1:12:16
Speaker 10: and he built that coalition. And I think he could
1:12:19
Speaker 10: have held it as long as he was at war,
1:12:20
Speaker 10: wasn't in another war. And reality is facts change. Maybe
1:12:25
Speaker 10: sometimes you do need a war, but it certainly raises
1:12:28
Speaker 10: the stakes on explaining the war. And I think a
1:12:31
Speaker 10: lot of people felt like that still hasn't been done.
1:12:33
Speaker 10: So that's been my view is if you want a war,
1:12:36
Speaker 10: you're supposed to declare it. If you're responding to an
1:12:39
Speaker 10: imminent threat as an imminent threat, like you can't convene Congress,
1:12:44
Speaker 10: you can't explain it to the public, then fine. You've
1:12:48
Speaker 10: got 60 days under the law, and you've got 90 days, really,
1:12:53
Speaker 10: before you have to do it. Well, it's been way
1:12:54
Speaker 10: over 90 days. I mean, February 28th was a while ago,
1:12:57
Speaker 10: and I think people vented some of that frustration at
1:12:59
Speaker 10: the polls.
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Speaker 3: No question about it. I thought it would be more
1:13:03
Speaker 3: that Republicans not bothering to show up, but there was
1:13:05
Speaker 3: apparently a sizable number of Republicans who actually voted for Democrats,
1:13:10
Speaker 3: I guess as a form of a protest vote. You know,
1:13:13
Speaker 3: and part of me wants to say perhaps rightfully so.
1:13:15
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm always the one that's going to go
1:13:16
Speaker 3: for the least worst candidate, so I never do that. But,
1:13:20
Speaker 3: you know, the dissatisfaction and just I think a lot
1:13:24
Speaker 3: of people feel like they got stabbed in the back
1:13:25
Speaker 3: with this war because Donald Trump was the peacemaker. He
1:13:28
Speaker 3: was the one that said no more wars, period. And
1:13:32
Speaker 3: I think a lot of folks were counting on him
1:13:33
Speaker 3: for that.
1:13:35
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's certainly part of it. And that's one where
1:13:39
Speaker 10: we're going to try to figure out, well, how many
1:13:40
Speaker 10: people did that? Boy, I hope it wasn't a lot
1:13:43
Speaker 10: because that's really consequential.
1:13:44
Speaker 6: It is.
1:13:45
Speaker 10: I mean, you're talking about in the Senate, it's going
1:13:47
Speaker 10: to take until like 2032 to fix that. And, you know,
1:13:50
Speaker 10: in the governor's race here in Ohio, I mean, four years,
1:13:53
Speaker 10: you can do it. The governor's office is a powerful position.
1:13:55
Speaker 10: I mean, the attorney general, the secretary of state, losing
1:13:59
Speaker 10: these offices in our state is huge. And then to
1:14:01
Speaker 10: bring it more locally, we lost all the Republican judges.
1:14:05
Speaker 10: I mean, we continued in the juvenile court to have
1:14:07
Speaker 10: someone in charge of the court that's basically handing out
1:14:10
Speaker 10: library cards to juvenile felons. I think everybody else is
1:14:13
Speaker 10: like they can read while they're in jail. And that's
1:14:17
Speaker 10: not partisan once you get north of Hamilton County. If
1:14:20
Speaker 10: you go to Butler County, Warren County, Claremont County, you
1:14:24
Speaker 10: move anywhere north, Democrats and Republicans aren't divided on justice issues.
1:14:29
Speaker 10: But somehow in Hamilton County, it's become this thing, and
1:14:31
Speaker 10: that's part of the Democrat agenda. That's the people driving
1:14:36
Speaker 10: the national agenda in Congress.
1:14:40
Speaker 3: Well, and that's what blows my mind because I think
1:14:44
Speaker 3: people are logical and reasonable for the most part regardless
1:14:46
Speaker 3: of political stripe, and everyone seems to be in favor
1:14:48
Speaker 3: of having a safe neighborhood and community. But we'll see
1:14:52
Speaker 3: if they go full on with their woke agenda and
1:14:54
Speaker 3: their defund the police agenda. Honestly, Congressman Davidson, I sort
1:14:57
Speaker 3: of hope they do because that spells better for the
1:14:59
Speaker 3: Republican Party who maybe should be engaging in some self-reflection.
1:15:03
Speaker 3: We'll bring back Congressman Davidson and talk about more of
1:15:05
Speaker 3: these issues. It's 516-55-KRC, the talk station. Let me recommend... 719-55-KRC,
1:15:13
Speaker 3: the talk station. Brian Thomas with Congressman Warren Davidson. Just
1:15:17
Speaker 3: doing a reflection on the aftermath of the disaster for
1:15:20
Speaker 3: the Republicans that Tuesday was and pivoting over. You mentioned neocons,
1:15:24
Speaker 3: and I know a lot of my listening audience has
1:15:25
Speaker 3: problems with the warmongers and those who engage in ongoing
1:15:30
Speaker 3: reckless spending. Well, it's our spending. It's okay, even though
1:15:33
Speaker 3: it's deficit spending. No one's ever gotten a lid on that,
1:15:35
Speaker 3: and we've inherited this problem. And I remember Ronald Reagan
1:15:38
Speaker 3: talking about deficits, and they were in the billions of dollars.
1:15:41
Speaker 3: Look at where we are, $ 42 trillion and growing. Is
1:15:45
Speaker 3: this time for the Republican Party to do a couple years'
1:15:48
Speaker 3: worth of reflection and maybe engage and get some better
1:15:51
Speaker 3: non-neocon candidates? I mean, is there going to be a
1:15:53
Speaker 3: push in that direction, introspection and an analysis, Congressman Davidson?
1:15:58
Speaker 10: I certainly hope so. And look, Mike Johnson kind of
1:16:01
Speaker 10: led by example here. I think he's a class act.
1:16:06
Speaker 10: I wish he would have played a little more offense.
1:16:08
Speaker 10: I think that was one of the key things is, hey,
1:16:11
Speaker 10: we're on offense. We need to be aggressive. We had
1:16:14
Speaker 10: 700 bills that passed the House that couldn't get a
1:16:16
Speaker 10: vote in the Senate. I think Mike Johnson would have
1:16:18
Speaker 10: played far more offense. We ran into John Thune. John
1:16:22
Speaker 10: Thune still, as far as I know, planning on running
1:16:24
Speaker 10: for Senate Minority Leader. But Mike Johnson just said, hey,
1:16:29
Speaker 10: you know, we've seen the outcome here. I don't plan
1:16:32
Speaker 10: to seek a role as minority leader. He's stepping aside
1:16:36
Speaker 10: and basically taking some level of responsibility. I respect that.
1:16:40
Speaker 10: So we have a leadership race afoot. You know, Jim Jordan,
1:16:44
Speaker 10: who's really exposed a lot of things. He's a bulldog
1:16:47
Speaker 10: out there pushing a far more conservative agenda and more offense.
1:16:52
Speaker 10: He's running to be minority leader. And then Steve Scalise,
1:16:56
Speaker 10: who's been kind of a fixture of Republican leadership over
1:16:58
Speaker 10: the years, is fighting to be minority leader as well.
1:17:03
Speaker 10: So we'll see how that plays out. But I think
1:17:05
Speaker 10: those are the kinds of races. And we've got some
1:17:07
Speaker 10: other people that are interested in leading within the House GOP, too.
1:17:12
Speaker 10: And that's kind of behind-the-scenes fight that is going to
1:17:15
Speaker 10: start to shape, well, what kind of agenda are we
1:17:18
Speaker 10: going to have? What are we going to do? Do
1:17:19
Speaker 10: we have leadership that is going to rally and unite people?
1:17:24
Speaker 10: are banned there in the House. And in a way,
1:17:26
Speaker 10: it did sort of trim off the edges, these races
1:17:29
Speaker 10: between the primaries and the general. You know, you've got
1:17:32
Speaker 10: to make lemonade out of the lemons that we have
1:17:35
Speaker 10: right now. And the reality is you will, at least
1:17:38
Speaker 10: with the people that the incumbents that are coming back,
1:17:41
Speaker 10: who I know what they believe and what they've voted.
1:17:44
Speaker 8: On in the past.
1:17:45
Speaker 10: You know, we lost a lot of the people that were,
1:17:47
Speaker 10: you know, well, reluctant to cut spending on anything. I mean,
1:17:52
Speaker 10: we had people that couldn't muster the strength to defund NPR,
1:17:57
Speaker 10: let alone do all the Doge cuts. And so, you know,
1:18:00
Speaker 10: let's make sure we get actual people that want to
1:18:02
Speaker 10: go fight the battle we're in and not just issue
1:18:06
Speaker 10: more statements that say, oh, yeah, we want a smaller,
1:18:09
Speaker 10: more accountable government. But if Republicans actually stayed united on
1:18:12
Speaker 10: that when we had the White House, the House and
1:18:16
Speaker 10: Senate we would deliver a smaller, more accountable government. And
1:18:20
Speaker 10: so far we have it. The debt keeps growing.
1:18:22
Speaker 3: Well, and over to J.D. Vance's comments about the war
1:18:25
Speaker 3: and just sort of laying the blame on this poor decision.
1:18:28
Speaker 3: I viewed that yesterday when I first learned of it
1:18:30
Speaker 3: as an opening in the what I think will be
1:18:32
Speaker 3: a constant, ever-growing number of people criticizing Donald Trump from
1:18:37
Speaker 3: the Republican side of the ledger. I mean, it was verboten.
1:18:39
Speaker 3: If you uttered a syllable, I mean, I'd problems with
1:18:41
Speaker 3: my listening audience over that. Anytime I was any remotely, anyway,
1:18:44
Speaker 3: remotely critical of Donald Trump, I'd be hearing from people,
1:18:47
Speaker 3: how dare you? You're a Democrat in disguise or you know,
1:18:51
Speaker 3: and I don't buy it. I'm allowed to be critical
1:18:52
Speaker 3: when I, when I think criticism is worthy, but a
1:18:54
Speaker 3: lot of people cower in along the ideas of criticizing
1:18:57
Speaker 3: Donald Trump. I think what I'm seeing here, J.D. Vance's
1:19:00
Speaker 3: first foray into distancing himself from Trump so he can
1:19:04
Speaker 3: call himself maybe not Donald Trump in 2028. DeSantis, I believe,
1:19:09
Speaker 3: came out swinging against Trump the other day as well.
1:19:11
Speaker 3: Maybe not harsh words, but at least, you know, critical words.
1:19:15
Speaker 3: There are others out there that are doing that. Do
1:19:16
Speaker 3: you see that the way I'm seeing it, Congressman Davidson?
1:19:20
Speaker 10: Well, I mean, I've cast some of these tough votes
1:19:22
Speaker 10: in the past, but I've not criticized Donald Trump. I've
1:19:25
Speaker 10: just disagreed with him. I was like, well, I still
1:19:28
Speaker 10: support President Trump. I look at the overall agenda and
1:19:32
Speaker 10: where we are as a Republican Party. The party was
1:19:35
Speaker 10: broken in 2016. That's why the party hired Donald Trump
1:19:39
Speaker 10: to lead. We want to clean out the party, and
1:19:42
Speaker 10: he did. I mean a lot of Republicans developed Trump
1:19:45
Speaker 10: derangement syndrome too, and what we exposed is these guys
1:19:48
Speaker 10: are total– I mean wolves in sheep's clothing. I mean
1:19:52
Speaker 10: look at Bill Kristol. This guy, Liz Cheney, I mean
1:19:55
Speaker 10: they're full-on supporting Democrats now. And they were held up
1:19:59
Speaker 10: as the icons of the Republican Party. I mean, so
1:20:03
Speaker 10: Donald Trump was kind of the bull in the china shop,
1:20:06
Speaker 10: breaking through some things. And I appreciate him for the
1:20:10
Speaker 10: things that we've gotten done that, frankly, we would not
1:20:13
Speaker 10: have gotten done without his leadership and the coalition. So, yes,
1:20:17
Speaker 10: I still support President Trump, but I also disagree with
1:20:20
Speaker 10: him sometimes. And I've been able to do that without
1:20:23
Speaker 10: getting in the crosshairs of some of his very direct
1:20:27
Speaker 10: and blunt criticism. that he's had for others. And I
1:20:29
Speaker 10: think that's part of the distinction. You know, for Democrats,
1:20:32
Speaker 10: it's all Donald Trump's.
1:20:33
Speaker 6: A bad guy.
1:20:34
Speaker 10: And a lot of times Republicans sort of join in
1:20:37
Speaker 10: piling onto that. If you will, CNN and MSNBC will
1:20:40
Speaker 10: have you on every day, right? And some of my
1:20:44
Speaker 10: colleagues have decided to take that path. I don't appreciate it.
1:20:47
Speaker 10: It doesn't help us fuel our agenda. It just draws
1:20:51
Speaker 10: attention to themselves. And I think we have to get
1:20:54
Speaker 10: results here. And you know, just saying, hey, you know,
1:20:58
Speaker 10: Donald Trump's bad. No, he's been great overall. I just
1:21:00
Speaker 10: disagree with the war.
1:21:02
Speaker 3: Well, I'm viewing it as a political strategy. I'm not
1:21:04
Speaker 3: suggesting they, you know, turn their back on all the
1:21:07
Speaker 3: good that Donald Trump's been able to do or just
1:21:09
Speaker 3: say he was a terrible president, period, end of story.
1:21:12
Speaker 3: But trying to harness this, the last gasps of Donald Trump,
1:21:17
Speaker 3: evil orange man that the Democrats have, because they're not
1:21:20
Speaker 3: going to have that going into 2028. They're going to
1:21:22
Speaker 3: have to find a candidate that the Republican Party is
1:21:24
Speaker 3: advancing for president. That is, you know, the equivalent of
1:21:28
Speaker 3: Donald Trump or someone they can conceive. Well, this is
1:21:30
Speaker 3: just new Donald Trump. You know, the J.D. Vance is
1:21:32
Speaker 3: just Donald Trump with a different name. That's where I
1:21:35
Speaker 3: think the out loud statements, not damning Donald Trump, but
1:21:39
Speaker 3: at least out loud expressing some dismay over some of
1:21:42
Speaker 3: his decisions. That's my view of why it's coming in.
1:21:45
Speaker 3: I may be wrong. I mean, I'm no I don't
1:21:47
Speaker 3: label myself a politics expert.
1:21:50
Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe.
1:21:50
Speaker 10: But I think in J.D. 's case in particular, he's
1:21:53
Speaker 10: just like, this is what the data was telling us.
1:21:55
Speaker 10: I mean, we're just sharing what we had. This is,
1:21:57
Speaker 10: you know, pull the curtain back. Here's the facts. I mean,
1:22:00
Speaker 10: he's still President Trump's vice president. And I think that's
1:22:04
Speaker 10: one of the things Marco Rubio has done well. He said,
1:22:06
Speaker 10: you know, I'm not Marco Rubio's secretary of state. Donald
1:22:11
Speaker 10: Trump is president. I'm Donald Trump's secretary of state. And
1:22:14
Speaker 10: he's executed those policies, you know, very well. as has J.D.,
1:22:20
Speaker 10: as have some other people in the cabin. I mean,
1:22:21
Speaker 10: Scott Besson's been a real star in the administration. We're
1:22:27
Speaker 10: still on offense until January 3rd, so I hope we
1:22:29
Speaker 10: get back into town next week in D.C. We're supposed
1:22:33
Speaker 10: to be in session, and I hope we start playing
1:22:36
Speaker 10: some offense while we're still on offense and get as
1:22:39
Speaker 10: much good things done as we can and position ourselves
1:22:42
Speaker 10: to help shape the agenda, even though we're from the
1:22:46
Speaker 10: minority in the next Congress.
1:22:48
Speaker 3: All right, can you stay over for just one more
1:22:50
Speaker 3: brief segment? Because I want to expand on that very point,
1:22:53
Speaker 3: because I think there is one area where there may
1:22:55
Speaker 3: be room for some bipartisan support. Can you hold on
1:22:58
Speaker 3: for another moment?
1:22:59
Speaker 10: Yeah, sure thing.
1:23:00
Speaker 7: Great.
1:23:01
Speaker 3: One more brief segment with Congressman Abby Thursday. We're talking
1:23:04
Speaker 3: to Congressman Warren Davidson here this morning and getting his
1:23:06
Speaker 3: thoughts and comments about the election and moving forward to
1:23:08
Speaker 3: the lame duck session. Will anything get done? I think
1:23:10
Speaker 3: most people think it's going to be gridlocked for a
1:23:12
Speaker 3: couple of years. Any legislation passed out of the The
1:23:15
Speaker 3: Democrat Congress is going to be vetoed by Trump. There's
1:23:18
Speaker 3: not a veto-approved majority. Trump has executive order options that
1:23:21
Speaker 3: is at his hands. And so while the Democrats decide
1:23:24
Speaker 3: who they're going to be moving toward 2028 in terms
1:23:27
Speaker 3: of a far left-wing DSA group or a more traditional
1:23:31
Speaker 3: Democrat group, will there be an opportunity for anything bipartisan
1:23:34
Speaker 3: to come out of this? Because that is an option
1:23:36
Speaker 3: for them to sort of maybe try to play nice,
1:23:39
Speaker 3: a la Tip O'Neill back in the Reagan years. One
1:23:41
Speaker 3: thing which looks to be a growing collective of agreement
1:23:45
Speaker 3: is on artificial intelligence. It's one of the reasons they
1:23:48
Speaker 3: give a reason for the markets going up yesterday so
1:23:50
Speaker 3: much is that so many states and municipalities voted to
1:23:54
Speaker 3: curb AI, either completely or to pare it back. And
1:23:58
Speaker 3: one of the reasons the market went up, they say
1:24:01
Speaker 3: this is a good thing. Maybe government intervention will come about,
1:24:04
Speaker 3: maybe some regulation, giving people some comfort over the obviously
1:24:08
Speaker 3: perhaps devastating economic changes to our economy in terms of
1:24:11
Speaker 3: what ai can do for jobs um but also that
1:24:16
Speaker 3: uh you know since it seems to be bipartisan clamoring
1:24:19
Speaker 3: for some control over ai does that suggest that there
1:24:22
Speaker 3: will be legislation congressman davidson or am i just making
1:24:24
Speaker 3: all this up.
1:24:27
Speaker 10: Well uh we'll see i mean under the biden administration
1:24:30
Speaker 10: they wanted to essentially nationalize a few companies and till
1:24:36
Speaker 10: the market for everyone else. And the incumbent companies are
1:24:39
Speaker 10: kind of okay with that. I mean, that's basically what
1:24:41
Speaker 10: they're saying is, oh, this is too dangerous for just
1:24:44
Speaker 10: anybody to do it. We need to be protected in
1:24:47
Speaker 10: our market. And that guarantees, in a lot of cases,
1:24:51
Speaker 10: this is regulatory capture. You build a regulation around the
1:24:55
Speaker 10: existing market participants, and no one can really touch them.
1:25:01
Speaker 10: because you can't get the scale to be a real competitor.
1:25:06
Speaker 10: And so a lot of the market participants want that.
1:25:08
Speaker 10: They want especially no liability for their actions. That was
1:25:13
Speaker 10: where things were headed under Joe Biden. And frankly, that
1:25:16
Speaker 10: was part of the original version of the big, beautiful
1:25:18
Speaker 10: bill when it was in the House. There was a
1:25:20
Speaker 10: 10-year period where AI companies could do whatever they want
1:25:24
Speaker 10: across the country with no liability. And that was a
1:25:27
Speaker 10: terrible policy as we exposed it you know, the public
1:25:31
Speaker 10: said so, and we get it stripped out of the
1:25:33
Speaker 10: Senate version 99 to 1. So hopefully people still remember
1:25:38
Speaker 10: that we get it stripped out 99 to 1 and
1:25:40
Speaker 10: we do something sane on AI and privacy. I think,
1:25:44
Speaker 10: you know, privacy has been bipartisan. It doesn't really break
1:25:48
Speaker 10: on party lines. However, leadership in both Republican and Democrat
1:25:52
Speaker 10: parties have sort of accommodated the surveillance. And a lot
1:25:56
Speaker 10: of the public is saying, Hey, stop spying on me.
1:25:58
Speaker 10: If you want to spy on our enemies, that's fine.
1:26:01
Speaker 10: But you're supposed to have to get a warrant to
1:26:03
Speaker 10: go after citizens. Why are you targeting me? And I
1:26:07
Speaker 10: think people are feeling that. That's part of, I think,
1:26:10
Speaker 10: the pushback on data centers is what are you doing
1:26:13
Speaker 10: with all this data? It doesn't look like it's targeting enemies.
1:26:15
Speaker 10: It looks like it's targeting Americans.
1:26:17
Speaker 7: Yep.
1:26:18
Speaker 3: And therein lies a challenge. Well, Congressman Warren Davidson, you've
1:26:22
Speaker 3: got a tough job on your hands, and I know
1:26:25
Speaker 3: that you are an optimistic guy. We're not throwing in
1:26:28
Speaker 3: the towel. Don't bring the flag out. We still can
1:26:30
Speaker 3: fight a fight and try to win back that tenuous
1:26:33
Speaker 3: collection of independence and fringe elements over the Republican side
1:26:37
Speaker 3: of the ledger. And to do that, we're going to
1:26:38
Speaker 3: have to come up with a plan that is appealing.
1:26:41
Speaker 3: And I would argue that should be a pretty easy
1:26:44
Speaker 3: challenge considering how far left the Democrats are going. Congressman Davidson,
1:26:48
Speaker 3: my mind is just blown by that reality.
1:26:52
Speaker 10: Well, that was the thing. I kept holding out hope
1:26:54
Speaker 10: that even as I looked at the numbers and saw
1:26:57
Speaker 10: what was likely, it's like, no, I think the public
1:27:00
Speaker 10: is going to see through. I get that you're not
1:27:03
Speaker 10: happy on affordability, but the Green New Deal is not
1:27:05
Speaker 10: going to lower gas. It's a feature. To them, it's
1:27:08
Speaker 10: a feature that you have high gas prices. It's a
1:27:10
Speaker 10: feature that you can't generate electricity. I mean, their plan
1:27:13
Speaker 10: was to close the Miami Fort power plant. and take
1:27:17
Speaker 10: power offline in Ohio. They didn't want to approve natural gas.
1:27:21
Speaker 10: They're opposed to nuclear, even though there's no carbon emissions
1:27:24
Speaker 10: from it, that carbon is supposedly the most evil thing
1:27:26
Speaker 10: in the world other than Donald Trump. And it's like,
1:27:29
Speaker 10: this is terrible policy. And we'll see whether they've learned
1:27:34
Speaker 10: that the public agrees that it's terrible policy or they
1:27:37
Speaker 10: come back and decide they're going to try to impose
1:27:39
Speaker 10: their will on this on everyone. Certainly their original plans
1:27:43
Speaker 10: don't lower carbon. Don't lower costs.
1:27:45
Speaker 9: No.
1:27:46
Speaker 10: That's why I was like, people are going to see
1:27:47
Speaker 10: through this. They're not going to elect these guys because
1:27:49
Speaker 10: it's not going to lower costs. But here we are.
1:27:52
Speaker 10: They're in office, and we'll see if we can get
1:27:54
Speaker 10: them to adopt a more sane policy approach.
1:27:58
Speaker 3: Yeah. In a sane world, the Democrats would be cheering
1:28:00
Speaker 3: the fact that the war drove the price of gas up. Hey,
1:28:03
Speaker 3: he delivered on what we couldn't achieve legislatively, although Biden
1:28:06
Speaker 3: did manage to make the price of gas go up
1:28:08
Speaker 3: more than it is currently. Congressman Warren Davidson, I certainly
1:28:11
Speaker 3: appreciate your willingness to kind of freeform where we're going
1:28:14
Speaker 3: It's just an open book, unwritten. The future is certainly
1:28:17
Speaker 3: unwritten along these lines. We'll see what the Democrats do,
1:28:20
Speaker 3: and we will see what the Republicans do in response.
1:28:22
Speaker 3: And we always have you, Congressman Warren Davidson, to provide
1:28:24
Speaker 3: some light on what's going on. And I know my
1:28:26
Speaker 3: listeners appreciate it, and I certainly do. We'll talk again
1:28:29
Speaker 3: very soon, I hope.
1:28:31
Speaker 10: It's always a joy to spend time with you, Brian.
1:28:33
Speaker 10: Thank you, and God bless you and all your listeners.
1:28:35
Speaker 3: And thank you, and congratulations again, and thank all of
1:28:38
Speaker 3: the voters for Congressman Warren Davidson. for doing the right thing.
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Speaker 3: That was my conversation with Congressman Dorian Davidson. Yeah, DeSantis
1:29:18
Speaker 3: delivered some pretty harsh remarks. Don't pull any punches remarks.
1:29:25
Speaker 3: Of course, he's one of the potential candidates for president
1:29:28
Speaker 3: in 2028. Here's the thing, he said, Democrats are unpopular.
1:29:31
Speaker 3: They were able to win based off the sentiment that
1:29:33
Speaker 3: exists in the country right now. They did not earn
1:29:36
Speaker 3: a mandate to indulge all their left-wing fantasies, and they're
1:29:39
Speaker 3: going to be in their governing, and we'll see what
1:29:40
Speaker 3: ends up happening.
1:29:41
Speaker 6: True.
1:29:42
Speaker 3: See, I mean, not only Republicans have a problem, which
1:29:45
Speaker 3: DeSantis called Tuesday close to an extinction-level event for Republicans.
1:29:52
Speaker 3: So both sides got some struggling to do internally. The
1:29:55
Speaker 3: Democrats are going to have to make this big choice.
1:29:56
Speaker 3: Are we going to go all DSA, or are we
1:29:58
Speaker 3: going to try to right the ship a little bit
1:30:00
Speaker 3: and distance ourselves from those radical ideas? This was not
1:30:05
Speaker 3: a positive view of the Democrats. This was a rejection
1:30:07
Speaker 3: of Republicans in Washington, and Democrats just happen to be
1:30:10
Speaker 3: the beneficiary. Last night we witnessed the call to wave
1:30:20
Speaker 3: I don't think would be fully accurate, he said. This
1:30:22
Speaker 3: is the political equivalent of a meteor strike that went
1:30:25
Speaker 3: all around the United States, blue states, red states, everything
1:30:28
Speaker 3: in between. And the one state that was able to
1:30:30
Speaker 3: hold the line and withstand that is right here in
1:30:33
Speaker 3: the free state of Florida. Which didn't go unscathed either,
1:30:38
Speaker 3: which blew my mind. Instead, I look at our chief
1:30:41
Speaker 3: rival in a healthy sense, the state of Texas. And
1:30:45
Speaker 3: I would say over my lifetime, Texas has been the
1:30:47
Speaker 3: crown jewel of Republican politics. I think we've been the
1:30:49
Speaker 3: leader of Republicans and conservatives since I've been governor. But
1:30:51
Speaker 3: you go over the whole generation, no one holds a
1:30:54
Speaker 3: candle to the Republican side, to the Lone Star State.
1:30:57
Speaker 3: And yet, not only did they lose a very highly
1:31:02
Speaker 3: publicized U.S. Senate race, they lost everything. The governor, attorney general.
1:31:09
Speaker 3: All the other statewide races, they lost four Republican Supreme
1:31:12
Speaker 3: Court justices on this Texas Supreme Court. They may even
1:31:14
Speaker 3: lose the Texas legislature or one house or even both.
1:31:17
Speaker 3: Let's be clear that that is going to hurt not
1:31:21
Speaker 3: just for the next two years. That is something that
1:31:22
Speaker 3: can be reverberating for the next decade or more. And
1:31:26
Speaker 3: if the Republican Party doesn't have Texas as an anchor,
1:31:31
Speaker 3: then we are not going to be a viable nation
1:31:33
Speaker 3: going forward. Does anybody think As has been suggested, I
1:31:37
Speaker 3: think most recently locally here by Drew Pappas, about what
1:31:39
Speaker 3: has happened to Anderson Township. As Cincinnati declines, as the
1:31:45
Speaker 3: infrastructure crumbles, as crime increases, more people leave. The urban
1:31:49
Speaker 3: hipsters who were all around over the Rhine in these
1:31:52
Speaker 3: gentrified areas are packing up their bags and moving out
1:31:55
Speaker 3: because they have the flexibility to do so. Oftentimes for
1:31:58
Speaker 3: destinations like, oh, well, wonderful, economically, business-friendly, financially stable Anderson.
1:32:06
Speaker 3: But now look what happened to Anderson. It's gone sort
1:32:08
Speaker 3: of left, hasn't it? Is that the result of people
1:32:12
Speaker 3: moving out of Cincinnati or from other blue areas and
1:32:15
Speaker 3: then not remembering why the hell they left those blue areas? Oh,
1:32:19
Speaker 3: Joe Strecker chimed in. Unequivocally, it was a yes. Is
1:32:25
Speaker 3: this what happened to Texas since COVID? California taxing the
1:32:31
Speaker 3: living hell out of every successful business owner? and not
1:32:35
Speaker 3: fixing any of the problems that drive the demands for
1:32:38
Speaker 3: additional taxation, hell, they're spending like $ 85, 000 a head for
1:32:43
Speaker 3: homeless problems in L.A., and it just keeps getting worse
1:32:45
Speaker 3: and worse. What do they do? Tuesday, more Democrats, hey!
1:32:53
Speaker 3: But can you attribute that to what happened in Texas?
1:32:59
Speaker 3: Part of me wants to say, oh, please, dear God, no,
1:33:02
Speaker 3: don't let that be the case. You get the wealthiest people,
1:33:07
Speaker 3: the most successful people moving to a place with lower taxation,
1:33:11
Speaker 3: greater business freedom, lower regulation. A multitude of reasons to
1:33:15
Speaker 3: go there. Policies brought about by Republican administrations. The ultimate
1:33:20
Speaker 3: magnet for business and industry and individuals choosing to want
1:33:23
Speaker 3: a freer life and have some self-determination over their dollars.
1:33:26
Speaker 3: And they vote for a bunch of Democrats? Somebody make
1:33:34
Speaker 3: some sense of that one for me. Is this really
1:33:39
Speaker 3: like full-on Trump derangement syndrome? They're going to ruin the
1:33:44
Speaker 3: table that they've set for themselves. There's no question about that. Tom,
1:33:47
Speaker 3: I see you're on the line. Hang on for a second.
1:33:48
Speaker 3: I want to hear from you, but I'm out of time.
1:33:50
Speaker 3: It's already 740. It's 751.
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Speaker 5: 55KRC, the talk station.
1:34:01
Speaker 3: Hope you're having a decent Friday, Eve, and welcome to
1:34:03
Speaker 3: the program. Tom, thanks for holding over the break there.
1:34:05
Speaker 3: It's good to hear from you today.
1:34:07
Speaker 11: Yes, sir.
1:34:08
Speaker 2: So, yeah, so, Brian, there's another aspect to Anderson because
1:34:12
Speaker 2: I know Andy Pappas, and, man, I was knee-deep in
1:34:15
Speaker 2: the politics out there until I moved to Blue Ash about.
1:34:18
Speaker 7: A year ago.
1:34:20
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you, a lot of it's demographic. There's been,
1:34:24
Speaker 2: you know, we lived in Anderson for 50 years, and
1:34:26
Speaker 2: we saw it slowly, slowly changing. A lot of the
1:34:30
Speaker 2: conservatives moved or died or gradually drifted out. And there's
1:34:37
Speaker 2: a lot of corporate types now, always has been, but
1:34:42
Speaker 2: P & G transfers and local corporate folks, they tend
1:34:47
Speaker 2: to be a little bit more on the big government side.
1:34:51
Speaker 2: And then the big factor that nobody talks about is
1:34:55
Speaker 2: the schools, the schools. So the curriculum definitely, and it's generational.
1:35:02
Speaker 2: You can look at surveys, and if you look at
1:35:08
Speaker 2: answers to polls, if you look at the answers from
1:35:12
Speaker 2: the 70-year-old, 60, 50, 40, all the way down, anybody
1:35:17
Speaker 2: that's been through the school starting in about the 1980s,
1:35:22
Speaker 2: Definitely think more in terms of big government and even
1:35:26
Speaker 2: socialism and less in terms of free markets and capitalism.
1:35:32
Speaker 2: So the big hidden problem, the elephant in the room
1:35:39
Speaker 2: is the schools. We have got to really promote schools.
1:35:44
Speaker 2: And the public schools are done. They're done. They can't
1:35:48
Speaker 2: be reformed. We tried in Anderson very hard. They can't
1:35:51
Speaker 2: be reformed. Private education, school choice, that's the only way
1:35:57
Speaker 2: we're going to win this back. And it's going to
1:35:59
Speaker 2: be a multi-generational task. It's not going to be easy.
1:36:03
Speaker 3: Excellent point, Tom. I agree with you completely. Yeah, they're
1:36:08
Speaker 3: It isn't just one answer to the reason why such
1:36:11
Speaker 3: a wildly successful place like Anderson, you know, with business
1:36:13
Speaker 3: and safety and a sense of community could drift over
1:36:18
Speaker 3: to the left. And yes, I think a lot of
1:36:19
Speaker 3: people moved in that brought their stupid politics ideas that
1:36:22
Speaker 3: they ran from with them. But you are so right.
1:36:26
Speaker 3: Our education system has become an indoctrination camp for leftist ideology.
1:36:31
Speaker 3: When you have people that are voting socialist or claim
1:36:33
Speaker 3: to embrace socialism and you ask them if they even
1:36:37
Speaker 3: can define it, they don't even know what it means.
1:36:41
Speaker 3: People have such a poor sense of economic reality that
1:36:44
Speaker 3: they believe that someone can just magically make Medicare for
1:36:48
Speaker 3: all a reality. There isn't enough money to do that.
1:36:54
Speaker 3: There isn't enough money to do everything that they claim
1:36:56
Speaker 3: they want to have done in the past that has
1:36:58
Speaker 3: resulted in this massive hole we've dug for ourselves. You know,
1:37:02
Speaker 3: I often speculate, what would our economy look like? What
1:37:05
Speaker 3: would employment be? What would the state of society be
1:37:08
Speaker 3: if government never got involved in all of these unbelievably
1:37:12
Speaker 3: money-consuming programs where they promise the moon and the stars
1:37:16
Speaker 3: and nothing happened? What you get is a program that
1:37:19
Speaker 3: lasts and is employed by its employees. It's fully funded.
1:37:22
Speaker 3: And I think the ultimate goal is to never solve
1:37:25
Speaker 3: the original problem because you'd solve the problem. You solve
1:37:28
Speaker 3: the problem and you're out of a job. Democrats thrive
1:37:33
Speaker 3: on class warfare and misery among certain classes of people.
1:37:35
Speaker 3: You're miserable. Look at that guy over there. He's successful.
1:37:38
Speaker 3: We need to get rid of that guy. And don't
1:37:44
Speaker 3: think I'm. overstating things when I'm talking about getting rid
1:37:47
Speaker 3: of that guy who has been so influential with getting
1:37:50
Speaker 3: folks like Abdul El-Sayed elected. Yeah, Hassan Piker, the crazy
1:37:54
Speaker 3: commie socialist, whatever the hell he is, anti-American, pro-murdering of
1:38:00
Speaker 3: Jewish people. His statements just on and on are just
1:38:04
Speaker 3: absolutely horrific, and yet he was on the campaign trail
1:38:07
Speaker 3: with these nutcases. What did he say yesterday? We're going
1:38:09
Speaker 3: to put your ass in jail. Everyone get more woke
1:38:12
Speaker 3: right now. And a lot of elected officials, this guy's
1:38:19
Speaker 3: just an online streaming talking head. A lot of elected
1:38:24
Speaker 3: officials have suggested just that. Wait for the purge, folks.
1:38:29
Speaker 3: It's happening. before in socialist and communist nations they can't
1:38:34
Speaker 3: survive the intellectual challenge of wait a second how are
1:38:38
Speaker 3: we going to pay for all of the stuff that
1:38:40
Speaker 3: you say we're going to get by going after the
1:38:42
Speaker 3: rich people we did the math they don't have enough
1:38:46
Speaker 3: money And parenthetically, they're the ones that support the economy
1:38:49
Speaker 3: that allows you to even make up the concept of
1:38:52
Speaker 3: providing free stuff and things to everybody because someone's got
1:38:55
Speaker 3: to fund it. This is insane. And only an ignorant
1:38:58
Speaker 3: person could embrace this and think it can be accomplished.
1:39:02
Speaker 3: Putting aside whether it sounds like a good idea or not,
1:39:04
Speaker 3: just do the math. An educated young person might be
1:39:08
Speaker 3: able to easily figure that one out. Wait a second,
1:39:10
Speaker 3: $ 42 trillion over 10 years? Don't we have a $ 42
1:39:12
Speaker 3: trillion hole already? How are we going to pay for it?
1:39:16
Speaker 3: Good question, young, smart, logical person. Sadly, we're not churning
1:39:20
Speaker 3: those out anymore. 756-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Somebody else has a post-mortem.
1:39:25
Speaker 3: The return of Signal 99 after the top of the
1:39:27
Speaker 3: hour news, followed by Jay Ratliff at the bottom of
1:39:29
Speaker 3: the hour. Hope you can stick around.
1:39:31
Speaker 8: Don't vote Democrat.
1:39:33
Speaker 3: At the top of the hour. 55-KRC-D Talk Station. Try
1:39:36
Speaker 3: to make it a happy Friday Eve. The fact that
1:39:38
Speaker 3: it's Friday Eve is reason enough to be happy. We
1:39:41
Speaker 3: lick our political wounds, most notably prominently felt here in
1:39:45
Speaker 3: Hamilton County. Sadly, all of the good judges, some of
1:39:48
Speaker 3: whom were even on the bench and did such a
1:39:49
Speaker 3: remarkably wonderful job while on the bench, not there anymore.
1:39:53
Speaker 3: No one knows more about this than the person who's
1:39:55
Speaker 3: letting us all know about these antics, regularly reporting on them,
1:39:58
Speaker 3: the figurehead person, spokesperson for the collective that is Signal
1:40:02
Speaker 3: 99 on Facebook. Welcome back, Signal 99. And, you know,
1:40:05
Speaker 3: gosh darn it, pineapples for the election results. Good to
1:40:08
Speaker 3: have you back on.
1:40:10
Speaker 9: Good morning, Brian. So many pineapples. I can't even I
1:40:14
Speaker 9: just I need a truck.
1:40:15
Speaker 11: I know.
1:40:18
Speaker 3: Now, just let me give the overall assessment of this.
1:40:20
Speaker 3: You and I both are painfully aware that, you know,
1:40:22
Speaker 3: it wasn't that long ago in time. I even remember it. Republican, solid,
1:40:26
Speaker 3: you know, Hamilton County could always count on, you know,
1:40:29
Speaker 3: Republicans delivering Hamilton County and somewhere we lost our way.
1:40:33
Speaker 3: And so over and over again, we're seeing the same lesson,
1:40:36
Speaker 3: you know, doing the same thing over and over again,
1:40:39
Speaker 3: expecting a different result. is the definition of stupidity, and
1:40:42
Speaker 3: welcome to the reality. We've got a crime problem in
1:40:44
Speaker 3: downtown Cincinnati. The bench is largely, I think, responsible for
1:40:48
Speaker 3: why we have a crime problem because, most notably in
1:40:50
Speaker 3: the juvenile court, Carrie Bloom doesn't believe it's appropriate to
1:40:53
Speaker 3: penalize a child for being a recidivist, violent person even.
1:40:57
Speaker 3: They grow up and commit big boy crimes. We have
1:40:59
Speaker 3: a gang problem in this county you've talked about that
1:41:02
Speaker 3: no one seems to want to address and acknowledge, but
1:41:04
Speaker 3: you've reported on it. You bring the receipts. It's right
1:41:06
Speaker 3: there at Signal 99 on Facebook. What is going on here?
1:41:10
Speaker 3: Are we done? Should we bring the flag out?
1:41:14
Speaker 9: Oh, put a fork in us. We're done for a while,
1:41:17
Speaker 9: you know, until the pendulum swings back. And even diehard
1:41:21
Speaker 9: liberals are tired of their cars being stolen and being
1:41:25
Speaker 9: robbed at gunpoint or knife point or being jumped for
1:41:30
Speaker 9: going to the theater or to the ballpark. Until diehard
1:41:35
Speaker 9: liberals come to that reality, until Carrie Bloom comes to
1:41:39
Speaker 9: that reality, and I have a message for Carrie because
1:41:42
Speaker 9: she's going to hear it. She's going to hear about this. Carrie, honey,
1:41:48
Speaker 9: you're not black. You're a white woman, and you're not
1:41:52
Speaker 9: helping the black community. You're victimizing them. You're victimizing people
1:41:57
Speaker 9: that get brutalized every day by the juveniles that you
1:42:01
Speaker 9: refuse to hold accountable. And the juveniles that you refuse
1:42:06
Speaker 9: to hold accountable get victimized and murdered themselves. So what
1:42:11
Speaker 9: you're doing is just essentially killing people and getting away
1:42:16
Speaker 9: with it. So you just continue on to do that
1:42:19
Speaker 9: and see how that works for you. Because yesterday, my
1:42:22
Speaker 9: nefarious offspring had to get ammo. for a core city
1:42:29
Speaker 9: house coming up. So we stopped into the gun store
1:42:33
Speaker 9: to get ammo, and the place was packed. People were
1:42:37
Speaker 9: buying handcuffs.
1:42:38
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:42:38
Speaker 9: Yeah, they were buying ammo because they're scared. They're afraid.
1:42:42
Speaker 9: They know that the cops are going to be like, okay,
1:42:45
Speaker 9: they're going to throw their hands up. A lot of
1:42:47
Speaker 9: police officers in the county are going to throw their
1:42:50
Speaker 9: hands up and go, okay, as you wish. See how
1:42:54
Speaker 9: you like it. They're going to retire. They're going to
1:43:00
Speaker 9: not go into drop. I mean, 270,958 registered voters in
1:43:06
Speaker 9: Hamilton County never cast a ballot.
1:43:10
Speaker 7: Yeah.
1:43:11
Speaker 9: For this election. So only 44 percent. I mean, I'm sorry,
1:43:17
Speaker 9: 44 percent didn't didn't vote.
1:43:20
Speaker 3: Yeah.
1:43:20
Speaker 9: 44 percent of the county. So, you know, you couldn't
1:43:24
Speaker 9: be bothered to vote. OK, as you wish, see how
1:43:29
Speaker 9: you like it for the next few years, because it's
1:43:31
Speaker 9: going to get bad. People are going to flee. They're
1:43:34
Speaker 9: going to leave. They're going to go to Claremont County.
1:43:37
Speaker 9: They're going to go to Warren County. They're going to
1:43:39
Speaker 9: go to Butler County. They're going to pull their businesses out.
1:43:43
Speaker 9: They're going to sell their home. They're going to run.
1:43:46
Speaker 9: And then, of course, there's the uneducated idiot who just
1:43:51
Speaker 9: listened to activists. who happened to run this city, who
1:43:56
Speaker 9: voted for all these levies in Cincinnati and in Hampton County.
1:44:01
Speaker 9: Of course you did. You don't own homes, you pieces
1:44:04
Speaker 9: of pineapple.
1:44:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're still going to pay the taxes. That's
1:44:07
Speaker 3: a pass-through cost. It's like the owner of the property
1:44:11
Speaker 3: has got to deal with the increase in taxes, so
1:44:13
Speaker 3: what they do is they raise the rent in commensurate
1:44:16
Speaker 3: with the increase in taxes.
1:44:17
Speaker 6: Correct.
1:44:18
Speaker 3: Renters pay taxes.
1:44:20
Speaker 9: And because they're so uneducated, Brian, they don't know what,
1:44:24
Speaker 9: they just do what they're told. Here, vote for this.
1:44:26
Speaker 3: Okay.
1:44:27
Speaker 7: Okay.
1:44:29
Speaker 9: See how you like it.
1:44:30
Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you this because you were just
1:44:33
Speaker 3: talking about this fleeing concept. And I specifically used, you know,
1:44:38
Speaker 3: Texas with all the new Californians showing up and maybe
1:44:41
Speaker 3: having an impact on shifting it blue. Of course, Anderson
1:44:44
Speaker 3: Township's been experiencing this because it was usually a reliably
1:44:47
Speaker 3: dark red state and very successful from a business and
1:44:51
Speaker 3: livability standpoint has become Democrat-leaning. That some suggest, as I did,
1:44:55
Speaker 3: it may have been people moving over there. So your
1:44:58
Speaker 3: point about until the left starts to deal with the
1:45:02
Speaker 3: reality that voting for Democrats isn't improving their situation, it
1:45:05
Speaker 3: seems like all the people capable of bringing about that
1:45:08
Speaker 3: reform pack their bags up and leave town before they
1:45:10
Speaker 3: even try to engage in reform.
1:45:13
Speaker 9: Well, they do, and I'm going to say this. They leave,
1:45:17
Speaker 9: so they create this liberal utopia, okay?
1:45:21
Speaker 3: Dystopia.
1:45:23
Speaker 9: And where they can't afford the taxes, they can't afford gas,
1:45:27
Speaker 9: they can't afford groceries, they have food deserts. Crime is
1:45:33
Speaker 9: through the roof, and they go, oh, I should move.
1:45:37
Speaker 9: I should move to a red state. Let's move to
1:45:42
Speaker 9: a red state or a red city or a red
1:45:44
Speaker 9: community and turn it blue. So you're going to flee
1:45:49
Speaker 9: from the excrement hole you just created, okay? And you're
1:45:55
Speaker 9: going to try to turn the new clean, law and order—
1:46:00
Speaker 9: everything's great community that you just moved to. You're going
1:46:03
Speaker 9: to turn that into an excrement hole because the one
1:46:07
Speaker 9: you just left got too bad. So now you're going
1:46:10
Speaker 9: to start over and ruin this one. It makes no
1:46:13
Speaker 9: sense to me. You know what it's going to do, Brian?
1:46:16
Speaker 9: I don't have to say it. You don't have to
1:46:18
Speaker 9: say it. It's inherent. You know that it's coming. We
1:46:22
Speaker 9: may not see it in our lifetime, but my son
1:46:26
Speaker 9: or my grandchildren absolutely will. Eventually this city– I'm sorry,
1:46:32
Speaker 9: this country is going to implode, and we're going to
1:46:35
Speaker 9: have another war against each other, and it's going to
1:46:38
Speaker 9: be awful. But it's also– it's going to decide because
1:46:46
Speaker 9: apparently we cannot all– we cannot work together. We cannot
1:46:50
Speaker 9: live together. We cannot– um have the same we just
1:46:55
Speaker 9: can't work across the aisle anymore because there's so few
1:46:58
Speaker 9: democrats left you know there's so few democrats and so
1:47:04
Speaker 9: many liberal extremists um it's you know we're just we're
1:47:11
Speaker 9: not willing to work with them and they're absolutely not
1:47:13
Speaker 9: willing to work with us and now You know, they're
1:47:15
Speaker 9: going to rejoice and they're going to have their little
1:47:18
Speaker 9: they're like petulant children. They're going to ha ha.
1:47:20
Speaker 7: We want.
1:47:21
Speaker 9: And the very first thing, as you know, they're going
1:47:23
Speaker 9: to do is impeach President Trump. So that'll be the
1:47:27
Speaker 9: first thing they do. Write that down. I said that.
1:47:32
Speaker 3: Certainly looks like that is going to happen, whether it's
1:47:34
Speaker 3: not going directly for impeachment or just perpetual investigations for
1:47:37
Speaker 3: the next couple of years during this lame duck period. Yeah,
1:47:40
Speaker 3: they've already told us that was coming. They promised it.
1:47:43
Speaker 3: They also promised everybody to lawyer up. I guess they
1:47:45
Speaker 3: meant what they said. You know, you got this Piker
1:47:48
Speaker 3: insane guy talking about rounding everybody up and arresting them.
1:47:51
Speaker 3: And this is the kind of thing that they really,
1:47:53
Speaker 3: truly want to do. They say it over and over again.
1:47:55
Speaker 3: I think it's time to start believing them. These are dangerous,
1:47:58
Speaker 3: dangerous people.
1:47:59
Speaker 9: Well, isn't Piker also the same guy, Brian, that said
1:48:02
Speaker 9: we deserve 9-11?
1:48:03
Speaker 3: That's the guy. We deserved it.
1:48:05
Speaker 9: And yet he's in office.
1:48:07
Speaker 6: No, no, no.
1:48:08
Speaker 3: He didn't get elected. He just was on the campaign
1:48:10
Speaker 3: trail with all the DSA candidates like Abdul El-Sayed.
1:48:14
Speaker 9: I know. Essentially, he's an office.
1:48:17
Speaker 6: He's got.
1:48:20
Speaker 9: A platform to speak. He's going to influence law. He's
1:48:25
Speaker 9: going to influence votes and decisions and what they're going
1:48:28
Speaker 9: to do. This is the guy that said America deserved 9-11.
1:48:34
Speaker 3: Signal 99, pause. There's a flyer going around. We're going
1:48:37
Speaker 3: to do it again. Last weekend, that hood takeover wasn't
1:48:40
Speaker 3: good enough, so let's take another stab at it. More
1:48:42
Speaker 3: with Signal 99 on that and so many more topics
1:48:45
Speaker 3: before we get to Jay. 819 and 55K or CD
1:48:50
Speaker 3: Talk Station, Facebook, Signal 99, follow the collective. Learn about
1:48:55
Speaker 3: what's going on in downtown Cincinnati because you're going to
1:48:57
Speaker 3: find out about there first before the press finally catch
1:48:59
Speaker 3: up locally and then reports what Signal 99 has already
1:49:02
Speaker 3: posted up, like the beat down of the police officers.
1:49:05
Speaker 3: Last weekend, of course, Short Vine got shut down because
1:49:07
Speaker 3: of the takeover of the street. They all moved over
1:49:09
Speaker 3: to the BP parking lot. Craziness continued. Dozens of arrests.
1:49:13
Speaker 3: Two police officers beaten, and God bless them. I'm glad
1:49:15
Speaker 3: to see they're here, that they're doing okay, and they
1:49:18
Speaker 3: are in recovery. But, oh, look, Signal 99, a flyer circulating.
1:49:23
Speaker 3: Hood takeover part two coming up this Saturday. What's your
1:49:26
Speaker 3: take on this, Signal 99?
1:49:28
Speaker 9: Well, I kind of wish that people weren't really talking
1:49:31
Speaker 9: about it because when I got it, No, that's all right.
1:49:35
Speaker 9: When I got it, it's not like they're listening to
1:49:37
Speaker 9: conservative talk radio anyway, Brian.
1:49:39
Speaker 3: That's true.
1:49:41
Speaker 9: When I got it several days ago, I sent it
1:49:43
Speaker 9: to Kober and I said, hey, please get this to
1:49:47
Speaker 9: the people that need to know about it. He said,
1:49:49
Speaker 9: I will.
1:49:49
Speaker 6: Thank you.
1:49:50
Speaker 9: And so they're ready. They're ready for it. You know,
1:49:57
Speaker 9: and here's the thing, though, with the election results, it's
1:50:00
Speaker 9: one of either two things. They're either going to go
1:50:02
Speaker 9: in there. And just absolutely wreak havoc if they have it,
1:50:07
Speaker 9: if they're dumb enough to have it within the city
1:50:09
Speaker 9: of Cincinnati. Or they're just going to be like, you
1:50:14
Speaker 9: know what? Enjoy yourself. As long as, you know, they're
1:50:20
Speaker 9: not going to ignore calls for service, of course. They're
1:50:23
Speaker 9: not going to ignore people that need help. But, you know,
1:50:28
Speaker 9: I don't know.
1:50:29
Speaker 6: It's 50-50.
1:50:29
Speaker 9: If I'm CPD and it's my day, we're going to
1:50:35
Speaker 9: go in there and crack some heads. You know, people
1:50:38
Speaker 9: are going to not jump on people's cars and dance
1:50:42
Speaker 9: on the top of the roofs and destroy the paint job.
1:50:45
Speaker 9: They're not going to break windows and start fires. And
1:50:48
Speaker 9: when they do that, they're going to be extremely sorry.
1:50:52
Speaker 9: You know, they're going to get arrested. Even though they
1:50:56
Speaker 9: may not stay in Charmaine's jail and they may not
1:51:01
Speaker 9: get more than, you know, an OR or a 10%
1:51:05
Speaker 9: of $ 1, 000 bond, they're still going to go through the
1:51:09
Speaker 9: process and the hassle of doing it. You know, which
1:51:13
Speaker 9: brings me to something I want to say, if that's okay.
1:51:18
Speaker 3: Sure. That's why we have you on the show. I mean,
1:51:20
Speaker 3: I don't steer your comments. You come on here and
1:51:21
Speaker 3: offer your thoughts and comments. I welcome them.
1:51:25
Speaker 9: Well, conservatives don't riot when we don't get our way. Like,
1:51:29
Speaker 9: we don't throw tantrums and riot. We just stop spending money.
1:51:32
Speaker 9: We stop spending money downtown. We stop spending money in
1:51:35
Speaker 9: Hamilton County. We stop coming to Hamilton County. We stop
1:51:39
Speaker 9: going to Cincinnati. We stop going to the city. We
1:51:42
Speaker 9: just stop spending our money. That's how conservatives riot. Cops can't.
1:51:50
Speaker 9: Cops can't go on strike. Do you know what cops do?
1:51:55
Speaker 3: They engage in selective law enforcement.
1:51:59
Speaker 9: That's correct. They stop writing citations. Citations are revenue. Citations are...
1:52:08
Speaker 9: the bread and butter of the city of Cincinnati. And
1:52:12
Speaker 9: you know what? They can no longer force them to
1:52:15
Speaker 9: put a number on how many citations they have to
1:52:17
Speaker 9: write a month, a day, or a week. So they
1:52:21
Speaker 9: just stop. And you know what else you do by citation?
1:52:23
Speaker 9: You arrest people by citation, Brian. So you're going to
1:52:26
Speaker 9: start in some of the places in Hammond County, you're
1:52:29
Speaker 9: going to start seeing people cited to mayor's courts. Instead
1:52:35
Speaker 9: of going to Hampton County, they'll give them some type
1:52:38
Speaker 9: of a misdemeanor instead of a felony arrest. They'll put
1:52:42
Speaker 9: them in mayor's court instead of taking them to the
1:52:44
Speaker 9: courthouse downtown because they already know what's going to happen.
1:52:47
Speaker 9: I mean, two of Kerry Bloom's magistrates are going to
1:52:52
Speaker 9: be on the bench in common pleas. Give me a break.
1:52:55
Speaker 9: We're giving up. Judge McDowell, who is it? Judge Bouchard?
1:53:04
Speaker 11: Yes.
1:53:05
Speaker 3: Winkler.
1:53:06
Speaker 9: For magistrate.
1:53:06
Speaker 3: And Winkler's been around.
1:53:08
Speaker 4: Winkler.
1:53:09
Speaker 9: And Winkler.
1:53:09
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
1:53:10
Speaker 9: Great guy. We're giving up all of our judges for.
1:53:14
Speaker 9: Magistrates who have never, ever tried a case in common, please,
1:53:19
Speaker 9: and have no idea. And they don't care because they're
1:53:22
Speaker 9: just going to do like they've been doing. They're just
1:53:25
Speaker 9: going to let everybody go because it's all about restorative justice.
1:53:30
Speaker 7: Yeah.
1:53:31
Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you this. What in the hell
1:53:34
Speaker 3: is the point of of these street takeovers. Now, if
1:53:37
Speaker 3: this was France, you could say students are upset about
1:53:40
Speaker 3: classroom size, yellow vesters are upset about the intrusions into
1:53:43
Speaker 3: the farm economy. Pick up a group. There is at
1:53:46
Speaker 3: least some argument politically for why they're rioting in the streets.
1:53:49
Speaker 3: These people are not out there to protest or engage
1:53:52
Speaker 3: in a political agenda or anything. They're just out there
1:53:54
Speaker 3: like punk vandals and just breaking stuff. Am I right
1:53:57
Speaker 3: or have I misread the group?
1:53:59
Speaker 9: No, you're absolutely right. And essentially, they're excused over and
1:54:04
Speaker 9: over that I've heard is, well, you don't give us
1:54:07
Speaker 9: a place to get together and party. That's not true.
1:54:12
Speaker 9: You have nightclubs and you have bars all over Hampton
1:54:16
Speaker 9: County that you get kicked out of, that you get
1:54:21
Speaker 9: shot up in, or you've got these janky promoters who
1:54:27
Speaker 9: have these after-hours party and charge a huge cover for
1:54:32
Speaker 9: you to come in. And, you know, they've got their
1:54:34
Speaker 9: DJ and they're slinging drinks without an alcohol license. And
1:54:38
Speaker 9: they're not paying their taxes, you know, and they already
1:54:43
Speaker 9: have one foot in the federal pen. But whatever, we're
1:54:46
Speaker 9: not going to name any names. You know, you've got
1:54:50
Speaker 9: these ridiculous venues. You have plenty of places to go party.
1:54:55
Speaker 9: You just can't behave yourself. You have to show your
1:54:59
Speaker 9: ass wherever you go just because you can. So, okay.
1:55:06
Speaker 6: Okay.
1:55:07
Speaker 9: You know what? Until, you know, people, you know what's
1:55:09
Speaker 9: going to happen. Eventually, somebody is going to get shot
1:55:13
Speaker 9: or a bunch of people are going to get shot.
1:55:15
Speaker 4: Yeah.
1:55:17
Speaker 3: Or the police officers that bother showing up are going
1:55:20
Speaker 3: to get subject to a beatdown. And that's where I
1:55:22
Speaker 3: always go back to the beginning of this. You know,
1:55:24
Speaker 3: if you know this is going to happen, they planned
1:55:25
Speaker 3: ahead of it. Word's gotten around. We're going to do
1:55:27
Speaker 3: this again this Saturday. How in the hell do police officers,
1:55:31
Speaker 3: facing overwhelming odds in terms of simple numbers of people,
1:55:35
Speaker 3: how do they cope with something like that? And I
1:55:37
Speaker 3: would imagine like they have in Europe, they just back
1:55:39
Speaker 3: up and move away and Let the violence go.
1:55:42
Speaker 9: Their morale is in the basement, okay? I don't know
1:55:46
Speaker 9: what agency they work for. Well, I won't say that.
1:55:50
Speaker 9: There are some very good agencies, good leaders in Hammond County,
1:55:53
Speaker 9: good chiefs. But when you have the city, you have
1:55:57
Speaker 9: the county, the deputies, their morale has been in the basement.
1:56:02
Speaker 9: And this was the only glimmer of hope they had
1:56:06
Speaker 9: was that they would get some good judges or keep
1:56:09
Speaker 9: some good judges. And now that's gone. So you're going
1:56:14
Speaker 9: to see you're going to see more cycles instead of
1:56:18
Speaker 9: physical arrests. You're going to see cops have a way
1:56:21
Speaker 9: of coping, too. But you know how they cope the best.
1:56:24
Speaker 9: They're not going to go into drop. They're not going
1:56:27
Speaker 9: to work beyond any second that they have to. The
1:56:30
Speaker 9: minute they can get out of here, there's going to
1:56:32
Speaker 9: be a mass exodus and retirement. There's going to be
1:56:36
Speaker 9: now there's going to be officers that are going to
1:56:38
Speaker 9: transfer out. They're going to transfer out to other counties.
1:56:42
Speaker 9: They're going to look at even working in another state.
1:56:45
Speaker 9: They're not willing to go through four more years of
1:56:49
Speaker 9: this BS.
1:56:50
Speaker 3: So ultimately, the left gets their way. The police will
1:56:53
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1:56:55
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1:56:58
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1:57:26
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1:57:28
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1:57:32
Speaker 1: Brian, it's great to be here, pal.
1:57:34
Speaker 3: And I know everyone wants to talk about that Learjet
1:57:36
Speaker 3: crash in Florida. The horror of seeing that video is
1:57:38
Speaker 3: just like, oh, my God, it's gut-wrenching. But let's first
1:57:41
Speaker 3: talk about this recent development. Joe just brought it to
1:57:44
Speaker 3: my attention. Bomb threats hitting multiple flights in Europe. This
1:57:48
Speaker 3: is the second time in a week this has happened,
1:57:50
Speaker 3: and it's breaking news as of this morning. Diverted at
1:57:53
Speaker 3: least a dozen flights across Europe this morning, the latest
1:57:56
Speaker 3: in a string of incidents that have been causing these
1:57:58
Speaker 3: types of problems. What in the wide, wide world of
1:58:00
Speaker 3: sports is it going on there, James?
1:58:03
Speaker 4: Well, Brian, several days ago, it was seven flights in
1:58:06
Speaker 4: one day that received specific bomb threats. one of those
1:58:11
Speaker 4: only one had to be diverted and the thought is
1:58:14
Speaker 4: okay is this kind of a test to see what's
1:58:16
Speaker 4: going to happen and are we going to see more
1:58:18
Speaker 4: to follow well obviously now we're not only seeing more
1:58:22
Speaker 4: but we're seeing more flights diverted and which means that the.
1:58:25
Speaker 1: Concern level is even higher than it was before.
1:58:27
Speaker 4: So anytime there's a specific bomb threat and they've got
1:58:32
Speaker 4: a criteria that they follow, the protocol is clear. They're
1:58:36
Speaker 4: going to land at the nearest park at a remote location,
1:58:39
Speaker 4: get passengers off as quickly as they can, and then
1:58:42
Speaker 4: do a hard target search through the cabin, rescreening all
1:58:45
Speaker 4: the bags, passengers, interviewing passengers if need be. It's a very,
1:58:50
Speaker 4: very thorough and a very aggravating process passengers because of
1:58:55
Speaker 4: everything that goes through.
1:58:57
Speaker 7: All right.
1:58:57
Speaker 3: Just for my listeners to know, we're aware of the
1:58:59
Speaker 3: technical difficulties. Having a little bit of breakup in your phone,
1:59:01
Speaker 3: but I understand you're in the mountains. So we'll bear
1:59:03
Speaker 3: with you because you're coming through mostly clear, Jay. My apologies.
1:59:08
Speaker 3: That's okay. Well, and it's easy to call in a
1:59:10
Speaker 3: bomb threat. Now we've got the Iranians pretty much saying
1:59:12
Speaker 3: any American-affiliated target is fair game. So that's an extra
1:59:15
Speaker 3: sort of worry and concern that I would carry with me.
1:59:18
Speaker 3: So you think this is really just looking at how
1:59:21
Speaker 3: the officials react to these type of threats?
1:59:25
Speaker 1: I think it is. I do.
1:59:26
Speaker 4: And of course there's just the heightened security concerns. And
1:59:30
Speaker 4: the last thing.
1:59:31
Speaker 3: You want to do is.
1:59:33
Speaker 4: Kind of shrug off a possible bomb threat and something happened.
1:59:37
Speaker 4: And then, of course, you're worried about how many aircraft
1:59:39
Speaker 4: might be impacted. So they're always going to err on
1:59:42
Speaker 4: the side of caution, as they should, and that's a
1:59:45
Speaker 4: good thing. I'm reminded back in the day, many days,
1:59:48
Speaker 4: when I got started in the industry, the FAA told
1:59:52
Speaker 4: us on bomb threats that somebody would call in on
1:59:55
Speaker 4: the phone, hang up on them, and if they call back,
1:59:59
Speaker 4: they're serious.
2:00:00
Speaker 7: Oh.
2:00:01
Speaker 4: I never thought that I really didn't think that was
2:00:04
Speaker 4: the right approach. I said, somebody calls in a bomb
2:00:07
Speaker 4: threat and I'm supposed to hang up on them to
2:00:09
Speaker 4: see if they're serious. That seems like it's kind of
2:00:11
Speaker 4: testing things. I'm sure it's a lot different now than
2:00:14
Speaker 4: it was back in the 80s.
2:00:16
Speaker 1: But buddy, that was a concern.
2:00:18
Speaker 4: But look, we got a lot of issues right now
2:00:20
Speaker 4: around the world that's concerning a lot of people. And
2:00:23
Speaker 4: we're going to see more of these types of diversions.
2:00:27
Speaker 4: And airlines avoiding specific of the world, if they find
2:00:30
Speaker 4: that flying in certain sectors is going to cause problems,
2:00:34
Speaker 4: it's going to cost them money.
2:00:35
Speaker 3: We'll bring Jay Ratliff back and we will dive into
2:00:37
Speaker 3: the tragic Lear jet crash in Florida with that young pilot.
2:00:42
Speaker 3: Did it fall apart before it started on a past
2:00:46
Speaker 3: the speed of sound drive toward the ground or what?
2:00:49
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Speaker 8: You ever been in a cockpit before?
2:01:01
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2:01:08
Speaker 3: And pivoting over to this insane Lear jet crash. Jay,
2:01:11
Speaker 3: I know you've seen the video. And that thing was
2:01:13
Speaker 3: going just like a million miles an hour when it
2:01:16
Speaker 3: blew up on the earth. The only fortunate thing about
2:01:18
Speaker 3: that is people did not feel anything they couldn't have.
2:01:20
Speaker 3: It was an instantaneous death. But how did it happen?
2:01:23
Speaker 3: Did it start breaking apart before it went on a
2:01:26
Speaker 3: supersonic line drive into the ground, or did the plane
2:01:29
Speaker 3: fall apart beforehand leading to that? Do we even know?
2:01:33
Speaker 4: Brian, it probably came about as the overspeed issue that
2:01:35
Speaker 4: took place. You had this flight from Austin headed for
2:01:38
Speaker 4: the Bahamas yesterday. It was at 35,000 feet and approaching
2:01:42
Speaker 4: an area of precipitation where you had some thunderstorms. Now, remember,
2:01:47
Speaker 4: they're flying at 35,000 feet, so you're 51 degrees below
2:01:51
Speaker 4: zero outside the aircraft. It's a prime setting for icing
2:01:58
Speaker 4: on an aircraft. Now, from what we're being told, air
2:02:00
Speaker 4: traffic control gave the crew the option of going one
2:02:05
Speaker 4: of two ways around the storm they were approaching. And
2:02:10
Speaker 4: from what we are understanding from a preliminary standpoint, it
2:02:14
Speaker 4: seems as though they opted to take a more direct
2:02:17
Speaker 4: approach through it, but at a different altitude. Thinking, well,
2:02:21
Speaker 4: we want to get to our destination as soon as
2:02:23
Speaker 4: we can. Let's just see if we can.
2:02:25
Speaker 1: Go over it.
2:02:26
Speaker 4: Problem was this storm, they're cruising at 35,000 feet, topped
2:02:30
Speaker 4: out at 50,000 feet. Really no way to get over
2:02:33
Speaker 4: it with that Bombardier Lear jet that they were flying.
2:02:38
Speaker 4: So what ends up taking place is they enter into
2:02:41
Speaker 4: this high precipitation setting.
2:02:43
Speaker 1: You have ice quickly accumulating on the wings.
2:02:47
Speaker 4: They do have de-icing on technology, but, Brian, so easily
2:02:52
Speaker 4: that can be, you know, overdone from the standpoint where
2:02:57
Speaker 4: it can't keep up. What happens then is you have
2:03:00
Speaker 4: that airflow over and under the wing.
2:03:02
Speaker 1: That provides the constant lift. That's now gone.
2:03:06
Speaker 4: So you have an airplane that goes into a stall
2:03:08
Speaker 4: where it's falling out of the sky. Now, typically, a stall,
2:03:12
Speaker 4: absent of any contaminants on the wing, you know, 10,000 feet,
2:03:17
Speaker 4: they'll just nose it down. They regain control. They fly
2:03:20
Speaker 4: on the way they go. The problem here is they
2:03:23
Speaker 4: could not control the airplane because of the ice that
2:03:26
Speaker 4: was on the wings. So as it's falling fast, 20,000
2:03:31
Speaker 4: feet in a minute, you have the situation where it
2:03:34
Speaker 4: starts to overspeed. And the first officer or the co-pilot,
2:03:39
Speaker 4: she was relaying the information to air traffic control that
2:03:42
Speaker 4: they were, in fact, in an overspeed situation.
2:03:45
Speaker 1: That means exceeding.
2:03:46
Speaker 4: The aircraft's specifications as far as the maximum allowable speed.
2:03:51
Speaker 4: They can't control it. They're going faster and faster. The
2:03:56
Speaker 4: impact to the ground takes place, and you're right, the
2:03:59
Speaker 4: video was horrific.
2:04:01
Speaker 1: The audio was, I think, equally so.
2:04:03
Speaker 4: But we're finding the NTSB is telling us parts of
2:04:07
Speaker 4: the wing, some of the controlling surfaces, three to four
2:04:10
Speaker 4: miles away from the impact zone.
2:04:13
Speaker 7: Yeah.
2:04:14
Speaker 4: So that tells them that apparently that aircraft was coming
2:04:18
Speaker 4: apart before impact, which further indicates that this crew had
2:04:22
Speaker 4: absolutely no chance to control that aircraft.
2:04:26
Speaker 7: Wow.
2:04:26
Speaker 3: The horror. I did the audio. So, so chilling. You
2:04:30
Speaker 3: have someone reciting the Lord's prayer in the background, you know,
2:04:33
Speaker 3: that they saw the writing on the wall on that one.
2:04:36
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, a lot of people on social media, Brian,
2:04:38
Speaker 4: excuse me, are going after this 20 year old.
2:04:41
Speaker 1: Girl and whether or not she should have been flying.
2:04:44
Speaker 4: Uh, look, she had 1300 hours. She learned to fly
2:04:47
Speaker 4: before she learned how to drive. Uh, she was a
2:04:50
Speaker 4: very competent pilot and, um, Brian, if the black box,
2:04:55
Speaker 4: which this aircraft should have had one, if it survived
2:04:59
Speaker 4: in any way where they can locate it and glean
2:05:02
Speaker 4: any information from it, that's great. But if it's not
2:05:06
Speaker 4: able to be retrieved, the data that this first officer
2:05:10
Speaker 4: provided to air traffic control during moments of distress is
2:05:14
Speaker 4: absolutely incredible. She sounded like a seasoned veteran when she
2:05:18
Speaker 4: was giving a lot of the play-by-play of.
2:05:21
Speaker 1: What was taking place.
2:05:23
Speaker 4: And that recording is going to help investigators as they
2:05:26
Speaker 4: try to determine sequence of events on exactly what was happening.
2:05:30
Speaker 4: A flight data recorder would tell the investigators, okay, the
2:05:35
Speaker 4: aircraft was going at this speed at this moment, this.
2:05:37
Speaker 1: Angle of attack. I mean, all of the data is there.
2:05:40
Speaker 4: If they don't have that, they're going to have to
2:05:42
Speaker 4: rely on radar information and this firsthand account of what
2:05:46
Speaker 4: was going on throughout the course of this timeline. And remember,
2:05:50
Speaker 4: They came out of the clouds headed for the ground.
2:05:52
Speaker 4: I think they had like 90 seconds before impact. This
2:05:56
Speaker 4: was just an unbelievably tragic situation. And I'm just, the
2:06:01
Speaker 4: miracle is that nobody on the ground got seriously injured.
2:06:06
Speaker 4: But once the aircraft impacted the ground, they declared an
2:06:10
Speaker 4: evacuation of that area.
2:06:13
Speaker 1: Part of it had to do with the fumes.
2:06:14
Speaker 4: And other things, but Brian, some of it had to
2:06:17
Speaker 4: do with the fact that you had people that were
2:06:18
Speaker 4: rushing to render aid and They found that they could
2:06:21
Speaker 4: do nothing, and they became spectators. And there have been
2:06:23
Speaker 4: times in the past, and you and I have talked
2:06:25
Speaker 4: about this, where some of those spectators.
2:06:27
Speaker 1: Look down and see a piece of the aircraft.
2:06:29
Speaker 3: They'll take it.
2:06:30
Speaker 4: They do, just as a souvenir, just as a memorial,
2:06:34
Speaker 4: just as something to connect them to the event. The
2:06:37
Speaker 4: problem is that could be a critical piece for investigators,
2:06:41
Speaker 4: and they've tried to remove everybody out of there so
2:06:43
Speaker 4: they could treat it, in essence, as a forensic crime scene.
2:06:47
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow.
2:06:49
Speaker 3: Anyhow, I don't understand people's motivations sometimes, Jay. Anyway, it's
2:06:52
Speaker 3: not for me to understand. It's just for us to
2:06:54
Speaker 3: deal with the reality of it. Real quick here, we've
2:06:57
Speaker 3: got a minute or so. Pick one. I don't know.
2:06:59
Speaker 3: Why would American Airlines return to Haiti? Is there really
2:07:01
Speaker 3: a market there for flights in and out of Haiti?
2:07:04
Speaker 8: There is.
2:07:06
Speaker 4: There's a leisure component there. And you also have people
2:07:10
Speaker 4: that are going back and forth to rent to for
2:07:13
Speaker 4: charities and different types of organizations to be there to
2:07:15
Speaker 4: assist certain parts of.
2:07:17
Speaker 1: Haiti to rebuild.
2:07:18
Speaker 4: I know Sherry went down there one time for a
2:07:21
Speaker 4: week after an earthquake.
2:07:23
Speaker 1: To render aid.
2:07:24
Speaker 4: And that's something that we have organizations around the world
2:07:28
Speaker 4: that continue to do. Probably two years ago, there was
2:07:31
Speaker 4: such unrest that there was a lot of gunfire that
2:07:34
Speaker 4: was erupting around the airport. Airlines were warned, okay, be careful.
2:07:40
Speaker 4: And we had Spirit Southwest, excuse me, Spirit American and
2:07:43
Speaker 4: JetBlue that got shot at In a short period of time,
2:07:47
Speaker 4: in fact, there's pictures on Google, images you can look
2:07:50
Speaker 4: where there are bullet holes in the side of the
2:07:53
Speaker 4: Spirit Airlines coming through the overhead compartment.
2:07:56
Speaker 1: It's very scary.
2:07:58
Speaker 4: And airlines quickly stopped flying there. But the fact that
2:08:01
Speaker 4: they can return there is going to be needed. They
2:08:04
Speaker 4: can obviously, A, make money doing it, but, two, restoring
2:08:07
Speaker 4: service to an area that drastically needed that resumption of
2:08:11
Speaker 4: commercial air service.
2:08:12
Speaker 1: And I'm really glad to see it.
2:08:13
Speaker 7: Wow.
2:08:14
Speaker 3: Well, I think it would be easier to fly to
2:08:15
Speaker 3: the Dominican Republic and then take a bus. But what
2:08:17
Speaker 3: do I know about the whole area?
2:08:18
Speaker 7: I don't.
2:08:19
Speaker 3: Take a cruise.
2:08:19
Speaker 5: Yeah.
2:08:20
Speaker 1: Go to Miami and just cruise there.
2:08:22
Speaker 3: There you go. Well, I can imagine any profit they
2:08:26
Speaker 3: made off of an airplane full of people flying to Haiti,
2:08:28
Speaker 3: repairing bullet holes in an airplane probably exceeded any profit margin.
2:08:32
Speaker 3: My thought, my theory. More with Jay Radler. We've got
2:08:34
Speaker 3: quite a few more to get in, and we'll also
2:08:36
Speaker 3: find out how good it is a day to fly.
2:08:38
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2:08:49
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2:08:52
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2:08:56
Speaker 3: Warnings for Frontier customers?
2:08:59
Speaker 4: Yes, they've noticed a string of phishing emails that are
2:09:04
Speaker 4: going out to many of their frequent flyers that looks
2:09:07
Speaker 4: like a Frontier email. People are responding and sadly providing
2:09:12
Speaker 4: personal information, including credit card information. Apparently, they got hacked
2:09:17
Speaker 4: a while back, and they let everybody know that. They
2:09:22
Speaker 4: have actually had this happen so many times, they've dedicated
2:09:26
Speaker 4: a portion of their Frontier website to warn customers of this. So, obviously,
2:09:32
Speaker 4: if you're a frequent flyer Frontier, you get an email
2:09:34
Speaker 4: from them that looks official where they're asking for any
2:09:37
Speaker 4: sort of information, just reported as phishing, spam, what have you,
2:09:43
Speaker 4: so that, you know, fewer people can fall for it because, sadly,
2:09:46
Speaker 4: we see this, especially as we approach the holidays. Southwest
2:09:50
Speaker 4: has had several in the years past that look just
2:09:53
Speaker 4: like a Southwest Airlines-type thing.
2:09:55
Speaker 1: American has Delta.
2:09:57
Speaker 4: The latest one happens to be Frontier, and it's apparently
2:10:00
Speaker 4: fooling a lot of people, which is why they put
2:10:02
Speaker 4: that warning out.
2:10:04
Speaker 3: It just keeps getting worse and worse. We hear about
2:10:06
Speaker 3: that stuff from Dave Hatter all the time, Jay, so
2:10:08
Speaker 3: I'm glad you're bringing it up.
2:10:09
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, Dave's all over that stuff, and we really
2:10:12
Speaker 4: can't do enough to– You know, to get around it.
2:10:16
Speaker 4: You and I talked last week about the travel expert
2:10:19
Speaker 4: that got a lot of her miles stolen, and it
2:10:21
Speaker 4: was because she used the same password in everything that
2:10:24
Speaker 4: she had.
2:10:25
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that doesn't make Dave happy.
2:10:27
Speaker 5: No.
2:10:28
Speaker 3: He's warning people about that all the time.
2:10:31
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
2:10:31
Speaker 3: Anyway, JetBlue, a smaller carrier, discount carrier, are they going
2:10:35
Speaker 3: out of business, Jay?
2:10:37
Speaker 4: They have indicated that they're hiring some restructuring experts.
2:10:43
Speaker 3: Reorg.
2:10:45
Speaker 7: Yeah.
2:10:45
Speaker 4: Well, when I tell students, when you see that word,
2:10:48
Speaker 4: you know, strategic alternatives, restructuring, backpedal quick. Now, JetBlue is
2:10:53
Speaker 4: very quick to come out and say, no, no.
2:10:55
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no.
2:10:56
Speaker 4: We're not looking at filing bankruptcy. But there might be
2:11:00
Speaker 4: down the road the option that they're going to have
2:11:03
Speaker 4: to take up doing Chapter 11.
2:11:04
Speaker 1: Now, consumers repeat.
2:11:06
Speaker 4: Anybody has a reservation, future reservation on JetBlue, just relax.
2:11:09
Speaker 1: You'll be fine.
2:11:12
Speaker 4: It's the investors, the people that think, hey, JetBlue stock
2:11:15
Speaker 4: is down really, really low.
2:11:17
Speaker 1: Let me grab a bunch of it.
2:11:18
Speaker 4: And they're the ones that would get absolutely hammered when
2:11:21
Speaker 4: that announcement comes out, if it does, and that stock
2:11:24
Speaker 4: drops like 70%. So you've got to be very careful
2:11:27
Speaker 4: here if you're looking at buying any.
2:11:28
Speaker 1: Of that stuff. But Brian, a lot of this is
2:11:30
Speaker 1: in the news.
2:11:31
Speaker 4: And my concern is that for people that fly JetBlue
2:11:34
Speaker 4: from other airports, we don't have them here at CVG.
2:11:36
Speaker 1: Yet, you.
2:11:39
Speaker 1: If you have a future reservation, relax. You're going to
2:11:41
Speaker 1: be okay.
2:11:42
Speaker 4: I mean, unless they file bankruptcy and cut, you know,
2:11:44
Speaker 4: severely cut their route map.
2:11:46
Speaker 1: But they've been hurting.
2:11:47
Speaker 4: That's one of the reasons they tried years ago to
2:11:49
Speaker 4: merge with Spirit. It wasn't allowed under the Biden administration.
2:11:53
Speaker 4: And they've just really, they went back to frontier. I mean,
2:11:56
Speaker 4: they've done everything they could to try to do something
2:11:58
Speaker 4: to merge with somebody. And they just not really had
2:12:01
Speaker 4: much luck. And sadly, their debt is really starting to
2:12:05
Speaker 4: escalate to the point it's concerning a lot of people,
2:12:08
Speaker 4: which is why these experts have been called in.
2:12:11
Speaker 3: It's not comforting flying on an airline carrier that is
2:12:15
Speaker 3: on the verge of financial collapse. I'm sorry. I just... I.
2:12:18
Speaker 4: Always think almost every carrier is filed Chapter 11 at
2:12:22
Speaker 4: one time or another. I mean, American Airlines has done it.
2:12:25
Speaker 1: United did it.
2:12:25
Speaker 4: I mean, there's just different times when they need that
2:12:28
Speaker 4: to just hit the reset button, sadly, at the expense
2:12:31
Speaker 4: of their creditors and shareholders.
2:12:34
Speaker 1: But it's a common practice.
2:12:35
Speaker 4: And from our side of the counter as passengers, you
2:12:38
Speaker 4: really don't notice anything different.
2:12:40
Speaker 1: No, I just.
2:12:42
Speaker 3: Think about maintenance and upkeep. You know, if you're running
2:12:44
Speaker 3: on lean margins, it's like, are they cutting corners in
2:12:47
Speaker 3: the areas that matter most? That's all, Jay. It's just me.
2:12:50
Speaker 4: Well, let's hope the FAA does an extra vigilant job
2:12:53
Speaker 4: of staying on top of that, if that's the case.
2:12:55
Speaker 3: Which they apparently are with regard to certain Boeing 787s. Oh,
2:12:59
Speaker 3: this is not good, Jay.
2:13:01
Speaker 4: You mean the headline that says if it gets hit
2:13:03
Speaker 4: by lightning, it could explode?
2:13:05
Speaker 7: Yes, that one.
2:13:05
Speaker 1: That's very unsettling.
2:13:07
Speaker 7: God.
2:13:08
Speaker 4: They have found the FAA has part of a sealant
2:13:11
Speaker 4: that's being used for the fuel tanks. is faulty to
2:13:16
Speaker 4: the standpoint that if a certain Boeing 787 aircraft gets
2:13:22
Speaker 4: hit by lightning, there is a chance that that sealant
2:13:25
Speaker 4: could ignite that happens to be in the fuel tank,
2:13:29
Speaker 4: which would cause the airplane to explode. Now, they have
2:13:32
Speaker 4: ordered inspections. This, again, affects a very specific type of aircraft.
2:13:37
Speaker 4: If you're flying Boeing today, don't worry. But it's the
2:13:40
Speaker 4: 787s that they're looking.
2:13:41
Speaker 1: At right now.
2:13:43
Speaker 4: If they were extremely concerned, they would immediately ground that
2:13:46
Speaker 4: aircraft and say, nothing flies until this gets addressed and fixed.
2:13:51
Speaker 4: The worry level for the FAA is not high enough
2:13:54
Speaker 4: for them to do that. which tells me that they
2:13:56
Speaker 4: don't look like this would be a real high-threat-level type.
2:14:01
Speaker 1: Thing where there's going to be an over-concern. It is
2:14:05
Speaker 1: an issue. They want it checked. They want it resolved.
2:14:08
Speaker 4: And they're going to have it taken care of as
2:14:09
Speaker 4: quickly as possible. And airlines will comply. But, boy, you
2:14:13
Speaker 4: see that headline, and it's sure going to get your attention.