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55KRC Friday Show - Tech Friday, Help Squad, Brigham McCown, Jack Windsor · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Five o five at fifty five KRC, the talk station Friday.
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Speaker 1: Look three dollars fifty cent gas. There you know it's Friday.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Joe Strekker for the woo who he's got.
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Speaker 1: Executive producer of the fifty five car See Morning Show.
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Speaker 1: My name is Brian Thomas, host of the fifty five
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Speaker 1: there it is. We got a crime stopper bag Guy
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Speaker 1: of the week. That one's already up there. And of
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Speaker 1: course Tech Friday mc Dave Hatter. It is Friday, coming
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Speaker 1: up at six thirty. We're going to talk about this
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Speaker 1: is scary artificial intelligence recommending nuclear strikes in war games simulations.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's comforting. We got a local man using tech
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Speaker 1: in a serial rape case. And finally cybersecurity tips to
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Speaker 1: protect your tax identity and refund. That's handy information. We
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Speaker 1: always get that from Dave Hatter. Brian Ibold, the return
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Speaker 1: of the Help Squad, great charitable organization over on the
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Speaker 1: West Side, helping people deal with very very difficult times,
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Speaker 1: getting them over the temporary hurdles people might face, and
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Speaker 1: addictional some extra money to get the rent payment made,
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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. They've done wonderful work, and I
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Speaker 1: know a lot of folks have gotten some help from
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Speaker 1: Brian Ibold and the Help Squad. Brian will return in
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Speaker 1: studio at seven o five. Apparently he's got some big news.
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Speaker 1: And I really really enjoy helping out these charities locally.
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Speaker 1: So Brian Ibold saw a need on the West Side
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Speaker 1: and stepped up and filled that need. So see we
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Speaker 1: can help them out. Later this morning, it's seven o five,
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Speaker 1: follow by all Right, Hudson Institute's Bring Him Account and
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Speaker 1: our Energy Policy Expert live from Las Vegas. Is he
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Speaker 1: appearing at the Sphere Joe with Metallica, So who's opening
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Speaker 1: for who? Metallica warms up and bringing mccow and takes
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Speaker 1: the stage. He will be talking about gas prices, and
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Speaker 1: I did just look at gas buddy, the Straighthorn moves
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Speaker 1: is being a real problem. Yeah, war does have consequences.
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Speaker 1: There are ripple effects. So we can cheer maybe the
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Speaker 1: progress we're making with the Iranians and lots to report
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Speaker 1: on that. But how about three dollars and forty nine
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Speaker 1: cents for gasoline? I'm looking at a lot of stations
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Speaker 1: that are already charging that in the area where I live.
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Speaker 1: And uh, of course it varies from place to place.
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Speaker 1: It was down as low as you know, two dollars
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Speaker 1: and twenty three cents a couple of days ago. Not
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Speaker 1: there anymore. So we'll talk gas prices with Brigham account.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about Ohigoho utilities owning their own nuke plans,
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Speaker 1: and I know Rigam's behind that. I am as well.
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Speaker 1: Small modular reactors are the key Ohio moving that direction. Hey,
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Speaker 1: you want to build an AI facility, bring your power.
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Speaker 1: And with those artificial intelligence companies, they have billions of
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Speaker 1: dollars they can afford to do that. Do you just
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Speaker 1: need to streamline the regulatory process? Should it cost three
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Speaker 1: billion dollars and take three or ten years to build
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Speaker 1: a nuke plant? I don't think so. And also with
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Speaker 1: Brigham account yes, why the straighter for our moves is
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Speaker 1: a crisis, which he's done. He does the podcast Charged Conversations.
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Speaker 1: One more that I strongly encourage you to follow or
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Speaker 1: listen to, like Todd Zen's or Citizen Watchdog yesterday. That
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Speaker 1: is scary stuff. I mean, the level what you want
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Speaker 1: to call it corruption in city government Downtown Cincinnati. I
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Speaker 1: don't know that it's risen to the level of corruption,
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Speaker 1: but what Todd Zenser reveals about spending and priorities with
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Speaker 1: the Downtown Cincinnati current makeup is very troubling, and it
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Speaker 1: should be troubling regardless of political strife. Your neighborhood's infrastructure
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Speaker 1: that's falling apart. We can point directly at roads. We
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Speaker 1: all know we have a real problem with the backlog
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Speaker 1: of road repairs. That's just one thing. And yet they
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Speaker 1: continue to throw money in non governmental organizations. And he
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Speaker 1: asked a critical question, why don't we have a disclosure?
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Speaker 1: Shouldn't all council members and elected officials like the mayor
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Speaker 1: have to disclose whether or not they have a financial
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Speaker 1: interest or personal interest in connection with money that's going
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Speaker 1: to any one of these NGOs dods ends are pointing
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Speaker 1: out that they have to have purvoll sits on the
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Speaker 1: board of two of the NGOs that get the city
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Speaker 1: tax payer money. Does that sound right? There's a thing
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Speaker 1: in the law called the appearance of impropriety. Lawyers are
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Speaker 1: held to a high standard, whether you believe it or not,
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Speaker 1: do nothing that creates the appearance of impropriety. Who among
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Speaker 1: us wouldn't want an outright disclosure? Does any council member
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Speaker 1: or the mayor have a vested interest, connection with, or
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Speaker 1: personal interest in anything that's receiving money. Hmm hmm, silence
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Speaker 1: from council. Let's bring McCallan. We'll have him from seven
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Speaker 1: thirty eight, twenty five and five with Jack Windsor, editor
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Speaker 1: chief the How Press Network returns as he does on Fridays.
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Speaker 1: Why we should support Marcel Sturbage for the primary. I
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Speaker 1: know he's a big fan of Marcel, and I've talked
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Speaker 1: to Marcel Sturbage, I mean several times. He is an
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Speaker 1: impressive guy. So you know, do your own research, do
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Speaker 1: your own you know, like I would typically say, don't
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Speaker 1: be swayed by money flowing into politics and meme focused ads.
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Speaker 1: Do your own research. And make the best determination you
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Speaker 1: can on who the best candidate is. Ohio senators and
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Speaker 1: Trump are discussing energy rates regarding building new data centers,
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Speaker 1: that topic with Jack as well. And finally, are whistleblowers
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Speaker 1: being punished for exposing waste and fraud? That's a good one,
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Speaker 1: Jack Windsor at a thirty you anytime five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty,
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Speaker 1: five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three talk
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Speaker 1: fifty on AT and T phones. Yes, greenlight for epic fury.
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Speaker 1: It's going to continue because the bipartisan resolution that presented
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Speaker 1: by Thomas Massey and Rocanna failed to pass. You had
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Speaker 1: four Democrats joining most of the Republicans. The bill sunk
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Speaker 1: to twelve to two nineteen. Of course, it would have
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Speaker 1: blocked Trump from using armed voices in the operation against
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Speaker 1: Iran and of course bringing it to a screeching halt,
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Speaker 1: which is the problem, and I will acknowledge the difficulty
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Speaker 1: in that, which is why you can vote for a
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Speaker 1: war powers or rather an authorization for you some military
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Speaker 1: force tailored to allow certain activities to continue, but perhaps
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Speaker 1: specifically precluding boots on the ground. Do you want to
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Speaker 1: project to your enemy that you are not going to
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Speaker 1: allow boots on the ground, or that you've been foreclosed
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Speaker 1: from that option. These are the arguments back and forth.
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Speaker 1: The law is what the law is. The Constitution says
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Speaker 1: what the Constitution says. The nineteen seventy three War Powers
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Speaker 1: Resolution says what it says. So in spite of the
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Speaker 1: you know, expedients needed in modern times and the idea
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Speaker 1: that you need to be able to make quick decisions,
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Speaker 1: the law has not changed. And that's the position that
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Speaker 1: Thomas Massey, Rocanna and of course Congressman Warren Davidson, who
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Speaker 1: voting in favor of the measure, they were interested in,
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Speaker 1: I'm bringing about some sort.
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Speaker 2: Of legal.
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Speaker 1: Uh well, compliance with the law. Actually, so you had Massey,
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Speaker 1: Warren Davidson and hmm. The Democrats include Greg Lansman. Do
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Speaker 1: you say, Joe, isn't Greg Landsman Jewish?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Well, that's kind of what I said to my wife.
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Speaker 1: With Greg Landsman voting no and I he bucked the
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Speaker 1: Democrats that were the only handful of Democrats who voted.
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Speaker 1: I voted yeah, I voted no. So is there a
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Speaker 1: connection with that? Some people suggest that the only reason
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Speaker 1: we are bombing Iran is because of Israel. Some people
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Speaker 1: have a problem with that. I seem I get the
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Speaker 1: feeling Daniel Davis and the Daniel Davis deep dives along
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Speaker 1: those lines. But you know, I Israel's been a long
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Speaker 1: time friend of ours, and I don't think we could
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Speaker 1: have survived the Cold War with the Soviet Union without
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Speaker 1: their insanely amazing intelligence operation. But here we find ourselves.
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Speaker 1: So the war will continue. The question is whether we
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Speaker 1: can get the straight of Horror moves back open, which
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Speaker 1: is described as a very, very difficult challenge. Now, the Iranians,
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Speaker 1: for their part, claimed that no, the straight of hormusi
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Speaker 1: In isn't shut down. The Mission to the United States
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Speaker 1: said yesterday, Iran's Mission Tehran isn't closing the strait, and
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Speaker 1: it's in its words, whoever the persons sent to the
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Speaker 1: United Nations make a proclamation they're committed to international law
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Speaker 1: and freedom of navigation. In reality, it is the United
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Speaker 1: States that has endangered maritime security, well, the Iranians maritime security.
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Speaker 1: We just blew up a drone boat described as as
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Speaker 1: big as a World War II aircraft carrier. That's not
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Speaker 1: delivering drones anymore. One more of the Iranian Navy that
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Speaker 1: was sunk just yesterday and a growing number of ships destroyed,
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Speaker 1: accord to the Sencom Commander Adam Bradley Cooper, thirty ships
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Speaker 1: destroyed so far. Cooper yesterday, speaking alongside Secretary of War
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Speaker 1: Pete hegseeth do youtail him the expanding maritime activity, saying
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Speaker 1: US forces have intensified strikes against the Iranian vessels. Of course,
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Speaker 1: we blew one up the other day, actually blew a
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Speaker 1: sub up too. Said you may have heard that the
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Speaker 1: presidents say just a while ago that we have sunk
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Speaker 1: or destroyed twenty four ships. That was true, he said,
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Speaker 1: at the moment, we're now up to over thirty ships.
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Speaker 1: Just last few hours we hit an Iranian drone carrier
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Speaker 1: ship roughly the size of a World War two aircraft carrier,
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Speaker 1: and as we speak it's on fire. Ballistic missile attacks,
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Speaker 1: he said, have decreased by ninety percent since day one.
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Speaker 1: Drone attack decrease eighty three percent since day one, and
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Speaker 1: hopefully maybe a little bit more given that we just
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Speaker 1: blew up the drone delivering aircraft carrier. EXAs said the
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Speaker 1: operation is not slown down, in fact, it's ramping up,
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Speaker 1: saying we only have just begun to fight and fight decisively.
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Speaker 1: The amount of combat power that is still flowing, that's
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Speaker 1: still coming, we will be able to project over Iran.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry that we'll be able to project projective Irans
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Speaker 1: multiples of what it is currently.
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Speaker 2: Saying.
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Speaker 1: Our capabilities are overwhelming and gathering still, as are those
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Speaker 1: of our Israeli partners. Sort of a suggestion about munitions,
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Speaker 1: he said, our munitions are full up and our will
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Speaker 1: as iron clad, which means our timeline is ours in
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Speaker 1: our salon to control as long as it takes to
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Speaker 1: ensure the United States of America achieves these objectives. Of course,
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Speaker 1: a statement addressing a lot of concerns by people in
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Speaker 1: the know that we're running out of munitions, most notably,
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Speaker 1: the defensive missions are munitions, you know, the ones that
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Speaker 1: shoot the missiles out of the sky. But that whether
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Speaker 1: it's true, and let's assume it is true. Obviously, the
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Speaker 1: air campaign has weakened the Iranians' ability to even launch
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Speaker 1: those missiles. So if they keep up that bombing campaign
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Speaker 1: and they can use conventional bombs, now those we apparently
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Speaker 1: have a lot of the kindness drop, not the ones
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Speaker 1: that are laser guided or fired from a ship thousand
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Speaker 1: miles away. No, we can just literally drop old school
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Speaker 1: bombs on them. And that's where we're going for the now.
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Speaker 1: The manufacturing facilities of the rockets, the drones, et cetera.
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Speaker 1: So hopefully we will continue to erode the Iranians ability
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Speaker 1: to even launch a drone That certainly would go a
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Speaker 1: long way to opening up the Straight of Horror Moves,
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Speaker 1: which is a challenge right now. The mines, the potential
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Speaker 1: for the Iranians to use these drone boats, the limited
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Speaker 1: number of ships we have in the region, they can
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Speaker 1: only do so much. So we'll see. I saw this
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Speaker 1: this one article. European allies might join the United States
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Speaker 1: in defending the Straight of Horn moves. Get a load
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Speaker 1: of this, but their navies are already thread bear. Britain's
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Speaker 1: once dominant Royal Navy has shrunk to its smallest size
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Speaker 1: in centuries. British officials are currently looking into the practices
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Speaker 1: of deploying escort cargoes to the Strait, but officials familiar
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Speaker 1: with the matter say it's that no final decisions have
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Speaker 1: been made. You know, I just saw that, and that
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Speaker 1: goes to that five percent thing, and I know there
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Speaker 1: are bregsit, folks. But you know, the European Union and
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Speaker 1: our NATO allies have allowed their militaries to be weakened
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Speaker 1: to the point that they are well, they've been emasculated.
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Speaker 1: They're of no help in waging a war. With the
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Speaker 1: mutual defense obligation we have with our fellow NATO countries,
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Speaker 1: We're expecting some help if we get attacked, and they
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Speaker 1: are expecting help if they get attacked. That street seems
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Speaker 1: to only run one way. Donald Trump at least knows
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Speaker 1: that in an asserted massive pressure on the allies to
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Speaker 1: ramp up military spend at least five percent of your
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Speaker 1: gross domestic product, seeing at least well have a military
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Speaker 1: right now, you don't. And to the extent anyone of
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Speaker 1: us gets attack, who's going to be there to fight
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Speaker 1: off the attacker? Right? That will be us. We've been
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Speaker 1: the police force for the entire year Western European countries
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Speaker 1: for now, since basically World War Two. They have freed
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Speaker 1: is freed up the economy of those countries to spend
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Speaker 1: money elsewhere, not on a military because while the United
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Speaker 1: States has that, we'll let them pay for it. Just
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Speaker 1: wondering what the reciprocal benefit on that was for all
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Speaker 1: these years five eighteen Right now, fifty five KRCD talk
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Speaker 2: I'm Donald J. Trump.
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Speaker 1: Five to twenty two on a Friday, and a half
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Speaker 1: to one to you five one, three, seven, nine to
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Speaker 1: TAH five five fifty on EIGHTHV ANDC phones. I turned
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Speaker 1: things over to lum me for a moment. Get it
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Speaker 1: out of your system. I'm still scratching my head over
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Speaker 1: this downtown shooting, by this mass shooting, the Frenique cob
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Speaker 1: and Derek Long gunplay and the nightclub with hundreds and
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Speaker 1: hundreds of people in there. Nine people get shot, bringing
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Speaker 1: city manager out, Cheryl Long out, and aftab parvol Off.
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Speaker 1: Talk about gun violence, gun violence, and you get these
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Speaker 1: guns off the streets. How about you just prosecute people
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Speaker 1: the fullest extent of law, which hasn't been happening in
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Speaker 1: Hamilton County, even Mayor aftab Parvoll talking about low bond
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Speaker 1: at least one case. What is going on here? I'm shocked,
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Speaker 1: shocked to find there's liberal, woke judges out there, and
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Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that he'd been supporting this
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Speaker 1: liberal woke criminal justice ideology for a long time, promoting
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Speaker 1: it and telling the judges to embrace it, enter the
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Speaker 1: federal government. Now you probably know we have state charges
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Speaker 1: in here, and we have federal government. Federal government. The
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Speaker 1: two men involve Long and Cobb, both under disability, which
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Speaker 1: means they were previously felony convictions. Prior felony convictions prohibit
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Speaker 1: both of them from possessing firearms and ammunition. Both firearms
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Speaker 1: and ammunition were used in the shooting. Ergo, there are
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Speaker 1: federal charges.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: If you are a would be user of a firearm
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Speaker 1: for criminal activity or anything else and you're under disability,
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Speaker 1: this is a warning shot for you, Pow. You can't
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Speaker 1: count on woke judges in Hamilton County or a woke
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Speaker 1: prosecutor cutting you an easy plea deal, or maybe even
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Speaker 1: not prosecuting you. When the federal government is looming large
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Speaker 1: over you, and that charge will put you in jail
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Speaker 1: for fifteen years. Fifteen years. Maybe I'd better not take
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Speaker 1: a gun with me. They already told me I'm not
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Speaker 1: allowed to have one. Bill Halisek, public information officer for
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Speaker 1: THEATFS Columbus Field Vision, talking about this, referring to their
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Speaker 1: previous felony convictions, both men again not allowed to carry firearms.
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Speaker 1: He said, the charges that the federal government levied against
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Speaker 1: these guys are an important part of the ATF's efforts
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Speaker 1: to curb gun violence in local committee communities. That's our
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Speaker 1: whole mission here, that's our number one goal is to
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Speaker 1: reduce the gun violence by whatever means possible. Hey, that's
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Speaker 1: what the criminal justice system is all about. Woke leftists, folks.
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Speaker 1: Are you under disability or not? Yes, I have a
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Speaker 1: prior felony conviction, then you're prohibited from having a gun.
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Speaker 1: That's not racist. That's the law. And somewhere along the line,
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Speaker 1: someone decided to confuse people breaking the law using firearms,
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Speaker 1: literally killing people, suggesting that prosecuting these individuals for the
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Speaker 1: full sixtent of the law somehow active racism. No, it isn't.
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Speaker 1: It is using the theories of criminal justice to help
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Speaker 1: make communities safer. You get the bad guy off the street,
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Speaker 1: they're locked up. At one point there was the argument
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Speaker 1: that well, maybe in prison they'll have services that will
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Speaker 1: help rehabilitate them. That one kind of went by the wayside.
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Speaker 1: But you're punishing the individual. You are sending a message
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Speaker 1: out to other would be users of firearms or anybody
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Speaker 1: else who wants to commit crime that there's going to
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Speaker 1: be accountability for it. You are going to be held accountable.
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Speaker 1: That's a deterrence effect, And of course it has the
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Speaker 1: benefit of putting a little bit of salve on the
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Speaker 1: burn of the families who are left living to deal
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Speaker 1: with the grief they saw a person prosecuted and sent away,
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Speaker 1: giving them at least some measure of satisfaction that justice
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Speaker 1: actually had been served. So there you go, and it's
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Speaker 1: nice to know that at least we have the federal
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Speaker 1: government out there with federal laws that they can unilaterally
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Speaker 1: go ahead and enforce in spite of the local left
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Speaker 1: wing political bias against enforcing the law. Five twenty six
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Speaker 1: hey erin Martley. Cloudy Sky's describing it as pleasant right
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Speaker 2: Happy Friday.
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Speaker 1: Better order the phones. We'll get Tom's call here in
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Speaker 1: a moment. Just yeah.
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Speaker 2: We have one other.
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Speaker 1: The Feds are going after the City Bird Fountain Square shooter.
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Speaker 1: They have new video. Apparently local charges been dropped because
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Speaker 1: they showed it was self defense the eighteen year old
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Speaker 1: Shaquille Ferguson. But no, no, no, enter the federal government.
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Speaker 1: Why because well, he was prohibited from having a firearm.
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Speaker 1: He was not allowed to possess ammunition or a firearm. Now,
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Speaker 1: while the gun was not found at the scene, they
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Speaker 1: did find the m O casings. Yes, those also leave
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Speaker 1: a telltale sign that directly connect those casings with the
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Speaker 1: gun that he used to fire on in Fountain Square.
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Speaker 1: So didn't find the gun. He shot a nineteen year
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Speaker 1: old victim in the leg and a sixteen year old
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Speaker 1: got grazed by bullet. You may recall that Affidavid said
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Speaker 1: that's because he fled the area later and then turned
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Speaker 1: himself into police. Clide Bennett, the second who's representing him,
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Speaker 1: also representing one of the people in the mass shooting
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Speaker 1: at the nightclub. He said, I do not represent him
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Speaker 1: in that case. My representation is Shaquille Ferguson is over.
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Speaker 1: He's on record.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 1: My representation ended. So he pleaded guilty on July twenty third,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, to aggravate his sold after pistol whipping
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Speaker 1: another guy in a metro bust. Sentence of probation. Oh
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Speaker 1: hell kind of justice system. He used that same gun
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Speaker 1: on Fountain Square in that shooting, and another one just
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Speaker 1: two days earlier October eleventh, twenty twenty five. He's a
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Speaker 1: shooty up guy accused of firing on a car in
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Speaker 1: Spring Grove Avenue. Charges including Florius so sold Those are
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Speaker 1: still penning in court anyway, but the other one's not.
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Speaker 1: So the federal government comes in says, look, we have
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Speaker 1: the shell casings. We've traced it directly to this guy.
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Speaker 1: He is going to be prosecuted and may spend fifteen
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Speaker 1: years in Gale for violating federal law. Justice may very
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Speaker 1: well be served, Tom, Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Friday,
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Speaker 1: my friend.
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Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, So let me get this straight. These
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Speaker 4: these liberal democrats, they believe that if you make a
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Speaker 4: law outlawing guns, it's gonna keep everybody from having guns.
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Speaker 4: It's going to solve the solve the problem of gun violence.
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Speaker 4: When we already have laws on the books, and when
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Speaker 4: those laws are put in place and an individual is
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Speaker 4: told you can't have a gun and he gets one anyway,
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Speaker 4: doesn't that prove that these idiotic laws that would cover
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Speaker 4: everybody are not going to work either.
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Speaker 1: It makes that's where the criminal justice system kicks in.
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Speaker 1: How many people violate the laws? This has been going
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Speaker 1: on since Kate Nature's Laws Kane slew Abel, Right. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so people commit horrific acts of violence. They break laws regularly.
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Speaker 1: There it is, it's on the books. Don't do that,
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Speaker 1: they do it anyway? What is to be done if
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Speaker 1: that happens, You prosecute them. You show the rest of
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Speaker 1: the world there will be penalties and repercussions for breaking
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Speaker 1: the law. And if you don't do that, what happens.
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Speaker 1: Look at California, you know, you decriminalize stealing, and people steal.
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Speaker 1: Oh shocked.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And you make it sound so simple because it
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Speaker 4: is that simple. So then the question begs begs the question,
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Speaker 4: why aren't these liberal Democrats going with that? What is
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Speaker 4: their motivation for not going along with the way you
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Speaker 4: just laid it out simply? Well, I mean it's money,
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Speaker 4: it's votes, it's votes because of money, it's money because
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Speaker 4: of votes. What else could it possibly be? I I
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Speaker 4: could see an end of it. Okay, I'm a case,
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Speaker 4: and you see a young man being prosecuted and his
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Speaker 4: mom is crying, and his mom is getting ready to
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Speaker 4: lose her baby, or somebody else lost their baby, you know,
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Speaker 4: likely in the same scenario. But I get her. Okay,
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Speaker 4: that's your kid, and you don't want your kid to
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Speaker 4: go to prison for the rest of his life. Okay,
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Speaker 4: I understand that. But to be somebody who is who
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Speaker 4: is not personally attacked to the situation. You're a lawmaker,
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Speaker 4: you are being charged with protecting the entire society, and
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Speaker 4: yet your idea is, oh, no, no, no, no, we
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Speaker 4: shouldn't prosecute these people. We should go easy on them,
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Speaker 4: or or we should tell everybody no one's allowed to
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Speaker 4: have a gun. There's got to be motivation behind it,
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Speaker 4: and is nefarious has to be well, And unfortunately, most
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Speaker 4: of these people that are doing this. If not all
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Speaker 4: of them that are singing in that same song are Democrats,
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Speaker 4: don't vote Democrat, have a great.
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Speaker 1: Weekend time, appreciate it. I think the missing element in
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Speaker 1: the why as they are inclined to just blame the system.
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Speaker 1: The person who shot the other person is a victim
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Speaker 1: of an inherently unjust system, and he would not have
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Speaker 1: squeezed that trigger or otherwise brandshed to firearm ins by
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Speaker 1: to the fact the law said he couldn't have one
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Speaker 1: if it wasn't for the system. So because the system
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Speaker 1: is inherently broke, we're not going to prosecute him for
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Speaker 1: the crimes that he actually committed. That's really I think
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Speaker 1: all it boils down to. It's all I can come
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Speaker 1: up with. I find a lot of fault with that.
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Speaker 1: I think that mindset leads us to a very dangerous place.
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Speaker 1: But I think that's the only thing we can really
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Speaker 1: come up with by way of explanation. Unless you got
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Speaker 1: a different one, feel free to give me a call
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Speaker 6: Okay, let's get to work.
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Speaker 3: I'm ready. You got to impress the boss station.
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Speaker 1: Can you play John the Fisherman by forty on a Friday?
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Speaker 1: You know the answer to that is yes and a
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Speaker 1: happy with da. That's some good plans for the weekends.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to a fundraiser for the Cincinnati Classical Academy tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: I love that since Classical Academy, and I hope that
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Speaker 1: that kind of a school's philosophy, the education system, the
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Speaker 1: idea of classical education and no woke and no DEI
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Speaker 1: focusing on real things, real skills that young people need
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Speaker 1: to advance in this world. God bless them, and the
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Speaker 1: architect of a great system of education that is going
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Speaker 1: to grow by leaps and bounds. There's a really great
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Speaker 1: article about proving to the rest of the world that
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Speaker 1: there was no argument left against school choice. Check out
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Speaker 1: that what happened in Texas. I'll get to that maybe
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Speaker 1: later in the program, but it is certainly a growing
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Speaker 1: and very welcome thing and a welcome change and hopefully
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Speaker 1: turning around the lives from some young people giving them
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Speaker 1: the skills they need to survive. Over the stack is stupid.
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Speaker 1: Let's get naked people at Thirty nine year old woman
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Speaker 1: arrested taking it to custody. This is in Nashville. Police
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Speaker 1: say she bit a police officer after running toward people
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Speaker 1: at Centennial Park completely naked. As this tradition, please said.
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Speaker 1: An officer spotted Ashley Masterson running around the area naked
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Speaker 1: holding a sign attached to a piece of wood. She
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Speaker 1: initially fled.
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Speaker 2: Amazing.
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Speaker 1: See that was my pause, Joe, just waiting for it.
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Speaker 1: The officer attempted to detain her. She fled from the officer.
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Speaker 1: He was able to detain the woman ultimately put her
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Speaker 1: in a car. Reportedly began kicking and screaming and then
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Speaker 1: bit the officer on his right arm. He had visible
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Speaker 1: and bloody bite mark. There was so chomped downy mess.
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Speaker 1: In charge with felony aggravated assault on a first responder
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Speaker 1: for misdemeanors including public indecency, resisting arrest, evading arrest, disorderly conduct,
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Speaker 1: and of course public intoxication. Aamen, don't do that. Here's
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Speaker 1: a weird one. We go to Pennsylvania, Indiana County, Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 1: where the Pennsylvania State Police report that a climber woman
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Speaker 1: has been charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after spreading
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Speaker 1: new photographs of an individual to prevent them from cooperating
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Speaker 1: with the investigation. Huh No, that doesn't make any sense
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Speaker 1: to me either. Investigations started when an injured and abandoned
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Speaker 1: dog was found on the side of the road. Troopers
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Speaker 1: say that they were able to determine that Paulina Williams,
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Speaker 1: who's thirty one, abandoned her dog along the roadway. Mixbury
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Speaker 1: dog found following day transport of the veterinarian for treatment,
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Speaker 1: where it was discovered the dog had two pelvis fractured
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Speaker 1: and numerous chicken bones in his stomach. Troopers learned that
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Speaker 1: Williams allegedly had contacted an individual and asked them to
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Speaker 1: kill or abandon the dog. According to the police release,
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Speaker 1: Williams spread nude photographs of the individual in an effort
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Speaker 1: to prevent the person from speaking with law enforcement. Do
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Speaker 1: what like hiring a hit man to take care of
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Speaker 1: your dog? William's charged with aggravated cruelty to animals and
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Speaker 1: intimidation of a witness, cruelty to animals and invasion of
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Speaker 1: privacy misdemeanors. The intimidation of a witness is a felony.
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Speaker 1: She was unable to post the one hundred thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: bond was taken at the Indiana County jail. Uh yeah,
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Speaker 1: neck tattoo, that's a beauty, nice nose ring and some
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Speaker 1: pretty sweet piercings along her mouth. To you try your
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Speaker 1: own conclusion, Eeries is the biggest douche of the universe,
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Speaker 1: in all the galaxies. There's no bigger douche than you.
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Speaker 1: You've reached the top.
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Speaker 3: It's good going, dude.
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Speaker 1: Your dreams have come true. What an amazing idea Joe
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Speaker 1: Strekker came up with. Handing the dog over to a shelter.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you no kill shelter for adoption seems like a
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Speaker 1: better alternative. Joe, I'm with you all day along on
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Speaker 1: that one.
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Speaker 2: Hmmm.
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies rushed to Santa Clarita, about forty
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Speaker 1: miles north of LA after receiving a report of a
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Speaker 1: man suffering from a mental health crisis. The tradition, the
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Speaker 1: armed individual allegedly fired shot to hit a car. Thankfully,
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Speaker 1: no one was shot. Local elementary school had to be
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Speaker 1: placed on lockdown after shooting the car. Allegedly, Sheriff's deputies
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Speaker 1: claimed the suspect barricaded himself in a house. Thirty minutes later,
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Speaker 1: the suspect was seen walking around the neighborhood in a
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Speaker 1: hat and a T shirt. But of course this is
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Speaker 1: Friday in the morning show Stack is stupid. He had
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Speaker 1: no pants on strender authorities without incident, and of course
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Speaker 1: there's video of the moment. He was caught on camera
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Speaker 1: walking across the street in a residential area too swat
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Speaker 1: with his hands high in the air with the shotgun
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Speaker 1: on the ground behind him. Five forty five fifty five
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Speaker 1: especially everyone, a very happy Friday and invitation stick around
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Speaker 1: all morning of course Tech Friday by Dave Hattery.
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Speaker 2: Hatter.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from the help squads Brian Ibel at
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Speaker 1: seven oh five with some apparently big news our energy
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Speaker 1: expert Brigham Account from Hudson Institute's gonna join us at
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Speaker 1: seven thirty for an hour by Gas Prices Utilities owning
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Speaker 1: their own nuke plants and the straight of horror moves
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Speaker 1: obviously a dominant topic of conversation that one Jack Windsor
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Speaker 1: from the Ile Press network about supporting Marcel Sturbage. It
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Speaker 1: is an option the Senators and Trump discussing the energy
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Speaker 1: rates on the data centers as well. Finally, also whistleblowers
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Speaker 1: being punished for exposing waste and fraud. That with Jack
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Speaker 1: Windsor coming up at eight thirty back over to the
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Speaker 1: stack of stupid. Oh look naked person who naked man
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Speaker 1: exposed himself the two women happened Tuesday afternoon. But why
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Speaker 1: are you doing that? Maybe we'll find out sometimes you don't.
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Speaker 1: Women who saw the man described her experience on social
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Speaker 1: media today. My friend and I were sexually harassed by
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Speaker 1: a naked man hiding in the woods who was filming
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Speaker 1: himself performing explicit acts while watching and recording us. What
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Speaker 1: used to get deliberate penalties? He formally played hockey joe.
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Speaker 1: This incredibly disturbing and unacceptable, especially in a park where
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Speaker 1: many college students, high school students, families and young children
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Speaker 1: regularly run, walk and play right, She said. The incident
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Speaker 1: was reported to the RUST and police, describing the suspect
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Speaker 1: as young white adult males of medium build suspects plural.
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Speaker 1: They were both in there doing that. Lieutenant Kayla Lord
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Speaker 1: Lloyd's spokesman for the police officers, said the responded to
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Speaker 1: Cook Park immediately started searching for the suspect, but couldn't
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Speaker 1: find him. In the social media post, one also wrote,
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Speaker 1: we're sharing this to warn others so no one else
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Speaker 1: has to experience something like this. Stalelert void walking alone.
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Speaker 1: Pay close attention to your surroundings. That's solid information. Lieutenant
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Speaker 1: Lloyd noted that the police have not received any similar reports,
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Speaker 1: said the incident is still under investigation, So one of
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Speaker 1: those where we don't find out why they're doing that.
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Speaker 1: Let's see here Wisconsin's part of Wisconsin. A nurse sentenced
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Speaker 1: to prison for engaging in sexual intercourse with a patient.
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Speaker 1: Monroe County District Attorney's office press release said Melissa Knutson
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Speaker 1: found guilty of misconduct in public office and obstructing an officer,
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Speaker 1: sends to eighteen month in prison two years of probation.
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Speaker 1: Charges them from her time as a nurse at the
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Speaker 1: in Monroe County, repeatedly engaging in sexual intercourse with the
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Speaker 1: patient who was a drug court participant facts report of
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Speaker 1: the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services. She falsely
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Speaker 1: accused the patient of sexual assault. She acknowledged that she
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Speaker 1: was not sexually assaulted later, Butts instead fabricated the allegation
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Speaker 1: to avoid the consequences. District Attorney Kevin Caringer had this
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Speaker 1: to say, the harm caused by her was a deep
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Speaker 1: and it was deep and significant. Not only did she
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Speaker 1: violate this sacred trust between a patient and a nurse,
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Speaker 1: but she compounded by falsely accusing the patient of sexual assault.
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Speaker 1: The situation is particularly egregious given the patient in this
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Speaker 1: situation was a participant in drug court. Judge Current extremely
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Speaker 1: concerned about the significant level of harm caused by missus Knutsen,
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Speaker 1: and his sentence reflected that significant level of harm. Weird. Oh,
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Speaker 1: and yet another one. Every week Joe's tossing and the
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Speaker 1: teachers who are having sex with students. Every week it's
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Speaker 1: been a female teacher having sex with students. It never
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Speaker 1: never ceases to amaze me. Married high school jim teacher
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Speaker 1: in Rhode Island has been arrested in charge with sexually
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Speaker 1: assaulting a student whom she admitted to sexting and at
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Speaker 1: least kissing. Alicia Crins started sending flirty messages to the
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Speaker 1: male victim when he was a sophomore at Pontagan That's
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Speaker 1: at high school in Gloucester, Rhode Island. Thirty nine year
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Speaker 1: old Crins reportedly found his phone number online, which he
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Speaker 1: was her student. Those exchanges escalated from flirty messages to
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Speaker 1: her sending him naked pictures and videos. Bad idea anybody,
33:39
Speaker 1: because idiots and thank god they're idiots. Look we got
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Speaker 1: the proof. Additionally, the teen said that Crins kissed him twice,
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Speaker 1: including one incident where she straddled him sexually in the
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Speaker 1: back of the car. She admitted the police officers that
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Speaker 1: she did send inappropriate photos, kissed the boy, and discussed
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Speaker 1: plans to have sex, but insisted that the relationship was
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Speaker 1: never physical. Whatever, thank you. Liam started flirting when the boy.
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Speaker 1: She told him he looked good, asked him if she
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Speaker 1: could wear his sweatshirt Affidavid did if. She teasingly asked
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Speaker 1: him what he would buy her for her birthday, then
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Speaker 1: proceeded to ask him for a kiss, gave him her address.
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Speaker 1: He did show up at her home and then she
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Speaker 1: jumped into his car and they parked on a side streak.
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Speaker 1: She allegedly told him, I can't believe I'm doing I'm
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Speaker 1: going to do this. You can't tell anybody. That's when
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Speaker 1: they started kissing, lasted about fifteen minutes. She then bombarded
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Speaker 1: the boy with flattering texts in the following days, including
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Speaker 1: message about how good a kiss her he was and
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Speaker 1: how she couldn't stop thinking about his lips phrasing. She
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Speaker 1: later invited him over, and that's when the apparently straddling
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Speaker 1: againstid in the backseat of the car occurred. Affidavid stated
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Speaker 1: that they engaged in sexual contact. They kissed. When speaking
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Speaker 1: of police, the teenager showed authorities a handful of racy
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Speaker 1: photos and videos that showed her in lingerie. He added
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Speaker 1: that she sent the photos to him when he was
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Speaker 1: only seventeen years old. He also admitted to authorities she
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Speaker 1: sent the boy nude photos and videos of herself when
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Speaker 1: he turned eighteen. Happy birthday.
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Speaker 2: I guess.
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Speaker 1: They said they discussed having sex, though they never actually
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Speaker 1: slept together. Congratulations whatever, Thank you Liam five fifty six
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Speaker 1: with Dave Hatter every Friday coming up Botto of the
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Speaker 1: hour six thirty. We got artificial intelligence suggesting nuclear strikes
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Speaker 1: are a great option of wargames simulations. Yeah, I don't
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Speaker 1: like that local man using tech in a serial rape case.
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Speaker 1: And number three topics cybersecurity, tips to protect your tax
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Speaker 1: identity and refund Brian Ibold the man behind the Help Squad,
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Speaker 1: a wonderful charitable organization helping folks on the West Side
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Speaker 1: in dire situations. Apparently Brian Ibold has some big news
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Speaker 1: to report. He'll be in studio at seven oh five
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Speaker 1: again him for a couple of segments talk about the
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Speaker 1: Appreciate Brian Ibold and the team that helps squad doing
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Speaker 1: what they are doing. Brigham Accown and our energy policy
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Speaker 1: expert from the Hudson Institute. He is in Vegas, but
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Speaker 1: he's opportunity. He's provided us with an opportunity to learn
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Speaker 1: about the situation with gas prices. YEP, saw a gas
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Speaker 1: up to about three dollars and fifty cents in a
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Speaker 1: lot of stations in my area. That's the direction that's
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Speaker 1: going because of the situation with the straight up horn moves,
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Speaker 1: which we'll talk about with Brigham account and also the
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Speaker 1: idea of Ohio utilities owning nuke plants owning as opposed
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Speaker 1: to I guess the problem with it is they want
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Speaker 1: to have the cost of the plants taken care of
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Speaker 1: by the ratepayer up front. The old days, utilities would
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Speaker 1: build their own plants and then recoup the money later,
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Speaker 1: which I think is the way it should be. So
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Speaker 1: just getting nuke plants out in the world, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm a huge advocate for that. The ultimate problem solved.
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Speaker 1: Abundant electricity, very small footprint. You don't have to worry
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Speaker 1: about nuclear waste anymore with modern reactors. On and on
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Speaker 1: and on and on, and I'll put in a plug
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Speaker 1: for cribbage, Mike. The American military has been using small
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Speaker 1: reactors in ships since the nineteen fifties with no incident. Yeah, okay,
37:41
Speaker 1: how about we get to have some of that Jack
37:43
Speaker 1: windsor from the high press network after Brigging departs, we're
37:45
Speaker 1: gonna hear from him. It's at eight thirty why we
37:47
Speaker 1: should support Marcel Sturbiche in the primary Ohio senators and
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Speaker 1: Trump discussing energy rates regarding building new data centers. And finally,
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Speaker 1: are whistle blowers being punished for exposing waste and fraud?
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Speaker 1: I hope not five one, three, seven, four nine fifty,
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Speaker 1: five hundred, eight hundred eight to two three talk time
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Speaker 1: five fifty on AT and T phones. Yes, so Trump
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Speaker 1: can continue, and I guess the question swirling around, So
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to stop Trump by as certain. The warpowers
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Speaker 1: actually got shot down as was expected, dude, just like
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Speaker 1: I got shot down in the Senate, which means there
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Speaker 1: is no curbing of the military activity going on in
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Speaker 1: Iran right now. But the War Powers Resolution in nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy three still exists, which means I think the clock
38:30
Speaker 1: is still running for the sixty day window, maybe backed
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Speaker 1: up by a thirty day extension, and I'm certain that
38:37
Speaker 1: that thirty day extension will be exercised. If we run
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Speaker 1: up against the clock on sixty days, Will the operation
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Speaker 1: be over within sixty days? We can only pray that
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Speaker 1: it will be. I'm a little suspicious that that won't happen.
38:51
Speaker 1: Call me slightly pessimistic on that. But since nothing happened
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Speaker 1: by way of curbing the military exercise, that's where I
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Speaker 1: think we find ourselves with the ticking clock. So Warren
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Speaker 1: Davidson did what he said, and oddly enough Greg Landsman
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Speaker 1: also voted against reigning in Donald Trump's war powers. So
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Speaker 1: you had Massey and Davidson and four Democrats. I thought
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Speaker 1: David Taylor was going to vote against this. Joe didn't
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Speaker 1: he say that on the Morning Show a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks ago. I do believe. So we'll have to get
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Speaker 1: David and I just just get to ask him the
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Speaker 1: question next time he's on. So you know, the big
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Speaker 1: problem is unringing the bell. And you know Ryan McKenzie,
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Speaker 1: he's representative from Pennsylvanian. He pointed out the obvious, He's
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Speaker 1: I'll be voting no against the War Powers Act because
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Speaker 1: once the president has taken that action, that first action,
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Speaker 1: if we were to pull back, it would actually leave
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Speaker 1: us more vulnerable and less safe by leaving all of
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Speaker 1: the capabilities in place. But having started a conflict like this, well,
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Speaker 1: that's exactly right. But that's part of the challenge. We
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Speaker 1: got to the this place with presidents waging war since
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Speaker 1: World War II without a declaration of war, and I
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Speaker 1: dcly keep using Vietnam as the greatest illustration of it.
40:08
Speaker 1: Kennedy inherited the so called advisors, you know, the CIA
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Speaker 1: folks providing consultation work in Vietnam, and it just gradually
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Speaker 1: escalated year after year after year. Do we ended up
40:19
Speaker 1: losing fifty fives or so thousand men fighting in Vietnam?
40:25
Speaker 1: At what point was there and there wasn't authorizations for
40:29
Speaker 1: you some military force, although you did have a Congress
40:31
Speaker 1: with the power of the person continuing to fund the
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Speaker 1: military operation. There years of approval of the unilateral action
40:39
Speaker 1: by presidents. You know, you had Barack Obama with Libyan Milmarkadaffi.
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Speaker 1: We could go on and on and on this again.
40:48
Speaker 1: I go back to the legal theories of waiver and
40:49
Speaker 1: estoppel that everybody prior to me says, Donald Trump has
40:52
Speaker 1: been doing it. This is just how we do things,
40:54
Speaker 1: and of course, with yesterday's vote, we're going to continue
40:56
Speaker 1: to go down that road.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 1: Feel free to chime in on that, pivoting over to
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Speaker 1: something completely unrelated. But I just read with just the
41:05
Speaker 1: big grin on my face this op ed piece by
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Speaker 1: Tommy Schultz, who happens to be the CEO of American
41:11
Speaker 1: Federation for Children, which is an advocacy organization for school choice.
41:16
Speaker 1: And guess what wins? And I was thinking of eighty
41:18
Speaker 1: twenty issues and how the Democrats, in spite of the
41:20
Speaker 1: fact they're growing about they're going to dominate in November
41:23
Speaker 1: and it's still a possibility, but they're on the wrong
41:25
Speaker 1: side of all these eighty twenty issues. Deportation of criminal
41:29
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants, everybody wants that they don't, border security, everybody
41:32
Speaker 1: wants that. The Democrats are against it. LGBTQ agendas like
41:36
Speaker 1: men playing against women in sports, everybody is overwhelmingly against that.
41:41
Speaker 1: Who favors it. The Dems use of gender pronouns transitioning
41:47
Speaker 1: men into women or women into men by way of
41:50
Speaker 1: hormone or surgical intervention. You know, people under the age
41:53
Speaker 1: of eighteen. Who's in favor of that? Democrats, it's an
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Speaker 1: eighty twenty issue. Welcome to another eighty twenty issues, school choice.
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Speaker 1: They're on the wrong side of this one too. And
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Speaker 1: as Texas proved, and as Tommy Schultz pointed out, Texas
42:05
Speaker 1: just demolished the last argument against school choice. For years,
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Speaker 1: anti choice lawmakers insisted that rural families don't want education options.
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Speaker 1: Tuesday's election prove them wrong. In primary races across Texas,
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Speaker 1: candidates who champion Governor Greg Abbott's Texas Education Freedom Account
42:22
Speaker 1: program one go to deeply rural Texas House District eighty six.
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Speaker 1: Holly Jeffries routed an opponent who proclaimed, quote, I will
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Speaker 1: never flip on vouchers. Across Texas, candidates who worked hard
42:36
Speaker 1: against school choice faced consequences in twenty twenty seven. Get
42:42
Speaker 1: a load of this. There won't be an anti school
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Speaker 1: choice Republican in the Texas legislature. Of the twenty one
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Speaker 1: House Republicans voted against school choice in twenty twenty three,
42:53
Speaker 1: all have been defeated by a pro school choice challenger.
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Speaker 1: Retired and replaced by pro choice legislator or reverse to
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Speaker 1: ultimately support school choice lips. I'm back in the corner.
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Speaker 1: I guess I better change my tune or I'm going
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Speaker 1: to lose like everybody else, they said. Two years ago,
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Speaker 1: Governor Abbott went on to the electrical electoral offensive against
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Speaker 1: the Republican incumbents who voted to kill his twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: three school choice bill. He enacted. The a FC Victory Fund,
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Speaker 1: deployed significant resources statewide to making sure voters knew where
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Speaker 1: the representatives stood, and achieved the largest shift towards school
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Speaker 1: choice in Texas in political history. Representative Glenn Rodgers, for instance,
43:37
Speaker 1: had long stood with teachers union. He lost his seat
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Speaker 1: by twenty six points in the twenty twenty four primary.
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Speaker 1: The trend then went beyond Texas. During the twenty twenty
43:48
Speaker 1: four primary season, AFC's political affiliates spent nearly ten million
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Speaker 1: dollars in fifteen states, defeating sixty seven percent of incumbents
43:58
Speaker 1: who stood against parents on this critical issue. These are
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Speaker 1: great figures, folks. Texas, where the teachers' unions assume their
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Speaker 1: monopoly would last forever, is rolling out a wildly popular
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Speaker 1: school choice program. With one hundred and fifty thousand student
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Speaker 1: applications already in the door. In two more weeks, Love
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Speaker 1: for the open enrollment program will have the largest ever
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Speaker 1: day one launch for school choice programs in history. The
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Speaker 1: primaries confirmed that voters are fully behind that move. The
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Speaker 1: rural myth is dead lesson for every state house in America.
44:35
Speaker 1: Is now impossible to ignore school choice. Wins, oppose it,
44:40
Speaker 1: and voters will show you the door. A's your eighty
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Speaker 1: twenty issue right there. And I am proud to be
44:44
Speaker 1: attending the fundraiser for the Cincinnati Classical Academy tomorrow evening.
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Speaker 1: Thank you John and Kathy Newsom for the invitation. Is
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Speaker 1: an outstanding option. It is a brilliant, outstanding option. There
44:57
Speaker 1: should be more options like that. There should be more
45:00
Speaker 1: people embracing the concept of school choice. Are your schools
45:03
Speaker 1: failing you? Based upon the testing scores nationwide? I would
45:08
Speaker 1: think a lot of folks can nod in agreement. Yeah
45:12
Speaker 1: they are. I see Jamie's on the line. Hang on, Jamie,
45:15
Speaker 1: I think I know what Jamie has to chime in about.
45:18
Speaker 1: Don't go away. I want to mention Jimy care Fireplace
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45:31
Speaker 1: KRCD talk station Ran Thomas right here, wish nobody very
45:36
Speaker 1: happy Friday. David. David concurs and I concur with folks. Colin.
45:42
Speaker 1: I got a few callers online. Let's start with Jamie.
45:44
Speaker 1: Kind of expect that, am I hear from you, Jamie,
45:46
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Morning Show.
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Speaker 7: Thanks Brian, good morning. I so appreciate your shedding of
45:52
Speaker 7: the light globally of where school.
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Speaker 2: Choice is headed.
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Speaker 7: It's so amazing. I'm so appreciative of your voice. I
45:59
Speaker 7: wanted to just kind of say bigger picture thought about
46:02
Speaker 7: school choice is that we need better schools generally for kids,
46:06
Speaker 7: whether it's public or private. You know, I hear from
46:11
Speaker 7: I hear from a distressed mama at least once a week,
46:15
Speaker 7: and they are in a school situation where their child
46:17
Speaker 7: is not being served. My call yesterday was a family
46:21
Speaker 7: it's at another private school in our area, and she
46:24
Speaker 7: said they've been dealing with a student that is wreaking
46:27
Speaker 7: havoc and one of her kiddo's classrooms and the school
46:31
Speaker 7: just straight is not dealing with it. And so we
46:36
Speaker 7: you know, we've we've talked how you know, behavior learning gaps.
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Speaker 7: There's all sorts of things happening. And the bigger problem
46:43
Speaker 7: that I see is that the facilities are not understanding
46:47
Speaker 7: child development and what kids actually need to be learning
46:52
Speaker 7: and to be peaceful and to be responsible and to
46:56
Speaker 7: be engaged in their work. It's like any times, the
47:00
Speaker 7: kids are being stuck in these machines and expected to
47:04
Speaker 7: just be like robots and do what they're told, and
47:08
Speaker 7: it's not working. It's just not working. We've got to
47:11
Speaker 7: be developing each individual human really, because the kids have
47:16
Speaker 7: so much potential. But boy, some kiddos can get off
47:20
Speaker 7: track and it is not a pretty situation.
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Speaker 1: I agree. That's why the school choice option allows parents
47:25
Speaker 1: to evaluate where their child is and seek out alternatives.
47:28
Speaker 1: One size does not fit all when it comes to
47:30
Speaker 1: educating any given young person. I realize that, and that's
47:33
Speaker 1: why one of the reasons why I'm an advocate for
47:35
Speaker 1: school choice Jamie, and Jamie of course runs a Montesssori school,
47:38
Speaker 1: which is a choice. Glad we have it, Jamie, I'm
47:41
Speaker 1: glad you're out there helping spread the word on choice
47:43
Speaker 1: as well. Let's see what doctor Jay's got this morning,
47:46
Speaker 1: Doctor j always a wonderful thing seeing it listener lunch,
47:48
Speaker 1: welcome back to the program, sir.
47:51
Speaker 8: Thank you Brian, it was wonderful seeing you. And boy,
47:53
Speaker 8: wasn't that carrot cake from Bob amazing?
47:55
Speaker 1: Thank you for standing and I'm glad I finally found mine.
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Speaker 8: I didn't know he had slight a hand and slipped
48:02
Speaker 8: it in your coat.
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Speaker 1: Kneel and I long story, but yes, retired colonel retired
48:09
Speaker 1: Colonel Bob guitar makes wonderful carrot cake, So yes, I
48:12
Speaker 1: enjoyed that. What's on your mind?
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Speaker 8: Jaycoops? Well, I'd mentioned as the listener launch and apparently
48:18
Speaker 8: I haven't heard anyone bring this up. So Monday night
48:21
Speaker 8: was Poorham. The Jewish festival read it to us in
48:25
Speaker 8: the Book of Maguilla, which is not part of the Torah.
48:28
Speaker 8: So when you hear somebody talk about the whole mcgilla,
48:30
Speaker 8: that's where the phrase comes from. It was a whole
48:32
Speaker 8: book of a story about Queen Esther, king of hash Veris.
48:36
Speaker 8: And why is it important now? Well, this all happened
48:39
Speaker 8: in Persia, the land of Iran, so thousands of years ago.
48:43
Speaker 8: We celebrate every year because on Poram on Monday, which
48:48
Speaker 8: is the day after our invasion of Iran, or two
48:52
Speaker 8: days after that, is the celebration of the depth of Hayman,
48:56
Speaker 8: this evil man who was running the Kingdom of Persia
49:01
Speaker 8: under the nose of the king, and he wanted to
49:03
Speaker 8: kill all the Jews, and he had a plan to
49:06
Speaker 8: kill all the Jews is the thirteenth of a dollar.
49:09
Speaker 8: I think he was going to kill them. It was
49:12
Speaker 8: the Hebrew months, and this brave woman came and spoke
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Speaker 8: up to the king. She was Jewish. She revealed she
49:19
Speaker 8: was a Jew, which was not a good thing those days,
49:22
Speaker 8: which seems to be our.
49:25
Speaker 1: Current situation to be a jew ongoing problem for the
49:29
Speaker 1: Jewish people.
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Speaker 8: Particularly in Persia or Iran. So anyway, so she suffered
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Speaker 8: the King's wrath, did reveal the plot. He decided, okay,
49:38
Speaker 8: I like her, I don't want these people to be killed.
49:41
Speaker 8: So instead he killed Hayman in a pretty gruesome fashion.
49:45
Speaker 8: So we celebrate his death and the survival of the
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Speaker 8: Jews every year on Pourum. And so here we are
49:51
Speaker 8: in Iran, again celebrating the death of an evil man
49:54
Speaker 8: who wanted to kill all the Jews.
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Speaker 1: So and again revealing the level of level of turmoil
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Speaker 1: that's gone into that region for literally thousands of years.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's not been a peaceful area for a
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Speaker 8: very long time.
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Speaker 1: Right, Never, if there was ever a gross understatement, doctor
50:11
Speaker 1: j you just made one appreciate that. I appreciate the
50:14
Speaker 1: history lesson though, because you mentioned that at lunch, and
50:17
Speaker 1: I had never heard that story before. So we're all
50:19
Speaker 1: a little bit more enlightened this morning. I appreciate your enlightenment,
50:22
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Speaker 1: had to welcome back to the fifty five KRCY morning,
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Speaker 1: So I appreciate you being on the program every week,
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Speaker 1: my friend.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's my pleasure, Brian.
50:43
Speaker 1: I have read so many scary stories about AI. We know,
50:45
Speaker 1: we got these lawsuits going on about artificial intelligence telling
50:48
Speaker 1: people to ultimately kill themselves and all the psychological trauma
50:52
Speaker 1: that that's apparently unfolding as we discover the downside and
50:55
Speaker 1: the risks of communicating with basically a computer and thinking
50:59
Speaker 1: it's real. But that's bad enough recommending someone kill themselves,
51:03
Speaker 1: but how about nuclear war?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, a little disturbing and a little depressing. So a
51:09
Speaker 5: New Scientist magazine had this article, AIS Can't stop recommending
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Speaker 5: nuclear strikes and wargame simulations and then the subhead leading
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Speaker 5: AIS from Open Ai, Anthropic and Google opted to use
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Speaker 5: nuclear weapons in simulated wargames ninety five percent of the cases.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty interesting.
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Speaker 5: So apparently King's College had these three leading language models
51:34
Speaker 5: chat GPT five point two, which is pretty sure the
51:40
Speaker 5: latest version Claude Sonnet four and Gemini three flash. So
51:44
Speaker 5: they simulated wargames and you know, if you read through
51:48
Speaker 5: the article, they talk about intense national standoffs, border disputes,
51:52
Speaker 5: competition for scarce resources, and existential threats to regime survival.
51:57
Speaker 5: And then I think of places like North Right or
52:02
Speaker 5: even this situation in Iran. Obviously they're facing a somewhat
52:05
Speaker 5: existential threat to the regime at this point. So you know, apparently,
52:10
Speaker 5: again these are scientists, academic researcher types who set all
52:14
Speaker 5: this up and porting the article, they were given an
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Speaker 5: escalation ladder allowing them to choose different actions, you know,
52:21
Speaker 5: during the war, and says they played twenty one games,
52:27
Speaker 5: three hundred and twenty nine turns in total, and produced
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Speaker 5: around seven hundred and eighty thousand words describing the reasoning
52:32
Speaker 5: behind their decisions. But again, according to this Brian, ninety
52:37
Speaker 5: five percent of the time, it eventually escalated to nuclear weapons,
52:41
Speaker 5: which I don't think anyone thinks is a good idea
52:44
Speaker 5: under any circumstances at this point.
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Speaker 1: Right, isn't what the point of nuclear weapons is mutually
52:49
Speaker 1: assured destruction, which takes it out of the equation completely.
52:52
Speaker 1: Does the artificial intelligence program not get the concept of that?
52:56
Speaker 2: You know, I always thought that was the idea of Brian,
52:59
Speaker 2: especially now.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, if you go back to the
53:03
Speaker 5: World War two era when nuclear weapons were first developed
53:05
Speaker 5: and first used, you know, they were nowhere near as
53:09
Speaker 5: powerful as they are now. Yeah, obviously any sort of
53:14
Speaker 5: full scale nuclear exchange between like US and Russia or
53:18
Speaker 5: China would lead to probably completed bliteration of the human race.
53:24
Speaker 5: At the very least, you'd be back to like Caveman times.
53:27
Speaker 5: Because I think people often if they don't really know
53:31
Speaker 5: much about nuclear weapons, obviously you get the blast, which
53:33
Speaker 5: causes intense damage and obliterates everything within a fairly large area.
53:37
Speaker 5: Then you get the fallout, which goes way further and
53:40
Speaker 5: kills people, you know, over time, for a substantial area
53:45
Speaker 5: around wherever the blast was. But you also have the
53:47
Speaker 5: devastation of the electromagnetic pulse that comes off of these blasts.
53:52
Speaker 1: So it's wipes out literally every electronic device in our
53:55
Speaker 1: entire electric infrastructure.
53:58
Speaker 2: That's exactly where I was going with it, Brian.
53:59
Speaker 5: So if the blast doesn't get you, and you survive
54:02
Speaker 5: the radiation, you're still going to be in a situation
54:05
Speaker 5: where now you have you know, all of the electronics
54:07
Speaker 5: everywhere fried or everywhere within you know range of any
54:10
Speaker 5: of these weapons detonated, and then you have the potential
54:15
Speaker 5: nuclear winter scenario where it throws all this stuff into
54:17
Speaker 5: the sky and blots out the sun. So you know,
54:20
Speaker 5: it's not just oh I survived the blast, I'm good
54:23
Speaker 5: to go. It's the collapse of civilization that would inevitably
54:28
Speaker 5: occur if you had any kind of large scale exchange
54:32
Speaker 5: of nuclear weapons. So yeah, it's it's disturbing to me
54:35
Speaker 5: that these tools don't seem to understand what the impact
54:40
Speaker 5: on our society would be if you were able to
54:44
Speaker 5: escalate to this sort of exchange. And other than that,
54:49
Speaker 5: I don't know what to say about it, Brian, other
54:51
Speaker 5: than I find it pretty disturbing, and I'm hoping that
54:54
Speaker 5: people are the people working on this stuff or taking
54:57
Speaker 5: this into consideration that hey, maybe we need to you
55:01
Speaker 5: build more logic into these tools, or train it with
55:03
Speaker 5: more data, or whatever we need to do to ensure
55:07
Speaker 5: that that's not the decision they make, especially as we
55:11
Speaker 5: look at a potential future at some future point, I
55:14
Speaker 5: don't know when that is where these things would potentially
55:17
Speaker 5: be making decisions like this.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, maybe you just need to have AI
55:21
Speaker 1: watch and absorb Matthew Broderick's eighty three movie War.
55:24
Speaker 2: Games and that is a classic.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well just that. Yeah, and hey, thanks Dave, happy
55:30
Speaker 1: Friday on that subject.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, happy, it's been good knowing you, Brian. Back
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Speaker 2: to the buzz.
55:35
Speaker 1: Well, okay, we're going to continue the theme here, not
55:37
Speaker 1: global war, but using tech in a serial rape case.
55:41
Speaker 1: Dave's going to be talk station six forty. If if
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Speaker 1: You can find at linked dot com. Just search Dave
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Speaker 1: out Ter on that you'll find Dave and all the
56:03
Speaker 1: resources and real quick, you're Dave on your last topic
56:05
Speaker 1: about AI recommending nuclear weapons. Thank you Eric who sent
56:10
Speaker 1: me a meme with a picture of Albert Einstein quote,
56:12
Speaker 1: I know not what the weapons World War III will
56:14
Speaker 1: be fought, but World War four will be fought with
56:18
Speaker 1: sticks and stones. I think that stuff quite nicely anyway.
56:22
Speaker 1: Pivoting yes, pivoting over to this case from Kentucky. This
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Speaker 1: is sick.
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Speaker 5: It is sick, and I think this is an interesting
56:34
Speaker 5: way to explain online dangers in general. So, according to
56:38
Speaker 5: the Inquirer, the headline is man accused of using spyware
56:41
Speaker 5: tech to target women.
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Speaker 2: In serial rape case.
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Speaker 5: And I'll come back to this in a minute, because
56:46
Speaker 5: there's some interesting points people should take away from this.
56:49
Speaker 5: But I you know, because he apparently used social media
56:52
Speaker 5: to reach him, offered to fix their computers various different ruses,
56:57
Speaker 5: right to eventually establish an in person can with someone,
57:01
Speaker 5: and then led to the alleged crimes. The point I
57:04
Speaker 5: want to make is, you know this is this is
57:06
Speaker 5: one unfortunate example, but there are so many of these
57:09
Speaker 5: examples out there, Brian, And as we have more and
57:13
Speaker 5: more tech that lets people get connected, whether it's social media,
57:16
Speaker 5: it's video games, it's chat apps or whatever, you see
57:20
Speaker 5: this sort of thing everywhere. So I wanted to hit
57:22
Speaker 5: you with a few headlines just to make the point,
57:24
Speaker 5: and then I'll come back to this specific story. Quote
57:29
Speaker 5: playground for predators unquote, Nebraska AG Mike Hilger's files lawsuit
57:35
Speaker 5: against Roadblocks. For those who don't know, and I bring
57:38
Speaker 5: this up because many of your listeners probably have kids
57:42
Speaker 5: or grandkids who play Roadblocks and other online games. You know,
57:45
Speaker 5: Roadblocks has been in the crosshairs a lot lately. But
57:48
Speaker 5: understand that any kind of online game where you're playing
57:51
Speaker 5: with other people, and especially if it allows any kind
57:54
Speaker 5: of interaction, which they all do as far as I
57:57
Speaker 5: know at this point, you know, predators will go in
57:59
Speaker 5: these games and pretend to be a thirteen year old
58:02
Speaker 5: girl or a fifteen year old boy or whatever. Again,
58:04
Speaker 5: you'll see how this connects in a second. So that's
58:06
Speaker 5: one example. Here's another headline. La sues Roadblocks over quote
58:12
Speaker 5: unsafe online environment unquote for kids, marking yet another Roadblocks lawsuit.
58:17
Speaker 5: Then we have from CBS News. Kentucky Attorney General sues Roadblocks,
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Speaker 5: alleging a quote playground for predators unquote. Here's another story,
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Speaker 5: Roadblocks give predators quote powerful tools to target children unquote,
58:33
Speaker 5: says LA. County, Louisiana sues Roadblocks, alleging the popular gaming
58:39
Speaker 5: site fails to protect children. And New Jersey sues Discord.
58:44
Speaker 5: So Discord is like an online chat app. A lot
58:46
Speaker 5: of video gamers will use Discord to interact with each
58:49
Speaker 5: other outside of the game environment itself. New Jersey sues Discord,
58:55
Speaker 5: alleging deceptive safety practices put children at risk. So, you know,
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Speaker 5: this is a case of an adult, and there's this
59:02
Speaker 5: particular case of this Kentucky guy who's accused of rape.
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Speaker 5: You know, there's no allegations that I saw about children
59:09
Speaker 5: in there. But my point is, if you are in
59:12
Speaker 5: any kind of online environment where you can talk to people,
59:15
Speaker 5: it's easy to create fake profiles, it's easy to pretend
59:18
Speaker 5: to be anyone that you want to pretend to be.
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Speaker 2: You know, you can.
59:22
Speaker 5: Establish a relationship and groom someone, which is apparently what
59:27
Speaker 5: this particular guy was doing. You know, again, I'm just
59:31
Speaker 5: hitching with a couple of high points from the article here.
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Speaker 5: Before women in northern Kentucky accused him of sexual assault,
59:35
Speaker 5: Investigators say Paul Snow Junior often approached them on social media,
59:39
Speaker 5: or it could have been a video game. Obviously, adult
59:42
Speaker 5: women probably aren't playing a lot of video games, but
59:44
Speaker 5: nevertheless some do video game discord or some other sort
59:48
Speaker 5: of chat app, in this case social media, sometimes offering
59:51
Speaker 5: to fix their phones or computers, sometimes offering them jobs,
59:54
Speaker 5: sometimes sending flority messages. Prosecutors say it was a ruse
59:57
Speaker 5: to lose, to lure women to his home, part of
1:00:01
Speaker 5: a formula that Snow perfected over the years. And then eventually,
1:00:04
Speaker 5: I guess some of these women spoke out on social
1:00:06
Speaker 5: media that got an investigation started. You know, the guy's
1:00:10
Speaker 5: apparently going through the legal system now, but.
1:00:13
Speaker 2: It says here.
1:00:14
Speaker 5: Authorities searched his home in April twenty one, twenty three,
1:00:17
Speaker 5: finding evidence they say that supports reports of sexual assault.
1:00:21
Speaker 2: Grand jury indicted him in June.
1:00:25
Speaker 5: So police find evidence of spyware, social engineering show many
1:00:29
Speaker 5: women told police Snow use social media and is knowledge
1:00:31
Speaker 5: of technology to blackmail and intimidate them. After the assaults,
1:00:35
Speaker 5: persuaded women to share their online account information and to
1:00:37
Speaker 5: use spyware to get images for blackmail. You know, these
1:00:40
Speaker 5: are the exact sort of tactics that the predators often
1:00:44
Speaker 5: use on video games or discord against children, against children
1:00:49
Speaker 5: who are exactly right to be able to respond and
1:00:51
Speaker 5: deal with this kind of craziness going on. At least
1:00:54
Speaker 5: an adult may have the capacity to understand that they
1:00:57
Speaker 5: can go to the authorities or have or that they
1:00:59
Speaker 5: have resources out there that can deal with this. A
1:01:02
Speaker 5: young child caught in the crosshairs of this, it would
1:01:04
Speaker 5: be overwhelmed and I cannot imagine the trauma that that
1:01:07
Speaker 5: child would face.
1:01:09
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with anymore, Brian.
1:01:11
Speaker 5: I mean, you've got that whole seven, six or four
1:01:13
Speaker 5: gang thing that's been taking place on these online apps
1:01:16
Speaker 5: like this. So the bigger point I wanted to make
1:01:20
Speaker 5: by trying to wrap in some of these other stories is,
1:01:23
Speaker 5: you know, whether it's adults on social media, kids on discorder,
1:01:27
Speaker 5: in some video game or something, it's really important to
1:01:30
Speaker 5: understand people can easily pretend to be something they're not.
1:01:34
Speaker 2: They'll tell you lies. You know, just because you.
1:01:37
Speaker 5: See an attractive person on Facebook, Twitter, Discord, Roadblocks, whatever,
1:01:42
Speaker 5: and they're friendly and nice to you, doesn't mean they're
1:01:44
Speaker 5: who they claim to be. Doesn't mean they're not trying
1:01:47
Speaker 5: to eventually exploit you in some way.
1:01:49
Speaker 1: That's a crazy forty year old, overweight pedophile sitting in
1:01:52
Speaker 1: his mom's base luring children. Yeah, I know, I know,
1:01:55
Speaker 1: I know.
1:01:56
Speaker 5: And if nothing else, Brian real Quick, you know, sometimes
1:01:58
Speaker 5: it's not physical salt, it's romance scams that lead to
1:02:01
Speaker 5: having your money stolen, you know, or some sort of extortion.
1:02:04
Speaker 5: So just I think it's important to remind people, and
1:02:07
Speaker 5: especially if you're an adult with kids or grandkids, you
1:02:10
Speaker 5: need to warn them about these games and these environments
1:02:13
Speaker 5: where they may be approached by these folks.
1:02:17
Speaker 1: Or prevent them from having access to them. There's an option, David.
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1:02:37
Speaker 1: I've got multiple people sending me information and links on
1:02:39
Speaker 1: all the different sites which have been tracking the predators
1:02:43
Speaker 1: on Roadblock. So if I was a parent and I
1:02:45
Speaker 1: had a young child, I would say hell no period,
1:02:48
Speaker 1: end of story. Dave gotta get the message on that
1:02:50
Speaker 1: this is scary stuff.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to I'm gonna agree. You know, if folks
1:02:55
Speaker 5: want to deeper dive into it, go listen to the
1:02:57
Speaker 5: most recent Sean Ryan podcast asked Sean Ryan for those
1:03:01
Speaker 5: who don't know. As an a former Navy seal and
1:03:04
Speaker 5: CI operator, he has a very popular podcast. The most
1:03:07
Speaker 5: recent episode I forget the number, but it's entitled Slep,
1:03:11
Speaker 5: which is the like screen name of a guy who
1:03:14
Speaker 5: used to be involved with roadblocks about what happened to him.
1:03:17
Speaker 1: Swabby my am I retired Navy friend Patrick sent me
1:03:21
Speaker 1: a link to that one as well.
1:03:23
Speaker 5: It's it's quite disturbing, and if you're a parent or grandparent,
1:03:26
Speaker 5: I encourage you to listen to that and then you know,
1:03:29
Speaker 5: decide for yourself. But yes, I can tell you I
1:03:31
Speaker 5: would not will not allow my kids or grandkids to
1:03:34
Speaker 5: the extent I could control it, to have access to it.
1:03:36
Speaker 1: All right, All right, Now, finally some practical information for
1:03:39
Speaker 1: us during tax season.
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Speaker 5: Dave Hatter, Yeah, so I'm sure this does not come
1:03:44
Speaker 5: as a surprise to folks. During tax season, there's a
1:03:48
Speaker 5: lot of scams. You know, bad guys want to steal
1:03:50
Speaker 5: your refund and obviously if you could get access to
1:03:54
Speaker 5: someone's tax records, that's a lot of useful information that
1:03:57
Speaker 5: could be used against you in a lot of ways. So, Brian,
1:04:00
Speaker 5: we talk about scams all the time and during taxes,
1:04:03
Speaker 5: and these things always increase. For years, people have been
1:04:08
Speaker 5: stealing refunds. Again, that's probably the primary tactic. You finally
1:04:11
Speaker 5: file your taxes and you get in and find out,
1:04:13
Speaker 5: wait a minute, someone else has already found taxes under
1:04:16
Speaker 5: your name and a refund has already been sent, which
1:04:18
Speaker 5: now creates problems for you because you know, a whatever
1:04:22
Speaker 5: they filed probably isn't accurate and may or may not
1:04:25
Speaker 5: have warranted that refund which went out in your name,
1:04:28
Speaker 5: and then b you got to try to unwind all that,
1:04:31
Speaker 5: so it can be really problematic. That's one of the
1:04:35
Speaker 5: reasons why a first piece of advice is file your taxes.
1:04:38
Speaker 2: As early as possible.
1:04:39
Speaker 5: Now, you know, we're already into March, the deadline's coming
1:04:42
Speaker 5: up here, pretty soon. But as a general rule of thumb,
1:04:45
Speaker 5: the sooner you can file your taxes the better because
1:04:47
Speaker 5: it closes that window where someone else might be in
1:04:50
Speaker 5: there trying to file taxes under your name. And you know,
1:04:54
Speaker 5: as a reminder to folks, I just keep trying to
1:04:57
Speaker 5: stress to people, there's so much of your day out
1:05:00
Speaker 5: there now, and while there's really not a whole lot
1:05:02
Speaker 5: you can do about that other than take steps to
1:05:05
Speaker 5: protect yourself from the consequences like this, The less data
1:05:09
Speaker 5: out there about you, the better. And all of that data,
1:05:11
Speaker 5: I bet you every one in your listening audience has
1:05:14
Speaker 5: had at least one and probably many letters from some
1:05:16
Speaker 5: company telling you your data has been breached. All that
1:05:21
Speaker 5: data is a treasure trove for the bad guys to
1:05:22
Speaker 5: attack you or to impersonate you. So again, because of that,
1:05:27
Speaker 5: it makes it easy for folks to do things like
1:05:29
Speaker 5: file taxes. Is your name file early? Another thing you
1:05:31
Speaker 5: can do is get a PIN from the IRS. So
1:05:36
Speaker 5: I'm just going to quote this IRS offeras is an
1:05:38
Speaker 5: identity protection pin ip PEN six digit code that helps
1:05:42
Speaker 5: prevent unauthorized tax filings using your Social Security number and
1:05:46
Speaker 5: helps prevent identity theft. Again, getting someone's social Security number
1:05:49
Speaker 5: today is trivial because of all these data leaks. Right,
1:05:53
Speaker 5: So you go to your online account at the IRS,
1:05:56
Speaker 5: you create this pin, you save this pin somewhere ideally,
1:06:00
Speaker 5: and a password manager, because you're using a secure password
1:06:03
Speaker 5: manager like one password, you associate that with your IRS account,
1:06:07
Speaker 5: and then in order to take action under your.
1:06:10
Speaker 2: Name, you have to have that pin.
1:06:12
Speaker 5: So I really strongly, strongly recommend everyone today, over the
1:06:17
Speaker 5: weekend sometime soon, go in. If you haven't already set
1:06:22
Speaker 5: up your online account with the IRS, make sure it
1:06:25
Speaker 5: has a strong, unique password. The next recommendation, turn on
1:06:28
Speaker 5: MFA on that account and all your accounts frankly, multi
1:06:31
Speaker 5: factor authentication. Yes, set up your IRS PEN. That's going
1:06:36
Speaker 5: to make it much much more difficult. You know, unless
1:06:40
Speaker 5: someone can guess your PIN, your useer name, your password,
1:06:43
Speaker 5: and get that MFA code right, have all four of
1:06:46
Speaker 5: those things, they're not going to be able to log
1:06:48
Speaker 5: into your account and file fraudulent taxes in your name.
1:06:50
Speaker 1: See day, That's why we love you man. That is
1:06:53
Speaker 1: solid information that it absolutely helps people avoid this problem.
1:06:58
Speaker 2: You know that.
1:07:00
Speaker 1: That's why I really appreciate you man. That's simple. It's
1:07:02
Speaker 1: my pleasure, and it really that eliminates the potential. I mean,
1:07:07
Speaker 1: I can't imagine the workaround.
1:07:09
Speaker 5: It would be very hard to get around it. And
1:07:11
Speaker 5: then the last couple of tips, since a nonw we're
1:07:12
Speaker 5: out of time, you know, go to the IRS website
1:07:16
Speaker 5: and read what they tell you they will and will
1:07:18
Speaker 5: not do. They tell you clearly on their IRS dot
1:07:21
Speaker 5: gov the IRS does not initiate contact by email, text, message,
1:07:24
Speaker 5: of social media. The IRS will not tell you to
1:07:27
Speaker 5: pay your taxes with gift cards or Venmo or cryptocurrency
1:07:30
Speaker 5: for an ATM or anything like that. Again, if you
1:07:33
Speaker 5: go to IRS dot gov, they give you additional tips
1:07:36
Speaker 5: to avoid this kind of thing. They tell you what
1:07:38
Speaker 5: they will and will not do, so that when you
1:07:40
Speaker 5: get something and you go, well, wait a minute, this
1:07:42
Speaker 5: is telling me IO penalties and I need to pay
1:07:45
Speaker 5: in bitcoin or something, you'll know it's a scam. And
1:07:47
Speaker 5: then finally, if you're working with a taxpayer, a tax preparer,
1:07:52
Speaker 5: you should ask them about their cybersecurity. You're giving them
1:07:54
Speaker 5: extremely sensitive data. You know, even if you're using something
1:07:58
Speaker 5: like Quicken Quickened, Turbo Tax to file your taxes or something,
1:08:04
Speaker 5: you know you need to make sure strong unique password,
1:08:06
Speaker 5: multi factor authentication, because if I can hack your Turbo
1:08:10
Speaker 5: tax account, I now have access to all this sense
1:08:13
Speaker 5: of information and I can do all of these nefarious things.
1:08:16
Speaker 5: So you know, folks, you need to protect this data
1:08:19
Speaker 5: file early if you can, and again use the IRS's
1:08:24
Speaker 5: website to give you guidance about what they.
1:08:25
Speaker 2: Will and will not do.
1:08:27
Speaker 1: Thanks again, Dave Hatter, always excellent advice, and thanks to
1:08:29
Speaker 1: Interest I T. For helping businesses in the Tri State
1:08:32
Speaker 1: area boid these kind of problems and get best practices
1:08:34
Speaker 1: in place. Give Interest i T a call if you've
1:08:36
Speaker 1: got some problems. They will definitely work them out.
1:08:38
Speaker 4: Dave.
1:08:39
Speaker 1: Until next Friday, have a wonderful weekend. Man, I thank
1:08:41
Speaker 1: you again for what you're doing for us.
1:08:43
Speaker 2: Always my pleasure. Brian, I'll look forward to chatting with
1:08:45
Speaker 2: you next.
1:08:45
Speaker 1: Week in studio. I'm looking at him, Brian Eyebold from
1:08:49
Speaker 1: the Help Squad. It's got some seven o six on
1:08:54
Speaker 1: a Friday. And my names Brian Thomas, host to the
1:08:58
Speaker 1: fifty five Carsey Morning Show. And I've said in many
1:08:59
Speaker 1: many and I'll be this is my nineteenth year coming,
1:09:02
Speaker 1: it'll be twenty years in December, and I've always pointed
1:09:06
Speaker 1: out that I love being in my position for no
1:09:08
Speaker 1: other reason that I get to bring people and introduce
1:09:11
Speaker 1: them to the world. Like Brian Ibold, who is in studio,
1:09:16
Speaker 1: who started the Help Squad, which you can find the
1:09:18
Speaker 1: Help Help Squad since he with a y dot com
1:09:21
Speaker 1: and Brian's won on the program quite a bit over
1:09:22
Speaker 1: the years, and you know, as part of his Christian
1:09:25
Speaker 1: mission and his faith and his efforts to help people
1:09:27
Speaker 1: truly in need in society, he started the Help Squad
1:09:31
Speaker 1: and the idea was that there's nothing on the West Side,
1:09:33
Speaker 1: or at least he perceived there was a huge need
1:09:35
Speaker 1: on the West Side for an organization that can help
1:09:37
Speaker 1: people get over these hurdles that we can never anticipate,
1:09:40
Speaker 1: Folks that are already living on life's margins, who run
1:09:43
Speaker 1: into a temporary situation like I can't make the rent
1:09:47
Speaker 1: this month. I need a little help this month. And
1:09:50
Speaker 1: they do a great job vetting people. These are not
1:09:52
Speaker 1: just people making up stories, and so they do a
1:09:54
Speaker 1: wonderful job of vetting. They get them the assistance they
1:09:56
Speaker 1: need on a temporary basis, and that helps them over
1:09:58
Speaker 1: that hurdle and it helps them to continue. You to
1:10:00
Speaker 1: work and thrive and live in the community. So that's
1:10:03
Speaker 1: the basis for it. And Brian Ebold, I want to
1:10:05
Speaker 1: thank you for all the work that you've done. You've
1:10:06
Speaker 1: been on and you've had some really heartwarming stories about
1:10:09
Speaker 1: the the payoff for your efforts. I know that brings
1:10:14
Speaker 1: a great smile on your face and I know those
1:10:15
Speaker 1: that you have helped. It just keeps you going every
1:10:17
Speaker 1: single day, I imagine, Brian Ibold, welcome back to the
1:10:20
Speaker 1: show Man.
1:10:20
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you so much, and I appreciate you explaining
1:10:23
Speaker 9: what the Help Squad is.
1:10:24
Speaker 1: I hope I did an adequate job.
1:10:26
Speaker 9: You did, you did a very good job. I would
1:10:28
Speaker 9: only add that you know, this Help Squad is a
1:10:30
Speaker 9: little bit unique and we do go above and beyond
1:10:32
Speaker 9: the basics of most nonprofits where we actually assist people
1:10:36
Speaker 9: with utility bills to avoid shutoffs or get utilities turned
1:10:40
Speaker 9: back on. We help families like you mentioned with pass
1:10:42
Speaker 9: do rent payments to avoid eviction, free car repairs. We've
1:10:46
Speaker 9: given away about a dozen vehicles to those in destiny
1:10:49
Speaker 9: of transportation. You know, basically we are just a one
1:10:53
Speaker 9: stop shop for struggling families.
1:10:56
Speaker 1: And I have on my rundown and I know what
1:10:58
Speaker 1: it is, because you told me about it before we
1:11:01
Speaker 1: open the mic. You mentioned automobiles. You help people. You know,
1:11:05
Speaker 1: a dozen or so automobiles you've got now so people
1:11:07
Speaker 1: can actually get back and forth and have a job.
1:11:09
Speaker 1: Amazing concept that, But there are a lot of people
1:11:12
Speaker 1: out there struggling financially. That that right there on that line,
1:11:15
Speaker 1: and you read stories all the time about it. You know,
1:11:17
Speaker 1: most Americans don't even have five hundred dollars to meet
1:11:20
Speaker 1: an emergency situation. We don't want those people to not
1:11:23
Speaker 1: be able to go to work and their incomes. The
1:11:26
Speaker 1: therein lies a challenge. If you need an auto repair,
1:11:30
Speaker 1: I just got through one the other life. I was
1:11:31
Speaker 1: telling you, I just it was outrageous. I got rear
1:11:34
Speaker 1: brakes put in my car, and I couldn't believe how
1:11:35
Speaker 1: much ahead to pay for it. But automobile repairs are
1:11:39
Speaker 1: really expensive. And you know anything's gonna cost you like
1:11:41
Speaker 1: five hundred bucks these days. I mean a new set
1:11:43
Speaker 1: of tires. Tires are outrageously expensive. But if your alternator
1:11:49
Speaker 1: goes out, your car is dead and you cannot go
1:11:51
Speaker 1: to work. You are doing a beautiful thing with this
1:11:54
Speaker 1: new program you got together to Brian ibold. Let my
1:11:56
Speaker 1: listeners know all about it, because we're going to get
1:11:58
Speaker 1: more people to help out.
1:11:59
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:11:59
Speaker 9: So myself and our vice president, Sam Jasper been working
1:12:03
Speaker 9: really closely with the president of Hamblon County's strategy to
1:12:07
Speaker 9: end homelessness. His name is Kevin Finn.
1:12:09
Speaker 3: Real good dude.
1:12:11
Speaker 9: During our meetings, we learned that there are basically two
1:12:13
Speaker 9: people or two ways to fall into homelessness. The first one,
1:12:16
Speaker 9: you're already homeless, You're already down there. The second reason
1:12:20
Speaker 9: is you run into a financial crisis that you cannot overcome,
1:12:24
Speaker 9: get behind on your bills, get evicted and become homelessness
1:12:28
Speaker 9: or become homeless. So I'd ask Kevin. I said, what
1:12:30
Speaker 9: is the biggest reason people get behind on the bills
1:12:32
Speaker 9: in the first place, which leads them to become homeless?
1:12:36
Speaker 9: And Kevin said, car repairs. Now just think about that
1:12:40
Speaker 9: for a second, car repairs. We can prevent a family
1:12:43
Speaker 9: from becoming homeless with something simple as a car repair.
1:12:47
Speaker 1: That alternator or yes, those tires or breaks, whatever happens
1:12:51
Speaker 1: to be, that's the one thing that results in homelessness.
1:12:54
Speaker 1: That's kind of a weird thing to like to understand
1:12:57
Speaker 1: or comprehend.
1:12:58
Speaker 9: Yeah, sure, Well, we take transportation for granted. But let
1:13:01
Speaker 9: me give you this example really quickly. So if you
1:13:03
Speaker 9: have a single mom with three kids, working two jobs
1:13:06
Speaker 9: and she's making ends meet, all this good, Rhynes, we
1:13:08
Speaker 9: have my mom. That's exactly what my mother did.
1:13:10
Speaker 1: All is good.
1:13:11
Speaker 9: The next day her water pump goes out in her
1:13:13
Speaker 9: car and it costs five hundred dollars like you mentioned,
1:13:15
Speaker 9: to fix. Well, I can tell you right now she
1:13:17
Speaker 9: doesn't have the five hundred dollars laying around or to
1:13:20
Speaker 9: her circle of friends, and a lot of the clients
1:13:23
Speaker 9: we deal with have affected credit so using a credit card.
1:13:26
Speaker 1: Is not an option.
1:13:26
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, right, So now the single mom can't get
1:13:29
Speaker 9: to work, doesn't get paid, can't pay her bills, and
1:13:32
Speaker 9: now her and her three children are living in Section
1:13:35
Speaker 9: eight housing where she receives food vouchers, health insurance, paid utilities,
1:13:40
Speaker 9: and much more. So let's just say conservatively, it costs
1:13:44
Speaker 9: the taxpayers twenty five thousand dollars a year to house
1:13:47
Speaker 9: this family who never wanted to be on government assistance
1:13:50
Speaker 9: to begin with. Right, if we just would have paid
1:13:54
Speaker 9: the five hundred dollars to fix her water pump to
1:13:58
Speaker 9: begin with, we would have saved the taxpayer twenty four
1:14:01
Speaker 9: five hundred dollars. And if you multiply that times the
1:14:04
Speaker 9: hundreds of times this situation where something similar is happening
1:14:08
Speaker 9: every day, we are talking millions of dollars that does
1:14:12
Speaker 9: not need to be spent. Basically, give us two million,
1:14:15
Speaker 9: we'll save you ten.
1:14:16
Speaker 1: And this does not involve creating a brand new government
1:14:19
Speaker 1: program with a lot of bureaucracy. It just involves individuals
1:14:22
Speaker 1: like you who believe they have a mission to help
1:14:24
Speaker 1: their fellow man and appreciate the overall economic benefit to
1:14:27
Speaker 1: the entire society by preventing that thing from happening. What
1:14:31
Speaker 1: do we need to do, Brian IYBLD. What have other
1:14:33
Speaker 1: people done to help solve this problem? Because I know
1:14:35
Speaker 1: you already have some partners in this, and I want
1:14:37
Speaker 1: to give a huge shout out to every single one
1:14:39
Speaker 1: of them.
1:14:40
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:14:40
Speaker 9: So really, this isn't an interview, Brian, this is more
1:14:43
Speaker 9: of a call to action. You know, I've said we
1:14:45
Speaker 9: need all your listeners, we need politicians, we need social
1:14:49
Speaker 9: media influencers, we need sports figures, celebrities and every one
1:14:54
Speaker 9: of your listeners. Since vehicle repairs is what is needed
1:14:58
Speaker 9: the most to prevent family from becoming a homeless statistic.
1:15:02
Speaker 9: This is a call to action to every service station,
1:15:04
Speaker 9: every auto repair shop, every tow truck company, and every
1:15:08
Speaker 9: audio parts store and every mechanic to join our list
1:15:12
Speaker 9: of supporters who will give x amount of dollars in
1:15:14
Speaker 9: free tax deductible car repairs. And as to date, right
1:15:20
Speaker 9: now we have four service stations on board, totaling up
1:15:23
Speaker 9: to about twenty five thousand dollars in free car repairs.
1:15:27
Speaker 9: We're going to have four people who are on the
1:15:29
Speaker 9: verge of becoming homeless and real quick. Those four service
1:15:32
Speaker 9: stations are Matt Brogan a Brogan Fowles Oil on the
1:15:35
Speaker 9: west Side, Mark Duber of Duber's Automotive, New Dover. He's
1:15:39
Speaker 9: a good dude. You're all good dudes. Andrew Schneider of
1:15:42
Speaker 9: Bear Car Care over there in White Oak, and finally
1:15:47
Speaker 9: Mike Brogan a broken oil on Glennaway Avenue. Price sal
1:15:49
Speaker 9: Me and Mike were since any police officers together. We
1:15:52
Speaker 9: are in the riots together and you should have seen
1:15:54
Speaker 9: that guy in action. So we have these four service
1:15:57
Speaker 9: stations right now. We have a couple still that are
1:15:59
Speaker 9: coming aboard, but it's right now, just with these four,
1:16:02
Speaker 9: we have twenty five thousand dollars in free car repairs.
1:16:05
Speaker 9: If we could get ten, fifteen, twenty more of these
1:16:09
Speaker 9: service stations, we could put a huge dent in the
1:16:13
Speaker 9: homelessness problem. We can do this. I mean we're talking
1:16:17
Speaker 9: ten twenty thirty percent we could avoid of becoming homeless.
1:16:20
Speaker 9: That's huge.
1:16:21
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that's huge. Yeah, and the return on investment. Again,
1:16:24
Speaker 1: you it's nice that it is a tax deductible donation.
1:16:29
Speaker 1: There's an incentive to join in the fund anyway. But
1:16:31
Speaker 1: just the idea that you know, each one, let's say,
1:16:34
Speaker 1: committing ten thousand dollars in repairs for a complete calendar year. Yeah,
1:16:39
Speaker 1: probably not a whole lot of skin. Maybe assuming a lot.
1:16:41
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's like to have to run
1:16:42
Speaker 1: an automobile repair business, but you know, it's not a
1:16:45
Speaker 1: tremendous amount overall. But if you get if the more people,
1:16:48
Speaker 1: the more stations, and individuals who are in a position
1:16:50
Speaker 1: to repair cars get involved, man, that could be a profound,
1:16:54
Speaker 1: profound change. Oh yeah, yeah, keeping people we can and
1:16:58
Speaker 1: people employed. Well, that's what we're hoping. We're hoping that
1:17:01
Speaker 1: you can go to our website. I give you my
1:17:04
Speaker 1: telephone number of the over the radio here.
1:17:06
Speaker 9: It doesn't matter. We just need people to join our
1:17:08
Speaker 9: cause and help us.
1:17:11
Speaker 2: You know, put a dent in homelessness.
1:17:13
Speaker 1: And I know you've got a couple of heartwarming stories
1:17:14
Speaker 1: you can pass along about the work that the Help
1:17:16
Speaker 1: Squad has been doing over the last several well since
1:17:18
Speaker 1: we probably last talked. The Help Squad sinsy withthwy dot com.
1:17:24
Speaker 1: You can donate right there. If you're not in a
1:17:26
Speaker 1: position to be able to repair a car, at least
1:17:28
Speaker 1: make a donation or contribution. Again, this organization focuses more
1:17:31
Speaker 1: on the West Side, but this call to action, you're
1:17:34
Speaker 1: asking for autobile or repair folks all across the Greaters
1:17:38
Speaker 1: or the Tri State area to get right right.
1:17:40
Speaker 9: This isn't just a West side thing. When you work
1:17:43
Speaker 9: with Strategies DN Homelessness, it's for the entire Hamilton County
1:17:46
Speaker 9: City of Cincinnati. So this isn't just specifically on the
1:17:49
Speaker 9: west side. This is Hamilton County as a.
1:17:52
Speaker 1: Whole, all right. So the individual that needs this assistance,
1:17:55
Speaker 1: do they get in touch with the Help Squad through
1:17:58
Speaker 1: that organization? I know they just don't go to directly, No.
1:18:01
Speaker 4: Not at all.
1:18:01
Speaker 9: They're gonna be They're gonna come from the Strategies den Homelessness,
1:18:04
Speaker 9: so they're going to their people are going to find
1:18:07
Speaker 9: these families that are on the verge of becoming homeless,
1:18:09
Speaker 9: and then they're going to contact us. We will facilitate
1:18:13
Speaker 9: the date and time of the car repair so the
1:18:15
Speaker 9: service shop manager or owner does not have to deal
1:18:18
Speaker 9: with every single client. We have will be the liaison
1:18:22
Speaker 9: and uh we will facilitate all repairs.
1:18:26
Speaker 1: And you'll also do that vetting. And we talked about
1:18:28
Speaker 1: Oh of course, let me tell you something.
1:18:30
Speaker 9: If you can be vetted through Strategies and Homelessness and
1:18:33
Speaker 9: the Help Squad, you're pretty needy.
1:18:36
Speaker 1: You're in need, no question about that. We'll continue with
1:18:38
Speaker 1: Brian Ibel or we have the bottom the hour of
1:18:39
Speaker 1: the return of Brigham account our energy expert from the
1:18:42
Speaker 1: Hudson Institute. We got an hour with Brigham all kinds
1:18:44
Speaker 1: of wonderful and see the talk station seven twenty one.
1:18:48
Speaker 1: I think about kersee talk station Happy Friday. We're gonna
1:18:52
Speaker 1: talking energy policies Brigha McCowan for an hour after the
1:18:55
Speaker 1: segment of doing here with Brian Ibel from the Help Squad.
1:18:57
Speaker 1: And I love having the Help Squad and I spread
1:18:59
Speaker 1: the word about the low that they're passing along to
1:19:01
Speaker 1: those in need. And of course, what a brilliant concept
1:19:04
Speaker 1: getting folks automobile repairs who truly need it so they
1:19:07
Speaker 1: can continue to work. I still am reeling over the
1:19:10
Speaker 1: fact that an automobile repair is the number one cause
1:19:12
Speaker 1: and leading a reason that someone ends up in a
1:19:16
Speaker 1: homeless situation. Brian, that's just a real shocker. So the
1:19:19
Speaker 1: Help Squad sends you with a y dot com where
1:19:21
Speaker 1: you can help out by way of donation. If you
1:19:23
Speaker 1: are someone with the skills audibile repair, you own your
1:19:26
Speaker 1: automobile repair shop, you want to get involved anywhere in
1:19:29
Speaker 1: the general Tri state area. You can be a part
1:19:32
Speaker 1: of this ever growing team of folks providing those needed repairs.
1:19:35
Speaker 1: Just some donation of time and parts. It's tax deductible
1:19:40
Speaker 1: and you're going to all help yourself by doing that.
1:19:42
Speaker 1: As Brian illustrated, I understand, Brian Eyebolt. You got a
1:19:45
Speaker 1: fundraiser coming up.
1:19:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.
1:19:48
Speaker 9: That's actually a really cool one. So on sink of
1:19:51
Speaker 9: to Mile that's May fifth. If you don't speak Spanish,
1:19:53
Speaker 9: sink of to Mile. We have a huge fundraiser at
1:19:58
Speaker 9: the Sign Museum.
1:19:59
Speaker 1: What a great vest.
1:20:00
Speaker 9: I mean, how much cooler can it get? No Sign
1:20:02
Speaker 9: music right on cool as you can get exactly. And
1:20:06
Speaker 9: what's also is really neat is that we're going to
1:20:08
Speaker 9: have Schari Palo and Mike Dardis are going to be
1:20:11
Speaker 9: the MC good for this for that event, so we're
1:20:14
Speaker 9: very grateful for them. Tickets are on sale right now,
1:20:18
Speaker 9: seventy five dollars a pop. You get food, entertainment, and
1:20:23
Speaker 9: then again you have the Sime Museum as well. Plus
1:20:25
Speaker 9: you'll get to hear me make a speech. Right, That's right,
1:20:29
Speaker 9: that's worth the price emission right there.
1:20:31
Speaker 1: Indeed, now going back, I I just was suggesting maybe
1:20:36
Speaker 1: you can put a little human element, maybe pass along
1:20:40
Speaker 1: an illustration of something that you have, some person or
1:20:43
Speaker 1: family you helped out in the community by virtue of
1:20:46
Speaker 1: your efforts at the help Squad. Just give people an
1:20:48
Speaker 1: idea of what you're encountering and facing throughout the year.
1:20:51
Speaker 9: Yeah, sure, I'll leave you with this. So we had
1:20:53
Speaker 9: a lady calls not too long ago, and we were
1:20:58
Speaker 9: the sixteenth age and see that she has contacted for
1:21:02
Speaker 9: help and what she needed was rental assistance. She was
1:21:06
Speaker 9: a she worked two jobs. She made money, made enough
1:21:10
Speaker 9: money to make it. I mean, she made ends meet.
1:21:12
Speaker 9: She had two children, and she had her dying mother
1:21:15
Speaker 9: living in a hospital bed in their living room under
1:21:19
Speaker 9: hospice care. And because of some of the costs associated
1:21:23
Speaker 9: with that, she missed a rent payment and was going
1:21:26
Speaker 9: to be evicted. Now do you under can you picture that?
1:21:29
Speaker 2: Wheeland?
1:21:30
Speaker 9: I mean, what is going on here living? Yes, like
1:21:33
Speaker 9: when we live in a society that would allow that.
1:21:35
Speaker 9: So sixteen agencies, we were the sixteenth fifteen fifteen of
1:21:41
Speaker 9: the agencies where government ran, agencies that put you on hold,
1:21:44
Speaker 9: don't call you back, or rude to you if they
1:21:46
Speaker 9: do answer, don't have the money, always an excuse not
1:21:50
Speaker 9: to help, okay. And we were the sixteenth. Ay, and
1:21:52
Speaker 9: she she called me on a Wednesday, she was going
1:21:54
Speaker 9: to have the eviction notice on a Friday. On Thursday,
1:21:59
Speaker 9: we paid the rent totality and there is no eviction.
1:22:03
Speaker 1: That's amazing, Okay.
1:22:04
Speaker 3: So what would have happened?
1:22:05
Speaker 9: Seriously, do what would have happened if we weren't here?
1:22:07
Speaker 9: I mean, what happens to families like that? And that's
1:22:09
Speaker 9: what I mean. It's not just on the West side
1:22:12
Speaker 9: people that need help.
1:22:13
Speaker 3: It's everywhere. I mean, every.
1:22:15
Speaker 9: Community should be a help squad community. I mean I
1:22:18
Speaker 9: feel like I'm banging my head against a car door
1:22:20
Speaker 9: to try to get people to understand this.
1:22:22
Speaker 1: And let me just double down of the idea that
1:22:23
Speaker 1: this is your Christian mission. You know, always bothers me
1:22:27
Speaker 1: when I find out that the person leading any church
1:22:30
Speaker 1: service the priest.
1:22:32
Speaker 6: I'm mom.
1:22:32
Speaker 1: Even anybody else telling you that a government program is
1:22:35
Speaker 1: the solution, that is offloading your mission, that is a
1:22:38
Speaker 1: human mission. Your gob obligation is a Christian is to
1:22:41
Speaker 1: do it yourself, not hand over the keys of someone else.
1:22:43
Speaker 1: Because look what happens. Sixteen other organizations were supposed to
1:22:48
Speaker 1: be in a position to helper. It's the number sixteen
1:22:52
Speaker 1: doing it on their own, not government run, not expecting anything,
1:22:55
Speaker 1: not making a profit. And the organization that is this
1:22:57
Speaker 1: isn't paying salaries. You just do it because you want
1:23:01
Speaker 1: to help. Yeah, we're all volunteer, real help comes, yes, sir,
1:23:04
Speaker 1: we're all volunteers. Nobody gets paid, and we're all privately funded.
1:23:08
Speaker 1: We have no grants, we have grant riders. We've never
1:23:11
Speaker 1: gotten a grant. I mean, so and to my submarine
1:23:14
Speaker 1: friend Mike who suggested maybe you should tap into the
1:23:17
Speaker 1: apparently infinite supply of n g OH money that the
1:23:20
Speaker 1: City of Cincinnati's handing out. I would recommend no, because
1:23:23
Speaker 1: then you get stuck having to work with those clowns.
1:23:25
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, you've got to be careful of, you know,
1:23:27
Speaker 9: getting in bed with the government and agencies like that.
1:23:31
Speaker 9: But like I said, all of our up to for
1:23:33
Speaker 9: the last five years have all been privately funded, all
1:23:37
Speaker 9: just donations from friends and people that actually have a
1:23:41
Speaker 9: concern for their fellow.
1:23:44
Speaker 1: Brother and sister and proven results.
1:23:46
Speaker 2: That's it.
1:23:47
Speaker 9: Definitely, that's why this is working because we have proven
1:23:49
Speaker 9: two people this works. They see where their money's going
1:23:53
Speaker 9: and it works.
1:23:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like Matthew twenty five. You give them a buck,
1:23:56
Speaker 1: a buck's going to where it's needed.
1:23:58
Speaker 9: It's one percent of every day goes to help somebody.
1:24:01
Speaker 9: Not a lot of agencies can say that.
1:24:03
Speaker 1: There's a link on my blow up page thanks to
1:24:04
Speaker 1: Joe Streger who put it up there that helps squadsensey
1:24:06
Speaker 1: with the y dot com. I also put the ihead
1:24:08
Speaker 1: him put the Strategies to End Homelessness dot org website
1:24:12
Speaker 1: up as well. Since they're coordinating with you on these
1:24:14
Speaker 1: automobile repair needs. God bless you, Brian Ibolt, and I
1:24:18
Speaker 1: hope that you and I'm sure you did serve as
1:24:19
Speaker 1: an inspiration to someone out there who said, you know what,
1:24:22
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get involved. Happy one to you, Brian Thomas.
1:24:25
Speaker 1: Welcoming back to the fifty five KRC Morning Show hour
1:24:30
Speaker 1: energy policy expert Briingham Account from the Hudson Institute. You
1:24:32
Speaker 1: can find the Hudson Institute online at Hudson dot org
1:24:35
Speaker 1: and and I recommend you check that out regularly. Bringham Account,
1:24:37
Speaker 1: Welcome back, my friend. I appreciate what you do. Charged
1:24:41
Speaker 1: Conversations is Brigham's podcast, and I recommend you check out
1:24:44
Speaker 1: his podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back Brigham
1:24:47
Speaker 1: live from Las Vegas. Joe Strecker awarded you the Wake
1:24:51
Speaker 1: Up Early Award. Congratulations, Thank you well, Brian.
1:24:56
Speaker 6: It's great to be back on the show. We did
1:24:58
Speaker 6: just put out a charge count about oil moving through
1:25:01
Speaker 6: the Straits of horror moves coming out this week, but
1:25:06
Speaker 6: thank you. I decided very wisely when I got in
1:25:09
Speaker 6: yesterday to stay on East Coast time. Yes, good, it's dark, Yeah.
1:25:14
Speaker 1: I imagine it is, and I'm surprised you're not at
1:25:16
Speaker 1: the Roulett Wheel or the blackjack table. They're twenty four
1:25:18
Speaker 1: to seven. You never know what time it is in
1:25:20
Speaker 1: Vegas when you're in a casino. Brigham a count you know.
1:25:23
Speaker 1: I was cracking up on this. Yes, people are angry
1:25:25
Speaker 1: about the price of gasoline going up. Locally. It's gone
1:25:28
Speaker 1: up about I don't know, maybe a buck or maybe
1:25:30
Speaker 1: even more depending on where you are within the last
1:25:32
Speaker 1: several days. We're going to talk about why they jumped overnight.
1:25:35
Speaker 1: But I'm getting the kick out of it because everybody's
1:25:37
Speaker 1: screaming about it. This is Donald Trump's fault. Donald Trump's fault.
1:25:40
Speaker 1: Of course, when you engage in war, this does have
1:25:42
Speaker 1: an impact on supply chain. Of course, when you shut
1:25:45
Speaker 1: down the Straight of hornor Moves, where eighty percent of
1:25:47
Speaker 1: the world's oil flows through, you're going to have a spike.
1:25:50
Speaker 1: Now you'll explain why it spikes immediately, but it cracks
1:25:53
Speaker 1: me up. High price of gas. Isn't that something Barack
1:25:56
Speaker 1: Obama wanted and said we would have to deal with
1:25:58
Speaker 1: because we're going to chase our jails trying to limit
1:26:00
Speaker 1: carbon dioxide. So if he does it through legislation, edicts
1:26:04
Speaker 1: and mandates. The price goes up, and it's a good thing.
1:26:07
Speaker 1: But when it happens to happen as a consequence of
1:26:09
Speaker 1: sort of naturally occurring events like supply chain disruptions, it's
1:26:13
Speaker 1: terrible and it's awful, and we all want our cheap
1:26:15
Speaker 1: gas back.
1:26:17
Speaker 10: Yeah.
1:26:18
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're you're you're hit an out on the head something.
1:26:20
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:26:20
Speaker 6: I don't think we've talked about recently, but you're absolutely right.
1:26:24
Speaker 6: Back during the Obama days, right, it was we have
1:26:27
Speaker 6: to kick our addiction to oil. We have to get
1:26:29
Speaker 6: off of it.
1:26:29
Speaker 4: Everybody needs to it over.
1:26:31
Speaker 6: The beginning days, the good days. Everybody needs an ev
1:26:34
Speaker 6: everybody needs to turn their lights off, everybody needs to
1:26:37
Speaker 6: use less energy. And how do you do that, Well,
1:26:40
Speaker 6: you text the snot out of its artificially, yeah, yes.
1:26:46
Speaker 6: Or you make policies that you know it's picking winners
1:26:49
Speaker 6: and losers. You make something really expensive, you subsidize the
1:26:53
Speaker 6: snot out of something else to make it look like
1:26:55
Speaker 6: it's actually cheaper. And that's exactly what.
1:26:58
Speaker 1: Was going on back then, exactly. I always like to
1:27:01
Speaker 1: just keep reminding people of that. It's a self inflicted wound.
1:27:05
Speaker 1: When you're trying to chase carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
1:27:08
Speaker 1: And you may call it a self inflicted wind when
1:27:10
Speaker 1: you engage in war, but this is a normally happening occurrence. Now,
1:27:15
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. It's almost seven thirty five, so
1:27:17
Speaker 1: I wanna pause, and you're gonna explain why gas prices
1:27:19
Speaker 1: jumped overnight? Because I know they were sitting on stockpiles
1:27:22
Speaker 1: of oil and refined gasoline. So how was it that
1:27:25
Speaker 1: the price of that went up immediately when they acquired it,
1:27:28
Speaker 1: when the price was a lot cheaper more with Bring
1:27:30
Speaker 1: h mcown from the Hudson Institute. Right after I mentioned
1:27:34
Speaker 1: Cross Country Mortgage, which is Sussette loads the camp's place
1:27:36
Speaker 1: and she is licensed off from talk station seven forty
1:27:41
Speaker 1: fifty five cars Detoxation from the Hudson Institute online at
1:27:44
Speaker 1: Hudson dot org. Bring him acount at the Calm the
1:27:46
Speaker 1: fifty five kr SE Morning Show. Energy Policy Expert, Energy
1:27:49
Speaker 1: policy expert. He is talking about the price of oil
1:27:53
Speaker 1: and why how is it that it just immediately goes up?
1:27:56
Speaker 1: How the price is store It started going up on
1:27:58
Speaker 1: Saturday when we started telling people in the world that
1:28:00
Speaker 1: we're dropping bombs on the Iranians. I see futures up
1:28:03
Speaker 1: just under eighty six dollars right now for at least
1:28:07
Speaker 1: some kind of crude they just typed in, So it's
1:28:09
Speaker 1: trending upward. Brighaman, that does make some sense given the
1:28:12
Speaker 1: current instability, the straight of horror moonves issues which we
1:28:15
Speaker 1: can elaborate on a little bit. But why overnight, Brigham,
1:28:18
Speaker 1: Why is it?
1:28:19
Speaker 2: Yeah?
1:28:20
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, fear moves the market first. Prices
1:28:24
Speaker 6: rise on risk and uncertainty, not just confirmed shortages. And
1:28:30
Speaker 6: that's kind of what we've seen number one, number two,
1:28:32
Speaker 6: even though the United States doesn't really get much oil frankly,
1:28:36
Speaker 6: it's negligible from the Middle East. If this were nineteen
1:28:39
Speaker 6: seventy three again or two thousand again, you'd be paying
1:28:44
Speaker 6: four fifty five dollars already.
1:28:47
Speaker 1: Well, that's when OPEC had a lock on global oil
1:28:50
Speaker 1: supply and we all thought there was a finite amount
1:28:52
Speaker 1: of oil. We're dealing with peak oil and oh my god,
1:28:54
Speaker 1: we're all going to die. They cut this pigot off,
1:28:56
Speaker 1: and I remember the the pictures of wines around the
1:28:59
Speaker 1: corner with people waiting, and well, remember the even odd
1:29:02
Speaker 1: license plate numbers. You could go to a gas station
1:29:04
Speaker 1: if your license plate was even on one day and
1:29:06
Speaker 1: odd on the other. Yeah, those were difficult times. And
1:29:08
Speaker 1: of course we had the stagflation of the seventies that
1:29:10
Speaker 1: made that thing even worse. We don't have that problem
1:29:13
Speaker 1: anymore because we engage in and above the above, all
1:29:15
Speaker 1: of the above, including drill baby, drill strategy. Now, isn't
1:29:18
Speaker 1: that true? Brigham?
1:29:21
Speaker 6: That is one hundred percent true. And even though prices
1:29:24
Speaker 6: have responded quickly, and the reason for that is you're
1:29:30
Speaker 6: preparing to buy your next unleaded gasoline, your next diesel,
1:29:35
Speaker 6: so your prices at the pump actually reflect what you're
1:29:38
Speaker 6: going to pay to replace what's already there, and that's
1:29:41
Speaker 6: why they move pretty quickly. But right now gasoline prices
1:29:45
Speaker 6: are about where they were in twenty twenty four. So, yeah,
1:29:49
Speaker 6: are they high?
1:29:49
Speaker 2: Yes?
1:29:50
Speaker 6: Do I think they're going to go back down within
1:29:52
Speaker 6: two to three weeks.
1:29:53
Speaker 4: I do.
1:29:54
Speaker 6: If you look at all the major conflicts and crises,
1:29:56
Speaker 6: and at Hudson, we've taken a look at that. These
1:29:59
Speaker 6: sp make sure what they call transit, they don't last
1:30:02
Speaker 6: very long. When Iran and Israel got into it, most recently,
1:30:07
Speaker 6: when the Persian Gulf War from the nineteen nineties happened.
1:30:12
Speaker 6: All of these things reside relatively quickly in the big
1:30:16
Speaker 6: scheme of things.
1:30:17
Speaker 1: Well, that's because they're not permanent Brigham like statutes, policies,
1:30:21
Speaker 1: and you know, the impediments of using gasoline that the
1:30:25
Speaker 1: administration I would argue, like Obama to fariously put in
1:30:28
Speaker 1: place in the name of oh my god, we're all
1:30:29
Speaker 1: going an eye global warming one hundred and fifty years
1:30:32
Speaker 1: down the road. Those don't go away very easily. They
1:30:34
Speaker 1: stay in place. And in other words, the price of
1:30:36
Speaker 1: gasoline will stay up because it was intended to do
1:30:39
Speaker 1: just that. Straight to horror moves is going to open
1:30:41
Speaker 1: up at some point, presumably bring them, and then they'll
1:30:43
Speaker 1: go back down again because the economic realities of supply
1:30:46
Speaker 1: will have changed absolutely.
1:30:48
Speaker 6: I mean, it's what we'd like say, economics one oh one,
1:30:51
Speaker 6: supply and demand. You have too much supply, price goes down.
1:30:55
Speaker 6: You have too much demand, price goes up. And we're
1:30:58
Speaker 6: already seeing some things. Saudi Arabia has a pipeline, it's
1:31:02
Speaker 6: actually two pipelines. They're massive. They can move up to
1:31:05
Speaker 6: six million barrels a day. Right now it's doing a
1:31:07
Speaker 6: little under two. They're getting that thing back up and running.
1:31:11
Speaker 6: So they're going to push six million out of the
1:31:14
Speaker 6: twenty million that the Persian Gulf pushes out every day
1:31:17
Speaker 6: over to the Red Sea to bypass the straight at
1:31:19
Speaker 6: hornor moves altogether. So that's going to come online pretty quickly,
1:31:23
Speaker 6: I think within the next five to seven days. Number one,
1:31:26
Speaker 6: Number two United States has given a thirty day relief
1:31:31
Speaker 6: for countries to purchase some stranded Russian oil on the market.
1:31:34
Speaker 6: Don't like it, but needs to happen in the short term,
1:31:38
Speaker 6: so that will reduce pricing. And then according to Admiral
1:31:42
Speaker 6: Connell of by United States Navy, it's very proud of
1:31:45
Speaker 6: what they've been doing out there. Tacks, ballistic missile launches,
1:31:51
Speaker 6: drone launches are down by ninety percent. We've now hit
1:31:54
Speaker 6: over thirty of their Iranian naval vessels. They pretty much
1:31:59
Speaker 6: have no functioning navy at this point. Including overnight we
1:32:02
Speaker 6: destroyed a drone tearing aircraft carrier, an American World War
1:32:07
Speaker 6: two carrier. So I think this is going to resolve itself,
1:32:11
Speaker 6: and they're not. This part of it is going to
1:32:13
Speaker 6: resolve itself.
1:32:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've reduced the missile strikes down like by ninety percent,
1:32:17
Speaker 1: and the drone strikes down any low eighty percent reduction,
1:32:21
Speaker 1: So just a little bit left and we blow up
1:32:23
Speaker 1: more of the manufacturing facilities and continue attack the mission
1:32:25
Speaker 1: launching sites. The problem in the Strait of Horror moves
1:32:28
Speaker 1: may solve itself simply because the Iranians have nothing to
1:32:30
Speaker 1: do by way of blowing up ships going through it.
1:32:33
Speaker 1: I also noted Brigham that some of the ships are
1:32:35
Speaker 1: taking are just taking the risk and going through on
1:32:37
Speaker 1: their own.
1:32:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, some are still going through. And it really comes
1:32:41
Speaker 6: back to war risk insurance. You know you have insurance
1:32:45
Speaker 6: on your car. Well, the ship has insurance, the cargo
1:32:48
Speaker 6: has insurance, and whether or not you're willing to pay
1:32:53
Speaker 6: a very high price to get that done, or some
1:32:56
Speaker 6: ships are just going through even if they can't get
1:32:58
Speaker 6: the right insurance. President Trump has announced the US will
1:33:01
Speaker 6: also offer insurance and has suggested that perhaps the Navy
1:33:05
Speaker 6: will get involved.
1:33:06
Speaker 8: Well, we'll see if.
1:33:07
Speaker 6: That's necessary, and we'll see how that moves. But there
1:33:10
Speaker 6: are hundreds of ships tied up wanting to leave right now.
1:33:14
Speaker 6: And again, that oil doesn't come to us that you know,
1:33:18
Speaker 6: the main beneficiary of that oil are Asian nations. Including
1:33:22
Speaker 6: some friends like Japan and South Korea, but large percentage
1:33:27
Speaker 6: that oil Brian goes to China.
1:33:28
Speaker 1: So well, you point it out before the oil is
1:33:31
Speaker 1: a global market. Price of oil is established based upon
1:33:34
Speaker 1: the quantity that's available in the world, not necessarily because
1:33:37
Speaker 1: we don't have our own, but it's just a defined
1:33:40
Speaker 1: sort of an economic fact that we can have to
1:33:42
Speaker 1: deal with.
1:33:44
Speaker 6: It is it is, and it's always been a global market,
1:33:46
Speaker 6: and it's risk. And you know, whether you're for or
1:33:50
Speaker 6: against what the current administration is doing, at the bottom
1:33:53
Speaker 6: line is you've got a regime that has attacked ships
1:33:59
Speaker 6: for forty seven years, has said they would close the golf,
1:34:03
Speaker 6: which again you're not allowed to do. It's an international passageway.
1:34:06
Speaker 6: So you know, dealing with this once and for all,
1:34:10
Speaker 6: I think will lead to longer term stability.
1:34:13
Speaker 1: If that's the goal, well, I think that's an excellentployee
1:34:15
Speaker 1: to double down on. If you hadn't engaged militarily in
1:34:18
Speaker 1: trying to topple the Iranians, then they are and were
1:34:22
Speaker 1: in a position at any moment in time to shut
1:34:25
Speaker 1: down the straight of horror moves because they have all
1:34:27
Speaker 1: the rockets and missiles there. He can announce it to
1:34:29
Speaker 1: the world. Any ships going through, we're going to blow
1:34:31
Speaker 1: them up. And that sounds like a totally Iranian thing
1:34:33
Speaker 1: to do based upon their past history. So maybe in
1:34:35
Speaker 1: the future they'll never be able to do it again,
1:34:37
Speaker 1: and that'll bring about so much global stability. The price
1:34:39
Speaker 1: of gas will go below fifty bucks a barrel or
1:34:41
Speaker 1: something like that. Brigha mcaal, We've got a lot more
1:34:44
Speaker 1: to talk about. At seven forty six, we'll bring Brigham
1:34:46
Speaker 1: back and we'll ultimately we're gonna end up talking about
1:34:51
Speaker 1: Ohio utilities owning nuke plants. This is going to be
1:34:53
Speaker 1: a good thing. I think Brigham will enlighten us on
1:34:56
Speaker 1: his position on that. But if you're dealing with cracks
1:34:59
Speaker 1: stains response. I'm talking about concrete from this war risk
1:35:04
Speaker 1: insurance you mentioned. And I understand that you get a
1:35:06
Speaker 1: policy of insurance, and of course actuaries determine what the
1:35:09
Speaker 1: risk is and the premium is determined on it. But
1:35:11
Speaker 1: when you got a war right there next to where
1:35:14
Speaker 1: the insured vessels are going back and forth, insurance companies
1:35:18
Speaker 1: act in their best interest and cancel it. Donald Trump
1:35:20
Speaker 1: suggested maybe the United States would act as the I
1:35:23
Speaker 1: don't know, insurer of last resort or something like that.
1:35:26
Speaker 1: I kind of question whether Donald Trump has the ability
1:35:28
Speaker 1: to just immediately say, yeah, we're going to shoulder the
1:35:30
Speaker 1: burden of ensuring your vessels are going to get through.
1:35:34
Speaker 6: Yeah, there is. That's a good point. And there is
1:35:36
Speaker 6: a US Finance and Development Corp. I'm probably not getting
1:35:40
Speaker 6: the name exactly right that could possibly be the vehicle
1:35:45
Speaker 6: for that. But you know, when I first heard about
1:35:48
Speaker 6: war risk insurance, I thought, oh, this only happens during war. Well,
1:35:51
Speaker 6: actually they carry war risk all the.
1:35:53
Speaker 1: Time, the time you're there.
1:35:54
Speaker 6: That's how long we've been dealing with this. Remember, let's
1:35:57
Speaker 6: rewind the tape to nineteen eighty seven, nineteen eighty eight
1:36:00
Speaker 6: Operation Ernest Will. We reflagged a bunch of foreign tankers
1:36:04
Speaker 6: under US flags and escorted them with navy ships through
1:36:07
Speaker 6: the straight of foreign news because I guess who was
1:36:10
Speaker 6: threatening them, Brian the Iranians. Yes, oh, how'd you know?
1:36:16
Speaker 1: Cocking?
1:36:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, so's their country goes right there.
1:36:19
Speaker 1: I mean, it is on top of the strait we're
1:36:22
Speaker 1: talking about.
1:36:24
Speaker 6: It is this is, this has been going on for
1:36:26
Speaker 6: a very long time. And uh, you know, so to
1:36:29
Speaker 6: your point, now, what the good news is, but we're
1:36:32
Speaker 6: not seeing are cargo is being canceled. The ships are there,
1:36:36
Speaker 6: they're waiting, they're waiting to load, or they're already loaded waiting.
1:36:39
Speaker 6: And you know, the prevailing thoughts seem to be that
1:36:43
Speaker 6: one to two weeks smacks on this that we'll see.
1:36:46
Speaker 1: They could be wrong, little tea leaf reading. I like
1:36:48
Speaker 1: the optimism on that one bill, but the direction everything
1:36:51
Speaker 1: is going, the limitation of the number of missile strikes,
1:36:53
Speaker 1: and the uh well, the evisceration of the Iranian military
1:36:57
Speaker 1: generally speaking, and the destruction of their navy, all of
1:37:00
Speaker 1: it can lead to a short duration of this shutdown.
1:37:05
Speaker 1: So all right, we got that positive going for us,
1:37:07
Speaker 1: But you know, I got to observe bring before we
1:37:08
Speaker 1: part company and bring you back after the top of
1:37:10
Speaker 1: the internet to talk about nuke power here in Ohio.
1:37:13
Speaker 1: All those ships are still in the gulf there right.
1:37:16
Speaker 1: I mean, you can see them parked. I've seen the maps.
1:37:19
Speaker 1: Those are not outside of the reach of Iranian missiles either.
1:37:22
Speaker 1: Just because the strait of Horror moves is that really narrow,
1:37:24
Speaker 1: dangerous spot that you have to creep through, it doesn't
1:37:27
Speaker 1: mean they're without harm or potential for harm.
1:37:31
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're definitely within harm's reach and they're just sitting there.
1:37:35
Speaker 6: So if iron had the capacity to strike them, I
1:37:38
Speaker 6: guess as they would, And you're right. The strait it's
1:37:42
Speaker 6: narrow by I don't know shipping terms. It's about twenty
1:37:46
Speaker 6: one nautical miles. It's about twenty four land miles wide.
1:37:50
Speaker 6: But there are two transit quarters. They're only two miles
1:37:52
Speaker 6: wide each, so you can pick them off there when
1:37:55
Speaker 6: they're moving. But right now they're all sitting there at
1:37:57
Speaker 6: anchor and nothing's happening.
1:37:59
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:38:00
Speaker 1: I bring that up to point that out. It could
1:38:02
Speaker 1: happen right now, not in the strait, So yeah, thankfully
1:38:05
Speaker 1: it's not, which suggests your optimism I think is well placed.
1:38:09
Speaker 1: Brigham account will bring it back live from Las Vegas
1:38:12
Speaker 1: live at the Sphere. Metallica is opening for him. He's
1:38:15
Speaker 1: bring the account from the Hudson Ins too. We'll talk
1:38:16
Speaker 1: nuke policy coming up out of the top of the
1:38:18
Speaker 1: our news. Don't go away, what's.
1:38:19
Speaker 2: Happening over there. You cannot be ever allowed to have
1:38:22
Speaker 2: nuclear weapons.
1:38:23
Speaker 1: Hey O six at fifty five krs the talk station
1:38:26
Speaker 1: behind Thomas here on a Friday, which I love My Fridays.
1:38:29
Speaker 1: And I love when we had brigingmcoun from the Hudson
1:38:31
Speaker 1: Instudo and you can find one line at Hudson dot
1:38:33
Speaker 1: org our energy policy expert. All right, we're walking through
1:38:35
Speaker 1: the crazy reality of gasoline. Yes, the price goes up
1:38:38
Speaker 1: immediately straight up our news. A problem which will probably
1:38:41
Speaker 1: be ironed out in relatively short term. So you should
1:38:43
Speaker 1: expect the guts to go back down, so sayth Brigham
1:38:46
Speaker 1: account and I'm with him on the optimism. Along those lines,
1:38:49
Speaker 1: I'm also briging mccownt Finally, we appear to have come
1:38:51
Speaker 1: to a point in time where nuclear power will be embraced.
1:38:54
Speaker 1: Thank you to artificial intelligence. Love it or hated. The
1:38:57
Speaker 1: huge demand and the building of all the these AI facilities,
1:39:01
Speaker 1: which seems to be the obvious wave of the future,
1:39:03
Speaker 1: use up massive quantities of power, And oh my god,
1:39:06
Speaker 1: is AI the solution to this ridiculous climate religion? Brigham
1:39:11
Speaker 1: a gown. Are we finally solving the problem?
1:39:15
Speaker 6: Well, I think it has certainly exacerbated its downfall. And Brian,
1:39:19
Speaker 6: you know even the Europeans are coming back to two
1:39:21
Speaker 6: key principles. One, the world has never used less energy,
1:39:25
Speaker 6: only more. Two I'm gonna add a third one two.
1:39:29
Speaker 6: If there is an energy transition, it's to a new
1:39:32
Speaker 6: power source that gives you more power, not less.
1:39:35
Speaker 1: Right and reliable, reliable to Brigham, don't forget that. It's
1:39:40
Speaker 1: gotta work.
1:39:42
Speaker 6: Yes, it's got to be accessible, available, and affordable. The
1:39:46
Speaker 6: key definition of energy security, which was the third point
1:39:49
Speaker 6: I was going to make, which is, if you don't
1:39:51
Speaker 6: have energy, it ruins your economy, it ruins your national security.
1:39:57
Speaker 6: It is the magic that makes everything run. And people
1:40:01
Speaker 6: are starting to realize that and finally figuring that out.
1:40:03
Speaker 6: And I think AI has precipitated that a little more quickly.
1:40:06
Speaker 1: You know, I got to be the first person, not
1:40:09
Speaker 1: the first person to point it out. But I think
1:40:11
Speaker 1: that's the nefarious reality behind this whole global warming thing.
1:40:14
Speaker 1: I think it was intentionally designed to undersigned undermine our
1:40:18
Speaker 1: consumptive economy. That was the purpose. It's not really that
1:40:22
Speaker 1: we're exhaling ourselves into oblivion. Is that we just consume
1:40:25
Speaker 1: too much here in America, as with other developed Western countries,
1:40:30
Speaker 1: so go right for the jugular cut off their electricity supply,
1:40:32
Speaker 1: and their consumption necessarily goes down because their economies collapse.
1:40:37
Speaker 6: I certainly think there is a guilt complex in many
1:40:42
Speaker 6: Western societies where people are guilty of what we've achieved.
1:40:46
Speaker 6: And you know, why do you think everybody wants to
1:40:49
Speaker 6: come to America or Europe? Because they want they want
1:40:54
Speaker 6: a better life. They you know, our system ain't perfect,
1:40:59
Speaker 6: but it's better that all the others.
1:41:00
Speaker 1: Well, that's why I call it a religion. You know,
1:41:03
Speaker 1: quite often religion will cause people to feel guilty about
1:41:06
Speaker 1: filling the blank in your world, whatever that happens to be. Yeah, well,
1:41:09
Speaker 1: if you're out breathing, living, consuming, you need to feel
1:41:12
Speaker 1: guilty about it all day long. I just it's truly truly,
1:41:16
Speaker 1: Again I say nefarious. I just that's all I can conclude.
1:41:20
Speaker 1: You're intentionally harming yourself by engaging in legislative activities regulatory
1:41:26
Speaker 1: activities that make us less secure and cause our energy
1:41:31
Speaker 1: to cost more. That sounds like a recipe for it
1:41:33
Speaker 1: is stupidity in action. But nonetheless that's the road we
1:41:36
Speaker 1: went down. So pivoting back over to nuclear power. First off,
1:41:39
Speaker 1: for all the people who are wed to the religion
1:41:41
Speaker 1: and still think that carbon dioxide's a bad thing, they
1:41:43
Speaker 1: don't excel expel carbon dioxide. Bring them well, there's a
1:41:47
Speaker 1: problem solved right there.
1:41:49
Speaker 6: They don't. They don't do any of that. And people say, well, wait,
1:41:53
Speaker 6: nuclear waste. But you know, we've talked about this I
1:41:56
Speaker 6: think before.
1:41:57
Speaker 2: Is that if you.
1:41:58
Speaker 6: Gathered up all the nuclear waste in the country, it's
1:42:00
Speaker 6: fit on a football field.
1:42:01
Speaker 2: It is not.
1:42:03
Speaker 6: It is not as big as one thinks. Does it
1:42:05
Speaker 6: last very long time? Yes, which is why we need
1:42:07
Speaker 6: to build building advanced generation reactors that use less, that
1:42:13
Speaker 6: create less byproducts. Oh and by the way, it will
1:42:16
Speaker 6: be recyclable, so folks that are into that, we won't
1:42:21
Speaker 6: have the waste that we had, say from the nineteen
1:42:23
Speaker 6: sixties or seventy well, with.
1:42:24
Speaker 1: Small modular reactors. I understand the quantity of waste after
1:42:28
Speaker 1: it's gone, after it's been used up over its useful life,
1:42:31
Speaker 1: which is really a long time twenty plus years or
1:42:34
Speaker 1: even longer for SMR. So by the time you let
1:42:37
Speaker 1: a couple of decades, three decades, even four decades past
1:42:40
Speaker 1: and it becomes waste, there's not that much of it,
1:42:44
Speaker 1: even less so than that than the reactors that we
1:42:47
Speaker 1: used to use.
1:42:48
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's very little, and it is amazing, and you know,
1:42:53
Speaker 6: it's technology that is finally coming full circle. Civilian nuclear actors,
1:42:59
Speaker 6: and again I hate say this is a problem with Iran.
1:43:01
Speaker 6: Civilian nuclear actors require three to five, we'll say, even
1:43:05
Speaker 6: ten percent enriched uranium. So when you talk to the roundings,
1:43:08
Speaker 6: you're like, hey, hey, guys, why are you doing this?
1:43:11
Speaker 6: We just want to clear a few Well, why are
1:43:13
Speaker 6: you enriching it to sixty percent? I don't know, why
1:43:16
Speaker 6: are you doing it one hundred feet underground?
1:43:17
Speaker 2: I don't know.
1:43:20
Speaker 6: What we need here in the US is three to
1:43:24
Speaker 6: five maybe ten if you're using some medical stuff percent enrichment.
1:43:29
Speaker 6: It's not weapons grade stuff.
1:43:31
Speaker 1: Out there all right, Before we get to the regulatory
1:43:36
Speaker 1: challenges that one faces if they choose to build a
1:43:39
Speaker 1: reactor or otherwise embrace this technology, do we have sufficient
1:43:44
Speaker 1: quantities of uranium at our disposal? I mean, there was
1:43:47
Speaker 1: all that concern some years ago that we sold our uranium.
1:43:51
Speaker 1: I basically sold our uranium rights off to the Russians,
1:43:53
Speaker 1: And I'm just kind of wondering where we are in
1:43:55
Speaker 1: terms of uranium supply.
1:43:58
Speaker 6: We're spinning back up, but we're certainly the eight ball.
1:44:00
Speaker 6: We were the world's largest producer of uranium or not
1:44:03
Speaker 6: now after the Soviet Union fell. We bought up all
1:44:07
Speaker 6: of their leftover stuff, including idly enriched eighty ninety percent
1:44:12
Speaker 6: for I E. Bombs, and we down blended it and
1:44:15
Speaker 6: we had decades of fuel and we let our domestic
1:44:19
Speaker 6: industry atrophy and basically go away. And so now we
1:44:24
Speaker 6: are needing to rebuild Canada. We can ever sort that
1:44:28
Speaker 6: deal out. Canada has uranium we can get. We can
1:44:31
Speaker 6: produce uranium. We used to make it here in Paducah
1:44:35
Speaker 6: and Pike Paduca, Kentucky and Piked, Ohio. That was the
1:44:38
Speaker 6: world epicenter for enriching uranium. And we're starting to spend
1:44:43
Speaker 6: that back up literally with the new generation centrifuge enrichment machines,
1:44:49
Speaker 6: which is.
1:44:49
Speaker 2: The way to do it now.
1:44:51
Speaker 1: Well, not in my backyard is a refrain from folks
1:44:54
Speaker 1: that you know, are maybe facing a new nuclear power
1:44:57
Speaker 1: facility being built in their neighborhood or funeral area. But
1:45:00
Speaker 1: in terms of going after the uranium itself, can that
1:45:03
Speaker 1: be done safely? I imagine a lot of people might
1:45:05
Speaker 1: have some concern about just mining this stuff close to
1:45:08
Speaker 1: where they live.
1:45:10
Speaker 6: Well, like rare earth minerals mining it. It's in such
1:45:13
Speaker 6: rare concentrations. There's some radioactivity and all the earth around us, right,
1:45:18
Speaker 6: and you go out and look around. It's the processing
1:45:22
Speaker 6: of it, and it requires vast amounts to sift out
1:45:26
Speaker 6: all the impurity to actually make it you know, high
1:45:31
Speaker 6: more highly enriched. And so that's totally safe process and
1:45:38
Speaker 6: I wouldn't be concerned about that. I think the question
1:45:41
Speaker 6: is do you want to live next to a nuclear
1:45:43
Speaker 6: power plan? And I think a lot of supporters of
1:45:45
Speaker 6: nuclear power like it. But the NIMBI thing is real.
1:45:49
Speaker 2: It is.
1:45:50
Speaker 1: But see, I'll go back to and again our listeners
1:45:53
Speaker 1: are going to I know where he's going on this one.
1:45:55
Speaker 1: You know the idea that we've been using these small
1:45:56
Speaker 1: reactors in our military ships since late nineteen fifties without incident. Hell,
1:46:02
Speaker 1: our sailors and our navy work literally right next to
1:46:06
Speaker 1: these things. I've never heard anybody complain about, you know,
1:46:08
Speaker 1: glowing in the dark after working on them. And there
1:46:11
Speaker 1: they are. They fit inside of a ship. So what
1:46:13
Speaker 1: is the footprint with that concept in mind, what's the size?
1:46:17
Speaker 1: What's the footprint of a small modular reactor? How much
1:46:20
Speaker 1: space it takes because you don't need one of those
1:46:22
Speaker 1: giant cooling tower things or multiples of those, they're not
1:46:25
Speaker 1: nearly as big as the old schools, say three mile
1:46:28
Speaker 1: island type reactors that they build at one time.
1:46:33
Speaker 7: They're not.
1:46:34
Speaker 6: They are a couple of eighteen wheeler you know, trailers,
1:46:38
Speaker 6: fifty fifty three foot trailers as sort of the size
1:46:41
Speaker 6: we're talking about. But you know, we also need to
1:46:44
Speaker 6: keep constructing large nuclear reactors because the SMRs are great,
1:46:48
Speaker 6: but they are they produce less power obviously, although you
1:46:51
Speaker 6: can hook them up in parallel.
1:46:53
Speaker 2: Right.
1:46:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking, you know, if the artificial intelligence
1:46:57
Speaker 1: facilities are required now to generate their own power, that
1:47:00
Speaker 1: seems to be the most logical direction to go, unless
1:47:02
Speaker 1: you're next to maybe hydro power or something else that
1:47:05
Speaker 1: can provide twenty four to seven power. So maybe they'll
1:47:08
Speaker 1: have enough to give the neighborhood its own source of electricity.
1:47:11
Speaker 1: I mean, if they've met their own needs and they're
1:47:13
Speaker 1: generating more power than they need, there you go, we've
1:47:15
Speaker 1: got access to more and that sounds like a good thing.
1:47:19
Speaker 6: You know, it is a good thing. And unfortunately, again
1:47:21
Speaker 6: because of prior administrations prematurely retiring coal fired and other
1:47:26
Speaker 6: fossil fuel power plants, we're in a bit of a crunch.
1:47:30
Speaker 6: Right now, we have a lot that is being projected.
1:47:33
Speaker 6: I think ten years from now we're going to be great.
1:47:36
Speaker 6: But right now we don't have enough power, and many
1:47:39
Speaker 6: utilities are telling their commercial customers AI data centers, do
1:47:44
Speaker 6: you best get your own power behind the meter? We're
1:47:47
Speaker 6: not going to be able to do it right now,
1:47:48
Speaker 6: and that's a huge problem, and it's a direct result
1:47:51
Speaker 6: of poor policy by previous administrations.
1:47:53
Speaker 1: Well, that allows us to stumble onto the next one,
1:47:56
Speaker 1: the Ohio proposal about utilities owning nuclear generation. I think
1:48:01
Speaker 1: maybe we've run into another regulatory challenge, the debate centering
1:48:05
Speaker 1: on whether electric utilities that deliver power should also be
1:48:08
Speaker 1: allowed to own their own power plants. That sounds to
1:48:11
Speaker 1: me like somebody had a regulation and that says they can't.
1:48:14
Speaker 1: We'll let Brigham explain that one to us when we
1:48:16
Speaker 1: get back. It's eight sixteen, fifty five KRCD talk station
1:48:19
Speaker 1: fifty five krc per CD talk station A twenty fifty
1:48:27
Speaker 1: five KRCD talk station. Brian Thomas with Brigha McCown. He's
1:48:30
Speaker 1: calling in from Las Vegas, Nevada. We're talking energy policy.
1:48:33
Speaker 1: Hudson dot orgs where you find the Hudson Institute. Brigha McCown.
1:48:36
Speaker 1: The traditional utility model, the power companies generated the power,
1:48:41
Speaker 1: coal plant, gas plant, nukes, whatever, and then they delivered
1:48:44
Speaker 1: it and that's what we paid for. Why did we
1:48:46
Speaker 1: restructure that model and how did it not inure to
1:48:49
Speaker 1: our benefit in the nineteen nineties And where do we
1:48:51
Speaker 1: need to go today? Brigha McCown.
1:48:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, Ohio separated electric generation from delivery in nineteen ninety
1:48:59
Speaker 6: nine when it restructure the power sector under a Senate bill.
1:49:02
Speaker 6: And since then, you know, electric power systems have two
1:49:07
Speaker 6: distinct roles. First, you have generation, and these companies build
1:49:10
Speaker 6: and just operate power plants. They take on the costs.
1:49:14
Speaker 6: The revenue comes from selling that electricity wholesale onto the markets.
1:49:18
Speaker 6: The second traditional utility company we think of it is
1:49:21
Speaker 6: transmission and distribution, and these companies own the poles, the wires,
1:49:25
Speaker 6: the substations, and they're regulated by the Public Utilities Commission
1:49:30
Speaker 6: of Ohio.
1:49:30
Speaker 4: And so.
1:49:32
Speaker 6: Back in ninety nine they separated these two mainly so
1:49:36
Speaker 6: that the public wasn't going to be on the hook
1:49:39
Speaker 6: for developing power plants. And nuclear power plants operate under
1:49:43
Speaker 6: very different different economic models. They're very expensive to build,
1:49:48
Speaker 6: and I think that's the current push to smash everything
1:49:51
Speaker 6: back together against I'll pause.
1:49:54
Speaker 1: There brand expensive to build? Are they really truly expensive
1:49:58
Speaker 1: to build? Or do we make that expensive to build?
1:50:01
Speaker 1: Because first off, again, small modular actors are like legos,
1:50:04
Speaker 1: one size fits all. Once you have a design model
1:50:07
Speaker 1: that works, you just pull up that trailer you were
1:50:09
Speaker 1: talking about, plug it in. And I know I'm boiling
1:50:11
Speaker 1: it down to simplicity, but plug it in and it's done.
1:50:14
Speaker 1: The reactors that they have been building since they started building,
1:50:17
Speaker 1: and what the exception of the military are all these
1:50:19
Speaker 1: giant one off one size does not fit all. So
1:50:22
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of design, development, regulatory approval, blah
1:50:25
Speaker 1: blah blah. It takes forever to even get one started.
1:50:27
Speaker 1: I mean to lay the first brick in the ground
1:50:30
Speaker 1: on one. So we're not there anymore. So does it
1:50:33
Speaker 1: really need to be expensive going down this road?
1:50:37
Speaker 6: Well, to really do this and to transition us over
1:50:40
Speaker 6: to nuclear power, we need both. We need big reactors
1:50:43
Speaker 6: and we need smaller reactors. The key is that we
1:50:48
Speaker 6: make them exactly the same. And of the big reactors
1:50:51
Speaker 6: around the country, no two of them are alike. No
1:50:55
Speaker 6: two of them are the same. This is the the
1:50:58
Speaker 6: idiocy frank play of the industry in the past is guys,
1:51:03
Speaker 6: so you wonder why every single one has to be
1:51:06
Speaker 6: licensed from scratch. Stop changing things mass produce a car,
1:51:11
Speaker 6: you know, hey Ford, it's not that hard.
1:51:17
Speaker 8: Yeah.
1:51:17
Speaker 6: So that is so there is a Westinghouse design that
1:51:20
Speaker 6: has kept out and it's been the government's been reluctant.
1:51:23
Speaker 6: I think the industry has been reluctant to just say, okay,
1:51:26
Speaker 6: we're going to build one type well, okay five, license
1:51:30
Speaker 6: three or four and small, medium, large, micro, whatever, and
1:51:34
Speaker 6: that's what we get. That would cut the cost down
1:51:37
Speaker 6: significantly because a large nuclear actor costs ten to twenty
1:51:41
Speaker 6: billion dollars to construct, but once if you built it
1:51:45
Speaker 6: could operate for sixty or seventy years with these very
1:51:48
Speaker 6: low fuel costs. So the challenge has been financing that
1:51:52
Speaker 6: initial construction. And if Ohio puts it all back together again,
1:51:57
Speaker 6: the concern is the rate payers I, E and I
1:52:01
Speaker 6: and everyone else listening. We're going to be asked to
1:52:04
Speaker 6: finance this project as opposed to the utility company going
1:52:09
Speaker 6: out into the private market and finding financing.
1:52:13
Speaker 1: Is that financing impossible to find? If we go back
1:52:15
Speaker 1: maybe to the old way. Will there will there be
1:52:17
Speaker 1: a market for financing.
1:52:19
Speaker 6: This, Well, it's not, but you know private financing, and
1:52:25
Speaker 6: there is public financing available. Department of Energy has financing
1:52:30
Speaker 6: available to the government. But you know when institutional lenders
1:52:35
Speaker 6: lend money, they're very particular. There's a lot of oversight,
1:52:39
Speaker 6: more oversight frankly than the Public Services Commission, who's like, oh,
1:52:42
Speaker 6: you need more money, it costs more, Okay, I'll pass
1:52:45
Speaker 6: another rate hike through. So there is some concern that
1:52:49
Speaker 6: we're going to get stuck with the end, with people
1:52:51
Speaker 6: being inefficient and this thing costing too much, which is
1:52:54
Speaker 6: what happened to the last reactor we just brought online.
1:52:57
Speaker 1: Down in Georgia, Brigg, McCowan, Hudson, and sut I appreciate
1:53:00
Speaker 1: your willingness to come on the morning show, even when
1:53:02
Speaker 1: you're out of town. I know you've got stuff to
1:53:03
Speaker 1: get to right away, so I'm gonna let you go,
1:53:05
Speaker 1: and I appreciate the time. Like I said, I hope
1:53:07
Speaker 1: you have a wonderful weekend. Safe travels Backbreger and we'll
1:53:09
Speaker 1: get you back on asap.
1:53:12
Speaker 6: Thanks, Brian, appreciate it, My pleasure.
1:53:13
Speaker 1: Take twenty five network dot Com reporting on matters impacting
1:53:16
Speaker 1: us here in the state of Ohio. Welcome back, Jack Windsor.
1:53:18
Speaker 1: It's good to see you on the Zoom call and
1:53:20
Speaker 1: good to hear your voice here on the fifty five
1:53:22
Speaker 1: Krssey Morning Show.
1:53:23
Speaker 10: Happy Friday to you man, Happy Friday, Brian. Always an
1:53:26
Speaker 10: honor and a pleasure to be here with you and
1:53:27
Speaker 10: the KRC listeners. Thank you for having me.
1:53:29
Speaker 1: Well, we got choices when it comes to Secretary of
1:53:31
Speaker 1: State here, and we've got a primary coming up, and
1:53:33
Speaker 1: the choices are Marcel Sturbage and Robert Sprague. And Marcel's
1:53:37
Speaker 1: been on the program a couple of times. I've been
1:53:39
Speaker 1: very impressed by him. When you hear him talk, he
1:53:42
Speaker 1: is man, he is committed, he's on point, he's got
1:53:45
Speaker 1: on message. He comes across strong, very clear in his
1:53:49
Speaker 1: vision what he hopes to accomplish in the role in
1:53:50
Speaker 1: the office. His background is great, obviously, proudly served his
1:53:54
Speaker 1: country in the military. And I just go to sturbridgefor
1:53:59
Speaker 1: Ohio dot Com. You can find out for yourself. I
1:54:02
Speaker 1: asked Joe Strecker going into the conversation or this morning, Jack,
1:54:05
Speaker 1: if Robert Sprague has ever reached out to us or
1:54:08
Speaker 1: and Joe said that is a big no. And also
1:54:11
Speaker 1: there have been nothing but crickets in response to the
1:54:13
Speaker 1: outreach from US to have him on the program to
1:54:15
Speaker 1: hear what he's all about. So I find that rather strange.
1:54:20
Speaker 1: But having talked with Marcel, I can't find anything wrong
1:54:24
Speaker 1: with a man and his candidacy. So what's your take
1:54:27
Speaker 1: on Marcel? And it seems to me like it's one
1:54:31
Speaker 1: of those Republican parties sort of protecting one of its
1:54:33
Speaker 1: own entrenched members. Am I onto something with that statement?
1:54:36
Speaker 8: Jack?
1:54:37
Speaker 10: I think you're one hundred percent on to something. Brian,
1:54:40
Speaker 10: First of all, I have personally endorsed Marcel Sturbage for
1:54:43
Speaker 10: Secretary of State, and it was a real simple decision
1:54:46
Speaker 10: for me. I've had mart Cell on my program forever
1:54:50
Speaker 10: the past couple of years, and he has been one
1:54:53
Speaker 10: hundred percent accurate in his ability to assess where Ohio
1:54:57
Speaker 10: is with election integrity and what steps need to occur,
1:55:01
Speaker 10: and he has been talking about those steps, he has
1:55:04
Speaker 10: been working with the legislature to bring about those changes,
1:55:08
Speaker 10: and so when he decided to run for Secretary of State,
1:55:11
Speaker 10: it was an easy choice for me to get behind
1:55:14
Speaker 10: him now. I do want to say Robert Sprague has
1:55:16
Speaker 10: visited with me before, but that was back when he
1:55:19
Speaker 10: still wasn't sure if he was trying to get appointed
1:55:21
Speaker 10: to the US Senate, when Governor Dwine was trying to
1:55:24
Speaker 10: make his choice, and it was before he decided to
1:55:27
Speaker 10: run for governor, if you remember that. So it was, well,
1:55:29
Speaker 10: maybe I want to be in the Senate, maybe I
1:55:31
Speaker 10: want to be governor, and then eventually he settled on
1:55:33
Speaker 10: this Secretary of State role. I do want to say
1:55:36
Speaker 10: I think Robert Sprague is a good man. I think
1:55:38
Speaker 10: Robert Sprague is a prudent person, and I think that
1:55:41
Speaker 10: if he were in a position, he would do well.
1:55:44
Speaker 10: The challenge is, I don't think he's as good as
1:55:46
Speaker 10: his competitor for this specific role.
1:55:48
Speaker 1: Okay, And that's kind of the conclusion I'm reaching in.
1:55:50
Speaker 1: I don't want anybody to think that for a minute.
1:55:52
Speaker 1: I've got some action to grind against Robert Sprague. I
1:55:55
Speaker 1: just don't recall talking to him. Joe said if he
1:55:57
Speaker 1: was ever on the show with like maybe one time.
1:55:59
Speaker 1: And I don't expect anyone to necessarily come on the show.
1:56:02
Speaker 1: That's their prerogative. But I don't know enough about the
1:56:05
Speaker 1: man compared to Marcel to make that decision. So I
1:56:10
Speaker 1: guess I find myself in your Campjack with this now
1:56:13
Speaker 1: just look good? No, no, no, I'm being honest with
1:56:16
Speaker 1: my listeners. So, now is the deck stacked against Marcel
1:56:20
Speaker 1: in the sense he doesn't have a shot. I mean,
1:56:23
Speaker 1: how's he looking as we headed under the primary?
1:56:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, great question.
1:56:27
Speaker 1: His polling numbers look fantastic.
1:56:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's a controversy.
1:56:31
Speaker 10: First of all, he commissioned a poll, and he's the
1:56:34
Speaker 10: guy that many in the parties say can't raise the money. Well,
1:56:37
Speaker 10: he raised enough money to actually conduct a poll, and
1:56:40
Speaker 10: according to that poll, a huge number of people are undecided, which,
1:56:44
Speaker 10: by the way, should not be surprising. The secretary of
1:56:46
Speaker 10: state race in a midterm election is not at the
1:56:49
Speaker 10: top of everyone's punch list to research. Generally, However, the
1:56:54
Speaker 10: people who had made a decision or thought they had
1:56:56
Speaker 10: made a decision, he is Marcel Sturbage.
1:56:58
Speaker 3: That is up by eight point.
1:57:00
Speaker 10: Now, when the voters were informed about his platform, his
1:57:05
Speaker 10: margin of victory spreads to forty seven points. So once
1:57:09
Speaker 10: they understand who he is and what he is, that
1:57:11
Speaker 10: number gets larger. Now, many people in the other camps
1:57:15
Speaker 10: say well, that's not a legitimate poll, and then Marcel
1:57:17
Speaker 10: points to the fact that the Republican Party has actually
1:57:20
Speaker 10: used this same outfit before spend one hundred thousand dollars
1:57:24
Speaker 10: getting other polls done. So one, I do think his
1:57:28
Speaker 10: message is resonating. There will be a challenge as we
1:57:31
Speaker 10: head down the back stretch here though, can he reach
1:57:34
Speaker 10: the number of voters that he's going to need to
1:57:36
Speaker 10: reach in order to win that election? And the Republican Party,
1:57:40
Speaker 10: the State Central Committee decided to endorse Robert Sprague, his opponent,
1:57:44
Speaker 10: so that will give him the indiceha, that will give
1:57:46
Speaker 10: him some financial breathing room, if you will. Plus he
1:57:50
Speaker 10: will probably have the donor class behind him. So down
1:57:53
Speaker 10: the stretch it's going to be about can Marcel get
1:57:55
Speaker 10: in front of enough voters and can he overcome the
1:57:58
Speaker 10: millions and millions and that we'll see from Robert Sprague.
1:58:01
Speaker 1: Well a Ford part company and end this break and
1:58:03
Speaker 1: move on to a different topic. I guess I'm just
1:58:05
Speaker 1: kind of curious to know, and I think I know
1:58:06
Speaker 1: your reaction. A lot of my listeners and you guess
1:58:09
Speaker 1: you can count me among them, little upset with the
1:58:11
Speaker 1: Republican Party making endorsements in advance of the primary before
1:58:15
Speaker 1: the actual Republican voters have to have a say have
1:58:18
Speaker 1: had a say in the matter.
1:58:19
Speaker 10: Jack, Yeah, So that is a very, very controversial topic,
1:58:24
Speaker 10: and it really came to a head if you remember
1:58:26
Speaker 10: back when Governor Mike DeWine was endorsed by the party
1:58:29
Speaker 10: and there was a contested gubernatorial primary. But what ended
1:58:33
Speaker 10: up being interesting is now you have another governor's race
1:58:37
Speaker 10: four years later, and some of the same people who
1:58:40
Speaker 10: when DeWine was endorsed early came out and said, well, listen,
1:58:44
Speaker 10: Traditionally I wouldn't support endorsing in a race, but because
1:58:48
Speaker 10: Governor Mike DeWine is going to try to pull all
1:58:51
Speaker 10: the levers possible to get someone like Lieutenant Governor Jim
1:58:54
Speaker 10: Tressel to be the party's endorsed candidate, we've got to
1:58:58
Speaker 10: go ahead and get out of the gate early, get
1:58:59
Speaker 10: the Vake Ramaswami to be the guy that we endorse y.
1:59:02
Speaker 10: And so that was a real interesting about face. And
1:59:05
Speaker 10: then of course that has continued on down the ticket,
1:59:08
Speaker 10: and I think that will benefit Marcel Sturbich's opponent in
1:59:12
Speaker 10: this race.
1:59:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right on that one. And while
1:59:15
Speaker 1: I didn't have and my listeners may call me out
1:59:17
Speaker 1: on being hypocritical on this, I didn't say anything about
1:59:20
Speaker 1: the Republican Party's endorsement or vi vike Ramas on me
1:59:22
Speaker 1: just because I think Vivek is the candidate and I
1:59:25
Speaker 1: really want him. But the same arguments to apply. I
1:59:27
Speaker 1: think if we had they had let us just approach
1:59:30
Speaker 1: the primary on the gubernatorial candidate, vivig Ramaswami would have
1:59:32
Speaker 1: run anyway, and that's where we would be and there
1:59:35
Speaker 1: wouldn't be this controversy. It's like the nuclear option Jack.
1:59:38
Speaker 1: Once you get rid of the sixty vote threshold and
1:59:40
Speaker 1: you go down to fifty, it's over with and it's done.
1:59:42
Speaker 1: So I think we're going to see this trend continue
1:59:44
Speaker 1: down the road.
1:59:46
Speaker 10: It's unfortunate, and I think we are. And the challenge
1:59:49
Speaker 10: is many times it's hard for people to do all
1:59:52
Speaker 10: of their homework in advance, and it's actually the primary
1:59:54
Speaker 10: election that brings their attention to the point that they
1:59:57
Speaker 10: need to do the researches. And if you have the
1:59:59
Speaker 10: part already putting the thumb on the scale before that,
2:00:01
Speaker 10: maybe sometimes you're not getting the best candidate or the
2:00:03
Speaker 10: candidate that people genuinely want, and.
2:00:06
Speaker 1: It reduces the likelihood that they will agree to a debate,
2:00:09
Speaker 1: which I think benefits everybody.
2:00:10
Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 10: I would absolutely agree with that, and that's been one
2:00:15
Speaker 10: of my areas of frustration with Robert Sprague. He seems
2:00:17
Speaker 10: to not want to debate now, and he's actually like
2:00:20
Speaker 10: he has with you. He has gone radio silent with me,
2:00:22
Speaker 10: and his campaign staff will not return phone calls, and
2:00:25
Speaker 10: I'm begging him to come on my show and answer
2:00:27
Speaker 10: some hard questions.
2:00:28
Speaker 1: Well, continue with me this morning. Energy policy. We're going
2:00:30
Speaker 1: to continue with Jack Wins when we get back Ohio
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Speaker 1: Senators and Trump discussing energy rates, regarding building new data centers,
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Speaker 1: Bring your own power more with.
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Speaker 1: Windsor's side Jackson the program Every Friday, yere on the
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Speaker 1: fifty five krssee Morning show. Bring us up to speed.
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Speaker 1: And I understand that Trump and well, John Houston, Bernie
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Speaker 1: Moreno had a whole bunch of other folks, so are
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Speaker 1: doing a roundtable in terms of well artificial intelligence, it's
2:01:00
Speaker 1: a boom. We're all dealing with it, but we're all
2:01:02
Speaker 1: worried about that it's going to make our electricity bills
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Speaker 1: go up through the sky. And that seems to be
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Speaker 1: going in that direction, Jack Windsor, I know there's been
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Speaker 1: a lot of proposal about AI bringing their own power
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Speaker 1: with them. I had a conversation with Bring them account
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Speaker 1: from the Hudson Institute about small modular reactors and that
2:01:16
Speaker 1: may be a thing they can bring with them. Very
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Speaker 1: expensive they are. But what does this all mean to us,
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Speaker 1: Jack Windsor.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, great question.
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Speaker 10: So President Donald Trump is serious about the United States
2:01:26
Speaker 10: continuing to lead on AI, particularly with China, the country
2:01:31
Speaker 10: that is competing with us primarily, and he wanted to
2:01:35
Speaker 10: address this concern that we all have, which is if
2:01:37
Speaker 10: we build all of these data centers and these data
2:01:40
Speaker 10: centers become a suck on our power supply, then what
2:01:43
Speaker 10: does that do to our electric bills?
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Speaker 3: So he worked with some key.
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Speaker 10: Companies Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Open Ai, and Xai
2:01:52
Speaker 10: and they signed a non binding agreement and they committed
2:01:57
Speaker 10: to five things. One was to secure their own electric
2:02:00
Speaker 10: tricity supplies for data centers, to invest in new power
2:02:03
Speaker 10: generation resources. Three, fund transmission upgrades for negotiate separate rate
2:02:08
Speaker 10: structures with utilities in five enhance grid resilience to handle
2:02:12
Speaker 10: increased demands. And it's also noteworthy, as you mentioned, Senators
2:02:16
Speaker 10: Bernie Marino and John Housted were in attendance and praised
2:02:20
Speaker 10: this commitment. But also we're alongside META when they announced
2:02:24
Speaker 10: a new workforce training program in Ohio to support AI
2:02:28
Speaker 10: related jobs, which of course aligns with the pledges focus
2:02:31
Speaker 10: on economic growth, particularly using local workers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I know some people are against the
2:02:36
Speaker 1: whole concept of AI in their backyard, going back to
2:02:39
Speaker 1: the NIMBI thing, it's a foregone conclusion these are coming.
2:02:43
Speaker 1: So you know, if it was a let's say, a multiplex,
2:02:47
Speaker 1: giant Walmart, Giant Kroger, giant whatever, taking up the same
2:02:51
Speaker 1: square footage of land, would people be against it as
2:02:53
Speaker 1: much as they are with the AI facilities, considering the
2:02:56
Speaker 1: amount of revenue by way of tax dollars they presumably
2:02:59
Speaker 1: will bring in any given community. It's the power, really
2:03:03
Speaker 1: is the problem for most people, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: It really is. It's the power.
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Speaker 10: And I think there's still this nebulous, conspiratorial thinking, and
2:03:11
Speaker 10: I don't. By the way, I don't use the word
2:03:13
Speaker 10: conspiratorial the way that some people on the left do.
2:03:16
Speaker 10: There is just this belief that there's some conspiring and
2:03:19
Speaker 10: hiding some information about surveillance and all those things, and
2:03:22
Speaker 10: so there are some of those concerns.
2:03:24
Speaker 3: But yeah, it does come down to power.
2:03:26
Speaker 10: But I like to point out, and I know that
2:03:27
Speaker 10: you've had Donovan O'Neil with Americans for Prosperity on your
2:03:30
Speaker 10: show before. Oh sure, but AFP's been really on the
2:03:33
Speaker 10: bleeding edge with some of this. And when you look
2:03:35
Speaker 10: at those five points that Trump is really working hard
2:03:38
Speaker 10: to make sure these tech giants adhere to Ohio really
2:03:41
Speaker 10: is pretty far down the path. If you remember, House
2:03:44
Speaker 10: Bill fifteen became effective in August of last year. It
2:03:47
Speaker 10: really deals with a lot of that behind the meter,
2:03:49
Speaker 10: self generation and microgrids, So Ohio is really kind of
2:03:53
Speaker 10: suited up and ready for these companies to do that here.
2:03:56
Speaker 10: And then of course, the separate rate structures and cost
2:03:59
Speaker 10: allocation and Public Utilities Commission of Ohio did approve some
2:04:03
Speaker 10: data center specific tariff language for AFP AEP. Now that
2:04:08
Speaker 10: needs to be blanketed, I think, and applied to all
2:04:10
Speaker 10: of these power companies. But there are incentives for new
2:04:13
Speaker 10: generation transmission under House Bill fifteen and the grid resilience
2:04:18
Speaker 10: enhancements that's kind of baked into House Bill fifteen, and
2:04:21
Speaker 10: some of this stuff that the Public Utilities Commission of
2:04:23
Speaker 10: Ohio is doing. But overall, I think Ohio's framework is
2:04:27
Speaker 10: already well equipped for these non binding pledges. It will
2:04:31
Speaker 10: be now then incumbent upon the lawmakers in the General
2:04:34
Speaker 10: Assembly to take it the extra mile to make sure
2:04:37
Speaker 10: that Ohio is in a position that when these companies
2:04:40
Speaker 10: want to do the things that they've committed to do,
2:04:42
Speaker 10: that they're legally able to.
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Speaker 1: Do them, legally able to do them. There's that pesky
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Speaker 1: There should be a fiduciary obligation owed by people in
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Speaker 1: Minnesota is a wonderful illustration of them not only being
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Speaker 1: of racism. Oh blow it out or you know what,
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Speaker 1: that is a nonsensical argument. If you're stealing, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter what color skin you've got, you are, which is
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Speaker 1: a pox on everyone with that in mind. Whistle blowers, Jack,
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Speaker 1: what's this what all about?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 3: First of all, preach, Brian, Preach.
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Speaker 10: Second of all, just another bombshell report from the Committee
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Speaker 10: on Oversight and Government Reform. It dropped earlier this week,
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Speaker 10: and what we now know is that based on the
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Speaker 10: testimony of nine current and former state officials in Minnesota
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Speaker 10: that Governor Tim Walls and his administration not only knew
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Speaker 10: that fraud was occurring, they did nothing about it. And
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Speaker 10: then what you just said, they went the extra mile
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Speaker 10: and actually sought to punish the whistleblowers. Now, there are
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Speaker 10: six different types of allegations. I'll run quickly through those. First,
2:06:43
Speaker 10: whistleblowers alleged that millions were spent on surveilling employees who
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Speaker 10: raised fraud concerns. So not only were they letting money
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Speaker 10: seep out the hole in the bucket, they were taking
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Speaker 10: what money was left over to actually try to surveil
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Speaker 10: the people who.
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Speaker 3: Were blowing the whistle. Disgusting.
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Speaker 10: Whistleblowers also claimed that private investigators or law firms were
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Speaker 10: hired to silence them. Dozens of whistleblowers reported being told
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Speaker 10: to not speak about the fraud, and as you just
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Speaker 10: pointed out, they would be accused of being racist, islamophobic, xenophobic.
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Speaker 10: Upper management conducted regular check ins or meetings with these
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Speaker 10: employees who reported concerns so that they felt big brothers
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Speaker 10: watching right over their shoulder. And then examples include of
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Speaker 10: job related threats and demotivation. Supervisors threatening to make a
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Speaker 10: whistleblower's life difficult, and then those supervisors later receiving a promotion.
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Speaker 10: So it was very clear that this was a culture
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Speaker 10: that rewarded turning a blind eye to fraud, and then
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Speaker 10: management showed disdain for groups of employees emailing fraud concerns
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Speaker 10: to leadership, including the governor's chief of staff, and broader
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Speaker 10: findings note a fear of political retribution. So again these
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Speaker 10: are not just pie in the sky, you know, pulled
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Speaker 10: out of the ether. These are based on the testimony
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Speaker 10: of nine current and former states officials there in the
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Speaker 10: North Star state, so that not only is their waste,
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Speaker 10: fraud and abuse, now they're punishing the good guys that
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Speaker 10: are actually trying to stand up for the taxpayer.
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Speaker 1: Well throughout this process. And you know, if you look
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Speaker 1: at the reporting on this Minnesota thing, and I thought
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Speaker 1: Imprimus did a fabulous job and I can't post it
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Speaker 1: on my blog page. They through the whole thing. But
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Speaker 1: the author pointed out the history of the investigation of
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Speaker 1: these leering centers and these various other programs, and that
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Speaker 1: there was local reporting on it going way back, pointing
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Speaker 1: out the fraud, waste, and abuse. I mean, this was
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Speaker 1: widely known. This was just this wasn't flying under the radar.
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Speaker 1: This was kind of going on on and on and on,
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Speaker 1: and considering the reasons as you just boiled down and
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Speaker 1: articulated these threats of you know, accusing people of xenophobia
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Speaker 1: or whatever, which I find, you know, threaten me with that,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna laugh at you. Where are the spine with
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Speaker 1: these people? But I think you've revealed some perhaps broader
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Speaker 1: problem that's going on with our pretty much anybody in
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Speaker 1: elected capacity, they're all being threatened along these lines. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna have an organized campaign, We're gonna boycott you, We're
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Speaker 1: gonna accuse you endlessly of being a racist and homophobe.
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Speaker 1: And as Nivo and you wonder why our politicians do things,
2:09:05
Speaker 1: maybe they got the goods on behind the scenes, like yeah,
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Speaker 1: we know where you search on the internet, we got
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Speaker 1: pictures of you or whatever. This kind of extortion thing
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Speaker 1: without people in those positions having spines willing to stand
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Speaker 1: up to and going no, no, I'm not a racist.
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Speaker 1: I'm just looking at people ripping us off. It seems
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Speaker 1: like a simple response, Jack.
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Speaker 3: It really does.
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Speaker 10: It really does. And by the way, I will remind
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Speaker 10: your listeners. And I'm sure that this is gonna make
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Speaker 10: some people mad, but I don't care. Our governor is
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Speaker 10: a governor who stood up when the beginning of discovery
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Speaker 10: has happened here in Ohio and said, well, you know,
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Speaker 10: the Somali people are good people, and they contribute to
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Speaker 10: our local businesses and regional businesses, and listen, this is
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Speaker 10: not a critique of the Somali people, but it would be.
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Speaker 10: It's stupid for the governor to say things like that
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Speaker 10: when you can look at the numbers and recognize that
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Speaker 10: seventy percent, somewhere between fifty eight and seventy percent get Medicaid,
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Speaker 10: they get snap benefits, and they get other welfare benefits,
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Speaker 10: and so I go, okay, if they are contributing members
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Speaker 10: of society, why are their rates for public assistance exponentially higher?
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Speaker 10: And again it goes back to this guilty shaming and blaming.
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Speaker 10: We are never going to get it right if every
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Speaker 10: time that we step out or put our necks out
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Speaker 10: and say, look, this is something going wrong here, that
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Speaker 10: we cowtail when somebody says, well, you're racist or you're xenophobic,
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Speaker 10: And when you have a governor of the state of
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Speaker 10: Ohio really role modeling that it doesn't take long to
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Speaker 10: figure out why we have millions and probably billions of
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Speaker 10: dollars a fraud here in this state as well.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's the point I've been making, never paying with
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Speaker 1: the broad brush. I'm sure there are some within the
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Speaker 1: smaller community that are contributing, and they are paying taxes,
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Speaker 1: and they are great mom and dads, and they have
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Speaker 1: family life whatever. Not all of them follow to that
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Speaker 1: category much in the same way. Some of them are
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Speaker 1: ripping us all up. That is not me saying all
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Speaker 1: Somalians are thieves. You're painting with a broad brush. By
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Speaker 1: accusing me of that, you are basically being the racist.
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Speaker 1: Come on, just because you're within some given category of
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Speaker 1: people the whole, doesn't mean there's not a subset of
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Speaker 1: people who might fall out of that collective and say, no,
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Speaker 1: those are nefarious. The subset of the Smalling community are nefarious.
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Speaker 1: A subset of the Smalling community are great people. Let's
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Speaker 1: go after the nefarious. Let's keep this whole race thing
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Speaker 1: out of it and save ourselves the taxpayer dollars that
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Speaker 1: are being ripped off.
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Speaker 3: Amen.
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Speaker 10: And this is what concerns me, and we can talk
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Speaker 10: about it with any topic. Now, there is this movement
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Speaker 10: within the middle of the road to the right. I
2:11:36
Speaker 10: call it the woke right now. And you look at
2:11:38
Speaker 10: what the left has done for the past four or
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Speaker 10: five decades. They've become masterful at identity politics, and if
2:11:45
Speaker 10: you go against the narrative, then they put a label
2:11:48
Speaker 10: on you racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, whatever. Well, when the right
2:11:52
Speaker 10: starts doing those same things, we are going so far
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Speaker 10: away from the fourteenth Amendment, which says that we should
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Speaker 10: be applying the law equally to every buddy and everyone
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Speaker 10: should get an equal remedy. If we start down that road,
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Speaker 10: I'm afraid we're not going to come back. So shame
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Speaker 10: on Governor Mike Dwine and other Republicans who fall into
2:12:08
Speaker 10: that trap.
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Speaker 1: Amen, underscore and I share your criticism the ohiopressnetwork dot com. Fine, Jack,
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Speaker 1: bookmark the site.
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Speaker 8: Jack.
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Speaker 1: We'll do this next Friday. I have a wonderful weekend
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Speaker 1: and a great week my friend, you too. Thank you
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