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55KRC Wednesday Show - Brigham McCown, Jack Atherton, AFP, Adam Hardage, Judge Nap, Wish Tree · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: On fifty five KRC the talk station.
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Speaker 2: Five o five and fifty five k r C the
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Speaker 2: talk station series Happy Wednesday.
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Speaker 3: Some say, no idea, what's you know what?
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Speaker 2: Neither to what Happy Wednesday? Brian Thomas right here, glad
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Speaker 2: to be and glad to see Joe streck Ory belongs
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Speaker 2: and glad to see the rundown this morning on a Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: That means seven o five The Big Picture with Jack Adverton,
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Speaker 2: Always love him and Jack on the show today. Democrats
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Speaker 2: and the Power of Pain. Of course, I think you
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Speaker 2: can read into what that's all about, bringing the government
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Speaker 2: to a shutdown, hoping that the pain allows them to
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Speaker 2: get a win in terms of what they want. But again,
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Speaker 2: say what you want about the Continuing Resolution maintaining funding
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Speaker 2: at twenty twenty four levels. I understand why Congressman Massey
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Speaker 2: wasn't happy about that, but ultimately it strategically did work out.
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Speaker 2: The Republicans held fast. They had no the Democrats really
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Speaker 2: had no argument. I mean, all of the things they
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Speaker 2: were angry about they put into place. I mean, this
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Speaker 2: is just the American people apparently saw this, and I
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Speaker 2: think the Democrats woke up with that reality. Why was
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Speaker 2: there the end of the supplements at the end of
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Speaker 2: this year. Democrats, that's right, one hundred percent. Democrats voted
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Speaker 2: for that. They knew, they knew that they were going
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Speaker 2: to win the presidency. That's where that came from. There
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Speaker 2: is no doubt in their minds. And maybe you look
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Speaker 2: at Arctic Frost and other of the all the other
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Speaker 2: lettered agencies undermining Donald Trump and making things up and
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Speaker 2: trying to convince the American people that he was something
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Speaker 2: or as something that he's not. I don't know, but
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Speaker 2: the bottom line, you voted for Donald Trump overwhelmingly. And
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Speaker 2: of course those deadlines that the Democrats put in the
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Speaker 2: legislation didn't go anywhere. It's law. Just find the circumstances
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Speaker 2: shrining this whole shutdown just be quite comical anyway. And remember,
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Speaker 2: in voting for Donald Trump, you voted for those subsidies
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Speaker 2: to end. I think, and I know the American people
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Speaker 2: probably weren't paying that close attention and that one issue
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Speaker 2: was not what drove them to the polls. But nonetheless,
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump did not campaign on extending the supplements for Obamacare.
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Speaker 2: So if you'd taken the time to look at that reality,
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Speaker 2: then you might have been not a factor that into
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Speaker 2: the decision making on whether or not to vote for Trump.
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Speaker 2: But one can only logically and reasonably conclude that one
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Speaker 2: must assume that every American voter knows everything about the
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Speaker 2: outcome of the election and what that might mean. A
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Speaker 2: vote for Donald Trump certainly was not going to result
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Speaker 2: in the extension of expansion of or Obamacare, most notably
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Speaker 2: with those benefits going to illegal immigrants. So anyhow, they
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Speaker 2: bring on the pain because of what they brought about,
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Speaker 2: and that pain obviously was the result of Democrats action. Now,
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Speaker 2: if you can't get your airline flight and those are
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Speaker 2: going to continue, these problems are going to continue, then
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Speaker 2: make sure you just don't pull your finger at Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump because it would be unlogical, illogical, and unreasonable. There
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Speaker 2: you go, anyways, struggling to find something to kick the
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Speaker 2: program off. That's why I love phone calls. You can
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Speaker 2: needs a reset. Too many governments. That's the topic of
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Speaker 2: the conversation. We'll get a little insight to that with
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Speaker 2: Donovan and Neilis we always hear from at seven thirty
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Speaker 2: on a Wednesday. That's happening today Adam Hardage, former CIA
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Speaker 2: ops officer. Wow, this could be fun. He's a combat veteran,
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Speaker 2: former CIA operations officer, nationally recognized voice on leadership, national security,
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Speaker 2: and the future of America's children in an AI driven world.
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Speaker 2: He speaks a lot on things today on the Morning show,
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Speaker 2: the latest on the Jay sixth pipe bomb investigation, and
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Speaker 2: then one of the listeners brought that up just the
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Speaker 2: other day. They have video footage and the artificial intelligence
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Speaker 2: analysis of that video footage suggests that they have identified
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Speaker 2: with ninety four to ninety eight percent accuracy that the
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Speaker 2: January sixth pipe bomber planner was a member of the
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Speaker 2: Capitol Police Force and then segue over to working for
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Speaker 2: the Central Intelligence Agency. So I'm looking forward to hear
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Speaker 2: what Adam has to say about that. That'll take place
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Speaker 2: at eight h five. Hold on cough button, of course,
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Speaker 2: it's Wednesday, Judge enal Paula Tana reill be a controversial discussion.
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Speaker 2: Can the president disrupt speech? That's the title of his
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Speaker 2: of his column, and he refers to the President Trump's
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Speaker 2: son of the National Security Presidential Memorandum with number designating Antifhah. Now,
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Speaker 2: as he writes, purports to designate the ideology of ANTIFA
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Speaker 2: as a domestic terrorist organization, directing federal law enforcement to
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Speaker 2: disrupt gatherings and well get rid of the supporters. Now,
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Speaker 2: he I think maybe overstates the designation because I counter
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Speaker 2: because ultimately it's free speech. And consider this Antifah a
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Speaker 2: bunch of leftists. They have their Marxist ideology. They can
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Speaker 2: scream Marxism all day long, and that is protected by
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Speaker 2: the First Amendment the United States Constitution. And that's where
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Speaker 2: I think the primary focus of Donald trum or of
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Speaker 2: judgment politanist criticism of Trump's National Security Presidential Memorandum number
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Speaker 2: seven designated them as a domestic terri organization. But you
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Speaker 2: can't do that, he points out, and I think I
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Speaker 2: agree with him on this. You can't do that just
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Speaker 2: because of what they say. But he said in the
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Speaker 2: column that government officials have I believe I'm trying to
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Speaker 2: find the words. Have said that Antifa is an ideology,
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Speaker 2: not an organized group, and I counted. I said, listen,
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Speaker 2: I've read a lot of things which suggest that Antipha
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Speaker 2: is in fact an organized group. Now I do say
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Speaker 2: that I didn't break this down as much when I
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Speaker 2: was talking to when I've sent back my message or
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Speaker 2: my questions and Napolitanic God Brian wake up, because I'm
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Speaker 2: sure there are people of communist Marxist ideology who support
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Speaker 2: and praise what Antifa is doing. Those people would be
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Speaker 2: speaking their mind and engaging in free speech. But if
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Speaker 2: you start organizing criminal activity, that's where speech then may
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Speaker 2: become actionable against an organization. So if you are organized
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Speaker 2: together under the umbrella of a Marxist political philosophy, and
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Speaker 2: you engage in and coordinate criminal actions to further your ends,
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Speaker 2: the ends being the well tearing down in the United
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Speaker 2: States of America, that's your ultimately goal. So that would
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Speaker 2: be coordinated criminal activity under the banner of a political ideology.
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Speaker 2: Of course, political speech is the most protected speech, so
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Speaker 2: you got to kind of blur the line between, you know,
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Speaker 2: criminal activity and just free speech. But if you are
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Speaker 2: organized and your organization suggests and supports criminal activity and
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Speaker 2: more and criminal activity is performed by these member members
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Speaker 2: of Antifa, That to me is really no different than
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Speaker 2: any other organized crime. And I asked him, I said, well,
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Speaker 2: you know, under those circumstances, and I know you say
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Speaker 2: that they have been deemed a political philosophy not an organization.
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Speaker 2: But if that were not true, an Antifa organized and
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Speaker 2: in further and serve their goals committed. Isn't that at
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Speaker 2: least rico two or more people together for the you
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Speaker 2: know againting together for the purposes of committing criminal acts.
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Speaker 2: So if you can trace the money and the organization
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Speaker 2: and the structure, and maybe some of the written instructions
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Speaker 2: or instructions that have gone out to the members of
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Speaker 2: this organization telling them to commit criminal acts, throw, you know,
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Speaker 2: disrupt the police, hit the police, throw smoke, bombs, whatever,
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Speaker 2: then that to me falls into Rico no different than
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Speaker 2: if it was the mafia mafio. So the Gambino crime
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Speaker 2: family said, what's the difference if you label them a
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Speaker 2: domestic terrorist organization or you label them the mafia or
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Speaker 2: the Gambino crime family. The only difference is the political
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Speaker 2: Antifa organization while you know, waving around their First Amendment
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Speaker 2: right to free speech, they're still committing coordinated criminal acts.
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Speaker 2: Under my factual scenarios I presented it, the mafia not
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Speaker 2: advocating for the downfall of America, but and committing criminal
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Speaker 2: acts in the name of wining their own pockets. You
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Speaker 2: can label them a criminal organization because that's what they're doing.
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Speaker 2: The distinction gets a little bit complicated though, again when
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Speaker 2: you go back to what antiphile wants, which is under
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Speaker 2: the banner of a political philosophy implicating the First Amendment.
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Speaker 2: You know, the Gambino crime family can't claim First Amendment
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Speaker 2: rights to go commit crime. They're not out there advocating
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Speaker 2: for they're allowance for their being allowed to commit crime.
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Speaker 2: So I'm going to get into that with him a
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Speaker 2: little bit. I hope we can muddle through that because
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Speaker 2: I'm still curious. He didn't respond to that component of
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Speaker 2: the question. He just responded that the FBI director, former
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Speaker 2: FBI Director Ray is the one who testified that Antifa
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Speaker 2: is an ideology not an organization, and I think he's
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Speaker 2: the one that was behind Arctic Frost. And it's getting
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Speaker 2: ready to send back an email to the judge saying,
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Speaker 2: you know, just so you know, that guy doesn't carry
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Speaker 2: a whole lot of weight in terms of his opinion
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Speaker 2: with my listening audience. So that should be a fun conversation,
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Speaker 2: of course, Judge of paul A Tunnel one and eight
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Speaker 2: thirty Bob Wetter is going to join mister humanitarian himself
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Speaker 2: a Newport Bridge lighting and wish tree program. It's that
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Speaker 2: time of year, holiday season is fast approaching, and the
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Speaker 2: wish tree has been a Bob Wetter launched this concept
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Speaker 2: back in the eighties. So you put a tree up,
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Speaker 2: you have little ornaments hanging from it. You grab an ornament,
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Speaker 2: you buy the gift that's on the ornament, you return
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Speaker 2: it to where the tree is, or you shoot it
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Speaker 2: right over to Bob and that gift goes to someone
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Speaker 2: in need. So again, Bob Wetter is always looking out
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Speaker 2: for those living on life's margins in the form of
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Speaker 2: the wish tree. So, man, it's been going on for
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Speaker 2: a long time, and I'm happy to bring that to
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Speaker 2: everybody's attention. We'll do that at the end of the
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Speaker 2: program here again five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty
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Speaker 2: eight two three talk pound five fifty on at and
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Speaker 2: t phone. Well, the building and the government show showdown
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Speaker 2: survived key hurdle yesterday. It looks like the doors are
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Speaker 2: going to be opened, but don't expect your airline flight
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Speaker 2: to be on time. That's going to take a while
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Speaker 2: to to sort through. At least that's what I've been
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Speaker 2: reading this morning. Stick around plenty to talk about coming
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Speaker 2: really interesting that Joe got him on the rundown. He's back,
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Speaker 2: he's out of prison. He sounds like he's been rehabilitated.
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Speaker 2: The criminal justice system always paid lip service to the
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Speaker 2: idea that well, in addition to punishing those that commit
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Speaker 2: crimes and to act as a deterrence for others who
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Speaker 2: might consider committing crimes, we get him in prison. We
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Speaker 2: can rehabilitate them and how often does that happen? Like
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Speaker 2: what never? Well, maybe there's your example. He said he
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Speaker 2: did learn a lot about himself. He came to the
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Speaker 2: realization he could be a better person, and with the
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Speaker 2: the man no ill will. Obviously he made mistakes, but
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Speaker 2: in talking with him and you realize just the reality
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Speaker 2: of even being in a minimum security federal prison, you
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Speaker 2: don't have your liberties. You are limited in the amount
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Speaker 2: of time you can talk with your spouse, will your
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Speaker 2: spouse leave you during that period of time. And to
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Speaker 2: be left laying in prison, locked up, or even wandering
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Speaker 2: around the grounds, not free to leave and pick up
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Speaker 2: the phone whenever you want to. You're left wondering what's
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Speaker 2: going on out in the world. This is the kind
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Speaker 2: of thing that why prison just scares the living hell
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Speaker 2: out of me. No freedoms, no liberties. You have a life.
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Speaker 2: You had a life outside of prison, and it continues
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Speaker 2: for those outside of prison. You have no involvement with
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Speaker 2: those folks that you'd love dearly, So there's your detern effect.
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Speaker 2: Think about that, for we might go ahead and commit
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Speaker 2: a crime. Anyway, as I mentioned, bipartisan deal and the
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Speaker 2: government shutdown advanced through the House Rules Committee yesterday actually
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Speaker 2: late overnight. They apparently arguing back and forth for hours
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Speaker 2: and hours. So it's a fully believed that this will
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Speaker 2: pass with nearly all Republicans once it goes for a
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Speaker 2: full vote, and that's the next thing. So they're going
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Speaker 2: to do that today, they say the panel, which is
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Speaker 2: the committee that has to move this out of committee
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Speaker 2: to put it to the floor for a full vote.
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Speaker 2: So they lasted more than six hours. Apparently Democrats wanted
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Speaker 2: some amendments. Amendments which included, haha, extending the COVID nineteen
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Speaker 2: era enhanced Obamacare subsidies. Hey can we add that on? Note,
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Speaker 2: how many times have we been telling you, no, this
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Speaker 2: isn't going to be an add on, We're not going
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Speaker 2: to continue to subsidies. What is the point of this shutdown? Anyway?
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Speaker 2: So that obviously didn't happen. Well, they continue to dry
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Speaker 2: as far as snap though Supreme Court said nop, you
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Speaker 2: don't have to fully fund the SNAP benefits. Obviously one
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Speaker 2: of the lever points to get people to move forward
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Speaker 2: to open the government back up. People were upset that
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Speaker 2: they weren't getting their SNAP benefit's forty one million people
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Speaker 2: get them. So now for the time being, they're not
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Speaker 2: going to be fully funded according to the US Supreme
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Speaker 2: Court ruling, which was not whether it was no elaboration
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Speaker 2: on the ruling. Court extended until midnight or eleven fifty
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Speaker 2: nine pm tomorrow. The administrative stay it granted on November seventh,
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Speaker 2: it blocked a lower court decision ordering the Trump administration
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Speaker 2: to use some contingency fund money to at least partially
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Speaker 2: fund SNAP. So complicated litigation process, Supreme Court previously kept
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Speaker 2: the stay against that order. The partial fund order issued
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Speaker 2: by a lower court blocked that waited around for the
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Speaker 2: full opinion from that court, which came out on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: thus lifting this day. And now it's back in place
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Speaker 2: because it landed in the lap of the Supreme Court,
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Speaker 2: which put it back in place again until tomorrow night
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Speaker 2: at midnight. Now here's where I think it's an interesting
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Speaker 2: concept because I always wondered, how could a judge get
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Speaker 2: involved in the exclusive purview of Congress, the power of
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Speaker 2: the purse, the judiciary and the government. Lawyer said the
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Speaker 2: judiciary did not have the power to compel the administration
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Speaker 2: to pay for SNAP, and the funding lapse was poison
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Speaker 2: resolve resolved as Congress move forward. Now you know, okay,
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Speaker 2: you can make that point in court. Look, they got
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Speaker 2: it all worked out. Snap's going to be fully funded,
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Speaker 2: that's part of the agreement. But you didn't know that
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Speaker 2: when this order first came down. Does the judiciary have
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Speaker 2: the power to order the federal government to tap into
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Speaker 2: funds that were not specified for SNAP and force the
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Speaker 2: government to use those unspecified funds to fund at least
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Speaker 2: in part SNAP. I hadn't run across to anybody making
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Speaker 2: the argument that no, that that interferes with the with
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Speaker 2: the division of the separation of powers. Clearly that was
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Speaker 2: in play yesterday, and it was noted to the to
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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. So they issued an order. The Unsigned
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Speaker 2: did not provide reasons for the decision, and again just
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Speaker 2: kicked the can over till tomorrow night at midnight. Basically,
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Speaker 2: also your air travel I mentioned and alluded to it
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Speaker 2: a moment ago. Apparently there's an organization out there called
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Speaker 2: Airlines for America. It's an industry trade group represents America
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Speaker 2: and Delta Southwest and United They issued a warning that
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Speaker 2: you know what, they may get the government back running,
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Speaker 2: but it's going to be a while to unravel this
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Speaker 2: Charlie foxtrot that the Democrats unleashed on America, saying the
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Speaker 2: airlines reduced flight schedules cannot immediately bounce back to full
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Speaker 2: capacity right after the government reopens. It will take time
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Speaker 2: and there will be residual effects for days. Noting that
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Speaker 2: with Thanksgiving travel period beginning next week and the busy
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Speaker 2: shipping season around the corner. And this is a shot
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Speaker 2: to Congress. I guess the time to act is now,
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Speaker 2: but perhaps to you, if you're planning on flying on
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Speaker 2: an airplane, maybe the time to act for you is
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Speaker 2: now too, because you may still be impacted by it.
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Speaker 2: The FAA previously ordered flights to be cut by four
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Speaker 2: to ten percent. That was on November seventh. Because of
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Speaker 2: the air traffic controllers not showing up, flight reductions went
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Speaker 2: from four percent to six percent on Tuesday. Now they're
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Speaker 2: expected to grow to ten percent on Friday, notwithstanding whether
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Speaker 2: the government gets back open or not. They say on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: one in ten scheduled flights did not take off, ten
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Speaker 2: thousand trips delayed. So I don't know whether Donald Trump's
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Speaker 2: threats to the air traffic controllers who've been calling into
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Speaker 2: work that he might have their job. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if that ten thousand dollars bonucy promise
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Speaker 2: can even be delivered. I don't know where he gets
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Speaker 2: the money to say he can give ten thousand dollars
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Speaker 2: to air traffic controllers who show up A little problem
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Speaker 2: ironing out the details on that. But they did a
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Speaker 2: survey approximately sixty four percent of travelers will cancel their
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Speaker 2: trip entirely. If cancelations continue. They say seventy two percent
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Speaker 2: of those survey would bypass flying all together in favor
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Speaker 2: of other forms of transportation. It's survey done by something
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Speaker 2: called beach dot com. I laughed at the latter one
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Speaker 2: because I'd like to avoid air travel at all possibilities.
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Speaker 2: If it's going to be at six or eight hour
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Speaker 2: drive less, I'm driving, and that's under the best case
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Speaker 2: scenario with flying an airplane. So there are options to
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Speaker 2: flying on an airplane, so anyway, it ain't over till
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Speaker 2: it's over. And it's not quite over yet. Keep your
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Speaker 2: pop going out and plan ahead five point twenty seven
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Speaker 2: right now, got local stories coming up, some interesting ones
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Speaker 2: as well. But I prefer phone calls as always, so
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Speaker 2: feel free to give me a call. Be right back,
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Speaker 2: fifty five car the talk station five one three seven
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Speaker 2: nine two three talk on five fifty on eighteen eight pounds.
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Speaker 2: Oh look, Tom's on the phone. This never happens, Tom,
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Speaker 2: Welcome back in the morning. She always look forward to
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Speaker 2: your call, my friend.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, first time caller, a long time listener.
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Speaker 2: Right, what are the few guests on the what are
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Speaker 2: the few calls in the fifty five carse morning? So
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Speaker 2: that his his own regularly played sound bite Tom.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, indeed, proud of that. If I'm on vacation
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Speaker 4: or if my phone goes out or whatever, the message
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Speaker 4: still gets out there.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't it. It does, and it's spreading, which is a
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Speaker 2: good thing, right on.
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Speaker 4: Right on, and it should spread because I mean, we
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Speaker 4: we have we have seen another example of these idiots
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Speaker 4: doing stuff to hurt this country and to hurt the
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Speaker 4: citizens of this country. And of course, right on Q
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Speaker 4: they're gonna blame everybody else instead of you know, taking
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Speaker 4: taking the responsibility. I mean, why would why would they
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Speaker 4: take the responsibility? I mean this, this was a big
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Speaker 4: screw up on their part. They failed miserably, and I
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Speaker 4: am I again I'm still hasn't been final, but it
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Speaker 4: looks like it's going to happen. I'm very glad that
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Speaker 4: the Republicans stood together and stood strong and didn't cave
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Speaker 4: in yeah to these ridiculed this demands. So I think
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Speaker 4: everything selling place this time for them to be able
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Speaker 4: to do that.
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Speaker 2: Well, they were able to because they took the one
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Speaker 2: out of any or any argument the Democrats might have had.
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Speaker 2: That's why, at least knowing that continuing resolution. While I
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Speaker 2: hate the idea of keeping Biden era funding levels, the
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Speaker 2: only thing the Democrats would have been able to argue
20:18
Speaker 2: is if that continuing Resolution had some cuts in it
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Speaker 2: and they could screen bloody murder about five dollars worth
20:24
Speaker 2: of cuts from government being the impetus behind them refusing
20:27
Speaker 2: to move forward with it. So yeah, sorry, sucks to you.
20:29
Speaker 2: It was your funding levels, we're approving them. It was
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Speaker 2: your deadline to cut off the subsidies. There you go,
20:34
Speaker 2: You're living with it. So sucks to be you come
20:36
Speaker 2: up with a better argument. They didn't. They couldn't.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, And unfortunately, you still have people out there
20:41
Speaker 4: that are ignorant enough to believe that it was the
20:43
Speaker 4: Republicans that that created the healthcare crisis. Oh, I mean,
20:48
Speaker 4: that's that is ridiculous. I mean, when you when you
20:53
Speaker 4: pumped so much government money into something, the prices are
20:56
Speaker 4: just going to go up. Yeah, it's you know, it's
20:59
Speaker 4: like if you if you go up on the roof
21:01
Speaker 4: of your house and jump off, you're going to hit
21:03
Speaker 4: the ground. It's that simple. And these people just want
21:08
Speaker 4: to act like reality doesn't exist. If they say it's
21:11
Speaker 4: gonna work, then that means, oh, well it's working. No,
21:14
Speaker 4: it's not well and doesn't work like that.
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Speaker 2: And the part of the rus in all this, and
21:18
Speaker 2: I've said it a bunch of times, but it seems
21:20
Speaker 2: to be worth saying again. Because you get a subsidy
21:25
Speaker 2: doesn't mean the premium that has gone through the roof
21:27
Speaker 2: went away. It keeps getting more and more expensive because
21:30
Speaker 2: Obamacare is a costs of failure. The money goes directly
21:33
Speaker 2: to the evil insurance companies who the Democrats relish. When
21:36
Speaker 2: people blow the brains out of board members and CEOs
21:39
Speaker 2: of evil insurance companies. But you know, the evil insurance
21:42
Speaker 2: companies are the ones that get the primary benefit of this.
21:45
Speaker 2: I used to work for Anthem. It's under a different
21:47
Speaker 2: name now, and this when I when I left Anthem,
21:48
Speaker 2: the stock price is like ninety five bucks or something.
21:52
Speaker 2: It's like four hundred or five hundred dollars now. And
21:54
Speaker 2: you know, I just I'm not I'm not accurate right
21:57
Speaker 2: now in the current trading price. But the medical insurance
22:01
Speaker 2: carriers out, their stocks have all gone up dramatically. Why Obamacare.
22:06
Speaker 2: I mean, there's your answer, COVID.
22:10
Speaker 4: Healthed a little bit too, didn't it that you more
22:13
Speaker 4: mandatory government forced things that us And as soon as
22:17
Speaker 4: that happens, the price goes up. Oh you have to
22:20
Speaker 4: have this. Oh wow, we're going to charge your triple,
22:22
Speaker 4: your quadruple. Whatever. It's just the way it goes. That's
22:26
Speaker 4: why we're we're you know, those of us who are
22:29
Speaker 4: who are trying to get limited government, less government. That
22:33
Speaker 4: there's a reason for that. You get the government out
22:35
Speaker 4: of any industry, the prices are going to go down.
22:38
Speaker 4: Get regulation out, get ever, I'll get them out of it.
22:42
Speaker 4: Let the market take care.
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Speaker 2: Of itself, you know, And that's one of the reasons
22:47
Speaker 2: why at least you know when you when you when
22:49
Speaker 2: you look at it on its face. The idea, if
22:50
Speaker 2: you're going to get money from government, that it shouldn't
22:53
Speaker 2: go directly to the insurance company because they have no
22:57
Speaker 2: motivation to increase efficiency or lower prices. You put in
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Speaker 2: the hands or the pockets of the actual people who
23:03
Speaker 2: do have budgets, who do have to live within certain means,
23:07
Speaker 2: they're going to allocate that resource more conservatively. They're going
23:10
Speaker 2: to look out into the world and ask for an
23:11
Speaker 2: insurance policy that's less money. Insurance companies out there then
23:15
Speaker 2: have incentive to compete amongst each other because there are
23:17
Speaker 2: a limited finite amount of dollars that the government has
23:20
Speaker 2: handed to a person that they have to fight for
23:22
Speaker 2: that person's business. How about a lower price policy that
23:26
Speaker 2: maybe provides better benefits in the guy down the street
23:28
Speaker 2: who's offering something comparable but more expensive. Market forces. Amen.
23:33
Speaker 4: And if you want to go out and buy funions
23:36
Speaker 4: with your money, don't be smirched the quality of funions. Now,
23:40
Speaker 4: maybe mountain dew we could do without, but every once
23:43
Speaker 4: in a while, funians coming handy those are some good snacks.
23:45
Speaker 4: So I can't remember I got a kick out of it.
23:50
Speaker 4: I've been meaning to say something about it because I
23:52
Speaker 4: remember as a kid walking to school stopping at a
23:55
Speaker 4: seven to eleven and getting a bottle of popping a
23:58
Speaker 4: bag of funyions like Gayla. It was part of my
24:01
Speaker 4: nutritious breakfast. There might be a reason why I'm fat today.
24:06
Speaker 4: So I don't know, just going to go anyway. As always, people,
24:10
Speaker 4: when you when you talk to your friends and neighbors
24:13
Speaker 4: and you want to explain things to them about why
24:16
Speaker 4: this Democrat stuff isn't working and you want to like
24:19
Speaker 4: let them know what's wrong with it, make sure you
24:22
Speaker 4: finish my saying, don't vote Democrat. Have a great day, Brian.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Tom, appreciate the uh taking the weight off my
24:28
Speaker 2: shoulders at five point thirty. Almost every single day could
24:31
Speaker 2: hear from you. You know what I tell you. Don't
24:33
Speaker 2: have to give Tom the five point thirty segment. Anybody
24:37
Speaker 2: can call on the program five on three seven two
24:41
Speaker 2: three talking Now. I'm a desperate but I do enjoy
24:44
Speaker 2: the debate and the discussion in the exchange because I
24:46
Speaker 2: don't necessarily have all the ideas to talk about in
24:49
Speaker 2: front of me. I have to pick them. Maybe there's
24:51
Speaker 2: something you'd like to discuss. I will discuss these stack
24:54
Speaker 2: has stupid coming up next in the an absence of
24:56
Speaker 2: phone calls. But right now I want to mention, since
24:58
Speaker 2: we're tune laughing about a couple of Joe Strekkers' editorial
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Speaker 2: comments on some of the articles that he printed out.
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Speaker 2: Dude dodged a bullet Joe Strecker's assessment of this stack
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Speaker 2: of stupid article with which I agree completely. Thirty four
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Speaker 2: year old woman who was dumped after ten years of
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Speaker 2: dating says she's looking for financial compensation from her ex
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Speaker 2: boyfriend for stealing her child bearing years. Person Writing on
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Speaker 2: Telegraphs Money Moral Monday Advice column, she thinks the boyfriend
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Speaker 2: should now pay for her IVF or egg fertilizing after
25:40
Speaker 2: he broke up with her. Woman wrote, he tells me
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Speaker 2: he feels at thirty eight is though he still has
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Speaker 2: a decade of enjoying his lifestyle and powering through with
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Speaker 2: his career, and he's not ready for marriage and children,
25:51
Speaker 2: but he knows it has become a priority for me,
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Speaker 2: So he is off here. I am at thirty four
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Speaker 2: eggs twitching ready for the marriage and parenthood's stage of life,
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Speaker 2: but unexpectedly single and emotionally devastated. I'm tipping into the
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Speaker 2: furious phase of the grief cycle because I feel as
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Speaker 2: though he owes me big time, and I want him
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Speaker 2: to pay.
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Speaker 5: So.
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Speaker 2: She had made some careers choice sacrifices to accommodate her
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Speaker 2: ex's ambitions. She claims they verbally agreed that he would
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Speaker 2: be the primary earner if they have children. Notably, that
26:26
Speaker 2: never happened. She said, now I feel like these compromises
26:30
Speaker 2: have left me vulnerable, and I'm seeking compensation. Surely he
26:33
Speaker 2: should have some responsibility for helping me mitigate the damages
26:37
Speaker 2: to our plans caused by his change of heart and
26:40
Speaker 2: broken promises. The columnists, it's like a dear abby thing.
26:47
Speaker 2: It's important to shift your mindset from seeking compensation from
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Speaker 2: him to investing in your own resilience IVF and egg freezing.
26:54
Speaker 2: You are expensive, and it is natural to feel he
26:56
Speaker 2: should contribute since you shared life choices of your timing.
27:01
Speaker 2: But if he's unwilling, the legal system will not force
27:05
Speaker 2: him exactly, of course, inviting speculation. Why hewse she waited
27:10
Speaker 2: around ten years for him to move forward, defecate or
27:13
Speaker 2: get off the receptacle. That might have been a conversation
27:16
Speaker 2: you might want to have with him. Yeah, he made
27:22
Speaker 2: your bad. You lie in it. You missed an opportunity.
27:27
Speaker 2: Had ten years to move forward with that one. You didn't.
27:30
Speaker 2: Michigan teenager hospitalized after with a punctured lung after being
27:35
Speaker 2: stabbed by a forty year old woman at a kid's
27:38
Speaker 2: foot locker store. Why because the woman thought the girl
27:44
Speaker 2: called her broke after her credit card declined at the
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Speaker 2: cash register. Nineteen year old Sunnya Jenkins said she was
27:51
Speaker 2: stabbed multiple times in the sneaker store. This in Taylor, Michigan,
27:55
Speaker 2: happened November fifth. Court to police, forty year old woman
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Speaker 2: was checking out of cash register when her card declined
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Speaker 2: and someone called her a broke b word. Jenkins said
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Speaker 2: she was merely passing the store and looked in when
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Speaker 2: she saw the woman yelling. She said she never insulted
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Speaker 2: the woman, but the woman turned her eye on the
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Speaker 2: teenager and started arguing with her or with her Corda Jenkins.
28:17
Speaker 2: As the argument got verbal, she put her hand in
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Speaker 2: her purse and proceeded to tell me she was gonna
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Speaker 2: shoot me. I did not see her even know I
28:24
Speaker 2: was stabbed until after the physical altercation. She the woman
28:27
Speaker 2: pulled out a kitchen knife from her purse, stabbed her
28:29
Speaker 2: twice in the neck and once in her stomach and
28:31
Speaker 2: once in her thigh, resulting in her lung being punctured
28:35
Speaker 2: in the attack. Suspect arrested at the mall. Charges the
28:37
Speaker 2: expect to be filed. Authorities also said that this stabby
28:44
Speaker 2: woman's children were with her at the time of the stabbing.
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Speaker 6: Just away.
28:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, where keeping it real goes wrong. I guess didn't
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Speaker 2: respect me or something. Yeah, let's just stab a random
28:59
Speaker 2: teenager for a random comment. It's five point forty six
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Speaker 2: and fifty five kerse. The talk station covers cent back
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Speaker 2: to the stacker. Stupid. I appreciate this one, Joe Strecker.
29:14
Speaker 2: There's really nothing to it beyond the announcement. Christine Pelosi,
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Speaker 2: daughter of Yes Nancy Pelosi, who announced her plans to retire,
29:23
Speaker 2: is going to run for office. It's pretty much it
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Speaker 2: do what the heck? What's her platform? I'm running to
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Speaker 2: represent you San Francisco in Sacramento, fighting for consumer rights,
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Speaker 2: women's rights, gun violence, survivors, immigrants, and our most vulnerable communities.
29:38
Speaker 2: There's your campaign platform right now. Isn't it scary that
29:43
Speaker 2: someone can run just based on that name recognition, and
29:45
Speaker 2: that Pelosi name may very well get her elected, notwithstanding
29:50
Speaker 2: whether or not she's qualified. Walmart isition to statement after
29:54
Speaker 2: the company was criticized for selling a T shirt and
29:56
Speaker 2: a hoodie on its website featuring a graphic resembling a
29:59
Speaker 2: Nazi slo T shirt and hoodie featured a graphic that
30:05
Speaker 2: read white our paper beats rock. Fairly innocuous statement until
30:11
Speaker 2: you see the T shirt, which is a flat palm,
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Speaker 2: you know, a Nazi salute which is towering over the
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Speaker 2: Black Power fist. Notably, the T shirt depicts a white
30:24
Speaker 2: Nazi salute hand and the Black power fist. Sorry how
30:30
Speaker 2: this made into Walmart's I have no idea, in spite
30:34
Speaker 2: of the fact that they sold these pieces online and
30:36
Speaker 2: I guess at the Walmart. We have zero tolerance for
30:39
Speaker 2: any prohibited defensive products appearing in our marketplace. The items question,
30:42
Speaker 2: we're listed by a third party seller and have been
30:44
Speaker 2: removed from our site for violating our prohibited products policy.
30:47
Speaker 2: When issues like this are identified, that's the That's the
30:51
Speaker 2: big point in the sentence. And I think in the
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Speaker 2: announcement when they are identified after we've made a bunch
30:57
Speaker 2: of profit before being identified to our tour, being brought
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Speaker 2: to our attention, then we act immediately to remove them
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Speaker 2: and strengthen our systems to protect a reoccurrence. So sorry,
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Speaker 2: your apparent Nazi white power t shirts are no longer
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Speaker 2: available at Walmike Walmart. Local boy made it into the
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Speaker 2: stack of stupid. Thanks Joe Greater. Since Saint Dad Amen
31:17
Speaker 2: accused of downing twelve drinks at grandma's house and then
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Speaker 2: driving his wife and his three children nearly hitting a
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Speaker 2: police cruiser West Kemper Road at Northland Boulevard, Springdale. And
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Speaker 2: this is on Sunday Court to the police, Affidavid Ami
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Speaker 2: car amial car. Here's a new one for me. Hey
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Speaker 2: Amalkar Ramirez Reno so thirty one years old, more than
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Speaker 2: three times the legal limit. Cord to the Affidavid, his
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Speaker 2: wife and three children in the car had he had
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Speaker 2: twelve drinks at their grandmother's house. The driver was taken
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Speaker 2: to the police department where he provided a breath sample
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Speaker 2: of zero point two one children seven, eight, and nine
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Speaker 2: years old. According to the criminal complaints, he's arrested on
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Speaker 2: several counts of obi and dangering children as well as
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Speaker 2: obstructing official business. Now facing also multiple traffic offenses, including
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Speaker 2: driving under suspension and improper backing phrasing. Looked into the
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Speaker 2: Hamlin Kind of Justice Center. Sunday held overnight was nine pm.
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Speaker 2: Roughly he was scheduled to appear in court this past Monday.
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Speaker 2: Don't know what happened to Ramirez Reinoso. Something tells me
32:31
Speaker 2: he may have worked a plea deal where they got
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Speaker 2: they dropped the improper backing charge phrasing, just left the
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Speaker 2: other ones. Oh you think that's what happened in prison.
32:44
Speaker 2: So he's charged with improper backing. And let's just say
32:50
Speaker 2: that my scenario did actually play out, because quite often
32:53
Speaker 2: prosecutors will drop lesser offenses in order to get a
32:56
Speaker 2: guilty plea on the bigger offenses. So they drop out
32:59
Speaker 2: improper backing. He cops a plea the OVI and then
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Speaker 2: he still gets the improper backing. That's the way Joe
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Speaker 2: Drecker sees it. That's why we're gonna call it this morning.
33:09
Speaker 2: It's five fifty five. It's desperate comedy right there. I
33:12
Speaker 2: will acknowledge plenty to talk about coming up oh in
33:14
Speaker 2: addition taking the weight off of me. At six thirty,
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Speaker 2: bring him account from the Hudson Institute, the host of
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Speaker 2: Charged Conversations. He apparently on his way to the airport
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Speaker 2: and had some topics he wanted to talk about. Brigham
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Speaker 2: brilliant he is, and I welcome him on the morning
33:27
Speaker 2: show that'll take place at six thirty. Between now and then,
33:29
Speaker 2: we have other things to talk about, including how about
33:32
Speaker 2: making Ohio as competitive as Texas? Now? Is that? A
33:35
Speaker 2: whole lot more coming up? I hope you don't go away.
33:38
Speaker 1: Today's tough headlines coming up first?
33:41
Speaker 2: And do you Charge Conversations? Joe brig him accowns Charge
33:45
Speaker 2: Conversations podcast. He knows everything there is to know about
33:48
Speaker 2: energy policy and I love him and bring him on
33:50
Speaker 2: the program. And Brigham called in in the last hour
33:52
Speaker 2: said hey, uh, I'll call him at six thirty. Got
33:54
Speaker 2: some things to talk about. So Brigham joins the program
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Speaker 2: from the Hudson Institute and host the Charge Conversations podcast
33:59
Speaker 2: produced Hi Joetracker, executive producer for the fifty five Casey
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Speaker 2: Morning Show. You know how to get in touch with
34:04
Speaker 2: Joe same way you get in touch with me. Five, one, three, seven, four,
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Speaker 2: nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to
34:08
Speaker 2: three talk pound five fifty on AT and T phone.
34:10
Speaker 2: Fast forward a one hour at a Big Picture with
34:12
Speaker 2: Jack Adadan Democrats and the power of pain. As I
34:17
Speaker 2: always get a kick out of a Jack, brilliant man.
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Speaker 6: He is.
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Speaker 2: Something tells me he's going to bring history into the
34:23
Speaker 2: discussion because the historian he is. Donovan and Neil Americans
34:26
Speaker 2: for prosperity about ending the shutdown. There's an empower youse
34:29
Speaker 2: seminar taking place tomorrow night, seven pm with Donovan and'eil.
34:33
Speaker 2: Ohio needs a reset, and I alluded to the fact that,
34:39
Speaker 2: you know, how can we make Ohio more competitive? Steve,
34:42
Speaker 2: I'll get your call just a second. I saw Texas man.
34:47
Speaker 2: They are on a roll as we consider whether or
34:49
Speaker 2: not we're going to eradicate property taxes in our constitution,
34:53
Speaker 2: ballot petition circulating around to be on the ballot next year. Presumably,
34:57
Speaker 2: what will that mean for the state of Ohio with
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Speaker 2: no property taxes? Big question? Mark. I just kind of,
35:03
Speaker 2: you know, kind of get excited and grin about the
35:08
Speaker 2: prospects of our elected officials having to deal with the
35:10
Speaker 2: aftermath of eliminating the property tax. I'm more interested in
35:13
Speaker 2: what kind of chaos is going to follow that and
35:16
Speaker 2: how they plan on ironing it out, since they think
35:18
Speaker 2: they know inelected capacity more than you and I know. Anyway,
35:22
Speaker 2: other states don't have property taxes. I think Jay's the
35:25
Speaker 2: one that calls in regularly to point that out. But
35:27
Speaker 2: over in Texas, voters approved three pro business tax amendments
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Speaker 2: to the Texas Constitution. From this point forward, Texas can
35:38
Speaker 2: never impose taxes on capital gains a states, or inheritance,
35:43
Speaker 2: as well as certain securities transactions. They didn't even have
35:47
Speaker 2: those in place. But now the constitutional amendment is this
35:50
Speaker 2: big giant red flat or you know, big giant banner
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Speaker 2: of open for business to the rest of the world,
35:55
Speaker 2: most notably all the businesses now considering leaving New York.
35:59
Speaker 2: Come in here. Water's fine, and we'll never go after
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Speaker 2: your capital gains taxes or estate or inheritances. We can't
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Speaker 2: do it even if we want to. It's in the constitution.
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Speaker 2: They would have to vote to change the constitution again.
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Speaker 2: So what an amazing thing. And they've got a budget
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Speaker 2: surplus already without any of these taxes in place. And
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Speaker 2: some are saying, whoa, what happens we' down the road
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Speaker 2: you know we're going to have when they're like, we'll
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Speaker 2: screw that. We're doing so well business wise, we have
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Speaker 2: so many people in businesses moving into the state. We're
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Speaker 2: generating so much revenue and taxes already. We'll never need them.
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Speaker 2: And if you put them in place, it's going to
36:36
Speaker 2: be a big roadblock for folks. Maybe considering Texas as
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Speaker 2: opposed to one of the other competitive states, like oh
36:41
Speaker 2: maybe Florida can. If Ohio is more like Texas and Florida,
36:46
Speaker 2: might we get some of the businesses that are fleeing
36:48
Speaker 2: New York. Big question. Now's the time to figure that
36:51
Speaker 2: kind of crap out, Steve, Welcome to the show. Thank
36:53
Speaker 2: you so much for calling today. Happy Wednesday, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 2: First of.
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Speaker 7: All, enjoy your four day weekend coming out SAT.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: I mean, I'll miss you on Friday and Monday, but
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Speaker 7: it's just wonderful.
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Speaker 2: For you to be I can't thank you enough for
37:09
Speaker 2: wishing me well. I really really really need a couple
37:13
Speaker 2: of days off. I just it's been a while since
37:16
Speaker 2: I had any vacation time, and woe is me? What
37:18
Speaker 2: Thomas you shouldn't talk for four hours. Psychologically, I don't
37:21
Speaker 2: care how you would approach the show, but psychological, for me,
37:25
Speaker 2: this is a weight on my shoulders. Twenty four hours
37:27
Speaker 2: a day, seven days a week. I want to do
37:29
Speaker 2: well for my listeners. I feel I owe it to them,
37:32
Speaker 2: and I really take the job seriously. So there are
37:34
Speaker 2: days when my brain's a little bit foggy and I
37:36
Speaker 2: sit here and I think, oh my god, I'm not
37:37
Speaker 2: quite delivering well. I kind of been in that mode
37:40
Speaker 2: now for a little while, suggesting I really need a
37:43
Speaker 2: few days off. So hopefully I'll be much more refreshed
37:45
Speaker 2: on Tuesday when I come back. And Gary Jeff's going
37:48
Speaker 2: to cover for me on Friday, and Dan Carroll's got
37:51
Speaker 2: me on Monday, So both of those guys, you're going
37:52
Speaker 2: to be in great hands. But thank you so much, Steve.
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Speaker 7: Those are two excellent hosts to fill in for you.
37:59
Speaker 7: I wrote it by Gary Jeff Walker. I listened to
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Speaker 7: him on Saturdays because I'm three years older than you.
38:06
Speaker 7: Have told you this before, but there's no reason for
38:08
Speaker 7: you to remember this. I retired from full time work
38:11
Speaker 7: eighteen months ago, immediately started doing menial work three days
38:16
Speaker 7: a week, and that involves driving around, delivering and listening
38:20
Speaker 7: to the radio. So I listened to you and and
38:23
Speaker 7: I mean I always tell people when I delivered to
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Speaker 7: their house. Hey, you know, I'm a talk radio junkie.
38:30
Speaker 7: They're paying me to listen to the radio, which is
38:33
Speaker 7: what I'd be doing at home anyway. And I beat
38:35
Speaker 7: nice people.
38:35
Speaker 2: And d d well be careful out there driving around, Steve,
38:38
Speaker 2: because you got new speed humps for the tune of
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Speaker 2: seventeen million dollars on Gilbert. I guess, so there's one
38:44
Speaker 2: of the.
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Speaker 5: Red I live.
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Speaker 7: I live in Independence, Kentucky, and my driving is limited
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Speaker 7: to Kentucky and Indiana. Have us go into Ohio.
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Speaker 2: Just throwing a shot at the City of Cincinnati for
38:58
Speaker 2: putting in more speed humps. But anyway to Steve.
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Speaker 7: Okay, yesterday listened to Jeffrey Pastor, and I remember listening
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Speaker 7: to him. I guess when he was initially running for
39:10
Speaker 7: counsel and when when and when he was on counsel.
39:14
Speaker 7: I forgot how well spoken he is. He he did
39:18
Speaker 7: himself quite a favor by, you know, coming on the
39:23
Speaker 7: show and talking for a half hour. Very articulate, very
39:27
Speaker 7: well spoken. Everybody deserves a second chance. I really enjoyed
39:32
Speaker 7: listening to him, so kudos to him. Got a you
39:39
Speaker 7: know this happened to me last time I called you
39:41
Speaker 7: to I forget what else I was going to talk about,
39:43
Speaker 7: because you're talking about you know, New York and stuff
39:46
Speaker 7: and Texas. But oh, here's what it was. The other
39:50
Speaker 7: day you talked about over the weekend, you went over
39:53
Speaker 7: a friend's house for dinner. How do you how do
39:56
Speaker 7: you incorporate your sugar free diet when you when you're
39:59
Speaker 7: in the situation like that, do they.
40:03
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I don't know. I don't ask anyone to
40:07
Speaker 2: make diet accommodations for me. Ever, I don't even if
40:10
Speaker 2: we're invite it over some place we know, period, end
40:13
Speaker 2: of story. There's quite often there is no problem maintaining
40:17
Speaker 2: a diet without being insulting to your host, while still
40:21
Speaker 2: staying within the guidelines of the diet. Fortunately, I allow
40:24
Speaker 2: some measure of flexibility. So while I say I cut
40:27
Speaker 2: completely all sugar out of my diet, I will eat
40:29
Speaker 2: half a cookie or something if someone bait homemade cookies,
40:32
Speaker 2: I don't have to indulge in a full slice of
40:34
Speaker 2: cake or pie. Dinner. Was you know protein and everything
40:37
Speaker 2: like that can eat that. Maybe I just avoid eating
40:39
Speaker 2: the potatoes if they're served or something. So yeah, it's
40:41
Speaker 2: no big deal. And if somebody's scratching their head wondering
40:43
Speaker 2: why you're not eating the food they prepared for you,
40:45
Speaker 2: to say, listen, I'm on a restricted diet, don't be insulted.
40:48
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to take care of my health. So
40:51
Speaker 2: I think most people are really reasonable about that kind
40:53
Speaker 2: of thing.
40:53
Speaker 7: You got to live your life.
40:55
Speaker 2: Too, Amen, brother, Amen, thank you. I appreciate that. I
40:59
Speaker 2: really do. Side Jim Keefer, good to hear from you,
41:03
Speaker 2: my friend. As always, Good morning, Brian.
41:06
Speaker 8: He had listened to Jeff Pastor was on making a
41:09
Speaker 8: round yesterday on Channel nine and Channel twelve headliner at
41:14
Speaker 8: six o'clock. So he's he's throwing his thing with his
41:18
Speaker 8: Pardon Pastor shirt on.
41:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know he had that shirt on and he
41:23
Speaker 2: gave it it's his pardon past And I wasn't really
41:25
Speaker 2: quite looking at that. I was just looking at the
41:27
Speaker 2: number that was below it, and I said, is that
41:30
Speaker 2: your prison number? That's my pardon petition number. It's his
41:35
Speaker 2: pardon petition number.
41:38
Speaker 8: Oh geez, I thought that was.
41:39
Speaker 2: His inmate number at the Federal lockoy.
41:42
Speaker 8: I did too. Now, I'm glad you cleared out one.
41:44
Speaker 2: Of Well you brought it up. Since it's radio, no
41:47
Speaker 2: one got to see what it says. He had to
41:49
Speaker 2: watch him on Channel nine, I guess.
41:51
Speaker 8: But yeah, exactly.
41:53
Speaker 2: I thought he was wearing it almost as a badge
41:55
Speaker 2: of pride or something which would seem very inconsistent with
41:58
Speaker 2: his current message about it having been rehabilitated.
42:02
Speaker 8: I do hear Steve on Saturdays with Gary Jeff. He
42:04
Speaker 8: does a great job.
42:06
Speaker 2: I'm glad to hear that.
42:08
Speaker 8: By the way, Gary Jeff's wife has cancer again.
42:12
Speaker 2: Prayers, prayers.
42:14
Speaker 8: It's a different kind of cancer. It's it's it is
42:16
Speaker 8: breast cancer. He doesn't mind. He talked about it on
42:19
Speaker 8: the air. Okay, all right, but it's it's in the
42:22
Speaker 8: other side and it's two they found two marks. Oh,
42:27
Speaker 8: so they're going to do They said it shouldn't be
42:30
Speaker 8: so bad.
42:31
Speaker 2: So I hope that is the case. And the one
42:34
Speaker 2: thing that I've learned over the years with my cancer struggles,
42:36
Speaker 2: and I know you know this with your cancer struggles,
42:39
Speaker 2: one thing we all know cancer sucks. It's one thing
42:40
Speaker 2: we can all uniformly agree on, but that what used
42:43
Speaker 2: to be and pretty much a death sentence. They have
42:47
Speaker 2: made so many steps towards you know, curing can breast cancer,
42:51
Speaker 2: and you catch it early enough, it no longer is
42:53
Speaker 2: necessarily a death sentence. I know one size does not
42:56
Speaker 2: fit all with cancer diagnosis, but at least it's not
42:59
Speaker 2: that oh my god, I got to start getting my
43:01
Speaker 2: affairs together kind of thing. So prayers nonetheless for everybody
43:05
Speaker 2: out there struggling with cancer, including you, Jim Keefer.
43:08
Speaker 8: Yeah, cancer sucks. But the real reason I called you,
43:11
Speaker 8: Brian is that text I sent you yesterday. I seriously
43:14
Speaker 8: think that this because of the city Council is basically
43:18
Speaker 8: didn't change. I seriously think O street.
43:23
Speaker 2: Car, Jim Keefer, you got to say exactly what the
43:26
Speaker 2: text related to, which is leg two of the street Car.
43:30
Speaker 2: Did you hear that they're actually going to move forward
43:32
Speaker 2: with something like that, because I have not heard that
43:34
Speaker 2: except from.
43:34
Speaker 8: You, No, But I know it's going to come.
43:37
Speaker 6: I know it.
43:40
Speaker 8: I next time I see Jeff Kramerty, because I do
43:43
Speaker 8: know him, I'm going to ask him if that thing's
43:45
Speaker 8: been brought up. I seriously think they're going to do
43:48
Speaker 8: that because they've got nothing else to put a mark
43:50
Speaker 8: on for this council in town. I mean, they've already
43:54
Speaker 8: screwed up all the roads.
43:55
Speaker 2: What about speed bumps on Gilbert? Can't they hang their
43:58
Speaker 2: hat and show that as progress or something?
44:02
Speaker 8: I don't know how I like to see how many
44:04
Speaker 8: people actually travel Gilbert to put that kind of money
44:06
Speaker 8: into it. I you know, I've been on Gilbert and
44:09
Speaker 8: I don't think it's a main thoroughfare all day that
44:13
Speaker 8: you've got to have that kind of How.
44:15
Speaker 2: Many speed how many speed bumps do you get for
44:17
Speaker 2: seventeen million dollars?
44:19
Speaker 5: Oh?
44:19
Speaker 8: I don't know. I mean there's enough of the Warsaw
44:22
Speaker 8: and Glen Way and Dell High Pike and YadA, YadA, YadA.
44:26
Speaker 8: It's a go to Chiviot. Oh you talk about speed humps?
44:29
Speaker 8: My god, you know Shivo it's one square mile and
44:32
Speaker 8: I'll bet you, I bet you there's fifteen speed humps
44:35
Speaker 8: on Harrison Avenue going up through Chiviot.
44:38
Speaker 4: Wow, it's ridiculous.
44:40
Speaker 2: It is certainly ridiculous.
44:42
Speaker 8: I seriously think that they're gonna they're gonna approach this
44:45
Speaker 8: and they're gonna find the money, of course, and you
44:48
Speaker 8: watch you give them time to settle in and get
44:51
Speaker 8: sworn they're not even sworn in, so you give them
44:54
Speaker 8: time to get sworn in and move into the springtime
44:57
Speaker 8: and all this kind of stuff.
44:59
Speaker 2: And which the exception of one council member and nothing's
45:01
Speaker 2: holding them back from doing anything. Swearing in is only
45:04
Speaker 2: going to result in one person change on uncounts one
45:07
Speaker 2: more Democrats.
45:08
Speaker 8: Well we're all going to get sworn into.
45:10
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, but it's just moving forward with status quo.
45:14
Speaker 2: But yeah, now, okay, here's more of a rhetorical question
45:18
Speaker 2: or anything. Will Phase two of the streetcar project be
45:21
Speaker 2: deemed existing infrastructure changes so they could tap into the
45:25
Speaker 2: railroad money.
45:27
Speaker 8: That's a great question. That's a great question. But you
45:32
Speaker 8: mark my words on today's date that I brought this
45:35
Speaker 8: up because I my foil hat I put that away
45:39
Speaker 8: last Tuesday. I seriously think that they're going to talk
45:44
Speaker 8: about bringing out number two.
45:46
Speaker 2: Well, it'll only give Dave Williams and the taxpayer protection
45:48
Speaker 2: and I lions and I one more thing to chuckle about.
45:52
Speaker 8: And you know, Bryant, number two is kind of a
45:56
Speaker 8: real kind of a tongue in cheek laughter thing when
45:58
Speaker 8: you talk about a streetcar, truecard number two.
46:02
Speaker 2: There you have it. We'll leave it at that one.
46:03
Speaker 2: Jim Keefer, appreciate the call and prayers for you too
46:06
Speaker 2: as well. At All Cancer Struggles six nineteen fifty five
46:08
Speaker 2: KRSCT talk station got more callers coming in and of
46:11
Speaker 2: course bottom of the are with Brig McCown from the
46:15
Speaker 2: six fifty five KRCD talk station, Happy Wednesday. Before I
46:20
Speaker 2: get a Bobby's call, I just real quick here, mayre
46:22
Speaker 2: have parvoll now refocusing the curfew six pm curfew proposed
46:28
Speaker 2: for juveniles around Fountain Square on hold, moving over to
46:33
Speaker 2: Short Vine in Coryville where they are planning on putting
46:36
Speaker 2: a curfew there. Now whether this curfew starts at six
46:40
Speaker 2: nine eleven, there's a bunch of different times. It is
46:43
Speaker 2: a bit confusing. That was one of the things. Council
46:46
Speaker 2: Member Mark Jeffries wonders if the curfews will confuse people
46:50
Speaker 2: because I think you need to be clear to people
46:51
Speaker 2: what the rules are at what they are not a
46:54
Speaker 2: little tough for people to follow nine pm here, eleven
46:57
Speaker 2: pm there at six pm here. I think we need
47:00
Speaker 2: one clear set of rules. Hey, I find myself in agreement,
47:02
Speaker 2: which is rarely happening. With council member Mark Jefferies. Bobby,
47:06
Speaker 2: welcome to the program. Happy Wednesday, Happy hump day, my brother,
47:11
Speaker 2: oh Gilbert Avenue, because they got some seventeen million dollars
47:13
Speaker 2: worth of new humps.
47:15
Speaker 6: Well, i'll tell you what about it. Don't take off
47:18
Speaker 6: the vacation time. You're the tip of the spear.
47:20
Speaker 5: We need you.
47:21
Speaker 6: There's too much going on.
47:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that tip's gonna fall off and die if
47:24
Speaker 2: you don't get some vacation from time to time. Bobby,
47:26
Speaker 2: I appreciate your praise in that regard. Maybe a bit overstated,
47:30
Speaker 2: I will quickly point out, but everybody needs an exhil
47:33
Speaker 2: and arrest every once in a while.
47:36
Speaker 6: Well, you're leading the media charge here on a little thing.
47:40
Speaker 6: It may be exposing the salt coup that we've been
47:43
Speaker 6: investigating for the last four and a half years, and
47:46
Speaker 6: it may go right into a black Swan event. You
47:49
Speaker 6: got an awful good guest coming up in the eight
47:51
Speaker 6: o'clock hour, Adam Hardage.
47:54
Speaker 2: Yep, former CIA ops officer. He's going to give us
47:56
Speaker 2: the latest on the J six pipe bombing investigations, which
47:59
Speaker 2: I think maybe it was you who brought it up
48:01
Speaker 2: the other day about that video they have which I
48:03
Speaker 2: think they've traced at least they believe they have traced
48:06
Speaker 2: to a member of the Capitol Police. And wouldn't that
48:09
Speaker 2: be interesting.
48:11
Speaker 6: Well, it's a lot deeper and deeper than that, you know,
48:14
Speaker 6: I'd say it's exposing the Salt coup because I'm questioning
48:19
Speaker 6: a lot of different things. There are a lot of
48:20
Speaker 6: things I do know, and the only thing we did
48:23
Speaker 6: know was the identity of the suspect. We know now
48:27
Speaker 6: And I tell you what I'd like to know, what
48:30
Speaker 6: three of that are Intel Agency recruiser.
48:33
Speaker 2: Well, of course i'd like to I'm looking forward to
48:35
Speaker 2: getting all the information about Arctic frost too. I mean,
48:38
Speaker 2: that's a well coordinated effort under min Donald Trump, and
48:41
Speaker 2: you know, I mean it's at least with the Trump administration.
48:45
Speaker 2: This stuff is being exposed and I'm not going to
48:48
Speaker 2: ever be knee jerk reaction and reaching conclusions about any
48:50
Speaker 2: of it. But longer you wait, the more the information
48:53
Speaker 2: comes out, the more the puzzle pieces fit together, you'll
48:56
Speaker 2: ultimately have a complete picture. And so far the direction
48:59
Speaker 2: at that picture or the completed picture is looking. It
49:02
Speaker 2: is terrible for us collectively as Americans. It's terrible for
49:06
Speaker 2: the credibility of the US government, which furthers division. Right,
49:11
Speaker 2: this is one of them. Maybe this is the goal
49:13
Speaker 2: they do this kind of thing, Bobby, They intentionally coordinate
49:17
Speaker 2: these activities. It comes out, and then we lose faith
49:20
Speaker 2: in the FBI, the Department of Justice, maybe the CIA.
49:23
Speaker 2: I don't know. But if I lose faith in these
49:26
Speaker 2: institutions that I used to look up to, like the FBI,
49:29
Speaker 2: for example, I always thought, YEAHBI, they're looking out for us,
49:31
Speaker 2: they're all true patriots. Well guess what, maybe not. So
49:34
Speaker 2: there's one less reason to trust your government. Now that
49:37
Speaker 2: is not for me a problem because we put too
49:39
Speaker 2: much faith in trust in government. We give them too
49:41
Speaker 2: much power anyway. So maybe it's a step in the
49:43
Speaker 2: right direction. But when you got the other side that
49:45
Speaker 2: wants to eliminate this form of government, they want to
49:48
Speaker 2: bring it down revolution or otherwise. Getting a population of
49:52
Speaker 2: people who have been insulted by and awakened to the
49:55
Speaker 2: fact that their government may very well be working against
49:58
Speaker 2: them is not a positive step if you're worried about
50:00
Speaker 2: the future of the country. So lots of unpackage here, Bobby,
50:04
Speaker 2: But I'm willing to wait for the picture to be
50:06
Speaker 2: completed before I ultimately conclude things one with the way
50:09
Speaker 2: or another. And that is the direction that's going keep
50:12
Speaker 2: the firearms to Bobby, six twenty seven fifty five. Go ahead,
50:15
Speaker 2: real quick, Bob, real quick.
50:16
Speaker 6: Oh no, no one thing. I was going to say.
50:18
Speaker 6: The algorism that they were using on the movement of
50:21
Speaker 6: this individual. There's a whistleblower that identified her.
50:25
Speaker 2: Well, maybe Adam said that. Maybe Adam will talk about
50:28
Speaker 2: that at eight oh five. Hadn't heard that detail. Don't
50:31
Speaker 2: deny it, though, Bobby. That's just where I am six
50:33
Speaker 2: twenty seven right now. But if I have cares the
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50:40
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50:44
Speaker 2: which you just did recently.
50:46
Speaker 6: Uh.
50:46
Speaker 2: I know you're at the airport. Bring them. What's going
50:48
Speaker 2: on at CVEG. I know the shutdown has caused multiple
50:51
Speaker 2: delays and cancelations. Will start there and then we'll segue
50:55
Speaker 2: into how is it the shutdown impacts energy policy? Bring them?
50:58
Speaker 9: Welcome back, Hi, Brian, good morning, Thanks for having me
51:02
Speaker 9: on on short notice. Yeah, I'm here at CVG it's
51:06
Speaker 9: bustling up. You know, the shutdown has dramatically impacted air travel,
51:11
Speaker 9: as many of your listeners know. By the way, I
51:14
Speaker 9: added one other thing to my title. I'm on the
51:17
Speaker 9: United States Department of Transportation Advisory Board.
51:21
Speaker 2: Wow, congratulations on that. In that capacity, what will you
51:27
Speaker 2: be responsible for since this transportation? Will you be oversight
51:30
Speaker 2: over speed bumps being installed in City of Cincinnati on
51:33
Speaker 2: Gilbert Avenue? Maybe?
51:35
Speaker 9: Well, I'm one of twelve, and it's a diverse group
51:39
Speaker 9: of individuals. I'm concentrating on infrastructure. You know, there's a
51:43
Speaker 9: lot of overlap between energy infrastructure, transportation infrastructure, and you know,
51:49
Speaker 9: looking for ways to improve mobility for all Americans. And
51:53
Speaker 9: I can tell you know, had this shutdown continued any further,
51:56
Speaker 9: nobody was going to be traveling at Thanksgiving. That's how
52:00
Speaker 9: icy and unstable the ATC air traffic control network has
52:04
Speaker 9: become due to this shutdown.
52:07
Speaker 2: But that's in spite of the fact that all the
52:08
Speaker 2: air traffic controllers know they were going to be paid,
52:10
Speaker 2: and they're deem critical employees recognizing that. Of course, the
52:13
Speaker 2: job they do allows us to travel and engage in commerce.
52:16
Speaker 2: And I mean, of course, in a very very very
52:19
Speaker 2: important job since it's air travel and planes crash and
52:23
Speaker 2: they run into each other.
52:25
Speaker 9: Yeah, and we were already well short of targets. In fact,
52:30
Speaker 9: by this past summer, the Trump administration had hired over
52:34
Speaker 9: thirty five hundred new controllers, which was their yearly target.
52:39
Speaker 9: The issue has become that many of them are retiring.
52:42
Speaker 9: It's a high stress job depending on what airport you're at. Sure,
52:45
Speaker 9: there are smaller airports it's pretty chill. But if you've
52:49
Speaker 9: ever sat at an ATC control tower or in a
52:51
Speaker 9: regional center, one of the busier ones around the United States,
52:57
Speaker 9: I can't you know. And I'm a recovering naval aviator.
53:00
Speaker 9: It's a tough job.
53:01
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I just remember the volume and still to
53:06
Speaker 2: this day is the case. When I lived in Chicago,
53:09
Speaker 2: that O'Hare Airport, it was what thousand plus flights every
53:13
Speaker 2: single day. The place is just it's a steady stream
53:16
Speaker 2: of in and out. And to be responsible for managing
53:19
Speaker 2: all of that and all the lives that are dependent
53:21
Speaker 2: upon your proper management of that air traffic, dude, I
53:24
Speaker 2: wouldn't take that job if you paid me double the
53:26
Speaker 2: salary they make well.
53:28
Speaker 9: And Americans are traveling more than ever, Brian. There are
53:31
Speaker 9: some issues though, one of frankly is the airlines. You know,
53:34
Speaker 9: out of CBG we fly a lot of the small
53:36
Speaker 9: regional jets that dot on the radar requires the same
53:40
Speaker 9: human attention as a seven forty seven or a much
53:44
Speaker 9: larger aircraft. We've got to get the airlines to upgauge
53:47
Speaker 9: their aircraft and actually cut back on some of their hours.
53:50
Speaker 9: Right now, coming into DC, there's six or seven direct
53:54
Speaker 9: flights a day, all on fifty sixty passenger airplane. So
53:58
Speaker 9: upgauging aircraft is really important as well. But for the airlines,
54:02
Speaker 9: the smaller airplanes are cheaper to fly, and they don't
54:07
Speaker 9: pay more for putting ten planes in the air instead
54:10
Speaker 9: of seven or six.
54:12
Speaker 2: That I understand. So they're maximizing profit, which I certainly get.
54:17
Speaker 2: But at the same time increasing the number of planes
54:19
Speaker 2: in the air by maximizing profit.
54:22
Speaker 9: Yes, and there has to be you know, there are
54:24
Speaker 9: physical limitations of the system, so you know it requires
54:28
Speaker 9: a concerted effort by everybody, kind of like it does
54:31
Speaker 9: in Congress to figure this out.
54:33
Speaker 5: Yeah.
54:33
Speaker 2: Well, well, just like that, you are not holding your
54:35
Speaker 2: breath waiting for this to come about. Are you, Brigham?
54:39
Speaker 4: You know I'm not.
54:40
Speaker 9: It's actually pretty disappointing. The last vote of the House
54:44
Speaker 9: Rules Committee, which is required before the Senate pass building
54:48
Speaker 9: can go to the floor vote today lasted until one am,
54:52
Speaker 9: with every Democrat voting against on the Rules Committee voting
54:56
Speaker 9: against reopening the government. It is insane, Brian.
55:01
Speaker 2: Well, you didn't make that statement looking for an argument
55:03
Speaker 2: for me. Brigham.
55:06
Speaker 9: I know, and you know, to be fair to our
55:08
Speaker 9: Democrat friends, it's both parties, honestly, and you know this
55:12
Speaker 9: is something I talked about in a recent episode of
55:14
Speaker 9: Charge Conversations. Congress itself is failing to do its job,
55:20
Speaker 9: and as a consequence, these are the fights and battles
55:24
Speaker 9: we have coming up. But if we can't even get
55:27
Speaker 9: together on whether a COVID era subsidy never meant to
55:31
Speaker 9: stay in place, is suddenly a long standing government right.
55:38
Speaker 9: I don't know about you, but I'm not betting on
55:40
Speaker 9: fixing the deficit anytime soon.
55:43
Speaker 2: No, nor am I. Did you got any chance, by
55:47
Speaker 2: any chance to get to read since you are this
55:49
Speaker 2: is your wheelhouse, your energy policy. The Jorn Lumberg's article
55:53
Speaker 2: from The Wall Street General, China's green energy revolution is powered.
55:56
Speaker 9: By cole Yeah, yeah, I did read that.
55:59
Speaker 2: I read the whole thing on the air just the
56:01
Speaker 2: other day, because it is insane. We are killing ourselves
56:04
Speaker 2: in the name of chasing our tails trying to eliminate
56:06
Speaker 2: carbon dioxide. China is making billions and billions of dollars
56:11
Speaker 2: by manufacturing the tail chasing vehicles, windmills, and solar plant
56:15
Speaker 2: while using coal power to create those items to sell
56:19
Speaker 2: to stupid Western governments.
56:23
Speaker 9: Absolutely, and you know, it's a brilliant plan. And I
56:26
Speaker 9: hate to give China credit for this.
56:28
Speaker 2: Oh, I were really right.
56:29
Speaker 9: If I were ranking them for energy security, i'd give
56:33
Speaker 9: them an A plus A plus. They are using, they
56:37
Speaker 9: are using everything at their disposal to make sure that
56:40
Speaker 9: they have the uninterrupted availability of power wherever and whenever
56:46
Speaker 9: it's needed, as cheaply as possible for.
56:48
Speaker 2: The purpose of achieving economic dominance, for achieving economic dominance,
56:52
Speaker 2: and part of that economic dominance is being well certainly achieved.
56:56
Speaker 2: They're making a whole lot of money off of perpetuating
56:58
Speaker 2: the myth that our exhalation is some how dangerous to
57:00
Speaker 2: our survival, that that joke could be perpetrated on most
57:04
Speaker 2: of the globe while the Chinese Communist Party laughs, their
57:07
Speaker 2: collective asses off making money of it, and the word
57:10
Speaker 2: has not gotten out until somebody like Bjorn Lumberg comes
57:13
Speaker 2: on and points out the obvious, which I've been screaming
57:15
Speaker 2: about for years. As have you brig him account this? Well,
57:18
Speaker 2: you know, it's just frustrating.
57:22
Speaker 9: It is really frustrating. And you know, to see where
57:25
Speaker 9: America could have been in a few years, all we
57:28
Speaker 9: have to do is look at Europe, which is completely devastated,
57:32
Speaker 9: its economy, its industries, self inflicted under this. Oh, we
57:37
Speaker 9: have to do our part. Leaving aside the fact that
57:42
Speaker 9: whether you have four hundred points per million or four
57:45
Speaker 9: hundred and sixty parts per whatever of CO two, you
57:50
Speaker 9: can't voluntarily change the world. If the largest single emitter
57:56
Speaker 9: representing China and India more than half a global emissions
58:00
Speaker 9: isn't gonna play, even if.
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Speaker 6: It's not would work.
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Speaker 9: It would not work under this scenario.
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Speaker 2: It would not, and hence the stupidity of the whole process.
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Speaker 2: Notwithstanding the fact of carbon dioxide is plant food. Bring
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Speaker 2: the McCowan and I tell you what man, I am,
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Speaker 2: from the bottom of my heart, very serious. I wish
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Speaker 2: you safe travels as I do for all the air traffic,
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Speaker 2: all the travelers out there. It's a dicey proposition when
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Speaker 2: there run enough people behind the controls that are monitoring
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Speaker 2: the airflight. So that's why they had to cancel and
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Speaker 2: delay a lot of flights. It's for everybody's safety. Although
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Speaker 2: it is a colossal pain in the butt bringing mccow
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Speaker 2: on podcasts, it's charged conversations again a Jost Tracker production.
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Speaker 2: Bring them account Safe Travels. We'll talk soon, I hope,
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Speaker 2: because we've got more to talk about about energy policy.
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Speaker 9: Thanks brother, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Station et Wednesday, Big Picture with Jack added after the
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Speaker 2: top of the hour news subject today, Democrats and the
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Speaker 2: power of pain. Bottom of the hour, out of and
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Speaker 2: Neil Well, he'll be doing a Power You seminar tomorrow
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Speaker 2: night at seven pm. Ohio needs a reset. And I
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Speaker 2: think about what's going on in the state of Texas.
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Speaker 2: I mentioned that before, and why don't we go in
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Speaker 2: that direction. Some of the legislative changes in the laws
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Speaker 2: in Florida are also unbelievably business well and resident friendly.
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Speaker 2: We could make Ohio more like that and compete. And
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Speaker 2: can I just ask this out loud? This has been
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Speaker 2: a burning question in the back of my mind. And
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Speaker 2: I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist or
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Speaker 2: maybe a pattern observer, but we have all these the
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Speaker 2: rethink the police folks. It's been announced, mom, Donnie has
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Speaker 2: got this new chief architect, incoming staff member. He's just
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Speaker 2: tapped to be his advisor in this woke Democratic Socialist
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Speaker 2: of America inspired administration. He's got the woman who is
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Speaker 2: the architect behind his community Department of Community Safety proposal,
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Speaker 2: which is a one point one billion dollar program which
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Speaker 2: is supposed to send out social workers rather than police
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Speaker 2: department members of law enforcem to what is described as
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Speaker 2: certain nonviolent nine to eleven calls, nine one one calls.
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Speaker 2: And we all know they've tried that here in the
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Speaker 2: city of Cincinnati. This is a large group of folks.
1:00:11
Speaker 2: They are not law enforcement officers, right, they're what counselors
1:00:14
Speaker 2: or whatever. I am certain that they have passed some
1:00:16
Speaker 2: political litmus tests, most notably in the City of Cincinnati
1:00:20
Speaker 2: now run effectively by the Democratic Socialists of America. And
1:00:24
Speaker 2: I thought of this group sitting around when there are
1:00:27
Speaker 2: non violent calls and they're not doing anything, what are
1:00:30
Speaker 2: they going to be utilized for? Maybe? Maybe, and I'm
1:00:33
Speaker 2: saying this out loud, knowing how politically charged it might
1:00:36
Speaker 2: be and how crazy I might sound, but doesn't that
1:00:39
Speaker 2: sound to you? Maybe just maybe that they could become
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Speaker 2: the next brown Shirts? Those were political operatives for Adolf Hitler.
1:00:52
Speaker 2: And I don't know my history well enough to know
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Speaker 2: whether they were actually vested and law enforcement designated like
1:00:58
Speaker 2: they had some legal cap I mean, you think, Crystal Knock,
1:01:02
Speaker 2: these are just crazy people who hated Jews running around
1:01:04
Speaker 2: killing and beating people. And when you enshrine that under
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Speaker 2: the under a government umbrella funded, all I see are
1:01:15
Speaker 2: danger signals. I pray to god it doesn't go down
1:01:18
Speaker 2: that road. But you established this group of people again
1:01:21
Speaker 2: outside of really of trained law enforcement, knowing full well
1:01:25
Speaker 2: that they're all going to be basically political operatives. You know,
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Speaker 2: they may very well solve or respond or deal with
1:01:30
Speaker 2: some maybe nonviolent nine to one one call, which probably
1:01:33
Speaker 2: will ultimately result in having to have an actual police
1:01:35
Speaker 2: officer come over and issue a citation or something, but
1:01:39
Speaker 2: that concept frightens me. Vivan Gramaswami all over that. Right now,
1:01:44
Speaker 2: of course, the number of the New York Police Department
1:01:47
Speaker 2: officers is dropping and more and more expected to leave
1:01:50
Speaker 2: because of Yes, I want to I hate the police.
1:01:52
Speaker 2: Mom Dami who previously said that the police department was
1:01:55
Speaker 2: a racist, anti queer and major threat to public safety. Yeah,
1:01:59
Speaker 2: he said that, though I just quoted him. So the
1:02:02
Speaker 2: cops in New York are really kind of concerned about
1:02:04
Speaker 2: their future and they're quitting. New York Post just reported
1:02:07
Speaker 2: the more than two hundred police officers resigned in October
1:02:10
Speaker 2: ahead of Mom Dommy's election day, and of course words
1:02:13
Speaker 2: circulating around that a lot more are cute up and
1:02:15
Speaker 2: ready to leave. Vivik Gramaswami saying, Hey, come on to Ohio.
1:02:18
Speaker 2: The water's fine here. We'll be more than happy to
1:02:21
Speaker 2: hire you here in the state of Ohio. That's a
1:02:24
Speaker 2: good marketing thing, but it'll be better if we had
1:02:26
Speaker 2: a better economic environment in the state of Ohio to
1:02:28
Speaker 2: lure all the businesses and of course law enforcement officers
1:02:30
Speaker 2: as well. So yeah, we do need them. And City
1:02:33
Speaker 2: of Cincinnati gets the memo they promised lateral hires. Why
1:02:38
Speaker 2: not start running ads in New York City? AFTAB Philip,
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the program, Thanks for calling this morning. Happy
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Speaker 2: Wednesday to you.
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Speaker 4: Thank you well.
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Speaker 10: I just wanted to pass on a little bit of information.
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Speaker 10: I'm a veteran and I was recently stacked up with
1:02:55
Speaker 10: enough of medical issues that I was going to pursue disability.
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Speaker 10: But VA and I hear that on the radio every
1:03:02
Speaker 10: day then that you're a good champion for this cause,
1:03:06
Speaker 10: and you know a lot of people in the know. Basically,
1:03:09
Speaker 10: I want to try health yesterday and ask for my
1:03:13
Speaker 10: medical records, and they told me that they could only
1:03:16
Speaker 10: go back ten years. They started destroying all medical records
1:03:20
Speaker 10: after ten years. Really, yeah, I received no notice.
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Speaker 2: That seems completely polar opposite to the direction we're going.
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Speaker 2: Because it's easy to store data these days. I mean,
1:03:35
Speaker 2: data storage is not free, but it's comparatively cheap. And
1:03:39
Speaker 2: the cheaper I mean it's cheaper today than it was yesterday,
1:03:41
Speaker 2: and it's the damn sight cheaper than it was five, ten,
1:03:43
Speaker 2: fifteen years ago. I mean, data storage is nothing. Why
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Speaker 2: would they destroy records which might very well impact what
1:03:49
Speaker 2: kind of healthcare you need now?
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Speaker 10: Exactly and from the case in point, I'm also trying
1:03:57
Speaker 10: to work on my father's claim he appears to have ah,
1:04:01
Speaker 10: it's looking like agent orange exposure. We had no idea
1:04:04
Speaker 10: until more recently. And luckily he was with christ Network
1:04:09
Speaker 10: and all his medical records are available and online and
1:04:12
Speaker 10: I couldn't retrieve those documents. But with mine. She said,
1:04:18
Speaker 10: I needed to hurry up and get in there because
1:04:19
Speaker 10: they're about to destroy twenty fifteen here soon. So wow,
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Speaker 10: I went down yesterday and this is straight from the
1:04:27
Speaker 10: records department at Try Health.
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Speaker 2: Well, you may be, I mean that may be subject
1:04:31
Speaker 2: to the Packed Act because they're going to compensate people
1:04:33
Speaker 2: for for conditions that were you know, that occurred as
1:04:37
Speaker 2: a consequence of military service, and the standard of the
1:04:39
Speaker 2: burden of proof is basically minimal or I mean nothing.
1:04:44
Speaker 2: The cancers, for example, are presumptively a consequence of the
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Speaker 2: service if you can just show a couple of minor things,
1:04:51
Speaker 2: so your medical records may have an impact on that.
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Speaker 2: But more fundamentally, I think if military records show where
1:04:57
Speaker 2: you or your father in this case were stationed, and
1:05:00
Speaker 2: they're approximately related to some potential exposure, and then they
1:05:03
Speaker 2: automatically qualify under the pack dect. That's about as boiled
1:05:07
Speaker 2: down as I can make it. And don't quote me
1:05:09
Speaker 2: gospel on that. You're not getting a legal consultation right now.
1:05:12
Speaker 2: But since I've hit the VA in often enough to
1:05:14
Speaker 2: know that there is something out there that may provide
1:05:16
Speaker 2: you some relief in so far as the destruction of
1:05:18
Speaker 2: your medical records, you might have to ask try Health
1:05:20
Speaker 2: about that. I don't understands. That doesn't seem to me
1:05:24
Speaker 2: to be a positive development. So thank you for your service,
1:05:27
Speaker 2: man and your father's service. We hear in the listening
1:05:30
Speaker 2: once truly truly appreciate that, and we'll keep my fingers
1:05:33
Speaker 2: crossed that your situation gets sorted out. Coming up Jack
1:05:39
Speaker 2: Atherton with a big picture at the top of the
1:05:41
Speaker 2: air news, then Donovan O'Neil on Ohio needing a reset. Yes, indeed,
1:05:45
Speaker 2: what's Donovan have in mind? We'll find out together. Don't
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Speaker 2: go away today. It's tough headlines coming up seven oh five,
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Speaker 2: and I think you five Kroc de talk station. Hey,
1:05:55
Speaker 2: look it's Wednesday. What do we do at seven oh five?
1:05:58
Speaker 2: We get the big picture with Jack A Jack aden
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Speaker 2: in my friend. It is always a real pleasure having
1:06:03
Speaker 2: you on the show. Glad to have you back.
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Speaker 11: I could not be more grateful. So, Paal, let's see
1:06:09
Speaker 11: if we got this right. Democrats, the Party a big government,
1:06:14
Speaker 11: have been willing to starve government workers and their families
1:06:19
Speaker 11: and endanger all the rest of us, especially those who
1:06:21
Speaker 11: fly folks, This is no exaggeration. Early on in this shutdown,
1:06:27
Speaker 11: the Democrats chief cable network CNN reported that a quote
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Speaker 11: senior Democratic aide told them Democrats would not reopen the
1:06:37
Speaker 11: government short of and I quote again, planes falling out
1:06:43
Speaker 11: of the sky. Oh come on, our left wing friends
1:06:47
Speaker 11: might say, that's not all of us. Seven Democrats senators
1:06:51
Speaker 11: after all, and one independent who caucuses with them all
1:06:55
Speaker 11: the time. Means Angus King did after seven weeks break
1:06:59
Speaker 11: their own filibuster. But folks, you know what finally gave
1:07:03
Speaker 11: those eight senators the courage, the moral clarity to stand
1:07:07
Speaker 11: up for what's right exactly, not one seeking reelection next year.
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Speaker 2: It's so obvious. And you know, Temmy, I have you
1:07:19
Speaker 2: asked you this, Jack, And I'm sorry interrupting your commentary
1:07:22
Speaker 2: because yeah, but you know, the rest of them, while
1:07:24
Speaker 2: they're paying lip services this news guys capitulate, they're all
1:07:27
Speaker 2: excelling a sigh of relief that they fell on the sword.
1:07:30
Speaker 2: For the rest of them who also wanted the government
1:07:32
Speaker 2: open because of the pain, They're.
1:07:34
Speaker 11: Not paying lip service. They're being paid. It's in the constitution,
1:07:38
Speaker 11: they say, But you could have put that in escrow.
1:07:40
Speaker 11: A lot of Republicans didn't accept their pay, so no,
1:07:43
Speaker 11: they're not paying anything. They never do anyway. This got
1:07:46
Speaker 11: me thinking about what we discussed last week, Brian, that
1:07:50
Speaker 11: a Zorin Mamdani and Chuck Schumer make life painful enough
1:07:55
Speaker 11: for us, more voters might finally get off their posteriors
1:08:00
Speaker 11: and vote Democrats out. But sadly, my friend, I'm still
1:08:04
Speaker 11: not sure it works that way. When you beat a
1:08:08
Speaker 11: dog the way for instance, the villainous Bill Sikes beat
1:08:13
Speaker 11: his dog and dickens Oliver twist. That dog may at
1:08:17
Speaker 11: first fight back, but soon the beaten dog becomes co dependent,
1:08:22
Speaker 11: just like Tragically, too many beaten wives stick with their
1:08:25
Speaker 11: vicious husbands or return to them because they feel they
1:08:28
Speaker 11: have no choice. Amesley and I know we used to
1:08:31
Speaker 11: volunteer at a shelter. I suspect folks that over time,
1:08:36
Speaker 11: the more people are beaten down and feel pain, the
1:08:40
Speaker 11: more likely they are to support anyone promising them a reprieve,
1:08:45
Speaker 11: a reward freebies, even if the people promising the freebies
1:08:50
Speaker 11: are the ones who inflicted the pain. Democrats caused this
1:08:54
Speaker 11: painful government shutdown by refusing to support a clean cr
1:08:59
Speaker 11: a continue resolution that would simply continue for a time
1:09:03
Speaker 11: Biden's spending levels. Instead, Democrats demanded, among many other things,
1:09:09
Speaker 11: like funding for public broadcasting. To come back, Democrats demanded
1:09:14
Speaker 11: an extension of COVID emergency subsidies for their own unaffordable Obamacare,
1:09:21
Speaker 11: including reimbursement for the care of millions of illegal aliens.
1:09:26
Speaker 11: Democrats insist that's not true. They lie again, So why
1:09:31
Speaker 11: does anyone believe them at this point when they know
1:09:34
Speaker 11: that Democrats, especially during the Obama Biden era, have lied
1:09:38
Speaker 11: to us outrageously Because the recent history of America is
1:09:44
Speaker 11: the history of big government systematically destroying people's character. The
1:09:50
Speaker 11: people who founded our country had enormous character, courage, like
1:09:56
Speaker 11: all the service people that we honored yesterday, Principles can do.
1:10:01
Speaker 11: Spirit what came to be recognized around the world, certainly
1:10:04
Speaker 11: after we saved the free world in two World Wars
1:10:08
Speaker 11: as the American spirit. And I'm not just talking about
1:10:11
Speaker 11: our leaders. Each of our ancestors who immigrated legally to
1:10:15
Speaker 11: this country brought to an America an entrepreneurial spirit, the
1:10:21
Speaker 11: very act of crossing oceans arriving here usually with nothing,
1:10:25
Speaker 11: because for most of our history there was no welfare
1:10:28
Speaker 11: all that distinguished us from the people left in Europe,
1:10:31
Speaker 11: Asia and other places where ordinary people were peasants or worse.
1:10:36
Speaker 11: I'm not forgetting about the twelve and a half million
1:10:39
Speaker 11: human beings sent to America against their will to be slaves.
1:10:43
Speaker 11: Their character was as good or better than anyone else's.
1:10:47
Speaker 11: But the second tragedy for people who were made slaves
1:10:51
Speaker 11: is that when the Civil War finally set them free,
1:10:54
Speaker 11: government in many places kept them from enjoying the rights
1:10:58
Speaker 11: and opportunities of other Americas, even when those legal rights
1:11:02
Speaker 11: belatedly were secured in the nineteen sixties by both Democrats
1:11:07
Speaker 11: and Republicans. The increasing trend since the sixties for bigger
1:11:12
Speaker 11: and bigger government has made people of all races and
1:11:15
Speaker 11: creeds increasingly dependent on government. Poor families were more vulnerable
1:11:21
Speaker 11: than anyone, as we've often discussed, because Democrat welfare policies
1:11:25
Speaker 11: destroyed many of those families by offering free housing and
1:11:30
Speaker 11: other benefits to single mothers only as long as there
1:11:34
Speaker 11: was no man living in the house. This was a
1:11:37
Speaker 11: sinful attempt to make poor families of all races hopelessly
1:11:41
Speaker 11: dependent on government. The second way Democrats undercut people who
1:11:46
Speaker 11: aspired to join the middle class was by opening America's
1:11:50
Speaker 11: borders to tens of millions of illegals, who could work
1:11:54
Speaker 11: cheap at menial jobs if they worked at all, because
1:11:58
Speaker 11: they immediately received wellalth fair benefits, even if they were
1:12:02
Speaker 11: hardened criminals. Lastly, big government increased dependency by shipping American
1:12:09
Speaker 11: jobs overseas, encouraging that with tax laws and other benefits,
1:12:14
Speaker 11: shipping them to countries like communists China that paid their
1:12:17
Speaker 11: own children and minorities starvation wages. This was particularly shameful
1:12:23
Speaker 11: for Democrats, who were supposed to be the champions of labor.
1:12:27
Speaker 11: The only laborers who thrived thanks to big government, at
1:12:31
Speaker 11: least up until now, were government workers, including unionized teachers.
1:12:37
Speaker 11: A big liberal, Woody Allen, recognized this in nineteen seventy
1:12:41
Speaker 11: three in his comedy set in the future Sleeper. Woody
1:12:45
Speaker 11: wakes up from a coma and learns that World War
1:12:48
Speaker 11: III has been started by teacher unions. Efflection to victories
1:12:54
Speaker 11: last week convinced Democrats that no matter how much pain
1:12:57
Speaker 11: they be themselves inflict, people like Bill Syke's dog will
1:13:02
Speaker 11: become even more dependent on ruinous socialism. Donald Trump is
1:13:07
Speaker 11: trying to convince America that boosting not government but our
1:13:10
Speaker 11: private sector will increase prosperity, family, formation, and freedom. Yet
1:13:16
Speaker 11: the biggest threat to America Marxist propaganda peddled by schools,
1:13:21
Speaker 11: news media, social media everywhere. This propaganda has dominated popular
1:13:27
Speaker 11: culture for sixty years. Now there are hopeful signs, and
1:13:32
Speaker 11: let me leave you with one, Brian. Have you seen
1:13:34
Speaker 11: the studies showing that the number of young people identifying
1:13:38
Speaker 11: as trans has been cut in half in just the
1:13:41
Speaker 11: last two years.
1:13:43
Speaker 2: It was a fad, It was a fed.
1:13:46
Speaker 11: Like like pet rocks, and now we're getting away from it.
1:13:49
Speaker 11: Even the Olympic Committee, i know, not just the American
1:13:52
Speaker 11: Olympic Committee, the Internet National Olympic Committee said if you're
1:13:55
Speaker 11: a guy, if you have our equipment, you can't play
1:13:58
Speaker 11: with the girls. We're in a race, Brian, to see
1:14:02
Speaker 11: a big government socialists can ruin the character of our
1:14:05
Speaker 11: country before we have a chance to expose them. Meantime,
1:14:10
Speaker 11: we have to win elections, and then we have to govern,
1:14:14
Speaker 11: not strike poses and obstruct like some of our more
1:14:18
Speaker 11: self righteous friends. We have to govern, and if you're
1:14:21
Speaker 11: a lawmaker, that means persuading your colleagues that's part of
1:14:25
Speaker 11: your job, or compromising to get things done so that,
1:14:30
Speaker 11: unlike Bill Syke's Poor Dog, we won't be beaten into submission.
1:14:35
Speaker 2: What do you say, brother, I can't agree with you more.
1:14:37
Speaker 2: And it's an interesting thing. I just jotted it down
1:14:39
Speaker 2: when you were talking about the paying only single women
1:14:44
Speaker 2: government benefits, So no man in their life meant that
1:14:46
Speaker 2: they got paid when they had a child, I suppose
1:14:50
Speaker 2: out of woodlock, so there was no incentive for them
1:14:53
Speaker 2: to go after the man to get some child support. Now,
1:14:56
Speaker 2: whether or not at the time that was proposed closed
1:15:00
Speaker 2: because I can't go back through the legislative history of
1:15:03
Speaker 2: the arguments over that Johnson era policy. But it has
1:15:06
Speaker 2: the effect of undermining and eradicating the nuclear family, which
1:15:11
Speaker 2: of course is one of the tenets of Marxism. So
1:15:14
Speaker 2: were they putting that in there as a vehicle to
1:15:18
Speaker 2: get rid of the nuclear family, at least among those
1:15:20
Speaker 2: on Life's margins or was it really designed with this
1:15:23
Speaker 2: altruistic motive. It doesn't really matter if he was the
1:15:26
Speaker 2: intent back then. The ultimate effect has been an obvious one.
1:15:29
Speaker 2: There are far far fewer nuclear families, and there are
1:15:33
Speaker 2: now a bunch of generational welfare dependents. But it's also
1:15:37
Speaker 2: fulfilled in the Marxist dream of undermining the nuclear family,
1:15:40
Speaker 2: which of course encourages government dependence and reliance from my
1:15:44
Speaker 2: perspective and from the Marxist perspective at least philosophically or ideologically.
1:15:48
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's why we have seventy plus percent of families
1:15:52
Speaker 11: that have been on welfare, higher than that in the
1:15:55
Speaker 11: biggest cities, without fathers helping to bring up the kids.
1:15:59
Speaker 11: And by the way, I worked with somebody as a
1:16:01
Speaker 11: kid as a bellhop, a black man, wonderful guy. The
1:16:05
Speaker 11: two of us listen to jazz all the time, who
1:16:08
Speaker 11: kids don't these days. Who told me that his wife
1:16:11
Speaker 11: divorced him so that she could be eligible for welfare.
1:16:15
Speaker 11: So yeah, it worked both ways. Out of wedlock and
1:16:18
Speaker 11: sometimes even in weblock getting back though to government shutdowns.
1:16:22
Speaker 11: Can I make one other points, pleeez, even though we
1:16:25
Speaker 11: outlasted the Democrats this time, and I think we should
1:16:29
Speaker 11: make an exception, however, to the filibuster rule. An exception
1:16:35
Speaker 11: not getting rid of the whole thing. I'm not sure
1:16:36
Speaker 11: that would be the best thing right now, but an
1:16:38
Speaker 11: exception of the filibuster rule for clean continuing resolutions like
1:16:43
Speaker 11: the one that's on the table right now, to keep
1:16:45
Speaker 11: government open so we don't have to play chicken again
1:16:48
Speaker 11: with children's nutrition and people's lives. If voters don't like
1:16:53
Speaker 11: spending bills, we can always change control of Congress every
1:16:57
Speaker 11: two years and the president every four years. The filibuster is,
1:17:01
Speaker 11: you know, Brian, is just a Senate rule. It's not
1:17:04
Speaker 11: something in the Constitution. You don't have to be no
1:17:07
Speaker 11: stradamus to see that. Neither Republicans nor Democrats are likely
1:17:11
Speaker 11: in the foreseeable future to win sixty votes in the
1:17:15
Speaker 11: Senate anytime soon to break a filibuster. America is only
1:17:20
Speaker 11: growing more and more polarized, and there's no doubt that,
1:17:24
Speaker 11: of heaven forbid, Democrats regain the White House in Congress,
1:17:27
Speaker 11: and eventually they probably will, they will end the filibuster
1:17:31
Speaker 11: all together. The only reason President Trump was able to
1:17:35
Speaker 11: pass his big, beautiful bill, which is about to set
1:17:39
Speaker 11: the economy soaring and all the carping we're hearing, they'll
1:17:43
Speaker 11: have to find something else to talk about. The only
1:17:45
Speaker 11: reason he passed that bill is that Congress also has
1:17:49
Speaker 11: the Reconciliation Rule, which already bypasses filibusters for certain budget bills,
1:17:56
Speaker 11: but it's very limited. So why not extend that rule
1:17:59
Speaker 11: and make them Erica govern again?
1:18:03
Speaker 2: Understood? Jack, understood, And you just asked the same question
1:18:06
Speaker 2: I've been sort of asking out loud in my head,
1:18:08
Speaker 2: which is, wait a second, if the Republicans on their
1:18:10
Speaker 2: own can change that rule, obviously, it doesn't require sixty
1:18:14
Speaker 2: votes to change the rule. You know, the Democrats are
1:18:16
Speaker 2: just tapping their toes waiting around to change the rule
1:18:18
Speaker 2: across the board, like they did previously with getting some
1:18:22
Speaker 2: of the judges appointed, right, I mean, haven't we been
1:18:25
Speaker 2: down this road before, at least on a small scale.
1:18:28
Speaker 11: Yeah. Briefly, the history was that Harry Reid changed the
1:18:31
Speaker 11: phili but rulee. Again, Remember we had the reconciliation which
1:18:34
Speaker 11: is itself an exception. But Harry Reid went ahead and
1:18:37
Speaker 11: he was the head of the Democrats from the Senate
1:18:40
Speaker 11: at that time, and he changed the filibuster rule so
1:18:43
Speaker 11: that lower court federal judges could be confirmed by fifty
1:18:47
Speaker 11: one votes. Then Mitch McConnell, his finest moment, extended that
1:18:52
Speaker 11: exception so that it would include Supreme Court justices.
1:18:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the reason we can't.
1:18:59
Speaker 11: Have another exception to keep the government opens. That's all
1:19:03
Speaker 11: I'm asking for at this.
1:19:04
Speaker 2: Point, another little whittling away which leads us, I think,
1:19:08
Speaker 2: to the inevitable Jack, which is getting rid of the
1:19:10
Speaker 2: sixty vote in the obligation right now. I don't know.
1:19:14
Speaker 2: I certainly live in interesting times, Jack, and you know
1:19:18
Speaker 2: that's not a good thing to live in.
1:19:21
Speaker 11: No Chinese did, and they decided they wanted to put
1:19:25
Speaker 11: an end to that.
1:19:26
Speaker 2: Yes, and they're coming.
1:19:27
Speaker 11: For us hard.
1:19:28
Speaker 2: They certainly are, Jack, add and always brilliant, always enjoyable.
1:19:32
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for spending time with my listeners
1:19:34
Speaker 2: and me on Wednesdays at seven oh five. We'll do
1:19:35
Speaker 2: it again next Wednesday. I'm already looking forward to it.
1:19:38
Speaker 2: And as always the best of health and loved you,
1:19:41
Speaker 2: Anne Ainsley, and I'll look forward to next week. Have
1:19:44
Speaker 2: a wonderful weekend, my friend. Thanks so much, Brian, thank you.
1:19:47
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1:19:53
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1:19:56
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1:19:58
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1:20:03
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1:20:05
Speaker 2: in the meantime. Welcome back Americans from Prosperities, Donovan and
1:20:09
Speaker 2: Eil and the shutdown. We've finally seen the light at
1:20:13
Speaker 2: the end of the tunnel on that one. Donovan, welcome back.
1:20:15
Speaker 2: I understand you're doing an empower you summinar tomorrow night.
1:20:17
Speaker 2: You're gonna get seven PM. Ohio needs a reset too
1:20:20
Speaker 2: many governments. Donovan, good to heav you back on the show. Ryan,
1:20:24
Speaker 2: always a pleasure to be with you. Thanks for having me. Well.
1:20:26
Speaker 2: The marketing signs are going all over the place. New
1:20:29
Speaker 2: York obviously is going to lose a lot of businesses
1:20:31
Speaker 2: they have been. The business climate there is awful. There's
1:20:34
Speaker 2: some ad campaigns going on. Texas is throwing out the
1:20:37
Speaker 2: big welcome banner and here, Donovan, why can't we have this?
1:20:42
Speaker 2: Texas just voted to amend their constitution. The voter's approved
1:20:45
Speaker 2: three pro business tax amendments, saying there will be no
1:20:49
Speaker 2: capital gains tax ever in the state of Texas. In
1:20:52
Speaker 2: the constitution, they also are going to have a ban
1:20:55
Speaker 2: on security transaction taxes, as well as a outright ban
1:20:59
Speaker 2: on a state and inheritance taxes. They don't have any
1:21:01
Speaker 2: of those right now, but they've just enshrined in the
1:21:03
Speaker 2: constitution they never will be. That is probably one of
1:21:07
Speaker 2: the best marketing angles I've seen so far in the
1:21:09
Speaker 2: effort to bring businesses in any given state. How come
1:21:12
Speaker 2: we can't have that, Donovan, Well.
1:21:15
Speaker 1: I think we have a lot of that, right, we're
1:21:16
Speaker 1: moving in the right trajectory, but we're not. I think
1:21:18
Speaker 1: it's right. We're not marketing these things. And we also
1:21:21
Speaker 1: have been doing a lot of this stuff in a
1:21:22
Speaker 1: very incremental manner.
1:21:25
Speaker 2: You know.
1:21:25
Speaker 1: Just this past summer they moved Ohio to a flat
1:21:30
Speaker 1: two point seventy five percent income tax.
1:21:32
Speaker 2: That's huge, Brian.
1:21:33
Speaker 1: That's the lowest in the Midwest, second lowest in the nation.
1:21:37
Speaker 1: But you're right, there's other states. As we've been on
1:21:39
Speaker 1: your show talking about before, Ohio doesn't exist in a vacuum.
1:21:43
Speaker 1: We're in a fifty state Compact, these United States of America,
1:21:47
Speaker 1: and each one of these states is competing for our
1:21:50
Speaker 1: jobs and opportunity and brightest minds. And we need that
1:21:54
Speaker 1: leadership in Columbus who's going to fight hard to move
1:21:58
Speaker 1: Ohio in that bold direction, competing with states like Texas,
1:22:01
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Florida that for years have been eating our lunch.
1:22:05
Speaker 2: Well, and you've talked about this on the Morning Show previously.
1:22:07
Speaker 2: I know Americans for Prosperity is you know, along the
1:22:10
Speaker 2: lines of your seminar tomorrow night. And you know, we
1:22:12
Speaker 2: have so far too many local governments, thousands of townships, cities, boards, commissions,
1:22:18
Speaker 2: everybody's got their own offices. Everybody needs to be supported
1:22:21
Speaker 2: and paid for. It is extremely complicated. What is the
1:22:25
Speaker 2: vision that you see? How do we streamline this process
1:22:28
Speaker 2: and bring about what Americans for Prosperity and you Donald
1:22:31
Speaker 2: Dannil are advocating for here in Ohio.
1:22:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm really excited Dan Regnold and the empower
1:22:37
Speaker 1: You team and just getting to go back go back
1:22:39
Speaker 1: down there tomorrow night and be a part of that
1:22:41
Speaker 1: with their crew. Appreciate you plugging that with us. And
1:22:43
Speaker 1: that's what we're going to talk about. There's this we
1:22:46
Speaker 1: think about big government a lot of times brain right
1:22:48
Speaker 1: as this monolithic creature that exists in Columbus or DC, right,
1:22:54
Speaker 1: our state or nation's capital. But what we're wanting to
1:22:58
Speaker 1: begin to shine a light on and this isn't We've
1:23:01
Speaker 1: every fifteen to twenty years or so, this comes back up,
1:23:04
Speaker 1: and most recently it's occurred started to have come unsurfaced
1:23:10
Speaker 1: itself through the property tax crisis. The problem here is
1:23:16
Speaker 1: we have the fifth most political subdivisions in the country.
1:23:19
Speaker 1: What's the political subdivision that's your township, city, school, village, county.
1:23:24
Speaker 1: All of them provide some services. Our argument is, Thoughbrien,
1:23:29
Speaker 1: is there too dang much of them? And are we
1:23:31
Speaker 1: actually experiencing because of how much local government we have?
1:23:35
Speaker 1: Are we actually experiencing a big government crisis because of
1:23:39
Speaker 1: the amount of government we have here in the state
1:23:41
Speaker 1: of Ohio.
1:23:42
Speaker 5: And we're unique in that.
1:23:43
Speaker 1: Again, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, New York beat us into Ohio
1:23:49
Speaker 1: in terms of the number of political subdivisions. That's not
1:23:51
Speaker 1: a group of states you want to be anytime you're
1:23:53
Speaker 1: with California, Illinois, New York.
1:23:55
Speaker 2: Something's wrong.
1:23:55
Speaker 1: Brian and that's where we find ourselves today here in Ohio.
1:23:59
Speaker 2: Well, let us kind of generally contrast how those states
1:24:02
Speaker 2: the you know, Ohio, what are the worst in your
1:24:06
Speaker 2: list as you point out, with one of the fewest
1:24:08
Speaker 2: government states. I mean, how does the how do those
1:24:11
Speaker 2: states operate and provide the local attention? And I'm I'm
1:24:16
Speaker 2: an advocate for you know, the closer a politician is
1:24:19
Speaker 2: to me physically where they live and what they see,
1:24:23
Speaker 2: the closer they are to understand how the local issues
1:24:26
Speaker 2: impact people locally. Nobody in DC has any concept of
1:24:30
Speaker 2: how Joe Strecker lives in his neighborhood. And they can't
1:24:33
Speaker 2: you know, provide benefits and ensure that his neighborhood is
1:24:36
Speaker 2: being taken care of. They don't even know it exists.
1:24:39
Speaker 2: So that same kind of concept makes an argument for
1:24:41
Speaker 2: no more local government is good. So how does the
1:24:46
Speaker 2: fewer local governments address the needs of people locally and
1:24:49
Speaker 2: still work out to everybody's benefit? Donovan?
1:24:52
Speaker 8: Sure, Well, I.
1:24:53
Speaker 1: Put to a state like Florida when it comes to
1:24:55
Speaker 1: school districts, right, they are the single largest here in
1:24:58
Speaker 1: Ohio consumer of our property tax revenue. Right example, we
1:25:03
Speaker 1: have six hundred some school districts. Here in the state
1:25:07
Speaker 1: of Ohio, each one of those run with by a superintendent,
1:25:10
Speaker 1: a board of five school board members, assistant superintendent's treasurer,
1:25:14
Speaker 1: assistant treasurer, a lot of administration, right that doesn't even
1:25:17
Speaker 1: get to the front lines of education. State like Florida,
1:25:21
Speaker 1: I think there's somewhere about ninety school districts. They run
1:25:23
Speaker 1: them by county.
1:25:24
Speaker 2: Right.
1:25:25
Speaker 1: If we were to do a similar model, which is
1:25:28
Speaker 1: an unprecedented there are reports and studies that have shown
1:25:31
Speaker 1: how this can be done. There's off and on conversations
1:25:34
Speaker 1: about doing that. Here in Ohio, we'd have eighty eight
1:25:37
Speaker 1: school districts, give or take, we had one per county.
1:25:39
Speaker 2: Right.
1:25:40
Speaker 1: What we're talking about there is streamlining the delivery of services,
1:25:44
Speaker 1: not moving it to Columbus or DC, but streamlining within
1:25:47
Speaker 1: our counties to eliminate a lot of this overhead and
1:25:50
Speaker 1: administrative burdens that exist that all costs tax dollars. By
1:25:55
Speaker 1: the way, on the argument for your local elected officials
1:25:59
Speaker 1: being accessible, push back to our friends who are out
1:26:01
Speaker 1: there fighting the property tax fight right now alongside us,
1:26:04
Speaker 1: who are also saying they want more local government. I
1:26:09
Speaker 1: say to them, how many of your township trustees, county commissioners,
1:26:13
Speaker 1: school board officials that you've gone to and complained about
1:26:16
Speaker 1: your property taxes, how many of them have actually done something.
1:26:18
Speaker 2: To lower that burden for you.
1:26:20
Speaker 1: Just because these folks are accessible, Brian, doesn't mean they're actually,
1:26:24
Speaker 1: you know, conservative and delivering the kind of efficiencies we
1:26:27
Speaker 1: want out of government. There's some things we can do
1:26:29
Speaker 1: by consolidating, and that's what's at the heart of this conversation.
1:26:32
Speaker 2: Well, and you know, for whatever reason, I'm thinking back
1:26:34
Speaker 2: to Sheriff Neil, but he was really big into developing
1:26:38
Speaker 2: the concept of shared services among the region's law enforcement
1:26:41
Speaker 2: officers for the purposes of efficiency. If you have one
1:26:44
Speaker 2: dive team that is accessible for all of the various
1:26:47
Speaker 2: police departments, they know what to do, how to do it,
1:26:50
Speaker 2: they're efficient at it, and they share that service with
1:26:52
Speaker 2: the others. That relieves the other police departments from having
1:26:55
Speaker 2: an obligation of having a well a dive unit. So
1:26:58
Speaker 2: that makes perfect sense. This extreme streamline efficiencies in school government.
1:27:02
Speaker 2: You have fewer school board members, you have fewer school
1:27:05
Speaker 2: It could deal with some of the perhaps overcrowding or
1:27:09
Speaker 2: undercrowding issues more efficiently managed property I see a lot
1:27:12
Speaker 2: of pluses for this, and see what you say to
1:27:16
Speaker 2: see how you react to this. Going back to the
1:27:18
Speaker 2: whole property tax, if you end up eliminating property tax
1:27:22
Speaker 2: in Ohio, and I know that's a train wreck for
1:27:24
Speaker 2: a lot of people, but if you had county wide
1:27:28
Speaker 2: school boards, allocating the resources to a single school board
1:27:33
Speaker 2: would be a dam site easier than allocating the resources
1:27:36
Speaker 2: to what you said, six hundred different ones in the
1:27:39
Speaker 2: state of Ohio. If it's going to be centrally distributed
1:27:42
Speaker 2: in terms of the whatever revenue is being used to
1:27:44
Speaker 2: fund the schools, yeah.
1:27:47
Speaker 1: Well, and I think you know centralization. You want to
1:27:50
Speaker 1: be careful with that, right Yeah, you don't want to
1:27:51
Speaker 1: move everything entirely to Columbus or everything entirely to.
1:27:55
Speaker 5: Washington, d C.
1:27:56
Speaker 1: But we have to find a balance, and right now
1:27:58
Speaker 1: the imbalance exists with the amount that we have. When
1:28:01
Speaker 1: I lived in Franklin County near Columbus, the community I
1:28:05
Speaker 1: lived in, I paid taxes. I filed income taxes Brian
1:28:09
Speaker 1: to six different entities. Columbus City of Reynoldsburg, a joint
1:28:18
Speaker 1: a jed, a district that we had a special taxing
1:28:20
Speaker 1: district that we had there probably not a JED, a
1:28:23
Speaker 1: special taxing district, the school district, the state of Ohio,
1:28:27
Speaker 1: and the federal income taxes. On top of that, I
1:28:30
Speaker 1: had property taxes. And when you look at your property
1:28:32
Speaker 1: tax bill, which more and more that's becoming transparent, you're paying,
1:28:36
Speaker 1: you know, for a dozen more levies that go to
1:28:40
Speaker 1: all these different political subdivisions, all in a lot of ways,
1:28:43
Speaker 1: right Brian, services we want I like police showing up
1:28:46
Speaker 1: when my when there's an emergency. I like fire if
1:28:48
Speaker 1: there's an issue at my home. I want to be
1:28:51
Speaker 1: I want to have safe roads to drive on, and
1:28:53
Speaker 1: I want to know that you know, if I choose
1:28:55
Speaker 1: to send my kid to a public school, that it's
1:28:57
Speaker 1: going to be a good education. But there is we
1:29:00
Speaker 1: have so many of these entities taking a slice out
1:29:03
Speaker 1: of our pocketbook. That's at the heart of why we
1:29:07
Speaker 1: are experiencing the property tax crisis we're experiencing right now.
1:29:10
Speaker 1: So many of these political subdivisions exist, and there are
1:29:15
Speaker 1: some opportunities for consolidation, shared services, and other collaborative agreements
1:29:20
Speaker 1: to bring that number down, and ultimately that delivers relief
1:29:24
Speaker 1: to Ohioans and creates a more economic prosperous future, so
1:29:28
Speaker 1: that states like Texas, Tennessee, and Florida stop taking our
1:29:31
Speaker 1: jobs an opportunity and they come here to the economic
1:29:34
Speaker 1: engine of the Midwest.
1:29:35
Speaker 2: All right, assuming this concept is embraced and we are
1:29:37
Speaker 2: convinced that it's the right way to go, doesn't this
1:29:39
Speaker 2: require each of these individual political subdivisions to be willing
1:29:44
Speaker 2: to give up their control. A lot of people view
1:29:45
Speaker 2: these as their own independent fiefdoms, like police departments. I'm
1:29:49
Speaker 2: not working with them, and this is mine. You can't
1:29:51
Speaker 2: trot on my neighborhood, you know, burber Berberg. There's a
1:29:53
Speaker 2: lot of that going on, and politicians typically act like that.
1:29:56
Speaker 2: So this is going to require the relinquishment of control
1:30:00
Speaker 2: by these various entities. What have you ever known a.
1:30:04
Speaker 1: Politician or an elected official, no matter how small their
1:30:07
Speaker 1: political government is, to let it go.
1:30:09
Speaker 2: No, it's near impossible. The last time.
1:30:11
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing this I mentioned earlier in the segment.
1:30:15
Speaker 1: This isn't a new concept. Right, If you might remember
1:30:18
Speaker 1: some of your listeners might remember back in two thousand
1:30:21
Speaker 1: and nine, we experienced an economic crisis, right, two dosy
1:30:25
Speaker 1: nine experience an economic crisis. John Kasik came in as
1:30:28
Speaker 1: governor fixed the state budget, and one of the big
1:30:32
Speaker 1: conversations at that time was what we were going to
1:30:34
Speaker 1: do about all these political subdivisions in Ohio.
1:30:37
Speaker 2: Reports were put out.
1:30:38
Speaker 1: Buckeye Institute Greg Laws and put out a great report
1:30:41
Speaker 1: talking about this. The governor had an Office of Transformation
1:30:45
Speaker 1: on that Auditor of State Debut's who I was working
1:30:47
Speaker 1: for at the time. We went out and talked about
1:30:49
Speaker 1: skinny Ohio and shared services. The problem, though, Brian, you
1:30:52
Speaker 1: hit on it. The problem is the fiefdoms and these
1:30:57
Speaker 1: folks who are out there who have their special district
1:31:01
Speaker 1: or their governmental entity. And just like Congress, you love
1:31:04
Speaker 1: your congressman, but you hate Congress. People love their local government,
1:31:07
Speaker 1: but they hate the cost of it. We've got to
1:31:10
Speaker 1: come to a reconciliation here because it's bleeding us dry.
1:31:14
Speaker 1: And that's you know, the flag and banner we're raising
1:31:18
Speaker 1: out there is that, if you you know, underlying this
1:31:21
Speaker 1: property tax crisis is a big government problem and it's
1:31:24
Speaker 1: not entirely in Columbus right now. It's in the villages, township,
1:31:29
Speaker 1: school districts and counties that your.
1:31:32
Speaker 2: Local government.
1:31:33
Speaker 1: And we need folks to get engaged and start start
1:31:35
Speaker 1: asking for more accountability there.
1:31:36
Speaker 2: Well for those desirous of political expedients. Again, if we
1:31:39
Speaker 2: embrace this concept and the majority of people are all
1:31:41
Speaker 2: in favor of it, this isn't as if Columbus could
1:31:45
Speaker 2: pass some piece of legislation that would streamline all these
1:31:48
Speaker 2: various jurisdictions, they would have to relinquish that control themselves,
1:31:52
Speaker 2: or the local voters would have to say we here.
1:31:55
Speaker 2: Let's say I live in Simms Township, we agree to
1:31:58
Speaker 2: merge with Loveland as a political entity or subvision or
1:32:02
Speaker 2: something along those lines. It would require local consent.
1:32:06
Speaker 1: Well, for instances of villages that local consent is already available.
1:32:10
Speaker 1: You can go and get a small fraction of signatures,
1:32:14
Speaker 1: put it on the ballot and let the voters vote
1:32:16
Speaker 1: on that. Wouldn't that be novel Brian instead of and
1:32:18
Speaker 1: that exists today. But we don't see that happening across
1:32:21
Speaker 1: the state of Ohio because who wants to be that
1:32:24
Speaker 1: parie in their community? Right going, you're going to abolish
1:32:27
Speaker 1: the village. So there's a lot at play. I think
1:32:30
Speaker 1: what we need to do is regionalize some of this stuff.
1:32:34
Speaker 1: So it's hard to get it done in Columbus because
1:32:36
Speaker 1: there are literally tens of thousands of paid lobbyists. If
1:32:39
Speaker 1: the states would have passed alat a day abolishing villages
1:32:42
Speaker 1: or consolidating schools, the outcry and pressure campaign from that
1:32:46
Speaker 1: would be unbearable.
1:32:47
Speaker 12: I think.
1:32:48
Speaker 1: But I think you regionalize it. You allow folks local
1:32:51
Speaker 1: in their communities to make some of these decisions. I
1:32:54
Speaker 1: think there's some opportunities to reform. We've seen though that
1:32:56
Speaker 1: the voluntary disarmament doesn't seem to be working because those
1:33:00
Speaker 1: options are available today, but it's not happening.
1:33:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, not in my backyard. Oh Donovan, you've got a
1:33:06
Speaker 2: tough road to ho on this one. But that's what
1:33:08
Speaker 2: you're going to be talking about. Tomorrow night. Seven PM's
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1:33:17
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1:33:21
Speaker 2: to say, and also hear from Eric Conroy, who'll be
1:33:23
Speaker 2: discussing the time he spent in the CIA as well
1:33:25
Speaker 2: as his run for Congress. They do this what they
1:33:27
Speaker 2: call take twenty twenty minutes worth of information from him,
1:33:31
Speaker 2: along with Donovan and Neil Americans for Prosperity. Donovan, hope
1:33:35
Speaker 2: you have a well attended seminar, and I hope you
1:33:36
Speaker 2: flush out some of these ideas and maybe we'll see
1:33:38
Speaker 2: some direction or some positive movements in this direction. But
1:33:44
Speaker 2: it's going to take some work at a grassroots level.
1:33:47
Speaker 1: Absolutely always does. Thanks Brian, I appreciate it.
1:33:50
Speaker 2: Thank you Donald and O'Neil. Empower you America dot org.
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1:34:28
Speaker 2: to thank everybody. Got like almost four hundred people chiming in.
1:34:31
Speaker 2: I wished my father a happy heavenly birthday yesterday and Facebook,
1:34:34
Speaker 2: and I was overwhelmed by the outpouring of love by
1:34:37
Speaker 2: people who commented on that or otherwise responded to that.
1:34:40
Speaker 2: So thank you to each and every one of you.
1:34:42
Speaker 2: That was really heartwarming. Go ahead, Mike, I'm sorry, but
1:34:45
Speaker 2: truth test.
1:34:45
Speaker 13: Admit to the man that Jerry Thomas was no doubt.
1:34:48
Speaker 2: That's what I like to think. That's why I felt
1:34:50
Speaker 2: so good about it.
1:34:50
Speaker 13: Yes, sir, yes, sir. Every day we hear Tom's tagline
1:34:55
Speaker 13: don't democrat very sage advice, and more often than not
1:35:00
Speaker 13: they prove why that is such an apt line. Two
1:35:03
Speaker 13: local instances. One's almost two days old. But I was
1:35:06
Speaker 13: not going to desecrate Veterans Day yesterday by talking about
1:35:10
Speaker 13: may or aftamp. But I will today during his campaign
1:35:14
Speaker 13: once he realized how bad he dropped. The ball was
1:35:16
Speaker 13: snow removal, not that it would have made any difference,
1:35:19
Speaker 13: as you and Joe have been shown with how these
1:35:21
Speaker 13: different neighborhoods voted and they're still getting the same poor service.
1:35:24
Speaker 13: But anyway that the snowplows tracks will be laid out,
1:35:29
Speaker 13: you can go to the website. You can see where
1:35:31
Speaker 13: we're at what's been done. Well, it didn't happen. And
1:35:34
Speaker 13: his excuse was it wasn't an insignificant snowfall. Well, what's significant?
1:35:40
Speaker 13: Two inches, three inches, half a foot, it doesn't matter,
1:35:42
Speaker 13: because you know, the guy that died in Bethel yesterday,
1:35:45
Speaker 13: he probably thought it was significant, his family, the people
1:35:47
Speaker 13: sitting on Cross County Highway, and I'm sure there was
1:35:50
Speaker 13: one or two people stuck amongst the seven Hills of Cincinnati.
1:35:53
Speaker 13: So once again, just an empty suit promise that he
1:35:57
Speaker 13: cannot lead and have foresight. The other one who dropped
1:36:00
Speaker 13: the ball and was out all over the news yesterday
1:36:02
Speaker 13: was our good representative, Greg Lansman, you know, and the
1:36:06
Speaker 13: headline was the breaking news was that Greg Landsman's going
1:36:09
Speaker 13: to vote no. Greg Landsman voted no, the first time
1:36:12
Speaker 13: Greg Landsman would have voted no matter what.
1:36:14
Speaker 10: That's not news.
1:36:15
Speaker 13: And he's once again laming about the thirty two thousand
1:36:18
Speaker 13: constituents are going to lose their health care.
1:36:20
Speaker 5: Why is that?
1:36:21
Speaker 13: And you have laid it out perfectly, the Democrats put
1:36:24
Speaker 13: it in you don't need subsidies if it's affordable, and
1:36:27
Speaker 13: of course it was due to sunset anyway. So it's
1:36:29
Speaker 13: got nothing to do the Republicans, and as Tom Apptley says,
1:36:32
Speaker 13: don't vote Democrats.
1:36:34
Speaker 2: God bless you, Mike. Thanks again for your service or
1:36:36
Speaker 2: our country. I appreciate you tuning of the program and
1:36:38
Speaker 2: offering your thoughts and comments. Sandy to offer her thoughts
1:36:41
Speaker 2: and comments. Welcome to the program, Sandy, thanks for calling.
1:36:45
Speaker 14: Good morning, Brian. Yeah, you do capitalize kind of offer
1:36:51
Speaker 14: which the gentleman just said, snow removal on things. We
1:36:55
Speaker 14: shared services in this regionalism that the previous guests to
1:37:00
Speaker 14: was talking about combining counties or villages or something together.
1:37:05
Speaker 14: You're going to find the services out. And so let's
1:37:09
Speaker 14: just suppose you merged with Hamilton County. They've got how
1:37:14
Speaker 14: many shootings every day or drownings, you know, there could
1:37:17
Speaker 14: be five drownings and you got one dive team. How
1:37:20
Speaker 14: are you going to do this this? And then you
1:37:22
Speaker 14: if you're going to share services, you're going to share
1:37:26
Speaker 14: funds and they're going to be you know, hands in
1:37:31
Speaker 14: the pot I don't belong and money laundered to different places.
1:37:35
Speaker 14: I don't think this is a good idea, and I
1:37:38
Speaker 14: don't know how they got under the empower you. But
1:37:40
Speaker 14: this is like sneaky socialism at a really low level.
1:37:45
Speaker 14: And then you're going to share cheat you know the moneies.
1:37:49
Speaker 14: You know who's going to get the most, but do
1:37:50
Speaker 14: the least the same.
1:37:52
Speaker 2: Honestly, I really don't. I'd see. I can't see the
1:37:56
Speaker 2: future and know how this would ultimately work out. I
1:37:57
Speaker 2: don't know how many people drowned, but how many dive
1:37:59
Speaker 2: teams do you really need? Ask the police department that
1:38:02
Speaker 2: if there are a number of drownings increases, they can
1:38:04
Speaker 2: increase capacity for the folks that can investigate these Those
1:38:08
Speaker 2: things are happening real time right now, regardless, and some
1:38:11
Speaker 2: police departments are overwhelmed constantly. The city of Cincinnati is
1:38:14
Speaker 2: down two hundred plus police officers and growing number every day.
1:38:17
Speaker 2: They still manage to deal with it on some level.
1:38:20
Speaker 2: Maybe additional resources like from the state will help supplement
1:38:24
Speaker 2: see because there's more crime going on in Cincinnati. Maybe
1:38:27
Speaker 2: you get more allocation of law enforcement resources in the
1:38:29
Speaker 2: area that actually needs it, and you reduce the number
1:38:31
Speaker 2: where there is no crime. There's not a whole lot
1:38:33
Speaker 2: of crime in this neighborhood or that neighborhood need a
1:38:36
Speaker 2: full contingent of your own police department personnel, if there's
1:38:40
Speaker 2: never really any substantive crime. These are the details, And
1:38:44
Speaker 2: I don't know how this is a walk towards socialism,
1:38:46
Speaker 2: assuming you have the right people that are responsible for
1:38:49
Speaker 2: allocating the dollars. When you're living in a government world,
1:38:52
Speaker 2: when you're electing public officials, most of them malignant narcisses,
1:38:55
Speaker 2: is only looking for their invest interests, regardless of political stripe.
1:38:59
Speaker 2: It's a recipe for disaster. But this is a problem
1:39:01
Speaker 2: we face whether there's six hundred jurisdictions or ten or
1:39:04
Speaker 2: eighty eight, as Donovan O'Neil suggests. So Donovan and Neil
1:39:07
Speaker 2: on Americans for Prosperity is not out to perpetuate or
1:39:11
Speaker 2: increase socialism. In fact, it's the polar opposite. He's just
1:39:14
Speaker 2: looking for some government efficiency. Now, there are problems with
1:39:17
Speaker 2: the plan. As I pointed out, it's going to require
1:39:19
Speaker 2: a collective buy in from all these local governments willing
1:39:22
Speaker 2: to hand over the keys of authority, which I think
1:39:24
Speaker 2: you and I can both agree probably not going to happen.
1:39:28
Speaker 2: So we'll be stuck with status quo. But as he
1:39:30
Speaker 2: regularly points out, status quo ain't working it's very inefficient
1:39:35
Speaker 2: as well. Again, you're hearing from a guy who really
1:39:37
Speaker 2: appreciates the concept of local as opposed to distant government.
1:39:42
Speaker 2: Seven fifty six. It doesn't mean his problem, it's not
1:39:44
Speaker 2: worth exploring. Over the top of the hour News Adam,
1:39:48
Speaker 2: it'll i the fifty five caro ce Detalk Station. Happy Wednesday.
1:39:52
Speaker 2: Bottom of the hour, Judge Ennen of Polatano. Everyone say
1:39:54
Speaker 2: here in the fifty five Casey morning should I'm so
1:39:56
Speaker 2: pleased to be able to welcome to the fifty five
1:39:58
Speaker 2: Carseity Morning Show today. Adam hard by the way a background.
1:40:00
Speaker 2: He's a combat veteran, a former CIA operations officer, nationally
1:40:04
Speaker 2: recognized voice on leadership, national security to the future of
1:40:07
Speaker 2: America's children in an AI driven world. Graduate of the
1:40:10
Speaker 2: US Air Force Academy, he spent over a decade conducting
1:40:13
Speaker 2: sensitive A covert operations in the Middle East in Europe.
1:40:16
Speaker 2: He speaks multiple languages. He deployed six times to Iraq
1:40:19
Speaker 2: and Afghanistan and gained first hand insight into geopolitical strategy,
1:40:24
Speaker 2: psychological warfare, and the cost of freedom. Also a big
1:40:27
Speaker 2: proponent of teaching children to swim in the sense of
1:40:30
Speaker 2: developing their cognitive ability so they can survive in this
1:40:32
Speaker 2: ever changing world. His mission is to equip parents with
1:40:36
Speaker 2: young America, with young Americans with the resilience, courage, and
1:40:38
Speaker 2: clarity needed to thrive in this changing world. Adam Hartage,
1:40:42
Speaker 2: Welcome to the fifty five Caarisee Mornings Show, and thank
1:40:44
Speaker 2: you so much for your service to our country.
1:40:47
Speaker 12: Wow, what an introduction, Brian, I really appreciate that.
1:40:50
Speaker 5: Thank you. That's more more than gracious, no happy to
1:40:53
Speaker 5: do it.
1:40:53
Speaker 2: And your background is just it's such an outstanding background
1:40:57
Speaker 2: to talk about January sixth from the perspective of someone
1:41:00
Speaker 2: who like a dear dear friend of mine who spent
1:41:03
Speaker 2: ten years in America's military doing pyop work. He can
1:41:06
Speaker 2: rave a weed fly, that's syop, that's SiO, that's black Swan,
1:41:10
Speaker 2: and I mean it's it's it's almost like, well, you
1:41:12
Speaker 2: sound like a conspiracy theory, but there are trained people
1:41:16
Speaker 2: like yourself that are just that, that engage in these
1:41:19
Speaker 2: operations for the purpose of achieving a political goal. So
1:41:23
Speaker 2: what you're seeing with your own eyes isn't necessarily what
1:41:25
Speaker 2: it really is. It's designed with a broader, larger purpose.
1:41:29
Speaker 2: Your suggestion, perhaps JA six is one of those type
1:41:31
Speaker 2: of events.
1:41:33
Speaker 12: Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting. I was there at
1:41:36
Speaker 12: January sixth, I work with my wife and a couple
1:41:38
Speaker 12: of friends of ours, and it was a really I
1:41:42
Speaker 12: have to say, the word I would use is lovely,
1:41:44
Speaker 12: lovely group of people, you know, like patriotic Americans like
1:41:48
Speaker 12: and I remember as we march from the Washington Monumentopolis
1:41:52
Speaker 12: down towards the Capitol, there's a very family, you know
1:41:56
Speaker 12: type friendly sitting where you had literally, you know, kids
1:41:59
Speaker 12: and strollers being pushed along.
1:42:01
Speaker 6: But what was.
1:42:01
Speaker 12: Really the thing that really kind of stuck out like
1:42:04
Speaker 12: a sore thumb were what appeared to be like these
1:42:07
Speaker 12: kind of professional educators that would try and get the
1:42:10
Speaker 12: crowd worked up, and you know, it just didn't fit
1:42:13
Speaker 12: the vibe and it didn't fit the people who were there.
1:42:16
Speaker 12: And I remember at the time thinking, man, this stinks
1:42:19
Speaker 12: something that they're like, there's I think there's some shady
1:42:22
Speaker 12: stuff going on here. But we none of us, none
1:42:25
Speaker 12: of us thought that it might be that air quotes
1:42:27
Speaker 12: bed you know what I mean, like two hundred and
1:42:29
Speaker 12: fifty FBI agents planet in there. And this was back
1:42:32
Speaker 12: in the day when I think, you know, all Americans
1:42:35
Speaker 12: really thought that we were still on the same side,
1:42:38
Speaker 12: the same kind of page, and that it wasn't really
1:42:41
Speaker 12: a politics and party over you know, patriotism and duty
1:42:46
Speaker 12: kind of situation. But man, later with the pipe bomber
1:42:49
Speaker 12: stuff that's come out and you find out she's allegedly,
1:42:52
Speaker 12: you know, a capital police officer. I mean, I this
1:42:55
Speaker 12: stuff is just smacks of everything that the deep state
1:42:58
Speaker 12: became under. You know, I would say the last twenty
1:43:01
Speaker 12: plus years where the gloves really came off after nine
1:43:05
Speaker 12: to eleven. When I say the gloves, I mean the
1:43:06
Speaker 12: gloves as far as you know, tightening its restrictions on
1:43:10
Speaker 12: American people and surveillance state, and you know, the Patriot
1:43:13
Speaker 12: Act was supposed to be temporary and all these other things.
1:43:17
Speaker 12: So you had a lot of a lot of sort
1:43:20
Speaker 12: of free reign with very little oversight, and that's how
1:43:23
Speaker 12: you ended up, in my opinion, with things like crossfire, hurricanes,
1:43:26
Speaker 12: and you know, the Russia Russia Russia stuff and fast
1:43:29
Speaker 12: and furious, and I mean, it just it's really it's
1:43:34
Speaker 12: really sad what the political landscape has turned into with
1:43:37
Speaker 12: the DC crowd. You know, John Adams said that our
1:43:41
Speaker 12: constitution in our country are basically only as strong as
1:43:44
Speaker 12: the morality of its people. And you know, the Constitution
1:43:47
Speaker 12: is not fit or anything other than moral people. And
1:43:51
Speaker 12: I really see how far we've fallen as a country,
1:43:53
Speaker 12: and it just it really concerns me to no end.
1:43:56
Speaker 12: And that's literally why I wrote the book The Alpha Blueprint,
1:44:00
Speaker 12: about guiding this next generation, helping them see truth in
1:44:04
Speaker 12: the world that's designed to lie to them and manipulate them. Well,
1:44:09
Speaker 12: you know, yeah, go ahead, Sorry.
1:44:11
Speaker 2: No, I know I agree with everything you say. There's
1:44:15
Speaker 2: no arguing yet. I mean, you think about the Steele DOSSI,
1:44:17
Speaker 2: a false made up designed to undermine Donald Trump's Donald
1:44:20
Speaker 2: Trump even being elected president. After that, then they use
1:44:23
Speaker 2: that to perpetuate this impeachment RUSSA Russia, Russia. Now we
1:44:25
Speaker 2: find out about Arctic frost. Now we see that maybe,
1:44:29
Speaker 2: just maybe, a Capital Security Police officer presently identified as
1:44:33
Speaker 2: a woman named Shawnie Kirkhoff may have been the one
1:44:35
Speaker 2: who planted the bombs. And that's important in terms of timing,
1:44:39
Speaker 2: because this whole J six thing turned into Oh my god,
1:44:42
Speaker 2: Donald Trump caused chaos and violence. His goal was to
1:44:47
Speaker 2: undermine the election and interfere with it. It's an impeachable defense
1:44:51
Speaker 2: and everything. And I've just looked at it as and
1:44:53
Speaker 2: you were there at I mean, you just pointed out
1:44:54
Speaker 2: what I've always thought. It was a peaceful gathering pretty
1:44:57
Speaker 2: far distance from the Capitol. Most people were just there
1:45:00
Speaker 2: and they decided to walk down And if you listen
1:45:03
Speaker 2: to the speech, Donald Trump didn't encourage them to take
1:45:06
Speaker 2: over break into the Capitol at no single time. In fact,
1:45:09
Speaker 2: we just find out they've had to. You know, BBC
1:45:12
Speaker 2: had to apologize for doctoring his speech to make it
1:45:15
Speaker 2: appear as though he sounded that way. There's no evidence
1:45:18
Speaker 2: of it and there never was, so that's right.
1:45:21
Speaker 12: In fact, I was there when he said We're going
1:45:23
Speaker 12: to peacefully and patriotically go down there and make our
1:45:27
Speaker 12: voices heard, you know, And I'm like that. It's just
1:45:30
Speaker 12: amazing how dishonest media is. And you know, the reason
1:45:34
Speaker 12: why my former employer, the CIA, came up with the
1:45:38
Speaker 12: term conspiracy theorists is to discredit anyone through which question
1:45:43
Speaker 12: the narrative. And so whether it's the JFK thing, you know,
1:45:46
Speaker 12: tower seven falling on its own after nine to eleven
1:45:50
Speaker 12: WMD in Iraq, I mean, it's I go into this
1:45:53
Speaker 12: kind of stuff in the book because I was a
1:45:56
Speaker 12: product of.
1:45:56
Speaker 5: The Global War on Terror.
1:45:58
Speaker 12: You know, it's a young military officer or when nine
1:46:00
Speaker 12: to eleven happened and I wanted to go fight everybody,
1:46:03
Speaker 12: and I did, and then you know, lo and behold,
1:46:08
Speaker 12: twenty years later, it's kind of become clear to me
1:46:10
Speaker 12: that we were manipulated by our own country and sent
1:46:13
Speaker 12: to go do some pretty you know, pretty dangerous stuff,
1:46:18
Speaker 12: and we lost a whole bunch of people all for
1:46:21
Speaker 12: for what for some political motives of politicians. I mean,
1:46:25
Speaker 12: it's just it's unacceptable. It's it's unethical, it's immoral, it's illegal,
1:46:31
Speaker 12: it's unconstitutional. I mean I I I expect more from
1:46:35
Speaker 12: our leaders. And you know, that's what I'm trying to
1:46:37
Speaker 12: do is say, okay, well we've seen what we've seen
1:46:41
Speaker 12: a bad example of what shouldn't be. Now, how do
1:46:44
Speaker 12: we pick up the ashes of what's left young kids,
1:46:47
Speaker 12: and how do we guide you into a world that's
1:46:50
Speaker 12: you know, going to give you a best shot at
1:46:53
Speaker 12: being that upstanding, good, moral American citizens.
1:46:56
Speaker 2: And I certainly applaud those efforts. We certainly need them
1:46:58
Speaker 2: right now given this division that is being fostered, and
1:47:01
Speaker 2: encourage the Alpha Blueprint, Preparing for the Next Generation, for
1:47:03
Speaker 2: an AI future the name of Adam Hardin's book. My
1:47:06
Speaker 2: concern is this now, amid all the backdrop that we
1:47:09
Speaker 2: just sort of briefly summarized all these things that caused
1:47:12
Speaker 2: me a you know, I love American I love America
1:47:15
Speaker 2: and what it stands for someone who believes in our country,
1:47:17
Speaker 2: But now is really having problem with these institutions that
1:47:21
Speaker 2: we used to look up to, the FBI, the CIA,
1:47:24
Speaker 2: the DJ This has created a well, a perception we
1:47:29
Speaker 2: can't count our own government. Doesn't this serve the interest
1:47:32
Speaker 2: of those who seek to undermine us these revelations. I mean,
1:47:37
Speaker 2: we're already divided. The goal of Marxist is of course,
1:47:39
Speaker 2: the divide is so completely't we aren't even willing to
1:47:41
Speaker 2: fight for our own country. Why would I be willing
1:47:43
Speaker 2: to fight for a country who's who's weaponized departments within
1:47:48
Speaker 2: government against my political philosophy?
1:47:51
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean it's it's you raise an extremely valid points.
1:47:56
Speaker 12: You know, I actually was fired from the CIA back
1:47:59
Speaker 12: in twenty in early twenty seventeen after Trump forty five
1:48:06
Speaker 12: came into office, and I had raised some serious concerns
1:48:11
Speaker 12: with the way that the agency was acting towards I
1:48:15
Speaker 12: shouldn't say the agency, I should say the outgoing director
1:48:20
Speaker 12: brand who is now under indictment. The way he was
1:48:23
Speaker 12: acting towards an incoming president, and I thought that he
1:48:25
Speaker 12: was not serving the best interest of the office, the
1:48:28
Speaker 12: oath of office which he had taken. And I was
1:48:32
Speaker 12: showing the door rather quickly, which was just you know,
1:48:36
Speaker 12: a symptom of the time that we were in. And
1:48:39
Speaker 12: so what was interesting is this is right about the
1:48:42
Speaker 12: same time my old boss, General Mike Flynn, who I
1:48:45
Speaker 12: started out in the Defends Intelligence Agency before I went
1:48:48
Speaker 12: over to CIA, and he was my old boss, you know,
1:48:50
Speaker 12: America's general and I stood by his side when and
1:48:55
Speaker 12: it was very clear to me in twenty seventeen that
1:49:00
Speaker 12: he was being targeted, you know, as the National Security
1:49:03
Speaker 12: Advisor is the brand new National Security Advisor, that he
1:49:05
Speaker 12: was being targeted and housted politically, And that's exactly what
1:49:08
Speaker 12: happened to him. And I mean that's I was very
1:49:11
Speaker 12: blessed that he was willing to write the ford for
1:49:13
Speaker 12: my book and endorse it, you know, nine years later
1:49:17
Speaker 12: or eight years later, because I stood by his side.
1:49:19
Speaker 12: But it was a very lonely time for people like
1:49:23
Speaker 12: General Flynn and myself, you know, as we were literally
1:49:25
Speaker 12: crushed by the deep state, and you know, I mean
1:49:29
Speaker 12: I was like, I don't understand. I've I've been to
1:49:31
Speaker 12: four wars, I've given twenty years of my life, I've
1:49:33
Speaker 12: given everything that I have.
1:49:35
Speaker 5: I have literally.
1:49:36
Speaker 12: Landed at night in the battle, you know, in the
1:49:38
Speaker 12: backyard of bad guy's compounds, going in to either do
1:49:44
Speaker 12: bad things to them or you know, put them in
1:49:46
Speaker 12: custody and take them to justice.
1:49:49
Speaker 5: But I'm like, what what was all that for?
1:49:52
Speaker 6: You know?
1:49:53
Speaker 12: And and when you look at that, and you really
1:49:56
Speaker 12: just end up being disgusted with your leadership, and you
1:49:58
Speaker 12: can either kind of crumble under a rock and you know,
1:50:01
Speaker 12: let the bad guys win, which is kind of like
1:50:03
Speaker 12: exect what you're saying. That's what you know, Marxism and
1:50:05
Speaker 12: Communism would want. But instead, you know, what I decided
1:50:09
Speaker 12: to do is just you know, be the god fearing, spiritual,
1:50:13
Speaker 12: hopeful man that I am and say, okay, well, you
1:50:16
Speaker 12: know understanding how the world really really really works now
1:50:20
Speaker 12: and I don't think what we're seeing today is probably
1:50:23
Speaker 12: any different than what they've seen over the last thousands
1:50:26
Speaker 12: of years. That humanity has been around. I think the
1:50:28
Speaker 12: world just works that way. But within that, how do
1:50:33
Speaker 12: we operate where we cannot just survive but thrive? And
1:50:35
Speaker 12: that's where I look towards, you know, divinity and embracing
1:50:40
Speaker 12: our own individual God given talents and creativity and finding
1:50:45
Speaker 12: our own way outside of the proverbial matrix. And so
1:50:48
Speaker 12: I go into a lot of that in the book
1:50:50
Speaker 12: as well. But we live in very, very strange.
1:50:52
Speaker 5: Times where.
1:50:56
Speaker 12: Reality can be manipulated faster than you can and scroll
1:51:01
Speaker 12: uh on your Instagram feed from one post to the next.
1:51:05
Speaker 5: They can literally they.
1:51:06
Speaker 12: Can literally change it in real time. And I shouldn't
1:51:08
Speaker 12: even say day because it's not even days anymore. It's
1:51:11
Speaker 12: all machines and it's automation now. So whereas ten years
1:51:15
Speaker 12: ago it was it required humans to call Mark Zuckerberg
1:51:19
Speaker 12: and say, hey, you are going to censor any conservatives
1:51:23
Speaker 12: or you are going to censor all.
1:51:24
Speaker 5: Of these companies, right you?
1:51:26
Speaker 12: In fact, I mean I was also caught up in
1:51:29
Speaker 12: that fish in that as well.
1:51:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have the FBI situated in offices over at
1:51:35
Speaker 2: Facebook for example, doing just that.
1:51:38
Speaker 12: I know, like the the most unbelievable, the most incredible
1:51:43
Speaker 12: overreach of government power.
1:51:46
Speaker 5: And I mean you.
1:51:47
Speaker 12: Want to talk about violations of you know, Fourth Amendment
1:51:51
Speaker 12: with Americans, right, you know, uh like protecting against the
1:51:54
Speaker 12: lawful search and seizure. I mean you got freedom of
1:51:57
Speaker 12: speech was completely crushed, and if you stepped outside of
1:52:00
Speaker 12: the COVID narrative, for example, you were absolutely destroyed. I
1:52:07
Speaker 12: was running a company at the time. Ironically it happened
1:52:09
Speaker 12: to be a telehealth company called Remote Health Solutions, and
1:52:13
Speaker 12: I went up, I went out, spoke out against the
1:52:15
Speaker 12: COVID narrative, and we were canceled on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google,
1:52:20
Speaker 12: We couldn't run ads, we lost our commercial insurance, we
1:52:24
Speaker 12: lost every single one of our Defense Department contracts that
1:52:27
Speaker 12: we had won at the time. I mean, destroy just
1:52:30
Speaker 12: goes on and on and on.
1:52:31
Speaker 2: It was.
1:52:31
Speaker 12: It was ad nauseam until they literally destroyed my company.
1:52:34
Speaker 12: So I'm like, great, I've been fired from the CIA.
1:52:36
Speaker 12: I started a company three years later they destroyed that.
1:52:40
Speaker 12: I'm like, at what point, you know, am I going
1:52:43
Speaker 12: to stop being you know, pushed around, just for for
1:52:47
Speaker 12: standing up for literally the os of office that I took.
1:52:50
Speaker 2: And you go back to air Colders, Justice Department of
1:52:53
Speaker 2: Operation choke hold. Legitimate businesses were told that, the banks
1:52:57
Speaker 2: were told do not work with them, or you were
1:52:59
Speaker 2: going to get a compliant and saught it. We're going
1:53:00
Speaker 2: to climb through your books and records with a fine
1:53:03
Speaker 2: tooth comb. Do you want that? Do you want to
1:53:04
Speaker 2: lawyer up and prepare for that? Or you want to
1:53:06
Speaker 2: just quit doing business with this particular entity. Atrocious abuse
1:53:11
Speaker 2: of power, just one of many that Adam Harden could
1:53:14
Speaker 2: probably go on ad nausema back, get a copy of
1:53:16
Speaker 2: the Alpha Blueprint his book and learn more. But going
1:53:19
Speaker 2: really quickly here back to Jay sixth. Now we've identified,
1:53:22
Speaker 2: or they have tentatively identified this SHAWNE. Kirkhoff Capitol police officers,
1:53:26
Speaker 2: the person who planted the bombs. Now it's not one
1:53:27
Speaker 2: hundred percent certain. Artificial intelligence looking at her gate and
1:53:30
Speaker 2: her image and all that seems to have narrowed this
1:53:33
Speaker 2: down sufficiently to look into it. Here we are. It's
1:53:36
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, Adam, and it took some independent investigators
1:53:39
Speaker 2: to do it. The FBI has been busily rounding up
1:53:42
Speaker 2: every single human being in a five mile square area
1:53:45
Speaker 2: of the J six protest, and they found all of them.
1:53:48
Speaker 2: They prosecuted in the fullest extent of the law. Why
1:53:51
Speaker 2: didn't they go after the person right away who planted
1:53:53
Speaker 2: the bombs? My friend?
1:53:55
Speaker 5: Oh, you know, let's dig even deeper.
1:53:57
Speaker 12: Let's let's by the way as the power you would say,
1:54:00
Speaker 12: you know, don't look under that rock, don't kick that
1:54:02
Speaker 12: one over. But pulling that back a little bit more,
1:54:05
Speaker 12: were those bombs even uh, you know active, Did they
1:54:08
Speaker 12: have any active ingredients? And I certainly doubt it. I
1:54:12
Speaker 12: would imagine that those were inert planet that she was
1:54:15
Speaker 12: probably tasked to do that and give it a cush
1:54:18
Speaker 12: job afterwards, and all for political gain, and you know,
1:54:21
Speaker 12: to destroy basically.
1:54:24
Speaker 5: A lot of it.
1:54:24
Speaker 12: I believe that January sixth, the COVID narrative, all of
1:54:28
Speaker 12: that stuff was all wrapped up together with various attempts
1:54:32
Speaker 12: to unseat a duly elected president and to usher in
1:54:36
Speaker 12: a soft coup or a color revolution, you know, against
1:54:40
Speaker 12: the American people. It's I mean, it's just it's and
1:54:43
Speaker 12: it's when one thing didn't work there, what's the next
1:54:45
Speaker 12: thing to the next thing, to the next thing. So
1:54:46
Speaker 12: it's the indictments, it's the Arctic cross it's the crossfire hurricane,
1:54:50
Speaker 12: it's you know, it's all the things that we've talked about,
1:54:53
Speaker 12: and it just went on and on, and I don't
1:54:56
Speaker 12: know how President Trump is still standing. And he actually
1:54:59
Speaker 12: looked younger and better and stronger than he did before.
1:55:03
Speaker 12: I'm like, I pass off to you.
1:55:05
Speaker 6: Man.
1:55:05
Speaker 12: It's like, don don Junior talk about him, and he's like,
1:55:09
Speaker 12: He's like, the man hasn't slept in three days and
1:55:11
Speaker 12: he's still going. You know, I kick quit now.
1:55:15
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's like it's like cancer feeding off sugar. He
1:55:18
Speaker 2: feeds off of his political oppositions, anger and hatred toward him.
1:55:23
Speaker 2: He lives rent free in all their heads and that
1:55:25
Speaker 2: gets him out of bed every single day, to the
1:55:27
Speaker 2: extent even goes to bed. Adam hard.
1:55:31
Speaker 6: I was just going to.
1:55:31
Speaker 5: Say, the White House memes are unbelievable. Yeah, they're coming out.
1:55:37
Speaker 2: Somebody's using social media finally to a conservative advantage. Adam Hartage,
1:55:41
Speaker 2: he knows all about it. Get a copy of his book.
1:55:43
Speaker 2: Joe Strecker's put it on my blog page fifty five
1:55:45
Speaker 2: KC dot com. The Alpha Blueprint Preparing the Next Generation
1:55:48
Speaker 2: for an AI future. Adam, thanks for speaking truth to
1:55:51
Speaker 2: power and for revealing what's going on behind the scenes,
1:55:54
Speaker 2: and for your courage and commitment to do just that.
1:55:57
Speaker 2: I can't thank you enough for spending time with my
1:55:58
Speaker 2: listeners of me today, and I hope someday got down
1:56:01
Speaker 2: the road we get to have you back on the
1:56:02
Speaker 2: show any so we have Strecker around for he looks
1:56:08
Speaker 2: into these things.
1:56:11
Speaker 15: Thank you, Joe.
1:56:11
Speaker 2: We are back to a recurring theme with the column today,
1:56:15
Speaker 2: which is can the president disrupt free speech? And I
1:56:18
Speaker 2: had you know, I went back and forth just a
1:56:19
Speaker 2: little bit yesterday. I had some outstanding questions. We're talking
1:56:22
Speaker 2: about the right to peace, lea assemble, We're talking about
1:56:24
Speaker 2: the First Amendment, right to free speech. We're talking about
1:56:27
Speaker 2: prior restraint on free speech. And welcome back one of
1:56:31
Speaker 2: our favorite cases, Brandenburg versus Ohio. Let's walk through the
1:56:34
Speaker 2: history of this, because I did not real I couldn't
1:56:36
Speaker 2: recall the president Woodrow Wilson arrested people for merely reading
1:56:39
Speaker 2: the Declaration of Independence.
1:56:41
Speaker 15: Well, not only did he arrest people for reading the
1:56:45
Speaker 15: Declaration of Independence, he arrested some of his former students
1:56:49
Speaker 15: when he was the president of Princeton. They were freshmen.
1:56:53
Speaker 15: By the time they were seniors he was the president
1:56:56
Speaker 15: of the United States. He was only the governor of
1:56:58
Speaker 15: New Jersey for eighteen months when he ran for and
1:57:02
Speaker 15: was elected president. Now, I don't know if they did
1:57:05
Speaker 15: this to taunt him, if they did this to deter
1:57:08
Speaker 15: people from registering for the draft. But he was of
1:57:11
Speaker 15: the view that any speech which deterred people from registering
1:57:16
Speaker 15: for the draft, men for registering for the draft in
1:57:19
Speaker 15: time of war, was an interference with the war effort,
1:57:24
Speaker 15: and therefore was criminal. When he was challenged in a
1:57:28
Speaker 15: press conference. There are two interesting footnotes to this. One
1:57:31
Speaker 15: is this one when he was challenged in a press
1:57:33
Speaker 15: conference about how he could arrest people for speech. This
1:57:38
Speaker 15: former professor of constitutional law at Princeton University said, read
1:57:43
Speaker 15: the First Amendment. It says Congress shall make no law
1:57:46
Speaker 15: bridging the freedom of speech. There's nothing in there about
1:57:49
Speaker 15: the president. Now you're laughing, because if you had given
1:57:53
Speaker 15: that answer in an exam in constitutional law in a
1:57:58
Speaker 15: law school, you'd flown.
1:58:00
Speaker 2: I can't believe he actually answer said that, okay.
1:58:05
Speaker 15: Because he's saying that because he was not restrained, he
1:58:10
Speaker 15: was at liberty to do it. This is the Wilsonian
1:58:12
Speaker 15: view of the government. It's the opposite of the Madisonian view. Madisonian,
1:58:17
Speaker 15: which was, with the exception of the Civil War years,
1:58:20
Speaker 15: pretty much followed from Washington up to the time of Wilson,
1:58:25
Speaker 15: was that the federal government is limited to do that
1:58:28
Speaker 15: which is it is expressly authorized to do in the Constitution.
1:58:33
Speaker 15: The Wilsonian view is the federal government can do anything
1:58:37
Speaker 15: for which there is a national problem, and the national
1:58:41
Speaker 15: political will accept that which is expressly prohibited to it
1:58:45
Speaker 15: in the Constitution. So these two views of the federal
1:58:50
Speaker 15: government are the opposite. The other interesting fun fact who
1:58:55
Speaker 15: arrested these Princeton students, A young feal agent by the
1:59:01
Speaker 15: name of John Edgar Hoover.
1:59:04
Speaker 2: Okay, well that answers the question right there. Hey, ja.
1:59:10
Speaker 15: So as a result of not this arrest, but many others,
1:59:15
Speaker 15: the DOJ Wilson's Department of Justice persuaded I'm happy not
1:59:22
Speaker 15: a reluctant Supreme Court to permit these suppressions. First, they
1:59:27
Speaker 15: came up with a bad tendency test. If speech would
1:59:31
Speaker 15: have a tendency to the neutral ear to incite violence,
1:59:35
Speaker 15: the speech was criminal. Then they came up with the
1:59:38
Speaker 15: clear and present danger test. If the speech is a
1:59:42
Speaker 15: clear and present danger to violence or to national security,
1:59:46
Speaker 15: then the speech is criminal. These two monstrosities existed for
1:59:51
Speaker 15: fifty years from nineteen nineteen until nineteen sixty nine, when
1:59:57
Speaker 15: in Hamilton County, Ohio, a crackpot I forget his first name,
2:00:04
Speaker 15: last name Brandenburg, I think it was Alvin, gave an
2:00:08
Speaker 15: incendiary speech in which he condemned blacks and he condemned
2:00:12
Speaker 15: Jews and said, we're going to march to Washington and
2:00:14
Speaker 15: they run the government, and we're going to take it
2:00:16
Speaker 15: back from them. He was prosecuted in a Hamilton County
2:00:20
Speaker 15: court and convicted of criminal syndicalism basically speech which encourages violence.
2:00:26
Speaker 15: Upheld by the Ohio Appellate Court, upheld by the Ohio
2:00:31
Speaker 15: Supreme Court, unanimously reversed by the Federal Supreme Court invalidating
2:00:38
Speaker 15: state and federal criminal syndicalism laws and giving us the
2:00:42
Speaker 15: Brandenburg test, no more bad tendency test, no more clear
2:00:48
Speaker 15: and present danger test. Now all innocuous speech is protected,
2:00:53
Speaker 15: and all speech is innocuous when there is time, he
2:00:58
Speaker 15: were time for more speech to rebut it. Even if
2:01:02
Speaker 15: there isn't any more speech that robuts it, if there
2:01:05
Speaker 15: is time for it, then the speaker is not liable
2:01:08
Speaker 15: for the consequences of his speech, and his speech is protected.
2:01:12
Speaker 2: That's the law today.
2:01:13
Speaker 15: Brandenburg was cited as recently as last year by the
2:01:17
Speaker 15: same nine justices who are sitting today. Notwithstanding all of this,
2:01:24
Speaker 15: President Trump wants to bring back the bad tendency and
2:01:28
Speaker 15: clear and present danger days because he has directed federal
2:01:32
Speaker 15: law enforcement to disrupt I put the word in caps.
2:01:36
Speaker 15: I didn't think my editors would let me get away
2:01:38
Speaker 15: with it, but they did, to disrupt the speeches of
2:01:42
Speaker 15: those whom the president believes are anti Christian, anti capitalist,
2:01:47
Speaker 15: anti American. He singled out Antifa, but the language has
2:01:51
Speaker 15: brought enough to cover almost any group that the law
2:01:55
Speaker 15: enforcement deems to be anti Christian, anti capitalist, anti American. Look,
2:02:00
Speaker 15: I'm an old fashioned pre Vatican to Latin Mass attending
2:02:03
Speaker 15: Roman Catholic. You know that I am the antithesis of
2:02:06
Speaker 15: anti Christian. But you have the right to be anti
2:02:10
Speaker 15: Christian in America, and you have the right to express that.
2:02:13
Speaker 2: Indeed, I'd embrace that all day long. Before we get
2:02:19
Speaker 2: to some of the subtleties on this, I'm just wondering
2:02:21
Speaker 2: if there is a particular case or an illustration of
2:02:24
Speaker 2: those situations that where someone has been prosecuted or held
2:02:30
Speaker 2: criminally respond for whatever because there wasn't enough time to
2:02:35
Speaker 2: inject counter sees.
2:02:36
Speaker 15: The leading case is called Turman Yellow versus Chicago, which
2:02:40
Speaker 15: is nineteen fifties, so it's before it's a precursor to
2:02:48
Speaker 15: and leading up to Brandenburg. But Turman Yellow was a
2:02:51
Speaker 15: Roman Catholic priest who hated Harry Truman and condemned his
2:02:57
Speaker 15: use of atomic weapons and condemned his failures. Where father
2:03:03
Speaker 15: termin Yellow got a little off the rails to crack
2:03:06
Speaker 15: down on communists in the government. This is a Joe
2:03:08
Speaker 15: McCarthy era now. And he rented a hall, got a
2:03:13
Speaker 15: permit from the Chicago Police department, gave an incredibly incendiary
2:03:18
Speaker 15: speech saying horrible things about Harry Truman, and the mob
2:03:23
Speaker 15: descended upon him, trashed the hall, and the police barely
2:03:29
Speaker 15: got him out of there with his life. Well, they
2:03:31
Speaker 15: got him out of there and brought him into a
2:03:32
Speaker 15: patty wagon and arrested him for incendiary.
2:03:36
Speaker 2: Speech, inciting a riot, basically right.
2:03:39
Speaker 15: And he was convicted in a Chicago local court, upheld
2:03:43
Speaker 15: in an Illinois appeals court. The Supreme Court of Illinois
2:03:46
Speaker 15: didn't even want to touch it. And then it went
2:03:49
Speaker 15: to the US Supreme Court five to four, not unanimous.
2:03:52
Speaker 15: So it's a different court at the time we get
2:03:54
Speaker 15: to Brandenburg five to four reversing his conviction. Listen to
2:03:59
Speaker 15: this First Amendment speech about the government is so important
2:04:05
Speaker 15: to our democracy it will even tolerate a little bit
2:04:09
Speaker 15: of violence. Wow. Now they didn't arrest the people that
2:04:14
Speaker 15: trashed the hall, right, they arrested the Catholic priests that
2:04:18
Speaker 15: got the permit to have the gathering.
2:04:21
Speaker 2: All right, now, as this applies to Antipha the st
2:04:24
Speaker 2: hypothetical I pose to you, and you wrote in the
2:04:27
Speaker 2: article that it is a political philosophy. Most certainly is
2:04:30
Speaker 2: it's Marxist, it's communists. Label it whatever you want to
2:04:33
Speaker 2: label it is it is not something divinely inspired. Isn't
2:04:38
Speaker 2: arguing about a particular issue or a law that should
2:04:40
Speaker 2: be passed. It's just the fundamental nature of our government.
2:04:43
Speaker 2: They don't like it, they want to undermine it. They
2:04:44
Speaker 2: hate capitalism, so they can scream about that all day long.
2:04:46
Speaker 2: That's political speech. If, however, they are and organized in
2:04:52
Speaker 2: some capacity, they're receiving money and funding an organization, they
2:04:55
Speaker 2: belong to a particular group. That group's goal is to
2:04:58
Speaker 2: tear down the United State of America like a terrorist
2:05:02
Speaker 2: organization would. If they are organized and they commit two
2:05:07
Speaker 2: or more action further and criminal actions furtherance of their goal,
2:05:11
Speaker 2: are they not subject to prosecution for what there it
2:05:14
Speaker 2: would be for what they're doing? Though it's I said,
2:05:16
Speaker 2: you can label the mafia it's organized crime. You can
2:05:18
Speaker 2: go after their activities, you can label them antifa. If
2:05:21
Speaker 2: they are organized and they do commit criminal acts, you
2:05:24
Speaker 2: can go after them as an entity. So does that
2:05:27
Speaker 2: still stand well?
2:05:30
Speaker 15: The short answer I think to your question is yes,
2:05:34
Speaker 15: if this is an organized entity and it commits two
2:05:37
Speaker 15: or more acts of violence, it then subjects itself to
2:05:40
Speaker 15: the penalties under RICO, a Racketeer Influence Corrupt Organization Act.
2:05:46
Speaker 15: Why did they have to use Rico, an Italian nickname,
2:05:53
Speaker 15: because this was originally written to cripple the mob and
2:05:58
Speaker 15: thanks to its use, I then US Attorney Rudy Giuliani,
2:06:03
Speaker 15: it was used to bankrupt the mob. So two or
2:06:07
Speaker 15: more criminal events contributing to an enterprise, a financial enterprise
2:06:13
Speaker 15: subject the financial enterprise to treble damages. It could it
2:06:19
Speaker 15: could so be used. There are criminal Rico statutes and
2:06:24
Speaker 15: civil Rico statutes I don't know what this Antifa is.
2:06:28
Speaker 15: I only know that when Chris Ray, the former head
2:06:33
Speaker 15: of the death of the FBI, last testified before Congress,
2:06:36
Speaker 15: which is now a winter of twenty four, after Donald
2:06:40
Speaker 15: Trump had defeated Kamala Harrison, and mister Ray knew he'd
2:06:44
Speaker 15: better resign or he'd be fired in a month, he said,
2:06:48
Speaker 15: FBI intel found that Antifa is not an organized group.
2:06:55
Speaker 15: It's not even a group. It's just it's just an idea.
2:06:59
Speaker 15: There's no central authority, there's no central command, there's no
2:07:02
Speaker 15: central treasury. That's the last intel made public that we
2:07:07
Speaker 15: have on this. Whether there is subsequent intel or not,
2:07:10
Speaker 15: I don't know. It hasn't been made public.
2:07:12
Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of research out there, but the
2:07:14
Speaker 2: Tides Foundation, Sous Foundations, all these very very leftist, pro communist,
2:07:20
Speaker 2: pro globalist organizations which seem to be behind the funding.
2:07:23
Speaker 2: At least that's what it's been largely suggested. Now. I
2:07:25
Speaker 2: suppose this will all play out ultimately if it's investigated.
2:07:28
Speaker 2: But in so far as raised, can you know conclusions.
2:07:31
Speaker 2: Perhaps it was the timing they hadn't looked into it yet,
2:07:33
Speaker 2: but I know in among my listening audience. The man
2:07:35
Speaker 2: who's behind arctic frost doesn't carry a lot of weight
2:07:38
Speaker 2: in terms of his.
2:07:41
Speaker 15: Well, there's no question about that. I mean, the Arctic
2:07:46
Speaker 15: for US thing is very unusual. Senator Ted Cruz, who's
2:07:51
Speaker 15: a graduate of Harvard Law School who clerked to the
2:07:55
Speaker 15: Supreme Court of the United States but doesn't practice law, said,
2:08:00
Speaker 15: you guys tapped my phones. They didn't tap his phones.
2:08:03
Speaker 15: They got metadata who called home from what number? Two,
2:08:08
Speaker 15: what number and for how long? Now I condemn that,
2:08:11
Speaker 15: but the statutes for which Senator Cruz voted here we
2:08:15
Speaker 15: go permit the government to do that without a subpoena
2:08:20
Speaker 15: or a search warrant.
2:08:21
Speaker 2: Thank you for reminds if.
2:08:22
Speaker 15: The government wants the telecom not to tell the customer
2:08:29
Speaker 15: that the government has metadata, they go to a judge,
2:08:33
Speaker 15: and the statute permits that. I just don't think that
2:08:36
Speaker 15: these members of Congress who voted for this ever imagined
2:08:39
Speaker 15: it would be used against them exactly.
2:08:42
Speaker 2: But the opportunity that it could be was enough to
2:08:44
Speaker 2: say no in the first place. And you pointed out
2:08:46
Speaker 2: time and time again exactly the way it should have been.
2:08:49
Speaker 15: One of those who screamed the loudest and I'm not
2:08:52
Speaker 15: a fan of his, but I have to be into ellectually,
2:08:53
Speaker 15: be honest, he did vote against this all the time,
2:08:55
Speaker 15: that Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri. But these authorities that
2:09:02
Speaker 15: Jack Smith used, many of them go back. Some go
2:09:05
Speaker 15: back to the Reagan ere ra. Most go back to
2:09:07
Speaker 15: the Patriot Act era, right after nine to eleven. They're reprehensible.
2:09:11
Speaker 15: They all violate the Fourth Amendment. They've never been passed
2:09:14
Speaker 15: upon by the Supreme Court, but Congress voted for it,
2:09:18
Speaker 15: and most of them expire every five years and Congress
2:09:21
Speaker 15: reenacts them every five years. You'll see that happening during
2:09:25
Speaker 15: Donald Trump's current term.
2:09:27
Speaker 2: Always get the truth from you, Judge and Napolitan will
2:09:29
Speaker 2: be listening for Judging Freedom your podcast. We're out of time.
2:09:32
Speaker 2: I'd like to elaborate on that, but you know how
2:09:34
Speaker 2: much I love having you in the show, and I
2:09:35
Speaker 2: certainly appreciate your willingness to come on every week. Can
2:09:39
Speaker 2: the President disrupt free speech? Find the calum tonight after midnight,
2:09:42
Speaker 2: Judge until next week, have a fantastic week, my friend.
2:09:45
Speaker 15: Thank you, Brian all the best.
2:09:46
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Speaker 16: but it's wonderful. The Purple Beeple Bridge is lighting their
2:10:33
Speaker 16: tree on Friday night and they have for the past
2:10:36
Speaker 16: few years invited us to come and put a tree
2:10:39
Speaker 16: at the south side of the Newport Levy and on
2:10:45
Speaker 16: Friday night, the Mayor of Newport they've purchased the bridge
2:10:50
Speaker 16: and they will have it lit and we'll be there
2:10:53
Speaker 16: to light the wish tree.
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Speaker 2: That's fantastic. Is it a real big tree you got
2:10:57
Speaker 2: for that one, Bob. That's like a very prominent spot
2:10:59
Speaker 2: there Oh.
2:11:01
Speaker 16: That's about a forty five footer. I'd say maybe even bigger.
2:11:05
Speaker 2: Well, I can't reach up to the top of that,
2:11:07
Speaker 2: but to pull an ornament off. But the point is
2:11:08
Speaker 2: you're gonna have ornaments on the tree, and those ornaments
2:11:12
Speaker 2: are does the child in need fill out that ornament saying,
2:11:16
Speaker 2: you know, I could really use, you know, a bag
2:11:18
Speaker 2: of socks or a winter coat or whatever, and that
2:11:21
Speaker 2: has their name on it. How does that all work? Bob?
2:11:24
Speaker 16: The organization fills out the ornaments of what they need
2:11:28
Speaker 16: to give to the children and to the seniors, so
2:11:32
Speaker 16: all the tags. Basically, everybody gives me two hundred ornaments
2:11:40
Speaker 16: for that tree. And there's sixteen different organizations that are
2:11:43
Speaker 16: on that tree. So we fill it throughout the season
2:11:47
Speaker 16: and they're all laminated on that tree.
2:11:50
Speaker 2: Great.
2:11:50
Speaker 16: But what's good is the Bagels play Pittsburgh on Sunday,
2:11:55
Speaker 16: so hopefully people coming are going to the game will
2:11:58
Speaker 16: see it. Whole extra ornaments that way also.
2:12:02
Speaker 2: There you but.
2:12:04
Speaker 16: They've been very kind to letting us put that tree.
2:12:07
Speaker 16: I'd say it's been five years ago.
2:12:09
Speaker 2: That's a wonderful addition because what you also have, and
2:12:12
Speaker 2: this is why I also wanted to encourage maybe some
2:12:14
Speaker 2: businesses out there. I know there are places like I
2:12:17
Speaker 2: believe Ron's Roost is one of them, always have a
2:12:19
Speaker 2: tree at their business. You invite businesses to put a
2:12:22
Speaker 2: wish tree in their business that you'll be happy to deliver, right.
2:12:27
Speaker 16: Right, we have a little over three hundred.
2:12:29
Speaker 5: We'd love to get more.
2:12:31
Speaker 16: Our big number was many many years ago, and we
2:12:35
Speaker 16: were up to seven hundred for one year, but then
2:12:39
Speaker 16: time change. People wanted me to go outside of up
2:12:42
Speaker 16: in Montgomery County and everywhere. I couldn't control that, so
2:12:47
Speaker 16: we stuck with Cincinnati, northern Kentucky, and one or two
2:12:52
Speaker 16: trees Indiana.
2:12:53
Speaker 2: Huh bob, It sounds to me like there needs to
2:12:55
Speaker 2: be another chapter or two of the wiz Tree program
2:12:57
Speaker 2: opening up out there. Nobody's stopping anybody from doing that, right.
2:13:01
Speaker 16: No, No, as long as I know that it's legit
2:13:04
Speaker 16: and they're going to do what we've done, we'll be
2:13:08
Speaker 16: happy to take that portion on. But can't do it
2:13:11
Speaker 16: with one person or two people.
2:13:13
Speaker 2: No, just said, you need some elves working for you.
2:13:15
Speaker 2: I guess Rebecca Grappi is not in the neighborhood because
2:13:18
Speaker 2: I know you have at least one elf.
2:13:21
Speaker 6: She's back.
2:13:22
Speaker 16: Good, he came home last night.
2:13:25
Speaker 2: Good.
2:13:25
Speaker 16: You will be down at the We'll be down at
2:13:29
Speaker 16: the Turple Bridge today at one o'clock. We're gonna put
2:13:32
Speaker 16: the tags on it. We were gonna do it yesterday,
2:13:36
Speaker 16: but it was little windy, little rainy and snowy, so
2:13:39
Speaker 16: we're going back at one o'clock today. I've got five
2:13:42
Speaker 16: or six people. We're going to start hanging tags. Anybody
2:13:45
Speaker 16: want to stop buying hanging tags? Hey, we'll be there
2:13:49
Speaker 16: to take.
2:13:49
Speaker 2: The help get you in the holiday spirit. And there
2:13:52
Speaker 2: are so many organizations they're going to be bringing the
2:13:54
Speaker 2: ornaments for these trees. A caring place, you got Bluebird
2:13:57
Speaker 2: bus a Home, Holy Cross Elementary, Holy Family Well, Jeff
2:14:00
Speaker 2: Wiler's Boys and Girls Club of Greater Cincinnati, the Learning
2:14:03
Speaker 2: Grow Mount Washington School, ninth District elementary schools. The schools
2:14:07
Speaker 2: obviously are in touch with the needs of some of
2:14:09
Speaker 2: the underserved children. So that's actually I'm glad the school
2:14:12
Speaker 2: districts have teamed up with you. But I just I
2:14:14
Speaker 2: just grabbed a handful of the organizations. The full list
2:14:18
Speaker 2: my listeners can find. Also, if you're a business that
2:14:21
Speaker 2: wants to put a tree up it's wish Tree program
2:14:24
Speaker 2: dot org, wish Tree program dot or Joe put a
2:14:27
Speaker 2: link to that up on my blog page as well. Bob. Right, so,
2:14:31
Speaker 2: and now they follow up the next step. So you
2:14:34
Speaker 2: get the ornament from whatever tree you grab it from,
2:14:36
Speaker 2: you get the gift and then you bring it back
2:14:39
Speaker 2: to the business where you grab the ornament or do
2:14:42
Speaker 2: you How does the collection process work? Bob Wetter.
2:14:47
Speaker 16: Before COVID, that's how it totally worked. Now people a
2:14:53
Speaker 16: lot of people like the idea. They go on to Amazon,
2:14:56
Speaker 16: they have it delivered straight to the charity and a
2:15:00
Speaker 16: as we still go out and pick up from the
2:15:02
Speaker 16: location because a lot of my generation we like to
2:15:08
Speaker 16: put my hands on it deliver it back. Yeah, I know,
2:15:11
Speaker 16: a younger generation they love that computer.
2:15:17
Speaker 2: It does make it easy. I meant you, at least
2:15:20
Speaker 2: the computer has facilitated the ease of giving and helping
2:15:24
Speaker 2: out this time of year. So I'm not going to
2:15:25
Speaker 2: put through the idea, but.
2:15:28
Speaker 16: Right there is no reason not to give because if
2:15:32
Speaker 16: you think about it right now, you can get on
2:15:34
Speaker 16: your phone, make the purchase and you've done something good
2:15:38
Speaker 16: and you put a smile Christmas Day. You know, when
2:15:42
Speaker 16: you wake up your health. A lot of people with
2:15:45
Speaker 16: money gifts. There's a big help to everybody.
2:15:47
Speaker 2: And I know it gets you out of bed in
2:15:49
Speaker 2: the morning knowing the good work you're doing for all
2:15:50
Speaker 2: these underserved teams and children out there. Wish Tree program
2:15:53
Speaker 2: dot org. Mister humanitarian himself, call him Santa Claus. You
2:15:57
Speaker 2: will be at listener lunch. You price will chill you
2:15:59
Speaker 2: the first Wednesday of December, right.
2:16:01
Speaker 16: Bob, Absolutely bring your guests to that one. I've already
2:16:06
Speaker 16: talked to them. And they have a tree. Shelley has
2:16:10
Speaker 16: a tree. Yes, they always have a tree. We got
2:16:13
Speaker 16: one more plug. The water towers lint every night in
2:16:17
Speaker 16: Mount Washington now thanks to everybody and a lot of
2:16:20
Speaker 16: your listeners helped a lot with that also. And we
2:16:23
Speaker 16: have our spaghetti dinner Saturday. Our location is on Corbley
2:16:28
Speaker 16: Road in Mount Washington, next to Sands at the United
2:16:32
Speaker 16: Methodists malw Washington United Methodists. It's four to seven. You
2:16:36
Speaker 16: get salad from Chapolti, you get spaghetti and meatball from
2:16:43
Speaker 16: the Roses, cheese from gold Star, you get There's Kate
2:16:50
Speaker 16: from Servadis, and you get lemonade, coffee or tea, all
2:16:55
Speaker 16: for ten dollars and it's one hundred percent of profit
2:16:58
Speaker 16: for us, so it goes to that tower so we
2:17:01
Speaker 16: can be led every night in Mount.
2:17:03
Speaker 2: Washington Tower beautification brought to you again by Bob Wetter
2:17:06
Speaker 2: and all those who helped out. Bob Wetter, thanks again
2:17:08
Speaker 2: for the work that you do for those underserved. Wish
2:17:11
Speaker 2: Tree program dot orger just remember fifty five cars dot
2:17:13
Speaker 2: com or Joe's put Away. Bob, I'll see you in
2:17:15
Speaker 2: a few weeks over at Price Sal Chili right for
2:17:18
Speaker 2: the final Listener lunch of the year, and I hope
2:17:20
Speaker 2: to see you there too, My friend listener friends, uh
2:17:22
Speaker 2: Brigha mcgawan from the Hudson Institute charge