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55KRC Thursday Show - Smitherman, Cong Davidson, Empower U, Todd Zinser, Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Five o five fifty five k r C the talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Friday Eve.
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  Speaker 2: Some sill.
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  Speaker 3: A vacation and that's the way the news going.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it is Brian Thomas right here. Glad to be
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  Speaker 4: in a very happy Friday Eve to you. Good to
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  Speaker 4: see Joe's treker where he belongs, and uh, good to
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  Speaker 4: see this run down here on the fifty five kr
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  Speaker 4: see morning show. Hope you can stick around all morning,
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  Speaker 4: and of course give me a call if you got
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  Speaker 4: a reaction ill like for example, and something that's gonna
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  Speaker 4: come up later in the program. Todd Zenzer our Citizen
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  Speaker 4: Watchdog and you need to follow his podcast, Citizen Watchdog,
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  Speaker 4: produced by right Joe Tracker, who does podcast free promo
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  Speaker 4: for Joe. I do not receive anything by way of immuneration,
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  Speaker 4: compensation or any other gratuity from Joe Strecker for mentioning
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  Speaker 4: that he produces podcasts in his spare time. Just trying
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  Speaker 4: to give you a little love there, Joe, I know
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  Speaker 4: you do a great job anyway. He'll be joining the
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  Speaker 4: program at eighto five. Todds inzerwill the truth about reparations.
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  Speaker 4: Remember City of Cincinnati, it's going to have the reparations
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  Speaker 4: program release of pushing forward with it five million dollars
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  Speaker 4: so people can acquire a house or home improvements or something.
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  Speaker 4: And it is with I can't even believe I'm reading
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  Speaker 4: this so on the heels of that recent announcement. It
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  Speaker 4: wasn't that long ago when they just said this. We're
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  Speaker 4: now facing budget cuts. The city leaders are in the
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  Speaker 4: early stages of dealing with a new budget and they're
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  Speaker 4: talking about a five percent cut across the board. Public
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  Speaker 4: safety is being implemented, including police and fire. Public safety
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  Speaker 4: been a big problem for us lately. Oh look, the
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  Speaker 4: Ohio legislature introduced Holly's Bill. Holly, the woman that got
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  Speaker 4: brutally attacked in the beat down. Get to that in
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  Speaker 4: a minute. So that is a result of problems in
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  Speaker 4: downtown Cincinnati with crime. That resulted in an infusion of
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  Speaker 4: cash for the police department to go ahead and put
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  Speaker 4: up some cameras that have been promised forever. You remember
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  Speaker 4: that discussion anyway, So you had that five point four
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  Speaker 4: million dollars for public safety.
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  Speaker 1: It helped.
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  Speaker 4: Ken Kober was interviewed by WCPO, and I'll give him
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  Speaker 4: credit for doing the reporting on this because we need
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  Speaker 4: local reporting. So we can find out about our budget
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  Speaker 4: problems in downtown Cincinnati. He pointed out, you know, just
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  Speaker 4: to have increased visibility, it did make an impact. Staffing
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  Speaker 4: still a problem. Red flag which has been waiving for
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  Speaker 4: how many years now? He pointed out, and he said, listen,
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  Speaker 4: we're still one hundred officers short. We have officers leaving weekly.
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  Speaker 4: He did acknowledge it just graduated a class of fifty four,
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  Speaker 4: which is a start. It will be impactful, but it
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  Speaker 4: is going to close the ranks. And here we are
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  Speaker 4: now talking about a five percent budget cut, and of
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  Speaker 4: course stayed in the obvious Kober said, listen, if they
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  Speaker 4: choose to make these budget cuts, as they have to
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  Speaker 4: understand that safety will be impacted. Jeff Cameron had this
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  Speaker 4: to say, we don't know at this juncture. We will
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  Speaker 4: see where our police and our fire come back and
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  Speaker 4: where they think they will make cuts if they were
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  Speaker 4: looking at five percent cut will look like I know
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  Speaker 4: that does not sound grammatically correct. I'm just reading it.
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  Speaker 4: Can I try a stab at that? Again, we don't
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  Speaker 4: know at this juncture. We will see where our police
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  Speaker 4: and fire come back at where they think they will
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  Speaker 4: make cuts if they were looking at five percent cut
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  Speaker 4: will look.
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  Speaker 1: Like Joe, does that make sense to you?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, listen, I needed a reading here. It is
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  Speaker 4: five o'clock in the morning and I'm not quite awake yet.
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  Speaker 4: And he finished with and then that will be up
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  Speaker 4: to the manager, city manager or council to determine whether
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  Speaker 4: those cuts are feasible. So these cuts aren't locked in stone.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, this obviously reflects that there's a budget
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  Speaker 4: problem in downtown Cincinnati. Pivoting back to why then would
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  Speaker 4: they start a brand new program using five million dollars
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  Speaker 4: from I guess the general fund? Oh no, they said
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  Speaker 4: it was going to come from the marijuana proceeds. Marijuana
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  Speaker 4: proceeds which they are entitled to arender the way the
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  Speaker 4: laws written, which I think should go to the general fund.
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  Speaker 4: So basically, yes, it is a source of revenue for
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  Speaker 4: the city, but in the infinite wisdom of the Vice
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  Speaker 4: Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, we're going to take
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  Speaker 4: that money and we're going to put it toward a
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  Speaker 4: new program. Don't have a problem with government blowed. Government
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  Speaker 4: tries to take on every single damn obligation that we
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  Speaker 4: can even come up with, and sometimes they make some up.
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  Speaker 4: We need a government program. Yeah, we need to fund
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  Speaker 4: it too. And meanwhile, the police are already struggling with
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  Speaker 4: low numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Neighborhoods are hemorrhaging.
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  Speaker 4: Crime a problem, and you would think a responsible council
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  Speaker 4: would look at the fundamental reason why are they there?
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  Speaker 4: And what is the basis of government involvement? Roads, bridges, infrastructure,
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  Speaker 4: public safety. If you deal with all of those, you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have a well oil machine that people will gravitate to. Wow,
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  Speaker 4: look what a beautiful, clean, safe, low crime, well paved street.
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  Speaker 4: Environment goes back to that broken windows theory. Listen, if
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  Speaker 4: you fix the broken windows and you put a coat
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  Speaker 4: of paint on it, the place looks better. People feel
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  Speaker 4: better about their environment and more willing to well invest
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  Speaker 4: in and be proud of it and fight to keep
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  Speaker 4: it that way. Doesn't that theory sort of move beyond
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  Speaker 4: just one little neighborhood and one little block or something
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  Speaker 4: into an entire city? Broken windows, We got them everywhere
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  Speaker 4: in the form of potholes, infrastructure declining, and yes, that
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  Speaker 4: pesky problem with crime. Oh look, two guys pissed off
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  Speaker 4: at each other get all shooty at a nightclub. Hundreds
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  Speaker 4: of people standing around that's a crime thing.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Fortunately the police were close by. But you know, ill
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  Speaker 4: the States a problem. We've got a lot of criminals
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  Speaker 4: out there, and you know, something needs to be done
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  Speaker 4: about them too. Finally, people maybe waking up to the
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  Speaker 4: reality of the bond problem we have in downtown Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 4: Even a mayor have to have Parovall. Just the other
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  Speaker 4: day we talked about this yesterday. I'm shocked, shocked to
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  Speaker 4: find there's a low bond here. Fifty thousand dollars bond
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  Speaker 4: for a guy who started opening fire in a crowded,
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  Speaker 4: crowded room. Yeah great, especially since he had a criminal
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  Speaker 4: record and he had a firearm under disability, which means,
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  Speaker 4: of course he was not allowed to lawfully carry a firearm.
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  Speaker 4: Fifty grand. Yeah, that's a problem. Even mayor have to
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  Speaker 4: have Parovall recognized it. So we have a problem the
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  Speaker 4: judicial system generally speaking. Now, can he wave a magic
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  Speaker 4: wand and tell the judges what to do and change
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  Speaker 4: their mindset from liberal, woke criminal philosophy to something more
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  Speaker 4: more aligned with the reality of the justice system, which
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  Speaker 4: is you need to be tough on crime as a
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  Speaker 4: deterrent to stop other people from doing it.
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  Speaker 1: No, he can't.
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  Speaker 4: And that's not a budgetary issue. I will acknowledge all
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  Speaker 4: the money in the world can't change the mind of
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  Speaker 4: a judge, unless, of course, you're talking about campaign funds.
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  Speaker 4: Campaign funds that go to support judges who are going
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  Speaker 4: to be tough on crime. That might sway the voters
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  Speaker 4: in downtown Cincinnati. Although I say that almost laughing. But
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  Speaker 4: budget problems a wake up call for everybody. And oh
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  Speaker 4: don't elections have consequences, Yes, they certainly do. Coming up
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  Speaker 4: with the fitty five carre and that went off a
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  Speaker 4: tangent because I was talking about Todd Zenzer about reparations.
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  Speaker 4: He's at eight oh five here on the fifty five
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  Speaker 4: KRCY Morning Show. Of course, it's Thursday slash Friday Eve.
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  Speaker 4: I heeard media aviation expert Jay Ratliff, and boy, don't
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  Speaker 4: we have some fun topics to talk about with Jay,
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  Speaker 4: especially one that I think I'm going to embrace. Not
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  Speaker 4: that I fly very much. I really don't like flying,
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  Speaker 4: not because I'm afraid of it, just because it sucks.
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  Speaker 4: Generally speaking, United Airlines has a new policy.
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  Speaker 1: I love this.
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna be chucked off the airplane. So for all
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  Speaker 4: you rude people out there to think it's aokay to
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  Speaker 4: have your volume blasting in your cell phone while we
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  Speaker 4: are all in the same room as you, that would
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  Speaker 4: impact you. Although you know, I wish people had a
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  Speaker 4: greater sense of awareness about that situation anywhere. I was
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  Speaker 4: sitting around waiting for my doctor's appointment one day and
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  Speaker 4: there was somebody in the corner and that thing was
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  Speaker 4: blasting loud, staring at it, you know, not even paying
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  Speaker 4: attention to the rest of the room. Everybody's kind of
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  Speaker 4: staring at this person.
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  Speaker 1: What's with you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess at least in the United Airlines you
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  Speaker 4: won't be able to do that anymore. Just one of
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  Speaker 4: the rundown this morning. I knew this was coming, and
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  Speaker 4: what perfect timing, Congressman Warren Davidson. And well, with the
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  Speaker 4: Senate vote yesterday, I think it's going to make it
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  Speaker 4: a lot easier. The Senate would not refuse, or did
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  Speaker 4: not well limit Donald Trump's efforts in Iran, rejecting a
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  Speaker 4: resolution see can limit his ability to conduct military operations.
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  Speaker 4: The vote forty seven in favor, fifty three opposed shot
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  Speaker 4: down in flames. And of course there's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a vote, maybe as early as today, another war powers
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  Speaker 4: resolution similar to the one that got shot down yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: expected to be voted on today. Congressman Davidson will of
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  Speaker 4: course be able to vote on it or not, and
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  Speaker 4: it is already expected to fail. So I know, Congressman
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  Speaker 4: Davidson had previously expressed a desire to reign in Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump's authority. Ex you know, obviously Congress has the power
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  Speaker 4: to do that. We'll see if he's changed his opinion
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  Speaker 4: this morning and what his reaction is to the Senate
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  Speaker 4: vote yesterday. And of course, the whole idea seems to
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  Speaker 4: be predicated on the red line for many in Congress,
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  Speaker 4: the boots on the ground thing. Wait a minute, are
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  Speaker 4: we going to commit troops on the ground, Inerran? WHOA,
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  Speaker 4: that's going to require some congressional involvement, which you'd think
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  Speaker 4: that dropping a bunch of bombs and starting a war
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  Speaker 4: with a foreign country might require congressional involvement too, But
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  Speaker 4: this is where we find ourselves right now. So Congressman
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  Speaker 4: david and at seven oh five and yeay, someone who
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  Speaker 4: also can comment on the five percent potential cut for
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  Speaker 4: public safety visually the budget Christopher's Smitherman. We got a
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  Speaker 4: Thursday edition of the smither Vent and after all the
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  Speaker 4: shootings and anger, uh Joe wrote down faux anger from
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  Speaker 4: aft per Ball, the city's looking at cutting public safety. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: Christopher will talk about the five percent proposed cut as well.
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  Speaker 4: And I can only imagine what he's got to say
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  Speaker 4: longer pulling any punches. Yeah, he's no fan of Trump.
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  Speaker 4: But you got to remember all this, there's the laws
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  Speaker 4: behind it, that we have reality, and we have the
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  Speaker 4: law and the reality. I think for most people, at
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  Speaker 4: least my listening audience is you know, we're doing pretty
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  Speaker 4: good work in Iran. We have eliminated a lot of
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  Speaker 4: the threat. They continue to pound the targets and addressing
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  Speaker 4: one of the things that Daniel Davis Deep Dive I
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  Speaker 4: saw an article this morning, those bunkers, those underground bunkers
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  Speaker 4: that Daniel Davis talked about where the thousands of Iranian
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  Speaker 4: missiles are hiding. While they're dealing with those two. It's
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  Speaker 4: actually kind of an interesting strategy. They know where they are,
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  Speaker 4: these bunkers, So since we've eliminated all the Iranian airpower,
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  Speaker 4: we can send drones up that just circle around. Apparently,
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  Speaker 4: as it was explained in the article and reporting on this,
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  Speaker 4: we lack a number of those massive bunker buster kind
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  Speaker 4: of bombs or unlimited supply, so you'd think, well, why
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  Speaker 4: don't you just hit what like the way we do
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  Speaker 4: with the nuclear plants and blow all those up. Well,
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  Speaker 4: apparently there's a strategy involved here that doesn't require that
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  Speaker 4: they're unlimited supplies. So they got the little drones flying around,
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  Speaker 4: and as soon as one of these missile launchers emerges
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  Speaker 4: from the bunker, yeah right, we blow it up. So
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  Speaker 4: we've got that well in hand as well anyway, So
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  Speaker 4: you look at the reality of what's going on there,
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  Speaker 4: we feel pretty good about it, eliminating that evil threat,
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  Speaker 4: that evil force that we've been struggling with for forty
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  Speaker 4: seven years. But then there's the law. So we have
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  Speaker 4: all kinds of layers on this, and I and and
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  Speaker 4: I know you don't like Judson Polton are quite often
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  Speaker 4: because he is not a huge fan, if no fan
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  Speaker 4: of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand that.
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  Speaker 4: I wish he'd, you know, inject some of the Democrat
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  Speaker 4: presidents that have done the same damn thing that he's
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  Speaker 4: critical of Trump doing right now. But the vehicle to
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  Speaker 4: criticize is the law in his case, the Constitution. And
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  Speaker 4: he's an originalist, he's not a living constitution guy. The
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  Speaker 4: words are what the words are. And you know, you
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  Speaker 4: can move away from then and say, well, we have
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  Speaker 4: the War Powers resolution. Well, yeah, that was a nineteen
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  Speaker 4: seventy three thing because that Nixon veto. But then they
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  Speaker 4: obviously overrode the veto, which is not going to happen
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  Speaker 4: in the votes yesterday or today. Clearly there's not enough
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  Speaker 4: people to override any veto that Donald Trump might put
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  Speaker 4: on a limitation on his use of military force. But
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  Speaker 4: you could take away Donald Trump and the attacks on
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump's and his actions and put in literally any
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  Speaker 4: other president if they were to do that, he would
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  Speaker 4: have the same criticism. Is I think maybe animist or
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  Speaker 4: Trump is fueling the anger that comes through in his comments.
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  Speaker 4: But you can't eradicate the law. He is focusing on
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  Speaker 4: the underlying law, and it is his legal interpretation that
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  Speaker 4: this is unlawful. Others have different interpretations, and that's why
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate him being on. You know, you have to
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  Speaker 4: think about this along the lines of maybe what a
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  Speaker 4: judge might do. You know, he formerly a judge. Because
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  Speaker 4: it's not always cut and dry. That's why we have
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  Speaker 4: court cases, and that's why there's this sort of you know,
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  Speaker 4: evolution of the legal process. And thank god, well prior
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  Speaker 4: cases can be overturned. Otherwise we'd still be living under
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  Speaker 4: a world with dread Scott and other horrific decisions that
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  Speaker 4: previously came out of the Supreme Court Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: James is on the phone, James, how are you this morning?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show.
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  Speaker 6: Hey man. I just called in to say hello. I've
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  Speaker 6: been trying to process what's going on in the world,
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  Speaker 6: and I guess my pe brain can't conceive it all.
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  Speaker 6: So I've just been laying low, trying trying to stay healthy.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, with you listen.
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  Speaker 4: I'm with you, brother, I listen all day long, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you try to make sense of the world, and sometimes
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  Speaker 4: it's too much the process.
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  Speaker 6: I'm with you back, but hey, all, I got to
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  Speaker 6: say we do devstraight in our path that we can
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  Speaker 6: stay on as individual. Now we realize the political system,
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  Speaker 6: the legal system, the religious system, the justice system, they
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  Speaker 6: are all man made. They are all man manipulated. So
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  Speaker 6: whoever in power manipulated their advantage and you just gotta hey,
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  Speaker 6: almost go along with it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, sometimes sometimes it's beyond the individual to fight the system.
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  Speaker 4: We can talk about the corruption, we can talk about
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  Speaker 4: the manipulation, raise everyone's collective awareness of it and hopefully
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  Speaker 4: not let it ruin our day to day life lives, right, James,
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  Speaker 4: Because you know, if it gets under your skin what
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  Speaker 4: they are doing things over which you have no control
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  Speaker 4: and you're walking around looking like Greta Thunberg with a
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  Speaker 4: big frown and anger on your face, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: out living a life filled with anger, well you're wasting
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  Speaker 4: your life.
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  Speaker 6: Here you go, brother, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I like you.
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  Speaker 6: Listen to lunch go oh, thank you, James.
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  Speaker 1: It was great. We had a great time.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I'm not going to diss any of
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  Speaker 4: the restaurants we've gone to but the Works Pizza Company.
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  Speaker 1: And love them.
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  Speaker 4: They fell all over themselves. They were so happy we
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  Speaker 4: were there, kept coming over. They were just please come back.
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  Speaker 4: We love you guys. You know this was great. It
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  Speaker 4: was great for their business, which I think is fun.
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  Speaker 4: Lots of listeners showed up a terrific day, James. I
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  Speaker 4: appreciate you bringing that up, because that was something I
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  Speaker 4: was going to mention as I came out of the
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  Speaker 4: next break.
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  Speaker 6: James, all right, and I hope to make it for
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  Speaker 6: the April listening to lunch, I'd be back in town.
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  Speaker 4: Can't wait, James, can't wait, looking forward to seeing your union,
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  Speaker 4: beautiful wife at listener lunch and folks, I will tell
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  Speaker 4: you when we come back where that's gonna be. The
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  Speaker 4: Liberty Collective. What No, don't wear olive drab gray communists.
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  Speaker 4: You know it's a it's a cool place and it's
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  Speaker 4: up in Liberty Township. I'll be right back with that
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  Speaker 4: and of course great listeners. And congratulations to my submarine
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  Speaker 4: in fact skunked me. I'm I listened to no problem,
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  Speaker 4: revealing that he's well just better than me. He says
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  Speaker 4: his verses are telling him that submarines. Now you heard
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  Speaker 4: about the Iranian ship being sunked, blown up by a torpedo,
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  Speaker 4: first torpedo sinking of a ship since World War Two.
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  Speaker 4: He said his sources are telling him that the submarine
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  Speaker 4: is also sunk in Iranian sub which is interesting. He
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  Speaker 4: also mentioned Davy Jones Locker and that's upsitting on the
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  Speaker 4: bottom of the sea anyway. Pivoting over to the next one,
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  Speaker 4: this sounds like a really cool place. The Liberty collective,
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  Speaker 4: which I know sounds like some sort of a what
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  Speaker 4: narco syndicalas Commune Joe. Lots of hippies know that's not
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  Speaker 4: the way it is. It's five distinct restaurants, each individually owned,
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  Speaker 4: privately owned. They're all in one spot. Though it's described
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  Speaker 4: as Mike and Heather eers own the facility, multiple local
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  Speaker 4: families own the various restaurants, and again there's no chains there.
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  Speaker 4: So what you do is you show up and what
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  Speaker 4: is intriguing to me? Among everything else they have there,
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  Speaker 4: including an ice cream shop, coffee and breakfast bar, three
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  Speaker 4: bars including a wine and bourbon bar, and a thirty
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  Speaker 4: tap self poor beer wall. Hmmm, they have entertaining an amenity.
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  Speaker 4: So we're gonna be enjoying next month, first Wednesday of
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  Speaker 4: the month, Bristols, Beef and Barbecue, Rice Life, Flavorful Hibachi, Romando's,
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  Speaker 4: Pizza Familia, Roberto and Miguel's, and then finally Miss Lee
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  Speaker 4: Lay's Crafted Chicken. Those are the options you have for lunch,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm looking forward to trying that Placehouse Over to
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  Speaker 4: the phones, Tom, thanks for calling this morning. Happy Friday Eve.
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  Speaker 7: Sounds like some people might be able to drink their lunch.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, imagine so self poor beer.
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  Speaker 8: Wall that.
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  Speaker 7: With the wrong crowd, that could be problematic.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well if it's one, if you pay one flat price
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  Speaker 4: and then you get unlimited self poor, that's where things.
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  Speaker 1: Go off the round.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Now you're listening your I've been to a couple
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  Speaker 7: of listener lunches and your your people generally are are
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  Speaker 7: pretty well behaved. Well, there's some crowds that that's a
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  Speaker 7: bad idea.
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  Speaker 4: Right, I got a lot of listeners. I got a
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  Speaker 4: lot of listeners that do not drink at listener lunch
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  Speaker 4: because they're packing. And I always take great comfort there's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of sealed carryholders of my crowd.
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  Speaker 7: The safest gathering of people in the in the Tri
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  Speaker 7: state area.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not number one, it's up there in the
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  Speaker 4: top five. Thank you, Bob Tire if you're out there anyway.
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  Speaker 7: So, uh, you mentioned that. I heard you say something
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  Speaker 7: earlier when you were referring to the City of Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 7: You were talking about them, and you said a a
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  Speaker 7: responsible government. Now, obviously that wasn't a reference to the
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  Speaker 7: City of Cincinnati government. That contrast, right, a stark contrast,
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  Speaker 7: because when you have that many liberals. Uh, well, I
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  Speaker 7: mean basically no Republicans on council, and obviously the mayors
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  Speaker 7: is a basically a communist, so they're not going to
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  Speaker 7: be responsible. Uh And and and I I try to
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  Speaker 7: point it out to everybody that that probably the biggest
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  Speaker 7: the biggest effect they have on you is your wallet.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: They take your money that they feel it is their
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  Speaker 7: job and their duty in life to take as much
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  Speaker 7: money from you as possible and spend it on things
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  Speaker 7: that that is not part of a responsible government. You
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  Speaker 7: know that that they we should have basic services the
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  Speaker 7: government provides it's necessary. I understand that. And then above it,
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  Speaker 7: beyond that, No, it's not your responsibility. That's it. Stop
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  Speaker 7: taking money from me and spending it on this stupid crap,
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  Speaker 7: you know. And yeah, I agree with Joe. That's that
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  Speaker 7: was faux anger for for him to come out, have
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  Speaker 7: to have to come out and make a comment about
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  Speaker 7: it being low bail. Give me a break, dude, Really,
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  Speaker 7: we all know you're full of garbage. You know, this
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  Speaker 7: is exactly the stuff that those people want. They want
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  Speaker 7: to go easy on crime. They don't want to be
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  Speaker 7: resp possible. They just want to take your buddy and
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  Speaker 7: spend it on something else and figure out a way
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  Speaker 7: to get everybody stirred up on the Democrat side so
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  Speaker 7: they keep getting elected. Don't vote Democrat. Have a great day, Bro.
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  Speaker 1: You do the same. Tom.
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  Speaker 4: Have you got time for Hank, Joseph, Hank, Welcome to
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  Speaker 4: the show, and a happy Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Eve you, sir, Good.
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  Speaker 11: Morning, brand, great listening runch yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 11: So yeah, it was a bit of a drive to
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  Speaker 11: get there, but it was worth it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 11: Anyway, I was going to say, and before I start,
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  Speaker 11: I'd like to remind everybody Abe Lincoln's comment on the internet.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, if you read it on the internet, it's true,
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  Speaker 4: said Abe Lincoln.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 11: But anyway, I was happening to blunder along some internet
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  Speaker 11: videos of Iranians expatriots talking about the bombing and so forth,
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  Speaker 11: and they're dancing in the streets, a lot of them.
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  Speaker 11: It's kind of funny. Some of them were doing the
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  Speaker 11: Trump dance to yams Ya.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen that.
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  Speaker 10: And one of the couple of.
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  Speaker 11: The things I wanted to point out though, that they
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  Speaker 11: were talking about, was one of them mentioned that she
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  Speaker 11: was in contact with family still in Iran, and the
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  Speaker 11: family was warning to say that don't believe what you
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  Speaker 11: see on the news from the Iranian government, because there's
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  Speaker 11: when they were having the protests a couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 11: they weren't releasing the bodies from people that they'd executed
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  Speaker 11: in the street. They were saving them up for propaganda
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  Speaker 11: value in case the US attacked.
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  Speaker 4: There is clearly they see you know, you started out
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  Speaker 4: with that joke about Abraham Lincoln, and I'm with you
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: because relative specifically to the videos of people dancing in
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: the streets and celebration of what the United States is
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  Speaker 4: doing doing the Trump dance, you don't my immediate reaction
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  Speaker 4: to that. This is my default mode, man, I don't
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  Speaker 4: necessarily believe it. I hope that that's true. I hope
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  Speaker 4: what I'm seeing is true. But AI, these days, you
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: can easily be duped. It's so good right now that
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: some clown could create an artificial intelligence video of people
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  Speaker 4: I don't know burning the American flag and be oh
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  Speaker 4: my god, Look, it's the exact opposite reaction of the
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  Speaker 4: United States once people are angry.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: It was like Daniel Davis talking about people in the
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  Speaker 4: streets protesting the United States involvement, and I'm thinking to myself, well,
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  Speaker 4: what about all the protesters, or at about the people
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  Speaker 4: that are celebrating the fact that we're involved, And what
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  Speaker 4: of the reality that there are still evil Iranian loyalist
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  Speaker 4: thugs out there that might be willing to continue killing
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  Speaker 4: people who are in celebratory mood because the United States
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  Speaker 4: has killed a supreme leader. Maybe they're hiding. You can't
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  Speaker 4: gauge global or you can't gauge an entire country sentiment
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  Speaker 4: based upon what you're seeing on one or two or
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  Speaker 4: even fifteen or twenty random videos pivot over. Someone sitting
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  Speaker 4: in some foreign country is looking at what the local
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  Speaker 4: media there, it could be biased, is showing you about
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  Speaker 4: the United States of America, and they put a twenty
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  Speaker 4: four to seven loop feed of all the evil all
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  Speaker 4: the protesters out there who are assaulting ICE agents, right,
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  Speaker 4: it would make the entire country look like it hates
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  Speaker 4: the ICE agents. And I know a lot of people
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: my listening audience feel like the ICE agents are doing
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  Speaker 4: us a good service and getting rid of really dangerous
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  Speaker 4: people from our area. There's a lot of people that
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  Speaker 4: support that. So does the video reflect a general consensus?
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  Speaker 4: You can't tell there. It lies the challenge these days
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  Speaker 4: Three pound long haired Chihuahua named Princess suffered serious injuries,
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  Speaker 4: to take custody of the dog. Our award winner this morning,
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  Speaker 4: Tracy Fitzgerald fifty four, along with her sister Stacy, They
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  Speaker 4: the dog's owner, sitting in the passenger seat of an
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  Speaker 4: moving along Largo Road. Tracy allegedly threw the chihuahuah out
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  Speaker 4: of the front passenger side window. Witness told police the
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  Speaker 4: dog was thrown approximately five feet from the vehicle onto
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  Speaker 4: the sidewalk, and the witness identified Tracy as the one
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  Speaker 4: who threw the dog. Excuse me, that came out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 4: Court to the police and veterinary records, the poor dog Princess
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  Speaker 4: injuries include acute blunt force trauma, abrasions that exposed vulnerable
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  Speaker 4: parts of her cranium, a bleeding eye and suspected traumatic
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  Speaker 4: Division faced with that to a custody of Princess again,
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  Speaker 4: civil preatings proceedings against Stacy quote, the dog seized is suffering,
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  Speaker 4: and it is evident from the circumstances surrounding the removal
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  Speaker 4: that the owner cannot care for them and will not
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  Speaker 4: in the foreseeable future be capable of caring for the animal.
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  Speaker 4: Attempts to serve Stacy with legal process apparently fruitless. There
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  Speaker 4: She's responded to what they say is belligerently to texts
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  Speaker 4: and phone calls from the County process server. Reportedly, Stacy
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  Speaker 4: reportedly quote complained about not having access to her dog,
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  Speaker 4: ending one conversation with go f yourself, and in another quote,
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  Speaker 4: you're the robbers, I'm the copper. I guess y'all forgot.
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  Speaker 4: I'm the victim. Finally arrested and Tracy released after posting
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  Speaker 4: a five thousand dollars bond and a judge ordering her
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  Speaker 4: that she is not to own or possess any animals.
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  Speaker 4: Delaware elementary school teachers and now facing felony charges. Investigations
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  Speaker 4: revealed the abused special needs students, inching them closer and
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  Speaker 4: in Smyrna, about fifteen miles north of Dover, Delaware, started
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  Speaker 4: investigating in February when child abuse allegations surface at the
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  Speaker 4: elementary school. A long and detailed probe in conduction with
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  Speaker 4: the Delaware Department of Justice along with the school district,
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  Speaker 4: revealed what they called a pattern of troubling behavior in
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  Speaker 4: a special needs classroom. One of the teachers, thirty one
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  Speaker 4: year old Mikayla Lomax, allegedly stuck a student, struck a
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  Speaker 4: a bottle of water as a form of discipline, treating
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  Speaker 4: nine counts of endangering the welfare of a child and
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  Speaker 4: offensive touching, she was taken a jail at twelve hundred
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  Speaker 4: twelve five hundred dollars bond. They also uncovered an incident
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  Speaker 4: from two years ago in which twenty six year old
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  Speaker 4: Marissa Johnson and twenty one year old Morgan Donnihue report
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  Speaker 4: the fed students hot takis, chips and hot sauce despite
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  Speaker 4: difficult to process spicy foods. Cops took Johnson to jail.
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  Speaker 4: I took Johnson to jail ten counts of endangering the
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  Speaker 4: Donahue facing a single count of endangering welfare and a
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  Speaker 4: five hundred dollars bond. District court, in a statement, said, well,
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  Speaker 4: the alleged wrongdoing by staff, I actually reported it. They
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  Speaker 4: worked diligently with law enforcement partners throughout the investigation. School
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  Speaker 4: officials said they removed the teachers from the classroom after
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  Speaker 4: the allegations surface, and also said most of the accused
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  Speaker 4: teachers are no longer with the district. That most is
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  Speaker 4: in quotes, so they know the kids got a digestive
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  Speaker 4: problem and they feed them with these hot chips, these
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  Speaker 4: your children? Will be back in Delaware? Weary of a
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  Speaker 4: mom says her seventeen year old son died trying to
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  Speaker 4: quote unquote master a viral deadly TikTok trend they're calling
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  Speaker 4: the Blackout Challenge. That challenge allegedly encourages user to choke
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  Speaker 4: themselves with belts, purse strings, or anything similar until passing out.
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  Speaker 4: Was it a David Carrotine that was doing that? Joe
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  Speaker 4: and that was the former lead singer of Inaccess died
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  Speaker 4: that way too, didn't he? Were they doing the Blackout
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  Speaker 4: Challenge or something else? Trust me, I know the answer
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  Speaker 4: to that question. Anyway, Son Won of at least five
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  Speaker 4: juveniles that's been named in a wrongful death lawsuit in
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  Speaker 4: jiu jitsu belt that was tied to his bunk bed.
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  Speaker 4: Mom told the journal that it was he was meant
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  Speaker 4: after becoming more and more infatuated with social media, where
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  Speaker 4: he the child I'm asked more than twenty five thousand
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  Speaker 4: on his account, which is still up, so I'm dancing
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  Speaker 4: a day before he died. Artists and five other families,
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  Speaker 4: all from the UK suing TikTok entities and the apps
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  Speaker 4: parent company byte Dance, one of the eneities incorporated in Delaware.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I guess they're in a Delaware court complaints
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  Speaker 4: as ByteDance design and distribution decisions, including promotion of the
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  Speaker 4: similar challenges to minor users, as well as harmful algorithmic
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  Speaker 4: targeting and discrimination, are to blame for the death list
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  Speaker 4: juveniles or not named the lawsuit. I guess John does.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe we'll turn into a class action. There's another twelve
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  Speaker 4: year old boy that was referenced said to have died
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  Speaker 4: after attempting the challenge by choking himself with a shoelace.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Other illustrations and examples exist. What are your children doing
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  Speaker 4: when you're not watching them and they are on social media?
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  Speaker 4: Five fifty six Right now fifty five KR City Talk
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  Speaker 4: station planning to talk about in the coming hour, including
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  Speaker 4: the Senate block Congressman Warren Davidson coming up at seven
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  Speaker 4: oh five it's gonna be a good show this morning,
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  Speaker 4: least based on the rundown of the guests. Thank you
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  Speaker 4: Joe Strecker for that. I'll be right back to six
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  Speaker 4: Happy Friday Eve Bryan Thomas host a.
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  Speaker 4: I was told to kind of regularly say that. Yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 4: for the program, and I appreciate him winning up great
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: guests before I get to CJ, who's on the phone,
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: and you can join CJ and chime in here on
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  Speaker 4: the fifty five KOC Morning Show. I appreciate callers five one, three, seven, four,
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  Speaker 4: nine to fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two
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  Speaker 4: One half hour, actually less twenty five minutes from now.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: Bottom of the hour, we get a special edition of
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: a Thursday Smither vent. We're going to talk about the
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  Speaker 4: Cincinnati public safety being cut.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Their proposings of their discussioning budget a five percent reduction
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: in money going to fire and police, among well all
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: other departments. Looks like across the board and jeez, things
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: aren't bad enough on now. And you know, in the
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: context of something Todd Zenzer will be talking about at
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: eighth five citizen Watchdog Todd Zenzer, former Inspector General for
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: the United States of America, He's going to talk to
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: the truth about reparations. So they're talking budget and a
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: five percent across the board cut while also talking about
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: creating a brand new program with five million dollars going
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  Speaker 4: for housing or something under a reparations theme. Okay, seven
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  Speaker 4: to five, one our fro now. Congressman Warren Davidson on
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  Speaker 4: Iran generally speaking, and the Senate rejected the curving of
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump's ability yesterday. That was a was forty eight vote.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I guess, well anyway got shot down. You heard that
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  Speaker 4: on top of the OIR news. But they're going to
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: try it again today in the House. Doesn't look like
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: they have the votes. We'll see where Congressman Davidson is
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: on that. But the defining issue seems to now be
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: will there be boots on the ground? Are you going
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: to commit troops to Iran? Donald Trump? They'renouncing or even
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: around that. They're reserving all options. No one's definitively said
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  Speaker 4: yes or no on it, but a lot of congressmen
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: and women are saying, hey, way, what's the story on here?
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: We may have to curb his authority if we're talking
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: about boots on the ground. So that is a moving target.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: So Congressman Davidson in an hour, and then we'll have
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: an Empower You seminar with Dustin Goldie, who actually owns
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: a cattle ranch, and he'll explain in the Empower You
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: Seminar tonight seven pm why meat prices are so high?
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Plus Jay Ratliffe looking forward to him, I do every
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: Thursday eight thirty. With that, let's go to the phone, CJ.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Thanks for calling this morning, Welcome to the program.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: Before I get to my what I want to talk
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: to about Iran. There is nothing that helps affordability in
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: a great subsidy because all that's going to do is
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: jack the price up more because they're going to have
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: the money anyway to buy it. So why didn't I
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: just jack the price up to match the subsidy plus.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: What they can pay for it?
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: There you go, Yeah, and that's it helps supportability?
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: Like that?
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I was that reminds me. The other
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: day I read an article Bernie Sanders is proposing a
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: wealth tax on all the billionaires, which he in turn
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: wanted to then distribute to every person in every household
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: making less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: don't know, it was like three thousand dollars check or something.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Can you imagine that three thousand dollars checks going out
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: to literally millions of people all at once. You don't
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: think that would have a maybe an inflationary reality to
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: that too, do you see?
• 38:34
  Speaker 13: J Oh, not at all?
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Demand if you can catch my chasm.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, demand immediately increases for those who don't get the
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: economic reality of that. It's like what happened in COVID.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: You flood the market with a lot of quote unquote
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: free money. People start going out and buying things. Yeah,
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: and then the scarcity comes up, and that's when prices increase. Okay,
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: economic lesson over CJ. What was on your mind?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, well, I was watching some stuff last night about
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: what's going on over there in Iran.
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: And let me tell you something, And this is.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Something great for Dave Patter when you talk about we
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: talk with Dave's next is Israel knew everything about Iran,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: not because of street cameras, but they had infiltrated every
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: single cell phone, They had infiltrated every single piece of
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: electronic device that in the city of Tehran, and they
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: knew more about the people and about Tehran than they
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: did Jerusalem. That's great for us right now, But where
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: are most of our electronics made? China?
• 39:39
  Speaker 9: And all of this.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Could be all about China, and now you are giving away.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: We have given away because all of our electronics are
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: made over there, and it doesn't even have to be
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: made over there because a lot of this was done
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: just through apps and other things that are created that
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: they could just get right into those apps.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: We have dealt with for.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: The last ten years, the Chinese and the Russians trying
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: to any Iranians trying to break our water and electricity
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: codes in order to shut off water and electricity through
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: different wormholes in the in the electronic space. That BIS
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: should petrify every single American earth in this country, just
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: simply because we have no privacy there. If you think
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: you got privacy over anything and that you can't.
• 40:28
  Speaker 13: Be tracked, you are crazy crazy.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: Number one and number.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Two number two, the other thing that just like I
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: almost couldn't sleep with They were talking about this and
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: I was processing it is that they are making decisions
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: over there on Iran, on targets that used to take
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: days and weeks within a matter of minutes and hours,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: not because our human intelligence has gotten better, not because
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: we have access to all of this information that we're
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: getting from cell phones and televisions and street cameras and.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: Other things, all because of AI.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: And if you are not scared and petrified of the
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: power of AI from what we are watching in Iran,
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: like you really need to start figuring things out as
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: a country on what we will allow, because man, you know,
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: the line of yesterday sci fi is today science. We
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: are there now, and we better realize that AI is
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: a true, clear and present danger because what happens if
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: those computers turn on us.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: Well, there's always that, you know, sort of we've seen
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: that in science fiction movies. But here's a real time
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: reality going on about this. There's a lawsuit going on
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: about the impact of these algorithms and this artificial intelligence
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: like chat, GPT and the others having influence on children's minds,
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: and it's almost like a drug. I got a couple
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: of comments on that, but then you know the one
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: thing there was a you may have read about this,
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: and Dave Hatter has been talking about this for a
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: long time. The self driving automobiles, or the ability to
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: remote control or otherwise operate the audio of the vehicle
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: from far away. Even if you have your own like
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: say Tesla, it has the ability to be overridden your actions.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: And that's what happened the other day when the police
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: and first responders are trying to show U at that
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: Austin bar with that shooting, which may have been a terrorist,
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: aack a way Mo self driving taxi blocked first responders
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: from getting to the bar. Now was that a software glitch?
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: That car is right across the street. I'm looking at
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: a video of it right now. It is blocking the
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: entire street. Was that a nefarious action? Well, I'm not
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: going to reach that conclusion right now because the investigation
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: isn't over. But the car did stop in the middle
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: of the street and it did block first responders, So
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: right there, can you imagine that on a massive scale
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: switch flipped by the Chinese Communist Party and all these
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: vehicles go rogue, They run into power stations, they run
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: into other cars, they drive through crowds full of people.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: They just caused general chaos.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: Whatever come what may serious problem one of a multitude
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: of serious problems. We can come up on this. And yes,
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: the apps are terrible. Someone actually there was a sales
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: opportunity for me. Will you speak on behalf of this?
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: And ultimately it was a company that was providing an
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: app to do something and I don't even remember what
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: it is, and I'm saying no, I'm not going to
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: speak for them. I got Dave Hatter on the program
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: every six thirty. Dave Hatter is he'd stay the hell
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: away from app guys. There nothing but vacuums for personal data.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: Don't let them do it. It's like, hell, no, sorry,
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: I got nothing against the particular company. I don't know
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: anything about it. And that's another reason you can't advertise
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: for someone. But why would I try to promote something
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: that I regularly tell people to stay the hell away from?
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Because I'm listening to the.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Tech guru Dave Hatter warning me over and over again,
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: and you about the dangers associated with these apps. So there,
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: thank you for the call, and you're right, scary and
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: frightening technology, and I can just coming about six fifteen
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• 44:13
  Speaker 4: about that. I've learned so much about the insurance business,
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: specifically medical insurance that I was not aware of. And
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: they know every in and out with medical insurance. And
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: I know you probably just signed up during open enrollment
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: under a group plan that your employer offered. You do
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  Speaker 4: you think your employer who picked that knows everything that
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  Speaker 4: Fifty five ker City Talk Station Christopher smithming up next.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: Apparently the City of cincinnais and budget talks and they're
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: planning on slicing five percent across the board. Okay, maybe
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: he'll have a word or two about the brand new
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: proposed reparations program of five million dollars in the middle
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: of a budget problem. We've gotten city and citizen watch
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: dog Tom zens are on that topic the reparations at
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: eight oh five here on the fifty five Cares the
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: Morning Show to go to the phone see what Bobby's
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: got this morning. Bobby, thanks for calling having you Friday Eve.
• 45:06
  Speaker 8: Good morning to you, my friend, Faith Flag family, and
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: today is handicapped Thursday.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: Ah, what's the over and under or are you you're
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: talking about deaths in the city of Cincinnati. Are just
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: people who got hit by gunfire?
• 45:19
  Speaker 10: Just got hit by guns?
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 45:21
  Speaker 8: We got an awful good medical staff.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: God, thank God.
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: Well with the weather coming and seventy degree whether we're
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: going to put it at four and a half.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately four and a half.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: It would be higher than that if it wasn't raining. Yes, okay,
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: Market It's a sad topic to laugh at, Bobby, but
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: I can't help it.
• 45:46
  Speaker 10: Last It is a sad topic. You know.
• 45:49
  Speaker 8: I don't want to ever have to do this, but
• 45:51
  Speaker 8: you know, everybody needs to support the blue support all
• 45:54
  Speaker 8: your fire departments, your law enforcement and everything. They're all
• 45:58
  Speaker 8: great people. They are just unfortunate. It's just unfortunate. We
• 46:02
  Speaker 8: got a bunch of thugs that are all compiled in
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: the city of Cincinnati. We don't have these problems around
• 46:09
  Speaker 8: the areas. It's in Cincinnati.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, contemplate that one appreciated.
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: Bobby, don't forget firearms, brother, don't forget firearms. I know
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: that the bad guys with the firearms are the subject
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: matter that you're talking about, but good guys with firearms
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: might end up saving a lot of lives. Going back
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: to the eighteen thousand suspected terrorist members that have entered
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: our country during the Biden administration, They've been talking about
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: that a lot of late, and that some are very,
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: very concerned that many of them may be very highly
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: trained Navy Seal type training individuals who are waiting to
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: get the activation call to launch their cell operations and
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: then maybe show up in a neighborhood near you and
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: wreaking havoc on just generally speaking. And my military friends
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: did the math on that eighteen thousand divided by five
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: the number of people in a given cell. I don't
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: know why they arrived at five. Maybe that's something military related. Anyway,
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: you divide the thirty six hundred five men teams and
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: you spread them around all the United States, that's seventy
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: two to five men teams per state. And if they're
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: highly trained. You can imagine they may engage in specific
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: type of operations. Maybe they've been assigned to blow up
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: power plants and disrupt your lives with that. Can you
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: imagine how disruptive flipping the switch of electricity off would be?
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: Many times we've talked about that, going back to the
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: common about the Chinese Communist Party and maybe the Russians
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: or the North Koreans or maybe the Irradians hacking into
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: our systems. Seems that everybody's actively engaged in doing that
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: for the purposes of being able to flip that switch
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: and turn everything off. I don't want to be an
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: alarmist about it, but it is You can't deny the
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: reality of something like that. That it is certainly possible.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: They have found that many of our very important systems,
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: including our governmental systems involving military, have been hacked into.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: Oh look that bug's been lurking in the background now
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: for how many years? Fools, the ones not looking out
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: for their own best interest, and we need to start
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: better looking at our own best interests, you know, going
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: back to the whole city of since and anything the
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: core government functions in a time of global turmoil and
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: a time of an all connected, internet based, software driven
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: or whatever world that we live in. I think one
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: of the primary, you know, obligations of our government, roads, bridges, infrastructure,
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: and making sure that some evil, nefarious actor out in
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: the world can't flip the switch and turn our electricity off.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: I think that's a valuable thing to pay attention to,
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: don't you. Sixty five fifty five kr CD talk station
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: wait for it, five KRECD talk station have b Friday
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Eve special edition, so please to see. Actually, I'm happy
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: when Christopher Smithman is on the rundown anytime I see it,
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: and we always get him on Mondays at seven to
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: twenty for the Smith Event. But Christopher's got a special
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: segment today because I guess the City of Cincinnati is
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: looking for a five percent across the board cut. It's
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: budget time. Christopher smith Aman with the Smith Event. Welcome back,
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, and my
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: dear friend is always great talking with you.
• 49:14
  Speaker 9: Hey, Brian, thanks for having me on. You know, we
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: have seen this pattern where elected officials just seemed to
• 49:23
  Speaker 9: not be able to balance their budgets. But at the
• 49:26
  Speaker 9: same time, what confuses us is we see them issuing
• 49:30
  Speaker 9: contracts like to an Irish rollie for six hundred and
• 49:33
  Speaker 9: fifty thousand dollars. See it's the disconnect that we don't
• 49:37
  Speaker 9: understand as they're saying they're doing their budgeting, or as
• 49:42
  Speaker 9: we've talked about ten eleven years ago, the operation of
• 49:46
  Speaker 9: the streetcar. See that what happened was the streetcar supporters
• 49:50
  Speaker 9: were saying to us that this was about the capital budget.
• 49:54
  Speaker 9: It was an argument, why are we spending ninety four
• 49:57
  Speaker 9: million dollars of our debt? We had issue ninety four
• 50:00
  Speaker 9: million dollars in debt and then we had to get
• 50:03
  Speaker 9: money from the federal government to build the street car.
• 50:06
  Speaker 9: But there was the other discussion that once you build it,
• 50:10
  Speaker 9: how do you operate it? And that operating budget was
• 50:14
  Speaker 9: going to absolutely impact our ability to pay police and
• 50:19
  Speaker 9: fire and sanitation. Now we have the chickens coming home
• 50:23
  Speaker 9: to roost. You're spending five million plus dollars per year
• 50:28
  Speaker 9: to operate a street car that drives around in a
• 50:31
  Speaker 9: circle like a Chuchu train. And then you're coming before
• 50:35
  Speaker 9: us saying we don't have money, We've got to raise taxes,
• 50:39
  Speaker 9: We've got to pay Irish rolling six hundred and fifty thousand.
• 50:42
  Speaker 9: We want to do something with a mural in front
• 50:45
  Speaker 9: of city Hall, but now you don't have money for cops.
• 50:48
  Speaker 9: Here's the reality. This is a city council and a
• 50:52
  Speaker 9: mayor that doesn't like the police department. I'm trying to
• 50:56
  Speaker 9: make it plain for grandma and grandpa to understand. They
• 51:00
  Speaker 9: don't like cops. They want to reimagine, they want to
• 51:04
  Speaker 9: they want to defund it. To defund the police, marketing
• 51:09
  Speaker 9: didn't work, Brian Thomas. So now what we're seeing here
• 51:12
  Speaker 9: is we just got to cut five percent. Let me
• 51:14
  Speaker 9: remind everybody that less than a year ago, we had
• 51:17
  Speaker 9: an active shooter on Fountain Square at a restaurant shooting,
• 51:22
  Speaker 9: We had shootings in our downtown core. Let me remind
• 51:26
  Speaker 9: all voters that we just had a mass shooting, nine
• 51:29
  Speaker 9: people shot just three to four days ago. Why would
• 51:32
  Speaker 9: you have a mayor and a council come out with
• 51:35
  Speaker 9: any kind of proposal saying that you want to cut
• 51:38
  Speaker 9: first responders or law enforcements in a time where we
• 51:41
  Speaker 9: need them the most. Brian Thomas.
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: Well, couse, the streetcars free, Christopher, doesn't that mean that
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: we don't have to pay for it?
• 51:49
  Speaker 9: See Bryan, So your listening audience. He loves giving me
• 51:52
  Speaker 9: red meat. He knows he loves giving me red meat
• 51:56
  Speaker 9: because he knows that nothing is free. The reality of
• 52:00
  Speaker 9: what's happening is you and I are subsidizing the streetcar.
• 52:04
  Speaker 9: We are paying for everybody who rides that streetcar, and
• 52:08
  Speaker 9: now they don't have money to operate the streetcar and
• 52:12
  Speaker 9: pay police and fire in sanitation and city workers and
• 52:16
  Speaker 9: everybody out there who was calling you and I crazy
• 52:19
  Speaker 9: saying we were against the street car. We just don't
• 52:22
  Speaker 9: like mass transit had nothing to do with it. We
• 52:25
  Speaker 9: said that this was a pet project that the City
• 52:28
  Speaker 9: of Cincinnati cannot afford. And by the way, you never
• 52:31
  Speaker 9: hear them saying we're going to reduce the operation of
• 52:35
  Speaker 9: the streetcar. It's never on the table. They don't say,
• 52:37
  Speaker 9: okay man, we're gonna take two point five million dollars
• 52:40
  Speaker 9: out of the operating We're going to operate it only
• 52:43
  Speaker 9: between these hours, and we're gonna take this two point
• 52:45
  Speaker 9: five million dollars of operating dollars for the streetcar and
• 52:49
  Speaker 9: direct it towards the operation of our budget, making sure
• 52:52
  Speaker 9: that we have police devices. They never do that. That's
• 52:55
  Speaker 9: the problem right now, and they'll come back and give
• 52:57
  Speaker 9: an Irish rollie another six hundred fifty thousand dollars. And
• 53:01
  Speaker 9: you and I, Brian Thomas, we don't even know what
• 53:03
  Speaker 9: she's doing with that money. What is OROI on it?
• 53:07
  Speaker 9: If you were to ask her? Oh, I'm so offended
• 53:09
  Speaker 9: that you're asking me how we're doing with the money.
• 53:11
  Speaker 9: How dare you ask us about what.
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: We're doing with the budget?
• 53:15
  Speaker 9: Just six hundred and fifty that's that's racist. You're picking
• 53:20
  Speaker 9: on me. And then we turn around and we see
• 53:23
  Speaker 9: what we see youth downtown with guns. You and I
• 53:26
  Speaker 9: know that violence in our core on the banks are
• 53:29
  Speaker 9: going to be high. And by the way, Procter and Gamble,
• 53:32
  Speaker 9: fifth third, Western Southern, all of you are gonna have
• 53:36
  Speaker 9: to get some cahunahs and you're gonna have to put
• 53:39
  Speaker 9: pressure on this city council. But if you don't guess what,
• 53:42
  Speaker 9: your workers aren't gonna want to get out of leave
• 53:44
  Speaker 9: work at six or seven o'clock and walk back to
• 53:47
  Speaker 9: their cars because they're gonna be worried about a holly situation.
• 53:50
  Speaker 9: They're gonna be worried about getting jumped and have members
• 53:53
  Speaker 9: of councils saying guess what it's okay that you got
• 53:55
  Speaker 9: jumped in our downtown. Let's go arrest the white people,
• 53:58
  Speaker 9: hold them accountable. That's where we're headed right now.
• 54:01
  Speaker 10: This is an.
• 54:02
  Speaker 9: Anti police move by the mayor, by city council. And
• 54:06
  Speaker 9: if and if we don't wake up, I'm talking about
• 54:08
  Speaker 9: the people that live in the city. I don't care
• 54:10
  Speaker 9: if you're a Democratic, Republican on independent, I don't care
• 54:12
  Speaker 9: how you vote. If we don't start voting smart right,
• 54:16
  Speaker 9: elections have consequences, we aren't even gonna have a city.
• 54:19
  Speaker 9: We're gonna look like Chicago. We're gonna look like Detroit,
• 54:22
  Speaker 9: We're gonna look like la That is where we are hitting.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Let's pause.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: Bring Christopher Smithlman back because I think I have a
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: solution to the problem. I'm gonna get Christopher's reaction.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: You think about kars de toalk station.
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: Ron Thomas with Christopher's Smitheman, former vice mayor of the
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: City of Sinceinna, with a special Thursday edition of the
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: Smith event. Here's well, here's the is that as a
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: street car uh Marsh eleventh and March sixteenth. Your next
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: opportunity to show up on March eleventh at the North
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: Avondeal Rec Center. H to express your opinions about the
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: budget and the five percent proposed cut across the board
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: because Cincinnati can't get it budget in line. March sixteen,
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: five point thirty at the Sailor Park Rec Center. That's
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: another place you can show up and off of your comments. Christopher,
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: don't I have a solution to this? Was raised by
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: since a city council. Wouldn't it just be a great
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: idea to solve our budget problem by raising the income tax?
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Christopher? Why don't we just do that?
• 55:21
  Speaker 9: I know, Ryan, we're all priced out. You know, if
• 55:24
  Speaker 9: you talk to Americans in our country, their rents are
• 55:29
  Speaker 9: out of control just keeping up with rent. Their their
• 55:34
  Speaker 9: gas and electric bills are incredible, their costs for food incredible,
• 55:42
  Speaker 9: their costs for school and school supplies are incredible. I'm
• 55:47
  Speaker 9: just sharing with you that the average person out here
• 55:51
  Speaker 9: who's raising a family, they're making really tough decisions, Brian.
• 55:54
  Speaker 9: And that's why you're feeding me this red meat. And
• 55:57
  Speaker 9: so counsel just says we're gonna we're gonna raise your taxes,
• 56:00
  Speaker 9: so disrespectfully take more money away from those hard working
• 56:05
  Speaker 9: families to direct it towards contracts like for Irish Rollie,
• 56:12
  Speaker 9: who we don't know what exactly is going on with
• 56:15
  Speaker 9: that budget, or we're gonna take the money and direct
• 56:19
  Speaker 9: it towards the operation of a street car, which has
• 56:21
  Speaker 9: nothing to do with Sailor Park. It has nothing to
• 56:24
  Speaker 9: do with North Avendale, nothing to do has nothing to
• 56:28
  Speaker 9: do with College Hill. Here's here's the big here's the
• 56:31
  Speaker 9: big wake up call. But the majority of those communities
• 56:35
  Speaker 9: outside of Sailor Park voted for this council forty five
• 56:39
  Speaker 9: days ago. Visit elections have consequences, and so it's so
• 56:46
  Speaker 9: so frustrating to me is that these fifty two neighborhoods,
• 56:50
  Speaker 9: many of them overwhelmingly voted for these people. Now you
• 56:54
  Speaker 9: want to go back to these communities and say we're
• 56:56
  Speaker 9: gonna cut your safety. We're gonna cut your police and
• 56:59
  Speaker 9: your fire, your sanitation, the basic services while we talk
• 57:02
  Speaker 9: about raising your taxes. Guess what, that's what you voted for.
• 57:06
  Speaker 9: Because you could have had a Corey Bowman right now
• 57:09
  Speaker 9: as your mayor, and guarantee you, if Corey Bowman were
• 57:12
  Speaker 9: the mayor, there wouldn't be discussions about cutting public safety
• 57:17
  Speaker 9: right and there would be discussions about what are the
• 57:20
  Speaker 9: low hanging fruit items, things that we really don't need.
• 57:24
  Speaker 9: They're just shiny, like the operation of the street car.
• 57:27
  Speaker 9: We're going to reduce that budget and we're gonna make
• 57:30
  Speaker 9: sure that we keep citizens safe, and we are not
• 57:32
  Speaker 9: going to raise your taxes. And so anybody listening to me,
• 57:35
  Speaker 9: because so many people of the city, they pay rent,
• 57:38
  Speaker 9: they're not owners. Right like me as a property owner,
• 57:41
  Speaker 9: my property taxes are through the roof, right, I'm paying
• 57:44
  Speaker 9: fees through the roof. The rent. The people who are
• 57:47
  Speaker 9: paying rent, their rents are going through the roof. And
• 57:51
  Speaker 9: sometimes they don't understand that the landlords can't eat the cost,
• 57:55
  Speaker 9: so as their expenses go higher, they pass it on
• 57:59
  Speaker 9: to you. Of course, the renter, you are paying it.
• 58:02
  Speaker 9: But Brian, a lot of renters don't understand.
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: That what's the same thing as going to the store
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: and buying a bag of potato chips. The price of
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: the tatis hips has gone up. Why because the cost
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: of manufacturing and delivering and providing potato chips by the
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: manufacturer has gone up. Yes, there's profit in there, but
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: their profit margins are eroded by the inflation reality that
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: they are facing, so they pass along the cost to you,
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: this is exactly what what would property owners do?
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: Duh?
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: I mean it's so I don't know how that isn't
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: understood by anybody. You know, there's a cost you got
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: to cover those. You still have to make a profit,
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: otherwise you wouldn't be in the rental business. Yes, property
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: taxes go up, the runners are gonna eat ith.
• 58:42
  Speaker 9: Yeah, but it's still this is this is the reality
• 58:44
  Speaker 9: of it. And guess what happens. Those American families are
• 58:47
  Speaker 9: out there. I know they're listening, right, they have a
• 58:50
  Speaker 9: Social Security benefit during a fixed income, whether that is
• 58:54
  Speaker 9: some type of an annuity, whether that's some type of pension,
• 58:57
  Speaker 9: whether it's Social Security. Their cost aren't keeping up with
• 59:01
  Speaker 9: what you and I are describing. And so then you
• 59:03
  Speaker 9: have a city council says, well, let's just make their
• 59:05
  Speaker 9: taxes go a little higher, hurt them a little more, right,
• 59:08
  Speaker 9: in order for us to pay for our pet projects.
• 59:11
  Speaker 9: That is what is so frustrating. And you've got families
• 59:13
  Speaker 9: out here who who are working two and three jobs.
• 59:17
  Speaker 9: That is not an exaggeration. Right, they get up, they
• 59:19
  Speaker 9: go to one job in the morning, in the afternoon
• 59:21
  Speaker 9: they're on another job, right, and then they might do
• 59:24
  Speaker 9: something at night just to kind of hit it on
• 59:25
  Speaker 9: the weekend, straight down to a red game. It sounds
• 59:29
  Speaker 9: like our good friend Joe Strecker, who are out here
• 59:32
  Speaker 9: trying to work all these different jobs just to make
• 59:35
  Speaker 9: ends meet. This has got to be insulting when you
• 59:38
  Speaker 9: have a mayor that says, you know, we're just gonna
• 59:40
  Speaker 9: raise your taxes. We're gonna cut the things that you
• 59:43
  Speaker 9: need the most, the things that we're really in the
• 59:46
  Speaker 9: business of doing, which is keeping you safe. We're gonna
• 59:48
  Speaker 9: cut public safety. This is a scary time. I don't
• 59:52
  Speaker 9: want to scare anybody to tell you that we're marching
• 59:54
  Speaker 9: towards Detroit, we're marching towards la We're marching towards Chicago.
• 59:59
  Speaker 9: But I think that that's where we're hitted right there.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 9: We have a very we have a very disconnected council
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 9: and mayor. They're not into rolling up your sleeves and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 9: doing the hard work. They want to make it easy,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 9: just raise the taxes for everybody here and scare the
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 9: hell out of us by telling you you're going to
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 9: cut police and fire. This is a strategy. The strategy
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 9: is scared the hell out of us so that when
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 9: we put this on the ballot, we force you to
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 9: vote for it.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, the ripple effect is a really scary one.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: We haven't quite seen it yet, although there's been a
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: couple of examples of it. What happens if public safety
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: is is worse, more crime, more criminals, fewer police, basically
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: the general perception that it's not safe to walk around,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: and you make it far more expensive to live in
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: that particular jurisdiction, this one the city. Do you think
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: businesses will stay or leave? Going back to those big
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: ones that you just mentioned, Look at California, New York,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: Illinois and all the businesses that took off because the
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: onerous way of regulations and taxes is crazy.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: I'm leaving. I'm going to Florida.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: Oh look, Claremont County looks far more inviting than Hamilton County,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: mostly far more inviting than the city of Cincinnati. It's
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: safer there, the roads are actually paved. There are a
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: lot of options out there. Christopher and some of these
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: big businesses may see that and seize the opportunity, which
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: is going to make things much worse for the city
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: in terms of its revenue and what.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 9: Makes it easy for people in Cincinnati who don't really
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 9: understand maybe geographically where we're located, who are listening online, right,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 9: I don't know. We can just go right across the river.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 9: The business just says, if they're being recruited, I just
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 9: go to Indiana. Yay, just take a little jump boom.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 9: I'm in Indiana. And the Indiana Governor's like, listen, dude,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 9: we want you. We're gonna make sure we have police
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 9: and fire. We're gonna make sure that you're safe. To
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 9: make sure that when your workers drive in and they
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 9: go home at seven o'clock at night, they're not getting
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 9: knocked in their heads. You know, if you decide to
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 9: go out to eat in your downtown core, if you're
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 9: in Indiana or if you're in Kentucky, we're going to
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 9: make sure that you can do that. In a way,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 9: people are tired of the crime and the criminals being coddled.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 9: In Cincinnati. We just saw a judge go fifty thousand
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 9: dollars right, five hundred bucks out. That's reality, right, Since
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 9: we spoke last fifty thousand dollars bond right, and the
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 9: federal government had to come in and say no, no, no,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 9: Hamilton County, we are going to prosecute this case federally.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, he is not going to be leaving jail tonight.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 9: He's gonna stay in here overnight. We're gonna prosecute him
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 9: to the fullest extent of the law. He shot nine people.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 9: So when you have judges that are willing to let
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 9: people out right who shot nine people in our city,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 9: what do you think it looks like when you wake
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 9: up and you see a headline where council says we're
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 9: gonna cut police and fire by five percent.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: It doesn't paint a very pretty picture. Christopher Smitheman at all.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 9: I'm not trying to because they're not. If they put
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 9: the effort in, they can find the money. That's what
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 9: they're not willing to do. They've got to cut their
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 9: pet projects, every single one of them. I don't want
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 9: to hear anything about anything flashy, nothing. I don't want
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 9: to hear about reparations. I don't want to hear anything
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 9: about anything other than doing what you're in the business
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 9: of doing, making our streets safe, making sure their potholes
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 9: aren't out there, clearing off the snow, making sure that
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 9: police and fire and sanitation have the resources they need.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 9: I'm talking about their truck, they're automobiles, they're staffing levels.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 9: We need recruit classes, we need all of those kinds
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 9: of basic things. I don't get what council in this
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 9: mayor are currently doing, Brian Thomas, but I can tell
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 9: you they're running people out of the city. People who
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 9: can choose. Say, you know what, I'm going to go
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 9: to Green Township. I'm going to go to Liberty Township.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 9: I'm leaving. I'm going to Preble County. I'm getting the
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 9: hell out of Cincinnati because I don't feel safe. They
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 9: don't understand that is Those are the conversations that people
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 9: are really having. And you know what's really killing us
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 9: is people like you, Brian Thomas, who love the city
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 9: of Cincinnati, live out in the county and you're saying,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 9: you know what, sometimes in your mind, I'd love to
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 9: go down to the aeron Off I'd love to go
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 9: down and take take in dinner, but I don't feel
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 9: safe down there. Paultte and I when I go down,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 9: I just don't know if I leave the restaurant, am
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 9: I gonna be okay? As I leave the restaurant and
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 9: get to my car, and then if I have a problem.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 9: Do they have the staffing levels in downtown to respond
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 9: when I call nine to one one, Because that's been
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 9: the problem. It's not the cops they want to respond,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 9: it's the staffing levels. And so you are a smart person, Brian.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 9: You don't want to hurt anybody, right. And here's another
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 9: rocket science thing to think. They think criminals are dumb.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 9: When you go to a football game or a baseball game,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 9: you're ron. You cannot go into those games with the firearm.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 9: So they know everybody walking out of there, out of
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 9: the Dora on the banks, nobody is armed, and they're
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 9: going back to their cars, and guess what they're running
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 9: into armed people who want to ride. And you don't
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 9: have enough police downtown to keep your visitor safe. So
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 9: guess what your visitor starts saying, I don't want to
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 9: come downtown. I love downtown like everybody else, but guess
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 9: what business is down there. You're going to have to
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 9: start standing up for your own interest and make sure
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 9: that this council and this mayor don't project out weakness
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 9: by saying they're going to cut police and fire. Brian,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 9: Tom's just crazy, crazy.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: It is crazy. And the other the other thing I
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: was thinking about. You know, football games are one thing,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: and you're right, I can't imagine a single human being
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: coming out of a football game and with a firearm,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: given the level of security in the fact that you're
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: not allowed to carry one. But what about the people
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: who dine at really exclusive restaurants. I think I guess
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: you had to have a fair amount of money to
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: go into Jeff Rubies and enjoy a meal there, right,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: And of course I would think the vast majority of
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: people going in there are probably drinking alcoholic beverages, which
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: means they're probably very unlikely to be carrying a firearm
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: because you can't do that. They got to go back
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: to their cars as well, so you know, maybe people
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: are reconnoitering Rubies and watching people coming into that. I
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: don't want to pick on that particular restaurant is here.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: It's truly amazing, and it is very expensive, drawing a
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: very wealthy client tell which are yo.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 9: I know, I agree with you, Brian, and people patrons
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 9: out here who are trying to figure out what they
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 9: want to do, They're going to choose other places to go.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 9: That's just my point. Yeah, And Brian times you're just
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 9: laying it out for everybody. We love downtown, we love Cincinnati,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 9: We want the best for Cincinnati. But the mayor and
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 9: council make it really, really hard because they're focused on
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 9: this racial identity stuff, and they're passing resolutions about what's
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 9: going on in Israel and things like you know, what's
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 9: going on in uh and in Iran and all these
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 9: kind of things that make no sense to me when
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 9: they can't even balance our budget. All the COVID money
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 9: is gone, right, They're gonna have to roll up the sleeve.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 9: This is what is happening.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 6: Public.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 9: All those federal dollars. They just passed resolutions down there,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 9: telling the federal government, giving them their middle finger, right,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 9: telling the federal government, I don't like you. All those
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 9: federal dollars, by the way, could dry up really fast
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 9: and make things even worse for the city of Cincinnati. Well,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 9: I don't know why they decide to do these kinds
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 9: of things, Brian, but I'm telling I'm letting you know
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 9: that to the public, you don't tell the federal government
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 9: you're not going to cooperate with them and then turn
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 9: around and ask them for millions and millions and millions
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 9: of dollars. That doesn't make right.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: We got to go.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: But here I'm gonna leave you with this seek in
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: fester on it and not be able to address it. Christopher,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: since we're out of time, and God bless you for
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: joining us this morning. Whatever happened to that railroad money
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: was supposed to solve all of our problems there? Work
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: with that one, Christopher. We got a part company. The Monday, Ah,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: Monday fifty one and fifty five CARES the talk station.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: It's seven six five CARED Talk station. Are very happy
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 4: Friday Eve to you and Brian Thomas here hosting fifty
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 4: five Kris and morning. Sure welcoming back and always please
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: to have them be in an opportunity of being in
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 4: a position to offer him to you and tell us
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: what's going on. Congressman Warren Davidson, it's really wonderful having
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  Speaker 4: you on the program this morning, Sir Brian.
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  Speaker 14: It's always an honor and nice to talk.
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  Speaker 1: With you as always.
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  Speaker 4: Let me start by thanking you for your service to
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: our country and you continued services one of the more
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: well sane individuals in electric capacity. You're going to be
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  Speaker 4: voting today, I know you know the Senate blocked Tim
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  Speaker 4: Tim Kaine's resolution to limit the Operation Epic Fury not
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  Speaker 4: you know, it was a close vote, but it was
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  Speaker 4: shot down. That resolution I think would have required congressional approval.
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  Speaker 4: And today, as I understand it, you're going to be
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  Speaker 4: voting on something that's being presented in the House. This
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  Speaker 4: the Rocanna Thomas Massey resolution. Is that what's cued up,
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  Speaker 4: Congressman Massy.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, David, Yeah, it's essentially the same resolution saying, you
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  Speaker 14: know what the Constitution says, which is, if you want
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  Speaker 14: a worry, you get it authorized by Congress. You don't
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  Speaker 14: have to quote declare war. I mean, you know, you
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  Speaker 14: can quote authorize use of military force. That's what we
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  Speaker 14: did three days after nine to eleven. And so it's
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  Speaker 14: when it's popular they come ask. When it's not certain
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  Speaker 14: that they'll have all the votes and all the support
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  Speaker 14: of the people, they tend to just take action. And
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  Speaker 14: so like when Barack Obama went Intolibya, he didn't ask.
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  Speaker 14: Republicans complained, but you know, some Democrats said, no, we're
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  Speaker 14: consistent on our vote, and they were critical of Barack
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  Speaker 14: Obama because he didn't get authorization to go to war.
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  Speaker 14: So this is as old as the Constitution. But that's
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  Speaker 14: what the words say in the Constitution. If we're going
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  Speaker 14: to be governed by it.
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  Speaker 1: No question about it. I mean, let's face it.
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  Speaker 4: You can go all the way back to World War two,
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  Speaker 4: the last declaration of war, and then we were engaged
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  Speaker 4: in literally wars in Korea. You had Vietnam, of course,
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  Speaker 4: all the other military conflicts that we've been involved with
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  Speaker 4: sort of tacit approval. I think of Vietnam and I
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  Speaker 4: was scratching my head the other day wondering how you
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  Speaker 4: get from quote unquote advisors during the what was it,
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  Speaker 4: Eisenhower administration, then you got Kennedy taking over and increasing
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  Speaker 4: the role. Next thing you know, we got troops in there,
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  Speaker 4: a gradual expansion in which there was no comment from
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  Speaker 4: congres and yet they continue to fund it through the
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  Speaker 4: military spending. So we get to nineteen seventy three, enter
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  Speaker 4: the War Powers Resolution, which says, within sixty days of
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  Speaker 4: the president putting troops into a conflict, he's got to
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  Speaker 4: alert the Congress within forty eight hours. But the clock
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  Speaker 4: is ticking, and I need you to explain this. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: I'm missing something, but the way I read the War
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  Speaker 4: Powers resolution, Congress can either declare war, do an authorization
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  Speaker 4: for use of military force, or not do anything, in
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  Speaker 4: which case, after sixty days, with the potential for a
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  Speaker 4: thirty day extension, you have to withdraw troops. Isn't it
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  Speaker 4: automatically going to happen if nothing is done by way
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  Speaker 4: of authorization and use of military force or actual outright
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  Speaker 4: declaration of war? Congressman Davidson, Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: This is the thing. So one people cite that and like, well,
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  Speaker 14: the president can do whatever he wants with respect to war. Well, no,
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  Speaker 14: that's not what the constitution says. And then they say, whoa,
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  Speaker 14: but he can do whatever he wants because of the
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  Speaker 14: War Powers Resolution. Well, that would make the Royal Pressure
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  Speaker 14: Resolution unconstitutional. It is, so some people say it is
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  Speaker 14: because they read it to say that it's not what
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  Speaker 14: it says. There are three clauses in the War Powers Resolution.
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  Speaker 14: One is a declaration of war, two is an authorization
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  Speaker 14: for US military force. The third clause is the one
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  Speaker 14: that gives rise to this perception that the president could
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  Speaker 14: do whatever he wants for sixty days as long as
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  Speaker 14: he tells Congress within forty eight hours. That's true if
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  Speaker 14: it's to repel an imminent attack. And that's why they
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  Speaker 14: keep using the word eminent. Oh it's been eminent for
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  Speaker 14: forty seven years. Imminent as in an exigent circumstance, as in,
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  Speaker 14: you know, you've got a foreign country with you know,
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  Speaker 14: a navy crew cruising towards your country, or you know,
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  Speaker 14: we've got missiles in coming. We shot them down, and
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  Speaker 14: there we're going to counterattack because people attacked our country.
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  Speaker 14: Someone overran our embassy, so we're going to take action,
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  Speaker 14: you know, to defend our enemies, defend our embassy, and
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  Speaker 14: then go after anybody that attack them. Those are the
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  Speaker 14: kinds of things that are envisioned in that third case,
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  Speaker 14: and so none of those are the situation here in Iran.
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  Speaker 14: This is a war of choice and timing of our
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  Speaker 14: choice in terms of when we were going to ultimately
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  Speaker 14: lose our patients. And you know, in one of the discussions,
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  Speaker 14: the president felt like he needed to act within two weeks. Well,
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  Speaker 14: within two weeks you can certainly can mean Congress and
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  Speaker 14: get a vote. You did it in three days after
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  Speaker 14: nine to eleven, and so I think, you know, could
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  Speaker 14: at the end of the day, the president needs to
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  Speaker 14: make the decision if ultimately he felt like he needed
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  Speaker 14: to do that, and ultimately the strike that he wanted
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  Speaker 14: to do and felt like would be effective work wouldn't
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  Speaker 14: necessarily make it constitutional. I'm not like super mad that
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  Speaker 14: the Iatola is killed. I'm pretty happy he's.
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  Speaker 13: The dead guy.
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  Speaker 14: These are pretty evil people even right now as we speak.
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  Speaker 14: I mean, our soldiers are out smoking people. You can
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  Speaker 14: rest easy. These are bad people that you're smoking. Yes,
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  Speaker 14: but it doesn't make it constitutional. So Congress should vote
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  Speaker 14: just like they should have voted for the whole Korean War.
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  Speaker 14: But instead you have this passive aggressive behavior where you
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  Speaker 14: don't don't really want to take responsibility for the war.
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  Speaker 14: You're sending young men and women into combat, but you
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  Speaker 14: won't even vote. But then you passively just cut the checks.
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  Speaker 14: And that's defined Congress for a long time.
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  Speaker 4: It has, and that's actually become an argument in favor
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  Speaker 4: of allowing this to continue. Look, we've been doing this
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  Speaker 4: for sixty years, you know, since World War Two. We
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  Speaker 4: have given taskit or provo for the trump to go
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  Speaker 4: ahead or for the president to go ahead and engage
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  Speaker 4: in these military operations. This is status quo. It's like
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  Speaker 4: illegal waiver or a stoppel argument. No, no, no, you
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  Speaker 4: can't raise that now. You have been you know, just
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  Speaker 4: approving the reality of this for so long, it's that
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  Speaker 4: you're foreclosed from making that argument anymore. It's a sad
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  Speaker 4: state of affairs when it has gone on this long
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  Speaker 4: ignoring the Constitution. But that does set a stage. It
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  Speaker 4: does suggest that presidents can do this. Democrats have allowed it,
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  Speaker 4: as you point out with Barack Obama in Syria.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean that's basically what the courts said when
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  Speaker 14: Republicans with support of some Democrats, challenged Barack Obama in
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 14: twenty eleven. And frankly, Speaker Banner was one of the
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  Speaker 14: people leading that fight at the time, so saying, look,
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  Speaker 14: if you don't really have the authority to do it,
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  Speaker 14: And of course, just as now, there are Republicans across
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  Speaker 14: the spectrum, you know, back then, John McCain was still alive,
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  Speaker 14: so he was the biggest voice for not only should
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  Speaker 14: we be doing this war, we should have done it earlier,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 14: and we should do it, you know, more bigly. And
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  Speaker 14: then Lindsey Graham's been a consistent voice. There's never been
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 14: a war he didn't like, so he was for the war.
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  Speaker 14: He also had, you know, across the spectrum, people saying,
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  Speaker 14: you know, find war, but you're supposed to come to Congress,
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  Speaker 14: and then others people saying, no, this isn't even really
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 14: our war. What are we doing in Libya? But that's
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  Speaker 14: why you're supposed to have the debate and vote. And
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  Speaker 14: I think that's the thing, because you know, when I
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 14: was on active duty in the eighties and nineties. In
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  Speaker 14: the nineties, we were going to war in Kosovo. And
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  Speaker 14: I remember a time when I was in the hundred
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  Speaker 14: and first and we were supposed to get a unit
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  Speaker 14: ready to go deploy to Kosovo was a different battalion,
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  Speaker 14: and Congress voted on it to thirteen to two thirteen.
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  Speaker 14: They wouldn't even resolve the devote, they wouldn't fully authorize it.
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  Speaker 14: So clearly half of Congress didn't think we should go
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  Speaker 14: to Kosovo. Nevertheless, they win, and I'm like, good grief,
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  Speaker 14: you guys can't even resolve this, and you're you know,
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  Speaker 14: we got to go to Kosovo, and I thought it
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  Speaker 14: was a fine enough mission, but it's just disappointing that
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  Speaker 14: Congress couldn't even resolve it. And so that was one
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  Speaker 14: of the things Wesley Clark, who was a general at
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  Speaker 14: the time raised when he ran against al Gore on
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  Speaker 14: the Democrat side, saying, you know what a bad leader
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  Speaker 14: al Gore was, And of course al Gore won the
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  Speaker 14: primary anyway, and it didn't matter. I wouldn't have wanted
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  Speaker 14: in the Democrats, and I barely like George R. W.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 6: Bush.
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  Speaker 14: But there's a way better choice than al Gore. Long history, right,
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  Speaker 14: So that's as old as the country.
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  Speaker 4: As old as the country. We'll probably be in Congressman
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  Speaker 4: Davidson back when I get his specifics on what exactly
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  Speaker 4: are we voting on today? Is it an authorization for
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  Speaker 4: use limit of sevent nineteen? Fify about karcity TALX stations
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  Speaker 4: right times with Congressman Warren Davidson is going to be
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  Speaker 4: voting today. Yesterday's bill shot down by the Senate would
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  Speaker 4: have said, yeah, no military force unless Congress acts. Congress action,
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  Speaker 4: which may you know, happen today or is supposed to
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  Speaker 4: happen today, would be vote for war, vote for an
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  Speaker 4: authorization to use a military force, or the resolution fails.
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  Speaker 4: Does the resolution itself specifically say pull the troops out,
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  Speaker 4: he don't have the authority? Does it say, does it
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  Speaker 4: talk about a scope of an authorization use a military force,
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  Speaker 4: like you can engage in these activities, but you can't
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 4: commit American troops on the ground. What is the vote
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  Speaker 4: about today, Congressman Davidson.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, the standard war Powish resolution, just as this one
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  Speaker 14: is here, says, you know, it wasn't authorized in advance,
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  Speaker 14: or it wasn't authorized and consistently with the War Powers Act,
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  Speaker 14: and therefore the president's required to remove troops from the
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 14: situation or get approval, and so that vote. Normally the
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 14: language says thirty days in the war Powish resolution. So
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 14: I think the language and this could have been more
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 14: precise that you have an orderly exit, not just like, oh,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 14: we've got to leave tomorrow.
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  Speaker 10: But yeah, obviously it.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 14: Would take a little while to get everybody out of
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 14: the harms way in combat. And they're still working to
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 14: safely get Americans out. And that's another thing. It's like,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 14: if you've got a war a choice, you could certainly
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 14: have thought out how to evacuate Americans. And you know,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 14: Ambassador Huckabee in Israel gave the announcement on Friday for
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 14: Americans to leave. And when you make an announcement on
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 14: Friday and say you should leave Israel, Friday, it's not
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 14: always easy to catch the flight Friday afternoon out as
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 14: an example. So there are people that are concerned about that.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 14: The State Department is working on that, and we'll have
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  Speaker 14: information up today for people that they put out this
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 14: week to say, hey, here's how you can help people
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 14: connect with the State Department to get out. We still
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 14: have a number of Americans in the region, and the
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 14: State Department has been working to get everybody out. But
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 14: those are the kinds of things that happened. If this
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 14: past you would be working on a more early disengagement,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 14: or presumably the administration would just bring a resolution saying
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 14: here's what we want to do. And look, this administration, well,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 14: they didn't come to Congress. They have laid out three
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 14: specific goals that they want to do, which is, you know,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 14: eliminate Iran's nuclear capability by that was the that's long standing,
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  Speaker 14: but now they want to take out their missile capability
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  Speaker 14: and that's going really well. They want to eliminate their
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 14: navy because they keep using their navy to locked the
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 14: Straits of Moore moves right, going pretty well. And then
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 14: they want to do they want to eliminate the Iranian
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 14: support for proxy groups. So I don't think they're sending
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  Speaker 14: any wire transfers right now, pelts of cash floating over
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  Speaker 14: to Hamas and hesblah.
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  Speaker 6: They really are probably.
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  Speaker 14: Working to organize their leadership, and that's also problematic for
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 14: them right now. So what they're not taking off the
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 14: table is anything which you know in the midst of this,
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  Speaker 14: and it really doesn't necessarily make sense diplomatically or in
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 14: it to limit.
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  Speaker 10: That in a way.
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  Speaker 14: But they haven't laid out objectives that would require boots
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  Speaker 14: on the ground, so when pressed, they haven't ruled it out.
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  Speaker 14: They also haven't been saying, hey, we plan to introduce
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 14: troops on the ground. The challenge is for a lot
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 14: of people in warhocks, like Lindsay Graham, they say, look,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 14: the only way to guarante that this really stays done
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 14: as you eliminate the leadership that would do them in
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 14: the first place. And so we need a regime change war.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 14: And you know, so not just you know the top
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 14: leadership out well, the same hardliners you you know inherently,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 14: and this is the way it always works. You decapitate
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 14: the leadership, and the hardliners that were dependent upon that
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 14: leader for power are the people less in power, and
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 14: they're they're even more validated as to the threat of
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 14: you know, whatever enemy took them out, because the hardliners
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 14: wanted to go even harder. I mean, you could think
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 14: if somebody attacked us, Lindsey Graham would inherently be validated
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 14: because he's always wanted to go to war more right,
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  Speaker 14: And so those are the people with the weapons in
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 14: a dictatorship like Iran, and so it makes it really
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 14: hard for to be this organic uprising, and so people think, oh, well,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 14: we took out the leadership, there's just going to magically
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 14: be the shaw is going to be greeted him and
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 14: the you celebrated and festivities in the streets for the
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 14: new government, and everyone's going to run and hide. That
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 14: never works. That didn't even work in Kosovo and Serbia, correct,
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  Speaker 14: And in Iran they just killed, you know, thirty to
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 14: forty thousand of their people. So the local population is
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 14: a little reluctant to go out and overthrow the current government.
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  Speaker 1: That is most certainly correct.
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  Speaker 4: And I guess I understand the CIA has been arming
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 4: the Kurdish opposition groups in Iran, which may surge in
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 4: and perhaps ultimately be the vehicle the proxy vehicle for
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 4: boots on the ground. We'll wait and see how that happens,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 4: but real quick before we have to part company because
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 4: I know you're on a schedule. NATO batteries in Turkey
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 4: shot down a ballistic missile that was on its way
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 4: to Turkey, which is a NATO country with whom we
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 4: have a defense agreement.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: What do you make of that?
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 4: Are they trying to drag the entire European Union or
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 4: the NATO countries into war? Do you think that was
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 4: inadvertent going after one of our military bases, because that
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 4: is a development that sounds a lot like World War three.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: I think it's interesting about Turkey because you know, almost
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 14: immediately once you started the war in Iran, there are
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 14: people in Israel who say, well, the next biggest threat
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 14: to Israel is Turkey.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: Go ahead and try to figure that one out, right.
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  Speaker 14: So, you know, there's always people that want to get
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 14: a bigger war, more wars and more places. And I say,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 14: you know, we don't have to accept all the invitations
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 14: to war, and I say, hopefully we can prevent a
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 14: broader expansion of it. You look at like how World
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 14: War one started, I mean the assassinated actually Ferdinand and
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 14: now you've got World War One. So I think that's
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 14: why you should always be cautious about the linkages here.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 14: There's a lot at play. I mean, Venezuela and Iran
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 14: are the core suppliers for China's oil outside of Russia,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 14: and so there's a whole extra layer here between the
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 14: United States in China in terms of positioning for global power.
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  Speaker 4: Which may, of course be the ultimate reason for all this.
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  Speaker 4: All right, for we part company, Let's get a definitive.
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  Speaker 4: I think last week you made a definitive or a
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 4: yes or no. Today on the vote, Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 14: Yes, on the Warpowre's resolution. I made a speech on
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 14: the floor of the House yesterday, and you know, I'm
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 14: encouraging everyone to vote yes. As I'm walking off the floor,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 14: a reporter goes, so, does that mean you're going.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 10: To vote yes?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 14: Yes, that speech where I spoke for three minutes and
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 14: explained why I was going to be voting yes, I
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 14: will be voting yes. And look, you know we've got
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 14: a mixed reviews on that. Not surprising. It's a tough position.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 14: And look, I still love President Trump. I think we
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 14: have an incredibly talented leadership Team at State and Department
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 14: of War and everything else. But the Constitution requires a vote,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 14: and even the Warpowers Resolution is an act of law,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 14: and even the appropriations that we send to the military
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 14: say that none of these funds may be used in
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 14: violation of the War Powers Act. So it is intended
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 14: to be reinforced in every way, and that appropriations language
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  Speaker 14: was added to all defense appropriations after Obama's Libya things.
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  Speaker 14: So what has changed, Well, things like that have changed,
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  Speaker 14: and so there's been an effort by Congress to hold
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  Speaker 14: on to its constitutional authority here until it counts, and
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 14: then you know, everybody can't wait to surrender it and
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 14: go into passive mode and just pretend, oh, I don't know,
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  Speaker 14: I don't want to go on record, and then they'll
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  Speaker 14: passively cut the checks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, or they'll end up saying, yes, see, we didn't
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 4: do anything and it all worked out really well, or
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 4: just lay a heavy lot of criticism on Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: and anybody who supported it and tried to get some
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  Speaker 4: political advantage based on that. Yeah, seen this before, wash
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  Speaker 4: Rinse repeat Congressman Warren Davidson. Appreciate your candor, I appreciate
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  Speaker 4: your where you are on the vote, and I'm just
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  Speaker 4: all I can say is got my popcorn out and
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 4: hope this thing resolves itself in our favor. And God
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 4: bless the American military. And you got to give him
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 4: a huge, huge praise for the success they're having, whether
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 4: or not it was well based upon something that was
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 4: done legally. Thank you from a man who is a
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 4: well he's a he's a rancher, Dustin Goldie. He is
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 4: going to be talking about why are meat prices so
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  Speaker 4: damn high? That is the subject matter Tonight's empower Youth Seminar.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 4: You can either show up atree hundred Scarlatok's drive or
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 4: log in and empower Youeamerica dot org. He actually owns
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 4: his own I guess ranch, so Goldie Beef Farms in Clarksville,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 4: Ohio is where he's from. He's got the Goldie Beef
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 4: North Farm and raising local beef. So he has his
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 4: finger on the pulse. What's going on on? Our beef
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 4: prices are high? We'll get that next. In the meantime,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 4: he could call him. We got a minute or two
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 4: if you want to give me a call. Five one three,
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  Speaker 4: seven nine fifty eight two three talk. And this is
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  Speaker 4: a sad sad well basically local but also statewide story.
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  Speaker 4: We start with Indian Hill threats prompted a lockdown at
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 4: multiple tri state schools the other day. Indian Hill exempt
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 4: Village School District announced its high school and middle school
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 4: were evacuated yesterday after a bomb threat released of the school.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 4: District received a potential bomb threat at Indian Hill High
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  Speaker 4: School about eleven am yesterday. Police showed up, immediately secured
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  Speaker 4: the scene, evacuated the students, and swept the building and
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 4: determined there was no credible threat. Threat evactuation. Also Mason
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  Speaker 4: City Schools and CINCINNTI Public Schools dealing with a separate
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 4: but similar threat. Police determine the threat at Mason High
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 4: School was not credible, while a lockdown was initiated at
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 4: Walnut Hills High School while police secured and determined all
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 4: the students were safe. Eastern Brown High School similar threat.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 4: According to Brown County Sheriff's Office, both Eastern Brown High
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 4: and Eastern Brown Middle School placed on lockdown, of course,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 4: while law enforcement investigated and secured the area. Sheriff's office
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  Speaker 4: said it was determined that approximately thirty five similar threats
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  Speaker 4: reported to schools throughout Ohio. Multiple school districts Northeast Ohio
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  Speaker 4: also got those threats, prompting multiple buildings to go on
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 4: lockdown in the Cleveland area. Governor of Wain's communication director
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 4: Lisa Peterson said State of Ohio State Highway Patrol determined
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 4: most of the threats were phone calls, indicating a person
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 4: quote driving a vehicle with firearms and pipe bombs would
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 4: be traveling to the schools to cause harm close quote.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 4: While it's concerning, she said for parents and students, it's
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 4: important to note that this is highly likely that these
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 4: threats are swatting or hoax calls. There's a little illustration
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 4: of what can be accomplished just with a single phone call.
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  Speaker 4: Just worried about this kind of thing going viral. Maybe
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 4: it already has. Yeah, I remember the boy who cried wolf, Eh,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna do this enough. There's gonna be enough lockdowns
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 4: and at some point like, oh my god, it's another
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 4: one of these fake bomb threats. We really need to
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 4: get all this kids out of school. They could use
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 4: the school time, and that's the day there's actually a
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 4: genuine threat. Oh yeah, you're right, Joe. Maybe they can
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 4: just when they go into lockdown, leave the building and
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 4: then carry their protest ice signs distributed by the teachers
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 4: that could be seven thirty five You're cynical, jokes Trecker,
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 4: Why are you so cynical? Seven fifty five KROSEEV Talk Station.
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  Speaker 4: Ran Thomas happy to welcome to the fifty five carssee
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  Speaker 4: morning show Man. He's gonna be doing a seminar tonight
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 4: seven pm. You can either show up at Scarlett Oaks
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 4: three hundred Scarlett Oaks, drive to the Empower Youth studio,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 4: or log in from home, which is really easy to do.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 4: Just register at empower Youamerica dot org so you can
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 4: find out why the hell beef prices are so high.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 4: Man leading the seminar joins us this morning. Dustin Goldie,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 4: owner of Goldiebeef Farms located in Clarksville, Ohio. His farm
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 4: is called Goldie Beef North, where he runs the farm
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 4: alongside his father Rick. His brother operates Goldie Beef South
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 4: in Stanford, Kentucky, long with his uncle Jeff operating Goldie
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 4: Beef East in Wilmington, Ohio. They focus primarily on delivering
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 4: custom process farm raised beef and hate production. He also
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 4: has a master's degree and a principal degree. He teaches
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 4: at the Little Miami School District. Good for you, he's
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 4: been an education and educator and administrator for more than
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 4: twenty three years. Dustin, I don't know how you find
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 4: time to get all that in. I have a really
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 4: good idea about how difficult farm life is. My late
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 4: father in law was a dairy farmer who never left
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 4: the farm because if you don't milk the cows twice
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 4: a day, they don't produce milk. Good to have you
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  Speaker 4: on the morning show, Dustin Goldie.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, sir. I appreciate it.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 15: It's an honor, mister Thomas to be on your show.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 15: A long time listener, so thanks for having me.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, thank you, Dustin. That is so kind of you.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: And I really appreciate you listening to the program. Man.
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  Speaker 4: And Okay, let's talk about why. But no, let me
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 4: ask you first. We've had a discussion because beef prices
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 4: are so high. I'm going to enter into a discussion
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 4: we've had with our family. We were thinking about buying
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 4: a half side of beef process and share, you know,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 4: dividing the cost among several different family members and groups.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: Do you do that you sell sides of beef.
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  Speaker 5: Yes we do.
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  Speaker 15: And UH, I tell you, when you buy in bulk
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 15: and quarters, haves or holes from a local farmer, you're
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 15: actually saving a lot of money compared to the uh,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 15: the big beef and the big you know, big ag
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 15: corporate farms from the grocery store. So UH, you're you're
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 15: also gonna know where your beef's coming from.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 6: You're gonna know.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 15: What's you know as your beef been uh and you
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 15: know it's not gonna be injected with antibiotics and growth hormones.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 5: It's gonna be healthy.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 15: And uh, I really really am a big proponent to
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 15: buy from any local farmer.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 5: Farm the tables the best way to go.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 4: Hey man, I'm all over it. That's why I asked
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 4: you the question, what's your website? Free free publicity Dustin,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 4: Where do we turn to find out about this?
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 5: Eatgoldiebeef dot Com is our website.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 15: Uh, it's pretty easy to maneuver through, and UH highly
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 15: encourage you to go there. And I always I always
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 15: promote all my local farmers that we're all we we compete,
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 15: but yet we're friends. And uh farm the tables the
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 15: way to go and a lot of folks. It wasn't
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 15: until COVID that a lot of folks realized you could
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 15: buy directly from a local farmer.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've had Congressman Thomas Massey on many many times
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 4: over the years, and it's something he has brought up
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 4: and also encourages, because he too raises beef himself. Sometimes
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 4: it's the processing is the part. But recognizing that you
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 4: got that angle covered. Why my wife's out there listening,
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 4: Paul atte eat Goldiebeef dot com. We're gonna head on
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 4: over there.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 5: You may have it.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 4: You have a new customer, brother, all right, you're doing
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 4: a seminar tonight. Why the hell is beef rice?
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 7: So?
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 4: Ten dollars a pound for plain old eighty twenty ground
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 4: beef at your local supermarket, sometimes more, but across the board.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 4: I quit making beef jerky because I couldn't stand the
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 4: price of beef. So is this the herd levels are?
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 4: Let's start with the herd levels, because I understand they're
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 4: down to the They haven't been this low since the
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 4: nineteen fifties. How did we get from there to hear?
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 4: What was the What is the reason or reasons for that?
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  Speaker 5: Sir?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 5: So so really you go.
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  Speaker 15: Back to our economics classes in our senior year in
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 15: high school, and we all know tight supply with record
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 15: high demand is going to equal high prices. And our
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 15: cattle herd right now is are sitting around eighty six
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 15: million head in the United States now in comparison, in
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 15: nineteen fifty, mister Thomas, we had ninety million head and
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 15: we are we are extremely low right now and it's
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 15: a it's a real concern. So we're at the lowest
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 15: we've ever been and record high demand. Americans love their beef,
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 15: and uh it is really uh defied all logic that
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 15: with these higher prices, demand continues to surge. So you know,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 15: our lowest herd in seventy five years with record high
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 15: demand is going.
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  Speaker 5: To lead to these really really high prices.
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  Speaker 4: Well, asking the obvious. With record high demand, the incentive
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 4: is there to build herds. I know that it's an
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 4: expensive proposition, but is and it takes a what's the
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 4: window between a calf being born and the time that
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 4: can go off to slaughter? How many years is that
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 4: or how long a period of time is that.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 15: Yeah, you're looking at you're looking at for a heifer
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 15: that is born, which is a you know, first year female,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 15: you're looking at two to three years that you know,
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 15: really you should wait to have them bread so they
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 15: can start having a calf themselves. So what's happening is,
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 15: you know, your ranchers are looking at these pretty historic
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 15: prices at the stockyards and they're saying, hey, why are
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 15: we going to rebuild the herd and we can go
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 15: and take them and get you know, the most money
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 15: that we've ever gotten as cattle ranchers in our lifetime
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 15: because of these record high prices. A great example, twenty twenty,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 15: you could buy a six hundred pound steer to fatten
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 15: out for slaughter for around you know, six hundred bucks.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 5: Today, that same six hundred pound.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 15: Steer is going to cost you anywhere between twenty three
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 15: to twenty five hundred dollars.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: Holy cow, that's a huge increase.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, holy cow, no pun intended.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 4: Well, and that's three years of feed. Are feed prices
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 4: also up? Is that impacting the price?
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 15: So really, what's happened, mister Thomas is out out west
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 15: we have had a twenty twenty five year drought that
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 15: has devastated our ranchers out.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 5: There where there's no grass to grow.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 15: So what they've had to do is they've had to
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 15: start importing roundbells of hail, of hay. They've got higher
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 15: feed costs with corn and soybeans being pretty high over
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 15: the last five years, and what's happened is they just
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 15: can't afford to raise their cattle, so they sell. And
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 15: they've been selling at record numbers and selling out and
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 15: were losing our ranchers left and right because they can't
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 15: keep up.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, for whatever reason, the goose that laid
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 4: the golden eggs hit me because if these things are
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 4: worth so much money and you sell them for slaughter,
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 4: leaving you with nothing, you're not going to get any
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 4: more production from that farm. Are you suggesting these farmers
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 4: are just thrown in the towel?
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 5: They are.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 15: They're selling out, they're selling out. And the other thing
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 15: is our population of the rancher is in the sixty
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 15: year range sixty years of age, yes, and their children
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 15: are deciding that they do not want to put in
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 15: that kind of w.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 5: And they're selling.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 15: So we're at a real crossroads where we're losing farms
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 15: left and right here in America. And I really encouraged
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 15: people to start looking into it. And following your Farm
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 15: Bureau and at other publications because it is a crisis
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 15: in this country right now.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 4: Well, you run the Goldie beef farms that you've been
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 4: doing this. How long have you been raising cattle for slaughter?
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 15: Well, we've been really doing it at a high number
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 15: since around twenty and ten. My father did it really
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 15: for family members prior to that, and my grandfather and
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 15: great grandfather just more for it, just family. But we
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 15: really started selling it commercially around twenty ten. And then
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 15: in twenty and twenty, when we had a beef shortages
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 15: in the stores, Americans began to research where can I
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 15: find beef? And they realized you could buy from your
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 15: local farmers and farm to table beef from local farmers
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 15: has really been a very popular thing since twenty twenty.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 4: Is there a labor I mean, obviously if people don't
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 4: want to work on farms, even the children of farmers,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 4: that suggest maybe there's a labor shortages. There are also
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 4: maybe a tangential labor shortage even for the big industrial
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 4: process of a beef folks, because they have to process
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 4: it and it has to be you know, go ahead.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 15: Yeah, absolutely, and there's there's beef shortage or there's shortages
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 15: in labor, but there's also shortages in the big.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 5: Meat packing plants.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 15: They can't find enough workers. Just like just about every
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 15: industry in America right now, it's hard to find people
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 15: to come to work, and that slows down production. And
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 15: when and as you know, mister Thomas, as you slow down.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 5: Production, that also raises the price of your product.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 4: Yes, it does. Wow, this is enlightening. And finally I
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 4: have to ask this before we part company. You do
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 4: the seminars tonight, It's seven pm. Empower you America dot
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• 1:36:54
  Speaker 5: Does does this?
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 4: And I will call it nonsense going. I don't want
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 4: to put the words in the US, but this whole
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 4: green cow fly is warming the planet up? Is there
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 4: any green component that's resulting in the price of beef
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 4: going up? Is this sort of some the cattle herds
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 4: are down almost intentionally behind the scenes. Is there a
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 4: layer on that one?
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 5: You know, I don't believe so.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 15: I think it's simply I think it's simply a supply
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 15: and demand issue. You know, you got the New World
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 15: screwworm down in Mexico and South America as well. That
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 15: has shut our imports down. Now, mister Thomas, we import
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 15: a lot of beef from South America that is lean Americans.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 5: Our beef is fattier.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 15: So what we do is we import that lean beef
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 15: in mix it with our fattier beef to give us
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 15: that eighty twenty. So by having that border shut down
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 15: from all imports, that's also really really hurt our supply.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 15: And again tight supply, high demand equals high beef prices.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, I'll tell you what it's going to be. A
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 4: fascinating seminar will barely scratch the surface with Dustin Goldie here,
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  Speaker 4: it's tonight seven pm a Poweroamerica dot org for all
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• 1:38:06
  Speaker 4: and thanks again for being a listener. Man, I'm honored
• 1:38:08
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  Speaker 5: Have never seen.
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  Speaker 2: Hear it from the voices never seen before. You can
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  Speaker 2: always trust never. On fifty five KRC, the talk station
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  Speaker 2: hit A six if afybout KERR see the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas pleased as I can be to look across
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  Speaker 2: the board here and see Citizen Watchdog Todd Zenzer in
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  Speaker 2: studio and while what an eye opening discussion we're gonna
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: have Todd Zenzer's in studio. His new podcast, Citizen Watchdog
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  Speaker 2: is the name of it.
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  Speaker 4: Find it. You're gonna love hearing about it. Talks about
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 4: the subject better we're gonna be talking about this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Uh So, thanks Joe Strekker for producing it, and thank
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 4: you Todd Zenzer lending your experience as a former US
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 4: Inspector general. As a I joked about it going into
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 4: the break at the top of there is kind of
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 4: like a hobby during retirement. Man, you are closely analyzing
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 4: the expenditures of the City of Cincinnati, and the timing
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 4: of you being here could not be better. Christopher Smithman
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  Speaker 4: was on this morning venting his spleen in a special
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 4: Spleen done edition for this because the City of Cincinnati
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  Speaker 4: is talking about a five percent across the board cut,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 4: including cuts to public safety after infusing five million plus
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 4: dollars last year. Because we have a public safety problem.
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  Speaker 4: They want to cut police and fire, claiming we got
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 4: a budget problem. They want to increase taxes as well.
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  Speaker 4: Todd Zinzer, they have a hole to fill. But whoa, whoa, whoa,
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  Speaker 4: todd Zinzer. You told me before we started talking on
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 4: air this morning that we don't have a budget problem
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  Speaker 4: in the city. Good to have you back in, my friend.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: No, there isn't a budget problem.
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  Speaker 16: No, I don't think there's a budget problem. They they
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  Speaker 16: really have spent a lot of money just recently, for example,
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 16: on things that are not really towards public safety, for example,
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 16: or any any of them must do type of things
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  Speaker 16: that the city.
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  Speaker 4: Has, road bridges, infrastructure of public safety, the core functions
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  Speaker 4: of government.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, they just spent three point eight million dollars last week, folks,
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  Speaker 16: on a dozen different purposes. Three of them, for example,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 16: almost six hundred thousand dollars I think, on efforts to
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 16: help illegal immigrants who need representation against the government.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, of course, that's a core function of cities
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  Speaker 1: since a government.
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  Speaker 16: Right, So there are things like that. Just a corp
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 16: of weeks ago, they approved twelve million dollars for a
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 16: new solar array.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you, oh man, you had you came in here
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: to piss me off, and just I.
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  Speaker 16: Think part of this three point eight this past week
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  Speaker 16: or this week, I think it was this week actually
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 16: four hundred and fifty thousand dollars to help green to
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  Speaker 16: promote the Green Workforce, which I don't really know what
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  Speaker 16: that is, but those are the kind of things that
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 16: they spend money on that they really don't need.
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  Speaker 4: To the green workforce. Yeah, well, I suppose that's an
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 4: opportunity for party loyalists to get a salary and probably
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 4: do nothing but maybe wear t shirts promoting the environment
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  Speaker 4: or something.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, there's so much. There's so much of that, Brian,
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 16: and I think what they're trying to do with this
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  Speaker 16: reparations issue is in the Green New Deal or the
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  Speaker 16: Green New Green Cincinnati Plan, they put the plan in place,
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 16: and then throughout the year they spend money and the
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 16: justification is it to implement the Green Cincinnati Plan.
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  Speaker 5: So the.
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  Speaker 16: Cost of that particular program doesn't need to need to
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  Speaker 16: be justified on its own, it's justified by the Green
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  Speaker 16: Cincinnati Plan. They're going to do the same thing with
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 16: this reparations plan, is they're going to they're going to
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 16: set it up and then as they spend money throughout
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 16: the year on things that tangentially fit that, they'll call
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 16: it reparations.
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  Speaker 4: So they will hire non governmental organizations out there and
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 4: separately pay them to implement manager otherwise deal with the
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 4: separate the overarching five million dollar reparations program.
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  Speaker 16: That's what I think is going to happen. And the
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  Speaker 16: reparations issue, at least my involvement with it, goes back
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  Speaker 16: to the railroad campaign. Two weeks before the election or
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 16: the referendum, the City Council, the Vice mayor in particular,
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 16: entered a motion for the Rising fifteen Railway fund they
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 16: wanted to take. They wanted to establish a Rising fifteen
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 16: Railway Fund and take ten percent of whatever the city
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 16: gets in a distribution and put it in that fund.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 16: And they did that two weeks before the election. And
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 16: when I saw that it was well, they were just
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 16: trying to get support from the black community which was
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 16: wishy washy on the sale of the railroad. And then
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 16: after the election where they actually won, the motions went away.
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  Speaker 16: Oh really, And it came back in January of twenty five.
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  Speaker 16: That's when they introduced the reparations, the Rising fifteen Railway Fund,
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 16: the Rising fifteen Economic Development Fund, and I went down
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 16: and objected, just based on the socioeconomic data that they
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 16: said supported the motion. It consisted of three columns, the
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 16: fifteen neighborhoods, the median income of those neighborhoods, and the
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 16: racial makeup of those neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 7: That was it.
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  Speaker 1: That was it, And so I did.
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  Speaker 16: I went down to city council and I told them
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  Speaker 16: I didn't think was appropriate to make government funding decisions
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 16: based on race, which this absolutely was. So I don't
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 16: know if that had an impact, but they did not
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  Speaker 16: vote on that motion. And so the next thing you had,
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 16: also in January of twenty five for the Rising fifteen
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  Speaker 16: is they wanted to take the railway money and apply
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 16: it to side a sidewalk repair program where if you're
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 16: delinquent in fixing your sidewalk and you've been penalized, they
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 16: wanted to use railway money to fix those sidewalks and
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 16: relieve the property owner of that penalty.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's not property. That is the responsibility of this
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 4: city in the first place, I know. So this is
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 4: another social welfare program in disguise.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, So I think that the thing about the reparations
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 16: motion is that there's no question that Cincinnati has a
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 16: segregation problem. There's no question about that, and the reparations
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 16: is really just a label. It's a charged or loaded
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 16: word that people see it and they think that means
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 16: that we're going to go and pay payments to people
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 16: whose ancestors were in slaved That's not what this reparations
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 16: program is. This is really just a housing program that
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 16: they've labeled reparations.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and the predicate is there used to be a
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 4: discrimination in the real estate market. Agents were told do
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 4: not show these particular properties to black people. The zoning issues,
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 4: all of that was eradicated over the years and deemed unlawful,
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 4: which exactly was. But you said, we do have a
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 4: segregation problem in the city of Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 10: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 16: The poverty, for example, is totally concentrated in the West
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 16: End and neighborhoods like Avondale. It's just concentrated there because
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 16: of these zoning and property of policies that existed so
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 16: many years.
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  Speaker 1: Ago, which continued to this day.
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  Speaker 16: I get the impression to a certain extent. Yeah, the
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 16: big issue was, the big boiling point was the Kenyan
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 16: Bar neighborhood. If you've never heard of that, that was
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 16: like the Queensgate area and the west part of downtown.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 16: It was the largest neighborhood in the city.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: Back in the day.
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  Speaker 16: This was in the sixties, I guess, And that's when
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 16: they took I seventy five and took it right through
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 16: Kenyon Bar. They displaced all the residents there, and those
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 16: residents had to move, and it concentrated in the West
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 16: End and then into these other areas. And that's what
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 16: that's what the city's dealing with in terms of the
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 16: concentration of poverty.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so they feel they have a moral high ground
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  Speaker 4: to allocate this money. Yes, all right, Now, let me
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 4: just ask a very practical question. Even if it's the
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  Speaker 4: greatest idea since sliced bread, five million dollars, when you're
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 4: dealing with a housing issue, I can't see that going.
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  Speaker 1: A long way. Todd, That's right, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 16: Symbolic, Yes, it's very symbolic, and it's very consistent with
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 16: what this city Council does. You've got the Financial Freedom Blueprint,
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 16: You've got the Act for Sincy that spreads out all
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 16: this money. It's called it's called spreading the peanut butter.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 16: And they keep spreading the peanut butter and it gets
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 16: thinner and thinner and thinner. Yeah, because they're trying to
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 16: accommodate all of these social services and social justice purposes.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 4: Well, I think I made a comment to you on
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 4: the heels of a different way of putting it. You know,
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 4: you can be a bleeding heart and think you need
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 4: to help and fund and you know every worthy cause
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 4: or maybe even not worthy cause that comes down the road,
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 4: but you're eventually going to bleed to death. That's right,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 4: and that's where we find ourselves.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 4: So it's not that it's not that we we actually
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 4: have a budget problem, but it's brought about by that reality.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 4: You don't need to spend all this money. It's ultimately
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 4: a pointless gesture virtue signaling. It allows you to hire
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 4: all of these wealth or these political loyal us who
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 4: basically could go out in the world, use up those
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 4: funds and accomplish nothing.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 10: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's it boiled down in a nutshell. We're gonna
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 4: pause right now. We'll bring Todd zzerbeca and waits you
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  Speaker 4: here where some of these this money goes? He say
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 4: a bar.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: Eight nineteen.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 4: If you have Karose de Talk station, Citizen Watchdog is
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 4: the podcast. Citizen Watchdog is the man who is todds
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 4: Zinzer in studio and Tomam will give you props because
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 4: you're exposing the nefarious reality of where our money, our
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 4: City of Cincinnati taxpayer dollars being spent by this runaway
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 4: council and mayor. You remind me of the citizen journalists
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 4: who expose well, they think they knew about it, it
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 4: had been reported on a lot, but actually blew up
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 4: the whole Minneapolis Leering Center thing. Yes, he walked around,
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 4: he saw what was going on, he reported it, and boom,
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 4: that's you. With regard to the expenses, the City of
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 4: Cincinnati is engaging out of the projects they're engaging in,
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 4: so they claim they got a financial crisis. They want
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 4: to raise the taxes. They're talking about a five percent
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 4: across the board cut, including fire and safety, and you're
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 4: pointing out that they spend god and gobs of money
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 4: basically virtue signaling with no hope of actual, real, something
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 4: realistic coming from these endeavors by spending it on some
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 4: of the programs you mentioned before.
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: Tell everybody about the bar.
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  Speaker 16: Well, this has been on the agenda for a long time.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 16: I think it's been in the works for a long time,
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 16: but they've been appropriating money to something called the West
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 16: End Sports Bar and Grill, and my sense is that
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 16: it's a minority owned business that's been you know, they're
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 16: trying to revitalize in the West End and so every
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 16: once in a while they'll they'll put money into it.
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 16: And that's not uncommon for this council to do that.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 5: But how is it?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, here again pointing out that you're the one
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 4: that's exposing this. There is I don't know that there
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 4: is any local media outlets five nine twelve.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: Fox nineteen.
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 4: They have reporters since they acquire Scott Wartman should be
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 4: on the job, don't we Is there no one who
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 4: else in the world who's paying attention to this? I mean,
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 4: these are really really it just sounds like you're revealing
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 4: a level of corruption that my brain can't quite comprehend.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: This morning, Todd, Well, I.
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 16: Think everybody's gotten used to this council spending money like this.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 16: These for example, this three point eight million that they
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 16: approved this week. Those motions are sprinkled throughout the agenda.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 16: So what I do and I get an agenda for
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 16: the city Council, I put it through AI and say
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 16: simplify this for me and outline it, and it takes
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 16: all this legal mumbo jumbo and language in the agenda,
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 16: takes all that out and just lists what's happening. And
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 16: so I take that and then I post it on
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 16: my Facebook.
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 4: And that's why you need to follow Todd Zinzer on
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 4: Facebook and also listen to his Citizen Watchdog podcast. Well
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 4: what else is revealing here? I know there's an opportunity
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 4: for City of Cincinnati to chime in on this, and
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 4: I want to remind listeners in the city. March eleventh,
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 4: North Avondale Rec Center at five point thirty, you can
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 4: talk to them about the budget and the potential cuts
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 4: coming your way. Maybe bring Todd's in. There's a list
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 4: of things they actually spent money on, and say why
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 4: in the hell did you do this and didn't pave
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 4: my street? How many road models we have outstanding, Todd,
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 4: that have been building up over the years.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 10: I don't know.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 4: It's insane though, I mean it's a lot. Okay, that's
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 4: infrastructure falling apart. That is a screaming, waving red flag.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 4: That's a broken window that needs to be fixed to
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 4: bring in more business and industry, Right, Todd, That's right,
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 4: damn straight. March sixteenth, five point thirty pm Sailor Park
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 4: rec Center to chime in on these budget suggestions in
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 4: the across the board cuts. What else do you have
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 4: on your list?
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 16: Well, last last year, since since we just kicked off
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 16: the budget process last year, I went to one of
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 16: these public hearings and I suggested to them that they
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 16: should have the Solicitor's office tell them what does the
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 16: city do that we must do by law, by contract,
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 16: by grant assurances, what are we union agreements? What are
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 16: we legally obligated to pay? And then anything left over
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 16: is all discretionary and you should figure that out so
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 16: that you know how much discretionary money you really have
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 16: versus what mandatory requirements are. So I'm going to go
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 16: back and make that suggestion again. And then the other
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 16: thing we're going to suggest or request is that when
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 16: at some point during the process, the members of council
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 16: come in with a list of organizations that they want
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 16: to give money to, and it can total over over
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 16: a million dollars for any particular member of council, I've
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 16: asked them just when they send these memos in to
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 16: the city manager, they need to sign an attestation that
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 16: they do not have any conflicts of interests those organizations.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 16: So we're going to go back and make that recommendation
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 16: as well, And if we need to, I think I
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 16: said this online or my podcast, we're going to organize
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 16: people to start sending in letters requesting that those city councils.
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 4: I was just going to ask you, if there's a
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 4: call to action, I would think calling up your any
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 4: of the members or council or all of them and
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 4: basically say quit funding these non government organizations and these
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 4: pet projects until you get your damn budget in line
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 4: and pave my street. But I love that, You know why,
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 4: because the minute someone tries to resist that, you got
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 4: to look at them and say, what are you trying
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 4: to hide? You don't want to disclose a direct financial
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 4: connection to the money that you're spending the taxpayer dollars on.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 4: Now here's the thing, demand accountability. If I think I said,
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 4: I think it must have been online. But if they
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 4: were to do that, if they were to put that in,
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 4: then Mayor would not be able to sign that memo
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 4: because two of the people on his list are going
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 4: to be people or organizations where he sits on the board.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 4: You see why we are lucky to have Todd Zinzer
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 4: citizen watchdog. I wish there were more reporters out there
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 4: looking this like Todd Zenzer does in his spare time
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 4: and at no cost. I think you should put a
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 4: request in to be a non government organization to get
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 4: some money from the City of Cincinnati, since you're doing
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 4: the laboring or the work that they should be doing
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 4: every day. Todd Zenzer, let me thank you from the
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 4: bottom of my heart for the work that you're doing.
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 4: If we're coming to the studio and bringing this to
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 4: everyone's attention, and let's keep pounding away. And yes, there's
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 4: a call to action. Demand accountability, demand them to disclose
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 4: any financial interest they have in a single dollar that
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 4: goes out. Todd, keep up the great work, my friend.
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 4: All right, thank you very much. Folks, don't go away.
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 4: It's time to have a little bit of fun with
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 4: Jay Ratliff. We've got a lot of aviation topics to
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 4: talk about with Jay aviation issues and have a couple
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 4: of yucks and some fun.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to my friend. It's always great having on
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: the show.
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 13: My pleasure to be here, my friend.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, and topic number one, I embrace
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  Speaker 1: this all day long. I was talking about.
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  Speaker 4: It was in a doctor's office, wait in the waiting room,
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  Speaker 4: and some clown sitting in the corner had her cell
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  Speaker 4: phone blasting. I mean you could hear it down the hall,
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  Speaker 4: just just just looking at I don't know, watching some
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  Speaker 4: YouTube videos, some promo anyway. Just absolutely rude. I mean
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  Speaker 4: that's just downright rude. Well, United Airlines stepping up to
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  Speaker 4: the plate and dealing with things like this.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, in fact, they have changed their carriage of contract,
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  Speaker 13: that's the legal terms. Since the airline tickets the reservation,
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  Speaker 13: that's a legal contract between us and the airline. United
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  Speaker 13: change their legal wording saying look, if we have passengers
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  Speaker 13: that have these electronic devices that they fail to use
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  Speaker 13: their airphones, their headphones, yeah, we'll kick them off the flight.
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  Speaker 13: We could ban them from flying United Airlines. So it's
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  Speaker 13: really the first step by a major airline to say, look,
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  Speaker 13: if you're going to act like this and be this
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  Speaker 13: inconsiderate to people you're sitting butt to butt, cheek the cheek.
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  Speaker 10: Next to then we won't have you and you could be.
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  Speaker 13: Removed from the plane. Now, if somebody's doing it during
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  Speaker 13: the course of the flight, they'll be reminded by a
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  Speaker 13: flight attendant that they need to change what they're doing,
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  Speaker 13: and if they don't when they land, they're not getting
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  Speaker 13: on their connecting flight, and they may not be allowed
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  Speaker 13: to fly United Airlines ever again, because once you start disregarding, disobeying,
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  Speaker 13: ignoring the instructions of a uniform crew member, that is
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  Speaker 13: in essence of felony, and you're preventing them from doing
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  Speaker 13: the jobs that they need to do. From a safety
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  Speaker 13: related standpoint, it's just stupid to do it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 13: there's and I don't, Brian, I've never understood it. And
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  Speaker 13: I look at people when they're doing that, and they
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  Speaker 13: look at me, and I guess I just don't have
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  Speaker 13: the you know, the forward nature to say, we're not
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  Speaker 13: all interested in what you're listening to talking about? Is
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  Speaker 13: there any you know?
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  Speaker 10: But you know, I don't.
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  Speaker 13: I just look at them, thinking that maybe they've got
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  Speaker 13: some civility within them and they'll realize, oh, I guess,
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  Speaker 13: you know, having my phone at volume twenty nine and
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  Speaker 13: people for seventeen rows can hear what I'm talking about
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  Speaker 13: is a bit man, you know. But you just don't
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  Speaker 13: know the way people are these days. You just I
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  Speaker 13: don't mean to be a cynic Brian, but you know,
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  Speaker 13: just common courtesy. These days, I'm surprised when I get
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  Speaker 13: the kind of courteous behavior I would like to see.
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  Speaker 13: The other stuff doesn't surprise me. I tell Sherry that
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  Speaker 13: all the time when we go out and we have
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  Speaker 13: to endure something at a store somewhere, and I said, well, sadly,
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  Speaker 13: that's the kind of behavior we've come to expect these.
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  Speaker 4: Days, isn't it the truth? It's like common sense. It
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  Speaker 4: isn't common anymore that courtesy we used to count on
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  Speaker 4: all the time.
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  Speaker 13: I just did all right, But thank you, thank you
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  Speaker 13: United for doing I mean, normally they're not the ones
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  Speaker 13: leading the charge on stuff like this. So I'm thrilled
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  Speaker 13: to see it.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: And yet again a week doesn't go by, we don't
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  Speaker 4: have planes running into each other one during taxing, we
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  Speaker 4: have yet another one.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit Airlines. A bit of a bad luck trend going on.
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  Speaker 13: Here, Jay, Spirit can't buy a break. They're selling their planes.
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  Speaker 13: They're trying to, you know, just concentrate on the most
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  Speaker 13: profitable routes. It's not a skeleton crew, but it's getting there.
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  Speaker 13: And they've got this this airplane that's in the process
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  Speaker 13: of de icing at Newark, and this Singapore Airlines super
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  Speaker 13: jumbo jet is being pushed out for taxi and boom
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  Speaker 13: runs right into it. This wasn't a glancing low. They
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  Speaker 13: plowed into this, ramming the vertical stabilizer, the part that
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  Speaker 13: sticks up.
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  Speaker 10: In the back.
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  Speaker 13: That Singapore Airlines flight was preparing for a nineteen hour flight,
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  Speaker 13: so all the people, all the luggage has to come
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  Speaker 13: off of both planes. But it wasn't long ago that
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  Speaker 13: we had a Delta Airlines flight ram into a Spirit
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  Speaker 13: Airlines flight. Again on the ground, no serious injuries, just
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  Speaker 13: damage to the aircraft. But it's like, Spirit, do we
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  Speaker 13: need to paint our airplanes a different color? We seem
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  Speaker 13: to be attracting all these planes and Brian. When you've
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  Speaker 13: got a team of people around an aircraft as it's
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  Speaker 13: being pushed out, there is the row z ow zero chance.
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  Speaker 13: If everybody's doing their job, they're going to stop the progression.
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  Speaker 13: They're going to say, wait a minute, things aren't lined
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  Speaker 13: up here, and they're gonna make the necessary adjustments. At
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  Speaker 13: Northwest Airlines, anytime we had aircraft damage like this that
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  Speaker 13: was so easily preventable, it was clear that not only one,
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  Speaker 13: but several people weren't doing their job, and now you've
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  Speaker 13: got an aircraft. People canceled, the multiple flights at aircraft
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  Speaker 13: I was supposed to run that day canceled. You've got
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  Speaker 13: now just a big billboard until it gets fixed, sitting
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  Speaker 13: there by maintenance crews. And it typically happens in a
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  Speaker 13: place other than your maintenance hub, which makes it even
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  Speaker 13: harder to fix. And it's it's just absolutely annoying. But
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  Speaker 13: once again, yeah, spirit gets dinged by another aircraft and
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  Speaker 13: caused all kinds of problems.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and just sort of something of what you said.
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  Speaker 4: I find it impossible to believe given the expense and
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  Speaker 4: hassle that is associated with this happening, and all of
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  Speaker 4: the people around the two giant aircraft could ever run
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  Speaker 4: into each other at.
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  Speaker 13: A slow speeding For some airlines, it's caused to lose
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  Speaker 13: your job, so there's not an incentive for the people
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  Speaker 13: on the ground to say, hey, look, you know, I've
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  Speaker 13: got to really be on my toes here. But it's
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  Speaker 13: like everything else. Once you get laxed, you get a
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  Speaker 13: little sloppy, and mistakes can happen. It happens all the time.
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  Speaker 13: I don't care if you're trading stocks, or you're pushing
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  Speaker 13: an airplane back, if you get distracted, or you just
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  Speaker 13: kind of it's another day at the office and you
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  Speaker 13: just assume everything's going to go as its supposed to go.
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  Speaker 13: You quickly find out that's not the case, and things
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  Speaker 13: can really blow up in your face.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking there's no rear view mirror in the cockpit,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, I have a backup camera in my car.
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  Speaker 4: This comes standard. Do you think there'd be a backup
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  Speaker 4: camera in the airplane to show you what's surrounding you?
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  Speaker 13: Maybe one of those loud bills you know, back on
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  Speaker 13: a scooter at Kroger right exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll bring Jay back.
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  Speaker 4: We got quite a few dolls, including complaints about a
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  Speaker 4: new boarding policy and a fourteen hour flight to know
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  Speaker 4: where those among the topies with iHeart Media Aviation Expert
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  Speaker 4: Jay Ratlift, don't go away.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be right back. Fifty five krc A KRCD talk station.
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  Speaker 5: Have you ever been in a cockpit before?
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  Speaker 1: A thirty eight fiftybouve KARCD talk station. Brian Thomas with iHeart.
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  Speaker 4: Media Aviation Expert Jay Rattlift. Every Thursday beginning eight thirty.
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  Speaker 4: Get him to the end of the segment, and I
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  Speaker 4: love having him on the program. I hope you do
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  Speaker 4: as much as I do. Somebody's always complaining about something,
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  Speaker 4: and now we have a new boarding policy at Southwest Airlines.
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  Speaker 4: Why the complaints, Jay?
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  Speaker 13: People think if they complain enough Brian Southwest will change
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  Speaker 13: their business model. Well, these are people that liked the
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  Speaker 13: open seating. They like the ability to get on and
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  Speaker 13: maybe with a wheelchair to get on whatever might happen
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  Speaker 13: to be. So at every opportunity they're complaining at the
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  Speaker 13: top of their lungs about how this isn't working. Failed experiment,
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  Speaker 13: you tried it, We need to go back to what
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  Speaker 13: we did before. And the people that are complaining are
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  Speaker 13: a couple of groups. One the groups that are traveling
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  Speaker 13: with families, where they do not ahead of time when
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  Speaker 13: they're making the reservations pay the extra cost to get
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  Speaker 13: seat assignments, so they're waiting until they get to the
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  Speaker 13: airport the day of departure. And here's my family of four,
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  Speaker 13: we need a seat seats assigned. Well, okay, you didn't
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  Speaker 13: pay to have them done in advance. I've got these
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  Speaker 13: seats available. None of them are together, enjoy your flight,
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  Speaker 13: and of course the family's just freaking out saying, wait, man,
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  Speaker 13: you can't separate my family. No, we're not separating your family.
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  Speaker 13: You separated your family by not spending the few extra
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  Speaker 13: dollars to get your seat assignments. And of course when
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  Speaker 13: you get on the plane now you're asking other passengers
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  Speaker 13: who paid for the seats they're in to move so
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  Speaker 13: that you can, as somebody that didn't pay for it,
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  Speaker 13: put all your family together, and that's really creating some
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  Speaker 13: on board problems. And Southwest is saying, look, we're looking
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  Speaker 13: into it, but the bottom line is, of course pay
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  Speaker 13: to have your family sitting together, and it's a non issue.
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  Speaker 13: The other people that are complaining are those that are
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  Speaker 13: boarding the airplane, and what they're finding is people that
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  Speaker 13: are sitting in the back of the airplane which they
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  Speaker 13: board first. Let's say you're in row twenty three, Brian.
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  Speaker 13: When they get to road about ten or eleven, I
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  Speaker 13: don't need to carry this in carry bag anymore. They
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  Speaker 13: throw it over Row twelve and then they go back
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  Speaker 13: and sit in their seats and Row twenty three, well,
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  Speaker 13: by the time the other people board that are actually
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  Speaker 13: sitting in row twelve, arrive all the overhead storage compartments
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  Speaker 13: yeah or taken, Yeah, and of course the only open space. Hey,
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  Speaker 13: we got run back here above row twenty three. I
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  Speaker 13: don't want my bag back there.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get to it. You gotta wait till the
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  Speaker 1: entire planes d board before you get Actually, I hate that.
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  Speaker 13: And flight attendants try to police this, and they do
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  Speaker 13: it when there's a first class section. Pretty good, but
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  Speaker 13: it's almost impossible in coach. So Southwest is decide and Brian,
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  Speaker 13: when I read this, I knew you would love it
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  Speaker 13: as much as me. They got the iron clad way
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  Speaker 13: of correcting this behavior where it won't happen anymore. They
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  Speaker 13: decided they're going to put a sticker in the overhead
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  Speaker 13: compartment saying don't do it, and that will immediately change
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  Speaker 13: the behavior everybody behaves, problem solve. I wonder many committees
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  Speaker 13: it took to come up with the sticker idea. It's
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  Speaker 13: not going to work. You and I laugh at that,
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  Speaker 13: knowing good luck at that.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, we just need to know the law
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  Speaker 4: on the book. Just say it's illegal. Yeah, sure that'll work, right.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, if you slap a sticker upper saying, look,
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  Speaker 13: we're going to find you three thousand dollars if you
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  Speaker 13: put your bag here.
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  Speaker 10: Now, I like that that might be something that's going
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  Speaker 10: to get somebody's attention.
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  Speaker 4: That worked now, that worked for me. Yesterday I was
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 4: going to listener lunch downtown Loveland. I went the back
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  Speaker 4: way along the river and there was a giant sign
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 4: in the road that said do not pass. The river
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  Speaker 4: is elevated above the roadway, and right there underneath it
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 4: had said two thousand dollars. Fine for ignoring this. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking down the road going well, the water's already receded.
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  Speaker 4: But you know what kept me from.
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  Speaker 1: Going around the sign two thousand dollars. I know'd be
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  Speaker 1: a cop of around the corner. Anyway.
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  Speaker 13: Listening now, let's not be tomorrow's story. I feel your
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  Speaker 13: pain there.
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  Speaker 1: Brother, no question.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Let's combine the two stories involving Iran. First,
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  Speaker 4: the fourteen hour flight to nowhere, and is the Iranian
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  Speaker 4: situation causing fuel prices to rise?
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  Speaker 1: Iran the aviation needs it.
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  Speaker 13: Is fuel prices are going up. Airlines have yet to
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  Speaker 13: really adjust to any significance to their future fairs. But Brian,
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  Speaker 13: that's coming. So if anybody's planning on flying later this year, summer, fall,
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  Speaker 13: over the holidays, even at the end of the year,
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 13: and you're kind of on the fence. My suggestion is
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  Speaker 13: lock those fares in as quickly as you can, because
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  Speaker 13: if this situation goes for any length of time and
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  Speaker 13: we do see the fuel prices start to rise, airlines
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  Speaker 13: will be very quick to adjust their future schedules, jacking
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  Speaker 13: the fares up considerably.
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  Speaker 9: Now.
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  Speaker 13: Even if the fuel goes up and then it comes
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  Speaker 13: down three weeks later, they're going to keep the fares
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  Speaker 13: pretty much at the same for the time being. So
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  Speaker 13: we don't like paying airlines more than we should. So
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  Speaker 13: if we can lock the fare in by making the
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  Speaker 13: advance reservation now, if fares do increase because of the
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  Speaker 13: rising fuel costs, and airlines are always quick to pass
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  Speaker 13: those costs along to us. Once the reservations mate were
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  Speaker 13: locked in, we're good to go and you don't have
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  Speaker 13: to worry about it. So but yeah, as far as
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  Speaker 13: the Iran situation, we had American Airlines flight that was
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  Speaker 13: leaving Philadelphia headed over to cutter and it got.
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  Speaker 10: To about Spain.
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  Speaker 13: This flight left Friday night before anything was going on
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  Speaker 13: in Iran, they get over there, and then all of
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 13: a sudden, Brian there about at Spain when the airspace
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  Speaker 13: closes because of all the military operations ongoing.
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  Speaker 10: What are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean your alternate airports within that closed airspace.
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  Speaker 13: So they turned around, flu back to Philadelphia and landed.
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  Speaker 13: It was fourteen fifteen hours. It might have been sixteen,
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  Speaker 13: but I mean it was a long flight, and I'm
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  Speaker 13: sure there's a lot of people there that maybe had
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  Speaker 13: family where they were going, and it would have been
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  Speaker 13: a very unsettling thing to be, hey, we can't land.
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 13: Airspace is closed. It may I don't know exactly how
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  Speaker 13: much they were laid to the passengers on board the aircraft,
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  Speaker 13: but I'm sure the captain tried to do what they
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  Speaker 13: could to say, hey, here's what we know, and this
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 13: is what's happening. But to get all the way you know,
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 13: to Europe and you're turing coming back, that was the
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 13: decision that was made. And you know, what you're doing
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 13: is you're protecting passengers, then the aircraft and the flight
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 13: crew from any possible harm. And if the airspace is closed,
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 13: you're not even allowed to.
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  Speaker 10: Fly in there.
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  Speaker 13: But you know, I'm sure people complained and everything, but look,
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 13: if you're not going to keep if you're going to
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 13: keep me out of harm's way, I'm not going to
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 13: say one thing other than the words thank you for
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 13: doing that, because that's the last place you want to be.
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 13: Because right now, we've got hundreds of thousands of people
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 13: that are there that have been trying to get out
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 13: for the last several days, and we've got Emirates and
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 13: the flight Dubai and a couple of other carriers that
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 13: are bringing in select flights. They're coming in ferried flights,
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 13: meaning empty aircraft for the most part, where they can
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 13: airlift people out as safely as they can only when
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 13: the conditions warrant. So you've got a lot of people
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 13: there that are just scrambling trying to either get to
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 13: another country where they can get to another airport that's
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 13: open and they can get out of there to somehow
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 13: make their way back to America or wherever they're going.
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 13: And airlines, of course, you're going to do what they
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 13: can as quickly as the conditions are safe enough to
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 13: allow the return to something close to normal flight activity
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 13: because you have to buy airport. They in Atlanta always
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 13: compete with the world's busiest airport. So when you shut
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 13: that down for any length of time, Yeah, you've got
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 13: a ton of people that have been inconvenience that are
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 13: obviously scrambling to see what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 4: All right, coming up one more with Jay Rattler, starting
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  Speaker 4: with play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It's like cursing
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  Speaker 4: Plus we'll find out if it's a good day to travel.
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  Speaker 4: aviation expert Jay rat left.
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  Speaker 1: Jay Ratleft.
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  Speaker 4: You think people get the memo you don't say bomb
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 4: anywhere near an air in an airline, on an airline,
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 4: or in a terminal. And it's like there are words
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 4: out there that have been pretty much banned from the lexicon.
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 13: Stupid.
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  Speaker 1: We got another one, Jay.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you. Joe Strecker. Yeah, that is a that is
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 10: that's the message.
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  Speaker 13: And you know, I've been at the airport when I've
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 13: had people joke at the ticket counter at the gate
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 13: on board an aircraft where they make that comment. Like,
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 13: we had a group of six or eight that were
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 13: showing up going on vacation. They were in their twenties,
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 13: and you know, the one guy that has to joke
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 13: about everything, puts his bag up there and says, now,
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  Speaker 13: look when you cturay this and see the bomb in there.
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  Speaker 10: Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 13: And I was like, okay, And then I said, excuse me,
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  Speaker 13: none of you are getting on this flight because we've
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  Speaker 13: got to question you. There's a security protocol we've got.
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  Speaker 10: To go through.
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  Speaker 13: And yeah, so away they all go. Nobody he goes
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  Speaker 13: to where there's planning at that particular time because of
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  Speaker 13: the comments of one per Now I can't disregard that.
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  Speaker 13: I can't say, oh, he was just kidding, because in
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  Speaker 13: the unlikely event that something is accurate with that, then
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  Speaker 13: the airline and I'm being held accountable. So the airlines
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  Speaker 13: have a very clear cut protocol of what happened. So
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  Speaker 13: we had a Jet Blue passenger who's on the flight
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  Speaker 13: preparing to depart and he makes the comment. I think
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  Speaker 13: they were in Fort Lauderdale perhaps, but wherever it was made,
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  Speaker 13: the comment about having a bomb, and of course what
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  Speaker 13: happens then is the boarding process stops. You now have
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  Speaker 13: to get him off the aircraft. You have to get
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  Speaker 13: his luggage off the aircraft. Then you have to get
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  Speaker 13: everybody else also off the aircraft, all of their luggage
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  Speaker 13: off the aircraft. And you're talking about everything being rescreened.
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  Speaker 13: You're having the aircraft doing a hard target search as
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 13: you go through, making sure nobody left anything behind. You're
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 13: looking the lavatories, you're looking in the seatback pockets. I mean, Brian,
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  Speaker 13: it is a long process that's all made possible thanks
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  Speaker 13: to the most popular person on the flight, the one
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  Speaker 13: that opened his mouth. Now he's probably never going to
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  Speaker 13: fly Jet Blue again. So you're talking about something that
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  Speaker 13: is a single comment by maybe an incredibly intelligent person
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  Speaker 13: making the most the dumbest comment that can possibly make
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  Speaker 13: it the worst possible time that now impacts not everybody
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  Speaker 13: on that flight, but people are waiting for that aircraft
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  Speaker 13: at the next down line station to fly somewhere else.
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  Speaker 13: So you've delayed this aircraft throughout the course of the day,
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  Speaker 13: maybe the next two days, because of one person.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: All right, this next one kind of reminded me of
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  Speaker 4: the one of the most if not the most embarrassing
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  Speaker 4: moments of my life. I was responsible for a very
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  Speaker 4: big litigation when I was practicing over at Anthem in
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 4: the litigation department. Was a nationwide case involving like forty
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  Speaker 4: lawyers in a weekly phone call. They're all across the country,
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  Speaker 4: all the way across this, all the way to Hawaii,
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  Speaker 4: So forty people trying to get something done on a
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  Speaker 4: phone call. And these things drug on for a couple
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  Speaker 4: of hours, sometimes a little bit frustrating. So the attorney
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  Speaker 4: in Hawaii starts asking, for like the fifteenth time, the
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  Speaker 4: same damn question We've been over and what do I say?
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  Speaker 4: I scream blah blah blah, and then the call went
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  Speaker 4: silent and.
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  Speaker 10: You look at your phone.
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  Speaker 4: Right ten seconds later, the lead attorney's supposed to heard
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  Speaker 4: the cats. Brian is there's something wrong, and of course, yeah, we've.
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  Speaker 5: Been over this.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, I know, everybody except for her was really
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  Speaker 4: applauding me, but a little embarrassing. And that's kind of
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  Speaker 4: what happened here on the airline.
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  Speaker 13: Well, yeah, United Airlines has a channel nine and for
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 13: those using the entertainment system, you can flip to that
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  Speaker 13: specific channel and for a brief amount of time you
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 13: can listen to the interaction between the flight crew and
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 13: air traffic control. So if you're like an aviation nerd
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  Speaker 13: like me or just why who's bored and says, yeah, yeah,
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 13: let me let me tune it, it's pretty interesting to
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 13: listen to the back and forth. Well, what happens is
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 13: shortly after they are cleared and they're ready to go,
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 13: that channels turned off unless you forget and this flight
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 13: crew on the United Airlines for good to turn it off.
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  Speaker 13: So for the entire flight, anybody tuned into that could
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 13: hear the entire conversation of what was.
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  Speaker 10: Going on on late day, you know, the jokes, the
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 10: language that you.
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  Speaker 13: Thank god there was. Now what surprises me is that somebody,
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  Speaker 13: I guess they just thought this is the way it
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  Speaker 13: was supposed to be. If I'm on that flight, I'm
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 13: grabbing the flight and saying, you better tell those guys
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  Speaker 13: to turn channel nine off because it's still on because
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 13: it's not supposed to be. Passengers probably thought, oh, this
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 13: is just you know, United letting us listen. Thank god,
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 13: nothing was said that could have cost either one of
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 13: their jobs. Because you know, every mic is a live
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 13: mic kind of situation, and we know people have gotten
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 13: in all kinds of issues with that. But yeah, so
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  Speaker 13: I suspect there was an internal memo to all the
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 13: pilots reminding them that this has to be turned off
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 13: otherwise we could be in some big time trouble. Apparently
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 13: these guys dodge the bullet. But I'm telling you that's
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 13: a scary, scary thought thinking for hours everything you talk
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 13: about to not only the flight attendants who come in
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 13: and out of the cabin or the flight deck, as
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 13: well as your fellow pilot, who, Yeah, that could have.
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  Speaker 4: Been bad, no doubt about it, and we just did
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  Speaker 4: I just did SEC compliance training the other day. Is
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  Speaker 4: one of the things is always assume there is a
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 4: hot mic on never ever curse in the studio period.
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  Speaker 4: End of story. I struggle with compliance on that one
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  Speaker 4: as well, Jay Ratlers.
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  Speaker 10: Anyway, well you just put something on my list of
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 10: things to do today. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: And finally, is he usually close out with hub delays?
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 4: How's it looking out there with all the rain in
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 4: our area?
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  Speaker 13: Just wondering, Yeah, Detroit's gonna give us issues early and
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 13: often as the day progresses. Philadelphia, New York getting absolutely slammed,
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 13: and this is gonna be something that's gonna be with
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 13: us through the entire day. We can see the weather
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 13: delays of an hour, hour and a half, so as
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 13: a result, if you're going to the airport to travel today,
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 13: please take some patience, be nice to the people who
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 13: have no control over the weather, and don't scream at them.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Jay Ratler for spending time with me and
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  Speaker 4: my listeners always enjoy our conversations. We'll do it again
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  Speaker 4: next Thursday. Have a great week and best of the
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 4: health and love to you in your better half, my friend,