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55KRC Thursday Show - Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 505-F55KRC, the talk station. Friday Eve. Sugar, use a vacation.
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea what was going on. Yeah, neither
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  Speaker 1: do I. Another day. Wash, rinse, repeat. Happy Friday Eve.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas right here. Glad to be, as always, like
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  Speaker 1: to note, Joe Strecker is where he belongs in the
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  Speaker 1: executive producer booth. And we've got Congressman Davidson lined up.
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  Speaker 1: First guest of the morning coming up at 7.05. We'll
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  Speaker 1: find out what's going on during the August recess and
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  Speaker 1: also what's on the agenda for the balance of the year.
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  Speaker 1: They did sign, Trump signed a bill to avert the
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  Speaker 1: government shutdown. Funding bill. Continuing resolution. Write it again. When
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  Speaker 1: are we going to get back to the 12 appropriations bill? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. That is in there. That's part of the
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  Speaker 1: work requirement for elected officials in D.C. Ah, never mind.
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  Speaker 1: Kick the can. Continuing resolution. Let's keep spending at the
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  Speaker 1: current rate and harumph. Anyway, Trump signed it yesterday. It
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  Speaker 1: was a vote of 370 to 48 in the House.
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  Speaker 1: They passed the extension of the current spending through December 11th.
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  Speaker 1: clearly taking us past the November election and setting the
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  Speaker 1: stage for whatever the balance of power is in Congress
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  Speaker 1: to deal with the matter on a going forward basis. Anybody,
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  Speaker 1: check out the Polymarket on the actually completing 12 separate
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  Speaker 1: appropriations bills for the following calendar year, Joe. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to get like 98 to 2%, and the people who
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  Speaker 1: are betting that it'll get done, the 2% are going
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  Speaker 1: to lose. Same thing that's been going on for years
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  Speaker 1: and years. When is the last time we had 12
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  Speaker 1: appropriations bills passed? Anyhow, kick in the can, which has
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  Speaker 1: been typically the case for a long time. So, Congressman Davis,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he'll address that. But anything we want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about with Congressman Davis, that's coming up at 7.05. Got
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  Speaker 1: him for a few segments, followed by John Barrett, 8.15
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  Speaker 1: with John Barrett. He's the CEO of Western and Southern Life, and,
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  Speaker 1: of course, Western and Southern behind, along with iHeartMedia, WEBN,
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  Speaker 1: the Western and Southern Fireworks, Riverfest. And by all accounts,
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  Speaker 1: and John Barrett was talking about this year last year
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  Speaker 1: when I had him on the program. He said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're looking forward to this year, but next year is
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  Speaker 1: the big year. Next year, you can't... Unbelievable. It's the anniversary,
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  Speaker 1: 250th anniversary of the United States, and it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be massive. He was waxing poetic about how awesome it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be. Well, here we are. And he'll be
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  Speaker 1: in the studio at about 8.15 to talk about how
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  Speaker 1: awesome it's going to be. You planning on going? It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a good event. Those drone shows are
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  Speaker 1: what I'm really fascinated by. I sort of... Well, very
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  Speaker 1: entertaining and sort of wow-inspiring. There's also that whole creepy
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  Speaker 1: government-slash-military component to it. When you see what they're able
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish for entertainment purposes at an event like Riverfest,
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  Speaker 1: and then you think, wow, it doesn't take much imagination
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  Speaker 1: to extrapolate those drones and that coordinated effort by those
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  Speaker 1: drones and hundreds and hundreds of them all moving in
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  Speaker 1: concert and doing all kinds of crazy things. In a
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  Speaker 1: warfare setting?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, see you over the weekend. Followed by Jay Ratliff.
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  Speaker 1: It is iHeartMedia Aviation Expert Day. Jay Ratliff's got a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of fun topics to talk about at 8.30.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of topics, you want to talk about one? 513-749-5500-800-823-TALK.
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  Speaker 1: Pound 550 on AT & T phones. You know, as
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  Speaker 1: we talk about artificial intelligence data centers and people's outrage
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  Speaker 1: over them or understanding and sort of No one really
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  Speaker 1: loves them, but they do accomplish a lot. Construction jobs
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  Speaker 1: cannot be denied. Of course, the opportunity for tax revenue
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  Speaker 1: cannot be denied. I will continue to argue the main
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  Speaker 1: challenges that I guess you can say governmental bodies are facing,
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  Speaker 1: local governments are facing, the screaming and concerns over electricity
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  Speaker 1: consumption and water. And some people complain about noise, all
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  Speaker 1: of which I argue and so many other people have
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  Speaker 1: argued you can get in front of and alleviate. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, the concerns aren't justified based upon how we
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  Speaker 1: are going to build this. And as I've pointed out
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  Speaker 1: many times, it's the technology and what the technology does
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  Speaker 1: that I think that people are freaked out about. Here,
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  Speaker 1: add this to your list of things to be freaked
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  Speaker 1: out about in terms of the direction we're going with
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  Speaker 1: artificial intelligence. Let's see what Elon Musk had to say.
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  Speaker 1: addressing a virtual session of the G20 where they were
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  Speaker 1: talking about predictions on artificial intelligence. He said within 10 years,
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  Speaker 1: 1 billion humanoid robots will be outproducing all of humanity's
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  Speaker 1: economic output. Within 10 years. Now, you can say this
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  Speaker 1: is just some sort of bat crap utterance from Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 1: but he's been right about so many things. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's worthwhile just sort of like looking at this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: practically speaking. He was there at this G20 conference or
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  Speaker 1: at least virtually talking about power constraints on AI, the
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  Speaker 1: technology's economic potential, humanoid robotics, which is the point I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to bring up here and how government should regulate
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  Speaker 1: emerging tech. Now, insofar as robotics were concerned, he described
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  Speaker 1: humanoid robotic usefulness as a product of three factors, AI software,
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  Speaker 1: there's one AI, the onboard AI chip in the humanoid,
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  Speaker 1: and the electromechanical dexterity, particularly in the hands, which all
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  Speaker 1: three categories, he said, are improving exponentially. That's phase one.
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  Speaker 1: Phase two, once robots start manufacturing other robots, growth turns recursive,
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  Speaker 1: slow at first, and then explosive. I guess you teach
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  Speaker 1: the robots how to build other robots, which build robots
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  Speaker 1: that know how to build other robots. You can see
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  Speaker 1: how it would blow up. You have this geometric progression,
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  Speaker 1: which I suppose is how you get to one billion
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  Speaker 1: of these things in 10 years. That's his 10-year forecast.
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  Speaker 1: And he called it conservative. Also, here's a fun fact,
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  Speaker 1: frightening it is, each robot roughly... Five times as productive
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  Speaker 1: as a person. So combined, the fleet of humanoid robots
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  Speaker 1: would outproduce all of humanity. And the physical component of this,
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  Speaker 1: the manufacturing element that these humanoid robots will provide, not
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  Speaker 1: the digital economy is where he thinks most of the
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  Speaker 1: economic growth is going to occur. And a lot more
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  Speaker 1: other real frightening realities coming out of this. And ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: what are we going to do? Now, apparently Breitbart reported this.
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  Speaker 1: He had previously stated that Americans, I'm not suggesting anyone
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  Speaker 1: follow this advice. It's the first time I've read it.
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  Speaker 1: But he was on a podcast, Moonshots with Peter Diamond.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not familiar with that, but this is where
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk made these utterances. And he wasn't, the G20
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  Speaker 1: utterances are frightening enough. But he said, don't worry about
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  Speaker 1: squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years.
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  Speaker 1: It won't matter. Suggesting, I think, that the humanoid robots
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  Speaker 1: running around outproducing us and doing, I guess, every activity
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  Speaker 1: that human beings engage in will give us time for what?
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  Speaker 1: Naval contemplation? Poetry writing? Joe, what would you do? If
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  Speaker 1: the robots were doing all the work and you were
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  Speaker 1: free to sit around, you'd sleep? We're reduced to an
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  Speaker 1: irrelevant component. And, you know, there's something to be said that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, idle hands, devil's workshop. I mean, whether you
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  Speaker 1: spring from a religious philosophy about that, but it is true.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got all kinds of free time on your hands,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing for you to while away the hours doing productively,
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  Speaker 1: contributing to society work is its own reward. In so
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  Speaker 1: many cases, you get value for what you're doing. Society
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  Speaker 1: pats you on the back in the form of a
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  Speaker 1: paycheck or actual out loud compliments for the the genius
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  Speaker 1: that you provided, the idea, the solution to the problem
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  Speaker 1: that you figured out while you were on the job,
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  Speaker 1: all the things that we do, you get a benefit
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  Speaker 1: from that. And if you unplug that, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of robots walking around doing everything, making your food,
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  Speaker 1: delivering your food, sewing the ripped pants that you have,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everything. Once you figure out the dexterity component
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  Speaker 1: that he mentioned, the manual dexterity, they seem to have
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  Speaker 1: the software development all hammered out. Obviously, with battery development
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  Speaker 1: getting better and better, they're not going to clunk out
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  Speaker 1: as quickly. So, you know, this is the future, it seems.
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  Speaker 1: You know, part of me, and I don't think Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose alone, I said this to my wife last night,
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  Speaker 1: do you think he's like some guy that just sort
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  Speaker 1: of comes up with an idea, he's brilliant, he's got
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  Speaker 1: all these ideas, and he brings them to fruition, he's
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  Speaker 1: demonstrably intelligent. He thinks, hmm, I saw this in a
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  Speaker 1: movie once. And we could actually do this. Let's have
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  Speaker 1: robots start manufacturing robots. And let's have sentient AI intelligence
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  Speaker 1: that thinks on its own, can break through its own parameters, can, like,
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  Speaker 1: draw its own conclusions and, well, do things that we
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  Speaker 1: haven't asked it to do because AI becomes free thinking,
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  Speaker 1: connected to one billion robots that have every ability of
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  Speaker 1: human beings. In fact, five times more if Elon Musk's
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  Speaker 1: predictions are true. Does that sound like a utopia or
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  Speaker 1: a dystopia? I'm going with latter. Life imitating Hollywood science fiction.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming at us fast. 515-55-KRC-TALK-STATION 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550
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  Speaker 1: on AT & T phones. I'll be right back after
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  Speaker 1: these brief words. This is 55KRC and iHeartRadio. Friday Eve.
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  Speaker 1: Check out 55KRC. iHeart. com. Get your podcast and my conversation with
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  Speaker 1: Magistrate Susan Lucan. Yes, we need to vote for her
• 10:40
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• 10:43
  Speaker 1: County Veterans Service's Steve Belzo and the Cincinnati VA's suicide
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  Speaker 1: prevention officer. Plus, Americans for Prosperity on fighting socialism. It's
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  Speaker 1: all right there. 55KRC. iheart. com. To the phones I go. Two calls.
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  Speaker 1: Steve's first. Hank, hold on. You're next. Steve, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: calling this morning. Welcome to the show. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning. A couple of comments. First of all, before
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  Speaker 4: the two comments, I hope Cribbage Mike will be there
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  Speaker 4: this coming Wednesday because I have something for him. I
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  Speaker 4: talked to him about maybe four months ago. I've got
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  Speaker 4: something I want to bring for him. I thought he
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  Speaker 4: talked to you the other day and said he'd be there.
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  Speaker 1: He usually is. He has not told me he's not.
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  Speaker 1: In most cases, he will be at Lister Lunch unless
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  Speaker 1: something's on his plate for the day. I haven't heard
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  Speaker 1: from him specifically, but the odds are that he will
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  Speaker 1: be there. Looks like he's currently on Facebook, so maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'll ask him. Go ahead. What's your comments today, Steve?
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  Speaker 4: Comments. What you just said about work. I'm a couple
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  Speaker 4: years older than you. I retired at 62, two and
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  Speaker 4: a half years ago, but I immediately kept or started
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  Speaker 4: working just a different job. So I do menial work,
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  Speaker 4: grunt work, which needs to be done. I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 4: nobody wants to do it. They have trouble filling these positions.
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  Speaker 4: And I love it because I don't have the pressures
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  Speaker 4: I had from my other job, but I still go
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  Speaker 4: to work. What's nice about it is, to a degree,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like you. Seven days a week, I'd walk around
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  Speaker 4: the house, drive my wife crazy. I need to enjoy
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  Speaker 4: my day off. I have to counterbalance it with the
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  Speaker 4: fact that I work. And I look at work as
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  Speaker 4: a blessing, not as some curse. We're lucky that we're
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  Speaker 4: physically able to work. So I look at what you
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  Speaker 4: just said. I agree with you wholeheartedly. Too much idle
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  Speaker 4: time is not good. I enjoy my day off because
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  Speaker 4: it's different than the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you see, I don't walk around the house and
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  Speaker 1: drive my wife crazy. I sit on my butt and
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  Speaker 1: drive my wife crazy. And that's the idle time. And
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  Speaker 1: I am as guilty as the next person of, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Using it improperly or not maybe using it for better
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  Speaker 1: things for myself? Yeah, but that's the problem for me.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the limitations of, well, my ability to handle
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  Speaker 1: just simply being lazy.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 6: It's easy.
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  Speaker 1: It's like Joe said. His immediate reaction when I said,
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  Speaker 1: what are you going to do with all this free
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  Speaker 1: time when robots are running around doing everything? He said, sleep.
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  Speaker 3: Until you wake up.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you become lethargic.
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  Speaker 5: Lethargic.
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  Speaker 4: The other comment, if you don't mind, the other comment
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  Speaker 4: based on yesterday's tragic news story, and suicide is a tragedy.
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  Speaker 4: You're dealing with somebody with mental issues, depression, whatever it
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  Speaker 4: would be. I mean, and I'm not commenting on the
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  Speaker 4: Haitian here on temporary status committing suicide or his family.
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  Speaker 4: It's a tragedy. I'm commenting on on the governor of
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  Speaker 4: Ohio and his idiotic comment. So apparently the federal government
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  Speaker 4: should not enforce federal law. Temporary doesn't mean temporary. It
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  Speaker 4: has to go on forever. So if somebody, let's say
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  Speaker 4: I rob a bank in Ohio and I'm being chased
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  Speaker 4: and I'm cornered and I kill myself because the police
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  Speaker 4: came after me. Is the governor going to come out
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  Speaker 4: and talk about how we should not arrest people that
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  Speaker 4: rob banks? I mean, what he's saying is so idiotic.
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  Speaker 4: Why doesn't he just keep his mouth shut once.
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  Speaker 3: In a while?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's that. There's also his defense of Amy acting
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  Speaker 1: for reasons unknown when people are accusing her of locking
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  Speaker 1: down the government because it was her signature on the
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  Speaker 1: lockdown order that he approved. He said, no, it was me.
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  Speaker 1: The buck stops with me. And he was running a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of defense for her. Current medical director asked
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  Speaker 1: if he would shut the government down back then, and
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  Speaker 1: DeWine jumped in when he was asked that question and intervened,
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  Speaker 1: saying basically it wasn't a fair question to ask the guy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what his problem is, but when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to DeWine, we're over him. We're moving on. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see what Hank's got. Hey, Hank, thanks for calling this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Brian.
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  Speaker 7: Steve just brought up something that I wasn't going to
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  Speaker 7: even mention, but I'll go ahead and bring it up anyway.
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  Speaker 7: Biblically speaking, when God threw Adam and Eve out of
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  Speaker 7: the garden, he said, by the sweat of your brow,
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  Speaker 7: you shall earn your bread till the day you die.
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  Speaker 7: So really, retirement's kind of a man-made concept that may
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  Speaker 7: or may not be useful. I guess if you're one
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  Speaker 7: of those self-motivated people that accomplish things, yeah, I guess
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  Speaker 7: it might.
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  Speaker 5: Be all right.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm with you. I tried to retire last year.
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  Speaker 7: For retirement, 66 and eight months or whatever it was,
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  Speaker 7: I wound up going back to work in March.
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  Speaker 1: See, Hank, you got options. That's what I love about it.
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  Speaker 1: I understand the point about work and for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of your life you're going to be sweating and toiling
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  Speaker 1: and that's just what you deserve. But if you have
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  Speaker 1: sweated and toiled enough and you have been frugal enough
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  Speaker 1: that you have set a table for yourself that you
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  Speaker 1: can just sit at in retirement without having to sweat,
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  Speaker 1: that at least gives you options. Maybe you do want
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  Speaker 1: to just not go to work and participate in the grind.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe that's fine. If you have taken care
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  Speaker 1: of yourself, I'm a firm believer of this, you have
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  Speaker 1: an obligation to clothe, feed, shelter, all the necessities of life,
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  Speaker 1: cover yourself. And if you've covered yourself completely and you're
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  Speaker 1: not relying on the merit and the sweat and labor
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  Speaker 1: of somebody else, then that's, I think, then you've fulfilled
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  Speaker 1: a goal and an obligation of life. And if you've
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  Speaker 1: done that hard enough in your earlier years that you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to live off the labor of someone else
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  Speaker 1: in retirement, then fine. Go ahead. Take it easy.
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  Speaker 6: Relax.
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  Speaker 1: Put your feet up. Go to sleep. Or if you're
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  Speaker 1: bored by that and that doesn't sound appealing to you,
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  Speaker 1: it's not something you're striving for, continue to work. Your
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  Speaker 1: kids will appreciate it when you're dead because all that
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  Speaker 1: money is socked away. I guess it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: passed along to them.
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  Speaker 7: 525.
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  Speaker 1: Choices. Options. Isn't it a wonderful thing to at least
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  Speaker 1: have them? God almighty. Don't go away. Local stories and
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  Speaker 1: more phone calls coming up. Be right back. 55 KRC.
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  Speaker 1: September's a great time to... 529 at 55 KRC Detox Station.
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  Speaker 1: Got to go to the phone. 513-749-5500. 800-823-TALK. Ah, things
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  Speaker 1: have resumed and returned to normal. Oh, and so far
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  Speaker 1: as Kirby's Mike showing up at Lister Lunch at Turf
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  Speaker 1: Club next week, his response, absolutely, with two exclamation points. Tom,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back, my friend. Good to have you back on
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and if you get a burger at Turf Club,
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  Speaker 3: make sure you have a good pile of napkins because
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  Speaker 3: they're the juiciest burgers I've ever had in my life.
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  Speaker 1: You can barely take a bite out of that thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you have to take a bite out of
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  Speaker 1: the top and then the bottom and sort of work
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  Speaker 1: your way through it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. I thoroughly enjoyed my meals in the— With
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  Speaker 3: the deviled eggs and things like that, we can go on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my mouth is watering. I'm thinking about the onion rings, too,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: because I love those real light, crispy onion rings they have.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take a pass on my carb, minimize
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  Speaker 1: my carb intake for next Wednesday. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: for it.
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  Speaker 3: Got to go on the jump on that, and he
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  Speaker 3: had a bit, a comedian, had a bit where I'd
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  Speaker 3: go on the black market and buy some extra Weight
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  Speaker 3: Watchers points for certain events.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, does that work? If it works, if
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  Speaker 1: I buy a carbon offset, that takes the carbon out
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  Speaker 1: of the air, right? So if I buy a carb offset,
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  Speaker 1: it's like I didn't eat it, right? Yeah, okay. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: If we extend his phone call out long enough, Joe
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: can get himself a nice little cat nap. So we're
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: going to try to go on for a few minutes, right?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Interesting experience this morning that, I mean, really doesn't seem,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: kind of seems a bit benign, but it kind of
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: goes along with his conversation. get to my, my favorite
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: place to go for breakfast that I go every morning.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: And I've told the drive-thru can only take cash this morning.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: So here we are full bore going toward a cashless society.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Everything's done by card or use your phone app. And
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: all it takes is one glitch and we're all, and
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: of course I don't have cash on me. I don't
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: normally carry cash around. So I, I just go across
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: the street and go to a different place and, And no,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, no big deal. I mean, I'm set back
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: a few minutes, but really isn't causing me a problem.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: There are several people, including me, that got out of
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: that line and kept on trucking.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: A computer glitch at one store is illustrative of the
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: broader problem we all will be facing. As I stare, Tom,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: at an article headline, is the U.S. ready for blackout warfare?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: China-Russia weapons could instantly darken 80% of it. It's all
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: about EMP. So, yeah, that would be... 80% of the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: United States of America, as you just described, at one business.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: How about that? And then where do you go? And
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: then what do you do? So, yeah, we hunker down
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: at home.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Where hopefully you are well-armed and well-supplied with food because
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: it's going to hit the fan if that happens.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: And not just food, as Bobby would say, but maybe
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: some firearms. Just in case somebody tries to decide to
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: come and get your stuff.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: You've got to protect the people with your stuff.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I was a Boy Scout. Be prepared.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if there's no, I mean, the political spectrum,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: there's no side to blame for this. Everybody's involved in
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: this one. And it's not even political. It's just out
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: of convenience and whatever. Oh, and by the way, if
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: you're worried about the robots taking your job, you might
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: want to think about that next time you go to work,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: and you might want to start trying to be productive.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Because there's people that feel like they should just get
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: paid to show up. I'm here. What, you want me
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: to actually produce and do something? Oh, wait a second.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: There's people with that attitude out there.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I know there are a lot of them.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and, you know, why do you think these companies
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: are going to robots? Because they don't have to put
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: up with robots' little feelings. And, oh, I've got to
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: go to the bathroom. So what if it takes me
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: 40 minutes to go there and come back and all that?
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, it makes sense. If you're an owner of
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: a business, Why would you want to put up with
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: these sniveling little babies that show up and want you
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: to just pay them for being here when you can
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: get a robot and get a hell of a lot
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: more work done?
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: And my union laborer friend, they don't require collective bargaining agreements,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: those robots.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: That's correct. That's another aspect of it. Don't have to
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: put up with that.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Catchphrase time. Catchphrase time.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: With all that being said, don't vote, damage.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Tom. And since I mentioned it a moment ago,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I just want to give this local story here because
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: CPO's Morgan, who loves to talk about himself when he
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: interviews people. Anyway, Morgan, stop referring to yourself. Just when asked,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: he or she said. Don't say I asked. Okay, that's
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: my little, I don't fault your reporting, Morgan, but it's
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: not about you. It's about Mike DeWine in this case.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: So she did a fact check on Vivek Ramaswamy's ads
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and Amy Acton's ads. Of course, some of the political
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: action committees for Ramaswamy are calling Dr. Amy Acton, Dr.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Amy Lockdown Acton, because she was behind the lockdown of
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the state of Ohio, right? Why did Mike DeWine run
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: to her defense? DeWine said, speaking with trial, I guess yesterday,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the buck stops with the governor. I made those decisions,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: and that just happens to be the truth. Acton was
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: DeWine's primary advisor. He did rely on her to make
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the decision to sign the lockdown. According to, and also
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: cited by Mortgage Trust Reporting, GOP strategist Terry Casey said, well, legally,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: under Ohio law, it was her signature on an order
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: that would close things down. So, fact-checking, it was her.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: We can call her Amy Lockdown Acton. Why did Governor
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: DeWine run to her defense? So, pivoting over, in mid-2020, Dr.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Bruce Vanderhoff took over for her role after Acton walked
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: away from the job. So Morgan asked Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: what he would have done. Would you have supported a
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: stay-at-home order? Here's the reporting. As he started to answer,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Mike DeWine interrupted with a laugh. Quote, we could go
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: back and debate every moment of the pandemic, and it
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: looks like that's being done on TV. But to ask
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: somebody to go back and put themselves in a position
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: at a certain important time, I think is unfair.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Well, since there's no follow-up from Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff as
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to what he might have done or would have done,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: it was the intervention of Governor DeWine and that comment
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: which deprived us of the information of what he might
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: have done under those circumstances. Hmm.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: Hmm.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: He's at it again.
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: 535.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Come to 536. 55 KRC Talk Station. Bobby, I will
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: take your call in just a moment. Got to take
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: a quick break here. Come back with you and a
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: stack of stupid.
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: 55 KRC, the talk station.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: You're one seat, the talk station. It is 540 here
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: at 55 KRC, the talk station. And a very happy Friday, Thursday,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: if you want. It's that time of the week. It's
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: become a regular occurrence. Like hearing from Tom at 530
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: on a regular day. We hear from Bobby on a Thursday.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: It's Bobby market time, I think. Are we going to
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: get the over and under for the weekend shootings and
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: violence crime? Welcome back, Bobby.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Faith, flag, family, and firearms. If you keep those, you
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: will always be able to keep your freedom. It's Happy Thursday,
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: my friend. Handicapped Thursday.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Handicapped Thursday from the Bobby Market. It's like Polly Market prediction.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Are you over or under? So what was it last week?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Didn't you go with six and a half?
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: Yes, and it went over.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: It was over. All right. You usually go with the over.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: But since you're the one calling the number. It's insider trading.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: It's insider trading, Bobby. Go ahead.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: I think last Thursday when we made our predictions, they
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: had an individual driving 60 miles an hour in front
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: of the courthouse and finally apprehended him, you know, shooting
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: and things. That was before anybody ever had lunch last Thursday.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: But this week, we're not going to be pessimist. We're
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: going to be optimistic. We're going to handicap it at
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: just a single number, one.
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: One?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: One.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: That way, Tuesday, when everybody recovers and comes back from
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: the holiday festivities, we can really look at the true
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: numbers if we can get them.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: That's fine. There's something odd about you going with one, Bobby, because, well,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say in most weekends in
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati, you can count on at least
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: several different violent crimes. This weekend, though, there is going
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to be north of a half a million people downtown Cincinnati.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: And the fact that you said one with thousands and
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: thousands of people showing up to watch the fireworks gives
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: me some measure of comfort, even if it's just a
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: random arbitrary figure. I'd like it to be zero. I
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: want everybody to go downtown and have a fantastic time.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Strength in numbers. And don't be frightened.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: I agree with you 100%. I think that's exactly right.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: We have wonderful people who want to have a wonderful
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: time with their families. And we don't need anybody to
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: come down there and cause problems. And that's nowhere to
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: do it.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Amen.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: That's someplace else.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: That's something worth praying for. And if we can accomplish
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: it during this very busy holiday weekend, maybe we can
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: accomplish that more throughout the year.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: One.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Bobby says one. And you're going to go under on
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the one, Bobby?
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: We're hoping to, my friend.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Praying for that. Thank you, Bobby. Appreciate that. We'll be
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: keeping tally as we always do. Over to the stack
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: of stupid. This is insane. 22-year-old New Mexico man charged
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: with murder. authorities say he shot his cousin to death
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: during an argument, ready, over whose green chili enchiladas were spicier.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Just walk away. You know what, Joe? That is actually
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: stated in the article a couple times. I circled it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a moment. Irvin Joaquin Gutierrez
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: charged with an open count of murder in the killing
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: of the 25-year-old Nathaniel Cavazos, this outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Gutierrez had driven from Roswell, New Mexico, to cook dinner
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: with his cousins. A third cousin was there whose name
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: will come up in a moment here. Camille Serrano was present.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Police responded to reports of gunfire. About 11 p.m., they
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: found Mr. Cavazos unresponsive in a walkway outside the apartment complex,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, and he did die at
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: the scene. Witnesses said the group spent the afternoon, oh, look,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: drinking alcohol and cooking green chili enchiladas when Gutierrez began
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: insisting that his enchiladas were spicier than Cavazos. and challenged
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: him to take a try. Cavazos said, listen, all the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: food's been prepared together. Everything's equally hot. That's when Camel
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Serrano chimed in, suggested the group, here you go, Joe,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: take their dogs for a walk to diffuse the tension.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Walk away. That didn't happen. The argument escalated into a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: physical fight with Cavazos punching Gutierrez, leaving him bleeding. After
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the fight ended, Mr. Cavazos showed back up, began, I'm sorry, Mr.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Cavazos started, and here it is, taking Joe's advice, walking away.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: That point, Gutierrez drew a handgun, confronted him, shouting, quote,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: we're family, we're family, how could you do this to me?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And then shot Cavazos four times in the back.
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: Dude, what the hell?
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: From only 10 feet away, Cavazos wasn't even armed at
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the time. He did have a handgun, but it was
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: 10 yards away from his body, and he never drew it,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: according to the witnesses who were there. Gutierrez took off,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: led the scene, and ended up turning himself to police
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: later in the day, following day. He actually sent a
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Snapchat message to the witnesses afterward, asking, is he really dead?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Then he claimed Cavazos had previously threatened his life, although
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the witness accounts suggested, no, that's not what happened. Not
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: immediately clear if Gutierrez had retained an attorney. Murder over that?
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Just walk away.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Ultimate messaging. Thank you, Joe Strecker. Heed the suggestion. 545-85-KRC-The-Talk-Station. Oh, look,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: more stupid coming up. Phone call's great, and we'll have
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: lots to talk about in the 6 o'clock hour, including
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: a topic I just skimmed over the surface of giving
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the phone call. Yeah. Can we deal with 80 percent
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: of the electricity being shut off in the United States
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: of America? Our officials, our elected officials are really worried
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: about that, as evidenced by the defense spending bill and
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: what it has in it. Don't go away. Be right back. 55KRC. com.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: What does it mean to live here? Happy Thursday to you.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Jumping back to the stack of stupid. Don't be this person.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: It's kind of a label you could put on the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: stack of stupid, isn't it? We go to Phoenix, Arizona.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Court documents indicate that 26-year-old Essence Meyer She visited a
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: place called Element Nail Bar outside of Phoenix on August 30th.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Got into an argument with an employee after the employee
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: said it would cost her $ 15 to repair a broken fingernail.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: It's a nail salon. Meyer, Essence Meyer, reportedly punched the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: employee in the face and walked out of the store
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and then returned after grabbing a firearm. Shot into the store,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: shattering the front door, and causing panic. According to police,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: there were 18 people inside the salon. They had to
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: flee through the back door entrances. Thankfully, no one was hurt.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: After investigators looked into it, they learned that Meyer committed
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the crime in an attempt to scare the business into
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: giving her the nail repair for free.
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: Just walk away.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Arrested, charged with aggravated assault, discharging a firearm at a non-residence,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: discharging a firearm in the city limits, and assault. Idiots
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: doing idiot things because they're idiots. What sort of out outrageous, illogical,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: unreasonable sense of entitlement does anybody have to think they're
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: going to get something like that for free? And thinking
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: a firearm discharge into the business is going to help matters.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Does anybody think a moment in time ahead of them?
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Let's see, if I squeeze off firearms to commit at
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: minimum due property crime, I'm probably on video. Oh, look,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: there's the camera right there.
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: But more importantly, the.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Police are going to come after me. No one's going
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to let this go without a call to the police department.
• 31:16
  Speaker 11: Hmm.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: $ 15, you're weighing it in one hand, you know, you're
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: doing the balancing thing, the scales, one hand, $ 15, firearm charges,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: maybe murder. God almighty. Phoenix again? Drunk woman accused of
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: stealing an ambulance from a concert venue. That's just the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg. According to police, 24-year-old Grace Vincente
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: was at the Talking Stick Resort Amphitheater. 11 p.m. August
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: 27th for a Good Charlotte concert. Avenged Sevenfold was also playing, apparently.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Left the venue, spotted an ambulance parked in the area,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and hopped inside. Apparently, the ambulance was running. I don't
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: know how, but it's because it said it didn't have
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: any keys inside, but apparently it was running. Vincente was
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: still able to drive it away from the venue. Paramedics
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: did not notice the ambulance was gone until they walked
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: back to grab a gurney. Vincente accused of passing out
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: in traffic, eventually leading her to crashing into a pickup
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: truck into a wall. According to the prosecutor's statement, she
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: admitted she blacked out. She caused a danger to so
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: many people in this situation. Arrested, charged with DUI and
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: theft of means of transportation. So drunk you pass out
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: while you're driving. Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, indeed.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: We go to Florida, D-Land, Florida. Trespassing dispute turned violent
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and deadly. After one man shot and killed another man,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: he found asleep in the laundry room of his home.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Volusia County Sheriff's Office said the deputies and D-Land police
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: showed up about 11 p.m. for this trespassing complaint. Caller
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: told dispatch that he had shot the trespasser. The deceased
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: previously had stayed at the property and on and off rather,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: but was no longer permitted to be there on Tuesday night,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: found asleep in the laundry room of the home, which
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: prompted an argument between the two men. During the confrontation,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: the armed person said the trespasser advanced on him despite
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: repeated warnings to step back or he would shoot. Several
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: rounds were fired, according to the sheriff's office. The caller
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: remained on the scene, standing in the roadside with his
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: hands raised when the deputy showed up. The man he
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: shot found lying in the driveway with multiple gunshot wounds
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: pronounced dead at the scene. Yeah, you don't know which
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: direction this was. That's why the investigation is reportedly ongoing.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Was he reasonably fearful of grievous bodily harm or imminent
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: apprehension of death? That's the best course of action, Joe.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Wauwatosta, Wisconsin. We got a man
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: charged with breaking into a bar and stealing liquor while
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: wearing a plush Green Bay Packers robe. You think that's
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: all he had on, Joe?
• 34:05
  Speaker 12: Kinky.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, his mugshot, he has a T-shirt on
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: at least. At least I think that's his mugshot. Anyway,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: according to the criminal complaint, the guy, Thomas Barath, left
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: his two young children at home by themselves while he
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: broke into Jackson's Blue Ribbon Pub early in the morning
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: on a Friday. Investigators say Barath crawled through a window
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: of the bar to get in. Police arrested him a
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: block away after finding him asleep in the bushes with
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: a six-pack of White Claw and a bottle of Tito's vodka.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: As is tradition.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Charged with burglary and two counts of neglecting a child.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Father of the Year award on that one. 555-55-KRC-TALK-STATION. More
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: to come up. We've got lots in the six o'clock hour.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: including what are you going to do when the power
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: goes out for a really, really long time. Thankfully, people
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: in the Pentagon, our military, and our elected officials are
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: now harrumphing and worrying about it. We're a bit behind
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: the eight ball on that one. So I read. Congressman
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Warren Davidson at 7.05, John Barrett, CEO, Western and Southern,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: on the big party fireworks for Riverfest this weekend. Jay Ratliff,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I heard, media aviation expert at 8.30. I sure hope
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: you can stick around. Maybe consider giving me a call.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I'll be right back. We put the app in happening.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: But that's what's happening.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: It's 5KRC, the talk station. My name is Brian Thomas.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I am the host of the 55KRC Morning Show, and
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you listening. And I appreciate you sticking around
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: to 7 to 5. Fast forward an hour, you've got
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson returning. We'll talk about what's going on
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: during the August recess, what's on the agenda for the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: rest of the year. Like maybe appropriations bill, since we
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: have a continuing resolution that's going to keep government funded
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  Speaker 1: until the beginning of December.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Can kick. Same funding level. We have a spending problem.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: We do not have any other problems beyond that, at
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: least from my estimates. We've got to cut spending. Anyhow,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: after Congressman Warren Davidson, we'll have a little time beginning
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: at the 8 o'clock hour, followed by John Barrett. He's
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: going to join the program. He's the CEO of Western
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: and Southern. This is the big weekend, and by all accounts,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the biggest fireworks ever. Two giant drone displays. And John,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: like I mentioned in the last hour, he was talking
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: about this year when he was promoting last year's RiverFest.
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  Speaker 1: So I appreciate Western and Southern ponying up the bucks
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: and helping this great event go. And going back to
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Bobby's call, I really, truly hope it is a peaceful event,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: that we all have a wonderful time. Go with a
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: positive attitude, stay frosty, keep your eyes peeled, looking for trouble,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and maybe we won't have any trouble. But all in all,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I'm really hoping for the best. And I know John
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Barrett and the team at Western and Southern are really
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: excited about it. Jay Ratliff, always excited about talking to
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Jay Ratliff, iHeartMedia aviation expert. Jay Ratliff joins the program
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: at 8.30 every Thursday eve. Today is the same as
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: it ever was, so I'm glad about that. Always love
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: ending the show with Jay Ratliff, and I always love
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: talking to the listeners, too. Maybe something you like to
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: talk about. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on AT & T phones.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: One of the things I think I want to talk
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: about with Congressman Warren Davidson, food stamp reform. Oh, that
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: pesky work requirement. And they've got something to show for it.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: The Republicans who passed the budget bill and included the
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: obligation that able-bodied working people at working age who are
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: not suffering from a disability, cognitive or physical, should try
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: to work at minimum. Get some job training. Go out
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: and get a job. You've got to at least try
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: because you're capable of it. It's worked. Food stamp enrollment fell.
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  Speaker 1: to 3.6 million from 42.3 million between May of last
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: year and May of this year. That, according to the U.S.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Department of Agriculture data. Enrollment has gotten back to pre-pandemic levels,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: still a little bit higher than as a share of
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: the population. A couple of decades ago, 8.9% on the program.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Now it's 10.7, but we are still back to pre-pandemic levels. And,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: of course, the program blew up during the pandemic. Nearly
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: half of states registered enrollment declines greater than 10%. Connecticut,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: 15 plus, almost 16%. Indiana, my friends, good morning. The
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Hoosiers say 15.8% down. Texas, 16.6% down. Utah and Illinois, 16.7% down. Oklahoma,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: right under 20% down. Louisiana, almost 22% down. Florida is
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: at 22% off. Nevada, 23%. Georgia, 36.5%. Arizona down 53.8%.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: That's amazing, isn't it? Just ending the free lunch for
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: able-bodied people. It was last year's budget, 2025 GOP budget,
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  Speaker 1: expanded food stamp work requirements for able-bodied adults aged 2
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: ages 55 to 64. Parents with children over the age
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: of 13, they're in school. Limited exemptions for veterans and
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: homeless folks. Closed loopholes that let 15 states suspend work
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: requirements owing to insufficient jobs. No more suspension of work requirements.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: A major reform goal was to encourage work and stop
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: enabling the homeless with drug addictions to resist treatment. This
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: is the journal quote. The regrettable reality is that food
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: stamps are fungible, giving addicts more money to spend on drugs.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: They just figured that one out. The reform generally requires
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: states with payment error rates at or above 6%. That
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: was the adjunct. before the pandemic, to pay an increasing
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: share of the benefits, maybe 5% to 15%. These states
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: will be obligated because their error rates are too high.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: They don't have any incentive to ferret out fraud, waste,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: and abuse, so now they do. Error rates jumped during
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: the pandemic and averaged 10.6% across all states. Now, you
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: know there's some states out there that keeping the ineligible
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: or uneligible people off of the rolls is good for them,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: but probably some out there that probably bend over backwards
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: to ignore people who they know are on the rolls
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  Speaker 1: that shouldn't be. But 10.6, point of reform is to
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: give states a financial incentive to verify incomes and eligibility.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: This is a point I made yesterday about government taking
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: over matters and running things themselves, the socialist, communist idea
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: of things. And the fact that there's no incentive to
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: look for and ferret out fraud, waste, and abuse like
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: private markets do. Your bottom line is so damn important
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: when you run a private business. If someone's spinning the wheels,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: wasting money in your company, if you've got inefficient services,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: you aren't engaging in best practices, what do you do?
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Damn it, I need to improve my bottom line or
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I'll have to fire people. I won't be able to expand.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: You improve your bottom line by engaging in efficiencies and
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: doing what, well, capitalist people do. Look for ways to
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: improve your bottom line. Government has no incentive to do that.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: They have no incentive to ferret out fraud, waste, and abuse.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: They don't care about a bottom line. They're not earning anything.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: They're just taking. This requires that sort of impetus that
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: free markets have to do just that. The law now
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: requires it. Good. Now, apparently the left always claims it's
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: administrative lapses. Oh, this error rate cannot be helped. The
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Journal observes this doesn't explain why overpayments are seven times
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: larger than underpayments. When the feds footed the entire bill,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: the political incentive for states was to expand the enrollment
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: and boost payments, even if it meant some people received
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: benefits they should not have. Now, skates have a skin
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: in the game. They're going to be penalized if they don't.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: They're doing more due diligence. Food stamps on track to
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: cost $ 85. 7 billion this fiscal year, but that's a lot
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: less than the CBO projected. Their baseline, $ 100 billion, $ 107
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: billion forecasted in January of 2025, a 20% decline in
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the program's baseline. That's real money saved, and all you
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: had to do was put a work requirement in for
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: people who I would argue morally and ethically should have
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: had a work incentive just by virtue of the fact
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: that they're able-bodied and there are a whole ton of
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: jobs out there. I know I mentioned Elon Musk's prediction.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: We're going to have a billion robots out there doing
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: all of our jobs. But, you know, here's Lowe's CEO
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: saying just yesterday, Marvin Ellison's talking on Fox and Friends,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: they launched, Lowe's did, a Building Futures Skilled Trades Coalition
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: with Lowe's and other major businesses, industries, including NVIDIA, Bank
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: of America, General Motors, and AT & T. Why? They
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: want to train young people. Careers are out there, he said.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: You know, plumbing, electric work, welding, HVAC. He said these
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: are great jobs. These are six-figure jobs. You don't need
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: to get a four-year degree to have one of these
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: incredible careers. So Lowe's by itself committed $ 250 million to
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: train and develop 250,000 tradespeople by 2035. which, oddly enough,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: is roughly the year Elon Musk thinks we're going to
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: have one billion robots out in the world doing all
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: this stuff. And see, think about that. That's a challenge
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: for a young person. If you really convince Elon Musk
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: is right, are you going to commit the time, effort,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: and energy to learn a trade that's only going to
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: last you for a few years? I'd like to think
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: that maybe Elon Musk's predictions aren't going to be true.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: But between now and then, what do you need to do?
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: You got to work within the environment that you've been handed. Presently,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: we need laborers. We need skilled workers. We need folks
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: that can run cable and fix electrical problems. Plumbers. We
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: need them right now. 2.2 million jobs out there. I
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: think they're available, according to him. Yeah. He warned that
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: failing to address the skilled labor shortage could carry broader
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: economic consequences. The country could face roughly 2.1 million unfilled
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: skilled trade jobs just a few years down the road,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: four years. They tally the economic losses of that at
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: $ 1 trillion annually. So, welcome to a work requirement. Everybody
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: out there who's able-bodied and capable of working, it doesn't
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: take that much effort. There are programs out there that'll
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: teach you in the trades. Here's Lowe's stepping up to
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: do that, and Donald Trump just launching one today, the
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Foundry School. It will be launched today, apparently. National training
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: program meant to prepare entrepreneurs, engineers, technicians, and industrial leaders
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: for rebuilding the United States manufacturing sector, which is growing
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: by leaps and bounds. Oh, look, evil orange man bringing
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: about some positive results for the United States of America.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Fancy that. Of course, nobody paying attention to all the
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: good things that are going on in the world, like
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: manufacturing increases, jobs coming back to America. The fact there
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: are so many jobs out there, we could fill them
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: with able-bodied people. That's a positive development.
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I'm happy to see that. We'll see maybe Congressman Davidson
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: can chime in on that one. There's more, too.
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Trump put out a notice to sanctuary states, all state
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: agencies that get federal food stamps And Social Security Assistance
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Funds are obligated to report illegal aliens to the Department
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security. When did that obligation kick in? Well,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you in just a second. First, I want
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: to tell you about Tree Health Surgeon. That'd be Gregory Lester,
• 45:20
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• 45:35
  Speaker 1: And continuing some reforms that are leading in significant billions
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: and billions and billions of dollars savings and getting rid
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: of some fraud, waste, and abuse. Earlier this week, Tuesday,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Justice Department of Office of Legal Counsel issued a formal
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: opinion saying when a state takes temporary assistance for needy families, TAMF,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: or SSI, Supplemental Social Security Income Funds, the entire state government,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: not just the welfare office, not just the TAMF office,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: not just SSI, the ones responsible for taking and distributing
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: these funds, every entity within state government has to report
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: to DHS any person the state knows is not lawfully
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: present here in the country. Take the money, comply with
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: the demands. This is a time-worn strategy that government engages
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: in all the time. And now people are screaming, whoa, whoa,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: what do these evil Republicans do? You know, the obligation
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: to do that was passed in 1996. Clinton Justice Department
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: decided they were going to change the meaning of state.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Quite a nefarious interpretation of the law, which specifically says
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: what we're going to be doing now. You take the benefits,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: you've got to let us know. Attorney General T. Elliot Glazier,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: assistant attorney, said Congress wrote this requirement plainly. When a
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: state chooses to participate in TAMF, it accepts the obligation
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: to report illegal aliens in the United States. TAC dollars
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: laws and borders. How about that? They're not eligible to
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: get on these programs. So let's enforce the law, as
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: it was written. It does not impose new obligations on states.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: It simply restores the original meaning in the statute that
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Congress enacted. States taking the money must abide by federal law,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: and a failure to comply may lead states to serious consequences,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: including loss of program funding. That statement from Assistant Attorney
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: General Joshua Craddock talking about the same thing. This is
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: literally billions of dollars. So what do you got? Section 404,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: President Clinton. Requires states taking the aid to furnish DHS
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: at least four times a year, and upon request, the name, address,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: and identifying information of any individual the state knows is
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: unlawfully in the state. But back in 1998, two years
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: after the passage of this, the Clinton Council said state
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: meant only the single agency that cuts the TANF or
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: SSI check. So motor vehicle offices, prisons, hospitals, housing authorities, schools,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: police departments, all of them had nothing to do with it,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: said the Clinton administration's legal opinion. So all of those
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: entities in the state, state agencies might very well know
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: about a whole bunch of people here illegally, but since
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: they weren't distributing TAMF or SSI benefits, they didn't have
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: an obligation to say anything.
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: They say the reading was a text-defying gift to open
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: border states. Congress defined state as the sovereign entity. The
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: 50 states, D.C., listed territories, not one specific entity within
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: the state. Congress knew how to say state agency was
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: the argument. State agency would be the individual check-cutting entity
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: within the state. They didn't say that in the legislation,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: in the law. They said state. State means state, so
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: everything in the state has to comply. That's the current opinion.
• 49:16
  Speaker 12: Hmm.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: And then here's the other nefarious reading by the Clinton
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: administration the opinion that I mentioned before which redefined what
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: a state is claim that state will can only know
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: someone is illegal after a formal removal order no more
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Knowledge imputed to the states includes a Department of Homeland
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Security notice, an alien's own admission, expired papers, documents that
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: on their face show no lawful status. So the argument
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: now is, the point now is from the Office of
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Legal Counsel, willful blindness is not a legal strategy. You
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: can't say, well, I just didn't know about it. If
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: the information lands in your lap somewhere within your state,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: you got to let the feds know about it or
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: you're not going to get your TAMF and SSI benefits.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: That sounds like a development positive in the right direction,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: at least from my personal standpoint on illegal immigrants jumping
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: the fence, getting in front of people who have been
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: trying to do it lawfully or have done it lawfully,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: and getting onto government services that you and I work
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: for when they're not legally eligible to even do that
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: in the first place.
• 50:26
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• 50:29
  Speaker 1: It's 631-55-C-D-Talk-Station. Thursday. Feel free to call 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. Got
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: local stories here. I asked my wife this question. Since
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Waymo is considering expanding into Cincinnati, that would be the
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: driverless taxis. There is no one behind the wheel. I
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: asked my wife, I said, would you ride in one
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: of those? And she said, no. Didn't even hesitate. Not there,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: at least in terms of technology. And I kind of
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: share a concern about that. I said, even across town,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: let's say you went to see Rush. in october at
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: heritage bank arena thank you paulette for my birthday present
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: and you just want to go up to i don't
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: know pick a place central parkway or someplace like that
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: you have 10 blocks let's say would you roll the
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: dice and try it out or would you take the
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: streetcar anyway um But they apparently are trying to show
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: up in the city of Cincinnati. And at Fox 19,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Brady Williams interviewed a bunch of people about this. A
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: lot of people expressed, I don't know, I'm a little
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: uncomfortable about that. Sounds kind of weird. One said, it
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: makes me nervous. We have humans that are driving cars now,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: and I'm nervous about being on the street. To put
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: it in the hands of a robot? That makes me nervous.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Elizabeth, for that astute observation. Insurance Institute of
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Highway Safety studied wrecks in San Francisco where they have these,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: as well as Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin, found that
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: In the sample, self-driving cars were responsible for, ready, 68%
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: fewer crashes. Now, I have an out loud question. If
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Waymo comes to town, are they going to have to
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: pay the city of Cincinnati money to operate those cars?
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: I know there are other competing driverless taxi services in
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: the world. Are they going to come? I'm really wildly
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: curious about this because if you have a self-driving car,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: you don't need a special permit or license to navigate
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: through the streets of Cincinnati. But when you turn it
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: into a commercial endeavor, that's when our politicians start salivating
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: and thinking about tax dollars. So call it a positive development.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Call it not. It's technology and it's no stopping it.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Go to Del High. A former Milford custodian charged after
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: he posed as a 15-year-old in an attempt to exploit
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: children through Snapchat. Sounds like we've got an award to
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: give out. Diego Van Der Veen, who's 19, from Springfield Township,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: facing three counts of disseminating matters harmful to juveniles, grooming,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: and importuning, according to the indictment filed in Hamilton County,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: which says that he contacted an 11-year-old girl through social
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: media in early March, posing as a 15-year-old. Tried to
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: get the girl to meet up with him for sex.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Offered her use of, oh, rideshare services. Maybe he offered
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: her a Waymo. Continued inappropriate communications with the child, apparently
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: rating her looks and sending her explicit images of himself
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: to her. Detectives searched multiple Snapchat accounts and interviewed the
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: victim at the Mayerson Center.
• 53:34
  Speaker 10: According to.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Detective James Gilbert with the Delhi Township Police Department. Sadly,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of times, this is just a game of numbers.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: A lot of times, the offenders do send these out
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: to many different people, and I can confirm he was
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: doing the same. They send out all these messages, inappropriate pictures, video,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, just as you would like a spam call. Sadly,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: all it takes is a couple of people to respond.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: It's like the old joke, when you go and you
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: start asking women out, you know, as a guy, you know,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: the more people you ask out, it's a numbers game.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: The more likely you that at least someone at some
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: point in time is going to say, yeah, that's this.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: He was employed as an evening custodian at Milford High
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: School in February. He apparently resigned in July. Milford Exempted
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Village School District, for its part, said that none of
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: the allegations against this scumbag involved the Milford community. Alleged scumbag,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: I'll acknowledge. He was arrested, taken on Hamilton County Justice Center,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: released on a 10% of $ 20, 000 bond, ordered to stay
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: away from the victims. It would be illegal to go
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: near the victim. Well, that's all it takes, right? Sure
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: will pay attention to that order. 635-55-KRC-D Talk Station. My
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: friends at Cullen 11. 640-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Happy Thursday. Congressman
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Warren Davidson after the top of the hour news. There's
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: something else I was happy to hear about the welfare
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: reform actually really working and maybe pivoting over to armed
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: services since he proudly served his country. Thank you, veteran Davidson.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: This 2027 defense authorization bills, which are kind of awaiting passage,
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: funding our defense industry. Military-industrial complex. Anyway, in that, there
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: was a Senate Armed Service Committee report, and it focused on, well,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Chinese military advances, but the broader concept of EMPs, electromagnetic
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: pulse weapons. which the Chinese have been developing since the 2000s,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: according to the Senate Armed Service Committee report and other
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: reports about Chinese military activity. They're hard at work on it.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: There's comments and proof that the Russians also researching and
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: doing EMP weapon research. And the sad thing and the
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: crazy thing about this is how bad it would be
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: if they did an electromagnetic pulse. There's one cited example
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: from this Senate Armed Service Committee report. a nuclear detonation
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: 124 miles over the United States would wipe out basically
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  Speaker 1: our entire electric grid and everything connected to it for 80%
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  Speaker 1: of the entire country, 3 million square miles. It would
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: cause massive blackouts, damage, it would damage or destroy cell phones,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: internet service, satellites, those AI centers that you hate so much.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Oh good, an EMP, it would fry those out as well.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't be able to do AI research. You wouldn't
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: be able to do a simple Google search looking for
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: where a restaurant is. You wouldn't have access to it.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: It would be gone, fried out. Tom called earlier, went
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: to a restaurant to try to process his credit card.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Their system was down. They asked him for cash. That
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: would literally be everywhere. Now, apparently, this report reveals that
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: the Pentagon and military services have already set standards for
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: improving electronic warfare defenses, like hardening the grid, providing protection
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: for the military base power sources. At least they're focusing
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: on part of the power grid. They haven't addressed us
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: and the unwashed masses out here who are outside military bases.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: The military bases may get covered and protected. Most notably,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: get their small nuclear reactors and put a Faraday cage
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: around them so an EMP can't impact it, but failed
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: to comply with the rules according to this report. They
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: have the standards, but they didn't do anything about it. Also,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: it's reported the Pentagon is not properly guarded against the
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: danger of an EMP or cyber attacks, and that's the
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: second component of this. It doesn't have to be an
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: electric magnetic pulse that can wipe out our power grid.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: It's those pesky Chinese Communist Party members or anybody else
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: who wants to hack into the grid, which has happened
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: over and over again. They may very well be embedded
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: in there right now. Dave regularly brings up the whole
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: sucks next attack from the Israelis on the centrifuges that
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: the Iranians were dealing. They didn't know that was there.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: It blew them all up. So, given the gravity of
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: the problem, my question is, and we're struggling with the
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Iranians right now, stating the obvious, we're engaging in economic warfare.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: It's a slow, painful thing. Over time, the pain and
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: probably a lot of death, chaos, perhaps even violence in
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: the street among the folks that are under the economic warfare,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: the ones that are under the thumb of having, well,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: their entire economy completely shut down. That's an effective strategy, right? Ultimately,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: you'll end up with, you could argue that there's going
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: to be chaos. Some may ultimately down the road call
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: it genocide. It was an act of genocide, them starving
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: a nation into submission. But it's an acceptable form of
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: warfare right now. World War II, we were the first
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: country to ever use an atomic bomb. It was brand
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: new technology. We were embroiled in this awful, bloody conflict
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: that killed so many hundreds of thousands of people, millions
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: of people. You drop the bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima,
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: first time it's ever been done, widely accepted and applauded
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  Speaker 1: because it literally ended World War II, and many point
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: out that maybe it, in spite of the massive loss
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  Speaker 1: of life, civilian life, which many say was genocide these days,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: after upon reflection over decades, that it would have been
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: worse had we not, because we would have had to
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: engage in a land warfare in Japan, and thousands and
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: thousands of additional lives lost, more so than maybe the
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: total collective loss from the two bombs blowing up. Speculate
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: on it one way or another. But it was new,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: and we weren't accused of committing genocide at the time.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: We won the war, and the world celebrated the fact
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: that it was over. No one's ever used an electromagnetic
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: pulse in warfare. It would only fry out the grid.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't result in the blowing up of buildings. It
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: wouldn't result in the inadvertent death of civilian populations like
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: missiles would. It's non-kinetic. But can you see it is
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: not difficult to envision the absolute horrific loss of life
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: and devastation that would follow up if your power grid
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: is off for weeks, months, years, and I think years
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: is the appropriate figure to probably land on if you're
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: talking about an EMP that wipes out the entire grid
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: for 80% of the United States. No one really, I suppose,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: would die immediately. Now, someone on a piece of Medical
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: hardware that requires electricity, a respirator, that kind of thing,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: of course, would happen. There could be accidents with cars
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: driving off the road because the cars and all your
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: modern technology in the cars would, too, also be disabled.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Unless you've got a Faraday cage in your car. Sorry,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: sucks to be you. That'll fry out as well, by
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: all accounts, by all the research. So there will be
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: a certain amount of loss of life after an EMP,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: but there wouldn't be the visual devastation. There wouldn't be
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: bodies laying all over the streets. Can someone argue that
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: this is an acceptable use of military strength? That it
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: doesn't carry with it the genocidal component that dropping a
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: bomb and wiping out entire cities has to go with it?
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  Speaker 1: That's what really worries me about this. Then they focus
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: heavily on the Chinese dropping or blowing up one of
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: these over Taiwan. Taiwanese population would be largely unscathed by
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: the immediate after-effect of the EMP, but what would happen
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: to the whole country without any electricity? Right, inevitably as
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: many people as a bomb dropping would die and the
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: society would be ripped apart. It's that whole idea. Are
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: you prepared? How much food do you have? How much
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: food in your home do you have? And how long
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: does that last? You know, most people can't ride out
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: a few days by all reports. Can you ride out
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: a few weeks, a few months or longer while society
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: rebuilds itself? And while our people who are at least
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: still willing to go to work Hail to the electricians
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: out there. God bless each and every one of you
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: after a hurricane comes through or we have a significant
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: weather event. You're out there working 24-7 to get everything
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: back in order again. In the aftermath of an EMP,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: would the workers show up to work considering that, well,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: maybe their cars don't work? Maybe they're afraid that their
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: family might get attacked while they're off doing a job.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have to let your mind roam
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: very far to appreciate the epic gravity of this. I'm
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: just worried some, well, rogue person might decide to try
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: it out for the first time just to see where
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: things go. 647 right now, 55KRC, the talk station. Remember,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: we won World War II. It is 652 here, 55KRC,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: the talk station. Looking forward to having Congressman Warren Davidson
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: on the program after the top of the hour. Well,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: since they did a continuing resolution, I was joking around
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: with Joe Strecker. I wonder where the polymarket is or
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Cal-shee is on whether the Congress will complete the 12
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: appropriation bills as they're supposed to do for fiscal year
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: 2027 in regular order. Apparently, no. Bolly market routinely prices
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: the odds of passing all 12 standalone bills before the
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: fiscal deadline near zero. At least that's AI's conclusion on
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. I didn't go directly to the prediction
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: market sites, but I'll take that with its word because
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: it sounds accurate anyway. Hey, Jay, thanks for calling. Happy
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Friday Eve to you, man.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 8: Hey, happy Friday Eve, Brian. And that was pretty good news,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 8: encouraging news that you were talking about with the SNAP benefits.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: And work requirements.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 8: And gosh, it seems like we just have to keep
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 8: revisiting this. Once every 20 years, it seems like we
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 8: get a victory on this. Maybe they'll hang on to
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 8: it this time. But the number that I always find
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 8: intriguing is the labor participation rate. And that's the one
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 8: that I don't hear any politicians ever talking about. And
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 8: that is hovering right now around just a little bit
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 8: over 60%, 61%, which means 40% of people who are
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 8: 15 years old or older that could enter the workforce
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 8: are not. And sometimes people say, yeah, but what about
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 8: stay-at-home moms? They're exempt. Yeah, full-time caregivers are not exempt
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 8: because they're not figured as part of the labor pool.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 8: So You know, for all the politicians out there scratching
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 8: their heads saying, what are we going to do to
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 8: pay off this debt? First of all, I thought it
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 8: was fascinating, something Walter P. Williams said years ago about
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 8: we have a ton of assets. And when the government
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 8: defaults on Social Security, what about the millions and millions
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 8: and millions of acres that the federal government has? They
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 8: can liquidate that to pay us back. But also, if
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 8: we could get the other 40 percent of the population, remember,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 8: 50 percent of Americans don't pay any taxes. Well, if 40%
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 8: of them are not even looking for work, those numbers
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 8: start to correlate pretty strongly. And if we want to
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 8: do something, I mean, I think we do have a
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 8: spending problem, get rid of the fraud, get rid of
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 8: the cut spending. That's number one. But if we could
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 8: get 40% of the population back to work and the
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 8: other 50% to start paying taxes, I would think we
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 8: can get our economic house in order and go after
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 8: this debt with relative ease and.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 6: With some speed.
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  Speaker 8: But I have not heard anybody on either side of
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 8: the aisle talk about this labor participation rate, that it's
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 8: a problem. And I would think that any country where
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 8: you only have 60 percent of the eligible workforce either
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 8: looking for a job or working, that would be a
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 8: significant problem.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: But it's crickets.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: Couldn't agree with you more. Well, and, you know, there is,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: I suppose, a societal problem we have where a lot
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: of folks, I guess, are of the mind that they
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: don't have to work. They don't need to. They can
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: just hook themselves up to the umbilical cord of government.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: And why wouldn't they? Because if you can make effectively $ 35, 000,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: $ 40, 000 a year, if you add all the services, food, shelter,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: and all of it that you can get from government,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: you'd have to go out and find a $ 35, 000, $ 40, 000
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: job to cover that. And you'd have to actually get
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: out of your bed and go work to do it. Yeah.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: You mean if I don't work and I can get
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: that much by government largeness, what's the point of me
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: going out working? Many people have said that's your generational
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: welfare reality.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it reminds me of Vince Everett Ellison when he
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 8: was on your program talking about the Iron Triangle. They're
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 8: government slaves. They put themselves back on a government plantation.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 5: I'll take the deal.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 8: You give me $ 30, 000, I'll sacrifice my dignity and my freedom,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 8: but I'll make sure I go to the polls and
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 8: vote Democrat. So as my brother Tom says... Don't vote Democrat,
• 1:06:25
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• 1:06:28
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• 1:06:50
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• 1:06:53
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• 1:07:00
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• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, miss having you on the show right now
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: and someone do a welfare check, please. Since that is
• 1:07:08
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• 1:07:11
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• 1:07:14
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• 1:07:38
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• 1:07:41
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• 1:07:47
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• 1:07:50
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  Speaker 1: Positive news. You know me. I'm no believer in climate. Well,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: I believe climate changes all the time. Look, it's hot.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: It's going to get cold here soon. The seasons change.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: Of course, we have El Nino going on wreaking havoc
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: around the world. Yes, that happens. It's an on-again, off-again phenomenon.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: You can't do anything about it. And I don't think
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: carbon dioxide led to the El Nino concept since we've
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: known about that for, what, hundreds of years? but there's
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: money to be made. And that's the reality behind this
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: whole global warming, the carbon swap. I was joking about
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: that earlier. I said at listener lunch next week, I'm
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: going to take a pass on keeping my carbs at
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: minimum because we're going to the turf club and I
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: love the onion rings there. Normally steer clear of that stuff.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: Said something about doing a carb offset. That's right. If
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: I pay money to someone and do a carb offset,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: that means that I don't really ingest the carbs, right?
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: If I pay someone because I've emitted CO2 into the atmosphere,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: then I really didn't emit it. It solves the problem,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't it? No, it's a joke that someone would even
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: come up with that. But it's a commodity that can
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: be traded, and it's a commodity that money can be
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: made on. And when you force companies to engage in it,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: because if you have dictatorial laws in place from your
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: dictatorial controlling government, people just roll over and capitulate. And then,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: because there is so much money to be made, like
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: the tobacco companies, which I guess did have some information
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: that cigarettes that they were selling killed you, and they
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: kept that information from the public, it brought them about
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: some significant news. liability, didn't it? All the states joined
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: in to go after the tobacco companies, a giant source
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: of revenue because, well, they overspent themselves into a hole,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: and damn it, we've got to find money. And then
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: they'll also promise you new stuff and things. We're engaging
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: in litigation against the tobacco industry, and if we get
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: that money, we're going to put the money toward, I
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: don't know, fill in the blank, schools or programs or
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: anti-smoking cessation plans, knowing full well that behind all that,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: the FDA could literally Ban cigarettes in one fell swoop.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't need, I guess, tobacco cessation classes to pay for.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: It's just not available. Now, I know that ignores the
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: black market. But because these evil oil companies and their
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: evil carbon dioxide are belching at fumes, then there's got
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: to be a state cause of action to sue the
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: oil companies for the damage they've done here in our community.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: And that's, of course, what happened. New York, they sued
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: multiple companies. oil companies. But yesterday, a federal judge struck
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: down a New York law that would make companies pay
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: what they're calling reparations for their CO2 emissions. Back in 2024,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Democrats passed a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: $ 75 billion to compensate for what they allege was damage
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: from these specific companies' CO2 emissions. And the joke in
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: that one always is, well, how do you parse out
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: the CO2 emissions from the companies you decided to sue
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: because they have deep pockets versus everybody else's CO2 emission? Like,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: for example, the population of the city of New York,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: every single one of those people is belching out carbon
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: dioxide every day they walk around. Are you suing them?
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: And did you use the oil? Did you demand it?
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Did you pay good money for it because you needed
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  Speaker 1: it to make your economy work? You're out there buying
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: plastic bottles, which are petroleum product. Are you suing the
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: plastic bottle manufacturers for that? No, they're not. They're just
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: going for the oil companies. It's a joke. At the
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: time the law was signed, Kathy Hochul, yeah, this landmark
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: legislation shifts the cost of climate adaptation from everyday New
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: Yorkers to the fossil fuel companies most responsible for the pollution.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Under the law, state appropriations liability among three dozen or
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: so companies that sold fossil fuels to New York based upon,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: and I love this, their estimated contribution to CO2 emissions
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: around the globe dating to 2000. So wait a second.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: Plaintiffs are suing based upon the figure they pulled from
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: their individual sphincter, and they only went back to 2000,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: as if oil companies didn't exist prior to that, and
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: weren't responsible for some emissions going into the planet by
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: virtue of simply the product that they sell.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 6: U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce, along with fossil fuel producers in 22 states, sued,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: arguing that that law and that the tax intrudes on
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: federal authority and violates the Constitution's Commerce Clause and is
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: preempted by the Federal Clean Air Act. Federal Judge Brenda Sands,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: described as a Barack Obama appointee, agreed with them, saying
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: New York's Climate Act is simply beyond the limits of
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: state law, chucking the lawsuits out. In instances of, quote,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: interstate and international disputes implicating the conflicting rights of states
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: and our relations with foreign nations, our federal system does
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: not permit the controversy resolved under state law. And she,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: of course, brought her Supreme Court precedents along with her in, well,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: reaching this conclusion. There's case law on the books. Climate change,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: an issue involving all 50 states and foreign countries. You
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: can't pass a state law and go after these companies
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: on a state law, period.
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  Speaker 7: Good.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: Next month, the Supreme Court is going to maybe shut
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: down all the efforts to go after these companies. The
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: case is Suncor Energy versus County and Commissioners of Boulder.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: which concerns whether federal law preempts state law claims for
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: damages from CO2 emissions. Yeah, like all the damages that
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: pesky CO2 does to our plant life. Oh, that's right.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: It doesn't. It's what they eat to survive. Hey, William,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: thanks for calling this morning. Welcome to The Morning Show.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: Happy Friday Eve.
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  Speaker 9: Hello, I am, uh, following up regarding the lack of attention. The, uh,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 9: district six, uh, department of transportation has not fixed the
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 9: potholes on interstate 75 southbound starting at exit one 91,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 9: all the way up and pass to 75. So my
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 9: hope is more people would call the district and get
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 9: them to, uh, react on, uh, the complaints.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: Well, you just did that, and I suppose I would
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: encourage everybody to call any entity, government, local, or federal
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: that is responsible for any given road that is in
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: terrible state to make that call as well. But I
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: guess my only question is who's responsible for maintenance of
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: that corridor on I-75? It's a federal road. Does that
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: mean we've got to wait for the feds to do it?
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: Does the local government have any control over the resources
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: being allocated to that particular stretch? I really don't know.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: But somebody is responsible for the roads.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 9: If they did have the information, they know who's responsible.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 10: Why don't they.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 9: Follow up and let them know if it's somebody else?
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: Well, William, your call is predicated on the whole concept
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: that works. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. So, yeah,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: go ahead and call. Residents of the city of Cincinnati,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: you got your own hotline to call for potholes there.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: You know who to get in touch with. Just do it.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: Let it ring off the hook until you get some response.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: That is a core government service. If anything needs to
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: be taken care of, it's existing infrastructure and roads. It's
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: what gets the grease that keeps the economy going. It's
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: the whole broken windows theory. If you have really nice
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: roads and really nice visuals around your area, it's really
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: clean and things seem to be working well, then people
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: will be more inclined to go there. Yeah, a deteriorating
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: neighborhood is a bit off-putting visually. It makes it difficult
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: to convince someone it's worth moving into or investing in it.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: 715 right now, 55KRC, the talk station, O-D-O-R-X talk station.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: Anybody find Congressman Davidson?
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 5: Apparently not.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: You can call if you want. Anyhow, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: 550 on AT & T phones. I did enjoy my
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: college experience without question. I think some of the greatest
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: years I had in my life in college, and that
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: is no disrespect to my wife, my married period of time,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: the time I've been with her, and my experience over
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: the past 40 years, but I did love college. And,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: you know, there were academics involved, but there's also some
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: partying involved here. And, of course, every year there's an
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: annual review of the colleges out there, and first ask
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: yourself as a parent, why am I sending my kid
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: to college? And then consult the list of America's top
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: party schools.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 10: Huh.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: Where does your kid want to go? Well, if it's
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: Florida State University, that's number one. So you might want to,
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: just a little bit of a red flag there. But
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: I was really blown away by the number of Ohio
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: colleges who made the list. Dayton. You came in at
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: number four. University of Dayton? Joe, have you ever heard
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: that Dayton's a big party school? I didn't either. Over
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: the years, I always thought it was Ohio University. I
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: thought they usually made the top ten. They're not in
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: the top ten, though. So Dayton coming in at number four.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: Ohio State coming in at number seven. I need to
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: talk to my daughter about that. And you get on
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: the list. And number 20, Ohio University. There it is.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's a positive development for Ohio University. Followed right
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: by Miami University. At number 21, and oddly enough, so
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: you had Ohio University, Miami University coming in at 21,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: followed by Miami, Florida University at 22. So congratulations to
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: Miami of Ohio for acing out the similarly named college
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: in Florida. There's 50 schools on the list, so parents,
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: before sending your kids off to school, you might want
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: to consult the list and then have a long, hard
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: conversation about the reasons your child is actually going to school.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: And speaking of schools, and a salute to my friends
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: Andy and Beth, who I thought about when I read
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: this article by Brian Ray, who is the president of
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: the National Home Education Research Institute. And I had to
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: meet my friend Andy the other day, and he said,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: I'll be home from homeschool at 1 o'clock. So it
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: was like, well, he works with a group of other families,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: or he and his wife work with a group of
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: other families to homeschool their children. For all the multitude
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: of reasons that you know why someone would choose that route.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: And Brian Ray wrote this op-ed, and I thought it
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: was an interesting take on it. Why homeschool your children?
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: The question should be flipped. Why not continue the schooling
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: you started with your children at birth? Is there compelling
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: evidence for sending one's child to institutional school rather than
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: continuing parent-directed home-based education? Podcasters call homeschooling trickle-down stupidity and teachers'
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: unions warn against it, but homeschooling has surged to more
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: than 3 million students nationwide, roughly twice the national Catholic
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: school enrollment. For most of history, home-based education was normal.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: Parents and other adults, like Andy, took on the task
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: of teaching children language morals.
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  Speaker 8: Hmm.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: Practical skills, religion, reading, trades, and habits needed for adult life.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: Mass institutional schooling is comparatively recent, yet today we treat
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: it as the default and ask homeschool parents to defend
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: their choices. Why not reverse the burden of proof? Our
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: May systemic review covers four decades of homeschool research, 15
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: of 24 studies of academic achievement, 62% reported positive outcomes
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: for homeschool students compared with Institutionally schooled students. 16 of
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: 25 studies, 64% on social and emotional development, found positive
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: outcomes for the home educated. 54% examining later adult outcomes
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: found positive results. Most of the other studies found no differences.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: These studies do not prove homeschooling causes every advantage. It
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: is difficult to control for all variables, but the evidence
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: doesn't support the presumption, that children need institutional schooling for
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: sound academic or social development. Other evidence should also raise questions.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: He writes, the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, here
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: we go, found that 7 in 10 8th grade public
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: school students scored below the proficient in mathematics and reading.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Nearly 1 in 5 American 15-year-olds report being bullied at
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: least several times a month. 13% of these kids don't
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: feel safe in hallways, cafeterias, restrooms, or other places at school.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: That girl in the restroom has a penis. Yeah, that's
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: something to consider. Don't have to worry about that with homeschool.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: Research shows that 11.7% of Americans report experiencing at least
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: one form of school employee sexual misconduct during K-12. Consider
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: what a caring, attentive home education environment naturally makes possible.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: More adult-child conversation. Curriculum fitted to a child's strengths, weaknesses,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: and interests. Greater flexibility. More time to read and pursue
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: subjects deeply. Stronger family interaction and more contact with people
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: of different ages. That doesn't sound like a single downside
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: to me. You shouldn't be surprised. Children do well in
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: such environments. Parents have already spent years teaching preschoolers to speak,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: ask questions, count, and understand the world. Why would we
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: think at age five this process should stop? Educators and
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: policymakers want children to receive the best education possible. They
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: should treat home education as the default option, not an
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: eccentric one. Why not homeschool?
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: President of National Home Education Research, and I got a
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: lot of my listeners are doing just that with wild success.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: I've met so many brilliant young people, brilliant beyond their
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: years in terms of what you would expect from a
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: young person as a consequence of homeschooling. And this is
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: not to discount other outside the mainstream schooling, public education
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: options out there, because I'm a huge fan of what
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: they're doing at the Cincinnati Classical Academy. You know, there
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: is great education out there. You just got to look
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: for it. I don't think, I think people are waking
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: up to the fact that you're probably not going to
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: be best served at a public institution. Six or 727,
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: 55 cares to the talk station. Got some local stories
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: to dive on into. Got a phone call. Mr. Pappas
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: is on the phone. See, I called him Mr. Again,
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: but first city talk station, inviting phone calls as I
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: always do. and still wondering where Congressman Warren Davidson is.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: But we do have on the phone Andrew Pappas, former
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: Anderson Township trustee, to get us off the dime here.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, my friend. It's always good to hear from you.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Brian. Good morning.
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  Speaker 10: Listen, I was dropping in on the conversation you were having,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 10: and just a side note, I didn't call about this,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 10: but I was at the gym yesterday, and yesterday was–
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 10: V as in victory, J-Day. Okay, not to be confused
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 10: with any other letter that sounds like V.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: Victory over Japan. Victory over Japan.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know that. I asked three, no, six guys
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  Speaker 5: at the gym. I was at the gym doing little
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  Speaker 5: to nothing.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 10: But I was asked six guys at the gym what
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 10: yesterday was. Not only did they not know, which is fine,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 10: I guess, because the day slipped by, but then when
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 10: I said, do you know what VJ Day is, they
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 10: did not know what that was. And then they did
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 10: not know where the surrender document was signed. So it
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 10: ties into your conversation about public schools. I realize that
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 10: it was 81 years ago, but a very pivotal point
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 10: in history, mankind's history, is not being taught in schools
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 10: for some reason, but whatever.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 5: But that's not actually why I called.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 10: The biggest story of yesterday, which I don't know if
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 10: you've talked about yet, is the.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 5: Gubernatorial race here in Ohio.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 10: Amy Acton rejected two or three, I believe three, requests
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 10: for a debate with her in business around the Swamiji.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 10: And one was even by, you know, and these are
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 10: not Fox News sponsoring the debate or the NRA sponsoring
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 10: the debate. This is a national news network, CNN, NBC,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 10: and very friendly, let's be fair, anybody that knows the
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 10: media knows their biases towards the left. And she rejected them. And,
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 10: you know, here we go again. The Democrat Party is
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 10: going to do a hiding Biden campaign. She's going to
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 10: stand in a basement somewhere, sequestered down, only coming out
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 10: to do little puff pieces in front of a crowd
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 10: of sycophants, not taking any tough questions. And that's the
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 10: way their campaign is going to be. And I just
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 10: hope the voters out there, you know, you may you may.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 10: because let's be fair, most people are living their lives,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 10: they're not paying attention. Just ask yourself, within moments of
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 10: the offer being made, Vivek Ramaswamy accepted, with no preconditions,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 10: the debate. Said, sure, I'll debate her anywhere, anytime, anyhow.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 10: Amy Acton rejected them flat out with just platitudes given
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 10: how she was concerned about the inability to address misstatements
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 10: or whatever, and rejected the debate. Now, who do you
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 10: want to elect to run your state? Someone who is
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 10: transparent and wants to answer questions on a public forum
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 10: or somebody that wants to hide in a basement and
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 10: just simply not face the voters and not answer any
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 10: questions at all from the public and hope to God
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 10: that you're not paying attention and will, you know, choose
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 10: them because of whatever notions you might.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 5: Have on anything going on in the world. I just
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 5: find it.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 10: That is the biggest story from yesterday. And that is
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 10: a story every Ohioan should be concerned about and ask
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 10: why one candidate hides and the other candidate does not.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 10: And you should scorn the one that hides and definitely
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 10: not support said candidate for governor.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: Listen, how else is there a better opportunity if you're
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: a candidate to dispel or correct the record on rumors
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: and lies that are floating around about your campaign? Don't
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: you do it right there? You got Ramos from me
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: accusing you of being locked down and she's got an
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: answer to that. No, no, that wasn't me. That was
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: Mike DeWine. Mike DeWine took credit for it, right? I mean,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: if she can get away with answering the question that way,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: that's fine. That's what she's got to stand on. But
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: by hiding, she does not have to address it.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 8: I don't.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: You're dead on. Your question was a rhetorical one. Of course,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: everybody should vote for the one who's willing to stand
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: up and address the issues honestly and openly and in
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: an open forum. She's hiding. What does she have to hide?
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 10: Not only is she hiding, she's quitting, i.e., the same
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 10: way she quit when she was the health director of Ohio.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 5: Remember, when she.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 10: Had the— during COVID— when she was health director, she couldn't
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 10: handle it, and she quit the people of Ohio.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 5: She did. She flat out quit the job, okay? Most
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 5: people don't want to acknowledge that, but she did.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 10: So much like that, she's quitting the voters of Ohio
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 10: right now because you will have, you know, what better
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 10: way to learn about candidates? A lot of people look
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 10: forward to debates so they can look at the candidate
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 10: themselves on TV and see how they think on their feet.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 5: Clearly, Ms.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 10: Acton cannot think on her feet. We know that, having
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 10: watched any number of her public speeches. They're painful at best.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 10: But Vivek, I'll tell you what, I've seen a lot
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 10: of politicians. Every speech, there's no note cards. There's no
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 10: cue cards. There's no teleprompter. The man has recalled like
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 10: no one I've ever seen. And he's probably, if not.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 5: One of the most.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 10: intelligent politicians that I've ever met in my very brief
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 10: career in politics.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: And I share your observations along those lines. There's no
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: question about it. Okay, so what's the problem in a
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: red state? And it still is. What's the problem with
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswamy? What platform is offending people? What position does
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: he have that Amy Atkin hasn't articulated? That is the
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: problem that might make you want to stay home and
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: not vote for them. I struggle with this one each
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: and every day, Drew. I really do. I don't know
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: what's wrong with people.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 10: Hopefully the people out there that are undecided and were saying,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 10: you know, and I have had people comment. I'm going
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 10: to wait for the debates because I just don't know
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 10: enough yet. Well, you should very clearly reward the candidate
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 10: that at least wants to give you the opportunity for
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 10: that debate and scorn the one that doesn't. And I'll
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 10: say something else. If those networks are genuinely sincere in
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 10: offering a debate platform, because since one candidate refuses to
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 10: show up, I would have have one candidate up there
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 10: answering the questions. I would have a debate with the
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 10: bake on stage, asking the questions by the reporters and
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 10: giving him an hour or two.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 5: Of free airtime, because that's the only.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 10: Way you're going to hold these candidates accountable for refusing
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 10: to debate and hiding in a basement like Joe Biden
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 10: did and running just a.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 5: Abasement campaign, which should not.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 10: Be rewarded by the voters. The people that hide from
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 10: you as a voter do not deserve your vote.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 5: End of story.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: Well, and considering all the concern, well, a lot of
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: the concerns about Amy Acton's world around COVID, at least
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden could make the seemingly plausible argument that he
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: couldn't get out of debate because of COVID. Oh my God,
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: I don't want to die. I'm elderly. I got to
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: stay down here in the basement, blah, blah, blah. But
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: that's gone. That ain't around anymore. Amy Acton has no
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: reason whatsoever to avoid a debate unless she is fearful,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: which is the conclusion you've reached. and the conclusion the
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: voters of Ohio should reach. Good call, Drew.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 5: She's fearful because she has no content.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I know.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 10: She's fearful because she has no recall. She's fearful because
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 10: she's an empty vessel that the Democrats have chosen to
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 10: run for governor.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 5: That's why she's fearful.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 10: And the other thing I'd like to remind people, you know,
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 10: her running mate, her second person, David Pepper, he's out
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 10: there bashing wealth and success, and they're touting, you know, oh,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 10: the wealth of one candidate versus another. I'd like to
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 10: remind the voters of Ohio, Google David Pepper's net worth.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 10: It's over $ 25 million. You know, I got to tell you.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 5: No, I'm sorry, $ 250 million.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 10: That's a lot of clams. And I'll tell you right now,
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 10: When you sit there, your campaign is bashing the one
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 10: person because of their success. You might want to look
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 10: at who's doing the bashing and say, oh, what's that word?
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 10: It starts with an H. I can't remember.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's hypocrite. You know what?
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 3: It's a hypocrite.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 5: You're a hypocrite. But it's cool.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 10: I hope the voters wake up. I hope the voters
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 10: are paying attention. It is now officially Labor Day, as
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 10: our great new chairman of Hamilton County, Mr. Gerth, will
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 10: attest to. It's political season in full swing. It's time
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 10: to get energized. It's time to get engaged. And if
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 10: you want to make a difference, contact either the Hamilton,
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 10: I would say definitely either the Ohio Republican Party or
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 10: the Hamilton County Republican Party. See how you can help
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 10: out during this campaign. We could use your help either
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 10: financially or with your labor. And we need you to
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 10: get involved because this election is too important to let
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 10: somebody hiding in a basement take over the reins of the.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 5: State of Ohio.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: Amen. And just one more rhetorical question as we part company, Drew.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: How many jobs did David Pepper create versus how many
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: jobs that Ramaswamy created? How much tax revenue went into
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: the coffers of state government from David Pepper in his
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: activities versus Vivek Ramaswamy's?
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 5: You know what?
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 10: A great question to ask, Brian. A great question to
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 10: ask is the starting point in life for Vivek Ramaswamy
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 10: versus David Pepper as far as debt wealth goes. Let's
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 10: do that comparison.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 5: Shall we?
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: Excellent point. Excellent. Thank you very much for that one, Drew.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: It was well worth going over time a little bit here.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: I see Corey's on the phone. Hang on, brother. We'll
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: take your call. Coming up at 8.15, John Barrett, CEO
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: of Western Southern, is going to join the program and
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: talk about how excited he is for the Riverfest going
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: on this weekend. It's apparently going to be an epic,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: epic display of fireworks as well as drones, those two
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: drone shows. I'm excited about seeing them. I've seen them before,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: and it's fascinating. It's really cool, but it's also creepy
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: and eerie at the same time. My personal subjective opinion,
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: but it certainly should be a wonderful time and really
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: praying for really positive results and no crime and people
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: getting together and enjoying the... Hopefully good weather and this
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: epic celebration. Of course, remembering it is the 250th anniversary
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: of America's independence, too. That's something worth celebrating and enjoying
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: fireworks over. Let's see what Corey's got to say this morning. Corey,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: thanks for calling. Happy Friday Eve.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 12: Good morning there, Brian. Calling from Indianapolis today. Real quick,
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 12: Will mentioned roads earlier. Apparently he's never driven on I-70
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 12: leaving Indiana into Ohio through Richmond area. Or 23 going
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 12: in Michigan, because those roads are absolutely horrible. But the
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 12: reason for my call, you're going to have the representative
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 12: from the fireworks on a little bit. If you would
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 12: ask him why they still have on their website as
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 12: prohibited items, as weapons. We go through this every year.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 12: I've called in for a while now about it.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: I'll be the first person to tell you, and I'm
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: answering for John Barrett at halftime. He has nothing to
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: do with that. I assure you, John Barrett has no
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: connection whatsoever with whatever list of rules and regs that
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: we need to follow for the fireworks. And I know
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: you have criticism for that. You know, I've reached the
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: conclusion at my ripe age that our government lies to us,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: misleads us, and does whatever the hell it wants, regardless
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: of what the law actually says. But, you know, I'm
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: going to leave John alone on that topic, if you
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: don't mind, Corey. I'm going to put him on the
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: spot over something that's out of his hands.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 8: So.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: Enjoy the fireworks, Corey. If Corey's there, he's going to
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: be armed. I'm just letting you know that. I always
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: like to remind my listeners that at listener lunch, I'm
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: surrounded by armed people. It's one of the safest environments
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: that I could be in. If I'm relying on my
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: fellow citizens, my friends at listener lunch, if I consider
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: them my brother's keeper, and I know they are, I
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: am in great hands, and I take great comfort in that.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: I like to enjoy a beer over a listener lunch. Sharon,
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: thanks for calling this morning. Happy Friday Eve to you.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 10: Thank you. Say, I have a question for you.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 9: How do robots pay taxes?
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: They don't.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: The robots will work presumably for a business. Going back
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: to the Elon Musk story, there's going to be a
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: billion of them out there literally doing five times the
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: work of a human being, taking over the roles, literally
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: every kind of role. including ones that we perceive to
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: be AI, free from harm, like trade businesses. Well, these
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: new robots, according to him, are going to be able
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: to do all of that and a lot more, including
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: manufacture themselves. So it's like having a computer at McDonald's,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: or rather a bot at McDonald's flip the burger. That
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: person doesn't show up late. That person doesn't have to
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: pay taxes. That person doesn't need sick leave days or
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: vacations for Christmas or anything. And they have an upfront
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: cost to pay for it, probably paid taxes on the
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: purchase of the equipment. And they will pay taxes on
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: the revenue they generate, which revenue presumably will go up
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: since they don't have overhead for humans and all the
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: attendant problems that go along with employing a human. So
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: presumably the tax revenue to the state will go up,
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: the employment overhead will go down, and the work will
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: still get done. That's the scary part about this wave we're.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 11: On right now.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 10: This robot thing.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 10: Well, I've seen a lawnmower.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 9: I've seen a mobot at the golf course.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 4: And all of a sudden I thought, there's three of them.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 6: I don't know if they pay taxes. I understand that.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: They've got a golf course. I get it.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 10: Yes, okay.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: Just keep expanding the field of vision along those lines, Sharon.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: You can see how crazy. I mean, this is a
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: moment in time where we can say truly historic. It
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: is a brave new world we are facing, and all
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: the challenges, the good and the bad that's going to
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: go along with it are going to unfold in lightning
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: speed over the next decade, like it has been over
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: the past couple of decades. It's just going to get faster,
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: a lot faster. So something to consider, Sharon, as we
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: contemplate our futures. I know. It's there. We've got to
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: deal with it. 755-55-KRC-D Talk Station. We can continue this
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: conversation at the top of the hour news before we
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: get to John Barrett. Talk about the Riverfest and Jay Ratliff.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: Of course, it's Thursday. We're going to have Jay Ratliff
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: on at 830, as is the case. I'll be right back. America.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 4: That's one small step for man.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: At 250 on 55 Kicks.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: 55-KRC-D Talk Station. Friday Eve, fast approaching a great weekend.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: We're going to have fireworks this weekend. We're all going
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: to have a good time. We're going to behave ourselves
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: downtown for the fireworks. And there will be no violent crime.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: It's a wish anyway. And going back to Bobby this morning,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: over and under is one. He chose one. One single
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: violent criminal act for the entire weekend. And he was
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: expecting some optimism as well on that one. Let's keep
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: our fingers crossed that's the case. Real quick here before
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: I go to the phones. And you can call and
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: get in the queue.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 5: 513-749-5500.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 9: 800-823-TALK.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: Talking about the last caller about this article I started
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: off this morning talking about because it's kind of freaky.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: Because Elon Musk is smart. He knows what he's doing.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: He's talking to the G20. session on a virtual conference yesterday.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: And he said, within 10 years, 1 billion, 1,000 million
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: humanoid robots will be out there. And basically, we'll be
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: outproducing all of humanity. He said these... The success of
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: these humanoid robots, it goes to AI software, the onboard
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: AI chip, and electromechanical dexterity, which is, I think, the
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: problem they're really working on, and they're getting better at it,
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: even pointed out. The ability of the hands to actually
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: accomplish things, do very, you know, very, very technical skills,
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: like maybe surgery, maybe picking fruit in the fields. And
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: I know they've already got AI kind of machines out
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: there doing that, but they get that all ironed out.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: And that's the point he said robots will start manufacturing
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: other robots, which he described as when growth turns recursive,
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: slow at first, and then explodes. You can see that.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: Like a bot creates a bot, and those two bots
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: go out and create a couple more, and those two
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: more and more. And you can see it just gradually
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: blows up. So the bots are apparently going to be
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: doing the manufacturing on this. He even called this one
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: billion robots within 10 years a conservative estimate. And if
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: you've seen the Chinese robots, I think it probably is
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: a conservative estimate. And when I thought about that, because
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: there was like robot games out there and they were
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: all walking in concert, these just rows and rows of
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: these humanoid robots. And you can easily envision, well, it
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: looks like a bunch of soldiers. Well, how about that?
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: You don't have military strength. You can have it if
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: you buy robots and have them go out in the
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: field instead of human life. They work together. They think together.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: They communicate instantaneously together. And I imagine those robots actually
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: would be able to communicate with the smart, you know,
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: the weapons out there. Drones, right? You know, the bot
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: is actually in touch with and thinking about what the
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: drone is doing. And they both have a connection with
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: each other. You're out in the field fighting a guerrilla
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: warfare kind of combat situation. Each and every bot robot
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: soldier knows where each and every one of the other
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: in his army or its army is sitting and how
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: they can coordinate. That's frightening. But pivoting over to the
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: day-to-day operations, because Musk did say that these would outperform
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: humans five-fold. Each individual one is capable of output five
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: times beyond a human. What are we left to do? No,
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: they don't pay into the Social Security system or Medicare
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: or Medicaid. In fact, they don't need any of those programs.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: They're robots. Charge them up. Replace them with a new model.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: They don't have a retirement plan to worry about. They
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: don't pay income taxes either. The business will earn revenue
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: that will be taxed, but you can see right now,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: if that was the case, that some politician is going
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: to come up with some new form of legislation. Jeez Louise,
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: we're out the revenue we need for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: They're not paying income tax. We need that money into
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: the system. There's not a real human being there to tax.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: They don't get a salary. We need to come up
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: with a new taxation system for every humanoid robot you
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: get that replaces a real human being worker who would
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: be paying into the various social welfare safety net programs.
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: You're going to have to pay the value of that
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: particular robot that would have been earned had that role
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: or job been taken by a human being with taxation obligations.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: So whatever the taxes would have been paid for the,
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: let's say, $ 45, 000 or $ 50, 000 a year laborer, You're going
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: to have to pay that for the robot. Now, that
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: seems to be a quote-unquote fix, but it doesn't give
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: mankind really much to do during the day, and that's
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: the direction we're going. It's really, like I said before,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: brave new world kind of stuff. Mississippi James, thanks for
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: indulging me while I got that out of my system.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show, sir.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Brian. I have a question, like a retro question,
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: concerning the war.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 11: Trump ran on no new war, and he could stop
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 11: these wars in one day. When did the pivot happen
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 11: that we are in a war? What happened there?
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: I'm left to guess, but here's what I think happened. First,
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: you had taken out Nicolas Maduro. That worked. One man,
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: dictatorial regime, illegitimate president. You go in, you cut the
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: head off the serpent, and next thing you know, you
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: have a system in chaos, and you can go in
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: and effectively do a regime change. That was an effective
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: regime change. Now he's working hand-in-hand with the current president,
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: who's illegitimate, on and on and on. It worked. Well,
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: then the Israeli intelligence let Trump know, and probably talked
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: to each other on the phone, or however they coordinate
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: military activities. All of the Iranian heads of state and
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: Iranian Revolutionary Guard folks, all 45 or however many, they're
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: all in one place. They're having a picnic together. We
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: know where they are and when they're meeting. If we
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: blow them up, then we're going to have the regime
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: change we're looking for because all of the chiefs are gone. Well,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: that's what happened, and it didn't, did it? because it's
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: not the same thing as the Maduro regime. This is
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: a fundamentalist theocracy. These are religious fundamentalists, and I don't
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: think that part was taken to the equation very seriously.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: And no, we didn't look back and reflect upon the
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: 20 years we were in Afghanistan, only to pull out
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: and guess what? They're still there. We're not. Same thing
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: happened to the Russians. We could go on and on.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: We've failed and fumbled quite a few times over our
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: military history, maybe because of failure to evaluate the risks
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: associated with it, Maybe because people understated the value of
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: a theocracy and how important that is to the people
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: there and the resistance that would be there as a
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: consequence of our bombing them. I don't know, but that's
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: my take on it.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 5: Okay, sounds good.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: Just a theory.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 3: Just trying to put some context on it.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: Yep, just another theory. It is. Just opinions. James, I
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: got one. You got one. We all got one. Like sphincters. Okay.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: And then the other thing. Going back to the comments
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: about Amy Acton earlier, this is strange for me, and
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned this earlier, because the local news of WCPO
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  Speaker 1: interviewing party operatives about the ads that are running, the
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  Speaker 1: Amy Acton, Vivek Ramaswamy ads, and I'm sure you've all
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  Speaker 1: seen them by now. And they refer to Acton as
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  Speaker 1: Amy Lockdown Acton. You know Amy Acton has the COVID
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  Speaker 1: lockdown doctor, one of the Ramaswamy ads says, or the
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  Speaker 1: PAC that's supporting it. So Morgan Trauer, WCPO, went out
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  Speaker 1: and asked him. So My question is in the question
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  Speaker 1: of whether or not it was Amy Acton to blame
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  Speaker 1: for the lockdown or whether it was Mike DeWine. And
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, Mike DeWine was interviewed in this, not
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: Amy Acton. And Mike DeWine is defending Amy Acton, sort
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: of trying to burst the bubble of the whole Amy
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: lockdown Acton thing. The buck stops with the governor. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I made those decisions and it just happens to be
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Although that does not address the reality that
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  Speaker 1: Ohio law had her signature on the order that would
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  Speaker 1: close things down, that she was his primary advisor on
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  Speaker 1: things COVID since he was the medical director here in Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: So why DeWine felt the need to interject in that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, who after Amy
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  Speaker 1: Acton quit in the middle of 2020, took over the
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  Speaker 1: role the following year. He was asked about this, and
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: what would you do? Would you have supported a stay-at-home
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  Speaker 1: voter had you been in Amy Acton's position at the time?
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: Who intervenes? Well, as Dr. Vanderhoff was getting ready to answer,
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: as Meghan Margantrall reports this, the governor interrupted with a laugh.
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  Speaker 1: We could go back and debate every moment of the pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: and it looks like that's being done on TV, but
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  Speaker 1: to ask somebody to go back and put themselves into
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  Speaker 1: a position at a certain point of time I think
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  Speaker 1: is unfair. Well, thank you, Governor. why you felt the
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  Speaker 1: need to prevent him from asking the question, maybe answering
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: the question rather. Maybe he would have articulated something along
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  Speaker 1: the lines, what you chose to answer for yourself. Don't know.
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing that she talked about was the
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  Speaker 1: public schools. There is an ad saying Vivek Ramaswamy went
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: to public schools. That taught him to work hard. Is
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: there any question in your mind that that was the case? Well,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: he graduated from Xavier High School. Yeah, he did. after
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: attending public schools K-8. So, if you attended public schools
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: K-8 and someone asked you, did you attend public schools?
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: I think the only truthful answer to that would be,
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: of course I did. I was in public schools from K-8. So,
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: and I got a kick out of this one as well.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: Education leader Melissa Krober, who runs the Ohio Federation of Teachers,
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  Speaker 1: believes many of Ramaswamy's policy positions would hurt public schools.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: One person, again, with a sphincter. We're seeing this mismatch
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: between what's being said in this ad. He doesn't believe
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: that there's a school funding problem, and so he's not
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: wanting to put more money into the public education system.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: Not quite sure that that adequately sums up Ramaswamy's position,
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: but why would the Ohio Federation of Trade Teachers' opinion
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  Speaker 1: and individual belief on what he may or may not
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: do Why would that be even a question asked? Why
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: would her content be in this particular article relative to
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: the truth and veracity of ads that are being run
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: by these respective candidates? Just asking. And editorial comments on
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: this one from Joe Strecker. Nice giant black magic marker
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: on this one, Joe. Tell what was under your skin
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: when you got a hold of this one. Hopefully, dear God,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: in John Parrott, CEO of Western and Southern is in
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: the house. We're supposed to talk with him about Riverfest
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: this week. It's going to be a great time. We'll
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: get the details coming up in the next segment. I
• 1:48:28
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  Speaker 1: Continuing a theme going on this morning. Still wondering where
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson is since he wasn't around 705, and
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: now I'm wondering where John Barrett is from Western and
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: Southern since he's not entered the building yet to talk
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: about the Riverfest this weekend. So I can dive on.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we will be able to get him on in maybe,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: not in lieu of iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff, but
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: hopefully at some point here. But one of the local
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: stories I didn't get to this morning about the Cincinnati streetcar. Hey!
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: Dave Williams from the Taxpayer Protection Alliance, you're out there somewhere.
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: So the good and the bad. People are trying to
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: say it worked out really well. Others are pointing out
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: to the overall cost. And I thought about Christopher Smith
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  Speaker 1: on this one. Data shows the city will have spent
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  Speaker 1: close to $ 300 million in local and federal funds by
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: the time it's paid off. Fun fact, 30% more than
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: earlier projections. Oh, if the California high-speed rail had only
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: come in at 30% more than early projections, maybe they
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: might have laid up one mile of rail. Anyhow, sorry, miles.
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  Speaker 1: So what do we got here? Close to $ 53 million
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  Speaker 1: in construction debt, $ 42 million of that due in annual
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: payments through calendar year 2042. More than $ 37 million in
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: operating expenses since 2016, $ 13 million more expected in the
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: next two years. Currently, they're spending $ 6 million annually to
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: run the streetcar. Fun fact, twice the initial predictions.
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  Speaker 3: $ 90 million more in operating expenses to the end of
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  Speaker 3: the debt payment period.
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  Speaker 1: That estimate assumes the city continues to spend $ 6 million
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  Speaker 1: on operations each year and does not account for any
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  Speaker 1: additional inflation, which I read into as not a reliable figure.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: More than $ 12 million in capital needs through 2031, with
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: only $ 9 million of that allocated. And I thought immediately
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: of the sale of the railroad system, and it is
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: an existing project, so maybe that's where that money will
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: come from. Now, Patricia Gallagher over at the Enquirer did
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: talk to people who had some positive reactions and the
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: benefits of it. Extending it and expanding it also still
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: the subject of many people's desires, but Mark Jeffries interjecting
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: a bit of reality in there, pointing out that, yeah,
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: while it sounds like a great idea, there apparently is
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: no money for that right now, even to study the
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: question of extending the streetcar in downtown Cincinnati. very expensive,
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: very expensive, but they're, they're attributing every single bit of
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: growth and development in the over the Rhine area to
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: the street car. I don't think that's a fair contribution
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: considering Washington park had been revamped and it was already
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: drawing investment and planning for rehabilitation of a lot of
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: the buildings down there, turning it into the urban hipster
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: land that they always wanted.
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  Speaker 3: 825.
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  Speaker 1: I heart media aviation expert, Jay Ratliff coming up, Jay,
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  Speaker 1: hope you can stick around.
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  Speaker 1: to the 55 KRC Morning Show, my friend. It's always
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  Speaker 2: It's a pleasure. It's always good to be here.
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  Speaker 1: What in the hell were they thinking in South Africa
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: with that flyover? I know you saw the video of that.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: Jeez Louise. Those were commercial airlines.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 2: Somebody told me that was AI. I said, yeah, obviously.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 2: But then we see the story of they've got the
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 2: International Rugby Match in South Africa, and they decided to
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: use not military jets, but two regional jets, commercial airliners,
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 2: to do a flyby. Okay, cool. The problem was, A,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 2: They were flying way too low, 50 feet, less than
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 2: 50 feet above the stadium. You talk about zero room
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 2: for error. These are not high-performance military aircraft. We're talking
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 2: about regional jets. Now, to make it even more interesting
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 2: is before they cleared the stadium, they launched the fireworks.
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 2: So you did see the picture of one of the
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 2: jets at least flying through the pyrotechnics as they explode
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 2: all around them. Now, there was an international furor around
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: the world on this, And the president of that airline
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 2: came back and said, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: This was precision and practice. We knew exactly what we
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 2: were doing. We had three captains in each aircraft. We
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 2: knew what we– there's not– that's the biggest CYA I've
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 2: ever heard of because there's no way you would fly
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 2: an airplane into explosives or pyrotechnics of any kind, threatening
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 2: the crew, the people on the ground. I mean, the
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: airplane itself, you just would not do it. We talk
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 2: about bird– what about the fragments of what's left over
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 2: from fireworks? I'm telling you.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 2: So hopefully, thankfully, nobody got hurt. If you've not seen
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 2: that video, you've got to check it out. And hopefully
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 2: they've learned their lesson and they won't do any more
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 2: stunts like this for like ever.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, let's face it. Flying does not come
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: in the absence of any risk whatsoever. Crazy things happen.
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: I did that. Just the idea that that plane was
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: 50 feet above 54,000 people.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: It's yeah. Lord almighty.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 2: It's a mechanical thing. And we all know that mechanical
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 2: things malfunction. And when you've got altitude, you've got the
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 2: luxury of time to correct the problem, address the problem,
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 2: and do whatever needs to be done. When you're that low,
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: you have no options. I mean, whatever happens is going
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 2: to happen. So you never want to put yourself or
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: people on the ground or on a plane intentionally in
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 2: harm's way.
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  Speaker 6: And when.
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  Speaker 2: When you see that video and you just see, you know,
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: I'm sure people in the state have thought, oh, wow,
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 2: that's the coolest thing ever. I'd have been like, what
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 2: are those guys doing that low on those types of things? So, yeah, it's,
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Thankfully, you know, and not surprisingly, it
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 2: happened outside the United States.
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 6: We do some.
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 2: Crazy things here from time to time, but rarely do we, A,
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 2: have them flying that low as far as a regional jet, B,
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 2: launching fireworks at them as they fly across the top
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 2: of the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's unsettling to watch. I guess that I just
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: looked at it again while we were talking. I was
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: going to initially ask you a question about the proximity
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: because it was two commercial airliners and big ones flying
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: pretty darn close to each other. And I've seen, you know,
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: Blue Angels formations and they are just practically touching each other.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: But is there any concern about like turbulence or something
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: from one aircraft to another that could make the other
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: one destabilize while they're so close to the stadium? Just
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: wildly curious about that, Jay.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 7: No, it could.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a whole list of things that could happen.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 2: they could go wrong. If you had a mechanical situation
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 2: that caused one of the stabilizers or anything on the
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 2: aircraft from an avionics standpoint to malfunction even a little
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 2: bit to quickly change the direction or speed or altitude
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 2: of that aircraft, you're putting it in harm's way with
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 2: whatever else might be there. So yeah, there's just a
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 2: lot of things there that just didn't make sense. And
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 2: you could make a list of things that they did
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 2: wrong and stupid there and Again, we're just very thankful
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 2: that we're not talking about what could have been an
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 2: absolutely horrific scene had something happened to one of those
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 2: aircraft and it gone down in that stadium.
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: Like maybe they upgraded the software in the airplanes and
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: didn't bother telling the pilots about it at the time?
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: One of those kind of things?
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 2: You know, we didn't want to trouble you with a
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 2: lot of needless information.
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: Well, since we've got a little bit of time in
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: this segment, let's address the man wandering on a Lisbon
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: airport tarmac.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they look up.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 6: There he is.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 2: They go arrest him, take him to a hospital for
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 2: mental evaluation. This is another in a very long list
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 2: of instances where people, you know, hop that very intimidating thing.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 2: The security fence with no trespassing on it and wanders
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 2: across an airport. And any time we have a stowaway,
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 2: any time we have somebody like this, any time like
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 2: in Denver where somebody's killed by being on the runway,
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 2: you wonder why aren't we doing more from a security standpoint. Now,
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 2: they have done things to make the fences higher. A
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 2: lot of it put the barbed wire on top, making
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 2: it more difficult to access the airport. And, look, there
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 2: have been some improvements since the attacks on 9-11. on
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 2: security outside the airport, which is needed. But every single
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 2: time that we've got a stowaway that's found out to
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 2: have walked across an active runway and the tarmac and
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: accessed an airplane climbing up in it without a single
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 2: soul seeing them and nothing from a detection standpoint making
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 2: anybody aware of the fact that the individual's there is
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 2: a very clear indication to me that we've got a
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 2: lot of work to do to make sure. Because what
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 2: if this wasn't a stowaway, but a terrorist? I mean,
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: It just, we're spending all this money, billions of dollars
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 2: inside an airport on security. I'm glad we are, but
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 2: we've got to do more outside. And it just, we
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 2: continue to be just like, la, la, la, la, la, la. Well,
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 2: nothing really happens. So I guess it's okay. We're trying
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 2: to prevent the last attack instead of trying to prevent
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 2: the next one. And sometimes that lack of a directional
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 2: focus can really work against us.
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: No question about it. We'll continue with iHeartMedia aviation expert,
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  Speaker 1: Jay Ratliff, leaving the tower early air traffic controllers. That
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: is sort of a, a modern work ethic reality going
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: on here.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: Let's see what happened with that one. Plus so much more.
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: Don't go away. Optimism. Al Saeed, the talk station. You
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  Speaker 1: ever been in a cockpit before? Jay Ratliff has. He
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: is on the air right now.
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 5: J.R.
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  Speaker 1: I heard media aviation expert Jay Ratliff did the benefit
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: of his company every week. Beginning at 830 here on
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: the 55 KRC morning show. I don't know about you
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: and your work ethic, Jay Ratliff, but if I got
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: hours and I am responsible for literally human life, I
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: would think leaving the job early might represent a problem morally, ethically,
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: and perhaps make it terminated as a result of that.
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: We had a couple of air traffic controllers walked off
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: the job early and falsifying their time, falsifying their time cards.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And as you know, so well from your experience,
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 2: you know, anytime you, you know, have a company document
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 2: that you commit fraud on, yeah, that's the perfect recipe
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 2: to get your butt kicked out the door. But this
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 2: was two air traffic controllers that we had that were
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 2: on duty the night of the Air Canada crash with
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 2: the fire truck. So these two individuals left the tower early. And, well,
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 2: they called it considerably early. I think that means a
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 2: long time before they were supposed to. Falsified their time
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 2: cards and out the door they went. The NTSB that's
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 2: been doing the investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board, into
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 2: that accident has discovered the two air traffic controllers left
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 2: earlier than they should have. Now, the question is, wait
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 2: a minute, were we below the minimum of having at
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 2: least two air traffic controllers in the tower at the
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 2: time of the accident?
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 5: And we did.
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 2: So it wasn't like they were leaving them shorthanded. But goodness,
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, we would all would have loved to have
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 2: had the chance of two extra sets of eyes in
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 2: the air traffic control tower. the night that that happened,
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 2: because perhaps they could have stopped the fire truck from
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 2: rolling across that active runway when that Air Canada jet
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 2: was in the process of landing that ended up with
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 2: two people being killed, the two pilots. But apparently, the
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 2: FAA has been having a problem with this for some time,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 2: not only in D.C., but other places around the country
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 2: where it's a regular practice for people to leave early
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 2: and just falsify their time card. And They've been warned
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 2: repeatedly that this kind of action could lead to their termination.
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 2: And look, I'll never justify it, Brian, but I know
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 2: a lot of these individuals are overworked where they work
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 2: a lot of days in a row. And I could
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 2: see him saying, look, I'm just going to leave early
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  Speaker 2: because I've been here X amount of days in a row.
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  Speaker 2: I get that. But you just can't leave your posts.
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  Speaker 2: You just can't do that when you're talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're not delivering mail. You're protecting people at an airport.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand fatigue and stress and all that. I
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: understand some people can get sick. Maybe you come down
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: with a stomach flu. But you don't just leave and
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: falsify your time card. Isn't there a process in place
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  Speaker 1: to go to a supervisor and get permission to leave
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  Speaker 1: to make sure all the I's are dotted and T's
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  Speaker 1: are crossed for the people in the damn airplanes that
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  Speaker 1: are relying on these guys to get them on the
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  Speaker 1: ground safely?
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  Speaker 2: Total agreement i'm in total agreement my friend and it
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  Speaker 2: it shouldn't happen it did happen and it's happened quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit hopefully it will not happen and i mean
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  Speaker 2: they're talking about these two individuals being fired and the
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  Speaker 2: union is doing what the union does trying to protect
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  Speaker 2: their their p and i totally get that and this
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  Speaker 2: has been something that not only happened at this tower
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  Speaker 2: but other places before so you know it when all
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  Speaker 2: of this came out it reminded me of not having
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  Speaker 2: enough air traffic controllers in lexington when they had the
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 2: calm air crash back in 2005 or 6 when they
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 2: try to take off from the wrong and much shorter runway.
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  Speaker 2: You just, you want to have as many people on
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  Speaker 2: duty as you can just to make sure that you
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 2: don't miss things because mistakes are going to happen, period.
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  Speaker 2: We know that. So what we can do is try
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 2: to eliminate or reduce the number of those mistakes by
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 2: having adequate staffing and having the people in place where
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 2: they need to be. And sadly, that wasn't the case.
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  Speaker 2: And look, these individuals are going to have to live
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  Speaker 2: with that the rest of their lives saying, you know,
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  Speaker 2: am I responsible for not directly but indirectly from not
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  Speaker 2: being there to where I might have been able to help.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you just alluded to it. Maybe I just want
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  Speaker 1: to seal this question I had because your notes indicate
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  Speaker 1: they're facing possible termination. You just said a moment ago
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  Speaker 1: it could result in their termination. So this is all
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  Speaker 1: because of collective bargaining. They have to go through the
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  Speaker 1: process and everything. So this isn't a question of whether
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: their termination will be justified. It's just going through the process.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll see where it goes. I mean, there have
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 2: been times that we've had TSA screeners that I think
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 2: should have been helped to find employment elsewhere and were not.
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  Speaker 2: And they were allowed to stay on and just simply
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 2: went through retraining. And I don't know, when you're talking
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 2: about a judgment call, when you make the wrong kind
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 2: of judgment call, that's an intentional act. And that's something
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 2: that you knowingly are putting other people at risk. Now, look,
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 2: these two individuals aren't going to be accountable in a
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 2: court of law unless civilly something comes up because When
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 2: the accident happened, one of the air traffic controllers on
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 2: duty that gave permission for the fire truck to cross
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 2: was heard on the audio clip saying, man, I really
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 2: messed up. So, I mean, he was the one that
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 2: was taking responsibility for it. But, you know, we understand
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 2: mistakes are going to happen, and it's tragic when they do. But,
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 2: you know, we've got to do what we can to
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  Speaker 2: try to reduce them.
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  Speaker 1: No question about it. I've got a minute here for us.
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  Speaker 1: What happens when a pilot becomes ill? Maybe an air
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  Speaker 1: traffic controller. We just talked about that briefly there sort
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: of as an illustration of possibility. But what about pilots
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: when they become ill?
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 2: You thank God you got a second pilot. Delta flight
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 2: taken off from Minneapolis. The captain became ill, turned around,
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 2: came back and landed. We don't have the status of anything,
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 2: but apparently he is okay. But yeah, it's the same
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 2: thing with any crew member. If you've got a flight
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 2: attendant that becomes incapacitated or there's something that's going on
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 2: or a pilot, Yeah, that plane takes off and it
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 2: turns right back around and comes back. Each one of
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 2: those people are part of a safety team that if
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 2: they're not at 100% or close, you're actually putting that
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 2: flight and the passengers at risk. So that pilot did
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 2: exactly what he was trained to do. He knew he
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 2: wasn't going to be able to continue. He needed help,
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 2: and he came back and landed. And we've had pilots
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 2: that have passed away in the cockpit and died. So
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 2: you've got situations where, you know, statistically, I'm surprised those
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 2: kind of things don't happen more often, given the number
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 2: of flights in the air every day around the world. But, yeah,
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 2: in this situation, pilot did what he was trained to do. And,
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 2: you know, other than a delay on some of the passengers,
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 2: everybody turned out to be okay.
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: That sort of goes to your suggestion. Some of the
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: airlines would like to go to a single pilot program,
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: save them money. Yeah, I don't like that either, Jay.
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: Let's bring Jay back.
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  Speaker 2: They want zero pilots. One pilot is just a step
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 2: in the direction of where they want to head.
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: Well, people struggle with whether or not they'll even get
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: into a driverless Waymo cab downtown Cincinnati. So don't go away.
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens when you try to deal with
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: the supply chain parts as a pilot smuggling things into Russia.
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: That and more. One more, Jay Ratliff. Don't go away.
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  Speaker 1: I'm KRC, the talk station. 8.49 on a Friday eve.
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: Wrap things up with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff. So,
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: this is an Aeroflot, a Russian airline Aeroflot employee. Is
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: he trying to deal with the supply chain problems that
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: may be still going on in Russia? Jay, it didn't
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: work out real well for him.
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 2: It did not. Back when the war with Ukraine started,
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 2: Russia was kind of isolated. And it was kind of
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 2: an international agreement. We're not shipping you any commercial airline
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 2: parts until the situation with Ukraine is over. Let's get
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 2: it over with. And that was one of the many
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 2: sanctions that were put on. We've got a former employee
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 2: of Aeroflot, the Russian carrier that you can pay me
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 2: to get on, that said, you know, I could probably
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 2: buy some parts here in the United States and– indirectly
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 2: kind of get them to Russia without telling who they
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 2: were buying them from, where they were going to. So
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 2: the employee or this former employee was smuggling, if you will,
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 2: these much needed airline parts to Russia and got caught
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 2: and is going to face the consequences for it. But
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 2: it's so.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 6: Bad and has been so bad that.
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 2: They are using parts on airplanes that are close to fitting.
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, so they're doing a bowing.
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 10: Well, yeah.
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 2: Well, see, at Boeing, they were accused by the whistleblowers
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 2: of using somewhat defective parts. Brian, they're going to other
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 2: airplanes that are made by other people, finding parts that
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 2: are similar to put on another type of aircraft. So
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 2: at least Boeing's using the right kind of part, but
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 2: even if it's defective, according to the whistleblowers. But in
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 2: this case, It's like if it fits, we're going to
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 2: use it. And I'm telling you, getting on a Russian
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 2: carrier airline, no way. The maintenance has always been rather,
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 2: shall we say, suspect. You and I have talked about
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 2: how they take off with a bunch of snow on
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 2: the wing because it'll blow off and all those things. Yeah,
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 2: totally different state of mind over there. And I just know,
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 2: thank you.
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's something I learned from my dad who,
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: if he couldn't fix it with WD-40 and black electrical tape,
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: then he hired somebody. Isn't that what black electrical tape
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: is for, Jay? I mean, come on. It almost fits.
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: Just give it a wrap.
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 2: You know, in aviation, they've got this high-speed aviation tape
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 2: that they put on certain parts of the airplane until
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 2: it gets to maintenance base and they can fix it.
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: We've talked about that.
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  Speaker 2: But it looks like duct tape.
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 2: It's slapped on the side of an engine. You've got
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 2: people going, flight attendant, is that supposed to be there? Yeah,
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 2: it's not duct tape. It looks like, I always find
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 2: a different color for it. But yeah, it's high speed
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 2: aviation tape because look, if you have a cowling or
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 2: something that's kind of flapping loose and need some rivets
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 2: or just different types of ways to secure it, you're
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 2: not going to cancel the flight. You're not going to
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 2: delay the flight. You can put that on there. It's
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 2: going to be totally fine. It's not something that would
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 2: be a no-go item. And yeah, you would just fix
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 2: it when it gets to the next maintenance stop, because
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 2: that way you can keep that silver revenue tube going.
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 2: But Yeah, sadly, it does look exactly like that day.
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little unsettling. All right, I remember my dad
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: telling me a story because he had a pilot's license back,
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: I think, before I was born. He used to actually fly,
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: and he drifted, I guess, into airspace up by Wright-Patt.
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: They scrambled jets and told him to get the hell
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: out of there. That's what happens when you go into
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: restricted airspace. But what about this? Is it Cathay Pacific Flight?
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 2: Cathay Pacific. They've been around for like 100 years. It
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 2: was a Hong Kong to London flight, and they were perfect.
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 2: I think they were over a Hungarian airspace, and the
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 2: pilots flipped on the wrong frequency. So they weren't on
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 2: the frequency they were supposed to be on. So in essence,
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 2: they went radio silent. People are trying to reach them,
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 2: and la, la.
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  Speaker 10: La, la, la, la.
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  Speaker 2: They had no clue, right? But they were talking to them.
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 2: So what happens? They scramble the military jets, the intercepts.
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 2: They assume that the aircraft has been taken, and they
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 2: are preparing to do whatever is needed. And, you know,
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 2: you're in the cockpit, you look up to the left
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 2: and right, and you're flanked by military aircraft. Yeah, you're
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 2: going to find out real quick in the cockpit, what
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 2: did we do? And sure enough, they were simply on
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 2: the wrong frequency. And once they corrected that, people were
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 2: talking to them. And, yeah, I imagine that would have
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 2: been a rather scary moment to have those, not only
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 2: for the crew, but can you imagine the passengers that
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 2: saw those things come flying up on the side? That
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 2: would be more than a bit unsettling.
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's just a skosh.
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: Excuse me.
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 2: Something takes to happen. We thought, you know, unfortunately, this
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 2: is something that, you know, is an okay situation. But, yeah,
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 2: these days, if an airplane is suspected to be taken over,
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 2: they're wasting no time on that military.
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that, Jay, because wasn't that too
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: long ago in my mind, 9-11 maybe? You know, you've
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: got to pay attention to this kind of thing.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 2: And, Lord willing, next week we'll spend a couple of
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 2: minutes on that because there were some fascinating things that
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 2: happened that day. a lot of heroes and some of
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 2: them unsung. And I like to talk about them as
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 2: we talk about, you know, the things that are different
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 2: between now and then.
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: I'm glad. And I have something even more to look
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: forward to for our discussion next Thursday, Jay Ratliff, uh,
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: how things looking out there in terms of, uh, uh, air,
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: air travel today.
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 2: A ton of delays in the Gulf coast, especially Houston,
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 2: that with the storms we've got down there, uh, Chicago
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 2: and New York, uh, as well, going to see some issues.
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 2: I think the biggest headache is going to be the
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 2: Gulf coast, especially Houston, which hasn't caught a break all week. Uh, but, uh,
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 2: Other than that, yeah, it should be a good day
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 2: to fly, although a bit turbulent. Not dangerous, just uncomfortable.
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 2: Keep your seatbelt fastened about you. You should be in
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 2: good shape.