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- 0:09Speaker 1: Five o five, A fifty five scene the talking station
- 0:15Speaker 1: Serious Friday E.
- 0:19Speaker 2: S hope they will.
- 0:29Speaker 3: A vacation.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Yep, Well, I guess it's finally over a ceasefire that
- 0:37Speaker 1: never really was a ceasefire, is no longer a ceasefire,
- 0:41Speaker 1: and happy trying to make it a happy Friday E.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Brian Thomas right here, host of the fifty five Case
- 0:45Speaker 1: Morning Show. Juss Trucker still on vacation. I hope he's
- 0:48Speaker 1: having a good time. Hey, Danny, Danny Gleason covered for
- 0:50Speaker 1: the vacationing Judge Trucker. Have you heard from him? Is
- 0:52Speaker 1: he having a good time? Yeah? He sent me one
- 0:55Speaker 1: text about today's guest, which at eight oh five is
- 0:58Speaker 1: Ashley Don. Sayton's lemonade stand is back. Awesome, awesome event
- 1:04Speaker 1: that happens every year. Just a very young lady started
- 1:07Speaker 1: the lemonade stand, going to help some folks out, and
- 1:09Speaker 1: it grew and it is now nationwide. I mean it
- 1:11Speaker 1: is massive, nationwide. So we're here about Peyton's lemonade stand.
- 1:14Speaker 1: But I got a text from Joe saying, hey, it's
- 1:15Speaker 1: Ashley Don. We had somebody else originally on the lineup,
- 1:18Speaker 1: So he's paying attention even while he's out of town.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Let me to ask him, I hope you have had
- 1:23Speaker 1: a good time. No response. I'm going to take that
- 1:26Speaker 1: as a yes. Preceded by Ashley Donn, preceded by Congressman
- 1:29Speaker 1: Noaron Davidson. We've got a lot to talk about with
- 1:31Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, most notably the well the exchange of fire yesterday,
- 1:35Speaker 1: which is continuing, leading Donald Trump to suggest that he's
- 1:38Speaker 1: acknowledged that he ceasefire. Isn't so. Congressman Warren Davidson coming
- 1:42Speaker 1: up at seven o five, and then, of course it's Thursday,
- 1:45Speaker 1: and on a normal Thursday, which this apparently is Jay Ratliff.
- 1:48Speaker 1: I heard Media Aviation Expert coming on at eight thirty
- 1:51Speaker 1: round and at the end of the show on a
- 1:53Speaker 1: what I always like to think is a positive note.
- 1:55Speaker 1: So that is all well and good tech Friday with
- 2:00Speaker 1: I've had tomorrow plus Jack's Windsor from the Ohio Press Network.
- 2:02Speaker 1: That'll be Friday in the morning show and again my
- 2:04Speaker 1: last day, and I'll be taking a two week vacation,
- 2:07Speaker 1: which I don't think I've ever done two weeks. And inchell,
- 2:11Speaker 1: thank you very much for all the folks that shout
- 2:12Speaker 1: up at Schanders Burger b Slow Bistro yesterday, had a
- 2:15Speaker 1: really nice time. Always enjoy my listener lunches, and of
- 2:18Speaker 1: course yesterday was no exception to the norm. And for
- 2:22Speaker 1: those keeping track at home, and probably no one is
- 2:26Speaker 1: cribbage Mike beat me. Been kind of a tit for
- 2:28Speaker 1: tat of late but three point when, so congratulations my
- 2:32Speaker 1: submariner friend. Cribbage Mike. And it looks like Mike will
- 2:36Speaker 1: be doing an empower youth seminar on the USS Cincinnati
- 2:40Speaker 1: or Jay Rissover, who is taking over for Dan Ragnold,
- 2:44Speaker 1: was at lunch yesterday. Good morning Jay, and I heard
- 2:47Speaker 1: him talking to Mike about doing an empower youth seminar,
- 2:51Speaker 1: maybe about just being in the Navy as a submariner
- 2:53Speaker 1: or a sub mariner your choice. Mike chooses a submariner,
- 2:58Speaker 1: so I defaulted that typically saying sub marine. It doesn't matter,
- 3:01Speaker 1: but you know what he does. He was in a
- 3:03Speaker 1: submarine and forout his entire entire military career, spent entire
- 3:06Speaker 1: six years underwater. That in and of itself has got
- 3:09Speaker 1: to be an interesting discussion. But usas Cincinnati exhibit up
- 3:12Speaker 1: and Voice of America Park, which is an outstanding thing
- 3:15Speaker 1: because you have the Cold War USS Cincinnati Submarine, and
- 3:19Speaker 1: you have the Cold War exhibit inside the Voice of
- 3:22Speaker 1: America Park, the Broadcast Museum, so you can see what
- 3:26Speaker 1: it was like back in the fifties and sixties trying
- 3:28Speaker 1: to get signals into the former Soviet Union. Wild stuff.
- 3:32Speaker 1: That is so an outstanding exhibit. Strongly encourage everyone to
- 3:35Speaker 1: get out there and check it out. That's coming up.
- 3:37Speaker 1: But I said, well, the guests are coming up in
- 3:39Speaker 1: the Morning Show, and the phone calls are always welcome
- 3:42Speaker 1: here on the fifty five carssee Morning Show five one, three, seven, four, nine,
- 3:44Speaker 1: fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight to two three
- 3:47Speaker 1: talk fifty on at and T phones. Lots of different
- 3:50Speaker 1: things going on in the world. But okay, let's start
- 3:53Speaker 1: out with we'll delay the exchange of bombing and the
- 3:58Speaker 1: end of the ceasefire. And I called this one, Bobby,
- 4:02Speaker 1: you were wrong. He dropped out of the race. Graham
- 4:04Speaker 1: Plattiner has ended his Senate campaign in Maine. They finally
- 4:10Speaker 1: brought the goods to the table. I guess you can't
- 4:12Speaker 1: walk away from a hardcore Democrat rape allegation, which is
- 4:15Speaker 1: really what she was claiming. He did you know, you
- 4:19Speaker 1: can't get around it. Definitionally speaking, if you boil her
- 4:22Speaker 1: allegations down, it was rape. But whether or not it happened,
- 4:25Speaker 1: Graham Plattner's career is over, at least as a potential
- 4:28Speaker 1: budding politician, probably over beyond that. Yeah, he ended it,
- 4:33Speaker 1: and he's blaming the Democratic machine. Oh yeah, this is
- 4:39Speaker 1: well from Platner's perspective, exactly what Kamala Harris did to
- 4:44Speaker 1: Joe Biden or the Democratic Party did to the Democrats
- 4:47Speaker 1: who did go with Biden in spite of the fact
- 4:52Speaker 1: that he was cognitively impaired. So they kick him out
- 4:55Speaker 1: and then they just nominate Coornate otherwise, just advanced Kamala Harris,
- 4:59Speaker 1: and everybody's like, who oh, that's right, the woman who
- 5:02Speaker 1: couldn't even get a single vote, who was one of
- 5:04Speaker 1: fifteen or so people out and running in the primary
- 5:07Speaker 1: for the presidential nominee and quit early on because no
- 5:10Speaker 1: one wanted her as the nominee. Here you go, Kamala Harris.
- 5:15Speaker 1: Congratulations Democrats, We in the Democrat Party know better than you.
- 5:22Speaker 1: That's basically, at least from my perspective, exactly what Graham
- 5:25Speaker 1: platter is saying. Excuse me, you know, in a video.
- 5:32Speaker 1: You can watch it. Exit. We'll call it an exit video.
- 5:36Speaker 1: He blamed the media and the political establishment for acting,
- 5:40Speaker 1: in his words, as judge, jury and executioner, and continued
- 5:44Speaker 1: denying wrong going. Of course he did. So it's not
- 5:47Speaker 1: his fault. It's the media's fault, and it's the political
- 5:50Speaker 1: establishment's fault. And of course he's not talking about the Republicans.
- 5:54Speaker 1: You know, the Republicans are bashing him as long as
- 5:57Speaker 1: they could, and in fact, probably the wind got got
- 5:59Speaker 1: knocked out of the sales just a little bit because
- 6:01Speaker 1: he was an easy target given his background and all
- 6:05Speaker 1: the documented perversion and everything else he has done in
- 6:08Speaker 1: his life. Plus these new recently raised rape allegations. Yeah,
- 6:12Speaker 1: that was easy fodder for the Republicans had he stuck
- 6:15Speaker 1: to it and ran the race in November. But no,
- 6:17Speaker 1: it was the political establishment and media that did it
- 6:20Speaker 1: to him, nothing of his own doing. Vlatner said he
- 6:25Speaker 1: was targeted by democratic forces that opposed his brand of
- 6:29Speaker 1: populist politics and they wanted to get him out of
- 6:32Speaker 1: the race. Not these sexual assault accusations plural, because it
- 6:38Speaker 1: was more than this most recent one. In fact, another
- 6:40Speaker 1: one came out after the alleged rape about him removing
- 6:46Speaker 1: stealthily removing condoms while having sex, and that's just that's
- 6:52Speaker 1: just weird, man, Okay, I stopped myself from going down
- 6:59Speaker 1: that road. I was tempted anyway, obviously after the most
- 7:04Speaker 1: recent piling on top of endless allegation, endless revelations, i
- 7:09Speaker 1: should say, which is really allegations, all of his posts
- 7:11Speaker 1: on social media, just the his conduct in spite of
- 7:15Speaker 1: the fact that he was married, you know whatever. But
- 7:18Speaker 1: on and on and on and they and they kept
- 7:20Speaker 1: sticking with him and kept sticking with him. No, it
- 7:22Speaker 1: wasn't the media and the political establishment so much as
- 7:25Speaker 1: all of the Democrats who had previously endorsed you, mister Plattner,
- 7:29Speaker 1: that turned their back on you and came out and
- 7:31Speaker 1: outright rescinded their endorsements, cut off funding. Hmm. There is
- 7:37Speaker 1: another key to why Platner fell out of the race.
- 7:40Speaker 1: Let's see, I've lost all my Democrat friends. They have
- 7:43Speaker 1: cut off all the money for him, and they have
- 7:45Speaker 1: all asked me to drop out of the race out
- 7:47Speaker 1: loud and in print. That's something the media is actually
- 7:50Speaker 1: going to report, So they're reporting facts in that and
- 7:53Speaker 1: not just bias reporting. It's well, Bernie Sanders dropped his
- 7:57Speaker 1: endorsement of Graham Plattner. That is a factual statement. Somebody's
- 8:02Speaker 1: going to read it. Ladner said, this was the last
- 8:06Speaker 1: week to try to get me off the ballot, and
- 8:09Speaker 1: that's why this is occurring. We him and the mouse
- 8:14Speaker 1: in his pocket. We believe that for the moment, for
- 8:17Speaker 1: the movement to continue, it can't be me, and for
- 8:20Speaker 1: that reason we are suspending the campaign. Operation politics. Politicians
- 8:24Speaker 1: always talking the WII form. If you ever hear me
- 8:26Speaker 1: do that, you know it's usually because I'm collectively referring
- 8:29Speaker 1: to we, you, the listening audience, me or me. And
- 8:32Speaker 1: in this morning Danny Gleason covering the border, Joe Strecker,
- 8:36Speaker 1: I don't use the royal we, at least as I
- 8:39Speaker 1: see it in my head. Anyhow, Democrats are now trying
- 8:42Speaker 1: to figure out what they're going to do in terms
- 8:43Speaker 1: of a candidate who has to face Susan Collins deadline
- 8:47Speaker 1: set by state law July twenty seventh to put a
- 8:49Speaker 1: new name on the ballot, and right ahead of Platinus announcement,
- 8:53Speaker 1: the Democratic State Committee of Maine said it will be
- 8:57Speaker 1: holding a nominating convention. They didn't have any details on
- 9:00Speaker 1: who would attend and what the threshold for winning the
- 9:03Speaker 1: nomination would be. But golf button there actually sneeze button.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Platner cited his overwhelming victory in the June ninth Democratic primary.
- 9:14Speaker 1: He did get seventy percent of the vote. I'm not
- 9:17Speaker 1: quite sure what the percentage of turnout was, but of
- 9:20Speaker 1: the people who got up to vote. Again, going back
- 9:23Speaker 1: to these socialist crazy people really being enthused to go vote,
- 9:27Speaker 1: that's how you get a guy like Platner getting a nomination.
- 9:30Speaker 1: Everybody doesn't show up, you get crazies. But in so
- 9:34Speaker 1: far as this Democratic State Committee of main announcing a
- 9:37Speaker 1: nominating convention, he said, and I think it's fairly accurate. We, again,
- 9:42Speaker 1: the collective, did it the right way. We built a campaign,
- 9:44Speaker 1: We engaged in electoral politics. We motivated people, we banded together.
- 9:48Speaker 1: We did it the way we were told we are
- 9:49Speaker 1: supposed to make a change. We won. And now they,
- 9:54Speaker 1: the evil Democratic Party machine, are not going to let
- 9:59Speaker 1: us have it. Not if it's me close quote. Okay,
- 10:04Speaker 1: So obviously this is a veiled reference to the Kamala
- 10:06Speaker 1: Harris Joe Biden thing. And I get that. I think
- 10:09Speaker 1: he's accurate across the board, but he refuses to take
- 10:11Speaker 1: and accept blame for bringing about this result. Listen, Graham,
- 10:17Speaker 1: if they didn't have all this on you, the goods,
- 10:21Speaker 1: the documents backing up the allegations, then you wouldn't be
- 10:27Speaker 1: kicked out of the race. Duh. Of course, if Democrats
- 10:35Speaker 1: lose Maine, they got a little bit of a tough
- 10:37Speaker 1: roto in terms of taking back over the Senate, which
- 10:39Speaker 1: they're all giddy with excitement expecting it to actually happen
- 10:42Speaker 1: without any resistance. Now they have to win states normally
- 10:46Speaker 1: considered solidly republic game like Texas or Ohio and Iowa.
- 10:52Speaker 1: Oddsmakers are suggesting that probably will not happen, but we'll
- 10:55Speaker 1: have to collectively wait and see on that. So play
- 10:59Speaker 1: stupid games, win stupid prizes. Grand Platner often of the wilderness.
- 11:04Speaker 1: No comment on whether or no suggestion that grand Platter
- 11:07Speaker 1: is going to have any influence whatsoever over who's going
- 11:10Speaker 1: to be the choice to act as his replacement. Some
- 11:12Speaker 1: were speculating that he would demand his foot in the
- 11:15Speaker 1: door and have a role in that doesn't appear that
- 11:18Speaker 1: that happened, at least by knowing there's been no reporting
- 11:20Speaker 1: on it that I could find. Also, the big payoff.
- 11:22Speaker 1: Did he get a job promise? Maybe many were speculating
- 11:26Speaker 1: he might get in some think tank or some five
- 11:29Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year cushy job where he doesn't
- 11:31Speaker 1: even have to show up in return for him bowing
- 11:33Speaker 1: out of the race. It's not your night, Johnny. Here
- 11:36Speaker 1: you got a great union job or you don't have
- 11:38Speaker 1: to work, remember on the waterfront. Well, we'll see if
- 11:43Speaker 1: he ends up in a high paying gig because he
- 11:45Speaker 1: only has one client as an oyster farmer, was that
- 11:50Speaker 1: like his his mom or his father in law or
- 11:52Speaker 1: something like that has a restaurant or a business that
- 11:55Speaker 1: buys that bought his oysters. Yeah, that also turned out
- 11:58Speaker 1: to be a bit of a prevarication oyster farmer all right,
- 12:04Speaker 1: Often in the sunset, Graham Platner goes, it should be
- 12:07Speaker 1: very interesting race going forward as well, certainly has been
- 12:10Speaker 1: up to date. Don't go away. We got plenty to
- 12:12Speaker 1: talk about and New Hampshire. Gary is on the line. Gary,
- 12:14Speaker 1: looking forward to talking with you man. Just hanging there
- 12:16Speaker 1: for just a few minutes, Be right back Friday, Eve
- 12:19Speaker 1: five one, three seven two three talk found five fifty
- 12:23Speaker 1: on eighteen phone. There he is New Hampshire. Gary was
- 12:26Speaker 1: kind of stay on hold over the break. Welcome back
- 12:27Speaker 1: New Hampshire Grey. It's good hear from me as always.
- 12:31Speaker 4: Thank you, Brian. Hey, just in case I don't get
- 12:34Speaker 4: to it, I want to wish you a very happy
- 12:37Speaker 4: two week vacation.
- 12:38Speaker 1: Thanks man. I appreciate that very much, I really do.
- 12:42Speaker 4: I hope you enjoy it.
- 12:43Speaker 1: I think I will.
- 12:46Speaker 4: Good you deserve.
- 12:48Speaker 1: I'm feeling a little lighter, you know, emotionally and from
- 12:51Speaker 1: a stress standpoint. As this week has rolled on, I'm
- 12:54Speaker 1: get closer and closer to Friday. I always feel a
- 12:56Speaker 1: little lessening of the pressure I put on myself. But
- 12:59Speaker 1: a start it earlier this week, just knowing that I
- 13:02Speaker 1: was going to get two weeks off.
- 13:06Speaker 4: Well, you enjoy it wherever you go.
- 13:08Speaker 5: Thanks.
- 13:10Speaker 4: I want to get with Graham Plattners will kroquick. It
- 13:12Speaker 4: looks like Bernie got his uh uh, his check book
- 13:17Speaker 4: out or Graham Plattner is probably going to wind up
- 13:21Speaker 4: write in a book that some union's going to buy
- 13:24Speaker 4: at four hundred dollars nobody's going to read. They might
- 13:27Speaker 4: as well name it my struggle.
- 13:30Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll have to We'll have to wait for that one.
- 13:33Speaker 1: You know, he'll get a ghost writer probably or maybe
- 13:36Speaker 1: let chat Gpt write the book for him. But yet
- 13:38Speaker 1: you'll have to wait and see what the payoff was
- 13:41Speaker 1: to Plattin to the extent there was. They're not going
- 13:44Speaker 1: to just put him in a cushy job right away,
- 13:46Speaker 1: and he's not going to come out with a book
- 13:47Speaker 1: like next week, so we'll take a little time on that.
- 13:49Speaker 1: But the payoff will We'll we'll emerge at some juncture.
- 13:52Speaker 1: We'll make oh that's what he got and returned to
- 13:55Speaker 1: drop in the rais.
- 13:57Speaker 4: I my guess is they're going to go on up
- 14:00Speaker 4: put in, probably somebody who's a covert socialist, kind of
- 14:05Speaker 4: like the Virginia did with She was a moderate. I
- 14:09Speaker 4: forgot her name, but she ran as a moderate and
- 14:13Speaker 4: then extreme socialists. Once they get in.
- 14:17Speaker 1: Well, we'll have to wait to see. There's like a
- 14:19Speaker 1: half a dozen names swirling around, and quite honestly, I
- 14:22Speaker 1: haven't done any research on any of them yet to
- 14:24Speaker 1: find out who they are, because I'd like to see
- 14:26Speaker 1: who emerges, you know, like as the leading couple of people,
- 14:28Speaker 1: so wet least have some idea of because I think
- 14:31Speaker 1: they'll probably be one who is closer to the DSA
- 14:36Speaker 1: Democrat socialist side of the ledger, which is kind of
- 14:38Speaker 1: where Platinir is, and then there be another one who
- 14:40Speaker 1: is going to be arguably a centrist Democrat. To the
- 14:42Speaker 1: extent any of them exists anymore, I think Fetterman's the
- 14:45Speaker 1: only one that really comes across as a centrist Democrat.
- 14:47Speaker 1: But if they'll try to maybe push someone in that direction,
- 14:50Speaker 1: which I I think if I was a betting man,
- 14:53Speaker 1: I kind of go with someone who's a little more
- 14:55Speaker 1: centrist because that way you appeal to more of the voters,
- 14:58Speaker 1: because not all the Democrat Party has gone on full
- 15:00Speaker 1: on COMMI but listen, this is their decision and it
- 15:03Speaker 1: may spell the direction of the Democrat Party down the road.
- 15:05Speaker 1: So they have to win this Senate race. It's really important.
- 15:08Speaker 1: So the decision they make on this one, I think
- 15:10Speaker 1: is going to be quite revealing.
- 15:13Speaker 4: I will tell you because I live up here and
- 15:16Speaker 4: my wife owns a house up in Maine. They are
- 15:20Speaker 4: extraordinarily socialistic, and especially in the southern part really of
- 15:26Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, yes, around Bowden and in this Portland
- 15:32Speaker 4: that's they've locked that City up and Lewiston, they got
- 15:37Speaker 4: all they packed up with the invaders, you know, they Muslim.
- 15:45Speaker 1: So this the cities, the larger cities in Maine are
- 15:49Speaker 1: the epicenter of leftism, like all the other cities. I
- 15:51Speaker 1: guess because I've always had the impression that that maners
- 15:54Speaker 1: are more rugged, individualist kind of types. They aren't in
- 15:58Speaker 1: big government types. They like their solitude and the beautiful countryside.
- 16:04Speaker 1: I don't want to draw a parallel to like folks
- 16:06Speaker 1: that live in Montana or anything, but that's the impression
- 16:09Speaker 1: I always got, maybe a completely erroneous one. I didn't
- 16:11Speaker 1: realize the dramatic leftist political shift that had gone on.
- 16:14Speaker 4: There, huge leftists. If you remember, they have Angus King
- 16:19Speaker 4: and he has been a he is a socialist and
- 16:24Speaker 4: he's been part of the party for almost fifteen years now.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Well, I guess, honestly, Gary, you know, there's revealing my ignorance.
- 16:34Speaker 1: Got fifty states in the Union. It's a little difficult
- 16:36Speaker 1: to follow the individual politics of each and everyone. But
- 16:39Speaker 1: you know, and before Platner came along, I didn't really
- 16:43Speaker 1: pay any attention to main politics.
- 16:47Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you there's more Shenanikins going on in
- 16:52Speaker 4: Maine than Minnesota, and you might find that weird. But
- 16:56Speaker 4: with Janet Mills and all the radicals, the really radicals,
- 17:02Speaker 4: and they've got this whole place locked up tight main I.
- 17:06Speaker 1: Mean, you know, well, then maybe they will go with
- 17:08Speaker 1: a more socialist leaning replacement for Platinir to win the state.
- 17:15Speaker 4: Socialist you know, somebody who runs moderate and then will
- 17:20Speaker 4: turn sharply left once they get.
- 17:22Speaker 1: In wolf in sheep's clothing. That would jock me, that
- 17:26Speaker 1: would not shock me. Well, all right, popcorn out, Gary,
- 17:29Speaker 1: keep your popcorn out. I appreciate you tune into the program,
- 17:33Speaker 1: my friend, and I appreciate the kind words as I
- 17:35Speaker 1: fast approach my two week vacation. Thank you again, five
- 17:38Speaker 1: twenty five Right now, fifty five K sit the talk station,
- 17:40Speaker 1: local stories or phone calls. Either way, we go, we go.
- 17:43Speaker 1: I'll be right back, five twenty eight Friday. Thanks again,
- 17:50Speaker 1: everybody made listening to us yesterday Chandler's Burger Pistro. Great time,
- 17:55Speaker 1: and thanks to Chandler's Burger Bistro. I thoroughly enjoyed my burger.
- 17:59Speaker 1: And good morn to Renee, who also is going on vacation.
- 18:02Speaker 1: She'd been over Chanlisbergerbisa for a long, long time. Lovely
- 18:05Speaker 1: young lady Renee Ed took great care of the listeners,
- 18:08Speaker 1: which is always a wonderful thing. Over the phones. We're
- 18:10Speaker 1: gonna go, Tom, you gotta hang on for a minute
- 18:11Speaker 1: because Bobby jumped on the phones ahead of Bobby. Welcome back.
- 18:14Speaker 1: You called it wrong yesterday, Buddy.
- 18:17Speaker 6: I was just I was just praying that the Oorychester
- 18:20Speaker 6: farmer would shove it to the Democratic Party up there.
- 18:23Speaker 6: But he's going to get a nice gig gal, I'd.
- 18:25Speaker 1: Say, yeah, wait for it. You're probably right. We'll see
- 18:29Speaker 1: what happens. But he is having a very it's only
- 18:32Speaker 1: slightly veiled attack on the Democratic machine. Of course. No,
- 18:35Speaker 1: he's an outsider. He ran as a political outsider, as
- 18:39Speaker 1: a socialist, bucking the Democrat machine, and well, the Democrat
- 18:44Speaker 1: machine wins.
- 18:47Speaker 6: That's exactly correct. Hey, you know today's handicapped Thursday. Oh
- 18:52Speaker 6: this for God, with rainy raining this morning and everything
- 18:57Speaker 6: and the violence in Cincinnati, you know, shooting, stabbings, beatings,
- 19:02Speaker 6: I'd say it'll be six and a half.
- 19:04Speaker 1: Six and a half. Actually, I thought you were going
- 19:06Speaker 1: to say something like four and a half because of
- 19:07Speaker 1: the rain.
- 19:09Speaker 6: I know that's not gonna hold them back.
- 19:11Speaker 1: Six and a half. That's shootings, shootings, stabbings, beatings, okay,
- 19:17Speaker 1: shootings of acts of violence from again, from one person
- 19:20Speaker 1: against another human being. Okay, correct, all right. I don't
- 19:24Speaker 1: know if polymarket's taking bets, but someday they will, and
- 19:28Speaker 1: you'll be able to maybe put a wager down there, Bobby.
- 19:32Speaker 6: I got one main thing, sir, God bless collective bargaining.
- 19:38Speaker 1: God, blessed collective bargaining.
- 19:41Speaker 4: Enjoy your dication.
- 19:42Speaker 1: Thank you man. Hey, And yet story we had yesterday
- 19:45Speaker 1: with a former FOP president Dan Hills on the firing
- 19:47Speaker 1: of that police officer Sailor. I actually made local news.
- 19:51Speaker 1: They have a story about it, and I'm not taking
- 19:53Speaker 1: credit for it, but at least it was more widely
- 19:57Speaker 1: reported than Dan Hill's post on Facebook. Tom, Welcome to
- 20:01Speaker 1: the Morning Show. Happy Friday to your brother.
- 20:05Speaker 7: Hey, good morning. I'll take you under on Bobby's uh
- 20:10Speaker 7: just knee jerk reaction. I'm just going to go with
- 20:12Speaker 7: the under because yeah, yeah, well, you know, you don't
- 20:18Speaker 7: want to go out and get wet while you're stabbing somebody.
- 20:20Speaker 1: That's true.
- 20:21Speaker 7: That'd be unacceptable. So it's great it's just just the
- 20:25Speaker 7: fact that we have this kind of discussion is crazy.
- 20:29Speaker 7: And you just got you got people that just don't
- 20:31Speaker 7: really care about anybody else to themselves, and they just
- 20:36Speaker 7: they treat each other horribly. And I don't know, I
- 20:39Speaker 7: don't get it. I don't know what all the all
- 20:41Speaker 7: the promotion up there Maine is about. Why do they
- 20:44Speaker 7: feel they need to replace Susan Collins. I mean, she's
- 20:47Speaker 7: doing a great job for the Democrat Party already, you know,
- 20:50Speaker 7: being being a Rhino and all. I mean, she's usually uh,
- 20:55Speaker 7: he's usually one of the votes they can count on
- 20:57Speaker 7: to go against you know, some of us spe the
- 21:00Speaker 7: more conservative type of legislation that the that the Republicans
- 21:05Speaker 7: are trying to get through.
- 21:06Speaker 1: So yeah, back in the I would argue that you're
- 21:08Speaker 1: you're right that I don't even think you have to
- 21:09Speaker 1: go back to the Kennedy era Democrats. But she certainly
- 21:12Speaker 1: would have been right there, uh, in the Democrat Party
- 21:16Speaker 1: not that long ago. From a political perspective, again.
- 21:20Speaker 7: Yeah, she may not be left enough for them, but
- 21:23Speaker 7: she is definitely not conservative enough as far as I'm concerned, uh,
- 21:27Speaker 7: for what we're trying to get done. I mean, she
- 21:29Speaker 7: she does have an R next to your name. Uh
- 21:32Speaker 7: So I would definitely if I was in Maine and
- 21:34Speaker 7: that's all I had to choose from, I would definitely
- 21:36Speaker 7: vote for but only because she's got an R next
- 21:39Speaker 7: to your name, not because not because she does. She's
- 21:43Speaker 7: doing a good enough job as far as Republicans.
- 21:45Speaker 1: But what you would not get, what you would not
- 21:47Speaker 1: do is sit at home because you're pissed off about
- 21:50Speaker 1: both choices, right, thank you?
- 21:53Speaker 7: Correct? That's that, Yeah, And I'm glad that that's something
- 21:56Speaker 7: that's gotten in your crawl. And I'm sure when you
- 21:58Speaker 7: get back from your vacation you're going to really be
- 22:01Speaker 7: hammering that people got to get out and vote, even
- 22:04Speaker 7: in the even in the primaries. You know, I know
- 22:06Speaker 7: the primary season's over, and you know, well we'll wait
- 22:08Speaker 7: another couple of years to do another one of those.
- 22:10Speaker 7: But people got to get out and vote. This all
- 22:13Speaker 7: this stuff directly affects you, and your only way to
- 22:16Speaker 7: fight back is the vote. And when you do, don't
- 22:19Speaker 7: vote Democrat. Have a great day.
- 22:20Speaker 1: Thanks Tom, to appreciate that. Ah five on three seven
- 22:25Speaker 1: fifty eight hundred and eight to two three Talk Time
- 22:28Speaker 1: five fifty on eighteen t phones. Remember the sort of
- 22:30Speaker 1: the changing the website. They didn't bother telling me about it,
- 22:32Speaker 1: but I figured it out. If you have krsc dot
- 22:35Speaker 1: iHeart dot com for podcast information. If you can't listen live,
- 22:40Speaker 1: then head on over to the website local stories. Get
- 22:43Speaker 1: one maybe two in here with the remaining time go
- 22:45Speaker 1: to Batavia eighteen year old firefighters now dad after a
- 22:49Speaker 1: three vehicle crash involving a motorcycle having at Claremont County
- 22:51Speaker 1: on Monday afternoon in high State Highway Patrol reports that
- 22:54Speaker 1: crash happened state Route one. Thirty one year driver run
- 22:57Speaker 1: Rode about twelve thirty in the afternoon found a two
- 23:00Speaker 1: thousand and six Honda motorcycle driven by an eighteen year
- 23:03Speaker 1: old named Wyatt Fisher going eastbound when a Volkswagen in
- 23:09Speaker 1: front of him slowed for traffic. Troopers said the motorcycle
- 23:14Speaker 1: crashed into the back of the Volkswagen, traveled left to
- 23:17Speaker 1: the center lane, and then hit a Ford escape traveling west.
- 23:21Speaker 1: Fisher taking my Hospital UC Medical centerary later dot firefighter.
- 23:26Speaker 1: He was a firefighter at a stone Lick Township Fire
- 23:28Speaker 1: Department in Batavia. After the crash, the department released his
- 23:31Speaker 1: statement on social media expressing their sadness and praise for
- 23:34Speaker 1: the laid mister Fisher, he said. Before joining Fisher served
- 23:38Speaker 1: as a cadet at Wayne Township Fire and Ems and
- 23:40Speaker 1: graduated from Claremont Northeastern High School, where he accepted a
- 23:43Speaker 1: position as assistant soccer coach. Waynefire Rescue Auxiliary also made
- 23:47Speaker 1: a post honoring Fisher, stating he worked alongside parents and
- 23:50Speaker 1: younger and younger brother while a cadet in Wayne Township
- 23:53Speaker 1: Fire and Ems. That's a shame. Please be careful out there.
- 23:57Speaker 1: Motorcycles Line signed Ohio House Bill four ninety two in
- 24:05Speaker 1: law on Tuesday this week, requiring you, as a driver
- 24:09Speaker 1: as well as passengers in a vehicle that have been
- 24:11Speaker 1: pulled over for any moving violation, to disclose their names, addresses,
- 24:15Speaker 1: and dates of birth to the peace officer upon request.
- 24:18Speaker 1: Also increases the penalty for anybody who refuses by now
- 24:21Speaker 1: making interfering with making interfering with arrest a second degree misdemeanor.
- 24:27Speaker 1: M A Republicans State Reps Sharon Ray and Cinny Abrams
- 24:33Speaker 1: sponsored the bill. Say said in news release, our law
- 24:36Speaker 1: enforcement face risk each day they put their uniform on
- 24:39Speaker 1: and start with their shift. Traffic stops, gun runs, and
- 24:42Speaker 1: domestic violence calls are all some of the most dangerous
- 24:44Speaker 1: calls for our police. House Bill four ninety two provides
- 24:47Speaker 1: our law enforcement with an extra tool in the toolbox
- 24:50Speaker 1: as they work to keep our community safe. Goes into
- 24:52Speaker 1: effect ninety days after signature. That would be October fifth,
- 24:56Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. It's all the cops who you are?
- 25:01Speaker 1: Five thirty five cought up a five thirty six fifty
- 25:03Speaker 1: five K see talk station stack of Stupid coming up
- 25:05Speaker 1: as well. I'll be right back time for the stack
- 25:09Speaker 1: of stupid remembers stick around all morning if you can
- 25:12Speaker 1: in the morning show, feel free to call five one, three, seven, four,
- 25:14Speaker 1: nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to
- 25:16Speaker 1: three talk or hit pound five fifty if you have
- 25:18Speaker 1: an AT and T phone and make sure a round
- 25:19Speaker 1: seven to five. Congressman Warren Davidson. Boy, we have a
- 25:21Speaker 1: lot to talk about with the Congressman, including the war
- 25:24Speaker 1: is on and to what extent we're going to engage
- 25:26Speaker 1: in military conflict with the Iranians after the ceasefire I
- 25:30Speaker 1: guess is now officially over, so say it, Donald Trump. Anyhow,
- 25:34Speaker 1: let's go to the stack of stupid off duty sergeant
- 25:37Speaker 1: with the Sheriff's Office in central Florida now arrested because
- 25:41Speaker 1: police say surveillance video showed him assaulting an older couple
- 25:44Speaker 1: at a bar. Jason Stickles, who's forty four, was at
- 25:48Speaker 1: Merks Bar and Grill. It was Monday when he, accorded
- 25:51Speaker 1: the police report, created an unwonted contact with a couple
- 25:54Speaker 1: seated near the bar. This is all on video. This
- 25:57Speaker 1: according to the statement from the Belusa County Sheriff's Office,
- 25:59Speaker 1: where mister Stickles has been employed since two thousand and four. Now,
- 26:03Speaker 1: the Belusa County Sheriff Mike Chitwood put out a statement
- 26:07Speaker 1: criticizing this Stickles guy and also apologizing to the couple
- 26:11Speaker 1: at the bar. Here's what Chitwood had to say in
- 26:14Speaker 1: his social media posts, how to throw away your law
- 26:17Speaker 1: enforcement career in two minutes off duty, stumbling, drunk, harassing
- 26:21Speaker 1: people who are just trying to enjoy their afternoon. I
- 26:24Speaker 1: apologize for this soon to be Formervelusa Sheriff's Office sergeant's
- 26:29Speaker 1: idiotic behavior today. Wow, not pulling any punches on that
- 26:33Speaker 1: was he. Officers with the new smRNA Beach Police Department
- 26:37Speaker 1: responded to report of a fight happened about four point
- 26:39Speaker 1: thirty in the afternoon, ultimately arresting Stickles on charges related
- 26:42Speaker 1: to the incident no injuries. Lusa County Sheriff's Office said
- 26:47Speaker 1: Stickles first battered a seventy one year old woman seated
- 26:50Speaker 1: at the table, then battered he's seventy seven year old
- 26:53Speaker 1: husband when he intervened again. Refern to the surveillance video
- 26:56Speaker 1: at the bar that was reviewed shows Stickles standing between
- 26:59Speaker 1: the couple before leaning in close to the woman, who
- 27:02Speaker 1: backed away and got up. You can see in the
- 27:04Speaker 1: video she is visibly upset with him leaning in between
- 27:07Speaker 1: the two as they were trying to enjoy their cocktails.
- 27:10Speaker 1: A woman later told police a Stickles had tried to
- 27:13Speaker 1: kiss her. Woman's husband got up confronted him. Stickles charged
- 27:19Speaker 1: and grabbed the husband's throat. Seconds after, a waitress got
- 27:22Speaker 1: in the middle of them men. As this was happening,
- 27:25Speaker 1: a bystander sitting at a nearby table came up from
- 27:28Speaker 1: behind and put Stickles in a chokehold. That guy came
- 27:31Speaker 1: out of nowhere if you watch the video, tackle them
- 27:33Speaker 1: to the ground and subdued and police got there. Stickle
- 27:36Speaker 1: told responding officers you know who I am. He's one
- 27:40Speaker 1: of those guys before showing his badge with the Sheriff's office.
- 27:45Speaker 1: Oh okay, guess what. You're still getting arrested sheriff or sergeant.
- 27:51Speaker 1: After the incident, he was immediately put on administrative leave,
- 27:53Speaker 1: forced to surrender his law enforcement equipment, give me your
- 27:56Speaker 1: gun and badge pending final discipline, which will presumably mean termination.
- 28:01Speaker 1: At least they have a real reason to charge him
- 28:03Speaker 1: and terminate him, thinking of yesterday's conversation with Dan Hills
- 28:08Speaker 1: and the city. Mason Stickle has been charged with two
- 28:12Speaker 1: counts of felony battery on persons sixty five years of
- 28:14Speaker 1: age or older. Released from jail after posting a surety bond. Hey, Danny,
- 28:22Speaker 1: you think he'll apply to the Cincinni Police Department for
- 28:25Speaker 1: a job. He's got law enforcement credentials and I know
- 28:27Speaker 1: they're hiring an in desperate need of officers. Just ask him.
- 28:33Speaker 1: He might. Uh, Indiana man cut off his penis with
- 28:36Speaker 1: a kitchen knife. Isn't that enough for the stacking? Stupid
- 28:40Speaker 1: it goes on poured gasoline on the area and then
- 28:44Speaker 1: set fire in his family grind and set it on
- 28:47Speaker 1: fire his genitals according to police investio's legsid Christopher Pedin
- 28:54Speaker 1: Pedean Peden Anyway, thirty six, set the fire at a
- 28:58Speaker 1: Fort Wayne residence owned by his mom. At the same
- 29:02Speaker 1: time fire officials were investigating the two am blaze, police
- 29:05Speaker 1: were responding to a reported stabbing of the property, quickly
- 29:08Speaker 1: realizing that the victim of the stabbing of the missing
- 29:11Speaker 1: and the missing resident of the fire were the same person.
- 29:15Speaker 1: After he was located by police, Peddon claimed to have
- 29:17Speaker 1: been stabbed somewhere downtown Fort Wayne. That's quote. However, he
- 29:23Speaker 1: was taking a Parkview Regional Medical Center reportedly said that
- 29:26Speaker 1: he lied about the stabbing and wanted to be truthful.
- 29:29Speaker 1: That's when he told officers that he had gone into
- 29:32Speaker 1: a detached garage around two am and quote harmed himself
- 29:35Speaker 1: with a kitchen knife, cutting off his penis clothes. Quote.
- 29:39Speaker 1: He then quote poured gasolene on his penis and set
- 29:42Speaker 1: it on fire on the floor of the garage, just
- 29:45Speaker 1: inside the door. Pedden added that he quote left the
- 29:50Speaker 1: garage and began walking away from the property until he
- 29:53Speaker 1: encountered police close quotem stright as he didn't just pass
- 29:56Speaker 1: out from loss of blood anyway, AFFI David says fort
- 29:59Speaker 1: Wayne fired apart investigator reported to collecting evidence from the
- 30:02Speaker 1: Gala garage. Uh huh. That evidence included the gasoline container,
- 30:08Speaker 1: four big lighters in a kitchen knife. No mention of
- 30:12Speaker 1: the body parts collected, or if they were. Details of
- 30:19Speaker 1: the incident only only emerged after his initial court appearance
- 30:22Speaker 1: earlier in the month. He was freed from custody after
- 30:25Speaker 1: posting a ten thousand dollars bond. Scheduled for another court appearance.
- 30:28Speaker 1: Rahap sheet includes a pair of driving drunk convictions. Wow,
- 30:37Speaker 1: no mention in drugs either. Five forty five Right now,
- 30:40Speaker 1: I think if I have k C the talk stays
- 30:41Speaker 1: more stupid coming up and be right back. It is
- 30:47Speaker 1: five point fifty on a Thursday. Going back over to
- 30:51Speaker 1: the stack is stupid. Let's see here, Takia Sherman, and
- 30:57Speaker 1: I will quickly point out that her mugshot reveals that
- 31:00Speaker 1: she has a very very very prominent giant neck tattoo,
- 31:05Speaker 1: long sin face tattoos, and of course she's in the
- 31:07Speaker 1: status too, But you know she was involved with law
- 31:09Speaker 1: enforcement anyway. Takia Sherman, She's thirty two, arrested on Sunday
- 31:14Speaker 1: on multiple felony charges related to a violent confrontation happened
- 31:17Speaker 1: last month in Saint Petersburg, Florida, as his tradition. The victim,
- 31:23Speaker 1: who's thirty one, told police that after she refused to
- 31:26Speaker 1: engage in sexual activity with this miss Sherman, woman, Sherman
- 31:31Speaker 1: became upset and shoved her against the wall and then
- 31:35Speaker 1: struck her numerous times. Also, she pointed out that Sherman
- 31:38Speaker 1: then choked her and slammed her onto the couch, a
- 31:42Speaker 1: cord to the rest staff and David. An independent witness
- 31:45Speaker 1: told investigator she observed the defendant chased the victim out
- 31:47Speaker 1: of the house and fall to the ground. Sherman a
- 31:52Speaker 1: convicted fellow who's rap. She includes two separate convictions for
- 31:55Speaker 1: assaulting prior girlfriends. In both incidents, she strangled the victim
- 32:00Speaker 1: while beating them. One of the cases, Sherman texted her
- 32:04Speaker 1: then girlfriend, ho, you walk through this door, I'm gonna
- 32:10Speaker 1: kill you, Hey, Danny? Is that grammatically correct? Thank you?
- 32:20Speaker 1: That's a rhetorical question. She's threatened to put the victim
- 32:24Speaker 1: in the dirt. Court to the court record, Sherman locked
- 32:27Speaker 1: up in Louis a one hundred thousand dollars bond, obviously
- 32:30Speaker 1: not in front of Judge Silverstein in Hamlin County. The
- 32:33Speaker 1: two and twenty pound defendant has numerous tattoos again, and
- 32:37Speaker 1: one of them apparently is an AK forty seven assault rifle,
- 32:40Speaker 1: although that is not the one prominently displayed on her
- 32:43Speaker 1: neck looks more like a dog collar going all the
- 32:46Speaker 1: way around her neck. Should I take Jay's call? Jay's
- 32:54Speaker 1: on the line. Let's see what Jay's got to say. Jay,
- 32:57Speaker 1: Welcome in the morning show. Happy Friday, Eve Hey, Happy Friday.
- 33:01Speaker 2: Eve Brian Hey calling in regarding a Laine Chow meeting
- 33:05Speaker 2: with the vice President of China.
- 33:09Speaker 1: Three days I wait, three days after her husband goes
- 33:12Speaker 1: in critical condition, basically into the hospital. I said something
- 33:15Speaker 1: the other day, I don't think my wife would do that.
- 33:18Speaker 1: I'm not perfect, but my wife tells me she loves me,
- 33:21Speaker 1: and if I'm in critical condition in the hospital, I
- 33:23Speaker 1: doubt she's going to take off on a trip halfway
- 33:25Speaker 1: around the world.
- 33:26Speaker 4: By yeah.
- 33:29Speaker 2: Well, the other thing is that if your wife did
- 33:31Speaker 2: do that, I think there would be in a knock
- 33:34Speaker 2: at the door with the Justice Department or the FBI
- 33:37Speaker 2: saying you can't do that because you're not registered as
- 33:41Speaker 2: a foreign agent, and we all learned about that. When
- 33:44Speaker 2: did we all learn about that, Brian? It was Hunter
- 33:46Speaker 2: Biden with all of his dealings with China and Ukraine
- 33:50Speaker 2: and globe trotting all over the world. Now, to my understanding,
- 33:54Speaker 2: there's never been any repercussions or consequences for Hunter Biden,
- 33:59Speaker 2: which I'm still touching my head on that.
- 34:01Speaker 4: But what it.
- 34:01Speaker 2: Goes to show is that if you're part of the
- 34:04Speaker 2: political class, you can do whatever you want, and it
- 34:07Speaker 2: doesn't matter if Joe Biden's in office or Donald Trump's
- 34:10Speaker 2: in office. You'll get away with it where the rest
- 34:13Speaker 2: of us would be locked up and thrown into prison.
- 34:15Speaker 1: Yes, I think that is an accurate statement. Jay, You
- 34:18Speaker 1: did not call me looking for an argument on that assessment.
- 34:21Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I think the uniparty's alive and well the
- 34:24Speaker 2: political theater goes on. All's forgiven. I guess with Hunter
- 34:28Speaker 2: Biden everything that he did, our guys now in control
- 34:30Speaker 2: has been for some time in Elaine Chile's meeting with
- 34:33Speaker 2: the Chinese of verifying what it is that we all knew.
- 34:37Speaker 2: I don't know why when you cross that border into Kentucky,
- 34:39Speaker 2: Why Kentucky listeners keep putting him back into power. But
- 34:43Speaker 2: this is why we say don't vote Rhino, because many
- 34:47Speaker 2: of them are bought and paid for Miss McConnell, in
- 34:49Speaker 2: particular by the Chinese. But boy, wouldn't be nice if
- 34:53Speaker 2: we could ever get back to law and order in
- 34:55Speaker 2: this country. What doesn't matter if you're married to Senator
- 34:58Speaker 2: miss McConnell, or if you're Biden Son that if you're
- 35:02Speaker 2: not a registered foreign agent and you're meeting with a
- 35:06Speaker 2: politicians and leaders of a foreign country, your ass is
- 35:09Speaker 2: going to jail. Wouldn't that be a refreshing day? So
- 35:11Speaker 2: don't vote, don't vote Rhino, and don't vote Democrats.
- 35:15Speaker 1: Thanks Bryan, no problem, Jay. I appreciate the observations and
- 35:18Speaker 1: the sentiment. And yeah, it's the one political class that
- 35:22Speaker 1: seems to work when you hear the words do you
- 35:25Speaker 1: know who I am? That's pretty much any federally elected
- 35:29Speaker 1: politician when dealing with the Department of Justice or the FBI.
- 35:34Speaker 1: Oh that's right, you're a senator. Oh that's right, you're
- 35:38Speaker 1: a representative. Never mind, we'll just go back to our
- 35:41Speaker 1: office now. Feel free to go about your regular and
- 35:44Speaker 1: probably corrupt business. Coming up in five fifty six fifty
- 35:47Speaker 1: five Kirsity Talk station. The war is back on. Platner
- 35:50Speaker 1: is out and thank you, Maureen Graham. Platner has announced
- 35:53Speaker 1: who he's backing for his replacement. Whether they listen to
- 35:56Speaker 1: him or not remains to be seen. Plus I will
- 35:59Speaker 1: since you met in Kentucky, Kentucky did not make the list,
- 36:03Speaker 1: and trust me, you don't want to be on the list.
- 36:05Speaker 1: I be right back six oh five if krc DE
- 36:10Speaker 1: Talk station, Brian Thomas right near host a fifty five
- 36:12Speaker 1: krsee Morning Show. Joe Trucker is not here. He's on vacation.
- 36:16Speaker 1: Danny Danny Gleason covering for Joseph. You can call Danny
- 36:19Speaker 1: and say hello. You also called it fifty five krsee
- 36:21Speaker 1: Morning Show. That's something you like to talk about? Five one, three, seven,
- 36:23Speaker 1: four nine fifty eight hundred eight two three talk pound
- 36:26Speaker 1: five fifty on AT and T phone. So we updated
- 36:29Speaker 1: you about the Platinir dropping on the race in the
- 36:31Speaker 1: last hour. As I went into the close of the
- 36:34Speaker 1: last segment, I did mention that Kentucky was not on
- 36:37Speaker 1: the list, and it's a list you don't want to
- 36:39Speaker 1: be on. So you think you're curious, I can get
- 36:41Speaker 1: that one out of the way before he's talking about
- 36:43Speaker 1: World War three breaking out. It's Orcans twenty twenty six
- 36:47Speaker 1: bed bug lists. Sadly, Ohio is the most represented state
- 36:53Speaker 1: on the list. We have six cities in the state
- 36:55Speaker 1: of Ohio who've made Orcans Top twenty twenty six bedbug cities.
- 36:59Speaker 1: That would be the one with the most bed bugs gross.
- 37:03Speaker 1: Fortunately Cincinnati is not one of them. Number one, Chicago.
- 37:12Speaker 1: As if Chicago didn't have enough problems on its hands already,
- 37:15Speaker 1: it's Newmero Uno, So go there and get some bed bugs.
- 37:18Speaker 1: Down to number four Cleveland, Ohio. Indianapolis coming at number five. Sorry, Colomas,
- 37:23Speaker 1: Ohio coming in at number eight. So that's the at
- 37:27Speaker 1: least the tri state areas rounding out the top ten list.
- 37:31Speaker 1: Fast forward to number fifteen. That's where Cincinnati comes in.
- 37:34Speaker 1: We were in the top ten not that many years ago.
- 37:36Speaker 1: If I recall correctly. South Bend, Indiana also making a
- 37:40Speaker 1: list at number twenty nine, Youngstown, Ohio, number thirty two, Dayton, Ohio,
- 37:44Speaker 1: number thirty eight, Toledo, Ohio, number forty two, fort Wayne, Indiana,
- 37:49Speaker 1: number forty five, And you get through the whole list.
- 37:52Speaker 1: My friends in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. You can say
- 37:55Speaker 1: you've got a clean state, not in the top fifty,
- 37:58Speaker 1: so congratulations. They blame travel. It's usually cities that have
- 38:01Speaker 1: a lot of travelers coming in and out, because these
- 38:03Speaker 1: little bedbugs climb onto your luggage and your clothes, and
- 38:06Speaker 1: you bring them from your home and you bring them
- 38:08Speaker 1: to a hotel and you end up infesting the rest
- 38:10Speaker 1: of the world. So there's some whole bunch of tips
- 38:13Speaker 1: about looking for bedbugs. And I've when my uncle and
- 38:16Speaker 1: I used to go on those motorcycle trips. We ended
- 38:18Speaker 1: up in a ramata one time and pulled the sheet back,
- 38:21Speaker 1: as I always do that first thing in a hotel room.
- 38:23Speaker 1: Don't put your bags on the floor, keep them elevated,
- 38:26Speaker 1: pull the corner of the bed up, and there it
- 38:28Speaker 1: is just a whole bunch of those damn critters. I
- 38:31Speaker 1: creep me out. We laughed, of course. So that's my
- 38:34Speaker 1: only experience in my entire life of bedbugs. Trust me,
- 38:36Speaker 1: that's one more than anyone should have to go through.
- 38:39Speaker 1: Those things make me want to throw up. So without
- 38:43Speaker 1: further ado, let's not leave the state of Illinois be
- 38:45Speaker 1: cuz have some shot in Freuda. Enjoy it here it
- 38:49Speaker 1: is they've lost another huge business. Yes, hardware giant. True Value,
- 38:59Speaker 1: which has been in Chicago, where it's whereas headquarters has
- 39:02Speaker 1: been for almost eighty years, has announced it is moving
- 39:05Speaker 1: too well, making the bed bug list anyway, Fort Wayne,
- 39:08Speaker 1: Indiana as the fourth of July years some bad news
- 39:14Speaker 1: for the state of Illinois, the reporting goes, Another major
- 39:17Speaker 1: employer has announced that it's moving its headquarters out of
- 39:19Speaker 1: the land of Lincoln. Do It Best Group recently announced
- 39:22Speaker 1: it will relocate True Values headquarters from Chicago to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- 39:26Speaker 1: The announcement marks the latest in a series of high
- 39:30Speaker 1: profile departures in Illinois under Governor Pritzker. Major companies including Caterpillar, Boeing, Morton,
- 39:37Speaker 1: salt Tyson Food, and Citadel have all left well the
- 39:41Speaker 1: governor has been in office and move their headquarters out
- 39:43Speaker 1: of the state of Illinois, raising continued concerns about Illinois
- 39:46Speaker 1: business climate and long term economic competitiveness. Your state sucks.
- 39:52Speaker 1: Who's been running Illinois and for how long?
- 39:54Speaker 4: Right?
- 39:54Speaker 1: The Democrats? You did it to yourself. They kept spending
- 40:00Speaker 1: and spending, The debt kept growing and growing, The pension
- 40:02Speaker 1: program kept getting worse and worse. Taxes kept going higher
- 40:05Speaker 1: and higher regulations, and the business and climate just kept deteriorating.
- 40:10Speaker 1: While regulations didn't deteriorate, they just kept increasing. You know what,
- 40:14Speaker 1: At some point business is like, you know, I'm not
- 40:15Speaker 1: gonna take the abuse anymore. Screw you guys. I'm taking
- 40:19Speaker 1: my ball and going to Fort Wayne. Which is kind
- 40:23Speaker 1: of funny. Well it's collec just think it's funny in
- 40:27Speaker 1: and of itself. But you know, the Chicago Bears look
- 40:30Speaker 1: like they are leaving the state of Ohio. Yeah, in fact,
- 40:35Speaker 1: ABC seven they're reported it's a done deal. Bears in
- 40:39Speaker 1: Chicago for a century and a half. Democrats ruined the
- 40:43Speaker 1: whole place, and they got to pack it up and
- 40:45Speaker 1: go someplace where the business climate is better. I've heard
- 40:48Speaker 1: a billion dollars in taxpayer dollars are on the table
- 40:50Speaker 1: for the Bears in this new once they pick a
- 40:52Speaker 1: new site in Indiana. So look, this is not rocket science, folks.
- 40:58Speaker 1: Look at California. Business is flee. Look at New York,
- 41:01Speaker 1: business is flee Look at the entire state of Illinois.
- 41:04Speaker 1: Business is flee. Why are they fleeing? For all the reason?
- 41:07Speaker 1: Just mention boiled down and summarized. You're doing it wrong.
- 41:15Speaker 1: I how a lot of people have missed the message.
- 41:19Speaker 1: How is it that socialism as a concept is growing
- 41:22Speaker 1: in popularity in this country. It's the socialism that makes
- 41:26Speaker 1: business want to leave. And let's not lose sight, my
- 41:28Speaker 1: socialist friends, business, these are the ones that generate the money.
- 41:33Speaker 1: Do I need to man explain that you need money?
- 41:38Speaker 1: You need money to give away for your social welfare programs.
- 41:41Speaker 1: You need money for literally everything you want to do.
- 41:44Speaker 1: You want to defund the military, find but you want
- 41:46Speaker 1: the money from the military to go to all your
- 41:48Speaker 1: social programs. The money is still flowing out. You're not
- 41:51Speaker 1: interested in shrinking the size of government, You're interested in
- 41:54Speaker 1: expanding it, just in different areas. The only dispute we
- 41:58Speaker 1: have between the parties is where we overspend, it seems,
- 42:03Speaker 1: I mean, you can all come down to that. That's
- 42:04Speaker 1: maybe one of the reasons why I'm a little ill libertarian,
- 42:07Speaker 1: why I love the Tea Party in its original form.
- 42:10Speaker 8: Huh.
- 42:10Speaker 1: Let's see fiscal responsibility numero uma, limited government, free markets,
- 42:15Speaker 1: the stuff that works. Why did businesses flee these crazy states?
- 42:19Speaker 1: They went to states where they have better fiscal responsibility,
- 42:25Speaker 1: more limited government. Right, it's a recipe for success. It
- 42:32Speaker 1: is the proven recipe of why America has become so
- 42:35Speaker 1: wealthy over the years compared to the rest of the world,
- 42:40Speaker 1: despite our evils and our problems over time. You have
- 42:43Speaker 1: to make a reference to that anytime you start to
- 42:45Speaker 1: praise America and America's greatness. Right, recognize the problems we've
- 42:49Speaker 1: had over the years. Fine, but also do overlooks a
- 42:53Speaker 1: site the fact that I mean, we've got a very
- 42:55Speaker 1: small country population wise. Chinese had like a billion and
- 42:58Speaker 1: a half people. We still out before from them economically.
- 43:01Speaker 1: Look at India, same thing, Turkey, other countries around the world.
- 43:04Speaker 1: We've got three hundred and fifty million people here. Yeah,
- 43:07Speaker 1: we generate tens of trillions of dollars in revenue that
- 43:11Speaker 1: the rest of the world seems to want to feed
- 43:13Speaker 1: off of. Why would all the immigrants and refugees and
- 43:16Speaker 1: people be tired of the starving Yeah, give me your
- 43:18Speaker 1: tired whatever. Why do they want to come here for
- 43:23Speaker 1: the same reasons? I guess true value hardware wants to
- 43:26Speaker 1: leave Illinois and go indi Indiana. Business climate's better there,
- 43:30Speaker 1: the water temperature is better there. From a business perspective,
- 43:36Speaker 1: I am just just don't understand, are people completely oblivious
- 43:40Speaker 1: to the just the obvious reality of all this, and
- 43:47Speaker 1: yet they're doing their damness to export these insane policies
- 43:51Speaker 1: and growth of government and higher taxation around the rest
- 43:54Speaker 1: of the land. Hell, if the Democrats could have their way,
- 43:57Speaker 1: there would be a uniform, massive, flat tax over every
- 44:00Speaker 1: single human being in the United States, so you couldn't
- 44:04Speaker 1: escape the rapacious taxation. Thankfully, we live in a republic
- 44:08Speaker 1: where states still have a measure of flexibility of their
- 44:11Speaker 1: own direction. Gods are well the framing the founding Father's
- 44:15Speaker 1: gift to every single human being, recognizing we do of
- 44:19Speaker 1: the freedom of travel, our constitution guarantees it, and you
- 44:22Speaker 1: can flee and run away. And again, looking at the
- 44:27Speaker 1: rest of the world. If you ask them and you
- 44:31Speaker 1: want to know if they could flee, or if they
- 44:33Speaker 1: want to flee, where would they flee to, they always
- 44:35Speaker 1: say here. Democrats are working their damned just to undo that.
- 44:40Speaker 1: Let's make life terrible for everybody here, just like it
- 44:42Speaker 1: is in the rest of the world. Like I always
- 44:44Speaker 1: point out, capitalism perhaps the unequal sharing of blessings, socialism
- 44:53Speaker 1: the equal distribution of misery. This is what globalism is
- 44:57Speaker 1: all about. Folks, equal distribution of misery. I'm just glad
- 45:04Speaker 1: we have this wonderful social experiment here in the United
- 45:06Speaker 1: States of America where over the last five years, you see,
- 45:10Speaker 1: you have witnessed it happening. COVID nineteen helped it along.
- 45:13Speaker 1: One of the benefits of COVID nineteen, businesses woke up, Hey,
- 45:16Speaker 1: we can remotely work. That's awesome. You mean I don't
- 45:19Speaker 1: have to be stuck here in Chicago anymore. It's not
- 45:22Speaker 1: the epicenter that it once was. Much like New York City.
- 45:25Speaker 1: You mean, we can leave Miami here I come. It's
- 45:31Speaker 1: happened time and time and time and time again. If
- 45:34Speaker 1: you're one of the socialists out there, you're like, well,
- 45:36Speaker 1: let's just realm those evil corporations. Yeah, you know what,
- 45:40Speaker 1: where are the taxpayer dolls? Where are the tax dollars
- 45:42Speaker 1: coming from? You want to spend it on housing, you
- 45:45Speaker 1: want to spend it on food, You want to spend
- 45:47Speaker 1: it on uplifting members of the community. You got to
- 45:50Speaker 1: have somebody's money to take to do that. Quit demeaning capitalism,
- 45:56Speaker 1: and I have to just sort of wildly speculate without
- 45:59Speaker 1: the mass of wealth in the United States of America,
- 46:01Speaker 1: a massive quantity of wealth which still isn't enough for government,
- 46:04Speaker 1: which still spends trillions of dollars more than it takes
- 46:07Speaker 1: in in taxation. How much money would be spent on
- 46:15Speaker 1: social welfare if we gain if we started as a
- 46:17Speaker 1: socialist state, How much revenue and business and income would
- 46:23Speaker 1: be generated. How much help would we be providing to
- 46:26Speaker 1: the world. How much support would the United States be
- 46:28Speaker 1: giving to the United Nations or whatever? Right, none of
- 46:32Speaker 1: it because we'd be poor like the rest of the
- 46:36Speaker 1: socialist world. Six fifteen. Comingup fifty five KC Detalk station.
- 46:39Speaker 1: More to talk about, including as the war, great opportunity
- 46:44Speaker 1: to support Peyton's lemonade Stam. We'll learn all about it
- 46:46Speaker 1: with Ashley darn coming up at eight o five and
- 46:49Speaker 1: Jay Rattlevetti thirty or I Heart media Aviation Expert. Feel
- 46:52Speaker 1: free to call. I'd love to hear from you. Five one, three, seven,
- 46:54Speaker 1: four nine to fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight
- 46:56Speaker 1: to two three Talk found five fifty on eighteen T phone. Yeah,
- 46:59Speaker 1: we're at it again and we exchanged fire with the
- 47:01Speaker 1: Iranians yesterday last night, which Donald Trump even said is
- 47:05Speaker 1: the end of the so called ceasefire that I never
- 47:08Speaker 1: really thought was, but at least he said it out loud,
- 47:10Speaker 1: it must be. Over targets were missile and drone site
- 47:13Speaker 1: near the Strait of Horror Moves. Iran was shooting at
- 47:15Speaker 1: Kuwait and bah Rain. We have military bases there. All
- 47:18Speaker 1: in told, apparently we hit ninety military targets. A US
- 47:23Speaker 1: Central Command said the further degrade Iran's ability to attack
- 47:26Speaker 1: commercial shipping and innocent civilian mariners in the Strait of
- 47:29Speaker 1: Horror Moves. US attacks a lot heavier than the Tuesday attacks,
- 47:33Speaker 1: as it's reported air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, navil capabilities,
- 47:38Speaker 1: logistics infrastructure, those are the targets at least Sendcom itemized.
- 47:43Speaker 1: The US also hit bridges. Bridges we claimed that the
- 47:47Speaker 1: Iran military was using to transport missiles, drones, and parts,
- 47:50Speaker 1: as well as other war materials. Senior US officials reported
- 47:54Speaker 1: as these bridges were hit. Trump described these strikes as
- 47:57Speaker 1: he as retribution for Iranian attacks on commercial vessels near
- 48:01Speaker 1: the Strait of Horror Moves, the ones ie that were
- 48:03Speaker 1: going through the Oman side. He said, if it happens again,
- 48:06Speaker 1: it will get much worse. Okay, assuming we don't run
- 48:10Speaker 1: out of bombs. Iran responded to the strikes by attacking
- 48:15Speaker 1: bah Rain and Kuwait. Both countries reported that they were
- 48:18Speaker 1: being targeted and asked the citizens to seek safety. Equate
- 48:20Speaker 1: said on social media that its air defenses were confronting
- 48:23Speaker 1: missile and drone attacks. Cutter briefly had its security level
- 48:26Speaker 1: threat raised too high, but later then said it was normal.
- 48:29Speaker 1: No indications Iran was hitting the Cutter. Iran said a
- 48:34Speaker 1: US bases in Kuwait and bah Rain. Central Command didn't
- 48:36Speaker 1: immediately respond those whether we whether those bases were hit.
- 48:40Speaker 1: No reports on damage yet. Iran's parliamentary speaker America still
- 48:45Speaker 1: hasn't learned that bullying and breaking promises are no longer
- 48:48Speaker 1: cost free. The strait of horn Moves will only open
- 48:51Speaker 1: with Iranian arrangements, not American threats. Again going back to
- 48:59Speaker 1: the huge misunderstanding or inability to read the words of
- 49:03Speaker 1: the memorandum of understanding, which says the straight of horror
- 49:06Speaker 1: moves will be open, but does not say anything about
- 49:09Speaker 1: the Iranians controlling it. So, in addition to the Tuesday strikes,
- 49:14Speaker 1: you may recall Trump also revoked the Iranian license to
- 49:18Speaker 1: sell oil in the open market. Another reason Tehran I
- 49:21Speaker 1: guess was shooting at ships. Trump said he believed the
- 49:24Speaker 1: ceasefire deal is over morning that the United States would
- 49:27Speaker 1: carry out more strikes, saying we hit them very hard
- 49:29Speaker 1: last night. We probably will hit them again hard tonight.
- 49:32Speaker 1: That was last night. I'll give them a little warning.
- 49:35Speaker 1: We're going to hit them hard tonight. Yesterday afternoon, Trump
- 49:40Speaker 1: called the Iranian leader's scum, liars and vicious, violent people,
- 49:45Speaker 1: and also said he was going to reimpose the naval blockade.
- 49:48Speaker 1: So what's next? According to the Iranian security sources speaking
- 49:55Speaker 1: with their state TV, they say Tehran has adopted what
- 49:59Speaker 1: they're calling a new military doctrine. Accord to the news sources,
- 50:05Speaker 1: following any strike against Iran, two immediate actions will be taken. First,
- 50:11Speaker 1: the straight of Horror moves will be completely close to
- 50:13Speaker 1: all maritime traffic. Second, Iran will strike enemy targets at
- 50:17Speaker 1: a ratio of at least two to one, meaning that
- 50:20Speaker 1: forever Iranian target hit, at least two enemy targets will
- 50:23Speaker 1: be struck in return. The Memorandum of Understanding sign in
- 50:27Speaker 1: this matter clearly states that Iran will reopen the strait
- 50:30Speaker 1: in accordance with its own arrangements. See that's in the quote.
- 50:34Speaker 1: And no, the memorandum of understanding does not say that.
- 50:39Speaker 1: They went on to say, therefore, Iran will not permit
- 50:41Speaker 1: the establishment of any new route outside the framework of
- 50:44Speaker 1: its own arrangements. Okay, I don't see in the memorandum
- 50:49Speaker 1: of understanding that the Iranians get to choose how and
- 50:52Speaker 1: when and under what circumstances the strait will open. Those
- 50:55Speaker 1: were things that were supposed to be ultimately negotiated and
- 51:00Speaker 1: to assuming we all end up agreeing on terms of conditions,
- 51:02Speaker 1: be in the final settlement, agreement or or resolution. That
- 51:07Speaker 1: did not happen. We never even got there. So I
- 51:11Speaker 1: don't know if we're gonna I mean swirling speculation. They're
- 51:14Speaker 1: just gonna wait around till Dan Well for me to
- 51:16Speaker 1: come back from vacation, to Doug to Daniel Davis. Although
- 51:18Speaker 1: some people discount his assessment, he's been pretty damn accurate
- 51:21Speaker 1: up until now. So what do we do. We've got
- 51:25Speaker 1: quite a bit of nable resources there. We can continue
- 51:27Speaker 1: a tit for tat. They shoot at a ship, we
- 51:30Speaker 1: bomb their targets to That just seems to be where
- 51:36Speaker 1: we are. They have the capabilities to continue this tit
- 51:41Speaker 1: for tat six twenty five go to a six twenty
- 51:46Speaker 1: six fifty five Krcity talk station. We have local stories.
- 51:49Speaker 1: Phone calls are welcome anyway you want to go. It
- 51:53Speaker 1: is six thirty one and fifty five car City Talk
- 51:56Speaker 1: Station five on three seven nine fifty hundred eight two
- 52:01Speaker 1: to three talk pound five fifty on your eight and
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- 52:05Speaker 1: got something to say, love to hear about it, maybe
- 52:08Speaker 1: a direction you'd like to go over the local stories
- 52:11Speaker 1: we had This eighteen year old firefighter died after three
- 52:13Speaker 1: vehicles crash in Claremont County. Sad thing. Three vehicle crash
- 52:17Speaker 1: happened in Clairemont County Monday afternoon. High State Highway Patrol
- 52:20Speaker 1: say the crash was on State Route one thirty one
- 52:24Speaker 1: year Drive one Road twelve thirty in the afternoon. Eighteen
- 52:27Speaker 1: year old firefighter, also a high school soccer coach, was killed,
- 52:33Speaker 1: named Wyatt Fisher, going eastbound when a Volkswagen in front
- 52:37Speaker 1: of him slowed down for traffic. The motorcycle crashed into
- 52:39Speaker 1: the back of the Volkswagen, went left to center and
- 52:41Speaker 1: then in a ford escape traveling west taking the UC
- 52:44Speaker 1: Medical Center where mister Fisher died. Firefighter at stone Look
- 52:48Speaker 1: Township Fight Depart Fire Department and also soccer coach boys
- 52:53Speaker 1: soccer coach over at Claremont Northeastern School District. God rest
- 52:56Speaker 1: his soul. That is really a sad thing. It's always
- 52:59Speaker 1: dangerous being on a motorcycle. And please, Dear God, if
- 53:03Speaker 1: you're in a car, man, would you check your rear
- 53:06Speaker 1: view mirrors and your side view mirrors before you start
- 53:09Speaker 1: making lane changes. I mean, it's bad enough you don't
- 53:14Speaker 1: see automobiles. Put yourself on a motorcycle. And here we
- 53:17Speaker 1: go again. Over to Indiana. Indiana State Police say a
- 53:20Speaker 1: man was killed. Happened on a Monday, Ripley County Monday,
- 53:25Speaker 1: five thirty pm near the eight thousand block of East
- 53:27Speaker 1: State Road three fifty in Milan, Indiana. Nissan passenger vehicle
- 53:32Speaker 1: traveling eastbound slowed for another vehicle making a turn. Fifty
- 53:36Speaker 1: five year old Augustus Reichman of Greensburg, Indiana ran into
- 53:40Speaker 1: the back of the Nissan, taking to Margaret Mary Hospital
- 53:43Speaker 1: in Baithville with life threatening injuries, where he later died.
- 53:46Speaker 1: Drugs an alcohol not believed to be a factors, but
- 53:48Speaker 1: toxicology report is pending and they continue the investigation. Indiana
- 53:53Speaker 1: State Police do obviously in that particular case, I don't
- 53:56Speaker 1: think it was the car's fault. So let us admonish
- 53:58Speaker 1: a motorcycle right. Pay attention to the car in front
- 54:02Speaker 1: of you. That's another thing I learned a Motorcycle Safety
- 54:05Speaker 1: Foundation fun factor. If you at a stop light and
- 54:07Speaker 1: you have a car in front of you and you
- 54:08Speaker 1: are behind the car, don't line up with the both
- 54:12Speaker 1: of the with the tail lights of the car if
- 54:13Speaker 1: you're a motorcyclist, and also flick your brake light a
- 54:18Speaker 1: lot as the cars are approaching you, because they probably
- 54:22Speaker 1: don't see you. At least that's my presumption when I'm
- 54:24Speaker 1: on my motorcycle, they do not see you. So make
- 54:26Speaker 1: yourself as visible as possible. Feel better on that. Newport
- 54:32Speaker 1: Police had a town hall yesterday last night to let
- 54:35Speaker 1: residents know rather way in on whether the city's automated
- 54:39Speaker 1: license plate reader program should become permanent. Pilot program has
- 54:43Speaker 1: been running using cameras made by the Flock Safety Company
- 54:47Speaker 1: since the end of last year seventeen cameras and then
- 54:50Speaker 1: ultimately narrowing down to six location. Flock Safety representatives clarified
- 54:54Speaker 1: during the meeting that the cameras do not catch speederst those.
- 55:01Speaker 1: They said the cameras take photo of the back of
- 55:03Speaker 1: the vehicle, capturing license play in the back of the vehicle,
- 55:05Speaker 1: does not capture individuals, how many anything about them. Cameras
- 55:09Speaker 1: the Lord police has stolen cars help track one in suspects,
- 55:12Speaker 1: they said. Fishers also said sharing flock data with federal
- 55:15Speaker 1: government is not under consideration, which I guess some raised
- 55:18Speaker 1: concerns about that. In other US cities obviously relating to
- 55:22Speaker 1: immigration enforcement can't use flock for immigration that bad. Newport
- 55:27Speaker 1: Police said they wanted to hear opposition to the and
- 55:29Speaker 1: hear opposition to the program. Department representative said, you know,
- 55:34Speaker 1: it's very important. Like I said, I wouldn't do this.
- 55:36Speaker 1: We wouldn't be as eager to have a meeting knowing
- 55:39Speaker 1: the contention with the cameras, had we not wanted to
- 55:42Speaker 1: hear some of the opposition. Again, I know it's a
- 55:44Speaker 1: very tenuous subject. I know a lot of people have
- 55:47Speaker 1: their concerns, and we want to hear it because Flock
- 55:51Speaker 1: Safety is a private company of surveillance dated collected by the
- 55:53Speaker 1: Newport Police not fully controlled by the police department. That
- 55:57Speaker 1: raised concern among residents as well that well, we cannot
- 56:00Speaker 1: trust them, So I trust our police. I don't trust
- 56:03Speaker 1: FLOCK Newport, not alone the technology. Communities all across Greater Cincinnati,
- 56:09Speaker 1: Mount Mount, Healthy, Blue Ash, Golf man Or, Franklin, and
- 56:12Speaker 1: Cincinnati are already using the FLOCK systems. Apparently, six cameras
- 56:16Speaker 1: over in the in Newport would cost the city three
- 56:20Speaker 1: thousand dollars each annually. Six thirty five fifty five kr
- 56:25Speaker 1: CEED talk station. Plenty more coming up and again, Congressman
- 56:28Speaker 1: warn Davidson at the top of the air news it's
- 56:31Speaker 1: six forty one fifty one KRCD talk station. Well, score
- 56:38Speaker 1: a win for Donald Trump. You know, if a Canadian
- 56:40Speaker 1: Prime Minister Mark Carney is saying Trump is right, then Trump,
- 56:45Speaker 1: I guess, is right. He scored a victory for the
- 56:47Speaker 1: United States of America. He worried about sending all our
- 56:50Speaker 1: money overseas. You're worried about as I always was. Why
- 56:53Speaker 1: in the hell is it that our NATO allies, our
- 56:55Speaker 1: friends quote unquote, I guess when they want to be
- 56:58Speaker 1: don't have any military of their own, they don't have
- 57:01Speaker 1: any resources. They rely on us completely to do their policing.
- 57:05Speaker 1: That that has been the case for a long long time.
- 57:08Speaker 1: You know, this is not new information. And billions and
- 57:11Speaker 1: billions of dollars. I'd love to know the total figure
- 57:13Speaker 1: we have spent defending our European quote unquote allies. Well,
- 57:20Speaker 1: yesterday Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said, you know what,
- 57:23Speaker 1: Trump's won the argument. He's right, who's talking to the
- 57:26Speaker 1: NATO summit in nink Turkey, that he spoke with Trump
- 57:30Speaker 1: before the gathering and told him that NATO members increasingly
- 57:33Speaker 1: recognize that, yes, they do need to boost their military spending. Quote.
- 57:37Speaker 1: It's not just that he's winning the argument. He's won
- 57:41Speaker 1: the argument countries realize they need to take more responsibility.
- 57:44Speaker 1: They see the direct threats. Right, the president is looking
- 57:50Speaker 1: for a shift in the burden within NATO. That's appropriate,
- 57:54Speaker 1: That is happening, that's gaining momentum. How about that. That's
- 57:58Speaker 1: the guy who hates Donald Trump. He's been one outstanding
- 58:01Speaker 1: critic of Donald Trump since well taken office, mostly about
- 58:05Speaker 1: the tariffs and the you know, the trade relations between
- 58:08Speaker 1: US and Canada has been the source of most of
- 58:09Speaker 1: his criticism. But he's never been a Trump fan. But
- 58:12Speaker 1: he does realize that Donald Trump was right, NATO should
- 58:16Speaker 1: spend some money on its own defense. The other ones
- 58:18Speaker 1: worried about the Russians. Russians are in their own backyard,
- 58:20Speaker 1: damn it. At the twenty twenty five NATOS some of
- 58:27Speaker 1: the Hague Netherlands Alliance leaders did agree to a new
- 58:30Speaker 1: goal spending five percent of GDP, which is what Trump demanded.
- 58:36Speaker 1: That'll be at least by twenty thirty five on defense
- 58:39Speaker 1: and security. That's doubling their long standing two percent benchmark. Spain,
- 58:44Speaker 1: they got the memo on this, but they're sticking with
- 58:46Speaker 1: their two percent. They've raised their metaphorical middle finger at
- 58:49Speaker 1: Donald Trump, with the rest of the NATO country saying now,
- 58:51Speaker 1: we're not going to do it. Well. Spain has gone
- 58:53Speaker 1: full on socialists, so they don't agree politically with the
- 58:57Speaker 1: wealth the United States generally speaking, or many of their
- 58:59Speaker 1: NATO allies European Union allies. I should say, but Trump
- 59:03Speaker 1: said he would cut off trade with Spain. It's a
- 59:05Speaker 1: little difficult to cut off trade with a European Union
- 59:08Speaker 1: affiliated country. That's like saying, you know, I'm cutting off
- 59:11Speaker 1: trade with Ohio if you're a foreign nation when you're
- 59:14Speaker 1: dealing with the United States of America generally speaking, but whatever,
- 59:17Speaker 1: they're the outliers. All the other countries are saying, yeah,
- 59:20Speaker 1: five percent, that's a good idea. They rely and they
- 59:24Speaker 1: realize they rely too heavily on the United States. You know,
- 59:27Speaker 1: we're out of we're running short on weaponry systems. So
- 59:33Speaker 1: you know, Ukraine wants them. What we sell, we sell
- 59:35Speaker 1: to the European Union, who then decides that, oh, well, okay,
- 59:38Speaker 1: we're gonna go ahead and give it to the Ukrainians.
- 59:40Speaker 1: That's their decision making. But when you realize if you're NATO,
- 59:46Speaker 1: one of the NATO countries, that the United States may
- 59:48Speaker 1: not be in a position to defend you because we've
- 59:50Speaker 1: exhausted a lot of our military hardware. There's been a
- 59:53Speaker 1: lot of rumblings about Russia maybe expanding the war and
- 59:56Speaker 1: hitting NATO countries because they are coordinating the war with
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: the Ukrainians. Daniel Davis has talked about that, maybe take
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: a look in the mirror and say, we are ill
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: prepared to engage in combat period. I guess somebody had
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: to give us a wake up call, you know, one
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: of those b slap moments. That would be President Donald
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: Trump to the entire NATO alliance. Get your act together,
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: fund your own military. We're not going to be around
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: anymore to do it. That's why I boil that down.
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: But I guess you can score a win in the
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: win column on that one, and maybe ultimately this will
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: save us a lot of money. That's my hope. Six
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: fifty one. If any about ker City Talk, Nation and
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: Congress and Warren Davidson at the top of the Aeron News,
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: and I know Jay's out there somewhere. Jay, every time
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: I mentioned the word fraud tends to call in, although
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: we called in earlier today just a quick rundown on fraud.
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: So what do we tal it up so far? Remember
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: the Trump Trump Trump hasn't been in office is two years, right,
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: somebody's taken some steps to deal with the fraud, waste
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: abuse government. Finally, this has been going on under Republican administrations.
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: Of course Democrat administration. Democrats have no interest whatsoever in
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: preventing fraud, waste, and abuse. As matter of fact, they
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: seem to embrace it. It's like its own economy. And
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: of course people hooked up to the Biblical court of government,
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: they are refused to have any fixes to the programs
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: that they're a part of. Democrats will have nothing to
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: do with that. But that's where you go after the fraud, waste,
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: and abuse, because people are getting money out of these
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: programs designed most notably for the poor among us, and
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: ripping them off. So what do we got? Thirty five
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: percent of the Obama Exchange in rollies and forty percent
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: of fully subsidized low income and rollees generated zero medical
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: claims in twenty twenty four. In other words, those are
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: not real people. Tens of billions dollars once to big
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: insurance companies to pay for fake people. That was one controversy.
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: We of course know about the the leering centers in
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: Minnesota one hundred million dollars reportedly maybe even more, run
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: operated by the Somalis who figured out how to rip
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: us off. Not also, mind you, Thomas is an a racist.
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: He's just pointing out there's a criminal element within the
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: Smali community and they were the ones scamming Minnesota ands
- 1:02:08Speaker 1: and all of this out of our taxpayer dollars. Hospice
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: fraud in California massive, we got that fraud found in
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: snap recipient seven hundred thousand people recently removed from Snap
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: because of fraud. Record healthcare fraud busted. Four hundred and
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: fifty defendants have been charged by the Trump DOJ healthcare fraud.
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: There one point one million dollars from some single childcare
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: provider in Michigan. One illegal alien got eight years in
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: prison for an eighty nine million dollar payroll scheme employeeing
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: illegal alien construction workers. It goes on and on and on.
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: Millions and probably billions of dollars in COVID nineteen. Fraud
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: schemes has been widely reported for years. Guess what still
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: at it? Vice President JD Vance's Task Force noted a
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: seven thousand, one hundred percent spike in medical claims for
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: tissue and organ donations over just the last six years.
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: This increase seven that's not an outlier?
- 1:03:15Speaker 4: Is?
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: It occur between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty five, searching
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: from two hundred million to fourteen point four billion dollars,
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: which prompted the Anti Fraud Task Force and CMS to
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: identify the fraudulent claims and deny ninety six percent of
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: them since March of this year. See it takes a while,
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: but once you identify a problem, it's easy to find
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: the fraudulent claims. You just got to look for them
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: CMS under amen that OZ identified four thousand, two hundred
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: suspicious claims for tissue organ transplants two hundred and twenty
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: four million dollars worth in charges through May of this year.
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: OZ dating the obvious during a press conference yesterday, that's
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: a lot of money moving over to durable medical equipment claims.
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: They found fraud there. That will be wheelchairs, walkers, hospital beds,
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: other essential equipment. Agency said payments have been suspended to
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: one hundred and two suppliers and they revoked billing privileges
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: for an additional seven hundred and twenty five suppliers. Oh okay,
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: I saw a call on the screen there, but it
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: was on the hotline. I apologized for the pause, that
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: I had to clear things with Danny Court to the
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: spokesperson into for Vance. In just six months, a task
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: force had effectively wiped out durable medical equipment fraud in
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: America after the Vice President and doctor OZ announced the
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: moratorium on new DME companies, paired with aggressive enforcement actions
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: by the DOJ and HHS, this kind of fraud has
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: effectively ended suppliers who suspected of fraud. Had payments suspended
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: represented eight point six of all medical funded DME equipment
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: in last year. Fraud was identified for suppliers, ified claims
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: for filed claims for equipment that was not necessary or
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: even ordered, filed claims for equipment more complex or expensive
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: than ordered, and claims for equipment that was never delivered.
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: So progress not quickly enough, I will admit. But you
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: have to remember and give credit to Now this is
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: a bipartisan issue, is it not. I have to say
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: it again, these are your tax payer dollars. I don't
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: care if I'm talking to a communist or some kind
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: of right wing fascist person or whoever. You have to
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: give the Trump administration, evil orange man, credit for cracking
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: down on fraud. And one can only hope that this
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: is not end, this continues and actually at some point,
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: and I've been praying for this for a long time.
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: How about the Defense Department? Eight audits in a row.
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: They could not do an audit because they lack the
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: paperwork and documentation and subfision evidence of what's going on
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: over the Defense Department. Why is that? Does anybody think
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: that their hands are clean? I certainly don't. Six fifty
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: six right now, Congressman Davidson. We'll be up after the
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: top of the air news. We're also going to hear
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: from Peyton's Lemonade Stand at eight h five. Yay, that
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: is a great charity. That's a heartwarming story behind that one.
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: Plus Jay Ratliffe, our aviation expert at eight thirty Stick
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: around me right back. I wasn't quite sure of the
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: nature of the reason for your being here, but you
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: are welcome to join the Morning show. We can start
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: by just a short conversation about what the Export Import
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: Bank in the United States does before we pivot over
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: to what current issues are.
- 1:06:40Speaker 5: Yeah, that'd be great. So the Expert Import Bank was
- 1:06:43Speaker 5: started by Franklin Roosevelt in nineteen thirty four to basically
- 1:06:47Speaker 5: help US companies large and small be able to sell
- 1:06:50Speaker 5: all around the world. And so everything we do translates
- 1:06:53Speaker 5: to more jobs here in America. And you know, thanks
- 1:06:56Speaker 5: to President Trump's leadership, what we've been able to do
- 1:06:58Speaker 5: is revitalize it to once again via frontline economic tool
- 1:07:02Speaker 5: for everyday American companies. And so Chairman Davidson and I
- 1:07:05Speaker 5: have a great working relationship. And by the way, the
- 1:07:07Speaker 5: eighth Congressional District of Ohio is so lucky to have.
- 1:07:10Speaker 5: It's a champion, a smart businessman who understands what to
- 1:07:14Speaker 5: do with taxpayer dollars, how to make sure he's a
- 1:07:17Speaker 5: good steward of it, to make sure that it makes
- 1:07:18Speaker 5: an impact. And so we worked very closely together on
- 1:07:21Speaker 5: issues on reindustrializing America. And so I promised the months
- 1:07:25Speaker 5: ago that I would pay him a visit, and so
- 1:07:28Speaker 5: he and I were actually a g Aerospace yesterday, one
- 1:07:31Speaker 5: of the most innovative companies in the history of the world.
- 1:07:33Speaker 5: Seeing how they bring motors, engines, equipment that they design,
- 1:07:39Speaker 5: manufacture right here in Ohio and they bring it all
- 1:07:43Speaker 5: around the world and exten really helps those companies to
- 1:07:45Speaker 5: be able to level the paying field against foreign competition.
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: Wonderful, John, I tell you, as you were speaking and
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: explaining the Export Import Bank, Congressman Davidson has joined the conversation.
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: Good morning, Congressman Davidson started a little off guard here
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: as we started the program.
- 1:07:59Speaker 9: Yeah, good morning Brian, Good morning John, and Chairman. It
- 1:08:02Speaker 9: is nice to join you guys. We had a little
- 1:08:04Speaker 9: technical difficulty there, so glad we're all synced up now,
- 1:08:08Speaker 9: and you know, it's just great to have you know,
- 1:08:11Speaker 9: John and the Export Import Bank in town.
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: And you know, people don't.
- 1:08:14Speaker 9: Really know necessarily what XM is or does, but it's
- 1:08:18Speaker 9: an important part of strengthen and America's supply chain. And
- 1:08:22Speaker 9: we were out together at GE celebrating some of the
- 1:08:25Speaker 9: work that they're doing, and you look at the impact
- 1:08:28Speaker 9: they have, not just for a big company like GE,
- 1:08:30Speaker 9: but down the supply chain of a company like g
- 1:08:33Speaker 9: GE hundreds of suppliers right here, and then separate from that,
- 1:08:37Speaker 9: just small businesses. We got a small business in Hamilton
- 1:08:40Speaker 9: that's used them to shift their product around the world
- 1:08:43Speaker 9: and makeing it right there in Hamilton, Ohio. So great
- 1:08:45Speaker 9: to have the chairman in town.
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: Well, he before you came on, he was singing the
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: praises of your your district, and of course we always
- 1:08:52Speaker 1: sing the praises of your district because the constituents elect
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: you and do an outstanding and you do an outstanding
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: job for them. You're also obviously very pro business and GE,
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: as he described as a wonderful aerospace company. We are
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: proud of having GE in our backyard here. But the
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: idea of the Export Import Bank, it facilitates the export
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: of US goods and services abroad. Is that is that
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: accurate to a certain degree.
- 1:09:17Speaker 9: Yeah, And frankly, you know the import of things that
- 1:09:23Speaker 9: drive foreign direct investment in America and grow jobs here.
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: Now I saw just yesterday. I hate to tie the
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: yesterday's statement from Donald Trump about cutting off business ties
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: to Spain because he's angry with them for not opponing
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: up for NATO military hardware. But is there is the
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: export impak Was it impacted at all by Donald Trump's
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: tariff efforts early on and did that have some impact
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: on the Export Import Bank or did you guys have
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: anything to say about that.
- 1:09:52Speaker 5: You know, we've been incredible beneficiaries of the President's economic
- 1:09:57Speaker 5: agenda because he's doing two things, Brian. One, he's reindustrializing America.
- 1:10:02Speaker 5: So when he's rolled out a massive bread carpet for
- 1:10:06Speaker 5: companies and countries from all around the world to want
- 1:10:09Speaker 5: to build and manufacture and process and do things in America,
- 1:10:13Speaker 5: and all that translates into more jobs here at home.
- 1:10:15Speaker 5: And number two, he's really open the opportunity for people
- 1:10:19Speaker 5: to buy American and build their future and to really
- 1:10:22Speaker 5: think about how do I partner with American companies, American
- 1:10:25Speaker 5: technology providers to really do what I want to do best,
- 1:10:28Speaker 5: which is again provide jobs and provide economic security for
- 1:10:32Speaker 5: my own country. And so in Trimidata is absolutely correct.
- 1:10:36Speaker 5: It's not just the big companies that benefit from our work.
- 1:10:39Speaker 5: You know, for every ge air space, they have seven
- 1:10:42Speaker 5: hundred and seventy local suppliers, small and medium sized companies.
- 1:10:46Speaker 5: So on top of the eleven thousand people that they
- 1:10:48Speaker 5: employ in Cincinnati, ten percent of whom are veterans. By
- 1:10:51Speaker 5: the way, you know, they help hundreds of other suppliers
- 1:10:55Speaker 5: be able to reach markets all around the globe. And
- 1:10:57Speaker 5: those are the exact type of jobs that we need
- 1:10:59Speaker 5: here in America. And that's the return on your taxpayer dollar.
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: Well, and this sort of if I can characterize it
- 1:11:05Speaker 1: as a renaissance of American manufacturing, I have to credit.
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: And there are certain things you can say COVID nineteen
- 1:11:12Speaker 1: was good about. We had a great awakening that, oh
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: my god, because of COVID, we realize we don't really
- 1:11:18Speaker 1: make a lot of things here anymore. We don't have saline,
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: we don't have mass, we don't have durable medical equipment.
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: I mean, the list was seemingly endless, and it was like,
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: we better look at our own at ourselves and be
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: able to start making things, for example, like pharmaceuticals. You know,
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: our own military relies on Chinese Communist Party country manufactured pharmaceuticals.
- 1:11:36Speaker 1: That is really a profound threat to our United States military,
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: but also the United States we get into a major
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: conflict with them, they're going to cut off our stuff
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: in things. Do you give credit to COVID for that
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: or is there just is it the change of administration
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: because for years the whole concept was, well, we need
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: to export manufacturing because it's a hell of a lot
- 1:11:56Speaker 1: cheaper and there's a hell of a lot less regulatory burden.
- 1:11:59Speaker 1: In a variety of different countries around the world, we
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: can pay people two bucks an hour to make stuff.
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: It costs twenty five or thirty bucks an hour pay
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: here in the United States. What's changed? Yeah, Brian, you're.
- 1:12:10Speaker 5: Asking all the right questions, and I'd give credit to
- 1:12:12Speaker 5: President Trump. He's been asking exactly those questions since twenty fifteen,
- 1:12:17Speaker 5: since beforehand, and so what we're this is common sensed
- 1:12:20Speaker 5: up and thanks to Chairman Davidson's leadership on Capitol Hill,
- 1:12:24Speaker 5: what we're saying is, guys, what will it take for
- 1:12:27Speaker 5: American companies to build more here, to ensure that every
- 1:12:31Speaker 5: day Americans have what we need when we need it most.
- 1:12:34Speaker 5: And it's not just the large companies that really need
- 1:12:36Speaker 5: our help, it's the small, medium sized suppliers who need
- 1:12:39Speaker 5: that supply chain security. So, whether it's an initiative like
- 1:12:42Speaker 5: Project Vault, which we've done at XM to actually create
- 1:12:45Speaker 5: a strategic reserve for critical minerals for the first time
- 1:12:48Speaker 5: in American history, that doesn't just benefit defense companies, it's
- 1:12:51Speaker 5: really focused on everyday manufacturers, or whether it's our Make
- 1:12:54Speaker 5: More in America initiative, which allows you know, startups companies
- 1:12:59Speaker 5: for the first time building in America the opportunity to
- 1:13:02Speaker 5: top capital markets. And again, everything we're doing is saying,
- 1:13:05Speaker 5: how do we crowd in the private sector, How do
- 1:13:07Speaker 5: we get private capital to do not just the right
- 1:13:10Speaker 5: thing to them mere term, but what the thing that's
- 1:13:13Speaker 5: going to strengthen America in the long term, keep us competitive,
- 1:13:16Speaker 5: keep more well paying jobs here. These are the exact
- 1:13:19Speaker 5: questions that President Trump's been asking, Brian, that you're asking
- 1:13:21Speaker 5: this morning, and now we're providing the answers.
- 1:13:24Speaker 1: Well, and I know you were talking you trying to
- 1:13:27Speaker 1: put you give a lot of credit to the smaller businesses.
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: But I saw Toyota is now building a three point
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: six billion dollar plant in Texas, moving the manufacturing of
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: I believe it was trucks from Mexico into Texas. At
- 1:13:39Speaker 1: one point they thought it was wise to move to Mexico.
- 1:13:41Speaker 1: How is it that we're able to bring Toyota back
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: into the United States of America for these this two
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: thousand jobs apparently this plant's going to create.
- 1:13:50Speaker 4: You're absolutely rights are yeah?
- 1:13:53Speaker 5: Go ahead, sorry, Sharon Divison, Yeah, yeah, Brian.
- 1:13:57Speaker 1: You look at that.
- 1:13:58Speaker 9: Companies respond just like people to incentives, and you know
- 1:14:01Speaker 9: a lot of the approach that you know, prior administrations had,
- 1:14:06Speaker 9: well go back to Ross Perrot, right, he said there
- 1:14:08Speaker 9: would be a giant sucking sound of jobs. And Okay,
- 1:14:11Speaker 9: some people might have thought that isn't gonna work, or
- 1:14:13Speaker 9: if it does, somehow it's going to be good for us.
- 1:14:16Speaker 9: But with the benefit of hindsight, you have to admit
- 1:14:18Speaker 9: he was right. There was a big sucking sound, especially
- 1:14:20Speaker 9: here in Ohio. And you know, Ohio's adapted and overcome.
- 1:14:24Speaker 9: But now look at the difference your leadership is making
- 1:14:27Speaker 9: with the president. A lot of companies tried and look
- 1:14:30Speaker 9: at the incentives of the Hips Act. That hasn't worked
- 1:14:33Speaker 9: the greatest with Intel to say we'll build a factory
- 1:14:36Speaker 9: here for you and you can keep the profits.
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: Would you still do it?
- 1:14:39Speaker 9: It's still not even on schedule. What has turbo charged
- 1:14:42Speaker 9: that is the President's leadership to put tariffs and incentives
- 1:14:46Speaker 9: to say, look, you can make stuff elsewhere, but you're
- 1:14:48Speaker 9: not going to have a competitive advantage. If you could
- 1:14:50Speaker 9: make it in the United States and you won't, then
- 1:14:53Speaker 9: you're going to have a hard time. And that's that's
- 1:14:55Speaker 9: the leverage that he's applying to Mexico, to Spain, to
- 1:14:57Speaker 9: companies like Toyota, frankly, to companies like Intel, and a
- 1:15:01Speaker 9: lot of countries are smart to take the trade deals
- 1:15:05Speaker 9: because when they do, they.
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: Get zero tariffs.
- 1:15:07Speaker 9: If you look at aviation and aerospace, the European Union
- 1:15:10Speaker 9: was able to work out a deal. They have air
- 1:15:12Speaker 9: Bus and Rolls Royce putting engines on planes. G makes
- 1:15:16Speaker 9: a far better engine. They get three out of the
- 1:15:18Speaker 9: four engines in the air today are GE engines. But
- 1:15:23Speaker 9: Boeing and Airbusts are going head to head. Instead of
- 1:15:25Speaker 9: having an arms race with tariffs, they went to zero,
- 1:15:28Speaker 9: and that's what President Trump is offering to other countries.
- 1:15:31Speaker 9: A lot of the Asian countries are taking it. You
- 1:15:33Speaker 9: look Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and not only are they going
- 1:15:37Speaker 9: with low tariffs and fair trade, they're making big investments
- 1:15:41Speaker 9: in the United States. And you know, Toyota is doing
- 1:15:44Speaker 9: the same smart thing with their truck. And if you're
- 1:15:47Speaker 9: gonna buy truck, why wouldn't you want one made in America.
- 1:15:50Speaker 1: Well, that's certainly my feeling. Congressman Davidson, let's pause. We'll
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: bring back x M. John Jovanovic as well as Congressman
- 1:15:58Speaker 1: Warren Davidson. I'm kind of curious to know. I'm presuming John,
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: you talked to other businesses abroad and deal with foreign countries.
- 1:16:06Speaker 1: What else needs to be done here in the United
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: States to make this environment even more appealing to investment
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: and growth, because I suspect the regulatory hurdles and burdens
- 1:16:16Speaker 1: probably remain, and there may be something we can collectively
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: do about it more. It's seven twenty one on a Thursday,
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: and a happy one to you, bry Thomas with Congressman
- 1:16:24Speaker 1: Warren Davidson and the President and Chairman of the Export
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: Import Bank the United States. John Jovanovic at Moving John,
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: your Job and the Export Import Bank to facilitate our
- 1:16:36Speaker 1: companies reaching out and selling their products abroad and building
- 1:16:40Speaker 1: bigger businesses here in the United States went through a
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: couple of illustrations of that. What are the major impediments
- 1:16:45Speaker 1: we still have to deal with to get more people
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: interested in investing and building manufacturing and business here in
- 1:16:52Speaker 1: the United States. We've got to be facing challenges still
- 1:16:55Speaker 1: because I don't think we've solved all the problems in
- 1:16:57Speaker 1: the world, because the regulatory burden that we've imposed on
- 1:16:59Speaker 1: businesses generally here always seems to me to be far
- 1:17:02Speaker 1: too onerous. But what do you think else needs to
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: be done, mister Jovanovic and Congressman Davidson.
- 1:17:08Speaker 5: Yeah, Brian, great question. You know you've identified a big
- 1:17:12Speaker 5: one which we're trying to clear as much as we can,
- 1:17:14Speaker 5: and thanks to President Trump's leadership, we try to fast
- 1:17:17Speaker 5: track as much permitting and sort of clear a lot
- 1:17:19Speaker 5: of the red tape so that business is interested in
- 1:17:22Speaker 5: building more here it can do so quickly. Another big one, though,
- 1:17:25Speaker 5: we've got to get out of our own way on energy.
- 1:17:28Speaker 5: We are so blessed with natural resources across the board,
- 1:17:32Speaker 5: and that's a massive differentiating factor. It brings down the cost,
- 1:17:37Speaker 5: It allows all sorts of other processes to take hold.
- 1:17:41Speaker 5: It really allows people to not just innovate, but to
- 1:17:44Speaker 5: manufacture at scale and employee Americans all across the country.
- 1:17:47Speaker 5: Unleashing energy and our natural resources is a key point,
- 1:17:51Speaker 5: and we've got to keep going.
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: You are a mind reader, sir, because I literally before
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: we even started into that meant common about energy, I
- 1:17:56Speaker 1: wrote energy down because I'm wondering if you look at
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: a country like Germany, a massive manufacturing history, they did
- 1:18:03Speaker 1: a wonderful job. They've pretty much supported the entire European
- 1:18:06Speaker 1: Union with their manufacturing prowess, and their economic might just
- 1:18:10Speaker 1: reduced to their knees because they chase their tail trying
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: to eliminate carbon dioxide and building windmills and solar panels
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: rather than a reliable source of energy. Is that a
- 1:18:19Speaker 1: concern you hear from abroad about the United States, Because
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: we have a serious, not only concern, not only problem
- 1:18:26Speaker 1: with that in States, you know, impeding the development of
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: wonderful energy resource sources, like for example, small small modular reactors,
- 1:18:33Speaker 1: which I'm a huge fan of, but that we don't
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: have the grid, the infrastructure to transmit the power. I mean,
- 1:18:41Speaker 1: we're behind years and years on stand on top of that,
- 1:18:44Speaker 1: and we have a lot of impediments to both the
- 1:18:47Speaker 1: generation of power, whether it be by coal or natural
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: gas or nuclear because of the regulatory environment, but also
- 1:18:53Speaker 1: regulations regarding transmission lines, which nobody wants around. Apparently that's
- 1:18:58Speaker 1: a huge problem, but it's a long term chick challenge.
- 1:19:00Speaker 1: Our business is generally concerned about that.
- 1:19:04Speaker 5: Yeah, Brian, you bring up a good point. But I'll
- 1:19:06Speaker 5: tell you what as I travel around the world supporting
- 1:19:09Speaker 5: and promoting US companies and US businesses, what I hear
- 1:19:12Speaker 5: from everybody as well. The way you're approaching energy now,
- 1:19:15Speaker 5: thanks to President Trump's leadership, is a breath of fresh air.
- 1:19:18Speaker 5: It's common sense stuff. We need to have an all
- 1:19:22Speaker 5: of the above approach, and we need to unlock it
- 1:19:24Speaker 5: for businesses, for companies all across the country. And so sure,
- 1:19:29Speaker 5: do we have undue regulatory burdens. Absolutely, and unfortunately, I
- 1:19:33Speaker 5: think it's going to be a state by state situation, Brian.
- 1:19:35Speaker 5: Your great states like Ohio, my home state of Commonwealth
- 1:19:38Speaker 5: of Pennsylvania, right by and large, we've got it figured out,
- 1:19:41Speaker 5: and states like Texas will continue to say, listen, we
- 1:19:45Speaker 5: are blessed with natural resources. We have great people, we
- 1:19:48Speaker 5: have world class research and innovation institutions. Come build here
- 1:19:52Speaker 5: because we have all the ingredients that you need. Sure,
- 1:19:55Speaker 5: we absolutely need to invest in the grid. We need
- 1:19:57Speaker 5: to invest in more generation, more distribution, and more transmission.
- 1:20:01Speaker 5: But the bottom line is that we have the key
- 1:20:03Speaker 5: ingredients here and that's where, thanks to President Trump's leadership,
- 1:20:06Speaker 5: we have to We've made it the same common sense conversation.
- 1:20:10Speaker 5: Now we have to keep going and ensure that we
- 1:20:12Speaker 5: can unlock it all right.
- 1:20:13Speaker 1: One more cog in the in the successful building, luring,
- 1:20:17Speaker 1: and managing and running businesses is the workforce. A lot
- 1:20:22Speaker 1: of concerns about the workforce. A lot of people don't
- 1:20:24Speaker 1: want to work. Our K through twelve education systems seems
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: to be a total state of disarray. They're not teaching children.
- 1:20:30Speaker 1: Do we have the workforce base, a competent, reliable workforce
- 1:20:35Speaker 1: base to handle a growing manufacturing complex in this country?
- 1:20:42Speaker 4: You know we have it.
- 1:20:44Speaker 5: And on top of that, we need to also think
- 1:20:46Speaker 5: about how artificial intelligence can help supercharge our manufacturers and
- 1:20:50Speaker 5: our workers. And so we spend a lot of time
- 1:20:52Speaker 5: Brian talking about all these doomsday scenarios around artificial intelligence.
- 1:20:56Speaker 5: The reality is in conversman Datason and I saw it yesterday.
- 1:20:59Speaker 5: We didn't see fewer people at the Gero Space facility
- 1:21:03Speaker 5: as a result of them using artificial intelligence. We saw
- 1:21:06Speaker 5: people supercharged with AI being able to shorten the timeline
- 1:21:10Speaker 5: for developing new equipment, increase the amount of capacity they're
- 1:21:14Speaker 5: able to manufacture. And so you know, again thanks to
- 1:21:17Speaker 5: President Trump's same common sense conversation around this, we want
- 1:21:21Speaker 5: more people in America equipped with AI, more people working
- 1:21:25Speaker 5: and well paying jobs where we're actually creating manufacturing things
- 1:21:29Speaker 5: here at home that we could sell.
- 1:21:30Speaker 4: All around the world.
- 1:21:32Speaker 1: Well, it sounds all positive and all wonderful and all
- 1:21:35Speaker 1: great for America, regardless of your political stripe. President Chairman
- 1:21:39Speaker 1: of the Export Import Bank in the United States, John Jovonvick,
- 1:21:41Speaker 1: and Congressman Warren Davidson. I can't thank you enough for
- 1:21:44Speaker 1: your time this morning. Sorry for the bit of confusion
- 1:21:46Speaker 1: as we started the segment, but a lot of information
- 1:21:48Speaker 1: unpack and I appreciate all the new information that I
- 1:21:51Speaker 1: learned from you both this morning. I would say keep
- 1:21:53Speaker 1: up the great work and you always have an open
- 1:21:55Speaker 1: spot here on the fifty five KC Morning Show to
- 1:21:57Speaker 1: push along any additional reforms that we might need to
- 1:22:00Speaker 1: make America even better. Gentlemen, Thank God for both of you,
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: and keep up the great work.
- 1:22:06Speaker 4: Thanks Brian Goad.
- 1:22:07Speaker 9: Bless you and all your listeners.
- 1:22:08Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure, Congressman Davidson, and a pleasure to
- 1:22:10Speaker 1: talk with you today, mister Jivanovic. Stick around, folks plenty
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: to come up here in the seven o'clock hour. I'd
- 1:22:16Speaker 1: love to hear from you. Maybe have a comment, please
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: feel free to offer it. Five one three, seven, four nine,
- 1:22:20Speaker 1: fifty eight hundred eight two three Talk seven thirty two
- 1:22:24Speaker 1: fifty five care seedy Talk station. Apologies for the top
- 1:22:28Speaker 1: of the air confusion there. Congressman david was trying to
- 1:22:30Speaker 1: get in apparently he said the line was busy, but
- 1:22:32Speaker 1: did get him on, and we learned a little bit
- 1:22:34Speaker 1: about the Export Import Bank, which is good. We are
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: our own worst enemy. It really comes down to that.
- 1:22:39Speaker 1: I think that's intentionally so. All that export of manufacturing
- 1:22:42Speaker 1: and building of factories in China and Mexico and all
- 1:22:46Speaker 1: that was us trying to I guess modernize the rest
- 1:22:49Speaker 1: of the world or something, but to the disadvantage of
- 1:22:52Speaker 1: the citizens in the United States of America. So at
- 1:22:54Speaker 1: least Donald Trump has the United States and even those
- 1:22:58Speaker 1: who didn't vote for him best interest at heart, bringing
- 1:23:01Speaker 1: back jobs and industry and business and profit and taxes
- 1:23:05Speaker 1: that are generated as a consequence to that to the
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: United States evil capitalism.
- 1:23:10Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:23:11Speaker 1: Governor Mike Dwine signed out how Health built four ninety
- 1:23:14Speaker 1: two in the law happened in the on Tuesday. The
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: law now requires a driver and passengers of vehicles pulled
- 1:23:20Speaker 1: over for any moving violation to disclose their names, addresses,
- 1:23:23Speaker 1: and dates of birth to the police officer when they
- 1:23:25Speaker 1: ask for It also increases the penalty for anybody who refuses.
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: It's now a second degree misdemeanor if you refuse. Representative
- 1:23:35Speaker 1: Sharon Ray and Cindy Adram sponsored the bills, saying, our
- 1:23:37Speaker 1: law enforcement face risk each day they put their in
- 1:23:39Speaker 1: uniform on and start their shift. Traffic stops, gun runs,
- 1:23:44Speaker 1: domestic violence calls are some of the most dangerous calls
- 1:23:46Speaker 1: for our police. HB four ninety two provides our law
- 1:23:49Speaker 1: enforcement with an extra tool in the toolbox as they
- 1:23:52Speaker 1: work to keep our communities safe. Goes into effect ninety
- 1:23:54Speaker 1: days after signature. That makes it October fifth, twenty twenty six.
- 1:23:58Speaker 1: I don't know if it's wise for you to refuse
- 1:24:00Speaker 1: that information when officer pulls you over right now, but
- 1:24:03Speaker 1: you do have a little bit of buffer if you
- 1:24:04Speaker 1: want to be a jerk about it between now in
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: October fifth. After that you can make your argument with
- 1:24:08Speaker 1: the courts, say it's unconstitutional or something. Good luck. Let's
- 1:24:13Speaker 1: see here, planned decks over Fort Washington Way will not
- 1:24:18Speaker 1: be funded by the Cincinna Southern Railway Trust Fund. Mayor,
- 1:24:20Speaker 1: I have to have Parvo actually acknowledge that. Remember its
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: existing infrastructure. The railway money goes into a fund that
- 1:24:27Speaker 1: generates in interest. They live off the interest fifty eight
- 1:24:31Speaker 1: plus billion or million dollars or something this year. You
- 1:24:34Speaker 1: can't spend it on news stuff and things. I thought
- 1:24:37Speaker 1: that was well well known and not even an issue anymore.
- 1:24:40Speaker 1: But the mayor's comments and acknowledgment of that fact come
- 1:24:43Speaker 1: after former Mayor Charlie Lucan, who is key in the
- 1:24:46Speaker 1: sale of the railway and the creation of this fund,
- 1:24:49Speaker 1: said the trust can't be used for the decks. Purvoll,
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: speaking with reporters yesterday, the railroad dollars are specifically for
- 1:24:56Speaker 1: existing infrastructure. The caps on Fort Washington Way are not
- 1:24:59Speaker 1: existing infrastructure, so they're not in appropriate use. And that
- 1:25:03Speaker 1: is so much stating the obvious. I guess somewhere behind
- 1:25:07Speaker 1: the scenes someone must have suggested that was a possibility. Now,
- 1:25:11Speaker 1: modifications or improvements to the overpasses currently over the highway,
- 1:25:14Speaker 1: A Vine and Walnut may be needed, but since those
- 1:25:19Speaker 1: exist already, they're suggesting that the railway money can be
- 1:25:24Speaker 1: used on them. Now there's a question of whether they
- 1:25:28Speaker 1: really truly need to be replaced. I think that was
- 1:25:30Speaker 1: reported that they're like halfway through their expected lifespan, so
- 1:25:35Speaker 1: I don't think they necessarily need any work on them.
- 1:25:37Speaker 1: But if you need to modify them to support the
- 1:25:39Speaker 1: caps over the Fort Washington Way, can someone not make
- 1:25:43Speaker 1: an argument that that is unnecessary in the absence of
- 1:25:47Speaker 1: new infrastructure, and therefore the railway dollars shouldn't go for that.
- 1:25:51Speaker 1: Someone may make that argument, but as of right now,
- 1:25:54Speaker 1: at least I have to have provol is well agreeing,
- 1:25:59Speaker 1: because that's what it said existing infrastructure. Todd Zinzer was
- 1:26:03Speaker 1: at listener Lunch yesterday our Citizen Watchdog. He's got a
- 1:26:06Speaker 1: keen eye on how this money's being spent. And yeah,
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: he's made a shenaniganst declaration before, just sort of trying
- 1:26:12Speaker 1: to bait and switch us into believing that the railway
- 1:26:14Speaker 1: dollars are actually going to well existing infrastructure projects when
- 1:26:19Speaker 1: it may just be a labeling thing. Plus, never forget
- 1:26:24Speaker 1: the fungibility of money. You got infrastructure or you have
- 1:26:28Speaker 1: railway dollars over here, that's one pile of money only
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: for existing infrastructure. And then you have the budget and
- 1:26:33Speaker 1: that all the items that the budget is supposed to cover,
- 1:26:36Speaker 1: which would include new projects. If you free up the
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: current of the annual budget by using railway money to
- 1:26:43Speaker 1: deal with things that would otherwise come out of the
- 1:26:45Speaker 1: regular budget, you just shifted the dollars, but that frees
- 1:26:49Speaker 1: up money that otherwise would have been spent on existing infrastructure,
- 1:26:53Speaker 1: which allows them to well build new projects and stuff
- 1:26:56Speaker 1: and things which will probably let fall apart like they
- 1:26:59Speaker 1: have with our roads and other existing infrastructure. It's crazy,
- 1:27:02Speaker 1: isn't it.
- 1:27:04Speaker 4: You know?
- 1:27:04Speaker 1: I keep going back to elections have consequences. If you
- 1:27:07Speaker 1: want your road taking care of and you don't want
- 1:27:09Speaker 1: a new skateboard park in the area, you need to
- 1:27:11Speaker 1: vote for different people with different priorities. Seven thirty seven
- 1:27:14Speaker 1: right now, fifty five? Care see the talk station seven
- 1:27:19Speaker 1: forty two, fifty five care see the talk station? Yeah, Corey,
- 1:27:21Speaker 1: I was waiting for someone like you to chime in.
- 1:27:23Speaker 1: That's why I said, go ahead and try to fight
- 1:27:25Speaker 1: it out in court if you want Governor to Wines.
- 1:27:28Speaker 1: Bill mandated that you disclose your name and I personal
- 1:27:31Speaker 1: information to the police officers they pull you over. Now
- 1:27:33Speaker 1: under law, is there a Fourth Amendment question? Corey suggests
- 1:27:37Speaker 1: that there is, citing Brendlyn versus California in two thousand
- 1:27:42Speaker 1: and seven, where he said passengers are considered seized or
- 1:27:46Speaker 1: stopped during a Travis stop just like the driver, suggesting
- 1:27:49Speaker 1: that they have the same Fifth Amendment rights, you right
- 1:27:52Speaker 1: to vote. Fifth Amendment protections against incriminating oneself. So let
- 1:27:56Speaker 1: them make the argument in court. Because the law doesn't
- 1:27:58Speaker 1: go in effect to October fifth. We'll see. I personally
- 1:28:01Speaker 1: don't have any problem volunteering my name and handing over
- 1:28:04Speaker 1: my driver's license. I try to play nice with the cops,
- 1:28:07Speaker 1: you know, not that I get pulled over. It's been
- 1:28:11Speaker 1: a long time anyway. Anyways, I was going on a
- 1:28:14Speaker 1: tear on socialism earlier, which is kind of a normal
- 1:28:16Speaker 1: thing for me. Just citing the state of Illinois is
- 1:28:18Speaker 1: one more illustration because they lost yet another business that
- 1:28:22Speaker 1: is the most ill managed mismanaged state I think you
- 1:28:24Speaker 1: can find, although they compete mightily for that title with
- 1:28:28Speaker 1: the likes of New York and California. Yeah, California, California,
- 1:28:35Speaker 1: they got a twenty two billion dollar bill yesterday. Labor
- 1:28:38Speaker 1: Department announced yesterday they have a bit of a financial
- 1:28:42Speaker 1: struggle out in California. They have more than twenty two
- 1:28:45Speaker 1: billion dollars to the US Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. They
- 1:28:49Speaker 1: took out loans during COVID nineteen, you know, the pandemic.
- 1:28:52Speaker 1: Oh my god, we're all gonna die, COVID nineteen pandemic
- 1:28:54Speaker 1: loans to pay unemployment benefits. California is now the only
- 1:29:00Speaker 1: state in the Union that has an outstanding federal Unemployment
- 1:29:03Speaker 1: Insurance loan balance. So as a consequence, California business owners
- 1:29:08Speaker 1: are now forced to pay higher federal payroll taxes to
- 1:29:12Speaker 1: bail out the incompetence and corruption that came out of
- 1:29:14Speaker 1: Sacramento and their failure to repay the money they borrowed
- 1:29:21Speaker 1: during and alfter of the pandemic California apparently, according to
- 1:29:25Speaker 1: the reporting I saw this over at Gateway ponded, I
- 1:29:27Speaker 1: had record budget surpluses and at one point neared one
- 1:29:30Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars. But they didn't use that taxpayer money
- 1:29:33Speaker 1: to repay the federal loans like the other described as
- 1:29:36Speaker 1: more responsible states did. They spent the money on other priorities,
- 1:29:42Speaker 1: like maybe that high speed rail line to nowhere, which
- 1:29:45Speaker 1: has got like a trillion dollar price tag. Now they
- 1:29:47Speaker 1: don't even have a mile of rail laid. Yeah, that's
- 1:29:49Speaker 1: the most comical public works project I think ever. Anyway,
- 1:29:53Speaker 1: the state has paid one point eight billion dollars in
- 1:29:57Speaker 1: interest since twenty twenty one. Newsom's latest budget proposing another
- 1:30:03Speaker 1: six hundred and sixty eight million in interest payment. How
- 1:30:06Speaker 1: much money is going to principle huh according to reporting, none,
- 1:30:13Speaker 1: which means like our national or federal deficit, which keeps
- 1:30:15Speaker 1: getting bigger and bigger, the interest payment's gonna keep getting
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: bigger and bigger. Gavin Newsom, well, what are you gonna do?
- 1:30:27Speaker 1: In competence? Demonstrably seven five fifty five KRCD talk station
- 1:30:33Speaker 1: seven fifty one IF fifty five KRCD talk station every
- 1:30:35Speaker 1: Thursday too. You we're gonna get some love for Peyton's
- 1:30:38Speaker 1: Lemonade Stand aft top of the Air News. An outstanding
- 1:30:40Speaker 1: charity with the most heartwarming story behind it. We've been
- 1:30:44Speaker 1: talking with the Peyton Lemonade Stands for with quite a
- 1:30:46Speaker 1: few years now in a row, and it's on their
- 1:30:48Speaker 1: ninth annual Lemonade Stand coming up on July twenty fifth,
- 1:30:51Speaker 1: that after Top of the Air News. If I can
- 1:30:52Speaker 1: get this in Jason Riley for folks who know that
- 1:30:55Speaker 1: don't know who. Jason Riley is calmness for the Wall
- 1:30:57Speaker 1: Street Journal, and he has an answer to the juvenile
- 1:30:59Speaker 1: crimes in downtown Cincinnati and elsewhere. Socialism, isn't it Jason
- 1:31:05Speaker 1: happens to be a black man. And I say that
- 1:31:06Speaker 1: because it tends to lend more credibility because some white
- 1:31:09Speaker 1: guys saying the same thing might be discounted by some people.
- 1:31:11Speaker 1: But see that's not me. But I'm providing you with
- 1:31:14Speaker 1: the information. You should read the column Socialism and Decline
- 1:31:16Speaker 1: of the Black Family. By now, it's clear that Zorhan
- 1:31:20Speaker 1: Mandami's Mayril victory in New York last year for over
- 1:31:22Speaker 1: former Governor Andrew Cuomo was less a fluke than a harbinger.
- 1:31:26Speaker 1: Non coastal socialists have racked up congressional primary victories against
- 1:31:29Speaker 1: establishment Democrats in Colorado and Pennsylvania. They've won state and
- 1:31:33Speaker 1: local contest in Kentucky and Georgia, and are on the
- 1:31:35Speaker 1: ballot in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. These far left
- 1:31:39Speaker 1: candidates aren't hiding their extremism. They want to punished or
- 1:31:42Speaker 1: where they want punishing taxes on the wealthy to fund
- 1:31:46Speaker 1: free daycare, healthcare, housing, and college. Some oppose private property
- 1:31:50Speaker 1: in prisons. Others view border security as an unnecess unnecessary
- 1:31:54Speaker 1: and racist. Conservatives are right to be concerned about the
- 1:31:58Speaker 1: impact on our free market capitalist system if enough people
- 1:32:00Speaker 1: with such views are elected positions of power. But socialism's
- 1:32:05Speaker 1: impact on the traditional family structure is no less concerning.
- 1:32:10Speaker 1: Children from intact families are more likely to finish school
- 1:32:13Speaker 1: and avoid poverty. The absence of father is strongly correlated
- 1:32:17Speaker 1: between with a teen, parenthood, drug addiction, and involvement with
- 1:32:20Speaker 1: the criminal justice system. I'll look at that. Cultural anthropologist
- 1:32:26Speaker 1: Margaret Meade wrote that every known human society rests firmly
- 1:32:29Speaker 1: on the learned and nurturing behavior of men, and that
- 1:32:33Speaker 1: civilization depends upon social inventions that will make each generation
- 1:32:38Speaker 1: of males want to nurture women and children. But socialists
- 1:32:43Speaker 1: like Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels dismiss the traditional family
- 1:32:46Speaker 1: as a tool of oppression that advance the patriarchy by
- 1:32:49Speaker 1: exploiting the domestic labor of women. Similar thinking in forms
- 1:32:53Speaker 1: today's politicians and policymakers who want to expand the welfare
- 1:32:56Speaker 1: state to address economic inequality for them. Nuclear families in
- 1:33:01Speaker 1: general and fathers in particular, are an obstacle to central
- 1:33:06Speaker 1: planning schemes. Ultimately, the state is promoted as the best provider,
- 1:33:10Speaker 1: and dads are seen as superfluous, if not part of
- 1:33:14Speaker 1: the problem. The upshot is that preserving the family and
- 1:33:17Speaker 1: its autonomy is less important as socialists than preserving their
- 1:33:20Speaker 1: own ability to tell other people how to live their lives.
- 1:33:24Speaker 1: One of the real world experiments with this approach is
- 1:33:26Speaker 1: the Black family, which has been in disarray for more
- 1:33:29Speaker 1: than half century and is the subject of an important
- 1:33:33Speaker 1: new book, The Vanishing Black Family. How welfare and feminism
- 1:33:37Speaker 1: made marriage optional and children vulnerable. The author is Delano Esquire's,
- 1:33:42Speaker 1: a black husband and father, who focuses on marriage and
- 1:33:45Speaker 1: parenthood of Heritage Foundation. He spends more than spent more
- 1:33:48Speaker 1: than a decade employed by the District of Columbia in
- 1:33:50Speaker 1: a program aimed at reducing gun violence. The book offers
- 1:33:54Speaker 1: something many others can't, which is scholarly analysis alongside the
- 1:33:58Speaker 1: astute observation of a practitioner who has lived and worked
- 1:34:02Speaker 1: with the people he's discussing. Mister Squier's contends that many
- 1:34:06Speaker 1: of the social and economic problems in low income black
- 1:34:08Speaker 1: communities stem from the sad fact that some seventy percent
- 1:34:12Speaker 1: of black children are born to unwed parents and nearly
- 1:34:16Speaker 1: forty five percent live with a single mother. Quote. Progressives
- 1:34:20Speaker 1: talk a lot about racial disparities and household incomes, but
- 1:34:23Speaker 1: never seem to include family structure in their calculations. Close quote.
- 1:34:27Speaker 1: That's what he wrote. Asians are the highest earners, followed
- 1:34:31Speaker 1: by whites, Hispanics, and blacks. Similarly, Asians have the highest
- 1:34:35Speaker 1: marriage rates, followed by whites, Hispanics, and blacks. Maybe it's
- 1:34:38Speaker 1: no coincidence. Politicians, journalists, and academics typically blame the state
- 1:34:43Speaker 1: of the black family on the country's history of slavery
- 1:34:45Speaker 1: and segregation. Mister Squiers believes that that ugly history has
- 1:34:50Speaker 1: played a role, but not a decisive one. Following emancipation,
- 1:34:54Speaker 1: one of the first things black people did was seek
- 1:34:56Speaker 1: out spouses and children from whom they had been forcibly
- 1:34:59Speaker 1: set bridded during slavery. A project called Last Scene Finding
- 1:35:04Speaker 1: Families after Slavery has compiled thousands of ads taken out
- 1:35:08Speaker 1: in hundreds of newspapers nationwide between the eighteen thirties and
- 1:35:11Speaker 1: nineteen twenties by former slaves searching for loved ones. Between
- 1:35:16Speaker 1: eighteen ninety and nineteen fifty, black men and women married
- 1:35:18Speaker 1: earlier and were more likely to be married by thirty
- 1:35:21Speaker 1: five than their white peers. Mister Squier's points out this
- 1:35:25Speaker 1: suggests Black attitudes towards married and child rearing today are
- 1:35:29Speaker 1: the product of incentives and circumstances that developed long after
- 1:35:32Speaker 1: the end of slavery. According to mister Squire's, more than
- 1:35:36Speaker 1: seventy percent of black children were born to married parents
- 1:35:38Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty five, a century after the abolitionist slavery. Today,
- 1:35:43Speaker 1: only thirty percent are This may seem counterintuitive to most people,
- 1:35:47Speaker 1: with the facts are clear of the black family was
- 1:35:49Speaker 1: more intact after three centuries of chattel slavery than after
- 1:35:53Speaker 1: three generations of the federal government's War on poverty. Quote
- 1:35:56Speaker 1: from him. Mister Squire's Christian faith and deep understand of
- 1:36:00Speaker 1: the role that the black church has played in the
- 1:36:02Speaker 1: civil rights victories of the nineteen fifties and sixties informs
- 1:36:04Speaker 1: his view that too many black religious leaders have since
- 1:36:07Speaker 1: lost their way. Still, he believes that blacks, including faith
- 1:36:11Speaker 1: leaders quote not white liberals close quote ultimately must drive
- 1:36:15Speaker 1: the effort to restore the black family. Socialism isn't the answer. Well,
- 1:36:21Speaker 1: I would say add that to the list of the things.
- 1:36:23Speaker 1: Socialism isn't the answer for seven fifty seven Love for
- 1:36:27Speaker 1: Peyton's Lemonade. Coming up after the top of the air
- 1:36:29Speaker 1: News plus I heart media aviation expert Jay Ratliffe at
- 1:36:31Speaker 1: A thirty I'll be right ato six here fifty five
- 1:36:35Speaker 1: KRSD talk station, A very happy e Friday Eve to you.
- 1:36:37Speaker 1: My name is Brian Thomas. I host this show and
- 1:36:39Speaker 1: I am so excited to bring back to the fifty
- 1:36:41Speaker 1: five KRS Morning Show. It's coming up. It's fifteen days,
- 1:36:44Speaker 1: fifteen hours, fifty four minutes and two seconds away. Peyton's
- 1:36:48Speaker 1: Lemonade Stan. Welcome Ashley Dawn speaking with us this morning
- 1:36:53Speaker 1: about Peyton's lemonade stand. It's great to have you on
- 1:36:55Speaker 1: the program this morning, and thanks for the great work
- 1:36:57Speaker 1: you're doing with the Peyton lemonade stands.
- 1:37:00Speaker 10: Oh, Brian, we are happy to do so.
- 1:37:02Speaker 3: I've worked with Peyton and her lemonade stand for years
- 1:37:06Speaker 3: and you know, this was a six year old originally driveway.
- 1:37:11Speaker 10: Just you know, trying to get the word out and
- 1:37:13Speaker 10: help kids in need.
- 1:37:14Speaker 3: And now it's just grown so much, I mean, from
- 1:37:18Speaker 3: kids facing medical, personal economic hardships. We have over one
- 1:37:23Speaker 3: hundred stands this year, different companies helping out and it's
- 1:37:28Speaker 3: just great.
- 1:37:29Speaker 10: And who doesn't like lemonade right exactly?
- 1:37:31Speaker 1: But this is they were the great things about this story,
- 1:37:34Speaker 1: not only if you've met Peyton in person. She is
- 1:37:36Speaker 1: a charming, articulate, you know, just just a wonderful like
- 1:37:41Speaker 1: you know, you can't find anything wrong with this kid.
- 1:37:43Speaker 1: Why don't we have more kids like this kind of kid?
- 1:37:46Speaker 1: But I've heard her speak before, she's so inspiring. But
- 1:37:49Speaker 1: the whole beginning of this at six years old, that
- 1:37:53Speaker 1: she wanted to do a lemonade stand and donate the
- 1:37:55Speaker 1: proceeds to kids in needs, those kids who were she
- 1:37:58Speaker 1: had been in the hospital apparently as a child, like
- 1:38:00Speaker 1: a children's hospital.
- 1:38:02Speaker 3: Yep, and received a toy and originally thought, you know,
- 1:38:06Speaker 3: once she got out and got better, she wanted to
- 1:38:09Speaker 3: be able to provide that for children that were still
- 1:38:11Speaker 3: in the hospital. And you know, just just doing something
- 1:38:14Speaker 3: bigger than herself as a child.
- 1:38:16Speaker 10: It's unbelievable.
- 1:38:17Speaker 1: And her idea too, right, yeah, yeah, see, Okay, so six,
- 1:38:22Speaker 1: she's got philanthropy and mind at age six. It starts
- 1:38:25Speaker 1: singular lemonade state. And I love the pictures you've got
- 1:38:28Speaker 1: over history, but there she is building your first lemonade stand.
- 1:38:31Speaker 1: And who'd have thought that just fast forward, this is
- 1:38:34Speaker 1: the ninth year for it, that there would be one
- 1:38:36Speaker 1: hundred plus additional lemonade stands. And it grew rather quickly too.
- 1:38:40Speaker 1: And the amount of money you've raised over the years
- 1:38:42Speaker 1: is substantial.
- 1:38:44Speaker 10: Oh a lot of money.
- 1:38:45Speaker 3: And this is this is now expanding from just you know,
- 1:38:48Speaker 3: getting kids toys.
- 1:38:50Speaker 10: We're doing getting them.
- 1:38:51Speaker 3: Books, school supplies, summer swim bundles, beds. I mean, just
- 1:38:56Speaker 3: just think, if there's anything we can help with, we
- 1:38:58Speaker 3: are doing so. And it's really important, like you said
- 1:39:01Speaker 3: as a child, it's kids serving kids, right.
- 1:39:04Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I was just saying the power of one person.
- 1:39:11Speaker 1: We're just taking the initial step and just showing and
- 1:39:14Speaker 1: demonstrating to the rest of the world. Well, hey, that's
- 1:39:17Speaker 1: a great idea. I love your idea. Can I help out?
- 1:39:20Speaker 1: You know, it always takes one person to advance the agenda,
- 1:39:23Speaker 1: and then they find out there's a whole bunch of
- 1:39:24Speaker 1: people that are like, I'd like to help you with that.
- 1:39:26Speaker 1: And now you have one hundred plus lemonade stands, one.
- 1:39:29Speaker 3: Hundred plus lemonade stands, and now even organizations like Chowdown Cincinnati.
- 1:39:34Speaker 10: Are you food guy?
- 1:39:35Speaker 1: Oh you kidding me? Yes?
- 1:39:39Speaker 3: So Chowdown Cincinnati if you're not familiar, it's a Facebook
- 1:39:41Speaker 3: group with you know, over three hundred thousand local people
- 1:39:44Speaker 3: always looking for the best takas, the best wings, the
- 1:39:47Speaker 3: best burgers. So the people are there and no pun
- 1:39:50Speaker 3: intended bread, they're hungry and they want to help as well.
- 1:39:54Speaker 3: So Chowdown Cincinnati and Peyton's Lemonade Stand have teams up
- 1:39:58Speaker 3: where we're encouraging local bars and restaurants to make you know,
- 1:40:03Speaker 3: kind of like an.
- 1:40:04Speaker 10: Adult drink with our pour it Forward campaign.
- 1:40:08Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, a LeMond Yeah, it's it's it's. Oh,
- 1:40:13Speaker 3: we've already we know the ingredients and everything and we
- 1:40:16Speaker 3: can provide that to the bar.
- 1:40:18Speaker 10: Simple.
- 1:40:18Speaker 3: It's obviously lemonade is in there with a grenadine. We've
- 1:40:23Speaker 3: got a vodka in it as well. And with this drink,
- 1:40:26Speaker 3: donations are being poured back into Peyton Lemonade Stand with
- 1:40:30Speaker 3: participating bars and restaurants.
- 1:40:32Speaker 1: Oh, that's fantastic.
- 1:40:33Speaker 3: Cool to see the community come together, involve our local restaurants.
- 1:40:38Speaker 3: We've already got King Corona, Maloney's Pub, the Casual Pint,
- 1:40:41Speaker 3: They've already launched this signature lemonade cocktail.
- 1:40:44Speaker 1: Yeah no, well, somebody that owns a bar or is
- 1:40:46Speaker 1: affiliated with a bar that they can get involved in.
- 1:40:48Speaker 1: It Is it too late for someone to join in
- 1:40:50Speaker 1: the fun?
- 1:40:51Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, we are expanding and obviously this
- 1:40:54Speaker 3: is like a summer drink, like I told you, a
- 1:40:56Speaker 3: cranberry juice s grenadine topped with lemonade.
- 1:40:59Speaker 10: With that lemon we own a cherry garnish.
- 1:41:01Speaker 3: We would love for this to kind of take over,
- 1:41:05Speaker 3: you know, and with Chowdown and Peyton's Lemonade Stand, we
- 1:41:08Speaker 3: can all come together and really share the love over
- 1:41:11Speaker 3: a nice drink.
- 1:41:12Speaker 10: Peyton's Lemonade.
- 1:41:13Speaker 1: Well, you know you can drink those in the middle
- 1:41:15Speaker 1: of the wintertime too. We might have taken my wife
- 1:41:17Speaker 1: to the Turf Club for great burgers, and I'm shouting
- 1:41:19Speaker 1: out to the turf Club get involved in this because
- 1:41:22Speaker 1: they have the secret ingreenent for a lemon drop. It's
- 1:41:24Speaker 1: not regular vodka, it's hundred proof vodka. That's how you
- 1:41:27Speaker 1: actually make one. It's a really good drink.
- 1:41:29Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:41:29Speaker 1: I know, trust me, I've been the beneficiary of that
- 1:41:32Speaker 1: cocktail many times. But no I get into it. So
- 1:41:36Speaker 1: they just go to peyton Pa y t o NS
- 1:41:38Speaker 1: Peyton's Lemonade Stand dot org to get involved.
- 1:41:42Speaker 10: Yep, or they can email me. I'm Ashley at Chowdown
- 1:41:46Speaker 10: dot com.
- 1:41:47Speaker 1: Ashley at Chowdown and.
- 1:41:49Speaker 3: There's no O's in Chowdown c hw d WN Chowdown
- 1:41:53Speaker 3: no O's.
- 1:41:54Speaker 1: D Okay, I'm glad you pointed that out. Chowton All right,
- 1:41:59Speaker 1: So yeah, I looked at your map. Is really a
- 1:42:03Speaker 1: site to behold on your website with all the lemonade stands,
- 1:42:05Speaker 1: you show where all of them are located. If you
- 1:42:07Speaker 1: had to move out and to get all of them in.
- 1:42:09Speaker 1: There so many people involved, so it's not it's businesses
- 1:42:13Speaker 1: that have a lemonade stand at their business as well
- 1:42:16Speaker 1: as homes or children having one in their homes too. Right.
- 1:42:20Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we've had fired apartments help out all kinds
- 1:42:23Speaker 3: of different businesses. And you know, we're grateful for our
- 1:42:25Speaker 3: sponsors to be a part of this, to really expand it.
- 1:42:29Speaker 10: And it's just it's just incredible, it really is.
- 1:42:32Speaker 1: It is. And can I ask you, I don't remember
- 1:42:35Speaker 1: what the goal was for last year's of funds or
- 1:42:39Speaker 1: money raising, but what did you take in last year?
- 1:42:41Speaker 1: Because we have to have a goal to beat.
- 1:42:44Speaker 3: Well, anything is appreciated, of course. So last year we
- 1:42:48Speaker 3: did really well, and I'm just going to say for
- 1:42:51Speaker 3: this year, let's just let's just knock the roof off
- 1:42:53Speaker 3: of this.
- 1:42:54Speaker 10: Let's not put a number on it, let's just go
- 1:42:55Speaker 10: for it.
- 1:42:56Speaker 1: Well, and folks in the listening on as you can
- 1:42:58Speaker 1: do what I did. I just went down to one
- 1:42:59Speaker 1: of the little businesses in Loveland that was doing a
- 1:43:01Speaker 1: Peyton's lemonade stand. I just made a cash contribution. The
- 1:43:05Speaker 1: glass of lemonade was I don't know how much they wanted,
- 1:43:07Speaker 1: but I gave them a lot more than that. I said,
- 1:43:09Speaker 1: please make sure he gets in the right hands. I
- 1:43:11Speaker 1: just been so inspired by this young lady. She's fantastic
- 1:43:15Speaker 1: and what she's been able to accomplish. It's just an
- 1:43:17Speaker 1: inspiration for you out there. You've just got to take
- 1:43:19Speaker 1: the ball and run with it because everyone around you
- 1:43:21Speaker 1: probably wants to help out along some level. And if
- 1:43:24Speaker 1: you oil the machine and grease the skids to make
- 1:43:26Speaker 1: it easy, they will come and you can fulfill your
- 1:43:29Speaker 1: charitable goals. Now in so far as supplies are concerned,
- 1:43:32Speaker 1: I mean you mentioned the bar supplies and the drink.
- 1:43:34Speaker 1: What about like if someone says, I'd love to have
- 1:43:36Speaker 1: a lemonade stand in my business, or you hear maybe
- 1:43:39Speaker 1: a local police department of fire department heard that the
- 1:43:41Speaker 1: Blue Ash fire department's having one. Hey, we need to
- 1:43:42Speaker 1: do one of those too. What do they need by
- 1:43:44Speaker 1: way of, you know, supplies and how do they get those?
- 1:43:47Speaker 3: Yeah, So if they reach out through Peyton's Lemonade Stand
- 1:43:51Speaker 3: dot Org Jess her mother who runs this whole thing,
- 1:43:55Speaker 3: she will get with you and gets you hooked up.
- 1:43:58Speaker 1: Great. So you do provide the supplies, Yes.
- 1:44:02Speaker 3: To an extent, they can be provided through a certain timeframe.
- 1:44:05Speaker 3: I think you can still get in. Yeah, yeah, because
- 1:44:08Speaker 3: we've got the big you know, debut of the twenty fifth,
- 1:44:11Speaker 3: our event on the twenty fifth is coming up, and
- 1:44:14Speaker 3: that's where everybody will be really hitting the stands. But
- 1:44:16Speaker 3: I think you can still get in, right, you know,
- 1:44:18Speaker 3: we can make shifts, some stuff, We can.
- 1:44:19Speaker 10: Make it happen.
- 1:44:20Speaker 1: Peyton's Yeah, they will accommodate you, trust me. This is
- 1:44:22Speaker 1: all for charity, so Peyton Yeah, yeah, no hard and
- 1:44:25Speaker 1: fast rules. Oh you want to help out, we will
- 1:44:27Speaker 1: accommodate you. There's a little donate now. Speaking of that,
- 1:44:30Speaker 1: there's a donate now button in the upper right end
- 1:44:32Speaker 1: corner on Peyton's lemonade stand dot org. If you can't
- 1:44:35Speaker 1: make it out on the twenty fifth between ten am
- 1:44:37Speaker 1: and one pm, it's still easy to donate to this
- 1:44:39Speaker 1: charity and the sponsors. The sponsors helped like fund the
- 1:44:45Speaker 1: sort of the supplies that you do provide. Is that
- 1:44:47Speaker 1: why we want to give them props of course, and.
- 1:44:50Speaker 3: Just you know, really stepping up in their community to
- 1:44:53Speaker 3: help Peyton and push this thing forward.
- 1:44:55Speaker 10: Of course, we love our sponsors.
- 1:44:57Speaker 1: No question about it. Now. The pro that you're involved with.
- 1:45:01Speaker 1: I know the mission originally, as you pointed out, was
- 1:45:03Speaker 1: the wonderful toy. And I think back in my time
- 1:45:06Speaker 1: when I got my tonsils out, the Ruth Lyons Fund
- 1:45:09Speaker 1: gave me a It was like a soccer ball. And
- 1:45:12Speaker 1: you know, anything that puts a smile on your face
- 1:45:14Speaker 1: reading the hospital is a great thing, So toys. But
- 1:45:16Speaker 1: you mentioned books and other resources. Are you teaming up
- 1:45:18Speaker 1: with charitable organizations to fund them and provide these supplies
- 1:45:22Speaker 1: or does Peyton's Lemonade Stand do all the supplying and
- 1:45:25Speaker 1: the distribution of this yourself.
- 1:45:28Speaker 10: We do a lot of the supplying on our own.
- 1:45:30Speaker 3: We're definitely open to working with other people because you know,
- 1:45:33Speaker 3: this is helping kids with medical, personal any kind of
- 1:45:36Speaker 3: economic hardship.
- 1:45:37Speaker 10: So the more people, the better, we say.
- 1:45:40Speaker 1: Fantastic. Well, I'll tell you what, Ashley, it has been
- 1:45:42Speaker 1: a pleasure talking with you, and I'm so glad that
- 1:45:45Speaker 1: chow Down Cincinnati is helping down with is helping out
- 1:45:48Speaker 1: with this. I'm going to have to find the website
- 1:45:50Speaker 1: and check that out too, because I am a foodie.
- 1:45:52Speaker 1: But you said, Ashley at ATCHWDWN.
- 1:45:56Speaker 3: Dot com, that's right, And Brian, you mentioned you're a foodie,
- 1:46:00Speaker 3: get on Chowdown's website and purchase what's called a discount
- 1:46:03Speaker 3: card and that has discounts to over sixty local restaurants
- 1:46:07Speaker 3: on the card. It's a thirty dollars card, and ten
- 1:46:09Speaker 3: dollars of every card sold this month will be going
- 1:46:12Speaker 3: to Peyton's Lemonade Stand.
- 1:46:13Speaker 1: Well, I may have to go down that road. I'm
- 1:46:14Speaker 1: sure somewhere in the litany of restaurants that are involved
- 1:46:17Speaker 1: with that, I can find a lower carb alternative.
- 1:46:20Speaker 3: Try my best right down, Ashley, Hey, that's the vodka
- 1:46:25Speaker 3: in this drink.
- 1:46:26Speaker 10: It'll be good for you.
- 1:46:27Speaker 1: That's right, Yes, that's vodka or tequila. Those are the
- 1:46:30Speaker 1: ones you should gravitate, Cord if you're if you're doing
- 1:46:32Speaker 1: what I'm doing, Ashley Don, it is distinct pleasure to
- 1:46:35Speaker 1: have you on the pro program today. Folks, I really
- 1:46:38Speaker 1: really really encourage you go to Peyton's Lemonade Stand dot
- 1:46:41Speaker 1: org and pay to you and Peyton's Lemonade Stand dot
- 1:46:44Speaker 1: or get involved in some way at minimum, find out
- 1:46:46Speaker 1: where the lemonade stand is nearest you and go in
- 1:46:49Speaker 1: and buy some lemonade. You'll love it and you'll be
- 1:46:51Speaker 1: helping out charity at the same time. And you know what,
- 1:46:54Speaker 1: this year're gonna make more than last year, and next
- 1:46:56Speaker 1: year more than this year, and next year maybe two
- 1:46:58Speaker 1: hundred stands right.
- 1:47:00Speaker 10: Hey, Yeah, let's pour it forward.
- 1:47:02Speaker 1: Grind big big Ashley. Thanks so much for your time
- 1:47:04Speaker 1: and best of luck on the fundraising this year. Cheers,
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- 1:48:02Speaker 1: Appreciate everybody showing up at listener Lunch yesterday. Thanksgin to
- 1:48:04Speaker 1: Chandlers for hosting any wonderful listener lunch. Enjoyed ourselves big
- 1:48:08Speaker 1: story this morning, along with the fact that we were
- 1:48:10Speaker 1: back at war and the ceasefire is officially over. Trump
- 1:48:13Speaker 1: set it out loud yesterday for those like me who said,
- 1:48:16Speaker 1: you can't have a ceasefire or it's not a definitional
- 1:48:18Speaker 1: ceasefire when you're shooting missiles at each other. Well, we
- 1:48:22Speaker 1: started shooting missiles at each other last night, bombed a
- 1:48:24Speaker 1: whole bunch of targets, described as like ninety of them,
- 1:48:27Speaker 1: and of course the Iranians had to go at shooting
- 1:48:29Speaker 1: at Kuwait and some of the other regional neighbors and
- 1:48:32Speaker 1: friends of ours where we have military bases. Not quite
- 1:48:35Speaker 1: sure what the damage was, but we reportedly did some
- 1:48:37Speaker 1: serious damage to military targets yesterday, air defense systems, coastal
- 1:48:43Speaker 1: surveillance assets, navy capabilities, logistics infrastructure. We blew up some
- 1:48:48Speaker 1: bridges that they said were being used by Iran's military
- 1:48:51Speaker 1: to transport missiles and drones and other war related parts,
- 1:48:55Speaker 1: although yes, used for the citizenry as well. So some
- 1:48:58Speaker 1: bridges are gone. A car island, I don't know if
- 1:49:00Speaker 1: got hit. The Iranians said, if you hit carg Island,
- 1:49:03Speaker 1: we're gonna kill two of your We're gonna wipe out
- 1:49:05Speaker 1: all of your military. Yeah. I know that's like bagdad, Bob.
- 1:49:09Speaker 1: But they do still have missiles and hardware and drones
- 1:49:12Speaker 1: capable of hitting ships. And that's how it all started.
- 1:49:15Speaker 1: The Iranians claim that they're entitled to decide how traffic
- 1:49:18Speaker 1: goes through the Strait of Ormuz. They don't like people
- 1:49:20Speaker 1: going around the their side of the of the strait.
- 1:49:24Speaker 1: They want people to stay away from the Oman side,
- 1:49:26Speaker 1: where we are ferrying boats through, and so boats going
- 1:49:29Speaker 1: through the Oman side have been subject to attack. Of course,
- 1:49:31Speaker 1: we retaliate on Tuesday, they do it again. We retaliate
- 1:49:34Speaker 1: last night, and so finally Trump says, all right, the
- 1:49:37Speaker 1: ceasefire is over. Now where this takes us, I don't know,
- 1:49:44Speaker 1: I truly don't. I wish I hadn't answer to that question. Also,
- 1:49:47Speaker 1: the other big story this morning, Yes, he dropped out.
- 1:49:49Speaker 1: Graham Platner has been told it's not his night. He
- 1:49:53Speaker 1: finally listened to all of the Democrats who had previously
- 1:49:55Speaker 1: supported him, because he is a demonstrable pervert, always has been.
- 1:50:00Speaker 1: But then when you have a Democrat coming out accusing
- 1:50:02Speaker 1: him of rape five years ago and has the goods
- 1:50:04Speaker 1: to bring with her to support her claim, like contemporaneous
- 1:50:07Speaker 1: conversations with her then boyfriend and her therapist. Yeah, way
- 1:50:11Speaker 1: before Platina decided to stick his head up and run
- 1:50:14Speaker 1: for office, this was going on, and it's documented, and
- 1:50:17Speaker 1: the Democrats knew damn well that that was That was it.
- 1:50:21Speaker 1: We can't take anymore. We can defend a Nazi tattoo
- 1:50:24Speaker 1: guy and a guy who acted like a fourteen year
- 1:50:28Speaker 1: old on social media and a married man who was
- 1:50:30Speaker 1: flirting with and more with women not his wife. That's all, okay,
- 1:50:35Speaker 1: it's your modern Democrat party. But I guess when it
- 1:50:38Speaker 1: comes to raping, and that's the word you use definitionally speaking,
- 1:50:43Speaker 1: if in fact that happen, he's allegedly did this, but
- 1:50:46Speaker 1: doing it to a Democrat, someone who is seeing eye
- 1:50:50Speaker 1: to eyeball with his politics, and even said so out loud,
- 1:50:53Speaker 1: then you got to take that one seriously. So ignoring
- 1:50:56Speaker 1: the conservative leaning women that he obviously had some problems
- 1:50:59Speaker 1: with in the past. Now he's gone, So where does
- 1:51:03Speaker 1: that leave him. I've been kind of swirling around about
- 1:51:06Speaker 1: are they gonna go full on Democratic socialists? I don't
- 1:51:08Speaker 1: know the politics in Maine, and I had New Hampshire
- 1:51:10Speaker 1: Gary call this morning and said, now they're pretty far
- 1:51:12Speaker 1: far left in Maine. Fun fact new to me. So
- 1:51:17Speaker 1: do they do they go DSA? Because the Democrat Party
- 1:51:21Speaker 1: is going to decide this, And of course Platner. You
- 1:51:24Speaker 1: got to give him props in his statements saying I'm
- 1:51:26Speaker 1: throwing I'm out, But he did not attack directly the machine,
- 1:51:29Speaker 1: but he attacked pretty much directly the machine, reminding everyone,
- 1:51:34Speaker 1: you know, swirling behind the words he didn't say was
- 1:51:36Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, you know, and they kicked out Joe Biden
- 1:51:39Speaker 1: and didn't give you Democrats any choice in the matter.
- 1:51:42Speaker 1: Here's Kamala Harris. Sucks to be you and a terrible
- 1:51:47Speaker 1: candidate to select too. Remember she's the one that didn't
- 1:51:49Speaker 1: get anybody to even look at her during the primaries
- 1:51:51Speaker 1: and dropped out early on. I think she was the
- 1:51:53Speaker 1: first one out, so right, that's exactly what's going to
- 1:51:56Speaker 1: happen in Maine now, now they're going to go full
- 1:52:01Speaker 1: on DSA or are they going to go with the
- 1:52:02Speaker 1: centrist someone who's more palatable to the broader scope of
- 1:52:05Speaker 1: Democrats remains unanswered, But Graham Platner has already come out
- 1:52:10Speaker 1: endorsing Mainstep State Representative Valley Geiger. Geiger, speaking with the
- 1:52:17Speaker 1: News apparently, Platner called her Monday night and said he
- 1:52:23Speaker 1: was throwing into support behind her. Valley, you're a fighter.
- 1:52:25Speaker 1: You've been with this movement since the beginning. She said
- 1:52:29Speaker 1: that she was heartbroken by the allegations against Platter. I
- 1:52:33Speaker 1: found this rather peculiar, she responded yesterday. Earlier this week
- 1:52:37Speaker 1: Tuesday on social media the rape allegation against the candidates Platner,
- 1:52:41Speaker 1: I will not throw Graham under the bus, but neither
- 1:52:46Speaker 1: will I slander or accuse miss Rasicot of anything more
- 1:52:50Speaker 1: than telling the truth as she experienced it. I acknowledge
- 1:52:55Speaker 1: the pain on all sides and offer compassion on all sides.
- 1:53:00Speaker 1: What's that supposed to mean? Hmm? I I don't know
- 1:53:09Speaker 1: that mister Plattner suffered any pain other than attacks from Republicans,
- 1:53:15Speaker 1: which if you're a politician, you better have a thick skin,
- 1:53:18Speaker 1: because you're gonna get that. So if you are dealing
- 1:53:20Speaker 1: with pain and need to be in a safe space,
- 1:53:22Speaker 1: mister Platt, you're in the wrong place. I suppose it
- 1:53:25Speaker 1: was the pain that was heaped down upon him by
- 1:53:27Speaker 1: his fellow Democrats, Bernie Sanders, ro Kanna, all the ones
- 1:53:31Speaker 1: who just just fell fell all over themselves supporting this
- 1:53:35Speaker 1: guy in the face of Yes, the Nazi tattoo and
- 1:53:37Speaker 1: all the social media posts and all the other baggage
- 1:53:39Speaker 1: he brought with him. This was a bridge too far
- 1:53:42Speaker 1: for them. Is that the pain he's experiencing, the pain
- 1:53:45Speaker 1: of reality setting in the pain of his own people
- 1:53:49Speaker 1: realizing he is an unelectable candidate. Uh self inflicted pain, ma'am.
- 1:53:57Speaker 1: I don't know where Valley Geiger is on the political spectrum,
- 1:53:59Speaker 1: but giving her support remains for him, and that they
- 1:54:02Speaker 1: see eye to eye together, I think you realize that
- 1:54:05Speaker 1: they're probably going to go dsa wing of the party.
- 1:54:09Speaker 1: Keep your popcorn out and o'l Colway Jay Ratlift's coming
- 1:54:12Speaker 1: up next. Hey thirty two. If you have Karsity talk station,
- 1:54:16Speaker 1: thank god it's Thursday. It is that time of week.
- 1:54:19Speaker 1: We get the benefit and the joy of the presidence
- 1:54:21Speaker 1: of iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. Jay, welcome back, my friend.
- 1:54:25Speaker 1: Really appreciate you being on the show every Thursday. It's fun, ah.
- 1:54:28Speaker 11: Blead the good morning, it's today. I look forward to
- 1:54:31Speaker 11: from the moment we hang up each Thursday.
- 1:54:33Speaker 1: So you're great. I appreciate you, man, I really do.
- 1:54:35Speaker 1: Fuel prices continue to fall. Airfares are not dropping their prices,
- 1:54:39Speaker 1: although I have to I say that since it's your
- 1:54:41Speaker 1: first topic recognizing since we're back in full on war
- 1:54:44Speaker 1: and Trump has now recognized that we never really did
- 1:54:46Speaker 1: have a ceasefire, I'm not sure if the fuel prices
- 1:54:49Speaker 1: are going to continue to drop. We'll all wait and
- 1:54:51Speaker 1: see about that. But I guess much like the barrel
- 1:54:54Speaker 1: of oil drops precipitously and we have to wait for
- 1:54:57Speaker 1: some long protracted period of time for the gasoline prices
- 1:55:00Speaker 1: go out. But seemingly the gasoline prices go up immediately
- 1:55:03Speaker 1: after the barrel of oil goes up. So what's the
- 1:55:06Speaker 1: story on airline fuel?
- 1:55:08Speaker 11: Well, you know, the airlines are always quick to say
- 1:55:10Speaker 11: that you know, the fuel prices are going up, we
- 1:55:13Speaker 11: have to adjust, and as a result, they pass those
- 1:55:17Speaker 11: things quickly onto us. And we look back at the
- 1:55:21Speaker 11: fuel prices from the last numbers that we had, and
- 1:55:24Speaker 11: we learned that airlines spent six billion dollars in May
- 1:55:29Speaker 11: for fuel. That's up eighty four percent from a year ago.
- 1:55:32Speaker 11: So airlines can say, yes, the prices may be dropping
- 1:55:36Speaker 11: a bit as the hostilities are kind of doing this
- 1:55:39Speaker 11: or that, but they're saying, look, we can't count on that,
- 1:55:42Speaker 11: So what we have to do is plan accordingly. And
- 1:55:45Speaker 11: they're reluctant, Brian, but they've got to keep the fares
- 1:55:48Speaker 11: high because that's what they're going to pay and they
- 1:55:50Speaker 11: can't do the up and down kind of things. Plus
- 1:55:53Speaker 11: the head of Delta Airlines that Bastion made it clear
- 1:55:56Speaker 11: when he was asked, hey, the fuel price is going
- 1:55:58Speaker 11: to be dropping in fares dropping, and his initial response
- 1:56:02Speaker 11: was no, We're going to keep fares as the demand allows.
- 1:56:08Speaker 11: In other words, no, we're going to keep the fares
- 1:56:10Speaker 11: as high for as long as we can. And I'm
- 1:56:13Speaker 11: not surprised and I appreciate that the candor from at Bastian,
- 1:56:16Speaker 11: but it just goes to show that airlines will look
- 1:56:19Speaker 11: for any reason they can to race fares, and they
- 1:56:22Speaker 11: will be reluctant if at all to ever bring those down.
- 1:56:25Speaker 11: I remember when fuel surch charges became a thing. You know,
- 1:56:28Speaker 11: we have to charge extra for fuel because of this,
- 1:56:31Speaker 11: and when fuel prices plummeted and airlines were asked, okay,
- 1:56:34Speaker 11: are those fuel surcharges going to go away? Crickets, and
- 1:56:39Speaker 11: it's it's the same sort of thing. Until the demand
- 1:56:41Speaker 11: for travel demands a change in their approach. They're going
- 1:56:45Speaker 11: to keep fares exactly where they're at, which is why
- 1:56:48Speaker 11: it's incredibly important for all of us. As I've said
- 1:56:51Speaker 11: time and time and time and time again, buy those
- 1:56:53Speaker 11: tickets as far in advance as you can because airlines
- 1:56:55Speaker 11: are going to continue to change the landscape. And even
- 1:56:59Speaker 11: Delta Airlines they're taking their basic economy approach where you
- 1:57:03Speaker 11: can buy the cheapest fare with no seat assignment, no
- 1:57:05Speaker 11: pre complyer miles, all this, Brian. They're applying that now
- 1:57:08Speaker 11: to some of their discounted first class seats. So oh yeah,
- 1:57:12Speaker 11: where you can like sharing and I fly all the
- 1:57:14Speaker 11: time a discounted, non refundable first class ticket. But now
- 1:57:18Speaker 11: would we do that? They're saying, you make that reservation,
- 1:57:21Speaker 11: but we're not going to sign your seat until you
- 1:57:23Speaker 11: get there. You're only going to get a reduced freaking
- 1:57:25Speaker 11: flyer a number of miles. You're not going to be
- 1:57:28Speaker 11: granted access to the first class lounge. So airlines are
- 1:57:31Speaker 11: constantly doing what they feel like they can do that's
- 1:57:34Speaker 11: in their best interest and customer service.
- 1:57:37Speaker 1: After thought, well, I suppose if if you want to fly,
- 1:57:42Speaker 1: you've got to deal with the airlines and their rules
- 1:57:44Speaker 1: and their prices. Otherwise, get behind the wheel and drive there.
- 1:57:47Speaker 1: It may not even be an honest into their music
- 1:57:49Speaker 1: at Don't Go Away, We're gonna continue to find out
- 1:57:52Speaker 1: about well windows seats that aren't and also Southwest having
- 1:57:57Speaker 1: a good time with people who do it always drives
- 1:57:59Speaker 1: me crazy. That and a whole lot more. Jay rat
- 1:58:01Speaker 1: Lived look away you.
- 1:58:02Speaker 4: Ever been in a cockpit before? It?
- 1:58:05Speaker 1: Hey thirty nine to fifive my fair cdcalk station and
- 1:58:07Speaker 1: of course referring to iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay ratlif It
- 1:58:09Speaker 1: joins us every Thursday for a few segments talk Aviation
- 1:58:12Speaker 1: X views, including this just had to be a mistake,
- 1:58:15Speaker 1: didn't it? United Airlines sold a seat and he gives
- 1:58:18Speaker 1: a photograph of it that was within the article. That is,
- 1:58:21Speaker 1: there is no window there, so how could it be
- 1:58:23Speaker 1: marketed as a window seat.
- 1:58:25Speaker 11: That is a great question, and that is the reason
- 1:58:29Speaker 11: it has initially gone to court because you have people
- 1:58:32Speaker 11: that buy a window seat, which is considered a premium seat,
- 1:58:36Speaker 11: which gives the airlines the right to charge us more
- 1:58:38Speaker 11: if that's what they choose to do.
- 1:58:40Speaker 1: Wow.
- 1:58:40Speaker 11: And what happens is airlines sometimes will decide to put
- 1:58:45Speaker 11: in more premium coach seats, or they'll adjust the interior
- 1:58:49Speaker 11: configuration just a bit where the airline seats instead of
- 1:58:53Speaker 11: like it was when the aircraft was first delivered, they're
- 1:58:56Speaker 11: now offset a bit where seats are moved back forward,
- 1:58:59Speaker 11: what have you. And instead of having a window directly
- 1:59:01Speaker 11: to your left or right, you've.
- 1:59:02Speaker 1: Got a piece of a window between well if that.
- 1:59:07Speaker 11: Yeah, between you know the one before you had on
- 1:59:10Speaker 11: behind you. So there were people that were flying Delta,
- 1:59:13Speaker 11: United and others that were paying for this window seat.
- 1:59:15Speaker 11: And for some people it's because they're just claustrophobic. They
- 1:59:18Speaker 11: need or scared to death to fly, so they just
- 1:59:21Speaker 11: want to look out the window, have something to distract
- 1:59:23Speaker 11: them so that they can endure it until they get
- 1:59:26Speaker 11: to their destination. They sit down on that airplane, they're
- 1:59:28Speaker 11: findly like, wait a minute, this is a wall I
- 1:59:31Speaker 11: pay for a window seat. And that's where the lawsuit
- 1:59:35Speaker 11: came into play because you had people with United. They said, look,
- 1:59:38Speaker 11: you can't sell me a window seat and flop my
- 1:59:42Speaker 11: butt down in a seat that doesn't have a window.
- 1:59:45Speaker 11: And the airlines, both Delta and United, said no, no, no,
- 1:59:48Speaker 11: a window seat doesn't mean you're necessarily a guarantee. Ran
- 1:59:53Speaker 11: The arrogance of these airlines drive me absolutely out of
- 1:59:56Speaker 11: my mind. But they said, uh, you know, you simply
- 2:00:00Speaker 11: pyeing the seat that's you know, furthest away from the aisle,
- 2:00:04Speaker 11: that's total Looking at it, it's stupid. So what happened
- 2:00:08Speaker 11: was it went to court. United's like this should be
- 2:00:11Speaker 11: tossed out, this is there's no basis here, and the
- 2:00:14Speaker 11: ruling came back said, oh yeah there is. So it's
- 2:00:17Speaker 11: gonna proceed and United is gonna have to go to court.
- 2:00:20Speaker 11: Delta is also being sued as well from people that
- 2:00:23Speaker 11: have the exact same issue there. But it comes, you know,
- 2:00:27Speaker 11: it's it's it's as though and this isn't true, but
- 2:00:29Speaker 11: it's as though executives get into a room and say,
- 2:00:32Speaker 11: how can we make it even more miserable for the
- 2:00:35Speaker 11: Let's just see how bad we can make it before
- 2:00:38Speaker 11: they finally stop coming back.
- 2:00:40Speaker 1: Iculous, Let's see what we can get away with. It's
- 2:00:43Speaker 1: like the Orwell Ministry of Truth. You know, war is
- 2:00:45Speaker 1: peace pieces war, a window seat is Yeah, that's a
- 2:00:48Speaker 1: window seat. You know, there's no window. Suck it up.
- 2:00:51Speaker 1: It's our definition.
- 2:00:52Speaker 11: It is so and that's why when these these surveys
- 2:00:56Speaker 11: on the customer service of airlines around the world, the
- 2:00:59Speaker 11: rankings them out, people are amazed that no US carrier
- 2:01:02Speaker 11: made the top twenty in the world. We should be
- 2:01:05Speaker 11: leading the world in everything. We're not. We don't even
- 2:01:08Speaker 11: make the top twenty on customer service because they suck
- 2:01:12Speaker 11: at it.
- 2:01:13Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, we also have an air traffic controller systems
- 2:01:16Speaker 1: using five and a quarter floppy drive, so there's that
- 2:01:19Speaker 1: set as well. It's not just the business side of it,
- 2:01:22Speaker 1: it's the government side of it as well. Southwest Airlines
- 2:01:24Speaker 1: having to go and people who do something that drives
- 2:01:27Speaker 1: me crazy, Jay, this is great.
- 2:01:29Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
- 2:01:30Speaker 11: They put out a tweet saying just because just because
- 2:01:32Speaker 11: you spring out of your seat in essence one point
- 2:01:35Speaker 11: or zero point zer zero one seconds after the seat
- 2:01:38Speaker 11: belt sign goes off, you're not getting off the plane earlier.
- 2:01:41Speaker 11: But there were a lot of people who responded to
- 2:01:43Speaker 11: that slap in the face saying, time out here. I
- 2:01:46Speaker 11: just need to stand up because I've been in that
- 2:01:48Speaker 11: cramp seat for three hours. Okay, I want to stand up.
- 2:01:52Speaker 11: And there's some people in the middle seat says, look,
- 2:01:54Speaker 11: I've been between these two buzzards the whole time. I'm
- 2:01:57Speaker 11: out of here. And you've got the person in the
- 2:01:58Speaker 11: in the window seat saying, look, I'm clusterphobic. I mean,
- 2:02:01Speaker 11: I just need to stand And that's all they say
- 2:02:03Speaker 11: that they're wanting to do. It's not to bolt down
- 2:02:06Speaker 11: the door. Even though you do have the idiots that
- 2:02:09Speaker 11: when a plane gets somewhere, they're in road thirty eight
- 2:02:12Speaker 11: and they're going to try to fly up the aisle
- 2:02:13Speaker 11: before anybody else stands up to get off the plane earlier,
- 2:02:16Speaker 11: maybe to catch it. You know, they're connecting flight in
- 2:02:19Speaker 11: de boinne Iowa. Now they're just trying to get off
- 2:02:21Speaker 11: the plane faster. So well, guess what you can pay
- 2:02:24Speaker 11: for a seat up there and you can get off
- 2:02:25Speaker 11: the plane faster. But the pushback was significant, and it
- 2:02:29Speaker 11: really makes you wonder why Southwest would go down this
- 2:02:32Speaker 11: road where they would insult a bit some of they're
- 2:02:37Speaker 11: paying passengers who are simply just trying to stand up
- 2:02:40Speaker 11: and stretch their legs.
- 2:02:40Speaker 1: Well, there was a viral video of this just absolutely
- 2:02:43Speaker 1: rude woman. She was in the back of the plane
- 2:02:45Speaker 1: and everybody's standing in the aisle getting ready for the
- 2:02:48Speaker 1: door of the plane to open up and let people off.
- 2:02:50Speaker 1: No one's going anywhere, and yet she's trying to move
- 2:02:53Speaker 1: through the crowd and she's saying, let me through, let
- 2:02:54Speaker 1: me through. That all look at her like, what are
- 2:02:55Speaker 1: you out of your mind? No one's leaving the plane,
- 2:02:58Speaker 1: yet you're not going anywhere. So maybe is on the
- 2:03:00Speaker 1: heels of that, because that went really viral.
- 2:03:02Speaker 11: Yeah, and it's always been a pet peeve of flight
- 2:03:05Speaker 11: attendants and crew members and as far as this kind
- 2:03:09Speaker 11: of behavior, because look, there's this there's this desire obsession.
- 2:03:14Speaker 11: What have you for people to board the airplane as
- 2:03:17Speaker 11: soon as they can, even if they have no bags.
- 2:03:19Speaker 11: And that makes no sense to me. When Sharry and
- 2:03:21Speaker 11: I fly, if we have no bags, we're sitting back,
- 2:03:23Speaker 11: relaxing somewhere in the gate area, and then you know
- 2:03:25Speaker 11: we'll be one of the last ones to board, grab
- 2:03:28Speaker 11: our seats, and off we go. The idea and I
- 2:03:30Speaker 11: like sitting in the aisle seat. We sit kind of
- 2:03:32Speaker 11: towards the front. I don't get banged by seventy three
- 2:03:35Speaker 11: bags when they're getting on board, by everything. No, I'd
- 2:03:38Speaker 11: prefer to just relax, take it easy, get on that
- 2:03:40Speaker 11: plane at the last possible moment. And that's my preference.
- 2:03:44Speaker 4: Now.
- 2:03:45Speaker 11: Obviously, if you carry on bag, you're worried about that
- 2:03:47Speaker 11: bag being near you. I totally get while you want
- 2:03:49Speaker 11: to get on the airplane sooner than later. But there's
- 2:03:53Speaker 11: just this Black Friday mentality that says you're not going
- 2:03:57Speaker 11: to get on before I get on, And it's like
- 2:03:59Speaker 11: why why? I mean, what's the thought process behind that?
- 2:04:03Speaker 11: When it really doesn't matter. We're all kind of getting
- 2:04:05Speaker 11: there at the same time.
- 2:04:07Speaker 1: Excellent point. Try to keep that in mind. Yeah, Black
- 2:04:09Speaker 1: Friday mentality, That is a great way of putting it.
- 2:04:11Speaker 1: Jay Ratlift Don't Go Away collisions with fireworks, which I
- 2:04:14Speaker 1: guess I understand, but large silver object collisions We're gonna
- 2:04:18Speaker 1: find out about that one and maybe more with Jay
- 2:04:20Speaker 1: Ratlift Don't Go Away.
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- 2:08:54Speaker 1: Eight fifty on a Friday. Even a happy one to you,
- 2:08:56Speaker 1: Brian Thomas wrapping up another segment on aviation with iHeartMedia
- 2:08:59Speaker 1: AVA extpert Jay Ratlift collisions and I saw the one
- 2:09:03Speaker 1: about the fireworks collision. I guess you know, when you're
- 2:09:05Speaker 1: around Independence date of the two and fiftieth anniversary of
- 2:09:08Speaker 1: this great country of ours, I can envision how that
- 2:09:11Speaker 1: might happen. I'm kind of curious how it might reach
- 2:09:14Speaker 1: the area of where airplanes are flying around, but also
- 2:09:17Speaker 1: silver orbs. Let's first address the fireworks issue. How did
- 2:09:20Speaker 1: this come about? And did they ever catch anybody?
- 2:09:23Speaker 11: They did not from the last report I saw, Brian.
- 2:09:25Speaker 11: This was a Delta flight final approach into Chicago's Midway Airport.
- 2:09:29Speaker 11: When the crew called the notified air traffic control that
- 2:09:33Speaker 11: they had a firework that had gone off underneath them.
- 2:09:37Speaker 11: They said they not only heard it, they felt it ooh,
- 2:09:40Speaker 11: and feared it may have impacted the aircraft. The fascinating
- 2:09:46Speaker 11: part about this to a lot of people is listening
- 2:09:49Speaker 11: to the tone of the pilots as they're reporting it
- 2:09:52Speaker 11: to the air traffic control it sounds like you and
- 2:09:56Speaker 11: I just casual conversation, just kind of FYI, that's what happened. Uh,
- 2:10:00Speaker 11: no issue yet, We're going to land and they did
- 2:10:03Speaker 11: out APPS without any problem at all.
- 2:10:05Speaker 1: Uh.
- 2:10:05Speaker 11: They will report it. They report it to the FAA,
- 2:10:07Speaker 11: who will investigate with the local authorities. But you're never
- 2:10:11Speaker 11: going to see who lit the fuse on it. Uh.
- 2:10:13Speaker 11: The aircraft was at a critical moment of flight. It
- 2:10:15Speaker 11: was at a lower altitude as they were coming in
- 2:10:18Speaker 11: UH to Chicago. And in the thirty four years I've
- 2:10:22Speaker 11: been doing this, Bran, I don't ever remember a time
- 2:10:24Speaker 11: where we've had an aircraft impacted by a firework. The
- 2:10:29Speaker 11: most time the restricted airspace. You don't have people doing
- 2:10:32Speaker 11: it close to airports those kinds of things, and the
- 2:10:36Speaker 11: even the FAA considers this an exceedingly rare occurrence. We've
- 2:10:40Speaker 11: had situations where they've gotten close. We've had we've had
- 2:10:42Speaker 11: rockets and things that the Lexington has a Lexington Duck
- 2:10:47Speaker 11: has a rocket association, and they they were sometimes launching
- 2:10:51Speaker 11: them a little close to the Lexington Airport and the
- 2:10:53Speaker 11: FAA kind of had say, you know, can we kind
- 2:10:55Speaker 11: of move those out of the way a bit, and
- 2:10:57Speaker 11: they did, but there wasn't anything that got close. But
- 2:11:00Speaker 11: it was a precaution. But this one apparently struck the aircraft,
- 2:11:04Speaker 11: but I don't know any damage. I obviously nothing happened
- 2:11:07Speaker 11: to the aircraft to such a critical extent that the
- 2:11:10Speaker 11: crew was unable to control the airplane or fly it.
- 2:11:13Speaker 11: But yeah, I mean to now, I've been on a
- 2:11:15Speaker 11: flight before, coming on a fourth of July, coming back
- 2:11:18Speaker 11: from Boston. We're Sharon. I could watch fireworks on the
- 2:11:21Speaker 11: ground as we were flying altitude, and it was it
- 2:11:24Speaker 11: was super cool to see from above. I don't want
- 2:11:27Speaker 11: to be flying over them. So that's to HMP back
- 2:11:30Speaker 11: the aircraft.
- 2:11:31Speaker 1: Amen to that? All right? What's with the silver object?
- 2:11:35Speaker 4: Jay?
- 2:11:36Speaker 1: With all this talk about whatever they call these unidentified
- 2:11:39Speaker 1: aerial phenomenon or whatever, is that what we're talking about
- 2:11:42Speaker 1: here over in New York?
- 2:11:43Speaker 4: YEP.
- 2:11:44Speaker 11: It was an aircraft that came in that said, hey,
- 2:11:47Speaker 11: we almost got hit by a large object. And the
- 2:11:51Speaker 11: kind of back and forth was okay, it was at
- 2:11:55Speaker 11: a drone and they said, look, we're fifteen eight hundred
- 2:11:58Speaker 11: feet over New York and it's a lot larger than
- 2:12:01Speaker 11: a drone. They still still don't know what it was,
- 2:12:04Speaker 11: so the investigation continues, and you know, we've got to
- 2:12:07Speaker 11: see exactly what was taking place here because we're having
- 2:12:11Speaker 11: more and more drones obviously that are flying, and I
- 2:12:14Speaker 11: have been pleasantly surprised that we've not had more encounters
- 2:12:17Speaker 11: between commercial aircraft and drones that are operated because we
- 2:12:21Speaker 11: have so many of them, millions of them around the
- 2:12:24Speaker 11: world that have been made. So as a result, I'm
- 2:12:28Speaker 11: pleased in that regard. But when you have something that's
- 2:12:30Speaker 11: so large, that's apparently larger than a typical drone, you
- 2:12:35Speaker 11: got to find out exactly what it is. So I
- 2:12:38Speaker 11: kind of thought, I kind of thought, with everybody having
- 2:12:40Speaker 11: cameras on every phone, we can thank you video capabilities,
- 2:12:45Speaker 11: that we would be inundated with all these objects that
- 2:12:48Speaker 11: people say are out there, are going to see them,
- 2:12:50Speaker 11: but it's like, where are they. I'm so disappointed because
- 2:12:53Speaker 11: I thought we would finally have everything we needed.
- 2:12:55Speaker 1: I figured the headline should have read Aircraft in New
- 2:12:57Speaker 1: York nearly collides with Bigfoot.
- 2:13:00Speaker 4: Same thing, well, bigfoots at fifteen thousand.
- 2:13:03Speaker 11: I'm not going to say there's not life scause.
- 2:13:06Speaker 4: Listen hard time.
- 2:13:07Speaker 1: If people believe in bigfoot, generally speaking, why not a
- 2:13:10Speaker 1: flying bigfoot, same damn thing from my perspective, Jay, all right, let's.
- 2:13:13Speaker 11: Wrap it up with I'm still looking for intelligent life here, amen.
- 2:13:19Speaker 1: All right, as we typically wrap it up house things
- 2:13:21Speaker 1: looking out for travel today, Jay rattlift hub delays Philadelphia.
- 2:13:24Speaker 11: Philadelphia delays light maybe a minor thirty minutes or less.
- 2:13:29Speaker 11: And other than that, we've got rain across the country,
- 2:13:31Speaker 11: but nothing this could impact any major hubs. So all
- 2:13:34Speaker 11: in all, it should be a pretty good day of flying.
- 2:13:36Speaker 11: Keep your seatbelt on. There's certainly gonna be turbulenon, no.
- 2:13:39Speaker 1: Question about that. As always, and Jay Rightliff, I will
- 2:13:42Speaker 1: one of the things I'll miss being on vacation, very
- 2:13:44Speaker 1: few things, is I won't be able to talk to
- 2:13:45Speaker 1: you next week or the following week. We'll pit the
- 2:13:47Speaker 1: ground running after that. I'll be on vacation next two weeks.
- 2:13:50Speaker 1: I really appreciate you coming on the show and spending
- 2:13:52Speaker 1: some time with us, Jay, I always enjoy it, and
- 2:13:54Speaker 1: I wish.
- 2:13:56Speaker 11: Just for a matter of fact, I'm taking vacation the
- 2:13:58Speaker 11: twenty fourth, but I'm coming back on Wednesday, so we
- 2:14:01Speaker 11: can talk on the thirties, all right. I just want
- 2:14:03Speaker 11: you to know I'm arranging my vacation. I'm kidding, but
- 2:14:06Speaker 11: that it is helpful.
- 2:14:07Speaker 1: You should have left it that way. I'm always on it.
- 2:14:10Speaker 1: I'm always on it that you come on anyway day.
- 2:14:12Speaker 1: We'll do it in a couple three weeks and between
- 2:14:14Speaker 1: now and then, have a wonderful July and best of
- 2:14:17Speaker 1: health and loved you in your better half, my brother.
- 2:14:19Speaker 4: Thank you, sir.
- 2:14:20Speaker 1: Take care, folks. You didn't get a chance to listen
- 2:14:22Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson along with the head of the Export
- 2:14:25Speaker 1: Import Bank. That was an interesting conversation, much much different
- 2:14:29Speaker 1: conversation with Congressman Davidson the normal, but it's fascinating and
- 2:14:32Speaker 1: really very positive in terms of bringing more business and
- 2:14:36Speaker 1: industry into the United States of America. Peyton's Lemonade Stand
- 2:14:40Speaker 1: what an amazing charity. Just go to Peyton pay tu
- 2:14:43Speaker 1: and Peyton's lemonadestand dot org. This is the ninth annual
- 2:14:48Speaker 1: and it's coming up on July twenty fifth. Buy some Lemonade.
- 2:14:51Speaker 1: You'll be supporting an amazing charity helping children have to
- 2:14:55Speaker 1: spend time in the hospital, get some wonderful resources at
- 2:14:58Speaker 1: charity started by a six year old girl nine years
- 2:15:00Speaker 1: ago and it is blown up more than one hundred stands,
- 2:15:04Speaker 1: starting with a single stand nine years ago. So get
- 2:15:07Speaker 1: the details and help them out over at Peyton's Lemonade
- 2:15:10Speaker 1: Stand dot org and also my conversation there of course
- 2:15:16Speaker 1: with Jay Ratliffe. Tomorrow, big show lined up. We've got
- 2:15:20Speaker 1: Tech Friday with Dave Hatter, Jack Winsor from the Hot
- 2:15:22Speaker 1: Press Network and a full hour with former Congressman brad
- 2:15:25Speaker 1: Winstrip who's now with the Hudson Organization Brigham Accounts Hudson Institute,
- 2:15:30Speaker 1: and we're going to learn about what he's planning on
- 2:15:32Speaker 1: doing there, among other along with other topics tomorrow with
- 2:15:36Speaker 1: brad Winstrip. Folks, thank you for helping me muddle through
- 2:15:39Speaker 1: today and I hope you stick around. Glenn Beck's coming
- 2:15:43Speaker 1: right up.