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55KRC Thursday Show - Cong. Davidson, Cincy Classical Academy, Vivek for Governor, Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 2: Friday Eve. I had no idea what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Tally with a soundbite from Joe Strecker. Joe Strecker,
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  Speaker 2: executive producer of the 55KRC Morning Show. My name is
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  Speaker 2: call this morning if you've got something you want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about. 7.05 begins the guest here on the rundown.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at it, Congressman Warren Davidson. Got some good
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  Speaker 2: things to talk about with Congressman Warren Davidson, including a
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  Speaker 2: report from OCC finding that nine banks refuse to, well,
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  Speaker 2: do business with not just conservative entities, Christian organizations, firearm manufacturers,
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  Speaker 2: but also some left-leaning organizations. In other words, they put
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  Speaker 2: They considered that it was their reputational risk at stake,
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  Speaker 2: these big banks. And if we do business with someone
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  Speaker 2: who manufactures firearms or some conservative organization, our reputation will
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  Speaker 2: be harmed. Yeah, right. Congressman Warren Davidson on that. Got
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  Speaker 2: more details on that coming up as well. Operation Blackout
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  Speaker 2: under Trump, the FBI ramping up targeting of foreign scammers.
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  Speaker 2: Those are a couple of topics we're going to go
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  Speaker 2: over with. Congressman Warren Davidson, good morning, sir. Looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to 7.05 and having you back on the program. Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: Classical Academy, I love what they are doing. I love
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  Speaker 2: school choice. And if you can get your child into
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  Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Classical Academy, consider yourself lucky. It's an amazing organization.
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  Speaker 2: Tanya Ford's going to join us to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: Got a fundraiser coming up. And I have been asked
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  Speaker 2: to speak at the fundraiser. I was blessed to be
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  Speaker 2: asked by Cincinnati Classical Academy. I got to tour that place.
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  Speaker 2: I've met some of the people involved. I had mentioned
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  Speaker 2: on the radio after touring it, it was just amazing.
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  Speaker 2: The children were so well-behaved and friendly and polite and well-mannered.
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  Speaker 2: We were walking into a classroom with the folks that
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  Speaker 2: were giving me the tour, and the children just on
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  Speaker 2: their own turned and just waved a pleasant hello to me.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even know who the hell I was. And
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  Speaker 2: all of the lockers were... Rows of lockers like any
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  Speaker 2: school out there. None of them had locks on them.
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  Speaker 2: You could walk up to any one of those lockers
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  Speaker 2: and open it up. They'd be filled with the child's belongings,
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  Speaker 2: you know, coats and books and things like that, like
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  Speaker 2: any locker would. But in every other school, the lockers
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  Speaker 2: have locks on them. Because why? Well, kids steal. Not there.
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  Speaker 2: Children from all walks of life, you know, children from
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  Speaker 2: all colors, all races, creeds. I mean, it's a miracle
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  Speaker 2: that the place exists. and they don't charge tuition. That's
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  Speaker 2: why there's a waiting list. Anyway, I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: having Tanya on the program, and I support that concept.
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  Speaker 2: Vivek Ramaswamy, you've heard of him. He's running for governor
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  Speaker 2: of the state of Ohio. He deserves your vote far
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  Speaker 2: more than Amy Lockdown Acton, who is incompetent and a coward. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I said it. Why won't she debate Vivek Ramaswamy?
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Someone answer that question. You can't answer that question, can you?
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  Speaker 2: Other than reaching the conclusion that I've reached, she's a coward.
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  Speaker 2: And you're going to vote for her. I like to
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  Speaker 2: think folks in my listening audience are going, no, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to vote for her. And you have a
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  Speaker 2: multitude of reasons to vote for Ramaswami. Great guy, and
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  Speaker 2: he'll be on the program at 8.05. Pre-recorded. I talked
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  Speaker 2: to him after the show yesterday because given his schedule
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  Speaker 2: and the campaign trail, you've got to get him when
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  Speaker 2: you can. He's got some great points to make. Jay Ratliff,
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  Speaker 2: IHeartMedia aviation expert. Jay Ratliff at 8.30. Tomorrow, Tech Friday
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  Speaker 2: with Dave Hatter and Jack Windsor. So there's your lineup. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, over at 55KRC. iheart. com where you can get the podcast,
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  Speaker 2: where you can get, like, Napolitano yesterday. Josh Gerth from
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Party here in Hamilton County. He was on
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  Speaker 2: the program. And Jonathan Pearson, he's running for county commissioner.
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  Speaker 2: He comes across as just a really smart guy.
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  Speaker 1: Grounded.
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  Speaker 2: He's got some good ideas. And I think it would
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  Speaker 2: be a wonderful thing to have Jonathan Pearson on county commissioners.
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  Speaker 2: Got to get out and vote in order to bring
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  Speaker 2: that around. Speaking of voting, Sherry Poland from the Board
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  Speaker 2: of Election. You've got time. Why don't you work the polls?
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  Speaker 2: And I'll go back to the young people. If you've
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  Speaker 2: got a 17-year-old or older and still in high school
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  Speaker 2: in your home, build a resume. Civic responsibility, checked. Right there.
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  Speaker 2: I worked the polls, says the young person. So they
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  Speaker 2: can do that. Just some training. You get 200-plus bucks
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  Speaker 2: for doing it. It's a long day. No one denies that.
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  Speaker 2: But civic responsibility, engaging in the process, ensuring the integrity
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  Speaker 2: of the election. and an environment where it's really not argumentative.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going in there to wage some sort of
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  Speaker 2: political argument back and forth with the opposition. Everybody plays
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  Speaker 2: nicely on election day, and you can be a part
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  Speaker 2: of that. So get in touch with the Board of Elections.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's all there, 55KRC.
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  Speaker 4: Iheart.
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  Speaker 2: Com, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. Pound 550 on AT & T phones. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to... Some of the details on this with
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Davidson. But banks. And this reminded me so much
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  Speaker 2: of the IRS under Lois Lerner where they were denying
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  Speaker 2: nonprofit status for only conservative organizations, the absolute weaponization of
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  Speaker 2: the IRS. And we've got over here with Jack Smith's FBI,
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  Speaker 2: weaponized FBI, going after you, regular run-of-the-mill people, under the
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  Speaker 2: veil of investigating January 6th, 639,000 Republican donors. That's the
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  Speaker 2: records he got. Former special counsel Jack Smith, under the
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  Speaker 2: microscope of Blay, for all the shenanigans he was engaged
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  Speaker 2: in while conducting this insane, massive, intrusive invasion. Even went
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  Speaker 2: after supporters who purchased MAGA hats, including their shipping addresses.
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  Speaker 2: This is the data they have, and they still have it.
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  Speaker 2: And interestingly enough, this data that he went after goes
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  Speaker 2: all the way back to 2005. January 6th event was 2020,
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  Speaker 2: for those who can't recall history. Why were they getting
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  Speaker 2: records going all the way back to 2005? Did they
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  Speaker 2: have probable cause to believe a crime had been committed?
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  Speaker 2: Were they just going out on a fishing expedition into
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  Speaker 2: the world? That's kind of where I am on that one.
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  Speaker 2: Documents suggest Smith wanted to ensnare the information of thousands
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  Speaker 2: of just regular Republican donors. essentially treated them like parties
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  Speaker 2: to a criminal conspiracy, because they had an R next
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  Speaker 2: to their name, or they voted Republican previously. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think about this in the context of, here's a
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  Speaker 2: weird connection, maybe. Flock hammers. Removing flock hammers, all the rage.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 2: It's an invasion into our privacy. It's an intrusion. Look
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  Speaker 2: what cops are doing. They're using this information to look
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  Speaker 2: after old girlfriends or spouses, and it's obviously an abuse
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  Speaker 2: of the system, violating policies. We need to get rid
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  Speaker 2: of all of it. No more flock cameras because some
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  Speaker 2: bad actor that has access to the information has misused
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  Speaker 2: the authority. And I understand the reaction. I'm no big
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  Speaker 2: government Orwellian kind of fan. But pivoting over and looking
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  Speaker 2: what Jack Smith was able to do under the auspices
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  Speaker 2: of conducting a criminal investigation... got into everything in your life.
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  Speaker 2: They tapped elected officials' conversations, cell phones, spied on them,
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  Speaker 2: bad actors abusing the information that they have access to
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  Speaker 2: because we're forced to provide it to them. It's everywhere.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Just really disturbing. Political views, religious views. As we stand
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  Speaker 2: on the brink of this major election and this is
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  Speaker 2: the type of abuse, I don't ever recall the Republicans
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  Speaker 2: engaging in this. You think about Watergate, what actually happened
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  Speaker 2: with Watergate compared to this type of revelation. heaped on
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  Speaker 2: top of multiple other revelations. I mean, just look back
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  Speaker 2: at the DOJ, FBI, and their treatment of Hunter Biden
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  Speaker 2: as it relates to all the criminal activity they were
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  Speaker 2: aware of. He could have been indicted. He could have
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  Speaker 2: been criminally charged. Of course he wasn't. And then the
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  Speaker 2: statute of limitations ran on some of the crimes that
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  Speaker 2: he seemed to be obviously guilty of. Slow walking. That
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  Speaker 2: was the Democrats. You know, and, and, and refusal to,
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  Speaker 2: here's a completely unrelated tangential point, Democrats, health officials from
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  Speaker 2: Department of Health and Human Services, CMMS, are continuing now
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  Speaker 2: to pore over government records to see if people are inappropriately, unlawfully,
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  Speaker 2: or otherwise enrolled in government programs like Obamacare, in spite
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  Speaker 2: of being dead. Officials reviewed data, identified duplicate enrollments, dead
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  Speaker 2: people being insured. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and
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  Speaker 2: others said during a briefing the other day, who benefits
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  Speaker 2: from this, the unlawful, illegal enrollment, insurance companies, brokers, agents,
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  Speaker 2: and others. It costs you and me, the taxpayers, gazillions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars and they just saved a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 2: money for us by identifying these dead and otherwise not
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  Speaker 2: eligible people and threw them off the rolls. The sad
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  Speaker 2: thing about it is, hmm, periodic checks of this information
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  Speaker 2: are required for the purposes of Well, eliminating dual enrollments. Look,
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  Speaker 2: if you're in Medicaid, you're not eligible for Obamacare. That's
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  Speaker 2: just the reality. That's the law. And yet, here we go.
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  Speaker 2: We've got dead people on there. We've got people double enrolled.
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  Speaker 2: Quite often, the individuals who are double enrolled don't even
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  Speaker 2: know that they've been double enrolled.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because somebody's committed a fraud. Hey, here's an idea. Let's
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  Speaker 2: do periodic checks to try to identify dual enrollments. Hey, Medicaid,
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  Speaker 2: you have this guy on your Medicaid roll. Yeah, we do. Well,
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  Speaker 2: why is he on Obamacare rolls over here? We've seen it. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's take care of that.
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  Speaker 6: Simple.
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  Speaker 2: These examinations were conducted a couple of times a year
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  Speaker 2: during the first Trump administration and resumed after Trump was
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  Speaker 2: sworn in in 2025. Interestingly enough, why in God's name
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  Speaker 2: were these reviews paused during the Biden administration? There you go. See,
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  Speaker 2: it's okay with Democrats. It's their, well, fraud. It's their crime.
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  Speaker 2: It's their nefarious actions. It's okay for them to do
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  Speaker 2: it because, well, it benefits them. It's like my time
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago. Corruption, yep. We all acknowledge it. It's corrupt,
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  Speaker 2: but it's ours. Hey, we need those people on the rolls.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't... This is.
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  Speaker 2: We need to benefit insurance companies and other criminals. We're
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  Speaker 2: not going to do a review. Does that make sense
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  Speaker 2: to anybody? That's the Biden administration. That's Democrats. And again,
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  Speaker 2: going back to voting, for example, why would any elected
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  Speaker 2: official not want to make sure the eligible voting rolls
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  Speaker 2: are accurate? Come up with a reason why you wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: want to review the voting rolls. This is something Republicans
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  Speaker 2: are in favor of. Hey, let's get in there and
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  Speaker 2: get rid of the dead people. Hey, that person moved
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  Speaker 2: out of the state 10 years ago. Why are they
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  Speaker 2: still eligible to vote here in the state of Ohio?
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  Speaker 2: Guess what? They're not. Because Republican states look at that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Why are Democrats not interested in that? I know the
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  Speaker 2: answer to the question. I'm just trying to hammer it home. 518, 55KRC,
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  Speaker 2: Call if you got a comment. Love to hear from you.
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  Speaker 2: We jumped the shark on climate change, haven't we? The
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  Speaker 2: bar keeps getting lower for things that are driven by
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  Speaker 2: climate change. And I come in every morning with a
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  Speaker 2: stack of stupid articles that Joe puts together. And then
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  Speaker 2: here's this other stack of stuff over there. And I
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  Speaker 2: thought this should belong in a stack of stupid, but no,
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  Speaker 2: it's just unrelated to the stack of stupid, but it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty blank and stupid. French newspaper blames the rise in
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  Speaker 2: child marriages on climate change. Yeah, it's climate change. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's been widely reported that the number of children being
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  Speaker 2: married in the European Union is on the rise. Go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and ask yourself out loud. I wonder why that
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  Speaker 2: might be. Is it climate related? That's the first thing
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  Speaker 2: that comes to your mind, isn't it? Wow, 11-year-olds are
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  Speaker 2: getting married. Carbon dioxide, right? Some argue it's cultural. La Parisienne,
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  Speaker 2: which is described as a French newspaper, as a picture
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  Speaker 2: of a girl. It's, I guess, a 12-year-old girl. They
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  Speaker 2: say it's a 12-year-old girl with a wedding gown on.
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  Speaker 2: She was only 12 years old. Climate change, a new
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  Speaker 2: accelerator of child marriages.
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  Speaker 7: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Has nothing to do with the importation of many, many, many,
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  Speaker 2: many people with cultures that, well, embrace child marriage. I
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  Speaker 2: call it twisted. I think it's disgusting. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: someone should be an adult before they make the decision
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  Speaker 2: about getting married, but are the children making the decision,
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  Speaker 2: or is it mom and dad who are, well, contracting
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  Speaker 2: them out for a relationship? The suggestion here in the newspaper,
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  Speaker 2: or in the article, The annual report of Plan International
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  Speaker 2: and NGO Defending Children's Rights published a few days ago,
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  Speaker 2: out of 5,000 young women surveyed in Bangladesh, Kenya, Peru, Senegal,
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  Speaker 2: and Zimbabwe, 36% noted more child marriages, which are considered
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  Speaker 2: marriage before the age of 18, at least in terms
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  Speaker 2: of UNICEF guidelines. There's your definition.
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  Speaker 1: Ready?
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  Speaker 2: 5,000 surveyed, 36% noted more child marriages after.
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  Speaker 2: A climate shock. Joe, can you look that one up?
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  Speaker 2: The suggestion is that maybe droughts, floods, natural disasters result
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  Speaker 2: in destabilization of communities, leading more people to sell their
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  Speaker 2: daughters for money. And I'm thinking, wow, would you really
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  Speaker 2: do that? Ask yourself. I know. The concept of selling
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  Speaker 2: a daughter, it apparently exists. Child marriages exist. Child marriages
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  Speaker 2: are welcome in certain cultures. The selling of a daughter
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  Speaker 2: for whatever, ever reason, I think that would be considered
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  Speaker 2: a criminal action here in the United States of America
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  Speaker 2: and in most civilized nations. You're selling your child? Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's not blame dad and mom. Let's blame your exhalation.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I think we jumped a shark. Just this.
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  Speaker 2: You know where I am on this subject. 525-55KRC, the
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  Speaker 2: hear from you. Beyond that, be right back. 55KRC, the
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  Speaker 2: talk station. Don't be scared. Happy Friday, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound
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  Speaker 2: to local stories. Let's see what Bobby's got this morning. Bobby,
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  Speaker 2: welcome to the morning show, and happy Friday Eve to you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, happy Thursday, my friend. Faith Flag family in today's
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  Speaker 1: handicap Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: It is, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess here's an interesting thought exercise there, Bobby,
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  Speaker 2: since you're going to do the over and under on
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  Speaker 2: how many people are going to get Is it shot
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  Speaker 2: or killed? Because I guess it's got to depend on
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  Speaker 2: when the body is found, because apparently at Walnut Hills yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: they found a body in the 24-hour block at Copeland Street,
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  Speaker 2: 2 o'clock in the morning. And witnesses said, speaking with
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  Speaker 2: Fox 19, they smelled a foul odor there for weeks,
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  Speaker 2: suggesting it was a rotting corpse that had been laying
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  Speaker 2: around for a long time. So does that fall within
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  Speaker 2: this week's over and under? Or is it back when
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  Speaker 2: ever they determined the body was, well, the person was
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  Speaker 2: murdered or otherwise died? Just throwing it out there.
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  Speaker 1: We were gracious last week.
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  Speaker 3: We've been calling it very over on the prediction. You
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  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. But when you're having almost one
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  Speaker 3: a day, I mean, it's kind of hard to get information.
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  Speaker 1: Properly, you know. But we got it at three and
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  Speaker 1: a half this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Three and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Hammers, machetes, anything that they, you know, anything that they
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  Speaker 3: feel as though they're going out and commit violent acts with.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they don't care.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we need to ban and outlaw hammers and machetes then, Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: There's the answer to the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Screwdrivers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's almost anything.
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  Speaker 1: Guitars.
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  Speaker 2: Two by fours. We can go on forever, can't we?
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  Speaker 2: When you get rid of automobiles, because somebody might be
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  Speaker 2: angry at a police officer because their son committed crimes
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  Speaker 2: and ultimately got shot by police and then decided they
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  Speaker 2: wanted to take the life of an officer of the
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  Speaker 2: law with their cars. Let's outlaw cars.
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  Speaker 1: Sad situation, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I recognize that. Is that what you got? Three
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  Speaker 2: and a half? You're going over, right?
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  Speaker 1: Three and a half. Oh, yes. We always take the over.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, Bobby. Thank you for the prediction. Hopefully it's
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  Speaker 2: under for the good of the order. 13-year-old arrested. Happened
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  Speaker 2: earlier this week. The 13-year-old allegedly made threats toward Northwest
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  Speaker 2: local school district. According to the Corning Township Police Department
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  Speaker 2: announcement yesterday, they said officers were alerted to possible social
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  Speaker 2: media threats October 7th by the school district. School resource
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  Speaker 2: officers immediately began to investigate the threats. And during the investigation,
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  Speaker 2: they found that a 13-year-old boy who was a student
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  Speaker 2: and had not been in attendance, identified as the suspect
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  Speaker 2: regarding the threats or who was responsible for the threats.
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  Speaker 2: He also found that Coleraine High School was specifically named
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  Speaker 2: in the threats. Teen arrested October 13th by the Coleraine
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  Speaker 2: police officers, charged with inducing panic, second-degree felony, and disorderly conduct,
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  Speaker 2: a fourth-degree misdemeanor.
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  Speaker 6: Huh.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: What are your children doing online? Let's see here. Lawsuit
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: filed by the husband of a Franklin woman who died
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: after a tummy tuck surgery is going to go forward.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Hamilton County Judge Christopher McDowell denied a motion to dismiss yesterday.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: The woman, Rachel Tussey, passed away March 17th. That's three
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: weeks after she had this tummy tuck procedure performed at
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: a place called Journey Light Surgery Center. I guess the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: reputation got harmed with that revelation, huh? Anyway, the lawsuit
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: says Tussey's husband, Jeremy Tussey, claimed she was in stable
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: post-anesthesia care after the surgery but became hypoxic and unresponsive,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: later declared brain dead and died in hospice care.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: His attorney, Bernard Lane, said the anesthesiologist abandoned the patient
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: before the patient got through with the different levels of recovery.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Journey Light filed a motion to dismiss, claiming the surgeon
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: should be held responsible if anyone is and that staff
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: members were named in the suit just to harass them.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Defense claims that her husband does not even meet the
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: criteria for emotional distress, which I consider kind of a
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: strange argument. Defense attorney Amy Mueller said Jeremy Tussey was observing,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: and he may have been in the room, but he
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: himself was never in any physical peril. Defense attorney rejected that,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: saying he watched her lapse into unconsciousness. He observed her
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: with blue lips. He also pointed out the nursing staff
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: pulled him in to help hold her head while they
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: placed a bag valve mask on her face. Anyway, motion
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: to dismiss, not surprisingly denied. Case is now moving on
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: to the discovery phase, which will most assuredly lead to
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: the settlement phase. That's my guess anyway, having done that before. Oh,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: let's go back to people killing police officers because their
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: criminal sons engaged in criminal activity resulting in their, because
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: they had a firearm, getting shot by police officers in
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: a justifiable use of deadly force.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: The defense rested yesterday in the murder trial of Rodney
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Hinton Jr. This after additional testimony and cross-examination of key witnesses,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: specifically a psychiatrist who evaluated Hinton's mental state. Prior to
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: testimony resuming, Attorney Clyde Bennett requested Hinton face a reckless
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: homicide charge for the death of Hamilton County Sheriff Deputy
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Larry Henderson. This happened, remember, May of last year. He
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: wants the reckless homicide charge included in jury instructions. Prosecutors
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: argued against that request, and Judge Jody Lubbers has not
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: ruled on it, so that's pending. He's pleading not guilty
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: by reason of insanity, which takes you over to the
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: psychiatrist's testimony. The defense witness, Maria Espinoza, described as a psychiatrist,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: provided her diagnosis after watching video of his son Ryan's
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: deadly shooting. That's the problem they claim that existed here. Hinton,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Rodney Hinton Jr., was taken to watch the video of
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: his son getting shot right after it happened, apparently, and
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: she said that led to a severe psychological break. Now,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: the prosecutors obviously went after her credibility on that. The
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: psychiatrist had earlier testified that he was experiencing symptoms of
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: dissociation and psychosis that disconnected him from reality and didn't
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: let him know the wrongfulness of his actions. You can't
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: tell right from wrong. Then that qualifies you as being, well,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: temporarily at least insane. You have to know the difference
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: between right and wrong. But many are pointing out that, well,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: let's see here. They watched the video using surveillance video.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Experts said the car adjusted its path as Henderson tried
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: to move out of the way, showing he had reasoning.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: He was aiming for the officer. This wasn't inadvertent. This wasn't,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: as some had suggested, a suicide effort, which I don't
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: quite understand. Hinton waited for traffic to clear before he proceeded.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: If it was anything other than that, he could have
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: gone out of his way and moved someplace else and
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: not driven toward the officer. Expert testified it's a laughable
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: defense that he's trying to kill himself when he was
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: showing self-preservation activities.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: So....
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Attorneys are quite often placed in difficult positions and having
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: to advance arguments that make them sound like they're complete idiots, but,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: you know, desperate times call for desperate efforts and actions. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: pound 550 on AT & T phones. You know another
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: phone number I can give? Station. It's 541-55-CARE-CITY-TALK-STATION. Ah, must
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: be time for the stack of stupid. Guess what it is?
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: As is tradition. Amen.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Although you can call. If you want to call, I'll
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: take your call. Beyond that, let's see who's teaching your students. Yes,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: another one. Joe Strecker is all over these articles because
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: they involve creepy teachers and quite often Somewhat attractive women
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: teachers who think it's okay to have sex with a
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: 15-year-old in this particular case. Where does this come from? Well,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: in this case, Britain. Anyway, teaching assistant groomed a 15-year-old student,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: and she was tried for this the other day. The
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: jury took only two hours to find Melanie Rock, 34
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: years old, guilty of sexually grooming and sexual activity with
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: a child By a person in a position of trust,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: of course a teacher is that type of person. She
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: was a communications support assistant at a place called Medina
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: College on the Isle of Wight. Started chatting on Instagram
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: with the boy who apparently had been kicked out of
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: her class for bad behavior. They met several times. In
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: one case, the teacher gave him $ 60 and then took
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: him back to her place. invited him to, quote, enjoy
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: her room, close quote.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Phrasing.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Which was a, well, directed him to a drawer filled
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: with handcuffs, black see-through lingerie, and sex toys, plural. This,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the boy told investigators in an interview that was played
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: to the jury. He said he was uncomfortable as the
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: teaching assistant gave him what he called a koala hug.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: after inviting him to lie on her bed to vape.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: In other get-togethers, it's described that she brought the teen
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: disposable vapes, clothing worth about $ 500. Ultimately, they were caught,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: seen together at a pizza hut by another Medina College teacher.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: She told the boy in a panic this rock creep did,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: we need to make something up because if he sees us,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: I'm going to lose my job. and then lying to
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: her colleague that the teen was her godson. That other
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: teacher didn't buy it, reported Rock to school officials who
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: questioned her about the relationship. She texted the boy after
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: this encounter, begging him to never mention her name. F-word,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I'm F-worded, I'm going to be sacked, and now they
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: found out. Well, at least her conclusion was accurate. She
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: was taken into custody by police two days later at
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the school, told cops that she had met the boy
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: by chance and took him to Pizza Hut because he
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: was hungry. She told the court during her trial that
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: she continued to meet with the boy outside of the
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: school because she was worried about him. I'm a mom.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I care. I care too much. I was trying to
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: keep an eye on him. Thank you, Liam. She claims
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: she never acted sexually towards the boy and denied they
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: ever had physical contact in the bedroom. Jury deliberated again
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: two hours, convicted her of sexual grooming and sexual activity.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Scheduled to be sentenced in December. I know a lot
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: of people keep their head on a swivel, stay frosty.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: They survey their environment, looking out for potential troubles that
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: might come up, just sort of being proactive about activity.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: When you go into a dressing room, are you looking
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: actively for cameras? Do you ever do a scan? Is
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: this sort of entered into your realm of things to
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: be concerned about? Yet another example. We've got one here.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: We go to Illinois. Former TJ Maxx worker has been
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: accused of hiding a camera in the women's dressing room
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: at the store. Jeffrey Wallen. What the hell?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: 37-year-old Jeffrey Wallen of Loves Park, Illinois, charged with unauthorized
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: video recording and live video transmission, unlawful video of a residence,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: and obstruction of justice. Investigation began February after a customer
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: alerted store employees to a lens in a ceiling tile.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Detectives asked the public to come forward and locate any
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: further victims. As a result of the ongoing investigation, he
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: is now facing five counts of unauthorized video recording with
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: a victim under 18, four counts of unauthorized video recording
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: and live video transmission obstructing justice slash destroying evidence and burglary.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: I hate that we live in a world where you
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: can go to Amazon and buy a tiny little camera
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: that literally no one will ever see. 546. It is 551.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: 55KRC Detox Station. Excuse me. Apologies for.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: That.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: That's what the cough button's for, Thomas. Couldn't find it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: It's underneath a bunch of papers here, including this story. Mobile,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Alabama is where this one comes from. place called Carolina Court.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: It's a community. It was a home there. 9-1-1 call
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: came in on Monday, 11 o'clock in the morning. In
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: the call, the caller woman said her nephew, later identified
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: as a guy named Thomas Steele, was, in her words,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: off his medication for lithium. Now, I think she had
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: that a little bit wrong, but you get the idea.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: She said she wasn't sure who to call or contact.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: She said he gave away his phone, and giving his
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: car away, he's doing some bizarre things, and I don't
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: know if that's good. He says he's just going to
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: live for God and not going to have any kind
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: of electronics. That was her statement to the 911 dispatchers.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: So the dispatchers say, do you need any medical help?
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: She said Steele is bipolar and, quote, it's in his mind.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: He's following God, close quote. She also said her nephew
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: was acting out. The operator then said, well, what does
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: she mean? And if this acting out, is it harmful? Quote,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: I just needed to figure out what to do. I
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: called 988 and tried to talk to him. He's calm.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: He's not violent or anything, so I guess I'll just
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: let it play itself out, close quote. Operator gave the
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: woman the number for the police department. That's when that
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: call ended. Fast forward two and a half hours later,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: police called to the home and were told, and Steele
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: was apparently waiting outside when they got there. Inside, officers
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: found Steele's grandmother and aunt inside the home. Are you ready?
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Decapitated with a chainsaw.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Dude.
• 30:54
  Speaker 9: What the hell?
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: He's not violent or anything. Victims identified as Christy Deloach,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: 65 years old, and Dora Boone, 85. Steele remains behind
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: bars without bond. Yeah, that's a frightening mugshot. If you
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: saw the mugshot, you'd say, yeah, that guy's crazy. And
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: he looks dangerous. Miami-Dade County, Florida, where a man allegedly
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: shot an Uber Eats driver in the butt because he
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: tried to get his girlfriend's phone number. 33-year-old Colson, ah,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: here we go, Sarulatuya. There's too many U's in that
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: last name. Anyway, taken to custody after he allegedly shot
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: an Uber Eats driver over an attempt to get his
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: girlfriend's phone number. According to the report, law enforcement showed
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: up at the Pearl Dayland Apartments 3.30 in the morning
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: for a report of a gunshot. Deputies got there, flagged
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: down by a bystander who said a group of people
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: had been involved in an altercation but left shortly before
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: the deputies showed up. About that time, police received a
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: report that a victim had arrived at the Baptist Health
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: South Miami Hospital with a gunshot wound. The victim said
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: he made a delivery to a woman who lived at
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: the apartment about an hour earlier and, quote, engaged in
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: a brief conversation with her and took a liking to her,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: close quote, according to local news. Victim said he returned
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: to the apartment about 3.25 in the morning in an
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: attempt to see the woman again and possibly obtain her
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: phone number. She denied the request, according to the report.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: While the Uber driver was headed back to his car,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Sarututuya pulled up in a Corvette, got out, ordered the
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: victim to lie on the ground while allegedly pointing a
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: handgun at him. According to documents reviewed by local news,
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: the victim complied, laid flat on the ground, and this
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: guy fired one round, grazing the victim on his right buttocks.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Victim remained on the ground. Sarututuya Hit him again on
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: the back of the head with a buttstock and a handgun,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: causing a two-inch gap wound. Authority said the suspect.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Just walk away.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Amen, brother. Authority said the suspect ordered the driver to
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: stand up, pointed the gun in his head, and told him,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I am going to kill you. Documents indicate that his
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: girlfriend witnessed the incident and attempted to calm him down, yelling, babe,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: please stop. Maybe she should have said, babe, walk away.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: The victim said this crazy guy chased him around in
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: the Corvette while still pointing the gun at him as
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: the woman attempted to hold him back. Police reportedly able
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: to trace the Corvette's license plate to this guy. He
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: was arrested at the apartment after being picked out of
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: a photo lineup.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: 555.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I just, you know, you hear about that craziness. You
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: think all this could have been easily avoided. You never
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: use a firearm under those circumstances. And how many public
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: taxpayer dollars are going to be involved and expended going
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: through the whole motion of prosecuting this guy? 5.56, 55
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: KRC Talk Station. Plenty to talk about in the 6
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: o'clock hour. Congressman Davidson at 7.05. Vivek Ramaswamy at 8.05,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: among other guests on the morning show. I hope you
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: can stick around and maybe give me a call. Be
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: right back. At the top of the hour. Get the top.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: It's 6.06 at 55 KRC Talk Station. My name is
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, and I'm wishing everyone a very happy Thursday
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: slash Friday Eve, and looking forward to one hour from
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: now when Congressman Warren Davidson returns to the program. Got
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: a couple of great things to talk about with him.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: One of the good ones, we've got some up there,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: not in large supply, though, but Congressman Davidson is going
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: to be talking about debanking conservatives. There were nine large
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: financial institutions that the OCC reviewed, and they determined that
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: because you were politically affiliated or otherwise engaged in what
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: they deemed to be reputationally ruinous businesses like, oh, my God,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: you manufacture MAGA hats or, oh, my God, you're a
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: firearms manufacturer. Sorry, sucks to be you. We're not going
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: to do business with you debanking them because of their
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: fear over reputational risks. Okay. What in the hell is
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: reputational risk? What is reputation risk? Again, that's undefined in
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: therein lies the challenge. So pretty explosive revelation there. Congressman David,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: some of the details on that. Plus, Operation Blackout under
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: President Trump, FBI ramping up targeting of foreign scammers, which
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: coincides with Congress' work on the Subcommittee for National Security
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: and Illicit Finance cracking down on scammers. Recent raid in
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Ghana linked to millions of losses as well as operations
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: so far seizing $ 17 billion and preventing hundreds of millions
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: of dollars in losses. So, Good work on that one.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: My favorite school out there. No, I'm not a graduate.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I kind of wish I had been able to go
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: to the school. But Cincinnati Classical Academy wasn't around when
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I was a young person. And I don't think the
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: public schools had deteriorated to the point where they are
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: now when I was young. Because I went through public
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: schools and I don't recall them being bastions of left-wing ideology.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: And that is certainly not what the Cincinnati Classical Academy is.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: It is an amazing institution. The young people there are just,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: they come from everywhere. People travel like hour plus. They
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: get their kids into Cincinnati Classical Academy. There's a waiting
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: list around the corner for kids to get in there.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: They don't charge tuition. And it's all classical education. And
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: they even teach them Latin, believe it or not. Tonya
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Ford's going to join the program at 730 to give
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: us more details on that and talk about the Classical
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Cup fundraiser that I'm a part of this year, and
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I'm honored to be part of that. Vivek Ramaswamy, get
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: the memo. He's running for governor. Demonstrably a better candidate
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: and ideas for the future of the state of Ohio.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Vivek Ramaswamy. Go ahead and let me know why it
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: is Amy Acton deserves your vote. Yeah, look at her resume.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: She quit her job as medical director after a short
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: period of time after locking down the state of Ohio schools.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: It was her instructions to DeWine that did that. He
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: can claim the buck stops on his desk and he
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: had to sign the order or otherwise implement the lockdown.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: But the idea came from her. And again, why won't
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: she debate Vivek Ramaswamy? Why? No one can give me
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: an answer to that. Phone lines are open. You got
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: any reason? I'd like to hear it. Jay Ratliff, iHeartMedia
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: aviation expert, got some terrific topics to go over with
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Jay Ratliff. Without further ado, we got an election coming up.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: You know that early voting is going on now. Yeah,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: you know that. Sherry Pullen from Board of Elections was
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: on yesterday, and she is asking for help with poll workers.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: You got that going for you, but you want to
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: consider who you're voting for. So you're angry at evil
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: orange man. We all get that. You know, Karl Rove
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: made an interesting point about that. Check out his op-ed piece.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I don't need to read the whole thing. A Week
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: in the Life of a Struggling Party. So he does
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: go through and is critical of some of the things
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Trump did over the past couple of weeks and scratching
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: his head over that. But he pivots. What about Democratic
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: national messaging? There is none because there is no clear
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Democratic agenda. He says in June, House Minority Leader Hakeem
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Jeffries appointed five task force to develop an agenda for
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: the Democrats. Something to run on specifically other than evil
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: orange man. The health care task force already reported to him,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: but we have gotten no recommendations from any group that
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: has been made public. So we don't even know what
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: they concluded. They run around screaming Medicare for all, but
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: don't provide any details. He says it's obvious what's going on.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: I thought of this when I thought of Amy Acton
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: hiding in her basement, Biden-like. Democrats are betting that trashing Mr.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Trump is enough and don't care about their agendas. They're
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: almost certainly right. Democrats will flip the House and the Senate.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: The Senate is a toss-up. And I know that's what
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: the polls say, Karl Rove. I haven't given up. But
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: you can say they will flip the House based upon
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: this assertion that evil orange man and criticizing him is
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: just enough for them to do that. Here's the point, though.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: But victory without an agenda carries a cost. Democrats will
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: have no mandate for whatever policies they pursue. And none
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: of the unity and purpose a national framework would have provided.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Opposition to Trump may hand Democrats a gavel. It won't
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: give them a direction. Something else you need to be
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: sort of critical of. Step back from what is the
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Democrat Party? What are they? I mean, we could be
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: critical and say the same about the same thing about
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: the republicans but there's a lot more uniformity and understanding
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: with regard to the republican agenda you know growing business
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: keeping taxes low i mean we can all rattle off
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: the litany of things the republicans promise and quite often
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: do not deliver on but at least you've got them
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: on record as providing you with uh with an idea
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: of what they prefer i would like to lower taxes
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: while the other side says they want to tax evil
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: billionaires into submission California is, they're bleeding themselves dry. All
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: the rich people have left. I mean, look at Venezuela.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: When they went full on commie, all of the smart
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: and brightest and people able to leave left. This happens
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: all the time. Illinois, all the millionaires walked out. New York,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: you know what's going on there. They all end up
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: in Florida, destination land. Pursuing Republican conservative policies that have
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: done really well by the residents of the various states,
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: the destination states, which apparently include Tennessee as well. Texas,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: another one. Why is that? Rational people make rational decisions
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: in their own best interest. The Democrats, to the extent
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: they're running on anything, listen to the craziness from the
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: left side of their party. They can't. cannot deliver ever
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: on what they are promising to the extent they're even
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: making any promise beyond Donald Trump bad. Like Zoran Mamdami,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Lord Almighty. Al-Sayed, another one. Opposition to Trump may hand
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Democrats the gavel. It won't give them direction. Isn't that true?
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: And I keep asking myself that over and over and
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: over again, wondering what the future is going to look
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: like if the inevitable, as everyone seems to suggest it is,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Democrats taking over the House, maybe even the Senate. What
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: is that going to deliver us, the American people? And
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: which side of the political spectrum, in terms of advancement
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: of agenda ideas, not that Donald Trump won't veto whatever
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: nonsense comes out of the House. If it is passed
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: by the Senate, you know how the acts become or
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: bills become laws. Schoolhouse rock. He'll veto it. And they won't.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: in spite of the most optimistic projections for the Democrats,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: have a veto-proof majority. So nothing will probably get done,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: which includes reforms. Nothing by way of reforms will get
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: accomplished unless Donald Trump can wield his executive pen. And,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: you know, we've got a challenge on our hands insofar
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: as the power of the executive branch growing and growing
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: and growing, largely out of necessity because of congressional gridlock
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: and inaction. See, we expect immediacy. We expect answers and solutions.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: We want it done now. That invites executive overreach, if
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: I might be so bold as to point it out.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Congress is the problem. We got a gridlock. They can't
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: even agree on things that are good for everyone. Like,
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: for example, the point I made early in the program,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: collectively joining and getting rid of fraud, waste, and abuse. Democrats,
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: they love USA. They love the crappy programs they funded. Why?
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, connect the dots with the money. Money flows out.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: It goes somewhere. They don't seem to care. But they
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: don't want to stop it from flowing.
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: Huh.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: I guess they must be, at least in part, the
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: beneficiaries of U.S. taxpayer dollars. Maybe, huh?
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Follow the money. 615. CJ's on the phone. If you
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: don't mind holding, CJ. I just looked up and saw
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: you there. I got to mention... It's 619 at 55KRCD
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Talk Station. Brian Thomas wishing everyone a very happy Thursday
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: and an invitation to call 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK or pound 550
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: on AT & T phones. As CJ did, CJ, thank
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: you very much for holding over the break. Welcome to
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: the morning show.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you very much.
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: And I wanted to follow up. I did not mean
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: to call with a follow-up to that because driving through
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: to work this morning, you can't help but see the
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: large increase of gas and everybody's all out there wanting
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: to blame the war in Iran, which does play into
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: it because it leads to the larger issue and all
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: the other in a number of other things. But they always,
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: always forget to talk about the number one issue. And
• 43:41
  Speaker 8: that is the amount of spending that not just Congress,
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: but the American people demand. And the reality is you
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: don't have to look much further than Argentina to to
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: see that if you can get government spending under control,
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: it will crush inflation quickly, and it will also be
• 44:00
  Speaker 8: able to provide the ability for people to live.
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: We have become so addicted.
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: To government spending that no politician will ever on either
• 44:09
  Speaker 8: side of the party legitimately look to cut spending because.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: It's the fastest way to lose your job and their power.
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: And so it's never going to happen. And you were
• 44:19
  Speaker 8: talking about California and like the rich people.
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: The rich can afford it because you know what they
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: do in California?
• 44:25
  Speaker 8: The rich people don't leave. They just leave for six
• 44:28
  Speaker 8: months and one day. And then they don't have to
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: pay California taxes. And then they get to hang out
• 44:33
  Speaker 8: either in California when it's nicer in the summer than
• 44:36
  Speaker 8: it is maybe in Texas or Florida.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Or they live there during the winter when.
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: It's nicer in a place like Alaska or Montana when it's.
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: super cold up there and they can avoid.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: The taxes that way.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: They know how to do it.
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: The people who.
• 44:52
  Speaker 8: Have left California are more like me, who are the
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: middle class, who don't have a ton of money to
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: be able to afford homes in multiple states. And you
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: just sit there and say, I can't afford a $ 700
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: car registration on a pickup truck because it's considered a high, whatever,
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: gas usage vehicle. They have just literally driven out everybody
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: because they're in their ability to say that the government
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: is your best friend and it's your provider is so dangerous.
• 45:24
  Speaker 8: I could care less what Abdul or whatever his name
• 45:29
  Speaker 8: is up in Michigan, what his religion is, when he
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: sits there and he wants to give away the world.
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: There is no answer.
• 45:35
  Speaker 8: To him on any political issue other than I'm from
• 45:39
  Speaker 8: the government and I'm here to help. And as Ben
• 45:41
  Speaker 8: Franklin once said, if you give up safety first, For liberty,
• 45:45
  Speaker 8: you will get neither. And that is what people are
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: doing with government spending. They are giving up their safety
• 45:51
  Speaker 8: in order to have more liberty, and they get neither.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: You didn't call me looking for an argument, CJ. Wonderful,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: excellent points. And it's a great segue to something I
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: wanted to bring to everybody's attention this morning anyway, and
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the ability to do that off of your comments,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: my friend. I saw this article, I Come From Your Future.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: It's a letter to the world, specifically Americans, as we
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: get ready to go vote. A Frenchman's warning to all
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Americans voting Democrat. So if you know what's going on
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: in France, the country is literally falling apart as a
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: consequence of what CJ just talked about. And they're talking
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: about shrinking their budget dramatically, which will, of course, lead
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: to less government services. But if they don't do it,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: they're going to bankrupt themselves. They're rapidly deteriorating France's finances.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Deteriorating public finances drive up France's borrowing costs. If you
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: dig yourself a $ 40- plus trillion hole and a trajectory to
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: continue to grow it $ 2 trillion more each year, debt
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: service exceeds $ 1 trillion annually and continues to go up
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: to the point where it exceeds your gross domestic product.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: And in France, it's 120% of GDP. Higher borrowing costs
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: make funding to welfare increasingly impossible. Say that to Zorhan Mamdami.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: Say it to Al-Sayed. Say it to any Democrat who
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: thinks that more government programs are even feasible, let alone
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: that they're going to achieve the promised goal. No, you
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: won't get better health care if the government runs it.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Can't we all just collectively agree from that? Put down
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: your partisan stripe and just recognize that anytime government's running something,
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: it sucks. There's no competition and no incentive to do
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: it right. This French technology entrepreneur, I come from your future.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: The promise was protection. The result is stagnation. I'm French.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: I want to talk to Americans who are about to
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: vote Democrat. Not to insult you, to warn you. I
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: come from your future. In France, we did everything your
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: progressive politicians promised. Free health care, free college, generous welfare,
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich. A
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57%
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: of GDP, one of the highest on the planet on paper.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: It's the dream. Here's what it looks like from the inside,
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: he writes. France hasn't passed a balanced budget since 1974.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Tell me if this doesn't sound strikingly familiar. Our debt
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. That sounds like schools here.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: can't afford an apartment in the city they were born in.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich, and San Francisco.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: And the rich you wanted to tax, they left too
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: and took the jobs with them. The promise was protection.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: The result is stagnation. The worst part is that nobody
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: One more program, one more regulation, one more tax to
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: fund it. Each step alone makes sense. 50 years of
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: them and you wake up in a country that can
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: its streets safe. Parallels, maybe? I love America. he writes,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: but it's the one place on earth where people still
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: believe that they can build something from nothing. I came
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: country has. Before you vote, ask yourself one question. Is
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: the program you're voting for making America more like America
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: or more like France? Trust me, you don't want to
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: be France. He followed up. I'll give you the follow-up,
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: maybe even better than the original message, but man, that
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: message rings, doesn't it? France is falling apart. 626 from 5KRC,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: Detox Day. I will do the follow-up. The guy from
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: France is.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Article or a letter to the world, most notably to
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: the United States of America, but anybody else who wants
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: to go down France's road. So destructive it ultimately becomes.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Real quick here, forget the local stories. I'm going to
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: do that next. James O'Keefe, you remember him, huh? I'm
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: thinking of Maureen because she keeps saying there's going to
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: be a big bomb drop in terms of the October surprise.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: I've been waiting for it. Well, here's what he had
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: to say just the other day. We have undercover people
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: in the inside midterm campaigns across the United States. We're
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: not releasing the footage yet because we're checking facts, corroborating sources,
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: and obtaining comment to make our stories absolutely bulletproof. I
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: will also be showing up in person over the weekend
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: to confront the people who say they are breaking the law.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: We are announcing this because I want you all to
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: know I'm watching every single thing you all are doing,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: and then stay tuned. In the post from yesterday, following
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: up on that one, our undercover people are everywhere. We
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: have October surprises for you that will drop a bombshell.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Keep your eyes peeled. Investigative journalist James O'Keefe. I have
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: my popcorn out, but I have had it out for
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: quite some time for a whole bunch of reasons. Let
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: us see here. Local stories. Since any officials disclosed a
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: critical failure in the Duck Creek floodgate system, the one
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: that happened before the July storm, which contributed to extensive
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: flooding and damages. You remember that, don't you? It led
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: to changes in how the system is tested and operated.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: The July 17 storm, five inches of rain in a
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: few hours, streets flooded, homes flooded, businesses, of course. Metropolitan
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Sewer District received more than 1,900 sewer backup reports. Cleaning
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: costs expected to exceed $ 5 million. City officials said that
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: one of the floodgates' railroad-style traffic arms failed prior to
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: the storm, preventing the gate from closing automatically. Jason Fleming,
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: interim director of the Stormwater Management Utility, said, unbeknownst to
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: us at the time, it is that automatic function of
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: the floodgate that will not proceed if one of those
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: railroad arms fail. The knee bone connected to the thigh bone? Right, okay. Well,
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: the floodgate connected to the automated function of the... Anyway,
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: favor the gate to close automatically impacted and damaged dozens
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: of nearby properties. For the storm, the city inspected and
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: tested the system once a year. Fleming said, you know,
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: we went from once a year to that event. Now
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: we're testing it multiple times per week to make sure
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: it works, as well as staffing it manually until those
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: railroad arms are replaced sometime in the next month. The
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: city also received 970 direct relief applications after the storm.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: As of October 9th, anyway, the cutoff date of the reporting,
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: I guess, 835 applications approved, more than 773,000 paid to
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: 675 recipients.
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: For once. of a gate coming down. Keep an eye
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: on your kids. What are they up to? Well, over
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: in Corian Township, the police there, Corian Township Police Department
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: announced yesterday that they arrested a 13-year-old kid for allegedly
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: making threats toward Northwest Local School District. Police said officers
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: alerted to a possible social media threat. October 7th, Northwestern
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: Local School District alerted them, and school resource officers immediately
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: began investigating the threats. During that investigation, they found a
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: 13-year-old was a student but not in attendance, I guess,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: that day, identified as the person related to the threats.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: He also found the Corian High School was specifically named
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: in the threats. October 13th, he was arrested by Corian
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: police officers, charged with inducing panic, secondary felony, and disorderly conduct,
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: fourth-degree misdemeanor. All right. Well, I'm out of time in
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: this segment anyhow.
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: 635.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: 55KRC, the talk station. 55KRC, the talk station. It's 640
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: at 55KRCD Talk Station. Happy Friday Eve. And good morning, Maureen.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: She was listening. That O'Keefe comment that he'll be releasing
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: bombshell reports about the inside information on law breaking going
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: on in connection with the elections. Yep, with two popcorn emojis.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Maureen, for that. And good morning, Cribbage Mike,
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: who is listening from the Ozarks, enjoying the fall foliage
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: on his iHeartMedia app, I might add. iHeartMedia app can
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: be gotten at 55krc. iheart. com. So when you're in the Ozarks,
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: you too can listen. Good morning, Mike. So I'm pivoting
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: off of the last of this open letter. The tech
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: entrepreneur's name, he's French, Breville Lepogon. Close enough. He's a
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: real guy, and apparently he moved out of France with
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: the disaster that is the French government's overspending and future collapse.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Read you his article or his letter in the segment
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: before the bottom of the hour news segment, but he
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: did a follow-up. Second warning. Well, you're right. My post
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: about France went viral. Thousands of likes. Many Americans told me, quote,
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: Democrats aren't socialists. America will never be France. I want
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: to answer that seriously, step by step.
• 55:08
  Speaker 6: You're right.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Start with a simple observation. Look at what has gotten
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: cheaper in America over the last 25 years.
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: TVs.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: Phone, software, clothes, toys, and now look at what has
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: exploded in terms of price. College tuition, health care, child care,
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: and housing. What separates the two lists, he asked? The
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: first five lives in competitive markets. The second is exactly
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: where government is most involved. Subsidies, mandates, licensing, zoning, and regulation.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Start with college. Washington lends students almost unlimited money. Universities
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: know the money will always come, so they raise tuition
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: and hire more administrators. The student pays the bill for
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: 20 years, more government money, higher prices. Housing. Why can't
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: a nurse buy a home in the city where she works?
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: It's not because of capitalism. Because zoning laws, permits, environmental reviews,
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: years of procedure to build a single building. The most
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: expensive places to live in America are the places where
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: it's hardest to build. When building is nearly illegal, prices explode,
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: and I'll interject, see California as the leading example of
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: that nonsense. Healthcare. The patient almost never sees the price.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: A third party pays, regulations limit who can compete, and
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: costs climb year after year with no one able to
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: say no. So here's the trap. The problems you suffer
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: from are not the failure of free markets. They are
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: the places where the market has already been replaced by
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: the state. And the solution you're being offered? More of
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: the same. That's the Trojan horse, he writes. It always
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: works the same way. A real problem. A generous-sounding promise.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: A program that makes things worse. Then the failure of,
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: I think of Obamacare on this one, the failure of
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: that program becomes the argument for the next one. People
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: who lived under communism in Poland learned to recognize the
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: lie and the mask the lie wears. The lie never
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: presents itself as a lie. It presents itself as compassion.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: In France, we are at the end of that road.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: Debt we can never repay. Young people who can't afford
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: a home. Our best people leaving. And every few years,
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: our cities burn. Nobody voted for this. They voted for
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: one more generous promise. 50 years in a row. If
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: you're a Republican, share this with the Democrats in your life.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: Not to win an argument, to start a conversation. If
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: you're a Democrat, I'm not asking you to switch teams.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: I'm asking you to look at the pattern. Whenever the
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: state took over, life became unaffordable. Or wherever the state
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: took over, life became unaffordable. Don't fix the failures of
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: government with more government. Stay American. Ask for less state,
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: not more. Boy, that's a philosophy I've been living my
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: whole life. And doesn't it just speak volumes of truth?
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: That's an in-your-face, easily understood, and I would argue irrefutable argument.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: France is living the reality, and we are just one
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: step behind them. And you want more of that. I
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: hope the answer is no. 645. And I hope you
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: get out and vote for that reason and for no other.
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  Speaker 3: 513-749-5500.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: A talk station.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: 649-55KRC.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: A talk station. You know, all that truth pouring out
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: from that guy's passionate letter to Americans and not go
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: the road of France. And we all can fully appreciate,
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: and it isn't racist to observe, that a lot of
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: the decay that's going on in the European Union is
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: a consequence of open borders. That's the policy of the left.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: This is the policy the Democrats embrace, open borders. We're
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: already on an unsustainable trajectory. They want to bring in
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of future welfare recipients into our country,
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: regardless of what country they came from. I guess I
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: have to ask out loud, if everybody that entered this
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: country illegally during the Biden administration, if all of them were,
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: let's say, oh, I don't know, Canadian or Irish. In
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: other words, weren't necessarily people of color. And yes, people
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: of color do live in Canada and Ireland. I get that.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: But you know, the idea is if you criticize this
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: immigration wave, you're often labeled a racist, which never makes
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: any sense to me. No, they could be lizard people
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: from Remulak. And if they're coming over our borders in
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: violation of U.S. law, I think the criminal elements, at
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: least among them, should be removed from our damn country.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: And most notably, I don't think anybody should be eligible
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  Speaker 2: to get on the social welfare safety net having just
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: literally set foot in our country a moment ago. That's
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: a recipe for disaster. Especially when you have a social
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: welfare safety net that is so damn generous as the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: one we have in the United States. Of course people
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: are going to want to come here. We don't have
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: any limits. Unsustainable. Democrats want this. Jay, thanks for calling
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: this morning. Happy Thursday to you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Thursday, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Love that guy from France.
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  Speaker 6: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 5: And not only do the Democrats need to hear that,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 5: the Republicans need to hear that. And we need to
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: remember this whenever we get into our next chance to
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 5: go into the midterms, especially as we get into the
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 5: general election post-Trump, because I would say here's two comparisons.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: J.D.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: Vance Cato Institute has an article that says J.D. Vance's
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 5: economic agenda is just socialism wrapped in a nationalist flag.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 5: And they go on to talk about some of his
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 5: ideas is he's going to use government to save government.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: And at the same time, we have a Ron DeSantis,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 5: who is the only guy I've ever known, the only
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: political leader I've ever known, who actually shrunk the government
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 5: in the state of Florida. And I mean dollar by dollar,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 5: shrunk the.
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  Speaker 6: Size of it, the scope of it, the power of it.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: And so there are some very charismatic people that are
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: going to be trying to take over or run to
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: be president after Trump. And that is a lesson we
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: all need to learn, and we need to listen carefully
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 5: to what these candidates are saying of which one has
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 5: a track record, not what they say in a microphone.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 6: Which one has a track record?
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  Speaker 5: And that's why I've been a DeSantis guy for a
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 5: long time, and I'm disappointed that that we didn't try
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: to bring him to Ohio like trying to recruit a
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: franchise quarterback to be the next governor after DeWine. I
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: don't know how we do that, but I'm really, you know,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 5: am I surprised Central Committee didn't do that?
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 6: Hell no.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: He's the last thing our Central Committee wants.
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  Speaker 2: If we were to lure people like that in, we
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: need to become a state like Florida, right? I mean,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: the recipe for success is in the smaller government with
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: less spending and less taxation. Oh, brilliant.
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  Speaker 5: Or we just dissolve the state of Ohio and become
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  Speaker 5: Florida North, Ryan.
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  Speaker 6: I keep saying that.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: I'm looking to get some traction on that and just
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: say we'll take whatever comes out of Tallahassee. We really
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: don't need any more state government in Ohio. If Florida
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: will have us, which they will have to vote on it,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 5: and they probably won't based on our track, that would
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: be a brilliant idea. We'll take Tennessee, Texas. We'll be Tennessee, North, Texas, North, Florida, North.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: We can't fix our own problems, but it seems like
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: they've got a recipe.
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  Speaker 6: So let's just.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: Dissolve the damn thing. And whatever you do, don't vote Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: Have a good day, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jay. Appreciate that. And Rama's family's got some
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: great ideas. Pro-business, pro-state, pro-citizen ideas, not bigger government. Less
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: of it. And he also is promising to ferret out fraud, waste,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: and abuse. Now, you'd think Amy Acton might want to
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: jump on that bandwagon, but what in the hell is
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: she running for or running on anyway? It sure as
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: hell isn't her record. It sure as hell isn't her courage. Hmm. Hey, Susie,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: welcome to the show. Thanks for calling. Happy Thursday.
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  Speaker 7: Well, happy Thursday to you, too. But I have a
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 7: bone to pick with you.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Please.
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  Speaker 7: I took my 89-year-old mother, and we went and voted
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 7: last Wednesday, and.
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  Speaker 10: We're still getting ads.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, really?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 7: And I have to be– yes. Not just– Not just
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 7: by the sound, but I've got a mailer and a text.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, the predicate being everyone has been saying on the program,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: and I've parroted what I've been told, that if you vote,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: then you'll no longer get those materials because the campaigns
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: want to save money. Oh, that person voted. This is
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: a waste of effort, which makes perfect sense. I suspect, Susie,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: that like bureaucracies, they move a little bit slow, so
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: it may take some time for the message to get
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: to them that you voted. That's the only excuse I
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: can offer.
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  Speaker 6: Of course.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm subjected to have to listen to Amy Acton,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 7: the only ad that I've ever heard her do, over
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 7: and over again in between your commercials when I'm on
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 7: the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: Well, there's nothing we can do about it. It's all comers.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: When it comes to political advertising, we have to take
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: everything that comes in and wants to buy ads. Now,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: subject to FCC compliance, this has in the past included
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: people who are outright anti-Semitic. But we had to run them.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: Their ad, their words. And if Amy Acton wants to
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: pay us, that's fine. You can call her a least
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: temporary supporter of the 55KRC Morning Show. Susie, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm steering you wrong. That's just what I
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: was told. Coming up at 6.56. It's 7.06 at 55KRC
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  Speaker 2: Talk Station. Brian Thomas, always happy to welcome you to
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: the 55KRC Morning Show. Congressman Warren Davidson. Warren Davidson, welcome
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: back to the morning show. Thank you for spending time
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: with my listeners and me.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Brian. It's an honor to join you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and early voting's on, so get out and vote.
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  Speaker 2: When you do, if you can vote for Warren Davidson,
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  Speaker 2: you're in his district, vote for him. I want to
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: assure that Congressman Davidson stays where he is. Not that
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: I think you have a risk here, but this whole
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: idea that Democrats are leading in the polls is mind-boggling
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: to me. considering the only thing they seem to be
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: running on is absolute disdain for Donald Trump. And, of course,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: the gasoline bill is up. But, you know, people have
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: short-term memories, don't they, Congressman Davidson? It was up higher
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  Speaker 2: under Biden.
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  Speaker 4: Well, look, I like the way you're thinking, Brian, and
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: you've got to think, hey, your vote counts. You've got
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: to get out and vote. People in Hamilton County, the
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: maps are different. People don't know, but 1st and 8th
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: District split Hamilton County, and the 8th District moved over
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: to the east side, north suburbs. So we got a
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  Speaker 4: link on Davidson for Congress dot com. And there's a
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: tab there where you can go to district, put in
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  Speaker 4: your address or look at the maps on the secretary
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: of state's Web site. And it'll tell you right where
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: you are at, whether you're in the first district with
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 4: Greg Lansman or the eighth. And, you know, hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 4: get Eric Conroy in there and we'll flip. We'll keep
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  Speaker 4: the eighth strong.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Early voting.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they're trying to talk about how that's out.
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  Speaker 4: Early voting in Hamilton County is skewing in favor of Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: So for those people that are on the West Side,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: Warren County, Clinton County, and the First District, you've got
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: to show up and vote. People that live in Butler County,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: Preble County, Dart County, they've got to show up and vote.
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  Speaker 4: The people in Hamilton County could dominate this election. And
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: Republicans in Hamilton County, hey, don't give in to dismay.
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  Speaker 4: Your vote counts, too. We need everybody to show up.
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  Speaker 4: And there's a lot on the line in this election.
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  Speaker 2: Truly a lot on the line. pivoting over, speaking of
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: things on the line, you know, this reminded me sort
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  Speaker 2: of suspiciously, like, uh, the weaponization of the IRS under
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: Lois Lerner, the office of the comptroller of currency that
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: gets OCC. We've got one of those barely, uh, did an, uh,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: an analysis of a banking transaction and uncovered in their words,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: irrefutable evidence of the nation's largest banks have denied debanked
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: and discriminated against customers and lawful businesses based on political views,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: among other things. Um, Congressman Davidson, you can dive into
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  Speaker 2: details on this, and I think it's rather alarming, but
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: were these banks doing this, claiming, quote-unquote, reputational risk, like, oh,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: my God, my bank's reputation is going to be ruined
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: if the world knows that I'm actually allowing a firearms
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: manufacturer to conduct transactions using our bank? I'm not quite
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: sure how much business they could hope to lose, but
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: that was the argument they were advancing, that, oh, we
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: can't do business with these different organizations because it'll damage
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: our reputation. Yeah, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly what was going on, Brian. And here's the
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  Speaker 4: worst part. Right as this is coming out and validated, look,
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  Speaker 4: we knew this. We did the weaponization committee in Congress,
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  Speaker 4: last Congress. But finally, the executive branch has said, yeah, OK,
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  Speaker 4: we did do that. As regulators, they were pushing the
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  Speaker 4: banks to do this. So whose reputation was it? were
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: the banks in trouble with? Well, the reputations were in
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 4: trouble with the Biden administration. So the bank regulators were
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 4: the ones who were judging your reputation. And they would say, well,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: if you're doing business with the Sinaloa cartel, that's not
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 4: a big deal. That's what Bank of America just got
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 4: caught doing. And Treasury fined them $ 1. 2 billion. Now, we
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: haven't seen the prosecutions. That's the other thing that's rare here.
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  Speaker 4: Even when banks do clearly do reputational risk, they launder
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: money and engage in illicit finance, they would say, well,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 4: they didn't knowingly do it. And then they'll say, well,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 4: but they did willfully do it and there were crimes committed. Like, well, okay,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 4: who committed the crimes? Because there's no prosecutions of people.
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  Speaker 4: And this kind of game with the banks needs to end.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you just need to hold these people to account.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and don't you think it's a bit subjective to
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  Speaker 2: determine quote unquote reputational risk? I mean, how can a
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  Speaker 2: bank have a reputational risk on one side or the other.
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  Speaker 2: Because let's face it, if I'm banking with one of
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: these big banks, U.S. Bank, J.P. Morgan, Chase, Bank of America,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: the big ones, and I find out that they are
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: banking with, I don't know, some like Southern Poverty Law Center,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: let's say Southern Poverty Law Center has a bank account there.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: I am not going to close my account because of that.
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  Speaker 2: But how is it that It's OK for the Southern
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: Poverty Law Center to bank there, but it's not OK
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  Speaker 2: for pick some conservative organization to bank there. Who chose
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  Speaker 2: the right wing, left wing reputational risk one side or
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: the other? It's just it's also arbitrary and subjective. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's how you end up the company that made MAGA
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: gear and clothing promoting President Trump ended up getting debanked.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: It just obviously partisan and biased. And you're saying this
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: was at the behest of the Biden administration that they
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: started doing this?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: So the bank regulators, it's called Operation Chokepoint. They did
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  Speaker 4: this under Obama.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 4: And then we said it was Operation Chokepoint 2.0 or 5.0,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 4: whatever iteration we're on here, where the banks are weaponized.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: And look, this is the same thing, right? If you
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: think about cancel culture, this is kind of the whole
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: woke heresy code, right? You're a heretic. You're in violation
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: of this radical left. It's really more like a religion.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: And anybody that doesn't conform to it is a heretic.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 4: And therefore, must have your speech canceled because those are
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 4: crimes too. So beginning with the freedoms, the speech is
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 4: messed up, the elections are messed up, the jury selection
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: is messed up, justice is skewed. That's why you say
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 4: woke and weaponized government. This is exactly what was underway
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: by the Biden administration. Just like they were filtering and
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: canceling speech, they were doing it with bank accounts. And
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: this went on aggressively. You know, Jack Smith actually had
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 4: your information. If you ordered a MAGA hat, you wound
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: up on Jack Smith's watch list. If you're a pro-life Catholic,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: you wound up on the FBI's watch list. If you're
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 4: a parent and went to school board meetings in the
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 4: wake of some of these things where they were hiding transgender,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: they were gender transitioning kids at school and not telling
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 4: their parents about it at home. And if you went
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 4: to school board meetings in the wake of that, you
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 4: wound up on a watch list. And think how bad
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: it would be if you went to a school board
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 4: meeting because you were concerned about what's going on at
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 4: your school. You happened to buy a MAGA hat and
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 4: you were a pro-life Catholic. I mean, you were enemy
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 4: number one to the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and let us not stop with the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 2: If you recall, it wasn't Eric Holder under Obama's administration
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  Speaker 2: that engaged in Operation Chokepoint, which was threatening banks with
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: massive compliance audits if they didn't bend to the will
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  Speaker 2: of the Obama administration. That was Chokepoint 1, wasn't it?
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: That's exactly what was going on in Chokepoint 1, and
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 4: it was related to what Lois Lerner right here in
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 4: the area was doing with the IRS. They go after it,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 4: and look, it's time to let the money be the money.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 4: That's where This is why central bank digital currency is
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 4: such a big deal to me, because then you've got
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: the government not even having to go through an intermediary
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 4: like a bank. You've got the government truly in control
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 4: of your money. If it stays account-based, you don't even
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 4: have access to your money except through the conditions of
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 4: the government. The left loves it. It's really communist money
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 4: for the digital age. They call it programmable money and
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 4: tout the features. But it is like the most dystopian
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 4: tool imaginable. So that's why we're working so hard to
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 4: not just ban it. I want to criminalize it and
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 4: treat it as if it's counterfeit money. So if you're
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 4: developing a plan to counterfeit money, you get in trouble.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: If you're making plates to counterfeit money, you get in
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 4: a lot more trouble. But if you're actually underway in
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 4: the counterfeiting, you get in a whole lot of trouble.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 4: And I think this is one of the big things
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 4: for government officials. Some of these folks need to go
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 4: to jail for the way that they're violating American citizens' rights.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no question. And this is one of the
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: reasons I'm really frightened of the idea of getting rid
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: of physical currency. I mean, I like to pay in cash.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: I got the money in my hand. I can use
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  Speaker 2: it anytime I want. And there is no record of
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is I bought with it. And that's not
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  Speaker 2: the same with digital currency. That's big brother all across
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  Speaker 2: the financial marketplace.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, there's ways to do it and be
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  Speaker 4: more private. But I think cash is an essential part
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  Speaker 4: of our economy. A lot of places you can't even
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  Speaker 4: do it. I mean, I'm disciplined.
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  Speaker 1: I love going to Bengals.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: Games, Reds games. But you go to the stadium... You
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 4: can't spend cash. My kids are young adults at this point,
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  Speaker 4: but you go back to the day, you give your
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 4: kid $ 20, he goes up, buys a hot dog and
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: a Coke, and it's probably about all to buy these days.
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  Speaker 4: He used to buy a few more things. You don't
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  Speaker 4: want to hand him your credit card and just say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: go spend money. It's shifting, but I hope that we
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  Speaker 4: preserve the nature of cash because you get direct access
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  Speaker 4: to your own money. There's no filter buffer between you
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  Speaker 4: and your money, and it doesn't turn into a tool
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  Speaker 4: for surveillance. But you see, like, that's the thing. Like,
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  Speaker 4: the Biden administration, Obama administration, if they can weaponize the government,
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  Speaker 4: they have.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed. Illustration after illustration. Now, we don't see this from
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  Speaker 2: the Republican side, unless you can come up with an
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  Speaker 2: illustration of that while we're taking a break here, Congressman Davidson.
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  Speaker 2: Don't recall that ever going on. KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: It is 720-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Ryan Thomas with Congressman Warren Davidson.
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  Speaker 2: Real quick here before we get to Operation Blackout, I
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: want to just go back to the Jack Smith thing.
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  Speaker 2: This is absolutely a frightening abuse of power. They were
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: investigating Trump, and so they hoovered up the personal data
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  Speaker 2: of almost 640,000 Republican donors, voters, and supporters. It was
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  Speaker 2: ostensibly the January 6th investigation which led to this, but
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  Speaker 2: they got data all the way back to 2005. The
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  Speaker 2: January 6th event was 2020, so I don't get that.
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  Speaker 2: They treated everybody like parties to a criminal conspiracy. What's more,
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  Speaker 2: we know from prior revelations that Grassley showed that Smith
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  Speaker 2: eavesdropped on Trump White House, 16 members of Congress, and
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  Speaker 2: media outlets, and also that the Smith team obtained evidence
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  Speaker 2: just shy of 5,000 checks, as in campaign contributions that
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: everyday Americans made like small-dollar contributions. How come this guy's
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  Speaker 2: not in jail? Is he going to ultimately be held
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: accountable for this? But this should really bother anybody, because
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  Speaker 2: if the Democrat administration can weaponize the Department of Justice,
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  Speaker 2: then anybody can.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, and it's not a new thing that they've
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  Speaker 4: weaponized the Department of Justice. And that's why, look, I
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 4: think we may need to just restructure the whole FBI.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, Cash Patel's at the head of it, but
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 4: there's still a lot of, I just sort of think,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: dormant malfeasance there that there hasn't been a reckoning for
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 4: a lot of things in a lot of sectors of
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  Speaker 4: our government. And this is where we're hoping Todd Blanche
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  Speaker 4: is going to be the first real attorney general in forever.
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  Speaker 4: because that's still the number one question I get is
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 4: when is somebody going to jail? And they're talking about
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 4: stuff like this, like big banks that, oh, we'll pay
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  Speaker 4: a fine and it's a fraction of the money they
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 4: made off of doing it. Or, you know, people that
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 4: get into government office and they abuse the power. And
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 4: it's been abused not just against President Trump, not just
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  Speaker 4: against members of Congress. I mean, they said the Speaker
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 4: of the House might be a flight risk, for heaven's sakes.
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  Speaker 4: But they're doing against ordinary Americans. And that's why January
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  Speaker 4: 6th was so crazy. It's not that No one did
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 4: anything wrong then, but the government treated everyone that was–
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: they got the bank records of everyone who had a
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: financial transaction in Washington, D.C. in the day before, day of,
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  Speaker 4: and day after January 6th.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: That's how crazy that was. No warrant, just swept up data.
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  Speaker 2: If more people paid attention to this kind of thing,
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Davidson, we wouldn't have problems like this, I thoroughly believe.
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  Speaker 2: What about Operation Black? I've got a couple of minutes
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  Speaker 2: to address this one, because it looks like, even though
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like yet one more nefarious operation coming out
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: of government, this is going after some scammers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, look, the scam folks is a big deal. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the financial crimes are, I mean, just mind-blowing. Last October,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 4: they shut down a $ 15 billion scam center in Cambodia.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 4: And what you find, they're operating the scam center with
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 4: human trafficking. So they get people, they hold them captive,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 4: they do all kinds of other horrible things to these folks.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 4: And then they give them some sort of hope for
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 4: their freedom if they help scam American citizens. Now with AI,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 4: the capability of these data centers that they're using, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: this isn't like some guy, bored guy, hanging out in
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 4: mom and dad's basement ripping off the neighbors. These are
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 4: really sophisticated transnational criminal organizations. And you're seeing a whole-of-government
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  Speaker 4: approach go after shutting them down. So I think that's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a big win for us.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. Sort of an extension of our efforts on fraud, waste,
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  Speaker 2: and abuse going after these. Obviously, it's virtually impossible to
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  Speaker 2: get someone in a foreign country extradited or prosecuted because
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: there are countries out there that don't have extradition treaties
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: with us. Great place to set up shop if you're
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  Speaker 2: a scammer.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and you look at it, it's almost like
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  Speaker 4: that bad if you've got an illegal alien in the
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  Speaker 4: United States in Sanctuary.
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  Speaker 1: Cities.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 4: They're like, no, we don't allow extradition out of our
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 4: sanctuary city. Talk about a great place to do business.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 4: And not only are these cities strategic, they're violating the
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: sovereignty of the United States with the illegal immigration, but
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: they're essentially giving soft-on-crime prosecutors, soft-on-crime judges... giving sanctuary to
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  Speaker 4: the cartels. So that's where following the money and shutting
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 4: down the money to the cartels is also a critical
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 4: component here. And frankly, I've got a bill called the
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 4: Stop the Cartels Act. We introduced early in the Biden administration,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 4: trying to put pressure on them, say, if we can't
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: agree on immigration reform or border security, at least we
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 4: could agree to stop the cartels. These guys are bad guys.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 4: They're killing American citizens with fentanyl. And look at how
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 4: much of a difference the president has made. We have
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 4: a secure border Fentanyl overdoses are a fraction of what
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 4: they used to be. Crime is down. And now they're
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 4: going after the money, shutting down these cartels.
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  Speaker 2: Great segue there, Congressman Warren Davidson. Love having you on
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  Speaker 2: the program. Appreciate this time you spent with my listeners
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: and me every week. And we'll continue to do this,
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  Speaker 2: I hope. Maybe we'll see you next week here on
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  Speaker 2: the 55KRC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Brian. Always an honor to join you. God bless
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  Speaker 4: you and all your listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Talk Station. 6.30 on a Friday eve. I'm so happy
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  Speaker 2: to have Tanya Ford on the line here to talk
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: about the Cincinnati Classical Academy and the upcoming Classical Cup
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: golf outing to raise funds for the Cincinnati Classical Academy.
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  Speaker 2: A worthy cause it is. Welcome, Tanya Ford. It's great
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  Speaker 2: to have you on this morning.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you, Brian. I am so excited to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I am excited that the Cincinnati Classical Academy is
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: even in existence. And I cannot thank you and the
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: folks that invited me over to do a tour of
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: the of the buildings. I just was absolutely blown away.
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  Speaker 2: The children are amazingly disciplined and courteous and friendly and,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: and well-mannered. One of the points that you do, you
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: have it since a classical Academy will work. We'll talk
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: with you and you can break down what is taught
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: and how it's taught and how you don't have to
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: rely on technology. But the idea that the teacher led
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: classrooms provide instruction in moral character and civic virtue is,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, even saying that, you think of a public
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: school would ever talk about moral character and civic virtue?
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 10: Probably not. I know. It's pretty amazing. And that was
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  Speaker 10: really one of the things that led my husband and
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 10: I to choose Classful for our son.
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  Speaker 5: We.
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  Speaker 10: It was a journey, finding the right school to send
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 10: our son to. During the pandemic, both of our jobs
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 10: were transitioned to fully remote positions. We both actually still
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 10: work from home today. And he was, oh gosh, when
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 10: the pandemic started, he was only about two years old.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 10: But as time went on, we realized, you know, we've
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 10: got to figure out what to do for school. We
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 10: had considered homeschooling. but quickly realized that was not going
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 10: to be feasible with both of us working from home.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 10: And even though we're at home, we still have to work.
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  Speaker 10: So we knew there was not really a lot of
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 10: quality to choose from. And thankfully, some friends from church,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 10: their older daughter is in fourth grade. So she's a
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 10: year ahead of our oldest son. And they had told
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 10: us about classical as classical was getting built and getting started.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 10: And encouraged us to look into it, and we did,
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 10: and we fell in love with what we found out
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  Speaker 10: about classical. So the lottery is how they do enrollment.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 10: There's a lottery system because there is such a significantly
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 10: long wait list to be able to get a seat
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 10: at the school because I think this model of education
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 10: is really catching on and people want something different than
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 10: what the mainstream public school system provides. So we entered
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 10: him into the lottery system and initially he was put
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 10: on the wait list, but he was only number two
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 10: on the wait list. And about a week after the
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 10: initial lottery had been run, I got notification that he
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 10: had been offered a seat. accepted in a hurry, and
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 10: have never looked back. So he's in third grade this
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 10: year and has been at Classical since kindergarten. And in
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 10: about a year and a half, two years from now,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 10: our three-year-old will also start kindergarten at Classical, and we
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 10: could not be any happier with what we have received
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 10: from Classical.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the draw.
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  Speaker 10: Seeing him turn into the, yes, and seeing him turn
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 10: into the little learner that he has become Prior to classical,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 10: we had worked with him extensively on all of the basics, reading, shapes, colors, numbers,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 10: all of that kind of thing. But he is very stubborn. Really?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 10: Unless it's his idea, he does not want to do it.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 10: So he was very against reading, drawing, doing anything that
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 10: wasn't what he wanted to do in that specific moment.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 10: And seeing the love for learning and reading and especially
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 10: art that he has developed over the last four years,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 10: that is truly a testament to what classical provides.
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  Speaker 2: Well, affiliated with Hillsdale College, which is, I mean, if
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: you think about Hillsdale College and you know about Hillsdale College,
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: then you really have a firm grasp of really the
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: basics of the basis of Cincinnati Classical Academy. And I
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: just want to– Absolutely. You mentioned the waiting list. I understand.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: There is no tuition, correct?
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 10: Correct. It is a tuition-free school. But we're a little
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 10: bit different in the sense that because we're a charter
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 10: school and because we have kids from, I believe it's
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 10: 66 zip codes this year. We're not a typically– district
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 10: public school if you.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: Will well that's the figure i was waiting for 66
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: zip codes or children from 66 zip codes in i
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: would argue the greater cincinnati area are going all the
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: way over to get an education and sometimes people travel
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: a significant distance to get there that's how popular and
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: in demand the cincinnati classical academy is i mean you
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: got reed hartman campus for the five to ten for
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: the fifth through tenth graders soon to be adding 11th
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: and 12th down the road Siebenthaler Avenue for the K-4 campus.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: So you're really close to Ronald Reagan Highway, but you're
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: not close to where the children live during the day.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: Some people drive an hour plus to get there.
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  Speaker 10: Absolutely. And again, that's just a testament to what our
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 10: kids are receiving and what classical offers.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: It truly is.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 10: A light in what has become a dark educational society.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, that's why I'm a favor of school choice. Your
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: place exists because of it. 741-55-KRC, the talk station. Tanya
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: Ford from Cincinnati Classical Academy, which I strongly encourage you
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: to find online at cinceywithayclassical.org. I've got some neighbors, Tanya,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: that they are desperate. They're going to get on the
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: waiting list. I think they already are on the waiting
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: list because they heard me talk about your school, and
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: they have a couple of toddlers, so they're keeping their
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: fingers crossed that they get in. But what an amazing thing.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: And one of the things that blew me away when
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: I toured the place, Tanya Ford was the rows and
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: rows of lockers with no locks. Any one of them
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: was open. You even opened one of them, if I
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: recall correctly, and it's filled with kids stuff, you know,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: that their belongings, the books, the coat and all that
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: kind of thing. You know, I'm a guy who got
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: his jacket ripped off out of his combination lock locker.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: No one steals anything from anybody's locker, even though it'd
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: be the easiest thing to do at Cincinnati classical Academy.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: That's that's virtue. That's that. That's morals. And from little kids, too.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: I loved it, Tonya. I just absolutely loved it.
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  Speaker 10: Absolutely. I still laugh a little bit at myself when
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 10: I think of the facial expression you had when you
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 10: were told that there's no locks on the lockers because
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 10: our kids just don't do that kind of thing because
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 10: they're being... Formed as whole people in strong moral character.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 10: And that's, again, just a testament to what classical is providing.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 10: It's not only giving our kids a top notch quality
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 10: education backed by Hillsdale College, but they are learning how
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 10: to be civically minded, strong, moral people to be able
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 10: to navigate an ever changing morality in this world.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: And in great moods. That's the other thing. You walked
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: us into a class, and the kids were in that
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: room were about, what, eight, nine years old. I can't remember.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: They all turned. Half of them turned, smiles on every
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: one of their faces, not because I was there. It's
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: just because they seemed to have already been in a
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: good mood. Half of the class waved at me like, oh,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: there's a stranger.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: Hello.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: You're welcome here. It's like you did that at public school.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: You even met with frowns and scowls and people with
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: earbuds on not paying attention or messing around with their
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: cell phone. Speaking of which, Tanya Ford, no electronics over
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: at Sensei Classical Academy. No electronics.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 10: No, we are intentionally tech-free because we believe that quality
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 10: education starts with books and pens and paper. And our
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 10: test scores over the last few years have just significantly
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 10: proven that. Our literacy score has been one of the
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 10: highest in the state of Ohio. over the last four years.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 10: And it really just proves how effective the model is.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: And let us not overlook your adoption at Cincinnati Classical
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: of the Hillsdale College 1776 curriculum. In other words, the
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: children at Cincinnati Classical are learning civics and our nation's history.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 10: Absolutely. I have learned more from my third grade son
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 10: than I think I ever learned in my public school
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 10: education growing up about American history and Western civilization and
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 10: Western culture in general. The things that these kids are
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 10: learning at such a young age are absolutely astounding. And
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 10: it is so refreshing.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: I am so pleased it's working out so well for you.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: Great poster child to talk about the wonderful work that's
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: being done at Cincinnati Classical. Now, a way that we
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: can help out Cincinnati Classical continue on its wonderful mission,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Classical Cup. So pause. It's already 745. You
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: get to do the details on the fundraising event next time.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: I know I've been holding off on it, but we'll
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: get to that. Don't go away, folks.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 6: 745.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: The Talk Station. It's 749 at 55KRC.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: The Talk Station.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: Happy Thursday. Sensei Classical with Tanya Ford online. You can
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: find them online at senseiwithyclassical.org. You can enroll. You can
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: rather register to try to get your kids in there.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: Waiting list, but it's worth a shot. There's some open
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: houses coming up, I understand, too. Before we get to
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: the golf alley, you've got a November 11th open house
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: at what you call the lower school. That's for K-4s.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: And then you have an open house the following day
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: for the upper, the Summit Park campus. So register online
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: at Cincy with the Wild Classical if you'd like to, well,
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: take a tour of the place. I mean, assuming you
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 2: want to go there, maybe you might want to go there,
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: and you definitely will once you've toured the place. Tanya Ford,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: what about the golf outing coming up? Let's talk about that.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 10: Oh, the golf outing. We are so excited. This will
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 10: be our third Classical Cup. It is a team scramble event.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 10: All skill levels are welcome. If you would like to
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 10: register as an individual, we can place you with the team.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 10: If you've got four friends that you'd like to golf with,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 10: we can do that too. It is our largest athletics
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 10: fundraiser of the year. And events like this are so
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 10: important to Classical specifically because of the nature of the
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 10: type of school that we are. Not being a traditional
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 10: district public school, if you will, we do receive 30%
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 10: less funding than district public schools. So additional support is
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 10: always needed and always welcome. especially for our student athletes
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 10: so every dime of the proceeds that are made from
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 10: this event go to support classical athletics and our student
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 10: athletes directly.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: And you do have and i mean you've already answered
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: the question clearly you have an athletics program it's it's
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: it's a pretty darn good athletics program you know for
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: a private or a small school like this a charter
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: school it i I sort of wasn't even thinking about
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: an athletics program considering the tuition is free. I presume
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: you're living on smaller margins. So how is it that
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: you could fund and run an athletics program? Well, this
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: is one of the ways you can with the Classical Cup.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 10: Absolutely. We are continuing to grow our athletics programs as
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 10: the years go on. We do have a core program
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 10: of sports. I specifically am involved with baseball. I'm the
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 10: baseball coordinator for the school and have been going into
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 10: my third season now. So it takes a lot of
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 10: dedicated parents and volunteers and often staff members who double
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 10: as coaches and coordinators to help make this happen for
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 10: our students to also be athletes. But events like the
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 10: classical cup are really what helped drive the funding to
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 10: be able to make our programs possible.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: And of course you have separate sports for boys and girls,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: like title nine kind of stuff where girls play against
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: girls and boys play against boys.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 6: Yes. Yeah.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 10: We've got baseball and softball. We've got girls volleyball. We've
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 10: got boys volleyball and we've got, we're working on girls
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 10: and boys basketball. And we're also, um, in the beginning
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 10: stages of developing a football team and we also have
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 10: a wrestling program. I don't think that there are any
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 10: girls in the wrestling program as of yet, but that
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 10: may eventually change later down the road if there are
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 10: any girls who decide that that is something that they
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 10: would like to take on. But yes, we do have
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 10: athletics programs that are growing every year and Like I said,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 10: it's really events like this, the Classical Cup, that directly
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 10: support our athletics programs that help make these programs possible.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: Well, where do people register to become part of the
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: event on the 25th?
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 10: The registration can be done directly through the website, and
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 10: the website is the-classical-cup.org. perfectgolfevent.com. You can register directly through
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 10: the website there. It will give you the time and location,
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 10: which is going to be at Glenview Golf Course off
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 10: of Springfield Pike. Next Sunday, the 25th, registration and check-in
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 10: starts at noon. Tea time is at 1.30.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: And I know there's going to be silent auctions. You've
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: got some items that people can bid on and also
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: a reception will be taking place. Is that following the
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: golf outing?
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 10: Yes, the evening will conclude with awards and the reception
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 10: once everybody finishes golfing. And we do have a silent
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 10: auction as well that will be available for bidding all
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 10: day long. And we are in process as of this
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 10: morning of getting the silent auction also put onto a
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 10: digital platform so that we can open bidding up to
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 10: a wider community.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 10: And once I've gotten the details finalized on that, I
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 10: can certainly share the link with you so that we can...
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 10: we can drive up the bidding hopefully and raise.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 6: Even more money.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: So, uh, which side of the ledger did you fall
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: down on in, in, in, in, in wanting me to
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: sort of go out for beers with someone? I told
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: you no one would bid on something like that. Are
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: you doing that?
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 10: We are number one on the list of items.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: You know, I, I'm going to be so embarrassed. You
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: are going to get a single human being like, all right,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: here's a buck. Yeah. I think you're going to.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 10: Be very pleasantly surprised.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: Beers with Brian Thomas. I'm willing to do it. You're
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: the one that says somebody's going to pay for it.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: I'm just willing to be thoroughly embarrassed when no one
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: wants it. It's going to be a great time. Again,
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 2: Joe's going to put that long-winded link that you've got there, theclassicalcup.perfectgolfevent.com.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 10: Yes, that is correct.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: I was managing to write it down quickly enough, but
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: people in the listening audience may not be near a
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: pen or remember it. Joe Strecker, link on the blog page, 55KRC. com.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: I'll look forward to seeing you on the 25th. Tanya,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 2: it has been a real pleasure bringing this information to
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: my listening audience. There are parents and grandparents out there
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: that now know where they want to send their children.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: Keep up the great work. Hi, it's Brian Thomas welcoming
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: you back to the 55KRC Morning Show. Man, we must
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: vote for here in the state of Ohio. Get out
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: and vote. Damn it. Vivek4Ohio. com is the website where you
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: get all the information, campaign pledges from Vivek Ramaswamy. Vivek,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: it is a pleasure to have you back on the
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: 55KRC Morning Show.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 6: It's great to be on, Brian. How are you doing?
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: I'm doing fine, and I continue to pound the drum
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: of get out and vote. Democrats are far ahead of
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: Republicans in the state of Ohio so far, and while
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: that is normally the case, they're out in volumes much
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: bigger than previously. I know Republicans traditionally tend to vote
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: more on Election Day, but There's no stopping anybody from
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: getting out and casting their vote because the future is uncertain.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: I assume you share my concerns in that regard, Mr. Ramaswamy.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 6: Look, I trust the people of the state. I'm confident
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 6: the patriots who share our values are going to show up.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 6: But in the end, it is up to us to
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 6: defend our country and to defend our state and to
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 6: defend our life and.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: Our way of living.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 6: You know, this is a crucial election. It might be
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 6: the most important election for governor we've ever seen in
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 6: the history of our state.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: We can go the.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 6: Direction of New York City's and Los Angeles' and Minnesota's socialism,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 6: or we can go the direction of success for families
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 6: in Ohio. And I know that when I get in there,
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 6: we're going to be bringing down your property taxes. We're
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 6: going to be bringing down your electric bills. We're going
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 6: to be prosecuting that Medicaid fraud and putting that money
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 6: back in your pockets. These are basic things I can
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 6: get done as a governor. And for Cincinnati in particular,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 6: one of the things I'm very focused on for our cities,
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 6: including my hometown of Cincinnati, is crushing crime in the cities.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 6: We need to restore the rule of law. I'm the
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 6: only candidate in this race who's going to do that.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 6: My opponent compares police to the KKK. Think about that.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 6: Versus in my case, we're going to back the blue.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 6: We're going to restore the rule of law, hold activist
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 6: judges accountable. That's the choice on the ballot. And in
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 6: the end, we have no right to complain about what
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 6: happens after unless we come out and vote now. So
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 6: that's why I do want our fellow patriots to come
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 6: out Take some time between now and Election Day. I
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 6: don't care if you do it on Election Day or
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 6: you do it early. But get out, get your family out,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 6: get your community out, and vote like your kids' future
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 6: and your grandkids' future depends on it, because it does.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 6: And if you don't, unfortunately, we'll all have to suffer
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 6: the consequences of what happens to Ohio and what happens
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 6: to our country.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: And on your law enforcement note, I will remind my
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: listeners that you have a tremendous number of law enforcement
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: agencies in the state of Ohio supporting you and endorsing you.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 6: That's right. I mean, look, my opponent is fundamentally going
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 6: to bend the knee, already is, to the defund the
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 6: police woke left. This is not a person who is
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 6: suited to be the governor of Ohio. Her only qualification
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 6: for the job is a short-lived stint as health director
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 6: when she shut down the economy under COVID, then quit
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 6: when it actually came to making sensible decisions. She couldn't
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 6: do that. She quit instead. And that's the longest job
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 6: she's ever held, a doctor who's never been known to
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 6: practice medicine. This is not somebody who is qualified to lead.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 6: And if there's any doubt about it, She's now quitting
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 6: as a candidate by refusing to debate and hold herself
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 6: accountable to the voters. That isn't somebody who can lead
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 6: the state. In contrast, where I want to lead the
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 6: state is, look, I believe in conservative governance. I believe
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 6: it works for economic growth. I believe it works for
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 6: bringing down your electric bills, for producing more energy. I
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 6: believe in the rule of law. And I want to
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 6: turn Ohio into the state that Texas and Florida look
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 6: up to rather than the other way around. And that's
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 6: what's going to happen in the next couple of years.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 6: starting with the biggest property tax cut for families this
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 6: state has ever seen in our history. And that's coming
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 6: right around the corner just a few months from now,
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 6: so long as we get it right in November. And
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 6: that requires every one of you listening to get out,
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 6: take the time, and vote. In a certain sense, it's
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 6: worth remembering our founders, Brian. They fought a revolution 250
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 6: years ago so we could enjoy the blessings of liberty
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 6: that we've inherited today. But that isn't automatic. We have
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 6: to fight to preserve it. They fought a revolution. All
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 6: we have to do is to show up and vote.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 6: But there is a famous saying from our founders, the
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 6: government we elect is the government that we deserve in
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 6: the end. So it's up to us to get out there,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 6: get out, vote right now. And I think that we
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 6: do need to outpace Democrats in order to get this
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 6: job done.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: Vivek Ramaswamy, you can find him online at vivek4ohio. com. Pivoting over,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: you mentioned electric prices a couple of times. That's one
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 2: of the big concerns people have as they're out there
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 2: protesting AI and data centers. They're not going away in
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 2: the sense that there is AI in the world and
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: it's not leaving us. The question is whether we can
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: capitalize on it and resolve people's concerns in advance, which
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: your platform on data centers does. You know, I got
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: to point out the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce just had
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 2: this executive summary or rather a summary on AI and
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: data centers. They're all over the place already, but their
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: response was, listen, We've got to get the tax dollars.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: That's good. We've got to hold the operators accountable for
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 2: securing their own energy needs, bring their own power with you,
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: and then you don't have to worry about energy bills
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: going up. But in any event, their conclusion is data
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 2: centers will bring about growth, it'll bring about jobs, and
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: we can deal with the challenges. That sounds like Vivek Ramaswamy.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 6: Well, look, I've gone a little further than that in
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 6: saying there need to be some baseline standards, right, on
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 6: data centers. Now they bring their own power, but you
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 6: can run the math such that that means Local residents
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 6: in that area should pay free electricity, actually, if you
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 6: look at the difference between offtake versus supply for these
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 6: data centers. They've got to pay property taxes, no abatements,
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 6: and that brings down property taxes for local residential communities.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 6: Build trees around these things. They call it vegetative insulation.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 6: So it's not an eyesore, so it insulates the sound.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 6: Extremely inexpensive and easy to do. And then focus on
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 6: putting them on abandoned industrial sites instead of fertile farmland
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 6: or even in residential communities. We have plenty of abandoned
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 6: industrial sites in Ohio. So that's on that question. But
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 6: your number one question, Brian, on electric bills, that's really
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 6: what's hitting families hard right now. And regardless of whether
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 6: data centers get built in Ohio or in another state,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 6: that still is going to result, and also energy demand
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 6: overall is resulting in higher electric bills unless we're producing
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 6: more energy. That's the key to the kingdom. And I
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 6: think if you look at radicals like my opponent, she's
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 6: been an opponent of fossil fuels. This would sense electric
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 6: bills skyrocketing. We should instead be putting more energy into
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 6: the grid regardless of what your policy is on data centers.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 6: Use natural gas. Bring nuclear energy to the state. I
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 6: know you've been a big proponent of that, Brian.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: Huge.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 6: I think there's a huge opportunity with reforms at the
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 6: federal level for Ohio to really put more energy into
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 6: our grid to bring down electric bills by a lot.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 6: I mean, you look at what you're paying now versus
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 6: before the pandemic. It might be two or three times
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 6: as much in electric bills. It is. I want to
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 6: reset it back to where it was before the pandemic
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 6: and then go down from there. We can do this.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 6: This is achievable. This is not futuristic stuff. We can
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 6: deliver this in my first term if we have the
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 6: right governor on top who actually sets the energy table
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 6: properly for Ohioans. And there's one piece of this, Brian,
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 6: which is that we're part of a 13-state network, PJM.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 6: Ohio needs to be more assertive in standing for common
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 6: sense and our interests at PJM. And I think historically
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 6: we've been more passive. That's going to change when I'm governor.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 6: And I think the antifossil fuel agenda, the really– some
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 6: of the unproductive decisions that are made from out-of-state actors
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 6: that affect Ohio, that's going to change when I'm governor
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 6: of this state. But it does require a common-sense businessman
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 6: at the top rather than a failed bureaucrat whose failure
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 6: she seeks to reward now with a promotion to governor.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 2: Who would also champion policies, which is the design of
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 2: the Green New Deal crap that would cause gasoline to
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 2: go up. That's what their desire was. I mean, this
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: is what she stands for. We're angry at gas prices.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: You want to blame Donald Trump for that?
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 6: Fine.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: The war, there is a line you can draw between
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: the war and the increase in gas prices. But ultimately,
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: the supply issues will go down. If you go with
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 2: the Democrats, they're going to put in place regulations and
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 2: you know, self-inflicted wounds to keep the price up so
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: you go green. It's just insane.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 6: And you saw it happen under Biden, by the way.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 6: The peak gas prices were higher under Biden than they
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 6: are right now in the state of Ohio.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 6: Because of those very policies that Biden, and by the way,
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 6: Amy Acton, right along with him, supports the exact same thing.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 6: And just like Biden tried to hide from a debate
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 6: because he didn't want to answer these questions, Amy Acton
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 6: is now hiding from that debate because they don't want
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 6: to answer to the voters who They're really afraid of
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 6: the voters because they know that they're responsible for the
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 6: policies that are wrecking your life. You think about the
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 6: property tax crisis. God forbid Amy Acton's ever elected governor.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 6: Those property taxes are going to continue to double. She
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 6: has no plan to address it other than to grow
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 6: government and government spending. The income tax will double in
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 6: this state to pay for her, I would say, boneheaded
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 6: plan to forgive all medical debt without offering a way
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 6: to actually fix the underlying health care system. I mean,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 6: this is a economic blow to Ohio if this woman
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 6: comes anywhere near the levers of power. Brian, there's CEOs
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 6: who have already said that if they're considering coming to Ohio,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 6: they're going to another state if she's elected. That's already
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 6: crystal clear. And I worry about an economic devastation to
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 6: a state that's now headed in the right direction again.
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  Speaker 6: We can't afford to see another wave of entire industries
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 6: leaving our state, communities gutted. That's what's coming if a
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 6: far leftist– and I would say even somebody who doesn't
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 6: have the competence as an executive comes to power. But
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 6: the good news is we don't have to go that way.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 6: There's a better way for the state, which is choose
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 6: economic success, choose economic freedom, choose the rule of law
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 6: in our cities from Cincinnati to Cleveland to Columbus to
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 6: Toledo and everywhere in between. It's common sense, but all
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 6: it requires is us coming out and voting for common sense,
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  Speaker 6: and that's what I stand for.
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  Speaker 2: I implore my listeners to heed your warning and heed
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 2: your advice. Do you want incompetence and cowardice, or do
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 2: you want a demonstrably successful businessman who has a passion
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 2: for the state of Ohio and, of course, the Cincinnati
• 1:46:32
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• 1:46:36
  Speaker 2: it out. Get involved. Donate and put a yard sign
• 1:46:38
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  Speaker 2: on the 55KRC Morning Show, sir. I appreciate your passion,
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 2: and I wish you all the best of luck. You
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  Speaker 2: certainly have my vote, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you. We'll get out and vote, and we're going
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 6: to get this job done and win this thing.
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  Speaker 1: KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 6: It's 830.
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  Speaker 2: If it's not KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas here
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 2: wishing everyone a very happy Friday Eve. And reminding you,
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 2: it's that time of week for the iHeartMedia aviation expert,
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 2: Jay Ratliff. Discussion of crazy things going on in the
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 2: aviation world. Welcome back, Jay Ratliff. Love having you on
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: the show, man.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I look forward to it every week, brother. The
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 9: countdown to Thursday always begins.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, man. All right, so let's start with
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 2: the Malaysian Airlines. Lack of oxygen?
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: Lack of oxygen. That's exactly the case. We had.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 9: A flight that was departing. It was a Malaysian Airlines flight,
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 9: and they had a problem with an oxygen shortage. Now,
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 9: by oxygen shortage, it wasn't what they were breathing in
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 9: the cabin, but it was what would be used in
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 9: the event that the oxygen masks were deployed during the
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 9: course of an emergency. They had problems with some of
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 9: the oxygen canisters. So as a result, they could not
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 9: fill up the airplane. And it was supposed to leave
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 9: with 178 passengers, but they had a glitch with some
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 9: sort of system that only would allow oxygen for 100 passengers.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 9: So they had to deny boarding to 78 of them
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 9: due to a lack of oxygen. So if you have
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 9: any issue with any safety-related item, it's on the minimum
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 9: MEO list. for an airline, it's the minimum equipment list
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 9: that the FAA or whoever governing body is for that
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 9: country that says, look, if you're going to operate this aircraft,
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 9: these things have to be operating. There are certain items
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 9: from a maintenance standpoint, Brian, that are deferrable that you
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 9: can put off till your next maintenance hub where the
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 9: aircraft might be routed through, and then they can address
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 9: any mechanical issue that's minor there But when you're dealing
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 9: with something of a safety item like this, no, you
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 9: got to make sure that it is addressed and they're
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 9: not going to put any more people on than they
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  Speaker 9: could take care of. I mean, in an emergency, the
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  Speaker 9: last thing you'd want is people fighting over which oxygen.
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  Speaker 1: Mask might work.
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  Speaker 9: But yeah, Malaysian Airlines, not really known many times for,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 9: you know, their maintenance sometimes is a bit suspect.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: It has been reported in the past.
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  Speaker 9: But look, they caught this and they made sure that
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 9: they didn't have too many people on the And even
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 9: though those oxygen masks probably would not be used, they
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 9: were not taking any chances. And they erred on the
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 9: side of caution, which is exactly what we want an
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 9: airline to do.
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough. Pivoting over, fly-to-buy passengers, obviously horrific event they
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: went through. And I cannot imagine not soiling myself if
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 2: my plane dropped 15,000 feet in a matter of a
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 2: minute going north of the speed of sound. Anyway, not
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: necessarily reliving the details of that, but This topic regarding
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: the passengers filing lawsuits over the first officer attack reminded me,
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: I don't recall what happened, and maybe you can just
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 2: address this very briefly before we get into this one.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: The 737 MAX, where Boeing didn't bother letting people know
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 2: about the software upgrade, which resulted in two planes falling
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 2: out of the sky. What became of lawsuits related to that?
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: Because trust me, if I was a plaintiff's lawyer, I'd
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 2: be salivating over a client involving that suit.
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  Speaker 9: Well, remember Boeing admitted, in essence, criminal negligence.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: And they had a settlement. Now, this was under the
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: Biden administration.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 9: Donald Trump gets elected and Boeing goes running back to
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 9: the Department of Justice saying, can we withdraw that to
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 9: something else? And they were allowed to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Brian just drives me absolutely crazy.
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 2: That was a criminal. I mean, any sanctions, fines, penalty,
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 2: jail time would be criminal. That wouldn't inure to the
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: benefits of the passengers who are dead. That would be
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 2: a civil allegation. I'm just wondering if anybody filed suit
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 2: against Boeing.
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  Speaker 9: There's miles and miles of people that are in the
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 9: process there. But in the situation with this fly-to-buy situation,
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 9: it's the Obviously, you had the first officer of the airline,
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 9: an employee that was trying to kill the captain that
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 9: was going to try to kill everybody on board the plane.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 9: And apparently, from what we're being told initially, there were
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 9: some big-time red flags that could suggest that this individual
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 9: did not deserve to be in the cockpit.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: So that's why you had 175 people on board. Brian,
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  Speaker 9: I think the last count I saw was 100 of
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 9: the 175 have already begun the legal process.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: So, you know, it's a matter of, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 9: it's the same thing that we're going to see with
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 9: the Selma Blair situation with Delta Airlines where, you know,
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 9: she had the medical episode where she attacked employees for Delta,
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 9: attacked the police, attacked the, you know, hospital people. And
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 9: it's not the first time she's been on a Delta
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 9: flight with medical problems.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, apparently there was, I tell you what. Since there's
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 2: more to this, we're already at 835. I'm going to
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 2: pause on that one because I really haven't been following,
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 2: because I don't know who in the hell Selma Blair is.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 2: It was just another Hollywood celebrity or whatever. She had
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 2: to remind me who she was, too.
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: I'm in the same boat.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 2: I feel better on that somewhat. But the idea that
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 2: there were other incidents involved, there was an established, perhaps, M.O.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 2: with this woman, that and so much more coming up
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 2: with Jay Ratliff. 835 right now, 55 KRC, the talk station.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: 55 KRC.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 2: KRC, the talk station. You ever been in a cockpit before?
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 2: Jay Ratliff has. iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff. We get
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 2: the pleasure of his company every Thursday for a few segments.
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  Speaker 2: This would be segment number two. Okay, so Selma Baer
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: is some kind of Hollywood actress, and she goes completely meltdown.
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 2: Has she attacked flight attendants, Jay, in this one?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, the situation that happened here recently, she did. It
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 9: was a situation where the flight... was coming in from
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 9: Los Angeles to New York. And she had what is
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 9: now being described as a medical, a reaction to medication
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 9: is how they're phrasing it. And yeah, she was arrested
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 9: because she allegedly bit one of the flight attendants. She
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 9: injured another flight attendant. I think some other passengers were involved.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 9: When you had the doctors and nurses assisting her later,
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 9: apparently she was lashing out at them as well. So
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 9: it's something that you're dealing with assault. And when the
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 9: name Selma Blair came up, it didn't ding with me.
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  Speaker 9: My wife, Sherry, she said, well, you know, she was
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 9: in Legally Blonde.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care.
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  Speaker 9: I've never seen it. But she did say in 2005
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 9: she was in that movie The Fog. And I was like, okay,
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 9: I do remember that horror movie. And, okay, now I
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 9: kind of remember who she was. The whole situation here, though,
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 9: is she was on a Delta flight in.
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  Speaker 1: June of 2016.
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  Speaker 9: Now, Brian, this was a flight from Cancun, Mexico, back
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 9: to Los Angeles. And she had another moment of disorientation
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 9: on that flight. Now, there was no assault, but there
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 9: were things that happened on the flight that certainly sent
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 9: off some red flags. So the thought is, okay, Delta,
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 9: obviously you're not going to ban somebody over a medical situation,
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 9: but when you have issues of assault, especially on an
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 9: employer or a passenger, that's when a lot of times
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 9: that line is drawn in the sand and the individuals
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 9: are in essence, banned from flying that airline for a
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 9: period of time or for life, depending on just how
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 9: severe some of those situations were. And that's what we're
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 9: seeing here is that, you know, it's a very serious situation.
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 9: And it'll be interesting to see as this progresses because
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 9: the family's asking for, you know, everybody kind of back off,
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 9: give her space. She's just human, those kinds of things
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 9: and kind of downplaying what took place. But the bottom
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 9: line is it's now in the realm of the charges
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 9: being filed. which sadly a lot of times, you know,
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 9: I've talked about this. A lot of times passengers are
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 9: assaulted and the flight attendants sometimes are involved and you'll
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 9: have a situation where the police show up to try
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 9: to take statements and the airline won't press charges because
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 9: the crew will have to be detained for a period
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 9: of time. Interviews have to take place. A lot of
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 9: things have to happen. And they're more interested in getting
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 9: that plane, you know, the crew to where they need
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 9: to go. So another flight's not delayed as a result,
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 9: which just drives me absolutely crazy. Because anybody, flight attendants
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 9: or passengers, certainly need to have the benefit of somebody
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 9: looking into any sort of allegation of something that might
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 9: have happened on board an aircraft.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 2: Foreign airlines forced to adjust crew rotations because of Israel's restrictions.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is one of the— I was talking about travel, and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not a big world travel guy. I
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 2: don't have a history of traveling around the globe. My
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 2: visits to foreign lands, a whopping— that' d be Canada— London, England,
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 2: specifically in the UK and Ireland was actually a vacation.
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 2: That's it. So, you know, I'm not, I'm not a
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 2: world traveler, but I was thinking about if I had
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 2: to choose a place to go, and I mentioned Israel,
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 2: cause it's steeped in history. You've got so much to
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 2: see thousands of years worth of history. And I've had
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 2: opportunities to go there and, I wouldn't go to a
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 2: place where missiles are being dropped on a regular basis.
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 2: That's just not a comfort zone for me. So nowhere
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 2: in the Middle East sounds appealing. And why would anybody
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 2: fly there in the first place is the starting point
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 2: for me. But, yes, we've had to make some flight adjustments.
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 2: So what's going on?
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 9: Well, airlines are adjusting flight schedules. But when it comes
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 9: to Israel, they're saying, look, any flight crews coming in
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 9: on international carriers, they have a list of, I think,
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 9: 30 or 31 countries. that says if any of the
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 9: pilots are citizens of these countries, for the time being,
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 9: we don't want them flying into our airspace. So what's
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 9: happening is any airline has to adjust their crew rotation
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 9: to make sure that any crew that's scheduled to fly
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 9: into Israeli airspace is not from one of these identified countries.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 2: And again, this is temporary.
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 9: I'm sure that it's kind of the initial knee-jerk reaction to, hey,
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 9: You know, we had somebody trying to fly in here
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 9: that's trying to attack us, so this is what we're
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 9: going to do. And we even had an Ethiopian Airlines
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 9: flight that was coming in that it was determined it
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 9: was a cargo flight.
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: Oops, one of the pilots was.
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 9: On that list of 30-some countries, so they had to
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 9: turn back around land and get another crew member to
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 9: then take the flight into Israel so that they could
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 9: land and conduct the flight as they were supposed to.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 9: So airlines are being forced to kind of adjust to this.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 9: As a result, and look, it's up to Israel to decide,
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 9: you know, who they will allow and who they will
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 9: not as far as coming into the country. And yeah,
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 9: that's one of the things right now that airlines on
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 9: top of everything else have to adjust. And when you're
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 9: talking about the, I guess how in-depth it is with
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 9: regards to crew rotations, It's easy for that stuff to
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 9: kind of fall through the cracks. And a lot of
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 9: times you have somebody flying when they're not supposed to be,
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 9: and that's when they catch it and say, hey, we've
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 9: got to do something about it and get it fixed
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 9: many times at the last moment.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 2: It helps if the information is released because Fly Dubai,
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 2: crazy loony would-be murderer, he was banned by the country
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 2: of Oman for getting behind the stick. I mean, the
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 2: country put him on the foreboding list.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 9: I mean, you talk about red flags galore here. Of course,
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 9: the concern is, apparently this guy had intentions of doing this,
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 9: from what we're being told, early indications, before he was hired.
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 9: So in the minds of Israel and other countries is,
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 9: do we have other pilots who are now flying for
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 9: commercial airlines that have the same sort of terrorist intent
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 9: that at a moment that they can inflict harm, that
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 9: they're going to do so. So it's so much different
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 9: from a security standpoint because everyone is a potential terrorist.
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 9: And it really is. It's so unfair to the aviation community,
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 9: but we understand why when you've got someone who's in
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 9: a trusted, trusted position of a commercial airline pilot who's
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 9: responsible for the lives of everybody on that flight is
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 9: intent on a terrorist act that's going to kill not
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 9: only the passengers, but people on the ground. So it's
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 9: something we've never had to deal with before.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: Hijackings, yes.
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 9: Different types of things on board an airplane, yes. But
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 9: a pilot that is deliberately looking for an opportunity to
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 9: kill people, no. And that's one of the reasons that
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 9: we see a lot of these decisions being made on
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 9: how they're going to proceed. Because, Brian, the thought is,
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 9: you know, how are we going to prevent this from
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 9: happening in the future? And obviously, they're going to be
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 9: looking a lot closer at at, you know, the mental
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 9: state of pilots, anybody starts posting anything radical if they
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 9: catch things, yeah, that's going to be addressed, and they're
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 9: going to make sure that those people aren't flying, and
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 9: especially aren't flying in certain parts of the world, but
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 9: I tell you, there's a lot of people flying, and
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 9: to have the men and women that are flying, and
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 9: you've got to police all of that, monitor all that,
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 9: try to sift through all the mountains of social media
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 9: to try to see if there's anything in there that
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 9: would represent a red flag, yeah, it's a challenge for
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 9: everyone involved. And again, that's the uncertainty that really bothers
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 9: a lot of people.
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 2: No question about it. You know, your comment about hijacking
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 2: just remind me of the days of old with Carlos
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 2: the Jackal. It seemed to be hijacking was all the
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 2: rage back in the 60s or the 70s.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 2: But I mean, with the exception of obviously events like 9-11,
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 2: you didn't really hear a whole lot about hijacking after
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 2: a period of time. What changed between the 70s and
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 2: the days of Carlos the Jackal and greater airline security
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 2: where people just Didn't hijack planes anymore. Or was that
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 2: that vehicle for proving a point or trying to convey
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 2: a point no longer viewed as a best practice among
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 2: the terrorists out there?
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 9: Well, we had some fun because they made an airport
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 9: down in Florida look like Cuba. So a lot of
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 9: times when people would want to be hijack a flight
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 9: ticket to Cuba, they'd.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: Be sure we'll take you there.
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 9: And I can't remember the airport name. say, fly around,
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 9: fly around, fly around, land in a place that they
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 9: thought was Cuba.
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 6: It's U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Soil, and they would be arrested.
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  Speaker 9: But most of the reason we don't see the number
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  Speaker 9: of those is it was an increase in technology inside
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  Speaker 9: the airport. From a screening standpoint, people simply weren't, you know,
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  Speaker 9: of course, look, Brian, back in the day, you bring
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  Speaker 9: your shotgun, everything else on board a plane, and you
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  Speaker 9: get your ammunition when you're going somewhere else. But Obviously,
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  Speaker 9: a lot of that has changed. But, you know, the
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  Speaker 9: bottom line right now is that the technology, billions of
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  Speaker 9: dollars is being spent inside the airport, rightfully so, to
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  Speaker 9: try to make things as safe as we can. And
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  Speaker 9: for that part, we have to give the aviation industry
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  Speaker 9: high marks because they do a very good job of that.
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  Speaker 9: And I'm glad for that. A lot of areas need
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  Speaker 9: more improvement. But yeah, it's the increase in technology inside
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  Speaker 9: the airport that I'm pleased to say has prevented a
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  Speaker 9: lot of that nonsense before. Because you're right, in the
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  Speaker 9: 70s and 80s, it was almost a standing joke of, okay,
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  Speaker 9: how many aircraft this year are going to get hijacked?
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  Speaker 9: And that's why the process, the mindset of airlines was, okay,
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  Speaker 9: like a bank teller, we'll go along with them, we'll
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  Speaker 9: fly them wherever, we'll land, we'll let law enforcement take
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  Speaker 9: care of it. And that was the same mindset that
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  Speaker 9: was in place during the attacks of 9-11 that were
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  Speaker 9: exposed and taken advantage of. When these hijackers, you know,
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  Speaker 9: we thought they just wanted to, you know, be taken somewhere,
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  Speaker 9: make a political statement, whatever. And it turned out to
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  Speaker 9: be a much more deadly situation than that, obviously, with
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  Speaker 9: the attacks that took place. But that was the mentality.
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  Speaker 9: The airline crews did exactly what they were trained to
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  Speaker 9: do during those days, which, again, spurs from what took
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  Speaker 9: place in.
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  Speaker 6: The 70s and 80s.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, someday you're going to come on in terms of
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  Speaker 2: areas of improvement that no longer need it. The planes
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  Speaker 2: parked on the tarmac overnight who apparently aren't being watched
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  Speaker 2: as closely as Jay and I would hope they would
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  Speaker 2: be watched. Pivoting over, Delta Airlines spending massive amounts like
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  Speaker 2: every other airline on fuel. Price of fuel has gone up.
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  Speaker 2: We all know this. We have a major problem, not
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  Speaker 2: just supply, but it's also refining capacity is very limited.
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  Speaker 2: So we're dealing with refining shock right now on top
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  Speaker 2: of supply shock. So is it that bad, Jay Ratliff?
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  Speaker 1: It is. Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Airlines are, in essence, being charged 70 percent more for
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  Speaker 9: fuel than they were in January. And so what a
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  Speaker 9: lot of airlines are doing at Delta, I think, is
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  Speaker 9: spending six billion extra dollars this year in fuel. As
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  Speaker 9: I recall, the costs are just incredibly high. They're passing
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  Speaker 9: as much of that as they can on to customers.
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  Speaker 9: But Brian, they're also cutting out specific routes. They're saying, look,
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  Speaker 9: we in a in a good time, we're making minimal
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  Speaker 9: profit flying from here to here. We're not going to
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  Speaker 9: fly that right now as long as the prices are high.
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  Speaker 6: And we have.
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  Speaker 9: Entire markets of some of these smaller regional airports that
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  Speaker 9: airlines are simply refusing to fly to because they're saying
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  Speaker 9: we're going to lose money on every single flight, even
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  Speaker 9: if it's full and everybody is paying the highest possible fare.
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  Speaker 9: So a lot of these smaller markets are really getting
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  Speaker 9: hammered because this air service is being removed and they
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  Speaker 9: need to drive 90 miles or two or three hours
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  Speaker 9: to get to another commercial airport. Because airlines are simply saying, no,
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  Speaker 9: we're not going to do it. So they're adjusting their
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  Speaker 9: flight schedules or changing flights or canceling them. And it's
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  Speaker 9: really impacting the consumer because they've got, you know, they
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  Speaker 9: made the reservations eight, nine months in advance. They did
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  Speaker 9: exactly what you and I talk about. They save money
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  Speaker 9: by grabbing the lower fares and now they're being canceled.
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  Speaker 9: And some of these are around the holidays where the
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  Speaker 9: airlines say we're not going to operate. And, you know,
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  Speaker 9: the passengers have very, very little recourse because, well, now
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  Speaker 9: you've got to find a fare at Thanksgiving, Christmas, end
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  Speaker 9: of the year. that you bought in November, December, January,
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  Speaker 9: at the last minute, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, you're going to be paying a fortune.
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  Speaker 2: A fortune. We'll hopefully get this situation resolved shortly. Real
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  Speaker 2: quick here, hub delays for a part company this week,
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  Speaker 2: Jay Ratliff.
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  Speaker 9: You know, we've got a lot of weather that's in
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  Speaker 9: the area. It's going to start to impact Minneapolis, Chicago.
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  Speaker 9: I think Dallas could also get a nice round of delays,
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  Speaker 9: but I think the real problem, child, is going to
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  Speaker 9: be Minneapolis for the delay day. Some of those delays, Brian,
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  Speaker 9: easily are going to exceed an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Love you, brother. Thank you for coming on the program
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  Speaker 2: every week and discussing these issues with us and having
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of fun, as we always part company.
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  Speaker 2: I love to wish you best of health to you
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  Speaker 2: and your better half.
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  Speaker 1: And to you as well, my friend. Thank you.
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