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55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, Josh Gerth, Judge Napolitano, Ken Kober · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: 505-55KRC, the talk station. Every Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: Call Kenny Loggins because you're in the danger zone.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, perhaps. Brian Thomas right here. Glad to be. And
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Speaker 1: good morning to you. Appreciate you tuning in. Appreciate Joe
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Speaker 1: Strucker being where he should be, and that's in the
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Speaker 1: Executive Producer booth and lining up great guests here on
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Speaker 1: the 55KRC Morning Show. It's Wednesday, which means at 7.05
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Speaker 1: we get the benefit of Jack Atherton. The big picture
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Speaker 1: with Jack Atherton. Today's topic, Rome from Republic to Dictatorship.
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Speaker 3: Hmm.
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Speaker 1: You just sort of speculated what Jack's talking about that one,
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Speaker 1: because all I have is a subject matter topic, and
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Speaker 1: that's it. So we learn together and get his brilliance
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Speaker 1: at 7.05. anyhow donovan and the americans for prosperity it's
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Speaker 1: afp day 7 30 on a wednesday we'll hear about
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Speaker 1: early voting which starts october 6th get out and vote
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Speaker 1: james carville says it's going to be a deluge you're
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Speaker 1: gonna let james carville be right got a few comments
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Speaker 1: on that coming up uh so we'll talk about canvassing
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Speaker 1: for john houston and get a load of this afp
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Speaker 1: is that did some great work um Apparently AFP and
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Speaker 1: the organizations related to canvassing canvassed all 99 House districts
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Speaker 1: in a single day for the purpose of supporting John Husted.
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Speaker 1: So they're doing some serious door-to-door work. And, of course,
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Speaker 1: you can help out. Donovan Neal always lets us know
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Speaker 1: how easy it is to help AFP out. Let's see here.
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Speaker 1: Josh Gerth returns. Hamilton County, head of the Hamilton County
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Speaker 1: Republican Party, Josh Gerth. We'll get his comments about Eugene Blaylock.
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Speaker 1: North college Hill school superintendent who did post the entire
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Speaker 1: democratic ticket on the North college Hills, uh, North college
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Speaker 1: Hill school website. There'll be taxpayer dollars used to support
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Speaker 1: political campaigns for Democrats. He says he didn't know or
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Speaker 1: didn't mean it and didn't think it was campaign, whatever.
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Speaker 1: Josh Gerth came out swinging on that one the other day.
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Speaker 1: So we'll hear about that one and some other things
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Speaker 1: going on. Josh Gerth's Facebook page is worth following because
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Speaker 1: he has a political shenanigans identified there. So, uh, That
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Speaker 1: will be an insightful conversation. 8.05 for that. Then Judge
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Speaker 1: Anna Napolitano returns. I want to talk to him about
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Speaker 1: some of the cases the Supreme Court will be hearing
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Speaker 1: coming up beginning in October with the next term for
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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. And there's some real important cases there.
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Speaker 1: Looking forward to having the judge talk about that. Plus,
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Speaker 1: Ken Kober. I was taken aback by the city council's
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Speaker 1: mandate that parking garages and parking lots now install cameras
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Speaker 1: or have 24-7 security guards because people steal guns from cars.
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Speaker 1: Not just in parking lots and parking garages, mind you,
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Speaker 1: but there's one place where guns get stolen. So, of course,
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Speaker 1: council's got to do something. Here we are, harumph, harumph, harumph.
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Speaker 1: What do we do? Hey, let's make private property owners
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Speaker 1: buy cameras or hire security agents because, well, people leave
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Speaker 1: guns in cars, including the sheriff of Hamilton County, several times. So,
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Speaker 1: FOP President Ken Kober on whether he thinks cameras in
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Speaker 1: parking lots is a great idea and will solve the
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Speaker 1: gun theft problem. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on AT &
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Speaker 1: T phones. If you want to comment, feel free to
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Speaker 1: give me a call. If there's something on your mind. And,
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Speaker 1: of course, yesterday, Steve Gooden joined the program. about his
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Speaker 1: op-ed piece to Mark Jefferson's city council and some ideas
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Speaker 1: that he had, like, you know, ending the contract with
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Speaker 1: Iris Rowley. That might help go a long way to
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Speaker 1: improving police morale. We had the inside scoop with Breitbart News'
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Speaker 1: Bradley Jay yesterday and Tom Zawistowski on fire. He, too,
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Speaker 1: is talking about getting out and voting. And you've got
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Speaker 1: to do it. You're going to let James Carville be correct?
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Speaker 1: He was talking yesterday, of course, on air. We all
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Speaker 1: know James Carville, the raging Cajun. He can be a
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Speaker 1: bit of a monnoxious person. hunk, but he's challenging you.
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Speaker 1: He's on MS now of all places. Shocking, right? Asking
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Speaker 1: about the upcoming midterms. He said, well, you had a
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Speaker 1: rain event in New York a couple days ago. It
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Speaker 1: can mist. It can have a shower. You can have
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Speaker 1: a deluge. You had a deluge. That's what we're going
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Speaker 1: to have in November. It's going to be a deluge,
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Speaker 1: and I think that most of the Republicans are kind
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Speaker 1: of aware of that, and everybody is just strapping in.
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Speaker 1: You know, the Fox viewers are not aware of that.
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Speaker 1: I watch it all the time. I read the chyron,
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Speaker 1: and they're saying that the race for Congress remains close.
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Speaker 1: There's going to be a big surprise in a lot
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Speaker 1: of these houses come November, the night of November 3rd,
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Speaker 1: I guess it is. Sort of qualifying it, not quite
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Speaker 1: sure what specific day the election is, but he's saying
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Speaker 1: that you Fox viewers and maybe people in my listening
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Speaker 1: audience are in a state of denial. Are you? Are
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Speaker 1: you being gaslit, for example? Are these polls that keep
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Speaker 1: coming out day in and day out, which suggests the
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Speaker 1: Democrats are going to have an overwhelming victory in November,
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Speaker 1: are they accurate? Are they just trying to tell you
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Speaker 1: you've got no more air in your bubble or in
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Speaker 1: your bubble, bursting your bubble, taking the wind out of
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Speaker 1: your sails? Amy Acton is leading in a new Ohio poll. Headline,
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Speaker 1: Acton leads new Ohio poll as economic concerns grow. Newsmax headline,
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Speaker 1: three new Ohio polls. Democrat, Brown, Acton lead in Ohio.
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Speaker 1: They were referring to a Marist poll that came out,
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Speaker 1: big data poll, and a Suffolk University, USA Today, Network
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Speaker 1: Ohio poll, all of which show Amy Acton ahead of
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Speaker 1: the game. Amy Acton is campaigning on making everything cost less. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Affordability on top of everybody's mind, of course. Make everything
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Speaker 1: cost less. Now, pause and ask yourself, much in the
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Speaker 1: same way I've been critical of Donald Trump's campaign pledge
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Speaker 1: to reduce the cost of everything on day one, who
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Speaker 1: can possibly do that? What can he in the act
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Speaker 1: do for you to make things more affordable? And remember
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Speaker 1: what the Democrats bring you. More control, more regulations, more
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Speaker 1: impediments to getting things done, and a history of it.
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Speaker 1: And people's recollections are pretty short-sighted. Basic measure is inflation. Well,
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Speaker 1: what was it? Consumer price index increased an average of 5%
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Speaker 1: every year during the Biden presidency. First term of Trump, 1.9%,
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Speaker 1: and so far 2.9% in Trump's second term. Huh, that's
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Speaker 1: a shocking difference. You don't remember the Biden inflationary increases?
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Speaker 1: Got housing problems. Housing prices rose 5.3% a year on
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Speaker 1: average during the Biden years, 2.7% during the first Trump administration, 3.7%
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Speaker 1: so far in a second. A surprising difference. It was
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Speaker 1: worse under Biden. Now, we know the pandemic caused the
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Speaker 1: prices to shoot up. We understand the adjustments we all
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Speaker 1: had to live through. Housing prices have grown significantly faster in, well,
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Speaker 1: left-leaning cities, Boston, New York, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, compared to
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Speaker 1: the more conservative cities of Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, and Tampa,
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Speaker 1: where the prices have gone up substantially less. And the
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Speaker 1: cost to build anything in left-wing cities, the cost, here
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Speaker 1: we are talking about making things more affordable. Why is
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Speaker 1: it 2.8 times more to build an apartment in California
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Speaker 1: than Texas? Well, According to Rancorp's number crunching, some affordable
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Speaker 1: housing projects in California cost more than $ 1 million per
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Speaker 1: unit to build.
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Speaker 3: Why?
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Speaker 1: Democrat, state, and local prevailing wage mandates, Democrat, and, of course,
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Speaker 1: regulatory mandates, which we'll get to more when you look
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Speaker 1: at the Democrats' policies on energy. Inflationary?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Intentionally increasing the price of fossil fuels that we rely on? Absolutely. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: How about the federal minimum wage? Democrats inspired increasing federal
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Speaker 1: minimum wage. They want it to go up $ 15 or
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Speaker 1: higher on a federal level. That is inflationary. Market forces
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Speaker 1: should govern the wage, and, you know, it's a lot cheaper.
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Speaker 1: If you look at comparisons, go ahead. There are comparison
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Speaker 1: salary calculator comparisons. What does it take if you make $ 100, 000?
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Speaker 1: Pick a random figure, $ 50, 000. How much is $ 50, 000 annual
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Speaker 1: salary here in the greater Cincinnati area if you move
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Speaker 1: to Chicago? What would you have to make to maintain
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Speaker 1: a similar standard of living in Cincinnati if you move
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Speaker 1: to Chicago? I did these number crunchers, and I did
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Speaker 1: the reverse because my wife and I moved back from
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Speaker 1: Chicago here, and we took a cut in salary and
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Speaker 1: yet enjoyed a much higher standard of living.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 1: Because Democrat states and cities are a hell of a
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Speaker 1: lot more expensive for a multitude of reasons. Gasoline prices,
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Speaker 1: it's still lower under Trump. Now, I can't say right now,
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Speaker 1: but up until the war kicked in, inflation adjusted average
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Speaker 1: $ 3. 43 a gallon across the second Trump term, still lower
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Speaker 1: than the $ 3. 89 average during the entire Biden administration. We
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Speaker 1: just don't remember that? And remember, the Biden administration, what
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Speaker 1: do we do? We need to restrict oil and gas production.
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Speaker 1: Let's cancel the Elastic Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling. Let's
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Speaker 1: ban new offshore drilling in the vast majority of the
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Speaker 1: Gulf of Mexico. Mexico, now America, right? As well as
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Speaker 1: the Atlantic coast. Cancel the XL pipeline, pause leases on
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Speaker 1: federal lands, all of which ends up in higher prices
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Speaker 1: because there's less of the product out on the market.
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Speaker 1: Enter the Trump administration, who reverses that, and of course
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Speaker 1: we see energy independence here in the United States, in
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Speaker 1: spite of the fact that the global realities of the
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Speaker 1: oil market still are forcing us to pay more for
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Speaker 1: a price of gasoline. Climate policy. Gasoline, $ 6. 37 in California. Diesel, $ 8.
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Speaker 5: 40.
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Speaker 1: It's not nearly that bad here. They have cap and
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Speaker 1: tax programs in California. They have low carbon fuel standards.
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Speaker 1: They have to have a different blend there. It's more expensive.
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Speaker 1: They have hefty fuel taxes that drive up fuel prices. And,
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Speaker 1: of course, they have refinery shutdowns, intentional or maybe just
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Speaker 1: driven by the hefty fuel taxes that the refiners have
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Speaker 1: to deal with. We can't make money here. We've got
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Speaker 1: environmental problems here. Let's shut the refinery down. Let's lessen supply, which,
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Speaker 1: of course, economic reality sets in that increases the price
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Speaker 1: of your gallon of gasoline and your diesel fuel. They're
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Speaker 1: still all about climate change, the Democrats. It's the ultimate
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Speaker 1: mechanism by which they can control every element of your life.
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Speaker 1: Don't think just because they're not talking as much about
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Speaker 1: it now that they're not going to wed themselves to
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Speaker 1: this once they get elected. If they get elected, average
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Speaker 1: residential retail electric rates in California, 33.6 cents a kilowatt hour.
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Speaker 1: And that may not mean anything in a factual vacuum. Well,
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Speaker 1: out here where people are normal and we don't have
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Speaker 1: insane rules and regulations, like Florida, for example, it's less
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Speaker 1: than half of that. It's 15 cents. Go out to Nebraska,
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Speaker 1: 13.8 cents. You go to Utah, it's 13.1. Again, compared
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Speaker 1: to 33.6 cents a kilowatt hour in California. I guess
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Speaker 1: it's more expensive in California. Who runs California? You would be, Amy,
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Speaker 1: acting voters. Right, Democrats. So what are the Democrats proposing
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Speaker 1: to improve affordability? More of the same policies, more spending
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Speaker 1: on welfare and affordable housing, more green energy subsidies, more
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Speaker 1: health care regulation, higher minimum wages nationwide? The summary provided
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Speaker 1: by the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, but it is
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Speaker 1: a fact. You're angry now. Who do you take it
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Speaker 1: out on? And if you take it out on someone,
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Speaker 1: what ultimate What ultimate reality are you going to be
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Speaker 1: experiencing down the road? Evil orange man. Price of gasoline up.
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Speaker 1: Let's vote for Acton. Uh-huh. Make sense? 518-55KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, of course, the kids are in school, but they're
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Speaker 1: not getting to school. Joe, in passing along a recently
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Speaker 1: reported article about Local 12 letting us know that it
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Speaker 1: looks like Princeton City Schools will be open tomorrow and Friday,
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Speaker 1: even though it looks like their bus drivers are going
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Speaker 1: to be going on strikes, leaving thousands of students behind.
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Speaker 1: Unable to get to school, I suppose. Joe is quick
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Speaker 1: to point out. You said they have a brand new
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Speaker 1: stadium at Princeton, Joe? Just remodeled it. Do they have
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Speaker 1: a shiny disco ball like the Bengals do in the
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Speaker 1: locker room? Yeah, probably. I'm joking about that. Of course, yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, question priorities.
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Speaker 7: Anyhow.
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Speaker 1: The Iranians are in on the action, too. They sent
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Speaker 1: a letter to you, the American people, us, generally the
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Speaker 1: American people, urging we, the American people, right ahead of
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Speaker 1: the November elections, too, in their words, take back control
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Speaker 1: from evil orange man. Yep, they're having a go. You,
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Speaker 1: American people, are the ones who empower with your votes
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Speaker 1: those who make decisions in your name. Take back control.
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Speaker 1: We share the same pain, the letter says, to the
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Speaker 1: American people. So you and me and the Iranian people
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Speaker 1: and the Revolutionary Guards, we're all in the same pain,
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Speaker 1: all brought about by evil orange men. It has nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with the terrorism and the bombs and the
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Speaker 1: nuclear weapons program and the Houthis and the other terrorist
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Speaker 1: entities supported by the Iranian money, which used to have
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Speaker 1: been flowing in because they sold a lot of oil. Now,
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Speaker 1: we know the blockade has sort of crippled the Iranian economy.
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Speaker 1: Their currency is pretty much valueless, and I saw a
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Speaker 1: couple of reports more and more Buranians taking to the
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Speaker 1: streets in protest. Who knows if the regime will collapse,
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Speaker 1: but what they're trying to do is get you and
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Speaker 1: me on board to vote against Orange Man, which of
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Speaker 1: course means voting against our best interests by electing communists
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Speaker 1: and socialists, which seem to be the dominant force in
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Speaker 1: the Democrat Party. Going back to socialism costing a hell
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Speaker 1: of a lot more than, well, Anything we're dealing with
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Speaker 1: right now, Rick Scott was talking about this last week,
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Speaker 1: rising costs for housing, education, health care. Everybody's frustrated because
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Speaker 1: of that's going on. But reminding everyone, it got really
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Speaker 1: bad under Joe Biden. I gave you the statistics a
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Speaker 1: moment ago, and that was what he was talking about.
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Speaker 1: It just continues to go up the cost of things. Well,
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Speaker 1: one of the problems in driving all this is excessive
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Speaker 1: federal spending, which contributes to higher interest rates, which increase
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Speaker 1: the cost of mortgages, vehicle loans, and credit card debt.
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Speaker 1: We've got a spending problem. Expanded government controls what you
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Speaker 1: get with the Democrats. That's going to cause it to
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Speaker 1: get worse, folks. This has been well documented over history. Also,
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Speaker 1: your individual freedoms get limited under the oppressive regime of
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Speaker 1: socialism and Democrat control. He said, rescuing America project, which
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Speaker 1: is what he's pushing, the goal, well, high cost of
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Speaker 1: living can be addressed largely by balancing the federal budget.
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Speaker 1: Is anybody counting on that happening? I know, I'm jaded
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Speaker 1: and cynical when it comes to that, but that is
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Speaker 1: a cold, stark reality. And he even pointed out that
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Speaker 1: this is a bipartisan problem, Rick Scott did. Congress has
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Speaker 1: done this. Republicans have done it. Democrats have done it.
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Speaker 1: They spent money like it's going out of style, and
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Speaker 1: they've caused all these problems. So, you're going to get
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Speaker 1: more of it. Keep going over to the fact that, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've been disappointed time and time again by Republicans who
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Speaker 1: promise fiscal responsibility, but at least, at least... They pledge
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Speaker 1: a fiscal responsibility. Democrats, remember, the cost of socialism coming
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Speaker 1: in court of the Cato Institute, and Tom Zawistowski was
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Speaker 1: on the program yesterday talking about this. You know, $ 200
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Speaker 1: trillion over 10 years for everything that they want? If
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Speaker 1: you just look at Medicare for All, one of their big,
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Speaker 1: you know, prominent, everybody's lockstep unity together in the Democrat
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Speaker 1: Party about Medicare for All. Remember Obamacare? That was going
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Speaker 1: to solve everything. It didn't. Medicare for All is going
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Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah, the price of that, 10 years
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Speaker 1: in the court of the Cato Institute, $ 30 to $ 70 trillion.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't work out mathematically. The fact that people believe
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Speaker 1: these lies is just mind-boggling to me. 526 right now,
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Speaker 1: 55 KRC, the talk station, local stories, phone calls, either way,
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Speaker 1: got plenty of them to go into.
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Speaker 7: 55.
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Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday. Next week, listener launch, Jim and Jack's on
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Speaker 1: the river. Last one before the election. hoping maybe we'll
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Speaker 1: get some of the judicial candidates out there, perhaps Magistrate
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Speaker 1: Lucan or Leah Dinkalock or some of the other ones
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Speaker 1: will show up. It'd be really cool to see them,
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Speaker 1: and it's an opportunity for them to maybe get some
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Speaker 1: folks to vote for them. But either way, it's always fellowship, fun,
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Speaker 1: and an enjoyable experience, at least for me anyway. I
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Speaker 1: love going to listener lunch and hanging out and getting
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Speaker 1: out of the house and meeting people. So Jim and
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Speaker 1: Jack's next Wednesday. And without further ado, let's jump to
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Speaker 1: the phones and see what Tom's got this morning. Tom,
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Speaker 1: welcome back to the 55KRC Morning Show.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, good morning.
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Speaker 9: And are people really that stupid to think that a
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Speaker 9: Democrat is going to help prices go down and help
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Speaker 9: things be more affordable? People really believe that. I mean,
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Speaker 9: I just can't wrap my head around people actually believing that.
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Speaker 1: Well, and that's why we scratch our head and wonder
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Speaker 1: whether we're being gaslit here or duped. that these polls
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Speaker 1: are not accurate. It's what Tom Zawistowski said the other day.
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Speaker 1: He said, you know, you just can't believe them. So
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Speaker 1: does that mean we are living in a state of denial,
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Speaker 1: or we've just caught on to the fact that every
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Speaker 1: time we look back with hindsight at polls that predicted
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Speaker 1: some outcome that didn't turn out that way, maybe we
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Speaker 1: should just ignore them and trust our gut? I mean,
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Speaker 1: there was a poll. One of the polls, I think
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Speaker 1: it was the Rasmussen one, said that Democrats... Democrats are
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Speaker 1: more trusted or better capable of dealing with immigration. I
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Speaker 1: thought immigration was the reason Trump got elected. How could
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Speaker 1: that have flipped over such a short period of time
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Speaker 1: when Donald Trump has done everything in his power to
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Speaker 1: get rid of criminal illegal immigrants who are here, subject
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Speaker 1: to detainer orders, given due process, and let's get rid
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Speaker 1: of the child molesters and the rapists and the murderers
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Speaker 1: and criminals. Is that a bad idea? Well, apparently, if
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Speaker 1: you believe the polls, I guess people think it is.
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Speaker 9: Well, the Democrats, they are good at a couple of things.
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Speaker 9: First of all, ruining the country is probably their specialty.
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Speaker 9: But getting people all worked up a and believing a
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Speaker 9: bunch of BS.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: They're really good at that. You got to give them
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Speaker 9: credit for that. They're the best. And if there's any
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Speaker 9: truth to these polls at all, it has to be
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Speaker 9: Because people are all worked up emotionally.
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Speaker 1: Well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: OK, let's just start from the fact that everybody's pissed
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Speaker 1: off that things are expensive.
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Speaker 10: Right.
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Speaker 5: That's fine.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 1: But the the dots being drawn are anger leading to
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Speaker 1: voting ultimately for something that will make matters worse. That's
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Speaker 1: the disconnect. And that is a failure of education. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if people don't even know what a socialist is, let
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Speaker 1: alone want to embrace it, and then you ask them
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Speaker 1: any questions about it, and they're like, you know, they
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Speaker 1: look at it, don't really know what I'm talking about. Well,
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Speaker 1: they've just been convinced from an ad campaign to embrace
20:41
Speaker 1: something that they don't fully appreciate will make life worse
20:44
Speaker 1: for them. If your problem is affordability, the government coming
20:48
Speaker 1: in and swooping in to try to solve things is
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Speaker 1: not going to be the answer to your questions.
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Speaker 2: I agree.
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Speaker 9: Well, the government should be the answer to your problems first.
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Speaker 9: to begin with, but that's another thing people don't understand. Well,
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Speaker 9: that's what I mean. I mean, they get people worked
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Speaker 9: up emotionally and, you know, hold up a picture of
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Speaker 9: evil orange man, and he says he's the reason for
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Speaker 9: all your problems. You got the Iranians do it. The
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Speaker 9: people that are going around and killing people and terrorizing people,
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Speaker 9: if they say anything, we should automatically assume that the
21:21
Speaker 9: opposite is true.
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Speaker 1: That's my take.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you got.
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Speaker 9: You've got Democrat activists who are basically socialists and communists.
21:30
Speaker 9: You've got the Iranians. You've got Islamic terrorists. Whatever song
21:34
Speaker 9: they're singing, we need to not join in. It's common sense.
21:41
Speaker 9: But oftentimes, emotion trumps common sense. My dad taught me that.
21:48
Speaker 9: He repeated that to me over and over again. throughout
21:51
Speaker 9: my life. You get worked up emotionally and you will
21:55
Speaker 9: lose track of common sense. And that's why we.
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Speaker 1: That's why a lot of bad marriages... That's how a
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Speaker 1: lot of bad marriages start right there, Tom.
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Speaker 4: That's true.
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Speaker 9: There's good emotions and bad... Absolutely.
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Speaker 5: 100%. Some can be blinding.
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Speaker 9: Yes. You do very stupid things when you're all worked
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Speaker 9: up emotionally. And we can't be stupid. We have to
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Speaker 9: vote correctly and and we make sure we don't vote Democrat.
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Speaker 1: There you are.
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Speaker 9: Have a great weekend. I'm traveling. Today's my last day
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Speaker 9: out here in Indiana, and I'm going home, and then
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Speaker 9: I've got to get my stuff, and I've got to
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Speaker 9: travel to Florida. So probably Monday I'll talk to you
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Speaker 9: from the panhandle of Florida.
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Speaker 1: Fantastic, man. Safe travels, my friend. Safe travels. Be careful
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Speaker 1: out there. 535 right now, 55KRCD Talk Station, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK.
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Speaker 1: Feel free to give me a call. And where was
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Speaker 1: I yesterday? Right after work. Well, roughly right after work,
22:49
Speaker 1: about 11 o'clock. I was at the station. It is
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Speaker 1: pound 550 on AT & T funds. I'm going to
23:02
Speaker 1: get to Cleveland now here, but as I come off
23:06
Speaker 1: on the heels of the 22-3 commercial I was doing,
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Speaker 1: please don't give your toddler a firearm. From the stack
23:11
Speaker 1: of stupid. Police investigating after a toddler was found with
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Speaker 1: a loaded firearm at his daycare in Michigan. Children's World
23:21
Speaker 1: Early Learing Center. It's not really that. It's Learning Center. But,
23:24
Speaker 1: you know, toddler reportedly took out a loaded pistol from
23:29
Speaker 1: his backpack. It is not certain how the child got
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Speaker 1: a hold of the firearm, but according to the article,
23:35
Speaker 1: Canton police confirmed that one of the child's parents was
23:38
Speaker 1: in fact taken into custody and that one happens to
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Speaker 1: be a police officer in a neighboring community. Police didn't
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Speaker 1: say if the officer was the parent that was arrested.
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Speaker 1: They did confirm the firearm was not a law enforcement
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Speaker 1: service weapon, though. So no specific age the toddler was,
23:56
Speaker 1: but you call him a toddler, I'm thinking a pretty
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Speaker 1: tiny little kid with a firearm. Let's not let that happen.
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Speaker 1: Who can argue with that? Cleveland Al, welcome to the
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Speaker 1: morning show. Happy Wednesday.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, and I just wanted to make a quick
24:12
Speaker 4: statement because I think you didn't even realize what you
24:15
Speaker 4: were saying while you were talking to Tom.
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Speaker 1: That happens all the time.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you let slip that you think that education is failing.
24:26
Speaker 4: When you consider that the progressives have been working for
24:29
Speaker 4: over 100 years to create feelers and not thinkers, they
24:34
Speaker 4: aren't actually failing.
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Speaker 1: They're succeeding.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: That would be my only statement. I will let it
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Speaker 4: go at that.
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Speaker 1: It's an excellent point, Cleveland, Al, because useful idiots are
24:49
Speaker 1: useful idiots. The idiot is the critical component in a
24:52
Speaker 1: useful idiot because if you're not an idiot, you're not
24:55
Speaker 1: going to be useful to the left. Ignorant people reach
24:59
Speaker 1: ignorant conclusions. Like, for example, I'm paying too much for
25:02
Speaker 1: gasoline now and I can't afford a house. I'm going
25:05
Speaker 1: to vote for a bunch of socialists. That'll make things better.
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Speaker 1: You are a useful idiot.
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Speaker 2: Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.
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Speaker 1: That is not to say Donald Trump is doing a
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Speaker 1: perfect job as president. And if you think he is,
25:25
Speaker 1: maybe one can draw the same conclusion about you. But,
25:28
Speaker 1: you know, I'm never in search of the perfect because
25:30
Speaker 1: the perfect does not exist. I personally choose the best candidate,
25:36
Speaker 1: and so far, very few, if any, Democrats have ever
25:39
Speaker 1: made the grade because of what they advocate for, which
25:41
Speaker 1: I know is not going to be in my best interest. Thankfully,
25:46
Speaker 1: God gave me common sense. Thankfully, God, well, blessed me
25:48
Speaker 1: with parents who are interested in ensuring that I got
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Speaker 1: a good education. And thankfully, it was before the woke
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Speaker 1: socialist reality that has entered into every classroom in the
26:01
Speaker 1: United States, with the exception of those classes which are
26:04
Speaker 1: independent of the teachers' unions, where you're going to get
26:08
Speaker 1: probably a better education. Thank you to my friends at
26:11
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Classical Academy for doing such a wonderful job educating children.
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Speaker 1: I love those folks up there. Over there. Down there,
26:21
Speaker 1: depending on where you're standing.
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Speaker 11: Anyhow.
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Speaker 1: How much weed can you smoke? We've got a woman
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Speaker 1: facing criminal charges after airport police found about 60 pounds
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Speaker 1: of marijuana inside two Czech suitcases at Portland International Airport.
26:39
Speaker 1: Maybe Jay Ratliff will talk about this one tomorrow. Anyway, arrested,
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Speaker 1: Janae Mateo, 39 years old. At a United boarding gate,
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Speaker 1: screeners discovered the marijuana during routine baggage inspection. I guess
26:53
Speaker 1: she doesn't understand that marijuana is still a Schedule I
26:56
Speaker 1: drug under federal law. No, you cannot transport it on airplanes,
27:00
Speaker 1: even if you're standing in a medical use or free
27:06
Speaker 1: use state. It doesn't matter. Federal law dominates. So anyhow,
27:09
Speaker 1: I thought the most interesting part about this. There were
27:13
Speaker 1: two suitcases, total of 59.5 pounds of weed, individually packaged, cryovacced,
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Speaker 1: and labeled with the various marijuana strains in each bag.
27:23
Speaker 1: She told detectives she planned to take the marijuana to
27:25
Speaker 1: Maryland to resell it, though she said she uses marijuana
27:31
Speaker 1: daily and intended to keep most of it for personal use.
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Speaker 12: Drugs are bad.
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Speaker 6: 60 pounds?
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Speaker 1: Oh, she was traveling with somebody. According to security footage,
27:42
Speaker 1: they looked at her like, hey, wait a minute, she's
27:44
Speaker 1: traveling with somebody. Anyway, that person got on a different airplane.
27:47
Speaker 1: So investigators alerted law enforcement in Pennsylvania. That's where the
27:51
Speaker 1: authorities stopped the man she was traveling with. He landed,
27:53
Speaker 1: and they found 65 pounds of marijuana and $ 62, 195 receipt
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Speaker 1: detailing pot strains and pricing inside his luggage. So I
28:05
Speaker 1: guess they went to a dispensary, bought pot. Almost $ 63, 000
28:09
Speaker 1: worth of weed and then wanted to take it to
28:11
Speaker 1: another state. But obviously the stack is stupid component. How
28:14
Speaker 1: stupid would you be if you smoked 60 pounds worth
28:17
Speaker 1: of weed? I'm sure you know a stoner in your world.
28:19
Speaker 1: You're pretty stupid. More stupid coming up. Speaking of stupid,
28:23
Speaker 1: cross-country mortgage definitely not. It is 5.50 here at 55KRCD
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28:41
Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday.
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Speaker 10: Hey, good morning, Brian.
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Speaker 6: It's always an honor to go after Brother Tom, although
28:47
Speaker 6: I don't always get up early enough to hear him,
28:50
Speaker 6: so it was good to hear his voice this morning.
28:51
Speaker 1: That's all right.
28:52
Speaker 6: Like him, I'm traveling, but I'm listening on the iHeart.
28:58
Speaker 6: Uh, media, uh, and coming in loud and clear from
29:01
Speaker 6: South of Atlanta. And so I was always encouraged the
29:05
Speaker 6: listeners get on there. It helps Brian and Joe are
29:08
Speaker 6: never going to say it, but, uh, uh, you can
29:11
Speaker 6: catch episodes from previous days and, uh, get on there
29:15
Speaker 6: and stay informed.
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Speaker 1: I do appreciate that. I really do because, you know, I,
29:19
Speaker 1: I have found over time and, you know, technology is
29:21
Speaker 1: always still, you know, wondrous to me cause I'm old, but, uh, yeah, the, the, the,
29:26
Speaker 1: podcast going over to 55k or c.iheart.com a lot of
29:29
Speaker 1: people do that you know like somebody elsewhere somebody basically
29:32
Speaker 1: some other state says oh wow he talked to phil
29:35
Speaker 1: in the black daniel davis or maybe breitbart or napolitano
29:38
Speaker 1: or whoever they want to hear what some of the
29:40
Speaker 1: congressmen or people that come on the program say. And
29:42
Speaker 1: they do definitely log in. And I definitely Joe and
29:44
Speaker 1: I both get credit for that. So it's really nice
29:47
Speaker 1: to see the numbers growing. And I truly appreciate your
29:49
Speaker 1: you're saying that.
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Speaker 8: Well, good.
29:52
Speaker 6: Hey, well, the reason I'm calling is, you know, speaking
29:54
Speaker 6: of communist activity, you Anytime I see a politician's face
29:59
Speaker 6: on something like this plant in Iowa, I saw on
30:03
Speaker 6: Breitbart it said, Trump is claiming credit something about the
30:07
Speaker 6: world's largest steel production plant being built in Iowa. It
30:11
Speaker 6: pulls up short to say exactly what did Trump's administration do.
30:16
Speaker 6: So every time I see that, I'm skeptical and think,
30:18
Speaker 6: here we go again. Whenever government is involved in business,
30:22
Speaker 6: I'm reaching for my wallet thinking, how bad is this
30:25
Speaker 6: going to hurt and what's the deal?
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Well, when I dug into it, this is called Masabi Metallics,
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Speaker 6: which isn't even a U.S.-based firm. This is an India-based firm.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
30:40
Speaker 6: And the funding for this thing, which is up to
30:43
Speaker 6: $ 10 billion, is coming from this entity called the Import-Export Bank.
30:48
Speaker 6: Are you familiar? Have you ever heard of Import-Export Bank?
30:50
Speaker 10: Because I have not.
30:53
Speaker 6: Yeah, so the import-export bank was created by a fantastic communist, FDR,
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Speaker 6: back in 1930-something. And its purpose is to provide funding
31:07
Speaker 6: on a deal when no bank in their right mind
31:09
Speaker 6: would touch it in order to juice the economy. So
31:13
Speaker 6: this is government stepping in using taxpayer funds to broker
31:18
Speaker 6: a deal to put a steel plant in Iowa– Interesting timing,
31:23
Speaker 6: two years before we have a general election, Iowa caucus,
31:26
Speaker 6: and that's why we have corn in our gas. But
31:29
Speaker 6: I'm looking at this thinking, here we go again, trying to,
31:34
Speaker 6: just like with the U.S. Steel, we have a golden
31:37
Speaker 6: share of the U.S. Steel deal, where Nippon Steel wanted
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Speaker 6: to buy U.S.
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Speaker 5: Steel.
31:42
Speaker 6: But we had to get involved. Trump had to get
31:44
Speaker 6: involved and get this golden share that says he's going
31:46
Speaker 6: to approve every capital decision, the naming rights, where the
31:49
Speaker 6: headquarter locations are. It just seems like both sides of
31:53
Speaker 6: the aisle are just enthralled with this idea of.
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Speaker 1: Communism.
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Speaker 6: And although I'm a fan of Breitbart, I was extremely disappointed.
32:05
Speaker 6: Tell the rest of the story. Tell the full story. Now,
32:08
Speaker 6: I know that in a small article, you can't fit
32:11
Speaker 6: it all in. But there was a whole lot that
32:14
Speaker 6: was unsaid, and the right-wing media sometimes is as bad
32:17
Speaker 6: as the left. of leaving out all these details that
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Speaker 6: $ 10 billion of our taxpayer money is going to go
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Speaker 6: fund this India operation that could, should be able to
32:26
Speaker 6: go talk to a bank and get.
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Speaker 5: Its own funding.
32:28
Speaker 6: But evidently, we're going to be holding the risk that's
32:31
Speaker 6: too significant.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, banks do have underwriting agencies and actuaries
32:36
Speaker 1: that crunch numbers and try to figure out whether or
32:37
Speaker 1: not it is a worthy risk because loans come at
32:40
Speaker 1: a risk. Yes, you may get interest paid back, and
32:42
Speaker 1: that's the purpose of a bank's motivation to loan. But
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Speaker 1: As I understand the Export-Import Bank, it steps in when
32:49
Speaker 1: regular private banks are either unable or unwilling to lend
32:53
Speaker 1: the money for international sales. So it offers direct loans
32:56
Speaker 1: to foreign buyers and guarantees loans made by commercial lenders.
32:59
Speaker 1: So it sounds to me more like an insurance policy
33:03
Speaker 1: for perhaps questionable loans. Perhaps loans that are too large
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Speaker 1: for any bank to perhaps underwrite. I don't know. But, yeah,
33:10
Speaker 1: it is most assuredly government getting involved in private business
33:13
Speaker 1: and industry, which is clearly a very left socialist come
33:16
Speaker 1: communist leaning thing. Going back to my point earlier, you know,
33:20
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is not perfect. He's a damn sight better
33:23
Speaker 1: than the one we had previously and a damn sight
33:25
Speaker 1: better than Kamala Harris would have been. So we've got
33:27
Speaker 1: challenges on our hands, but we need to make informed decisions.
33:31
Speaker 1: And just rejecting Trump, the administration, and going full-on Democrat
33:35
Speaker 1: is going to make things so much worse. It's like
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Speaker 1: a lesser of two evil election, perhaps, folks. Let's go
33:42
Speaker 1: with the lesser of two evils. Hold your nose. And
33:44
Speaker 1: then as Tom Zawistowski pointed out yesterday, let's get rid
33:48
Speaker 1: of the monster that is the Democrat Party and the
33:50
Speaker 1: communism that they are embracing more and more each and
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Speaker 1: every day. And when we're done with them, We'll turn
33:56
Speaker 1: our attention to the monster that is the Republican Party.
33:59
Speaker 1: Just the Republican Party monster just isn't quite as dangerous
34:02
Speaker 1: looking as the Democrat Party monster. 5.56 right now, 55KRC
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34:18
Speaker 1: day from now, or one week from now, it's going
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Speaker 1: to be Listener Lunch Wednesday at Jim and Jack's on
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Speaker 1: the River. Next Wednesday, about 1130-ish, you can show up.
34:25
Speaker 1: It should be a good time. It always is a
34:26
Speaker 1: good time. Last one before the election. You usually have
34:28
Speaker 1: a really good turnout. And you regularly get north of
34:31
Speaker 1: 50 or plus at Listener Lunch. So we've had some
34:34
Speaker 1: big ones over the years in the last one before
34:36
Speaker 1: the election. So whether or not it's a large turnout,
34:38
Speaker 1: that won't matter to me. I'm going to have a
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Speaker 1: good time being at Jim and Jack's and hanging out
34:41
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Speaker 1: hour from now, the big picture with Jack Atherton. Today's topic? Rome,
34:48
Speaker 1: from republic to dictatorship. Looking forward to having the conversation, Jack,
34:53
Speaker 1: as always. Donovan Neal, Americans for Prosperity, joins the program
34:55
Speaker 1: every Wednesday at 730. We're talking about canvassing for John Husted.
34:59
Speaker 1: They successfully canvassed 99 districts, all 99 districts in one day.
35:06
Speaker 1: The AFP Action folks and the grassroots works they're doing
35:09
Speaker 1: along with some other Lake Libra action and Concerned Veterans
35:14
Speaker 1: for American Action. Just went out door knocking, and they
35:17
Speaker 1: managed to do that. 99 Ohio House districts in one
35:20
Speaker 1: single day working for John Husted, who, again, is behind
35:23
Speaker 1: in the polls. Going back to these polls. Now, here's Maureen,
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Speaker 1: my pattern-observing friend, formerly known as a conspiracy theorist. And
35:33
Speaker 1: it sounds plausible, considering shenanigans in elections. And, you know,
35:38
Speaker 1: who's the party that does not want a photo ID requirement?
35:40
Speaker 1: Who's the party that doesn't want to enforce federal law,
35:43
Speaker 1: which requires you to be a U.S. citizen to vote
35:45
Speaker 1: in elections? How do we get around the potential, as
35:48
Speaker 1: demonstrated by actual factual accounts of illegal immigrants voting in elections?
35:54
Speaker 1: Let's get rid of that. Who wants to get rid
35:56
Speaker 1: of it? Well, the Republican Party, maybe some of the
35:58
Speaker 1: Democrat Party, but the vast majority of Democrats say, hell no,
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Speaker 1: we can't have that. Why would that be? And if
36:06
Speaker 1: you say it's too difficult to get a photo ID
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Speaker 1: if you're a black person, then that makes you as
36:13
Speaker 1: racist as any other Democrat who would make that argument.
36:17
Speaker 1: The Marine says, you know, all these polls, they're skewed
36:20
Speaker 1: to make it look like the communists and the socialists
36:22
Speaker 1: are going to win. They're winning, yes, all across the board. Look,
36:25
Speaker 1: they're winning, they're winning, they're winning. So if the polls
36:28
Speaker 1: are fake and we're being peddled a false narrative, phase two,
36:32
Speaker 1: she says, and again, this is just a theory. This
36:35
Speaker 1: is the kind of thing that happens. When you manipulate
36:37
Speaker 1: and infiltrate the voting system of choice, like with mail ballots,
36:41
Speaker 1: insert election workers, machines maybe tampering with the vote, then
36:46
Speaker 1: you get an outcome that will be unsurprising. So her
36:51
Speaker 1: suggestion is while Republicans should win if there isn't any
36:54
Speaker 1: cheating or would have won, you'll have all of the
36:57
Speaker 1: left-wingers saying, look, the polls told you who was going
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Speaker 1: to win, the left won, and it's simply because the
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Speaker 1: Republicans are failures or evil orange man or whatever. It's possible, Maureen.
37:08
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not there yet, as I always
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Speaker 1: point out to you. I keep my popcorn out. But
37:12
Speaker 1: if you want to go and find out which party
37:14
Speaker 1: is more interested in ensuring the integrity of the election,
37:17
Speaker 1: you have one party. That would be the Republican Party.
37:21
Speaker 1: So what else? Judge Napolitano is coming up. Josh Gerth,
37:26
Speaker 1: the Hamilton County chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party.
37:30
Speaker 1: That post about the North College Hill superintendent, Eugene Blaylock,
37:33
Speaker 1: campaigning for the Democrats on the North College Hill school
37:36
Speaker 1: site is interesting. We'll talk about some other things, including
37:39
Speaker 1: some of the things he's brought up on his Facebook account,
37:41
Speaker 1: which is pretty interesting stuff. Always wow Josh Gerth, and
37:45
Speaker 1: he's a good man. Ken Kober, FOP president. We're going
37:49
Speaker 1: to get his chiming in comments on the Cincinnati Council's
37:52
Speaker 1: suggestion that private parking lot owners and garage owners must
37:56
Speaker 1: put up cameras because guns get stolen. Ken Kober on
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Speaker 1: that one. Pivoting over, I've got to go back to
38:02
Speaker 1: this whole socialism thing. You've got to wake up to
38:05
Speaker 1: the realities, and education systems to blame for a lot
38:07
Speaker 1: of this. Ken Buck, he's an editorialist, and he offered
38:10
Speaker 1: his opinions over at the Epoch Times, and I thought
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Speaker 1: they were worthy. So, yes, standing on the shoulders of giants,
38:15
Speaker 1: I will, but it's something that you need to focus
38:17
Speaker 1: and pay attention to as, well, maybe you want to
38:21
Speaker 1: consider rewarding or not, as the case may be, since
38:23
Speaker 1: public schools with a levy this November. So he points out,
38:28
Speaker 1: a recent headline from the well-respected news outlet caught my attention.
38:32
Speaker 1: Could socialism make America happy again? Continuing a theme for
38:37
Speaker 1: the 5 o'clock hour, basically. Surely the article must be satirical,
38:40
Speaker 1: I thought. Who in their right mind would believe that
38:42
Speaker 1: the most oppressive form of government responsible for hundreds of
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Speaker 1: millions of deaths, horrific living conditions, and the elimination of
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Speaker 1: personal freedoms would make anyone happier? It wasn't a joke.
38:55
Speaker 1: Nor are the slew of articles these days proclaiming that
38:57
Speaker 1: Socialism's moment is here, and similar findings that show socialism's
39:01
Speaker 1: popularity is quickly climbing, especially among young people. America has
39:05
Speaker 1: a socialism problem, or a socialism perception problem. A great
39:10
Speaker 1: swath of our country has bought into the lie that
39:13
Speaker 1: socialism can somehow provide a better quality of life, and
39:16
Speaker 1: it owes largely to the progressive success transforming our education
39:21
Speaker 1: system into an indoctrination machine. Going back to the useful
39:26
Speaker 1: idiot comments from earlier. It's no secret. that higher education
39:31
Speaker 1: has long been a bastion of liberalism. One recent poll,
39:33
Speaker 1: half of college professors at four-year schools self-identified as liberal
39:37
Speaker 1: compared with only a quarter who identified as conservative. Conservative
39:41
Speaker 1: faculty considerably more likely to hide their political affiliations for
39:45
Speaker 1: fear of being fired or retaliated against. Likewise, 2020 survey
39:48
Speaker 1: found that nearly 40% of conservative college students didn't feel
39:51
Speaker 1: comfortable expressing their own political views, worrying that their peers
39:55
Speaker 1: might file a complaint against them. One might think that
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Speaker 1: our country's institutions of learning would actively seek to educate
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Speaker 1: young people about the dangers of socialism. There are, after all,
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Speaker 1: numerous examples from recent history. Indeed, they preach the evils
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Speaker 1: of free market capitalism, which has made the United States
40:14
Speaker 1: a global beacon of hope and freedom for more than
40:16
Speaker 1: 250 years. An annual survey this year found that nearly 40%
40:20
Speaker 1: of students said that their college classes and activities negatively
40:24
Speaker 1: affected their views of capitalism, compared with less than 10%
40:27
Speaker 1: who said their experience improved it. That shouldn't be a surprise.
40:31
Speaker 1: The same report two years earlier found that faculty were,
40:34
Speaker 1: in the words of the report, more often positive toward
40:36
Speaker 1: socialism and negative toward capitalism. Today, 46% of Americans between
40:41
Speaker 1: the ages of 18 and 34 have a favorable opinion
40:44
Speaker 1: of socialism today. more than twice as many compared with
40:48
Speaker 1: those who have a negative opinion of it. Sadly, the
40:52
Speaker 1: left's indoctrination program now starts well before college. Here we go.
40:57
Speaker 1: Students are steeped in the immorality of capitalism and the
41:00
Speaker 1: romanticization of socialism beginning as early as primary grades. Back
41:05
Speaker 1: in 2016, the now often cited survey found that one-third
41:09
Speaker 1: of millennial and Gen Z students believed that more people
41:12
Speaker 1: were killed under former President George W. Bush than than
41:15
Speaker 1: by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Almost one in five students
41:22
Speaker 1: didn't even know who Joseph Stalin was.
41:26
Speaker 6: U.S.
41:26
Speaker 1: Civics education hardly seems to be trending in a better direction.
41:30
Speaker 1: A poll by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in
41:33
Speaker 1: 2019 found that more than seven in ten Gen Z
41:38
Speaker 1: students and more than 6 in 10 millennials said they
41:40
Speaker 1: did not learn about communist regimes in their K-12 careers,
41:45
Speaker 1: their entire K-12 education. In 2022, our country's National Assessment
41:53
Speaker 1: of Education Progress scores U.S. history, which measures students' knowledge
41:56
Speaker 1: of the subject in the context of democracy, culture, technological,
42:00
Speaker 1: and economic changes fell by 5 points between 2018 and
42:03
Speaker 1: by 14 points below 2014 averages. Worse. It's getting worse.
42:11
Speaker 1: Following the publication of the Black Book of Communism, which
42:14
Speaker 1: estimated that nearly 100 million people died under communist and
42:18
Speaker 1: socialist regimes in the 20th century alone, the late historian
42:21
Speaker 1: and political commentator Tony Jute, himself a staunch liberal, wrote
42:28
Speaker 1: in the New York Times, no one will any longer
42:31
Speaker 1: be able to claim ignorance or uncertainty about the criminal
42:34
Speaker 1: nature of communism, and those who had begun to forget
42:37
Speaker 1: will be forced to remember anew. If you're never taught
42:40
Speaker 1: about it in the first place, you can't forget something.
42:43
Speaker 1: Therein lies the deficit in our children's K-12 educations. that Americans,
42:51
Speaker 1: particularly young people, have forgotten, or more importantly, they have
42:54
Speaker 1: been presented with a whitewashed, untrue depiction of socialism that
42:57
Speaker 1: omits the ugly realities and fabricates false comforts. Not surprisingly,
43:03
Speaker 1: they have largely accepted this blissful but ultimately make-believe narrative.
43:09
Speaker 1: It doesn't change the truth. Socialism as a system of
43:13
Speaker 1: government has never worked, and will never work, And he concludes,
43:19
Speaker 1: it's time to flip the script on our schools and
43:21
Speaker 1: start teaching our children the truth. But if you are
43:23
Speaker 1: in an education environment that is hell-bent to not teach
43:27
Speaker 1: children about the dangers of socialism because they've all been
43:30
Speaker 1: indoctrinated in the college careers that they pursued, they've been
43:34
Speaker 1: hearing this whitewashed version of socialism and the blissful reality
43:37
Speaker 1: it can bring about themselves for years. Do you think
43:40
Speaker 1: they're going to bother teaching your children that, oh yeah,
43:42
Speaker 1: by the way, there's some real challenges to the concept
43:45
Speaker 1: of socialism? Namely, we've got to eradicate and eliminate all
43:49
Speaker 1: the people who reject it as a political philosophy. Yeah,
43:53
Speaker 1: Camus Rouge time, Joseph Stalin time, Chiang Kai-shek. I mean,
43:57
Speaker 1: we could go on. The purges. Did they not learn
44:03
Speaker 1: about the Berlin Wall? Which side... were being trapped, right?
44:07
Speaker 1: The communist side. They were trapped. They couldn't get out.
44:11
Speaker 1: People risked their lives and sometimes even lost their lives
44:15
Speaker 1: with these German troops mowing them down because they wanted
44:17
Speaker 1: to enter into freedom. What happened when they went full-on
44:23
Speaker 1: socialism under the Maduro regime?
44:26
Speaker 6: Huh?
44:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody who could get out that had an education
44:30
Speaker 1: and an ability to earn an income in some other
44:32
Speaker 1: country There was a massive brain drain. Why? Because the
44:36
Speaker 1: smart people knew that there's no way in hell their
44:38
Speaker 1: lives were going to improve under socialism. How to work
44:41
Speaker 1: out for them under the Maduro regime. And yeah, I
44:43
Speaker 1: know Trump took him out, but if you look at
44:45
Speaker 1: what life was like under the regime before Trump took
44:48
Speaker 1: him out, it was crappy. Terrible. Not that it hasn't
44:54
Speaker 1: improved dramatically since then, but you know, these things take time.
44:58
Speaker 1: Everywhere you go. And children have not been taught this.
45:06
Speaker 1: There's something really, really, truly nefarious about that, my friends. 617,
45:15
Speaker 1: and who's against school choice?
45:17
Speaker 5: Huh?
45:19
Speaker 1: Right, I know.
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Speaker 10: 513-749-5550.
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Speaker 1: 622 at 55KRC Detox Station. Try to make it a
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Speaker 1: happy Wednesday. Feel free to give me a call like
45:34
Speaker 1: Pat and Corey did.
45:35
Speaker 9: Corey, hang on.
45:36
Speaker 1: Pat's first. Pat, thanks for holding over the break. Welcome
45:38
Speaker 1: to the show.
45:39
Speaker 3: Good morning, Brian. You, again, the voice of freedom and
45:45
Speaker 3: truth and a crusader for educating people.
45:50
Speaker 1: Try.
45:50
Speaker 3: We appreciate you immensely.
45:52
Speaker 1: Just trying, man. Trying, trying, trying. I just don't understand, Pat,
45:55
Speaker 1: how we've lost... way in such a large quantity in
45:59
Speaker 1: this country it's just so it just breaks my heart
46:02
Speaker 1: it really.
46:02
Speaker 3: Does well this previous paper is a absolute microscope why
46:09
Speaker 3: because people are allowed to be mush heads they can't
46:13
Speaker 3: think for themselves and when you don't think for yourself
46:17
Speaker 3: you're led around by the nose and I'm going to
46:20
Speaker 3: tell you I That pile of dog poop in your
46:22
Speaker 3: front yard, it stinks and stuff like that, but it's okay.
46:25
Speaker 3: You can just leave it there. Somebody else will come
46:27
Speaker 3: along and clean it up, and eventually, you know, it
46:29
Speaker 3: might cause diseases and whatever. But I was told it
46:33
Speaker 3: was okay, so why would I want to do anything
46:35
Speaker 3: about it? Okay, this is what our kids are being— some
46:39
Speaker 3: of our kids are being subject to. I spent a
46:42
Speaker 3: pretty penny to make sure that I had conservative education
46:47
Speaker 3: for my children and— I'm glad now that they're all
46:52
Speaker 3: of the age where, wow, Dad, you know, there were
46:55
Speaker 3: times where, like, why did you do this to us?
46:58
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, we can think
47:02
Speaker 3: for ourselves. We can be leaders, and we know the truth. And,
47:06
Speaker 3: you know, the old thing from the Communist Manifesto, you
47:09
Speaker 3: throw enough manure against the wall, eventually something's going to stick.
47:12
Speaker 3: People will start to believe it because you've numbed their
47:15
Speaker 3: brains with the same lie over and over again. Yeah.
47:19
Speaker 1: And when you lack critical thinking skills, which more and
47:22
Speaker 1: more people lack these days, you get away with it.
47:24
Speaker 1: The lies stick.
47:26
Speaker 3: I think, honestly, every high school child needs to learn
47:30
Speaker 3: how to change a tire because it's such a simple thing,
47:33
Speaker 3: but they don't know how to do it. And when
47:34
Speaker 3: you see people sitting beside the road of an age and,
47:38
Speaker 3: you know, generally unless they're handicapped, they could probably change
47:41
Speaker 3: a tire, but they're waiting for AAA. somebody else to
47:44
Speaker 3: do it for them. Did your mom and dad ever
47:47
Speaker 3: interact with them enough to say practical things make practical people?
47:54
Speaker 1: Well, you know, there are so many jobs in the
47:57
Speaker 1: trades and so many lucrative career opportunities in the trades
48:01
Speaker 1: because so many people are in that area where they
48:03
Speaker 1: just don't know how to fix anything themselves.
48:05
Speaker 5: Yeah.
48:05
Speaker 1: I always like to joke. Dad was a WD 40
48:08
Speaker 1: black electrical tape guy. And if those two things didn't
48:11
Speaker 1: fix whatever problem he would hire somebody out, So growing
48:14
Speaker 1: up in an environment like that, I didn't have a
48:15
Speaker 1: whole lot of practical training in how to fix things.
48:18
Speaker 1: I really took the thing head on, though. I just said,
48:21
Speaker 1: wait a second, Thomas, you don't have any money. You're young.
48:23
Speaker 1: You're going to have to figure out how to do
48:24
Speaker 1: this yourself. So like my car, I went out and
48:27
Speaker 1: got a Chilton's manual for my 73 Caprice Classic Inverter.
48:30
Speaker 1: I changed my own fuel pump. That was not something
48:33
Speaker 1: Dad would do, but necessity is the mother of invention.
48:36
Speaker 1: If you don't have the resources, you go out and
48:38
Speaker 1: learn how to do it yourself. Back in the day
48:40
Speaker 1: with construction projects in my home, I couldn't afford to
48:43
Speaker 1: hire contractors in Oak Park, Illinois. Went to the library
48:47
Speaker 1: before the internet. Got a book. How do you do this?
48:50
Speaker 1: I did some plaster work. I did some, you know,
48:52
Speaker 1: flooring work. I did electric work. I did some plumbing work.
48:55
Speaker 1: I learned how to do it myself. My philosophy, I
48:58
Speaker 1: can't screw a project up so badly that it'll be
49:02
Speaker 1: more expensive to hire someone to come in and fix
49:05
Speaker 1: it if I can't do it myself. but I learned
49:08
Speaker 1: a hell of a lot over those times and I
49:10
Speaker 1: find myself now in a position where, you know, I
49:12
Speaker 1: can hire somebody to do the work. I'm glad I
49:15
Speaker 1: learned the skills as a young person. It gives you
49:19
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Speaker 1: 55KRCD Talk Station. Very happy Wednesday to all. Now, I
49:43
Speaker 1: will please ask Corey and Cribbage Mike, who are both
49:45
Speaker 1: on hold, and I know, Corey, you've been on hold,
49:47
Speaker 1: but we do have a development here. State Representative Adam Bird,
49:50
Speaker 1: who is on his way to Columbus, representing from New Richmond,
49:54
Speaker 1: Ohio's 63rd District. He's going up to vote on the
49:57
Speaker 1: gas tax relief we've been looking for. Tom Zalastowski talked
50:01
Speaker 1: about this yesterday in the program. Representative Bird, thank you
50:03
Speaker 1: so much for calling into the program this morning. So,
50:06
Speaker 1: We're going to get rid of the gas tax for
50:07
Speaker 1: at least for a little while.
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Speaker 13: Brian, I think we are. And, of course, we'll have
50:13
Speaker 13: to talk through whether we have the votes for that yet.
50:16
Speaker 13: But we're going to be voting today on a temporary
50:20
Speaker 13: suspension of the gas tax for 90 days. We pay
50:24
Speaker 13: 38.5 cents for gas and 47 cents a gallon for
50:28
Speaker 13: diesel to help maintain roads and so forth. So I
50:34
Speaker 13: think it's really important for the Americans and for Ohioans
50:38
Speaker 13: right now.
50:38
Speaker 1: Well, and so does the vast majority of folks. It's
50:40
Speaker 1: become a bipartisan issue with both Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy,
50:44
Speaker 1: you know, suggesting this is the right thing to do.
50:46
Speaker 1: It's a temporary suspension. We've got one stumbling block, and
50:49
Speaker 1: I do believe he still retains the veto power. What's
50:52
Speaker 1: Governor DeWine's problem with it? He's still expressing hesitation, thinking
50:55
Speaker 1: this is a, he said, this will be devastating, you know,
50:58
Speaker 1: in terms of the Ohio Department of Transportation's cash balance.
51:01
Speaker 1: Predicted or forecasted this would cost, what, $ 650 to $ 750
51:03
Speaker 1: million in lost tax revenue, but Gee, we have so
51:09
Speaker 1: many other available resources. Oh, I don't know, maybe like
51:12
Speaker 1: the unclaimed fund here in Ohio where we found $ 600
51:15
Speaker 1: million to give to the Cleveland Browns. Representative Byrd, I
51:18
Speaker 1: don't know that you can justify denying the voters in
51:21
Speaker 1: the state of Ohio some relief from the gasoline when
51:23
Speaker 1: we have enough money to throw around at sports stadiums
51:26
Speaker 1: owned by private individuals.
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Speaker 13: Well, I know the governor has spoken about some concern
51:33
Speaker 13: about that, but I think there's also been some misunderstanding
51:36
Speaker 13: about where the backfilling of $ 700 million for ODOT would
51:41
Speaker 13: come from. And there was some original reporting that that
51:44
Speaker 13: might come from the Rainy Day Fund, that it might
51:47
Speaker 13: come from a separate fund that ODOT has. And neither
51:51
Speaker 13: of those is the case. We're going to be taking
51:53
Speaker 13: that money from general revenue funds from fiscal 26 and
51:57
Speaker 13: fiscal 27. And I think that that should bring relief
52:03
Speaker 13: to the governor's mind that we're not going to be
52:05
Speaker 13: taking money from the Rainy Day Fund.
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Speaker 1: Well, the Rainy Day Fund exists for what, times of crises?
52:11
Speaker 1: My understanding is like $ 3 billion in that fund. Am
52:14
Speaker 1: I accurate on that, sir?
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Speaker 13: I don't know the latest on that. But the other
52:19
Speaker 13: thing about the money that we're going to be spending.
52:23
Speaker 13: You may remember, Brian, that a year ago, we voted
52:26
Speaker 13: to lower and flatten the income tax in Ohio. And
52:30
Speaker 13: I know your listeners are smart enough to know that
52:34
Speaker 13: when you tax people less, you put money in people's pockets,
52:38
Speaker 13: they're going to spend it. And so Ohioans did spend
52:42
Speaker 13: that money. And when you spend it, You pay sales tax,
52:45
Speaker 13: you might hire people, and they pay income tax. And
52:48
Speaker 13: so we ended up with a billion and a half
52:50
Speaker 13: more in revenue over the last year, more than the
52:55
Speaker 13: bean counters expected us to have. So we're doing a
52:58
Speaker 13: very good job of conserving and spending in a very
53:02
Speaker 13: fiscally conservative way the Ohioans' money. And so when you
53:06
Speaker 13: do that, you have money left over so you can
53:08
Speaker 13: spend on an emergency like this.
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Speaker 1: Representative Byrd, I cannot thank you enough for that extraordinarily
53:14
Speaker 1: valuable and historically documented fact. Lower taxes means more revenue
53:19
Speaker 1: into government. Sounds to me like you've got the whole
53:21
Speaker 1: situation under control. We're not going to suffer a dramatic
53:24
Speaker 1: loss of our Department of Transportation dollars. Do you think
53:28
Speaker 1: Governor DeWine would veto this, Representative Byrd, before he parked company?
53:34
Speaker 13: I don't know the answer to that. I know he's
53:35
Speaker 13: spoken in opposition to it in some form. But again,
53:39
Speaker 13: I think he was speaking in opposition based on some
53:43
Speaker 13: bad information at the beginning that we were going to
53:46
Speaker 13: spend rainy day fund money or another ODOT fund that
53:51
Speaker 13: they would be forced to use. But But we've got
53:53
Speaker 13: the money to spend on this because we have flattened
53:56
Speaker 13: and lowered Ohioans income tax. We've wound up with more
53:59
Speaker 13: revenue than we expected to have. So I don't think
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Speaker 13: he's going to oppose this.
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Speaker 1: Outstanding. I'm glad to hear that. But I really would
54:06
Speaker 1: love you to press him on the question of, wait
54:07
Speaker 1: a second, if this isn't enough of emergency to tap
54:09
Speaker 1: into the rainy day fund, what is? What will justify
54:13
Speaker 1: tapping into that? What I understand is three billion dollars.
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Speaker 1: Representative Byrd proudly representing New Richmond in Ohio's 63rd. Keep
54:20
Speaker 1: up the great work. I'm looking forward to the outcome
54:22
Speaker 1: of the vote.
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Speaker 3: All right.
54:24
Speaker 13: Yes, stay tuned. It's not baked yet because this requires
54:28
Speaker 13: a two-thirds majority in both chambers. And we Republicans don't
54:33
Speaker 13: have two-thirds in the House. So we will need some
54:36
Speaker 13: Democrats to vote yes on this. We'll see what they do.
54:39
Speaker 1: Since Acton is running on that policy. suggestion as well.
54:42
Speaker 1: I guarantee you, I seem to think that they might
54:45
Speaker 1: benefit themselves in getting more votes in if they vote
54:48
Speaker 1: to give us some relief right now. We will see.
54:50
Speaker 1: Popcorn is out. State Representative Byrd, safe travels on your
54:53
Speaker 1: way to Columbus, and thanks so much for chiming in
54:55
Speaker 1: this morning and informing my listeners and me.
54:57
Speaker 5: 630.
54:57
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Brian.
54:59
Speaker 4: Thank you.
54:59
Speaker 1: Take care, brother. 636 55 KRC Talk Station. Corey and Mike,
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Speaker 1: you definitely will be next, I promise you. But first,
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Speaker 1: Kind enough to hold over the brakes. Going to jump
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Speaker 1: to get the calls on hold here. Let's start with Corey. Mike,
55:18
Speaker 1: hang on, brother. Corey, welcome to the morning show. Thanks
55:20
Speaker 1: for holding. He just hung up. He stayed on hold
55:30
Speaker 1: for like 10 minutes. Anyway. Anyway. Mike's still there, my
55:34
Speaker 1: Submariner friend. Mike, it was great seeing you at the
55:36
Speaker 1: Sherifax Credit Union Golf Outing benefiting the Children's Hospital Charitable
55:39
Speaker 1: Care Fund this Monday. I was shocked to see you there,
55:42
Speaker 1: but it's always a pleasure to see you.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, Brian. In fact, that's what I wanted to start
55:48
Speaker 8: off before I share my great news about the Submarine
55:50
Speaker 8: Cincinnati is that I am really impressed at the risk
55:55
Speaker 8: of making you feel a little uncomfortable. I want to
55:57
Speaker 8: commend you for the amount of off-duty time that you
56:01
Speaker 8: spend going to different charity events, civic events, and, of course,
56:05
Speaker 8: veterans events, while so many talk the talk, you, sir,
56:09
Speaker 8: walk the walk, and I can't thank you enough.
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Speaker 1: Listen, I truly appreciate it, man. If somebody asked me
56:14
Speaker 1: to do something like that, I'm inclined to do it
56:16
Speaker 1: if I've got the time. I obviously don't ever charge
56:18
Speaker 1: anybody any money for things like that. Some people do,
56:21
Speaker 1: but I kind of feel it's part of my civic obligation.
56:23
Speaker 1: I'm going to be at a fundraiser for Leah Denkelacher
56:25
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. They asked me to say a few words there.
56:27
Speaker 1: You damn straight I'm going to be there for her. So, yeah,
56:30
Speaker 1: I appreciate it and acknowledging that I do that. And
56:33
Speaker 1: it's just, it's one of the pleasures of my job, sir.
56:36
Speaker 1: I really truly, truly mean that.
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Speaker 8: Well, it was a nice surprise as I left the golf. Actually,
56:41
Speaker 8: even when I went up there, that golf course was
56:44
Speaker 8: so close, just maybe a block away from the Submarine
56:47
Speaker 8: Cincinnati Memorial.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, right there at Voice of America Park. That is
56:51
Speaker 1: the coolest exhibit, man. Props to you and everybody involved
56:54
Speaker 1: in bringing that to the Voice of America Park. Thank you, sir.
56:58
Speaker 8: And I'm pleased to report that due to the overwhelming
57:01
Speaker 8: support from the community and different civic organizations and churches
57:06
Speaker 8: requesting tours, we are now going to extend our tour
57:10
Speaker 8: guide schedule to where we will be on site every
57:14
Speaker 8: Saturday and Sunday afternoon all the way up until the
57:17
Speaker 8: weekend before Thanksgiving. So from about 1 to 6 p.m.,
57:22
Speaker 8: go out there. It's pretty much set up to be
57:24
Speaker 8: a self-guided tour, but to have that submarine experience to
57:27
Speaker 8: be able to explain a placard or, once again, maybe
57:30
Speaker 8: tell a few sea stories here and there.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly where I was going to go. You've got
57:34
Speaker 1: to talk to the veterans about their service time and,
57:37
Speaker 1: you know, hey, who's going to have more interesting stories
57:40
Speaker 1: than submariners and spending time underwater, especially during the Cold War?
57:45
Speaker 8: Oh, phenomenal. And speaking of the Cold War, our partner
57:48
Speaker 8: right next door and within view of the submarine is
57:50
Speaker 8: the Voice of America Museum. And I was speaking to
57:53
Speaker 8: one of their tour guides the other day. We were
57:57
Speaker 8: in contact with each other. He said their attendance is
58:00
Speaker 8: off the chart ever since we opened because it was
58:03
Speaker 8: kind of a little silent gem sitting there. But it's
58:06
Speaker 8: around the back. free of charge. And not only is
58:10
Speaker 8: it a history of what went on to get that
58:13
Speaker 8: behind the Iron Curtain, the Voice of America, but because
58:16
Speaker 8: since Powell Crosley was the driving force behind that, there
58:21
Speaker 8: was a tremendous portion of the museum dedicated to everything
58:24
Speaker 8: that Powell Crosley did for this area. And something of
58:27
Speaker 8: note for you, Brian, that he has a little video
58:31
Speaker 8: presentation of all these Cincinnati radio personalities going back to
58:36
Speaker 8: the 30s, 40s, all the way up to today. And
58:38
Speaker 8: I was very pleased to see your father as part
58:40
Speaker 8: of that homage.
58:42
Speaker 1: I truly appreciate your recognizing him. And when my father
58:45
Speaker 1: passed away, we donated quite a few items of his
58:48
Speaker 1: historically related to his morning show to the broadcast museum.
58:51
Speaker 1: So they're somewhere in the back room, presumably. But they
58:53
Speaker 1: used to have an exhibit of my dad there as well.
58:56
Speaker 1: I think they've changed it around since then. But it
58:58
Speaker 1: is definitely a worthwhile visit. If you're interested in seeing
59:01
Speaker 1: the submarine and knowing its connection to the Cold War,
59:03
Speaker 1: you have got to go in to the Voice of
59:06
Speaker 1: America and just check out how we used to send
59:08
Speaker 1: the signal and the information. use of physics and how
59:12
Speaker 1: they accomplish bouncing signals off of clouds to get it
59:15
Speaker 1: into some particular region or to circumvent the Russian jamming
59:19
Speaker 1: of the signals and the equipment there. I mean, it's
59:21
Speaker 1: like you were literally walking back to what, late 1950s,
59:24
Speaker 1: early 1960s, Mike?
59:26
Speaker 8: Oh, absolutely. And they actually have a radio clip of
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Speaker 8: Adolf Hitler and one of his rants calling out the
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Speaker 8: lies from Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that great? Such a worthwhile place to visit. So, Mike,
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Speaker 1: thanks again for what you guys are doing, and you
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Speaker 1: certainly make it even more interesting than it already is.
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Speaker 1: Get a tour from a submariner at a Voice of
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Speaker 1: America park. Mike, God bless you, sir, and thanks for
59:49
Speaker 1: your ongoing service to our country after a career in
59:52
Speaker 1: America's military. 6.46, Corey. I see you, brother. I'm glad
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Speaker 1: you called back, but I can't do it in this segment.
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Speaker 1: I'll get you right out of the gate if you
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Speaker 1: want to hang on for a minute. 55KRC, the talk station.
1:00:04
Speaker 1: And it's 6.50 here at 55KRC, the talk station. Trying
1:00:06
Speaker 1: to make it a happy Wednesday. And ignore the polls.
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Speaker 1: Just a real quick reminder, Corey, I'm going to take
1:00:11
Speaker 1: your call, but I went back and looked at the
1:00:13
Speaker 1: 2016 presidential race. just like a couple of really lone
1:00:18
Speaker 1: exceptions all the way up. In the months leading up
1:00:21
Speaker 1: to the presidential election, Hillary Clinton was ahead by multiple digits.
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Speaker 1: And how did that not happen? How did we end
1:00:27
Speaker 1: up with Donald Trump president? Because people went and voted.
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Speaker 1: These polls were not expecting the voter turnout that showed up.
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Speaker 1: Just ignore the popular vote from when we have electoral college.
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Speaker 1: That's a reality. It's a constitution. It's in the constitution.
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Speaker 1: So Yes, you can just defy the odds by simply
1:00:43
Speaker 1: showing up and voting. Corey, thanks for indulging me on that,
1:00:45
Speaker 1: and welcome to the show, and thanks for calling back.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no problem.
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Speaker 11: I'm driving today to the free state of Indiana.
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Speaker 6: Ah!
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Speaker 11: Left in Indiana, particularly, where no gun signs do not
1:00:58
Speaker 11: have any force of law, unlike Ohio. If a business
1:01:03
Speaker 11: has one post in Indiana, you can simply ignore it.
1:01:06
Speaker 11: And there's no legal repercussion unless... you are seen with
1:01:10
Speaker 11: it and they ask you to leave. That's a trespassing charge.
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Speaker 11: Unlike Ohio, you can be charged. It's a misdemeanor, but
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Speaker 11: you lose your right to ever carry concealed again in
1:01:20
Speaker 11: a state of Ohio if you get caught with a gun.
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Speaker 11: And no gun zone, that's posted.
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Speaker 6: And.
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Speaker 5: Well, Corey, is that why.
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Speaker 1: Is that why people leave their guns in their cars
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Speaker 1: downtown so much so that 350-plus were stolen, 100 of
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Speaker 1: which were used in the commission of a crime resulting
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Speaker 1: in city council requiring parking lot owners to put cameras in?
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's the genesis of it?
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Speaker 11: That is exactly correct. Which just leads me to ask
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Speaker 11: a question to the politicians in Columbus, the rhinos.
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Speaker 13: Why do we have this law?
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Speaker 11: The only people that... That law hurts is the law
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Speaker 11: abiding citizens.
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Speaker 1: Well, let us hold on, Corey. In the name of
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Speaker 1: personal private property ownership rights, I have the right to
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Speaker 1: control what goes on in my private property. And if
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Speaker 1: I'm a business owner and I want to have the
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Speaker 1: short sighted view that I do not want firearms in
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Speaker 1: my property because evil firearms. Not only are you taking
1:02:16
Speaker 1: away those people's right to defend themselves, which I would
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Speaker 1: suggest puts an onus on you to beef up your
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Speaker 1: own security because you've rendered them incapable of defending themselves.
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Speaker 1: But if you want to make that business decision, I
1:02:28
Speaker 1: assure you, Corey, that there's another business selling the same
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Speaker 1: goods or services someplace else that doesn't have one of
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Speaker 1: those signs. So reward that business owner by not working
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Speaker 1: with them.
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Speaker 11: I avoid those places and I carry carts in my vehicle.
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Speaker 7: There you go.
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Speaker 11: No guns, no cash. But I, I, I think that
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Speaker 11: is a misconstrued a little bit. My understanding in Ohio, if,
1:02:53
Speaker 11: if a place is open to the public, not a
1:02:55
Speaker 11: private club, you have to let anybody in as long
1:02:59
Speaker 11: as they're legal to do whatever, uh, you can carry
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Speaker 11: your gun and a publicly open business that is open
1:03:07
Speaker 11: to the public.
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Speaker 1: Well, and let, let, here, let me just suggest this one.
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Speaker 1: Let's just give you the benefit of the doubt on that. Uh,
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Speaker 1: In Oak Park, Illinois, I believe, if I recall my
1:03:16
Speaker 1: history correctly, when I lived there, it was the first
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Speaker 1: city in the United States to ban the ownership of handguns.
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Speaker 1: This was before I got there. Did I have a
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Speaker 1: handgun in my home? Yes, I did. You know what
1:03:26
Speaker 1: my conclusion was, Corey? Maybe the same lines you should
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Speaker 1: go hear. Listen, I'm not telling you to break the law,
1:03:32
Speaker 1: but if you choose to break the law by going
1:03:35
Speaker 1: in there and ignoring that person's sign, which says no
1:03:37
Speaker 1: firearms here, just keep it in your pocket and cover
1:03:40
Speaker 1: it up with a shirt and nobody knows it's there.
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Speaker 1: Thank God you don't have to use it because there
1:03:44
Speaker 1: was no crime that involved grievous bodily harm or imminent
1:03:48
Speaker 1: apprehension of death by you. But if someone was planning
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Speaker 1: on killing you, would you rather deal with the violation
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Speaker 1: of the law and pay the fine for going in
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Speaker 1: there with a gun? Or would you rather pay attention
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Speaker 1: to the sign and be subjected to grievous bodily harm
1:04:04
Speaker 1: or death because you followed the sign? I always said
1:04:08
Speaker 1: that about Oak Park. Listen, if someone breaks into my house,
1:04:10
Speaker 1: tries to rape my wife or give me or do
1:04:13
Speaker 1: my family harm, I'll shoot the so-and-so and I'll deal
1:04:16
Speaker 1: with the authorities later. You know, you can balance the interest.
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Speaker 11: But I wish Ohio would drop the force of law
1:04:25
Speaker 11: because we are only one of four states in the
1:04:28
Speaker 11: entire country where that sign has force of law.
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Speaker 1: And your point comes through loud and clear on that.
1:04:33
Speaker 1: I know that's where you are. I'm just saying, you know.
1:04:37
Speaker 1: We can reach our own conclusions and make our own decisions.
1:04:40
Speaker 1: Just a question of what the consequences might be. Should
1:04:43
Speaker 1: there be consequences? Of course, Corey says no. I do
1:04:46
Speaker 1: understand on some level property right owners are the rights
1:04:50
Speaker 1: of property owners. Ah, what do we got? Big picture
1:04:52
Speaker 1: with Jack Atherton. Come up after the top of the
1:04:54
Speaker 1: hour news. Jack will be talking about the subject Rome
1:04:58
Speaker 1: from Republic to dictatorship plus Donovan O'Neill, State Director for
1:05:01
Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperity. They did an amazing thing, AFP did,
1:05:05
Speaker 1: in canvassing for John Huston. Donovan will be talking about that.
1:05:09
Speaker 1: Coming up at 7.30, I sure hope you can stick around.
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Speaker 14: Here we are.
1:05:13
Speaker 1: It's not just another headline. 7.06 here at 55KRCD Talk Station.
1:05:18
Speaker 1: State of the Obvious, it's Wednesday. And I hope State
1:05:21
Speaker 1: of the Obvious to my regular listeners. Anyway, it is
1:05:23
Speaker 1: that time of week where we are blessed by the
1:05:25
Speaker 1: brilliance of Jack Atherton with some commentary. We like to
1:05:28
Speaker 1: call it The Big Picture with Jack Adler. And Jack,
1:05:30
Speaker 1: welcome back, my friend. It's always a distinct pleasure to
1:05:32
Speaker 1: have you on the 55KRC Morning Show.
1:05:35
Speaker 12: Thanks so much, pal. Early voting in Ohio begins in
1:05:39
Speaker 12: less than a week.
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Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
1:05:41
Speaker 12: On Tuesday, October 6th. In Minnesota, no surprise, they have
1:05:48
Speaker 12: been voting since September 18th. Or even sooner at polling
1:05:52
Speaker 12: places like the Learing Center. During the 250th anniversary of
1:05:58
Speaker 12: our democratic republic, this election should be a time for celebration.
1:06:03
Speaker 12: And it still can be, so long as we remember
1:06:06
Speaker 12: how easily republics can collapse into big government totalitarian states.
1:06:13
Speaker 12: Even people who care about history roll their eyes if
1:06:16
Speaker 12: you cite the most famous example of collapse, so famous
1:06:20
Speaker 12: that it's become a cliche. The rise, decline. and fall
1:06:25
Speaker 12: of the Roman Empire. But do you know how that
1:06:28
Speaker 12: really happened? With collapse staring us in the face, it's
1:06:33
Speaker 12: worth taking a closer look. Rome did not begin as
1:06:36
Speaker 12: an empire. For 500 years before that, Rome was a republic,
1:06:42
Speaker 12: governed not by emperors, but by laws. Then, in the
1:06:46
Speaker 12: century just before the birth of Christ, immensely rich men
1:06:51
Speaker 12: began buying up politicians, prosecutors, judges, and generals. Does this
1:06:57
Speaker 12: sound familiar?
1:06:58
Speaker 1: George and Alex Soros? It does have a familiar ring, Jack.
1:07:02
Speaker 1: Go on.
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Speaker 12: Maybe this does too. I don't know if they had
1:07:05
Speaker 12: hair gel back then. But two Roman plutocrats, rich guys,
1:07:09
Speaker 12: backed a young guy as glamorous as Gavin Newsom, Julius Caesar.
1:07:16
Speaker 12: Caesar used their money to buy the support of poor
1:07:19
Speaker 12: Romans by offering free food and entertainment. bread, and circuses. Then,
1:07:27
Speaker 12: years later, after screwing around with Cleopatra, the man who
1:07:30
Speaker 12: would be king got knifed 23 times by his rivals.
1:07:36
Speaker 12: The ensuing civil war gave Rome its first emperor, Caesar Augustus.
1:07:42
Speaker 12: At its height, the Roman Empire extended from the Atlantic
1:07:46
Speaker 12: Ocean all the way to modern-day Turkey. It ruled the
1:07:50
Speaker 12: Western world for another 500 years. which you're thinking is
1:07:54
Speaker 12: a pretty good run. So why talk about decline? After all,
1:07:59
Speaker 12: to the bitter end, Rome continued to innovate just like
1:08:03
Speaker 12: we do. In their case, building previously undreamed of roads, viaducts,
1:08:09
Speaker 12: weapons of war. That took what President Trump would call
1:08:13
Speaker 12: super intelligence or engineers. But Rome, even at its height,
1:08:19
Speaker 12: did not seek to educate ordinary people. The empire was
1:08:23
Speaker 12: content to have what we'd call political bosses, kind of
1:08:27
Speaker 12: like the mayors of America's big cities. These bosses ruled
1:08:32
Speaker 12: their own territories and kept their own people stuck in
1:08:35
Speaker 12: the mud. Education died out in Rome the way it's
1:08:39
Speaker 12: died out in Chicago, Baltimore. Did you know that in
1:08:44
Speaker 12: New York City, they have just done away with the
1:08:47
Speaker 12: New York Regents Exam, which since 1865... had been a
1:08:52
Speaker 12: basic requirement for high school graduation. Now each New York
1:08:56
Speaker 12: school district, controlled by the teacher unions, can push kids
1:09:01
Speaker 12: out the door by defining their own level of proficiency,
1:09:05
Speaker 12: or lack thereof. The politicians make a deal. You pretend
1:09:09
Speaker 12: to teach children, we'll pretend they're illiterate. Then we'll give
1:09:13
Speaker 12: our illiterate residents welfare. The teachers get fat pensions and
1:09:19
Speaker 12: And everybody will vote for us, including illegals. Yes, folks,
1:09:24
Speaker 12: it's legal for illegals to vote in New York local elections.
1:09:29
Speaker 12: And Brian, here's yet another parallel with the Roman Empire.
1:09:34
Speaker 12: Most children of the rich became spoiled brats. As wealth increased,
1:09:39
Speaker 12: so did corruption, decadence, sloth. Rome's elites had foreigners clean
1:09:44
Speaker 12: their homes, be their servants, even man their armies. Romans
1:09:49
Speaker 12: called the foreigners barbarians until the barbarians seized the empire
1:09:54
Speaker 12: for themselves. With the collapse of Rome in 476 AD,
1:10:00
Speaker 12: Europe descended into chaos, the Dark Ages. Lords lorded it
1:10:05
Speaker 12: over serfs until the re-emergence of free trade. Yes, capitalism
1:10:12
Speaker 12: created a middle class in cities. This should have led
1:10:16
Speaker 12: to all kinds of other freedom, but a combination of
1:10:19
Speaker 12: of divine right monarchies and religious wars squelched freedom. That's
1:10:25
Speaker 12: why about 100 indomitable men and women began creating the
1:10:31
Speaker 12: greatest force for freedom, progress, and goodness in the history
1:10:35
Speaker 12: of the world. These pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620.
1:10:41
Speaker 12: Since then, more than 100 million people have left Europe
1:10:45
Speaker 12: and every other continent that's habitable They've come for freedom
1:10:49
Speaker 12: to worship, to work, to care for themselves and their families,
1:10:54
Speaker 12: and to pursue their own idea of happiness, the American idea.
1:11:00
Speaker 12: America was the land of opportunity, but not yet handouts.
1:11:05
Speaker 12: So immigrants went to school to learn English, American history, civics.
1:11:11
Speaker 12: That let them assimilate and seize opportunities. Thanks to these immigrants,
1:11:17
Speaker 12: the Free City College of New York boasted more Nobel
1:11:20
Speaker 12: Prize winners than any Ivy League school. They were not
1:11:24
Speaker 12: DEI graduates. Rigorous public schools had taught them to compete until,
1:11:30
Speaker 12: and this is the key, most universities turned against America. Marxists,
1:11:38
Speaker 12: since the end of World War I and in a
1:11:41
Speaker 12: tidal wave since the end of World War II, have
1:11:44
Speaker 12: dominated education, culture, and politics of the Democrat Party, which
1:11:50
Speaker 12: used to champion American workers but now demands cradle-to-grave welfare
1:11:55
Speaker 12: and medical benefits even for those who are fit but
1:11:59
Speaker 12: refuse to work or care for a dependent or just
1:12:03
Speaker 12: go to school. Democrats teach our kids that America was
1:12:06
Speaker 12: built not by pilgrims and pioneers, entrepreneurs and patriots, but
1:12:12
Speaker 12: by slave owners, forgetting that most every country in the
1:12:16
Speaker 12: world once had slaves of every nationality, and 167 still do,
1:12:23
Speaker 12: including human trafficking, child trafficking. Democrats forget also that America,
1:12:30
Speaker 12: alone among nations, fought a civil war 160 years ago
1:12:35
Speaker 12: not to install a Caesar, but to free slaves. Belatedly,
1:12:40
Speaker 12: Congress and the Supreme Court Also, outlawed discrimination. And yet,
1:12:45
Speaker 12: in the eyes of Democrats, America is still teeming with victims.
1:12:51
Speaker 12: More and more every year, based on race, creed, sexual orientation,
1:12:56
Speaker 12: even illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants are victims. Any category that
1:13:03
Speaker 12: will buy them votes. Shades again of Julius Caesar. Rome
1:13:09
Speaker 12: finally fell. when a foreign mercenary overthrew the last emperor
1:13:15
Speaker 12: soon after its gleaming capital city became a cow pasture.
1:13:20
Speaker 12: So I'll keep warning till the cows come home. If
1:13:24
Speaker 12: Democrats retake Congress in 2026 and then the White House
1:13:28
Speaker 12: two years from now, they promise that Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.
1:13:33
Speaker 12: will become states.
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Speaker 7: The U.S.
1:13:35
Speaker 12: Supreme Court will be packed. The Senate will be dissolved.
1:13:39
Speaker 12: We'll see the return of Joe Biden's disinformation governance board,
1:13:44
Speaker 12: meaning the end of free speech. And then, as the
1:13:47
Speaker 12: Romans said in Latin, seeks finatur, meaning that's all, folks.
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Speaker 7: That's who, Brian?
1:13:57
Speaker 1: No question about it, Jack. I didn't even write my
1:13:59
Speaker 1: wheelhouse this morning, as well as every other day you talk. And,
1:14:02
Speaker 1: you know, you have to add to the list of
1:14:04
Speaker 1: democratic socialist objectives to eliminate the concept of school choice.
1:14:07
Speaker 1: So you won't have places like the Cincinnati Classical Academy
1:14:10
Speaker 1: to go and become informed and educated and learn critical
1:14:13
Speaker 1: thinking skills. Critical thinking skills are absolutely the antithesis of
1:14:17
Speaker 1: what socialists want because their objectives can never be achieved.
1:14:20
Speaker 1: They never have. And I'll go back to the point
1:14:22
Speaker 1: I made earlier and have made so many times. Which
1:14:25
Speaker 1: direction do people flow in terms of the flow of
1:14:28
Speaker 1: humanity when a country goes socialist? They leave East Berlin,
1:14:33
Speaker 1: West Berlin, communist. No one, he wanted to stay in
1:14:36
Speaker 1: East Berlin. They tried to get out under, you know,
1:14:38
Speaker 1: the penalty of death for trying. It's how do people
1:14:42
Speaker 1: lose sight of that Jack? And then we've got so
1:14:44
Speaker 1: many illustrations of this across history. Plus add on top
1:14:47
Speaker 1: of that, the million, literally millions of people who've died
1:14:50
Speaker 1: under the hands of communist dictators like Stalin and others,
1:14:54
Speaker 1: you got to purge the people who critically think, or
1:14:57
Speaker 1: we're going to have, or we're not going to be
1:14:58
Speaker 1: able to keep our communism in place. It, It's just, again,
1:15:01
Speaker 1: maybe this is all a failure of the education system.
1:15:04
Speaker 1: These are all kinds of things that you and I
1:15:05
Speaker 1: were both taught every day, regularly in school, but it's
1:15:09
Speaker 1: not there anymore.
1:15:11
Speaker 12: The more you know history, the more you can see
1:15:15
Speaker 12: what may be coming, a return to the historic norm
1:15:19
Speaker 12: of top-down government. Life will go on. I don't want
1:15:24
Speaker 12: to be so alarmist that you think we're all going
1:15:26
Speaker 12: to die, like the people who are talking about AI
1:15:28
Speaker 12: or superintelligence. Life will go on even if Democrats turn
1:15:33
Speaker 12: America into a one-party socialist state, just as life went
1:15:37
Speaker 12: on after the collapse of the Roman Republic. You just
1:15:41
Speaker 12: had to live under murderous, lunatic emperors like Caligula and Nero.
1:15:45
Speaker 12: The United States has always been an experiment in constitutional
1:15:51
Speaker 12: limited government. The norm throughout the ages has been big
1:15:55
Speaker 12: government of tribal leaders, theocrats, kings, dictators. America uniquely was
1:16:02
Speaker 12: a blank state, a blank slate, I mean, back in
1:16:06
Speaker 12: the 17th century. It attracted settlers who were imperfect, sometimes
1:16:11
Speaker 12: damnably imperfect. Puritans burned witches. Southerners held slaves. Yet their
1:16:17
Speaker 12: descendants steadily expanded individual rights and responsibilities secured by limited
1:16:25
Speaker 12: constitutional government. The American idea. That is what is at
1:16:30
Speaker 12: stake in 2026 and 2028 and that's why you've got
1:16:34
Speaker 12: to hold your nose and vote for.
1:16:37
Speaker 1: Republicans jack i didn't put an exclamation point on it
1:16:40
Speaker 1: and a necessary and worthy one brilliant as always jack
1:16:43
Speaker 1: i can't thank you enough for the the work you
1:16:45
Speaker 1: do in preparing for the segment and sharing it with
1:16:47
Speaker 1: us and you're who can argue with the historical reality
1:16:50
Speaker 1: of what you say it's right there for all to
1:16:52
Speaker 1: see we just need to pay attention to it so
1:16:54
Speaker 1: we don't make the mistakes of the past Jack Atherton,
1:16:57
Speaker 1: my friend, best of health and love to you and
1:16:58
Speaker 1: your better half. We'll do this again next Wednesday, my friend.
1:17:01
Speaker 1: I look forward to that already.
1:17:03
Speaker 12: Thanks so much, Brian.
1:17:04
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jack. It's 718 right now, 55KRCD Talk Station.
1:17:08
Speaker 1: Who's coming up? Donovan O'Neill, America. Talk Station. 729 on
1:17:15
Speaker 1: a Wednesday. Getting used to this time of the week
1:17:18
Speaker 1: because we get to hear from... Donovan O'Neill, Americans for Prosperity,
1:17:21
Speaker 1: AFP Action State Director. You can find the Buckeye Blueprint
1:17:25
Speaker 1: over at BuckeyeBlueprint.com, building a bolder, better Buckeye state. And
1:17:29
Speaker 1: you can get involved, get in touch with BuckeyeBlueprint.com. Let
1:17:32
Speaker 1: AFP help you help all of us here in the
1:17:34
Speaker 1: state of Ohio. Right, Donovan? Welcome back, my friend. It's
1:17:37
Speaker 1: always a pleasure to have you on the morning show.
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Speaker 10: Brian, great way to start my day.
1:17:42
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Early voting, that's next week, right, Donovan?
1:17:47
Speaker 6: Yeah. It is.
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Speaker 10: We're within seven days. You've got, what, about six days
1:17:51
Speaker 10: left to get yourself registered to vote if.
1:17:53
Speaker 1: You're not registered.
1:17:55
Speaker 10: And then first ballots will be cast in this election
1:17:58
Speaker 10: on Tuesday, as crazy as that is.
1:18:01
Speaker 1: You see the headlines like I see the headlines. And
1:18:03
Speaker 1: every day, yet another group of polls or poll that
1:18:05
Speaker 1: comes out talking about the Democrats are going to win.
1:18:07
Speaker 1: And we have three new polls out. We have the
1:18:10
Speaker 1: Marist poll, the quote unquote big data poll. I never
1:18:13
Speaker 1: heard of that one before. Plus the Suffolk. University slash
1:18:16
Speaker 1: USA Today Network Ohio poll, all of which have Amy
1:18:20
Speaker 1: Acton far ahead of, or at least multiple points ahead
1:18:22
Speaker 1: of Vivek Ramaswamy. And then, of course, the Sherrod Brown,
1:18:26
Speaker 1: John Husted race. They have Brown leading Husted by several
1:18:29
Speaker 1: points in that one as well. Gloom and doom out there,
1:18:31
Speaker 1: but I keep going back to the 2016 election. Everybody
1:18:35
Speaker 1: had every single poll with a couple of minor exceptions.
1:18:38
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump by at
1:18:40
Speaker 1: least three points, more like five or even eight. And then,
1:18:43
Speaker 1: lo and behold, Donald Trump won.
1:18:45
Speaker 8: Why?
1:18:45
Speaker 1: Because everybody got up and went out and voted, much
1:18:47
Speaker 1: to the surprise of pollsters and the Democrat population.
1:18:50
Speaker 8: Party.
1:18:51
Speaker 10: Well, I look at politics. It's not exactly similar, right, Brian?
1:18:55
Speaker 10: But it's like sports betting lines in college football, right?
1:18:58
Speaker 3: There's a reason you.
1:18:59
Speaker 10: Play the game even when Vegas has folks up 30,
1:19:05
Speaker 10: 40 points, right? There are upsets. The good news here
1:19:08
Speaker 10: is these polls don't have a separation like that. It's one,
1:19:12
Speaker 10: within margin of error. Two, the kind of people who
1:19:16
Speaker 10: do polls, right, something that's been increasingly discussed in recent
1:19:19
Speaker 10: years because of the change in landline phones and just
1:19:23
Speaker 10: voter behavior and habits, these polls aren't always spot on
1:19:27
Speaker 10: with where folks are. I think it's a good pulse.
1:19:30
Speaker 10: I do think the election is neck and neck and close,
1:19:32
Speaker 10: but There's a reason we have the elections and don't
1:19:35
Speaker 10: just decide our leaders off of polls, Brian. It's because
1:19:38
Speaker 10: voters actually decide and have to get out and do
1:19:41
Speaker 10: the work. It really comes down to who's campaigning the
1:19:43
Speaker 10: best and has the strongest grassroots ground game.
1:19:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had Tom Zawistowski on yesterday from wethepeopleconvention.org, and
1:19:49
Speaker 1: he's on every Tuesday. And he had mentioned that he
1:19:53
Speaker 1: had the most accurate poll, I believe, for the 2016 election.
1:19:56
Speaker 1: That was back in a time before we had the
1:19:58
Speaker 1: do not call list. And he literally was able to
1:20:01
Speaker 1: reach out with anybody in the state of Ohio with
1:20:03
Speaker 1: a phone. So he ended up with a very accurate
1:20:06
Speaker 1: poll because it wasn't, you know, limited to those people
1:20:08
Speaker 1: who just bothered to respond. He actually, you know, rang
1:20:11
Speaker 1: them up and engaged in a communication with them, much
1:20:13
Speaker 1: like AFP does, knocking doors. But he had a very
1:20:16
Speaker 1: accurate poll, and everybody's like, how in the hell did
1:20:17
Speaker 1: you do that? How come you haven't done it since?
1:20:19
Speaker 1: He said, well, I can't do it because it's against
1:20:20
Speaker 1: the law to contact people who are on the do
1:20:22
Speaker 1: not call list. So the one mechanism to bring about
1:20:25
Speaker 1: some at least semblance of reality is is no longer
1:20:30
Speaker 1: available to us here. So we're left with what these guys,
1:20:32
Speaker 1: who they reach out to. And quite often, the numbers
1:20:36
Speaker 1: are skewed. I mean, they reach out to a certain
1:20:40
Speaker 1: percentage of a defined group of people, like we're going
1:20:43
Speaker 1: to call X number of Democrats. It's weighted, and I
1:20:47
Speaker 1: think that's one of the reasons you end up with
1:20:48
Speaker 1: poor polling results.
1:20:51
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, you've got that. I think, you know, again,
1:20:56
Speaker 10: the type of folks who are engaged... in these polls.
1:20:59
Speaker 10: And then, you know, what it really comes down to
1:21:01
Speaker 10: are the people who are going to go out to vote. And,
1:21:04
Speaker 10: you know, while ballots will be cast next week, people
1:21:07
Speaker 10: who already know where they're going to be will get
1:21:10
Speaker 10: those in. There are a number of folks, right, through
1:21:12
Speaker 10: the weeks leading up to it, 30 days of voting
1:21:14
Speaker 10: in the state, right? It's an election season, not an
1:21:18
Speaker 10: election day. And, you know, those are folks who are
1:21:21
Speaker 10: also up for grabs. And again, I think that's, you know,
1:21:23
Speaker 10: maybe biased as a grassroots organization, but that's where um
1:21:27
Speaker 10: you know good ground games can make up a huge
1:21:29
Speaker 10: difference in in what polling numbers might be showing right
1:21:33
Speaker 10: now those undecided voters who you know we can get
1:21:36
Speaker 10: in our column and turn out to vote on or before.
1:21:38
Speaker 1: Election day well we'll i just have to ask you
1:21:40
Speaker 1: this and we'll take a break and bring it back
1:21:42
Speaker 1: to talk about john husted ray specifically because what an
1:21:44
Speaker 1: amazing accomplishment you guys at afp did in door knocking
1:21:48
Speaker 1: but uh since we at representative bird uh from uh
1:21:52
Speaker 1: New Richmond phoned in earlier and said he was on
1:21:54
Speaker 1: his way to Columbus to vote on the gasoline relief
1:21:56
Speaker 1: tax bill, provide a temporary relief from the gas tax,
1:21:59
Speaker 1: which I guess has bipartisan support. I thought it rather comical.
1:22:03
Speaker 1: The Iranians issued a letter to the American people saying
1:22:06
Speaker 1: that we all need to collectively take back control from
1:22:09
Speaker 1: evil orange man. You know, we're all in the same.
1:22:12
Speaker 1: We're all we all share the same pain. So the
1:22:14
Speaker 1: Iranians are trying to tap into the voter disgust over
1:22:17
Speaker 1: the high gasoline prices. Is that an issue when you're
1:22:20
Speaker 1: talking with folks going door to door? Do they bring
1:22:22
Speaker 1: up the high price of gasoline?
1:22:25
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, it's one of the dynamics that have
1:22:27
Speaker 10: been at play this election that was there two years ago, right?
1:22:31
Speaker 10: High fuel prices, people feel like they're paying more, getting less.
1:22:34
Speaker 10: It's absolutely prevalent. And, you know, nothing's more in people's
1:22:38
Speaker 10: faces as sort of the feel for the economy than
1:22:40
Speaker 10: gas prices. We've talked about it as an organization many,
1:22:43
Speaker 10: many years. So getting those under control, doing what you can, right,
1:22:47
Speaker 10: to hey, the government, state of Ohio is running a
1:22:49
Speaker 10: surplus right now and has those excess funds, and we
1:22:52
Speaker 10: don't have to tap into a rainy day fund to
1:22:54
Speaker 10: access them.
1:22:56
Speaker 1: Using that to.
1:22:57
Speaker 10: Help provide Americans, Ohioans, some relief is a good thing.
1:23:02
Speaker 10: But yeah, fuel prices are top of the ticket for folks.
1:23:05
Speaker 10: That and just the overall cost of living is why
1:23:08
Speaker 10: we need to be looking forward on who we're electing
1:23:10
Speaker 10: and not going backwards and reelecting folks who've proven who
1:23:15
Speaker 10: they are over the last several decades.
1:23:16
Speaker 1: Well, Sherrod Brown versus John Houston. We're going to talk
1:23:19
Speaker 1: with Donovan Neal from Americans for Prosperity about this amazing
1:23:22
Speaker 1: feat that they accomplished in canvassing neighborhoods and going door
1:23:26
Speaker 1: to door. We'll also get the reaction from people when
1:23:28
Speaker 1: they talk about that particular race. Donovan Neal, Americans for Prosperity, again, next.
1:23:32
Speaker 1: Don't go away. It's 735. I have Donovan Neal from
1:23:34
Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperity on the phone talking about, well, door-knocking campaigns,
1:23:39
Speaker 1: which Donovan speaks of regularly, and for us to get involved.
1:23:42
Speaker 1: And in order, well, in order to canvas all 99
1:23:46
Speaker 1: Ohio House districts in one single day reflects what help
1:23:51
Speaker 1: you provide can do. I mean, that's an amazing thing,
1:23:54
Speaker 1: Donald and Neil. I mean, how many people did you
1:23:56
Speaker 1: have out knocking doors that day?
1:23:57
Speaker 10: A couple hundred. A couple hundred is all it takes, Brian. Volunteers, staff,
1:24:02
Speaker 10: get around the state pretty easily that way.
1:24:06
Speaker 1: Man, that's a lot of doors.
1:24:08
Speaker 10: Well, and it's a testament. You know, it was one
1:24:10
Speaker 10: of the things that we sort of, our team was
1:24:11
Speaker 10: looking at, you know, the reach that we've had, the
1:24:13
Speaker 10: way that, you know, thanks to our Buckeye Blueprint campaign
1:24:16
Speaker 10: and the work that so many folks do to show
1:24:19
Speaker 10: up and be involved with our 24-7, 365 operation. So
1:24:24
Speaker 10: I wonder if we were to put a little effort
1:24:26
Speaker 10: into this and say, hey, can we organize some folks
1:24:29
Speaker 10: in different areas, try to get, you know, everybody we
1:24:31
Speaker 10: know around the state out you know, on the same day,
1:24:34
Speaker 10: could we achieve that type of reach? Could we get
1:24:36
Speaker 10: to every corner of the state and have a presence
1:24:38
Speaker 10: and spread that message, right, of getting folks out to vote,
1:24:42
Speaker 10: getting folks out to vote for John Husted? Could we
1:24:45
Speaker 10: do that? And just kudos to our team for the
1:24:47
Speaker 10: infrastructure they've built, the work they've done, and especially the volunteers,
1:24:51
Speaker 10: the people who came out, showed up, put a little
1:24:53
Speaker 10: of their Saturday aside, right? came out, knocked doors for
1:24:58
Speaker 10: an hour, a couple hours with us, just to help
1:25:00
Speaker 10: make a difference and protect this country that's so great.
1:25:03
Speaker 1: Now, does AFP provide the addresses for the volunteers? I mean,
1:25:07
Speaker 1: do they know which specific addresses based upon some determination
1:25:11
Speaker 1: you've reached? Or is it just like, we're just going
1:25:13
Speaker 1: to go into the district and you just pick a
1:25:15
Speaker 1: neighborhood and start knocking doors? How does that work in practice?
1:25:19
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's all data-driven anymore, right? And so, you know,
1:25:21
Speaker 10: we're out there, as I mentioned, 24-7, 365 knocking. So
1:25:25
Speaker 10: we have good idea about a lot of voters. We've
1:25:28
Speaker 10: got our data gurus, right, which help us sort of
1:25:30
Speaker 10: identify people's voting trends, because all that information is public record.
1:25:34
Speaker 10: Not who you vote for, right, but the party, your
1:25:36
Speaker 10: party affiliation, how frequently you turn out to vote.
1:25:39
Speaker 5: And so.
1:25:39
Speaker 10: You know, we've got a targeted list of voters, about
1:25:42
Speaker 10: 1.2 million that we've identified in the state that we've
1:25:44
Speaker 10: been working since the spring to talk to, to engage with.
1:25:49
Speaker 10: And yeah, we equip our volunteers, our.
1:25:51
Speaker 4: Staff with those volunteers.
1:25:52
Speaker 9: That list.
1:25:54
Speaker 10: It's all in an app. Everything's an app now, right, Brian?
1:25:56
Speaker 10: And they go out and have those conversations. Each person
1:26:00
Speaker 10: has a script or some things we want to talk
1:26:02
Speaker 10: to them about, a message we believe is going to
1:26:03
Speaker 10: move them to go vote, motivate them to go vote.
1:26:07
Speaker 10: But at the end of the day, it really comes
1:26:08
Speaker 10: down to the simple principle of neighbors talking to neighbors
1:26:11
Speaker 10: and their community about the issues they care about and
1:26:14
Speaker 10: why this election, just like every election, is so important
1:26:18
Speaker 10: to make sure you turn out to vote for.
1:26:20
Speaker 1: Okay. I Let me just ask you this, because I
1:26:24
Speaker 1: saw this ridiculous quote from someone who was asked why
1:26:26
Speaker 1: they are angry and they're going to vote for Democrats.
1:26:29
Speaker 1: This person was quoted as saying, whoever the Democrat is,
1:26:31
Speaker 1: they'll get my vote.
1:26:33
Speaker 8: Why?
1:26:34
Speaker 1: Well, and it's not because they're Democrats. It's because this
1:26:37
Speaker 1: administration is crooked and something's really wrong with the president.
1:26:41
Speaker 1: He's a crook. OK, there's an evil orange man person
1:26:43
Speaker 1: who's going to have their ideas, thoughts and decision making
1:26:46
Speaker 1: twisted because of one guy. who is president of the
1:26:49
Speaker 1: United States of America, as opposed to considering the state
1:26:52
Speaker 1: in which they sit, like a gubernatorial race where, well,
1:26:55
Speaker 1: Ramaswamy or Acton aren't going to have that same level
1:26:57
Speaker 1: of impact across this nation. But evil orange man, bad ergo,
1:27:00
Speaker 1: Amy Acton gets my vote. You have to run into
1:27:03
Speaker 1: people like that when you're knocking doors. What is the
1:27:06
Speaker 1: response from AFP when you obviously are dealing with someone
1:27:10
Speaker 1: who is so shallow and lacking in critical thinking skills
1:27:13
Speaker 1: as to go down this path when it is definitely
1:27:15
Speaker 1: going to be in their best or not in their
1:27:18
Speaker 1: best interest.
1:27:19
Speaker 5: Donovan?
1:27:21
Speaker 10: One of the things I'll typically ask when that comes
1:27:23
Speaker 10: up is, and I'm voting Democrat this year, and I've
1:27:26
Speaker 10: said this, have you voted Republican before or are you
1:27:29
Speaker 10: a straight line party voter? And they'll say, no, I'm
1:27:31
Speaker 10: an independent. I like to vet my candidates based on
1:27:34
Speaker 10: you know, the issues. And I say, all right, well,
1:27:37
Speaker 10: you know, what issues matter? And you just sort of
1:27:38
Speaker 10: work through that. Now, I'm not going to say, you know,
1:27:42
Speaker 10: people are, people don't like to admit when they're wrong, Brian, right?
1:27:46
Speaker 10: I'm guilty of that. Just ask my wife, right? But
1:27:50
Speaker 10: the part of the goal, right, is that we don't
1:27:52
Speaker 10: just go to one person's house one time. We try
1:27:55
Speaker 10: to have two, and if we can, three interactions with
1:28:00
Speaker 10: a voter throughout the full election cycle. And so part
1:28:03
Speaker 10: of it, when we get that, what I look at
1:28:05
Speaker 10: it as, at least for me personally, is beginning to
1:28:07
Speaker 10: plant those seeds of, hey, if you really are an
1:28:09
Speaker 10: independent voter, if you really are concerned about the direction
1:28:12
Speaker 10: of our country, why would you vote for a candidate
1:28:15
Speaker 10: like Sherrod Brown, who has spent 20 years in Washington, D.C.
1:28:19
Speaker 10: as a senator, 50-year political career.
1:28:22
Speaker 1: When he.
1:28:24
Speaker 10: What you've said, Mr.
1:28:25
Speaker 5: And Mrs.
1:28:26
Speaker 10: Voter, is that you are frustrated with the direction the
1:28:28
Speaker 10: country has been going for the last several years, and
1:28:31
Speaker 10: you want to chart a new course. So beginning to
1:28:33
Speaker 10: plant those seeds, connect those dots, we may not win
1:28:36
Speaker 10: somebody off one conversation, right? But it's that consistent engagement
1:28:43
Speaker 10: and having those conversations. I was just in the neighborhood
1:28:45
Speaker 10: I was in two years ago in Lexington, Ohio, Richland County, Ohio,
1:28:50
Speaker 10: going back to similar houses I remember walking and knocking
1:28:53
Speaker 10: and talking to two years ago. So I think it's
1:28:56
Speaker 10: that consistent pressure and engagement that helps ultimately move those folks,
1:28:59
Speaker 10: even if we can't get a human to be non-human
1:29:02
Speaker 10: and actually change. I admit they're wrong right there on
1:29:04
Speaker 10: their front porch with us over 10, 15-minute conversations.
1:29:08
Speaker 1: Well, I suspect that those who are planning on a
1:29:11
Speaker 1: protest vote because of, you know, Donald Trump or whatever,
1:29:15
Speaker 1: they seem to me to be a group of people
1:29:17
Speaker 1: that might be less inclined to go vote. They're not
1:29:20
Speaker 1: motivated by a particular platform. They're not motivated by the
1:29:23
Speaker 1: brilliance of a particular candidate and a faith that that
1:29:26
Speaker 1: candidate is actually so much better. It's just this anger.
1:29:30
Speaker 1: And I just get the sense that I don't see
1:29:32
Speaker 1: that translating into, you know, a desire to actually go
1:29:35
Speaker 1: out and do it. Maybe less of a desire anyway.
1:29:37
Speaker 1: Your reaction?
1:29:39
Speaker 10: Yeah, no, that's right too. And the other thing that
1:29:41
Speaker 10: I think has begun to neutralize those folks who are
1:29:45
Speaker 10: just anti-Trump for whatever reasons it might be or anti-Republican
1:29:48
Speaker 10: at the moment is socialism, reminding them, hey, there's this
1:29:52
Speaker 10: rise of socialism in the Democrat Party. And while you
1:29:54
Speaker 10: may not like– for whatever reasons Republicans are doing right now,
1:29:59
Speaker 10: do you really want to hand the reins of socialism?
1:30:02
Speaker 10: power over to a group of folks who have a
1:30:04
Speaker 10: radical agenda that will dramatically transform our country, not in
1:30:08
Speaker 10: a good way, right? That also, Brian, is the message
1:30:12
Speaker 10: that's permeating, and it's something that we clued in on
1:30:14
Speaker 10: in August and have been driving home. And again, you
1:30:18
Speaker 10: can see, again, someone may not admit that they're changing
1:30:22
Speaker 10: their vote that moment, and they're all in on the GOP, right?
1:30:25
Speaker 10: But what we see that do, I've seen it in
1:30:28
Speaker 10: people's eyes, They're thinking about that. They're like, well, wait
1:30:31
Speaker 10: a minute. I don't like that either. And I think,
1:30:34
Speaker 10: you know, that socialism message that's taken over the Democrat
1:30:36
Speaker 10: Party is one of the things that's having a tangible
1:30:39
Speaker 10: impact in this race as well.
1:30:40
Speaker 1: All right. Real quick here. Some suggest that, you know,
1:30:43
Speaker 1: let's say the polling is all skewed and wrong and
1:30:45
Speaker 1: maybe it's done intentionally to give the Democrats the appearance of,
1:30:49
Speaker 1: you know, having an overwhelming victory anticipated in November for
1:30:52
Speaker 1: the purposes of taking the wind out of the sails
1:30:55
Speaker 1: of otherwise, you know, devout Republican voters or maybe Republicans.
1:30:57
Speaker 1: Slightly disgruntled Republican voters. Listen, you guys don't even bother
1:31:01
Speaker 1: because it's not worth your effort. We're going to take
1:31:03
Speaker 1: this thing. It's going to be a deluge, according to
1:31:06
Speaker 1: James Carville the other day. And I guess I'm wondering,
1:31:10
Speaker 1: do you get a sense from Republican voters, people who
1:31:12
Speaker 1: are clearly Republican, not wavering ones, that the wind has
1:31:16
Speaker 1: been knocked out of their sails, that they're not motivated
1:31:18
Speaker 1: to vote, otherwise they would be? Any sense of that
1:31:21
Speaker 1: as you knock doors?
1:31:24
Speaker 10: I think we see a little bit of that, and
1:31:26
Speaker 10: it's just with the cycle. We saw it even after–
1:31:28
Speaker 10: shortly after Trump– no, the 2024 victory where Republicans took over.
1:31:33
Speaker 10: There's this sense among voters of like, well, no, I
1:31:36
Speaker 10: did my civic duty.
1:31:37
Speaker 9: I voted.
1:31:37
Speaker 10: I put the right people in power, and now I
1:31:39
Speaker 10: can sit back and I don't need to do anything
1:31:41
Speaker 10: else for another four years until the next presidential election.
1:31:44
Speaker 10: To me, that's one of the biggest– apathy factors that
1:31:48
Speaker 10: we have to overcome is no, no, no, no. You
1:31:49
Speaker 10: still have to go vote midterm elections. The legislature, right?
1:31:53
Speaker 10: Congress are the actual people who pass laws. If we
1:31:55
Speaker 10: don't send the right people to Washington to represent us,
1:31:58
Speaker 10: it doesn't matter who the president is because those are
1:32:00
Speaker 10: the folks who pass the laws and make the rules
1:32:02
Speaker 10: that run this country. And so I think that's, to me,
1:32:05
Speaker 10: has been the biggest apathy factor is there's just folks
1:32:07
Speaker 10: who say, I only vote for the president. Well, we
1:32:09
Speaker 10: got to get those folks out to vote in the
1:32:11
Speaker 10: midterms as well.
1:32:12
Speaker 1: And each and every one of my listeners can help
1:32:14
Speaker 1: in that process by talking to your neighbors, encouraging them
1:32:16
Speaker 1: to vote, picking up your friends and neighbors, take them
1:32:18
Speaker 1: to the poll, maybe go out and have lunch and
1:32:20
Speaker 1: vote at the same time. A reason to get up
1:32:22
Speaker 1: off the couch and, well, save us from the far left.
1:32:26
Speaker 1: It's going to be a disaster if they take over, Donovan,
1:32:28
Speaker 1: and I just hope that message gets out loud and
1:32:30
Speaker 1: clear before November or by next week when you can
1:32:33
Speaker 1: start voting. Right, Donovan?
1:32:35
Speaker 10: That's right.
1:32:35
Speaker 3: Make a plan. You've got 30 days to do it, folks.
1:32:38
Speaker 10: Put it on the calendar. Like Brian said, get a
1:32:40
Speaker 10: cup of coffee, go out and have a lunch, stay
1:32:42
Speaker 10: with a friend or something, cast your ballot, get it done,
1:32:45
Speaker 10: bank the vote, and do your part in the civic process.
1:32:49
Speaker 1: And take action. Get over to BuckeyeBlueprint.com, learn how you
1:32:52
Speaker 1: can do that, and be part of the solution. Thanks
1:32:54
Speaker 1: again to AFP and you, Donovan and Neil, for all
1:32:56
Speaker 1: that you're doing. We'll talk again next week.
1:32:58
Speaker 10: Talk soon, Brian.
1:32:59
Speaker 1: Thanks, man. It's 749 right now, 55KRCD. It's 8.05 here
1:33:06
Speaker 1: at 55KRC, the talk station. Very happy Wednesday. Welcome back
1:33:11
Speaker 1: to the 55KRC morning show. Head of the Hamlin County
1:33:13
Speaker 1: Republican Party, Josh Gerth. Josh, it's a pleasure to have
1:33:16
Speaker 1: you on the show today, my friend.
1:33:19
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me, Brian. Good morning.
1:33:20
Speaker 1: Good morning. And I truly appreciate your response to the
1:33:25
Speaker 1: North College Hill superintendent, Eugene Blaylock, posting the entire Democratic
1:33:29
Speaker 1: ticket of the North College Hill City Schools website. We'll
1:33:32
Speaker 1: get to that in a moment, but your post from
1:33:34
Speaker 1: several days ago under the Hamilton County Republican Party chair,
1:33:38
Speaker 1: you just outline a whole bunch of illustrations of, well, law-breaking, perhaps,
1:33:44
Speaker 1: if I can call it that, shenanigans, maybe if you
1:33:45
Speaker 1: want to take the law-breaking edge off of it, done
1:33:48
Speaker 1: by Democrats. And there's a whole list if we can
1:33:49
Speaker 1: go through it. My reaction to that, because I lived
1:33:51
Speaker 1: in Chicago for eight years where it is always, always
1:33:55
Speaker 1: all blue, and you are surrounded by overt illustrations of corruption.
1:33:59
Speaker 1: Nobody seems to care. And the reason is it's sort
1:34:01
Speaker 1: of acknowledged, well, it's our corruption, so why would we
1:34:03
Speaker 1: want to stop it? It's helping out us, the Democrats
1:34:06
Speaker 1: being the us, our reference. But that was kind of
1:34:10
Speaker 1: the attitude about it. Ah, don't worry about it. We're
1:34:12
Speaker 1: getting the benefit of the corruption, so just shut up
1:34:14
Speaker 1: and sit down and let us do business the way
1:34:16
Speaker 1: we always do. That seems the way it's become in
1:34:17
Speaker 1: Hamilton County, Josh.
1:34:20
Speaker 5: You're exactly right. And someone needs to call it out,
1:34:23
Speaker 5: and I think that's my job to do it. I
1:34:25
Speaker 5: did list a half a dozen or so things that,
1:34:29
Speaker 5: to your point, may be considered shenanigans. And, you know,
1:34:31
Speaker 5: everyone's like, oh, it's not that big of a deal
1:34:33
Speaker 5: if the Anderson Township trustees break the law by holding
1:34:36
Speaker 5: a meeting they shouldn't have and getting fined $ 10, 000 or
1:34:39
Speaker 5: the city not picking up your trash or, you know,
1:34:42
Speaker 5: a judge mouthing off about certain party that are inhumane.
1:34:46
Speaker 5: Active judge, might I say. It just, you know, but
1:34:49
Speaker 5: this is the kind of stuff that people don't really
1:34:52
Speaker 5: pay attention to. And it's the reason why we are
1:34:54
Speaker 5: where we are in this county. But you know what?
1:34:57
Speaker 5: Here's the big thing. All those things aside, let's focus
1:35:00
Speaker 5: on what the real problem is here. And last night
1:35:04
Speaker 5: in Anderson Township, we had our Anderson Republican Club meeting
1:35:06
Speaker 5: where we had Steve Misla, who the owner of the
1:35:09
Speaker 5: Norwood Skyline. Does anybody remember what happened in the Norwood
1:35:12
Speaker 5: Skyline a few months back? Does that even cross anyone's
1:35:15
Speaker 5: mind anymore when it comes to the fact that we
1:35:18
Speaker 5: have an election starting in a few days? where a
1:35:20
Speaker 5: young woman was killed in broad daylight in a Norwood
1:35:24
Speaker 5: skyline because of a man who was let out of jail,
1:35:29
Speaker 5: had 19 arrests, 19 arrests, and still was walking the
1:35:34
Speaker 5: street and able to walk in and murder his ex-girlfriend
1:35:37
Speaker 5: in broad daylight because of the fact that a liberal
1:35:39
Speaker 5: judge let him out of jail. So I can make
1:35:44
Speaker 5: fun of these little incidents that I did on my
1:35:46
Speaker 5: face plant page a few days ago, But that just
1:35:50
Speaker 5: is the underbelly of what's really the problem in this county.
1:35:53
Speaker 5: And it's lawlessness and it's lack of common sense and
1:35:57
Speaker 5: it's destroying our county within.
1:35:59
Speaker 1: Well, the solutions to these problems seem so simple. You know,
1:36:03
Speaker 1: I have, you know, Corey Bowman on yesterday. He lives
1:36:06
Speaker 1: in the West End, a neighborhood that has a tremendous
1:36:09
Speaker 1: number of black people, all of whom seem to be
1:36:11
Speaker 1: clamoring for more law enforcement. Law enforcement officers are a
1:36:14
Speaker 1: little shall we say, have a morale problem because they
1:36:17
Speaker 1: engage in law enforcement efforts only to have these young people,
1:36:20
Speaker 1: most notably juveniles, let out of the criminal justice system,
1:36:23
Speaker 1: what we regularly refer to as the revolving door, making
1:36:27
Speaker 1: them view their jobs as absolutely pointless. And of course,
1:36:30
Speaker 1: those young people getting let out time and time and
1:36:32
Speaker 1: time again, they build this massive juvenile court record, but
1:36:35
Speaker 1: no accountability. They don't think they're ever going to be
1:36:37
Speaker 1: held accountable. That's why they go out and end up
1:36:39
Speaker 1: being recidivist criminals. The answer to the problem is simple.
1:36:43
Speaker 1: You know, strict law enforcement and, of course, punishment in
1:36:47
Speaker 1: the judicial system. So we have illustrations and examples to
1:36:51
Speaker 1: hold out to everybody else what not to do or
1:36:53
Speaker 1: you're going to suffer consequences. That leg of the criminal
1:36:55
Speaker 1: justice system has been kicked out. It's simple to understand.
1:36:59
Speaker 1: It's easy to solve. But going back to your initial comment,
1:37:02
Speaker 1: people don't pay attention. They don't connect the dots. And
1:37:05
Speaker 1: they go back to doing the same thing over and
1:37:07
Speaker 1: over again. Well, you know, I'm going to vote Democrat.
1:37:09
Speaker 5: Right, well, or they're paying attention to national politics or
1:37:12
Speaker 5: things outside of their backyard, which is amazing to me.
1:37:16
Speaker 5: And that is exactly why if you don't go vote
1:37:19
Speaker 5: in November, well, actually starting on Tuesday, if you don't
1:37:22
Speaker 5: go vote and you're one of these people that complains
1:37:26
Speaker 5: about what's going on, And especially if you're a Republican
1:37:29
Speaker 5: in this town and you don't go vote, you are worse,
1:37:32
Speaker 5: worse than the Democrat socialist agenda candidates and elected leaders
1:37:37
Speaker 5: around this county that are destroying it. You are the
1:37:39
Speaker 5: problem if you don't go vote. And I'm glad you
1:37:42
Speaker 5: had me on today because yesterday, speaking of law and order,
1:37:45
Speaker 5: our judicial candidates were overwhelmingly endorsed by the FOP. And
1:37:51
Speaker 5: if that, again, another example of why it is so
1:37:54
Speaker 5: important to go vote, We have the backing of the FOP,
1:37:58
Speaker 5: and I know you're having Ken Cobra on later, but
1:38:00
Speaker 5: that is a huge endorsement for our candidates and another
1:38:04
Speaker 5: reason why people need to pay attention.
1:38:05
Speaker 1: Well, and maybe they're not paying attention to the endorsements either, Josh.
1:38:09
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought them up. But, you know, you
1:38:12
Speaker 1: and I are weed dwellers. We live in the political environment.
1:38:15
Speaker 1: We pay attention to these things all day long. And, again,
1:38:16
Speaker 1: for us, it seems so obvious, but we're facing a
1:38:20
Speaker 1: massive uphill challenge in the divided world we find ourselves
1:38:23
Speaker 1: in in this social media age. People... wall themselves off
1:38:26
Speaker 1: in echo chambers. They don't listen to the facts or information.
1:38:29
Speaker 1: They're not willing to listen to a position that runs
1:38:32
Speaker 1: contrary to what they think they believe. And I'm not
1:38:34
Speaker 1: even quite sure they know specifically what they believe. Plus,
1:38:37
Speaker 1: you know, you're competing for valuable hours, entertainment hours. I
1:38:41
Speaker 1: got binge watching I got to do. I can't be
1:38:43
Speaker 1: bothered with politics. I got a family to run. I got...
1:38:46
Speaker 1: I've got select soccer games I've got to toll my
1:38:49
Speaker 1: kids off to. There's a multitude of reasons people don't
1:38:51
Speaker 1: pay attention. And I think a lot of people, and
1:38:53
Speaker 1: this is a sad thing, think it's a pointless gesture.
1:38:56
Speaker 1: You know, I've been doing this for years, and I
1:38:59
Speaker 1: get more and more of the same. But we are
1:39:01
Speaker 1: at a crossroads in America, given the current socialist wave
1:39:04
Speaker 1: that's washing across this country. The Democrats have capitulated to it,
1:39:08
Speaker 1: so readily any Democrat that you vote for is going
1:39:11
Speaker 1: to be governed and directed by the far left wing
1:39:14
Speaker 1: of their party, and they're not going to buck the trend.
1:39:16
Speaker 1: And I just wish more people would just come to
1:39:18
Speaker 1: grips with that reality, because it is certainly true.
1:39:22
Speaker 6: Yeah.
1:39:23
Speaker 5: You know, and I would say to some people, and
1:39:24
Speaker 5: we had a couple of new people at the meeting
1:39:26
Speaker 5: last night, and I said, you know, why aren't you,
1:39:29
Speaker 5: or why, you know, why did you come tonight? Like, well,
1:39:31
Speaker 5: you know, I'm finally starting to see some things that
1:39:35
Speaker 5: I'm concerned about. And I kind of said, you're finally
1:39:37
Speaker 5: starting to see them. But I think the whole reason
1:39:39
Speaker 5: why I even ran for this spot, I mean, yeah,
1:39:42
Speaker 5: I mean, I've got another job. I've got a family.
1:39:45
Speaker 5: But if not you, who? And that's what I like
1:39:48
Speaker 5: to tell people who are like, eh, I don't know, politics,
1:39:51
Speaker 5: not really my thing. If not you, who is going
1:39:54
Speaker 5: to help change what's going on? And I know social
1:39:58
Speaker 5: media gets, I mean, it's just, you know, it kind
1:40:01
Speaker 5: of gets lost with people. And look, my social media
1:40:03
Speaker 5: following isn't exactly robust. That's why we have to do
1:40:06
Speaker 5: other things. We actually have a group in town from
1:40:09
Speaker 5: Alabama of all places in town this week, walking door
1:40:12
Speaker 5: to door. They're gonna hit thousands of doors in heavy
1:40:15
Speaker 5: Republican areas. And you go, what? Why Republican areas? Because
1:40:19
Speaker 5: half of those Republicans are the same people that didn't
1:40:22
Speaker 5: vote last year, that voted in the presidential year, but
1:40:25
Speaker 5: sat it out and why we are in the positions
1:40:27
Speaker 5: that we are. There are places on the West side,
1:40:29
Speaker 5: for instance, in like Delhi or Coleraine, people that will
1:40:34
Speaker 5: vote Republican They just need a little encouragement. That's what
1:40:37
Speaker 5: going door-to-door, getting down to the grassroots level does, and
1:40:40
Speaker 5: that's what we're trying to do.
1:40:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, and with early voting, it's time we just dropped
1:40:44
Speaker 1: the whole idea of voting on Election Day because I
1:40:46
Speaker 1: think that ship has sailed. We do have a huge
1:40:49
Speaker 1: amount of time here, again, getting next Tuesday. Why not
1:40:52
Speaker 1: take advantage of it? The Democrats do, and if you
1:40:54
Speaker 1: don't want to allocate time on Election Day to go
1:40:57
Speaker 1: do it, Hamilton County Board of Elections is so easy
1:41:00
Speaker 1: to get in and out of. Parking is great, and
1:41:02
Speaker 1: it's very efficient. I voted there before early voting, and
1:41:05
Speaker 1: I voted— I mean, why not? Just get it out
1:41:08
Speaker 1: of the way. And that way you don't have to
1:41:09
Speaker 1: listen to the complaints of folks like us begging people
1:41:11
Speaker 1: to get out and vote. It's simple to do. Just
1:41:13
Speaker 1: do it.
1:41:14
Speaker 5: And if you do it early, then all the mail
1:41:16
Speaker 5: and stuff that shows up at your house every day stops.
1:41:19
Speaker 5: The calls stop. The texts stop. Everything stops because everyone's like, oh,
1:41:22
Speaker 5: I keep so many stuff. Well, go vote and it'll stop.
1:41:25
Speaker 1: Well, that's a poster child for voting right there, Josh.
1:41:30
Speaker 5: How about that?
1:41:31
Speaker 1: Get the damn phone calls. I get like a half
1:41:33
Speaker 1: a dozen of those every single day by way of
1:41:35
Speaker 1: text messages and phone calls. And then, of course, the
1:41:37
Speaker 1: political ads, which we can't escape. And I suspect people's
1:41:40
Speaker 1: eyes have already glazed over with the political ads that
1:41:42
Speaker 1: are running seemingly 24-7, Josh.
1:41:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it is a lot. There's no doubt. But,
1:41:47
Speaker 5: you know, when you spend $ 195 million for the U.S.
1:41:51
Speaker 5: Senate race, I mean, you're going to see a few ads.
1:41:55
Speaker 1: There's some big fat left-wing donor money in there. It's
1:41:59
Speaker 1: amazing the Democrats don't go after the multi-billion dollar left-wing
1:42:03
Speaker 1: donors like George Soros, but they attack anybody else who's
1:42:06
Speaker 1: throwing money at a campaign. Josh Gerth, head of the
1:42:08
Speaker 1: Hammond County Republican Party. Pause, because I want you to
1:42:10
Speaker 1: dive into the specifics on this North College Hill superintendent
1:42:13
Speaker 1: posting the entire... 818 here at 55KRC, the talk station.
1:42:15
Speaker 1: On the phone? Chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party,
1:42:30
Speaker 1: Josh Gerth, going through the issues and pivoting over to
1:42:32
Speaker 1: one particularly egregious effect. Although I didn't mean it. I
1:42:36
Speaker 1: didn't know this was a violation of law. Eugene Blalock, Jr.,
1:42:38
Speaker 1: the superintendent of the North College Hill City Schools, posted
1:42:42
Speaker 1: the entire Democratic ticket. Now, I know they want the
1:42:45
Speaker 1: levy to pass. Are the Democrat, is the blue ticket,
1:42:49
Speaker 1: or rather, does the blue ticket contain a recommendation to
1:42:52
Speaker 1: vote for this particular levy? Or is it silent on
1:42:55
Speaker 1: that issue?
1:42:57
Speaker 5: You know, that's a good question. I don't know. That
1:42:59
Speaker 5: and like the CPS tax levy, I don't know if
1:43:02
Speaker 5: that's on their endorsement card or not.
1:43:04
Speaker 1: Well, I know the teachers unions, for example, have endorsed
1:43:07
Speaker 1: Amy Acton. And I strongly, I get a strong indication
1:43:11
Speaker 1: based upon history. In fact, I would bet all of
1:43:13
Speaker 1: my life savings on it that the teachers unions are
1:43:15
Speaker 1: backing all of the Democrats to the extent they endorse them.
1:43:18
Speaker 1: So the expectation is presumably the Democrats want you to
1:43:21
Speaker 1: vote for the levies. But you're not allowed to engage
1:43:25
Speaker 1: in politics on taxpayer-funded websites like the North College Hill
1:43:29
Speaker 1: City School website. Are you, Josh Gerth?
1:43:32
Speaker 5: No, you are not. That is a clear violation of
1:43:35
Speaker 5: the Ohio Revised Code 9.03. Anyone can Google that and
1:43:40
Speaker 5: look it up, and you'll see what comes up that
1:43:41
Speaker 5: you specifically cannot do exactly what he did. And someone
1:43:45
Speaker 5: alerted me to it, and I said, there's no way,
1:43:48
Speaker 5: there's no way that a superintendent posted a an endorsed
1:43:53
Speaker 5: slate card from a political party on the public Facebook
1:43:57
Speaker 5: page of the school. And sure enough, not only did
1:43:59
Speaker 5: he do it, he left it up for at least
1:44:00
Speaker 5: a full day, if not more.
1:44:02
Speaker 1: Any accountability? Will there be any action filed? Will there
1:44:05
Speaker 1: be any fines levied or repercussions? I know you demanded
1:44:09
Speaker 1: that he resign from his position. And honestly, Josh, I'm
1:44:12
Speaker 1: not going to hold my breath waiting for him to
1:44:13
Speaker 1: do that. But no.
1:44:16
Speaker 5: No, or, you know, I assume North Codge Hill has
1:44:19
Speaker 5: a school board. And I mean, is the board going
1:44:21
Speaker 5: to do anything? And the answer is probably no. I
1:44:25
Speaker 5: don't know what the repercussions will be. I know a
1:44:29
Speaker 5: report was filed with the auditor of the state. A
1:44:34
Speaker 5: complaint was filed. So we'll see if that goes anywhere.
1:44:36
Speaker 5: And yes, I know to your point earlier, he went on,
1:44:40
Speaker 5: he's like, oh, I'm sorry. I didn't, you know, whatever
1:44:42
Speaker 5: he said to try and walk it back. Well, first
1:44:44
Speaker 5: of all, either He did it blatantly knowing what he
1:44:47
Speaker 5: was doing. Or if he didn't know that he couldn't
1:44:50
Speaker 5: do that, isn't that just as bad?
1:44:52
Speaker 1: Well, ignorance of law is no excuse. We all know that.
1:44:55
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, you'd think, hmm, I don't see
1:44:59
Speaker 1: school websites engaging in politics anywhere around me. Maybe it's
1:45:03
Speaker 1: not legal to do that. Maybe I should run it
1:45:05
Speaker 1: by a lawyer or check with someone who's a little
1:45:07
Speaker 1: bit better in the know than I am as a superintendent.
1:45:12
Speaker 5: Yeah, and of course, I'm certainly not a lawyer, although
1:45:14
Speaker 5: I did sleep in Anderson Township last night, which is
1:45:16
Speaker 5: run by a very smart lawyer who just got busted
1:45:19
Speaker 5: for the Sunshine violation. But it seems to me that
1:45:24
Speaker 5: this was a completely illegal act, if not the very least,
1:45:29
Speaker 5: an unethical one.
1:45:31
Speaker 1: Without question, unethical. Well, pivoting over to Anderson Township, I
1:45:35
Speaker 1: had a conversation with your former co-trustee, Drew Pappas, not
1:45:38
Speaker 1: that long ago, about the change in direction of Anderson Township.
1:45:42
Speaker 1: I mean, I always just perceived Anderson Township to be
1:45:45
Speaker 1: just a diehard conservative town, economically doing great, business and
1:45:48
Speaker 1: industry are welcome, beautiful neighborhoods, taken care of wonderfully. But
1:45:53
Speaker 1: you go from, you know, you, Josh Gerth and Drew Pappas,
1:45:56
Speaker 1: and you get Lexi Lawson, who obviously was a terrific,
1:45:59
Speaker 1: terrific candidate and a great trustee, to now you're completely
1:46:02
Speaker 1: run by Democrats. Is that kind of an illustration of
1:46:05
Speaker 1: what happens if you don't show up, or has Anderson
1:46:07
Speaker 1: Township really gone that far to the left?
1:46:10
Speaker 5: No, that's exactly what happens when you don't show up.
1:46:12
Speaker 5: Because in 2024, Anderson overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump. And
1:46:17
Speaker 5: then the next year, 5,000 of those people didn't even
1:46:19
Speaker 5: bother to vote. And this is what we end up with.
1:46:22
Speaker 5: And so there, again, is just one more illustration of
1:46:26
Speaker 5: the apathy of our party.
1:46:28
Speaker 1: Well, that's a shame. Well, I'd like to think that
1:46:30
Speaker 1: word gets out and that people will not sit on
1:46:33
Speaker 1: their hands for this election. I know everybody's upset, Josh Gerth.
1:46:36
Speaker 1: But I mean, the alternative is just it's bat crap insanity.
1:46:40
Speaker 1: It absolutely is. And people don't see it. I don't know.
1:46:44
Speaker 1: Maybe we're lost as a society if we end up
1:46:46
Speaker 1: going blue in November.
1:46:48
Speaker 5: Listen, you're exactly right. And I don't know what's going
1:46:50
Speaker 5: to happen. But the Democrat Party today does not care
1:46:52
Speaker 5: about rules, laws, ethics, providing basic services, not the least
1:46:57
Speaker 5: of which is law and order and public safety. They
1:46:59
Speaker 5: care about one thing and one thing only. And it's
1:47:02
Speaker 5: wielding their socialistic power to suppress their voter base. preying
1:47:06
Speaker 5: on that base as ignorance and, of course, our apathy
1:47:09
Speaker 5: as GOP voters to mask their blatant overreach and incompetency.
1:47:14
Speaker 5: That's exactly what's going on. The headlines will continue. They
1:47:17
Speaker 5: will get more prevalent. They will get worse. And they
1:47:20
Speaker 5: will impact your wallet, your family, and your life unless
1:47:24
Speaker 5: you go vote to change it.
1:47:25
Speaker 1: Hey, next week starts October 6th. Get over there to
1:47:28
Speaker 1: Hamilton County Board of Elections. Cast your vote. Get it
1:47:30
Speaker 1: out of the way. And reminding you, thank you, Josh Gerth,
1:47:33
Speaker 1: for pointing it out. The end of mailings and the
1:47:35
Speaker 1: end of phone calls, that's worth it, isn't it? Come on.
1:47:39
Speaker 5: Hallelujah.
1:47:41
Speaker 1: The amount of time it's going to take you to
1:47:42
Speaker 1: go vote and get it out of the way versus
1:47:44
Speaker 1: the amount of time you'd have to be dealing with
1:47:46
Speaker 1: even just deleting text, probably just a wash at minimum, Josh.
1:47:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, probably.
1:47:52
Speaker 1: Hamilton County Republican Chair Josh Gerrith, keep up the great work, Josh,
1:47:56
Speaker 1: and I'll encourage my listeners to engage in some measure
1:47:59
Speaker 1: of outreach. And, of course, ending the point, Get out
1:48:02
Speaker 1: and vote. Start next Tuesday and take advantage of early voting.
1:48:05
Speaker 1: Josh Gerth, you're always welcome here to provide updates and
1:48:07
Speaker 1: information about what's going on. And I welcome that. I
1:48:10
Speaker 1: welcome you being on the program again real soon, sir.
1:48:13
Speaker 5: Go to GOP judges dot com. And thank you, Brian,
1:48:16
Speaker 5: as always.
1:48:17
Speaker 1: Oh, my pleasure, man. My pleasure. I'm voting in all
1:48:19
Speaker 1: of our best interest. And that's why I'm so adamant
1:48:22
Speaker 1: about my listeners voting. Come on. If you don't do it,
1:48:24
Speaker 1: we're screwed. KRC, the talk station. 831-55-KRC, the talk station.
1:48:31
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday and a very happy Wednesday to you. Always
1:48:33
Speaker 1: extra special Wednesday because we get to hear from Judge
1:48:35
Speaker 1: Ed Napolitano at this time. Judge Napolitano, welcome back to
1:48:39
Speaker 1: the 55 KRC Morning Show. Did you watch the game?
1:48:42
Speaker 7: No, I went to sleep at 8 o'clock. I don't
1:48:45
Speaker 7: live very far from the stadium in New York City,
1:48:49
Speaker 7: but like you, you know, I get up before the
1:48:51
Speaker 7: birds do. But the first thing I did when I
1:48:54
Speaker 7: got up this morning was to go right to my
1:48:56
Speaker 7: computer and find out the result. I couldn't believe it.
1:48:59
Speaker 7: Two kids from Boston, Cam Schlitter, the pitcher, And Ben Rice,
1:49:06
Speaker 7: who hit two home runs, one of which was a
1:49:08
Speaker 7: grand slam, were the heroes of this game for the Yankees.
1:49:11
Speaker 7: They both grew up in Boston as Red Sox fans.
1:49:16
Speaker 1: How about that? Doing well for New York. Pivoting over.
1:49:21
Speaker 7: Just remember, Babe Ruth was traded to the Yankees from
1:49:27
Speaker 7: the Red Sox.
1:49:29
Speaker 1: How about that? Can't unring that bell, can you?
1:49:33
Speaker 5: No.
1:49:36
Speaker 1: The October term of the Supreme Court, and I did
1:49:39
Speaker 1: get your column, and I love it. And again, you're
1:49:41
Speaker 1: obviously constitutional-based criticism of Donald Trump and the war waging,
1:49:45
Speaker 1: and I get that all day long. But I was
1:49:47
Speaker 1: wildly curious to get your reaction about some of the
1:49:49
Speaker 1: cases they've announced that they'll be hearing this October, one
1:49:52
Speaker 1: of which, and I find this particularly troubling, and it
1:49:55
Speaker 1: sort of dovetails quite nicely with a parental rights case,
1:49:59
Speaker 1: but it's this climate change, Suncor Energy versus County Commissioners
1:50:03
Speaker 1: of Boulder, Colorado. Now, this involves cities and governmental entities
1:50:07
Speaker 1: suing oil companies on the basis that they knowingly contributed
1:50:12
Speaker 1: to climate change and misleaded the public about its impacts.
1:50:16
Speaker 1: So Colorado Supreme Court ruled for the city, let them
1:50:18
Speaker 1: go forward. Now it's up in front of the Supreme
1:50:20
Speaker 1: Court on whether this type of litigation and others of
1:50:22
Speaker 1: its ilk can go forward. I struggle with this, sir,
1:50:25
Speaker 1: because in terms of climate change, maybe the tobacco companies,
1:50:27
Speaker 1: for example, did know their products caused cancer and they
1:50:30
Speaker 1: sat on it. But in terms of climate change, the
1:50:33
Speaker 1: quote on quote, scientific evidence has been wildly across the board.
1:50:37
Speaker 1: We were going to go into a new ice age
1:50:39
Speaker 1: back in the 70s. Then it was going to be
1:50:41
Speaker 1: global warming and we were going to be underwater. Then
1:50:43
Speaker 1: that didn't happen and Gore's predictions didn't manifest themselves. Now
1:50:46
Speaker 1: it's just climate change. So every single adverse weather incident
1:50:52
Speaker 1: we face now is attributed to us exhaling. How can
1:50:55
Speaker 1: you hold just oil companies and some subset of all
1:51:00
Speaker 1: of the oil companies, because it's usually just the big ones,
1:51:02
Speaker 1: How can you hold them accountable, and how can you
1:51:04
Speaker 1: possibly attribute knowledge when the scientists don't even know? And
1:51:10
Speaker 1: then also, how could you attribute whatever dollar liability, and
1:51:14
Speaker 1: that would have to be a concocted figure in and
1:51:16
Speaker 1: of itself, because multiple industries out in the world belt
1:51:20
Speaker 1: out carbon dioxide and pollutants, so they're just one small sliver.
1:51:24
Speaker 1: This has to be rejected as a theory of liability.
1:51:27
Speaker 1: Where do you come down on that one, sir?
1:51:29
Speaker 7: Well, I agree with you 110% on everything you just said, Brian.
1:51:34
Speaker 7: I mean, I go all the way back to the
1:51:37
Speaker 7: tobacco litigation and now to the big tech litigation. These
1:51:42
Speaker 7: are just shakedowns by state attorneys general, all of whom
1:51:46
Speaker 7: want to become the governors of their states and all
1:51:48
Speaker 7: of whom want to say, look at the free money
1:51:50
Speaker 7: that I brought you. But I must tell you, Brian,
1:51:53
Speaker 7: this is worse than you think. This is the case
1:51:58
Speaker 7: on which my Princeton classmate and former debate partner, Justice
1:52:02
Speaker 7: Sam Alito, has recused himself because he and his wife
1:52:08
Speaker 7: are shareholders in some of these very, very small shareholders.
1:52:13
Speaker 7: I don't want to be critical of Justice Alito. He's
1:52:16
Speaker 7: doing what he believes is intellectually honest and ethically compelled.
1:52:21
Speaker 7: Very small shareholders. But as a result of that recusal,
1:52:26
Speaker 7: The court watchers are predicting a 4-4 tie, meaning the
1:52:32
Speaker 7: Colorado Supreme Court will be upheld, meaning these litigations will proceed,
1:52:39
Speaker 7: meaning the price of everybody's gasoline is going to go up.
1:52:44
Speaker 1: Thank you. And how far will it go up if
1:52:47
Speaker 1: they succeed in any one of these cases? Because we're talking.
1:52:50
Speaker 7: Watch for.
1:52:52
Speaker 7: New Jersey and Connecticut and California and New York, these
1:52:56
Speaker 7: states that have liberal democratic government and liberal ambitious attorneys
1:53:02
Speaker 7: general to pile on and do the same thing. Like
1:53:05
Speaker 7: I said, it's the tobacco scam repeated, the big tech
1:53:11
Speaker 7: scam repeated. Now it's big oil. I don't know how
1:53:16
Speaker 7: Justice Alito would rule. I would think he would probably
1:53:20
Speaker 7: rule this as a case of federal preemption and the
1:53:24
Speaker 7: states can't get involved. But Colorado, the Colorado Supreme Court
1:53:30
Speaker 7: found that it's utterly lawful under Colorado law and the
1:53:34
Speaker 7: Colorado Constitution. I don't know what the breakdown of the
1:53:38
Speaker 7: four would be. I'm thinking that Justice Barrett would join
1:53:45
Speaker 7: her liberal female colleagues, and that will be the four
1:53:47
Speaker 7: to four?
1:53:48
Speaker 5: I don't know.
1:53:50
Speaker 1: Frightening prospect if it comes down that way. That's why
1:53:52
Speaker 1: we're looking forward to seeing what happens in these important cases. Now,
1:53:55
Speaker 1: I drew a parallel with that and the St. Mary
1:53:57
Speaker 1: Catholic Parish v. Roy, where the Tenth Circuit upheld a
1:54:01
Speaker 1: Colorado provision requiring all preschools to agree not to discriminate
1:54:06
Speaker 1: on the, quote, race, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, income,
1:54:11
Speaker 1: or disability, close quote. Catholic court says, whoa, whoa, whoa.
1:54:15
Speaker 1: This requires the Catholic Church to violate our religious principles
1:54:19
Speaker 1: as a condition of participating in the preschool program of funding. Well,
1:54:25
Speaker 1: this is a conflict here we got. I mean, the
1:54:28
Speaker 1: free exercise of religion, the Catholics believe in certain things,
1:54:31
Speaker 1: and this trods upon the free exercise of religion, doesn't it?
1:54:35
Speaker 1: And doesn't it also compel speech?
1:54:38
Speaker 7: This is a no-brainer. This will be a six to
1:54:42
Speaker 7: three reversal, not because the six of them are Catholic,
1:54:46
Speaker 7: but because they have consistently upheld that the free exercise
1:54:51
Speaker 7: of religion trumps just about all other rights. Here's a
1:54:55
Speaker 7: cocktail party question for you. Which freedom is the first
1:55:01
Speaker 7: freedom protected in the First Amendment? Everybody will say speech.
1:55:04
Speaker 1: Free exercise.
1:55:04
Speaker 6: Correct.
1:55:06
Speaker 7: Correct.
1:55:07
Speaker 12: Correct.
1:55:07
Speaker 7: Madison intentionally put that first and under a structural interpretation
1:55:14
Speaker 7: of the Constitution. That which is first is more important
1:55:17
Speaker 7: than that which is second. There's your answer.
1:55:20
Speaker 1: Amen. I learned that from Professor Andrew Napolitano here on
1:55:24
Speaker 1: the 55 KRC Morning. I was reminded of it. I've
1:55:26
Speaker 1: read the Constitution before.
1:55:27
Speaker 7: You know, I ran into a judge the other day.
1:55:31
Speaker 7: I didn't recognize her. I didn't even know she was
1:55:32
Speaker 7: a judge. We're at the dry cleaners. And she says
1:55:35
Speaker 7: to me, good morning, Professor. And nobody calls me professor.
1:55:39
Speaker 7: I said, if we met before, she said, you taught
1:55:40
Speaker 7: me constitutional law 20 years ago. I'm now a superior
1:55:44
Speaker 7: court judge. Oh, I hugged and kissed her.
1:55:46
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
1:55:48
Speaker 9: All right.
1:55:49
Speaker 1: Actually, the one I was saying is a parallel to
1:55:51
Speaker 1: the Exxon or the gas case, the climate change case.
1:55:56
Speaker 1: Parental rights. Ethical care versus Ferguson. Washington state amended its
1:56:03
Speaker 1: laws to delay shelters for In notifying parents of a
1:56:07
Speaker 1: runaway child who has, quote, gender-affirming treatment, in other words,
1:56:10
Speaker 1: a gender-affirming treatment child runs into a runaway shelter, they
1:56:13
Speaker 1: are told not to notify the parents but actually call
1:56:16
Speaker 1: the Department of Children, Youth, and Family Services because it
1:56:19
Speaker 1: is an abusive home that threatens a child who is
1:56:23
Speaker 1: not supported for gender-affirming care. Now, my question is, since
1:56:28
Speaker 1: even entire countries have determined that this gender-affirming care is,
1:56:32
Speaker 1: in fact, abusive and not helpful and is not the
1:56:35
Speaker 1: a state of medical procedures, or should it be that
1:56:38
Speaker 1: this is another one where, you know, come on, the
1:56:41
Speaker 1: science at minimum is out on this. How can they
1:56:44
Speaker 1: not notify parents?
1:56:46
Speaker 7: This violates a very famous case called Wisconsin against Yoder,
1:56:51
Speaker 7: which stands for the proposition that the right of parents
1:56:56
Speaker 7: to control the destiny of and raise their children as
1:57:00
Speaker 7: they see fit is among the highest rights we have.
1:57:03
Speaker 7: the state would have to have a compelling state interest,
1:57:07
Speaker 7: have to pass strict scrutiny in order to interfere with
1:57:09
Speaker 7: that right. No way can it, and no way will
1:57:12
Speaker 7: it with this court. I think you'll be pleased with
1:57:15
Speaker 7: the outcome. Look, I could be wrong on these predictions,
1:57:19
Speaker 7: but knowing the way the members of the court think
1:57:24
Speaker 7: and knowing what an outlier this particular ruling is, that
1:57:30
Speaker 7: a child can run to a shelter and the shelter
1:57:32
Speaker 7: doesn't have to call the parents. I mean, I'm surprised
1:57:35
Speaker 7: the court is even waiting for oral argument on this one.
1:57:39
Speaker 1: Well, and I guess I am, too. Just sort of
1:57:43
Speaker 1: a rhetorical question here, Judge Anapolitano. How do you think
1:57:46
Speaker 1: these decisions would turn out, given your predictions, if the
1:57:50
Speaker 1: Democrats get their way and pack the Supreme Court with
1:57:53
Speaker 1: a bunch of liberal justices?
1:57:54
Speaker 6: Hmm.
1:57:55
Speaker 7: Well, I mean, that can't happen until there is a
1:57:58
Speaker 7: Democrat in the White House, because obviously a Republican in
1:58:02
Speaker 7: the White House would veto that. You know, the number
1:58:06
Speaker 7: of justices has fluctuated over the years. Originally, it was five,
1:58:10
Speaker 7: then it went up to seven, and then it went
1:58:12
Speaker 7: up and down and up and down around the time
1:58:13
Speaker 7: of the Civil War. At one point it was 10.
1:58:16
Speaker 7: And then when a justice retired, the Republicans who had
1:58:20
Speaker 7: a super majority reduced it to nine so that Andrew Johnson,
1:58:24
Speaker 7: after Lincoln was killed, couldn't replace the one who retired.
1:58:28
Speaker 7: And then another one retired and they reduced it to eight.
1:58:31
Speaker 7: And then another one retired and they reduced it to seven.
1:58:34
Speaker 7: And then as soon as Ulysses S. Grant became president,
1:58:37
Speaker 7: they raised it to nine. So he had two to
1:58:39
Speaker 7: put in there. This happens all the time. But what
1:58:44
Speaker 7: the Democrats have proposed is what FDR proposed in 1936.
1:58:52
Speaker 7: And it was such a lead balloon that he withdrew
1:58:55
Speaker 7: the proposal. I think the same thing will happen here. But,
1:59:00
Speaker 7: you know, how can I predict? Because who knows who
1:59:02
Speaker 7: will be elected president in 2028? Who even knows who's
1:59:06
Speaker 7: going to win the midterms next month, although it looks
1:59:08
Speaker 7: like the Democrats.
1:59:10
Speaker 1: I just put these questions out there because, yeah, the
1:59:12
Speaker 1: midterms are fast approaching. We start early voting here in
1:59:14
Speaker 1: Ohio on Tuesday next week. And just to remind folks
1:59:18
Speaker 1: what the platform is on one side versus the other,
1:59:21
Speaker 1: Republicans aren't running on packing the Supreme Court. At least
1:59:24
Speaker 1: they have a decent makeup right now from my perspective.
1:59:27
Speaker 7: Sherrod Brown actually running on packing the Supreme Court?
1:59:30
Speaker 1: Well, he's wed to the entire DSA agenda from all accounts.
1:59:33
Speaker 1: He's voted with Democrats 98% of the time. So, yeah,
1:59:37
Speaker 1: we can presume that at minimum.
1:59:39
Speaker 7: Wow.
1:59:40
Speaker 6: Wow.
1:59:41
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:59:42
Speaker 7: And I understand the governor's race in Ohio is now
1:59:45
Speaker 7: neck and neck.
1:59:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been getting poll after poll after poll with
1:59:48
Speaker 1: Amy Lockdown Act and being a few points ahead within
1:59:51
Speaker 1: the margin of error, but My listening audience doesn't buy
1:59:53
Speaker 1: into it. She's been a tremendous disappointment here in the state,
1:59:57
Speaker 1: and I think that's just a reflection, as most people conclude,
2:00:00
Speaker 1: of frustration over Donald Trump. You know, evil orange man,
2:00:03
Speaker 1: gas prices over which the governor of the state of
2:00:05
Speaker 1: Ohio is not going to have any control. Got it.
2:00:08
Speaker 1: We've got a superior candidate in Vivek Ramaswamy. He's quite
2:00:11
Speaker 1: a brilliant man. Anyhow, Judge Napolitano, Judging Freedom is a podcast.
2:00:15
Speaker 1: Find it where you find your podcasts. Typical Wednesday lineup, sir.
2:00:18
Speaker 1: You got somebody special on today?
2:00:20
Speaker 7: Oh, I have my two heaviest hitters today, Colonel Douglas
2:00:24
Speaker 7: McGregor and Scott Ritter. So looking forward to the afternoon.
2:00:27
Speaker 1: Always interesting and informative. Judge Anna Napolitano will do this
2:00:30
Speaker 1: again next Wednesday here on the 55 KRC Morning Show.
2:00:32
Speaker 1: And as always, thank you so much for your time.
2:00:35
Speaker 7: Thanks.
2:00:37
Speaker 1: 848, 55 KRC, the talk station. Happy Wednesday. Listener Lunch Wednesday,
2:00:41
Speaker 1: next Wednesday at Jim and Jackson on the River, last
2:00:42
Speaker 1: one before the election. I hope to see you there.
2:00:44
Speaker 1: And Ken Kober, FOP president, returns to the 55 KRC
2:00:47
Speaker 1: Morning Show to get his reaction to the Just brilliant solution. Here,
2:00:51
Speaker 1: let me pull the tongue out of my cheek. To
2:00:53
Speaker 1: require private parking lot owners and garage owners to install
2:00:58
Speaker 1: cameras or hire security guards 24-7 because people break into
2:01:03
Speaker 1: cars and sometimes steal firearms if there's a firearm in
2:01:06
Speaker 1: the car. It was reported that about 350 firearms were
2:01:08
Speaker 1: stolen from automobiles, including, I guess, three from Charmaine McGuffey's
2:01:11
Speaker 1: driveway in her automobiles. But more fundamentally, that they are
2:01:15
Speaker 1: stolen in parking garages. Ken Kober, FOP president, God bless
2:01:19
Speaker 1: you and the Cincinnati Police Department, but what's your reaction
2:01:22
Speaker 1: to this idea? I thought it was kind of stupid
2:01:25
Speaker 1: and expensive and probably will cause the price of parking
2:01:27
Speaker 1: to go up, but I don't think it's going to
2:01:28
Speaker 1: solve the problem. Your take, Ken Kober.
2:01:33
Speaker 7: Good morning, Brian.
2:01:33
Speaker 14: I appreciate you having me. Yeah, I mean, why are
2:01:36
Speaker 14: we punishing business owners because of crime in Cincinnati? You know,
2:01:42
Speaker 14: what's really alarming about all this, and I saw some
2:01:44
Speaker 14: of the quotes from some of the council members saying,
2:01:47
Speaker 14: is at what point do we decide that the deterrent
2:01:50
Speaker 14: is going to be that they're held accountable for their
2:01:52
Speaker 14: actions instead of punishing business owners? It just doesn't make
2:01:56
Speaker 14: any sense.
2:01:57
Speaker 7: Not once has a.
2:01:58
Speaker 14: City leader ever stood up and said, you know what?
2:02:01
Speaker 14: We need the courts to do their job. We need
2:02:03
Speaker 14: them to do their part. We need to make sure
2:02:06
Speaker 14: that these violent offenders, these people doing all these things,
2:02:08
Speaker 14: that they're held accountable. But in fact, it's the exact opposite.
2:02:11
Speaker 14: It's we're going to blame everybody but the criminal. for
2:02:14
Speaker 14: their behavior.
2:02:15
Speaker 5: And I don't blame these business owners for being upset.
2:02:18
Speaker 14: They should be.
2:02:19
Speaker 5: I think it's absolutely ridiculous.
2:02:20
Speaker 1: Well, it is, and I agree with your point wholeheartedly.
2:02:22
Speaker 1: And I have to presume that a lot of the
2:02:25
Speaker 1: guns that are stolen, if you find them or if
2:02:27
Speaker 1: you catch them, that the crime or the gun is
2:02:29
Speaker 1: being stolen by a juvenile. Is that safe to say,
2:02:32
Speaker 1: or is that maybe an overstatement?
2:02:35
Speaker 14: I mean, it's typically juveniles, but a perfect example was
2:02:38
Speaker 14: the last Bengals home game. A SWAT response team officer
2:02:43
Speaker 14: confronts two people. They arrest them both, of course, after
2:02:47
Speaker 14: they resist arrest. Both of them have stolen firearms. Both
2:02:51
Speaker 14: of them go to court the next morning. They're both adults.
2:02:54
Speaker 14: Go to court the next morning. Both of them get
2:02:55
Speaker 14: OR bonds. You wonder why we have a problem with
2:02:59
Speaker 14: gun violence. And this is exactly it. There are no
2:03:02
Speaker 14: consequences for breaking the law. There's no consequences for having
2:03:06
Speaker 14: stolen firearms. We just give you an OR bond and
2:03:08
Speaker 14: you're out the door. But we want business owners to
2:03:11
Speaker 14: do all these things that if we don't, we're going
2:03:12
Speaker 14: to punish you and we're going to make you do
2:03:16
Speaker 14: things to try to make it harder for them.
2:03:17
Speaker 1: Well, the frustrating part about this, and I hear you
2:03:19
Speaker 1: all day long, there are consequences. That's why the law
2:03:23
Speaker 1: is on the books. That's why it carries with it
2:03:26
Speaker 1: a penalty within a range of, say, a monetary fine
2:03:29
Speaker 1: plus a prison sentence between something and something. It's right there.
2:03:32
Speaker 1: You need someone who is willing to meet the punishment
2:03:35
Speaker 1: out on the person standing in front of them. I mean,
2:03:37
Speaker 1: for a... All elected officials downtown, they would love to
2:03:40
Speaker 1: be able to scoop up every damn gun around. They
2:03:43
Speaker 1: hate the Second Amendment. They always complain about gun violence,
2:03:46
Speaker 1: gun violence, gun violence. And here's something they can do
2:03:49
Speaker 1: quickly and easily, put in place a policy where judges
2:03:52
Speaker 1: will hold people accountable for using firearms. Simple, practical solution
2:03:55
Speaker 1: that will work.
2:04:00
Speaker 14: Yeah, it is, believe me, it is beyond frustrating for
2:04:03
Speaker 14: these officers to see this. But if they think that
2:04:05
Speaker 14: putting cameras up are going to prevent people from stealing guns,
2:04:10
Speaker 14: they're nuts. Because these people that are out there that
2:04:13
Speaker 14: are being so brazen that they're doing these things, they
2:04:16
Speaker 14: don't fear consequences. They don't care if it's on camera
2:04:18
Speaker 14: or not. You're going to give me an OR bond.
2:04:20
Speaker 14: What do I care if it's on camera?
2:04:21
Speaker 1: Oh, it's lit out.
2:04:22
Speaker 12: Good.
2:04:23
Speaker 14: There's good lighting for them to be able to see
2:04:24
Speaker 14: my face. That way, when I walk into court, I
2:04:26
Speaker 14: get an OR bond.
2:04:27
Speaker 1: You know, that's funny because that was Joe Strecker's response
2:04:29
Speaker 1: to me when I said that, you know, if there's
2:04:31
Speaker 1: a camera there, the kids have caught on to the
2:04:33
Speaker 1: idea you just wear a mask. Which also leads to
2:04:36
Speaker 1: the next question. Okay, they got a mask on. They
2:04:38
Speaker 1: don't care. It's on video camera. Do the private property
2:04:41
Speaker 1: owners who have had to use their own personal funds
2:04:45
Speaker 1: to buy their own property, in this particular case, cameras,
2:04:48
Speaker 1: are they obligated to keep video evidence and keep it
2:04:51
Speaker 1: for some period of time? Are they obligated to hand
2:04:54
Speaker 1: it over to, oh, I don't know, law enforcement or
2:04:57
Speaker 1: public officials? Can public officials or law enforcement even force
2:05:00
Speaker 1: a private property owner to hand over their property, which
2:05:04
Speaker 1: would then include video evidence from whatever video has been
2:05:06
Speaker 1: taken into the parking lot. I don't think they can.
2:05:10
Speaker 14: No, I mean, the only way that they can be
2:05:11
Speaker 14: compelled to do it is if they have a search
2:05:13
Speaker 14: warrant from a judge.
2:05:14
Speaker 5: Yeah.
2:05:15
Speaker 14: But now we do understand that the vast majority of
2:05:18
Speaker 14: businesses in Cincinnati want to be good stewards of their property.
2:05:22
Speaker 14: They want to help the police and they will give
2:05:24
Speaker 14: them that footage. But the reality is you can have
2:05:28
Speaker 14: all the footage in the world, You know, if we're
2:05:31
Speaker 14: not holding these people accountable, none of it matters.
2:05:34
Speaker 5: It really doesn't matter.
2:05:37
Speaker 14: And then you have people that are complaining about– the
2:05:40
Speaker 14: same people that are complaining about flock cameras and these
2:05:43
Speaker 14: ALPRs are now going, no, no, no, we need more cameras.
2:05:46
Speaker 14: We need more cameras out here. So which one is it?
2:05:50
Speaker 1: Excellent point. Made that same point the other day. You know,
2:05:52
Speaker 1: flock bad, but these cameras good. Elected officials are adamant
2:05:58
Speaker 1: that local municipalities and townships and governmental entities get rid
2:06:02
Speaker 1: of flawed cameras. And then this next breath, they pass
2:06:04
Speaker 1: legislation requiring the private installation of cameras. You can't reconcile
2:06:08
Speaker 1: any of this, Ken. And ultimately, the big point here, cameras,
2:06:13
Speaker 1: no cameras. If you have the evidence and you have
2:06:15
Speaker 1: a case that you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt
2:06:17
Speaker 1: and take it in front of a woke judge who's
2:06:18
Speaker 1: not going to mete out punishment, you know where you
2:06:21
Speaker 1: end up. Criminal back out on the street with own
2:06:23
Speaker 1: recognizance bond on initial arrest, then ultimately after trial or hearing,
2:06:27
Speaker 1: back on the street with really no penalty. Juice and
2:06:30
Speaker 1: a cookie, Ken.
2:06:32
Speaker 14: That's the end result. Unfortunately, it's the cycle that we're
2:06:35
Speaker 14: seeing daily here in Hamilton County.
2:06:37
Speaker 1: Well, let's put an exclamation point on this, Ken. After
2:06:40
Speaker 1: we talk about this and come up with all the
2:06:42
Speaker 1: reasons why and wherefores, we've got a November election coming up.
2:06:45
Speaker 1: People can start voting next Tuesday. I think people should
2:06:48
Speaker 1: pay attention to the judicial races and not, well, vote
2:06:52
Speaker 1: Judge Bloom, for example, back on the bench and choose
2:06:54
Speaker 1: perhaps Magistrate Lucan over that because we know she's going
2:06:58
Speaker 1: to be tougher on crime. That's a possible solution that
2:07:01
Speaker 1: we don't have to wait for politicians to do.
2:07:03
Speaker 14: Yeah, actually, the members just voted on Monday to endorse
2:07:08
Speaker 14: Susan Lucan for juvenile court judge. You look at all
2:07:12
Speaker 14: of the judges that the 1900 Club for the FOP endorsed,
2:07:17
Speaker 14: every single one of those judges are law and order judges.
2:07:19
Speaker 5: That's why they were picked to be endorsed.
2:07:22
Speaker 1: Right, and if you hear what, I know Corey Bowman
2:07:25
Speaker 1: has said it, Christopher Smitheman said it time and time again,
2:07:27
Speaker 1: and I'm sure your personal encounters on the street and
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Police Department's encounters on the street suggest, in
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Speaker 1: spite of the shouts of defund police and get the
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Speaker 1: police out of our neighborhood, the vast majority of neighborhoods
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Speaker 1: want police and they want criminals dealt with properly in
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Speaker 1: the judicial system, and that means punishment. That's what people want.
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Speaker 1: That's what people need to vote for. Look, the GOP
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Speaker 1: or the.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm stumbling over my words this morning. The police
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Speaker 1: department endorsed these judges, so get back law enforcement. Back yourself.
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Speaker 1: Fix your neighborhood. Vote for the right judges. Sorry for
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Speaker 1: the rambling, Ken. It's just all backed up in my
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Speaker 1: brain this morning, but I think folks get the point,
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Speaker 1: and I can't thank you enough for what you do
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Speaker 1: each and every day and for joining the morning show
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Speaker 1: to react to that ridiculous proposal.
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Speaker 6: No, sure.
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Speaker 14: I appreciate you having me. It never ceases to amaze
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Speaker 14: me the things that city leaders will do that just
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Speaker 14: divert attention from what we should be focusing on, which
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Speaker 14: is making sure we hold criminals accountable because then they're
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Speaker 14: less likely to commit a crime. But no, instead we're
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Speaker 14: going to put up, we're going to force businesses, private
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Speaker 14: businesses to put up cameras and we're going to have
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Speaker 14: them put up lighting. It's just that the lunacy continues.
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Speaker 1: It does. That's why we have to get out and vote.
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Speaker 1: We'll do this again sometime real soon. Ken, best of
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Speaker 1: health and safety to you and all members of law enforcement.
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Speaker 1: God bless the police officers that protect and serve. Ken Kober,
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Speaker 1: good to have you on. 8.56 right now. Big picture
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Speaker 1: with Jack Evan, Rome from republic to dictatorship.