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55KRC Tuesday Show - Ken Kober, Dr. Jay, Tom Z, Deep Dive · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 505-55KRC, the talk station. Happy Tuesday. And that's the way. Eh,
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  Speaker 1: like it or not, I guess it is. Glad we
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: got Monday behind us. It is Tuesday and a very
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: happy one to you. Brian Thomas right here. Glad to
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  Speaker 1: be host of the 55 KRC Morning Show and as always,
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: glad to have Joe Strecker as the executive producer of
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  Speaker 1: the program lining up guests beginning today at 630. FOP
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: President Ken Cobra returns to the 55 KRC Morning Show. Look,
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  Speaker 1: gun prosecutions are up 250%. Huh, in Cincinnati. Prosecutions in
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati increased 250% last fiscal year. Targeting folks that pose
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  Speaker 1: the greatest threat to public safety, they say, folks with guns.
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  Speaker 1: But the operative word in the sentence reported by WCPO
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Noble is federal gun prosecutions. Yeah, you don't see
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  Speaker 1: the Hamilton County prosecutor doing this, do you? Let the
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  Speaker 1: feds come in and do it. You know, there are corresponding,
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  Speaker 1: there are federal gun laws and there are state gun laws.
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  Speaker 1: And if the local officials, prosecutor's office aren't bothering to
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  Speaker 1: pursue state gun laws, The feds can come in and
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  Speaker 1: do it, and that's apparently exactly what happened. I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to have Ken Coburn talking about that one. He'll
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  Speaker 1: be on the program at 6.30. Dr. J. J. Rissover
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: gives us the rundown for the Empower You seminars for
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  Speaker 1: the week. Tick-tock, tick-tock, running out of Empower You seminars.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got one tonight. We've got one on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: We've got 17th, the 19th, and the final one, the
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  Speaker 1: bourbon tasting, December 3rd, rounding out the season. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: get all the details from Dr. J. at 7.05. The
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  Speaker 1: return of, and wonder what his kind of mood he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be in. Tom Zalastowski, wethepeopleconvention.org. And Tom did
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  Speaker 1: predict there was going to be a red wave. And
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  Speaker 1: I know what predictions are like. Couldn't read the polls.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't know what was right, what was wrong, what was
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  Speaker 1: upside down, what wasn't. Anyway, the red wave didn't come.
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  Speaker 1: Question to Tom Zalastowski, now what? I know he's not
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  Speaker 1: giving up. wethepeopleconvention.org. Daniel Davis, Deep Dive. For whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: Breitbart had to cancel this morning. Normally get the inside
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  Speaker 1: scoop with Breitbart at 8.05. So we have some time
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  Speaker 1: to talk before we get to Daniel Davis. And the
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  Speaker 1: deep dive on the Iran situation. Hey, check it out.
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  Speaker 1: Iran's Supreme National Security Council demanded yesterday that Washington surrender
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  Speaker 1: to Tehran's seven demands. List of demands. Remember that, Joe?
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  Speaker 1: We thought of it first. Mighty Python fans may be smiling.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of you are going like, what in the
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  Speaker 1: hell is he talking about? He's rambling again. Anyway, Moshe Rezaei.
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  Speaker 1: This is the guy from the Iran Supreme National Security Council.
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  Speaker 1: The war on Iran has already wrecked the U.S. government,
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  Speaker 1: but Washington flails like a desperate gambler. Fold your hand.
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  Speaker 1: Stop manufacturing fake news about imaginary talks, which Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: was talking about just the other day. Talks. The Iran
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  Speaker 1: war is effectively over, he said. Stop denying the West
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  Speaker 1: Asian new order. Time to surrender to the seven conditions
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  Speaker 1: Iran has repeatedly set out. Anybody think they're going to
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  Speaker 1: give in to the conditions? Condition number one, the end
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  Speaker 1: to military and hostile actions on all fronts, particularly in Lebanon,
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  Speaker 1: indicating that Tehran views the regional conflict as interconnected rather
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  Speaker 1: than limited to its own territory. Now, this reminds me
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  Speaker 1: of the Memorandum of Understanding. Remember that one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do a ceasefire in the straight, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not going to shoot at each other. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Israel is going to quit fighting in
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  Speaker 1: Lebanon or something. And Israel wasn't even a part of
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  Speaker 1: the memorandum of understanding, which is kind of a peculiar
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  Speaker 1: thing for the Iranians to include in this, something over
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  Speaker 1: which the United States has no control. Now, we might
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  Speaker 1: influence the Israelis, but we don't have control over them.
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  Speaker 1: So how can you bring them into it? That's one
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  Speaker 1: of the.
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  Speaker 1: Difficult stumbling blocks in this, and that's just number one.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, the release of Iranian frozen funds. That would
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  Speaker 1: be billions of dollars held under international financial restrictions. An
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  Speaker 1: end to the U.S. naval blockade. The return of, quote-unquote,
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  Speaker 1: normal maritime access and trade. The end of U.S. interference
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  Speaker 1: in Iran's internal affairs. The CIA must get the hell
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  Speaker 1: out of Iran, or something to that effect. An end
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  Speaker 1: to the U.S. cooperation with groups described by Iran... as
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  Speaker 1: opponents of the Islamic Revolution. So there will be no
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  Speaker 1: more fighting the Islamic Revolution. In the United States, you're
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  Speaker 1: not allowed to play nicely with anybody who opposes the
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  Speaker 1: Islamic Revolution. I wonder how many countries that might entail.
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  Speaker 1: A halt to all U.S. attacks on Iranian territory. A
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  Speaker 1: security guarantee against further military action. And number seven, lifting
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  Speaker 1: of economic sanctions. Anybody think that we're going to agree
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  Speaker 1: to all that? And that's what their precondition is, even
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  Speaker 1: sitting down at the table and talking. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what Daniel Davis has to say about that. That's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty picture. And what do you think about the rate
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  Speaker 1: increases in your water bill? You know that sound effect
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  Speaker 1: we use when pedophiles go to prison, Joe Strecker, don't you? Now,
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  Speaker 1: what is going, yeah, that's the one. So, okay, and
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  Speaker 1: to my senior friends, I'm thinking to myself, you're already
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  Speaker 1: having a struggle with property taxes going up through the roof.
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  Speaker 1: Look at your electric bill. And, in fact, the electric
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  Speaker 1: bill is one of the reasons that Greater Cincinnati Water
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  Speaker 1: Works wants to boost your water bill by 9.5% each
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  Speaker 1: of the coming five years. So you're facing an increased
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  Speaker 1: electric bill. You got that insane property tax bill. And
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  Speaker 1: pivot over. Look at your insurance bill. I bet that's
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  Speaker 1: gone up, too. Oh, and then there's the CPS levy.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Joe Strecker, for reminding me of the self-inflicted
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  Speaker 1: wound voters put upon themselves in voting for the Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: Public School levy. Your choice. You're not going to have
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  Speaker 1: a choice in this monthly water bill increase, though. That's
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati Council's decision. Oh, and parenthetically, the sewer rate, which
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  Speaker 1: is determined by the Hamilton County Commissioners, they're considering an
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  Speaker 1: increase in your sewer rate, too. Does this sound like they,
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  Speaker 1: the great they, whoever they happen to be, politicians of
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  Speaker 1: all stripes and maybe trying to get you out of
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  Speaker 1: your property, maybe rendering private property ownership beyond the reach
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  Speaker 1: of the vast majority of people. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: just know it's a lot more expensive for seniors out
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  Speaker 1: there and others on fixed income. Anyway, the Water Utility
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  Speaker 1: presented the Sensei Budget Committee yesterday a 9.5% rate hike
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  Speaker 1: each year for five years, beginning 2027 and going all
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  Speaker 1: the way through 2031. According to the multiple reports, That
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  Speaker 1: will increase your bill by about $ 45 a year every year. Effectively,
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  Speaker 1: a 57% jump over five years. I know what my
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  Speaker 1: water bill is, and it's pretty bat crap insane expensive.
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  Speaker 1: So I am thinking to myself, wow, a 57% increase
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  Speaker 1: over what I'm already paying? Yeah, that's a lot. Fortunately,
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  Speaker 1: I married outside of my element. I cowed kick my coverage. Paulette,
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  Speaker 1: good morning. She's in Phoenix. Anyway, Greater Cincinnati Water Works
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  Speaker 1: Executive Director Andrea Yang said the rate increase is necessary
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  Speaker 1: to address, are you ready, regulatory mandates from the EPA. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you may argue that replacing lead pipes is a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Getting rid of what they call forever chemicals from drinking water,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good thing. But remember, this is just an
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  Speaker 1: illustration of how mandates can directly impact what you are
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  Speaker 1: paying for. whether it's at the gas pump or your
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  Speaker 1: water bill, or most notably your energy bill. They say
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  Speaker 1: Greater Cincinnati Water Works has already replaced 10,000 lead service lines,
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  Speaker 1: but there are 30,000 left to do, and the EPA
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  Speaker 1: is forcing them to increase the number replaced every single year.
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  Speaker 1: New PFAS regulations they're now having to deal with. These
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  Speaker 1: are the forever chemicals. They're going to have to install
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  Speaker 1: new technology and remove these chemicals at the Bolton plant,
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  Speaker 1: Reporting described it would cost up to $ 100 million to
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  Speaker 1: do that. Yang said the rate increases also needed to
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  Speaker 1: fund the ongoing replacement of aging water mains, rising electricity costs,
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  Speaker 1: and there's that word, inflation. So we're all getting saddled
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  Speaker 1: with additional bills because of these crazy things. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: wonder why the increase in electricity bill, why'd that go up?
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  Speaker 1: That's not your AI data center yet. green energy policies, perhaps.
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  Speaker 1: And I love this. The utility, Greater Cincinnati Water Works,
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  Speaker 1: noted that its proposed increase is considered affordable under metrics
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  Speaker 1: set by the U.S. EPA. Whatever. They tell you whether
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  Speaker 1: it's affordable or not? Some egghead in D.C. working for
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. EPA is like, ah, it's affordable.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Suck it up. Yang said the rate increase doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: a decrease in access to water. Okay. But if you
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  Speaker 1: think your water bill is going up, you know you're
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  Speaker 1: right before this rate increase has even been approved. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing it will be rates increased 5.5% annually between
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  Speaker 1: 2022 and 2026. So we're going to just make it
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  Speaker 1: go up a little bit more every single year. Let's
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  Speaker 1: suck it up. Now back over to the sewer rates.
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  Speaker 1: They're approved by the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners. And
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  Speaker 1: right now a 4% increase is being considered for 2027. 4%
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  Speaker 1: increase to the minimum base charge and commodity charge for
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  Speaker 1: all customers. So two public hearings for that. the 17th
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  Speaker 1: at 1015 a.m. and the 1st at 1015 a.m. Hearings
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  Speaker 1: will be held at the Todd B. Portune Center for
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  Speaker 1: County Government, 183 East Court Street, room 605. Joe observes
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  Speaker 1: that no one is working around 10 o'clock in the
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  Speaker 1: morning on a Tuesday. Oh, hell yeah. Hey, boss, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go over and protest my rate increase. Right.
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• 11:09
  Speaker 1: talk with Representative Adam Bird here from the state of Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: talking about losing the supermajority in Columbus but still maintaining
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  Speaker 1: majority in what might happen between now and January when
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  Speaker 1: Steve Bell. So about Veterans Day. Veterans Day tomorrow. Let's
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  Speaker 1: salute the American veteran all day long, all week long.
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  Speaker 1: There are events going on all over the tri-state. So
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  Speaker 1: As Steve pointed out, Very humble folks. May not, you know,
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  Speaker 1: react with this, you know, true fondness and appreciation and
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  Speaker 1: beaming smile, but trust me that they truly appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Just not easily. They don't accept praise very well. It's
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  Speaker 1: a humble, good thing for American veterans. Anyway, that's 55KRC. iHeart. com.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we can complain all day long about Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Democrats hiding him. And yes, he obviously
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  Speaker 1: had some cognitive problems. They hid him in the basement.
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  Speaker 1: They wouldn't let him campaign. Anytime he did come out,
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  Speaker 1: obviously he embarrassed himself. But less so than Mitch McConnell.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what really irks me because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Republicans screamed bloody murder for so long about Joe Biden's
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  Speaker 1: cognitive ability and the Democrats covering it up. What about
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  Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell? Remember, he disappeared for three months between June
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  Speaker 1: and September after he was found unconscious at his home.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: There were a lot of rumors going around. Where's Mitch?
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  Speaker 1: You know, is he dead? They had to offer a
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: proof of life photograph. They claimed he was just recovering
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: from a fall and minor injuries. Came back a month
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: later after being wheeled out of his house by staffers,
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  Speaker 1: got to the Senate, had to be told how to
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: vote on a farm bill, passed along party lines. His
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: colleagues apparently had to remind him where he was and
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  Speaker 1: helped him... helped him cast the vote. Well, yesterday, my
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  Speaker 1: mouth fell up when I saw this video of Mitch
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  Speaker 1: McConnell just staring off into the distance. And you know what?
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  Speaker 1: It's just reminded me of my late father toward the
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  Speaker 1: end of his Alzheimer's dementia-related death. He was asked a
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  Speaker 1: question by someone over at Newsmax. Can I get your
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: quick reaction to the midterms? He didn't answer. He just
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: kind of He stared off at the camera without reaction,
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: and he looked so frail. And, you know, all the
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: health in the world, man, I wouldn't wish this on anyone.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't wish this kind of cognitive impairment on my
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  Speaker 1: worst enemy. I'm sure his family's brokenhearted over the reality,
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: but you know what? There are standards to be kept,
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  Speaker 1: and this is renewing calls for term limits for age reasons.
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily... I'm not of the mind necessarily that
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  Speaker 1: at a certain age you're no longer able to perform
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  Speaker 1: your job. But in this particular case, doesn't the Republican
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  Speaker 1: Party owe it to themselves to stop this kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing from happening, to maintain sort of an upper hand
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  Speaker 1: from an ethical standpoint? They had to wheel him away.
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  Speaker 1: Never did answer a question. Anyhow, it just bothers me
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  Speaker 1: for that. You know, Republicans, come on, man. Aren't we
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  Speaker 1: better than that? Well, we. I don't label myself as
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  Speaker 1: a Republican. You know that. But I do vote with
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  Speaker 1: the Republican side because it's a big tent that includes
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  Speaker 1: little-l libertarians. Steve, welcome to The Morning Show. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: calling in, and happy Tuesday to you.
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  Speaker 5: Happy Tuesday to you, and tomorrow's Veterans Day, but today's
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  Speaker 5: a very important day, too, for our United States military.
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  Speaker 5: I want to wish happy 251 years to the United
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  Speaker 5: States Marine Corps, my sons, the Marines, and all the
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  Speaker 5: Marines out there at present, past.
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  Speaker 4: We thank you for your service, and hurrah!
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  Speaker 1: There you go, and good for you, man, and I'm
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: sure you're so proud of your son. That's got to
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: be a heavy weight for parents. That's the other thing
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  Speaker 1: I always think about. You know, it's one thing for
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  Speaker 1: the young person to sign up and head on out
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  Speaker 1: into the world. It's another thing for the parents left
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  Speaker 1: at home to wonder and speculate. I wonder where my
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  Speaker 1: son or daughter is right now. What are they doing
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  Speaker 1: at this moment? I know they've been deployed to a
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  Speaker 1: hotbed of military activity, and you worry about them and
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  Speaker 1: have no information about what's going on. What a weight
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  Speaker 1: to carry. Anyway, you're thanking the American veteran. Also, extend
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  Speaker 1: that thanks to the families of the American veterans. sure
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  Speaker 1: which is in a worse position. When you're a young person,
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  Speaker 1: it's all happening to you at the same time. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you experience less of that concern and worry. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a reciprocal level of worry going from the field of
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  Speaker 1: combat back home to the suburbs. Yeah, I can only
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  Speaker 1: imagine that soldier in the fields going, I really wish
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I was home where it was safe with my family.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up at 525, coming up with local stories. I
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: do have local stories to go over. I'd love to
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: hear from you, though. I actually prefer it, which I
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: always point out. So give me a call, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK,
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  Speaker 1: then we'll get to the stack of stupid.
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  Speaker 1: wherever you happen to be. And again, good morning to
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  Speaker 1: my wife in Phoenix. I don't think she's up yet, though.
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  Speaker 1: Local stories. One person found dead in the attic of
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  Speaker 1: a home that caught fire early Monday. According to the
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati Fire Department, another person helped out of the house
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  Speaker 1: in the 3300 block of Beavis Avenue. What do you think, Joe?
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: You going to go to Beavis? Is there a Butthead Avenue?
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  Speaker 1: You don't know. That's okay. Anyway, this is Evanston. Company's
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: dispatch to a fire alarm in a single-family residence happened
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  Speaker 1: at 4.40 a.m. yesterday. Firefighters reported heavy black smoke from
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  Speaker 1: the attic, upgraded the response, and 28 firefighters were on
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  Speaker 1: the scene. Fire found on the third floor quickly knocked down.
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  Speaker 1: Firefighters conducted search of all floors. One victim found dead
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  Speaker 1: in the livable attic space. As I mentioned, another resident
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  Speaker 1: was helped out of the house and being assisted by
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  Speaker 1: the Red Cross. Names and ages of the victims not
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: yet released. Damage estimate from a fire $ 100, 000 since a
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  Speaker 1: fire department investigating the cause of the fire and salute
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: to the first responders. Christopher Smith had a word or
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: two yesterday with the Smith event about the fire department
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: and former Chief Washington. Three Corners in southwest Ohio issued
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: a warning yesterday about Kratom. The unregulated drugs sold in stores. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: 14 suspected overdoses involving the drug in the past several months.
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  Speaker 1: Kratom alkaloids, Kratom substance commonly used to, they say, boost energy, mood,
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  Speaker 1: or combat opioid addiction. Stores selling Kratom exist. Hamilton County
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  Speaker 1: Coroner Laxmi Samarko said only the leaf form of the
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  Speaker 1: substance is legal in Ohio. Butler County Coroner Lisa Mannix,
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  Speaker 1: Warren County Coroner Russell Updegrove, and Samarko said that they're
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  Speaker 1: sealing a trend of decreasing overdose deaths involving drugs like fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine,
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  Speaker 1: and a combination of those drugs in the counties, but
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  Speaker 1: more from Kratom. Sell it locally in a store, I
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  Speaker 1: guess you might. 2024 Hamilton County Crime Lab found Kratom
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  Speaker 1: in three seizure cases, according to data provided by Samarko. 2025,
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  Speaker 1: Kratom not found in any seizure cases, and this year
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: it's found in 38 seizure cases. Three overdose deaths involving
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  Speaker 1: Kratom in Warren County, two in Butler County this year.
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  Speaker 1: The concentrate is sold as pills, powders, drinks, and gummies
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  Speaker 1: at convenience stores and vape shops. Corner up to Grove,
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  Speaker 1: buyer beware, don't do this. As Marco said, there are
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  Speaker 1: different lethal substances mixed into these Kratom products that aren't
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  Speaker 1: listed on the label. Don't believe on the label. If
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  Speaker 1: it isn't that powdered leaf form, be careful. Know that
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  Speaker 1: it could be lethal. Yeah. Some states have fully banned it.
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  Speaker 1: Some have regulated it. Others have no rules that are.
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  Speaker 1: In 2019, the Ohio Board of Pharmacy considered regulating the
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  Speaker 1: drug but delayed that decision in response to a large
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: number of people turning out to support continued access. In December,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Governor Wein asked the board to designate Kratom an illegal drug.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: He said the extract is an imminent public health risk.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: In May, lawmakers approved a new rule to ban synthetic kratom.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Rule does not ban kratom in its vegetative form, including
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: natural kratom leaf and ground natural kratom leaf. Well, I
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: guess they could. do something about it if they chose to.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: It's that, you know what it is, Joe? It's that
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: bodega lobby. They got Fat Bank floating in the covers
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: of politicians. E-scooter rider now dead after a crash with
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: a public works truck happened in Covington, Kentucky yesterday. According
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: to the Covington Police Department, 12.30 p.m., intersection of West
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: 19th Street and Augustine Street. Police said the public works
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: truck was turning right when the traffic signal was green.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: The scooter, ridden by a guy named William McCullough, hit
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the vehicle. McCullough, taken to UC Medical Center where he died.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Driver of the public works truck remained at the scene
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and cooperated with the investigation. Police are still investigating the crash,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: urging anyone with information to contact detectives. at 859-292-2234, or
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Crime Stoppers, 352-3040. Drop a dime, Crime Stoppers. And salute
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: to the Cincinnati Police Department looking out for seniors. And,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: you know, there are so many scams going after seniors,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: and it's so heartbreaking that miserable so-and-sos fill in the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: blank with your favorite FCC noncompliant descriptive term for people
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: who would rip off seniors, and there are a whole
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: bunch of them out there. Sensei Police Department announcing yesterday,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: protecting our seniors through relentless investigation. They posted on their account,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Sensei Police Department account, when an elderly resident of Kenwood
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: by Senior Star reported stolen checks from his apartment. Sensei
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Police detectives immediately began investigating. What started as a single
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: theft report quickly revealed a much larger and more troubling
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: scheme targeting vulnerable senior citizens. Through months of detailed financial analysis, subpoenas,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: witness interviews, surveillance, and investigative work, Detective Stewart uncovered an
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: organized fraud operation involving the theft of checks and credit
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: card information from elderly residents. You know, just reading that,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: that's just an illustration of all the work that has
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to go. And this started with one stolen check. You
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: know how much time and dedicated resources you have to
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: have to looking in and ferreting through all these financial
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: transactions and then finding them? God bless the Cincinnati Police
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Department and all members of law enforcement. Investigation identified six
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: victims ranging in age from 85 to 99, found more
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: than $ 38, 000 in financial losses. Evidence gathered during the investigation
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: led to the identification of multiple co-conspirators involved in negotiating
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: stolen checks, depositing stolen funds, making unauthorized purchases. According to
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the release, after the extensive investigation, case presented to the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: grand jury resulting in indictments against 11 individuals on 29
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: felony charges. Cincinnati Police says, you know, this is a
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: reminder that financial exploitation of older adults is a serious crime,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and at least the Cincinnati Police is committed to protecting
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: our seniors. They said they encourage families, caregivers, and community
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: members to remain vigilant, report any suspected fraud, scams, or
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: financial exploitation, working together, looking to keep the seniors safe. So, Arrested,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Robin Brown, Monet Mosley, Sean Caldwell, Talia Telich, Jalen Malone,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Arnando Miller, Sabrina Overton, Malia Green, Jordan Malone, Morgan Crutcher,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and Daryl Bullocks.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Well, in my head, Joe, I'm hearing the biggest douche
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: of the universe song being played for those folks. Anybody
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: else who would exploit seniors. Galaxy Concord Station. Stack-O-Stupid. Or
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: phone calls. Would you rather call? Take the call. 513-749-5500. 800-823-TALK.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Pound 550 on AT & T phone. Look, snakes. Snakes
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: in the Stack-O-Stupid. Let's talk about Maria Louise Del Rosario.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: A Florida woman, 37 years old, stands accused of aggravated
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: battery and criminal mischief. According to the probable cause affidavit,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: cops in Boynton Beach showed up November 1st to a
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: home in the 100 block southeast 13th, where they found
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: a 42-year-old man with a bloodied face and a swollen
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: right eye. Now, victim, the bloodied face, swollen right eye guy,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: told police that Del Rosario was agitated that his pet
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: snakes were roaming around the house. Said he tried to
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: create distance between... I know. Well, it would have been
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: better if it was singular, right, Joe? Anyway, he tried
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: to create distance, his words, between him and Del Rosario,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: but she kept coming at him and struck him in
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the eye with an object that he thought was a brick.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Victim said he tried to stay away, but she followed him.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Surveillance footage allegedly shows Del Rosario walking up to the victim,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: calling him a F-wording B-word, stomping on his phone three times.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Officers later found the $ 900 phone outside near a bush
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: snapped in half with a shattered screen. Cops litigated Del
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Rosario later in the evening, detained her for questioning after
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: being read a Miranda right. She first claimed she did
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: not see the victim that day, and then she said
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: she saw him collect her belongings but did nothing violent.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Police officers then showed her the video of her stomping
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: on the phone. She said, just put me in the car.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: And they did. Took her to the Palm Beach County
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Jail where she is in jail on an $ 8, 000 bond
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: based upon last reporting. Next court date, December 1st. More
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: snakes in the news. Phrasing. We're in Kentucky for this one.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Jessica and Jonathan Perry, they bought their first home in August.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: That became a bit of a problem. Three weeks after
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the purchase, the couple found their first snake. Phrasing. Yeah,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: it gets a lot worse. Now, Jessica Perry said, I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: was actually taking out the trash. My son and I
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: were home, walked out the door, and there was a
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: snake on the porch. Called my husband and my dad
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: to try to get somebody to come out here to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: get it. A few days later, we found another, and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a few days later, another. Then one night, about a
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: week after finding the first one, Jonathan and his friend
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: came down to the basement, found two adults and several
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: juveniles in the basement. Since then, they found at least
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: 25 snakes in the home. She said, at this point
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: in just a few months, that's an infestation. Now, they
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: did multiple home inspections before closing. Guess what? No one
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: found the snakes underneath the front porch or anyplace else.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Of course they didn't. Home inspectors, jeez Louise, I bet
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: you have your own stories about home inspectors. She said
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: they hired a contractor to come out and dig out
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the concrete. She said when they broke through the middle,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: there were dozens and dozens of snake eggs, both new
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: and ones that looked like they were several years old.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: What?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Now, oddly enough... In spite of the inspection passing, neighbors
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: were aware of this. She said one neighbor, he said
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: that I'm surprised that the previous owners didn't tell you
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: about all the snakes that were free with the purchase.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Jessica contacted the prior owner who told her the house
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: was nicknamed the snake house when he was a child.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Now that we've found out that it's a decades-old problem,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: what worries us now is that there are multiple dens
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: within the foundation of the home. In order to eradicate
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and mitigate that, you essentially have to break down the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: entire home. That's our worst fear. But they're also worried
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: about their five-year-old son. Yeah, this is a little worry.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: It's not necessarily that we'd be scared that they'd bite him.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Snakes like worms. So if they were to get in
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the upper level and get in the bed or whatever,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: they could curl up around his neck. That's what I think.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: What the hell?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: They said the snakes are not poisonous. I guess they
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: hope not. They've actually gotten more cats, cleared up some
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: brush around the creek, and they have a lot more
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: work to do. And, in fact, the work has gotten
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: so expensive that they're running into financial problems, so they
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: set up a GoFundMe account to help pay for the work. Wow.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Interviewed Kate Dale, the lead keeper of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: So the person who's sure a snake is non-venomous can
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: carefully remove it. If the snake is scared, it might
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: do a couple of things. Like it might try to
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: bite because it doesn't understand. It might try to also musk,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: which is to release the very smelly odor to protect itself,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: or shake its tail. So if you understand their behavior
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and okay with their reactions when they're frightened, you can
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: handle it and get them out by hand. Another option,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: guide the snake into a large container or lift it
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: with the end of a broom or similar object. Extermination,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: not the answer, according to the zoo person. Snakes benefit
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: nature and help control pests. Yeah. There's a little bit
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: of a cost-benefit analysis there when there are hundreds of
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: them apparently living in your home. 545.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: 55KRCD.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Talk Station. It's 5.50 on a Tuesday. FOP President Ken Cobra,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: bottom of the hour. Thank God for local U.S. federal
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: prosecutors going after gun criminals here in the greater Cincinnati area. Apparently,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Hamilton County prosecutors are not interested in doing it. At
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: least that's my understanding of it. We'll have Ken Cobra
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to dive into that at 6.30. Anyway, back over to
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: the stack of stupid. Be careful out there. Got an
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Indiana man dead. A hunting accident is what the Indiana
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: authorities are saying. Indiana Department of Natural Resources is investigating
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a death. Happened in Wabash County. According to the department,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Indiana conservation officers called to the scene 6 p.m. on Sunday.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Investigation indicated the hunter accidentally fired a crossbow into his
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: own right leg.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: Dude, what the hell?
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Taken to the hospital where he died. No identification of
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the man yet in terms of the reporting. Sounds like
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: an artery got hit.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: Terrible.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Way to go. Alvin McDowell. He was shot on October
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: 22nd while doing an errand. Head on down to his
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: local Walgreens. He's the 51-year-old father of nine.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Walked.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Said barely a block from his home to the store
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: along West Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky, spotted the suspect shoplifting.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: The suspect identified as a 13-year-old trying to steal a
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: bag of chips and a drink. Dow said, I turned around.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I saw this little bitty fellow, and he was stealing.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: And I was like, you don't need to do that.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I'll take care of that. He was offering to pay
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: for the stuff the kid was going to steal. A
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: moment later, another armed teenager approached and squeezed off a
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: round at him, hit him in the chest.
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: Dude, what the hell?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: He said he pulled that gun, and when I saw
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the gun, I tried to pull it away from my face,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: and as soon as I pushed it, he shot me
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: in the chest. Two inches from his heart. He said,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't think I was going to make it. Underwent
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: surgeries and weeks of treatment at University of Louisville Hospital.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Police the next day announced the arrest of a 15-year-old
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: in connection with the shooting. Teenager charged with assault. And McDowell,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: for his part, thankful to all the first responders who
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: stepped in in what he described his toughest time. You're
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: glad that didn't happen in Hamilton County, Joe?
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: Oh, true.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Judge Bloom would have let him out. Yeah, absolutely. Juice
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: in a cookie. Be good next time. Let's not let
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: this happen again. If it does, I'll let you go
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: with another juice in a cookie. Go to Toledo. We
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: got a grandmother in Toledo arrested after allegedly exposing a
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: baby to methamphetamine. One-year-old baby. Apparently a urine test concluded
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: that he suffered exposure to meth. According to police, they
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: found evidence of methamphetamine on the baby's pacifiers and all over, quote-unquote,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: all over common areas of the house.
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: Dude, what the hell?
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Child was supposed to be in the care of Amber Labiche.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Charging documents claim the beast admitted to using drugs and
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: being in charge of the child at the time that
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the child was exposed. Police seized a multitude, that's in quotes,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: of drug paraphernalia and illegal narcotics from the home. The
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: beast charged with corrupting another with drugs without purpose to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: cause serious physical harm, endangering children in possession of a
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: controlled substance. Judge said he supervised own recognizance bond. Hmm,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: does this sound like Hamilton County? Charlotte, North Carolina, where
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: a man's now facing multiple felony charges after allegedly leading
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: police officers on a high-speed chase. Devin Valdivia, 25, arrested
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: this past Saturday, facing 10 charges, including felony fleeing to
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: elude arrest, felony assault on new law enforcement officer, and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: driving while impaired. According to court documents, he drove into
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: oncoming traffic on a street called Langtree. reaching speeds up
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: to 130 miles an hour while fleeing police. And he
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: hit three police cars. Started Saturday night, the chase did
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: in Iredell County. Officers responded to reports of a possibly
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: impaired driver. Officer attempted to pull over Valdivia on Langtree Road.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: He fled, driving into oncoming traffic. Hit a Mooresville police
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: car before traveling south on I-77. exited Samphur Road where
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: another crash happened between a police car and his vehicle.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: He continued fleeing and drove into oncoming traffic, later returning
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: to I-77. A short time later, his vehicle was involved
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: in another clash with, yes, a third police car. Court
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: documents allege he drove 100 miles per hour in a
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: 65 on I-77 and failed to maintain latent control. Officers
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: suffered a fractured bone in his hands when he hit
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the police car during the pursuit. He eventually jumped out
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: of the vehicle flat on foot before being arrested. According
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: to the arrest records, a Valdivia has a prior conviction
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: in Lincoln County for assault on a governmental official and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: attempted fleeing to elude arrest with a motor vehicle. He's
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: a recidivist. Also a prior conviction for driving while impaired
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: in Gaston County. Okay. Theoretically. That's it, Joe. Thank you.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Stick around. We've got lots to talk about, including what
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: are the Republicans going to do between now and January.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Not in the state of Ohio. The Freedom Caucus has
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: a few things to say about that, and so does
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Ken Blackwell. Ken, chiming in on that topic. We've got
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: a little bit to talk about that. Then we'll hear
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: from Ken Kober on gun prosecutions up 250%. Radio. It's
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: 6.05 at 55KRC, the talk station. Try to make it
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: a happy Tuesday. My name is Brian Thomas, host of
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: the 55KRC Morning Show. Joe Strecker is executive producer of
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the program. The phone number here, if you care to
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: call in on something, I'd love to hear from you.
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: 513-525-5255.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: 749-5500-800-823-TALK or pound 550 on AT & T phones. The website, 55krc. iheart. com.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: So you can pull up your podcast when you can't
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: listen to Christopher Smitherman on a Monday, do the Smith event.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Of course, Veterans Day tomorrow. I was blessed to have
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Steve Belzo and the folks in the Claremont County Veterans
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Services Commission in the studio talking about Veterans Day and
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the importance of it. That podcast there, along with Money
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Monday and State Representative Adam Byrd on what our elected
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: officials here in the state of Ohio are going to
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: do with the remaining days of the supermajority. Pivoting over,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: what are the Republicans in Congress going to do with
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the remaining days of the Republican majority? Good question. Ken
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Blackwell yesterday, he had a few things to say about this,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: and fast-forwarding into his post, Republicans got five weeks to
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: get the work done before that happens, meaning the Chuck
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Schumer takeover. The rules are on the Republican side. Budget
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: reconciliation lets the Senate pass tax and spending bills with
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: a simple majority. Democrats can't filibuster it. Debate capped so
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: they can't talk it to death. With 53 seats, Republicans
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: can lose three votes and still win with J.D. Vance's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: break in a tie. But this has always been the case,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I must observe. So we've already done this twice. Congress
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and most of the laws Republicans have sent to President
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Trump came through those two bills. The third package is
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: sitting on the table waiting for someone to pick it up.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: House already passed the budget plan 216 to 214. It
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: will replace the defense money spent on the Iran war,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: send aid to American farmers, fund grants to help states
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: require voter ID and proof of citizenship. Before the election,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Senate Republicans let it stall because they could not line
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: up the votes. Swirling question marks around that. Why in
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the hell didn't they have the votes? Now they've run
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: out of excuses, says Ken. Every one of those priorities
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: will be dead on arrival in a Democratic Congress. Democrats
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: have refused to pay for the war effort. They blocked
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: the Save America Act. In the Senate, does any Republican
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: senator believe Chuck Schumer will hand them a second chance
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: next year? Rhetorical question, Ken. Hell no is the answer.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Fight over President Trump's nominees, also urgent. More than 20
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: of his judicial picks are still waiting in the Senate,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: including four for federal appeals courts. Lifetime appointments. The judge
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: confirmed this December. Interesting observation, Ken. Could still be ruling
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: on your rights in the 2050s. And of course, once
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Democrats take over the Senate, expected to confirm few, if any,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: of the president's judges. Judges have to be confirmed one
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: by one, which he observed does take up floor time
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: and full attendance. However, many executive branch nominees can move
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: in large packages. There was a rule change that was
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: pushed through last year by Republicans. Majority leader John Thune
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: says a package of dozens of Trump nominees is coming.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Earlier packages have included U.S. attorneys, U.S. marshals. The officials
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: who prosecute federal crimes and hunt down fugitive, every one
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: of those posts left vacant. It's a gift to the Democrats.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Simply put, rather the simple majority confirms every one of
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: these nominees and that majority exists only if Republican senators
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: actually show up to vote. There's a problem because it's
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: typical for senators to just pack it up and go home.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I wasn't reelected. My days are numbered. It's Christmas time.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I'm leaving. He says lame duck sessions usually fall apart
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: on attendance. At least 17 senators are leaving at the
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: end of this Congress, departing members of a long and
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: sorry record of skipping votes in final weeks. Some Republicans
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: in both chambers want to work weekends and holidays to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: clear the list. And he observes Democrats did this. They
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: wrote the playbook themselves, 2024 lame duck session. With their
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Senate majority about to end, Democrats rushed through 22 of
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Biden's judicial nominees. In 2010, they used the reconciliation to
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: force through changes in Obamacare without a single Republican vote.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: So you see it's been done before. Pivoting over, the
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus is all over this. Yesterday, members of the
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: House Freedom Caucus released what they're describing as an ambitious
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: legislative roadmap demanding that Republicans use the final weeks in
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: power to deliver on Trump's priorities. before January 3rd. The
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: clock is running down. Voter ID, sanctuary city issues, and all.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Conservative lawmakers, the Freedom Caucus, also demanding the Senate to
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: confirm as many of Trump's nominees as possible. That's one
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: of Ken Blackwell's admonishments. Dear Speaker Johnson and Majority Leader Thune,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: the letter writes, in the two months remaining in the
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: 119th Congress, we have an enormous amount of unfinished business
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: to preserve and protect Republicans' from an incoming party hell-bent
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: on radically changing it. Deny them every legislative leverage point possible.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Let's hold the line and finish the work. In no
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: particular order. Take action, too. It's like the Tehran list
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: of demands. Here you go. And each and every one
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: of these, with a Republican majority, it is doable. pass
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: a reconciliation package to deal with the debt spending and
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: tax relief subset fund defense modernization to stop democrats from
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: using it to leverage for expansion of the welfare state
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: in other words missiles boats drones space etc all the
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: needs we have for defense modernization most notably drones i
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: would say Provide significant tax relief for families, particularly for
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: health care. They suggest expanding HSAs for both savings and
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: amount in an effort to drive down the price of
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: health care for families. Codification of short-term limited duration plans.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: That's something my friend John Ruhlman has talked about before.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Why did they terminate those in the first place? Provide
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: at least $ 1 trillion in spending reductions. which they say
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: would more than pay for all those items and result
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: in deficit reduction. Well, maybe. But I like the idea
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: of cutting spending. Where have you been? Number two, codify
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: the president's border security policies and ban sanctuary cities. They
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: point out we passed H.R. 9773 and 7640 out of judiciary,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: and they're ready for action on the House floor. You
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: got time. Limit annual spending to current levels for a
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: third consecutive year via continuing resolution or appropriations without policy
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: drivers that divide us or constrain the administration's ability to
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: eliminate wasteful, fraudulent, and abusive government spending. Oppose a year-end
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: omnibus filled with poison pills. That's a strategy. And here's
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: one that's got bipartisan support, the robust permitting bill. Now,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: the Republicans are pushing it to get these oil and
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: natural gas projects and maybe even nuclear projects sped along.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Democrats are interested in doing this because they want, well,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: the environmental, the green projects speed it up. So they
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: could actually achieve this. Reform Congress by, A, passing a
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: ban on stock trading for Congress as well as the
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: executive and judicial branch, including the president and his family.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: How many times have we heard that one come up?
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, in my lifetime. Was it done over the
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: past couple of years when Republicans had the full House, Senate,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: and presidency? No, that's right, it wasn't. Was it?
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: And they also suggest passing term limits. Number six, only
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: reauthorized programs set to expire, farm bill, surface transportation, if
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: they're fiscally responsible and reduce the price of food and
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: consumer goods, like vehicles, while protecting the privacy rights of
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Americans by ending surveillance technology mandates or funding. Wow, okay.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Pass legislation requiring voter ID in federal elections. There's that
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: SAVE Act. Why didn't it go through the Senate last time?
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: And finally, confirm as many presidential nominees as possible in
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: the Senate. They concluded, some of us call for action
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: after our first reconciliation package and continue to move support
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: for the American people. Unfortunately, that agenda stalled. Who circled
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: those words and put question mark? Why did it stall?
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Wasn't Mitch McConnell all about this SAVE Act, Joe? Didn't
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: he reject the whole notion of the SAVE Act? You
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: don't think he remembers? Well, okay, just add me to
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: the list of people who don't remember, but you're probably
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: accurate on Mitch not remembering. Anyway, and now that we
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: will no longer have the majority in the next Congress,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: we respectfully request we take action in the next 60
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: days to protect the citizens we represent. Moreover, we request
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: that we, the Republicans, not leave town until we accomplish
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: these objectives. Every one of us, including those leaving Congress
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: January 3rd, should be committed to finishing the job. Signed
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: with great respect, House Freedom Caucus Board. It seems like
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: such a small ask. And Republicans are so bad about execution.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: They get the House, they get the Senate, they get
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: the presidency, and they get cold feet. How many times
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: has this happened to us before? Well, they dropped a
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: bomb on you last Tuesday, Republicans. So what do you
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: got to lose? Let's get all this done. Push it through.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: See what happens. your last effort, your last possible opportunity
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: to do it. Some are saying for years and years
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: and years. 615-55-KRC, the talk station. 20-55-KRC, the talk station.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Eric, who chimed in. Seriously, kill the filibuster
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: before the Democrats do and run the table. That is
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: certainly an option. And if you're a betting person, do
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: you think the Democrats want a first order of business
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: is to kill the filibuster in the Senate? Well, On
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: the heels of talking about the Freedom Caucus proposal to
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: get stuff done in the remaining moments of time that
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: the Republicans are in control, Bernie Sanders is at it too.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Described as presenting a lengthy wish list for the incoming Congress,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: starting with one of the most expensive proposals that they
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: have and still no solution for how to pay for it.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Quote from Bernie Sanders, as an immediate first step, Democrats
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: must lower the Medicare eligibility age from 65 down to 55,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: expand Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing, and guarantee
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: universal health care coverage for every child from birth through
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: age 19. All of this can be accomplished with 51
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: votes in the Senate through the reconciliation process. See, they're
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: going to do it. Unfortunately, he got Donald Trump with
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: a veto pen. He says health care must be considered
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: as a human right, not a privilege. So I suppose
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: it's a human right that you need health care and
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: that the rest of us out in the world are
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: supposed to pay for it.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: Huh.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: A human right to your labor and income, say the Democrats.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I just wonder, you know, if we didn't have insurance
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: and we didn't have an expectation that someone else was
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: going to pay, would we take better care of ourselves?
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I'm guilty of as many as
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: anybody else thinking, well, there's gotta be a medical solution.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Any problem that I crop up with modern medicine is
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: solved any problem at all. But if you didn't have
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: modern medicine there, would you take better care of yourself?
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Just asking out loud, wondering now the problem is first off,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: as I like to observe in terms of Medicare for all.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if they did the numbers crunching and, and, and,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: and calculated Medicare for all with a newly expanded 10-year
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: additional group of people, the 55-year-olds, an additional 10 years
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: of people eligible. So maybe the $ 40 trillion for 10
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: years cost of this Medicare for all proposal doesn't even
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: contemplate expanding it along the lines that Bernie Sanders wants
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: to expand it. So make it more. It's $ 50 trillion.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: It's $ 60 trillion. Who knows? But at least you have
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: that reliable figure on the low end of the spectrum,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: about $ 40 trillion to pay for this program with no
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: explanation from Bernie on how that can happen. Again, calculate
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: and scoop up all the income from all the billionaires
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: in the entire United States of America. On the top
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: side estimate, you'd have about $ 8 trillion, one and done,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: with no opportunity to go back to the well and
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: steal from them again. California just rejected the billionaire's tax
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: out there. They can't even get that passed out in
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: blue California.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Well, cooler heads prevailed. We can't do this. They'll leave.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: They still haven't fixed their budget problems, parenthetically. But beyond
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: the cost of Medicare for all, look what you are
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: inviting upon yourself. Wait times, rationing of care, which is
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: going on all over the world right now. United Kingdom,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: National Health Service, Entirely, quote-unquote, free. And despite all the
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: record levels of spending Britain has been engaged in, the
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: waiting list for hospital treatment rose to 7.4 million people
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: in August. The 18-week treatment target has not been met
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: in more than a decade. Huh.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: 18 weeks?
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: I'm going to call your primary care physician today. You'll
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: see him in a year and a half. Socialized medicine.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: And it's noted the weights have deadly consequences. There's a
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: reporting agency out there called Hyphen. They see almost 80,000
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: names taking off the waiting list from September of 24
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: through August of last year. One calendar year, not because
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: they were treated, but because they died before getting to
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: the treatment stage. Survival rates for the most common types
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: of cancer rank near the bottom of European countries. This,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: the United Kingdom under the NHS system. United Kingdom has
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: one of the lowest five-year survival rates for breast, cervical, colorectal,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: and lung cancers compared with, well, high-income countries like us
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: that haven't gone full-on socialism. Poor quality care, cost of
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: taxpayers a heap load of money, strange public finances, and
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: It can't be done. Bernie, someone please ask Bernie and
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: the Medicare folks or Medicare for all folks how this
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: is going to be paid for and how it's ultimately
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: going to work. Because history has demonstrated it's going to
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: be an epic failure and yet you still clamor for it.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: I want Medicare for All, say 65% of the people. Yeah,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: you may want it. Then reality comes crashing down on
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: the party. If your trees are showing signs of disease
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: or damage, I want you to call Care City Talk Station.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday to you. And welcome back to the 55
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: KRC Morning Show. Representing the Cincinnati Police Department, the President
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: of the Union, FOP President Ken Kober. Welcome back, Ken.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure having you on the 55 KRC
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Morning Show.
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Brian.
• 49:46
  Speaker 9: Thanks for having me.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: And thank God for federal prosecutors, right?
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Well, it was reported WCPO gives Stephen a novel credit
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: for it, but it's widely known that the federal prosecutors
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: locally have gotten involved in prosecuting gun possession cases. Federal prosecutors,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: they say prosecutions for gun cases in Cincinnati increased 250%
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: in the last fiscal year.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: U.S.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio, run by U.S.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Attorney Dominic Garaci, it says, well, he said the increase
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: reflects a greater focus on prosecuting gun cases, but does
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: not translate into an increase in gun violence. Violence and prosecutions, death, homicide,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: and prosecutions, two completely separate categories. So let's focus on
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: the gun cases. Why do you think the U.S. Attorney
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: General felt it necessary to start prosecuting gun cases here
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: in the greater Cincinnati area, Ken Cobert?
• 50:41
  Speaker 9: Oh, you know, it would have been probably about a
• 50:44
  Speaker 9: year and a half ago with the county prosecutor, sheriff,
• 50:47
  Speaker 9: police chief, Senator Moreno came into town. And one of
• 50:50
  Speaker 9: the things we're talking about is how do we get
• 50:52
  Speaker 9: a handle on gun violence?
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: And Dominic, look, it's simple.
• 50:56
  Speaker 10: Prosecute these cases.
• 50:58
  Speaker 9: If there are constraints that keep the county prosecutor's office
• 51:03
  Speaker 9: from doing it, then I'll step in and do it.
• 51:05
  Speaker 9: And the reality is these bad guys, they don't care
• 51:09
  Speaker 9: about doing state time, most of them. But what they
• 51:12
  Speaker 9: do fear is doing federal time. When they get federally
• 51:16
  Speaker 9: convicted and they get a 15-year sentence for simply just
• 51:19
  Speaker 9: carrying a gun that they shouldn't have, where in Hamilton
• 51:22
  Speaker 9: County you get probation– it's going to make a difference,
• 51:25
  Speaker 9: especially when they sentence them to 15 years and they
• 51:28
  Speaker 9: end up in Arizona, the other side of the country.
• 51:30
  Speaker 9: It makes it very uncomfortable, which is a great deterrent.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: That is. You know, I was not aware that we
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: shipped our federal criminals out of state there, Ken Coburn. So, yeah,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: they don't get any visits from family members.
• 51:42
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it just makes it more uncomfortable. So I love
• 51:46
  Speaker 9: what they're doing. It is certainly going to have an
• 51:49
  Speaker 9: impact on violence when they realize that the federal prosecutors
• 51:53
  Speaker 9: here in this region are not messing around. And if
• 51:56
  Speaker 9: you commit gun violence, you carry a gun and you're
• 51:58
  Speaker 9: prohibited from doing it, you're likely going to spend the
• 52:02
  Speaker 9: better part of the next decade in prison, which is
• 52:04
  Speaker 9: exactly where they should be.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Well, clearly you're hoping the word gets out. I guess
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering, have you, the police department, Cincinnati Police Department,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: noticed any change in the number of people carrying weapons
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: around out there or has word yet to get out?
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: Because according to Gracie, they've already charged 63 defendants in
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: federal crimes during this fiscal year. It was only 18 previously.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: So a lot of people getting prosecuted now.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Sure, absolutely.
• 52:28
  Speaker 9: And what they do is they're taking the worst of
• 52:30
  Speaker 9: the worst. They're taking the people that are driving violence,
• 52:34
  Speaker 9: the ones that are selling guns to people that shouldn't
• 52:37
  Speaker 9: have them, and those are the ones that they're targeting.
• 52:40
  Speaker 9: It's not necessarily the first-time offender or somebody that shouldn't
• 52:46
  Speaker 9: have a gun and they were carrying it anyway. They're
• 52:48
  Speaker 9: taking people that are really, really driving violence in this region.
• 52:52
  Speaker 9: And it is going to make a difference and know
• 52:55
  Speaker 9: whether or not there's a direct correlation between our homicide
• 52:57
  Speaker 9: rate being lower this year and that. I think time's
• 53:00
  Speaker 9: going to tell, but I hope he keeps his foot
• 53:01
  Speaker 9: on the gas because long-term it's going to make.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: A real difference. Well, of course it is because the
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: recidivists are the biggest problem. I mean, they continue doing
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: it over and over again. They never have learned a lesson,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: I guess, because we're too soft on crime on Hamilton County.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: But federal prison, big boy prison, that may have a
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: ripple effect. Now, insofar as homicides being down, because the
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: city keeps saying over and over again, well, homicides are down,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: homicides are down, and I guess statistically maybe it bears
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: it out, 25% down citywide year-to-date according to the Cincinnati officials.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: they claim, and here's the question I have to ask
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: you because it's reported, they credit the declines in homicides
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: to Act for Cincy, which is described as a strategy
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: combining police efforts with community partnerships, neighborhood investments, and other
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: public safety initiatives. Do you know whether or not that
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: statement is accurate? Because that's what was reported by WCPO.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Act for Cincy.
• 53:52
  Speaker 9: I don't really buy it. I know that organization is
• 53:55
  Speaker 9: extremely anti-police, so it kind of flies in the face
• 53:59
  Speaker 9: of rationale when you say, oh, we're working with the police,
• 54:03
  Speaker 9: because that is the exact opposite of what this organization
• 54:07
  Speaker 9: strives to do.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what, I guess I'm kind of
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: curious to know about morale after the election, considering it
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: was like the repeated cast of characters and all the
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: good judges in Hamilton County apparently voted off the bench
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: in favor of these more liberal judges. FOP President Ken Cobra.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: I want to hold you over. I want to ask
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: you about morale in the Cincinnati Police Department and maybe
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: get your reaction to what's going on with Chief Washington
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: as it relates to the current status of Police Chief Fiji.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: What is going on with her and how's that impacting
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Police Department? It's 635 right now, 55KRC, the
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: talk station. Good morning, Dr. Fred Pack. He's my deep
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: talk station. 639-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Brian Thomas with FOP President
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: Ken Kober representing the Cincinnati Police Department. God bless each
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: and every one of them doing the hardest work out
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: there day to day. Ken Kober, real quick here. We
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: know that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: of Ohio, federal big boy, they're going after people carrying guns.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: We talked about this in the last segment. Do you
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: know whether any of the Gracie prosecutions involve juveniles being
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: tried as adults? Because we all know Judge Bloom doesn't
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: even bother letting the world know that some of these
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: juveniles are packing heat. and have been picked up with
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: guns at multiple times. Any idea about that?
• 55:21
  Speaker 9: I'm not aware of any juveniles that are being prosecuted federally,
• 55:24
  Speaker 9: primarily because the laws typically prohibit that.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 55:28
  Speaker 9: And like I said, most of these, these targets that
• 55:31
  Speaker 9: they're going after are people that have lived a life
• 55:35
  Speaker 9: of violent crime.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 55:36
  Speaker 9: They're, they're not typically like the first or second time offenders.
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: And that makes sense going after the worst of the
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: worst first, and then you can move down the ladder
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: to the rest of the offenders. All right, now, I
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: know the city is crowing about the homicides rates down 25%
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: year to date. My question to you is, Ken, is
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: there any shot spotter statistics out there? Do we know
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: how many gunshots have been recorded? Are the number of
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: gunshots recorded lower this year than last year? Do you
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: know anything about that? Because it seems to me that
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of people are running around squeezing off rounds,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: maybe hitting someone, but not rendering them, you know, it's
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: not a fatal thing. a gunshot wound. They end up
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: at UC Medical Center. They're sewed back together, and they're
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: back out. So what's the story on ShotSpotter?
• 56:21
  Speaker 9: I think if you asked a typical beat officer that
• 56:24
  Speaker 9: responds to these things on a daily basis, there hasn't
• 56:27
  Speaker 9: been much change. I mean, thankfully, being down 25% is something–
• 56:33
  Speaker 9: to be thankful for, but that could just as easily
• 56:36
  Speaker 9: be up 25% if these bullets are actually hitting intended
• 56:40
  Speaker 9: targets and doing fatal damage.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, without question. I mean, it's heartbreaking to find out
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: that people are so used to hearing gunfire that they
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: don't even pay any attention to it anymore. So just
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: really heartbreaking.
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: Anyhow.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Heartbreaking also, my understanding of the morale of the Cincinnati
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Police Department. You're down a huge number of officers. I
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: understand that a lot of officers aren't even bothering to
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: go through the entire drop program, just moving on to
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: secure other employment or just quit the job altogether. And
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: we had the election last week where all of the
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: liberal judges were appointed to the bench and some really
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: good conservative judges were voted out of office. How does
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: that feel, Ken Kober, to get the Hamilton County's reaction
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: to this and know that the residents of Hamilton County
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: are going all full, well, woke in terms of the bench?
• 57:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think a lot of officers are disappointed. Like
• 57:30
  Speaker 9: you said, we had some really, really good law and
• 57:33
  Speaker 9: order judges that are no longer going to be on
• 57:35
  Speaker 9: the bench. And it's frustrating to see that voters, they're
• 57:39
  Speaker 9: just looking simply at a letter behind somebody's name and
• 57:43
  Speaker 9: not what they're actually doing to keep this county safe.
• 57:46
  Speaker 9: And the ripple effect is going to be pretty frightening
• 57:50
  Speaker 9: over the next several years to see when we continue
• 57:53
  Speaker 9: this soft on crime nonsense thing. there's going to be
• 57:56
  Speaker 9: an impact that people are certainly going to feel.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: And another thing that's impacting the morale of the police
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: department is the status of the police chief. You get
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: a general sense of the officers and where they are
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: relative to Police Chief DG, who's right now going through
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: her administrative appeal process, which they denied Fire Chief Washington,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: much to their regret on council, or rather City Manager
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: Long and after Pearl Ball. But She's getting the complete treatment,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: but are these officers ready to have Police Chief Fiji
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: back in her job if it goes that way? Where
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: are they in that?
• 58:27
  Speaker 9: I think the reality is what officers want to know
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: is who is going to be the permanent leader. Whether
• 58:33
  Speaker 9: that's Interim Chief Henney, whether.
• 58:34
  Speaker 6: Chief Fiji comes back through.
• 58:36
  Speaker 9: This court process, I think this is the longest and
• 58:40
  Speaker 9: the longest. I'm in my 27th year. This is the
• 58:43
  Speaker 9: longest I've ever seen an interim chief be in place. Now,
• 58:48
  Speaker 9: I understand why, because at the end of the month,
• 58:51
  Speaker 9: Chief DG is going to have her day in court.
• 58:53
  Speaker 9: And if that goes the way that she expects it to,
• 58:57
  Speaker 9: I mean, there's a real possibility that she could be back.
• 59:01
  Speaker 9: So making a permanent chief in that position, what would
• 59:05
  Speaker 9: they do with Interim Chief Henney? So I certainly understand
• 59:08
  Speaker 9: the predicament of the city, but there needs to be
• 59:11
  Speaker 9: some finality for the police department to move forward.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: And that finality is needed. So the chief is more
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: than a figurehead for the police department's morale. I mean,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: you need stability in the chief's office. Is that really
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: how that translates, Ken?
• 59:24
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
• 59:25
  Speaker 9: I mean, There's some decisions that interim chiefs are absolutely
• 59:29
  Speaker 9: hesitant to make because they don't know if they're going
• 59:32
  Speaker 9: to be in that role permanently or not. You know,
• 59:35
  Speaker 9: things that could affect day-to-day operations. And I can certainly
• 59:39
  Speaker 9: understand why they shy away from that, but it certainly
• 59:43
  Speaker 9: comes at a price. And unfortunately, the rank and file seem.
• 59:45
  Speaker 10: To be paying that every day.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: No question about it. Well, You and my listening audience
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: and I have your back and all the police department's back.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you in spite of how the elected officials
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: feel about law enforcement. Well, if there's any glimmer of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: hope or maybe schadenfreude in all this, it looks like
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: City Manager Cheryl Long might have a real problem on
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: her hands as it relates to her treatment of Fire
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Chief Washington.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, there's no doubt. I mean, his guy
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 9: spent his life's work protecting the city, being a firefighter,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 9: and to be treated that way. I think the courts
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 9: have recognized that it was absolutely wrong, and there's certainly
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 9: going to be a heavy price to pay for the city.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 9: And I hope Chief Washington gets everything that he deserves
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 9: because he's a good man.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: He is a good man. By all accounts, everybody seems
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: to be on his side on this. Ken Kober, God
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: bless you and all law enforcement officers. I appreciate you
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: coming on the program. You know you're always welcome here.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Anytime you want to talk about issues impacting the police
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: department or the city, generally speaking.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: I appreciate you having me.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 9: The support really does make a difference.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 10: We're grateful for it.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: I sure hope so because it comes from the heart,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: my friend. It truly does. Hang in there and be safe,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: my friend. We'll talk again real soon. 646 and 55KRC,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: the talk station. Don't look back. 7.06 at 55KRC Talk Station.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas here, wishing everyone a very happy Tuesday. And
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: welcome you back to the 55KRC Morning Show. Dr. Jay Rissover,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: who is a co-managing board member of Empower You America,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: which is online at empoweryouamerica.org. Of course, Dan Reginald started
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: the whole thing years and years ago. And in fact,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: he's going to be helping out with the class tonight.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Dr.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: Jay.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure to have you on the program.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: My pleasure to be here.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 6: And, uh, just, uh, it's only been a week since
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 6: we've spoken, but somehow it feels like a lifetime already.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: It sure does. Oh my Lord. Yeah. Well, we were
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: hoping last Tuesday would turn out differently and I'm really
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: looking forward to him and Tom Zawistowski on the bottom
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: of the hour to see his, uh, red wave prediction
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: didn't come true. And several of my listeners are saying, well,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: the election was stolen. There's no way this could have happened.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: I'm anxiously anticipating which direction Tom's going to go. But
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: in the meantime, tonight's seminar, the empower you america.org seminar.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: And I, Attend virtually. It's easy to do. I think
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: this is going to be a terrific class, and I'm
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: really hoping my listening audience logs in for this one.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: It's Inside Doge. This is mind-boggling. It is.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 6: This is a wonderful, wonderful class. You know, it's amazing
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 6: when we set up the schedule. I have no idea
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: how important these topics are going to be at this
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 6: point in time. Tuesday and Thursday, it's amazing how relevant
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 6: they are. But first, Tyler Hassan, our 33-year-old who was
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 6: fired in January of 2025 for the Department of Government
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 6: Efficiency in order to cut 15% of the federal budget. Now,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 6: those were heady times back in 2025 with Vivek Ramaswamy
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 6: and Elon Musk running this. And, of course, they ran
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 6: into some political headwinds, but they still cut millions and
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 6: millions of dollars. And this guy, Tyler, 33 years old,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 6: he was given a spreadsheet with 10,000 different companies on it,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 6: and he had to figure out which ones were actually–
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 6: doing something for the government that was worthwhile. 10,000 different
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: companies on a spreadsheet. He's going to give us the
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 6: inside story. And this is going to be a really
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 6: unusual virtual class. You all have to attend first. Dan
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 6: Reganold is going to be hosting it himself virtually. So
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 6: it'll be nice to hear from Dan again. And he
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 6: is really passionate on this topic. Another thing that we're
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 6: going to do, this is virtual tonight, so remember you
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 6: have to go to empoweryouamerica.org, preferably register in advance. Do
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: it now while you're thinking about it. You can sign in.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 6: You can just join while it's in progress, but it's
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 6: easier to register and get the link and just go.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: It's much easier that way.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 11: But one thing we don't normally do, we're going to be.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 6: Giving away 10 free copies of his book. Inside Doge,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 6: What Really Happened by Tyler Hasson. During the course of
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 6: this lecture, 10 copies. So everybody go listen. You'll get
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: a free book, and you'll be able to hear what
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 6: really happened.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Well, and why there was so much headwind or pushback
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: from the efforts. I mean, every time they made an
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: announcement about different funding that we, the American taxpayers, were
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: behind and the just craziness of Doge and the lack
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: of oversight. Did your taxpayer dollar really deliver on what
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: the money went out into the world to do? And
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: there's no oversight or follow-up, so the answer is we
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: don't know. But then we also find out it's going
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: out into the world to fund all these crazy concepts
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: and organizations like, following transvestite prostitutes in China or something,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: or shrimp on treadmill. And the Democrats were just apoplectic.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: You can't pull the plug on this. You can't pull
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: the plug on this. I'm surprised that this whole concept
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: didn't get much more traction and much more support from
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: the American people, generally speaking. Dr. Jay, sorry to go
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: off on a tear like that, but this was an
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: important step that we were taking to shore up all
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: this fraud, waste, and abuse, and it still keeps getting uncovered.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 4: I agree with you.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: I don't understand how they're able to make this look
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: like something bad. I mean, this is obviously something everyone
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 6: is for. Al Gore set up a government efficiency organization
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 6: to do this very thing, but I guess it was
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 6: just too successful. We all know now that USAID was
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 6: kind of funding liberal causes throughout the country and throughout
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 6: the globe, and perhaps that's why.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: Let me give you one example.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 6: Tyler Hassan's firsthand experience includes late-night meetings in the West
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 6: Wing to high-stakes confrontations with senators. So while he was there,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 6: there was that California water crisis with palisades and no
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 6: reservoir and stuff. Oh, yeah. That set off a media
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 6: firestorm and an $ 830 million contract request for customer service surveys.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 10: $ 830 million for customer service surveys.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: You know what? I'm of the mind that Joe Strachan
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: and I could sit down and offer to do that
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: for maybe $ 415 million and still get the job accomplished.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, what a deal. I'll do it for $ 20.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 11: I need Joe, too.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 6: So, Joe, I've got to hire you for $ 10 million.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: Is that okay? He just underbid you. It's a race
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: to the bottom, proving that if you're not connected with government,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: you might have to compete with price, and you might
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: be able to deliver for a lot less money. But
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: since these are all folks that are connected with politicians,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: they get anything they want with a handout. All right,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: that's tonight. Doge, and it's important.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 6: 10 o'clock tonight.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: And if you can't listen tonight live, just go back
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: to empoweryouamerica.org, and there'll be a link to a podcast
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: version of it. You can watch it later in your week.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Let's fast forward to Thursday. This is an in-person one
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: or log in from home. Our Incredible Universe.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 6: I have given this one short shrift previously, and I
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 6: want to apologize to all of you who have been
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 6: listening to me on this show. We did this like
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 6: months ago, and I was entranced with it then, and
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 6: I just kind of lost track of what.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: It was about.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 6: Let me just– Tom Hagedorn is one of.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: Our great speakers. He's on the board.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 6: He comes up with these fascinating topics. So, until 90
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 6: years ago, most scientists believed that the universe had always existed. Then,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 6: Edwin Hubble discovered the astonishing fact that stars he observed
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 6: had all moved away from one central location or starting point,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 6: seeming to indicate that the universe had a beginning. Now,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 6: we all kind of.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 4: Know about this, right?
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 6: The Big Bang, we've heard about this, we've internalized it.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 6: And then Father George Lemaitre, a Belgian priest, worked out
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 6: the complex math that supported these observations. But no one believed...
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 6: Hubble's observations until the math came behind it. But here's
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 6: the interesting thing. The speed at which the universe was
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 6: expanding had to be with extremely small limits. At virtually
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 6: any speed, slightly faster or slightly slower, the.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 11: Universe needed to be a huge area of formless.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 6: Gas and tiny particles. It wouldn't have coalesced into atoms
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 6: and planets and us. gravity would have caused it all
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 6: to fall back on itself into a very hot, dense
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 6: spot like a black hole and then cease to exist.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 6: It would have just been a little slower. So there's
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 6: this one tiny little bit of area that made it
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 6: work to burn into the universe that we have. Now
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 6: that's just one little fact of amazing significance that's hard
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 6: to believe this happened naturally. He's going to have 29
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 6: other relationships, 30 in all, that were discovered to be
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 6: within similarly small tolerances if the universe and advanced life,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 6: including us, were to exist. This class is not just
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 6: about science and astronomy and discoveries, but it's about that
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 6: interaction of faith, perhaps. and science. Those of you who
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 6: are looking for a scientific reason for creation, come on
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 6: to this class.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 11: It'll be fascinating.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 6: It'll open your eyes.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 4: It'll be awe-inspiring.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 6: Tom Hagedorn, Thursday night at 7 o'clock, Empower You at
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 6: Scarlet Oaks. Please come and attend. Please attend online. It
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 6: should be just fascinating.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure. And I am certain that part of
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: the materials will sort of reveal, reflect, or confirm how unbelievably,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: almost inconceivably huge the universe is amid all of these
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: new reports of, you know, extraterrestrials flying around the Earth. And,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: you know, where did they come from considering the physics
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: that we are aware of Just don't allow that kind
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: of distance to be traveled. Even the nearest planet is
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: multiple light years away, and, you know, you and I
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: couldn't manage that challenge. So what in the hell is
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: going on out there? Perfect timing on that one. Dr. J.,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: don't go away because we've got a few more to
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: talk about. EmpowerUAmerica.com. Talk station. 719-55-KRC-D. Talk station. Happy Tuesday.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas with Dr. J.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 10: Rissa.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: We're talking about the Empower You seminar series coming up.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: You've got that Doge seminar tonight. You've got the Incredible
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: Universe on Thursday. Hey, real quick, I just have to
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: say it out loud because I saw this photograph. Dr. J,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: you remember Ed Fink, the financial planner? He is an
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: amazing photographer. You've seen some of the photographs he puts
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: on his Facebook page. Amazing. Yesterday, from the prior night,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: he did a time-lapse photography of what is called the
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: fireworks galaxy. It was 325 successive 15-second exposures, which allowed
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: him to see this distant galaxy. which is 11 million
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: light years away and 40,000 light years across. The one
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: galaxy is 40,000 light years across, and it's one of
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: millions of galaxies out there. The universe is really, really,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: really huge. Things like that just absolutely blow me away.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: All right, pivoting over. George Martin, the fifth Beatle.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 6: Actually, before we talk about him, I want to talk
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 6: about our second speaker on Thursday.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 6: He's actually very important to us. So that, of course,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 6: is this Thursday, November 12th. And he will actually be
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 6: the warm-up for Tom Hagedorn in our incredible universe. We're
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 6: going to have Mike Odioso speak, who thankfully is still
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 6: representing us in the Statehouse of Ohio in the 30th District.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you to the voters.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 6: Yes, thank you very much to the voters. But let
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 6: me just read you what we wrote in the summer.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 6: This is our Ohio State Legislature update. With a new
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 6: governor taking office in January, what is on the agenda
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 6: for the state legislature for the remainder of 2026? And
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 6: what's ahead in 2027? You got a little time. This
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 6: class seems very important, does it not?
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: It certainly does. I've been talking about that. I had
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: yesterday Representative Adam Byrd on the program to talk about
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: how the Republicans in Columbus are going to use up
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: the remaining time of their supermajority. and this is going
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: to be great having Mike on there talking about that
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: as well. Agenda items galore.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so hopefully they'll be able to accelerate some of
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 6: the projects they've been working on because they're going to
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 6: need to. So hopefully we'll get a really good update
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 6: on maybe some positive things that are going to happen
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 6: in the next few weeks, next month or so.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 11: So please tune in.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 6: That's at 7 o'clock on Thursday for Mike Odioso, who
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 6: will tell us what the Ohio General Assembly will continue
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 6: addressing next, state budget, education, healthcare, workforce development, economic growth,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 6: public safety, and some specific bills in each of those topics.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 4: Great.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 6: So definitely join in. And then, of course, after him
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 6: will be Tom Hagedorn. Okay, so now moving on to
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 6: why George Martin is called the fifth Beatle. And indeed,
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  Speaker 6: this should be a really great class. Michael Mercier is a.
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  Speaker 11: Big, big Beatles fan and a big music fan.
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  Speaker 6: And his nickname in college was Mick because of his
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 6: spot-on Mick Jagger imitation. We'd have to ask him to
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  Speaker 6: do that during the class.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. It is a... Let's see.
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  Speaker 11: It is a.
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  Speaker 4: Is this virtual?
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  Speaker 11: No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Register virtually.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm staring at it right there. 7 p.m. on the 17th.
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  Speaker 7: That's a shame.
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  Speaker 6: It would be hard to ask him the question. Somebody
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  Speaker 6: has to call in, and maybe I will.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 11: This is going to be.
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  Speaker 6: About George Martin, who actually deserved to be called the
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  Speaker 6: fifth Beatle. Probably merely the Beatles producer understates what he did.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 6: He walked through the Beatles' most innovative songs, discussed the
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 6: contributions George Martin made to each. He used his own
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 6: self-invented recording techniques, plus suggesting the novel approaches the Beatles adopted.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 6: He wrote original parts for a variety of instruments. The
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 6: classical musicians' performances.
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  Speaker 4: Were all arranged by him.
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  Speaker 6: And so some of their most celebrated innovations had something
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  Speaker 6: to do with Martin's imagination and expertise. If you like music,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 6: if you like the Beatles, you would love this class.
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  Speaker 6: That will be absolutely amazing. November 17th, virtually empower you
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 6: seven o'clock. Remember empower you. America.org is the website to
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  Speaker 6: Scarlet Oaks is our campus. We're in the 300 building on.
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  Speaker 6: And, uh, Our classes on Thursday started 7, and then
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 6: the second class will start about 7.30. And on November 19th,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 6: we're going to have Remembering 9-11, a firsthand account from
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 6: the Pentagon. An amazing, amazing class. I've heard Captain Steven
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 6: Johnson speak. He was right in the Pentagon. He was
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 6: right there in Ring D. There are five rings to
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 6: the Pentagon that day. And that plane went in through A, B,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 6: and C rings and almost hit his ring in Ring D.
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  Speaker 11: And he's going.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 6: To tell us about the Pentagon, about it getting built,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 6: about it being there that day, with pictures of beforehand
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 6: and afterhand. There was a daycare in the Pentagon. All
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 6: those kids got out okay, thank goodness. They were not
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 6: in the area of damage. Images of them walking away
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 6: from the Pentagon over the fields because there was no transportation.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 6: Everybody had to walk to.
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  Speaker 4: Get out of there.
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  Speaker 6: Amazing day. And then before that, Mission Ready, Testosterone and
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 6: Men's Health in the Military. We're going to be talking
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 6: about testosterone replacement in the military, which is a brand
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 6: new policy of Pete Hegseth, who sadly seems to be
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 6: under so much fire these days. Just one of the many,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 6: many innovations he has done. He has really turned our
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 6: military into a lean, mean fighting machine. And they're now
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 6: testing testosterone in the military. Why the heck are they
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 6: doing that? Why are they considering that important? Dr. Michael
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 6: Addy is a local practitioner. He's with your health wellness center.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 6: And he, he is a expert in this has been
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 6: working with Dr. Bill Lovett for years now. And he's
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 6: going to talk about, Oh, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: No, just saying benefits and risks, pluses and minuses of
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: testosterone placement therapy. That'd be good. A good help out there. And,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: Since we're out of time, Dr. J, the last one
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• 1:16:25
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• 1:16:28
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• 1:16:34
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• 1:16:37
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  Speaker 4: He is in clubs.
• 1:16:40
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• 1:16:42
  Speaker 6: with friends and tastes bourbon and has gone to distilleries.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 6: He is going to bring us a wealth of information
• 1:16:48
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• 1:17:17
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• 1:17:21
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• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: even though the election is over and the Republicans, well,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: had a bit of a bloodbath last Tuesday. Tom Zawistowski
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: is still there fighting the good fight. WeThePeopleConvention.org. Tom Z.,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: last week you were predicting a red wave. Didn't happen.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: I know it sucks. I know you feel bad. I
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: feel bad. But what is next? Welcome back, Tom Zawistowski.
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  Speaker 2: Good to be with you, Brian. And boy, I certainly
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: didn't expect what happened. And quite frankly, I can't really
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: explain it or understand it at this point. Last week,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: I said that I felt if we turned out, we
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: would win. And here's the thing that doesn't make sense
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: to me. We did turn out. The turnout in Ohio
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: was 57.3%, which was one of the highest midterm turnouts
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: in the last 20 years. But apparently, I said our
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: people would turn out and vote to elect the Republicans
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: and protect President Trump. But if you believe the election results,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: our people turned out and voted against us in massive numbers.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: And I'm just having a hard time getting my head
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: around that because there's just too many things that just
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: don't add up for me. So I don't know how
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: you're looking at it, but I'm very concerned. about election integrity.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Doesn't it seem odd to you? I
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: have an article on our website by Wayne Allen Root,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: and he took a really bright approach to this. He said,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: let me ask a What if after Tuesday's election, you
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: woke up and found that every county in Oregon went red?
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: What if you woke up and you found that California
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: elected Steve Hilton and all the Republican congressmen in California
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: were elected red? Do you think the media would be
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: asking some questions? You think the Democrats would be screaming
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: that Trump rigged the election? But we lose Texas. not
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: just one race in Texas, not just Telerico, we lose
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: supposedly the reddest of red states completely, and no one's
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: questioning the results.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: That doesn't make sense to me. He's questioning the results,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: and I guess one has to ask themselves a question, okay, how,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: if this is not accurate, if the election was in
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: fact stolen, which he suggests it is, How are they
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: able to pull it off? By what mechanism? And I
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: think his suggestion was that it was the illegal immigrant
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: voting that did it. How could so many illegal immigrants
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: accomplish voting in this election? I struggle with that particular challenge.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: It seems overwhelming, the blue victory. It seems very suspicious.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: But then again, okay, starting from that point, how is
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: it accomplished? And I haven't arrived at any conclusion on
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: how that could happen considering states run their own elections.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: Well, that's why, I mean, there's a whole sequence of
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: events here that are very disturbing. When Harmeet Dhillon resigns
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: from the DOJ the day after the election, I almost cried.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, she's a superstar. She's our person. She's the
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: person that had 1,000 observers, attorneys, at election places on
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: election day. Now, it'd be one thing, Brian— If Harvey
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: Dillon steps down the day after the election and says,
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: you know, we had a thousand people there. We watched
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: everything from what we can tell. Everything was on the
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: up and up. And I'm resigning because, you know, my
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: job is done and we got it done. But she
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: didn't say that, Brian. She just said, I'm resigning. And
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, what did they observe if they had
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: a thousand election observers? And then your point is critical.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: How did they do it? There's a guy that I
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: posted a video on who did a really good short
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: video saying, okay, if I suddenly materialized, and this is
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: the magic number that we saw in 2020, 20 million
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: new voters, I would be bragging about that. And they
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: did after 2020, remember? They had that big newspaper article
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: about how we rigged the election, how we did all
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: this stuff. Well, how come they're not bragging about 20
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: million new voters? And if they're illegals, how do their
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: votes count? So there's more questions than answers. I've got
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: a few answers, which we can talk about, about like Ohio,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: but I got a few answers. But I'm totally confused
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: at this point.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you share my confusion because I am
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: as well. I'm not the kind of person that runs
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: out and immediately cries foul and says the election was
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: stolen without some evidence to back it up. Right now,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: that critical element is missing in my world, and I'm
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: willing to approach this. You'd get a nice tease there
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: to talk about Ohio. More with wethepeopleconvention.org's Tom Zaw. KRC,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: the talk station.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 6: 740.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: 55 KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas with Tom Zawistowski
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: from wethepeopleconvention.org. Sifting through the ashes of the train wreck
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: that was last week's election. Tom Z, obviously national trend,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: blue all over the place. Yes, huge, huge red flags
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: of suspicion when you see a state like Texas go wild.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: pretty much all damn blue. I'm with you on that one,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: scratching my head over it. So pivoting over to Ohio,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: and I know your podcast was up taking a look
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: at all this. And one of the reasons, Tom, before
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: we pivot to just Ohio, I kind of perceived Donald
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: Trump's win in 24. It was a loose-knit coalition of
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: not exactly diehard Republicans. He was able to shift over
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: quite a few black voters, Latina voters, Um, and you know,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of union votes that normally typically go to Democrats.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: So that wasn't a solidified coalition though. And I think
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, and you can count me among
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: them a little disappointed at some of the broken promises
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: of Donald Trump going into office. I mean, he made
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: promises he never could keep, like I will lower, you know,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: affordability or deal with affordability day one.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: Okay. But the war really complicated matters because he promised
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: no more forever wars, thought we were going to get
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: out of this one quickly. It didn't happen that way.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, the problems are well known to my listening audience,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: but maybe alienating that loose coalition that was only partially
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: with him in the first place. Tom, that one of
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: the answers?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you and I have questions about the validity
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: of the vote because it's so out of range. It's
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: just so overwhelming. Those things that you just mentioned are
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: absolutely true. I mean, we are all frustrated about the
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: Republicans that do nothing. And if your listeners want to
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: go to wethepeopleconvention.org and watch my post-election analysis, you will
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: see me talk about how the 17-year experiment of the grassroots,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: the Tea Party, supporting Republicans, electing Republicans, like in Ohio,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: giving them everything, supermajority everything, expecting that they would do
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: the things they said they would do. They didn't. And
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: they got whacked for that. You and I heard people
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: about the data centers, property taxes, the SAVE Act, all
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: that stuff. So despite our concerns about the election, whether
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: it was real or not, The other side of the
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: coin is Republicans deserve what they got. And I'll give
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: you a perfect example. I'm driving with my wife home
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: from Cleveland on Wednesday, and I'm listening to Ron DeSantis
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: being interviewed by Laura Ingram. And she's saying, how did
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: Florida avoid the blue tsunami? What did you do? And
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: he named a couple of things like, you know, that
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: they told candidates that, you know, the Hispanic vote was
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: going to be weak because of the Trump actions to
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: deport people and things. But then he said, but the
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: biggest thing we did is we put a property tax
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: issue on the ballot. And that really brought our people out.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: I can show you the text messages that Tom Zawistowski
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: shared with Vivek Ramaswamy and Rob McCauley in April of
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: this year, begging them, saying you must put the property
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: tax reform amendment that I had worked with them on
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: for months on the ballot in November or our people
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: won't show up. And they have nothing to vote for.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: And they considered it. And they said, well, you know,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: we'll do that when I'm governor. I said, Vivek, you're
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: not going to be governor if you don't do that.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: And they didn't do it. So these are the kind
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: of errors that do nothing Republicans, you know, got bit by.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: But there's a perfect example. If we put the property
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: tax reform bill that I had worked with Vivek on,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: on the ballot, we win going away. They didn't do it.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: You can't fix stupid, Brian. So I tried.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: We always set ourselves up for a letdown, Tom. How
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: is it that Democrats are so damn good at getting
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: stuff done immediately? They get a win. They hit the
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: ground running. It's just damn the torpedoes for them. Republicans
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: do it. It's like deer in the headlights. Oh, my God.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: You know, we've got a winning coalition here, and yet
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: I'm a little reluctant to move forward with everything we
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: promised on the campaign trail. What gives?
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I can't get out of my mind Jim Jordan's book.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: His title is Do What You Say You Would Do.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: And Jim Jordan's got a book out of that. And
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: that's the opposite of what the Republican Party does. They
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: never do what they say they're going to do. And
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: so they deserve to lose. But I still say, well,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: where do we go from here? So let me give
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: you an example. they come out and say, okay, how
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: did they suddenly materialize 20 million voters? Now, remember, they
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: did that in 2020. Remember, Joe Biden mysteriously got the
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: most votes in a presidential election in history, way more
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: than Barack Obama, 20 million more than Hillary Clinton. But
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: then Kamala Harris doesn't get those votes. But then in
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: an off-year election, 20 million votes come out. I don't
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: get that. How is that possible? So Van Jones was
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: on yesterday saying, oh, we mobilized thousands of young people.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: We paid them to go on social media and talk
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: about how unaffordable life is. And that's how we did it.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: What the heck are you talking about? That's how you
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: did it? So my question is, so we are now
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 2: have elections where you pay people to to go and
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: lie yeah and that's how you win elections there's no
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: debate about hey it's unaffordable here's how the democrats are
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: gonna fix it oh no no no no we're not
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: gonna talk about that we're gonna say vote them out
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: because gas prices are high and the economy sucks except
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: oh yeah by the way brian the economy doesn't suck
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: it's actually really good.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: It really is but you see that drumbeat here from
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: our modern day domestic leftist coupled with the drumbeat, the
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: similar drumbeat from our foes in Iran, as well as
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: North Korea and the Russians and the Chinese Communist Party
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: all had a vested interest in keeping the Republicans out
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: of office. So you can join in all of the
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: drumbeat life sucks in America. from basically the four corners
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: of the world. And I think that constant drumbeat is
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: taking hold with the psychology of the American people. You're right.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: The numbers on paper look pretty damn good. It's just
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: the constant drumbeat of propaganda can't be overcome, and maybe
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons that the Republicans did so poorly.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the election machines in
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: the next segment, Tom Z, because a lot of my
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: listeners are saying, but what about, but what about? We'll
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: see if you have some thoughts or comments on that.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: Don't go away. One more with the talk station. 751
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  Speaker 1: 55 care cd talk station happy tuesday we'll have time
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: to talk after the top of the hour news wide
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: open until we get to 8 30 the daniel davis
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: deep dive in the meantime tom zawistowski with a comment
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: on maybe the voting machines i know there's swirling concerns
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: out there that again the chinese parts and voting machines
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  Speaker 1: or some kind of software corruption um miscounted the vote
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: we all know the person who counts the votes controls
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: the outcome of the election tom or do you think
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: there's any validity to this because this has been going
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  Speaker 1: on since uh Trump lost the 2020 election.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, I hear those same comments, you know,
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: my network of people statewide nationally are asking those questions.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: So here's where I'm at. Mark Wayne Mullen, the head
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: of DHS said before the election that there are foreign components,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: you know, in these election machines and that they are
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: a security risk. But Okay, what were you doing about it?
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: We have the resources federally to watch the internet traffic. Heck,
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: they're spying on you and I constantly all the time.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: So don't tell me they can't track this. So here's
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: where our problem is on the grassroots level for your listeners,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: for citizens who've been trying to save our country for
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: the last 17 years. We got a real problem. We
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: elected and put in place the best people we got.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: Harmeet Dhillon, Kash Patel, you know, you name it. Donald Trump,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: we've got our team there. They didn't stop it. Not
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: only did they not stop it, I'm waiting for them
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: to explain it. So where do we go from here, Brian?
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  Speaker 2: Because if you can just suddenly materialize 20 million votes
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: anytime you want, and again, you talked about foreign countries
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: and things like that. the gas prices were just truly manipulated.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: Wasn't a surprise. On election day, the prices up here
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: in northeast Ohio for gas just dropped to the floor.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: It's down like almost a dollar a gallon. But they
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: didn't drop before the election because, oh, oh, oh, well,
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: the refineries needed maintenance, don't you know? And so that's
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: election interference. Think about it. The whole Democratic campaign was
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: gasoline prices show life is unaffordable and they're too high.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: And then oil and gas companies manipulate the price to
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: make sure they stay high. And then they hire workers.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: Thousands of kids, tens of thousands of kids should go
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: on social media and promote that. That's called election interference.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: That's not an election. That's something else.
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  Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. What possible benefit could the
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: oil companies have by wanting Democrats to get elected? They're
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: making more money than they ever have under the Trump administration.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: That just doesn't make sense, Tom.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: Well, so why did they stay high? Maintenance can be
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: chosen when you do maintenance. You can defer it. Why
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: did they do it when they did it? I'd like
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: some answers. There's an article I put up this morning
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: from Stephen Moore, who's basically saying to Donald Trump, okay,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: the Dems ran an affordability and gas crisis, make them
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: own it. Go on TV tonight and challenge them. Give
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: me the bills. Here's a bunch of bills that will
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: lower gas prices. I want you to vote on them.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: That's what I want to see in the next couple months.
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  Speaker 1: Tom, they're the party of high gas prices. They believe
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: that carbon dioxide is killing the world. They don't want
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: anybody driving an internal combustion engine. The high gas prices
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: are what they wanted before. They got the benefit of
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: high gas prices as a consequence of the war, perhaps,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: and ran with that, not reminding people that they are
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: the party that wants to raise them even further. So
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: that's what you're going to get, period.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: And even we didn't remind them that that's the case, right?
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: Even the Republicans running didn't do that. That's how sad
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 1: Tom, I did it almost on a daily basis since
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: this whole thing became an issue for the election every
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: single day. They're the party that wanted to— Legislate it
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: into effect. Tom Z, keep up the fight, man. I
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: know you're going to wethepeopleconvention.org is where you find Tom's
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: weekly podcast and all the info, and you'll find him
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: here every Tuesday at 730 on the 55 KRC Morning Show. Tom,
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: hang in there, my friend.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, Brian.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: And you'll let me know, and you'll let the listening
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: audience know when you get it all sorted out. I
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: know that. 755. 8.06, the 55KRCD talk station. Happy Tuesday.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: Daniel Davis, Deep Dive, bottom of the hour. We'll get
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: the latest on the Iranian situation. A little bit of
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: confusion on what Donald Trump's saying and what the Iranian
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: leaders are saying. Wash, rinse, repeat. That's bottom of the hour.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: I'm pleased to look up and see the calls waiting
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: in the queue and appreciate folks calling in. If you
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: want to join the fun, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. Pound 550 on
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: AT & T phone. Okay, let's start with Jim. Maureen, Edwin, James,
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: hang on. Jim, welcome to the program. Thanks for calling.
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  Speaker 11: Hi, Brian.
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  Speaker 10: I'm a fan of yours, a long-time listener, first-time caller.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 10: And now I've got a neighbor listening to you. I'm
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 10: down in southwest Florida, known as the Gulf Coast. We're
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 10: in a city called Punta Gorda, but we're on the
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 10: county line to Lee County, which is Cape Coral, southwest
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 10: Florida's largest city. And me and a wife moved down
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 10: here in 19. My wife is now on kidney dialysis
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 10: three days a week down in Dallas. And she's in
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 10: Cape Court, and she listens to you on her iPad
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 10: or her phone.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: Well, real quick, real quick, since she's struggling with health,
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: a power of prayer to my listening audience. You know
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: you guys are the best. How about adding her to
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: your prayer list, please? Thank you for the kind words, too, man.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: That's very nice of you, too.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, one other thing.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 10: You tell Christopher Smith, and I'm a big fan of his.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 10: I listen to him every Monday.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I am, too, man.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 10: I met him one time years ago.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: He's a good man. He's a good man. Yeah, he is. Yes.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: You got anything else to chime in on, Jim?
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 10: Well, yeah, we do have Byron Donalds down here.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: Great.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 10: And I really want to be the rims warming. So
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 10: I was talking to friends.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, we all vote red. We vote red.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 10: But what you see when it happens, we sunk in Ohio. Well,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 10: I was born and raised in Cincinnati. Well, my wife
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 10: was born and raised in northern Kentucky.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: Well, one more election like this, somebody's going to have
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: to bring the flag out because I think most of
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: my listening audience has given up hope, most notably on
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: the city, but, of course, with the county getting bluer
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: and bluer every year. Last man out, bring the flag. Jim,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: thank you, man. That's great you listened from down there.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: Maureen also listens from Florida. Maureen's in the queue. Maureen,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: welcome to the morning show. Thanks for calling in.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Brian.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 7: I just wanted to follow up with Tom Zonkowski's call.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And he mentioned Mark Wayne Mullen's situation. letter that he wrote.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 7: He wrote that just this past August, and he wrote
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 7: it on behalf of the White House Transparency Task Force,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 7: talking about 80 percent of the voting machines do have
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 7: foreign-source parts, and mostly China. And I've said all along,
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 7: a couple times I've called about how we're in the
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 7: midst of a strategic military operation. And Tom was saying,
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 7: why aren't they doing anything about it if that letter
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 7: came out? And it's been my opinion that we're in
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 7: the middle of a strategic military operation and that that
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 7: was a sting operation that was set up and they
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 7: fell into the trap. Trump has also mentioned on True Social,
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 7: President Trump has mentioned the 15% band. And what that is,
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 7: it's an analysis that exposed the algorithmic patterns for every
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 7: 1,000 Trump votes. 150 of those shifted to Democrats across
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 7: the map. This wasn't just in one or two states
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 7: or cities or counties. It was across the map of
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 7: the entire United States.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: Coincidence?
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 7: Things are going to come out about that.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 7: So I really do think a lot is going to
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 7: come out. And the people that are celebrating this supposed
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 7: blue wave. They're going to have a real awakening.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, really quickly, and I think I know where you're
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: going with this quote-unquote trap that was set. Explain what
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: you mean by that, how that they fell into this
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: specific trap. Is this the Chinese parts in voting machines?
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 7: Yes. Yeah, they did not. When that letter came out,
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 7: they were asked to, as their responsibility in working in
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 7: these elections and as state representatives, to clean up their
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 7: voter rolls. They didn't do that. They were even offered
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 7: a billion dollars to clean... Well, that's a whole other story.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 7: I know you want to go into that right now.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 7: But anyway, they are responsible for having proper voting equipment, tabulators, ballots,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 7: different things like that, not fraudulent ballots that were mailed
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 7: in bulk to their precincts and different things like that.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 7: They're ultimately responsible, and they will be held accountable when
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 7: the truth does come out. because every vote that was
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 7: not valid cancels our votes, and it's our constitutional right
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 7: for us to be protected.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, to the extent the voting machines changed a vote,
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: then fine. I was a little confused when Tom Zalastowski
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: mentioned the internet traffic being monitored. Most of these voting
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: machines aren't necessarily hooked up to the internet, but It's
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: the internals, the software that actually does the tabulating. When
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: you slide your ballot in and it's tabulated, does it
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: actually reflect who you vote for or did it change it?
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: That's the concern we have.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 7: It can change it.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 6: It can change it midstream.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: Theoretically, yeah.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 7: And, you know, Maduro in Venezuela, the capture of him
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 7: was multifaceted. He, in order to also giving China, taking
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 7: away their ability to get cheaper gas, we captured Maduro
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 7: and along with him came 15 whistleblowers that have exposed
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 7: the machine's Smartmatic, Dominion, and different things like that that
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 7: were used and how they outsourced them to the United States.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 7: And there are politicians involved in this.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: Now, that's another one that I've been hearing for a
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: decade or so, these Dominion voting machines and others, that
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: they are somehow changing the votes. And where is the
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: evidence of that? How come we have not been given
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: that specific evidence? It's a claim that keeps circulating so
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: much so that people start rolling their eyes over it. Yeah,
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: here we go again. Washrooms repeat. Chinese voting machines. But
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: where's the damn evidence?
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 7: It's there. That's going to be trickling out. It's coming out, Brian.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 12: It really is.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: It's been trickling out since 2020.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 7: Well, that's because we have to show the people. Like
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 7: you and I, when we had our bet, and you
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 7: won because you put a time limit on it. By
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 7: the time Biden was out of office, I had to
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 7: pay up. But I never gave up on the fact
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 7: that the 2020 election was stolen. And they are beneath.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 7: If they you made a good point at that time
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 7: and you said if they expose this, there'll be civil war.
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 7: And you're right. There would have been. That's why they've
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 7: had to wait six years to open the eyes of
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 7: the American people so that they would understand it. And
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 7: as things come out, they will understand a lot better
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 7: now than they would have in 2020, which was your
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 7: point that there would have been civil war. Now there's
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 7: going to be civil unrest, but not civil war because
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 7: of the things Trump has put in place with our military,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 7: with our National Guard. with getting illegals out of here
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 7: that not just the illegals that would are here to
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 7: cause unrest.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 7: That were put here for that reason.
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  Speaker 1: Maureen, you know, my next line is going to be
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: the popcorn still out. I'm still waiting for evidence and proof.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll finally get it or maybe this will disappear
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: as another conspiracy theory. But I'm willing to wait as
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: I have been patiently doing so. Appreciate the call. I
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: obviously do. And I love hearing from you, Maureen. Thanks
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: for tuning in and giving us a shout. Who's next,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: Joe Strecker? Edwin, welcome to the morning show. Thanks for
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: calling today. Happy Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 12: And I want to celebrate my fellow veterans out there,
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 12: Semper Fi to all my Marine brothers. I just had
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 12: to share this this morning because it really irked me
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 12: waking up to iHeartRadio, listening to Thomas Massey put down
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 12: Pete Hex, saying sarcastically that he was good at his
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 12: job killing babies and children for what he's doing. I
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 12: don't think they've learned anything about any of these Vietnam
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 12: veterans that came back after fighting their war now being celebrated,
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 12: especially here on Veterans Day Eve, if you want to
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 12: put it that way. And it really bothered me, especially
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 12: as a vet. I didn't go to war. I served
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 12: during peacetime, but I was willing to give what I
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 12: had at the time when I was younger.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 4: But it really bothered me.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 12: I mean, I can't see how.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 12: After Obama bombed a family out there killing also innocent
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 12: people just to try to get at a head leader
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 12: out there. War, everybody should know, is not a surgical procedure, okay?
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 12: It's not precise. Innocents always get caught somewhere in the background,
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 12: and it's not. It's not like if you're going on
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 12: your computer deleting photos, specifically deleting photos.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 4: That you choose.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 12: You'd like to choose the bad guys to eliminate them,
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 12: but sometimes there are innocents in there. That's why we
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 12: have to try to avoid war, but sometimes they make
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 12: it hard.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 4: We have to protect ourselves.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: There's patriotism in the sense that you have unwavering support
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: for the American military and what the American military does,
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: but then there's also patriotism in the sense We are
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: springing from Thomas Massey's position, which is we have a
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: supreme law of the land. Our founding fathers have a
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: requirement that Congress declare war, not the president. Now, there's
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: also the War Powers Resolution of 73, which I think
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: is unconstitutional. So does Massey. But therein, there is the
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: opportunity for the president to act expeditiously, but for a
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: finite period of time. 60 days followed by a 30-day extension.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: All of that's come and gone. Where is the oversight?
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: Where is the legal oversight? Where is the congressional approval?
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: There isn't any, and that's Massey's point. Why do we
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: have a constitution in the first place if we're not
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: going to fight to uphold what it says, the plain language?
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: Political expedience, expedience in military. If there's somebody coming over
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: the hill at you, yeah, go ahead and launch a
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: missile strike on them. They're getting ready to attack you.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: It's like using a deadly force of self-defense for your
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: own life. But that seems to be absent here. Just
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: because people say Iran is going to launch a nuclear
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: weapon when it finally gets one doesn't mean they have
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: one and it's being launched or we're close to having
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: it launched. At what point in time do you need
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: to get more people involved so they can thoughtfully analyze
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: what might happen if the bombs start dropping? Like, hmm,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: maybe the Iranians are close to the Strait of Hormuz.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: Did anybody think of that? Just something to contemplate. I
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: know a lot of my listening audience is really irked
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: at Congressman Massey. But someone's got to stand up for
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: the Constitution. At least he has faithfully done so. And
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: I would argue that's probably one of the more patriotic
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: things a member of Congress can do. Because the rest
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: of them are playing fast and loose. 816 right now, 55KRC,
• 1:44:11
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• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: the talk station. Happy Tuesday. Daniel Davis, Deep Dive. We'll
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: find out what's going on with the Iran situation. At
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the air. In the meantime, let's head
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: over to the phones. Got Janet and James on. Janet,
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: fire up. It's good to hear from you this morning.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 13: Happy Tuesday to you, Brian. Yeah, to Maureen's point, you know,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 13: there was actually on the Internet live hearings. I believe
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 13: it was in Arizona. I saw them myself.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 4: And there were.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 13: Actually the voting machine techs that work and develop those things.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 13: saying there were back doorways they could get in even
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 13: without it daisy-chained to the Internet.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: Didn't they do it real time? I mean, right there
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: in front of the hearing or something like that?
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 13: Yes, I saw it. And if I did, lots of
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 13: other people did too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever became of that. See, this is the thing.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: Whatever became of the information.
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  Speaker 13: I know. That's the problem. That's what's peeling me because
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 13: nothing happens. So they're not going to do it. Realistically,
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 13: do you really think they're going to? I don't, because
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 13: if they did, there'd be huge hell to pay. So
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 13: I don't think anybody's going to want to do that, especially.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 3: With Trump, because he's a good president, but he shoots
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 3: off at the mouth sometimes a lot too much. And
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 3: he just makes people mad a lot of times, unnecessarily so.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 3: He's his own worst enemy.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not looking for a fight on that point.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: But if there was if they were going to reveal corruption,
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: wouldn't now be the ultimate time to do it? Because
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: you've got a president who probably would be would be
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: willing to take it on and deal with whatever aftermath
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: shows up. And if that we have been lied to
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: or that our ballots have been manipulated over the years.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 13: Well, if he would or if he is what the
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 13: thing that concerns me is I'm scared he's going to
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 13: do he's going to start. like kowtowing to Democrats, because
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 13: he wants a legacy. This now is becoming his lame duck,
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 13: but it's also about what he wants written in history books.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 13: And then he might actually go backwards on some of
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 13: this stuff that was okay.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's all outside of the context of proving
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: whether or not there was voter fraud.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 12: Well, he really should.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 13: Somebody needs to do it. But you lost that Harmeet Dhillon.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: Somebody needs to do it. And you can say that
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: over and over again. Go back to Kennedy winning the
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: presidential election because 50,000 dead people from Chicago cemeteries voted
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: in that election. Obviously, this has been going on a long,
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: long time. The boss cog machines. Corruption in elections? You'd
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: think with modern technology we'd have that problem solved. No,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: it actually helped. Apparently so.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 13: Because it's easier for them to do it.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: Appreciate the call. Janet, you hang in there and keep
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: fighting the fight. Let's see what Mississippi James has got. James,
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Welcome back to the show. Right.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 4: Brian, I come in peace, love everybody, and there's nothing
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 4: you can do about it.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: Consistent message.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 4: And I would love to give you your flowers while
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 4: you're above ground and you can smell it. You're a turkey.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 4: And I say that because you are trying very hard.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 4: But some of your listeners, they only think out of
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 4: half of their brain. And they are hurt. And the
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 4: guy you had on, Thomas, and he named some of
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 4: the people that Trump put in place. Some of the
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 4: slimy peoples, but he made them to be great peoples.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: And they don't realize... Yeah, James, slime is subjective. You know,
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: I might name someone slimy. He might be your best friend.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: We have different perspectives because we're focusing on different aspects
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: of their personality, perhaps. But, you know, he's entitled to
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: pick his winners and losers.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 4: I got friends that's slimy, and some of them think
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 4: I'm slimy. So it's all over the board. But when
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 4: we sit down and use logic, like you keep saying,
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 4: where's the proof? Where's the proof? And going off on
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 4: a tangent, going on and on, okay, hold your horses.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 4: Where's the proof?
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 6: I don't really know how to prove right now, but
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 6: it happened.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 4: It happened. Trust me.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: Trust me.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: We shouldn't.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 4: So I want to give you a fly. Well, you're trying.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 4: But like I say, some of these people are thinking
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 4: with half of a brain. And they've been indoctrinated to
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 4: be that way.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: Well, haven't we all in some measure or another, James?
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: But I'm one that is least painfully aware, having been
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: a litigation attorney for so long, of how long it
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: takes to get to the truth. It's a long, arduous,
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: complicated process to get from point A to point B.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: It's like I gave the police huge props this morning
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: for busting that sting operation that was targeting seniors, you know?
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: A lot of work goes into that, a lot of
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: evidence gathering, a lot of communications have to be looked at,
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: bank accounts, all that. Same thing goes with this. So
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: I'm typically one that's trying to talk people off ledges
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: and not say, hey, draw a quick conclusion, because this
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: looks like a crazy set of circumstances. Like, how is
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: it across the board, to Maureen's point and Trump's point,
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: that 15% was this amazing, consistent increase in voters in
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: disparate elections across the United States? It's a legitimate question
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: to ask. Is it really coincidence or is there something
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: there there? I don't know. I'm not going to call
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: the shot and I'm not going to make a conclusion
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: without knowing more than just, hmm, that does look like
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: it's odd. Maybe we should look into it. It's the
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: looking into it part that seems to take so long. Again,
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: going back to the still swirling claims that 2020 was hijacked.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: Never been anything conclusive on that. but the certain drumbeat
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: from the mainstream media that that's over, done with, and
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: it's foregone, done, that election wasn't stolen, we've moved on,
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: that is a narrative that is, well, enshrined in most
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: of the American people's mindset now. Appreciate it, James. As always,
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: 825 right now, 55KRC, The Talk Station. 829, 55KRC, The
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: Talk Station, Tuesday, it's that time of week, we get
• 1:50:22
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• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: Davis with war analysis, does a wonderful job, and get
• 1:50:28
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• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, sir. It is always a pleasure to see you.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 8: And it is always a pleasure to be here with you, Brian.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: And on behalf of my family, myself personally, my entire
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: listening audience, thank you for your service to our country
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: and an early happy Veterans Day, Daniel Davis.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 8: Thank you so much for saying that, Brian.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: It's most appreciated. Tremendous respect we have here for the
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: American military on the morning show. Donald Trump declared yesterday
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: that Iran's military is defeated effectively. That's fine. We blew
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: up their Navy. We hear that all the time. We
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: blew up their Air Force. That's That's traditional warfare. Now,
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: we all acknowledge that Iran retains the ability to create drones,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: make drones, and precision missiles, and they have that capability.
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: Isn't that really what modern warfare is anymore, Daniel Davis?
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to paint with too broad
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: of a brush, but if you can build that stuff,
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: you know, like Castro in the hills with machine guns,
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: you can effectively fight off an entire military. It seems
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: to have some, I mean, we can look back through
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: history with this happening.
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it all has to do with the the military
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 8: factors at play in a given geographic area, not just conceptually.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 8: Because conceptually, we have a great ground force and we
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 8: have a great joint force. And on paper, you're like, okay,
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 8: if you put this force that has this stuff and
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 8: this side that doesn't even have a Navy, it doesn't
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 8: have a conventional air force, yeah, it's going to get
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 8: wiped out. Problem is that piece of paper doesn't matter.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 8: It matters what's happened on the ground. And on the
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 8: ground in this terrain, in this environment to where we're
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 8: attacking into the Iranian side, and they're the defenders in
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 8: the mountains with these drone and missile factories under the ground,
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 8: not just the launch points, but the actual production facilities,
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 8: there's almost no way that you can stop that. In fact,
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 8: there is no way you can stop it with just
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 8: air power, because you can't get underneath all of those mountains.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 8: You can't get underneath any of them, much less all
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 8: of them. And you have to get under all of
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 8: them if you ever want to actually get back safe
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 8: control of the Strait of Hormuz. We claim that we
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 8: are in complete control.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 2: Of the Strait.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 8: Pete Hicks just said it just a few minutes ago
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 8: in a press briefing. But we don't. We control Iranian side.
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: We do.
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 8: We control them getting their oil and all that stuff,
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 8: and that's legit. We are putting a severe constraint on that.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 8: But that's just half of the equation. It's not even
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 8: half because they have an influence over the stuff that
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 8: we want to get out. And that is, despite what's
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 8: being claimed by the White House, it's a fraction of
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 8: what it was pre-war. It's not nothing.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 2: It is decent.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 8: It's 7, 8 to 10, sometimes million barrels a day.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 8: But it's not enough. And until we can get that
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 8: cleared out, and because Iran continues to hit tankers to
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 8: show that, no, we still have the ability to decide
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 8: what gets out and what doesn't. And until we change that,
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 8: we're going to be in trouble because we can't do
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 8: this forever.
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: Well, and all of that, and correct me if I'm wrong,
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: my recollection of our multiple conversations over the last couple
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: of years, at least since this conflict's been going on,
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: nothing has changed pre- and post-elections. American people obviously registered
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: their dissent on some level with the vote last Tuesday.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: But do you think the Iranians' position has changed? Do
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: they feel like they're coming to the table with a
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: greater position of strength? Because Trump said, you know, they're
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: talking to us and they're talking politely, talking about negotiations,
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: I guess, being facilitated by the Qatari government. But the
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: bronze Supreme National Security Council came out yesterday and said,
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, what are you talking about? Fold your hands.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: Stop manufacturing fake news about imaginary talks. Stop denying news.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: the West Asian new order time to surrender to the
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: seven conditions Iran has repeatedly set out. I don't know how,
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: and going back to the original memorandum of understanding, you
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: and I talked and scratched our heads over the inclusion
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: of military activities by the Israelis. They weren't signatories, but
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: here the Iranians are demanding that military action, all of it.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: And particularly in Lebanon, um, Are we bringing the Israelis
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: in to sit down with this particular settlement negotiation, Daniel Davis,
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: or are they asking for something that we can't bring
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: to the table?
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, in large measure, that is correct. They
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 8: are asking for something that we apparently don't have the
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 8: ability to deliver. We've tried several times, and it's blown
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 8: up in our face every time because Israel is passionately
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 8: focused on what they can see. Because it's not just
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 8: Hezbollah in Lebanon. It's also Hamas in Gaza. They're both
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 8: mentioned by name. And, of course, those are highly emotional
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 8: issues for the Israelis. It doesn't matter whether we think
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 8: it's a good idea or a bad one. It is
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 8: profoundly important to the Israeli government and its people. So
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 8: there's no chance at all that they would submit.
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: To any of that.
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 8: So it's almost dead on arrival as it is. And
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 8: it's interesting the sequence of things yesterday. There was an
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 8: al-Arabiya protest. report out that said that the two sides
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 8: were close to a deal, that President Trump was going
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 8: to be willing to have some unfrozen assets, potentially up
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 8: to $ 9 billion. There was going to be some sanctions relief.
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 8: The blockade, both blockades were going to be lifted, et cetera.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 8: They're working on it. That's what it was claimed. Then
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 8: about an hour or two later, General Rezaei was the
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 8: first to come out with that statement that you just mentioned,
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 8: where he says, well, y'all, this is all fake. There's
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 8: no negotiations. There's no talks. We're not close to anything.
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 8: There are some talks, and I have at a very
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 8: good level in the White House, that there are some
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 8: lower level talks between the U.S. and Iran, but they're
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 8: just conversations. They're not even on the decision maker level.
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 8: It's pretty low level.
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: But they're happening.
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 8: But the problem is, what they're saying in private is
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 8: the same thing they're saying in public, which is there
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 8: are seven terms you have to come to, which is
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 8: all the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding up front,
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 8: and then and only then they say they'll talk about
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 8: the nuclear situation. What it looks to me like is
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 8: that they have concluded, right or wrong, that they have
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 8: the dominant military position in this fight with these circumstances,
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 8: and that they feel that they can endure the pain
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 8: of the blockade that we're putting on them much longer
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 8: than then we can endure the continued pain economically throughout
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 8: the rest of the world, and it's a big game
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 8: of chicken. So I don't think that they're going to
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 8: give in at all, which means it's probably likely we're
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 8: going to end up either completely submitting to what Iran wants,
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 8: minus those two because we can't deliver those, or we're
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 8: probably going to end up back in conflict.
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: Well, do you think the Iranians, and you just mentioned
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: what their perception of their position being superior to the
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: United States, at least as the current situation stands, you
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: perceive that as accurate? I mean, it sounds to me
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: like it is, isn't it?
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 8: That's certainly how I see it, because offensively, we cannot
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 8: go back in. I saw again yesterday, Jack Keane is
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 8: practically begging Fox News president through Fox News to go
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 8: back to kinetic. I've seen other people talk and say, no,
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 8: we can still win this. It's we can actually Pete
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 8: Hegseth is in that category there. No, we can win
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 8: because we have this incredible military and somehow these guys
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 8: calculate that it would be different, that we have a
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 8: different target set we can go after than we did
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 8: the first time. Keane at least says there will be
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 8: something different about it. But what he's talking about going after,
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 8: it'll blow stuff up on the ground in Iran, and
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 8: it'll hurt people, it'll kill people, but it's not going
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 8: to do anything to their military capacity with the drones
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 8: and the missiles. And if you can't stop that, it
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 8: doesn't matter what else you blow up. But that's the mentality.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 8: And I'll tell you one last thing, Brian, is that
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 8: I also... And conclude that the Iranian side is saying,
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 8: I'm okay going back to conflict. And I think that's
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 8: why they keep hitting ships in the Persian Gulf, trying
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 8: to draw us back in, because I think that they
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 8: want us to do that so that we will suffer
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 8: a really big loss, use the remainder of our lives.
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 8: interceptors and the long-range cruise missiles, and end up having
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 8: to leave in disgrace without any kind of a deal.
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 8: On a losing end. I think that's what they're seeking for,
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 8: even if it's short-term pain.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: I must observe that they may be sort of Rasputin
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: whispering in an ear. They may be getting that sort
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: of position from the Chinese or the Russians or anybody
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: else who doesn't like us. Yeah, drag the U.S. in there.
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: They're already short on supplies. We could sure use the help.
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, who's to blame them from their perspective? because they're like, yeah,
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 8: I mean, they don't have to actually directly fight us.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 8: It weakens our global position, which then by default elevates
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 8: theirs and makes them look better to the rest of
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 8: the world without having to do a thing, because Iran
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 8: is perfectly capable of inflicting these pains, mostly on their own.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 8: I'm sure they're getting help from both of them to
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 8: one degree or another, a lot from Russia on drones
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 8: and technology for rockets. But Most of the stuff they
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 8: do on their own. Well, and I'm sure you obviously
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 8: encounter this all the time, as do I. Well, we
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 8: just need to go in there and get it done.
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 8: Just go in there and get it done. And I
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 8: don't know really what that means in the hearts and
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 8: minds of people who tell me that, but my view
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 8: is if you move aside from the option of putting
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 8: boots on the ground, which I don't think anybody wants
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 8: or needs, and you have talked about that all the time,
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 8: it would be a bloodbath considering how dangerous and horrific
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 8: and sizable the terrain is. But if we could have
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 8: just gone in and blown something up absent nuclear weapons...
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 8: we would have done it already, wouldn't we? I mean,
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 8: people would keep throwing, oh, the Moab, just throw a
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 8: mother of all bombs on that. That wouldn't do anything
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  Speaker 8: to Pickaxe Mountain. I mean, they would have done it.
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't.
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  Speaker 8: In fact, we had Professor Ted Postle on the show
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  Speaker 8: who did a detailed analysis of what would happen if
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  Speaker 8: we hit Pickaxe Mountain with our biggest nuclear weapon. And
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  Speaker 8: it's like a 450 kiloton weapon. And there is a
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  Speaker 8: decent chance that it could actually knock out the facility itself.
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  Speaker 8: if it was a pinpoint strike right above where the
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  Speaker 8: facility was, and we don't know that for sure, because
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  Speaker 8: it could be anywhere under that mountain complex. But if
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  Speaker 8: we did, and it was only about, I think it
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  Speaker 8: was like two, 300 meters below the surface, which is
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  Speaker 8: pretty substantial in a granite mountain, you can potentially knock
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  Speaker 8: it out, but only a direct hit. But the fallout
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  Speaker 8: would be catastrophic. And if you track a tactical nuclear weapon,
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  Speaker 8: It's going to bounce off the top. It's just going
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  Speaker 8: to be a little bit more than a conventional. And
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  Speaker 8: unless we're ready to do something that's just, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: you're talking about, you know, the biggest thing we have,
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  Speaker 8: which would be just catastrophic.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we would be the pariah of the world
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  Speaker 1: if we did that. Right. And again, if that option
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  Speaker 1: was legitimately available without becoming the pariah of the world,
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee it would have been done already under this administration.
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  Speaker 1: Real quick.
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  Speaker 8: Brian, it wouldn't matter because they still have 30 some odd,
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 8: 50 some odd other sites. So even that wouldn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: And pivoting over, do you think the election in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: the change of leadership, is going to have any impact?
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  Speaker 1: Do you understand which direction new administration might be going
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  Speaker 1: vis-a-vis the various conflicts we've been talking about?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's not going to change the direction of anything.
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  Speaker 8: It's just going to change kind of how they do it,
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  Speaker 8: because whether it's Eisencott or Benjamin Netanyahu, they're generally of
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 8: the same mindset about what they need to do in
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 8: the near term. Eisencott seems to be a little bit
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  Speaker 8: less aggressive. on some of the longer-range targets and more
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 8: focused on the near-term things, like around his borders or whatever.
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  Speaker 8: Of course, on Gaza and Lebanon, I don't see any
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 8: change at all.
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• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis. Again, on behalf of everyone that's listening,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for your service to our country, and I
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  Speaker 1: hope you have a wonderful and enjoyable Veterans Day tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you a lot, Brian. Most appreciated. We'll talk next Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: the phone. Hang on, buddy. I'll take your call in
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