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55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, Judge Napolitano · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 505. The 55KRC. The Talk Station. Happy Wednesday. Call Kenny
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  Speaker 1: Loggins because you're in the danger zone. So I guess
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  Speaker 1: there's no weather today at all, right, Joe? That's the
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  Speaker 1: weather report. There's no weather. It's like nobody loaded anything
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  Speaker 1: into the damn system. It happens. I hope that's not
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  Speaker 1: a suggestion of the, well, direction the 55KRC morning show
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  Speaker 1: is going to go this morning. Happy Wednesday, nonetheless. Brian
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  Speaker 1: Thomas right here. Glad to be awake, anyhow. And looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to 7.05, as always, on a Wednesday, The Big
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  Speaker 1: Picture with Jack Atherton. Joining the show, talking about the
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  Speaker 1: real AI threat. Jack's got opinions, and he shares them
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  Speaker 1: with us on a Wednesday at 7.05. Looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you are as well. Remember, 55KRC. iheart. com. When you
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  Speaker 1: can't listen live, head on over to the podcast page.
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  Speaker 1: Donovan O'Neill, it is Wednesday. State Director of Americans for
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  Speaker 1: Prosperity Action in Ohio is going to be talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Brown Race. Thinking about yesterday's rant from Tom Zalastowski,
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  Speaker 1: we've really got to get out and vote this November.
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  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty. Judge Ed Napolitano at 8.30. Judge Andrew Napolitano
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  Speaker 1: returns after vacation in, well, I guess it was sort
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  Speaker 1: of a quasi-vacation. He did do some speaking engagements at
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  Speaker 1: a Russian university. We're going to find out what it's
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  Speaker 1: like in Moscow. His column today, More Threats to the
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  Speaker 1: Freedom of Speech. Another historic recitation of problems we've had
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  Speaker 1: with various presidential administrations over the years, curbing or endeavoring
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  Speaker 1: to curb our rights to free speech, which we enjoy
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  Speaker 1: under the First Amendment. And, of course, he is taking
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  Speaker 1: a shot at the Trump administration for doing just that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get a little breakdown on that with Judge Napolitano
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  Speaker 1: at 8.30, but also I really am very curious to
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  Speaker 1: know what it was like in Moscow. Given the Russian-Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: war situation, maybe if you talk to some people, how
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  Speaker 1: they viewed and perceived it, how it's impacting maybe their economy. And, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, attacks by Ukraine on Russian territory. Remember
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  Speaker 1: the other day? Donald Trump asked the Ukrainians to not
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  Speaker 1: bomb Russian infrastructure, most notably diesel production facilities. Well, they
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  Speaker 1: went ahead and did it anyway. Yesterday, I guess it was,
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  Speaker 1: the Ukrainians are back to bombing Russian infrastructure. And, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the price of diesel has gone up through the roof.
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  Speaker 1: And it's really rocking our local gasoline prices. I guess
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  Speaker 1: it looks like the WCPO, which is the watchdog for consumers.
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  Speaker 1: He reported that since I area gas up to $ 4. 59
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  Speaker 1: a gallon, and I did a gas buddy search this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And while you still can find gas in the low $ 4,
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  Speaker 1: and I even saw Thorntons up in the Loveland area
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  Speaker 1: that had it for $ 3. 70 some odd cents, at least
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  Speaker 1: as of five hours ago. I wouldn't hold my breath
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  Speaker 1: looking for that place right now. It's probably already gone out.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of places are selling at $ 4. 59. Notably,
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  Speaker 1: Kroger had it on GasBuddy at $ 4. 59 a gallon. It's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. And it's eating into our respective budgets,
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  Speaker 1: of course. But diesel fuel is the one that's a
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  Speaker 1: real problem. $ 6. 40 something a gallon. And a lot of businesses...
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  Speaker 1: Trying to hold off raising prices, but once you start
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  Speaker 1: eroding into the very small margins, notably grocery store margins,
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  Speaker 1: which are really small to start with, they really can't
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  Speaker 1: afford to not raise prices. Because, of course, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to buy the diesel fuel if you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: the groceries into the grocery store. Point A to point B, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: I guess loin girding is in order to a certain degree.
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  Speaker 1: Donovan Hill is going to be talking about the Houston
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  Speaker 1: Brown Race, though. And then Judge Annapolitano. So that's this
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  Speaker 1: morning's lineup. Tomorrow on the 55 KRC Morning Show, Warren
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  Speaker 1: Davidson and Bill O'Reilly. Yeah, I got his book early,
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  Speaker 1: an advanced copy. I read it, and it's an interesting book.
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  Speaker 1: It's a biography of Bill O'Reilly's actually very successful career,
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to his life in general. No talk about
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  Speaker 1: his private time or what he does in his spare time,
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  Speaker 1: but Generally speaking, how he started out with literally nothing
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  Speaker 1: and built his own, using his own inertia, his own effort,
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  Speaker 1: his own energy, his own intellect, did it all himself.
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  Speaker 1: And that sort of American entrepreneurial spirit. So in between
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  Speaker 1: talking about things like that, he also brings in historical
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  Speaker 1: references and modern day comparisons to sort of chart the
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  Speaker 1: devolution of American culture, among other things. Again, he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be on the program to talk about that. But
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  Speaker 1: he was on just the other day, and I was
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  Speaker 1: thinking of Tom Zawistowski. It's Confronting America is the name
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  Speaker 1: of O'Reilly's book. So it's finally out. Confronting America. Anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking of Tom Zawistowski yesterday going on a tear,
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  Speaker 1: and his regular mantra is his been, and you can tell,
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  Speaker 1: listen to any politician, any pundit that's talking about the
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  Speaker 1: November election, hold your nose and vote for the Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: And O'Reilly made a good point yesterday. He's on Speaking
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  Speaker 1: of News, Max. He says November election should be framed
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  Speaker 1: as an ideological choice, not a personality contest. And I
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  Speaker 1: thought this is a well-taken point, going back to there
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  Speaker 1: is no perfect candidate in the world. So my Vivek
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  Speaker 1: Ramaswamy-hating Republican friends out there, you already told me you're
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  Speaker 1: not voting for Amy Acton, but what's your problem with Ramaswamy? Well,
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  Speaker 1: here's what O'Reilly said to say. You're not voting for
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  Speaker 1: a person. You're voting for a radical party that wants
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  Speaker 1: to change everything in this country or a traditional party
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  Speaker 1: that's not enthusiastic about change but is open to it.
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  Speaker 1: There's your choices. Because you're angry about fill in the blank.
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  Speaker 1: How about the gasoline price? That's been a significant, taken
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  Speaker 1: a significant toll on the economy. I saw an article yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: We collectively in America have spent $ 100 billion more on
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  Speaker 1: fuel since this Operation Epic Fury started. So, yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: can be angry about that, although by comparison, we still
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  Speaker 1: have $ 22 trillion in personal consumption expenditures floating around out there. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it has gone up, but we're still going out and
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  Speaker 1: spending money. But that idea... that you need to view
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  Speaker 1: any election in November through the lens of one side
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  Speaker 1: pretty much hates America. Boil it down however you want.
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  Speaker 1: Sum it up in your own terms. But the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: with embracing democratic socialist principles and platforms, have given up.
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  Speaker 1: They've given up on the concept that you and I
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  Speaker 1: are capable of making your own decisions. They want to
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  Speaker 1: control everything. And... Keep going back to the idea. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to turn to government to solve the problems of
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  Speaker 1: your life? When is it ever delivered? And when it does,
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  Speaker 1: it delivers it poorly and inefficiently and wastefully. Then it's
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  Speaker 1: all your labor being taken to do these poor, inefficient,
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  Speaker 1: wasteful methods to sort of solve the problems in your life,
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  Speaker 1: which never really seems to happen. I'd rather go it
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  Speaker 1: alone in life than let somebody else make the decisions.
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  Speaker 1: But we really need to keep this within that division,
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  Speaker 1: this ideological division. You know, say what you want about
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  Speaker 1: Republicans and point to your illustrations of evil Republicans doing
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  Speaker 1: bad things over the years. Larry Householder always comes to
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  Speaker 1: mind here in the state of Ohio. Right, okay, you've
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  Speaker 1: got your, I don't want to say FCC noncompliant word, but,
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  Speaker 1: you know, nobody's perfect. But lately, I've just been reflecting
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  Speaker 1: on the willingness of Democrats to forgive the lies that
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  Speaker 1: their party has, well, engaged into, not just Democrats, but
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  Speaker 1: the American people generally speaking. Go back to Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: All this information coming about Joe Biden's cognitive decline, and
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  Speaker 1: they kept telling us, all the Democrats, almost all of them,
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  Speaker 1: To your face, he's sharp as ever. No, everything's great
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  Speaker 1: with Joe Biden. Every single one of those was a
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  Speaker 1: calculated lie. Oh, this is history, Thomas. We don't need
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  Speaker 1: to talk about Joe Biden's cognitive decline. He pulled the
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  Speaker 1: plug on the campaign. Kamala Harris lost. Let's move on
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  Speaker 1: from history. But this is illustrative of what the party
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  Speaker 1: stands for. They're willing to lie to you, straight out.
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  Speaker 1: And it's to your, I mean, I'm talking to Democrats here.
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  Speaker 1: They're willing to lie to you, members of the Democrat party.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you feel betrayed? I mean, I was no huge
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  Speaker 1: fan of Bill Clinton, but you know, the thing that
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  Speaker 1: really irked me about Bill Clinton, almost more than literally
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  Speaker 1: anything that man did while in office was just flat
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  Speaker 1: out lie to us. And it was over something that
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  Speaker 1: even back in the mid nineties, I'm going to say
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  Speaker 1: most of America probably would have been pretty forgiving of
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  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton for engaging in extramarital affairs. You draw your
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  Speaker 1: own conclusions. But I've always long suggested, you know, Bill
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  Speaker 1: Clinton just said, you know what, I did. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: And I personally, because, you know, I have no internal
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  Speaker 1: monologue most of the time, I would have said something effective.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see who I'm married to? Wouldn't you? You know,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of tongue-in-cheek joking kind. But seriously, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think anybody ever believed that their relationship was more than political.
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  Speaker 1: But he stood there and lied to us. I did
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  Speaker 1: not have sex with that woman.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. The lie was worse than the underlying sin from
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  Speaker 1: my perspective. I don't want to be lied to by
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  Speaker 1: the people who are making the decisions for me. But
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  Speaker 1: that one little illustration, and it was a big one,
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  Speaker 1: not a little illustration, but one singular illustration illustration of
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  Speaker 1: the lies from the Democrats. And you can go back
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  Speaker 1: and look at year after year after year of calculated lies. Calculated.
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  Speaker 1: They all knew behind the scenes. They were all worried
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes. They were all talking about it amongst themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, Joe, he's like... And yet out in
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  Speaker 1: front of the rest of the world, no, he's great.
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  Speaker 1: And it took that debate to sink the ship of lies.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a good thing people were watching that one.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of debates... here in the state of Ohio, I
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  Speaker 1: guess we're not going to get one. I guess we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to be able to observe whether Amy Acton
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  Speaker 1: is capable of engaging in a conversation, and answering questions
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  Speaker 1: on the fly. Is she struggling from cognitive decline, maybe?
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  Speaker 1: Are they hiding something from us and keeping her in
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  Speaker 1: her metaphorical basement? Are we being lied to again? I
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  Speaker 1: think not in this particular case, because she's just out
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  Speaker 1: loud and says she's not going to debate and doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have an answer for a reason why. But, sorry, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of rambling going on in this first segment.
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  Speaker 1: I am trying to wake up, and I always enjoy
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  Speaker 1: hearing from you. Maybe set the stage for a different direction, topic,
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  Speaker 1: or communication. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. Pound 550 on AT & T phones.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 3: 55KRC. com.
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  Speaker 1: Don't miss our... 520. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: straight to the phones because Bill was kind enough to
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  Speaker 1: call me up this morning. Bill, thanks for calling. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to The Morning Show.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Mr. Bryan. I've got some interesting perspectives. I
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  Speaker 4: think I might give Tom food for fodder. He's at
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  Speaker 4: a job site with like 5,000 people with a lot
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  Speaker 4: of travelers, so I'm kind of curious to see what
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  Speaker 4: his take is on this. But I was talking with
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  Speaker 4: two guys at the job site in Indianapolis. I'm also
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  Speaker 4: a guy working out there. These two guys are from
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  Speaker 4: New York City's sheet metal workers level that they transferred
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  Speaker 4: their cars to Indianapolis. Now, mind you, when you think
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  Speaker 4: of a New York sheet metal worker, you would think
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  Speaker 4: they'd be a very strong Democrat. These two guys are
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  Speaker 4: of another race. And let me just say, we were
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  Speaker 4: talking a little politics and stuff, and they say, whatever
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  Speaker 4: you think is going on in New York City, it's
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  Speaker 4: sometimes worse. They say there's like $ 2 trillion of empty
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  Speaker 4: office space in New York City right now.
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  Speaker 5: $ 2 trillion.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot.
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  Speaker 6: That's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: That's a whole lot.
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  Speaker 4: And then, you know, talking about the environment in New
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  Speaker 4: York City, they say, brother, it's gotten really bad out there. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we were talking about Mondati and the DSA candidates,
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  Speaker 4: and they said, don't even get us started on that.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: You know, but it's really interesting to see this because
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  Speaker 4: it seems like Indianapolis is where the work is. That's
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  Speaker 4: where I'm working out of.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 4: Well, for me, it's $ 11 an hour more an hour
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  Speaker 4: over Cincinnati's rate.
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  Speaker 1: Bill, you don't need to have to answer the question
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  Speaker 1: if you want to be cagey about where you're working,
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  Speaker 1: but by any chance, is it one of those evil
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  Speaker 1: data centers that people are complaining about?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's actually a place that Andretti was starting to
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  Speaker 4: build a F1 development center for the race cars.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Where they test, develop, and produce race cars. And he
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  Speaker 4: got into legal trouble, so now Cadillac F1 took it over.
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  Speaker 7: Huh.
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  Speaker 4: And so that's what this facility is. But I meet
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  Speaker 4: a lot of travelers myself, and.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it does. Now, have they said anything about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's so bad that they want to move out? Like,
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  Speaker 1: I see the end of New York City, like, almost
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  Speaker 1: escape from New York, that movie from back in the 80s,
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  Speaker 1: but is it that bad that they're considering leaving? Because
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  Speaker 1: all the multi-millionaires and billionaires have already pulled the plug.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand that, but Obviously, you're not from New York.
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  Speaker 1: You're here, and you've got good jobs around you. Even
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  Speaker 1: if you have to go to Indianapolis for it, it's
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  Speaker 1: worth it because you get an extra $ 11. If you
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  Speaker 1: move out of New York, your cost of living will
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  Speaker 1: drop dramatically. The housing prices will drop, your rent or whatever. Hell,
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  Speaker 1: the price of gasoline, I can't imagine what it costs
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  Speaker 1: in New York City or New York State for gasoline.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like me moving from Chicago here. My wife
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  Speaker 1: and I both took about a third cut in salary,
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  Speaker 1: but we enjoy a much higher standard of living than
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  Speaker 1: we did living in Chicago. So I would move, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if there's jobs.
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  Speaker 4: I'm curious to see what Tom's take is because he's
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  Speaker 4: working at a large pharmaceutical company up there and there's
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  Speaker 4: like 5,000 people on the payrolls for construction workers. Now
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  Speaker 4: you're talking all the trades.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm kind of curious to see what Tom's take
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  Speaker 4: and what feedback he's getting from people he chats with
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  Speaker 4: about what he's hearing about that same situation because I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure he's The casual conversation, I'm sure he's picking up,
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  Speaker 4: you know, when people are throwing down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, it's just amazing to me when you
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  Speaker 4: see that mentality.
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  Speaker 8: It's like, wow.
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  Speaker 4: You know, because you would think somebody out of New
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  Speaker 4: York City's, you know, union locals would be very strong Democrats,
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  Speaker 4: and they are not.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they see the writing on the wall as well.
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  Speaker 1: But does it suggest anything, Bill, that, An Indianapolis project,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of what it is, obviously there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: work going on there. You need to pull workers from
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  Speaker 1: the New York area to do the jobs? Does that
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  Speaker 1: say something about the local talent pool for skilled workers?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I wouldn't say that, but there's a lot of places.
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  Speaker 4: Like this job I'm on, I'm actually getting a per diem,
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  Speaker 4: even though if you look at the contract, it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: have to give it to us, but we're still getting
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  Speaker 4: it anyway.
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  Speaker 9: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess for the trades, that's not to shake
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  Speaker 1: a stick at, man. That's not bad. I guess, well,
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  Speaker 1: if you want the workers to come to the job
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  Speaker 1: and you're competing for a, well, limited talent pool, then
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to pay them to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And people will drive from New York or ship their
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  Speaker 1: car from New York to come to a local project.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting stuff, Bill. And if Tom's out there listening, maybe
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  Speaker 1: he can address it. But it's nice to get the
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  Speaker 1: temperature from an everyday working class guy from New York
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  Speaker 1: who is confirming. That the place sucks. That's the direction
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to go. Going back to my point
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  Speaker 1: about the November election, right? Do you want Mamdami as
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  Speaker 1: the senator, the representative, the governor? And go down that collectivist, socialist, ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: communist path which leads only to misery and destruction and
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  Speaker 1: a state deciding what you can and cannot do. Where
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  Speaker 1: you live, what you're going to make, what you can eat. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't work. 525 right now. 55 cares to the
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  Speaker 1: talk station. 513-749-5500. 800-823-TALK. Pound 550 on AT & T phones.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go away. Tom, you or local stories will go
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  Speaker 1: one direction or another. Have you heard the news?
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  Speaker 7: Elon on it.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday. Over to the phone. Look, ah, there he is.
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  Speaker 1: All is right with the world. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to join in the fun, there he is. Tom,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the morning show. Were you listening to the
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  Speaker 1: comments of our last caller, Bill?
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  Speaker 5: I absolutely was because of the iHeartMedia app. I get
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  Speaker 5: to turn this show on, and starting at 5.05, I
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  Speaker 5: get to listen to somewhere. On my walk-in, I finish listening.
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  Speaker 5: I get to almost the full first hour, so.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I really do. And thanks for the
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  Speaker 1: plug for the iHeart app over at 55KRC. iHeart. com where you
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  Speaker 1: too can get the app and listen wherever you happen
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  Speaker 1: to be. Thanks, Tom.
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  Speaker 5: There you go. That's a little commercial.
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  Speaker 1: I'll send you your five bucks after this show.
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  Speaker 10: Right, right.
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  Speaker 5: And thank you, Bill, for calling in and sharing what
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: you're hearing out there too. As you've alluded to, real
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: life sometimes just smacks us in the face and helps
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: us understand that– These Democrats, they're liars, and the people
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: that vote for them are stupid. That's pretty much what
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: it boils down to. So that's your take, and then
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Bill's phone call wrapped up in one statement. Democrats lie,
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: and stupid people vote for them. Yeah, I get a
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: wide range of opinions out here. You have your diehard
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: union people out here. I think I may have mentioned
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: this before. I have one guy I talked to. He
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: had on his hard hat, you don't represent the company,
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: you represent the union. Okay, yeah, but how are you representing?
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: And remember, who's writing your paycheck? It's not the union.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: The union doesn't pay you anything. The union, yes, helps
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: negotiate a good wage and package for you. Absolutely, absolutely. 100%.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: But they're not the ones that make you pay your paycheck.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Of course not.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: You don't have, you know, you've got, especially on a
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: job site, you've got a company name on you, on
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: your hard hat, on your vest, whatever. You know, you're
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: wearing that company name. So, yeah, you do represent the company.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: At the very least, you're representing both. And if you
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: want to represent, then represent it the right way. You know,
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: if you're if you're standing around being a slacker and
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: just collecting a paycheck and running your mouth about, you know,
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: how you deserve this and you deserve that, but your
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: work ethic, what you do, what you get done is
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: obviously doesn't match that. And then, then that's how you're
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: representing your union and your company. You got, I mean,
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: people got to keep that in mind, but to, to
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: answer Bill's question, I'm getting a wide range of things
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: around here and people are set up with stuff. Like
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: I said, reality hits them in the face. They understand
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: that if we keep doing this, this is what happens.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: It's like if you drop something, it's going to hit
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: the ground. It's gravity. You can't fight this stuff. And
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Democrats want to promise all kinds of things while they're
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: continuing to do things that cause problems. They cause economic problems.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: They cause problems in the family. They cause problems for businesses.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: That's all their policies do is cause problems, create a mess,
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: and then they want to pretend they're riding in to
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: rescue everything. They don't rescue everything. They're just destroying everything.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: They're just making everything worse. And there are more and
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: more people wising up to that, even union people, construction
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: workers are understanding that. Yeah, I mean, this big pharmaceutical
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: on that, the jobs down the street, that next exit down,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: there are big, huge companies. They're willing to fork over
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: money to get people out here to work, to get
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: the job done. And as far as the talent pool,
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: there are only so many good carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers, whatever
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: in any given town. There's only so many good ones.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: And so you're scraping the bottom of the barrel when
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: you have 5,000, 6,000, 7,000 people on a job site.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: You've got so many people out here that do not
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: know what they're doing. Brian, they show up in deer
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: and headlights, and you're almost scared for them because this
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: kind of project is, I mean, this is ridiculous.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: You get lost out here.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Not only that, you get yourself seriously injured. So, yeah,
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: and it's up to the people that know what they're
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: doing to watch out for these people. And that goes
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: for voting, too. Talk to your friends. Talk to your neighbors.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Tell them don't be stupid and don't vote Democrat. Have
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: a great day.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Tom. Stay safe on the job, my friend. Let's
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: get over and see what Bobby's got this morning. Bobby,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: welcome to the morning show, and happy Wednesday to you.
• 22:07
  Speaker 11: Hey, happy hump day, my friend. Faith Flag family, and
• 22:10
  Speaker 11: we lost another 15-year-old, and I went and would yesterday
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: during the daylight evening hours.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just hard to believe. One person in the hospital.
• 22:22
  Speaker 11: It's not hard to believe. To me, it's not hard
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: to believe. It's the direct opposite. It's hard to acknowledge
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: the facts. These individuals in Cincinnati don't want to talk
• 22:34
  Speaker 11: about it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: No, they don't.
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: No.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: And why would they?
• 22:39
  Speaker 11: How can you correct the problem when you're part of
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: the problem?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think any publicity is good publicity. Only
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: works if you're a Hollywood celebrity or a politician sometimes.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: But it doesn't work well with cities. So nobody wants
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to talk about the crime in downtown Cincinnati because it's
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: bad marketing.
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: Well, I hate to be... a pessimist or a negative person,
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: but it's not that way. It's just being a realist
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: and trying to let people know exactly what's going on
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: in their own community. It's dangerous.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: So maybe we can come up with practical solutions. And,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, my observations in my years of
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: talking with members of law enforcement, members of the judiciary
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and all that, it boils down to a deterioration and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: failure of the family unit. Nobody is at home teaching
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: morals and ethics or giving one wit about where the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: kids are. And that's not every home, but it's a
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: growing sizable percentage. You can chart the records over time
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: since the welfare state kicked in under President Johnson. The
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: number of homes with two parents providing stability and a foundation,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: regardless of income level, has gone away. And that has
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: resulted in, I think, the biggest problem we have in
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: this country right now is the juvenile crime problem. woke justice,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: woke judges not emitting out punishment to prevent children from
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: doing it again or serve as a lesson to those
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: who might go next in line for committing crimes. You know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: there's only so much you can do. And the only
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: place to hold these kids accountable is the judiciary. We
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: have woke judges who won't even bother to do that,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: perpetuating the cycle of violence. All right. Got it out
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: of my system, Bobby, but it starts with acknowledging where
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the problems are and giving us honest information about, for example, crime.
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: Right, Bobby?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Like maybe the shot spotter data. Like, okay. Wash, rinse,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and repeat, I think, is where we are on this one, Bobby.
• 24:28
  Speaker 11: I'm in the statistics. Let them tell exactly the facts.
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: How many shots are fired, where they're shot at, and
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: everything else, but they don't want to do that. They
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: don't want to tell the truth because we need a
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: public service announcement. Every day we need a public service
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: announcement to let people know, you know, the drive at 5,
• 24:50
  Speaker 11: most of the time 5 to 5.30 in the morning.
• 24:52
  Speaker 11: People either going to work to support their family or
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: they're coming home after they've worked all day. They need
• 24:58
  Speaker 11: to know what's going on. Yeah. Because I tell you what,
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: walking down the street without a firearm in their pocket,
• 25:04
  Speaker 11: they're putting their own life at risk.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I was waiting for you to bring up firearms, Bobby.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Got it out of your system. I appreciate it, and
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I echo what you said. Take care and have a
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: wonderful day, my friend. It is 537. Stack of Stupid
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: coming your way, or you coming my way to call up.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: So I'll be right back after these brief words. 55KRC,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the talk station. It's 541 on a Wednesday. Stack of
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Stupid right in front of me. I think it'll be
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: yesterday at my top of the Stack of Stupid story.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: My conversation yesterday, the Insight Scoop with Breitbart News' Lowell Caulfield,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: who's a reporter on crime matters. And, of course, we
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: talked about the explosive rise in teachers, well, having sex
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: with underage students. And notably, a massive rise in the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: number of female teachers having sex with young male students.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: It's just awful. And here we go. Yet another illustration
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: of this going on. California, go to Tracy, California. California
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: high school teacher and varsity football coach arrested. after police
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: said students discovered his cell phone recording inside a boy's
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: locker room. Joe, I think we have an award to
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: give out. Jeez, this stuff just disturbs me to no end.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Police said students found the phone in a locker room
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: in Tracy High School with its camera recording. Jeffrey Pribble,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: 48 years old, our award winner this morning, California high
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: school teacher, varsity football coach, arrested after police say students
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: discovered it with the students and other classmates, or when
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: they found the cell phone, the police said, They were
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: able to pause the recording before deleting it and then
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: turning the phone over to a staff member. Phone belonged to? Yes,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: they determined this. Jeffrey Pribble, the aforementioned. He was arrested
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: on campus less than 24 hours after police received the report.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Police said investigators are interviewing students looking for additional witnesses
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: as they determine whether there could be other evidence or incidents.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: I'm willing to bet that there are. He is now
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: on leave while the criminal and administrative investigations continue. Here
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: he is, the biggest douche of the universe. He'll share
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: the award with all the rest of them. In all
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the galaxies, there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the top, the pinnacle of douchedom. Good going, douche.
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: Your dreams have come true.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Joe. Idiot lawyers, and you're out there, if
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: you're a lawyer, remember, artificial intelligence is not always accurate.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And you owe your client an obligation to review the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: brief to make sure AI didn't feed you false information. Ah,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Stephen Ahrens. He's a lawyer. Well, maybe was. Not quite
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: sure of his current status, considering he's been referred to
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission. Anyway, New Mexico appeals attorney
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Stephen Ahrens used Chet GPT to prepare his documents for
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: an appeal in a murder conviction. In a statement to Reuters,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: he said he used ChatGPT to summarize the trial proceedings
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: when he agreed to take up the defendant's appeal last
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: year and did not understand the degree to which AI
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: could hallucinate facts. He made that argument in front of
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the New Mexico Supreme Court, saying he fed the facts
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of the case and uploaded documents into the ChatGPT, assuming
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: it would generate a bulletproof summary. His words, bulletproof summary.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Justice Shannon Bacon said, after the disciplinary action was filed
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: because the chat GPT fabricated brand new eyewitness accounts as
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: well as police testimony about the crime. It made it up.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. Justice sees Shannon
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Bacon on the Supreme Court. Counsel, do you watch the news?
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: about what's going on in the world? Rhetorical questions. So
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the New Mexico Supreme Court last Wednesday fined the attorney,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: held him in contempt for failing to verify the accuracy
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: of the court filing $ 5, 000 fine. And they told him
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: he demonstrated a lack of remorse and a lack of
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: concern for his client by even doing this. And now
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: he's been referred to the Attorney Disciplinary Board for further
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: investigation and perhaps maybe suspension from the practice of law.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: You have been warned. At least those who are bothering
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to pay attention to what's going on in the world.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: It is 5.49, coming up at 5.50 at 55KRCD Talk Station.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: A very happy Wednesday to you. God, stack is stupid.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Got a creep here at a Dollar General store. He's
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a manager, at least was. Jeffrey Malcolm, 35 years old,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: arrested by the Barber County Sheriff's Office. This is in
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: West Virginia. Because he locked a girl inside the Dollar
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: General store and made inappropriate comments to her. Anyway. Girl's
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: mother contacted police to report that her daughter had been
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: locked inside the Dollar General and subjected to inappropriate remarks
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: by the manager. Girl, speaking with deputies, said she got
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: dropped off at the store. And this Jeffrey Malcolm guy
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: waved her to come on inside. When she entered, she
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: told him, you almost locked me out. He said, well,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: now you are locked in. Malcolm apparently walked with her
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: to the party supply section, then headed to the register
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: where he told the co-worker, don't ring the girl up.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: He said he would take care of it. Ledgerly told
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the girl he was applying a manager's discount, paying for
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the party supplies himself and only having her pay for
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: some gum. According to the criminal complaint, he asked the girl,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: what are you going to do for me now since
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I paid for your stuff? Dude, what the hell? Ah,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: there you go. Girl told Malcolm she didn't know and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: he laughed and said, good thing I'm the manager. During
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the conversation, other employees had to step out to take
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: out the trash, and that's when Malcolm said he had
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: to unlock the door for them to get outside of
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the store to do their job. The girl immediately left
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the store. She escaped. Deputies said the girl was crying,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: visibly shaken when they spoke to her and told them
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: that she never had gone through such an experience. Scared
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: because she'd been locked inside with two adult men. Also
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: telling deputies that she'd seen Malcolm taking photos of underage
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: girl at the fair the previous week. So investigators seized
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: his phone as part of the case. When questioned by deputies,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: he admitted to buying the items and acknowledged locking the
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: girl inside, claiming, in his words, it was consistent with
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the procedure he'd been trained to follow. Wright denied asking
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: what she would do for him, but admitted that he
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: was drinking on the job and said, in his words,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: he needed help. Blood alcohol level recorded at. 136, in
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: excess of the.
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: 08 limit.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I want to guess a bond on this one. Of course,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Hamilton County with the woke justice system we have here.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: It would probably be nothing. Maybe they would give him,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: as I like to joke, juice and a cookie and
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: send him on his way. Here in West Virginia, that'll
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: net you a $ 40, 000 bond.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Man and woman taken into custody allegedly caught shooting guns
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: in a residential area while consuming alcohol. 25-year-old Tiffany Rose
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Lindo and 25-year-old Jacob Robert Mills, Fort Pierce, Florida, arrested
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: after deputies said they fired several types of guns while
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: consuming alcohol. This was over the weekend. Port Lucie Sheriff's
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Office said they responded to Happiness Street. 9 p.m. after
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: reports of the actively discharging firearms, witnesses told the investigators
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: that a guy and a woman were firing these multiple weapons,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: including a shotgun, a rifle, and handguns. Deputies determined that
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the pair had been firing, for some reason, the weapons
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: into the ground. Both, again, had allegedly consumed alcohol during
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the release. Lindo Mills, each arrested on charges of discharging
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: a firearm in a public or residential area. You can't
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: do that. And using a firearm while under the influence
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: of alcohol. Fortunately, no injuries are reported. The agency issued
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: a statement reminding folks that alcohol can impair the judgment. Also,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: for the need to safely handle firearms and urging anyone
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: who has been drinking, please do not handle or discharge
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: a weapon. Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. Really?
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: And lawyers, don't use chat GPT, and if you do,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: make sure you check the citations and the factual information
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: that it has randomly stuffed into your brief. Phrasing? I
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: was waiting for that. Chester Zoo. That is a zoo
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: in the United Kingdom. Their ticketing system, I guess, created...
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's artificial intelligence in this case. They were doing
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: a guided bus tour of tigers, lions, rhinos, the Komodo dragons.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: All predators. Zoo is blamed a computer error after it advertised...
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: A child predator tour. FC, yeah, Jeff said somewhere Epstein's
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: ears perked up. Well, him and apparently a ton of
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: other perverts in the world, Joe. Child predator tour? Oh,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I gotta go on that. Apparently they got wind of
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: it like, oh, whoops, that's probably not the way we
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: want to advertise this. The zoo quickly changed the bus
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: tour's name after it was branded... sinister by visitors. Zoo
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: spokeswoman said the error was due to our default naming
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the convention in our system. But it was quickly changed. See,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: there you go. Rely on artificial intelligence to do your job.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I think you will be ultimately ill-served. There's where that
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: logic and reasoning and just sort of the simple ability
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: to step away from something that's been created for you
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: and check your work. 555-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Do you think
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: they use chat GPT for the leering center signs up
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota, Joe? That would explain it.
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: No.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: 666-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Happy Wednesday. Looking forward to one hour
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: from now. 7 to 5 with a big picture with
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Jack Atherton. Today, Jack will be talking about a continuing
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: kind of theme that we've been talking about a lot lately,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: artificial intelligence. Jack's topic this morning, the real AI threat.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: And Donald O'Neill, Americans for Prosperity, returns as he typically
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: does on Wednesdays at 7.30. State Director of Americans for
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Prosperity Action in Ohio, specifically focused on the John Husted-Sharrod
• 35:44
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• 35:50
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• 35:53
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• 35:55
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• 35:58
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• 36:00
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• 36:01
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• 36:05
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• 36:33
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  Speaker 1: short hair. I had to get her approval to do that. Anyway,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: pivoting over, another reason you need to vote for Republicans,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: hold your nose to do it. This is about the
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: ideological direction of our country. Forget about the candidate. You're
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: either voting for Democrat socialist policies, which are a failure,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: epic failure, including in the area of education, or you're
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: going to vote for Republicans which really aren't interested in
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: burning down the entire Constitution and capitalist, well, direction of
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: our country. I must acknowledge that we have gone pretty
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: much quasi-socialist here, but beyond that. Don't vote Democrat. And
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: here's another reason why, education. And I turn to the
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: words of Jason Riley. Some of the things, you know,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: this was just racist.
• 37:22
  Speaker 11: No, it's not.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Jason Riley is a black guy. He's citing statistics as
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: it relates to our education system and the decline of
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the education system. Noting Notre Dame announced that it is
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: going to resume going in the right direction. A standardized
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: test score, notably the SAT. Universities suspended that during the pandemic,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: citing the same reasons as other certain colleges for not
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: doing it anymore. I think it's, well, challenging for some folks. Anyway,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: he writes, a review of the recent admissions data confirmed
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: that the standardized test scores provide important quantitative evidence of
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: academic preparation and show a strong correlation between test scores
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: and classroom performance after students matriculate. The review also underscored
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: an insight articulated by researchers at peer institutions. Students from
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: a variety of backgrounds, that would be race, creed, ethnicity, whatever,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: including first-generation, Pell-eligible, and rural applicants, are among the populations
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: most likely to be overlooked in the admissions process without
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: a test requirement. So they bring back the SATs, and
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: here's all the reasons why. As Jason Riley writes, critics
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: insist these standardized tests are poor predictors of how students
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: are going to perform in college. Therefore, they harm the
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: prospects of disadvantaged minority applicants. Research continues to refute those claims.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: For black students, SAT scores have long proved better predictors
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: of academic success than high school grades. These tests don't
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: create differences in current academic ability. They reveal them, which
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: is crucial to matching applicants with colleges where they're likely
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: to flourish. This is an important point he's making. Where's
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: your kid going to do best if they go off
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: to college? The nation's most selective schools, the hard ones,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: typically require a minimum SAT score of at least 1,400.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Average SAT scores for students at Notre Dame, about 1,500.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: According to data collected by the College Board, the organization
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: that administers the SAT, the gap between average Asian and
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: black test scores in 2023 was more than 300%.
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: Points.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Fewer than 2,300 black students nationwide scored 1,400 or above.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: This creates a pool problem at selective schools where there
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: aren't enough black students to satisfy normal admissions requirements to
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: go around. The response has been to water down standards
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: to give certain racial and ethnic groups a boost. Less
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: weight given to objective criteria like grades and test scores
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: and more to subjective measures like essays, teacher recommendations, and
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: personality tests that are weak predictors of student performance in college.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Diluted admission standards inevitably lead to looser grading and graduation requirements.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Beginning next year, though, University of Michigan's going to, oh yeah,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: this is another woke direction for University of Michigan. Michigan's
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: dropping letter grades for some first semester freshmen. and using
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: a pass-fail grading method instead. The school said the policy
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: is going to change to help foster an environment where
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: college students can acclimate to the demands of the University
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: of Michigan education. That's a quote from the school policy change.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Jason Riley asks, but why are students who can't handle
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: the demands of the school admitted in the first place?
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Michigan is more selected than 99% of colleges in the
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: United States. It's not as if the student it rejects
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: have a shortage of excellent higher education alternatives. Typically, professors
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: teach to the middle of student comprehension, which makes it
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: more likely that someone with an SAT score significantly below
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: the school average will have difficulty keeping up. Success in college, i.e.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: earning good grades and graduating with a degree in your
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: preferred major, is highly correlated with attending a school where
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: your academic preparedness approximates your classmates. get in a group
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: of similarly qualified applicants. But to get a desired demographic representation,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: many elite campuses have elaborate remedial programs. He says internal mini-colleges, effectively,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: that accommodate students who struggle with the demands of an
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: education at top-tier school. To administrators, whether these efforts help
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: or harm the intended beneficiaries is at best a secondary concern.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: He's referring to these internal mini-colleges as teaching remedial stuff
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: that the kids should have learned in K-12 that were
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: nonetheless passed through K-12 in spite of not learning core material.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: So you're paying college hourly credit rates to teach something
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: that you could have learned in high school. Is that right?
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: The upshot is that students who likely would thrive at
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: a less selective institution surrounded by students with similar academic
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: backgrounds are instead being funneled into schools like Michigan, where
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: they're more likely to gravitate to the bottom of the class,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: drop out, or major in easier subjects that lead to
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: less remunerative careers. The naval contemplation degree. The problem isn't
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the SAT. It's the racial bean counters in higher ed
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: who mismatch students with schools. Supreme Court ruled in Students
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: for Fair Admissions versus Harvard that racial double standards in
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: college admissions are unconstitutional. But, Old habits die hard. Last week,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: the Trump administration accused the University of California Berkeley School
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: of Law of discriminating against white and Asian applicants, saying, quote,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: in 24 and 25 combined, half of Berkeley Law's admitted
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: black applicants had LSAT scores that were below 95% of
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: the admitted white applicants. This is from the Justice Department
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: press release. Worse, more than one-third of admitted black applicants, 37%,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: had LSAT scores below 99% of the admitted white applicants.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: So this is a suggestion that the University of California,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Berkeley's law school is still engaging in racial discrimination. Riley
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: concludes the following. To address racial disparities in higher education,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: don't lower standards or eliminate standardized testing. Education gaps won't
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: disappear simply because the test goes away. Focus instead on
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: K-12 school reforms. double down on education models from charter schools,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: the vouchers and tax credits that have proven track records
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: of preparing youngsters from all backgrounds for college and stop
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: allowing teachers unions to advance the interest of their members
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: to the detriment of students. And that's the heartbreaking part
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: about all this ignoring race, that the idea that they
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: would pass any student who hasn't been able to master
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: the skills of any grade level moving forward is a
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: disservice to the student. It's a, it's, it, It's a
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: participation award. Well, you showed up. Here's an A, Johnny.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Good luck with that. And that's bad for America. Maybe
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: good for communists in the world who are reliant on
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: useful idiots who don't understand the destructive nature of their policies. 615,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: 55KRCD talk station. And I got worse than that. I mean,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: his observations. It's 620 here at 55 Carat City Talk Station. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK,
• 44:41
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• 44:45
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• 44:47
  Speaker 1: New Hampshire Gary. Good to have you back on the show.
• 44:51
  Speaker 11: Thank you, Brian.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Hey, I want to give you my take on what
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: I see up here in New Hampshire. I see most
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: of the blue-collar friends that I have that I work
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: with never vote. And the ones that do usually are Well, Democrats,
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: you know, they're all strict Democrats. And they're like, well,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: they don't mean what they say. They just say that
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: to get elected. And I don't believe you. And most
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: of them don't even pay attention to the news. They
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: couldn't even tell you when the war started or why,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: or they have no idea. They don't really care. And
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: then I go through the other half of New Hampshire, which,
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: you know, you go up through I ride my bike
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: up in the mountains because it's beautiful. And I got
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: these large towns like Peterborough and Keene, which have large,
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: you know, they're fairly large for New Hampshire. And, you know,
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: every weekend you see the same 150 people out on
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: the main road every Saturday still wearing masks. They're upper
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: 60s and 70s and 80s. And they, you know, all
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: have black letter signs. Hate has no hope.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Well, Gary, at that age, you got a couple of choices.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Let's say the Social Security that you're getting doesn't cover
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: your expenses, most notably in a more expensive region of
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: the country. You need to supplement your income. Your options
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: include perhaps being a Walmart creator or perhaps being a
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: paid laborer. Reactionary, a paid advocate for leftist policies. Both
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: jobs are a paying job. Why not, right? It's easy
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: to just stand around and hang out with your friends,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: drink a cup of coffee, and hold a sign, isn't it?
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Well, I think these people, the wealthy ones that I
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: see with the signs and that, they live in an
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: affluent area, and they don't, you know, these are very
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: million-dollar mansions, and they don't have the American flag. They've
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: got the trans flag.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Of course not. You know? They're the dividing class. They
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: don't want unity in America. They don't want to wave
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: the American flag as a symbol of unity. It's become
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: the symbol of MAGA, or right-wing, which is a heartbreaking
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: concept we have going on in the country, that the
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: far left now views the American flag as a symbol
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: of Republican Party loyalty. That's awful.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Agreed. That I agree on. I totally agree with that.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: They're dividing, and they don't really care about anybody but themselves.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: But going back to your blue-collar voters suggesting that, well,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: they just all lie to us. Let me just dive
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: down on that for a moment. So they're aware of
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: the fact that politicians are liars, or at least that's
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: their perception. So what they're saying by way of campaign
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: promises on the left-hand side is being discounted by the
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: blue-collar Democrat voters just because, well, they don't mean what
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: they say. Now, does that mean when a Democrat comes
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: out after previously advocating for DSA, Tear Down America, Communist
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Party platform principles, When they say, no, no, no, no,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: that was woke one. We were a little over the
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: top back then. I don't believe in that anymore. Rejecting
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: all the crazy concepts that they were wed to about
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: five minutes ago in political time. So they're lying when
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: they say they reject that. Are they lying when they
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: spoke those things in the first place? And then there's
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: the other side of the far left side of the
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: party where they're actually out loud saying, yes, I'm a
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: DSA member. Ergo, I believe in all the DSA platforms.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Is that person lying or are they serious about it?
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: I think we know in which case someone's lying and
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: someone's not. If you're bold enough to go out and
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: embrace communism as a party platform under the banner of DSA,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: you're telling the truth. And if you reject it now
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: after advocating for it for a long time, you're lying now.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: So have them pick between the liars and see which
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: side they come down on. If they're faced with a politician,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: these left-wing, blue-collar, assuming left-wing, but at least blue-collar, blue
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: collar workers, Democrat blue collar workers say, here's your two choices.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Give them the DSA platform and give them whatever a
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: non DSA Democrat is campaigning on, which is only going
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: to be the evil orange man bad. What are they
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: going to choose? And then offer them the Republican party
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: side of the equation, lower taxes, perhaps more job opportunities
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: because of the explosion of construction that's literally going on
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: right now all around us. Thanks not to Democrat leftist
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: confiscatory taxes and heavily regulated policies. No, because the market's
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: open here. Regulations have been reduced under the Trump administration.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: People are actually making more money in spite of the
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: pressures that we're facing now with gasoline prices and inflation.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: But things are a lot better under the conservative administration
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: than they ever would be for a blue-collar worker.
• 49:47
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: I wish it would wind up that way, but they
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: wouldn't even pay attention to enough.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Going back to my points about the education system, they're
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: not paying attention. That's the challenge we face in America.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: In fact, I'm interviewing Bill O'Reilly about his new book.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: That's one of the chapters in his book. The dumbing
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: down of our kids in this country. Scary stuff, man.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: It is scary stuff. Gary, I appreciate your comments serving
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: as a springboard for my rant there. Jamie's on the phone. Jamie,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: you're going to have to hang on a second. It's
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: already talk station.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: 630.
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: Make it 631.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: 55K RCB Talk Station. And a very happy Wednesday to you.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: One hour from now, we've got Donovan O'Neill, Americans for Prosperity,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: in on the Houston Brown Race, which I am already
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: tired of seeing commercials for. Vote Houston. And the big
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: picture with Jack Adams coming up after the top of
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: the hour news, waiting in the wings he is. And
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: I always look forward to that segment. I sure hope
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: you do, too. And I like when people call. Jamie's
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: on the line. Jamie, thanks for holding over the break.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Hey, Brian. Good to talk to you. Thank you, as always.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: for bringing the education crisis to the forefront of things.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: Your past failed college got me this morning. Oh, my goodness.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: I weep for the future of our country, Jamie. I
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: really do. I want every child to get the best
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: possible education they can to work to their maximum potential.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: It's good for them, and that solves the problem that
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: I'm faced with now, the reality that some people are
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: incapable of even providing clothes, food, and shelter for themselves.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's my favorite sort of default obligation that
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: we each owe each other. You know, look out for
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: each other. Prepare for yourself and your future to the
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: extent you can at least cover the nut for your
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: own personal living expenses. That doesn't seem like a tough ask.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: No, and you're right. Our children are like most precious
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: natural resource. Out of the womb, every single human being
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: has the potential to do whatever they want to do.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: And we're just not providing spaces for them to be
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: able to develop in that way. And it's really a crisis.
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: And I'm not sure what it's going to take to
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: change the entire system, but I'm seeing it in real
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: time at my own school. And we do all the
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: things that are good for children, but the cultural impact
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: on behavior, on brains, on perspective, all of that is devastating.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: And I'm not hearing really a lot of people talk
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: about it, to be honest. It's just like same old,
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: same old. And it is definitely, I mean, if we
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: can't look at Passville College as a massive red flag,
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: and there'll be arguments about that too, right? What is passing?
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: I should have gotten a pass, not a fail. I mean,
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: is there even a fail?
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: Is there even a real fail, which there needs to be.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: There needs to be lots of failure. There needs to
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: be lots of practice. The kids can't handle it. They
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: can't handle something hard. It turns into, you know, this
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: massive struggle just for this little bit of hard that
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: we need them to be pushing through. I'm shaking my head.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: I'm living it every day.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, isn't failure the canary in the coal mine
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: for that child? Isn't that supposed to be the red
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: flag that says, whoa, something is wrong here. The child
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: cannot work at grade level. The child missed the boat
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: on some education. Is it the school itself? Is it
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: the methodology, the way we're teaching? Is it the child's
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: psychology that needs to be in a different schooling environment,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: maybe homeschool or a Montessori-type program? You know, one size
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: doesn't fit all for education, which is why I'm such
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: a huge fan of school choice. If you know you
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: are being let down by your current school, shouldn't there
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: be an option for you? I mean, of course the
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: answer is yes, but no, you listen to the teachers
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: and you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Well,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: you know what? Screw you guys. You're not providing an
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: education for my child. I shouldn't be stuck here.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I would argue the entire idea of
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: group teach has just been part of the lie and
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: part of the facade. I mean, there's one of each
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: of us in the world, and we learn at a
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: different pace, we have different interests, and we don't line 20-,
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: 30-year-olds up and say, oh, you all should be at
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: the same place with your skills and your interests, but
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: yet we do it with kids every day. So I
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: would argue... that every child needs to be educated as
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: an individual across the board. And that is what Montessori is.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: And it's a beautiful system. And it sounds completely impossible
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: to people who teach traditional, but it's not. The other
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: thing is the children take a lot more ownership in
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: their own learning. They're held accountable. They make a plan.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: They're held to the plan. They do hard things. They
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: practice things that they're not mastered. I mean, literally, this
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: is not.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: complicated shocking concept being held accountable wow that's a preparation
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: for life right there guess what there are going to
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: be bad things that happen to you i'm sorry there
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: are no safe spaces we can curl up in a
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: fetal position in life they should ask you to come
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: into work you got to be there at a certain
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: time these are things you're going to be expected to
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: do in the real world we're not going to fake
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: a reality that doesn't exist.
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: No and for children It's really important that that comes
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: off as a belief in them, not a, like, punishment
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: and they're in trouble and you basically are terrible because
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: you don't get it. It has to be a belief
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: in the child because of the nature of a child. Like,
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: they have so much potential. They love to learn. Normally,
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, look at two- and three- and four-year-olds,
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: and then they get into school and we have anxiety?
• 55:40
  Speaker 10: What?
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: What? That's crazy.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: I appreciate your call, Jamie. I appreciate what you're doing
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: to educate young people each and every day. And just
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: a word, I mean, I went to public schools my
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: whole life, and I went to the University of Cincinnati,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: not some highfalutin Ivy League thing. I sat in classrooms
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: with a whole bunch of people, and I'll be the
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: first person to be critical of my behavior in classroom.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I found it a little difficult to mind the rules.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: That's me. I kind of disrupted the rest of the class.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: I was kind of, yeah, you know, Thomas, would you
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: shut up? But it worked. I mean, I got educated.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Don't know what it would have been like if I'd
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: have gone to a private school, maybe in a different
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: place right now. But, you know, for some people it
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: can work. But you've got to keep in mind not
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: all kids are the same. They're not going to all
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: flourish in a traditional school environment. And when you move
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: away from just the concept of the traditional school environment
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: that she was talking about and realize what the teachers
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: are doing there, which is passing kids who can't meet
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: the criteria for that grade, your kid's not getting an education. Trouble,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: a tough learning environment, and then allowing kids to move on.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: It's just a recipe for disaster, and it's proving that
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: over and over again. And I'm just happy with these
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: Ivy League schools finally realizing that, you know what, maybe
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: we shouldn't have gotten away from that SAT test because
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: it is a great indicator of how well they're going
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: to do here before we start taking their money. 637
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: right now, 55KRC, the talk station. Talk station, very happy
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Wednesday to you. I do note in my caller friends
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: who are on hold, I have to get this out
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: of my system before I can take calls because it's
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: a corollary to the SAT didn't create the education gap
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: by Jason Riley. It directly related to the conversation we're
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: having this morning about children not being able to accomplish
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: skill sets at any given grade level and yet being
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: allowed to advance forward.
• 57:22
  Speaker 11: It's terrible.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: New York dumbs down its graduates from the editorial board
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: over at the Journal. New York, you read in the classroom,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: the state is plowing ahead with a plan to abolish
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: a key high school graduation test, even if students aren't
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: graduating with basic knowledge or skills. Mark this down as
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: one more sorry milestone in America's educational march to mediocrity,
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: while creating frustrated voters who wonder why they can't compete
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: in modern U.S. economy. Consider this point when you're getting
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: ready to vote in November. Who's pushing this woke crap? Sorry,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: editorial board, I had to say that. Empire State high
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: schoolers have been measuring their knowledge on Regents exams since 1878.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: They must take five exams, English, math, science, social studies,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: and quote, any additional close quote test. But starting in 2028,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: they're no longer going to have to pass the exams
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: to graduate. Board of Regents Commission recommended this change in 2023,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: and on Monday, the Regents voted to instruct the State
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Education Department to move ahead. State officials insist they're not
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: rejecting rigor, but their ideas for replacing the graduation standards
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: aren't exactly reassuring. Though details aren't final, a State Education
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: Department statement notes that the state test will be one
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: of the multiple sources of evidence. So is Regents over there,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: and then here's all the other stuff we're going to
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: take into consideration. This is all in assessing students. Others
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: include teacher observations and performance-based learning experiences. Districts will also
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: have to find a way to measure students for graduation
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: by a new, quote, portrait of a graduate, close quote,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: who can only be one-sixth academically prepared. The other five attributes, well,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: they include reflective and future-focused, a global citizen. Journal interjects,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: you can't make this stuff up. This graduation overhaul is about, quote,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: creating deeper, more meaningful educational experiences. That says the State
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: Education Commissioner, Betty Rosa. No, this overhaul is about imposing
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: enough subjective criteria to let schools send students out the
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: door without letting the public know that the schools taught
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: them little or nothing. It's a get-out-of-failure-free card for teachers, unions,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: school administrators, and politicians. State Comptroller reported in 2022 that
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: only 57% of New York high school graduates in the
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: class of 2019 were college-ready. It's a nationwide problem. Some
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: 175 students are on a waiting list this fall for
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: remedial math at the University of California, San Diego. That,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: according to a college investor report last week. Many other
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: states have abolished graduation exams for the sake of equity
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: in recent years. The regents' exams aren't perfect, but grade
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: inflation has devalued school grades and standardized tests help the
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: students and adults know what the children are actually learning.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: More colleges, Notre Dame, as I mentioned earlier, Jason Riley's article,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: more colleges are recognizing this, reinstating standardized test requirements for admissions.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: New York, Equity Coalition in 2023 said this as the
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: state considered Nixon passing the exams, quote, there are real-life
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: consequences for young graduates who have to take remedial classes
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: and lack basic skills for jobs. But current graduation requirements
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: did not cause these challenges, they said. New York graduates
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: can soon take pride in having the portrait of a
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: graduate and being a global citizen. But who doesn't have
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: the skills to succeed in America? That's the problem. Elections
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: have consequences. You vote left-wing. You vote Democrat. They are
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: in favor of this equity crap. They're in favor of
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: keeping your children dumb. They're not in favor of educational choice. That,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: to me, is right there. That is almost an election-defining issue,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: at least for someone who cares about the education of
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: the children of America. 646 right now. 55KRC, the talk station.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: That is 650 at 55KRC, the talk station. Jack Allerton.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: I know he's listening. Looking forward to having him at
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: the top of the hour news of the big picture.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Today's conversation will involve the real AI threat. I hope
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: you're looking forward to that as much as I am.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: Donald O'Neill at the bottom of the next hour on
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: the Houston Brown Race. Without further ado, I promise James
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: I take his call. James, welcome to the show. Thanks
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: for indulging me while I got the education op-ed out
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: of my system.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 11: Thank you, Dr.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: Bryan.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 7: I come in peace.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: Love everybody.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 10: There's nothing you can do about it.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: Fair enough.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 10: All right, now I'm listening to a conservative station, and
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 10: they're talking about lying, who's lying. In a couple of hours,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 10: I'll be listening to a liberal station, and they'll be
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 10: talking about who's lying. And I'm telling you the same
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 10: exact words that come out of each side mouth. And
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 10: I know it's an agenda somewhere in there, probably big money,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 10: you know, sending stuff on down the pipe. But I say,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 10: you know, us peons in the middle, When do we
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 10: get together? Or do we get together? Maybe never. You know,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 10: but I just listen at the two sides, go at it,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 10: and it's funny.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: But, you know, going back to Bill O'Reilly's comment when
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: he was on the news the other day, you know,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: this election, you're not voting for a person, you're voting
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: for a radical party that wants to change everything in
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: this country, or, you know, a traditional party that is
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: not enthusiastic about change but is open to it. That's
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: a quote from him from yesterday. He's going to be
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: on the show tomorrow, but You say, you know, two sides.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: I think there's no such thing as two sides anymore. Now,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: there are two parties, basically. There are libertarians out there.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: There are socialists out there. There are communists out there.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: But effectively, we are and have been forever a two-party system.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: But looking at the two individual parties, the range of
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: political ideology within them is miles apart. You know, you've
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: got people like me, the traditional Tea Party folks, libertarian,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: little-lil libertarian, limited government, fiscal responsibility, free market. Please, dear God,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: give me nothing more than that. That's all I want
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: from government. But then there are the rhino Republicans, the
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: warmonger Republicans, the Republicans that want to control, Republicans that
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: want to issue handouts from government like $ 5, 000 checks. It's
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: all over the board. Then you pivot over to the
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: other side. The left is filled with a much wider
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: gap between the far left in the party, which are literally,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: definitionally speaking, at minimum socialists, maybe even communist at the
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: read the DSA platform underneath the big tent. Then you
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: pivot over and you got a guy like Fetterman in
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: the Democrat tent. So I don't know which side we're
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: talking about unless you look at any given election. What
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: are the political philosophies being advanced by these individual candidates?
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: And O'Reilly's point is, well, you can look at that,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: but more broadly speaking, which side are you safer on?
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: Liars on both sides, James, and I share your opinion
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: about that. I agree all day long. So if everybody's
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: lying to you, Which are the worst liars in the pack?
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: At least the Republican Party isn't advocating taking over the
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: means of production, isn't advocating for government-issued housing for all,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: isn't interested in taking the money away from all the
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: people who generate wealth in this country. That's a huge
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: divide right there. So what are you going to roll
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: your dice on? Fair enough. I guess he's finished. Maybe
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: Jack Adler will comment on this. I'm not going to
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: put him in a quarter on that. And, you know,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: there's even one more article in this education thing. I
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: saw the New York Post article on California. Number of
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: college applicants reporting flawless GPAs. This goes to the grade
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: inflation problem we have in high schools. Flawless GPAs of
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: 4.0 or even higher has doubled in just one decade.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: In 2015, there were 52,998 straight A graduates applying to
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: the University of California. Over 10 years. And fast forward
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: to the class of 2025, where 103,138 graduated with straight A's.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: There's a teacher in California, a guy named Glenn Sachs.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: He teaches social studies at Los Angeles Unified School District.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: He's quoted as saying, when I was hired at one
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: LAUSD school, the administrator showed me my classroom. A man
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: I liked and respected told me, quote, don't fail too
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: many kids. Remember, it's easier to replace one teacher than
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: 35 students. citing growing pressures on teachers, started in COVID,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: he said, to eliminate D's and F's in order to
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: shore up ready enrollment and attendance. Failing grades meant instruction
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: needed to be revised, which means just don't hand out
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: D's and F's. And yet, when they look at the
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: statistical measurements, smarter balance, summative assessment, these are tests they
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: do out there, measuring student proficiency in math and English,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: described as an abysmal 57% in English, just proficiency, 30.5%
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: in math for 11th graders for the last school year.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: It just illustrates over and over. In spite of the
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: fact that only 56% of them are proficient in one area,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: they graduated with straight A's anyway. How can anybody defend this?
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Somewhere out there, some member of the teachers union is
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: screaming at a radio for what it Or he is
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: screaming at the radio. I would like to hear the
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: defense of this. Elections have consequences. Keep that one fun
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: fact in mind before you head to the polls in
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: November or vote early. I appreciate you letting me get
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: that out of my system. And welcome back to The
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: Morning Show.
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  Speaker 8: Well, thanks for the heads up. And thanks for having
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 8: me back, pal.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: Always enjoy it.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 8: I have been leery of robots ever since 1968. when
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 8: Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001 showed us Hal the robot cutting
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 8: off an astronaut's oxygen. I later suspected Kamala Harris must
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 8: be a robot because without a teleprompter, she could only
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 8: talk gibberish. However, despite those concerns, I want to warn
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 8: listeners not about robots, but about politicians and industry executives
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 8: who want the federal government to regulate AI excessively while
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 8: Red China and Russia push full speed ahead. Sam Altman
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 8: is chief executive officer of OpenAI, the folks who gave
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 8: us ChatGPT. I don't use it, as you can tell.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry for all the mistakes. Now, having freely created
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 8: the technology that made him a billionaire, Sam Altman wants
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 8: federal safety requirements enforced by federal audits to slow the
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 8: pace of AI development. Anthropics Dario Amadei and, to a
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 8: lesser extent, Elon Musk have joined in that call. They
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 8: hope other nations will limit development too, perhaps by agreeing
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 8: on multinational accords. Okay, maybe they will. When Communist China's
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 8: leader Xi Jinping arrives in Washington next week, I bet
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 8: He'll whisper in President Trump's ear, like some Chinese Henny Youngman, Donald,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 8: take my AI, please. It could happen. Xi does speak
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 8: some English, and President Trump will tell you that if
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 8: you wanted to, he could speak Mandarin better than Confucius. However,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 8: President Trump has already said, quote, we're leading China in AI,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 8: and frankly, I want to keep it that way because
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 8: whoever wins AI wins, end quote. Now, I can hear
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 8: lofty opponents of our president tut-tutting Oh, he's so crude
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 8: and stupid and fat. And Melania doesn't like him anymore.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 8: And you know what they say. Sometimes they're right. For instance,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 8: as you've mentioned, Trump's promise to pay every adult citizen
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 8: $ 5, 000 if Republicans hold the House and the Senate. That's inflationary, unconstitutional,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 8: and the kind of vote buying we normally get from
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 8: Democrat socialists.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: Amen, Jack.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 8: But someone I respected... More than most anyone as a kid,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 8: my family doctor said something very similar back then about
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 8: another president, Ronald Reagan. The good doctor, and he really
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 8: was good, thought America should unilaterally disarm, surrender our nuclear arsenal,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 8: and then hope that the Soviet Union would follow suit.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 8: Many people agreed with my doctor. President Reagan himself, during
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 8: a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 8: came this close to disarming. But then the Gipper apparently thought, well, wait,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 8: am I nuts? Mikhail may be a nice guy, but
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 8: there's also the Communist Party, the Politburo, the KGB, including
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 8: that crazy young lieutenant colonel. What's his name? Oh, yes,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 8: Vlad Putin. So Reagan said to himself, disarmament would mean suicide.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 8: He told Gorbachev instead, thanks but no thanks, and ramped
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 8: up medium-range missiles in Europe and what critics derisively called
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 8: Star Wars in outer space. And after 69 years of
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 8: terrorizing the world, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, largely
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 8: because it could not keep up with the free world economically, militarily,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 8: and technologically. Hold on, though. Some of you must be asking,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 8: to quote, win against Red China, we're going to let
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 8: Hal the Robot kill us all? Well, to quote Joe Biden,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 8: I'm not saying that. I am saying we should not
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 8: invite the federal government, either Democrats or Republicans, to control
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 8: AI development, to pick winners and losers, very likely choosing
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 8: the politicians' donors, and then try to compete with authoritarian
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 8: regimes that refuse to be controlled. Regimes like Red China
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 8: that already are fermenting fear in America of AI to
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 8: keep us from competing. We know China has a rich
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 8: history of co-opting Democrats like Dianne Feinstein, Eric Swalwell, Tim Walz,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 8: and others too numerous to mention. No doubt some Republicans too.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 8: But critics ask, what will happen without government control? Well,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 8: let me ask you. Do we really need big government
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 8: controlling everything? We often talk about movies, Brian. Back in
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 8: the 1920s, silent movie days, many Hollywood movies were becoming
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 8: as sexually depraved as you can imagine, even in 2026.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 8: It was part of the disillusionment following World War I.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 8: These movies showed ancient and modern orgies, fathers forcing daughters
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 8: into prostitution, I cannot even describe, Brian, the most vile
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 8: of them on morning radio. It continued until a grassroots
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 8: groundswell of revulsion, the kind of revulsion that led to Prohibition,
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 8: forced Hollywood studios to join together and police themselves to
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 8: agree on a code and set up a private council
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 8: to enforce that code. And guess what? The depravity stopped.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 8: As always, I like to mention Shirley Temple and Mickey
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 8: Rooney soon topped the box office. Can AI companies do
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 8: the same thing prodded by congressional hearings and oversight and
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 8: public revulsion?
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 11: Sure.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 8: However, here's a dirty secret, friends. The established AI giants
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 8: may actually want government control to block competition from upstarts
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 8: who have new and better ideas, as they once did,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 8: and to provide established companies with legal immunity. I saw
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 8: this myself. I saw this back when I was a
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 8: lawyer in New York. You were in Chicago. Some of
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 8: my firm's biggest clients were the biggest tobacco companies. We
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 8: defended them in product liability lawsuits. Private plaintiffs claimed that
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 8: smoking caused cancer. The companies at first fought against federal
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 8: warnings slapped on each pack of cigarettes. But in reality,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 8: those warnings, to a degree, protected big tobacco because we
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 8: could argue that smokers had been warned, yet had chosen
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 8: to assume the risk. All this is nothing new. In
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 8: the past, opponents tried to ban or over-regulate railroads, automobiles.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 8: They still want to ban gas-powered cars. What are called Luddites,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 8: the term for 19th century machine breakers, people who didn't
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 8: want machine looms. They have opposed almost every technological advance
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 8: since the invention of the wheel, claiming they destroyed jobs, health,
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  Speaker 8: the environment, you name it. Transition is hard, and technology
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 8: does sometimes need to be regulated. So yes, let's debate.
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  Speaker 8: What's the reasonable way to regulate AI that's least likely
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 8: to disrupt free enterprise? When the Biden administration sent federal
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 8: employees to tell Mark Zuckerberg and others which political statements
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 8: and opponents ought to be shadow banned by social media.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 8: The feds actually set up an office in Zuckerberg's firm.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 8: Elon Musk responded in the private marketplace. He bought Twitter
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 8: and restored free speech on the internet. The last thing
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 8: we needed was the federal government taking over. In sum,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 8: I say, go slowly slowing down. Go slowly with federal,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 8: much less international regulation, which our enemies will not honor. Also,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 8: let state and local voters have a voice in the process,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 8: especially when it comes to local concerns like zoning with
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 8: data centers and water quality and that sort of thing.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 8: Don't let established companies block competitors and stifle advances while
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 8: China and other dictatorships zoom ahead. Let's instead Let's trust
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  Speaker 8: in progress on this 250th anniversary of our independence because progress,
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 8: my friend, is what America is all about. What do
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  Speaker 8: you say? I agree. 100% human, friend.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you completely. And, you know, for someone
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: who was always of the mind, you're talking about your
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: tobacco litigation argument. Since the 1964 Surgeon General's report came
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: out saying smoking will kill you, boiling it down to
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: its barest elements, I've always thought, you know, you do
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: assume the risk because the science is right there. The
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: whole world's been told that tobacco causes cancer. But liability,
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: I think my ultimate point on this, the liability that
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: any of these companies face is for the harm that
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: they do directly related to the product that they made
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: is what brings about safety. If they know they're going
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: to be on the hook, let's say you can use
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: their product, ChatGPT, for example, to to create a virus
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: that will kill the planet. I know it's too late
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: to unring the bell if someone does that, but clearly
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: they have every interest in the world to not kill
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: off the consumers of their product, which makes me think
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: they might want to put a safeguard in there, but
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: they would be responsible for and liable for all humankind
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: for what they did to the world. I just can't
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: see that happening. It's the fear of doing something bad.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: It's the fear of accountability and being held responsible is
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: what's going to force them to do the right thing
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: in the end. I think that's kind of the capitalist method,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: isn't it?
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  Speaker 8: Brian, these companies are already facing lawsuits. That's why they
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 8: want to shut them down. And by the way, picking
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 8: up on something you were talking about before, education. If
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 8: you worry, folks, about computers getting too smart, why not
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 8: try making students smarter instead of dumbing down graduation requirements?
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 8: And there's one more thing. There must be listeners saying,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 8: why are you so afraid of China? I'm sick of
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 8: hearing about China. Their economy is tanking. Well, that's true.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 8: But that's what makes them so dangerous. And remember, even
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 8: with an impoverished population, Communist China, for a generation, took
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 8: our manufacturing jobs, thanks to both Democrats and establishment Republicans
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 8: looking for cheap labor. Until Donald Trump, for all his craziness,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 8: began bringing those jobs back. China still has a stranglehold
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 8: on rare earth minerals because we've over-regulated our own reserves.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: Oh!
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 8: Way we over-regulated energy in the name of climate change
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 8: and so much else. The danger is always politically motivated over-regulation.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're not looking for an argument with me today,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: Jack Atherton, which is true. I think every single week
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: you've been doing this segment. Brilliant as always. Yeah, marketplace
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: can figure it out. We are in competition. We better
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: stay in competition or the Chinese will win, as you
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: pointed out and Donald Trump pointed out the other day
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it Jack Atherton appreciate your time
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: every single week here on the 55 care see morning
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• 1:18:57
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  Speaker 1: heart calm Jack I look forward to next week already
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: as I always do and best of health and love
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• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: It's Wednesday. It's time for that week. We get AFP,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperity. Donovan O'Neill. Donovan O'Neill happens to be
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: the state director for AFP Action in Ohio, but also
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: he's behind BuckeyeBlueprint.com along with the rest of the folks
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: at AFP. And here I am. Welcome back. Donovan O'Neill
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: staring at Buckeye Blueprint and the agenda. And who could
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: argue with anything on the list, including something I've been
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: on a tear on all day long, education opportunity and
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: the great ideas that the more conservative side of the
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: ledger has for education, rather than teachers' unions and public
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: schools that are grade-inflating and passing children who don't understand
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: the subject matter of any given grade level. Welcome back, Donovan.
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  Speaker 7: Brian, good to be with you. And I love the
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 7: Buckeye Blueprint. It's our way to get a bolder, better
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  Speaker 7: Buckeye State for all Ohioans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, economic freedom, education opportunity, energy abundance. I mean, who
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: could argue with any of these platforms unless you, of course,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: believe that our mere existence is killing the planet. We
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: need to eradicate all things related to carbon production. I
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: am so over that, and I think, Donovan, in that
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: particular area, more people are coming over to my side
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: of the equation. I can only pray that that's the case.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think that's right. Yeah, I mean, there's no
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 7: surprise there are people who oppose those things, right? When
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 7: it comes to education, like you were talking about, one
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 7: of the most vocal groups in opposition, well, there's two
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 7: groups in opposition really here, the teachers' unions and the
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 7: local governments, the administrators, right, who operate and thrive off
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 7: of the existing status quo. It's not the teachers, it's
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 7: not the parents, and it's certainly, we know, not the kids, right,
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 7: who will want to be in a good educational environment.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 7: It's those two institutions push back against empowering families with
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 7: educational opportunity and giving teachers freedom and empowering them to
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 7: do what's best.
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  Speaker 1: And you just, I mean, you pointed out, maybe not
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: as hard as it needs to be hit, you know,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: hit it with a sledgehammer. They aren't advocating for children
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: and children's education. They're advocating to keep or improve their
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: own personal working conditions and bottom line. What is the
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: argument in favor of maintaining public schools if you can
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: demonstrate that they have failed our children in terms of
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: scoring and testing and kids going into college and flunking
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: out or walking away from it because they can't handle
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: the material in college? Come on, counter that with something solid.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: I don't hear anything but, you know, teachers unions and
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: their personal interest in all this, which is terrible.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, absolutely. And what's even worse, right, Brian, is where
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 7: you have Republicans, so-called conservatives, who tout these things. Not
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 7: necessarily where we need to go this morning, right? But
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 7: it isn't a problem that is exclusive to our friends
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 7: in the Democrat socialist wing of this country. It's something
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 7: that permeates into all politics. parts of politics. That's why
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 7: we need to remain firm and pushing back and staying
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 7: focused on that North Star, empowering families and teachers to
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 7: make the decisions that are best for our kids, primarily families,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 7: but then freeing the teachers to be able to do
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 7: what they do best and why they got into that
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 7: career field from the beginning. And it wasn't necessarily for,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 7: you know, having a strong union that stops the teachers
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 7: at every corner.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and have a greater say in the curriculum, too.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand if someone out there has a religious
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: background and they want to send a kid to a
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: school that will literally teach and support their religion, then
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: they have that option. But let's say you're just looking
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: for a school choice that doesn't involve teaching woke ideology.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: You're talking about matters of sexual natures with K through
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: 6th grade kids that just wants to go back to
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: core reading, writing, and arithmetic kind of knowledge that is
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: really going to serve the child in the future. You
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: need to have an escape mechanism from your children being
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: in an indoctrination camp. And that's what I believe public
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: schools have turned into. It's an indoctrination camp.
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, it's one of the best ways to solve
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 7: those problems, right? If you create that, if you have
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 7: that market where, you know, folks can take their kid
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 7: to the school that best meets their children's needs. I
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 7: always joke with lawmakers in Columbus, you know, if you
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 7: want to send your kid to the woke school of
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 7: liberal indoctrination, you should have that choice. I'm not sending
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 7: my kids there. But, you know, The idea of school
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 7: choice is that parents and families should be able to
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 7: get their kid in the education that best meets that
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 7: child's needs.
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  Speaker 11: I agree with you, Brian.
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  Speaker 7: I think we need more of a focus on some
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 7: of those core tenets, what education is all about, reading, writing,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 7: arithmetic at large. But at the end of the day,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 7: the parent knows best what's going to unlock that child's potential,
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 7: and that's what we need lawmakers driving towards.
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  Speaker 1: No question about it. So, you know, who could argue
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: with choice? I mean, look, if you build it, they
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: will come, Donovan and Neil. If you allow choice... People
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: will make the choice to pull their kids and put
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: them in a different school that that family has determined
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: is in their best interest. I know this works, and
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: I know it's a pent-up demand for it because if
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: you look at the number of parents who've opted, when
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: they get the idea of choice, when they've opted to
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: choose something other than public education, they go for it
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: in large numbers.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, part of the challenge here, too, is just
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 7: getting people to think differently about that, right? Because for
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 7: a long part of history, most of parents and adults
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 7: with school-age kids these days didn't know about those opportunities.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 7: I was a weird kid, Brian. I'm a weird kid now,
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 7: but I was a weird kid then, too, when I
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 7: was homeschooled. My family, it was a rare thing to do, right?
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 7: But now it's more in vogue. It's more popular. There's
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 7: more options and resources. And so as we move into
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 7: this space and make education opportunity available to more families,
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 7: We're going to see a multitude of opportunities and education
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 7: systems develop in places where, you know, maybe choice wasn't
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 7: an option, right? The only choice you had was a
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 7: bus or walking to school. You'll now have some more options.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 7: This is a good thing for Ohioans and the country
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 7: at large.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: Competition is always a good thing, isn't it, Donovan?
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 7: You know, we argue that point, but, you know, some
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 7: folks need to be shown the light a little more
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 7: than others, I think, on that point.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: And in terms of homeschooling, I have some dear friends
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: of ours, my wife and I are some friends at
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: Liberal Close. They have two toddler-age kids. They're homeschooling them,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: but they're tapping into the growing amount of resources that
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: exist in the world, multiple different families sharing responsibilities for education,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: tapping into the resources that are readily available for anybody
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: who looks for them. It's a growing movement, and I
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: certainly understand why more and more people are gravitating toward it. Gee,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: I wonder which side of the free education or education
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: A choice in education, John Husted and Sherrod Brown are.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about the Husted-Brown race with Donovan O'Neill after
• 1:25:43
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• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: the talk station. It's Americans for Prosperity time here on
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: the 55-KRC Morning Show. Every Wednesday we get the benefit
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: of Donovan O'Neill, State Director for AFP Action in Ohio,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: talking about what's going on in Ohio. helping people get
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: motivated to help out AFP and help out ourselves by
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: knocking on doors and convincing people that there's a choice.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: And Don Roneal, I've been relying on this Bill O'Reilly
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: quote because he's going to be on the program tomorrow
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: to talk about his new book, Confronting America. But he
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: was being interviewed the other day about the book. He said,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: this election, you're not voting for a person. You're voting
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: for a radical party on one side, DSA, that wants
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: to change everything in this country, contrasting it with Republican side,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: which is a more traditional party that's not enthusiastic about, well,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: undermining the Constitution, but is open to some kind of change.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: That's really what's at stake here. And I know a
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: lot of people, this has really been a problem for me,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: most notably in the governor race, that people have some
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: kind of problem with Vivek Ramaswamy. It's not that they
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: think Amy Acton is a better candidate, in fact, reject
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: her completely. But in the next breath, we'll say, well,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not voting for Vivek Ramaswamy because of what? Some
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: meme that tells you he's an evil person or something?
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: You know, step back from that and look at who's
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: got a better record, who's been a demonstrably successful person
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: navigating the challenges we have in Ohio and understands where
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: the problems are, or Amy Lockdown Acton, who won't even
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: get in front of a camera or have a debate
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: with her opponent. Donovan?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think O'Reilly's right once again. He's
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 7: always been. But I think in particular, and it's what
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 7: we're seeing play out on the doors across the state,
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 7: we've knocked over 600,000 since the spring just on this U.S.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 7: Senate race. And one of the biggest shifts that I've
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 7: seen across the state and what folks are talking about
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 7: at the doors is this rise of the Democrat socialism
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 7: within the Democrat Party. The actual embracing of ideas or,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 7: in other cases, absolute silence, calling out their colleagues, When
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 7: there's talk about abolishing ICE or abolishing the Senate or
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 7: the radical kinds of policies that they are embracing from
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 7: New York to Michigan to the West Coast, it's a problem.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 7: And voters are recognizing that less about the person and
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 7: what direction is our nation going to go based on
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 7: who we elect this November.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: Well, and I don't know, I haven't seen any, well,
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: at least I can't recall any specific quotes or pronouncements
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: from Sherrod Brown. A lot of these DSA supporting folks,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: comments that they've made in the past, you know, coming
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: out out loud in favor of things like abolishing the police,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: getting rid of ICE, open borders, and now they're walking
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: away from them. Do you get a sense that the
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: left has realized that they are facing a challenge because
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: they have moved so far left and that the idea
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: that we vote for a Democrat, if we do, that
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: that person is going to embrace this radical left-wing woke ideology,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: even though they will have been on record not endorsing it?
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: I just worry about that because the Democrats seem to
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: have a well-oiled machine in terms of collectively joining together
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: in spite of the cross-party differences they have. I mean,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: a vote for a Democrat is a vote for this
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: DSA nonsense from my perspective.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 7: I don't– well, and I think in our case here
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 7: in Ohio with Sherrod Brown, there's not a difference in
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 7: opinion here. I mean Sherrod Brown over his career has
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 7: mastered the art of being a political chameleon, right? Say
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 7: one thing in Ohio, do a completely different thing in DC.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 7: And so while, yeah, you can go on and go
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 7: view some news interviews that he's done this year where
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 7: he's talking about ending tariffs, deporting illegal– criminal immigrants.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 7: It's entirely different, Brian, and you and I know this,
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 7: than his record actually in Washington, D.C. He votes nearly
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 7: 100 percent of the time, 98 percent of the time
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 7: with his party.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 11: There you are.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 7: And he will vote 100 percent of the time with them.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 7: It's just a fact. We have 30 years of history here,
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 7: 50 if you go back to his whole career in politics.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 7: Sherrod Brown will vote with the Democrats. The Democrat Party
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 7: has been taken over by the Democrat socialists. And he
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 7: will support these things as he has before. He may
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 7: not say it on the campaign trail, but it's what
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 7: he will do when elected.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Judge him by his record. Not what he's telling
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: you now. It's convenient to deny your prior voting record
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: or what your prior statements are, but you can't walk
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: away from a vote. You can tell people all day
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: long that you're not part of the DSA, but there
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: you are. You're voting 100% or almost 100% with the Democrats.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: That's what you're going to get. That's what people need
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: to understand. That's why it's more about not the person.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: It's which party you're voting for because that's the direction
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: the left is going. It's undeniable.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, one of the things we– I've heard in
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 7: talking because we go out and we're not just talking
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 7: to friendlies. We're talking to real swing voters, people who
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 7: are trying to make a decision about who they're going
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 7: to vote for when that opportunity presents itself. One of
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 7: the arguments I hear is, hey, we– people like a
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 7: divided government. They go back to the Clinton era. president, Republicans,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 7: and Congress thing, right? And they say, well, it's good
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 7: when government doesn't work. I generally agree with that, Brian.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 7: I don't want government passing new laws. That costs me
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 7: money and creates new rules and regulations. But even in
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 7: that divided government situation, one of the things we point
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 7: out is there's a lot Congress can do to override
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 7: the president, create that chaos situation. And again, do we
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 7: really want to give a platform– to this rise of
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 7: socialism in our country. Sherrod Brown will be a yes
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 7: vote 100% of the time for the Green Energy New Deal,
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 7: abolishing ICE, abolishing police, and radically transforming our country, not
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 7: in a way that is for.
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  Speaker 10: The better, by the way.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: Without a doubt. In the door-knocking campaign, since you've knocked
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: on 600,000-plus doors with AFP, what are you hearing from
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: the voters? Because what worries me, and we've got ourselves
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: in a real jam with this war in the Middle
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: East and Obviously, it's impacted gasoline prices reported locally, gas
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: prices in the state of Ohio about $ 4. 59 a gallon.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: Pretty crazy. And it's obviously having an inflationary effect. I
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: just keep going back to, yeah, this is what we're
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: living with, but this is what the Democrats told you
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: they were going to do to you via regulation. At
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: least you can point to the war and the supply
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: chain problems, which I observe will disappear whenever the war
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: is over and hope to God that happens tomorrow. But
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: it's not intentional. These are market fluctuations that any presidency
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: might find itself stuck with. But if you vote for
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: the Democrats, you're voting again for the green agenda and
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: more expensive electricity right when the demand for electricity is
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: going through the roof. It's just a recipe for further disaster.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: So would you just like vote your emotion now? Damn it.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: I'm so tired of paying almost five bucks a gallon.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way in hell I'm going to vote for
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: these evil Republicans. They're the ones that put it in
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: this mess. That's just so short-sighted. I just can't believe
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: anybody would take that opinion.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 7: Well, the reality on the doors, what we're hearing from
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 7: voters on the doors is very similar to what we
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 7: were hearing two years ago. It's the economy. It's fuel prices.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 7: It's people paying more and feeling like they're getting less.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 7: And so the argument we make here in Ohio, right,
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 7: other states may have a reason for change. But here
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 7: in Ohio, the option is going backwards to Sherrod Brown,
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 7: a guy who supported the policies that put us in
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 7: this situation, right, Green Energy New Deal, voted for environmental
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 7: policies from the 19– going back to the 1970s where
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 7: we had– that pushed jobs out of this state. Or
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 7: going forward with a fresh voice in John Husted, someone
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 7: who's been there for the last 18 months voting on
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 7: the right things to modernize our regulatory regime, voting to
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 7: keep taxes low, voting to get government spending under control.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 7: We can go forward with John Husted and begin to
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 7: get ourselves out of the situation we've been in for
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 7: the last– the dysfunction. Or you can vote for Sherrod Brown,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 7: go backwards, and give the DSA one more vote in Washington, D.C.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 7: to transform our country. I'm going to vote for John Husted.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 7: I'm going to vote forward and make sure that we
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 7: continue to do the work it takes to get this
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 7: country back on track again after decades of D.C. dysfunction
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 7: that Sherrod Brown emboldened and empowered through his votes in Washington. Excellent.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that summary. And real quick, before we part company,
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: Donovan Neal from AFP, what are you hearing about the voters'
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: reaction to Amy Acton just basically running a Biden campaign
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: from her basement? Any concern about that? Are people aware
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: of her and whether or not, I mean, they're with
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: her or not on the issues, but the fact that
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: she's just literally hiding, is that something that's coming through
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: in the door knocking?
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 7: You know, I don't hear a lot about Amy on
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 7: the doors, actually. And I think that's a testament to
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 7: her campaign. She's not being seen. She's not being heard.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 7: I'll point to crowds and audiences we see around the state.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 7: look at the videos share um the take from slum
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 7: he has large crowds gathering anywhere he goes amy acton
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 7: can assemble a couple dozen people to me that you
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 7: know the polls say one thing but we actually see
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 7: on the ground and feel uh is way different um
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 7: and i think that bodes well for november and.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: The governor's race i please see the optimistic comments and
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: i'm uh i'm happy about that donald neal americans for
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: prosperity what do you want my listeners to.
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  Speaker 7: Do today We need you to go to AFPaction.com. Voters
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 7: are going to cast their first ballots in 19 days.
• 1:35:04
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• 1:35:06
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  Speaker 7: Let's make a difference. We've got 48 days to go
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  Speaker 7: until Election Day, 19 days until people cast their first ballots.
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  Speaker 7: We need to get in the fight and make this happen.
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  Speaker 1: Every little bit counts. Don McNeil, thanks for the work
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: that you do throughout the week and year in the
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: name of sanity here in the state of Ohio. I
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: hope my listeners will join in the fun and help out.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: as we fast approach November. We'll talk next week. Donovan,
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  Speaker 1: at 8. Without further ado, she promised to call. You know,
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: Maureen's like a box of pattern-observing chocolates. You never know
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: what you're going to get. Welcome back, Maureen, my friend.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: I love hearing from you.
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  Speaker 9: Good morning, Brian. I slept in today, so I missed
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 9: the first part of the program, and I didn't tune
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 9: in until Jack Atherton's part, so I hope.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not repeating something you already talked about. Well, you
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: got the good part, Maureen. You got the good part.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: Mostly my stream of consciousness at 5 o'clock hour, I'm
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: not necessarily proud of this morning. I can't even remember
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: what I said, which is kind of typical in the
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock hour, but I have been on a rant
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: about the education system in this country. So many reports
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: about so many young people just having their education. The
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: system failed them. Absolutely failed them. So that was the
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: dominant part of the 6 o'clock hour. But anyway, I
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: don't think you called to talk about that, Maureen, but
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: maybe so.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 9: No, I wanted to talk about the AI information that's
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 9: coming out. And so I don't think it's any coincidence,
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 9: but a new documentary aired on Netflix yesterday. And it's
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 9: being billed as, quote, the movie of our time. And
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 9: it's called The AI Documentary, How I Became an Apocalyptomist.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 9: That's a new word they made up. But anyway, it
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 9: stars Sam Altman, CEO of Open Eye, and Dario Amadei,
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 9: the CEO of Anthropic, and Reid Hoffman of Manus AI.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 9: And the topic is about impending doom about artificial intelligence.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 9: And it's originally launched by the Sundance Film Festival in February, which,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 9: you know, that's been out for a little bit. You know,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 9: it's back in February. But it's important to know that
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 9: the Sundance documentary program is is funded and it's architected
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 9: by George Soros. And it's, yeah, he's the founding financier, backer.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 9: And Sundance Documentaries received grants from the Open Society, the
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 9: Ford Foundation, and MacArthur. It's a globalist deep state operation.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 9: And when you've got Obama and Kamala Harris coming out
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 9: of the shadows, to instill fear in us, fear is
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 9: the way they control us. So if we allow these
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 9: frontier AI companies to squeeze out all the smaller companies,
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 9: they're trying to make this like a transnational group with
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 9: just the top frontier AI companies. So therefore, They're going
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 9: to get their control over us. And kind of like
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 9: they did with the COVID agenda, they scared you. And
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 9: the climate is, they scared us into directing us into
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 9: where the little compartment they want us to go. So,
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 9: which leads me to what I sent you yesterday, that
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 9: last refuge, that's who's posting on X. And he's talking
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 9: about this possible crisis. October surprise, where they could come
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 9: up with some sort of a false flag, and it
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 9: will take place, you know, using AI, kind of like
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 9: a rogue, a virus gone rogue. And then it would
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 9: cause all kinds of chaos, and it could cause public
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 9: threats and national security threats against us. And what it
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 9: said was, I'm kind of quoting what he wrote on
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 9: his ex, that's the last refuge I'm quoting. So the
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 9: frontier AI groups know the vulnerabilities. The political groups know
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 9: how to optimize for greatest growth of government. And the
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 9: rest of us just have to sit back and wait
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 9: to find out who the target is. Will it be banking, finance, transportation, energy,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 9: et cetera?
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: Or all the above.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly. But we need to kind of hold tight
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 9: for October and see what happens and don't fall for it.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 9: Don't fall for the fear. Don't let it control us
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 9: and direct us into some major control grid of us.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like i mean i'd like to think you you
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: see it i mean if you step back from what
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: you're living real time and the worry and the anxiety
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: that's generated by whatever they're doing to us intentionally or
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: not and you move back from it you see exactly
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: what they do all the time is never let a
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: good crisis go to waste they are the ones that
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: left is one of the ones that want to expand
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: government control over every lmr lives how do you do
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: it fear.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 9: Yep Yep, and it's problem, reaction, solution. It all goes
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 9: back to that. They create the problem. They come in
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 9: with this great solution, and then we are left to
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 9: pick up the pieces or to fall in line with that.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe that order is wrong. They know what they want
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: to accomplish. They have the quote-unquote solution, which in this
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: particular case seems to be freedom from, oh, I don't know,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: antitrust accusations, freedom from legal immunity for whatever it is
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: they create, etc. Controlling the regulatory environment for their personal benefit,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: which happens all the time with big money corporations. They
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: get what they want. And then in order to achieve that,
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: they say, hmm, what can we do to the world
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: to so frighten them to death that we'll get what
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: we want? Enter the catastrophe.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 10: Yep. Yep.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 9: And I think one last thing. It's important to remember
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 9: what President Trump had on his true social. I'm going
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 9: to quote that. He says, we already have tremendous criminal
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 9: and regulatory power over the companies. There's a sick conspiracy
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 9: going on around about AI and data centers. The only
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 9: one happy about this is China. And as Jack Atherson
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 9: also quoted, whoever wins AI wins. And we can't let
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 9: this transnational group win and squeeze out the little ones. Otherwise,
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 9: we're powerless. And that's their goal for us to be powerless.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 9: They can control us.
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: That certainly seems to be the way. I mean, again,
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: looking at history and looking at these various catastrophes and
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: crises always met with a government solution. How about no?
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: It's funny, Maureen. I bought a T-shirt just the other
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: day and I actually wore it yesterday. The government should dot, dot, dot.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: Then a giant nope. That's my default position. The government
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: needs to... No, no, no, no, they don't. Bring about
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: more catastrophe.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 11: Maureen, I.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: It seems to me you've got the dots connected fully well,
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: and I can't argue with you today, and I can't
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: even challenge you to say, this sounds like it's bat
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: crap insanity.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 9: I'm sounding more reasonable to you, it seems.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe you've just convinced me that you have been right
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: all along, because I've had to not necessarily eat my words,
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: but I've had to sort of go back and say,
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: you know what? Real early on, I think I was
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: justifiable and sort of questioning where Maureen was going, but
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: that was real early on. But then when finally the
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: information comes out, and that takes forever these days. Like,
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: damn it, she was on to something back then.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 9: Now, if you have time, I can talk about something
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 9: that happened at the midterm rallies.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: Well, go ahead real quick because you only have two
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: minutes left in the segment.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 9: Okay. I got in a little spout with ChatGPT because
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 9: right after the second evening of the rally, they play
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 9: Christopher Macchio, who is the tenor that Trump hired to
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 9: play songs for him at his events. He did Nessum Dorma.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 9: First he did America the Beautiful, then Nessun Dormant, then
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 9: Family of the Opera, All I Ask of You. And
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 9: so I asked, I wanted to find out about how
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 9: often he plays that and what my theory is about
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 9: the sum of all fears and why he plays that.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 9: Because he's signaling us that a sum of all fears
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 9: moment is coming because he always plays that at different events.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 9: And so, first of all, ChatGPT said, no, he didn't
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 9: do it. And I said, yes, he did. I heard
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 9: it myself. And he said, well, where were you listening?
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 9: And I said, C-SPAN, which I don't normally listen to,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 9: but that's the only way I could get it. Anyway,
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 9: he said, oh, I see you're right. And he said,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 9: but a lot of conspiracy theories tie it to the
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 9: sum of all fears. But actually, it could mean something else.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 9: And I said, well, how many times has he played it?
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 9: And so we had to list all these things. By
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 9: the end of the conversation, he said, yes, it seems
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 9: you may be correct. He does seem to play it
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 9: a lot and could be sending a sum of all
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 9: fears message. So people need to watch that movie. If
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 9: there's a nuclear event, know that we're going to be OK.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 9: It's just going to get on the verge of this standoff.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 9: And then it's going to be like the movie where
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 9: they find out that a different government tried to start
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 9: a war with us.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: Well, actually, the other conspiracy theory, pattern observation, the other concern,
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: what might be an October surprise is the Iranians either
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: blowing up a nuclear weapon underground or something along those
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: lines or threatening it, having something to do with their
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: nuclear program. And that may very well come in October
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: if you want to call it an October surprise whenever
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: that happens. But that's the other one that's been swirling
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: around online. I'm not in a position to know, but
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: it certainly is possible.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 9: I agree with that, too. And I think that they
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 9: may try to pin it on Iran, but it could
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 9: be another country, like in the movie Some of Our Fears.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 9: Or we may think it's them, but we got to
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 9: stay tuned for who it's really going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Or like the Russian gas pipeline.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: Who blew that one up?
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  Speaker 9: Right. And then we're going to find out that the
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  Speaker 9: uranium came from Hillary and Obama, uranium one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've been clinging to that one for a while.
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  Speaker 1: You know, even if that's true, Maureen, that's a piece
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  Speaker 1: of information I don't think any of us is ever
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: going to get. Although if it's out there and it's true,
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: I would really like to know it. I know you're
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: more optimistic about that than me, but mark that one
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  Speaker 1: down as a Maureen prediction today because we may as
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  Speaker 1: well say, remember when Maureen predicted that? Look, right there.
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  Speaker 1: It's Bill and Hillary Clinton. God bless you, Maureen. Thank
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: you for tuning in from Florida, and I'm glad you
• 1:45:35
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• 1:45:43
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• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: hear about Russia and maybe delve into the First Amendment,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: which is under attack and it has been. I remember
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: I think about during the COVID days, hmm, First Amendment,
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: you are not allowed to say the word ivermectin.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: You're forced to get a shot. American military gutted with
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: a bunch of people who didn't get a shot. Oh,
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: that's right. Shot doesn't do anything, pretty much. Anyway, we
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: don't need to rehash that old history, but it is
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: certainly true. And going back to Maureen's point, didn't they
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: use that to really, really Take over and control our
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: lives for so long. At least we finally got the memo.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we learned a hard lesson from that and won't
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: allow it to happen again. Who wants to control you
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: more than the other guys? Who in the two-party system
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: we had wants to meet down government control over all
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: aspects of your life? Right, that would be the Democrats.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: Or certainly if you're a gambling person, Polly Marker would
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: certainly embrace my conclusion that if you want more control
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: of your life, then you vote for Democrats. 99% of
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: bettors say that.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: So I kind of suggested, and I hope that I'm right,
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: that maybe the ship has sailed on this whole carbon
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: dioxide thing. We're killing ourselves. And it's amazing how the
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: concerns over the, well, the planet itself, the whole idea
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: that the climate's going to change and we're all going
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: to die. Oh, my God, we've got to throw trillions
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: and trillions of dollars in windmills and hydroelectric and every
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: other form of electricity that doesn't involve hydrocarbons until it
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: hits the fan. And, of course, it would be perhaps
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: the Middle East situation, which is getting worse. Now, you've
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: got the Houthis on one side of the Saudi peninsula
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: wreaking havoc, hitting the east-west pipeline that the Saudis were
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: using to get the oil out because of the Strait
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: of Hormuz, where the Iranians, of course, have put the
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: brakes on. So both sides. And you also have China
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: coming back into the oil market, and it never really left,
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: but it did quit buying as much. They started going
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: back to the market just the other day. So on
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: top of the supply chain problems we have, there's going
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: to be, well, available product issues. demand is now higher.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: They say China helped cushion the global pain that we've
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: collectively felt because of the Strait of Hormuz and, of course,
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: the other side of the Saudi Arabian Peninsula. What is
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: that place called? Bob Al-Mandab Strait. That'd be the Red
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: Sea choke point. China wasn't buying as much. In fact,
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: I think they were down 32% in the first quarter,
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: but now they're back at it again. grabbing up all
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: the oil they can. So that is causing further pressure
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: on the oil market. But look at this, speaking of
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: my global warming comment. But just remember, throughout all the
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: hysteria that we've been dealing with now, what seems to
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: be forever on carbon dioxide and oil evil. The global
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: demand has never gone down. And coal, man, that was
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: the redheaded stepchild of the evil energy-producing things, right? What
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: provides abundant and cheap and reliable energy? Coal couldn't be
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: worse than coal. Well, guess what? Global coal demand forecast
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: to rise by 1.2% this year to a record 8.94
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: billion tons. Why? The Middle East conflict. Because... The globe
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: needs a dependable power source. This is the comments from
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: the International Energy Agency who pointed this out. So you've
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: got disruptions to oil and liquefied natural gas, but there's coal.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: It's right there. It's pretty much everywhere. So since the
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: oil price has been driven up, higher electricity generation is
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: being demanded every single day. See, our demands on the
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: grid never go down. It always goes up. AI making
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: it that much worse. We need a reliable source of fuel.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: Higher coal use? according to the International Energy Agency, highest
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: in Europe. Japan, Korea, China, and other markets exceeding all
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: prior estimates of demand. Europe's on the list. Gee, I
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: thought they were all about green. I thought they were
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: all about, you know, eliminating reliable power sources. No, they
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: are all about that. Until... Right, the population reached the
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: breaking point when the AFD takes over large swaths of
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: elections in Germany. The woke nutcases in Europe are freaking out,
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: and they have to have reliable power. So, well, let's
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: forget about carbon dioxide. Let's forget about coal. We need it.
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: We need power. We're buying it. Practical solution for a problem.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: A problem created by them. Let's shut down the nuclear plants.
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: Let's not build gas plants. Here, there's China building new
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: coal plants every single week. They've got a reliable grid,
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: and their population is expected to be 75% EVs in
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: the near-term future. 75%. Getting rid of the internal combustion engine.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: A dream of California. Well, without a grid to support it,
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: and without reliable power generation, your dream will remain one.
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: And when global disruptions, the something we desperately need and
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: have never not needed... hits you in the head, you
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: can't turn around and fire up a windmill, can you? Hmm. 825-55-KRC,
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• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: Glenn Beck. Almost everything we... 55-KRC, The Talk Station. 831
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  Speaker 1: on a Wednesday. Boy, it hasn't been the same last
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks with that Judge Ann Napolitano, who's been
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: in Russia, but he is back. He's written a column,
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: which will come out tonight, which I have, More Threats
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  Speaker 1: to Freedom of Speech, but he was in Russia, so
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  Speaker 1: I'll start off this morning to see if I can
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  Speaker 1: pronounce Russian correctly. Wish you good morning by saying, Dobroye Utro.
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  Speaker 1: Judge Ann Napolitano, great to have you back, my friend.
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  Speaker 11: Thank you, Brian.
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  Speaker 12: A pleasure to be back with you. Of course, I
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 12: missed you. You know, you can't fly JFK to Moscow,
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 12: which is a 10-hour flight, you have to fly through
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 12: Dubai or Istanbul, and then you have to go east
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 12: in order to avoid the area around Ukraine. Bottom line,
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 12: it takes about 30 hours to get from New York
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 12: to Moscow and about 28 hours returning.
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  Speaker 1: That would be, Brian Thomas would say, no, I'm going
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: to take a pass on that. I'm not a huge
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: fan of air travel anyway, just because of the time
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: and flying around in a tin can and you're stuck
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: based upon their whims and Kind of like being under
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: government control, but 30 hours, man, you obviously you were
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: motivated to be there. What drew you to Moscow, Judge Napolitano?
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 8: Well, I was.
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 12: Invited to dinner with Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister. So
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 12: my four traveling companions, John Mearsheimer, Alistair Crook, Larry Johnson,
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 12: Alistair's wife, and I had a three-hour dinner in the
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 12: residence room. with Foreign Minister Lavrov. He looked at me
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 12: and said, ask me anything. Then the next day, I
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 12: interviewed him with a Russian-American journalist friend of mine, Dmitry Symes,
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 12: for an hour, and that interview ran all.
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 6: Over the world.
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  Speaker 12: So it was those two events plus two lecturing opportunities
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 12: at the School of International Diplomacy at Moscow State University,
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 12: of which Lavrov is himself a graduate, which drew me there.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 12: It was a compelling and professionally fulfilling, if somewhat exhausting,
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 12: but professionally fulfilling time there. So I was gone for
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 12: nine days. I was only there for five and a
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 12: half because of all.
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  Speaker 6: The time traveling.
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  Speaker 11: Word. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Take a pass on that. What did you learn from Lavrov?
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  Speaker 1: If you had to come up with some of the
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: most interesting or revealing, if I may use that word,
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: comments from him that maybe we aren't, we don't have
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: any awareness of, what would you say it is?
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 12: It is that shortly before the Anchorage meeting between President
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 12: Trump and President Putin, the Americans made a proposal for
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 12: a permanent peace, which would have given the Donbass and
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 12: Crimea to Russia, which was the American proposal, which would
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 12: have allowed the Russian language and the Russian religion everywhere
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 12: in Ukraine, and which would have assured the permanent neutrality
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 12: of the rest of Ukraine. President Putin was skeptical of it.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 12: They talked him into it. He came to Moscow. He
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 12: shook hands with Trump. They agreed to it. President Putin
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 12: said in Sergei Lavrov's presence to President Trump, what about
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 12: President Zelensky? President Trump responded typically, Zelensky will do whatever
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 12: I tell him to do. They shook hands.
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  Speaker 1: They went home. They believed they.
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  Speaker 11: Had an agreement.
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  Speaker 12: And then the Americans reneged on their own agreement. This
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 12: is the Russian version of this. We know that the
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 12: European leaders to whom Trump spoke, as well as to
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 12: his own people back here in the U.S., almost to
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 12: a person advised against the agreement. And the war went
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 12: on and on and on and on. So the bottom
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 12: line is they don't trust the Americans. They surely don't
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 12: trust Witkoff and Kushner, who they believe are in Russia
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 12: for their own financial benefit. not as true emissaries of
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 12: the American government. That's my takeaway from the three-hour dinner
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 12: with him. When I interviewed him the.
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 6: Next day with cameras rolling, he obviously was a lot
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 6: more dialed back than he was after the shots of
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 6: vodka at dinner. Brian, they drink vodka like we drink water.
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 6: The minute he put the glass down, the waiter filled
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 6: it again to the brim.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That was my experience with our British clients when
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: I was practicing law in Chicago, Your Honor. Lots and lots.
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: In their particular case, it was scotch. But either way,
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: lots of drinking goes on, more so than here. But
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: I guess the idea, and I know Trump has made
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: similar comments like, well, you know, Zelensky's going to do
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: what I say, what I want. But the other day
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: he told Zelensky not to bomb any more Russian petroleum facilities.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: And he said, I told Zelensky not to do it.
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: And the Russians said, fine, we won't bomb theirs. And
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  Speaker 1: It was just yesterday. Well, the Ukrainians started bombing Russian
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: facilities and, in fact, hit one. So I guess Zelensky
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: isn't under the thumb of Donald Trump, as Donald Trump
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: has suggested.
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  Speaker 6: Unfortunately, that's correct.
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 11: That's correct.
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  Speaker 12: With the new arrangement of American arms, but Europeans paying
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 12: for them, and with a pretty much renegade CIA, you know,
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 12: there are 20 CIA stations in Ukraine. all established once
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 12: the war started. This is almost out of Donald Trump's hands.
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 12: He almost can't even control what goes on there. It's
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 12: a terrible, terrible state of affairs. I know we don't
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 12: usually talk about foreign affairs like this, but he can't
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 12: seem to get out of the Iran war that he started.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 12: The Democrats are rising in the polls because it costs
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 12: so much money to fill up your tank and now
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 12: to buy a loaf of bread. People are going to
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 12: blame all of this on his wars against which he
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 12: campaigned very clearly.
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: And unambiguously when he ran. There is no question in
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: my mind, but I keep going back to, that's an
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: undeniable fact right there. I mean, anyone who's an always
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: MAGA person, they get mad at me when I criticize
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and fine, you're entitled to your opinion, but
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: There is a direct line between our bombing Iran and
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: what has happened since, which is the price of oil
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: going up. There's chokeholds on both sides of Saudi Arabia.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: It's not getting in and out. Certainly not at a
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: level it was before the war. We're all feeling it.
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: But I keep pivoting back over. Fine, you can be
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: mad about inflation.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 7: We all are.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: You can be mad about $ 5 a gallon gas. We
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: all are. But this is exactly what the Democrats wanted
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: in the first place with their global warming agenda. They
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: told you they wanted the price to go up. They
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: put regulations on the books, which forced that on us.
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: That's a policy platform, reducing our dependence and our use
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: of oil and natural gas. So you're getting it from
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: Trump because of a war, which I guess at some
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: point will be over, which will allow the markets to
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: come back to a sense of normalcy. Or you vote
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: for the Democrats and get pissed off because of your
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: current reality, and you'll end up with policies in place
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: that are going to result in the same thing. I mean,
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: we're in a catch-22 right now.
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 12: I don't think the electorate has the sophistication to understand
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 12: your argument. I think they're going to blame... It's going
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 12: to be an anti-Trump vote.
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 12: A lot of conservative Republicans who voted for Trump three times...
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 12: will want to send him a message by voting for
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 12: a Democrat. How is Bernie Marino's ex-son-in-law doing? I think
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 12: that race is near you. Is he likely to get reelected?
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 12: The one who allegedly, I know he denies it, was
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 12: engaged in abusing his wife?
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: I can only rely on history and the fact that
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: Ohio has been a Republican state for some time now.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: I honestly have not been following that race closely, and
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen any polling on that. But my concern is,
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: going back to your point, people sort of making a
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: protest vote. The polls are pretty neck and neck on
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: most all of the races. I was talking earlier about
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: the John Husted, Sherrod Brown race. Obviously, Senate race is
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: critically important. They're polling neck and neck. And I think
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: even Sherrod Brown's a Scotia head of John Husted. Amy Acton,
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: who apparently doesn't, I mean, can't even answer a question,
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: hiding in her basement, literally running a Joe Biden type campaign.
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: won't do an interview with Vivek Ramaswamy. She's afraid of him.
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: She hides and she won't answer questions to any of
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: the press. That race is neck and neck. Amy, let's
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: lock the whole state down. Let's close the schools acting.
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: And she's got really no platform to run on. And yeah,
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: there we have it. Going to your point, more people
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: are worried about the current situation and going to be
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: blaming Donald Trump and the Republicans for where we are.
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 12: Now, I don't use diesel. I don't own a diesel vehicle.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 12: But diesel in New Jersey is $ 6. 50 a gallon. In California,
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 12: it's $ 10 a gallon. Now, that will affect all of
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 12: us because almost everything you eat has been in a
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 12: truck powered by diesel as it made its way to
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 12: the supermarkets.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: Well, and I'll just turn to the left. Uh, we
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: haven't built a refinery in this country and I can't
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: remember when it's been decades and decades, environmental regulation, NIMBY lawsuits,
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: everything stands in the way. If you find a place
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: where you can even build one, it won't even a
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: shovel won't hit the ground for at least 10 years
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: because of litigation. There's a challenge. Where'd that come from?
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: Green leftist policies, preventing it from happening.
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  Speaker 11: Correct. Correct. So, um, Here we are.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 12: I mean, the president is probably not campaigning aggressively because
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 12: his advisors have said, nobody wants their picture taken with you. Look,
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 12: they had a convention in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, and they
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 12: couldn't fill the place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: It does tell a tale, doesn't it, Judge Napolitano? Again,
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: that's why I keep reminding people what they will be
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: voting for. To read the Democrat Socialist of America platform,
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: which you, as a protector and defender of the Constitution
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: of the United States more so than any human being, sees, well,
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: evaporating in front of his very eyes if they adopt
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: those policies. How they bring them about, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but getting rid of the Supreme Court, getting rid of, well,
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  Speaker 1: the executive office, basically, getting rid of criminal justice system
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  Speaker 1: across the board. It's a recipe for absolute chaos and disaster.
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  Speaker 12: There is someone out there who says we cannot normalize murder.
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  Speaker 12: the great Thomas Massey yesterday on the floor of the
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  Speaker 12: House of Representatives. I was just beaming, beaming, listening to
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  Speaker 12: him as he outlined his articles of impeachment against Pete Hegsa.
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  Speaker 12: This is not over the war. This is over the
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  Speaker 12: killings and the speedboats in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific.
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  Speaker 12: And the way Congressman Massey wrote it, framed it, read
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  Speaker 12: it and advanced it, it's irrefutable. And he did it
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  Speaker 12: under a rule that will force the House to vote
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  Speaker 12: on it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And as I was reading those articles of impeachment
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  Speaker 1: and I was going, you know what, there's a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of people that are going to be screaming out loud
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  Speaker 1: about Congressman Massey, backstab or whatever, call him what you want.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the first three articles have a very
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  Speaker 1: good point, which is, don't we have a War Powers
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  Speaker 1: Resolution from 1973? And doesn't it have specific words about
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  Speaker 1: engaging in conduct? And doesn't it have specific timelines that
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  Speaker 1: need to be followed absent congressional approval? It's a law
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  Speaker 1: on the books. It's a law of the land, and
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  Speaker 1: yet it seems to have evaporated. But I think Thomas
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  Speaker 1: Massey's trying to correct decades of, since World War II,
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  Speaker 1: you and I have talked about this, decades of unilateral
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  Speaker 1: determination we're going to war by the President of the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America, whether it's John F. Kennedy or,
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  Speaker 1: here in this case, Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 12: But God bless Congressman Massey, of course, who is at
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  Speaker 12: the end of his time in the House of Representatives.
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  Speaker 12: continuing to stand for principles, first principles. We cannot normalize murder.
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  Speaker 12: And that's what this is. It is the normalization of murder. Again,
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  Speaker 12: we're not talking about Iran. We're talking about murdering people
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  Speaker 12: in speedboats and then murdering the survivors of the initial attack.
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  Speaker 1: And there are rules of engagement on the books that
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  Speaker 1: address that as well. You can't kill a guy floating
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  Speaker 1: around in the water after you blew his boat up.
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  Speaker 11: Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: Complicated questions. I think they're mad at Massey because he's
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  Speaker 1: bringing up decent points. These are legitimate points of law.
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  Speaker 1: And isn't it true in the military you cannot follow
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  Speaker 1: an illegal order?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, it is true.
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  Speaker 12: And you were taught that day two or day three
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  Speaker 12: of whatever your training is, whether it's basic training, advanced
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  Speaker 12: infantry training, or officer candidate school. It is illegal to
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  Speaker 12: follow an illegal order. And killing a non- combatant intentionally
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  Speaker 12: is always unlawful.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the funny, and it's pathetic, but it's funny at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, you know, what is an unlawful order
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  Speaker 1: when you don't have, when you have elected officials and
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  Speaker 1: defenders of the conflict suggesting, well, it's not even a war,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore the War Powers Resolution of 73 doesn't apply.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're getting into Orwellian semantics here, aren't we,
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  Speaker 1: Your Honor?
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 12: Did you see the photo of this beautiful young couple?
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  Speaker 12: They're both in their late 20s, a husband and wife.
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  Speaker 12: He's now dead. He was shot down in the first
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  Speaker 12: two weeks of Iran. She has been denied his death
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  Speaker 12: benefits by the Pentagon. The Pentagon says.
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  Speaker 11: It's not a war. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 12: Her husband was killed by people the U.S. military was
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  Speaker 12: trying to kill. And you're going to deny her death benefits. Well,
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  Speaker 12: JD Vance says it's not a war. This stuff is, uh,
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  Speaker 12: this is why people are aggravated. Uh, when, when it
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  Speaker 12: comes to right and wrong, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: No question about it. Judging Napolitano, uh, your, your podcast
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  Speaker 1: judging freedom on throughout the week. I encourage people to
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  Speaker 7: Use it.
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  Speaker 1: We always have a segment on this. Uh, where, who
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  Speaker 1: you'd be talking to today, your.
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  Speaker 12: Honor, uh, I piled everything up early in the week
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  Speaker 12: because of some traveling I'm doing. I have Phil Giraldi
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  Speaker 12: and Gilbert Doctorow today. Yesterday, Jeff Sachs and Colonel Douglas McGregor.
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  Speaker 12: My same thing. cast of analysts just on different days
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  Speaker 12: because of my own schedule. But thank you for asking, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Always like to ask. Always like to check it out myself.
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  Speaker 1: And always remember to check out Judge Ann Napolitano's column.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't really get to it, but it's a very
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