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55KRC Thursday - Cure Starts Now, Scott Wartman, Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Five o five, fifty five k r C detalk station
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Speaker 1: Friday Eves will vad no idea?
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Speaker 2: What's fun?
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Speaker 1: Good morning? Sorry? Threw me for a loop there. I
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Speaker 1: was talking to Joe Strecker and then the microphone came on.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, whoa, I better be prepared to say something.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, how's that Happy Friday? E Brian Thomas right
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Speaker 1: here hosted the fifty five Case Morning Show. Of course,
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Speaker 1: the Joe I'm referring to Joe Trekker, executive producer, Internet
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Speaker 1: research guru. All right, great guy, let him produce your podcast.
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Speaker 1: That's what he does on the side, little free plug
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Speaker 1: for Joe Strecker. No, I do not receive any compensation
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Speaker 1: or any form of benefit as a consequence of mentioning
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Speaker 1: Joe Strecker's side gig. I just to put a smile
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Speaker 1: on his face. Joe, would you do that if they
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Speaker 1: paid you more? It's a rhetorical question, Joe. It's rhetorical
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Speaker 1: craziness going on in downtown Cincinnati, which is good because
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Speaker 1: Scott Warton from the Cincinnion Inquire is going to join
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Speaker 1: the program at eight o five talking about this immigration
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Speaker 1: Legal Defense fund that they just voted in two hundred
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Speaker 1: and ten thousand dollars to help these cities immigrant community,
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Speaker 1: meaning illegal immigrant community. Because again, as I pointed out yesterday,
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Speaker 1: if you're here legally, you got no problems. Fear. Oh
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Speaker 1: there's fear. Okay, fine, maybe irrational fear if you don't. Again,
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Speaker 1: if you're not involved with violating the law in any way,
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Speaker 1: shape or form, I don't know what you have to fear.
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Speaker 1: But in any event, apparently the immigrant community lease acorded
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Speaker 1: of the elected officials of Downtown SINCINNTI I think they're
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Speaker 1: deserving a free there's that word free legal help. And
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go back to the fact that i'd
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Speaker 1: really in my experience as a lawyer, and we're going
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Speaker 1: back a long time now. I haven't actively practiced law
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Speaker 1: since I started the morning show, and this is my
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Speaker 1: twentieth year in radio. I couldn't litigate myself out of
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Speaker 1: a paper bag there I sat it. But two hundred
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Speaker 1: and ten thousand dollars done buy you a whole lot
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Speaker 1: of legal representation. And there's that pesky word free. Cording
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Speaker 1: to reporting from Marlinna Langer at WCPO the other day
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Speaker 1: on this Access to Council, which is the name of
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Speaker 1: the organization that's going to receive the two hundred and
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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars grant from the City of Cincinnati Taxpayers.
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Speaker 1: Is described as an entity that provides free legal representation
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Speaker 1: for those facing eviction. Okay, well, that means they're doing
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Speaker 1: the work for free, then they don't need to be
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Speaker 1: paid a billable hour. We'll not talk about that with
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Speaker 1: Scott Warbon in atoh five, which allows me to transition
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Speaker 1: over to something that just absolutely blew my mind this morning.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to readjust my figures and remember that
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Speaker 1: it's calendar year twenty twenty six and my talking about
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Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars an hour lawyer fees is a little old. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: things have changed in the world of a billable hour
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Speaker 1: them starting the cure starts now and they have just
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Speaker 1: done amazing things, including this push for a global of
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Speaker 1: the idea is that if you can get around and
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Speaker 1: figure out pediatric brain cancer, which is unbelievably aggressive, that
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Speaker 1: you may end up finding the solution for all forms
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Speaker 1: they all keep their ideas and their theories and their
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Speaker 1: research quiet, because of course, if they end up with
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Speaker 1: the cure, they're the ones that are going to benefit
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Speaker 1: from it. But in the name of well solving curing
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Speaker 1: to the efforts of the Cure starts. Now you can
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Speaker 1: twenty year old, fifteen year, twelve year and e ten
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Speaker 1: all Pappy van Winkle. So Keith's going to join the
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Speaker 1: program at seven thirty to talk about this raffle and
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Speaker 1: how you can get tickets, and I encourage you to
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Speaker 1: do that. My bourbon loving friends pivoting over there. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I not really sure what I wanted to talk about
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Speaker 1: this morning, but first off, readjusting my perception of Bill
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Speaker 1: of the Hours, And I'm going to say this in
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Speaker 1: the context of the threat, the threat that at some
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Speaker 1: point you might find yourselves in the crosshairs of some litigation,
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Speaker 1: whether it's initiated by the state, that's a concern, maybe
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Speaker 1: getting brought on a controversy of some sort, you're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to retain counsel. It is a fear that we
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Speaker 1: all should have because look headlines, top lawyers fees have skyrocketed.
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Speaker 1: Be prepared to pay thirty four hundred dollars an hour?
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Speaker 1: What low stream journal article Some senior partners charging as
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Speaker 1: much as thirty four hundred dollars an hour at the
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Speaker 1: country's largest law firm. Some research outfit called Pursuit, which
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Speaker 1: is a software company that well in house lawyers use
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Speaker 1: to analyze legal bills. So it's like gas buddy for lawyers.
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Speaker 1: They know how much people are charging. Among the top
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Speaker 1: fifty large largest firms, rates for partners have increased sixteen
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Speaker 1: percent on average in one calendar year last year thirty
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Speaker 1: four hundred dollars an hour. Oh, it gets worse for
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Speaker 1: some some lawyers, they say with specialized skills. Eric Trautman,
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Speaker 1: partner at a southern calif fourny law firm, just gave
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Speaker 1: an eye open to his clients. He's upping his rates
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Speaker 1: to six thousand dollars an hour for consulting on compliance issues.
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Speaker 1: His firm described as a niche specialty telecom regulation firm.
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Speaker 1: It was just last year he was charging forty two
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Speaker 1: hundred dollars an hour. It's like, how can you just
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Speaker 1: the audacity? So can you afford it? The answer is
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Speaker 1: probably no. You know, only the wealthiest and most well
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Speaker 1: connected folks out of the world can afford that kind
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Speaker 1: of hourly rate. So even for lesser non niche practices
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Speaker 1: with rates going up that high. The article even pointed
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Speaker 1: out that associates and I'm laughing at back, and I
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Speaker 1: remember back in the early nineteen nineties when I started
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Speaker 1: practicing practicing law at the law firm. What I was
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Speaker 1: being billed out at, that's not what I put in
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Speaker 1: my pocket. But you know, the buildable rate for an
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Speaker 1: associate was in the several hundred dollars back then Again,
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Speaker 1: we're going back a while, and they point out that
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Speaker 1: artificial intelligence is getting a lot of the work that
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Speaker 1: you know, front level associates used to do. You were
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Speaker 1: green behind the ears, you needed to be trained. You well,
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Speaker 1: did some grunt work. You reviewed documents and regulatory filings,
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Speaker 1: had the due diligence and some of the grunt work.
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Speaker 1: And artificial intelligence is taking over that the associate lawyers
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Speaker 1: who do this type of work, which may be going
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Speaker 1: the way to the DODO given AI. We'll see where
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Speaker 1: that advancement of technology goes in so far as legal
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Speaker 1: work is concerned. They charge about fourteen hundred dollars an hour.
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Speaker 1: Junior associates up to two thousand dollars, well a senior
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Speaker 1: associates up to two thousand dollars, but fourteen hundred dollars
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Speaker 1: an hour for the frontline grunt lawyers. That adds up
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Speaker 1: a lot. So hopefully you'll never be involved in litigation
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Speaker 1: in any way shape or form. But that is a
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Speaker 1: looming thread out there, and I always point that out,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think, for example, you know, you can
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Speaker 1: say what you want about the January sixth protesters, and
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Speaker 1: I've always referred to it as a drunken fraternity party
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Speaker 1: that got out of hand. And I do not believe
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Speaker 1: it was a threat to the democracy of this great
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Speaker 1: country of ours or anything else. Just stupid people doing
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Speaker 1: stupid things. But the reaction from government was overwhelming. You
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Speaker 1: know what reminds me of is this FBI investigation that
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Speaker 1: woman that got kidnapped. How many resources are they throwing
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Speaker 1: at that? How many people out there who've experienced tragedy, Uh, well,
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Speaker 1: thanks to a perpetrator committing violence against your loved one,
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Speaker 1: maybe someone that got killed in the process. Did the
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Speaker 1: FBI come in and swab and dust everything. Did they
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Speaker 1: commit DNA analysis to literally every square inch's surface in
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Speaker 1: the greater area around your home or wherever the person
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Speaker 1: passed away? No, no, no, no, no. A lot of
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Speaker 1: resources go to that. They lost my train of thought.
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Speaker 1: I hate when that happens. Five one, three, seven, four nine,
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Speaker 1: fifty eight hundred eight two three talk Foiveter FI fifty
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Speaker 1: on eighty nt folence. Anyway back to yeah, the Jay six.
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Speaker 1: They hammered people, and many people believe some of the
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Speaker 1: prosecutions on J six were you know, over zealous, if
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Speaker 1: I can use a sort of a softer word for it.
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Speaker 1: Each one of those individuals had to retain counsel. And
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Speaker 1: if you want to rely on the Public Defender's office,
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Speaker 1: that you're prerogative. But you like like the lawyers that
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Speaker 1: charge thirty four hundred bucks an hour, there's a reason
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Speaker 1: you might want to pay more for a lawyer with
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Speaker 1: greater experience. You're probably going to get better service, individualized service,
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Speaker 1: as opposed to like your name in a stack of
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty files that some you know public
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Speaker 1: defender has. But if you can't afford one of these lawyers,
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Speaker 1: what do you do? You suffer under the weight of
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Speaker 1: the federal government going after you, hammer and tong in
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Speaker 1: an overzealous way, and you're stuck. You may find yourself
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Speaker 1: in jail. If you had a better lawyer, if you
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Speaker 1: could afford it, a better lawyer, maybe you wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: in jail. Maybe you could have defended yourself and be
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Speaker 1: found not guilty by jury of your peers or other
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Speaker 1: try or effect. It's crazy when think about it, but
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Speaker 1: I've just thrown it out there stream of consciousness this morning,
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Speaker 1: which invites you to call maybe readjust my alignment and
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Speaker 1: focus on something you think is more appropriate to talk about.
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Speaker 1: Signal ninety nine is going to be joining the program tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: The return of Signal ninety nine. Well connected person knows
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Speaker 1: everything there is to know about law enforcement, has all
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Speaker 1: the documents to back up what she has to say. Wait,
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Speaker 1: do you hear who the City of Cincinnati hired as
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Speaker 1: the violence reduction manager? And as you ponder as we
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Speaker 1: go to the break here, what is a violence reduction manager?
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Speaker 1: What do you think that person, by way of background,
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Speaker 1: should have if they're going to take over the lead
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Speaker 1: in this new role violence reduction manager? Well share Long knows.
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Speaker 1: We'll see who she has hired for this position for
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Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati. Find out whether you think it's
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Speaker 1: an appropriate higher I'll be right back after these brief words.
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Speaker 3: This is fifty five karc an iHeartRadio station.
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Speaker 1: This is it's five point twenty on Thursday, and Thomas
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Speaker 1: wishing everyone a happy Thursdays last Friday, even invitation to
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Speaker 1: call as always five one, three, seven, four nine fifty
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Speaker 1: eight hundred eight two three talk found five fifty on
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Speaker 1: eighteen and t funds. Okay, thought exercise, what is a
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Speaker 1: violence reduction manager? And just think real quickly in the
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Speaker 1: back of your mind. What might a violence reduction manager
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Speaker 1: have to have by way of background experience in the
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Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati. Ask Cheryl Long and thank you to
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Speaker 1: signal ninety nine for the post from yesterday. If we
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Speaker 1: didn't have her, we wouldn't know about Kate Bell. That's
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Speaker 1: her our new violence reduction manager. Now, we do have
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Speaker 1: a problem with violence in downtown Cincinnati. You haven't been
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Speaker 1: paying close to the close attention and then there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of people getting shot, and of course the violence continues.
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Speaker 1: I don't know whether where our trajectory is relative to
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Speaker 1: last year, we're down, if we're up, But clearly we
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Speaker 1: have a problem with crime in the city of Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: That's why we're putting cameras up everywhere. That's why the
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Speaker 1: city is now paying attention to crime and claiming at
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Speaker 1: least uh to look at it a little differently and
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Speaker 1: engage in different practice is to bring about some stability
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Speaker 1: in your given neighborhood. So fine, we need violence production manager.
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Speaker 1: Least that's what they concluded. Kate Bell, as Signal ninety
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Speaker 1: nine rights she holds a BFA in graphic design. Her
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Speaker 1: professional background question Mark Communications UX. I had to look
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Speaker 1: up UX. Didn't know what the initial cap UX is.
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Speaker 1: Its user experience design, some technical thing, human centered design,
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Speaker 1: social media management, branding, civil engagement workshop, Bloomberg innovation training.
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Speaker 1: That's what she's done. By way of background. As Signal
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Speaker 1: ninety nine points out, there is no documented law enforcement experience,
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Speaker 1: no criminal justice degree, no corrections background, no prose prosecutorial experience,
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Speaker 1: no violence intervention field history, no academic study in criminology,
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Speaker 1: no operational experience running a violence suppression strategy. Here's the resume.
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Speaker 1: Graphic designer. Remember we're talking about violence production manager, graphic designer,
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Speaker 1: Communications and graphic design, Community and Economic Development, Performance and
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Speaker 1: Data Analytics office, Human centered Design lead. I guess that
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Speaker 1: she pulled this directly from ms Bell's CV Civic Engagement Manager,
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Speaker 1: assistant to the city manager, whatever that role is now
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Speaker 1: it's violence production manager, she writes. Multiple sources inside city
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Speaker 1: Hall are now asking the same question, quietly, why her? Well,
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Speaker 1: I am asking it to Signal ninety nine. What are
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Speaker 1: the actual qualifications for this role? Was this position publicly posted?
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Speaker 2: Jay?
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Speaker 1: Remember reading all the local reporting on this? Did you apply?
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Speaker 1: I was considered Joe an applicant for any position outside iHeartMedia.
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Speaker 1: Was there a competitive process?
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Speaker 4: Hmmm?
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Speaker 1: Wonder there was? Was there a competitive process for Iris
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Speaker 1: Rollie's job?
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Speaker 5: Now?
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Speaker 1: The answer I think will be no on that one.
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Speaker 1: What were the minimum qualifications for violence reduction manager? Where
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Speaker 1: the criminal justice credentials required or not? Clearly they were
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Speaker 1: not since she has none, because she was engaging in
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Speaker 1: rhetorical questions? Well, was the role reclassified? Maybe it existed
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Speaker 1: elsewhere and they appreciaped it into what they are now
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Speaker 1: calling violence reduction manager. I don't know who else applied.
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Speaker 1: What is the salary band? Yeah? How much is this
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Speaker 1: person making? And who signed off? And then she says,
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Speaker 1: and most important, most importantly, what model of violence reduction
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Speaker 1: is the administration actually pursuing? Do they have a goal?
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Speaker 1: Do they have a plan? Is this something that's part
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Speaker 1: of a role, out of a process where they have
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Speaker 1: a starting point and an ending point? Presumably the starting
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Speaker 1: point is now where we don't know anything in the
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Speaker 1: ending point is well a reduction in violence. Do you
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Speaker 1: have a plan? Don't know? Then? Taking the ninety nine
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Speaker 1: to mind, Well, the city believes that violence is a
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Speaker 1: branding and messaging problem, a design problem. If so, then
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Speaker 1: while maybe this aligns with their philosophy, what we need
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Speaker 1: here is someone who can market the city as a
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Speaker 1: safe place while doing literally nothing to address the actual
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Speaker 1: violence on the street. Good call. The city believes violence
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Speaker 1: is a public safety crisis, requiring operational, investigative, prosecutorial, and
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Speaker 1: suppression expertise. Then explain this choice to the mothers who
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Speaker 1: continue to bury their children. Nice shot signal, she says.
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Speaker 1: City Manager Cheryl long owes the city some answers. When
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Speaker 1: you elevate someone into a role that directly impacts life, death, incarceration, intervention,
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Speaker 1: and overall public safety, you owe the public transparency about
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Speaker 1: how that decision was made and why violence production is
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Speaker 1: not a design sprint. It's not a ux exercise. Thankfully
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Speaker 1: I looked that up. It's not a branding workshop. It's blood, mysteret,
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Speaker 1: crime scenes and funerals, and Cincinnati deserves to know who's
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Speaker 1: actually in charge stopping it and if they're the most
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Speaker 1: qualified candidate for the job. Well, this is one of
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Speaker 1: the reasons I'm excited to have signal ninety nine on
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Speaker 1: the program tomorrow. She raises some very very interesting and
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Speaker 1: legitimate questions. Kate Bell, graphic designer now violence reduction manager, looks.
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Speaker 1: I got Jay on the phone. Got to take your
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Speaker 1: call as soon as you get back. You don't mind
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Speaker 1: holding for a moment, be right back after these brief words.
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Speaker 1: Fifty five car the talk station, Happy Thursday. Obviously that
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Speaker 1: means iHeart media aviation expert Jay Ratliffe coming up with
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Speaker 1: at a eight thirty after Scott Warmant from the Inquire
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Speaker 1: talking about the Immigration Legal Defense Fund, and maybe you
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Speaker 1: get a question or two in about this this violent
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Speaker 1: production manager. I'm not sure he's prepared for that, but
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Speaker 1: at least ask the question. He is a good local reporter.
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Speaker 1: So we'll hear from Scott Warman again. Eight h five.
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Speaker 1: We're to hear from Jay right now. Tom, hang on,
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Speaker 1: you are next, Jay, thanks for holding over the break.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, my friend.
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Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, Brian. I am happy to hear somebody
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Speaker 6: other than me, which would be you talk about how
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Speaker 6: over the top. This response is to Nancy Guthrie. The
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Speaker 6: only reason is that she is a media member's mother.
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Speaker 1: I agree.
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Speaker 6: So, so there's twenty eight hundred children abducted every day
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Speaker 6: in this country. And I have not heard the President
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Speaker 6: tell the FBI all hands on deck, let's go find
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Speaker 6: these kids. But I did hear him say all hands
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Speaker 6: on deck. I want every asset in the FBI looking
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Speaker 6: for Savannah Guthrie's mother. So, you know, I hear people
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Speaker 6: talk about, man, this this thing's just weird. It just
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Speaker 6: doesn't make sid sense. And I tell him, you know,
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Speaker 6: the only weird thing I see about this is the
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Speaker 6: national response. And it's really chilling and bizarre when we
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Speaker 6: take a step back, and you know, I expect this
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Speaker 6: on the left, the left in the media have an
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Speaker 6: unholy marriage, an alliance and this woman and I and
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Speaker 6: I hope that they find her. I don't I hope
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Speaker 6: any harm. But Savannah Guthrie wouldn't have that seven figure job,
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Speaker 6: maybe eight figure job at NBC if she was a conservative.
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Speaker 6: NBC is not our friend. Yet here we are throwing
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Speaker 6: all of our treasure and time and energy with a
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Speaker 6: supposedly reformed FBI headed up by Cash Pattel, to go
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Speaker 6: focus on the right things. And that's what we elected
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Speaker 6: and what we got is all hands on deck, could
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Speaker 6: go find a media person's mother.
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Speaker 1: Well, let me suggest maybe it's serving as a useful
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Speaker 1: distraction for people of all political stripes. We're getting ready
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Speaker 1: to drop bombs on Iran. I mean, we're a moment
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Speaker 1: in time away from entering into what could be a
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Speaker 1: global conflict. Not a peep from the politicians about it.
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Speaker 1: The only thing I see is, you know, Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: maybe dropping bombs. Donald Trump is prepared for war. Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump is going to decide whether the line has been crossed.
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Speaker 1: And there is nothing in there about Democrats or Republicans,
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Speaker 1: with the exception maybe a Thomas Massey, although you don't
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Speaker 1: see a whole lot from him on the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Wait a second, this is war. Maybe we've got something
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Speaker 1: to say about it here in Congress, given the Constitution
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Speaker 1: gives us the authority only and the sole exclusive authority
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Speaker 1: to declare war zero. Pick a different topic that is
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Speaker 1: controversial or something swirling around in the background that people
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Speaker 1: are not paying attention to because oh my god, this
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Speaker 1: poor woman's been Oh my god, they've found DNA on
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Speaker 1: a glove and of uh see, and it really is working.
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Speaker 1: It is. I mean, every headline or It's headlines all
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Speaker 1: over the political spectrum of the web, various websites that
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Speaker 1: I rely on to get content. Right, Bart's got it
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Speaker 1: right there all the time every day. Look at the
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Speaker 1: New York Post, look at that, even the you know
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Speaker 1: what we call legitimate papers. Even the Wall Street Journal
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Speaker 1: mentioned it from time to time. It's a useful distraction.
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Speaker 1: How many times have we been down this road? Jay?
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Speaker 1: You know, maybe they're all benefiting from it, just throwing
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Speaker 1: it out there as a possibility.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, it's disappointing. Nonetheless, it's either it's a reflection
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Speaker 6: on what how they're right. You know, we talk about
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Speaker 6: the left, our shape, we are no different. If we
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Speaker 6: get distracted by this, we clearly have almost to become
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Speaker 6: the national topic. Then shame on us that.
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Speaker 1: We lose them. Jay, you dropped the call or the
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Speaker 1: call is dropped. Yeah. I would like someone to just
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Speaker 1: do a piece interviewing the mothers of children who've been
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Speaker 1: gunned down in street violence, and to do a comparative
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Speaker 1: analysis on the level of law enforcement focusing on any
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Speaker 1: given murder versus this national attention headline grabbing news involving
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Speaker 1: the kidnapping. I'm not saying the resources. I mean, if
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Speaker 1: we had the best of all worlds, in every single
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Speaker 1: case involving the murder or kidnapping off someone would get
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Speaker 1: this level of attention, But we don't. Resources are scarce.
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Speaker 1: There aren't even enough officers in the city of Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: to patrol the streets let alone. Can you imagine all
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Speaker 1: of the work that isn't getting done because were short,
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Speaker 1: like two or three hundred officers. There's always folks in
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Speaker 1: the background doing research, investigating, interviewing, folks, gathering evidence, and
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Speaker 1: when you have a low contingent of officers, you can't
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Speaker 1: do that. But I do believe Jay, it is a
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Speaker 1: reflection on society at large that we all apparently it's clickbait.
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Speaker 1: They know what gets the clicks, which is why they
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Speaker 1: keep elevating it to a higher level of tension because
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Speaker 1: we're focusing on it out here in the world. Tom,
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Thursday.
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Speaker 7: Hey, good morning. I'm a little bothered that I didn't
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Speaker 7: hear about this violence reduction manager position. I definitely would
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Speaker 7: have applied. I mean, I know I have years of
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Speaker 7: experience raising four boys, and yeah, I definitely had to
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Speaker 7: try to use those skills now I'm not going to
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Speaker 7: say that I was good at it and sometimes I
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Speaker 7: got involved. My wife had to use her violence reduction
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Speaker 7: managing skills, and I'm not gonna say she was always kidding.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you, brother, h I mean, you know how.
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Speaker 7: Violence reduction manager. Oh, we got we got a few
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Speaker 7: of those. They're called tops.
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Speaker 1: That's what I You know what, that's funny you said
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Speaker 1: that because I wrote police question mark at the top
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Speaker 1: of the art or the posts from single ninety nine,
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Speaker 1: isn't that the entire police force? Well, that's why we
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Speaker 1: ask for a greater police presence.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 1: It's like we put cameras in substitute for police officers.
22:29
Speaker 1: Cameras option is a deturrent, but if actual physical police
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Speaker 1: officers are there, they certainly act as a deterrent. They
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Speaker 1: are reducers of violence. Their mere presence reduces the likelihood
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Speaker 1: of anybody engaging in violent conduct. You know, I will say,
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Speaker 1: as a person who has been peaceful my entire life,
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Speaker 1: Tom never even been in a fight like a fistfight.
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Speaker 1: I've avoided violenced my entire life for a variety of reasons.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just not a physically violent kind of guy.
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Speaker 1: I could be violent reduction manager just by demonstrating my
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Speaker 1: entire life, which has been violence free.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. The two things that'spring to mind are a who
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Speaker 7: is this woman related to? More more than likely she's
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Speaker 7: related to somebody, and she's now cashing the check on
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Speaker 7: By the way, City of Cincinnati taxpayers, on your dime,
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Speaker 7: you are paying for this person. Just keep that in
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Speaker 7: mind as we talk about these things and the ridiculous
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Speaker 7: stuff that makes politicians on every side of the aisle
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Speaker 7: make this. The crap they come up with, I almost
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Speaker 7: I almost got a dumb button there. The crap they
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Speaker 7: come up with, Yeah, we're paying.
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Speaker 1: For that free and free legal representation for that one.
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Speaker 7: There is then no such things. Somebody's paying for it,
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Speaker 7: you know that. I find it ridiculous. There's already a
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Speaker 7: public defender's office. It's already there because of the Miranda rights,
23:54
Speaker 7: and we've guaranteed people right to to a representation if
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Speaker 7: you're prosecuted. Fine, okay, whatever, let's put money into that.
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Speaker 7: We don't need to be spending extra money on people
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Speaker 7: who are likely not even citizens of this country, therefore
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Speaker 7: not even citizens of our county and city. It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 7: It's just more money getting spent. That's what they're good at,
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Speaker 7: figuring out a way to take your money and then
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Speaker 7: coming up with ridiculous ways to spend it. Don't vote Democrat.
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Speaker 1: Have a great day, right the same, Tom appreciate the
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Speaker 1: call of five thirty six to ffty five Krcity Talk station. Gary,
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Speaker 1: hang on, brother, gets your call before dive into the stack.
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Speaker 1: Is stupid five one three seven four nine fifty five
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Speaker 1: hundred leave talk station. It's five forty two fifty five
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Speaker 1: Casity talk station. You're gonna go over to the phone
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Speaker 1: before you get to the stack, and stupid. You can
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Speaker 1: feel free to join in the fun. Five one three
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Speaker 1: seven hundred eight hundred eight two three Talk eight Gary,
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Speaker 1: New Hampshire, Gary, welcome back, man. It's good to hear
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Speaker 1: from me as always. Gary. You think he fell asleep.
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Speaker 5: Too, I'm sorry, I ahead, John Mute, I'm sorry. I
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Speaker 5: just wanted to remind you that this reminds me of
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Speaker 5: Bubba Wallace. All the attention given to Guthrie case, where
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Speaker 5: they sent forty seven agents down to I think it
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Speaker 5: was North Carolina to investigate the news that was actually
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Speaker 5: a garage handle pull. Yeah, yeah, and you know it's
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Speaker 5: the exact same thing Limited Resource is going. And at
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Speaker 5: the end of the day, it's all politics. It's not
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Speaker 5: about solving crimes or anything like. Mostly somewhat crime, but
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Speaker 5: it is mostly about politics. I'm a retired government employee.
25:44
Speaker 5: I was in the military for thirty four years. I
25:47
Speaker 5: also worked for the Department of Defense. And you have
25:52
Speaker 5: to see what government is for what it's worth. It
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Speaker 5: only does what it's in its own self fenced interest,
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Speaker 5: not necessarily your interest at all. Right, you know, and
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Speaker 5: I think if we look at all the things that
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Speaker 5: you bring out, you know that the Reduction Violence Manager,
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Speaker 5: how come the news is not covering any of that?
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Speaker 1: Well, I may be ask. I'll ask Scott Warton from
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Speaker 1: the Cincinni Inquirer that one. He's on the program at
26:18
Speaker 1: eight o five. You know, how come this one under
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Speaker 1: everybody except Signal ninety nine's radar. You know, clearly violence
26:24
Speaker 1: is a topic that is a major issue for Greater
26:27
Speaker 1: Cincinnati generally, but also the residents of the city of Cincinnati.
26:30
Speaker 1: Look at the beat downs, look at the robberies, look
26:32
Speaker 1: at the stabbings and the murders and the shootings and
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Speaker 1: the dry bys and all that. Yeah, we got some
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Speaker 1: dangerous neighborhoods and this may this may very well serve
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Speaker 1: to address it. Did Sheryl Loong do something great by
26:42
Speaker 1: hiring this Katie Bell, the marketing expert, as the violence
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Speaker 1: reduction manager. That's worthy reporting, isn't it? Isn't that something interesting?
26:51
Speaker 1: I think so? Now we got a kidnapping to worry about. Anyhow,
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Speaker 1: this reminded me remember the movie Old School with Blue
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Speaker 1: the old guy, Remember how he died? Jay I remember
27:03
Speaker 1: the jello wrestling match. We go to Castlebury, Florida, Seminole
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Speaker 1: County strip clubs suiting being sued after a guy died
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Speaker 1: after a medical emergency on the premises. Lawsuit followed earlier
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Speaker 1: this week by the widow of rajiev Nai says the
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Speaker 1: employees at Rachel's North Men's Club and Steakhouse. Oh that's
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Speaker 1: a gross. That's a gross combinate food and stripper poles.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Joe. They said they failed to get in
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Speaker 1: proper medical help when he lost consciousness. Rather than calling
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Speaker 1: nine to one one, staff reportedly put him in a
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Speaker 1: tax he'd set him home without administering first date or
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Speaker 1: attempting to stabilize him. Sorry, Yes, there is a little
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Speaker 1: laughter in behind my voice here. I'm not trying to
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Speaker 1: laugh at this guy's situation, but it is stack as stupid.
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Speaker 1: Tommy was removed from the premises. Lawsuit points out that
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Speaker 1: Nai had stopped breathing and required immediate medical attention, which
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Speaker 1: wasn't provided. Complaint also says that Rachel's employees were negligent
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Speaker 1: in the response and failed to protect naive harm. Also,
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Speaker 1: the defendants failed to train and supervise their staff on
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Speaker 1: how to handle medical emergencies and did not have reasonable
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Speaker 1: safety protocols in place for patrons at least once or
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Speaker 1: in distress loss. It also adds that NAII had a
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Speaker 1: prior incident months earlier at another Rachel's location near Orlando
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Speaker 1: International Airport. It's a franchise on medicasion. NI also lost consciousness,
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Speaker 1: but the emergency medical services were called. He was taking
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Speaker 1: the hospital and admitted. Nai family seeking damages of fifteen
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars for loss of support and services, metal pain, suffering,
28:35
Speaker 1: loss of earnings, funeral and hospital expenses, and other damages.
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Speaker 1: Surprised that maybe that's a minimum stated damage claim, because
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Speaker 1: I suspect they're going to be asking for a whole
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Speaker 1: lot more than that. My Boy Blue five forty five
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Speaker 1: fifty five KRC Detalk Station Friday E, which means Tomorrow's Friday. Duh.
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Speaker 1: The Lenten fish fry list posted there on the fifty
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Speaker 1: Every year we do this and thanks to Joe Strecker
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Speaker 1: for putting it together. I Dearly, Dearly, Yeah, I'm not Catholic,
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Speaker 1: so I'm not giving up anything. I don't. I have
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Speaker 1: never understood what the point was of giving up meat
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Speaker 1: on just one day, but then again, that was an
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Speaker 1: older rule. But hell, we've got fish Friday and that
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Speaker 1: is great because Dearly love a deep fried fish sandwich.
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Speaker 1: So we got about a month of that coming up
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Speaker 1: our way. And Joe posts that list every week there
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Speaker 1: on the fifty five Carsee morning show page so fifty
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Speaker 1: five Carsea dot com. Oh, and Joe did some research
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Speaker 1: Internet research. Greury is the the strip joint where they
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Speaker 1: serve steaks and apparently is more like a Hooter's of
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Speaker 1: steak joints, So scanty clad women providing you are serving
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Speaker 1: you between sixty and ninety dollars steaks or perhaps the
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Speaker 1: sixty dollars charcooterie board. Thank you Joe for doing the research.
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Speaker 1: There's a chain option there for you too, Joe, if
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Speaker 1: you want to open one locally. Back to the stack
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Speaker 1: of stupid. A naked guy who stole an ambulance with
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Speaker 1: a patient inside arrested after a multi agency chase ending
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Speaker 1: in a field in Pittsville, Wisconsin. Suspect Benjamin Felts corner
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Speaker 1: of the Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department. They responded to a
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Speaker 1: call five thirty pm ambulance parked in the fourteen hudd
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Speaker 1: block of twenty second Avenue while Cruz provided care to
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Speaker 1: a patient. Felts, authorities later learned had been evading law enforcement,
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Speaker 1: was doing pushups while naked in public got in the
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Speaker 1: ambulance driver's see. Two paramedics were in the patient compartment
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Speaker 1: with the patient at the time. Corn to Police Chief
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Speaker 1: Daniel houstin speaking with the news, you hear that come
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Speaker 1: up over the radio, Hey, so that someone's stolen an ambulance.
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Speaker 1: At first of your thought is did they just say
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Speaker 1: someone stolen ambulance? How in the hell does that happen?
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Speaker 1: One paramedic immediately got out of the ambulance to figure
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Speaker 1: out what was going on and attempted to engage this
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Speaker 1: Felts guy, and that's when Felt began driving away. The
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Speaker 1: second paramedic attempt to prevent him from moving, but was
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Speaker 1: forced out of the ambulance. Chase, said Western Highway seventy
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Speaker 1: three deputies assisting Wisconsin Rapids officers attempted to end the chase,
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Speaker 1: deployed to tired deflation devices that didn't work as a
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Speaker 1: chase entered Pittsville. Officers from the Pittsville Police Department were
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Speaker 1: ultimately successful in stopping the ambulance with stop sticks, and
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Speaker 1: he ended up in a field. Refused multiple commands to
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Speaker 1: get out of the ambulance. Because of the urgent concern
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Speaker 1: for the patient. Wisconsin officers deployed a drone to safely
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Speaker 1: observe Felts from a distance. Then a coordinated a team
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Speaker 1: of officers and deputies approached the ambulance and took him
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Speaker 1: into custody, apparently without incident. Patient inside the ambulance during
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Speaker 1: the theft safe taken to the hospital. Felt booking to
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Speaker 1: the Woods County Jail on disorderly conduct, lout, and lasivious
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Speaker 1: behavior operating a motor vehicle without an owner's consent, obstructing
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Speaker 1: emergency personnel, recklessly endangering safety, threats to law enforcement, and
31:56
Speaker 1: of course, operating the quote while intoxicated. Third offense. Third offense,
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Speaker 1: let's see. Charles Gregory, thirty five, missus in Wisconsin, arrested
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Speaker 1: after he quote got into an argument with his significant
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Speaker 1: other close quote punching her in the head while he
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Speaker 1: was driving, and then Joe rock henaded. District Attorney Jason
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Speaker 1: Sanders said that he then threatened to beat her in
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Speaker 1: front of the children when they got home. When they
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Speaker 1: got home, woman attempted to run to the neighbor's house,
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Speaker 1: but Gregory punched her several times and tried to quote
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Speaker 1: stomp her Chicago style close quote while she was on
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Speaker 1: the side. H victim able to break seeks safety in
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Speaker 1: the neighbor's house, but as Gregory drove home from the scene,
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Speaker 1: he called the neighbor and threatened to quote have someone
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Speaker 1: take care of her close quote for just getting involved.
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Speaker 1: He was on parole for a prior armed robbery conviction.
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Speaker 1: He was arrested and sent back to prison. During his incarceration,
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Speaker 1: prosecutors said he called the victim from jail recorded the
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Speaker 1: recorded line. Of course they're recording it. You're in jail. Quote.
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Speaker 1: Some domestic abusers are cold heartless folks who will stomp, punch,
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Speaker 1: and threaten anyone to try and gain control at a
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Speaker 1: comment from the district attorney. When we find those folks,
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Speaker 1: we need grateful for the neighbors who helped us get away,
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Speaker 1: the police officers who put abusers in jail, and prosecutors
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Speaker 1: like Jerry Arbic who pushed for the strongest punishment allowed
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Speaker 1: under law. Jerry did find him guilty of threatening a witness,
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Speaker 1: domestic battery, and two other misdemeanors. He will soon be sentenced.
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Speaker 1: Scott Wartman from the Cincinnia Enquirer can't wait to get
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Speaker 1: to Scott Whartman. He'll be on the program at eight
34:48
Speaker 1: to five talking about the Immigration Legal Defense Fund. You know,
34:51
Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati's got a budget problem. Yeah, they
34:54
Speaker 1: are considering raising taxes to deal with a budget problem.
34:57
Speaker 1: They obviously have a massive pension problem. Mayor have to
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Speaker 1: have Pervoll talking about that, trying to shore it up.
35:03
Speaker 1: So limited dollars, finite resources, and they're giving out free
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Speaker 1: legal assistance, free legal assistance, priorities, and maybe he'll ask
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Speaker 1: answer the question, what the hell is the violence reduction manager?
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Speaker 1: And how is it that city manager Cheryl Long decided
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Speaker 1: to promote Kate Bell. I don't know this woman, but
35:23
Speaker 1: apparently she is a graphic designer who is now and
35:26
Speaker 1: her resume is longer than that. But all relates to,
35:28
Speaker 1: you know, things that have no connection whatsoever? Is signal
35:30
Speaker 1: ninety nine pointed out in her post yesterday. She'll be
35:33
Speaker 1: joining the program tomorrow maybe to talk about this. But
35:35
Speaker 1: how can a person basically who is a graphic designer
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Speaker 1: become the violence reduction manager? Did you know that post
35:40
Speaker 1: was open? Do you know what they're going to make?
35:42
Speaker 1: Do you know what that post is going to involve?
35:44
Speaker 1: What has anything to do with Why isn't violence reduction
35:46
Speaker 1: just part of the police department generally speaking? And I
35:49
Speaker 1: thought that's what the police department was for? Hm, HM
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Speaker 1: questions swirling swirling, swirling five one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Speaker 1: let's go to the phones. You what Maureen's got this morning? Marreen,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Happy Thursday to you.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Brian. I'm much like you and Jay. I
36:11
Speaker 3: kind of see it over a little overwhelming about how
36:14
Speaker 3: much the Savannah Gothrie stuff is filling the every media channel.
36:19
Speaker 3: And I talk to some of my neighbors, some of
36:21
Speaker 3: which most of are liberal, and I ask them, do
36:24
Speaker 3: they do you know anything about the Epstein files? And
36:27
Speaker 3: they say, no, I'm so focused on the Savannah Gothrie.
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Speaker 8: Thing of her.
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Speaker 3: They do, yes, It's a major distraction. They aren't looking
36:36
Speaker 3: at anything. I said, do you know you can go
36:39
Speaker 3: to Justice dot gov slash Epstein and put in the
36:41
Speaker 3: search box anything you want to know. Hillary Clinton's mentioned
36:44
Speaker 3: this many times, and Pizzagate and all the children's sacrifices,
36:49
Speaker 3: the blood sacrifices of children. Does that not interest you
36:52
Speaker 3: one bit? And they just all they talk about is
36:55
Speaker 3: Savannah Gothrie. So I thought, if I'm thinking that under
36:58
Speaker 3: the prism of a military operation, which I say we're under,
37:01
Speaker 3: how could that play into being part of that? So
37:05
Speaker 3: I started researching it and listen to different podcasts, and
37:08
Speaker 3: I found out about Savannah Kutrie's husband. His name's Michael Salthman.
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Speaker 3: He worked for Senior Advisors, a group in the Clinton
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Speaker 3: for Foundation or Clinton Bore administration, and he worked for
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Speaker 3: a firm called Clover Park Group and their company that
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Speaker 3: offered services like media strategy, government relations, and crisis management
37:27
Speaker 3: communications for Clinton and Gore and also am Obvioust Well
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Speaker 3: different podcasts they talk about this and they say that
37:35
Speaker 3: they are who's basically a scrubber for the Clintons, so
37:39
Speaker 3: they know everything about the Clinton scandals, all the things
37:43
Speaker 3: they were involved in. So he knows a lot about that.
37:47
Speaker 3: So could this potentially be leading people down what they
37:49
Speaker 3: think is kind of an innocent path where they don't
37:51
Speaker 3: have to pay attention to anything going on with Epstein.
37:55
Speaker 3: But then all of a sudden you find yourself in
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Speaker 3: the middle of a man who often the glove and
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Speaker 3: a park and this guy worked for Glover Park and
38:04
Speaker 3: that could tie to different things where he all things
38:08
Speaker 3: are unraveled about the Clinton Could.
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Speaker 1: Mab I should perhaps down the road maybe, Mariene, You're
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Speaker 1: saying a lot of things, but what you are revealing
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Speaker 1: is that you have very closely studied this Guthrie situation.
38:19
Speaker 1: You know a hell of a lot more than even
38:20
Speaker 1: I have heard. You've connected it with people that I
38:23
Speaker 1: have no idea question why? See, this is what's troubling
38:27
Speaker 1: about it. It's not that, you know, maybe something's looming
38:29
Speaker 1: in the background, perhaps implicating the Clintons or Epstein or
38:31
Speaker 1: whoever the hell else? How is it that that particular
38:34
Speaker 1: story has commanded everyone's attention in the absence of concrete
38:38
Speaker 1: details along the lines what you're talking about. They know
38:40
Speaker 1: what we like to click on. They can do research
38:43
Speaker 1: on it. It's easy to figure it out. Hey, everybody's
38:44
Speaker 1: clicking on the Guthrie story. Let's promote that. It's a
38:47
Speaker 1: great distraction. It's keeping people from paying attention to war
38:51
Speaker 1: and and every other problem we got going on in
38:53
Speaker 1: the world. I think it's revealing of us as a society,
38:57
Speaker 1: you know, and also the you know, us as a
38:58
Speaker 1: society in our reaction to law enforcement, and you know
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Speaker 1: that we don't maybe stand up like we're doing this
39:03
Speaker 1: morning and talk a little bit more about Wait a second,
39:05
Speaker 1: with all the murders and all the kidnappings and all
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Speaker 1: the crime going on in the world, who else gets
39:10
Speaker 1: this kind of level of attention and resources from law
39:12
Speaker 1: enforcement generally, who gets the whole resources of the FBI
39:16
Speaker 1: working on their particular murder case or whatever. Nobody.
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Speaker 3: That's my point. It's leading people down a path, because
39:24
Speaker 3: that's the path that people tend to follow when they disturbing.
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Speaker 3: It is very disturbing.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's I think that's the broader point I'm trying.
39:33
Speaker 1: It's Yeah, it says a lot about society that we're
39:36
Speaker 1: easily distracted. Hey, look at the monkey, dancing monkey. Yeah,
39:39
Speaker 1: it's over there, look at him, Look at him. Pay
39:41
Speaker 1: no attention to the man behind the curtain. We got
39:43
Speaker 1: the great glorious ouz.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully that's where the path takes.
39:49
Speaker 1: It to reveal it wherever it goes.
39:52
Speaker 3: People are on.
39:53
Speaker 1: I'm worried about bombs being dropping around more than I
39:55
Speaker 1: am about whatever happens this particular kidnapping. Not they don't
39:58
Speaker 1: have sympathy for the family of any victim of a crime.
40:02
Speaker 1: But how is it this way with that?
40:03
Speaker 3: But maybe it's leading down a path, Brian, to broader things.
40:08
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm not saying it's good that everybody's playing this attention,
40:11
Speaker 3: but you have to go with the mentality of those people.
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Speaker 1: Well, I would like to hope that someday people have
40:17
Speaker 1: a higher level of discerning and priorities about what they
40:20
Speaker 1: think is newsworthy, what is important to them, what is
40:23
Speaker 1: actually impacting their life. We've got a prime problem generally speaking.
40:26
Speaker 1: We've got billions of billions of dollars of fraud, waste,
40:28
Speaker 1: and abuse in cities across this great land of ours.
40:31
Speaker 1: That's our tax payer money. I would like to think
40:32
Speaker 1: that would dominate the news more than a singular kidnapping
40:36
Speaker 1: of one arguably prominent family.
40:39
Speaker 3: You know, That's what frustrated me about my neighbors, because
40:45
Speaker 3: I was so frustrated that they don't know anything about
40:47
Speaker 3: anything else. That's all they're focused on. So I'm trying
40:51
Speaker 3: to find a way that maybe that's going to lead
40:53
Speaker 3: to more knowledge for them in a way that they
40:56
Speaker 3: wouldn't normally seek out.
40:58
Speaker 1: Well, I think one of my point hope springs eternal. Maureene.
41:01
Speaker 1: You are talking about its apparently some diehard Democrats. How
41:04
Speaker 1: long have you been waiting around for them to see
41:06
Speaker 1: the light on any given topic that we're talking about.
41:10
Speaker 3: I've been trying to introduce something and I get kicked
41:15
Speaker 3: out of the book club. I don't get invited to
41:17
Speaker 3: day but that's okay because I have a very low
41:22
Speaker 3: tolerance for them. But I feel like I can make
41:25
Speaker 3: some ground, right at.
41:26
Speaker 1: Least you're trying. I encourage everyone to give it a shot. Try, try, try,
41:30
Speaker 1: try and try, go ahead, and you know, and maybe
41:34
Speaker 1: we can all collectively endeavor to focus on something that's
41:36
Speaker 1: really truly important in our lives. Maureene, you know I
41:38
Speaker 1: love you. Thanks, appreciate the call. May Thanks Mike. That's
41:43
Speaker 1: the reality of the world we live in. It might
41:45
Speaker 1: related to nothing. I want to get this in here
41:48
Speaker 1: because I have not a fan of pre K education
41:51
Speaker 1: and I thought this was really funny. This is a
41:54
Speaker 1: w k r c's Jim Pilcher reporting. I saw this
41:56
Speaker 1: on Facebook and I did a connect over to the article.
41:59
Speaker 1: Here are the try state's districts with the highest and
42:02
Speaker 1: lowest kindergarten readiness scores, and they focus on Kentucky, which
42:06
Speaker 1: is where all the numbers were crunched. But I think
42:08
Speaker 1: it's illustrative of the broader problem and question mark Governor
42:11
Speaker 1: Andy Bsheer, pushing for universal pre K instruction for all
42:16
Speaker 1: the children statewide, suffer the children to come on to me,
42:18
Speaker 1: we can get them into the education system before they're
42:20
Speaker 1: even in kindergarten. Really young kids being taken care of
42:23
Speaker 1: literally by the state. We got a gap in kindergarten
42:27
Speaker 1: readiness problem. It's of oh my god, and that can
42:30
Speaker 1: that can shape the outcome of students for years. They
42:33
Speaker 1: are arguing. Got a guy named Terry Brooks or maybe woman,
42:35
Speaker 1: I don't know, Terry t R r Y apparently of
42:38
Speaker 1: affiliated with the nonprofit and GOO Kentucky Youth Advocates, claiming
42:43
Speaker 1: the children kindergarten readiness affects more than first years of school. Hmm,
42:47
Speaker 1: where might this lead? Gordon Brooks, kindergarten readiness is a
42:50
Speaker 1: factor that's going to ripple throughout the K through twelve system,
42:54
Speaker 1: not just for primary grades elementary schools. It's going to
42:57
Speaker 1: touch on high school graduation. It's going to touch on
43:00
Speaker 1: eighth grade math.
43:02
Speaker 9: Huh.
43:02
Speaker 1: Your readiness for kindergarten is going to impact something way
43:05
Speaker 1: down the road in terms of years. That's the position.
43:09
Speaker 1: And so they provide a full list of these various
43:12
Speaker 1: schools and the largest districts, and you know the percentage
43:15
Speaker 1: of how many kids are ready. Never once does the
43:17
Speaker 1: article discuss what it actually means to be ready for kindergarten.
43:22
Speaker 1: They're just saying that they lack readiness. Numbers reflect the
43:27
Speaker 1: challenges educators face when children enter kindergarten for the first time.
43:31
Speaker 1: Educate NKY Vice president Jerry Watson, interviewed, said the districts
43:35
Speaker 1: with lower readiness can face challenges that affect more than
43:37
Speaker 1: just the students who arrive unprepared, saying when kids come
43:41
Speaker 1: in not ready, the entire system gets clogged in that
43:44
Speaker 1: you can't stay on grade level with standards right out
43:48
Speaker 1: of the gate. Catching students up academically is difficult once
43:53
Speaker 1: they start behind. WHOA hold the phone here. I don't
43:58
Speaker 1: know what it means to be ready for kid. I
44:00
Speaker 1: don't know that I had any unique skill sets or anything.
44:02
Speaker 1: I do appreciate my mom being around to at least
44:04
Speaker 1: try to educate me on some level. But you know
44:06
Speaker 1: what they're worried about kids being behind in kindergarten. And
44:12
Speaker 1: yet fast forward, look at K through twelve math scores,
44:16
Speaker 1: look at K through score readings, K through twelve reading scores,
44:19
Speaker 1: and the phenomenon that we are we are faced with
44:21
Speaker 1: here in this world of woke policies and education DEI
44:25
Speaker 1: and all that no one gets left behind. We will
44:29
Speaker 1: not hold a child back even if they can't demonstrate
44:32
Speaker 1: the proficiency level for any given grade, they are gonna
44:34
Speaker 1: move on to the next grade. Oh my god, might
44:36
Speaker 1: that be a problem down the road If you haven't
44:39
Speaker 1: been if you are not ready for the grade that
44:41
Speaker 1: you're in, if you have not demonstrated the grade you're in,
44:43
Speaker 1: level of academic expertise, and they move you to the
44:46
Speaker 1: next grade, Oh my god, you're gonna be left behind.
44:48
Speaker 1: It's gonna have a ripple effect. No kidding. Now, this
44:53
Speaker 1: does not mean I support pre K education because I
44:55
Speaker 1: don't want young children in an indoctrination camp before they're
44:58
Speaker 1: even in kindergarten, which is really the goal of the
45:01
Speaker 1: education system.
45:01
Speaker 6: Here.
45:03
Speaker 1: It's cradle two grade in doctrination with some free time
45:09
Speaker 1: off to protest ice. But I find it laughable that
45:17
Speaker 1: these educators pushing for pre K because they're worried about
45:21
Speaker 1: kindergarten readiness, when they do not give a whit about
45:25
Speaker 1: whether your child is capable of mastering the next level
45:29
Speaker 1: skills or capable of even approaching the next grade level
45:32
Speaker 1: skills because they don't have the skills of the grade
45:35
Speaker 1: they're in. We can't have anyone held back that would
45:39
Speaker 1: hurt their feelings, all right, I wouldn't hang your hat
45:43
Speaker 1: on this argument educators who are pushing for pre K,
45:46
Speaker 1: there are other options out there. One of the Republicans
45:48
Speaker 1: in Northern Kentucky suggests that maybe two thousand dollars for
45:52
Speaker 1: every child consider ready to enter kindergarten, which would allow
45:55
Speaker 1: them some flexibility to get into some of these qualified
45:58
Speaker 1: childcare centers that there are available out there. But whether
46:03
Speaker 1: or not somebody should get money for pre K education
46:05
Speaker 1: or there should be some universal pre K education, fine,
46:09
Speaker 1: if you're going to go that direction, let's at least
46:11
Speaker 1: bake into the into the entire system, the idea that
46:15
Speaker 1: we will not pass any child who has not demonstrated
46:18
Speaker 1: a mastery of the grade that they're in. Period. End
46:20
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Speaker 1: Eve I even followed the Mom Domi mayor and Mayor
47:36
Speaker 1: Mom Dammi in New York City. The crazy COMI and
47:39
Speaker 1: he's got budget problems. Uh, they're planning on canceling the
47:42
Speaker 1: expected increase in police officers five thousand new officers under
47:46
Speaker 1: the prior Mayor Eric Adams proposal, and those were those
47:48
Speaker 1: were in the pipeline. Nope, we're not going to do that.
47:51
Speaker 1: We got a budget problem. We need to raise taxes
47:53
Speaker 1: on the wealthy. That's the answer to literally everything, Raising
47:56
Speaker 1: taxes on the wealthy. And he hasn't appreciated the reality
47:58
Speaker 1: that people are leaving their fleeing in significant numbers because
48:03
Speaker 1: the stupid policies of the Mamdami administration, the stupid policies
48:06
Speaker 1: of New York generally speaking, and the fact that well
48:08
Speaker 1: you know, at some junction you run out of other
48:09
Speaker 1: people's money. You cannot sustain the biamoth that is the
48:13
Speaker 1: size of New York's budget and the size of their government.
48:19
Speaker 1: So while they're cutting police officers, and he's wrestling with
48:25
Speaker 1: Governor Kathy Hochel about trying to get her to concede
48:27
Speaker 1: to raising the income tax on all wealthy people, enter
48:31
Speaker 1: the ten percent hike in real estate. How do you
48:33
Speaker 1: think that's going to impact the poor that he purports
48:36
Speaker 1: to represent. How do rent controlled apartments pass along the
48:40
Speaker 1: overwhelming burden of the tax increase along to the rent
48:43
Speaker 1: controlled dwellers in there. They can't a lot of more
48:48
Speaker 1: abandoning those properties. That makes life worse, doesn't it. But
48:53
Speaker 1: we got to have our racial equity offices. Going back
48:58
Speaker 1: to Signal ninety nine's post here related to the City
49:00
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati were creating a new violence reduction manager and
49:04
Speaker 1: handing that role over to Kate Bell, who apparently has
49:06
Speaker 1: a degree in graphic design. So Montdami struggling with this
49:11
Speaker 1: will not cut government, but he will well expand racial
49:16
Speaker 1: equity and create a bureaucracy out of it. With six
49:20
Speaker 1: figure diversity positions, they got one hundred and twenty seven
49:24
Speaker 1: billion dollar budget, again proposing higher property taxes and higher
49:29
Speaker 1: income taxes, so they can well close the gap on
49:31
Speaker 1: the whole. Under Madamie's plan, the city's initial cap Office
49:37
Speaker 1: of Racial Equity, they're going to get five point six
49:41
Speaker 1: million annually. Over to the Commission on Racial Equity, separate
49:46
Speaker 1: initial cap entity, they're going to get four point six million.
49:50
Speaker 1: So you got a combine total of ten point two
49:52
Speaker 1: million for two different offices involving racial equity. That's a
49:56
Speaker 1: three million dollar increase forty two percent jump from the
50:00
Speaker 1: the seven point two million dollars they gave them last year.
50:06
Speaker 1: Described as supporting a growing racial equity apparatus within New
50:12
Speaker 1: York City government, Officer Racial Equity they have a staff
50:16
Speaker 1: of thirty eight people coordinating and implementing racial equity policies
50:22
Speaker 1: across various agencies. The other one, the Commission of Racial Equity,
50:26
Speaker 1: has sixteen paid jobs functioning as a completely separate advisory
50:30
Speaker 1: and analytical body doing research, developing recommendations, providing oversight relating
50:34
Speaker 1: to racial equity policy, and beyond that ten point two
50:39
Speaker 1: million dollars. The budget also funds several high level diversity
50:43
Speaker 1: positions across agencies. Department of Education, they have a two
50:47
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty thousand dollars annual salary for their Chief
50:50
Speaker 1: Diversity Officer. Great Over at the Fire Department gott to
50:53
Speaker 1: worry about that three one two three civilian chief Diversity
50:57
Speaker 1: Inclusion officer positions funded over three hundred and one thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars in combined salaries, along with a nearly two hundred
51:04
Speaker 1: and thirty thousand dollars associated overtime payment grand total for
51:08
Speaker 1: Justified Department five hundred and thirty one thousand dollars for
51:11
Speaker 1: well diversity inclusion officer positions. It goes on and on,
51:16
Speaker 1: you know, and I just I sort of reach a
51:18
Speaker 1: conclusion here that there are thousands and thousands of unemployed
51:21
Speaker 1: people with college degrees relating to something involving equity and
51:25
Speaker 1: racial diversity and inclusion, and that every one of those
51:28
Speaker 1: folks needs a job. Much like the Green New Deal,
51:33
Speaker 1: Let's create a whole cloth new industry. Let's make something up,
51:39
Speaker 1: Let's apply ridiculous principles. Let's fly in the face of
51:42
Speaker 1: logic and reason. Let's advance children beyond the grade that
51:46
Speaker 1: they're in even though they haven't mastered the skills. Why
51:49
Speaker 1: because of well equity. That's an entire industry. Now, folks,
51:55
Speaker 1: maybe I'm stated the obvious. Maybe this has been apparent
51:57
Speaker 1: to you for years and years. But when you're dealing
52:01
Speaker 1: with scarce dollars, these are taxpayer dollars, you want the
52:04
Speaker 1: best bang for your tax payer dollar. Buck, I wouldn't
52:06
Speaker 1: look at New York City. I certainly wouldn't look at
52:09
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati either. Coming up at six twenty
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Speaker 1: the signor staring at the stack of local stories. We
52:16
Speaker 1: need a violence production manager. Oh, we got one. Signal
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Speaker 1: ninety nine is going to be on the program of
52:20
Speaker 1: our to talk about that among other topics. Look forward
52:22
Speaker 1: to having her on. But violence production manager graphic designer
52:26
Speaker 1: named Kate Bell, we didn't get a notice that we
52:30
Speaker 1: could apply for that particular job. Anyway, Le's see what
52:32
Speaker 1: Mike's got this morning. Hey Mike, thanks for calling this morning.
52:34
Speaker 1: Happy Thursday, flight Friday, Eve.
52:37
Speaker 10: Hi bright real quick about the racial equity.
52:41
Speaker 4: Departments that they've got up in New York.
52:43
Speaker 10: I would I was a taxpayer up there. I have
52:46
Speaker 10: to ask, like, what am I getting tangible out of
52:48
Speaker 10: this that my ten million dollars is going through?
52:50
Speaker 1: Thank you?
52:51
Speaker 10: It was nothing tangible? Then you shouldn't been getting money
52:54
Speaker 10: or the career that be, like, well, it's for people's feelings.
52:57
Speaker 10: It's not Yeah, I need ten million dollars to make
53:01
Speaker 10: yourself feel better.
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Speaker 1: No, you don't. No, And you know metaphorically, you know,
53:06
Speaker 1: I think of this, you know the feelings, the you know,
53:09
Speaker 1: snap out of it. Life is not perfect. You're gonna
53:11
Speaker 1: be your feelings are going to be hurt. Maybe there's
53:14
Speaker 1: some evil person out there who might insult you. You know,
53:16
Speaker 1: sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will
53:18
Speaker 1: never hurt me. How about to adopting that attitude quiting sensitive.
53:22
Speaker 1: You know, we raise a bunch of kids who want
53:23
Speaker 1: to ball up in a fetal position and need a
53:25
Speaker 1: safe space in any given environment. What kind of people
53:27
Speaker 1: are we raising? People who are incapable of dealing with
53:30
Speaker 1: the challenges of life. You don't study, you don't know them,
53:34
Speaker 1: you haven't mastered mathematics or reading on your grade level.
53:37
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
53:37
Speaker 6: You know.
53:37
Speaker 1: You may be upset you're gonna have to do grade
53:40
Speaker 1: three or four or whatever over again, but it's in
53:43
Speaker 1: your best interest. You're gonna feel bad, but you're gonna
53:46
Speaker 1: come out with a knowledge you need to move on
53:48
Speaker 1: to the next grade. Isn't that good for the kid?
53:50
Speaker 1: Isn't that good for society? It might put a little
53:53
Speaker 1: callous on them. Geez wheeze. You know, just you're provileged, Thomas.
54:00
Speaker 1: You know what, I could go back to all kinds
54:03
Speaker 1: of countless illustration in my personal life where I was
54:06
Speaker 1: feeling bad and people said evil and nasty things to me,
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Speaker 1: and oh my god, I'm emotional and I'm crying and
54:11
Speaker 1: eh right, Welcome to life. Welcome to Life. Six point
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Speaker 1: planning to talk about it out in the world. If
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Speaker 1: you want to pick a subject matter, feel free. Just
54:39
Speaker 1: don't let it be about the kidnapping case. Uh seen
54:41
Speaker 1: enough of that, uh five three seven fifty two three
54:46
Speaker 1: talks just kind of springing from the realities of the
54:47
Speaker 1: New York budget situation, which is a Charlie Fox trot.
54:50
Speaker 1: They got a spending problem. Oh, we got a fund
54:53
Speaker 1: the diversity equally inclusion jobs. We gotta do at We
54:55
Speaker 1: gotta pay for everything, free this for you, that, free busses,
54:57
Speaker 1: for everything. You got a spending problem. You are the
55:00
Speaker 1: whole and you got to fill the whole. There's not
55:02
Speaker 1: enough money out there in the real world for people
55:04
Speaker 1: who can actually leave your state and go someplace else where.
55:07
Speaker 1: They're not going to be taxed to death. That's what's
55:09
Speaker 1: going on. While they propose ten percent increases in property taxes,
55:13
Speaker 1: increases in income taxes. Oh my, God, those evil rich
55:16
Speaker 1: people need to fund all these programs. We got a
55:18
Speaker 1: priority problem, a massive priority problem. Got one here in
55:26
Speaker 1: the city as well. Nobody willing to address the spending challenges,
55:32
Speaker 1: and the problem extends to Washington. This is a true
55:35
Speaker 1: what we call existential threat. And I saw an article
55:38
Speaker 1: which relates to the realities of the problems we are facing,
55:42
Speaker 1: colossal problems we're facing with federal level spending. The typical
55:46
Speaker 1: American worker, this is such a crazy, scary thing to behold.
55:53
Speaker 1: Studied by the National Institute on Retirement Security found that
55:56
Speaker 1: among all workers between the age of twenty one and
55:59
Speaker 1: sixty four, including those who haven't saved anything for retirement,
56:04
Speaker 1: the median amount saved in a defined contribution plan nine
56:08
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five dollars nine hundred and fifty five. Now,
56:15
Speaker 1: I struggle to comprehend the idea of living on a
56:19
Speaker 1: SOCIS security check. And if you're out there doing this,
56:21
Speaker 1: I bet you could tell me all day long how
56:22
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56:26
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56:30
Speaker 1: because the future is unwritten, and you have no idea
56:33
Speaker 1: if you're even going to get that figure. They tell
56:35
Speaker 1: you you're going to get maybe on your Social Security
56:40
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56:43
Speaker 1: be getting up. No, it says right there in the
56:45
Speaker 1: in the paperwork that that's just an estimated figure and
56:48
Speaker 1: is no guarantee that you're going to get it. And
56:50
Speaker 1: with that, pivoting over to the headline, what Washington won't
56:55
Speaker 1: talk about. They're fiddling while Rome burns. In essence, if
57:00
Speaker 1: I get a kick out of the intro from the
57:01
Speaker 1: editorial board of The Wall Street sorry to interrupt the
57:03
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein circus, or I might interact the kidnapping circus.
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Speaker 1: Congressional Budget Office released the latest ten year budget baseline,
57:13
Speaker 1: and they point out that members of both parties are
57:16
Speaker 1: less interested in fixing America's entitlement problems than in performative
57:20
Speaker 1: politics like oh, Jim Crow two point oh yeah, go
57:22
Speaker 1: ahead and scream and yell about how dumb that argument is.
57:25
Speaker 1: We got a spending problem on our hands. CBO did
57:31
Speaker 1: report that a one point eight trillion dollar deficit in
57:33
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five fiscal year fifty seven billion lower
57:37
Speaker 1: than the prior year. But don't get all giddy with
57:39
Speaker 1: excitement because their forecast is frightening. Entitlements are a real
57:45
Speaker 1: problem and a challenge in something that is the third
57:47
Speaker 1: rail of politics. No politician is willing to even acknowledge
57:49
Speaker 1: that this is happening. Spending increase eleven point four trillion,
57:55
Speaker 1: increase eleven point four trillion dollars in counterary, you're twenty
58:00
Speaker 1: thirty six from currently seven trillion. Revenue not growing as
58:05
Speaker 1: fast to meet that increase in spending. That's going to
58:08
Speaker 1: be necessary. Medicaid expected to grow forty seven percent, social
58:13
Speaker 1: Security growing seventy four percent, and then there's Medicare for
58:18
Speaker 1: my senior friends out there. You're you took it at
58:21
Speaker 1: one hundred and five percent increase over the next decade. Now,
58:25
Speaker 1: they even point out CBO has a tendency to underestimate
58:28
Speaker 1: the spending growth, especially in entitlements. Back in May twenty
58:32
Speaker 1: twenty two, the baseline underestimated spending by on Medicaid underestimated
58:37
Speaker 1: by one hundred and twenty one billion, fifteen billion for Medicare,
58:41
Speaker 1: Obamacare subsidies underestimated by sixty nine billion, and underestimated veterans
58:48
Speaker 1: benefits by eighty billion. They also screwed up on the
58:51
Speaker 1: consumer price index. They said it would fall, but now
58:53
Speaker 1: they're projecting that the consumer price inflation gates is not
58:57
Speaker 1: going to go down to two point three percent until
58:59
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. No relief there if you look at
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Speaker 1: look at Medicare Part D. In November, CBO said that
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Speaker 1: between twenty seventeen to twenty twenty two, the annual growth
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Speaker 1: and projection for Medicare costs Part D plans five percent
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Speaker 1: reduction to a four percent increase. Hold the phone. They've
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Speaker 1: readjusted their figure and now the projections have increased a lot.
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Speaker 1: Part D increases twenty percent last year, forty two percent
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, in twenty four forty two percent last year.
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Speaker 1: They're expecting thirty five percent increase this year. That's an increase.
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Speaker 1: Medicaid expected to grow roughly twice as fast as inflation
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Speaker 1: and dispend and defense spending over the next decade. And
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Speaker 1: of course there's that pesky debt. They say, all told,
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Speaker 1: spending expected to increase twenty four point four percent of
59:53
Speaker 1: gross domestic product in twenty thirty six. It's twenty three
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Speaker 1: point one percent. Way too high, and that we're all
1:00:00
Speaker 1: at that. And as the United States issues more debt,
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Speaker 1: interest payments are projected to double by twenty thirty six. Double.
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Speaker 1: We're currently paying about one trillion dollars annually. It's our
1:00:15
Speaker 1: credit card interest payment a trillion. It's going to be two.
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Speaker 1: Someone needs a recond with a spending problem. Someone needs
1:00:23
Speaker 1: to expect less from government. Quit asking for more departments,
1:00:27
Speaker 1: quit asking to expand the role of government. Do they
1:00:30
Speaker 1: ever deliver on a solution for life's problems, and wake
1:00:36
Speaker 1: up to the reality that it's an institution generally speaking
1:00:39
Speaker 1: of I don't believe can be trusted. You're looking at
1:00:42
Speaker 1: your Social Security statement. It says you can't guarantee that
1:00:46
Speaker 1: you're not guaranteed that amount, and is that amount even
1:00:50
Speaker 1: as it's stated enough for you to live on, Especially
1:00:53
Speaker 1: when the projections are that the amount of people living
1:00:55
Speaker 1: on Social Security is going to double. The number is
1:00:58
Speaker 1: only going to get bigger and bigger and big. We
1:01:00
Speaker 1: need to cut somewhere in order to bring this to
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Speaker 1: maybe something that will actually work in the long run.
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Speaker 1: You still may not be able to live on it,
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Speaker 1: but at least maybe if they reformed and they quit
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Speaker 1: spending so damn much they might be able to deliver
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Speaker 1: at least on the figure that you see on the
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Speaker 1: SOSIA Security report you get every year. Six forty six Mississippi, James,
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Speaker 1: hang on, my friend, Happy to take your call. I
1:01:23
Speaker 1: got to take a quick break here though, and first
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Speaker 1: mentioned real estate. Yeah, Peter Shabria Coloriams was seven hills.
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Speaker 1: Bourbon raffle to cure cancer. One hundred dollars a ticket
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Speaker 1: and if you win, you're going to be very happy,
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Speaker 1: even if you hate bourbon. It's a hundred dollars going
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Speaker 1: to cure cancer and you'll be a wealthy, wealthy individual.
1:02:05
Speaker 1: It's the aftermarket value. There are people out there that
1:02:07
Speaker 1: are willing to spend an insane amount of money on
1:02:09
Speaker 1: a bottle of Pappy van Winkle. Keith joins the program
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Speaker 1: at seven thirty. In the meantime, Thank you for holding
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Speaker 1: over the break, Mississippi James. Always a pleasure to hear
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Speaker 1: from you, Sir.
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Speaker 11: Any, good morning, doctor Brian. And after I say I
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Speaker 11: come in peace, love everybody, and there's nothing you can
1:02:24
Speaker 11: do about it. Next I'm gona say, oh, what a
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Speaker 11: tangle web we weez. Then Brian, also my third comment,
1:02:34
Speaker 11: I realize I'm in a small class of people that's free,
1:02:40
Speaker 11: that's happy, that's healthy, and wealthy, and that could change
1:02:45
Speaker 11: tomorrow now. But I'm saying up to this point, I
1:02:49
Speaker 11: satisfy each one of them categories good for you, free, happy, healthy,
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Speaker 11: and wealthy.
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Speaker 1: Good for you.
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Speaker 11: And you know, and as I was listing at all
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Speaker 11: the problems of peoples in the world, you know, it's
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Speaker 11: just swinging.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 11: I talk about that pendulum all the time. One moment
1:03:07
Speaker 11: that Republican got these talking points, you give it a
1:03:11
Speaker 11: couple of weeks, the Democrats usually the same talking point.
1:03:15
Speaker 11: They just swing to the other side, you know. So
1:03:18
Speaker 11: and so people began to realize that, hey, that's a
1:03:22
Speaker 11: swinging pendelm and you know, we got to come together,
1:03:28
Speaker 11: and I mean necessary, but we need to come together
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Speaker 11: and realize we got more in common than we have
1:03:34
Speaker 11: in difference. So until that part get focused, all the money,
1:03:40
Speaker 11: you know, just like Trump, I go to him. Now,
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Speaker 11: he's the man that was supposed to stop wars in
1:03:45
Speaker 11: one day as he ran on that campaign president of
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Speaker 11: the United States. Now we're talking about dropping bomb on
1:03:53
Speaker 11: this other country because I think nuclear arms that they
1:03:58
Speaker 11: looking to go. But everybody their own little bits that
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Speaker 11: they can choose.
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Speaker 1: You know, yes, sir, all right, but.
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Speaker 11: You're digress from there. I know you got a word
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Speaker 11: on it.
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Speaker 1: But no, I'm glad you started off by pointing out
1:04:12
Speaker 1: that you are happy. You recognize your freedom and you're
1:04:16
Speaker 1: enjoying this moment in time. You know, life is what
1:04:18
Speaker 1: you make it. It's one of my favorite Dostoyeeski quotes
1:04:21
Speaker 1: and I can't find it immediately, but you know, these
1:04:23
Speaker 1: guys talking around, they're standing in the group and his
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Speaker 1: brothers Kraen MAT's off one of my favorite books of
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Speaker 1: all time, and the one the guy observes, you know,
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Speaker 1: life is heaven if you choose to make it. So
1:04:32
Speaker 1: you need to look around you everything that we have
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Speaker 1: the trees, the birds, the beautiful condiction, you know, the environment,
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Speaker 1: whatever life is heaven. You just embrace that concept and
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Speaker 1: we will all collectively smile and embrace each other and
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Speaker 1: weep with joy. Or the flip side of that is,
1:04:47
Speaker 1: obviously life can be hell. Do you know what's gonna
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Speaker 1: happen after you die? James, You have no idea. You
1:04:52
Speaker 1: can believe in a higher power, you can believe in
1:04:54
Speaker 1: the concept of heaven and hell. You can believe there's
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Speaker 1: something other out there in the afterlife, but you don't
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Speaker 1: know for certain. But what do you know that you
1:05:02
Speaker 1: get this day, You get this moment in time, and
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Speaker 1: you can make it a happy moment in time. Or
1:05:09
Speaker 1: you can walk around grumbling and angry and really just
1:05:13
Speaker 1: generally pissed off, usually over a bunch of stuff that's
1:05:17
Speaker 1: completely out of your control. Evil Trump, evil orange man.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna walk around with an angry look on my
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Speaker 1: face and protest literally everything over which I have no control. Why,
1:05:27
Speaker 1: evil orange man, You've ruined your life. You have made
1:05:30
Speaker 1: your life a hell because you don't like him. Isn't
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Speaker 1: that just It's foolish, foolish exercise, a foolish waste of
1:05:38
Speaker 1: the gift of life that you've got, that you can't
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Speaker 1: take a moment to act like Mississippi James and just
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Speaker 1: reflect about how damn it. I am free, and I'm
1:05:47
Speaker 1: happy about it, and I'm happy where I am. No,
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Speaker 1: I don't have like nine gajillion dollars in the bank,
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Speaker 1: and I don't live in some giant house on the
1:05:55
Speaker 1: ocean front. But you know what, I got a roof
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Speaker 1: over my head, I got food on my table, I
1:05:59
Speaker 1: got loved one, I got friends. I have lots and
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Speaker 1: lots and lots of things in this world that I
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Speaker 1: should be focused on and should take a moment and
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Speaker 1: enjoy my life and should smile. It's not a sin
1:06:09
Speaker 1: to smile and be happy. And oh, isn't there something
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Speaker 1: like a specter looming the background of this discussion because
1:06:17
Speaker 1: I talk about it all the time. Divide, Divide, divide, divide.
1:06:19
Speaker 1: There are non governmental organizations, well oiled machine groups that
1:06:22
Speaker 1: are out there feeding the fire of division, feeding that hatred,
1:06:30
Speaker 1: feeding the misery that you individually will experience if you
1:06:34
Speaker 1: go along with it. They love that it's disruptive to
1:06:37
Speaker 1: a well ordered society. It's disruptive to the concept that
1:06:40
Speaker 1: James just articulated that, you know what, in this country anyway,
1:06:45
Speaker 1: we've got a hell of a lot more to be
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Speaker 1: smiling about and be happy about just giving that one
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Speaker 1: single word freedom and then reflect on who's trying to
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Speaker 1: Fast forward one hour, very much looking forward to have
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Speaker 1: new Immigration Legal Defense Fund in a city that's struggling
1:08:13
Speaker 1: to deal with budget issues and contemplating raising income tax. Yes,
1:08:17
Speaker 1: they're providing free services for illegal immigrants. Going back to priorities,
1:08:23
Speaker 1: what do you expect from government, especially a government that
1:08:26
Speaker 1: is short on money and a government with five hundred
1:08:30
Speaker 1: million dollars in behind road repairs and other infrastructure repairs.
1:08:34
Speaker 1: It's growing every year. Every year it gets more expensive.
1:08:37
Speaker 1: Prioritization anyway, it's two hundred plus thousand dollars. I though
1:08:41
Speaker 1: it seems like a drop in the bucket, is just
1:08:42
Speaker 1: one thing. Mind the pennies of dollars mind themselves comes
1:08:45
Speaker 1: to mind immediately and real quick. Here one of my
1:08:47
Speaker 1: favorite quotes speaking from Mississippi, James talking about life as
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Speaker 1: heaven or not make it what you will be angry,
1:08:53
Speaker 1: be Greta Thunberger, walk around pissed off your entire life.
1:08:56
Speaker 1: You've ruined the opportunity which is enjoying a life that
1:09:00
Speaker 1: you know, that you know, is there no guarantee of
1:09:04
Speaker 1: heaven as you perceive it. So I'm saying no, Jesus
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Speaker 1: Christ came back and told us all about it. That's fine.
1:09:10
Speaker 1: That is your religious belief. Some people are not doctrinally
1:09:13
Speaker 1: or dogmatic Christian. Dogmatically Christian, and many Christians within the
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Speaker 1: like thousands of different subdivisions of Christianity, don't have the
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Speaker 1: harp and rainbows and clouds perception of heaven. It's different,
1:09:26
Speaker 1: and the perception of heaven and hell's changed over the
1:09:27
Speaker 1: years under theology as well. But what do you know?
1:09:30
Speaker 1: You got the gift of life that you have been given.
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Speaker 1: Thank you mom and dad for that, and thankfully for
1:09:36
Speaker 1: my mom and dad the gift of education, which I
1:09:37
Speaker 1: always put in at number two after the gift of
1:09:39
Speaker 1: life that my mom and dad gave me. But as
1:09:41
Speaker 1: Dostoyevski says, look around you at the gifts of God,
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Speaker 1: the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds.
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Speaker 1: Nature is beautiful and sinless, and we only we are
1:09:51
Speaker 1: sinful and foolish, and we do not understand that life
1:09:56
Speaker 1: is heaven. But we have only to understan and that,
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Speaker 1: and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty.
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Speaker 1: We shall embrace each other and weep. And I presume
1:10:06
Speaker 1: that's weep and tears of joy. Life is heaven, as
1:10:09
Speaker 1: he states it, But could it not also be hell?
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Speaker 1: That is a choice that you make. I think one
1:10:16
Speaker 1: of the biggest systemic problems we have in this world
1:10:18
Speaker 1: is maybe fed by social media or whatever, that nobody
1:10:21
Speaker 1: seems to just put a smile on their face anymore.
1:10:24
Speaker 1: There's always something is just in the back of your
1:10:26
Speaker 1: head that just makes you well. Embrace that, greta Thunbird. Look,
1:10:34
Speaker 1: you say what you want about religion, but you know,
1:10:35
Speaker 1: most people that I know that are devoutly religious. They
1:10:39
Speaker 1: have been freed of the burdens and the complications of
1:10:41
Speaker 1: life because they are profoundly of the belief that there
1:10:44
Speaker 1: is something perhaps better out there afterwards. But I think
1:10:48
Speaker 1: that allows people of faith to relax and enjoy. Like
1:10:52
Speaker 1: Mississippi James said, I'm free and I'm happy. So if
1:11:02
Speaker 1: you think that there's something better after this doesn't that
1:11:05
Speaker 1: allow you to make that this gift that you have,
1:11:07
Speaker 1: this gift of life, that much more enjoyable now because
1:11:12
Speaker 1: you have been freed of the burdens of maybe what
1:11:15
Speaker 1: happens next. Just throwing it out there, I'm trying to
1:11:19
Speaker 1: engage in some measure of positivity as I reflect on
1:11:22
Speaker 1: where most of this anger seems to emanate from. Anyhow, Oh,
1:11:26
Speaker 1: Lawrence is on the phone. Lawrence just looked up, so
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Speaker 1: you're on the call screen. Welcome to the program, and
1:11:29
Speaker 1: Happy Friday Eve to you, sir. Sorry, I'm on a
1:11:31
Speaker 1: weird tear this morning.
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Speaker 12: Welcome, It's okay, Brian, Happy Friday Eve. I wanted to
1:11:36
Speaker 12: call and talk to you. I'm glad you're going to
1:11:38
Speaker 12: have Scott warping on. Yeah, because these policies coming out
1:11:41
Speaker 12: of City Hall. You know, you hear it all the time,
1:11:43
Speaker 12: but let us have consequences, and now we have Now
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Speaker 12: I'm members of council pushing legislation to spaing tax money
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Speaker 12: on illegals.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, that's where we're at.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Bob blown.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lawrence. Say, how does that sit with you?
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Speaker 1: This is just like, wait a second, who came up
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Speaker 1: with this idea. It was unanimously passed. We're gonna spend
1:12:08
Speaker 1: through two hundred thousand dollars for legal representation. And you
1:12:11
Speaker 1: know what legal representation is? Literally anybody is that the
1:12:14
Speaker 1: role of a city government to provide legal representation? I
1:12:17
Speaker 1: personally think no, hell no, especially a government it is
1:12:22
Speaker 1: short on money, it's getting raised, getting ready to raise
1:12:25
Speaker 1: everybody in the city since anty's taxes.
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Speaker 2: And they have the youngest guy on counsel who just
1:12:30
Speaker 2: got there do it. It's like nobody knew who Ryan
1:12:34
Speaker 2: James was. He is a guy from Columbus who just
1:12:37
Speaker 2: came down here for college. All of a sudden he's
1:12:39
Speaker 2: helping them run our government. And he's bringing these liberal
1:12:41
Speaker 2: pousies from Columbus about passing out taxpayer money to non citizens.
1:12:46
Speaker 2: I know, citizens Cincinnatis, you know who need legal representation
1:12:51
Speaker 2: for all types of issues, just keeping their homes.
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Speaker 1: Where do I larns? Where do I get in line?
1:12:57
Speaker 1: Where's the line for me to get my hand on
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Speaker 1: some money?
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Speaker 4: What's my free lawyer at right?
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Speaker 1: I'm with you all day long. That's why I struggle
1:13:05
Speaker 1: going to go back to the spending on a federal
1:13:08
Speaker 1: government level. We are just way way way beyond the pale.
1:13:10
Speaker 1: We're running the printing press to afford what we have
1:13:12
Speaker 1: promised to provide and failed to deliver on, I might interject,
1:13:16
Speaker 1: and while they grow it even more.
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Speaker 2: Period, we got pension liabilities too.
1:13:21
Speaker 1: Oh do we have pension liabilities, Lawrence. We just read
1:13:25
Speaker 1: about that the other day. Fat pension liabilities. And of
1:13:28
Speaker 1: course the mayor is endeavoring to write this ship that
1:13:30
Speaker 1: has been wrongly charted for the past several decades. Administration
1:13:35
Speaker 1: after administration after administration has failed in its promise to
1:13:39
Speaker 1: the folks that are intending to rely on the pension system.
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Speaker 9: Huh.
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Speaker 2: I mean I think John currently tried to fix it.
1:13:45
Speaker 2: He did, as you know, he get made a good attempt.
1:13:47
Speaker 2: But as we continue to get bigger government and we
1:13:51
Speaker 2: get more liberals down the city Hall to grow our government,
1:13:55
Speaker 2: of course, the liability is not going to fix itself
1:13:57
Speaker 2: because you keep hiring people and you keep running these depths.
1:14:00
Speaker 2: This is they'll pass now taxpayer money for illegals to
1:14:04
Speaker 2: get lawyers. I am like, where am I living by?
1:14:06
Speaker 2: I'm not a ciscinnati anymore. I must be on Mars.
1:14:09
Speaker 1: It's okay, Lawrence. You know why because they found it
1:14:12
Speaker 1: within the budget to build a solar panel farm, and
1:14:15
Speaker 1: they're going to build another one. So we got that
1:14:19
Speaker 1: going for us. So if you're not, we're going to
1:14:20
Speaker 1: be providing legal counsel to illegal immigrants. But we've got
1:14:23
Speaker 1: our solar farm and I'm sure it's really paying off,
1:14:25
Speaker 1: and I bet it generated a ton of electricity during
1:14:28
Speaker 1: this most recent snowstorm. I mean, I know that's unrelated
1:14:32
Speaker 1: to anything, but the City of Cincinnati spent your labor
1:14:39
Speaker 1: on a solar panel farm, as if the City of
1:14:44
Speaker 1: Cincinnati can impact global temperatures at all. I read that
1:14:47
Speaker 1: analysis about that new technology and in removing carbon dioxide
1:14:51
Speaker 1: from the atmosphere, generally, if you engage in the literally
1:14:55
Speaker 1: trillions of dollars that would to take to accomplish the
1:14:58
Speaker 1: goals that are proposed the this particular carbon capture program,
1:15:02
Speaker 1: I mean, the impact on the temperature wasn't even within
1:15:04
Speaker 1: the margin of error, And who knows what the temper
1:15:06
Speaker 1: is going to be like next week, let alone hundred
1:15:08
Speaker 1: years from now. City of Cincinnati is actively engaged in
1:15:11
Speaker 1: trying to control the globe's climate. Well, there's a prudent
1:15:14
Speaker 1: use of our taxpayer dollars does that make any sense
1:15:18
Speaker 1: to anybody? Jay, Welcome to the program. Happy Friday Eve
1:15:23
Speaker 1: to you. Thanks for calling. Hey Brian, how are you
1:15:27
Speaker 1: a little little riled up this morning?
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Speaker 5: Jay?
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Speaker 1: But I'm trying to be positive criticizing everybody's bad attitude,
1:15:36
Speaker 1: and I'm projecting a bad attitude this morning, but sort
1:15:38
Speaker 1: of a comical light. This is all out of my control.
1:15:41
Speaker 1: It is not going to impact my day or my
1:15:43
Speaker 1: overall attitude, which is generally trying to be positive, because well,
1:15:47
Speaker 1: I'm viewing life as heaven, at least my option to
1:15:49
Speaker 1: treat it that way. Go ahead, Jay, I'm sorry.
1:15:51
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm hoping I can light a few people up
1:15:54
Speaker 13: so they can make phone calls out of the city.
1:15:56
Speaker 13: Hard not that'll do any good. But I wanted to
1:15:59
Speaker 13: share with you and article that was written in the
1:16:01
Speaker 13: Wilamote Week. It's a local underground paper in Portland where
1:16:04
Speaker 13: I used to live.
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Speaker 5: It was all about.
1:16:07
Speaker 13: How they looked at one illegal family and how they
1:16:11
Speaker 13: fleece the system. And I know this goes.
1:16:13
Speaker 5: On over and over again.
1:16:14
Speaker 13: So if you're illegally here in the country, you steal
1:16:18
Speaker 13: somebody's SO security number, that's not a victim ofst crime.
1:16:21
Speaker 13: You get into a lot of tax implications when that happens.
1:16:25
Speaker 13: But let's take this illegal alien that's stolen a Social
1:16:27
Speaker 13: Security number. He goes and gets a job, and he
1:16:30
Speaker 13: claims eight dependents, so he's virtually no taxes taken out
1:16:34
Speaker 13: of his paycheck. His wife claims that she's unmarried and
1:16:40
Speaker 13: has eight kids. She gets every imaginable welfare benefit you
1:16:44
Speaker 13: can think of. That he's making fourteen, fifteen, sixteen dollars
1:16:49
Speaker 13: an hour at his job, and they're collecting all these
1:16:52
Speaker 13: government benefits and not paying any taxes. Think about, we're
1:16:56
Speaker 13: throwing money to help these people who are absolutely posit
1:17:00
Speaker 13: positively screwing us with the way that they do this.
1:17:04
Speaker 13: And it happens over and over and over.
1:17:07
Speaker 6: I work.
1:17:08
Speaker 13: I can't explain a lot, but I work in an
1:17:10
Speaker 13: industry that sort of supports HSI, so I see these
1:17:14
Speaker 13: cases come through, and universally people think about illegal aliens
1:17:19
Speaker 13: without a criminal record, almost every one of them has
1:17:22
Speaker 13: a stolen Security number. If you're somebody that's had their
1:17:25
Speaker 13: taxes filed by an illegal alien, you're in a mess.
1:17:30
Speaker 13: It is a world of heart to deal with. So
1:17:33
Speaker 13: all these bleeding hearts out there that talk about these
1:17:35
Speaker 13: underprivileged illegal aliens. They are absolutely stealing from us in
1:17:40
Speaker 13: the fashion that I just explained, and they're harming people
1:17:43
Speaker 13: by using stolen identities and social Security numbers. So when
1:17:47
Speaker 13: you hear people like I have tab whining about having
1:17:50
Speaker 13: to defend these people, he's defending flat out criminals. And
1:17:53
Speaker 13: I don't think people realize the extent of the damage
1:17:56
Speaker 13: that these guys do when when they run this scam.
1:18:00
Speaker 1: One city in the Great United States, Minneapolis, already they
1:18:03
Speaker 1: started nine billion dollars, and some are projecting that maybe
1:18:06
Speaker 1: the fraud and abuse in the leering centers and other
1:18:09
Speaker 1: programs like that could reach its highest thirty billion dollars.
1:18:12
Speaker 1: Now that may be a sphincter inspired figure, but it's
1:18:14
Speaker 1: at minimum of this juncture nine billion dollars. So well,
1:18:18
Speaker 1: I won't pay with the broad brush and say every
1:18:19
Speaker 1: single one of the illegal immigrants is stealing from us.
1:18:22
Speaker 1: The broader challenges why don't we look at who's defending
1:18:26
Speaker 1: the status quo, who fought against the idea that an
1:18:32
Speaker 1: able bodied individual with no children of working age should
1:18:37
Speaker 1: not be compelled to at least endeavor to get an education.
1:18:40
Speaker 1: Twenty hours is all we're asking for so you can
1:18:42
Speaker 1: get your snap benefits of your other social welfare benefits.
1:18:45
Speaker 1: We're trying to engage you in the system. We're trying
1:18:47
Speaker 1: to keep you off of the umbilical court of government,
1:18:49
Speaker 1: which is always and in always, every single program that
1:18:52
Speaker 1: seeks to help the poor, disenfranchise whatever, it's always supposed
1:18:55
Speaker 1: to be in set up as if it's a temporary
1:18:57
Speaker 1: program to give them a leg up to get over
1:18:59
Speaker 1: this temporary problem. Welfare has become generational. And who seeks
1:19:07
Speaker 1: to prevent any reform. I don't see any Republicans stepping
1:19:11
Speaker 1: up and saying, oh, no, no, no, we don't want
1:19:13
Speaker 1: to work requirement. That will be stupid. That able body
1:19:16
Speaker 1: person should be able to lay around and collect social
1:19:17
Speaker 1: welfare benefits. They don't need to lift a finger. Can
1:19:20
Speaker 1: they be educated? Absolutely, they're able bodied, they're capable of
1:19:23
Speaker 1: performing tasks or tape, capable of going to work every day.
1:19:27
Speaker 1: They're capable of getting a photo ID and going over
1:19:29
Speaker 1: to get their welfare benefit. Who stands in the way
1:19:33
Speaker 1: of that right? Ask yourself why seventeen fifty five krc
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1:19:40
Speaker 1: gonna be to Keith death Rich and buy some alcohol
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Speaker 1: the phones. Hopefully I can get both of them in.
1:19:55
Speaker 1: Who is first? Bill, Dave? Hang on your next Bill,
1:19:58
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Morning Show. Thanks for calling.
1:20:00
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, No, Damas made some very stunning and
1:20:04
Speaker 9: dramatic predictions about the future, and a lot of them
1:20:08
Speaker 9: came true. But no, sir, Damas didn't have anything on
1:20:11
Speaker 9: Rod Serling. The world has gotten very strange. So if
1:20:17
Speaker 9: you were talking earlier about the people who don't appreciate
1:20:20
Speaker 9: this country and all that, and so who if the
1:20:25
Speaker 9: liberals and George Soros came to the United States, then
1:20:29
Speaker 9: they crush us. Who's going to protect them against China
1:20:36
Speaker 9: or Russia. Who's going to when they come after their fortunes.
1:20:40
Speaker 1: Well, some suggest that they have a cozy relationship with
1:20:43
Speaker 1: those those governments. Maybe they're hoping against hope, perhaps that
1:20:48
Speaker 1: they won't be touched by the programs that they're trying
1:20:51
Speaker 1: to shove down our throats. But obviously and quite clearly.
1:20:54
Speaker 1: You know, it's like Margaret Thatcher said, the promise socialism
1:20:57
Speaker 1: as you run out of other people's money at some point,
1:21:00
Speaker 1: that's a pile of money that these various governments may
1:21:02
Speaker 1: very well go after. You know, they're as much is
1:21:05
Speaker 1: at risk as anybody else. I'm all in favor of them,
1:21:08
Speaker 1: letting them keep their money and spending on what they want.
1:21:10
Speaker 1: But you know I feel the same way about my
1:21:12
Speaker 1: money and your money. This presumption that it is ethical
1:21:16
Speaker 1: and moral and right just to take that is the
1:21:22
Speaker 1: building block of socialism. And yeah, you can make a
1:21:26
Speaker 1: good argument, well, we need road bridges and infrastructure to
1:21:28
Speaker 1: get a function in economy so we can make money. Sure,
1:21:30
Speaker 1: we'll make that argument. But those are things that provide us,
1:21:33
Speaker 1: you know, the grease to allow us to go about
1:21:37
Speaker 1: our freedom loving or income earning lives. But the minute
1:21:41
Speaker 1: you start taking something in the name of it's not fair,
1:21:46
Speaker 1: then you've entered into another realm. And that is and
1:21:50
Speaker 1: that's just what it bothers me so much from my
1:21:52
Speaker 1: little libertarian perspective of life, that the presumption is already
1:21:55
Speaker 1: baked into the cake that it is right and noble
1:21:58
Speaker 1: and proper to take someone else's stuff and things fill
1:22:04
Speaker 1: in the blank for whatever particular program or policy you
1:22:06
Speaker 1: run a support with it. I think we're a bit
1:22:09
Speaker 1: over extended in doing that, as it illustrated by our
1:22:11
Speaker 1: national debt, which trajectory is terrible in getting worse and
1:22:14
Speaker 1: worse every single moment in time, illustrated in local governments.
1:22:18
Speaker 1: Look at New York City struggles. They're billions of dollars
1:22:20
Speaker 1: in the hole. They're trying to figure out ways to
1:22:21
Speaker 1: plug that budget hole. More taxes from those evil rich people,
1:22:27
Speaker 1: and they're thrown into towel on that one. It just
1:22:30
Speaker 1: doesn't work. When the hell will the rest of the
1:22:33
Speaker 1: world wake up to that reality? Look at history. It
1:22:35
Speaker 1: demonstrates that this system does not work. It is going
1:22:37
Speaker 1: to fail and collapse because people are gonna shrug channeling.
1:22:43
Speaker 1: Iine ran seven twenty five right now, fifty five care
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1:22:55
Speaker 1: I am in the presence of a very inspiring man,
1:22:59
Speaker 1: and he's got a wife is also equally, if not
1:23:01
Speaker 1: more so inspiring. Keith Deskers in studio Keith and his
1:23:04
Speaker 1: beautiful wife Brook lost their child of pediatric brain cancers.
1:23:07
Speaker 1: Just and you know, I cannot imagine that the trauma
1:23:10
Speaker 1: and the devastation that someone might feel about that, that
1:23:12
Speaker 1: is a life altering thing for literally anybody. But who
1:23:16
Speaker 1: else turns that tragic situation into a multi million dollar
1:23:20
Speaker 1: campaign cure cancer. Keith and Brooke Desterers. They created the
1:23:24
Speaker 1: Cure Starts. Now, Keith, welcome back to the show Man.
1:23:26
Speaker 1: It's so good to see you.
1:23:27
Speaker 8: Thank you for having me.
1:23:28
Speaker 1: Looking forward to the gala coming up next to us.
1:23:31
Speaker 8: Yes, it's like a week out. This is earlier than
1:23:34
Speaker 8: we've ever had it before. But we're celebrating that whole
1:23:37
Speaker 8: Marty Graw theme.
1:23:39
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna be fun.
1:23:40
Speaker 8: You know, if you're gonna have a gallon February, ay,
1:23:42
Speaker 8: you might as well do a Marty Graw theme while
1:23:43
Speaker 8: you're at it.
1:23:44
Speaker 1: Well, and what year is this for the Cure Starts?
1:23:48
Speaker 8: I think this is year nineteen, so next year is
1:23:50
Speaker 8: the really big year. But it's not an anniversary we
1:23:53
Speaker 8: really want to celebrate. I mean, you know a lot
1:23:55
Speaker 8: of people get excited about it, and we look at
1:23:57
Speaker 8: it and say, Okay, I wish it was cured by now.
1:24:00
Speaker 1: I know I know, I know, I know, and I
1:24:02
Speaker 1: it was just sort of a weird you know, call
1:24:05
Speaker 1: it religious or you know, a divine intervention or crazy
1:24:09
Speaker 1: star alignment that I ended up, you know, just like
1:24:11
Speaker 1: embracing your charity. Uh so many years ago, and you've
1:24:14
Speaker 1: asked me to help out. And I love doing a
1:24:16
Speaker 1: little facilitation at the at the at the event, the gala.
1:24:20
Speaker 1: It's so much fun in the event is I can't
1:24:23
Speaker 1: imagine a better charity event. It's just people are excited
1:24:27
Speaker 1: about it. There's so many wonderful sponsors. We were the
1:24:31
Speaker 1: winner of the gorgeous that Guggenheim family they donated their
1:24:35
Speaker 1: gorgeous outside of Jackson Hall. Back again, It's back again.
1:24:38
Speaker 1: He got in touch with me yesterday. He said, yeah,
1:24:40
Speaker 1: maybe you could say a word or two about it
1:24:42
Speaker 1: because we loved that. Yeah, it was awesome.
1:24:46
Speaker 8: Well and this time, I don't know if anybody has
1:24:49
Speaker 8: ever done a thing called scheduling it is okay, it's
1:24:54
Speaker 8: craziest sport I ever saw. I was out there, we
1:24:57
Speaker 8: vacationed out there once and we saw these the these
1:25:00
Speaker 8: horses that were towing people with a rope and they
1:25:03
Speaker 8: were on skis and they were going through obstacle course
1:25:05
Speaker 8: and I looked at that and I said, pulled the
1:25:07
Speaker 8: car over. We have got to figure out what this is.
1:25:11
Speaker 8: And I started talking with them. Uh, they're actually going
1:25:14
Speaker 8: to donate in combination with this, so it turns into
1:25:17
Speaker 8: kind of a winter wonderland and the Titons.
1:25:20
Speaker 1: Uh.
1:25:20
Speaker 8: So, not only it's a giant house.
1:25:22
Speaker 1: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
1:25:24
Speaker 8: And uh and then beyond you know, donated by the Gougainhems.
1:25:29
Speaker 8: But at the end of the day, you get ski
1:25:32
Speaker 8: passes to Jackson Hole, You get to be possibly in
1:25:36
Speaker 8: the skeedjuring beginning entry struggling.
1:25:41
Speaker 1: This is like in the neighborhood where someone would hook
1:25:44
Speaker 1: a rope up to a car and get on their skateboard.
1:25:46
Speaker 14: You know what.
1:25:47
Speaker 8: I am an avid water skier and I like snow skiing,
1:25:51
Speaker 8: so it's kind of like this is this is the
1:25:53
Speaker 8: best thing in the world right here.
1:25:55
Speaker 1: Then the icing on the cake not just all that
1:25:57
Speaker 1: that beautiful home and the views from there, but the
1:26:00
Speaker 1: fact that you're so close to Yellowstone Park. Oh yeah,
1:26:03
Speaker 1: first time I'd ever been there was when we got
1:26:05
Speaker 1: that that we won. We were the high bidders. Us
1:26:08
Speaker 1: in the group were the high bidders on that house.
1:26:09
Speaker 1: We got to go to Yellowstone. That was amazing.
1:26:14
Speaker 8: Did you get to go during the winter at all
1:26:16
Speaker 8: or not?
1:26:16
Speaker 1: No, it was a June. I think you're there in June.
1:26:18
Speaker 8: Yeah, winter is Winter's a special time, and that's what
1:26:21
Speaker 8: this one says. No, no, no, no, you go snowmobiling
1:26:26
Speaker 8: in Yellowstone. So you you go all the way through there.
1:26:29
Speaker 8: I've done it once. It was a remarkable experience.
1:26:33
Speaker 4: Cold.
1:26:33
Speaker 8: I mean you get off the plane and it was
1:26:35
Speaker 8: negative twenty.
1:26:36
Speaker 1: But that's cool.
1:26:37
Speaker 8: Yeah, it is, it is. It's a whole new definition
1:26:39
Speaker 8: of it, but it is. It is probably my top
1:26:43
Speaker 8: trip I've ever done in my life.
1:26:45
Speaker 1: So yeah, I imagine, and it snowmobiling. Now, I was
1:26:47
Speaker 1: there at the wrong time of the year to top
1:26:49
Speaker 1: particul of that. But if if you're at the Cure
1:26:51
Speaker 1: starts now Galla, Yes, the Guggenheims have that house or
1:26:54
Speaker 1: for you to bid on, and if you win, trust me,
1:26:57
Speaker 1: you are going to be happy.
1:26:59
Speaker 8: And if some or is your sport instead, we have
1:27:02
Speaker 8: the Jimmy Buffett Margueritaville has donated a house down there,
1:27:07
Speaker 8: so you have I think it's like a week for
1:27:08
Speaker 8: like eight people or something.
1:27:10
Speaker 1: Oh cool.
1:27:11
Speaker 8: Absolutely, and you.
1:27:13
Speaker 1: Get a bunch of people together like we did for
1:27:15
Speaker 1: the Bourbon Raffle last year, you know, and we start
1:27:17
Speaker 1: in a bidding more and when they found out how
1:27:20
Speaker 1: much money we all spent on that, they treated us
1:27:23
Speaker 1: like royalty at the Castle Key bourbon distilled drink. We
1:27:27
Speaker 1: just we had a great time anyway. That's what makes
1:27:30
Speaker 1: the event so wonderful. So many people have stepped up.
1:27:32
Speaker 1: They've got the silent auctions, they've got the live auctions,
1:27:36
Speaker 1: and of course.
1:27:37
Speaker 8: I think we have like four hundred silent auctions. And
1:27:40
Speaker 8: I think actually maybe today here tomorrow, I think we
1:27:42
Speaker 8: may be selling out. I think I think last time
1:27:45
Speaker 8: I saw, I think there was like maybe ten fifteen
1:27:48
Speaker 8: tickets left for the gallet itself, for the galley. Yeah,
1:27:50
Speaker 8: and that's so.
1:27:51
Speaker 1: You've got about a thousand people are going to show up.
1:27:53
Speaker 8: We did not expect that in February one. We kind
1:27:55
Speaker 8: of expected maybe we'll have a few extra tickets, you know,
1:27:58
Speaker 8: night of Nope. I I think we're gonna sell out
1:28:00
Speaker 8: a week in a vans.
1:28:02
Speaker 1: That is cold, that's cool. The other thing we're going
1:28:03
Speaker 1: to try to sell out today the five bottle Pappy
1:28:07
Speaker 1: Van Winkle Reserve collection one hundred dollars a ticket market value.
1:28:12
Speaker 1: This is retail value nine nine hundred dollars and it's
1:28:15
Speaker 1: worth a whole hell of a lot more than that
1:28:17
Speaker 1: on the open market out there. More with Keith destrits
1:28:19
Speaker 1: from the Cure starts Now and another word from my
1:28:21
Speaker 1: friends out there who may not be bourbon fans. Scotch
1:28:25
Speaker 1: oh a new development for the Cure starts now this
1:28:27
Speaker 1: year seven thirty six the talk station on Well George,
1:28:35
Speaker 1: Lonesome Georgia. It is Bourbon, it is Scotch, but it's
1:28:38
Speaker 1: not beer. It's the keel up Brian Thomas with Keith
1:28:42
Speaker 1: thatsterers from the Cure starts Now. On my blog page
1:28:43
Speaker 1: fifty five caresee dot com you find a link to
1:28:45
Speaker 1: buy a raffle ticket and yeah we do have the
1:28:47
Speaker 1: traditional pappyv. Van Winkle five bottle set. That's big Kahuna
1:28:52
Speaker 1: prize one hundred dollars a ticket market value nine nine
1:28:56
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. But you're you're curing cancer. I didn't mention
1:28:59
Speaker 1: yet on the show this morning, but you've done this before, Keith.
1:29:01
Speaker 1: The ultimate Bourbon raffle, the fifty bucks a ticket that's
1:29:04
Speaker 1: the Kentucky King of Kentucky. Three bottles set. Yeah, there's
1:29:09
Speaker 1: there's that's a big expensive one and fifty retail.
1:29:13
Speaker 8: Each one of these would stand alone as a raffle.
1:29:15
Speaker 8: And the party source, which is the part put this
1:29:17
Speaker 8: thing on, came to us and said, you know, we're
1:29:20
Speaker 8: gonna definitely do the Pappy Suite with you like we've
1:29:22
Speaker 8: always done with it, but would you be interested in
1:29:25
Speaker 8: trying some additional things? And we figured maybe just one,
1:29:28
Speaker 8: you know, two? No, no, no, there's three of them.
1:29:30
Speaker 8: They wanted to have two additional baskets for bourbon, and
1:29:34
Speaker 8: then they wanted to have a whiskey Scotch or Scotch
1:29:37
Speaker 8: whiskey one and then a tequila one, which I mean,
1:29:42
Speaker 8: these alone are their own raffles, but you know it
1:29:45
Speaker 8: all gets tied together. You can buy four different groupings effectively,
1:29:50
Speaker 8: but it's just a I think it's like twenty seven
1:29:53
Speaker 8: thousand dollars totally. I know that the parties of of
1:29:56
Speaker 8: you know the market value if you would now.
1:29:59
Speaker 1: I do, like Akuila, I was telling you my kind
1:30:01
Speaker 1: of default drink has lately been a patron silver tequila,
1:30:05
Speaker 1: and I have it in a glass with a wedge
1:30:07
Speaker 1: of orange. Squeeze it and I guess it. I just
1:30:10
Speaker 1: love it. Go ahead, do what you want.
1:30:11
Speaker 8: No, no, no, of warmer temperatures, it does, I mean it does.
1:30:15
Speaker 1: They see the alcohol, the tequila metabolizes different in your
1:30:19
Speaker 1: body than regular alcohol. Anyway, maybe I'm just looking for
1:30:21
Speaker 1: a reason to drink it. But three bottle tequila selection
1:30:25
Speaker 1: only thirty bucks a ticket. Three bottles has a market
1:30:28
Speaker 1: price of three thousand and five hundred dollars more al
1:30:32
Speaker 1: might I didn't realize they made tequila that expensive.
1:30:35
Speaker 4: You know what.
1:30:35
Speaker 8: These bottles are giant. I had to build a new
1:30:37
Speaker 8: display case for them for this year. So it's just
1:30:40
Speaker 8: it's it's it's it's unfathomable, it really is. And frankly,
1:30:45
Speaker 8: even the support from the party source and doing this
1:30:47
Speaker 8: thing every single year has been amazing, you know. And
1:30:50
Speaker 8: they are great people, exactly, exactly, John and his group
1:30:53
Speaker 8: are just phenomenal.
1:30:54
Speaker 1: We think about this. Not only they donate the thousands
1:30:57
Speaker 1: of dollars in bourbon. They you if they could give
1:31:01
Speaker 1: you Scotch and tequila separately as gifts. So they're just
1:31:06
Speaker 1: fantastic And a shout out to the Greater Family as well.
1:31:08
Speaker 1: Without them, well yeah, well now we've gotten off the ground.
1:31:11
Speaker 8: The Galla wouldn't be here. And these are two separate events.
1:31:13
Speaker 8: I mean, this is a Kentucky bourbon raffle. It is
1:31:16
Speaker 8: I think it's in a week and a half is
1:31:18
Speaker 8: when this gets given away. I mean the gala next
1:31:20
Speaker 8: week is by graters and these are people that have
1:31:23
Speaker 8: been with us from the start, I mean, and just
1:31:26
Speaker 8: supportive as all get up. And that's that's what we
1:31:30
Speaker 8: need because this is a big battle and it's a
1:31:33
Speaker 8: lot of funning we had to put towards cancer research
1:31:35
Speaker 8: and maybe people get an opportunity to have a drink,
1:31:39
Speaker 8: enjoy life and help us secure and cancer.
1:31:43
Speaker 1: Kind of on a role on this enjoy life.
1:31:45
Speaker 4: I know.
1:31:45
Speaker 8: I was like, I was listening.
1:31:47
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, I really do, Keith. It's just so
1:31:49
Speaker 1: important that people put a smile on their face again.
1:31:52
Speaker 1: You know, amid tragedy, you deal with the most tragic
1:31:56
Speaker 1: thing that anybody can possibly imagine, and then out of
1:31:59
Speaker 1: that come how many millions of dollars have you got
1:32:02
Speaker 1: put together over the years with these efforts.
1:32:05
Speaker 8: We've put together about over forty three million dollars that
1:32:08
Speaker 8: we have spent on cancer research and support in twenty
1:32:13
Speaker 8: nine countries through nearly two hundred projects over the years.
1:32:18
Speaker 1: And it all started out with Elaine and blueberry pie
1:32:20
Speaker 1: ice cream twenty years ago.
1:32:21
Speaker 8: It started out with ice cream. It started out with
1:32:23
Speaker 8: my daughter drawing a heart, started with you eating ice
1:32:26
Speaker 8: cream on air when I wasn't even talking to you,
1:32:30
Speaker 8: didn't even know you. You know, and and and and
1:32:36
Speaker 8: all these things just kind of come together, and it's
1:32:38
Speaker 8: just there. There aren't any coincidences. This is something that
1:32:42
Speaker 8: has come together, and Cincinnati has really become the hub
1:32:45
Speaker 8: of cancer research for the world, the world.
1:32:48
Speaker 1: That to me is what's and you know what, it's
1:32:50
Speaker 1: not just that you have spent forty three million dollars
1:32:54
Speaker 1: donated by all these wonderful folks who participate in these
1:32:56
Speaker 1: events over the years, but that your research and the
1:33:00
Speaker 1: money that you spent has actually borne fruit.
1:33:02
Speaker 6: Yeah.
1:33:03
Speaker 8: I mean, we talk a lot about hope for the
1:33:05
Speaker 8: first five seven years. We don't have to talk about
1:33:07
Speaker 8: hope anymore because we can actually talk about promises. We
1:33:10
Speaker 8: have some really, really amazing research that we ended up
1:33:15
Speaker 8: helping to build. I mean, it wasn't just we just
1:33:17
Speaker 8: waited for it to show up at our door. That's
1:33:19
Speaker 8: not how we work. We actually go out recruit and
1:33:21
Speaker 8: build it and help develop new types of radiation that
1:33:25
Speaker 8: the world has never seen that are marked as one
1:33:28
Speaker 8: of the top ten discoveries in physics. We've had partnerships
1:33:33
Speaker 8: that we forged with great institutions like since My Children's
1:33:36
Speaker 8: Hospital to try to deliver cutting edge treatments. We've overhauled
1:33:41
Speaker 8: how we collect data for cancer registries and right now
1:33:46
Speaker 8: we're inventing AI models to be able to identify those
1:33:50
Speaker 8: but also comb through other research to figure out what
1:33:54
Speaker 8: should be next.
1:33:55
Speaker 1: See. Conceptually speaking, if you mentioned artificial intelligence, my immediate
1:33:59
Speaker 1: defallow is to think, you know, like danger will Robinson,
1:34:02
Speaker 1: I just I find all these bad things associated with it.
1:34:04
Speaker 1: But the one area that you know is going to
1:34:06
Speaker 1: benefit from AI is medical generally speaking, you know, looking
1:34:11
Speaker 1: at X rays, looking at MRIs and cts, looking at
1:34:15
Speaker 1: all of the data. It can read everything. Think about,
1:34:18
Speaker 1: like instantaneously, how many articles are there about cancer research,
1:34:22
Speaker 1: peer reviewed or whatever, Grab them all, stuff them through
1:34:25
Speaker 1: AI and have a churn.
1:34:26
Speaker 8: Out well, and that's exactly what we started back in
1:34:28
Speaker 8: twenty eleven. We said, you know what, no one is
1:34:31
Speaker 8: collecting progressive MRIs of pediatric brain cancers. No one was
1:34:36
Speaker 8: and no one was collecting entire like familial history or
1:34:39
Speaker 8: anything like that. It didn't exist in any cancer registry.
1:34:43
Speaker 8: Still today there's a lot of them that don't and
1:34:46
Speaker 8: so we started the effort of building that and we
1:34:48
Speaker 8: got it to I think about one hundred and eighty
1:34:53
Speaker 8: nine hospitals or one hundred and eighty hospitals something like
1:34:56
Speaker 8: that worldwide. And now we have one of the biggest
1:34:59
Speaker 8: samples out there, and that's what we're using AI for
1:35:02
Speaker 8: is what can we do to predict how it grows
1:35:04
Speaker 8: and where it.
1:35:04
Speaker 1: Grows and the goal the home run cure. So everybody
1:35:07
Speaker 1: out there, we all agree cancer sucks. Maybe it'll bear
1:35:10
Speaker 1: fruit in the sense of this discovery what they're working
1:35:14
Speaker 1: on will ultimately translate to a cure for cancer. Across
1:35:17
Speaker 1: the board. We'll get a little bit more from Keith Thstrich.
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Speaker 1: in the world for any one of these? I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to reveal any secrets or anything, you know.
1:35:57
Speaker 8: I know Pappy has been very, very popular because my
1:35:59
Speaker 8: mailbox it's filled up every single But I don't, honestly
1:36:03
Speaker 8: don't know the numbers on that one. I know that
1:36:07
Speaker 8: Scotch Tequila those are a little bit less. So those
1:36:11
Speaker 8: are ones that you know, we hope that folks will
1:36:13
Speaker 8: participate in as well. But no, I don't. I'm not
1:36:16
Speaker 8: familiar with the exact numbers.
1:36:17
Speaker 1: All right, that's fine. I'm just in the processes. I
1:36:19
Speaker 1: already bought my Scotch tickets. I got four of those
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Speaker 1: in every year, and you know you're probably gonna end
1:36:34
Speaker 1: up having me buy the Guggenheims place again this year.
1:36:37
Speaker 1: We'll get involved, like, oh, that was so much fun.
1:36:38
Speaker 1: We got a bit on that.
1:36:39
Speaker 8: I want to picture you scheduling.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Actually, you know what, if we do end up
1:36:45
Speaker 1: getting it, and I'm not saying we're going to Peter Guggenheim,
1:36:50
Speaker 1: but if we do, maybe I will consider doing it
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Speaker 1: in the winter months so I can get involved in
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Speaker 1: the whole rope pull ski thing. Oh yeah, this is
1:36:57
Speaker 1: and I have a feeling I could stand. I could
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Speaker 1: manage that. I skied one time in my life. It
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Speaker 1: One of the first dates I went on with my wife,
1:37:06
Speaker 1: who used to own her own skis and boots. She
1:37:09
Speaker 1: skied that as much enough to justify that purchase. Never
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Speaker 1: skied since neither of us.
1:37:17
Speaker 8: It's a good time to try it.
1:37:18
Speaker 1: This is our thirty fourth year of engagement, thirty fourth
1:37:20
Speaker 1: year of marriage in June, and we've been together for
1:37:22
Speaker 1: I think thirty seven years, so say thirty seven years,
1:37:27
Speaker 1: soin so I need to know that I put skis on.
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Speaker 1: and sell it to your friend who is an insane
1:37:44
Speaker 1: bourbon fan, you are doing right. We're going to make
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Speaker 8: I yeah, that's that's the whole thing. We want to
1:37:55
Speaker 8: We want to close this down. We want to be
1:37:56
Speaker 8: done with it. You know, this is and it's also
1:37:59
Speaker 8: important to know that this is not just even about
1:38:01
Speaker 8: pediatric brain cancer or you know, one person's type of cancer.
1:38:06
Speaker 8: That what we represent is we represent that home run cure,
1:38:09
Speaker 8: the idea that there are certain types of cancers that
1:38:11
Speaker 8: we can learn the most from and if we can
1:38:13
Speaker 8: cure those, it's going to change how we fight every
1:38:16
Speaker 8: type of cancer. And you know that's not new, including lymphoma.
1:38:20
Speaker 8: Well yeah, I mean, and ironically, you know, the previous
1:38:24
Speaker 8: home run cancer was leukemia back in the fifties, and
1:38:29
Speaker 8: that that was where we really pioneered chemotherapy. But since then,
1:38:33
Speaker 8: we haven't invented anything new.
1:38:34
Speaker 1: We haven't.
1:38:35
Speaker 8: It's been chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, and emiotherapy, but we haven't
1:38:39
Speaker 8: created anything new. And that's eight years, you know. And
1:38:43
Speaker 8: and we've only been fighting cancer, you dedicated for about
1:38:47
Speaker 8: one hundred and seventy years, so half of our history
1:38:51
Speaker 8: we've been doing it wrong. And that is exactly what
1:38:54
Speaker 8: the Cure Starts Now is about. Is we are focused
1:38:57
Speaker 8: on those cancers we can learn the most from, so
1:39:00
Speaker 8: we can invent a fifth way to fight cancer and
1:39:02
Speaker 8: ultimately beat it.
1:39:03
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Speaker 1: legally just I have eight oh six here fifty five
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Speaker 1: Friday Eve. I heard media aviation expert Jay Rattleft at
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Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour. Love my conversations with Jay,
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Speaker 1: and I hope you feel the same way. In the meantime, though,
1:39:30
Speaker 1: I'm so pleased. Welcome back to the fifty five carsc
1:39:33
Speaker 1: Morning Show. Feel like it's been too long from the
1:39:34
Speaker 1: CINCINNTI Inquirer. We're actually doing local reporting. You'll find the
1:39:37
Speaker 1: on line at Cincinnati dot com. Scott Whartman, Welcome back
1:39:40
Speaker 1: to the morning show. It's great having you on this morning.
1:39:43
Speaker 4: Great to be here, Thanks for having me.
1:39:44
Speaker 1: Good morning well and thank you for bringing it to
1:39:47
Speaker 1: our attention. What's going on Sinceinny City Council. You know,
1:39:49
Speaker 1: we don't get a lot of information out of him.
1:39:51
Speaker 1: Quite often they're not really willing to comment on any
1:39:53
Speaker 1: given topic. Any give a call to the baftabs office
1:39:55
Speaker 1: and calls are not returned immediately. I see that regularly
1:39:58
Speaker 1: mentioned in your article on Cincinnati reporting. But the other
1:40:02
Speaker 1: day there were a couple of a lot of messages
1:40:04
Speaker 1: I bet you have. Can I ask you just introject
1:40:07
Speaker 1: real quickly? Does it? Does it? Do you get frustrated
1:40:09
Speaker 1: by that? I mean that seems to me if just
1:40:12
Speaker 1: from my observations, and you're involved directly with reaching out
1:40:15
Speaker 1: to council people and the mayor's office and the city
1:40:18
Speaker 1: manager's office, does it frustrate you to get the no
1:40:21
Speaker 1: comment or no call return response a lot.
1:40:25
Speaker 4: I mean one of the things with reporting actually, because
1:40:29
Speaker 4: a lot of my reporting is based on public records
1:40:32
Speaker 4: and also talking to like residents. It's up to anyone
1:40:37
Speaker 4: that wants to talk to us or doesn't want to
1:40:39
Speaker 4: talk to talk to me. I mean, the story is
1:40:41
Speaker 4: going to happen either way. So it's it. It never
1:40:45
Speaker 4: really kills us. It's never killed a story by someone
1:40:48
Speaker 4: not talking to me. So I mean honestly, well, I
1:40:52
Speaker 4: mean I think public officials should talk, yeah, and should,
1:40:55
Speaker 4: but it is is that the Scott.
1:41:00
Speaker 1: That becomes a subtle point that you're making in the article.
1:41:04
Speaker 1: It is important for them to talk to us. It
1:41:06
Speaker 1: is important for them to explain what the hell they're
1:41:08
Speaker 1: doing and what motivates them that they don't and that
1:41:10
Speaker 1: you gave them an opportunity they passed on. It I
1:41:13
Speaker 1: think is a story in and of itself. Scott, Yeah,
1:41:17
Speaker 1: I mean that's fair enough. All right, Now let's move
1:41:20
Speaker 1: over to these resolutions. Councilman Ryan James, I guess the
1:41:24
Speaker 1: newest member, along with I believe Anna Albie were behind
1:41:28
Speaker 1: I think to a certain degree, Mark Jefferies as well.
1:41:31
Speaker 1: Two separate proposals to deal with immigrants, immigrants facing deportation,
1:41:37
Speaker 1: which you know my listening audience would probably suggest illegal immigrants.
1:41:41
Speaker 1: If they face deportation, then there's no there's not a
1:41:43
Speaker 1: lawful basis for them being here. But I guess since
1:41:46
Speaker 1: you just mentioned you talk to residents, that will be
1:41:49
Speaker 1: I suppose members of the residents of the various fifty
1:41:52
Speaker 1: two communities. I thought we didn't have any money. I
1:41:55
Speaker 1: thought they were trying to close a budget hole. And
1:41:58
Speaker 1: in times when they're closing a budget hole, they need
1:42:00
Speaker 1: to either cut or they need to find other sources
1:42:02
Speaker 1: of revenue. They are talking about increasing the income tax downtown.
1:42:06
Speaker 1: Don't think that's a good marketing tool for getting people in.
1:42:09
Speaker 1: But if they need to raise income taxes in order
1:42:12
Speaker 1: to plug the hole for what they're promising already, is
1:42:15
Speaker 1: it even appropriate to start discussing about expanding and providing resources,
1:42:20
Speaker 1: money and otherwise legal fees as well for immigrants. What
1:42:23
Speaker 1: are the people in the fifty two communities, the residents
1:42:25
Speaker 1: say about something like that.
1:42:28
Speaker 4: Well, I have not on this issue, specifically, on the
1:42:32
Speaker 4: immigration proposals, I've not had it because they were just
1:42:36
Speaker 4: introduced this week. I have not had a chance to
1:42:38
Speaker 4: do any comprehensive polling on that the city council has
1:42:42
Speaker 4: had residents come to them wanting them to do something,
1:42:47
Speaker 4: take some action against ICE enforcement, And this is kind
1:42:52
Speaker 4: of a response to the concerns that they've heard in
1:42:56
Speaker 4: council meetings.
1:42:57
Speaker 1: All right, Well, of course, city sources are not obligated
1:43:01
Speaker 1: to and there's no obligation for anybody in the city
1:43:04
Speaker 1: government or even law enforcement to assist ICE in its
1:43:08
Speaker 1: federal law enforcement efforts. I get that. But then there's
1:43:11
Speaker 1: resisting ICE and also helping people avoid ICE, which seems
1:43:15
Speaker 1: to be a big, maybe a broader problem. But in
1:43:18
Speaker 1: a budget situation where there's very limited resources and not
1:43:22
Speaker 1: a lot of flexibility, I mean, I'm just looking at
1:43:24
Speaker 1: the idea of providing free legal assistance. So one of
1:43:28
Speaker 1: the motions that actually passed, I think it was unanimously.
1:43:30
Speaker 1: You reported on it, the Access to Council group. They
1:43:34
Speaker 1: apparently have allocated two hundred and ten thousand dollars to
1:43:36
Speaker 1: go to this group, which is described as providing free
1:43:38
Speaker 1: legal representation for those facing eviction. If this group is
1:43:42
Speaker 1: providing free legal representation, as a lawyer, I kind of
1:43:45
Speaker 1: read that as pro bono pro bono means there's no
1:43:47
Speaker 1: billable hours. So why would any money need to be
1:43:50
Speaker 1: allocated to a group that's providing free legal assistance in
1:43:52
Speaker 1: the first instance.
1:43:54
Speaker 4: And that group is my understanding, that's going towards like tenants,
1:44:00
Speaker 4: that's not that one's not immigration. There's the one that's immigration.
1:44:03
Speaker 4: It's two hundred and ten thousand. That's to the Immigrant
1:44:05
Speaker 4: and Law Refugee Center. They didn't return my calls the center.
1:44:11
Speaker 4: They said they don't do media interviews, but the part
1:44:17
Speaker 4: of that will go towards because they do represent people
1:44:21
Speaker 4: facing deportation. Part of it will go to that, some
1:44:23
Speaker 4: of it will go to some assistance to their families
1:44:28
Speaker 4: and families in the immigrant community. I mean, it's a
1:44:32
Speaker 4: valid question on where city should be, where the city
1:44:35
Speaker 4: should be spending the money. My understanding is this is
1:44:38
Speaker 4: part of money that wasn't spent last year. It's this
1:44:42
Speaker 4: carryover budget, which is a technical and it's won game.
1:44:46
Speaker 4: It's still city money. But right now they're hashing out
1:44:50
Speaker 4: what to do with this money that wasn't spent last year.
1:44:54
Speaker 4: And this is based on what they had heard from
1:44:59
Speaker 4: residents and community like we need you to take a
1:45:01
Speaker 4: stand against ice. This this has been their response to it.
1:45:06
Speaker 1: Well, it makes me kind of question the percentage of
1:45:08
Speaker 1: people in the community that actually view this as a priority.
1:45:11
Speaker 1: Why not just leave the money in the general fund
1:45:13
Speaker 1: to help address the outstanding budget deficit we're dealing with.
1:45:15
Speaker 1: That's the logical response from Brian Thomas. But is this
1:45:18
Speaker 1: really an issue that people are clamoring for or is
1:45:22
Speaker 1: it just the squeaky wheels out there representing a small
1:45:25
Speaker 1: slice of the population of the city that are demanding
1:45:28
Speaker 1: this and they're just in the face of everyone making
1:45:31
Speaker 1: it making the council people perceive this to be a
1:45:34
Speaker 1: huge demand. I guess I struggle to find where this
1:45:37
Speaker 1: actual demand is coming from.
1:45:39
Speaker 4: Well, that is the always the big trick, big question
1:45:44
Speaker 4: that you know, even I mean I struggle with when
1:45:47
Speaker 4: I write these stories because what you hear online, what
1:45:50
Speaker 4: you see at council meetings could be different than what
1:45:53
Speaker 4: you go you know, what you hear door the door.
1:45:56
Speaker 4: I will say, when I was talking the voters coming
1:46:01
Speaker 4: out of the polls in Cincinnati for the city council
1:46:06
Speaker 4: and the mayoral race, everyone I talked to I may
1:46:09
Speaker 4: be talked to maybe twenty some voters the day of
1:46:14
Speaker 4: all cited their displeasure at the Trump administration is why
1:46:20
Speaker 4: they voted Democrats. So it does seem like these national issues,
1:46:25
Speaker 4: particularly in the city, are driving a lot of voters.
1:46:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that's a said commentary on the city.
1:46:32
Speaker 1: They have so much on their plate as it relates
1:46:35
Speaker 1: to actual matters over which they have control, and yet
1:46:38
Speaker 1: you know, we find them building solar farms because they
1:46:40
Speaker 1: think the City of Cincinnati's a mission is somehow going
1:46:42
Speaker 1: to impact the global emissions and we know that to
1:46:45
Speaker 1: be just impossible. So fair to allocate resources properly, I
1:46:49
Speaker 1: think is an ongoing problem. That's again from the subjective
1:46:53
Speaker 1: opinion of Brian Thomas. Did you see Todd Zinzer's report
1:46:57
Speaker 1: on the railroad money and how they're just stuffing the
1:46:59
Speaker 1: railroad money into a general fund to earn interest that's
1:47:02
Speaker 1: going into the general fund, which suggests maybe they're going
1:47:05
Speaker 1: to use that much, Yeah, for things that aren't related
1:47:07
Speaker 1: to existing infrastructure. Scott Wortman, I.
1:47:11
Speaker 4: Have I haven't had a chance to look into that yet.
1:47:14
Speaker 4: I mean, it's by understanding they cannot do that. It
1:47:16
Speaker 4: has to go to existing infrastructure. I do know they're
1:47:20
Speaker 4: having trouble right now spending all that money coming in
1:47:24
Speaker 4: faster than they can get it out the door. I
1:47:27
Speaker 4: have not seen any concrete proposal to use it for
1:47:30
Speaker 4: anything other than you know, what it was intended for.
1:47:34
Speaker 4: If that does happen, I mean, that's going to create
1:47:36
Speaker 4: a huge political fight. Yeah, because it was clear in
1:47:42
Speaker 4: the legislation it can only be used for roads or
1:47:46
Speaker 4: like existing like buildings like you know, rec centers, whatever.
1:47:51
Speaker 4: They can't use it to build like new things like
1:47:53
Speaker 4: an arena or anything like that.
1:47:55
Speaker 1: Right, Well, that's the way it was supposed to. But
1:47:57
Speaker 1: I think everyone, including me, was raising concerns early on
1:48:00
Speaker 1: that they're going to play fast and loose with what
1:48:02
Speaker 1: existing infrastructure means. But once you've removed it the money
1:48:06
Speaker 1: from the control of the board, the Railroad Board, which
1:48:09
Speaker 1: makes these allocations, it then lands in the lap of council.
1:48:13
Speaker 1: As Zin's are reported, you know, they've only spent like
1:48:15
Speaker 1: a small percentage of the actual money they've got. The
1:48:18
Speaker 1: rest of the multiple millions of dollars are sitting in
1:48:20
Speaker 1: this account. And wait a second, we've got four to
1:48:23
Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars in behind infrastructure needs, roads and
1:48:29
Speaker 1: bridges and existing infrastructure. All these projects are so far behind,
1:48:33
Speaker 1: and they keep getting further and further behind. Isn't that
1:48:35
Speaker 1: right there in and of itself what the money's designed for?
1:48:38
Speaker 1: And why aren't they pushing harder to get those existing
1:48:41
Speaker 1: projects done? They already know they exist.
1:48:43
Speaker 4: Scott, Yeah, Well, from what everyone's told me when I've
1:48:47
Speaker 4: talked to them about the railroad fence being council members,
1:48:51
Speaker 4: they want to use for existing infrastructure. So I mean,
1:48:54
Speaker 4: I haven't had again a chance to verify whether it's
1:48:57
Speaker 4: going to be used for something else. I've not, you know,
1:48:59
Speaker 4: independent heard that. But if it isn't used for what
1:49:06
Speaker 4: was intended, I would imagine there would be some legal
1:49:08
Speaker 4: challenges for that. So there are plenty of people in
1:49:11
Speaker 4: the community that would be willing to file something to
1:49:15
Speaker 4: raise an objection to that.
1:49:16
Speaker 1: Scott Warton from the since Ana Enquirer something tells me
1:49:19
Speaker 1: and are just chuckling about that they've already drafted the complaint.
1:49:22
Speaker 1: It's just waiting for the moment to file it properly.
1:49:25
Speaker 1: And let me just pivot over real quick. You probably
1:49:27
Speaker 1: are familiar with the person known as Signal ninety nine
1:49:31
Speaker 1: and her reporting on things relating to crime in downtown
1:49:33
Speaker 1: since saying she's going to be on my program tomorrow,
1:49:35
Speaker 1: but she just reported yesterday that they have created a
1:49:38
Speaker 1: new violence reduction manager in the city. Manager Sherry Long
1:49:42
Speaker 1: has promoted a woman named Kate Bell, who, by all
1:49:46
Speaker 1: accounts at least FRO Signal niney nine reporting, has basically
1:49:48
Speaker 1: a communications degree and a graphic design degree. And she
1:49:51
Speaker 1: is asking out loud, wait a second, there's no law
1:49:54
Speaker 1: enforcement background here. What in the hell is a violence
1:49:57
Speaker 1: reduction manager? Shouldn't have something to do with law enforcement
1:49:59
Speaker 1: by way of training? And was the job posted? Were
1:50:02
Speaker 1: their qualifications? Listen, there's so many swirling questions about this,
1:50:06
Speaker 1: but sure, here we go. Do you know anything about
1:50:10
Speaker 1: Kate Bell or the violence reduction manager position? It was
1:50:13
Speaker 1: just created?
1:50:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw that. I do know, and this predates
1:50:18
Speaker 4: my time covering the city beat. It has existed for
1:50:22
Speaker 4: at least the last two years. There were because when
1:50:26
Speaker 4: I saw that post, I looked into, you know, what's
1:50:29
Speaker 4: previously been reported on it. There have been at least
1:50:32
Speaker 4: two other violence reduction managers in the last like two
1:50:37
Speaker 4: or three years. So it's not an entirely new position evidently,
1:50:41
Speaker 4: but it's something I'll have to look into. I don't know,
1:50:44
Speaker 4: like exactly when that was created and what that persons
1:50:50
Speaker 4: supposed to do precisely.
1:50:52
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we in the community are really hoping that
1:50:54
Speaker 1: you do that reporting because it's swirling mystery and there's
1:50:57
Speaker 1: obviously a whole lot of questions around this. And clearly
1:50:59
Speaker 1: we have a problem with violence in downtown Cincinnati, and
1:51:02
Speaker 1: I know they've been struggling to address it. What's the
1:51:04
Speaker 1: job role, what's the description? If this position has been
1:51:07
Speaker 1: around for a while, what did it accomplish? Previously? Great
1:51:11
Speaker 1: questions ask and thankfully we have Scott Wartman at least
1:51:13
Speaker 1: to look into it. You can find Scott, and since
1:51:16
Speaker 1: I inquire online at Cincinnati dot com, recommend you check
1:51:19
Speaker 1: them out. And Scott, I'm glad we've got you out there.
1:51:21
Speaker 1: I really I weep for the future of the world
1:51:23
Speaker 1: where we don't have really good, you know, quality local reporting.
1:51:27
Speaker 1: I mean local reporting is going the way of the
1:51:28
Speaker 1: DODO in an Internet world. So keep up the work
1:51:31
Speaker 1: and keep asking the questions. We sure have the are
1:51:34
Speaker 1: sure waiting for the answer. Scott.
1:51:37
Speaker 4: I really appreciate that, and I feel privileged to be
1:51:39
Speaker 4: able to do this work.
1:51:40
Speaker 1: And you know, you always have a welcome spot here
1:51:42
Speaker 1: on the fifty five KRCREY Morning Show. Scott Wartman, Cincinnati
1:51:45
Speaker 1: dot Com, you have a wonderful week and thanks for
1:51:47
Speaker 1: your time with my listeners to that. I truly appreciate it,
1:51:49
Speaker 1: and I know they do as well. It's eight eighteen
1:51:51
Speaker 1: right now, fifty five kr CD the talk station, Hey
1:51:55
Speaker 1: twenty three or fifty five KRCD Talk station. I heard
1:51:57
Speaker 1: mediaviation expert Jay Rattle of coming up next having Jam
1:52:00
Speaker 1: on the show. And here's the questions for Scott Wortman.
1:52:03
Speaker 1: The again, Signal ninety nine has just laid them all
1:52:05
Speaker 1: out for us. This violence reduction manager Kate Bell in
1:52:09
Speaker 1: this position. According to the release from Signal ninety nine,
1:52:12
Speaker 1: she's got a background as a graphic designer, performance in
1:52:15
Speaker 1: data analytics office, human centered design leads, civil civic engine
1:52:19
Speaker 1: engagement manager. Now she's what they call a violence reduction
1:52:23
Speaker 1: manager with no legal back or no background in law enforcement,
1:52:26
Speaker 1: at least as has has been reported. So here's your
1:52:28
Speaker 1: questions why this position. Was this position rather publicly posted?
1:52:36
Speaker 1: Did you apply? I know Joe Strecker didn't. Was there
1:52:40
Speaker 1: a competitive process? What were the minimum qualifications? Were criminal
1:52:44
Speaker 1: justice credentials required or not? Great question, there was the
1:52:48
Speaker 1: role reclassified, which Scott Wortman suggested, know that this position
1:52:52
Speaker 1: has been around for a while. Who else applied? What
1:52:55
Speaker 1: is the salaryman who signed off on it? And, as
1:52:58
Speaker 1: Signal points out most importantly, this is where the rubber
1:53:02
Speaker 1: meets the road. What model of violence production is this
1:53:05
Speaker 1: administration actually pursuing. What's the job description, what is the
1:53:10
Speaker 1: role of the violence production manager? And what does this
1:53:12
Speaker 1: Kate Bell person propose to do by way of reducing violence?
1:53:17
Speaker 1: You think of all the socioeconomic and societal realities that
1:53:20
Speaker 1: are balled up into some individual person's decision to go
1:53:24
Speaker 1: out and commit a crime. I think it's a rather
1:53:26
Speaker 1: complex topic. Graphics design degree will really come in handy, presumably,
1:53:32
Speaker 1: so good questions Signal ninety nine on the program tomorrow
1:53:35
Speaker 1: talking about that in all types of other topics, along
1:53:37
Speaker 1: with of course Tech Friday with Dave Hatter and we're
1:53:40
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1:53:44
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1:53:48
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1:53:55
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1:53:58
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1:54:00
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1:54:04
Speaker 1: like makes like seven hundred. He's a busy man throughout
1:54:07
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1:54:09
Speaker 1: morning show. I hold him over for an entire half
1:54:12
Speaker 1: hour because of love the stories we talk about, and
1:54:15
Speaker 1: I find it very entertaining. Welcome back, my friend, Jay Ratliff.
1:54:18
Speaker 1: It's good having you on as always.
1:54:20
Speaker 14: Oh, I protect our time brother. Let me tell you,
1:54:22
Speaker 14: because Newsmax wanted me eight thirty to eight forty five,
1:54:26
Speaker 14: I said no, So we did eight fifteen eight thirty.
1:54:29
Speaker 14: When Fox wants me from eight thirty till nine on
1:54:31
Speaker 14: a Thursday, I'm like, no, they don't even ask anymore
1:54:33
Speaker 14: because they know it's not going to happen.
1:54:35
Speaker 1: You're the best.
1:54:36
Speaker 14: No, I look forward to being here. We get we've
1:54:38
Speaker 14: got a great audience, a lot of well educated men
1:54:41
Speaker 14: and women, and I love that. I get that through
1:54:43
Speaker 14: the email changes. And you're great at educating people on
1:54:48
Speaker 14: things that you know. A lot of times hoster are
1:54:51
Speaker 14: are bad about talking down to their audience and I
1:54:56
Speaker 14: kind of catch that. I just grimace because you never
1:54:59
Speaker 14: want to know underestimate the people that you're blessed enough
1:55:03
Speaker 14: to be all their lives and you always talk up
1:55:06
Speaker 14: And I love that because you know, that's the respect
1:55:09
Speaker 14: that you have for the people that allow us to
1:55:11
Speaker 14: be a part of their lives. And it's not common,
1:55:14
Speaker 14: which is what makes this much time, for this time
1:55:17
Speaker 14: of day for me so enjoyable.
1:55:19
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that means the world. You say that. My
1:55:21
Speaker 1: wife often accuses me of giving people too much credit
1:55:23
Speaker 1: for intellect. My default mode is that everyone out there
1:55:26
Speaker 1: is at least as smart as me, and in many cases,
1:55:29
Speaker 1: and it's true on a lot of topics, people out
1:55:31
Speaker 1: my listening answer smarter than me.
1:55:34
Speaker 14: Brian, If you and I walk into a room, I'm
1:55:35
Speaker 14: not the smartest guy in the room. So I'm just
1:55:37
Speaker 14: telling you, if it's just you and I there, I'm
1:55:40
Speaker 14: not winning that one.
1:55:41
Speaker 1: Well, I'm still going to de fall to me just
1:55:44
Speaker 1: assuming that I don't know anything, and I am searching
1:55:46
Speaker 1: the world for answers to the questions that I have.
1:55:48
Speaker 1: So you are, let us talk about tailwind. Does it
1:55:53
Speaker 1: really mean a lot to a tail win? I see
1:55:55
Speaker 1: you have an article here about Jet Blue and got
1:55:58
Speaker 1: a strong tailwind, apparently to the passengers benefit.
1:56:01
Speaker 14: What's this, Oh, yeah, this is a Blue flight five
1:56:03
Speaker 14: twenty four Los Angeles to JFK. They're zipping across and
1:56:08
Speaker 14: they arrived in JFK early, thanks in part to a
1:56:11
Speaker 14: two hundred mile an hour tailwind. I pushed that aircraft
1:56:16
Speaker 14: more than seven hundred and fifty five miles of mar
1:56:20
Speaker 14: It was booking big time because when you looked at this,
1:56:23
Speaker 14: it was, yeah, seven hundred and fifty five miles an
1:56:26
Speaker 14: hour when it's typically Brian, that's that's what five hundred
1:56:29
Speaker 14: and fifty miles an hours what we're looking at as
1:56:31
Speaker 14: far as the average time. So there's really no danger
1:56:36
Speaker 14: to the aircraft those excessive speeds because the pressure on
1:56:39
Speaker 14: the aircraft itself remains pretty consistent. We do have a
1:56:43
Speaker 14: slight increased risk of some turbulence, but beyond that, it's nothing.
1:56:47
Speaker 14: The biggest concern is if there's an available gate for
1:56:50
Speaker 14: the plane to land, you know, once it arrives to
1:56:53
Speaker 14: get there, because look, nothing can mess up the works
1:56:56
Speaker 14: more than a flight before it arrives a way beforehand.
1:56:59
Speaker 14: But Brian, you know, I'm reading all these reports and
1:57:02
Speaker 14: just enjoying these these these articles I'm reading across the country,
1:57:07
Speaker 14: and of course I come across the Do you know
1:57:10
Speaker 14: why there was a two hundred mile an hour tail wind?
1:57:14
Speaker 14: Not global warming? It was climate change, Ryan, That's why
1:57:18
Speaker 14: we had this happen. And I thought, you know, look,
1:57:23
Speaker 14: you know, I'm in my early sixties. I remember goal
1:57:26
Speaker 14: global cooling in the seventies. We talked about acid rain
1:57:29
Speaker 14: in the eighties, and how the population boom was going
1:57:31
Speaker 14: to kill twenty five percent of the planet in the
1:57:33
Speaker 14: eighties and nineties, And I just don't understand how many
1:57:36
Speaker 14: times this stuff has to happen. But poor for poor
1:57:39
Speaker 14: people start questioning like like, wait a minute, can I
1:57:42
Speaker 14: really take what I'm being told at face value? But
1:57:45
Speaker 14: why mess up a good aviation story with climate change?
1:57:48
Speaker 1: I know they love doing that, but wait a second.
1:57:51
Speaker 1: The speed of sound is writing about seven hundred and
1:57:53
Speaker 1: sixty one miles an hour. Does this mean that that
1:57:55
Speaker 1: regular commercial airliner could have potentially broken the sound barrier?
1:57:59
Speaker 4: No?
1:57:59
Speaker 14: No, because in essence, their ground speed remained the same.
1:58:03
Speaker 14: So we didn't have any worries about them breaking the
1:58:05
Speaker 14: sound barrier because as far as they were concerned, they
1:58:08
Speaker 14: were still going at that same rate of speed, so
1:58:11
Speaker 14: it can think of it as kind of a pocket
1:58:13
Speaker 14: that's moving with them, and within that pocket, they're still
1:58:16
Speaker 14: maintaining that, you know, five hundred and fifty miles an hour.
1:58:20
Speaker 14: So yeah, that would have been a little bit of
1:58:22
Speaker 14: an issue if we had to be worrying about that,
1:58:24
Speaker 14: but thankfully we do not. But there's a lot of
1:58:26
Speaker 14: times you have flights come in and brand that flight
1:58:28
Speaker 14: arrived thirty nine minutes early. It would have been much
1:58:31
Speaker 14: much sooner, but when they got there, they had to
1:58:33
Speaker 14: circle for a while before they were allowed to finally
1:58:36
Speaker 14: land at JFK, So they probably would have been an
1:58:40
Speaker 14: hour and five hour ten minutes early had they been
1:58:43
Speaker 14: able to land immediately when they got there. So passengers were,
1:58:47
Speaker 14: you know, delighted in that because anytime you can catch
1:58:50
Speaker 14: that kind of a tailwind, yeah, it's going to help
1:58:53
Speaker 14: that connection that you have at JFK to be a
1:58:56
Speaker 14: whole lot easier.
1:58:57
Speaker 1: All right, coming up, this is insane because I was
1:58:59
Speaker 1: a parent of a toddler. I absolutely would not allow
1:59:02
Speaker 1: my toddler to sit anywhere but next to me on
1:59:05
Speaker 1: a plane. That may not be the case. You're working
1:59:07
Speaker 1: with Southwest. I heard mediaviation expert J.
1:59:10
Speaker 7: Rat.
1:59:10
Speaker 1: Let's gonna explain that A whole lot more coming up.
1:59:11
Speaker 1: Don't go away? Fifty five KRC the talk station. They're
1:59:16
Speaker 1: a scene the talk station. Have you ever been in
1:59:19
Speaker 1: a cockpit before?
1:59:21
Speaker 5: Jay?
1:59:21
Speaker 1: Has I hurt me? The aviation expert J Rattlift Jay?
1:59:25
Speaker 1: This one troubles me. Now, toddler's are bad enough in
1:59:30
Speaker 1: and of themselves, but if they're not going to be
1:59:32
Speaker 1: sitting next to a parent on an airline, you know,
1:59:34
Speaker 1: amid stories about crazy people, I just saw another one.
1:59:36
Speaker 1: They had to reroute a flight because some guy had
1:59:38
Speaker 1: a mental health breakdown and started wailing on passengers. If
1:59:42
Speaker 1: that wasn't bad enough, the idea that a toddler would
1:59:45
Speaker 1: I could even comfortably enjoy a flight being away from
1:59:48
Speaker 1: mom and dad. I and the legal challenges that may
1:59:51
Speaker 1: go along with this, I mean, what happens if you
1:59:53
Speaker 1: have your toddler sitting next to somebody turns out to
1:59:56
Speaker 1: be a pervert, you know? I mean, oh yeah, yeah,
1:59:58
Speaker 1: what's this?
2:00:00
Speaker 14: It's a story about mom and dad come to the
2:00:02
Speaker 14: airport and they have traveling excuse me, they're traveling with
2:00:06
Speaker 14: two toddlers and they elected on Southwest, which you now
2:00:10
Speaker 14: have assigned seats. They elected not to pay the fee
2:00:14
Speaker 14: to have all the seat assignments in advance. So what
2:00:18
Speaker 14: they opted to do in order to save money or
2:00:20
Speaker 14: because they did not know better to get to the
2:00:23
Speaker 14: airport and have Southwest to sign the seats. Now, the
2:00:26
Speaker 14: problem is when you get there and the flight is
2:00:28
Speaker 14: ninety percent full, and the available seats would be there's
2:00:32
Speaker 14: two here, one there, one there, those kinds of things,
2:00:35
Speaker 14: there's no for seats together. So what happens is when
2:00:38
Speaker 14: they get to the gate, the system, the computer for Southwest,
2:00:42
Speaker 14: assigns those seats to the four people the best they can.
2:00:46
Speaker 14: So what happened was the couple gets on, they demand
2:00:50
Speaker 14: people to move, and yet a group of people that said, absolutely,
2:00:53
Speaker 14: we want you sitting with your kids. And then you
2:00:55
Speaker 14: had another segment of the traveling population on the airplane
2:00:59
Speaker 14: wait time out here. You could have paid the money
2:01:03
Speaker 14: to have all your seat assignments done before you got here,
2:01:06
Speaker 14: you chose not to. And now you're asking us to
2:01:09
Speaker 14: move out of our window seats. So you considered them
2:01:11
Speaker 14: to be next to your child and I'm not doing it. So, uh,
2:01:15
Speaker 14: there's people that are against the new Southwest policy. So
2:01:18
Speaker 14: they're looking at this and trying to drum this story
2:01:21
Speaker 14: up and make it make it much bigger than it is,
2:01:24
Speaker 14: because they're saying, well, look what happens when Southwest tries
2:01:27
Speaker 14: to assign seats. They don't know what they're doing, blah
2:01:30
Speaker 14: blah blah. But either they did not know the parents
2:01:33
Speaker 14: or they did know and figured, eh, they'll work it
2:01:36
Speaker 14: out when they get there, because there's no way they're
2:01:38
Speaker 14: going to allow me to not sit with my toddler.
2:01:41
Speaker 14: And sometimes when you presume upon the airline's goodness or
2:01:44
Speaker 14: people that are you're traveling with you is goodness, sometimes
2:01:47
Speaker 14: it's not going to work out for you. So, uh,
2:01:49
Speaker 14: that's what happened here. And they could have all been
2:01:52
Speaker 14: avoided had they simply done what you should have done
2:01:55
Speaker 14: and grabbed the seat assignments, paid that extra money so
2:01:58
Speaker 14: that you know you're all seated next to each other.
2:02:00
Speaker 1: Well, and that's a layer that I wasn't familiar with
2:02:02
Speaker 1: the story. So there is some blame to pass along
2:02:04
Speaker 1: to the parents for not doing exactly that.
2:02:06
Speaker 14: I mean as a society, Brian, you know that people
2:02:09
Speaker 14: don't read past the headline, so when they see that
2:02:12
Speaker 14: that's the gist of the story. But at least that
2:02:15
Speaker 14: wasn't the blamed on climate change. So I'm not a
2:02:17
Speaker 14: boordship over that as the one we talked about before.
2:02:20
Speaker 1: They just forgot they were gonna put that in there.
2:02:22
Speaker 1: But there's an editorial that darn.
2:02:25
Speaker 14: Prince Eyes, they just didn't have enough room to squeeze
2:02:27
Speaker 14: that one in.
2:02:28
Speaker 1: Well, what kind of money we talking about it in
2:02:29
Speaker 1: a Southwest New policy? How much is extra is it
2:02:31
Speaker 1: to get the seat assignments up front?
2:02:33
Speaker 14: Brian? I don't have that memorized, so I can't guess
2:02:36
Speaker 14: at that, but I know it's a nominal fee in base.
2:02:40
Speaker 14: It's in line with what other carriers are charging.
2:02:42
Speaker 5: And you know, it's like.
2:02:44
Speaker 14: The basic economy seats that you would get from Delta
2:02:47
Speaker 14: United American, where you're paying the lowest possible fare. And
2:02:50
Speaker 14: part of that deal is when you get there, you
2:02:53
Speaker 14: may or may not get freaking flyer miles. And when
2:02:55
Speaker 14: you get there, you only have a carry on bag
2:02:57
Speaker 14: that can only go underneath the seat in front of
2:02:59
Speaker 14: you can't take up the space in the overhead, and
2:03:01
Speaker 14: your seat's going to be signed at the gate at
2:03:04
Speaker 14: the last minute, which means you're probably going to have
2:03:06
Speaker 14: your butt stuck in the middle seat. That's just part
2:03:08
Speaker 14: of the deal of paying for basic transportation, you know
2:03:12
Speaker 14: that going in and for a lot of people saying,
2:03:14
Speaker 14: look to our flight to wherever I'm going, I don't care.
2:03:16
Speaker 14: I'm going to save money. Take my small bag. I'll
2:03:19
Speaker 14: sit in the middle seat and Grant and Barrett get
2:03:21
Speaker 14: there and save myself quite a bit of money in
2:03:23
Speaker 14: the process.
2:03:24
Speaker 1: Understood. All right, let's move over to the new B
2:03:26
Speaker 1: seventy seven Dreamliner, apparently now being built to detect and
2:03:30
Speaker 1: also respond to turbulence free driving to that dag real quick.
2:03:34
Speaker 1: I have to ask you, because I've been on flights
2:03:36
Speaker 1: before and they said, well, we may be approaching some
2:03:39
Speaker 1: turbulence up here in the New York time, so please
2:03:40
Speaker 1: sit in your seat and bucket your seatbufs. Do they
2:03:43
Speaker 1: know that turbulence is coming based upon the weather? Is
2:03:46
Speaker 1: it because prior or air air airplanes have flown through
2:03:50
Speaker 1: and they've issued a warning about the turbulence. How do
2:03:52
Speaker 1: I know that there's turbulence coming before you hit it?
2:03:55
Speaker 14: The latter point, it's nothing we can see on radar.
2:03:59
Speaker 14: It's nothing that we really know that we're there unless
2:04:02
Speaker 14: we're on top of it. And what ends up taking
2:04:04
Speaker 14: place is you have turbulence that if you're flying, you
2:04:08
Speaker 14: might have light, moderate, severe turbulence, and when you're going
2:04:12
Speaker 14: through that, you'll ask air traffic control, can we go
2:04:14
Speaker 14: to a different altitude, either climb or descend, so that
2:04:18
Speaker 14: we can try to find some smoother air. Once that's reported,
2:04:21
Speaker 14: every aircraft behind them at that same altitude requested to
2:04:25
Speaker 14: go to different altitudes as well to try to provide
2:04:28
Speaker 14: the smoothest possible flight, because in itself, turbulence isn't necessarily dangerous,
2:04:34
Speaker 14: especially when you're at altitude. It's like kind of hitting
2:04:36
Speaker 14: a speed mump, a little pothole or something. It just
2:04:39
Speaker 14: kind of rattles you, unless, of course, you know your
2:04:41
Speaker 14: seat belt on and you kiss the ceiling. You got
2:04:43
Speaker 14: to be careful there. But a Dreamliner the seven eighty
2:04:47
Speaker 14: sevens have a system that actually it's called a vertical
2:04:52
Speaker 14: gust suppression system. It monitors air data and some of
2:04:55
Speaker 14: the acceleration cues in when it detects pressure variants. It
2:05:00
Speaker 14: actually has an automatic command system that controls the elevators
2:05:04
Speaker 14: and the flaps to try to move the aircraft in
2:05:07
Speaker 14: such a way that it dampens the turbulence, kind of
2:05:09
Speaker 14: trims the vertical acceleration, and the goal is to reduce
2:05:13
Speaker 14: that vertical motion by sixty to seventy percent. Now Boeing
2:05:17
Speaker 14: is very quick to say, look, we can't eliminate turbulence entirely,
2:05:20
Speaker 14: that's not going to happen. But the Dreamliner is built
2:05:23
Speaker 14: in such a way that everything works properly that it
2:05:27
Speaker 14: can actually give you a smoother ride. And that's one
2:05:30
Speaker 14: of the benefits of this. And I tell you Boeing
2:05:32
Speaker 14: is off to a great start. In January, they outsold
2:05:38
Speaker 14: and out delivered more aircraft than airbus buyer a lot.
2:05:41
Speaker 14: So hopefully they're going to keep that moving. And when
2:05:43
Speaker 14: they've got this kind of technology, and again with new
2:05:46
Speaker 14: ge engines and things of this nature, which United in
2:05:49
Speaker 14: other airlines are gobbling up as much as they can,
2:05:51
Speaker 14: they're getting a very powerful, fuel efficient, more quiet aircraft engine.
2:05:56
Speaker 14: So a lot of this technology is really moving us
2:05:59
Speaker 14: in the direction of again fewer emissions, which is always good,
2:06:03
Speaker 14: and quieter aircraft, which is also good. And you just
2:06:07
Speaker 14: love to see the technology make aviation better. You just
2:06:10
Speaker 14: wish some of those improvements would happen inside the cabin
2:06:13
Speaker 14: on customer service. But I guess we can give up
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Speaker 14: on that because I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't hold your breath for that. Jay. We
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Speaker 1: enjoy hitting you around. Please. It's a forty six that
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Speaker 1: they ever, ever the FAA had a time where they
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Speaker 1: were not hiring based on merit scares the living crap
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Speaker 1: out of me. Apparently they've righted the ship on that.
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Speaker 1: More with Jay Ratlift plus hub delays is a good
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Speaker 1: day to fly. I don't know what the front rolling in.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Jay on that as well. Stick
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Speaker 1: around me right.
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Speaker 8: Back fifty five K see the talk station.
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Speaker 1: Eight on a Friday eve one more segment here with
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Speaker 1: iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratlift. Oh my word, FAA orders
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Speaker 1: airlines to base hiring on merit. What I mean you're
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Speaker 1: talking about our lives here, Jay, rat If merrit did
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Speaker 1: not wasn't involved in the first and foremost thing in
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Speaker 1: terms of hiring, I'm worried.
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Speaker 14: Well, I tell you, if it's a Walmart greeter, I'm
2:07:10
Speaker 14: a little bit more comfortable with that. Absolutely, when you're
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Speaker 14: talking about pilots and this kind of sims back to
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Speaker 14: a few years ago. Airlines United specifically was leading the
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Speaker 14: charge on this. United identified a goal by the end
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Speaker 14: of the decade, by twenty thirty, they were going to
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Speaker 14: hire five thousand new pilots. They needed it because the
2:07:30
Speaker 14: growth of aviation, the attrition. They were saying within their ranks,
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Speaker 14: they knew they needed five thousand new pilots, and they said,
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Speaker 14: our goal is fifty percent of those new hires are
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Speaker 14: going to be women or individuals of color, and that's
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Speaker 14: what they were pushing for. Now, when you recognize it,
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Speaker 14: currently in aviation, less than five percent of the pilots
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Speaker 14: that we have in the country are women, less than
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Speaker 14: five percent are people of color. You're talking about total
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Speaker 14: ten percent. So if United is really dedicated as they
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Speaker 14: have been, to this diversification approach, then the diversity means
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Speaker 14: that if I've got ten candidates and the most qualified
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Speaker 14: are someone who happens to be white versus a woman
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Speaker 14: or someone of color, then to make sure I'm fulfilling
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Speaker 14: my quota, there's going to be the tendency to go
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Speaker 14: with less qualified applicants. Now, United has been pushing back
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Speaker 14: on this, thaying, look, we're not hiring anybody who's not qualified. True,
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Speaker 14: but what they are doing is you might have an
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Speaker 14: individual that might have eight thousand flight hours versus somebody
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Speaker 14: that has two thousand flight hours, and to fulfill the
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Speaker 14: diversity goal you have, let's hire the pilot with two
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Speaker 14: thousand hours. So what the Federal Aviation Administration is doing now,
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Speaker 14: through obvious pressure from the Trump administration, and I totally
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Speaker 14: agree with it, is, look, let's just hire the best
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Speaker 14: person qualified, if a black woman, a person of color,
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Speaker 14: non color, who cares, Let's just put the best possible
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Speaker 14: person into the flight deck of an aircraft. And that's
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Speaker 14: where the sanity is starting to return here. It's a
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Speaker 14: lot like a few months ago, it was ordered that
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Speaker 14: the millions of dollars the FAA spent removing all the
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Speaker 14: offensive terms like you know, manpower and a lot of
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Speaker 14: these other terms, so that you can't have notice to
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Speaker 14: airmen because oops, that could be a you know, we
2:09:25
Speaker 14: went back to what we did before, which is what
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Speaker 14: we should have done. But Brian, here they're just trying
2:09:29
Speaker 14: to make sure that the airlines are proceeding without that
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Speaker 14: the anything other than based on merit, which is exactly
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Speaker 14: what they should be.
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Speaker 1: Doing exactly and I am thinking like, well, if I
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Speaker 1: have to go into the knife and have a surgeon
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Speaker 1: operate on me, I'm not looking for a DEI hire.
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Speaker 1: I want whoever is the best qualified. This is life
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Speaker 1: and life and death stuff we're talking about here. We
2:09:51
Speaker 1: don't have time for games.
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Speaker 14: So no, not when you're thirty thousand and five thousand
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Speaker 14: feet and plus. I mean, look at the situation with
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Speaker 14: the miracle on the Hudson. You've had two incredible qualified
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Speaker 14: pilots and Sully and Jeff Skiles that worked that situation
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Speaker 14: and they called upon their experience and they did an
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Speaker 14: incredible job and saved a lot of lives. That's what
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Speaker 14: you want on the flight deck, not somebody that's there
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Speaker 14: simply because there was a box that needed to be checked.
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Speaker 14: And look, I help out the Legacy program in Chicago.
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Speaker 14: They try to bring in a lot of women in
2:10:22
Speaker 14: minorities into aviation to try to get them excited as
2:10:25
Speaker 14: kids about aviation so that they can become pilots at
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Speaker 14: a later age. I love doing that because there's a
2:10:32
Speaker 14: need for it, but you can't push it to the
2:10:34
Speaker 14: point that you're compromising levels of safety and sadly that's
2:10:39
Speaker 14: what's happened in the past, and it's just you know,
2:10:42
Speaker 14: sanity has returned. You just hope it's going to remain
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Speaker 14: here for a while.
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Speaker 1: Indeed, and I suppose you pulled any man, woman, or
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Speaker 1: person on the airplane, regardless of color or gender, they'd
2:10:52
Speaker 1: all agree they want the best qualified person behind the
2:10:55
Speaker 1: stick of the airplane that they're on, right.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, And I mean put every prejudice you might have aside.
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Speaker 14: You want the best qualified person up there. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 14: And I don't care what their orientation is or what
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Speaker 14: this or what. I want the most qualified. And I'll
2:11:12
Speaker 14: even give them a hug if they get me on
2:11:14
Speaker 14: the on the ground safely.
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Speaker 5: I don't care a brother.
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Speaker 1: All Right, we got a front coming today. What's looked
2:11:18
Speaker 1: like out there for air travel time for the hub delay.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, the winds could give us some issues as the
2:11:24
Speaker 14: day progresses, Ryan, But right now, I think the biggest
2:11:27
Speaker 14: concerns are going to be towards the south. We're seeing
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Speaker 14: Atlanta and Charlotte expecting some delays. Detroit as well. That's
2:11:33
Speaker 14: going to be probably the biggest issue today.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 14: Obviously the West coast is getting hammered. San Francisco in La.
2:11:39
Speaker 14: But as far as the closer home stuff to around us,
2:11:42
Speaker 14: those are the ones that are going to be seeing
2:11:44
Speaker 14: that the biggest impact towards late in the day. Some
2:11:46
Speaker 14: of those wins and the issues could kind of impact
2:11:50
Speaker 14: us in the Northeast, in Philadelphia, d C, in New York.
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Speaker 14: I don't think that's gonna be till late.
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Speaker 11: In the day though.
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Speaker 1: Excuse me, Jay Rayler, thank you for your thoughts.