55KRC Friday Show - Tech Friday, Dave Williams, Steve Goreham

Tech Friday, Dave WIlliams, Steve Goreham.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Five o four. I think you've bought a k r
C the talk station. Happy Friday, there are a vacation

(00:28):
from this Yes, indeed, Happy uh Friday to everybody. Brian
Thomas right here, Danny Gleason covering for the I don't
know where the hell Joe Tracker is. Danny, do you
know where j Just Tracker is? All right, taking some vacation.
He's entitled to it. I'm not saying he's not. Just

(00:49):
don't know where he is anyway. Uh okay, I'll use
all the help I can get this morning. If you
want a phone call in, I will be using the
cough button regularly this morning. I'm morning ahead of time.
I and my wife even told me not to come
in today. I said, who's going to cover for me?
No one knows I'm sick. I've got this really one

(01:10):
of those deep, deep, deep deep coughs. So you know,
apologies ahead of time. I'll do all I can to
sort of again hit the cough button at the appropriate time,
assuming it doesn't get covered up by paper. Hey, the
phone number to reach me five one three seven fifty
five hundred eight hundred eighty two to three talk pound
five fifty on at and T phones and it being Friday.

(01:34):
Of course, I always look forward to six thirty Tech
Friday with Dave Hatter in addition to celebrating him being
elected Official of the Year in Kentucky, we'll also be
talking tech, which is of course the point of the segment.
Smart TVs are spying on you. That's a hard full
stop on that one, so we'll get the details from
Dave on that. We'll also be talking about data brokers

(01:56):
tracking your phone. Apparently the chi cooms are as well.
A couple of comments and stories on that too. Here
in a moment business email scams costing companies only fifty
five billion dollars over the last ten years. I can't
believe that figure is not more than that for ten years,
but that one's gonna jump. Dave Williams tax Payer Protection

(02:20):
Alliance returns at seven oh five. Thank god, we got
a guess at seven oh five. Will Trump real in
government spending? I sure hope. So I've got so much
positivity in connection with Elon Musk and him being involved
in reducing government spending. We can only hope that that
can happen, and everyone should want that. I you know,

(02:43):
I think about people who are angry over Trump getting elected.
At least he's promised to cut the spending. The question
becomes where we can have a thoughtful debate on what
should be cut. I mean, you know, even I who
love my American military, I love my veteran friends out there,
are you do you think for a minute that I

(03:05):
don't believe there's fraud, waste, and abuse and government spending
when it comes to the military. I would maybe even
argue it could be the worst possible place for fraud,
wasted abuse. Do I want to defund the military?

Speaker 2 (03:19):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:19):
You know what I want. I want ships, I want subs,
I want munitions. I want it done at the right price,
and I want some oversight. So evil, nefarious, idiot contractors
out there aren't taking advantage of us, because of course,
the nation's security is contingent on it. I think of
all of our contracts with Boeing. Boeing's falling apart, and

(03:40):
Jay Ratliff joins the program every Thursday, even brought it
up yesterday. Boeing's struggling. It's got all these problems on
its hands. Manufacturings, you know, lines are doing shoddy production,
and you're like, well, how in the hell can they
stay in business and either well, there's nobody else to
replace them, and they've got massive numbers of government contracts,

(04:01):
which may be the one reason they're still in business.
In the world of airplanes, basically got Airbus and Boeing.
Boeing stays afloat because our American government keeps hiring them
to do the manufacturing of all this military stuff. I
know we need it. I'm sorry, I don't know how
I got that in that tangent. Is the future looking brighter?

(04:23):
Dave Williams w lask answer that question, and what is
the Pharmacy, Audit and Transparency Act. No Day's going to
talk about that, and seems to me something that maybe
RFK Junior might be involved with, since he's going to
be taking a prominent role in the Trump administration by
all accounts. So that's the topics with Dave Williams. We

(04:45):
fast forward to eighth five. Got Steve Gorum joined the program,
Got an empower use simminar to talk about with Steve. Steve,
he's gonna be talking about no more green new deal, really,
no more our to believe, although you know likelihood that
we pair back on this nonsense is significant, and I

(05:05):
saw that the the global climate community is a little
concerned about a Trump administration. Those rather funny. Anybody listens
to the programs knows that I'm not a big fan
of the United Nations. Quite often, the United Nations has
absolutely zero interest in the interest of the United States.

(05:28):
I really fully believe that the only reason we're still
involved in the United Nations and many nations as well,
considering they don't get much done. They certainly don't stop
wars and conflicts, They certainly don't try to well seemingly
they don't try to negotiate any peace, but they do
try to show things like climate and legislation down our throats.
And according to Lawrence Tubiana, the lead negotiator of the

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twenty fifteen Paris Climate Agreement, in his post yesterday, I
believe it was yesterday or maybe Wednesday, after the election
results came in. The US election result is a blow
in the fight against the climate crisis. She went on, Lawrence,

(06:17):
I didn't realize that was a female name. I don't
know in these day and age, maybe Lawrence is male
but goes by the pronouns she I'm confused on all that. Anyway,
the window here we go. The window to limit warming
to one point five degrees celsius is closing. These next

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four years are critical. How now long have been listening
to that? When did al Gore come out of the
woodwork and start screaming about the climate going up one
point five degrees or something like twenty years ago? Wasn't it,
Danny remember Man Bear Pig? Yeah, it was the nineties.
Remember the South Park episode Man Bear Pig, I mean,
we're going back forever and he said we're all gonna die,

(07:00):
I like in the next fifteen minutes. So they're still
added again. Anyway, I know that was predicated on my
comment about Steve Gorham joining the program. Steve is informative

(07:23):
and engaging speaker, delivering compelling and provocative programs the business,
universities and diverse organizations. I'm just reading from the list
on the Empower You America? So can we effectively transition
to one renewable energy rhetorical question which is the springboard
for the Empower You seven are taking place on Tuesday
beginning at seven pm. Do you think when solar batteries

(07:44):
can replace the hydrocarbon fuels the power our modern industrial society?
My short answer is sure as hell.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
No.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
It is a virtual class only, so you can register
at empower Youoamerica dot org. Just click on the little
link there to register virtually. Again, sorry for the lack
of parent enthusiasm this morning. I'm really just trying to
prevent my just just entering into a massive coughing fit

(08:11):
on a Friday. But a very happy Friday to everyone. Nonetheless,
it's a great day because well for no other reason,
it is Friday. Let's see here over fifty five care
Sea dot Commin Edition to your iHeartMedia app. We have
my conversation with Steve Goodin yesterday. If you have any
questions about the litigation that's ongoing with Trump. He's got
state actions against him, thirty four felony convictions. Yeah, I know,

(08:35):
I know, I know, I know, and nobody else on
the planet would have ever been subjected to that. They
created that sort of mechanism to go after Trump whole cloth,
and likely we'll be thrown out on appeal. But we
talked about that, we talked about the federal cases against
Trump as well, and all the answers from Steve Gooden

(08:56):
from Porter right are right there on the podcast page
fifty five care Sea Dot Alex Chantefilo joined the program
to give us do an election recap, and you can
get it right there with I've curiously that Tom, let
us see here, everybody's going crazy, and you know, really

(09:19):
kind of I just sort of wonder people it's ready
fire aim in connection with the reaction to Trump winning.
And I could go all over the place with this,
but let's start with the Hispanic community. And I don't
watch the View. The only thing I really know about

(09:40):
the View is other than it is a bunch of
very left wing women sitting around a table just in
hysterics about you know, conservative ideology and now of course
Donald Trump being president elect. But earlier in the week,
on Wednesday, it was on the View one of the hosts,
person named Sonny Hoston, talking about Latino men and their

(10:06):
support of Trump, which really was pretty substantial. Hispanic majority
counties went for Trump by ten percentage points according to
the breakdown by the New York Times. So you have
a whole lot of Hispanic men who are on the
Trump side of the ledger, and I think that's for
cultural reasons. You know, we're trying to tell people that
your daughters should have to look at some naked guy

(10:27):
in the bathroom. I don't think that really cottons well
with the Hispanic community, many of whom are quite religious.
But that's just my own gas on that. But the
point is the numbers reflect that the Hispanic community leaned
over toward and embraced Trump, which flies in the face
of the narrative that all of the illegal immigrants or
Hispanic folks who ended up around the country are going

(10:49):
to be end up being a Democrat voters. But along
those lines, she suggested Latino men supported Trump to deport themselves,
as if they weren't thinking about their own best interest.
And what conclusion does one draw about Sunny Houston and

(11:12):
her perception of Hispanic men exactly that she believes them
to be all illegal immigrants. How insulting is that that's her?
I mean, you can't make a statement about that like
that unless you perceive every Hispanic person you walk by

(11:34):
as someone who is in the country illegally. Lots of
Hispanic people have been in this country, lot of Hispanic
people born here. You know, their heritage and their race
cannot be denied, But the fact that they are legal
or obtained legal citizenship cannot be denied either, and there
is a massive swath of the population that falls right
into that category. They yes, voted for Trump. If they

(11:58):
were here illegally, Sonny, they wouldn't have been eligible to
vote in a federal election for the president of the
United States of America. So you are directing your comments
in an extraordinarily insulting way at a giant chunk of Americans,
white women out there my listening audience that voted for Trump. Apparently,

(12:19):
in her words, specifically, you are uneducated. And I cite
these examples of this one example because they're a multitude
of them. And I listen to the comments from gut
Field when I come in the morning, because they rerun

(12:43):
the late night program and he's always making fun of
the view and the hosts on there, and it's kind
of funny. But he was spreading his commentary or talking
about all of the late night hosts and how they're
just pulling their hair outs, like Jimmy Kimmel, you know,
remember former host of The Man Show. He's gone all woke,

(13:04):
left wing. You think he was the you know, the
modern woman's best friend and shared their ideology. He's pulling
his hair out, He's crying but while doing so. And
this is the part that just blows my mind. It's
almost like Budweiser, you know, getting the transgender person to

(13:24):
talk about how awesome bud Light is failing to appreciate
who their core audience is. Jimmy Kimmel, I imagine has
some conservative individuals in the audience, or at least some
people who chose the economy over whatever Kamala Harris was
trying to sell. But he is literally being insulting to

(13:45):
the vast majority of Americans who voted in the election.
Trump won the popular vote by about five million people.
Everybody who turned out to vote in the election, you know,
more than half of them voted Trump. The Senate is
now controlled by Republicans, and I know it hasn't yet

(14:08):
been called, which really kind of concerns me. If you're
worried about voter shenanigans and election interference or anything like that,
you might pay attention to the House race. But House
looks like it's going to go Republican too. And here's
a person who's life, whose income, whose livelihood depends upon ratings,
and it depends upon sponsorships. And he's not the only

(14:30):
one that is citiment. As an example, It's like Sunny
host and who rever the heuse? She is making these
broad brushes just unbelievably insulting statements. I mean, I just
don't understand the echo chamber that they must live in
that makes them think and believe, in spite of the

(14:50):
positions that they are in on air and being in
the public view and relying on ratings and advertising revenue,
that they would utter these statements. I know they were
proudly supporting Harrison the lead up, but I don't think
this is the way you respond when your person lost
in your arguments, Well fell on deaf ears here in America,

(15:11):
who well are facing grocery bills and gasoline charges and
that kind of thing. It's five nineteen right now, fifty
five Detalk station. Mark is on the phone. I appreciate
any phone calls, most notably today when I have a
difficult time talking without coughing. Stick around right here at
fifty five car Se Detalk station.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
I'm Donald J.

Speaker 5 (15:30):
Trump. Can I improve this message?

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Well, that's a welcome refreshing change from the Kamala Harris message.
Thank you Danny Gleason covering for me wherever the hell.
Joe's Trekker is Joe's treker. Let me a little refreshing

(15:54):
wake up shout from Lemmy. Let's get to Mark as promised. Mark,
thank you so much for holding over the phone break
there while from the show.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Don't worries. Good morning, Brian. We had got the best
bumper music. Anybody plays pool at five o'clock in the
morning can't be all bad.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Mark, thank you very much. I am proud of that song,
inspite of the fact that we can't play more than
a couple of seconds of it because all the curse words.
I always encourage people to just read it. You know,
I'm warning you ahead of time. There's a lot of
f bombs in there. But the message in that song
is all about everything I stand for. I love that
song andema ae n I am a a yes, go

(16:32):
ahead and look it up.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
So anyway, what I was calling about yesterday I called
in after will and and my original point was for
Colin was I was most.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Touch on day.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
But back to him from yesterday, I hope that he
really sits back and reflects. I thought a lot about
his rant yesterday morning, and I think if he took
the breath and realized that and so is aren't the devil,
and that the party does have the best interest of
people at heart, and it's not going to be the

(17:07):
end of the world. And let's face it, Joe Biden
has always been an idiot, but he's also a corrupt idiot.
And then they put Amala Harris in there, and let's
face it, she does not have a skill set to
be vice president, let alone president. So I just hope
that he took a breath yesterday and realizes that everything's

(17:30):
going to be okay. Yeah, we've weathered presidents that we
don't particularly care for, but based on their personality. I
mean again, I could spend two hours talking about the
various presidents that have been in my eyes that were
absolute disasters. But my point today for calling was the
reaction of the left. It's like there, they haven't learned anything.

(17:53):
And it's like you're at a poker table and you've
just lost everything that you have in your bank accounts
and and you're you just cannot get the message that
you maybe you should walk away from the table and
you throw the deed at your house up on the
table and you're gonna win this time. And the reactions
from you know, the the scholars of Whoope Goldberg and

(18:15):
Sonny Houston and and you know these people that the
Tisia James. I saw a video of her reacting to
Trump being elected, and she is just eat up with
anger and is vowing to somehow put Donald Trump in jail.
And it's like, you guys have not learned anything. And

(18:38):
the media is right there lockstep that I saw an
MSN on MSN homepage yesterday of a news story interest
rates and inflation will rise under the Donald Trump administration.
I mean that was yesterday, so they're already starting. And

(18:59):
so I hope that Donald Trump and his administration right
off the jump does things that make a huge difference,
like you said, cutting the spending in Washington and just
getting things done to prove once and for all that

(19:19):
the Democrat model is a socialist model. It's not it's
not capitalism. They say they run as moderate as when
it's election time, but once they get in, you know,
it's it's the opposite, and it's just the socialist model.
We've got to defeat it otherwise it's going to be
every four years or when they do get in power,

(19:42):
we're going to be faced with the same challenges until
they finally get their way and wear everybody down, or
you know, get a hold of the election process. And
I mean, this was a very consequential election. I believe
in the fact that it stopped this This agenda hasn't

(20:02):
stopped it, but it's slowed it down and now it
needs to be stomped out.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yes, I agree with a lot of what you said,
just just bear in mind. And I have always acknowledged
and was during the Trump administration and during the last
several years of Joe Biden always pointing out that, you
know what, I want a Republican to be a fiscal hawk,
a deficit hawk. I want someone who's going to be

(20:27):
cutting spending. Donald Trump wasn't that way in his first term.
And we are on an unsustainable trajectory, whether your values
are conservative or liberal, if the government continues to outspend
what it takes in, we are going to continue to
have debt service that is going to become to the
point where it's just an insurmountable challenge. Default on the

(20:47):
national debt. You know what that would do to our country.
I mean, you're talking about a true existential threat. And
some people, I mean everyone in federal government, top to
bottom should wake up to that blank in reality, we
can't continue this path. I appreciate the call, Mark, I
really do, and yeah, I mean I honestly feel the

(21:07):
same way about Well. I reeled about that over yesterday
because you know, I always liked his calls. He offered
a Democrat perspective, but also was willing to engage in
a discussion and so obviously quite angry at the outcome
of the election. He's not alone, it's We're surrounded by
folks that are feeling that way. And you know, we've
all felt bad after elections. We always managed to survive,

(21:27):
and that's one thing the Republic has been proven for
two hundred and fifty years, you know, from Wilson administration
to Reagan and everything else in between. Good ones, bad ones,
corrupt ones. We managed to move forward as a society. Now.
The world has always worked. It's five twenty eight right now,
Local stories or phone calls. I prefer the latter, But

(21:49):
get to local stories too. I'll be right back five
thirty three on a Friday, in a very heavy friday too.
If you're just tuning in my bottom of the bottom
of my heart of apologies struggling with a really really
deep cough this morning. Probably shouldn't have come in, but
Joe Stracker out, Danny Gleeson certainly doing an awesome job

(22:09):
covering for the board and producing the show today. Just
a little late to try to get somebody to sub
in for me, so you can help sub and just
feel free to give me a call five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two
to three talk over the local stories actually Franklin County.
After a two day trial, judge found that a twenty
eight year old Elijah Thomas guilty of murdering twenty three

(22:30):
year old Kaitlin Puckett at her home in Franklin, Ohio.
Thomas convicted a one kind of aggravated murder with a
firearm specification, two counts of murder, one count each of
Flonia's assaultant improperly firing a gun at or into habitation.
Warren County prosecutor said GPS data showed that on June seventeenth,
last year, Thomas was waiting at Puckett's home for her

(22:53):
for about thirty minutes before she and others returned. Happened
around midnight then, in front of multiple witnesses, he approached
her fired nine shots, six of which hit her, killing her.
Family members told police Thomas had made multiple violent threats
to Pucket in the days and weeks before her murder.
Police called the one und block Abuler Drive about twelve thirty.

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A little after twelve thirty in the morning, I found
Pucket shot multiple times. Despite first respondente efforts to save
her life, she did die at the scene. Thomas taken
into custody during a police traffic stop hours later, about
quarter to ten in the morning. Thomas formerly sentenced to
a later day the charges which he was convicted Kerrie
at least a mandatory life sentence five point thirty five

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Right now, fifty five Carsini talk station. Pats on the line.
I have a stack of stupid to get to as well,
but you know me, I'd prefer the phone calls. We'll
do both. Pat, you're next, Just give you a minute.
I'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Can you play John the Fisherman.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Friday? Even if Joe Strecker is not any answer is
yeah us? In honor of the vacationing Joe's tractor. Danny
Gleeson covering the board today five forty five k CV
talks rations and to the Bones we go. Got a

(24:24):
few callers online and as promised, Pat was waiting over
the break. There, Pat, thanks for holding over the break.
Welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
Oh thanks, Brian. My heart just went out the wheel yesterday.
I was praying for him because the anger he had.
I went through that with what was going on with
this country and the anything. I can say to people
that I don't watch TV a whole lot anymore because

(24:52):
I just can't listen to what the garbage. I mean
now I found out I'm uneducated, yes, but I think
what kind of turned me from being a Democrat over
towards voting for some of the Republicans except the Rhinos.
It's I mean, Brian, when you hear people tell tell

(25:15):
you that you've got to change the way you talk,
the way you think, we got to move to a
different place, or another one saying we got to transform
this country, I tell you, I think the men in
this country are coming back because the way Trump got
the votes. But all I can say is if you

(25:36):
don't know how to pray, talk to God, talk to Mary,
and pray for the children, because there's a lot of
children they don't talk about on the news that are missing.
But anyway, Brian, I pray for everybody, and I pray
for you and hope everything comes out of pay for you.

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But anyway, I think people in this country you're a
waking up because I've woke up to the fact the
Democrats do not care about money. They like to spend it,
and the republic kittens are trying to stop that. I mean,
you've got to start using your brain because I never
paid two hundred dollars for groceries and I'm buying the

(26:19):
bare minimum. So anyway, Brian, you have a nice day.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Thank you, Pat, And I pray for all of you.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
We all appreciate it. We all do. And if you
don't appreciate Pat's prayers, then there's something wrong with you
as far as I'm concerned. You don't believe in prayer.
That's okay. She's offering them to you and with the
hope that you benefit from them. That's the beautiful thing
about people's offer of prayers. And it always bothered me
when something tragic happens and someone says, you know, thoughts

(26:49):
and prayers go out and like, eh, you thoughting prayers
are with jokes Squad, particularly in the area of like
gun violence. Now, they are worth something. Anybody's experiencing a
bad time time in their life, at least when someone
is offering you that. And I've said this before, I'm
just trying to double down on it. It means you
got at least someone who has compassion, concern, caring a

(27:10):
friend in a time of desperation and need. And it
beats the hell out of nothing, and it beats the
hell out of an insult. That's what Chris has got
this morning. Chris, thanks for calling the Morning Show this morning.
Have happy Friday to you.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Peter will I just wanted to call before I go
into work real fast. I was watching Fox News yesterday
and I want to say it was Ari Fleischer. I
can't really remember fully, but he said that he'd like
to see Ramaswami be the press secretary and if that happens,
if that happened, about every time it come on to
see the press conference, that would be very entertaining.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Chris, I had not heard that. Would that's actually the
wouldn't that be awesome?

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Probably won't happen, but that's that I heard that, and
I love that.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Oh that's great. Well, you know, you got to laugh
out of you out of Friday morning. But I'm not
even feeling one hundred percent Chris. That's good. It would
be a phenomenal thing. That guy's razor sharp.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
I think the reporters would wouldn't want to show up
for those conferences.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
No, yeah, I know they would. Well, they'd have to
actually ask articulate questions and be prepared to follow up
with some really difficult follow up questions because he would
answer the questions directly. Chris, thank you man. That was
a good one. I like that. Maybe we'll see more
of that. It's wide open as of right now. In
terms of the the administration, although Trump named Susie Wiles

(28:34):
the first female White House Chief of staff in history,
I'm not familiar with this woman apparently, though she has been,
you know, behind the scenes, a real powerhouse in terms
of you know, campaigning and all that. So first one
out of the gate chief of staff, Susie Wiles, first woman,

(28:56):
and so much for the Republicans being anti women. I
suppose you could make that argument five point fifty one
coming up with five fifty two at the five Kereseitton
talk station, moving before I get I haven't got to
the stack of stupid yet, because you know I love

(29:16):
to talk to you, and Dick's on the phone, so
let's talk to Dick. Dick, welcome to the show. In
a happy Friday to you.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Hey.

Speaker 7 (29:23):
I live over here in Kentucky, and you know Tom
Massey's my rep. And you mentioned something about going to
agricult agriculture secretary. But I think you and I can
both agree. Tom Massey's a big picture guy. And I
think McConnell is going to retire. And I guarantee you,
I guarantee you a four way onion. I'll buy you one,

(29:46):
because I know Adye Basheer is going to run for
the Senator in twenty six. The guy's power mad. You
didn't have to live with them. You had to deal
with Mike de Wine during that whole pandemic thing. But
we are here at he could tell you, almost to
a man, what a petty tyrant the guy is or
was at that time. So I just believe he's going

(30:08):
to run for the center because he just everything, everything
comes out of his mouth as I want more power.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 7 (30:15):
Andy Basheer needs to I mean, he needs to be
put down and stayed down by Tom Massey as Senator
for the state, because I can see, Man, what a
pair Rand Paul and Tom Massey as our senators hopefully
caw listen.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
I'll tell you what, Dick, You're right. And I know
by taking Tom I suggested Secretary Agriculture and by putting
him in that role, as awesome as he would be
in that role, he's no longer a representative for the
state of Kentucky. And you're right, I think, well, as
long as Thomas Massey is in some elected capacity, in
some position of power, the more power for Thomas Massey,

(30:51):
the better for America. Dick. Then I'll take it so
and thank you, Dick, and everybody else in Kentucky who
is responsible for Thomas Massey being around. God bless all
of you.

Speaker 7 (31:04):
Well, I can tell you I didn't vote for him
this time, and only because he was running on a post.

Speaker 8 (31:10):
But that's that's the old that's the old.

Speaker 7 (31:12):
Thing I learned from my dad was if they run unopposed,
you only need one vote.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
You know, it saves you. It saves you having to
fill in the little box.

Speaker 7 (31:20):
Yes, saved save that, you know, an eighth of a
gram of ink.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
This is not a win right out of the gate.
I mean, I know it's a win right out of
the gate, but it's an acknowledgment by the folks in
the area that nobody can beat Thomas Vassey. Keep them coming, Dick,
you got more over there. Come on, let's get him
in office. Have a great weekend, man. I appreciate the call.

(31:43):
I can get me one stack of stupid story in here,
so let's go with the one that's on the top.
A drunk, naked, feces covered British man crashed to the
ceiling of an internet cafe in what is called a
notoriously cedy holiday destination. UH apparently understood that the fifty
one year old tourists plunged through his hotel balcony, even

(32:04):
found dangling above the busy cafe in Thailand. Hotel staff
said the British man could be heard making loud groans
and banging around his room before hearing the humongous bang.
Moments later, the man's legs were dangling above his shocked
cafe goers as he cried for help. At least in
Paramedics attended to the scene quickly found the guy in

(32:26):
a dazed state trapped between wooden boards. No witnesses saw
him plummet through the roof, but his crash landing forced
the folks there to flee due to the stench. One
customer said quote at the time, the shop was full
of people, more than twenty people. I was sitting playing
games downstairs, and after a while I heard the first thump.

(32:46):
I didn't think much of it. After a while, there
was another thump. The ceiling started to break more and
then there were legs coming down right on my head.
So I called the staff to come and look. And
after a while he said it seemed like the ceiling
started to sink. Those very shocks, so I ran up
to look. I smelled it, but I thought it was

(33:08):
a broken water pipe or something. Cops later checked on
the British Man's room, where horrified to allegedly find feces
smeared across the floor, the bed, the sheets and the blankets.
Police say they were suspicious around what the man was
doing as he plummeted through the balcony. Police Lieutenant there

(33:32):
Tanawe Yarn guests see said the tourist had minor injuries,
but he will be discharged from the hospital to have
time to rest and become sober. Excuse me, we have
some ideas about what he was doing in the room
to make it so dirty, but there was nothing illegal.
Man taken to the hospital for a checkup and to

(33:53):
sober up in a safe environment.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Five fifty sixty five care see de talk station. Stick around.
It's Tech Friday coming up at six thirty. God bless
Dave hat or an Interest it for sponsoring the segment,
keeping us well out of trouble. And yes, your smart
TV apparently is spying on you. That'll be the first
topic with David six thirty. We'll have time to talk
between now and then. I hope you can stick around.

(34:19):
It's six oh five on a Friday. In a happy one,
say Brian Thomas, wishing everyone happy Friday. We've got some
great plans going on this weekend, and I hope you
feel phil like Colin call me on five one three, seven, four,
nine fifty five eight hundred eight two to three talk
not to be a dead horse. You've been listening since five,
you know. And I just want to qualify this for
folks who are just tuning and struggling with really deep

(34:42):
kind of heavy heavy inside cough, so I apologize. I'm
doing my best not to interrupt the conversation with having
to hit the cough button. But if you hear some silence,
you'll know exactly what's going on in my world, which
again is why I'm looking for a little additional support
this morning. So far as conversation is concern, but managed
to get through one hour, and I hope it'd be

(35:04):
able to make it through the balance. I'm not overly
concerned as long as you can deal with a couple
of hiccups here and there. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter
coming up to the bottom of the hour, we're gonna
be talking. This is I can't wait to hear about
these smart TVs. He says they're spying on you, and
I've known that, and I haven't bought a TV in
a long time. And one of the reasons is, you know,
first off, I don't really need a TV. The other

(35:26):
one is I think they're all smart now, so I'm
gonna find out are there anything other than smart TVs
available out there? Because I don't really appreciate the idea
of be inspired upon. Also, data brokers are tracking your
phone and on the heels of that racist text messages
that went a message that went out over the entire country,
all over the place, New York, Alabama, California, here in

(35:48):
Ohio is locally reported Pennsylvania, Tennessee. It's just just a
disgusting text and they claim it came from well, the
text itself suggests it came from Trump or Maga. And
if you believe that I got a bridge and actually
a couple of bridges and a planet or two, I
want to sell you. And given that I've got another

(36:10):
article on run by Dave Hatter as well, the United
States Agency Federal Agency issued a directive to employees generally
to reduce the use of cell phones for work matters
because of China's recent hack of the United States telecommunications infrastructure.

(36:31):
So Chief Information off of the Consumer Financial Protection Beer
warned that internal and external work related meetings and conversations
involving non public data should only be held on certain
platforms like Microsoft Teams and Cisco's WebEx, but not on
work issued personal phones. Dave Hatter has warned us a

(36:51):
number of times about the fact that your data is
being stolen. That if you've got a bunch of apps
on your phone like TikTok. They've gathered up literally everything
on your phone, all your text back and forth, what
you you know, your contact information. They know everything there
is to know about you. And if they want to
send out a pot stirring, evil text to further divide America,

(37:13):
that's going to be in their best interest, like it
is for the Iranians and the Russians and anybody else
who hates us, They're going to do it. So you know, yeah,
you got a text. It was offensive, it was racist,
It never should have happened. But in the world in
which we find ourselves, I mean, let's be logical and
reasonable about that. And does anyone really in the right
mind think that a true, really true Trump supporter or

(37:38):
Maga folks would want to send something like that to
further divide our country. If that is indeed the case,
and that guy's out there or these people are out there, now,
there's a special place in hell that's been reserved for them.
Beelzebelb's got a devil put aside for the whole lot
of them. So that's uh, I just want to get
that out of my system, because you know, we are
in little rather tense times right now. So don't buy

(38:01):
into the narrative that this has anything to do with well,
more conservative minded folks who went with Trump, probably because
they're grocery bill is through the roof and they're a
little concerned about the security here in the United States
of America given the open borders. Before I move on,
let's see what Jeff's got this morning. Jeff, thanks for colling,
and welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 8 (38:20):
Good morning, Brian, hope you get better.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Thank you, I appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (38:22):
Hey, Hey, On November thirteenth, Mitch McConnell was pushing through
this secret ballot vote for the new Senate GOP leadership.
It actually bi lates GOP bylaws, and the two people
at the top of the list are Senator Johnson and

(38:44):
Senator John Cornying, two never Trumpers. Tim Scott, I guess
from Florida. He's in the Runnie. I think it's really
important to have a solid Senator GOP later from the
get go, so they don't do the same thing they

(39:06):
did in twenty sixteen and block Trump's agenda.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
What do you think, Well, I agree with it with
the latter part. But Jeff, let me ask you this,
what day did you say they're supposed to vote on this.
I'm not familiar with the legislation, and I apologize them,
but they're doing this before the new Senate gets sworn in.

Speaker 8 (39:25):
Yeah, violates goot bylaws. They're doing it November thirteenth. Mitch
McConnell is pushing it through. And it's supposed to be
done in January when all the new Senators take their seats,
but for some reason, Mitch McConnell is pushing this through
on November thirteenth.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Okay, Well, that in and of itself is a massive
red flag. And I have no idea what is in that.
But the idea that you're going to vote on something
like that before the new Senate gets sworn in, where
there will be a majority Republican Republican balance in the
Senate seems really fishy, my friend. So I'm gonna have
to look further into that. And you know that the

(40:07):
Republicans may Yeah, and the Republicans, remember the Republicans made
the argument that no, we're not going to vote in
a new Supreme Court when we've got a new Congress
being elected, and we right, Okay, same argument applies right now.
I don't know what that goes to.

Speaker 8 (40:24):
Soon got on TV the other day and he told, uh,
the interviewer, Trump needs to keep his Basically, Trump needs
to keep his nose out of it, which is you
know the way they they do. You know, he's supposed
to keep his nose out of it. But Soon saying
tell him Trump, you know, don't get involved, it burns. Yeah,

(40:48):
it brings up some red flags for sure.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Well, you know what my perception to Trump is, if
you tell him don't get involved, then the first thing
he's probably gonna do is get in evolved. So I came,
I'll look into that and I'll keep my popcorn out
on that one. But yeah, that sounds like just on
its face and again not knowing what the substance of

(41:11):
this vote is. If it has a profound impact on
the next Senate, Uh, then I'm going to call Shenanigan's
declaration on it right away and yeah for.

Speaker 8 (41:20):
The next GOP later. Yeah, it's just.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Uh, well, hey it's Mitch McConnell. Does this Does it
shock anybody?

Speaker 9 (41:29):
You know?

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Anyhow? I appreciate the heads up, Jeff. I'll have to
look into it, but it doesn't sound right on it.

Speaker 8 (41:36):
Or you're elected officials and say no secret ballot.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
No secret ballots. I'm away with that. I like transparency. Hank.
Appreciate the call this morning. Welcome to the morning, showing
a happy Friday to you, sir.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Brian.

Speaker 10 (41:49):
I appreciate you taking my call, man, and I enjoyed
meeting the other day, the listening a lot.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Great meeting you, Hank. I'm glad you're able to make it.
That was a very celebratory environment. I really happy that
it was that, rather than sitting at the bar drinking ourselves.

Speaker 11 (42:07):
Into stupid hou yeah, into the morning that we that
we're hearing from the the radicals and especially the foolishness
coming out of CNN. But I wanted to call in
this morning, brother and have the out and talk to
my black brothers, especially since, uh, you know, we've called
out so much this election, and now we even got

(42:31):
some black sisters going around talking about how outraged they are,
blaming the black men for this morning that they're in
right now. And I just wanted to talk to my
black brothers who are like myself, who possibly didn't vote
for Trump the first time, but and talk to them
about why we voted this time and let my brothers. Know, listen,

(42:53):
you aint the only one you need, the only one
to the a risk. And now we're sitting back with
arms folded and saying we'll see because here's what's true.
They could not defeat what was going on with the economy.
You can throw out all the lies, claim everybody's racists,

(43:16):
call them Hitler and all that kind of stuff. I
don't care about that, Brian, not like they.

Speaker 5 (43:23):
Think I should.

Speaker 10 (43:24):
Listen, brother, when I go to the grocery store and
I can't get out of Costco with less than three
hundred dollars and I got a quarter of a grocery basketfull,
I got three teenage boys. Brian, that's unacceptable. We can't
roll like that. I drive for a certain ride share
company early in the morning, and I pick up passengers

(43:45):
from about four in the morning at about nine, and brother,
the cost of gasoline means something to me, okay, And
you can call them the Cheeto dictator from day one,
Hitler and all that kind of stuff. All I know
is that when he was in office, I filled up

(44:06):
for a dollar seventy cent per gallon. I took a
picture of it with my cell phone because I hadn't
seen prices like that since I was in the Navy
in the nineties early nineties.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Right.

Speaker 10 (44:20):
Yes, So for all my brothers, listen, there are more
of us than you think. And if some of the
black women want to be mad at us, they'll be
all right. But most of the time, it's us that's
going to the grocery store. And I'm speaking to those
black brothers, y'all keep on voting. Find some other conservative

(44:41):
brothers that you can talk to and talk through these
issues about. Don't believe the lies that these people are
telling us, because America has spoken and we have said,
I believe my wallet more than I believe your lies.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Very very thoughtful analogy. I know there was probably a
bit of a nose holding to do that. I get
that all day long. And believe me, there are a
lot of people that voted for Trump that did hold
their nose to a certain degree for a variety of reasons.
But you're right in the final analysis, you're the one
that went grocery shopping. You're the one that fills your tank,

(45:18):
You're the one that sees where we're going in this
country culturally. Even I think it probably rubs a lot
of folks on even both sides of the ledger a
little bit wrong. I keep going back to guys in
girls' bathrooms and women having to compete against men in sports.
It just seems so bizarre. So you buy, you put
aside the offense that Trump might bring to the table,

(45:39):
and you look at what he is promising to offer,
and you know what, Hank, I'm with you. I hope
he delivers. We know we felt very strongly that Kamala
Harris was not going to deliver on lower prices or
anything like that. So give Trump a shot. It worked
out the first time. We all didn't die, the world
didn't end, the democracy or republic has firm and strong,

(46:01):
and I believe that's still going to be the case
after four years of Trump. But we're all gonna find
out together. But I really appreciate your thoughtful analysis. And
you're reaching out to your fellow black brothers as well
as maybe black sisters who will find the grocery prices
are lowered down the road. And wouldn't that be a
wonderful thing for everybody? God bless you, Hank. Thanks for

(46:22):
calling in this morning. I really appreciate Its six seventeen
right now, fifty five cares to the detalk station six
twenty three fifty five Karsie Detalk Station. Anybody else happy
It's Friday, David. That is a Deafmit. Yes, over to

(46:44):
the phones. I'm gonna go right now. And I really
appreciate all the calls this morning. It's been very refreshing
and it does help take the strain off well my
voice and well for me having to cough. So let's
see what Paul's got this morning. Paul, thanks for calling
this morning, and very happy Friday to you, sir.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
Hey name right back at you, Brian, and prayers every
day for you.

Speaker 12 (47:07):
Hey, I'm five years out from prostate cancer, so there
is a lot of hope and medical improvements and all
this kind of stuff going on.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
So I'm hoping only the best for you.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
I can't thank you. And you know what I always
have to remind folks, you know, you get cancer diagnosis.
I won the lottery of cancer diagnosis. I have low
spectrum lymphoma. It sucks, it's got side effects, but my
doctors and I'm in good quality care, said Brian, you
probably die with it, not from it, so we just
stay on it. We'll keep your symptoms at Bay and

(47:42):
everything's going to be fine. So my attitude is a
very very positive one. But man, I'm telling you that
it is just so beautiful that when people wish you
well and express concern for you. And that's why I
keep going back to folks who are offering prayers generally speaking, Man,
that is just it's a wonderful thing. It's just.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Ohc people. I mean, they are a godsend.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Yes they are.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
I love them.

Speaker 12 (48:09):
Getting back to my brother Hank, Yeah, I'm white, but
he's my brother.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
That's my viewpoint.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Hey, my family's Democrat. We come from coal miners down
there in Harlan, Kentucky, and my dad and his brother, Grandpa,
all of them were coal miners. Were always voted Democrat, Democrat,
blue and blue. So but in nineteen eighty my dad

(48:42):
he said, son, you know, we need to listen to
this man named Ronald Reagan, and he said he makes
good sense. I know we always Democrat, but I'm going
to vote for him this year. And ever since then,
we yeah, we held our nose. We said, man, this

(49:05):
is strange, this is not right, it doesn't feel good
or whatever, but we went ahead and voted, and sure, enough,
he turned out to be the one of the greatest
presidents in our history. And so to me, when you
size everything up, like Hank was saying, I remember on

(49:29):
election night twenty twenty, when Biden wins, I'm going up
and down the strip on Route four heading into work,
A worked third shift, and every gas station was a
dollar eighty two cents a gallon every gas station. Now,
gas Buddy, if you want to confirm that, just look

(49:51):
on gas Buddy and see what the national average was
the election night twenty twenty. Yeah, and it was a
dollar eighty seven. And during Trump's tenure, my goodness, gas
was always under two dollars, and so ever since, and

(50:14):
then from that night, from a buck eighty two. On
January twentieth, when Biden took office, it was two thirty two.
So it went up fifty cents and it's been going
up ever since. And so who has control of you know,
who's really looking at for my wallet? And if I've
had to pay an extra dollar or two or three

(50:38):
for every gallon of gas I've had to buy for
four years, how is that good for my family? It's not.
It is not you brothers, my black brothers, and sisters,
please please start thinking with your wallet and you've got

(50:58):
to get off this demo crat plantation. Please get off
of that Democrat plan taste.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
I love you all, Love you to Paul, God bless
you and thank you so much for the well wishes
and sound words of wisdom. Six twenty eight fifty five
They Talk Station Dave Hatter next smart TVs spying on
you first topic of conversation and I cannot wait to
hear about that. A little behind time here as we
started interest Its Tech Friday with Dave Hatter interest I

(51:26):
dot com or you get Dave and the crew working
on your computer related your business computer related issues. Dave,
welcome back to the program. Struggling with my uh voice
this morning. Apologies, congratulations on being the Kentucky elected official
of the year. Just saw that notice you are the man.
Oh thanks, Let's, without further ado dive into if you
don't mind jumping right into smart TVs which are spying

(51:49):
on us.

Speaker 4 (51:50):
Yeah, I have a little voice problem myself this morning. Okay,
so we can we can commiserate with each other. Go now.
I guess my first question for you when you listening
would be, is anyone surprised to know that you're smart
TV is spying.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
On not anymore. I just want to know are their
options to smart TVs if I want to buy a
new TV, are they all smart? Or can you avoid
this crap?

Speaker 4 (52:10):
Well, it's really hard to avoid it. I'm not aware
of any manufacturer that makes TVs that don't at least
have this capability. But here here's the problem with it.
And then I'll tell you what you can do to
try to limit your exposure because at this point, again,
I'm not aware of any manufacturer that makes a TV
that isn't smart quote unquote, and you know, people can't

(52:31):
see my fingers doing the air quote as we say this.
You know all of these sort of IoT devices because
these things, you know, they have a perverse incentive versus
your incentive is someone that might care about your privacy
and security. These things are often, if not normally, made
in China. Their goal is speed to market, market share,

(52:52):
and ease of use. And anytime you're focused on ease
of use, you're almost always at the expense of privacy
and security. So again, whether it's something like an ring
doorbell or a smart TV or whatever, the smart TVs,
I think they are particularly insidious in how they work.
If you have concerns about this. Now, I'm not saying
that everything this does is some sort of evil plot,

(53:15):
but I think it's like so many of these other
smart devices, they play off the fact that people don't
really understand how any of this works. They don't understand
how much surveillance can be done on them, and you know,
they don't really go into it with informed consent. As
I've said to you many times over the last ten years,
if you understand what you're signing up for when you
use these things, and you understand the potential risks, and

(53:37):
you choose to move forward, well that's on you. You're
an adult. Do what you want, right, But I don't
think most people really get again, just how invasive this
kind of surveillance can be. Now most of these new
smart TVs, probably all of them, and you may see
the term CTV for connected TV. That's sort of another
term you might find if you look into this. You know,

(53:59):
they have microphones so you can talk to them. So
there's a potential problem. The thing might be listening to you,
it could be recording what you're saying. And I would
remind folks. In addition to the fact that recent information
has come out that a company that people like Facebook
works with who claim they are listening to you, because
Facebook has claimed they're not. If you think about it, Brian,
any so called smart device that you can talk to

(54:22):
for whatever purpose must be listening to you in order
to know when you wanted to do something right.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Always scene makes sense to me along those lines, Dave.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
Yeah. So, so with that said, you know, if it
has a microphone, it could be listening to you. Some
of these things have cameras in them. But the real
bottom line, and this is going to be a good
segue into another topic this morning, is these TVs come
with what's known as an advertising ID, and then that
advertising ID when you watch things, is connected back to you,
and it might be connected to other devices. So you

(54:51):
know a lot of people will use their phone or
tablet or PC while they're watching TV. You're coming from
the same IP address. It's possible, through the use of
cooking keys and browser fingerprinting and things like that, to
connect that while you were watching this show, you were
also doing this on your phone. That must mean that
you like this, So let's sell you some ads. But
One of the things they point out specifically in here

(55:11):
is a lot of these free channels that are streaming based,
they point out to be and specifically are essentially designed
for tracking you. And you know, they'll see while you're
watching a show, how that show is ranked in terms
of like it's psychographic impact on people, and then they'll
put ads in there based on that, so you know,

(55:33):
again it's collecting enormous amounts of information about you. There
was a lawsuit against Visio at one point, like every
second they were taking a screenshot of what you were watching.
So if you think when you're using one of these
smart TVs you have any privacy whatsoever and out by default,
you do not. Now I answer your question, what can
you do about it? Well, it's tough. I mean I
would remind everyone you could buy a smart TV and

(55:55):
then just not connect it to the internet, right, you know,
use it like an old TV. Now, of course, that's
going to significantly limit how the capabilities of the TV.
Another thing you could do would be instead of giving
your data to let's say a Samsung or a Visio
or whoever makes the TV, you could use a different
streaming product like a Roku or something now it's going

(56:17):
to track you to. It's just a question of who's
getting all that data right.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Right, your laptop would be getting the TV signal, which
would be transferred to your TV, which is not hooked up.
Meaning whatever protections you have on your laptop like a
VPN might offer additional security that a smart TV hooked
directly up would not.

Speaker 4 (56:35):
Yeah, or I mean you could. There's a lot of
different ways you can potentially choke off some of this flow,
but a lot of it boils down to going into
the settings on the TV itself and seeing what you
can disable. You know, can you turn off any of
this sort of tracking? You know, use either some kind
of privacy settings. Now you get into the privacy washing
and the dark patterns of the stuff's hidden, and they

(56:55):
don't really want you to turn it off, right. Well,
but you may be able to, on any given TV
disable some of this stuff. You might be able to,
like if something will let me, but if it will
let me turn it off, I'll go in and change
that advertising idea every once in a while, just so
it's harder to track me.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Yeah, and you know me, I never run a call
for legislation, but the technology to turn this stuff off
does exist widely in the world. It's not expensive. Everything
should have the option to let us decide what goes
out into the world. Period end of story, exclamation point,
and I'll reserve my explotives for when the microphone is off. Dave,

(57:31):
we got to take a break or out of time
and six forty fifty five krcity talks station so far
behind six forty four fifty five krcity talks. See if
we try to make some time back up. Dave had
our interest it dot com. Thank you for you and
the teams scheduling the segment on Tech Friday, data brokers
also tracking our phones. I suppose we shouldn't be shocked
by this either.

Speaker 4 (57:51):
You know, again, Brian Good, segue from the previous topic,
because this stuff is all related. I just have to
once again remind people, as we've done so many times,
that these companies that are making extremely low cost products
or giving you anything for free, believe it or not,
are not making it for free. You become their product.
They capture your data, they monetize that data. And I

(58:13):
think as we're finding out slowly in chunks, as I
mentioned that last segment, we've now seen a company claim
that they've worked with companies like Facebook. They're listening to
you all the time. So when people say, how is
it possible that I'm having a private conversation with my
spouse and suddenly I get ads for X, Well, it's
due to all of this sort of thing. You know,
any so called smart device certainly has the capability to

(58:35):
track you in some way if they want to, and
most of them do because again, they're either making additional
money even if you paid for something, and you know,
recurring money, or that's how they're offsetting the cost of
whatever they're providing to you for free quote unquote. So
this story I thought was really interesting because basically it's
saying that they can track your phone using a variety

(59:00):
of different techniques, and it comes back to that advertising
identifier again. You know, Apple and Google both give your
phone an advertising identifier as well as other types of
unique identifiers that identify it to the carrier, network and
so forth. But the point they're making out here is
that you can use this advertising ID to track where

(59:22):
the phone is going. They sell this data to various
data brokers, and that's how over time, these incredibly detailed
and grantular dossiers are built up about you, so you
know whether it's location tracking, it's the thing you're viewing,
things you're viewing on the phone. Some of this gets
sold to data broker X by application Y, some of
it gets sold to another data broker. They sell this

(59:43):
stuff amongst each other, and then over time again you
have this unbelievably granular and detailed dossier about you, where
you've been, what you're doing. And you know, I know
some people will say, well, I don't care about that.
I have nothing to hide, and I would just remind folks.

(01:00:03):
Just in the past six months, we've seen two massive
data breaches, the National Public Data Data Breach and mc square.
Both of these are background check companies where they have
incredibly sensitive information about you. Think about it, Brian, If
I had all the background check information about you, I'd
know places you worked, places you lived, your family members,

(01:00:24):
all kinds of other information. So whether I wanted to
impersonate you and commit fraud in your name, or I
wanted to attack you and have legitimacy because I know
information that only the legitimate player would know. That kind
of data provides that, and the more data that gets
collected about you by these sorts of hidden tracking capabilities.

(01:00:45):
You know, that's all feeding into this. Then when it
gets breached or leaked, it comes back to bite you.
And that's why you should care about these.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Indeed, and you know judgement Paulitano has mentioned this before,
and he's not the only one that's brought it up.
When you wonder why a politician votes a certain way
which seems to fly directly in the face of what
he or she had campaigned on her you previously stood for,
you may have the answer right there. Dave Hatter, let's pause.
Exactly frightening stuff. Apparently, businesses have lost a lot of

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money in email scans, a huge amount. It's six fifty
to fifty five k RC detoxation interest dot com. That's
where you find Dave Hatter and his team. If you
have a business, you have computers, and he'll keep you
from stepping in it, hopefully best practices and avoiding all
the problems. And we talk about speaking and stepping in it,

(01:01:35):
and real quick here we'll talk about the email scans
and how much it's cost businesses. Speaking of that, but
real quick here, Rick wanted to know, and I think
it's a great question, because I don't know, but it
sounds good. Can my router be configured to block out
going packets from the television?

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
Potentially? Yes, It's going to depend on the capabilities of
your router, how smart it is.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
One of the things you could do too, to protect
your other devices from any smart device would be to
set up what nerds like you would call a v
land and basically create a separate network inside your network
so these smart devices can't talk to other devices. You
could potentially, you know, if if the TV is using
a domain name or something to send it back to
you know, yeah, you could potentially configure your devices to

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try to block that traffic. The problem, Brian is most
people wouldn't even know how to ask that question. You know,
you could go online and probably get some help depending
on your specific device, It is theoretically possible.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
To do that. Well, there's your next business model there.
You need to set out to help homes secure themselves
and keep their smart devices from revealing all the information
in the world. I think the first thing you do
is just don't get an Alexa type device anyway. Business
email scams.

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
So this is a huge problem, Brian. We see this regularly,
and it really you know, it's kind of shocking to
me how bad this problem is and how much money
is being lost as a result this. The FBI says
it's fifty five billion dollars from twenty thirteen to twenty three.

(01:03:19):
I can tell you that I believe it's a lot
more than that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
Businesses don't report it. You've mentioned that so many times.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
Yeah, in many cases, unless there's a regulatory reason to
report it, they won't. Right I have firsthand knowledge of
a company here in Cincinnati that was referred to us
after this un unfortunate situation like this. They lost nine
hundred and eighty three thousand dollars. Think about that for
a second. And this often occurs because people do not

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have strong passwords, strong unique passwords, and they don't have
MFA turned on. If I can get into your email,
I can look around in there and figure out, like, well,
who do you communicate with on a regular basis? Right now?
For a frontline employee working in a factory, maybe I
won't ever get access to this kind of information, but
I might also be able to move latterly within your

(01:04:08):
network once I'm in there. But if I can get
into let's say, like someone that works in your accounting
department or your finance department because they have a bad
password and or no MFA. I'm eventually going to figure out,
if I have enough time, how to get to some money.
It often involves fraudulent invoicing or request for wire transfers.

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I know we don't have time today, but I think
I told the story. Not too long after I became
mayor and Fort Wright, the city clerk, got an email
that looked like it came for me. Wanted to do
an international wire transfer, and thankfully, you know, she said,
find the world with the city of Fort right, Kentucky,
do an international wire transfer. Yeah, picked up the phone
and called me, which is always the right answer. Anytime

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there's any question about something, especially if it's financial, you
should stop what you're doing and either call your IT
people or your manager or the CEO or whomever and
say is this legit? Right? But the scope and scale
of this is insane, And I'm just telling people from
someone that works in the field. Every day, we see
this all the time. These are not ridiculously overblown numbers.

(01:05:13):
Business email compromise is happening all the time, and I
just keep trying to remind people. If you make it easy,
they will steal your money. Your money has value to
them because I often well, I'm too small, I don't
even think we're stealing. Well, your money is worth stealing,
and they will steal your money if you make it easy.
The good news is, well, there's nothing that is bulletproof

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against this, Brian. There's a lot of things you can do,
including training, that will significantly reduce the likelihood of a
successful attack. But if you don't take it seriously, and
if you allow people to not have strong unique passwords
and not use MFA, you are eventually going to fall
prey to one of these kinds of scams. It's just
a matter of time until they find you with something

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that's compelling to people.

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
Well and find you. They will, and it usually those
require an individual on the other side, you know, picking
up a phone or launching the attack. They do this
remotely with bots and and bot farms, and you know,
just flip a switch. You got thousands of basically micro
computers going to work trying to get you to you know,
respond to an email. Doesn't cost them much money at all,

(01:06:18):
and it's a volume business, right.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
Yeah, think about it, Brian, if I could, if I
could send you a phishing email that leads to nine
hundred and eighty three thousand dollars to me, I just
really that's like some Hillary Clinton type return on investment.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
It is cattle futures, and it's a much easier ROI.

Speaker 4 (01:06:37):
Yes, it is, Yes, it is.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
It's you know, I had to joke about this. You know,
if you don't ask, you're you're not going to know.
This is like go out and ask every woman you
run into if they want to go out, and eventually
one of them will. But if you don't ask, they're
never going to have someone who said yes. If you
send thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands
of phishing emails out in the world, somebody's going to

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respond and you're gonna get nine hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Maybe Tech Friday, Dave had or intrust dot COM's where
you find Dave and the crew you need them if
you have problems along the lines of what we talk
about each and every week. Thank you Dave for spending
time with my listeners and me. I always really truly
look forward to the segment and appreciate the sage, wisdoms

(01:07:20):
and advice. Look forward to your next business venture helping
individuals and homes avoid the snooping and all the other
things that go along with it. Until next Friday, my friend,
have a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
Always my pleasure, Brian. I look forward to chatting with
you next week.

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
Thanks, take care brother. Coming to It's six eighty seven
and after the top of the our news Taxpayer Protection
Alliance Dave Williams will Trump real in government spending. God
I hope so that and a few more things to
talk about with Dave, and then Steve gorm on the
No More Green New Deal and power you Semmon on
November twelve. We'll get the details on that at eight
oh five. I'll be right back seven oh seven at

(01:08:13):
fifty five ker C Detalk Station. Brian Thomas welcoming back
to the fifty five CARC Morning Show. Dave Williams from
the Taxpayer Protection Alliance, looking out for where government spending
our money, usually in the worst possible places and not
minding the financial shop. Find them online at Protecting Taxpayers
dot org. Welcome back, Dave Williams, and I'll let you

(01:08:34):
know like I've been letting my listeners know this morning.
Sorry for the repetition for those who been listening all morning.
I'm struggling with some really deep, long coughing issues, so
I'll try to do my best not to stumble. But
if you hear me pause, it's because I'm hitting the
cough button. Welcome back, Dave Williams. Always love having you
on the show.

Speaker 9 (01:08:52):
Brian, good morning. Sorry to hear you're a little bit
under the weather, and listen. I like to talk, so
don't worry about us.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
I know you did up the slack. I always enjoy
all conversations, David. Let us start off with something that
to me is, if not the most important, got to
be in the top two most important things, shutting down
and reeling in government spending. And I was really excited
about it. I think Elon Musk is just a neat guy.

(01:09:21):
He is goofy, he's weird, He's got great ideas. He's
obviously brilliant, way way way out of the box, and
is thinking but demonstrably successful, brilliant multi billionaire. He knows
how to cut government and looks like he's going to
have at least some sort of role, perhaps a prominent
role in doing that in the Trump administration. Now, if

(01:09:42):
you're a betting man, Dave isn't going to happen.

Speaker 9 (01:09:46):
Wow, so much to unpack the Yeah, Elon Musk really
is a fascinating guy, right Tesla SpaceX. I mean, so
many things that he has his hands in, and he's
the last month or two he's been talking about this
Department of Government Efficiency really going through the federal government

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looking for a raceful spending, redundant spending, duplicative, you name it.
And this really, you know, scratches the itch for me
when we talk about doing an audit of the federal government,
and that's what he's talking about, is an audit. I
remember back in the eighties we had the Grace Commission,
and this was a really comprehensive look at the federal government.

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I mean it was a long time ago, but it
really set the tone for auditing the government. And I think,
you know what, forty years later, now we can do
the same thing. But we have an advantage forty years later.
It's technology. We have ways of going inside the government
now and I'm hoping and looking and finding a government

(01:10:48):
waste a lot easier than we did in the nineteen eighties,
and that's why I'm excited. Now, Brian, I'm not so
excited if you look at the history of Republicans when
it comes to spending.

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
Amen, Trump right there, go ahead, I'm gonna I'm calling
out Trump right now. It's one of the biggest criticisms
I had. I said, he has never been a deficit hawk.
The government spending went up under his administration. Our deficit
went up what five trillion under the Trump administration?

Speaker 9 (01:11:14):
It did you know, and look at before COVID. You know,
the Democrats would have done nothing different. During COVID. They
would have spent trillions upon trillions of dollars. But let's
look at what happened before COVID. When Trump was president,
we had a deficit of two point two trillion dollars.
That's concerning. That's very concerning. So now he's coming back

(01:11:35):
in January, we're going to have a House and a
Senate that's going to be controlled, right Republicans, this is
their opportunity to do something, some meaningful reform, whether a
speaker Mike Johnson or another speaker who comes in. It's
time and it's I mean, it's past time. As as
me honest, I mean we're talking. You know, interest on
the debt is eight hundred and nine hundred billion dollars.

(01:11:58):
That's interest, that's multiple government agencies put together, spending wise.
And that's why this needs to be addressed immediately. But
Speaker Johnson has an opportunity to do this. And again,
you know Trump has been talking about this. If you're
gonna walk, you know, if you're going to talk the talk,
you have to walk the walk. But again, their track

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record isn't great.

Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
No, it's not because politicians have a difficult time saying no.
I mean they're worried about the next election even though
the first one. Then the ink isn't even dry on
Trump winning the other day, and you know they're already
thinking about two years from now and running again. And
to cut means you know, boiling it down to its
bottom line, pissing some people off. You're gonna have to

(01:12:45):
eradicate jobs in government. Dave, you been following this. The
biggest growth in jobs has been government jobs. It's been
nothing but expansion of government over decades, and it just
got worse over the past three and a half four years. Plage.

Speaker 9 (01:13:00):
You brought that up because these job numbers where they
say we've added three hundred thousand jobs. A lot of
them have been government jobs, mean taxpayer funded jobs, and
a lot of people don't know that and they think that,
you know, it's really an illusion of these jobs gains
have been an illusion because they're really not. When the
government's adding that means you're subtracting from taxpayers. So, you know,

(01:13:23):
the economy is still it's the economy is struggling. You know,
the administration one to put a happy face on it,
and you know, they reduced interest rates and did a
lot of other things, but we're still in a very
weak and tenuous economy.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
Well, and let's look at the nature of government jobs.
Unlike the private sector, government jobs live thrive and survive
on taking money from us out here trying to be
productive and support a basically a consumer consumption driven economy.
Government jobs don't create money. They merely confiscate money and
spend it on the administration and overhead and office space

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and you know, fiddling around and issuing edicts and mandates
that further restrain our economic activity. It's just it is
a you know, it isn't a recipe for making money.
It's taking money out isn't that really the final analysis
how it boils down, Dave, It.

Speaker 9 (01:14:17):
Really isn't you know. The best example I can give
you is the United States Postal Service versus the private
sector when it comes to seasonal hiring. So everyone's ramping
up for Christmas and the holidays, you know, deliver packages,
deliver mail. Well, what the Postal Service does is they
have seasonal hiring like the private sector, but you have

(01:14:38):
the option of becoming full time after Christmas and after
the holidays, because the unions have negotiated this with the
Postal Service. Now, if you work for the private sector,
if it's UPS or Fedexio, no, we're just hiring you
until January, and we are going to let you go
because it's seasonal. Hence the term seasonal. The Postal Service

(01:15:00):
almost guarantee that if you want a full time job
after your seasonal employment, you can have it. So there
you have the difference between the private sector and the
public sector. And when it comes to stupidity and really
bad hiring decisions and you know, economic decisions.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
Yeah, and it's a wonder and I just I step
back and I stare at the US Postal Service. How
many years in a row. Have they lost billions of dollars?
This has been going on for as long as ey
as you have been have been talking, if not much longer.

Speaker 9 (01:15:31):
Yeah, I had a lot more hair when they were
making money. You know. It's they've lost what one hundred
and more than one hundred billion dollars over the last
fifteen years. I mean, this is an entity that has
a monopoly on first class mail and they're blowing it.
I mean, I would love to have a monopoly in
any sort of business, and I guarantee you if I

(01:15:53):
had a monopoly, I'd be making money hand over fist.
But for some reason, the Postal Service, and we know
a lot of the reasons that the Postal Service just
came into it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Yeah, I hate this them, and I know that the
post guy, that person that delivers my mail is not
the one that's to blame. It's the model. It's the system,
and it's the refusal of those in charge to well
crack down on it for reasons that escape me. Protecting
Taxpayers dot orgs where you find Dave and the Taxpayer
Protection Alliance at seven twenty fifty five KERCD Talk Station.

(01:16:22):
Happy Friday to you. Somebody's got to look out for
our money, and someone is protecting taxpayers dot Org, Dave
william and the Taxpayer Protection Alliance. Dave's joined the program,
as he does about once a month. And here's an
interesting question. Is the future looking brighter? Interesting sort of
loaded question, Dave. I guess it depends on which direction

(01:16:43):
we're looking.

Speaker 9 (01:16:46):
I think the future is looking brighter. Two examples tax reform.
We have the tax cuts that are going to expire
at the end of twenty twenty five next year. This
was Trump's signature piece of legislation, right, I mean, and
this gave the economy a shot in the arm that
it desperately need. At the end of twenty seventeen and
beginning of twenty eighteen, companies sent out thousand dollars bonuses

(01:17:10):
to people. It really was a great time, obviously a
year or so before COVID hit. But we have an
opportunity to extend the tax cuts to remain competitive around
the world, but to make sure that people's taxes are
still relatively low. Listen, there's a lot of work to do.
I'm not going to lie, but if these tax cuts

(01:17:30):
expired would be awful for the economy. We had the trifecta.
Now we have the House, the Senate, and the White House,
there is no excuse not to extend the tax cuts.
So that's where I'm really really excited about. And there's
a commitment, i think, from everyone in the Republican Party
to do that. There are differences in the Republican Party

(01:17:51):
on some issues, but not when it comes to tax cuts.

Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
Energy.

Speaker 9 (01:17:55):
Wow, this is going to be fascinating. Is he going
to restart the Keystone Excel pipeline in Jane? That was
Biden's first thing that he did was shut it down
when he came into office. I would love for Trump
for that to be one of the first things that
he does.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
Is there still time to do that? That thing's been
flipped on and off more times than I care to
even remember over the past what eight ten years? I mean,
I've lost track on that day.

Speaker 9 (01:18:19):
There absolutely is. And what's frustrating is if they if
Biden wouldn't have done this, that thing would be pumping
eight hundred thousand barrels of oil into this country a day.
I mean, that's where we would be, and obviously gas
prices would be lower, but there'd be a lot more
jobs in that part of the country. And these are
good paying jobs, Brian, you know, one hundred thousand dollars jobs.

(01:18:43):
So just it's all good for the economy when we
have more oil exploration and more oil coming into this country.
And really it's the green energy mandates, you know, just
getting rid of these mandates. Listen, if you want to
drive an electric vehicle, go for it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
I don't care, amen, just don't use.

Speaker 9 (01:19:00):
My money to do it. You know, we're building all
of what we're trying to build these charger stations all
across the country. I think three or four have been built.
But my bigger question is, Brian, can you imagine if
they were taxpayer money building gas stations? People would lose
their minds. Yeah, rightly, so, I mean rightly. So listen,
our money shouldn't be used to build gas stations or

(01:19:22):
charging stations. This is corporate welfare. This should not be happening.
So but again, I am very optimistic about energy. Come
next year, and you know what we could see, will
there be more nuclear plants? Where we see nuclear plants
being built. We have tech companies that are now moving
to nuclear and trying to open nuclear plants because their

(01:19:43):
data centers take so much energy that they don't want
to be a draw on the grid. I mean, this
is what the private sector is doing. Is Trump and
is Congress? Are they going to move forward with this
and say okay, it's time that we move more towards nuclear.

Speaker 1 (01:19:57):
Well I have a strong gu reaction to that, and
the answer is yes. But note Dave that these tech companies,
the Googles, the Alphabet whatevers say they're gonna get these
modular reactors, and no one in the Biden Harris administration
reacts with the hell, no, you're not going to do
that three mile while and they actually kind of embraced it.

(01:20:20):
They they didn't say no. So, if you're big and
powerful enough that you have enough money, I suppose to
donate money to campaigns and spend a billion dollars trying
to get Kamala Harris lugged. And you're the one that's
going to get a nuclear power plant. But the neighborhood
next to the Giant AI facility, sorry, sucks to be you.
You're gonna have to live off a windmill.

Speaker 9 (01:20:40):
You know, You're absolutely right, is that it can't be
just for these companies. There has to be a larger
deployment of this because it's gonna bring down our energy costs,
and that's what kills small business. You talk to any
small business, you know, it's the energy costs when you
have a spike and electricity cost that kills small business,

(01:21:01):
especially restaurants and the ones that use a lot of electricity.
So I agree with you one hundred percent. You can't
just favorite the you know, have favoritism towards the big guys.
It has to be spread all around the country.

Speaker 1 (01:21:12):
And again reminding folks that these modular reactors, one size
literally fits all. You get the plan, you know how
to do it. It's like putting legos together. Got one
right here, We're gonna put one over there, and it's
gonna be the same design, same principles. They're small, uh,
And it's just we don't have to build giant cooling
towers and have them next to massive water sources like

(01:21:35):
the old days. That's amazing what technology can do to
bring us around cheap energy. But Dave, I keep going
back to the fact the green folks, the globalists of
the world, do not want us to have inexpensive energy
because we're too damned and successful with it and we're
too damn consumptive for their perceptive of perception of life.

Speaker 9 (01:21:56):
Well, and they're kind of backed into a corner because
nuclear is a renewable energy. Yeah, it's really the carbon
free though it really puts them in a real awkward position,
which I love that nuclear energy really is the you know,
the answer to a lot of our energy needs at
this point.

Speaker 1 (01:22:16):
No doubt about it. And something that RFK Junior may
have something to do with more with Dave Williams coming
up next, What is the Pharmacy, Audit and Transparency Act
seven and fifty five kerc DE Talk Station Brian Thomas
with Dave Williams from the Taxpayer Protection Alliance. All Right,
we answered the question or anticipated about Trump reeling in

(01:22:37):
government spending. Please, dear guy, let that happen. The future
does appear to be looking brighter, at least in so
far as one thing energy policy across the board. Energy
policy is in our future, I think quite quite promising
along those lines. And moving over to something and I said,
Elon Musk or rather RFK Junior may have something to
do with it. What is the Pharmacy Audit and trans

(01:23:00):
Pharreency Act?

Speaker 9 (01:23:01):
Dave, boy, this is a little bit complicated, but let's
see if we can get to this. And you know
right now, Department of in Human Services, the FDA, a
lot of improvement is needed, especially in pricing of drugs.
And you have these pharmacy benefit managers who act as
middlemen between pharmacies and insurance companies. And it's really listen,

(01:23:26):
whenever a middleman is involved in anything, you know, someone's
taking something off the top here.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
Oh yeah, it's like pharmacy benefit managers.

Speaker 9 (01:23:35):
Yeah. And what they're doing is they're negotiating between the
insurers and the pharmacies. So they say, okay, pharmacy, we're
gonna give you X amount for a drug. But then
they go to the insurers and they ask more. So
the pharmacy benefit managers are making money just being a
middleman and negotiating prices between insurance companies and in pharmacies.

(01:23:59):
And you know, you look at Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania,
a lot of pharmacies are going out of business because
of the low reimbursements that they're getting for for the drugs.

Speaker 1 (01:24:10):
Is there really truly a need for that middleman, Dave.

Speaker 9 (01:24:13):
No, absolutely not. You know, this was created a number
of years ago. Of pharmacy benefit managers, and they're not
benefiting anybody. I mean, it's it's you know, healthcare. There's
no such thing as the free market in healthcare. Right,
You go to the hospital, you have no idea what
that procedure costs. And you know, I heard the commercial
you had, you know, a couple of minutes. Yeah, I

(01:24:38):
mean it shows you that we need reform in the
healthcare system. You break an arm, how much does that cost?
How much are you being charged? How much does that
actually cost? We never know, And that's why you need
to look at this top to bottom, including the costs
of drugs and these pharmacy benefit managers.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
Yeah. I've been hearing about pharmacy benefit managers now for
years and years, and I just I really don't understand.
We go back to modern technology. Maybe there was a
time back a while back, before you know, we communicated
with emails and had artificial intelligence and could do things
sort of very quickly and easily from a communications standpoint.

(01:25:15):
We're not in those days anymore. We've got all this technology.
It should be very easy for an insurance company to
work directly with the manufacturers to negotiate a price. It's
best for their insurance and everyone can be happy and
satisfied with it. But throwing that extra slice of bureaucracy in,
I mean just by saying that, you know it comes
at a significant cost.

Speaker 9 (01:25:37):
Well, and look at the cause of the problems to
Food and Drug administration. It takes twelve years at about
two billion dollars to bring a drug to market.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
And unless it's unless it's a COVID mRNA vaccine, which
which with complete immunity from any liability associated with the dangers,
then they'll put that through in about five se weeconds.

Speaker 9 (01:26:01):
Yeah, talk about Operation warps it for sure. Yeah. So again,
healthcare is a mess, and listen, I don't know if
one administration can unravel all the intricacies of the nonsense
that's happening. But you have to start somewhere, and you
know this is this is a great place to start

(01:26:21):
with pharmacy benefit managers.

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
Agreed, Dave Williams again, get him online. It's Protecting Taxpayers
dot org Taxpayer Protection Alliance until we talk again. Keep
up the great work you're doing, Dave. I always appreciate
our conversations, and I know my listeners do as well.

Speaker 9 (01:26:36):
Brian feel better and have a great weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
Yeah, you do the same. Man, appreciate that very much.
It's seven forty two fifty five Karrosity Talk station. Pardon
me struggling with the cough this morning. Real quick. Here
as Trump decides who's going to be in his cabinet,
and he has named a woman named Susan Wiles. She'll

(01:27:00):
be the first. I know Donald Trump hates women, right,
and women hate Donald Trump, but he has appointed Susan
Wills to be the very first female chief of staff
in history. So, uh, you draw your own conclusions on that.
I don't know a whole lot about her, but according
to everything I've read about her, she's got really really
a savvy, savvy lady. H And a shout out to

(01:27:21):
my dear friend Keegan Corcoran, who is an accomplished Sammier,
one of only six hundred of the world to hold
the title of Advanced Saier. And since Donald Trump's putting
his cabinet together, I know there is no cabinet position
for White House samiier, but I found out the other
day there is such a thing. So I'm pulling for
Kegan Corcoran and his hopefully political connections to end up

(01:27:42):
being the White House Samoier giving him global exposure would
not have you a cool job. It's being a Samier
and having those kind of skills. Anyway, It's just always
been impressive to me. But good luck Keegan of Ignition Wines.
He's a wholesaler now. Anyway, he was Jeff Ruby Samier
for like almost fifteen twenty years. Anyway, I always admit
to standing on the shoulders of giants, and I'm going

(01:28:04):
to do that right now because I love the observations,
and quite often i'll do. And I read an op
ed piece from the Wall Street Journal and Kimberly Strassel,
I think does a wonderful job. And she had a
few words for the mainstream media in her op ed
from the other day, a landslide against the media, And
Kimberly writes, you know, the recriminations are flying as Barack

(01:28:24):
Obama and Joe Biden's forces go to war over who's
more to blame for the democrats humilitating defeat on Tuesday.
So as long as the leftist pointing fingers, let's direct
a big, fat digit at the outfit that played the
biggest role in losing this election, the US media that
isn't the conventional wisdom which told that the press is
naked shilling for Democratic candidates amounts to an in kind

(01:28:47):
campaign contribution, And no doubt, the media's ceaseless attacks on
Donald Trump and Republicans did help round up some undecided voters.
Yet the boosterism for Kamala Harris and co. Came at
a far bigger cost. A narrative full of fantasy enabled
Democrats to live in a world disconnected from the mood

(01:29:07):
and worries of the country. Among those damaging of these
fantasies was the four year press assurance that Joe Biden
was as sharp as attack. Even video evidence in June
of a confused president wandering aimlessly at the Group of
Seven was met with claims that the footage was edited
or lacking contexts or misleading. Only when a Trump Biden

(01:29:30):
debate made Biden's decline undeniable did the media drop the charade.
Then it immediately turned to recast miss Harris, a presidential
primary loser turned unpopular vice president, as a political genius
in the obvious Savior of the Democratic Party. How'd that
work out in a world with competent press. Mister Biden's

(01:29:52):
failing failing constitution would have been front page news in
time for Democrats to confront the unpleasant yet manageable reality
of needed change. A primary would have produced a tested nominee,
likely one less unencumbered by the Biden record. As Harris
advisor and Obama veteran David Plouff complains that the team
Biden created a hole too deep for his sidekick to

(01:30:15):
dig out of. Don't forget the industry whose job it
is to call out political fiction, but instead wrote the
Joe Is Fine novel. Of course, Democrats are shocked that
they lost. In a world with a functioning press. The
politician he tries to make lemonade out of inflation, crime,
border chaos is slapptis out of touch. In a Biden

(01:30:38):
Harris world, opress printed their spinish gospel. For years, our
headlines insisted Americans live in one of the strongest economies ever.
Crime rates were following red state governors engaged in stunts
to magnify the migrant problem. The biggest issues facing our
country were climate, systemic racism, abortion, and transgender rights fantasies

(01:31:02):
were maintained right up to the election, even as Republicans
pointed a surging voter registration, unprecedented early votes, and notable
demographic shifts. The headlines insisted that Kamala would claim victory
on a wave of abortion and Liz Cheney loving suburban women,
comedian condemning Puerto Ricans, and white dudes impressed by Tim
Waltz's camo hat. No wonder Tuesday was a surprise. The

(01:31:26):
America that voted for mister Trump has never made even
made an appearance in these outlets. Democrats now face a choice.
On one side, there are party grown ups who are
publicly acknowledging this defeat as a sharp voter rebuke of
progressive policies. They're admitting that Lawfair was a mistake, that

(01:31:49):
the party is culturally out of touch, that lunatic interest
groups are running the asylum. They worry about a growing
political realignment that threatens the party's future. We are hearing
these voices is an improvement over the past eight years.
Yet on the other side, there are the progressive architects
of the mess, already rationalizing away the night as a

(01:32:10):
function of racism, sexism in America's supposed love affair with fascism.
They mark the loss down to tactical errors, the failure
to court pro Palestinian voters, a misallocation of door knockers,
poor timing, and adviys. The party just needs better messaging
of its historic achievements. No surprise, the media is already

(01:32:34):
running with the latter narrative again, providing the party with
a soothing alternative to the blunt reality of its ideological
fail Will Democrats be lulled again? If they really want
to reconnect with voters, they will at some point have
to break with what is proving to be a debilitating
feedback loop. The media itself was put on sharp notice

(01:32:56):
this cycle, pushed aside by podcasters and influencers, whom voters
now trust more to provide reality. Nearly fifty million people
have listening to Joe Rogan's interview with mister Trump, as
it provided a more accurate assessment of the GOP nominees'
positions and the concerns of the country than the news
articles about the authoritarian intent on destroying the climate. Abortion rights, democracy,

(01:33:22):
choose your obsession. The Founder is a court of the press.
The honor of inclusion in the First Amendment in recognition
of the vital role it plays in keeping poles honest.
The industry is meant to ride herd on government on
both sides in the interest of the people. That job
is essential not only for transparency, but to provide self

(01:33:44):
deluding politician constant gut checks as to how their policies
sit with a nation. When that guard rail fails, the
nation suffers, but so too does the party that gets
to live the make believe brilliance again. Props to Kim Strassel,
summon it up wonderfully. Seven fifty four on a Friday.

(01:34:08):
It is that time to catch ourselves a crime server
bad guy of the week. Welcome back Officer Lisa Baker
and God bless us in sant Police Department for all
they do keeping our community safe each and every day.
You know, Lisa, Every once in while, I'll play the
game guess the crime by just looking at the mugshot.
I got this one right today. For whatever reason, Lisa,

(01:34:30):
just indulge. Well, good morning, good morning, and happy Friday
to you. Who are we looking for today?

Speaker 6 (01:34:38):
We are looking for Adam Lofner.

Speaker 13 (01:34:41):
He's wonder for trafficking and drugs. It counts of fellai,
possession of drugs and falsification. I guess you thought he
looked like he did drugs.

Speaker 1 (01:34:52):
Yeah, yeah, sometimes I'm not trying to stereotype. And you know,
looking at pictures like, okay, he's there's a wanted picture.
He's a crime stopper, bag guy of the week. What
do you think he did? And the drugs was the
first thing that bought my mind anyway, Lisa, I'm sorry,
I'm trying to put a smile on my face today.
So what are we going to do if we know

(01:35:12):
where this guy happens?

Speaker 13 (01:35:13):
Be well, Adam Laughner. He's a white male, he's forty
years old, he's five ten, one hundred and eighty pounds.
He has a history of drug charges. He's lasting on
to live on mckenry Avenue and Westwood. So if you
know where he is, call crime Stoppers five one three
three five two thirty forty, or you can go to

(01:35:35):
pthree tips dot com and submit a tip online and
you never have to talk to me.

Speaker 1 (01:35:40):
And you remain anonymous, and if your tip leaves and
the rest you will be eligible for a cash reward.
Thanks again, Lisa for indulging me in for the work
that you and the police department do for us. God
bless you. His pictures on my blog page fifty five
Karsey dot com. Have a great weekend, Lisa. We'll get
another one next week, seven fifty six. Right now, Steve Gorum,
this is going to be a great conversation. He's doing

(01:36:01):
to Empower Youth Seminar next Tuesday about well the Green Breakdown,
his book The Green Breakdown, the coming renewable energy failure
with the Trump administration keyed up to do an across
the board energy policy, perfect time to have Steve on
the program. Who'll give us a little insight into the
empower Youse seminar that is virtual only, easy to log
in from home and get the details when I get

(01:36:22):
back after the news eight o five, a fifty five
care CD talk station. I'm very happy Friday to you.
You've got an assignment that is to log into empower
Youamerica dot org next Tuesday, seven pm. It's a virtual
class only register beforehand and learn something. My next guest,
and I'm so happy, happy to welcome to the fifty

(01:36:44):
five carsse Morning show. The speaker that night again Tuesday,
seven pm, empower You America dot Org. Steve Gorem, a
well respected speaker and expert in a bunch of different
important areas energy, industry, agriculture, environment, sustainable development, economic trends,
climate change, corporate environmental policy. He's written a heapload of
books on it, most recently I can't go the whole list.

(01:37:04):
I want to talk to him, but a green breakdown
The Coming Renewable Energy Failure gotten five star reviews on Amazon.
Walking to the fifty five Carsy Morning Show Steve Gorman
is a real pleasure to have you on today.

Speaker 14 (01:37:18):
Hey, Brian, great to join you again.

Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
We were having a conversation earlier with the man called
Dave Williams. He's with the Taxpayer Protection Alliance, and I
was joking around. I have always screamed out loud in
the face of all of the people who say no, no, no, no.
As far as nuclear power is concerned, I do not
believe carbon dioxide is a problem. It's plant food. I
don't think I'm exhaling my planet into oblivion. Although there

(01:37:42):
are people on the other side to say it's a
real problem. Nuclear power seems to me the answer. Small
modular power plants, brand new, modern technology, not your three
mile Islands with your giant cooling tower. They have a
very small footprint. They are amazingly efficient to producing energy
and don't produce any the bad exhalation things that we're
all so worried about allegedly, how come we can't have those?

(01:38:06):
Can you answer that question of front, Steve.

Speaker 14 (01:38:09):
Well, Brian, we all have hopes for these new innovations
in nuclear power. The problem with nuclear power really the
biggest thing is it's been just too expensive the large plants.
Over the last few years. They just put a couple
of plants in in Georgia that are working now, but
they end up costing over thirty billion dollars and took
a decade to do.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
You know why that is, though, don't you, Steve Well.

Speaker 14 (01:38:31):
A lot of it's regulation. I talked to Yeah, I
talked to the guy at the Plastic pipe Institute. He
said that when he produces pipe for a customer, it
usually takes a couple pages of background. If he does
something for a nuclear plant, it takes, you know, like
about a half inch full of paperwork. I mean, it's
just the regulations are really an issue. So we do

(01:38:53):
need the relief from regulations, but we need some we
need some technological breakthroughs as well. We're hoping these new
smaller power plants will do that, and it is needed.
And we have a lot of guys want to go
nuclear now, a lot of the big guys to support
the demand for artificial intelligence.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39:12):
Well, and that's the other component that is so damn
insulting to me, Steve, is that you know, Alphabet, Google
and all these massive artificial intelligence global, multi billion corporations,
they start talking about it. Most recently, Hey, we can
build a small nuclear plant and we can get all
the power we need for our artificial intelligence needs. No
one seemed to be screaming out loud and objecting to it.

(01:39:34):
Yet if some city wanted to do it, then oh
my god, Oh it's going to take ten years. It's
going to be billions of dollars. Every single plan under
modern regulations has to be individually designed and created. Talking
about massive increase. That's why it cost so much in Georgia.
These modular plants are like legos, one size fits all.
They're small. You build one exactly the same as the other.

(01:39:56):
And we certainly can manage the waste, the nuclear waste
that's pretty used by all these plants. It's just not
I mean, it's totally manageable with a place like Yaka Mountain.

Speaker 14 (01:40:05):
Yeah, I think so we really need to depository for waste.
There's not a lot of it in each plant. All
the plants today are storing it on site because it
doesn't require a lot of room. But we need a
better solution. So yeah, we're hoping these small nuclear plants.
Are something like fifty companies in the United States now
they're trying to produce small nuclear plants. So we're hoping
these will have some breakthroughs. And as you say, the

(01:40:28):
big guys Meta, Google, Amazon, to support these artificial intelligence processors,
they need reliable twenty four hour power, and wind and
solar can't do that, so they're looking at nuclear to
try and.

Speaker 1 (01:40:42):
Do that, Okay, and recognize okay, and I'm obviously I
think that comes across pretty pretty clearly that I am
not a believer that we are personally responsible for all
the changes in the temperatures of the world. I do
agree that climate does change, because in the state of Ohio,
once you had a glacier covering the the whole state.
Thankfully it warmed up. There have been times like the

(01:41:04):
many ice Age and different ebbs and flows in the
global temperatures that went on for hundreds of years and
then gradually shifted back. We all know that how come
that happened. Before the Industrial Revolution, we weren't responsible, But
now we're responsible, literally for every hurricane that comes in.

Speaker 14 (01:41:20):
Well, we're actually in the midst of the biggest modern
superstition in history. I call it climatism, the fear that
humans are causing dangerous global warming. Actually, our new President
Trump has used that term on the campaign trio of
climatism in the past. But you're right, and I'm going
to talk about that in the Empower You podcast. But

(01:41:41):
two bottom lines. A, Today's temperatures are not particularly warm.
We've had many times in the last ten thousand years
when it was warmer today, when we didn't have cars
and power plants. And B human industry is responsible for
only a very small part of the greenhouse effect and
a very all part of global temperatures, maybe one or

(01:42:01):
two percent, which means if we eliminate all emissions, all
carbon dioxide emissions, we probably won't be able to measure
the difference in global temperatures. Nevertheless, the world is spent
one point eight trillion dollars last year on renewables trying
to control the global temperatures. People say, if we all
drive electric vehicles, we can stop the oceans from rising.

(01:42:22):
And that's that's really the closest thing to modern superstition,
that that you can consider.

Speaker 1 (01:42:28):
Yeah, and before we might dive into some of the
subtler details about that component, let me ask you this question,
recognizing what you just said, and I agree with you wholeheartedly.
We get a couple of volcanoes or up during some
massive wildfires, it negates any effort by us to get
particulate out of the air. The question is, then, why

(01:42:49):
are they shoving this down our throat? There clearly was
no demand for it within the market. They can't make
us buy electric vehicles even though they're shoving them down
our throats. It's only market manipulation that has brought this around,
regulatory mandates and edicts. So behind the scenes, though, do
you know why they are insisting that we do this?

Speaker 6 (01:43:09):
Well?

Speaker 14 (01:43:10):
I think the first of the world jumped to a
conclusion on this. A bunch of computer modelers back in
the nineteen seventies nineteen eighty saw that climate carbon dioxide
was rising in the atmosphere, and doctor James Hansen, for example,
testified before the Senate in nineteen eighty eight, he said
he was ninety eight percent sure the planet was warming

(01:43:31):
and humans were causing it, and the United Nations that
very next year formed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
which concluded humans were causing dangerous warming. And then by
nineteen ninety two, only four years later, forty five nations
in the European Union signed a treaty saying we would
reduce greenhouse gases. They've been arguing about it for the

(01:43:52):
last fifty years. But the temperature rise, we've had a
little bit of a rise, but it's far below what
the climate models are predicting. We've had a whole bunch
of groups that have seized on this. We have whole
new industries. We have biofuels and wind and solar. We
have deans of sustainability at universities and vice presence of
sustainability at corporations. It's become the center of every environmental

(01:44:16):
group in the world, the central issue, and so we
have tremendous momentum behind this. But if you really look
at the data, the storms aren't getting stronger. The ocean
has been rising for twenty thousand years, and it just
doesn't the science doesn't support the concern.

Speaker 1 (01:44:33):
Right, and they have adjusted their projections. They have moved
back the deadline by which we're all going to die.
I mean, al Gore is screaming about in ten years
that New York City is going to be underwater. We
know that was more than twenty years ago. So none
of it has come true. And yet we continue to
chase down this ridiculous path. So again, why, if we

(01:44:54):
know so much more, are they continuing to shove this
down our throats in the face of all the evidence
to the contra of what they're preaching. This has got
to be about something more than saving the planet. And
when you talk about the UN embracing something that immediately
raises a John Decive skepticism in my mind, because the
UN is seemingly the most incompetent organization that exists on

(01:45:14):
the planet in terms of what they're able to accomplish.

Speaker 14 (01:45:17):
Well. Certainly, many many groups use the fear man made
warming for all sorts of objectives. The United Nations is
one example. The United Nations has had three big objectives
for for many years, and the fear man made warming
has served those. One is they want to become an
environmental leader globally. The second is they want to redistribute wealth,
trying the wealthy nations to the poor nations. Then the

(01:45:41):
fear man made warming does that. And the third is
they wanted a global a world government for many years
and Jack Sharrock, president of France, said that the Climate
Treaty Group was the first example of world government. So
we have we have many groups that want to do
Another one is computer modeling. Talk about in my second book,
The Mad Mad Mad Rule to Climatism, a scientist told

(01:46:05):
us that to set up a computer modeling team to
run climate models on a supercomputer costs fifty million dollars
and it costs twenty million dollars a year to run.
There are thirty of these teams across the world that
are running me. So there's a vast amount of money involved.
And by the way, if one of those teams says,
well we think climate is driven by natural not man

(01:46:28):
made factors, well then their funding isn't going to come through.
So there's a tremendous amount of value that various groups
get from this. And you know, we have tens of
thousands of consultants across the world that are vising companies.
How to reduce their greenhouse gases. But again, I think
most people are sincere. It's just that they're mistaken. The
science and the economics don't support what we're trying to

(01:46:49):
do right now.

Speaker 1 (01:46:50):
Well suffer the little children come unto me. They start
teaching this good Man is responsible nonsense to children in
elementary school, and it begins from there, and people can't
turn their back. It's like turning your back on your
lifelong religion. You know, there must be a Christian out
there in the audience, ask them to renounce Christ and
then be like, oh my god, are you crazy? That
would never happen. That's kind of this what this has become.

(01:47:10):
It's just this, it's a new religion.

Speaker 14 (01:47:14):
Well, and it's throughout the schools. As you mentioned, University
of California, San Diego has just made a climate course
of requirement to graduate. We have instances in Washington State
and in Utah where teachers are feeding kids insects in
class with the lesson that they shouldn't be eating beef

(01:47:37):
because of the climate. So, you know, this is not
a good thing. But it is all going to come down.
That's what green breakdown is about. It's going to take
a decade or two, but the world's going to get
back to sensible policy again.

Speaker 1 (01:47:50):
So you are optimistic along those lines.

Speaker 14 (01:47:53):
Well, I am, and I hope I'm around long enough
to see this turnaround. But we see a lot of
signs that this is changing already. We have this big
speed bump that electric cars have hit. Electric car shares
in the US and Europe have fallen this last year.
We have all sorts of problems with offshore wind, and
we now have mister Trump elected and he's going to

(01:48:14):
change a whole bunch of things, maybe even restarting the
Keystone pipeline. He said he's going to get rid of
government mandates, to get rid of gasoline cars. That's going
to be difficult, though. He's got to get the EPA
to change their policies. We'll see if he can do that.
But we see this around the world. By the way,
Europe is pulled back as well from a lot of
agriculture and climate measures, and a lot of conservatives were

(01:48:37):
elected this last year in Europe and they opposed these policies.
So I think things are starting to shift, but we'll
just have to see.

Speaker 1 (01:48:45):
Steve Gorham is going to be doing this empower you
someonear on this topic next Tuesday, beginning at seven pm.
It is a virtual class only he's going to empower
you America dot organ log in. I encourage you to
do that. And the other elephant that room going back
to the UN and it wanting to be the global
dominance and established this one world government and wealthree distribution.
I get all that and agree with that being the
probably core motive. What of China and India and other

(01:49:08):
countries who continue to build coal plants dirtier than ours,
belching out more pollution than we retract from the planet
with all of our unbelievably costly efforts. They don't seem
to caroll wit and no one seems to be pointing
to them and saying, well, wait, wait, wait, what about China?
What about India? They're not doing anything and they're polluting
more than anybody on the globe.

Speaker 14 (01:49:28):
Well it really we have many many nations developing right
now and they use hydrocarbon fuels. Earlier this year, John
Carey called for the end to all coal fire power
plants across the world, said none should be allowed. But
that's an amazing statement. Today coal provides thirty five percent

(01:49:48):
of the world's electricity. Yet we still have seven hundred
million people that don't have access to electricity, and there's
another two billion people who have blackouts and brownouts every
other day because they don't have enough power. So if
you if you're running an air conditioner in Cincinnati, you
use more electricity than a third of the people in
the world. That one appliance uses more electricity than a

(01:50:09):
third of the world's people get to use on any
given day. And uh, mister Carey saying that let's get
rid of co fired power plants is like Marie Antoinette saying,
if the port don't have food, let them eat cake.
I mean, it's it's really crazy. So, uh, there's going
to be a need. And what you do in Ohio

(01:50:30):
as far as the greenhouse gases, it's going to have
no effect. The rest of the world is going to
go and do what they're going to do. But the
great news again is that CO two, as you say.

Speaker 1 (01:50:39):
Is makes grow.

Speaker 14 (01:50:40):
It isn't buzzing dangerous warming. So that's that's the real,
powerful and possible positive note of it all.

Speaker 1 (01:50:48):
I don't even scratch the surface for everything I wanted
to talk with you about today. Steve, and sadly we're
out of time. We're going to get more time with
you though. Empower you America dot or log in virtually
from home. It's easy to do. Empower your America Dot
or just clicked the little register. You'll be there at
seven pm Tuesday. Steve, thanks for the time you spent
with me today. And I also encourage my listeners to
get a copy of your book Green Breakdown the Coming

(01:51:08):
Renewable Energy Failure. Just go to Amazon and order copy
of that. Steve, thanks again for everything that you do.
Thank you, Brian, my pleasure. It's a twenty here fifty
five k see THEE talk station. It's a twenty nine
on a Friday, and a happy one to you. Have
you had some wonderful plans going on for yourself this weekend.

(01:51:28):
Five one, three, seven fifty five hundred, eight hundred and
eighty two to three talk pound five fifty on AT
and T phones. I love hearing from you. I've got
a lot of calls this morning. I really appreciate it.
I've been mentioning all morning as an apology to my
listeners struggling with the cough suppression this morning, and I
did bring my wife was like, take the cough syrup
with the day. I got this codeine, you know, prescribed

(01:51:49):
cough syrup, and I've been avoided in taking it because well,
it does make you kind of loopy. God knows what
might come out of my mouth. Danny Gleeson covering for
the vacationing Joe's record today, he's in there laughing, going yep.
So anyhow, if you'd like to call, that's fine. I
do have some local stories too, dive on into, so
let's go ahead and do that. Some sad news and

(01:52:09):
local stories too. A little bit depressing for a Friday, especially.
We got a Loveland man facing murder charges and connection
with the death of his three month old daughter. He
claimed she fell off at changing table. The indictment says
thirty three year old and do Camera facing an aggravated
murder charge, three counts of murder, two counts of felonious
assault in four counts of endangering children and connections with

(01:52:31):
the death investigation all ten counts felonies. AFFI David Fouled
in court stated Gosh and police officers showed up his
home on East Meadowbrook Drive six fifty roughly in the morning.
On Monday, after he called nine to one one told
dispatchers the baby girl was experiencing breathing problems after a fall.
Court records say he told Goshen officers during the interview

(01:52:53):
he was changing the child. She fell from the changing table.
Taught officers she was faced down on the floor. Heeded
her up and called nine to one one. He said
he performed CPR as instructed by dispatchers until the EMS
showed up. Officers were on their way. They were told
that the child had stopped breathing. First responders took it
up Bethesda North Hospital, but she was later transferred to

(01:53:14):
since Ant Children's and placed on life support. Sadly, the
child succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at
about twenty after ten pm the same day. Report from
the Corner's office sent the next morning listed three month
old Evelyn Cameras having died Monday. Since Anti Children's, though
the circumstances were still noted as pending. Court records state

(01:53:37):
and MRI showed quote a substantial amount of hemorrhaging closed
quote around the girl's brain after she died. Corners performed
an autopsy on Tuesday, which showed significant internal trauma to
her brain, spinal column, and liver, released from the office
of Claremont County Prosecutor Mark to Colby quote due to

(01:53:58):
the multitude and severity of the injuries suffered Evely by
Evely and various professionals have indicated those injuries did not
occur as reported by camera as the Sinsint Children's Hospital
Medical Center was fighting to save the life of I'm
sorry that got caught off. Beyond that, clearly, I guess

(01:54:18):
if this was the five o'clock hour, we might be
going ahead and giving an award for that one. We'll
just kind of let it ride at this juncture. Westbound
I seventy four completely shut down this weekend between I
seventy five just to the west of southbound Beakman Street,
according to how Department of Transportation, all part of the
I seventy five I seventy four Mill Creek Expressway project

(01:54:41):
and in preparation for the next round of paving. Motorists
from mind to be cautious ad here to post it
reduced speeds when traveling through construction work zones and detours
detours suggested by ODOT. Westbound Ronald Reagan Cross, Canada, southbound
I two seventy five, then over to westbound seven four,
westbound US fifty to westbound seventy four, and I Ohio

(01:55:05):
one twenty eight to westbound I seventy four. On ramps
from northbound and southbound Beacon Street Coleraine Avenue to westbound
Ice seventy four will remain open, So obviously some issues there.
It's seemed to be having problems with roads around here,
of lay, don't we. We got a man found to

(01:55:26):
be making this is weird pipe bombs in his Goshen
Township shed. Thirty one year old Ricky Lewis the second
has been charged with two counts of possession of a
dangerous ordinance. According to the Claremont County records, These charges
stem from November one, when document state officers were flagged
down by Lewis as a strange girlfriend. Yeah, strange girlfriends

(01:55:48):
do that, won't they? She reported police, according to the
court documents, that her gun was missing slash stolen from
her home on State Route one thirty four, So apparently
she's said. She asked him why he was making pipe bombs.
He said it was so that he would have protection.
I guess at some point down the road, sergeant observed

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green metal ammo can, two separate metal pipes that closed
caps on both ends, a red colored fuse inserted in
the middle of the pipe with adhesive around the base,
along with a rifle, powder and large amounts of ammunition
search weren't obtained by since ant bomb squad responded and
removed the pipe bombs. Alcoholic to back on firearms also
showed up to help with the investigation. Shocking literally no

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one and father of twin baby girls indicted on multiple
counts following the death of one twins and injuries to
the other. Klemont County Prosecutor said, Oh, that's the same guy,
Andrew Kamer, same guy who got indicted for aggravated murder,
of felonious assault and dangering children. So I guess there's
one more involved. That's where I got those two stories

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mixed up, and I sincerely apologize for that. I'd love
to be able to play the codeine cough syrup, but
as I pointed out before, I didn't have any of that.
Feel free call it is Friday, folks. I hope you
can appreciate the potentially lower bar of seriousness I'm engaged
in the day again. I'm struggling with this cough. It's

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eight thirty five. Feel free to call and save me
here at fifty five kr S DE talk station eight
thirty nine on a Friday five one, three, seven five
eight hundred eighty two to three talk fifty on at
and T phones. What a wonderful thing listener lunch was
this week at Ron's rus really enjoyed the celebration and

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of course the company. And it's always a real pleasure
when Andrew Pappis, former Anderson Township Trustee, can swing by
even for a little bit. Drew, Andrews great sceneing he
did this this week, and thanks for calling this morning.

Speaker 15 (01:57:46):
You know what, Brian, it really was great seeing you
and seeing all those smiling faces over there at Ron's
Roost was really amazing. It was, and there were a
lot of tired faces, not gonna lie, everybody was kind
of dragging, including that, but yeah, but you know what,
it was well worth it. And uh, not to gloat

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too terribly much, but you know, the sun seems a
little brighter today, the air seems a little fresher today,
and America definitely is waking up to a very bright future.

Speaker 2 (01:58:20):
In my very humble opinion.

Speaker 15 (01:58:23):
But I was gonna I was gonna just say I
didn't get a chance to tell you I really enjoyed
earlier this week having Christopher Smith Amen there in studio
rather than on the phone. I mean, I Christopher and
I get along very well. We don't agree on every issue.
That does but and that's the beauty of America. And

(01:58:43):
I really enjoy Christopher's perspective on things and the way
he might help me look at things differently and vice versa.
And I really think that hopefully that might be a
trend to continue, because, as you you know, as I know,
being in is a little bit easier sometimes than being
on the phone.

Speaker 1 (01:59:02):
Absolutely, I love when people are in the city, look
at me in the eye, have a regular conversation which
the listeners can enjoy. And you don't have that. You know,
quite often the cell phone breaks down or you know,
all the complication goes along with it, but there's really
no substitute for face to face communication. So I also
welcome the opportunity for that to happen. And you know,
he's got obligations with him getting his daughter to school,

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and of course he has his own business as a
financial planner. So I'm not going to put any pressure
on him, but you know, as far as I'm concerned,
the door is wide open for that to happen again
and more regularly.

Speaker 15 (01:59:35):
It's good to hear because, as I said, I really
and I think all your listeners. As a matter of fact,
I know all of your listeners, and I did hear
the listener yesterday that kind of seemed to catch everybody
off guard, how he's not going to listen anymore. He
was upset and whatever. But you know, I'm seeing I
am enjoying, and I hope the listeners are. I've been

(01:59:56):
going to the Libs of TikTok and watching the meltdowns
of the Liberals over the election yesterday or tuesday, and
I got to tell you, it's quite enjoyable. It's providing
me with hours and hours and hours of entertainment.

Speaker 2 (02:00:12):
People.

Speaker 15 (02:00:13):
You know, it's it's just an you know, it's an
argument for perhaps that we really need to focus on
mental illness in this country because it's on display, and
you know, listens as you and I, perhaps at least
me myself. I won't speak for you, but you know
I was upset the last four years and you know,
if you look at the poll or the election results,

(02:00:35):
and you look at the election of twenty twenty, you
really do begin to wonder where did all those votes,
extra votes for Biden come from. I'm not here to
you know, we're not going to refight that, but I
mean it does make you task to John Dee Aiah
and you're like, holy cow, where did you know his
vote suddenly appeared? And then the next election they're gone
into the ether. But I will say this the amount

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of entertainment simply watching people unable to process their emotions.
I didn't like the twenty twenty elections, but you didn't
see me flipping out, you know, bearing my soul and
crying and gnashing of teeth. I just put my head down,
went back to work and you know, lived my life.
I'm not going to let an election dictate my happiness.
It might I might be upset, but you know life

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goes on.

Speaker 1 (02:01:21):
Yes, it does, absolutely. And it's an excellent point you're
making there, because you know, if I've always pointed out,
if you allow the other side, and it doesn't matter
which side of the political spectrum you're on, you know,
we'll say there's two sides. We know there's more than that.
But if you let the other side get so under
your skin that it's impacting your life, your emotions, your
relationships with your family. We're talking about politics here, for

(02:01:45):
God's sake. That means they've won. You can chalk them
up with a little hashtag victory mark on their side
because they've gotten simply under your skin and made your
life miserable. Don't allow them to do that. I mean
I was happy under the Obama administration. Know that I
think the world was come to an end. No that
I cry, No, of course not. You know, was I

(02:02:06):
happy in the aftermath of the Trump administration across the board? No,
the guy spent five trillion dollars more than he took in.
That pissed me off. I can't avoid that, and I
know it might happen again, but Lord knows. At least
with the idea of the guy like Elon Musk being
around and promising to curb the size of government, there
is a possibility. With Republicans government hopefully got the House,

(02:02:27):
they've already got the cent and the presidency. Maybe we
can bring pressure to bear on the right side of
the Ledger to actually engage in some cutting, so we're
not overspending ourselves into oblivion. Lord almight know.

Speaker 15 (02:02:40):
And I got and I got to say the two
things I'm most excited about, and I'm stunned. I'm actually
a little surprised, I'm saying it. You mentioned one of them.
I'm most excited about Elon Musk and putting his brain
power and insight into the workings of government. Maybe, but
you know, you know the one I'm really excited about.
And I mean, I'm stunned I'm saying this. I really am.

(02:03:01):
I'm excited about Robert F. Kennedy Junior puting an eye
to the FDA and our food supply because I you know,
I don't agree with him on a lot of issues. Yeah, yeah,
but I respect the man's knowledge and I respect his
his insight into health and wellness because look at him.
The man is a physical specimen. And I got to

(02:03:24):
tell you he knows his business. And I'm really excited
about that.

Speaker 2 (02:03:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:03:30):
I share your excitement. I think I've mentioned before you're
like Elon Musk. I think he's a great guy. He's goofy,
He's done some goofy stuff, and he's an out of
the box kind of weird, sort of outlier guy, but
overall demonstrably brilliant and he is a problem solver and
he knows how to run a business. So that's me excited.

(02:03:51):
But I feel the same way about RFK Junior. He's
on the wrong side of the Ledger for me, with
the Green New Deal kind of crap. But yeah, he's
intelligent and what will he do? Much like Christopher Smith
of an Independent, he comes from a different side of
the political spectrum of a certain degree, and he offers
an alternative perspective that will at least get us engaged

(02:04:11):
in a conversation about it. It's not an echo chamber
when you've got an administration that's conservat and presumably the
Trump administration will be. You got RFK Junior in there
stirring the pod a little bit. It's going to force
people to actually talk about it. I want that it's
good for the country.

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
And argue with that.

Speaker 15 (02:04:28):
There's no point what I've learned through my very brief
career in politics and on this planet, you know, being
in a room with the people with you know, ten
people that agree with you, and you all are just
sitting there around saying, oh, yeah, we're right. We're right,
really doesn't move the ball down the field. You have
to open up your perspective a little bit. I mean,
I'm not saying give up your principles, but man, you know,

(02:04:51):
welcome in some outside perspectives. And that's the amazing thing
about the most amazing thing about this Trump campaign is
the coalition of really different bring views that have come
together to put this man over the finish line. And
I think the next four years are hopefully going to
be truly transformative for not only our country, but for
politics in general.

Speaker 1 (02:05:12):
Amen to that, Andrew Pappas, thank you so much for calling.
I truly appreciate you listening to the program and chiming
in from time to time. And I'll look forward to
running into again India again real soon, maybe at listening
to Lunch of Price sal Chili next in the first
week of December. Take care of your brother, have a
wonderful weekend. Eight forty seven. Janet is on the line. Janet,
You're going to be next. If you don't mind holding

(02:05:32):
for a moment, take quick break, stick around right here.
Fifty five kre C DE Talk station eight fifty one Agree.

Speaker 16 (02:05:56):
Ho me, It indeed can be depending on where you're
looking at it.

Speaker 1 (02:06:09):
Even if you're the most politically angry person in the
world right now, it is still a wonderful world. You're
just not looking close enough. God bless all my listeners
out there. And I'm going to jump over to the
phones because Janet is on the line. Janet, I saw
the article this morning. I even mentioned about the racist
text messages. There was a local story about it, but

(02:06:29):
apparently they went out to New York, Alabama, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and Tennessee talk about plantations and was sent to black people.
Just absolutely appalling. Welcome to the show. I'm glad you
brought this up.

Speaker 17 (02:06:42):
Well, Brian, I think it was so blatantly obvious that
it's somebody anti Trump, anti Trump supporters. Clearly it was
signed a hashtag. It was signed a hashtag mega hashtag
Trump supporters. Come on, people, let's don't let them divide.

Speaker 7 (02:07:00):
Okay, there are.

Speaker 17 (02:07:02):
You know, let me explain the access of evil. I
ran China, Russia. Okay, those are the enemies, not US. Okay,
it's not black against white. Please wake up, Please do
not let this cause problems. These are haters that are
have great angst. It could be pro African American outfits.

(02:07:23):
It could be anybody. It could be somebody on the
other side of the continent. It could be China. It
could But you know, after Russia Gate, it sounds so stupid,
the whole thing. I don't want to detail, you know,
the stuff that was so hanos so the prostitutes with
Trump put the prostitutes in the Russian bult crap. It
sounds a lot like that. It's that blatantly racist. I

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don't know how can anybody fall for something that.

Speaker 1 (02:07:50):
Honestly, Janet, you're right, and let's just move back a step.
Do you really think even any individual out there who's
screaming about how this is some kind of reflection, a
reflection of Maga folks or Trump support anything, do you
really think they believe what's coming out of their mouth,
Given how easy it is to do exactly what was done.

(02:08:12):
We've got everybody in the world on TikTok. They have
vacuumed up literally every ounce of information on your phone.
In that particular case, the Chinese Communist Party, it's you're
the one who've given them all the information. So yes,
they know what race you are, they know what religion
you are They know what political side of the ledger
you want, They know all about you. It doesn't require

(02:08:34):
some maga group to send this out, although it's possible
they could, it wouldn't be in their best interest. And yeah,
are there racists in the world, Yes, would they benefit
by stirring the pot and bringing attention to themselves to
doing this because you know the FBI and others are
going to be looking into it. Hell no, they wouldn't.
It's ridiculous, it's a hoax, it's stupid, it's offensive, and

(02:08:55):
let's just call it what it is, just one more
effort to piss people off and stir the pot of division.
As you point out, Janet, let's enjoy our weekend. Let's
live in peace and harmony. Let's put our political differences aside,
or at least collectively try to work toward a better
place for all of us without this ridiculous fake stirred

(02:09:16):
up division.

Speaker 17 (02:09:18):
It could be hostile from other from either side anywhere.

Speaker 1 (02:09:22):
Absolutely No, that's the point of it.

Speaker 2 (02:09:24):
You make multiple sides.

Speaker 17 (02:09:26):
Our enemies are, Our enemies are not each other. Please people,
just please, I wish we should. I don't know how
much to stress that we cannot let that kind of thing.
We've got to understand who the enemies of America are.
They fear Trump because they know he is going for
as far as born domestic policies go. He's going to

(02:09:49):
clean their clocks if if he needs to.

Speaker 9 (02:09:52):
We'll see, he's going to do what it takes.

Speaker 1 (02:09:54):
We'll see. As far as that goes, we're tea leaf reading.
But as far as our reaction to that particular ridiculous
text goes, I think we should all just write it
off as just one more in a long line of
fake Oh, I almost dropped an FCC bomb there. Danny
gonna do the dump button on myself. We all know
what I was gonna say, though Barbaris Dreice had. I know.

(02:10:16):
I combat myself on the back for catching myself. I
have to do that so many times during the Morning Show,
every single day. I've made it this long. I'm closing
out my eighteenth year. Haven't screwed up yet. Knock Wood
Tune in Monday for Christopher Smith in the Monday Morning
Smith event. He's not on the rundown that as I
see it yet, but I presume Brian James and Monday

(02:10:37):
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