55KRC Tuesday Show - Todd Zinser, Tim Rivers, Breitbart, Deep Dive

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Five O five, a fifty five k r C detalk station.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Happy Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
They had to take the top of my head off
a couple of times. See if you had a brain,
where'd you find that one? It's an old I'm surprised
you haven't run that one more often. Joe's Tracker Brian Thomas,
happy to be here and very happy Tuesday to the listeners.
And thank you to Joe Tracker for, as he typically does,

(00:48):
kick off the morning with a funny SoundBite. Uh, and
for lining up the show. I always give you Joe
credit for the lineup, and of course he deserves credit
for the lineup because he's responsible for putting it together. Today,
Todd's Endser returns. He'll be in studios about his op
ed piece not published in the online edition of the

(01:08):
Sinsinni Inquirer. That's a frustrating thing for me, because you know,
I've got an online subscription to the Inquirer, and say
what you want, I like to follow local news. But
the idea that you know what you get online is
not all there. It's absent from the mean that the

(01:30):
paper has information in it that the online edition has
and I think in many cases the converse is true,
how come it all isn't available in the exact same place.
Maybe someday we can ask that question answered anyway, Toddleby
instudied to talk about why the council. Since a city
council has to deal with the pension liability about a
lot more aggressively, and there is a substantial outstanding pension liability,

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don't think they've ever out loud addressed it. So Todd's
ends are always doing a great, great job looking out
for matters of significant local importance. So seven oh five
with Todden Studio looking forward to having him back. Tim Rivers.
We've had Tim on quite a few times the American
ghulagg chronicles, and now that Hunter Biden's pardon are the

(02:17):
January sixth prisoners next to deal with that in an
op ed piece of William mcgerrn here in a moment,
at least to a small degree, he touches upon that
just briefly, but his pros is brilliant as we deal
with the aftermath and the realities of what Joe Biden's
pardon of his son actually means. Inside Scoop it is Tuesday.

(02:40):
We do the inside Scoop with bright Barton News Today
eighth five political reporter Wendell Hughes abo on, Yes, Hunter Biden.
And finally, Daniel will not finally find Daniel Davis Deep
Dive every Tuesday at A eight thirty. Today, the retired
lieutenant colonel will discuss Russia, Belarus and Georgia might even
have to throw at him the whole idea of russ
is ruble currency deteriorating and see if that has any

(03:03):
implication and impact. And finally, my friends from OHC, the
cancer specialists, today we will talk about blood cancers. Oh
what a coincidence since I have a lymphoma diagnosis. Anyway,
That'll be at eight forty five, and I'm looking forward
to that. Always very interesting with OHC and actually uplifting

(03:23):
from my perspective, learning about the new treatments that are
out there and the progress we were making and getting
closer and closer to I think a broader cure for cancer.
It's something I look forward to. So having OHC back
on the program at the tail end of the program
in eight forty five, I hope you can be around
for that. Remember when you can't be around for it,
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Is I like to always call it standing on the
shoulder of giants? And there are so many op ed
pieces and houses and discussions of the wise, the wherefores

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and what will this mean? In connection with Joe Biden's
well seemingly last minute decision to change his mind. Now,
maybe it had been planned for a long time. It's
good to be Hunter Biden, headlined today in the op
ed piece by William mcgern. As he points out, no
one was surprised Sunday evening when Joe Biden wanted officially

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he was pardoning his son. Surprised was the statement that
the President issued along with a pardon. He blamed his
political opponents in Congress for the woes facing Hunter Biden.
Mcgern observes that some will empathize with the father doing
what he can keep his son out of prison. Maybe,

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but fast forwarding in the op ed. But what is
striking about the President's statement is that it speaks of
writing a wrong done to Hunter, not extending mercy to
a man who suffered enough with his own wrongdoing. It'd
be illuminating to see if similar empathy is extended to
those imprisoned for actions at the Capitol on January sixth,

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twenty twenty one. Going back to Tim Rivers, American Gulag
chronicles joining the program later, if Donald Trump issues pardons,
some of them committed violent acts, but some were given
sentences that were excessive. To repurpose Joe Biden's words about
his son quote, no reasonable person who looks at the
facts could reach any other conclusion close quote true. How

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different the conversation today is from a few months ago
when Biden calculated that even talking about a pardon might
cost him the reelection. Remember, folks, Joe Biden was still
running for president when he uttered the statements that he
would not pardon his son. Right, he was still a
well some would argue, a viable candidate. That wasn't me,

(05:58):
And props to the listener who gave me credit for
calling it in advance that Joe Biden would not be
the presidential nominee. I called the date wrong when I
first made that pronouncement, I said they pulled the plug
on Joe Biden before December of last year. Well, okay,
it took a lot longer than that, but they still
pulled the plug on. So I guess I can chalk

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one up in the at least partial win category for
my ta leaf reading. Ignoring that though, but remember he
was a candidate at the time, he said he would
not pardon his son. Interview on ABC News in June
while Hunter's trial was going on, David, you're, as the
president if he would accept the jury's outcome, their verdict,
no matter what it is. Biden. Yes. The follow up

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by mirror and have you ruled out a pardon for
your son? Biden response yes. One week later, after the
jury found Hunter guilty, the president was again asked by reporters,
this is the Group of Seven summit nintally quote. I said,
I'd abide by the jury to decision, and I will
do that. I will not pardon him. That's a quote.

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Miss mcgerrn observes. All that was missing was I give
you my word as a Biden and no one believed
him as mcgarn points out everyone knew the promise was
meant only to bury the issue through election day. The
idea that he came up with a decision to pardon
Hunter for Thanksgiving holiday doesn't pass the smell test. It

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was always going to happen if Hunter face the real
prospect of jail time, and everybody knew it, especially Hunter.
President Biden's promised not to pardon his son was the
only wasn't the only whopper He's told He denied meeting
Hunter overseas business associates, when in fact he did. He
also insisted during the twenty twenty presidential debate that when

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with mister Trump, that Hunter had taken no money from China,
something Hunter later admitted to doing in federal court. Many
were happy to joined the president in the Hunter falsehood.
Most notorious the fifty one former intelligence officials, mostly veterans
of the Obama administration, who tried to ward off honest

(08:10):
reporting about Hunter's laptop. They jumped in right after The
New York Posts verified the laptop's providence in twenty twenty.
The paper had reported the incriminating emails amount Hunter's sordid
business dealings in Ukraine counts in weasel words that they
knew would be lost in the reporting. The fifty one
declared the email's head quote all the classic earmarks of

(08:32):
a Russian information operation. Wells quote we now know. The
statement was ginned up at the suggestion of Anthony Blncoln,
the future Secretary of State, who was then working for
the Biden campaign. The stated is dated October nineteenth, twenty twenty,
and it worked during his final presidential debate three days later,

(08:55):
Biden's side of the fifty one without caveats when Trump
brought up what he called the Laptop from Hell. Biden's
response said, the former national intelligence folks that said the
laptop emails were a bunch of garbage Biden's words. This
was less than two weeks before the election, by the
time the truth finally caught up with the story Biden's president.

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Same goes for Biden's claim that the justice system has
been infected by raw politics. In Hunter, Biden's case, the
president is right, but not in the way he pretends.
Attorney General Mary Garland presided over a Justice department that
at every turn gave Hunter kid glove treatment, including letting

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the statute limitations expire for the most serious tax evasion
charges against Hunter, also including a sweetheart plea deal designed
to bury the whole affair until Judge Marilyn Norieka asked
some basic questions in court that the prosecution just couldn't answer.
Then mister Garland elevated the man who orchestrated this sweetheart

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deal to special counsel. The pardon is the only the
latest the Biden promises broken. It was timed to present
Hunter Biden's sentencing scheduled for December twelfth on the gun
charges and December sixteenth on the tax charges. The expansive

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breadth of the pardon, which lets Hunter skate not only
on the crimes he was convicted of, but on any
he may have committed in the past almost eleven years,
indicates the President may be worried about other Hunter criminal
activities coming to light. President likes to say, especially when

(10:48):
moralizing about Trump, no one is above the law. When
asked Monday about the president's clearly broken promises not to
pardon Hunter, I love this. White House Press Secretary Kreeen
Jean Pierre said her boss has all always believed in being,
in her words, truthful to the American people. That is
perhaps the biggest live all and the most fitting end

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to the Biden presidency, well stated William mcgarden. One of
just like a multitude of brilliantly written op ed pieces
that serve as a wonderful springboard for conversation today, which
I will enjoy having with you if you're going to
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be a citizen of the United States of America. I
think that's the first time I ever said those words
out loud. We have been lied to and cheated and

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stolen from and it's just absolutely appalling, and it continues.
Let me look at this one, Hunter Biden Thing five
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the year, going to be during our Christmas celebration. Bob

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He's going to be there addressed as Santa Claus, or
you can call him Santa Claus. I don't think he
wants me to reveal his true identity tomorrow, So Santa
Claus will be there, Wish Tree will be there. You
can get an ornament and help out someone in need.
Easy to do at price Heal Chili. Always enjoy the
fellowship and looking forward to that, so put it down

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on your calendar. It's also, you know, interestingly enough, my
how time flies. This is the forty fifth anniversary of
the Who Concert tragedy forty five years. I had a
friend who was there, older brother of a good friend
of mine at the time, and I remember him talking

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about it. It was just the the intensity of the
crowd and the pushing. He said, I could pick my
feet up off the ground and the crowd would hold
me up in the air. They were packed in so tightly,
and of course if you had the misfortune of falling,
it was impossible to get back up, which is how
many people lost their lives. Basically suffocation, just terrible, terrible

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tragedy and the end of festival seating. Anyhow, I was
thinking about more of these, the analysis of this Hunter
Biden pardon on the heels of him saying over and
over and over again that he wouldn't pardon his son.

(14:34):
His son had been treated differently by the Justice Department
and singled out because he was my son, and that
is wrong that in the statement. But you were called
the I R. S. Whistleblowers. This is really a profound point.
You know that treated differently, Your damn right, Hunter Biden
was treated differently. Whistleblowers. Gary Shapley h and others. They

(15:01):
were there in front of the House Oversight Committee talking
about how federal officials prevented the Agents and IRS whistleblower
Gary Shapely from even interviewing Hunter Biden. They wouldn't let
them follow up on their investigation. The point, but if
Joe Biden thought the prosecution of his sons was unjust,
why has he never uttered those words until now at

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the when he issued the pardon. Not once. I will
not interfere with the judge. I will not interfere with
the wheels of justice. I am not going to, you know, interfere.
I'm going to honor whatever the jury determines. He never
once said that this it was he was being treated
poorly or singled out for prosecution, because all the facts
suggest Hunter Biden got the pass of a lifetime. They

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let the statute limitations just expire on the most egregious offenses,
the literally millions and millions of dollars that flowed into
the Biden family. And that's why most people behind the
scenes and people have been paying attention to this thing
realized that this pardon was coming for miles and miles away.

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It's just the setting for the pardon doesn't match up
with what Joe Biden said when he issued the pardon,
he had a multitude of opportunities to say his son
was being singled out. But but wait a second, Joe Biden, ers,
what do you mean your son's being singled out? How
is it that the irs was prevented from moving forward

(16:32):
with its investigation of the millions of dollars that were
flowing into all of these you know, corporations and sub
corporations and LLC's and millions of dollars, the giant diamond
that the former mayor of what was it Moscow or
something gave him, the Chinese Communist Party money that flowed

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right into his pockets, and the coffers of the Biden family,
all of that he had an opportunity to speak to
about being unjustly targeted. But well, there's the facts and
the evidence. I may as well keep my damn mouth
shut and say, nope, it's never gonna happen. I'm not
going to pardon if he did something wrong, I'm gonna,
you know, just follow the law. Just this past center,

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after he was convicted a trial, Joe Biden rejected the
idea of the pardon. I will accept the outcome of
this case and will continue to respect the judicial process. Then,
of course the statement on Sunday when he issued the
pardon made it obvious that he well did not accept

(17:42):
i'll come or respect the process. I like this observation
and tried to James Freeman. What really was wrong was
the way Joe Biden, his vice president, facilitated his family's
foreign in Richmond schemes and then repeatedly made false claims
about him. Maybe future memoirs will explain how the shady

(18:03):
Biden cast collection ventures ever made it past the Obama
White House General Counsel's office. The question that's remained unanswered
for all these years and still remains unanswered what the
various foreign oligarchs got in return for the millions of
dollars they sent to the Biden family. It's an interesting

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question to ponder. Maybe you have an answer for that.
We'll probably be waiting around for a long time before well,
some book is written and we get a clear, definitive response.
About twenty seven and fifty five Karsten Talk Station local
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You're invited to join us for all the warmth and
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On fifty five krs. The talk station.

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Cut up already.

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a happy Tuesday too. Again. I will be mentioning it

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regularly throughout the morning as a reminder listener, Lunch tomorrow
is going to be a price sell chili. Closing out
the year and celebrating some fellowship and continuing the holiday spirit,
which full holiday spirit following Thanksgiving last week. So let
us see here before we get the local stories. It's
like I got Tom on the phone. Tom, welcome to

(20:04):
the program, Thanks for calling this morning. Good to have
you on the show.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Hey, good, good morning, opportunity.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
To damn Tom. Hold on here, Yes, I just it's Tom.
It's Democrat Tom. I haven't heard from you in so long.
I didn't connect Tom on the call. Scream with you.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
I'm auri forgotten first time.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
No, miss your brother, it's been too long. Are you
back on your old shift or is this just a no?

Speaker 5 (20:34):
No, I'm actually ja gonna take the day off today.
But I went in and got the crew going and
uh handed it over to everybody else said I'm out
of here. I'm not dealing with this today.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Well thanks for calling, man. I miss your voice.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
I missed calling in.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
Trust me.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
Uh everybody everybody else gets to hear it. They're going
to hear it regardless of whether I call it anyway.
So I did want to throw my two cents. And
I know we're like a month late, you know, after
the election, but uh, I was nauseously relieved for the results.
And I'm gonna keep hammering this point to everybody that

(21:12):
I talked to. Uh, it's not time to let off
the gas. It's not time to celebrate spike the football. Nothing.
We If you just pay attention to the reactions of
a lot of Democrats and liberals. They're not giving up. No,
they're they're not quitting. I mean, what was that guy,
David Jolly the other day he was on I don't

(21:33):
forget what show he's on. I saw the clip of him.

Speaker 7 (21:35):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
They're gonna double and triple down.

Speaker 8 (21:38):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
They they're convinced that they're right, uh, and that their
way of doing things is correct, and they're convinced that
everything about Trump is wrong. And so there's no reason
to let up. There's no reason for them to stop.
So therefore, we got to stay at our game, and
we got to make sure that we're talking to people
and continue to And I think one of the biggest
factors that helped with the election is people just more

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aware of the bs that's going on from the Democrats
and how much their policies are ruining the country. It's
not racism, it's not sexism, it's their policies suck. It's
just that that that's just what it comes down to.
And more and more people are realizing it, and they're
fed up with it, and they want to change, and
they want they want Hey, look, maybe we don't like

(22:20):
the way this guy talks or his personality. But come on,
we cannot keep giving our money away. We cannot keep
letting people steal our money and and taking away our
freedoms and rights and all that. We can't keep letting
that happen. So we got to keep it up. We
got to, you know, continue to talk, share with people
the information that we have, and keep revealing all the

(22:41):
crap that these Democrats are pulling on everybody. And we
got to make sure we tell everybody continually, all the time,
every time, especially when elections coming up. Hey, it's less
than two years. We got a very razor thin margin
in the House, so we got to make sure we
tell everybody, don't vote Democrats.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Have a great day, Tom, fantastic hearing from you. And Yes,
another observation you are channeling, I think the opinions of
many people who are paying attention to the fact that
the GOP barely won the House. Yes, going back to
another editorial, another message is that the GOP is about

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a year to get anything done. If midterm history is
any guide, the party is likely to lose the House
in twenty twenty six, and the partisan Senate map is
challenging the GOP. A better pass legislation at once in
twenty twenty five, before member attention turns to political survival
in twenty twenty six. Yes, the elections barely even over,

(23:41):
and we're talking about that. It's going to require House
Republicans in particular to stick together as they haven't in years,
and will that happen? And I turned back to yesterday
and my observations about the Green New Deal, which Donald
Trump campaigned on getting rid of the multi, multi, multi

(24:05):
trillion dollar boon doggle that so many Republican states are
also benefiting from. So oh gosh, darn it. No, no, no, no, no,
we here was in North Dakota. We can't get rid
of that. We want to do carbon capture and our
state's going to make two hundred plus million dollars over
overstoring carbon carbon dioxide, folks. And that's going to happen,

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and it's going to piss me off the no end.
I'll be bold enough to say that in the five
o'clock hour, I am already upset and angry over what
I know is going to be the political reality. The
money is too big and too fat, The boon doggles
are in place, and those Republicans who ran on getting

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rid of all this nonsense are going to backpedal as
soon as they realize. Oh no, oh, my state's going
to suffer financial because I don't buy this crap that
we have been selling. As a matter of principle, I
refuse to abide by the idea that I'm breathing our
our globe into into oblivion. But no, I want to

(25:15):
do carbon capture in my state because we're gonna get
a lot of taxpayer dollars. So we're just we're just
not going to repeal that provision. We're gonna continue to
burn corn in our gas tanks for reasons completely unknown,
but all predicated on that lie that I just mentioned.
But no, because my state's gonna suffer, and the farmers
in my state are gonna hurt because we won't subsidize

(25:37):
their growth of food, which the globe needs anyway. Oh,
can you hear the anger in my voice? Don't go away,
be right back. Got to stack of stupid coming.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Out as we embrace the end of an eraor the
outcome of this election is not what we want.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
To defeat, does not mean we are defeated. There's plenty
to celebrate this season I'm mixed at it. Hopefully this
isn't the last time I call in feeling this good.
I'm happy about everything.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Yeah, I think he's got a great game of people
around him.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
I just want the man protected.

Speaker 9 (26:09):
I am so excited about the potential to change his government.

Speaker 7 (26:12):
And the conversation's happening here, it's really exciting.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
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Five forty one on a Tuesday and a halfy one
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to see tomorrow at listener lunch price soal Chili, where
I will probably lose again. Cribbage Mike, my Summarine her friend.
Good to hear from you this morning, Coy Brian. Nice
hearing from brother Tom. What a nice early Christmas present

(27:38):
was cool? It's been too long. I can't believe I well,
I just saw Tom on the screen. It's been so
long since he called in like it was his allocated spot.
I mean self appointed that as it was. I always
enjoyed hearing from and of course his message always resonates
wonderfully with my listening audience.

Speaker 11 (27:58):
And yes, uh myself and my lovely Brian will be
there and if you have difficulty finding me, I'll be
the one in the holiday Blazer, So I know that Blazer.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
I look forward to seeing it at Christmas time every year.
So and you know you and I are going to
have to get that game in because apparently the listener
lunch is on the same day as the iHeartMedia Christmas Party,
which starts at three o'clock here in the studio areas,
and I have promised to be there, so I may
be late in getting here because it is all the

(28:27):
way across town. But whatever, my problem's not yours. At
any event, We're going to play, and I'm going to
try to kick your butt. I'll promise you I'll try
absolutely as we all do.

Speaker 11 (28:38):
Before I get to my point real quick, when you
mentioned the Who tragedy, Yeah, my younger sister, who was
eighteen at the time, was one of the thousand people
that went in on the opposite side of the arena,
So no idea what had taken place. And if you
can and may have plans to go out after the concert,
so you can imagine that like my parents went through,

(28:59):
as well as one hundred of other parents when my
sister finally got home at like one two in the morning,
and just the relief because the genesis was they were
late starting their warm upset and when the people outside
heard the music, they thought the concert had start exactly.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Just unbelievable.

Speaker 11 (29:18):
I can't believe it's been forty five years already. Getting
to Hunter once again to emphasize what you said about
the special treatment, that yes, he did get special treatment,
but not in the way Uncle Joe wanted us to
believe yesterday. Working in the casino industry, we deal with
suspicious activity reports almost on a daily basis, because the
magic threshold is ten thousand dollars either in or out.

(29:38):
You got to have your name, address, and social Security number,
and there's a lot of ways in the casino industry
if you are actually laundering money to try and circumvent that.
So we like banks, have to submit suspicious activity reports
to what is called FINSEN, what is the Financial Crime
Enforcement Network of the US government. He had hundreds, if
not thousands of those because of the sloppy money laundering

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that the grind of Biden crime family did throughout the
world and all these transactions. So, yes, uncle Joe, he
was treated properly because he should be behind bars.

Speaker 5 (30:09):
But do the pardon.

Speaker 11 (30:10):
But to throw that narrative on yesterday was just once again.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Ridiculous, ridiculous and insulting to any human being who's paid
even a measure of attention to the facts as they've
unfolded over the past couple of years. Absolutely, it's and
I even I think I said this out a lot
to someone yesterday on the program or is after it.
I mean that they have the audacity he or the
people who wrote this statement, have the audacity to suggest

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that somehow he was picked on because.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Of who he is.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
And when you see how the kid gloves that they
that they treated him with throughout the entire process, the
slow walking of the investigation, everything, and then to come
out and say that he was picked on, I'm I'm
just appalled. And is that them telling us like you,
specifically Mike and and others who have paid attention and

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remember these facts, that we're all idiots, We're all we
are so dumb. They assume that we are so dumb
that we don't remember any of this. That's the audacity
that they have. And I'm just I am so insulted
by it. I don't know how other I don't know
how else to put.

Speaker 11 (31:21):
It, But there are so millions of voters this year,
we're able to connect the dots once again of how
they treat us and talk down to us, and I
hope this will be once again another piece of the
puzzle in two years. As Tom mentioned, how critical the
House is to once again reaffirm once again that elite status.
Just vote for us, don't just believe what we tell you,

(31:41):
and what you're going to emphasize here in this Wuhan
report once again to just affect the how not only
bending the truth, but just.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Flat out lying to the flat out lying. It's just
it's it's that's why I said them earlier in this
segment that I'm almost in arras to say, I'm a
United States citizen. I just am appalled by the lies,
absolute outright lies. I've always been appalled by the fraud, waste,
and abuse. And there's a whole bunch that I've got

(32:11):
to go over with. You mentioned that Wuhan report that
came out. I'm gonna get into the details on that
aft top of the hour, but literally billions and billions
and billions of dollars completely unaccounted for, and you kind
of wonder, I wonder whose pockets that money landed in. Hmmm.
Appreciate the call, my friend, look forward to seeing tomorrow.
I got to take a break. It is five forty six.
Get back with a call. Got Bobby online? You can

(32:32):
feel free to call and also have a stack of
stupid that I haven't touched yet. I'll be right back.
Do you hear a lot of voices on the radio?
Sum are happy?

Speaker 9 (32:40):
So I'm not happy with you right now?

Speaker 1 (32:43):
How many are angry?

Speaker 7 (32:44):
So very angry?

Speaker 1 (32:45):
And discuss it at all are heard? Will yours be
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Five fifty one fifty five kr CD talk station. I'm
gonna go straight to the phones. Forget the stack's too.
I've got Bobby on the line, who's kind of enough
to hold over the break. Bobby, Happy Tuesday to you,
Happy Tuesday, my brother. Good to speak with you. A yeah,
always good to hear from you. What's on your mind today,
my friend?

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Well, we all know about the forty five years with
the WHO, but yeah, we won't have any more festival seating,
you know because of that.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
One thing that is correct.

Speaker 6 (34:05):
And next thing is Falci. You know you got the
new Wuhan report came out. I'm just wondering why he
still has a six thousand, excuse me, six million dollar
security detail on it. I have to leave an office
for a couple.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Of years, probably because they knew the details that came
out yesterday would be revealed at some point.

Speaker 6 (34:28):
The next thing is the best one. Did you have
a good Thanksgiving weekend.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Kidding me, Bobby, I had. I was like a pig,
and you know what, just enjoyed the hell out of
it and the highlight. Not to discount my family and
the love and the embracing of all things holiday related.
But taking a break from that blankety blank keto diet
and fully enjoying a full spread on Thanksgiving was like

(34:55):
manna from heaven. Oh my god, it was so awesome.
I swear I got stoned off off the pump carfee
pecan pie. It was amazing.

Speaker 6 (35:06):
I got stoned also, my brother. I tell you I
went to a party. It was multicultural, multi political. But
I tell you what, I've spent the best thirty eight
dollars there spent in my life.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
I'm glad.

Speaker 6 (35:18):
There's nothing better than dust and open a bottle of
Trump wine in front of a bunch of livers.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Well, you engaged in a little politicking. I think one
of the nice things about the celebration on Thanksgiving for
us not an utterance. Not a single syllable was said
about politics, and we all had plenty to talk about.
We all smiled, enjoyed each other's company, told stories, and
no words. No that the t word, The Trump word

(35:49):
was never mentioned, the E word, the election word was
never mentioned. Nothing of Republicans or Democrats. Just enjoyable conversation, Bobby.
Great hearing from you today, brother, Always pleasure anyhow, and
we'll get to that. All props to my son. I
will not mention names except to note that my son
did the right thing and bit his tongue. One person

(36:11):
at the table mentioned they were going to get their
multiple vaccines, one of which was you can get a
flu vaccine, get a COVID vaccine, you can get a
shingles vaccine. It was the trifecta of vaccines that one
person mentioned that they were going to get, and my
son wisely bit his tongue and did not say anything

(36:32):
in reference to the COVID vaccine. We've got a lot
to talk about at the top of the outer news
on that, and let's get to a stack of stupid
real quick here. After allegedly swiping a van, which she
later sold for scrap, the Minnesota woman made it incriminating
entry into a personal journal. Police charge. Quote Vanessa Guerrera
in her journal personal journal, totally stole a car today

(36:54):
exclamation points something I've never thought of doing. F wording
super freaking out about it. Close quote investigator's alleged at
the thirty year old Guerrera made that written admission of
guilt on the same August day that a Brown County
man reported his two thousand and four to four two

(37:17):
thousand and four Ford Free Star was stolen. Idiots doing
idiot things because they're idiots. That'd be a statement against
interest if I recall my criminal law classes. Van where
two grand later sold for scrap and salvage business at
a neighborhood Blue Earth County, where Guerrera resides. Witnesses at
the auto salvage business stated that Guerrera had bought, brought

(37:38):
the van in, and then sold it to him, according
to the criminal complaint. During the audit theft pro Brown
County Sheriff's Office, investigator was able to locate a journal
belonging to Guerrera containing her written exclamation that she totally
stole the car. Today. When contacted by the investigator, she
denied knowing that the vehicle was stolen. Recently worked at

(38:00):
as a door dash driver and now been charged with
a paraphilon who's receiving stolen property in theft. Previously been
convicted of driving with a suspended license and driving without insurance.
In June, she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft, sentenced to
a brief stand in the County Joe and placed on
unsupervised probation for a year. Not much of a criminal
record on that one, but you know it is a

(38:23):
statement against interest. Most people are not inclined to make those.
Coming up on five efty sixty five Kirsteve Talks Station,
the report is out. It is a damning indictment of
all things COVID related. That the final report from the
Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. Thank you, Congressman Brad Winster,
while you're still Congressman for putting it all together and

(38:44):
issuing the statement. We've got some details to dive on into,
some of which you will find absolutely appalling. I'll be
right back after the top of the air news There
we got again another US updates.

Speaker 12 (38:55):
We're going to get all the.

Speaker 7 (38:56):
Facts, an ear full of impromation at.

Speaker 11 (38:58):
The top of the hour.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Break it down fast fifty five krs the talk station.
What's up? Yup to Welcome Wagan. I want to welcome you,
especially if you think differently weekdays at nine krs. It's
six oh six. Here a fifty five kr CD talk station.
Bran Thomas wishing you're very happy Tuesday. Looking for tomorrow listener,
lunch Price Hill chilling, and it is, believe it or not,

(39:23):
I've been for it has been forty five years since
the Hoop Concert tragedy, so everybody's got their own recollection.
And that's kind of the Beverly Hill Supper Club. Obviously
a far more tragic event, if you want to know
way tragedy, but wow, to me, it's the passage of
time that is really truly mind blowing. Anywall also mind blowing.
And I mentioned I wanted to get into this and

(39:44):
thank God for summaries because since we just came out
yesterday a five hundred and twenty page final report from
the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus pandemic titled After Action
Review of the COVID nineteen Pandemic, Lessons Earned and a
Path Forward. Concresson wentz Orbusius the state, and they'll give

(40:04):
you that in just a moment. They looked at more
than one hundred They issued more than one hundred investigative letters,
thirty transcribed interviews and depositions, twenty five hearings, in meetings,
more than one million pages of documents reviewed, and came
up with some unbelievably damning conclusions. Concresson wentzriup in a
letter to Congress, the work will help the United States

(40:26):
and the world predict the next pandemic, prepare for the
next pandemic, protect ourselves from the next pandemic, and hopefully
prevent the next pandemic. Hold on sneeze button. That time.
Members of the one hundred nineteenth Congress should continue to
build off this work. There is more information to find
and honest actions to be taken. The COVID nineteen pandemic

(40:48):
highlighted a disttrust in leadership. Trust is earned. Accountability, Transparency, honesty,
and integrity will regain this trust. A future pandemic requires
a whole of America response, managed by those without personal
benefit or bias. We can always do better, and for
the sake of future generations of Americans, we must. It

(41:09):
can be done. Okay, here we go. The origins. Remember
doctor Fauci came from a bat cave or whatever. A
wet market note wrong report concludes likely emerged from the
Wuhan Instituti Virology and five reasons for that. One, the
virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.

(41:32):
Data shows that all COVID nineteen cases stem from a
single introduction into humans running contrary to previous pandemics where
there were multiple spillover events. Wuhan home to China's foremost
Stars research lab, which has a history of conducting gain
of function research and at inadequate biosafety levels. Wuhan Institudivirology

(41:55):
researchers were sick with COVID like virus in the fall
of twenty nineteen, months before COVID nineteen was discovered at
the wet market, and finally, by nearly all measures of science,
there was evidence of a natural origin. It would have
already surfaced and it never has. There was a proximal
origin publication used primarily and repeatedly by public health officials

(42:19):
in the media to discredit the lab leak theory, and
that was prompted by doctor Fauci to profos his preferred narrative,
in other words, trying to get away from the idea
that we funded gain of function research at the Wuhan
Institute Verrology that unleashed this pandemic on the planet, and
they concluded it was most likely yes, the origin of

(42:40):
COVID nineteen gain of function research. Current government mechanisms for
overseeing this dangerous research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack
global applicability, lacks standards. Do you remember EcoHealth wiance Yeah,
out of leadership with doctor Peter D. Day's act using

(43:01):
your earnings in the form of tax payer dollars to
facilitate dangerous gain a function rehearch research at the Wuhont
Institute of Virology, and after selects, the subcommittee released evidence
of EcoHealth violating the terms of its National Institutes of
Health grant, which said you can't do this. The US

(43:21):
Department of Health and Human Services commenced official disbar or
debarment proceedings and suspended all funding of eco Health. That's
rather danding, isn't it. The Department of Justice apparently is
open an investigation the Ecohealth's pandemic era activities also, so
maybe there'll be a prosecution down the road. One can
only pray for that accountability. National Institute for Health failures

(43:48):
NIH procedures for funding and overseeing potentially dangerous research are deficient, unreliable,
posing serious health threats to public and national security. Further,
the report conclude the NIH fostered an environment that promoted
evading federal record keeping laws, as seen through the actions
of doctor David Morrins, among others. Apologies for my voice

(44:12):
this morning, folks, I truly apologize for that. And then
you get into the response the COVID nineteen funding and
all of the fraud, waste and abuse and just outright
criminal activity related to that. Federal and states governments had
significant lapses in coordination, were unprepared to oversee the allocation

(44:32):
of COVID nineteen relief funds, failed to sufficiently identified waste, fraud,
and abuse of taxpayer dollars during the pandemic on multiple layers.
I might point out, for example, the Paycheck of Protection
program purportedly offering a central relief to Americans in the
form of loans that could be forgiven if the funds

(44:53):
were used to offset pandemic era hardship. The committee concluded
it was rife with fraud claims resulting in at least
sixty four billion, with a bee of taxpayer dollars loss
to fraudsters and criminals. Unemployment, claims fraudsters cost the American

(45:13):
taxpayer more than one hundred and ninety one billion dollars
by taking advantage of the federal government's unemployment system and
exploiting individuals personally identifiable information. The SBA, the Small Business
Administration failures two hundred million taxpayer dollars lost as a
result of the SBA's inability to conduct proper oversight, implement

(45:38):
internal controls, and ensure fraud protection measures were enacted. And
see that's this is something that you can just really
conclude at the outset of any massive government program. Let
me interject my thoughts on that if you've got a
multimillion dollar, multi billion dollar program, there is no way
in God's green earth that our government can keep track
of the dollars and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. Its

(46:00):
just impossible. And here's a multitude of illustrations here just
relating to COVID nineteen spending. They concluded at least half
a taxpayer dollars lost in COVID nineteen relief programs were stolen,
stolen outright by international fraudsters. COVID nineteen relief funding oversight,

(46:24):
the expanding relief programs that lacked proper oversight functions exposed
severe vulnerabilities in the system, paving the way for fraudsters,
international criminals, and foreign adversaries to take advantage of you,
the American tax payer. Turning to the World Health Organization,
Health Organization's response to COVID nineteen pandemic, they described as

(46:46):
an abject failure because it came, oh all, this is shocking.
It caved a pressure from the Chinese Communist Party in
placed China's political interest ahead of its international duties. Report
also concludes the World Health Organization's effort to solve the
problems were exacerbated by the COVID nineteen pamic via a

(47:06):
Pandemic Treaty, the newest effort anyway, and concluded it may
harm the United States of America. Social distancing. Yeah, we
all remember standing six feet apart. In fact, it was
at doctor's office, not that long ago. They still have
the tape on the floor at six foot increments. I've
even asked them about that. You guys ever going to

(47:27):
remove the tape? Oh oh, we forgot that was there
six foot apart Social Distancing recommendation, which literally shut down
schools and small businesses everywhere. They conclude it was arbitrary,
not based in science, and during closed door testimony, doctor
Fauci testified that the guidance quote sort of just appeared
close quote, and I imagine it just appeared right out

(47:49):
of his own personal sphincter mask mandates. I've been harping
on that since the whole thing came out. They concluded
there was no conclusive evidence that ask effectively protecting Americans
from COVID nineteen public health officials flip flopped on the
efficacy of mass without providing American scientific data, causing a
massive uptick in public distrust. Rightfully, so you got lied

(48:15):
to lockdowns. Prolonged lockdowns cause immeasurable harm not only do
the American economy, but also the mental and physical health
of Americans, with a particularly negative effect on younger citizens.
Rather than prioritizing the protection of the most vulnerable populations,

(48:35):
federal and state government's policies forced millions of Americans to
fore go crucial elements of a healthy and financially sound life.
That's just scratching the surface. Folks got plenty more to
mention on this one, including what I would conclude is
actual outright criminal murder in New York City in New

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Fifty krc DE talk station Happy Tuesday, Todd Zendzer in studio.
We're not at piece of the since I inquire about
the pension liability that the cities Cincinnati's dealing with. We're
gonna get the details from him again after top of
the our news the meantime, back to the five hundred
and twenty page report issued. Actually it's coming out officially today,
but summary was issued yesterday regarding the Select Senates or

(51:47):
the Select sub Committee on the coronavirus pandemic. They've been
doing an investigation after two years on this and the
conclusions they have reached are again damning. Going over to
New York and this is I think call it outright criminal. Now,
remember the COVID virus itself. The most likely people to
succumb to the virus were what co morbid conditions, the elderly,

(52:10):
the morbidly OBEs, those with cardiac problems. Right. Former New
York Governor Andrew Crooma's March twenty fifth order forced nursing
homes to accept COVID nineteen positive patients. The report concludes
it was medical malpractice. Evidence shows that Cuoma and his
administration worked to cover up the tragic aftermath of that

(52:31):
decision in an effort to shield themselves from accountability. Evidence
suggests Quomo knowingly and willfully their words, made false statements
to the Select Subcommittee on numerous occasions about material aspects
of New York's COVID nineteen nursing home disaster and the
ensuing cover up. Select Subcommittee referred Quomo to the Department

(52:51):
of Justice for criminal prosecution, and I can only hope
that that happens. Travel restrictions, remember Donald Trump issued international
travel restrictions. You know, we're going to keep this thing
at bay. We're going to be importing people from you know, China.
What do they call that? What do the Democrats call
that at the time, do you remember it? Xenophobic? Doctor Fouci,

(53:16):
in his transcribed interview under the questioning of this subcommittee,
unequivocally agreed with every travel restriction that the Trump administration issued. Yes,
it was the right thing to do, in spite of
what you heard from the mainstream media and all the
Democrats said, Oh mygad, Donald Trump's it's xena faed Why
is he getting out? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (53:35):
Right.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
As far as COVID misinformation, public officials often spread misinformation
through conflicting messaging, lack of transparency, and they say in
the most egregious examples of pervasive misinformation campaign, off label
drug use and the lab lak theory were unjustly demonized
by the federal government. In fact, the Biden administration even

(53:59):
employed und democratic and, as the subcommittee concludes, likely unconstitutional methods,
including pressuring social media companies to censor certain COVID nineteen
content to fight what it deemed misinformation, which really wasn't.

(54:20):
Contrary to what was promised, COVID nineteen vaccine did not
stop this thread or transmission of the virus. That was
an easy conclusion. The FDA rushed approval of the COVID
nineteen vaccine in order to meet the Biden administration's arbitrary
mandate timeline. Two leading FDA scientists warned their colleagues about

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the dangers of rushing the vaccine approval process and the
likelihood of adverse events. They were ignored, and days later,
the Biden administration mandated the vaccine over to the vaccine mandates,
they were not supported by science and caused more harm
than good. The subcommittee concluded the Biden administration coursed healthy

(55:03):
Americans in a compliance with the COVID nineteen vaccine mandates
that trampled individual freedoms, harmed military readiness, and disregarded medical
freedom to force a novel vaccine on millions of Americans
without sufficient evidence to support its policy decisions. Public officials
also engaged in a coordinated effort to ignore the reality

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the biological reality of natural immunity acquired through previous COVID
nineteen infection, which I have that ignored when they were
developing their vaccine guidance and mandates. No, no, we're not
going to consider the idea that you could even get
vaccinatural immunity. Vaccine injury reporting systems created confusion failed to

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popularly inform the American public about vaccine injuries and deteriorated
public trusts in vaccine safety during the COVID nineteen pandemic. Yeah,
that'll be people. Well, I guess like teenagers dropping dead
from myocarditis. Yeah, well, we're not going to pay attention
to that. Business impact, federal and state governments imposed mandatory

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lockdowns that were the primary cause of temporary and permanent
business closures. This is sad. More than one hundred and
sixty thousand businesses closed due to the pandemic, sixty percent
of those closures classified as permanent. For the businesses that
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Chuck Ingram on fifty five krs the talk station thirty one,
Happy Tuesday to you listener, lunch tomorrow, price little chili
hoop to see you there. Last one of the year
and our Christmas celebration. Bob Wetter with the Wish Tree
will be there dressed to Santa Claus. And I'm just
looking forward to seeing everybody as we get closer and
closer to Christmas. I'm going to take a phone call

(59:25):
here before i do that, though, real quick, Jamie, let
me just interject, because it is the forty fifth anniversary
of the Who concert tragedy, and I brought that up earlier,
and my buddy Jeff, and hello to the crew at
mar Con Tool this morning. Jeff noted that one of
the callers had pointed out the band was doing a
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and that's what sort of started the shoving and the
pushing and resulted in all the tragedy. Jeff said, I
was not at the entrance where the tragedy has occurred,
but a high school friend of mine, Walt Tony, was there.
He was one of the eleven that died that night.
That's a sad, sad, sad story. Anyhow, Jeff, appreciate the

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anecdote and condolences on your loss forty five years ago.
And even Jeff pointed out, I cannot believe it was
that long ago, Jamie. Thanks for holding and welcome to
the program.

Speaker 13 (01:00:18):
Hey, good morning, Brian. I just had a comment about
the lovely COVID report you were reading from. I don't
know if people understand that schools have adjusted their standards
and grading scales and indicators for learning, and so the
children are still feeling the effects of what happened during COVID. Yeah,

(01:00:39):
and what it seems like is happening. They're wiping the slate,
pretending like it didn't happen and pushing kids through when
they are not learning what they need to be learning.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
Well, clearly, you know, it's an interesting way you put that,
because it's almost as if COVID is a justification for
allowing children to advance to the next grade when they
haven't demonstrated sufficient learning skills to manage the material in
the grade they're in. I mean, that's that's insane, And
people justify this because of equity or whatever. And I'm thinking,

(01:01:11):
how much possible good can you be doing a child
by advancing them to the next grade level when they're
failing at the one they're in. Oh well, COVID or
equity or whatever, it doesn't make a witsworth of sense.
It doesn't pass the smell test for a logic and
reason standpoint, but it's a valid point.

Speaker 13 (01:01:31):
It's astounding, and I think, you know, I know in
my local district the COVID money was spent on administrator positions,
so the money did not go to directly support the kids.
And second, they I don't understand how. I actually don't
understand how the teachers are not pulling their hair out

(01:01:53):
because they're the ones to keep getting the kids in
their classrooms, say, in fourth grade, and their kids have
not learned second and third grade content, and so it's
so overwhelming that I don't think they can face it.
They just they can't face the challenge of it all.
And of course the children are that the ones who.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
Are suffering, absolutely, period, end of the story. There in
lines the problem the children are suffering. And I've heard
people defend the idea of allowing a child to advance
from let's say third to fourth grade even though they
haven't mastered the third grade level materials. Well, you don't
know what it's like from a peer pressure standpoint for
a child to deal with being held back. Well, you
don't know what it's like. I mean, you know, it's

(01:02:34):
the old John Wayne saying, you know, life is hard,
it's harder if you're stupid. I mean, Lord Almighty, deal
with the momentary lapse of you know, respector or or
peer pressure whatever. Learn the materials and then build the
building block foundation that allows you to move forward and
advance and cope with and deal with life and it's

(01:02:55):
challenges because you know reading, you know you're writing, and
you know you're arithmetic, other subject matters that you gotta
deal with. If you don't know them and you continue
to move on, you will only fall further and further behind,
obviously leading you to a life hooked up to the
umbilical court of some social welfare program. Ah, drive me crazy.

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I don't understand the world we find ourselves in. I
really don't, And you're right, it harms the children. There
in lies the challenge which harms America in extraordinary ways.
Six point thirty five. If you five KCD talk station
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and Mike is on the funnel, be happy to take

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Mike's calls. Well, but before I do any of that,
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Forty fifty five KRC, he talks station Happy Tuesday, trying
to make it happy anyway. Sunlight of disinfection coming out
with the Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic results that
I've been going through this morning here in the six
o'clock hour. But before I get back to that, and
I will address the last callers comments about school closures
in the profound negative influence it had on our children's learning,

(01:06:22):
Let's see what Mike Scott, he was kind of the
hold over the break, Mike, Welcome to the program, Happy Tuesday.

Speaker 7 (01:06:27):
Hi, Brian talk.

Speaker 14 (01:06:28):
About the vaccine report saying that the were they're saying
the vaccine where the code reports that the vaccine wasn't
effective and they shouldn't have made a mandatory. That kind
of helps Bobby Kennedy with his with everything. That's the
one thing they're pointing like he was against the vaccine,
like well, the reports against.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
The vaccine yep, and people who were against the vaccines
were silenced. Facebook would pull your posts. Everybody in social
media couldn't hear your voice, womb voice in the wilderness.
I mean, you know, I didn't get the vaccine. I
struggled with COVID. Mightily could have been because I was
on cancer treatments at the time that I got such
a bad case of it. Many people who have pointed

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to that one of the comorbid conditions, it would lead
you having a more problematic episode of COVID.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
That was me.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
I ended up with more antibodies and you could shake
a stick at After a year, I had myself tested
and it was still like, no, you're immune. You know, okay,
natural immunity is and was a thing back then, but
you couldn't talk about that. Get your stick and get
your jab because you know the pharmaceutical companies. You'll be
able to hold them accountable if they go, oh no,

(01:07:37):
you couldn't. That's right because of the Emergency Use authorization.
Sorry sucks to be you anyway. Healthcare impacts. Over to
the report and more of the conclusions I'm diving on into.
Thank you again to Congressman Brad Weinschervin someone going through
five hundred and twenty pages and pulling out the key
points on it. The summary America's health care systems severely
damaged by the pandemic. Patients experienced a decreas quality of care,

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longer waytime, shorter medical appointments, and misdiagnosis. Some people didn't
go to the doctor. They were freaked out. Why would
I go into a doctor's office where, oh my god,
someone might breathe on me here only get in a
fetal position and hide to my living room. Unemployment rates
surged to levels not seen since the Great Depression because

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of well the lockdowns, overly broad mitigation measures, including the
now debunked six feet apart guidance, which doctor Fauci admitted
in closed door testimony he pulled out of his personal
sphincter my conclusion, but effectively what he said disproportionately impacted

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work sectors with low wage earners. Federal reserves. Aggressive early
and unprecedented response to the COVID nineteen pandemic prevented a
severe economic downturn. This continued approach also contributed to stagger inflation.
Still living all of results of that and then pile

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on top of it. After all, the trillions of dollars
of COVID nineteen money that float into the system, watering
down the value of your dollar. Follow up with the
Inflation Reduction Act, which wasn't you're still paying for that one.
And I also remember there's still COVID nineteen money floating
around out there. The cities are using to, oh, I
don't know, plug budget gaps cities. Cincinnati school closures. The

(01:09:30):
quote unquote science never justified prolonged school closures. Children were
unlikely to contribute to the spread of COVID nineteen or
even suffer severe illness or mortality. Instead, as a result
of the school closures, children experience historic learning losses, higher
rates of psychological distress, and decreased physical well being. The

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ripple of fat on that one. Anybody who's a parent
out there that went through this with younger age children,
probably you're still feeling it. The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention influence Biden Administration's CDC broke precedent providing a
political provided a political teachers organization with access to its
scientific school reopening guidance. You remember this one. I had forgotten.

(01:10:22):
Former CDC Director Rochelle Wolenski asked the American Federation of
Teachers to provide specific language for the guidance, and even
once so far as to accept numerous edits made by
the American Federation of Teachers. The CDC director deferred reopening

(01:10:47):
guidance to the teachers union. How many doctors do you
think are over at the American Federation for Teachers? How
many doctors with any connection to pandemic or pandemic related
science were involved in providing the specific language? Yeah, I
think you know the answer to that question. Schools remain

(01:11:10):
closed longer than necessary because the American Federation of Teachers
political interference in the CDC school reopening guidance. It's a
political union, not a scientific organization. It's a political union
that advocated for mitigation efforts that prolonged school closures, including
an automatic closure quote unquote trigger. Testimony revealed, according to

(01:11:34):
the report, that eight AFT president Winingarten had a direct
telephone line to contact former CDC Director Wolenski. Standardized test
scores show that children lost decades worth of academic progress
as a consequence of COVID nineteen school closures. Mental and

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physical health concerns also skyrocketed, and here you go with
suicide attempts by twelve the seventeen year age girls rising
fifty one percent. I got a few more conclusory points
on the report again, you can find it online. Five

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hundred and twenty pages worth of damning indictments of our
elected officials. And oh my god, the walk on water
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It is six fifty one here fifty five kr c
DE talk station, and a very happy Tuesday to you.
Coming up after Top of the Air News, Todd Zenzer
comes in studio talking about since at Council dealing with
the pension liability and his op ed piece of the
Cincinnia inquire how it needs to be dealt with more aggressively.

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You can't find that on the online edition of the Enquirer,
and you got to read it in the actual paper version.
I think Todd'll probably give us a full insight into
his analysis. And after the Top of the Air News
follow by Tim Rivers American Gulag Chronicle. I've had him
on a whole bunch of times, and since Hunter Biden's
been pardoned. How about the January sixth prisoners, But the

(01:15:08):
seventy two year old ladies locked behind bars were wandering
around the Capitol building. Yeah, I talk about disparate treatment
inside scoop But bright Bart News at eight oh five
and Daniel Davis Deep Dive at eight thirty. Final conclusory
points from the five and twenty page long summary or
the report coming out of today Senate's a subcommittee on
the coronavirus pandemic. The report is titled After Action Review

(01:15:31):
of the COVID nineteen pandemic, the Lessons Learned and a
Path Forward. So not only do they do a post
mortan on all of the lies that we were told,
it also is supposed to provide a guidance for the future,
so the government credibility isn't torched like it has been
as a consequence of what they told us over COVID. Anyway,

(01:15:53):
go over to the Health and Human Services Department and
the title of the subject heading on this one obstruction.
Biden Administration's HHS engaged in a multi year campaign of delay, confusion,
and non response in this in an attempt to obstruct
this select subcommittee's investigation and hide evidence that could incriminate
or embarrass senior public visuals doctor Fauji. It appears that

(01:16:17):
HHS even intentionally under resourced its component that responds to
legislative oversight requests. So it's like when you're issued a
Foyer request, there's specific laws governing responding to a Foyer request,
and you just ignore it. Senate Subcommittee sends you request
pursuing to their guidelines. Well, we're going to just defund

(01:16:41):
or under resources department that is supposed to respond in
a timely fashion to the investigation of the Committee's requests
for information. Screw those guys. Basically eco Health obstruction going
back to eco Health and one that was behind funding
the Wuhan Institute of Virologies gain a function Research President

(01:17:01):
Peter Dazak obstructed the Select Subcommittee's investigation by providing publicly
available information, instructing his staff to reduce the scope and
pace of productions of documents, and doctoring documents before releasing
them to the public. He also provided false statements to Congress.

(01:17:28):
Doctor David Morenz deliberately obstructed the Select sub Committee's investigation,
likely lied to Congress on multiple occasions, unlawfully deleted federal
COVID nineteen records and shared non public information about NIH
grant processes with Eco Health president doctor Peter Daizac. It's

(01:17:50):
rather incestuous group of relations going on here, isn't it.
And then finally New York obstruction. New York's Executive Chamber,
led presently by Governor Kathy Hockel, redacted documents, offered numerous
illegitimate privileged claims, and withheld thousands of documents without an
apparent legal basis to obstruct the Select Subcommittee's investigation into

(01:18:12):
former Governor Cuomo's pandemic era failures. Those failures I mentioned earlier,
which really should be the he's referred to the Department
of Justice for criminal prosecution. I mean the fact that
he knowingly and wilfully made false statements to the Select
Subcommittee on numerous occasions, and his order forced COVID nineteen

(01:18:35):
positive elderly people into nursing homes where they would obviously
go and infect the clearly more vulnerable elderly folks in
nursing homes. I wonder if there's a final accounting of
the death toll brought about by that directive. Six fifty

(01:19:00):
five krs. The talk station Local stuff coming up with
Todd's enders since at Council. Specifically, we'll hear about American
Gulag Chronicles, Tim Rivers and whether he thinks it's any
hope for the January sixth prisoners, A whole lot more
coming up. I hope you can stick around.

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Ever changing world. There's one constant you can depend on.
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Wait for it, teven o six fifty five KRCD talk station,
A very Happy Tuesday special. Tuesday. We've got Tim Rivers,
American Ghulag Chronicles. We've had him on the program a
couple of times. He'll be on at seven forty now
that Hunter Biden has been pardoning because of course they
were all just picking on him and had nothing to
do with his criminal reality. How about the January sixth prisoners,

(01:19:58):
what's in store for them? We've got the inside scoop
of bright Bart News political reporter Wendell Huza bow is
going to join us in an hour talk about guess
Hunter Biden, and then Daniel Davis deep dive on Russia, Belarus, Georgia,
and then my friends at OHC the Cancer Special it's
going to be talking about blood cancers. That'll happen at
the end of the next hour. In the meantime, Welcome back.

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Always a real distinct pleasure to have men's studio. Todd
Zen's are a recently pendent op ed piece which appeared
in the paper version of the Cinsai inquir He is
a West Price so Resident retired inspector generally the United
States Department of Commerce. After thirty one years of conducting
audits and investigations of federal officials, programs and operations, he

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remains a certified fraud examiner and he knows things financial clearly.
Todd Zenz are welcome back to the fifty five KRC
Morning Show, tackling the problem of well City of Cincinnati finances,
most notably the still ongoing and yet to ever be
resolved pension problem. Welcome back, my friend. I love having
you in studio. Thank you, Brian, good morning, and I
certainly appreciate you taking the laboring or and staying up

(01:21:05):
on what is really a very very challenging financial situation.
You and I can talk all day long about the
problems facing the City of Cincinnati. I mean we were
talking off air most notably about the backlog of just simple, fundamental,
basic things like road repairs.

Speaker 9 (01:21:23):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (01:21:24):
It's scoot that mic up and get closer to it
a little bit. It's just a simple core service, something
that acts as a financial draw because people are inclined
to want to move into cities with good infrastructure. You
let your roads deteriorate over deckage, you end up with
a four hundred million dollar backlog. They're supposed to do

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X number of millions of dollars of road repairs each year,
and every year they kick the damn can down the road. Well,
welcome to the pension program.

Speaker 9 (01:21:53):
That's exactly right, Brian. They're doing the same thing. They're
kicking the can down the road. And even when they
get surplus my like they did this year sixty five
million dollars, instead of applying that to the pension liability,
which is an eight hundred million dollars shortfall.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
Eight hundred million, they decide to.

Speaker 9 (01:22:11):
Put four million of that sixty five million towards the
pension liability, and they spend the rest. I think there's
about five hundred thousand dollars left of that sixty five
million that they haven't applied yet.

Speaker 1 (01:22:24):
And where does that money go off to. It's a
random decision by the mayor that I'm going to spend
it over here. I mean, this isn't the power of
the purse resting in the hands of Congress type situation.
With that money, it's like we've got a dictator who
can just decide on his own terms where the money's
going to be spent.

Speaker 9 (01:22:43):
Well, the way it was reported is that they broke
they broke it down into three different buckets. The mayor
got to recommend spending, the city council got to recommend spending.
In the city manager got to recommend spending. But I
must say that the money that the city manager spent
all went towards not all, but most went towards public safety.

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The other things were all what we call pet projects.
The mayor wanted to spend three hundred thousand dollars renovating
City Hall and you know things.

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
Like that, real important stuff, very important, like the Bengals
getting new locker rooms for the players. It in yours
to everyone's benefit when that kind of thing happens, doesn't it.
That's right, great, great expenditure at taxpayer dollars. They're per ball.
So in order to tackle this challenge, which, as you
point out in your op ed piece, and I applaud
you for it, CINCINNTI Council must attack pension liability more aggressively.

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The Cincinnati Futures Commission, Now, they remember when they rolled
out the report all the things that the city needs
to be doing or the things that they should be
looking at by way of righting this ship. And weren't
they the ones that said this was the most concerning
threat facing the City of Cincinnati or pension liability.

Speaker 9 (01:23:57):
Yeah, that's right if you read the report. Unfortunately, this
was towards the back of the report. The report's very
difficult to read in the first place. But they identified
three threats, they call them threats. The most concerning is
the pension liability. And basically the issue is that eventually
it's going to eat the general fund alive. That by

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the time we get down the road ten, fifteen, twenty years,
the pension liability, if it's not fixed, is going to
eat into the general fund to the point where we
can't afford basic operations. In addition, they're going to be
they're going to have to reduce benefits even more than
they have already.

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
Well, can a parallel be drawn to our national debt
of thirty seven trillion dollars because more and more of
that goes to debt service, eating into the rest of
the revenue that's supposed to fund things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.

Speaker 9 (01:24:49):
Right, Well, we already borrow money to the point where
we spend one hundred and forty million dollars a year
servicing our debt on our bonds. So this that is
even beyond that. This eight hundred million dollars is even
beyond that. And they're just contributing pennies to the thing

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every year compared to what is required to make it solvent.

Speaker 1 (01:25:13):
Pennies directed at the most concerning threat facing the city.

Speaker 9 (01:25:19):
Yeah, there's definitely a disconnected futures Commission. Their solution, the
only solution they came up with, was to take the
pension fund and get it to a point. Right now,
it's sixty eight percent funded. They want to get it
up to eighty percent funded. And if they feel that
they do that, they can negotiate with the Ohio Retirement

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System Public Employee Retirement System opers OPERS and therefore offload
the pension fund to the state now it's very complicated,
very controversial because you don't you don't know how the
two plans compare at this point, but that's their only solution.
And in order to do that, they want to raise

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four hundred million dollars three hundred and ninety million dollars
to bring that pension fund up to eighty percent funded.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
And they and had that been paying into the pension
fund on an appropriate level in the previous couple of decades,
we wouldn't have this challenge to start with, and we
wouldn't have to worry about unloading it on the rest
of the Ohio tax payers.

Speaker 9 (01:26:24):
Right What's interesting is that right now, the pension system
is governed by a federal lawsuit settlement called the Collaborative
Settlement Agreement from twenty fifteen, where the city agreed to
bring the pension system to full funding one hundred percent
funding by twenty forty five. They gave them thirty years

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to get there, and we already know, Brian, that they're
not going to make it. They're not going to come
anywhere close.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
It's a pre existing function of government. It's like, you know,
you got X number of things you gotta pay for
every year and that pension is one of them, just
ignore the hell out of it, and then they have
to go to federal court and enter into a settlement
agreement that gives them an additional thirty plus years to
get to write this ship. And yet they haven't lifted
a finger in an effort to even comply with that.

Speaker 9 (01:27:15):
Yeah, they're not gonna make it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:17):
And are we governed by idiots? Is that what this
comes down to? Are they all just financial illiterates? Or
if I was under that pension program, I would be
screaming bloody murder about this. What I mean, those who
have to rely on this pension system? Where are they?
Where's the revolt? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:27:35):
Might Well, that's where this collaborative settlement agreement came from
twelve years ago. Is that people got so upset, like
they asked me union's individual retirement retirees. So that's where
the collaborative settlement agreement came from in the first place.
And based on the agreement, it looks like the people

(01:27:55):
could come at them again for not complying or not
living up to their agreement. They could probably reopen the thing,
I would like to think, so, so we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
It's like, I don't know what the terms of conditions
of the collaborative agreement are, but if you've been given
X number of years, it seems to me there are
probably certain benchmarks that you must accomplish along the way,
because you can't just wait till the thirtieth year and
then say, well, oh, that's right, we should have been
paying into this pension thing because we were obligated to
do it thirty five years ago or whatever.

Speaker 9 (01:28:26):
Yeah, the agreement doesn't really specify specific amounts that need
to be devoted.

Speaker 1 (01:28:33):
There is a failure in terms of entering into the agreement.

Speaker 9 (01:28:35):
Yeah, but it does allow certain things to reopen negotiations
or reopen the settlement agreement you know that the judge
can approve. And this failure to be on track for
one hundred percent by twenty forty five I think falls
into that category.

Speaker 1 (01:28:54):
I would make that argument. It seems like a winner.
I'm not going to call it a no brainer given
the complex to the situation Todd, but I think the
reason that this happens is I don't know that their
financial illiterates. I think that's probably part of it, but
I think they just spend money on their constituents. They
spend all these these things on their constituents. But aren't

(01:29:16):
the pensioners their constituents.

Speaker 9 (01:29:18):
Yeah, but that's a smaller number, I think.

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
But screw them. They're retired, basically, isn't that the attitude? Well,
let's just look at the last few weeks. All right,
let's pause on that note. We have a nice foray
or entry to start off hitting the ground running when
we bring back Todd Zenzer again, check out the op
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Speaker 1 (01:32:04):
Seven twenty and Happy Tuesday too. Brian Thomas in studio
with Todd Zenzer. He knows his stuff when it comes
to audits and things financial of us a Department of Commerce.
Thirty one years as the Inspector General, he still remains
a certified fraud examiner. And basically it sounds to me
like what we're dealing with is a bunch of financial
fraud or at least massive incompetence on the part of

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the City of Cincinnati. Pension liability outstanding total in the
whole six hundred and eighty million dollars, right, something like that.

Speaker 9 (01:32:37):
Actually, the pension liability is up over eight hundred million.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
Oh h here, I am misplacing a couple one hundred
million dollars, But that's what the City of Cincinnati does.
You're getting ready to walk in through some extraditional points
on this when we took a break, Todd, So let's
talk about it, because you and I were engaging in
this discussion on the break, and in spite of the
fact that the pension is just woefully underfunded and it
is under the subject matter of a federal settlement agreement

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that's right, and we're not compliance. Apparently they still ignore it.

Speaker 9 (01:33:09):
Well, they are ignoring it. That's that's the issue. They're
continuing to kick kick the problem down the road. You know,
they just spent sixty five million dollars of the surplus.
So but over the last three weeks they've come in
for a proposal of three hundred and twenty five thousand
dollars for a program a base in California. It's probably
got probably got a handful of cities that are participating

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for to try to attack youth violence, youth gun violence.
And the idea is to actually pay certain youthh to
not commit crime, to behave that's right. So that's three great,
that's three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:33:49):
It's just an insane societal regression.

Speaker 9 (01:33:52):
And then we've got half a million dollars that the
city council wants to spend on mental health, mental health
program for transgender youth. They've got there was the Vice
mayor was on the radio just the other day about
historic preservation of North Avondale and she's suggesting that the

(01:34:12):
city council can pay for stained glass windows for homes
in North Assondale. I mean, it's you're making this. I'm
not making that up. No, I heard it myself. So
the idea is that there's a lot of things to
spend money on.

Speaker 1 (01:34:30):
That silence was me just in a state of absolute disbelief.
I apologize.

Speaker 9 (01:34:34):
There's a lot of worthwhile things to spend money on.
It's never ending. But the point is that dispensional liability
is a threat to the city and they're not doing
anything about it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:47):
Well, and you just mentioned I'm not having to go
with transgender youth and their mental challenges. I can certainly
acknowledge it. They probably do. But I just got done
going through the Congressional the summary of the COVID nineteen
Select Subcommittee report, and it talked about one of the
consequences of the lockdowns and the lack of education was

(01:35:07):
a fifty one percent increase in girls twelve to seventeen
committing suicide. Wow. Yeah, you know, that is a broad
much broader than the challenges of the transgender youth, which
don't make up a sizable chunk of the population. That challenge,
in and of itself alone sounds like a more justifiable

(01:35:30):
thing to try to take a stab at. But you know,
this is the city of Cincinnati. What are they supposed
to What do they think they could possibly do?

Speaker 9 (01:35:37):
Yeah, like four million dollars a year to the Green
Cincinnati plan, It's like, is that really, is that really
going to do anything for the environment?

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
Absolutely not, absolutely.

Speaker 9 (01:35:47):
Not, But they keep spending. They just dedicated what is it,
five hundred thousand dollars for a green bank.

Speaker 1 (01:35:54):
And that's the girl's a green bank.

Speaker 9 (01:35:56):
The green bank is another kind of quasi agency that
the city's going to set up in order to be
a clearing house for money devoted to climate change.

Speaker 1 (01:36:06):
Okay, and to everyone who might think that's a great idea,
again to the Wall Street Journal, Bjorn Lomburg's abed piece,
climate change colonialism keeps poor countries impoverished, And his point
is a brilliant one. You know, if you even want
to look at the weather related deaths that have gone on,

(01:36:28):
even if you want to draw a parallel between climate
change and weather, extreme weather took an average of nine
thousand lives each year over the past decade globally. Yet
they are spending literally billions of billions of dollars in
programs that do absolutely nothing for the impoverished countries that

(01:36:48):
they claim their saving through their green projects. This is
a global level talks here. Now we're moving down to
the Cincinnati city area level. As if what our carbon
emissions are collectively in the city have anything to do
with anything that's right.

Speaker 9 (01:37:06):
I agree with you, Brian.

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Speaker 1 (01:40:15):
Seven thirty fifty fifth KRC Detalk station. We can talk
to him for hours. Todd's enzer form Inspector Jenn of
the Oast Department of Commerce. He knows what he's talking
about when it comes to fraud examinations. He also knows
what he's talking about when it comes to bud it
comes to allocating and properly budgeting. The City of Cincinnati well,
as revealed this morning in the brief amount of time

(01:40:36):
we've been talking, has an epic failure in this regard.
The pension system is woefully underfunded and I want to
go back just briefly Todd to the idea the since
Any Futures Commission put out, which again the Sinceni Futures
Commission said, this is the biggest gravest threat the city
is facing, this pension liability. In an effort to deal

(01:40:57):
with that, if they write the pension a little bit,
they bring this hole down to four hundred million, then
somehow OPERHS would be willing to take it over. Well, like,
ohiopech and as an Ohio tax payer and I don't
live in the city Cincinnati, I'm like, this is the
hole you dug yourself in. Don't put that liability on me.

(01:41:19):
Why would OPERHS even agree to take it?

Speaker 9 (01:41:21):
Yeah, well, I'm not really sure why they would take it,
But I don't know that the Futures Commission was all
that confident because they think that just getting to that
amount would get them to the negotiating table. It's not
that it would seal the deal or anything like that.
That's just to get talks going with the pension, the

(01:41:41):
state pension system.

Speaker 1 (01:41:42):
But that would also bring them closer to compliance with
the consent decree they entered into the federal government, which
is supposed to be doing anyway, that's right.

Speaker 9 (01:41:52):
So they should probably go ahead and try to reopen
that agreement if they give themselves a little more time
and be more aggressive about bringing that bringing that up.

Speaker 1 (01:42:03):
But then we wouldn't be able to buy a new
stained glass windows for the folks in Avondel. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:42:10):
The the the other issue though is this is regionalizing
the waterworks and whether that is even a possibility.

Speaker 1 (01:42:19):
How would that help because so far as you've explained,
and we've been over this before, with the sale of
the railroad, they're just selling literally everything that's not nailed
down to make to meet their obligations presently, right right,
and that goes with the pension because right now the
pension's paying out more than it is taking in.

Speaker 9 (01:42:34):
That's right. They've got four thousand people taking out or
beneficiaries that are using the using the retirement system, and
they've got three thousand people paying in. In addition, they
the pension Board, which is an agency of the city.
The pension Board has to sell its assets. It's reported
to the city that it has to sell its assets

(01:42:58):
in order to even pay bennet fits and expenses. So
they're eating away their investment of portfolio in order to
actually pay their bills, and so that reduces their investment income.
And they right now, according to their financial report, they're
one of the highest pension systems in the country I think,

(01:43:24):
who are using their investments to pay their their bills
or eating into their investments to pay their bills.

Speaker 1 (01:43:32):
Which obvious stating the obvious imperils their ability, I mean,
more rapidly each year because the city clearly is not
replenishing what is being paid out. They haven't prioritized even
maintaining some even a level of status qual It sounds.

Speaker 9 (01:43:50):
Like, right, And even their projections that went into that
collaborative agreement said that they were going to earn seven
and a quarter percent on their investments. Well down below
seven percent. They're not even hitting that target. So they've
got a lot of issues. It's kind of a downward spiral,
and nobody's really worried about it.

Speaker 1 (01:44:10):
I guess, all right, let us just paint a somewhat
bleak scenario which looks like the trajectory we were on
while the council people and the city manager and the
mayor all fiddle. What happens when the pension runs out
of money?

Speaker 9 (01:44:30):
Well, I don't know that it's going to run out
of money.

Speaker 1 (01:44:32):
It's going to have to Well, they're they're eating principle
up as we talk apparently, So I what is it?
What is the future for the city sense? Any look
like if this problem is not.

Speaker 9 (01:44:41):
Fixed, well, they're going to start reducing benefits fairly early,
earlier than failure. And I don't really know the answer
to that, Brian. I think they're going to have to
find some way to shore up the liability, to reduce
the liability, and they're going to to have to reopen

(01:45:01):
their collaborative settlement agreement to give themselves more time to
get there if they can, if they can, and I
really think that the city just has to start putting
money into that pension liability to ward off what we're
talking about, instead of spending it on stupid things, on
all these pet projects and all this social welfare spending.

(01:45:25):
And they've got to start prioritizing their spending. It's as
simple as that. And yeah, I think it's a real
problem for the for the people that have to rely
on that pension system.

Speaker 1 (01:45:37):
Clearly I would want to be there. I sure as
hell wouldn't want to be there either. So anyhow, well,
You've shed a huge bright spotlight on a problem that
every one of the cities should be talking about, certainly
those in elected capacity, and they should prioritize this as
numero una, just like the Cincinnati Futures Commission did. Boy,

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they thought the sun shined out that since if you
could future Commission's bottom until you get to this particular
component in their chapter in the report and you realize that, no,
we are on a downward spiral that doesn't look like
it's going to be fixed.

Speaker 9 (01:46:10):
Their recommendation was for the mayor to appoint a task
force to even look into this issue. He hasn't even
done that.

Speaker 1 (01:46:16):
Todd Zenzer, you're a brilliant man. I appreciate what you're
doing on behalf of the citizens of the city of Cincinnati,
whether they appreciate or not, and hopefully more competent people
will be elected to deal with the problem. Seventh thirty
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It is seven forty one here for about airc Detalk Station.
A very happy Tuesday to it could be. It could
be happier if we didn't have people locked up for
maybe just engaging in what I've always described as a
sort of drunken fraturning party gotten slightly out of hand.
Of course, January sixth is what I'm referring to. Now.
Some people did engage in violence, but seems to me
the vast majority of people who have been convicted were

(01:49:09):
convicted merely of wandering around in the building, having at
first been invited to enter the building by members of
law enforcement. Someone who knows all about this returned, and
I love having them on the programme. The collaborator and
the person responsible for putting together the two volumes, the
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(01:49:31):
Chronicles Volume two, which is the Art of Confinement. Welcome
back to the Morning Show, Tim Rivers. It's a real
pleasure to have you back on today.

Speaker 7 (01:49:38):
Oh thanks, Brian, appreciate you having me back on.

Speaker 1 (01:49:40):
You're yac.

Speaker 7 (01:49:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:49:43):
Now, first off, since it's kind of a springboard, everyone
keeps bringing it up. The absurdity behind Joe Biden's pardoning
of his son, not that that comes as a surprise
to anybody, but the idea that he had the audacity
in the face of all the evidence that we all
know about, at those of us who've taken the time
to remember, like the slow walk of the IRS investigation,

(01:50:05):
allowing the statute limitations to blow by, that somehow he
was the victim of an abusive justice system, and that
nobody out there, if it wasn't for the fact that
he was Hunter Biden and the son of Joe Biden,
would have been gone after from a legal perspective, despite
of the fact that he pled guilty to tax evasion
and was found guilty of the FFL violation. What was
your reaction to that, knowing all that you know about

(01:50:29):
how ill treated and desperately treated these January six folks were.

Speaker 7 (01:50:36):
I can't say that on the air.

Speaker 1 (01:50:39):
Thank you for honoring the sec guidance that I must
follow every day. Trust me, I understand how difficult it
can be.

Speaker 7 (01:50:46):
Yeah. I mean, I'm going to read it right after
he got this book. In the throes of addiction, I
squandered opportunities and advantages, and in recovery, we can be
given the opportunity to make amends and rebuild our lives.
If we never take for granted the mercy we have
been afforded, give me a freaking break. I mean, if
you were some poor guy who had been victimized for
showing up and protesting one day, thrown into a jail

(01:51:09):
for three years and nine months, never given a trial,
beaten abused, I can't really tell you the things that
might happen to you in that environment, but they're really horrible,
and you can read about them in the book. And
then you want to, you know, you want to play
like I'm the victim. How democrat is this? I'm just
going to come right out and say it. The Democrats
are victimized all the time. They've they've inculcated a culture

(01:51:32):
of victimization in order to split America into the halves
and the haves not. And I think it's very important
to realize that this wasn't like a blanket pardon this
back to ten years Yeah, why did it go back
ten years? Well, guess who started working in Ukraine just
a little bit after ten years, Hunter Biden. This is
a cover. This is Joe Biden's pardon. This is not

(01:51:55):
Hunter's pardon.

Speaker 1 (01:51:56):
Yeah, very excellent point, and that is one that cannot
be overlooked. You are at absolutely right. This is a
pardon for Joe Biden and the Biden what we'll call
crime family, if we may be so bold, and I
think we can, I mean, Lord almighty, how many suspicious
activity reports did financial institutions turn in on the multitude
of Biden family members and friends over a short period
of time. If that was you or I we'd be

(01:52:17):
locked up right now.

Speaker 7 (01:52:20):
Yeah, well, you don't have to do that to get
locked up in this country anymore. Well, and I'm hoping
it's Brian. I'm just gonna say it. I think I
think all of us have seen enough truth exposed. If
you haven't seen enough, I can take where to go
to find it because it's right out there in the open.
Mainstream media only show it to you, but we've shown
it to you for almost three years now, and I

(01:52:40):
think that's all going to come out. I think now
this the curtain is going to get ripped back. How
did that say it? And when it gets too expensive
to maintain the illusion, we'll just pull the curtain back,
turn off the stage lights, move the furniture, the actor
to leave, and you'll see that brick wall. Well, and
I think that's what we're looking at. We're looking at
the brick wall. All the truth. Now, all of these

(01:53:01):
things have been exposed. The result was a landslide on
this election for President Trump, and I think they're scared
to death of his appointments, and rightly so. We're entering
a new era. But I want to compare the pardon
for a hunter should absolutely eliminate any opposition anybody ever
had about pardoning the Jay stationery because they've done nothing

(01:53:24):
compared to what this man has done, not to mention stealing,
helping to steal the election, hiding the perfidity of that
laptop and all the horrible information that's on it, sex
traffic miners across state lines. Oh my god. I just
don't have enough time to go through this criminal record.
And yet you've got people who were not violent, who

(01:53:44):
have been sitting in prison for years, and people who
weren't even there that Day sentenced to twenty two years.
Come on, I mean, where is justice in America? Now?

Speaker 1 (01:53:55):
It's justice, well, and certainly the truth in tim I
just I think about the non violent I just put aside.
You know, I know there's someone screaming going, well, but
what about that one guy who beat the crap out
of a police officer. Okay, let's put that guy aside,
and let's talk about the person who just randomly strolled
through the Capitol building and yet was imprisoned for that,

(01:54:17):
had to defend themselves in court, retain a lawyer at
significant expense if they could, or forced to cop a
plea because they couldn't afford a lawyer forcing him in
prison for something as minor as infraction in that And
then look at all of the violence and the and
the and the property damage done by the ANTIFA types
and the Black Lives Matter folks that were out there

(01:54:37):
absolute criminal activity, distinct observable documentable property destruction, and also
people that were severely injured in some cases killed as
a consequence of their violence. Do you imagine the amount
of resources, the money, and effort that the FBI spent

(01:54:57):
tracking down the old lady who they now have in
prison because she wandered around. I mean that they they
use valuable resources and dollars going after non violent folks
when the crime, when the streets are just laden with
violent criminals, that even if they pick them up, they
just let them out.

Speaker 7 (01:55:16):
All right, I am wow. You know, there's there's a
there's a there's a problem with living long enough that
you can see major changes in culture like I have.
But I can see the difference in America. I can
see and feel the difference in our cultural belief and
the qualities of America and the promises of America. And

(01:55:38):
that's all come about because everybody has been so uh
so intent on creating this uh this false reality that
that you got more than I got. Therefore you're evil
and I'm good, and let's pay let's tay a really
good attention. I can say you're bad and we can
have a conversation, right, I can say you're evil, and
we no longer have anything to talk about. And that's

(01:55:59):
what's happened here there. There's been a vilification that it's
been almost irreversible killed any kind of dialogue that we
might have had to come to some conclusions. And now
we're a split America, and we have such a huge
task ahead of us. The first thing you need to
do is bind up the nation's wounds. Who said that,
Oh yeah, somebody else said that I stole. Bind up

(01:56:22):
the nation wound and started by getting all the ja
sisers out of jail. Those who really did something wrong
that day can be tried for those things separately. All
you have to do is, you know, basically, dismiss those
charges without prejudice, unlike Hunter's pardon, which is with prejudice,
which means you can never go after this man for
anything that he did or anything that he was involved in.

(01:56:44):
Pay attention to that one for ten years back, ten
years back. How about we just go back five years
and just give the I'll take half of that, go
back five and give all the Jay six ers a
pass and then pay them back for the destructions of
their lives.

Speaker 1 (01:57:00):
Well, one can only help that some justice does happen
along those lines. And you know what, all I can observe,
Tim the Republicans have a huge, huge, huge task in
front of them, and if they don't get their act
together and actually accomplish something over a very short window
of opportunity, we're going to be back having the same

(01:57:20):
damn conversation a couple of years from that.

Speaker 2 (01:57:22):
Tim, We are.

Speaker 7 (01:57:24):
But you know what, your listeners have to be part
of this. All of us have to be part of this.
I mean, that's the why I got involved. I realized
that I didn't get part. If I didn't take some action,
things are just going to keep going the way they were.
Everybody's got this capability. You can call your congressman, you
can get involved in local politics, you can support the
people who are fighting on the front line. Everybody can

(01:57:46):
do something. And I got news for you. The politicians
are not going to say this. It's we, the people
who have the responsibility within the constitution and within our
form of government to make sure that we preserve the
goodness of America for future generations.

Speaker 1 (01:58:01):
And we have failed.

Speaker 7 (01:58:02):
And now I tell everybody who's listening to this, you
have a chance to fix it. All you got to
do is get off your butt and do something. Go
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(01:58:24):
that there are just a little tiny drop in the water.
Is all it takes, is all of us do it.
We have a tsunami. If you sit in walk, nothing happens.
And so I call you to action, America. It's time
to wake up. We got it, like you said, like
Brian said, We've got a huge job ahead of us,
and it will take every single one of us doing
our part to restore this country and to give our

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children what we do it. And so I call on you, America,
get off your butt.

Speaker 1 (01:58:49):
Joe. Put the links up to your site on my
blog page forty five Carcy dot com so my listeners
can contribute. Every little bit counts, as demonstrated by my
guest today, Tim Rivers, has been a real pleasure having
you back on the program. And I'll encourage my listeners
to get both copies of the American Gulag Chronicles. Tim.
I hope we get to talk again, and I hope
in our next conversation is some great news. And I
appreciate all of your efforts to save America. My friend.

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and a happy Tuesday to you, sir. Good morning, Brian

(02:00:37):
from a cold Washington. That's cold here too, so you
can't look on the city of Cincinnati had twenty one
degrees with any envy this morning. Although it may be
colder where you are, it sucks to be in winter
time period of the story.

Speaker 3 (02:00:50):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:00:51):
Joe Biden in his statement pardoning his son, which I
think most people believe was gonna happen, but he said
his son had been treated differently by the Justice Department
and was singing only because he is my son, and
that is wrong. Well, you know, you and I might
look at that statement and say, actually, that's accurate. He
was singled out and actually was singled out for soft treatment.

(02:01:12):
He was treated differently than any other human being in
the United States who would be prosecuted for all the
financial transactions he engaged in let's face it, prior to
them being barred by the statute limitations.

Speaker 7 (02:01:28):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 8 (02:01:29):
I think Marco Paulo has done some good work and
they've put out a spreadsheet of about one hundred and
forty statutes that Hunter, you know, may have violated. And
that just speaks to why Joe Biden, you know, extended
this pardon to Hunter over the course of ten years

(02:01:49):
because I think, you know, there was maybe some fear
that some justice would be coming over the next four years.

Speaker 1 (02:01:56):
Well, let me ask you this, is it possible that
justice could still becoming now? I know, Joe Biden's got
more pardons up his sleeve, and you know, the whole
Biden family is probably going to be given a partner
for the same period of time. But what of the
receipt of all this money, the fact that he was
received from foreign governments. Aren't there like FIA charges that

(02:02:16):
could be brought here to other against other people. I mean,
he received millions from the Chinese Communist Party, he received
millions from the Russians, he received millions from the Abarissma
holdings in Ukraine, I mean, and a lot of that
money got distributed to a variety of different Biden family
members and friends. So is this all dead and over
with with Hunter Biden's broad pardon.

Speaker 8 (02:02:38):
I think Hunter Biden was just the front man for
the Biden crime family. And so when you when you
look at these wire transfers that Oversight Chairman James Comer
has dug up, it shows a whole web of of
money flowing to and from Biden family members that originated

(02:03:00):
from overseas business. And so Joe Biden has not issued
a pardon. James Biden, which is Joe Biden's brother, Hunter
Biden's uncle, James Biden, is probably more corrupt than Hunter Biden.
He just didn't have a laptop that he abandoned at
a New York repair shop.

Speaker 1 (02:03:18):
Apparent probably didn't have as bad of a drug problem either,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 8 (02:03:23):
Probably probably not, although I think there was some images
of him, maybe that was the other his Joe Biden's
other brother, of him taking you know, a naked shot
of him in the bathroom. The whole family is gross. Yeah,
and I think America is going to be very happy
when they get a real president back in the White House.

Speaker 1 (02:03:42):
Well, and I think, you know it's this type of thing.
The the the the treatment of Hunter Biden, and again
the fact that they slow walk the original investigation. You
have these irs whistleblowers talking about me. They had damning
information on him. They had the Hunter Biden laptop information
in the form of that. That was the the FBI
investigation form form was it two twenty three year or something. Anyway,

(02:04:06):
it was all corroborated independently by their investigation. It shows
up on a laptop. You got fifty one people from
the Obama administration stepping up saying the laptop is a
bunch of Russian hoaxes just enough to get Biden through
the election. We all saw it with our own eyes.
We all witnessed it. We've all been listening to this nonsense.
And for the past four years, Donald Trump beat the

(02:04:31):
living hell out of Kamala Harris in spite of eight
years of constant drum beat of evil orange man, zeemophobe,
ho of foe races, misogynist, blah blah blah. You couldn't
get away from that. And yet he bludgeoned her like
a baby harp seal. That's the American people knowing what's
going on, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (02:04:51):
I think what this election proved is that the American
people are very smart and we should trust the American
people on who they believe is best to lead this
and the people who have been leading this country are
i have not done a good job, and the people
who have helped them stay in power have totally lost credibility,

(02:05:12):
such as the media. You have the media going out
there saying for months that, oh, Joe Biden's not going
to part in Hunter because Joe Biden said so. Well,
Joe Biden's word isn't worth a flip, and so the
media has egg on their face today. And that's why
you're saying the media, you know, tiptoeing around saying, oh wow, gee,
Joe just lied to us, or you know, Joe's not

(02:05:34):
making us look very nice. Well, Joe is not a
very nice guy. He's an angry old man, and when
he leaves office, I think he'll be remembered as the
most corrupt president in American history.

Speaker 1 (02:05:44):
Yeah, it's an excellent and astute observation. Another stute observation
I saw this morning from James Freeman speaking about this pardon.
Also a question of who authored the statement that came
out Joe Biden clearly didn't. He reminded them, the readers
that you know, it was only ten months ago the
Justice Department special counsel said Joe Biden was too forgetful

(02:06:07):
to prosecute even though there was, you know, indictable information there.
And more than four months after, they pulled the plug
on his presidential campaign because of his mental infirmities. And
and here we go. I mean, who art have you
ever concluded, my friend Wendell, who the puppet masters are?

(02:06:30):
I mean, most of my listeners believe it to be
the Biden, the former Obama administration and those that are
still around, because Barack Obama didn't go far go very
far away after he left office. So is that new's
behind all this quote unquote strategy if you can even
call this a strategy.

Speaker 8 (02:06:49):
I think that Joe Biden has some loyalists, and I
think the chief loyalist is Joe Biden. I think Joe Biden,
you know, really wants power, really wants to be in
the spotlight. I think that you know, she has a
lot of influence with Joe Biden's thinking, maybe as the
enforcer behind the scenes with Joe Biden's you know, top deputies,

(02:07:10):
But the bottom line is they have covered up Joe
Biden's mental infirmities for four years and that came to
the forefront in such a way that he had to
drop out of the presidential race, and they installed Kamala Harris,
which you know, was a terrible candidate, but Joe Biden
was also a terrible candidate.

Speaker 2 (02:07:32):
And so I guess what we get is.

Speaker 8 (02:07:34):
Another more four years of a terrific President Trump.

Speaker 1 (02:07:39):
Well, let's hope that the Republicans hurry up and get
a whole lot done before the midterm elections, because you know,
if history is any guy, the party in power typically
loses seats and we back to square one and do nothing.
Congress going back.

Speaker 8 (02:07:54):
If I could interject, if I could, oh yeah, please,
I think I think one thing that happens when Republicans
at powers, they don't use their voters give them the
power to make changes, and they in the past have
done very little. Yes, And so the hope is in
the next four years that Donald Trump installs the men
and women that he would like to help him change government.

(02:08:16):
We need to drain the swamp, we need to fire
people in these federal bureaucracies. And without doing that, we're
just going to be trying to tread water for the
next four years, and then you're right, we're going to
have no results because guess what, Donald Trump promised for
four years that he would drain the swamp. And so

(02:08:38):
if he delivers on that promise, I think Americans are
going to be very happy they elected Donald Trump to
do so.

Speaker 1 (02:08:44):
Well. Indeed they did now and something I'm a little
disheartened by but kind of expecting is along the lines
of the Republicans not you know, using the power that
the voters have given them by giving them a majority.
They gave We got the Exacts, kid, we got the House,
got the Senate. Fine, it's time to get something done.
I saw an op ed piece just the other day

(02:09:05):
on the Inflation Reduction Act, the Green New Deal, and
you got all these Republican states that are giving getting
a lot of green money to keep carbon out of
the environment, even though it's a naturally occurring plant food,
and they're going, well, WHOA, Well, maybe not so fast.
I don't know that we're gonna backpedal and completely get
rid of the Inflation Reduction Act because he Hey, look

(02:09:26):
I'm in Nebraska, and you know, we get a lot
of money in corn subsidies, so we can burn food
in our gas tank and it would really hurt our
farmers if we take away that, and we're gonna make
a whole lot of money on carbon capture. It's all
a fiction. It's created out a whole cloth for through legislation,
has no binding a connection with reality. And yet I'm

(02:09:46):
worried the Republicans are going to be defending this stuff
just because, well, it's in their backyard.

Speaker 8 (02:09:52):
Under Donald Trump's leadership, there has been a political realignment
occurring in this country, and that political realignment has not
yet been completed. The next four years, hopefully we can
get a little bit further. But the reason why Republicans
are so weak is because we have a lot of
Republicans who are actually just establishment Democrats who vote with

(02:10:13):
the Democrats, who want everything that the Democrats want, and
who go to cocktail parties and you know, drink the
same drinks and cheers each other when they get their
huge paydays.

Speaker 5 (02:10:27):
And so.

Speaker 1 (02:10:29):
I think.

Speaker 8 (02:10:31):
The continuing, the continuing cleaving of these essentially establishment Democrats
from Congress will make a difference over.

Speaker 1 (02:10:42):
The long haul.

Speaker 8 (02:10:43):
It's very difficult to make changes without a party who
has cohesion and right now the Republican Party is the
party that is the reform party, and we just have
some stragglers that we need to remove from office like Collins,
mrcau ski, McConnell. These people are snakes and they're holding

(02:11:03):
the Republican Party.

Speaker 1 (02:11:04):
Back words that certainly resonate with my listening audience. Now
before I would like you to either support my enthusiasm
Wendel or burst the bubble of my enthusiasts, or perhaps
somewhere in between. I love the idea of this DOE
Department of Government efficiency. It's not part of government. It's
like two brilliant guys sitting in a room just going

(02:11:28):
through line by line the ridiculous spending in all areas
of government and cutting them and giving these recommendations to Congress,
who can then act on them. Vv A Grahma swimming
and of course Elon Musk. Neither of them need the
money that might come with a paying position. They are
brilliant at business and they've been down this road before
in terms of the challenges of businesses and making a

(02:11:48):
profitable entity. Do you think they can actually bring about
effective change and cut the size and scope of government
or am I smoking something?

Speaker 8 (02:12:00):
Were going to give them an opportunity. I don't see
why they could not follow through on it unless they're
just lying to us. But the good news is that
Donald Trump has nominated a man named Russe Vote to
be OMB director. That's the Office of Management and Budget.
And the Office of Management and Budget is a significant
department because it oversees in the implementation of Trump's vision

(02:12:26):
across the executive branch through acting funding that different agencies request.
And so my understanding is that Vivic and Musk are
going to be working with Vote on how to actually
acts this waste. And Vote was in there before as

(02:12:46):
acting O and B director during Trump's first administration and
if you remember when Trump said okay, no more funding
for Ukraine and they tried to impeach Donald Trump over
at RUSS Vote was at the nucleus of that. And
so I think we have a strong team going into
going into the next four years. I will hopefully follow
through on their promises.

Speaker 1 (02:13:06):
Well, supporting my enthusiasm to a certain degree, tempering it
a little bit, which is what you're well, what's hear
about all about Wenda? Who's both been great having you
on Political Reporter from over at Breitbart again b R
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folks from Breitbart next week. Have a wonderful week, and
thanks for the time you spend my listeners and I

(02:13:28):
today Wendell. Thanks Brian, have a great day, My pleasure.
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the battlefields and the various battlefields we discussed every week,
and today we're back to Russia, Ukraine. We'll talk a
little Belarus as well as Georgia. Daniel Davis. Always a

(02:15:13):
pleasure to have you on my program, my friend. Good
to see you again. Always a pleasure to be here, Brian.
So we have saboteurs in Russia. We've had saboteurs really
all over the place. There's been a lot of this
stuff going on for quite some time in Russia. There's
a growing amount of saboteurs in Europe as well. They're
starting to real concerned about that.

Speaker 15 (02:15:36):
Honestly, it's it's warfare, and it takes all the different places,
from the front lines of the battle, to the diplomatic calls,
and to the economic in the in the various places
where war material are made. So this is certainly no surprise,
and it's just another ugly part of war.

Speaker 3 (02:15:52):
It is.

Speaker 1 (02:15:52):
And I try to start off normally on a more
intelligent basis, the springboard to enter into our conversations. But
I just was observing during this whole discussion we've had
weeks in and now years. I guess about the Russia
Ukraine situation. Russia typically is presented as or at least
appears to have sort of a unified front. It's people
are all behind Vladimir Putin, everybody's on his side. You know,

(02:16:15):
They've got the troops, they've got the the the armaments,
and they're making inroads into Ukraine. Ukraine's divide to Ukraine's
filled with a bunch of Russians who don't want to
be a part of Ukraine. All they're trying to do
is liberate. I mean, yeah, that's the fog of war.
We talk about it a lot, but didn't realize that
Putin himself was having problems domestically, which I can't say
that I'm disappointed about. I'm no fan of Vladimir Putin,

(02:16:37):
even I know he's probably gonna end up winning this
war with Ukraine.

Speaker 15 (02:16:42):
Yeah, I mean, he is gonna end up winning it.
I mean, the fundamentals are really irreversible. They're so far
in Russia's favor, and the biggest issue is manpower. Ukraine
is suffering by Ukrainian reports, Western reports up to one
hundred thousand desertions.

Speaker 4 (02:16:57):
When that number is just skyrocketing, you just can't I.

Speaker 1 (02:17:00):
Fought like that I didn't have any chance to win.

Speaker 15 (02:17:03):
But I'd be careful a little bit about some of
these reports coming out of Rush about dissent or whatnot,
because it's comparatively small. We'll see if it develops into anything,
but I honestly think it's gonna be too little, too late,
and it's unclear just how widespread it actually is.

Speaker 1 (02:17:21):
Well it seems, and I'm not sure if the election
of Donald Trump had an impact on this, but I
hear Zelonsky now talking about maybe some sort of negotiating
a peace deal. I see that maybe there was a
ceasfire negotiating between Israel and Lebanon. I mean, is Trump
gonna be is Trump consequential in these seemingly like baby

(02:17:43):
steps toward can I I don't know if I dare
use the word peace in this conversation, but some sort
of settlement agreements or some resolution of these conflicts, well.

Speaker 15 (02:17:54):
Without question, there was a major, major impact on the
Russia Ukraine War, or far more than anything in Israel,
though I'll talk about that separately.

Speaker 4 (02:18:03):
The issue with the Ukraine side is.

Speaker 15 (02:18:05):
That buzz Valinski, vlodimers Zelensky is doing everything he can
to try to avoid the Trump effect.

Speaker 4 (02:18:12):
I mean, he still wants weapons, he still wants all
these things.

Speaker 15 (02:18:15):
He's trying to get people still, even in this eleventh hour,
to try to give him more weapons and more ammunition
so he can have a better negotiating position. But then
when in this sky News interview you're talking about here
a few days back, when you listen to him.

Speaker 4 (02:18:28):
He still doesn't want to give up anything.

Speaker 15 (02:18:30):
He still says, well, it's illegal for me to give
up any territory for peace, but we're going to have
to for you know, to get the hot phase over.
But then we'll get it back later as long as
we have NATO. That's the reason why Russia went to
war in the first place. So that's a complete non starter.
So look, Trump is coming in and he has unequivocally
said he's going to end the fighting.

Speaker 4 (02:18:51):
He's not going to keep supporting it.

Speaker 15 (02:18:53):
So I think that Zelensky should probably recognize what's happening
and move into a direction that makes some sense.

Speaker 4 (02:19:00):
Is the one he's going is not gonna work well.

Speaker 1 (02:19:02):
And let's go back to the point you made early on,
and I read the same information. The desertion level in
the Ukrainian forces is really high. And you can have
all the weapons in the world laying around, but if
you have somebody to use them, it's not gonna do you.
Witsworth a good it's become some big ammo dump that
that computin's gonna come in and take advantage of himself

(02:19:22):
when he runs over the territory.

Speaker 15 (02:19:24):
Well, and you know when there was another really peculiar
thing he said in an interviewed. So remember in the
context here back in May, we finally passed that sixty
one billion dollar deal that everybody at the time said
was decisive and was going to make a difference or whatever.

Speaker 4 (02:19:37):
We didn't see it make any difference at all.

Speaker 15 (02:19:38):
But now then that Biden is trying to get those
last I think eight billion dollars out the door before
January twentieth, you know, to just surge the zone. As
Jake Sullivan said in an interview, you had Zelensky saying,
we have ten brigades and we've been trying for a
year to get them outfitted, and we've only got two
and a half. So then the question is where did
all that money go and what did it Bob, Because

(02:19:59):
you're telling me you have seven and a half brigades
with no equipment.

Speaker 4 (02:20:03):
And you don't have enough people, and they're deserting, et cetera.
Everywhere you look. This thing has just fallowed apart.

Speaker 1 (02:20:08):
Well, I think most of my listening audiences aware that
Ukraine and not exactly the most upright country in terms of,
you know, lack of corruption. It has been a long
time problem with corruption. Goes back to you know, Biden
withholding a billion dollars of aid because well they had
a little problem there with the prosecutors in Barisima holdings.

(02:20:29):
Interesting connection there. So it doesn't shock me that maybe
some of the resources we've sent to that country have
gone missing. We can't even do our own accounting of
our own American military here with our own resources dead.

Speaker 4 (02:20:42):
Well, there's true, Yeah, we can't. Even the Pentagon has
never passed to an audience.

Speaker 15 (02:20:47):
So I don't know why we think Ukraine's going to
be able to but you see on the battlefield that
it has an impact, Yes it does. And unlessa we
haven't talked about the situation in Israel for a while,
so let's get your an update on your current position relatives.
I know it looks like Lebanon's might be settling down
a little bit, and there's always breaches of the ceasefire agreements,
but where are we visa the Lebanon, Israel and I

(02:21:09):
guess Goz as well, Yeah, there's a couple of different
factors in some positive, some not so positive. For Israel,
you got to admit and can see that the militarily
they have been really devastating to the entire Hezbela organization,
from the top all the way down to that pager
and walkie talkie attack. The decapitation of all the leadership

(02:21:31):
and then the physical incursion there has had an absolute
devastating effect on Hisbola and that was one of the
reasons why they.

Speaker 4 (02:21:38):
Agreed to the ceasefire.

Speaker 15 (02:21:40):
Israel agreed to the ceas far because they were having
real problems with casualties and their reserve forces have been
on duty so long. I think we're into the fourteenth now,
heading toward the fifteenth month of overall conflict, and they
need a breather as well.

Speaker 4 (02:21:54):
But then you also see that Iran had.

Speaker 15 (02:21:57):
Been promising after the last Israeli attack that they would
retaliating responding kind. But now then they were the first
ones to get behind the ceasefire against Hezbola, so they're
also licking their wounds. So bossom line is it's kind
of put a lull on things and give people a
chance to breathe. But the problem is none of the
underlying conditions that led to war in the first place

(02:22:18):
or even being addressed, and you had this whole problem
still raging in Gaza. So you know, we're not out
of the woods yet, but there is at least a
breather on a couple of fronts. And before we part company.
Daniel Davison, I always enjoy these conversations. I wanna jump
over back to Russia. I've read reports that they're han't
been a problem with their currency. The ruble is not

(02:22:40):
doing real well. And if the backbone of your system
of government, obviously the ruble is collapsing, that causes you
real long term problems and even short term problems. Is
there any truth or connection with what's going on in
terms of the war situation, the relationship with the Iranians
or anybody else over there, that the ruble is causing

(02:23:01):
or impacting.

Speaker 1 (02:23:03):
Yeah, it has.

Speaker 4 (02:23:04):
It has spiked of late.

Speaker 15 (02:23:06):
It also spiked in the first part of the war,
like really, really high, and of course that's what everybody
first thought. The sanctions we're going to have their crippling effect,
and then their you know, their institutions, their financial institutions
took action at the government level and brought it back.

Speaker 4 (02:23:19):
Down to a stable area. Now it's seeing another.

Speaker 15 (02:23:22):
Spiked It's a little bit surprising in that it's coming,
you know, a month or so after month and a
half now after the Bricks meeting, which was to solidify
their economic base or so. It's it's still a little
early to see if this is a blip or if
it's going to be an indication of something more serious,
because if it keeps going in that direction, it will
cause ripple effects across their entire economy. But of course

(02:23:44):
they're going to do whatever they can to try and
get that back under control. We'll have to wait and
see whether they succeed or whether this is just an
indicator of more trouble to come.

Speaker 1 (02:23:52):
Well, our popcorn will stay out in the meantime. I'll
look forward to another discussion next Tuesday, Deep Die with
Daniel Davis. Find them online the end of day with
Deep Dive search for the podcast. You're gonna love what
he has to say. I always enjoy our conversations, my friend,
and already looking forward to another one next week. You
have a great week, say thirty nine. If you have
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