55KRC Thursday Show - RestoreWellness, HEART 4 Seniors, DAV, Caroline Topperman, Jay Ratliff

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Five o five at the r c BE talktation.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I try to eat vacation.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
That's the way the news goes.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yes, it is, and what an interesting morning it is.
Everybody's coming out against this ridiculous spending bill nostra. Thomas
added again, Thomas Massey anyway, we'll get to that in
a moment. Our country is run by a bunch of
blanken idiots. I'm sorry. That's just the way I feel
this morning after looking at all this. Oh and they

(00:54):
gave themselves a pay raise to well, probably not considering
the opposition to come out against this spending bill. I
hope they have to stay in DC at Christmas time.
Merry Christmas here. I'm gonna call home and Christmas morning
and tell my family Merry Christmas because we all suck

(01:14):
and we spend too much and we're running our country
into the toilet. Okay, I got it out of my system.
Let's start with them. Rundown this morning, and a happy
Friday Eve to you. George Brenneman. We had a little
miscommunication yesterday, No big deal. George Brendman's gonna join us
in studio talk about politics and stuff and things. A
great guy got a great insight George Gtt, and he's
been on the program so many times over the years.

(01:35):
I've lost track as I close out again my eighteenth year.
I just still can't believe that. It seems like just
yesterday when my dad sat me down and said, Brian,
do not take this job that they've offered. You don't
do it, like expression of his frustration with his corporate masters. Joe,
do you think my dad was trying to tell me
something with that along those lines. I'm serious, you know,

(02:02):
I said, Dad, you've been a radio for forty six
years or whatever. The world's changing radio. He used to
have such a good time radio apparently, and the whole
industry was a riot. It was fun. It was games,
people setting fires in the hallway, running around naked and
doing crazy stuff. Randy Michaels, he's out there somewhere. It

(02:24):
was fun. And then of course the laws came. I'm
reminded of Telegraph Road if you're familiar with the lyrics
of that song. Then came the lawyers, Then came the rules,
and of course the NBAS came along. And I said, Dad,
that's been my work environment my entire life. I've worked

(02:46):
for control freaks and nbas and my entire life. So
you know, I'm not missing out on anything. I just
moving over from one group. It's the ones you know
versus the ones you don't know, and how many people
get an opportunit. I need to try it out, I said,
try it out. Mark Twain, Right, you regret the things
in life you don't do, not the things you do.

(03:08):
I said, I'll keep my law license and I can
always go back to practicing laws. So that's how I
ended up arriving the decision over my dad's very very
very very very strong words of discouragement about taking this job.
So I'm happy to have accomplished and fulfilled eighteen years.
And I appreciate I appreciate each and every one of
the folks that listen to the program more than you
can ever imagine, because I'm not responsible for millions of

(03:35):
dollars in other people's money anymore. It's a pressure job.
Being a lawyer is not necessarily an easy thing, trust
me on that, But neither is this Anyhow. Every job
has its ups and downs, and I just want to
thank everyone for at least allowing me to be here
on the morning show for the last eighteen years. I
got three years left in the current contract or two

(03:56):
plus one, depending on how you look at it. And
as long as Joe Trekker is the executive producer of
the program, you can count on me showing up to work.
Roger King's going to be in studio Hearts for Seniors Foundation.
We'll learn all about that with Roger King at seven
oh five, followed by the Disabled Veterans of America Dan Claire,

(04:17):
chief Communications offer Officer for the Disabled Americans for a
ve Disabled American Veterans. So I'm going to talk about
the DAVY boot Camp Patriot boot Camp helping veterans transition
into private sector and grow and own small businesses. Wonderful,
wonderful concept. We'll see, we'll learn about it and see
if there's something you and I can do about it.
Eight oh five with Carolyn Topperman with the book Your

(04:39):
Roots Cast a Shadow. And finally it is Friday Eve
and you know how much I love talking to Jay Ratliffe.
Hell of a great guy. Enjoy our conversations so much so.
Eight thirty with Jay Ratliffe, like every other Thursday at
eight thirty, iHeartMedia Aviation Expert. We may get a comment
or two about the market reaction to the Fed's announcement
about the rate cut and the likelihood that there won't

(05:02):
be that many Next year, airlines finally required to provide
protection for passengers traveling with disabilities. We'll hear about the
danger of lithium batteries, which I mentioned yesterday. About the
guys the boots that caught on fire. He had heated
his souls, insoles, and his boots he got off Amazon
there made by some Chinese manufacturer, and they gave him

(05:24):
second and third degree burns when they well literally blew
up on his feet or caught on fire. So this
story story described his feeling. These looks an intense heat.
It looks that in smoke is billowing out of his boots.
A hospital visit ensued, and I mentioned the handwarmers that
I got from my wife, and since I didn't have

(05:45):
my cell phone yesterday, I left it at home, thus
depriving me of two factor authentication and access to my email. Anyway,
I got home to find out she had texted me, well,
I'm going out with a dog this morning. It's cold out,
but I'm not taking my handwarmers with me. Thanks to
the story, you read. So anyway, whether those will ever
be used again remains me seen, but I found them
quite useful when I was out of camp at orready

(06:06):
shooting fifty BMGs on a cold and windy morning. So anyway,
we'll also get hub delays from Jay Ratler that al
at eight thirty I love hearing from you. Please feel
free to call five one, three, seven four nine fifty
five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three talk go
with Town five fifty on AT and T phone. Yes,
drones are still in the news as well as everything else.

(06:27):
But let's take a quick look at the spending bill
and going through the comments, some of which are sides
splittingly funny in spite of the fact that the well,
the predicate for the comments is not funny in any way,
shape or form. And that's the ridiculous fifteen hundred plus
page spending bill that gets us through March and also
includes a whole bunch of great provisions that you and

(06:48):
I would probably find offensive. If we're saying that will
be me and my listening audience, including giving Congress a
raise or some massy Yesterday people call me Nustra Thomas
for accurately predicting Speaker Johnson would use the Christmas recess

(07:09):
to force a massive spending bill through Congress after claiming
he would not. Johnson is embracing a DC tradition that's
nearly as old as decorating Christmas trees. Amen. He put
a video up with Speaker Johnson saying in September that

(07:30):
there would be no Christmas omnibus, and himself over the
years highlighting how often Congress comes down to the wire
before the holidays past government funding legislation, which is every
single year. Now, what do we know it's gonna happen
next year? There's supposed to be twelve appropriation goals. We're

(07:51):
supposed to complete them before the year. Is that they
know that they knew that ten years ago, fifteen years ago,
twenty years ago, and they knew it every single year
going forward. And why are we on the uh, Well,
the moment before Congress goes on, Reesa's dealing with an
extension of the federal government until March because they're incompetent,
maybe because they don't care, because this is easier and

(08:16):
they can stuff a whole bunch of unnecessary crap, including
raises for themselves because well it's the last minute, we
all got to go home for Christmas. That means they've
failed in their job. Again, listen, this is part of
their job description. And I bet you if you go

(08:37):
to work, I bet your job has some sort of description,
or you know what your responsibilities are and you're supposed
to accomplish them, or it results in your being fired. Like,
for example, I have to be here in front of
the microphone at least by five or five? Oho?

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Five?

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Is the case made? Be If I'm not and I
regularly just don't show up, I'm not gonna have a situation.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
Right.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
How is it that these people can have a job
when they fail every blank in year to accomplish one
of the core key responsibilities that is in their job description,
which is passing the twelve appropriation bills. Oh we got
the defense pass though, Yeah, after they failed eight audits.

(09:33):
Can you tell them a little upset about this? In
the video chaired by Massey highlights previous interviews in which
he predicted the spending bills would failed days before Congress
goes on holidays. Quote, they always say, if you vote
for this, you can go home and open presence with
your family, and if you don't vote for this, we're

(09:55):
gonna be here over Christmas because the optics are bad.
He also added that no, but he's going to bring
their family to dec over Christmas, so they're, you know,
like the Grinch. Some people call me Nostra Thomas for
predicting this. We could find clips with me predicting this
every year. It's not a prediction, it's just how the
swamp works. He also said he's not going to be

(10:21):
voting for House Speaker Mike Johnson for the next Congress either,
and that also does not shock me a bit. He said,
Mike Johnson just gave me another fifteen hundred and fifty
seven reasons not for vote for vote for him.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
This.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
It is this omnibus bill. And again it's one thousand,
five hundred and fifty seven pages long. It came out
Tuesday night. Can you read something that long? No, you can't,
And if you tell me you can, I'm sorry. That
doesn't mean you will understand it. Because the way these

(10:58):
things work, it requires context. These bills include references to
other legislation and other statutes and the Code of Federal
Regulations and all those other documents out there in the world,
millions of pages of them. You'd have to go there
to find out what the change is in the Omnimus

(11:19):
Bill to have any context for what we're reading in
the one thousand, five hundred and fifty seven page document
that's sitting on your desk. Massy further stated, we get
the same lump of coll right before Christmas every single year.

(11:40):
They will literally tell you, if you don't vote for
this steaming pile of pooh, you're going to be here
over Christmas break. I love Congressome Massy. He compared the
practice of doing this or doling out aid for foreign countries,

(12:04):
which the bill does. US foreign aid spending is like
watering the neighbor's yard while your house is on fire.
Be that Grandma Swimming responing responding to that, So, no, No,

(12:25):
it's worse because, unlike a household, US government actors are
spending other people's money to do it. Like you know,
it's your water bill, watering your neighbor's grass while your
house is burning down. This is spending your money to
do well, exactly what you big. Grandma Swimming pointed out

(12:49):
he was on a WADC radio interview. Quote, Massy, again,
I have Republican colleagues who'd rather run over their own
mom with a car then to vote to cut spending.
Just a tip of the iceberg on the comments on
this one, folks. Let's see if they'll be in DC

(13:10):
for Christmas five eighteen fifty five kros De Talk station
or is there a plan? B Elon Musk had a
few choice words for it as well. Don't go away,
I'll be right back after these brief words, see even
a happy one. T You're gonna go straight to the
phones five one three eight hundred two to three Talk
Contact fifty on eighteen T phones. Hey Kevin, welcome to
the program, and happy Friday eve to you.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
Come on Brian, which can I ask, uh, what are
your thoughts on whether or not the FEDS could charge
that idiot with domestic terrorism, the dude who burned down
the Big mac Bridge.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Honestly, you know, I mean theoretically, I suppose yes. I'd
have to see the definition, the League definition for domestic terrorism,
because like all things in the law, there are specific
elements for every crime, like, for example, premeditated murder requires preparation,
malice of forethought, that kind of thing, and you know, uh,

(14:17):
manslaughter is sort of like on the on the fly,
like you didn't plan it, but you ended up killing someone.
It wasn't you know. There's a difference. So domestic terrorism
comes with its own set of specific requirements you must
meet in order that you got to go to court
and prove. So I guess maybe did he have an intent?
Did he have an intent to disrupt traffic? Or was

(14:41):
he just being an idiot lighting a fire that ultimately
melted a bridge? I mean, I can't imagine anybody in
his position.

Speaker 7 (14:49):
Yeah, it's a federally funded infrastructure.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
That doesn't matter. Did he know that his fire?

Speaker 4 (14:54):
No?

Speaker 1 (14:54):
I mean, think about it this way. Now, I'm no metallurgist.
There is no way in hell and yea seven years
of college, you know whatever. I would never, in my
wildest of dreams, imagine if I intentionally started a fire there,
then it would melt a bridge to the point where
it would be unusable. So did he know, right?

Speaker 7 (15:15):
Hundred degrees will melt steel?

Speaker 1 (15:17):
But but do you think that guy means? Kevin, You're
missing my point, man, You're missing my point. That's the
point I'm saying. If he knew that and he intentionally
started a fire, knowing that it would melt the bridge,
and it was his intent to melt the bridge. That's
one thing. If he just lit a fire intentionally to
be an arsonist, not knowing that it would melt the bridge,

(15:38):
then you probably won't meet the predicate of domestic terrorism
because you had no intent of burning and melting a bridge.
So you got to keep the two separate. Is it
a crime that he committed Absolutely, What level or degree
of crime again goes to the whole point of like
murders at first degree, second degree, third degrees at manslaughter,
there are criminal elements that must be met. And I

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seriously doubt that anybody in his position would understand metallurgy
and temperature and how hot that fire could get, and
that the materials that were the springy element that did
the shredded tires that help kids prevent themselves from having
injuries when they fell, would actually ignite and reach those temperatures.

(16:22):
I sure as hell wouldn't. I mean some fire marshal,
if a fire marshal actually lit the fire, probably would
have the skill sets, the knowledge and information to know that, yeah,
this fire could melt the bridge, and that's why I'm
lighting it. I want to disrupt traffic. I want to
stop commerce and industry from flowing on a federal bridge.

(16:42):
That person might be charged with domestic terrorism, But again
I don't know what the elements of domestic terrorism are,
so ultimately I can't answer your question. But these are
the types of things you need to keep in mind
when you're making when you're wondering about the question. Can't
deny that the questions legitimate. I'm just telling you, I
really seriously doubt it that that guy knew that the

(17:03):
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Speaker 8 (17:17):
Fifty five car The talk station run a business and
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Speaker 1 (17:23):
Quick internet search on domestic terrorism here you go. Dangerous
to human life. Yeah, the act poses a threat to
human life and violates US state or criminal law. So
we figure that one's got checked intimidation or coersion. The
act is intended to intimidate or course the civilian population. See,
there's your element of political influence. Government influence is another element.

(17:48):
The act is intended to influence government policy or conduct
through intimidation, coersion, assassination, kidnapping, or mass destruction. Point of fact,
did the guy have an idea, ideological motivation for starting
the fire, whether or not he intended it to melt
the bridge or not? Was the fire itself intended to
course influence the government? I tend to doubt it in

(18:12):
that particular case. The other description domestic terrorists or Americans
who commit violence to achieve their goals that stem from
domestic extremist ideological influence or lack and lack foreign direction
or influence. So I don't see that here. I haven't

(18:34):
heard an iota of information. Now, maybe the guy did
have a political motivation in doing it. If so, then
it may fall into something you might characterize as domestic terrorism.
So you see, the elements must be met. Will the
guy be charged with arson?

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Will he be charged with the criminal destruction? Absolutely? Those
are easy. Obviously he started a fire and they brought
the break tavoc and brought about a damage. Will you
be able to get money from I'm the guy, I
tend to think not. I probably doesn't even have an
insurance policy homeowners or otherwise cribbage. Mike, Welcome to the
Morning show. Any very happy Thursday to you, sir.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
Good morning Brian. He before I get to my point
about our mayor or I would like to I won't
be able to call them tomorrow ring a Christmas show,
so I would like to extend a very merry Christmas
and a healthy and prosperous twenty twenty five to the
Streker and Thomas family. Thanks. As most people in the
Tri State will be opening up presents on Christmas Morning

(19:31):
or maybe Christmas Eve, we get a present every Monday
through Friday Friday from five to nine of radio excellence,
and I would like to thank you once again.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Man. You're the nicest guy, Mike. I really appreciate it.
And one of the blessings of being on the fifty
five CARC Morning Show been able to meet and become
friends with guys exactly like you. I am truly a
blessed man for having such a wonderful listening audience, and
you're a great illustration of it. I can't thank you
enough for listening to the program that we have those

(20:01):
wonderful cribbage games, a listener lunch and just everything about it. Man,
it's just it's it's it's it's good to me, me brother,
And you were one of the reasons I can say
that out loud.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
Thank you, sir uh so coming up to our mayor
and you mentioned my one of my favorite streets on
the west side sunset yesterday. I wanted to bring that up.
After I left listener lunch went down Gurly Road. I know,
I'm just amazed. There are better streets.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
In Ukraine right now.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
I don't think that road has been improved since I
drove it every day coming back from Elder High School.
I mean, that is just just a disaster.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
You're right, No, I mean I think in terms of
a timeline, you're probably right because my mom and dad
used to live close to the Western Country Club, and
that was a long, long time ago, and then they
moved over close to Oak Hill's High School, and then
they moved off of Ribolt Road in a condo, and
then you know, my dad ended up with the dementia problem,

(20:57):
and so my mom ended up moving to a different place.
So we're going back decades and I don't ever remember
Sunset being what I would call reasonably drivable, and it's
gotten so bad it's as if they just forgot it existed.
Last time I drove over to Pryce Lil Chili for
listening to lunch, I'm like, you know.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
Lord, your your wife's card.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Yeah. That's why I always joke that
someone could build it and put an alignment shop there
and they'd have regular customers, like almost on a daily basis. Hey,
welcome back, Brian.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
But the main reason why we need people like Adam
Kaylor and Christopher Smitherman down there on Plump Street is
the total absence of this mayor not being out on
point for the last seven weeks. With the bridge failure
within forty eight to seventy two hours, the mayor coming
to Newport and Cincinnati should have headed, you know, at
least get out there in the media, keep us in form,

(21:52):
make changes. Hell, I even't thought of the idea of
subsidizing the Anderson Ferry. Throw all three ferries on. At
least get people from the side over to Boom County
something not just crickets. And I know he has aspirations
of other political office, and whoever runs against him ought
to look at this last seven weeks and it's probably
going to be another four to six weeks, and just
run this and say, okay, do you want this guy

(22:14):
to be a congressman, mayor center whatever. The guy's an embarrassment, and.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
You didn't call looking for an argument.

Speaker 6 (22:21):
No, sir, I apgree Sunset Avenue around.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
His neck exactly.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
You know.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Anyway, if his house was on Sunset or anywhere near
it where he had to use it, I bet that
road would have been fixed a long long time ago. Anyhow,
that fix if Fred, if you're out there, fixed Fred's
are a two while you're at it, because apparently we
have a lot of neighborhoods that have terrible road conditions,
and those two have been neglected year after year after year.
Oh look, there's a new project they want to build.

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How about taking care of the ones who've already built.
Appreciate the kind comments, Mike, I really do. And blessings
to you and your beautiful better half and your entire family.
I'll have a merry Christmas. It's five thirty five right now,
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Get an ego, Hey, Aeron, I invented three.

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Traffic's doing fine early on this Thursday morning. I'm not
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two at east Gate Boulevard and a car and its

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Speaker 1 (24:48):
Five forty hapy Thursday the fair to coffee like five
on three seven four fifty five hundred, eight hundred and
eighty two three talk. I'm five fifty on eighteen and
t found and let us see here. I saw an
opportunity for phrasing, so that's why I printed out this
stack of stupid story. This morning, we have a group

(25:10):
of gunmen storming a clandestine cockfighting ring. Began shooting the
crowd in a violent attack, killing four men and injuring
three others. Described as the latest growing wave of hyper
violent crimes that have been plaguing Mexico, while the government
claims the country has improved in public safety. Happened on
Sunday night at the outskirts of Men's and Ilio City

(25:33):
in Kolima. Group of unknown individuals hosting the clandestine cockfight
frasing group of men arrived the ranch and began shooting
into the crowd, phrasing oh wow, Joe, I think you
might have pushed the limits on that one. Government officials
haven't released any information about the incident. Unofficial accounts point

(25:54):
to four men dying in three others being shot. State
military forces responded to the scene and had a clash
where the gunman as the group fled. Obviously, people had
phone videos of the shootout, which have been shared on
social media. Because of the silence and state authorities, it
remains unclear how many the fatal victims died from the
attacker or how many were gunmen who died during the

(26:15):
confrontation with the officers. Shootout comes at a times when
mass shootings targeting crowds become more prevalent throughout Mexico at
a time government officials have been able to do little
to address the trend. Huh is cock fighting illegal and messizing?
I know you're not allowed to have these things here
in the United States, at least as the term is

(26:38):
described in websters. I don't understand bear hunting. You know,
I understand hunting to a certain degree. I had a
lot of friends at hunt. I'm not a hunter myself.
I have been bird hunting before, pheasants and that kind
of thing, but never been deer hunting. Never really had
any desire to go. I mean, I'm well equipped to

(26:58):
go deer hunting, It's just not something that appeals to me,
you know. Gimme clay pigeons every day, gimme targets down range,
give me steal to shoot at. I am extremely happy,
but I don't know if I have to though. See,
I had the skill set so I have to feed
my family in times of well distressed or whatever, then
I'm able to do it. But I never have understood

(27:19):
wanting to shoot a bear unless the damn things chasing
after me are trying to kill me, in which case
I'm acting in self defense. Would have no remorse over it,
so I kind of view this one as a bit
of instant karma. A Virginia hunter is now dead after
a bear shot by one of his fellow hunters fell
out of a tree and landed on him. This event

(27:41):
occurred on December ninth, just recently reported. Incident unfolded as
a group of hunters were tracking a bear and ran
it up a tree. See and that just makes it
an easy target. The bear is afraid, it ran away
from you, It stuck up in a tree. I couldn't
pull the trigger on the poor thing. One of the
hunters then shot the animal and it fell on fifty

(28:04):
eight year old Lester Harvey. He was transferred to the
hospital in the serious with stable condition, but succumb to
his industry injuries. New York Posts noted that Harvey was
a married father of five with eight grandchildren. Feel sorry
for the family. I feel sorry for the man, but honestly,
I still view this as a sort of instant Carmen
Thing Post pointed out that the bear hunter North Carolina
was injured in twenty nineteen when a bear that had

(28:26):
been shot fell out of a tree and then began
biting the hunter, which seems like a logical consequence of
the bear still alive. But after that, the bear and
the hunter tumbled off a cliff, leaving the hospital of
the hunter hospitalized and sadly the bear dead. You draw

(28:47):
your own conclusions, and we go to Chicago headline thanks
to the New York Post. Chicago travelers whack each other
with wet floor signs in wild caught on video broad Airport.
A group of travelers and one employee threw punches, grabbed hair,

(29:09):
and whacked each other with wet floor signs and a
wild caught on camera brawl, as New York Post describes,
reminiscent of a WWE match inside Chicago O'Hare International Airport
last week. In the video shared on social media, the
fight shows three men's including a man including an employee
in a blue shirt, seemingly teeming up against one man

(29:30):
in a white T shirt inside American Airlines Terminal three.
The men punch each other used the yellow floor signs
as weapons, smacking each other in the head and body
as the sound of plastics slapping echoed through the terminal.
As the three gang up on one man in the
white shirt, he knocks one to the floor yanks out
several dreadlocks from another guy's head. Two of the men

(29:54):
armed with the wet floor signs follow the man in
white as he steps back, still holding the dreadlocks he
had doubt in his hands. The man on his own
lifts some metal stanchion behind him and threatens the others,
finally dispelling the violent encounter. As the others back off.
Chicago police shut up to the servance, made no arrests

(30:14):
and no report was generated. Not clear what prompted the
fight and if the employee involved was a staffer for
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Five fifty eight fifty five kr C DE talks station
Happy Friday, looking forward to having George Brunman and study
get a whole host of topics talk about with the
with George and he'll be joining the program after the
top of the air news. I just saw an article
this morning and I saw Drew pappas front of the show.
Former Anderson Township trustee just acknowledging online in a Facebook
post that I can't read due to SEC compliance rules

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about the astronauts. These guys are still stuck or people
are still stuck in space. It's supposed to be like
there for nine days or something, and they're gonna end
up being up there until March. And I don't know
how you would feel about that. I don't ever consider
myself a claustrophobic person, but every single day being up

(33:24):
there and being incapable of getting back home. This is
one of the reasons I don't like cruise ships. Yeah,
I look over the railing like I want to go
over there. I want to go over there, and it's
out of your control. You're stuck. One of the reasons
why I don't know airline fly well, multiple reasons. I
don't like flying on planes, and no, I'm not afraid
of air travel. It's just that I don't like being stuck.

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I like to be in control of, like, for example,
an automobile. Just thinking the only way I could survive
someone was like, I wonder how the food supply and
I just are you kidding me? If you didn't have
like a car loads worth of xanax and vodka, I
couldn't survive that log Stuck in a tin can, I
can't get out of anyway related to absolutely nothing. Speaking

(34:09):
of liquor, we got to Columbus so High. We have
a north side funeral home serving mourners in a new
way alcohol. The Evergreen Funeral Cremation Reception, set to open
next year, applied for a liquor license and could be
serving people during services. Owners, speaking with local news WSYX,
said the unique twist to the celebration of life. They

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want to change how people view an average funeral. They
want to make the process of a very difficult time
a little easier. According to Hunter Triplett, I guess the owner,
my role in this position is to kind of be
a party planner for the dead, be more of a
celebration of life and more of a multi day traditional
service which costs a lot of money. He wants to

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shed the business reputation of being dark and morbid, offering
manageable prices and the option for mourners to drink. According
to the High Liquor Control site to permit, if approved,
would be for a three a D three license, which
in Ohio allows to sell of beer, wine, and hard
liquor for consumption on site. He said, we'll only be
serving alcohol when people are on this premises and remain

(35:13):
on the premises until the continuation of the services just
for the safety of the people and the community around,
he said. Adding a bar will allow people to make
the service more personal lives, which is a okay with me.
We said, cremate me and have a giant party, said,
I want a lot of liquor flowing and a lot
of app have a good time, play some music, have

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good time, celebrate life, and don't mourn. That's perfect with me.
And then just sprinkle my ashes around where people are
having a good time my wishes anyway. Three two year
old New Jersey woman charged with killing her mom during
an argument Monday, used the curtain rod, hammer and screwdriver
during the attack. According to the Burlington County Authorities, details

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of the brutal slang including an affiday but a probable
cause filed against Brianna Beecham charging with murder and a
weapons offense or offenses. Beacham On was on top of
her mother, Kim Beacham Hanson fifty seven, when police arrived
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another person in the residence was upstairs doing homework when
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Beacha Hanson pronounced dead at four thirty six pm, just
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before stabbing her with the screwdriver. She was temporarily residing
at her mother's home. That's it, so I won't be
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be able to confirm though, that George Brunman will be
in studio since I'm staring at him. Good to see it, George,

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looking forward to our conversation during the six o'clock hour, folks.
I hope he can stick around for that should be
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Welcome back to George Brunman.

Speaker 10 (38:14):
Man.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
It's always great seeing you, especially when we're seeing you
at any time. But I'm glad to have you in
the studio this nay. Thanks Brian, great to be here.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. Thanks man. We got a
chance at a decent new year coming up. I think
it feels that way, doesn't it.

Speaker 11 (38:28):
It does. It's a great feeling. Actually, I can't imagine
the opposite feeling.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
What would have happened on if we didn't call off
November to that end. And I will tell you, I
you know, I feel this, this, this massive weight has
been taken off my shoulders. And it was an extremely
stressful year obviously politically. Just the stress leading up to

(38:54):
the election was just really taking a toll on me
physically and mentally. And because I take this stuff seriously, man,
I care about our country need of me. I'm like you,
I freedom, liberty, the founding principles of our country all
just being wiped away before our very eyes. And it
was that would have been the end.

Speaker 11 (39:11):
If we had lost in November at the state and
national level, it would have been.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yeah. I hard to imagine what we be now. Yeah.
And if you I don't know if you've heard any
of the snippets, the sound bites from the speeches that
Kamala Harris has been giving since the election, that would
have been our president. Uh, I mean it's I'm sorry.
She's got the iq of a doorknob. I mean, that's

(39:37):
just service the doorknobs man. I will I will not
on behalf of the doorknob lobby allow you to make
such criticisms. It's sad. I mean, so we went from
somebody that's.

Speaker 11 (39:47):
Comotos I mean, he's dementia on wheels, to someone who
can't string together a sentence without a teleprompter. To me,
the epitome of her entire campaign was the time that
the telepropert went off and she said, we got thirty
two more days, and then the prompter died, and she's
like looking around, going, uh, we got thirty two more days.

(40:08):
And then you can tell she's getting ticked because she
has no idea what she was saying, and he's just
reading words. This is the best we have. I mean,
it's crazy. The interesting thing to me is two things. Really,
there was no violence afterwards.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
I there you go. I was gonna get to that.
But thank you for anticipating it. I think, you know
I did.

Speaker 11 (40:29):
If Trump one that that we would be having you know,
BLM two point zero.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
You know it would have been had he not won
the popular vote. I believe that's correct. And not only
did he win the popular vote, he wanted by a lot.
He clubbed her like a baby harp seal.

Speaker 11 (40:44):
One that won huge gains in all of the minority categories.
I think the only place he lost was college educated
single women. Well, which is an interesting demographic.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
You know, I'm gonna go there, man, not gonna go there.
But the big thing is maybe they're single by choice. Well,
I'm not gonna go there yet I went.

Speaker 11 (41:07):
But the other thing is extremely surprising is how Trump
has handled it. I think the assassination, where you know,
he came within a centimeter of dying, totally changed that man.
He he is much more reserved. You don't see him
going nuts on Twitter. Every now and then he puts
out a crazy thing, untruth social, but nothing like he

(41:28):
used to. But he is sitting back and getting the
job done. I think people know, and I was the
one of the most profound. You know, again, I always
qualified little L libertarian. I know I'm not a Republican.
I'm a little L libertarian. And one of the reasons
I'm not a Republican is because of that crap that
they just put out in terms of that bill, that
spending bill. We're gonna we can talk a little about

(41:49):
that about that. But I was extremely critical of Donald
Trump in the first term because of his Twitter feed,
because of his just inability to just keep his mouth
shut with regard to any criticism that was levied his way.
A lot on his plate he could have risen above.
It was one of the things. He was a lightning rod,

(42:10):
and anytime he opened his mouth and provided more fuel
for the fire left and whatever he was going to
say or do was going to be criticized and demonized anyway,
but he just kind of added to it, and I
kept it, doesn't he have an advisor? Doesn't he have
someone who can take his phone away? Doesn't he have
someone who can manage the Twitter feed or whatever? And
the answer was obviously no. Now you're right, he's a

(42:33):
different guy. He is more presidential, and when he does
say things, there isn't There is a really great sense
of humor about some of the things he says, which
otherwise would have been lightning rods for left wing attacks
on him. So he's kind of managed to balance responding
and being funny. And of course it's almost like he's

(42:57):
already in office considered, oh golly, yeah, I mean, Mexico's
already changing what they're doing. Canada's in trouble because of
what he's already saying, but the fact that he's now
just sort of setting in place. I want these people
in charge, Elon Musk and Vivak Ramaswami.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
Old brother, God, this is going to be amazing to watch.
And you just saw it last night.

Speaker 11 (43:19):
Musk was able to shut down that crazy continuing resolution
with all of that.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
Porkis FCC non compliant. People gave themselves a raise in
that bill, seventy thousand. You know what, what double the
normal amount or every gamount for an American. That's the
race you're dealing with. Inflation. We got people struggling, you know,
people in Hamilton County campaign their damn real estate taxes.

(43:45):
We could talk about Columbus today if you want, but wow,
you know, I mean, the world is hurting in a
lot of different ways, war, famine, pestilens. Look, we got
a new bird flu outbreak. I mean, you know what
what else the piling on all over the place. They
gave themselves a raise and better healthcare somehow, I don't
know how you get Yeah, they got out of Obamacare.

(44:07):
They freed them. They never have been That's true, but
I mean, anyway, there's a number of ways we can
criticize that monstrosity, but apparently the plug has been pulled
on it. You know what, I hope they have to
be in Columbus, in Washington, d C. For for Christmas.
I deserve to be in Washington, D C. For Christmas.
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (44:25):
I'm I'm ammost on the page of let's just shut
it down. If they're gonna do this kind of crap
at the end of the year, my life, Yeah, crap
is okay, okay, I mean, if they're allowed to do
that and try and sabotage you know, they wanted to
put the farm the farm bill is in there for
an entire year.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Talk about pork, all of.

Speaker 11 (44:41):
The money they give away their subsidizing high frucos corns, heyrup,
we'll talk about that at all point.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
I know you've got a food thing going on with it, Liberty,
It's crazy.

Speaker 11 (44:51):
But I think coming back to the idea that Trump
is not acting like Trump in his most basic form.
He's not to win the Twitter thing, and they spent
an entire year trying to bankrupt him a half billion
dollar fine for not accounting for something on your campaign
finance report?

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 11 (45:11):
He could go in there and just recavoc with just
due to them what they did to him, But he said,
I'm not I'm not concerned about that.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
I don't want to.

Speaker 11 (45:18):
Talk about the past. I think prosperity is a unifier.
I'm like, go, go go, and that will.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Set the stage for a growing, larger and I like
this more populous version of the Republican Party. You know,
there's a lot of people out in the world who
could you know, enjoy the fruits and benefits of well,
lower taxes, for example, less regulation. That's good for the economy,
it's good for job, it's good for growth, and good

(45:44):
for small business. We got to get a small business
to come back. You could see what was happening. They're
trying to get rid of small business. The was it
the Corporate account or Corporate Transparency Act CTA. It's only
applies to small business. It was supposedly for honors associations.
My wife's the treasurer. She had to put the documents

(46:04):
together for the damn thing. That for our homeowners association.
We got ten houses. Wow, that's it.

Speaker 11 (46:10):
So, I mean they were trying to get rid of
all the small business. I think Trump's gonna turn it loose.
I mean he's definitely you know, with the soft Bank
announcement and one hundred billion dollars that's not small business.
But I think if he gets rid of the regulations
and the tax cuts come in permanently, I think things
could take off. And you know, the big thing that
happened to him last time is he won the election

(46:31):
and then lost the mid terms. I think if unemployment
goes down, actual employment goes up among Americans, not just foreigners,
I think he could win an even bigger majority in
the House.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Come you know, two years from now, in the midterms,
normally the party in office suffers, so that I mean, effectively,
you can anticipate more Democrats. We'll see, got my popcorn
out for the entire four year term. And I'm hoping
the best literally for everyone. Absolutely.

Speaker 11 (47:02):
I think that's the key to all of this is
let's forget about the partisanship. You know, I would say
that we currently have three political parties. You got the
communist Democrats, you got the Rhinos, and you got the
America First. Yeah, I think we're going to see the
America First take over, right and.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
I view that America first segment as like my dream
that libertarian. I trust you with your wallet, I trust
you with your zipper. Let's just live and let live,
leave me alone, leave you the hell alone, US prosper
Amen six fifteen more. But George Brunvan coming up. We
got lots to talk about, including he mentioned food. We'll
talk about the holiday, but faith it's tonight, but also

(47:38):
a new development and I'm I don't know why I'm
reading Robert F. Kennedy Junior though, but they'll be doing
a Restore Wellness program which should be rather interesting. George
and I have a lot to talk about. I hope
you'll enjoy the conversation. It's time for me to mention
something that you will enjoy, and that's paying a hell
of a lot less money for your medical insurance. But

(47:59):
in spite of the fact paying a lot less getting
better coverage now, you can benefit from just using a
few moments of your time and making a phone call
or filling out a form on a website that does
not obligate you to do anything at all. It doesn't
cost you anything. There's no money exchanged here. Let cover

(48:20):
Since he look at your current medical insurance. Whether you're
a small business or an individual, you're paying too much.
You can't afford the nine thousand plus out of pocket
liability for you and then the other nine for your family.
Under Obamacare, you need to talk to John Roman and
the team at Cover since he they're saving people thirty
to sixty percent while providing them with better medical insurance
coverage that does include in many cases dollar one coverage.

(48:43):
You get to go to your doctor without having to
shell out money. It's an amazing concept, and I think
John is the only person on the planets that being
able to navigate the healthcare system so much that he
can figure this out and let these benefits flow to you.
I mean, it's what gets him out of bed every day,
the smiles on people's faces that he brings by telling

(49:04):
them what they're going to be paying in the future
and what the benefits are going to be with medical insurance.
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You u KRCD talk station restore Liberty dot us is
where you fight George Breneman and everything that they're doing,
including the You might just go ahead and mention the
holiday buffet the farm. It's tonight and it's the opportunity
for folks to show up. What's going to be going
on at the event tonight, George, Well, we're just trying
to get together to celebrate the holidays. We haven't had
a meeting since the election, so it's it's just an

(51:05):
opportunity to get together before Christmas. It's the standard farm
buffet on Thursday evenings. Famous.

Speaker 11 (51:15):
Yeah, Dan will be there with the family. I'm sure
Dan el Sesser, he's been there forever, his family's had
it forever. But it's a great opportunity just to shoot
the breeze, have a nice dinner, get ready for the holidays.
We can talk about whatever you want to talk about.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
No meeting. We're just getting together to eat good fellowship.
At this time of year, it's a perfect opportunity.

Speaker 11 (51:34):
So well, like we were talking about, there's plenty to celebrate, Uh,
there is in Hamilton County. We got our butts handed
to us. It's it's unfortunate. You could see it coming
by the way they ran the race. I found it
quite interesting. You know, when the Tea Party was in
its heyday and we had the meetings at the farm
back in two thousand and nine and ten. In twenty ten,

(51:57):
our entire focus was getting Steve Shabbat to replace Steve Use.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
I mean that was it.

Speaker 11 (52:02):
We went to maybe three thousand to four thousand doors
and we were able to pull that off.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Yep.

Speaker 11 (52:08):
Well, this year we kind of took on the Orlando
Sanza campaign. We hit eight thousand postcards out there, either
hand delivered or ray. He's an amazing candidate, individual family,
I mean he him.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
And Jessica all the boxes checked for everything that anybody
on our side of the political leanings could ever possibly won. Intelligent,
served his country, great family man right on all the issues,
great public speaker. I mean that he lost is just
that was one of the biolage he had hurt that
could because he that was definitely the Downtoh he ran

(52:44):
against gosh, the most liberal guy we could find. He's
already been the Gang of Five, so you know he's
a criminal. But what I really found interesting from the
Republican Party perspective in Hamilton County in twenty ten, every
single judge came to the meetings, every of the sheriff
came to the meetings.

Speaker 11 (53:02):
We had everybody there. This year, I couldn't get anybody
to come. I begged Melissa Powers, she came for one event,
couldn't get her to come back at the end to
try and do a last minute bush.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
None of the judges. I didn't have a single judge.
Even Megan didn't make it.

Speaker 11 (53:16):
Megan Shanahan's been there quite a bit and she couldn't
even make it because nobody cared about Hamilton County. She
was working the rest of the state. I just found
it interesting that there's no grassroots reach at all, and
after getting their butts handed to him, it's like they're
doubling down on that strategy. I don't understand it. You

(53:37):
had that discussion with Adam Taylor. Adam, he's a marketing genius.
I mean, that guy's got more ideas than anybody I've
ever met. He does, and he's really trying to help.
But I'm hearing rumors that they're doubling down, They're going
to go back to the same old main street crowd
downtown that you know runs the party, And it's like,
what are you running? You don't have a single Republican

(53:59):
in the county or the city, not one. Well, okay, look,
the problem is I think illustrated by Melissa Powers Loss.
She has a great record, amazing. She has done a great,
great job for the community, the juvenile programs, the Drug Corps,
the veterans programs's she a tough on crime prosecutor. Obviously

(54:26):
she struggles with some of the liberal judges, but she's
not laying down and letting criminals go. She's prosecuted to
the fullest extent of the law. And she ran against
someone with zero experience, who has didn't even have her
license last year, never law license even last year, hasn't
been in the courtroom in ever a long long time,
and did not have a campaign, none, didn't go out

(54:47):
and public didn't do a town hall meeting.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
I mean maybe she did. I didn't hear about it.
It was never written about, you know, and a lot
of people out in listening anything. Who is it anyway?
Who ended up being Connie Pillage? Where was her name?
Where was her you know, party? Or is her platform? Nothing?
She was on the blue sample back. That's it. That see,
that's the point I was getting to. Yep, And if
that's all it takes to win in Hamilton County, you

(55:10):
don't have to spend any money. And the Republicans, I
guess they've just thrown in the towel. Why bother, why
even try? But you know, you say, we want to
have Melissa Powers. She was out all over the place.

Speaker 11 (55:23):
She was out there, and she did the event at
the farm and immediately said afterwards, I really would like
to do a podcast with you. So we set that
up and if you watch that podcast, you can see
my face. Halfway through.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
I'm like, oh my god. She is an amazing prosecutor.
She's perfect for this job.

Speaker 11 (55:41):
And she's running against somebody whose name appeared on a
blue piece of patron and that's all it.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
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Six thirty one, going to it at six thirty two.
If you've got kercity talk station, Happy Thursday from Restore
Liberty dot Us George Renaman in studio, you can get
the details on tonight's holiday buffet at the farm. Just
an opportunity for some fellowship with the Restore Liberty US
folks and talk politics. Let's talk real quick. I know
everybody's got their own mixed feelings about RFK Junior, But

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in the capacity he will be in, he will be
playing in the Trump administration, I'm not afraid of him.

Speaker 11 (01:00:36):
I know he's a loon like on Green and he's
a huge Green guy. He's pretty big on abortion as well.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
I know, so a lot of reasons for me to
dislike him, but he won't have any control over the
vast majority of things that we disagree with him on.

Speaker 7 (01:00:51):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
I'm glad we had the polio vaccine. Honestly, I've seen
the devastation that polio you know, did on the whole.
I mean, for years, iron lungs. Geez, there were rooms
filled with people in iron lungs because of polio. So
I'm not an anti VAXX guy. I like the idea
of being able to choose whether or not it's an
appropriate thing. I'd like them to do a lot of

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clinical trials to prove that they're safe or that they
can warm me at a time of the perils of
taking any given drug, like they have to do before
I choose knowingly whether or not to take it. Obviously,
I'm referring to the COVID nineteen vaccine, which obviously has
a massive number of problems, probably forced upon the American people.
So but to say no vaccines across the board, and

(01:01:35):
I'm not that guy, and he isn't saying that either.

Speaker 11 (01:01:38):
He's saying what you just said, which has proved to
me they're safe, and he's been getting you know, Fauci
went after him for saying that the vaccines that you
give kids haven't been safety trialed. Turns out none of
them have, and so I think that's a valid complaint.
The other thing is, you know, you go from the
original Salk vaccine for polio, which was they basically take

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the germ practically to kill it. Yeah, and your body
builds up in anybody, that's a natural process. They're just
activating something your body does. Anyway, fast forward to mRNA.
See they're reprogramming your own DNA. They're now finding that
the body is still producing spike proteins because of that
little amount of mRNA they injected in you has now

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been incorporated into your DNA.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
And that's where the things frighten me. And that's where
what more research. And that's see, that's an area where
I think he's making some valid points just like he made.
And then the other thing is, and more importantly for me,
as I've done, you know, because I have you know, cancer,
I've done a lot of research. And if I find
out that, you know, diet plays a huge role in
it and you can literally starve cancer by just depriving

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it of sugars. I was just going to mention that,
and that's what I've been doing. I want in a
keto dyet. For a full month, I had no carbs
and zero sugar, and I've allowed myself some carbs since then.
H helped. I lost fifteen pounds in a month on
that thing, by way, So if you want to lose weight,
you know, go ahead and struggle and suffer like I did,
and it sucks. I'm not going to tell you anything
is great about the Keytot diet. You think eating a

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pound of bacon every day is fun and I didn't
even do that. But what you find is that the
foods that you're allowed to eat on a keyto diet
and then making you get bored, you get bored bored quickly.
We've been doing it since July, and so my wife
and I started down this path of looking at the
new literatures out there.

Speaker 11 (01:03:26):
There's a bunch of great books. And at the same
time then RFK is coming to the foreground, and it's like, okay,
this is something we should invest raising awareness.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
This is why I like him. He'll at least be
talking about it. Everyone in government seems to be protective
of some evil industries. And I'm not going to blanket
say all the food industries are all evil and corrupt,
but Lord almighty, when you start cutting sugar out of
your diet, that's the moment in time you realize what
in the living hell is going on in everything? Corns?

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I mean, you can't get away from it. It's crazy.

Speaker 11 (01:04:03):
So there's a combination of things that kind of drove
my wife and I and now we've got a whole
team are putting together for something we're calling Restore Wellness Style.
So what happened is we started doing the research and so,
like you mentioned, cancer needs sugar. If you if you
started to sugar, the cancer starts to die. Alzheimer's needs cholesterol.

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The fact that cholesterol is being taken out of your
body with statins, you know, they've got these ridiculously low numbers.
They're targeting your brain's forty percent cholesterol. You start starving it,
guess what, you lose your mind.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Yeah, And honestly, my dad, you know, he terrible cases
of Alzheimer's dementia. And I haven't seen definitive proof that
those statins do that. But at the same time, that's
the point that's made your brain is largely fat. And
he took them from the moment they came out on

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the market. I remember he was pre I'm cholestero. You know,
my veins are teflon coded. Now I'm not gonna have
my arteries blocked. And you know, he had his father
died of a massive heart attack when my dad was
eighteen years old. So you know in high cholesterol number
wise does tend to run in the family. I was
even on those damn things for a while, and it's

(01:05:19):
been decades since I got off them. But I don't
view the cholesterol as necessarily evil. It's part of your
body and your and the fats are your brain. So
have you taken all the fats out of your body
is a dangerous thing geo logically speaking, The whole thing
is that cholesterol was something that could measure, and by
measuring it they can take it take action against it.
But the real issue is, and what the literature is

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now saying, is blaming cholesterol for heart issues clogged arteries
is like blaming firemen for house fires. Yes, cholesterol shows
up in all of these clawged gartery cases. Why because
there's a tear in the artery and they're coming to
fix that. It's like you know, when there's a fire
in the house, you call the fire company and they

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come out and put out the fire. Cholesterol is nothing
more than a reaction to inflammation. Inflammation is caused by
seed oils, high fruitose, corn syrup, and carbs, and so
we're going after the wrong thing. It's really interesting, So
we started down that path you just talked about. It's
when Keto, now that it's been like five or six months,

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we don't even really think about it at all, but
every now and it's like, man, you know, I'd really
like to have a soft dough preszel and you know what,
baked potato and all. Your life's too short to completely
deprive yourself of that. That's why I dropped the kto
diet like a bad habit for Thanksgiving, yep. But I've
stuck on the low, low, low sugar component and that's

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actually been pretty easy to accommody. Once you ebb all
the sugars, once you know what you can and cannot eat,
it's pretty easy. And some of that substitution like instead
of rice, use cabbage, right, and a multitude of different ways.
But it's a good thing, and I'm glad you're encouraging it.
It's restore wellness dot or is what you are now
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Forty three or fifty five KRC detalk station. George Renan
in studio from Restore Liberty dot us, but also from
Restore Wellness dot Org. We're talking about nutrition and health
in the context of RFK at least, I think hopefully
will raise sufficient awareness so we can all improve our diets.
I don't know why. You know, we've got all these
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the list of ingredients and you're like, holy crap. You know, okay,
I understand the first four ingredients like bread you need
flour and eggs and you know, yeas, and then after
that it's like fifteen ingredients, which like, what in the
hell is FDC die number seven or whatever doing in there?
So maybe that has some component to do with it.
But you're not talking out of school here. I know

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it's not doctor George Brenneman, but you do have a
medical practitioner working with you on this ret or Wellness
dot Org.

Speaker 11 (01:10:01):
Right, And so we're taking a bit of a different
approach here. So all of the political stuff we've been doing.
The whole objective is you educate people so they can
get other people persuaded to vote whatever way you want
to try and get them to vote. So you're always
working on this person that's not at the meeting. The
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the people firsthand. So we're trying to put out information
on you know, nutrition, on lifestyle, on all of the
new literature on what's going on in the medical field.
And the big difference is, let's stop focusing on which
pill I take for which symptom and instead let's focus
on not getting the symptoms in the first place. There's

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the thought, and to me, that's the revolution that's happening
right now is we're finally realizing, Hey, the fact that
we got runaway obesity, run away heart disease, run away Alzheimer's.
What if the cause isn't because we haven't come up
with the right pill yet. What if the cause is
what we're eating or the fact that we're not getting
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a couple of things different. We're going to really focus
on getting some videos and podcasts out there. We've teamed
up with a functional medical practitioner and guy named Keith Tennefeld.
He's alt In Harrison. He got a rep for how
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of the box thinker, very very practical, entirely focused on
what can you do to prevent disease as opposed to
treat disease. And so Keith is part of our team
now he's going to be with us on the podcast
and on the videos. Uh, super excited. We're getting enormously
positive feedback. We've contacted some of the authors of the

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books that I mentioned on the website. We're going to
have them on as guests. So I think we're we're
onto something that could really help you know, the community
as a whole, and you know, whoever else wants to,
you know, listen in via the web on what we're
trying to do here. But it's a local focus, but
with a global concept in mind. We're really trying to

(01:12:08):
focus on how do you prevent heart disease. How do
you make it so that, you know, when I hit
sixty five this year and I'm feeling every inch of
that sixty five, how do I make it so it
doesn't get any worse from here, and in fact, it
might get better. And you know, diets a big thing.
Exercise is a big thing, but you got to be
practical about it. So none of this is unattainable. It's

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all some very simple steps. It's just a matter of
getting the information out there. So that's what we're trying
to do. I encourage everybody go to restore wellness dot org.
We're going to start populating it come January. So we're
really looking forward.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
To taking this on. I hope you have some great
success at it. While you're at it, figure out a way,
and I'm speaking on behalf of a lot of people
in the listening audience right now, including I'm talking to
my wife. Figure out a way to tap motivation to exercise.
See I can watch and I can be good at that.
Getting my lazy butt off the couch and to do

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something physical is something that is lacking in my personality.
So you figure that one out. Brother, you are gonna
hit a home run forever if you see it, because
they should. I'm not see I know I'm not alone.
Everybody's going. You're right, man, how is it that you
know there's my neighbor. He's out there jogging every morning.
He runs three mosts where he gets so his cars
go to work.

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Six fifty two if at about PARC talk station. A
few more minutes here with George running and restored Liberty
dot us and of course the new site which will
soon be well populated with health information Restore Wellness dot
org pivoting over in the last couple of minutes. I
just wanted to bring this up because I was so frustrated,
and I have been and repeatedly frustrated four years now

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with the Republican government in Columbus. I regularly referred to
as a hurting cat. Do you think that they would
get along and play nicely and actually accomplish something on
behalf of Ohioan's in the name of you know, our
collective you're in my and my listening audience's belief systems,
the message you know, smaller government, you know, a more

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better functioning government, and bringing about, you know, much needed legislation, like,
for example, doing something about the insanity that is our
real estate taxes. And they had an opportunity to do it.
And there's been actual legislation, fully crafted and vetted through
committee laying on their desks now since last year and
Lloyd Old got passed by the House. What's seventy seven

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to eleven or something like that. This this, this homestead
relief would have helped the seniors, largely those who are
on Social Security, and those are the ones that are
worried about losing their property because their taxes won up
thirty percent and that you Senate, well, you know it
just didn't do enough for they could have done. I'll
take a little tiny bite. You would not know that

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we have super majority gop up in the ills. And
what's even worse, property taxes are Like when you start
talking to that, my blood pressure goes sky high because
not only are they not helping the fact that you
can't afford to keep your house, not because of the mortgage,
but because of the property taxes. They're talking about getting
rid of the income tax.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
Well, time out.

Speaker 11 (01:17:11):
If you get rid of the income tax, that just
means property taxes are going to go even higher. You're
getting taxed on the current value of your home. Not
what you paid for it, So you're just going to
drive people out of their houses. It's like their intent
on getting rid of home ownership. The Columbus mindset is
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not us, it's the lobbyists up there. And on top
of that, I don't know if you saw the house,
I don't know if it's past. The Senate yet just
passed a thirty percent increase to all police and fire
retirement funds. So every single township now has a thirty
percent increase in their bill with no way to pay
for it except increased property taxes. So not only are

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they not taking up action on the Homestead Act to
help seniors and basically anybody else afford their homes, they're
going after income tax, which is going to drive property
even higher. And now they're raising the costs associated with
every community in the state with no way to pay
for it. It's like they're totally tone deaf, and I

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don't know how we get rid of the fact that
these people keep getting re elected and they have no
idea what they're doing to harm their the voters, and
it's just crazy. They just keep getting back up there
and they just circulate through. I mean, just look at
the west side. You go from the Senate to the House,
to the Senate to the House. We've got term moments,
but nobody ever pays for it. It's it's absolutely bonkers.

(01:18:39):
I don't know how we get Columbus in line. There's
going to have to be I talk with Tom's Alistawski.
I'm sure you've talked to Tom up in Portach County.
Tom's thing is, next year, we're not backing any Republicans.
The only people will back our independents. So we're going
to go after school boards, township trustees, you know, all
of the local stuff, and say, okay, I don't care

(01:19:00):
if you're a Republican or a Democrat. I want you
to be citizen first and focus on what's really causing
the issues.

Speaker 1 (01:19:07):
Going back to where we started this conversation this morning,
at the beginning, which is this whole sort of populist
do something for the collective people, do something to make
our lives simpler, easier, less regulated, more freedoms, more liberties.
Leave me alone and stop taking my money. Amen, Brother George,
always a distinct pleasure talking with you, having you in

(01:19:29):
the program, and I will strongly encourage people to, you know,
go ahead and head on over to the farm tonight
five point thirty for the buffet. Wonderful food at the farm.
It's a West Side institution and you can enjoy the
fellowship this time of the year, perfect time of year
for it. I met Merry Christmas do you and your family?
Merry Christmas to you and to all your listeners. Brian,
you've got a huge crowd out there.

Speaker 11 (01:19:47):
I wish everybody happy holidays and best wishes for a
great twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
We'll hit the ground running and we'll have you back
on the program in twenty twenty five. Folks, stick around
Roger King in studio Hurt for Seniors Foundation, and then
we're gonna hear from Dan Clair, a chief communications officer
for Disabled Veterans or Disabled American Veterans. They've got a
Patriot boot camp, cool thing going on. We'll learn about
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What I love to call Friday Eve and anticipation at tomorrow,
which is going to be the Christmas Show. Rob Ryder
in studio with his guitar, which is tradition here in
the fifty five KRC Morning Show and it has been
since my dad was behind the microphone again. I'm concluding
my eighteenth year radio tomorrow, which is the last day
of the year for me. I'm gonna have several people

(01:21:00):
filling in for me, Dan Carroll and Kevin Gordon and
Garret Jeff Walker, and so enjoy those folks for the
balance of the year. And I'm looking forward tomorrow and
celebrating Christmas. And I've been looking forward to this all morning.
I have in studio Patty Scott and Roger King. They're
with an organization called Heart for Seniors, and I'll recommend
you check them out online. It's the word Heart with

(01:21:21):
a number four followed by seniors dot org. So we're
gonna learn about this nonprofit and what they do for seniors,
which is really an unbelievably important thing. Patty, Roger, Welcome
to the fifty five Karasy Morning Show. I'm really happy
you're able to come in studio. I love having face
to face conversations. Thanks, Marian, you you're more than welcome.
You can feel free to talk. Roger got shocked by

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the microphone. He grounded out. I think he's afraid of
it now. He's just had some static electricity built up.
Like Roger, no one has ever been shocked by that thing.
It doesn't have current flowing through it. You're okay, But
how long? When did you start Hard for Seniors and
more fundamentally, what was your motivation behind starting this organization?

Speaker 14 (01:22:03):
Well, I have to say, Brian, we started it actually
a few months ago when we actually became official and
did all the filings. But this has been ongoing for
well over seven years. You know, there's a crisis that's
growing that nobody wants to talk about, and that's the
abuse and the neglect that's going on with our seniors,
our elderly that are in these long term care facilities

(01:22:27):
and all right. You know, my parents are eighty seven
years old and I'm facing it every day. And it's
like when you look and see what's out there, from
dehydration to UTIs to skin breakdowns, it's something that is
ugly that nobody wants to talk about, and I really

(01:22:48):
found there was no technology around it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
So HEART actually.

Speaker 14 (01:22:53):
Stands for Healthcare Evolution, Alert Response Technology because at the
end of the day, it's all about out quality, right,
Like what is out there? If you have a loved
one in a nursing home, how do you, as a
daughter know that there's not being taken care of. There's

(01:23:17):
nothing that's out there that can hold them accountable. So
I actually came to Roger, who's been in the healthcare
industry forever, and I knew this all started when my
mom fell and broke her hip, and at two am
she called me because she was very continent, even though

(01:23:38):
she had had the surgery, and she had been ringing
the bell and ringing the bell and nobody came in.

Speaker 15 (01:23:42):
From a callite perspective, it was two am.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
Oh my god.

Speaker 14 (01:23:45):
So I drove thirty minutes to get to her and
I walked in. I have video that would just be
stunning that you just hear. It's like Christmas lights and
music going off, and I'm walking hall to hall to hall.
No one, no nurses, No A's like, no one. I'm like,
what is going on?

Speaker 1 (01:24:03):
I can I ask you how long ago? This occurred?

Speaker 15 (01:24:06):
A year ago?

Speaker 1 (01:24:07):
Okay, a year ago, a year ago? Yeah, I was appalled.

Speaker 14 (01:24:10):
The next day, I walked into the administrator's office and
I showed him the video and I said, really, what
was the response you got to that?

Speaker 5 (01:24:20):
Mum?

Speaker 1 (01:24:21):
I traded a litigation attorney, so you know my litigation.
My bells are ringing and my and my wheels are spinning,
and I'm thinking this sounds actionable. I mean, this is
this is at minimum negligence.

Speaker 14 (01:24:34):
Well, immediately he was embarrassed, you know, and of course, oh,
well we're going to get you know, the don and
all these people because she was in rehab. And I'm
and at this point it was not just about my mom.
I was like, what about all these other people that
are sitting here as well, you know. And then and
then his thing was, well, you know, we hire these
agencies and people don't show up. And I'm like, well,

(01:24:57):
but I walked around. I mean, the video is three
to fo five minutes, no one at two am.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
I mean, where are they? I was just going to
ask you this, I mean, that's why I asked where
the timeframe was because my father passed away just last
week or week before two years ago, and when he
passed away, he was in Alzheimer's dementia care facility. And
you know, thank God for my mom. I mean, she
you know, worked herself to the point where she was

(01:25:25):
almost in worse shape than my father at home, until
the point where she really wasn't capable of caring for
him twenty four to seven, because you know, it's a
twenty four to seven.

Speaker 15 (01:25:34):
Thing, twenty four to seven.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
So we got him into this facility. I'm not going
to name, I'm not going to detract from them, but
you know, there were times when you walk through and
you're scratching your head, You're going hmmm. And when you
talk with the folks that work there, you really wonder
the caliber and quality of the person. These didn't seem
to be trained medical professionals. Like my expectation was the

(01:25:57):
place to be filled with nurses, you know, you know,
skilled nurses or just first folks of a nursing degree
or something like that. Now, these were you know, lower wage,
sort of hourly employees, capable of maybe doing the cleanup
work and doing the meal prep, but beyond that.

Speaker 6 (01:26:15):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
And Mom practically lived there next to them, making sure
that he was well taken care of, because quite often
you felt like you wasn't.

Speaker 15 (01:26:22):
Yeah, and this isn't. This is a crisis that isn't
going away.

Speaker 14 (01:26:26):
I mean you look at the aging population, right and
the biggest issues dehydration. UTI's so UTI's lead to say, yeah,
you know, and it's just it.

Speaker 15 (01:26:38):
Why is it right?

Speaker 14 (01:26:40):
Why is it right that our loved ones are sitting
in urine and feces for more than twenty four hours?

Speaker 3 (01:26:47):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:26:48):
I mean, I know it, well it isn't. That's I
guess The question is everybody's like, well, what's the answer
to this?

Speaker 4 (01:26:55):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
And this is why I guess you formed Thehartforce Seniors
dot Org.

Speaker 14 (01:26:59):
Yeah, so I called Roger, who's been in this industry forever.
He had actually had created through with the help of
the University of Louisville and some other things. The technology
was there. The question was how do I get it
down to where my mom is right? And more importantly,
like how can we get this out to everyone? Because

(01:27:21):
more R and D needs to be done and again
it needs to be alert response technology. And so I
was very fortunate, I mean, with his trade association background
and just all the expertise that he's had in all
of his various companies.

Speaker 15 (01:27:36):
I knew that we could come up with the technology.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
Well, Roger, what is your background and how is it you?
You know you ended up in this position to help
out so many people.

Speaker 10 (01:27:45):
Well, I began my career working in nursing homes as
a speech pathologist. Actually I worked with swallowing disorders and
patients who had trades or were on vents and things
like that. Became an ursing home administrator ultimately managed over
thirty nursing homes in Ohio for about twenty five years.

(01:28:07):
So I was able to in that job really see
where the weak spots were, where we struggled to really
give the quality of care I wanted. So that was
extremely helpful for me to have gone through all that
because today when I look at it, what I realized

(01:28:28):
over time is ultimately we as a society, as a culture,
we've failed our elderly people. Big Tech America has failed
our elderly. Corporate America has failed our elderly people. We
cannot rely on government regulations punishment to modify this behavior.

(01:28:50):
To improve care. We have to in the private sector.
We have to get innovative we have to solve the
problems and technology can do that. We've seen it here
locally at Batavia a nursing Home. Batavia Nursing Home, they
have done a wonderful job with some new technology. We're

(01:29:12):
literally seeing on the patients who wear that technology zero UTIs,
zero skin breakdown, very fast response times from the staff
to deal with incontinence, care issues, hydration, things like that.
The concepts are being proven and I am just amazed

(01:29:35):
and very very pleased with what I'm seeing.

Speaker 1 (01:29:38):
Okay, and since it is time for a break, you
have set the stage wonderfully for me to ask the
question how does this technology work? So we'll pause and
we'll bring them back. It's Heart number four Seniors dot Org.
Check them out. We're going to continue the conversation with
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Speaker 1 (01:32:31):
Seven fifty five KRC the talk station talking about the
state of senior care and senior living facilities and it's
not very good. Patty Scott relayed her own personal experience
dealing with her mom and wandering around in the middle
of the night, wondering where everyone was to help her
with her g broken hip, bells, ringing lights going off,

(01:32:53):
knowing around to help out. Roger King has is now
working with Patty and they have formed this five on
three CE nonprofit. It's called Heart for Seniors, the number
four Heart Number four Seniors. You can find them on
line of Heartfoseniors dot org. And Rogers set the stage
given his long history of dealing with these facilities and

(01:33:14):
helping out folks living in them, dealing with the breathing
issues as he started out with, and he's got a
long career, so he was the right man to tap
for the job. We're talking technology, and how do we
address the senior laying in a bed having soiled themselves
with no one around apparently to help them out. You
were getting ready to explain this technology, Rogers, so let

(01:33:36):
us learn from you.

Speaker 10 (01:33:37):
So the technology involves especially made adult brief. It's disposable,
it's cost effective, and attached to that brief is a
very small module which communicates to the Wi Fi and
talks to the staff on smartphones and alerts them when
the person soiled. And then the software creates a record

(01:33:59):
of when and the event occurred, how long it took
the staff to get there, and further than indicates which
staff member responded for which resident, and then applies a
reward system for that staff so they get extra bonus
points and ultimately money for moving faster awesome in the

(01:34:24):
form of gift cards and things like that. So what
we're seeing with that system the way it's employed is
average response times of about an hour, which is far
better than what we get using protocols. When you look
at nursing home protocols, they're doomed to failure. They basically
tell staff check on everybody every two hours. Like Epstein,

(01:34:46):
you're supposed to check on people. Yeah, sure, Hony. In
order to do that, the staff have to go into
the room reposition that resident either peek or smell or touch. Right,
we're avoiding all that waking people up in the middle
of the night to do that. Now, when you look
at the numbers, it's interesting. I just looked at a
facility that had about one hundred patients in it. Seventy

(01:35:10):
of them were incontinent. When I do the mouth on that,
I say, well, if you're going to check everybody every
two hours, that's twelve times a day. That's over eight
hundred times a day for fifteen nurse aides.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
That a's gonna happen.

Speaker 10 (01:35:23):
It's not ever going to happen. So the protocol itself
is basically a falsehood. You know, everybody knows we can't
get there. They're not going to get there. It's it's
just a mirage. I think there are some really bad
nursing homes where you may say you may see people
get changed once a shift. Now when this happens, the outcomes,

(01:35:47):
the potential outcomes there are really bad. You're going to
get skin break down, You're going to get incontinence related dermatitis.
It may go deeper into the tissue. It may ultimately
create a pressure ulcer which goes to the bone. You'll
see urinary tract infections get involved. You're getting into your
getting into potential sepsis and ICU stays and things like that.

(01:36:11):
So this technology though, think about skin and urinary tract
infections as an example, when you lay in urine in
feces for hours, especially the female patients, that e coalies
going into the urinary tract and we've got big problems.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
Oh God.

Speaker 10 (01:36:31):
What we saw recently in a study in this facility
involving about three hundred people is that biolink system is
what it's called, actually had zero skin breakdown, zero UTIs
when compared to the rest of the population which had
incidents over about a three or four month period. Of
about fifteen sixteen percent for both of those issues, so

(01:36:55):
it essentially took the problem areas out problem outcomes to zero.

Speaker 1 (01:37:01):
That's it. The concept is so awesome and it just
blows my mind that nobody thought of this before, has
rolled it out before, because this technology seems in modern
times to be fairly simple. We got smartphone, smart devices,
we got sensors and gadgets literally everywhere that the but
the I was immediately thinking that the response time it

(01:37:24):
was going to sort of be this threat of penalty
if you didn't get there. So there, you know, we're
keeping track of how long it takes, you know, and
it's going to be a marker on your record if
you let this person lay in there for a couple
hours after the arm goes. But the idea that it
has a reward system built into it, it is great.
I don't know, man it and the record is there.
You can show the patient's family, look how quickly we

(01:37:47):
were able to deal with this and how often it happens,
and it just is awesome.

Speaker 10 (01:37:52):
Well, interestingly, that same module monitors body temperature and it
will also indicate if somebody hasn't urinated in a certain
number of hours that they need fluids. So there's a
lot that goes into it beyond just the incontinence. It

(01:38:12):
monitors positioning, so if it looks like somebody is going
to fall and they're in a bad position, alert on that.
There's also a risk wearable device that's going with it
that monitors blood oxygen levels. It'll monitor heart rate for
a tachocardia bradacardia. It'll alert phones to the staff on that,

(01:38:34):
as well as temperature device there. So you can imagine
in some facilities somebody could have a fever for a
long time before it's detected. We could have pneumonia developing,
or some other viral infection things like that. There's work
being done on some dressings with chips embedded that would

(01:38:55):
alert staff to when a wound dressing needs to be
changed because it saturated with exoday with blood. There's no
neglect there. It's it's it's basically the idea is use
technology to identify potential needs, alert staff caring smart devices

(01:39:17):
to go check that resident and assess and deal with
that need, and then document with the software how well
everybody did an alert went out, did they respond and
how fast?

Speaker 1 (01:39:31):
I tell you, Roger that's mind blowing. That is so
cool and I can't imagine a facility not wanting to
adopt that. And again, going back to my litigation mindset,
this would avoid so many problems, so many potential lawsuits,
would avoid so much heartbreak. It would avoid so much
death and and and struggles and pain that goes along

(01:39:54):
with all these conditions that manifest themselves because of neglect.
Boom problem solved. Roger King, Patty Scott, it's again Heart
the Number four Seniors dot Org. Amazing stuff, wonderful developments
technologically speaking, and a brilliant concept. I applaud both of
you for this. Again. I keep thinking of my dad

(01:40:14):
and what a wonderful thing that would have been if
had they had this technology. Where he was and he
was in again, I'm saying he was in really pretty
good hands, at least in so far as these institutions
are concerned.

Speaker 10 (01:40:26):
Real quick, go ahead, yeah right now, Just for everybody's information,
this technology is in four nursing homes in Ohio. We're
expanding to six more in January. Our goal is to
get into fifty next year. We need funding, you know,
that's the whole purpose of Heart for Seniors to get
donations to help expand these concepts. And locally here it's

(01:40:51):
Batavia Nursing and Convalescent Center and Salem Woods has the
technology now and it's the staff's doing wonderful with it,
and we're really proud of what we're accomplishing there.

Speaker 1 (01:41:02):
All right, Well, I assure you that Brian Thomas will
be making a donation hard for Seniors dot org today. Wow,
as soon as I got enough time to fill out
the form here, which shouldn't take more than a couple
of minutes. But I God bless you for the work
you're doing, and I'll make the donation of my excuse
me having an allergy attack thinking of my dad. So

(01:41:23):
thanks for what you're doing. Good having you in studio too,
and we'll get to uh guess we're going to take
a break here and we'll be talking to the Disabled
American Veterans Dan Clare, chief Communications Officer about the Disabled
American Veterans Patriot boot Camp coming up. Stick around, folks,
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He's gonna tell us all about it. Welcome to the program,
Chief Communications Officer Dan Claire.

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What you care deeply about veterans and we're big fans.

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Oh well, I absolutely do, and I will admit readily
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sign that form and serve their country, not knowing anything
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to be in a position to support the work that
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Now tell that my listeners about the boot camp. I
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Absolutely, February five through seven. We're going to have a
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building blocks to make business accessful for them.

Speaker 16 (01:45:46):
I just heard earlier this.

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Morning you were talking about how important small businesses to America.
We believe veterans have the resilience, the discipline, the creativity
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Dan Claire, I'm going to pause right now because I
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Chuck from the UCF Tramphings Center for Unmatched Cancer Care,
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Very happy Friday eve to you. Love helping the American
veterans out in, said of Dan Claiir with the he's
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them online at what did I say was Patriot Bootcamp
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I know veterans are really kind of, you know, out
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seems to me like they're the ideal small business. They
have the resources and intellectual capacity or wherethal and go
get her kind of tendencies to be wonderful small business owners.
But you know what, I don't know Jack squat about

(01:50:04):
business as my friend. I have always been a W
two employee and people can make fun of me for that.
But it just seems like such a challenge Dan to
start a business and run it, Like I mean, is
this the kind of thing? Are they going to be
working with people who've been there and done that kind
of thing?

Speaker 6 (01:50:23):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:50:24):
Absolutely, this is a program And dav was founded here
in Cincinnati. We're nationally headquarter here in Cincinnati and the
Cincinnati community, the entire region. CEOs have made this a priority,
getting veterans up to speed, helping them with helping them
as mentors. We're gonna have thirty five to fifty veterans
participate in February. That means that we're gonna have thirty

(01:50:46):
five to fifty mentors. And those folks are coming right
from our community, our CEOs, our local folks, just coalescing
around these folks to give them the startup education that
they need, the mentorship, access to resources, talking about funding, branding,
all the things that they need to know. Some of
the things that they lost that other business owners were

(01:51:06):
kind of acquiring.

Speaker 16 (01:51:07):
As they went.

Speaker 4 (01:51:08):
These folks were in military service, so this is just
making business successful to them. It's giving them the building
blocks they need, solving some of the initial problems they
have so that they can succeed.

Speaker 1 (01:51:19):
How long you been doing this, We have been doing
the program.

Speaker 4 (01:51:24):
It was actually founded by tech entrepreneurs and they said,
can we be doing more to get veterans into tech?
Can we get them?

Speaker 1 (01:51:32):
Can we make them job creators?

Speaker 4 (01:51:34):
And for dav you know, we help with benefits all
the time. You're a big proponent I know of veterans
getting help with their benefits because it's such a challenge
to go through that process. This is a chance ters
in to job creators, benefits providers, and like you said,
it takes a special special kind of courage to put,

(01:51:55):
you know, kind of start over in the world and
say I'm going to invest in myself. I'm gonna invest
in this this idea. What we see with these veterans
are they're mission oriented people. They're doing there, They're going
into businesses that help their communities. It's an amazing program
and I want to thank the entire I want to
thank you in the entire Cincinnati area because we couldn't
do it without so many great business leaders who participate well.

Speaker 1 (01:52:18):
And you know, thank you for your service to our country.
I know you're a Marine Corps veteran of the Persian
golf and Air Force veteran of the war in Iraq
and you probably served your country. You continue service to
the American veteran with this. And so now all the
ears perked up, and I got a lot of veterans
out in the audience are going hmm. That sounds something
that I'm very interested in. So how can interested entrepreneurial

(01:52:39):
minded veterans apply.

Speaker 4 (01:52:42):
You know, we have the thirty five to fifty people
get we've only had you know, we only usually have
a couple from the area. So it's really easy to
get in on Patriot boot Camp. Visit Patriot boot Camp
dot org if you want to mentor and help these veterans.
If you have a skill of talent, a subject matter
expertise that helps on entrepreneurs, we want you to sign
up as well. You can visit us at Patriot boot

(01:53:04):
Camp dot org. Our next cohort, Like I said, it's
February five through seven, and we'll be back in the spring.
May fourteen through sixteen. This is a free program. Everything
DAV does we provide at no obligation or costs to
veterans of all generations. Spouses are included in that. People
just have to get here, and for people in this area,
there's no excuse not to. You know, there's no hotel,

(01:53:26):
no airfare. Just come on in and we're going to
take care of you.

Speaker 1 (01:53:29):
Oh that's that's awesome. I'm really glad you have pointed
that out, because quite often the costs associated with some
of these things can be the one stumbling block for
someone who's otherwise very motivated to do it. So on
behalf of all the veterans and those you've helped. Thank
you very much for that. Now, speaking of those you've helped,
why don't you give my listeners before we part company
today a success story. I know there's somebody, some you know,

(01:53:51):
some person out there who really made a go of
this and has proven how wonderful this this boot camp
turned out to be for them. Can you give us
one of the success stories?

Speaker 16 (01:54:01):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:54:01):
Absolutely. When I think of success stories and I think
of Cincinnati, I think of Alan Parvis. He has a
company called Go Faster in the Marine Corps. You know,
you you they rename everything. You know, your bathroom's ahead,
now you're you know they rename everything. Well, they call
tennis shoes for running. They call him go Faster, So
he calls his company Go Faster Athletic. You can visit

(01:54:23):
it at go Fasterathletic dot com. He's a marine veteran.
He's creating a shoe that is a hybrid road shoe
running shoe, so it has the comfort trail shoe, so
it has the comfort of a roadshoe, but you can
take it off trail. Really helpful for veterans who like
to get out there and run. And there's another person.
He's looking to give back. He's looking to build shoes

(01:54:45):
in America, give back to our economy, create jobs, and contribute.
He's here in Cincinnati. Amazing company, great product. Just one
of our great success stories, Alan Parvis.

Speaker 1 (01:54:58):
That is fantastic. So that's another little ounce of motivation
for folks to get in touch with the Patriot boot
Camp dot org against February fifty seventh. It's free. You're
going to learn a lot of skills from people that
are in the know. Again, doubling down on your point earlier.
If you are an entrepreneur, has been successful and you
know how these things work, help out the American veteran,

(01:55:19):
join the program and teach these folks the skills they
need to be successful in the private world, because sometimes
transitioning from the military into this private sector is not
an easy thing to do, even if you're just pursuing
it a typical W two job like me. They live
in a different world. They have that collective environment that
they are taken out of and then thrown into this new,

(01:55:41):
crazy world of those who have not been in uniform,
and that transition is tough enough. But if you got
the mind and you're interested in being an entrepreneur, it
sounds like this is a wonderful way to go. Dan Claire,
thank you for your service to our country and your
ongoing service to the American veteran. Keep up the great work,
and I'll be looking forward to having you back to
show some time and hear more about these success stories

(01:56:02):
and further promote the Patriot boot Camp. Maybe we'll do
that in advance of the May fourteenth to sixteenth program.

Speaker 3 (01:56:11):
We'd love it.

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And you know what the minute I thought when she
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forward to celebrating Christmas and sleeping in my favorite thing
to do when I'm on vacation. Another one of my
favorite things to do is talk with book authors. And
what an amazing book this one is Your Roots Cast
a Shadow, one Family Search Across History four belonging my
guest Carolyn Toverman, who has this amazing background. Born in Sweden,
raised in Canada, returned to her ancestral roots in Poland

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back in twenty thirteen to just explore love of traveling,
experience different cultures, and what cultures and different things she experienced.
She also writes about her family, For example, her her
paternal grandmother was the first woman who's allowed buy groceries
at a local Afghan market. Welcome to the program, Carolyn Toverman.
It is a pleasure to have you on today.

Speaker 5 (01:59:18):
Thank you for having me. It's nice to meet you.

Speaker 2 (01:59:20):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:59:21):
Let me first stay the just point out I am
not a world of traveler by any stretch of the imagination.
The countries I visited included a business trip to London,
a trip to Ireland, and I've been to Canada. There
you go. Not exactly an adventurous person, am I? But

(01:59:41):
you know, I've always found, you know, the United States
to be a fascinating place. And there's so many places
I've been to the United States, and every time I
go someplace I've never been here, Like, for example, I
went to Yellowstone for the first time in my life
just this past June. I was my mind was blown
that we have such beauty here in the United States,

(02:00:01):
but you don't experience these radical cultural distinct differences that
you experience and write about in this book. Did you
always have this adventurous spirit in you? Did you always
want to travel?

Speaker 2 (02:00:15):
Well?

Speaker 5 (02:00:15):
I like to say that I traveled before I was
even born. So my parents when they left Poland in
nineteen sixty eight, when they had to leave they couldn't
come back. They lived in Baghdad, they lived in Paris,
then they lived in Sweden, where I was born. And
because most of my family was in Europe, every other

(02:00:39):
summer we would go visit them and we would get
in the car and we would take a road trip somewhere,
and so yes, I think that it was just there
wasn't a choice.

Speaker 1 (02:00:49):
Fair enough, Well, you have to do what your parents do.
It's like military families. You might end up being a
military brad traveling from base to base your entire life.
It does happen, so you had the benefit of that.
I think my parents more like me in terms of
less adventuresome. But I guess was what is the motivation
behind your writing about all of the amazing things that

(02:01:10):
you find in your roots cast a shadow?

Speaker 5 (02:01:13):
So because of travel, because of world wars and time
and politics, a lot of my family was fragmented, and
I didn't know a lot of this information. The group
of us that lived in Canada was my mother, my father,
my sister, me and then just immediate cousins and everyone

(02:01:35):
else was in Europe, so I didn't know them. And
when I moved, and when I first started traveling and
I first started talking to my parents and asking questions,
I just realized that there was such an incredible family
history that was that would have been lost if I
hadn't started to write about it.

Speaker 1 (02:01:57):
Okay, driven by your interest in your own Fai family history,
which is so amazingly diverse. You obviously have a story
to tell here, but such, I mean unbelievably different cultures
just within your family, you know, when you look at
the various areas, like for example, when I introduced you,
I mentioned your paternal grandmother, the first one who's lawed

(02:02:19):
to buy groceries in a local Afghan market. So that
culture radically different than Canada or the United States or
even Poland.

Speaker 2 (02:02:29):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (02:02:29):
Absolutely. And they found themselves there almost by accident, because
my grandfather was an engineer. He was a roadbuilder, and
he was one of the Polish engineers that helped build
the road from Kabul to Jalalabad in the nineteen forties.
But they found themselves in Afghanistan just before the war.
My father was already alive at the time, and so

(02:02:52):
they had no choice but to stay. They could not
go back to Europe. And my dad and my uncle
both grew up speaking Persian, so they had this extra
language and they just had this amazing experience living there
for the first seven or so years of their lives.

Speaker 1 (02:03:12):
How about that well? And also note, and again from
the notes, your Jewish grandfather a rising star in the
Communist party. Now is that one of the reasons he
had a flee Poland at the beginning of World War
two because he was a communist.

Speaker 5 (02:03:26):
No, because because he was a Jew, the Jewish part. Yes,
there's that, Yeah, so he they were they. I think
it's what helped him survive the war was that he
was a communist because he had people that he could reach.
But my grandparents actually fled to Uzbekistan. So they survived

(02:03:48):
the war in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and then came back but
by way of Moscow because that's where my grandfather had contacts.

Speaker 1 (02:03:57):
Wow. So they were there to see all of the
you know post y'all to division of the various countries
between the West and the East. Did you know them,
I mean, were there live in your life? You had
conversations with them?

Speaker 5 (02:04:11):
Yes, absolutely, So my maternal grandparents, I knew them. My
grandmother died about ten years ago, so I knew both
of them very well. But they refused to talk about it.
That was what they did. And my grandfather wrote a
book called It's a Chronicle of Events. It's not officially
published anywhere. It was friends and family. He was an engineer,

(02:04:33):
so it was mostly names. Very difficult to read it's
written in Polish, but he did a chronicle of how
they fled and what happened, and so a lot of
this book I relied on that information for a lot
of this book.

Speaker 1 (02:04:49):
How about that? Well, I also understand you are multi
lingual from someone I struggled in taking German. I had
to take German as a prerequisite to get a college degree,
and so five hour German. After I had a couple
of years in high school. I remember like three words,
you know. I never could get the gender, the dardi
das you know, male female, neuter thing and anyway, my brain,

(02:05:11):
I guess just isn't cut out for it. But you
how many languages can you speak?

Speaker 5 (02:05:16):
So I speak three? My mother I spoke about seven
or eight or eight.

Speaker 1 (02:05:24):
That's mind blowing to me.

Speaker 5 (02:05:27):
But I've always spoken them. I grew up I spoke
Polish before I learned English, and then I went to
a French school, so they were they have always been
a part of my life.

Speaker 1 (02:05:38):
Wow, that's wild. Now, Okay, in terms of who you
wrote the book, four, I understand the motivation behind it.
Clearly your background has this wonderful opportunity to learn so
much about your family. Well, you know, obviously providing these
wonderful stories. Are are you writing it for people to
suggest that they too should look into their background for
their families, or is it just a personal exercise you

(02:06:02):
wanted that turned into a published work, or are you
trying to tell people to maybe get out of their
own backyard and get out into the world.

Speaker 5 (02:06:09):
So originally, actually part of my pitch was that this
was for the armchair traveler, the person who knew that
there was more to their story, but they needed to
find it and they didn't know how. So this was
a little bit of a push for that. And ultimately
I think it's about starting conversations with people and realizing

(02:06:30):
that even though you know, we may come from two
very different worlds, or even for people who haven't traveled
a lot, you know, when you say you've always wanted
to or you started to learn German, I've always wanted
to learn German. And my grandparents actually lived in Germany,
and I have family in Germany, and so that's a connection,
that's something we can talk about. And it was really

(02:06:52):
to start these conversations between people just to show us
that we have a lot more in common sometimes than
we think we do.

Speaker 1 (02:07:00):
Yeah, Well, we live in a very divided world. And
since my radio program is mostly dedicated speaking and talking
about matters political, I often recommend and I was a
litigation attorney for sixteen years for I've been on radio,
but to start your conversations, always try to spring from
a point of mutual interest. If you can find a

(02:07:21):
point of agreement, you at least start off on a
pleasant foot, even though that conversation may take a turn someplace,
try to find something a mutual agreement. So this is
a wonderful opportunity to do that. And I'm sure you
get this question all the time. But considering the global
travel and all of the places that you were and
have been in writing this book, what is the most

(02:07:43):
interesting thing or weirdest thing or funnest fact that you
found out about your family or family history during your discovery.

Speaker 5 (02:07:53):
So a lot of it was what you mentioned that
my grandmother was the first woman allowed to trade with
the men in the square in Afghanistan. I think that
was mind blowing. I had no idea about that. And
actually also just finding out about my maternal grandparents and
the journey that they took partially on foot, by water,

(02:08:15):
by train to flee. But I think the thing that
really sticks out to me the most is they all
chose to come back, and they all returned to Poland
in nineteen forty four. And when I say that, people think, well,
isn't that too early? And I have to explain, well, no,
the front had already moved at that point, so they

(02:08:35):
weren't in danger. But it was that decision to return
when so many people just they had been done with
it and didn't want to return.

Speaker 1 (02:08:44):
And I can certainly understand that. But you know, there
is some weird connection that we as human beings had
with our home land. Come what may, politics otherwise you
still won't always go home. So I understand that, but
real quick before we part company again. The name of
the book, Your Roots Cast a Shadow One family search
across history for belonging Carolyn topperm and the author. You

(02:09:05):
can get a copy of the book at my blog
page fifty five cars dot com. On the Afghan market thing,
did she get special treatment because her husband was building
a road or is this just a period of time
where there was a sociological advancement where women were accepted
and allowed to participate? What's what's the backstory? On them,
and if I can ask, yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:09:25):
Absolutely so.

Speaker 6 (02:09:27):
No.

Speaker 5 (02:09:28):
She actually the first time she went, she had rotten
fruit and stones thrown at her. They didn't want her there,
and she was just extremely determined to do that that
she would be able to handle the groceries for her family.
And the other thing that's not in this part of
the book is that she actually convinced the local governor

(02:09:51):
to let girls wear jim shorts to class, to the
gym class because she taught at a local school. So
it was just it was her. It was entirely her
attitude and her perseverance and who this woman was.

Speaker 1 (02:10:09):
She like the rows of parks of Afghanistan a little bit.
That's awesome, well, Carolyn Topperman, and has been a real
pleasure talking with you about this wonderful book. I'll encourage
my listeners get a copy of it. Heck, you know,
it's a holiday season, gift giving time. Why not get
a book and maybe encourage people to explore their own
family's history or perhaps even travel abroad. Carolyn, thanks again,

(02:10:30):
I hope you have a wonderful holiday season. I wish
you the best on book sales. And it's been a
pleasure actually seeing you and talking with you during this
video conference.

Speaker 5 (02:10:38):
Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 16 (02:14:29):
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(02:15:59):
stuff never has served us well. And we've see that,
you know, year after year, decade after decade. All I
got to do is look at the presidential you know,
talking points that they have about in for the last
twenty years. Are you talking about the same thing? Brian
drives us crazy because they've not solved a single problem.
So let's get people off the sidelines.

Speaker 1 (02:16:17):
You can amen to that. Let's pause. We'll bring back
iHeartMedia av Action expert Jay ratt Love to talk about
some aviation. Eight thirty nine fifty five Carosend Talk Station.
Right Time was with iHeartMedia av Action expert jay or
Ratlif enjoying a little bit of Vince Giraldi on the pianos.
We had a a segment to talk about airlines and

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now they've got to provide protections for passengers traveling with
disabilities what's the backstory and the current reality now, Jay Rattliffe.

Speaker 16 (02:16:47):
Well, I'm glad to see it's being done. Long overdue. Again,
we had the Biden administration, Pete Buddhacheg going after airlines.
I'm glad saying, look, a lot of passengers traveling with
disabilities have really had issues over the last several years
and it has to stop. And they're putting forth through
the Department of Transportations some very specific guidelines and training

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requirements telling people you're gonna do a better job at
this or you're gonna face considerable fines. A lot of
people that can't walk, that are in a wheelchair, they
can't make it back to their seat. Say they're seat
in row twelve, So we use an aisle chair that's
a very narrow chair. We put them on with wheels
that we can wheel them back, help them get in
their seat, and then wheel them back up to the

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front of the aircraft where their wheelchair is standing. By
many times, even though airlines have hours of notification, don't
want to passenger traveling with this type of situation is
going to arrive. There's times the airlines don't have those
aislechairs standing by at the gate, so that means that
the flight's landed, everybody gets off the plane, you have
this person that's left with the flight attendants who are

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anxious to get to their next flight, and they're trying
to figure out how to get this individual off. There
have been times that these people have gotten in the
floor and crawled to the front of the airplane to
get to their wheelchair so they can get to their
next flight. And when you're talking about that kind of
a situation, I'm sorry, that's wrong on so many levels,

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and it's happened too many times. Plus one out of
every four wheelchairs is either damaged, loss or destroyed, and
airlines need to be doing a better job on that.
So yeah, it's long past time for the airlines to
be held accountable on this, and I'm glad to see
it's taking place.

Speaker 1 (02:18:27):
Now in terms of the mandates and edicts on this.
Obviously they need to have these wheelchairs readily available, But
insofar as I guess, like seating assignments, I mean, are
they obligated to put the disabled person maybe closer to
the front of the plane, or I mean, how does
all that work? Because I mean, my mind is racing

(02:18:47):
through a multitude of disabilities that exists in the world
and trying to figure out how in God's name an
airline can even manage the number of people with disabilities,
regardless of whether or not they're treating them properly.

Speaker 16 (02:18:58):
Or not well, most of it just having their equipment
standing by when it's needed. That's the biggest issue, because
a lot of times they don't have the wheelchair standing by,
or someone gets to their destination and they're supposed to
have a specific wheelchair that is designed just for them,
and instead they bring up this wheelchair that's in the
airport that's too small, uncomfortable to sit in, and sometimes

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on a delayed flight, these individuals are forced to sit
in this chair that causes them physical pain for two
or three or four hours on a delayed flight, when
in essence, they should have access to their own wheelchair
if at all possible. And a lot of these are
not really requirements that are out of the realm of
you know, should be unreasonable for the airlines. They should

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be doing this as a priority, but sadly, the wheelchairs
never seem to get the priority, which is really the problem.
Now I can tell you from a seating standpoint, we
would always try to keep anyone with this type of
a situation is close to the front of the aircraft
as we could, just to make it easier for them
to get to and then get away from as well.
And it's difficult many times when airlines are faced with

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you know, fewer agents at the gate, so you're understaffed
already the airplane. Many times you've got a lot of
pressure to get that bad boy out on time, so
you have all of these additional challenges for this overworked
gate agent where they all with the flight attendants have
got to try to make some things happen. And you know,
sadly we've seen flights delayed considerably because airlines haven't done

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many times the pre planning they need. Sometimes it's an
equipment issue where they've got to have more of these
aisle chairs and other things at the airport to make
things easier for the airlines to do their job. But
the DOTS made it clear that the wheelchair passengers have
not been the priority over the years and that has
to change, and it has to change immediately.

Speaker 1 (02:20:44):
Well, you know me, my litigation will start spinning. I'm
just wondering, Okay, somebody's got their own wheelchair, obviously far
more comfortable, at least presumably because I've seen those aisle
wheelchairs as things very I mean, the aisle is not
even very big for a regular person who's able bodied
moving them from their chair into the other chair. It
sounds to me like there's an opportunity there to do

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some damage or harm them or otherwise, you know, maybe
exacerbate one of the reasons they're disabled in the first place.
I would I mean, I wouldn't want to touch it
with a ten foot pall moving someone into one of
those tiny chairs. Are they do they have any liability
issues in connection with that?

Speaker 16 (02:21:20):
Mostly no, And most of the time the passenger is
okay with it. They've used them before, because many times
you're only taking them ten or twelve feet to get
them from their seat up to the front to where
their wheelchair standing bike. They were never designed for any
long term being seated in those types of things, And
what happens is they're put in a wheelchair and you know,

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take into their next departure and hopefully that flight's on
time and the eye chair is again used to get
them on the plane and go from there. So the
issue has been Look, there were years that those aisle
chairs we used to have to carry people up and
down the steps to get them onto an airplane.

Speaker 1 (02:21:57):
Geez, you talk about yeah, O, my god.

Speaker 16 (02:22:00):
About times when you were especially depending on you know
which end of the you know, you were carrying him
at the top or bottom. And those things are not
designed for that. So teeter back and forth, and you
you talk about prayer life, you better have it carrying
people up and down the steps on one of.

Speaker 1 (02:22:17):
Those bad boys. Amen. I'm man, my mind is racing
on that one as well. We'll pause right now at
eight forty five. Got a couple more things talk about
with Jay rat Leff. We'll do that after these brief words.
Fifty five KRC. I'm Congressman Warren David Hey forty nine
ive KARSD Talk Station. Tune in for tomorrow's Christmas special

(02:22:38):
featuring Rob Ryder on guitar and vocals if his vocals
can handle it. And in the meantime, we're enjoying one
more segment here with I heard media aviation expert Jay Rattle,
at least I am. I don't care if anybody else
doesn't enjoy it, Jay, although I know they do. I
love talking. We did, my dear friend, and so let
us move over to the danger of lithium batteries. Had
a story yesterday, and the stack is stupid. Was kind

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of funny. Story was well, it was funny in part.
He had these lithium battery shoe warmers. All right, So
he's out, he's out putting his his ice fishing hut
up on the lake and and the lithium batteries basically
blew up, and he got second and third degree burns.
And I set it out loud to go, oh geez.
I got my wife these little battery operated handwarmers because

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she goes out and runs out with a dog and
she gets called really, really easily, all right, so she'll
she'll use these things even when it's like forty degrees
out and they work great. They get nice and toasty warm.
And I figured, you know, probably a lot safer than
the old Zippo version of the you know, they put
the lighter fluid in and uh, the old school handwarmer. Oh,
and I've got one of those too, But would you

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rather have a flame in your pocket or you know,
a battery? And so I got her a couple of those,
and she's been using them. So she heard me tell
this story, and now she won't use them anymokus he's
afraid they're gonna blow up in her pocket. But that's
the problem. Yeah, yeah, so, but that that's battery.

Speaker 16 (02:24:00):
There a problem, Brian, and it's something that you hear
all the time at the airport, and passengers are told
at the gates, especially if they're going to be checking
a carry on bag. If we're going to take your bag,
please make sure that you do not have a laptop
in your check bag or a tablet, electronic device, anything
with the lithium battery, which, as you mentioned, could be

(02:24:20):
I mean, it can be electric toothbrush. The problem is
some of these things are igniting. And the alarming thing
is we're seeing lithium batteries on flights right now in
the United States twice a week.

Speaker 1 (02:24:33):
Oh now in the cabin when the cabin.

Speaker 16 (02:24:37):
Now, the problem is if any of these fires erupt
in the cargo compartment that we cannot access during a flight,
Lithium batteries burn at such a high temperature that many
times the fire suppression systems that we have inside commercial
cargo jets a cargo I'm sorry, the cargo compartment of
commercial jets can burn so hot that it makes it

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difficult for the fire suppression systems to put them out,
which is why it is incredibly dangerous for us to
have any lithium battery device in a piece of check luggage.
And the FAA did a survey and they had passengers
that were quickly admitting, yeah, one out of every four
passengers admits to packing these lithium batteries in their check
bags and think nothing of it. And the thought is

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that could kill you and everybody on the plane, so
don't do it. And I don't understand the thought process
of why. I understand people forget because if they forget,
they have a firearm in their carry on bags. So
I understand sometimes when they don't associate a lithium battery
type of thing, but it's something that has gotten to
the point where it's so bad. It's like, do we

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ban all lithium batteries from airlines? And obviously we can't
do that because it's a part of so many things
in our life, but we've got to do a better
job because we're having too many of these situations happen.
And all you've got to do is go to YouTube
and check out these lithium fires where backpacks burst into flames,
and you have different things happen where they suddenly overheat

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and boom. It's an immediate problem. Imagine if you're at
a flight at thirty five thousand feet in something like
this happens in the cabin area, which flight attendants are
trained to put out, or more dangerously, if it happens
in a piece of check luggage that you can't access.

Speaker 1 (02:26:16):
Yeah, you know, I mean, go ahead, give us one
more reason not to want to fly.

Speaker 16 (02:26:21):
Well, I mean yeah, I was about to say, enjoy
your holiday plays everybody, but no, it's it's just something
that you know, we're used to people not reading signs
at airports. They don't listen to announcements. I mean, people's
brains are elsewhere, And I totally get it, and I understand,
But when it comes to a matter of safety like this,
I wonder, you know, do we need to do a
better job in the you know, the TSA line.

Speaker 3 (02:26:43):
You know, we've got people.

Speaker 16 (02:26:44):
There for five, ten, fifteen, twenty thirty minutes, and I
mean putting up videos that show these lithium battery things
catching on fire, just to remind people, Hey, make sure
you don't have one of these in your you know,
piece of check luggage. If you do, notify the airlines
so that they can take care of it. But Brian,
it's it's something that we're seeing happen more and more often,
and as a result, it becomes more and more of

(02:27:05):
a problem, and it represents a huge safety issue. And
you know, we're enjoying the safest there ever of commercial
jet travel. We don't want something to happen from a
strategy standpoint that's preventable, and it certainly is now. Obviously
when the bags are screened, if something's caught, the airlines
can can you know, can work with TSA and they

(02:27:25):
can get that, you know, the threat removed. But a
lot of times it's not caught, they go through and
represent a danger to the flight.

Speaker 1 (02:27:34):
Jeeze, Louise, I'm just thinking this is probably I mean,
you said one in four people will admit to it.
I bet it's a lot higher than that. A vape thing.
I mean, there's a multitude of lithium battery charged items
or battery items out there.

Speaker 16 (02:27:51):
And some people don't know that that device is powered
by LITIU battery. They think it's something else, you know,
And I get that too, because we're all not lithium
battery x firts as far as you know, power plants
on these different devices we have. But you know, we've
got to do a better job because the numbers are escalating,
and it's just it's it's getting more. I mean, we
had a flight, I believe in San Francisco where we

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had passengers injured when a Lyssian battery device overheated and
they had to have an emergency evacuation of a plane
that was at the gate as it caught on fire
and smoke filled the cabin. So you know, these things happen,
and it's right now we're just talking about them as
things that happened during the normal course of whatever, and
it's just, you know, a needed reminder for anybody that's lying,

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please make sure you take an extra moment to make
sure if you've got a Lissian battery device and you
can carry.

Speaker 1 (02:28:39):
It on board with you, please do so. Just please
keep it out of your check luggage, no doubt about it.
Real quick hub delays. How's it looking out there for
air travel today.

Speaker 16 (02:28:48):
Jay, Minneapolis, A lot of snow, a lot of wind,
a lot of delays other than that rest of the country,
and very good shape today.

Speaker 1 (02:28:54):
Wonderful news. I hope you and your better half have
a very merry Christmas and happy New Year. My last
day for of the years, so I'll look forward to
hitting the ground running after the first of the year
and enjoy more conversation with you in twenty twenty five,
my friend, I enjoy your time off with my friend.
Thank you. Thanks brother. Eight fifty five fifty five KCD
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