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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Five o five the fifty five k r C the
talk station every Wednesday.
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I'm the dude, may.
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You may be. I'm Brian Thomas Scid the fifty five
KRC Morning Show, Just Trucktor, executive producer in where he
should be the executive production booth, and got a good
rundown this morning and a somber note I must acknowledge,
of course, we I thoroughly enjoy and I hope you
do as well. The Monday Morning smither Vent the rant
by former Vice Mayor City of Sinnat Christopher Smithman. He
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was on fire this Monday usually is, and you can
always enjoy the podcast if you aren't around at the
time he comes on Monday at seven. But anybody familiar
with Christopher Smithman knows he lost his wife to cancer
some years ago, and it is the anniversary of the
passing of Pamela Smithman. So I want to just acknowledge
that at the outset and extend my of course love
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and prayers to the entire Smithman family, most notably close
to Christopher. I have I know a lot of people
who've been in a lot of relationship marriage for years
and years and years. I have never seen a more
devoted couple in my life. The love between those two
is just unparalleled, and I know to this day it's
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bite of the number of years that have gone by,
he still grieves, and he still visits her grave regularly,
and he still thinks about her every day. How couldn't
you but just wanted to use this moment as an
opportunity to acknowledge this was the day she passed away.
And my wife and I were fortunate enough to spend
some time with the Smithemans very surely in advance of
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her passing, and it was just so heartbreaking knowing how
much they loved each other. And you could see the
look in Christopher's face and you could just you know,
feel his pain from across the room. So, I mean,
we all struggle, we all suffer with loss, and it's
just an important thing to know that, you know, you,
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while you have your loved ones, while they are with you,
don't fail to acknowledge and appreciate just how lucky you
are to have them. It doesn't have to be a
long term struggle with a disease like cancer. You know,
somebody could go. And my wife always says, be careful
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every morning and go off to work. Be careful, you know,
driving down the road. You know, just be careful because
it only takes some moments time to lose someone that
you love, So don't overlook that. And most all of
us are blessed enough they have a loved one in
our life, and don't overlook the importance of them and
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the time that you get to spend with them. All
right with that, God bless you, Christopher Smithman. We all
love you. Alex Chancefilo, A lot of people love him,
a lot of people have problems with Alex. He is
the head of the High Republican Party. For those not
keeping tracking home, Alex t back in the program and
coming up at seven oh five, we will talk about
the inauguration, fast approaching new sheriff in town and hopefully
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we'll get a lot accomplished under this second Trump term.
Talk inauguration, we'll talk to the JD. Van's Senate replacement,
and finally general democratic incompetence. Maybe that has something to
do with wildfires, oh or maybe a whole lot more.
Get to a side note on that one just a moment.
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Doctor Jed Harding, Cincinnati Classical Academy. A better way for
children to learn. Doctor Jed returns of the program. Coming
up at seven thirty. You'll talk about new and big
things that are happening with the Cincinni Classical Academy. So
there are wonderful education opportunities out in the world. Sometimes
you got to search for him in Greater Cincinnati. It's
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right there at the Cincinnati Classical Academy, old school teaching
and brilliant children coming out with valuable degrees after going
through the Cincinnti Classical Academy. I can only hope that
that concept grows and grows and grows. Hey, maybe you
could make its way into the public schools. How about that?
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Wouldn't that be an interesting thing for public schools to
adopt the teaching methodology at Sincanti Classical Academy. Anyway, Doctor
Jed Harding's at seven thirty, Michael Cannell got a new
book to talk about Blood and the Badge, the Mafia,
two killer cops, and a scandal that shocked the nation. Wow,
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that sounds like it's going to be a fun book
to read and an interesting conversation with Michael. Coming up
at eight oh five, followed by Judge Andrew Depolitano, column
caption A switch in time. Talking to starts out with
Tulsea Gabbert, a defender of personal privacy rights protected by
the Fourth Amendment, consistently opposing permitting federal agents to spy
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on Americans without search. Warns consistently voted against the reauthorization
of section seven of two seven oh two of FAIZA.
It's a regular topic of conversation with the judge and I. Anyway,
she's about to be nominated as a Director of National Intelligence,
and so last week she changed her mind on section
seven oh two. Wo no longer believes the Constitution means
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what it says. That's going to be fine. Always a
good conversation with the judge, at least he and I
still believe in constitutional principles. Rare commodity among well anybody
these days, So going over to maybe some government competence,
it's sort of this whole article reminded me of the
FAA and its relationship with Boeing. You know, we've talked
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with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Rattle of time and time
again about the problems at Boeing, the manufacturer of aircraft
not exactly taken too seriously by the employees or the
leaders in leadership at Boeing. Airplanes falling out of the
sky because the software updates they didn't bother passing along
to people, doors flying off. The litany and list of
problems there pretty long. And every time Boeing steps up
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and says we're going to be better, We're going to
do better, we're gonna we're going to change the situation,
they don't. So I guess Jay's been, you know, going
back and forth between his support FAA and his criticism
of it in connection with Boeing. Now we can focus
our attention on the us DA de partner of Agriculture
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and maybe a reason why you don't want to buy
bores Head Deli meets. This is just absolutely disgusting. And
since the lysteria problem and the reports that came out
after the the the liverworst Slash Brunschwroger problem they had
and the recall they had over lysteria, I steered clear
of the boards at Aisle that one report and the
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inspections revealed the unsanitary conditions that the plant that manufactured
that particular product was enough for me to get turned
off of Boreshead Deli Meats. Well, the government inspectors documented
unsanitary condition now at several Boarshead Deli meat plants, not
just the factory shot down last year after the Lasteria
outbreak Cornet Federal records newly rased reports from Boar's Head
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plants in Newcastle, Indiana, Forest City, Arkansas, and Petersburg, Virginia
describe multiple instances of meat and fat residue left on
equipment and walls, dripping condensation, following on food, mold, insects,
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and other problems, which they said dated back roughly six
years last May, fast approaching a year ago. One inspector
documented quote general filth close quote in a room at
the Indiana plant. Gives your reassurance, doesn't it? Us? To
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Agriculture Department release the inspection records in response to not
because they voluntarily released them to the public for their
own general good, but in response to a Freedom of
Information Act requests from the Associated Press and other news
organizations who are actually doing an effort to report and
find out information. Problems documented at all three factories echoes
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some of the violations found the Jarrett, Virginia plant that
was the one that was shut down because of listeria
the newly released reports described I will quote equipment covered
in meat scraps that goes back to twenty nineteen, dry
crusted meat from the previous day's production. End quote, dark
stinky residence left behind that's from back in twenty twenty,
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doorway covered in quote dry meat, juices and grime close
quote twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, green mold in
flaking paint, twenty twenty three, unidentified slime and an abundance
of insects, and twenty twenty four a puddle of blood,
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debris and trash. Fritz part boresaid send an email Monday.
The violations documented in the three factories quote do not
meet our high standards. Close quote Well, isn't that comforting?
The Sarasota floor based company has marketed itself well as
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a premiere promider of deli meats and cheeses, advertising excellence
that stands apart in every bite. I guess as long
as you don't have general filth in the food that
you're putting in your body. Records from a fourth foresead Plant, Holland, Michigan,
I guess that's one that has that has a clean shop,
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no similar problems reflected at their Holland, Michigan plant, And
I don't know there's a way for you to determine
if the bores Head deli meat that's available at your
local grocery store came from Holland, Michigan. But at this juncture,
I've given up. As I mentioned a moment ago. It
took the listeria outbreak. It was enough for me reading
the reports about that plant. Health officials in Maryland initially
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discovered listeria contamination and the package of unopened liver worst
resulting in a recall. More than seven million pounds of
readit E deli meat and poultry sold nationwide. Two point
six million pounds eventually recovered, meaning I guess the general
public consumed almost five million pounds of the stuff because
it had already been sold. Corda do Thomas Grimillian, director
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of Food and Policy at the con Federation of America,
a nonprofit advocacy group, said the conditions revealed with other
Boarshead plants are really concerning. Yeah, he said, it's reasonable
for some people to decide they don't want to eat
delamy check companies like Borshead they should have to earn
consumers trust. Really Boreshead is also facing multiple lawsuits and
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connection with the outbreak. It's a sad story. Garrett Dorman,
Who's mom, Linda, seventy three Oxford, Pennsylvania resident, died in
July after eating the liver wars. She had cancer and
that was one of the few foods she was able
to eat. He's suing the company. According to documents followed
by the Seattle law firm that represents him, he said,
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I believe Borshead needs to completely revamp their program at
all of their facilities. Borshead needs to put the welfare
of people at their highest priorities. Stating the obvious, mister Dormant,
I know you're suffering from a laws Your mom was
killed by listeria. Now, going back to my comment about
government and competence, I guess I was quoted in this
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article lawmakers, including Senator Richard Blumenthal Representative Rosa de Laro,
sharply criticizing USDA officials for not taking stronger action against
the company despite documentation repeated problems. Again, the list I
read goes back quite a few years. Apparently, the usd
Inspector General is reviewing the agency's handling of the situation.
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The US Department of Justice is investigating whether criminal charges
are warranted.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
In their statement those two lawmakers, the new records released
by FSIS should be considered by the DOJ, especially as
they potentially point to a wider systemic problem. These reports
make clear that there is a culture of non compliance
of critical safety and sanitary protocols, protocols that are enforced
by the government agency USDA. See I'm having to go
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at faith in government of late A fortunate that we
have the justice system and civil lawsuits who allow us
to go and sue companies like Boorzed when they poison us.
I guess someone's got to provide some measure of oversight.
The question is do you trust the competence of government
officials in this case, the USDA actually provide the oversight
that's needed. The report release Friday, USDA officials said inadequate
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sanitation practices as the dried plant contributed to the outbreak.
Product residue condensation, and structural problems in the building were
key factors. State inspectors working in partnership with the USDA
had documented mold insects, liquid dripping from ceilings, and meat
and fat residues on the walls, floors, and equipment that
was from a prior associated press report. Again at the
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JAR facility that was shut down. Okay, I'm not going
down that road again. I've made up my mind. It's
like my wife had Target. She quit shopping at Target
probably twenty years ago because of their unbelievably horrific and
onerous turn practices. They have not earned a dime off
the Thomas household since twenty years ago. Boreshead, Sorry sucks
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one three seven poe fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty
two to three talk pound five fifty on AT and
T phones. Because Supreme Court is gonna be hearing oral
arguments today over a Texas law requiring porn website to
verify the ages of their visitors. I don't know how
you feel about online porn. Uh, there is a legitimate
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argument that the challengers to this law are making, and
it's something that you know, reminded me immediately of Tech
Friday's Day of Hatter. So it's the case is free
speech coalition U versus is packed and challengers are set
to urge the justices to overturn the Texas law as
an unconstitutional infringement on free speech rates of adults in Texas.
Their court filings argue that the effort to prevent miners
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from accessing sexual content online chills the rights of adults
to access content that they want. Requiring verification information. Here's
the point, this is what I agree with them on.
Requiring verification information exposes those adults, those adult visitors potential
identity theft, fraud in other risks. So the law requires
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that pornography websites verify and identify their users through the
use of documentation like a government issued ID, and poses
a ten thousand dollars fine per violation, a quarter of
a million dollar fine if the innovation, if it involves
a minor. So now when you go ahead and put
that very you know, I mean, there's some important information
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in your driver's license, DL number, your address, obviously in
some cases security number all that. I don't need to
require that anymore, but it's just one more point of
data that could be subject to being well hacked. Chinese
Communist Party, I imagine, has done everything it can to
hacking to porn website so it gets more information about
us individually. You know, there's some blackmail potential in there.
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Oh my god, look at the kind of porn that
you watch, and you could be saying, well, nobody should
be watching it anyway, and that's all well and good.
But behind all this, I find the whole idea that
a state, one state can ban access to this to
be a laughable thing. We talked about VPNs multiple times
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virtual private networks. When you are on a VPN, you
basically get to choose where your location goes from. There
are servers literally all over the globe, so your computer
appears as it's someplace else Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, Chicago,
Saint Louis states that probably will never end at stuff
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like this. Within the United States, VPNs are literally everywhere.
So when the state of Texas bans this, an individual
in Texas with a VPN can just log in from
a server in say Chicago, and it looks like to
the porn provider that this is an Internet provider that's
coming out of Chicago. Ergo, the age verification restrictions won't apply.
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They won't ask for age verification. So I appreciate the
motivations behind this keeping children away from the dangers and
damage that pornography can can can lead them to. But
you know, in the final analysis, it really doesn't do
anything and does subject people to the potential of identity theft, fraud,
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and other risks as argued in the pleadings. My take
on A five twenty six right now, if you have
carecy the toxication, mississipp James on the phone, You're got
to hang on a second. I got to take a
quick break here, but I will take your call right
after these brief words. It is five nine and I
have very happy eat Wednesday to you five one two
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You are welcome and free to call love to hear
from you do have local stories, but I Havessissippi James
on the phone, James, welcome back, my friend. I hope
you're well.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Hey, good, good, good, Happy New Years. That's all right,
my first time speaking to you.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It is so happy new year. Right back at you, man,
I'm glad you're you're still around and still listening to
the show. That's your wife doing, yes, Oh she hanging
in there. You bout day? Tell her? I said that
day is every day?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Is it is.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
To his own day?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
As I say, yes, sir, so, you have to keep adjusting,
sticking and moving like a boxer in a ring.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
That's life, man, that is life.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Can't get barged down in one position. The opponent will.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Figure you out. Yes, sir, so we called the stick
and move.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
But yeah, a couple of things I want to speak
about and boards here. Yet as expensive as that meat is,
I know the high in the store. I know.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
We shop at Kroger and there's two that you got
the Kroger meets on the right hand side. You got
the Boresaid meats on the left hand side, and they're
always about one or two dollars more per pound for
the exact same product. So I tend to grab. I
always gravitate since that Listeria operak to the Kroger brand anyway,
And when you spoke.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Of jail time a criminal. Maybe some of them inspector
should be brought up on some kind of charge because
this wasn't just a single incident, sound like this was
long term, overlooked, omitted.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
And everything is.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Yeah, so they get those inspectors and look at what
did they write up, what did they find?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, and I don't know, I don't know if they
enjoy any immunity because they're doing a government job, in
government work, which is quite often the case, but they're
at least I mean to the extent the other thing
behind this, It took a Freedom of Information Act request
by the Asociated President of the news outlets to get
this information out to us. I mean, if you look,
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there are public health inspectors that go around to restaurants, right,
all of that is public information. You can look up
any given restaurant and see how they fared in any
given health inspection. It's all available online anytime. Where in
the hell is this information? I mean, I would like,
it's just it's frightening to me that this isn't readily
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made available to all of us so we can make
informed decisions about what we're putting into our bodies.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Right, Okay, onto another note. Right here in my hometown
of Meridian, Mississippi, a company is coming here. That's the
Internet company, and I guess they put stuff up in
the clout which I don't understand all intrinsic, but they
invest in anywhere from ten to twenty billion dollars right
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here in this look dust. The town so has the
time chance to grow. How about that it accomplish something
else if we can get the politics and the ministration
on board, keep the greedy hands out of it.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Ah ah, well, I'll pray for you on that, right.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
And this is my first time of really trying to
step in and help steer the politics in this area.
You know, we and I try to bring civility to
the center part because I know the extreme is out
there on both sides.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
The pendulum swinging back and forth. You mentioned that many times.
So somewhere in the middle of me lie the truth
and sensibility right right.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
But this is a good opportunity for him because we've
been pressed down here for so long and to get
anywhere from ten did I say billion dollars? Ten to
twenty b and that they're investing in the here.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, I find that some hard to believe given how
small your town is. But hey, if it's coming, you
may help you economically, and I wish you'd all the
best in prosperity. Well, i'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Now, we at the bottom of any site survey here.
They don't look at this place to bring business. But
Mississippi Power Company is the one that got started because
this place need mega watts or killer watch and the
power company actually say they would give them whatever they needed,
actually build a power generating station near this site. So
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it didn't come through the politics looking at the school,
the crime, none of that stuff that sort of got
pushed to the back burner. And they say we need power,
and the Mississippi Power Company.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Agreed to give them all they.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Need and can handlem. So it's an odd way, but
it's a step up. It is to go in the
right direction.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It is, and I'm surprised that they stepped up to
the plate so easily. That's mind blowing in and of itself.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
James, Oh, it needed something here, because I was about
to look around and hope I didn't see that what
you call them dust dustballs rolling down in the streets
and Thomas weeds right like this like old town that
everybody's leaving out of. You know, whether Toma weed blow
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down the street Main Street.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well, I'll congratulate you and your fellow residents on at
least hope that your your your your economy, and your
city will well enjoy the prosperity that that may bring
about for you. And I'll keep my fingers crossed for you,
and you can call me back later if you make
any progress in that direction. James, appreciate it, man, love
your wife, take care of my friend. To look forward
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to see you when you're back in town. Folks, if I
went through seven two three, talk real quick here in
terms of local stories. And I love Congressman Thomas Massey
and he is well no longer on the key House
Committee Membership GOP membership took a vote earlier in the
morning for House Rules Committee. North Carolina Republican Representative Virginia
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Fox now taking over its new chair, Representative Morgan Griffith,
Virginia selected to replace Congressman Massy so being a fly
in the ointment and being the loane no missed doctor, no,
or whatever they refer to Congressman Massy as he is
firm on principle and he has sparred a lot with
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members within the Republican Party. I think always with good sound,
constitutionally based reason. But unfortunately that is those are not
principles that most of the Republican Party follows. Ergo, he's
no longer on that select Committee. He'll still be around though,
God bless him, and thank you to the voters and
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commonwealth for electing him. Five point thirty six fifty five
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a stack of stupid to get into absent phone calls,
and phone calls are always welcome. As I point out,
you're right back.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
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Five forty fifty five KRCD talk station, Happy Wednesday, Good
for to call five one, three, seven, four fifty eight
hundred eight two three talk con fact fifty on AT
and T phones Over to the stack of stupid. I
guess there's a Guinness World Book World Record for literally
everything anymore. City of West Palm Beach, Florida set a
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new record for the Guinness World Book of Records Cox
Science Center phrasing Cox Joe like the old airplanes. I
guess now has the Guinness World Book a record for
having the largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs? Why
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are you doing that? No blanking idea me. Friday night,
four hundred and sixty eight quote unquote dinosaurs showed up,
beating the previous record of two hundred and fifty You.
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What I find most disturbing about that is that there
are you know, nearly five hundred people that have dinosaur
costumes and a story was made for me. Yes, we
got a Kuala Lampour Malaysia or a webcam model who
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accidentally shot herself in the vagina while recording a video
at her home survived miraculously, they say. Lauren Hunter Damon,
twenty seven, alone in a room when the firearm was
discharged in thomastin, Georgia, accord to the USA Today Daily Star,
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reporting please survive to the scene to find a paramedic
who was holding an unloaded hand gun and spent nine
millimeter bullet casing, telling them that the victim had accidentally
shot herself again in her vagina. Gun owner Jordan Allen
told police that he rushed into the bedroom from the
kitchen after hearing the gunshot. He said that Damon had
a small amount of blood on her leg and she
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was apologizing when he came into the room before she
went to the on to explain that she had shot
herself by mistake. Told authorities that she had subscribers on
a sexual web platform called Chatter, and that she makes
sexual videos of herself and people pay her to see them.
Damon taken from her home in Upson County Sheriff's office,
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where a helicopter then airlifted her to a hospital for treatment.
Authority has a classified the incident as reckless conduct and
it's unlikely that they will press any charges. I have
no idea why the dateline? What is Kuala Lampoor? And
neither did Joe And it's posted on Malaysia dot news
dot Yahoo dot com. Oh well, USA Today also obviously
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reported because they gave USA Today and The Daily Star
credit in this reporting. So however you get your news. Indeed,
I think this is Australia. Victoria police released footage from
two men becoming engulfed in flames as they allegedly tried
(28:21):
to set a car on fire in northeast Victoria. The
Juan Garata Crime Investigation Unit detectives have been told the
unknown offenders entered a home on the on Swinburn Drive Saturday,
quarter after nine in the evening. No one was home.
Men can be seen in video lighting liquid on the
ground next to the parked car outside the residence, before
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running from the scene with their clothing on fire.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
Video because they're idiots.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Video footage shows the pair working to put the flames
out on their bodies. Last scene running towards Cambridge Drive.
Investigators have released closed camera footage the two men leave
or maybe able to assist with their inquiries and of
course anybody with information reserves of contact crimestoppers. Well that's
called instant karma right there. Stop, drop and roll. You
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do that when lava is coming out of the volcano, Joe,
and you cover yourself up with a blanket. Remember that
South Park episode from way back. Duck and cover, Duck
and cover, just like when a nuclear bomb blows up.
Like they told you in the fifties, get under your desk.
That'll help. Forty five fifty five kres to the dog station.
More stupid coming up phone calls. Please feel free to
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call love to hear from you.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
I be're right back fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
It's Wednesday, and a happy one to you. I always
enjoy hearing from listeners, and we're going to go to
the phones right now. I got a couple of callers
online beginning in the order in which they will received,
which means Pete comes first. Hang on, Micha, we'll get
to you in just a second. Pete, Welcome to the show.
Happy Wednesday to you. Pete. Nope, stands it's too uh
(30:04):
fans Stan Okay, well, it says Pete on the on
the screen up there. I'm sorry for that. What's uh,
what's on your mind today? Thanks for calling?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
So I started watching a little bit of the Pete
uh sectary of state dreams.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Yeah, So anyway, it wasn't didn't they have all those
people that ran them mouth yesterday? The Democrats uh pushed
for Hillary Clinton, who killed people in mcgazi, had the
uh server at the house uh Whitewater, Uh you know,
continuously uh scandals and uh he's all oh remember now
(30:40):
her secretary was uh uh Anthony Wiener's wife who is
now dating George Soros's daughter. Yet the Hillary was up
there with them getting the mental freedom. And I keep
telling people, you remember, people call it Trump racist. But
Muhammad Ali and uhh who was the uh lady that
got stuck in the back of the bus and protested
uh Rosa Parks Rosa Parks and Muhammed Ali double Checkney.
(31:04):
I don't people double check mee uh We gave the
mental freedom from them in the black community and the
deep the racism.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Well, all I can tell you is you weren't expecting
anything different. They always apply a double standard. It just
depends on whose ox is being gored. And I think
this goes back to traditional Republican philosophies and principles. Democrats
are always considered liberal, open minded, you know, it doesn't
matter who you sleep with, you know, and open marriages
and all this, and Republicans traditionally more Christian centered, Judeo
(31:34):
Christian valued, and so the Democrats will always try to
leverage that against them, because anytime a Republican slipped up
and committed to some you know, an act like cheating
on his or her wife or however, you know, like
marital infidelity, they would make a big show of it.
Even though they're on their side of the ledger, They're
all engaging that all the time. That was one of
the things that came out yesterday one of the representatives
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and I have the article just went in a total
terror about that. You know, you're accusing him about making
fun of him, or bringing up the fact that he
was drunk from time to time, that he was unfaithful.
You know, look in the mirror. I mean, we could
go down a list of people a mile long on
your side of the ledger and you're still senators. You know,
it doesn't your only qualification for this job is you're
a citizen in the United States of America. Beyond that,
(32:19):
it doesn't say you have to be faithful to your
wife or never drink or never engage in quote unquote
sinful conduct whatever sinful conduct means, based upon your definitional standards.
So yeah, that was a great opportunity for them to
put on a full display of hypocrisy, which is exactly
what they did. I mean, it was a hard time
for me, the little bit that I watched about that
(32:39):
of that to keep my laughter back. Anyway, they're desperate
to find, you know, things that are that make him
disqualify for the job or make him lack of qualifications
for the job. So anyway, I think as of right now,
it looks like it's pretty solid bet that he's going
to get approved long as the Republicans maintain uh and
(33:02):
don't lose any votes. It's on their on tie, you know,
thin ice in terms that they can't afford to lose
any votes. U see what curbage Mike has got today.
Curbage Mike, Happy Wednesday, my friend?
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yeah, great minds think alike. I couldn't help but watch
the kabuki theater as well, and how I mean it's
hard to take their outrage when they're reading it off
of paper, you know, and you're stumbling over your words
of how upset you are. But out of the nine
or ten, however, many of them questioned them, do you
think one of them could have asked about the F
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thirty five? Why is it taking two years for a
submarine to get out of the shipyard. No, they all
went down the same path, of which he had two
months to prepare for those softballs the guys on TV
every week. I mean, he just like they said, he didn't.
They didn't even lay a punch on him. It was
just totally useless. With that side of the Aisle did yesterday.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I couldn't agree with you more on that one, Mike. Yeah,
and it is important. I mean, we the amount of
ship building generally speaking, whether it's summers or any other
forms of ships of the navy were way behind the
curve compared to the Chinese, which now have a navy
that's larger than ours. So yeah, that's that's something we
think about a lot.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Right during BRACK, the number of our civilian shipyards, you know,
went down. That kind of skilled talent. In fact, that's
what you even see. So you may have noticed it
on some of the major sport events along the along
the back wall, or even commercials go for submarines dot
com because we only build them in two places, Newport News,
Virginia and Groton, Connecticut, just from a submarine perspective, and
then you take that across the whole surface ships. Because
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that's because even on the Republican side and the thought
of you when they were talking about that, you know,
what's his idea between you know, fixed manned air craft
and drones?
Speaker 6 (34:42):
You know?
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Yeah, and as Trump said, just like when he was
on the campaign trail of twenty sixteen, you've tried other things.
Why not give it a chance. What he got to lose,
He's a breath of fresh air. If it doesn't work,
you know, Donald TRUMPO airmail him out of there. But
for now, from a junior officer perspective, and he seems
like a dedicated guy, give him a shot. Yeah, just
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constantly go down to you cheated on your wife, You
drink too much?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
What a joke? Well, no question about it. You know,
let he who was without sin cast the first stone.
Nobody would throw the rocks if they followed that principle
in that hearing yesterday. But you know, it's a good
point on that F thirty five. I'm how many submarines
could you build with the money we spend on that
aircraft in the world a world of drones? I mean,
is it even necessary? And I've reached the full conclusion
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that the F thirty five is a colossal waste of money.
We're moving away from manned aircraft at have just a
light speed pace. So let's put our resources in our
money where it's needed, and that would be and I
agree with you on submarines. That's one of the more
well I think important aspects of our navy. They're underwater,
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so airgo you can't get hit from a missile from above,
you know what I mean? Yes, sir, you're on one
for years. I know you know what I mean. Good
to hear from your mind. I don't know how they
got you in a sub Mike's like, how tall you like?
Six two or six four four?
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Six four two inches is a cutoff?
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Six six is a cut I figured the head of
a cutoff because you know, I expect you know a
bunch of people in my height like five ten, five
eleven in the submarines. Eddie, how you such?
Speaker 5 (36:17):
Why don't hear I kept it in my head?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
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hear Rebecca man Sore from Breitbart. She's a long time
Los Angeles resident and had some really interesting observations, you know,
from a personal standpoint about the fires, what she has seen.
You know, the heartbreak when you've lived in an area
for thirty years and see all these famous structures and
all the devastation. That's obviously very difficult. It's a huge
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challenge psychologically. But I asked her about the political environment.
Are people waking up to this insanity and this display
of incompetence which clearly clearly exacerbated the amount of damage,
the empty reservoirs, the incompetence. I find out this morning
that the LA Fire Chief now has reported that half
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of their fire trucks were unprepared and idle, because well
of one hundred and eighty three trucks, half of them
had were out of Commission. Needing of repairs and budget
cuts prevented them from acquiring new equipment parts shortages, so
they sat idly in the parking lot. There is another
display of incompetence, not getting ahead of things, which sort
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of parallels what we learned about Cincinna City Council and
the number of trucks that are not operable to clear snow.
But that the populace, the people that she's interacted with,
everyone is of the mind that government let them down
in a huge way. I mean, we go over all
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the facts we have, I mean the billions of dollars
that were promised to put in fire brakes and clear
up brush and build new reservoirs and dans. None of
it's happened. They haven't had a new reservoir built in
fifty years, despite of the fact that the funds were
allocated to do it. They had a bond levy that
are really passed. Three billion dollars are supposed to go
to build new reservoirs to hold the water that otherwise
(38:52):
just runs into the ocean because they have no place
to put it for well dry times when they obviously
continue to show up. He got one hundred and thirty
years worth of climate data showing that, yeah, you know what,
they have droughts out in California, they also have periods
of time when it rains really heavily. Shocking. But it's
a worthy listen, So Rebecca Mounts, we're at there. Fifty
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Alex Trantafilo, head of the Ohio Republican Party, on the inauguration,
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He'll join the program at seven thirty from the Cincinnati
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eight hundred eight two three talk, but on the heels
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brilliance of Holman Jenkins Junior op ed piece end of
a climate delusion. Now he's speaking in very clear language here,
and I think he admits he states the obvious, but
it's something that needs to be repeated, and I'm he's
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just I think he states it brilliantly, which is why
I wanted to pass it along to you. I mentioned
the other day that California is chasing its tail, you
know one on one side, they want to end CO
two emissions and get to cartnet zero by some you know,
randomly selected sphincter inspired date. What's the point of it? Nothing,
(40:47):
he writes, COO two omitting of the atmosphere is rapidly
and for all practical purposes, uniformly distributed around the planet. Man,
right here, I may be stating the obvious, but it
needs to be pointed out. Voters and even political leaders
are suprizingly poorly informed on this point. Missions cuts in
California don't have any significant effect on California's climate. They
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also have no global effect. California's cuts are too small
to relative to the global whole. They're also largely illusory.
Emitting industries leave the state, they don't stop emitting. If
California imports Canadian hydro to charge its electric vehicles, consumers
elsewhere have more. They have to burn more coalon gas.
(41:33):
See the demand doesn't diminish. If Californias drive evs more
gasoline is free to be burned by others, releasing more
co Two. That influences climate change in California and everywhere else.
That is, if you can see the point that carbon
dioxide influences climate change, it's actually plant food and also
(41:54):
makes up a very small fraction of the atmosphere. Anyway,
Green energy subsidies do not re emissions. This will be
news to millions of California voters. It contradicts the Central
Tenata state policy. It isn't news to the actual enactors
of these subsidies. A National Research Council study sponsored by
Congressional Democrats in two thousand and eight concluded that such
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handouts were a quote poor tool for reducing greenhouse gases
close quote calling for a carbon tax instead. Unfortunately, the
incoming Obama administration quickly discovered it favored climate taxes only
when Republicans were in charge. Backers would later engage in
flagrant lying to promote Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, knowingly
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citing bogus predictions that its trillion dollars spending profusion would
reduce emissions. Twenty nineteen University of Oregon study has already
revealed the empirical truth green energy doesn't replace fossil fuels
and enables more energy consumption overall. That same year, the
EPA calculated the potential emission savings from subsidizing electric vehicles
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can be offset five times over by the pickup truck
and suv boom team Obama facilitated to assure the success
of its auto bailout. You know that reminds me of
the fun fact that the twenty or twenty twenty California
wildfires negated eighteen years of CO two reduction, one fire,
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one event, wiping out almost two decades worth of their
efforts to stop exhalation. Last year, the premier premier journal
Science put a nail in the question. Ninety six percent
of policies supported worldwide as quote unquote reducing emissions failed
(43:45):
to do so, consisting mostly of handouts to green energy interests,
And yet certain Wall Street Journal readers still sail me
Holman Jenkins Junior with the epithet denier. They confuse my
criticism of Democrat democratic hypocrisy with my imagined views on
climate science. As I've written back to many, quote, don't
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think politicians haven't figured this out about you. That's why
they can give us unsustainable corporate welfare boondoggles and call
it climate policy close quote. A CNN monitor Saturday urge
viewers to vote in an online poll on whether the
California disasters should be blamed on climate change or poor leadership.
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Notice the non secuitur as if climate change is an
excuse for not acting against fire risk by all means,
Let politicians proclaim a climate crisis or any other rhetorical
flourish if it helps mobilize support for public actions that
actually serve a useful purpose. But a pre revolutionary situation
(44:55):
has been building in California for two decades, starting with
the Third World blackouts of late two two thousands, not
because of any shortage of power, but because of large
helpings of political cowardice. A decision in twenty nineteen authorized
yet more third world blackouts. Instead of reasonably shielding utilities
from lawsuit risk over fires, their power lines might be
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accused of contributing to and I will note several lawsuits
have already been filed against California power companies for starting
the most recent fires. One result, predictably, has been a
proliferation of backyard generators, which of course increase fire risk.
Californians are stuck adapting in the ways left open to them.
Since twenty seventeen, half a million have fled Los Angeles County.
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Two social technologies might help, but the state has been
intent on denying itself their advantages. One is a functioning
insurance market. Another one one that analyzes from an actuarial
basis the appropriate risk any particular st ructure poses to
the insurance company by way of having to rebuild it
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if it, for example, burns down or gets hit by
a tornado, or gets hit by a flood or a hurricane.
If you can't afford the insurance, you can't afford the house,
he writes, get ready instead for a torrent of federal
and state money to help residents. Some of them wealthy
rebuild in high risk fire zones. The other is a
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functioning market in water. Five gallons to produce a walnut
probably isn't tenable under any realistic system of water pricing.
If water were properly valued, municipalities would also rapidly discover
the logic of building aquifers to capture seasonal runoff. A
thousand things would change if water were priced to flow
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to its most highly valued uses. Here's another concept. Climate
change can exist and yet be an insignificant variable in
southern California's Mediterranean climate. Anytime one hundred mile an hour
winds start blowing embers towards densely packed housing developments, a
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conflagration is certain. The only answer, then, is to have
the manpower and resources ready to put fires out as
quickly as they start. I said, he was stating the obvious.
He concludes, I've written repeatedly about climate and energy policies
in the Western world being a colossal example of sophisticated
state failure, in which attempts to address complex problems, you'd
(47:37):
only a succession of boondoggles and economic crises. If California
voters don't wise up now, they never will going back
to the comments of recommend soor yes out there and
in the middle of this conflagration and in the middle
of all this crisis, in the middle of all the
witnessing by the Los Angelinas of the failure of government,
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maybe it will be the end of a climate delusion.
Maybe they will realize that their efforts making housing at
the average house a million dollars exacerbated largely because of
energy policies and permitting requirements and all the other onerous
problems you have in getting anything done and built in California.
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Maybe they'll finally revolt and put an end to it.
Maybe they'll finally put their foot down and say no.
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a couple of times this week already that Governor Newsom
had waived these environmental regulations to speed up the development
of the rebuilding of Los Angeles Los Angeles two point
zero and in terms of you know, going back to
these ridiculous the climate delusion that Holman Jenkins Junior was
writing about, maybe the voters in California wake up to
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the nonsensical reality that they're not doing a damn thing
by cutting their own throats and increasing the cost. Speaking
of costs, one million dollars quote unquote, affordable housing units
can cost more than one million dollars to build. And
I'll refer to another op ed piece by the Editorial
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Board Newsom has a permitting epiphany and get all the
details on this and includes all the litigation, the lawsuits,
the union shakedowns that occur anytime someone wants to literally
build a building. So they pose the question, it's a
legitimate one. Why not ease regulations for all projects if
the rules are such a barrier to development? And they are.
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There was a University of Southern California survey from twenty
twenty one. They surveyed developers and they found that it
typically took eighteen to forty five months for any project
to be approved. Half said they abandoned projects because of
government fees forty five percent, so that they were required
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to substantially reduce the product's project's density more than half
reported that lawsuits had scuttled projects, and thirty seven percent
said legal settlements equaled at least half a project's worth.
Can you imagine one in three proposed buildings had to
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double the cost of building the structure because of lawsuits.
It's a knee jerk reaction. Green groups and unions apparently
exploit the state's environmental laws to tie up projects for years.
And what the happens is, according to the reporting, developers
will settle them by making concessions, getting into set asides
for land for conservation, or the requirements to use union labor,
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which of course drives up the cost of building anything.
So one million dollars and who's got that kind of money?
That's why, well, I guess half a million Los Angeles
residents left over the recent, fairly recent period of time
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local stories get into some of these now. Former elementary
school teacher who admitted to trading videos depicting this sexual
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abuse of children who happened to be in the same
age as the children in his classroom was allowed to
withdraw as guilty plead yesterday, come on, please, Judge Jennifer
Branch granted the request by sixty year old sixty two
year old Netanniel's attorney to withdraw the plea to three
counts of pandering sexual orgined materials involving miners. He taught
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for about eight years at Rockworn Academy, described as a
private Jewish School in Sycamore Township. Initially, he pleaded guilty
back in September of last year. It was during the
sentencing the next month that his attorney, Richard Goldberg, realized
that he'd advised the Tannel to plead a higher level
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I gave mister Tanel bad advice. It was a mistake
on my part. The Tannel pleaded guilty to a subsection
of the state's pandering law that is a higher level
felony crime that includes a presumed prison sentence, but a
sub section that is a lower level felony crime and
does not include a presumption of prison uses similar language.
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According to attorney Goldberg's there was an extended discussion during
the hearing yesterday about the definition of the words exchange
and disseminate. The Tannel charged with four counts of possessing
in four counts of disseminating sexually abusive videos. One video
shows a man sexually assaulting a girl who's approximately between
the ages of four and six, and, according to Kevin Grash,
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since I Inquire's reporting, causing her to choke system prosecutor
Chris Lips said Natanna pleaded guilty of three counts involving
disseminating videos in exchange for the remaining five counts being dismissed.
Lips said Natanne used the hidden messaging app Kick to
share the videos with others, as well as to discuss
apparent fantasies about abuse sexually abusing children. However, the attorney Goldberg,
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argued that he intended for Natano to admit to an
exchange of videos, which is a lesser crime. The lower
level subsection of losses and no person shall knowingly solicit, receive, purchase, exchange,
or possess or control such sexually abusive material. The higher
level subsection says no person shall sell, distribute, transport, or
disseminate it semanic folks. Goldberg argued that the Tanel was
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not involved in the dissemination when he traded videos with
other Kick users. He said the trading was an exchange
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In the meantime, though, a couple of House Democrats went
along with the Republicans an amazing thing. Why to ban
athletes born as men from participating in girls sports teams?
Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, an effort
led by Representative Greg Stubi out of Florida will a
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men federal law to specify that student athletes must participate
in school sports teams that coincide with their gender at birth.
You know that we even have this conversation blows my mindless.
I don't call this progress, well, I call this bill
progress progress and dealing with just a backcrap insane phenomenon
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going on in this country. That you can be a
man and call yourself a woman and have a substantial
physical advantage over women, and yet they're still forced to
compete with you. It's turned sports on top of its head,
turned logic and reason upside down too. It's thrown out
science and reality. Anyway, that's my position, not shocking anyone
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who's the regular listen to the morning show anyway. Henry
Quelar and Vincente Gonzalez, both Democrats had Texas, the only
two Democrats to vote for the bill, which passed two
eighteen to two h six. And the reason they went
along with this is because they live in the state
of Texas and they barely won their elections. Senate Republicans
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said that they are aiming to take up the bill soon.
It had been previously passed, but yeah, the Senate then
Senate majority leader refused to bring it up. Democrats anyway,
change would apply to all federally funded schools. You see,
federal money comes with strings attached. Sorry, sucks to be you.
You take federal money, it could go along with all
those strings that come attached with it. Anyway, federally funded
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schools from kindergarten through high school, as well as colleges
and universities receiving federal funds. Some Democrats raised issues, Representative
Tom Susie among them, voting against the bill. Republicans are
championed the bill as a bid to protect women and
girls from unfair Athletic Standards Court. To speaker Johnson, he said,
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everyone's talking about the children today. I've got two sons
and two daughters, and we see the difference. Of course
everyone does, and it's kind of silly to deny it.
The American people send a clear message in November. They
want us to return to common sense, and we're going
to see if Democrats have heard that message. Well two
of them did anyway. For his part, a Republican out
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of California, Doug LaMalfa, said, why are we even having
to discuss this? I love guys like that. It's amazing
to me that the idea that we would have X
and Y chromosome males competing and taking the place of
women and girls in sports, It's just mind blowing. Where
are we in society that we're doing this. Where are
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the feminists? Where all the people who fought so hard
to get rights for women. Democrats, however, obviously overwhelmingly voted
to oppose it. Sarah Jacobs, Democrat out of California, called
it and I have no Somebody wrote me, WTF after this,
called it the GOP Child Predator Empowerment Act. Huh. Representative Andrews.
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playing field that any parent can raise a concern that
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I would not rubber stamp bad policy. Republicans should stop
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affordable health care. Well, add whatever you want to the list.
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the since a classical academy doctor Jeded Harding's at seven
thirty excellent excellent teaching methodology going on there and a
list a mile long from my understanding of children wanting
to get in or parents wanting to get their children
in there. Anyhow, I got a new Gallup poll out, apparently,
in spite of what he says about himself, Joe Biden
not viewed by UH not viewed well by the majority
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of Americans anyway. Court to Gallup, they concluded large shares
of Americans in the United States lost ground under Biden
when it comes to among a variety of categories, I
think they eighteen different areas. They asked questions. On federal debt,
sixty seven percent said we lost ground, immigration sixty four percent.
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I find that figure to be ridiculous. It's got to
be higher than that. The gap between wealthy and less
well off sixty percent were less or worse off, the
economy fifty nine percent we lost ground there, our position
in the world fifty eight percent say we lost ground there,
and crime fifty one percent. Another figure that I find
surprisingly low. Pluralities of folks interviewed or asked about this
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from Gallop, so the US has also fallen behind an education, terrorism,
trade relations with other countries, race relations, and the nation's
infrastructure and energy. Going back to the vote yesterday on
keeping men from playing women and playing against women in sports,
Gallup said the only issue United States adults say there
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has been progress, and I question that word rather than
regression or steadiness, is in the area of gay, lesbian,
and transgender rights. Thirty nine percent say there's been progress,
twenty three percent say regression, thirty one percent say steadiness.
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More US adults say the country has stood still on
two issues. That will be climate change in the situation
for black people. So even on that one evenly divided
on you whether the US is lost ground or stood
ground on healthcare, national defense, and military and taxes, only
a relative few see progress in these areas. As for
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Republican versus Democrat breakdown, Republicans and GOP leaning independent say
the country's lost ground in seventeen of the eighteen areas.
Most notably there it is immigration, federal debt, in the economy. Now,
how could anybody conclude that we didn't lose ground on
the one singularly objective question on this is the federal debt.
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It's just exploded. No one can any argue to the
contrary without being perceived to be some DSM five diagnosable,
certifiable lunatic. Apparently, among Republicans, the situation for LGBTQ people
the only issue they say that there has been progress
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under Joe Biden. Democrats and independents who lean Democrat have
net positive views over the past four years on fourteen
of the eighteen issues. Uh huh goal Balso, it's amazing
how politics can blind people. Golf also found of Biden's
net progress lags his three immediate predecessors that would be
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former presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump
significantly on national defense and military, immigration, and taxes. Net
progress also worse than Obama and Trump's on the federal debt,
the gap between the wealthy and less well off, and
trade relations with other countries. Congratulations, Barack Obama will not
be going down in history as one of the better presidents.
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I think that is something also we can all objectively conclude,
although I'll admit it is truly subjective six p. Fifty
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Seven o six at think about RCV talk station. Kind
of very happy Wednesdays. You have been looking forward to
this time, this time of the morning since I got
here this morning and found out to be speaking with
head of the Hamlin Kunter. I did it again, Head
of the Ohio Republican Party, Alex sure out to feel
a formerly head of the Helin kind of Republican Party,
Alex t Welcome back in a very happy new year
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to you, my friend.
Speaker 5 (01:10:26):
Well to you too as well.
Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
Brian.
Speaker 5 (01:10:27):
It's good to be with you, and it's a little
chilling out there this morning, but I'm really glad to
be with you.
Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Well, I'm glad you're here and there just seems to
be I don't know, I feel it. Maybe it's just
because I was happy that of course Kamala Harris isn't
going to be inaugurated on on Monday anyway, but a
general feeling or an air of positivity, enthusiasm and can
I even use the h word hope in the air
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now that we've got Donald Trump getting ready to be
sworn in, no question.
Speaker 5 (01:10:58):
About it, and you're actually seeing it in some of
the I mean the right track wrong track number, which
you know what that means is posters. For a long time,
I've told the question for the Americans, you feel like
the country is on the right track or the wrong track.
And you know that right track number has improved already,
and you know Donald Trump hasn't even taken the oath
of office, but you know it's because Americans want to
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tackle the issues on the southern border. They want to
see a thriving economy at lowest prices, rifts wages. You know,
people remember that President Trump's first term was a successful
term for the American people. And even I've said this
a million times on your show and others. Donald Trump
is an unconventional politician, But that's what America wants right now.
They want to change agent. They want things to be
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better for the middle class, better for working people. So
I think there's a definitely an optimism, a hope for America,
and you know, I know I share it. I'm actually
hopping a player in the rushington d C today till
I want to be back in Ohio until we have
President Trump back in office. So it's an exciting time
and there's definitely optimism and hope out there.
Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
Brian Well, and you know what, what's sort of surprising
and maybe not, but when you see Zuckerberg and others
in these you know four I will say, formerly sort
of woke companies completely completely shifting and you know, getting
rid of DEI for example. And that's a growing phenomenon.
So more and more companies every day are throwing out
the whole concept of DEI and and investment strategies that
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focus on you know, green and things like that. Obviously
bad for investment, but that now they I guess feel
relief enough that they can come out and go in
a polar opposite direction. I guess they really weren't weed
to those principles, and because they're not willing to stick
with them. I don't think it's fear of Donald Trump's
retaliation and wanting to cowtow and kiss the ring, as
the case may be, more so than they really didn't
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maybe believe them in the first place.
Speaker 5 (01:12:50):
I think that's exactly right. What we know about American
capitalism is that we have builf. We've built the country
Brian on the concept of exception. And you know, the
reason people have flocked the United States, the reason my
you know, my parents, my mom, others came to the
United States is they knew that this was a place
that if you worked hard and you were excellent and
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you tried to do good things and again you played
by the rules, that you could succeed and do well
and it didn't matter your ethnicity, etc. And right now,
what happened to the American left is they left behind
American exceptionalism and they said, you know, we're going to
start worshiping a new god of diversity. And that's not working.
It hasn't worked in American companies. Successful American companies know
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that to survive and to build great companies that create
great jobs for the American people, you've got to really
focus on exceptionalism and having the best people, and I
don't care what race they are. We shouldn't care. That
shouldn't be the vision for America. So eliminating some of
these these DEI initiatives and some of these equitibal kind
of measures that have been put into corporate America I
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think are a natural place frankly for a lot of
these companies to be because they know that to build
great companies can't just make decisions we were based on
things like race. I mean, we've a long time said
let's judge people on their character, let's not judge them
based on other things. And if we do that, we're
gonna have great companies. And by the way, Brian, we're
going to have people who are diverse within the companies
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because there are great people of every race, every ethnicity,
h you know, any every kind of group. And if
we just say let's put the best in the brightest
in place and let's not worry about some of these
other things, America is going to improve, and it's going
to improve companies in this country. It's going to improve
job creation. So you know, again, I think the companies
being there, you get it, you nailed it that is
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that companies are. This is kind of a natural place
for them to be, and that's just get back to
building great companies and don't worry about social experiments within
you know, within your corporate structure.
Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
Well, in this whole, the DEI and other far left
sort of woke policies came from a slice. I don't
know how big this segment was, but the loudest squeaking
wheels within the Democrat party and stifling at least I
perceive that there are I mean, there are some decent
moderate Democrats out there, but their voices were stifled by
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this and they, you know, basically just collapsed and gave
into all this wolk ideology. And that serves as a
springboard for my question to you. Do you think that
those more moderate voices will re emerge and that some
logic and reason will come back to the Democrats and
that they won't pose, you know, just a stifling opposition
to every proposal that comes out of the Republican side
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in terms of legislation.
Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
Well, the answer is they better. I mean they you know,
they took a beating in this election and they deserve to.
And again I've said this, I've said this for two years.
You know, I've I've been the Ohio GOP leader and
I've said it, and sometimes I see the mainstream press
is wow, you know, he's spinning. But the Democratic Party,
Brian left the mainstream of American politics. The extremists in
America are in the Democratic Party. That's where the extremists are.
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The mainstream of America is in the center right. And
you know, they love to talk about far right extremists.
And you know, the media is corrupt as they've become.
Their hatred of Donald Trump has really destroyed so much
of the mainstream breast. But they won't actually call out
Democrats for their extreme policies. Not having a secure southern
border and allowing literally millions, tens of millions of non
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Americans to just flow into the country is extreme, right.
I mean, we don't have a country if we don't
have borders. No other country in the world allows just
a total free flow of non citizens. And you know, look,
you know, I'm a child of immigrants. We love immigrants.
My family took in Greek immigrants my whole life and
have been helpful. And I love immigrants. So President Trump
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has married two immigrants, so it's not like we're anti immigration,
but this idea that you just have a poorous southern
border and allow anybody to enter the country. Brian, that's
an extreme idea. And for three years, Joe Biden and
his borders are kamalias embraced this idea that we were
a southern border, and the American people just woke up
one day and said, we don't have a country left anymore.
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So those kind of things are extreme. And so again
your question is really tacked back to the center. If
they want to win elections. I mean again, I you know,
one of the things I love about being Ohio is
it's it's pretty red. Now you go to you know,
eighty two of the eighty eight counties and it's pretty
strongly Republican. And Democrats just simply don't compete in Ohio.
They don't complete in any of the rural communities. They
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don't compete in krot of those rust belt towns. And
I don't love that phrase, but you know, I spent
a lot of time in WV in Ohio. You know, Brian,
place is like Youngstown that used to be strongly Democrats,
there're strongly Republican nows. They're looking at a Democrats and say,
you're not about helping me keep a job. You're not
helping about you're not about helping the middle class. So
you know, they've left that mainstream of American politics. And
if they don't sort that out, you know it's gonna
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be to my benefit because my job is the elect
Republican something we did very well in twenty twenty four
here in Ohio. So you know, we're, you know, part
of me, you know, fine with where they are. But look,
if we're gonna have a robust conversation in America about
the future, it's not bad to have a party in opposition.
And you know, I hope the Democrats start to kind
of return to the American dream, and that is supporting
middle class people, supporting job creators, you know, respecting the
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rule of law, creating a southern border, you know, patriotism,
all those things.
Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
Well, and one observation before we end up taking a
break here to get to other topics, and I hope
I can hold you over for another segment if that's
okay with you, of course, Yes, the the announcements from
the FBI and d o J about the threats, the
domestic threats we have here. Obviously, the security of our country.
You know, we have to supposed to be protecting our
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country from threats both you know, internal and domestic and external.
But that open border and the people that have been
identified and quote unquote caught or as many of the
case may be in released, I mean Chinese military, aged men,
members of terrorist groups, folks from UH countries that have
been identified as harbors and and and and supporters of terrorism.
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I mean we have, we have allowed and the Biden
administration has permitted a dangerous, dangerous, maybe you know, bubbling
behind the scene threat to the American people. That's that's
another component of this open borders thing. I mean, you
can be as you know, open minded as you want
about the general concept, but when you get to a
person by person analysis, I mean, I'm I'm very concerned
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about something along those lines, you know that's just festering
behind the scenes, well as.
Speaker 5 (01:19:20):
Am I and I And that's I think the first
job of this government is going to be with Tom Homan,
who's the you know, the new borders of are so
to speak, the Homeland Security guy is going to do
is try to identify the criminals who are amongst us
who are not United States citizens who came here illegally,
and can deport them first and foremost. But no, look,
I think what your your concern is a very real one,
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and it's a it's a bubble. I pray for the country, yes,
that we never pay a serious price in this regard,
but you know, I'm worried about it. I think Americans
are right to worry about it. And look, it'll be
unfortunately a part of the very negative legacy left by
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
Yeah, to be unleashed during the Trump administration is what
my fear is. You know, they're holding their they're keeping
their powder dry, and they want to put just like
when the Antifa folks emerge and the cities were taken
over and there were protests with Black Lives Matter in
the streets over almost literally everything that any police officer
ever did that was designed to be a thorn in
the side of the Trump administration. And I think that's
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the The more larger threat is some terrorism that might
go on, or some attacks within the United States by
the by the throngs that were allowed in our country unvetted.
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Fifty five kercit the talk station. He's head of the
High Republican Party. He is Alex Chrantifilo on his way
to Washington, DC do the inauguration thing. I guess you
got a lot of activities on your play for the inauguration, Alex, Well.
Speaker 5 (01:23:07):
We want to do Brian, and you know, the Ohio
GOP is leading a bunch of events. We've got over
twelve hundred Ohio and is expected at Ohio Ball on
Sunday night. Now I'm leaving today. I've got a Republican
National Committee meeting that starts actually today. I'm going in
a little late, but yeah, so we've got a huge
contingent obviously celebrating the significance here of one of our
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very own from Cincinnati, Ohio. Here really lives in Cincinnati.
The next Vice President of the United States, Brian lives
right here and is one of us in Cincinnati and
Greater Cincinnati. And it's wonderful. Vice President Advance is the
future of the Republican Party. I'm honored to know him.
I've known him since before he was ever elected to office.
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So you know, we're very excited. That's probably the understatement
of the day. I just couldn't be more happy about
traveling here to see my friend JD. Vance become Vice
President the United States and U and you know, just
to celebrate this moment. So yeah, we're all getting ready,
and there's a whole bunch of folks, probably some of
them listening, that are coming to Washington over the weekend
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where we're going to have celebrate Centator Bernie Marino's victory,
celebrate uh, you know, just our Republican victories up.
Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
And down the ballot.
Speaker 1 (01:24:17):
Yeah, Ohio's presence is really dramatically improved. So hopefully little
in your to our benefit. A little bit along those lines,
speaking of JD. Vans, and I'm glad you brought him up.
And you know, I eat he's impressive, you know, when
people interview him, when he gets you know, appointed questions
asked of him, He's really a quick thinker and quick
on his feet and has very coherent, logical and reasonable responses.
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So that's impressive in and of itself. But who's going
to be his replacement?
Speaker 5 (01:24:43):
You know, I don't know the answer. I don't know
the answer to that. We may find out today, Brian,
but I am not proving of that information. This is
the governor's call, and you know, I haven't spoken to
the governor more than a week, and we're all anxious
to see. I know the rumor mill is an overdrive,
but you'll never know. I mean, this is ultimately the
governor's call, and you know, hopefully it happens here quickly.
We've got to get another senator up there. But I know,
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you know, and of the governors on the job, and
I know for a fact that governors talk to a
lot of different Ohiolands about this. And the one thing
about the governor is he does is due diligence. He's
been the United States senator himself. You know, he's into
his second term as our governor here, so he will
work on that process. And uh, and I'm told, I'm
told we should know soon.
Speaker 10 (01:25:24):
So I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
I don't know anything just to report to you yet.
Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
Brian, John Houston, anybody that's the answer to the question,
I think, well, that's.
Speaker 5 (01:25:32):
You're certainly up the heavy rumor. And I'm reading the
same Chris Curping as everybody else is. And uh. And
you know, again, these are people I know well. And
you know I looked at the Governor's a lot of
great choices. John houstaid is very smart. He's focused, really, Brian,
on economic development. I what I would say about about
the lieutenant governor, and you probably have had him on
your show. But if you ever want to really get
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a lesson on how to develop companies, you know, public
private partnerships, to make sure that we have a government
that's things out of the way of business but also
creates an environment for business as a thrive, I've never
heard anybody better on the topic. I fundamentally mean that
I've watched I've been dazzled, frankly by John Shusted's knowledge
of economic development. He didn't do it for more than
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thirty years. It's one of those underreported things. I know, Brian,
you you like me, care a lot about sort of policy,
and I think if you ever have them all, ask
him just about his vision for economic development and the
world that government limited role government can play. And he's
brilliant again, But there are lots of people that are
interested in this thing. Jane Timkin's a great friend of mine.
You know, Frank LeRose is terrific. I mean, we've got
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some really good people.
Speaker 1 (01:26:35):
So well, if I was a betting man, that's all
I'd say. Eddie Alex, I tell you I wish you
and I know my listeners do issh you you know,
safe travels best. Look. I hope it's everything goes along
smoothly and without incident underline, and we'll hit the ground
running after swearing in. I understand uh that they soon
to be President Trump again. We'll have a stack of
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executive orders to start signing almost instantaneously.
Speaker 5 (01:27:03):
This guy is tireless, President Trump. Everybody knows that this
guy works seven days a week. It's it is no joke.
We are trading out, you know, Joe Biden for a
super high energy person. And I know people like to
talk about his age it's not fair to they do it.
In response to the serious criticism that Joe Biden deserved
President Trumps on his A game, I have talked to
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the man. I can tell you that this man is
on top of it politically, from a policy perspective internationally.
So we're going to have a high energy presidency. You're
going to seep it off to a big start here.
Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
Alex Chancefila, thank you for your time speaking with my
listeners of me today and again, safe travels to d C.
I'll look forward to talking with you again, hopefully multiple
times throughout the year.
Speaker 5 (01:27:46):
I look forward to as well. Brian, have a great day.
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and uh happy Welcome back to the fifty five KRC
Morning Show from Cincinnati Classical Academy. Doctor Jed Harding's Doctor
(01:29:58):
Harding's good to heav you back on the program.
Speaker 11 (01:30:01):
Yeah, great to be here, Brian, good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:30:03):
How things going on since Santa Classical Academy this school year?
Speaker 11 (01:30:05):
My friend, Brian, it's just unbelievable. The school continues to
grow and achieve like none of us could have ever expected.
We're you know, we've got we're our third year. Seven
hundred and fifty students this year, and we're we continue
to expand twenty five thirty percent growth each year. So
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next year we've got nine hundred and fifty students coming in.
Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
Wow, which is yeah, and that's our four and that
does not satisfy the demand, does it. You have nine
hund and fifty, but I bet there's a whole bunch
of of families and children that weren't able to get
in because you have a limited number of spaces, right,
that's right.
Speaker 11 (01:30:49):
Nine to fifty is going to be our capacity next year,
but then the wait list is still four hundred and fifty,
four hundred and five hundred students. So well, yeah, well
and is as we can. And that's that's been a
big problem. We've spent the last five years looking for
a campus where we could serve our eventual enrollment of
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thirteen hundred students, but that's been really difficult on a
charter school budget. But we have some big news from
this past fall that we finally found that campus solution
and we purchased the property we've been renting and renting,
the former Olsh School, and that's thirty acres, and then
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we also acquired a nine acre campus in Blue Ash
the former Belcan building and are remodeling a one hundred
thousand square foot office building there just to serve as
the home for our middle.
Speaker 10 (01:31:46):
And upper schools.
Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
High school and those are the grades you're going to
be add I guess it's in grades five through twelve
from at least of the materials that I'm looking at presently.
Are you still serving grades K through eight?
Speaker 11 (01:31:58):
Yeah, that's correct. It's K three year and then next
year we're going to add the ninth grade, our first
high school class. And uh, they're they're going to be
going to school at the new campus and Blue Ash.
So it's really exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
Well, I guess, you know, you have a freshman class
and what you got to I guess, and if they
stick around, you'll be adding the additional high school years
after that's so to be able to stay with this unbelievably. Uh,
it's a traditional classic liberal education. If you're familiar with
Hillsdale College, folks, it's the same kind of thing, classic
liberal education, focusing all the on all the important skills
(01:32:32):
and the classic ways they do it. Phonics, for example,
the Singapore math Core knowledge sequence, Latin reading classes, classics.
I mean, I just I'm so pleased that this is
this is this type of education even still exists, sir,
and obviously if you build it, they will come. The
number of students that want to get in is just
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an illustration that this is there's a huge demand out
here in the world to get you know, to go
back to the basics and go to a plastic liberal
education where you actually learn something and have these foundational
building blocks to survive and thrive in the world.
Speaker 11 (01:33:09):
Yep, since Nati's only public classical school bringing the best
of Western civilization direct to the people.
Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
All right, the tuition free, It's intuition free, and I
think that's an important component. It's also important to note
that Sin Sant Classical Academy receives some state funding, but
only one thousand dollars per student. You don't get any
property taxes, and that funding is only going to cover
sixty percent of the cost required to provide educational facilities,
so there needs to be more money there. You can't
(01:33:36):
even do a public levee for to service the school,
so ergo. If you're building these new facilities in Blue Ash,
you need some help. Tell my listeners about to raise
the torch campaign.
Speaker 11 (01:33:49):
Yeah, so the property purchase, which was thirteen million dollars,
and then the construction cost everything total was financed by
twenty nine million dollars in taxis bonds. But that only
gets us. It gets us most of the way there.
But we need to raise at least another four million
dollars to complete construction of our campus to serve you know,
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K through twelve with extracurriculars and that kind of thing. So,
and it's funny, Brian, you know, the school has really
never had a major benefactor, someone who says, you know,
here's a million dollars, five million dollars, go create my
dream of a classical school. It hasn't happened. It's really
been grassroots efforts with one hundred dollars here, one thousand
(01:34:31):
dollars there, ten thousand there. But we haven't given up
on a dream that there are major benefactors out there
who understand what we're doing, who appreciate what Hillsdale College
is doing for the Cincinnati community, and what a great
success story this has been.
Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
In this this is one of those magnets for our region.
I mean, the idea that you have this wonderful institution
of learning, and I even want to call it higher learning,
even though we'red like talking about K through eight right now,
but the demands there, but that exists, that it is
a it is it is truly a magnet for folks
to want to, you know, maybe move here. I mean,
it's an idea that could be expanded. Can you imagine
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if if Ohio just adopted this wonderful education process among
even in its public schools. I mean, the curriculums right
there for all to enjoy. Just adopt it, you will
demonstrably the number one school in the area. You will
be turning out these brilliant young people who are prepared
to meet the challenges of life. That's a magnet and
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that's a that's a it's a model for others to follow.
So this is an important thing to fund, I would
argue to my listeners.
Speaker 11 (01:35:35):
Absolutely, And it's it's a movement that I mean, this
transcends consideration just of where your kids go to school.
We are our school in particular, is helping to lead
and build a national movement. Yes, I mean we're having
national impact in Ohio alone. There have been four more
schools that have of these schools that have been created
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in our wake inspired by our success and our leadership.
Speaker 5 (01:36:00):
So I.
Speaker 11 (01:36:02):
Yeah, it's about restoring education that's needed for a free
thinking and self governing citizenry.
Speaker 10 (01:36:09):
It's not, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:36:10):
So the aims are really high again, tuition free. They
could use all the help they can get. And because
you are a five oh one three C entity, these
donations to the Raise the Torch Foundation or fund qualify
as tax deductible for tax purposes.
Speaker 10 (01:36:25):
Right, that's right, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (01:36:28):
Well I can encourage my listeners enough to help this
process out. The idea of just motivating others to follow
in your path is worthy of any donation people can give.
And maybe one of my listeners out there can be
that wealthy philanthropist who understands and gets the point of
all this, and maybe write a check for a million
dollars to help you meet your goals with Raise the Torch.
(01:36:50):
That would be nice.
Speaker 11 (01:36:52):
We never give up on the dream, you know, Brian.
People love to sit around and write about problems in
this country and say that, you know, kids don't know
how to think any more. This school is doing something
about it. Thank Anyone who's interested can visit Sincy classicool
dot org click on the giving page to learn about
our campus development how they can support us with the
(01:37:13):
Race of Tours campaign.
Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
You anticipated my question, how do people help out Since
with the y Classical dot org? Please do I mean
ten bucks? They'll take it. You got a million dollars
you want to done? Eight they'll definitely take it. Doctor
Jed Hardings, thank you for all that you do and
all the teachers at Since Anti Classical Academy keep up
the wonderful work. I wish you all the well wishes
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fundraising and for the future of the young people that
you are teaching. Thanks a lot, Brian, anytime, doctor anytimes
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He's the author of Blood and the Badge, The Mafia,
two Killer Cops and a scandal that shocked the nation.
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So a fascinating conversation topic that will be in a
great book to read. Judge Depolitano, of course at eight
thirty is column caption a Switch in Time, and it
starts off talking about Tulsea Gabbert, who prior to well
being nominated as Director of National Intelligence, was a defender
of the Fourth Amendment, consistently voting against the reauthorization of
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section seven oh two of FAIZA. It's amazing how being
nominated as a Director of National Intelligence will change someone's opinion.
Apparently she's changed her mind and no longer believes the
Constitution means what it says, so and they regularly violate
our constitutional rights with through that provision. That will be
a conversation with Judge entered a Paulatano again eight thirty
every Wednesday with the Judge. Good talking with Alex Janantifilo.
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And I'm obviously one of the reasons Donald Trump won
the election is he astutely observed the border of the unbelievable,
horrific situation we've been living with now for four years
with our open borders policies, and god knows what the
Biden administration has unleashed on America, at least in terms
of the concerns over dangerous people. Prisons were emptied and
(01:41:26):
sent to the southern border, and those folks came in.
We have new gangs taking over and expanding their footprint,
lots of crime brought to you by illegal immigration as well.
I mean, you know, in the facts, you know what's
going on. The American people apparently know what's going on.
That's why Donald Trump's getting sworn in next week. And
I'm kind of shocked to see that this hasn't happened before.
(01:41:48):
But Fox News reporting that the state of Oklahoma is
now suing the Biden administration for unleashing, in one of
the words of the lawsuit, massive chaos on the public
school system in the state through the open borders policy
spiled by the Oklahoma State Department of Education. In Oklahoma
Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, targeting to Biden Administration's
(01:42:12):
Department of Homeland Security and Immigration's Customs Enforcement Agency, demanding
the administration refund Oklahoma for the approximately four hundred and
seventy million dollars it had to spend on educating thousands
of illegal immigrant children over the last four years. Filed
in the Western District Court of Oklahoma. The name Plane
(01:42:33):
of Walters told Fox Digital the public schools are, in
his words, overrun with illegal immigrants and thereby stretching the
system's resources, limiting opportunities for tax paying citizens' children. Oklahoma
State Department of Education gathered data. They said the state
of spends proximately eleven thousand dollars per student annually and
(01:42:54):
the number of unaccompanied migrant children that were ended up
in the state placed there. Think about it, unaccompanied minor children,
How in the hell did they end up in Oklahoma. Well,
it's because the Biden administration put on a bus and
took them there. Anyway, three thousand of those. They say
they're struggling to provide adequate resources for immigrant children. Among
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the costs associated with it is certified teachers for students
with limited English proficiency or maybe no English proficiency. Transportation. Again,
these are miners, una company. They I guess they got
to be staying with some families, some adult ment person,
some you know, someone who has an in local parentice
relationship to them. But they got to get to school.
(01:43:41):
Individualized education plans again, that probably relates to their limited
English proficiency. How do you teach a student who doesn't
speak English. The fundamental foundational building blocks for expanded education
has to start with understanding the English language so you
can be taught mathematics and other subjects.
Speaker 3 (01:43:58):
Duh.
Speaker 1 (01:44:02):
And of course the impact is having on again the
residents there, the taxpayers. Walter said, it is truly chaos
in the school system. And who's suffering here, It's the students.
He went on to say, Joe Biden and Kamalain Harris
did this intentionally. We've got students caught in the crossfire here.
We've got to protect them, and we've got to get
(01:44:23):
our states back on track and educating our children.
Speaker 10 (01:44:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:44:32):
He referred back to an NBC interview without going ICE
director leash Letter, who said the Biden administration absolutely should
have acted sooner to shut down the border. He said,
they knew Walter's back to Walter's the name planet, they
knew it was happening, they didn't do anything about it.
So last week we had Joe Biden's top ICE director
admit that they allowed this to happen, that they allowed
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the law to be broken. And see that's the subject
matter of the lawsuit. There's laws on the books, and
they didn't bother enforcing them to the detriment of not
just Oklahoma, every state who's been dealing with this, from
the bluest of blue cities New York, Chicago, Los Angeles,
LEAs what's left with it. Everyone has to absorb this
(01:45:14):
overwhelming burden. He So we cannot just allow them to
skate off into the sunset and say, President Trump, here
you go, State, Sorry sucks to be you. We just
caused this massive casts across your schools and across your
state and your communities. Those individuals have to be held
accountable for the cast they brought to our kids and
our families. And that's what this lawsuit will do. Now
I have to wonder out loud with the Trump administration
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and in a new apartment of Department of Justice. You know,
quite often during the Biden administration, the Department of Justice
or those who are responsible for defending actions like this,
if the action was something along the Green challenge, like
some environmental group wanted something to do, and the federal
government was involved in defending its policies or something, you
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don't have to fight back real hard. You can roll
over as a lawyer, perhaps not present your best defense,
allowing the opposition to go ahead and win. You can
settle lawsuits and pay sizeable chunks of money to groups
that well, your administration might find a hmmm, shares your
vision for America. I don't think that's gonna be the
(01:46:18):
case in the Trump administration, at least not as to
defending lawsuits like this. So I guess Trump's gonna Biden's
gonna have the lawyer up himself. Not quite sure how
this is gonna work out. But if the federal government
is sued and you are dealing with the new administration,
how hard do you think they'll fight back? Do you
think they'll concede and capitulate and write a check for
four hundred and fifty million or FO hundred and seventy
(01:46:40):
million dollars? It's certainly conceivable that'll be our taxpayer dollars,
though I have to point out coming out of your
pocket regardless. Seven to fifty six. If you've got cares
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Bring people up to date on fifty five KRC. Eight
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Wednesday to you and a book everyone is going to
want to read and probably won't be able to put down.
Welcome to the fifty five carse Mors Morning Show. Author
Michael Kanal, and you probably have read his other books,
The Author of a Brotherhood Betrayed, The Man Behind the
(01:47:33):
Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc. As well as three
other works in nonfiction. Former editor in New York Times
and contributed to The New Yorker, among other publications, he
has written a new amazing book, Blood and the Badge,
The Mafia, Two killer cops and a scandal that shocked
the nation. Welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
Michael Canal, Good morning, Brian, Thanks for having me so
the subject matters of this book, and my understanding is
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there have been other books written about Lewis Epolito and
Stephen Kara Kappa, the two New York cops that are
the subject matter of the book, but yours is by
far the definitive account of what they did and the
crimes that they were engaged in while they were officers
with the New York Police Department. So says even the
former chief of the Rackets Division, a guy who wrote
(01:48:18):
a book about the same two guys. He said, Man,
you uncovered stuff that I had no idea about. Tell
us a little bit about these two police officers.
Speaker 10 (01:48:29):
Yeah. Louis Eppolito and Stephen Kara Kappa were high ranking,
decorated New York City detectives. They were not just cops,
but really elite detectives, and in the late eighties and
early nineties they were on the mafia payroll. They were
paid a stipend of four thousand dollars a month to
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pass sensitive police information to the Luksey crime family. Who
who was whose phones were being tapped, who was under surveillance,
who was about to be arrested, and most importantly, they
used the police intelligence to identify who in the mafia
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ranks was a betrayer, who was a rat schooler, who
was secretly cooperating with the government. And what's more, once
those rats were identified, these two detectives helped to facilitate
their murders, and in at least one case, they pulled
the trigger themselves.
Speaker 1 (01:49:37):
WHOA, that's writing stuff and the idea that they have
all this inside information given how high up they were
in the New York Police Department, how much damage did
they do and how long did this last? They were
they were getting away with it.
Speaker 10 (01:49:53):
They got away with it for more than a decade.
I mean, it was set an outrageous, brazen act. And
I mean I think people, you know, people knew that
these were that Louis epp Alito was what they call
a dirty cop, you know, some low level of corruption
was was pretty common in the NYPD at that time.
(01:50:14):
But nobody, nobody could have conceived of them working for
the mafia and actually committing murders for the mafia.
Speaker 1 (01:50:26):
Yeah, that's really unfathomable. I mean, I can understand, you know,
the payoff, because we're all kind of used to that's
a subject matter of so many Hollywood movies. You know,
you kind of lose count. But that they were actively
engaged in work for the Lukezy crime family is amazing.
Now they were ultimately brought to justice, I understand, how
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do they get caught ultimately, and how they ultimately get prosecuted.
Speaker 10 (01:50:52):
The amazing thing is that they weren't caught for so long.
I mean, Louis Eplito was caught red handed passing a
police for file to a Gambino crime family heroin smuggler.
The police raided this man's home and found his own
police file there. He had his own police file in
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his possession, and they found Louis Epilido's fingerprints on the file. Amazingly,
Internal Affairs Division dismissed the case. They acquitted him. The Feds,
the FBI and federal prosecutors began to understand what these
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men were up to, but did amazingly did not prosecute
them because it would have corrupted other cases they were
working on. And so it appeared that these two men
were going to get off. They were tired. They collected
their police pensions. They moved to Las Vegas, and Louis
Epilito used his retirement years to launch a movie career.
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He had small parts in the films. And then a
detective back in New York, a detective named Tommy Dade
who was getting set to retire, just happened to stumble
into some evidence, and he took that evidence to the
Brooklyn DA's office and they revived this investigation that had
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had had sat dormant for years.
Speaker 1 (01:52:22):
Well, did any of the I have to imagine, certainly
correct me if I'm wrong. I'm sort of presuming that
members of the Luksey crime family, at some point or another,
some were prosecuted or caught or you know, submitted to justice,
that they would have advised the authorities that these two
dirty cops were helping out and you know, maybe to
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reduce the time that they would have to serve or
to lessen their sentence or something. But it seems to
me that that would be a low hanging fruit for
someone to try to better his situation if he was arrested.
Speaker 10 (01:52:54):
Well, you're right, that's exactly what happened. The man who
was essentially their patrons, and because Lukeji kron family, a
man named gas Pipe Keso, he flipped. He had spent
most of his adult life killing informants and then he
became the biggest informant of all. And he was all
set to testify against these these two detectives, and then
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something unexpected happened. Gas Pipe began to bad mouth the
other the other people who had flipped. He began to
bad mouth, in particular Sammy the Bold Ravana, who was
critical to the to the prosecution of John Gotti, and
he called uh Gravano a liar. Now this panicked the
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prosecutors because they did not want that prosecution to be
called into question. So what how did they solve that problem?
They solved it by ripping up, ripping up gas Pipe
Casso's polea agreement and sending him to super Max prison.
So who was the beneficiary of that? The two detectives,
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because all of a sudd and there was nobody to
testify against them.
Speaker 1 (01:54:02):
Oh my, it's amazing how that unfolds. Gas Pipe I
got asked, where in the hell did that name come from?
Speaker 10 (01:54:09):
Well, his father's nickname was was gas pipe Is. His
father worked down on the docks in Brooklyn and supposedly used,
you know, used an iron pipe to enforce his rules.
And the son, the son inherited the nickname, but he
didn't particularly like the nickname, and so his friends, his
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friends didn't use that nickname as presence.
Speaker 1 (01:54:32):
How about that? Now did this did these guys in
their capers and their antics and they're being involved with
murder and working with organized crime resultant cause any reforms
to come about in the New York Police Department. Or
was this just another couple of characters and bad apples
in the barrel that they were trying at least to
ferret out. You know, I'm thinking of, like, I don't know,
(01:54:54):
like a movie like Serpaco or something, because this kind
of thing was was was obviously a prevalent thing, shaking
people down, taking money from purpose and being paid off
because it's sort of common in the old days.
Speaker 10 (01:55:06):
Yeah, I mean, I don't I don't know that it
it caused there to be any reforms. I think what
happened is that they got away with a lot of
dirty stuff because of all the corruption cases that had
come before them, Serpico, the Nap, the famous Nap Commission,
And I think the NYPD, if they had wanted to,
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would could have sussed out what these detectives were doing.
But they really didn't want another scandal. They really didn't
have the appetite for any more newspaper headlines, and so
they kind of quietly tried to sweep all of us
under the rug.
Speaker 1 (01:55:43):
Gotcha, Well, you mentioned earlier one of them was sort
of known to be a quote unquote dirty cop, not
to the level of murder, but was there I guess
that culture of not saying anything within the New York
Police Department. You know, you don't brat rat out a
brother officer, even if it's bad for everybody else. That
that culture existed during this period.
Speaker 10 (01:56:02):
I mean when when Tommy Dad's the detective that I
mentioned who stumbled into the into that evidence, when he
began to investigate this this case, he got a lot
of heat from other police officers. You know, you don't
you don't go after one of your own, but he persisted.
Speaker 1 (01:56:21):
Well, one of the reasons Michael Veccioni, the former chief
of the Rackets Division who did write the other book,
gave you so much credit is because you were able
to actually speak with some of the mobsters that were
working with these two cops, which had never happened before.
How is it that you were able to get access
to those guys.
Speaker 10 (01:56:40):
Well, I mean I spoke to Sammy the boll Gravano,
and I spoke to a former Colombo hit man. And
I mean one of the things that really surprised me
about doing this reporting and research for this book is
that the cops and the gangsters all know each other,
and in many cases they're friends. You know, they grew
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up together in the old neighborhoods, and they went to
the same schools, and they they to this day, they
drink in the same bars. And it's a little bit
arbitrary in some cases as to whether a kid would
become a cop or whether he would join a crime family.
And so it's you know, it's very they're very tight
knit and they and they all know each other. So
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I actually found those sources through the law enforcement people.
Speaker 5 (01:57:31):
That I had interviewed.
Speaker 1 (01:57:32):
How about that? And I suppose, I mean, after the
passage of time, that it wouldn't be as much of
a big deal for them to actually reveal some of
these quote unquote secrets to you for publication because their
careers are over and they're in their retirement. I presume
as well.
Speaker 10 (01:57:50):
I think that's exactly right, Brian. I mean, they probably
wouldn't have opened up to me and talked to me
ten years ago or fifteen years ago. But the two
the two detectives in question went to jail.
Speaker 5 (01:58:03):
They died in jail.
Speaker 10 (01:58:05):
The DEA agents, FBI agents and detectives that I spoke
to are pretty much all retired, some time has passed,
and so they were I think they trusted me and
they were willing to open up and just I mean,
it was really an amazing experience because once they started
to talk to me, these amazing stories came out, you know,
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just every time they would tell me a story. I
think that could be a Netflix series. Yeah, you know,
you know, and they never it was sort of their
code to not talk about these things. But when they did,
you know, they really just really revealed a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:58:43):
Well, you know, this is one of those truth is
almost a stranger than fiction kind of things. It's certainly
a template for any corrupt cop kind of movie, and
I imagine probably will end up being a Netflix series.
It's fascinating, fascinating stuff, and I appreciate you spending time
with my listeners of me about the book, Blood and
the Badge, the Mafia, two killer cops in the scandal
of the Shock the Nation. I know my listeners are
going to buy these up because it's just such an
(01:59:05):
amazing story. Michael Kennelly, author, It's been a pleasure speaking
with you, and thanks for getting this down. I guess
as an author, real quickly. I have to know this,
given that other books have been written about these guys,
as I mentioned several times. Now, what motivated you as
an author to pursue this particular story and write another book?
How did I mean, did you have a feeling that
there was more out there that people just hadn't touched on,
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or did it just fascinate you as a subject matter.
Speaker 10 (01:59:30):
Yeah, no, that's it exactly. I mean, this has been
this topic has been written them out before, as you said,
but nobody has really written the big comprehensive book about it.
And I was pretty confident that I could I could
do that, that I that I could get people to
talk to me and really do a deep dive into it.
(01:59:51):
And happily, I think that's the way it turned out.
Speaker 1 (01:59:54):
Apparently so well received on the reporting sites, and I'm
sure they'll come and knocking on your door to turn
it into some sort of movie or series, sir, and
I wish you the best of walk on that Michael
Canal real pleasure to have you on. And your book
is on my blog page fifty five CASA dot com
with the links of people can buy a copy and
I'll encourage them to do that.
Speaker 10 (02:00:13):
Great. I really appreciate I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (02:00:16):
Thank you, min my pleasure and have a great day, sir.
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A twenty nine at fifty five KRC de Talk Station, Ay,
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His gremlins canceled my video for about two seconds.
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That's okay, I can see you again. It's always a
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You're still in New York.
Speaker 10 (02:02:40):
I am.
Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
I tried to get the virtual background on so I
could fool you and you would think I was in
New Jersey, but I couldn't get it to go on
this morning, So.
Speaker 1 (02:02:49):
You makeep Okay, So I'm supposed to feel sorry for
you because you're in New York or Okay, I'll just
let that sit anyway, Do least a switch in time?
You know almost anticipated you know, if you had asked
me before I got the copy of your column, which
comes out tonight at midnight, what you might talk about.
(02:03:12):
I thought, you know, perhaps Tulsea Gabbard might be on
the list.
Speaker 2 (02:03:15):
What Shakespeare once said, Lily's that fester smell far worse
than weeds. There is no worse enemy than a former friend.
Speaker 10 (02:03:28):
And when she was.
Speaker 2 (02:03:30):
Nominated or when Donald Trump the president elect indicated his
intention to nominate her to run all of the intelligence agencies.
Those of us in the libertarian world, Those of us
will believe that the Constitution, in this case, the Fourth Amendment,
means what it says. Were overjoyed. It was almost too
(02:03:52):
good to be true because as a member of Congress,
Telsea Gabbard, her speeches could have been written by Congressman
Thomas Massi, or Brian Thomas, or even me. She fiercely
opposed mass warrantless spying. She voted against the congressional unconstitutional
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but legal authorizations for all of this, nominated by Trump,
gets beaten up in the in the press a little
bit by the Deep Statum, by their Republican accolytes, and
she does one hundred and eighty degree flip. I'm now
in favor of section seven oh two. Seven oh two
is the section of the Paisa Act which was written
(02:04:35):
after Edward Snowden's revelations in order to make legal the
unconstitutional warrantless spying on every American that Snowden revealed. And
the way they did this was to say, well, we
have to be able to spy on foreign persons. The
Fourth a moment doesn't apply to foreigners. Now it applies
(02:04:56):
to everybody. Just read the language. It applies to all people.
Persons are people, So we can spy without warrants on
foreign persons. So what happens when those foreigners talk to Americans?
What happens when I talk to my cousins in Florence
or an art dealer in Geneva, or a bookseller in London. Well,
then they can listen to that person's calls, not just
(02:05:18):
with me, but all of their calls. And they can
listen to my calls because I spoke to a foreign person,
and not just my calls, but everybody that I talk
to and everybody that they talk to, and carry that
out to the sixth generation of conversations. Do the math
that covers all three hundred and thirty million Americans despide
(02:05:40):
on without warrants legally under Section seven oh two, profoundly unconstitutional,
condemned and rejected by Telsea Gabbert, and now embraced by her,
so she can get this job. Well, it would be
like me being nominated for the Supreme Court, and in
order to get confirmed, I came out and said I'm
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in favor of the American government. Spying and everybody the
Fourth Amendment doesn't mean what it says.
Speaker 1 (02:06:08):
Well, I know you would never say that much in
the same way you said you would say you never
embrace abortion. But beyond that, did she offered up an
explanation for her dramatic flip.
Speaker 2 (02:06:18):
No, she has not, And I don't know if there's
anybody on the Senate Intelligence Committee which will interrogate her
who shares our views. My guess is there is not. Normally,
the powers that be do not put a person on
either the Senate or the House Intelligence Committee who believes
that the intelligence community should comply with the Constitution like
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the rest.
Speaker 1 (02:06:41):
Of the government.
Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
So I don't know if anybody is going to ask
her this. Her flip was not made public. It was
just leaked out by the Trump transition team. It's mind boggling.
President Trump knows he knows this because I explained it
to him personally privately. Yeah, this is the part of
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the law that was used to spy on you and
me when I was in your office in Trump Tower,
before you were the president of the United States. And
this is the part of the law that Jim Comey,
whom you fired and company, used to spy on you
during your first term in office. And now this second
(02:07:23):
part I didn't say to him because I haven't spoken
to him recently. And you want her to embrace this
part of the law.
Speaker 1 (02:07:31):
It really is mind boggling. And who more than a
president of the United States of America talks to foreigners.
I mean, he talks to foreign leaders all the time.
He's already opened the door of him to firms to
be you know, just literally spied on because he has
communications with foreign leaders. It's part of his job requirement.
Speaker 8 (02:07:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:07:51):
I once asked one of my ex CIA guys that's
on Judging Freedom, does the intelligence community spy on the
White House? And sort of a guilty look appeared in
his face, and he said yes. But if I had
(02:08:11):
answered this question truthfully while I was still in the
government's employee, I'd be looking for work.
Speaker 5 (02:08:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:08:19):
Then I said, does Massad spy on the White House?
And he said more effectively than our own intelligence agencies do. Wow?
Speaker 10 (02:08:29):
Is right.
Speaker 1 (02:08:31):
Well, apparently the Israelis do have the best spy operation around.
That's a room or on the street. Anyway. Now, let
me just qualify this or at least further dive into
it because you know, having a conversation, you know, one
presumes this is sort of a telephone call, you may say,
when you call your aunt in Naples or whatever. But
this would also be online communications as well. If I
(02:08:54):
am community.
Speaker 2 (02:08:55):
Yes, yes, it's texting, it's emailing and calling. It's all communications.
What Snowden revealed Snowdon's revelations are now ten years old.
Speaker 1 (02:09:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:09:07):
But what Snowden revealed is that every keystroke holding up
my iPhone on every mobile device, every laptop, and every
desktop is captured by the FEDS. Now they captured in
real time. They don't monitor it in real time because
they don't have the assets, they don't have the human
beings to monitor it in real time. If they monitored
(02:09:30):
it in real time, a lot of these tragedies wouldn't occur.
The tragedy in Bourbon Street on New Year's Eve I
think it was, or maybe it was New Year's Day
by the time it actually happened, that would never happen
because they would have seen all this guy's texts and emails,
all the plotting and planning that they now have. So
(02:09:51):
if all this spying on us is information overload to
the point where they can't even use it to keep
us safe.
Speaker 6 (02:10:00):
What is the value of it.
Speaker 1 (02:10:02):
Indeed, I don't want it unconstitutional.
Speaker 2 (02:10:05):
Not only is it a violation of our natural rights,
it doesn't work well.
Speaker 1 (02:10:10):
And to the extent they said, well, we can use
it in prosecutions after the fact, you know, to prove
motive and to sort of support the allegations against them
for murder or terrorism or what have you. But that
would open the door to someone making a legal challenge
in court, like along the lines of emotion, to suppress
and go after.
Speaker 2 (02:10:28):
That's the last thing that they want. I will never
introduce this evidence because the last thing they want is
for some federal judge to invalidate the statute. There are
portions of the Patriot Act that have been invalidated by
federal judges. Three or four in southern California have won
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very famously involving the Bridgeport Librarians in Connecticut. None of
those invalidations were appealed to circuit courts.
Speaker 1 (02:10:58):
Because of facts were terrified they be affirmed.
Speaker 2 (02:11:01):
So what they try to do now is avoid those
particular federal judges.
Speaker 1 (02:11:05):
That's a disgrace, indeed it is. And let me just
suggest that you make a very valid point information overload.
There's no possible way anyone could ever real time monitor this.
Maybe that's what the big rush for artificial intelligence is,
because maybe AI could process this filter through language and
shoot up red flags for communications that contain sort of
(02:11:27):
warning sign language in it.
Speaker 2 (02:11:29):
Probably, probably so, George Orwell was right.
Speaker 3 (02:11:34):
He was just off by a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (02:11:36):
No question about it. Well as we always do. Let's
end the segment on judging freedom your podcasts, and I
encourage my listeners to find it online. And who are
you going to be speaking with today, sir?
Speaker 2 (02:11:46):
I have Aaron Mante today, Pepe Escobar, Phil Geraldy and
tomorrow the Great He should have been seated where Pete
Hegseth was yesterday, but life doesn't always work out for
the best. Colonel Douglas McGregor.
Speaker 1 (02:12:01):
All right, great line up, your honor, and always a
great conversation with you. I appreciate your thoughtful analysis and
your ongoing support of the Fourth Amendment, in spite of
the fact that no one in power seems to carol
wit about it until next Wednesday, my friend, best to health.
Thank you, Brian, right back at you, my pleasure, sir.
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Speaker 1 (02:13:36):
Eight forty seven fifty five KR. See the talk station.
It stirs me so much that our government tramples on
the constitution so regularly, And of course the Judge and
I've talked about the Fourth Amendment and Fiz it concerns
many many times over the years, and of course things
just seem to be getting warse. But just let me
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think about that for a moment. You're on Facebook. A
friend of Facebook who's in France, went to church with him,
good friend of mine, he's been living in France for
a couple of decades now and great, but you know,
one communication with him sets me up. And all of
you with whom I talk to, having our conversations and
(02:14:19):
communications generally speaking, looked at by our government and in
terms of AI and I think I anticipated it right.
They will start real time monitoring our key strokes soon
in the future, not that far away. You can just
see it so close and you can almost taste it.
It so close got a load of this and appreciate
just Trekker finding this one for me, because well, I
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didn't think I was otherwise going to be able to
get into it. Here's a scary use of artificial intelligence
from the Washington Post. After two men brutally assaulted a
security guard on a desolate train platform in the outskirts
of Saint Louis County, Transit police detective Matthew Shooty was
trying to identify one of the culprits. He studied grainy
(02:15:01):
surveillance videos, went through homeless shelters, and repeatedly called the
victim of the attack, who probably didn't remember really anything
because the brain injury that he received from the beating.
So after months of you know, endeavors along those lines,
they tried another option. He uploaded a single image from
the blurry video of the incident into a facial recognition
(02:15:23):
program that uses AI to scour mugshots of hundreds of
thousands of people that have been arrested in the Saint
Louis area. But, despite the poor quality image of software
chucked out the names and photos of several people that
it determined resembled one of the attackers. The attackers whose
face was hooded by a winter coat and partially obscured
(02:15:44):
by a surgical mask, So you don't have much to
go with. It's grainy to start with, and then you
got only a partial face. But nonetheless, the AI platform
determined that, oh, here you go, there's a couple of guys. And,
in spite of the city's facial recognition policy the warning
officers that the results of this technology are in the
policies words non scientific and should not be used as
(02:16:08):
the sole basis for any decision, the officer went ahead
and built a case against one of these AI generated results,
a guy named Christopher Gatlin, and there, but for the
grace of God, go you or I under these circumstances.
He's a twenty nine year old father of four who
had no apparentize to the crime scene nor a history
of island offenses. Which something officers shoot. He would later
(02:16:29):
agree to it and admit to The guy was arrested
and jailed for a crime he claims he didn't commit,
and it took him more than two years to ultimately
clear his name, they say. Washington Post investigation the police
use of facial recognition software found that the law enforcement
agencies across the nation are using AI tools that were
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never intended to be used a shortcut to find in
arrest suspects absent any other evidence. The post went through
a whole bunch of different police departments, twenty five of
them that where detailed records about AI facial recognition were available,
finding fifteen departments in twelve different states arrested suspects through
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AI matches without any independent evidence concerned connecting Tom the crime,
nothing else. And it's pointed out this AI generated results
kind of make police officers lazy. They note that some
law enforcement officers using the technology appear to abandon traditional
policing standards and treat software suggestions as facts. One police
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report referred to an uncorroborated AI result as a one
hundred percent match. Now that's what the department said after
the AI result did and corroborate it. Another said police
use software to immediately this is in quotes, immediately and
unquestionably close quote identify as suspected thief. This father of
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four Gatlin one of eight people. At least eight people
wrongfully arrested in the US after being identified through facial recognition,
six cases previously reported in media and too wrongful arrest.
This guy and Jason Varnow, Miami resident, weren't previously reported,
So you're hearing this kind of thing for the first time,
at least, says to these two other cases. And it's
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sad because, as they point out, in spite of the
fact that all the cases were eventually dismissed. And I
can only imagine what kind of legal fees this poor
Christopher Gatelan had to go through. Any of the other ones,
police probably could have eliminated most of the people as suspects,
all the ones that with these AI images generated before
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their arrest, if they'd had just done basic police work
like checking alibis, comparing tattoos, or in at least one case,
following DNA and fingerprint evidence. It was left at the scene.
So all this AI stuff really concerns me. Artificially generated images,
for example, not ones where they're doing facial recognition along
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with photographs of real people. But you've heard about it,
read about and probably seen it already. Someone you see
a picture of an image on the screen that AI
has created, whole hooth movies, videos of people doing things
they never did, saying things they never did. I mean
(02:19:20):
in connection with the LA wildfires. One of my friends
sent me a video where they have one of the
folks out there in elected capacity or one of the
you know, fire chiefs or whatever, talking about and saying
the fire we started. They even have the text of
his statement going along with, you know, the image of him,
(02:19:42):
the video of him, you know, making this announcement. And
maybe it was a misstatement, that is possible, but of
course in her mind that was an admission that we
people in the government started the fire. The first thing
I thought of when I saw that was, you know
what some ten year old at home using AI could
have generated that sort of seemingly matching we with the
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mouth as opposed to something. Maybe the guy actually said
you can't trust your eyeballs anymore. And that's just going
to be such a major, major problem in a you know,
not just in law enforcement, in prosecuting. In prosecuting cases,
I mean, the first default, the first argument defense attorney
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is going to start saying, is well, that was artificially generated.
He was never there. You know, the image from the
subway platform, they have video camera down there. You could
fake that. My understanding is from talking to Day of Hatter,
every Friday. It wouldn't be that difficult to do. You
could artificially create whole cloth. You know, a subway scene
where you've got any given guy that you've put into
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the video committing a crime that's not me. I wasn't there.
You can't trust your own eyeballs. So frightening stuff. So
you have, in addition to a being used to listen
real time to our conversations, which I assure you if
it isn't going on already. Maybe that's why Joe Biden
just approved building artificial intelligence platforms on federal land. Yeah,
(02:21:14):
there's a headline. You can find it for yourself. Epoch Times.
Biden uses executive order for building AI data centers on
federal land. Nothing to see here, folks, Nothing to see
here anyhow, if you didn't get a chance. Alex Drantefilo
was on earlier talking about his trip to the inauguration.
He's on his way, I guess today, but he will
be there, and he's in a real positive mood. He
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had a lot to say about Democrats and whether they
learned any lessons, and of course he had a lot
to say about the border. Of course, one of the
main reasons I think Donald Trump got elected. Jade Vance
of course off to sit in the vice presidential spot,
and he's left a Senate or a Senate seat open.
Who's going to be the replacement? He danced around that
a little bit, and I just said the out loud words.
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John Houston Alex didn't agree with me, but he didn't
say that wasn't a possibility. But all my money's on
John eustaid, we'll find out soon enough. It's in the
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with Christopher Smithman knows he lost his wife to cancer
some years ago, and it is the anniversary of the
passing of Pamela Smithman. So I want to just acknowledge
that at the outset and extend my of course love
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to Christopher. I have I know a lot of people
who've been in a lot of relationship marriage for years
and years and years. I have never seen a more
devoted couple in my life. The love between those two
is just unparalleled, and I know to this day it's
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bite of the number of years that have gone by,
he still grieves, and he still visits her grave regularly,
and he still thinks about her every day. How couldn't
you but just wanted to use this moment as an
opportunity to acknowledge this was the day she passed away.
And my wife and I were fortunate enough to spend
some time with the Smithemans very surely in advance of
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her passing, and it was just so heartbreaking knowing how
much they loved each other. And you could see the
look in Christopher's face and you could just you know,
feel his pain from across the room. So, I mean,
we all struggle, we all suffer with loss, and it's
just an important thing to know that, you know, you,
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while you have your loved ones, while they are with you,
don't fail to acknowledge and appreciate just how lucky you
are to have them. It doesn't have to be a
long term struggle with a disease like cancer. You know,
somebody could go. And my wife always says, be careful
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every morning and go off to work. Be careful, you know,
driving down the road. You know, just be careful because
it only takes some moments time to lose someone that
you love, So don't overlook that. And most all of
us are blessed enough they have a loved one in
our life, and don't overlook the importance of them and
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the time that you get to spend with them. All
right with that, God bless you, Christopher Smithman. We all
love you. Alex Chancefilo, A lot of people love him,
a lot of people have problems with Alex. He is
the head of the High Republican Party. For those not
keeping tracking home, Alex t back in the program and
coming up at seven oh five, we will talk about
the inauguration, fast approaching new sheriff in town and hopefully
(03:30):
we'll get a lot accomplished under this second Trump term.
Talk inauguration, we'll talk to the JD. Van's Senate replacement,
and finally general democratic incompetence. Maybe that has something to
do with wildfires, oh or maybe a whole lot more.
Get to a side note on that one just a moment.
(03:54):
Doctor Jed Harding, Cincinnati Classical Academy. A better way for
children to learn. Doctor Jed returns of the program. Coming
up at seven thirty. You'll talk about new and big
things that are happening with the Cincinni Classical Academy. So
there are wonderful education opportunities out in the world. Sometimes
you got to search for him in Greater Cincinnati. It's
(04:14):
right there at the Cincinnati Classical Academy, old school teaching
and brilliant children coming out with valuable degrees after going
through the Cincinnti Classical Academy. I can only hope that
that concept grows and grows and grows. Hey, maybe you
could make its way into the public schools. How about that?
(04:35):
Wouldn't that be an interesting thing for public schools to
adopt the teaching methodology at Sincanti Classical Academy. Anyway, Doctor
Jed Harding's at seven thirty, Michael Cannell got a new
book to talk about Blood and the Badge, the Mafia,
two killer cops, and a scandal that shocked the nation. Wow,
(04:57):
that sounds like it's going to be a fun book
to read and an interesting conversation with Michael. Coming up
at eight oh five, followed by Judge Andrew Depolitano, column
caption A switch in time. Talking to starts out with
Tulsea Gabbert, a defender of personal privacy rights protected by
the Fourth Amendment, consistently opposing permitting federal agents to spy
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on Americans without search. Warns consistently voted against the reauthorization
of section seven of two seven oh two of FAIZA.
It's a regular topic of conversation with the judge and I. Anyway,
she's about to be nominated as a Director of National Intelligence,
and so last week she changed her mind on section
seven oh two. Wo no longer believes the Constitution means
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what it says. That's going to be fine. Always a
good conversation with the judge, at least he and I
still believe in constitutional principles. Rare commodity among well anybody
these days, So going over to maybe some government competence,
it's sort of this whole article reminded me of the
FAA and its relationship with Boeing. You know, we've talked
(06:04):
with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Rattle of time and time
again about the problems at Boeing, the manufacturer of aircraft
not exactly taken too seriously by the employees or the
leaders in leadership at Boeing. Airplanes falling out of the
sky because the software updates they didn't bother passing along
to people, doors flying off. The litany and list of
problems there pretty long. And every time Boeing steps up
(06:27):
and says we're going to be better, We're going to
do better, we're gonna we're going to change the situation,
they don't. So I guess Jay's been, you know, going
back and forth between his support FAA and his criticism
of it in connection with Boeing. Now we can focus
our attention on the us DA de partner of Agriculture
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and maybe a reason why you don't want to buy
bores Head Deli meets. This is just absolutely disgusting. And
since the lysteria problem and the reports that came out
after the the the liverworst Slash Brunschwroger problem they had
and the recall they had over lysteria, I steered clear
of the boards at Aisle that one report and the
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inspections revealed the unsanitary conditions that the plant that manufactured
that particular product was enough for me to get turned
off of Boreshead Deli Meats. Well, the government inspectors documented
unsanitary condition now at several Boarshead Deli meat plants, not
just the factory shot down last year after the Lasteria
outbreak Cornet Federal records newly rased reports from Boar's Head
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plants in Newcastle, Indiana, Forest City, Arkansas, and Petersburg, Virginia
describe multiple instances of meat and fat residue left on
equipment and walls, dripping condensation, following on food, mold, insects,
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and other problems, which they said dated back roughly six
years last May, fast approaching a year ago. One inspector
documented quote general filth close quote in a room at
the Indiana plant. Gives your reassurance, doesn't it? Us? To
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Agriculture Department release the inspection records in response to not
because they voluntarily released them to the public for their
own general good, but in response to a Freedom of
Information Act requests from the Associated Press and other news
organizations who are actually doing an effort to report and
find out information. Problems documented at all three factories echoes
(08:39):
some of the violations found the Jarrett, Virginia plant that
was the one that was shut down because of listeria
the newly released reports described I will quote equipment covered
in meat scraps that goes back to twenty nineteen, dry
crusted meat from the previous day's production. End quote, dark
stinky residence left behind that's from back in twenty twenty,
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doorway covered in quote dry meat, juices and grime close
quote twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, green mold in
flaking paint, twenty twenty three, unidentified slime and an abundance
of insects, and twenty twenty four a puddle of blood,
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debris and trash. Fritz part boresaid send an email Monday.
The violations documented in the three factories quote do not
meet our high standards. Close quote Well, isn't that comforting?
The Sarasota floor based company has marketed itself well as
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a premiere promider of deli meats and cheeses, advertising excellence
that stands apart in every bite. I guess as long
as you don't have general filth in the food that
you're putting in your body. Records from a fourth foresead Plant, Holland, Michigan,
I guess that's one that has that has a clean shop,
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no similar problems reflected at their Holland, Michigan plant, And
I don't know there's a way for you to determine
if the bores Head deli meat that's available at your
local grocery store came from Holland, Michigan. But at this juncture,
I've given up. As I mentioned a moment ago. It
took the listeria outbreak. It was enough for me reading
the reports about that plant. Health officials in Maryland initially
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discovered listeria contamination and the package of unopened liver worst
resulting in a recall. More than seven million pounds of
readit E deli meat and poultry sold nationwide. Two point
six million pounds eventually recovered, meaning I guess the general
public consumed almost five million pounds of the stuff because
it had already been sold. Corda do Thomas Grimillian, director
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of Food and Policy at the con Federation of America,
a nonprofit advocacy group, said the conditions revealed with other
Boarshead plants are really concerning. Yeah, he said, it's reasonable
for some people to decide they don't want to eat
delamy check companies like Borshead they should have to earn
consumers trust. Really Boreshead is also facing multiple lawsuits and
(11:24):
connection with the outbreak. It's a sad story. Garrett Dorman,
Who's mom, Linda, seventy three Oxford, Pennsylvania resident, died in
July after eating the liver wars. She had cancer and
that was one of the few foods she was able
to eat. He's suing the company. According to documents followed
by the Seattle law firm that represents him, he said,
(11:45):
I believe Borshead needs to completely revamp their program at
all of their facilities. Borshead needs to put the welfare
of people at their highest priorities. Stating the obvious, mister Dormant,
I know you're suffering from a laws Your mom was
killed by listeria. Now, going back to my comment about
government and competence, I guess I was quoted in this
(12:06):
article lawmakers, including Senator Richard Blumenthal Representative Rosa de Laro,
sharply criticizing USDA officials for not taking stronger action against
the company despite documentation repeated problems. Again, the list I
read goes back quite a few years. Apparently, the usd
Inspector General is reviewing the agency's handling of the situation.
(12:27):
The US Department of Justice is investigating whether criminal charges
are warranted.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
In their statement those two lawmakers, the new records released
by FSIS should be considered by the DOJ, especially as
they potentially point to a wider systemic problem. These reports
make clear that there is a culture of non compliance
of critical safety and sanitary protocols, protocols that are enforced
by the government agency USDA. See I'm having to go
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at faith in government of late A fortunate that we
have the justice system and civil lawsuits who allow us
to go and sue companies like Boorzed when they poison us.
I guess someone's got to provide some measure of oversight.
The question is do you trust the competence of government
officials in this case, the USDA actually provide the oversight
that's needed. The report release Friday, USDA officials said inadequate
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sanitation practices as the dried plant contributed to the outbreak.
Product residue condensation, and structural problems in the building were
key factors. State inspectors working in partnership with the USDA
had documented mold insects, liquid dripping from ceilings, and meat
and fat residues on the walls, floors, and equipment that
was from a prior associated press report. Again at the
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JAR facility that was shut down. Okay, I'm not going
down that road again. I've made up my mind. It's
like my wife had Target. She quit shopping at Target
probably twenty years ago because of their unbelievably horrific and
onerous turn practices. They have not earned a dime off
the Thomas household since twenty years ago. Boreshead, Sorry sucks
(14:08):
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two to three talk pound five fifty on AT and
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arguments today over a Texas law requiring porn website to
verify the ages of their visitors. I don't know how
you feel about online porn. Uh, there is a legitimate
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argument that the challengers to this law are making, and
it's something that you know, reminded me immediately of Tech
Friday's Day of Hatter. So it's the case is free
speech coalition U versus is packed and challengers are set
to urge the justices to overturn the Texas law as
an unconstitutional infringement on free speech rates of adults in Texas.
Their court filings argue that the effort to prevent miners
(15:13):
from accessing sexual content online chills the rights of adults
to access content that they want. Requiring verification information. Here's
the point, this is what I agree with them on.
Requiring verification information exposes those adults, those adult visitors potential
identity theft, fraud in other risks. So the law requires
(15:34):
that pornography websites verify and identify their users through the
use of documentation like a government issued ID, and poses
a ten thousand dollars fine per violation, a quarter of
a million dollar fine if the innovation, if it involves
a minor. So now when you go ahead and put
that very you know, I mean, there's some important information
(15:55):
in your driver's license, DL number, your address, obviously in
some cases security number all that. I don't need to
require that anymore, but it's just one more point of
data that could be subject to being well hacked. Chinese
Communist Party, I imagine, has done everything it can to
hacking to porn website so it gets more information about
us individually. You know, there's some blackmail potential in there.
(16:17):
Oh my god, look at the kind of porn that
you watch, and you could be saying, well, nobody should
be watching it anyway, and that's all well and good.
But behind all this, I find the whole idea that
a state, one state can ban access to this to
be a laughable thing. We talked about VPNs multiple times
(16:37):
virtual private networks. When you are on a VPN, you
basically get to choose where your location goes from. There
are servers literally all over the globe, so your computer
appears as it's someplace else Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, Chicago,
Saint Louis states that probably will never end at stuff
(17:00):
like this. Within the United States, VPNs are literally everywhere.
So when the state of Texas bans this, an individual
in Texas with a VPN can just log in from
a server in say Chicago, and it looks like to
the porn provider that this is an Internet provider that's
coming out of Chicago. Ergo, the age verification restrictions won't apply.
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They won't ask for age verification. So I appreciate the
motivations behind this keeping children away from the dangers and
damage that pornography can can can lead them to. But
you know, in the final analysis, it really doesn't do
anything and does subject people to the potential of identity theft, fraud,
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and other risks as argued in the pleadings. My take
on A five twenty six right now, if you have
carecy the toxication, mississipp James on the phone, You're got
to hang on a second. I got to take a
quick break here, but I will take your call right
after these brief words. It is five nine and I
have very happy eat Wednesday to you five one two
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You are welcome and free to call love to hear
from you do have local stories, but I Havessissippi James
on the phone, James, welcome back, my friend. I hope
you're well.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Hey, good, good, good, Happy New Years. That's all right,
my first time speaking to you.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It is so happy new year. Right back at you, man,
I'm glad you're you're still around and still listening to
the show. That's your wife doing, yes, Oh she hanging
in there. You bout day? Tell her? I said that
day is every day?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Is it is.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
To his own day?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
As I say, yes, sir, so, you have to keep adjusting,
sticking and moving like a boxer in a ring.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
That's life, man, that is life.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Can't get barged down in one position. The opponent will.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Figure you out. Yes, sir, so we called the stick
and move.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
But yeah, a couple of things I want to speak
about and boards here. Yet as expensive as that meat is,
I know the high in the store. I know.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
We shop at Kroger and there's two that you got
the Kroger meets on the right hand side. You got
the Boresaid meats on the left hand side, and they're
always about one or two dollars more per pound for
the exact same product. So I tend to grab. I
always gravitate since that Listeria operak to the Kroger brand anyway,
And when you spoke.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Of jail time a criminal. Maybe some of them inspector
should be brought up on some kind of charge because
this wasn't just a single incident, sound like this was
long term, overlooked, omitted.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
And everything is.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Yeah, so they get those inspectors and look at what
did they write up, what did they find?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, and I don't know, I don't know if they
enjoy any immunity because they're doing a government job, in
government work, which is quite often the case, but they're
at least I mean to the extent the other thing
behind this, It took a Freedom of Information Act request
by the Asociated President of the news outlets to get
this information out to us. I mean, if you look,
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there are public health inspectors that go around to restaurants, right,
all of that is public information. You can look up
any given restaurant and see how they fared in any
given health inspection. It's all available online anytime. Where in
the hell is this information? I mean, I would like,
it's just it's frightening to me that this isn't readily
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made available to all of us so we can make
informed decisions about what we're putting into our bodies.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Right, Okay, onto another note. Right here in my hometown
of Meridian, Mississippi, a company is coming here. That's the
Internet company, and I guess they put stuff up in
the clout which I don't understand all intrinsic, but they
invest in anywhere from ten to twenty billion dollars right
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here in this look dust. The town so has the
time chance to grow. How about that it accomplish something
else if we can get the politics and the ministration
on board, keep the greedy hands out of it.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Ah ah, well, I'll pray for you on that, right.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
And this is my first time of really trying to
step in and help steer the politics in this area.
You know, we and I try to bring civility to
the center part because I know the extreme is out
there on both sides.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
The pendulum swinging back and forth. You mentioned that many times.
So somewhere in the middle of me lie the truth
and sensibility right right.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
But this is a good opportunity for him because we've
been pressed down here for so long and to get
anywhere from ten did I say billion dollars? Ten to
twenty b and that they're investing in the here.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, I find that some hard to believe given how
small your town is. But hey, if it's coming, you
may help you economically, and I wish you'd all the
best in prosperity. Well, i'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Now, we at the bottom of any site survey here.
They don't look at this place to bring business. But
Mississippi Power Company is the one that got started because
this place need mega watts or killer watch and the
power company actually say they would give them whatever they needed,
actually build a power generating station near this site. So
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it didn't come through the politics looking at the school,
the crime, none of that stuff that sort of got
pushed to the back burner. And they say we need power,
and the Mississippi Power Company.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Agreed to give them all they.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Need and can handlem. So it's an odd way, but
it's a step up. It is to go in the
right direction.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It is, and I'm surprised that they stepped up to
the plate so easily. That's mind blowing in and of itself.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
James, Oh, it needed something here, because I was about
to look around and hope I didn't see that what
you call them dust dustballs rolling down in the streets
and Thomas weeds right like this like old town that
everybody's leaving out of. You know, whether Toma weed blow
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down the street Main Street.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well, I'll congratulate you and your fellow residents on at
least hope that your your your your economy, and your
city will well enjoy the prosperity that that may bring
about for you. And I'll keep my fingers crossed for you,
and you can call me back later if you make
any progress in that direction. James, appreciate it, man, love
your wife, take care of my friend. To look forward
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to see you when you're back in town. Folks, if I
went through seven two three, talk real quick here in
terms of local stories. And I love Congressman Thomas Massey
and he is well no longer on the key House
Committee Membership GOP membership took a vote earlier in the
morning for House Rules Committee. North Carolina Republican Representative Virginia
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Fox now taking over its new chair, Representative Morgan Griffith,
Virginia selected to replace Congressman Massy so being a fly
in the ointment and being the loane no missed doctor, no,
or whatever they refer to Congressman Massy as he is
firm on principle and he has sparred a lot with
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members within the Republican Party. I think always with good sound,
constitutionally based reason. But unfortunately that is those are not
principles that most of the Republican Party follows. Ergo, he's
no longer on that select Committee. He'll still be around though,
God bless him, and thank you to the voters and
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commonwealth for electing him. Five point thirty six fifty five
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a stack of stupid to get into absent phone calls,
and phone calls are always welcome. As I point out,
you're right back.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
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Speaker 1 (25:04):
Five forty fifty five KRCD talk station, Happy Wednesday, Good
for to call five one, three, seven, four fifty eight
hundred eight two three talk con fact fifty on AT
and T phones Over to the stack of stupid. I
guess there's a Guinness World Book World Record for literally
everything anymore. City of West Palm Beach, Florida set a
(25:28):
new record for the Guinness World Book of Records Cox
Science Center phrasing Cox Joe like the old airplanes. I
guess now has the Guinness World Book a record for
having the largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs? Why
(25:52):
are you doing that? No blanking idea me. Friday night,
four hundred and sixty eight quote unquote dinosaurs showed up,
beating the previous record of two hundred and fifty You.
(26:12):
What I find most disturbing about that is that there
are you know, nearly five hundred people that have dinosaur
costumes and a story was made for me. Yes, we
got a Kuala Lampour Malaysia or a webcam model who
(26:34):
accidentally shot herself in the vagina while recording a video
at her home survived miraculously, they say. Lauren Hunter Damon,
twenty seven, alone in a room when the firearm was
discharged in thomastin, Georgia, accord to the USA Today Daily Star,
(26:55):
reporting please survive to the scene to find a paramedic
who was holding an unloaded hand gun and spent nine
millimeter bullet casing, telling them that the victim had accidentally
shot herself again in her vagina. Gun owner Jordan Allen
told police that he rushed into the bedroom from the
kitchen after hearing the gunshot. He said that Damon had
a small amount of blood on her leg and she
(27:15):
was apologizing when he came into the room before she
went to the on to explain that she had shot
herself by mistake. Told authorities that she had subscribers on
a sexual web platform called Chatter, and that she makes
sexual videos of herself and people pay her to see them.
Damon taken from her home in Upson County Sheriff's office,
(27:38):
where a helicopter then airlifted her to a hospital for treatment.
Authority has a classified the incident as reckless conduct and
it's unlikely that they will press any charges. I have
no idea why the dateline? What is Kuala Lampoor? And
neither did Joe And it's posted on Malaysia dot news
dot Yahoo dot com. Oh well, USA Today also obviously
(28:00):
reported because they gave USA Today and The Daily Star
credit in this reporting. So however you get your news. Indeed,
I think this is Australia. Victoria police released footage from
two men becoming engulfed in flames as they allegedly tried
(28:21):
to set a car on fire in northeast Victoria. The
Juan Garata Crime Investigation Unit detectives have been told the
unknown offenders entered a home on the on Swinburn Drive Saturday,
quarter after nine in the evening. No one was home.
Men can be seen in video lighting liquid on the
ground next to the parked car outside the residence, before
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running from the scene with their clothing on fire.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
Video because they're idiots.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Video footage shows the pair working to put the flames
out on their bodies. Last scene running towards Cambridge Drive.
Investigators have released closed camera footage the two men leave
or maybe able to assist with their inquiries and of
course anybody with information reserves of contact crimestoppers. Well that's
called instant karma right there. Stop, drop and roll. You
(29:15):
do that when lava is coming out of the volcano, Joe,
and you cover yourself up with a blanket. Remember that
South Park episode from way back. Duck and cover, Duck
and cover, just like when a nuclear bomb blows up.
Like they told you in the fifties, get under your desk.
That'll help. Forty five fifty five kres to the dog station.
More stupid coming up phone calls. Please feel free to
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call love to hear from you.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
I be're right back fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
It's Wednesday, and a happy one to you. I always
enjoy hearing from listeners, and we're going to go to
the phones right now. I got a couple of callers
online beginning in the order in which they will received,
which means Pete comes first. Hang on, Micha, we'll get
to you in just a second. Pete, Welcome to the show.
Happy Wednesday to you. Pete. Nope, stands it's too uh
(30:04):
fans Stan Okay, well, it says Pete on the on
the screen up there. I'm sorry for that. What's uh,
what's on your mind today? Thanks for calling?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
So I started watching a little bit of the Pete
uh sectary of state dreams.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Yeah, So anyway, it wasn't didn't they have all those
people that ran them mouth yesterday? The Democrats uh pushed
for Hillary Clinton, who killed people in mcgazi, had the
uh server at the house uh Whitewater, Uh you know,
continuously uh scandals and uh he's all oh remember now
(30:40):
her secretary was uh uh Anthony Wiener's wife who is
now dating George Soros's daughter. Yet the Hillary was up
there with them getting the mental freedom. And I keep
telling people, you remember, people call it Trump racist. But
Muhammad Ali and uhh who was the uh lady that
got stuck in the back of the bus and protested
uh Rosa Parks Rosa Parks and Muhammed Ali double Checkney.
(31:04):
I don't people double check mee uh We gave the
mental freedom from them in the black community and the
deep the racism.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Well, all I can tell you is you weren't expecting
anything different. They always apply a double standard. It just
depends on whose ox is being gored. And I think
this goes back to traditional Republican philosophies and principles. Democrats
are always considered liberal, open minded, you know, it doesn't
matter who you sleep with, you know, and open marriages
and all this, and Republicans traditionally more Christian centered, Judeo
(31:34):
Christian valued, and so the Democrats will always try to
leverage that against them, because anytime a Republican slipped up
and committed to some you know, an act like cheating
on his or her wife or however, you know, like
marital infidelity, they would make a big show of it.
Even though they're on their side of the ledger, They're
all engaging that all the time. That was one of
the things that came out yesterday one of the representatives
(31:57):
and I have the article just went in a total
terror about that. You know, you're accusing him about making
fun of him, or bringing up the fact that he
was drunk from time to time, that he was unfaithful.
You know, look in the mirror. I mean, we could
go down a list of people a mile long on
your side of the ledger and you're still senators. You know,
it doesn't your only qualification for this job is you're
a citizen in the United States of America. Beyond that,
(32:19):
it doesn't say you have to be faithful to your
wife or never drink or never engage in quote unquote
sinful conduct whatever sinful conduct means, based upon your definitional standards.
So yeah, that was a great opportunity for them to
put on a full display of hypocrisy, which is exactly
what they did. I mean, it was a hard time
for me, the little bit that I watched about that
(32:39):
of that to keep my laughter back. Anyway, they're desperate
to find, you know, things that are that make him
disqualify for the job or make him lack of qualifications
for the job. So anyway, I think as of right now,
it looks like it's pretty solid bet that he's going
to get approved long as the Republicans maintain uh and
(33:02):
don't lose any votes. It's on their on tie, you know,
thin ice in terms that they can't afford to lose
any votes. U see what curbage Mike has got today.
Curbage Mike, Happy Wednesday, my friend?
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yeah, great minds think alike. I couldn't help but watch
the kabuki theater as well, and how I mean it's
hard to take their outrage when they're reading it off
of paper, you know, and you're stumbling over your words
of how upset you are. But out of the nine
or ten, however, many of them questioned them, do you
think one of them could have asked about the F
(33:32):
thirty five? Why is it taking two years for a
submarine to get out of the shipyard. No, they all
went down the same path, of which he had two
months to prepare for those softballs the guys on TV
every week. I mean, he just like they said, he didn't.
They didn't even lay a punch on him. It was
just totally useless. With that side of the Aisle did yesterday.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I couldn't agree with you more on that one, Mike. Yeah,
and it is important. I mean, we the amount of
ship building generally speaking, whether it's summers or any other
forms of ships of the navy were way behind the
curve compared to the Chinese, which now have a navy
that's larger than ours. So yeah, that's that's something we
think about a lot.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Right during BRACK, the number of our civilian shipyards, you know,
went down. That kind of skilled talent. In fact, that's
what you even see. So you may have noticed it
on some of the major sport events along the along
the back wall, or even commercials go for submarines dot
com because we only build them in two places, Newport News,
Virginia and Groton, Connecticut, just from a submarine perspective, and
then you take that across the whole surface ships. Because
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that's because even on the Republican side and the thought
of you when they were talking about that, you know,
what's his idea between you know, fixed manned air craft
and drones?
Speaker 6 (34:42):
You know?
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Yeah, and as Trump said, just like when he was
on the campaign trail of twenty sixteen, you've tried other things.
Why not give it a chance. What he got to lose,
He's a breath of fresh air. If it doesn't work,
you know, Donald TRUMPO airmail him out of there. But
for now, from a junior officer perspective, and he seems
like a dedicated guy, give him a shot. Yeah, just
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constantly go down to you cheated on your wife, You
drink too much?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
What a joke? Well, no question about it. You know,
let he who was without sin cast the first stone.
Nobody would throw the rocks if they followed that principle
in that hearing yesterday. But you know, it's a good
point on that F thirty five. I'm how many submarines
could you build with the money we spend on that
aircraft in the world a world of drones? I mean,
is it even necessary? And I've reached the full conclusion
(35:31):
that the F thirty five is a colossal waste of money.
We're moving away from manned aircraft at have just a
light speed pace. So let's put our resources in our
money where it's needed, and that would be and I
agree with you on submarines. That's one of the more
well I think important aspects of our navy. They're underwater,
(35:51):
so airgo you can't get hit from a missile from above,
you know what I mean? Yes, sir, you're on one
for years. I know you know what I mean. Good
to hear from your mind. I don't know how they
got you in a sub Mike's like, how tall you like?
Six two or six four four?
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Six four two inches is a cutoff?
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Six six is a cut I figured the head of
a cutoff because you know, I expect you know a
bunch of people in my height like five ten, five
eleven in the submarines. Eddie, how you such?
Speaker 5 (36:17):
Why don't hear I kept it in my head?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
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hear Rebecca man Sore from Breitbart. She's a long time
Los Angeles resident and had some really interesting observations, you know,
from a personal standpoint about the fires, what she has seen.
You know, the heartbreak when you've lived in an area
for thirty years and see all these famous structures and
all the devastation. That's obviously very difficult. It's a huge
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challenge psychologically. But I asked her about the political environment.
Are people waking up to this insanity and this display
of incompetence which clearly clearly exacerbated the amount of damage,
the empty reservoirs, the incompetence. I find out this morning
that the LA Fire Chief now has reported that half
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of their fire trucks were unprepared and idle, because well
of one hundred and eighty three trucks, half of them
had were out of Commission. Needing of repairs and budget
cuts prevented them from acquiring new equipment parts shortages, so
they sat idly in the parking lot. There is another
display of incompetence, not getting ahead of things, which sort
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of parallels what we learned about Cincinna City Council and
the number of trucks that are not operable to clear snow.
But that the populace, the people that she's interacted with,
everyone is of the mind that government let them down
in a huge way. I mean, we go over all
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the facts we have, I mean the billions of dollars
that were promised to put in fire brakes and clear
up brush and build new reservoirs and dans. None of
it's happened. They haven't had a new reservoir built in
fifty years, despite of the fact that the funds were
allocated to do it. They had a bond levy that
are really passed. Three billion dollars are supposed to go
to build new reservoirs to hold the water that otherwise
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just runs into the ocean because they have no place
to put it for well dry times when they obviously
continue to show up. He got one hundred and thirty
years worth of climate data showing that, yeah, you know what,
they have droughts out in California, they also have periods
of time when it rains really heavily. Shocking. But it's
a worthy listen, So Rebecca Mounts, we're at there. Fifty
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He'll join the program at seven thirty from the Cincinnati
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eight hundred eight two three talk, but on the heels
of my conversation with Rebecca yesterday again fifty five k
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brilliance of Holman Jenkins Junior op ed piece end of
a climate delusion. Now he's speaking in very clear language here,
and I think he admits he states the obvious, but
it's something that needs to be repeated, and I'm he's
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just I think he states it brilliantly, which is why
I wanted to pass it along to you. I mentioned
the other day that California is chasing its tail, you
know one on one side, they want to end CO
two emissions and get to cartnet zero by some you know,
randomly selected sphincter inspired date. What's the point of it? Nothing,
(40:47):
he writes, COO two omitting of the atmosphere is rapidly
and for all practical purposes, uniformly distributed around the planet. Man,
right here, I may be stating the obvious, but it
needs to be pointed out. Voters and even political leaders
are suprizingly poorly informed on this point. Missions cuts in
California don't have any significant effect on California's climate. They
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also have no global effect. California's cuts are too small
to relative to the global whole. They're also largely illusory.
Emitting industries leave the state, they don't stop emitting. If
California imports Canadian hydro to charge its electric vehicles, consumers
elsewhere have more. They have to burn more coalon gas.
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See the demand doesn't diminish. If Californias drive evs more
gasoline is free to be burned by others, releasing more
co Two. That influences climate change in California and everywhere else.
That is, if you can see the point that carbon
dioxide influences climate change, it's actually plant food and also
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makes up a very small fraction of the atmosphere. Anyway,
Green energy subsidies do not re emissions. This will be
news to millions of California voters. It contradicts the Central
Tenata state policy. It isn't news to the actual enactors
of these subsidies. A National Research Council study sponsored by
Congressional Democrats in two thousand and eight concluded that such
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handouts were a quote poor tool for reducing greenhouse gases
close quote calling for a carbon tax instead. Unfortunately, the
incoming Obama administration quickly discovered it favored climate taxes only
when Republicans were in charge. Backers would later engage in
flagrant lying to promote Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, knowingly
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citing bogus predictions that its trillion dollars spending profusion would
reduce emissions. Twenty nineteen University of Oregon study has already
revealed the empirical truth green energy doesn't replace fossil fuels
and enables more energy consumption overall. That same year, the
EPA calculated the potential emission savings from subsidizing electric vehicles
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can be offset five times over by the pickup truck
and suv boom team Obama facilitated to assure the success
of its auto bailout. You know that reminds me of
the fun fact that the twenty or twenty twenty California
wildfires negated eighteen years of CO two reduction, one fire,
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one event, wiping out almost two decades worth of their
efforts to stop exhalation. Last year, the premier premier journal
Science put a nail in the question. Ninety six percent
of policies supported worldwide as quote unquote reducing emissions failed
(43:45):
to do so, consisting mostly of handouts to green energy interests,
And yet certain Wall Street Journal readers still sail me
Holman Jenkins Junior with the epithet denier. They confuse my
criticism of Democrat democratic hypocrisy with my imagined views on
climate science. As I've written back to many, quote, don't
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think politicians haven't figured this out about you. That's why
they can give us unsustainable corporate welfare boondoggles and call
it climate policy close quote. A CNN monitor Saturday urge
viewers to vote in an online poll on whether the
California disasters should be blamed on climate change or poor leadership.
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Notice the non secuitur as if climate change is an
excuse for not acting against fire risk by all means,
Let politicians proclaim a climate crisis or any other rhetorical
flourish if it helps mobilize support for public actions that
actually serve a useful purpose. But a pre revolutionary situation
(44:55):
has been building in California for two decades, starting with
the Third World blackouts of late two two thousands, not
because of any shortage of power, but because of large
helpings of political cowardice. A decision in twenty nineteen authorized
yet more third world blackouts. Instead of reasonably shielding utilities
from lawsuit risk over fires, their power lines might be
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accused of contributing to and I will note several lawsuits
have already been filed against California power companies for starting
the most recent fires. One result, predictably, has been a
proliferation of backyard generators, which of course increase fire risk.
Californians are stuck adapting in the ways left open to them.
Since twenty seventeen, half a million have fled Los Angeles County.
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Two social technologies might help, but the state has been
intent on denying itself their advantages. One is a functioning
insurance market. Another one one that analyzes from an actuarial
basis the appropriate risk any particular st ructure poses to
the insurance company by way of having to rebuild it
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if it, for example, burns down or gets hit by
a tornado, or gets hit by a flood or a hurricane.
If you can't afford the insurance, you can't afford the house,
he writes, get ready instead for a torrent of federal
and state money to help residents. Some of them wealthy
rebuild in high risk fire zones. The other is a
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functioning market in water. Five gallons to produce a walnut
probably isn't tenable under any realistic system of water pricing.
If water were properly valued, municipalities would also rapidly discover
the logic of building aquifers to capture seasonal runoff. A
thousand things would change if water were priced to flow
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to its most highly valued uses. Here's another concept. Climate
change can exist and yet be an insignificant variable in
southern California's Mediterranean climate. Anytime one hundred mile an hour
winds start blowing embers towards densely packed housing developments, a
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conflagration is certain. The only answer, then, is to have
the manpower and resources ready to put fires out as
quickly as they start. I said, he was stating the obvious.
He concludes, I've written repeatedly about climate and energy policies
in the Western world being a colossal example of sophisticated
state failure, in which attempts to address complex problems, you'd
(47:37):
only a succession of boondoggles and economic crises. If California
voters don't wise up now, they never will going back
to the comments of recommend soor yes out there and
in the middle of this conflagration and in the middle
of all this crisis, in the middle of all the
witnessing by the Los Angelinas of the failure of government,
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maybe it will be the end of a climate delusion.
Maybe they will realize that their efforts making housing at
the average house a million dollars exacerbated largely because of
energy policies and permitting requirements and all the other onerous
problems you have in getting anything done and built in California.
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Maybe they'll finally revolt and put an end to it.
Maybe they'll finally put their foot down and say no.
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a couple of times this week already that Governor Newsom
had waived these environmental regulations to speed up the development
of the rebuilding of Los Angeles Los Angeles two point
zero and in terms of you know, going back to
these ridiculous the climate delusion that Holman Jenkins Junior was
writing about, maybe the voters in California wake up to
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the nonsensical reality that they're not doing a damn thing
by cutting their own throats and increasing the cost. Speaking
of costs, one million dollars quote unquote, affordable housing units
can cost more than one million dollars to build. And
I'll refer to another op ed piece by the Editorial
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Board Newsom has a permitting epiphany and get all the
details on this and includes all the litigation, the lawsuits,
the union shakedowns that occur anytime someone wants to literally
build a building. So they pose the question, it's a
legitimate one. Why not ease regulations for all projects if
the rules are such a barrier to development? And they are.
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There was a University of Southern California survey from twenty
twenty one. They surveyed developers and they found that it
typically took eighteen to forty five months for any project
to be approved. Half said they abandoned projects because of
government fees forty five percent, so that they were required
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to substantially reduce the product's project's density more than half
reported that lawsuits had scuttled projects, and thirty seven percent
said legal settlements equaled at least half a project's worth.
Can you imagine one in three proposed buildings had to
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double the cost of building the structure because of lawsuits.
It's a knee jerk reaction. Green groups and unions apparently
exploit the state's environmental laws to tie up projects for years.
And what the happens is, according to the reporting, developers
will settle them by making concessions, getting into set asides
for land for conservation, or the requirements to use union labor,
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which of course drives up the cost of building anything.
So one million dollars and who's got that kind of money?
That's why, well, I guess half a million Los Angeles
residents left over the recent, fairly recent period of time
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local stories get into some of these now. Former elementary
school teacher who admitted to trading videos depicting this sexual
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abuse of children who happened to be in the same
age as the children in his classroom was allowed to
withdraw as guilty plead yesterday, come on, please, Judge Jennifer
Branch granted the request by sixty year old sixty two
year old Netanniel's attorney to withdraw the plea to three
counts of pandering sexual orgined materials involving miners. He taught
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for about eight years at Rockworn Academy, described as a
private Jewish School in Sycamore Township. Initially, he pleaded guilty
back in September of last year. It was during the
sentencing the next month that his attorney, Richard Goldberg, realized
that he'd advised the Tannel to plead a higher level
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I gave mister Tanel bad advice. It was a mistake
on my part. The Tannel pleaded guilty to a subsection
of the state's pandering law that is a higher level
felony crime that includes a presumed prison sentence, but a
sub section that is a lower level felony crime and
does not include a presumption of prison uses similar language.
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According to attorney Goldberg's there was an extended discussion during
the hearing yesterday about the definition of the words exchange
and disseminate. The Tannel charged with four counts of possessing
in four counts of disseminating sexually abusive videos. One video
shows a man sexually assaulting a girl who's approximately between
the ages of four and six, and, according to Kevin Grash,
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since I Inquire's reporting, causing her to choke system prosecutor
Chris Lips said Natanna pleaded guilty of three counts involving
disseminating videos in exchange for the remaining five counts being dismissed.
Lips said Natanne used the hidden messaging app Kick to
share the videos with others, as well as to discuss
apparent fantasies about abuse sexually abusing children. However, the attorney Goldberg,
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argued that he intended for Natano to admit to an
exchange of videos, which is a lesser crime. The lower
level subsection of losses and no person shall knowingly solicit, receive, purchase, exchange,
or possess or control such sexually abusive material. The higher
level subsection says no person shall sell, distribute, transport, or
disseminate it semanic folks. Goldberg argued that the Tanel was
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not involved in the dissemination when he traded videos with
other Kick users. He said the trading was an exchange
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In the meantime, though, a couple of House Democrats went
along with the Republicans an amazing thing. Why to ban
athletes born as men from participating in girls sports teams?
Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, an effort
led by Representative Greg Stubi out of Florida will a
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men federal law to specify that student athletes must participate
in school sports teams that coincide with their gender at birth.
You know that we even have this conversation blows my mindless.
I don't call this progress, well, I call this bill
progress progress and dealing with just a backcrap insane phenomenon
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going on in this country. That you can be a
man and call yourself a woman and have a substantial
physical advantage over women, and yet they're still forced to
compete with you. It's turned sports on top of its head,
turned logic and reason upside down too. It's thrown out
science and reality. Anyway, that's my position, not shocking anyone
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who's the regular listen to the morning show anyway. Henry
Quelar and Vincente Gonzalez, both Democrats had Texas, the only
two Democrats to vote for the bill, which passed two
eighteen to two h six. And the reason they went
along with this is because they live in the state
of Texas and they barely won their elections. Senate Republicans
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said that they are aiming to take up the bill soon.
It had been previously passed, but yeah, the Senate then
Senate majority leader refused to bring it up. Democrats anyway,
change would apply to all federally funded schools. You see,
federal money comes with strings attached. Sorry, sucks to be you.
You take federal money, it could go along with all
those strings that come attached with it. Anyway, federally funded
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schools from kindergarten through high school, as well as colleges
and universities receiving federal funds. Some Democrats raised issues, Representative
Tom Susie among them, voting against the bill. Republicans are
championed the bill as a bid to protect women and
girls from unfair Athletic Standards Court. To speaker Johnson, he said,
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everyone's talking about the children today. I've got two sons
and two daughters, and we see the difference. Of course
everyone does, and it's kind of silly to deny it.
The American people send a clear message in November. They
want us to return to common sense, and we're going
to see if Democrats have heard that message. Well two
of them did anyway. For his part, a Republican out
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of California, Doug LaMalfa, said, why are we even having
to discuss this? I love guys like that. It's amazing
to me that the idea that we would have X
and Y chromosome males competing and taking the place of
women and girls in sports, It's just mind blowing. Where
are we in society that we're doing this. Where are
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the feminists? Where all the people who fought so hard
to get rights for women. Democrats, however, obviously overwhelmingly voted
to oppose it. Sarah Jacobs, Democrat out of California, called
it and I have no Somebody wrote me, WTF after this,
called it the GOP Child Predator Empowerment Act. Huh. Representative Andrews.
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Solanis out of California Democrat, This bill sets an unfair
playing field that any parent can raise a concern that
a transgender girl is playing on a girl's team. She
noted that it'd be rare representative of Eugene Vidman, Democrat
Virginia said after the bill passed, these decisions should be
left to parents, coaches, teachers, and families, not DC politicians.
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Oh wow, if they only felt like that across the
board on all issues. In addition, this bill could open
the doors to young girls experiencing intrusive questioning or worse,
I would not rubber stamp bad policy. Republicans should stop
focusing on culture wars and start getting to work on
lowering costs, investing in public education, and increasing access to
affordable health care. Well, add whatever you want to the list.
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Maybe Democrats would stop focusing on culture wars as well. Anyhow,
Alexander Coseo Cortez really got a load a load of
criticism for her ridiculous comments. She went on a two
minute rant making false and unsubstantiated claims, including making this statement,
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CEOs love this bill. Huh how did that get in there? Anyway?
They could go all day long and how much of
an idiot she is, but at least it passed. Then.
Of course, with a Republican dominated Senate this time around,
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maybe it'll go through and we'll bring some sanity back
into sports, at least among those colleges and schools that
take federal dollars. Hey, and if they're so stuck with
allowing men to play against women, then don't take the
federal money and you won't get the strings attached. How
about that as a concept? Fast and pro Roofing a
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roofing companies can just rip people off because very few
people go up on top of the roof and know
what they're looking for when they're up there, include me
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list a mile long from my understanding of children wanting
to get in or parents wanting to get their children
in there. Anyhow, I got a new Gallup poll out, apparently,
in spite of what he says about himself, Joe Biden
not viewed by UH not viewed well by the majority
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of Americans anyway. Court to Gallup, they concluded large shares
of Americans in the United States lost ground under Biden
when it comes to among a variety of categories, I
think they eighteen different areas. They asked questions. On federal debt,
sixty seven percent said we lost ground, immigration sixty four percent.
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I find that figure to be ridiculous. It's got to
be higher than that. The gap between wealthy and less
well off sixty percent were less or worse off, the
economy fifty nine percent we lost ground there, our position
in the world fifty eight percent say we lost ground there,
and crime fifty one percent. Another figure that I find
surprisingly low. Pluralities of folks interviewed or asked about this
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from Gallop, so the US has also fallen behind an education, terrorism,
trade relations with other countries, race relations, and the nation's
infrastructure and energy. Going back to the vote yesterday on
keeping men from playing women and playing against women in sports,
Gallup said the only issue United States adults say there
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has been progress, and I question that word rather than
regression or steadiness, is in the area of gay, lesbian,
and transgender rights. Thirty nine percent say there's been progress,
twenty three percent say regression, thirty one percent say steadiness.
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More US adults say the country has stood still on
two issues. That will be climate change in the situation
for black people. So even on that one evenly divided
on you whether the US is lost ground or stood
ground on healthcare, national defense, and military and taxes, only
a relative few see progress in these areas. As for
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Republican versus Democrat breakdown, Republicans and GOP leaning independent say
the country's lost ground in seventeen of the eighteen areas.
Most notably there it is immigration, federal debt, in the economy. Now,
how could anybody conclude that we didn't lose ground on
the one singularly objective question on this is the federal debt.
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It's just exploded. No one can any argue to the
contrary without being perceived to be some DSM five diagnosable,
certifiable lunatic. Apparently, among Republicans, the situation for LGBTQ people
the only issue they say that there has been progress
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under Joe Biden. Democrats and independents who lean Democrat have
net positive views over the past four years on fourteen
of the eighteen issues. Uh huh goal Balso, it's amazing
how politics can blind people. Golf also found of Biden's
net progress lags his three immediate predecessors that would be
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former presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump
significantly on national defense and military, immigration, and taxes. Net
progress also worse than Obama and Trump's on the federal debt,
the gap between the wealthy and less well off, and
trade relations with other countries. Congratulations, Barack Obama will not
be going down in history as one of the better presidents.
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I think that is something also we can all objectively conclude,
although I'll admit it is truly subjective six p. Fifty
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of very happy Wednesdays. You have been looking forward to
this time, this time of the morning since I got
here this morning and found out to be speaking with
head of the Hamlin Kunter. I did it again, Head
of the Ohio Republican Party, Alex sure out to feel
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Alex t Welcome back in a very happy new year
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to you, my friend.
Speaker 5 (01:10:26):
Well to you too as well.
Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
Brian.
Speaker 5 (01:10:27):
It's good to be with you, and it's a little
chilling out there this morning, but I'm really glad to
be with you.
Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Well, I'm glad you're here and there just seems to
be I don't know, I feel it. Maybe it's just
because I was happy that of course Kamala Harris isn't
going to be inaugurated on on Monday anyway, but a
general feeling or an air of positivity, enthusiasm and can
I even use the h word hope in the air
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now that we've got Donald Trump getting ready to be
sworn in, no question.
Speaker 5 (01:10:58):
About it, and you're actually seeing it in some of
the I mean the right track wrong track number, which
you know what that means is posters. For a long time,
I've told the question for the Americans, you feel like
the country is on the right track or the wrong track.
And you know that right track number has improved already,
and you know Donald Trump hasn't even taken the oath
of office, but you know it's because Americans want to
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tackle the issues on the southern border. They want to
see a thriving economy at lowest prices, rifts wages. You know,
people remember that President Trump's first term was a successful
term for the American people. And even I've said this
a million times on your show and others. Donald Trump
is an unconventional politician, But that's what America wants right now.
They want to change agent. They want things to be
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better for the middle class, better for working people. So
I think there's a definitely an optimism, a hope for America,
and you know, I know I share it. I'm actually
hopping a player in the rushington d C today till
I want to be back in Ohio until we have
President Trump back in office. So it's an exciting time
and there's definitely optimism and hope out there.
Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
Brian Well, and you know what, what's sort of surprising
and maybe not, but when you see Zuckerberg and others
in these you know four I will say, formerly sort
of woke companies completely completely shifting and you know, getting
rid of DEI for example. And that's a growing phenomenon.
So more and more companies every day are throwing out
the whole concept of DEI and and investment strategies that
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focus on you know, green and things like that. Obviously
bad for investment, but that now they I guess feel
relief enough that they can come out and go in
a polar opposite direction. I guess they really weren't weed
to those principles, and because they're not willing to stick
with them. I don't think it's fear of Donald Trump's
retaliation and wanting to cowtow and kiss the ring, as
the case may be, more so than they really didn't
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maybe believe them in the first place.
Speaker 5 (01:12:50):
I think that's exactly right. What we know about American
capitalism is that we have builf. We've built the country
Brian on the concept of exception. And you know, the
reason people have flocked the United States, the reason my
you know, my parents, my mom, others came to the
United States is they knew that this was a place
that if you worked hard and you were excellent and
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you tried to do good things and again you played
by the rules, that you could succeed and do well
and it didn't matter your ethnicity, etc. And right now,
what happened to the American left is they left behind
American exceptionalism and they said, you know, we're going to
start worshiping a new god of diversity. And that's not working.
It hasn't worked in American companies. Successful American companies know
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that to survive and to build great companies that create
great jobs for the American people, you've got to really
focus on exceptionalism and having the best people, and I
don't care what race they are. We shouldn't care. That
shouldn't be the vision for America. So eliminating some of
these these DEI initiatives and some of these equitibal kind
of measures that have been put into corporate America I
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think are a natural place frankly for a lot of
these companies to be because they know that to build
great companies can't just make decisions we were based on
things like race. I mean, we've a long time said
let's judge people on their character, let's not judge them
based on other things. And if we do that, we're
gonna have great companies. And by the way, Brian, we're
going to have people who are diverse within the companies
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because there are great people of every race, every ethnicity,
h you know, any every kind of group. And if
we just say let's put the best in the brightest
in place and let's not worry about some of these
other things, America is going to improve, and it's going
to improve companies in this country. It's going to improve
job creation. So you know, again, I think the companies
being there, you get it, you nailed it that is
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that companies are. This is kind of a natural place
for them to be, and that's just get back to
building great companies and don't worry about social experiments within
you know, within your corporate structure.
Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
Well, in this whole, the DEI and other far left
sort of woke policies came from a slice. I don't
know how big this segment was, but the loudest squeaking
wheels within the Democrat party and stifling at least I
perceive that there are I mean, there are some decent
moderate Democrats out there, but their voices were stifled by
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this and they, you know, basically just collapsed and gave
into all this wolk ideology. And that serves as a
springboard for my question to you. Do you think that
those more moderate voices will re emerge and that some
logic and reason will come back to the Democrats and
that they won't pose, you know, just a stifling opposition
to every proposal that comes out of the Republican side
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in terms of legislation.
Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
Well, the answer is they better. I mean they you know,
they took a beating in this election and they deserve to.
And again I've said this, I've said this for two years.
You know, I've I've been the Ohio GOP leader and
I've said it, and sometimes I see the mainstream press
is wow, you know, he's spinning. But the Democratic Party,
Brian left the mainstream of American politics. The extremists in
America are in the Democratic Party. That's where the extremists are.
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The mainstream of America is in the center right. And
you know, they love to talk about far right extremists.
And you know, the media is corrupt as they've become.
Their hatred of Donald Trump has really destroyed so much
of the mainstream breast. But they won't actually call out
Democrats for their extreme policies. Not having a secure southern
border and allowing literally millions, tens of millions of non
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Americans to just flow into the country is extreme, right.
I mean, we don't have a country if we don't
have borders. No other country in the world allows just
a total free flow of non citizens. And you know, look,
you know, I'm a child of immigrants. We love immigrants.
My family took in Greek immigrants my whole life and
have been helpful. And I love immigrants. So President Trump
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has married two immigrants, so it's not like we're anti immigration,
but this idea that you just have a poorous southern
border and allow anybody to enter the country. Brian, that's
an extreme idea. And for three years, Joe Biden and
his borders are kamalias embraced this idea that we were
a southern border, and the American people just woke up
one day and said, we don't have a country left anymore.
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So those kind of things are extreme. And so again
your question is really tacked back to the center. If
they want to win elections. I mean again, I you know,
one of the things I love about being Ohio is
it's it's pretty red. Now you go to you know,
eighty two of the eighty eight counties and it's pretty
strongly Republican. And Democrats just simply don't compete in Ohio.
They don't complete in any of the rural communities. They
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don't compete in krot of those rust belt towns. And
I don't love that phrase, but you know, I spent
a lot of time in WV in Ohio. You know, Brian,
place is like Youngstown that used to be strongly Democrats,
there're strongly Republican nows. They're looking at a Democrats and say,
you're not about helping me keep a job. You're not
helping about you're not about helping the middle class. So
you know, they've left that mainstream of American politics. And
if they don't sort that out, you know it's gonna
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be to my benefit because my job is the elect
Republican something we did very well in twenty twenty four
here in Ohio. So you know, we're, you know, part
of me, you know, fine with where they are. But look,
if we're gonna have a robust conversation in America about
the future, it's not bad to have a party in opposition.
And you know, I hope the Democrats start to kind
of return to the American dream, and that is supporting
middle class people, supporting job creators, you know, respecting the
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rule of law, creating a southern border, you know, patriotism,
all those things.
Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
Well, and one observation before we end up taking a
break here to get to other topics, and I hope
I can hold you over for another segment if that's
okay with you, of course, Yes, the the announcements from
the FBI and d o J about the threats, the
domestic threats we have here. Obviously, the security of our country.
You know, we have to supposed to be protecting our
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country from threats both you know, internal and domestic and external.
But that open border and the people that have been
identified and quote unquote caught or as many of the
case may be in released, I mean Chinese military, aged men,
members of terrorist groups, folks from UH countries that have
been identified as harbors and and and and supporters of terrorism.
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I mean we have, we have allowed and the Biden
administration has permitted a dangerous, dangerous, maybe you know, bubbling
behind the scene threat to the American people. That's that's
another component of this open borders thing. I mean, you
can be as you know, open minded as you want
about the general concept, but when you get to a
person by person analysis, I mean, I'm I'm very concerned
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about something along those lines, you know that's just festering
behind the scenes, well as.
Speaker 5 (01:19:20):
Am I and I And that's I think the first
job of this government is going to be with Tom Homan,
who's the you know, the new borders of are so
to speak, the Homeland Security guy is going to do
is try to identify the criminals who are amongst us
who are not United States citizens who came here illegally,
and can deport them first and foremost. But no, look,
I think what your your concern is a very real one,
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and it's a it's a bubble. I pray for the country, yes,
that we never pay a serious price in this regard,
but you know, I'm worried about it. I think Americans
are right to worry about it. And look, it'll be
unfortunately a part of the very negative legacy left by
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
Yeah, to be unleashed during the Trump administration is what
my fear is. You know, they're holding their they're keeping
their powder dry, and they want to put just like
when the Antifa folks emerge and the cities were taken
over and there were protests with Black Lives Matter in
the streets over almost literally everything that any police officer
ever did that was designed to be a thorn in
the side of the Trump administration. And I think that's
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the The more larger threat is some terrorism that might
go on, or some attacks within the United States by
the by the throngs that were allowed in our country unvetted.
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Fifty five kercit the talk station. He's head of the
High Republican Party. He is Alex Chrantifilo on his way
to Washington, DC do the inauguration thing. I guess you
got a lot of activities on your play for the inauguration, Alex, Well.
Speaker 5 (01:23:07):
We want to do Brian, and you know, the Ohio
GOP is leading a bunch of events. We've got over
twelve hundred Ohio and is expected at Ohio Ball on
Sunday night. Now I'm leaving today. I've got a Republican
National Committee meeting that starts actually today. I'm going in
a little late, but yeah, so we've got a huge
contingent obviously celebrating the significance here of one of our
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very own from Cincinnati, Ohio. Here really lives in Cincinnati.
The next Vice President of the United States, Brian lives
right here and is one of us in Cincinnati and
Greater Cincinnati. And it's wonderful. Vice President Advance is the
future of the Republican Party. I'm honored to know him.
I've known him since before he was ever elected to office.
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So you know, we're very excited. That's probably the understatement
of the day. I just couldn't be more happy about
traveling here to see my friend JD. Vance become Vice
President the United States and U and you know, just
to celebrate this moment. So yeah, we're all getting ready,
and there's a whole bunch of folks, probably some of
them listening, that are coming to Washington over the weekend
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where we're going to have celebrate Centator Bernie Marino's victory,
celebrate uh, you know, just our Republican victories up.
Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
And down the ballot.
Speaker 1 (01:24:17):
Yeah, Ohio's presence is really dramatically improved. So hopefully little
in your to our benefit. A little bit along those lines,
speaking of JD. Vans, and I'm glad you brought him up.
And you know, I eat he's impressive, you know, when
people interview him, when he gets you know, appointed questions
asked of him, He's really a quick thinker and quick
on his feet and has very coherent, logical and reasonable responses.
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So that's impressive in and of itself. But who's going
to be his replacement?
Speaker 5 (01:24:43):
You know, I don't know the answer. I don't know
the answer to that. We may find out today, Brian,
but I am not proving of that information. This is
the governor's call, and you know, I haven't spoken to
the governor more than a week, and we're all anxious
to see. I know the rumor mill is an overdrive,
but you'll never know. I mean, this is ultimately the
governor's call, and you know, hopefully it happens here quickly.
We've got to get another senator up there. But I know,
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you know, and of the governors on the job, and
I know for a fact that governors talk to a
lot of different Ohiolands about this. And the one thing
about the governor is he does is due diligence. He's
been the United States senator himself. You know, he's into
his second term as our governor here, so he will
work on that process. And uh, and I'm told, I'm
told we should know soon.
Speaker 10 (01:25:24):
So I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
I don't know anything just to report to you yet.
Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
Brian, John Houston, anybody that's the answer to the question,
I think, well, that's.
Speaker 5 (01:25:32):
You're certainly up the heavy rumor. And I'm reading the
same Chris Curping as everybody else is. And uh. And
you know, again, these are people I know well. And
you know I looked at the Governor's a lot of
great choices. John houstaid is very smart. He's focused, really, Brian,
on economic development. I what I would say about about
the lieutenant governor, and you probably have had him on
your show. But if you ever want to really get
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a lesson on how to develop companies, you know, public
private partnerships, to make sure that we have a government
that's things out of the way of business but also
creates an environment for business as a thrive, I've never
heard anybody better on the topic. I fundamentally mean that
I've watched I've been dazzled, frankly by John Shusted's knowledge
of economic development. He didn't do it for more than
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thirty years. It's one of those underreported things. I know, Brian,
you you like me, care a lot about sort of policy,
and I think if you ever have them all, ask
him just about his vision for economic development and the
world that government limited role government can play. And he's
brilliant again, But there are lots of people that are
interested in this thing. Jane Timkin's a great friend of mine.
You know, Frank LeRose is terrific. I mean, we've got
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some really good people.
Speaker 1 (01:26:35):
So well, if I was a betting man, that's all
I'd say. Eddie Alex, I tell you I wish you
and I know my listeners do issh you you know,
safe travels best. Look. I hope it's everything goes along
smoothly and without incident underline, and we'll hit the ground
running after swearing in. I understand uh that they soon
to be President Trump again. We'll have a stack of
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executive orders to start signing almost instantaneously.
Speaker 5 (01:27:03):
This guy is tireless, President Trump. Everybody knows that this
guy works seven days a week. It's it is no joke.
We are trading out, you know, Joe Biden for a
super high energy person. And I know people like to
talk about his age it's not fair to they do it.
In response to the serious criticism that Joe Biden deserved
President Trumps on his A game, I have talked to
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the man. I can tell you that this man is
on top of it politically, from a policy perspective internationally.
So we're going to have a high energy presidency. You're
going to seep it off to a big start here.
Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
Alex Chancefila, thank you for your time speaking with my
listeners of me today and again, safe travels to d C.
I'll look forward to talking with you again, hopefully multiple
times throughout the year.
Speaker 5 (01:27:46):
I look forward to as well. Brian, have a great day.
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We're you know, we've got we're our third year. Seven
hundred and fifty students this year, and we're we continue
to expand twenty five thirty percent growth each year. So
(01:30:26):
next year we've got nine hundred and fifty students coming in.
Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
Wow, which is yeah, and that's our four and that
does not satisfy the demand, does it. You have nine
hund and fifty, but I bet there's a whole bunch
of of families and children that weren't able to get
in because you have a limited number of spaces, right,
that's right.
Speaker 11 (01:30:49):
Nine to fifty is going to be our capacity next year,
but then the wait list is still four hundred and fifty,
four hundred and five hundred students. So well, yeah, well
and is as we can. And that's that's been a
big problem. We've spent the last five years looking for
a campus where we could serve our eventual enrollment of
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thirteen hundred students, but that's been really difficult on a
charter school budget. But we have some big news from
this past fall that we finally found that campus solution
and we purchased the property we've been renting and renting,
the former Olsh School, and that's thirty acres, and then
(01:31:33):
we also acquired a nine acre campus in Blue Ash
the former Belcan building and are remodeling a one hundred
thousand square foot office building there just to serve as
the home for our middle.
Speaker 10 (01:31:46):
And upper schools.
Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
High school and those are the grades you're going to
be add I guess it's in grades five through twelve
from at least of the materials that I'm looking at presently.
Are you still serving grades K through eight?
Speaker 11 (01:31:58):
Yeah, that's correct. It's K three year and then next
year we're going to add the ninth grade, our first
high school class. And uh, they're they're going to be
going to school at the new campus and Blue Ash.
So it's really exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
Well, I guess, you know, you have a freshman class
and what you got to I guess, and if they
stick around, you'll be adding the additional high school years
after that's so to be able to stay with this unbelievably. Uh,
it's a traditional classic liberal education. If you're familiar with
Hillsdale College, folks, it's the same kind of thing, classic
liberal education, focusing all the on all the important skills
(01:32:32):
and the classic ways they do it. Phonics, for example,
the Singapore math Core knowledge sequence, Latin reading classes, classics.
I mean, I just I'm so pleased that this is
this is this type of education even still exists, sir,
and obviously if you build it, they will come. The
number of students that want to get in is just
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an illustration that this is there's a huge demand out
here in the world to get you know, to go
back to the basics and go to a plastic liberal
education where you actually learn something and have these foundational
building blocks to survive and thrive in the world.
Speaker 11 (01:33:09):
Yep, since Nati's only public classical school bringing the best
of Western civilization direct to the people.
Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
All right, the tuition free, It's intuition free, and I
think that's an important component. It's also important to note
that Sin Sant Classical Academy receives some state funding, but
only one thousand dollars per student. You don't get any
property taxes, and that funding is only going to cover
sixty percent of the cost required to provide educational facilities,
so there needs to be more money there. You can't
(01:33:36):
even do a public levee for to service the school,
so ergo. If you're building these new facilities in Blue Ash,
you need some help. Tell my listeners about to raise
the torch campaign.
Speaker 11 (01:33:49):
Yeah, so the property purchase, which was thirteen million dollars,
and then the construction cost everything total was financed by
twenty nine million dollars in taxis bonds. But that only
gets us. It gets us most of the way there.
But we need to raise at least another four million
dollars to complete construction of our campus to serve you know,
(01:34:10):
K through twelve with extracurriculars and that kind of thing. So,
and it's funny, Brian, you know, the school has really
never had a major benefactor, someone who says, you know,
here's a million dollars, five million dollars, go create my
dream of a classical school. It hasn't happened. It's really
been grassroots efforts with one hundred dollars here, one thousand
(01:34:31):
dollars there, ten thousand there. But we haven't given up
on a dream that there are major benefactors out there
who understand what we're doing, who appreciate what Hillsdale College
is doing for the Cincinnati community, and what a great
success story this has been.
Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
In this this is one of those magnets for our region.
I mean, the idea that you have this wonderful institution
of learning, and I even want to call it higher learning,
even though we'red like talking about K through eight right now,
but the demands there, but that exists, that it is
a it is it is truly a magnet for folks
to want to, you know, maybe move here. I mean,
it's an idea that could be expanded. Can you imagine
(01:35:06):
if if Ohio just adopted this wonderful education process among
even in its public schools. I mean, the curriculums right
there for all to enjoy. Just adopt it, you will
demonstrably the number one school in the area. You will
be turning out these brilliant young people who are prepared
to meet the challenges of life. That's a magnet and
(01:35:27):
that's a that's a it's a model for others to follow.
So this is an important thing to fund, I would
argue to my listeners.
Speaker 11 (01:35:35):
Absolutely, And it's it's a movement that I mean, this
transcends consideration just of where your kids go to school.
We are our school in particular, is helping to lead
and build a national movement. Yes, I mean we're having
national impact in Ohio alone. There have been four more
schools that have of these schools that have been created
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in our wake inspired by our success and our leadership.
Speaker 5 (01:36:00):
So I.
Speaker 11 (01:36:02):
Yeah, it's about restoring education that's needed for a free
thinking and self governing citizenry.
Speaker 10 (01:36:09):
It's not, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:36:10):
So the aims are really high again, tuition free. They
could use all the help they can get. And because
you are a five oh one three C entity, these
donations to the Raise the Torch Foundation or fund qualify
as tax deductible for tax purposes.
Speaker 10 (01:36:25):
Right, that's right, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (01:36:28):
Well I can encourage my listeners enough to help this
process out. The idea of just motivating others to follow
in your path is worthy of any donation people can give.
And maybe one of my listeners out there can be
that wealthy philanthropist who understands and gets the point of
all this, and maybe write a check for a million
dollars to help you meet your goals with Raise the Torch.
(01:36:50):
That would be nice.
Speaker 11 (01:36:52):
We never give up on the dream, you know, Brian.
People love to sit around and write about problems in
this country and say that, you know, kids don't know
how to think any more. This school is doing something
about it. Thank Anyone who's interested can visit Sincy classicool
dot org click on the giving page to learn about
our campus development how they can support us with the
(01:37:13):
Race of Tours campaign.
Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
You anticipated my question, how do people help out Since
with the y Classical dot org? Please do I mean
ten bucks? They'll take it. You got a million dollars
you want to done? Eight they'll definitely take it. Doctor
Jed Hardings, thank you for all that you do and
all the teachers at Since Anti Classical Academy keep up
the wonderful work. I wish you all the well wishes
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fundraising and for the future of the young people that
you are teaching. Thanks a lot, Brian, anytime, doctor anytimes
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He's the author of Blood and the Badge, The Mafia,
two Killer Cops and a scandal that shocked the nation.
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So a fascinating conversation topic that will be in a
great book to read. Judge Depolitano, of course at eight
thirty is column caption a Switch in Time, and it
starts off talking about Tulsea Gabbert, who prior to well
being nominated as Director of National Intelligence, was a defender
of the Fourth Amendment, consistently voting against the reauthorization of
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section seven oh two of FAIZA. It's amazing how being
nominated as a Director of National Intelligence will change someone's opinion.
Apparently she's changed her mind and no longer believes the
Constitution means what it says, so and they regularly violate
our constitutional rights with through that provision. That will be
a conversation with Judge entered a Paulatano again eight thirty
every Wednesday with the Judge. Good talking with Alex Janantifilo.
(01:41:05):
And I'm obviously one of the reasons Donald Trump won
the election is he astutely observed the border of the unbelievable,
horrific situation we've been living with now for four years
with our open borders policies, and god knows what the
Biden administration has unleashed on America, at least in terms
of the concerns over dangerous people. Prisons were emptied and
(01:41:26):
sent to the southern border, and those folks came in.
We have new gangs taking over and expanding their footprint,
lots of crime brought to you by illegal immigration as well.
I mean, you know, in the facts, you know what's
going on. The American people apparently know what's going on.
That's why Donald Trump's getting sworn in next week. And
I'm kind of shocked to see that this hasn't happened before.
(01:41:48):
But Fox News reporting that the state of Oklahoma is
now suing the Biden administration for unleashing, in one of
the words of the lawsuit, massive chaos on the public
school system in the state through the open borders policy
spiled by the Oklahoma State Department of Education. In Oklahoma
Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, targeting to Biden Administration's
(01:42:12):
Department of Homeland Security and Immigration's Customs Enforcement Agency, demanding
the administration refund Oklahoma for the approximately four hundred and
seventy million dollars it had to spend on educating thousands
of illegal immigrant children over the last four years. Filed
in the Western District Court of Oklahoma. The name Plane
(01:42:33):
of Walters told Fox Digital the public schools are, in
his words, overrun with illegal immigrants and thereby stretching the
system's resources, limiting opportunities for tax paying citizens' children. Oklahoma
State Department of Education gathered data. They said the state
of spends proximately eleven thousand dollars per student annually and
(01:42:54):
the number of unaccompanied migrant children that were ended up
in the state placed there. Think about it, unaccompanied minor children,
How in the hell did they end up in Oklahoma. Well,
it's because the Biden administration put on a bus and
took them there. Anyway, three thousand of those. They say
they're struggling to provide adequate resources for immigrant children. Among
(01:43:18):
the costs associated with it is certified teachers for students
with limited English proficiency or maybe no English proficiency. Transportation. Again,
these are miners, una company. They I guess they got
to be staying with some families, some adult ment person,
some you know, someone who has an in local parentice
relationship to them. But they got to get to school.
(01:43:41):
Individualized education plans again, that probably relates to their limited
English proficiency. How do you teach a student who doesn't
speak English. The fundamental foundational building blocks for expanded education
has to start with understanding the English language so you
can be taught mathematics and other subjects.
Speaker 3 (01:43:58):
Duh.
Speaker 1 (01:44:02):
And of course the impact is having on again the
residents there, the taxpayers. Walter said, it is truly chaos
in the school system. And who's suffering here, It's the students.
He went on to say, Joe Biden and Kamalain Harris
did this intentionally. We've got students caught in the crossfire here.
We've got to protect them, and we've got to get
(01:44:23):
our states back on track and educating our children.
Speaker 10 (01:44:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:44:32):
He referred back to an NBC interview without going ICE
director leash Letter, who said the Biden administration absolutely should
have acted sooner to shut down the border. He said,
they knew Walter's back to Walter's the name planet, they
knew it was happening, they didn't do anything about it.
So last week we had Joe Biden's top ICE director
admit that they allowed this to happen, that they allowed
(01:44:53):
the law to be broken. And see that's the subject
matter of the lawsuit. There's laws on the books, and
they didn't bother enforcing them to the detriment of not
just Oklahoma, every state who's been dealing with this, from
the bluest of blue cities New York, Chicago, Los Angeles,
LEAs what's left with it. Everyone has to absorb this
(01:45:14):
overwhelming burden. He So we cannot just allow them to
skate off into the sunset and say, President Trump, here
you go, State, Sorry sucks to be you. We just
caused this massive casts across your schools and across your
state and your communities. Those individuals have to be held
accountable for the cast they brought to our kids and
our families. And that's what this lawsuit will do. Now
I have to wonder out loud with the Trump administration
(01:45:37):
and in a new apartment of Department of Justice. You know,
quite often during the Biden administration, the Department of Justice
or those who are responsible for defending actions like this,
if the action was something along the Green challenge, like
some environmental group wanted something to do, and the federal
government was involved in defending its policies or something, you
(01:45:57):
don't have to fight back real hard. You can roll
over as a lawyer, perhaps not present your best defense,
allowing the opposition to go ahead and win. You can
settle lawsuits and pay sizeable chunks of money to groups
that well, your administration might find a hmmm, shares your
vision for America. I don't think that's gonna be the
(01:46:18):
case in the Trump administration, at least not as to
defending lawsuits like this. So I guess Trump's gonna Biden's
gonna have the lawyer up himself. Not quite sure how
this is gonna work out. But if the federal government
is sued and you are dealing with the new administration,
how hard do you think they'll fight back? Do you
think they'll concede and capitulate and write a check for
four hundred and fifty million or FO hundred and seventy
(01:46:40):
million dollars? It's certainly conceivable that'll be our taxpayer dollars,
though I have to point out coming out of your
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Bring people up to date on fifty five KRC. Eight
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Wednesday to you and a book everyone is going to
want to read and probably won't be able to put down.
Welcome to the fifty five carse Mors Morning Show. Author
Michael Kanal, and you probably have read his other books,
The Author of a Brotherhood Betrayed, The Man Behind the
(01:47:33):
Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc. As well as three
other works in nonfiction. Former editor in New York Times
and contributed to The New Yorker, among other publications, he
has written a new amazing book, Blood and the Badge,
The Mafia, Two killer cops and a scandal that shocked
the nation. Welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
Michael Canal, Good morning, Brian, Thanks for having me so
the subject matters of this book, and my understanding is
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there have been other books written about Lewis Epolito and
Stephen Kara Kappa, the two New York cops that are
the subject matter of the book, but yours is by
far the definitive account of what they did and the
crimes that they were engaged in while they were officers
with the New York Police Department. So says even the
former chief of the Rackets Division, a guy who wrote
(01:48:18):
a book about the same two guys. He said, Man,
you uncovered stuff that I had no idea about. Tell
us a little bit about these two police officers.
Speaker 10 (01:48:29):
Yeah. Louis Eppolito and Stephen Kara Kappa were high ranking,
decorated New York City detectives. They were not just cops,
but really elite detectives, and in the late eighties and
early nineties they were on the mafia payroll. They were
paid a stipend of four thousand dollars a month to
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pass sensitive police information to the Luksey crime family. Who
who was whose phones were being tapped, who was under surveillance,
who was about to be arrested, and most importantly, they
used the police intelligence to identify who in the mafia
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ranks was a betrayer, who was a rat schooler, who
was secretly cooperating with the government. And what's more, once
those rats were identified, these two detectives helped to facilitate
their murders, and in at least one case, they pulled
the trigger themselves.
Speaker 1 (01:49:37):
WHOA, that's writing stuff and the idea that they have
all this inside information given how high up they were
in the New York Police Department, how much damage did
they do and how long did this last? They were
they were getting away with it.
Speaker 10 (01:49:53):
They got away with it for more than a decade.
I mean, it was set an outrageous, brazen act. And
I mean I think people, you know, people knew that
these were that Louis epp Alito was what they call
a dirty cop, you know, some low level of corruption
was was pretty common in the NYPD at that time.
(01:50:14):
But nobody, nobody could have conceived of them working for
the mafia and actually committing murders for the mafia.
Speaker 1 (01:50:26):
Yeah, that's really unfathomable. I mean, I can understand, you know,
the payoff, because we're all kind of used to that's
a subject matter of so many Hollywood movies. You know,
you kind of lose count. But that they were actively
engaged in work for the Lukezy crime family is amazing.
Now they were ultimately brought to justice, I understand, how
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do they get caught ultimately, and how they ultimately get prosecuted.
Speaker 10 (01:50:52):
The amazing thing is that they weren't caught for so long.
I mean, Louis Eplito was caught red handed passing a
police for file to a Gambino crime family heroin smuggler.
The police raided this man's home and found his own
police file there. He had his own police file in
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his possession, and they found Louis Epilido's fingerprints on the file. Amazingly,
Internal Affairs Division dismissed the case. They acquitted him. The Feds,
the FBI and federal prosecutors began to understand what these
(01:51:35):
men were up to, but did amazingly did not prosecute
them because it would have corrupted other cases they were
working on. And so it appeared that these two men
were going to get off. They were tired. They collected
their police pensions. They moved to Las Vegas, and Louis
Epilito used his retirement years to launch a movie career.
(01:51:58):
He had small parts in the films. And then a
detective back in New York, a detective named Tommy Dade
who was getting set to retire, just happened to stumble
into some evidence, and he took that evidence to the
Brooklyn DA's office and they revived this investigation that had
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had had sat dormant for years.
Speaker 1 (01:52:22):
Well, did any of the I have to imagine, certainly
correct me if I'm wrong. I'm sort of presuming that
members of the Luksey crime family, at some point or another,
some were prosecuted or caught or you know, submitted to justice,
that they would have advised the authorities that these two
dirty cops were helping out and you know, maybe to
(01:52:43):
reduce the time that they would have to serve or
to lessen their sentence or something. But it seems to
me that that would be a low hanging fruit for
someone to try to better his situation if he was arrested.
Speaker 10 (01:52:54):
Well, you're right, that's exactly what happened. The man who
was essentially their patrons, and because Lukeji kron family, a
man named gas Pipe Keso, he flipped. He had spent
most of his adult life killing informants and then he
became the biggest informant of all. And he was all
set to testify against these these two detectives, and then
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something unexpected happened. Gas Pipe began to bad mouth the
other the other people who had flipped. He began to
bad mouth, in particular Sammy the Bold Ravana, who was
critical to the to the prosecution of John Gotti, and
he called uh Gravano a liar. Now this panicked the
(01:53:37):
prosecutors because they did not want that prosecution to be
called into question. So what how did they solve that problem?
They solved it by ripping up, ripping up gas Pipe
Casso's polea agreement and sending him to super Max prison.
So who was the beneficiary of that? The two detectives,
(01:53:59):
because all of a sudd and there was nobody to
testify against them.
Speaker 1 (01:54:02):
Oh my, it's amazing how that unfolds. Gas Pipe I
got asked, where in the hell did that name come from?
Speaker 10 (01:54:09):
Well, his father's nickname was was gas pipe Is. His
father worked down on the docks in Brooklyn and supposedly used,
you know, used an iron pipe to enforce his rules.
And the son, the son inherited the nickname, but he
didn't particularly like the nickname, and so his friends, his
(01:54:29):
friends didn't use that nickname as presence.
Speaker 1 (01:54:32):
How about that? Now did this did these guys in
their capers and their antics and they're being involved with
murder and working with organized crime resultant cause any reforms
to come about in the New York Police Department. Or
was this just another couple of characters and bad apples
in the barrel that they were trying at least to
ferret out. You know, I'm thinking of, like, I don't know,
(01:54:54):
like a movie like Serpaco or something, because this kind
of thing was was was obviously a prevalent thing, shaking
people down, taking money from purpose and being paid off
because it's sort of common in the old days.
Speaker 10 (01:55:06):
Yeah, I mean, I don't I don't know that it
it caused there to be any reforms. I think what
happened is that they got away with a lot of
dirty stuff because of all the corruption cases that had
come before them, Serpico, the Nap, the famous Nap Commission,
And I think the NYPD, if they had wanted to,
(01:55:30):
would could have sussed out what these detectives were doing.
But they really didn't want another scandal. They really didn't
have the appetite for any more newspaper headlines, and so
they kind of quietly tried to sweep all of us
under the rug.
Speaker 1 (01:55:43):
Gotcha, Well, you mentioned earlier one of them was sort
of known to be a quote unquote dirty cop, not
to the level of murder, but was there I guess
that culture of not saying anything within the New York
Police Department. You know, you don't brat rat out a
brother officer, even if it's bad for everybody else. That
that culture existed during this period.
Speaker 10 (01:56:02):
I mean when when Tommy Dad's the detective that I
mentioned who stumbled into the into that evidence, when he
began to investigate this this case, he got a lot
of heat from other police officers. You know, you don't
you don't go after one of your own, but he persisted.
Speaker 1 (01:56:21):
Well, one of the reasons Michael Veccioni, the former chief
of the Rackets Division who did write the other book,
gave you so much credit is because you were able
to actually speak with some of the mobsters that were
working with these two cops, which had never happened before.
How is it that you were able to get access
to those guys.
Speaker 10 (01:56:40):
Well, I mean I spoke to Sammy the boll Gravano,
and I spoke to a former Colombo hit man. And
I mean one of the things that really surprised me
about doing this reporting and research for this book is
that the cops and the gangsters all know each other,
and in many cases they're friends. You know, they grew
(01:57:03):
up together in the old neighborhoods, and they went to
the same schools, and they they to this day, they
drink in the same bars. And it's a little bit
arbitrary in some cases as to whether a kid would
become a cop or whether he would join a crime family.
And so it's you know, it's very they're very tight
knit and they and they all know each other. So
(01:57:25):
I actually found those sources through the law enforcement people.
Speaker 5 (01:57:31):
That I had interviewed.
Speaker 1 (01:57:32):
How about that? And I suppose, I mean, after the
passage of time, that it wouldn't be as much of
a big deal for them to actually reveal some of
these quote unquote secrets to you for publication because their
careers are over and they're in their retirement. I presume
as well.
Speaker 10 (01:57:50):
I think that's exactly right, Brian. I mean, they probably
wouldn't have opened up to me and talked to me
ten years ago or fifteen years ago. But the two
the two detectives in question went to jail.
Speaker 5 (01:58:03):
They died in jail.
Speaker 10 (01:58:05):
The DEA agents, FBI agents and detectives that I spoke
to are pretty much all retired, some time has passed,
and so they were I think they trusted me and
they were willing to open up and just I mean,
it was really an amazing experience because once they started
to talk to me, these amazing stories came out, you know,
(01:58:28):
just every time they would tell me a story. I
think that could be a Netflix series. Yeah, you know,
you know, and they never it was sort of their
code to not talk about these things. But when they did,
you know, they really just really revealed a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:58:43):
Well, you know, this is one of those truth is
almost a stranger than fiction kind of things. It's certainly
a template for any corrupt cop kind of movie, and
I imagine probably will end up being a Netflix series.
It's fascinating, fascinating stuff, and I appreciate you spending time
with my listeners of me about the book, Blood and
the Badge, the Mafia, two killer cops in the scandal
of the Shock the Nation. I know my listeners are
going to buy these up because it's just such an
(01:59:05):
amazing story. Michael Kennelly, author, It's been a pleasure speaking
with you, and thanks for getting this down. I guess
as an author, real quickly. I have to know this,
given that other books have been written about these guys,
as I mentioned several times. Now, what motivated you as
an author to pursue this particular story and write another book?
How did I mean, did you have a feeling that
there was more out there that people just hadn't touched on,
(01:59:26):
or did it just fascinate you as a subject matter.
Speaker 10 (01:59:30):
Yeah, no, that's it exactly. I mean, this has been
this topic has been written them out before, as you said,
but nobody has really written the big comprehensive book about it.
And I was pretty confident that I could I could
do that, that I that I could get people to
talk to me and really do a deep dive into it.
(01:59:51):
And happily, I think that's the way it turned out.
Speaker 1 (01:59:54):
Apparently so well received on the reporting sites, and I'm
sure they'll come and knocking on your door to turn
it into some sort of movie or series, sir, and
I wish you the best of walk on that Michael
Canal real pleasure to have you on. And your book
is on my blog page fifty five CASA dot com
with the links of people can buy a copy and
I'll encourage them to do that.
Speaker 10 (02:00:13):
Great. I really appreciate I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (02:00:16):
Thank you, min my pleasure and have a great day, sir.
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Speaker 1 (02:01:31):
A twenty nine at fifty five KRC de Talk Station, Ay,
very happy Wednesday to you. Always a great time to
be listening to the fifty five CARC Morning Show. Appointment
listening is what I call it, and I sit on
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my dear friend. It's a real pleasure to have you
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we'll have to reboot him. Okay, there he is. Okay,
you are back. You're not topliver. You almost got it
out before the network froze up there. But now you know,
some of the days, like I said, he does traffic
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but sometimes he just forgets, so apologies for that. I
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think you lost track of what day of the week
it was, because you know, he's not allowed out of
that room back there, right, he got me back.
Speaker 2 (02:02:28):
His gremlins canceled my video for about two seconds.
Speaker 1 (02:02:33):
That's okay, I can see you again. It's always a
pleasure seeing you're still in your second your second studio.
You're still in New York.
Speaker 10 (02:02:40):
I am.
Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
I tried to get the virtual background on so I
could fool you and you would think I was in
New Jersey, but I couldn't get it to go on
this morning, So.
Speaker 1 (02:02:49):
You makeep Okay, So I'm supposed to feel sorry for
you because you're in New York or Okay, I'll just
let that sit anyway, Do least a switch in time?
You know almost anticipated you know, if you had asked
me before I got the copy of your column, which
comes out tonight at midnight, what you might talk about.
(02:03:12):
I thought, you know, perhaps Tulsea Gabbard might be on
the list.
Speaker 2 (02:03:15):
What Shakespeare once said, Lily's that fester smell far worse
than weeds. There is no worse enemy than a former friend.
Speaker 10 (02:03:28):
And when she was.
Speaker 2 (02:03:30):
Nominated or when Donald Trump the president elect indicated his
intention to nominate her to run all of the intelligence agencies.
Those of us in the libertarian world, Those of us
will believe that the Constitution, in this case, the Fourth Amendment,
means what it says. Were overjoyed. It was almost too
(02:03:52):
good to be true because as a member of Congress,
Telsea Gabbard, her speeches could have been written by Congressman
Thomas Massi, or Brian Thomas, or even me. She fiercely
opposed mass warrantless spying. She voted against the congressional unconstitutional
(02:04:13):
but legal authorizations for all of this, nominated by Trump,
gets beaten up in the in the press a little
bit by the Deep Statum, by their Republican accolytes, and
she does one hundred and eighty degree flip. I'm now
in favor of section seven oh two. Seven oh two
is the section of the Paisa Act which was written
(02:04:35):
after Edward Snowden's revelations in order to make legal the
unconstitutional warrantless spying on every American that Snowden revealed. And
the way they did this was to say, well, we
have to be able to spy on foreign persons. The
Fourth a moment doesn't apply to foreigners. Now it applies
(02:04:56):
to everybody. Just read the language. It applies to all people.
Persons are people, So we can spy without warrants on
foreign persons. So what happens when those foreigners talk to Americans?
What happens when I talk to my cousins in Florence
or an art dealer in Geneva, or a bookseller in London. Well,
then they can listen to that person's calls, not just
(02:05:18):
with me, but all of their calls. And they can
listen to my calls because I spoke to a foreign person,
and not just my calls, but everybody that I talk
to and everybody that they talk to, and carry that
out to the sixth generation of conversations. Do the math
that covers all three hundred and thirty million Americans despide
(02:05:40):
on without warrants legally under Section seven oh two, profoundly unconstitutional,
condemned and rejected by Telsea Gabbert, and now embraced by her,
so she can get this job. Well, it would be
like me being nominated for the Supreme Court, and in
order to get confirmed, I came out and said I'm
(02:06:01):
in favor of the American government. Spying and everybody the
Fourth Amendment doesn't mean what it says.
Speaker 1 (02:06:08):
Well, I know you would never say that much in
the same way you said you would say you never
embrace abortion. But beyond that, did she offered up an
explanation for her dramatic flip.
Speaker 2 (02:06:18):
No, she has not, And I don't know if there's
anybody on the Senate Intelligence Committee which will interrogate her
who shares our views. My guess is there is not. Normally,
the powers that be do not put a person on
either the Senate or the House Intelligence Committee who believes
that the intelligence community should comply with the Constitution like
(02:06:40):
the rest.
Speaker 1 (02:06:41):
Of the government.
Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
So I don't know if anybody is going to ask
her this. Her flip was not made public. It was
just leaked out by the Trump transition team. It's mind boggling.
President Trump knows he knows this because I explained it
to him personally privately. Yeah, this is the part of
(02:07:02):
the law that was used to spy on you and
me when I was in your office in Trump Tower,
before you were the president of the United States. And
this is the part of the law that Jim Comey,
whom you fired and company, used to spy on you
during your first term in office. And now this second
(02:07:23):
part I didn't say to him because I haven't spoken
to him recently. And you want her to embrace this
part of the law.
Speaker 1 (02:07:31):
It really is mind boggling. And who more than a
president of the United States of America talks to foreigners.
I mean, he talks to foreign leaders all the time.
He's already opened the door of him to firms to
be you know, just literally spied on because he has
communications with foreign leaders. It's part of his job requirement.
Speaker 8 (02:07:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:07:51):
I once asked one of my ex CIA guys that's
on Judging Freedom, does the intelligence community spy on the
White House? And sort of a guilty look appeared in
his face, and he said yes. But if I had
(02:08:11):
answered this question truthfully while I was still in the
government's employee, I'd be looking for work.
Speaker 5 (02:08:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:08:19):
Then I said, does Massad spy on the White House?
And he said more effectively than our own intelligence agencies do. Wow?
Speaker 10 (02:08:29):
Is right.
Speaker 1 (02:08:31):
Well, apparently the Israelis do have the best spy operation around.
That's a room or on the street. Anyway. Now, let
me just qualify this or at least further dive into
it because you know, having a conversation, you know, one
presumes this is sort of a telephone call, you may say,
when you call your aunt in Naples or whatever. But
this would also be online communications as well. If I
(02:08:54):
am community.
Speaker 2 (02:08:55):
Yes, yes, it's texting, it's emailing and calling. It's all communications.
What Snowden revealed Snowdon's revelations are now ten years old.
Speaker 1 (02:09:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:09:07):
But what Snowden revealed is that every keystroke holding up
my iPhone on every mobile device, every laptop, and every
desktop is captured by the FEDS. Now they captured in
real time. They don't monitor it in real time because
they don't have the assets, they don't have the human
beings to monitor it in real time. If they monitored
(02:09:30):
it in real time, a lot of these tragedies wouldn't occur.
The tragedy in Bourbon Street on New Year's Eve I
think it was, or maybe it was New Year's Day
by the time it actually happened, that would never happen
because they would have seen all this guy's texts and emails,
all the plotting and planning that they now have. So
(02:09:51):
if all this spying on us is information overload to
the point where they can't even use it to keep
us safe.
Speaker 6 (02:10:00):
What is the value of it.
Speaker 1 (02:10:02):
Indeed, I don't want it unconstitutional.
Speaker 2 (02:10:05):
Not only is it a violation of our natural rights,
it doesn't work well.
Speaker 1 (02:10:10):
And to the extent they said, well, we can use
it in prosecutions after the fact, you know, to prove
motive and to sort of support the allegations against them
for murder or terrorism or what have you. But that
would open the door to someone making a legal challenge
in court, like along the lines of emotion, to suppress
and go after.
Speaker 2 (02:10:28):
That's the last thing that they want. I will never
introduce this evidence because the last thing they want is
for some federal judge to invalidate the statute. There are
portions of the Patriot Act that have been invalidated by
federal judges. Three or four in southern California have won
(02:10:49):
very famously involving the Bridgeport Librarians in Connecticut. None of
those invalidations were appealed to circuit courts.
Speaker 1 (02:10:58):
Because of facts were terrified they be affirmed.
Speaker 2 (02:11:01):
So what they try to do now is avoid those
particular federal judges.
Speaker 1 (02:11:05):
That's a disgrace, indeed it is. And let me just
suggest that you make a very valid point information overload.
There's no possible way anyone could ever real time monitor this.
Maybe that's what the big rush for artificial intelligence is,
because maybe AI could process this filter through language and
shoot up red flags for communications that contain sort of
(02:11:27):
warning sign language in it.
Speaker 2 (02:11:29):
Probably, probably so, George Orwell was right.
Speaker 3 (02:11:34):
He was just off by a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (02:11:36):
No question about it. Well as we always do. Let's
end the segment on judging freedom your podcasts, and I
encourage my listeners to find it online. And who are
you going to be speaking with today, sir?
Speaker 2 (02:11:46):
I have Aaron Mante today, Pepe Escobar, Phil Geraldy and
tomorrow the Great He should have been seated where Pete
Hegseth was yesterday, but life doesn't always work out for
the best. Colonel Douglas McGregor.
Speaker 1 (02:12:01):
All right, great line up, your honor, and always a
great conversation with you. I appreciate your thoughtful analysis and
your ongoing support of the Fourth Amendment, in spite of
the fact that no one in power seems to carol
wit about it until next Wednesday, my friend, best to health.
Thank you, Brian, right back at you, my pleasure, sir.
It's eight forty right now fifty five KRC the.
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Speaker 1 (02:13:36):
Eight forty seven fifty five KR. See the talk station.
It stirs me so much that our government tramples on
the constitution so regularly, And of course the Judge and
I've talked about the Fourth Amendment and Fiz it concerns
many many times over the years, and of course things
just seem to be getting warse. But just let me
(02:13:57):
think about that for a moment. You're on Facebook. A
friend of Facebook who's in France, went to church with him,
good friend of mine, he's been living in France for
a couple of decades now and great, but you know,
one communication with him sets me up. And all of
you with whom I talk to, having our conversations and
(02:14:19):
communications generally speaking, looked at by our government and in
terms of AI and I think I anticipated it right.
They will start real time monitoring our key strokes soon
in the future, not that far away. You can just
see it so close and you can almost taste it.
It so close got a load of this and appreciate
just Trekker finding this one for me, because well, I
(02:14:40):
didn't think I was otherwise going to be able to
get into it. Here's a scary use of artificial intelligence
from the Washington Post. After two men brutally assaulted a
security guard on a desolate train platform in the outskirts
of Saint Louis County, Transit police detective Matthew Shooty was
trying to identify one of the culprits. He studied grainy
(02:15:01):
surveillance videos, went through homeless shelters, and repeatedly called the
victim of the attack, who probably didn't remember really anything
because the brain injury that he received from the beating.
So after months of you know, endeavors along those lines,
they tried another option. He uploaded a single image from
the blurry video of the incident into a facial recognition
(02:15:23):
program that uses AI to scour mugshots of hundreds of
thousands of people that have been arrested in the Saint
Louis area. But, despite the poor quality image of software
chucked out the names and photos of several people that
it determined resembled one of the attackers. The attackers whose
face was hooded by a winter coat and partially obscured
(02:15:44):
by a surgical mask, So you don't have much to
go with. It's grainy to start with, and then you
got only a partial face. But nonetheless, the AI platform
determined that, oh, here you go, there's a couple of guys. And,
in spite of the city's facial recognition policy the warning
officers that the results of this technology are in the
policies words non scientific and should not be used as
(02:16:08):
the sole basis for any decision, the officer went ahead
and built a case against one of these AI generated results,
a guy named Christopher Gatlin, and there, but for the
grace of God, go you or I under these circumstances.
He's a twenty nine year old father of four who
had no apparentize to the crime scene nor a history
of island offenses. Which something officers shoot. He would later
(02:16:29):
agree to it and admit to The guy was arrested
and jailed for a crime he claims he didn't commit,
and it took him more than two years to ultimately
clear his name, they say. Washington Post investigation the police
use of facial recognition software found that the law enforcement
agencies across the nation are using AI tools that were
(02:16:50):
never intended to be used a shortcut to find in
arrest suspects absent any other evidence. The post went through
a whole bunch of different police departments, twenty five of
them that where detailed records about AI facial recognition were available,
finding fifteen departments in twelve different states arrested suspects through
(02:17:10):
AI matches without any independent evidence concerned connecting Tom the crime,
nothing else. And it's pointed out this AI generated results
kind of make police officers lazy. They note that some
law enforcement officers using the technology appear to abandon traditional
policing standards and treat software suggestions as facts. One police
(02:17:35):
report referred to an uncorroborated AI result as a one
hundred percent match. Now that's what the department said after
the AI result did and corroborate it. Another said police
use software to immediately this is in quotes, immediately and
unquestionably close quote identify as suspected thief. This father of
(02:17:55):
four Gatlin one of eight people. At least eight people
wrongfully arrested in the US after being identified through facial recognition,
six cases previously reported in media and too wrongful arrest.
This guy and Jason Varnow, Miami resident, weren't previously reported,
So you're hearing this kind of thing for the first time,
at least, says to these two other cases. And it's
(02:18:16):
sad because, as they point out, in spite of the
fact that all the cases were eventually dismissed. And I
can only imagine what kind of legal fees this poor
Christopher Gatelan had to go through. Any of the other ones,
police probably could have eliminated most of the people as suspects,
all the ones that with these AI images generated before
(02:18:38):
their arrest, if they'd had just done basic police work
like checking alibis, comparing tattoos, or in at least one case,
following DNA and fingerprint evidence. It was left at the scene.
So all this AI stuff really concerns me. Artificially generated images,
for example, not ones where they're doing facial recognition along
(02:18:59):
with photographs of real people. But you've heard about it,
read about and probably seen it already. Someone you see
a picture of an image on the screen that AI
has created, whole hooth movies, videos of people doing things
they never did, saying things they never did. I mean
(02:19:20):
in connection with the LA wildfires. One of my friends
sent me a video where they have one of the
folks out there in elected capacity or one of the
you know, fire chiefs or whatever, talking about and saying
the fire we started. They even have the text of
his statement going along with, you know, the image of him,
(02:19:42):
the video of him, you know, making this announcement. And
maybe it was a misstatement, that is possible, but of
course in her mind that was an admission that we
people in the government started the fire. The first thing
I thought of when I saw that was, you know
what some ten year old at home using AI could
have generated that sort of seemingly matching we with the
(02:20:07):
mouth as opposed to something. Maybe the guy actually said
you can't trust your eyeballs anymore. And that's just going
to be such a major, major problem in a you know,
not just in law enforcement, in prosecuting. In prosecuting cases,
I mean, the first default, the first argument defense attorney
(02:20:28):
is going to start saying, is well, that was artificially generated.
He was never there. You know, the image from the
subway platform, they have video camera down there. You could
fake that. My understanding is from talking to Day of Hatter,
every Friday. It wouldn't be that difficult to do. You
could artificially create whole cloth. You know, a subway scene
where you've got any given guy that you've put into
(02:20:50):
the video committing a crime that's not me. I wasn't there.
You can't trust your own eyeballs. So frightening stuff. So
you have, in addition to a being used to listen
real time to our conversations, which I assure you if
it isn't going on already. Maybe that's why Joe Biden
just approved building artificial intelligence platforms on federal land. Yeah,
(02:21:14):
there's a headline. You can find it for yourself. Epoch Times.
Biden uses executive order for building AI data centers on
federal land. Nothing to see here, folks, Nothing to see
here anyhow, if you didn't get a chance. Alex Drantefilo
was on earlier talking about his trip to the inauguration.
He's on his way, I guess today, but he will
be there, and he's in a real positive mood. He
(02:21:35):
had a lot to say about Democrats and whether they
learned any lessons, and of course he had a lot
to say about the border. Of course, one of the
main reasons I think Donald Trump got elected. Jade Vance
of course off to sit in the vice presidential spot,
and he's left a Senate or a Senate seat open.
Who's going to be the replacement? He danced around that
a little bit, and I just said the out loud words.
(02:21:56):
John Houston Alex didn't agree with me, but he didn't
say that wasn't a possibility. But all my money's on
John eustaid, we'll find out soon enough. It's in the
governor's hands. Jed Harding's since Santa Classical Academy could use
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book Blood and the Badge, that's right there if ifty
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