55KRC Thursday Show - AFP, Sen Rand Paul, Jay Ratliff

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stop college students. People are talking about channing.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
We are Hamash just turns my stomach.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Fifty five k r C, the talk station five O
five A five k r C, the talk station, Freddy Eve.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Some service.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Certainly will.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Vacation, and so it's critically important that to the extent
you can find anything that gives you an ability to
be patient in this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis that
you do.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened
to it. Social media is on fire over that nonsense.
Be patient, you better learn to live with and be patient,
patient with our government incompetence anyhow, Happy Friday, Brian Thomas

(01:20):
right here. Let us see Joe Strecker in there, and
the executive producer Booth appreciated wining up a beginning at
seven o five Guests. I've got some good guests on
the program today. Donald Neo Americans for Prosperity. We talk
about supporting Trump's tax cuts for Ohio families, and of
course Trump's tax cuts set to expire, and if they
do expire, I read some fun facts the other day.

(01:42):
Million plus people are going to lose their jobs and
six jillion dollars or something like that worth our billion
or something I don't know taken out of the economy. Well,
that's your confiscatory tax policy. The more money you take
away from US government, the less money we have to
spend on what we think we want to buy, making

(02:04):
our own choices with the money we earned from our labor.
And you know, just think about it. In the flip
of a switch. You know, the Trump tax cuts hadn't
built in expiration date. That always just frankly in the
five o'clock ur pisses me off. Why don't they ever
do anything permanent. Well, that's because they got what they
want to have a fight down the road, a new
administration will be in place. You know, they think the

(02:25):
one side who doesn't want the tax cuts thinks they're
going to be empower when they expire, and of course
they will take more of your money from you. Random
and arbitrary as it may seem, it is. I mean,
how do you arrive at any given percentage of what
you're taking from someone thirty six percent or whatever tax
rate you find your fault you fell in based upon

(02:47):
I don't know, somebody behind the scenes deciding that at
X number of dollars earned we are going to start
taking a certain random, seemingly random percentage from the dollars
earned thereafter. So your tax the one rate to x amount,
and then over x amount your tax at a different
rate higher, and then over another amount they take even
more money. Where do they come up with these numbers?

(03:10):
You know, the sausage making that goes on behind the scenes.
I have never laid witness to. But in the final analysis,
when you sta what comes out, it's like, Okay, why
and why can't they just take a flat percentage from
all businesses and individuals, which I'm in favor of, just
fifteen percent. Period into story. Get rid of the entire
tax code. No more ride offs, no more incentives, no

(03:33):
more dangling carrots as I like to call them, from
the federal government to do something throughout the year so
that you can lower your tax exposure. What a manipulative
evil force. That tax code is an entire industry is
built around people and not understanding it. I mean, think
about accountants. I don't have a go to accountants. I

(03:53):
mean you provide a valuable function in a world. We
have a tax code that's what fifteen thousand pages long
or something like that. Who in the hell has the
time to go through all that and understand it. Well,
vast majority of that doesn't apply to regular everyday Americans
like you and me. All those Daniel and Carrerotts have incentive,
I mean, with the exception of the child tax credit

(04:15):
you know, are built in therefore to manipulate business and industry.
So anyhow, sorry, we didn't go down that road, but
started with Donovan and Eil Americans for Prosperity at seven
o five. Senator Ran Paul returns at seven thirty got
a topic, a whole bunch of topics talk about with
Senator doctor James Thorpe gonna be on the program at

(04:37):
eight oh five talk about the book Sacrifice, which documents
the the true story of what is described as a
very respected doctor of maternal fetal medicine who in twenty
twenty found his profession and again, in their words, lost
its mind and soul. It's colleagues argue around him to

(05:00):
take take bribe money. Thorpe one of the few obi
Jins to bear witness and broadcast the multiple pregnancy complications
including miscarriage, stillbirths, and many others resulting from Yes, the
COVID nineteen shot. He stood in defiance against others in
his medical profession sacrifice. I wonder if he lost his

(05:24):
license at some point it was threatened with his license,
losing his license probably, And it is Thursday, so we
could hear from my heart media aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. Yeah.
As to Kamala Harris's statement about being patient, one person
observes what she's trying to express here with this confusing
word salad is that it's super important for LA residents

(05:45):
to be patient with the bungling incompetence and appalling stupidity
of California Democrats and not to link the ongoing disaster
to their woke civilization destroying policies deviney from American greatness.
I thought that one summed it up as well as
any of the other criticisms Kamala Harris got online anyway,

(06:06):
I got an Israeli jimas ces fire. Biden said the
it's in phases while Trump and Biden wrestle over who
gets credit for it. And I don't think anyone can
deny that the election of Donald Trump probably had a
lot to do with this. I know that's what the
Israeli Times concluded. Accordingly, reporting from The Israeli Times, a

(06:26):
tense weekend meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin not in Yahoo
and incoming Mid East Envoy Steve Whitcoff incoming Mideast that'd
be one of Trump's guys, led to a breakthrough in
the hostage negotiations, with the top aid to US President
elect Donald Trump doing more to sway the premier in
a single sit down than outgoing President Joe Biden did

(06:48):
all year. According to two Arab officials speaking with the
Times of Israel on Tuesday, well, okay, they've at least
concluded Donald Trump was largely responsible for this, But regardless
of who's taking credit, it's in phases. As I mentioned
Biden to, the first phase will last six weeks and
includes a full and complete cease fire withdrawal of Israeli
forces from all the populated areas of Gaza, and the

(07:09):
release of a number of hostages held by Hamas, including
women and elderly and the wounded. They're doing it in
order of most important to release first, and that group
is first. So I'm proud to say Americans will be
part of that hostage release in phase one as well,
and the Vice president, and I cannot wait to welcome
them home after. Of course, they're out of office now.

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In exchanges are released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, Biden said,
and Palestinians can return to their neighborhoods in all areas
of Gaza, and a surge of humanitarian assistance into Gaza
will begin. He said. During the next six weeks, Israel
will negotiate the necessary arrangements to get Phase two. Uh huh,
that'd be profits Phase three. Phase two. You know, I

(07:59):
knew you had that on by handy Joe. You read
the news anyway, Phase two, which is described as a
permanent end of the war, he said. Let me say
this again, a permanent end of the war. In case
you didn't hear him the first time, he said, there's
a number of details the negotiating to move from Phase
one to Phase two, but the plan says if negotiations

(08:21):
take longer than six weeks, the ceasefire will continue as
long as the negotiations continue, So any side can walk
away from this and the fighting will begin immediately. I
think we all need to keep that in the back
of our mind because that is a very, very very
possible scenario. Senior Hamas official confirmed to in reporting on
this one Fox News that the deal was reached as well.

(08:44):
There was some rumors around that they hadn't agreed to it,
but it's widely circulated. Everybody's on board on this at
least right now. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nett and Yaho's
office set in their statement that the final details were
still on resolve, but it'd hope that details will be
finalized tonight. They will be yesterday. Trump, who threatened last

(09:07):
week of the deal was not struck before inauguration day,
remember the words all hell will break out in the
Middle East quickly and well. He praised that the epics
ceasefire agreement could have only been happened as a result,
could have only happened as a result of our historic
victory in November, as it signaled to the entire world

(09:27):
that my administration would seek peace and negotiate deals to
ensure the safety of all Americans and our allies. I'm
thrilled American and Israeli hostages will be returning home to
be reunited with their families and loved ones. And again.
Steve Whitcoff, Trump's envoy to the Middle East Many sources

(09:49):
confirming that he was pivotal in the role of negotiating
the peace deal. Okay. The agreement calls for the release
of three high hostages on the first day, followed by
weekly batches. Again, women, children, men of were fifty prioritized initially,
younger men and humanitarian cases included. Later updates on the hostages.

(10:13):
Statuses will alternate between announcements of survivors and confirmation of
those who did not survive captivity. And it's interesting because
in some reporting it said that most of them are
still alive and another reporting that they say half of
them are dead. So the fog of war, the fog
of well not knowing the status of the health and

(10:34):
well being of the hostages or in some cave someplace.
On the sixteenth day, okay, the second phase begins a
dressing the release of younger men soldiers in return of remains.
Speaking to the dead hostages, Netanyahu assured hostage fami families

(10:57):
that every captive is accounted for in the deal. Only
one thousand Palestinian prisoners will be freed in exchange, with
murder convicts barred from returning to the West Bank. Instead,
they'll be sent to Gaza cutter or Turkey, And you
got to wonder out loud, you know, did anybody ask
Gaza Cutter or Turkey if they were interested in getting

(11:18):
the murderers back or deported to their countries? They say,
to ceasefire also is negotiated in some humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Up to six hundred trucks of supplies entering daily by
the twenty second day. Keep dwelling on where do they
came up with these specific days This placed residents will

(11:39):
be allowed to return to northern Gaza.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
Well, queer offit, get.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Us yeah, Phase three profit. Well, I guess we can
be happy that they're not, you know, killing each other
on a daily basis. We'll see how it works out.
I call me skeptical. You can do that. It's okay,
and feel free to call me up and say it

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The Trump effect may have had an impact on the

(13:10):
Israeli Jimasies fire hostage deal, and I think the Trump
effect is also having an impact on the FDA, which
in the last moment of the Biden administration, is busily
churning out new rules. For example, the the the the
rules curbing the levels of nicotine in cigarettes. You know,

(13:33):
I'm I'm of the mind that FBA could completely ban
cigarettes right there. Aren't good for you. They cause cancer,
they cause insurance claims to go up. Because they are
responsible and connected to direct correlation between smoking cigarettes and
cancer and other diseases, you know, blood pressure, cardiovascular problems.
They could just outright ban them. Remember the Biden administration

(13:55):
was going to ban menthol cigarettes outright, but oh oh,
and they can't do that. Apparently black people and a
higher percentage smoke menthol cigarettes, and they found that to
be a political minefield, so they backed off of that.
So now they're just going to go after the nicotine levels.
And it's been observed by folks who've studied this that

(14:16):
if you lower the nicotine and cigarettes, they're still going
to have some in there. It's just going to be
reduced to a certain amount. But that's going to cause
people who are already addicted to smoking and the nicotine
that the cigarettes provide to smoke more cigarettes. You're not
getting the same nicotine infusion into your body, so you
make up with it by smoking more. It makes perfect sense,

(14:39):
but you ask yourself. The question, why don't they just
ban them outright? If there's such an evil and a danger.
And we've all known this since nineteen sixty four Surgeon
General report came out in spite of the tobacco companies
fighting against it. They ended up paying dearly for that effort.
That was the tobacco litigation. But I mean, if the
FDA's job is to protect us, then why why not

(15:00):
just say I'm sorry, they're illegal, They're banned, you cannot
have them because of all the damage they do. Well.
US Food and Drug Administration officially banned red dye anyway,
red number three erythrazine, and it's been banned from foods,
dietary supplements, and ingested medicine. According to release yesterday from

(15:20):
the Associated Press, food manufacturers must remove the dye from
their products by drummer LL Maestro random date January twenty
twenty seven. Drug manufacturers, on the other hand, have until
January twenty twenty eight to remove the red dye from
their products. Now, I don't think red dye has any
connection with solving or curing any particular disease state or

(15:42):
pain or symptom. The red dyece is for color. So
what's the problem with pharmaceutical is just pulling it out
of their products in advance of January twenty twenty eight.
Why do they get an extra year. I'm just asking
for friends. Any foods imported in the United States and
other countries also be sub to the new regulation. According
to Jim Jones, FDA's DEW Commissioner for Human Foods, they

(16:05):
have a division. The FDI is taking action that remove
the authorization for the use of fd and c RED
number three in the food, ingestin and drugs. Evidence shows
cancer and laboratory mail rats expose the high levels of
fd and c red number three. Importantly, the way that
fdn c red number three causes cancer and mail rats
does not occur in humans. So is this being done

(16:28):
to protect rats? Joe is, because it causes cancer and rats,
but it doesn't cause it in humans. Yeah. As Fox
News reports, it's us as a color additive in food
and ingested drugs to give them a quote bright cherry
red color. Close quote. Now, I guess I will I

(16:50):
will nod and acknowledge that in terms of drugs that
we are all used to the pills that we take
and the color helps us desire to determine which pill
it is, and some some people I suppose, are eating
like dozens of different pharmaceuticals every day and they just
identify by, oh, the red pill. I need to take
the red pill. And if they take it out, the
red pill is no longer going to be red, It's

(17:11):
going to be white or something. So maybe that's in
an effort to stay the confusion that some consumers and
drug takers might have. But I have a feeling that
this has largely to do with something that RFK Junior
had commented on previously, because he's huge, huge, huge against
all the additives that are going into our foods generally speaking.

(17:34):
So there you go. But they won't ban cigarettes, So
ban FD and see red number three five twenty six.
It's five KCD talk station. Not that I'm advocating that
they ban them. You have the right to abuse yourself.
I suppose that's part of being a human being. Stick around.
We've got more to talk about local stories coming up,
and phone calls are quite welcome to stick around. Place

(17:56):
fifty five The talk station Monster BTK, the latest installment
of The Critical Joe is deciding that he wants to
have a bet On when Hamas is going to fire
the first rocket? How many days into the ceasefire deal,
Willy Well just randomly start chucking rockets and missiles into Israel.

(18:21):
What day did you pick Joe the twenty first? You
said that they don't work on Martin Luther King Junior day.
I will acknowledge Joe cracksby up all time anyhow. And
this is a sad thing. I mean, it's positive on

(18:42):
a lot of levels, but it's really sad going to
local stories, I've got so many fond memories of Morgan's
canoe livery and canoe rental. It's called Morgan's Canoe and
Outdoor Adventures. It's closing the Little Miami River location after
sixty years. And I know the Morgan family. I knew
Rob Morgan was one of my fraternity brothers. He's a
great guy, and his mom and dad started this. They

(19:04):
were just really, really wonderful advocates for the environment. And
when they opened up the canoe delivery, the idea was
that the canoes would be sort of rented, but they
didn't cost any money as long as you brought back garbage.
And there was a ton of garbage all over the place.
People used to dump things into the Little Miamay River
all the time, and that's how it all got started.

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They cared so much about the environment they were going
to put their resources to getting people to just help
clean it up. So it's been a great success. Rented
canoes from Morgan's a bunch of times over the years.
And then when I met Rob in college and we
went up to the delivery and got kayaks and we
went down the river together. So anyway, Rob were out there,
I had great time doing that. Anyway, Kayak and Canoe

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Delivery announced the closure on social media on Wednesday, calling
it a bittersweet could buy. The livery in Fort h And, Ohio,
first open in nineteen sixty four, also had several cabins
in a campground area along the alongside the canoe rental area.
Morgan family wrote in a statement, this is a perfectly
beautiful ending to our lifelong stewardship of the river, the

(20:07):
legacy of this river and its importance to the people
and wildlife we live on through so many conservation efforts.
And they announced that over twenty five acres at the
Warren County location we protected land through a collaborative effort
between the Little Miami Conservancy and the Hot Department Natural
Resources and the Susan Gare Peters Foundation. The statement read

(20:31):
to our loyal customers and community, thank you for sixty
amazing years together we've created memories of a lasted lifetime
and helping sure the Little Miami River remains a treasure
for future generations. Now, for their part, Morgan's are still
going to keep the location in Brookville, Indiana one and twenty.
Location sits in the Whitewater River and offers canoe, kayak, rafting,
tubing trips as well as camping options. So morgan Rental

(20:55):
will continue in part, but the famous Fort Ancient, Ohio
area location and well, I guess a park. Now we'll
see what the terms of conditions of that and whether
we'll be able to use those facilities ourselves and enjoy nature.
Thirty three year old man dead after a rollover crash
having an I two seventy five early yesterday morning. According
to the Coraine Police Department, happened in the westbound lanes

(21:17):
of I two seventy five near I seventy five just
before four to a m. A driver in a single
vehicle rolled over multiple times, appearing to have landed at
its top on the just off the road, please said.
The driver and the passenger were critically injured, both taking
a UC medical center. Robert Anthony Simmons was pronounced dead there,
according to police. Not clear if he was the driver

(21:39):
or the passenger. Police also did not say the current
condition of the other person in the vehicle. Crash apparently
resulted in the hire entire highway being closed during the
morning commute while Cruise worked to clean up. The interstate
reopened at eight am. Police are investigating alcohol as a
factor and it does remain under investigation by Coraine's police
traffic unit. But if you have information, the cole Ran

(22:01):
Travick you know, would love to hear from you five
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House Speaker Matt Huffman here in Ohio just a month ago,
city wanted to drastically change the state's marijuana WA. Marijuana
marijuana WA. Say it, Brian, apparently change your heart. Morgantrowe
WCPO reporting these backtrack on at least some of his

(22:24):
proposed restrictions after meetings with state House was resident marijuana
enthusiast back in twenty twenty three November election, we overwhelmingly
passed issue too, allowing adults twenty one and over to smoke,
vape and ingest weed. Individual highlands are now able to
grow six plants with up to twelve per household. Dispensaries

(22:46):
now can sell recreationally and they have been since August,
the last year. Aja Carabello with amplified dispensary said to
Morgan Trowe, it was a front row seat for history
on that day back in August. Great to see new
customers coming in over the month after month into the
regulated market here in Ohio, he said. Store location have

(23:07):
roughly fifty two thousand unique customers since the launch. He
said the state reports more than two hundred and sixty
five million dollars in adult use sales since January eleven.
How about that, you said. Smoke shops, though, are stealing
buyers from the well licensed marijuana stores with Delta eight

(23:29):
products that are not regulated or tested. He noted the
folks should be looking for the green DCC sticker on
their dispensary doors so they know they're entering into a
license facility with saved products at Delta eight, described by
many as not safe let's see here. According to Huffman

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last month, there were some fundamental flaws in the initiative
that was introduced and passed by the voters, which you
will usually have when there's not a vetting from all sides.
The build that the Senate passed last December addressed many
of those things. They passed the build a restrict marijuana,
decrease the THC content, and raise costs, among dozens of
other restrictions and changes to what the voters shows. It

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would ban the vast majority of vapes. It would also
limit homegrown marijuana from twelve plants down to six. Upan said,
the amount of home growth it's happening, of course, is
far beyond the use for one or two people who
may be growing it at home. The only reason that
someone will be growing that much weed is to resell it.
Oh yeah, let's see. But he has backpedaled apparently recently.

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Upman said, it seems that folks are kind of take
talking a lot about that home growth thing. I just
don't think it's really that big a deal in terms
of this issue. Oh, I don't think anybody realistically is
suggesting that we're going to repeal the legislation or legalization
of marijuana. He said, I'm not for it. I wasn't
for the casinos coming Intohio either, But there's lots of
stuff that's parts of our constitution in the law that

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I don't like. So backpedal. He is five point thirty
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Fifty five KRC the talk station and a happy Friday
Eve to looking round at Fort Heaven, Senator Rampaul on
the seven o'clock hour after we talked with Donald and
Neil from Americans for Prosperity, feel free to call love
hearing from you if you got something to say five
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to the stack is stupid? Follow along with me? Shall
you or William? We go to Harwinton, Connecticut. Two people

(27:29):
set to face the Connecticut judge in connection with a
manslaughter case that happened there last July. Logan Diaz Lopardo
Logan is twenty one Abigail Whipple. She's twenty arrested earlier
in the week, stemming from an investigation began back in

(27:49):
July when twenty four year old Kevin Gangle was struck
and killed on Clearview Avenue, struck by an automobile. Police
claimed that this Diaz Lopardo guy was driving the car
and Whipple was his passenger. The girl court to the
police support Whipple and Gangle. The victim dated for over

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a year, and the night before the crash, Gangle and Whipple,
the dead guy and the gal got into an argument.
Next morning, the girl, Whipple found Gangle had blocked her
phone number, which angered her, according to police, so she
reached out to her friend, this Diaz Lopardo guy. Ah, Yes,

(28:31):
Joe Streckery hit the nail on the head on that one.
She told police that she was not interested romantically in
Diaz Lopardo, but he was obsessed with her and would
do anything for her. Don't be that guy, she tell
it told troopers, but I kind of let him on
a little bit sometimes. I didn't want to hurt him,
you know what I mean, like I would always say.
One day, state police told Whipple they wanted to take

(28:53):
her phone in for the investigation. She said out loud,
I mean, maybe I've threatened Gangle, but I didn't mean nothing,
And I said everything I say is out of impulsivity.
After connecting collecting snapchack snapchack chat text between Diaz, Lopardo
and Whipple. Police, of course got them the morning of

(29:15):
the crash. Police noted in messages Whipple asked this Dias
Lopardo guy, can we beat his ass please? And you
I want him hurt. She also sent a message to
her former boyfriend Gangle, the dead guy, minutes before the crash,
saying I warned you. That's when Diaz and Whipple hit

(29:37):
Gangle with DIA's Lopardo's car. According to state police, Gangle
thrown seventy feet and died. As a consequence. DIA's Laparto
charge with manslaughter in the first degree with intent to injure,
manslaughter in the first degree with grave risk of death,
and conspiracy to commit manslaughter in the first degree. Whipple,
the former girlfriend, was charged with conspiracy to commit manslaughter

(29:59):
in the first degree accessory to manslaughter in the first degree.
As a part of five hundred thousand dollars bond, Whipple
a quarter of a million dollar bond. Idiots doing idiot
things because they're idiots, without question. I don't understand. Don't understand.

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is stupid? Man in Florida arrested last month after police
alleged he made sexual contact with a horse. Why are
you doing that? Specifically, endeavoring to engage in sexual activity

(32:47):
with the horse's nose. Why are you doing that? TMZ
reporting on this one got the arrest affidavit for a
guy named Donald Callaway, fifty three year old man who
was arrested in December in Lake Wells, Florida. Document reports
a police said they got a call about alleged sexual
activities involving an animal. Cops say the unnamed witness told

(33:09):
him that she saw a man pleasuring himself next to
the head of a twenty eight year old horse named Raven,
which is also alleged The man was well, yeah, yeah,
endeavoring to use the horse's nose. I can't. I know.
I'm struggling with fec compliance in some measure of decency,

(33:30):
which is impossible at this juncture. Cops also say witness
claims that this man continue to pleasure himself while touching
the horse. Cops say they received a video from the
witness showing exactly what she described to them. Obviously say
the video doesn't actually show Callaway actually in, you know,
completing the nose effort, but they did add that his

(33:51):
actions then movements make it seem like he is certainly
trying to police confront of Callaway. According to the document,
they say, Calloway called the decision domb, adding I have
had any sex in probably two months, and maybe it
was just a sexually frustrated moment. Rested and booked on
one kind of sexual contact with animals. According to online records,

(34:12):
he was still in jail as of the time of
the reporting. Hey look at this karma, poetic justice. Black
Lives Matter co founder Patrese Colors said she had apparently
two of her luxurious mansions go up in flames in
the Los Angeles wildfires. Triesce Colors came to prominence and

(34:35):
I underscore the word wealth amid fiery protests and riots
that swept across America advocating for social justice and change.
She's well now in for some her own change these mansions. Obviously,
in these very upscale neighborhoods, symbols of success funded by

(34:56):
the donations meant to support a movement against systemic inequal
an organization that was founded on Marxism. It's my main
criticism with Marxism man that people in power always live
like lords and kings. Anyhow, witnesses report that is the

(35:17):
fire and gulf one of the spranging estates, a crowd
gathered not in an effort to put the flames out,
but to watch it unfold. So I'm suggesting that they
were there for the return on their investment. One onlooker
reported saying, it's like watching all that BLM money go
up and smoke. Guess this is why what they mean

(35:40):
by burning down the system. Oh that's rich, isn't it.
Go to Pittsburgh, where a woman there is accused of
getting two underage boys drunk and then trying to sexually
assault one of them after police say they came to
her house asking to show or walk away for money.

(36:01):
What police said the two boys were walking along a
wind gap avenue asking residents that they needed their walkways
or driveways. Shovel Rochelle Stuart allegedly gave him alcohol. Officers
showed up to the department building about nine pm Wednesday,
where they found the two boys, who looked to be
around age twelve or thirteen, and the police described highly intoxicated.

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Boys told officers they've been asking residents along the road
about getting the driveway shoveled, and they say Stuart agreed
to pay them five dollars to shovel her front walkway.
Documents for fourth that Stuart allegedly invited them inside for
hot chocolate. Then was when the alcohol was offered. Courd
to police, Stewart gave the boys multiple drinks consisting of
vodka and wine until they were drunk, and then one

(36:46):
of the boys told police that when he was drunk,
Stuart sat down next to him and put her leg
over his and then touched him inappropriately. Do what the hell.
Boys immediately left, but they had to go back after
realizing one of them forgot their coat. That's when police
showed up. Stuart denied letting the boys in, but police

(37:06):
found the victim's coat on her couch, along with half
a gown of uh well a vodka half empty. One
of the boys also took a video of Stuart sitting
with the other rubbing his shoulder and arm. See there's
always a video out there, folks. Stuart was arrested.

Speaker 7 (37:25):
In him serious, the biggest douche of the universe, in
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Speaker 1 (37:38):
There isn't a day that goes by there isn't one
of these stories out there along the same lines, whether
it's a teacher or a neighbor or someone down the street.
And we've talked about grooming. It's not a laughing matter.
This is crazy stuff going on in the world. But
Lord Almighty, you'd think in this day and age that
the adults would wake up to the fact that someone's
going to talk, someone's going to have video or photographs

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of what you're doing, the illegal, immoral, inexcusable conduct that
you're engaged in. And the idea that an adult would
actually tend, not in this case, but any other adult
would actually text a minor and document and verify that
they are grooming or otherwise engage in some sort of
sexual activity with them is beyond my comprehension. It's also

(38:22):
beyond my comprehension that would happen in the first place,
but incriminating. You're dealing with children here. They're going to
talk amongst themselves and share the information with their friends.
You are going to get caught and thank God for it.
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The numbers keep changing. It's like the fog of war.
How much is it going to cost? How much damage
has been done out in Los Angeles? What is the
destructive the dollar amount of the destruction described as the
worst fire disaster in history, now apparently courted at ACI Weather,
who does crunching of numbers like this, with new damage
economic loss now estimated between two hundred and fifty and

(41:06):
two hundred and seventy five billion dollars. Accuather pointed out
that that amount of money in losses is more than
the inflation adjusted damages of two hundred billion dollars from
Hurricane Katrina. It's amazing, isn't it. It was just last

(41:30):
week the ACU Weather's figure for this total economic damage
one hundred and fifty billion dollars. Insured losses believed to
be around twenty billion. That number has gone up a
little bit since then. But remember insured losses or the
losses that are actually covered by insurance companies because there
is an insurance policy and there's a whole lot of

(41:52):
folks in this mix that do not have insurance. We'll
get to some details on that in a moment, but
I just this is kind of mind blowing. I do
do not know how people manage. According to IRS data
data analyzed by JPM, the average home in the area
and you've heard this figure before, the Pacific Palisades area, right,

(42:14):
you know what it is? Three point five million dollars average.
But JPM reports that more than half of the tax
returns in that area alone report an adjusted gross income
of under two hundred thousand dollars. How do you make
a mortgage payment on a three and a half million

(42:34):
dollar home when you only make something less than two
hundred thousand dollars. In Altadena, by contrast, the average home
there is still in excess of one point two million dollars,
but more than eighty percent of the tax filings show
incomes below two hundred thousand dollars, with more than sixty
percent in the Altadena era area reporting less than one

(42:57):
hundred thousand dollars. I don't that, Oh question mark, why
would you live there? How could you live there? But
you got to remember a lot of those folks have
been in these houses for decades and their value went up.
Of course, the mortgage tied to what your mortgage, and

(43:20):
you know it was at the time you bought the
house something less than probably the current or former market
value of the homes in those areas. So they were
sitting on millions of dollars and untapped equity, I guess
unearned gains. But as to the insurance market, the reason
so few people have insurance out there is because of well,

(43:41):
California's owner's insurance regulations, which prohibit insurance companies from adjusting
premiums that actually reflect what the risk is. Many insurance
companies left the state of California because of that. And
guess what, you know, who's going to be paying for
the damages on this I know you're going to say
you you probably will be because the federal government would

(44:03):
come in with, I don't know, something more than the
seven hundred and seventy five dollar check that Joe Biden
was handing out to people who've been displaced by the fires.
But they're in for a real wake up call. California's
Fair Plan described as the insurer of last resort there,
which sells fire policies, fire damaged policies to homeowners who
can't find an insurance company out there in the world

(44:26):
or can't afford the insurance of the premium for the
insurance if they can even find it. And there's been
some changes to the California Fair Plan rules advocated by
the insurance companies. They were previously on the hook, all right,
So you go to the insurer last resort fair and
Fair has x number of dollars to cover the cost

(44:46):
of claims. If the number of dollars to cover the
cost of claims is exceeded, then the insurance companies have
to bail them out. The insurance companies did this and
agreed to this as a consequence or for the right
to do business in californ there's your law on the books. Listen,
if you want to sell insurance policies in state of California,
you have to agree to pro rate your your share

(45:09):
of the market to cover anything that Fair can't cover.
The new rules allow insurance companies to build their customers
if they're forced to bail out the plan. So guess
who's going to get the bill for this. It's going
to show up on your premium. So, for its part,

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Fair has an estimated two hundred million dollars in cash.
Remember the figure I just gave you a two hundred and
fifty billion dollars in damage. They have two hundred million
in cash. There is reinsurance, but it only amounts to
two point five billion dollars. So there's your total pool
of money in the fair plan to cover what losses
there are. Accordingly, the insurance companies are going to be

(45:53):
asked for a distribution unbelievable, and they point out that
fairs business. In other words, people turning to the insurer
of last resort balloon after private insurers pulled back to
the state because the state wouldn't less them adjust premiums

(46:13):
to well deal with the risk models that they were
looking at which warned of likely massive fires. Insurance companies
are good at figuring out where the natural disasters are
coming and considering that California has had a multitude of
fires over the years, Yeah, you have to rate for that.
Analystic morning Star DBRs now forecast insured insured losses of

(46:36):
up to thirty billion dollars. So that's the only amount
out there in the insurance world. That's the highest for
any fire world in recent times. But thirty billion dollars
is for homes that actually had insurance policies, and they
point out as reading this journal article, the Fair Plan
wasn't set up as a typical insurer. Of course, it's
a state run thing, so it doesn't work right. It

(46:58):
operates with very little care in the bank. Two hundred
million dollars again for the purpose of keeping rates down,
so policyholders can actually afford to pay for the Fair policy.
But if they don't have enough to cover the losses, huh.
Fair Plan required to take all comers, meaning it has

(47:20):
customers heavily concentrated in fire prone areas and apparently with
very wealthy or expensive homes alta Dinas zip code alone.
Fair ensured almost one billion dollars of properties at the
end of September last year, and that's up forty seven
percent from the prior year. So if they run out

(47:43):
of their financial resources over at Fair, the state can
call on the commercial home insurers to pay the rest
of the claims by opposing imposing the an assessment, an
assessment roughly proportionate to each insurer's share of the home
insurance market. And if the Fair Plan blows through the
two hundred million which it clearly will, and the two

(48:05):
point five billion dollars it has in reinsurance, it's going
to need more money because of the rule change late
last year of the state's insurance commissioner, Ricardo Laras said
by the insurance Commissioner, I don't know if he waived
his pen and change it or was a legislative change,
but it was changed. The companies can now add to

(48:26):
their customers bills fifty percent of the first one billion
dollars of an assessment and one hundred percent of any
amounts over that, subject to his agreement. Of course, since
the insurance rates are already going through the roof out
in California, it's going to really, really, really sting. They

(48:49):
set up this fair plan, they say back in the
nineteen sixties when the Watts riots led to a bunch
of fire damage in La prompting commercial insurance to pull out.
And they did not just then, but they continue to
pull out. Seven of the twelve biggest home insurers in
the state stopped or restricted sales of new policies, saying
rates allowed by regulators are insufficient to compensate for wildfires

(49:13):
and other losses. Again, you know, this is the puppets.
String masters in government don't get insurance. Apparently, you can't
tell an insurance company it can't rate for the risk.
The insurance company will either leave or go out of
business because they don't have enough money on hand to
cover the cost of a catastrophic fire. That's just the

(49:34):
natural order of things. So I guess the point being
is only going to get a lot worse than California.
From an insurance perspective, you should let market forces dictate
the terms of condition. This will allow people and force
people to make responsible choices. This is the point that
was brought up the other day. Let's see here, I'm

(49:54):
going to buy a three point five million dollar home,
and my insurance is going to cost me some un
godly amount every single year just to cover for the
case of fire. And there's a huge fire risk around here,
which is why the insurance company is charging me an
ungodly amount for premiums. They have to be able to
cover the losses HM is insurance that much down there

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where there's not a fire risk. Let me check. Oh no,
maybe I should buy down there where the houses are
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Speaker 9 (52:42):
Yeah, Brian, I have a potential solution to these problems
with these fires. Yeah, and it works on multiple levels.
It doesn't just correct that issue, it corrects the many issues.

Speaker 7 (52:53):
I believe.

Speaker 9 (52:55):
What you do is you go in and you harvest
the dead wood and the undesirable trees. You bring the
wood back to a power generation plant, you burn it.
What you do is there's a it'll make biochar. You
can ask Ron Wilson about what biochar is.

Speaker 7 (53:14):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (53:14):
The biochar is extracted out and UH it's returned back
to the forest and that will improve the soil of
the forest. It also will control weather because wood is
a insulator, biochar is a conductor. And what happens is

(53:38):
when you have winds blown across the earth can it
makes static electricity. If it doesn't go back into the soil,
it goes up and makes storm, big storms which will
make tornadoes and lightning strikes which burn down buildings and such,
it kills people. The biochar will reduce that and it'll

(54:04):
it'll even out the weather situation. So you're making electricity,
you're improving the soil, you're reducing dangerous fires, and you're
helping the weather out.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Well, yeah, I can't argue with you because I've never
heard of the biochart before today, or it's impact on
the environment. I guess the only thing I see here,
and I think it's what's been one of the larger
impediments now environmental litigation and NIMBI litigation when people try
to engage in any fire deterrent project, and there have
been a multitude of proposals in California to clear out

(54:40):
all that stuff. Clearing it out is one thing. What
you do with it along your lines is a different story.
But you got to clear it out first. So getting
the work done has never been done, or has been
has fallen behind unbelievably. So in spite of the efforts
and the money that's been allocated to do it, so
you still have the challenge of actually engaging in the gathering.
And if you can't gather, you can't do anything with it.

(55:03):
So I mean, they are theories are the worst enemies
themselves out in California along those lines. So I guess
I can't argue that it wouldn't be a good idea
if it works as you describe. But considering the I mean,
think about it. If fifty thousand acres have been burned,
that is a huge amount of land, and I just

(55:24):
I'm trying to imagine the amount of workforce and labor
that would be necessary to do that gathering and to
do that clearing, And where do you start. I mean,
I think of my daughter in Eric or fiance. They
are trying to they're in the process of and over time,
I guess it will ultimately be done and getting rid
of all the invasive honeysuckle that's on their property. Fortunately

(55:46):
it's around the perimeter. Most of their land is open
and farmable, but there are so many of those things.
I mean, they spent days and they only ended up
getting out the tiniest fraction. I know, it's just one,
you know, a couple of people working, but when you
expand the amount of gathering that needs to be done
over countless acres across an entire state. Because they've got

(56:08):
this problem elsewhere in California, it just seems like a
Sissifian challenge. I don't know. If they do the gathering,
maybe there's something there that can be done with it
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Speaker 10 (57:53):
Adam Schiff is a congenital wire. He has no business
being in the US Senate. But of course, the people
of California, that's why with everything that's going on out
there and all of this this that could have been prevented,
and they practice basic common sense, you know the science
of forestry and removing brush the kindling for fires and

(58:18):
having control burns and doing the things that you would
normally do to prevent forest fires. You know, it's it's just,
it's just sad. But I bet that Gavin Newsom, if
you ran tomorrow, would probably win. And if Kamala runs
in two years, she'll probably win. And the congenital wire
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the White House, I mean, you know, we got to
have a place for Vvek to go. And I think
him being a senator would be great. But Mike DeWine,
you know how he is. I think he listening to
the show yesterday. I think somebody's trying to put him
up for sainthood.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
That's not gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Man. I'll tell you what, man, it was like pulling
a ten pound vack you want or none in the
sack yesterday?

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
Jeez, And.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Yeah, I got one more honeysuckle. Tell them to get
more goats and some uh, you know, cable and stuff.
And you don't eat that honeysuckle right up?

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
They love it. Really, you don't get don't goats is
pretty much eat everything.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
They love honeysuckle you put them on a cable. They're
only gonna go so far.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
I suppose that that may be true. I don't think
they'd have any uh any aversion to actually getting a goat,
just let it run around the farmland and eat whatever
the hell it wants. But well, I guess you know,
if they eat the honeysuckle, the tree or the plant
itself will stay there. If they eat all the leaves
off it, won't they just grow back. I mean, I
thought you had to actually cut it off at the

(01:03:04):
base and then dump round up on it or some
other you know, weed killer or brush killer type product.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Well, I don't know. I'm not into the chemicals or
anything like that, but you know, I think the goats
would be a good start.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
Okay, I'll pass that tip along to him. We'll see
if they go for a Bobby, have a good one, man,
have a good one. Let's see here, what do we
got going on in terms of local stories. I'm just
so sad about this, the closing of Morgan's canoe livery
in Fort Ancient lots of time there, I mean, been
renting canoes from them since I was a little kid.

(01:03:42):
And of course, as I mentioned in the last hour
of friends with Rob Morgan, who was a fraternity brother
of mine, and we did some canoeing out of his
place a bunch of different times. I've done the family
since the early eighties when I first met Rob. They're
just they were the best people, his mom and dad
who started the canoe operation because they cared about the environment.
Little Miami was just absolutely polluted. It was a dumping ground.

(01:04:04):
They give canoes to people and in return for a
promise that they would bring back garbage that they picked
up on the canoe trip down the river, and that
worked very successfully. Of course, this has been sixty years
they've been open. So what they're going to do is
they're twenty five acres at that location is going to
be protected land. They're working with the Little Miami Conservacy,
the Hut Department Natural Resources, and the Susan gear Peters Foundation.

(01:04:28):
So they've donated this land for the purpose of conservation
and a statement of the Morgan family said to our
loyal customers and community, thank you for sixty amazing years together,
we've created memories of a last lifetime and helped ensure
the Little Miami River remains a treasure for future generations.
So congratulations to the Morgan family for all they accomplished
over all these years. Now the other location in Indiana, Brookville,

(01:04:49):
Indiana location that's going to remain open. So if you
want to rent from the Morgan family, you can still
do that. You just have to go to the Whitewater
River in Brookville, Indiana at that location thirty five right now,
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Heyday six forty one. If you bought karsde talk station,
love to hear from hi if you've got something to say.
If I went three seven, four, nine fifty five, eight
hundred eight two to three, talk down five fifty on
eight and T phone. Here's one I haven't heard. I
mentioned Trump urging vv gramaswam me to try to grab
the JD vans seat. Maybe try to persuade Mike Dwine.
Maybe Trump is on the phone with Mike Dwine right now.

(01:08:28):
I am convinced personally that it's John Houston. If you
heard my conversation with Alex Trantefilo about that, Well, here's
a new one. I have not heard this before, but
Maureen said and sent me a little mean thing breaking.
Trump wants to Ramaswamy for JD's Senate seat. Dwine wants
to appoint himself that I had not heard. I'm not

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saying it's true. I don't know that would take some Huevos, though,
wouldn't it Anyways, talking earlier about the sanity that is
California in terms of an insurance market with the vast
majority of the home the the fire insurers, the homeowners
insure insurance companies pulling out of the state within the

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last several years, and I was talking about it in
the context of that insurer of last Resort, that FAIR
program they have in California, and so all these folks
who couldn't afford insurance or couldn't find an insurer for
their homes that were surrounded by Kindling end up getting
a policy through Fair. Fair is underfunded substantially, so basically

(01:09:35):
have two point seven million dollars to play with or
billion dollars to play with, and you're talking about tens
of billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars in
total losses here. Fair is going to be on the
hook for a lot of that, since it was only
a small percentage of the people there are insured if
not through Fair, and a point that I think it's

(01:09:58):
worth making. Insurance US companies aren't dumb, and since they
knew by doing business in California, they were going to
be responsible for paying for any uninsured or non covered
losses under the Fair plan. So you've got let's say,
fifty hundred billion dollars in losses. Fair has got a
total of two point seven billion dollars to play with.

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That gets exhausted, they still have to pay for the
damage done, so they turn to the insurance companies in
pro rate, and the insurance companies have to write them
a check to cover everything else. That, of course now
is going to be passed along to the currently insured
people in California. But at my point on insurance companies
leaving the state, they knew damn well that this Fair
program wasn't funded fully, and they knew damn well that

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they were going to be on the hook for the liability.
And prior to this recent rule change which now allows
the insurance companies to pass it along to the policyholders,
they knew they were going to be on the hook
for it that could put companies out of business, so
they left the state. California set this up up. This
is why I did the lead into this batcrap in

(01:11:04):
Sanity Representative Sydney Kalmingder. You probably never heard of her.
I hadn't before reading this article from Fox Democratic California
was on CNN the other day talking with Sarah Snyder.
We need to find out the facts, a full scale
investigation on what went wrong, and the CBC, the Congressional
Black Caucus, for example, are curious about who decided to

(01:11:27):
sacrifice Alta Dina, a historically black community in the La
County area. Now there's your conspiracy theory right there. But
I'm not done yet. Going back to the insurance, she says,
there's no reason why only two fifths of the folks
who had their houses burned down were insured, and why
companies are leaving California in droves as well as other

(01:11:48):
disaster prone states. What do you mean you need an investigation?
Your insurance commissioner won't allow insurance companies to rate the
risk that they are insuring, capping any increases in premium
by a I think like ten percent, But even that
has to receive approval from the insurance commissioner, which is
hard to get. Insurance companies realize they're staring at a

(01:12:09):
massive potential liabilities, so they left there. I answered your question, idiot.
Los Angeles fire insurance expert Richard Giller, also on function,
is that the state policies to blame for these canceled policies.

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Lawmakers refused to allow insurance companies increase premium costs for
residents in the wake of ever more destructive fires. Consequently,
insurance companies are written fewer claims, canceled claims, or even
left California entirely. He said. So, the insurance companies tried
to seek approval for rate increases in the California Apartment
of Insurance, and the Insurance Commissioner decided, you know, they
didn't want homeowners to pay more money. It all came

(01:12:53):
to a head with seven of the twelve largest insurance
companies pulling out of the state again, question answered, going
back to the conspiracy theory, though I got a new
one for you today. So question was Altadena's sacrifice. This
goes to the whole kind of Lahina. They did it
on intentionally thing. So you can couple that general conspiracy

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theory that's been floating or out there for a while
along with the one that I got this morning, which
I don't again necessarily believe. But they set houses on
fire using their electric smart meters. Yes, it was an
intentionally done thing, and they burned houses down by I
guess overloading the smart meter with electricity sparking fires. So

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again i'm not I'm not aligned with that theory. But
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Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
Six if you want to give about car CE talk
station and continuous conversation various elements of the craziness going
on in the LA wildfires. Of course, we all find
out how unbelievably expensive it is to live there. What
the values of these properties are which are just beyond
the reach of the average human being. California State of

(01:16:40):
Emergency that was declared by Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday
bans price gouging for a whole bunch of different things,
goods and services, including rental and according to the I
Guess the state of emergency, any rent increase above ten
percent since the start of the state of the emergency
is illegal until the crisis is over. But it's been

(01:17:03):
widely reported that some landlords and agents have been raising
prices by far more than the ten percent allowed by California.
Get a load of this five bedroom rental and Santa
Monica listed for twelve thousand, five hundred dollars a month
back in February of last year, up to twenty eight
thousand dollars a month, described to one hundred and twenty

(01:17:24):
four percent increase. Joey at twenty thousand dollars a month,
you manage that butt, brother, huh. Inside editions, Lisa Guerrero
posted on some social media site. Clients of our friend
were trying to Lisa house with their home being renovated
before the fire. The lease eighteen thousand dollars a month.

(01:17:48):
They were going to sign the papers the day of
the fire. Now the people renting want thirty thousand dollars
a month. One real estate agent, talking to New York Times,
I'm Samir Tapia, said to review more than four hundred listings,
revealed nearly one hundred properties that had raised rents above
the ten percent. North Hollywood listing went from eight hundred

(01:18:11):
dollars a month to five thousand, seven hundred dollars per month.
This is mind boggling. Well furnished Beller home on Zillo
twenty nine thousand, five hundred dollars a month, just a month.
A few months ago, it was only only fifteen to nine.

(01:18:37):
Why would any wood move there? One listing twenty was
previously twenty nine thousand, five hundred dollars month. Now, granted
it's a nine thousand, six hundred square foot tutor mansion
at bell Air, but it's up to thirty nine thousand
dollars per month. Well, if you've got a piece of
standing property out in La I'm guessing that if you
ignore Gavin Newsom and his cap at ten percent, you

(01:18:58):
can make yourself a heaplow to money. People in times
of desperation end up having to do desperate things. And
it is you know, I have to say, I know
the laws of supply and demand. Are the laws of
supply and demand? The housing stock supply has dropped dramatically
if you haven't noticed, which means whatever standing in the
general area well is going to be under significant demand.

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Is it unethical and immoral or either to at least
look out for your own best interests as a property
owner and just put it out there and see what
you can get, see what the market will support in
terms of the rental rate? Is it illegal or immoral

(01:19:43):
for the governor to just arbitrarily I would say, come
up with ten percent as a cap on rent increases.
Talk amongst yourselves, stick around, Donald and Neil. Americans for
Prosperity joins the program after the top of the air
news talk about supporting Trump's tax cuts. Senator Rampaul at
seven point thirty, I hope you can be around for those.

Speaker 8 (01:20:04):
Your voice, Thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 13 (01:20:06):
Your country gives us all some more to think about.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
Fifty five krc the talk station seven oh six at
fifty five RCD talk station, Very Happy Friday. E to

(01:20:31):
Senator ran Paul at the bottom in the hour. In
the meantime, Welcome back to the fifty five PRC Morning Show.
On the website to refer to people, it's Protect Prosperity Day.
Protect Prosperity dot Com with Donovan and Neil from Americans
for Prosperity. Donovan, Welcome back to the Morning Show. My
friend's good to hear from you today, Brian. Great to
be here with you, and I'm telling you these expiring
trunk tax cuts. I don't know if you saw the reporting.

(01:20:52):
I got a They was widely reported, but I got
it out of Fox News. Ernstin Young did a study
on behalf of the American National Associate of Manufacturing. They
figured if Congress does not act by the end of
this year to preserve the tax cuts and Jobs Acts
that they call the Trump tax Cuts, we will lose
an estimated five point nine million American jobs and it

(01:21:14):
will impact the economy profoundly. They say the manufacturing sector
alone five hundred and forty billion dollars in lost wages
of one point eight nine trillion GDP swortfall the manufacturing
jobs one point one three seven million manufacturing jobs at
one sector alone will be lost if these tax cuts

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don't remain in place. That's just that's that's some serious numbers. Donovan.

Speaker 14 (01:21:43):
Well, yeah, that's why we at Americas for Prosperity have
launched this Protect Prosperity campaign. It's a twenty million dollar,
fifty state campaign that is designed to help raise awareness
and apply necessary pressure on Congress to make sure they act,
because you're really dealing with two things here, right, We're
coming out of four years of Bidenomics, where folks have

(01:22:06):
experienced massive increases in inflation that many folks call a
hit in tax and then what the number two punch
if Congress fails to act, as you sort of as
you outlined there very well, is if the Trump tax
cuts from twenty seventeen are allowed to expire, now you're
going to see an actual increase, a visible tax increase

(01:22:26):
on your bill, on your paycheck you get every two weeks.
And that's why we need to get Congress to act
protect Prosperity and make the Trump tax cuts permanent as
soon as possible this year.

Speaker 1 (01:22:35):
So is this effort in terms of how the logistics
of the Protect Prosperity work, the twenty million dollar nation
nationwide campaign you're talking about, is it to just the
raise awareness about these specific points, so the American population
is aware that we need these tax cuts in place
in order to continue our prosperity. Or are you asking

(01:22:59):
people to take action to get in touch with their
elected officials in DC to tell them to pass to
keep these taxes at the current level. I mean, how's
the effort gonna work? Yeah, I mean, it's what we
do best, right.

Speaker 14 (01:23:13):
I've been You're so many times talking about it, and
your listeners give us a hand all the time with it,
and we're gonna get out there and get things done right.

Speaker 1 (01:23:19):
Part of what we're.

Speaker 14 (01:23:19):
Doing right now is elevating the voices of Ohioans who
want to see these tax cuts made permanent, right, connecting
them to their member of Congress.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
Because here's what we're gonna do, right.

Speaker 14 (01:23:29):
We got Bernie Marino elected, We've got great folks like
Warren Davidson here in Ohio, Jim Jordan, and many others,
Dave Taylor down in Southwest Ohio. They've committed to getting
this stuff done right. But what we need to do
is give them the support, the grassroots support, to make
sure that they have the stories to file in the
halls of Congress. Right and talk about the real Americans

(01:23:51):
who are going to be impacted if these tax cuts
are out to inspire.

Speaker 1 (01:23:53):
So it's a full court grassroots press.

Speaker 14 (01:23:56):
That we'll be engaging on over the next four to
six months to help see this get done well.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Speaking to Ohio specifically, and because you're the Ohio state
Director of Americans for Prosperity Donovan and I saw your
quote on this, let my listeners know the impact on
ohioans in terms of dollar amounts if these expire.

Speaker 14 (01:24:14):
Yeah, well, the average cost is going to be about
twelve hundred dollars for individuals that their tax rates will
go up. Businesses will see an average of eight hundred
and twenty one. Keep in mind these are averages, right,
This is spread out over the four million Ohio wins
who are are employed by a pastor, I entity or something.

Speaker 1 (01:24:33):
Right.

Speaker 14 (01:24:34):
So, but these have sort of you know, multi layered effects, right,
It's not just that you're going to you know, you
might see a little more out of your paycheck every
two weeks when a business as taxes go up, what
do they do, Brian?

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
Do they just eat that cost and say oh shucks. No,
they raise the price of their goods and services. That's right.

Speaker 14 (01:24:54):
They have to pass them on their consumers because they
have they have family with mouths the feet as well.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
Right, So it has a ripple effect through.

Speaker 14 (01:25:03):
The economy in the uh you know, on an individual level,
on the thousands of dollars scale, but certainly on a
nationwide level millions billions dollar scale, that if we don't
get this done, it gonna it's gonna really put the
country in a jam.

Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
Now, are you working with the Trump team on any level?
I mean, is it would that even help if you
had Trump or a Trump team's ear on this.

Speaker 14 (01:25:28):
Yeah, well, I think you know, he'll be sworn in
on Monday. We're excited about that January twentieth. It will
be a big day for our country. And uh, you know,
part of our work is is elevating the Trump tax cuts. Right,
he's the guy who got this done in twenty seventeen.
We did a lot of grass I was around them,
We did a lot of grassroots work thanking members and
the president for getting that done. And we're gonna be
doing that again.

Speaker 1 (01:25:49):
Right.

Speaker 14 (01:25:49):
But ultimately, the way these things still work, right, Congress has.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
To get to get the ball rolling.

Speaker 14 (01:25:54):
We're confident they will but we want to make sure
they keep this as the top priority coming into the
spring as they and they work to get to get
the country back on track after four years of Joe Biden.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
All Right, when you're outspreading the word on this, that
is going to have the how you walk through the
arguments against the increase in taxes, You're gonna run into
people to say, well, look, we've we've been spending like
drunken sales. We've got this massive hole we've got to fill,
which is the thirty seven trillion dollars in debt we have.
If we cut taxes, that means less money going to
Washington and therefore probably a more sizable borrowing. They will not.

(01:26:29):
They mean the fundamental point being our government never ever cuts,
It just continues to expand and get more expensive, and
fewer tax dollars going into the Washington makes it impossible
to overcome the challenge of the deficit.

Speaker 14 (01:26:45):
Then it's a false premise Brian put out there on it.
It's your money, it's our money, it's your listener's money, Brian,
it's not Washington's. We've put five they've put five trillion
more dollars in the last four years that put us
up to thirty six trillion dollars in national debt. It's
a problem, but you don't solve that problem by continuing
to feed the beams that mismanages that money and letting

(01:27:07):
him take more of your money. You tell them stop,
you're not going to get any more of this, and
you've got to tighten your belt and get the fiscal
house in order.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
And we can.

Speaker 14 (01:27:15):
We can do that with this new Republican majority as well,
but it starts by making sure these Trump taxes to
stay permanent so that we don't add that, you know
that that second punch of the inflation and now the raise,
the increase in in income taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:27:29):
Yeah. I had a conversation with Congressman Massey about the
Republicans and reigning and being fiscally responsible, and he didn't
really leave me with a positive feeling about it, because
you know, behind the scenes, when they're hammering out these
omnibus deals and and reconciliation, they're always looking out for
their own best interest, and even with their own best interest,

(01:27:49):
it's their pet project in their state. I always been
relying lately on the F thirty five aircraft. I think
it's a pointless and unnecessary, countless billion dollar item that
isn't going to be benefit us time in war times.
We're moving more toward drones. We don't have enough submarines things,
I mean, allocation of of you know, scarce resources like
tax dollars. They don't listen to the screams and cries

(01:28:11):
of you need to cut, you need to cut, let's
quit paying for dumb things, and they get very territorial,
even though they're supposed to be fiscally responsible and pay
lip service to it. When it comes to their own backyard,
they won't cut.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:28:24):
Well, I mean, and that's why, you know, grassroots organizations
like ours and folks that Congress are master are important
right the foot. They're the folks who are going to
keep Congress on. And something happens when you get out
there in DC. You drink the water, and even the
best begin to change just a little bit. But back
to my point, right, don't feed the beast. It's your money,
not Washington's. Well, of the best ways to keep them
from spending more money is to make sure they don't

(01:28:45):
get it every two weeks out of your paycheck by
letting the Trump tax cuts expire.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
Yeah, I pled with them to let me know who
the specific people are and to provide me with specific illustrations.
Is comment. Didn't call my listeners, he said, listen, I
got to work with these people. It's like, wait, you know,
the one guy that you think will wake is standing
out and out the people who are responsible for not
you know, tightening the belt a little bit. He's stuck

(01:29:11):
up there with him. So it makes it a little
more challenging. All right. So the website is, UH, is
protect prosperity dot com. What do my listeners need to do?

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
First thing, go to protect prosperity dot com. Sign up
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Speaker 14 (01:29:24):
We're reaching out to folks who do that to get
them connected to events and activities we have coming up.
The other thing you can do if you're you're hearing
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Speaker 1 (01:29:46):
So it's uh, it's dot com. I had, I think
I had. Okay, I did say dot com Protect Prosperity
dot com. I'm staring at the website right now. Donovan
and Neil, keep up the great work. We'll keep our
fingers crossed that they don't raise our taxes. Certainly we're
not getting the very good bang for our buck when
it comes to taxes anyway, and it is our money.
Let's be able to spend it how we want. Let's
improve the number of jobs out there. Let's expand on businesses.

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Let's well make things better for the state of Ohio
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Damn well, that's exactly what I was thinking about, Joe,
Thank you very very much. Not much red meat through
each the upper limit of what they were studying. The
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Speaker 1 (01:39:18):
It's seven point thirty here, fifty five kr C the
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here soon. He's scheduled to be on the program talk
about Uh well, Christy Noam's hearing which for the Partment
of Homeland Security, which has been kicked for a day.
I guess there was some paperwork that had to be done.
I saw some reporting on Politico on that and then
the Russ Vaught officer management and budget. And he has

(01:39:42):
interesting perception which I think is probably an accurate one,
although it did rub some of the Democrats the wrong way.
He said that he does not have to spend or
the Trump does not have to spend money that has
been allocated by Congress, authorized by Congress. He's got no
obligation to do that. Presidents have the ability to spend
less than an appropriation if they can do it for less.

(01:40:05):
And on that topic, welcome back to the fifty five
Caursessey Morning Show, Senator Ran Paul. It's always a pleasure
to have you on my program, Sir, glad to be
with you, good morning. My understanding is I know Christy
Noam's Department of Homeland Security hearing is on the agenda
for us to talk about and we can. I just
saw that it got kicked for a day. It's supposed
to have They're supposed to have that tomorrow. Is that

(01:40:25):
is that correct?

Speaker 13 (01:40:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:40:28):
So yesterday we had Russ vote who will be the
OMB director and he was the previous OMB director under
Trump in the last administration. Nome, we're still waiting on
some paperwork. Everybody goes to an FBI background check and
some ethics paperwork, and it wasn't completed. We're hoping it'll
be completed, so we can do that tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:40:47):
Okay, And I get the impression you probably on board
with Nome as the director of the Department Homeland Security. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:40:53):
I'm going to support both Nome and rust Vote. And
really most of Trump's picks have been pretty good, in fact,
so good that I would have picked him myself. Just
met with Marty McCarey yesterday. Marty McCarey's the doctor from
John Hopkins who's gonna be head of FDA. He's gonna
be probably the best director of the FDA we've ever
had Jay Battaria, doctor from Stanford, who I know well,

(01:41:17):
is going to be in charge of NIH and hopefully
cleaning house over there. Cash Mattel at FBI is going
to clean house bat Bondie at Department of Justice.

Speaker 13 (01:41:27):
I mean, just a lot of.

Speaker 1 (01:41:28):
Good people and a lot of hysterics and the Democrats
during some of these hearings, but I guess that's to
be expected in terms of russ vote. I saw him
that he said in during the hearings that for two
hundred years, presidents had the ability to spend less than
an appropriation if they could do it for less. He
was asked in Pestiti if he thought Donald Trump didn't
have to spend what had been allocated as a chains

(01:41:50):
of parameters of how we would use that. That's something
that his team would have to consider in the confirm
That obviously rubbed Democrats the wrong way, including Richard Blumenthal,
who expressed astonishment that someone would even say that.

Speaker 8 (01:42:04):
It is a technical question, but it is an important one.
It's called impoundment. So if the Congress allocates a billion
dollars for an aircraft carrier, and let's say Elon Musk
gets involved, looking at every nut and bolt he makes
it for eight hundred million, you've saved two hundred million.
To the president be able to impound that there is

(01:42:25):
a real question. I mean, there have been some laws
against him doing that. But there is another possibility of
an impoundment that's absolutely legal and no question on that's
called recision. The President could simply ship the two hundred
billion dollars back to Congress. It gets an expedited vote,
and the expedited vote can be fifty percent vote, so

(01:42:46):
there's no filibuster, meaning that Republicans alone could cut that
two hundred billion. So I think there it's a tool
that has never been fully utilized. Trump tried it once
in the previous administration for only fifteen billion, and two
Republicans is deserted and voted with the Democrat and we
lost even a fifteen billion car recision. I'm hoping they

(01:43:06):
will try again, and it's one of those things they
have to understand. They're going to have to come and lobby. Not
people like me who are for cutting, but there are
some of the bigger government Republicans. They're just have to
come over and lobby them and try to convince them
to vote for us and convince them really that the
circumstances of our debt are pretty dire and growing more dire.
Interest rates aren't coming down, and that's you know, not

(01:43:28):
only is that the debt was accumulated, but with interest
rates twice what they were ten years ago. You know,
we're paying off the debt at two percent. Now we're
paying off the debt at four percent. Yeah, that's a
big deal.

Speaker 1 (01:43:38):
That is a huge deal. Well, that recision. I love
that concept because it outs so called rhinos, the ones
that aren't interested in being fiscally responsible. I mean, they
have to vote on that, and that's something I was
having a conversation with Congressman Massy Bud. He says, you know,
it was the Omnibus bill and of course the Reconciliation Bill,
and I said, you know, you guys are in charge now,

(01:44:00):
you can just deliver on cutting and he just kind
of chuckled, and you said, well, you know, when you're
talking about cutting projects in a Republican's home state, they're
a little they're wary to do, you know, not going
to do it because it's their stuff and it's there,
it's their pet project. And even if it's something ridiculous,
like the F thirty five. You know they won't cut.
I said, well, why don't you start naming names. Let's

(01:44:21):
spread the word on who's doing that kind of thing
so we cannot make the same mistake next time around.
And he said, well, you know, I got to work
with these people. I just got to I wasn't comforted
by that statement.

Speaker 8 (01:44:31):
Well, part of the problem is is newspapers and media
used to be better at this. I can remember even
in Bowling Green, when I first came to Bowling Green
and finished my medical training, there would periodically be four
or five votes in the paper of how they voted.
Third party groups do this, like there are libertarian groups
that Republican Liberty Caucus, which is libertarian Republicans says a

(01:44:53):
libertarian leaning index each year. There are business groups that
do it. But it's just not far and wide enough
and it's not out there. And you know, the internet
has so much information, but you rarely come across, you know,
rating systems that have prominence which show how how your
congressman voted. You know, if you know, I pointed out
in Festivus report this year that there was a four

(01:45:13):
hundred thousand dollars grant to study whether or not lonely
rats use more cocaine than group social rats and load ball.
When you're lonely, you tap the cocaine button more. And anyway,
the thing is is what kind of grief would the
public give if they knew that their congressman not only
voted for this, but voted to double the amount of

(01:45:36):
money given to this agency. It's called the National Science Foundation.
And we had a bill which was to subsidize billion
dollar chip companies and also double the size the National
Science Foundation, and every Democrat voted for it, and have
the Republicans voted for it. But you're right, somebody's got
to point it out. Somebody's got to point out who's
voting for these things.

Speaker 1 (01:45:56):
Well, congratulations you are, I understand the chair of the
newly seated chair of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
Can you talk about what you're going to be doing
on that as well as the remain in Mexico hearing,
which I understand is a guesst Today.

Speaker 8 (01:46:09):
Yeah, this morning, we're gonna have a first hearing. I
thought would be important to do it before the inaugurations.
I think inauguration day is going to be busy and
Donald Trump's gon announce a lot of things about the border.
Our hearing is called Remain in Mexico. We're going to
have the previous director of Homeland Security under previous Trump administration,
Ken Kuchinelli, talented lawyer, constitutional lawyer from Virginia, and he's

(01:46:33):
going to talk about does the existing law already give
the president the power to control the border. This is
the debate we had with the Democrats. They're like, oh, well,
we'd love to control the border, but we just need
to give Biden the power to do it. We don't
think that's true. We think the power already gives great
latitude to how any kind of asylum program is created.

(01:46:53):
We frankly think that the president has the power to
simply make people who come across the border illegally in
eligi for asylum. Then you wouldn't start these four year
long processes applying people all over the US waiting for
their when they'll be detained. We also think the president,
for the couple million people that came in last year,
unattended young males coming into our country, I think the

(01:47:16):
President could move their detainment date the next month and
say your detainment trial you're hearing is next month. But
this is what the ones that already got here that
buy let d and if you don't show up, you're
a felon. And then when we find you, you'll be
kicked out and never come back. And so I think
there's a lot of things that can be done. They're dramatic.
I think Trump's going to use a lot of these
dramatic things that he already has the power for. We

(01:47:37):
wanted to make sure the public knew that the law
actually supports quite a bit of latitude for the president.

Speaker 1 (01:47:43):
Well before we part company. I just have been observing
that I've been expecting some sort of much like the
first Trump administration mass protest along some lines previously was
anti file or Black Lives Matter, I expect this deportation
effort is going to result in masses of illegal immigrants
taking to the streets and protest of being kicked out
of the country. Any concerns along those lines, or concerns

(01:48:05):
from a homeland security standpoint that terrorist activities might take place, Now, I.

Speaker 8 (01:48:11):
Guess mass protests of illegal aliens happen. It will be
easier to find them.

Speaker 1 (01:48:16):
I love that, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:48:20):
I think, look and I don't want to. Don't get
me wrong, I am very pro immigration, lawful immigration. I
have a lot of good friends who came here, many
of our best Americans just got here. But we just
can't allow millions to come in without any kind of
scrutiny or screening. There really there have to be limits
we can't have, and you can't let ten million people
in a year. It sort of overwhelmed the country and

(01:48:42):
overwhelms all the government systems and the hospital. So not
to mention the risk of that bad people, terrorists, and
also many of these countries that are run by socialists
just empty their jail. Yes, you know, so Venezuela's just
led a bunch of their criminals go. That's what Castro,
you know, with the Mario Letto is back in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
So we can't do that.

Speaker 8 (01:49:03):
But at the same time, I want to make sure
that at least this Republican isn't perceived as someone who
doesn't like immigrants. I have many good friends who have
just gotten to this country, and I'm i'm I'm pleased
with with our friends.

Speaker 1 (01:49:13):
Senator rand Paul, it's always a pleasure to have you
on the program. I wish you best of luck with
the Homeland Security Government Affairs Committee work and the hearings
that will kick in. We'll be watching and wish you
luck on the remain in Mexico policy, among others. Until
we talk again. Best of health, my friend. Thanks as
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I got a few minutes here. If we get top
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You're gonna love this one. Doctor James Thorpe, with his
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the most vulnerable.

Speaker 15 (01:52:29):
UH.

Speaker 1 (01:52:29):
Doctor Thorpe one of the doctors who bucked the system,
and he saw what was going on a daily basis
first hand, documented it, published papers, spoke on countless media platforms,
and was terminated in Senate hearings in Washington, DC without
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(01:52:49):
Did an effort to get the truth out. This the
book is his story on that. So. I know a
lot of listeners have problems with the COVID nineteen jab
among others, but notably that one, and I'm among them.
I did not get a vaccine. Early in the program,
I was talking about this screwed up insurance market. I'll
get your colleges. That's Nick on the phone there. The

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insurance market, it's all screwed up in California. A lot
of insurers left for a multitude of reason, and not
the least of which they weren't even be able to price
premiums to deal with the risk that they were facing.
And everybody knew about this risk. We've been talking about
it for years and years years, the fire risk. And
of course, you know, one day the match gets lit
and the whole place burns of the ground, which is
what we're dealing with right now. And God bless the
people out there. And I don't have any ill will

(01:53:32):
toward them, but they live in a completely screwed up state.
So Governor knew some issues this emergency order. And I
was talking about the rental prices. Any rent increases above
ten percent since the start of the state of emergency
is illegal for the duration of the crisis. And I
gave you a couple of illustrations. There are listings in
this article I saw on I guess it was zero Hedge,

(01:53:55):
you know, pulled a bunch of these different listings, different
articles from different sources and talk to different real estate agents,
and you know what, the North Hollywood property was over
one night, eight hundred dollars and then the fires let up,
and the next day they are asking fifty seven hundred
dollars per month. I thought, wow, well, that clearly is

(01:54:15):
in violation of the ten percent cap, but maybe it's not.
The lawyer brain and mind kicked in a moment ago
and I thought, wait a second, you can't raise rent
more than ten percent. That suggests to me that there's
already a rental agreement in place. So if you're already
renting a place, the landlord can't come in and say, oh,
by the way, it's not eight hundred, it's now fifty

(01:54:37):
seven hundred dollars you owe me per month. But if
it's not rented again, you got to go back to
market conditions. Is someone willing to pay fifty seven hundred
dollars per month for this one North Hollywood property that
previously was only eight hundred dollars a month. Maybe there
is someone out in the world that'll do that, or
maybe they'll try to haggle with the owner of the
property and negotiate down to something like four thousand, seven

(01:54:59):
hundred or what. But if you don't have a rental
agreement in place, I think some of these can be
justified simply based upon the law of economics. And since
we're talking about with Senator Rampaul about illegal immigrants, guess
what They arrested an illegal immigrant the other day, Los
Angeles who was trying to start fires with a blow

(01:55:19):
sheet and has a really significant rap sheet. Juan Manuel Sierra,
thirty three years old, caught, they point out, not by
law enforcement, by a group of residents in the Calabasas
area of San Fernando Valley. They tackled him and his blowtorch.
He was near their houses. Viral video neighbor captured shows

(01:55:42):
that well, the neighbors grabbed him and held him down
until this police showed up. He was arrested for violating probation.
Has not been charged with arson. I was supposed, you say, yes,
they probably need some proof of that. But he's got
several misdemeanors on his rap sheet as well as at
least one felony, and you got to wonder why they
didn't do anything about this. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement said

(01:56:04):
in a statement on Tuesday this week they have placed
a detainer on this former Mexican national. Sierra has multiple
encounters with law enforcement from November twenty sixteen to present
for a variety of charges, and was convicted of assault
with a deadly weapon on October tenth, twenty twenty three,
in Van Nuys, California. Arrested by the Los Angeles Police
Department January tenth on felony probation violation. Apparently has multiple

(01:56:29):
monikers aliases, but he was arrested with for assault with
a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury in twenty twenty three,
according to the police records, convicted in October, and here
you go. The court ordered his release citing time served.

(01:56:49):
Two months later, he's booked again for vil and domestic
violence restraining order, only to be released in January. Early January,
So I thought they cared about women out in California.
His latest arrest has passed October possession of narcotics paraphernalia,
which is a misdemeanor California, release without bail three days
later with a court date schedule for November. His booking docket, however,

(01:57:13):
does not show a court proceeding for that date. Interesting,
and they also caught a couple of more arsonists. Two
men charged with felony arson in Los Angeles. Not related cases,
but they happened in different parts of Los Angeles County
over this past weekend. A court of the DA's office
Jamie Mota, thirty seven in jail on a three hundred

(01:57:34):
and fifty thousand dollars bail for allegedly lighting a stack
of wooden pallettes on fire behind a shipping yard Saturday
afternoon spring Flames spread to a tractor trailer and surrounding bushes.
He could be at a seven years in prison of convicted,
and add to that in Irwindale, Reuben Michael Montez, twenty
seven years old, one hundred, four hundred thousand dollars bail

(01:57:54):
for him for lighting a fire under I six OZHO
five overpass in River Grade Road. It does sound familiar,
doesn't it, Joe. He was already on probation at the
time of the incident and faces up to fourteen years
in prison if convicted. And only Tuesday, District Attorney Todd Spitzer,

(01:58:21):
Orange County, along with one other elected official, asked Governor
Newsom to make looting a felony. And you wonder why
it isn't already? Why wasn't looting a felony already on
the books in the state of California? I wrote, loll

(01:58:41):
after that, because this is the state that of course
decriminalized stealing less than nine hundred and fifty bucks, or
at least made it a misdemeanor which sparked a crime
wave in various cities in California. As you all know,
seven fifty five right now, fifty five KOSTY talk station,
doctor James Thorpe saying no to the powers that be
and well suffering for it. He wrote a book about it.

(01:59:02):
We're going to talk after the top of the own
news about sacrifice, how the deadliest vaccine in history targeted
the most vulnerable.

Speaker 12 (01:59:08):
The twentieth day of January, the President Hi, Donald John
Trump inauguration day, the first one hundred days and to
be on fifty five krc the talk station.

Speaker 1 (01:59:19):
This report is it's the stuff people are talking about.

Speaker 16 (01:59:23):
I totally agree with you about the states rights issue
for recording abortion.

Speaker 1 (01:59:27):
Fifty five KRS the talk station. At five, I'm coming
to with ATO a six to fifty five KRCD talk station.
You hope having that happened Friday. Eve always love my
Thursdays because I heard MEDIAVAH. Nextpert Jay Rattley joins the
program at a thirty, so he'll be right at the
bottom of the air. We've got quite a few topics
talk about with Jay, and I was hoping to have

(01:59:50):
the doctor on the program. You know it's too good
to be true to have doctor James Thorpe on the program.
The book Sacrifice, How the Deadliest facts in the history
target of the most vulnerable. He is, He's got an
amazing background. Joe called the publicist to see if he
could reach him because the number just went into voicemail.

(02:00:11):
Two hundred and seventy five publications. He's got seventy on
COVID nineteen related problems that he witnessed himself, and he
was one of the few people that was running around
screaming about how COVID shots should never be given to
pregnant women. The quote for the book by early twenty
twenty one was clear that not one pregnant woman should
have ever been given a COVID nineteen vaccine. Every mother

(02:00:33):
in the United States should be outraged, yet the silence
is deafening due to medical censorship. So but I subscribed.
He's witnessed the carnage that was doing two fetuses on
a daily basis first and documented in a bunch of
published papers that I mentioned a moment ago. Spoke with
media platforms and insentate hearings, got fired, got fired for

(02:00:55):
speaking the truth without any cause. So he's been on
a tirade and he wrote a book about all of
the problems that he faced and what he discovered about
COVID nineteen. But I think he was physician for like
forty years, but obstetric obstetrician gynecologists and maternal fetal medicine physicians.
So just because he didn't show up on the program

(02:01:16):
doesn't mean I'm not going to recommend the book to you.
It's they called Sacrifice, How the deadliest vaccine in history
targeted the most vulnerable. Joe Strecker and I were having
to laugh there at the top of the hour news
because in the morning, when I started out the program,
you know, I guess I was happy that Israel Hamas
had entered into some form of agreement, some cease fire deal,
get the hostages back. I know, the Palestinians, a lot

(02:01:38):
of them are going to be released under the terms
of the deal. And Joe and I both expressed some
well cynicism, little maybe lack of a belief that this
would actually work, and that Joe predicted that Hamas would
probably launch a rocket probably by Tuesday. He said, they

(02:02:00):
take Martin Luther King day off. But we didn't really
have a whole lot of faith that this thing was
going to last. And lo and behold you heard at
the top of the ur news Hamas is already backing
away from some of the terms and conditions. So, whether
Trump was influential and instrumental, as it was widely reported
he was in negotiating this deal, it seems to be

(02:02:21):
falling apart before the ink is even dry. So I
can laugh sort of kind of on that sort of anyway,
we're talking with Senator A and Paul earlier about whether
or not funds allocated by the federal government need actually
be spent in the context of hearing the other day

(02:02:44):
on one of Trump's cabinet picks, who was of the
mind that no, Trump needn't spend the money even if
it's allocated, for example, if he can find a cheaper
source to perform whatever work that money was allocated for.
So we followed through an outline that during my conversation

(02:03:05):
with Senator ram public you can find a fifty five
krse dot com. That's but all in the name of
not spending as much. You know, we're in kind of
desperate times here with the runaway spending in Congress, and
you know, lo and beholders. A report released by the
House Oversight and Accountability Committee just yesterday about federal telework policies,

(02:03:27):
and here's another place where we can cut some expenses.
They accused the Biden administration of prioritizing union demands over
taxpayer interest, wasting billions of dollars on under utilized office space. Now,
the federal government already owned so much property it couldn't
even keep track of. But before remember there are maintenance
and upkeep obligations that go along with that, and that's
part of the line items in our budget every year. Now,

(02:03:49):
I don't know if they actually do the work to
maintain and upkeep all these buildings, much in the same
way we know the City of Cincinnati doesn't do the
work to maintain and upkeep the roads, and yet there's
still funds allocated for But beyond that thirty page report
slamming the continuation of all this work for home arrangements,
leaving the offices completely endy empty, yet in the of
maintenance and upkeep. Obviously, COVID nineteen caused this and justified,

(02:04:13):
or at least on paper, allowing people to work from home.
But according to the report that Biden Harrison administration has
seated too much authority to federal union bosses, allowing their
preference to work from home to take precedence over fulfilling agencies,
mission and serving American people. The report shows of the
two point two eight million federal civilian employees, get your

(02:04:34):
head around that number, two hundred and twenty eight thousand
of them are never required to report to the office.
One point one million are eligible for telework. They spent
an average only three days per week in the office.
Healthy Human Services Remote for workforce group from only two
percent twenty nineteen to twenty nine percent. Last year, GSA

(02:04:58):
remote workforce jump from six percent to fifty percent. Department
of Education, you know they never go to go to work,
right when from two people were two percent working remotely
up to fifty five percent. I think those are the
ones that wanted school closures to continued because of COVID
long after the threat was passed, and in spite of

(02:05:20):
the fact that it didn't pose a big threat to
children in the first place. So in the highlight INDUS
report all this unused office space. The Government Accountability Office
study from twenty twenty three found that seventeen of the
twenty four federal agencies used, on average, an estimated twenty
five percent or less of the capacity of their headquarter buildings.

(02:05:45):
That's a lot of empty space. Some agencies report occupancy
rates of their buildings as low as nine percent, while
the federal government spends approximately seven billion annually to lease
and maintain office spaces. So if you're looking for places
to cut and you're looking for some sensibility, if they're

(02:06:07):
going to continue working remotely and I doubt that they're
actually getting their job done, let's just assume for the
sake of argument that whatever it is they've been hired
to do is actually getting done at home. How about
you start consolidating some of these various office buildings. You're
only using nine percent of one and the other one's
only using twenty five percent. Seems to me you can
take the nine percent of the one building and consolidated

(02:06:28):
with the other one, freeing up the need to lease
and pay for maintenance and upkeep, sell the property. Come
up with another arrangement. There's a better way of doing business.
And I know Trump is all about moving a lot
of these these agencies out of Washington, d C. And
bully for him. Get them away from the pollution, get
them away the lobbying pollution. I'm talking about the political
pollution that is just rampant in Washington, d C. Thus,

(02:06:52):
Swamp make a move out into rural areas or places
where the population isn't so batcrap leftists. Now, I doubt
that they would pack their bags and move to any
area of the country, the flyover country that they so loathe.
But at least it give us a great opportunity to
try the experiment. There's no reason all these agencies need

(02:07:13):
to be stacked up on top of each other in
that well what I could characterize as infected community. Let's
see what Edwin's got this morning. Edwin, thanks for calling
the morning show. Good to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (02:07:24):
Thank you, Good day to you and everyone listening. You know,
at the other day, I was watching them posing questions
at Pete Hexcess and a lot of stupid ones. I know,
everyone agrees, and I don't agree to a lot of
you know, what they're doing, especially like when they ask them,
you know, about his being inebriated and then the activation

(02:07:47):
of what he did to a woman. But it almost
seems like it's a prerequisite to get into government or
something on their side of course, So what I'm to
just show him the secret handshake and let him in.
I mean, he's done a straightened things out once he
gets in there, and I see nothing but good things
coming with this new administration coming in.

Speaker 15 (02:08:10):
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (02:08:11):
I agree? It is just an amazing amount of hypocrisy
that they would scream and yell about his marital infidelities.
I guess his current wife has forgiven him. They've made
up different relationships for different people, and that's the way
the world works. You know, Sometimes it works out, and sometimes,
as one of the senators pointed out, listen, we've got
a room full of people here who've gotten divorced because
they fooled around on their wife. Right, So it does happen.

(02:08:34):
He seems to have worked things out. But see, they
think they can get away with it. But this is
twenty twenty five. Our societal norms have changed dramatically over
the past twenty thirty years. Where Republicans used to, you know,
sort of have this evangelical superiority about him. You know,
we're better than that. We're not sinful, and you know,
we believe in God and the Bible and wave it

(02:08:56):
around and make accusations about people who were unfaithful. But
you know that always comes back to bite you, because,
let's face it, people are well capable of failure. They
do make mistakes, and it does happen. And just because
you stand behind this high and mighty approach doesn't mean
you're all united in actually walking the walk while you're
talking to talk. So the Democrats would get away with it,

(02:09:17):
as you know, pointing the finger saying you guys are
a bunch of hypocrites, look at this and hold you
out as an example. But again, fast forward to twenty
twenty five. None of this comes as a surprise to anybody,
and it's well documented. Over the course of our nation's history,
presidents have not always been really that faithful either. John F.
Kennedy widely regarded as a swinging you know what, I

(02:09:39):
think LBJ was too, But I mean, you can go
on and on Bill Clinton. I mean he got caught
sort of red handed, if you want to call it
that way, and it ended up resulting in an impeachment
because he lied to the FBI. He lied to us
about marital infidelity. And look, he's still married to Hillary Clinton.
And as so far as getting drunk, what are the drunken? Say?

(02:10:00):
He who in America's military hasn't gone out on a bender?
I mean, wow, double standard, double standard five point three
seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight
to two three ta pound five fifty on AT and
T phones. And I really don't think the Republican Party
stands for that high and mighty approach anymore, at least
I haven't heard it very much.

Speaker 2 (02:10:21):
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five krs leave talk station, Hey twenty.

Speaker 1 (02:12:27):
One if one KRCD talk station. Before to the next segment,
as I always do, I heard mediaviation expert Jay Ratlif
the meantime, got a couple of callers online. Let's start
with cribbage Mike in the order which they receive. Andrew Pappis,
hang on your next cribbage Mike. Welcome back my submarine
or friend.

Speaker 15 (02:12:42):
Good morning sir. Over the course of my twenty nine
year career, I had the opportunity a couple times to
be stationed in DC and one and no part of it. However,
a good ship made of mind that I served with
and still in in contact with today. His last tour
duty was at the Pentagon on the submarine side of things,
and his wife, being from that area of Fredericksburg, Virginia,

(02:13:04):
they purchased a home there now is the crow Flies.
From what I remember, it's about forty five minutes. However,
the morning and evening commute with no accidents or anything,
and somebody like Chuck Ingram pointing the way, it's about
an hour and a half. And I don't know if
you're familiar with the term slugs when it comes to commuting,
and it has nothing to do with the politicians there.

Speaker 1 (02:13:23):
No, I haven't, so slugs.

Speaker 15 (02:13:26):
And I just couldn't believe this, So they have. I
think in most places there it's like six seven lanes
going each way up by ninety five into the Capitol,
and about four or five are HOV lanes. And I
think you have to have a minimum of four people
to be in your car to legally be in that
HOV lane. So these slugs for people that do it
on a regular basis, or let's say you have three

(02:13:47):
people that you normally commute with, you got your four.
Somebody calls him sick literally on the way. You could
get off in any age that he says, and there'll
be people standing there and that's that's how they get
to work every day. So when when situation, they get
a free right to work. And then you now had
the legal amount of people in your car, you pick
up US one, two or even three slugs. Let's say
you don't normally drive in but now in order to

(02:14:09):
be in that HOV lane. But you know, to put
up with all that nonsense or to get up like
at the hours that we go to work, hour and
a half each way with no accidents. Yeah, you're spending
there on nine ninety five.

Speaker 1 (02:14:20):
Yeah, well you hit the nail on the head on.
One of the reasons why my wife and I moved
from Chicago back here is because, well, we were considering
moving out to one of the farther suburbs out because
we didn't like the school system and the political environment
in the neighborhood where we lived. And I was looking
at an hour plus train ride I didn't have to
get on the Expressway. It would have been probably double
that on the express So I know a lot of

(02:14:41):
people in Chicago they have commu times like that. That's crazy, man, Mike,
Always a pleasure, my friend. Thanks for your service to
our country. Drew Pappus, Welcome back to the morning show,
my friend.

Speaker 17 (02:14:51):
Morning Brian. I forgive me, I'm kind of dragging a
little bit this morning. I had to stay up late
and give some analysis of these Biden speech last night.
I know you and Jill were probably snoozing during the
performance by our formal president. I gotta tell you, what

(02:15:11):
a what a what a pathetic I mean, what with
so many contradictions as far as what he said versus
what he did in office. And I mean I actually
almost felt bad, almost, I was a caveat that almost
felt bad because what a fitting, get pathetic end to

(02:15:34):
a completely anemic, inept, corrupt, and absolutely pathetic administration. And
I just I don't get. I just I don't did
you feel like when you watch a replay? I mean,
I don't think he fully grasped the fact that A
he wasn't the candidate anymore, and B even though he

(02:15:57):
wasn't the candidate, his ideas and his administration through Kamala
was completely rejected by the voters and they lost. And
he was still spreading the same bs during the speech,
seventeen million new jobs. You know, need we dissect that further.
I mean, that's been dissected to death. Yeah, it was
just and I'm tired this morning, but I wanted to

(02:16:19):
watch it because I think only ten other presidents have
done a farewell address, if I'm not mistaken. And yet
he bought the need to come on there, and I
just think that he doesn't.

Speaker 5 (02:16:30):
I mean it was.

Speaker 17 (02:16:32):
I created a new word last night, and it's where
illusion and dementia intersect. It's called delusional.

Speaker 1 (02:16:38):
I saw your nets.

Speaker 17 (02:16:41):
Yeah, I mean my part. Listen, my Facebook post is
nothing more than an extension of my consciousness.

Speaker 1 (02:16:46):
Oh, I know.

Speaker 17 (02:16:48):
And and I was I was probably too much yesterday.
I was overloading people's speeds. But I got to tell you,
I was just so overcome. I can't shout at the
TV anymore. So I have to figure out new way
to release that aggression.

Speaker 1 (02:17:02):
Well, I certainly appreciate it. I thought it was comical,
hilarious and quite a Stute's like it's like your comments
this morning, and Joe Strecker putting a plug in for himself.
He said, you can always do a podcast. Joe Strecker
produces podcast.

Speaker 17 (02:17:14):
So getting Joe Joe Strecker is a wonderful producer of podcasts,
and and if the in one of these days, you know,
I will when I when I when I ceese uh
my current activities, I will definitely consider producing a podcast.

Speaker 1 (02:17:28):
Cool. Maybe you not get together and do that. That
would be fun.

Speaker 5 (02:17:33):
Anyway.

Speaker 17 (02:17:34):
I hope everyone has a chance to at least rather
than listen to what me or anyone else says about
it or even you not no disrespect, but it was
nineteen minutes. Yes, you won't get that part of your
life back, but you need to. You need to listen
to this man's speech. And still you know, just understand,

(02:17:54):
he's been president for four years, he served in government
for over fifty years. Yeah, and he having to come
before the American people at the eleventh hour and make
the case that he was a good and honorable not
only president of public service.

Speaker 5 (02:18:08):
That's pathetic.

Speaker 17 (02:18:09):
Your actions to speak louder than your words, and sadly
that's not the case with this person.

Speaker 1 (02:18:14):
Well, and he seems me the old adage sort of
modified for sec compliance reasons. You can't polish excrement, you
know what I mean A lot the record.

Speaker 17 (02:18:23):
Speaks for itself, nor can you pick it up by
a clean end.

Speaker 1 (02:18:27):
I'll see you, take care, You're always great. Hearing from you.
Eight twenty seven. I heard me. The aviation next for
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Grand Just a couple of extra minutes needed there, Chuck
Ingraman fifty five KRC the talk station.

Speaker 1 (02:19:37):
It's a thirty one fifty five car CD talks dation.
Happy Thursday slash Friday Eve and a great time to
be tuned in because good we get to talk to
I heard media aviation expert Jay Ratliff every Thursday here
in the fifty five carse Morning Shore. Welcome back, my friend.
It's always a pleasure to having you on the program.

Speaker 13 (02:19:54):
Wait, pleasant, good morning to you.

Speaker 1 (02:19:56):
And you know I always add different stories to the
ones that you add, so I wanted to.

Speaker 13 (02:20:00):
So what's the morning? Is that a curveball or two?

Speaker 1 (02:20:03):
This one is just I just one of your comments
on it because it's weird. I don't know if you
saw the article about the United Airlines seven thirty seven
Max that hit a coyote takeoff. What the hell?

Speaker 16 (02:20:15):
Well, you know it happens. Look, we've had, you know,
deer struck, moose, alligators, We've seen all kinds of things
with you know, because you can't control the wildlife you'd
like to, but sometimes you can. And if you are
a pilot and you and I are, you know, tooling
down the runway and we're about to take off and

(02:20:36):
we hit something, Well, then the first thing that we
need to do if we can, is stop the aircraft
and get it back so that the mechanics can look
at it, because you know, if you hit anything, it
could cause problems structurally damaging the aircraft. But you're also
worried about were there were anythings there that might have
impacted the hydraulics that would have interfered with their ability

(02:20:57):
to control the airplane. So it happens, and we have
about three hundred thousand reports of wildlife strakes a year
or I'm sorry, that would be between I think the
last several decades, nineteen ninety in present. So it happens
all the time. Most of the birds that you can't
control where they're at most, Yeah, but sometimes you have

(02:21:18):
wildlife that makes its way onto you know, we frequently
had alligators coming out and stunning themselves on runways.

Speaker 13 (02:21:25):
You know, you can't land with.

Speaker 1 (02:21:26):
That's that's funny. You got to hire someone to shoe
the alligators away.

Speaker 16 (02:21:31):
Well, there's airports in several places up north that have
dogs that go out that are designed to chase birds
away when you've got birds on the ground, and you know,
there's things that you can do to remove the plants
they feed on and other types of things to try
to help them kind of go elsewhere. But I remember
when I was in Alabama, the Tupelo Airport would be

(02:21:53):
closed for like thirty minutes every day for bird migration
where the birds would come across the airfield and they
just knew to shut the airport down. And it was
and I'm like, wait a minute, it's like these person
got to watch or something and every day and it
pretty much was. And so it's stuff that impacts commercial
aviation on pretty much an ongoing basis.

Speaker 1 (02:22:13):
How about that, well talk well, but a win on
a win for common sense. Now, this could be you
could substitute American Airlines for any other company, But I
don't know if you saw American Airlines alleged that their
retirement funds were mismanaged by the ESG Investments because ESG
Investments was following the Environmental Social Governance ESG rather ESG

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measures of investing. In other words, you got to go
with companies that pursue this environmental Social governments governance, and
that ultimately resulted in harm to the pension fund because
those things weren't giving a good return on investments, so
they violated their fiduciary obligation. Big win for the employees
there and for common sense.

Speaker 13 (02:22:58):
Well, you know you.

Speaker 16 (02:22:59):
Want to invest Many people say, you know, you can
invest in green companies. You can invest it, and it
looks good on a corporate balance sheet, where you can
show your investors in the world that you care by
only investing in specific things solar energy, electric energy, or
whatever might happen to be things that are designed to
help the planet. The problem is if those sectors aren't

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exactly shall we say, on fire, well, then all of
a sudden you're going to be noticing that you're going
to be losing money instead of making money. So I
finally get to the point where it's like, yes, we
want to help save the planet any way we can,
but our primary obligation is to make money. So it's
a lot like these companies that establish these woke policies
thinking this is going to help define us, show the

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world who we are, and kind of help push us
in this direction. When you turn and then find out
that the majority of your consumers are not for that.
They want equal opportunity. They want the best person in
whatever job it might happen to be, regardless of what's
going on, and they go elsewhere. And how many companies
have we seen back off of those those policies because

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they just blew up in their face. If it's a Budweiser,
if it's a Disney, whoever it might happen to be,
it doesn't matter the ideas they play, follow the leader
in that kind of direction, and then they find out,
you know, the rest of the country is not really
following us here. Yeah, well we never were. But somebody
convinced these the people at leadership, that this was going
to be a good idea because this is really going

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to establish things. It's a lot like in the European
Union a number of years ago they polled individuals, would
you pay an extra amount of money every time you
fly to help offset the carbon imprint that the airline
industry has on commercial aviation which around the world, which
is again single digits, It's minuscule compared to other industries.
But yo, yeah, seventy eight eighty percent. Absolutely. I will

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and Brian when they were given that opportunity to do so,
less than three percent actually did pay more.

Speaker 13 (02:24:57):
So you know, when it.

Speaker 16 (02:24:58):
Comes down to it, it's it's not going to happen them.
And that's one of the reasons that a lot of times,
when you do what some people say is going to
make you look good, and when it goes flies in
the face of common sense, it turns.

Speaker 1 (02:25:09):
Out not to be a good idea seems so evident
upfront to me, but that's what lawsuits are for. Jay
ratlif hold on, We're going to find about a drunk
pilot as well as the Department of Transportation suing Jet Blue.
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Speaker 1 (02:26:25):
We've ever been in the cockpit before day out in
the pass p's iHeart Media Aviation expert. Get the privilege
of talking to him every Thursday here on this time.
Getting at the bottom of the hour podcast. This conversation
will be at fifty five KRC dot com. We will
find also the podcast conversation in my conversation earlier this
morning with Donovan O'Neil about Trump's tax cuts and Senator

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Rand Paul. So we got another drunk pilot Jay Huh.

Speaker 16 (02:26:51):
Yeah, Savannah, get right down the road from where I'm
at right now.

Speaker 5 (02:26:54):
Well, I find it so.

Speaker 1 (02:26:55):
Hard to believe just the concept of showing up to
work drunk. Oh, you do the details here in a minute.
But you're a pilot. You know it's against the rules.
And I would suggest that if you show up to
work drunk, that's probably an indication the guy's an alcoholic
or girls the case may be. Because if you can't
resist drinking when you are responsible for any number of
lives doing your job, and you know it's wrong and

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you know you're going to lose your situation, I don't
understand how it could even happen that people would go
to work drunk, But go ahead, Well.

Speaker 13 (02:27:24):
It happens.

Speaker 16 (02:27:25):
It happens far too often than we like. And of
course it's obviously an embarrassment for the airline involved, it's
an embarrassment for the pilot, you know, unions around the world.
But we also remember that alcohol is an addiction that
many times controls people. People don't control it, and you
have situations where occasionally you don't have pilots that show

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up to work intoxicated under the influence.

Speaker 13 (02:27:50):
And that's what happened here in Savannah.

Speaker 16 (02:27:52):
He was on the flight deck he was in the
cockpit when he was arrested and taken away, and the
flight was delayed considerably. Obviously Southwest had to come up
with another crew member. But you're right, the rules are
very very clear. They have bottled to throttle the number
of hours that's required, and you just you can't take

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that chance. If you're a pilot and you hear someone
that you know went to a great amount of effort
to become a pilot, it's normally a great expense or
time to achieve that, and then to have it thrown
away by a decision like that is you know, it's unfortunate.
I thank god it was caught before you know, the
airplane took off. I don't know if it was reported

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by the TSA, which happens a lot. The TSA officers,
even though we call them officers, they have no law enforcement,
you know, powers at all. So what happens is when
they observe someone that appears to be under the influence
it's a crew member, they will quietly notify airport police
who'll investigate to see if anything's going on. It maybe
somebody's having a reaction to some medication that just got

(02:28:58):
changed or something like that that it causes them to
appear to be maybe a bit ineberator intoxicated to a
certain point. That's why you never say you look drunk. Know,
you appear to be under the influence of something.

Speaker 13 (02:29:09):
We don't know what it is.

Speaker 16 (02:29:11):
They may wreak of alcohol, but somebody may have spilled
a drink on them. So you really never want to
conclude definitively one thing or another. But what we know
here is that you know, he was arrested, the span
of airport taken away, and uh again, that just it's
a really unfortunate situation for them. I don't know if
it was a crew member that reported him.

Speaker 1 (02:29:29):
Yeah, I was going to ask, because I mean, he
made it into the cock not the case right, right,
He made it into the cockpit though, so I mean
he got far enough.

Speaker 16 (02:29:37):
If you and I are flying and I'm the captain
or even find the first officer, and I noticed that
you're a bit.

Speaker 13 (02:29:44):
Under the weather.

Speaker 16 (02:29:44):
And again, I don't know what's going on personally in
individuals lives, but typically what happens is, look, I got this,
I'll take care of it. The bulk of this flight's work.
You just kind of you know, chipping in help, and
you know it happens kind of all the time. The
problem is, if there's an emergency situation and you need
all hands on deck, you need every crew member at

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the top of their game. You're endangering the lives of
everybody on that flight a by reporting for work in
that condition. So that's the reason that we take it
as seriously as we do. You simply can't allow yourself
to be in that kind of impaired state when you
are driving a car by yourself down a road, or yes,
if you're at the controls of an aircraft that has
one hundred and fifty souls on board.

Speaker 1 (02:30:25):
Well, based on your comments, is it a phenomenon within
the airline industry generally that pilots sort of look out
for each other nudge nudge, wink wink, much like police
officers reluctant to, you know, rat out a fellow officer.
Is it one of those types of things that it is?

Speaker 16 (02:30:39):
Okay, it does, And there's been times I've closed the
door of aircraft thinking I need an extra prayer here
because things just didn't seem to be right. But you
didn't dare say anything. You didn't do in this now
this Jay would, but a younger j would not. Because
I was in the industry and right kind of getting
my feet what type of thing. I did what I

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was told, and what I was told was shut up,
Everything's going to be okay, and you know, typically it was.

Speaker 13 (02:31:05):
And that's the problem.

Speaker 16 (02:31:07):
If you allow that to happen once and nothing happens,
you know, okay, we will just keep doing this until
eventually you have a horrific accident, and then of course
it shines the light on that kind of a practice.
And you know, the bottom line is just you just
hate to see it. But we've got so many pilots
in the industry, so many flights today. This is such
a minor occurrence. But it's like, you know, doctors, it's pilots,

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it's nurses, it's your CPA, it's other people that have
these types of issues.

Speaker 13 (02:31:35):
You just hope they.

Speaker 16 (02:31:36):
Don't drive buses or fly planes or anything like that
where the impact of that kind of decision can infect
so many lives and places in danger.

Speaker 1 (02:31:44):
No doubt about it. I just see the Department's transportation
is hard at work. They already sued Jet Blue. I
guess now they got Frontier in Southwest and their crosshairs.
Why chronically delayed flights.

Speaker 16 (02:31:54):
Yes, and you know Monday is a big day for
a lot of people because that's the day we see.

Speaker 13 (02:32:00):
The baton passed.

Speaker 16 (02:32:01):
The torch goes from one to another with regards to
one administration to another. But I'm going to miss the
pressure that the Biden administration is placed on airlines. And
I've said that before because when you look at the dot,
they're saying, if you have a chronically late flight, we're
going to hold you accountable.

Speaker 13 (02:32:18):
In other words, if you've got.

Speaker 16 (02:32:20):
A flight that's delayed at least ten times a month
where it arrives thirty minutes or late each time, you
know it's a problem and you as the business need
to fix the problem because you can't blame it on
the weather. You can't blame it on the ATC if.

Speaker 13 (02:32:36):
It's happening ten times a month.

Speaker 16 (02:32:39):
So yeah, Jet Blue find two million dollars, a Frontier
find six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Southwest now is
also looking at fines because of these chronically delayed flights.
It's like you're scheduling something that you know can't possibly
be pulled off, but you're doing it anyways, and you're

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putting the you know, the convenience of passengers and their
schedules at risk, and you just you're not going to
be allowed to do that. And I can tell you, Brian,
no other industry or no other administration has applied this
kind of pressure. And it reminded me of the passing
of Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was looked at as an

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absolute failure as president, but he was also the man
of fact. If you go back and look at his
January nineteen seventy eight State of the Union, you would
think it's a Republican president talking when you hear him
say there's too much government in business.

Speaker 13 (02:33:35):
There's too And he said.

Speaker 16 (02:33:37):
I'm going to deregulate the airlines, the trucking industry, and
the rail to make things more competitive.

Speaker 13 (02:33:43):
And he did, and he's the.

Speaker 16 (02:33:45):
Reason that we are enjoying the cheapest fairs ever pretty
much in the commercial aviation for airfares than what we
did before, because he was the one that brought about
the Deregulation Act of nineteen seventy eight, Brian. He also
deregulated breweries. He said, the band on home breweries and
they had like five thousand at the time.

Speaker 13 (02:34:06):
He said, no, it's.

Speaker 16 (02:34:08):
Now not going to be a law where you be
prevented from doing that. And they've got what fifteen thousand
breweries now. So you know, Jimmy Carter did a lot
to get government out of business and I'm thrilled to
see it. And the Biden administration has really held the
airline industry accountable to a degree that's never been seen before.

Speaker 13 (02:34:26):
Now.

Speaker 16 (02:34:27):
Trump in his first administration didn't apply this kind of pressure,
and my fear is going to be as of Monday,
the airlines are going to go glad that's over and
it's back to the crappy business before. So look, I'm
glad Joe Biden is on his way out. I did
not want that administration at all, but I do wish

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other administrations would take this kind of lead and hold
airlines accountable, because for the first time in a long time,
they've been doing it and making the airlines pay when
they do these kinds of things such as chronically delayed flights.

Speaker 1 (02:35:00):
The burning question in my mind is always, okay, let's
say Department Addressed Transportation wins and get some sort of
monetary damages. Lovied, who gets the money. It's the government
that puts it back in its pocket.

Speaker 13 (02:35:11):
I guess.

Speaker 16 (02:35:12):
Well, in the two million dollars Jet Blue case, a
million went to the dot, a million or government went
and a million went to passengers and refunds.

Speaker 13 (02:35:20):
So you know that kind of thing I like to see.

Speaker 1 (02:35:22):
But actually some of these, some of these.

Speaker 16 (02:35:25):
Brian, it's like, we're going to find you a million dollars,
but you don't even have to pay four hundred thousand
dollars as long as you promise never to do it again.

Speaker 13 (02:35:32):
Okay, I promise never to do it.

Speaker 16 (02:35:33):
I mean, just come on, please, Do I get to
negotiate with the irs if I've got a tax bill?

Speaker 13 (02:35:37):
No, these guys do we get to negotiate with the
police officer? He pulls this over.

Speaker 16 (02:35:41):
Yeah, I know this is the ticket, but I'd prefer
to pay that that doesn't happen. But the airlines are
allowed to get away with it. With sends the message, Well,
you know, I guess you're okay to do it again.

Speaker 1 (02:35:52):
I can tell by the tony your voice day. Finally,
we always close out with hub delays. How's it looking
out there for air travel?

Speaker 16 (02:35:58):
You know, we had some minor de icing delays this
morning as we kind of knocked the frost off of aircraft.
We had issues early in Detroit that are improving for
the most part. Right now we're in pretty good shape.
We're gonna have some issues obviously rolling towards the northeast
later today, maybe into tomorrow, but right now, if you
picked today kind of in honor of our conversation, you
picked a great day to fly, and at least from

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a weather standpoint, think should be in pretty good shape.

Speaker 1 (02:36:23):
Fantastic. Thanks so much for the information, Jay Ratleff. I
always enjoy hearing from you and our conversation. We'll look
forward to next Thursday and another iHeart Media Aviation expert report.
In the meantime, hope you and your better half are
well and have a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 16 (02:36:37):
You too, my friend, to watch out for those coyotes
on the runway.

Speaker 1 (02:36:40):
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