55KRC Thursday Show - AFP, Convention of States, Jay Ratliff

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Friday eve.

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Some sense.

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Alright apart from the sanitation to mention education, wine, public order, irrigation, rose,
the fresh water system of public Hell, what are the romans.

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That are done for it?

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Brought peace? You gotta roll right out of the gate
jobs director, Thank you very much. I certainly could use
the lab this morning. Overslept this morning, so as I
often refer to myself on days when I don't feel
one hundred percent firing on about four of eight cylinders
this morning, so I welcome the opportunity for you to

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Republican and we all know what a Sissipian challenge that
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Met the owner there, he was so pleased we were there.
He loves when we show up and thanked everybody for
making it over there. So good fun, good good food,
great time, wonderful fellowship, great conversations, and uh yeah, I
lost again to cribbage Mike five points. I lost my

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It's okay, I expect to do it. Listen. I didn't
spend you know, three months underwater in a submarine with
nothing to do with this. I don't accuse him of
not doing anything. Of course, people on submarines have jobs
to do. But I get this sneaking suspicion. They got
a lot of idle time on their hands. Can you imagine,

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so they spent a lot of time playing cribbage, owning
their skills. Anyhow, I don't really quite know where to start.
I can start with DEI I can start with why
not just start with the city of Cincinnati rather than gravitate,
gravitate toward national issues. Sharon Colich from the Inquiry reporting

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on this. Remember the railway money. Remember we fought over
the sale of the railway, and I was against the idea.
Christopher Smithman, vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, at
one point, was against the idea. We had a lot
of folks on the morning show talking about it, Folks
in the know, folks with experience on railway matters. Folks

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that understood the reality of the value of owning that railway,
and yet folks voted to sell it. Obviously, you're entitled
to your opinion, you're entitled to make your cast, your vote.
But the promise was predicated right on the money generated

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from the investment of the railway proceed and it went
into an investment account, and they promised to by rate
a return, and it was going to generate, of course,
like everybody's four to oh one k interest and money.
And they'd leave the principle alone, except under certain circumstances like,
for example, if the market were to crash or drop

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or it wouldn't generate money, they would be allowed to
dip into principle from time to time. All kinds of
bells and whistles attached. But the primary predicate and limitation
was that the money generated from the sale of railroad
was going to do what fund existing infrastructure? And we
had lots of conversations about, well, what is existing infrastructure?

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And you remember there's a general fund. So you got
the railroad money over here, and you got a general
fund over on the other side, and the general fund
funds well, maybe new projects question, If you build a
new project from general fund money, does that then become
existing infrastructure which allows you to use railroad proceed investment

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money to well service it, maintain it, improve it, build
on it. The streetcar is an existing infrastructure. Would adding
an extra leg of the streetcar then becomes something that's
part of a previously existing infrastructure program that we will
be allowed to use railroad investment generated funds to service, maintain, upgrade,

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or maybe even expand on. All these questions are floating
around and they remain floating around. But behind the scenes
of all this is the reality that money is fungible.
And I brought this up a bunch of times. If
you've got railroad money coming in, which allows you to
deal with and let's just say that they're gonna take

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they're actually gonna treat quote existing infrastructure as something you
and I would readily understand to be something that was
already built. Well, you don't have to use general fund
money to maintain and keep up with existing infrastructure to

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get two revenue sources. But in the final analysis, because
money is fundable, it's all one big pile of money.
Just because you trace the proceeds from the general fund
to some new project. You've alleviated the burden of the
general fund to maintain let's say roads. It's a bait

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and switch. It was a joke from the get go
oh lo and behold Sharon Cooledge from the Cincinnat Choir,
reporting on this headline council proposal dedicate railway money to
fifteen underserved neighborhoods. If you are in an underserved neighborhood,
why don't you ask Sincinni City Council why your neighborhood

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is underserved? How come you've been neglected for so long?
How come? Oh, I don't know. Let's say over the
Rhine got the benefit of millions and millions of General
Fund dollars to rehabilitate it and turn it into this
wonderful walking community where urban hipsters can live, thrive and survive,
and that you can no longer afford to live in.

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Thrown it out, just asking you and the underserved neighborhoods,
ask yourself why five million dollars a year is being
thrown at a streetcar that no one uses. Wouldn't that
money be better served fixing your underserved community? So as

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Sharon Coolidge. Thank you, Sharon for bringing this to our attention.
Some council members pushing to dedicate some of those since
a Southern Railway sale product proceeds to benefit these so
called underserved neighborhoods, despite that never being a part of
the deal sold to voters. Oh remember when you voted

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for an assale for money to go to the now
paid Course Stadium formerly Paul Brown Stadium, and you were
promised that, oh, at some point you would get their
money back. They would. I'm sorry, we need to keep
that rate at the rate it is, because well, of
course we've got to pay. We've got to pay for
upgrades and stadium improvements and that ridiculous contract we negotiated. Yeah,

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we lied to you. Basically, this proposal seeks each year
to allocate ten percent of the annual return on the
sale proceeds to improve existing infrastructure and spend twenty five
million dollars from the fund over time on new infrastructure.
In fifteen, neighborhoods dubbed the quote rising fifteen close quote. Now,

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it's pointed out by Sharing that that latter part new
infrastructure would be prohibited by state law which governed the
railway before the sale and says the money can only
be spent on current infrastructure. Here's the bait and switch.
Vice Mayor Jan Michelle lemon Kearney, who's the one, I

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guess that brought this idea up. So the city can
comply with the law by doing a money swap projects
using the twenty five million dollars would be done from
the capital budget, with the railroad money paying for a
current project outside of the fifteen neighborhoods that would have

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been paid for out of the capitol budget. There it is,
there's your fungibility of money, exactly as I anticipated. Look,
we've got a new revenue source, so we can take
that new revenue source which is limited to existing infrastructure
which the city was supposed to be maintaining from the
get go. And again I'll go back to Sunset Avenue.
How come it hasn't been repaved? And I know there's

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a million roads out there in the city that have
been neglected, potholes, terrible, looking, awful, and you keep waiting
around for them to take care of them. Because it's
something that exists. And once you build it city, you
got to maintain it. It doesn't maintain itself part of
your job as an elected official is to take care

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of the stuff that you built at the first place,
or that was built by prior administrations. Existing infrastructure, stuff
falls apart, roads deteriorate, the world's an imperfect place. Screws fallout.
But no, no, no, we got to have new stuff
and things. We got to build new stuff and things.
And now apparently there are some underserved neighborhoods. Oh my god,

(10:59):
really underserved neighborhoods who have been like many roads in
the City of Cincinnati neglected. So she's actually saying the
quiet part out loud. Money's fungible thanks to the railroad sale.
We can now argue that it's only going to existing

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infrastructure previously covered by the general funds. But no, there's
that new revenue source over there, so we can free
up general fund money to do new stuff and things.
Vice mayor quote. We have to make good on this

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promise to neighborhoods. Apparently, the first vote asking the city
manager to look at how money is being spent now
could come to council as soon as I guess next Wednesday.
Kearney said the goal was to pass a law in

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the coming weeks. I guess creating this new project that way,
she said, future councils would have to continue the investments.
And does that mean the new investments that they are
created by this concept then become existing infrastructure that future

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councils can funnel the railroad money over to keep and maintain.
And even that is a laughable concept, isn't it, given
that they don't keep and maintain a lot of the
stuff that they've already built and have let fall apart.

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And in case you're wondering whether you're in an underserved neighborhood,
According to the reporting by Sharon Collidge of the en
Car right now village of roll Hill, Millville, Millville rather
English Woods, Lower Price, Il, Queen's Gate, Went Hills, South Fairmont,
West End, East Westwood, Avondale, Roselawn, Mount Airy, East brice Hill,
South Cumminsville, and North Fairmont home to twenty percent of

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the city's population and yet described as underserved. How long
have they been underserved? And how many years in a
row have you elected Democrats to run the city of Cincinnati.

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Do you have an expectation when you continue to do
the same thing over and over and over and over
again that your underserved neighborhood is actually going to get
attention by the elected officials and running the city of Cincinnati. Yeah,
good luck with that. Kearnyan. Council members Scottie Johnson and

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Victoria Parks was this motion to move this concept forward,
argue and again relying on Sharon Coolidge reporting, argue, these
changes would ensure there's that word equity in the disbursement
of proceeds. Well, you know what, let's just dispense with
equity and let's just take a look at what neighborhoods

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are served and which ones are underserved. I would argue
over the rhine in the Central Business District perhaps well
if not overly served. And I imagine if you're in
one of the underserved neighborhoods, in your roads deteriorating, and
you have no services, crime may be high, on and
on and on whatever constitutes underserved. You might look at

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that Central Business District and all the money that's flowed
into it, including pay course stadium, and feel like, hmm,
that's just not fair. Five point twenty fifty five cares
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Joe Strekker observes that have Purvoll's panties may be bunching up.
Why well. A few hours after she was sworn in,
new Attorney General, Pambondi directed the Justice Department of pause

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all federal funding for sanctuary cities.

Speaker 6 (15:52):
AFTAB.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
She charged the Department of Justice with identifying any valueing
funding agreements with non governmental organizations that provide support to
undocumented immigrants, investigating instances of sanctuary jurisdictions who might be
obstructing law enforcement, and directing the day be prosecuted when necessary.

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And Trumps have a profound effect on these sanctuary cities.
I mean you heard have to have Purval and you
heard CHARMEI McGuffey utter statements which are inconsistent with the
Trump administration's effort to get ice in and get rid
of criminal illegal aliens, saying they wouldn't cooperate, only to backpedal,
recognizing the Trump administration and now the new Attorney General

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Pam Bondi, threatening to well, perhaps prosecute them for obstructing justice.
It's a crime. Apparently, several offices within the Justice Department
provided are you ready you again worked for this your money,
your labor, resulting at one point five to six billion

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dollars and grants the sanctuary cities and county. You're twenty
twenty three alone, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. Apparently,
last month US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a nonprofit,
warned how slash funds could endanger sanctuary jurisdictions. Well, no,

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it would endanger the non governmental organization's mere existence because
if you cut off federal funding, they're not going to
make any money. They don't produce anything. They are suckers
up of cash. Joke about legal departments and companies. They
provide a valuable service for companies, but rarely do they
generate revenue. Non governmental organizations exist because your taxpayer dollars

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fund them, and in many cases they your your dollars
fund activities that run contrary to your in Can you
imagine of one point five six billion dollars rather than
going to non government organizations helping illegal immigrants stay here
went to Oh, I don't know how about underserved communities
in the city of Cincinnati. Just the thought five twenty six,

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up the time with the three stories I got. Please
in Bellevue asking to help identify a car that hit
a woman that happened at four am yesterday morning. Car
believed to be a silver vehicle with a hatchback. That
narrows it down, doesn't it, Joe. If you're out of

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the roads right now, look for silver vehicles with a
hatch back. I'm sorry the woman got had I just
you know, surveillance footage of the incident apparently is out there.
It shows the car striking a woman on a scooter
in the one in the block of Fairfield to have it,
and then driving away once the woman sits up and
begins screaming please. Chief. Jonathan McClain, talking with Fox nineteen

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reporting on this thanks, Brady Williams called the footage upsetting, said,
I don't know how anyone cannot stop and render aid
in that situation, Isn't that true? Woman who was hit
does not have life threatening injuries, thankfully so they Officer
mclaim could not say what her injuries were beyond just

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a likely concussion, said. Police are continuing the investigation. They've
been locating more surveillance footage ring doorbell cameras, for example.
I'm sure someone in the area has got more of that.
Anyone with information that was urged to contact the Cincinna
Police Department, actually the Bellevue Police Department eight nine two
six one eleven twenty two. I should have known that
because I said Bellevue a moment ago, still firing on

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four of eight A five nine two six one eleven
twenty two. Now I just have to wonder if they
have surveillance footage, couldn't they come up with a better
description of the automobile beyond a silver car with a hatchback?
Just asking three hundred and thirty million dollars mixed use

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development slated a break ground in the West End in
early summer WCPO was mcconnor Steffan reporting, can we just
talk about lack of funds and the allocation of money
to underserved neighborhoods. As the underserved neighborhoods look on, we

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have a new three hundred and thirty million dollar mixed
use development going on over on that side of town,
Noah O'Brien said. People are off the charts excited. I
don't know if you can see it in my face.
This is the kind of opportunity that just doesn't exist
in the West End. Noah O'Brien enthusiasm shared by Jeff Birding,
president and CEO of FC Cincinnati, the project's master developer.

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Everyone is welcome, regardless of income levels, he pointed out,
assuming you can afford the cost of a beer at
TQL Stadium. Sentiment from the people in the West End
is we want to have nice things in our neighbor hood.
Going back to my comments about the underserved neighborhoods that

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vice Mayor is interested in serving with the railroad dollars
as they look on with envy. The Entertainment District development
recently received a twenty six million dollar tax credit from
the State of Ohio. Plan to include a concert venue,
high rise hotel, restaurants and bars, apartments, retail and office space,

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and more. And I'm sure those people on life's margins
will be able to afford the cost of any of
those venues. How Joe Streker cracking me up, he said,

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there will be plenty more cars to break into. Wow. Anyway, Brian,
there's so many people who are excited at the opportunity
on their kid's birthday to be able to go sit down,
served a meal and just to experience something beautiful. It's
a really a game changer. They say. Cruise will resurrect
two thirteen story towers that will sit over fifty feet

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taller than TQL Stadium according to renderings. Birding said one
will be an apartment building, so we look forward to
having more people living in the West End. The other
building will be a hotel with some condominiums on top
project expecting to create approximately two thousand, one hundred and
two construction jobs and sixteen hundred and ninety nine permanent

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jobs at the project side. And before I part company,
I know, Joe, that's exactly what it's gonna say. The
word approximately immediately followed by two thousand, one hundred and
two construction jobs, and it even bothered around. If you're

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twenty one oh three, you're not going to get a job, Joe,
five three six fifty five care see the tax station.
Bobby is on the phone. I'll take this call and
then we'll get to the stack of stupid, although I
feel like I've already walked into it most of the
first part of the morning show stick.

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Around a break back fifty five the talk station.

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In this week's market five care se de talk station.
Happy Friday Eve. Everybody's welcome the call, including regular callers
like Bobby. Bobby, welcome in the morning show. I was
good to hear from you.

Speaker 9 (25:41):
Happy Thursday, my brother.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Right back at you.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
Hey, I got some good news today for you. Do
tell our new Attorney general is going to take away
the funding of these sanctuary cities. I wonder if the
mayor Cincinnati's gonna flip flop like a bunch of these
toe suckers.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
I just read the article mentioning that, yeah, what did
we do without federal funding before the immigration crisis hit us?
What did what did cities do? And how did cities
survive before COVID hit? And we went five plus trillion
dollars in additional debt to throw money at a problem

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that the mayors of these various cities ended up diverting
and throwing at their general revenue problems.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
Their upside down on everything, everything, everything. The next thing
I have for you, Remember those AOC for President T
shirts I had at your dog and doing, Yeah, I
got some Maxine Waters Now after her display, I'll tell

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you well, we got the Maxi Water t shirts coming out.

Speaker 10 (26:54):
You know.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
The funniest thing about that is, as you say it,
it sounds so comical, But that may be the best
backbencher that they got.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
Hey, I'll tell you what you.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Can't buy you you can't No, Sometimes, you know, the
truth is far more comical than fiction. And there's an
illustration right there. Maxine Waters gets the Democratic nomination to
run for president of the United States of America. Oh,
that would be comical. Thank you Bobby for the levity

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this morning. Let's see here over the stackers do We've
got a nineteen year old wings stop. That's the name
of the restaurant manager now facing felony charges after she
doused two customers with hot grease and ranch dressing during
your confrontation. According to police, best here to say, the

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victim tangled with Carnaale Irene first last name, Carnale, iron
wingstop worker inside Port Saint Luci, Florida Chicken Wing restaurant.
Uh Carneale, maybe it's car Mail. I got a little

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printing error on this. Does it really matter though? Anyway?
This one told police that the customer, one of whom
is a minor, were, in her words, loud and disruptive.
They cause the disturbance. During this view, which is not
further detailed in the rest report, one of the patrons
pushed a container of straws off the counter. According to police,

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the conflict escalated when Irene responded by throwing ranch dressing
at the victims. She then went into the kitchen returned
with a bucket of hot grease, which she threw at
the victims. Amen, brother, and yes there is store security footage.
It was reviewed by the police and showed an individual

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trying to hold back a carnal, but she he pushes
forward and throws the liquid in the bucket. Cops say
Irene admitted a spraying and ranch dressing on the customer
and justified her actions by stating that the customers were
being verbally abusive and had reached over the counter and
knocked over the straws. She claimed the tossed oil didn't

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strike the patron Joe. The recipients of the hot oil, Dowston,
complained the liquid burned upon impact and resulted in shiny
burnt skin. Crime scene investigator photographed their injuries when cops
arrived there. At the wingstop, the eatery floor was greasy

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and slippery, that's in the report, and it appeared the
workers attempted to clean the oil that was all over
the floor. She was arrested in charge of aggravated battery
aggravated child abuse, both felonies. Freed from the county jail
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Five fifty one fifty five Kersite talk station. As I mentioned,
I want to thank everybody for your showing the listener
lunch yesterday. I had a great time at Little Miami
Brewering and the owner that did really really appreciate us
being there, so we will definitely return. And I also
pointed out I lost to cribbage Mic again, which is
typically the case I occasionally went because he spent so

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much time in his submarine that's how where he honed
his skills. And Mike got back of me saying, as
follow standard submarine hour fifty nine minutes of boredom and
one minute of sheer terror. The fifty nine minutes for
us to hone his cribbage skills over the decades he
spent underwater. And thank you as always to your service

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to your server, for your service to our country. Eggs
extremely expensive these days. Saturday, Pete and Jerry's Organics in Greencastle,
we're robbed. Thieves stole about one hundred thousand eggs from

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the back of it doing distribution because they're expensive. This
is in Pennsylvania. Yeah, well, if they were for walfh House,
that's fifty cents extra per egg. It's a profit. Thief
poachs the eggs from the back of a distribution trailer.
According to those authorities, theft heurt at twenty minutes till
nine pm Saturday. State police do not have additional details

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that the incident was under investigation. Of course, last year,
the average price of a dozen eggs in the United
States jumped fifty percent, and I don't know how much
it's jumped this year, but they're really really, really, really
really expensive. And I'm looking forward to my daughter's chickens
finally starting to lay eggs because we're going to get
free eggs. Rumky issued a warning about what people should

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not leave out on the curb less than a week
after one of their trucks exploded here in Ohio Whitehall, Ohio,
specifically caught on camera. Of course, it was in the
Columbus area. Officials set an illegally discarded oxygen tank caused
the blast inside the truck, which happened when worker was
loading another gin. Explosion led debris being scattered across the roadway.

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No serious injuries, thankfully, were reported. Rumpky said people and
businesses often placed flammable items like oxygen tanks, propane tanks,
and lithium ion batteries. In the aftermath of the explosion,
the company warned people about putting car fluids free on appliances,
pool chemicals, smoke detectors, and pesticides or fertilizers in the
curb side bins. People who need to throw away these

(35:39):
flammable items should contact their local solid waste district to
properly dispose of them.

Speaker 10 (35:48):
Now, who can argue with that?

Speaker 2 (35:49):
No one, literally no one. Caldwell, Idaho man accused of
using a homemade bar code to purchase a three hundred
dollars bill for the price of a canna tomato soup.
And you wonder who scanned the thing and actually allowed

(36:10):
this transaction to go forward without questioning it at the time. Anyway,
Callwell Police Department issue a statement on Instagram regards the
man who stole the grill from the Walmart location in Caldwell, Idaho.
Officers are spotted there after receiving a call but a
theft in progress. While on the way, police were informed
that the suspect, thirty two year old Dylan Rockwell, had

(36:30):
already left the store, intercepted at his home and detained
without incident. Thorite to say. While he was being questioned,
he admitted a stealing from Walmart on Walmart on multiple occasions,
explaining that he had used a ring with a used
a ring with a barcode specifically for tomatoes soup to
purchase larger items. During the incident, Rockwell had used the

(36:54):
barcode to purchase the three hundred dollars grill, which ultimately
was recovered by police following the arrest, charged with Well
a number of different crimes. All Right. Miami, Florida, a
woman was arrested after she beat her daughter with a

(37:17):
metal guitar and a wooden broomstick. Wh why are you
doing that seriously injuring the girl, according to authorities, rest
report says saida or Lania Castellanos, fifty two years old,
picking up her daughter from school on Monday in Little
Havana neighborhood when she became angry and frustrated that her
daughter had her waiting for more than ten minutes. Oh dear,

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what the hell? Mimi? Police says. She became more upset
after discovering her daughter, whose age wasn't disclosed in the report,
was late coming out of school because she was hanging
out with a group of boys. This woman and her
daughter got into an argument inside the car, at which
time mom called her daughter a whore.

Speaker 10 (38:00):
What.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Once they arrived at home, Castellanos ordered her daughter to
immediately begin doing her chores. According to the report, Police
say the daughter instead went to her bedroom to change
out of her uniform first, which angered her mom, who
entered the room and began verbally insulting her daughter. A
physical fight ensued, at which time Castellanas grabbed her daughter

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by the hair dragged her into the hallway while slapping
her repeatedly in the face. The victim tripped on a
piece of furniture landed on the floor, which time the
mom grabbed a metal guitar that was attached to the
wall and began hitting her daughter with it, causing serious injuries.
Just away God bless America. Then she grabbed a wooden
brimstick from the closet and beat her daughter with it,

(38:44):
causing it to break in half. Victim's fifteen year old
sisters saw the beating and provided police with a video
capturing the abuse. Victims suffered multiple lacerations to her face,
scratches to both sides of her face, and a bruised
right eye and lydmark uh and marks on our back,
according to the rest report. With the injury sustained by
the doubt to show clear indications of permanent disfigurement. Mom

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arrested on charge of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm
and aggravated child abuse. Being held at the Turner Gifford
Knight Correctional Center, with the bond yet to be set.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
You know what we need to do, Joe.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
We need to outlaw guitars and broomsticks because they can
lead to violence and injury. We need to outlaw them
no longer. No longer should guitars or broomsticks be sold anywhere.
Five point fifty seven fifty five.

Speaker 12 (39:41):
Nights for old people.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Five garriously the Doug Station. I'll be back after the news.

Speaker 8 (39:47):
Covering Trump's first one hundred days day, every day promises made,
the promises kept. Fifty five krs.

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Here if you about Karriseevie talk station, Try Thomas fishing
everyone a very happy Friday, Eve as I like to
call it on a Thursday. Coming up at seven point thirty.
The Rundown, Donovan and Neil for Americans for Prosperity. What

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is the tjc JA, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
We'll walk through that together with Donovan and Neil for
Americans for Prosperity. Aight, oh five, Mark Meckler, he's a
Convention of States, President, question, do we need one? A
Convention of States? I get mixed reactions from my listening

(40:37):
audience and the concept. You know, some people are thinking
it's a great idea. Others think it'd be a runaway
machine too, and you know, enshrine leftist policies and undermine
the Constitution. But we'll get the opinions of Mark Mechler
at ATO five together. And of course it's Thursday, so
we get Jay Ratliffe. I heard me, the aviation expert,
Jay Ratliffe. We'll hear about the latest update on the
DC helicopter plane craft Airlines sues a couple for on

(41:03):
an onboard fight. Ninety thousand dollars at stake there plus
Elon Musk says President Trump is ready to make the
necessary technical upgrades the air traffic control network quickly. Man.
The left is going out of their minds over Elon Musk.
He's not president, no kidding, He's an advisor. You know,

(41:25):
presidents can surround themselves with any advisors they want. Just
because he's in an elected capacity. And we can argue
all day long about whether that's a good thing or
bad thing. But you know, the best presidents out there
have surrounded themselves with the best and brightest people. I mean,
Reagan is a great illustration of that. You know, Ronald
Reagan did surround himself with some really good people. Now

(41:47):
you can go ahead and pick and choose some of
the ones you disagree with, but the better people around you,
the better job you're going to do. And let's face it,
despite what Alexander Acasio Cortes may think or conclude about
Eli Musk, he's demonstrably a brilliant man. You may not
agree with everything he is, but he is brilliant. Look

(42:07):
at what he was able to accomplish. Look at the
businesses he built. You know how he built them one
because he's brilliant at two, because he hired the best
and bride his meritocracy is what built Elon Musk's multi
billion dollar worth. He employs thousands of people, he helps
fund the federal government because every one of those people

(42:29):
makes a great salary and pays income taxes. Just pulling
their hair out over him five three, seven, four nine
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elections have in terms of consequences after years of no
one wanting to sign up for America's military, probably because
it had gone full on woke and the message got
out about that the true American patriots who love their
country and the freedoms and liberties that it stands for,
are not inclined to join America's military. Defense Secretary Pete

(43:11):
Hegseeth announced yesterday that the Army had its best recruitment
month in fifteen years during the month of January. Cord
to the Post on acts breaking. In December twenty twenty four,
the US Army had its best recruiting number in twelve years.

(43:32):
January twenty twenty five, the Army hit its best recruiting
number in fifteen years. Bottom line, he said, America's youth
want to serve under the bold and strong America First
leadership of Donald Trump. It's amazing, isn't it? Already reaching
the halfway mark toward what the goal is described as
being ambitious of getting sixty one thousand active duty soldiers

(43:55):
this calendar year, while fiscal year anyway, which started an
October last year, in fiscal year twenty twenty four, of
the goal was fifty five thousand. Don't think they met
it because well, apparently no one wants to work or
actually serve in a woke military now. Some have blamed
the recruitment crisis that we've been facing for years on well, obesity,

(44:17):
academic performance, COVID pandemic. Hegzeth said the crisis stems from
the military losing its warrior ethos. I'll let you decide
whether the figures support Hegsath's conclusion. I would say that

(44:39):
they do. Over to Andrew Grossman and Crystal Christian Shapiro,
a lot of news and information about DEI and the
eradication of it. Google now has killed diversity hiring targets.
One headline West Point has gotten rid of gender based

(44:59):
in race based clubs because they're divisive and run contrary
to the military ethos. But Andrew Grossman and Christian Shapiro,
writing column headline DEI and disparate impact, The next step
in restoring meritocracy is to reject the theory that proportionate
outcomes equal fairness, and it's an interesting observation they make.

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Writing on day two of his administration, President Trump ordered
federal agencies to terminate diversity equity inclusion programs in the
government and combat them in the private sector. And of
course Trump can't force the private sector to abandon DEI,
but he can focus on and point out that meritocracy
is what makes businesses great. Referring back to my comments

(45:40):
about Musk, the order follows through on his promise to
forge a color blind, merit based society and to end
the engineering of race and sex in every aspect of
American life. Content a character, not color of skin.

Speaker 9 (45:58):
Right.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
If mister Trump is serious about his goal, he also
needs to repudiate disparate impact theory, which prohibits neutral practices
facially neutral practices that ultimately have a disproportionate impact on
whatever protected group you want to point to, in practice
often harming the very people it's supposed to protect, and

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they point out it's unconstitutional. Disparate impact theory first recognized
by the Supreme Court in a case called Griggs versus
Duke Power back in nineteen seventy one, saying Title seven
of the sixty four Civil Rights that prohibits discrimination by employers.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission applied this prohibition to any policy
that had a disparate impact on racial minorities, even if

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there was no intentional discrimination. They argue that the purpose
of Title seven was to accomplish economic results, not merely
to influence motives or feelings. The Justice is agreed and
block power from requiring a passing score on a standardized
test and a high school diploma as a condition of

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employment because these requirements disqualified black applicants at a higher
rate than whites. Again, we're going back to nineteen seventy
one here. Griggs limited aptitude testing by employers, but not
the need for aptitude. And that's the salient point. One
of the ways you can judge meritocracy and your ability

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to do the job is because of these testing that
ultimately has a disparate impact on one racial minority or
in a racial group or another. I mean, you still
need aptitude to do the job. So what they did
businesses pivoted over to a college degree requirement, which they
said seemed legally safer because college is widely engaged in
racial balancing. But applicants with ability but lacking the college

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education were blocked from positions. Griggs was limited to employment law,
but disparate impact theory has since infected many levels of
the federal government. Get a load of this. It applies
to federally funded programs under Titles six of the Civil
Rights Act, creditors under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, landlords
under the Fair Housing Act, broadband providers under the Infrastructure
Investment in Jobs Act. It's been used to block criminal

(48:20):
background tests on rent applications, school discipline policies, and underwriting
criteria for home insurance. Landlords successfully sued the City of
Saint Paul, Minnesota for quote unquote aggressively enforcing its housing
codes because it required landlords to respond to roadent infestations,
broken smoke detectors, and other hazards which could increase rent

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and ergo disproportionately affect black tenants. Supreme Court has repeatedly
emphasized that racial balancing is quote patently unconstitutional close quote
that from Students for Fair Housing versus Harvard to twenty
twenty three to CIS, as well as other decisions. Yet,
as the Justice is explained in a case called Ricci

(49:04):
versus di Stefano, two thousand and nine. Desperate impact theory
dictates the policies with and quote undesirable racial effect close
quote are invalid. If a race neutral policy affects racial outcomes,
or even appears to do so. The burden ultimately falls
on the employer to prove the policy is essential, a

(49:25):
daunting standard. In practice, this means employers, landlords, and other
business must track and plan for racial outcomes and maintain
racial balance before adopting policies such as drug tests. They
must assess the racial impact and consider alternatives that might
achieve more desirable racial balance. Race must be constantly monitored

(49:46):
to identify potential liabilities. As just as Anthony Scaliam noted
in his concurring opinion in that Ricci case, disparate impact
theory places quote a racial thumb on the scale close qui,
requiring employers to make decisions because of racial outcomes. Mister Trump, accordingly,

(50:07):
should direct his administration to reverse all rules and cease
enforcement based on disparate impact theory, and he should support
litigation challenging its constitutionalities. Scalia Warren in the Reachi case
that one day the Supreme Court will have to confront
the question whether or to what extent are the disparate
impact provisions of Titles seven of the Civil Rights Act

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nineteen sixty four consistent with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
They conclude, mister Trump should bring forth that day of
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Speaker 2 (53:30):
It is six twenty one here fifty five KR City
Talk Station. Feel free to call Joe. You think nobody
wants to talk to me. Do you ever get that
feeling maybe we should give something away, pull out something
from your office. Joe, Oh, that's right. You don't have

(53:50):
an office neither do. I talk to Tony the Big
Dog Bender one day about I said, I feel kind
of strange. I know, I listen, I know what the
ratings are, and I know there's lots of people in
the listening audience. If we give away like concert tickets,
the phones just like blow up immediately. I said, I
kind of get concerned. I feel like I'm a lone

(54:12):
voice in the wilder. And I said, nobody's out there listening.
And you know, you got a listener to lunch. You
got people listening all the time, and it's such a
wonderful thing. It's it gives me an emotional boost. But
I mentioned that the Bender one day because he is
the program director for a long time, and he said, yeah,
I was having a conversation one time. I would say
he was on the air covering for someone, and you

(54:33):
know that was the conversation they were having off air,
which is, you know, nobody's calling on the program. So
he said, I tell you what, pick an item out
of your office. I can't remember who he was talking to,
but someone who he was, who was it Rich Wahlberg,
go grab something we could give away from your office.

(54:53):
It was like like a coffee mug or just some
random item. And they said, collar number six, gonna get
this thing. It was a stapler. That's right, he was
a stapler. And the minute he said that, the fuck
lef just blew up immediately. Anyway, I can just yeah, well,

(55:13):
what's on your mind? What do you want to talk about?
Forty thousand folks so far have decided to resign from
the federal government. And that's actually not that that has
not yet met Donald Trump's target to get rid of
federal government employees. But so far, forty thousand workers have
agreed to resign and take their salaries through September and
go find another job. Officer Personnel Management yesterday on a

(55:36):
call with officials, said the number of federal workers who've
accepted the resignation offer actually more than forty thousand. Another
person confirmed the figure was above forty thousand at least
as of yesterday afternoon. The deadlines today, so more people
could take them up on the offer, and they expect
the numbers to rise rapidly today given that the deadline
I think is at five pm today, So the White

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House originally expected to be between five and ten percent
of federal employees would quit. That would be about one
hundred billion dollars in annual savings. As presently, there are
about two million Americans working for the federal government in
civilian jobs. Some of those employees are exempted from the offers,
So there actually are employees out there in the federal

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government that even the Trump administrations believed to be absolutely necessary.
And as we reported and talked about yesterday, USAID, which
funds all kinds of nonsensical programs around the four corners
of the world with a forty billion dollar a year
annual budget, all of them, or nearly all of them,
have been placed on administrative leave. That was as of

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Saturday morning. Dozens of Education Department employees already placed on
administrative leave as well. They're doing their best to get
rid of the Department of Education. Maybe they won't be
able to do it. Congressionally created it was, but if
you defund it, she could have a sign on the
door that says Department of Education. If no one's working
in there because they have no funding, you've effectually ended

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it more employees who were deemed as working in diversity
equity inclusion offices. I've all been phased out. Oh look
at the phones. Thank you very much. We're gonna get
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and sovereignty. And they want to make the case that
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now that they've been exposed for hundreds of billions in reckless, woke,
green new deal, grand supporting DEI, supporting abortion, supporting taxpayer
dollars going to every country but our country. Let them
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Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Six thirty fifty five Krcity talk station. Thanks for the
callers are called in, getting ready to go right to
the phones. But Howard Howard is annoyed by the bumping
sound he hears, and I wasn't aware of it bumping
the microphone, he said. It makes want to turn the
station off. And I think I know what it is.
It's the boom it's got. It's it's sticky, and when
I move it to adjust it so it's in the

(01:02:21):
right position, I think that's where that sound is coming from. Howard.
I appreciate you bringing to my attention. I will endeavor
on any going forward basis to not touch it. But
sometimes it's a little challenging to kind of deal with
the microphone. So apologies for that. There you go. Let's
start with Rebecca. Rebecca, thanks for calling this morning, and
a happy Thursday to you.

Speaker 12 (01:02:42):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (01:02:43):
I thought you were kind of lonely, so I thought
I all and let you know that I became a
grandma yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
Congratulations. That's amazing. Is it your first time?

Speaker 5 (01:02:56):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:02:57):
And he's the first one on both sides can be
very well.

Speaker 15 (01:03:00):
Looked at it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
Happy and healthy, I hope, mom, and everybody's happy and healthy.

Speaker 8 (01:03:05):
Everybody's to they're down like ching kin and the school
guy's name is Bruce or an actor.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
That's beautiful. And you know what, since no one seems
to be having children these days, that is welcome news. Rebecca.
Congratulations Grandma, Rebecca, you know I'm old enough to be
a grandfather. I'm yet I've yet to reach that goal yet.
I'm willing to wait it out until the appropriate time though,
if you know what I mean. Rebecca, God bless you,
Thank you, Thanks, thanks for sharing your time with me

(01:03:34):
this morning. Who's next, Joe Strekker? Okay, Grandpa Gina, welcome
to the morning. Shown A happy Friday eve to you.

Speaker 10 (01:03:43):
Well, good morning, and you don't sound desperate.

Speaker 9 (01:03:46):
You just sounds a little lonely.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Well, you know, I have just it's just a great
experience at listener lunch because almost every day of the week, Gina,
I will be honest with you, I feel and and
just I really have this perception I'm a lone voice
in the wilderness talking to no one but myself. And
when I go to listen to lunch and I meet
people who listen to the show and they I just
I feel uplifted and it makes me feel like, okay,

(01:04:11):
good at least I know I'm not alone in the world.
But you know, this morning, I was kind of feeling
that way. I just thought i'd say it out loud.

Speaker 8 (01:04:18):
Well that's okay.

Speaker 6 (01:04:19):
We still love you anyway, Yes, thank you very much.

Speaker 16 (01:04:22):
You do a wonderful job.

Speaker 17 (01:04:23):
And we appreciate you for all you do, so God
bless you and your family.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
Geine, I appreciate it. I really do. Thank you so much.
Then appreciate the SoundBite there, Joe, Yeah, I deserve that one.
This morning, John, Welcome to the fifty five kres morning.
Thanks for calling in.

Speaker 6 (01:04:41):
Good morning, Brian.

Speaker 17 (01:04:42):
I'm at Wark, so I only have a second, but
I just want to give you this idea. You have
a left hand. Absolutely no problem with Anthony Fauci, who
and he was unelected. He was just a well actual
he was more than an advisor. But yeah, is that
a fair comparison?

Speaker 10 (01:04:58):
Why not?

Speaker 9 (01:05:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
Who made him Pope of science?

Speaker 18 (01:05:02):
Right?

Speaker 17 (01:05:03):
Yeah, I know, I mean he shut down businesses and
oh my god, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
I'm you know, John, excellent point. So you know people
out there complaining about Elon Musk running the government unelected official.
There you go, Anthony Fauci. You have to stand six
feet away from each other and wear a mask that
doesn't work. And he knew it at the time, pulled
that idea straight from his finer. We all capitulated, fell
in line. The economy shut down, people lost jobs, people

(01:05:30):
were forced to get vaccines because of him, unelected official.
God bless you, John, Thank you so much for making
the point. You can go back to work now. It's
what you should do. Let's see is that. Lois Lewis,
Welcome to the show. Thanks for calling this morning, Brian.

Speaker 5 (01:05:44):
How are you today?

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
I'm doing fine, man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 16 (01:05:48):
Excellent. I just wanted to get your take. You're a libertarian, correct.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
Yeah, little well, I don't abide by the you know,
the the policy principles that are written down by the
capital L Libertarian policy differ it. But I'm you know,
I'm my own man, so I'm entitled to call myself
what I want. But that's why I always say little
el libertarian absolutely.

Speaker 16 (01:06:08):
I was just wanting your take on the meeting between
Trump and NAHU the other day and what your perspective
is on the United States taking ownership of Gaza and
how you feel and how you feel that does or
does not conflict with his presidential campaign promises.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
You know, I can't say anything as that specific policy
relates to the campaign pledges or promises because I don't
remember him talking necessarily about Gaza, other than, of course,
trying to resolve the dispute, like he said he would
resolve the dispute between Russian and Ukraine, gonna end the war.
Hasn't happened yet. We'll wait and see what happens. But
I think, you know, Trump's out loud statement that we

(01:06:45):
are going to take over Gaza, like an ownership interest
in Gaza. I think he does that just to stir
the pot and to get people talking about it. Gaza
is a wasteland. I don't know if you've seen pictures
of it. It's just been bombed into hell. There's really
no place to live there anymore. I don't believe in
the idea that he can displace Palestinians that live there,

(01:07:08):
that want to stay there. What right does he have
to tell people where they can live into what country
they're going to be sent. So I find offense with
that concept.

Speaker 16 (01:07:18):
Yeah, the last question, I can't find clarity on whether
it was supposed to be a temporary or permanent replacement.
I keep getting mixed messages, and that will be my
final question. If you could out with some parity there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Well, actually, I believe that he makes these outrageous, seemingly
outrageous statements because he wants to generate interest in the
concept of rebuilding that war torn country. And you know,
I'm certain that there are Middle Eastern countries in the
general area that think about that and now go, you
know what, We actually could make Gusa a decent place
to live. We could make it a safe, comfortable place.

(01:07:54):
If you build it, they will come. Obviously, it's got
some pretty nice beachfront properties. If you look at it
that way, it could be a habitable place. And if
you make it more welcoming and the terrorists aren't running
the territory. It would be a welcome environment for a
lot of investment. I mean, it's the right thing to do,

(01:08:17):
so conceptually, I have no problem with it, But the
idea that we're gonna own it is nonsensical. And the
idea that you can force people to go to some
country that doesn't want them in the first place, I
think is nonsensical. But it's a conversation starter, and I
think that's why he says things out loud, like let's
Canada is gonna be the fifty first state. We're gonna
buy Greenland. He didn't ask the folks that live in

(01:08:40):
Greenland or Denmark about that concept, but he said it
out loud, and now people are going, you know what,
there's a lot of opportunity in Greenland. You know what,
maybe we should welcome a relationship with the United States.
That's not a bad thing. Maybe the United States will
start investing in Greenland, which has a population of like
fifty thousand people. So conversation starters, and I think he

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Enjoy your program.

Speaker 20 (01:13:40):
We've been we've moved up here in two thousand and seven,
and we've listened to you just about every morning. It's
good to listen to somebody conservative or independent anyway. I
wanted to say two things. One was, did anyone notice
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back laughing when Trump was talking about Gaza. You could
see almost a smirk on his face, and I started
to laugh. He knew what Trump was doing.

Speaker 6 (01:14:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:14:15):
And number two, I wanted to say, thank God for Trump.
How many presidents I'm eighty one years old, you know
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things in Washington, and they all of them have kicked
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They've been stuck in their echo chamber for so long
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Oh no it is.

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Appreciate the kind words, Linda, I really do, and I'm
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beginning in the order in which they received New Hampshire Gary,
good to hear from you today, Cally.

Speaker 10 (01:18:38):
Going, Brian, I'm just passing on the love. You know, Hey,
did I win the state work?

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
Your callers just said your caller six you missed it
by one.

Speaker 10 (01:18:54):
Oh my goodness. Hey, I just love to say, you're
not alone wolf alone voice out in the wilderness, and
we really appreciate you. You're not just shuting into him.
There or tens of thousands of people that are listening
to you every minute the other day.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
I appreciate that, I really do, and you know, I
do get ratings books, and I kind of realize that.
But some days I just it's like I want to
know what other people are thinking about, what other people
are curious about. I mean, I'm essentially like an editor,
like for a newspaper. You know, there's millions of articles
that can be reported, but there's a finite amount of

(01:19:32):
space and in my case, a finite amount of time.
It's why I've always commented at the end of the week,
I got a ream of papers worth of stories that
I never got around to. And sometimes people want to
talk about a particular topic and I'm not on that topic.
So that's why I enjoy hearing from listeners to kind
of steer the direction of the conversation, engage in thoughtful communications.

(01:19:53):
Like the last color who observed that Benjaminett and Yahoo,
he got it. He was almost cracking up when Trump
talked about taking over and running Gaza. I mean, nobody serious.
People don't believe that we are actually going to make
Gaza fifty first state or something. But initiating the conversation
is what he's doing trying to get other people interested

(01:20:14):
in the whole idea of turning a wasteland into something
that's productive and valuable and useful so that human beings
can inhabit it safely without fear of getting run over
by terrorists. That's how you get a conversation started. Maybe
you know it's a little in artful, and people will
be able to comment and criticize him for it, But
you're dealing with Donald Trump here, folks. You got to

(01:20:35):
take what he says with a bit of a grain
of salt and sort of try to appreciate where he's
coming from. Thanks, Gary's great hearing from you, Mississippi. James,
my friend, how are you today, sir?

Speaker 17 (01:20:45):
Doing all right?

Speaker 21 (01:20:46):
Doctor Bryant. Now, it's called one World Order, and that's
where we hit it, brother, So you all can down
play it and joke about it. That's how he got
into this position, Donald Trump, and he could have just
his way of run as a Democrat, and then all
the jokes and the stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
Will be on the other side. In what way, Hey,
Donald Trump ran on America first, and he is doing
whatever he can to make America, as he says, great again.
We want us to be independent in terms of you know,
our own energy supplies and our own production. And this
is all for the benefit of America and hopefully you
know that benefits the rest of the world. If we

(01:21:29):
set the idea this free exercise of speech and our freedoms,
our liberties, capitalism, productive producing businesses that hire people, we
serve as an example for the rest of the world.
But we're not taking over the rest of the world.
We're not dealing with imperialism here.

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
Oh, it's part of it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
It's common in what way.

Speaker 22 (01:21:53):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
I mean, in other words, James, how do you reach
the conclusion that that is that he's gravitory, gravitating towards
something the Democrats fully embrace, which is globalism, one world
government that you know, these these huge businesses and industries
are striving for. In other words, have something like China
dictatorial China and just edicts and mandates with no legislative oversight,

(01:22:17):
no no interjection of the populace in terms of the
direction of the country is going. That's the left wing
globalist mentality. I don't hear anything from Trump that is
that is globalist related. He's just looking out for our
best interest.

Speaker 21 (01:22:32):
Well, remember this, remember this time, and when they be
revealed to it, you will see it all right. You
may not be able to put it into words to
tell you where you will accept it, but just remember
this time. What's today, July, I meanly February.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
February. Mark it down. When James predicted that the United
States would take over the world, I got it marked down. James.
I think you're in the wrong direction. I think he's
merely trying to set an exact ample for the globalists
in the world that know that's not how to run
a railroad. We'll see. So let's say keep your the
pendulum swinging back and forth, as you always point out. James,

(01:23:10):
I appreciate the call. Bill, I don't have time, but
if you want to hold, I'll be happy to take
your call. After the break. I gotta run though. At
six fifty six, Right now, stick around Donovan and New
Americans for Prosperity at seven thirty on Tax Cuts and
Jobs Act.

Speaker 8 (01:23:22):
Covering Trump's first one hundred days.

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And make on wait within.

Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
No need to on Joe, Eric sent you that as
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Seven oh six here fifty five ker City talkstation. That
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In the last hour, phuonesl it up. I appreciated that.

(01:24:21):
Got to have some good conversations, some excellent observations. And
I promise Bill, if he held he would be first
out of the gate. Bill, thanks for holding over the
breake there. Welcome to the morning show.

Speaker 18 (01:24:31):
All I gotta say is go Joe. A couple of
quick comments on something that so Biden releases. The community
sentences of these prisoners that were on death row? Is
that community?

Speaker 5 (01:24:48):
Is that true?

Speaker 10 (01:24:49):
Is that the term?

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
Well, there's a commutation and then there's a pardon. Now,
if you're on death row and you have your death
sentence commuted, you're gonna still spend the rest of your
life in prison, at least as I understand it. If
you're pardoned, then you are forgiven for whatever crime. You've
been accused of and you wouldn't be you wouldn't remain
in jail. So there are differences between the two. But

(01:25:13):
I saw that go ahead.

Speaker 18 (01:25:16):
We're now off death row where they were isolated, and
now they're into the general population of the prison.

Speaker 9 (01:25:23):
Is that true?

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
That would be my I guess my understanding. I'm not
sure how any prison is run. I've never run a prison,
but I don't know if you remain in some sort
of you know, isolated or you know, high security custody,
anything like that. No concept, but it just means you're
not going to be walking into the to the electric chair,
gas chamber, or however they kill you these days. But

(01:25:46):
I did see that.

Speaker 18 (01:25:48):
The general population. I don't think that's gonna work really
well for them based on.

Speaker 10 (01:25:54):
Some of their history.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Well, you never know, as it's always pointed out, and
I've talked to members of Lawn for on this program
many many many times over the years, and if you
are a child molester or a child rapist and you're
in prison, you are in for a world of hurt.
And you know what I'm talking about when I say that,
because a lot of the prisoners in prisons have children,

(01:26:16):
of their own, and they don't look too kindly on
child rapists, so they're in the general population, they have
to deal with the challenges. I don't know that being
a murderer subjects you to more attacks or or harm
or represents a bigger challenge for other prisoners than anybody else,
because most everybody that's in a federal prison is probably
guilty of some horrific crime or another. So you know,

(01:26:39):
whatever commit a crime, you're gonna have to deal with
the time, and you're gonna have to deal with the
consequences of being locked up in a prison, which I
imagine is hell on earth, which is another reason why
I'm not in favor of the death penalty. Some people
are wrongfully convicted, and sometimes they're ultimately let out after
DNA evidence comes out. People admit that they lied on
the bench, they admit that prosecutors engaged in suppressing evidence

(01:27:00):
or otherwise not handing over exculpatory evidence to the defense council,
and they end up getting out. That's why I don't
believe in the death penalty, even for the worst offenders.
You know why, because it would be hell on earth
being locked up into prison for your entire life also
gives you an opportunity to get out if you've been
wrong fully convicted, but there are also opportunities, and I

(01:27:21):
was looking for the article as you mentioned that US
Attorney General Pam Bondi seeking to reverse last hour commutations
for the death row murderers, and again that would mean
a commutation of the death penalty, but not freedom into
the general population of the you know, not being released
from prison. But pointed out that maybe state officials could

(01:27:44):
pursue death penalty against the inmates under state law because
a presidential commutation slash pardon only frees you up or
releases you from federal crimes, and quite often federal crimes
mirror the laws in states. Is like, you can be
tried under federal law, you can be tried under state law,
or maybe be tried under both. So just because you

(01:28:06):
got off from a commutation of your death sentence by
President Joe Biden doesn't mean that maybe the state couldn't
also bring independent charges and pursue the death penalty under
state law. Complicated slightly, but that's kind of the reality is.
We're staring at it right now. Appreciate the call, my
friend five one, three, seven four nine fifty eight hundred
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T phone. As I mentioned, coming up at bottom of
the hour, Donovan O'Neil, what is the Tax Cuts and
Jobs Act? Donald to be talking about that? Mark Meckler
coming up at eight oh five on a Convention of
States and he's the Convention of States President, and do
we need one?

Speaker 9 (01:28:41):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
What would accomplish? Are there dangers associated with with putting
together Convention of States? Mark on that topic, and of
course it being Thursday, Thank god, I hurt Media aviation
expert Jay Ratliffe at eight thirty. Now, something I bring
up all the time. I got a real problem because
you know, I believe in the Constitution, and I don't

(01:29:02):
believe in an imperial president. And I'm even call I
call into question even some of Donald Trump's actions, many
of which would be challenged in court. Going back to
the whole idea of taking over Gaza maybe for the
purposes of rebuilding it, because we rebuild nations that we
bomb into submission, like Germany Japan, for example, in the
aftermath of World War Two. We put our money and

(01:29:25):
our time and resources to making those places a better
place to live and welcoming them into a mutually a
beneficial relationship. Now that is possible in Gaza. But the
whole idea that Donald Trump can somehow pick up the
Palestinian people and push them into Egypt or someplace else,

(01:29:46):
I find rather offensive. Substitute the word Palestinian for Jews,
and doesn't it sound remarkably Nazi esque. We're gonna round
up all the Jews and send them to Egypt. We're
gonna round up all the Palestinians and send them to
Egypt so we can rebuild Gaza. No, I just don't
like the way that sounds, and I don't think it's
legally possible. And kind of agree with the top of
the air news there with the European Union saying that,

(01:30:07):
you know, international law may have something to say about that,
you know, but talk amongst yourselves. But Donald Trump the
other day said, in so far as Iran is concerned
because they have threatened his life over the killing of
Cassam Solomani, Trump ordered a rocket strike and killed that guy.

(01:30:28):
It was a nasty figure. He led the Iranian a
Revolutionary Guard Court cud's force, responsible for the death of
many many people. So bad guy got killed, but we
don't have a declaration of war going on. You know,
we bomb people in random countries all the time. So
I always mentioned, and I've jokingly said, well, what if

(01:30:49):
Canada decides there's some bad guy here in the United
States and they rockets strike the guy. That's an attack
on American soil. That could be viewed as an act
of war. Right, So Trump's I've left instructions if they
do it. In other words, if they killed me, they
would get obliterated. There won't be anything left referring to
the country of Iran. Okay, So here we have a

(01:31:15):
real life illustration of that flip side. We know the
Iranians hate Trump. We know they are angry over the
killing of that Revolutionary Guard corp Cuts Force leader. What
would your perception be if Iran launched a rocket strike
at the White House and blew up Donald Trump. Wouldn't

(01:31:38):
your response be that is an act of war? And
don't you think Congress might get together and declare war
against Iran? I think that will be an appropriate response,
But there would have to be a congressional decision along
those lines. They would have to decide whether American military

(01:31:59):
resources would be put to the chore and the task
of wiping iron off the face of the earth, as
Donald Trump claims he left instructions to do if they
kill him. But the world's obviously a smaller place in
this technology. Look, Iron's like two seconds away from building
a nuclear bomb. So's North Korea and they already have

(01:32:19):
one probably. But look there you go. Everybody and his
brother now has drones, including drug cartels. In Mexico, We're
about two seconds away from you having a drone parked
in your driveway that'll fly you to wherever you work.
This technology is pervasive, It's everywhere, and it offers an opportunity.
It creates an opportunity for evil people to do evil

(01:32:41):
things using the technology. So I am no fan of war.
This whole military industrial complex has always gotten me down,
and I think we engage in too much warlike activity
around the world. How much good did it get us
invading Afghanistan after the Russians were there for thirteen years.
It did them no good except cost them thousands and

(01:33:01):
thousands of lives. We spend a longer period of time
there absolutely accomplishing nothing whatsoever. From the time that we
spent there to pull the plug on it almost immediately
and have more of our people killed as we're leaving,
and leaving billions of dollars in military equipment for the
designated enemies that we were there to try to eradicate

(01:33:22):
to use to their advantage. Doesn't make any sense, does
it anyway? I guess it just depends on whose ox
is being gored. But when you are the strongest military
power in the entire world, and you've got stuff in
things that the American military has that no other country has,
you can make threats and you can carry out random
killings on lands that we have no war with because oh,

(01:33:47):
there's the bad guy. But that world was rapidly changing.
This unique American military power ability and we still are
the biggest and the best on the planet doesn't just
exist in the hands of us anymore. You've got to
project that out into the world and think about that

(01:34:07):
as we move forward and make decisions. But like I said,
if ron launched a missile strike at the White House
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Airmaricans for Prospecty Donovan O'Neil up next, talking about tax
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We were talking earlier. Someone brought up the idea that
Democrats are actually just just beside themselves over Elon Musk
and his efforts to pair back the size and scope
of government and find money and save money because we
spend too much. I can't imagine a human being alive
that thinks the government doesn't spend too much given our
national debt, and that that national debt really does jeopardize

(01:37:48):
every program that exists. If you're hooked up to the
bubilical court of government, maybe you're thinking about your Social
Security payment, maybe you're on Medicaid, Medicare, Medicaid a curity,
the social welfare programs that no one will touch because
of the third whale of politics. All of those programs
are in jeopardy because the government spends too much damn money.
And going back to this Usaid program where forty million

(01:38:12):
dollars goes to stupid things around the world. Elon Musk
identifying a whole bunch of them the other day in
the morning show is identifying a whole bunch of them,
like they think the gay Opera or whatever. Pick and
choose whichever one you want that you find offensive or stupid.
You paid for it, so cut it. The world won't
miss a program like that. However, I don't think they

(01:38:39):
hear what they're saying. Democratic lawmakers going after Elon Musk's
effort with this dodge program. Here's one representative, Diana Presley,
Democrat from Massachusetts. Elon Musk is a Nazi NEPO baby,
a godless, lawless billionaire who no one elected. And there's

(01:38:59):
that no an elected point that people keep making it.
Who's Elon Musk? And how the hell do you end
up that position? He's an advisor and thanks to the
color pointed out doctor Fauci, that was doctor Fauci elected.
The guy who told you you couldn't visit your grandparents
in the nursing home, the guy that told you to
wear the mask that didn't do anything. I remember, you know,

(01:39:20):
these visions of people walking around Kroger, you know, with
with pantyhose wrapped around their face. And then we find
out even the best mask out there doesn't stop you
from exhaling coronavirus around It just seeps right through. My
parallel has always been picking up a handful of sand
and throwing it in a chain link fence. Well, the

(01:39:41):
fence stops some of the sand from going through. Yeah, some,
but the rest of it's going to go right through. Also,
Iyana pressed, y elon, this is the American people. This
is not your trashy cyber t truck that you can
just dismantle, pick apart and sell the pieces of. Well,

(01:40:05):
you can also argue the flip side, which is, wait,
wait a second, why are you in government, elected or
unelected officials in charge of allocating the scarce taxpayer dollars,
throwing money and approving programs globally that advanceed woke agenda.
We didn't ask for that. I mean did anybody in

(01:40:25):
my listening audience ask for that? I mean, did you
really think about when you were voting for someone that
I'm really hoping we fund a gay lesbian opera in
Ireland or something ore? Again, the creation of a virus
that creates a pandemic that kills millions of people? Do
you sign up for that? What elected officials decided that

(01:40:46):
that was a good idea?

Speaker 9 (01:40:48):
None?

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
Not a one.

Speaker 2 (01:40:50):
And in fact it was contrary to the order of
believe President Barack Obama, who said we don't, we should
not fund any of this research. What happened fout you
went ahead and approved it and funded it anyway. Unelected
official at least Musk is taking strides and efforts to
stop that crap from happening, and I applaud those efforts,

(01:41:16):
and maybe we should thank God for unelected officials at
least have some measure of understanding about how a well oiled,
efficient businesses run. Can you imagine a well oiled efficient
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Seven thirty year fifty five KR City Talk Station. Very
happy Friday eve to you. Welcome back to the fifty
five KRC Morning Show. Another appearance by Donald and Neil
with Americans for Prosperity. I guess in a celebratory mood,
Americans for Prosperity, is you sent out thank you kartch
for those who voted for the tax cuts in Job
Act of twenty seventeen. Welcome back down on the Neil.

(01:43:51):
It's always good to talk with you. Hey, good to
be here. Absolutely yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:43:57):
Well usually, you know, so we roll up to these
congressional offices and they're like, what do we do wrong
asps here? But this time what we were doing, they
can the green and yellow scars are showing up. No,
in this case, part of what we did is, you know,
the twenty seventeen Trump tax cuts and Jobs Act. We

(01:44:19):
reissued some thank you cards on that, not because we're
a few years late in getting our appreciation out, but
because we wanted to remind folks these five members of
Congress Jim Jordan, Warren Davidson, Mike Turner, Dave Joyce, and
I've got somebody on the tip of my tongue, it's
flipping past me, Bob Lada had all voted for that

(01:44:41):
original Act. We wanted to thank them for their work
then and use that to begin to drive the conversation
about how we need to make these Trump tax cuts permanent.
And so it was great to go out and get
a lot of signatures and start to engage folks on
something that they've probably forgot a little bit about, because
you know, twenty seventeen feels like a lifetime ago.

Speaker 2 (01:44:59):
For a minute, folks, it really does. And I was
kind of chuckling to myself about twenty seventeen and you're
thanking them for something they did back in twenty seventeen,
because obviously it's facing expiration. That's the thing that I'll
be quite candid and blunt in my comments. It pisces
me off that they don't make these cuts permanent. And
require a subsequent Congress to take the step to actually

(01:45:21):
increase our taxes, which is never a popular thing.

Speaker 6 (01:45:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:45:27):
Well, you know the reason they do this is because
you know, there there are always a handful of folks,
these are always slim majorities we have who you know,
say hey, we gotta we gotta make sure the fiscal
note looks healthy. And I think that's a that's an
honorable thing to do, right. We want fiscal conservatives. We've
folks who like that, But I think you could achieve
a better outcome if you did what you're saying there, Brian, Right,

(01:45:49):
make the tax cuts permanent and force them to go
back and actually say we're gonna claw this money from
our citizens, rather than reversus saying we're gonna we're just
gonna let them expire so we can have a healthier
fiscal note. We need more restraint across the board.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
Well, it also, I mean a permanent tax cut or
even a permanent tax increase, if you want to go
that route and you think it's the right thing to do,
it at least allows businesses the perception of planning. They
don't have to worry about the end coming and how
they're going to react when they know that this is
going to disappear at a certain calendar date. It's just

(01:46:23):
it throws, you know, advanced planning on its head.

Speaker 13 (01:46:28):
Well, it's an absolutely key point. And one of the
things that we're driving right is that these these tax cuts,
the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, impacts folks up and
down the income scale. It impacts not just individuals, but businesses,
not just big businesses.

Speaker 6 (01:46:46):
It impacts small mom and pop shops.

Speaker 13 (01:46:48):
Right, they can take some of their depreciation and apply
it to this tax, to the current TAXI rather than
the other. But right now, because of these tax that's
expiring in some of the tax planning an unknown what
they should be doing this year to prep for next
year until Congress gets some stability in place and makes

(01:47:08):
these Trump tax cuts permanent.

Speaker 2 (01:47:10):
Yeah, and I love the argument that they make all
the time because no one has ever identified what quote
unquote fair share is. They don't pay their fair they
need to pay their fair share, they need to pay
their And you question that, like, well, wait a second,
what is fair share? Because it seems to be a
moving target for anybody making those statements. But then as
we sit here and going back to Elon Musk and like,

(01:47:32):
for example, that whole USAID program at forty billion dollars,
showing out nonsensical money, massive quantities of money for really
nonsensical problem or issues or projects throughout the world. Stop
and puzzle. Sometimes I think the LUFT just says we
need to take more money merely for the sense of
taking it away and depriving whoever they're taking it from

(01:47:55):
of their freedom to spend it wherever the hell they want.
And when you step back and look at what they're
spending on, you're like, wait a second, you don't you
don't need to take more money. You're already wasting billions
and billions of dollars on stupid things that even the
left wingers don't want.

Speaker 13 (01:48:13):
Well, I think that's part of what is being exposed
through some of what the DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency,
Elon Musk and the current Trump administration are doing. Right,
they're sort of exposing what you're saying there, Right, It's
never enough, There's no there's no fair share, there's no
upper limit. There's this idea, and it exists not just
in Congress, but in Columbus, where they know better than

(01:48:36):
us how to spend our money. They can better help
our communities than we can. And it's just a fundamental
conflict divisions as Thomas soul book, great book, but it's
the conflict divisions. They believe they know better than us,
the people, and it's wrong, it's wrong, and it's why
we got to fight for these tasks. That's what we've
got to fight back against, this effort to continue to

(01:48:58):
grow the size and scope of government and support initiatives
like this that are going to help keep the money
in our pockets. So we did support the initiatives in
our communities and help our neighbors out, not wait for
the government to show up and.

Speaker 2 (01:49:10):
Do that well. And isn't it a sorry state of affairs?
And you know, I'll pick on the military budget, and
it's worthy of picking on. It's huge. It's more than
like the entire globe spends on American military. And you're
talking to someone who loves the American veteran and thanks
every single one of them for enlisting and defending our
country and doing the right thing by America. But when
you look at the numbers, there is so much fraud, waste,

(01:49:34):
and abuse in just that one segment of government that Donovan. O'Neil,
you know as well as I do. They can't even
pass an audit. They can't even get in all. They
tried eight times and failed every time. Hold on, Donald,
I'll tell you what. Just leave that sit right there
and we'll bring it back because we're out of time
in the segment. I'm not through with you yet. Thought

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Seven forty two, fifty five Karrisee detalk station Brion Thomas
with Donovan and Neil from Americans for Prosperity, talking about
the tax cuts and Jobs Acts up twenty seventeen, which
is set to expire, trying to keep it in place.
And you know, Donovan, going back to my earlier comments,
I really get the suspicion that I mean, this is
not somebody would make the argument that, well, we need
more taxes from people, We need to raise taxes because

(01:52:44):
we've got this massive debt that we have built up.
We need to pay that down or something. But it's
a laughable proposition because it just keeps getting bigger and bigger,
regardless of which administration assigned, that the federal government just
spends too much. And then as we are finding out
now more and more each and every day, thanks to
Elon Musk and Donald Trump, or Donald Trump and Elon Musk,
that we have a fat, bloated government that just spends

(01:53:06):
countless billions of dollars on stuff and things that nobody
in the American public wants, needs or is benefited by,
which leads me to conclude, and I'm interested in your
reaction on this, it's not really about providing needed, valuable
government services. It's more about just taking money just because

(01:53:29):
their perception is, well, you just make too much, we
need to take it away from you. This whole concept
of you know, from each according's bility, each courting is
a need or socialism or some form of twisted Marxism.
It's not about efficiency, it's not about doing good. It's
just about leveling the financial playing field for no other
reason than to level the financial playing field.

Speaker 10 (01:53:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:53:49):
Well yeah, so it's using in that case, right, it's
using the federal government or e government's taxing cysts mechanism
to achieve social outcomes right in that equity. Yeah, and
it's uh, you know that's a problem, right, because that's
not that's not how how this should work.

Speaker 2 (01:54:08):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:54:09):
We should be we should be given.

Speaker 13 (01:54:10):
The government, letting the government take right permissively, letting the
government take just what it needs to provide its core
essential services. And when it comes to the federal government, Brian,
just a couple of things come to mind from me, right.
One is national defense. Let's make sure we can protect
ourselves from the enemies abroad. And border security. Let's make
sure that what we we have integrity as a nation,

(01:54:31):
and we could secure our borders and know who's coming
and going, and the good folks should be able to
get here and the bad folks should stay out. Beyond that,
there ain't a lot the federal government should be doing. Now,
you know, that's it's hard to get back to that
kind of purity, right and clarity, and what the federal
government subjectives are, but it seems like we're taking a
good stab at.

Speaker 6 (01:54:50):
It right now with what dose is doing.

Speaker 2 (01:54:52):
And if we can.

Speaker 13 (01:54:55):
Keep the government off of our paychecks and make these
tax cuts permanent, it's another step in right direction to
not keep feeding the beast that just will never have
enough of our hard earned money.

Speaker 2 (01:55:06):
All right, now, moving back to the challenge. Obviously Democrats
are not going to be in favor of renewing or
keeping in place the Trump tax cuts under the TCJA.
But in the face of everything that's being revealed, do
you think they're going to lose their argument along those
lines and that their own constituents are going to say,
wait a second, Wait a second, you guys really don't

(01:55:28):
need more money. And in fact, the less money you
take out of our paychecks, the more tax revenue will
flow into the Washington federal government because will be more efficient,
will produce more goods and services and ergo more revenue,
more people employed because we've got freedom to hire people
with the money that they didn't take. That's the reality
of lower taxes. No one seems to want to admit it,

(01:55:50):
but it's been proven over and over again.

Speaker 13 (01:55:54):
Yeah, well, without a doubt, and I think nobody left,
right or in between the likes to see money being
misspent right, And I think that's part of what is
being talked about right now, is that this money isn't
going you know, it's going to a lot of things,
but it's not going to the things that are going
to actually help people where they're hurting, right with their
grocery bill, with their filling up their car, with paying

(01:56:17):
their utilities, of getting their kids through school.

Speaker 8 (01:56:20):
With finding the job right. And I think you know
your drive on.

Speaker 13 (01:56:23):
That message, and then you connect folks to the reality
that you know, we don't need to be feeding a
rape system and this is your money, not Washington's. And
I think we've got a winning formula to be successful
at this stage to get things done. Folks are coming
out of four years of Bidenomics. They're paying, as I
think some like twelve thousand more to live the same

(01:56:45):
standard of living they were living four years ago when
Trump was back and off it was in office. The
first time Bidenomics made people have to spend twelve thousand
dollars more a year just to maintain their standard of living.
They want relief, and when they hear that billions of
dollars are going overseas to wacky programs. They demand accountability.
And I think this is going to the conversation happening

(01:57:07):
now in Washington around DOGE and USAID is helpful in
the conversation around why we need to have the Trump
tax customer permanent and we need to rein in the
out of control monster that is the US federal government bureaucracy.

Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
Yeah, no question about it. And you know, bidnomics in
part is literally the running of the fat currency printing press.
The more dollars you produce and generate just out of
thin air, the less your dollar in your pocket is worth.
I mean, that's just just generally accepted economic reality.

Speaker 13 (01:57:38):
Thomas Massey had a really good clip that made the
rounds a week or so ago. I feel like where
he demonstrated that in a congressional hearing. Right, diluting water, it's.

Speaker 8 (01:57:46):
What it doesn't dilutes the value of your dollar.

Speaker 13 (01:57:48):
And every time the federal government prints more money or
comes up with a new program, that's our dollar being diluted.
It's less and has less buying powered, has less impact,
and you got to work more hours and harder to
keep up with the standard living you were living before
the federal government printed the most recent million, billion or
trillion dollars whatever it might be doing right now to
spend on a new program. It's got to stop. And

(01:58:11):
one of the best ways to stop it is to
not keep feeding the system. To make these tax fits
permanent and let us keep our hard earned money so
that the federal government doesn't get its hands on it
and go out and spend find new ways to spend it,
and then some well.

Speaker 2 (01:58:24):
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A very happy Friday eve to you. I heard media
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I always look forward to talking to Jay, and I've
been looking forward to this conversation for a some time.
Mark Meckler, he's quite a guy, and you probably are
familiar with him if you don't know his name. He
is responsible for a bunch of things political pundit. He's

(02:02:34):
an attorney, fellow attorney, business executive president of Citizens for
Self Government Governance. And what we're going to be talking
about a Convention of States Actions. An active proponent of
a convention to propose amendens the United States Constitution, a
movement that's actually growing in size and strength. Welcome to
the fifty five KRC Morning from Market's a real pleasure

(02:02:54):
to have you on today.

Speaker 6 (02:02:56):
Good morning, Brian, it's an honor to be with you.

Speaker 2 (02:02:58):
Now, let's just start with the basics. Article five, Convention
to States. Explain to my listeners what this proposal will
allow us to do. What is the goal ideally of
this action.

Speaker 6 (02:03:14):
Yep, you know it's funny that we have to explain it, Brian.

Speaker 23 (02:03:16):
As a lawyer, I went to law school and realized
many years later and have actually read the Constitution in
law school.

Speaker 2 (02:03:22):
So I know I have read the Constitution since law school,
but you don't really dive into it.

Speaker 6 (02:03:29):
Yeah, so most people don't know about this.

Speaker 23 (02:03:32):
Article five in the Constitution contains the ways in which
we are able to amend the Constitution. It has two ways.
One is when two thirds of Congress wants to propose
an amendment, they can do so, and then they send
that out to the states for ratification by three quarters
of the states or thirty eight states. The second way
the Framers gave to us is to call a convention
of states, and it takes two thirds of states or

(02:03:54):
thirty four states to call a convention. And the reason
they gave us this method they said in Convention that
they knew that the federal government we can become a
tyranny at some point, and that the states would have
to have a way to reign in the federal government.
So that's why they gave us this second clause of
Article five. And basically what it does is allows the states,
when two thirds of them want to to gather in convention,

(02:04:14):
they have to state in advance the reasons they want
to gather in convention, and the states.

Speaker 6 (02:04:18):
All have to agree.

Speaker 23 (02:04:19):
Thirty four states have to degree on the reason, and
they can go to convention propose amendments. And the primary
reason is to restrain the federal government. And so right
now we have a movement going on. Nineteen states have
passed a resolution to impose term limits on federal officials.
That's the electeds, but also the deep state that we're
seeing so exposed right now, staffers and bureaucrats. Number two,

(02:04:40):
to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, like a
balanced budget amendment, spending caps, tax caps, and number three,
and I think most importantly personally, is to restrain the
scope and jurisdiction of the federal government. So, for example,
when the president is talking about getting rid of the
Department of Education.

Speaker 6 (02:04:56):
I think that's great, but we need to make.

Speaker 23 (02:04:58):
That permanent administry, and we'll put it back in place
so you can have an amendment, for example, that says
there can be no involvement of the federal government in education,
and that would do a way with a Department of
Education permanently.

Speaker 2 (02:05:09):
Well, it seems to me one of the easiest mechanisms
to achieve the goal of tearing back the excessive reach
of government springs from a case I know, you know,
which involves the commerce clause Wickered versus Philburn, which allows
them to pretty much do anything they damn will please,
literally anywhere, simply because anything we do impacts interstate commerce,

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even on a minuscule level.

Speaker 23 (02:05:33):
Yeah, you know, it's funny you bring up that case.
So few people who are not lawyers know about it.
We who are lawyers know it's actually insane. That case
basically said there was a farmer in Ohio who's growing
wheat for the consumption of his own family, and the
federal government penalized him for growing too much wheat. And
he said, look, you have no authority over me because
I didn't do anything other than grow weak for my

(02:05:53):
own family. I'm not engaged in interstate commerce. And the
federal government said, yeah, exactly, you didn't do anything. That's
why we can regulate you. Yeah, and even what do
you mean?

Speaker 6 (02:06:03):
And the court ruled that well, because he didn't sell.

Speaker 23 (02:06:06):
His wheat in interstate commerce and he didn't buy weed
in interstate commerce, he affected interstate commerce.

Speaker 6 (02:06:11):
In other words, he did nothing, so he.

Speaker 23 (02:06:14):
Could be regulated, and that gave the federal government the
power literally to regulate just about anything.

Speaker 2 (02:06:19):
I don't mean to move off topic, because that, to
me is such a critical case in expanding the size
of the scope of government. I mean, the EPA uses
it a teaspoon of water on your land and they
can regulate it. It's just it's insanity. Do you think
ever in your or my lifetime that it can more
conservative Supreme Court which we currently have. It may even
be more conservative if Trump has his way and gets

(02:06:41):
more justices appointed. Would ever overturn the lunacy of that case?

Speaker 23 (02:06:46):
You know, we have no indication right now that that
would happen. I think they will pair back that case.
I want people to understand, because we're lawyers. I want
to kind of just bring it to layman's terms. Because
my mind works more like a layman. What we're talking
about about is the Supreme Court removing authority for the
federal government to allow.

Speaker 6 (02:07:05):
These agencies in these regulations.

Speaker 23 (02:07:07):
And in other words, because of the Commerce Clause, the
federal government is allowed to have an EPA USDA all
of these agencies Department of Energy, Department of Education, each
of these agencies requires authority under the Constitution. None of
them have it in writing under the Constitution. Right, this
is an interpretation by the Supreme Court creating that authority.

(02:07:29):
So the Court would have to say, oh, we were
wrong on that commerce cause case, not just that one,
but a whole line of cases that follow it. Indeed,
so I think they might pair back on it. But
if we want to make dramatic progress on that, we
can do that in a Convention of States. We can
reinterpret or go back to the original interpretation of the
Commerce Clause, which actually just said that the federal government

(02:07:49):
has the power to regulate, which meant to smooth out
Back then, it didn't mean to prepare all these regulations
interstate commerce, and commerce meant the shipment of goods across
state lines. Trying to do is prevent trade wars between
the states exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:08:04):
I mean, it just seems so simple a solution, and
I know everybody would face an uphill challenge getting a
Supreme Court to overturn that long standing, ridiculous precedent, But
I think some of the goals of Convention of the
States that you're talking about could be achieved if they
would reverse that. I mean, that's kind of that's kind
of why I initially gravitated towards me bring even bringing
that case up, Mark, because you know, we need to

(02:08:26):
amend the Constitution if that one case was overturned and
they took away the federal government's power to regulate stuff
that we are not doing over across state lines.

Speaker 6 (02:08:36):
So and yeah, look, you nailed it, Brian. I think
that's really important.

Speaker 23 (02:08:40):
It would probably do a way, we don't know the
exact number, but probably do away with forty to fifty
percent of the federal government because they just wouldn't have
the authority to operate anywhere. Yay.

Speaker 2 (02:08:51):
Now, can we put that on the list of things
of the Convention of States to do to redefine the
commerce clause to actually mean cross state line commerce and
not just any activity that might somehow impact commerce generally.

Speaker 23 (02:09:06):
I can guarantee you that's something that I will be
lobbying for if I'm a convention.

Speaker 2 (02:09:10):
I love hearing it all right now, people who are
against the idea of a convention of States, And I
think you've already explained a way why this is not
a major concern, because so many states have to approve,
like ratifying an amendment to the Constitution that acts as
a stop you know, a speed bumper, a stopgut measure

(02:09:31):
to avoid some terrible consequences. But some people are worried about,
you know, the so called runaway convention, and oh my god,
if we convene a convention of States, all these left
wing liberal nutcases are going to you know, enshrine DEI
as an amendment to the Constitution.

Speaker 5 (02:09:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:09:46):
Well, I mean the first thing I've say is we
have to know where our arguments come from. And that
argument was.

Speaker 23 (02:09:51):
Created by the radical left in America in the nineteen
seventies and nineteen eighties, who was led by Chief Justice Berger,
who's the guy that gave us Row versus Wade, And
he was being asked what he thought of a convention
to overturn Roe versus Wade, and so of course he said, oh, well,
that's a terrible idea, and he made up this thing
which we'd never talked about before in American history, of
the idea of a runaway convention, where a convention could

(02:10:13):
propose all kinds of horrible things. Important to remember, a
supermajority of states have to agree in advance to what
the convention's about. Take thirty four states degree in advance
what the limitations on conventions are. And I talked about
what the ones we're proposing are, so nothing bad can
happen under that. And then the ultimate stop gap in
the end is anything that comes out of convention is

(02:10:35):
just a suggestion. Literally, the convention has no power. All
they can do is discuss and suggest, and then it
takes thirty eight states to ratify. And Brian, here's a
thought experiment for you. I've given this to literally millions
of people. I give out my personal email address, which
is Mmeckler at coosaction dot com, and say, if you're
worried about this, and you're like me as conservative libertarian,

(02:10:59):
give me the the amendment that you're worried about, and
then list the thirty eight states that we're ratifying. And
I can tell you that in doing this for eleven
plus years, I've not received an.

Speaker 2 (02:11:09):
Email about it that speaks volumes mark it really does.
You haven't at this for a long time, and Convention
the States has been discussed for a long time, and
for what I understand, the concept is really kind of
it shares bipartisan support. Now, I mean, if you've got
a majority of Democrats supporting it, which apparently there are,

(02:11:31):
and sixty two percent of independence supporting it, and or
seventy five percent of Republicans supporting it, why haven't more
states just approved the concept, Ohio being one of them.
They aren't marked in green on your map yet.

Speaker 23 (02:11:46):
Yeah, you know it's Ohio's been really interesting to me
and a little bit frustrating. We have I would say,
I'm very comfortable we have majority support in both houses,
and it's really been slowed down a little bit on
our side by leadership and a guy that I likes
a lot, Matt Huffman, who I think has been good

(02:12:07):
for the state. But and he is a big advocate
of the idea of a Convention of States, but he's
just been slow to allow it through the legislature. And Franklin,
Ohio you know, Huffman is the guy who has the
power in the legislature, and so he's just been.

Speaker 6 (02:12:21):
Slow to go.

Speaker 9 (02:12:21):
And I know him well.

Speaker 23 (02:12:22):
And I'm hoping this here that we have the support
of leadership in both houses. I think we're going to
and I think we're going to get it done in Ohio.

Speaker 2 (02:12:29):
This here, well, it seems to be that, you know,
in the last several days the Trump administration, I mean
they sprinted as soon as he was done getting sworn in.
I mean, I just cannot just comprehend the flory of
activity and the amount of effort and work that Trump
has been able to accomplish. But I'm given large credit
to Elon Musk for exposing how much waste there is

(02:12:50):
in government held a USA Department and some of the
programs and stupid, stupid things we spent forty billion dollars
on that has to run contrary to the values of
almost every American. You know, the idea of you know,
funding gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of
Virology alone, they've literally killed millions of people we paid
for that. What elected officials said that was a good idea? Oh,

(02:13:13):
that's right, not one. So the revelation of the waste,
the revelation of all of this just absolute waste a
tax payer dollars and the fact that we spend trillions
of dollars more than they take in every year. I
mean that crosses political lines. It's indefensible.

Speaker 6 (02:13:33):
So it is.

Speaker 23 (02:13:34):
And like you said, I mean across party lines. People
are in supported this because it's just common sense. I mean,
first of all, most people don't know about it, but
get started with when they do, and when you say, hey,
what we would like to do is keep these people
from being in DC for forty years. What we'd like
to do is make them balance their budgets, balance their
checkbooks like every human has to do, and frankly, almost

(02:13:54):
every state has to do.

Speaker 6 (02:13:56):
And we want to take some power away from DC
and give.

Speaker 23 (02:13:58):
It back to the states. You can see why that's nonpartisan.
For example, California would get more power, New York would
get more power, Illinois would get more power. States that
are not conservatives, not just a conservative thing. It just
takes power away from the centralizers.

Speaker 6 (02:14:13):
In DC and frankly, the tyrants in DC and gives
it back to the people.

Speaker 2 (02:14:17):
Well, it also seems with the Trump administration that your
idea of a Convention of States is probably going to
get even more widespread support because apparently Donald Trump's has
warmed up to the idea.

Speaker 23 (02:14:29):
Yeah, you know, it's been really interesting. I couldn't have
predicted this, No way I could have known. But we
put out a fourth quarter newsletter and there's a picture
on the cover which kind of blew me away. If
you look at the Trump administration right now, and you
look at who is in the Trump administration that has
expressed public support for Convention of States, you.

Speaker 6 (02:14:46):
Could start with jd.

Speaker 23 (02:14:47):
Vance supported us when he was running for Senator. You
got Mike Huckabee, who's going to be our ambassador at
Israel as one of.

Speaker 6 (02:14:53):
Our early supporters.

Speaker 23 (02:14:54):
Pete Hegseth is a very close friend of big supporter
now a new sect death the incoming Sectioncretary of Agriculture,
Briock Rawlins is a big supporter of ours. Caroline Levitt,
who's the star of the hour, I would say, as
the new Press Secretary, was the supporter of ours when
she was running for the House of Representatives from New Hampshire.
So we've just got a whole bunch of people in
the admin around Trump and we know Trump is looking

(02:15:17):
at long term legacy play and that's important. I love
that he doesn't have another term, so what's he going
to do to make things permanent? And a lot of
stuff that he's doing right now can be reversed by
subsequent administration unless we ensconce them and constitutional amendments. So
we do know there's been discussions inside the inner circle
in the White House about a Convention of States and

(02:15:37):
I'm looking forward to Trump's support.

Speaker 2 (02:15:39):
Well, and apparently you have some measure of because he
actually reposted on his truth social media post Mark Levin's
conversation about the Convention of States and Mark Levin is
a huge fan of the concept.

Speaker 6 (02:15:52):
Yeah, you know, I was pretty excited to see that.
That's kind of out of the blue.

Speaker 23 (02:15:55):
We had no idea that's coming, and so Trump posted
this and right in the Mark's talking about his support
for convention of state. So that's why we know what's
going on in the inner circles of the White House.
We also if you look at my ex account right
now just at Mark mecro, you'll see we've actually got
billboards up in the Austin, Texas area near the gigafactory

(02:16:16):
with Elon musk on them with a chainsaw saying want
to cut government permanently, Elon, and so we're hoping to
get Elon on board as well. The Vekramswami was already
on board. So I think we're getting very close to
the point where we'll see the administration in support openly.

Speaker 2 (02:16:31):
So how many more states we need? I see that
on your map that you have highlighted in blue that
they have active legislation on this issue, you know, Nevada
and Montana and elsewhere. Of course Ohio isn't marked on that,
but maybe that that'll change. But how many more states
total do we need to sign on to the concept?

Speaker 6 (02:16:51):
Just fifteen to go.

Speaker 23 (02:16:52):
We're well past the halfway mark, and I expect we're
going to see a bunch more come on this year.

Speaker 6 (02:16:57):
We've got a bunch of states tending Iowa, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Ohio.

Speaker 23 (02:17:03):
While it's not on the map yet, it will get
filed this year and we expect to be moving forward
in Ohio. So we've got fifteen to go and we
are making a big push right now.

Speaker 2 (02:17:12):
Okay, what can my listeners do to learn more about
the specifics of this and perhaps help push it through.
For example, here in Ohio.

Speaker 6 (02:17:19):
Go to Convention of States dot com.

Speaker 23 (02:17:21):
Get signed up there, click on sign the petition that
will allow them to send a notice to your legislators
that you're in support, and then call your legislators. This
is the most important thing. Get involved and let them
know to support this. So you do that, call your senator,
call your representatives, and then click on the take action
tab on the website and get signed up as a
volunteer and getting gates.

Speaker 2 (02:17:42):
All right, just add commerce clause to the list.

Speaker 6 (02:17:44):
Mark okay, it's at the top of my list, and
I promise.

Speaker 2 (02:17:49):
Mark Meckler Convention the state's president. Check them out online,
get signed up, and send him an email if you
have an issue about it. Mmeckler at coosaction dot com.
Keep up the great work, Marcus, and a pleasure having
on the program to learn the specifics on this and
I look forward hopefully to talk with you again as
we get closer and closer to the concept.

Speaker 6 (02:18:07):
Absolutely, thanks Bryan, God bless.

Speaker 2 (02:18:09):
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late we've had some pretty bad aviation news. But real quick,
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Speaker 15 (02:20:15):
Well, Jack and I have teamed up for some things
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Speaker 2 (02:20:23):
They are truly fantastic folks. All right, what's the latest?
We have two obviously terrible aviation incidents to talk about.
What's the latest on the DC A plane running into
the helicopter, or as the case may be, the helicapter
running into the plane, which seems to be what's happening.
The suggestion I've read is that the helicopter was flying

(02:20:46):
at too high of an altitude.

Speaker 15 (02:20:48):
It was, yeah, And the initial focus for the National
Transportation Safety Board was to recover the wreckage of the
down to airliner first and then go after retrieving the helicopter.
And that's what they're in the process of doing now.

(02:21:09):
Because they were two separate spots where they came down,
and the priority was the airliner. They've been able to
take care of that. They've got the black boxes, they'll
be able to determine some and a little disappointed that
the black Hawk did not have a black box type
of component that would allow them to listen to the

(02:21:31):
conversations that were ongoing, and the Yeah, some black Hawks
have it, and I was hopeful that this was the case,
but the latest word that we had, and of course, Brian,
it may change if my information is wrong, but it
does not have that capability, which means that they're going
to the investigators are going to have to rely on

(02:21:51):
the back and forth, the time stamps, the different types
of things that they've got from a data standpoint to
try to figure out why that aircraft was where it
was supposed to be or where it was. Because you're right,
when the crash first took place and I heard the altitude,
I thought they can't be right because they've got that
ceiling of two hundred feet and I can't see any

(02:22:13):
reason why any helicopter crew would go above that, knowing
that the commercial lanes that are there, especially going in
and had a runway three to three there.

Speaker 9 (02:22:22):
So, yeah, the investigation continues there.

Speaker 15 (02:22:26):
And we did also find out that the NTSB told
us that the jetliner did try to elevate at the
last moment, apparently when they first saw the helicopter, and
of course at that point in time, it was simply
too late for them to do anything.

Speaker 2 (02:22:41):
Brian.

Speaker 15 (02:22:43):
Just the weirdest thing is when you look at some
of these different videos, it's not like the helicopter came
up from underneath and the collision took place. They were
not pointed at each other, but I mean they almost
were looking at each other as they were going in,
making you think, what the world was the flight crew
of the helicopter not.

Speaker 9 (02:23:03):
Looking at exactly to see it because it just it was.

Speaker 2 (02:23:07):
Like a dark being thrown in a dark board. It
was dead on collision. I mean, you couldn't if you
wanted to, You couldn't hit it more directly.

Speaker 15 (02:23:16):
If this were a terrorist attack, that's exactly you know,
I think out would look. Not that I'm suggesting in
any way that's this, but it's the crew's attention or
whatever was elsewhere. And again we don't know if there
was a mechanical situation that was that the crew was
battling at the time that might have taken their attention
away from some of the critical moments of flight.

Speaker 9 (02:23:35):
There what we just don't know.

Speaker 15 (02:23:37):
I do know that my confidence in the National Transportation
Safety board is unbelievably high, and if there's a group
of men and women, they're going to be able to
find out exactly what happened and give to the Federal
Aviation Administration a list of recommendations on how we can
make aviation safer.

Speaker 9 (02:23:53):
They're going to be the ones that do it.

Speaker 15 (02:23:56):
But, as I've told you before, my biggest fear is
we're going to discover that the accident was easily.

Speaker 2 (02:24:05):
And what you're suggesting is the negligence on the part
of the helicopter Violet.

Speaker 15 (02:24:10):
Yeah, and again it's it's an incredibly early statement to make,
but based on the evidence as we're seeing it now,
I mean, it's obvious that the RJ was where it
was supposed to be, the American exactly where they were
supposed to. We also can say that the helicopter crew
was not where they were supposed to. Now, again, that
may be negligence, it may be mechanical, it may be

(02:24:32):
again the medical episode involving one of the pilots that
caused that altitude deviation to take place, we don't know.
But far too often in the history of aviation, when
you look at the decades and decades of as accidents
near accidents, the human element tends to come into play,
and almost all of them. It may not be the cause,

(02:24:54):
but it's a contributing cause many many times. And that's
why a lot of these well meaning individuals, we'll say, Jay,
that's why we need to have airplanes with no pilots,
because then we can avoid these mistakes from being made
and make aviation safer. And of course I don't agree
with that at all, but it is sad that there's
always that human element that seems to be there, which

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is why, you know, you've always heard me say before
this that we were enjoying the safest ere ever of
commercial jet travel, but we had to be incredibly vigilant
to make sure that that continued to be the case,
because we get sloppy. Human nature is just that we
get complacent, we get a little sloppy, and as a result,
mistakes can take place. And you know, we've already seen

(02:25:39):
the FAA shut down that corridor for the helicopter traffic
there at the Regae National Airport, which is good and
that'll probably.

Speaker 9 (02:25:47):
Be permanent, but I suspect that we're going to also see.

Speaker 15 (02:25:50):
Some other recommendations that are going to be made. And
then of course, you know, one of the things that
just drives me out of my mind is that the
TSB may give the FAA fifteen different points, and the
FAA may implement one, maybe two. It's not a stamp
approval as you do all of them. Because many times

(02:26:13):
the airline industry and their lobbying group and others can
apply a little pressure saying we don't want to do this, this,
and this because it would cost too much money, and
then it would cause a raise, We would have to
raise fares, and then that would be really bad for
the consumers. Let's not do that.

Speaker 9 (02:26:28):
That kind of garbage.

Speaker 15 (02:26:29):
And where safety then becomes a you know, a negotiating
type of thing, it's.

Speaker 9 (02:26:34):
Just, oh, so well, you know, that's where we are
in as far as the d d C craft, and.

Speaker 2 (02:26:40):
We'll get to the Philly crash here when we come back.
But the bottom line is, I just can't for the
life we figure out how in the hell it is
that it was in any way, shape or form the
right thing to do to allow a military helicopter to
fly right there indirect on a final approach path.

Speaker 8 (02:26:54):
Is there really a need to do that?

Speaker 2 (02:26:56):
You can't just deviate a mile right or left and
go around that congested area. Whatever.

Speaker 9 (02:27:02):
Well, we keep most we keep most of them.

Speaker 15 (02:27:04):
They keep them within the confines of the river, if
you will, going up and down through there. So that's
their corridor. And I mean there's nothing but military aircraft
up there. They're everywhere, and there's always been this this
you know, combination, this influx of both commercial and military aircraft.
And normally, even though there's occasionally where you have one

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that'll have to deviate and go around or you know,
approach differently or cancel of takeoff, it happens, but that
happens at every airport. Most of the time, this operates
exactly as it's supposed to. In this case, it didn't,
and it with horrific.

Speaker 2 (02:27:42):
Consequences, absolutely horrific, speaking horrific, the Philly crash, we'll talk
about that, plus a couple got suit by an airline
costs a lot of money. We'll also talk about Elon
Musk ready to make some technical upgrades of air traffic
control much needed, apparently more with Jay Ratliffe coming up next,
Don't Go Away.

Speaker 12 (02:27:58):
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Speaker 2 (02:28:03):
Continuing our conversation every Thursday for a few segments with
Jay Rattler, which I truly appreciate any my listeners enjoy
hearing from you as well. Jay, moving away from the
DC crash over to Philly crash. The one thing I
heard it was suggested is that there was a weight
shift which caused the plane to stall. Any further developments
beyond that speculation that was initially raised.

Speaker 15 (02:28:26):
Now that was that's still pretty much something that's being
looked at as probable. And I think the reason that
we so many of us went in that direction early
was the video of that aircraft coming out of the sky.
If that airplane takes off, loses its engines, it becomes
a glider. So at fifteen hundred feet you've got x

(02:28:46):
amount of distance before that airplane has to come down.

Speaker 9 (02:28:50):
But it's a controlled descent.

Speaker 15 (02:28:52):
This airplane just fell out of the sky, which means
either structurally something came off the aircraft disrupting the lift
and down it came with as not having an ability
to control it, or something happened to that center of
gravity that shifted at a critical moment. And of course
weight and balance being everything on an aircraft. If you've
got an airplane at that critical moment that's taking off,

(02:29:13):
and you've got a sudden and unexpected shift of gravity
in that aircraft. What could take place is it could
actually cause the airplane to change its inclination to the
air over the wing then gets disrupted. The lift is
no longer there, and the airplane goes into a stall.

Speaker 2 (02:29:32):
It just falls like it falls like a dead weight
out of the sky. Then it does. It does.

Speaker 15 (02:29:36):
And if you were you know, altitude twenty thirty thousand feet,
no problem. You just point the nose down, you build
up the speed, and the airflow over the wings resumed,
lift is restored, and off you go. But if you're
fifteen hundred feet Brian, there's nothing you can do. And
some of the most terrific if you if you YouTube searched,
there's a seven forty seven the cargo plane that was

(02:29:57):
taking off that had that exact same thing happened, and
it's it's a horrific video to watch. But the airplane
takes off and it has that shift of gravity where
the cargo came loose, and you can see the moment
at a very low altitude that that aircraft the crew
lost complete control and that airplane just falls right out
of the sky. But it is, it's that's why everything

(02:30:20):
is strapped down. Everything is it just it's there's just
no room for.

Speaker 2 (02:30:26):
Air No, and you know what you're you're doing. You
are also pointing out the importance of the folks that
load the plane, you know, the common laborer who are
putting things in the cargo bay of the plane. They
are critical the life saving saving lives on that, whether
it's the crew or the entire U list of passengers.
That it's just an amazing reality that a shifting weight

(02:30:49):
in the bottom of the airplane could just make it
drop like a rock.

Speaker 15 (02:30:52):
If it's significant in size, yes, if you know, if
you've got six bags rolling around, that's not gonna be
an issue. But if you've got something substantial weight that
shifts quickly from one side to the next, yeah, it's
going to be something that could just cast some big
time problems for the flight crew. And sadly, if it's
a little altitude, there's nothing that they can do about it.

Speaker 9 (02:31:16):
And that crew knew that there was nothing they could
do about it.

Speaker 15 (02:31:19):
And I tell you it's just when you look at
you know, aviation and things that's one of the reasons
that weight and balance is so critical, where everything is
measured and weighed so that we know weight wise, how
much fuel, how much cargo, which part of the aircraft
it's in, how many passengers are. And that's why sometimes
when you are on a flight that maybe isn't full,

(02:31:41):
you'll have the pass the flight tends come back and say, hey,
we need you six people to move to the back
of the airplane, or we need you to come over here.
And what they're doing is at the pilot's instruction, distributing
that weight a little bit better throughout the cabin so
that it's going to make it easier for the crew
to maintain control the flight. So yeah, if you're ever

(02:32:01):
asked to move, please please don't throw a fifth Please
please don't throw f You know.

Speaker 2 (02:32:07):
What, you're doing absolutely nothing today to make me want
to fly. I know this isn't you and you say
flight it's all safe and compared to being in a
car and all that.

Speaker 9 (02:32:16):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (02:32:17):
I know the statistics, but jeez, little Louise, the smallest like.

Speaker 15 (02:32:21):
Going outside and getting struck by lightning twice in the
same day, twice in the same day, So I mean
that's you know, I will go out and get on
an airplane. I'll put my kids, my grandkids, my wife,
my mom. I mean, without hesitation. But when I recognize
here in the United States, but we do it better
than anybody on the planet, and there's a lot of

(02:32:43):
things we can do better, and we will, but you know,
it's I'm just I'm just thrilled that we have this
dedication to safety as we have here in the United States,
because the mechanics, the pilots, the training, the way the
aircraft are built to the NTSB, even the FAA oversight.
You know, many times I'll give them the credit that
they deserve. It's a large group of people that do

(02:33:07):
an incredible job daily to keep all of us safe.
And you know, when there's a breakdown, it can be costly,
and it's one of the reasons you've just got to
stay super vigilant.

Speaker 2 (02:33:17):
No question about can we stick around? Will you pause
for a moment and come back with me to talk
about these other two We got two more cop topics
we talk about, plus a hub delay update from Jay
Ratlift Stick around.

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Speaker 2 (02:34:23):
Hey fifty to fifty five KRCD talk station Happy Thursday
tune and tomorrow at six thirty am with Tech Friday's
Dave Hatter. In the meantime, one more time with I
Heard Me The Aviation Next for Jay Ratliffe ninety thousand dollars.
What what happened, Well, we had.

Speaker 15 (02:34:39):
A couple on a Alvianca flight and they got to fights,
this couple and as a result, the man throws the
phone at his wife and it hits the wall and
overheats and starts to catch fire. So now the crew
has to decide to go back and land because of

(02:35:01):
the smoldering fire that they have on board the aircraft. Well,
the aircraft is too heavy to land. It's not yet
a critical situation, so they decide to burn off the
fuel for three hours and then land the airplane so
that a the passengers that were disruptive can be removed,
the damage to the inside of the aircraft can be repaired,

(02:35:22):
and then they can take care of the rest of
the customers. The airline decided to sue this couple for
ninety thousand dollars in part for the damage to the
aircraft the fuel that they had to expend trying to
land after the event took place. Because you can land
too heavy and you don't want to do that if
you don't have to, unless it's a dire emergency situation.

Speaker 9 (02:35:44):
And yeah, the thought processes.

Speaker 15 (02:35:46):
If you find these individuals enough, Brian, maybe it'll help
future behavior.

Speaker 9 (02:35:53):
I doubt it, but you know, at least you hope
that's going to be the case.

Speaker 2 (02:35:58):
Yeah, no question about it. Cautionary tale, right.

Speaker 15 (02:36:02):
Get the word you know, I told you these are
the people that you put their their pictures in the
in the TSA area. Anytime that you get that long
screening line where every so often their picture pops up
with the dollar.

Speaker 9 (02:36:14):
Amount underneath they were fined exactly.

Speaker 15 (02:36:16):
It reminds people constantly, and you know that there are consequences,
and we're seeing more airlines do that, especially on diverted flights,
and I'm glad to see it because you're inconveniencing everybody
on that airplane and everybody that's waiting on that airplane
at the next stop that's going to be canceled.

Speaker 9 (02:36:31):
As well.

Speaker 2 (02:36:31):
The fact that people are so oblivious to the concerns
and and and the needs of other people, it's just
it's obviously a growing phenomenon. People are very very selfish
and don't care about other people, all right, Elon musk
is he going to fix it? We had a real
problem with air traffic controls, shortage of them. That's one
of the things that they said was could have been
a problem in DC. But I saw the other day.

(02:36:53):
I guess two aircraft ran into each other on the
runway on Wednesday, a Japanese airliner and I guess some
delta flight. But that's an air traffic control issue, I
would imagine, So what's going on and what do we
need to fix? Jay?

Speaker 15 (02:37:06):
Yeah, on that way was a delta flight was being deced.
You know, the japan airlines playing taxing by and think
nailed it. Pretty easy to tell who's at fault there, ye,
because only one of the two airplanes were moving. But
you know, Elon musk Is is a very it kind
of guy, and I would pay I would have paid
money to have walked with him as he's been given

(02:37:29):
the tour of the Federal Aviation Administration. Air traffic control
says where they're relying on some of this equipment and
technology that it goes back seventy years.

Speaker 2 (02:37:39):
They're still using a giant floppy discs.

Speaker 9 (02:37:42):
I heard, Well, they are.

Speaker 15 (02:37:44):
There's so many things that have to be upgraded, and
it would be like, I don't know, I can't even
think of the comparison, but for somebody like him, and
even President Trump and others that are saying, look, this
is so far past being done here, we've got to
get this fixed. And other administrations have made a similar assessment,

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but nothing ever seems to get done. And one of
the frustrations of air traffic control is that these controllers
have to work with a lot of this antiquated equipment.
And I'll say that from a retention standpoint, it makes
their job as controllers more stressful, harder to do. And
you want to do everything you can to keep these
men and women sticking around for a while. Let's give

(02:38:28):
them state of the art equipment to you, so let's
make their job easier. Let's let's make aviation safer so
that we can do everything that we want to do.
As far as protecting everybody who flies. There's no way
that you can have two two and a half million
people fly every day, and I consider that a priority.
But Brian, the problem has been over the last several decades,

(02:38:50):
we found a way to make it work so in
the eyes of the people that spend money in Washington, DC.
Why spend hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars on
this and then a like number here and hundreds of
million because it's working now, so we can use that
money elsewhere, and they do. And it's really unfortunate because
we're so far behind. It's going to take a administration

(02:39:13):
or two to get us caught up. But hopefully Trump
can get us pointed in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (02:39:18):
Well, one can only hope. And thinking of a day hatter,
I hope they keep security in mind. If they're upgrading
the air traffic control system by way of keeping it
from being able to be hacked.

Speaker 15 (02:39:28):
All right, Well, that that that for sure. But I
just can't wait to see the left go nuts. I mean,
if he makes aviation safer, you know they're going to
complain and it's like it's just a lucy But that's
what's how dare you make it safer for me to fly?

Speaker 9 (02:39:46):
I'm so glad I didn't vote for you. Yeah, it's
just it's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (02:39:50):
It is absolutely ridiculous. All right, let's conclude, as we
always do. Hub delays.

Speaker 9 (02:39:53):
What's it like out there to be a hair only
everything to the Northeast. I mean it's nuts.

Speaker 15 (02:39:59):
We've got ice, we've got wind, we've got snow, limited visibility,
we've got everything from Charlotte towards the northeast. New York, Philadelphia,
d C, Boston getting absolutely hammered today. Some canceled flights,
a lot of delayed flights. It's gonna be with us
the entire day. Hopefully better by tomorrow. But if you're
flying tomorrow morning, some of the originating flights may not

(02:40:20):
make it to where you need to be, So tomorrow
morning flights are going to be impacted as well. So
for the next twenty four to thirty six hours, this
storm going through the Northeast is really gonna hammer operations
across the country. So if you're headed towards the Northeast,
just take an extra dissipation. It's gonna be a slow go.

Speaker 2 (02:40:37):
Day, Ratliff, I enjoy the conversation every week. I can't
thank you know for spending time with my listeners and me.
God bless you, sir and your better half. We'll talk
next Thursday.

Speaker 9 (02:40:46):
Looking forward to it.

Speaker 15 (02:40:47):
In one of these days, Lord Willing, I'm anxious to
join you on one of those luncheons when I can.
It's it's hard for me with my training to do it,
but believe me, brother, I'm going to work hard to
make that happen.

Speaker 2 (02:40:58):
I can't wait, and I'll just keep my fingers crossed.
That day happened sooner rather than later. But anytime is
a great time. Thank you, brother. We'll talk again next Thursday,
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