55KRC Thursday Show - Todd Zinser, Cory Bowman, Jay Ratliff

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Five o five at to give out k r C
the talk station. Happy Friday Eve.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
This is no crying baseball true.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Sorry for the pause there head to operate the cough button.
You know, the first utterances of my morning come at
five oh five when I say five five needed to
clear my throat. Didn't know that anyway. Happy Friday Eve
to your Thursday and a great opening day. I'm certain
it will be you. Optimistic Joe for the Reds. Yeah,

(01:05):
it's baseball season. That's true. There is no crying in baseball,
and there's of course no guarantee the Reds are going
to be successful this year, but we can all keep
our fingers crossed. What is coming up in the fifty
five kerr see morning show. I love when Todd Zenser
comes in the studio Citizen Watchdog former Inspector General Todd
Zendzer keeping his eye. He's the doge of Hamilton County
basically and most notably the city, and does wonderful work.

(01:29):
Citizens Watchdog is his podcast. I strongly encourage listeners, most
notably residents of the city of Cincinnati, to check that
podcast out. Todd is all over what's going on Shenanigan Shenanigan,
Shenanigan's Declaration, City fraud, waist and Abuse hotline. We have
a new sports arena discussion and who he supports for mayor.

(01:49):
Speaking of which, Corey Bowman is going to join the
program at eight oh five. Not in studio this time,
but we'll get his thoughts and comments about the debate
the other day. How his campaign is going, and I
think his support is growing. And according to Westside Jim Keefer,
who did attended the debate, a lot of attention from
AFTAB Provoll focused far more on Corey Bowman than the

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other so called Republican who's seeking the nomination of the
primary so primaries. I think it's pretty much foregone conclusion.
If I was reading Tea Leaves, I would say we
have a race between Corey Bowman and AFTAB Proval. I
don't think I'm going on too much of a limit
suggesting that I heard media aviation expert Jay Ratliff. We
always look forward to talking to Jay. I enjoyed my

(02:31):
conversations with Jay. He's a really great guy, and of
course there's always something crazy going on in the world
of aviation, and every time I talk with him, I'm
I'm not afraid of flying. Conceptually, I understand the physics
of flying and how successful so many airplanes are in
taking off and landing without incident, apparently safer than driving

(02:53):
an automobile, especially these days people are crazy on the
roads out there. But that being said, it's always like,
every time he gives me an update on something going
on in the world of aviation, it's just like one
more check mark on the fly don't fly division, it's
don't fly. So I've got a rule. If I can
get there, and I think I've extended it out of

(03:14):
eight hours, if I can drive someplace in eight hours
or less, I'm going to drive. Then again, I do
enjoy driving. I hate being stuck in the tin can. Anyhow,
I do love hearing from you, though five one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight to two three
talk found five fifty on at and T phones. A

(03:35):
lot going on in the world. Of course, there's plenty
to talk about this morning, but perhaps there is a
topic you would like to address, so feel free to
raise it here on the fifty five CARSNY Morning Show,
and also make sure you check out fifty five cars
dot com judge in and Apolotan on the history of
the freedom of speech. Got to take the good with
the bad, that's the bottom line on that one. We
talked wine tariffs yesterday with Keegan Corcoran and his well

(03:58):
vineyard owning a friend Thomas was his name, AFP Bernie
Mourinho rally. We learned about that for Americans for Prosperity
and the politics of envy. Excellent commentary as always by
our friend Jack Adad and he's a friend of everyone.
Brilliant Manny is in very thoughtful and insightful comments. So

(04:18):
if you didn't get a chance to listen to that live,
check it out. If you have cares dot comics, should
get your ieart media by your over there so you
can listen to those podcasts and stream all the iHeart
content real time. Just point like my wife is probably
doing right now. Anyhow, Good morning, real quick here, I
just go over the road closures because it is going
to be a bit of a mess downtown since I

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of course the Opening Day parade. I just beloved Opening
Day Parade. It's one of the things you can put
a smile on your face about. It's a group of
people that get together, a diverse group of people, people
of all race, ethnicities, creeds, and income levels joining together
to celebrate Opening Day and having a good time. Hopefully

(05:00):
the weather holds, we'll have a nice day for it.
See here, showers are still possible after two pm. We're
going to be partly cloudy at fifty five at noontime
when the parade starts, and of course four to ten
for the first pitch, they're expecting cloudy skies. Fifteen percent
precipitation is what's in the forecast, so very limited likelihood

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of rain, which is wonderful. But if you're going to
be going downtown as a lot of road closures, soon
as we'll get through those again. Parde starts at noon.
Streets will close beginning at eight a m. Fun fact
on that one Race Street closed between Liberty and mcmickon
Elm closed between Liberty, mcmick and Finley Street closed between

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Central Parkway and Vine. Elder Street closed between Central and
Vine Green Street, between Vine and Logan, Henry between Race
and Dunlap. Dunlap closed between Finley and mcmickon Logan between
Liberty Street and Finley. Parde Route and Cross streets will
also close. Ahead of the parade beginning at eleven fifteen.
Make sure you get down there early, I think is

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what's important to note about that. Now that I'm now
I'm stating the obvious, just a reminder though. Parade begins
at the intersection of Race and Liberty, then goes down
Race to Fifth. At Fifth, it goes east to the
demarcation area at Sentinel Street, where the route ends. Cross
streets that will close in addition to the prade route

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eighth Street, Seventh, Sixth, Vine, Walnut, Maine, Sycamore, and Broadway,
said the City Center press release that access the downtown
hotels within the Parde route closures will be maintained. Access now,
I don't know if that means on foot or you'll
be able to take a vehicle to get to the hotel.
I strongly encourage folks to not consider taking a vehicle

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anywhere near the played Parde route because you're probably not
going to get through. There are a whole bunch of
people that show up at that thing let's see here
and driving downtown for the game and celebrations. They suggest
checking out I seventy five South Freeman Avenue to exit
to Merrick seventy five North fifth Street exit, then right

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on Central Avenue seventy one south take the Reading Road
exit to Eggleston, and I four seventy one Columbia Parkway
third Street exit to the Riverfront. They recommend using parking
facilities around the Riverfront and downtown to walk to the game. Also,

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Cincinnati Metro offering free bus rides during all of opening Day,
so Metro is a freebe today. They will maintain service
during the faily Market parade. Some downtown stops obviously going
to be closed in the morning and afternoon because of
course the parade route stops include Government Square and other
downtown location. Streetcar service will begin after the parade, and

(07:55):
so no streetcar today. Apparently all so happening on open
Day the Reds Community Fund block party that starts at
eleven in this morning, and streets will close at six pm.
Let's see these streets was Wednesday evening for the block party.
I guess that was yesterday. So anyhow, WCPO appreciate the

(08:17):
reporting on the street closures and that allowed me to
give my listeners advanced notice of what's going on. So
I think it's pretty safe to say not going to
be easy to get around downtown today unless you're walking,
and why not.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Good for you.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
It's healthy, it's exercise, and you get to see all
the people, wonderful people watching opportunity which I thoroughly enjoy.
So let's hope we get a win today. That would
be a good thing. Start the season off right. Oh,
there's so many different places I can go. But anyway,
the big news this morning you here on top of
the hour, and the United Auto Workers are big fans

(08:53):
of Trump because he just imposed or he's imposing, a
twenty five percent tariff on imported automobiles. And you know,
on the heels of the conversation yesterday with Keegan on
tariffs on wines, a very complicated issue here, I wonder
about the import automobile dealers and their struggles because, of course,
if a twenty five percent tariff on imported automobiles, that's

(09:15):
going to push them of buyers potentially over to domestic automobiles.
And that's exactly why the UAW is excited about that.
The statement UAW said, Trump's plans imposed this terrifying imported
auto is a continuation of his Made in America renaissance.
Their words and mark the beginning of the end of
the North American Free Trade Agreement. We applaud the Trump

(09:38):
administration for stepping up to end the free trade disaster
that has devastated working class communities for decades. Ending the
race to the bottom in the auto industry starts with
fixing our broken trade deals. And the Trump administration has
made history with today's actions. You draw your own conclusions
of whether that's a good thing or not, but you know,

(09:58):
you got to go back to the realc that we have.
It's an unfair playing field out there in the world.
We the United States of America, have made it very
complicated for manufacturing to exist in this country. Why we
have a lot of rules regulations, you know, of course,
the collective bargaining agreements with the unions. I get their argument.
They get together in an effort to you know, be
able to create a level playing field with management, to

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get better terms of conditions. But that of course increases
the salaries that are paid the unions. Unions have a
lot of stupid rules in place which increase the cost
of doing business. And that's just through the collective bargaining agreements.
So there's one reason it's more expensive to build cars
here in America. But then pivot over to the rules
and regulations. You got Osha, you got environmental regulations, you
got all these different regulations that also drive up the cost.

(10:44):
Do they have those in Mexico? No, at least far fewer.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Now.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
I wouldn't want to set up shop in Mexico given
the insanely stupid and out of control system of government
they had there and the overrunning of their country and
control by drug cartels. It's a violent country. Politicians have
very little leverage over the violent cartels because if they
step up and try to stop them, they usually end

(11:11):
up dead. So it's a downwards spiral there. And of course,
if you've got employees that are going to and from
work in a manufacturing facility in Mexico, they face challenges
and have to deal with that. Standard of living is
probably much lower there, but it's a lot cheaper to
manufacture things there because they don't have any of the
previously the previous shortlist I gave you to deal with.

(11:36):
So taxing cars imported from elsewhere, and you know, when
I think a car is coming from the European Union.
They have heavy regulations, rules and obligations and everything like that.
They have to deal with even more so in terms
of the environmental environmental rules, which creates less options for
the consumer. I know Germany is struggling with this because

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of the environmental rules and not making internal combustion engines
any more. I mean, you look at Porsches and you think, well,
that was a car that was built on the eternal
combustion engine. Got a great reputation. They are well world
renowned for their performance and handling. Now they've got to
make them all electric and nobody wants to buy them.
So problem for you know, manufacturers in Europe. But hey,

(12:20):
you pivot over to manufacturers in Mexico or China, We're
now going to be worried about electric vehicles coming from China.
Now they'll be twenty five percent more, I suppose. But
they have zero world that they do whatever the hell
they want. They also have slave labor and they don't
pay employees very much, so there isn't eleven level playing
field out there. So you try to create a level
playing field by just making them imported cars more expensive

(12:42):
simply because they're less expensive to build elsewhere. And with
global corporations, obviously, if you're an executive at a corporation.
You're think, how do we increase profit, improve shareholder profitability.
If it was easier to build a car and cheaper
to build a car, we can make more profit. Huh, Well,
it's expensive to do it here in America. Let's build

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a factory elsewhere. And that's been going on for decades.
That's how we lost so much manufacturing. Ignoring tariffs, the
playing field is not level at all. We've created a
situation in this country that makes it simply more expensive
to build literally anything or do literally literally anything. So

(13:22):
I'm not sure if this is ultimately going to work out.
The head of the Labors of UAW President Sean Fain, said,
ending the race of the bottom lust include securing union
rights for auto workers everywhere with a strong national labor
relations board, a decent retirement with social Security benefits protected.

(13:45):
Underscore that word, healthcare for all workers, including through Medicare
and Medicaid, and dignity on and off the job. Well
that's great, mister Fane, but if you take just that
one program out of his sentence, social security, it's a
train wreck, and our elected officials aren't doing anything about
it because we can all get freaked out. Oh, my god,

(14:06):
they're going to touch social Security. We can't have that.
It's a train wreck. It's falling apart. There's not enough
money coming in to pay the benefits going out. We've
known about this for years and years and years and years.
Now here's a union representative. They could have had a
pension program, and they could have funded a pension program
and not have to worry about Social Security and whether

(14:27):
or not it's going to continue to provide benefits. But
just saying out loud that we need decent retirement with
social security benefits protected, fine, it makes a great statement.
But will our elected officials do something to ensure that
they are protected with social security benefits. I haven't touch
Medicare and Medicaid, and I got this terrible, terrible news

(14:48):
for you. On Medicare and Medicaid. We got a real
problem on our hands. Those are the three programs that
are bringing us to our financial collapse.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
And relying on them.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
And you could say that the greatest programs in the world,
and I won't argue with you on that, But our
elected officials are having duty and obligation finuciary, ethical, moral
for the fiscal stability of our country to make sure
that those programs do not collapse. Our entire fiscal structure
will collapse if something isn't done about those three programs. Something.

(15:24):
And they never touch him. And there's Donald Trump, Love him,
hate him, say what you want about him, but he
always keeps saying I'm not touching it. I'm not going
to do anything because he knows if he utters the
words we need to do something to fix the problem,
his poll numbers will collapse, which actually I think is
a reflection of America's stupidity about the financial reality of
these programs and where they're leading us. Hate to be

(15:46):
the bearer of bad news, but it's just simply a
statement of fact. Five twenty fifty five kosit talks, stations,
stick around, play more to talk about, hope you can
and feel free to call if there's something you want
to talk about, be right back.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
This is fifty five two to three talk pound five
fifty on AT and T phones.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
I met all these talks about cutting this, cutting that,
getting rid of this, getting rider that. I just have
to wonder out loud, why in the hell do we
pay for national public radio? I mean, it's a legitimate question,
is it not. It started out a long time ago,
when the world had much fewer news outlets, and I
guess they felt it was necessary to fund an NPR

(16:29):
who governs the content of NPR, Individuals, editors, people that
are in charge of NPR, and they decide which direction
the organization is going to go, exactly the way independent
media is. But you've got so many outlets for news
these days, why is it the American taxpayer has to
fund what isn't an obviously openly objectively left wing propaganda

(16:50):
arm for the basically the Democrats and NPR CEO Katherine
Mara Mayer was, you know, did testimony yesterday and admitted that,
among other things, they well, of course covered up the
Hunter Biden laptop story, grilled by House Republicans because Doge

(17:12):
is recommended, you know, shutting this thing down. She's speaking
with In response, Representative Michael Cloud from Texas, I do
want to say that MPR acknowledges we were mistaken in
failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptops during more aggressive
and sooner And the sooner part is what's important there,
because one of the Hunter Biden laptops come out right

(17:33):
before the election, and what happened then fifty one really
qualified people, experts in national security and former intelligence officers.
This has all the earmarks of well Russian interference in
the election. They were suggesting it was a lie, it
was a fake, but you know it wasn't our own
people in government, the FBI knew that it was real,
and they knew it was real months before this thing broke.

(17:54):
And yet the administration organized this letter, and I'm sure
NPR reported on the letter a sing at all his
Russian collusion, so perpetuating lies on behalf of the Biden
administration to make sure he got elected, and you paid
for that. I mean, I don't think taxpayer dollars go
over to CNN or MSNBC. They'll sink or swim on

(18:17):
their own based on advertising revenue and whether people watch
it or not. And fear and fewer people are watching
it why because American public woke up to the fact
that it's just a bunch of propaganda and people aren't
interested in just consuming left wing propaganda to the exclusion
of all the other accurate information that is out there
and available to report on. Neutral, independent fact reporting is

(18:37):
what reporters are supposed to do. NPR is merely an
editorial outlet for left wing left leaning I argue propaganda,
so let's not pay for it anymore. Okay, But they
did back around the corner on a lot of things anyhow.

(19:04):
And it's just a tiny slice of spending I know,
And everything the doge is exposed, and everything they've endeavored
to cut off in spite of whatever court order prevents
them from cutting off stupid things. It all adds up
to very little when you compare it to the problems
we are facing, as I mentioned a moment ago, with
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and the national debt and

(19:28):
the debt service on it. They're getting ready to downgrade
our credit rating because of the fiscal strength in our
country deteriorating. Moody's issued a warning about that, just I
believe it was yesterday. Great, all the red flags flying
and waving they have been for years and years, and

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not a finger lifted to correct the problem. We have
a spending problem, and a massive one. Five twenty seven
it's five ks deetalk station local stories. I prefer hearing
from you, so feel free to call Bud. Either way,
we'll go. We will continue after these brief words.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Fifty five KRC dot com. What's up everyone at.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
See the talk station. Friday Eve reminder, we're gonna be
a listener lunch next week. Barleycorn's Wilder, Kentucky location. Pretty
convenient actually either I think four to seventy one or
is it seventy one anyhow, not that difficult to get to,
and everybody says it's a really great place. I've never

(20:26):
been there, but it'll definitely be great in terms of
the fellowship, which I always find to be the just
most of the best part about listening to lunches. We
usually try to pick a good spot. We've been doing
the micro brew Tour, the brewery tour this year. We
may DEVI eight from that. I've talked to the lady
that I have to take care of setting up listener lunches.

(20:47):
At one point may end up at Jim and Jacks.
My friends at Jim and Jacks have been asking us
to show back up, so I thought maybe we'll do
that as we get closer to the election, so beyond
that next week. Schedule for it usually started about eleven
thirty Barli Corns Wilder, Kentucky location. Looking forward to seeing
my friends in the Commonwealth. It's been a while since
we've been there, and my apologies for not making it

(21:07):
over more often. Anyhow, we got local stories here. Two
people hospitalized after a late afternoon shooting. Winton Hills is
where the look at where it happened. According to police,
shooting coccurred in the five thousand block of Vivian Place
and wenton Hills about five fifteen in the afternoon. City
bus in say Police department talking to Fox nineteen thanks

(21:29):
them for reporting two men shot, one in the neck,
described it in critical condition I imagine, the other in
the arm with non life threatening injuries. When witnesses at
the scene said they heard more than a dozen gun shots,
Police recovered fifteen bullet casings from the scene, so apparently

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victim fell. The first victim fell on the ground of
being shot in the neck bystanders scattered as the gunfire erupted.
One of the alleged gunmen followed the second victim, who
he then shoots in the arm and then away. No
one's been arrested, according to police. The investigation is ongoing.
I imagine if you know anything about this, I'm not
going to give crime strivers a call. It three five

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to two thirty forty, Hamilton County selling several office buildings
in order to save money in streamline operations. According to
announcement yesterday from county officials, they've hired a commercial real
estate broker called Jones Langlessou to sell five county owned
office buildings that provided past dance office face for Hamilton

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County Job and Family Service, Hamilton County Developmental Disability Service,
in Hamilton County Public Health, among other departments. If you're interested,
the building's range in science from thirty thousand square feet
to approximately two hundred and fifty thousand square feet, Located
in various Cincinna neighborhoods, including over the Rhyane, Walnut Hills,
Madison Villan Quarryville specifically two twenty two East Central Parkway

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assessed value fourteen point four million, two fifty William Howard
Taft Road three point two million, two sixty four William
Howard taft On hundred and eighty nine thousand for that
one discount, fifteen twenty Madison Road two point six million,
and fifty ninety three Kingsley Drive at two million. Buildings
combined value just over twenty two million. According to the

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latest assessment from the auditor. Proceeds from the building sales
will be used to offset the cost to purchase and
renovate the old Mercy Health Building a bond Hill, where
the county plans to consolidate about fourteen hundred employees, including
those moving from the buildings that I just mentioned. Consolidating
operations expected to save the county taxpayers hundreds of thousands
of dollars annually, according to county officials Commissioner Stephanie Dumas

(23:37):
quote by consolidating multiple departments in a more modern facility
in bond Hill, where streamlining operations saving taxpayers, she says
four hundred thousand dollars a year and delivering direct services
closer to the first suburbs. Some of the buildings sold,
including the Alms and dup Key Building Central Parkway designed
by architects Samuel Hunneford and Diana Burnham, and will be

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prime candidates for office conversions to residential or mixed use development.
At least that's what the the officials have said. Alms
and Duky also known locally and colloquially as the Arms
and Deputy Building. Anyway, Commissioner reset, I'm hopeful the consolidating
service is one location at the old Mercy site will

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allow the cand to free up other real estate to
create more opportunities for affordable workforce and student housing. Okay,
five thirty five fifty five krc DE Talk Station. We'll
dive into stack is Stupid? Coming up next? If you
care to stick around or care to call, I hope
you do stick around and feel free to call. I'll
be right back.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Fifty five KRC The Talks Station.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Five Krcdtalk Station and Happy Friday Eve aka Thursday five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five hundred eight enter D two three o'clock.
It's funnier if you actually see the visual of this guy,
because remember, if you're going to damage a tesla to
a car, it's got cameras all over it. So we
got video camera footage, and it's very clear video camera
footage of an ATV riding Texas guy ramming his four

(25:08):
wheeler into multiple cars during what it's described as an
unprovoked hitting run spree that happened on Tuesday this week.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
What the hell?

Speaker 1 (25:15):
So just you gotta see it because he's five foot
two clocking in at four hundred and forty nine pounds.
What yep? De marc quiun Marquez cox I was waiting

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for that, hence the pause. Cox Joe Phrasing arrested after
one of the alleged tax was recorded by the Tesla
that he ran into. According to police and Texar Kind
of Texas, thirty three yeld allegedly spotted the electric spot
of the electric vehicles sitting in the parking lot of
a Golden Palace Chinese buffet while its owner was having

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lunch in the restaurant. Cox rammed head on into the
side of the red Tesla. Corner of the video obtained
by local news there ktbs laving noticeable damage to the
front driver's side door corner. To owner Christine Carsteffan, she
was alerted the attack by her phone, which, of course
there's an app connected to the Tesla automobile which said

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your car basically is being attacked. Apparently it's going to
cost her over one thousand dollars to replace the entire door.
Police call it to the area of the rampage. After
a second Tesla was damaged in a nearby lows. Cox
was stopped by cops just over a mile south the
Golden Palace after an offer to recognized Cox from the

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Chinese buffet video. He claimed to be a different person
than the one in the video, provided a false name
during his initial interrogation, but he is dressed the same.
He is five foot two and four hundred and forty
nine pounds riding around in an ATV. How many people
fit that discription. Officers arrested the guy. They of course

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didn't buy into his story, but according to the Tech
Star Pan Arcada Public Information Office, based on what they
had seen the video, they knew for a fact that
he was the only one who at least hit the
initial tesla charged with felony criminal mischief resulting in damage
between twenty five hundred and thirty thousand dollars in failure
to identify suspect had carved also elon into the side

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of the other two cars. He's been charged with damaging
the first carved. Officials said the investigation is ongoing and
there may be more charges filed. Later being held at
the Bystate Justice Center on one hundred and five thousand
dollars bond, I don't think logistically that's possible, Joe, meaning

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he's four and fifty pounds. This kind of cracker scratched
my head. O her hygiene issues. Sorry, internal monologue coming out.
Twenty one year old Florida man angry at his dad,
so he drove dad's vehicle into the ocean. BET's gotta say?
Had Joshua Cuss borrowed his father's car, but he failed

(28:13):
to return the vehicle to his parents. In Jacksonville Beach
around two o'clock in the morning, cops received a report
about an automobile floating around the ocean, a cord to
the rest report. Upon arriving at the beach, officer spotted
a gray Subaru floating in the water. Elsewhere in the report,
the car is identified as a twenty eleven Volvo x
C seventy.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Police soon Locatedcus since his father had been pinging the
location of his son's phone. Cuss cop to the ocean littering,
saying that he sought to use a cinder block to
send the car into the ocean. What when that failed,
he got into the car and drove it in all
I guess on the accelerator. He got into the car,

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drove it into the water, reported turning all the lights
and turning on all the lights and making sure no
one was nearby before accelerating the vehicle into the ocean.
Quote While driving, he grinned and wished he could point
his middle finger at his father and aunt, as this tradition.
After departing the beach, Cuss walked to his mom's nearby house.

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His parents apparently divorced in twenty twenty three. Recording the
court records after his dad decided to press charges, Cuss
arrested on felony criminal mischief. John Cuss, dad sixty years old,
reported a loss of sixty five hundred dollars on the
submerged vehicle.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Being helped me kind of Joe on loeu of a
twenty five hundred dollars bond. Apparently back in twenty two,
twenty twenty two, Cuss pleaated no contest to a dui
charge and was sentenced to twelve months probation. He was
eighteen at the time, driving his father's Volvo when he
got arrested on that charge, and a letter to his
son's sentencing judge, Cuss wrote that Joshua has a lot
of work ahead of him, and I can only hope

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that he learns from his mistake, his mistake and turns
into a good into a good life. Lesson, Well, dad,
he didn't need your advice. By forty five ify five
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By the way, he's partly clouding and a seventy three high.
Fifty seven overnight with partly cloudy skys. Seventy seven will
be the high on Saturday, thirty seven degrees. Right now.

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one folk wide open on the bridges, chuck Ingram on
fifty five KR.

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Seed the talk station.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
By forty nine at fifty five KR see talk stations
returning to the stack of stupid. We go to Houston, Texas,
where three teenage girls are in custody after allegedly planning
to kill their mom. Motive she turned off the Wi
Fi in the home.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Why are you doing that?

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Harris Kond of wtysay. The incident occurred in Houston on Sunday.
Girls fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen reportedly grabbed kitchen knives and
chased their mom through the house and into the street,
attempting to stab her. Thirty say. One of the teens
struck her mother with a brick. Grandmother also knocked down
while trying to protect the mother.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
Dear, what the hell?

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Fortunately neither of those women sustained serious injuries. All three
teens arrested a charge with aggravated assault with the deadly weapon.
They've been booked the Harris County Juvenile Facility. They turned
off the Wi Fi and just staring disbelief at something
like that. Okay. We go to Winnipeg. Women in her

(32:14):
thirties run over via a vehicle after an argument with
a driver about saving an open parking spot. Winnipeg Police
Service responded to a report of a motor vehicle collision
involving a pedestrian in a parking lot Saint James Street,
two thirty in the afternoon. Victims standing in an unoccupied

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parking spot to save it for a family member who
was driving through a lot at a recreational facility. The
woman waited for them to drive up, and then a
separate vehicle showed up first. The driver began arguing with
the woman and proceeded to drive into the stall, knocking
her to the ground. Women became trapped under the front
tires of the SUV before the driver left. Quote with

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no concern clothes. Quote for the victim women taking to
the hospital and the stable condition with lower body injuries,
please say. They arrested a forty year old woman and
charged her with assault with a weapon and driving carelessly
under the highway traffic act. I know you're tempted to
do that, now are what are the if you're a

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human being standing in a parking lot, isn't that a
parking store? Isn't that considered occupied, or do you have
an obligation ethically and morally to move away and allow
someone else to park there If you know your friend's
car is coming or your relatives car is coming and
you've just secured the spot with your body, isn't that
the same thing as the car getting there first? Yeah,

(33:44):
there's that, and probably all to avoid walking in additional
fifteen or twenty feet because you know there's another parking
spot right right down the lane there. All right, we'll
go to Southet Little Highway and how a teen is
accused of causing major damage to a McDonald's manager's suv.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
So how are you doing?

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Seventeen year old boy banned from a McDonald's location after
allegedly causing extensive damage to the car. Media outlet there,
reported Cleveland dot com. The authorities were called McDonald's on
South Euclid about almost six pm March tenth, after officers
received the port of a teenager breaking out the windows
of the car. Police arrived and the scene found extensive
damage had been done to the vehicle's body and windows,

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but could not locate the suspect, who was identified by
several students in the area. Manager of the location told
the officers that the teen had entered the restaurant with
a metal object in his hand and threatened to fight him.
The authorities contact of the teen's mom. She reportedly told
police that he had likely damaged the SUV because he
was upset over something the manager had done to his sister.

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Earlier in the day. Police informed a woman that the
teen had been banned from the business and that charges
would be filed in juvenile court. He also hit with
trespass charges several days later after he returned to McDonald's
but left before the police arrived on the scene. He's

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been charged with criminal damaging and menacing.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots, no doubt about him.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Scheduled trip to a near driver's license in South Florida
apparently highly sought, so highly sought after that you would
think it's like trying to get a ticket to a
concert that sold out. Anyway. The Miami Dade County Tax
Collector's Office announced earlier this week that had uncovered a
network of scalpers who hoarded free DMV appointments and resold

(35:42):
them for up to two hundred and fifty bucks. What
apparently get an appointment to the DMV such a problematic
experience of drivers were willing to pay to avoid it
in the first place. It's a free service. Scoppers a
massed appointments using bots and fake accounts to exploit an

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online system. Tax collector's office. By the two hundred suspicious
appointments in the first three weeks after opening the new
downtown Miami location for the DMV service agency headed sites
set on individuals who are part of a local driving school,
driving schools and suspects in well clogging up the DMV system.
Miami Dade County tax Collector DEWO. Fernandez said in a

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release that, well, we know who they are and how
they operate. We will not accept any appointment obtained through
system abuse. Our office is committed to ensuring that all
residents have a fair and equal access to service without
interference from those seeking to exploit the system. You know,
it's interesting because a very similar thing was occurring apparently
with popular restaurant reservations. People are using bots to make

(36:52):
reservations that highly sought after restaurants and then selling those
reservations to people. So techn lot of technology abuse something
what arresting me for what I'm not allowed to stand
up for myself.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
I thought this was America. Is this America?

Speaker 3 (37:09):
I'm sorry, I thought this was America's.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Funny to talk about the six o'clock hour. Feel free
to call. I would love to talk to you. Five
one three, seven fifty eight hundred and eight two to
three talk be right back after the.

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News covering Trump's first one hundred days.

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State buck station and it is Friday eighty. I'm very
happy one to you. I always enjoy it. For no
other reason. I heard me. Aviation expert Jay Ratliff's coming on.
Got a lot of things to talk about with Jay
this morning. That'll take place at eight thirty, as it
does every Thursday. Corey Bowman from Ericory's gonna call in
the show at eight oh five. We'll talk about the
debate and how his campaign's going. Thank You's a good
guy and a refreshing alternative from the well. How many

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decades now have Democrats been running the city of Cincinnati.
Uh oh, And here's a suggestion. Since Todd's Zen is
going to join the program in an hour, he'll be
in studio former Inspector General and watch dog for the
taxpayers and citizens generally in Cincinnati as well as Hamilton County.
We'll be talking about cities fraud, waste and abuse hotline.

(38:15):
I guess there is one of those. I talk about
the new sports arena, the ideas being talked about, but
we don't have any money to build one, and his
thoughts on who he is in favor of and support
for mayor. So I think it's going to come down
to Cory Bowman and have to have pro ball. That's
my bet and I'd put all my money in on
that outcome. Anyway, that's the rundown for today. Five one, three, seven, four,

(38:36):
nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three
talk pound five to fifty on AT and T funds anyway,
since apparently it is a city fraud waste abuse hotline
and I read this article, it was either earlier this
week or last week. Yeah, you're supposed to be able
to get reimbursed for damage done to your car by
hitting potholes, but that's only if the city has neglected

(38:57):
the road and not dealt with or recently addressed pothole
situation after it's been called in and so not a
single claim has been paid because the city claims, well,
we were recently there and we recently dealt with the pothole.
So it sucks to be you. I think that's boiled
down the final analysis. That's it. So going back to
my favorite road, the war torn Sunset, somebody gets if

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your car is damage when you drive it on Sutset,
calling a claim and ask the reimbursement for it, because
there is no way in hell they can claim that
they have addressed the situation on Sunset recently, I mean
decades anyhow. So bad news in the for our US
government and US government's fiscal strength is deteriorating as they

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talk about extending the debt ceiling, which is barely going
to have to be done sooner rather than later. Moody's
Rating issued a report on Tuesday this week. Our fiscal
strength deteriorating is a trend of larger budget deficits and
mounting debt continues. They say, our fiscal health is worsened

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in the time since it's lowered its outlook on the
country's Triple A credit rating back in November of twenty three, independently,
Fitch cut the US credit rating one tier from Triple
A down to Double A plus and twenty twenty three
over fiscal challenges and debt limit to brinkmanship, which I
think refers to those, you know, extraordinary measures that we

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have to go through and the government shutdown anyway. Standard
and Poors did so after the twenty eleven debt limit
crisis that spurred a partial government shutdown. So all the
credit agencies are coming through the cold dose cold water
reality realization that while we suck now compared to the
rest of the world, maybe we don't suck as much,
but we got a spending problem. Moody's road. Even in

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a very positive and low probability economic and financial scenario,
debt affordability remains materially weaker than for other triple A
rated and highly rated sovereigns. Other people, I guess have
their fiscal house in order much better than we do.
Moody's projected the ratio of public debt to gross domestic product,

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a metric favored by economists and determining government debt relative
to the size of the economy, will rise from nearly
one hundred percent this year to about one hundred and
thirty percent in twenty thirty five, interest payments accounting for
thirty percent of revenue by twenty thirty five. That's the
trillions of dollars in a hole that we've dug ourselves
because of overspending. It was nine percent in twenty twenty one.

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Think about that. Your credit card payment is consuming thirty
percent of all the money you take in household. Cannot
survive on that, now, can they? And how can our
nations go? How can our government? It can't. Moody said,
we see diminished prospects of this time and that these
strengths will continue to offset widening fiscal deficits and decline

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debt affordability because of the need for bipartisan support. Here's
an observation which would cut against many Republican and Democrat
politicians' pledges to leave mandatory spending programs like Social Security, Medicare,
Medicaid untouched. Moody said, large spending cuts would be difficult
to implement. That's the target right there. There is the

(42:21):
challenge right there, the three social welfare spending plans. Now,
let's turn over to Medicaid. Interesting analysis. Taxpayers spent billions
covering the same Medicaid patients twice. Article from the Wall
Street Journals health insurers got double paid by Medicaid for
the coverage of hundreds of thousands of patients across the country.

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Insurers are paid by state and federal governments to cover
low income Medicaid recipients. Right collected at least four point
three billion dollars over three years for patients who were
enrolled and paid for in other states. Patients sign up
for Medicaid in two states at once in many cases
following a move from one state to another, most getting

(43:05):
all of their healthcare service through one insurer in one state,
even though Medicaid was paying insurers in both states to
cover them. Private insurers oversee Medicaid benefits for more than
seventy percent of the seventy two million low income and
disabled people that are in the program. Companies get paid
each month for each person they cover. They aren't supposed

(43:26):
to get paid of a patient lease for another state,
but they do. Medicaid Medicare together cost taxpayers more than
one point eight trillion dollars every single year. Biggest Medicaid
insurer Centa received six hundred and twenty million dollars in
double payments between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one, the

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three years that were analyzed by the Wall Street Journal,
and you can know that problem hasn't gone away since then.
Elevant's Health an extra three hundred and forty six million dollars,
United Health Group two hundred and ninety eight million dollars
extra double payments received. Apparently, individual states design their own
Medicaid programs, following federal guidelines and setting rules on who

(44:08):
will be eligible and what services are going to be covered.
US government covers more than half the cost. States are
responsible for monitoring whether people qualify for benefits, including conducting
yearly eligibility checks for most people. Is that being done?
I probably? I'm thinking not. They say. Government guidelines stipulate
that if Medicaid recipients moved to another state, they are
supposed to cancel their coverage in the former state when

(44:30):
the signing up to the new one, which often gives
them a different insurer. But the recipients don't always cancel,
and the states apparently don't lift a finger to follow
up and find out who's legitimately on the roles and
who's not. And you'd think in these modern times, with
artificial intelligence and multiple systems being connected, and the ability

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of states to communicate with each other and play nicely
together and avoid these expenditures, thus saving the American tax
payer billions of dollars in a program that is set
up like a house of cards and destined to fail,
leading US further in the hole every single year because
Congress refuses to act that they might do something about it.
But I'll know, these insurance companies obviously have no incentive

(45:12):
whatsoever to clean up the roles and make sure they're
not getting dumb. Oh look, we're getting extra payment. Why
if you're an insurance company responsible like SENTA or Sentien CNTNY.
This first time I ever heard of the place, And
you're getting paid every single year for someone that you

(45:32):
report as eligible to receive Medicaid, you getting less money
if you take them off the eligibility roles. Wouldn't you well,
why would you bother? Why would you bother to look
at it? The states clearly don't care now for the

(45:54):
insurance for their parts that it's up to states to
verify people's eligibility and to disenroll them if necessary. Well, okay,
it's a state's fault. Medicare and Medicaid agency doesn't screen
for the double payments, leaving that to the states to do.
State officials say identifying people who moved is difficult. On

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that recoveries of improper payments from managed care companies are
limited because state agencies often don't realize Medicaid recipients have
moved until their annual eligibility checks. Managed care companies can
collect monthly payments before a patient is dropped off the roles.
Obviously a financial incentive to ignore the problem that exists.
And this is just double payments, folks, that they cleaned

(46:38):
up the roles and got the ranks, just like Social
Security is doing now under Evil Doge and Evil Elon Musker.
It's easy to commit fraud, it's easy to collect payments.
What incentive do you have? Your profitability goes up when
you ignore the reality and then someone no longer lives

(46:59):
in the state. Sounds like the system is structurally designed
to encourage and incentivize this, doesn't it. Six fifteen five
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Fifty five KRC have you taken your friend?

Speaker 1 (48:35):
Comline says to day opening day grade starts at noon,
first pitch four to ten bouts of increase. Showers are
possible after two pm. Likelihood is kind of low, they say.
By the time it's the first pitch, there's only a
fifteen percent chance of rain. Fifty eight over the high today,
comfortable forty eight overnight with a few showers. Showers are
likely tomorrow morning. It'll be partly thady afterwards. Seventy three

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for the high, partly cloudy overnight, fifty seven Saturday, maybe
some Rainhio seventy seven. It's thirty six right now. In
time for traffic, chuck well, you.

Speaker 6 (49:07):
See how traffic center for a nation of doctor tate
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Highway traffic doing just fine for your opening day commute,
no accidents to deal with downtown at Finlay Market, you
can expect the streets around the market to start to

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close at eight am. The parade route that doesn't close
till eleven fifteen. Chucking rom on fifty five KRC the
talk station.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Six twenty five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred,
eight hundred and eighty two three talk pound five fifty
on AT and T phone. Steve was kind enough to
hold over the brake. I promise you, Steve, you're first
out of the gate. Welcome to the program, Sarah, thanks
for holding in calling in this morning.

Speaker 8 (49:52):
Yes, sir, thank you for taking my phone call for
me too. I am in Independence and I'm looking forward
to listener love. I think it's on the double A
Highway that Barley Corns and Wilder.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
That was what I was trying to think of, because
it's you can get to it from four to seventy
one was an exit that makes it really convenient double
A Highway. Also, it's not that difficult to get to.
I'm just pointing that out for my Ohio listeners who
are like, wait a minute, Wilder, Kentucky, where's that. Well,
it's it's really really convenient for everyone from the major expressways.

Speaker 8 (50:26):
It is, and I mean it's a fairly new establishment,
maybe in the last year or two it was built,
and a lot of outdoor seatings, so hopefully the weather
is going to be good. I went to a listener
lunch about a year ago, so this will be my
second one. I'm sure you remember meeting me. I'm the
guy that shook your hand and said I like your

(50:46):
show a lot. So I mean, I'm sure I made
a big impact on you. You remember that, right, He
ever said? Nothing ever?

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Does that eat?

Speaker 1 (50:55):
First time that's ever happened, Steve? Of course.

Speaker 8 (50:58):
Well, and I know you told one time somebody asked
for your autograph and you felt really funny, So I
might you.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Know whatever, But yeah, I am really.

Speaker 8 (51:11):
You're like one of the family. You're not a celebrity.
You don't let anything go to your head.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
There never ever ever gonna happen.

Speaker 8 (51:18):
And I'm actually going to bring my lovely spouse this time.
You might remember me. I might. I we might make
more of an impact than I did.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
That's certainly possible. I imagine, Steve, because you called him before
and we've had conversations before. You seem like a bright guy.
I imagine you outkicked your coverage as.

Speaker 8 (51:38):
Most definitely, and that seems to be the theme with
a lot of people that talk to you, and yourself included.
Oh well, what I wanted to just comment on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,
the big three that no politician touches, and whenever they've

(51:58):
talked about the massive debt in this country, you are
really not permitted to touch those because promises made and
you know, in other words, commitments were made. People paid
into the programs to a large degree, certainly on Social
Security and Medicare anyway, maybe you know, not Medicaid, but
you really aren't supposed to touch those. And they would

(52:21):
always say, there's only so even somebody who's trying to
fix the broken system only has so much to work
with because of these major commitments of money that go
to those three programs. But if you look at the fraud, waste,
and abuse, I'm going to make up a number and
it might be realistic. You might be able to cut

(52:43):
each one of those programs twenty five percent, just making
it and not screwing anybody out of any money. Exactly,
accept people builking the system. That is like a you know,
the just a glimmer of hope for us. There is
a chance to get us, you know, a little more

(53:04):
fiscally correct in the way we operate, just by saving
those programs, and there is hope. So hopefully, you know,
we get in there and they get cleaned up and
everybody gets what they're entitled to, but we quit wasting
the money. Wouldn't that be nice?

Speaker 1 (53:20):
It would be a beautiful thing, and that should be
the mindset of everyone in government. Efficiency ZIP and getting
rid of fraud and being responsible stewards for the dollars
that they take from us. It's you know, if it
was a private business and with shareholders they were dealing with,
they would have that fiscal are they would have that
fiduciary obligation, you know, maximize profit. And one of the

(53:41):
ways of doing that is minimizing waste in the company,
streamlining processes, making the company more profitable. In the case
of government, they aren't there to earn profit, they're there
to take it. They don't have any reason to provide
efficiency because they know they're going to get the tax
dollars regardless of how or stupid they are. They just

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continue to grow and grow, and grow, and I've got
some great illustrations. The DOGE has found more billions of
dollars for insane programs. How is it that you and
I end up funding things that seems so absolutely facially
ridiculous because there's no accountability six twenty five fifty five

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Fifty five KRC turn out your radio.

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at Donald Trump, and they were not able to beat him.
They took him to court, they tried to put him
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country's never seen before.

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None of it worked.

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The American people saw through this, So it's not it's
pretty predictable that this is the only thing they know,
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Here it is for opening yay wether forecast. It looks
pretty promising, so noontime is the when the parade started.
It will just be partly claude with a high fifty
It would be fifty five degrees around the noon for
the first pitch fifty eight degrees. Cloud's precipitation only at
fifteen percent that there is a possibility of showers after
two PM today. Today's high is fifty eight two showers

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every night mostly cloudy otherwise with a little forty eight
seventy three the high We've got morning showers likely then
partly cloudy skuys partly Claudia over night.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
We dropped a.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Fifty seven and seventy seven on Saturday with the possibility
of some showers. It's thirty nine degrees right now. In
time for a traffic update from.

Speaker 6 (58:36):
The UCLP Traffic Center for National Doctor's Day Sunday. We
on are the u SEE Health physicians who are leading
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dot com. Highway traffic in pretty good shape, with one
exception Northern Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
He's been two seventy five.

Speaker 6 (58:51):
There's an accident at Dixie Highway over on the right shoulder.
But even with that, I'm seeing no delays out of
ural anger towards keep foot Chucking rom on fifty five KRC,
the talk.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Station six thirty coming up with six thirty one Happy
to five KR see talk station Happy Friday. Do some
local stories. But if you care to call, I'd love
to take your call five one three seven two three
talk or pound five fifty on AT and T phone.

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That is, assuming Joe puts your name up on the
call screen right Joe, oh Me, say what I know,
you don't understand it, just the heads up. Do find

(59:45):
the road closure schedule because it is opening day and
everyone and his brother goes down for Opening Day parade
and has a wonderful time getting along and playing nicely together.
It's a fantastic thing we've got going here in Cincinnati
is a beautiful thing now, you know, even if you're
not a baseball fan, you like people watching head on down.
This makes sure you get there early because there are
road closures and they start rather early. And metro bus

(01:00:08):
service is free today parenthetically, so you can always catch
the bus. Maybe whenever it had been on a bus,
it'd be a good day to try it out. Oh
on the street Well, the street car is not open
during the prey though, Joe. But it is theoretically free,
much like the free metro bus is theoretically free. You're
still paying for, obviously, the fuel, maintenance, upkeep, and the

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salaries for the people operating the bus. So everyone likes
to point out there is no free launch and let
us see Evanston Rebinson residents described as unhappy after a
plan to help block noise from traffic on Ice seventy
one has been canceled. Multiple residents talking with WCPO reporting
on this thank You Jay Shacker, asking for answers on

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the status of the project. They said they've been waiting
and wondering about it while dealing with the ongoing noise
from the interstate. Residents had hoped some kind of barrier
would be built like the one they have in Kentucky.
This state installed its first transparent noise screening panel as
part of the project near I seventy one and seventy five.
One local resident describing the noise as horrible. So CBO

(01:01:11):
asked a High Department of Transportation about it, and ODOT
spokesperson Kathleen Fuller told them the project, yes, was canceled.
She said the cancelation comes down to two reasons. The
project is considered not quote economically reasonable, close quote and odd,
also citing lack of participation and advocacy from the Evanston
Community Council. Community Council one of the groups that can

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initiate a petition to the state to the state to
get this type of project going. Noise level in the
area hits approximately seventy six decibels near the stretch of
Ice seventy one by one of the residents they interviews
home the equivalent to noise a garbage disposal or washing
machine makes, But of course, as CPO points out, a

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disposal only makes noise when you're using it. They did
reach out to the Evanston Community Council, which CPO said,
haven't heard back from him yet. We go to Winton
Hills where a couple of people are being are hospitalized
after a late afternoon shooting. It happened yesterday, accorded to police,
five thousand block of Vivian Place five point fifteen in

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the afternoon. Two men were shot. One guy hit in
the neck and is in critical condition, the other guy
shot in the arm, non life threatening. Witnesses at the
scene said they heard more than a dozen gun shots
and apparently police recovered fifteen bullet casings from the scene,
so the reports are accurate. Surveillance of the shooting that
was provided to Fox nineteen reporting on this props shows

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at least two gunmen firing again more than twelve As
the shooting breaks out. The first victim is seen falling
to the ground. He's the one that got shot in
the neck by s Genders scattered as the gunfire erupted,
but one of the governmen allegedly followed the second victim,
who then got shot in the arm. The gunman ran away.
Police says no one had been arrested. You get investigations ongoing,

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Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Six thirty nine Happy five kars de talk station Opening day.
Everybody's a Reds fan on opening day at least so
and good luck to the Reds. I'm hoping they have
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so I five went three two three talk Edwin, Thanks

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for calling this morning, welcome to the program. Oh, thank
you very much. Good morning to you and everyone.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
I just had a quick question.

Speaker 10 (01:06:20):
When when the Wuhan stuff started a long time ago
and the President said that it possibly came from there, they.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
Call them racist because you know it.

Speaker 10 (01:06:30):
Did come from there, but anyway, and they proved that
it did. Now, my question to you is with this
upticking measles that's going on, it's happened, it's been found
that it's happened between the last.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
Few years or so.

Speaker 10 (01:06:44):
Could it be related to the amount of people that
crossed the border. I'm not saying it is. I'm just
finding a coincidental.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Well, it's easy for you to line up those those
dots and reach that conclusion. You know, of course, like
the like the Wuhan institud of Virology lab leak which
I think everyone is right, mind knows exactly. That's where
it came from, our lords and masters, controlling and manipulating
what we learn and what we know, probably depriving us
of a lot of information that might allow you to

(01:07:12):
reach eight and a real conclusion in that regard, you know,
I mean, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
Because they haven't been vetted.

Speaker 10 (01:07:18):
They haven't been vetted, coming in a lot of them
that snuck in, and so I don't know, I mean,
I'm I'm Spanish myself, I'm not I'm not calling. I'm
not saying it's from them, but I just find a
coincidental that yeah, I mean, well, the uptakes all of
a sudden has happened within the last few years, and
now we.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
Have to deal with this again exactly. And I think
it's reasonable to come to that conclusion. And I hate
the idea. And I know you're not concluding it's anything
to do with race. It's nothing to do with race.
Being critical of a lab being critical, right, being critical
of a lab that is manufacturing deadly viruses is being

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critical of a lab that's manufacturing deadly virus that happens
to be in China and it's being run by the
Chinese Communist Party is not a statement that is racist.
That's where it is. We are essentially at war Wood,
sure thing man, thanks for calling. I always get outraged
when people accuse people of racism. Our borders are open.
I don't care what color or what country anyone comes

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from that comes across the border. As I've mentioned several
times this morning, we are in a fiscal crisis in
this country, and every human being who comes across the
border illegally is a drain on the system. Look at
the school districts that have been overwhelmed, Look at the
number of people that have added to the ranks. California

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is putting all of the illegal immigrants on Medicaid. I
got an article right here that points it out. Already
problematic financially, already broad with fraud, waste, and abuses. I
just talked about the other day, double dippers. You're gonna
add tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of

(01:08:59):
additional people on a system that's already troubled, and and
and and one of the components of the fiscal calamity
that we are currently dealing with on a federal level.
It's a dollars and cents issue. It has nothing to
do with race. And in terms of the Chinese Communist Party,

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another article I read, you got how many people? I'll
find a figure, but tens of thousands of military age
Chinese Communist Party people are have come into our country
because of Joe Biden's open borders policy. Now you think

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they're not up to know they're up to no good?
I do. You can't get out of China and come
to the northern border or southern border without some sort
of facilitation from the Chinese Communist Party. They run a
really oppressed to regime there. They know what people are

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doing and where they are going, and they need to
offer you get you have. You need approval from the
government to leave the country. Listen, one of the freedoms
in America, there's so many people that take for granted
is you can get up and drive out of your
state and decide to move to a different state. You
don't need approval from anyone. They need a passport, of course,
to get out of the country, because well, the country

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that you are going to requires that you have a passport.
It proves who you are. Wow, there's a protection in place.
Is it racist that they require passports. It's a mechanism
of control. It's a mechanism of keeping evil people out
of the country. That's why they have terrorist watch lists

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in other countries as well as ours. That's one of
those left wing talking points of racist.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
It's not.

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
It doesn't have anything to do with race, not a thing.
And I tell you, I love the Chinese people, but
I to test their authoritarian regime. I detest that they
micro manage people's lives. I detest that they have the

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ability to deny you the opportunity to buy something if
you don't meet their standards, which includes towing the Chinese
Communist party line. You can be denied goods and services
in China. You can be denied an opportunity for a
place to live if you're not a kami in China,
or you don't bow to the whims of Xizhenping. That's

(01:11:37):
an evil regime. It doesn't matter what you look like.
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I'm not seeing any major problems to deal with, with
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Lawrenceburg ramp and the work on the Carrol Cropper Finley

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Market streets are set to close around eight o'clock to
get ready for the parade. Chuck Ingram fifty five KRS
feet talk station. I just looked up Facebook.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
There's a meme Thank you, Drew Bappas. I didn't notice
the first day you posted it, but it's the I
guess it's an IRS building and someone put a Tesla
sign on top of it. Headline from the Babylon b
Elon Musk disguises IRS building as a Tesla dealership, so
Democrats will burn it down. Oh high comedy compliments of

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memes these days. Department of Government officially, okay warning, if
you're upset at where your taxpayer dollars are being sent
because they take your labor converting into tax dollars and
then spend it on stupid things. I'm just giving you
a trigger alert. So we have an announcement from the
Department of Government Efficiency. It has terminated thankfully, one and
thirteen contracts total value four point seven billion dollars quarter

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release on x Tuesday, Agencies terminated one hundred and thirteen
wasteful contracts with the ceiling values four point seven billion,
in savings of three point three billion, including a one
hundred and forty five thousand dollars USDA consulting contract for
PERU climate change activities. Five hundred and fifty seven million

(01:15:20):
canceled for in American last grants totally two hundred and
thirty seven million in savings funding it was canceled. Includes
ten million dollars for gender equity in the Mexican workplace,
twelve point two million for worker empowerment in South America.

(01:15:46):
Think of how big South America is. It's a continent,
for God's sake. How far would twelve point two million
dollars go? And what is worker empowerment anyway? Sounds like
a slush fund that people would tap in to use
for nefarious purposes. Six point twenty five million four quote
improving respect for workers' rights in agricultural supply chains in

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the countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Would you say, Joe?
Oddly specific also eliminated Fox News reporting five million dollars
to elevate women's participation in the workplace in pick a country,

(01:16:36):
wrong rest Africa four Joe Cho's believe four point three
million dollars to assist foreign migrant workers workers in Joe
say shells No, Malaysia. Three million dollars to enhance socials, security,
access and worker protection for internal migrant workers in not

(01:17:02):
New Zealand, Joe, Bangladesh Sosia security access. So wait a second,
in actual cap on socias security, you might not understand
that social security benefits are going to internal migrant workers.
That seems to me to be Bangladeshi's in Bangladesh. Wrap

(01:17:24):
your head around that. Three million dollars for safe and
inclusive work environments in not Indonesia, Joe, the southern African
country of Losfo says, Oh, it's beautiful there this time
of the year. Is that where you're going when you

(01:17:46):
go on vacation? Joe lesotho, Oh, okay, I'm not. I
won't reveal now again in the grand colossal scheme of
things low hanging fruit, and it does doesn't add up
to a whole lot compared to what we are in
the hole in in terms of trillions of dollars. So

(01:18:08):
so far, at least as of March twenty six, those
claims on its side anyway, that it has saved Americans
one hundred and thirty billion dollars. So when you stare
at a trillion dollars, which is one thousand stacks of
one billion dollars, you can just take a basically one
and one third stack out of the trillion dollars, This

(01:18:29):
translates to eight hundred and seven dollars and forty five
cents per American taxpayer, which you know, if you're on
a budget, that's some money. But see, and they just
really literally started to work. And once they start incorporating
some artificial intelligence and they start incorporating a little more
deep dive into like, for example, the Medicaid problems that

(01:18:49):
I just pointed out earlier, people getting insurers getting paid double,
getting paid for patients that are not even living in
the state. You know, that adds up to a whole
lot of money, as the Wall Street Journal reported four
point three billion dollars over three years. It adds up
Medicare and Medicaid together to US taxpayers more than one

(01:19:10):
point eight trillion dollars a year. So you can shave
a sizeable portion out of that one program simply by
not paying twice for the same patient. Six fifty five
and Musk is evil. As you go out and getting
ready to burn a Tesla today or Kia Tesla, you're

(01:19:32):
angry at Elon Musk for doing what were you one
of the one that was going to be getting one
of the Peruvian climate change activity grants. Is that why
you're mad? Are any of the people destroying Elon musk
cars from Lesotho upset that that grant's been canceled. He's

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a Nazi six to fifty five fifty five k citytalk
station in Sidio, our citizen watchdog, former Inspector General Todd Zenzer.
We'll talk about the city fraud, wasted abuse hotline. We'll
talk about the new sports arena which we don't have
the money to build, and we'll talk a little bit
about who he's for supports for mayor as well. We'll
talk to Corey Bowman eight oh five, and of course
it's Thursday. I always look forward to eight thirty on

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a Thursday. iHeart me the aviation expert Jay Ratliff. I
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A thirty, Corey Bowman's going to join the program in
one hour telephone. This time. He won't be in studio,
but we're gonna get his comments about the debate and
his campaign seems to be doing pretty well by all accounts,
and someone knows all about that. Our citizen watch dog,

(01:21:20):
Todd Zinzer, former Inspector General, is in studio. Todd Man,
it's always a pleasure. You know so much about what's
going on in the city of Cincinnati. It just cracks
me up. I mean, the couple of stories you talked
about as you came in the in the studio this morning,
you have got me laughing, and we're gonna get to those.
I'm not going to keep that information under wraps, but
it's good to have you in the studio. Mike you Brian,

(01:21:42):
thank you for what you're doing. Oh and real quick,
I just want to interject because cribbage Mike, my listeners
know cribbage. Mike's guy played cribbage with he was a submariner.
Thank you for your service to our country, but also
for passing this along. If you're gonna go to the parade,
there's gonna be something extra special going on. Uh, Mike,
let me know that he along with his local submarine veterans,

(01:22:04):
are going to be in the opening day parade with
the thirty foot replica of the United USS Cincinnati sub
and he noted that the actual parts of the decommission
in the USS Cincinnati will be the centerpiece of the
Cold War Memorial and Museum at the Voice of America Park.
So keep your eyes peeled for that and give him
a big round of applause and thank those guys for
the amazing service for our country. Can you imagine being
stuck in that tin can underwater for I think he

(01:22:27):
said his longest was fifty seven days or something like that. Ah,
tough job. That one is tough job. Toms Enzer's got
keep it on top of all the fraud, waste and
abuse in Shenanigans going on.

Speaker 2 (01:22:38):
Let us begin.

Speaker 1 (01:22:40):
With atab provol Okay, we'll get to the debate and
your perception of the debate a little bit later in
the segment, but let me tell my listeners about the
complaint that's been filed, because I think we have what
is rightfully called a Shenanigan's declaration in the form of
a lawsuit.

Speaker 7 (01:22:58):
Well, it's a complaint to the Ohio Election Commission. Oh, okay, okay, Oh,
you see, filed by Kurt Hartman. Ah, Kurt's at it again.
And the report in the Inquirer said he filed it
on behalf of Jim Burns. People who are in the
Republican Party know who Jim Burns is. But the complaint
is about debt that Mayor Purval has on his financial

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disclosure report to three different outfits totally in about eighty
thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
So you got to file a financial disclosure report in
connection with what campaign contributions, the work that's been done
on behalf of the campaign, that kind of thing.

Speaker 7 (01:23:36):
Exactly, you have to disclose your donors and then you
have to disclose what you spent your donor's money on.
So the complaint concerns the fact that this debt was
on the books for Mayor Purvol so long that it's
essentially forgiven under election law. I guess, almost like a

(01:23:58):
statute of limitations. Yes, it's a statute of limitations. And
so Kurt's complaint is that the fact that these debts
were allowed to expire constitute campaign contributions.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
Okay, The money that is expressed is debt, that's for
services rendered. Yes, So if I'm doing like legal work
on behalf of a campaign, or you know, I've I've
printed up signs on behalf of a campaign, the presumption
is that is disclosed, it's listed as a debt, and
that the debtor pays me back for the services that

(01:24:33):
I render. That's correc That's exactly what these three line
items represent. Yes.

Speaker 7 (01:24:37):
And the three firms include Perkins cooy Oh. Now, the
Enquirer says it's Seattle base, but they're very they at
least during Russia Gate, which is what they were all
caught up in. They're at Washington, d C. Law firm.
And then he owes them fifty eight thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:24:56):
The second is an outfit called Spiro's Consulting, also a
big Democrat consulting firm in Washington, DC. And the third
is SKD Knickerbocker and Mayor Purvol's campaign owes them fifteen
thousand dollars. So SKD Knickerbocker is a heavy hitter in

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the Democratic circles in Washington, DC. And as it turns out,
that's the outfit that the Norfolk Southern's Political Action Committee
used during the railway campaign. And SKD. Knickerbocker got about
ninety percent of that six million dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
And I run the propaganda campaign to sell the railroad.

Speaker 7 (01:25:44):
Yes, that was SK Knickerbocker. I don't know if this
bureau's consulting was part of the railway campaign or not,
but it could have been. But there's definitely some interconnections there. Well,
I would say, and it's like rounding up the usual suspects,
getting the gang back together.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Yeah, we're putting the band back together anyway, it's late
for lunch, that's right. It was me money.

Speaker 7 (01:26:11):
So the only issue is and actually, when I filed
a complaint against Purvoll's campaign during the railway campaign, if
you remember Mayor Purval in the Political Action Committee for
Norfolk Southern shared the same treasurer.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
Remember that it's a really incestuous relationship.

Speaker 7 (01:26:34):
Yes it is. So the complaint we filed was that
who's deciding that Mayor Purval is in these commercials? Is
that his campaign treasurer who's running the Norfolk Southern campaign.
So we we filed that complaint. In the penalties for
violations of Ohio election law is kind of pitiful and

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at least the report in the report in the Enquirer
this morning said that the potential penalties are one hundred
dollars a day.

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
So this has been sitting around for three years. Though,
you know what you said at the outset, I don't
well sustatied limitations.

Speaker 7 (01:27:18):
I think it's probably I don't know exactly how long,
but it's probably five years, I would think so. But
the Election Commission is not gonna if they even hear
the complaint, they're not going to impose a significant penalty
like that. I'd be very very surprised.

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
Well, why is that. I mean, they have a record
of being, you know, lightto on the touches.

Speaker 7 (01:27:41):
Yes, when I filed my complaint back during the railway campaign,
Kurt even told me that, well, you'll get a good
experience going to the Election Commission, but don't expect a
lot of results.

Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
Well, who sits on the election Commission? I didn't really
look into that.

Speaker 7 (01:27:56):
I'm I'm assuming that they're appointee of the governor, but
don't I don't really know. I think there are appointees
from the governor.

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
Well, you'd like to think that they would be politically
neutral if there is a violation, and let's just assume,
for the sake of this discussion, is a clear violation.
He owes these people money and he didn't pay it,
which means he got services for free, and as services
translate to a campaign contribution under law. Yes, so if

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any politician, Republican or Democrat, did that, then you'd like
to think that the reason that there is a penalty
for doing that is to prevent people from getting free
campaign contributions and campaign dollars. And well, that's disturbing that
they don't exercise their enforcement power.

Speaker 7 (01:28:43):
Right and as a result, the campaigns just look at
it as these whatever penalties they get is kind of
the cost of doing business.

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
So well you wonder why there's three Well, I know
why they wouldn't seek a collections action or you know,
send a letter, a dunning letter or something is because
they're Democrats and they wanted to get a Democrat elected.
That was their job and they succeeded in that regard.

Speaker 7 (01:29:07):
Yes, that's that would be my analysis as well.

Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
But that's why it's considered a campaign contribution.

Speaker 7 (01:29:15):
That is what Kurt's alleging.

Speaker 1 (01:29:16):
Yes, okay, so he at least goes through the process.
Obviously it's been exposed in the Enquirer, so it's negative
press for provol We can all say, well, this doesn't
seem right, it doesn't smell right, and we can all
look to the Elections Commission and if they don't do
anything about it, maybe we can press the governor or
whoever appoints the individual and the election Commission to do
a better job of appointees and get people on there,

(01:29:38):
like judges that we elect that don't enforce the law,
to start doing their job.

Speaker 8 (01:29:42):
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Speaker 7 (01:29:43):
So the good thing about the complaint we filed, and
I actually talk about this on my latest podcast, is
that we got an atha David from a mayor Perval's
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deals with the city. So and the reason I started,
the reason I went back to it is because of
this arena issue where this five oh one C four

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has been formed and you know that's that's a potential
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All right, we'll call that a tease for the next
segment and we'll sort of dive into details on that
because last time I checked todds Enzer Citizen Watchdog podcast,
we don't have any money to build an arena. So
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at ten minutes after four. They're anticipating only a fifteen
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Speaker 1 (01:33:31):
Siout car Cee talk station Happy Friday, E Dodds ins
or former Inspector General, and he's basically effectively the Inspector
General or DOGE for the city of Cincinnati. Diving over
to the new sports arena, you say it's called the
Heritage Center, Now, I always call it the Coliseum because
I'm old. Yes, that's the building. Yes, and they still

(01:33:52):
have events there by the way. Oh yeah, okay, I
don't know how.

Speaker 7 (01:33:55):
One of the issues is that they think with a
new arena that they will have, they'll be able to
put more events in a new arena than the one
that Heritage has.

Speaker 1 (01:34:07):
So the claim is we're missing out on some big acts,
big draws because there's not enough seating there for like
the artists, and you know, hey, I'm selling out twenty
five thirty thousand seed arenas that's only got what fifteen
thousand seats in it or something like that.

Speaker 7 (01:34:21):
I think that's probably right.

Speaker 1 (01:34:22):
Yeah, well, okay, I've seen the gazillion concerts there, and
I know the acoustics suck, and I know it's old.
But well, they also pray.

Speaker 7 (01:34:30):
On the the fact that Cincinnati's a sports town and
they say, oh, we want to get the NCAA tournament here.

Speaker 1 (01:34:36):
And okay, so grandiose ideas. Yeah, I think they tried
to get the Olympics here too one time. I think
you have right. What a colossal waste of effort that is. Anyway,
So my understanding from you and the off air comments
is the local businesses want the if there is a
new one, and we haven't gotten into the logistics and

(01:34:57):
realities whether or not we can even afford it. They
w wanted to stay in the same place.

Speaker 7 (01:35:01):
Right, the businesses that the banks have an association, They
even have a little taxing authority that group does.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 7 (01:35:11):
They want to keep the arena on the banks, and
there's a lot of people that agree with them. But
the people proposing a new arena, they've concluded that that
footprint of the current arena isn't large enough for the
size arena they want to build.

Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
Do we know what size arena that they want to build?
Is there some proposal? And no, it's going to have
like that this many seats.

Speaker 7 (01:35:36):
Yes, the it was either the Regional Chamber or a
consultant for the Regional Chamber has done a study for them,
and it's several months old. Now, Okay, I haven't looked
at it recently, but it's it's it's not all that persuasive,
to be honest with you.

Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
And for what specific reasons?

Speaker 7 (01:35:58):
Well, they you know, for example, they conclude that the
current arena would have to shut down and not have
any events.

Speaker 1 (01:36:09):
Well, it's probably owned. They can't do that, that's right.

Speaker 7 (01:36:12):
So there, their proposal assumes that they're not going to
have any competition for these events. And I don't think
the Heritage Center is going to go. Are they going
to get rid of P and C Pavilion or River
Bend too? Yeah, look at them all and the one
that's across the river that is one university. That is
one thing you hear from people is that don't we
have enough I know venues around here?

Speaker 1 (01:36:32):
I know, but you're hoping. I think they are hoping
that if you build this new grand facility that they're
going to get like the NC two A tournaments to
come correct. Okay, all right now, pivoting over to the
location that is proposed. I know the current owners and

(01:36:53):
the resident or the businesses around the Heritage Center want
it to stay there. Let's assume for the sake of discussion,
there isn't a big enough for print. Where do the
powers that be that are pushing this agenda item want
it to go.

Speaker 7 (01:37:05):
Well, the two locations that I've heard about is someplace
in Queen's Gate I'm not exactly sure aware, and then
the other is right there on Central Avenue where WCET is.
Oh sure, I think they've tried to talk to WCET
about selling out, and WCET has come back with an
outrageous amount of money.

Speaker 1 (01:37:26):
That it will I bet so to move.

Speaker 7 (01:37:28):
I think it's up like the fifty million or something
like that to move to move them.

Speaker 1 (01:37:32):
But that wouldn't be the only property to have to
acquire to build a big facility there. They'd have to
acquire a lot of land around there.

Speaker 7 (01:37:38):
Yeah, I'm not really sure about all that, but it
will take a lot of land and a.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
Lot of money.

Speaker 1 (01:37:44):
Yes, yeah, your negotiation power goes up dramatically. It's like
the last person standing over with the Rookwood comp Remember
that one house that they refuse to give in and
that one loan house with all the open field land,
after all the other houses have been knocked down. You
can hold out. You can get a lot of money. Yeah, well,
let's talk about the financials on this one. Wherever it

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might happen to go. I guess the folks in the
Heritage aren't going to sell and they're not going to
close down their operation. This sort of renders this entire
conversation moot.

Speaker 7 (01:38:18):
Well, like I said, I think that the proponents of
the new arena are assuming that the current arena will
go away. But you know they could stick around and
outcompete the new arena. Actually they certainly could.

Speaker 1 (01:38:33):
Let's pause, will bring former Inspector General and current Inspector
General Todd Zinser. Follow if listen to Citizen Watchdog. That's
his podcast. He's talking about this kind of stuff every week.
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Fifty five KRCD Talk station Happy Friday. Eve Todds ends
are in studio again his podcast Citizen watch Dog, talking
about the kind of thing we're talking about here at
the fifty five KRC Morning Show this morning. Well, I
told you off air that this whole arena thing seems
sort of kind of half baked, and it's not even
half baked. It's just like an amorphous blob under the

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head and under the heading we need a new arena.
And then as soon as you pull back to veneer
of just the general concept, because you might get everybody
nod their head and go, yeah, wouldn't it be nice? Yeah,
the Colisseum or you know, Heritage Center, it sucks. It's outdated.
I remember seeing the cinc Any Stingers playing there back
in the seventies and it hasn't changed much. You know,
it's not big enough. You get the big act, So, okay,

(01:41:50):
that sounds like a great idea, and then as soon
as you move to the logistics behind it, it just
seems like an insurmountable task. Yeah, so you got location problems.
They want it to be, say on Central Avenue, but
you have to buy out thet w CET building, and
then a whole lot of other privately owned properties around that,
So acquisition costs for just the land, you haven't even

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put a brick in the ground in terms of building
the stadium, and you're already tens of millions of dollars
in the hole from an acquisition costs. Plus they'll probably
be litigation because some people wouldn't want to sell, like
you're not going not to our neighborhood. There's always that.
Then you've got the competition factor that you pointed out
Heritage Center that we're privately own. We're not going to

(01:42:34):
shut down. Screw you guys, right, we can still get draws.
An act that comes in that can't fill a thirty
thousands for arena, we've got fifteen thousand. They may sell
that out. We're the perfect size. There's also Riverband PNC,
the venue across the street of across the river over
at the University. I'm sorry, I can't remember what that
one's called. And of course the smaller venues like the
Brady Center, which you know, we're talking different types of acts.

(01:42:56):
We've got a lot, a whole lot, and then money,
of course, money relates to exsition goes. But we all
have a bad taste in our mouth from the stadium deal.
But you told me off air, and it's important for
listeners to know there's a five oh one C four
corporation that's behind this. Yes, the Hamilton County Growth Alliance.

(01:43:19):
Wait till you hear what their idea is. Listeners who
know what the stadium deal, remember when you voted to
build the stadium FKA Paul Brown Stadium the Great American Ballpark,
what did you agree to? You agreed to pay more
taxes for the purposes of building those two venues, and
then you got stabbed in the back because they didn't

(01:43:40):
get the reduction of taxes that was promised to you
when you voted for it. So with that background, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:43:44):
Yeah, Well, the report about the Hamilton County Growth Alliance
is that one of the sources of funding that they're
looking for, they think they'll be able to get access
to the sales tax receipts that were approved by the
voters for the stadium and the Great American Ballpark. And

(01:44:05):
don't I don't understand that enough to know what they're
really even talking about. It doesn't sound like that's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (01:44:13):
No, And if they've somehow got their hand in that
cookie jar, maybe there might be litigation related to doing that.

Speaker 7 (01:44:20):
Well, here's the thing about five oh one c fours
is that they do not have to disclose their donors.
So that creates a situation where it kind of becomes
or could become, what they call dark money, and that
that money you don't know who it's coming from, and

(01:44:41):
you don't know what other areas of our civic life
that they're influencing. For example, two incumbent members of city
council came right out supporting the Hamilton County Growth Alliance
and you have to wonder, well, what's their relationship with
this FIB four.

Speaker 1 (01:45:03):
Going back to a to provall financial disclosure statements of
just tuckling along those lines.

Speaker 7 (01:45:08):
And it is it is a very similar situation. You
don't know who the donors are, just like you don't
for the Hamilton County Growth Alianes, just like you don't
know who's on the steering committee. And there's there's a
lot of secrets that go on in this town. I've
always heard about the meeting before the meeting, which means
somehow the city council members get together and make decisions

(01:45:29):
before they come into the council room, and.

Speaker 1 (01:45:32):
It got me thinking that it sounds like the Gang
of Five problem.

Speaker 7 (01:45:35):
H Well, I don't know how they do it. Like
do you remember the scandal that Sherry Coolidge reported on
about the railroad board meeting in executive session and making
decisions in executive session?

Speaker 1 (01:45:48):
Oh? Sure, an executive session excludes the public.

Speaker 7 (01:45:51):
Yeah, right, Well, I've never seen the city Council go
into executive session to talk about anything. Where when do
they get their information about what they're voting on it?
I think what happens is I think what I think
what happens at the city manager. I heard her speak

(01:46:11):
one time and she kind of let it slip. She
kind of indicated that she meets with every member of
city Council on a regular basis individually, individually. And I
know that's what Aftab did on or Mayor Purval did
on the railway deal. They kept that secret, and he
would he went around and I think he said this,

(01:46:33):
He went around to each member of city Council individually
on the QT to tell them that hey, we're talking
about selling a railway. And I thought that was very unusual.

Speaker 1 (01:46:49):
Well, and of course the transparency raw laws and rules
would require them to announce this and make it an
open discussion. And we know the Gang of five got
in trouble because they were making decisions collect five of
them anyway behind the scenes, got busted for that. So
you're telling me the way around this and the way
they work around this, which is very easy to do.

(01:47:10):
It just requires a little more time. Rather than meeting
one big room, you got the mayor going individually and
then talking to one of the council people and saying, Hey,
the other council people I've already talked to have already
agreed with me that this is the direction we need
to go. Are you on board with me on this?

Speaker 7 (01:47:24):
I think that's how it I think that's how it
has to be working, because they have litigation, they have
personnel matters, they have all kinds of things that you
know they should discuss as a council but not in public.
That's why executive sessions exist. But you never see them
going into executive session. So I don't know how they deliberate.

(01:47:47):
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Did you know even this? Here's your nine first one
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gonna survive, and maybe just a little bit of rain.
They say it'll show up after two, but it's this
possible rain, So fingers crossed with the parade and for
opening day. Fifty eight is going to be our high
today down to forty eight over night with a few showers.
We get a morning rain tomorrow and then partly cloudy

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sky is seventy three, just clouds over night fifty seven
and a little rain on Saturday as well, possible seventy
seven for the high thirty six degrees.

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Chuck Ingram on fifty five KR Scene Deep Talk Station
bou Krecity Talk Station. I love my conversations with Todd Zinzer,
and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Kind of frustrating recognizing all the problems that you are
uncovering and all the realities that make them even seem
even more batcrap insane than they are. Todd, and you
got the Shenanigans going along with it, Like, how are

(01:50:34):
all these efforts just like sort of coordinated and magically
show up one day where everybody's in agreement on what's
going to happen. But before we get to your thoughts
and impressions on the mayor ol debate the other day,
which I'm interested in, the city borrowed another thirty million
dollars yesterday.

Speaker 7 (01:50:51):
Yeah, they have they approved either approved that they just
moved it on to another another meeting. But the bottom
line is they're going to borrow thirty million dollars. They're
going to issue bonds for an additional thirty million dollars
five point five I think for a health center and
OTR and twenty nine million for a like a community

(01:51:17):
center around Findlay around Finley Market, because.

Speaker 1 (01:51:21):
They're going to be a whole brand new couple of
buildings for these Yes, they're relocating, well, they're selling off
a whole bunch of buildings like the Elms and Ducky
building and some of the other buildings that were identify
up for sale.

Speaker 7 (01:51:34):
That's the county.

Speaker 1 (01:51:35):
Oh, that's the county. Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 7 (01:51:38):
And it's funny because that's the same thing that's going
on in the federal government that everybody's complaining about.

Speaker 1 (01:51:43):
I don't here.

Speaker 7 (01:51:43):
The county commissioners are smart enough to do it here locally, so.

Speaker 1 (01:51:46):
Good for them. Good for them. Yeah, I agree, But
I just I mean, there has to be available space.
I mean, isn't something out there that is being unused
there could be easily acquired that wouldn't require that level
of capital expenditure. To have it done and accomplish the
goals they want to accomplish. Oh, but it won't be
LEADS certified or something, right, Yeah, exactly, And it won't
put their friends in the construction business into more jobs either. Huh.

Speaker 7 (01:52:10):
Well, that area is getting a lot of has gotten
and it continues to get a lot of resources from
the city.

Speaker 1 (01:52:16):
All right, But in terms of dollars and cents you
mentioned to me off air, it's important to understand they
had they got an initial twenty one million dollars laying
around over there.

Speaker 7 (01:52:25):
Well, the city manager issues a memo every month about
the finances, and this most recent memo says that they
have collected twenty one million dollars more than they had
budgeted for. So they're in high cotton right now in
terms of in terms of cash.

Speaker 1 (01:52:43):
Well, they just write a check. At least one building's
only five and only five and a half million dollars
they could pay for that other pocket.

Speaker 7 (01:52:49):
Well that's what that's what I think. But I guess
I guess that's not how they do business.

Speaker 1 (01:52:54):
So did were the terms of conditions of the borrowing released?
I mean, what the percentage of interest is, how many
years it's going to be that we're paying interest on them.

Speaker 7 (01:53:03):
They're going to leave all that up to the finance
department for the city. So they have just general parameters
that they that they've approved, but the actual borrowing is
going to be decided by the city administration.

Speaker 1 (01:53:21):
And of course the taxpayers have no say in this matter.

Speaker 7 (01:53:25):
No our says. As soon as they vote to prove it,
our say is pretty much over.

Speaker 1 (01:53:30):
I think, jeez, did anybody vote or come to some
understanding that yes, these are absolutely necessary structures to build.

Speaker 7 (01:53:39):
Well, that's all done by the city council, and it's
all you know we talked about how.

Speaker 1 (01:53:44):
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Speaker 1 (01:56:24):
Fifty five kr CE DE Talk Station one more with
in studio Todds Enter Citizen Watchdog the podcast. Follow him
and check out what he's got to say Former Inspector
General all over the Shenanigans going on, mostly in the
City Council. Before I get you know, every time we
go out of Breakman, you give me something else I
want to talk about. I want you to, really, really
quickly just give us an update on the status of

(01:56:47):
the Hyde Park redevelopment, which requires a zoning change, a
variance from the zoning laws. Now Hyde Park has a
say on certain matters. They've got their own community council
and they're against it. The citizens of Hyde Park don't
want that, absolutely one percent.

Speaker 3 (01:57:02):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:57:03):
In my backyard. The City of Cincinnati City Council wants it.

Speaker 11 (01:57:08):
Well.

Speaker 7 (01:57:09):
I believe that they will vote to approve it if
but only because they're so far in the pocket of
these developers.

Speaker 1 (01:57:16):
Right, We've talked about how influential these developers are with
the city council members in the area. So if the
city pushes it forward and approves it, that trumps what
the voters in Hyde Park want. Yes, absolutely, which may
have a significant outcome on the upcoming elections.

Speaker 7 (01:57:33):
Well, I would think so if you've got a voting
block over they have over three thousand, I think I
heard the number thirty five hundred signatures on a petition.
Now that's a pretty big voting block.

Speaker 1 (01:57:43):
And that's a significant amount of moneyed voters as well. Yes,
it is. They sometimes write campaign checks.

Speaker 7 (01:57:49):
And here's the thing. They're not opposing development. They're opposing
this development because it doesn't conform to the current zoning right,
and it seems like a no brainer for the council
to say, you know what, let's think about this some more.

Speaker 1 (01:58:04):
No, Okay, I got my popcorn out on that one,
and none of this influences me, But man, I'm telling
you that could have a sizeable, sizeable influence on the
upcoming election. So pivoting over to that. You were there
for the debate the other night, I was what'd you think?
What was your takeaway? Because what I heard primarily from
Jim Kiefer. I mean, he did get into some specific topics,
but generally speaking, the moderator was quite biased in favor

(01:58:28):
of aftab pur Ball.

Speaker 7 (01:58:30):
I think for the most part, yes, I mean early,
the first question out of the box for all three, well,
for the two Republicans, the question was what qualifies you
to be mayor? And then for Mayor Pervoll, the question
was what have been your accomplishments?

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
Okay, so right off the bat.

Speaker 7 (01:58:48):
So that led him into probably it was much longer
than two minutes. A whole narrative, which is all he's
all about, is narrative of all his accomplishments, including the
real road sale. He took credit for the Brent Spence Bridge,
even though that's been an op you know, an ongoing
saga for decades.

Speaker 1 (01:59:08):
Obama campaign in front of the bridge.

Speaker 7 (01:59:10):
He took credit for connected communities, which nobody likes. And
so he went through all of his accomplishments and which
I think is a good thing, so that Corey Bowman
knows exactly what his narrative is and can start poking
holes in it.

Speaker 1 (01:59:26):
I agree, it's a perfect setup. It's like bullet points.
Here's what Pervoll is proud of and his accomplishments. Here's
why it was a bad idea and a bad thing. Yes,
and template.

Speaker 7 (01:59:38):
So I went to City Hall yesterday, to the City
council meeting, and I suggested that or I said, one
question that wasn't asked, that should have been asked, is
the candidates that emerged from the primary, will you commit
to additional debates in the general election?

Speaker 1 (01:59:59):
And of course council and the mayor don't have to
answer questions that you pose, but you pose it anyway.
What was the reaction from Prowall?

Speaker 7 (02:00:07):
He was pretty deadpan. Actually, I'm sure he doesn't have
much of a reaction, which which kind of leads to
my working in DC for over twenty years, and this
is I think a lot of people do this. You
put politicians in one of two camps. They're either a
show horse or a workhorse. And Mayor Purvoll is a

(02:00:28):
show horse. I think Corey Bowman is a workhorse, and
so I think that's the choice that voters are going
to have. And mister Purvoll is all about the narratives,
and I don't really know that he feels what Corey
Bowman feels in terms of the condition of the city

(02:00:48):
and Corey.

Speaker 1 (02:00:50):
I've talked to Corey face to face quite a few times.
I like the man. I like how engaged he is.
You know, he doesn't come across at all as a
polished politician, but he is passionate about the city. He
loves the city. He has invested in an area that
most people don't invest in, and he understands that there
are some people that really truly wanted to invest in

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that particular area or by Dayton Street, but they had
roadblocks done the way by city council that it doesn't
conform with what their vision of a community should be,
you know, denser housing and this whole connected community's crap.
And since the developers that wanted to put money into
the neighborhood weren't planning on doing something like that, then
they just basically were told about And.

Speaker 7 (02:01:32):
What Corey pointed out in the debate on Tuesday night
was that it seems like the city council wants to
rely on these big developers to come in and do
these big developments. Well, and meanwhile Corey wants to support
the local builders and the local developers that have designs

(02:01:52):
on smaller developments.

Speaker 1 (02:01:54):
Yeah, that's the one big difference.

Speaker 7 (02:01:57):
Well, yeah, I guess we'll see what happens. But I
thought Corey did a good job. Again, mister Purvol's very
polished and it was I thought it was a very informative,
very entertaining debate.

Speaker 1 (02:02:12):
Great, well, I'm glad you're able to be there. You
happen to always take you take time out of your
life and your other responsibilities to always manage to be
at the city Council, to be at the open events,
be the take up on the opportunity to follow politics
and very closely and on behalf of all of my listeners,
most notably the residents of the City of Cincinnati and
today's topics. I appreciate what you're doing. I really do.

(02:02:36):
Thank you because we don't get reporting that are providing
this type of information, and if it is provided, it
comes across with a certain measure of bias. I agree
with that you just report the facts as you observe them.
Thanks again, brother, I appreciate you coming in and spending
time with a citizen watchdog podcast. You find him online.
Todd zenz Er will help you back again. I hope
real soon stick around. Speaking of Corey Bowman, he's going

(02:02:58):
to call in the program after the top of the
Ron News. Then we get to hear from iHeart Media
Aviation expert Jay Ratlift got a great list of topics
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Morning Show, coming off of what I understand was a

(02:03:52):
pretty successful debate with Maraf tab Purval and the other guy,
Corey Bowman running from mayor of the City of Cincinnati.
Welcome back, my friend. It's good to have you on
the show this morning.

Speaker 3 (02:04:02):
Hello Brian our happy opening day.

Speaker 1 (02:04:05):
Yeah, and you being the huge fan of the city
of Cincinnati. You are, I presume you are a Cincinnati
Reds fan. I think that kind of goes without saying,
right absolutely, And where are you going to be today,
Corey Bowman?

Speaker 3 (02:04:19):
So obviously the parade is going on, I believe I'll
probably be I'll try to be around the Countain Square
area if I can get through the crowd and everything.
That's the main place I'm going to be. And then
me and my family are sending the game.

Speaker 1 (02:04:33):
Great. Well, yeah, assuming you are identified, well, you're going
to have a Corey Bowman T shirt on or a
big sign that says Hi, I'm Corey Bowman and I'm
running for mayor, or some way that people can identify
you if they want to ask you a question or two.

Speaker 3 (02:04:46):
Corey, I'm going to have my flip the Natty T
shirt on. I think that goes pretty well with the
Reds coloring and everything as well. And then yeah, I'll
probably have my pen on and hopefully people we can
hopefully the right people will recognize me.

Speaker 1 (02:05:02):
I hope so. And you can get in touch with
Corey Bowman through his website Coreybowman dot com. There's his
campaign pledges and what he hopes to accomplish, an opportunity
to donate, maybe get a yard sign, get some Corey
Bowman T shirt so he can spread his name around.
What did you think of the debate when you look
back on and reflect on it. Were you happy? Because

(02:05:23):
you know, Westside Jim was there. I know Todd Zenzer
was there. He just got done talking about it. He
said it came off he came off pretty well.

Speaker 2 (02:05:32):
Well, that means a lot.

Speaker 5 (02:05:33):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:05:33):
It was my first political debate outside of just family dinners,
and so I felt really good about where we came
across at the end of the night. You know, I
don't want to say that I came in with low expectations,
but I did. I just want to come through knowing
that we stood our ground and that we were able
to go toe to toe with him, And I believe

(02:05:53):
that's exactly what happened. I believe that there was a
lot of valid points that we made and we gave
people opportunity to see.

Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
What we stand for.

Speaker 1 (02:06:02):
That's great. And understand from the reports, I got that
Perval kind of ignoring the other candidate and really focusing
his attention more on you, And I think that sort
of speaks volume for the likelihood that you are going
to win in the primary. It's going to be you
head to head with with have to have pur ball.

Speaker 3 (02:06:22):
Well, yeah, with everything with the campaign, you know, whenever
we got getting the signatures to get on the ballot,
I try to stay as tunnel visioned as I can,
and so we've gotten a lot of positive feedback about
the primary. But I'm just telling people we have to
get out and vote. You know, specifically, I'm calling on
all the Republicans in Cincinnati that if you believe that

(02:06:42):
we could be the one on the ticket, for you
to get out April eighth through May sixth, as early
voting starts, and let's get this thing solidified.

Speaker 1 (02:06:51):
Well, one of the things I just learned from Todd
Zenzer is you may end up finding yourself having a
pretty good support for my friends in Hyde Park. Often,
you know, they're educated, they're very you know what, It's
a typically you know, stereotypically wealthy community but quite often
lean blue and support Democrat candidates. But this whole project

(02:07:12):
that they are all against, this redevelopment project. Their community
council voted against it. This idea that this huge developer
is going to come in and build these big structures
which don't know, are completely inconsistent with the vibe and
the architectural style of that historic community. But Cincinnati City
Council looks likely to approve it, which means that trumps

(02:07:32):
what the Hyde Park voters want. So you might find
yourself in some good company in Hyde Park. Corey.

Speaker 3 (02:07:39):
Yeah, well, I mean, if you're going with the citizens
and what they want to do, then in local government you.

Speaker 1 (02:07:44):
Should find yourself a good company.

Speaker 3 (02:07:46):
You know. Whenever all this development was first happening and
we were researching it, that was a big thing we
realized is that the opinions of the community councils were
being completely ignored through the process. They said that they
did some preliminary to get the opinions of voters, but
when it was about to be solidified, people made their
voices loud and clear that they did not want this

(02:08:09):
to happen in High Park, and those voices, it looks like,
are just being ignored by the local government.

Speaker 1 (02:08:15):
Well, and that's something that you experienced in your own life.
Last time you're on you told me about there were
a lot of developers, small developers, not politically connected developers
who wanted to put a lot of you know, investment
and money into rehabilitating some of the houses in your neighborhood.
That's roughly around Dayton Street, right, Corey.

Speaker 3 (02:08:33):
Yeah, it's around they called bay Miller Block Dayton Street,
really close to Lynn Street.

Speaker 1 (02:08:39):
Okay. So real developers with real projects and real money
that will help the community, because any investment is better
than leaving something dormant and empty. And yet the city
of Cincinnati throws roadblocks up but because it isn't part
of their connected community's vision. I mean that, I just
I really quite often, Corey, you go back to what

(02:09:00):
the what the citizens want, what the constituents want, versus
what special interest group or moneyed developers want. And when
the city defaults and goes with the money developers and
these political action groups or these you know, non governmental
you know, outrage constantly organizations which running contrast to what

(02:09:22):
the voters want. You know, you got a real potential
on this one, in spite of the fact that you're
a Republican running in a blue city. I think more
and more people waking up to this kind of reality.
It's the connected people. It's not what you stand for.
It's not the specific values of Democrats or Republicans, it's
what's good for the citizenry. And they're not delivering on
what's good for the city of Cincinnati and the voters.

Speaker 3 (02:09:45):
You're exactly right, And to be honest with you, when
I look at what we're standing for, I'm amazed because
I feel like I'm a nineteen seventy Democrat, you know,
finding the establishment of big times. Yeah, you know, government
or corporations. But yet I'm running on a Republican ticket
and I'm just sitting here like, weren't Isn't this supposed

(02:10:05):
to be the party that is for the common man,
that's supposed to be fighting against this stuff. But the
developers and the city officials, the ones, these are the
ones that are kind of holding back. In my mind,
what I think is one of the best things about
our city is the small businesses. The local developers might
be able to flip one or two properties at a time,

(02:10:27):
they're really not getting the benefit out of any of those.

Speaker 1 (02:10:31):
No, they're not. And I think more people are waking
up to that reality, which gives you a fighting chance.
Corey and a city that you know, a Republican couldn't
get elected in I just see this opportunity, this possibility.
Now after what's the same. For the sake of discussion,
you win the primary, it's just you and after Purwall
that's when the campaign kicks off in Ernest. I imagine

(02:10:51):
you're going to be hitting the ground in all of
the neighborhoods in the city. Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (02:10:57):
Yeah? I mean our strategy we have to mobilize and
unify the Republican Party in our city because the last
mayoral election only twenty six percent of voters showed up,
So you've got seventy four seventy three percent of voters
that didn't even feel like they had a voice, that
didn't even feel like it mattered if they came out

(02:11:17):
and vote. So for this primary, we're primarily focusing on
the Republican Party or those that we know just have
felt like they haven't had a voice. And then after
the primary, that's when we really kick it into gear
because we've got to go to these communities and show
them that were.

Speaker 1 (02:11:34):
The right people for the job. Well, and I understand
the after have Purvol pretty much gave you an outline
on your for your campaign and his opening statement at
the debate, he went through all of what he thought
were his accomplishments, many of which I can't I don't
think you can call an accomplishment Corey.

Speaker 5 (02:11:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:11:54):
I mean, you know, when it comes to statistics and everything.
I mean, you read some of the articles about the debate,
they said that it wasn't in our favor, and then
people that were in person they say it was in
our favor. So I think that whatever your perspective is,
you really got to go to the facts and the statistics.
And I think one of the biggest things that was

(02:12:14):
said was that crime has been low, that crime over
the last four years is low, and really that's not
the case. There's a few examples of very small incremental
decrease when it comes to homicides and shootings, but overall,
when you look at the statistics, you're looking at aggravated

(02:12:36):
assault is actually up eight percent, I believe, and then
you're looking at auto theft is up forty percent, and
then you're looking at that, and then you're looking at
robbery that's up nineteen percent, and overall the crime statistics
this is talking about from twenty twenty two, first year
he took office, to twenty twenty four. Overall, the crime

(02:12:57):
reporting is up two point six percent. And so if
you just focus or cherry pick certain statistics, you can
say whatever you want about what's being accomplished. But if
you're in the downtown area, you realize this isn't the case.

Speaker 1 (02:13:12):
Well yeah, and I like to think of the quote
unquote uninformed voter, the one that really doesn't pay attention
to politics. But if he hears the mayor suggests that
crime is down, and he or she lives in a
crime laden neighborhood, they're not going to buy that.

Speaker 3 (02:13:28):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:13:29):
It's like, don't tell me crime is down. You don't
live where I do. Apparently I could tell you all
day long how bad crime is.

Speaker 3 (02:13:37):
No exactly, And you know, voters that are in these areas.
It used to be that you can just concentrate all
these failed policies into an area like the West End,
and you can just always, you know, count on their
vote no matter what, because you just think that they're
ignorant to it. But all of these failed policies now
are bleeding into all these other communities and people are

(02:13:58):
starting to wake up all around the district.

Speaker 1 (02:14:00):
Yeah, well, Corey, you know, Coreybowman dot com. I encourage
my listeners, most notably in the greater Cincinnati area. You
can help him out, even if you don't live in
downtown Cincinnati. What happens and goes on in the city
of Cincinnati, the decisions are made by city Council and
the mayor have a broad impact that transcends the boundary
of the city limits. So the good it's good for

(02:14:21):
all of us. If the city conditions improve, more people
would likely to consider the area, generally speaking, including in
Hamilton County the surrounding counties. If we have a stable,
vibrant downtown Cincinnati, it's important for everybody. So with that
in mind, get involved, get engaged, help Corey out, and
maybe we can have a change in this in this
community for the better. I know you're passionate about the

(02:14:41):
city you love so much, Corey. It's why you're doing
this and why you're running. And I don't know Aftab.
I think he just enjoys being a politician more than
he is passionate about the Cincinnati area.

Speaker 3 (02:14:56):
Well, I'd like to think that people get into public
service to help people, and that's ultimately what we're in
this to do.

Speaker 2 (02:15:02):
And so I tell people is if you're voting for.

Speaker 3 (02:15:04):
Me, you're not going for somebody that moved to Cincinnati
to get into politics. Moved to Cincinnati in the downtown
area because it's from here. He loves the city and
he wants to see the best sports citizens there.

Speaker 1 (02:15:16):
You are, Coreybowman dot com. Is how you help him out? Corey,
we'll have you back on the morning show soon. Will
we show all the best on the campaign trail as
we head on into the primaries. Hey, and enjoy Opening Day.
It's just what's a wonderful tradition we have here in
the city and one of the things that makes the
city so great. And we'll keep our fingers crossed for
a victory for the Reds today.

Speaker 3 (02:15:34):
No, absolutely. I told my son, my five year old son,
last night. I'm surprised him. I told him we were
going to the game, and I think that was a
mistake because I don't think he slept the next three hours.

Speaker 1 (02:15:45):
It's his first game, it's his first.

Speaker 3 (02:15:48):
Opening Day game. We make a point to go to
at least three to four games a year, but he's
always wanted to go to Opening Day because he sees
all the pictures of everything so we're all very excited.

Speaker 1 (02:15:58):
Oh that's cool. And if you want to talk to
Corey Bowman, find him on Fountain Square during the parade time, Corey,
have a great day today, be safe and we'll talk
real soon. Thank you so much, my pleasure. Eight eighteen
Here if you have KRCD Talk station, we got a
little more to talk about. Plus Jay Rattliffe coming up
at bottom of the hour. Look forward to that and
I hope you do too. I'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (02:16:19):
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Speaker 1 (02:16:22):
Hey twenty one if you five CARSD Talk Station Opening Day.
I hope the Reds have a good season this year.
I know it's easy to say that out loud, but
we've quite often gotten let down over the years, so anyway,
I know it's it's a proud tradition. It's one of
the things that makes sense. Any great opening day parade
is phenomenal. And as I've said earlier, if even if

(02:16:44):
you're not a baseball fan, you know, it's just cool
to see all the people down there and that everybody
gets along. We just there's like one day a year
you can count on where there's really probably not going
to be much crime or any crime, and that people
get along. All people of all different races and creeds
and cities all have one thing in common. They like
the reds managed to play nicely together. Oh if we

(02:17:06):
could only do it that way all year long. Anyway,
I just have to go back over this. Joe and
I were having some fun with this this morning, and
in spite of the much much, much broader problems we
have in the federal government and spending. And thank god
for the Apartment of Governmental Efficiency for letting us know
that you and I had to go to work and
pay taxes to get this stuff accomplished. And thank god

(02:17:28):
for the Department of Government Efficiency for terminating it before
the money went out the door. Announcements made earlier this week,
agents the DOTCH terminated one hundred thirteen wasteful contracts with
a sealing value of four point seven billion dollars, which
results in three point three billion dollars in savings for
you and me, including one hundred and forty five thousand

(02:17:51):
dollars USDA consulting contract for Peru climate change activities.

Speaker 2 (02:17:57):
Peru.

Speaker 1 (02:17:59):
It does not and there and this sort of it
is like a downhill slide in terms of the epics
stupidity of these programs that thankfully had been canceled. Why
is Elon Musk evil for canceling this Department of Labor
canceled a five hundred and seventy seven million dollar American
last grants totally two hundred and thirty seven million in savings.

(02:18:19):
Savings from canceled contracts included ten million dollars for gender
equity in the Mexican workplace, twelve point two million for
worker empowerment in South America, and a comment I made earlier,
I mean South America is a continent, millions and millions
of people there. I mean, how quickly would you go

(02:18:41):
through two point two million dollars in an entire continent?
And how much how much you know, how how much
worker empowerment whatever the hell that's supposed to mean? How
much worker empowerment could you actually bring to an entire continent?
Six point twenty five million for quote, improving respect for
workers' rights in agricultural supply chains in Honduras, Quantmaa, Guatemala

(02:19:02):
and El Salvador. Five million to elevate women's applicant women's
app or participation rather in the workplace in West Africa
four point three million to assist foreign migrant workers in Malaysia.
Three million dollars to enhance this social security like initial
cap as in what the United States Social Security system apparently,

(02:19:23):
so I'm just relying on Fox News reporting on this anyway.
Three million dollars to enhance social security access and worker
protection for internal migrant workers in Bangladesh. Three million dollars
for safe and inclusive work environments in the Southern African
country of Lesotho. Had to look that one up. So

(02:19:50):
the quest continues. And I went over this again because
it's so epically dumb and stupid, and it's offensive to
me as an American taxpayer, that this money is gone
out the door. And I am the last person in
the world to believe that that twelve point two million
dollars by way of illustration for worker empowerment in South

(02:20:11):
America actually left the country and wasn't put to some
other probably nefarious from my perspective purpose. And Musk is evil,
and you're gonna You're gonna go out and key up
a tesla because he is revealing this kind of stuff
to the American people. Right eight twenty six fifty five,
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(02:20:32):
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Speaker 11 (02:21:52):
We get to talk on opening day as well. That
makes it a double nice thing.

Speaker 1 (02:21:55):
It really is. Are you going to be into Are
you in You're not the South and commands, so you're
in town? Are you going to the game by any
hands or the pred We are not.

Speaker 11 (02:22:03):
And I've gone to a couple of opening days and
it's just been incredible. But this year now that but
you know, we've got the Atlanta Brave season tickets, so
we will be going to that opener next weekend. But no,
we're in Cincinnati and joined this wonderful weather that we
have here. But I'm excited. I mean, I work with
Boston radio stations and Cleveland radio stations and they both

(02:22:26):
say to me, Jay, you don't understand what you've got
that manager. They took our young team and took us
to the World Series. You guys have our young team
and it's not going to be like the Reds of old,
and of course I want to believe that, but you know,
we so often feel like Charlie Brown with Lucy holding
the football, and.

Speaker 2 (02:22:42):
You just don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:22:44):
That's a good parallel right there.

Speaker 11 (02:22:46):
Oh, it's a perfect analogy for all of us that
follow and plead for the Reds to win anytime this century.

Speaker 1 (02:22:52):
It's like the one moment in time, you know, they
haven't played a game yet we can think about the
idea and the concept of the Reds getting a pennant, right,
it's like making it all the way so and that
that quite often is a fleeting hupe. Anyhow well, fingers
crossed with the Reds this year and whip. We got
a whole bunch of topics today which I dearly love.
Jay ratlifts and I commented out loud earlier it's like

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every time I talk to you, I've got this sort
of running checklist reasons to fly and reasons not to fly.
Number one on the list reason not to fly taken
off from a taxiway.

Speaker 11 (02:23:25):
Oh my gosh, this one defies my ability to understand.
I know you have a highly trained.

Speaker 2 (02:23:35):
Well I mean that's that's what they're.

Speaker 1 (02:23:37):
Supposed to be, right, could be an equity higher.

Speaker 11 (02:23:40):
Well, let's hope you're in the cockpit of a commercial
airliner and you're in Orlando. It's nine thirty in the morning,
so it's not night. You don't have the sun in
your ryot at sunrise, and you turn onto a taxiway
and you actually start the world to take off, and
it takes an alert air traffic controller, thank you very much,
that shut them down and fast to keep them from
taking off. Now understand that a taxiway would be like

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you and I going down a one lade road versus
an interstate that has four lanes. And how you could
mistake that for that? I just it just it just
boggles my mind because as often as these men and
women fly and you pull out on taxiway, you're obviously
on that one lane road. You're obviously not on a runway.

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It's not anywhere near us. I mean, it's at least
three to four times wider than the taxiway, doesn't.

Speaker 1 (02:24:32):
It Also isn't it also illuminated with different colored lights?
Being a taxiway in lines?

Speaker 11 (02:24:36):
I tell you the big signs that tell you turn here, yeah,
I mean they're out there as well as far as
as everything is just labeled out there. And I can
only think back and it's been like twenty five years
ago that we had something on the West coast. I
don't know if it was China Airlines, China Eastern, somebody
that did take off from a taxiway and they were

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able to do it successfully. There were no injuries and
nobody got hurt, no aircraft damage or anything like that.
But you know, the taxiways are the things at the
airport when when we're moving around the airport, we're coming
up on an active runway, we request permission to cross
the runway from air traffic control if you're on the
ground or if you're in an aircraft. Now, if you're
in a taxiway, it's a little bit different, meaning that

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if you've got somebody rolling down a taxiway, you could
have a piece of ground equipment out there, you could
have people working on the runway, you could have another
aircraft that's positioning going where it's opposed to. But the
Southwest Airline Slights was stopped from taking off. They were
they were turned to the gate as they needed to.
The pilots were replaced as they should have been, and
there's an ongoing investigation. I've got students that work in

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the airline industry, and some of them for Southwest that
are captains, and they're like, Jay, I just I don't
understand this one. I just do not, because I always
trying to figure out, Okay, what could have led to
this kind of a mistake right taking place? And the
first thing I thought of was that not that might

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have been a later thought, but my first thought, tragically
was the Common air crash in Lexington, because one of
the contributing factors of that aircraft disaster when that crew
lined up on the wrong shorter runway and took off
didn't have enough room in the plane crash, was they
were talking about things that didn't pertain to the operation

(02:26:22):
of the aircraft. Generally, a VACE administration has a very
clear sterile cockpit rule, and that says from the time
you push back from the gate until you're at an
altitude of ten thousand feet, every single thing that's discussed
is only regarding the aircraft. I like that that's the rule,
but they didn't. That was one of the things that
didn't happen on the Common air flight. They were talking

(02:26:43):
about everything, but and they those distractions cost live. So
one of the things I'll look at here was what
was the conversation going and did that lead to some
sort of distraction that caused this crew to make a mistake.
But brand, I just it's beyond my ability to comprehend this.
I've seen crews try to land on taxiways like at
night it's brightly lit, and I kind of get that

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as far as sometimes initially you would line up for
the wrong thing, but to take off from one in
the middle of the morning, No, I've this one I've
never seen before.

Speaker 1 (02:27:14):
All right, well, coming up, don't forget your passport. Eight
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Speaker 4 (02:27:21):
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Speaker 2 (02:27:25):
Over it to day.

Speaker 1 (02:27:27):
Showers are possible after two pm. That word possible, and
I'm going to say they're not happening. Hi, A fifty
eight day over night, a little forty eight with some showers,
seventy three tomorrow with morning showers and cloudy skies after
we got cloudy over night down at fifty seven, and
maybe some rain on Saturday as well. I have seventy
seven right now thirty six degrees in traffic target.

Speaker 6 (02:27:48):
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time check will be at eleven fifteen when the parade
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Speaker 1 (02:28:19):
Keep your Stupid Mouth Shut at age forty evy about
KCD talks days in I had in the International listener.
My friend Keith, who listens locally, was in Tokyo last week.
He let me know he was listening to the program
in Tokyo and his iHeartMedia app Jay and he just
let me know. He said they would landed in Dallas
Fort Worth on their way home. Pilot had to abort

(02:28:40):
the landing the last moon because the plane turned into
their runway. He said there was the pilot of the
plane was not happy, so Dallas Fort worth on that one.
I didn't see anything in the in the news on that,
but see it's.

Speaker 11 (02:28:53):
A runway incursion. They happen every day, oh the con news.
And all it does is really tick off the crew
because then they have to power up, go back around
and get in line and in land. And of course
if you're making a tight connection, thank you very much.
Now you've got ten or fifteen, maybe twenty minutes actly
tacked onto that, which just takes you off even further.
But you know, everybody needs to be safe.

Speaker 1 (02:29:13):
So not unusual is the operative point here. So that
happens every day. Okay, all right, sadly it doesn't like it.

Speaker 2 (02:29:20):
Don't to minimize it.

Speaker 1 (02:29:21):
But yeah, well at least he got out of the situation. Okay, Yeah,
don't forget your password passport you think a pilot would
like have that as a first order of business.

Speaker 11 (02:29:30):
Jay, Most pilots have it in their go bags, so
they never it's their airline ID and their passport at
their international crew members. And I mean we had a
United flight on its way from Los Angeles to Shanghai.
United Airlines takes off their into the flight when whoops
is just determined one of the pilots forgot the passport,

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so they divert over to San Francisco Land. The passengers
d plane, they have to have another crew member who
is properly documented to get on the plane, and off
they go, and it's like a fourteen hour flight. So
again you would think that that would be something that
they would have. But Brian, the most I guess unusual
twist of the story is that it happened twice in

(02:30:14):
one week to United. Now, I don't think the other
one that they got airborne. I don't believe I could
be wrong there, but it happened twice in a week,
so you only had one occasion but a second. And
of course my initial thought is, and I've got friends
at United. I've been asking about this. Don't we check
the pilots like we checked the passengers. Don't we make
sure that they have proper documentation like passengers, because a

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lot of times you just flash your airline ID and
boom on, you go as far as through the gate area.
But I don't know, so I don't know enough about
United's procedures. I know what we did at Northwest, but
that was a gazillion years ago. As far as what
the current United procedures are. But I can tell you
if the procedures are that they don't check passports, I
can guarantee you now that they probably are, especially on

(02:30:59):
those international flights, to make sure that the pilots have
everything that they need.

Speaker 1 (02:31:03):
Well, I guess we've really irked the Canadians off. I
see that the number of flights between Canada and the
United States is down seventy percent.

Speaker 11 (02:31:12):
It's it's you know, I knew it was down, but
when you look at the numbers, it's it's unreal. Last
March in twenty twenty four, when we're looking at April
bookings between Canada and the United States, there was one
point two million it's that had been booked for travel
for April. This year, We're looking next month and it's
not one point two million, it's two hundred ninety five thousand.

Speaker 2 (02:31:34):
Hum.

Speaker 11 (02:31:35):
Now, part of this is a reduction for the demand
and travel. The economy sloan just a bit, and some
of it as Canadian carriers have cut back in part
because they're irritated over politics. And now they're simply saying that,
you know, there's just not the demand there. But the
numbers are actually a seventy five point seven percent production
and tickets booked year every year, And that floored me.

(02:31:56):
I knew that it had been down a bit, but right,
I didn't think it was down that mouth. But that's
what the numbers show. So yeah, now people still are going,
you know, up to Toronto Boom or Montreal and using
that as an international hub and going to Europe in
other different places. But when you're talking about point to
point travel just between the United States and Canada, yeah,
it's down big time.

Speaker 1 (02:32:17):
That's amazing to me. Anyhow, here's a really important topic.
And I talked about that Boeing seven thirty seven Max case.
They didn't bother telling pilots about the software changes that
ultimately led ultimately led to two plane crashing and multiple
loss of lives. They want to withdraw their guilty.

Speaker 2 (02:32:33):
Plea, yes this year, you working on my blood pressure?

Speaker 1 (02:32:38):
You get my friend.

Speaker 11 (02:32:38):
You know they are because finally Boeing, after admitting that
day in essence, covered things up from the Department of Transportation,
from the FAA, from pilots, from airlines, and from the
public about all the deficiencies that were involved in that
Boeing Max airplane that crashed killing more than three hundred
and forty people. Boeing struck a plea deal last year

(02:32:59):
that included four hundred and fifty five million dollars in
their words, to improve safety and compliance over three years
of court supervised probation as well as supervision by some
independent monitor for three years. And it didn't really please
the victims of the seven thirty seven Max crashes that
are suing Boeing because this was in their eyes, and

(02:33:22):
I think it's an accurate assessment, Boeing was doing this
to keep it out of court. They didn't want to
have the court process, all the documents poured out, all
this stuff going to public to remind everybody of how
four years Boeing was hiding the deficiencies from everybody that
was buying their airplane as they were simply trying to
mass produce as quickly as possible these deficient aircraft that

(02:33:43):
they knew had problems that they planned on fixing them
sometime in the future. Well, now Boeing, under a very
friendly Trump administration, has decided, no, we don't want to
do that anymore now, Bryant, I don't know if I'm
reading the tea leaves here right, but it's as though
Boeing is perhaps looking for a sweeter deal under a

(02:34:04):
less restrictiveness administration. Now I don't know if that's accurate,
and please tell me if I'm all wrong here, But
you and I talked about how when the Trump administration
we knew it was coming, airline stocks went up, yet
airlines donating to the Trump Inaugural Fund, Boeing donating to
the Trump and Augural Fund, the idea being that, oh,
this is going to be like to buy administration. This

(02:34:25):
is going to be a business airline friendly administration and
not holding our feet to the fire like we had before,
which again I complimented to bide administration repeatedly on that. Yeah,
So am I wrong that Boeing is trying to walk
this back because they think it's it's a more friendly
environment for them.

Speaker 1 (02:34:42):
I just think it puts some more on the spotlight
and minds the American public that look, this is what
they did and they didn't and most fundamentally bother telling
the pilots what was going to happen with this software upgrade.
I think it's an extraordinarily stupid move, but it'll play out.
We'll find out ourselves let's pause. We're bringing back and
one of the things we'll learn the next segment with
Jay Ratliffe don't make Bob jokes. Eight forty six fifty

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Speaker 4 (02:35:05):
Station fifty five KRC.

Speaker 1 (02:35:09):
One more time for the weather for opening day and
the parade. We got a chance of rain showing up
around two pm, but it's just plus fifty eighth is
going to be the high against some showers over night,
dropping a forty eight morning rain tomorrow with partley, cloudy
skies after seventy three fifty seven overnight with some clowns
and highest seventy seven on Saturday, but it comes along
with a chance of rain closing out at forty degrees.

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Time for final traffic.

Speaker 6 (02:35:30):
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Speaker 1 (02:35:58):
Hey forty nine coming on with any fifty fifty five
care city talk station talking with I heard media aviation
expert Jay Rattler pull host topics this morning, and something
I think you alluded to last week the Southwest Airlines
suggesting they may need some smaller aircraft. I think you
were kind of excited about that, I am, because.

Speaker 11 (02:36:16):
You know Southwest they fly to seven thirty seven. That's
the only thing they've found. They did play seven to
seventeens briefly when they gobbled up air Tram, but it's
they got rid of those. It's the seven thirty seven
fleet has been for fifty seven years. Southwest is saying
that there's certain markets that the demand for seven thirty
seven just isn't there. Some of these smaller regional airports,

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it would be great if they had like a seventy
seat aircraft, something that accommodates something closer to one hundred seats,
which obviously is not the seven thirty seven. So when
the demand is that low, Southwest has to make one
of two options choices. Do we continue to operate with
more seats than the market needs at that time? Of
day or do we pull out of the city. Most
of the time, it's going to be the second option.
We're going to take that aircraft and crew to another

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market where our yield or a profit for passenger is
where it needs to be. So now Southwest is saying,
maybe we need to look at a different sized aircraft.
Now that would mean a non Boeing seven thirty seven.
It might mean a Bombardier aircraft or Embry air it
could be an airbus. Now a lot of times you
would look at this saying that's just you know, Southwest

(02:37:21):
being clever and trying to you know, negotiate with Boweling
put a little pressure on them. I don't think so.
This is not the Southwest of old. This is now
the Southwest that's going to be charging for check bags
in May. The Southwest has gone to assigned seats. The
Southwest is going to offer premium seats. This is the Southwest.
They've been laying off employees for the first time in
their history. I think they're serious and they could actually

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look at using smaller airplanes, and I really think they should.
There's certainly an operational advantage when you only have one
type of aircraft. When you're talking about ground equipment, training
and all the things that go along with having a
very consistent fleet. But when you're talking about making as
much money as you can, it's like when we trade stocks, Bryan.
There's certain stocks you can make a lot of money
on and some you make less, and you adjust based

(02:38:06):
on that particular opportunity. Right with airlines, it's the same
thought process. There's certain cities you make a lot of
money if you go in, but you can't do it
with larger aircraft than what the demand is for there,
So for smaller airports. I hope Southwest goes this route
because I think that it would allow regional airports to
enjoy the Southwest service in the lower fares instead of

(02:38:28):
perhaps losing that service altogether.

Speaker 1 (02:38:30):
Makes sense to me, I understand, and I've understood for
a long time. You don't make bomb jokes at the airports.
You got a woman who found that out.

Speaker 11 (02:38:39):
Yeah, she's only fifty five. I mean, obviously she doesn't
know better. But she's at the airport. She's got three
bags and she's consolidating them to two. She's tried to
save money. She's talking to the gate agent, and I
guess in the course of the back and forth, she
made a comment about, well, you know, it's gonna be
challenging because of this bomb I've got in my bag.
And of course the minute you say those words, everything stops.

(02:38:59):
The police are you're taking away, they question you. Anybody
that's with you goes with you, and you're gonna miss
your flight, maybe not fly at all. So she kept saying, oh, no, no, no,
it's a joke. But Brian, I cannot tell you the
number of times that we've had people that, you know,
maybe they're nervous. People sometimes say stupid things when they
are nervous, and they try to joke their way out
of it.

Speaker 2 (02:39:19):
And there's been so many times.

Speaker 11 (02:39:21):
That that's happened. I used to tell our boys when
they were growing up, I will kill you. I will
literally kill them if you use the word bomb. And
you know, because kids, how the kids are. Oh, Jay,
I didn't you don't want me to say this word.
I told him, No, we're not gonna be tomorrow's story,
so I just don't do it. In fact, Sherry was
traveling one time with bath bombs and the TSA asked

(02:39:43):
her what they were. She says, I can't tell you
and the agent says, well, you're gonna have to tay.
She goes, I can't because my husband said, never use
that word at dinner. So she finally told him it
was bath bombs, a little bath busies that you put
in the bath, you know, when you take a bath.

Speaker 2 (02:39:55):
But yeah, you just don't use that term.

Speaker 11 (02:39:57):
This lady did. And it's just a reminder of how
you try to make a joke, and it's not only
going to inconvenience you, but probably every single person in
your party. So even though I don't want to see
Joe's you know clip there, Yeah, I keep.

Speaker 1 (02:40:11):
Your mouth shut, keep your stupid mouth shut. And at
fifty five, yes, you should know better. And I know
you said that, you said that with your togue in
your cheek. Anyhow well, I guess, Yeah, we get in
the remaining time. We'll just go ahead and let you
do because I know we got another subject here, but
we'll let you do the hub delays because we always

(02:40:31):
done on that top Shop Dick com'romos out of time.

Speaker 11 (02:40:34):
Yeah, Chicago and Houston, especially Houston. Houston is getting absolutely hammered.
If you're flying United Airlines connecting through Houston, get to
the airportal lecture. Early today, they may decide to do
what's called an online reroute, getting you to your destination
through another hub, because Houston's just gonna get hammered through
the rest of the Chicago's going to get a look,
kind of a glancing blow later in the morning, but

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Houston clearly the problem.

Speaker 2 (02:40:57):
Child of the day.

Speaker 1 (02:40:58):
Appreciate what you do. Jay Ratliff, It's always a pleasure
to have you on the program, and I look forward
to next Thursday like I always do to talk to you.
Have a great week, weekend, and a happy opening day
to you brothers. Well, thank you, Thanks man. Coming up
an eight fifty five fifty five KR City talkstation, great
show today. Thank you Joe Strecker for lining up Todd Zenzer.
What an eye opening conversation it is every time we

(02:41:18):
talk with the former Inspector General host of the Citizen
Watchdog Project, because he is City of Cincinnati. Should be
thanking Todd Zenzer for everything he does exposing fraud, waste,
and abuse and insanity. Talked about the new sports Arena,
among other things, and we had Corey Bowman back in
the program coming up heels of the debate with have
to have pro Ball Corey Bowman dot com help him out,

(02:41:43):
and of course that conversation with Jay Ratliff at the
podcast page fifty five Casey dot com. Tomorrow is Tech Friday.
We'll hear from Dave Hatter as we do every Friday
at six thirty and other guests. Thank you, Joe Strecker
speaking a guest, Thanks for running down and doing the
rundown and producing the program. Love what you do, my friend. Folks,
have a great day, have a great opening day. Fingers
crossed for the Reds, and don't call why Lumbeck's coming up?

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