55KRC Thursday Show - Tech Thursday, Shaz Kahn, First Step Home, Help Squad, Jay Ratliff

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Five o five at fifty five g r C, the
talk station. Independence Day Eve.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
A vacation, and that's the way the news go.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
It is unhappy Independence Day Eve. I hope you got
some great plans this weekend. It's some information and interesting
information about the level of travel going on over the weekend.
It's like it's going to be a record setter coming
up in the fifty five RCY Morning Show. It is Thursday,
I recognize that, but since I'm off tomorrow, it be
a best of program. Joe Strecker will hand select some
of the interviews from the program and replay those tomorrow.

(00:56):
So no Gary, Jeff Walker or Dan Carroll. But that
means no Tech Friday Dave Hatter, except we can move
him back. So today we're going to have a Tech
Thursday with Dave Hatter. I'm really happy about that. Thank
you Joe for getting in touch with Dave. And thanks Dave.
You're out there listening for Green to do that kind
of be talking about. This is creepy. Wi Fi companies

(01:18):
can track movement in your houses. That's right. Your Wi
Fi system allows exterior forces to know you were moving
around and where you are in your home. I don't
know what to what end they're going to use that,
but it is kind of quite creepy and frightening. Artificial
intelligence is now going after your wallet. Topic number two.
And then finally a judge allows artificial intelligence testimony from

(01:39):
a dead man. Oh okay, question mark looming over seven
oh five Shas Khan, author of the Ultimate Vaccine Timeline,
on this schedule. It previously confirmed, but Joe sent the
link for our zoom conversation and it bounced back, meaning
we were given a bad email address or Joe was

(02:00):
doing a bad email dress. So he's reached out to
the powers it be to see if we can't shore
that up. It sounds like a really amazing book. Props
on all the information in there, but it traces vaccines
from their earliest days, like in five hundred DC or
something like that, all the way through today, and of
course discusses a lot of the risk and concerns and

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maybe behind the scenes information that you and I weren't
told about vaccines. You listen to RFK Junior, He's uncovered
a whole lot of really scary stuff, most notably in
the COVID nineteen vaccine realm. In fact, just the other
day he was doing an interview. He suggested that doctor
Anthony Founci played a key role in creating and releasing

(02:42):
the COVID nineteen virus because game function research was outright
banned by the United States, yet he was able to
reroute money through a company he controlled over the Wuhan
Institute of Virology, so they could create this virus in
a lab. He said out loud, Why did he need immunity?
Why a preemptive pardon? He suggests voutch She wasn't merely

(03:03):
an innocent bystander because he funneled and transferred critical technology
to the Wuhan lab. So I'm sure that's something Chaskan
has written about. I hope that she's able to join
the program at seven oh five, but we'll come up
with something else to talk about, if not followed by
Morgan Gibson, CEO of First Step Home, a turned nonprofit

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and it provides support for women with substance abuse and
their children, so laudable goals there. So Morgan's going to
join the program at seven thirty to talk about that.
Maybe the way that you and I can help speaking
to help Brian Ibel return to Brian Ibold from the
Help Squad. Brian's a real just profound charitable guy. Hey,
he's got a mission and that's to help people on
life's margin. He does that through the Help Squad had

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him on quite a few times over the years. And
a fun and interesting guy. Brian Eibold is finally Jay Rattliffe, Yay,
it's Thursday. iHeart media aviation expert. We're talking about Southwest
Airlines trying to well be like everybody else, maybe changing
the rules on their loyalty companion pass policy, which he
describes as not good. FBI warning about additional cyber strikes

(04:11):
against airlines and that they could continue, meaning they're ongoing
scary moments aboard Japanese a japan Airlines flight, and finally
the entire freight flight crew got suspended after a reported
theft of a passenger cell phone. I love talking to
Jay Rheightloff Love talking to you too, five three seven
eight two three talk fifty on your AT and T phone.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
It's still developing, the big beautiful bill. They're still talking
about it, but it did move into its final phase
this morning. Just about three o'clock this morning, lawmakers voted
to proceed with debate on the bill. Debate a mechanism
known as a rule vote that tees up the final
housewide vote, which could happen as early as this morning.

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So they adopted the rules for debate on the bill
two nineteen to two thirteen. Only one moderate representative, Brian Fitzpacker, Republican,
of course, voted voting to proceed, So anyway process could,
they say It could still take hours. Democrats could call
up various procedural votes to delay the final measure. They've

(05:20):
done this before. Bill itself could still face opposition from
both moderates and conservatives, which has been the big hold up.
As many as five Republicans were against it as of
midnight overnight roughly so don't quote me on the exact time.
Conservative lawmakers threatening to vote no overchanges the Senate made

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to the legislation, saying it's going to add billions of
dollars to the federal deficits. Those concerns apparently outweighed by
pressure from House GOP leaders and Trump, who was on
the phone with all of them over the course of
yesterday and overnight urging Republicans to coalesce or on the bill.

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Moderates concerned about Senate measures that shift more medicaid costs
to the states that expanded their programs under Obamacare. Well,
you know, you got to ask yourself, why did you
bother expanding your program? Well, the federal government's paying for
all of it, Yeah, on a temporary basis. I just
don't understand Red states that why they bothered expanding their

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medicaid program. I don't care if the feather are cover
one hundred percent of it. As someone a party that's
supposed to be fiscally responsible, it's everybody's dollars, including the
residents of your state who pay federal taxes, whose federal
tax dollars are going to reimburse the state for expanding medicaid.
I mean talk about definitionally at Charlie Foxtrot. So still

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looming question marks over whether it's going to pass, but
it is moving forward at a slow pace, all right.
Onto the weekend, seventy two million p people expected to
travel nationally. Triple A Travel forecasts it's seventy two point
two million people will travel at least fifty miles from
their homes over the Independence Day weekend. They measure the

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period between June twenty eighth and July sixth domestic travel presection.
That's projection one point seven million more travelers than last
year and seven million more than twenty nineteen. That's a
lot us Transportations Security Administration's projections for airline which just

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runs through July first and through the seventh. Highest passenger
volume expected two point nine million for July sixth. Along
court of the Transportation Security Administration officials, airports expect the
highest passenger numbers ever. TSA staff at airports nationwide said

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they are prepared to screen more than eighteen point five
million travelers at the various security checkpoints. It's going to
be a packed weekend for air travel. I'm sure Jay
Ratliffe will be sure and have to say something about that.
FAA predicting the busiest fourth of July week and fifteen years,
with today expected to see more than fifty one thousand

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domestic and international flights. You know, when you think about that,
you got fifty one thousand planes flying around on an
air traffic control system it's built on floppy discs from
back in the eighties. It's really a scary reality. As
far as driving. Some good news here US motorists on
highways will notice slightly higher gas prices compared to the

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last month. This week national average of gas three dollars
and twenty two cents, five cents more than a month ago. However,
the good news gas prices twenty seven cents cheaper than
this time last year and the lowest gas prices for
July fourth weekend since twenty twenty one. How about that

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worst place to buy gas California four dollars and sixty
two cents. Hawaii would you'd imagine would be number one
because literally everything in Hawaii needs to be shipped in.
It is an island chain. Anyway, four dollars and forty
seven cents. You got to pay four to forty five
in Washington State, Oregon four oh six, Nevada three eighty one,
Alaska three seventy four Alaska where they have all the

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oil that they can possibly deal with, followed by Illinois, ID, Idaho,
and Pennsylvania. At least expensive, it's going to be in
Mississippi at least for gas Mississippi James, You're only paying
two dollars and seventy three cents a gallon, followed by Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Missouri,
and South Carolina as well as Kansas. Those are all

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the lowest, Kansas number ten in the list at two
dollars and ninety one cents. So good news for gas prices.
And of course, you know, one of the positives of
the big beautiful bill, ignoring the deficit creation reality, it'll
free up more domestic energy production, which is a good thing,
and roll back all these green energy programs and quit

(10:06):
funding those. It's amazing how much money rolled out of
the federal government in the waning days of the Biden
administration auto pen and full gear. Apparently, Biden Administration's energy
departments signed off on nearly forty two billion dollars for
green energy projects between let us see here. Actually between

(10:30):
January sixteenth and January seventeenth of this year, Man Loan
Program's office approved at least ninety three billion dollars in
current future disbursements. This after Kamala Harris lost the twenty
twenty four election in November, Biden had to get all
the money out of the door as soon as possible,
so billions and billions of money went out the door.

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So I know the Republicans are busy trying to cls
some of that back, but there are complications on that,
and that's one of the things that's in this big
beautiful bill rolling back some of those green energy projects.
And then that's when you find out that the Republicans,
who are usually you know, against this and find it
to be contrary to their political leanings and dealings, well
that's until their state is the recipient of one of

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these green projects. That which time they all decide, well, no, no,
the rest of them need to go, but we're we
want to keep the one that's coming to our state, right,
just like military spending five sixteen, fifty five krc DE
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Speaker 4 (11:33):
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Speaker 5 (11:36):
Don't let the popsicles and muddy puddles.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Five twenty we'll change of pace on this Independence Day
for the bumper music. Thank you, just treker refreshing. All right,
maybe you know and maybe you don't know, but Sarah Hennager,
the widow of man who was stabbed to death, and
they're over the Rhine apartment, Jim owner down and over
the Rhine apparently successful guy, great guy, nice husband, all

(12:07):
the great things, and he's no longer with us because
of violent crime in downtown Cincinnati. I'll get to Sarah
Heninger and Herringer rather prologies to Sarah for mispronouncing the
last name there anyway in a local story. I just
I'm kind of curious to gauge your reaction on this
Red Bike station. You know, there's rental bikes that they
have all over the place, so they're going to be

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available this weekend. In a social media post, the city
said Red Bike agreed to close stations and over the
Rhine in the Central Business District for the weekend. Also
a restriction on the use of rental eatscooters in both
neighborhoods between eight pm and six am on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. Delgy CPOs Taylor Whiter and Jay Score reached

(12:50):
out to Cheryl Long's office city manager, and they said, well,
trying to prevent the rise in crime in over the Rhine,
both police and residents flag Red Bikes as part of
the problem. Spokesman for the city said it's another intervention
to prevent crime. Coord to the City Sincinnati post, to
prioritize safety Downtown. Red Bike agreed to the city's request

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to closed stations in OTR in Central Business District this weekend.
The city also restricting the use of East scooters in
the area. The suspension will be in fact eight am
to six apm to six am Thursday through Saturday evenings.
All right over to Sarah Hannah Aarringer commenting on this
nascial media post on Facebook, which is widely circulating. It's

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the topic near and dear to Christopher Smithman's hearty he
was venting about it earlier this week and find that
podcast thirty five k SE dot com. The murderer who
took my husband's life didn't use a bike. The murderer
didn't use a scooter, and yet this city's grand solution
banned bikes and scooters for the weekend, just long enough
to protect the image, the tourists and the dollars. Cincinna's

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averaging thirteen homicides a month. Now, that's what's killing people,
not bikes, not scooters. My husband wasn't murdered because of
transportation options. He was murdered because violent crime is out
of control. While city leadership chases headlines instead of solutions,
I asked the Chief of police why they weren't rounding
up the A wall criminals, the ones who are actually
putting lives at risk. Here's the reality. There are fourteen

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hundred and sixty five people on supervised release from Hamilton County,
one hundred and fifty three violators at large as of
June twelfth. Fifty two of them have been convicted of
violent offenses. And what did I get? Jask? Silence? Probably
because it was after five pm. Probably because they were
leaving for vacation the next day. That's the level of urgency,

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that's the priority. City leadership can scramble overnight to limit scooters,
but not take violent criminals off our streets. They're addressing optics,
not reality. What happens on Monday when the tourists leave,
the bike's return, and the violence keeps going. How does
banning bikes stop the bloodshed? It doesn't because it's only

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It isn't about safety, it's about theater, and it's cowardice.
They can move overnight to protect their image. They could
move overnight to protect their people. They just don't want to.
And here's what they're not talking thinking about. Every time
they choose image over action. The trust of this city
erodes every time they patch the optics but ignore the cause.

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The streets go more dangerous. Every time they move for
tourists and not for residents, they reveal who they really
are protecting. Since Anti doesn't need another weekend stunt, it
needs leaders willing to act before the camera's wall, willing
to take the hard steps that actually make a city safe.
And until they do, we see it. We see the failure,

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We see the cowardice, and we will not forget. But
she has been outstoken, has spoken an unrelenting since of
course her husband's murder, and good for her. A lot
of bad things happen to people, but can you use
that bad event in your life to help transform for
the better a community. God love her, and I hope
she has some success getting these elected officials off their

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butts and getting them to address the crime prop in
the city of Cincinnati, and getting them to become more
outspoken on support of police and the relationship building with
the various communities in the City of Cincinnati relative to
their support of police. You know, I'm sure a whole
bunch of people out in the Greater Cincinnati area or
in the Cincinnati area proper knows something about the one

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hundred and fifty three violators at large that she mentioned
in her Facebook post drop a dime huh five twenty
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that about Kercity Talk station. Collect to saw these guys
in concert. Man, they put on a great show of
going back a lot of years on that good call
on this Joe. Appreciate the change up there and all
is right with the world. Times on the phone, Tom,
Happy Independence Day to you, brother.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
Absolutely, And I'll start by wishing everyone a happy Independence
Day two hundred and fiftieth. Huh, big deal. Wow, Yes,
we're still We're still babies compared to a lot of
countries around the world.

Speaker 7 (17:25):
Aren't we.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, as it rapidly deteriorates and falls apart red our
very eyes.

Speaker 6 (17:29):
There, we're still we're still trying to figure this experiment out, apparently. Yeah.
I first want to touch on the whole h the
victory for common sense with the whole transgender thing and
letting men participate in women's sports. With the University of
Pennsylvania decision, it's not like they had much of a choice.

(17:52):
Kudos to Trump and the Trump administration for putting squeeze
at these people and making things right. That that that
was good to see that that that dude, he's a dude.
I don't care how many times they put her or
she in any article.

Speaker 8 (18:09):
That is it.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
That is a man, so Leah Thomas, right.

Speaker 6 (18:13):
Yeah, correct, correct, So I don't really mind the name
it's I'm not I'm not calling a guy her or she.
I just won't do it. So if I accidentally read
it through an article, I'll I'll double back and I'll
quickly correct myself because, uh, that I find had to
be extremely extremely offensive calling a calling a man a woman,

(18:36):
and referring to hers as him as as she. So anyway,
move on from that. Uh your your thing. You just
read your Facebook post? Is that Sarah Herringer? Is that
what you said?

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Correct?

Speaker 6 (18:47):
Yeah, very very powerful story and uh the only thing
missing at the end of her at the end of
her post should be three words don't vote Democrat. Have
a great holiday weekend, Brett, You do.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
The same, Tom thanks for calling as always five one
thirty seven nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight
to two three Talk or go with pound five fifty
on AT and T phones. Two. Have other local stories
see we got a man facing a reckless homicide charge
after his wife was shot in the head and died.
UH charged with reckless homicide Tyrone Crawford, as well as

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improper handling of a firearm and a motor vehicle, as
well as tamplering with evidence following the June twenty nine
death of his wife accord in the Middletown Police. Around
ten forty five pm June twenty nine, police sit officers
and firefighters went to a home on Roosevelt Boulevard for
a shooting victim. Middletown Police so they found Curtis in
the backyard. Alec Alexis curtis Is dead wife's name, with

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a gunshot wound to her head. She died at the scene.
Officer talked with Crawford, who said he was Curtis's husband
and the two had a child together. Crawford told officers
he and his wife had just gotten home and he
was getting a handgun out of their parked vehicle. While
holding the gun, Police said, he told the officers that

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it went off. Police said they later learned that Crawford
ran into the home and hid the gun in the bathroom.
Weapon later found during a search of the home. It
was an accident, Joe. It just went off on its own. Oh,
you think like pulp fiction. Well, that's why all people
who have any familiarity with handling of firearms, notably handguns,

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it's always keep your finger off the trigger at all times, unless,
of course, you are prepared to use it. So like,
you know, if your wife's standing there, you don't pull
a firearm out and have your finger on the trigger
just because it may be a really light trigger. Hair
trigger believes what they call them. Ohio Attorney General Dave

(20:51):
you O suing Weapon X Motorsports Incorporated and its owner,
Benjamin Herndon for taking payments for orders the business did
fulfill or refund yoh said the businesses and its owner
failed to fulfill orders for nine customers who reportedly lost
it total of twelve thousand, almost nine hundred dollars. The
court of the lawsuit. Weapon Ex Motorsports has been registered

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in Ohio as a business since August of twenty twenty
says though the business has a facility in Chapel Lane
and Forest Park, that building is not open to the public.
Court of the lawsuit and said the business sells aftermarket
vehicle parts and accessories to consumers through its website. Court
of lawsuit often defendants accepted money from customers for parts
and accessories and then allowed more than eight weeks to

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elapse without providing the items consumers ordered. When defendants failed
to deliver the items, they did not refund consumers. They
did not offer to furnish similar goods of equal or
greater value. When customers got in touch with Herndon and
the business, they were repeatedly promised to delivery the items,
but with a pushback arrival date. Said the defendants knew

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those items would be eminently would not be eminently delivered.
That's what the lawsuit of ledges. In some instances, the
court to the complaint, consumers waited over a year for
delivery and still never received the ordered item. When consumers
requested and canceled their order after months of delay, they
were told that their order was non refundable. Wow, not
much of a business model. In addition to Lawson claims

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Herndon took money from buyers for parts and accessories, then
delivered the incorrect product or a damaged item. When he
received complaints, they failed to offer a refund or provide
a replacement of item to equal greater value businesses cancelation
and refund policies were quote substantially one sided. Close quote
that's an understatement. For example, it says consumers were permitted

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only on one business day from purchase to contact the
defendants to cancel the order or potentially not be able
to cancel or receive a refund one day. Top of that,
cancelation policy also reserved the right to charge consumers up
to twenty five percent cancellation and restocking fee for non
custom manufactured item and up to fifty percent for custom

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manufactured items, twenty percent restocking fee for return unopened items
in their original packaging. Yes, lawsuits seeking Herndon Weapons X
Motor Source to pay up to twenty five thousand dollars
in civil penalties also requests that all customers damaged by
defendant's unlawful actions be reimbursed by Herndon and the business.

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A rather unscrupulous business model, I have to note. Let's
see here. We've got stack and stupid coming up. And
since it's Thursday, there is no Friday show or well
live Friday show. I have a stack of stupid that
of course is filled with naked people. Thank you. Joe
Tracker dialoaded back a day five point thirty five Stick
around the.

Speaker 9 (23:51):
Right pack fifty five KRC.

Speaker 10 (23:54):
What's the best place to reach new customers?

Speaker 1 (23:57):
By forty Friday e Independence Day Eve five one three
two three talk. It's tad on over to the phones.
Jay's gone again this morning. Jay, welcome back to the show. Hey,
good morning, Brian.

Speaker 10 (24:11):
Hey, I just heard your.

Speaker 11 (24:13):
Points there about the story about Dave Yost taking action
and protecting consumers and protecting citizens of Ohio. My question is,
why isn't Dave Yost. Shouldn't he be stepping up in
his office, stepping up whenever the state of Ohio decides
to give unclaimed funds that really don't belong to the
State of Ohio to a private business. I mean, let's

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just say that instead of six hundred million dollars one
to the Cleveland Browns that went to First Energy, you
think the Attorney General might step in and and these
are not funds that were tax revenues.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
That we were.

Speaker 11 (24:52):
You know, the legally owned by the state of Ohio.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, these are.

Speaker 11 (24:58):
Unclaimed funds by Ohio on that do not belong.

Speaker 8 (25:00):
To the State of Ohio.

Speaker 11 (25:02):
I would encourage the listeners to light up the Attorney
General's office, the top.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
Cop for the state of Ohio.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
That office should be the one.

Speaker 12 (25:10):
And I've called them before this all.

Speaker 11 (25:12):
Went into law, and they said, well, let's just stay
tuned to see if the law passed way passed.

Speaker 12 (25:17):
Yeah, so what are.

Speaker 11 (25:19):
They doing now?

Speaker 1 (25:20):
And isn't that their job?

Speaker 11 (25:21):
And whenever legalized theft of this And I'm not sure.
I'm not sure it's legal because nobody can put their
finger on the part of the Ohio Constitution that says
unclaimed funds could just be relegated to the business of
choice of the governor or the legislature.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Well, I will be quite honest with you, since I
wasn't aware that there was an entire four and a
half billion dollar unclaims fund pile of money before this
issue came out. I have read though, that they're deemed
forfeited if there is no action on those accounts and
no effort to claim those accounts, like after ten years.
So let's assume that that's lawful and legal on the books,

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and that means it does belong and is under the
control of the state. How much play they have with
it and what they can use that money for is
a total mystery to me, my friend, because this is
the first time I'm aware that it's ever come up.
So might he like to.

Speaker 10 (26:13):
Beg your pardon so it could be challenged?

Speaker 1 (26:18):
I do believe it could be. Yeah, I mean, there's
certainly a room in there the question of standing. Who
has standing to challenge it? Now, if you're someone who
has unclaimed funds in that fund and you've been denied
the recovery of those funds or something, you might have
standing since it's impacting you. Although they're not spending all

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of the money, so it's not as if some person
who has a legitimate claim is they still can no
longer get their money if they have a valid claim.
I'll admit, Jay, it does sound it's crazy for me fundamentally,
just because the money is being given to private sports owners.
But there may be a very well illegal challenge. It's
in there. How it goes and how it unfolds and happens.

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Who has standing to bring it all remains a mystery
to me. Jay, I guess we're gonna have to wait
and find out. But legitimate concern Mississippi. James, welcome back
to the fifty five Kressey Morning Show. I mentioned you
in the when I was talking about gas prices earlier.
Apparently you're the guy who's living in the state with
the least expensive gasoline prices averaging two dollars and seventy

(27:21):
three cents. Welcome back to the morning show, James. Always
good to hear from you, all.

Speaker 8 (27:27):
Right, and I do need to fill up today.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Good. Well, you're in the best state in the Union
for that, so I don't know if you're paying more
than two seventy three, but it's a hell of a
lot better than four dollars and sixty two cents in California.
You're right, you're right.

Speaker 13 (27:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (27:44):
We just finished up mayor city council votes this week.
Well they went into office just started this week. The
election was June the third, so I have more time.
I've been nine hit and meiling in this poll.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Take.

Speaker 8 (28:00):
I guess with the city and the county they all
set for another four years now, so we'll see that road.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, are you Are you optimistic?

Speaker 14 (28:15):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (28:17):
I have to be that I That is okay. You
want a default to be optimistic, and that's your nature, Jays.
But that hesits That wasn't really you know, uh a
stunning uh. You know, support for the current administration. You
got to deal with that.

Speaker 13 (28:37):
I have to be watchful.

Speaker 8 (28:38):
I have to be watchful, but will will be optimistic?

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Good for you? Good for you?

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Not.

Speaker 8 (28:44):
The guy was just speaking about the unclaimed UH funds And.

Speaker 13 (28:49):
Did you say it was over four billion in there?

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yes, sir, my goodness, Uh huh no, better.

Speaker 13 (28:56):
Check and see. I have a.

Speaker 7 (29:00):
Right at one time.

Speaker 8 (29:01):
But the process was so long and let this I
think I stopped pays weight through.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Hmmm. Maybe it's by design that it's long, lengthy and difficult, James.
People just walk away from it out of hell with it.
It's only five hundred bucks that I left in that
closed bank account. Let him have it. I can see that.
I can see that, yep, yep.

Speaker 8 (29:20):
So I'll attempt at a DN see what's in there.
If I got anything. Hurry up, Dave is gonna get this.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
What six hundred million? Cleveland Brown? Well, I got to admit,
if you're gonna give money away. It's better to just
take that money that's in the pile that you already
have than going in debt to do it, which was
the House original proposal to borrow six hundred million dollars
and then pay debt service on it, which means with
debt service it would have been overall more than a
billion dollars. So that was profoundly stupid. Not sure that

(29:49):
this is any better because of my overall objections to
handling it away to private entities, But we'll see what happens.
Appreciate the call, James, have a great Independence Day. By
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Internet research guru Joe Strecker, who all apparently is entitled
to an unclaimed fund countering what Mississippi James said. He
Joe just did it right now, I said. It took
him a total of two minutes. You got to Colm,
which stands for commerce Colm dot Ohio spelled out dot gov.
Joe said, about two minutes to fill the format. You
can search by your name and your address, and at

(31:10):
some point it'll ask you for a social security number
to see if you have any unclaimed funds out there.
But it is a secure website. It's run by the
state of Ohio, so they already have your security number,
so it may be worth it. Joe put a claim
in for the funds that were there owed him, and
apparently Joe looked it up again. Interser internet research guru.
He is apparently ag yost did tell Dwine to veto

(31:33):
the six hundred million dollar gift to the Brown provision,
but obviously Dwine did not do that. Now phase two
is whether he actually has a legal challenge to doing that.
And in talking with Joe, Joe thinks the idea that
Yost would sue the Wine slimmed to none and slim
left left down. It's this tradition, YEP. Police arrested a

(31:56):
woman after a witness said she was running around at
Jacksonville parking lot naked and attacking people and cars with
a golf club. As this tradition. Nicole J. Petree, forty three,
arrested described as homeless, hours after police reported encountering her
earlier in the day standing in the middle of the
road at south West Chamber Street. Woman was walking around

(32:17):
without a shirt, exposing her breast the cording to the
Jacksonville Police, she was issued a citation on a violation
of city ordinance against indecent exposure. Hour and a half later,
police called a Lincoln Square shopping center after callers said
a nude woman was hitting people and property with a
golf club. One person in seventeen year old suffered minor
injuries after being hit two vehicles also damaged. She was

(32:38):
arrested three phoney counts, one aggravated battery, two counts of
criminal damaging involving more than five hundred dollars.

Speaker 7 (32:45):
Drugs are made.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
I'm gonna go with that. Denton Police arrested a forty
year old woman after multiple people called the report she
was lying naked in a residential area on Monday. As
this tradition, UH twenty to three in the afternoon, please
dispatched to Paisley and Heady Streets after receiving multiple calls
about this naked person lying on the sidewalk. Officers got
there witnessed a woman lying on the ground with no

(33:08):
clothes on. She told officers she felt like she was
having a medical episode. Said she did not want to
be transported to a hospital, but wanted medics to check
on her. They arrived on the scene, the medics cleared
her of any medical issues. Both medics and officers cleared
the scene. Shortly before five pm. Officers were dispatched again

(33:30):
to a report of a naked woman of the six
hundred block of Janney Street. Officers support They found her
again lying on the sidewalk naked from the waist down
put her under arrest without incident.

Speaker 7 (33:41):
Drugs are made.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yep Uh charges penny against the driver of a Hyundai
accident after he slammed into the back of a Houndai Elantra.
Thirty two year old motorists was in custody Friday afternoon
after ramming another man's car on East third Williamsport, pushing

(34:04):
at at least seventy five yards before he got out
and took off running, removing his clothes as he ran
as this tradition. Williamsport Police said. The man, who police
believed was battling some mental health issue, bolted about two
blocks to Academy in Church Streets, where he was restrained
after an officer was forced to deploy a taser. Female
witness described it as crazy. Started for one pm when

(34:33):
the man stormed out of the leading electronics store where
he is an employee, corner to the patrol supervisor. Upon
returning from lunch. He displayed some very bizarre behavior and
got into a confrontation with another worker, smashing a display
case and several monitors before leaving the store. Driving this Hyundai.
He was heading west on East third Street at a
high rate of speed when that's when he slammed into

(34:54):
the back of the other car. Second driver not injured,
though in spite of the significance of the the collision,
charges Penning. As the investigation is ongoing. Drudge yeah, oh
real quick here. Naked man accused of attempted robbery On
Tuesday arrested two thirty pm. Raleigh police called the Atlantic

(35:16):
Avenue of the forty one hundred block for a suspicious person.
Police said two people reported it man attempted to rob him.
Police got there, they found a man and a woman
that reported a naked guy approach them with a wooden post.
I was waiting for that. Man told police he had
just gotten out of his car locked it when the
suspect approached him and di maanit. He dropped everything he
was carrying and give him access to the car. After

(35:38):
complying with the suspect, man said the suspect assaulted him
with the wooden post. According to the police, suspect also
approached the woman eating lunch in her car. Told him
the suspect hit her in the arm with the wooden
post before pulling her out of the car and attempted
to drive away. So suspect unable to shift the car
out of park well. He said he fled from the
scene hidden the nearby storage room. Poleasee said the suspect

(36:02):
later captured and taken into custody. They've not released the
name of the suspect or the two people reported in
the assault. Naked guy is in police custody though fivefty six.
They typically end that way, don't they. Fifty five krs
the talk station Tech Thursday with Dave Hatter coming up
with six thirty A little frightening information about our artificial intelligence,
among other stories going on. And I also appreciate phone calls,

(36:24):
so feel free to call me up. I'm the right back.

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Huse happens fast, stay up to date at the top
of the hour.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Not gonna be complicated.

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It's going to go very fast. Fifty five krs the
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Six to fifty five kr CE the talk station Independence Day.
He hope you have some great plans for tomorrow. I'll
be off tomorrow. I'm going to be doing a best
of show Just struck Girl selects prior recorded segments and
we'll do we'll deal with that. So there's no Tech
Friday with Dave Hatter tomorrow. But fortunately at the bottom
of this hour, we'll have Tech Thursday with Dave Hatter.
Today we'll be discussing discussed how Wi Fi companies apparently

(37:01):
can track your movements in your own house, Creepy artificial
intelligence now going after your wallet. And finally Judge allows
artificial intelligence testimony from a dead man. Really looking forward
to talking with them about that question mark looming over
the seven oh five guest spot with Shas Khan, author
of the Ultimate Vaccine Timeline. I'm really hoping she's able

(37:21):
to make it. It's a called subtitled A fact Packed
History of Vaccines and their Makers. Apparently she poured through
just hundreds of years worth of information about vaccines and
revealing I guess the good and the bad. So apparently
Joe was giving a poor email address link so he
couldn't send her the zoom link. He's reached out to

(37:41):
her people and maybe we'll get that short up by
seven oh five. I'll keep my fingers crossed for that.
Morgan Gibson to be joining the program. She's with First
Step Home CEO there. It's a nonprofit providing support for
women with substance abuse and their children. Worthwhile effort there
plus help Squads. Brian Ebold returns at eighth five. Is

(38:03):
he gonna be in the studio, Joe great? Oh, that's wonderful.
I always enjoy talking with Brian. He's a really good man.
He's doing his best to help the West Side community
through his charitable organization to help Squad. So maybe we
can put some love together for Brian and his efforts
and get some updates on some of the great work
that they've done. Finally, it is Thursday, slash Friday Eve
slash Independence Day Eve. Jay rat left got some news

(38:26):
about Southwest Airline trying to be like everybody else, and
he calls it not a good change. FBI warning about
additional cyber strikes against airlines, scary moments aboard a Japan
Airlines flight, and finally, an entire flight crew suspended after
reporting someone reported the theft of a passenger cell phone.
So those with Jay Rattler feel free to call five

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one three, seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred
eighty two to three talk found five fifty on AT
and T phones. Frightening reality and I guess you know,
you gotta face the truth. And it's nice when people
are honest and at least forthcoming with their opinions as
gloom and dooming as they may be, rather than hiding
it from you. Headline for The Wall Street Journal chip

(39:10):
Cutter reporting CEOs starts saying the quiet part out loud.
AI will wipe out jobs. I think you and I
could probably have concluded this on our own, but the
CEOs of very major corporations tend to have a lot
of knowledge and insight into these things. They stay on
top of them because it is the future of their
business and the other ones making decisions on the future

(39:30):
of their business and how much artificial intelligence they're going
to be using. First with Chief executive Jim Farley of
Ford Motor Company, quote, artificial intelligence is going to replace
literally half of all white collar workers in the United States. Now,
I hope that's an overstatement, most notably because you know,

(39:52):
you have to point out white collar workers tend to
be the highest breadwinners in terms of earnings, the highest salaries,
and therefore the highest tax If you wipe out half
of them, can the economy survive? AI will leave a

(40:13):
lot of white collar people behind, he concluded over to
JP Morgan Chase MARIONN. Lake, CEO of the Banks, Consumer
and Community Business told investors back in May that she
can see its operations headcount following by ten percent in
the next few years because the company uses new AI
tools to consolidate work and get work done by computer
that otherwise would have been done by a real human being.

(40:36):
Amazon CEO Andy Jase and a note too employees last
month he expected in June expected the company's overall corporate
workforce to be smaller in the coming years because of
a once in a lifetime AI technology being involved. We
will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that
have been done today and more people doing other types
of jobs. And there was another article recently about Amazon.

(40:58):
They're going to be more robot on the floor of
their sorting facilities and actual human beings. So that's happened,
right that's happening right now. CEO Dario Amodi from Anthropic
said in May that half of all entry level jobs
could disappear in one to five years. And here's a

(41:19):
real stunning exclamation point on the reality of that, resulting
in US unemployment of ten to twenty percent. He urged
company executives and government officials to stop sugarcoating the situation. Yeah,
this is the kind of information we're all going to
need out there so we can make informed choices on
what we do going forward, And most notably for young

(41:41):
people pursuing their career opportunities, you know, starting out either
considering maybe a trade school or a college education. Ask
yourself the fundamental question is this future of mine, this
career path that I have chosen, is it possible or
likely that it could be wiped out through by artificial intelligence?
And there's a lot of industries where that could happen.

(42:02):
I think of accounting for one. I mean, isn't that
exactly what Elon Musk and the Doge people were doing
up in Washington, DC, harnessing a power of artificial intelligence
to rifle through the books very quickly and efficiently. Now,
to point out, it's been the norm for all these

(42:25):
CEOs and folks in the know to sort of downplay
the idea of artificial intelligence when they are interviewed about
it in private, though apparently they had been talking about
how their businesses will likely be run with a fraction
of the current staff. Technologies including automated soft automation software,
artificial intelligence, and robots are rolled out to make operations
as lean and efficient as possible. Micah Coffin, CEO of

(42:51):
a marketplace, a freelance marketplace, Fiver that's the name of it,
told his staff this is a wake up call. It
doesn't matter if you are a programmer, designer, product manager,
data scientist, lawyer, customer, support rep, salesperson or finance person.
AI is coming for you to w Lutke, chief executive

(43:16):
at Shopify, recently told his workers that the company wouldn't
make any new hires unless managers could prove artificial intelligence
isn't capable of doing the job that the new hire
would be doing. James Reinhardt, CEO of the online resale

(43:36):
site thread Up, quote, I think it's going to destroy
way more jobs than the average person thinks. Over at IBM, yes,
still around, Chief executive arn VN Krishna. So the company
used artificial intelligence to replace the work of a couple

(43:56):
of hundred people in human resources. So he did add
that the company hired more programmers than salespeople. Apparently there's
still a need for programmers and salespeople, but apparently not
over in human resources, where artificial intelligence is now doing
the job. This is kind of frightening stuff. Folks, you
say what you want about whether or not you want

(44:16):
to embrace artificial intelligence or not. It's happening all around
us in the future. Does not sound real good based
upon these at least learned officials and lofty places in
these massive, huge businesses. I guess we know that around here, Joe,
don't we Automation they've gotten rid of pretty much everybody

(44:39):
who is not literally nailed down in some capacity, and
I will personally observe it to my experience that the
quality has not improved with the adoption of technology to
do the work that humans otherwise would do. You've run

(44:59):
in a couple of illustrat of that, haven't you, Joel
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Well, we all know David's on permanent vacation. Anyway, I'm
going to get the call here. Bear with me. I
just want observation. I mentioned yesterday was reporting about how
close we are to Social Security Trust Fund running out,
and part of the article talked about the number of
workers per retired person and the number is dropping and
it's getting worse. Which point where it's going to be

(47:38):
like two point three people working for every recipient of
social security, meaning taxes are going to have to go up,
and so security recipient is gonna get less money if
this prediction from this anthropic CPO Dario Dario Amadi comes
true and unemployment, in fact, because of artificial intelligence, jumps
to ten to twenty percent. Might I note that that's
going to exacerbate an already serious problem we have on

(48:00):
our hands. Social services will be overwhelmed. You I mentioned
a number of people on unemployment and what happened to
the unemployment program, on and on and on, Hank. Thanks
for bearing with me during that little tear there. Welcome
to the Morning show, and Happy Friday Eve.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Happy Friday Eve to you too, Brian, and thanks for
referring to Independence Sterek Day correctly. I get it just
calling it July fourth, which is everywhere in the world.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
I'm a stickler on that one, Hank. I had a
friend of mine who was just really very serious about that.
He took it very seriously. So anytime someone said July
fourth holiday, he would stop and say, no, it's Independence Day.
And that's an important distinction, because you're right, everybody gets
to July fourth, but only we Americans get to live
under the reality that we do celebrate the independence of

(48:49):
our country and the creation of a free land. Thank
you very much.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
So anyway, the main reason I called was you were
discussing AI and aside from the whole sky net scenario,
and you're talking about the unemployment going up.

Speaker 13 (49:06):
So all these CEOs are looking at.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Replacing all these people, and there's gonna be a lot
less fewer people in those high paying jobs.

Speaker 7 (49:17):
So who's going to buy.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
Their stuff another ripple?

Speaker 13 (49:22):
I don't think they. I don't think they thought that
went out all that far.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
Sounds like I get it.

Speaker 7 (49:27):
Man.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
You know that there are so many layers in this.
If you look to see where the potential for artificial
intelligence might lead us, there's good elements and there's some
really bad elements. And I think you're right. Fewer people
employed mean less money being spent on stuff and things.
Stuff and things are what makes our economy run. We're
a consumer driven economy.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Yeah, it's it's kind of like some people refer to
it as war gaming. You don't just stop and look
at one conclusion and go, oh my goodness, You got
to think about Okay, so what's that one gonna do?
And what's the one after that one going.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
To do exactly?

Speaker 3 (50:04):
So that's I think that's what they're either if they're
doing that, they're not telling us, or once again people
are just falling flat on their face with not thinking ahead, and.

Speaker 13 (50:17):
Here we go.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Well, like I said, keep in mind, there's always still
the skynet egleized scenarios.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Yeah, and people have been talking about that.

Speaker 13 (50:25):
Decide they don't need us at all.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
Yeah, they've been talking about that for a long time.
But yeah, I guess it's gonna have to boil down
to maybe some ethical and moral discussions about Okay, we
could use artificial intelligence to replace some people, but isn't
it better to have those people employed and busy and
doing something, even if it's running on the hamster wheel
to keep them out of trouble, you know, idle hands

(50:47):
of the devil's workshop. And if you get ten to
twenty percent of the population that's completely unemployed and not
employable because artificial intelligence has well taken away their employment opportunity,
that could create some societal unrest. You think. It reminds
me that I can't remember who it was one of
our former presidents. I think maybe William Howard Taff anyway
goes to a third world country and they're building a

(51:09):
big project. It's a construction project. I don't know, maybe
like a canal or whatever that happened to be. And
he observed that already had pick axes and shovels, so
why don't you use modern equipment like bulldozers and machinery
to get this job done quicker and more efficiently. In
the response from the elected officials or authorities, there was
this isn't a public works project, it's a jobs project.

(51:31):
In other words, they wanted to keep those folks busy
with pick axes and shovels rather than to have one
guy doing the work of twenty with a bulldozer, because
it kept them busy. I think maybe the theory behind
the behind the Civilian Conservation Corps and the WPA back
in the nineteen forties, don't know, but lost the contemplate
on AI and that's a topic that is not going

(51:53):
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drugs will make you do that, Well, this will make
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There's something so off here.

Speaker 17 (53:35):
There's something the whole everything that was described is so
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Six thirty Here fifty five KRCD talk station. Happy Friday Eve,
Independence Day EVE, and it's a special edition of tech Friday.
We'll call it tech Thursday with Dave had it from
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thanks for your willingness to do a special early edition
of the segment.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Oh it's my pleasure, Brian, and Happy Independence Day to
you and Joe and all your listeners.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Thanks brother, I hope you got some great plans planned.
Maybe are some plans with the family or something, and
enjoy that day of celebration real quick. Here this first
report on Wi Fi tracking the movement in the house.
I remember some years ago an article about maybe it
was on Wired or something like that, about the CIA

(56:06):
using this kind of technology to sort of look inside
homes and see where people are located, or maybe it
was the FBI. But this type of technology has been
around a while from what I gather. I mean, you
can correct me on that, but apparently Wi Fi companies
can figure it out.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
Yeah, you're right, it's not brand new, but like so
many things, that continues to improve. You know, the Wi
Fi standards have changed over time. They've gotten much better
from a usability perspective in terms of the speed and
connectivity and that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
So, you know, as the.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Devices that throw off their Wi Fi signals that make
it possible for you to connect your other devices to
them and ultimately get Internet access. And it's funny, Brian, I,
you know, dealing with my family, I will frequently get
Internet's down, Like.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
No, it's not the Wi Fi's down. What's the difference?

Speaker 7 (56:56):
Right?

Speaker 1 (56:56):
Okay, let me let me see if I can explain
this to you.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
The Internet connection is the pipe that puts you into
the Internet right from the Internet service provider the spectrums
of the world or whatever you use.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
That's the cable that comes from the outside to the inside.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Yes, yes, and you know the Internet was around before
Wi Fi. You could get on the Internet with a
hardwired Ethernet connection, you know, into a switch to your
Internet connection in the past. We know Wi Fi is
relatively new, but you know that's a you can have
Wi Fi. You can have a local area network that's
running Wi Fi, so you're connected wirelessly without Ethernet cables

(57:32):
for example, that does not connect to the Internet. You're
gonna have an Internet connection that is not accessible over
Wi Fi. But most people have Wi Fi that gives
them Internet connectivity, right right. So I always like to
try to explain this to people because I think it
gets confusing, and it's it's the devices that create the
wireless signal to throw up the radio waves that allow

(57:53):
your devices to connect that can be used essentially like
a radar sonar type of type of approach to figure.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Out where you're at.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
And you know, Brian, unfortunately, so much of the tech
that we have today, as convenient as it is and
as much as it's made you know, life and business
and everything much more convenient, much more efficient, much more productive,
it cuts both ways because you know, if we all
essentially know how radar works. I mean I'm not an engineer,
but you throw out a radio signal, it bounces off things, right.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
And A you know there's something there.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
B you know how far away it is, see, you
know how fast it's moving. I mean, this is essentially
a form of that, you know, and obviously an unintended
consequence of all this technology. I'm pretty sure no one
had the idea when they invented this to hey, let's
put this out there and make it real convenient for
people so we can track them in their house, you know.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Right, but you know they pass it off or market
it as a future It's extinity gateway, for example, allows
you to get notifications about if there is activity going
on in your house. So if you're out of town
and you get one of these push notifications like wait
a second, my WiFi has detected that someone's walking around
inside my house.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
I mean, if you think about it, it really could
be sort of a cheap form of burglar alarm, right.
You know, it's not necessarily going to know that a
window is broken or a door was opened, but it
could definitely, based on this research that's out there, know
that there are people or animals where something is moving
around in the house because it's interfering with those Wi
Fi signals.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Well, let me ask you this, Is it like a
bat with echo location where it is bouncing the Wi
Fi signal off of something and then getting a response
to it like, well that's a shorter distance, there's someone there.
Or is it interference between the Wi Fi device and
some other device that's attached to it, like a mass
system or one of these Internet of Things devices.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
That's a good question, and at the most technical level,
I'm not really sure, Brian, I think it's probably the former,
because in theory, you might not have any other devices.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
Connected to it.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
And I'm pretty sure it would still work because it's
throwing out a signal, right, But I'm not one hundred
percent certain on if it would require a second device
that's connected. Let's say a smart TV for example, Right,
I might have a smart TV in one room. I
got the Internet connection coming in in a different room.
The Wi Fi router is in that room. Clearly, if

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there's interference between those two devices, you could know that.
But I don't think that's the way it works. And
then again, I don't really know what. I'm just speculating
because Exfinity, for example, might depending on how you have
that set up or whoever your internet service provider is
it's providing the service, may not necessarily know what you

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have connected to that device on the outside. If it's
all their equipment, they could know that, but they may
not know that. Wow, well, but it's wild tech.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
It sure is. And they said it's smart enough to
even know when a small dog or cat is moving around.
Affarent you can program it to ignore small pets from
providing a So it's already factored that in and then
an ominous ending to the article without further explanation. Oh
did you know that you don't even have to move
for the machines to be able to see you. All
you have to do is breathe, and that's where the

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article ends. Creepy stuff. Dave had or pause from them,
and we're gonna be talking about artificial intelligence going after
your wallet. That'll be sixty if if you've got krc
DE talk station a little YYZ there for Tech Friday's
Dave Hatter satisfying your rush needs there, Dave, great song,

(01:01:35):
phenomenal song. Anyway, artificial intelligence going after your wallet. I
read a really disturbing piece out of the Wall Street
Journal this morning. Some of the facts run about how
much artificial intelligence is going to cause people to become unemployed.
But moving away from that, I guess it's well going
after our wallet? In what way is this happening? Dave Hatter? Yeah,

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this is interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
First off, Brian, I'm not I'm so sure about this
unemployment stuff in the short run, and I'll tell you why,
and it connects into this story. So let me give
you two other quick headlines that are relative to what
we're about to talk about hair, and I think it
kind of helps paint the picture of what I'm going
to say, which is there's an enormous amount of hype

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around this stuff at the moment, but a lot of
it does not do what it's purported to do. So
here's in the headline from Axives, top AI models will lie, cheat,
and steel to reach goals, Anthropic finds. And then from
the Register top AI models even American ones parrot Chinese propaganda,

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report finds. And then there's a third story that recently
came out last week where Anthropic basically set up a
vending machine and tried to have an AI sort of
run it like a business, you know, manage the inventory
and all that sort of thing, and it failed pretty miserably.
So again I'm not saying first off, I don't know

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what's in some lab somewhere, as I tell people all
the time. And secondarily, you know, this stuff has continued
to improve, especially the generative AI tools that can generate
video and that sort of thing. And I'm very concerned
about the deep fake aspect of all this. But when
you when you really look at this and you get
past the hype, I'm not entirely. Sure, we're on the
cusp of all being unemployed because of AI in the

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immediate future. That said, there's something out there called agentic
AI or AI agents. Well, you know, people say it
both ways, and what it basically boils down to is
the ability to script things, to automate things, to say, Okay,
I'm going to set up this AI agent and I'm
going to have it do things on my behalf without

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me needing to sit there and prompt it. You know,
I'm not actively engaged with it, typing and things telling
it to do. It's been given some sort of goal
or objective and it just goes and does it right.
And you know, I think that's where you will potentially
see and if you future, as these things improve, some
people may be impacted by that. And I'm also not

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trying to say no one has lost their job as
a result of any of this yet, because some of
these gender AI tools.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
Can do a lot of things.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
But again, when you leave them off to their own
devices and you say, okay, I'm gonna let this do
something on my behalf doesn't generally seem to work that well.
And the idea and that this whole article is about
the idea that perhaps you might give one of these
augentic ais access to your bank accounts or to your
retirement accounts and have it do things like watch the

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market and move your stocks around, yeah, or for example,
look for cheaper deals on your behalf when you go
to buy something. And as the author points out in here,
that has a lot of potential downside, because first off,
all of these things hallucinate.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
We know that it's a known fact.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
So if I ask it to find me a better
deal on something, is it possible that, either because of
just some mistake or a hallucination, it actually spends more
money than I would have wanted it to because it
doesn't really find the best deal, or it doesn't make
the right stock investment decision or whatever. And then you know,
as the author points out, and I encourage people to

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read this, it's really interesting. And I can tell you, Brian,
because I know we'll run out of time. There was
absolutely no chance, no chance whatsoever, I would give any
sort of agentic AI access to any of my financial
anything and ask it to act on my behalf.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
There is just no way I would trust that. At
this point, there's no way of having a legal fiduciary
obligation for a computer.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
Yeah, right, when it goes bad somehow, Well, who's responsible
for that?

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
And who do you do? What do you do?

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
How do you get your money back? But as this
person points out, well, how would you know that you're
not being suddenly manipulated to do things that aren't in
your best interest even though you think it's working on
your behalf? So yeah, I'm again, Brian, I'm not saying
we won't get to a point where A I would
trust this stuff, and b it's not doing a lot more.

(01:06:07):
But Gardner, big industry think tank, just recently put out
a headline I'll send it to you man, we can
talk about it next week. That is, you know, some
very large percentage of projects using these technologies are faded
or are failing and will be killed off in the
next year. So I'm not saying this stuff isn't gonna
it's not coming.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
It's not ready for prime time right now. That's that's
writing for primetime.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
And there is no way I would trust any sort
of agentic AI to do anything serious on my behalf.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
Fair enough, go back to have it writing fun punk
songs for you on your topics here baster will bring
Dave back. Apparently a judge allowed artificial intelligence testimony from
a dead man de talk station Brian Thomas with interest
its Dave had or interest it dot com say reached
Dave and the team. Uh this this next story about

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artificial intelligence video testimony from a dead guy to let
you give the details. But on the heels of this
judge Ahmed Meta, an Obama appointee, show cause order was
issued against a lawyer that appeared in front of her
submitting a case, submitting a brief that had a case
that didn't exist. They used artificial intelligence, apparently, and created
out of whole cloth a fake case called Moms against

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Poverty versus the Department of State that the lawyer used
in trying to establish jurisdiction in this particular court. So
the show cause order, like why you shouldn't be held
in contempt for lying to the court, basically given her
an opportunity to explain herself. But that happens all the time.
They call it AI hallucinations.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
Yeah, Brian hallucinations or confabulations. Hallucination is generally the more
common term you'll hear in regard to these generative AI tools.
Just literally making something up is one of the main
reasons why again I'm stuck on. I don't think you're
going to see enormous job loss anytime soon, because at

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some point, if you're using a tool and you can't
explain when it's going to make something up, and you
can't even necessarily know for sure that it did make
something up, because often they'll argue with you, you know, and
try to tell you whatever it came up with this correct.
It wants to please. You know, if I've got to
go do a whole bunch of research only to find
out that what it told me is false, well why

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wouldn't I just do it myself in the first place?

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
You know, Well, if it provides you with a draft
letter version of a brief, for example, you know I've
joked and passed you when my first letter to opposing
counsel after hanging the phone a phone call up in anger,
is this explative written piece of prose that I never
would sign. Get it out of my system, then I

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start editing. So but it does the laboring, or of
least the template. So in that situation, you have a
generator brief for you want to submit to the court.
You have an allegation as an attorney to go pull
up each and every one of the cases cited on
West Law or Lexus Nex's and find out if it's
real and it's accurately depicted in the brief that it
turned out for you. There's still work to be done.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Yeah, And I want to be clear to folks, I'm
not saying these tools don't have any value when you
understand what their limitations are. Again, I'm a big fan
of rock, very very helpful. It saves me a lot
of time. But I also typically start out with things
that I already know something about and can quickly gauge
how accurate is what it told me? Right, it's completely

(01:09:24):
complete confabulation or is this let's say, eighty percent correct?
But a lot of times people will But getting back
to this idea of fully augentic AI, I'm not sitting
there directly interacting with it. I've set it up and
it's off doing things.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
Imagine if it was automatically submitting briefs for you that
you didn't read first, right, or it was changing your
bank account, as we discussed in the last segment. But
so again, you know you can't you just can't trust
this stuff at this point, and whether it's seven percent
wrong or seventeen percent wrong, can you can you afford
to have something seventeen percent wrong on a regular basis

(01:10:01):
and without knowing when it's going to be. But the
generative AI capabilities continue to advance. I think this is
really interesting. Apparently a guy was killed in a road
rage incident and his sister used generative AI. I think
we've talked about it before. I encourage people to go
check out Google VO three and see what it can do.
It can create incredibly realistic looking stuff at this so much.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
That being posted online these days, it's it's wild.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
And you know, my big concern at the moment is
less about what you know, what's the employment impact, and
more around people don't understand how good these tools are
and how easy it is to create incredibly realistic audio
and or video. You can so in this case you
really can't. You really can't, And go see what VO
three can do and you'll see what I mean. But

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this woman created used one of these tools to create
a video of the victim in this case used in
in court. Apparently it's the first time known instance that
this has happened anyway, And you know, as you and
I have discussed for years since this has become a
recurring topic, you know, what does this sort of technology
mean for court? Whether it's something like this, and this

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gets into you know, even if you don't have an
issue with someone basically creating an avatar of a diseased
person and using that for whatever purposes, in a case
like this, you know, would that person give their consent?
Once you're dead, you can't really consent anymore to how
someone might.

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
Use your likeness with these tools.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
So there's an interesting ethical and moral aspect to this.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
Obviously.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
You know, it would have the potential to create an
emotional reaction from people in court, like if you if
you had a child that was killed and you use
this technology to create some sort of video of that child,
you know that would have impact on jurors.

Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
And this was that a sentencing hearing. The friends and
family were testifying about how has a death impacted them,
and that's something that they regularly consider it sentencing. But
this is a whole cloth artificial intelligence. I'm a good
video of the dead guy testifying at the sentencing hearing,
and I'm surprised that the court accepted it and allowed it.

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I'm sure that there we're objections from a defense counsel
on that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Yeah, it's I mean, you're the attorney in this conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
I'm with you. It's wild, but it just.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
Shows you, you know, we are sort of in the
wild West of all of this technology. And my concern
with so much of it is, you know, as a
guy who spent a lot of time writing code and
making mistakes and building software that had problems. You know,
I know you have very smart people in large companies
with deep pockets building this stuff, testing this stuff, but

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it's just not ready for prime time yet. And I
even more so than my concerns about the tech itself,
is the impact on people who don't understand how good
this stuff is, how rapidly it's advancing, and how readily
accessible it is to people who have bad intent for you, you know,
stealing your mondy, defrauding you through the use of whether

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it's incredibly well crafted emails, it's audio, it's video, it's
some combination of all of the above.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
And what would ten years.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
Ago have been an impossible scam because you wouldn't have
access to the technology to create this very realistic stuff
to now you know any criminal anywhere in the world
has access to this stuff, and you know your data
has been leaked all over the place. It's easy to
find you, it's easy to reach you using these tools.
So yeah, you said it before. You can't believe you can't.
You have to trust nothing and verify everything because you

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simply can't believe your eyes.

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Speaker 14 (01:14:37):
Hi Brian, thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
All Right, with your interesting background, I mean, you didn't
get to medical school and you didn't become a scientist
research scientist, how is it you parlayed your background into
this profound interest in vaccines, which led, of course to
your publication of the book The Ultimate Vaccine Timeline.

Speaker 14 (01:14:56):
I've always had a passion for science, and I almost
did biology as a major in university and then went
to art. But the reason why I decided to look
into this is because simply I had a personal tragedy
in my life. My father passed away two months after
a flu shot, and there were just lots of rag
flags that went up for me because he was diagnosed
with stage four lung cancer. He never smoked, it was

(01:15:19):
pretty healthy, but in hospital all his symptoms were neurological.
So I just was a bit confused, and I didn't
know anything about vaccines, and I'm not a parent either.
Some vaccines went on my radar, but after that incident,
basically I started asking questions, went and read the package,
and start was surprised to find out the neurological injuries
were actually acknowledged and recognized after flu vaccines, And that

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just got me started reading and then going down the
rabbit hole in libraries and national archives in the UK
and in Switzerland.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
Wow. Tragedies like that, somehow often in up bearing fruit
in the form of providing the rest of us with
information it's actually being hidden. We learned a lot about this,
you know, the behind the scenes read search and the
studies and the outcomes that the pharmaceutical companiesknew about. Most notably,
I'm thinking obviously about the COVID nineteen vaccine, but they

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didn't disclose it to the American people, and they got this
emergency use authorization which prevents them from being sued for
this what I would argue was a holy whole cloth
experimental vaccine. And then we find out, like you, when
you go to find out what the story is and
what the realities are and is there any causal connection
between my daughter or my son having a heart attack
at age twelve with these vaccines, they don't want to

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give you the information. So did you run in any
brick walls trying to discover information on these vaccines?

Speaker 14 (01:16:36):
On COVID specifically, yes, like I think everybody else, and
I think it's also because there's relatively recent, so we're
still going to have to be patient and wait for
a while before all the information comes out. But a
lot of information is already available. But for the other
vaccines and then the archives, the only roadblock I came
against is there are lots of documents that are still
protected by by the freedom of information. To that I mean, sorry,

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you can't get access to them with the freedom of
information that because they're still protected. So some of the
requests that I made through the National Archives, some I
got through to and others I couldn't get access to.
And I'll try again, I guess, in five years, to
get access to these documents. So these are documents from
the government, like internal minutes from the meetings, different reports
that they might have received. And I could get access

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to documents from the eighties, but documents that are more
recent and I say recent with like you know, comments
comments from the nineties that I still couldn't get a
hold of. So that's the only roadblock that I came
across at the moment, because otherwise a lot of information
is out there is just a question of really digging
in and having to go find it, and most people
don't want to do that in libraries.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
Well, and your book is a historical one too, because
I mean, as I read it spans over fifteen hundred years.
Have vaccines been around that long?

Speaker 14 (01:17:51):
Well, vaccines in the way that we understand them haven't
been around that long. But the concept of variolation, which
is the concept of giving someone a controlled like in
back in the days, it was smallpox, so that was
like they would either blow dried scabs up your nose
or try to scrape it into an open wound, superficial
wound on your arm. That's been around for almost like
one than three hundred years. We don't have any definitive

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records where it started, but it's believed to have started
in Asia and then come over to Europe and then
buy the seventeen hundreds, late seventeen hundreds was in Europe,
and it was banned eventually in the mid eighteen hundreds
because it was known to be a pretty dangerous procedure.
It could transmit all kinds of other infections and people
could get like a crossed arms. And that was replaced

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with vaccination, which is the concept that Basically Edward Jenner
in the UK brought up which is using cowbox to
rarely against to vaccinate against the small pox.

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
Now, did you reach any determination as to whether there
were particular categories of vaccines that were quote unquote safe
versus those that you personally wouldn't use because you fear
how they are manufacturing. I think, and you're not talking
to a doctor or a virologist or a and I
don't play one on radio, but mRNA technology sounds to
me from what I've read, they've known about this type

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of technology behind the scenes, but they've never launched any
major pharmaceutical drugs based on that technology because there was
a lot of risk associated with it. And then along
comes COVID and that's the technology they use for the
COVID vaccines. Is there something inherently concerning about that type
of technology mRNA?

Speaker 14 (01:19:25):
Well, what's concerning about that type of technology is something
completely new and was initially used in the concept of
cancer treatment. So obviously you had various dick patients who
didn't have much other recourse than mRNA was a real
option because it didn't have any other options. The first
mRNA critical trial for the infractious disease wasn't until twenty
thirteen and it was done by kure Vacu in Germany

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and it wasn't even very successful. They sold the results
in one hundred people and it wasn't very wasn't very promising.
So the fact that they're using this techology which turns
people cells into a protein spike creating factory is incredibly
because we don't know how long the protein is going
to be expressed, we don't know how many you know,
spike proteins you're creating. That could be explaining as well

(01:20:09):
why we see such a huge different types of problems
like from myocarditis to blood cloths, to respiraty issues, to
weird skins issues and neurological diseases. So for me, it's
definitely a technology that is incredibly concerning. To have launched
it like this on a mass scale under an emergency
youth authorization is incredibly concerning.

Speaker 1 (01:20:28):
Well, some would say criminal, and there in lines of
the challenge, because you know, we had this, oh my god,
we're all going to die global pandemic on our hands,
and so people were inclined to pretty much like a
cancer patient with no resources or no other options, go
with whatever option is available. It almost seems like we
were all in that circumstance. But if Pfizer or the
pharmaceutical manufacturers of these mrn NA technologies knew themselves that

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there were risks and substantial risks compared to other f
like FDA approved drugs, what's with the rush to judgment
and getting it out into the world. Is there something
nefarious behind that or is just the old fashioned profit motive?

Speaker 14 (01:21:07):
Well, obviously profit motive is one of them, because Fiser
made a huge amount of money with their their vaccine,
But I don't understand why the government would back that
up because the profit motive doesn't really apply.

Speaker 1 (01:21:17):
For them exactly.

Speaker 14 (01:21:18):
So unfortunately, I would speculate that there's something either they
wanted to see how we would comply. It was a
social experiment, or there is something in that vaccine that
will discover down the line at some point that was
again tested to see how it could react in people.
And so that's that's my speculation because I have no
way of confirming.

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
So one big massive stage one clinical trial on the
global population basically.

Speaker 14 (01:21:45):
Pretty much i'd say stage two, stage three, maybe Stage
one is usually only one hundred people but yeah, definitely
an experiment in a mass scale.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
All right now, in so far as other vaccines are concerned,
moving away from the mRNA COVID vaccine, I am not
a complete anti vaxxer. I know there are folks out
there that are saying hell not of vaccines that you know,
autism is a big concern, But I'm happy that we
don't have rooms full of hundreds of iron lungs, which
is what people need when they got polio. And the
polio vaccines who seems to have been wildly successful like

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a lot of other vaccines, is have you reach any
conclusions about some of these long standing drugs or vaccines
that we are usually regularly getting.

Speaker 13 (01:22:28):
Well.

Speaker 14 (01:22:28):
For me, polio was definitely one of the biggest shockers
because if anybody has read Dissolving Illusions by doctor Susann
Humphries and Roman Diystrionic, that goes into explaining very well
the misconceptions that we had around the polio vaccine being
so effective. And I'll tell you two things, is they
changed the definition of polio when the vaccine came out,

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and they also changed this funny because you see often
the same playbook like they defined people who were vaccinated
as unvaccinated because they hadn't they received polio or they
had polio. Sorry, within two weeks of getting the vaccines,
they were able to pull them uninocylated, which everyone knows
is what actions happened exactly with COVID vaccine and polio

(01:23:10):
as well. Nobody looked into really understanding what the causes were.
There were lots of people at the time who were
stiging the alarm about DDT so pesticides that were being
used and the reason why it was more prominent in summertime.
And the polio vaccine itself was also very problematic. I
mean it caused polio. That's why very quickly in the
nineteen sixties, who shifted to the oral polio, which was

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the sugar cube live VERSI yeah, but even that also
caused problems. So I was my bubble basically burst when
I looked into polio because I came out of this,
you know, when I approached this research very four vaccines,
believing what we were told, and the polio vaccine basically
burst that bubble, and I had to realize that, hang
on a minute, they've been telling us the bunch of propaganda.

(01:23:52):
In my opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
So hmm, well, I would just think by the global
numbers of people with polio compared to where they were,
well say, at the turn of the century, last last century,
obviously there's a reduction in a number of polio cases
out there. I don't want to support, go ahead.

Speaker 14 (01:24:07):
Yeah, So I was just going to say, what's interesting
about polio as an infectious disease, Like all the other
infectious diseases were pretty high in the beginning of the
twentieth century, like you know, measles and justice and dipteria,
but polio came out of nowhere. It was very interesting,
like there was zero, zero cases and then suddenly nineteen
sixteen there was an epidemic in New York City and
then there were some spikes. But essentially polio pretty much

(01:24:28):
came out of nowhere. So it looks like it was
more of an environmental thing that was causing these problems.
And there's also something called provocation poliomylitis, which was known
to be caused after DTP vaccine and smallpox vaccine, they
knew that getting vaccines the kids could actually create polio,
and that's in the documentation and that I show in
my book.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
Oh that's frightening. And is this and this is information.
It's all well documented, I mean obviously not readily available
to you or I. And you walk into your you
take your kid into a pediatrician's office, it's just a
matter of course. Well it's time at the polios, you know, sugar,
it's time to get the measles and mumps vaccine, and
no one really stops and discusses the potential downside risk

(01:25:08):
of this. I don't recall that ever happening with my children.

Speaker 14 (01:25:12):
No, no, they don't. But the information is readily available,
but as I said, often it's available only through libraries
or through paywalls of medical articles that most people don't
have access to. So I have tried to put as
much information in the book and also the website that
will a company. It will give links to people so
that if they want to go and find out more,
they'll have, you know, places to go and look. But no,

(01:25:33):
this information isn't like it's not on the vaccine information
sheets given by the CBC. That's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
Frightening stuff. Well, I'm glad we have you out there.
Chez Khan, author of The Ultimate Vaccine Timeline of Fact
Back History of vaccines in the makers for we part
company this morning, and I've enjoyed our conversation very enlightening.
Is there some one thing that specifically jumps out at
you if you had to let my listening audience know
of some terrible or crazy fact you learn when compiling
all this information, something immediately jumped to mine.

Speaker 14 (01:26:03):
Well, apart from the polio issues, for me, I wasn't
aware of the vaccine Injury Compensation program when I started
my research. Oh yes, those who don't know. Since nineteen
eighty nine, over eleven thousand cases of vaccine the harm
have been compensated for over five billion US dollars and
it concerns mainly mainly the flu vaccine, with the DTP
being a close second or third position. But this I

(01:26:25):
wasn't aware of because obviously my dad passed away after
the flu vaccines, and I was quite shocked to see
that that was already seen as one of the most
compensated cases in the vaccine injury Compensation program.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
Well, condolence is on your loss, your father, and I'm
glad you did the research to track it down and
I appreciate you putting it all together in the Ultimate
Vaccine timeline. My listeners can easily get a copy of
your book on my blog page fifty five care sea
dot com and I'll encourage them to do so. It's
been great talking with you, and thank you again for
your time.

Speaker 14 (01:26:51):
Thank you, Brian, thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1 (01:29:34):
Seven three fifty five kr c E talk station, EH,
very happy Independence Day eight you have you have some
great plans tomorrow, and keep your eyes peeled. Federal officials
are warning there's some a lot of concerns swirling around
out there about lone wolves as a consequence of the Israeli,

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Iranian and United States participation in that conflict. Department of
Homeland Security said the agency's working closely with the FBI
and of the federal, state, local law enforcement partners to
ensure a safe and secure Independence Day. But basically they
want you to keep your eyes peeled. And isn't it
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height intentions around the world. Quote our federal partners reiterated
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called Independence Day. Miss Hochel, keeping New Yorker safe is
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Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
Humidity they say will not be an issue, which is good.
Dust temperature eighty degrees perfect for fireworks, and overnight low
is sixty eight with just mostly clear skies. Saturday it's
a hot one ninety four for the high with humidity
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to traffic updating.

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Cliway Bailey is now opened one mite in each direction
once again. Chuck Ingram on fifty five krc the Talk station.

Speaker 1 (01:34:29):
Seven thirty one and fifty five KRCD Talk Station. Hey,
very happy Independence Day Eve to you. Please to welcome
to the fifty five KRCITE Morning Show from a wonderful
organization called First Step Home, which you can find out
information on your own by going to the website first
Step home dot com. And please to welcome to the
fifty five cars Morning Show. Morgan Gibson. She's part of

(01:34:50):
the management team. Morgan, Welcome to the fifty five Carsite
Morning Show. It's a pleasure having you on today.

Speaker 20 (01:34:55):
Good morning, Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
Well, I'm excited to let my listeners know and let
you let my listeners know what you're doing there at
the First Step Home, which is I guess you're unique
in that you are an addiction treatment center, but you're
the only ones in the area that allow children up
to age twelve to live with their mothers while they're
getting treatment.

Speaker 14 (01:35:16):
We do.

Speaker 8 (01:35:16):
We do.

Speaker 21 (01:35:17):
We are providing gender specific care, and we have specific
programming for our pregnant, postpartum and parenting women.

Speaker 1 (01:35:25):
Well, I suppose, and you can correct me if I'm wrong.
A lot of the reason people I'll call it self
medicaid and quite often get addicted is because they have
some underlying psychological struggle or issue that they're dealing with,
and so rather than trying to wrestle through it with
therapy or which is the kind of thing you're providing,
it's easier just to mask it with the booze or
the drugs. And I but along those lines, and again,

(01:35:49):
correct me if I'm wrong in my understanding. But if
you're a mother and you're taken away from your children,
why you're getting treatment, that seems it might exacerbate the
underlying men mental health challenges you may be dealing with.

Speaker 21 (01:36:02):
Definitely, And that's absolutely one of the reasons that women
don't come into treatment a lot of times is because
they don't have care for their children, and so for
them to get help, it's very important for them to
be able to bring their children and keep their children
with them well.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
As a component of them on the path to getting
rid of the addiction, on their path to becoming well.
Don't the children provide some measure of help along those lines,
because you're looking at someone who's dependent upon you. You're
in a situation where you found yourself in treatment because
you have addiction. I would think having those children there

(01:36:40):
would be an inspiration for you to stay on the
right path.

Speaker 20 (01:36:43):
It is absolutely a motivation for the women to do well.

Speaker 21 (01:36:46):
And the women want their children with them, and their
children want to be with their moms.

Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
Yeah. Yeah, and now you arrange for or the children
are still able to stay in school while they're living
there with their mothers.

Speaker 21 (01:36:58):
Yes, and we do our best to keep the kids
in the schools that they're going to.

Speaker 20 (01:37:02):
But when that's not possible.

Speaker 21 (01:37:03):
We get the children into school in the schools that are.

Speaker 9 (01:37:07):
Close to us.

Speaker 1 (01:37:08):
Okay, and you are located in Walnut Hills, I guess
I should say that we are.

Speaker 21 (01:37:12):
We are in a nine building facility, and we're located
all within one block in Walnut Hills.

Speaker 1 (01:37:18):
How many women do you serve, generally speaking, on average.

Speaker 21 (01:37:22):
Generally about two eighty annually two and eighty Yeah, and
anywhere between thirty to forty children in our care during
that time.

Speaker 1 (01:37:31):
Wow, is there a sort of corollary between something underlying
in these women's life? Like you can say, Okay, the
most of these women have experienced the following, whether it's
a poor childhood upbringing, socioeconomic issues, maybe family history, a

(01:37:52):
genetic history of substance abuse. I mean, have you seen
like a parallel or a trend from your working with
these women since nineteen ninety three Rother?

Speaker 21 (01:38:00):
Yes, absolutely, all the things that you've listed, in addition
to a significant history of trauma, lots of women who
have been in domestic violence relationships, physical abuse, sexual abuse,
sex trafficking, also homelessness. Definitely, all the things that you
listed as well.

Speaker 1 (01:38:17):
Now in terms of addiction happens on every income level.
I'm just wondering if you see a variety of socioeconomic
a mix in the women that you serve and help.

Speaker 21 (01:38:28):
Yes, definitely, we've had pharmacists, nurses, doctors in our facility before.

Speaker 20 (01:38:34):
Addiction definitely does not discriminate.

Speaker 1 (01:38:36):
Fair enough, We'll pause, I want to bring you back
talk about some of the services you offer outreach and
this wonderful organization again first step home dot Org and
I'm sure they will be more than happy to take
a donation. Look right there, upper right hand corner on
the website, so you can help them out with these
wonderful services. We'll bring Morgan back after I mentioned affordable
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Thousand, fifty five. KRC Channel nine tells us it's going
to be a sunny day. Thankfully, well, no, slightly more humid.
I was goodness, that's tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:40:10):
More humidity today, eighty eight for the high sixty six
overy night with a few clowns, plenty of sun Tomorrow's
and they're saying humidity not an issue. Tomorrow ninety one
will be the high about eighty by dust for the
fireworks beginning overnight. Lowest sixty eight, clear sky. Saturday, a
hot one ninety four degrees with humidity climbing. It's sixty
eight degrees right now. It's time for a traffic update.

(01:40:31):
Chuck Ingram from the uc how Traffic Center.

Speaker 18 (01:40:34):
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see see see highway traffic not all that bads just
to bid heavy northbound seventy five Dixie to Kyle's and
southbound two seventy five Lawrence Burg Ramp to the bridge.
There's a wreck in Claremont County on Nordyke at nine

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mile shuck Ingram on fifty five KR see talk station.

Speaker 1 (01:41:08):
At fifty five KRC the talk station. Brian Thomas pleased
to have Morgan Gibson, CEO of a wonderful organization called
First Step Home, which you can find online at first
Tap home dot org. And what they're doing is providing
that's a nonprofit I should point I interject there providing
support for women with substance abuse as well as their children.
And the only area facility that allows children to live

(01:41:30):
with their mothers while they're getting this residential treatment or
inpatient treatment. And how does that work? Now? Do you
is it exclusively residential or do you provide also outpatient
services for women who are seeking to get help with
their addiction.

Speaker 21 (01:41:45):
We provide a full continuum of care, so we have residential, intensive,
outpatient and outpatient services as well as recovery housing.

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
Okay, and I guess what you've been around since nineteen
ninety three. I did mention that my listeners could help
donate your organization because of what the great work you're doing.
But how do you survive? Obviously it's a very large
complex you have there, and that doesn't go without a
lot of overhead and maintenance and upkeep and salaries and

(01:42:12):
all that. How do you generally cover the cost?

Speaker 20 (01:42:16):
Yeah, it's a mixture of things, for sure.

Speaker 21 (01:42:18):
We're definitely always looking at ways to diversify revenue. So
we're primarily Medicaid funded, but we are also supported by
significantly by grants and foundations and individual donations.

Speaker 1 (01:42:29):
Good. Obviously folks are aware about you. But to the
extent there's some business out there that wants to adopt
a charity, I would stortally encourage them to reach out
to you. We do have a significant substance abuse problem.
I mean, I mean, are the numbers on the rise?
Do you see any positivity in the numbers or is
it a static thing over the years you've been doing this?
Where are we right now?

Speaker 21 (01:42:50):
So there's definitely been some increases in different substances, so
different substances will be higher at different points. For sure,
we're definitely seeing increase in alcohol.

Speaker 22 (01:42:59):
Use in the community and.

Speaker 21 (01:43:04):
Definitely trying to just help in any way that we
can with whatever that comes at us.

Speaker 20 (01:43:10):
For sure.

Speaker 1 (01:43:10):
Now you involved with the court system, the family courts
for example, are you getting referrals from you know, women
that are in front of the judge because well, either
it was the substance itself that got them there or
a substance related problem that led them on some criminal
enterprise which got them involved in the criminal justice system.
Do they're aware of you in Hamilton County and elsewhere?

Speaker 21 (01:43:31):
Absolutely, We're also connected with the local drug courts and
the family courts and change Court and definitely with children's services.

Speaker 1 (01:43:39):
Now, what type of treatments are involved and is there
is there sort of a generally accepted rough time frame
that this you'll be involved with counseling if you're a
patient or someone seeking counseling.

Speaker 21 (01:43:51):
There it's very individualized, so it really depends on how
much treatment someone's had in the past, and so they
can be in treatment anywhere between thirty days to a year.

Speaker 1 (01:44:02):
Or more really and in terms of overall long term
success rate, it's like a cancer diagnosis. You know, you're
in remission for five years and that's considered a success.
Is there a high recidivism rate in terms of the
drug treatment and people entering back into the program.

Speaker 20 (01:44:20):
Definitely.

Speaker 21 (01:44:21):
Statistically speaking, we're looking at individuals entering treatment anywhere between
four to seven times before getting long term recovery.

Speaker 1 (01:44:28):
All right, so as opposed to one on one therapy,
which and I don't know if you offer that Concerning
the number of women in the facility, but this group
being together, all similarly struggling, I imagine that creates a
very supportive environment for the women. They're not alone. There's
a woman sitting right next to them that's got the
same struggles. They talk and interact among themselves. If I

(01:44:51):
have sort of a picture of what's going on there.

Speaker 21 (01:44:54):
Definitely, it's definitely a sisterhood in a community. These are
relationships that women are going to have for the rest
of their lives. And we do offer individual therapy and
group counseling, case management, psychiatric.

Speaker 20 (01:45:08):
Treatment and all those things while they're in treatment with us.

Speaker 1 (01:45:10):
Now, as for the children, obviously, children are quite impacted
if their mother has a substance abuse problem. They may
have been dealing with neglect or abuse themselves. Do you
offer services for the children that are staying with their
mothers there along those lines mental health or other services.

Speaker 21 (01:45:27):
So we have a childcare on site to help support
the moms, but for treatment services, we are partnered with
wonderful agencies in the community, including Gladhouse and Cincinnati Children's Hospital,
to provide any ongoing care for the kids that they need.

Speaker 1 (01:45:40):
Well, that's great. Well, I can encourage you know, to
keep up the great work, and I will strongly encourage
my listening audience out there to maybe pass a donation
along your way first step home dot Org. I wish
you didn't have to be in existence, but thank god
there are organizations like you that are out there, Morgan,
and keep up the great work on behalf of the
women who really I guess they really are truly interested

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Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
They are.

Speaker 20 (01:46:05):
Thank you so much for having me on.

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Channel nine First morning. What the forecasts, Hey, sunny day
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They see humidity not a big issue their words, not
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for the high with blinding humidity seventy degrees. Right now,
time for a traffic update.

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From the UC Health Tramffic Center.

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Singer southbound two seventy five Lawrence Berg Ramp to the
Carrol Cropper Bridge. There's an accident on northbound seventy one

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had Pfeiffer there on the left shoulder, and a wreck
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Speaker 12 (01:48:36):
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Seven fifty fifty five kre ceedy talk station looking forward
to the top of the hour news conclusion because Brian
Ibel returns to the fifty five krs morning show studio.
He is from the Help Squad doing really great charitable
work on the West Side. So we'll get an update
on how the Help Squad's doing and some of the
projects they've really helped out on. In the the personal stories.

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Brian Ibold really stepping up to the plate, and thanks
to everybody who's involved with the Help Squad kind of
doing charity work this morning, which is wonderful. Thinking about
Independence Day tomorrow. I will be off tomorrow they're gonna
do Joe's gonna select some best of least. That's kind
of what we call it. You draw your own conclusion
whether it's best or not. But I will be off.
Which is why we had Tech Friday's Dave Hatter in

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for a Tech Thursday this morning for just tuning in
fifty five k see dot com is a place to
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health this morning with Shas Khan in the book The
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We've got RFK Junior in his work obviously exposing a
lot of information about vaccines that we didn't know about.

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Of course that touches on the subject matter of Shas
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one food dies, an issue, floridation and water, on and
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to why we have this obesity problem in our country
as well as other health problems. And I just saw
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and I always say anything from the Gateway punted with
them just a slight measure of skepticism. There are left
leaning sites and there are right leaning sites, and quite
often the way things are phrased and worded reflect a
political bias that's just a little bit too much for me.
Gateway punted it's one of those, but doesn't mean the
information is not true because they're citing information from a

(01:50:29):
Pentagon manpower availability study. US Army did hit its annual
recruiting goal. It's way ahead of schedule, which is a
wonderful thing. But the problem is the pool of people
that they are recruiting are having real problems. This Pentagon
study determined that only twenty three percent of Americans age

(01:50:49):
seventeen to twenty four even qualify for a million military
service absent a waiver. Ten years ago thirty percent, So
we've gone down seven points in terms of the number
of people even that can qualify so eligible youth, and

(01:51:10):
they say the recruiting might not even be sustainable as
we move forward, And then there's the idea of maybe
getting embroiled in a much bigger conflict, you know, a
shooting war with the likes of China. Pentagon studies showed
that seventy seven percent of young Americans would not qualify
for military service without a waiver due to being overweight,

(01:51:32):
drug use, mental and physical health problems. Now, physical health
problems have always been an issue, and if you have
certain physical problems, you don't qualify. They I mean, think
back of the draft, but they say we're looking at
disqualifications based on a single factor. The most common reason
obesity coming into eleven percent. The one single thing that's
preventing that young person from joining the military is obesity

(01:51:56):
number two. Drug and alcohol abuse at eight percent, medical
or other physical health issues seven percent. In one fiscal
year twenty twenty three, they disqualified fifty two thousand applicants.
And the other fun fact is not that many people
are interested in joining them in enlisting in the American military.

(01:52:16):
A very small percentage of the population serves. That's fewer
than one percent of Americans currently serve in the military.
And the connection with the armed forces, and you know,
young people's awareness is kind of weakening a lot. Only
thirteen percent of young adults surveyed by the Pentagon in
the target recruiting age Again, that's what was that seventeen

(01:52:39):
to twenty four only thirteen percent had a parent who served,
which raises awareness, they say, accordingly, a lot fewer young
people are even inclined to serve. Last year's survey found
that eighty seven percent of individuals age sixteen to twenty
one said they were probably not or definitely not even

(01:52:59):
consider enlistment, nine percent expressed some interest, lowest figure in
fifteen years, and just one percent we're both eligible and
open to having a conversation with the military about joining.
In other words, of conversation with a recruiter, you know
these We have an all volunteer military, stating the obvious,

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but even you note within an all volunteer military the
very small percentage of young people who are even considering it,
and then they're met with a massive roadblock in the
form of not even being eligible to serve due to
health and physical issues. We got a massive obesity problem
in our country, and I sure hope and I embraced
the ideas of RFK Junior and helping us move in

(01:53:44):
a direction of eating more healthy foods and taking greater
stock in our health, if not for any other reason
than the security of our country. Seven fifty five ify
five K Sedy Talk station, We're gonna be talking Eyebolt,
Brian Ibold after the top of their news get an
update on the help Squad plus j ratlif at eight

(01:54:05):
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Speaker 1 (01:54:31):
Eight o five a fifty five KRCD talk station, A
very happy Independence Day. Eve. Hope you got some nice
plans set up for this celebration, and I hope you're
celebrating the independence of our country. And I'm fully appreciative
of the direction that seems to be going. But one
of the great things we do have in our country
are folks that willing to step up to the plate,
engage in charity, help other people that are truly on

(01:54:53):
life's margins. And you know, sometimes they have a religious
mission behind that effort. Sometimes it's a simple ultru but
we've got a combination of both here in studio. Sam
Jasper and Brian Ibold. You know he's got to remember Brian,
he's the original creator of and founder of a charity
on the West Side called the Help Squad, and I
will recommend you stop by the website the Help Squad

(01:55:15):
since he with a y dot com and their Christian
faith based mission of five on one three c helping
struggling working families on the West Side. Brian, you've been
on the and Sam both been on the program a
few times and I just want you know, give my
listeners a reminder about, first off, what you do and
the type of services you offer, and we'll get an
update on some of the great things you've been able

(01:55:36):
to do for some folks who've gotten your assistance, and
we'll talk about an upcoming fundraiser event we're going to
be doing. So somebody take the floor and talk about
you're you're the creator of it, you're behind it, Brian Ibold,
what was the impetus behind starting this out? And uh
and and how many years you've been around now?

Speaker 23 (01:55:52):
So uh, first, first of all, thanks for having us
back out. Last time I was here, I was a
little anxiety ridden, so I have my prozacts in half.
This time I'm much calmer times so thank you for
having us back. So, first of all, we have been
around about four years, so I retired from the police
department in twenty twenty. We were established in twenty twenty one.

(01:56:13):
But I think the first thing we need to do
is just to figure out exactly what is the Help Squad, like,
what do we do and so just to give the
listeners an idea. So the Help Squad is a Christian
based to five oh one c three nonprofit organization and
we assist financially struggling families focusing on single moms and
dads on the West side of town. Only just restricted

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to the West side as a brother Juviat Coleraine Dell
High in Green Townships. Yes, sir, that's the only side
we can do. This is the west side right now.
Our vision, of course is to expand this everywhere. I
have a Help Squad, nor would Help Squad Blue Ash
Help Squad Westchester. But that's a vision and with the
Lord's blessing, we'll get there.

Speaker 12 (01:56:53):
But not there just yet.

Speaker 1 (01:56:54):
No, I understand that. And I'm honestly, being a West
Side born and raised a young person, I'm glad you're
looking out for the folks on the West side. I'm
not sure where the allocation of resources are, but I
would imagine probably more heavily concentrated in the city or
unless you're working with something like the United Way and
dealing with the bureaucracy associated with that. So you're you're

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kind of a horse of a different color when it
comes to charitable organizations.

Speaker 23 (01:57:18):
Yeah, you know, one of the toughest things we deal
with is the majority of the people that ask for
our help they don't live in the four service areas.
So that just goes to show you that there are
plenty of areas that other people need help that we
can't help. So if anybody on the east side, west side,
or I'm sorry, east side and north side, south side,
anywhere that want to step up and create a help
squad in their neighborhood, give me a call, give you

(01:57:39):
my number, or over the air.

Speaker 1 (01:57:40):
I don't care.

Speaker 23 (01:57:41):
But because we need help and we need our vision
is to have this in every neighborhood, not just on
the west side of town. Well, and you can provide
guidance to that newly started out organization. Staly what it's
like to go from an inception to actually, we've already
done the hard work. We're already established. So the template
is there. Fun is challenge to get on the hell

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out flood in your neighborhood. Wake up, let's do it
all right. So services you offer for the people you serve.

Speaker 12 (01:58:08):
So well, we do.

Speaker 23 (01:58:10):
Okay, So you have a lot of nonprofits to do
the basics, and they're great, the food, clothing shelter. However,
we take it to another step where we will assist
people with utility shut offs. Let's say your water, your
electric shot off. We'll turn it back on, or we'll
prevent it from being shut off. Car repairs, that's a
big one. I'll get somebody with a car repair, can't
afford it, We'll fix it. We've gifted cars. I bet

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we've given almost a dozen cars away to people in
desperate need and dire need of transportation. We pay back
rents to avoid eviction. Do you know have families we
have prevented from being thrown on the street and because
we save them from eviction?

Speaker 1 (01:58:48):
How many?

Speaker 23 (01:58:49):
Well, I mean just this year alone, what are we
in half of this month, we're probably in i'd say
forty families from eviction, no kids only the half of
the year.

Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
Something like that might be more.

Speaker 23 (01:59:00):
And if you take the families and help many kids
and what are with it? This is hundreds of people
from being thrown on the street as what we're going.
So I don't see how like people are not calling us,
like politicians people in charge and saying, hey, you have
a great idea. How do we get involved? How do
we help? Because you guys are doing it right. So
my phones are here, I'm waiting for it to ring.
Like I said, I'll give you my number. You want

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to go ahead and give it out, go ahead, okay,
if you want to do the Lord's work and you
want to make a difference in the world, call this
number five one, three, six, seven, eight eight nine eight six.
It's my direct number. And we can together, we can
do this and we can make this happen because we've
all been told well, you can't do this and you

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can't do that, and it's always going to be like this.
It doesn't have to be and we're we're we're living
proof of it. So and I you mentioned that you
have gotten people cars.

Speaker 1 (01:59:52):
Obviously someone donates a car to you, do you accept
those contributions? I mean someone calls you up and say, hey,
I got a car, runs fine, don't need it anym
It's got one hundred thousand miles in it, but it
runs great. I mean, will you pick that up or
do you have a place where people drop that off?
How do you work with that? Because you know, I'm
thinking of like Saint Vincent de Paul. You know, they
got trucks out there, they drive over to people's places,
they get the furniture and they take it back and

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put it to the charitable cause.

Speaker 23 (02:00:15):
Do you operate on along a similar line? Yeah, so,
answers real quick, I'll turn over to Sam. So yeah,
So what we'll do is, so somebody wants to donate
a car to us, we'll certainly take it, even if
knees repair. So we have a company over in green
Township Brogan folds oil. Okay, they're on Bridge and the
road right by Wardway Fuels. They give us ten thousand

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dollars a year. Matt Brogan gives us ten thousand dollars
a year in free repairs. So if somebody wants to
do he's great. He is a wonderful dude. If someone
donates a car to us for you know, for free,
or even if we buy a car for two grand
we take it there and get it fixed for free.
For a two thousand dollars investment, We've just given somebody
in dire need of transportation a very safe and dependable car.

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And we also usually the first three months of car
insurance too to help the person out. So it's just
really it's really good stuff, really good things.

Speaker 1 (02:01:06):
Man. Well that's got to really make your day. Yeah,
it's very rewarding. Man. You help somebody keep their job,
You help somebody keep a paycheck coming in, You help
somebody that's able to continue to live on with their life.

Speaker 23 (02:01:16):
Yeah, that's cool. Let me just if I can just
give you this real example. I don't want to turn
over saying because I want Sam to talk about a
couple of things. But so I've been here before. We
talking about the humanity, humanitarian part of this, like help people,
help people, help youp Okay. I don't know if it
resonates with some people. So it does, some it doesn't.
So I'm gonna turn it over to money. Now, this
this will resonate to people because it's money. Everybody wants

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this money, money, money, money. So if you have a
single mother who is working every day, the mother of
three works every day makes ends meet. And that's the
people we help, the working poor. Right, Okay, I was
raised by a single mother. I know how these women struggle.

Speaker 1 (02:01:50):
I see this.

Speaker 23 (02:01:51):
I saw it, and I see it today, this single
mother struggling. Her car breaks down. Brian, it's five hundred
dollars to repair it. Now you have five hundred dollars.
I have five hundred dollars. Even if I didn't, none
of us had, We could find five hundred dollars. We
have friends, family, they have five hundred dollars. These people don't.
They don't have five hundred dollars. Their parents don't have
five hullars. Their friends won't have five hundred dollars. They

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don't have a credit card to put five hundred dollars
on it. They can't get the car fixed. Mom can't
get the car fixed. She can't get to work, can't
get to work. You don't have a paycheck, don't have
a paycheck, don't pay your rent. And guess what, you're evicted, right,
You're evicted. So there's a stat In twenty eighteen, eighty
three thousand dollars is spent on a mother with at
least two single or two children. Single mom with two

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children in twenty eighteen eighty three grand a year. So
when this mom who now because you can't get her
car fix is fired or as loser job, now she's
on government assistance for eighty three thousand dollars for a year.
If we just would have invested the five hundred dollars,
we've just saved eight two five hundred dollars on this
family alone. Okay, So if you want to give us

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a million dollars, we could save the government twenty million,
fifty million. So this has to resonate with somebody. Yeah,
Like somebody should be calling like, wait, these guys are
onto something, let's help.

Speaker 1 (02:03:07):
Yeah, And it's easy to do that and your money
is absolutely well spent. I've criticized some other major charitable
organizations because of the massive overhead they have, the bureaucracy,
the salaries that are paid, and that's certainly not the
case with the Help Squad. So it's the help Squad
since he with a Y dot org. Can you throw
some money their way and they will make the most

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of that money. And it's great illustration of the realities
and the practical realities of the problem that these people
you serve face. So let's help them keep their job,
let's get their car running, let's help them with that
back rent and get them back on their feet and
so they can move forward.

Speaker 4 (02:03:41):
More.

Speaker 1 (02:03:42):
With Brian and Sam, we'll get some more stories and
some other informations. It'll be Sam's turn to speak when
we get back. Faus for a minute to be right
back after these brief words.

Speaker 15 (02:03:52):
Fifty five car the talk station our iHeartRadio Music Festival
nineteen thirty five CARCD station from the Help Squad online
at the Help Squad since with y dot com, The
Help squadsincey dot com, Sam Jasper and Brian Ibold.

Speaker 1 (02:04:09):
He's the founder of and creative of it. He offered
his phone number for anybody out there and beyond the
West Side who's interested in opening their own chapter of
the Help Squad to help people on life's margins in
your community. You'd be happy to free to give MC
call five one three six seven eight eight nine eighty six. Otherwise,
get over to the website and learn about what they do.
And you mentioned Brogan Foles the auto repair people, and
what a wonderful thing donating ten thousand dollars worth of

(02:04:31):
auto repairs to get those cars fixed for people to use.
I imagine you're probably looking for some other community partners
that can volunteer services along the same lines. Not necessarily
an outright here's a check kind of thing, but hey,
we do fill in the black like carpentry projects or something.
I know you've done some other projects like in people's home.

Speaker 22 (02:04:50):
Over the years as well, so right right, yeah, So
we are looking for community partners like Matt Brogan at
Brogan Foles. Such a great team out there, but we
can't do this alone. We need community partners to step up.
Whether it's auto repair, whether it's home repairs, whether it

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is also like AC units that's a big thing right now,
air conditioning repair and heat and air those are all
very important services. So anybody out there who owns a
business who would be willing to donate services and their
time for our families, that would be great. You could

(02:05:32):
reach out to us through our website and just fill
out the contact form. Brian just gave his phone number,
so you can you could contact him directly we yeah,
or use the website probably the best option, and then
we can reach back out to you. We would love
to have you join our team, and we are trying

(02:05:53):
to build that base, you know, and our volunteers have
been so great, but a lot of our volunteers do
still work, like I work full time, and a lot
of our volunteers do work. So we always need more
volunteers to join the crew. And that way we can
you know, cover when people go on vacation and things

(02:06:14):
like that, and that really helps us so we can
be efficient and effective helping people as quickly as possible.

Speaker 1 (02:06:21):
Oh that's great. Yeah, so I understand. I mean, you've
got some awards to prove that you're the real deal too,
So an extent, someone's like, what's the help Squad? I've
never heard of them helps glad since you with ye
dot com? But what about some you've gotten some recent
acknowledgments and awards for the work that you're.

Speaker 22 (02:06:36):
Doing we have Yeah, I mean, well we certainly don't
do this, you know, for the recognition, but you know,
it is very nice when people step up and say, hey,
we see what you're doing, we see the kind of
impact that you're making in the community and the families
that you're helping. We have an organization that is called

(02:06:57):
Since He Serves and they're associated with at the Cincinnati
Open and Fifth Third Bank that's coming this summer in
August with the tennis tournament, and they are awarding the
Help Squad a fifty three hundred dollars grant. A nice yeah,
and they're recognizing our organization for the work that we've
been doing. So Brian's gonna receive that award, and I

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think that's on August fourteenth, so we'll be recognized during
that Cincinnati Open event.

Speaker 1 (02:07:27):
Well that's great, you know, word of mouth and it's
just one more vehicle to get the word out about
the organization. More people will find out about it, and
hopefully more people will volunteer services, goods, and of course
their time and money to support your cause and for
the purpose of growing it. I imagine limited resources. Mean
there's maybe are there people that you have to say
no to so they are vetted. But the people that

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are vetted and that are deserving of help and need
it and it's legitimate. If we have the funding, of
course we will help them. And what I like to
report is that all our funds have been given. It's
it's through people. It's not government. We don't get grants,
it's people just give us the money to help other people.
It's it's it's amazing.

Speaker 23 (02:08:07):
What a concept, right, But if the four years we've
been around, we have never had to turn someone down
because of lack of lack of funds. Is that amazing?
That's that's God's gift right there.

Speaker 7 (02:08:18):
Amen?

Speaker 1 (02:08:18):
Yeah, her well.

Speaker 22 (02:08:23):
And then we also partner with other organizations like the
five to one three Relief Bus and we also were
just recognized for our work with them. So the Commissioners
of Hamilton County presented us with the five to one
to three Enhancement Award for the work that we did
bringing the five one three bus to our community helping

(02:08:46):
to connect families to services. So that was very nice
to be recognized in that way.

Speaker 1 (02:08:50):
Wonderful recognition. So, uh, I understand at least in terms
of fundraising, you have the annual golf fundraiser coming up.
It's August sixth teenth. Let me listen to some details
about this so they may very well want to play.

Speaker 22 (02:09:05):
Yeah. So our golf event is going to be at
Pebble Creek Golf Course over in Coleraine Township, and it's Saturday,
August sixteenth. It's a seven am registration, so it's an
early one in eight am T time. We'll have some
continental breakfasts and we'll have lunch and our awards right
after the golf. But we are looking for golfers. We

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have VIP packages or you can just register as a foursome.
We need donations, sponsors, we need sponsors. Yeah, so we
need tea sponsors, all types of different sponsorships levels and
those are on our website as well. You can get
registered for golf on the website. You can make a donation,

(02:09:48):
you can do sponsorship, you can sign up as a volunteer. Again,
we need those volunteers and so we'd love to have
you come out and join us. We also have Queen
of Heart's going on. That's over at Bucketheads over on
Harrison Avenue. It's Buckethead Sports Bar and Grill. They are

(02:10:08):
such a great partner as well. We talk about the
partnerships that we have, just venues like that giving us
their time, their stayaff and the venue to make all
of this happen and raise money for our organization. So
that Queen of Hearts is done every Wednesday, they do
the drawing at five thirty. So if you want to

(02:10:32):
go out and support the help Squad and maybe take
a chance on winning some money. That's a great place
to go. So at at Bucketheads.

Speaker 1 (02:10:40):
Bucket Heads, Yeah, every Wednesday at.

Speaker 22 (02:10:44):
At it's three thirty to five thirty.

Speaker 8 (02:10:47):
Yea.

Speaker 22 (02:10:47):
They sell the tickets and then they do the drawing
by five thirty.

Speaker 1 (02:10:50):
All right, Well, I'll tell you what the Help Squad
sence you. I'm gonna courage my listeners. Please please please
consider don at me some time, Consider being a sponsor
for the golf event, consider a check, anything you can
do to help out this wonderful mission. And you know,
in helping them out, if you're inclined to have a
Christian ideology or philosophy, you have an obligation as a

(02:11:11):
Christian to fulfill the goals of the mission. Listen, that's
what you're doing when you're helping out the Help Squad.
So thank you both for all that you do for
the area. And I'll encourage my listeners to help you
out and look forward to having you back on the
program with some more uplifting information about the fine work
that you're doing.

Speaker 22 (02:11:27):
Thanks Brian, thanks for having us out. And I just
want to give a shout out to all of our
friends and family who have supported us along the way.
We certainly couldn't do this without the support of our
and the love of our family and all of those
people who have stepped up. And then I wanted to
wish everybody a happy Fourth of July. Be safe out there.

Speaker 1 (02:11:46):
Amen to that too, Keep have a great weekend and
a safe weekend, and keep up the great work. It's
eight twenty six coming up in eight twenty seven, which
you know means if you're regular listeners, I heart me.
The aviation expert Jay Ratliff waiting in the wings close
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Hey thirty one Up Thursday, Friday Eve, Independence Day Eve,
call it what you want. It's that time of the
week we get to talk to iHeartMedia Aviation it for
Jay or Ratlift Day. Welcome back. My friend got some good,
big plans for the special weekend here.

Speaker 5 (02:13:34):
We're in Savannah, so probably sit on our porch and
watch some fireworks over the water. Somewhere somebody will be
shooting them off, so we'll enjoy the neighbors when they
have some fun.

Speaker 1 (02:13:44):
That's great. Good to have a relaxing weekend ahead you
and over to the various topics, We've got some interesting
ones to dive on in today. Not a good change
is how you describe it. What's going on over at
Southwest Airlines? Jay?

Speaker 7 (02:13:57):
You know you and I've talked.

Speaker 5 (02:13:58):
About how lines like Delta, American United have all changed
their freaking flyer programs making it harder to earn your
frequent flyer you know perks. Well, now Southwest is considering
doing something with their Companion Pass. Now, the companion pass
is great for their frequent flyers. They get the pass
and the companion if they pay full ticket, the companion

(02:14:21):
goes for free other than paying the taxes. Even if
you use a frequent Flyer Award ticket.

Speaker 7 (02:14:26):
You can still get a companion pass.

Speaker 5 (02:14:28):
So it's a it's an incredible perk for the loyalty
program that Southwest has built for all their customers over
all these years. Well, they're thinking about redoing that where
only the top tier people of the frequent flyer program
would qualify for the companion pass and other people would not.
So it's once again the idea that you know it

(02:14:50):
used to be like with Delta American United. Part of
their change is if you could only fly first our
coach because that's all your company paid for. And but
you've got a gazillion miles. You've got a great status
with the airline. You were in coach, and you know
if they get an empty spot in first class, upgrade
me for free. And you know I get to sit
up there from time to time and it helps when
I'm on the road. Well, now airlines have changed that,

(02:15:13):
saying if you want to sit in first class, you
have to pay for it. So you've got these frequent
flyers with all these miles, all these decades of loyalty
that are on their way back to coach. The door
shuts and they see like five empty seats in first class, Like, wait,
what's going on? And these airlines are saying you have
to pay for it or use miles to sit up there.
In other words, you have to pay for it. You
know you enjoy your loyalty program.

Speaker 1 (02:15:34):
How South, you're not saying you can't use miles to
buy an upgrade. They still offer that, correct, they do,
but you've.

Speaker 5 (02:15:41):
Got to burn it. Okay, it used to me just
if they had it, they would sit you up there
because it's an empty seat, Come on up, we want
somebody sitting in there. But now they're not doing it,
so Brian, what's happening is the arrogance of these airlines
have gotten to the point where they know they're they're
they're they're spitting in the face of their customers that
have been loyal through thick.

Speaker 7 (02:16:01):
And thin, and they don't care.

Speaker 5 (02:16:05):
And Southwest is looking at changing their companion past program.
I certainly hope they don't, but if they're going to
continue this pivot, this transition from Southwest of old to
let's be like everybody else, they're seeing what other airlines
are doing and they're thinking, yeah, I mean it would
be a way to kind of boost our bottom line,
and obviously that's the main thing that we're after, and

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that's what we're going to do.

Speaker 7 (02:16:27):
And it's really sad and it's just frustrating.

Speaker 1 (02:16:29):
Well, obviously, you know they can get away with this
because if everybody's the same as this homogeneous everybody offers
as little or as much as the other guy, you
can't better your situation by becoming a loyal Southwest Airlines customer.
As opposed to an American or United or whatever else
is out there. People are probably not going to change
their decision about what they're going to who they're gonna

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fly with based on these changes.

Speaker 5 (02:16:53):
And the same thing with the check bag feet, you know, yeah,
it change throws it in there, and people are I
go where you're going to go because everybody else is
doing the exact same thing. So it's just a departure
from what Southwest used to do. And anytime you have that,
you're gonna people they're going to nobody's gonna love it,
but they're gonna hate it to varying degrees and someone
say I'll never fly them again. But you know, some

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of the changes in the past they've made, it pushed
people to other airlines Delta and United. When they you know,
started preventing people from sitting in first class and joining
those benefits, it pushed them to other carriers. And it's
just the bottom line is, you know, you can earn
a gazillion miles, but you're really gonna have to work
your butt off to use them, and you're going to

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be paying more for the seat when you do use it.
And it's just as long as we keep filling up
the airplanes. As we've said so many times before, Brian
airlines have no incentive to treat us any better than
what they do.

Speaker 1 (02:17:46):
Fair enough, we'll continue with iart Media aviation expert Jay
Ratliffe coming up. FBI warning about additional cyber strikes against
airlines that among other topics with Jay, will be right.

Speaker 15 (02:17:56):
Back fifty signs KRC the talk station would a thirty nine.

Speaker 1 (02:18:01):
I think about kir CD talk station. Jay Ratliffe, iHeartMedia
aviation expert in high demand considering our Heart Media has
like seven hundred and fifty stations. But we get him
every Thursday for a few segments and I dearly enjoy
our time together. Jay always makes me feel better closing
out the morning show on something that doesn't really truly
involve like terrible politics, global war, famine, pestilence. But this

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one's got me a little alarmed. FBI warning about cyber
strikes against airlines. M.

Speaker 7 (02:18:31):
Yeah, it's been happening.

Speaker 5 (02:18:33):
In fact, multiple airlines have reported these cyber attacks, and
we had west Jet, which is a low cost carrier
in Canada. We've had Hawaiian Airlines that was attacked as well.
And the concern is that other airlines could be impacted.
The Federal Avia Administration had a statement that came out saying, look,
none of these have impacted safety, but certainly it's something

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that is on the radar as they're trying to find
the people that are respons Apparently it's this scattered spider
group that has gone for the.

Speaker 7 (02:19:03):
Last several years attacking various sectors.

Speaker 5 (02:19:05):
They went after the casinos in Vegas, then they went
after the insurance companies, and they kind of pop around
from industry to industry, and apparently now it's the airline
industry that is being targeted. So the FBI is investigating,
and of course, you know, we're hoping that during a
busy summer travel season we don't have some of this
stuff flare up, Brian, but just kind of have to.

Speaker 7 (02:19:27):
Wait and see.

Speaker 1 (02:19:28):
But now, now, are these like ransomware type situations? Are
they just cracking in to grab data? Are they trying
to shut systems down? Because when you talk about the
airlines getting attacked, that's not like saying the air traffic
control system is under cyber attack? Are those we're talking
about too?

Speaker 5 (02:19:45):
It's the airline system itself where it can be impacted
to such a degree that you can't schedule aircraft, schedule
flight crews, you know, reconfirm reservations, the things that make
an airline logistically move hour to hour, minute by minute,
And once you impede that, then all bets are off
as far as what can happen. And just like the

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FAA computers, airline computers have never been known as the
state of the art because you and I've talked about
how these airlines like pac Man have gobbled up five
or six airlines over the decades, so they're kind of
a combination of several carriers, and what they've done is
kind of piece together all those computer networks to make
them work, as opposed to spending hundreds of millions of

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dollars to completely redo everything every time they turn the corner.
The thought is, hey, if it's working, why spend hundreds
and hundreds of millions of dollars. But the problem is
that your firewall protections and other things that should be
in place to try to prevent this type of cyber
attack isn't exactly state of the art. So I don't

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want to say the door is opened, but it's certainly cracked.
And apparently this group is taking advantage of it and
at least a couple of airlines that we know of,
And there have been many times where we've seen airlines
report computer issues in quotes, but they've not gone any
farther than that. So there's a possibility that some of
the past issues have also been a cyber attack of
some kind that you know, just wasn't made public knowledge.

Speaker 1 (02:21:13):
Well, considering it's this known entity, this hacking organization that
is moving through these various industries, does what they have
done to the other industries that they've attacked indicate what
they're trying to do with the airlines? In other words,
going back to my question, are they looking for a
shakedown on money or they just been okay, so it's
a ransomware thing.

Speaker 5 (02:21:32):
In the Vegas one, I know that they had a
ransom of a million or two million dollars or something
along those lines, as I recall, But that's been a
few years ago since that happens, so my memories, you know,
a little bit foggy on that. Yeah, it's it's an
inconvenience and you know, does it impact safety? The FAA
is saying no. I think to a degree, it could

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certainly start to impact safety to a very small extent.
It would never prevent me from going out and jumping
on an airplane, because what would end up happening would
be if the computer's at an issue, that plane's not
going anywhere until they work out the paperwork and all
the stuff behind the scenes, and then you can go.

Speaker 7 (02:22:11):
You're still going to be flying on.

Speaker 5 (02:22:12):
A perfectly good airplane through an air traffic control system
that's operating as it should. It's just the internal workings
for that specific airline. Now, the fact that airlines are
their own little separate entity is nice because they're not
all interconnected, which means if you got in the door
of American you could have access to United at Southwest
and all the other carriers. So at least that part

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of it's working to our advantage.

Speaker 1 (02:22:36):
Fair enough. All right, Apparently something scary happening on a
japan airline slide. What's this one all about?

Speaker 5 (02:22:42):
Yeah, thirty six thousand feet cruising a long All of
a sudden, they had some sort of a mechanical situation
that required the flight crew to get the aircraft under
ten thousand feet in fast. Oh, so they went on
a ten minute quick descent that wasn't a noseedown kind
of thing, but believe me, when you dip a go down,
it's that roller coaster feeling in your stomach. And the

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oxygen mask come down because apparently there was a fear
of a cabin pressure maybe being released, and the thought
was get it under ten thousand feet so that you
don't have to worry about the onboard oxygen, and the
crew declared an emergency. They landed safely in Osaka. Passengers, though,
so freaked out, they said some of the flight attendants
were crying, oh wow, the kind of thing you want

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to see from.

Speaker 7 (02:23:26):
The people in charge.

Speaker 21 (02:23:28):
Now.

Speaker 5 (02:23:28):
Whether that's true or not, I don't know, but the
passengers were so freaked out they were scribbling out notes
to the loved ones, convinced that the plane.

Speaker 1 (02:23:35):
Was Oh my god, yeah, I guess.

Speaker 5 (02:23:37):
But they weren't compensated by Japan Airlines. Each one of
them got ninety three dollars.

Speaker 1 (02:23:42):
Well that takes the edge off right there, I'm telling you.
I mean, yeah exactly, and a great story on the
importance of bringing along a change of underwear and your
carry on bags.

Speaker 5 (02:23:53):
It was a sam anxious moment, my friend, I guarantee you.

Speaker 1 (02:23:56):
That yep, and justifiably so, talk about a flight crew
being suspended, and will also get an update on hub delays.
One more with Jay Ratliffe on this beautiful Independence.

Speaker 9 (02:24:06):
Day, Eve fifty five KRC.

Speaker 1 (02:24:10):
Fining A look at the weather not bad. I have
eighty eight today, slightly more human and sunny overnight a
few clouds, low of sixty six Independence Day, plenty of
sun humidity will not be a big deal, says Channel
nine ninety one. For the high be a dust temperature
for fireworks time about eighty degrees overnight low sixty eight,
clear skies and a sticky hot Saturday ninety four is

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going to be the high end. Closing that at seventy four.
Time for final traffic.

Speaker 18 (02:24:38):
Chuck Ingram from the UCL Triumphings Center think University of
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in the nation. The future of cancer care is here
called five on three five eighty five u SE see
see sep pounds seventy Tie continues to run a bit
slow out of Lackland, but other than that, highways are
looking good. I'm not seeing any of delays on southbound

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see the talk station.

Speaker 1 (02:25:11):
If if you got KERCD talk station based on that
traffick report, My guess there's a lot of people taking
work off today making it four day weekend.

Speaker 10 (02:25:18):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (02:25:19):
Brian Thomas here with iHeartMedia eighty as Nextpert Jay Rattler,
We're going to pivot over away from soil inducing Japanese
airline descents to a suspension of an entire flight crew, Jay,
what's this one about?

Speaker 3 (02:25:33):
It was?

Speaker 7 (02:25:34):
It comes back to a Garuda flight.

Speaker 5 (02:25:36):
This is it's an Indonesian carrier. The aircraft was flying
Jakarta to Melbourne and there.

Speaker 7 (02:25:42):
Was a man that was sitting in business class and about.

Speaker 5 (02:25:44):
Halfway through the flight he drops his phone in the
feedback pocket in front of him and forgets all about it.
What until he was at baggage claim he goes, whoops,
don't have my phone. So he was afraid that perhaps
maybe it was already on its way to another destination.
So with another device he uses that the apples find
my app device to see where in the airport his

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phone might be. Well, it turned out that the phone
was at a nearby hotel and yeah, so's he's already
contact with the Garuda representative at the airport and he said,
my phone's at this hotel, and the guy from the
airline says, well, that's the one our flight crews use.
So this passenger grabs his family, jumps in a taxi,

(02:26:28):
takes off to the hotel as the Garuda rep meet
him there, and then the rep gets keys to the
rooms for the flight crew and they start searching the
rooms for this phone. Now this guy's tracking it and
he says, well, it's not here now. And what happened
was he tracked it over a bridge and then it

(02:26:48):
disappeared plunk.

Speaker 7 (02:26:49):
It went offline.

Speaker 5 (02:26:50):
Apparently somebody walked it over to a nearby bridge and
dropped it into the water. And so was it a
crew member or not. The airline doesn't know. But until
they find out, they suspended the entire flight crew.

Speaker 7 (02:27:02):
But I mean, you talk about somebody tenacious.

Speaker 5 (02:27:05):
I don't know what was on that phone, but he
was in a bad kind of way trying to get
it back. And then some I mean, when you're chasing
people down like that, that's saying something.

Speaker 1 (02:27:15):
Yeah, well, and maybe it was at that point where
they threw the phone in the water or off the bridge.
That was the person realizing, oh wait a minute, I
stole a phone, and it's really easy to track cell
phone these days. I may as well dump it.

Speaker 5 (02:27:26):
Yeah, I'm going to steal this car. Nobody will find me.

Speaker 1 (02:27:32):
Okay, Well, anyway reminds me of the justice that was
meeted down upon us in elementary school. Somebody made a
noise in the bathroom that disturbed a teacher. She hauled
every single one of the boys out in the hallway
and threatened every single one of us with a paddle.
Remember back in the days when you could get swatted
at school unless someone Yeah, unless someone stepped forward in

(02:27:53):
a minuted there with the person who made the noise,
so one way of ferreting it out. Yeah, I think
somebody did step forward. I don't think that real.

Speaker 5 (02:28:01):
Leave that story out there hanging. I got to know
the end of the Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:28:03):
No, I was the recipient of corporate punishment without justice
and without due process on one occasion. But I won't
tell that story anyway. We always have your career got started, well,
the always end on hub delays. What's it like traveling
out there on this busy, busy holiday week, and I
understand we're going to be setting a record out there.

Speaker 7 (02:28:25):
We could be.

Speaker 5 (02:28:25):
In fact, a couple of days we've already been at
two point nine even three million, and I think probably
less than six seven times we've hit three million in
the course of a day. But weather wise, today Dallas
and Houston could see some issues. Miami and Tampa are
going to be really an issue. But Brian, I think
if some of this tropical storm weather that they're talking
about maybe coming up sometime next week, we might be

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having a bigger impact on the hubs for next next week.
But you know, most of these flights are pretty well full,
so it's not like we're going to see a drastic
increase in the number of passengers that are flying. So
it's going to be busy regardless of the time. And
you and I talked about it before. Remember that Galaxy
Note seven cell phone that was made in twenty sixteen

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ye banned by the FAA. So if you've got one
of those show up at the airport, you're certainly going
to be slowed down. But this is the time of
year you want to get to the airport plenty of
time because playing let's see how cuse we cut, how
close we can cut it is going to be a
game you'll lose because it's a little slower at the.

Speaker 1 (02:29:23):
Airport's Yeah, I read an article this morning they said
today there'll be like fifty two thousand flights. That just
seems like, oh my god.

Speaker 5 (02:29:32):
And the TSA is managing all of that, yeah, on
those old antiquated computers. So if you want to understand
just how good some of these men and women are,
they make it happen with that. But yeah, I think
the TSA indicated that yesterday we had two point seven
million people fly, so and on the twenty nine, two
point nine, so we've had several days again knocking at

(02:29:54):
the door of three million, So that's a lot of
people flying. So yeah, get to the airport at least
two hours before departure. Make sure that you get to
the gate as quickly as you can, and yeah, enjoy.

Speaker 1 (02:30:03):
Your fly and a lot of return travel on Sunday.
From what I read, that may be the banner day,
so definitely get there early on a Sunday if you're
coming back this Sunday.

Speaker 5 (02:30:10):
After Thanksgiving kind of numbers, but believe me. You're right,
it's going to be a hectic time at the airport.
Hopefully get tsa pre check and you can get through
the shorter line a little faster.

Speaker 1 (02:30:19):
Jay, always appreciated, best of health, loved you in your
better half, and enjoy your Independence Day weekend. I'll look
forward to next week and another edition of the Aviation
Update with you a.

Speaker 5 (02:30:29):
Lot to be thankful for, especially as we celebrate winning
the lottery to be an American.

Speaker 7 (02:30:33):
My friends, So yeah, planing and unenjoining.

Speaker 1 (02:30:34):
Amen to that, brother, Take care of yourself, Jay Rattliffe
eight fifty four. Folks, you didn't get a chance. We
had a special Tech Friday with Dave Hatter on a Thursday.
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your Wi Fi system can tell an outside entity where
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God bless you, sir and all that you do to
keep the morning show going. Without you, there wouldn't be one.
Have a wonderful Independence Day. Everyone in the listening audience,
I hope you really enjoy yourself and enjoy a safe
Independence Day as well. Don't go away. Thumbeck's coming right up.

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