55KRC Friday Show - Dave Williams, Liz Keating, Riverfest, Jay Ratliff

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Had perfect sound by Joe Streker, executive producer, Yes, what
the hell? Can't make sense out of the crazy? Can
you trying to make it a happy Friday?

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Welcome to the thirty five cars Morrisure. Appreciate you tuning
in and I hope you can stick around. Good guests
lined up as always, Thanks again to Joe Strecker, Executive
producer Brian Thomas. Right here Dave Williams returns of the
program seven oh five tax Payer Protection Alliance. Dave Williams
talking about Congress loving their earmarks. Yeah, welcome to bipartisan nonsense.
Democrats love them, Republicans love them. There in lines of

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problem reducing drug prices, Donald Trump talking about that lowest
drug prices in the world. That's what we're going to get, so,
claims Trump. If you sell it for a lower price
in a different country, that's the price you got to
sell it for here in the United States. How that's
going to impact drug research and everything else in the world,
don't know. Trying to understand pharmaceutical pricing is quite often

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used the phrase it's like the peace of God. It
usually passes all human understanding. So hopefully Donald Trump and
his administration have a greater understanding about that. Dave Williams
will dive on into the details of whether we can
reduce drug prices. Plus the Patience Act apparently failed. Dave
Williams on that as well, follow by Liz Keya. She

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is on the ballot for Sincinni City Council, and hopefully
we'll get the return of Liz Keating obviously Republican, the
only Republican there for a while. What an interesting position
that had to be. But at least interjecting alternative thoughts
and comments and theories and ideas about how to run
the city. If someone interjects an alternative theory, at least
you got to talk about it. That's what the beauty
of having a multi partisan council might provide. One size

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does not fit.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
All, John Barrett, let us see here.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
John Barrett's going to join the program as he does
every year, to promote Riverfest. So it is the Riverfest
coming up on Sunday. John Barrett will be explaining all
the details on that in Studio eight fifteen, making the
rounds here in the cluster as we'd like to refer
to the iHeartMedia stations in the Greater Cincinnati area. Jay Ratliffe,

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yay for Friday Eve. I love my conversations with Jay.
He's such a great guy. We'll talk about Frontier Airlines
going after Spirit Airlines forty nine dollars fares ooh, passengers
suing Delta Airlines after being slapped by a flight attendant,
Alaska Airlines adding facial recognition technology at their automated luggage Kiosks,

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an American Airlines flight had to be diverted after Yes,
the big fear I now have thanks to Jay Ratliffin
stealing it in me. Another electronic device caught fire on
an airplane, having to divert the flight. I believe that
was in cabin, which is where you hope the fire
actually happens when your lithian ion battery blows up. The

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big concern is he's done. He's talked about several times
that you have a bag and you try to bring
it on the plane, and there's no room in the
overhead binds or the bag is oversized.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
So what do they do.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
They check the bag right there from the gate, which
means it goes directly into the storage bind beneath the airplane,
maybe having an electronic cigarette in it or another lithium
ion device in the bag. You don't remember it's in there.
They maybe ask you and you say no, there's nothing
in there. It goes into the lower stowage area and
the whole plane catches on fire.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Man.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's a frightening thing considering how many of those lithium
ion batteries explode every single day. So those are our
topics with Jay, and to the extent you want to
steer the direction of the conversation, you know, I love
hearing from the listeners five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty,
five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three talk found
five fifty on AT and T phones. Yes, going to Minneapolis,
where we go quite often for crazies and mass shootings,

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the sanctuary state, the trans sanctuary state as well of Minnesota.
Shooting started about eight thirty in the morning. Priests just
finished the processional congregants finishing up the opening song. According
to witnesses who were there, this trans gender Robin formerly

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Robert Westman, walked up to the side of the building,
fire ring dozens of shot through the through the through
the windows in the church right into where the people
were praying. Had a rifle, of shotgun and a pistol,
all underscore purchased legally in the state with most difficult
and profound gun control laws out there. So I'm sure

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there'll be more details on the acquisition of the firearms.
A little too soon to draw conclusions on that, although
everybody's reporting that they were purchased legally. Court to Minneapolis
Police Chief Brian O'Hara, quote, the sheer cruelty and cowardice
of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible,
and I only read that. It's not substantive. It's an
opinion incomprehensible. That's why people pray. You know, there's all

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these criticisms out there, you know, notably from the mayor,
Jacob Fry or Frey among others left wing pundits. You know,
prais pair PRAI, stuff your damn prayers up your sphincter
in essence of what the boiled down comments amount to.
When you are dealt with and you're presented with the
absolutely inexplicable and the horrors of little children being killed

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by this absolutely demonstrably and admittedly batcrap and saying transgender person,
you're left with prayers.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
That's all you got. I'll take him?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Can anybody else unring the bell of what happened in
Minneapolis yesterday? Is there anything else we can do? Oh,
we got to go after gun control. Don't criticize the
transgender community. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, fine,
what about the criticizing the members of the more conservative
among us who believe in the Second Amendment right to
keep in bare arms as incorporated to the Constitution says
we have the right to keep him bare arms. And yet,

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of course, to using this Minneapolis murder spree as a
vehicle to try to bring rap more gun control. If
you're infaced with the inexplicable, some batcrab crazy person out there,
and there are a bunch of them. We learned this
almost every day. You're in a world that has crazy
people and people who haven't landed on law enforcement's radar,

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no ability to do a red flag, no family member
calling in expressing concern to the authorities. You don't know
that that person's really crazy doing a manifesto and the
crazy stuff that's in this manifesto is just overwhelming. That
person's not on anybody's radar. The only thing you can
do is prepare by way of well, i'd say, acquiring

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a firearm for your own personal self defense. You never
know when the backcrack crazy person's got to be in
your area, attacking someone near you, or shooting up a
church or synagogue or even a mosque. Do you happen
to be in Sorry, that's what prayers for and being prepared.

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Seventeen people injured, fourteen children ages six years old, a
fifteen years old, three adult church goers in their eighties wounded.
Two of the children in critical condition. The authorities expect
them to survive. Suspect the former student at the Denunciation
Catholic School where these murders took place. His mom also

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worked there or is it her? Should I defall to
the her since he formerly he went by Robin and
declared himself to be a woman. At some point even
had a name change back when she was seventeen years old,
boring to the court documents, and all the information has
been pulled so far. Westman, a trans woman changes name

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to Robin in twenty twenty Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry. Anybody
who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our
trans community or any other community out there, has lost
their sense of common humanity. No fine, but it's okay
for you to go after well. And the media is
having a difficult time with this one because it is

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so far away from their narrative that all these crazies
out there are hardcore right wing, you know, neo Nazi
fascist types. I want to go around killing everybody. So far,
I'm thinking of it as folks have manifested themselves. You
can step back from any mass shooting and say, you
know what, I can draw one conclusion here. Everybody that
that engages in mass shooting is blanking out of their mind,

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and in some cases a transgender person out of their mind.
Homeland Security Security Secretary Christy Num pointed out that the
suspect wrote for the children on rifle magazines, where is
Your God? Also on a rifle magazine, and the all

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important killed Donald Trump video circulating out there assigned suicide
note quote, I am not well, I am not right.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
I think we can all agree on that one. Unfortunately,
Westman wrote, due to my depression, anger and twisted mind,
I want to fulfill a final act that has been
in the back of my head for years, oh really years.
New York Post analyzed the it's crillic. I think he

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wrote a manifesto and if you look at it, like,
unless you read crillic, this is just the insane doodlings
of a madman. Well, when you translate the insane doodlings
of a mad man, you realize that, yes, it's insane
doodlings of a mad man, but it does translate. He
spoke of murdering filthy Zionist Jews, slogans like free Palestine.

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Let's see here, filthy zionist Jews. Which side of the
political ledger is anti Jewish collectively or generally speaking, right,
it's more than Democrats. Now, the pro Palestinian camp from
the river to the C group. You go ahead and
try to allocate that to a political side of the party,
I think you realize that it's on the left side anyway,

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free Palestine. In the notes, If I will carry out
a racially motivated attack, he wrote, it would be most
likely against filthy Zionist Jews. I hate those entitled pennies
sniffing K word nasty word to refer to as a
Jewish person, kind of like the N word with regard

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to my black friends the K word. Mused about assassinating
President Trump, including Jews, ultimately decided that quote children killing
children of innocent civilians would bring him the most joy.

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I don't want to do it to spread a message,
she wrote, I do it to please myself. I do
it because I am sick. I don't think I could
just take myself out. I would need to do something
with my final act. Also anti Christian scribblings in his
various writings or her various writings, groups and his manifesto

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included politicians Donald Trump and Elon Musk specifically mentioned, along
with greedy executives quote I still want to try to
honor my family name by picking a target of moral obligation.
These targets include immigration agency, corrupt politicians, executives of greedy
mega corps, and went on. I am a sick F word.

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I want to kill as many as I can. I
want to top the lists. Ah crazy person in a
competition with other mass shooters out there, not to be outdone,
I'm going to specifically target little children. Yeah, Minneapolis Mayor

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to crying the anger toward transgenders. We should not be
operating out of a place of hate for anyone. We
should be operating out a place of love for kids.
Easy statement to make. It's interesting Portland journalists. Andy No,
you may have read some of any know stuff he's
widely read. Note that there's an epidemic of mass killers

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who are transgender identifying in the United States as transgender
ideology has become mainstream and institutionalized. This is a new
phenomenon I report on and am smeared and threatened for
doing so. Recent mass shootings carried out by those individuals
as identifying as transgender or non binary include the following
twenty twenty three Nashville shooting, twenty twenty two Colorado Springs
nightclub shooting, twenty nineteen Highlands Ranch Stem shooting, and the

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twenty eighteen Aberdeen, Maryland shooting. Now some counter that, well,
it's a minority of all mass shootings these transgender, But
have they calculated the number and percentage of folks in
the United States that identify as transgender relative to the
number of shootings out there. I think it's percentages in
the low single digits in terms of the likelihood of

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someone being a transgender shooter. Looks like there's a whole
bunch of them involved in mass shootings relative to the
size they represent the population. So five one three seven
two three talk. I'm f fifty on eight and T
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Speaker 2 (14:22):
Hey, if you are sending your child five twenty two
on a Friday Eve. Brian Thomas welcoming phone calls and
going over to the phones. Five one, three, seven fifty
eight hundred eight two three Talk, Jay, Welcome back to
the morning show. Good to hear from you as always.

Speaker 7 (14:36):
Hey, good morning, Brian.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Hey.

Speaker 8 (14:38):
I want to point out that uh.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
That you local there was.

Speaker 8 (14:43):
A local high school shooting at a or high school.
There was a shooting at a high school last year
at a football game. The response is that they're going
to book mental detectors for the football games, and they're
probably going to beef up security as well.

Speaker 7 (14:56):
At the football games.

Speaker 8 (14:58):
Meanwhile, the school where all the students go Monday through
Friday for I don't know, let's stay close to forty
hours a week, remain unhardened, wide open. And so what's
going to happen sooner or later is that people are
going to wake up and say, you know, I can't
walk into the courthouse where all the politicians live without

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going through a metal detector and a guard and armed guards.
And I can't go through an airport. Hey, here's an idea.
Maybe we have to do something for our children where
they go spend all their time because society is not
a society has changed for the worse, and it's no
longer safe.

Speaker 7 (15:36):
We're no longer the country we used to be.

Speaker 8 (15:39):
And I want everybody to think about what's going to
be the implication of that. When metal detectors go into school,
your property tax is going to go up again. But
you can look at that beautiful football stadium with the
artificial turf and the JumboTron that's of course electronic, and
all the helmets, all the uniforms, all of the drags.

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That's where your security money there is where all of
the security.

Speaker 7 (16:03):
Money over all these decades.

Speaker 8 (16:05):
Has gone into the god of football, while your school remains.

Speaker 7 (16:12):
An easy target.

Speaker 8 (16:13):
Now, in this case, somebody breaks the windows starts shooting
in there. You know, a mental detector is not going
to take care of that, but an armed guard would.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Right, well, the gun would.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
That was going to be my point. You started out
with mentioning the airport in the courthouse, those are places
with large law enforcement presence, and.

Speaker 8 (16:31):
Yeah, because evidently they've got important people there.

Speaker 7 (16:36):
Our children are.

Speaker 8 (16:38):
Our children haven't yet yet right to that level of importance,
but they're also football.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
There are also areas where usually prohibited from bringing in
a firearm. You know, that's why they have mental detectors
at courthouses, So you can't bring a firearm in, but
you also have the comfort and safety of a bunch
of law enforcement people around you who do have firearms there.
So pick the shoes you've got. This is the bottom line,
limited resources. Where if you're going to put a metal
detector in order to bring about some sense of safety,

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where do you put them? Because clearly one of these
crazy backcrab, crazy mass shooters who even diagnose themselves as
being absolutely insane, could show up at a convenience store
at a church, at a synagogue, at a football game,
or at the school itself, or literally any other place
around you look around where people are. There's an infinite

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number of places where you might want a sense of
security where they just aren't enough resources, Which makes me
go back to the Second Amendment, each and every one
of us, or the ability to provide security for our
fellow man, every one of us. Amen, Amen, there is
enough resources. There aren't enough tax dollargs. You don't have
enough law enforcement anywhere you go. You and I are
supposed to do with it ourselves. That's what the original

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idea MILITIAUS was. There wasn't no organized military or law enforcement.
Was people in their own neighborhoods and owned communities and
owned counties and owned states getting together in a semi
organized fashion. Too well, prepare for the potential inevitable. You
are part of this solution, mister, you know, John Q
Public or g and Q Public. It's your job.

Speaker 7 (18:06):
Yeah, one hundred percent agree. And I think to that point.

Speaker 8 (18:10):
And I haven't done the statistics or taken a look
at the math, but it sure seems like experientially that
the more of these shootings are going on in places
where they've got more gun control, which thus, you know,
the the the benefit to the the ease goes to
the criminal to do what they want to do. So
in parting, the one thing that we can all do

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is yes, I brieve, go go go, get yourself armed
and trained. And two, as Tom says, don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 9 (18:38):
Have a good day, Brian.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Always good to hear from you, Jay, have a great day.
Five twenty six. You can call look forward to it
local stories. Hey, look there's crime in the local news.
Be right back fifty five KRC five point thirty on
a Friday Eve.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Happy Friday Eve.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
That's always still free to CALLI five with thirty seven
y two three talking the heels of Jay with his
don't vote Democrat common springboard overdue of course Tom, Tom,
welcome back, Man.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
It's always good to hear from you.

Speaker 10 (19:07):
Hey, good morning, and thank you very much. Jay, appreciate it.
Maybe we can just get this going and get it
get maybe get a third person involved that would make
you say, Corey seems to be a likely candidate.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Corey called in, He's on hold right now, waiting for you.

Speaker 10 (19:24):
Yeah that Corey. Corey finished off with the right thing,
all right, this is let's get it, let's get it
going three times.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
All right. Someone said yesterday it should be like rush
limba megadidos, and everybody used the catchphrase to democrat. I'm
not necessarily encouraging that, but people can do what they want.

Speaker 10 (19:41):
In the Morning show right on, Yeah, I had a
slightly different look at this whole thing. And I mean
I don't mean different as in nobody else thought of it.
I mean we need to be paying more attention to this.
Trump's got the right idea as as in like Chara
has the right idea and many others around the country.

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There has to be consequences for your behavior. You have
to let people know if you do that, this is
what's going to happen to you. And you have to
back that up with actually doing it when someone crosses
the line, and I think that's where the problem was.
And when I say something different, to look at it
a different way. A lot of this stuff, as we discussed,

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starts at home. When kids are young and they're learning
how to live, they're watching their parents, they're paying attention
to their friends and their friends families and all that,
and they're seeing how things go down. And if you
and if you don't pay attention to your children and
show them the right way to live, they're gonna grow
up to be adults who are gonna, I don't know,

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various things. They're gonna try to get away with murder because.

Speaker 5 (20:51):
They've been getting away with murder.

Speaker 10 (20:53):
You know, you let them get away with the little
stuff at home, and then.

Speaker 9 (20:56):
That stuff just escalates.

Speaker 10 (20:58):
You have to teach your children that they have to
be accountable for their behavior. There are consequences. If they
don't learn that, then what's stopping them from giving into
these urges.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
That they have?

Speaker 10 (21:09):
And in fact, hey, we all have some urges, we
all have some ideas that cross our mind and and
that oh I'd like to do this, this.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
Would make me feel good.

Speaker 10 (21:19):
You read parts of that manifesto. That's that's that bad
stuff that works inside most all of us. And if
nothing is done about it at an early age, and
it's just allowed to grow and grow, it's going to
turn into more likely something like we saw in Minnesota
and various other places. People have to know that there's

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someone or something out there that's going to stop them.
And as Jay pointed out, there there are lots of
places in this country where that notion is not going on.
People know they can do whatever they want to and
there's little to no consequences for their behavior. And that's
to me what is fueling this rise of all this

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crap more so than anything else.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, I'll agree with you, generally speaking, except with the
exception of someone like this crazy Minneapolis murderer who shot
himself in the head at the end of it. That
person was on a suicide mission. Knew they were crazy,
he said they were crazy. He wanted to go out
in a blaze of what they perceive to be glory.
That person isn't capable of understanding right from wrong, or
to the extent they know right from wrong, they want

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to do what is wrong. So you can't deal with
crazy Tom. That's my only point of why I fall
back on the Second Amendment, because crazy people can't be
rational with you. Can't you talk them into an understanding
of what's right and wrong.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Apparently they're just nuts.

Speaker 7 (22:43):
I agree with that.

Speaker 10 (22:45):
You're gonna have exceptions, but these exceptions should be spread
out more. More and more of these crimes, all this
crime stuff is becoming too regular. And I'm not talking
about a lot. You're not going to eliminate all of
it evil as in this world, and it's going to
stay here, unfortunately until until something happens to end it all.

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And you can draw your own conclusion as to what
you think that might be. Yeah, yeah, I have my beliefs,
you have yours. Everybody has their own. And I'm not
an on here to preach religion, but but I am
here to tell people that you get what you vote for.
You get what you vote for, and if you vote

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for these left wing liberal idiots who are caring more
about feelings than they are about safety, and this.

Speaker 9 (23:34):
Is what you get.

Speaker 7 (23:35):
And I.

Speaker 10 (23:37):
Just got to repeat what Jay said, don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Have a great day, you too.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
At every opportunity they can, they want to take away
the only means that you will have to deal with.
The well impossible to anticipate the moment one of these
unhinged loons decide they're going to get all shooty on everyone.
The only thing that can protect you under those circumstances
as well. Dare I say, a well regulated militia, now

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just good people with firearms to react immediately, because the
police officers, if they're even on their toes, are going
to be a few seconds away at minimum, maybe more
like a few minutes, unless you want to deal with
the District three former and District five situation in downtown
Sinceday where it may take them forty five minutes to
get there. Five point thirty six fifty five KR City

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talk Station Corey. I'll get you coming out of the
gate if you don't mind holding for a moment here.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
Be right back fifty five KRC.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
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few clouds every night fifty seven, seventy eight to high
tomorrow under sunny skies, a few clouds every night down
to fifty four and high have seventy six on Saturday
with sunny skys fifty three.

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Speaker 2 (25:31):
Five for fifty five KRCD Talk Nation in the Happy
Friday Eve. The GOOVI stack is stupid, but I do
have Corey on the line. You can also join Corey
five on three two three Talk Corey. Thanks for holding.
Welcome back to the Morning Show.

Speaker 9 (25:45):
Morning Brian, like Jay to say, speaking of crazy, how
about red slack balls includes people who think they're a
different gender as a red flag. But that's ah.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Wouldn't that make the transgender community angry?

Speaker 9 (26:00):
I have a forty suicide great, I would think it would.
But the point of calling all these miss burgers on
the low end says ninety four percent of the time
high in you look at ninety eight percent at the
time happened in these gun free zones where people are
stripped of their rights to defend themselves, and these these

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people choose these targets because of that, Because they know
Nobile will be there, they can do as much more
murder as they post. The camp pray Boy asks a
chance to stop them. And like you said before, the
peace be minutes way. The national average is seven minutes.
Seven minutes is an eternity if you're getting shot at
and most people to get killed. So why, well, I

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know you got the guy coming rivers estilator.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
I would love you for you.

Speaker 9 (26:46):
Ask them why do they keep putting the idea out
there that people cannot carry at Riverfest to defend themselves.
And they also search your They want to search your
personal items, which they have no right to do either.
But what are these places like have, like the city Cincinnati,
like Ohio with these nope gun free zones, which Ohio
is one of the only states in the country that

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those sciences have forced law. Why do these politicians think
stripping people of their ability to defend themselves somehow make
us safer.

Speaker 12 (27:15):
It does not.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
I don't think they really truly believe that, though, Corey.
They just want to be able to control us and
take away our ability to defend ourselves so we are
reliant more upon them.

Speaker 9 (27:27):
And it makes everybody dependent on the government. I guess
that's even under the Ruin decision. The Brew decision is
the only time the government can disarmu you is that
they provide you security and lack of the courthouse, lack
of tea to say if they should be of your right,
they must have armed law enforcement there to provided your
protection if they should view that right for you to
state themselves. I think what people need to bring that

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up and make a bigger deal about it that they
don't yet. But by Jay and Tom said, don't vote Democrats,
and I would also add, don't vote for these rhinos.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
Like Mike Wanting.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Okay, fair enough, Core, I appreciate it. I know you're
a strong defender of the Second Amendment as am. I. Yeah,
it's five point forty two right now. Let's move over.
This stack is stupid. Go to Levenworth, Kansas. Forty four
year old Kansas man guilty of sexual battery against a
law enforcement officer. Levenworth County Attorney says Clio Williams, Junior

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of Levenworth found guilty after pleading no contest to a
sexual battery charge, again against the law enforcement officer charged
him from a December fourteenth, twenty four incident an apartment complex.
There After, police responded to a domestic disturbance. While officers
were arresting Williams, he kissed an officer's neck. Why are
you doing that? That led to the charge of sexual battery.

(28:48):
According to Levenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson, our officers work hard.
I can't get a phrasing out of you on that one.
Our officers work hard. Do we respect and appreciate the
services they provide. However, any formerly inappropriate physical contact, including kissing,
is unacceptable be sent. In September twenty sixth let's see here,

(29:13):
we gonna try. Massachusetts, looking for a new flag, state
asked the public for ideas about a new flag for
Massachusetts MCom the crazy from tricolor flag of a Duncan
Donuts magenta, orange and white to the Patriots three to
twenty eight scoreboard. Massachusetts public had no shortage of suggestions.
Massachusetts Seal Flag and Moto Advisory Commission ran its open

(29:37):
call for submissions on the new flag. Our seal flag
and motto should reflect not just our history, but the vibrant,
diverse community we are here we have today. In the future,
we are all building together that a statement from Education
Secretary doctor Patrick Tuttweiler, State recommended submitting natural elements associated
with Massachusetts like Well Cranberry's the right whale, pine trees, coastline,

(29:59):
geographic shape the state. Over one thousand submissions, most of
which I think omitted the natural elements and the suggestions
wanted by the State Commission narrowed the selection down to
forty eight flags, twenty three seals, and thirty two mottos.
Some of the mottos that didn't make it to round

(30:20):
two in cod we trust the Latin for this land
is hostile to tyrants. The Gateway to New Hampshire g
d it Massachusetts number one again question mark where Republicans

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go to become Democrats and which, as in the Wharton
Pointy Hat witch free since sixteen ninety three. Well, at
least people are there's no flag for us on this
particular case. Many options five forty five afy five caris
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Five fifty to fifty five KR se station R going
back to the stack of stupid. Probably the mother of
the next down the road. Crazy school shooter Tennessee mom
facing charges for allegedly striking her own child with her
vehicle after missing the school bus.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Why are you?

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Said. The school resource deputy assigned to the Chattanooga Girls
Leadership Academy responded to the school's office on the morning
of August nineteenth after a student reported being struck by
their mother's vehicle in the parking lot. Gets worst Joe,
according to the staff, student came to the principal's office
what they described as visibly upset, explaining that their mother,
identified as Misty Sue Coleman, should be our award winner

(32:46):
this morning. Joe became angry when they missed the school bus.
Coleman dropped off the child at school at the time,
she allegedly accelerated before the student had fully exited the vehicle,
causing only to hit the child's right ankle before leaving
the campus without stopping. Sheriff's office at the school surveillance

(33:07):
video corroborated the child's account of the events, and the
video of the student partially exited the rear passenger's side
when the vehicle accelerated, hitting the child, then pulled away
with the rear door still open. Coleman arrested in charge
with aggravated child abuse in the glass case remains under investigation.

Speaker 13 (33:26):
Perio is the biggest douche of the universe, in all
the galaxies. There's no bigger douche than you. You've reached
the top, the pinnacle of douche dom. Good going, dou
Your dreams have come true.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
We go to Newport Richie Police Department reporting that officers
shut up at the forty five untred block of Slippery
Road August twenty first after someone named Chung ying He
Twan Yang He. Ah, yeah, I know, Joe, I'm bad
with names. Fifty year old Twan Yang He called nine

(34:09):
one one, Please say the suspect intentionally poured acid onto
the victim while he was in bed, then barricaded in
the bedroom before calling nine.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
One one, Do what the hell?

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Investigator said. They found a man inside the home of
severe chemical burns. First responders airlifted him to Tampa General,
where police said he died a few days later. Please
still have not released details in connection with between the
suspect and the victim, only describing the attack as what
they say is a domestic incident. Suspect now facing first
a green murder Chwan Yang He, which is a she.

(34:48):
At least that's for what I can tell based on
the picture.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
The preferred I know please.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Okay video footage obviously showed a woman violently outburst, well,
a woman's violent outpurs happing at a Florida airport when
she lashed out of a Southwest Airlines gated to agent
and destroyed their equipment instead of having a Southwest concourse
at the Orlando International Airport of the fourteenth of August.

(35:14):
Video shows the woman yelling at one of the Southwest
gate agents, then violently knocking him or kicking him, rather
eliciting audible reactions from onlookers, including one woman who says,
ooh that's assault. Great, just a quote mfing Are you
kidding me? Woman can be heard saying in the video,

(35:34):
are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? I need
to go and bury my brother. She continues yelling and
then began hitting their computers. Both employees clear of the
desk as the woman continues to rage on two flights wasted,
She fumes while trailing after one of the agents three planes.
After forty five minutes, she yelled, then she stands in
the middle of the concourse repeatedly the yells call the police.

(35:56):
Someone yelled back for who, She said, I have rights,
That's what I want the police, yelling it onlooker. She
returned to the gate counter smashed a computer monitor, knocking
it off the desk. Then she's seen walking around the gate,
at one point pointing her finger at the agent the
one that she kicked. Passenger who witnessed the cadog scene

(36:17):
told news that the woman's meltdown occurred after she did
not make a standby list for three flights or land.
A police department spokesperson speaking with People magazine to the
officers were called to the airport nine thirty pm for
a battery report. The victor or the suspect identified as
seliment Vella's Rodriguez, attempting to disrupt the boarding process of

(36:40):
a flight, struck an airline employee and damage a computer
monitor keyboard value of more than a thousand dollars. Police
try to walk her out of the airport, she quote
tried to pull away from the officer's clothes quote. Charged
with battery, criminal mischief, and resisting an officer without violence.
Bond reduced to five thousand dollars in She was released
from jail and allowed to return home to Well, Illinois,

(37:01):
where she's from. Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yes, and without going on all the details.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Do not go to an unlicensed dental technician who is
offering a set of teeth Veneers for the low low
price of three thousand dollars when real veneers can cost
over one thousand dollars per tooth. Yes, a Florida woman
has been accused of installing fake Veneers without a dental license,
causing infections and a lot of damage for the patient
quote unquote patients Martinez Emily Martinez, unlicensed, no formal schooling.

(37:38):
According to the police Department Kellis Park, they actually have
had to pay thousands of dollars to get their teeth fixed.
Some of them had to wait for the infection to
clear out and go get their teeth fixed super glue.
Not the way you put veneers on teeth. Five five
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looking forward to one hour from now the return of
Dave Williams the Taxpayer Protection Alliance Protecting Taxpayers dot organs
where you find Dave online. Today we'll talk with Dave

(38:27):
about Congress loving their ear marks and that's a bipartisan
love affair right there. Reducing drug prices? Can we do it?
Donald Trump suggests that any place in the world where
a drug is sold for a lower price, we here
in the United States demand that same low price. How
that ultimately works in the economy of the pharmaceutical industry
remains to be seen. We'll see what Dave can solve
that problem and answer those questions. And plus what's the

(38:51):
Patients Act and why did it fail? Liz Keating she's
running for since a city council Republican Liz Keating former
council with Liz Keating joins a program at seven thirty
to talk about the and maybe her thoughts and suggestions
about crime and no. Mayor aftab pur Balls reached out
to Governor de Wine got an update on that this
morning asking for help, and the form of the help
that he's asked for and have has been offered by Dwine,

(39:12):
I'm not quite sure addresses the problem of crime in
the city of Cincinnati. I'll be the first person to
admit that every little bit helps, But whether you're going
to see any drop in crime in the city of
Cincinnati based upon the well coordinated efforts between AFTAB pro
Ball and Mike Dwine, if the waiton remains to be
seen on that one. John Barrett, the President and CEO
of Western and Southern Financial Group, of course, sponsors of

(39:35):
the WEBN fireworks. John joins the program at eight fifteen
to talk about the upcoming fireworks. Always a great time
and a great event. Looks like the weather is going
to be awesome. I mean there have been years when
the fireworks are just disgustingly, overbearingly hot and humid. I
hate that. Looks up We're going to have a great
weekend for it. John Barrett at eight fifteen, followed by Yes,
Jay Ratliffe're talking about Frontier Airlines going after Spirit Airlines

(39:59):
offering four forty nine dollars fares. We have a passenger
suing Delta Airlines after being slapped by a flight attendant.
Alaska Airlines adding facial recognition text god can't you speak?
Facial recognition technology at their automated luggage Kiosk and American
Airlines flight had to be diverted after yet another electronic

(40:20):
device caught on fire. I believed that was in the cabin. Dangerous,
dangerous things. Plus, we'll get an update on hub delays.
Love hearing from you. You've got a comment five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to
three talk found five fifty on your AT and T phones.
We struggle for answers in the Minneapolis shooting. I went
over to a lot of the details about the manifesto by

(40:42):
this transgender murderer who killed a bunch of children, had
a desire to kill a bunch of children. Apparently wanted
to go out and his her words in a big
blaze of glory taking out a bunch of innocent kids.
Admittedly insane, admitted, yeah, not my words were of this
this murderer, Robin Westman formerly Robert Westman, and speaking of

(41:05):
parents and keeping an eye on their children's mental health
and stability. Apparently Robin changed his name to Robin from
Robert at age seventeen, with the assistance of his her
mom and so New York Post went in and looked
at some of the comments in the journal that this
transgender Minneapolis shooter, Robin FKA Robert Westman, spoke of, including

(41:32):
murdering filthy zionist Jews her words. His twenty three year
old Westman also had slogans free Palestine, words about killing
Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Quote, if I will.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Carry out a racially motivated attack, it would be most
likely against his filthy zionist Jews. I hate those entitled
penny snuffing or sniffing k words. Dragger toy turn do
you refer to my Jewish friends talked about assassinating President Trump?
Decided killing children of innocent civilians would bring him the

(42:13):
most joy is her words, not mine joy in killing children.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Quote.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
I don't want to do it to spread a message.
I do it to please myself. I do it because
I am sick. I don't think I could just take
myself out. I would need to do something with my
final act. Well, congratulations on that. And as I conclude,
as you hear all these people screaming about folks wishing
thoughts and prayers. What else can you do in a

(42:42):
situation like this? You can't plan for this much. Although
I do say, and I'll repeat what I said in
the last hour, the one way that you and I
can all plan is to think about protecting our own
self as well as our loved ones and any other
member of society that will be by carrying a firearm.
Can anybody else come up with an excuse or a

(43:03):
rather a solution for a demonstrably self identified insane person
who wants to and deliberately set out to murder children
that it was on nobody else's radar? Come up with
a solution that doesn't involve you r I actually stepping
up to defend ourselves and our fellow citizens. That's what

(43:23):
firearms are all about. The note that firearm ownership, and
I did say this in the last hour, it predates
organized law enforcement. You know, we always didn't. We didn't
always have a local sheriff's office, a local police department.
We didn't have a National Guard, we didn't have American military.
We had individuals who came together collectively in times of
crisis that defended themselves, their land, their state, their boundaries,

(43:46):
their territories defended themselves against evil people. Because there was
no phone system. You didn't call nine one one. You
had to rely on your own efforts and your own abilities.
Welcome to reality that has not changed. When seconds count,
cops are minutes away. I love the police department. Glad
we have one. I'm glad we all don't have to

(44:06):
fully rely on ourselves. And then, of course is a
complication thing because we have now a system of laws
everywhere in the country that prosecutors are supposed to enforce
that law enforcement helps to enforce. It takes the burden
off of us. But in the final analysis, the only
person who can deal with this type of emergent situation

(44:28):
is you. So knee jerk reaction is to blame the
gun when you have demonstrably insane people. Official memorandum finalized
State troopers here in the city since I expected to arrive.
According to Mike DeWine in an announcement earlier this week
on Tuesday, the city has accepted our offer of help.

(44:50):
We have a few things to work out to finalize,
but they have accepted our offer of help. Now we
begin implementing the help. Initially, after have purvole only accepted
one part of the assistance offered by Governor Mike Dwine
here that will be the Ohio State Highway Patrol enforcing
well traffic enforcement and state liquor control agents. I'm puzzled

(45:13):
by that one. After have pervol on July thirty said
he didn't want to accept the whole package that was offered,
only half of it. But then pressure began to come
down and have to have Purvoll, including the recently announced
no confidence vote by the CINCINNTI Police Departments Union. I
guess he's changed his mind. So now the city is
agreed to take more help from Governor to Wine. Details

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outlined in an August eighteenth letter to Wine, and here's
what it said. Increased targeted trafficking for enforcement on interstates
located in and around the city of Cincinnati four. Maximized
pedestrian and vehicular safety. That's the job of the o
High State Highway Patrol. Now, I didn't realize that traffic

(45:57):
enforcement and public safety, pedestrian safety the real problem we
were dealing with right now. I thought it was people
getting all murdery and firing guns randomly at buildings, at people,
killing children, killing people. Ah and uh, well, just murder
generally speaking. Also mentioned collaboration with you High Investigative Unit

(46:19):
for comprehensive liquor permit location compliance and illegal establishment operation,
inspections and enforcement. Maybe it's just my recollection. I didn't
realize the issue here was liquor permit location compliance. I
thought it was gunplay. Now, of course, alcohol quite often
has an impact on people's behavior, resulting in some stupid behavior,

(46:42):
which includes gunplay. But is that what we need? Is
that really where we need to focus law enforcement? Is
that going to solve a crime problem in the city.
I'm asking out loud for a friend and finally continued
aerial support to assist U since a police department investigators
and operations by providing overwatch for the safety of those

(47:04):
on the ground.

Speaker 4 (47:09):
Right.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Letter also points out the city is eager to explore
and here's where Sarah Heringer comes in. Remember mister ankle
monitor cut it off in February, roaming free for months
before kicking the door in at Sarah Haringers and Patrick
Herringer's home and over the rhine, stabbing Patrick Herringer to
death while he was in the process of saving his
wife's life. Letter says the city is eager to explore

(47:33):
and collaborate with the Ohio Department of Public Safety on
its plan for a renewed focus on violent offender warrant enforcement.
And here we go post release control compliance through the
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. I think that is
a reference to the ankle bracement monitoring. We need to

(47:55):
have a better plan for that, and we're going to
be focusing on the Ohio Department of Public Safety's plan
when it finally rolls out to deal with these problems.
This issue is a high priority for the city. We
look forward to learning more about the current processes so
we can best determine how to assist the hire Department

(48:18):
of Rehabilitation and Corrections in their mission to provide citizens
the safest environment possible when it comes to monitoring violent
criminals upon release in our region and quickly apprehending those
that have not complied with the condition to such release. See,
that's something that you and I and I think everybody
else already thought was in place. They got to be monitoring.
That's why the purpose of the ankle bracelet is that

(48:39):
somebody must be out there looking and finding out if
they leave the area that they're assigned to or limited
to that. If the ankle monitors cut off that we
immediately send someone from law enforcement or put a warned
out for that person's arrest. That was not going on.
Ask Sarah Heringer about that. And because no plan has
been rolled out, at least no details of any plant

(49:00):
has been announced, we have no idea what the Hot
Department of Realbilitation and Corrections is going to do to
solve the problem. But we're going to cooperate, folks, We're
going to cooperate. Pat hold on your next, followed by Bobby.
You got a couple of callers online you can call
love to hear from you. Maybe you got a thought
or a comment. Maybe you can solve the problem of
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thirty five years and he's got great ideas, initial design
to final installation, there with you every step of the way,
A plus with a better business bureau, and he's got
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Speaker 2 (51:19):
Six twenty one here fifty five Karosee. He talks station
Happy Friday. That didn't hold that Bobby did, And I
got gim behind Bobby, So hold on one moment.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Jim will get you next.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Bobby. Thanks for falling in this morning. Good to hear
from you.

Speaker 14 (51:30):
As always all I can tell you, brother, faith, flag, family,
and tongue in cheap Thursday. I'm just I'm just all
tore up today. I can't go to the Museum Center.
I can't go downtown, you know, with all the violence,
I can't even go play bingo anymore.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
Do you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 (51:51):
I do know what you're saying.

Speaker 14 (51:52):
Yes, I mean you know, did they take all the
little stamps and everything else with and took his phone?

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Took the bingo mommy?

Speaker 14 (52:01):
I mean, you know it's falling to pieces.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Seems to be. So do you have a solution to
the Minneapolis situation? Bobby? You got someone who's backcrap, absolutely insane,
is desirous of killing innocent children, has free open range
there with nobody around that has a firearm. How do
you deal with a situation like that, Bobby? How do
you fix it? How do you solve it? Because apparently
the authorities in Minneapolis and the Democrats are all saying prayer, sucks,

(52:25):
don't pray. We don't want your damn prayers.

Speaker 14 (52:28):
I've already prayed for the kids up there and everything.
But you know, it goes all the way from the
governor down. So I'm concerned right here in Cincinnati. Now,
we've got government of fishers down there that are really
getting themselves in trouble. When you got the FBI asking
questions now, and you got your Civil Rights Division down
here getting ready to set up in the hotels. I'm

(52:50):
telling you the people aren't smart enough. Just keep on
deleting all those texts and emails. Just keep deleting them,
because I'm telling you for you here real soon, it's
a great day.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Well, and you know, with the Internet, you can't unring
that bell. Everybody's got the way back machine. Once it's
out there, it's out there forever. So if you don't,
if you're ever going to be embarrassed by something, think twice,
let that step back, Maybe give it a few minutes,
count to ten or longer, reread it, and then think
about down the road. Is this something that I want

(53:23):
to attribute to me. Most people aren't that thought Yeah,
most people aren't that thoughtful.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
And if they don't post.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
It, it doesn't mean that they don't harbor the same feelings
that they post and end up regretting. So there's the
other revelation on that. So anyway, you didn't mention firearms, Bobby,
I figured that was most It's supposed to be an
inevitable statement from you since I've been harping on that
this morning. So family, faith, flag, freedom, Fridays and firearms.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Good.

Speaker 14 (53:50):
That's a beautiful combination. When you keep those, my brother,
you always have.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Freedom, at least the opportunity to relax and put a
smile on your face, at least thinking a Friday for
me and family and faith and flag still can put
a smile on my face. Those things, Jim, Welcome to
the Morning Show. Thanks for calling today.

Speaker 12 (54:08):
Good morning, Brian, Brian.

Speaker 4 (54:11):
When the last Texas.

Speaker 12 (54:12):
Shooting happened, I put my mind to solving the problem
and I developed something that I tried to show people.
Try to send pictures what it was. Here's what it is.
It's a three tricycle type all turned zero turn radiness copmobile.

(54:35):
You could call it that. It had two and a half.

Speaker 7 (54:37):
Inch stick glass bulletproof glass.

Speaker 12 (54:41):
I spent over twenty some thousand dollars of my own
personal money building.

Speaker 7 (54:45):
It this thing.

Speaker 12 (54:46):
When I brought it out in the parking lot, I
could go up to a dumpster and just push it across.

Speaker 5 (54:50):
The parking lot.

Speaker 12 (54:52):
I designed it to go through any door and hit
the door in a wedge at that hitting the door
at the bottom and ripping it right off the hinges.
And when you went into a classroom or wherever the
bad person was. I had loudspeakers, signs on top of it.
Looked like the most evil police vehicle that you could

(55:14):
ever imagine. All three doors, not doors really board proof
two and a half in six class all three doors.
You could from the inside drop one and drop it
down and used the vehicle as a police shield. But
the most important thing was, oh here's another thing. It

(55:36):
could go up and down steps.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Okay, well I remember listen back in the eighties, Si
Lease had a tank. Pretty much did all that kind
of stuff. But the problem is if you aren't around
with your assault vehicle homemade or a bought from some
manufacture of assault vehicles, then you're not going to be
able to help out. That's the fundamental problem here. We
had police that ultimately showed up. This guy dispatched himself,
killed himself before the cops got there. So the point

(56:01):
is the timing of everything. That's why I say, the
only thing that can handle the timing problem when you're
involved in an active shooter thing while you're waiting around
for the cops or you jim to show up, when
you're assault vehicle, somebody's got to be there to defend
the people who are under fire, and you and I
are the only people in a position to do that
if we just carried regularly all the time. And I

(56:22):
feel a lot more comfortable in the world if I
know a bunch of law abiding firearms owners are out
there surrounding me. It's one of the reasons why I
feel so comfortable with listener lunch because I can look
out into the room and I know all the people
out there who are my friends and listeners who carry
concealed So you know, I can enjoy my beer at
listener Lunch not have to worry about my own personal carry,
knowing full well that there are a bunch of non

(56:43):
drinkers enjoying lunch at listener Lunch that can absolutely handle
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over to the local stories. In terms of the headline,
we know what we know. Mon month after the downtown
brawl went viral and choir reporting and this is just
puzzling to me. Here we are a month after the
violent beat down. Charging documents are still not available. Case
remain sealed by the Hamlin County Municipal Court. According to

(59:41):
the city spokesperson Molly Lair in an email, the city
found a motion to seal the case so the court
could quote way In on what should be made public
and what should not close quote Courting to Lair, that
was done to comply with Marcy's Law, which is intended
to protect the rights crime victims, most notably children, not

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identifying them well, the victim slash well suspect as well.
Alex Schirvinsky, has been widely identified forty five year old.
He's lawyered up, he's man in appearance in court through
his lawyer. He's plugged, not guilty to the misdemeanor charge.
Why can't we see the video, his lawyer said, I

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can't explain why the city brings a charge and wants
to try and conceal it. At the same time, the
public needs to see what's going on and how wrong
this prosecution is. Well, that's his take on. It would
be nice to know what the documents say, right. Prosecutors
also say they have been video from two stationary cameras
that's not yet been released publicly. Assistant prosecutor Kid green

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And said a couple a week or so ago at
a court hearing, the video shows the brawl was started
by some of the seven people who are now facing
phony charges in the incident. Well, maybe he's seen it.
Have we said it started after the alleged victims, all
of whom are white, were followed by at least some
of the suspects who are black. One of the suspects
told the alleged victim according to us or assistant prosecutor

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grinding you are at the wrong party. Get off this corner.
On the other side of the ledger, you have attorneys
for some of the defendants saying, no, that's not what happened.
Something else happened, and they also want everything to be released.
So why not just release it? Since Marcie's law is
no longer in play. I came up with can't come
up with a legal theory and why they're hiding this
from the general public as if yesterday prosecutors had not

(01:01:35):
yet turned over the sequenced video to attorneys for the
defendants or any I suppose any of the defendants, including
the man who got who issued the slap, Alex Chervinsky,
all facing well the other ones are facing felony charges.
So there you have it. I don't know why transparency

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is much needed in this particular case. Let us have
the information. I think we're all adult enough to handle it.
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Mike, hang on. I got Missippi James who held over
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Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
All right, mister Brian, come in peace, love everybody, and
there's nothing you can.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Do about it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Amen to that, brother. I'd like to.

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
Read, well, what's going on downtown with the bra I
think it started off political and it keep growing political
and people had to cover themselves political with twisting and turning.
But what I called for, I want to refer back
to something yesterday. I was talking about the Constitution. Yeah,

(01:04:59):
and you made a stay about it was a group
of people that at one time that did not even
think blacks was human, yep. And I agree with that.
But also there's research that seemed to point toward at
one time that blacks was.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
The only humans on this earth.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
I mean, if you believe, and I think the researchers
and people deal with evolution society of societal formation, I
believe Ethiopian region was the beginning of civilization in the world.
If I recall correctly. So I'm not going to argue
against that. I think you've made a point earlier about
what Jesus looked like. Yeah, the Europeans depicted Jesus as

(01:05:40):
a white guy. But I think any rational human being
knows if Jesus was born in Nazareth or it was
any Nazareth era, generally speaking, that was going to be
a person of some brown skin or color. I mean
least traditionally that's what most folks in that region look like.

Speaker 4 (01:05:54):
Right, So you know, we keep pushing these narratives for
a certain reasons, and that we settle down and say
why are we pushing these narratives? And why are we
still pushing the narratives? Where are they coming from? What
harm are they doing? Are they doing any good?

Speaker 12 (01:06:13):
You know?

Speaker 4 (01:06:13):
It to a different groups. And you know me, I
believe with spiritual beings going through human experience.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
So yes, all this stuff is a human experience. So
as we come together as spiritual beings and deal with
the truth and be honest, and we can move to
a better place. Never be perfect, but we can't make improvement. Yeah, well,
at least got to practice that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
You got a and Where does that practice come from?
Where does the installation of this enlightened philosophy? James? That
you hold and that I value in which more people had,
probably comes from a nuclear family with mom and dad
who share those values and pass them along to their
children and show some measure of care or concern over
the children that they brought into this world. Sadly, we

(01:07:00):
have an overwhelming number of folks who apparently don't have
that philosophy, do not raise their children in a moral,
ethical way, And we'll defend their children and do it
in whatever behavior, as reprehensible as it may be. Defend
the kids all day long. It's not their fault. It's
not there. They didn't do it, or you know, my
child will never do that. It's your fault. I'm blaming
you the teacher. I'm blaming society. I'm blaming races. I'm
blaming something else other than my personal failure to bring

(01:07:23):
my children up with a measure of ethics, morality, and
maybe even religion. So yeah, societal's problems are starting at home.
Appreciate it, James.

Speaker 4 (01:07:32):
Now you partially right. I came from a too family household.
I bet you did it, But my mother was indoctrinated
in believing in that white Jesus. So that's something that
I came later in life.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
She probably never thought about it, James, you know, I
mean seriously, this discussion we're having on that along those
lines didn't crop up, I think until my generation reflecting
on the reality of what Jesus might have lear Last
time I checked, we didn't have photography back when Jesus
was around, right, and it was like one hundred years

(01:08:06):
or more until the Gospels and most of the chapters
in the Bible were written after the passage of Jesus
in the New Testament, so people had to rely on
recollections of what he might have looked at. And I
don't know if there were any depictions of Jesus real
time during that I'm not a historian, I'm not an archaeologist.
I really don't know. But nobody paused to reflect on
that image because of course that's what's been instilled in

(01:08:29):
people's hearts and minds. You know, the Christianity took hold
of the Roman times and it built after that and
whatever depiction they came up with. I had a history
teacher told me at one point that the depiction of
Jesus was the winner of a fashion show to come
up with the image of Jesus. I don't know if
I've never read that or heard that before, but I
had a history teacher that told me that, don't know,
don't care. All I know is that it's a representation,

(01:08:52):
and that representation shouldn't be even concerned with the color
of the skin. It represents a philosophy, It represents the Gospel,
represents the Sermon on the Mount, it represents what Christianity
stands for. Brown, black, yellow. I don't think the depiction matters.
But if you're trying to win over the hearts and

(01:09:12):
minds of probably some racially biased individuals in Europe, you know,
a thousand years ago and during the you know the
hell during the Black Plague, even you need something that
connects with people, someone who looks like the people you're
trying to convert over to the philosophy. And if there

(01:09:34):
was a sort of a accurately depicted Jesus who happened
to have brown skin at the time, you probably had
a lot of European folks who would like reject that
out of hand. Why well, because probably they had a
little racism going on in them. You can't reach out
to the masses if you don't have an image to sell.
And that stands today. It's marketing. It's marketing. And I

(01:10:01):
suppose one could make an argument the Okay, that's not
an accurate depiction of Jesus, But you know what, by
depicting Jesus as a white person during these periods of
time where people were not enlightened and didn't give any
thought to the region and what Jesus probably look like,
at least that image served to expand the message of Christianity,

(01:10:21):
whereas it might not have flourished given people's mindsets at
the time if Jesus was depicted as a person of color.
Just my personal philosophy, everyone's got an opinion. Ever, it's
got a sphincter. You own yours, and you can feel
free to volunteer it and offer it up. Feel free
to call Mike. I'm sorry I ran along on that one.
I had to get it out of my system. But
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Jish I have six point fifty one fifty five krs
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who is running for counsel and opportunity to bring her
back in the meantime, Mike, thank you so much for
holding over the breake. Welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 16 (01:12:58):
Hi, Bryan, I had a couple of comments about the
since Saint beatdown. He's saying the they're not letting the
public see anything or about it. There's a couple of
reasons probably for that.

Speaker 7 (01:13:11):
You know, the city's.

Speaker 16 (01:13:12):
Already been embarrassed by this, and the prosecutor probably knows.
You know, these are BS charges. They should have never
been brought This guy shouldn't have been brought in. So
they don't want people, they don't want to put this
out there, and they they want someone to see in
the videos because the video is probably.

Speaker 7 (01:13:30):
Completely exonerate the guy.

Speaker 16 (01:13:32):
And they know that this calls right if they gets
out there and people are going to piss off.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
Yep. See, that's the conclusion you logically reach when they
try to hide behind Marcy's law, which clean seems clearly
inapplicable now that the guy has been widely identified to
the general public.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
So what's he was young.

Speaker 16 (01:13:51):
Enough to be covered by Marci's laws?

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
No, I know. But then the other component is defense
attorneys are entitled to all of the evidence, and the
defense attorneys are clamboring for this as well. You can't
withhold evidence from the defense council the resulting in this trial. So, yeah,
this is going to come out, and simply a question
of when, which makes it kind of like, look really
really stupid for them to try to keep hiding it.

(01:14:13):
They won't even release the charging document. That's the point
that the guy's attorney made. A second, you're gonna try
him in court, and you're not even gonna let me
or the defendant of the general public know what the
charging document looks like. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense
Mike whatsoever. And yeah, you're probably onto something. It's probably embarrassing.
It probably does reveal that the city solicitor shouldn't have
ordered the police department to charge that guy. It's all

(01:14:36):
going to come out. Remember, it's guilt beyond a reasonable
doubt that has to be established, and you've got to
meet the elements of the crime as it is written
in the Ohio Revised Code, which apparently is a stumbling
block here. I know Mike Allen's commented on that a
number of times. Well, it's got a Trump's onto a
winning issue. Apparently. According to most recent Associated Press nork

(01:14:59):
Pohl released yesterday, I believe President Trump's approval rating is
now up by five points in one month. Now more
than half of the public approves of his handling of crime.
Surveyed Americans approved Trump's handling of the job since he
got back on office in January. That's a five point

(01:15:21):
increase over last month uptick. And approval from responding Regarding
the economy, forty three percent of respondent's giving a positive feedback.
That's a five point bump up since last month month
when it was thirty eight percent, although admittedly six and
ten adults still say the economy is in poor condition.
A Gallup survey that was also released this week found

(01:15:42):
Trump's approval rating at forty percent. That's three points higher
than it was last month. That's an independent poll that's
Gallup versus Gallup. And this of course is the Associated
Press nork Pole, fifty three percent of American survey and
approve of Trump's handling of crime.

Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
Overall.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Two thirds say that crime is a major problem in
spite of what the Democrats are telling me. Nothing to
see here, nothing to see here. Eight and ten said
it's a major problem in large cities, which has been
the focus of a lot of people's attention of late.
About one in five Americans said crime is a major
issue in rural areas or small towns where they live,
so smaller, very smaller slice of that. That's a marketing

(01:16:21):
campaign for the smaller towns of America. More than half surveyed.
Fifty five percent said it is acceptable for the US
Military National Guard troops to aid local law enforcement in
major cities. One third supportive of the federal government taking
control of police departments in large cities. So I mean,
as to the first part, more than half fifty five

(01:16:42):
acceptable for the US Military National Guard troops. So you
couple that with Trump's more than fifty percent approval rating
on the handling of crime. You fold into that that
this nork Pole was conducted the twenty first through the
twenty fifth, which means the presence of the National Guard
in Washington, DC was already there. Could contemplate that in
reaching their conclusions about Trump's handling of it. National Guard

(01:17:04):
obviously working in Washington, DC crime demonstrably down all the
arrests that have been reported, including rapists, murderers, handguns and
everything else taken off the street, plus the illegal immigrants
rounded up. That's bearing fruit. So is it okay for
the National Guard to go in your city? Yes, if
local officials ask for it. And that's the place where

(01:17:27):
Donald Trump is right now. He's offered you going to
take them up on it? Are you going to bury
your head in the sand and keep trying to market
the idea that your city is safe when the residents
of the city disagree with you, because they're living the
reality and they're not going to fall for a fake
marketing campaign. Coming up in six fifty six fifty five

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Speaker 7 (01:18:49):
Good morning, Brian, and we have to start out with
the streetcar. And I just want to let everyone know
that the National Guard in DC has not been guarding
the streetcar uh oh. And I think it's because no
one rides the street card. There's nothing to protect.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Allocate resources where people actually are milling about exactly, so
at least it freezes up the space, you know. Anyhow,
look and you found a bright light in the uh
in the street cars because we can't ever find a
legitimate purpose for them to justify their expense. So there

(01:19:28):
you go. It's a safe space, except if you're in
New York we don't have the National Guard in New York.
They could probably use them there, but they're gonna have
to wait for the mayor of New York City to
ask for help from Donald Trump, and he'll be more
than happy to provide it. Interesting sort of a position
Donald Trump has put them in, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:19:43):
It is? And the reason why Donald Trump was able
to put the National Guard in DC is because, as
everyone knows, DC is not a state. It's still controlled
somewhat by the federal government. So the President has a
lot of leeway as to what he can do in
the city. And that's why he started here. I listened,
crime is a problem, and listen, you know I run

(01:20:06):
every morning, right. I have not seen a measurable difference
in really anything. But you know, the mayor, Mayor Bowser
has really dropped the ball on this in a big
way because here she could have allocated a resource to
more police, yet she's spending one point two billion dollars
for a new football stadium for the Washington Commanders. So

(01:20:26):
I think, you know, it's all my priorities, isn't it.
And she could have prevented all of this from happening
if she wasn't so focused on giving Josh Harris, the
owner of the Commanders, one point two land dollars in
taxpayer money. It's really something.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
It's amazing you have to tie in street cars, police
and stadium deals into one conversation, Dave one.

Speaker 7 (01:20:47):
Like a bingo's like a Bingo game. I think we
got the all the bingos places.

Speaker 4 (01:20:52):
Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
Now, Well, since you're in DC, you say no noticeable
change as you run around in the morning. But is
that because you're not seeing the National Guard? Because all
the crime statistics that we've gotten out here in the
you know, the outside of DC world, which we're all
happy we are, suggests that crime has dropped over the
past several weeks because of the presence.

Speaker 7 (01:21:12):
Crime has dropped, and I guess they're being deplayed in
areas that I'm not in. I mean, I'm not trying
to be funny here, but that's what's happening. And listen,
if this is a deterrent, fantastic you know, and I
think that's what's happening, and you know, hopefully crime isn't
moving to other areas, whether it's Virginia over the bridge
or you know, Maryland going the other way and that's
I'm hoping that's just not displaced, that it's actually you know, stopping.

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
I'm sorry, real quick, parallel for my friends here in Cincinnati,
we have a curfew that's been put in place, and
some of the violences kicked in. We've got some gangs
of troubled youth gathering together in various areas. So they
implemented a curfew for young people and it does not
extend into one of the more dangerous neighborhoods in Cincinnati.
And Corey Bowman, who's running from mayor, lives in that neighborhood,

(01:21:57):
the West End, and he's like, wait a second, why
didn't they extend the curfew over here? His concern was
that the teenagers who formerly would have been in areas
that are now covered by the curfew would move over
into his neighborhood since it's outside of the curfew area.
Sounds to me a similar problem.

Speaker 7 (01:22:11):
There, David, exactly, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
All right, Well, let's pivot over to one of my
favorite criticisms of the Republicans, because I expect this kind
of thing out of Democrats, but both sides are equally guilty.
The return of earmarks. I thought they were banned back
in twenty eleven that there would be no more ear marks.
Dave Williams.

Speaker 7 (01:22:30):
They were banned, they were brought back, they were banned.
I mean, it's you know, all over the place now.
And now you have members of the House Freedom Caucus.
Now the House Freedom Cackets for people is supposed to
be the fiscally conservative members of the Republican Party. They
are saying we need to bring back earmarks to get
the budget done, to make sure that we don't you know, default,

(01:22:53):
and you know, so the most fiscally conservative members of
Congress are saying we need to bring back ear marks.
And it's just it's outrageous to think that after we
pass the one big beautiful bill, the tax cuts and
you know, the deficit increase, that Republicans are once again
talking about more spending and this kind of spending. It's uh,

(01:23:14):
I'm just I don't know what year it is anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:23:17):
Well I don't either. You know. It's my main criticism
of any Republican. I thought the one thing you could
count on at least to pay lip service to would
be fiscal responsibility. I mean, we are a wash in debt.
Stating the obvious our deficit continues to grow by a
massive leaps and bounds. The first Trump administration, we increase
the deficit of what five trillion dollars. That disappointed me.

(01:23:38):
No fiscal hawk, Donald Trump, And I what is this
sort of like Nero fiddling while roam burns is they
see the writing on the wall and they figure they
made it, may as well grab as much of the
pie as they can while it still exists.

Speaker 7 (01:23:50):
Dave, Yeah, that's what they're we they're doing, and they're
calling these now community based projects.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
And listen, because you got that community word in everybody
will embrace it. Is they use the word community. I'm
surprised they an't use the word equity.

Speaker 1 (01:24:03):
Dave.

Speaker 7 (01:24:04):
We'll give him some time and they will. And listen.
We know Brian that in the past there was fifty
million dollars for an indoor rainforest, and you know, Tiger
would the all people. Tiger would receive the year mark
back in the day. And I'm concerned that you have
the Republicans that control of the House to send in
obviously the White House, if they're not going to be
the gatekeepers, who will be the gatekeepers to stopping this

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spending from increasing and again, you know, we're getting close
to September. September is going to be a mess because
the budget is due. We'll probably have a continuing resolution.
The month is just going to be an absolute it's
gonna be cast.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
So another year without all twelve appropriation bills being passed.

Speaker 7 (01:24:45):
Exactly, and I don't remember the last time, and I
have a pretty good memory, I don't remember the last
time all twelve appropriations bills were passed. And again, it's
just it's sloppy, right. They've taken the last six weeks off.
They could have been in town, They could have been
in DC with the National Guard doing appropriations bills. The
national Guard could have protected them and washed over them

(01:25:05):
as they finished the spending bills. But they chose, they
chose to leave. I think that's what frustrates people is
that you have members of Congress making one hundred and
seventy four thousand dollars a year. Now they get fifty
thousand dollars extra for housing and other expenses, so they're
I don't know if people knew this, but two years
ago they had an extra fifty grand an expense that
they can spend on housing, and they're not here they're

(01:25:29):
not here for a good portion of the year.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
Wow, is that is that reportable income? Dave? It is not,
it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
No, there's a carve out for congress members. They don't
have to report the fifty grand and stipend they get
to cover housing.

Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
Where do I sign up.

Speaker 7 (01:25:49):
Spend two million dollars on a campaign to make one
hundred and seventy four thousand dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
Yeah, uh huh. And look how much they're worth when
they finally leave office. Dave. That's been a running problem
for a long time time. This is something that really
irks the American people. And both sides again of the
political ledger, are guilty of this kind of conduct much
in the same way both sides are guilty of embracing
ear marks. All right, Well, what we certainly need in
this world is another seven and a half million dollars

(01:26:14):
for golf training outings and another half a million dollars
for a teapot museum.

Speaker 7 (01:26:21):
Yeah, outrageous. And again, yeah, this is the Republicans had
an opportunity, they had an opportunity to address these issues,
and they punted. And it's just again, it's frustrating to
say that, you know, they're doing this, and obviously there
are bigger problems in this city. But I got to
tell you, it's just it's a missed opportunity from the Republicans.

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
It really is. And I'll expect the taxpayer Protection Line
is to start naming names. I mean, I don't think
I need to see any names from the Democrats side
of the ledger, but I sure would like to see
who on the Freedom Caucus is signed up for earmarks
of what earmarks that they think we should pay for.
Hold the ones accountable who pay lip service to fiscal
response ability, Dave, just the thought, just a suggestion.

Speaker 7 (01:27:04):
Well, and that's what we do. Hold them account And
that's why we're calling out the House Freedom Caucus is
because we know Democrats are going to do this. Democrats
are embracing the big spending, but the House Freedom Caucus, Brian,
these are the ones like these are the hardcore at
the hardcore conservatives, whether it's you know, fiscal issues or
social issues, and they drop the ball on this, and

(01:27:25):
it's just it's really embarrassing to see this happening, and
that's why we're calling them out.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
Good for you and thanks for what you do at
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Protecting Taxpayers dot org. Coming up next segment, we're talking
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Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
Seven nineteen Happy Friday e Brian Thomas with Dave Williams
from the Taxpayer Protection Alliance looking out for our tax
dollars and pivoting over how do we get to reduce
drug prices? I know Donald Trump's called for the Most
Favored Nation executive Order saying that hey, if you sell
it someplace less, then we have to get the lesser
price pharmaceuticals. Taxpayer Protection Lines doesn't view that as a

(01:30:03):
good development. Dave, you want to explain your position on this.

Speaker 7 (01:30:06):
Yeah, this is all about price controls, right, is that?

Speaker 1 (01:30:09):
Listen?

Speaker 7 (01:30:09):
I know the president you know, is trying to do
the right thing, or he's trying to bring down the
cost of drugs of medication, and we all want that.
But if you don't do it through price controls because
that distorts the market. If you want to bring down
the cost of medication, what you do is you make
the food and drug administration more efficient. It takes about

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two billion dollars and twelve years to bring a drug
to market, and the rules are so stringent. So if
you have a if you have a drug and it's
a ninety five percent effective and I'm not saying ninety
five percent safe, I'm saying ninety five percent effective, well
that doesn't meet the FDA standard of ninety eight percent,

(01:30:52):
so that drug will not come to market. You have
to go back to the drawing board. And the problem
is that we need to have more flexibility with this
that if you are a patient and you see a
drug going through and he says, okay, it's only ninety
well I say only ninety five. I mean that's pretty
darn good. But you say, okay, this has not been
approved by the FDA, but here is what it does

(01:31:15):
and what it accomplishes. I'm taking that drug at ninety five.
I'm not waiting another two years until it's ninety eight
percent effective. And again, Brian, we're not talking about safety,
because that's something that has to be the gold standard
of any drug. It's the effectiveness and there's no there's
no leeway here.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
Well, pay a little bit of Devil's advocate here, I'm
thinking of people out there saying, well, wait a minute.
If we rush something and we put it out on
the market not knowing full without a full panel of
research studies to document how effective it is and how
safe it is, we're going to end up with another
COVID mRNA vaccine out there. It's going to be used
by a bunch of people, and we're going to discover

(01:31:52):
later down the road under an emergency use authorization which
free them from liability, that we rush the judgment on
a dangerous drug. I say, let the tort system free.
Don't protect the pharmaceutical manufacturers if they want to rush
a drug out or if you perceive it to be
a rush and put it out on the market before
they've done enough research to know how dangerous it is
or not, then they suffer liability consequences for the damage

(01:32:14):
the pharmaceuticals do.

Speaker 1 (01:32:15):
That would solve the problem.

Speaker 7 (01:32:17):
It would. And you're right about the emergency use. I mean,
you know, this is something that really needs to be
reevaluated and really stopped. And again you know this is
the FDA not you know, we're not talking you know,
running these things through in like three or four months right.
I mean, there has to be a process for clinical
trials and to make sure it's safe. But right now

(01:32:38):
the system is so backed up and it's so slow
that we're not getting these medications really in a timely manner.
And again, there has to be safety absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
All right, let's pivot over to three forty V.

Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
My wife I was a specialist and she did a
lot of three forty B work, and in fact, you
joked one point that she was going to get three
forty B for her custom license plates. I thought that
was pretty funny because most of the world doesn't even
know what three forty B is, but it's it was
addressed in this Patients Act that failed. Tell my listeners
if you can and boil it down in understandable terms,

(01:33:10):
because it's like, quite often like the peace of God
for me understanding this.

Speaker 7 (01:33:14):
Yeah, this is a little complicated, but basically, the three
forty B program allows certain hospitals and clinics to purchase
prescription drugs at a deep discount. The problem is they're
not passed on to the patient, and you have a
lot of hospitals that are pocketing the discounts and not
passing those along to the patient. And the Patients Act
was really this window dressing, right. It was saying more

(01:33:38):
drugs would be available, but it doesn't really address the
fact that the three forty B program is broken and
it's costing tens of billions of dollars a year to
the taxpayers and the consumers.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
Well, the consumer, the end user of the pharmaceutical was
supposed to get the benefit of the discount through three
forty B. Right, Well, why can't they just modify three
forty B to mandate that that you must passed along
these discounts to the end user. You may not pocket
the discount and then charge them the full or higher
price for the drug.

Speaker 7 (01:34:08):
Well, unfortunately, part of the problem is the hospital lobby
is that they don't want a fundamental change.

Speaker 3 (01:34:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
Oh well, there in lies the problem that would be
our elected officials not standing up to the hospital lobby.

Speaker 7 (01:34:22):
Yeah, and listen, this is you know, this is what happens.
This happened with postal reform a few years ago. Is
that Congress said we're going to have you know, this
big postal reform bill. It did nothing to reform the
postal system. The three forty B Patients Act will do
nothing to reform the three forty B program. And that's
why you know they're cowards. I mean, the members of

(01:34:43):
Congress are afraid to take on certain lobbies, and one
of them is that it's very powerful. It is the
hospital lobby.

Speaker 2 (01:34:49):
But wait a second, it undercuts the very reason for
implementing the three forty program in the first place, right exactly,
Oh my god, people need relief from the high price
of pharmaceuticals. Here, let's pass the law and provide them
without relief. And the hospital stand in the way of
that happening. And they won't stand up against the hospitals,
foiling the point of the legislation that was passed.

Speaker 7 (01:35:11):
Yeah, and Farma, big Pharma is afraid to take on
the hospitals, and I mean the hospital a lot be
So this is what's happening, is that they have gained
an upper hand in Congress. And that's why you see
window dressing rather than real reform.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
See. Without people like you, I wouldn't know about this.
Appreciate it. Dave Williams taxpayer protectional lines. Support them. It's
protecting taxpayers dot Org. Dave Love when you come on
the show, talk about these topics that are usually flying
under a lot of people's radar. That's what we have
you for and appreciate all the work that you and
the team does each and every week there. Look forward
to having me back on the program real soon.

Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
Dave.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
You're always all welcome here in the morning show.

Speaker 7 (01:35:48):
Thanks Brian, have a great labor day you too.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
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Speaker 2 (01:37:44):
Ingram at b Friday E. Folks, we have opportunities in November.
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former counsel with Liz Keating has made it. She got
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we're all going to vote for right listeners, Welcome back
to the fifty five KS Morning Show. It's been too long,
Liz Keating. Good to have you on the program.

Speaker 15 (01:38:17):
Thank you so so much for having me. It has
been too long. But still listening to you every day. Yah,
I don't feel like i've gone very far.

Speaker 2 (01:38:25):
Well, you know, time flies the older you get. Everybody
knows that it goes by so quickly. It was twenty
twenty when you were appointed by Judge Ralph Winkler to
take over PG sittin Fell seat after he got suspended.
We got to go all the way back to the
PG sitting Fell days. You're the last Republican to serve
on Council, and that's heartbreaking in and of itself, considering
all the problems we have in Cincinnati, which just keep

(01:38:46):
getting worse and worse every year. The roads are one
illustration of that. What we're four hundred million dollars in
the hole. This is a problem that's been building for decades.

Speaker 15 (01:38:56):
It is it is. It is something that's been an
issue for a while. And when I did serve on council,
that's what we focused on. We focused on being much
more efficient and effective with the test pair dollars and
making sure that we were investing in in long term
success of the city and then putting money away in
the Rainy Day Fund to be able to set us

(01:39:17):
up when you know you do have massive things happened,
like a COVID or something like that, to be able
to have that safety net.

Speaker 8 (01:39:25):
For the city.

Speaker 15 (01:39:26):
And honestly, things were a lot more calm when I
was on council and in the last two years, things
have gotten a little a little wild, and I'm sad
because I think that's hurt the reputation of the city,
and it's hurt our businesses and restaurants and a lot
of the family businesses and the people who invest in
the city and create jobs. And so I want to
go back and make sure that we get things back

(01:39:48):
in order. We can protect those people, those families in
those businesses, We can get paychecks going home and create
more stability for local government.

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
Well miss allocation of priorities, and especially when you, I
guess you don't have enough money in any rainy day
fund or any money. Ken cob Or FLP president, pointed
this out the other day, reminded me because I'd forgotten
about it. Apparently the city had already authorized. I believe
he used the figure seven and a half million dollars
to replace as opposed to delete the District five headquarters

(01:40:18):
seventeen Joe seventeen. So, but then Columbia Parkway collapsed, so
they took the money that was supposed to go to
the district headquarters and fix Columbia Parkway, suggesting to me,
then they don't have enough money to do both.

Speaker 15 (01:40:34):
Yeah, that was before my time, and I Columbia Parkway
collapses before my time, But that is a prime example
as to why we need to be putting the extra
dollars into a rainy day fund so that it doesn't
impact real investments that are needed, particularly for things through
public safety. It's creating that foundation, that infrastructure to be
able to respond in emergencies and critical fixes when things

(01:40:58):
do happen and will happen at Columbia Parkway situation, and
then make sure that it doesn't impact other areas. And
that's something that has been missing the last few years,
and that's something that needs to come back. We put
so much money into the Rainy Day FID during my
time when I started off at twenty twenty, that was

(01:41:18):
a different era of council. I was on there with
Christopher Smitherman, the Vice mayor at the time, and he
was I mean, he was so focused on fiscal responsibility
as was I, and we put so much money into
the Rainy Day fives and my turn between twenty and
twenty one and twenty twenty three we did the same thing.
Continue to invest in that and have that safety net,

(01:41:39):
and things have kind of fallen by the wayside.

Speaker 1 (01:41:42):
Well, do we know where that money went loose?

Speaker 15 (01:41:44):
Keating that money went to I mean it went to
fixes for the Columbia Parkway disaster. If you look at
some of the carryover money leftover money this past year
and in the budgets or giving money away to all
kinds of different groups, rather than investing in city administration

(01:42:05):
and investing in things that maybe the causes of crime,
that would help our law enforcement be able to go
after the violent criminals and other issues. We need to
be investing in the right things, not just you know,
pet projects and you know friends of friends and other
groups that are just doing interesting things that may be
politically expedient to talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
Well, and whether they're doing interesting things things that might
benefit this or not. It seems to be a big
question mark. There doesn't seem to be any follow up.
And I've heard non governmental organizations and their hand in
the cookie jar or the city taxpayer dollars is a
huge problem, and that quite often that that money is
at least believed to be by folks like me sent
out to these NGOs who do a lot of campaigning

(01:42:48):
for the candidates who provided them with the funding, which
means they're not putting a lot of money in resources
to fix whatever problem is. They're getting money to fix
zero accountability.

Speaker 15 (01:42:59):
When I was there, we created a new system of
giving out leverage support, so that's money to these other
organizations in the community that can do things faster, more
efficiently because they're leaners than government and bureaucracy to be
able to handle things that local government needs handled. And
a lot of that is programs that help reduce the

(01:43:20):
causes of crime. And what we did is we had
a system where we used data. They had to apply,
they had to show their metrics. They had to show
the exact project that they'd be spending the money on
and how it was working and how effective they were,
and then we use the administration to help score that

(01:43:41):
based on how the administration spends their money in the
projects they work on and how effective they thought those
organizations were in complementing the work that was going on
with local government. So we really took the politics out
of it and use data, quantitative and qualitative to decide
who gets that money. And a lot of that is
kind of gone away this year. If you look at

(01:44:02):
the budget, a lot of organizations were put in there
without having to go through the Leverage Support application, which
creates much more transparency for the public.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
And as I've been told, that's because the mayor and
the city manager are the ones that pick and choose
which organizations get money and how much.

Speaker 15 (01:44:19):
The council council is the one new votes on it,
and you can you can see the council motions that
came in with all kinds of organizations that were added
in and when council passed their budget. And that's why
I am working really really hard to get back on
council to get much more structure and transparency and more

(01:44:40):
data driven approach to those organizations that should have the money,
because they're the ones that help amplify and complement the
work that's going on in the administration to help support
things like our law enforcement, you know, to reduce creme
and help them out, especially when they're so short staffed.

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
As opposed to what we currently purceue you to have,
which is a rubber stamp. You have all Democrats, you
have a Democrat mayor and a Democrat city manager deciding
which organizations get the money. You send it over to
council for approval or rejection. It's going to get approved.
That's the bottom line. Nobody's going to buck the mayor
if they're all Democrats. Liz Keating pause. I'm going to
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Speaker 2 (01:47:30):
It's seven forty one fifty five krs de talk station.
You do have a choice. You've got a lot of
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City of Cincinnati. Residence anyway, Liz Keating one of the choices.
She got enough signature, she's on the ballot. Another opportunity
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with that rubber stamp concept I mentioned at the close
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most notably depending on which neighborhood they live, and are
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the mayor and other council people seem to try to
convince us that we can't believe our own eyes. You know, Oh, no,

(01:48:14):
crime is down. Crime is down, you know, amid swirling
allegations of manipulation of the crime statistics. Whether that goes
on in Cincinnati, I don't know. But I talked to
Sarah Heringer and it was really awful thing to hear
her over the Rhine resident her husband murdered in their
apartment building by a guy who was off his ankle
monitor for months ahead of time. This local police didn't
know that nobody alerted him, but that she in her

(01:48:36):
dead husband, her late husband here her gunfires so often
in over the Rhine that they just practically ignored it.
They became callous to the reality was a day in
and day out occurrence. That's terrible. You become callous to
gunfire right next to you in your neighborhood. Matter of fact,
her husband Patrick had to hit the ground in their
apartment because a bullet came whizzen by so close he

(01:48:57):
thought it was going to hit him. I mean that
this is a genuine problem. We can't argue is.

Speaker 1 (01:49:02):
Not there.

Speaker 7 (01:49:05):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 15 (01:49:06):
You know, I'm a big data person. I think there's
so many aspects of local government that should be data
driven to take the politics out. But when it comes
to crime and safety and the perception of safety, it
doesn't matter what the data says. So long as there
is one gunshot, so long as there is one person
getting hurt or robbed or anything. We should not be

(01:49:29):
satisfied with that. We should we cannot be satisfied until
we get it to zero. The number one job of
government is to keep people safe, and the perception of
safety is a key part of that. If people don't
feel safe, they're not going to be here, They're not
going to go out, they're not going to go frequent.
The restaurants and businesses, particularly in downtown and OTR that
are hurting in this kind of economy, We've got to

(01:49:51):
be able to do better. And I want to see
not the excuses and not pointing to the data that
crime is going down. I want to see people still
taking action councils should be talking about this, figuring out
what we can what went wrong, and how we can
fix it, and now we can continue to improve like
there should be this relentless pursuit to continue to improve

(01:50:11):
safety and the perception of people's safety within the City
of Cincinnati. And until we get to that mindset, I
fear that it's just going to continue.

Speaker 2 (01:50:22):
Well, and that necessitates hiring a whole bunch of additional
police officers, since our contingent of officers is off a
couple of hundred at least, And again going back to
FLP President Ken Cover on the program saying, we got
people retiring every day. We can't keep up with this
attrition that's going on. You know, we can line up
all the future classes we want, but it takes a

(01:50:42):
long time to certify a police officer get them through
the class. Lateral hires, I don't know how that's going
to work out. I haven't even heard about any progress
on lateral hires. That seems the easiest way to get
more officers on the street. But will we be able
to easily hire lateral officers? I mean, I guess I'm
kind of puzzling over whether that can actually have, and
if there's a willingness of officers out in the world
to move to the city of Cincinnati or otherwise become

(01:51:04):
employed as an officer here, I mean it's possible that
money isn't everything and that even though they may be
making less elsewhere, it's a safer job to perform.

Speaker 15 (01:51:14):
Well, not just safer, but it's the politics of the job.
And until we get to the point that the politicians
are standing behind law enforcement and supporting them and doing
their job and giving them the resources that they need,
it is a really really hard job to do, and
the morale it's very very low, and particularly when no

(01:51:35):
one's going to back you up when you actually start
going after you know, the crime, the causes of crime,
and the violent criminals, to get them off the street,
to keep people safe. It shouldn't be a question every
single day if I do my job, Am I going
to be supported? Are people going to back me up?
And I are people going to stand up for me
and support me? Like could you imagine going to work
every single day and not knowing whether or not your company,

(01:51:59):
your bosses, your maie managers are supporting you and encouraging
you to do your actual job versus being in fear
all the time of actually doing something that you're being
paid to do it.

Speaker 7 (01:52:11):
It's a terrible.

Speaker 15 (01:52:12):
Situation right now, and so much of that is the
role of counsel. They should consistently be supporting law enforcement,
giving them the resources that they need to do their job.
And while we're also while we're helping law enforcement go
after those who commit crime, we should also be working
with law enforcement to go after the causes of crime
and invest in the programs that show help reduce crime

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to make their jobs.

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Speaker 2 (01:54:41):
Seven at fifty five kr CD talk station Brian Thomas
and joined my conversation with Liz Keating. You have an
opportunity to vote for her November, and my resident friends
in the city of Cincinnati, please do add Christopher Smithman
to the list. And we've got others that are worthy choices,
demonstrably intelligent. So uh and not all Democrats. We have

(01:55:01):
charter rights. We got some Democrats in a different option.
We have Liz Keating running as a Republican again, and
I wish you all the best in the world. You know,
I guess my perception of crime as well as the roads,
Liz and other problems. The City of Cincinnati doesn't seem
to be forward thinking. What they are doing is reacting.
You got a terrible situation. Oh my god, we have
this brawl and downtown Cincinnati. The end of July, we

(01:55:21):
got Sarah Herringer getting her her husband murdered in their
own home. Obviously, these kind of things get on everybody's radar,
and people start talking about, oh my god, we got
to do something about crime, changing the narrative we are
used to from the mayor and the city council members,
which is to not even talk about police noneth much
less support them. So they react and mayor have to

(01:55:42):
have par Wall goes out and now accepts Governor de
Wine's offer of assistance on a variety of areas, some
of which seem to have nothing to do with the
problems that we've recently faced. But they reacted by talking
about supporting the police, talking about hiring new officers, talking
about giving additional two million dollars for lateral that came
after the fact, much like the roads. The roads deteriorate.
We're four hundred million dollars in the hole now because

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they don't stay up in one of the primary jobs
they have, which is to deal with infrastructure. React, React, React.
It doesn't sound like me to me, you're a reactive person.
You're rather forward thinking, and you want to get in
in front of problems. Liszt. Do you know about any
other problems we need to get in front of before
it all hits the fan, Because there's a.

Speaker 15 (01:56:21):
Lot of problems to get ahead of. And that's what
I did on council before and that's what I look
forward to doing when I get back on this time around.
You know, I have business experience, and you run a
business being able to forecast and understand what's coming and
to spate what's coming. You invest your money into the
ideas and the programs and the processes that are going

(01:56:43):
to be able to help you navigate any future challenges
that you may see coming or may not see coming,
like you talked about Columbia Parkway earlier. To be able
to manage that, you use data driven approaches to be
able to figure out where the best return on investment
is for your money. It's so much of that, and

(01:57:04):
it's constantly thinking forward. What is the best for Cincinnati,
What is the best for our city, What is the
best to set us up for a better future. It's
not what is the most politically expedient, what is trending
on Twitter today. You can't get caught up in what
the talk is today. You constantly have to look much
further down the line. You know, you talked about the signatures.

(01:57:27):
I got over seventeen hundred signatures in less than a week,
So thank you to all those who there who helped
past petitions and sign them.

Speaker 7 (01:57:35):
But I had my four year old and my six
year old with me for several of those.

Speaker 18 (01:57:40):
Hours that at Saint Mary's Festival at at Farmer's Market,
and they were carrying the clipboards and the pens and
helping me, and they were listening to what all the
voters were talking about when they were signing the petition.

Speaker 15 (01:57:53):
And my six year old said to me, Mama, does
city council fix all the crafts in the ground? Is
that what they're supposed to do?

Speaker 7 (01:58:01):
And it's like, if.

Speaker 15 (01:58:01):
A six year old, it shouldn't be that hard.

Speaker 18 (01:58:06):
It should not be that hard.

Speaker 15 (01:58:08):
You know, that's that's our job is to take care
of people, take care of the taxpayer dollars and just
you know, fix the crash from the ground.

Speaker 2 (01:58:16):
Well, in a demonstrable admission of absolute incompetence this contest,
they hired a firm at fifty thousand dollars to reach
out to the general public to see if the general
public had any ideas about how to better deal with
the pothole situation. You know, for a five thousand dollars
reward for a team or an individual who can come
up with a better way. I mean, isn't that an
acknowledgement that they don't know what the hell they're doing
if they have to ask the general public on a

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better way to fix potholes?

Speaker 15 (01:58:39):
Liz, Well, you know what I will say, I actually
started that program several years ago, and what it is
is it's a partnership with our startup ecosystem in Cincinnati.
Cincinnati has a very robust startup ecosystem that drives innovation
and we have been rated as the region in the

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that is most likely to get a unicorn, which means
a startup that grows to over a billion dollars. In
my mind, if we partner with all those innovators in Cincinnati,
if we partner with our business community and then take
the problems of local government, we can probably come up
with new innovative approaches which then may be able to

(01:59:21):
create a new company and sell into other municipalities, because
every municipality has the same problems. So that program has continued,
So that is part of that. And it's taking something
that the city has struggled with that we haven't been
able to solve internally, nor has any other city across
the country, and then working with the startup ecosystem, and

(01:59:43):
then getting the business community to invest to create those
that prize money, which is what you see the five
thousand dollars coming from. That's from the private sector. To
then create a new idea and see if we can
spin it off into a business and create jobs while
also solving this problem. I did it when I was
on council. We did it with litter. We did it

(02:00:07):
with housing, figuring out ways that we can better build housing,
prevent eviction, which costs a lot of money when you're
spending money on homeless shelters.

Speaker 7 (02:00:16):
We you know, we.

Speaker 15 (02:00:18):
Looked at snowplows and now this is looking at potholes, which.

Speaker 1 (02:00:22):
Is a huge problem, huge problem.

Speaker 15 (02:00:24):
Hopefully it will result in new business and new jobs
and new revenue for the city.

Speaker 2 (02:00:30):
Well, let's hope, and let's hope they advanced the idea
of maintaining roads, bridges, and infrastructure ahead of well for example,
I know Christopher Smillen has pointed this on AFTA. Provoll
said he views every issue in the City of Cincinnati
primarily through and first and foremost equity and the environment.
I think if he's prioritizing equity in the environment before

(02:00:50):
maybe logical, rational, rational, reasonable solutions like how to fix
the potholes, then we're never going to get there. I mean,
this is his priorities. This is maybe why we are
in the state we're in right now.

Speaker 15 (02:01:01):
Liz, Yeah, I mean we are constantly going out talking
to voters and hearing what they're concerned about, and that's
where government should be focused. Because if people don't feel safe,
if they're concerned about the roads, the infrastructure, you know,
that's where we should be investing our money to make
it a fun, safe, and a lively place for people

(02:01:25):
to live, to work, to raise their family. If we
start losing people out to the suburbs. We're really going
to be hurting, and those suburbs are going to hurt too,
because Cincinnati really is that epicenter and what happens in
Cincinnati impacts all the areas around us.

Speaker 2 (02:01:40):
The whole Tri state area. Liz Keating, real quick, what's
your website so people can help you out? Get a
T shirt, put the arts on in the front yard,
or donate your.

Speaker 15 (02:01:47):
Campaign Vote Liz Keating dot com.

Speaker 2 (02:01:50):
There you are, vote Liz Keating dot com. We'll have
Joe add that to the fifty five car seed page.
My page at fifty five car seed dot com. Liz,
we'll talk again before November, I hope, and I wish
you all the best in refort to become since an councilman.

Speaker 15 (02:02:01):
Again, thank you so so much. I appreciate you having
me on, and thanks so all of those who helped
sign those petitions. And I will not be out worked
over the next two months. We are going to work
our tail off and get back to council and get
things back in order.

Speaker 2 (02:02:16):
I know you are good luck on that. I know
my listeners have your back. Seven fifty seven and fifty
five kr C the talk station John Barrett coming up
after the top of the hour.

Speaker 1 (02:02:25):
News.

Speaker 2 (02:02:25):
We'll have a little bit of time to talk to
be on at eight fifteen talking about Riverfest. He's a
president's CEO of Western and Southern. Of course they sponsored
the fireworks. Then we'll hear from Jay Ratliffe at eight thirty.
Please stick around today's top headlines coming up at the
top of the hours.

Speaker 6 (02:02:39):
Something always happens when you leave six.

Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
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It's the only way to stay in form.

Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
Fifty five KRC the talk station. It's eight oh six
here fifty five parse talk station. Very happy Friday eve
to you. Got a couple of minutes if you like
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(02:03:13):
The President and CEO Western Southern Financial Group. Really great guy,
John Barrett, just truly assault of the earth, regular kind
of guy. In spite of the fact that he's extraordinarily
powerful and wealthy. He is one of the of course,
as president's CEO Western Southern sponsors of fireworks and they
have been for years and years, So come on tell
about it. You know what to do, what to think about,
how to enjoy the event, and just some details on that,

(02:03:36):
including the times and when nowhere to show up. John
Barrett coming up next, Jay Ratliffe. It is Friday Eve,
so we'll hear from our iHeartMedia aviation expert. Bottom of
the hour, Frontier Airlines going after Spirit Airlines forty nine
dollars airfares that sounds appealing, passengers sew and Delta Airlines
apparently slapped by a flight attendant, got some issues with

(02:03:57):
Alaska Airlines adding facial recognition technology at the automated luggage
kiosks and American Airlines had a divert flight because yet
another electronic device catching on fire. There's dan lithium ion batteries,
a true danger on airlines and a true danger to
Minneapolis Catholic school children praying we got this bat, I

(02:04:18):
mean demonstrably backcrap and saying self identified batcrap and saying
not Robin Westman's words mind formerly Robert Westman, changed his
slash her name with the assistance of his mom when
he was seventeen years old, decided he wanted to get
all murdery in Minneapolis, and they've deciphered some of his musings,
his rants, and his ramblings, most of which have been

(02:04:41):
removed from social media. It's kind of weird. Michael just
asked me if I had seen the what he characterized
as disturbing video that was online on YouTube that this
punk murderer posted, showing all his firearms and rambling on
about various things. I haven't because they've been removed. So
I've seen pictures of it, like kill Donald Trump written

(02:05:03):
on his AR fifteen weapon. Apparently had a handgun as
well as a shotgun. In committing these murders killed two
little kids and wanted to New York Post translated this
guy's cryllic manifesto. He talked about murdering in his words, again,

(02:05:23):
filthy Zionist Jews. Free Palestine mixed in there as well.
He said, if I will carry out a racially motivated attacking,
to be most likely against filthy zionist Jews. Apparently he
won a different route. I hate those entitled penny sniffing
K word an offensive term for my Jewish friends out there.

(02:05:46):
Obviously anti Semitic, heilt to be decided that killing children
of innocent civilians would bring him the most joy, the
emphasis meaning they're his words. Killing children, notably innocent children
and obviously the children of innocent people, it would bring
him the most joy. Quote. I don't want to do

(02:06:13):
it to spread a message. I do it to please myself.
I do it because I'm sick. I don't think I
could just take myself out. I would need to do
something with my final act. Obviously, taking out innocent children
as his final act is what he accomplished. And I
mentioned it earlier in the morning, and I'm gonna mention
it now. And I believe in this firmly and from

(02:06:34):
the bottom of my heart, because law enforcement can't be
everywhere all the time, here in the city of Cincinnati,
in Washington, DC, or even in a church in Minneapolis.
Who is there at all times? You are, your neighbor,
is your friends, are people you don't know are there?

(02:06:56):
And every single one of the folks in the United
States of America, assuming that under some gu firearms disability
for having committed a crime previously, and as long as
they meet the requisite standards to purchase a firearm in
any given community, including this nutcase who qualified to buy
firearms in Minneapolis. They said he bought them obtained them legally.
So you two can participate, and rather than be an
evil person that goes around and uses firearms to do

(02:07:18):
absolute horrific evil, you could be the one there next
to the evil guy, ready to defend everyone else around you.
You and I are the first line. You and I
are the ones that are on the front line wherever
we happen to be. Wherever we are, we are the
front line of defense. Call nine to one one how
long it will it take for a cop to get

(02:07:40):
there if something goes awry. Just do me a favor.
If you're going to exercise your second amendment, go to
the damn range and learn how to operate the firearm confidently,
because the adrenaline's going to be flowing. If you ever
end up in one of these situations, you're going to
be freaked out. You may not know what to do
unless you confidently know how to use a firearm and

(02:08:00):
can aim and shoot the target you're tending to hit.

Speaker 1 (02:08:07):
Be that guy, not this.

Speaker 2 (02:08:13):
Girl. Fingers crossed John Barrett's around. I'm gonna go out
in the hallway and try to find him. I hope
you can stick Around'll learn about the d and fireworks
from John Enjoy his company, then we'll hear from Jay
Ratliffe following that, I'll be right back fifty five krcart
Erc Morning Show. The President and CEO of Western and
Southern Financial Group, sponsors for the last ten years of

(02:08:37):
the WBN Fireworks. It is the Western and Southern WBNS
Fireworks since they're one's behind the event in terms of
financial backing. Welcome to the studio, John Barrett, my friend.
It is always a real pleasure to see you.

Speaker 19 (02:08:48):
Great to be here, Brian, thanks so much for having us.

Speaker 2 (02:08:50):
Oh my pleasure. Man. It's a huge event. It gets
bigger every year, and my day underscore in spite of
the problem we've been having with crime of late, which
has been an ongoing problem. Upon reflection, I mean they've
been doing this is the forty ninth year, unbelievable, and
it's never a problem people.

Speaker 19 (02:09:06):
There's so many people down there having fun, no room
for bad guys.

Speaker 5 (02:09:11):
It's all good.

Speaker 2 (02:09:12):
And you know what, maybe it's because there's strength in numbers.

Speaker 19 (02:09:16):
Well certainly some of that, but also people are in
a good mood.

Speaker 2 (02:09:20):
Why ruin it exactly?

Speaker 1 (02:09:22):
And those great Rosie's.

Speaker 2 (02:09:24):
I mean job last year was mine, I have never
in my life and the witness of fireworks display of
that just sort of it was just awe inspiring and
it's like, how in the hell do they do that
with fireworks?

Speaker 19 (02:09:37):
Well, because next year is the fiftieth I keep saying
next year, you know what I mean, we're going to
do something special.

Speaker 2 (02:09:43):
I would like to think. So, so what times should
people get down there?

Speaker 19 (02:09:46):
John, Well, the show's not till you know, a couple
of minutes after nine, but you got to be there
probably seven, seven thirty.

Speaker 2 (02:09:52):
Well, there's a lot of road closures, a lot of.

Speaker 19 (02:09:54):
Road closures, and also people stake out their claim on
their territory there to in advance. I mean, there's towels
on the on the on the wall, certain new wall.
Probably not today, but I bet there are by Friday.

Speaker 2 (02:10:07):
Well, you got to have a lot of faith in
humanity to leave a towel down there and think it's
going to be there when you get back the next day.

Speaker 19 (02:10:12):
It seems to work.

Speaker 2 (02:10:14):
Okay, that's actually a good sign too.

Speaker 19 (02:10:17):
You get half a million people live having fun, You've
got the Ohio, Kentucky. You know, shout out each other.
You guys do so well to get everybody wrapped up.
Everybody has a great time, so let's just keep it going.

Speaker 2 (02:10:31):
You will be there, I presume I shall.

Speaker 4 (02:10:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (02:10:33):
I always go, and it's great. You know I went
before we sponsored it. But I was just speaking with
your new boss and he's from the other Queen city
and Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (02:10:42):
I have a boss and they don't.

Speaker 19 (02:10:44):
Do anything like that. I know they don't. Charlotte couldn't
even spell fireworks. So the boss is in here.

Speaker 5 (02:10:54):
Keep shot.

Speaker 2 (02:10:56):
Oh that's great.

Speaker 19 (02:10:57):
Well, we had to bring up that we won the
tennis tournament in a direct competition with Charlotte the other
Queen cities, so you know how it goes.

Speaker 2 (02:11:04):
Yeah, I do well. I can on behalf of all
of my listeners and everyone who regularly goes to the
fireworks or if you can go for the first time.
Want to thank Western and Southern for being a sponsor.
I mean without folks like you, these things do not
happen period.

Speaker 19 (02:11:17):
Well, you know, this is just another great event in Cincinnati.
It's gone on forever. But why did people come here?
Why did people pick a you know, a Kroger, a Procter,
fifth third great American to work at. They want to
work in a city's vibrant. Yeah, and so many people
that all of us hire are not from around here,
maybe not maybe didn't go to college around here, interview here,

(02:11:41):
and many of them stay forever, absolutely, even if they
leave the company they're with.

Speaker 2 (02:11:45):
John, I will be the first person to tell you,
I am so happy that I left Cincinnati to live
and practice law in Chicago for eight years and then
move back. It was the moving back that opened my
eyes to how amazing this area is and how much
people take it for granted. Move to Chicago, folks for
a couple of years, and then come back and tell
me if you don't feel that way, we take this

(02:12:06):
city for granted.

Speaker 19 (02:12:07):
So how is a corruption up? There's a good thing.

Speaker 2 (02:12:09):
Oh my god, it's just it's the running joke. Everyone
knows their corrupt, but it's their corruption, so it's a okay.

Speaker 19 (02:12:16):
Brian's true story. Two prisoners we're in the Illinois State
prison talking and one was complaining about the food and
the other one says, you know, it was.

Speaker 2 (02:12:24):
Better when you were a governor. John Barrett, President's CEO
Western Southern Financial Group, get down early enjoy the fireworks,
and thanks again to Western Southern for making it happen.
Appreciate your partnering with EBN and bringing around this wonderful event.
And now we're all going to be having our popcorn
out looking forward to next year. Because you said it
out loud, we.

Speaker 19 (02:12:44):
Want to challenge everybody the fiftieth. We'd like people to
be thinking about getting their hotel rooms.

Speaker 2 (02:12:48):
Now. It's gonna be ah little word of advice. Don't wait,
John Barrett. I'll look forward to seeing again. I hope
I see you before next year. In our next discussion.

Speaker 19 (02:12:58):
Brian, you got to get out more of me in
here at four in the morning, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:13:04):
Channel I wifol cash. Variably cloudy today seventy seven for
the high and an opportunity for some isolatering getting at
noon and between dune and five, I have a window there,
few clouds lingering around overnight, fifty seven for the log.
Got a sunny gate tomorrow seventy eight, fifty four overnight
with some clouds and seventy six the high on Saturdays
with sunny sky fifty four.

Speaker 1 (02:13:23):
Right now traffic time from.

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a second wreck in south seventy five just before.

Speaker 5 (02:13:49):
The bridge right shoulder.

Speaker 11 (02:13:51):
They just cleared the wreck southbound four seventy one on
the bridge. Chuck Ingram on fifty five KR. See the
talk station eight thirty.

Speaker 2 (02:14:03):
T G I T thank god it's Thursday at this
time every week we get iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratlup.
I thoroughly enjoy our conversations. Always interesting and uh sometimes
it fuels with a little bit of levity, which is
a nice diversion from the heady stuff we talk about
during the preceding hours.

Speaker 1 (02:14:20):
Jay Rattler, welcome back, man. I love talking to you.

Speaker 17 (02:14:23):
Hey, good morning. It's always it's always a thrill to
be here. You and I do about two thousands of
these segments a year across the country, and it's uh,
I have more fun here because we tend to get
into some some topics a little deeper than other places.
Plus I don't have to feed you stuff. You you
were constantly leading the conversation.

Speaker 1 (02:14:42):
That always makes.

Speaker 17 (02:14:43):
It always makes it enjoyable, and we seem to have
a lot more fun.

Speaker 2 (02:14:46):
Oh yeah, well it's free form. I'm learning something you know,
and you're you're explaining things, and uh, I enjoy I
like to engage in the in the in the conversation
and talk about things I don't know anything about because
I want to get enlightened and learn something. You're the
man with all the information we need to know about
airlines and air travel and air issues. And you're also
an expert in stock trading as well, so we can

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go down that road from time to time.

Speaker 17 (02:15:10):
I'm ooky knowing being good at just two things in life.

Speaker 1 (02:15:13):
I'm good with that.

Speaker 2 (02:15:14):
Yeah, yeah, I will say the two things I'm good at.
Just gonna let that go front Frontier Airlines. What's the story.
Is there such a thing as a forty nine dollars
air fare?

Speaker 12 (02:15:25):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (02:15:26):
Yeah, yeah, and those are introductory fairs. What's happening is
Spirit Airlines, as we know, is kind of on borrowed time.

Speaker 1 (02:15:33):
If you will.

Speaker 17 (02:15:34):
The CEO came out said, look, we've got maybe years
worth of cash, and they he updated the investors as
they are required to do, letting them know if there's
issues of concern, and of course Frontier is thinking, well,
you know, we'd like to have some of those customers.
So they launched twenty new routes that are directly in
competition with Spirit, going after Spirit Airlines customers. And when

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they launched those routes offering some of the initial fares
at forty nine dollars a pop. Now keep in mind
that that's the airfare if you have luggage and you
want a special seat assignment, things of this nature is
going to be more than that, and not the entire
plane is going to be forty nine dollars fares. These
are inventory controlled, which means maybe the first twenty percent

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of the aircraft might be sold at forty nine, the
next fifteen percent at fifty nine, the next seventy nine,
and so.

Speaker 1 (02:16:24):
On and so forth.

Speaker 17 (02:16:25):
But they're going after Spirit because they recognize, you know,
those customers maybe on advanced bookings. Brian aren't entirely comfortable
with the fact on whether that's Spirit's going to be
here next year, next spring break or whatever.

Speaker 1 (02:16:37):
Oh might happen to be right.

Speaker 2 (02:16:40):
And the irony of it all is it.

Speaker 17 (02:16:42):
Was Spirit in Frontier three years ago that made the
announcements that they were going to merge and they would
have become an incredibly successful, mega low cost carrier. And
that's when Spirit got courted by Jet Blue, as we've
talked about, and jet Blue offered more money and Spirit said, well,
i'll see you later Frontier and out the door they
see up, only to have that denied by the Department

(02:17:03):
of Justice over anti competition, which was the right call.
And of course Spirit think goes limping back to Frontier saying, hey,
will you take me back? And Frontier says no, And
now we got Frontier going after Spirit Airlines customers. So yeah,
if they had to do over in life, I suspect
that Spirit would have gone another route on that merger
with Frontier.

Speaker 2 (02:17:21):
Well, what's this going to mean for the air trap
if I mean Spirit, if it's inevitable, maybe it is
already baked into the cake that they are going to
go out of business. I mean that obviously beneficial for Frontier,
given that they're trying to expedite that outcome.

Speaker 17 (02:17:37):
It would be for them and a lot of the
other low cost carriers and even regional legal legacy carriers
that are in the same market. But overall, from kind
of the big pictures side of things, anytime we have
reduction in low cost seats, it's a bad thing because
that means we have less competition and a lot of
a lot of markets. And what I love is the
flood the market with low cost fares so that these

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largerlegacy carriers of the United Delta's, even Southwest and others
are forced to compete with some of these low prices.
And that's always good for consumers because as you know,
and you know you've talked about for decades about the
winning side of things when there's competition in anything. And
of course, it was thanks to President Ford that gave

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us competition in the airline industry when he deregulated the
industry in nineteen seventy eight. So when we're enjoying some
of the cheapest airfare ever that we've seen in the
history of commercial jet travel, even with inflation calculated in
we can thank President Carter for that because it was
actually President Carter in nineteen seventy eight that gave us

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the Deregulation Act that you know, in essence opened up
competition to the airline.

Speaker 2 (02:18:47):
Industry, which ultimately, over time, and it took too long,
came to the CVEG because that was like the worst
place in the entire country to fly in and out,
and we had no competition.

Speaker 5 (02:18:56):
We did not.

Speaker 17 (02:18:57):
Because Delta initially had a hub in Atlanta. In Atlanta
and Delta in Memphis. In Atlanta, those two hubs were
too close together. You can't have two distribution centers if you.

Speaker 7 (02:19:07):
Will that close.

Speaker 17 (02:19:08):
So Delta knew they had to take the Memphis hub
somewhere towards the northeast, and of course they picked Cincinnati
and the early eighties and built that up. Obviously, absent
of any competition, they could charge what they want. They
had comm Air here as their feed or airline that
was the business airline, and they could charge incredibly high
business fares, and that made Cincinnati the most profitable hub

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Delta had ever seen. And of course, when Delta then
bought Comma Air, which was a move that I think
they spent two billion dollars on, the wonderful eggheads in
Delta's headquarters said, well, what we need to do is
make comm Air an airline where we do the inventory
controlled fares on there, where we offered discounts and like

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we do in the bigger planes. And my friends at
comm Air and management.

Speaker 1 (02:19:56):
Said no, no, no, no, you can't do that.

Speaker 17 (02:19:58):
You can't do that with fifty se It's got to
be business fares. That's how we were built. And Delta
of course said, we know what we're doing, We've done
this before. And of course Comma went right down the
tubes and they couldn't sell comm Air for five hundred
million dollars a few years later with what they had
done to it. So you know, when you see airlines
disappear as we've had, it means fewer seats, and fewer

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seats always mean higher fares.

Speaker 14 (02:20:21):
And especially that's the case if we see any of these.

Speaker 17 (02:20:24):
Low cost carriers go away, and if Spirit does leave,
and it's too early to see it would be bad
for the industry. You might see them absorbed by another airline.
And I think that's a more likely consideration because you
and I've talked about if you want a Boeing aircraft
or a new air bus, you know, put the order
in and we'll see in six years, right, But if
you buy an airline like Spirit, you've got all their

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Airbus airplanes.

Speaker 2 (02:20:46):
Now right there. All the inventory comes with the purchase price.
More with Jay ratlf We're going to find out. Hey, listen,
turn about to fair play. A flight attendant slapped a passenger.
Litigation ensued that one plus others with Jay Ratliff, it's
eight thirty seven, be right.

Speaker 6 (02:20:58):
Back five KRC.

Speaker 2 (02:21:01):
Did he talk station? Jay Ratliff? Has I heard media
aviation experts moving over? This is an interesting twist it
should I thought passengers were hitting flight attendants, Jay, that's
what we usually hear about read about. This is the
other way around, resulting in a lawsuit being filed.

Speaker 17 (02:21:17):
Jay, it is, and we're getting one side of the story.
But the way it's going right now is that there
was a Delta passenger that was on a I think
it was in Atlanta to Fresno flight. Flight was just
in the early stages of the flight when a passenger
apparently was asking for some water for his son, who
was crying at the time, and apparently there was kind

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of a verbal altercation that led to the flight attendant
per the passenger, slapping the man and his attorney says
that it was so loud that it could be heard
through noise canceling headphones of passengers that were around. That
we don't know if that's the case or not, but
we'll wait and see. Flight attendant's been placed on administrative leave,

(02:22:00):
obviously pending the outlook the investigation of all this. But
the lawyer is saying that the passenger is going to
bessuming Delta, demanding that they have some sensitivity training that
goes up to every single employee. And also he'd like
one day's worth of Delta's profits his compensation. Now, Delta

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last year made three point five billion dollars, so you
divide that by three sixty five. He's asking for about
nine and a half million dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:22:29):
We'll see if he gets it.

Speaker 1 (02:22:30):
That seems to be a big ask.

Speaker 17 (02:22:32):
Well, if you know you got to ask big, you
got to ask big. So if they dart, you decided,
you know how it works much better than me.

Speaker 1 (02:22:39):
What am I saying?

Speaker 2 (02:22:40):
Everything included the kitchen sink to start with, he have
lots of room to racket to depth. So you haggle
on the end of the middle of the guy ends
up with what four and a half million dollars.

Speaker 17 (02:22:49):
Yeah, I guess he'll have to settle for that, and
then the attorney takes one How much would the attorney get.

Speaker 2 (02:22:53):
On something like that typically a third?

Speaker 17 (02:22:56):
Okay, yeah, he still have a chunk of change, so
you know. But the thing is, if the flight attendant
did in fact strike a passenger, which is totally, totally,
totally unacceptable, it'll be a learning opportunity for Dealt and
all the other flight attendants and things of this nature.
Because I've told you before at the airport, we could restrain,
we could never strike. And it's you just you can

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never take that step because you never know what the
passengers are going through. You know what kind of day
they're having. Even if they're a jerk three sixty five
twenty four to seven and deserve to be slapped, perhaps
you still can't do it. So we'll see where this
one goes.

Speaker 2 (02:23:33):
Clearly just an illustration that everybody has a bad day,
including the flight attendants. Yes, all right, Alaska Airlines go
into facial recognition technology.

Speaker 1 (02:23:44):
But this is for baggage.

Speaker 17 (02:23:46):
Yeah, the baggage kioks drops. It's where you could They've
got a place that you can go to have your
bage checked. It's a separate line and most of the
time they've got them at the airport with agents. You know,
if you've got your reservation tickets and everything, you just
need your bags check, you've got a separate line to
keep you away from everybody else that needs more time.

Speaker 2 (02:24:05):
And so that's the point that the agent ask you
if there's any lithium ion devices in your bag before
stowing them in the airplane.

Speaker 1 (02:24:13):
Sorry, I'm jumping ahead.

Speaker 2 (02:24:15):
A little bit.

Speaker 17 (02:24:15):
Yeah, this is at the ticket counter. This is also
at the ticket counter. But that kiosk that they have
implanted is going to ask you the same sort of thing,
just like if you're mailing something at the post office
from one of the kiosk and they've got the question
out know who reads that stuff? But you say no
in a way you go. But they're putting these facial
recognitions kiosk up at Portland and Seattle. And the thought

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behind it, Brian, is that a facial recognition means you
come up, have your face scanned, and within two seconds, boom,
if they pull you up. The bag tags are are
printed and slapped on the bags, and the where you
go they're selling it as though this is going to
make your travels easier. It's going to allow you to
kind of get through the process in a faster fashion.
And facial recognition is right now rolling at airports across

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the country. Airlines are using them at ticket counters for
checking in at these bag kios. We're going to be
seeing them at the TSA checkpoints. We're eventually going to
see him at the gate because airlines have designs of
having a gate area with no agents whatsoever, and facial
recognition to be used for all the boarding. Now, how
that's going to work out logistically, I don't know all
of the answers, but that's the end game that they're after.

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You have a lot of passengers who are saying, gay,
I'm not comfortable with that. And right now, airlines are
allowing us to opt out of any facial recognition because
there's people that say I will never ever ever agree
to it, to which I smile and say, well, if
you've ever walked into a casino or an airport or
any major sporting event, I guarantee you you've been a
part of facial recognition somewhere.

Speaker 1 (02:25:45):
My friends.

Speaker 17 (02:25:46):
So, but you know, some people don't want to voluntarily
get involved with it, that's fine, but airlines are selling
it is convenience, but you and I know it's their
opportunity to reduce their personnel costs. And that's like when
those kiosks came out out where you can check yourselves
in and a lot of a lot of agents. We're
so excited to show passengers how to use them. And
they said this is great, JA, because I'm gonna have

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a shorter line And I said, no, you're not.

Speaker 2 (02:26:09):
You're gonna do no job because.

Speaker 7 (02:26:10):
When everybody's checking them.

Speaker 12 (02:26:12):
Yep.

Speaker 17 (02:26:12):
But they you know, that's what airlines are after. If
they can eliminate that cost, they're going to do it.
That's why automation is discussed as far as in pilots
using one pilot or no pilot down the road, trying
to take advantage of it. And the more that we
get comfortable with AI and a lot of the other
things that are taking place, these advancements are going to
not only continue, but they're going to accelerate. Delta is

(02:26:35):
already using the artificial intelligence and pricing and they've been
doing it for a few years based on your travel
habits and what you're willing to pay and that's what
you're going to pay. So it's not something I'm thrilled with,
but sadly that's the direction we're going.

Speaker 2 (02:26:51):
Yes, indeed it is. And of course electronic device is
our problem. We've talked about that before. You thoroughly freaked
me out on that one. We have another one. We'll
talk about that plus hub delay. It's just a minute here,
it's a forty six right back with Jay Ratlift fifty
five car.

Speaker 1 (02:27:06):
The talk station.

Speaker 2 (02:27:08):
Imagine what it would feel like. One more time for
the Channel nine weather forecasts. We have variably cloudy today,
isolator rain possible between noon and five. Today's high seventy seven,
tonight down to fifty seven with just a few clowns
of sunny day to morrow, and that I have seventy eight,
few clouds overnight again fifty four and Saturday another sunny day.

Speaker 1 (02:27:27):
Seventy six, fifty six. Right now, time for final traffic.

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Speaker 2 (02:28:05):
It's a forty nine almost a fifty fifty five Karrasity
talk station and Bryan timas a Jay ratlif I heard
me the aviation expert moving over to LA. It's American
Airlines had a flight diverted again another one of these
lithium ion battery fires. Jay, this is really disturbing, man.

Speaker 5 (02:28:21):
It is.

Speaker 17 (02:28:22):
This is an American Airlines flight left Philadelphia headed to Phoenix,
and about an hour into the flight, one of these
electronic devices started to overheat caught fire. Flight attendants had
to respond. They took care of but flight declares an emergency.
They landed a nearby airport. We've had twenty to thirty
here in the United States. You factor in the ones
that are happening around the world. More than once a

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week one of these things are taking place and it's
obvious that something there's a problem, and you know, we
had a situation with this. I think when the Dreamliner
came out. They had a battery issue that was causing
batteries to overheat on the Dreamliner when it was first introduced,
and they had to change and modify that aircraft to

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make it safer to operate. And we've got to do
something here that's going to do more than just count
on the flight attendants who go through an incredible amount
of training as a firefighter when they go through their
certification process, because we're counting on them to respond. And
if one of these devices get stuck into a seat
starts to overheat and catch on fire, you have fifteen

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minutes to get that plane on the ground, and any
smoke or anything fumes in that aircraft can't be vented out,
so to speak, if you will, in a very fast fashion.
So that means that it's a very very difficult thing
that happens. So it's dangerous and we've got to do
something about it. And I'm honest with you, Brian, I'm
tired of talking about it because every one of these

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I think, gets a step closer to something horrific.

Speaker 1 (02:29:52):
Taking place.

Speaker 2 (02:29:53):
No, I know, And we've talked about that before, and
you had pointed out and this is what's got me
weirded out the idea that and you go up to
the gate and you get ready to board the airplane,
your bag is either too big to fit in the
overhead compartment. You shouldn't have brought it there in the
first placee should have been stowed away. And that's when
they take it, and they stowed it right directly on
the plane after asking you if there's one of these
devices in there. Well, maybe you forgot, maybe you lie,

(02:30:15):
maybe you don't want to dig through the back. I
don't know, But if it's in the hold of the plane,
we're all dead.

Speaker 17 (02:30:20):
Well nobody, Well, we have smoke detectors in the cargo
compartments who would notify the flight crew that there's a
fire or possible fire that's taking place. But then again,
you're right back to that fifteen minute mark. Well, yeah, exactly.
Aircraft have fire suppression systems in the cargo hold. But

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the problem is these looking and battery fires burn at
such a heat they're not as effective, So you've got
so many problems that they're easy to identify. The problem
is we don't have an easy fix because you can't
tell people you can't fly without your your telephones, your
cell phones and things of this nature. And people bring
their iPads and things as entertainment to watch movies in

(02:31:03):
different things. Airlines like that because now they don't have
to have the entertainment screens on the back of a seat.
Because it's less weight, less expense, less fuel. It's great,
please bring your own device. And now that we've got
these issues, so I don't mean to scare people, but
it is something, and it doesn't prevent me from flying.
I mean, I'll take my mom, my wife, our grandkids, kids,

(02:31:27):
we'll get on a flight and I won't be that
concerned about it that it'll keep me from flying. But
believe me, if I'm on a plane and one of
these things starts to happen where there's an overheated situation,
I'm making sure the flight attendants know about it immediately
so they can a notify the captain and be take
care of the situation in the cabin before it becomes
out of hand. So again, these flight attendants that so

(02:31:48):
many people put down or don't give the adequate amount
of respect to these men and women are doing even
more than they've ever done before because now they have
so many more of these things that are taking place
for hun.

Speaker 2 (02:32:01):
Only a matter of time, Jay Ratliff. Before we part company,
always in on hub delays, what's going on as far
as as far as air travel. Looking today, it looks.

Speaker 17 (02:32:09):
Today, you know a lot of rain across the country,
but I think Detroit's going to be the only major
hub that's going to be impacted. But because of all
that rain across the country, we're gonna see quite a
bit of turbulence. Not dangerous, but uncomp Well, it's dangerous
if you don't have your seat belt on, but it's
just uncomp Please keep the seat belt on. Me with
fifty fifty or so people a year that are seriously

(02:32:29):
seriously injured because an aircraft that's cruising along suddenly hits
turbulence and in the next thing, you know, yeah, you're
hitting the.

Speaker 2 (02:32:36):
Ceiling without notice. Well, I remember some weird turbulence experience
over the years, Jay Rutlift. That is sound advice. Keep
the damn seatbelt on, Jay rat left. Look for the
next Thursday already. I appreciate the time you spoke my
listeners of me an enjoyable segment. It is, and we'll
do it again next Thursday. Between now and then, best
of health and loved you and your better half.

Speaker 1 (02:32:54):
I appreciate it, my friend, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:32:56):
Thank you brother coming on eight fifty five. You didn't
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