55KRC Friday Show - Tech Friday, Orlando Sonza, Cory Bowman, Chris Piehorta, Bill OReilly

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Five o five. I think i've Garris de talk Station
Happy Friday. Say, well, there it is Friday on the

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Morning Show. What an amazing line up today, Thank you
Joe Strecker. This morning's gonna fly by Happy Friday at
all the listeners we got going on today. Well, let's
Tech Friday with Dayatter every Friday at six thirty. You
know that's coming. And today we'll be talking with Dave
about time to delete the most invasive apps on your phone.

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I think they're all to some degree invasive, as we've
learned from Dave over the years, but the most invasive.
Let's see how they determined which one of the most
invasive are He did an op ed piece Dave did
Chinese evi's threat to national security and privacy, and he'll
talk about a video that shows how easy it is
to install a card skimmer. Excuse me, I had to

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exercise the cough button. Get my voice going in the
five o'clock hours sometimes can be a struggle for me,
So apologies for that. What has Orlando's sons have been
up to? Of course we were all weeping over the
victory of Greg Greg Landsman over Orlando Sanza, but I
know he's still active, and we're going to find out
from him today at seven oh five. What's he been
doing since the election, his thoughts on what's going on

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in DC and what's in store for him future wise
in terms of politics. And I can only hope that
he does pursue some office down the road. I think
he's just such a brilliant man and just a family man,
an honorable man, a decent man, and I think he's
well deserving in some position if he chooses to run.
I mean, that's of course his choice. Corey Mawman one

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of three now running for the mayor city of Cincinnati.
Correy's going to j join the program at seven thirty.
That's great. We had him on early on in his
efforts and apparently got enough signatures, so we have options
in the city of Cincinnati. Question, does anybody think that
a Republican can win in the city of Cincinnati. Christopher P. Hotel,

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with the book wanted the FBI, I once knew cash
Mittel got confirmed yesterday by a squeak. A squeaker, but
cash Mittel was confirmed FBI director. So Christopher on his
book as well as his thoughts on cash Hotel at
eighth five, and they'll look not a new book to
talk about. Bill O'Reilly's been on the program a whole

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bunch of times over the years. Every time he releases
a new book, I just you pour right through it.
They're great reads or easy reads. They're informative, very interesting,
and no book to talk about today. But we will
get his thoughts on what's going on in DC. We
will get his thoughts on Mitch McConnell, who is not
seeking reelection. Can't believe I didn't get a woo who
on that one. Joe. The audience is going, yeah, he's

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eighty three years old. For god's sake, the next campaign
would be twenty twenty six, so he's gonna just, I
guess fade away. Cash Bettel will be on the subject
Metalist with Bill O'Reilly, and then we will of course
Bill O'Reilly dot com if you're interested in getting his books,
they're fantastic as well as his commentary. He does a

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lot of activity over Bill O'Reilly dot com. So Bill
O'Reilly at eight thirty, closing out of Friday here on
the fifty five Carssey Morning Show, Outstanding, Joe, Outstanding, did
you reach out to him or did he reach out
to you? You reached out to him. That's great. You know,
he's a busy man. He doesn't necessarily have to spend
time on the fifty five Cassey Morning Show on a

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Friday morning. So it's awfully cool that he is. We
have a good relationship with Bill. It's kind of funny
because if you get a Bill O'Reilly book, you damn
well better read it before you talk to him about it,
because he's going to ask you, did you read my book?
So has he? Fun fact from Joe Strecker, he's hung

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up on people who haven't read his book. Oh that's funny.
But again, there are good books. We'll get to catch
yoursel as a crime stopper bag guy the week later
in the program as well, Jay Ratlife from yesterday, Michael
Walsh with his book A Rage to Conquer Twelve Battles
have changed the course of Western history. Ohio State Representative

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Jennifer Gross on medicaid. And we'll see if we can't
bring back to the top of the conversation we had
with the state auditor Keith Faber, because previously on the
program it was sometime last year. He didn't seem overly
concerned about the amount of well, for example, payments that
went out of state. He subsequently did some sort of

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analysis and review and uncovered that about was it, twenty
five percent of the Medicaid dollars floats to some other state,
to a resident of some other state, which should be
verboten and should be ferreted out. If you can figure
it out through an audit of a handful of sample
of claims, let's start cutting the payments. But as Jennifer
Gross explained, you've got to get approval from the basically

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the administration, the federal government to make any changes whatsoever,
including adding a work requirement. So that's the strings attached
that she pointed out. You know, ninety percent of the
Medicaid money. We did that Medicaid expansion some years ago,
and ninety percent of that money comes from the federal government.
Menial highlands are on the hook for the other ten percent.

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What if they cut that money? And what of the
folks that just entered into the program under the expansion
weren't there previously? Can they manage themselves without it? And
she said, they are all the people we're talking about here,
able bodied folks who could get jobs, and so the
job requirement or a job training requirement, you know, that

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might help them move away from the welfare state and
get themselves unhooked from the umbilical court of government. How
about that? And yesterday I got a fun text from
Joe Strecker the protest outside the Greater Cincinnati Tesla store.
Are those independently owned and operated? Joe, do you know?

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Or is that z line Muscow in it? I don't
know either. So about fifty people showed up Wednesday, upset
over the mass layoffs that are happening under the Trump administration,
with this Department of Government Efficiency. And there's been a
lot of lawsuits filed over it. And those lawsuits intentionally

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brought about by Donald Trump. He knew they were coming.
And there's a great op ed from Kim Strassel on
that maybe we can get some of the details on
that later. But they're outside the Tesla store and they're
screaming about, well these firings. Hamilton County Prosecutor Connie Pillage
was there. Well, if you've been able to draw connection

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between Hamilton County crimes and the prosecution of crimes here
in Hamilton County with the firing of various government employees
in the federal government level, Joe, because I'm struggling with
that one all the time. Yeah, you think about it
all the time. Yeah, right. We love spending money to
send them to war, but we usually forget about them
when they come home, and that's disgusting. Referring to I

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guess the recent firings at the Department of Veteran Affairs
as an example of the cruelty of the Trump administration,
the American Federal Federation of Government Employees Local thirty eight
to forty Save our Services SOS of course, haha, that's
the I guess, the banner under which these protests are

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flying said the jobscups would have a trickle down effect
on services people throughout Greater Cincinnati rely on. So Connie Pillach,
Hamilton County Prosecutor making a pitch to protest the firings
of these federal government employees now rewind And I appreciate

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Joe going back to this because November twelfth, twenty twenty four,
WVXU reported, after having spoken with her after the election,
when she did win, she beat Melissa Powers with fifty
one percent of the vote, Obviously the first time that
a Democrat has taken over the prosecutor's office. Yeah, I
think it was the report of ninety one years of

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Republicans handling the prosecutor's office here in the city of Cincinnati.
The people of the city of Cincinnati kind of liked that.
In Hamilton County most specifically because, well, she would the
Republicans over the years have been rather tough on crime.
But back then, quote, I don't see this as a
political job. I'd like to see us focus on the
job instead of the politics. Close Quote what do you

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think she forgot.

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That?

Speaker 3 (09:13):
She said that.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Picking and choosing. All right, let's see here, Mexican President
Dunnas doesn't want us to invade Mexico over the cartels
recently designated as terrorist organizations, And honestly, I don't feel
that way either. I don't like the idea of just
chucking rockets in the countries against whom we have no
declaration of war. Mentioned that a million times, talk about

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it with the Polatano all the time. It just came
up with I think Daniel Davis earlier in the week
we did a deep, deep dive, but we are using
drones and flying over to discover where these ventnol lambs
are manufactured and you think that's a new development uner
the Trump administration in preparation for war, and oh my god,
you know this is an atrocity. We can't be doing this.
That started under the Biden administration. Jones part of a

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covert program started during the Biden administration. The effort was
not disclosed until this week, so it's been an ongoing thing.
But fortunately, as reported and I appreciate the reporting on
that one, we're sharing that information with Mexico. Now, I

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don't know that that gets the president of Mexico out
of a lurch, because the Cartels presents this literally existential
threat to the well being in the lives of the
various politicians in Mexico. They kill them all the time,
and it was widely speculated the President Scheinbaum actually came

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out and said, do not designate these folks as terrorist organizations,
probably because they had threatened her. You better do something
about Trump or we're gonna do something about you. It's
a pretty lawless country when it comes right down to it,
unless you know, you think the cartels are providing some

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form of structure for the citizenry there. But in fun
facts on our border. Related to the situation borders are,
Tom Homan pointed out earlier this week that there were
only two hundred and twenty nine border patrol encounters along
the entire US Mexican border within the prior day, which

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he pointed out was the lowest since he first joined
the border patrol in nineteen eighty four. But when you
review the border patrol encounters, which they've been tracking for
decades and decades, apparently the numbers have not been this
low since the nineteen sixties. They say, if the agents
working on the border continue to encounter this a mirror

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two hundred and twenty nine every single day, the entire
fiscal year would would ultimately be eighty three thousand, five
hundred and eighty five, which again is a figure that
hasn't been seen since nineteen sixty eight, when there were
only sixty two thousand, six hundred and forty reported encounters
along the southwest sectors. And I imagine that figure probably

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was actually higher. We have it's easier to track people
these days with modern technology, of course, computers, and you know,
we encounter them, we take a DNA sample, we give
them a cell phone and a place to live, and
all that. But regardless, obviously the Trove administration is making
some serious product progress on the southern border, much to
the chagrin of the Catholic bishops who filed the suit

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the other day and sadly their first round in court
didn't go their way. A well, A federal money is
not permanent and you're not entitled to it. Five seventeen
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Joe summing it up quite nicely. Five point three seven
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It is Friday year under the five KRC Morning Show.
If I went three seven eight two three talk, I
personally love what Doje is doing and I'd love finding
out all these illustrations of the insanity. Now while the
federal workers are suing the Trump administration because they've been
let go, at least some of them get a load
of this one props. The Aubrey Spady of Fox News

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reporting there's apparently a cafeteria. Department of Interior cafeteria initially
closed during the coronavirus virus pandemic. That was we were
on freak out mode. Oh my god, Oh my god,
Oh my god. So the employees in the cafeteria were

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told to go home. They continue to be paid. It's
been closed for years now, and yet they're not going
back to work, and they refuse to go back to work.
It's a cafeteria. You can't do remote work. One source
speaking with Fox is, you have federal workers showing up

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to protest President Trump's plan to make government work for
the people on a federal holiday, but they refuse to
show up to work when they're collecting a paycheck. Courtisying
the American taxpayers. It's just nuts. Yeah, I can sum
it up that way too. Department of Interior Care cafeteria
closed during the coronavirus pandemic, but the lunch room remained
shut down for several years because the Biden administration did

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not require federal employees to work in person. The photo
was circulated from the twenty inhes the other Day, five
years after the pandemic, the lunch room remains empty and unmanned.
Which the source speaking Fox says, shows you exactly what's
wrong with the mindset of far too many federal workers.
They would to get paid for doing nothing. Interior Secretary

(15:10):
Doug bergerm in the statement, he's requiring that all federal workers,
federal employees returned to the office to comply with the
return to work order that was issued by the president. Now,
this was the idea that you know, you either return
to work or you take the buyout package, which shed
a deadline, and the deadline has passed. So enter lawsuits
where people getting canned because they aren't doing anything on

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behalf of you and me and the cafeteria is just
the greatest illustration of how stupid federal government is. Now,
if you can remote work at home on a computer
and get the work actually done, and you know, props
to my wife, she's been doing that. Now since the lockdown,
they're shutting down to the legal office at her business.
But every single day she's down there working on contracts,

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on conference calls, video and otherwise every single day putting
into full day's work and doing the job that is
necessary for her to keep her employment. If she was
a cafeteria worker, she couldn't do that from the basement
of her home. And I know I'm stating the obvious.
Don't man explain Thomas, but this is I'm just incensed
by this. They want to continue to work from home.

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Someone asked me, or answer the question, how can a
cafeteria employee work from home and justify the salary that
you and I are still paying for them? Go ahead,
Democrats defend that and those has found out that there
are four point six million credit cards out in the

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world issued by the US government active credit card accounts,
which spent thirty nine point seven billion dollars in more
than ninety million transactions in the last fiscal year alone.

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General Service Administration Smartpay credit card system has seen what
they've described in bright Bard Props to Olivia Rondo, total
amount of money spent on the cards, as well as
dramatic surge and the total number of transactions over the
past few years. Fiscal year twenty twenty two, they spent
thirty two point eight billion, a seven billion dollar jump

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in two years, seventy eight point five million in fiscal
year twenty twenty three built million transactions. I might point
out that's in billions of dollars. And now ninety million
transactions for fiscal year twenty twenty four. Here's the problem.
The audit found a staggering thinking about the Medicaid payments

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to out of state individuals here in the state of Ohio,
coming in about twenty five percent. They found twelve percent
of credit card purchases on government issued cards quote, may
have violated the Pentagon's spending policies. These are just for
Pentagon cards, by the way, Developed Veteran Affairs has them,
Department of Defense has them, all these other government agencies

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have them. But this is in Pentagon spending eleven thousand
transactions totally, more than half a million dollars made at casinos, ATMs,
mobile application stores, bars, nightclubs during holidays and sporting events.
The oh, we can't have dogs doing this work, folks.

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Oh no, no, no, there's nothing to see here. Everything's
being spent and we're all just dutifully minding the dollars
we steal from you, the American public five twenty six
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They see attempts in the fifties to start the new
work week next week. Not too bad by fifteen degrees

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right now to give out PERCD talk station. Actually nineteen degrees.
Had happy Friday. Local story is thirteen year old dead
after a shooting happened in Wentton Woods last night. According
to Sincinnti Police, they showed up of the scene to

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Dutch Colony Drive reported person down. When they got there,
they found a thirteen year old who had been shot
teen pronounced dead at the hospital. Local news WCPA reporting
they were at the scene checking on it and they
said they report more additional information when it becomes available.
What a tragedy, Climon Unnedy Prosecutor Mark to call. They

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and Claarmont County Police chief Sheriff's Association are concerned, They
say for the safety of residence conducting investigations into child
predators to Calley Center press releases, come to our attention
that there are various vigilante groups who've taken it upon

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themselves to engage in the two catchup predator style undercovers things.
Calvey said, the groups have met up and confronted various
individuals suspected to be predators. We had that these meetings
could often or rather occur publicly. Often occur publicly rather
within Claremont County, he said. While we applaud and appreciate
your intent, we cannot stress enough the danger of engaging

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in such conduct. Prosecutor's office and law enforcement arguing that
citizens are putting themselves and others at risk by endangering
these engaging in these investigations. Law enforcement says that the
vigilanti groups should stop participating in these investigations and instead
contact the police that they believe there's speaking with a
person who has sexual interest in young children. Quote from Tacolby.

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Please leave this work to the professionals, and please help
us keep all citizens of Claremont County safe by not
engaging in potentially dangerous acts or confrontations. They say, if
you know of any potential criminal activity, just contact your
local police department. I hate child predators. I don't know

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how I feel about that one, but yeah, if you
do know something, it's like drop a dime. Report to
your local law enforcement if you know about criminal activity,
if you know someone who's committed a crime. The idea
is for the public to work with law enforcement. Let
them do their job. And I suppose in the final analysis,
I can come down on the side of mister Chacoalabi.

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Go to Oxford where my fraternity, sadly I wasn't there.
I went to the University of Cincinnati, so different chapter,
and we actually didn't get along with the members of
the Miami University chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, who's now
in trouble suspended. They are over allegations of hazing. Fox
nineteen speaking with legal analysts Mary Curmbine on college campuses,

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there is a certain large group of people that still
accepted they call it a sort of rite of passage,
but the legislature has really put its foot down and
really more heavily criminalizing those actions. Apparently, the hazing report
indicates someone claiming to be a pledge for the fraternity
told someone else he was being Hayes from multiple days

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during rush week. Also said he was forced into accepting
a bid into the fraternity. There were forced activities included
described as humane in the report which the report says
a member was forced to ingest an entire can of
chewing tobacco and do a handstand which made him vomit.

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Also said he was forced to cut off all communications
with others, delete social media, and be at annexes for
up to twenty four hours a day. Also had to
perform what was will perform wall sits covered in baby
oil and each time they slipped, they were forced to drink.
Butler County Prosecutor Mike Moser, where of course university is

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Butler County, it has gone on record maytime saying that
he is very much against hazing and he's taken it
very seriously in the past. Spokesman for the university sent
a statement to Fox nineteen said hazing of any kind
is illegal and strictly prohibited Miami University. Miami seeks to
promote a safe environment where students may participate in activities
in organizations without compromise in health, safety, and welfare. Welfare.

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University policies hazing is defined as doing, requiring, or encouraging
or or coursing another, including the victim, to do any
act of initiation into any student organization or other university
sanctioned organization or athletic team. Also includes any act that
causes or creates a substantial risk of causing mental or

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physical harm to any person, including coursing and other to
consume alcohol or any other drug. Geez, you know, I
went to college. I think I pledged that fraternity at
University of Cincinnati, at least I got pledged in fall
of eighty three and was initiated in eighty four. And

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I look back on my time there, and I really
can't think of anything that they did that I personally
viewed as hazing. You got a lot of older brothers
screaming at you about cleaning up and things like that.
But I didn't view cleaning up as hazing, as as
part of the process. Somebody's got to clean the place. Hey,
welcome to the new pledge class. Here's a mop, and

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we may get some freshes restaurants back. Former landlord of
Fish's Big Boy Real Estate Company indicated last week in
corporate filings it was still in the eviction process for
a bunch of the restaurants, but the company N N
and RET said it's taken back possession of more than
half of the locations quote twenty eight of which properties

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have been released to another restaurant operator with rent commencing
May first. Seems to confirm acclaim by fish As last
week that a Michigan based Big Boy plans to reopen
dozens of its restaurants that have been shut down since
they were evicted last October. Date of the filing indicates
the restaurants could open it this spring. So keep your
finger scrashed. We might get our Big Boys back. And

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let's hope that the equality of the product increases dramatically.
And I think it's one of the reasons Big Boy
ran into some problems. They just kind of let it
slip over the years. But I have a got a
soft spot in my heart for Fish's. Big Boy just
brings back some good memories from when I was a kid.
Five point thirty five Stack is stupid coming up. Jeff's
excited about the bumper music. Jeff I got another Facebook

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Time for some stupid, which on Fridays usually involves naked people.
Oh look, here's one.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
A's this tradition.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Austin, Texas woman mourning others about a man who attacked
her while she was walking to her car in East
Austin Cherrywood neighboring. Specifically, if you want to steer clear
of itage said, it happened in the middle of the night,
and the man was naked. Candice arm Brewster, speaking with
local news. He came out of nowhere and he disappeared
just as quickly. Oh Joe, Joe, Okay, let me see

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if I can get my composure back. Okay, And this
Armburser went to a concert of the Moody Center earlier
the month, she said, the concert let out, she started
walking to her car, a little bit of a walk
across I thirty five in the Cherrywood neighborhood. Quote. Whenever
the crowd would go, I wouldn't maneuver myself and to
stay with him, even if that meant elongated my walk.
The whole way, I was pretty much with other people
about ninety five percent of the time until I had

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a cross over into the neighborhood or my car was parked.
When she got into the neighborhood, she saw someone. I
saw a movement of a male figure, assuming that this
guy just lived in this house and was outside, perhaps
smoking a cigarette. He looked naked. Like from first glance,
I thought, wow, he looks naked, but I just didn't

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think that could be. But I followed my gut, and
my gut said, don't go that way. Well played, miss
arm Broisterer. Instead of going straight, she turned, she said.
Then she finally saw her car. I was steps away
from a when I heard very fast running footsteps behind me.
I turned, and as I turned, he was literally right
on me. Right there, he grabbed my hips. I imagine

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if someone was trying to pull your pants off. Imagine
if someone was trying to pull your pants off aggressively.
That's exactly what he was doing. I was able to
break free from him, I know, and because she was
at a concert, Joe, she wouldn't have been able to
be carrying a firearm even in the state of Texas, right,
I'm sure they prohibit those in concerts. I was able

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to break free of them, and then I bolted running
while I continued to scream, and I think that chaos
created also scared him. He wasn't expecting that and he
bolted in the other direction. She called nine one one,
saying I was having trouble breathing. I was crying and
just screaming randomly. I was shaking so bad. Austin police,
of course, trying to find the man. She said, I

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want people to know. I want them to keep their
eye I don't want them to know this happened, so
they can protect themselves. If you know anything at all,
you can get a lead that helps will will help
find him, because we've not found him, and I want
to keep others safe. She said. She hopes to start
a self defense class with other women, say would know
what to do if anything like this ever happened again.

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Of course, calls for folks with information about the purp
are requested by local police there Jeez October fourth. Last year,
Mountain Hope police received a complain about a woman sleeping
in a truck and responded to an address on Highway
sixty two. When officers arrived in the scene, they were

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told the woman had gotten out of the vehicle was
walking eastbound into town. A number of units began initially
unsuccessful hunt for the woman. One officer returned to the
apartment complex and drove throughout the parking lot. He reported
seeing a pickup truck with a passenger side door open
and a woman standing by the door. She was said
to be taking items out of the truck and throwing
them on the ground. When the officer spoke to her,

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she said she woke up in the truck and was
now cleaning it out. Items removed from the vehicle included
vape packages, red bull cans, gatorade bottles, and medication packages.
When she was asked if the truck belonged to her,
she said no, they said. The officer said she also
was disoriented and stumbling, as this tradition. Officer reported that

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he smelled no alcohol over this woman's person. Witness told
the officer that she had been wandering around the complex
and had attempted to get into her apartment. The woman
indicated she was staying in one of the apartments, but
had no identification while its cell phone or key to
any apartment or vehicle in the area. At tempt was
made to have someone let officers into the apartment, she claimed,
but no one answered. The door officers scribe she began

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speaking with witnesses. They were told that this woman named
Overmeyer had allegedly been trying to gain entry to a
number of vehicles in the complex. Also moved through the parking.
She would frequently lift her dress, exposing herself. Which is
why I made the Friday stacker stupid because she was
described by what are you doing? Partially naked. Owner of

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the truck in which Overmyer had been seen sleeping in
was a resident of the complex. Police were able to
talk with him, and he said he didn't know her
and had not given her permission to be in his
truck or remove the items from the vehicle. And to
that point, police took her into custody and took her
to the Baxter kind of detention Center, where she is
said to have had difficult time understanding instructions from the
jail staff as this tradition. Previously, she'd been arrested January

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twenty seventeen for breaking into a house wearing no clothes.

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As this tradition.

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UH fifty two year old adult son of a Palm
Beach County school board member now facing multiple charges after
he was found naked at a at Florida Atlantic University.
Police arrested Stephen Barbieri unclothed. He allegedly admitted to pulling
a file alarm and claiming that a pending chemical attack

(33:35):
is the calm before the storm. His words those are
in quotes also till police. He wants to see people suffer.
There's a whole arrested report here. I think just fast
forward at the officer writes due to the reasonable suspicion
of the fire alarm activation and to the detained individual.
I read him as Miranda warning rights from Miranda cart
And during my preliminary Miranda conversation, I asked him if

(33:58):
he pulled the fire alarm poll station, and he said
I did. When asked why he pulled a fire alarm,
he stated he wanted to Okay, further stated he was
going to use a chemical weapon from his portable phone
charger to burn the building down, and if the building

(34:19):
was going to burn down, he was going to watch
people suffer. He made references to the building blowing up
and that this incident was the call before the storm.
Due to the above references of a chemical weapon and
weapons of mass destruction to an occupied building, I find
probable cause to charge him with violations including the following
manufactured possession, sale, delivery, display, use, or attempted or threatened

(34:41):
use of a weapon of mass destruction, false alarms for fires.
Individual taken to and booked into the Palm Beach Guinty
Jail without further incident. Described as son of longtime board
member and former board chair Frank Barbieri Junior. Also described
as a well respected attorney. Apparently, this guy has faced
multiple charges over the past several years and is now

(35:02):
the subject of a quote mental health hold close quote
that was initiated rather by the University police. Fifty two
years old got an award to give out Joe. Married
couple been arrested on felony charges after their eight year

(35:23):
old son suffered what they describe as permanent disfigurement when
he was bound with tape from his shoulders down to
his feet in an apparent disciplinary measure. According to police,
Nicholas Barsett, fifty six, admitted chasing his child around their
Florida home before grabbing the victim against his will. Barsett

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then picked up the boy and carried him into the
child's bedroom. Quote The defendant held the victim down as
he utilized tape to tie the child up from his
shoulders down to his feet. While this was occurring, Barsett's wife,
forty five, stood there look don in didn't do anything
to intercede. Boy left home alone in his room, told

(36:05):
cops that he yelled for help and attempted to stand
up despite not being able to move to to the
duct tape. Trying to get up, the child fell on
his face, splitting his chin open. Said the victim could
not brace himself for the fall due to his limbs
being bound or bonded to his body by the tape.
Affi David says the boy's parents later found him bleeding
on the bedroom floor. Nicholas Barsett told cops he performed

(36:28):
first day to get the bleeding to stop. The couple
did not call emergency services or bring their son to
a medical facility to have the laceration properly checked and closed.
Court filings did not indicate how police who arrested the
bar Sets learned from learn of the taping punishment, which
reportedly occurred around two months ago. Both parents, copsay, confessed

(36:48):
the respective roles in the incident after being read the
Miranda rights Perios the biggest douche of the universe in
all the gown There's no bigger douche than you. You've
reached the top, the pinnacle of douche dum. Good going due.

(37:11):
Your dreams have come true. No kidding. Nicholas Barsett charged
with felony chout abuse and booked into the County jail,
released with a one fifteen thousand dollars bond, which seems
woefully inadequate. Alex bar of Barset spent the night in
County jail before she was freed on her own recognizance.

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Let's see here. Very quickly, using a fingerprint lifted off
of a goldfish package, cops identified and arrested Demand for
hitting a female family doctor manager in the face with
the crackers when she confronted him about stealing from the retailer.
Cops alleged that Michael Gonzalez, aka Gizmo, struck the sixty

(37:59):
five year old victim of walking out of a Florida
business with approximately fifty dollars worth of cleaning supplies and
a box of goldfish crackers. Why are you doing that?
Cops say. The victim approached Gonzalez as he handed the
stolen goods to a passenger and a vehicle parked out
front of the Golf Court store. Upon being challenged by
the woman, Gonzalez, who's twenty nine, allegedly hit her in

(38:19):
the face with the goldfish crackers, causing a small cut
under her lip. Gonzalez arrested for strong arm robbery, a felony,
in connection with the September twenty twenty four goldfish incident.
He was in custody for a prior alleged robbery during
which he stole a skateboard from a man who he punched,
bit and stabbed in the face and head. Surveillance images

(38:43):
from the Family Dollar Gonzales had served several distinctive tattoos
and if you could see him, yeah, they're quite distinctive,
including one between his eyes. He apparently told cops. He
he admitted, yes, that was me in the photos. Through
the interview. Police noted Gonza has stated that this was
petty and that he should just get time served. Judge disagreed,

(39:07):
setting his bond at thirty thousand dollars for the two
pending robbery cases. Five fifty six plenty to talk about
before we go with tech Friday's day've hat or coming
up in six thirty. You can feel free to call in.
I'd love to hear from if youve got a topic
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Every day America's deadline is over fifty five dr.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Say talk station is your New Year's resolution to such
it is time for you to delete the most invasive
apps on your phone. He did an op ed about
Chinese electric vehicles being a threat to our national security
and a video showing how easy it is to install
a card skimmer. Fast forward an hour Orlando's Sonza returns,
We're so sad that Greg Landsman beat him, but I

(39:53):
know he's got a future doing something. We'll find out
what he's been doing since the election. His thoughts about
what's going on in DC and will he be seeking
an office at some point his future. Corey Bowman hops
he has a future for Asmeri City of Cincinnati. He's
one of three people now running. Corey who joins the
program at seven thirty uh. Fast forward to eight oh
five Christopher Pihorda with the book Wanted the FBI I

(40:16):
once knew. Also get his thoughts about Cash Bettel, who
just succeeded in securing the position to run the FBI.
Bill O'Reilly great to have Bill on. We get his
thoughts on what's going on in DC. We'll get his
reaction to Mitch McConnell's saying he's not going to run
for reelection. He's already eighty three and the elections not
for another couple of years. Cash battel thoughts on that.

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And of course you can get all of Bill O'Reilly's
commentary as well as his outstanding books at Bill O'Reilly
dot com. So that's coming up five three seven two
three Talk now is interesting analysis by Kim Straussel explaining
almost it's almost a former reverse lawfair. Now, of course,
you've got all these organizations suing Donald Trump because of

(41:04):
his you know, some describe as ham fitted actions firing
thousands of people of various different organizations. Some are claiming
he doesn't have the legal right to do that. One
of those groups shot down the other day. A couple
of federal judges this week declined to stop the Trump
administration from firing federal workers and doing these math at
mass layoffs. Yesterday, the US District Judge Christopher Cooper shot

(41:27):
down a request from several federal labor unions, among them
the National Treasury Employees Union. They, along with other labor unions,
filed a complaint in February twelfth challenging the firing of
the probationary employees as well as that deferred resignation program
if you recall, that offered them an opportunity to just
sort of quit and take a cash payout through September.

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So the judge denied the request for a temporary restraining
order and preliminary injunction.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
But.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
The judge ruled that the unions must person sue their
challenges to the Federal Services Labor Management Relations Statute, which
apparently provides for an administrative review by the Federal Labor
Right Relations Authority, So no lawsuit here. I mentioned the
Catholic bishops suing the Trump administration because their non governmental

(42:17):
organization money was being withdrawn up, and they got a
little upset about that. I believe, yes, it was yesterday
the federal judge rejected the US Conference Catholic BIDUS bishop's
request to turn back the money that's flowing. They called
upon the administration to pause. They called it a rather

(42:37):
illegal asking the federal court in Washington to issue a
temporary restraining order, which US District Judge Trevor McFadden declined
to do, saying, the court finds a plaintiff has not
made the requisite showing and will thus deny plain its
motion to extend that requests a temporary restraining order. He
set a speedy schedule for the bishops to argue for

(42:58):
a preliminary in johnction more powerful than a temporary restraining order,
but that's going to require some time. So an initial
sort of loss for the bishops, that lawsuit will continue.
So now all these lawsuits come in, and Kimberly Strassel
suggests that this is exactly what Donald Trump wants to happen,
and she writes in the Journal, Trump's constitutional cleanup starts

(43:20):
out with Franklin Delana Roosevelt fundamentally redefine the purpose of
federal government, setting off an air of ever expanding Washington's
scope and reach. Nearly a century later, Donald Trump's White
House has taken on itself to challenge the legitimacy of
some foundations of that expansion. The left calls this a
constitutional crisis, how about a constitutional cleanup. The sheer volume

(43:42):
of mister Trump's actions can make it hard to distinguish
between the merely aggressive and the truly striking. In the
former category of the Department of Government efficiency moves to
cut the size of the federal workforce, change civil service rules,
and eliminate wasteful spending. These moves are unconventional. Most presidents
role with the bureaucracy that they are given, but hardly lawless.

(44:05):
Progressive litigators may soon discover presidents have a lot of
authority to manage employees and programs. It's the truly striking
class that deserves Note. This is the growing list of
Trump actions deliberately designed to provoke a lejudicial review of
the legality of long standing Washington features. Congress spent a

(44:27):
century creating dozens of agencies that blur the boundaries between
the executive, legislative, and judicial power, while the administrative state
produced thousands of rules that diverge from congressional intent. Constitutionalists
have long disputed the legality of those actions, but over
time even most critics succumb to the status quo. See
the White House revive that fight audaciously questioning the foundations

(44:51):
of the DC architecture is remarkable. Trump unveiled the largest
of the rather the latest zinger this week, detonating what
the American Actions Forum Daniel Goldbeck labeled a thermonuke de
regulatory warhead. The President ordered the agency heads to scour

(45:12):
every regulation and bit of guidance under the remit and
make lists of those that violate the Constitution, exceed legislative power,
go beyond the clear words of a statute, or harm
the national interest. The White House is laying the groundwork
to declare hundreds of rules null and void on the
grounds that they were not lawful in the first place.
Will it get sued, Yes, and the White House knows it.

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The clear hope is to build on recent Supreme Court
rulings that reign in the bureaucratic state. The thermonuke, followed
by a separate executive voter, taking aim at agencies that
Congress created who perform executive functions administer laws, yet left
free of executive control, they instead report to Congress. These
congressional minions, now numbering far more than one hundred, populate

(46:00):
Washington and many flex far bigger regulatory muscle than even
cabinet departments. They include major agencies like the Federal Communications
Commissions and the Securities Exchange Commission, in smaller outfits like
the Election Assistance Commission and the African Development Foundation. Trump
has ordered independent agencies to submit all proposed regulatory changes

(46:22):
to the White House for review. Q freak out pair
this with a separate order this week, drastically reducing the
function of a handful of smaller independent agencies, as well
as his recent firing of National Labor Relations Board member
Gwynn Wilcox despite statutory restrictions on a president's removal authority.

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The White House is actively courting a law suit that
will ask courts to reconsider nineteen thirty five ruling upholding
independent agencies. Ms Wilcox has already sued, it's the point
of doing it. It also wants clarity in Congress's nineteen
seventy eight law creating Inspectors General congressional watchdogs that sit

(47:05):
with the executive branch and conduct investigations. This is a
separation of power's nightmare and issue Trump is raising with
his decision to fire seventeen inspectors general his first week
in office. Now the president has the undisputed power to
remove inspector generals. Mister Trump flouted Congress's rule demanding he
provided thirty day notice. Eight of those dismissed would have

(47:27):
sued to be reinstated, what the White House surely expected.
Watch now to see if Trump also flouts Congressional structures
as the who he is as to who he is
allowed to name as replacements. Another fight likely upcoming impoundment
or the presidential power to decline to spend full amounts

(47:48):
appropriated by Congress. So far, Trump is simply paused by
their spending, but he has argued that a nineteen seventies
law restricting a president's impoundment power is on constitutional, suggesting
the administration may seek to tee up a lawsuit here too.
Note that what Trump is doing is very different than

(48:09):
Barack Obama's practice of just ignoring inconvenient laws or Joe
Biden's habit of searching through dusty statutes to find some
contorted rationale for a new exercise of power. This administration
hope its actions will compel the judiciary to re examine
the constitutional underpinnings of today's heaving federal infrastructure. Winnorless, the

(48:34):
effort is long overdue. Vigorous debate over the powers and
structure of government ought to be a feature of every administration.
What should worry us isn't that Trump is doing this now,
but that our drowsy political system considers it an anomaly.
So keep your popcorn out. The lawsuits have been and

(48:56):
will continue to be filed, and she's right on par
on point, and Trump is right in terms of this strategy.
There have been a lot of Supreme Court cases pairing
back the ability of the regulatory branch that's behind the
actual structure of government, the three divisions of government, the
regulatory state. Hopefully we'll get the Rains Act in any

(49:19):
regulation that costs the American public more than one hundred
million dollars must be specifically approved by Congress. We got
the West Virginia versus EPA case which said no, a
tablespoon of water effectively is not a navigable body of water.
You exceeded your regulatory authority under I think it was
the Clean Water Act. There's just one after another, pairing
it back and providing a constitutional slash legal challenge that

(49:43):
Trump is intentionally inviting right now through his actions. So
hopefully these efforts will bear fruit. Six sixteen fifty five
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Super happy, very very very happy Friday, and we're gonna
run a celebratory dinner tonight. My daughter's fiance, Eric turned
thirty yesterday, so happy birthday, Eric. He's a good kid.

(51:33):
We're happy that those two are getting married. Anyway, Uh,
I asked you to quip a Plague Update theme song,
but it's unnecessary since I'm gonna do it anyway. Joe
and we have to do the David Bowie song at
that point on Fridays anyhow. But this is kind of
frightening thing, and you know it's coming on the heels
of COVID nineteen and all the insanity that we were

(51:55):
that that brought about. You remember that US Department of
Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service announced earlier this week
on Wednesday, that the avian flu aka H five and
one has been detected in rats in California. Black rats

(52:15):
found to have this highly contagious bird flu. Apparently they
discovered in late January and Riverside County, California, which they
had two recent poultry outbreaks. Makes you think the rats
may have been eaten the chickens, don't know. Agency update
released this week knows that did H five N one
detection in a fox in North Dakota, a harbor seal
in Massachusetts, a bobcat in Washington State. And here's a

(52:40):
frightening one from my cat loving people out there. Eric
domestic cats in Oregon and Montana. USDA said and Steve
and all those several oppositions supporting highly pathogenic avian influenza
were notified the terminations over the weekend. We were working

(53:02):
to swiftly rectify the situation and restind those letters. Yep,
USDA had removed. USDA had removed and to rehire the
critical staff who worked on the avian flu area. So
that was one of those perhaps ready fire aim kind
of things from the Trump administration. Hey, we're firing all
of you, and oh my god, by the way, maybe
we're bringing you back because we still have an ever
growing increasing amount of av and flu floating around out there.

(53:25):
According to Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska, speaking with
the AP, while President Trump is fulfilling his promise to
shed light on waste fraud abuse, and government does needs
to measure twice and cut once. Downsizing decisions must be
narrowly tailored to preserve the critical missions. Which is kind
of funny because I was having a conversation along these
lines with my sister yesterday, who is a little miffed

(53:47):
at just the outright wholesale firing of thousands and thousands
of people, believing the administration did engage in a ready
fire aim process. I'll let you draw your own conclusions
on that. But we do have an overly outsized government.
Let's see, since the latest outbreak of bird flu back

(54:08):
in nineteen or in twenty twenty two, one hundred and
sixty million birds have been euthanized, and since most of
them were chickens, you know why your egg prices are high.
And I always tried to kind of bite my tongue
with the Biden administration and can connecting that to the

(54:28):
bird or to the egg prices which went up throughout
the Biden administration. Yes, they were responsible for a large
measure of inflation, but they had nothing to do at
least I don't believe in the conspiracy that Joe Biden
unleashed bird flu on the world. But egg prices have
gone up over five bucks a dozen in a lot
of areas of the state. So now they deal with

(54:51):
bird flu by killing all the birds?

Speaker 3 (54:54):
Right?

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Are we going to go out and just just wholesale
kill literally every moving eacher now that is capable of
getting bird FLUU and you know chapter two human bird flu,
And from all accounts, it really isn't that severe. You
get red, watery eyes, it's almost like kind of a cold.
So are we gonna have a massive overreaction to this
like you do with COVID? I hope not. Part of

(55:23):
me thinks that you know if there is an effort
to engage in one of these massive overreactions that the
general public having been lied to about COVID nineteen, most
notably the COVID vaccine, which early on we were told
absolutely prevented you from getting it and spreading it. That
was a lie and they knew it then. Doctor Deborah

(55:43):
bricks On Burks, rather was a White House Coordinator Response
coordinator under President Trump, admitted during a recent appearance on
Piers Morgan that the government did in fact lie to us,
and that early treatment would have been the key to it.
Not a vaccine. They pushed the vaccine down on a
whole bunch of people who were not supposed to get it. Fact,

(56:06):
back in twenty twenty two, Jim Jordan was talking with her.
He said, when the government told us the vaccination couldn't
transmit COVID, was that a lie or a guess? Doctor burks,
I think it was hope that the vaccine would work
in that way. Hmm. Now apparently she's claiming the vaccine

(56:28):
rollout also ignored science. She stated that the mRNA jab
was developed to target those at high risk of severe illness,
not specifically the general population. Quote the messenger, RNA vaccine
should have been rolled out for the people that were
at risk for severe disease, because that's what the vaccine
was developed for, she said. She also admitted COVID shot

(56:49):
was never designed to prevent infection. Quote. This was not
what the covid vaccine was designed to do. It was
not designed against infection. Well thanks for letting us know
now this far back out in the game. Someone needs
to send this article over to children so they quit
denying heart transplants to young people who didn't get the

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Speaker 1 (58:15):
Six thirty one. On a Friday, it is that time
a week, regular listeners, No, it's Tech Friday time. Dave
had it brought to you by Interest I T which
is his company. And computers are what they're all about,
and business computing problems and needs are the things that
they deal with. And Saul, welcome back. Dave hat Or
always appreciate coming on the program.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
Always my pleasure to be here, Brian look forward to
it every week.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
I appreciate that too time to delete the most invasive
apps on your phone, suggesting we all are invasive to
some degree. You've ided the most invasive one. Let's talk
about this.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
Yeah, and I encourage people to go see this from
solf PC magazine. Put this together based on research from
a guy who does this sort of thing. And the
reason why I encourage people to look at it and
I'll put it in my notes with the link is
they break down categories. So yeah, I agree with you, Bryan.
All apps are collecting some data, and you know, all
all apps need to collect a certain amount of data

(59:09):
to perform whatever service it is they perform for you.
The problem is so many of these things collect a
lot more data that really has no benefit to you,
but lots of benefit to these companies. As a reminder,
if an app is free, an app, software platform, whatever
whatever you want to call it is free, it's because
you are the product, not the customers. So this guy
broke this down into categories. Percent of personal data shared

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with third parties, percent of personal data collected for developers,
advertising or marketing, percent of personal data collected for analytics,
percent of personal data collected for product personalization, percent of
personal data collected for app functionality and percent of personal
data collected for quote other purposes unquote. Now some of
these categories. You know, percent of data collected for analytics. Okay,

(59:52):
that's understandable. They need that to figure out does the
thing work? How could they improve it? You know, percent
collected for product personalization. Again, that's helping you in theory, right,
They're making the product more personalized to you based on
that data. Data collected for app functionality. Okay, Again, it's
required for the app to provide the service to you.
I get it. But personal data shared with third parties

(01:00:13):
is disturbing, you know, advertising, our marketing. That's how they're
making their money, and as is selling it to third parties.
But collected for other purposes, well, what is that?

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
Well? I love these I love these two sentences back
to back. For example, why would a calendar app need
access to the health data on your phone? Why would
a calculator require your list of contact? That's the nefarious
elements going on behind the scene with all these apps.
You give them permissions and they just go scoop everything up.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Yes, because it's in their interest and that's how they're
making their money. And you know in general, Brian, the
less apps you have, the better off you'll be. On
my Apple phone, I have some work related stuff that
I need for interust and other than that and the
apps that came on my phone, I have virtually nothing
and almost nothing on this list except LinkedIn because I
use it for work. But when you look at this list,

(01:01:05):
it's all the players you and I have been talking
about now for ten plus years. Number one Facebook, Slash, Messenger,
and Instagram threads all meta platforms. Sixty eight point six
percent of your data is shared with third parties, seventy
one point four percent collected for other purposes, sixty eight

(01:01:25):
point six percent collected for advertising or marketing. You know,
Google makes many entries in this list. LinkedIn didn't make
it at number two thirty seven point one percent, so
roughly half of what the Facebook platforms are collecting. And
as a reminder, Microsoft owns LinkedIn that that does not
eschew any responsibility or and I'm not saying that makes

(01:01:48):
them better. I just like to remind people in general,
Microsoft is less in the business of selling your data
and more in the business of selling you software products
Like Apple right, they're in the business of selling you
hardware and software and not your data. I'm not saying
they don't collect it. I'm not saying they might not
sell it, and I'm not saying that couldn't change, saying
their business model is different than these companies like Meta

(01:02:09):
the parent of Facebook, or Alphabet the patent of Google,
where almost their entire business model relies on collecting your data.
And then, going back to your comment, quoting from this article,
you know you have apps on here like Candy Crush
and Roadblocks, and Roadblocks is essentially a kids game. I mean,
adults play it, but it's really a kids game Candy Crush. Now,

(01:02:30):
they also are collecting a lot less data relative to
some of the other Hoover type apps on here. But
you know, again, why does why does a calculator need
to know your location? It doesn't to just perform math functions. Right,
So the big takeaway, in my opinion, Brian, people should
look at this again, Google Maps, Google, Amazon, Prime Video, YouTube.

(01:02:55):
There's lots of very very common apps, probably almost everyone
you're listening and interfaces with. And the three takeaways I
would say are less apps is better if a product, service, platform,
whatever has a web based version like Facebook. Right started
out as a web based thing and then they built
an app for it, And frankly, it's because the app,
you know, is more convenient for people in some ways,

(01:03:17):
and it definitely can collect a lot more data anything
that you can use through a browser. If you have
a privacy friendly browser like Brave or Firefox, and you
have a VPN and you lock that down, the amount
of information they can collect about you is nominal at
best unless you explicitly give it to them. So most
of these things on here you can use a browser
and then finally, you know, read the privacy label and

(01:03:40):
then decide for yourself does it make sense to use
an app that's collecting all this data?

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
Make an informed decision, which is why we have you, Dave,
while you're so valuable to this program on my listening
audience six thirty seven will come back. We'll talk about
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to national security and privacy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
Yeah, big chaka, right. So this actually is an op
ed I wrote that got picked up by some local
papers just worrying about I mean, all modern cars are
basically rolling, rolling surveillance devices.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
Ye, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
And I've talked about this before Mozilla. I encourage people
to check this out on any number of things. Mozilla,
the people that make the Firefox browser, have a website
called Privacy Not Included. It's a valuable place to go
to learn about anything you might be thinking about buying. Now,
obviously they don't know everything about every product on the planet,
but they have a very large catalog of things they've

(01:05:47):
looked into. So, you know, any sort of Internet of
Things device you might be thinking about, good place to
take a look at that and to try to focus
on the vendors that are making more privacy your things.
And I bring that up again because they did a
large expose on modern cars and the amount of information
they're collecting. You know, they're full of computers, they're collecting
all kinds of data and kind of like that last

(01:06:07):
story we did Brian, where you know, people are these
companies are collecting information in some cases for your benefit
and in some cases to provide the service. In other cases,
and in most cases it's for their benefit. So these
modern cars, they have microphones, they have cameras, they have
all kinds of sensors. They're collecting all kinds of information
that I would argue to you as the owner of

(01:06:28):
the car, And even that I would question, are you
even really the owner of a car now? Because you
can't really fix it or do anything to it. But anyway,
it's kind of wild. And now when you throw into
the mix, and you know, we see this over and
over again. DHS has recently warned about surveillance cameras made
in China if you're buying products. And I hate this
because this is it's not about the people of China.

(01:06:49):
It's not about not liking the Chinese people. It's all
about the Chinese card.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Yes, accuse you of racism because you're upset about the
Chinese Commune Party whover that data.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
It's their government, right, it's the government. It's the problem.
They're increasingly adversarial with us, and with these cars coming
from China controlled by the People's Republic of China, they're
full of sensors, they're collecting all kinds of data, just
like the non Chinese cars. But the issue is, you know,
you have an adversarial country. They have actual laws, you
can look them up in China, but say, any Chinese

(01:07:25):
company must turn over any information that the government wants
anytime they want it. But this is so much more
than the data. It's the same argument with TikTok. Yes,
the data is bad. You know, once you connect your
phone to the infotainment center in your car, can all
of your contacts, your texts, everything off that phone, just
like with TikTok, go back to China through the car manufacturer. Well,

(01:07:45):
yes it could. But the more important thing is can
these devices then basically be rolling surveillance tools for China.
It's well documented that during the Russian Ukraine War, Russia
was hacking surveillance cameras, webcams, whatever you want to call them,
and then using them to target things in Ukraine because
they're cheap, crappy Internet of Things, dumpster fires like so

(01:08:06):
much of this stuff. Is it feasible that while you're
driving around in your PRC controlled car, it's collecting surveillance
that in the event of a hot war they would
use against us. Yes, that is very feasible. But even
worse because the car is all computerized, it's all digital,
could have back doors in the software that would eventually

(01:08:27):
allow them to send commands to the car and then
in self driving mode, it would become a weapon. Yes,
that is absolutely within the realm of possibility. They could
at five o'clock on a Friday, at rush hour, decide
every model of car X. Now, again this isn't exclusive
to Chinese evs. Any car that has self driving mode

(01:08:47):
could theoretically be hacked like this. But when you have
an adversarial nation, they're you know, crashing ships over near Taiwan,
They're doing all kinds of stuff. They've you know, there's
it's well documented and you've had FBI DA chest says
a warning about infiltration in our telecom networks, infiltration and
our critical infrastructure. Could they turn these you know, these

(01:09:07):
cars are very heavy, They're full of all kinds of
toxic chemicals in these batteries. If a if a six
thousand pound rolling missile were to suddenly accelerate to one
hundred and twenty miles an hour and run into the
local duke substation, What do you think would happen? So again,
I yeah, I know a lot of this sounds far
if fetched to people, or where to roll into like

(01:09:29):
a gas refinding plant or whatever. Pick whatever local target
that could cause chaos, bring the grid down, disrupt this
supply chain. That's where we're at with this stuff. Now again,
I'm not saying that a foreign adversary couldn't do similar
things to cars that aren't coming from China, But I'm
saying by buying chot cars controlled by the People's Republic

(01:09:51):
of China, you literally could be putting actual surveillance devices
and weapons on our streets. So yeah, we need to
take a strong, long stance against this. It's just a
bad idea and people should not be buying these things.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
I agree completely. And you know, it makes someone who
doesn't like laws on the books all the time, for
every little problem that we encounter, makes me think that
we should not allow the Chinese Communist Party controlled countries
vehicles to come into our country. For all of these
reasons and so many more, it represents a security threat
to the United States of America period.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
It really does. As crazy as that may sound to people,
And you know, again, I'll link to opbed. I encourage
people to go read it, share it, share it with
your elected officials. I think the more people that understand
this and I can do some research and see the
risks for themselves, will realize while like you, I'm generally
against regulation, this is such a potential threat. We just

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we need to not allow this.

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Speaker 3 (01:12:28):
Unfortunately a R Brian. This was a story that was
reported on I mean, this has happened here, it's made
the local media many times, but this was a story
from w x y Z and Detroit, and they have
video of a guy actually placing a card skimmer in
a store. It's interesting. He kind of distracts the clerk
he's paying with cash, and you watch him kind of

(01:12:49):
manipulate the point of sales system there. And you know,
the problem with so much of this technology now is
is as it wrapped up the advances, it gets smaller
and more capable. And you know, in the old days,
one of the red flags for a skimmer on a
device would be they'd have to mess with the aperture
where the card goes in, right, So sometimes it might
have an overlay over it, or it would look a

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little different, or it would be loose. And almost all
of that stuff is no longer relevant because so many
of these things are basically about the size of a
credit card themselves, maybe smaller. They drop them inside the
device that doesn't really require any sort of manipulation of
the device itself. There's no extra thing sitting over the
top of it. It doesn't look funny, it's not loose.

(01:13:31):
It's down inside the device. So when you put your
card in there, it can read that mag stripe. So yeah,
unfortunately now you know that's not always the case. But
the bottom line is these continue to get smaller, they're
easier to plant, and that the old school look like.
I can tell you before I put my credit card

(01:13:51):
in any device, I touch it, I try to move
it around, is it loose? Does it feel like it's
been manipulated in any way? And if so, I'm going
to use a different device. But now because these things
can go inside, it's much more difficult to know if
there is a skill.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
This seems to me to be most concerning when you're
using your debit card, because it's going to record your
pin number and they can empty your bank account out
of a moment. In a moment's notice, if you use
a credit card, is my recollection of the uniform commercial code.
You are only liable for fifty dollars if a fraudulent
transaction is made on your card, So you can unring

(01:14:26):
that bell by flagging that fraudulent transaction and having the
credit card go and claw the money back, but at
least your captain in terms of liability. So stealing a
credit card number, you know, I've had that happen before.
I've lost credit cards. He just asked for a new one.
And you just look at your transaction list to see
if there's any fraudulent transactions and you go on your
merry way. But if you get got your pin, you're screwed.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
If you if you, I think there's like a time
limit on that. You're right about the fifty dollars limit.
I'm sure that, but I think there's a time limit
in which you have to report it for that cap
to kick in. But either way, yeah, I agree with
what you're saying. Essentially, it's better to use a credit
card than a debit card because you're letting you have
less exposure. But as a societal thing, you know that money,

(01:15:12):
you know that that's stolen money. Somebody's paying for it,
and it's ultimately us in the end with higher prices,
higher insurance costs, et cetera. And you know, bottom bottom
line I think really is you know, you should still
physically inspect a device before you put your card in there.
I also suggest that you try to use the point
of sale systems, whether it's a gas pump or in

(01:15:34):
a store or whatever, in the most highly trafficked places
where it's harder for them to manipulate it. You know,
if you're at a gas pump right by the clerk
where there's a lot of foot traffic, it's going to
be harder to manipulate that than it with the one
that's the furthest away and the most difficult to see,
you know, same in a store, So keep that in mind.
And then also things like tap to pay, which uses

(01:15:56):
near field communication. Now I'm not saying there's none skimmer
out there that can't read that too, Brian, I'm just
saying your average skimmer is trying to read the mag
strip on the back of the credit card, you know,
So tap to pay, Apple, pay, Venmo, that kind of thing.
Although I don't use Venmo or any of those services,
they have their own set of problems and no consumer protection.

(01:16:17):
You know, there are more secure ways, or go old school,
which I know you're a subscriber to pay if you
don't have any of these problems, good old cash.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
That's my default method of paying has been paying in cash.
It served me well over the years. At least I
think it has.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
Its keep you out of trouble, yeah, a lot less tracking.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
It keeps you out of trouble along the lines of
what you're talking about, but it also keeps you out
of financial trouble because if you don't have the money right,
it'll prevent them from making a stupid mistake like an
impulse by Oh my god, there's that perse I love
so much. It's only five thousand dollars or whatever, you know,
and you're not going to put another credit card bill
that you won't be able to pay off at the
end of the month, So period, end of story. That's

(01:16:57):
it's a prudent way of going about life, at least
from my perspective.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
And if I could just start out there real quick,
I'm going to be speaking on the twenty six for
the Circuit with a friend of mine, Adam Evans from
Densmore Shall We're going to be talking about how to
changing privacy laws are affecting it departments and just privacy
in general. So eight thirty to ten, twenty six, look
up the circuit. I'll post it in my notes. Hope
to see some listeners there.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
Appreciate you doing that. Those are always very informative discussions
you have there, Dave, Dave, look forward to next Friday already.
Thanks for everything you do for my listeners and me,
keeping us out of trouble or trying to anyway, at
least by giving us the advice we can make an
informed decision on all these things. And thanks to the
entire crew at interest It for all you do for
area businesses with their computer issues. We'll talk again next week.

(01:17:41):
Have a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
Always my pleasure.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
Brian, thanks, thank you. Coming up Orlando Sons and what's
he been up to since Greg Land's been beat him
in the race. I'm still angry about that, but I
think he's got a future. We'll find out if he's
going to maybe reveal what that future might be. We'll
find out what he's been doing and his thoughts on
what's going on Washington, DC, Orlando's Sons. That will be
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program to day to give us an update about what's
been going on since the election.

Speaker 6 (01:18:45):
Brian, How are you great to always be on with you.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
I'm doing great. And how the wife and kids start
with the most important thing in your life.

Speaker 7 (01:18:53):
They are fantastic. Look, we are headed into the springtime,
which hopefully we're were clear of the Cincinnati flux of weather.

Speaker 6 (01:19:03):
But wife and kids are doing great.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
It'sin today. Whether it is bipolar, there's no question about it.

Speaker 6 (01:19:10):
Glad Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
Yeah, Well, and there you go. We can go back
to the race against Greg Landsman. And one of the
most disappointing things in the November election for me was
that Greg Landsman prevailed. I just could not believe that
you are such a superior person. Your background, your quality
of your character, your service to our country, your experience.
I thought you would have brought so much of that seat.

(01:19:32):
And there we go. We got Greg Landsman, Gang of
five Landsman in the role, and by all accounts he's
keeping his head down and not really doing anything.

Speaker 7 (01:19:41):
Well, you know, like we always I think thoughts throughout
the race, right, Brian, is that we weren't going against
necessarily our opponent. We were going against the index, specifically
in Hamilton County, in the city. So but we put
it all out in the field. I could not have
been more proud of the work that the team put

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in and all the volunteers and all the support. But
we keep up the fight, We keep up the fight
moving forward.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
Well, it hasn't taken the wind out of your sales,
I hope are you still considering something down the road
by way of elected office.

Speaker 7 (01:20:19):
Well, look, Brian, what I say is this is that
for the current moment, I'm fully committed to the great
work that we're doing at the Hamilton County Veteran Service Commission. Yeah,
what greater honor and mission to help support and serve
those who have served our country. And in Hamilton County
with over forty thousand veterans, third largest county in Ohio

(01:20:43):
with by veteran population, we're doing good work at the
present time. I'm fully committed to it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:48):
I'm glad to hear that, And what better person to
be in that role than you, who also probably served
your country. West Point graduate you were, and you know
your time in the service, I know is valuable to you,
and you learned a lot have the knowledge and experience
for that role because you understand what it is to
have served your country, which is I think it's a
necessary element to take that job.

Speaker 3 (01:21:11):
Well.

Speaker 7 (01:21:11):
I mean, that's what we're seeing right in our country
today is just this desperate need for a focus on
not just supporting those that have served, but for supporting
those that are currently serving. And so I believe I'm
just as much in the fight as anyone else that's
looking to again, whether it's revitalizing our military or just

(01:21:34):
showing that we are a country that supports those service
men and women that have sacrificed so much. It truly
is an honor, not just for me, but for my
wife as well as you know, Brian. She served her
country proudly, and I think the future is bright for
our country with the way that our military is again

(01:21:56):
being prioritized.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
Well, see another reason you're happy you went to West
Point because that's where you met her, as I met
my wife in law school. Probably the best part about
going to law school is I got her out of
the thing. I mean, I got a law degree and
I practiced. But you know there there are there are priorities.
So you got that.

Speaker 6 (01:22:11):
That's just like just like me.

Speaker 7 (01:22:16):
Your wife also outranks you.

Speaker 1 (01:22:17):
I know, we have to keep it that way to
that well, see we get okay, we you and I
both know you experience in Hamilton County's gone blue. I mean,
damn it. We lost the prosecutor's office to Connie Pillach,
who was out in front of TESLA protesting to the
DOJE efforts to get rid of the size and scope
of government. When she promised right after being elected she's
going to keep politics out of it. I guess she

(01:22:39):
forgot that pledge anyway. But no recognizing what's going on.
And I have seen a lot of polls. Trump's popularity
story is pretty high, and people are thoroughly appalled and
upset about what we are learning and how and and
and the revelations about where our hard earned taxpayers have
been spent. And I find it posterous that the Democrats

(01:23:01):
are at their screaming, bloody murder trying to defend programs
like you know, circumcisions in Mozambique or whatever. I mean,
we have something that's completely out of control. These policies
and programs are indefensible, and I have to imagine a
lot of the Democrat voters in Hamilton County probably feel
the same way. It's one of the reasons, you know,
Donald Trump on his pledges when he was running for
presidents to do exactly this made a lot of inroads

(01:23:24):
into the Black community, the Hispanic community. Obviously, immigration had
a large thing to do with that because it's impacting
the black and Hispanic communities also. So do you think
do you hold out any hope that we could write
the ship that is Hamilton County right now down the
road orlanda.

Speaker 7 (01:23:40):
Well, I'll say this is that this past selection, Brian
is it was truly a turning point for our country
where people from all across communities and you speak of,
you know, just urban communities that have typically voted one
way for decades, really saw that this was the year

(01:24:00):
where we needed to write the ship. And specifically when
it comes to overbloated government, the fraud, waste and abuse
that we see across the entire federal government. Americans were
sick and tired of it. And for those that are
quote unquote upset with the way that the president the
administration has been operating in trying to cut down the fraud, waste,

(01:24:24):
and abuse in just his first month in office. This
is what he ran on to your point, Brian, he
ran on this campaign for two plus years. Everyone knew
that that was his mission. He was going to do
what no other president has done in the modern era,
and that was actually go in there into the belly

(01:24:46):
of the beast and cut whether it's deregulation or cut
federal spending. I mean the things that we uncovered with
the millions of dollars that have gone into programs. You
mentioned some of them, but I mean Sesame Street in Iraq,
a tune of twenty million dollars. You know, the waste
it's created, this federal government that people were sick and

(01:25:09):
tired of, that Americans were paying for, hard working taxpayers.

Speaker 6 (01:25:15):
Were paying for.

Speaker 7 (01:25:16):
So, you know, do I have sympathy for those that
don't necessarily like the way that he's operating. The answer
is no, because this is the way that he was
running on and for the millions of voters that voted
to elect him into office. We put him there the
American people overwhelmingly put him there. And the thing that

(01:25:39):
I will say is allow the president to do his
job to literally enact the policies that he ran on.
That Brian is democracy, indeed is a threat to democracy,
you know, is these unelected career bureaucrats that hide behind
civil servant status thinking that they answer to no one

(01:26:02):
and are completely unchecked. It's not the way that our
founding fathers intended. What they intended was that one person
would run to get all the votes, hopefully a majority
of the votes across America. They would run on platforms,
they'd be able to be elected as president of the
United States, choose the people by advice and consent of
the Senate to carry out the mission. And that's exactly

(01:26:24):
what we're seeing now.

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
Yes we are, and it's refreshing alternative for other prior presidents,
including Clinton, Obama, and Biden, who also promised to get
rid of fraud, waste, and abuse in government. They're on tape,
they're on record, there's YouTube videos out there with all
their comments along the same lines. They promised to do
the same thing, yet they didn't deliver. The government just

(01:26:46):
merely got bigger and the regulatory environment just got more
difficult to deal with and navigate, and had they delivered
on the promises, I just kind of scratched my head
and kind of wonder theoretically if the Democrats would be
screaming and yelling about if their Democrat president had the efforts.

Speaker 7 (01:27:02):
Right right, I mean at the end of the day. Again, Uh,
there's there's growing pains right now because it's one thing
to say it on the campaign trail, and it really
doesn't matter what party the presidential candidates running on. We've
seen it on both sides to your point, Brian. We've
seen candidates on both sides say that they would go

(01:27:22):
in there and they would cut waste, they would cut
fraud abuse, they would shrink the size of government. But
no one's actually done it to the extent that President
Trump is doing right now. He my gosh, we are
He hit the one month mark yesterday of being the
forty seventh president the United States, and the amount of
money that we're already uncovering that are being saved for

(01:27:47):
the American people. It's just astounding, and no one the
only surprise that people should have is the speed at
which he's doing it, and the people that he has
apt to lead. These government agencies are committed to the
mission that they are there to, yes, serve the best

(01:28:07):
interests of the American people.

Speaker 6 (01:28:09):
But guess what.

Speaker 7 (01:28:10):
They are not there to make overbloated government bigger. They're
there to shrink the size of government.

Speaker 6 (01:28:18):
And here's the.

Speaker 7 (01:28:18):
Word that you know has gotten a lot of flak
these last few weeks. Efficient, to make federal government more efficient.
The question that we should be asking is, for any
of these agencies, whether it's the DOJ, the FBI, energy Treasury,
can we operate with a more streamlined, efficient federal agency.

(01:28:41):
And if the answer is yes, then we should be
doing everything we can to get there exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
And you know, that's what Elon Musk is really notably
famous for. I mean, I talk to an author of
a book about Elon Musk and his business practices. You know,
he buys Twitter and imediately fires like eighty percent of
the employees. And yet there it is as acts, it
still runs, it still works, it doesn't have the limitations
on free speech. Is a very wildly popular platform that
apparently didn't need all those extra employees in the first place.

(01:29:10):
That author also pointed out that he instructed the folks
at Tesla to start literally removing every single component product
in the cars until such point that they wouldn't work
anymore in order to increase efficiency, weight and keep costs down.
I mean, that's the point of Elon Musk being efficiency
and getting rid of you know, unnecessary components.

Speaker 6 (01:29:31):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 7 (01:29:33):
And you know you mentioned layoffs. You know, that's exactly
what we would expect for a company that is trying
to be more efficient, it's trying to go into cost
saving mode. It's so that for the end user, for
the end customer, they deliver a better product, better experience
at a better price.

Speaker 6 (01:29:53):
For government, what should we expect again, we.

Speaker 7 (01:29:56):
Should expect a federal government that is the size, no
bigger than it needs to be in order to deliver
the same efficient, productive service or product that the American
citizen should expect. And so for these layoffs, you know,
again we cannot say, although some do that it's cruel

(01:30:18):
that we're seeing, you know, these overnight layoffs of thousands employees.
Number One, in his first couple weeks, President Trump offered
a incredible, never heard of deal for federal employees to
essentially not go back to work and take an amazing
six plus months before they can early retire and give

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them full benefit, full pay. I mean, that's unheard of.
If he really wanted to, he would have fired those
employees on January twentieth, but no, instead he offered a
great buyout. If you want to retire, you don't want
to stay while this ship is moved, then by all
means you know you can leave and will offer you

(01:31:04):
a great benefits package for these employees have been laid
off in the last couple of weeks. They are probationary employees,
and these employees that have entered into the federal workforce
know that they are subject to a certain amount of
time as a probationary employee that I don't know what
the majority of people expect when they hear the term probationary,

(01:31:29):
but working just in government in the past, is probationary
means that you could be removed at will at any time.
You serve with the pleasure of the federal government or
the agency you work for, and if the federal agency
or the administration views that that is not the most
efficient means for federal government, then you.

Speaker 6 (01:31:51):
Could be laid off. You knew that going in and
the question is that can we operate again with greater
efficiency with lower workforce. It's not like we are leaving
these people out to dry. Think about, Brian, the thousands,
if not hundreds of thousands of jobs that are out there,
whether it's in the private sector or whether it's in

(01:32:13):
state government that these American hardworking, yes, hopefully hardworking American
citizens now have to find ulterior employment.

Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
But they're out there.

Speaker 7 (01:32:24):
You know, we have an abundance of opportunity here. Just
because they may have worked in federal government for the
last eighteen months doesn't mean that there's nothing else that
they can do. Hopefully they picked themselves up by the
bootstrapsy as we would expect for every American. You get
out there, you do hard work, it's based on merit,

(01:32:44):
and you go ahead and continue to contribute to the
economy and to the way of life here in America.

Speaker 1 (01:32:51):
Orlando Sanza, it's just such a pleasure hearing you and
you're insightful, logical and reasonable comments. I wish you all
the best, the best of health, love to you and
your family and your continued success with the Hamilton County
Veteran Services. I can't thank you enough. My just my
love for the American veteran is well known to my
listening audience, and it's wonderful to know if someone like

(01:33:11):
you is there helping the veterans out of the Hamilton
County Veteran Services Commissioned. So we'll be on. We'll talk again.
You got some development you want to pass along to
my listeners along those lines, you always have an opportunity
in a form here on the fifty five KRC Morning Show.

Speaker 6 (01:33:25):
Brian, thanks so much, my friend, Take care, have a
great weekend.

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Speaker 1 (01:36:05):
There. Very happy Forriday to you, and I'd like to
welcome back and congratulate running for mayor of the City
of Cincinnati. Got the signatures turned in, They've all been approved.
He is running for mayor. He is Corey Bowman. Corey,
good to have you back on the morning show.

Speaker 8 (01:36:18):
Good to be back, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
Did you get a lot of people showing up at
your coffee shop to sign the petition to get you
on the ballot.

Speaker 8 (01:36:26):
It was a combination of a lot of different things
that brought it all together at the last minute.

Speaker 1 (01:36:31):
You have a lot of people out there on the
streets working for you, I hope.

Speaker 6 (01:36:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:36:36):
So we had We had many individuals that were just
very excited about what we were doing. They were going
door to door, we were going to communities, families. When
it came down to it the last night, we were
driving around till midnight gathering whatever we could.

Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
Well and again they've already certified. You haven't kind of
Board of Elections to certified the signatures for you. And
when you're out in about gathering signs to get on
the ballot, and you're going to have to continue doing this.
On the campaign trail, people are going to ask you
questions about what you stand for, what your goals, your motivations,
and your ideas are for the city. So did you
hear a lot of or did you get a lot

(01:37:11):
of questions along those lines when you're around circulating position.

Speaker 8 (01:37:15):
Yeah, And honestly, I I'd made a lot of those
questions myself to the people a lot of times when
we weren't just you know, paying somebody to get the
signatures on our behalf, we were actually going out to
our future voters. And so most of the people that
we if we had the time to we would ask
them what are the issues that are important to you?
And then we would have really great discussions.

Speaker 1 (01:37:36):
What are you hearing from folks? What are the issues
that are most important to them?

Speaker 8 (01:37:41):
I mean, for the most part, if you're downtown, they
just say, fix the damn potholes.

Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
My god. One of my favorite pet peeves about the
city of Cincinnati is just the absolute deteriorating, deteriorating nature
of the infrastructure. You know, Corey, what they're like, four
hundred and fifty million dollars worth of project behind. They're
supposed to do X number of road miles a year
and repairs, they have the money allocated for it, and
for some reason or other, it never gets done. I mean,

(01:38:08):
that's that's that should be a motivating factor to run
for mayor in and of itself.

Speaker 8 (01:38:14):
Yeah, can you imagine from day one of being elected
that that's the first thing that we actually do.

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
That we said that we were going to do, just
kind of like Donald Trump. Yeah, they can get a
lot of people.

Speaker 8 (01:38:29):
It's you know, we live in a city. There is
certain key issues that pertain to the residents of our city,
and so yeah, there's a lot of issues that face
the country as a whole, and there's a lot of
broad statements that we could make, but ultimately there's real
issues that people care about. And you know, if you
drive over a pothole, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 (01:38:48):
Whether you're a Democrat or Republican. You're tired getting.

Speaker 1 (01:38:50):
Flat exactly right, and suppost notably, those neighborhoods that seem
to be overlooked, you know, for decades, it's as if
they don't exist, and I don't I don't know how
in that situation someone could continue to vote for the
same party that hasn't served their interests for however many
years we've been going on with this problem, So maybe

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you stand a chance. Did you get a sense of
you there's a possibility for you, because you know it
is the city of Cincinnati. You're not running as a Democrat, Corey,
And I just wonder what your enthusiasm level is after
going out and about meeting with folks out in the communities.

Speaker 8 (01:39:29):
My enthusiasm level probably was improved every day that I
spoke to people. I'll be honest, I mean I had
no clue whether this was the right decision or not
when we first made We just knew it had to
be done. And every morning I would wake up, I'll
just say, you know, what are you doing, Corey? Why
are you making this run? And every night I would

(01:39:49):
go to bed more encouraged than not because of the
conversations I had. People are very excited about what we
stand for. They're very hungry for change in the city.
And yes, it's gonna be an uphill battle the next
eight months, but every conversation I had just gave me
that extra energy that I.

Speaker 6 (01:40:07):
Needed to keep on going well.

Speaker 1 (01:40:09):
And I know your jd Vance's half brother, and that
propelled you sort of the national stage. I mean, there
was a lot of reporting on major media outlets that
you were, in fact or you are, in fact running
for the mayor city of Cincinnati. Do you feel as
if it's a I mean, it's a benefit for me
from a publicity standpoint, but you somehow feel maybe you're
in the shadow of your vice presidential half brother.

Speaker 8 (01:40:31):
Well, like I said in my post whenever I announced
it that you know, he's a great role model of mine.
And when I saw the enthusiasm and the hope and
the change behind you know, the inauguration weekend, that's what
inspired me because our hometown can't fall behind these next
four years. So we're gonna we're gonna work very hard

(01:40:53):
the next eight months to go into every district, talk
to every community. We're going to get the right endorsements,
We're going to get the right groups behind us. But
then also I think one of the biggest motivators for
people to vote for us is going to be this
upcoming year with the current administration.

Speaker 1 (01:41:09):
Well, certainly a lot of talking points and different ideas
are welcomed by a lot of folks across political stripes.
One of the things I want to ask you when
we come back, Corey, is about this Connected Communities program,
because a lot of folks are rebelling against it, and
it's a program that was pretty much shoved down every
single neighborhood in the city's throat without their input. Let's
bring Corey Bowman back. He is running for mayor of

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Speaker 1 (01:44:03):
Seven forty fifty have KRCD talk station. Brian Thomas was
Corey Bowman, who is officially a candidate for the mayor
of the City of Cincinnati, got all the signatures been certified,
and he's going to hit the ground running. You'll see
him in neighborhoods. You're planning on it having town halls
and things of that nature. Corey, You're willing to actually
meet and talk with the people. I kind of got
that impression in the last segment.

Speaker 8 (01:44:24):
Yeah, I think that's got to be a key thing
with this campaign. We're definitely going to be doing live
Q AND's on livestream most likely every week. I'm trying
to fork out what the best day is for it,
but then every week we're going to have to hit
different areas in different districts. My goal would be to
find the local key businesses in the area. You know,

(01:44:46):
we had our first one of our first meetings in
our downtown coffee shop and it was a great response.
You know, we had a meeting in price Field Chili.
So what I want to do is just find these
key businesses in these districts with the business owners that
are hurting and really just have these events there and
hear from.

Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
People wonderful and by way of background, and I think
it's important for our listeners to know you, uh, you
own the King's Arms Coffee Roasters, which we've been mentioned
a couple of times. You're also a pastor at the
River Church in Cincinnati. I suppose being a pastor you
have to regularly communicate with parishioners and spread the message
and relate and connect to people. Does that is that a?

(01:45:27):
Is that that served you well in your efforts thus far?

Speaker 8 (01:45:33):
Yeah, I joked around because one of the biggest things
that helped me in politics, unexpectedly was ministry, and partly
because you deal with people and you're dealing with people's
opinions and you're talking with people, also because you care
for people. But then another one is because ministry they'll
cut your throat at any point in time. So that's

(01:45:54):
something that I'm learning about politics as well.

Speaker 1 (01:45:57):
Fair enough, Now moving over to one of the more
interesting thing, and I think problematic issues for the City
of Cincinnati residents is this connected Communities thing that city
council pass really without any input from the various neighborhoods
within the City of Cincinnati, requiring you know, changing in
zoning and dense population in other words, knocking down single

(01:46:17):
family homes and putting up higher volume apartments, many of
which will not have any parking. I know neighborhoods like
Hyde Park are worried about impacting the community. Where are
these people are going to park? But it's all a
design to get people on buses. And I think it's
really an affront to the single family property owner to
know that, you know, held next door neighbor could sell

(01:46:40):
their house and next thing you know, you're living in
a next to a ten to twelve unit condomenty or
rather apartment complex. Where are you on connected communities? Corey?

Speaker 8 (01:46:51):
Well, when I first heard about these issues, you know,
I decided we have to hear people's opinions, we have
to research. So one of the first things that we
did over the course to find these signatures was we
went to a town hall meeting that was in bond
Hill area related to this Connected communities and Sky Johnson,
count Sky Johnson and Vice Mayor Kearney were there. And

(01:47:14):
as we were there, I give it up for the
councilmen mayor, they were kind of, you know, doing some
crowd control with the very disgruntled people in the room.
But a lot of people showed up and you could
tell that they are very frustrated with how this has
been brought to the city, and so I was going
through asking people questions, and I think the biggest thing

(01:47:36):
is that if you take the cover sheet on top
of these connected community policies that most likely were written
by chat GBT, you would sit there and say, yeah,
we kind of like bringing communities together, but yeah, we
like helpless in need, we like bringing business. But it's
what they're trying to kind of sneak in through these policies,

(01:47:56):
and what they're really trying to sneak in through.

Speaker 6 (01:47:58):
This is exactly who you're talking about.

Speaker 8 (01:48:00):
It's you know, improperly managed affordable housing policies. You're bringing
in big time developers instead of small time businesses that
actually want to enhance the properties and want to utilize
the historic buildings that are there.

Speaker 6 (01:48:16):
And then you're exactly right.

Speaker 8 (01:48:17):
They're trying to get it to a point to where
people have to take the bus, they have to be
in a multi level apartment, they can't own their own home,
they can't park anywhere, and this isn't right for certain
communities to where the historic aspect that like park and
other areas in our city that's invaluable and connected community

(01:48:39):
policies like this are just going to rip that out
from people.

Speaker 1 (01:48:42):
Well, and hasn't the city learned anything over the years
about absentee landlords, which have been a problem and a
plague on the general Greater Cincinnati area for so long.
Good properties deteriorate, they're nowhere to be found. When you
finally try to find them, they change the corporate structure,
so you have to start all over again in terms
of any litigation, and you're waging against them. I mean,
you know that seems to be written on the wall

(01:49:03):
or baked into the cake when you got out these
outside developers building these units.

Speaker 8 (01:49:08):
Well you know when me and my wife have lived here,
and well, we lived here, I've been.

Speaker 6 (01:49:13):
From here my whole life.

Speaker 8 (01:49:14):
But being downtown for four years with the Church of Business,
we've had many friends have never visited Cincinnati before, and
then they come in and they're blown away by the
historic buildings. They're blown away by the beauty of Dayton
Street and other areas that have these amazing town homes,
amazing business fronts. I mean, I mean, my coffee shop

(01:49:35):
is in one of these buildings. And when you bring
in developers and absentee landlords and all these things, it's
taking away from the beauty and the character of our city.
And also, I'll be honest with you, We've been in
the West End and we have many people connected to
us that are small time business owners. They can only

(01:49:55):
flip one property at a time or have one business
location at a time, and they are hungry to utilize
these spaces to better the community. But these policies took
out developers any of these small businesses that really want
to utilize this. And so, yeah, you have thousands of
vacant properties, but it's done by the hand of the

(01:50:18):
city policies.

Speaker 1 (01:50:21):
Well, and you know, obviously tinkering with other people's neighborhoods
and individual zoning rules. I just I mean, it's such
an intrusion into that neighborhood's own rights and freedoms and
ability to control their own direction that they just passed
this without going to the various communities and getting input
and asking if any given neighborhood was in favor of it,

(01:50:42):
ever or not. Some of them are, many of them
are not. Again, I turned back to Hyde Park, and
I guess the idea is this is going to somehow
make a housing affordable. I mean, I'm sorry, but I'm
a little skeptical that any player in Hyde Park, regardless
of who builds it, it's going to be affordable. Mean,
lot of people love High Park. It's a beautiful neighborhood.
It's safe, it's walkable, it's got a lot of businesses

(01:51:04):
that you can just walk around, generally speaking. But if
you build an apartment building there, the apartments are going
to fetch a pretty high rent. I'm willing to bet anyone.

Speaker 8 (01:51:14):
Well, even if it does become affordable. This is a
major issue in our city. Is that for the sake
of affordable housing or income based housing, what's happening is
that you have poorly managed policies that are really keeping
those individuals. Yeah, they might be able to afford it,
but they'll never be able to afford something higher in
their lives because the way that they're structuring this, it's

(01:51:35):
keeping people in bondage to the system.

Speaker 1 (01:51:38):
It's a great way of putting it. We can end
on that note. Corey Bowman, he's got a Facebook page
Corey Bowman Bowma and beautiful. You got a beautiful wife there,
so congratulations on out kicking your coverage, my friend, and
beutiful a beautiful family as well. You got three children,
is that correct?

Speaker 8 (01:51:55):
Yeah, we have a fourth on the way to end
of June early July.

Speaker 1 (01:51:59):
No, that's beautiful. Well, good luck with all that, and
thanks for spending time with my listeners me. I know,
and I hope that you and I will be talking
a lot between now and the election, and I wish
you the best of luck. Get the message out there
and maybe we can transform the city to a better
place for everyone.

Speaker 8 (01:52:13):
Absolutely, we're going to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:15):
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get his general thoughts on what's happening right now with
the new Trump administration in the first month. Mitch McConnell retiring,
that's right, he announced the other day on his birthday.
I guess he's eighty three. He will not be running
for reelection in twenty twenty six. Okay, and we'll also

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get Bill O'Reilly's thoughts on cash Betel stick around. Christopher
Pehota is coming up next.

Speaker 4 (01:56:50):
Confused happens fast, stay up to date at the top
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Speaker 1 (01:56:54):
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welcome with the fifty five KRC Morning Show Chris pie Hoode.

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And what an impressive resume Chris is got. He served
as a chief executive for FBI Science and Technology Programs.
In his earlier career, he was with the US government
senior executive service official. Retired from the FBI after twenty
five years. And I just mentioned part of the FBI
Science and Technology program he was a one point director
of the US government twenty four hour Global Terrorist Screening Center,

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also Special Agent in charge of the FBI's Buffalo, New
York Field office. In his early career, he worked on
programs and areas regarding counter terrorism, counterintelligence, technical programs, physical
and informational security, weapons of mass destruction, intelligence collection. I
could go on, we wouldn't be able to talk about
his book Wanted the FBI. I once knew how to

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restore faith in the world's premieer long enforcement agency. Chris Pihota,
Welcome to the Morning Show. It's a pleasure to have
you on.

Speaker 6 (01:58:05):
Oh, it's a pleasure to be with you this morning.
And thanks for the opportunity to visit with you and
your audience.

Speaker 1 (01:58:10):
Oh and I'm sure they are excited to hear from you.
And the name of the book I think suggests it
all how to restore faith, suggesting of course that a
lot of us have lost faith in the FBI. And
I'm going to get your impressions where you think it
went wrong. But as I observe from the notes and information,
somewhere after September eleventh, that's when the problems kicked in.

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How do you connect September eleventh and how has the
direction of the FBI deteriorated leading to you writing about
this in the book Wanted the FBI. I once knew.

Speaker 6 (01:58:43):
Well after nine to eleven there are some obvious, of course,
shortfalls that allowed that tragedy to happen. So the FBI
made a very violent shift in its organizational operations, moving
from a traditional law enforcement kind of the cops and
robbers organization that it was into being a national security

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focused intelligence organization domestic security related function that it became.
And as all things in the government do, they start
with good intention and then move into other areas of
mission creep and then a lack of mission focus after
a while, and what we saw was certain decisions were

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being made that led the FBI to becoming what we
what I call corporatized. There were a lot of private sector,
private sector approaches, private sector ideas brought into the FBI
to change its culture after nine to eleven, and the
corporatized FBI moved away from the beliefs and values and

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practices that made the FBI legendary leading up to that point. Well,
I think we threw out the baby with the bathwater.

Speaker 1 (01:59:57):
Okay, I understand, and I guess you know what I
I think a traditional FBI, you know, going back to
you know, the television program and busting people for you know,
RICO violations, organized crime and all those complex criminal investigations.
The world has changed dramatically because of the Internet and cybersecurity,
and you are an expert in cyber operations and security practices.

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Is that part of the challenge the FBI faced in
this culture shift, dealing with the realities of this wide,
open and insecure systems that we have.

Speaker 6 (02:00:33):
It was definitely a challenge. Back when the Internet came
online very quickly, we found that the Internet enhanced our lives,
but it also made better bad guys, and it gave
them better opportunities to attack people from afar, And we
saw a lot of the traditional criminal activities become enhanced

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and unlimited by geography and other logistics that used to
limit the criminal activity and effectiveness. So what we found
also was that the national security threat environment changed with
the Internet as well when it came to terrorism and
counterintelligence activities. So the FBI had a lot of searching

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to do when it came to looking at how we're
going to protect the American people while still upholding the
constitutional freedoms that our society enjoys. And it was a
difficult transition.

Speaker 1 (02:01:27):
Well, I guess it seemed to have become very politicized
in you know, the the investigations of January sixth, for example,
it seems to me that the entire resources of all
the FBI we were turned on every single individual that
happened to be in the area of the of the
Capitol building during that riot. It would that have been

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the norm under earlier FBI times, that they would spend
so much time and effort to go after those folks.

Speaker 6 (02:01:57):
No, what you saw there was the result of the
last iteration of SBI leadership allowing their own personal and
political views to overly influence SBI operational decision making and
resource allocation. Used to be where the FBI would have

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been very reluctant and almost unwilling to do something like that,
But we've seen that cultural decline and erosion over time
where the leadership was either amenable to it or unable
to resist the maybe the influence of the last administration.

Speaker 1 (02:02:38):
Well, As a lawyer, I viewed the law as the law.
You know, as long as it's equally applied, it says
what it is. There are crimes on the book. You
go after people regardless of political stride. But is this
politization that seems to have gone on, is that because
of the hiring practices. Did they actually seek out and
seek to hire and hire people who were of a

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particular political mindsets that they would embrace this kind of operation.

Speaker 6 (02:03:05):
I'm not. I don't think it's the recruitment of new people.
It was the promotion of people inside the organization who
showed a guess, you can call it, a likeness to
the senior leadership's political views. So what you saw was
all those people of like mind rising into very senior

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and influential positions that then pushed those ideas and practices
down into the workforce.

Speaker 1 (02:03:36):
And I suppose a frontline agent who was interested in
the old school idea of just finding criminals and prosecuting
bad guys. They were told and instructed by their politicized
seniors that you do the job that I'm telling you
to do, and they probably had no say in the matter.

Speaker 6 (02:03:51):
Then, yeah, you have very little say in what you
can actually do. You accept direction and order. And this
is what I tried to explain this somebody the other day.
If you're given an order or direction that's not illegal
or unsafe, you know, causing bodily harm, I mean, you're
you're obligated to do what you're told on a certain level.

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And I said, there's a difference between being an independent
investigator versus being an insubordinate investigator. So it's a fine
line you walk, and people will voice their displeasure and
their disagreement, but ultimately, if it's a lawful, legal order
that comes from the White House to the Attorney General,
from the director of the FBI, the folks are going

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to grit their teeth and still do their best to
you know, conduct a mission and protect the American people.

Speaker 1 (02:04:40):
And my recollection is the FBI was at least on
some level involved with and sometimes inside social media suppressing
speech of the certain viewpoints. Your reaction to that even happening,
it seems to me to be something that should be
way beyond and outside of the FBI's job to tell
people what they can and cannot say on social media

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or direct social media companies to suppress certain types of
speech or messages.

Speaker 6 (02:05:08):
Absolutely, there was no there was no place for that.
I think the relationship that the FBI has with social
media is a cooperative one to identify potential threats to
public safety and then work with social media to you know,
to to put messaging out to people on how they
can remain safe and then take care of themselves, not

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to suppress speech, not to target certain types of speech,
whether conservative or liberal, or whatever your your flavor is.
But the FBI, and it's in its last iteration again,
allowed its own personal at the leadership level, allowed its
own personal ideas and beliefs to form some of those
relationships that were to me unhealthy and took took us

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down a bad path toward that I would call almost
you know, a certain level of censorship.

Speaker 1 (02:05:59):
Now, with Cash Mattel being confirmed as the new FBI director,
your reaction to the confirmation to Cash Hotel generally, and
do you think he's in a position and can sort
of right the ship if I can use that term again.

Speaker 6 (02:06:14):
Sure, Well, first of all, I'd like to offer congratulations
to Director Patel. I'm glad he made it through the
confirmation process as he did. I saw it was a
It was a pretty close vote, but these days, I
think we received voting on these matters that roll along,
you know, political lines, So it wasn't unexpected. As far

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as mister Patel's future goes, I think, you know, he's
the right guy for right now. He has the confidence
of the Chief Executive and the Attorney General, and I
think he actually wants to be part of a foundational
change of the FBI, and he wants to be part
of that return of the FBI to being that trusted

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and dependable organization that so many people counted on for decades.
And you know, he wants to return the FBI to
the trust of the American people. So I think he
has a good background. He understands the threat environment that
the FBI will be working in with him, and I
think he's got to form a senior leadership team around

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him to help him make some of those foundational changes.
Those are one of his.

Speaker 1 (02:07:20):
First orders of business.

Speaker 6 (02:07:21):
He's got to figure out where his command and control
is going to come from in the organization.

Speaker 1 (02:07:26):
What kind of reminds me of in some parallels with
Pete hegseeth trying to return the military to its core
mission of as I, boil it down, kill people, and
break things the military ethos as opposed to DEI and
expanding you know what, wolf policies and the like, and
to that end, do you think that had a deleterious
effect on the FBI those types of policies, the DEI

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and and focusing on things that seem totally unrelated to
law enforcement.

Speaker 6 (02:07:54):
Yeah, absolutely terribly damaging to the FBI. The FBI, in
and its core mission set is there to protect us
from national security threats and crime problems. That's what the
FBI does, and they're good at it when they're allowed
to do it and they're given the proper leadership environment.
What we saw over the past four years was a

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series of distractions from the core mission set, and we
also saw again the substitution of some of the senior
leadership's personal political ideas and ideologies and personal preferences versus
the objective, apolitical, skilled investigative work that the FBI was

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known for.

Speaker 1 (02:08:40):
Well, and you speak of national security threats and crime,
I'm rather concerned, and of course I don't. I'm not
alone in my concerns. With the last multiple years of
open borders, we know of significant numbers of Chinese military
age man not picking on the race of China, but
we know if they're here and they got here, they
probably had the approval of the Chinese Communist Party, and

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therein lies the challenge. We know that CCP has hacked
into all kinds of our operations, both in private industry
but also into the federal government. You're an expert in
security matters like cyber operations and security practices. Do you
view this as significant a threat? Is at least I
perceive it to be, And if so, what can we
possibly do about it?

Speaker 6 (02:09:24):
It is an absolutely significant threat. I mean, we have
allowed a threat environment to form and intensify over the
past four years like we've never seen before. And you know,
the last administration had certain I think ideological or political
views that they allowed this to happen and now the
American people will suffer for it. The FBI has to

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take a look at the current threat environment. We can't
be fighting the last threat, the last threatn environment like
the military gets accused of fighting the last war. We
can't be stuck in the last threat environment. We have
to look at what we have now when it comes
to international adversaries and opponents versus the internal threat that

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is now within our borders. You said the unchecked migration
of unvetted personnel. These people have come to the United States,
some seeking a better life, some looking to be here
for I would say, reasons that are not good for
our communities. And the FBI has to reallocate its resources,

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reprioritize its operations, and look at its current partnerships with
other federal, state, and local law enforcement to go out
and find these people and quantify the threats to our
communities and keep everybody safe.

Speaker 1 (02:10:42):
Indeed, and you know, it's just I sit here and
I look at my watch, going, well, it's just a
moment in time away for a sleeper cell to launch
its nefarious activities. And I have to I mean, I
feel just as confident as I can be that part
of the illegal immigration population are here for the purposes
of launching nefarious operations like terrorist actions. They're just waiting
for the green light.

Speaker 6 (02:11:05):
Yeah, I mean, I think you have a group of folks,
you know, factions of people who may be here for
something like that, but you also have factions of people
who are here simply to commit crime, and they're here
to damage the safety and security of our communities. The
United States is a relatively soft target. These people come
from hard, hard lives, and they come from rough places,

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and the United States has always been a fairly high trust,
high security community, and they come from different places that
we're not used to certain behaviors and activities, and I
think we're going to find that the American people are
going to be subjected to increase crime, violence, and possible,
as you said, terrorism, Not to mention the national security

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counterintelligence espionage activities that largely go on quietly but also
damage our national security and welfare.

Speaker 1 (02:12:01):
Well be up to the FBI more maybe perhaps engage
in more widespread use of RICO to go after some
of these criminal enterprises, like the gangs, for example. If
they're coordinating efforts two or more people and further and
so of a criminal activity you're in rico and that's
going to subject into some serious prosecutorial possibilities there.

Speaker 6 (02:12:20):
Yeah. Absolutely, And also the you know, the administration has
just designated certain international crime international gangs as terrorist organizations,
which opens up another avenue for use of certain investigative
and legal tools. So the FBI's got to also make
sure that it's not overly concerned, which it has been,

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about offending people. Oh, just like other organizations, they're worried
about offending people and notwith keeping the American people safe.
And I think that was a mistake.

Speaker 1 (02:12:53):
Amen. Christopher Plihotel, the name of the book wanted the FBI,
I once knew how to restore faith in the world,
world's premier law enforcement agency, a guideline to do that.
So I gotta draw from the name of the book
and our conversation today. You do have at least some
measure of hope and this thing can get turned around
and they can get back to their core mission.

Speaker 6 (02:13:13):
Absolutely, I think there are people, there are enough people
with any FBI who will respond very favorably to a proper,
principled leadership environment that focuses on upholding the Constitution, protecting
the American people, and being the FBI of old. And
there are enough people who are waiting for that environment
to come back. They'll snap back into place and they're

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going to give the people back the FBI that we
all deserve and need.

Speaker 1 (02:13:39):
Chris, I'm so happy we're able to end on a
little dose of optimism at the end. There, get a
copy of the book. You can get it. I put
your book up at fifty five KRC dot com on
my blog page so people can easily buy a copy
of an all a courage them to do that. Chris,
thanks for your time today, Thanks for writing the book,
and I appreciate your uh well, your work for the
American people throughout your entire career. That's the approaching a
thirty here fifty five kr CD talks today. What a

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happy day it is to be listening to the fifty
five KRC Morning Show. Wonderful guest leading up to the
final guests of the morning, and thank God for Bill O'Reilly.
I cannot encourage my listeners enough to go to Bill
O'Reilly dot com. Bill O'Reilly, welcome back to the fifty
five KRC Morning Show. My friend, you have an unbelievably
informative web page there. I want to applaud you on

(02:14:21):
what you're doing. Well.

Speaker 6 (02:14:23):
Thank you, Brian.

Speaker 2 (02:14:24):
I appreciate you having me in I speak to you again.
You know, it's really interesting what's happened since Trump got
elected in November. The American people were so angry with
the Biden administration that even people who don't like Donald

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Trump said, look, he may not be what I think
a president should be, but he's so much better than
the alternative that we're going to vote for him. But
the media never accepted that. Never, and so the strategy
now is no matter what Trump does, he's evil. It's

(02:15:08):
not wrong, it's evil. It's changed now the media strategy.
So my job is basically not sheerly donald Trump. We
don't do that, no, but to put it to perspective
things that he does, so that people can make a
decision based on reality. And that's why we're successful. On
Bill O'Reilly dot com has now it's almost eight years

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and the thing is the most successful independent news site
in the world.

Speaker 1 (02:15:35):
And that does not shock me a bit. Bill O'Reilly,
and I've had you on many times over the years,
and I got to ask you because I love your
books and I'll encourage my listeners to read them. They
are fascinating, you can't put them down kind of reads.
Are we going to get another one out of you
soon before we die back into politics, Bill, because I'm
looking forward to the next one.

Speaker 2 (02:15:52):
Yeah. As you may know, Brian, Confronting the President's been
on the New York Times bestseller list for twenty free
consecutive weeks.

Speaker 6 (02:16:01):
Still there.

Speaker 2 (02:16:03):
I mean, it's a phenomenal seller, as most of my
books have been. In September, we have Confronting Evil and
we got the cover up on Bill O'Reilly dot com.
Putin's on a cover along with the Ayatollah, Halmani, Mazitung
and Hitler, and inside there are about ten other evil

(02:16:26):
doers that couldn't put them all on the cover. And
that book is going to be very controversial, that's for sure,
because you're going to learn things about Everybody thinks they
know these evil doers, but you really don't know how
the extent of what they did. And so we're editing
that now, actually going to turn it in next week

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to the publisher.

Speaker 1 (02:16:48):
And going back to your comments about the mainstream media,
he's evil. He's evil. This reminds me of the whole
campaign that Donald Trump's a Nazi, which suggests to me
that they don't understand the definition of the Nationalist Socialist Party,
but during their ignorance, they cling to this notion that
somehow he is an evil man. But look what he
is doing, and he's brilliant in his strategy, beginning with

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deporting illegal immigrants, not all of them, not going in
and grabbing moms who've been here for ten years. They're
going after criminals, child rapists, for example. And the left
and the Democrats that are out protesting this are trying
to defend the indefensible. I really can't imagine any human
being of any political stripe wanting a child molester in

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their neighborhood if that person came here illegally and could
be easily ejected from our country.

Speaker 2 (02:17:38):
Here's the game. Most Americans who follow the news, and
that would be about half of us, so I half
the population, they don't know what the deuce is going on, right,
and that's your choice, And I mean they just sort
of lazy or disinterested, whatever it may be. But the
people who follow the cycle understand that the Trump administration

(02:18:02):
wants immigration law enforced, and the way to do that
is to present to the public the danger of not
enforcing it. And just as you just said, you have
fourteen million people allowed in by Biden, well, ten percent
of those people are going to be heinous criminals. That's

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ten percent of every group is evil. So that's one million,
four hundred thousand, all right, that are running around causing trouble.
And the problem is that when ice raids and when
they go in, there are undocumented migrants who do not

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have a criminal record that are swept up in the raid. So,
for example, they are living with the bank robber, they
are living with the drug dealer. A lot of women
are in this category and they have a child. Well,
that woman and child, they're swept up. They're taken because

(02:19:05):
they're in the residence with the dope dealer. The press
cleaves that off and says, oh, look at this, this
woman never did anything, and they're burtner. How dishonest is
that they don't explain that the woman has a relationship
with the drug dealer. So what are you supposed to do?

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And I could give you a hundred examples of that
kind of press dishonesty, and I do on the No
Spin News every day. I mean, it's what we do
because we have to protect Americans from falsehoods.

Speaker 1 (02:19:40):
Well, and the other thing component, and I talk about
low hanging fruit, defending the indefensible, is what the left
is trying to do. When you look at, for example,
some of the programs that were revealed by the Doge
effort over US eight, you know, tens of millions, hundreds
of millions of dollars of the American taxpayer's money going
to programs that on their face are indefensible. And yet

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and and and the second component of that is nobody
knows if the money actually went to any given program
to accomplish the goal that was stated in the grant.
They don't follow the reality. And it seems to me
just a bunch of bribes, kickbacks, and payoffs for a
bunch of organizations, either here within the country or out
in the world. They're just soaking up the American taxpayers dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:20:22):
It's always been that way. Whenever American tax money leaves
the United States and goes to a foreign country, we
don't have any authority over it. So we don't have
investigators in Gaza or in Israel or in Ukraine, to
make sure that the money is spent the way it's designated.

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That has never existed. So Trump, that drives him nuts.
That drives him absolutely crazy. And what he did was
he said, look to Musk you find out the most
extreme examples and our presented to the American people, and
we'll try to clean this thing up to some extent.

Speaker 6 (02:21:06):
They'll never be.

Speaker 2 (02:21:06):
Able to clean it up entirely, but we'll try to
get people outraged about the waste of taxpayer's dolls. That's
what they're doing now. The fact that the Democrats are resisting,
that works the Trump's advantage and the Republican Party's advantage
because most Americans they're going, well, why aren't you supporting

(02:21:27):
programs that are better? Why you want millions of dollars
to go to a sesame street show in Iraq? That
there's no good for anybody. If they want a sesame
street show, let them put it on. Why do we
have to put it pay for it?

Speaker 1 (02:21:45):
All?

Speaker 2 (02:21:45):
Right? So the Democratic Party at this point is fracturing,
and I don't know if they're going to come back
anytime soon because there's no leader. They don't have a leader,
and without a leader, it's all over the place. They're
actually losing ground, even in the face of Trump being

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so controversial.

Speaker 1 (02:22:07):
Well, and one of the things most identified he was
looking at Social Security and all of the folks over
the age of one hundred who are still at least
on the books eligible and this remains to be seen
whether checks are still going out to them, but everyone is,
it seems, counting on Social Security again, regardless of political stripe.
When you see that, if you just are a casual

(02:22:29):
political observer, you're like, wait a second, what, there's people
on the Social Security roles that are one hundred and
fifty years old. How can that be? The things underwater?
The CBO has been warning about it for decades. Nobody
lifts a finger to try to salvage the system that
so many people think that's what they're going to have
to rely on in retirement. That angers a lot of people, sure, and.

Speaker 2 (02:22:49):
It should, but it's unrealistic to think that in a
nation of three hundred and sixty million people that the
federal government is going to be able to monitor each
check entitlement check that goes out. They're never going to
be able to do that. But you want to bring
some kind of discipline into these agencies, and under Biden

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there is zero accountability. It got way out of control.
The COVID stuff was insane, absolutely Okay. Trump is trying
to bring in a new paradigm for these agencies where
they have to apply some kind of discipline, They have

(02:23:34):
to get rid of the ivy logues, they have to
hire people who are going to watch the dough. Now
is he going to succeed? Partially because it should. The
problem is just to mammoth. But he's doing the right thing.
But again, the press is so hateful toward him. They're
never going to say that, They're never going to report

(02:23:56):
on him fairly, and therefore many millions of Americas think
the guys the devil because they don't really pay attention
to what's actually happening.

Speaker 1 (02:24:06):
Well, Elon Musk said it the other day, and I
have to paraphrase because I can't quote the man, but
he warned of what is quite literally the existential threat
posed by our national debt and deficit, and that we
are going to fall apart literally and we will fall
apart along with the rest of the world, who seems
to rely on the American taxpayers to stay afloat. Somebody said,

(02:24:26):
you know, oh, well you have this whole idea about you. Well,
I'll just move to New Zealand if the Fiat currency collapsed.
He said, no, that's not going to be possible because
New Zealand will go down the toilet too.

Speaker 2 (02:24:35):
Sure, And you can't tax the people anymore, Brian, you can't.
They're just up to their eyebrows. Yes, in paying to local,
state and federal officials. I mean New York, where I live,
is the highest tax state and union. We are losing

(02:24:56):
hundreds of thousands of people a year moving out of here,
and replacing those people are foreign nationals who are on welfare. Okay,
so the people who are earning a decent buck they're
leaving replaced by people who need government assistance. Now I'm generalizing,

(02:25:18):
but that's the accurate picture. So the Democratic Party again
doesn't seem to understand that you cannot tax people anymore
than you are now. And then Bernie Sanders and these
social is, Oh, the brillionaires, and that's a bunch of garbage.
There are very few of those people. The bulk of

(02:25:40):
the tax receipts are working class, blue collar folks. Who
cannot pay anymore. So you've got to cut the waste
and the massive spending, which is what Musk has been
tasked to do well in.

Speaker 1 (02:25:56):
So far doing an excellent job of elevating this type
of thing to the average Americans' attention and the average
Americans seeing some positive in all this based upon the
points you've made today here on the Morning Show. And
we can only hope that the energy and the effort
behind it continues to neure to our advantage. Because we
go back the other direction, we're stuck. We're screwed. I mean, yeah,
you may as well just pull the flag down and

(02:26:17):
go hide in a hole or something. Bill O'Reilly.

Speaker 2 (02:26:20):
Yeah, Look, the Trump administration has an opportunity. It needs
to be more disciplined. I don't think that's going to happen.
That's not how the president rolls, as a cre cliche goes,
I would do it a little bit differently in style form.
But what they're trying to do is a positive for

(02:26:41):
the country. Unfortunately, many people in the country don't understand
that now, but you know, we all do.

Speaker 6 (02:26:49):
We do, Brian.

Speaker 2 (02:26:50):
I mean, you do a good show every morning in
Cincinnati and tell the folks what you think. I do
the same thing on Bill O'Reilly dot com, and I
write the books and I get the word out and
then folks believe what they want to believe. But we
have an opportunity here in the next forty seven months.
That's what Trump has, and if he does well, then

(02:27:10):
Vance will be the next president, because I don't think
the Democratic Party is going to be able to recover
in you know, the forty seven months that Trump has well.

Speaker 1 (02:27:19):
They're going to have to find somebody other than Gavin Newsome,
the guy no backbench finished, thankfully, no backbench in the
Democrat Party. Bill O'Reilly dot com book market, see what's
there every single day. Become a member, you get a
lot more benefits being a member of Bill O'Reilly dot com.
Of Bill I'm already looking forward to September when your
new book comes out, so you'll be back on the
Morning show and we will talk about it after I

(02:27:41):
read it, because I always read your books before we talk.

Speaker 3 (02:27:44):
I know that rule.

Speaker 2 (02:27:46):
I appreciate that. Brian, stay strong, Thanks.

Speaker 1 (02:27:48):
For having me my pleasure anytime, sir, have a wonderful weekend.
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