55KRC Friday Show - Tech Friday, Steve Shoemake, Cory Bowman

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Five oh five and thinking about KRC Detalk station Happy Fridays,
say a Va, you know it's Friday. I thanks you

(00:33):
for the woohoo. Joe Struker Brian Thomas right here, glad
to be especially on a Friday. It's my favorite time
of week and there's no offense to my listening audience.
I get to exhale after the night, after the mic
goes off at nine o'clock and I don't have to
think about world disorder and problems and insanity until Sunday

(00:56):
morning when I wake up and I turned the laptop
on and I start diving into the news again. So
only get a brief respite from it, but I certainly
enjoy it. And I can't thank you enough for tuning
into the fifty five Cassee Morning Show. And I can't
thank tech Friday's Day have Hatter enough for coming on
every Friday, which has now been named by Million Podcasts
one of the best technology podcasts in the United States.

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He had announced with guys say on Facebook, I'm thrilled
to tech Friday on fifty five. Casey Radio has been
named a Million Podcasts. That is the name of the
organization Million Podcasts. Top one hundred cybersecurity podcasts.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
He said.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
We did not apply nor did we pay for the recognition.
So it's very gratifying that our efforts to provide timely
and helpful information designed to keep you and your family
and your organization productive, resilient, and secure are being recognized
by the industry. It's very cool to make to see
the list with some of my favorite podcasts like Darknet
Diaries and others. So he personally thanked me. He thanked

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Joe Strecker Productions for all the eleven years who've been
doing Tech Friday and interest it. Of course his sponsor
the program, that's his company, so they're at number thirty
nine on the list. The full list he posted on
his Facebook length. So congratulations Dave Hatter. It is a
distinct pleasure to have you on the program every week,
and I can't thank you enough for sharing the information.

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It does keep people out of trouble, or at least
it should if you heed Days Andvice every week. Speaking
of that, everything you say on your echo is sent
to Amazon. There's topic number one everything Big Brothers in
your house. You put it there. Nobody made you go there.
I mean, you know, at least in George Orwell's nineteen

(02:36):
eighty four. You were forced to have the Big but
Brother monitoring system in your home. You guys have brought
it into your own home. Will it mix things easy? Yeah?
Well fine, yeah. I do not understand people's willingness to
just do something like that. I never have. I'm not
going to participate. I refuse to abide. I mean, it's

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bad enough for the device all. Speaking of which teen
eighty four and in the top three stories that we're
going to talking about with Dave Ohio porn bill eighty
four more like nineteen eighty four. That was kind of
my reaction. Also, it's a stupid bill because all you
need to do is get a VPN and pretend like
you're in some other state or country outside the confines
of Ohio, and you can log in without providing your

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facial ID and your your driver's license everything else they
want you to submit to watch porn online. You decide
whether it's appropriate to watch porn online. I do not
like the idea that children have access to it, but
welcome to the world in which we live. There are
protections you can put on your smart devices and your
home devices to prevent your children from accessing it. That
should be your responsibility. But this thing is truly or

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well you know, and I'm glad you're at least from
the topic list. Dave shares my concerns in that regard.
And finally here's another one, moving from echo listening to
literally everything you say and sending it to Amazon. Android
phones are tracking you before you even sign in. Unsettling. Yes,
seven oh five Steve shoemake Dark World Saga Trillly Trilogy.

(04:00):
There's three books you need to go over with Steve.
I guess there are science fiction sort of books, works
of fiction. Not a huge fan of science fiction, Honestly,
I don't read much or I haven't read a whole
lot of science fiction. But Steve will come on the
program to talk about these three books and why they
are relevant to our world today. Corey Bowman running from
mayor Apparently it's going to be a debate next week,

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Corey Bowman back in studio to talk about the Merrill
race and what he's gonna well hopefully offer to the
City of Cincinnati. By way of contrast to aftab per
Ball score to the Phones five on three, seven nine
fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight and two three
talk eight pound five fifty if you got an AT
and T phone, maybe something you want to talk about,
like mister Tuba and the Department of Education. But welcome back,

(04:44):
mister Tuba. How many times you've been playing you play
Happy Birthday over the last week.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
I guess it's somewhere between six and eight.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
There you go every single day he's got He's just
a wonderful guy remembering folks birthday and Tuba out the
Happy Birthday tune. So I appreciate when you do it
on the morning show. Here, mister two, let's say you
want to pivot over and talk about the Department of Education.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
I do.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Indeed, you are aware, and I will inform the audience
at cards. I am a retired teacher, yes, and I
am ecstatic that the Department of Education, at the very
least has been neutered.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
I share your excitement on that. And you know that's
how we end up with woke ideology being taught in
schools in lieu of reading, writing, and arithmetic. I don't
know how the teachers unions can stay can be so
outraged when the scores the nation's testing scores are on
the decline. Baltimore School District alone, there's like thirteen schools there.

(05:46):
Not one single student can read or perform mathematics at
grade level. I mean, how can you defend that? Again
defending the inevinsible and Department of Educations. One of the
reasons that that problem exists.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Help the union teachers. Different teachers join the union for
very complicated reasons. And I was a very reluctant member.
And but the unions are out of control, and they
exist for themselves, and they I will take they do

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not exist for rank and file teachers. But the fact
that we now have fewer education bureaucrats is a step
in the right direction. And I have now I'm now
able to forgive Ronald Reagan for not doing this because
it's getting done. And so that's all I have to

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say about it.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, having been there, mister Tuba, did you capitulate to
pressure when you joined the union? You say you were
a reluctant member. What what will caused you to go
ahead and join the unions by your reluctance?

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, it's it's just terribly terribly complicated. I'm my colleagues
did not particularly pressure me. It's you know, they were
the one they were part of the negotiations with the board.
And keep in mind this is quite a few years ago, sure,
and you know you had this sense of obligation too,

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and to be a part of what you know of
your negotiating.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Can you articulate a syllable as to what they promised
to do for you as a teacher by becoming a
member of the teachers union and paying dues?

Speaker 3 (07:39):
And my brain was simply at the local level, and
I was forced to accept the state and.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
National forced to accept that sounds like pressure being brought
to bear on mister too, But honestly it was.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
It was inner pressure. And it's it's prely complicated.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
And you keep saying it's complicated. It seems to me
a matter of simplicity. What are they offering you that
is making beneficial for you to join the union or
are they not offering you something it's beneficial to join
the union. And you created internal psychological pressure on yourself.
You say that was not predicated on exterior pressure that
you got. You made it up in your own head.
Mister Tuba, I find that little hard to believe.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Honestly, Well, I was no way.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
I was not a libertarian back in those days.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Okay, it was a.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Very very long time ago, and I'm a very different
person from then.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
There's nothing wrong with that, And you know, I mean,
I've evolved over time politically, and I think I'm in
a better place now politically than I was when I
was a radical right winger in high school in college.
But you know that's a political but still I was
dominated by logic and reason, and if something was not
logical or reasonable, if they couldn't come up with a
single thing they were planning on doing for me as

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a consequence of my union dues, that would have said no,
I mean, what's the benefit of belonging to an organization
and paying into it if they're not giving you anything
or they're not doing something favorable for you. And the
idea that you be pressured in some way, and I
think you probably were, in spite of your reluctance to
admitute today, I mean that, you know, that makes it
even more wrong from my perspective. That's why I be

(09:21):
willing to stand and just stand up and out loud
say hell no, you're not going to pressure me to
doing something because you're not offering me anything. Just my take.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yes, Well, I.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Wasn't there, mister Tuble. I don't need to unload on
you this morning. But you brought it up, man, you
brought it up.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
But anyway, I'm I'm just glad that things are turning
out the way they are and that the world has
fewer bureaucrats.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Fewer bureaucrats, amen, and I think maybe a little bit
more oversight, and I'll touch upon that topic when we
come back. You hang in there, my friend. Keep doing
what you're doing. You put a smile on people's faces
every single day with the with the two but happy birthdays.
Appreciate you listening to the show as well. Five fifteen
fifty five k CD talk station got more to talk about,
including the need for more oversight in government where the

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dollars go. A couple of illustrations of that right after
these preports. It's like, indeed, five eighteen gets you out
of bed language and words from let Me.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
Tell you.

Speaker 7 (10:35):
To kill it?

Speaker 2 (10:37):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
You should incorporate some more system of a down into
our bumper music. There, Joe's Moore get out of bed
music anyhow. Five one three, seven two three Talk found
five fifty on AT and T phone we need more
oversight in federal government in terms of where the money's going.
There is literally no oversight at least it appears based
upon the fraud, waste, and abuse that's being uncovered and
a couple of stories I here, get a load of this.

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FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency received two hundred and seventy
thousand applications from purported homeowners as a consequence of those
recent Los Angeles fires. How many homes do you think
were destroyed? Thirteen thousand? Nothing to see here, twenty times

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the number of eligible applicants actually submitted applicants. Now, Apparently,
many displaced residents tried applying for FEMA relief, finding that
someone else had already applied in their name with their
address and locking them out of the system. They attempted
to make the relief funds easier to apply for, but
that resulted in fraudsters making taking advantage. How easy it

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is to game the system. To point it out that
identity theft and natural disasters is not uncommon, especially when
maps for affected areas and addresses are easily available online,
and you have your online real estate sites and your
online auditor sites, all of which identify the names and
owners of the various the real estate property you own.
Apparently only several individuals have been arrested for fraud and

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connection with these grants in the LA Fires. One is
suspected of having collected on a similar fraudulent application for
two decades ago, going back to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Hurry up, rush, throw a whole bunch of money at it.
We learned this with the PPP loans, didn't we ah
tivoting over this one is mind boggling, but it's an

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illustration of what happens when you just throw gobs of money,
American taxpayer money without any oversight. Finally, justice is served here.
Leader of Minnesota Anti hunger nonprofit convicted in US district
court yesterday of masterminding what is described in the reporting

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a brazen scheme reaping more than two hundred and forty
million dollars in pandemic relief funds through a network of
bogus food kitchens that build a government for ninety one
million meals. Leader of the nonprofit, named a woman named
Amy Bach, forty four, convicted by a jury on seven counts,

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including wire fraud and fraud and bribery. Another defendant Salem Said,
thirty six year old who oversaw one of the bogus kitchens,
convicted of twenty counts, including wire fraud and bribery. She
was charged in twenty twenty two. Federal prosecutors set her
scheme was the biggest known fraud against government's COVID nineteen
relief program. At least seventy people were charging the scheme.

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More than forty pleted guilty or have been convicted. Last year,
another case related to the same scandal made national news
when news when someone attempted to bribe a juror in
a separate trial by leaving about one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars cash at her home in a Hallmark gift back.
Five people later charged with bribery in that case. Judge

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Nancy Brazil, after the jury verdict, ordered ms Bach and
mister Sage to remain in jail to await their sentencing.
Charges carry potential sentence more than a decade in prison.
Fraud's gem targeted two programs meant to feed hungry children.
Oh it's the hungry, we need to help them. Oh,
my God, who could stand in the way of feeding
the hungry? Not me, but you know what. How about

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a little oversight Funded by the US Department of Agriculture
administered by the state of Minnesota. The system relied on
non profit groups, which are called sponsors, to be its watchdogs,
allocating financial oversight to some other outside entity that apparently
was involved in the scheme. They were supposed to oversee

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individual kitchens and feeding sites and make sure they were
not inflating the number of children served. Wait for it,
when the pandemic hit, the federal government flooded money into
the program. I'm the problem. Trying to reach children who
apparently out of school and therefore unable to rely on
school lunch is another problem with the lockdown, Right, you

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lock down schools and then turn you turn away kids
who otherwise would have gotten a free school lunch, exacerbating
that problem. Then you create a program with literally millions
and millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to feed the
kids who you locked out of school. The government apparently
also relaxed oversight, putting even more trust in these so
called watchdogs the sponsors. Ms Bach ran a sponsor nonprofit

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called Feeding Our Future. Prosecutors said she'd conspired with dozens
of people to set up two hundred and fifty non
existent feeding operations around Minnesota and use their oversight power
to hide the network from the government. By law, her
nonprofit got a cut of the money. Prosecutors said it
had eventually totalled eighteen million dollars. Now here's where the

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numbers come in. Many thick operations submitted invoices for implausibly
large numbers of children. You know, I'm just drawing a
parallel here the Social Security Administration having thousands and more
than millions of literally impossible to be alive people on
the books. There is no oversight. Thank you Doge for
waking America up for that one. How could this go

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through and have been a thing for so long? Mister
Said's operations said it had fed six thousand children a day,
which was more than all the children in the zip code.
One other instance of a man said he was feeding
five thousand children every night from a location that turned

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out to be a second floor apartment. Prosecutor said that
members of Box network had used the proceeds to sche
on the scheme to buy homes, cars, commercial buildings. Bach
herself funnel more money, funnel money to her boyfriend at
the time, and used it to take trips to Las
Vegas and rent Lamborghinis. Now, Minnesota got suspicious apparently back

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in twenty twenty so they were kind of onto this
fairly early on in the scheme. They tried to stop payments.
Someone wrote wtf after this the nerve and the huevos.
She sued the state government after that, after they stopped payments,
saying the officials were discriminating against her network because it
served many African immigrants and their children. So all this

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day called in the FBI, which then investigated and raided
her home back in twenty twenty two. In the days
after the ray Bach told The New York Times that
she was unaware there had been any fraud in the operations,
and if there was fraud, she said, every test we
have in place, every protection we have in place, didn't

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catch it. Is it possible, absolutely, And if they got
one over on us, I will help hold them accountable. Well,
welcome to the world of karma. Bite in the butt.
Maybe late, but at least it happened. And you think
this is the the only illustration of the kind of fraud,
waste and abuse that's going on. They make it so
easy for people to get money and never ever ever

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look to find out where the money went. Check out usaid,
did that twenty million dollars to fund Sesame Street and
in Iraq? Really go there and do that? Or did
it land in someone else's pocket? Five six fifty five
car CD talk stations stick around more to talk about
local news rather hear from you. If you have a
conversation you want to start, please feel free. I promise

(18:29):
you I won't give you a hard time like I
did mister Tube. But sorry, mister Toobe, I'd be right back.
Thank you for taking me. There you go, Thanks show
five thirty and a happy Friday to you. Get out
of bed music man.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
For some reason, I've been really listening to a lot
of system of Late going Late Bloomer anyhow five one, three, seven, four,
nine fifty five eight hundred D two three Taco Time,
five fifty even et and t phone. Trump signed the
Executive Road yesterday afternoon in to White House ceremony attended
by some Republican governors, including Governor Mike DeWine, who said

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at the meeting today, I joined President Trump and several
fellow governors at the White House to support the President's
proposal to turn education back to the States. Of course,
Trump directed his Education secretary living them and to take
all actionable, all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of
the Department of Education and return education authority to the States.
Also calls for the uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and

(19:38):
benefits on which Americans rely. Your funding isn't going away.
In fact, you may have more flexibility with the funding.
Maybe they just give you a block grant that doesn't
have obligations on your state to teach things like women
can be men and men can be women, and you
must abide DEI and CRT obligations to be taught in schools,
using up valuable time which otherwise would have been serve

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by teaching children mathematics and reading something that actually benefit
their lives. Yeah, well, we can hope for a future
that includes that reality. But for those people wailing and
gnashing tea saying that the funding is going away, there
has been one hasn't been one syllable about taking funding away.
It's just going to grease the skids. So your local
school district didn't have to spend all of its time
filling out paperwork to show they've complied with federal government

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edicts and mandates. Oh, that's one area where they actually
follow it, and they do force you to comply, and
they do monitor and regulate it. Thank you Local story
for Mike to Wine showing up there allowing the to
vent my spleen. Here in Ohio House Republicans approved the
build to overhaul Ohio public universities and colleges over Democrats objections.

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Senate Bill one past the Ohio Representatives fifty eight to
thirty four. We had donovantly on Americans for Prosperity pushing
this one just the other day. Happened pretty quickly. Proposed
law would eliminate diversity, equity and Inclusion program scholarships, and along
those lines, prohibit faculty from striking, prevent universe to use,
from taking positions on what they call controversial beliefs. Maybe
a First Amendment issue on that one, and allow tenured

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professors to be fired after reviews. Universities and colleges that
refuse to comply with the changes will lose state funding,
or at least they risk losing state funding. So that
passed and actually again went really quickly. Let's see here, Well,

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I'll take Pete's call. I can take him before I
move on. We'll see if Pete uses up the time,
or I'll go back to the local stories. Pete, thanks
for calling this morning. Happy Friday, Sam to you, Brian,
thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 8 (21:44):
Hey, on the subject of waste and fraud, it is
must just recently reported he found fourteen computers in the
Treasury Department that he calls the magic computers.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
They just print money out of air.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
I saw that.

Speaker 8 (22:00):
Where it goes or gets it, But it sounds like
those people in Minnesota went a lot more trouble than
whoever's running those computers.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
They make it easy.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yes, I read that article and I you know much
dismay as well as amusement. It doesn't shock me. I mean,
when you start dealing with literally trillions and trillions of
dollars in outlays, and even more than that, beyond what
they take in, they churn out an additional two trillion
dollars in outlays annually. A trillion is a thousand billion,

(22:31):
a billion is one thousand million. You mean you see them,
just mountains and mountains of cash to flow out. Who
could possibly follow the paper trailer that money thro'n't enough
human beings in the United States of America. If they
were all if we were all accountants, we were all
actuaries or you know, trained in following those dollars, I

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don't I think it would overwhelm the entire United States population.
That's the problem. Federal government is too damn big, and
it takes in and spends out too much money. I mean,
we lost our way somewhere along the way, and thinking
the federal government had the solutions of all our problems.
All there's starving children. We need a program for that.
Who could be against that?

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Look how easy it is to build the American taxpayer
just because you, you know, promised and bleed on you
your heart bleeds for starving children. Legitimate cause, yes, an
opportunity for fraud, absolutely, And we've got a declining morality
and ethics problem in this country. I'm not sure if
it's people's you know, straying from the religious norms and

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believing that stealing is a sin, or if it's connected
with something broader, or maybe it's just the Internet that's
created an opportunity for people who otherwise might not have
been able to figure out how to defraud the federal government.
The online forms let you apply. Look, two hundred and
forty thousand people applied for Los Angeles fire relief from FEMA,

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and there's only thirteen thousand burned residents. How did that happen?
I wonder and all Jinda this morning five thirty five,
if stack is stupid, might mellow things out? Please put
a smile on your face? Perhaps don't go away.

Speaker 9 (24:09):
Right back fifty five KRC. In this edition of The
Marketer's Room, of course Friday gotta do that. My friend
Jeffrey chimed in already more primus. It's that time.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
You're right, Jeff, appreciate you. Tenning in the Morning Show
five seven fifty five hundred, eight hundred eight two to three, talk. Wow,

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they've quite a few real horror stories going on the
Stack of Stupid, and why not get the most horrific
one out of the way. I think about I think
about this story in the context of the food service industry.
You know, respect your preparers of your food. If you're
rude to them or angry with them before you get

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your food, bad things might happen behind the scenes. I've
heard stories, Joe, have you heard stories along those lines
as well. No idea what I'm talking about, he said,
in language that I really don't believe him being serious.
We got to Houston, Texas, where a janitor who worked
at a Texas medical facility was just sentenced to six

(25:27):
years in prison for spreading sexually transmitted diseases because he
pede in women's water balls water bottles, what the hell,
infecting at least thirteen women. Proscu's in Houston charged Luccio
Cartino Diaz fifty seven with aggravated assault with a deadly
weapon after epeed or spread bodily fluids other bodily fluids

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use your imaginational water bottles being provided to women and
a Houston area medical office building. Plead a guilty to
one count, receive a light sentence of six years in
state prison. Remaining cases involving the other women dismissed as
part of the plea agreement. Indictments say that he urinated
or touched his penis and bodily fluids into the water
bottles and then placed them on women's desks. New Carney,

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Texas resident reportedly infected with herpes and hepatitis, which spread
to at least thirteen women. According to Fox twenty six.
Houston Reporting Court documents shows several counts of aggravatord assault
the deadly weapon were dismissed for technical reasons. Cases re
indicted in twenty twenty four. Indictments signed by the three
hundred and thirty ninth District Court Judge Teva Bell shows

(26:32):
that Defendse was sentenced to six years at the Texans
Department of Correct Criminal Justice. He got credit for eight
hundred and eighty days he had spent in the Harris
County jail awaiting trial eligible parole eligible parole as early
as two hundred and fifteen days. Women in the East
Houston area medical building became suspicious after tasting and smelling

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the water in a bottle left on her desh later
placed a hidden camera to watch her desk. Video show Diaz,
who worked for a janitorial contract acting company, approaching your desk,
rubbing his you know what on the interior of the
water ball quote, even turning it upwards to ensure he
touched the water. When confronted by police, he admitted to
the crime and was charge of aggravated assault with the

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deadly weapon. By twenty twenty three, at least thirteen women
reportedly tested positive for STDs. Then a lowsuit was fought
against Ez, the cleaning company worked for in the owner
of the medical building. The management company lawsuit seeking one
million dollars in damage, which seems insufficient given the gravity
of these crimes. Thank you, Joe, the.

Speaker 10 (27:35):
Biggest douche of the universe, in all the galaxies, there's
no bigger douche than you. You've reached the top, the
pinnacle of douche dump. Good going, deuce, your dreams have come.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
True, and let this be a lesson. It's probably not
a good idea to leave your wall butter bottle opened
on a table after hours. It could have been, you know,
a reusable water bottle with a screw off lid. Bad
idea to leave it open, because there's crazy people in
the world. Jeez, man, I always worried like hell about

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my daughter being out at bars in colleges and things
like that, because it's so easy to you know, throw
a date, rate job in a drug in a glass.
Never leave your drink unattended, even for a moment. Anyway,
facing arrest for pelting his spouse with his lunch and
a metal spoon, a louisianam, we aren't going to find out.

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Louisiman offered police a rather novel legal take. Investigators alleged
that a recent verbal argument between Willie Cook, fifty eight,
and his wife of thirty five years turned violent when
Cook began throwing food at her. He also allegedly threw
a through a metal spoon, which hit her in the head.
Cop showed up at the Monroe home. They were observed
They observed food on the master bed where the victims

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state of the incident took place. Additionally, police detected a
small lump on the back of the victim's head. After
being read his rights, Cook declared that it was not
unlawful to throw food at his spouse. That claim rejected
by the police. Cook arrested for domestic abuse battery. Thank you,

(29:20):
li Liam. He spent two days in custody before posting
a five hundred dollars bond on the misdemeanor charge. Forty
five fifty five KRCD. Is that a crime? Yes, don't
go away. I got more stupid coming up or phone calls.
It's your choice. Be right back.

Speaker 11 (29:38):
This is fifty five karc an iHeartRadio station.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Called the pros a zero's AIRD five forty nine fifty
five krcdclus station game Friday that part of the day
of had an award winning segment it is. That's so awesome.
He deserves every bit of accolade and praise he can
get because he is awesome at what he does. And
of course I appreciate the information he passes along, even
if it freaks me out, and it should probably freak

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you out too. Before I get to back to the
stack of stupid, Let's see what Kevin's got this morning. Kevin,
thanks for calling a Happy Friday, you sir, Happy Friday.

Speaker 12 (30:09):
Brian want to touch space and get your comments on
the latest daily executive order.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
And which I mean. You're talking about Trump's order on
closing down to the part of education.

Speaker 12 (30:27):
Trying to cut over thirteen and a half percent of
federal funding.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
I'm all for it.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Well, I think that goes to administration and things of
that nature, because by all accounts and all reports from
everybody who's chimed in on the topic, intellected capacity or
appointed capacity has said this will not impact federal money
coming to schools. It's just going to be in the
form of a block rant. As opposed to dollars being
dolled out along with strings attached. At least that's my
take on the matter. So they can cut out fat,

(30:55):
they can cut out excess employment, they can cut out
form filler outers and people who read form from the
school district's reporting on their compliance with DEEI and CRT initiatives.
I view that as a wonderful thing. That's it, okay.
I guess that was the end of the conversation. I
did time on in that earlier in the program too,

(31:16):
at the bottom of the hour, when commenting on Mike
Dewines being there for the issuance of that executive order.
Let us see here go to Boca Raton, Florida. Naked
sixty seven year old book Ratan woman allegedly threatened a
young child and her family with ama chete Machetti, don't Machetti,
don't text for those fans of the Machetee films. Vanessa

(31:43):
red A Boca Cove Circle arrested, remaining in the Palm
Beach County jail as of yesterday morning. A Canadian native
charged with indecent exposure of a sexual organ singular aggravated
assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, according
to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, who wrote in
the report, Deputy M. Russ Russo. Upon arrival, I met
with the victims, who advised the following. They were walking

(32:04):
with their seven month old child when they observed a
white Nissan road driving recklessly through the community, and after
the same vehicle circled the complex, it returned, at which
point they yelled for the driver to slow down. Driver
later identified as Vanessa Reed, then parked, exited the vehicle,
and retrieved the machete from the back seat, then stepped
toward the victims one parking space away from her vehicle,

(32:26):
waving the machete and threatening manner, then shouting obscenities toward
the folks there approximately six parking spaces distance away. Both
baited during their interviews that they were in fear and
they saw the female with the machete, and after a
brief moment, Reid returned the machete to her vehicle and
proceeded to her second floor apartment. Before entering, she lifted

(32:48):
her dress and exposed her genital area in front of
them and the child. Once the victims recorded part of
the incident she was later it later submitted to the
evidence dot Com. Myself and D. S. Johnson went to
Unit six twelve speak with her. She opened the door
yelling obscenities, then slammed the door shut once she discovered
it was the depties at her door and refused to
come out and speak. Community service officer confirmed that there

(33:10):
were cameras of the event. Of course there were there
always are. Based on investigation, probable cause exists to charge
her with aggravated assault with the deadly weapon indecent exposure.
Apprehended by the street team in front of a residence,
she admitted having the machete in her vehicle. When asked
about the e ues, she stated, I just swing it around.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Uh go to Manhattan, New York. Naked guy seen dangling
from a Manhattan building yesterday as police conducted a warrant
operation seven am sixty Amsterdam Avenue. According to sources, the
man was avoiding police, jumped out of the window when
officers enter the building. He dangled from the Manhattan building
until he was recovered by police. Not clear why the

(33:59):
man was the voting police and no word on why
he was naked. How hard is it? I? Wasn't there
to tell you me. Evansville, Indiana police investigating an indecent
exposure call end up with arresting a man for possession
of meth n fetamine. There's your answer to the question
right up front. Officers called a motormart at the quarter

(34:19):
of North Green River Road. Caller told police that a
man walked into the gas station naked. Police got there,
they talked to a witness who said thirty nine year
old Christopher Wolfe was in the bathroom, but actually walked
through the store wrapped in his sheet due to end
quote accident, close quote what an Officers approached him. They
say he was wearing pants but no shirt, was sweating

(34:42):
and off balanced. They searched him, found methan fetamine and
two glass pipes. Arrested and taken to the Vanderburgh County Jail. WHOA,
that's a lot of feces. I think that's the answer
to that question, and got time for another one. Go
to Waco, Texas, where a man was arrested at a
woman found him lying naked next to her juvenile daughter,

(35:03):
who he had sex with earlier in the day.

Speaker 11 (35:06):
Do what the hell?

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Damaran Tyreek Veal eighteen charged with indecency with child sexual
conduct on March fourteenth, after they would say. Police sent
to an undisclosed address after the woman called police saying
she found a man naked lying next to her juvenile
daughter in the bedroom. Age of the juvenile not specified
eighteen year old later identified his veal was still inside
the home, hugging the juvenile victim, and police showed up.

(35:32):
You know, I'm inclined to say I might have asserted
my castle doctrine writes on that one, Joe, you have
children of your own, You have daughters of your own. Anyway,
moving back, officer spoke to the juvenile victim Courdy. She
was initially reluctant to give information about the incident, but
the victim eventually told officers that he performed sexual acts
with her on the morning of March fourteenth. Police found

(35:54):
evidence in the bedroom, including a towel used after the
incident and a condom wrapper on the floor. Officers took
the juvenile victim to the Baylor, Scott and White Hospital
for a safe examination. Bill later arrested and charged booked
into the mcclennan County Jail on a ten thousand dollars
bond where I'm sure his fellow inmates were treating him
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Of course, lots of stories this morning, but let's turn
to the phones first because I see west Sie. Jim's
on the phone. Jim, Welcome back, my friend. It's always
good hearing from you.

Speaker 13 (37:59):
Good morning, Brian Thomas, and a happy happy Friday. Hey,
I might have a solution for our favorite street. Just
a little bit off subject, Sunset. There is an event
today called witty Fest, and basically it should be called
drink Fest. It's a price will chili and it starts

(38:20):
around noon. Well, I'm going to send an invitation to
our lovely Mayor and his nine cronies and tell them
that the fastest and quickest way to Witty Fest is
up Queen City and turn turn up.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Turn on a sunset right, bring you off road vehicle.
They like they might. I doubt any of them have
traveled that direction.

Speaker 13 (38:47):
Well they all, yeah, they all need either a GPS ord,
they need a map. That's for dagon. Sure. But usually
at these events a lot of the Democratic politicians do
show up. Mister Whitty has to do with all these
people when he used to do a thing called Table One,
which was like a mini podcast that was mostly Democrats.

(39:09):
So mister Whitty is very good friends with a lot
of those. But I thought that was a pretty good idea.

Speaker 10 (39:14):
You know.

Speaker 13 (39:15):
They they might see the light and instead of maybe
getting the third snow removal truck, now that the snow's
basically gone for the year, they might just go ahead
and get that get that thing filled in.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Yeah, well it certainly deserves some attention. I have no
idea what he was talking about. Does PG sent thought
every show up at these events anymore, because Joe said
if he does watch your drink, I don't even know
what he means by that.

Speaker 13 (39:41):
Anyhow, well, you have to watch your drink anytime PG.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah, okay, okay, we'll move on. I don't want to,
but well.

Speaker 13 (39:50):
Used the companies. Yeah, he was definitely there every time,
and especially in a year where they're running. Generally the
Democrats do show up for atty other candidates, I should say,
and the city manager will pop her head.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
And I'm sure you know, I like your suggestion, and
the extent they have shown up in the past, maybe
it'll serve to illustrate a profound problem. It's been lingering
around for far too many years. That road is like
it came from a war zone. And I know those
other people out there going, well, what about my road?
And I agree with you, Yeah, what about your road?

(40:22):
Take care of the damn roads and quit building skate
parks or funding non governmental organizations with whatever money you
got laying around. Let's do your blanking job.

Speaker 13 (40:32):
That's skate park. That skate park. She must have relatives
that want to do that. I just don't understand how
they could spend this money and just actually walk with
a straight face going down the streets down city by
City Hall. And you know that, speaking of that, I
drove almost every time I'm downtown across that mural. That

(40:53):
thing's going to have to be redone again, and you
know every time they redo that. I'm not mistaken around
a quarter of a million dollars to paint that mural
out in front of the city Hall.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
You mean the Black Lives Matter one? Yeah, well they
got really one in Washington, d C. So at taxpayer
expenses to put it up and then take it down. Well,
I helpe some of them show up, Jim. I think
it's an outstanding idea that you invite them. So we'll
see if the alignment business increases after their trips up Sunset.

Speaker 13 (41:22):
By the way, Brian real Quick, I was down by
Corey yesterday down his coffee shop, so it's going to
be pretty good to listen to him this morning. He's
got a great little coffee shop down here. I don't
know why everybody wants to pick on him, because here's
a capitalist. You know, basically, he's bringing tax money into
the system and that neighborhood if you drive around when

(41:43):
eventually when you get down to his shop, which I
know you will if you drive around the block on
Dayton Street and all these It's not that bad. There's
some really beautiful homes down I.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Just said that. For years and years I used to
travel and drive them down Dayton Street when I worked
at the courthouse because I was so impressed with the
architect eure and just looked at what how much massive
opportunity there is to rehab those beautiful houses. But apparently
there's rules and regulations that stand in the way of that.
The city has other ideas, at least according to Corey.
He'll be joining the program at eight oh five in studio.
Look forward to that. Have a great weekend, Jim. Always

(42:16):
a pleasure. Let's see what Steve's got this morning, Steve
from Independence. Good to hear from you, Steve.

Speaker 14 (42:21):
Yes, sir. And when I'm on hold, I'm thinking, well,
I'm going to follow west Side Jim. And I was
thinking years and years ago. I followed Bob from Oakley
one time on a phone call, and I mentioned it
to you, and I said it was like an honor
and it's kind of neat to follow west Side Jim.
But it doesn't have the same pash.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Yeah, but it was.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
It was still kind of fun, but it's I missed Bob.

Speaker 14 (42:46):
Bob from Oakley. What a neat guy he was. I mean,
he really was interesting.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Are Brian? I got a file? I got a file?
He always had a file on everything that was even
if you.

Speaker 14 (42:55):
Talked about something he didn't know anything about.

Speaker 12 (42:58):
He that was yeah, he.

Speaker 14 (42:59):
But he did know a lot about really obscure stuff.
Oh yes, he was interesting.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
He's written, he wrote several books on Ohio history. And
a brilliant man he was, and certainly has had a
lasting impact on the morning show. I love you.

Speaker 14 (43:13):
Yeah, I had forgotten about him until you know, it's
amazing how your mind works. But Colin, really for two reasons.
I'm about to turn sixty three, so we're similar. I
retired at sixty two, but I immediately started working a
different job three days a week, so I've got four
days off every week. You can't wipe the smile off

(43:37):
my face. I don't encourage you to do this, but
you really sound the last year or so, I mean,
the schedule is killing you. I can tell you love
what you're doing, but the schedule gets to you. Have
you ever thought of doing it on a four day
a week basis taken you know, three day weekend. I mean,
I think that would do wonders for you. I don't

(43:58):
I don't want you to do it because I like
listening to you. But for your own sanity, you might
you might want to keep it in the back of
your mind and think about it.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Joe chu Is, what about his sanity?

Speaker 14 (44:12):
Well, you know that I cast out was only so
big and only caught. You know, I was only fishing
for a certain type of fish, and I'm not to
think about anyway. I mean, again, it is amazing what
it does for you. I'm glad I'm still productive and

(44:34):
and you know I'm still I'm too young to not
not work. But it's amazing with that, you know, extra
couple of days because I used to work multiple jobs too.
I've worked six days a week, and it's just it's
it's amazing. The other thing I really appreciate when you
do the nutrition stuff. I know you did it yesterday
in case you're wondering if people are interested. I mean,

(44:58):
I'm fascinated by that. And I do have a question
from last week. You had somebody on they were talking
about the sour dough bread your wife makes What was
the problem with that that they that they had.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Well, she was big into MSG and eradicated MSG, and
apparently MSG comes from multiple sources. No, I'm no doctor,
but it was doctor Katie pulling up the book Katie
read and the name of the book, and you can
find it on my blog page along with the podcast
of the conversation Fat, Stressed and Sick MSG Processed food

(45:32):
in America's Health Crisis. And you know, I still firm
the believe that eating homemade bread because it doesn't have
any additives or preservatives, it doesn't have a shelf life
of you know, like half life of plutonium like wonderbread
or whatever, but it tastes a lot better, it's fun
to make, and I think it's better for you. So
I chimed out loud about that, and she said, well,
you know, there are some downsides, which is basically eating

(45:54):
bread generally. So nothing's perfect and I hardly eat any
of it anyway, could my effort to keep carbs out
of my diet. So I'm going to ignore that recommendation
and continue down my path with preservative additive free homemade
our bread Zarado bread from my wife, who is awesome
at making it, and I appreciate you, honey, for doing
it every week. And I appreciate the kind word Steve.

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Here see what Bobby's got this morning. Bobby, welcome to
the morning show. Happy Friday, my brother, back at you,

(48:52):
my friend.

Speaker 7 (48:54):
Hey, I always tell you this in the past and
everything it doesn't change. Let me tell you, my friend,
we appreciate everything you do holding that torch and flag
or freedom up every day.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
I appreciate it. I really do. I really do. It
keeps me going man. Opportunity to talk about freedoms and
liberties and so many people are just so willing to,
you know, give those freedoms and liberties up to the government,
and they always end up wrecking things as a consequence.
So I will not rest as long as they have
the opportunity to do it.

Speaker 7 (49:25):
Do you think Washington Park Board of Directors will take
the opportunity to maybe get a pickleball franchise with the
million and a half dollar skateboard project they're doing.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
I don't know if there's a connection, Bobby, but I
wouldn't put it past them.

Speaker 7 (49:41):
Have they advertised in eastern Kentucky or anywhere you know
with a one hundred mile radius ninety go into this
new venture.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Don't think so you can get your skateboard and to skateboarding.
Head on up there, Bobby, I know you right all
the time.

Speaker 7 (49:57):
I've got two of them right out the back of
the sure you did automobile up. We'll put a calping
on them and everything.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Rip.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
That's it. That's it.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
Don't break something, Bobby. I appreciate your call. Man, have
a wonderful day. Real quick here in the transgender related news.
Got a couple of real quick here is that I
wanted to illustrate the problem got going on here. We
have a High School, Orgon High School student came under
fire for well Oregon High School. The student, the school
itself took some heat for allowing a transgender athlete. This

(50:26):
will be a man participating as a woman in track
and field, and it happened before, and it just happened again.
Running as a eight of Gar Gallagher is the name
of this man. Woman ran as a tenth grader McDaniel
High School in Portland finished first place in the tunor
meter and foreigner meter races during the Interscholastic League. In

(50:48):
twenty twenty four, well at it again. Eleventh grader, now
on the track Portland Interscholastic League, finished more than seven
seconds better than the rest of the field in the
four hundred meter time fifty seven point six to two,
and the next of the girl who came in second
had a one zero five point seven to two. Pretty

(51:09):
substantial difference that which makes perfect sense since men have
a biological advantage over women, even if they claim their women.
The biological biological advantage remains. In the twitter meter race
twenty five point seven to six, the transgender child ran
and the next in line twenty seven point three to one,
and both season records one actual user observe. The experience

(51:34):
must be so demoralizing for these girls, you look back
later and be much more infuriated. Infuriated, especially if you
have children of your own. The girls should all just
start refusing to run and it will soon end. Yeah. Now,
The Oregon School Activities Association has a gender identity participation
policy that quote allows students to participate for the athletic
or activity program of their consistently asserted agender identity while

(51:58):
providing a fare and safe environment for all students. Somebody
wrote ha exclamation point after that. As with Rule eight
point two, they wrote, regarding duration and eligibility, rules such
as this one promote harmony and fair competition among member
schools by maintaining equality of eligibility and increase the number
of students who will have an opportunity to participate in

(52:21):
interscholastic activities. Somebody wrote, bs, run as a guy, You've
got an opportunity run as your biological sex. Maine University
capitulated to Donald Trump's Title nine rules and said, no,
we will no longer allow men to participate as women.
So there's a victory there, and the University of Pennsylvania
federal funding pause has maybe caused some people to react

(52:41):
one hundred and seventy five million in federal funds of
the University of Pennsylvania over its inclusion of transgender students
at women's sports. Many women who had to compete against
alongside former transgender UPenn summer Lea Thomas have spoken out
in celebration. The issue is Statement of Fox nineteen, but
they also filed a lawsuit and one of the things

(53:02):
I learned in this According to lawsuit, Leah Thomas introduced
by women's swimming head coach Mike Schnuerr to the women's
swimmers during a team meeting in Fallow twenty nineteen, schnur
allegedly told the women that swimmers that Thomas would not
be sharing a locker room with them when they asked.
After the initial introduction, he officially began to practice and
compete with the women's swimmers and Fallow twenty one, that's

(53:23):
when female swimmers said they well discovered that the coaches
alleged claim was not true. He showed up and got
undressed and dressed in the women's locker room in addition
to competing against women, plaintiffs alleged and here's where I
got really upset. University administrators pushed pro trans ideology onto
them through the process of accepting Thomas on the team.

(53:45):
In the locker room, former swimmers say they were led
to feel their concerns over being being teammates with Thomas
were rooted in a psychological problem. Quote. The UPenn administrators
told women that if anyone was struggling with accepting Thomas's
participation in the UPenn swimming team, they should seek counseling
and support from something called CAPS, as well as the

(54:10):
LGBTQ Center. The administrators also invited the women to talk
to a talk titled trans one oh one. Thus, the
women were led to understand the u Penn's position was
that if a woman on the team had any problems
with a transidentifying male being on her team, that woman
had a psychological problem and needed counseling. Oh so it's

(54:34):
the people who believe in biological reality are the ones
with this psychological problem, not the guy thinking he's a woman.
Ah right, okay, six six If you I have CARECD
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are standing up to this nonsense. Note again, look at
the world records in any sport. Look how much went
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Speaker 16 (56:55):
Yeah, Brian, I think most people just don't really understand
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find so much of this technology that has now worked
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They make everything opt in and you have to opt
out of it rather than being you know, consumer focused
and saying hey, here's a feature and you can opt

(57:58):
into it if you want. So Amazon's email essentially said,
if you have an Echo and you use Alexa, you'll
no longer be able to store any recordings that makes
locally on the device. So I want to also point
out we've talked about this before.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Studies have been done.

Speaker 16 (58:16):
There was one a couple of years ago where they
took devices like this, put it in a room, turned
on a TV, and just waited and let it run
for twenty four hours to see how often would these
things activate even when you didn't say Alexa or hey,
Siri or whatever the wake word is. It'd be interesting
to see how many we just set.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Off this pint exactly.

Speaker 16 (58:33):
But all of that said that I encourage people go
see for themselves the results of this study. You probably
won't be happy. And it's because these things are geared
to be easy to use, right, And if I make
it too hard, if the window is too narrow for
when it activates when I ask it to do something,
it's going to frustrate people. So it's activating more than

(58:53):
it should in most cases. And then now whatever whatever
gets captured is not stored locally, and locally it's going
to be sent to Amazon servers reportedly. Well, there have
been many allegations in the past. There have been lawsuits
in the past about storing kids' voices, human workers at

(59:13):
Amazon listening to these things purportedly to make it work better.
And now the idea is because of new enhanced AI capability,
things like oh, I'll be able to know that it's
Brian rather than Dave talking to it. So when you
say give me my calendar, it would know my calendar
redder than yours, So you know, I get what they're saying.
You know, many have speculated this has more to do

(59:35):
about generating more revenue, but bottom line is you're going
to have significant functionality limitations on the device if you
attempt to not you, if you don't disable the feature
that says store locally, the thing basically won't be useful anymore.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
And that's just the way it's going to be.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Well, the simple solution to all of this just disabled
the device completely and not use it anymore. How's that, Dave?

Speaker 16 (01:00:00):
You know, my answer for people with all of these
Internet and things, it's the best use is just throw
it in the garbage and move on. You know, I
don't even have syrianabled on my phone and it seems
crazy to people, but you know, I just I just
type on it when I want something, Brian, I don't
want it listening to me.

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I just get to throw out of that, Dave, that's
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world listening to us.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
Again, I couldn't do it without you and Jim.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
No, it's listen man. This is a public service you're doing,
and an opportunity to say, Okay, great idea in theory,
but terrible idea and execution. Are elected officials in Columbus
here in Ohio trying to keep kids away from pornography,
and I understand the motives for doing that. But I
hate I think this just demonstrate they really don't know

(01:04:01):
a whole lot about tech because a simple answer in
response to the proposed legislation, which of course i'll let
you elaborate on, is a VPN.

Speaker 16 (01:04:09):
Yeah, it's like you, Brian, I understand what they're trying
to do. And you know, I'm old enough to remember
in the three web days where you know, when I
was a teenager, if I want to go into a store, yeah,
that was going to you know, sell let's just say
blue material. You know, I might not be allowed in
if I wasn't eighteen or twenty one or whatever. But

(01:04:31):
to your point, it wasn't like, you know, we might
not go to the neighbor's house and find their dad's
collection or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Yes, I grew up in a neighborhood with a lot
of big Catholic families, and they always had older brothers
who would provide access to that kind of material if
you were looking for it. So there's always a way
a workaround, Dave.

Speaker 16 (01:04:47):
Yeah, fort Wright is heavily Catholic as well, Brian, So yes,
I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Now. I'm not suggesting that Catholics, you know, are are
prey or you know, keep up people, these were older
boys in the neighborhood you were able to acquire.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
Yeah, yeah, lots of kids, older brothers. Yeah, I get.

Speaker 16 (01:05:03):
I'm one hundred percent on board with you. So it's
the concerns raised about this, I think are legitimate. And
you know right now, we've already got the Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act. It's been on the books for a
long time since you've got to be thirteen. D these
social media sites other states have tried this. It's again,
I understand what they're trying to do, and I think

(01:05:24):
it makes sense that you don't want your ten year
old getting access to hardcore porn online. But the approach
of you're going to have to enter some sort of
information that would prove that you are who you are
and that you are at the right age, that gets
really tricky. Do you want these companies having access to
potentially sensitive data like your driver's license and driver's license number?

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Yeah, I'm saying no, I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
That's just it's going to third parties too.

Speaker 16 (01:05:54):
Yeah, it's again, I think they mean well, I understand
the intentions of it, but I think the execution of
it will be very difficult. We've already seen how things
like Kappa have not put a dent in kids getting
on these websites and so forth. And the less sensitive
information there is about you out there in the world

(01:06:16):
at this point, the better off you'll be, simply because
even if company A, the first party that you're sharing
this with, does everything right, if they have to share
it with any third party for any sort of reason,
like to actually perform the verification service, well now you
have to trust that they'll do the right thing, they
have the right security, they won't get hacked again. And

(01:06:38):
I know a lot of people are going to say, well,
all my information's out there already, Well maybe it is,
maybe it is not. Though, Yeah, the more hands it's in,
the more difficult it is for you to avoid unfortunate
situations in the future, because you know, once the bad
guys get a hold of your sensitive information, they can
really upend your life. See that Disney programmer who downloaded

(01:07:02):
some malware inadvertently and now his whole life is just
completely wrecked as a result. So arla Alo, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
Alo.

Speaker 16 (01:07:11):
The company that is the parent company of porn Hub
has weighed in on this, and actually, if you read
their full statement. They basically suggest and I think this
makes the most sense. And we've talked about pernal controls before.
You know, whether it's your Windows based PC, whether it's
your Android or Apple phone, you have parental controls built

(01:07:31):
into these devices that can perform some of this filtering.
Your Internet service provider will have internet controls. Your cellular
carrier or have internet controls. This is where it gets
kind of tricky, is where do you implement the controls
to cover as many or all devices and or try
to have a set of controls in depth. So if
you're if your kids are savvy and they figure out

(01:07:53):
how to get around one, you might block them with another.
There's software out there like net nanny. It's specifically designed
to do this, and I tend to agree with them.
We would be better as a society and you would
be better off with personal data you might need to
supply if you were going to use these not being
out there and instead saying okay, as a parent, I'm

(01:08:15):
going to get my kid's devices. I'm going to get
any devices they would have access to in my house,
and I'm going to lock these things down. Now that
doesn't prevent your kids from going to the neighbor's house
where they.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
Haven't done this. Like you said at the beginning, Bruer, Right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
George Carlin records were not allowed in the Thomas household,
but right next door with the older brother, we did
have access to the Seven Dirty Words and other George
Carlin adult material. Richard pryor Amen, they could go on.
And remember, it was so funny if you had a
law like this implemented, if you go to a VPN
that makes it look like you're in some other state,

(01:08:50):
one that may not have this, and you will be
able to have access to the pornography without inputting your
driver's license and photograph and all that recognition software stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Exactly correct.

Speaker 16 (01:09:00):
And that's a perfect example of how so much of
this technology cuts both ways. I mean, VPNs are a powerful,
legitimate tool to secure your corporate data, to provide anonymity,
but because of the way they work to your point prime, Yeah,
I mean, I can fire up my Proton VPN and
I can make it appear that I'm coming out of
Finland right now, exactly.

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Speaker 16 (01:10:53):
Yeah, more bad names, Brian, but not a shocker to you,
I'm sure, and real quick. I want to give a
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(01:11:14):
this goes back to comments that made in the first
segment and that you and I talk about almost every week.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
Again, what is frustrating to me?

Speaker 16 (01:11:21):
About so much of this stuff is we're in this
surveillance capitalism model where whether it's Internet of Things devices
which technically your phone would fall into, or you know,
anything that's free online or low cost. You know, they'll
practically give this stuff the way or they will give
it away because the real money is not in selling
you a piece of hardware. It's not in the software

(01:11:43):
that's in the hardware, except to the extended collects your data,
which they can then use to turn around and market
all kinds of information to you, persuade you, some would say,
manipulate you.

Speaker 14 (01:11:52):
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Speaker 16 (01:11:53):
And you know Google is at the top of the
heap of this sort of thing, right Alphabet, the parent
company of Google and Google and all the brand underneath it,
make almost all of their money from collecting your data.
I mean, it's really hard to find a product you
can buy from Google directly unless you're a business like
you know, keywords and that sort of thing. And if

(01:12:13):
you have an Android phone. Researchers at Trinity College in
Dublin did some study and they found that all kinds
of information is being collected by your Android phone. Now
it's interesting too, because you know, Android is an operating system.
Pixel is the Google hardware. Android runs on other phones
like Samsung and so forth. And I also, I always

(01:12:34):
like to be clear to people, I'm not saying that
other tech companies, including Apple, aren't doing similar kinds of things, right.
It's just that Apple, for example, because they're the main
competitor and Android in this space, tends to be a
lot more privacy and security friendly in there because their
business model is different. They are selling you hardware and software.
I'm not saying they're not collecting your data, and I'm

(01:12:55):
not saying they may may not eventually sell it, but
that's not their primary revenue driver.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
It is. It's the hardware and software and services. But
it is for Google.

Speaker 16 (01:13:03):
Yes, it's your data. And so through this study they did,
they say, researchers found multiple identifiers are used to track
the user of an Android handset, even before they have
opened a Google app, were signed into their Google account.
Pre Installed apps like Google Play services and Google Play
Stores send cookies, identifiers, and other data to Google servers

(01:13:24):
without user consent.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
Ding ding ding ding ding. The thing that makes me insane.
People don't understand this, and you know, even.

Speaker 16 (01:13:31):
If they had some idea of it, it's usually very
difficult to opt out of these things, right.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Can you delete them? Can you delete the Google Play
Store app from the phone and prevent this from happening?

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
I believe the answer is no.

Speaker 16 (01:13:45):
And if you did that now I haven't used an
Android in a long time, really since twenty seventeen because
of these kinds of things. I believe the answer is no,
because if you did that, then you wouldn't be able
to update other apps on the phone that you need.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
Yeah, but if you don't own more the apps on
the phone, well, let's.

Speaker 16 (01:14:01):
Say, for example, Brian, if you're a business user and
you need to install Outlook to do your thing right,
Like I use Outlook on my Apple phone every day
for work and for the city and all kinds of
different things. Well, I want those important Outlook updates, whether
it's bug fixes that impact the usability or security updates.
So if I couldn't get an Outlook updated, then I'd
fall into the trap that we talk about all the

(01:14:23):
time of updating your software. So you know, Google Play
Store and Google Play Services are an important component to
making sure the apps you've installed on the phone are updateable.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 16 (01:14:36):
So I understand your question, and I understand why you're
asking it, But even if you could do it, which
my guess is you probably can't, it would leave a
smoking hole in the capabilities of the phone.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
Okay, well, I just disabled mine. Sadly, I do have
a Samsung Android based system I have for years and
years and years, much to your stagrain and mind included.
But I pressed on the Google play Store. It says
I can uninstall it, and it says I can disable it.
So I just disabled it, which means I can re
enable it down the road, I suppose.

Speaker 16 (01:15:06):
Well, yeah, I would assume that's probably true. And again,
in order to get updates, Yeah, I don't care. I'll
I'll have to look into that something.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
Yeah, why don't you do that? You can put an
interesting fact sheet on how you can better protect your
privacy from these intrusive entities and a step by step fashion,
so idiots out here like me who have this operating
system can successfully navigate deleting all the things on here
that we really don't want or that are tracking us
and that kind of thing. How about that?

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
Yeah? I like it.

Speaker 16 (01:15:35):
But the point they make in here is there's all
the stuff that's being collected again without your consent, before
you've even really done anything. And they go on to
say since there is no ask for consent. This is
in the malware Bytes article talking about this research. Since
there's no ask for consent, there's no way to opt out. Ironically,
Google explains one of the advertising analytics cookies, the DSID
cookie as quote used to identify a signed in user

(01:15:58):
on non Google sites that the users adds personalization setting
is respected accordingly, So they give you a cookie you
didn't know or want, and they make it possible for
advertisers to quote respect your settings even though they don't
even know who you are yet. It's it's just you know,
it's a way to track you, collect your data, aggregate

(01:16:19):
your data, and push more content to you. Again, there
is the legitimate personalization angle. I'm not saying that that
isn't valuable potentially to people, because you know, if you're
looking to buy X and you get an ad for X,
well that might be helpful to you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
But that's not really what this is about, right.

Speaker 16 (01:16:37):
It's the ability to collect as much data about you,
build a very detailed mental map of what you do,
what you buy, what you're interested in, and then push
that sort of stuff to you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
So yep, it was completely.

Speaker 16 (01:16:51):
Yes, I encourage people that they should go read this
malware bytes article. I'll post it in the notes when
I put that up because they go into more detail
and then you can dig down into the full study itself.
But again, this isn't unique to Google. They're just notorious
for this sort of thing. And you know that's just
the way it works if you are on any Google
based platform.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
Always makes me feel bad every time we talk on that.
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Speaker 16 (01:17:26):
Hatter Well, thank you, Brian. I appreciate you and Joe
and all your listeners and talk to you next Friday.

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I was six at fifty five air c DE talk station.
A very happy Friday to you, please. Welcome to the
fifty five Percy Morning Show. Author and local author, most
known for being the wife of Taya Shoe May Because
she's awesome and she's a great homeschooler. What Joe, oh,
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(01:18:29):
Shuemake is a local author of a trilogy, the Dark
World Saga Trilogy, which apparently began decades ago when he
was a teenager. He wrote a hundred pages or so
that ultimately become his first book, and at the prodding
of his better half, put pen to paper and actually
churned out these books. Welcome to the program, Steve. It's

(01:18:49):
a pleasure having you on. How is your better half doing?
If I can ask that first, you sure can.

Speaker 18 (01:18:54):
I gotta say that my wife Tya absolutely loves your show, Brian.
She she's on here we are in Tennessee, and she
is still dialed in every single morning.

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
I'm still pleased to know that I think the world
of her and all the things that she's done on
behalf of homeschool and just a true advocate for true
education of our children. So she's one of the pioneers
and along those lines, and it's not easy to do,
but she certainly put everybody toge in touch with the
resources that allowed them to pursue what she had done
and what you had done. So God bless her and

(01:19:25):
good morning Teya. I'm glad to know that you're listening.
I appreciate that, Steve. These books are fantasy books, am
I correct and categorize them? It's not nonfiction? It's fiction,
but within fiction there's multiple different subgenres. So how would
you characterize these books?

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:19:41):
Correct, it's epic fantasy in the same lineage, if you will,
as Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones or
anything along those lines.

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
Okay, And I was just gonna I was gonna comment
I think the Lord of the Rings trilogy those the
last fantasy books I read. I honestly, I'll be honest
with you, the the genre has never compelled me. There's
just so much just classic literature that I love, and
you know, all kinds of other like nonfiction, and just
never gravitated gravitated towards fantasy. I think that series I

(01:20:10):
read when I was in junior high school. But beyond
my comments, this is what you're here to do is
help us through this. What was the purpose of the
first book is something beyond just telling a fantasy story.
I mean, I presume that there's messaging in there, as
there usually is in literature.

Speaker 18 (01:20:26):
Yeah, for sure. I sought out to set out to
create what I hoped was an interesting story. But the
way that I went about doing it was I took
for inspiration three attributes that most people around the world
ascribed to God. And so the first was about wisdom,

(01:20:50):
and Book one is called in Pursuit of Wisdom, and
the second is security or protection, and so book two
is in Need of Protection. And then I got pretty
busy at my building a firm here in town, consulting firm,
and it took about an eight year hiatus, much to
the dismay of some of my readership. But finally Book

(01:21:12):
three has come out, and I chose justice, which I
think is a fairly timely, fairly relevant to our culture
today attribute the people look for from a higher power.
And so Book three is called in search of Justice,
and that is coming out in print on April seventh.

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
Oh, congratulations on the new one. I'm pleased to know
that you're still hard to work on. I guess you're
a fan of CS lewis work. Then it sounds like
it's got shades of C. S. Lewis for sure.

Speaker 14 (01:21:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:21:44):
I took inspiration from a lot of different authors. I
think most authors would admit that, but CS. Lewis is
certainly high among them. Tolkien. I think everybody has to
tip their cat if they're going to write in this
genre to Tolkien. But even some of the more recent works,
like I love some of you know, I love some
of Stephen King's sudden plot twists in his Horror. I

(01:22:08):
hate his endings. I think a lot of people do. Yeah,
And even some of the other authors, like Susan Collins,
they wrote pretty strong female characters without turning the men
in their stories into into melli mouthed whimps, and so
I like that aspect too. I mean, a lot of
my female characters are pretty strong, but not at the
expense of the male characters either. So I just took

(01:22:30):
inspiration from a lot of different areas.

Speaker 1 (01:22:32):
Fair enough well, in pursuit of wisdom, the first book
in the series. You create this this realm, you have
this other world. It's not a place in the United States.
It's not a place on our globe for example. It's
it's a different land somewhere, a fiction land it is.

Speaker 18 (01:22:50):
Yeah. So the the interesting tidbit there, for a lot
of the Catholics in the Cincinnati community, you may be
familiar with a around around Easter or not Easter, but
though sometimes around Easter a tenebrae service, which is a
dark lights out service on Good Friday. And Tenebra I

(01:23:14):
took his inspiration as the name of the world because
it is the dark world saga and Tenebray is Latin
for darkness. And so that's actually the whole theme of
this book, these this this trilogy is it's a world
that has fallen away from the One True God and
and what that entails. And in part it's it's a

(01:23:37):
it's a quest to kind of rediscover a little bit
of the light.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
A question.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
And I was just going to ask you, this is
a quest book. It's like the quest and I don't
mean to be loose with this. For the Holy Grail,
you have been issued a challenge. There's something that the
main character is after or in search of.

Speaker 18 (01:23:53):
Yeah, there's a there's several main characters and and and
several main villains. But yes, there is a quest that
is part of the part of the motor that drives
the narrative forward. But I would say that it's a
lot more about the interactions and the character arcs, if
you will, of the various protagonists involved, for sure. But yeah,

(01:24:16):
there's definitely quests. For I took, for example, each of
those attributes of God and I embodied them into an artifact,
and so getting that artifact, the Staff of Insight, the
Shield of Life, and then in this book, the Blade
of Righteousness are just objects if you will, that they

(01:24:36):
compel the characters action moving forward.

Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
Gotcha parallels though with the divine for sure, Okay. And
in need of protection, I note that the notes indicate
when war comes, where do people turn for protection? And
I am going to anticipate that we should be a
little introspective and kind of learn to swim on our
own and maybe with the help of God.

Speaker 18 (01:25:02):
Yeah, I don't want to give too much away for us,
but yeah, there is you know, at the core of this.
I think that each book, uh, you know, I think
provides a perspective and should force you to think. I mean,

(01:25:22):
there's a little bit of philosophy. Hopefully it's an entertaining
story regardless of your religion, but it would be impossible
to read these and not pick up some threads of philosophy.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
Good Well, philosophy is another area of a literature that
I'm very very much a fan of. So'm I good
to get something out of this. Steve Shuemake, author of
the trilogy, And finally.

Speaker 18 (01:25:45):
Tonless questions, I mean, if they're you know, the the
hook for book one was if there is a God,
why do bad things happen to good people?

Speaker 1 (01:25:54):
The eternal question.

Speaker 18 (01:25:55):
That's a question that's been asked by by people for thousands.

Speaker 1 (01:25:59):
Of you, Brian, you know, am I going to response
to that? I don't get out in dark passage here?
But he doesn't, you know, God doesn't necess you know,
not gonna let you win the lottery or make you
win the lottery. I think the people who use prayer
as a mechanism to ask for stuff and things or
on a bad parallel or on a bad path, you're
supposed to use prayer. You're supposed to use prayer for introspection.
You're talking to it all, seeing, all knowing power who

(01:26:21):
can see through your bs if I may be so bold,
so you can't lie to him. And it challenged you
to find out you know where you are in your
life and why things are going on in your life
that sometimes have a negative impact, and perhaps learn from them.
And that's the point I wanted to make. Bad things
do happen to good people, but maybe they provide a
vehicle for us to learn something like, for example, spend

(01:26:42):
a lot of time with the people you love because
the world's an imperfect place. They may get hit by
a train tomorrow. You know, that's just one little lesson.
I wish I had spent more time with them. So
start doing that. Call your mom up every day, you
know what I'm saying exactly, or don't do stupid stuff, Steve.

Speaker 18 (01:26:59):
But these are the These are the types of questions
that I think make the book compelling, whether you're a
fan of this genre or not, because it's they've been
asked in there. Everybody goes through life and they ask
these types of questions.

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
Well, and the second one is fed by the where
do we find protection during perilous times? And again I
think people quite often look to leaders, which of course
is part of your next your third book that's coming out.
When leaders fail, who administers justice? But where do we
find protection during perilous times? What's the sort of tease

(01:27:32):
on that component of the second book?

Speaker 18 (01:27:35):
Yeah, a great question you really need when when times
get tough. This is you know, my philosophy is, you know,
we all should seek virtue. But what happens when the
people in charge don't have virtue? What happens when the
leaders and the characters in my book, in my world

(01:27:57):
involved aren't always the most virtuous and you uh, and
and governments fall, kingdoms fall, and you're left with chaos.

Speaker 2 (01:28:07):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:28:08):
Hopefully what people take away from that is that, you know,
you you look to God. I mean, you should be
looking towards something that is a little bit more stable
than what you know, who's president today and who's gone tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:28:25):
Well, also there's provide, there's there's his times provide opportunities
for us to reflect on not repeating the mistakes of others.
Another interesting lesson. We can learn from the bad things
that happen to good people. Don't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:28:37):
And of course that the third book, When Leaders Fail,
Who Administers Justice? It couldn't be a more timely book
for your third release, Steve.

Speaker 18 (01:28:47):
Everybody is I think everybody has been you just look
at the results of the last election. I think everybody
has been craving, craving some semblance of justice for you
know what has been done to this country over the
last several years.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
So certainly timely, Amen, Steve. I hope you have a
wildly successful writing career, and I encourage my listeners to
head on over to fifty five cars dot com where
Joe Strekker has updated my page. You include a link
to the Dark World saga. You've got your personal link,
You've got you on x pro s. Hope people can
follow you, and then of course the links to the
Amazon pages where they can buy the books. Steve, it's

(01:29:23):
been great talking with you, and congratulations smart men Mary
Smart and you clearly did that with Taya. Love her
and keep up the great work when the other books
come out. You've got a place to talk about him.

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in Wilder, Kentucky that'll be listened to the next listener
in lunch April second, and an opportunity for some fellowship
get out of the house, support a local restaurant and brewery,

(01:31:12):
enjoy yours still some really good food and the fellowship.
Is the reason I bring that up because I see
there's a UN poll. Yes, I know it's from the UN. Nonetheless,
United States fell to its lowest happiness rank ever due
to a rise in the number of Americans eating their
meals alone at least one of the factors that was
contributed to the rank down to twenty fourth place in

(01:31:33):
the globe. Our highest showing was eleven. They've been doing
this report since twenty twelve. For its part, we're doing
a lot better than Afghanistan ranked is the unhappiest country
in the world, I think again. And then Finland described
as the world's happiest country for the eighth consecutive year
according to this what is called World Happiness Report, Happiness

(01:31:58):
rankings based on a three year average of individual's self
assessed evaluation of life's satisfaction, as well as GDP per
capita social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and corruption. Well,
I could circle a few words in that litanine describe
maybe why we're going down in the happiness rankings anyway,

(01:32:21):
But if eating together, and they did cite that specifically
and held that out as one of the things, it's
where we come together. The number of people of dining
alone in the United States, they say, is increase fifty
three percent over the past couple of decades, noting that
sharing meals is strongly linked with well being. And maybe
that's why I always have such a great time and
get to meet the listeners. You're all just a bunch
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(01:32:44):
great conversations, smiles on people's faces, getting out of the house,
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Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
Okay seven thirty here fifty five KRCD talk Station Happy
for Friday. Corey Bowman running from there of the city.
Sinceinny returns of the Morning show eighth five in studio
the debate next week. I guess they agree to it
in a debate. That'd be a good thing, and I
hope he does well, so we'll see what he has
to say together in the eight o'clock hour. Feel free
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Lunton Fish Fry list which is posted every Friday. Thank
you Joe Schrekker for that. And there are a lot
of fish fries out there. It's broken down by how
Kentucky and Indiana, soverybody can find a fish fry in
their neighborhood. What else is going on? Over to Columbus,
Ohio marijuana enthusiasts apparently brought their own marijuana to the

(01:36:04):
Ohio State House orly to prevent Republican lawmakers from passing
proposed restrictions on the recreational weed. Right a joint on that. Well,
apparently our elected officials in Columbus do at least the
quantity anyway, if you're twenty one years older here in
Ohio right now, you can smoke, vape and just marijuana individually,
you can grow up to six plans. But if you
live in a household with others, you can grow up

(01:36:26):
to twelve. Man that's a lot of weed anyhow, whatever, Yeah,
but the two and a half marijuana two and a
half ounces of marijuana in all forms except for concentrates,
you only have fifteen grams of lows. The law gives
ten percent of the tax revenue from each marijuana sale

(01:36:47):
to four different venues, including thirty six percent to something
called a social justice equity or social equity fund to
help people disproportionately impacted by marijuana related laws. I don't
even know what that means. Sounds like a big ten
to put your hand in and grab money. Anyway, thirty
six percent to host cities, ones that have dispensaries, and

(01:37:08):
twenty five percent to state's Mental Health Addiction Services Department. Finally,
three percent to the state's Cannabis Control Department. Well, senates
already passed legislation. Senate President Rob McCauley from Napoleon believes
the voters didn't really know what everything that was that
they were voting for. He said Senate Bill fifty six

(01:37:29):
should be signed to law. This which has already passed,
makes dozens of restrictions of the cannabis access. Most notably
limits THCHC content and reduces home growing to six total plants.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:37:42):
I don't know how they test this in the field,
but if you, especially if you're grown at home, the
psychoactive cannabinoid THHC would be capped at one hundred milligrams
per package. I guess that said license or authorized dispensaries
also primarily reduces the allowable THHC levels and adult use
extracts from a maximum of ninety percent down to seventy percent.

(01:38:06):
I guess you just take more of it, huh. Any
other type of marijuana product like the edibles would be
limited ten milligram for serving in one hundred milligrams per package.
They eliminated the social equity fund that I just mentioned,
so that's gone in this bill. House bill won sixty
similar but it keeps homegrowing the same at twelve plants.
Finance House Chair of Brian Stewart Nashville disagrees with McCauley

(01:38:28):
on the home grow, saying, listen, it's already been legal
for two years, so it doesn't make sense to change it.
I think exercising a measure of common sense in the
real world. Folks who are growing twelve plants today are
not likely to grow less than twelve plants just because
we passed the law in the state House. Well, you
can say that about a lot of laws, can't you. Anyway,
it does reduce THHC just like the Senate bill, cy

(01:38:52):
see the same amount. I believe, unlike the other chamber
of House would not limit the number of milligrams in
a package a closed container would pick up at a dispensary,
while the Senate caps at one hundred milligrams, keeps the
excise tax at ten percent, changes where the revenue goes,
putting it directly into the Marijuana Receipts Fund which was
created to which is created in the State Treasure's office.

(01:39:13):
It will be able to earn investment in the state,
will be able to manage tax refunds as needed. Joe's
little Jaden cynical and skeptical about that one. Hut, Joe, Eh,
just like the railroad fund anyway. Senate Bill one passed

(01:39:37):
out of the High House Representatives fifty eight to thirty four,
largely long party lines. It would eliminate diversity equity inclusion
programs and scholarships, prohibit faculty from striking p prohibit universities
from taking positions on controversial beliefs, and allow tenured professors
to be fired after reviews. There's a quick turnaround on
that one. So if you don't follow the new law,

(01:39:59):
then you lose is your state funding at your university.
It's a lot more complex than the litany I just
gave you, but I do believe in the taking positions
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Speaker 1 (01:42:24):
Here if you have KCD talk station. Very happy Friday
to you. Looking forward to the top of the hour
because after the news, Corey Bowman will be in studio
running from Mayor City, Cincinnati under the Republican Moniker tough
battle ahead. Can he do it? It's gonna be a
debate next week. We'll talk to him about that, and
let's talk to Rob. Rob was kind of to the
call this morning. Rob. Welcome to the program. Happy Friday
to you, Bright, Happy Friday.

Speaker 6 (01:42:46):
I had a question about the bills that you're talking
about with the marijuana usage. What in them prevents the
second hand from anyone who's wandered want around the streets
with him? I mean, we passed the smoking band to
prevent secondhand smoked from affecting people.

Speaker 1 (01:43:02):
What about this, Well, from what I hear, it's it's
waft The fumes are wafting around everywhere, So I guess
it's something we're just gonna be used to. I don't
think you can can't you can't legally smoke weed in
a bar. I don't think because those are no smoking establishments.
But you know they do have those hookah bars. How
did the hookah bars get around that Vand he asked

(01:43:23):
out loud, No, I wouldn't know.

Speaker 6 (01:43:24):
Either a friend of mine or she, you know, gets
stubble with migraines being around that crap.

Speaker 1 (01:43:29):
So yeah, yeah, it's it. You know, this is a
societal problem we'll have to live with.

Speaker 2 (01:43:34):
But I I am.

Speaker 1 (01:43:35):
I'm under the belief, although I can't say definitively that
there are restrictions about where you can smoke weed much
in the same way there are restrictions about where you
can smoke cigarettes and cigars. So I don't think you're
gonna have to be dealing with it at the ballpark. Uh,
maybe other outdoor areas where it's already where smoking is
already restricted. But not a definitive expert on the topic,
my friend, really truly not. But it's a good point though,

(01:43:59):
because I trust me Rob, I have heard so many
people complain about having to deal with the marijuana smell.
I mean, you know, we had friends in California and
they complain about it, and you read articles about it.
It's like, oh my god, this is twenty four to seven.
You live in an apartment building. You're gonna be able
to smell the weed that's being smoked in the department

(01:44:20):
next door to you, like cigarette. So I'm sure we'll
ultimately work it out as time moves forward. Rob, So,
I don't think you're going to get a contact buzz though.
You have to be like in the Specoli van from
Fast Times at Ridgemont High to get a contact buzz
from being in close proximity to it. But yeah, it
may very well cause a headache for you. In legal news,

(01:44:42):
some good news out of New York. Justice prevails. New
York's highest court dealt the final blow in an attempt
by state Democrats to extend voting rights to nearly a
million foreign nationals immigrants. Let's see. Democrats on a fifty
one member New York City Council back in January of
twenty two approved an ordinance giving more than eight hundred

(01:45:04):
thousand foreign nationals with green cards, visas, and work permits
the option to vote in the citywide elections so long
as they have resided in the city for at least
thirty consecutive days. Lawsuits were filed New York Supreme Court,
that's the appellate court in New York and twenty two
ruled that giving local voting rights to foreign nationals violated
the state's constitution, which explicitly reserves voting for American citizens.

(01:45:27):
Read the language for yourself, it says citizens. In February,
that ruling upheld by New York Appellate Division. Thursday, State
of New York Court of Appeals, which is their supreme court,
ruled that the ordinance is unconstitutional because the state Constitution,
in the opinions word makes clear what our case law
has long held. Article two, Section one restricts voting to citizens.

(01:45:52):
They pointed out that that Article two has been amended
several times since eighteen ninety four when first passed, but
the citizens requirement has always been There no evidence that
any of the amendments subsequent changed the understanding that a
voter must be a citizen to vote in New York.
Whatever the future may bring, the New York Constitution as

(01:46:13):
it stands today draws a firm line restricting voting to citizens. Accordingly,
the Court of Pella Division, insofar as appealed from, should
be modified without costs, in accordance with this opinion. So done,
Isn't it interesting? You have that very clear language and
the case law supporting that you needed to be a citizen.
Yet the City of New York itself decided they were

(01:46:34):
going to ignore the law and pass their own law,
knowing full well that it contradicted case law on the
books and the very language of their own constitution, a
constitution that I assure you each elected official held their
hand up and swore an oath of allegiance and a
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On a Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:49:10):
It is that time of week we catch ourselves a
crime stopper, bad guy the week Officer Lisa Baker Crime
stober Division of it since Aint Police Department. God bless
the Sinceint Police Department and everything they do to help
protect our neighborhoods and communities. Let's catch ourselves a bad guy.
Welcome back, Lisa, Happy.

Speaker 19 (01:49:24):
Friday, Good morning, good morning. Today we're looking for Sean Kidder.
He's wanted on five counts of arson. This is in
connection with the East Price Hill gas explosion and fire.
Sean Kidder. He's a white male. He's sixty five years old.
He's five foot eleven and one hundred and fifty four pounds.

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He has a history of trafficking and drugs, menacing, and assault,
and he frequents the Price Hill area.

Speaker 1 (01:49:52):
Wow, We've we got to get this guy off there.
Oh ye, absolutely, time to get him locked up. If
my listeners have a tip that might lead to Sean
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on my blog page fifty five casey dot com. Who
are they going to call? Lisa Baker?

Speaker 19 (01:50:05):
Give crime stoppers a call five to one three three
five two forty.

Speaker 1 (01:50:10):
And of course you remain anonymous your typic LEAs an arrest,
you be doing society a huge favor and you will
be eligible for a cash reward. Lisa, best to you
in the Cincinni Police Department. Have a wonderful weekend. We'll
look for him and drop a dime on him if
we find him. Let's see here all that's going on
with the Department of Education. Of course, Trump's trying to

(01:50:31):
wind it down and ordering the department head to start
winding things down and it's not going to impact really
anything that will effect your life, except that may get
rid of the strings attached to the federal dollars that
will still flow to your state schools cutting out giant
chunks of the employees there because they're unnecessary. A lot
of them look over forms that your school district's forced
to fill out to make sure you're complying with diversity, equity, inclusion,

(01:50:53):
and critical race theory and doctrination teachings. While your children's
test scores plummet. So Department Education already laid offers, preparing
to fire some thirteen hundred workers, another six hundred accepting buyouts.
They had about forty one hundred employees before the move.
So getting rid of the fat and hopefully benefiting you

(01:51:16):
in the final analysis, but pivoting over this is already
was tried in California, unfortunately it got shot down, But
Illinois is getting ready to invade your homeschools. I talked
to Steve Schuemach earlier in the program about his new
trilogy book series or trilogy book series fantasy series it is,
but his wife Tay I used to join the fifty
five Case morning show regularly to talk about homeschool and

(01:51:38):
she was at just an early pioneer in homeschooling and
just got together all kinds of resources. And that's what
a lot of people are turning to. Feeling the local
schools have failed them, they go off on their own
and quite with a lot of success statistically. So California
activists are warning Illinois families about a build that's advancing
through the Illinois state legislator that would create more regulations

(01:51:59):
and penalties underscore get to that moment for homeschooling parents.
One advocate out in California, Sonya Shaw, reported by Fox
News Illinois, California, Colorado. They all compete with each other.
They're coming for homeschooling just like they've been coming after
public schools. They're attacking families, stripping parental rights and pushing
their radical agendas while our kids are failing at reading, writing,

(01:52:22):
and math. It's called HB twenty eight twenty seven Illinois,
a Homeschool Act, which would charge parents with a misdemeanor
if they fail to register their kids in a homeschool
declaration form. That's what's called in the language, to the
nearest public school that they otherwise would be attending. If
you don't do it, they call your child a truant

(01:52:43):
and your and you as a parent could face up
the thirty days in jail with fines. Passed out of
the Democratic dominated dominated House Education Committee and a party
line this past Wednesday, in spite of the fact that
fifty thousand and witness slips were filed in opposition and
only one thousand filed in support of this that's according

(01:53:05):
to the Illinois State Board of Education, so not exactly
representing their constituents. Opponents point out that this bill would
have mandated all homeschooling families and states to adhere to
involuntary home inspections. Well Estrada, senior counselor for the Homeschool

(01:53:27):
Legal Defense Association, speaking with Fox News, said that the
bill's language was left open ended for unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats
to be able to write different sections of regulations. That
if this bill has passed into law, it's going to
be expanded in the future years to put even more
restrictions on homeschool and private school families. The record of
homeschoolers shows that we do academically and socially and emotionally well,

(01:53:49):
so why are we messing with them, that's the question.
This bill is a solution in search of a problem. Now,
for their part, Democrats say the bill which contains a
poortion that requires parents to hand over teaching materials if
it's suspected the child isn't being educated properly, and it's

(01:54:12):
left outside entities and other individuals, outside the realm of accountability.
In other words, unelected officials to decide whether you are
educating your child properly. Hmmm, religious education going on in there.
They may view that as improper. It could be literally anything. Oh,
you don't have a diversity, equity inclusion program in your curriculum.
You need to put one of those in there. Why
are they tinkering and messing with parents' rights? The government's

(01:54:34):
tentacles reaching in beyond your front door and residing in
your home. Knock on the front door, but you need
to let us in. Your homeschooler, evil homeschooler. I hope
this gets shot down. But it's Illinois. It's Illinois, so
I think you can see the writing is on the wall.

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That is, of course, if someone was not educated in
a public school and know how to write. Five Krcity
talk Station Corey Bowman running from mayor in studio, coming
up next to hope you can stick around covering Trump's
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Speaker 12 (01:55:15):
A voice in the dark, heard daily, exactly the things
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Speaker 1 (01:55:19):
Fifty five KRC the talk station. A six here. Fifty
five kr CV talk Station. A very happy Friday to you,
Brian Thomas, please as he can be, and I hope
you're pleased too. I know that Corey Bowman is in
studio staring at him face to face and talk about
his race for the mayor city of Cincinnati as a Republican.
Every time I say that out loud, there's a Republican

(01:55:41):
running for a mayor in the city of Cincinnati named
Corey Bowman, is like, yeah, Okay, we know you got
a little bit of an uphill challenge, but maybe not
as much as I think people's initial reaction might be. Corey,
welcome back, man. It's great seeing you. Hey, great, thanks
for having me my pleasure. I let's start with the debate.
I have in my notes that it looks like you

(01:56:02):
were scheduled to have a debate with purvol next week.

Speaker 20 (01:56:05):
Yeah, So as far as what we've been told is
that all three candidates have agreed to do the debate
March twenty fifth.

Speaker 1 (01:56:10):
We're just waiting on the terms right now.

Speaker 20 (01:56:12):
So if anybody from the Inquirer is listening, you know,
they said that they were going to have it to
us last week and so we would greatly appreciate those terms.

Speaker 1 (01:56:21):
And I know you want it to be streamed live,
and this day and age, I can't think of a
single justifiable reason why it wouldn't be streamed live.

Speaker 2 (01:56:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:56:29):
The biggest thing about this campaign has to be transparency,
you know, getting the word out on what all three
candidates represent and then letting.

Speaker 1 (01:56:36):
People have the choice, well, will this debate be open
to the public. That's what we're being told. Yes, okay,
so one of the terms that you don't quite know that,
but at least it's been initially told. Anything else along
the terms of conditions lines have got you concerned or
that you're insisting on that might be interesting.

Speaker 20 (01:56:52):
I think the biggest thing is the transparency of the
live streaming, just making sure that people are able to attend,
people can hear all the sides of it. And then
were the terms of the questioning and how that how
that format's gonna go, and.

Speaker 1 (01:57:06):
It will be conducted by the Inquirer staff. That's what
I'm being told.

Speaker 20 (01:57:09):
Yeah, this is my first rodeo with it, but it's
not my first first rodeo with dealing with people.

Speaker 7 (01:57:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:57:14):
So at the same time, your ministry is it requires
you to be involved with people all of the time.
And what's on the campaign trail, you've been out meeting people,
and of course owner of a business, you meet people
all the time. So it shouldn't be too much of
a struggle. Do you know if you're gonna get the
questions ahead of time? Are they going to provide advanced
questions or are you just gonna fly by your seat
of your pants?

Speaker 2 (01:57:34):
Not for sure?

Speaker 20 (01:57:35):
These are things that Yeah, that's basically what we're being told, right,
you know which day of the week it is next week,
as far as we're told, March twenty fifth. All right, well,
I got my popcorn out. I'm looking forward to seeing
how you do.

Speaker 1 (01:57:46):
How you do because I think everybody can admit out
of the mold of like a Gavin Newsom, you know,
I have to have parvol is a pretty polished guy.
He comes across as a really slick and I think
perhaps too slow, just like Evian Newsom. You know, you
just like, wait a second, it's just not something right,
And at least that's my impression. Apologies that you met

(01:58:07):
Aftab Purple. You can make all the fun you want
of of how I look, but well.

Speaker 20 (01:58:11):
No, if you lit'st see. I met him for the
first time several nights ago. Oh really, yeah, it was
a very very nice conversation. The funny thing was is
that I was walking to meet mister Brad or Colonel
Brad's wind strip, getting great advice from him. He's a
great man. And so on the way there, Mayor Aftab
was coming down the stairs and so I was just like, yeah,
of course I want to meet him. And then this

(01:58:34):
young guy came up to me and said, hey, can
you take a picture of me with Mayor Aftab?

Speaker 1 (01:58:39):
And I was like, yeah, for sure. So I'm sitting
there holding the camera taking a picture.

Speaker 20 (01:58:43):
But then as soon as as soon as that interaction
is done, I shake Mayor Aftab's hand. I just said,
you did an amazing job speaking tonight, and it's just
very kind man.

Speaker 1 (01:58:52):
So good see. I like your reaction like your attitude
an animosity zone. But see, but that's that's your nature.
And again going back to your being a minister, I
would expect that from you.

Speaker 2 (01:59:04):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 20 (01:59:05):
Well, what I tell people is like he is a
husband and a father and he's in public service. I
would assume that people get in public service to help people.
But based but based what I'm seeing over the last
four years, I just feel like we're the better candidate.

Speaker 1 (01:59:20):
Good and a lot of reasons for that. And your
number one policy pillar, it's Coreybowman dot com bow m
A and Coreybowman dot com. There's a little donate button
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and spread the word responsible money management. We could go

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on for ours about the irresponsible nature of governments, generally speaking,
most notably the city of Cincinnati. I've been so enlightened
by the work of Todd Zen's or former Inspector General.
He watches them like a hawk, and he has revealed
so much much craziness in terms of where we spend
our money, and I can go back to the streetcar,

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which costs US five plus million dollars a year for
debt service as well as maintenance, rarely used. I don't
think it serves society a benefit at all. But there's
that there's the deteriorating roads that we all face all
the time. In fact, West Side Jim Kiefer Corey came
into or called up today and said he's going to
invite or has invited the mayor and all of the

(02:00:27):
council members to an event that's being held up at
Price Hill Chili. So they have to take Sunset Avenue
and drive over it. It's my favorite team Sunset is
it's my best illustration of a street that looks like
it's been torn out of a war torn area like
Gaza or something, and it's never been fixed and it's
been years and years. Forced them to drive over it,

(02:00:49):
which will be a great idea, but it just is
an illustration of infrastructure falling ap hard. They don't take
care of what they've got. They want to build something new,
like the skateboard park.

Speaker 2 (02:01:00):
Response.

Speaker 1 (02:01:01):
Yeah, well, I think that whenever I first started the campaign.

Speaker 20 (02:01:04):
I was asking people were the most important issues that
you have on your heart when it comes to the
city of Cincinnati. And there's a lot of you know,
hot topic issues. There's a lot of things that people
care about, but I'll tell you that the majority of them,
as I looked at them and as I kind of research,
I realized that, you know, eighty ninety percent of these
issues are related to money management. When we talk about
the infrastructure. See, when it comes to money management and budgeting,

(02:01:27):
nobody has a perfect model necessarily, but I will say
that the most important thing with money management is your priorities.
What is going to be your priorities, and then whenever
those priorities are lining up to common sense and helping
the people, and then no matter what, Yeah, there might
be certain issues that you want to push like, but
those things can't take a precedent or can't be first

(02:01:50):
above infrastructure and roads and things that really that's what
the city is responsible for. Yeah, I mean, I go
back to the broken windows concept. If you take care
of something and it looks pleasing visually, it looks welcoming
and accommodating, people are going to want to go there
or perhaps consider it for business. I mean, you chose

(02:02:11):
one of the more difficult neighborhoods to start your business
over in the West End, right, I mean, and you've
bettered that neighborhood by providing you know, jobs in at
least a place where people get a good cup of coffee.
But it was challenging for you when you did that. Yeah,
I mean, honestly, I have a co owner that you know,
whenever he came and visited, he saw the mission of
our church that's also in the West End as well,

(02:02:33):
and we saw the community and basically, you know, when
you have the mentality like we have, it's you go
to the places that need help. You don't just go
to the places that all we're going to obviously it's
going to be an easy ride there. No, we have
a mission on our heart to impact the city. And
when you see the people that are suffering the most,
that's where you have to do something about it, whether

(02:02:53):
it be with church, whether it be with ministry or business,
whatever it might be.

Speaker 1 (02:02:56):
Well, and that's got to be music to many neighborhood's
ears who are often completely overlooked. I mean, the West
Side is one of them. It's like as if the
council doesn't even know there is anything exists beyond the
bridge that needs to be replaced with the viaduct. Right, Yeah,
that's where the entire city stops, is right there. It's
like you go over the edge of the of the

(02:03:17):
flat earth.

Speaker 20 (02:03:18):
Well, what I see is that when people first come
into Cincinnati, obviously there's certain areas that they visit, and
on the surface, you know, Cincinnati is a great city.
I'm not here saying that Cincinnati as a hell hole
and we're just coming in and fix everything. There's a
reason why me and my family live here because I
really believe it's the greatest city on earth. But what
I feel is that there's many communities that have just

(02:03:39):
been forgotten about or not been prioritized just because it
doesn't fit the Instagram model of our city. It doesn't
fit the social media model of our city. Oh well,
we've got to make everything look a certain way, We've
got to make people believe that we stand for certain issues.
But yet there's people on the outskirts that there's people
that are in other districts that are being forgotten.

Speaker 1 (02:03:58):
About without question, So how is it that Findlay Market
and that surrounding area got gentrified and had all that
money put into it to the exclusion of all of
the other options that are out there in the world.
I mean, there's some really deteriorating neighborhoods that have some
amazing houses and ability to rehab and go in and
you know, if you make it a more welcoming environment

(02:04:18):
for business and for that type of project to happen,
maybe it will and maybe those neighborhoods could be improved
as well. Coreybowman dot Com. We'll continue with them. We
got in for the full hour here. I want to
run some speaking of financial things, Todd Zenzer did some
number crunching. I just want to propose a couple of
ideas from that work. It's eight fifteen right now, be
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Choir article does answer some of the questions about the
Bowman Debate, which will include a Mayrafte Pro Bowl and
challengers plural Cory Bowman and Brian Frank March twenty fifth.
It's open to the public, it is free. It's going
to be held the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts

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at forty nine ninety Glenway Avenue, beginning at seven pm.
Provide an opportunity for residents to engage directly with the
candidates ahead of early voting, which takes place April eighth,
and then the May sixth, the primary. Enquirer Opinion editor
Kevin Aldridge will be moderating the debate. So still no
answer to the question about live streaming. But there's the
details and you can find those on my blog page

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at fifty five car se dot com and of course
this conversation on the podcast page when I'm done talking
with Corey Bowman who is in studio again, going back
to Corey Bowman dot com and keeping in with the
financial conversation. And I love the work that Todd Zenzer
does because he stays on these guys like white on Rice.
Budget Finance Committee held a meeting on the seventeenth. Several
items tabled in the agenda, but they included two proposed

(02:06:43):
bond ordinances which will authorize the the City of Cincinnati
borrow notice the sound of my voice thirty five million dollars.
Five and a half of it goes to the OTR
Center Health Center project. The other twenty nine for something
called the Finley Community Center Project. And I have no
concept of what those are. And he asked some simple questions, Corey.

(02:07:05):
What due diligence was carried out? What are the terms
of specific of the bonds. There's nothing in there to
explain what the interest rate is, What do you need?
Why do you need to issue bonds? He points out, properly,
the city took in nineteen million dollars more in revenues
than was budgeted only a few months from the end
of the fiscal year. Last year, the city had sixty
five million dollars surplus, And he points out something logical

(02:07:28):
that no one really takes into account. The debt service
on the bond will cost the city millions of dollars
over time, So why are we borrowing money? And more fundamentally, Corey,
And here's something that you, as a mayor, would have
to ride herd over and insist on before these kind
of proposals come on your in front of you. Todd
points out the comprehensive financial statement report for fiscal year
twenty four hasn't even been published yet. He says, before

(02:07:51):
you vote on such a sizable bond issue, shouldn't you
understand the current financial condition of the city, for which
the financial statement audit will greatly helps? Simple and that
makes profound sense. No, you're exactly true.

Speaker 20 (02:08:04):
I think one of the biggest things that you're saying
there is that the report hasn't been released from last year.

Speaker 1 (02:08:09):
And you made the point right there. You have to
know where you are before you can know where you're going.

Speaker 20 (02:08:15):
And I think that I just use the example of
like I mean, if you don't know you know where
you are financially and you just keep on purchasing by
now on Amazon, then you're just digging yourself more in
a hole. And many people just assume that we can
just do this or do that, but no, and I
think that's the biggest thing when these issues come out,
like let's say, you know, let's put a new arena in,

(02:08:36):
let's do this or that, which are things that we
agree with, but you have to know where the heck
are we financially and do we have the ability to
just set a good foundation to where the decisions that
we make going forward are actually going to improve us economically,
like planning ahead.

Speaker 1 (02:08:53):
For a rainy day. If you think we need a
new arena, and I know that, you know, I still
call it the coliseum because I'm old school. I remember
when the Cincinnati stingers used to play way back when
we had hockey, but seen many a concert there. But okay,
so it's old, it's out of date. It could use
some upgrades, or it could be torn down in something
rebuilt elsewhere or there. I don't care. But it's going

(02:09:14):
to cost a lot of money. We all know that.
So we don't have it. Now, put a plan in
place and start saving for it, and we have a
reserve fund. It's something where you can at least allocate
the funds and over time see them grow and build.
Don't spend it on shiny new objects, but still take
care of the stuff you're responsible for doing, and say, look,

(02:09:35):
we've already got it on the list of things we
plan on doing. We're just not going to dig ourselves
into a multi million dollar financial hole for decades to
come servicing bonds when we have lived without a new
one for a long time and I don't know that
anybody's gotten hurt because of it. No, it's all about priorities.
It's all about priorities.

Speaker 20 (02:09:53):
We're talking about years that we've been sold as a
city to sell a railroad and to be able to
put funds forward infrastructure, and then all of a sudden
you're seeing that a year later where they're holding it
because you can't just put one point six billion dollars
into like a money market bank account, right, You've got
to have someplace. So I understand the concept of putting

(02:10:14):
the funds in a place that's going to yield return,
so that doesn't depreciate. But the reality of it is
that from what we're seeing, and you had Adam Kohler
on earlier and you can see the stats on this,
is that we're seeing maybe a one percent yield on it,
but the inflation of the cost of this infrastructure keeps
on going up and up and up, so essentially you're

(02:10:34):
losing money every year that you don't put it into
the infrastructure.

Speaker 1 (02:10:38):
A great point, and I'm glad you you brought down
back up because Adam Adam was just very very pointed
as analysis about that it now costs double the amount
to fix the road that it did like just a
year or so ago, because the materials costs have increased. Yeah,
and that's a regularly occurring phenomenon, and that just shows
it's not a priority. It just shows that it's not
a priority on your list, that there's other things that

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you would rather spend money on focus on rather than
just going right from day one and just saying let's
fix the damn roads.

Speaker 2 (02:11:04):
Yeah, amen to that.

Speaker 1 (02:11:05):
All Right, it's paused a little bit early in this break,
and we'll continue with Corey Bowman for a couple more segments.
Find out what else he's got. He wants the lowered
regulation in taxes too, something I thoroughly embrace, and that
would be a magnet for more humanity move in the
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happy Friday. Coreybowman dot com. It'shere you find mayoral candidate
Corey Bowman's website. Opportunity to help out the campaign in
his U seven policy pillars, which were kind of walking
through right now briefly got practical housing approach. We have
talked about this before, Corey, and you know, I mean,

(02:13:07):
on face of the simple economic rout of that there's
a low supplying demand. Some neighborhoods already more demand than others.
Those obviously have higher home prices, and if you can't
afford those, that presents an opportunity for maybe some of
these other neighborhoods with more affordable housing to turn around.
I remember, and it's turned around a lot over the
last several decades. Norwood was sort of one of those
lesser desired communities, but you know, it's blown up. I mean,

(02:13:30):
you're right next to Hyde Park, which was always expensive.
You got Oakley right there, But nor has become a
desirable place to live. And I think the housing has
gone up some in price though even a guess anyway,
But there are other neighborhoods out there who are that
It seem to be ripe and ready for that type
of transformation.

Speaker 2 (02:13:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (02:13:46):
I think a big issue with what we're dealing with
in downtown in the West End area is that you're
not utilizing some of the best resources in the city,
and that's your local developers.

Speaker 1 (02:13:58):
There's local developers.

Speaker 20 (02:14:00):
You know, builders and investors that might only be able
to do one or two properties at a time. But
what we've seen in a lot of these communities is
that you'll have an initial influx of investors or people
that want invest in the community. They want to put
market rate housing, they want to put everything there. But
then after a while they start getting hindered or they
start getting choked out by the policies that be because

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it doesn't match up with the zoning. And what we're
seeing specifically in the West End is a huge disparity
between the low income government subsidized housing and high income.
I believe the current statistics right now is that we're
over eighty percent government subsidized housing in the West End.
And so when you see that, there's no really ground
for that middle class, that middle ground, and you're actually

(02:14:46):
hindering everybody that's in that affordable housing because they.

Speaker 1 (02:14:49):
Have no option to get out of it right well,
and I think there is a in many cases well
deserved reputation that if you don't own your property and
you are in a subsidized resident regardless of circumstance, that
you don't tend to take care of it and neighborhoods
can deteriorate, and I understand how that can happen. It's
not my place, and I'm not going to paint the walls,
I'm not going to fix the floors. I'm not going

(02:15:10):
to do the plumbing. I got to wait for some
perhaps absentee landlord to come in and deal with that.
And most like the city of City's infrastructure, the place
starts deteriorating over time and devaluating the existing homes that
are in the neighborhood. So it's a it's a vicious
downward spiral. You know, We've had a problem with absentee
landlords in the city forever. Yeah.

Speaker 20 (02:15:29):
And when I mean when I say like local developers,
I'm not talking about like people that come in from
ol state or out of the country to do it rehab.

Speaker 1 (02:15:37):
But yeah, there's so many people that are wanting to
do this.

Speaker 20 (02:15:41):
Case in point is people that own our coffee shop
building like that is just an amazing building that has
residents of young people that live in the city, that
work in the city. And for the most part, it's
they're getting a market rate. They're getting a fair value
on their whether it be rent or whether the utilities,
whatever that might be, and the g a chance to
kind of live in the city and to be able

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to contribute to the city in that way. And then
but if you, like I said, if you have eighty
percent or above in affordable housing, even if you say
that there's some people that don't take care of their
residents wherever, when you have that as the majority, there
is no way that they're going to get out of
that system.

Speaker 1 (02:16:19):
There's no way at all. And of course I am
certain even though it's affordable housing under whatever definition you
want to use, that the property taxes probably still went
up along with everybody else, taking away available some of
income to maybe put a cut of paint on that.

Speaker 20 (02:16:33):
And you're exactly right on the supply and demand too,
like a lot of the policies or the zoning restrictions
are hindering these properties from becoming livable residents. And so
if we just free up the policies and just say, hey,
let's let people build, let's let people flood the market
with housing, the crisis might not even be there if
you actually have housing available for people and let people

(02:16:55):
decide for themselves rather than having this overlord of oh no,
we can only have these buildings the way that we
want because this is our vision for the city. No,
it's for the residents of Cincinnati to dictate that.

Speaker 1 (02:17:07):
I agree completely on that. And I want to ask
you real quick, because I'm thinking along the lines of transportation.
Is there a lack of public transportation in that particular area?
I mean, would it benefit from more frequent metro stops
and that kind of thing to help people try and
get back and forth to their jobs or whatever they
need to be in that area.

Speaker 20 (02:17:26):
You have a very significant you know, bus route that
goes down Lynn Street, and so you have stops every stop.
You have it from the Metro, from the city, you know,
public transportation, and so you see it there and then
people are able to kind of get buy through that.

Speaker 1 (02:17:40):
Okay.

Speaker 20 (02:17:41):
You know, there's obviously, I think better ways that you
can structure the roads or structure the parking or anything
like that as well. But for the most part, people
can get to Lynn Street in our area fairly quickly
to get on a bus route.

Speaker 1 (02:17:54):
All right, Well, so you just put in a plug
for your community. Look, we've got good transportation, public transportation.
It's readily available for us. Yeah, come on in the
water's fine. What do you think, I mean, keep it
with the West End four we part company there for
this segment. What in your estimation does it I mean
we talked about housing, of course, but any what else
do you think it needs? I mean, if there was
an if you were an investor and you were considering

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the West End, and you had an unlimited plate of
things that you might want to build or create or businesses,
what do you think it's in need of that might
bring about some greater success for the community.

Speaker 20 (02:18:25):
Well, I think the model of our building is actually
fairly successful. What is that you have a space underneath
that can be zoned for a business, and then you
have let's say four or five units above that can
be rented out to residents that live in the city,
that want to work in the city, that want to
thrive in the city. And so there's so many properties

(02:18:47):
in the West End like that, like that, but they're
sitting vacant. I personally know a building that I talked
to the investor. He's put one point two million dollars
into this property and they haven't done one thing to
the building because it's all about cutting, you know, red
tape and trying to figure out where they can get
it zoned at, and it's negotiating with the powers that

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be that own it to try to figure out whether
it matches with their vision of the community. And I'm
telling you that happens so much throughout our cities where
you have investors, you have people that want this business,
that want businesses to thrive, that want the community to thrive,
and they're being held back businesses like local markets are
a grocery store or anything like that. And you can

(02:19:29):
make the argument that all, well, it's not a good
community to put those businesses in. No, Like I'm a
case in point. I know that it might not be
the best community to put the business in, but you
put in. And there's a video that actually released just
two months ago from a major you know, podcaster that
visited the West End and they were interviewing people and
the people specifically said, this Bay Miller block right here

(02:19:52):
was where all the I did.

Speaker 1 (02:19:55):
I'm sorry. Yeah, you can't spell out first words either,
So yeah, and don't do that at the debate with UH,
just try to help you a lot. That's okay. Say
I'm not the one that wrote the rules. I don't
make them up. I don't even just write them down.
I just got to apologize for that. So anyhow, that's okay.

(02:20:16):
But people will do it and want to do it.
It's if you build it, they will come. You're confident
about that. But there are powers that be that are
standing in the way with all these rules and regulations
because whatever rule, whatever mindset they have, what the community
should look like in their mind doesn't fit with the business.

Speaker 20 (02:20:35):
Yeah, and the block that we're in they called the
Bay Miller Block, and there was a lot of stuff
that went down there, and they said, if you came
here ten years ago versus now, it's unrecognizable because this
isn't where the stuff goes down anymore. This isn't where
the crime goes down anymore. And it's because there was
developers that got in early and that developed town homes
or businesses there and then us you know, having the

(02:20:57):
coffee shop there, and so it's not like the most
you know, filled up block as far as businesses go.

Speaker 1 (02:21:04):
What it's like the broken windows here at the exactly four,
you don't have broken windows. You got businesses that are
in operation, and the bad guys don't hang out there anymore.
They moved a few blocks down the road. We'll continue
with Corey Bowman after these brief words. I hope you
can stick around.

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Speaker 1 (02:22:42):
See the talk station Hey forty fifty bouve KCD talk
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Former vice mayor of the City of Sincanne. A man
who wants to be mayor of the City of Sincene.
Sitting in my studio Corey Bowen Coreybowman dot com. You
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The Enquirer Debate is next week twenty fifth. We're taking
place at Covedale Center for Performing Arts on Glenway Avenue
beginning at seven pm. It's a free event open to
the public. You two see what our contrasts I have
to have provoll with Corey Bowman and also Brian frank
So show up to that. We're gonna helpe it live streams.

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We're trying to Corey's been trying to find out if
that is OAKA, I mean if that if that's something
it was one of his terms that he'd liked to
have as a live feed, so no one can sort
of edit it after the fact, Corey something like that. Yeah,
just exactly. It's continuing the transparency, all right. I know

(02:23:45):
you're a fan of the Eastern Saint Police Department. Yes,
you're not a detractor, You're not a defund the police
kind of guy, and I would expect that you would,
in a role as mayor, be an outspoken supporter of
them and regularly bring it to the public's attention what
they're doing. Because what always bothers me, Even if they're
not actively opposing police like they used to be doing uncounsel,

(02:24:09):
they're not out there supporting the police either, and there
is you know, the silence on that is deafening. I
think the police, from a morale standpoint would like to
hear the elected officials support them. I think, you know,
putting money where the mouth is and rather than doing this,
I don't know, what is that program where they have
non police officers responding to what three to one one
calls or nine to one one calls, and I think

(02:24:32):
those resources should be more allocated to the police department.
And that sprung from the defund the police effort too,
if I recall correctly, Corey.

Speaker 20 (02:24:39):
Yeah, So when we talk about the police department, I just,
you know, kind of grew up just knowing that they're
there to protect and serve obviously, and yes there's issues
that you might see with certain individuals, but overall they're
there for the community. And we have a coffee shop.
We have police officers coming into our shop regularly. We
speak with them, and before I knew a lot about

(02:25:00):
these issues, I would just have these conversations and I
would just realize that there is this disparity between the
city support versus you know, what the police officers actually
do and the training that goes behind it and their
lives being on the line. This is something that we
have to set as This is the culture that we
have in city Hall, is that we support the police department,

(02:25:23):
that we support our officers and the fire department that
lay their lives down for our citizens. And then through that,
whether it be with funding and whether it be through
policies that put that into their hands rather than just
trying to divide this into all this is what the
community looks like. You know, non emergency, you know responders
that they're really on your side. But if there is emergency,

(02:25:45):
then we send out these people that aren't really on
your side. That can't be No, it can't And like say, well,
what's the big deal.

Speaker 1 (02:25:53):
Whether council says good things about the police or not,
it serves to facilitate a better relationship with between people
who otherwise might want to cooperate with the police department,
might be afraid to cooperate with the police department, and
yet nonetheless want to have a police presence to keep
the bad guys out of their neighborhood. It's like an
irreconcilible position. Yeah, you want us thereby, you hate us,

(02:26:15):
you want us thereby. You won't drop a dime on
the bad guy that you know committed the crime. You
won't show us where the hidden gun is. That's the
multi use gun.

Speaker 2 (02:26:22):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:26:24):
If this council would engage and be more proactive with
that kind of positive discussion, maybe more people out of
the various communities would put down this mindset the police,
bad police, evil police, racist, Ignore that mantra that has
been preached by so many of these non governmental outside
organizations and race baiters, and help serve their own community better.

Speaker 20 (02:26:46):
No, absolutely, if you want to see safe streets, I'm
telling you this right now. The people that live in
these neighborhoods, they want to see safe streets. They want
to see the police actively involved in picking up the
crime in their communities. They're actually begging for. But a
lot of these police officers, I'll tell you this, the
morale for the police officers are very low as well,
because even if they do arrest, you know what's coming.

(02:27:08):
Then what happens is that you have judges and people
on the post end of it that are going to
limit or not eliminate, but they're going to release.

Speaker 1 (02:27:16):
These People's one of those exact CEM offenders.

Speaker 20 (02:27:18):
And I'm telling you I heard that directly from their mouths.
That's not a talking point that I'm just copying pasting
from a policy. That is, as I'm talking with individuals
that are in the Cincinnati Police Force that have been
on there for thirteen, fifteen, seventeen years, they're saying that
there's a morale that's lowering in their police department because
they're like, why are we going to arrest people if

(02:27:40):
they're just going to be released on the street right after?

Speaker 1 (02:27:43):
It's not worth the paperwork. I mean I understand that
all day long. I mean, what's the point? And then
it's much like California when they decriminalize shoplifting up the
nine hundred and fifty bucks, Look what happened. The place
goes to hell in a handbasket. This is, in fact,
almost like passing legislation decriminalizing certain activity. If it's not
over a big level offense like murder or rape or

(02:28:04):
incest or child molestation or something like that, then they're
gonna walk.

Speaker 2 (02:28:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:28:09):
I mean, I've seen people released on unrecognizance bond that
we're in possession of a firearm. Don't we have a
gun violence problem? They keep claiming in this city.

Speaker 20 (02:28:17):
No, And it's even with smaller charges as well, because
the reality of it is that there's issues that go
on throughout the city, whether it be from you call
it a non emergency versus a major emergency. That is
the job of the Cincinnati Police Department. They are there
to monitor, to protect and serve, and this is why
we have them in our city. And you're essentially tying
their hands and just telling them, oh, don't do this,

(02:28:39):
don't do that. And a police force cannot be afraid
to do their job, and a police force cannot feel
like their job is meaningless. A police force needs to
be well funded and well supported by the city. And
then they need to know that, hey, your city officials
that hire you, that do this, that they have your back.

Speaker 1 (02:28:57):
I think city council people and the man can also
be hopefully bring pressure to bear down on the Hamilton
County Prosecutor's office and the judges in the community and
highlight and illustrate who's the good judges and who's the
bad judges, because, for example, you're in front of Judge Silverstein,
you're pretty much gonna get a walk or a pass.
From everything I've read, we'll continue one more with Corey

(02:29:18):
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Speaker 1 (02:30:56):
Let's say fifty one to fifty both ks detalxation. The
mic comes on and that's immediately when I had got
hit with a sneeze. Thankfully I have a cough button
in addition to the dump button. Corey Bowman Instudio learned
about all that this morning, Corey, learn more than thank
you for your grace on that. You're more than welcome man.
Trust me, brother, You're not the first person who's required

(02:31:18):
me to hit the dump button. So we went down
most of your policy platform positions again. You can find
Corey online at Corey Bowman dot com, and I encourage
you to do that again the debate next week. We'll
can one more plug for that Covedale Convention Center on
the twenty fifth at seven pm, open to the public,
and all three Merrill candidates will be there. Corey Bowman.

(02:31:38):
Of course I have to have Purval and Brian Frank,
so feel free to attend that and learn more Corey
anything else you want to get in the last few
minutes we got remaining here that we maybe didn't touch
on something revealing about you, something that might be interesting
people get interested in voting for you or perhaps helping
you out in your campaign trail.

Speaker 20 (02:31:57):
No, I just say the things that we're learning about
the process. You know, every day I kind of wake
up thinking why in the world did you get into this?
Because our background is, you know, pastoring a church and
then having a coffee shop, and every day I feel
like I'm having conversations with people that just encouraged me.
Like last night we were at Buskin's Bakery and Hyde

(02:32:19):
Park area. People came in and now just to say hi,
here the vision of what we're doing, and just had
so much encouragement there. And so if any of you
want to get involved in this, obviously our website Coreyboma
dot com. But the dates that we're specifically honing in
on right now is April eighth is going to be
the early voting starts for the primary. Yeah yeah, and

(02:32:40):
then we're actually having an early voting kickoff at Price
Hill Chili that night, and so if anybody wants to
attend that, that's gonna be I believe from I believe
five to seven.

Speaker 1 (02:32:52):
Okay, so that's April eighth.

Speaker 20 (02:32:53):
That price heal Chili, and then we just have to
mobilize people to be able to get out and vote
April eighth through May six. This is when the primary
dates are happening to where we've got to get anybody
that wants to see us on the ballot and win
this primary for November to get out and vote there.

Speaker 2 (02:33:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:33:11):
I encourage people to do that, and of course you
all that information be posted on Corey's website as well,
keep you informed on what's coming up. Well, Corey, it's
been a pleasure having in the studio. Appreciate you making
the trip to talk for in person. It's always a
nice conversation we've had, and I certainly wish you the
best of luck on the campaign trail. It's nice to
see that you're running ato enthusiastic people.

Speaker 7 (02:33:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:33:32):
I share your understand I mean I wouldn't get into
a race period. You know, I've been asking for you
should run for a second. Hell no, And my my
biggest problems button there. Yeah okay, yeah, it's but the
most you know, blue emphasis I can use on the
morning show. Yeah, you see, but it's it's always like
hell no. My first reaction and the most troubling part

(02:33:54):
of running is for me, at least, I perceive that
that you have to go around and ask people for
money you need, so you can't run a campaign without funds,
and that just the idea of that. And I'm I'm
on the self deprecating side.

Speaker 2 (02:34:08):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:34:08):
I'm not a big pattern on my own back kind
of person, so thinking that anybody would want to vote
for me for anything is sort of like my brain
wants to reject that. Well, during our kickoff, people wearing
shirts with my name on it very weird. Yeah yeah,
I just liked the concept of celebrity or something like that,
just like I reel at that. But then having that

(02:34:29):
mindset and then having to hold your hand out and
ask someone to please contribute because I need to bake signs,
I need to make T shirts. I don't know. I
wish you the best man. I'm glad you got the
stomach for it, because you seem like a good man
on policies and principles. And of course I think the
city of Sin Sin could certainly use a change. It's
been run by Democrats for way, way too long, and
look where they brought us. It's all about a choice.

Speaker 20 (02:34:51):
It's all about That's what we started getting into this
for was that I didn't like the fact that people
weren't going to have a choice. And so as we
have gone through this, like I said, day you wake up,
you kind of doubt whether this was the right decision.
But then by the end of the day, I'm more
encouraged than ever before that this was the right decision.
That we're going to run to win and we're going
to be able to see strategic things happen in this

(02:35:13):
say that really have never been done. Excellent closing comments,
Corey Bowman. We'll we'll talk again. I am certain about that,
and good luck and or best luck with the debate
next week.

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