55KRC Friday Show - Tech Friday, Steve Goodin, HEART for Seniors, Liz Flynt, St Anthonys Festival

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Five o five.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
Happy Friday into my work week anyway, there it is,
Thank you Joe Tracker, executive producer the fifty five care Morning.

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Sure for the woohoo. Brian Thomas right here, glad to
be and as always, very happy that it's Friday. I
always enjoy my Fridays for some reason, maybe because it's Friday,
because I know I'm going to be able to sleep
in tomorrow. Anyway, got out of bed at the right
time this morning, and like yesterday, boy, that was a
weird day yesterday. And I hope you're starting off your

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Speaker 2 (02:04):
So what's coming up? Of course, it's.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Friday Tech Friday with Dave Hatters six thirty every Friday.
Today the FBI warning of a new cyber threat targeting
homes and businesses. I think that's one of the articles
that I mentioned earlier in the week. You're I think
it's the router related issue. Anyway, we'll find out with
Dave at six point thirty. New medical scam. Uh if

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you get a call, hang up, hang up. I never
have to get to hang up. How many people are
plagued by spam calls? You know, it's interesting. I do
have Verizon, and whether or not it's that it's a
good thing or not, at least it flags what they
call quote potential spam close quote. There's a little meter

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on there to gauge how much how likely it is
that it's spam. But my default, and I learned this
from Dave, and I religiously abide by it. If I
don't recognize the phone number, I don't answer it, notably
from area codes that seem like they're from Remulac. It's like,
what the hell area code is that I'm not going
to pick up that call?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Why would you?

Speaker 3 (03:10):
If it's not on your contacts list, don't answer it.
If it's an important call, they'll leave a message I
presume you have voicemail, or they'll send a text. I never, ever, ever, ever,
And I get them all day long, Joe, do you
get those things all the time? Spam calls one or

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two a day? I get like five. And it's weird
because it's almost as if after the microphone goes off
at nine o'clock or in a few minutes leading up
to nine o'clock in the morning, I'll get one, and
it's always some court of of you know, identified as
potential spam call. It's like they know my hours, but nope,
I don't answer it, And oddly enough, they never leave

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a message, no voicemail message. Okay, it with spam. So
I don't feel my life is altered by not an
answering the call. So I'm never going to be a
victim of a medical scam, at least I don't think so.
I say that rather boldly, knowing that there are more
and more nefarious ways of people, you know, trying to
reach out to you and builk you out of something.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
But if you don't answer the call, you don't have
to hang up.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Long witted way of talking about the second topic with
Tech Friday's Dave Hatter finally kettering health hit with a
ransomware attack, so that is coming up again at six thirty,
followed by Steve Gooden. I'm really looking forward to him
and Stephen the program. Since PG Sittenfeld got pardoned by
Donald Trump, effectively erasing the conviction on paper anyway, no

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longer going to have a record related to his corruption.
But does that erase our memories. It's kind of interesting.
BILLI cpo's Paulock Christian did a story on this. Is
there a future for pg sitting Feld in politics? Of
course an obvious question to ask. He was very popular

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here in the city of Cincinnati. Steve Gooden quoted as saying,
I think Cincinnati loves a comeback. Because he no longer
has a conviction on his record, he at least probably
will be able to gain employment somewhere. And he has
a truckload of money from his mayoral campaign account nine
hundred and twenty six two hundred and thirty bucks, which

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I mean doesn't sound like a lot of money in
the days where we're talking about literally billions and billions
and billions of dollars, you know, overspent, misspent, subject fraud,
waste and abuse, Medicaid in the state of Ohio six
billion dollars in fraud, waste and abuse. There you go, Jay,
if you're out there, see I brought it up again.
But in terms of local politics, that's apparently a lot

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of money. And Gooden said, you know, with a full pardon,
he could announce tomorrow in terms of running for office
here in the city Cincinnati, maybe running for City Council
this year. If he is interested that, with a full pardon,
he can announce tomorrow. I think you've got until August
twenty first to turn in your petitions. Good and said,
so if he wants to run, he could anybody think

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that's a possibility. Actually I do. In this crazy world,
is CINCINNTI politics being so blue and PG Sittenfeld's name
being so widely recognized, Maybe not so much in connection
with his criminal conviction illegally accepting twenty thousand dollars in

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campaign donations from undercover FBI Asians who were posing as developers.
I don't know the people's memories of that long who knows,
Who knows? Maybe they think he was wrongfully convicted. But
of course that conviction upheld on appeal, and maybe he
would have gone to the Supreme Court. There's a law professor,

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Ken Katkin, who was interviewed also by WCPO in connection
with this. A pardon is an act of mercy, he said,
it's not an act of justice. The US Supreme Court
could have reversed the conviction, and that would mean that
he was never guilty. An acceptance of a pardon does
not erase the idea that the person was found guilty,

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he has been fully forgiven for it, but nonetheless was
still guilty. So are you going to vote for a
person who was convicted of corruption and then pardon. It's
a reasonable question, But this law professor said, without a
fellowing conviction on his record, he would have an easier

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time finding a job, speculating perhaps in the technology industry.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I didn't know Pg.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Sittenfeld was in the tech industry, also political consultant. Or
he could write a book about his experience. How many
copies of a book Pg's sittin Feldt's personal experience being
convicted of corruption in the city of Cincinnati would sell.

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Is there anyone outside of Hamilton County Greater Cincinnati area,
including my friends in northern Kentucky and southeast Indiana, who
even know who pg' Sittinfeld is or ever followed this anyway?
Law professor said, I don't think the pardon is going
to change a lot of people's minds one way or
the other. There were always a fair number of people
who supported sitt and feld throughout all this and who
thought it was an unjust conviction, So of course they

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will feel vindicated, good and for his part, said if
he's going to be involved in politics, my strong guess
is that he would he would become more of a
king maker because he would have money to pass around,
and that's a lot of money in local politics. And
that going back to the almost one million dollars he
apparently still has in a bank account relating to his
mayoral election. And I don't know anything about campaign finances

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and the obligations one has in terms of the money
that's been raised and how it's parked and who can
use it. So maybe Steve Gooden will be addressing that night, hope,
So coming up at seven oh five actually, and also
topics with Steve Gooden. Can the federal judges actually stopped
Trump's tariffs, which a court just gave him the authority

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to keep the tariffs in place. So this is an
ever changing dynamics. He had one court issuing an injunction
saying Trump can that does not have the power to
issue the tariffs, follow by a court yesterday saying no
he does, or at least pausing the injunction by the
lower court. So Steve Gooden, our legal expert, will break
that down. He's much better at legal things than I

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am hard for Seniors returns Patti Scott and studio.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
I love that organization.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
I love what they're doing for those folks that are
in assisted living facilities, memory cognitive decline facilities like my
father was in, and really struggling and not having their
medical needs taken care of because of short staff and
overwhelming them numbers of people. They have wonderful technology, and
I just dearly love what Patty Scott and Hartford Seniors

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are doing for those folks that are out there. And
you know, if you have someone in one of those facilities,
I'm sure you have stories to tell that aren't really
that great to hear about, you know what I mean?
SATAI at seven point thirty Liz Flint, this is going
to be interesting. Larry Flint's widow just released a book,

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Hustler's Fifty Years of Freedom. Controversial little bit. Yes, Larry
Flint was probably one of the more controversial figures, but
he did fight for freedom of speech, and whether you
agree or disagree with the content that he put out,
he did fight battles and Liz Flint's going to be
talking about that coming up in eight oh five. Saint
Anthony's Mediterranean Food Festival. I love that, gonna have some kibbi.

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Kimberly's going to be in studio. She joins the program
every time St. Anthony's as the Mediterranean Food Festival. So
at eight thirty and I suspect since she will be
in the studio, I'll be enjoying some kibbi this morning. Anyhow,
feel free to call. Got lots to talk about, including
ha ha this streetcar. Wait to you hear what's going

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on in the district of Columbia. It's like I told
you so, coming up next by sixteen right now, stick
around me, right back after these brief words.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Fifty five KRC.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Jashia five twenty on a Friday, A happy one see
you so it'll get you.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Out of bad riff. How about it? Let me all
sn me and.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Let's go to the phone before we get to the
street car, which is a hilarious thing.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Pete, welcome to the morning show. Havevey Friday to.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
You, Thanks Brian, good morning.

Speaker 6 (12:05):
Hey.

Speaker 7 (12:06):
On the subject of pardons, they said Biden his pardon
eighty sixty four people, and he probably doesn't even comprehend
what the term pardon means, but it suggested that his
staff have been selling pardons and probably getting rich from it.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
And my question is.

Speaker 7 (12:28):
You think that since it was all auto pen that
they can avoid those Can they put all these people
back in prison. Can those people be prosecuted for It's
got to be some kind of a crime to do that.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Well, that's a lot to ue bundle, Pete, and I've
never I don't know there's any legal decision out there
relating to undoing a pardon. I think this is the
first time we've ever encountered this. We know Woodrow Wilson
was cognitively impaired and his wife was running the presidency,
but that was before the twenty fifth Amendment went in,
which allowed presidents to be removed from office because of
Woodrow Wilson. But you're on this is fresh ground. This

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has never been legally dealt with before. The answer from me,
I don't know. But currently they are doing subcommittee investigations,
they're subpoenaing people, they're calling people in to testify about
his cognitive impairment. They're looking into who authorize the signatures,
whether Joe Biden even knew about them. So there's a
ton to unpackage on this, Pete. We're gonna have to

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wait for the information to come out before we draw
any conclusion. So short answer is, I have no idea.
I doubt it ultimately in the long run, I seriously
doubt that they will unring the bell of those pardons.
But stranger things have happened.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Anyhow. It's a good question, though.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Dave Williams, Taxpayer Protection Alliance, Joe Strecker and I engage
in a brief text message exchange yesterday on this. I
did see this article the day before yesterday and sadly
didn't get to it because the streetcar. Every time the
Taxpayer Protext Lines Day is on the program, always bring
this up because they are a stupid, pointless boondoggle and

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they never ever ever meet the expectations the folks that
are in favor of building streetcars in cities to the
cost of millions and millions of dollars see City of
Cincinnati pivoting over to Washington, DC. After less than one
decade of operation, DC streetcar is set to be phased out.

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What do we argue about when they were pushing for
the streetcar? What were our arguments? Why not dress up
a bus as a streetcar call it a streetcar? You
don't have to lay tracks, it can move around traffic.
The roots can easily be changed in the event like
things like october Fest or Taste of Cincinnati are going on.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
You don't have to worry.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
About about the problems associated with streetcars, for example, automobiles
blocking the streetcar from moving forward. That's happened a lot.
We've heard about that here in the City of Cincinnati.
An issue and a concern brought up before they built
the damn thing. Anyway, they're phasing out the Washington DC
streetcar to be replaced by an electric bus. Idiots doing

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idiot things because they're idiots. Mayor there, Muriel Bowser calling
it the next generation streetcar.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
They're right.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Funding for the streetcar ends after two more years in
Bowser's budget planned. City Administrator Administrator Kevin Donihue said at
the announcement that the new streetcar bus would be quote
essentially buses that utilize close quote these streetcar systems existing
cables for power overhead power lines, making uponible to more

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nimbly and quickly expand the streetcar line out beyond where
we currently are. Yeah, it's adding a bus route calling
at a lower cost, the more flexible alternative to rail
at a time when federal cuts and that limited transit funding.
See you know you don't get a streetcar lustor's federal funding.

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I guess the single DC streetcar line, much like the
Cincinnati single streetcar line in this case runs from Union
Station to the edge of RFK Stadium, took far longer
to build than plan. It costs about two hundred million dollars.
A lack of separation from car traffic means double parkers

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can block the track, something we talked about before the
streetcar here was put in making bus service more reliable,
something we also pointed out here in the fifty five
krsday morning shot multiple times before they build our streetcar,
true gree car carries a fraction of the number of
riders of the express buses in DC that travel the

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same route. Am I experiencing schadenfreuder right now?

Speaker 8 (17:14):
Is that what this is?

Speaker 3 (17:21):
DC councilor with Charles Allen said he supported the street
car but saw its demise as, in his words, all
but inevitable when plans for multiple routes were scaled back
to a single line.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
When it's just.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
One streets, not a network, not really successful. Well, you
should have started out with buses, unlimited opportunities to change
the roots to serve the areas that need it. Most
people can raise.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
What was that? Thank you?

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Guy named gay client ran the district Department of Transportation
when the streetcar project was underway, agreed with the aforementioned
Charles Owen. He said, lack of expertise in building rail, coordination,
issues with utility companies, and inconsistent political sport hobbled the effort.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Quote.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
What I would hope it was that they would leave
the tracks in place rather than bury them like the
streetcar tracks DC used until the late nineteen sixties. We
might have a mayor in a few years or eight
years that says I really want a streetcar network, and
then we can all look at that idiot and say,
wait a second, don't you appreciate the failure that was

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the original DC streetcar line and the reality that they
went with buses as a better alternative to the streetcar,
because well, it goes around traffic, it's flexible, it doesn't
require the investment of literally millions and millions of dollars
and tracks being laid five twenty seven. I'm enjoying this

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Speaker 4 (19:06):
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Ten and nine first one On the forecast, steady showers
through the noon hour, storms develop move through the tri State.
They say severe weather is not expected, but we may
receive about.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
An inch of rain. Today's high sixty.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Eight fifty six overnight showers moving out, partly clotty, dry
Tomorrow seventy five for the high, partly cloudy overnight, forty
seven for the low, and a partly flatty pleasant Sunday
with a high of seventy six. See my temperature sixty
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Speaker 2 (19:51):
Local stories. What thell happened to?

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Tom Victory Parkway Data Avenue in the Ingleold neighborhood closed
yesterday after two swad vehicles and since a police cruisers
showed up at the area. Police said an aggravated robbery
suspect spotted in a stolen vehicle. Officers tried to stop
him suspect fled from officers. He then bailed out of

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the stolen vehicle on Victory Parkway and continued running on
foot before forcing his way into a building. After a
brief swat standoff, police said the suspect was taken into
custody and Victory Parkway at Data Avenue was reopened. Here's
some maybe some good news. How you feel about this?

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Your property taxes are high? I know you know that.
Lawmakers trying to make it harder to pass local levees.
Representative David Thomas of Jefferson Republican Angie King Republican in
Solana preparing legislation that would require sixty percent of voters
to approve levees for schools, libraries, and other services. Of course,

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simple majority applies right now, Thomas said. The measure with
protect homeowners and ensure taxes have the communities full backing
currently applies to all property tax levies, but Thomas said
the details could change. So we hear from a lot
of property owners that say anyone can vote on these
and not everyone pays them. Some folks don't know what
they're voting on. Well, that isn't that just a practical

(21:24):
reality of the voting. Generally speaking, many people do not
pay attention to politics. They don't pay attention to levies,
they don't pay attention to anything, and so they often
will still go and vote, and they don't know what
they're voting on.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
This is just a factor. Jack.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
So after this recent increase in property taxes, everyoney's scrambling
to figure out how to deal with that. Legislature hasn't
agreed done to figure out a way to provide us
with some sort of relief. There's a group based in
Cuyahoga candidate's collecting signatures for a constitutional amendment eliminating property
taxes completely here in Ohio. So that could cost some problems,

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although I still feel like I support it. Thomas Bill
mirrors attends by Republicans back in twenty twenty three to
make it harder to pass is a citizen initiated constitutional amendments.
Critic at the time called the idea undemocratic and believe
this plan isn't any better. Franklin County Auditor Michael Stenzano

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close enough, sorry, Mike, voters rejected this statewide. I don't
think it's good for democracy, and it's already hard enough
for lovees to pass. I'm not sure what we're fixing.
Unlike the state wide proposal, voters wouldn't have to have it,
wouldn't have a say and whether the threshold for lovees
should increase. But Thomas said o'hioans want them to tackle
the property tax problems from all angles well, at least

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keeping the issue alive. Inspections on the crumbling Western Hills
Viaduct going to lead to a day long closure. According
to how Department of Transportation and Release said, Cruise is
going to be shutting down the lower deck of the
viaduct and directions Saturday for inspections work focusing on the
bottom portion of the upper deck and cleaning off any

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loose concrete. Yeah, they've got nets in there to capture
the concrete that's falling off. In addition to the IDA closure,
RAM from I seventy five south to the lower deck
using Harrison Avenue will also be closed closures six a m.
To nine pm Saturday. Drivers can still use the upper
deck while the lower deck is closed.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
No look, who's on the line, what saidee? Jim.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Good to hear from you on a Friday, especially Jim,
Happy Friday to you, Good.

Speaker 9 (23:39):
Morning, Brian, I guess you figured I would give you
a call this morning. You just talked about the westernhost Bilock.
You have, money's been approved for years, and I went
underneath to the myelock the other day. Yeah, it's scary
driving underneath there. You just don't look up, you know.
It's one of the things if you don't like roller coasters,
you just kind of close your eyes.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
On that first big dip.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
It's incredible.

Speaker 9 (24:04):
I mean, the junk that they keep putting on there
for band aids when they got the money to replace it,
and then there's been no shovels in.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
The ground, no nothing, Isn't it kind of almost miraculous
that no one has been killed with a chunk of
concrete falling through the windshield of their car driving down there.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 9 (24:20):
I guess they figure some bean counter's got to figure
that it's cheaper to pay off the person's family that
dies rather than replace the thing, because I know I'll
be dead and gone by the time a new one
gets up there.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
That's for dag.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
It's unbelievable, Yeah, and particularly unbelievable given the point you
made that the money is already.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
There it's been there. Yeah, exactly. I hope they're getting
interest on it.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Uh suggesting that they're managing money properly.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
Oh god, no, there's no way, no way. Now on
the street car.

Speaker 9 (25:01):
You know, I'm gonna throw like you said yesterday, I'll
throw three subjects at you.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
In the streetcar.

Speaker 9 (25:06):
We will be the last city in the country that
will still have a streetcar. Just everything a Cincinnati is
like that. We will be the last.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
One to tear it up and tear it down.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
You watch. I mean, it's going to take a whole new.

Speaker 9 (25:22):
Cincinnati council with some brains to figure that thing out
that it's not worthy and.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
They get they go ahead and get.

Speaker 9 (25:30):
The right kind of vessel to travel around the city
in a bus.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Well, you know, at least at least if they did that,
they would end in the maintenance cost. That was one
of the aspects of this article that I found rather
comical that the street cars in DC, which they are
getting moving away from need to be replaced. Apparently it's
one of the expenditure expenditures and replacement costs eleven million
dollars per car, and there are six cars in the fleet,

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So we have that issue of course, maintenance and upkeep
part of the five million dollars we spend annually to
keep that thing going. But then we have debt service
on the money we borrowed to build at the first place,
and that's not going to go away. The debt never
goes away. You're going to have to pay that off.
So there'll still be a long lasting expenditure since we
built the damn thing in the first place, and that's coming.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
Our cars have to be replaced too.

Speaker 9 (26:22):
I remember that when they went through this thing, that
the car is a certain amount of time they have
to be replaced.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
I mean, how much does a bus cost? And if
you went out on the open market and wanted to
buy a bus versus an eleven million dollars per car
street car. Something tells me that a bus doesn't cost
anywhere near eleven million dollars.

Speaker 9 (26:38):
I could be wrong, but I think I'm close. It's
like two hundred fifty thousand bucks.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
So and lastly, PG.

Speaker 9 (26:48):
Ask Joe Strecker how nice this guy is and how
what a sline ball he really is. And I feel
bad for the twelve jurors that took the time to
come down and do their due diligence and their civic
duty and found this cloud guilty. And then I hear
people like Mike Allen yesterday saying he's so happy for

(27:10):
PG sitting filled happy about I always going to have
to buy a new TV.

Speaker 6 (27:16):
Today.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
When I heard Mike Allen say that, I'm thinking, are
you kidding me?

Speaker 9 (27:21):
Why is a lawyer out there, a so called Republican
coming out and saying he's happy for PG.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
I'm not happy for PG.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
I'm not either, But brace yourself because there's circulating rumors
that since pg's sitting fald got a pardon, that maybe
former house Speaker Larry Householder and Matt Borges, the former
gopachair may also get a pardon, and that comes down
to Bunny Brian. I guess, but I wouldn't be happy
about that.

Speaker 9 (27:51):
Well, Jeff Paster is probably not happy today thinking about
well he's sitting at the Talburn House.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
I don't know this.

Speaker 9 (28:00):
It makes me shake my head and what what goes
on in this world? That's for dagon shure it Trump
doesn't know who PG sitting felt. Is that crypto money
that I said to you yesterday as a hard rumor,
that's supposedly a really close rumor that a million dollar
in crypto money happened into a coffer because it's untraceable.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Into who's coffer.

Speaker 5 (28:22):
Our president?

Speaker 6 (28:23):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Hum.

Speaker 9 (28:26):
I mean, that's that's what I got from somebody that's
really close to some Democrats that you know they like
to talk about things like this and brag about a
Republican president.

Speaker 6 (28:36):
To let this guy off.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
So yeah, there's.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
No explanation for the pardons that Trump issued, none whatsoever,
And there's certainly nothing specific with regard to how pg's sitting.
Feld landed on the list, although I'm.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
Glad he's happy.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, I guess he's happy. Yeah, there's no doubt about
that anyway. Thanks by to hear from you, west Side Jim.
I have a wonderful weekend. Five forty fifty five care
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Speaker 4 (29:08):
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Speaker 3 (29:17):
What a little long? When did we, west Side Jim?
Which is a okay, so two minutes past the normal
John Fisherman time, but we'll still get a baser for
a Friday morning satisfying Joe Strucker's need for a primus fix.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
And putting a smile on Jeff's face.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
Jeff always Facebook messages me in advance of John the Fisherman.
He looks forward to it. Ah, let's go to the
stack of stupid. Go to British Columbia. We have a
naked guy. It is Friday, Amen, brother. Police in Port Moody,
British Columbia arrested a naked guy at a popular park
after he allegedly assaulted a stranger and ultimate armed himself
with a knife in a restaurant. Why are you doing that?

(30:03):
We will not find out. Constable Sam Sam Zacharias with
the Port Moody Police Department said, several nine one walls came,
a nine to one one called speak. Brian came in
and about an assault took place at the Rocky Point
Plaza about ten pm Saturday. Said, we do occasionally have
a disorderly type of conduct in the park, but this
is certainly far beyond that. According to the constable statement,

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naked man allegedly assaulted another guy there, zach Ryace said,
and then ran into a nearby restaurant where he allegedly
armed himself with a knife and brandished it in what
the constable described as a threatening manner. What police were
on the scene within two minutes of the calls, said
officers arrested the suspect nearby without further incident, and no

(30:47):
one sustained any serious injuries.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
He said.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
The forty eight year old man's been charged with assault,
possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and committee
an indecent act in a public place. Investigator still the
in the man's motivations, see we don't know, constable said,
adding an alcohol and mental health challenges may have played
a role, and then maybe not. Let's go to Nashville Nashville, Tennessee,

(31:16):
where a thirty six year old man arrested after he
was found naked, yelling and wandering around at Germantown Park.
This happened on Monday called The officers called morganitar at
seven am. Cour to the court documents, they found the
naked guy near Fifth Avenue, walking down a public sidewalk.
Officers tried to talk with him and he was sometimes
incoherent but had moments of clarity. Medics of the National

(31:43):
Fire Department came to assist. Came to assess the man,
determined he did not need to be hospitalized. Officers worked
to determine the man's identity, but he could not provide
his name. So this is the security or even names
of information for friends who could help. Took him to
the host to the Millennium Hotel Maxwell House Nashville, where
he he claimed a friend was staying, but Steff said
no one with that name was registered as a guest.

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Was determined the man was a danger to himself and
he was taking it a custod He booked into the
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We'll return to the stacker stupid in little phone calls.
Presently no one on hold. Let's see here back to
Friday stack of stupid stories, which always involved naked people.
Thank you, Joe Trecker. We go to Washington, d C.
And a hotel lobby where a thirty year old a
thirty one year old woman got naked and started throwing

(34:17):
booze bottles at a hotel.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Guess a's this tradition?

Speaker 3 (34:21):
She said, Michael Jackson made her do it. What DC
Police Department got to call it? But a disorderly person
at the Hilton Garden Inn five pm callers that the
lady was in the hotel taking her clothes off.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Cop showed up.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
She was sitting in a high top table, completely naked
with with glass all over the floor. When asked what happened,
she said, quote, my Lord and Savior, Michael Jackson told
me to do this. That's he's still around.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Then she started ranting about white people telling cops she
happens she happens to be a very racist person. Eventually
said to them to just take her to jail, facing
charges for assault, unlawful entry, destruction of property, loot action,
disorderly conduct. Man, that's stack is stupid, like illustrative, perfect example.

(35:23):
That's all the information I got on that one. Go
to Houston where man one of my authorities after he
allegedly opened a door for a door dash delivery driver
completely naked fifty three year old charge with indecent exposure.
After the incident complained, which occurred very specifically one fifty
six pm May nineteen, door dash driver told her responding

(35:45):
Harris County Sharf's deputy in the day of the incident,
that she was delivering the man a twenty four pack
of Budweiser when the driver showed up at the address
for the delivery order. She recalled walking up to the
parment when she noticed the door was halfway open from
the driver knocked on the door. A two hundred and
ten pound mail with long hair opened the door completely naked.
According to complaint, woman told deputies she felt really uncomfortable

(36:08):
and in shock because his private parts were visible to her.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
As a tradition.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Driver told the man to put on some clothes, but
the man ignored her for a couple of seconds, stood
by the door naked while giggling. Delivery driver then told
him again to put some blanking clothes on, and that's
when the man went inside his apartment and left her
standing in the front door. Instead of staying there for
the man to return, the delivery driver told the responding

(36:37):
deputy that she decided to leave and called door Dash
to report the incident from her vehicle. Walking back to
her car, the livery driver said she noticed the man
following her, wearing red shorts and a gray T shirt
and hat. Once in her car, the driver said she
saw the man walk in the opposite direction from her.
She then went to the man's apartment leasing office to

(36:58):
report him. Called nine to one one. Leasing office told
the woman that they had several incidents with the man
in the past, and they didn't expand on or explained
fully what type of incidents. Harris County Sheriff's deputies went
to the man's apartment, knocked on his door several minutes
no answer. The man still not in custody. Door Dash
spokesperson said, to be unmistakably clear, there is no place

(37:21):
for this conduct from any member in our community. We
immediately removed the customer from our platform, and we've been
in touch with his dasher to offer our full support,
working with local law enforcement to support their investigation in
any way we can to make sure justice has served.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
It makes you wonder what goes through people's heads.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Well, I guess I won't get to him, but you
know it has has been tradition of late got multiple
stories involving teachers, female teachers engaged in improper relations, sexual
relations with young students. It's a trend that just seems
to be getting worse and worse. Have conversations with your children.

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That'll happen at eight thirty this morning, in reverse order

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on the fifty five KRC Morning Show this morning, preceded
by and this should be interesting. I Liz Flint. That
will be Larry Flint. You remember Flint, publisher of Hustler
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Hustler's Fifty Years of Freedom. Draw your and conclusions on that.
Lizbeyon the program at eight oh five talk about the

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returning here at seven thirty. Preceded by Steve Gooden are
legal experts, since I'm not one. Steve Gooden talking about
the pg sitt and fell pardon whether or not he's
going to be running for office, which is really actually
an option for him. He's got a lot of money

(40:20):
in the bank nine hundred and twenty six thousand plus
dollars left over from his mayoral campaign and the contributions
that poured into PGS. Sitting Feld previously very popular guy
until he got convicted of corruption. So I don't know why.
Maybe you can offer an explanation why Trump pardoned him.
But oddly enough, and this is I suppose if Trump

(40:41):
partons pg's sitting Feld who, I'm sure Donald Trump had
no idea who that guy is. Rumors swirling that maybe
former House Speaker Larry Householder and former gopach Aramed Borges,
who are right now in prison, may also get a pardon.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
And I'm not.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
Upset that PG got a pardon. I'm just sort of
perplexed at why he got a pardon. But I would
be upset of Householder and Borges got a pardon. I mean,
PG didn't really have an impact on my life, and
his decision to accept a contribution of twenty thousand dollars
in return for favors didn't impact me, and iota I

(41:23):
just corrupt.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Nobody should do it.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
The reason we have a criminal justice system is to
send a warning shot over about somebody else who might
consider doing something like that. But Householder in Borges man,
they let everybody in the state of Ohio down with
that corruption. Anyhow, it hasn't happened yet, but that's one
of the rumors that's swirling around. So we'll hear from
Steve Gooden on that, as well as federal judges stopping

(41:47):
Trump's tariff's.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Order, which.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Actually appeals court yesterday reinstated Trump's tariffs after the Court
of International Trade, which no one including me had ever
heard of in New York, said President exceeded the President
exceeded his authority to imposed tariffs under the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act in nineteen seventy seven, probably something you
aren't familiar with either, but he did assert there was
an international emergency and that allowed him to levy the

(42:14):
trunk of the tariffs on all these different countries. So
this is the court, the Appeals Court sitting en Bank,
which means all of the judges determined that this this
pause on the on the tariffs should be lifted. So
they reinstated the tariffs pending their review of the motions

(42:39):
that have been filed. So it's just in a state
of well, they just put a hold on it. So
the tariffs remained in place and the litigation on that continues.
In other news, this is an interesting and great development.

(43:00):
Supreme Court unanimous decision sans one judge it didn't participate
eight zero decision. Two different opinions release, both reaching the
same conclusion. Stems from federal regulators approving an eighty eight
mile railroad project in Utah. Now, under the National Environmental

(43:21):
Policy Act of nineteen seventy seven, it requires an environmental review.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
They did one.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Federal regulators issued an environmental study three thousand, six hundred
pages long, saying that this project could go through. Yet
a court nonetheless block the project, saying the three thousand,
six hundred page analysis didn't sufficiently analyze upstream and downstream

(43:48):
effects those words in quotes. Supreme Court reversed that unanimously Yesterday,
building projects get stuck in endless reviews of litigation. Now,
just reading from the Wall Street journ op out on
this under NEPA of the National Environmental Policy Acts supposedly
let federal regulators weigh environmental consequences as the agency reasonably

(44:09):
sees fit. Justice Kavanaugh, writing for the ultimately unanimous court,
but five of the eight that opined on this, with
the concurring opinion by the other two three justices. Anyway,
it's seven County Infrastructure Coalition versus Eagle County.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Quote.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
NEPA is a procedural cross check, not a substantive roadblock.
The goal of the laws to inform agency decision making,
not to paralyze it, he wrote.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
They point out the.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Railroad in this case a classic example of the problem. Now,
the proposal is to link this oil rich area to
the rest of the country. Federal Surface Transportation Board approved
it in twenty twenty one, after this lengthy environmental review.
Underneath of that three thousand, six hundred page report, oil
from this basin currently goes out by truck. Rail link

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could lead to more drilling. I emphasized the word could,
because they analyzed the challenge that they were presented with
any environmental study noted that, yeah, if we put this
rail line in, their new projects may crop up. New
drilling may crop up. But such future development is speculative,
as the Surface Transportation Board pointed out, and anyway, its

(45:22):
job is to regulate railroads, not future oil rolls that
may or may not be created. Did it for the
idea that the rail line could increase oil refining on
the Gulf Coast? When the DC Circuit Court of Appeals
blocked the project, it said, those effects, in other words,
these possible projects that may end up getting created as
a consequence of this new rail line, and their idea

(45:46):
was reasonably foreseeable and therefore also should have been analyzed.
So that Circuit Court of Appeals held up this project
because they said, you need to analyze something that hasn't
been done yet but may be done. Supreme Court said
that was wrong. The Central principle of the judicial review
in NEPA cases is deference underneath of the agency's only

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obligation is to prepare an adequate report. Regulators overseeing the
proposed project, he added, are better equipped to assess what
facts are relevant to the agency's own decision than a
court is. The court doesn't have the knowledge or information
sufficient to challenge the conclusions of the NEPA report. Justice

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Kavanaugh note also noted that nothing in NEPA requires the
Surface Transportation Board to study upstream or downstream projects separate
in time or place from the eighty eight mile railroad
lines construction and operation. In other words, the focus of
this environmental review is just a rail line. Agencies don't
need to analyze the effects of projects over which they

(46:49):
do not exercise regulatory authority. The oil well that may
be drilled down the road isn't connected in any way,
shape or form with the railroad. This seems to be
so logical and reasonable, but here we go. We have
been dealing with environmental litigation for decades. It holds up projects,
and this is The Court even noted that Justice Sonia

(47:12):
sotoma Aar in the concurring opinion for the court's three
liberals got to the same outcome, but different reasoning. Under NEPA,
they wrote, agencies must consider the environmental impacts for which
their decisions would be responsible. The Railboard correctly determined that
its approval process for the Utah Line couldn't lawfully consider
upstream oil rigs or downstream refineries exactly. It wasn't the

(47:37):
issue that was presented to them. What is the environmental
impact of this eighty eight mile railroad line? NEPA meant
to ensure that the environment isn't ignored in federal decisions,
but lawsuits and second guessing judges have turned it into
a spider web of red tape, nice wording, Wall Street
journal Fearing litigation, agencies undertake studies that try to address

(47:58):
every conceit pievable objection, which is why the Utah rail
review was three thousand, six hundred pages long. And yet nonetheless,
the judge determined that they hadn't reviewed enough potential impacts
by this in projects that hadn't been built or are
completely unrelated, all of which adding needless cost, delay, and uncertainty.

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Justice Kavanaugh said in the opinion that in turn means
fewer and more expensive railroads, airports, wind turbines, transmission lines, dams,
housing developments, highways, bridges, subways, stadium arenas, data centers, and
the like. And that also means fewer jobs as new
projects become difficult to finance and build in a timely fashion. Amen,

(48:44):
stick to your mission. And I I am thoroughly convinced.
And I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to
come to this conclusion. These environmental lawsuits are not in
any way, shape or form really truly related to the environment.
NIPA and other environmental challenges create an opportunity for people

(49:05):
who don't want progress in this country to stand in
the way of progress, to stand in the way of
job creation. Look at the XL pipeline. It's approved, it's
been denied, it's approved, executive waiver of the pen it's
shut down, it's approved. No, it's not executive. See a
project that should have been built that would prevent the

(49:26):
oil from that was being extracted from the ground in Canada.
It's still being extracted from the ground, is still going
to be burned and used someplace. From going through a
pipeline as opposed to being loaded onto a railcar and
ship down to the refining destination. It doesn't change the
XL pipeline didn't change the dynamic of what was actually

(49:49):
going on and still goes on to this day. They
just stood in the way of it. Ewel pipeline created efficiency,
was better for the environment, avoiding the idea of railroad
codes transporting oil. You know, railroads come on a rail line,
sometimes have problems. Railroad cars sometimes derail, creating environmental problems

(50:09):
for the neighborhoods in which they derail. Remember Palestine. Huh, yeah,
that's right. Oh yeah, Why in the hell did that
thing get delayed for so long after it had been approved? Sorry,
going on a bit of a tear, but at least
we've got some progress in the Supreme Court again, unanimous
decision on this one. Even the liberals recognize this. Stupidities

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Six twenty three fifty five kr CD talk station. It
is Friday Tech Friday. Coming up to the next segment. David,
you happy about that same answer every Friday?

Speaker 12 (51:56):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Wait for it.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
I call her early in the program asking about whether
or not you can unring the bell of Biden's auto
pen use James commer Or speaking with Hannity the other day,
talking about this very issue. We're gonna have to wait
and see what the documents, the information, the testimony reveals,
and ultimately the legal issue of whether or not you
can well unring the bell of the pardons, for example,

(52:19):
or any of the other executive orders.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
He may have had no idea that he's signed. It's
an unanswered question.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
I don't know what would happen in courts on that anyway, Hannity,
speaking with Comber, you mentioned Jill Biden about people who
are going to testify, testify, so they've established this subcommittee.
You mentioned Joe Biden, you mentioned I would assume Hunter Biden,
you would be called in. Hunter had a preemptive pardon,
so did his brother Jim Biden. I would assume that
they're not allowed to plead the fifth, which is a

(52:46):
great point. You can't if you've been pardoned. You can
only plead the fifth because you are not in jeopardy
of incriminaliz incriminating yourself. He said, well, every person that
you bring in be put under oath. And you think
that you're gonna need to bring these fans in, these
family members, and what about ron Klain and what about
other people close to him. Comber's response, I would say
ron Klain very good, bad. But again, we're going to

(53:07):
see where the trail leads. Just like we did in
the Biden influencing, pedaling and investigation. We followed the money,
we found the shell companies, we found the bank accounts.
We're going to do the same thing with this autopen.
Who was given the authority for use of the autopen,
he said? He questioned, remember, Sean, there was more activity
in the last one hundred days of the Biden administration

(53:29):
in the first three and a half years of the
Biden administration. Many of the far reaching executive orders were
signed during the last one hundred days, and they were
all signed by the autopen.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
He said.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
We don't believe that you can sign a legal document
with an autopen. If I issue a subpoena, I have
to fly to Washington, d C. To manually sign my
signature on that subpoena. Anything pertaining to the law has
to be signed by a person. We know the autopen
was used. No one in the Biden administration is denying
that the autopen was used. No one now is denying

(54:01):
that Joe Biden wasn't, you know, mentally fit to make
some of those decisions. So what I can tell you
tonight is the four staffers that we've asked to come
in for our transcribed interviews, they have all lawyered up.
They're taking this very seriously, and this is going to
be a battle to get to the truth. So keep

(54:21):
your popcorn out and wait for the information to come out.
It's not it's not going to be fast, but ultimately
we may get to the truth. But an interesting and
profound point that he made with all of these folks
coming out and admitting that Biden was not there. He
might have been physically there, but he wasn't cognitively there.

(54:41):
How could he have made a rational choice and decision
or authorized or otherwise approved auto pen as. I mentioned
the other day that one of the challenges to it
these some of the environmental I believe was environmentally related
executive orders. There were no announcements, He did not speak
about them out loud, he didn't hold up press conference.
People weren't asked the president about them. And these were

(55:06):
really significant executive orders in the sense that most presidents,
you would think, would invite the opportunity to tell the
world about how awesome they are in signing these executive orders.
Not a peep nothing. I think that's quite telling. Coming
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Speaker 12 (57:12):
Always my pleasure to be here, Brian.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
All right, let's start off with the FBI warning least
things like come out like every day.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Yeah, scared they do.

Speaker 13 (57:21):
And just a reminder to all your listeners, if you
go to IC three dot gov Internet Crime Complaints Center ic.

Speaker 12 (57:28):
Three dot gov. This is a site hosted by.

Speaker 13 (57:30):
The FBI, you can not only report any sort of
fraud you might fall prey to online, but it's a
great resource for these sorts of warnings and such. So
I see three dot gov. I encourage folks check that
out occasionally and if you want to dive deeper into
the stuff, where again, report some sort of fraud. So

(57:50):
in this particular case, as you mentioned, Brian, the FBI
puts out warnings it seems like almost every day now,
or some government agency, whether it's FBI, d HS says
the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency which is part of DHS.
These things are constant and While this is a specific
warning about old Wi Fi routers, you know, the concept

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here applies to any sort of older device. If you
have devices that are end of life, and that's just
fancy geek speak for they're not getting updates from the
manufacturer anymore.

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Yeah, you still run a Microsoft XL on your computer,
You're in trouble.

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Yeah, because you know, everything eventually goes into life. And
I totally get the idea if it ain't if it
ain't broke, don't fix it. I don't want to spend
money on something that works. But understand and don't just
take Dave Hatter's word for it and see what the FBI, Microsoft, Google,
et cetera.

Speaker 6 (58:45):
Say.

Speaker 13 (58:46):
You know, once these things go into life, there's no
more software updates, which means eventually when vulnerabilities are found,
and there are bad guys out there as well as
good guys trying to find vulnerabilities and software so they
can be patched on the good guy side, you know,
once vulnerabilities are discovered, search engines like Showdan make it
possible for the bad guys to see your devices if

(59:06):
they're connected to the internet, So I can go out
and say I want to find all the Wi Fi
routers that have this problem. Right there, they all are,
and then I can attempt to start exploiting them. So again,
this is targeted towards Wi Fi routers, that device you
have in your home that makes it possible for you
to get connected to the Internet over wireless. Right and

(59:29):
a lot of people will have two different devices. They'll
have the cable mode them from their Internet service provider.

Speaker 12 (59:34):
Then they'll have some sort of Wi Fi router.

Speaker 13 (59:36):
Sometimes it's one box, sometimes it's too That Wi Fi
router may be supplied by your Internet service provider, or
you may have went out and got your own. And
because I know we'll be short on time here. You know,
if you can't up if you don't know how to
update the software in the device, if you can't update
the software in the device, if it's more than five
or six years old, you should take a hard look
at replacing it with a more modern device. It will

(59:58):
not only be more stable and faster, but it will
have more security capabilities and most importantly, it will get
the updates from the software venternew. The FBI has put
out a list of specific models. They've also said anything
that's twenty ten or earlier, So now you're talking about
a fifteen year old device should be replaced. But really,
if you don't know how to manage your device, if

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you don't know how to make sure it's getting software updates,
if it doesn't get software updates, you should take their
advice and replace it.

Speaker 12 (01:00:25):
Brian's that's the bottom line.

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
All right, how does one replace it? You's go out
to what best buy or something, or get Amazon.

Speaker 13 (01:00:31):
Buy Amazon, right, and you know you can always go
to a site like c net, Charlie net or zd
net zif Davis net zd Net, Tom's Guide, PC Magazine,
Consumer Reports where they'll have editors and experts who will say, okay,
here are the five best home or small home.

Speaker 12 (01:00:49):
Office Wi Fi router and here's why.

Speaker 13 (01:00:52):
Right, Sometimes you might want to get a certain model
because you do a lot of gaming. Sometimes you want
to get something because you don't get good connectivity in
different places the house, and this isn't the only way
to fix that. But you know, you can read all
of the editor's results and you know find something that
will be a good fit for you based on you.
You don't have to dis roll the dice and pick
something because that has its own.

Speaker 12 (01:01:13):
Set of problems. Right.

Speaker 13 (01:01:14):
You know, if you if you vet these things, take
the FBI's advice replace this stuff, because the bottom line is,
you know, this is a gateway for you into the
Internet and for the Internet into you.

Speaker 12 (01:01:25):
So if you have something that's old, it's a problem.
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
So we find out which router we need by going
to one of the recommended sources like c Need. We say, okay,
I want this one, Acme router or whatever. I buy
that it delivered to my house. I unplug the old
one and plug in the new one, and that's all
that needs to be done.

Speaker 13 (01:01:47):
No, it's in many cases it won't be that simple.
And you know, depending on these sort of custom configurations
you may have had, you don't have to put that
back or do something different. But in most of the
in most cases you if you just follow the instructions,
they'll give you it all work. If you buy something
from a reasonable manufacturer, well known brand, because you've done.

Speaker 12 (01:02:06):
Your research, they'll they'll have help.

Speaker 13 (01:02:09):
You know, you can call your Internet service provider, you
can get someone like geek squad to come help you.
So that the good news is there's plenty of resources
out there to help you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
I have my son.

Speaker 12 (01:02:20):
There you go even better?

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
Yeah, he said, Man, I'm telling you, it's like having
an IT tech as a permanent employee between my mom
and us, and.

Speaker 12 (01:02:34):
Just it's helpful to have an early friend.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Or he's a total geek. He's like you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
He writes his own code and programming and all that
kind of stuff, self taught. I'm just really impressed by him.
But thank god I've got him, because I was hoping
it would be just as simple plug in and play
kind of reality. So we'll have to get that taken
care of. It might be, but it usually won't be.
You know how that goes?

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
And a plug from Eric he says, shop local, go
to microcenter. So there you have. There's that option as well.
All right, let's bring day back. We'll talk about a
new medical scam that's floating around out there. And first
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Tech Friday thing with Dave Hatter intest dot com. All right,
Dave got a new medical scam. If you get this call,
hang up. And I was joking early this morning, Well
I'm not going to pick up the call in the
first instance. If I don't recognize the phone number, I'm
not answering it, So I'm never going to be a
victim of this what's going on?

Speaker 13 (01:04:22):
And you know, Brian, that is exactly the right way
to approach so much of this stuff, especially especially as
we get into a world where it's increasingly difficult thanks
to AI and deep fakes, to know whether a voice
is real, whether a nail, a text, or whatever is real.
You know, it's it's never been more important to be

(01:04:44):
more skeptical. And I mean that would be my first
piece of advice, regardless of any type of particular scam.
If you get a call from a number you don't
recognize because numbers or even a number you do recognize,
but isn't in your contact like it's.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
A local number, right, I never I think.

Speaker 13 (01:05:02):
I don't either as a general rule, if you're not
on my contact list, then you call me and you
don't leave a message, you will never hear from me
because I'm not going to answer any call I don't recognize,
simply because I don't want to even talk to these
con artists. And that's partially what you have to understand, folks.
These folks are on artists. This is what they do

(01:05:22):
for a living. They'll tell any lie, they'll say anything.
In some cases they've done some open source intelligence research.
You know, I can go online and search for if
I bought a list off the dark web, people who've
been compromised somehow right dat Yeah, which is everybody. I
would bet you every one of your listeners has gotten
at least one letter from some organizations saying their data

(01:05:46):
was included in a breach of that organization. I've gotten several,
some from former employers, some from companies I didn't even
realize would have my data because there's some sort of
data broker type thing, which is why last data about
you was good. But nevertheless, right once, once your information's
out there, whether they just randomly call numbers or they're

(01:06:06):
targeting you, they'll say anything if you talk to them anything, right,
So it's better to not take the call, let it
go to voicemail, and then you know, you can vet
on your own. And the point I was trying to
make about open source intelligence and went astraya is right.
I can find out lots of additional information about you.
So when I call purporting to be X, Y or Z,
I will often between whatever's leaked and whatever I can

(01:06:29):
find have very useful information to convince you that I
am whoever I claim.

Speaker 8 (01:06:33):
To be or all.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
Maybe also the prospect of them recording your voice and
then cloning your voice and having your phone number and
other information they could pretend to be you and make
and reach out to other people.

Speaker 13 (01:06:43):
Sadly, that is a very real possibility now too. You know,
with as little as a few seconds of someone's voice,
it's easy to use free online voice cloning tools, feed
that in to the model, and then you know, have
a call where someone is pretending to be you and
it sounds dead on you.

Speaker 12 (01:07:00):
So yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 13 (01:07:03):
But you know, the bottom line here is this is
a scam reported by the FBI. Like the previous segment,
Internet Crime Complaints Center I see three dot gov is
a great resource to stay up on these sorts of things.
But you know, this is an interesting angle, and it
also shows you how creative these people are. They will
make up any lie. They'll come from any angle. In

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this case, it's people claiming to be some sort of
health insurance company. They know health insurance is expensive, and
you know they want to sell you some deeply discounted
health insurance.

Speaker 12 (01:07:35):
Of course it's a scam.

Speaker 13 (01:07:37):
Per the FBI quote discount medical insurance scams of all
misleading or fraudulent office for medical insurance plans and promised
to produced rates on legitimate medical insurance, but do not
provide any actual medical insurance coverage, resulting the millions of
dollars in losses annually. These scams often target people looking
for more affordable healthcare, use misleading tactics. It's staking to
be a legitimate insurance provider prussuring people to sign up quickly,

(01:08:00):
limited special rates of yeah right this yeah, with hidden fees.
The lord people to sign opens at midnight. Yeah yeah right,
yeah if you buy the day before five pm.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
Remember the records they used to sell on television. I
heard operends midnight. You're like, oh, yeah, right, whatever, this
commercial has been running.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
For a month.

Speaker 12 (01:08:21):
You know, Brian, I might have had a k tail
record or two back in the day.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Who didn't have one?

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
But in the final analysis on TV, you gotta hurry up.
That's a big red flag there. But then again, if
you don't answer the phone, you won't have to worry
about this. Real calls and real people will leave real
voicemail messages and then you can draw your own conclusions
after you listen to the message.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
In my case, Dave, i'd say out a out of
twenty spam calls, and I get them all the time,
maybe one will actually leave some sort of message and
it's sort of like an interrupted pre recorded something or
other and not even bother listen to the whole thing.
Someone really needs to each out to me, there are
other ways to do it.

Speaker 12 (01:09:02):
He amen.

Speaker 13 (01:09:03):
One last real quick point quote from the FBI, and
never pay for any of the offerings up front before
you've had a chance to review the policy thoroughly.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
You know that's so concerning to me that they even
have to warn people about that, that some people are
gullible enough that they would actually pay for something before
they even know what they're buying.

Speaker 12 (01:09:21):
Yeah. Man, if you don't have a policy, you don't
have insurance.

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With tech Friday, Dave hat or interest it dot com.
So Kettering got hit with the ransomware attack. Huh Kettering Health.

Speaker 12 (01:10:59):
Yeah, and it's pretty bad, Brian.

Speaker 13 (01:11:01):
Unfortunately, it looks like this went down on May twentieth,
and during the break, I just searched for the latest
news about this, so looking at some headlines here just
within the past couple of days. And this is why,
it's why I get so frustrated, Brian, trying to convince
people to take this seriously. And don't get me wrong,

(01:11:22):
I'm not saying Kettering Health didn't, you know. I'm sure
with an organization as large as Kettering Health, they have
many experts, they have incident response plans, they have business
continuity plans, they have backups, they have advanced antivirus all
this stuff I would tell you should do right.

Speaker 12 (01:11:36):
And you know, a lot of this.

Speaker 13 (01:11:38):
Is often because of some user clicking on something they
shouldn't have right. Something gets to someone they don't have
the right degree of education and awareness, the right degree of.

Speaker 12 (01:11:49):
Skepticism, they click on something.

Speaker 13 (01:11:50):
Because you can put in all kinds of technology and
tools right, but if someone has the right permissions and
they do the wrong thing, in many cases, these folks
can get around all those tools. And that's why resiliency,
being able to get back up quickly, being able to
restore your data, restore your systems, minimize downtime, minimize data loss,

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et cetera, is critical. So this started on May twentieth.
It's May thirtieth, Brian. So we're ten days in so far.
And here are the headlines. So this is a headline
from the Dayton Daily News yesterday. This is Kettering Health
no longer diverting ems from its hospitals. There's another headline,
Kettering Health works to return to normal amid payroll my

(01:12:31):
chart issues from cyber attack. This was yesterday from WHIOTV.
So just those two headlines alon tell you in there
are people claiming they didn't get paid the right amount
of money it had to divert patients. You know, my
chart is the electronic record system that most of these
organizations use.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
I'm sure you're.

Speaker 12 (01:12:50):
Familiar with my chart. I'm familiar with my chart now.

Speaker 13 (01:12:53):
You know, so far, there's been no indication I can
find that they paid a ransom by all indications. And
I said from from the get go when this first
came up, based on the initial reporting on the twentieth,
probably ransomware based on what they're describing. Just as a reminder, folks,
ransomware is malicious software designed to encrypt your data, so

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it scrambles the data. The systems who have had their
data scrambled are rendered useless at.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
That point, right, and they expect money in return to
unscrambled the data.

Speaker 13 (01:13:25):
Well, and the second part, Brian, that's often misunderstood by businesses.
Even if you do all the things that someone like
me would tell you, advanced antivirus hardening, all this stuff,
and you have a good business continuity plan and you're
able to recover quickly. The second thing they typically do
now as part of the malware is while it's encrypting
your data, it's also stealing it. It's sending it off

(01:13:46):
to some server somewhere. So when you come back and say, hey,
got your ransomware. Note we wiped our systems, we restored everything,
minimum downtime, minimum impact, good to go. They say, well,
that's nice, but we've stolen all this sensitive data. Now
we're going to start to release it on the internet
if you don't pay the ransom.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Which they could probably do anyway. Even if you pay
the ransom.

Speaker 13 (01:14:07):
They might yet understand you're dealing with thieves. First off, Yeah,
that's a good point, but also understand if they screw
enough people like that, people won't pay the ransom no
matter what, So that there's a balance there.

Speaker 12 (01:14:18):
No guarantee you'll get your data deeds among thieves, Yes.

Speaker 13 (01:14:22):
No guarantee they won't release your data anyway, But if
that happens enough times, then there would never be any
incidentive for you to pay. Right, So you take all
this into consideration, but ideally have the right defenses in place,
and then you know a strong plan to be resilient
to minimize your downtime. What do you think it's costing
them just in downtime and patience being diverted? You know,

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employees standing around doing nothing, not to mention the forensics
that's going to be required to get this all to
understand what really happens, so it doesn't happen again.

Speaker 12 (01:14:57):
You know, all the bad will is created. It's it's terrible.

Speaker 13 (01:15:01):
I feel bad for them, and again, I have no
reason to believe they haven't done everything that they could do,
so I'm not I don't want to cast dispersions on
Kettering health anyway.

Speaker 12 (01:15:11):
My point is.

Speaker 13 (01:15:13):
That for any business that thinks this can never happen
to them, understand it happens to businesses that are very capable,
very experienced, very knowledgeable, have the resources to try to
defend against this stuff. And if you're basically just to think,
if your approach is denial, this will never happen to me.
I'm too small. My business has nothing worth stealing. Your

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money is worth stealing. They will steal your money by
hook or crook. There's nothing they won't do or say
to you to get your money if you make it
easy for them, and I want to say they did.

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
And with artificial intelligence, I mean, they can generate just
gazillions of these efforts. They don't have to lift a
finger in terms of personnel or manpower or having a
physical human being actually reach out to you and endeavor
to finagle money out of you. This is just an
email attack. Basically, if you click on the link that's there,
you're screwed.

Speaker 12 (01:16:08):
Well yeah, yeah, Brian.

Speaker 13 (01:16:09):
And one last thing, this gets back to so so
former NSA director and Army General Paul NACASONI great quote
from him. Cybersecurity is national security. This is a private
example right now. This is an attack on critical infrastructure,
private organization. But you know, people's lives hang in the
balance when these kind of things happen, and you know,
we have got to get serious as a society, as businesses,

(01:16:32):
as governments about protecting our society, our residents against this
sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
That's why I love having you on man. You give
us the information and well the fools, the one who's
not paying attention with Dave Hatter's telling you interrust it
dot com to help you avoid this kind of thing, Dave,
look forward to next Friday. Already as always, have a
wonderful weekend, my friend. Thanks for everything that you do.
My pleasure, Brian, look for to chat with you next Friday.
Legal experts Steve Gooden up next PG Sittinveld gets pardon,

(01:16:59):
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Outstanding attorneys they are Steve Gooden, Welcome back, my friend.
Always enjoy our conversations.

Speaker 6 (01:17:33):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
Likewise, Brian, good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:17:35):
Saw your interview with local news WCPO and Paula Christian
reporting on it and pg Sittinveld got pardon.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
I know my listeners are aware of that. It's made
the news.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
He was convicted, as we well know, twenty thousand dollars
campaign donations in return for well helping out a developer.
Appeal affirmed the conviction was on appeal, and Donald Trump
pardoned him the other day. Now ask units before we
dive into the details of what this actually means and
what it means.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
For PG sitting Feld.

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
Does anybody have any idea how he ended up on
a Donald Trump presidential pardon list?

Speaker 6 (01:18:12):
Well we do now, you know, after he lost his trial,
Sittenfeld actually kind of swapped out his legal team and
brought in Jones Dag out of the DC Office, which
is a very very connected law firm. Huge law firm,
would deep connections through Republican political circles as well, because

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you know, at that point he was heading into the
six Circuit Court of Appeals that would review the conviction,
that is very dominated by Bush and Trump appointees at
this point. So it was a smart move.

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
On his part.

Speaker 6 (01:18:47):
And we know at least one lawyer from his legal
team was taken up into the Trump Justice Department just
a few months ago, was hired away, So we do
know that a member of his legal team is actually
a medical appointee in the Trump Justice Department. We obviously
don't know precisely what happened, but as the old saying goes,

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it's not that I don't believe in coincidences. I've ever
seen one. You know, I'm a member of your legal team.
Suddenly he's working in the presidential administration, which pardons you,
I think, or formerly member of the legal team. I
think it's a fair guest that they were able to
elevate him there. And we also do know, as well,
from Trump's public comment in the past pardons that he

(01:19:30):
has issued, that he really has an understandable I think,
affinity for any political figure who he feels was wrongly
targeted under public corruption laws and just drug through the mud.
I mean, no matter what people think of Donald Trump,
I don't think anyone can argue that most of US
court cases brought against him, we're just ridiculous and political.

(01:19:55):
And I think that's the lens through which the president
is seeing this. And I think thirdly, when you look
at the list, the vast majority of the people that
he has pardoned so far, not all of them, but
most of them have been Republicans. So I think there
might have been some effort in the administration. And again
we're speculating, but some effort to at least have a
token Democrat or two, like Legoiovitch out of Illinois, so

(01:20:17):
it doesn't look just overtly political. On this point, I
think the president truly believes that the prosecutors in a
lot of these cases overreached. In this case, I don't
think these prosecutors, particularly as it relates to a householder,
were overreaching these work. You know, it really was. I
was a Biden appointee who ended up taking this case
to trial against a local, very well known Democrat. So

(01:20:39):
I don't know that that's all true here, but what
we have learned in the last twenty four hours would
suggest this is really a case where Sittenfeld, as a
pretty wealthy guy, guy that certainly has access to money,
was able to kind of work the system and elevate
his case through back channels in a way that a
lot of defendants typically would not be able to do.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
Considering the rate you have to pay Jones Day's DC office,
you have to be well well healed money wise in
order to even afford their representation. But apparently money buys connections.

Speaker 6 (01:21:11):
Well, it always has, and you know, and that's sort
of when you look through Sittenfeld's career. You know, he's
an Ivy League person who you know, came back to
Cincinnati and immediately had connections in those circles and family
connections and family money, and it's he always was the
top fundraiser and any given the year when he ran
for office. Yeah, so some none of this is really

(01:21:32):
that surprising, And that's just for better or worse, how
the world tends to work.

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
Well in so far the pardon is a pardon. It's
as if the conviction never existed, I mean exists in
the minds of people who were paying attention to it
and who are aware of PG. Sittenfeld and what he
was all about. But it's as though this never happened. Correct,
He's starting from scratch. He has no record relating to this.
It's clean slate time, correct.

Speaker 6 (01:21:56):
You know it really is. You know, it's it is
kind of unusual. Well, I mean, minor students, you can
still sort of look it up, I guess, you know,
not just impressed stories. But I think that the conviction
or a means on the record, this is no one's
allowed to do anything with it. You know, it's considered
an act of mercy. It's not a commutation in the
sentence or anything. It does. Wipe it clean. He's no

(01:22:18):
longer even though it's out there in the public record,
he is no longer considered a felon. You know, he
doesn't have to disclose it on any applications for jobs
or financing or loans or anything like that, which is
really for most people as a practical matter, where a
felony conviction really hurts you. You know, he can vote,
is right. All his rights, gun ownership, all those sorts

(01:22:40):
of things, you know, were instantly restored. And he does
now have the ability to run for public office again.
And a lot of states and cities convicted felons cannot
run for public office. And obviously that that has been
lifted as well.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
Well as reported as I mentioned, you know again, credit
to CPO for providing information. And it was written there
that his appeal was widely believed to be heard in
the next US Supreme Court. Obviously it won't be heard,
since it's no, it's kind of the whole question is
moot now. But the cases, his conviction and the opinions
remain a part of the record. I mean that those

(01:23:17):
are not removed, right, They could appear in legal searches,
like if you do to lexis nexus search. You no
longer have to go to law books anymore and pull
it out. But there it is in black and white.

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
That doesn't disappear, does it?

Speaker 6 (01:23:30):
It does not particularly the appellate court decisions. Let's say,
and what's the court you know, two to one did
uphold with some questions, but they did uphold the jury
finding here, and I think that that's really powerful. And
just a brief word on the Supreme Court piece, I
think that is the one piece of good that I think,
indisputably in my mind that came out of the pardon

(01:23:50):
was I think the Supreme Court was more likely than
not to take his case, really and I think if
they had taken the case, that they would have actually
made some case law that wouldn't have been good. I
think for for public corruption prosecutions. And again, there is
no question that there are folks that have overreached, there
are people in the Justice Department that the Justice Department

(01:24:11):
has been weaponized. There's absolutely, you know, no question in
the Trump you know, well Trump was out of office,
that we saw some horrible behavior by these folks that
needs to be addressed. But I don't think the answer
is throwing the baby out with the bathwater and totally
gutting the laws themselves. You know, there is corruption, particularly
at the local level throughout the country where you know,

(01:24:35):
the FEDS don't have eyes, and there's corruption that goes
on all the time. And I think my concern was
that the Supreme Court ruling on First Amendment grounds kind
of similar to their Citizens United ruling, would have possibly
really gutted the quid pro quo corruption laws and the
use of the honis goods and services laws to chase that.

(01:24:56):
And there were some indication they would, and even in
the appellate decision that have held the conviction, at least
one of those judges, Judge Murphy, actually you know, descended
and basically, you know, I made that argument and all
that begged the Supreme Court to take the case in
the Sixth Circuit's pretty well respected right now in those circles.
So this at least cuts off a ruling that I

(01:25:18):
think could have had some unintended consequences. I understand, you know,
the animus behind one to take this to the Supreme Court.
I get why there might be folks in the Trump
administration that would have been, you know, favored that argument,
but I think over time it will be something we'd
come to regret.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
Yeah, I mean, the well, the uncertainty surrounding which direction
the Supreme Court goes is a reason in and of
itself to offer to grant him a pardon to avoid
well the potential negative or as as your perspective determines
the positive implications of a Supreme Court decision on this, I.

Speaker 6 (01:25:53):
Think that's right. There is no question that the needs
to be you know, more house cleaning at the Department
of Justice, to root out the politics, to root out
the overreaching, and to root out anyone who would weaponize
you know, that office, in the office of a prosecutor
for political reasons. It's just I don't believe having sat
through a lot of this trial and knowing Ken Parker,
the former but who was a Biden appointee by the way,

(01:26:14):
who actually picked this case up and took it to trial.
You know, these are people that I know to be
this was not political. If Kim Parker was a political
actor here, he would drop the case under it just
I know from musicals. He was under tremendous personal and
social pressure to do exactly that. So I mean there
really was some courage here at his point, you know,

(01:26:36):
personally and politically to move forward. I mean, he's not
got some grand political career waiting for him, you know,
after all this, and he really in local democratic circles,
you know, damage to standing. So this wasn't that kind
of a case in my view, And I would just
hate to see the law it self gutted in an
effort to root out the acts of some bad individuals,

(01:26:58):
when here we didn't really have that. I think that's
clearly happened in other cases, particularly during that time when
Trump was out of office, but this one, and it
isn't just my bias here, I do this thing, And
those twelve jurors.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
Agreed, They're like, you know, this was wrong.

Speaker 6 (01:27:11):
This was not just some political speech that that sitting
felt made and got money, you know, campaign contributions for
This was a scenario where there was a clear thing,
I will give you money if you fix my project,
and he said yes. In fact, he actually could be
heard on the tape conversations bidding up the confidential informat, asking.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
For more money games.

Speaker 6 (01:27:33):
So I think it's it's pretty clear what it was,
and the jury didn't really struggle with that part. Other
parts of the case, particularly those involving the FBI kind
of set up part of it, the state operation where
they tried to broaden it. I mean they you know,
it was ridiculous. There was overreach in in this case,
and the jury found him not guilty on those counts,
but the actual quid pro quo corruption part, I think

(01:27:56):
it's really hard to get around.

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
More with Steve good Will pause, bring it back and
talking about nationwide injunctions among other things. One thinking about
kerste the talk station from the law firm a Porter
Right Porter right dot com and Steve Gooden, our legal expert,
and we were talking about P. D. Sittenfel before we
move away and talking about nationwide injunction. Steve It's report

(01:28:20):
of the sea that Sittenfeld has just under a million
dollars in his Marrital campaign account.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
He gets to keep that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
I mean, he's he was convicted and he was in
prison and all this is going, but he's still got
a bank account from campaign contributions and that he has
control over. How does that work? If you know, I
don't want to catch you off guard, but that got
that was kind of puzzy.

Speaker 6 (01:28:42):
No, no, not at all. No, No, actually I do
know that one. You know, he you know, he does
have control over that now. He is very very limited
though under Ohio law and under most Sutteral law. And
I think he's got part of it is in a
state account, part of it's a federal superpack. But he
is pretty limited in what he can do with it,
and he does have to make public reports as to
how he spends it. He cannot just start paying himself

(01:29:05):
out of it. He can't access it personally. The law
there is very clear. He can either basically donate it
to charity. He can donate it to other political candidates
some restrictions, or he can you know, you he can
once again run for political office. And I've heard over
the last twenty four hours. I've spoken to speech you
shipfuled over two years, but I can tell you that

(01:29:26):
that from some friends of his who have reached out
to me and later the a zero interest in running
for political office.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
Oh oh okay.

Speaker 6 (01:29:35):
That's what they really. You know, I've heard that from
from folks who would know, and that he really just
you know this, that this whole process has been devastating
to him and his family and even though he could
run again, that he really just doesn't have an interest
in it. That can change.

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
Well, I know, but to me that makes perfect sense,
because if I'm in his shoes, I'm not sticking my
head up.

Speaker 2 (01:29:56):
I'm gonna keep my head down.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
I'm going to go out and try to find a
job in the pri sector or something like that, because
you know, if he ran, this would be an issue
that would crop up all the time, pardon notwithstanding. So
you can't ignore the history of this all right. Now,
moving over nationwide injunctions, right, District courts are preside over
the district that they have that's a geographically defined space.

(01:30:19):
Circuit courts the same kind of thing, larger geographical area,
but you've got multiple circuit courts. They issue opinions that
hold that have standing in those particular jurisdictions. But when
it comes to a federal a district court issuing a
nationwide injunction, that seems to exceed the authority over which
they have. And yet we are faced with them all

(01:30:40):
the time, most notably recently under many of these Trump decisions.
So where are we on this one, Steve? Are these appropriate?
Is there something that can be done about it, Congressional
action or otherwise?

Speaker 6 (01:30:52):
Well, you know, they're under attack from two different two
different ways. Both the Supreme Court, you know, has signaled
through some of their recent decisions that they are looking
to to limit the power internally they have smacked back
a couple of the district court judges who have entered
into these so called national injunctions, and there is a
bill pending in Congress that will basically do away with
them altogether. Congress does have the power to alter the

(01:31:16):
individual jurisdiction of district courts, So there are two different
tracks where this might be addressed, and it really is
a very strange moment we're in. If we look at
the history of national injunctions prior to Trump taking office,
there has only been fourteen that I could find documented
in our nation's history where national injunctions have been entered.
They were very, very very rare within the past. During

(01:31:39):
Trump's two administrations, there have been eighty four administration alone,
So that kind of tells you that there are folks
who clearly are on the bench who are using the
court system to insert themselves into policy and basically the
idea that you and it also encourages forum shopping judges

(01:32:00):
going either Most of them are coming out of places
like the Baltimore Federal Courts DC Circuit and also the
night or the San Francisco area Federal District Court, where
you know that you can tell which president appointment to judges.
So you find an older Clinton appointee or an Obama
appointee to kind of delve into their background. And not

(01:32:22):
all the appointees are like this, but you at least
can get an idea as to, you know, from their
confirmation hearings as to what practice they had, what their
ideas are, and who and how appointed they got appointed. Yeah,
and gen Che's out. I'm going to try to bring
my lawsuit in Baltimore, for instance, because I have a
pretty good chance of getting an appointee from these past

(01:32:43):
administrations who will be hostile to some of these underlying concepts.
Maybe get a national injunction which voids the Trump executive orders.
Particularly so forum shopping is under attack, and we'll see
what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
Yeah, forum shopping. When I practice law in Chicago with
lawyers Cook County was an ideal location to file a
PLAINUS personal injury lawsuit because they were notorious for their
huge Jerry awards and very plaintiff biased judges. So that
has been going on since I guess the practice of
law began anyway. Steve goodin Porter right dot COM's where

(01:33:17):
you find Steve and the crew for excellent lawyers, and
I appreciate your insights, Steve. It's always really valuable, and
you do a wonderful job here for my listeners and
me here on the morning show, and I know there's
going to be something else we'll need to talk about
down the road, and I look forward to those discussions.

Speaker 6 (01:33:31):
You're way too time, Brian. Thank you and have a
good weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:33:33):
You do the same, brother, Good to talk to you.
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A very happy Friday to extra special day, the return
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(01:35:11):
late father, who my listeners, who regular listeners know struggled
with Alzheimer's dementia and lost his life due to complications
and related issues from Alzheimer's. Spent his last days in
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(01:35:56):
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(01:36:16):
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And it's just an amazing advancement that seems so simple,
but so many facilities don't have this technology. So that's
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(01:36:40):
with a better living condition, which all is a wonderful thing.

Speaker 2 (01:36:44):
Patty.

Speaker 3 (01:36:44):
Always great to see you, and I want to thank
you again from the bottom of my heart for all
that you do. And a real quick update. Last time
you were here, you brought Macy and Marie Cunningham, the
Cunningham Sisters, beautiful singers, beautiful, absolutely amazing. And people who
donate and contribute to Hard for Seniors get a live performance,
live performance from these young ladies, and my mom is

(01:37:07):
going to be getting because I donate. Next week it's
lined up Jones Hie, and I'm not going to say
out loud which songs they're going to sing, but they
learned a song that I suggested for my mom who's
listening probably right now. So Jones out there, so I
understand that's been lined up, and I know she's excited
about it and she is going to absolutely melt when

(01:37:29):
she hears these young ladies sing. But I elaborate on
that before we get to Jane and her story, because
you've got some news.

Speaker 4 (01:37:38):
We do well.

Speaker 15 (01:37:39):
First of all, your listeners, Brian, I've told you they
are such advocates, such caregivers, and they support you and
all your causes.

Speaker 1 (01:37:50):
But I just have to tell you since our last meeting.

Speaker 15 (01:37:52):
Yeah, Lisa Bridges from Seniors Helping Seniors heard us on
the show.

Speaker 1 (01:38:00):
She reached out.

Speaker 15 (01:38:02):
They actually have been around for a long time from Fairfield, Ohio,
a nonprofit, and she says, we need your technology.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
We need it.

Speaker 15 (01:38:11):
We're in homes. We're not in long term care facilities,
but we have caregivers that go out into the homes
and we need help. So we've been talking and we've
been collaborating and you're going to see some amazing things
come out of that. Oh great, your listeners continue networking

(01:38:31):
continues on. That's wonderful that you know, and you know
they were so frustrated because again, there's not a lot
of senior organizations that really care and support caregivers and seniors,
and so this technology it's so hard for them to
get caregivers. And so this technology is just going to

(01:38:53):
enhance the experience for the patient that's in the home,
the family. But then more importantly, the caregivers are just
going to get support that they don't have exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:39:04):
Well, it makes the caregivers job a lot easier. I
can't imagine being in a position where I'm responsible for
these seniors and I find out that someone has been wallowing,
you know, for twelve hours in need of a change
or some help or assistance or something that would make
me feel personally miserable. Yes, damn it. I wish I
had got been able to get on this earlier. But look,
they weren't on the rotation schedule until I walked in

(01:39:26):
and talked to them. Corrects, that's beautiful. You're gonna give
me an allergy moment here, but real quick before we
take a quick break here as far as the Cunningham
sisters go, Yeah, tell my listeners what happened.

Speaker 1 (01:39:39):
Well, we have.

Speaker 15 (01:39:40):
We can't make the announcement yet. It's going to be
announced on your show. Okay next month next we'll announce
it on your show them they're going to come back.
They have some big announcement.

Speaker 3 (01:39:52):
Okay, well you're gonna be hearing not just here in
the morning shown, You're gonna be hearing a lot more.

Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
From the cunning at Sisters.

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
Let's just let it lay right there, and I'll look
forward to having them back in the studio. Let's pause
right now, We'll bring back and we'll hear Janie Thomas's
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Speaker 3 (01:42:00):
Seventy forty one on a Friday and a happy one
to you extra special Friday. Heart for Seniors Patti Scott
in studio with her friend Janie Thomas. No relation but
Heart number four seniors dot org. Help them out. And
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changing technology that not enough people know about. But the
more people learn about it and understand it, the more
people are going to embrace it and the better quality
of life every senior in an assisted living facility or
getting care at home is going to have. And Patty
go ahead and introduced Jannie and provide a k few
details before we launch into her story.

Speaker 2 (01:42:43):
Which you described as scary.

Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
It's very scary.

Speaker 15 (01:42:46):
Well, first of all, Janie is the epitome of an
amazing senior. She's a volunteer, she's a kindergarten teacher fifty years, retired,
retired fifty years, and she retired to do the ultimate.
She took care of her parents in their home until
they passed away, and then right after that she got

(01:43:09):
slapped with her husband getting Louis dementia and he passed away.
So it's been four years and she never stopped. She
continued to take care of people in their homes and give.
And part of Heart for Seniors is also about advocating

(01:43:29):
for seniors as well as the caregivers, but more importantly
educating about things that are just not public or talked about.
Just like the incontinence and something happened two weeks ago
that to Jane that we stepped in to have to
help because she couldn't advocate for herself. And we think
it's important for your listeners to know because had she

(01:43:54):
known ahead of time, it could have saved her eyesight.
So I'm just going to say she was driving on
the side of the road after an appointment and she
went blind.

Speaker 1 (01:44:02):
In a right eye, Oh my god.

Speaker 15 (01:44:05):
And I will let her pick it up from here
to say what happened after that quickly because she didn't
get the care that she should have to save the
eye sight.

Speaker 3 (01:44:16):
Cautionary tale for my listeners, a learning experience. Learn it,
know it's all right, Janey, let us know what happened.

Speaker 12 (01:44:23):
Well.

Speaker 10 (01:44:23):
First of all, big fan of Hertford seniors. I think
that as a country we do not appreciate and advocate
for our elderly, who are the foundation of where we
are right now. But personally, I was driving down the
road perfectly healthy, no problems at all. Suddenly noticed a

(01:44:44):
white cloud kind of flowed across my eye, and then
something like a mud had been splattered on your windshield,
and all of a sudden, my site was pretty much
gone in my right eye. Always been told from my ophthalmologist,
if anything ever happens like a black curtain coming over

(01:45:06):
your eye, call we call. We got to get you in.
It's a retina detachment. Called immediately from my car phone
and told them how concerned I was. Called the ophthalmologist
and who'd been treating me for a dry eye. That's
a whole other subject, but anyway, said okay, we'll get
right back to you. Well, I drove on home, which

(01:45:28):
was in our way, kind of scared driving one eyed,
but it worked.

Speaker 1 (01:45:32):
I got there.

Speaker 10 (01:45:33):
My brother came in and he said, uh, we need
to get you to a doctor. That sounds like when
my wife's retina detached. So I'm thinking, okay, this can
be taken care of, no problem.

Speaker 16 (01:45:44):
Call.

Speaker 10 (01:45:45):
Still haven't gotten a call back. Three hours later, still
don't call back. Oh boy called my optometrist and said, okay,
this is going on.

Speaker 1 (01:45:53):
I'm scared. What should I do? And he said come in?

Speaker 10 (01:45:55):
So I go in and I learned a lot that
there are all kinds of things that can go wrong
with your eyes that could cause that. He thought that
it was a hole in the macula. Long story short.
He tried to call the specialist in our city. No
answer at their office because they were so busy they
just didn't answer. Finally, I said, well, I was supposed

(01:46:17):
to get a call back from my ophthalmologist, but he
didn't call. And he goes, he's got all the equipment
I need. I'll get a hold of him. So he
called and kind.

Speaker 2 (01:46:24):
Of greased the skids, pushed.

Speaker 10 (01:46:28):
Very strongly that I get in there. I got in
and had to sit and wait until all the other
patients were done to be seen, and the whole time
I'm thinking, I'm losing time. I'm losing time. I'm losing time.
They did a lot of tests, which were exhausting at
the time because I was straining to try to do

(01:46:50):
what they were asking me to do with my right
eye and it wasn't working very well. Somewhere in that
conversation the word stroke was mentioned. Oh, but then I
was told i'll see you in two weeks, and I said, whoa,
I'm scared. I'm scared. And then then he said, well,

(01:47:12):
maybe we won't get in tomorrow morning. So, not thinking
I said, okay, this is a professional. I should do
what he says, right, So I go back in the
next morning. They reduced the test into which he says, oh,
my goodness, I think you're having a stroke. You need

(01:47:32):
to go straight to the er. I said, I drove
myself and he goes, that's okay, just go to the er.
Told me which E are to go to. I drove
myself to the er. Now this is all to say
I'm awesome at advocating for people I love. I am
wonderful at doing that. I will push to the limit.

(01:47:53):
Did I do that for myself? No, I was so
overwhelmed that I just did what he told me to do.

Speaker 12 (01:48:00):
To the er.

Speaker 3 (01:48:00):
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Patty stepped in, my brother stepped in, my son stepped in,
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So we've gone into some alternative type things trying to
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Really, all the other reap, I mean, her heart's good,
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They how about.

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That cholesterol medicine crowdedari is totally cleared, no reason for it,
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well need. Hard for Seniors dot Org, don't go away.

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It should be an interesting conversation. Say what you want
about Larry Flint. Liz Flint, his widow's going to join
the program after the top of their news to talk
about hustlers. Fifty Years of Freedom. That's the name of
her new book. Plus in studio. Kimberly from Saint Anthea, Patawa.
It's the Mediterranean food festival time of year. We're gonna
hear from Kimberly at eight thirty. Hopefully she'll bring me
some food. Seven fifty seven right now. If you five

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Forward to the bottom of the hour with Kimberlee from
sant Anthea Patowa's Church regarding the Mediterranean Festival and hopefully
bearer of Kibbi and Taboulie in the meantime. Happy to
welcome to the fifty five Carssey Morning Show. Understatement to
say controversial Larry Flint. We all know him, especially here
in City Cincinnati. His wife, of course, Larry passed away.

(01:56:39):
Liz Flint is joining the program. She currently runs the
entire Empire. She is behind the book and author of
the book Hustler Fifty Years Hustler fifty fifty Years of Freedom.
Liz Flint, Welcome to the fifty five KRS Morning Show.

Speaker 18 (01:56:54):
Well, good morning to you.

Speaker 2 (01:56:55):
It's a pleasure to have you on and what a
perfect timing to have you on the show.

Speaker 6 (01:56:58):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:56:58):
I know my listeners, being of the more conservative mindset,
may not believe in and find the material that has
been featured in Hustler now since I guess nineteen seventy
four when it was first published to their liking or taste.
But as a staunch defender of the Constitution and First Amendment,
you know, different strokes for different folks, if I may

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be so bold, and I know that Larry Flint was
subject to a lot of litigation over his life and
fought a hard challenge, ended up in the Supreme Court
in the name of free speech, and actually prevailed. You
feature that in the book, do you not, Yes.

Speaker 18 (01:57:34):
I too. Well. You know what free speech is, all speech,
even hate speech. Well, we can't start slicing and dicing. Well,
it's fit. So it's called toleration. We have to tolerate
those that we don't necessarily like. But at the end
of the day, we'll always find a common ground to.

Speaker 2 (01:57:52):
Agree on exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
And I'm a listen you speak in my language on that.
You know, I appreciate the speech, including you know, there
is hate speech out in the world, but the freedom
of speech allows people to make such utterances, and in
so doing, we at least can identify and choose to
agree or disagree with him, or at least engage in
a debate about the merits of what they are saying.

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In a society without free speech, you can't even engage
in a debate, which is why I am appreciative of
the First Amendment.

Speaker 2 (01:58:22):
You know. The other thing is speaking.

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
Of litigation, and Larry was in a lot of cases
the Jerry Follwell litigation that turned out to his advantage
as well, and it's an important Supreme Court case. Remind
my listeners about that particular one.

Speaker 18 (01:58:38):
Well, Larry put out a parody satire in Huster magazine
back in eighty three, and it was a compari ad
and at the bottom of the ad it said not
to be taken serious and it was making reference to
Jarry follow his first time in outhouse with his mother. Well,

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obviously he didn't like that, and he sued Larry, and
Larry lost at lower cart and then Larry appealed and
went to the US Supreme Court and they accepted his case,
and well Larry prevailed and had the Chief Justice, Justice

(01:59:24):
Renquist write the majority opinion. Larry was very shocked too,
because it was the preacher versus the pornographer. But we
all benefit from this landmark case. It's taught in all
law schools all over the country.

Speaker 3 (01:59:41):
Right of course, I went through that case when I
was in law school. And I mean, Liz, can you
imagine the internet had Larry lost that case? Considering I mean,
every single day you're confronted with parodies of all shapes
and forms.

Speaker 2 (01:59:58):
You know, quite often they're in form.

Speaker 3 (02:00:00):
Quite often they're extremely funny, sometimes offensive. But I just
can't imagine a world with the Internet age without that
particular case as president.

Speaker 18 (02:00:12):
Absolutely so comedians all over the country, like Bill Maher,
Jeffrey Ross, even back then Jay Leno, that you could
say something to hurt someone's feelings and not be charged
or prosecuted or jailed.

Speaker 3 (02:00:28):
Now I have to ask you this, considering you know
this is the greater Cincinnati area. Does former Hamilton County
Prosecutor Fred Cardolano or Simon Lease Junior's name come up
in the book by any chance?

Speaker 18 (02:00:44):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:00:44):
They Okay, I know that Simon LEAs was not a
fan of your late husband.

Speaker 18 (02:00:53):
No. But you know, at the end of the day,
this coffee table book, it is five decades of Husser
magazine and the brand meaning the best cartoons, illustrations, publishers, statements,
and there's a lot more Larry's political views. And what

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makes it so nice it's you see the change in
the decades and it's the best of And I think
that I'm bringing something to Cincinnati that they lived through it.

Speaker 3 (02:01:27):
Yes, we certainly did it. Was a much more Victorian era,
and it wasn't even that long ago. I mean, I'll
be sixty in September, Liz, and I remember when all
these cases were pending, when he was being prosecuted for
obscenity and by Simon Leees, and of course I remember
when he was having to go through the Supreme Court
era with the free speech case, which was in that

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the movie featuring Woody Harrelson, who I understand did a
forward in your book.

Speaker 18 (02:01:55):
Absolutely, I reached out to Woody and asked him he
could write the forward for this book because obviously he
played Larry in The People Versus Larry Flint, and wood
he is from Ohio, Lebanon, Ohio. It made perfect sense
and he will. After the movie, him and Larry became

(02:02:16):
very close friends, and it was just a beautiful friendship, relationship,
loving relationship. And he did write a beautiful forward and
tribute to Larry Flint.

Speaker 3 (02:02:27):
How about that? Now you know the story, you know
the movie. Is the movie accurate? I mean quite often
movies of Hollywood take liberties with facts and issues, and
I'm just wondering if the movie accurately depicts that that
period of time.

Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
If I may boil it down to that.

Speaker 12 (02:02:44):
Well.

Speaker 18 (02:02:44):
I asked my husband when they were filming down in Nashville, Tennessee.
I said, Larry, how would you see this movie? Would
you say they've got a lot right or obviously Hollywood's
selling a movie. They got him tell ushit a little bit,
and he said, for what was there, Lis, they just
about got a lot of the scenes, especially the court scenes.

(02:03:07):
And yes, that profile of Simon Leeese was depicted there
by James Carmel, and I think they I think Milos
Forman did a very excellent job portraying Larry and all
the other characters in the movie.

Speaker 3 (02:03:25):
No, I thoroughly enjoyed the film. Again, I just was asking,
for the sake of historical accuracy, if I should view
it with a measure of skepticism. I interviewed one of
the the World War Two veterans who was in stalog
I was three the story behind the Great Escape, and
he said, with the exception of the motorcycle stunts, that

(02:03:46):
movie accurately depicted everything they went through and in uh
in escaping from the prison camp in World War Two.
So nice to know the information I see. I have
notes here Liz the author again of hu excuse me,
huss fifty fifty years of Freedom. Pete Rose's name is
listed here another local icon.

Speaker 18 (02:04:06):
Yes, so Larry knew him back in the day when
he had the Hustler clothes down downtown Cincinnati. And then
later Larry got in touch with Pete Rose. He was
living in Las Vegas and whenever you would come to
Los Angeles he would have lunch with Larry at the
Peninsula in Beverly Hills. So it was very nice to

(02:04:27):
meet him and Larry was It was very beautiful for
him to connect because Larry passed away and so did Pete.
So yeah, very nice.

Speaker 2 (02:04:37):
Well local icon.

Speaker 3 (02:04:38):
Pete Rose was and a fan of Charles Bukowski, I am.
I noted from the notes that there were features by
Charles Bukowski in Hustler. Hustle was not just photographs of
scanty or without closed women. Also contained a lot of
interesting writing. I think of a guy like Hunter S. Thompson,

(02:04:59):
very cutting ed, you know, gonzo journalists, but you also
had a lot of interesting articles like that Timothy Leary
as well.

Speaker 18 (02:05:05):
Yes, so you know, when my husband was publishing the magazine,
he was very passionate about, you know, his political stories
and illustrations, and that's where part of the magazine got
its vitality. It wasn't just a magazine of photo sets
of women, but it had a little bit more to offer.

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And that's why I call it this book of fifty
years in entertainment. I know there is something for everyone there,
and I welcome everyone to come out this evening to
Joseph Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati, and I'll be there at
seven pm tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:05:46):
Seven pm.

Speaker 3 (02:05:47):
You get an autograph copy I presume of Hustler fifty
fifty Years of Freedom by my guest today, author Liz Flint,
and of course head of the Flint Empire, which is
still alive. And well, am I right on that, Liz.

Speaker 18 (02:05:59):
Yes, we're doing quite well. Well. Back in the nineties,
when Larry saw the Internet and so many things that
you know, content that you can access for free, he said, well,
this is the time I needed to really to step
up and diversify that company, and he did. I always
say that Larry was a genius. He was just a

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man who not built the company and founded the company,
but he loved it and didn't see it as work.
So he diversified the company and went into broadcast, internet,
he went into video retail and gaming and e commerce.
So the thing is that he really really just grew

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this company into just like you said, an empire. And
we have over twenty three hundred people working for US
national and international. We're in fifty five countries globally. So
it's just a really beautiful company that Larry built from
ground up. And the roots are from Ohio, Yes.

Speaker 2 (02:07:09):
They indeed are.

Speaker 3 (02:07:11):
It's such an interesting history and of course, lots of
respect for First Amendment issues, and I appreciate what he
did in the name of the First Amendment, even if
again my listeners and some others may disagree with some
of the content. And Hustler definitely groundbreaking, and of course
it's everybody's right. You know, you get to choose what
you consume and if you want to consume it, it's

(02:07:31):
Hustler fifty fifty years of freedom.

Speaker 2 (02:07:33):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (02:07:33):
But Josepheth bookstores tonight. So you said seven pm, Liz,
Is that correct?

Speaker 18 (02:07:37):
Seven pm?

Speaker 2 (02:07:38):
Seven pm?

Speaker 3 (02:07:39):
Get yourself a copy and meet Liz in person and
ask her enough guy asked her questions. I'm sure she'd
be more than happy to answer them. Liz, it's been
real nice having you on the show, and certainly gonna
be interested in taking a look at the book. And
I encourage my listeners at hell over fifty five kres
dot com, where my executive producer, jose Beck Strecker has
put a link so folks can get their own copy
if they're so inclined. Liz, take care and have a

(02:07:59):
wonderful day.

Speaker 18 (02:08:00):
I'm going to have a special guest tonight and that's
Larry Flint Junior. He'll be moderating with me at the
book signing.

Speaker 3 (02:08:07):
All right, there's another reason to show up. Well, thanks
for your time again, Liz, appreciate talking with you, and
have a great book. Oh my pleasure.

Speaker 18 (02:08:15):
Absolutely nice morning.

Speaker 2 (02:08:17):
You do the same.

Speaker 3 (02:08:18):
It's eight seventeen and fifty five KR. See the talk stations.
Stick around. Got a few minutes before Kimberly shows up
from the Saint Anthia Apatowa Church. It's the Mediterranean Food
Festival time. We're going to be talking about that at
the bottom of the.

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That always puts a smile on my face, so does
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What a wonderful.

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Especially when you hear from like Patty Scott from Hartford Seniors.
There's so much good going on in the world. There's
so many places you can see, you know, light's little miracles.
And I enjoyed having her back on this show. And
I love what they're doing over there. Remember Heart the
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So just just doing the just doing God's work. And
thank you to Trish give me an opportunity here. In
a couple of minutes I got left, she wished me
well on my struggle, well not struggle. I'm not struggling,
but she had cancer and she's been four years since
since she was diagnosed with brass cancer and she apparently
now is cancer free.

Speaker 2 (02:09:43):
Knockwood.

Speaker 3 (02:09:43):
She says she's jealous of the sourdough that my wife makes,
and she personally lost fifty five pounds on the Keito
carnivore diet. And she praised me for, you know, going
down that road as well, but more fundamentally pointed out
to me and the reason I'm mentioning this is happy
and she's that happy National Cancer Survivor's Day that's taking
place on Sunday, and she wanted me to let my

(02:10:04):
listeners know that Saint Elizabeth's Healthcare is recognizing National Cancer
Survivor's Day on Monday, June second, Monday, from nine am
to two pm at the Young Family Cancer Center. They're
announcing a series of special events and activities to honor
National Cancer Survivor's Day. Festivities celebrate the remarkable courage, strength

(02:10:26):
and resilience of everybody impacted by cancer. The Kentucky Cancer
Program Faces of Colon Cancer display will be there, eighty
acres farms will be there in the demonstration kitchen giving
you some healthy food tips, cookies and other giveaways. And
the Cancer Center lobby. Even though I stay away from sugar,

(02:10:47):
cancer education resources got cancer screening information that's available. Community
partners will be on site and they'll be festive banners
and ribbons throughout the center. So again, taking place Monday,
stop on in sometime between nine am and two pm
at the Young Family Cancer Center Saint Elizabeth's Healthcare and
props to them for well remembering that it is a
National Cancer Survivors Dan. Everybody out there who's struggling with it.

(02:11:10):
God bless you and prayers to each and every one
of you and your family and thinking of Heart for
Seniors and the services they offer and the support they
offer to all the family members that have not personally
gotten a cancer diagnosis but are living or helping out
someone with one. You know, we can't get along with
that yet. Have myself an allergy moment, but it'll be

(02:11:35):
better the next segment because Kimberly is here Saint Antheapattos
Mediterranean Food Festival to talk about right after the new
or right after the break, and Kibby in studio, the
hell with my employer. I'm eating Kibby in the studio.
Go ahead, fire me. It's eight twenty five fifty five
KRC Detalk station.

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Dry day tomorrow, seventy five overnight, low forty seven with
partly cloudy skies, and again partly cloudy on Sunday seventy
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what Chuck has to say about traffic from the uc
UP Traffic Centery.

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an extra hour out of Florence into downtown. Chuck ingbram
On fifty five krc DE Talk Station.

Speaker 3 (02:12:55):
Eight twenty nine, fifty five KRC Detalk Station. I'm so lucky.
It's lucky if you're in the fifty five KRSN Morning
show studios right now, because there's Kibi, there's grape leaves,
there's Peter Bread, there's Hummus, and there's Kimberly from the
Saint Anthony Padawa Catholic Church. It is always a pleasure
seeing you.

Speaker 1 (02:13:14):
Oh wonderful to see you.

Speaker 2 (02:13:16):
Brian.

Speaker 3 (02:13:16):
Good morning, good morning, and a better morning because of
the wonderful food you brought in that my listeners will
be able to enjoy at the Mediterranean Food Festival. We'll
get the details on that first, though. Remind my listeners
about the church. If you want to find it online,
it's at STA for Saint Anthony STA parish dot org.

Speaker 2 (02:13:37):
That's the website for the church.

Speaker 3 (02:13:38):
And I always like to, you know, let my listeners
know about the special nature of the church and why
it is. You have a connection with the Middle Eastern food,
Lebanese food that you bring in studio with you, that
I am currently enjoying and loving, by the way, but of.

Speaker 19 (02:13:52):
Course you're really not eating it, and no, no I am.
I said it out loud before I'm eating in studio.
If they want to come in and fire me right now, fine.

Speaker 2 (02:13:59):
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (02:14:00):
Oh it'll be word in a second.

Speaker 2 (02:14:02):
Doubt it. That's nice of you to say.

Speaker 1 (02:14:05):
Though, true.

Speaker 19 (02:14:08):
Well, it is a Maronite Catholic church where an Eastern
Rite as opposed to the Latin Rite. So our divine liturgy,
like the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, is in English
and Aramaic and Arabic the language of our Lord.

Speaker 1 (02:14:24):
How about that Aramaic Aramic?

Speaker 3 (02:14:27):
And I know that word because it's in one of
my favorite movies, Munty Python and the Quest for the
Holy Grail.

Speaker 19 (02:14:32):
I was thinking more of the Passion of the Christ,
but I am familiar with Money, Python and the Holy Grail, just.

Speaker 2 (02:14:41):
Of Arimathea's Arabic.

Speaker 1 (02:14:44):
Here you go.

Speaker 2 (02:14:45):
Do speak Aramaic anymore?

Speaker 3 (02:14:47):
I mean, other than at the church, it's like a
very very very limited use.

Speaker 19 (02:14:52):
There is a small island close to Greece where they
do still use that ancient language.

Speaker 3 (02:14:58):
Oh yeah, Joe's going to be a cationing there. List
so that's why he's learning Aramaic. And it's wonderful.

Speaker 19 (02:15:03):
We can come over to the church and Father George
will help him. But anyway, it will fulfill your Sunday privilege.
The Divine Liturgy begins at ten thirty and then followed
by at noon. Our festival begins from noon to seven
and the address is twenty five thirty Victory Parkway in

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Walnut Hills. Plenty of free parking in the backing everywhere.

Speaker 3 (02:15:29):
Yes, yeah, I had to figure it out. Last time
I was there. I couldn't figure out where the driveway
was for the parking in the back, and so I
had a circle of block.

Speaker 2 (02:15:37):
I finally figured it out. It's not really that.

Speaker 1 (02:15:38):
Well, then you've got a special parking spot.

Speaker 3 (02:15:40):
I did, but I got yelled not yelled at, but
I was told that where my car was parked was
not supposed to be there slight, correct. But I dropped
your name because you had had some food ready for me.
Because you don't have to stay and order there. You
can you can do like kind of a drive food
just pick up kind of deal right right, and you.

Speaker 1 (02:15:57):
Can pre order a number the majority of the things.

Speaker 19 (02:16:00):
You can pre order those online so that they'll already
be packed up for.

Speaker 2 (02:16:06):
You, okay, and then zip in, grab them, and zip
on out.

Speaker 19 (02:16:09):
Except for kibbi nai you have to that is you
come in, it's fresh, you get it, and that's the
lamb tartar.

Speaker 2 (02:16:17):
Yes, you answered the question.

Speaker 3 (02:16:18):
I was almost afraid to ask you on the air
because last year you didn't have the kibbi naye. And
that's my one of my favorite things ever ever period
end of story.

Speaker 2 (02:16:27):
To eat.

Speaker 3 (02:16:27):
I mean, it's like top ten of my favorite foods
in the world. It's the raw lamb kibbi.

Speaker 19 (02:16:33):
Oh yes, and a lot call it kibby tartar. So
we have a very reputable butcher Leers meat. Oh yeah,
and UH have been speaking to them for a few
months and they will be providing the.

Speaker 1 (02:16:49):
Lamb tartar, the raw lamb.

Speaker 2 (02:16:51):
It's great stuff.

Speaker 19 (02:16:52):
So we're pleased to be able to have it back
after a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (02:16:55):
Yeah, I am so excited about that. All right. Now
mentioned the kibbi.

Speaker 3 (02:17:01):
We got the the patties which you brought today, which
are fully cooked. They kind of look like Hamburger patties.
Bulgar weed and like allspice or cinnamon, and it's got
a little you know, it's it's very very lightly seasoned,
but very distinct in flavor. And I just always find

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it's just so wonderful and the food is so it's
all good for you.

Speaker 1 (02:17:26):
I mean the hummus.

Speaker 19 (02:17:27):
You've got ground garbonds of beans and tahini and garlic
it's not much. And the tabuli.

Speaker 3 (02:17:35):
That's parsonally and and and and chopped tomatoes.

Speaker 1 (02:17:39):
And onions, a little bulgar.

Speaker 3 (02:17:42):
Lemon juice, bulgar wheat, and it's yeah, no preservatives, no additives,
there's no processing involved here. You got old ladies in
the back room like Grandma making it by hand for you.

Speaker 6 (02:17:53):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (02:17:56):
Two, no, just no vegetable oil now, I don't think so.
There is some oil in the tabuli though.

Speaker 19 (02:18:05):
Right, And I think we tried to use olive oil
as much as we can for everything.

Speaker 3 (02:18:11):
Yeah, everything, that's I mean when I make to tabuli,
always use olive oil. Just once you're done mixing everything
up in the bulb, right before you serve it. You
just code with a little bit of olive oil and
do a light toss and.

Speaker 19 (02:18:21):
There's a little it may have run out a little
olive oil on top of the hummus that I brought.

Speaker 2 (02:18:25):
Oh yeah, definitely. All right, Well we're gonna learn.

Speaker 19 (02:18:29):
We have some other vegetarian options. We have the falafel,
and we've added something new this year, Jodra. It is
lentils with a little bit of rice and some sautaied
onions that we put in it.

Speaker 1 (02:18:42):
So that's a well, I like it.

Speaker 19 (02:18:44):
Also, I'm a carnivore omnivore, and I totally enjoy that.

Speaker 3 (02:18:50):
Also, you can bring your vegetarian friends in spite of
the fact that there's kibbi there, both raw and fully
cooked and something else she brought in.

Speaker 19 (02:18:58):
Great please, yes, and those are those have meat I
know they do.

Speaker 1 (02:19:05):
So those are non vegetarian.

Speaker 3 (02:19:06):
Right, rice meat wrapped grape leaves, and these are a
labor of love because you mean, you just don't churn
out hundreds and hundreds of grape leaves of no time
you got to you think.

Speaker 19 (02:19:16):
A Christmas present, you know how you take care to
wrap it. Well, if that's sort of how we do
our grape leaves. You know, you put it in, you
start folding the edges in and you don't want any
loose pieces sticking out. So no, it is definitely a
labor of love.

Speaker 6 (02:19:31):
It is.

Speaker 3 (02:19:32):
I've made all of these foods that you're mentioning, with
the exception of the lentils dish. I've never had that
one before. Very good, it sounds good.

Speaker 19 (02:19:38):
I tend to even put more onions in mind, but
the taste is still the same.

Speaker 2 (02:19:44):
Always got their own cooking style.

Speaker 1 (02:19:46):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 19 (02:19:47):
Yes, that's why we have one recipe and we follow
the same recipe every year so it's consistent.

Speaker 3 (02:19:55):
So the hours you mentioned the Mass at ten thirty,
you start the fest.

Speaker 2 (02:20:00):
At noon, noon to seven to seven.

Speaker 3 (02:20:02):
Now, do you have any other activities going on throughout
the day or is this just a constant sort of like.

Speaker 18 (02:20:07):
We have.

Speaker 1 (02:20:09):
Somebody playing music. I think it's called like the derbecky.

Speaker 19 (02:20:13):
It's a drum and they will be playing that, and
there will be other Middle Eastern music will have uh,
the youth, the children, and we'll have young adults that
will be doing the traditional dance the dep key and
asking audience if they want to join them and participate.

Speaker 16 (02:20:34):
Uh.

Speaker 19 (02:20:35):
There will be a modest belly dancer on the heels
of That's why I say Monic.

Speaker 3 (02:20:42):
With their hustler fifty fifty Years of Freedom book that
I just got talking about. To be really delicate about
that because I heard your intro. Yeah, and I know
my listeners are probably why the hell the guy liz
on that? You know, I appreciate that, but I guess
the whole concept does. We've been talking a lot about
free speed of late and so you know, I mean,
he was a champion of free speech. Say what you

(02:21:04):
want about Larry Flynn. He did fight the battle for
free speech. And not all speech is appreciated by all people,
but it's an important battle. So I modest belly Dancer.

Speaker 19 (02:21:14):
Did want to clarify that we are Catholic, so got
to do that. Oh, and another vegetarian dish I believe
it's pronounced looby. Green beans, tomatoes, sauce over rice. I mean,
so it's good either way. But we have a number
of vegetarian options. We have shish to wook. It's marinated

(02:21:38):
chicken and that is in a thin bread and made
as a roll up.

Speaker 1 (02:21:45):
Let's see what else. We have a bunch of stuff
and oh, bunch of.

Speaker 19 (02:21:49):
Pastries of course, of course, and oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:21:54):
You can't have a festival without bakhlobah.

Speaker 19 (02:21:56):
And we have Lebanese Arabic coffee thick. I mean it
makes espresso look weak coffee. Yeah, yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (02:22:05):
Got the grounds on the bottom.

Speaker 19 (02:22:06):
When you're done, let's see, my mind went nuts on
what we have. We'll all go to something else.

Speaker 1 (02:22:15):
Beer.

Speaker 19 (02:22:17):
Uh so we have Deadlow Brewery supplying all of the beer.
It will all be draft beer. Okay, so that'll be good.
We have spinach pies. Those are really yummy.

Speaker 1 (02:22:32):
And like a flat bread. It's called minutia.

Speaker 19 (02:22:36):
We have some that has cheese on it, some with
the Zautzer seasoning and that's like time sesame sumac poison
sumac flavor exactly. And another one with a meat pie
so we have those additional items and a separate booth
for carry out. That way, if you're coming in, you

(02:22:57):
don't have to wait in the buffet line. You can say,
oh wait, there's a carry out booth and you can
go there and they will pack up your items right
away for you.

Speaker 3 (02:23:05):
It was well attended when we showed up to get
our food last time. Yes, I mean it's a good crowd.
People know a good idea, a good thing when they
see it.

Speaker 19 (02:23:13):
You know what's home made. And we only do it
twice a year, but.

Speaker 3 (02:23:19):
It really doesn't seem that long since you were in here.
And I hell, if you did it four times a year,
I would be even happier. But I do appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (02:23:26):
Well, then you need to come and help volunteer.

Speaker 2 (02:23:31):
I'll learn Aramaic and then I'll head on in with Joe.

Speaker 3 (02:23:34):
All right, and you welcome folks of different faiths to
enjoy and and hear, of course.

Speaker 19 (02:23:41):
And uh, I mean so if anybody just out of
curiosity wants to see what the divine liturgy is about,
come join us, watch ask questions later, and then like
I said, parking is free, there's no admission, and then
we will have also a fashion show, and what we

(02:24:04):
will do there is show different clothing from different areas
in the Middle East and describe like you know, this
would be your everyday wear, and this would be the
dress up. And we'll have our young adults and some
youth modeling these and one of our parishioners, Lina, will

(02:24:26):
be describing where they are from and the occasion for
the clothing.

Speaker 3 (02:24:32):
Well, it's going to be a wonderful a history lesson,
a wonderful culinary experience, and.

Speaker 1 (02:24:38):
Well you can buy some of the stuff.

Speaker 19 (02:24:40):
We also have a shop, little shop that will have
some organic olive oil and some other different Middle Eastern items.
And then another we'll call it a variety booth that
has religious items, clothing, clothing from the Middle East and

(02:25:01):
t shirts, things like that of a religious nature and
some clothing also for people to look at, buy books,
et cetera.

Speaker 1 (02:25:11):
So we have a number of things going.

Speaker 2 (02:25:13):
On, all going on at the Lebanese Festival.

Speaker 3 (02:25:15):
Saint Anthony apatowit Marinite Church or marinit Catholic Church and
make sure I get the entire thing. They're all in there.
It's located on at twenty five thirty Victory Parkway, instance,
a free parking in the back open. Be there either
for church at ten thirty or show up at noon
between noon and seven for the food, the festivities and
the all everything else you describe the website. Its website is.

Speaker 1 (02:25:37):
The Taste of Lebanon dot com.

Speaker 8 (02:25:40):
One word church.

Speaker 2 (02:25:41):
Website the Taste of Lebanon dot com.

Speaker 19 (02:25:43):
That way you can see and with pictures, prices, everything,
the whole menu.

Speaker 3 (02:25:49):
Well, Joe, add that link to the blog Patriot five
Krsey dot com the Taste of Lebanon dot com. That's
where we can get our orders in because the church's
website is separate from the festival's website.

Speaker 1 (02:25:59):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (02:26:00):
Fantastic, Kimberly. It is always a pleasure seeing you, and
I can't thank you enough for the wonderful culinary experience
I'm having this morning in the studio, violating the rules,
and it's well worth it.

Speaker 1 (02:26:10):
Well you're worth violating the rules.

Speaker 3 (02:26:11):
Thank you so much, Kimberly. It's a blessing to have
you here. Have a great festival, and folks, you are
doing yourself a favor if you show up this Sunday
at the church eight forty two right now, you can
make your delivery to just strekker before you head out.
He'd love to see you with the food I'll take.
I'll take you over there. I'll be right back after
these brief words.

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Chuck Ingram on fifty five KR. See the talk station, Hey,
fifty fifty five K, see the talk station. Let's go
to the phones. Good time for a caller, and appreciate
callers when they do call. Let's see what Elizabeth got
this morning. Elizabeth, welcome to the morning show. It's good
to hear from you.

Speaker 16 (02:27:51):
Hey, thank you. I'm calling in to ask if you
would like to come to the Union Township Civic Center
for throwing a goodwill party. Yes, sorry, I'm nervous.

Speaker 2 (02:28:07):
Don't be nervous.

Speaker 16 (02:28:09):
Basically, it's like a tea party, and it's a way
of spreading more good news and bad news. And it
would be like a training session or a meeting of
the minds of people of goodwill that would get together
over the initiative called the abolishment of taxes on real property.

(02:28:32):
When is it, you know that initiative that has been
going around.

Speaker 3 (02:28:36):
Oh yeah, no, no, no, I'm aware of that. They're
collecting signatures that have enshrined in the You'll have Constitution
to eradicate property taxes?

Speaker 2 (02:28:43):
Is that the one you're talking about.

Speaker 16 (02:28:45):
Yes, I don't represent them. I just wanted to get
together a bunch of people who would like to do
a speech and debate format on current events such as that.

Speaker 3 (02:28:55):
Okay, will you caught me a little off guard? When
when is this event taking place?

Speaker 2 (02:28:58):
Elizabeth?

Speaker 16 (02:28:59):
It's June third, Tuesday at the Union Civic Center from
six to seven point thirty Union Center.

Speaker 3 (02:29:07):
Well, let me just tell you I qualified. Maybe I was.
I am not responsible for my own scheduling. Quite often
I realize when I get home and converse with my
better half that there are things in my world going
on that I'm not even remembering, so largely contingent on that.
But it's again, June third, Union Civic Center, which I

(02:29:31):
know about. That's on I Coults Road.

Speaker 1 (02:29:32):
Road, right, Yes, it is.

Speaker 16 (02:29:34):
The idea is to name the problem for basically the lives,
and then to come together and come up with solutions,
otherwise known as goodwill.

Speaker 3 (02:29:44):
All right, Well, I like the concept, Elizabeth, and I
appreciate the invitation.

Speaker 2 (02:29:47):
I'll see what I can do. But all my anyone's
welcome though.

Speaker 16 (02:29:52):
Yes, anybody, even since it's a speech and debate and
the subject would be abolishment of taxes on real property.
I'd like both sides, So people who think that's a
stupid idea and people who think that it can do
a way of doing things.

Speaker 3 (02:30:08):
I understand, and you know, conceptually it sounds wonderful, But
then I wonder about from a budget standpoint, how schools
will be funded, you know, how parks and recreations will
be funded. All that's predicated on property tax, which makes
it a really complicated issue.

Speaker 16 (02:30:21):
That's where the lives come in. What are our taxes
actually going for? And it kind of calls for an audit.

Speaker 2 (02:30:28):
Well, I welcome that.

Speaker 3 (02:30:32):
Doges has taught us a real lesson, hasn't It's lots
of fraud, waste, and abuse. And I know we all
pay a heavy gasoline tax in the state of Ohio,
and yet they always seem to have deteriorating roads, and like,
what's this all about? Thank you very much for bringing
that to my listeners. Attention Union Civic Center. On June third,
you said six thirty, right, Elizabeth.

Speaker 16 (02:30:52):
Six o'clock to seven thirty.

Speaker 4 (02:30:53):
Six o'clock speak in debate format.

Speaker 3 (02:30:56):
All right, wonderful, Elizabeth. I wish you all I'd like
the I like the name Goodwill Party. That's uh we
need more, we need more goodwill in the world. And uh,
you know, a nice comfortable way of exchanging thoughts and
ideas about the property tax. Thank you for the call, Elizabeth.
I wish you all the best on the in the
on the event. What a great day on the morning show. Well,
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Speaker 3 (02:32:04):
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the first time today with Patty. Liz Flint with her
book Hustler fifty fifty Years of Freedom is going to
be at Joseph Beth Bookstores tonight seven pm signing copies
of the book if you want to get a copy
of that. And finally, of course singing Anthony Patuwa Mennonite
Church Mediterranean Festival.

Speaker 2 (02:32:40):
That's this Sunday.

Speaker 3 (02:32:42):
You want to go to church, show up at ten
thirty and listen to aramac If you want to get
some food show up between noon and seven. And Joe's
got the link to the festival website on my blog
page fifty five Caresey dot com. She's going at Joe, Joe,
God bless you and thank you for everything you do
to make the show happen. We're lining up the guests
and producing it. I hope you have a wonderful weekend,
my friend, my listeners all have a wonderful weekend. I

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