55KRC Friday Show - Tech Friday, Todd Zinser, Donauschwaben

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Five o five.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
If you you have k r C E talk station,
Happy Friday.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
S a v P.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
There it is, must be Friday. There's a woohoo. Thank you.
Just trekkor executive producer Brian Thomas right here, glad to
be and looking forward to hearing from you. Maybe you
got something to say or a specific topic you want
to talk about. Oh look, Elon Musk and Donald Trump
fighting it out making Uh, it's just so childish. Just

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beside myself on this. Anyhow, if I want three seven
four nine fifty, five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two
three talko with pound five fifty on your EIGHTE and
T phones. Today it is tech Friday with Dave Hatter
every Friday at six thirty. I always enjoy hearing from Dave. Today.
Look out for the latest scam. Oh look there's a scam,
Hey Joe. How come Dave Hatter never talks about scams.

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We have a new word, brushing. He has a new
term every week. I think of, like, what was it yesterday?
A juice Joe? Juice jacking? That was with Jay rat

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If I heard me the aviation expert reporting on the
fact that you should avoid using the charging stations at
airports because hackers can control your computer or a hack
into your computer and steal from it. He didn't know
what it was called. I didn't know what it was called.
But Dave had was listening to the program and he
sent Joe an email. It's called juice jacking. I don't
know that i'd heard that one before. He may have

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brought that one up. But there are so many terms
in tech these days today. Brushing You and I will
learn together. Unless you're on tech, unless you're tech savvy
and already know what it is, we'll talk about that.
We also have TV ads analyzing your emotions in order
to show your ads based on the emotions that you're expressing.

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Frightening technology. This is why I hate smart TVs. And finally,
with Dave, had to vote for the best tech in Cincinnati.
The ceremony at the hard Rock Cafe in September. Details
on that coming up beginning at six point thirty. I
am looking forward to seven oh five. Citizen Watchdog Todds

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ens or is he coming in the studio? Joe usually does,
always does. That is true love Todds Zinser. In the
work that he does. He is such an Intelligent man
Form Inspector in General for the United States of America,
Citizen Watchdog Inspector General for the City of Cincinnati on
behalf of this citizenry not in the paid capacity. Todd

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doesn't get paid for the work that he does, but
the missing audit has been found. Also, I love this
caption the Great Cincinnati train robbery. In addition, we will
talk about other city based shenanigans with Citizen Watchdog Tod
censer and God bless you Todd for the work that
you're doing, at least trying to keep the council people

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and the mayor of the city accountable. Do they listen
to him? Usually not. Usually they keep their head down
and they're really upset when he sends them letters that
put them on the spot. And God bless Fridays. God
bless the German citizenry in the city of Cincinnati, the
various German societies today. And I have a feeling there
will be food in the studio and I will eat

(03:48):
it in the studio. To my employers, go ahead, fire me.
Donna Schwaben schwabin Fest is this weekend. I'm tired of
lying about not eating food in the studio and my
German friends and other festivals come into town and they
come in the morning show bringing bearing gifts. I'm in
a point in my career where they can go ahead
and fire me, knock yourselves out. So let's enjoy the

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final hour of the fifty five kcing Morning Show together.
We'll find out about Donnash Robin, what's going to be
happening at the weekend, what kind of food you'll be eating,
and the festivities, the gimmut, the kite you will be enjoying.
They're great people at Donna Schwabin. So there's your lineup
this morning, and again feel free to call. And it
is D Day, June sixth, the beginning of the end

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of World War Two. And thank you jos Chrecker for
this article, because you know what, according to Defense dot Gov,
where this article appears, five things you may not know
about D Day. So rather than talk about Elon Musk
and Donald Trump trading barbes on social media, it isn't
that a sort of a I understand social media, and

(04:56):
I understand X and I understand truth, and I understand
that is the way people communicate these days. But I
find it to be a childish childish, childish thing.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
God.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Anyway, it's got me down this morning. If you haven't
gotten the impression of that already. Anyway, D Day, the
masion of Normandy, Operation Overlord, goes by a bunch of
different names. Do you know where you know where the
D Day came from? Why it is called D Day?
According to Defense dot Gov, that is the most frequently
asked question of the National World War Two Museum. The

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true meaning remains up for debate, they say, But we'll
go with us. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and what he said,
through his executive assistant, Brigadier General Robert Schultz quote be
advised that any amphibious operation has a departure date shortened

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to D Day. He said, there were actually several other
D Days during the war. Normandy just happened to be
the biggest and most well known for obvious reasons. To
anybody who remember has any recollection of the events of
World War Two, actually set up a day earlier. And
when I went on my first honor flight, I went
with a World War Two veteran who was deployed and

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worked in the weather forecasting area. And he actually felt
a little badly about that. He said, I didn't see combat.
I wasn't part of the combat. I kind of feel
like he didn't say I shouldn't be here, but there
were a lot of combat veterans there, and he sort
of felt like a second class citizen. And I looked
at him, I said, what are you talking about? I said,

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wellout guy's like you, you know, doing weather forecasting. I mean,
and I even mentioned D Day, which was impacted by
the weather whether A lot of weather related requirements were
necessary to pull it off. They needed to be long
days from maximum air airpower usage. A near full moon
was needed to help guide ships and airborne troops. The

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tides had to be strong enough to expose beast obstacles
at low tide and float supply filled landing vehicles onto
the beach during the high tide. Each hour also crucial,
and then it relied on those tides to be rising
at the time. There also had to be an hour
of daylight just before bombard beforehand for bombardment accuracy. Only

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nine days in May and June fit all of those requirements,
so Convenders eventually sett it on the fifth of June. However,
thanks to forecasts that showed a short window of good
weather that day, Eisenhower decided last minute to switch D
Day to the early hours of June sixth, so there
you have it. Weather forecasters obviously had a profound impact

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on the success of the invasion. Stories of how US
troops stormed the beach is of Normandy legendary, with names
Omaha Beach and Utah Beach standing out foremost in people's minds.
With the invasions stretched out over fifty miles, so the
United States couldn't do it alone. The other beach invasions
by Allied troops happened simultaneously. Great Britain and some smaller

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forces stormed Gold and Sword Beaches. Canada, and the Canadians
took Juneo Beach almost a failure. A lot went wrong
on D Day, they report, especially for the Americans who
refers to launch the invasions. Thousands of US paratroopers died
in their drop behind enemy lines at Utah Beach, shot

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out of the sky by enemy fire, or weighted down
and drowning in flooded marshes. That is something I had
no idea having. Many also missed their landing spots, as
did some of the Seaborn forces which landed more than
a mile from their intended destinations thanks to strong currents.
Omaha offensive turned out to be the bloodiest of the
day because while Army intelligence underestimated the German stronghold there,

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rough surf caused huge problems for the amphibious tanks launched
it see, only two of twenty nine made it to
the shore. Many of the infantrymen who stormed off the
boats gunned down by Germans. General Omar Bradley, who led
the Omaha forces, nearly considered abandoning the operation. And I

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think of that, getting off of one of those amphibious
landing crafts, knowing full well there's a whole bunch of
Germans with machine guns aiming right at you, dropping from
the sky in a parachute. You're just a target. Talk

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about stones, talk about whoevos. In spite of those challenges,
both sectors of US troops managed to advance their positions
for overall success. Also, Enigma decoding, the German code machine
known as Enigma really and they say they refer to
as one of the most brilliant strategies, came out of
World War Two. Radio, the standard communication at the time.

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Allies and access powers both needed machines to turn military
plans into secret codes. Germans had this Enigma device, thought
to be unbreakable until they broke it. A team of
Polish and British experts led by Alan Turing, which you
can check out the story it's depicted in the Oscar
winning movie The Imitation Game, they cracked the code and

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what became the foundation for the modern computer. Instead of
telling the world about it, though, the leaders thought the
device would be more useful if they kept secret amen
so for years Germans plans hindered by the decryptid messages,
including on D Day. Officials said German codes intercepted before
D Day precisely pinpointed nearly all of the German fighting
units in the Normandy area On D Day itself. It

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helped Allied commanders get word of their troops progress quicker
and through their own communication channels. So the Germans are
up there talking about, hey, they're over, they're storming this
beach here, they're right there, and we knew they knew
where we were, so obviously you can adjust the situation accordingly.
Breaking Germany's codes later those of the Japanese proved to
be the huge advantage that we enjoyed in the Allies included.

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While current controversial for its secrecy, the decoding process widely
credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives and shortening
the war by nearly two years. We actually developed our
own superior code machine called Sigaba Sigaba before entering the war,
and that code was never broken. So sixth of June

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D Day, God bless the American patriotarly American veterans, those
who proudly served World War Two, and of course the
hundreds of thousands who lost their lives in the name
of freedom and fighting off the Nazis and the Japanese,
and of course for a while the Italians. Five sixteen

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coming up a five seventeen fifty five KRCD talk station
planning more to talk about coming up. I hope you
can stick around and you can feel free to call
love to hear from you. You're right back fifty five
car the talk station this September seven, five one, right
now that the five care CD talk sit first, some

(12:24):
word from leven you get out of bed music, feel
free to call if you care. If you five KRC
dot com, don't forget the podcast page. Jay Ratliffe always
enjoyed talking with Jack. Just really love that guy to death.
So we had some interesting topics in the aviation report. Yesterday,

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Ohio State Representative Jennifer Gross in studio for a full hour.
We talked medicaid. It's a mess in Ohio. But fortunately
they're working on it. They got some people on the
job now trying to fire it out. The fraud, wasted abuse,
saving hopefully at some point up to six billion dollars
that is going to people who are not eligible for Medicaid.
That is so distressing. You have people that have assets

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north of a million dollars that have been getting Medicaid.
And what really irked me is, you know, we have
a paid vendor, third party vendor. It's Lexus Nexus. They're
paid to let the state know and let the Medical
HOI Medicaid Department know what people's assets are. If you

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have more than X number of dollars in your bank account,
you're not eligible. Lexus Nexus, at the behest of one
of our representatives, did it get a look, looked at
a slice of the disabled and elderly, and looking at
that slice, I think they looked at north of fifty percent.

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They found twenty plus percent of them had assets way
north of what the eligibility cut off is. It's a
huge amount of money Medicaid. I think, Jennifer said twenty
three hundred dollars a month. So you multiply that times twelve.
When you multiply that times the number of people they
found that have assets that exceed the eligibility level, you

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come up with billions of dollars. And that's just a
slice of those who are on Medicaid. God knows how
many out there who aren't eligible in other areas of
the program. So the beginning, hopefully of the end of fraud, waste,
and abuse, we should be leading the country and ferreting
this out, you know. And it's no the thing that
people keep going to. Well, the federal government's reimbursing us

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for you know, fifty percent of or in the Medicaid expansion.
Then under the Obama era, federal government's reimbursing for ninety
percent of the expansion of Medicaid. People. Well, you know,
that's your taxpayer dollars. I don't care if they came
from some other state. We should be as angry about
taxpayer dollars being wasted, regardless of what state they came

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from the federal government doesn't produce its own money. Well,
I say that knowing they have a printing press. But
the tax dollars that are taken in come from every
corner of the entire United States. So people in Alaska
are paying for fraud, waste, and abuse in California, New
York and everyplace else that exists through the federal government's
reimbursement for Medicare payments. It's sinful. Jack Windsor joined the

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program also investigative reporter. He's a good guy and he's
been studying the Ohio Medicaid fraud and abuse in Ohio
and had some really disturbing facts, which, of course Jennifer
Gross was able to double down on and provide some
more flesh on the bones with the conversation I had
with Jack Windsor. So you can get a chance to
listen a lot. There's some interesting podcasts right there at
fifty five cares dot com. Let's get Daryl's call. Hey Daryl,

(15:42):
welcome in the morning Showy, good to hear from you,
and happy Friday to you.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
Thank you. I had an uncle that was in Normandy
and he when we got to talk to him about
him and his later years. And that's when he kind
of broke down and told us because for years no one,

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he wouldn't say nothing to no one about it. He said,
it's the bloodiest thing that he ever seen in his life.
And he got Pope hard out of it. Yeah, he
was wounded, and he says, it's just amazing. And I

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had an uncle that was on the PT boat with
John F.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Kennedy.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
OK.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yeah, And if you don't remember me, I'm the one
that gave you that record.

Speaker 6 (16:43):
Oh yeah, Darryl.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
I appreciate that, man.

Speaker 7 (16:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
It was a broadcast about the end of of World
War Two that was from fifty five K. See. They
printed a vinyl LP copy of it. Darryl passed that
along to me. That was a beautiful gift, Darrel, And
I truly appreciate it. That's amazing, man, You know I can.
And you know there are so many veterans out there
that have been in combat that and it's a typical

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phenomenon that they don't want to talk about it. And
you know, modern movies depict warfare in the I think
the very realistic form. Usually it creates this impression we
shouldn't even be in war, and we can all debate
whether or not that's appropriate or not. But the idea
of you know, you being right there in a trench
or wherever you happen to be, and seeing your best friend,

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your comrade, your buddy, the guy that you eat with,
slept with, you know, hung out with for you know,
a long time, getting his head blown off. I just
can't imagine ever getting over that tragedy, and I certainly
can imagine not wanting to talk about it. Reliving that
experience has just got to be horrific. But quite often
talking about it can help you get through the experience,
and so I think I'm always encouraging veterans to share

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their stories with other people so we can all understand
the realities of warfare. Good to hear from you, Daryl Man.
I hope you have a great weekend, and thanks again
for that wonderful gift you passed along at listener line
five to twenty six. Right now for five k see
talk station local stories or more phone calls. I prefer
the latter, but we'll do where we do. Be right
back fifty five KRC dot com. Chan and I have

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first one to web forecasts. Today we get scattered showers
and storms developing later this afternoon. Higher chances of sphere
weather just love this, but still a marginal risk. Ah
eighty for the high today, overnight low sixty seven, with
more rain and storms expected. Saturday, some sun, mostly clouds,

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some rain and storm chances eighty two for the high.
Rain is likely. Overnight storms are expected sixty five the
low and mostly cloudy Sunday, with a chance to rain.
Seventy eight for the high. Right now, it's sixty nine
degrees five k SEV Talk station, Happy Friday. Hey, it
may and then again it may not rain. Does that

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mean you're right regardless of what happens? Fifty two three
talk on show to the phones, Tom, Happy Friday, Brother,
Good year from you, Hey.

Speaker 7 (19:12):
Good morning. You know you have a lot of fun
with his weather, don't you.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Well, you know what it's it's like they it's like
politicians covering their bases. You know, Hey, it might I
said might. I didn't say would. I didn't say wouldn't
I said might. Anyway, I know it's well and again
I'm going back to the World War Two veteran that
I was able to go with to uh The on

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the honor flight and that was his job. And obviously
folks like that did a pretty damn good job predicting
the weather for the D Day invasion.

Speaker 7 (19:46):
Yeah, you cannot say enough about veterans people, especially the
ones that volunteered. I know, we I know, it's it's
been a while. We've had a draft and people were
were drugged into in the war that I didn't want
to do. But once they got there, they fought with
everything they had. And and uh again, then you had
the people that volunteered and and re upped and stuck

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with it and went through some pretty horrific things that
there There is absolutely no way to ever thank these
people enough for their service. I try to do it.
Every time I see somebody, you know, weary something that
that may seem like they were in the military or whatever.
I try to thank them for the service. And even

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even uh, you know, police officers and and buyer department people,
I you know, thank them for their services. It is
a necessary thing for people to put themselves in harm's
way to to take care of the rest of us.
That that fortunately for us, we don't.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Have to do that.

Speaker 7 (20:48):
And uh, I again, I just I don't know, there's
no words to really thank them. So but you just
say thank you and and had some have some gratitude,
and and and then you and then you deal with
these slackers and I mean some of it's kind of
a close call. But some of these people that change
the subjects. Here's somebody people that take this medicare medicaid
stuff for free, and they know they know they're not

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eligible for it, but they figure out a way to
work the system. You know that these slackers that they
don't want to work, they don't want to do what
they need to do to take care of themselves. And
it's it's a shame. But you do have those kind
of people, and you have you have the brave ones,
the strong ones, and and the ones that that that
don't you know, want to have handouts, but you know,

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bust their buds to take care of themselves and their family.
And then you got a budge of slackers and it
and it's a shame you got to have. But that's
you know, that's what we got to deal with. And
the only way to combat is is don't vote democrats,
have a great have a great.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Weekend riety sometimes circuit this route to get to the point.
He ultimately wants to make Tom does not have a
monopoly the five thirty hour, although I really truly appreciate
her from a five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty
two to three talk ah, let us get to us
some local stories. Uh Man charged with connection with the

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fatal shooting in Lincoln Heights, happened Thursday morning court of
Hamilt County Sheriff's Office. They showed up to the nine
hundred block of Bird Avenue at about eight thirty a m.
Thursday yesterday, victim identified as Terrell Howell taking a UC
medical center where he died. Forty one year old Timothy
Devon Shoulders is now charged with one kind of murder,
one kind of filonious as solid corner, the spokesperson from
the Sheriff's Farman's shooting was not random. Sheriff's officer said

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the victim and suspect knew each other. Oh, I'm going
to weep over this one. Advocate for a passenger rail
in Ohio pushing back against changes made by the Senate
to the state budget, arguing it's going to make expanding
passenger rail more difficult. Sentence version of the States to
your Budget released earlier this week. We've been talking about.

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Some of the elements of that Senate removed The following
provision passed by the House. Mid West Interstate Passenger Rail
Compact earmarked twenty five thousand dollars in each fiscal year
to pay for the cost of Ohio joining the compact.
That's been taken out. This Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Compact

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MIPRC apparently brings together state leaders from across the region
on a bipartisan basis to advocate for passenger rail improvements.
Current members Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio,
and South Dakota all eligible to join. Ohio opted in
two thousand and two, but repealed the funding in twenty thirteen.

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In its current form, all abord Ohio that is a group.
Board president Mitch Radakovich said it will make the expansion
of passenger rail more difficulty. Joe can read my mind.
One man been arrested to the death of Patrick Herringer,

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the co owner of the over the Line Jim Finley
Movement since I police said Mordesia Black, thirty eight years old.
Mordisia Black charged with murder and aggravated burglary after he
allegedly stabbed Harringer in the neck. Since I Police officers
dispatched to the dispatch of the one under block of
mcmickon four a m. Wednesday for report of the stabbing.

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They got there, they found forty six year old Harringer
suffering from the stab room taking a UC medical center,
but he died from his injuries at the hospital. Herringer
and his wife co founded Findley Movement Jim and Health
Facility on Finley Street. He was director of coaching for
the facility and it is certified in several different CrossFit programs.
Police had not provided any additional details on the stabbing.

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Homicide units still investigating. But if you have information, three
five two thirty forty three five two thirty forty I
could give you the other phone number, but it's Crime
Stoppers is the number. They'll take your call, they'll take
your tip and we'll try to catch ourselves a crime
stopper bad guy the week today, later in the program,
as we do every Friday, stick around stack of stupid
or phone calls. Either way we go, it's a okay

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with me. It's five thirty five right now, fifty five
KRC the talk station. Fifty five KRC the talk station.
Here's your channeline first onry Wether forecast. Floudy's got her
showers of storms this afternoon and gusty winds with heavy

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rain and lightning are our concern. Eighty for the high
overnight overnight low of sixty seven with rain likely and
storms expected. You've got some sun tomorrow, otherwise mostly tided
with some possible rain and storms. Eighty two for the
high Saturday overnight, sixty five for the low with rain
likely and some storms expected, and a mostly floudy Sunday

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with a slim chance of rain. Seventy eight for the high.
Right now, it's what did I say it was before
it's disappeared? Seventy time for first traffic from the uc.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
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traffic that's not bad at all to start off your
Friday morning. Some wet roots to deal within some spots,
some fog to deal within some spots, but so far
everybody on the expressways doing fun. There's a wreck on

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forty eight near Lakewood Farm Drive above Lublin Chuck Ingramont
to five kr S the talk.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Station Late John the Fishers.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Shy f I forty on a Friday. The answer re
question is always a one yes, because Joe Strecker is
ex acutive producer of the program. He's a prime Is fan.
And that's the only SoundBite from south Park that mentions
a Primus song. By forty Happy Friday, Extra Special Friday,

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Donna Schwab and Robin Fest This weekend the Being Studio
at eight oh five and will be experiencing commutely kite,
giving Joe Straker another opportunity for a south Park click.
What's wrong with German people? Okay, let's go to the
stack of stupid? Just what is with teachers these days?

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Let's start off the top with Florida.

Speaker 9 (27:29):
As a tradition, Florida.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Middle school teacher allegedly sent nude image of herself again
to a female teacher to a fourteen year old a student.
Oliver Fel twenty eight, taught at Taught, noticed the past
tense use of the word Carlos E. Hal Middle school
in Bradenton charged with lude contact with a student by

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an authority figure and transmission of harmful material to a minor.
This accord of the Manitee County Sheriff's Office. Investigators launch
a probe in March after the student reported the allegations
on March third to the school resource deputy that Fell
had been allegedly talking with a boy via snapchat. December
twenty fourth, let us learn what herd it is tech
frid to a Dave patter And I'd love to just

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emphasize this point. I know, it's like beating a baby
harp seal to death with the point listen, don't do
this stuff. And if you're doing it, and I mean,
I don't know why I'm trying to provide you with advice,
but if you record it, if you put it on
social media, if you take pictures on your cell phone
and send it to somebody, you are going to get caught.

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People are well, I suppose it's a twisted mind that
would engage in this conduct anyway, So they're stupid to
start with, but documented in digital form on it's twenty
twenty five anyhow, Sorry allegedly sent the explicit photo of
her breast to the student In January, allegations report of

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the school District, Manatee County and Sheriff's Office goor to
the Sheriff's office after obtaining a search weren't receiving permission
to access data from phones and social media accounts. Detectives
discovered evidence indicating that the communications led to leude conduct
involving the victim. She turned herself into authorities after a
warrant was issued for arrest, remaining in custody on a
twenty five hundred dollars bond. Charge has been filed in

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Reno County against former employee of us D three h
nine Nickerson. I guess that's a business anyway. May thirtieth,
prosecutors filed five criminal charges against a thirty nine year
old Whitney Shall of Nickerson after allegations of incidents that
occurred earlier this year. Oh that's a school district. I'm sorry.
According to school district, she was a part time substitute teacher,

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no longer working for the district. Charges include unlawful sexual
relations teacher with a student over the age of sixteen,
attempted unlawful sexual relations over the age of sixteen aggravated
sexual battery severity level five person felony and to of
unlawful housing of miners consuming alcohol also known as social
house hosting. A court of the statement from the Sedgwick

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County District Court Office, Kansas, Oh look it continues. Imperial Beach, California,
Support Aid, who was contracted to work at Marvist the
High School in Imperial Beach, arrested on suspicion of you

(30:28):
Know It having a sexual relationship with the student. Lasette
or Taga thirty one on a q is a suspected
of sexually assaulting a seventeen year old at the high
school where she contracted to work. In a court order,
the judge set her bail review for today. Actually Ortega
arrested May twenty first, booked into Las Colina's detention center

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following an investigation by the San Diego County Sheriff's Office.
According to that department, they received a call from the
high school to investigate allegations involving a student and a
contract at Support Aid. After investigating, detective said they had
probable cause to believe Ortega had committed sex acts with
a victim under the age of eighteen. Had unlawful sexual
intercourse with a miner and arranged a meeting with a

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minor for the purpose of committing a lewd act. Also
had probable cause to believe that she had communicated with
the miner with the intent to commit elude act, and
attempted to dissuade the victim from reporting it to anyone.
Following risk, her employer, Real Health issued a statement safety
is our top priority. I bet the legal departments and

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all these different organizations already have prepared statements. They all
read the same. So our privilege is serving the medical
medically fragile population. We are committed to doing so with
the highest degree of Karen. As such, we take these
allegations extremely seriously. We are doing everything we can to
investigate the issue and to respond appropriately. So I have
a familiar tone to it. I'm not even gonna bother

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with the school district's release and statement because it pretty
much is the same thing. Man, These are your teachers,
and they're with your kids like eight hours a day
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a day, two three talk. I have a naked person
from Florida in the stack of stupid, so let's go there.
Sixty nine year old Florida man came home in the
afternoon from a doctor's appointment, surprised to find clothing scattered
around his property and a naked woman swimming in his pool.
What Charlotte County Sheriff's Office said the woman was Heather A. Kennedy,

(34:34):
which alleges in the report hostile, skinny dipper who didn't
want to get out of the water. She has a
previous drug conviction. According to their poor debuties requested for
the subject to get dressed and to step out of
the pool for several times. Once dressed, deputies attempted to

(34:58):
detain the suspect, seated to resist, pulling away and alerting
them that she would not be going anywhere. After being
taken to the Charlotte County jail, forty year old woman
allegedly refused to give her identity before being charged with
trespass and resisting without violence. Kennedy, who lives two miles
from the pool that she was swimming in naked, was
convicted earlier this year on a felon felony narcotics charge

(35:19):
and a misdemeanor kunt of possessing drug paraphernalia. Reportedly told
police that the pills discovered during the traffic stop leading
to her arrest belonged to quote crackhead Chris Close quote,
yes they are port I guess we remain. In Florida,
Luci police arrested a man accusa sneaking into a woman's

(35:40):
home and taking a picture of her naked. Why are
you doing that? Victim just gotten out of the shower.
She spotted the man taking the picture. He took off,
waking up the woman's husband. Twenty seven year old Darien
James Baker arrested charged with attempted burglary of another and
a home just a few hours before the other crime.
Caught on surveillance that he attempted to enter a vehicle

(36:01):
and a home the doors were locked. We go to
a naked guy, this time naked and belligerent woman armed
with two Oh no, it's a well knife wielding woman anyway. Naked,
belligerent woman armed with two knives shot and injured by
a Wilkes Bar police officer. This happened Monday, after she

(36:23):
attacked and attempted to stab a passing motorist. What first
name Satan, Sat? I am I reading that right? Satan D. King,
forty five years old arrested for aggravated assault charges after
the disturbance one am. Luzerne County District Attorney's Office despied

(36:45):
King in a news release as being quote belligerent and
wandering the streets close quote before the shooting resulted an
unidentified officer being placed in administrative leave. Corta State troopers.
King's roommate called nine one one shortly before one am
to report she was walking along North Main Street armed
with two knives. They found her walking naked on courtwright
Street or near it anyway, ordered her to drop the knives,

(37:06):
but she didn't comply. Police began following her. She started
walking passing motorists. Dennis Riviera had a slam on his
brakes when she jumped in front of his car. She
then approached Riviera's vehicle began trying to slash at his
right hand through the open driver's side window with one
of the knives. He used his hands to block and
grabbed the knife. As she continued trying to slash him.
Officers got out of the vehicles issued additional orders for

(37:28):
to drop the knives. She ignored them. Unidentified officer then
opened fire, hitting her multiple times. Treated at the scene
for injuries, and then rushed to the hospital. Courted charges
she punched a nurse in the face while being treated
at the hospital. Court record shows she was charged with

(37:50):
two counts of aggravated assault, one count of each of
simple assault and disorderly conduct. The judge, A Rain King,
on charges Monday morning, denied, calling her a danger to
herself and the community. The aristocrat still under investigation. No
mention of drugs. All that be willing to bet that

(38:12):
they were involved. Real quick here in the remaining moments
of this segment, as we go to the break, West
Moines man used a social media app to ask a
thirteen year old girl for nude photos. Cornyed police, which
it got a search warrant. Woman reported that someone on
Snapchat asked her thirteen year old daughter for naked pictures.
In October, investigators search West Des Moines home of abdillah

(38:35):
Zi's Fauloul, seizing three phones in a laptop. He was
arrested charge with enticing a minor being held in the
pole County Jail. What are your children doing right now
on their smartphones? And who are they interacting with? And
going back to the first three stories of the stack

(38:56):
of Stupid, who are their teachers and what are they
all about. I've got a couple of callers online be
happy to take him, but I got to go to
the break because we're vast approaching five fifty six Tech
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the phones. We go, guys. Several callers. One We're gonna
begin with Larry. Larry, thanks for calling this morning. Happy

(40:35):
Friday to you.

Speaker 11 (40:37):
Yeah, good morning, Brian. Nice hearing you.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
Man.

Speaker 11 (40:39):
Hey, the pronunciation of the lady that stabbed the guy
while go.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
You said it was satan s A T I M.

Speaker 10 (40:47):
Yeah, yeah, see that's satin Okay, s A t A
And yeah, I know okay, I prrect you man, I'm.

Speaker 11 (40:57):
Correct, b can correct a night as smart as you are.
I feel smarter.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
No, you are smarter than me.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Larry.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
You know it's I judged. It's the five o'clock hour.
I'm usually halving sleep anyway. And the stack is Stu.
It helps wake me up. But when I saw that
I did, I was like, wait a second, Satan, No,
you're right, sat a n is how you spelled Satan? Satin?

Speaker 11 (41:16):
Yeah, and uh, I love you show. I talked to
the guy I worked with, my partner at work. I'm
going in here in a second, but I always give
him the lowdown of all the articles you have and
all the stuff. So I love I love your program,
and also I know you ride. Yeah, and I've got
a little sporting myself. Eight eighty three sportster.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Oh okay.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
I had a twelve hundred XLC Harley years and years
ago and it was a ninety seven XLC.

Speaker 12 (41:43):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Wow we kept that.

Speaker 11 (41:45):
Imagine what that would be worth now?

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Oh I tricked it out, man. You know when I
sold it, I sold it to a real dear friend
of mine. I had a stretched tank on accustom painted,
I had every dude to add KURRYOC and hypercharger and
it was just it looked awesome.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
Man.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
It was just a great bike. Torkie as hell. Those
that V twin man is a Torquie motor.

Speaker 11 (42:05):
I know, I'm telling you. And when are we going
to get some riding weather. That's what I'm asking. Well,
it's I'm right, I got a fifty mile commute.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Well, I haven't been riding much.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
You're right.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
I think I've been on my bike twice this year.
It sounds sad and pathetic for riders out there who
get a lot of miles in. I am a very
fair weather rider, Larry, you know, very fair weather rider.
So but we'll keep our fingers crossed. I know it's
right around the corner at some point, Larry, stay safe,
keep those two wheels on the ground. And I didn't ask,
but most of my Harley riding friends are not helmet wearers.

(42:41):
And I will admit that when I had my Harley
back in the day, I did not wear a helmet.
That was when I the custom paint guy that I
just mentioned by my custom paint job, total stoner, dude,
beautiful artwork. But when I pulled in without my helmet on,
he looked at me. He goes, dude, you got a
ten dollars head. At least put it in a ten
dollars bucket. So anyway, Charlie, welcome to the program. Happy

(43:02):
Friday to you.

Speaker 13 (43:04):
Yeah, good morning, Brian. I love your program. Listen to
it off and on as much as I can. I
uh had a few comments about D Day. My dad
was in World War two in the Pacific and he
was he and his men were climbing down on Jacob's
rope rope ladder into a leaning graft and he had

(43:25):
a similar experience as the guys in in D Day
in Normandy. Japanese zero straight the water right by them
and just missed my dad and as men he was with,
so luckily they didn't succeed.

Speaker 11 (43:43):
That leaves me.

Speaker 13 (43:43):
That leads me to the question. I watched Allo the
History Channel a lot and shared all these armies, ancient
armies fighting one another, and besides him with spears and swords,
the all he had had shields a hide behind. Why
couldn't there in World War Two they weld these very
thick heavy plates, steel plates on the front of tractors

(44:08):
and move the tractors off the first thing off the
landing craft and the men can hide behind me. The
steel you know, plates similar to the plates that they
put on roads when they're repairing laying pips, and they
put these heavy steel plates. Why couldn't they welded a

(44:30):
couple of those in front of these tractors, you know,
and hide behind them and save and save a lot
of lies.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
I am sure they try to contemplate that, but I've
seen enough stories about the issues that those brave men
face storm on the beaches at you know, Omaha Beach
and Utah as well as the others. The landing craft
couldn't make it all the way to the shore, so
they ended up, you know, wading through multiple feet of water,
or at least even they had to swim through the

(45:01):
water in order to make it to the beach. I
don't know how you get a vehicle to get through
that to hide behind. And that's one of the challenges
of landing on the beach is being able to get
heavy military hardware onto the beach. So you got to
secure the beach first before you can land that heavy stuff.
Because that probably required removing those giant tank of those

(45:21):
giant barriers that the enemy had placed in the water,
you know, the welded metal structures you see those look
like a game of jacks laying all over the place.
Multiple challenges, but I'm sure they contemplated that. It's just
logistically probably weren't able to accomplish it. So Yeah, it's
impossible for me to question the strategy of our generals

(45:45):
at the time, but I'm willing to guess that they
tried to figure out a way that they could best
protect the soldiers' lives before sending them into open fire.
Just speculation of my apartment. I do appreciate the call
six twelve real quick. I this ridiculous political theater going
on between Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the one

(46:05):
comment that's led everybody's talking about it, and I'm bringing
it up, and I know I'm perpetuating it, but it's
time to analyze it. Elon Musk, time to drop the
really big bomb. Trump is in the Epstein files. That
is the reason they have not been made public. Have
a nice day, DJT mark this post for the future.
The truth will come out now. I'm sure that's got

(46:26):
the Democrats all giddy with excitement, but many of the
Republicans running to Trump's defense, and I understand defending him,
pointing out and saying, well, wait a second, If Donald
Trump is in the Epstein files, why wouldn't Joe Biden
release it? They hated that guy. I mean, we got
one representative after another. Randy Flyin I lest you fine,
he's a Republican from Florida. What I would say is,

(46:47):
if Joe Biden had Donald Trump and the Epstein law logs,
there's no question it would have come out during the campaign.
A similar statement echoed over and over and over from
all the people that were interviewed with this. Okay, that's
a fair statement, and your immediate reaction might be, yeah,

(47:08):
of course they would have released it. They had some
goods on Trump related to the pedophile Epstein, then of
course it would have come out. Representative Annapolina Luna, Florida
speaking to speaking to Jeffrey Epstein, I would be very
specific that I do believe that if President Trump was
in the Epstein files, they have been released during the primary,
and they didn't. Another quote. So the fact is that

(47:33):
I do not believe President Trump is in the Epstein
files the way it's being implied. But either way, it's
why we continue to push for transparency. Ah now, let
me just put a spin on it, and my Trump
loving friends and you know me, I appreciate Donald Trump
the vast majority of what he does. I know he

(47:54):
alienated Epstein, kicked him out of the golf course after
he was implicated on child molestation charge are convicted of them,
and he divorced his relationship with Epstein. Whether or not
he had any involvement with Epstein along some sort of
salacious lines unknown to me, but it's unknown to you
as well. And the comments from all of these elected officials,
the folks that are supposed to be in charge, are

(48:15):
supposed to the folks that are supposed to have access
to this behind the scenes information. They're all speculating if
that was true. I don't believe it's true. How could
it be that that Biden wouldn't release it if it
was true. They don't know. So the larger question for
me is why don't we know? We've been talking about

(48:38):
this stuff for years and years. His madam was implicated,
his serving time in jail, he's dead. FBI just confirmed
that he did in fact kill himself. Believe it or not,
that's just exactly what the FBI said. And you know,
we got this grainy video shows that nobody was enter
out of there. The guards regularly checked on him until
he died. I can't answer that question. But what I

(49:01):
can't observe is this if in addressing the question why
no one seems to know what's in them, and why
you and I don't know what's in them. They're back there.
They have the files, they have the information, they have
the videotape, they have all the evidence they collected from
Epstein's Pedophile Island. If in fact Donald Trump is implicated,

(49:28):
If in fact Donald Trump has some bad details in
the Epstein files, as we're gonna call them, you know
why they wouldn't release them is because there are so
many Democrats that are in there too, which suggests to
me you and I probably won't ever know. Six sixteen

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Let's turn to the phone. So we got Tom in
the line with a comment, Tom, thanks for calling this morning.

Speaker 7 (51:48):
Yeah, I have a question.

Speaker 14 (51:50):
Do you think well the United States will learn a
lesson from this surprise Ukraine attack with the drones. We
never earned any any World War two in the attack
on Pearl Harbor when we lined off or battleships in
a right in a straight row along the island there
in the Hawaii, and now we had the Chinese buying
up all the farm land around our military basis. Do

(52:12):
you think there might be a futuristic reason for that?

Speaker 2 (52:18):
You know, the timing could be better for her, comment Tom,
because there are literally dozens and dozens of articles talking
about exactly that ever since the Ukraine sneak drone attack,
lots of them. There's legislation in almost every state either
prohibit Chinese Communist Party folks from owning land around military

(52:39):
bases and other sensitive institutions. There was a governor just
the other day, and I can't remember which stated is
that vetoed a legislation banning it, much to the chagrin
of the citizens of the state. There was comments connecting
the so called UFOs whatever they're calling them these days,
that they are actually Chinese drones and that information has
been kept from us. It's just everywhere you turn, so

(53:03):
it is on literally everyone's radar, and they don't keep
us informed about much at all, our lettered agencies and government.
We're not entitled to the information. But you know, they
have to have been thinking about this. They have to
have been thinking about this. And if they haven't been
thinking about this. The illustration provided by Ukraine and it's successful,

(53:23):
you know, its ability to knock out seven billion dollars
worth of aircraft with only a few thousand dollars worth
of drones, and I may be exaggerating, is a real
eye opener. But given that drones have been around for
so long. We've been using them ourselves for many, many years,
see Afghanistan and various other conflicts in the Middle East

(53:43):
and elsewhere. They're very capable and handy things to have.
They're a lot cheaper than an F thirty five aircraft.
You can blow something up with a really inexpensive drone.
So from a military hardware perspective, I think that's a
better avenue of spending money than billions of dollars for
I think soon to be pointless manned aircraft. Go ahead,
defend the aircraft if you want. But yeah, yeah, it's

(54:08):
a real lesson that we are learning. But how do
you deal with it simply banning the ownership of land?
And I don't have any problem with banning the ownership
of land by foreign entities around our military installations. But
you know, these drones can fly hundreds, if not thousands
of miles in some cases. They can get a ship

(54:30):
in international waters, one of those big cargo ships, and
they're everywhere, aren't they. Look at the ports out in California,
filled one after another, just waiting around, waiting to be unloaded.
They're massive. How many drones do you think you could
put on one of those and a lot of them
come from China. Even though we've got you know, trade

(54:50):
war going on in tariffs and everything, we're still getting
stuff from China. The various Chinese Communist Party actors could
put you know, maybe three, four, ten, twenty thousand drones
on one of those if the Ukrainians can pull it off.
Next thing, you know, you got a thousand drones flying
out of an anchorship, running and going directly toward military targets.

(55:11):
Maybe in California they only have to fly like twenty
five miles.

Speaker 6 (55:16):
How can you.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Protect from that? The answer of I don't know the
answer to the question. I just ask it out loud,
because yeah, it's a real challenge. The nature of war
fighting and warfare in twenty twenty five is dramatically different
than it was on D Day. Can imagine if we

(55:39):
had drones on D Day, the thousands of lives that
would have been saved. Yeah, we bombarded the coast for
a long long time, much in the same way we
did with Eujima and the other islands in the South Pacific.
Bombed a hell out of them over and over and
over again. And what will we faced with when our
marines finally landed on those islands, heavy gun fire from

(56:01):
entrenched Japanese troops who were not impacted by the thousands
of bombs of God dropped on the island. If you
had targeted strikes, if you knew exactly where you wanted
to land, rather than randomly dropping bombs on the islands,
it would have gone a long way to us saving
thousands of lives, wouldn't it. That's modern warfare. We didn't

(56:23):
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Speaker 4 (58:56):
Always happy to be here, Brian.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
And thanks for listening. Juice jacking.

Speaker 4 (59:00):
That's what it's called. That's what it's called. Yeah, I
thought you guys might appreciate that I did, and.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
You know, of course it netted a phrasing button from
Joe that for folks who are like, what the hell
is he talking about? If you were listening yesterday to
aviation expert Jay Rattlove, he was talking about what is
called juice jacking for those in the know, and that
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(59:27):
place else there's an open charging station. So don't do that,
I suppose, is the bottom line on it. Anyway.

Speaker 15 (59:34):
Yeah, Brian quick, you know they make a special type
of charging cable that won't exchange data. But yeah, I
can tell you you're better off. Take a power brick
with you or an extra battery. Do not plug your
phone or any sort of device into a random USB port.
There's no there's no telling what could happen, honestly with then,
I also your last segment. I had a thought on that.

(59:56):
Mick O Hipponent. I've brought him up on here before.
He's a well known cyber security expert, and he just
recently left the company he'd been with for like thirty
years to work on drones and drone warfare. And he
is always just great for quotes. He has a great
quote about drones. Drones are not cheap airplanes, they're expensive bullets.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Excellent.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
I love that.

Speaker 15 (01:00:15):
Yeah, yeah, you're a point about being able to target
and so forth. Yeah, not cheap airplane, expensive bullet. Like Yep,
that pretty well nails it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Fantastic. All right, we have a new scam to talk
about a new term, so we learn about juice jacking
and what is brushing?

Speaker 15 (01:00:33):
Yeah, this is such a weird thing, but apparently it's
become increasingly common where folks get unwanted packages and then
you're left to try to figure out, like, well, what
do I.

Speaker 11 (01:00:46):
Do with this?

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
Do I send it back? Do I keep this stuff?
What is happening here?

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Can people get on Amazon when they're drunk in the
late hours? They buy stuff and they wait up the
next day and forget they placed an order. Yeah, and
you know it lands on your front Wait did I
order something? You don't even know if you ordered something?
That's actually an interesting sort of social phenomenon that you
get a package delivered and you're like, wait a second,

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did I order this? But this is un want to
package this from Amazon? According to the article you provided.

Speaker 15 (01:01:23):
Yeah, and you know, sometimes they're doing this because they
want to basically, maybe somebody is introducing a new product,
right so they want to be able to inflate their numbers.
They want to get people to give them online reviews
because they send them free stuff. Now you're the attorney
in this conversation, Brian, But as I understand it, you know,

(01:01:43):
if you do get something that shows up at your
house and you didn't order it, you know, it's yours
to keep if you wanted. You know, this could be
some sort of way to try to steal your information.
I mean, it's it's a weird thing because most scams
involve trying to steal your money or your information for
both to some sort of you know, just digital thing.

(01:02:05):
They're not spending real money to ship a product of
some sort to you, you know, And I think that's
one of the things that's so mind blowing about this,
because at the end of the day, it costs them
money to put something in a box.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
There's any investment on the part of the potential scammer
in actually sending you something. Yeah, unlikely, but again you
know with a phishing email that I mean, it doesn't
cost literally anything to do that. But this requires actual
payment for minimum shipping charges.

Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
Yeah, that's right. That's one of the things people need
to under.

Speaker 15 (01:02:37):
One of the reasons why things like fishing and smashing
text based fishing is so effective, it's because it's so
inexpensive and so easy to do. You know, this is
obviously more difficult. It costs money upfront, and again you're
just trying to boost your reviews or are you trying
to get someone to say, okay, I want to return this,

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and then they try to steal your information, you know,
because you've got to supply a credit card or something
to credit it to. The bottom line really is and
apparently this is increasingly common. You can find examples of
this all around the country where people started getting stuff
they didn't order, in some cases multiple packages.

Speaker 7 (01:03:17):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
Bottom line is, if you get things like this and.

Speaker 15 (01:03:21):
You don't want it, my advice would be just throw
it in the garbage, don't reach out, don't contact the
people you know, if it's something you like and want
to keep, and as I understand it. In all fifty states,
it's perfectly legal to keep it. Just move on about
your business. But I would I would discourage folks if
this happens to you, to reach out to the organization

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that's sending it, you know, if it's if it's.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Something drmful, don't scan the QR code.

Speaker 15 (01:03:48):
Yes, don't scan the QR code for sure. Don't go
to the websites they're sending you. And if it's an
electronic device, don't use it. Smart watch, camera, on motherboard,
all that could be exacted to some nefarious actors. So
throw that away, definitely. Brian, going back to the juice
shacking thing, I mean, any electronic device you get could
be loaded with some sort of malware, do not plug

(01:04:08):
it in. And again, if you're getting something and you
think it's harmful, if you're concerned about it, you know,
report it to the FTC, report it to the FBI,
to the Internet Crime Complaints Center.

Speaker 4 (01:04:17):
IC three dot gov.

Speaker 15 (01:04:19):
But yeah, do not plug anything electronic in, do not
turn it on, because strong possibility that that really.

Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
Is some kind of malware laid lade some.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Period. And yes, something that fais all right, you know
what's nefarious? Our next topic, Big Brother is definitely watching
and it is creepy. More with tech Friday's Dave at
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I wore my make or well Fiction Again T shirt,

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and this is an illustration of why I wish that
would be accomplished. Go ahead, Dave, give us the bad
news and the creepy news.

Speaker 15 (01:05:45):
You know, Brian, I bet you're not surprised that I
also have a make or Well fiction again T shirt?

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
I bet you have one for every day of the
week in different colors.

Speaker 7 (01:05:56):
I need.

Speaker 15 (01:05:57):
I need to get to that point. And I like
to wear it when I go to Kroger. So when
I'm walking around in there with all their cameras that
are telling me I'm on video and showing me, I
like to just point at the shirt as I go
under the camera.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
I love it. Yeah, I don't feel any good, but
I as have a Ministry of Truth T shirt which
is merged with the Department of Homeland Security on its
own special logos.

Speaker 15 (01:06:18):
Anyway, I like that. I might have to do many, true,
I'll have to get one of those. But anyhow, this
is definitely something right out of the book. But yet
it's so interesting when you you know, as I'm sure
you're also not surprised. I have read nineteen eighty four
many times, many times, and you know, the telescreens in
there that are always watching you. You know, it's mandated

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by the state and Big Brother. You know, here we're
dumping all of this garbage, these so called smart devices.
Another great quote from Mako Hipponent, who wrote a book
actually on this topic. If it's smart, it's vulnerable.

Speaker 4 (01:06:51):
Yeah, I know. Because these things are.

Speaker 15 (01:06:53):
Convenient and because they theoretically make our lives easier, we're
dumping all this garbage into our offices, into our houses.
You know, it's surveiling you, it's capturing enormous amounts of
your data. But my real concern with this stuff is
the security issues. That's not what we're going to talk
about here. LG one of the big smart TV manufacturers
is apparently now working with an AI company and they

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are going to use this AI They've entered into some
kind of partnership with them to figure out what you
watch and try to based on the content of the shows.
And by the way, I don't think most people realize this.
You know, every new or smart TV that I'm aware of,
has the capability, through software implanted in the device, you know,
to keep detailed tabs on what you're watching, how long

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you watch it, that sort of thing. So they're capturing
all that data they're feeding into this AI model and
then trying to understand like your emotional state. So they
can not just serve you ads based on what you watch,
but you know, do more of a psychographic analysis on
you and serve up ads sort of based on your
emotional state. Now, as creepy as that that sounds, Brian,

(01:08:00):
think about this. Now this this doesn't go into it.
But you know, again they say here Zenapp's platform for
connected TV CTV. So if you hear that term, and
also there's a lot of new terms in the business
around this. For example that I hadn't heard until maybe
the last year or so. Another term free ads supported TV,
which is called fast right, So you know, whether you're

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watching like an Amazon streaming channel or anything going through
the TV is basically tracking you. So they're going to
dump your data into this AI and try to figure out,
you know, like your emotional state and then again send
you different type of ads. So this direct quote from
the article Psychographic data is supposed to go deeper and
allow advertisers to target people based on the so called
psychological factors like personal beliefs, values, and attitudes. Psychographic segmentation

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delves deeper into their psyche than relying on demographic data.
So that's a direct quote from the article and then
also from some Salesforce research in the article. But the
really creepy thing again, don't they don't claim this, But
it would not be at all shocking to me, because,
as we've discussed so many times, with all of these
Internet of Things devices and just privacy in general, you know,

(01:09:10):
you get an eighty page privacy policy. It's a confused
opoly full of legal mumbo jumbo that you can't understand
that no one reads. And they know that, and they
opt you into all this stuff, and you know, you
have to go through thirty menu items and deep dark
patterns to try to figure out how to opt yourself out. Imagine,
because your TV has a camera on it and a
microphone in it, if it's not merely taking your data

(01:09:34):
and trying this, but it's actually watching you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
Real time like a telescreen. Yeah, I mean, you know,
I'm not saying they're doing that.

Speaker 15 (01:09:43):
I'm saying it's certainly within the realm of possibility at
this point. And it's one of the reasons people like
Mark Zuckerberg in the past whether their computer. You've seen
tape over it or you know former FBI director Comy
with tape over the camera on his notebook. And you
know people are, I like, Dave, that's really paranoid. Well,
you know, like I have a brand new Dell Brian

(01:10:05):
and it has a built in camera cover. It just
slides over and covers up the camera. You're a smart TV,
do you if it has a camera?

Speaker 4 (01:10:12):
Do you know where it is?

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
That's the thing you probably don't. It's they're almost impossible
to detect on the new smart TVs.

Speaker 15 (01:10:19):
So I just you know, I'm not I don't want
to get delve too deep into the Orwellian rabbit hole here,
but I do want to point out again this is
you know, well documented research at this point, and you
know it's hard to buy a TV that's not so
called smart. But I just this is very interesting and
you can see where all this is going. And when
people say why I have nothing to hide, you know,

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my data is not very valuable. They want your data
because it is valuable to them, or they wouldn't go
to the trouble to build all of this technology to
capture it and analyze you and try to figure out
how to sell you stuff, persuade you, propagandize you, or
whatever else they're doing with it. Because I would just
remind folks, LG may be completely above board with this
and maybe maybe doing nothing more than trying to get

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you the most targeted possible ads. But are they selling
that data to someone else? Probably of course, and are
they doing who knows what with it so, you know,
propagandizing you for some other purpose. Yeah, So this is
why I hate the Internet of thanks right, I absolutely
despise all this garbage. It's total garbage. It is while

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you think it's helping you, it actually these none of
these organizations have your interest at heart, And they're not
building this stuff because they care about you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
They're building it because they can make a buck off
of it. I'm alway exactly lightning.

Speaker 4 (01:11:38):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
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Friday's Dave Hatter and best Tech in Cincinnati. There's a
vote coming up on that. What's this one all about?

Speaker 4 (01:12:52):
Dave?

Speaker 15 (01:12:53):
Yeah, Brian I'm I'm really fortunate that Intrust is big
into supporting the community in general and the tech community
in particular. So the Circuit is a Cincinnati based organization
that is basically a member organization for people involved in
tech or at least you know, on the edges of tech.
So there's a lot of cool events they do. I'm
a big fan of the Circuit and Tracy and her.

Speaker 4 (01:13:14):
Team over there.

Speaker 15 (01:13:16):
So if you're involved in technology and you don't know
about Circuit, first off, you should check it out. They've
got a developer conference called Momentum coming up. You know,
they do probably one or two events every month. They've
got things geared towards students, They've got things geared towards
people trying to get into tech or new in tech.

Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
They've got leadership programs.

Speaker 15 (01:13:37):
But the big thing I wanted to talk about on here,
and I appreciate you guys taking a minute to talk
about it, is every year they have an event called
Best a Tech. It's a great event, it's a lot
of fun. It's since September September eighteenth. It's usually at
the hard Rock. You'll get you know, four or five
hundred people probably come out.

Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
For this thing.

Speaker 15 (01:13:52):
Always a lot of fun, but the real goal here
is to nominate and that's why I want to talk
about it today for folks out there who are listening,
who might be involved in tech or know someone in tech,
to nominate people who are doing cool stuff, great stuff,
because you know, Brian, at the end of the day,
it's about stopping the brain drain, keeping these jobs in
the Cincinnati region, creating opportunities for people, workforce development, you know,

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all of that stuff, and this is, you know, one
small way to recognize the people who are doing cool
things around technology in Cincinnati. There's a bunch of different
categories Visionary Leader, Enterprise Award, Women in Minority to Watch Awards,
Social Impact Award, and Innovation and Small and Medium Business Award.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Are you campaigning right now, Dave?

Speaker 15 (01:14:36):
I'm campaigning for my friends at this circuit because I'm
in I've been involved with them for a long time
and I just want to get the word out, trying
to get folks to nominate folks for these awards, make
people aware of it, grow the tech community, keep these steps.
Like you know, I'm sure you saw the headline. You
may have even talked about it earlier. This morning that
P and G's going to lay off seven thousand people.
You know, we want we want to build the economy

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in the Greater Cincinnati region. We want to keep these
jobs in the Greater Cincinnati region. We want to provide
opportunities for people, and you know, frankly, we want to
recognize people that are doing good stuff. So the Circuit
Best of Tech Awards, if you just go to the
website or you'll find it on social media.

Speaker 4 (01:15:12):
I've posted about it numerous times.

Speaker 15 (01:15:14):
If you know someone out there that's doing something amazing,
nominate him for one of these awards. Get involved with
the Circuit, and you know, help us grow the tech community,
and you can you know, hear more of my rantings
about the Internet of Things and such when you go
to these events. Usually, Brian, there's a wide circle around
me because they're like, oh, it's tenfolt hat Dave. I
don't want to hear any more of his rantings about

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how we're all doomed thanks to the Internet of Things.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
I think you and I talked about it, but it
made my stackers stupid. The woman who found out her
husband was cheating because of the Internet of Things toothbrush
he was using at odd hours he was supposed actually
I don't remember talking about Okay, here's the short story
on it. He's supposed to be at work and his
Internet of Things Toothbrush had him brushing his teeth at
like nine thirty or so in the morning, when he

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was supposed to have already been at work, and he
was brushing his teeth up before he went over to
meet his girlfriend to have relations with her, and that's
how his wife figured out he was having an affair.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
So interesting.

Speaker 15 (01:16:11):
Well, you know, again, these things seemed to be innocuous, inconvenient,
and yet that's a wild example and I hadn't heard that,
but I can't wait to start telling that story.

Speaker 5 (01:16:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
No, and you can probably search for it just Internet
of Things toothbrush and affair as a search as a
search on your search engine, which I know is not
Google for you, but I'm sure you'll run into the
story anyhow. Yeah, that's just and just you know, stepping
back Internet of Things toothbrush, WTF period.

Speaker 15 (01:16:44):
Is it gonna drop a dime on you to your
dentist that you didn't brush for the required amount of time?

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Speaker 15 (01:17:02):
Pleasure, Brian always happy to be here. And I'm gonna
get my Ministry of Truth shirt today.

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You go ahead and order it up. Man, you'll be
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The biggest problem you're gonna have, Dave, is, you know,
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among other shenanigans going on in the city of Cincinnati
with our dear friend Todd Zenzer. He's in studio. Up
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is an inspector, former inspector General for the United States
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the medicaid problems we have here in the state of Ohio,
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and the childish war on social media, Todds ends are
following the antics of the City of Cincinnati council members
and the man. Welcome back, Todd Zinzer. It's always a
pleasure having here. Man. Thank you Brian, it's good to
be here, and I do appreciate the work you are doing,
and you know, every I mean every week and every
time we talk. It's just it's almost just hard to

(01:19:14):
believe what's going on behind the scenes, or as the case,
maybe what's not going on behind the scenes.

Speaker 6 (01:19:21):
Right, Well, there is a lot going on behind the scenes,
and I think that's one of the city's biggest problems.
Is this whole transparency issue.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
Zero transparency.

Speaker 6 (01:19:29):
Yeah, it's it's really amazing. And if they're not keeping
things behind the curtain, they're just flooding you with all
of this information that isn't organized, and you really don't
understand what it's all about, and you really have to,
you really have to look into it to find out
what little nuggets of information is out there about what's

(01:19:50):
really going on.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
Well, it takes a tenacious person like you, who unpaid
as you are, are willing. I guess it's kind of
a hobby for you. You really like you be in
the fly and the ointment for those clowns and you
connect the dots.

Speaker 6 (01:20:04):
Well, it's what I did for a living for so
many years, and.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
It's in your blood.

Speaker 6 (01:20:08):
It is an interesting mine to be sure.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
Well, it's one of the more bizarre hobbies in retirement
that one can have, but we thank you for doing it.
So let okay, the topic number one, the missing audit
has been found. Now you're going to have to provide
the background for this, because you and I have talked
about this before, but you know, lay the groundwork for
what you found and then we can talk about what

(01:20:32):
it means, what the audit report that you found and
the implications for that are.

Speaker 6 (01:20:38):
Well, several months ago, I started looking into this phenomena
of a lobbyist lobbying the city. Yeah, so I was
looking for the lobby the list of lobbyists, which isn't
easy to find either, but there is a list out there.
And I started to think about all the corruption cases
that I'm aware of that involve lobbyist. One goes way

(01:21:02):
back to the early two thousands in Washington where the
Jack Abramov scandal.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
Oh yeah, man, you that's a blast from the past.

Speaker 6 (01:21:09):
Well, I was there when all that was going on,
and it actually was uncovered by or investigated by the
Inspector General for the Interior Department, and the Deputy Secretary
of Interior wound up getting prosecuted. But it was a
big scandal. It was it was all obvious. And then
you have what happened here with the council member, And

(01:21:33):
I got curious, was there anything that went on with
all the gang the gang of five? Was there anything
that went on with lobbyists?

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
A gang of five scandal, Jeff Pastor scandal. Yeah, and.

Speaker 6 (01:21:47):
You know, we had a we had a similar issue
in Columbus with lobbyists that first Energy that that involved lobbyists.
So anyway, I didn't really find anythingholder was yeah, yeah, yeah,
I didn't find any lobbyist issues with the corruption scandal.
But along the way, I found this article that Sherry

(01:22:09):
Coolidge did about this. The headline read, a Cincinnati audit
is mysteriously scaled back and then they quote they have
a quote in here someone is protecting one or more people.
So after I read the article and found out that
there was supposed to be some kind.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
Of audit dodss a red flag.

Speaker 6 (01:22:30):
So I obtained a copy of the audit, went through it,
and I'll tell you after the three members of council
and Wendell Young got indicted on these felonies, Mayor Cranley
and Christopher Smitherman. They went to work, yeah, and they

(01:22:53):
took some actions to try to, you know, figure out
how the city moves forward from here. And one of
the things they did is they ask the government, the
city government, to have this audit done of these existing
of these other economic development projects.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
To hire an outside auditing firm, get the money to
hire them, and to have them conduct the audit.

Speaker 7 (01:23:13):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:23:14):
And at the same time, they established what they called
the Economic Development Reform Panel, and that brought in I
don't know, I think it was like a dozen community leaders, attorneys,
former judges, people from the Ethics Commission, they were religious leaders,
there are Democrats, Republicans, to look at what happened and
to come up with a plan for the city to follow,

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to try to create a more ethical environment for the
city council.

Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
So unscrupulous individuals can't basically pay to play or pay
off or otherwise bribe council members or the mayor in
order to advance their personal interest project, whatever that project
may be, which of course is the fundamental basis of
all these the felony complaints that were vold.

Speaker 6 (01:23:57):
That's correct. Well, except for Wendell Jung secuted for obstructing
Justice in the Gang of Five investigation. The other three
were corruption right.

Speaker 2 (01:24:07):
Everywhere.

Speaker 6 (01:24:08):
So I looked at the Economic Development Review Panel. They
started their work in February of twenty one. They issued
a report in July of twenty one and had a
number of recommendations, and one of their recommendations was, yes,
do this forensic They were calling it a forensic audit
at the time. Do this forensic audit, promptly, get it published,

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put it out to the public about what needs to
be done. That was one of their big recommendations.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
Okay, And so the firm audited individual projects that were
funded by the city or voted on by the city
or otherwise like maybe tax abatement areas or any any
kind of economic development project exactly. So they looked at
the documents related to how that was approved and that
kind of thing.

Speaker 6 (01:24:53):
Well, it was interesting because they focused they collected a
lot of data on how the city count uncil voted
on the various tax abatements or credits or whatever that
these two hundred projects received. So they were saying they
were looking at looking for patterns, voting patterns, to see

(01:25:13):
whether they whether those patterns indicated any unusual votes on
the part of these council members, yes or no, okay.

Speaker 12 (01:25:21):
And I think the.

Speaker 6 (01:25:22):
Bottom line is they didn't really find any issues. But
their recommendations I think really didn't really weren't well received
by the New City Council.

Speaker 1 (01:25:34):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
So boiled down from what I'm hearing is the audit
was conducted. They looked at all these projects, and they
didn't find anything what I will loosely refer to as shenanigans, like,
oh my god, this voting pattern reveals that someone's getting
paid something like that. But because of what had happened
before in connection with these scandals, they created recommendations in

(01:25:56):
order to improve the process, maybe bring more clarity to it,
and perhaps shed a little more sunlight and transparency on
the project, on the process, And that's the part that
wasn't well received is your conclusion.

Speaker 6 (01:26:08):
There were two recommendations in particular that I focused on
that Crow was the name of the outfit from Chicago.

Speaker 2 (01:26:15):
Real quickly, when did when was the audit commission? And
when did it come out? How much time were we
talking about between today and when this conclusions and these
recommendations were made to.

Speaker 6 (01:26:25):
Tell you how slow the process worked. This was initially
the result of a resolution entered or emotion entered by
Christopher Smitherman when he was on council towards the end
of their term. He put this motion out to have
this done. So that was in twenty one, and they
signed a that might have been that was in twenty one.

(01:26:47):
They signed a contract in January of twenty two, and
the audit firm issued their draft report in December of
twenty two. So what should happen after the draft report
is issued that wasn't done is that the audit the
person who is getting audited, they're supposed to look. They're

(01:27:07):
supposed to look at the draft audit see whether there's
any factual issues that they have heartburn over. They're supposed
to respond to the recommendations. Do they agree? Do they
not agree?

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
Sure? You know, it's like reviewing a deposition and say no, no, no, no,
that's wrong. I did not say that it's been improperly transcribed.

Speaker 6 (01:27:26):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Your conclusion is wrong for the following reasons. And here's
all the reasons why. So that's what you do after
the draft audit is issued.

Speaker 6 (01:27:32):
And that that is part of the contract with the auditor.

Speaker 2 (01:27:35):
And so that wasn't done.

Speaker 6 (01:27:37):
Cincinnati did not do that. The city did not respond
in any way to the draft report, which means they
agreed with it. That we can at least make that
a logical conclusion. If you remain silent in the face
of the draft audit, then you agree with what's in there.
Let's pause, because we're going to find out what Todd
was able to conclude after reviewing the final audit, which
took him about a gazillion years to finally uncover. Draw

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Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:30:04):
Citizen watch Dog Todd's inswers in Citio no moreen he
is not suicidal. She thinks she have a death wish
because you're speaking so much truth to power. I don't
think we have any Clinton family member power on the
City of Cincinnati. So I'm not worried about you, Todd.

Speaker 6 (01:30:17):
You keep I'm not worried.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
You keep raising the awareness of the City of Cincinnati residence,
and I just hope that continues, and I hope more
and more people check out your podcast. Citizen watchdog, because
he's at this all week long. All right, So we
laid the foundation for this audit. Yes it was a
post corruption audit. What can we do to write the
ship to make the process better, to make the process

(01:30:40):
less corrupt by way of for whatever projects being proposed,
whatever tax abatement, whatever building is going to be built,
whatever Hyde Park development, well connected developer project is going
to be you know, uh uh, get a zoning change
for We want to make sure it isn't done or
have any corruption associated with it. So outside entity from
Shego has spent a year or so looking at it.

(01:31:02):
They're paid one hundred and fifty grand to do the report.
The issue the primary report, opportunity for the council members
and the mayor to comment on it, to identify any
problems with the initial report. Nothing said, not a finger lifted,
not a word spoken from counsel or the mayor. So
they did a final report along with recommendations. So that
leads us up to here.

Speaker 6 (01:31:23):
It got a little bit worse than that.

Speaker 4 (01:31:24):
Oh it did.

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
Oh I'm shocked. Do tell so.

Speaker 6 (01:31:29):
Instead of providing comments about the recommendations and the findings
and correcting any problems with the draft report, Cheryl Long
rejected the report. She told the city Council and the
mayor that the report was not satisfactory for what specific reason. Well,
she didn't say, but she promised to work with the

(01:31:50):
auditor to get to do a better job. And yeah,
that was sent in January of twenty three.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
How would she know whether it's satisfactory or not.

Speaker 6 (01:31:58):
Well, that's a good question. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 7 (01:32:00):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
It's been a whole year looking at each of these
individual projects and all the documents related to them. Did
Cheryl do that?

Speaker 10 (01:32:06):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
Okay, so thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:32:07):
Here's here's what I think got to them. When when
Sherry Coolidge wrote this article with the headline about the
audit being scaled back, I think they got very defensive
over that. There was a footnote in the draft report
that basically said that Crow had been asked by the

(01:32:28):
city to change the standards that they're going to use
when they do their audit. It went from a performance
audit to an assessment. And it wasn't following gagas or
they generally accepted government auditing standards. It was going to
follow the ai CPA, which is the American Institute of
CPAs who was going to follow their standards, which they're

(01:32:52):
basically saying that the city changed the standards that they
wanted us to use, and looking at this.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
They they made that change after the Crow firm had
been working on it and up to the point where
they could release a draft form.

Speaker 6 (01:33:07):
Right at some point in time, and we don't know when,
there was a conversation between Crow and the city where
it says that after discussion with the city, Crow's performance
under this ordinance is an assessment under a CPA's consulting
standards and is not a forensic audit. So they changed,
they changed the rules that they wanted the auditor to

(01:33:28):
follow in doing their work.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
Well, wasn't there an RFP at the outset for Crow
to look into and say, hey, I got my hand up,
I would I this is what I would charge for it. Yeah,
that's where the standards were initially included. Yeah, so they
did it in accordance with what they were told to
do with the outset, and then sometime along the process,
probably most of the way, if not all the way through,
that's when the city manager says, no, you want to

(01:33:49):
do it to a different standard. Yeah, I don't want
the hell, Todd.

Speaker 6 (01:33:53):
Well, that's that's what I'm talking about, Brian, because I
either there was a total disconnect in the city manager's
office or they didn't like what was in the art
were worried they didn't like what was in the audit.

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
Oh wow, Well we still haven't gotten to the conclusions
in the audit that they have apparently not followed through
with or followed in spite of the fact that it
was the purpose of the audit to provide conclusions and
recommendations to follow. It's seven twenty five. We're gonna finish,
We'll figure this out. Every time we talk it keeps
getting worse.

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Todd's Ends or Citizen Watchdog in the City. Get a
Citizen Watchdog podcast and find out what's going on in
the city. Boy, it's taking us a long time to
get there, but we've walked through all of the shenanigans
going on leading up to the final report which was issued.

Speaker 4 (01:37:02):
Again.

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
The report related to a review and analysis forensic of
the process of getting contracts approved and abatements approved by
the City of Cincinnatia Cincinnati, of course, on the heels
of the scandals involving PG Sitting Fell, Jeff Pasture, and others.
So the firm releases the draft, then the city says, oh, oh, oh,

(01:37:24):
by the way, No, no, we don't want it done
that way. We want it done a completely different way,
at some point into a what amounted to a year
long process for the review. So what is the What
was the final report issued and what standards did it used?
Did it used the ones that the city manager changed
last minute or did it stick with it the parameters
of the original negotiated agreement with the city.

Speaker 6 (01:37:46):
Yeah, they did put in their final report that they
followed the government auditing standards for a performance audit.

Speaker 2 (01:37:53):
So that was what they were supposed to with the outset. Yes, okay, good.

Speaker 6 (01:37:56):
Before apparently somebody from the city spoke to them, but
there were several findings. A lot of them had to
do with recusal by members on certain issues, which is
still a problem.

Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
But they like, if you have some personal relationship with
the developer, like it's your brother in law coming in
and you're a council member and your brother, your brother
in law, your family member comes in and says, hey,
I need you to approve this project I want done.
Right that that's obviously, on its face, appearance of impropriety,

(01:38:31):
I think is what we call it in the law.

Speaker 7 (01:38:32):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:38:33):
So they set out recommendations on how to manage recusals
by council members, what you know when they should who
they should recuse themselves to, and et cetera, et cetera.
But there were two recommendations that several of us have
been interested in for a long time, and one has
to do with the three reading rules for enacting an ordinance.

(01:38:55):
Under the Charter, the city Council is supposed to read
an ordinance three times before they vote on it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
And what this city councils three separate council meeting exactly.
They can't just read it three times in a row
in one council meeting, right they do that?

Speaker 6 (01:39:09):
Oh I could see that too. They have to give
the public time to understand what is happening and provide
any input.

Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
So but what input that they will then ignore Hyde Park?

Speaker 6 (01:39:22):
But what what the city council? This city council does it?
The previous city councils do it. They either vote to
waive the three readings or they designate the ordnance and emergency.
And so one of the findings that a CROW had
in their final report is they did a sample of
these votes on these ordinances. And I had estimated on

(01:39:45):
one of my podcasts that it was probably up in
the ninety percentile that they would pass something under an emergency.
The sample that that CROW took and analyzed, one percent
of the ordinances that they sampled were passed under an emergency.
And the problem is that they come up with these

(01:40:06):
lame excuses as an emergency. For example, on connected communities
that was passed under an emergency. You know what their
reason was, we need more housing. That was the reason
that Reggie Harris gave to why this thing was passed
under an emergency. So Crow actually pointed out these they
had an he had an example or they had an

(01:40:29):
example of one of these lame excuses, but they're all
over the place. So that that was very a very
good finding, and they had recommendations about how to get
around that, or not get around it, but to implement that.
But the second one is one I'm particularly interested in.
It was when the council was able to provide input

(01:40:50):
online budget line items. They need to explain their increases
or their decreases to budget line items. So the city
they just went through a three hour hearing budget hearing
the other night where they had seventy six witnesses come
forward basically asking for money from the city and they

(01:41:12):
represented something like forty different groups.

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
Non governmental organization not their hand of the cookie drug. Yes,
and these are the ones the mayor decides who gets
the money.

Speaker 6 (01:41:21):
Well, what they do is they apply for it. The
city manager comes up with her recommendations on which of
these applicants should get money and how much. And then
and that was what was reported the other night. Now
what happens is it goes through some kind of process
where the mayor gets to ada and the city council

(01:41:42):
gets to add and that process is not transparent whatsoever.
They have it on their schedule, their budget schedule. But
in terms of why does the manager go through this rigorous,
supposedly rigorous merit based process and come up with her
recommendations and then the city council and the mayor just

(01:42:03):
comes in and you know, changes it, it increases it.
Last year, the city manager's recommendation for what they call
leverage support was like five million dollars. Well after the
mayor and the city council got through with it, it
was up to they increased at one point three million
dollars just with the stroke of a pen. And so

(01:42:26):
anyway Crow with no explanation or one of these lame excuses,
and Crow pointed this out that this is a problem.
You need to provide a more transparent process and you know,
you have to justify these changes to these line items.
So I think those those were two issues that were

(01:42:48):
particularly problematic for the city that they didn't like those.
The other thing that the final report included they talked
about a they have a conflict of interest survey. So
this is something I did not know existed until I
read the auto report. But apparently when the new council
members are sworn in, they go through they fill out

(01:43:11):
a conflict of interest survey. Sure, and I guess somebody
in the legal department looks at it and helps them.
So I asked I put a records request in for them,
and I did get a clean copy of the form,
and that has issues. I think, for example, they don't
even have to sign that. They forget about certifying it.

(01:43:33):
They don't even have to sign all their disclosures on
this survey. But they're denying me access to any of
the surveys that were completed by any of the council
members or the mayor.

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
I'm not denial predicated.

Speaker 6 (01:43:46):
On attorney client privilege. If you can believe that, No,
I cannot believe that. Now, Well, they use that a lot,
they use that a lot, but.

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
It's a conflict of interest piece of paper survey that
is handed over to the city manager or somebody else
within the bureaucracy that's not a lawyer. Well, there's no
connection with with attorney client privilege in that.

Speaker 6 (01:44:11):
Well, I've always wondered who their client really is. I
thought their client was.

Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:44:18):
But if I had unlimited resources, I'd probably try to
look into that. But uh and take them to court.
But that that's that's their game. They do a lot
of blocking and tackling when it comes to records requests, don't.

Speaker 2 (01:44:32):
We have some local attorneys who do that just as
I mean, who's they do? But they you know, they
they cost money to I mean, somebody could do some
pro bono work just to have fun. Somebody wants to
prod and poke the city of Cincinnati and and and
and help ferret out fraud, wasted abuse. Maybe maybe so
that we can refer some of this information over to

(01:44:53):
the FBI for them to investigate, because well, you know,
the less transparent government is, the more likely something going
on behind the scenes that they don't want acknowledged or revealed,
the more likely it is that could be criminal.

Speaker 4 (01:45:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:45:05):
What at the national level we have, we have a
lot of organizations like that. I guess Judicial Watch is
one of the big ones. Amen, And I think Cincinnati
could use something like that, or Hamilton County and Cincinnati
could use something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
See it's a call to arms. Someone's out there that
can handle that. Don't go away. We got more Todds
in er, including the great Cincinnati train robbery. If we
can even get that in. That sounds like a topic
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Speaker 2 (01:47:24):
Seven forty two fifty five Ker City Talk Station, our
citizen watchdog, todds Enzer. All right, well, we put to
bed the issue of the audit that nobody's paying attention to.
But you got further work to do on that in
ferreting out the maybe the conflict of interest statements that
they wouldn't give you for reasons unknown other than the
attorney clam privilege which doesn't apply. But what about the

(01:47:48):
great train robbery I see on my list, the Great
Cincinnai train robbery. Obviously this relates to the sale of
the train of the railway system. Yes, so what's the
story on that if they say it's generating a whole
a lot more money than the lease paim But we
got fifty point fifty six million dollars this year.

Speaker 6 (01:48:05):
Right, so the city is really trying to do a
jiu jitsu. On one hand, they say we've got all
this extra money, and then apparently the mayor came out
I don't know, yesterday or the day before trying to
lower expectations of what that money can buy because of
the increased cost of building materials.

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
They allocated thirty million dollars for roads out of the
total pile of money fifty six million, and that only
paves fifty miles worth of roads and they're already way
way years behind in resurfacing roads exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:48:41):
And my point and this issue about the cost of
the material, Yeah, Adam Kaylor was on that during the campaign,
and he is correct. The inflation, the inflationary costs of
the material is going to make build or repairing these
roads so expensive. And people say, well, that's gonna happen

(01:49:04):
whether you use railroad money or not. That's right. But
what it's gonna do is going to deplete the one
point six billion and when that's all used up, we
don't have an asset any longer.

Speaker 2 (01:49:14):
Well, can they can they dip into principle without approval
from the the authorities that that's independent board that's supposed
to ride her to preside over the management of that money.

Speaker 6 (01:49:23):
No, it's gonna be. It's gonna be. The board has
strict rules about how much it can give to the city,
and if the balance of the one point six goes
below a certain amount, they can't send money to the
city anymore. They've got to wait for that to build
back up. Right, So you have all this Rube Goldberg

(01:49:43):
type of procedures and you know, controls and things like that,
and they're gonna they're gonna go through this money like water.
And you know, people say, well, why are you still
harping on a railroad because it was not a good deal.
That wasn't And in terms of the Great Train Robbery,
the thing that really is a problem is the fact

(01:50:06):
that you had this public asset, probably Cincinnati's most valuable,
with the public asset, and the city leaders, if you
want to call them leaders, let this railroad come in
and basically buy the election. They knew when they agreed
to this that under the current state law ballot issue

(01:50:29):
campaigns there is no limit on corporate contributions for ballot
issue campaigns, and so Norfolk Southern could spend as much
money as it wanted. And then what it did. It
spent six million dollars and there was.

Speaker 2 (01:50:44):
No organized, well funded campaign against the sale of the railroad.

Speaker 6 (01:50:48):
No, we didn't have any money, you know. We I
think Adam put money in. I think the total amount
we calculate it was like eight thousand dollars or something
like that. But it was also a matter of time.
They put this thing on a rocket docket, and we
didn't have a whole lot of time to organize.

Speaker 4 (01:51:06):
But the.

Speaker 6 (01:51:09):
Problem is that if this was just a campaign where
the mayor was running, no problem. But the mayor wasn't running.
This was for the sale of a public asset, and
so much greater transparency should be required and it's not.
But what happened is Norfolk Southern six million went to
this political action committee, and the political action committee sent

(01:51:33):
ninety percent of that to a political consultant in Washington,
d c. Who has no public disclosure requirement on how
that money is spent.

Speaker 2 (01:51:41):
Why do you think it went there?

Speaker 6 (01:51:44):
And this particular political action or this political consultant is
the same one that the mayor used when he ran
for mayor in twenty twenty one.

Speaker 11 (01:51:54):
And so.

Speaker 6 (01:51:56):
I sent a letter to the mayor and to the council,
and I thought the council should take these recommendations from
these reports, list them out, and do a report on
what they did with these recommendations. You know, did you
adopt it? If so, how did you not adopt it.
If not, why and then for the mayor he did

(01:52:17):
these TV commercials for the railway.

Speaker 4 (01:52:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:52:20):
Well, we filed a complaint with the Election Commission because
his campaign treasurer for his personal campaign was the same
treasurer for the political action committee that Norfolk Southern set up,
and we thought there should be additional disclosures about the
decision making on how they were spending money. Well, we
took that complaint to the election Committee, but we didn't.

(01:52:43):
We didn't succeed, but we got an affidavit out of
the campaign treasurer who said, oh, it wasn't me that
made all the decisions, It was a steering committee. So
who's on the steering committee? Who is it that called
the mayor and said, hey, Mayor, we think it'd be
a good idea if you went on TV for Who
was that and who's on this steering committee?

Speaker 2 (01:53:02):
Those are legitimate questions, and so I put that in
my letter.

Speaker 6 (01:53:07):
You ought to tell us who is on the steering committee.
And secondly, you ought to demand greater accountability from SKDK,
the political consultant in Washington, about what he's what they
did with this money? Did they really spend six million
dollars on that campaign. I mean there was a lot
of stuff going into the mailboxes and there were some commercials,
but they really spent six million dollars. That is three

(01:53:31):
times what anybody has ever spent on a campaign in Cincinnati.
I'm told that mister Cranleigh's of the second campaign may
have cost like two million, but this was six million dollars.
And there's no way in my view that they could
have spent six million dollars. So where's that? Where where
did that money go?

Speaker 2 (01:53:51):
Well, if aftab's doing commercials to sell the railroad, I
mean he's got to get paid for his time.

Speaker 6 (01:53:57):
Well, yeah, he got paid, all right, he got one
point six billion dollars.

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Speaker 2 (01:55:33):
This has been a really interesting, enlightening and thought provoking
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pay attention to what Todd's doing. And since we don't
have a whole lot of time to break down even
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the podcast Citizen Watchdog, and you're always doing what you
talked about, you've done today in connection with the audit.
You are apparently going to have your own web page
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(01:56:17):
to ferret out.

Speaker 6 (01:56:18):
Yes, And so I just think that people are like me,
and they want to see the they want to see
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really can't do that unless you have some kind of
repository online like that.

Speaker 2 (01:56:33):
So well as someone who's looking at it from your standpoint,
I mean, your goal is transparency. That's hence you know
the watchdog, because clearly our elected officials, council members and
mayor like and the city manager are not at all
interested in being transparent about what's going on.

Speaker 6 (01:56:53):
I do agree with you on that. They they this
idea of oversight and transparency. They talk good game, but
they've got a lot of challenges there, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:57:04):
You're so delicate with your language. There's such challenge. They
have challenges. A fundamental problem with being honest, I think
is I'm gonna at least that's conclusion you draw. That's
what I'm so angry about it. And I've been on
a rail rant quite over a lot of lack of
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Trump's in the Epstein files, and so all these politicians
are coming out, well if he was in there, if
he was in there, then why wouldn't have Biden released it?
And so wait a second, that statement if he was
in there indicates that our representatives don't even know what's
in there. Why don't we know this's been going on?

(01:57:48):
For years, Todd. You know, it's that kind of thing
that just really really irks me. Why don't they allow
us to have the information. It's only a handful of
people in the entire city that will be interested in
looking at it. We're one of them. But even if
one person wants to look at it, they work for us.
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(01:58:08):
for it, they should hand it over and they should
provide an explanation. For example, in the conclusion of that
report you talked about, which makes recommendations on honest, decent,
going forward conduct, transparent conduct, they should at least answer
the question why they aren't following what they were told
to do when they hired this outside auditing firm. Ye, silence,
deafening silence.

Speaker 6 (01:58:30):
I agree with you one percent.

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
Well, Tom, we'll have you on again. You keep up
the great work. I thank you for what you're doing
and allowing me to just scream about it and let
my listeners know as well. We need more people like
you out there and more interested parties holding them accountable.
They work for us. Coming up in seven fifty six,
Donna Schwaben is in the house. It's Schwabinfest. This weekend.
Let's get our German garb on, let us get our

(01:58:54):
drink and our food feedback on. They're going to be
in studio after the news US happens fast, stay up
to date at the top of the hour.

Speaker 6 (01:59:04):
Not gonna be complicated, It's gonna go very fast.

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Speaker 2 (01:59:15):
I've been looking forward to this moment in time since
yesterday when the microphone went off and Joe Streuker said,
don't eat breakfast tomorrow morning. So why Donna Schwabin's gonna
be in the studio at schwabin Fest this weekend. And
that means food. And you know I've said many times
over the years, you know, I pretend that I don't
eat food, and I say I'm not allowed to eat
food or drink in the studio because against the rules.

(01:59:36):
I'm going a point in my career where I don't
care I'm eating food in the studio. Go ahead, fire me, guys.
How you doing in studio? Nick, Jared and Pete from
the Doma Donna s Robins Society. You can find him online.
It's since e don O'Dell nau dot com it's a
weekend of Gimut the kite to celebrate in the schwabin Fest. Guys,
good to have you in the studio. Thanks for having us.
Thank you my pleasure. I love going to the Schwabinfest.

(01:59:58):
And you know this is not too I'm not I'm
not a favorite of any one German organization or another.
You guys know that we got the other German societies
that come in and there's how many of them are
there in the city, like forty or something crazy like that.
Forty there's four big ones. But that's a great thing.
We all work together and we scored each other and
it's yeah, yeah, that's It's like, you guys, aren't you know?

(02:00:20):
It isn't like that scene from Anchorman where you're meeting
an alley and like having a gang fight. You know,
but uh, you all play well together. I guess you'll
have a parade. I guess usually there is one in Octoberfest.

Speaker 9 (02:00:34):
We do for the firstest being two day fest.

Speaker 4 (02:00:36):
We did I do it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:37):
Okay, that's all right. But normally you see all the
different societies with their banners and flags and what the
Usually these things are kind of based upon what region
the Germans emigrated from you know, like the Black Forest
region or whatever. The where's the origin of the Donna
Schwaben group.

Speaker 9 (02:00:55):
Yes, the Despobin group, it came from The people came
from the Swabian region of Germany and they and they
went down the Danube River, so that's you get the
dough no now and the and the in the Schwaben
and they went down to lower eastern Europe like Hungary,
Yugoslavia area, and they cultivate that land into the bread
basket of Europe. And they kept but they kept even
though they're out of Germany, they kept their German heritage

(02:01:17):
or speaking, their their culture and traditions. And then, uh,
you know, after after the war, they immigrated to the
US because German speaking people weren't so welcomed in those areas,
so they came here. And it's not just in Cincinnati,
it's all over the US and internationally, I think they's
some in Brazil and another place to where where the
Denniswamp people had had gone to. Okay, but it's a

(02:01:38):
fun party, and they keep their traditions and share them
with the city and oh it's a fun party.

Speaker 2 (02:01:42):
Yeah, let me talk about that in just a minute
here because I am enjoying the Well, it's the the
one I look forward every year for is the Schwaben sausage, right,
but you brought in a new one this year. The
meter meter wors metavers and this thing what is? It's
a foot long, right, at least eighteen inches half a

(02:02:04):
meter a half meter and it's not a bun. It's
almost a full eighteen inches long. And it is so
good if you're a fan of uh what is a
knockwurst or back worst, This is like, you know, eighteen
inch long black worst. But I love how you cooked it.
It's almost like it's been It's a crinkly natural case

(02:02:25):
sausage exterior, which is cheap casing. Yeah, oh it's awesome.
My listeners are going cod well, you get to enjoy.
We're just listening to your rave about it. So you
can show up at Schwapenfest this weekend. First off, you
have events going on today.

Speaker 9 (02:02:43):
Correct, starts today five point thirty. Here's eleven and tomorrow
one one to eleven.

Speaker 2 (02:02:49):
And where's it located?

Speaker 9 (02:02:51):
Fourteen ninety drive badge road out in cold rain right
behind the loads to two seventy five right there at
that Uh, that corn exit and easy to find. Plenty
on site parking and.

Speaker 2 (02:03:03):
Only on site parking for this festival. Only on site parking,
so there's no shuttle service from remote location like that, right.

Speaker 16 (02:03:10):
Which is our Octoberfest. We do have bus service for
this one, so it's a little bit smaller than Octoberfest,
so we can keep everybody on site.

Speaker 4 (02:03:17):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:03:17):
That just means more for our food and drink for
us that show up, got it? Uh, Who's who's performing?
I mean, you've got multiple entertainment acts that are going
to be showing up tonight and we'll get to tomorrow
in a moment here, But who's who's going to be playing?

Speaker 16 (02:03:31):
The ploma band starts at five point thirty tonight or
from Saint Louis, and then we uh they also played
Saturday starting at one to kickoff Saturday, and then we
have our house band, alpin Echoes, which ends the night
at six thirty and that's tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:03:49):
Yes, Well what about what about young getting Drupa?

Speaker 1 (02:03:53):
Yep, so the yougen grouping is the.

Speaker 16 (02:03:57):
Youth group and they're.

Speaker 2 (02:03:58):
That's the name. Yes, I remember enough German to know
that young means suggest young youth, youthful, that kind of thing.

Speaker 16 (02:04:05):
So those that's one of our four dance groups and
one of our five dance groups. Sorry, and they are
ages fifteen to twenty one.

Speaker 9 (02:04:15):
Well, the klinic Kinder they started at four years old,
clinic Kinder, Klinic Kinder.

Speaker 2 (02:04:19):
Yeah, they started four small children and they got the
middle group of.

Speaker 9 (02:04:22):
Then the Yugen group, then the shop Potler's, then the
Talkton group, and they go up to I think eighty four.
So it's you know, as Auntie said the other day,
you know, you can you can see its need to
haveing these five different dance groups. You know where they
learn and each one has their own different type of
cultural dance that's brought over from from Europe. Uh, but
you know where they where they learn it to where
they perfect it.

Speaker 2 (02:04:41):
And it's well, I think it's a cool thing that
that young people are still learning this. Yeah, you know,
the world's a never changing place and you think, you know,
it's like does anybody really still do that? And yeah,
the answer is yes. And these German societies, everybody learns
how to dance. My wife, not German, has her her
drendal and she ends up always there's usually an elderly

(02:05:05):
German Man who always ends up dancing with my wife.
And every one of these things. My wife, you know,
she's an attractive lady and so you know, she loves
the dance and I don't dance, so I'm usually having
to keep my eye on her because there's some guy
out there dancing with my wife. Jane, you didn't marry out,
I did. I told you that in the hallway. That's
why I tell people now I no longer care if
they want to fire me, because I'm eating in the

(02:05:27):
studio knock themselves out. And one of the reasons I
can say that is because I can retire right now.
I'm married. I'm married, out of my element. Anyhow, she's
listening right now.

Speaker 9 (02:05:35):
Well, nice things about the youth group, Like we're teaching
the kids, you know, how to dance, and we're teaching
about culture. But you know, part of the fest is
it is a fundraiser and we send our kids over
to Germany and Austria every couple of years so they
can learn and see firsthand. So they go to the
Dennis swamping clubs over there, they can go around and
actually see, you know, where the people came from and

(02:05:55):
what the cultures are over there.

Speaker 2 (02:05:57):
Do you have a corresponding uh donnas Trabert group over
there that you keep, you communicate with it, coordinates activities
when you get there. Oh, that's cool.

Speaker 9 (02:06:05):
Like the International I guess headquarters whatever they call it,
is over there. So yeah, they have a museum and everything.
So the kids go over there oftentimes I think they
stay in other people's houses. And the reason is really
you really get to feel it that way instead of
being in a hotel, like you're really in touch with
the communities.

Speaker 4 (02:06:21):
And the people.

Speaker 2 (02:06:22):
Yeah, that's that's a great idea. I never been to Germany.

Speaker 1 (02:06:25):
I'd like to go.

Speaker 2 (02:06:27):
I've got friends together all the time, all.

Speaker 6 (02:06:29):
Right, So.

Speaker 2 (02:06:31):
You got the plumb man, you got you only group
and the shoel plotter school plotter.

Speaker 4 (02:06:36):
That's right.

Speaker 9 (02:06:37):
Shoe fallers are the one wearing the later hose and
jumping around stopping their knees. And uh, I can see
in Europe Trevia Clark Goswald.

Speaker 2 (02:06:43):
And that's why we're actually were And yeah, well I
was gonna ask you later about because I went to
one of the festivals and I'm blessed the shuts in
fest folks gave me a pair of leader hosing, nice people.
They are the cops weekend. Yeah, And so I wore
my leader hose into a different German event and I

(02:07:06):
was told that I didn't have the appropriate attire for
that particular German club. And I don't know which one
it was, but there were I think mostly walking around
with the three quarter length uh as opposed to the
just sort of pant like shorts that I have. So
there is regional clothing too.

Speaker 4 (02:07:25):
So what.

Speaker 2 (02:07:27):
Do my leader hosing fit in with with with with
the dons rob yeah, okay.

Speaker 9 (02:07:31):
Absolutely, these are I think called boondjosen and and typically
those are four you know, it's a little bit colder
out because they're they're longer. But shopepoler are the same way.
You know, it's not always as super Boler's. They might
look the same, but every dance and move is also
very regional, so some shupe bolers really stick to one
town's kind of moves, if you will, Okay, ours is

(02:07:52):
kind of like the Greatest Hits collection.

Speaker 2 (02:07:54):
Just don't slap the person you dance with in the face.

Speaker 4 (02:07:57):
Land up.

Speaker 9 (02:07:58):
So we do have a dance called the the shoe Fall, right,
so you know your plotler and you put your hands
out and the girl tied your hands on the first
hand and on a second time of ground, the girl
will slap you in the face. Years ago, my wife
used to shoot faller and man when I was paired
up with her, she got me.

Speaker 2 (02:08:17):
You know, there's so many opportunities for blue humor in
that statement. I'm just gonna let that rest. And right there,
as we go into a break, we'll bring it back
a little about the Saturday activities and all the other
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Speaker 1 (02:10:55):
The talk station.

Speaker 2 (02:11:00):
You can think about kcs DE talk stations. Sticking with
the German bumper music since my German friends from Donna
Schwaben are in studio for another segment talking about schwab
and Fest this weekend. It is h These are just
fun events and open to everybody. We're not doing cultural
appropriation here. I'm not German. They let me show up
so fun food and music, entertainment. You got the young

(02:11:22):
people dancing, you got the old people dancing. You congestion
German garber to show up in your genes that's okay too.

Speaker 4 (02:11:28):
And beer.

Speaker 2 (02:11:30):
We talked about the sausage, but let us talk about
the rest of the food and the beer that's available. Nick,
Jared and Pete in studio from the Schwabinfest. Now you
are famous for the Schwaben sausage, which I mentioned. You
guys make that yourselves, most.

Speaker 9 (02:11:46):
Of it, you know, we make it. We do make
it ourselves. But rut a point now where it's in
such high demand. We give a recipe to our local
butcher Wostlers out in Green Township and they make it.

Speaker 2 (02:11:56):
Who makes the other sausage meter Worse which again are fantastic.
Oh yeah, but you also have other things to eat.

Speaker 4 (02:12:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:12:04):
Friday tonight we'll have our rotisserie chicken from Octoberfest famous
Tistrie chicken, I might add famous. It's it's pretty good, uh,
turned on a spit. And then tomorrow we'll have our
beef dinners. Then we'll have the Swaping Sausage on both
Friday and Saturdays our dinners. And then out in the
fest we have a fest feel like the meter Works
brought some mets. We have a collection of sandwiches like

(02:12:25):
am and cheese, turkey, rubens those kind of things.

Speaker 2 (02:12:28):
And ruben on salted rye.

Speaker 5 (02:12:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:12:32):
Then then we have our new uh it's our second
year for the Grabbing Go, which Jared here chairs up.
But it's a new booth, I you know, kind of
targeted to be faster. So if you just want to
broad or in a beer, we have it in the
same booth or a pretzel you can go there.

Speaker 2 (02:12:47):
You just grab and go.

Speaker 9 (02:12:48):
It's all you know, pre made and well at the
fest right there, right, But but we're trying to help
people get food fast and then also like families, if
you want to go there and get a beer, some
for your kid and a food all same time, it's
all there in.

Speaker 2 (02:13:00):
The same booth. Well, that's a nice and its convenient feature.
I see you also have the Limburger sandwich. Always I
find memories. I mean, I'm not a Limburger fan. I'll
be honest with you.

Speaker 13 (02:13:11):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:13:12):
There is my dad and my grandfather, my mom's dad,
and he had a very small, small house generally speaking
of Lexon, Kentucky, where where they live for years and
years and years anyway, maybe a twelve or fourteen basement
TV room, a little couch in there. My grandfather would
sit down there, and there were times that he used

(02:13:33):
to have a pipe or he'd have a smoke or whatever,
watch a football game. But my dad would get down
there and he and my grandfather would eat Limburger sandwiches,
rye bread, big flat, big hunk of Limburger cheese, mustard,
and onions. And I'm telling you, that small room would
just just fill up with the stench of Limburger cheese.

(02:13:55):
He could walk in there. It's like, God, oh, we
love it, we love it. I'm like, I think it
was more of a it's it's like eating a ghost
pepper too. Oh I was able to eat that, you know, yeah, right,
But you didn't really like it, did you? A badge
of honor? You just it's a badge of honor. Yeah,
I choked down a Limburger cheese sandwich in spite of
how about it smells. And there's people out there right

(02:14:15):
now going, oh, come on, Limburger tastes great, tastes great,
just stinks. But they've got it there, so you can
do that. But I'm bump bump bump beers. You guys
have beer there, don't you. Well look at the list
A couple of beers.

Speaker 16 (02:14:29):
Yes, we literally have every available German Austrian beer in
the city of Cincinnati. Wow, this is this is anything
that's available in keg form.

Speaker 4 (02:14:42):
We have it.

Speaker 2 (02:14:44):
That's a bold statement considering now do you include like
micro brewis in that?

Speaker 1 (02:14:48):
Because no, nope.

Speaker 16 (02:14:48):
Only it's only imported German beers, all right, so that
they're not with chipping and everything. We're not getting as
many as we used to get a couple of years ago.
But now it's this is This is the list of
what's available in the city of Cincinnati currently about.

Speaker 9 (02:15:03):
That mostly you're not going to find them at a
store or even at a bar. They're they're really kind
of hard to.

Speaker 2 (02:15:08):
Get, which is unless you're buying a hole a keg.

Speaker 9 (02:15:11):
Or or a palette of kegs. Sometimes it won't sell
to you unless you're buying a palette. But you know,
I think it's fun for the you know, our guests.
You know, they can you know, there's a lot of
new beers there. They try something you like, but also
try something different. We got the whole range of light,
dark wheat. We you know, we even have some rodlers,
a grapefruit roller, you like those kind of things.

Speaker 2 (02:15:31):
But that's an interesting beverage, it is. And I just
find it so hard to believe that that grapefruit beverage
is German.

Speaker 9 (02:15:38):
Well, it's because Germans don't know how to make light beer.
You know, they make full strength beer, then they'll cut
it down with lemonade or grapefruit juice.

Speaker 2 (02:15:47):
That's good. Had a grapefruit land in Germany. It's not
exactly a tropical climate anywhere.

Speaker 9 (02:15:53):
Well, ler is German for a like a bicycler and
that's you know, so like if you're riding your bike
and you're exercising and you know you want a beer,
but maybe you know, and more refreshing, you know, after
an exercise, they put a little great projuice in there
and lemonade.

Speaker 11 (02:16:08):
There you go.

Speaker 16 (02:16:08):
The traditional one is Logger beer, half logger beer, half
tart lemonade, and it's just something very freshing you can
drink after a good days of work.

Speaker 2 (02:16:17):
Maybe Corona where a line came from. Yeah, these are
these are the days. They predate white claw and fruity beverage,
fruity alcoholic beverages. Fair enough, well, folks, you know, Joe
Strekker has added the information on Donna shrub into my
website at fifty five care ce dot com, so you
get all the details and you can also go to
I mentioned it before I can mention it again the

(02:16:38):
Donna Schwabin website, which is sincey with why Donno d
o nau and get the details and information there as well. Guys,
I cannot think you knowough for coming to the studio
bringing the wonderful food and give me a little sample
what we're going to experience tonight and tomorrow tonight five
point thirty pm until eleven pm Tomorrow one pm to
eleven pm. Enjoy the fun, the festivities, the dance, the food,

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the drink, the Gimuti kite which is guaranteed give.

Speaker 9 (02:17:06):
Me like you know what, give me the kite is.

Speaker 2 (02:17:09):
It's fun.

Speaker 1 (02:17:09):
It's fun.

Speaker 2 (02:17:10):
Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 9 (02:17:10):
It's that good, warm, cozy fielding and we try to
make that for everyone.

Speaker 2 (02:17:14):
And it's it's like a general word for fellowship, but
good fellowship, you know, the experiencing the joy and the happiness,
the festivities, everything that goes along with it, just the
general air of happiness. Yes, if I can sum it up,
that's perfect. Wonderful guys, Nick, Jared Pete, thank you again
for bringing the stuff in. And I may grab myself

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Speaker 2 (02:19:04):
Five KRCD talk station, Happy Friday. Yeah, I hate to
see those guys, go, But after giving you all the
information about shop Fest, just be a bunch of Germans
and me sitting around her room yucking it up and
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radio or not. But then again, there's just radio that's
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(02:19:45):
T phone. Uh yeah, you heard it. Earlier, Procter and
Gamble announce some plans cut seven thousand jobs over the
next couple of years, fifteen percent of its non manufacturing workforce.
Uh As Dan Monk from WCPO describes, the company navigates
the challenges posed by tariffs and slower growth. Company hadn't

(02:20:07):
said how many the layoffs are going to occur here
in Cincinnati, of course, where you employ ten thousand people.
Here in the Greater Cincinnati area. So, according to the
chief financial officer, Andre shootin' sounds awfully German. Just the
opportunity to accelerate that innovation pipeline, make the right investments,
and capture that growth opportunity, I think created that urgency

(02:20:28):
in the organizations to say now's the time, insofar as
the time to cut Joe, have you seen all of
the articles describing the whaling and gnashing of teeth and
pity and concern about expressed by the general public because
seven thousand employees at PG are losing their jobs everywhere?

Speaker 10 (02:20:49):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:20:51):
Oh no, that was right. That was just the government
employees losing their jobs even though they weren't showing up
to work to do something productive like make money for
a company. Sorry, I had to vent my spleen on that.
Let's see here, state senator who introduced the bill, a
new funding source for the sports stadiums here in the
state of Ohio. Speaking of Ohio budgets, not shocking anybody, said,

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half a dozen teams have already expressed interest in a
one point one billion dollar grant pool that'll be available
after July if it ultimately becomes part of Ohio's next
two year budget. Senator Jerry Semina said teams should keep
in mind that lawmakers won't be interested in projects that
aren't ready for primetime. His words Sereno comments came a

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couple of days after he introduced a proposal to fund
stadium projects with one point seven billion dollars in unclaimed
funds from the state of Ohio. That is, money from
abandoned bank accounts, uncash checks, rent utility deposits whose rightful
owner cannot be located. So it is one of the
processes where we learn they're sitting on a big pile
of money. And notice, much to my chagrin, that that

(02:22:00):
money is available only to teams, sports stadiums, fully baked,
ready for prime time sports related complexes. Now, if you're
a business out there, don't bother trying to stand in line.
You're you're not you're not entitled any of the taxpayer
money in this particular case, money that could go to

(02:22:21):
the American or the Ohio tax payer maybe and maybe
in the form of a property tax relief.

Speaker 1 (02:22:27):
Wouldn't that be cool?

Speaker 2 (02:22:28):
Hey, here is one point seven billion dollars we're gonna
distribute equally among the property taxpayers here in the state
of Ohio. Now, I don't know how much that would
mean per home or building that pays taxes, but you
know what, I think that will be money much better
spent than on a sports stadium. And it's not that
I have anything against sports. Don you know the argument

(02:22:49):
I have? I have hell, I would be upset if
they were handing money out to any business for no
reason whatsoever. Oh, but we're gonna make a whole lot
of money off of the sports team. No, no, no,
you're gonna make a whole lot of money off of
a company like Procter and Gamble.

Speaker 4 (02:23:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:23:04):
They employed ten thousand people in the city of Cincinnati,
all of whom are taxpayers. I don't know that they've
got an infusion of hundreds of millions of dollars from
the Ohio tax payer. They don't need it because they're
out making something and selling it. If I eight thirty five,
maybe you feel differently. I have not heard a single
person disagree with me on the propriety of giving money

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Eight thirty nine at fifty five kr C de talk
station A very very very happy Friday to you. Just
they've doubling down in my comment about Elon Musk saying that, well,
Donald Trump's go using the Epstein files, and a lot
of people are defending Trump saying, well, no, no, if

(02:25:05):
he was in the Epstein files or had some connection
with Epstein, then Joe Biden would have used it against him,
And I believe that is an accurate guess. Revealing in
their comments is that it's always qualified along the lines of, well,
I don't know what's in them, but if Trump was
in them, then why wouldn't Joe Biden let the world
know that Donald Trump was involved with the pedophile And

(02:25:29):
my retort was, it's certainly possible. The reason he didn't
is because the Epstein files implicate a whole lot of Democrats,
and if you're going to use it against Trump, you
know it's coming right back at you to haunt you.
I personally don't believe Trump anything do with it, given
his behavior and in fact that he was asked and
involved in the Epstein investigation and actually said, no problem,

(02:25:50):
I'll be happy to sit down and talk with you
whenever you want. I had nothing really to hide, and
I know he alienate him alienated himself from Epstein and
has abandoned from his golf course or something along those
lines when Epstein was still with us. But you know,
why would Musk make a stupid comment like that, This
is just childish? Childish, childish. But going back to the

(02:26:13):
fundamental point, Representatives and members of Congress don't know what
is in the Epstein file or files they whatever you
want to characterize them. At the documents that were gathered
in connection with all the raids that were done in
Epstein's properties in the Pedophile Island and all that, by
all accounts, there are records, There are videotapes and speculation

(02:26:35):
on people that have been implicated and suggest that you
have been child molesters like Epstein. Why don't we know?
Why have those records been held withheld? You think there'd
be some whistleblower. How they released everything under the sun
about Donald Trump Aclodie's private tax information. No one seemed

(02:26:56):
to have a problem with that other than the fact
that it was well not legal to do it. But
the guy's dead and you can redact victim information. You know,
I personally like to know who these perverts are out
in the world. I'd like to be able to stay
away from them. I like to be able to see

(02:27:17):
them brought to criminal justice. But the longer you wait,
Let's say one of them was involved in statutory rape,
some noted notables, some lofty high official, maybe one of
our elected officials in Washington, TC. Perhaps a lot of
people hung out with Epstein, a lot of powerful people,
Bill Gates. Maybe somewhere out there. There's probably a statute

(02:27:41):
of limitations.

Speaker 4 (02:27:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:27:46):
But why don't we know? Why is there just this
swirling speculation, and why is it which feeds the rumors,
accusations and innuendo and conspiracy theories. There doesn't have to
be any of that transparency. Thank you Todd Zenzer for
spending an hour in the program talking about how City
of Cincinnati he's pretty much involved in the same kind
of thing, not along the pedophile lines, but hovering up

(02:28:08):
information and hiding information that the taxpayers should have access to.
If they're hiding it, I think it's it's reasonable for
us to assume that something bad has happened behind the scenes,
something that they don't want us to know about is
going on behind the scenes, could be criminal behavior. It

(02:28:29):
could be well, maybe bribery. Perhaps we saw that with
some of the council members on the City of Cincinnati.
But it's you know, they work for us. It's troubling
to me. But you know, you got to ask the
question waybit, why are you Why aren't you giving it
to us. Let's see what Steve've got to say this morning. Steve,

(02:28:50):
thanks for calling here, and a happy Friday to you.

Speaker 12 (02:28:53):
Oh you don't like Friday, but happy Friday anyway. I'm
going to try to put a smile on your face.
Had a long week. The politics are beaten down hard
on you. Wednesday morning when you came on the air,
you were really down less so yesterday, and it might
because the weekend's approaching. But I mean, the news is

(02:29:14):
sometimes tough to deal with. May I come out of
left field and put a smile on your face?

Speaker 2 (02:29:20):
Well, why don't you come out of right field?

Speaker 12 (02:29:22):
Okay, Well I'll come out of right field. Yeah, I
guess they always say left field. I don't know why,
but yeah, we'll come out of the stands and we'll
put a smile on your face. Has nothing to do
with anything you've talked about. We'd go back about four
or five weeks and you had a lady on there
that was like an expert on the Beatles. Now, I
am a Beatles fanatic and I'm sixty three years old,

(02:29:46):
and I know you're not. I don't think you dislike them,
but they just don't. They're not your preferred band. One
thing I always say, if they're not your favorite musical artists,
they might be your favorite musical artist's favorite musical artist,
I mean, very.

Speaker 2 (02:30:05):
Big, one of the most influential bands out there. Yes,
all the time.

Speaker 12 (02:30:09):
Well you know, well, here's what's going to hopefully put
a smile on your face just the next time you
hear this song. And it's one of their more famous ones.
And again I thought I knew everything about them. I've
read every book. It's like I've heard this story a
thousand times. Nothing i'm hearing that's new is new. And
it was the song Norwegian Wood and I and you know,
the song That's a bit good Norwegian would. Do you

(02:30:33):
know what the original title of that was going to be?
I never did. It was actually knowing knowing she would would,
isn't it good? Knowing she would? And it was nineteen

(02:30:53):
sixty five, and there was pressure not to put out
a song called that isn't that kind of cute? So
the next time you listen to that, just think of
what the original title was going to be, how they
changed it around. It'll put a smile on your face.
It has nothing to do with anything, but it's just
you know with I mean, I could have called you

(02:31:14):
up and gone on about the level of.

Speaker 2 (02:31:17):
Trump and Steve, I appreciate it. I absolutely appreciate it.

Speaker 12 (02:31:21):
Think about it next time you hear it. Just just
get a little smile like in.

Speaker 2 (02:31:25):
A gotta Davida in the garden. Yeah, Yeah, appreciated Steve,
YouTube man forty six. If you have cares of the
talk stag and see you don't have to have a
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Lumba used to call it open mic Friday. Got a
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Speaker 2 (02:32:53):
Eight fifty one fifty five r CD talk station. Another
thing that put a smile on my face hearing this
song Joey No just to Lilie Armstrong, but I have

(02:33:20):
a huge preference for Joe Ramon's version of that. Let's
see what they're go to the phones oh, real quick here, Julie,
hang on one second. Since I was talking about the
Trump thing and this alleged Epstein, you know he's in
the Epstein files. Maureen has stumbled upon a potential explanation
for all this back and forth, calling it a staged
fake wrestling match. Elon Musk puts the rumor out there

(02:33:46):
that Trump is in the file somewhere and get the
left to demand the release of the files. She says,
the left are so stupid they will fall into the trap. Well,
members of the left who aren't involved with Jeff Epstein
may fall into that trap. But the quiet ones, those
are the ones you're gonna want to be suspicious of, Maureene, Julie,

(02:34:06):
welcome to the Morning Show. Thanks for calling it. Happy
Friday to you.

Speaker 12 (02:34:09):
Happy Friday.

Speaker 18 (02:34:10):
I cannot believe you just played that song because I've
made a comment on your show before that I love
that song, and I know people are always like, yeah,
I know it kind of sucks sometimes in the world,
but I love when you play it. So that was
a perfect segue right into my.

Speaker 11 (02:34:23):
Call say thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:34:25):
Oh you're welcome, but every Friday, I know you do.

Speaker 7 (02:34:30):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (02:34:31):
I know Iry Joe chimed in, and my head said, Julie,
I have to interject because Joe played the song. He's like,
he was like, yeah, I'm glad you played it. Thomas. Okay,
Joe hit but thank you Joe. Go aheadlie.

Speaker 18 (02:34:49):
Well, interestingly, I know you said. Maureen just made that comment.
So I was freaking out of course last night about
all this, and I was serious in hearing what you know,
Elon had tweeted, and of course obviously, you know, very
concerned that it's true. But I'm sitting here. My husband's
trying to bring me back to earth because I'm losing
my mind. And he said, you know, here's the deal.
The Democrats have been sitting on this information for how long?

(02:35:11):
Wouldn't they have released this before the election.

Speaker 2 (02:35:13):
They didn't want Trump to.

Speaker 18 (02:35:15):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (02:35:15):
So there's one Republican, one Republican after another, interviewed by
the various news outlets, all saying that same chorus. Wait
a second, you don't think Biden would have put this
out at any given time to tarnish Donald Trump's reputation.
Release the documents, you know, even if it's a leak

(02:35:36):
document that isn't lawful for whatever reason, and I can't
come up with one, Julie, But yeah, I think that
is a true statement. Why wouldn't they have done it unless,
of course there's nothing or there's more Democrats implicated in
the release and that they know that that their day
is going to come if Donald Trump's records are in
a release and it has some connection with Elon Musk.

(02:35:56):
There's a whole lot of other people that have involved
with with I'm sorry, jeff Jeffrey Epstein. There's a whole
lot of other people that hung out with Jeffrey Epstein
who would also find themselves in the crosshairs.

Speaker 18 (02:36:07):
Absolutely, absolutely, so I think that's to come, and I
hope that they can delve into that and get that
released in the public. So so many people aren't you know,
I've tried to jump to conclusions quickly. I just panic
because I'm you know, always worried about what's going on.
But I really pray to God that they do uh,
you know, drift. It seems pretty extreme. It did happen quickly,

(02:36:27):
But I do agree, you know, with with Elon. I'm
we're all I think so many of us are a
little bit disgusted with the bill because or a lot discussed,
because obviously we need more cuts. But I'm not sure
how much Trump can crashure with the rest of them.
But that's got to be done. I don't know if
that can be done in an addendum or something coming on.

Speaker 2 (02:36:45):
But well, but we need and this is this is
Massey's problem, and it was, it's it's uh Ram Paul's problem.
It's other centatives issue. Listen, we can cut now. The
promise that you're going to cut in the future is
a hollow one. There is no guarantee just because you
say we'll wait for it, we'll do it down the road.
We got to get this passed and ensrying these tax

(02:37:07):
cuts permanently. Yeah, that's a good argument to try to
do it. But hey, the cuts are paltry. We blow
through an extra two trillion dollars a year. This thing
cuts one point two trillion over ten years. Sorry, that's
not enough. Julie, God bless you. Thank you so much
for the club. Have a wonderful weekend. Eight fifty five
afty five kre City Talk Station Tech Friday with Dave
Hatter the Orwell Report. I just creeped out that TV

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is analyzing your emotions now at least some smart TV.
That's one of three different things we talked about Todd
Zenser in studio. The missing audit has been found, and
there's nothing but craziness swirling around that city of Cincinnati
is well in the same way the Musk files have
been held from the public's view. So much information is
not revealed by the elected officials as the council members

(02:37:52):
and the mayor and the city of Cincinnati. Thank god
for Todd Zinser. He's all over it, and you can
hear the podcast and learn more plus donnish and information.
I hope you enjoyed that this weekend. Have a fantastic
weekend regardless of what you do. Thank you Joe Strecker
for all you do, including playing song two this morning
and of course Wonderful World by Joey Ramon. Folks, I

(02:38:13):
hope you have a great weekend. Like I said, stick around.
Glenbeck's coming right up. News happens fast, stay up to date.
At the top of the hour, We're moving very quickly.
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