55KRC Friday Show - Tech News, Brandon Nixon, Todd Zinser

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Five o five.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
At fifty five k r C beat talk station, Happy Friday.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Say well.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
There it is got to be Friday. Got a little
woohoo Brian Thomas, right here, Joe Strekker, person with a
finger on the woo hoo button on Friday among other buttons.
Good to have you in, Joe. Glad you're back. Brian Thomas,
inviting phone calls as I always do five one three
seven two three, talking with Pound five fifty on at
and T Funks. I'm gonna get to the rundown. But
reminder yesterday had can cover the FOP presidenton regarding uh

(00:55):
the city solicitor pressuring police to charge the victim and
the beatdown crime, but also his comments about the museum center,
saying no, we do not want to house the Cincinnati
Police Museum kind of irked me, It irked him and
obviously very political. We can't have a display on the history,
the entire history of the one hundred and fifty plus

(01:17):
year old Cincinni Police Department here because well, the Holocaust
Museum or something. It didn't make any sense. The arguments
from the Cincinni Museum Center make absolutely no sense unless
you understand the reality of the concept the woke left,
presumably this is where they spring from, want to have
literally nothing to do with police. This is that I

(01:42):
went on an absolute terry yesterday. Because you think about it,
this whole demonization of the police department stems from these
arguments that the police departments are inherently racist. Defund the police.
They're all racist. They're irredeemable, which is the attitude the
left has about the United States of America. Isn't it well,
we need to tear it down. It's irredeemable, it's broke,

(02:03):
it's fundamentally wrong, it was born of original sin. Of course,
you have to ignore a whole lot of good the
America has done over the years to come up with
that conclusion. But same kind of attitude, which is why
drew the parallel. Listen, we've got politicians of all stripes
committing crimes all the time. They get arrested, they get busted,

(02:25):
they're caught groping people in bathrooms, they're caught embezzling, they're
caught lying on mortgage applications, on and on and on
and on. Political leaders from you the smallest little municipality
in any given state to US House of representative members, senators,
and in some cases even presidents. So with all this

(02:47):
corruption among the politicians, why don't we paint with the
same broad brush with politics. Yeah, reject outright anything any
of them have to say. No, you are irredeemable. No,
that's not the attitude that I'm embraced. But you know,
parallel could be drawn there if you want to pick
and choose in every single segment of society. If you
take the you know, there's everyone, the big giant circle

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filled with everyone, and within that you have subsets of
people in different groups.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Right.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Lawyers, Yeah, I'm in that group. You could say the
same thing about them, Right, politicians, teachers, truck drivers, plumbers.
In every subcategory, regardless whatever group you're in you align with,
there are going to be bad eggs within any segment
of those groups. That's the reality of the world in

(03:34):
which we live. It's why we need a criminal justice
system hold those folks accountable, or, as the case may
be here in the city of Cincinnati, maybe not. We'll
get to that in a second tech right of a
day of hatter coming up at six thirty school bathroom
smoke detector hacked HM teen hacker showed it could be
an audio bug. Ooh, that's interesting. Alliance Life says data

(03:58):
on over a million year less customers was stolen in
a breach. And finally, finally, this is what I talked
about earlier in the week, China developing a robotic artificial
room woomb. Just tracker, do me a favor and have
the I Want to be a Woman Loretta scene from
Life of Brian to tick off that third segment with
Dave Hatter, because it's the appropriate setup for that discussion

(04:19):
about the artificial womb. I think reg you know or
stands problem in Life of Brian has been resolved. H
Brandon Nixon Council for since a council candidate, he's been
in the studio before. He is currently registered as a Democrat.
He couldn't change party affiliation in time, but he is

(04:40):
running as a Republican. But you know, you jar your
own conclusions. I found Brandon to be a pretty decent guy.
We'll talk with him at seven thirty. He'll be in
studio follow. I also in studio full hour with our
favorite citizen watchdog, Todd Zenzer, and you really should follow
and subscribe to Todd Zenzer's Citizen Watchdog podcast. If you
are interested in what's going on in the city of Cincinnati.

(05:02):
This guy is brilliant. Former Inspector General for the United
States of America. He is a numbers cruncher, a follower
of actual data, and a real thorn in the side
of the elected officials in downtown Cincinnati an including the mayor,
well and not elected officials like the city manager. Yeah,
he's all over everyone. Like I guess my dad we

(05:23):
used to say, like white on Rice two to three, talk
on five fifty on AT and T phone. Let us
see here. County police leaders met yesterday. Hemmin kind of
association achieves the police of their private roundtable event to
discuss public safety and crime in the region. This is
what they announced after the beat Down brawl they were

(05:43):
going to do it. Fast forward to yesterday when they
did it. Meeting held behind closed doors media not invited.
The earlier announcement said the topics for yesterday's meeting would
be reviewing the impact of current bail reform policies. That's
how I emphasized that. Got a corollary story on that,

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promoting consistent and appropriate sentencing to help the ter repeat
violent offenses, exploring ways to build greater transparency and public
confidence in the judicial system. They called this the beginning
of a long term commitment to look at all aspects
of the criminal justice system. Lease does not say the

(06:27):
re lease after yesterday's and he doesn't say who was
in attendance, but we know that the Hamilton County judges
were not. They declined to attend even though they were invited.
Discussion intended to be a meeting of all law enforcement
agencies in the county, along with elected officials, judges and prosecutors. Quote,

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to explore solutions to improve safety throughout the region. Close
quote Hamilton County quart to Cooma Police had previously issued
as David saying, No, we will not be showing up
the heart of the problem, the Hamilton County judicials system.
They will not show up well. The efforts to improve
the delivery of criminal justice services in Hamilton County in
light of recent events are laudable. The invitation to the
judiciary on behalf of law enforcement to this particular meeting

(07:10):
will likely impact eight judges ethical obligations under the Code
of a Judicial Conduct. Yes, you do have to have
ethics first. There is a Code of judicial Conduct. Joe
and they're supposed to be following it. They're also supposed
to take the constitutional amendment that we all passed in
twenty twenty two. They're supposed to consider public safety when

(07:31):
setting bail amounts. Let me pivot on that note. Whatever,
thank you Liam supporting Liam's whatever with this bond was
reduced yesterday for one of the suspects charge. It connects
with the downtown sinceety beat down, described by Fox nineteen
as violent attack either way you want to slice it.
County Comma Police Court Chief Magistrate Anita Birding cut Gregory

(07:57):
Wright's original one hundred thousand dollars bond in He only
has to pay ten percent, so five thousand dollars gets
him out of jail. Now here, take some comfort, folks
on the heels of Sarah Herringer revealing to the world
after her husband was murdered in their home by a
guy that was supposed to have an ankle monitor on,
running them up for several months before finally getting arrested

(08:18):
after stabbing her husband, Box nineteen reporting upon release, he
will be locked down at his residence with an electronic
monitoring device on his ankle.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
Now.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
He pleaded not guilty in his initial arraignment fine police
a legend. The complaint which is being, of course, what
he's being subject to prosecution for. He did, by force
rip off the necklace of a victim while he was
being assaulted by four or more code defendants attempting to
cause serious physical harm during the brawl down of fourth
and out allegedly stole the necklace off the victim while

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the victim was being beaten on the ground, put in
his pocket and quote proceeds to film the rest of
the event's close quote now under the bold heading lengthy
criminal record, going back to taking the interest of the
community into heart when you're setting bond now five thousand
dollars and he's out. Convicted heroin trafficker, been in and

(09:17):
out of state prison in Hamilton County Jails with several
arrests for most of his adult life. Place legend court
filings of late twenty thirteen early twenty fourteenth, he sold
heroin to a confidential informant on four separate occasions, including
near the zoo. They wrote in one of his many
criminal complaints. He ran from officers November twenty thirteen in
the area of Parkwood Avenue in Avondale, throwing plastic baggies

(09:40):
containing individual prepared baggies of heroin. They found him later
the day on Vine Street. He had six hundred and
sixty two bucks plus a baggie of heroin on him
or in his vehicle. Now several charges against him have
been dropped because of plea deals with prosecutors or rather
or even dismissed altogether at the request at their request,
the prosecutor's request. It's no idea why they dismissed any

(10:01):
other charges, but they include possession of fentanyl, obstructing official business,
trafficking and heroin, and possession of drugs. Beyond that trafficking
and heroin conviction, he's also been convicted of possession of
drugs illegal having a gun. Joe, do we have a
gun problem? Do you hear that from since an council
members all the time, we got a gun problem in
the city. The best way to deal with gun problems

(10:24):
is to maybe bob prosecute people to the fullest extent
of the law there or caught with guns under a
disability because he did have a prior felony conviction, he
was not legally able to have a gun. That gun
case in twenty twenty one, accused of running when police
responded to a fighting Crown Point driving Sharon Bill. Then
he violated the condition of his probation by failing to

(10:46):
report to his probation officer later in the year. You
think the court considered that the other day when they
lowered his bond down to basically five grand. And here's
something else they might have considered. He failed to comply
with his electronic monitoring court order, accumulating multiple curfew violations
between August twenty fourth, twenty one and June twenty eighth,
twenty twenty two. Ready, ready, ready, putting an exclamation point

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of the problem with ankle monitors. Plus the battery was
dead on his ankle bracelet. Okay, and apparently one more development.
This week, police released a photo of a ninth suspect.

(11:33):
Remember number eight was the guy that got slapped. Ninth
suspect now wanted in connection with the fight suspect when
he is located, faces charge of Flonius assaulted corner the
police records. Okay, wow, and Joe Strucker printed out a
list of crimes that occurred. What this is just in

(11:54):
the last week, Joe. It's four pages long, five pages long. Man,
there's some hotspots in downtown Cincinnati, but I thought crime
was down six five seventeen fifty five KR City Talk Station.
Feel free to call. Maybe you want to chime in.
I'd love to hear from you. Other than that, we'll

(12:14):
move on.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
Be right back fifty five KRC.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Don, Brian J. Thomas and I approved these humidity vacating
the area five one. It is Friday. It is time
for let.

Speaker 7 (12:29):
Me to speak.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Or singing if you want to call it that, and
so do the phones. Jay's back, Jay, Welcome to the
morning show. Happy Friday.

Speaker 8 (12:43):
Man, Hey, good morning, Brian. Hey, wanted to pick up
on your comments about Sarah Henninger, who's a hero.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
I think I applaud what she's doing.

Speaker 8 (12:53):
Last time she was on, she moved me to act
into where I called the one of the members of
the Republican Judicial Committee, and which is Al Katrona. He
was not on the Judicial Committee. In twenty twenty two,
whenever the ankle bracelet issue came to first came to light,

(13:13):
recalled that at the House. Ohio House passed it ninety
nine to one, that maybe these plastic ankle bracelets. Thought
it'd be monitored by somebody yes, and it never got
to the floor of the Senate. Wine apparently said he
was in support of it. Never got to the floor
of the Senate. So I called al Katrona's office.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
And lift them up.

Speaker 8 (13:34):
Found out, to my embarrassment, he was not on that committee.
He is now and he's in support of it.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
So that's good.

Speaker 8 (13:42):
I said, so, who was on this committee? Who was
the give me a name of who decided not to
get this to the Senate floor. And it was, well,
there's a committee to a committee to a committee. I said,
of course, you can't give me a name, right, I said,
who was the Senate President at.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
The time, Matt Huffman.

Speaker 8 (14:00):
If that name rings the bell, that's because Matt Huffman
is the is the chief architect of the six hundred
million dollars that's going to the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 7 (14:08):
For the stadium.

Speaker 8 (14:10):
He's no longer Senate president now he's Speaker of the House.
Remember Larry Householder when he gave money to private business
First Energy. He's in jail, but Matt Huffman continues to
play Ohio. And for some reason, this this jackass keeps
getting in positions of power. And so I would love
to have Matt Huffman on the program on matter of fact,

(14:33):
on every program, and the press the maybe go after
him and say, can you explain yourself as a Senate president?
I really don't care about the committees. You were this
president of the Senate, and this thing didn't get to
the floor. So I'm going to put it at his
feed and and while we're on it, the other I
did some more research and to see if my senator,
my Ohio Senator Steve Wilson, I'm a fan of, I

(14:57):
asked his office, did you support the six hundred million
dollar bailoff for the Browns? Now this guy used to
be a president of a local bank.

Speaker 5 (15:07):
Burns out.

Speaker 8 (15:07):
He said, yes, but that's because we are going to
get you know, it's going to be paid back and
we're going to make money. Let me ask a question.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
All the banks in the.

Speaker 8 (15:17):
Area, all the regional banks that are in business to
hand out loans to private businesses like the Cleveland Browns,
do you think their stock went up or the stock
went down whenever it came to like that. Ohio is
now in the banking business, and o'hi, the state of
Ohio is now competing with financial industries to hand out

(15:37):
loans to private businesses, and as a former executive of
a bank, I would think that he would know better
that that's what banks do, that's not what state governments do.
But but so I would say, we've got to get
rid of these people. And unfortunately I like most of
what Steve Wilson does. Never heard him on the program.

(15:59):
I've offered and encouraged him to get on the program,
but maybe this will be the catalyst for him to
get on there. But I think the Ohio Republican voters
need to know that maybe we need to change out
Steve Wilson, and certainly we need to get rid of
Matt Huffman. And even though they're they're they're not living
updoor expectations, they're still better than the Democrats. So whatever

(16:21):
you do, don't know Democrat.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
I knew that was coming Jay, and I doubt to
be on the program to discuss that very thorny issue.
But I did read the list of the folks who
are on the Judiciary Committee when I was interviewing Sarah
Herringer because she had posted one of her very insightful
and interesting and obviously very critical of leadership op ed

(16:48):
pieces for the lack of a better word, and within
that she named all the people who were on the
Judiciary Committee where that bill died again overwhelming bipartisans word,
when have you ever heard of a bill pass with
just one dissenting vote? I mean the Democrats and Columbus
joined with the Republicans. Everybody was in favor of this
with a lone exception, and then it goes and dies
in the Senate, something so fundamentally important. We'll have a

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problem on our hands. They recognize that they got a
bill passed in the House. We're not monitoring ankle bracelets.
We need to do something about that. Somebody might get
hurt dead in the Senate. Well, it's got new legs now, folks,
and it's gonna be something they will be dealing with
as we fast poach the next next legislative session. Five three, seven, four, nine,

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fifty eight hundred eight two three talk pound five fifty
on AT and T phones, don't go away, Got local
stories or maybe a phone call or two coming up next?

Speaker 9 (17:45):
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growing Willming.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Here's your Channaine with the hul cask. Got most of
the cloud in a partly sunny skies eighty four of
the high. Overnight lowis sixty six, just a few clouds,
eighty six high tomorrow with uh partly cloudy. Scottish sixty
two overnight partly cloudy, and and I have eighty on
Sunday preview follow they're saying just partly cloudy as well,
sixty six degrees. Right now, it's time for a traffic update. No,

(18:14):
it isn't too soon for a traffic update. That's the
next segment. Brian. Well, it is Friday, and it is
five twenty nine, and I am inviting phone calls five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five eight hundred two three talk. Let's
see what Tom's got this morning. Tom, welcome to the
Morning show.

Speaker 7 (18:29):
Hey, hey, good morning. Are you trying to rush the
show along.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
So you can get up for the weekend and then
sooner or something like that?

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yes, you got me figured out, Tom.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
I can understand.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
I can understand that.

Speaker 7 (18:42):
Failing bro.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
I always feel, you know, it's the same. I do
the same thing every single day and I don't then
and I pressure myself and it wears on me.

Speaker 10 (18:50):
You know.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
I'm on the radio for four hours, and I think
about it all the time. I don't know why Friday
I do the same thing, but I feel as though
a weight has been lifted, as though some the pressure
that I normally placed upon myself Monday through Thursday has
just evaporated. So yeah, I know it probably seems obvious,
but that's just the reality of the way I feel.
So anyway, it's good. Friday is a great day.

Speaker 7 (19:11):
My wife would suggest make yourself a note. And and
if I made myself a note for every time she
said make yourself a note, our.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
House would look like that scene in Uh what was
that all?

Speaker 10 (19:24):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (19:26):
Bruce Almighty? Where to post it? Notes are all over everything? Right,
So you can't make that many notes. You just you
just can't remember everything.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
So yesterday was yesterday.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
It was kind of nice.

Speaker 7 (19:37):
I had to do some work on the septic outside,
and the weather definitely had it was a little nicer, uh,
And and I had the iHeartMedia app. I was outside
listening to your show and catching up and got to
listen to your Finally on Thursday, I got to listen
to your Monday segment with Christopher Smitherman. Man, that dude

(19:58):
is dead on with pretty much everything he says. If
he doesn't get elected as a counselman, there is something
severely wrong with the voters in Cincinnati.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
I don't know that that.

Speaker 7 (20:09):
Guy's got it. He's got to figure it out. If
we would just elect more people like him like that
him where I don't care who it is, if you've
got somebody that's got that kind of information and wisdom
and knowledge and willingness to say what needs to be said,
and he's proven he's willing to do what needs to

(20:30):
be done, not just sit there and say it, because
that's you know, that's a stereotypical politician. Oh they say
all kinds of great stuff, but then you then you
put them to a vote and they don't do what
they're supposed to do.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
So to go along with what what Jay, what Jay
was saying.

Speaker 7 (20:46):
You know, you can always tell what what a Republican
is doing because you just follow the money. Usually their
reason when they do something, it's because of money. So
more than likely this Senate, this bill died in the
Senate because the wrong person stood to make money or
didn't make enough money for this person, or it's usually

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about the money for Democrats, it's whatever the dumbest reason
is whatever the stupidest answer is, that's usually what. Whether
it's the money, or whether it's power, or whether it's whatever.
If it's the dumbest reason, that's usually what the Democrats
go with. So if Jay doesn't mind me stealing his slogan,

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don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Have a great day. You own it, Tom, We all
know you own it. Okay, go to local stories. Let
us see there's no crime in the city of Cincinnati.
We got a guy shot last night Lincoln Heights. It's
about nine pm, fourteen hundred lock of Chicago Avenue of
Oak Park Apartments, shot in the stomachs. According to Dispatch,

(21:52):
no further details regarding the cause or identity of the
individual and whether or not they have a suspect. I
suppose we give any information, Give the police a call.
Twenty three year old man shot three times inside a
vehicle happened guess over Wednesday night. Officers responded to report
of a craft shooting in the fifteen eight hundred block

(22:13):
of Salvia Avenue near Cedar Avenue in College Hill. Oh
I'm sorry. Late Tuesday, just before midnight, Court to Captain
Stephen Bauer found the victim of mail passenger in the
car shot twice in his right leg and once in
the abdomen. Apparently expected to recover. So far, no one
under arrest, at least that for his last reporting over

(22:35):
in Westwood, apparently people woke up to a bunch of
cars being broken into. I got a photograph here of
WCPO reporting smashed front driver's side window, not the only one.
They interviewed Jim Adams, who's a Westwood resident about the
car break ins. Apparently woke up, got a phone call
three o'clock in the morning. Neighbor came home, noticed that

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there was a man walking down the street. He described
that as an abnormal saw his daughter's windows were broken out,
called the police. Police responded quickly and they found out
about twenty different cars got their windows smashed open. Nothing
to see here. Green Hills juveniles won as young as
six six years old accused of causing extensive damage of

(23:18):
the at a country malloys on the Green described as
a country club. Greenhills Police Department shared photos of the damage.
It is extensive. Broke in Emplois on July thirty first.
Juveniles range from age six as I mentioned, fifteen years old,
shattered numerous dinnerware items, plates, glasses, custom decorations, knocked over, furniture, chairs,

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smashed pictures, light fixtures. It's just an awful situation, just
a six through fifteen years old. What are your children
doing right now? Juveniles released to their parents and are
awaiting a court date from him and County Juvenile Court.

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Apparently the two the youngest two will not be prosecuted
because I guess their age, the six year old and
the nine year old five point thirty five right now,
fifty five KRCD talk Station, Happy Birthday, Jeff. Jeff's looking
forward to the next segment because well, he likes John
the Fisherman as much as Joe Strecker does. Be right back,
fifty five KRC dot Com Kelsey Chevrolet Jenna nine. First

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one to weather forecast. Eighty four is going to be
the high today with mostly to partly sunny skies, mostly
katty two, partly sunny, variable cloudiness, few clouds over night
sixty six for the low eighty six to the high
tomorrow partly cloudy, sixty two overnight partly cloudy, and on
Sunday going all the way up to AH the low
of eighty eighty and no stickiness. It says they're on

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the weather forecast yay sixty six right now, but now
it's time for first traffic.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
From the UCL Traffic Center.

Speaker 11 (24:53):
Nearly sixty percent of Americans waiting on an organ transplanner
from multicultural communities get the gift of life, become an
organ donor or explore a living donation, and you see
help dot com slash transplant. Highway traffic in pretty good
shape to start off your Friday morning. One more crew left.
That's West Pound on seventy four Harrison. Right side's blocked.

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You can get by in the left lane without a problem.
Seah ingramon fifty five KRC the talk station.

Speaker 6 (25:20):
Can you play John the Fisherman?

Speaker 2 (25:22):
It is Friday. It is five point thirty nine, coming
up on five forty, so yeah, and I'm sure Jeff
has a smile on his face right now. Five three
two three talk found five fifty on AT and T phones. Okay,

(25:55):
oh yes, it most indeed is Friday. Thank you Joe
Trecker for the wonderful stack is stupid and of course
it being Friday stack and naked stupid. A's this tradition WCA.
A man in Ontario facing charges. Neighbors saw him standing
naked in his front driveway.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Why are you doing?

Speaker 2 (26:12):
I don't know if you'll ever find out me. Wayne
County Sheriff's Office aid forty nine year old Andreas Jay Now,
would you pronounce it vagianos phrasing or vaggianos you decide
rest of August nineteenth. After the incident took place on
August eighth, passes by called nine one one about ten
till five in the afternoon. In the evening after spotting

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him allegedly exposing himself toward the public roadway. Charged with
public lewdness in the first degree and harassment in the
second degree. I'll go with vaggianos. Bagiana's released on the
phrasing parents tickett. He's got a later court date, okay.

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Grammy Award winning rapper taken to the hospital for suspected
overdose after a brief struggle with the police. He now
being held in jail, booked on suspicion of instructing an officer.
Lil naz X, I'm not familiar with the man's work. Rest.
You got all this eight tracks, Joe. He doesn't look

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old enough to have bit around of the era of
eight tracks Anyway arrested yesterday after allegedly charging a police
officer who found him walking in his underwear in Los Angeles.
Officers responded reports of anie, why are you doing that?
Nude guy on Ventura Boulevard in the Studio City neighborhood.
Found the artist, born Montero Lamar Hill all that guy

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round six am after a brief struggle in which he
charged at officers. That's in quote from the police report.
Taking a custody in a hospital for the suspected overdose.
Booked on suspicion of misdemeanor obstructing an officer and held
in jail. Rappers reps didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Video published online TMZ appeared to show the artist in
underwear and boots on the street, at one point placing
a traffic cone on his head. That is a good look, Joe.
It is well here we have an armed naked man
manageail after reportedly forcing his way into two homes and

(28:24):
firing shots, resulting in a standoff. Happen earlier this week,
Clark County Sheriff's Office showed up in spot of the
area of North Houston Pike in US forty Sheriff Christopher Clark,
speaking with local news on the scene, said that a
woman called nine one one reporting a man had been
banging at her front door. Pray said she recognized the
man as our neighbor, Forty seven year old Joseph Vaughan,

(28:46):
opened the door because he said he needed help from
a quote unseen and unknown assailant close quote. That's when
she said. He forced his way into her home. He
was naked, and he had a firearm a's this tradition,
Clark said, did fire off three rounds inside the residence.
She was injured. She was uninjured. He also uninjured. Clark said.

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Before forcing his way into the neighbor's home, Vaughn entered
the home of a family member next door. No one
was in that home, didn't appear. He fired shots inside
there as well. Deputies got there. They were to get
the woman out of the home safely through a bedroom window.
After that, Vaughn came out of the home with the gun.
He dropped it and then charged at deputies. According to Clarke,

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he said, if he used the weapon in a threatening manner,
we would have a different outcome today, but luckily he
did not. He did surrender. Clark said it appeared Vaughn
was having quotes some sort of either intoxication issue or
some sort of mental health issue. Yeah, I'm going with
the former as well. Joe taking him the scene to
the Clark County Jail facing aggravator burglary, burglary with a weapon,

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and abduction charges. Congratulations, let see, oh why not maybe
get through with the naked people here? Fargo man facing
six criminal charges after he reportedly sexually assaulted a woman.
Fargo police called to an active sexual assault with dispatch

(30:14):
saying they heard Hi man saying I'm gonna kill you,
please shut up. Victim exited the residence, showing signs of
physical injury and including redniscance swelling in her eye and forehead.
Police made the way to the residents, found Luis Marilla's
fully unclothed and he wouldn't come out when officer's torn
come out. Officers got Murrellas to come to them, only
to start fighting the officers, pulling away from them and

(30:37):
refusing to comply with demands. Eventually, they put him in handcuffs,
brought him the squad car, and formed one of the
officers he was going to kill his family made several threats,
including telling an officer that he would quote make sure
your family gets f wording murdered not a good thing
to say to a police officer, and telling him he
was marked. Officers put a pair of pants on him

(31:00):
and took him to jail. Victim told police that he
had attempted to touch her and remove her clothes. Despite
telling him to stop, He reportedly grabbed her by the hair,
hit her in the head against the kitchen floor. She
was able to get away and call for help from
the bathroom. Says when she attempted to leave, he was
completely naked and assaulted her again, even threatened to kill her.

(31:21):
He wouldn't provide a statement and was taken to the
Cass County Jail. Charged with attempted gross sexual imposition flonia,
felonious assault, preventing uarrest, two counts of terrorizing, and simple assault.
His preliminary hearing is the first week of October. Case
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All right, riding naked people in the stack is strepid,
but we do have a beef bandit go to Denim Springs, Louisiana.
Beef banded. That's in quotes. I guess that's his name.
Moniker arrested after stealing hundreds of dollars worth of meat

(32:12):
from a Walmart by stuffing it in his pants. What
he's got meat in his pants? Joe livy'son Para. Sheriff's
office dispatched a Wednesday morning about a man who left
Walmart without paying for the meat. He then returned to
do it again. Sheriff Jason Art said. The witnesses report
of the suspect taking off in a black Honda no
license plate. Denham Springs Police Department later spotted and stopped

(32:35):
the vehicle, finding multiple packs of Hamburger meat and Ribbi's.
They determined some of the meat was also stolen from
Sam's Club. Total three hundred dollars worth of meat recovered
but will not be resold. Thank you for letting us
know and assuring the public that the meat that was
in the man's pants would not be put back on
the shelf. Idiot's doing idiot things because they're idiots. What

(32:57):
these days? What three hundred meat dollars worth of meat?
That's what three pounds worth of hamburger Joe.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Fifty seven year old Michael Adrian arrested book into Livingston
Parish Detention Center facing felony theft charges due to his
lengthy criminal record, which includes seventy four prior arrests, twenty
six theft arrests, nine theft convictions, twenty six theft arrests

(33:26):
and only nine convictions. It's not a really good batting average,
is it anyway. A forty three year old English teacher
from Pee Tah Tikvah. This is from the Times of Israel.
I'm gonna just guess this is there, fired after being

(33:48):
convicted by the Civil Service Commission of having a threesome
with two seventeen year old students from her school. Female
teacher has not been named admitted having sex with the
two male students in a plea deal following a month's
long investigation, was of course immediately fired. She'll never be
able to work in education ministry. Again forbidden from working
with children in youth for eight years and unable to

(34:09):
work for the state for three years. Speaking to Hebrew media,
the teacher apologized for the incident, saying it was a
one time thing and that she didn't want to harm
her family. Maybe too late, She said the incident ruined
her life. Yeah News reported criminal investigation opened months ago

(34:29):
but was closed to a lack of criminal guilt. Teacher
told the local news that the prosecutor closed the case
because she understood pretty quickly that the actions were done
with consent and that she was not their direct teacher.
In Israel, legal consent is sixteen, but can be as
low as fourteen if there's a three year age gap

(34:50):
or less. In all parties fully consent. However, Civil Service
Commission tribue a rule that the teacher's actions quote radically
exceeded the basic professional boundaries required of a teacher in
her position close quote because it was a threesome. Verdict added.
The teacher's inappropriate behavior again with smoking with the students
in the school before she started a personal relationship with

(35:12):
the students on social media, inviting them to her home
where they had sex with her, while a third person watched. Hmm,
that was her husband. Education Ministry, so the teacher also
admitted to driving the students the parties that she attended.
Corner to the verdict, this is exceptionally grave behavior that

(35:33):
grossly betrays the public's trust in the whole education system
of particularly that of the parents who entrust their kids
with schools teachers.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
True.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Education Ministry added to the affair that the teacher said
in a hearing that she had sex with the threes
with the students because her husband was in reserve duty
and she felt quote lonely and in crisis close quote HM, hey,
my wife's out of town. I feel lonely and in crisis.

(36:07):
Father of one of the students said he had never
imagine something like this could happen at their kids' school.
We don't know her because she wasn't our son's teacher,
He said, this is just so hard to believe that
the incidents is real. One of the students involved told
the publication the incident was well known around the school
and that everybody talked about it. Quote she flirted with us,

(36:27):
We would smoke with her during recess. We felt like
she was our friend. I don't know a student or
our age. Who wouldn't have sex with a teacher who
looks like that and who initiated the relationship? You know, Ron,
that's truth coming from a seventeen year old boy, I
remember being that age. Five fifty five fifty five KRSD

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Talk station. Well here real quick headline before we depart
and return after the top of the hour. News headline
Christians cool teacher accused of having sex with male student,
This one from Virginia. Arrested on accusation she had sex
with a student thirty four years old. Charged with having
consensual sex with a child fifteen years or older.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Every week five fifty five fifty five KR City Talk
Station Tech Friday. But dayve had are coming up at
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Bottom of our Tech Friday, bathroom smoke detector could be
an audio bug.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Team Hacker showed it could. Alliance Life says data on
over a million US customers was stolen in every each
and China developing a robotic artificial womb. Talked about that
earlier this week in the fifty five Karosee Morning Show.
Brandon Nixon, he's running for Cincinna City Council. He'll return
to the fifty five Casey Morning Show. He'll be in
studio at seven point thirty. Citizen Watchdog Toddzenzer love that guy,

(38:16):
absolutely brilliant and he is keeping his hawk eye on
everything going on in the City of Cincinnati, most notably
from a financial standpoint where the money's being spended. Who
are these non governmental organizations that seem to get so
much the City of Cincinnati's taxpayer dollars while they struggle
to come up with a solution to fix potholes. Talked
about that yesterday five thousand dollars prize winner. If you

(38:38):
have a team that can figure out a better way
to solve our pothole problem in the City of Cincinnati,
which if the city's doing this, and they hired some
outside consulting firm to organize this project, I think for
the sum of forty thousand dollars, So they're soliciting ideas
from you, which I think is an absolute, outright acknowledgment
that the City of Cincinnati doesn't know jack squat about

(39:04):
how to how to handle the problem. They don't know
so much. They're asking you please. Yeah, and it's probably
a better place to find a solution. Government solutions usually
are well inefficient at minimum. So we'll see if Brandon
Nixon has any ideas on that. Todd's ins or may
chime in on that. But I thought it particularly comical

(39:25):
that Mayor Aftad provol quoted about this four hundred million
dollar hole they've dug from themselves, that's how farther behind
in road repair, and that he inherited it. So that's
why I went through the litany of all Democrat mayors
going all the way back to like nineteen ninety. It's
been run by Democrats all that time. Yeah, he inherited
it from his own party's leadership five three, seven, four

(39:48):
nine to fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to
three talk found five fifty on AT and T phones
rather than okay, great Trump's. They threw out Trump's four
to fifty million dollars almost five on hundred dollars civil
fraud a judgment, although they left the finding a liability
in place. That's a great story. Congratulations Donald Trump and
the legal team. It's going to be appealed to Tsia

(40:09):
James as well as Trump are going to appeal it.
He's going to appeal the guilty verdict. But the court
eliminated the entire penalty, so it's down to zero, so
it's still going to be litigated. That's an important story.
But I kind of wanted to continue the theme of
the stack is stupid this morning because Jay earlier in
the program, I believe he brought up these six hundred

(40:32):
million dollars in the context of some other topic that
we're giving to the Cleveland Browns, you and I the
taxpayers of the state of Ohio. Yeah, it's in the budget.
We've been talking about that quite a bit. It's insulting.
I think, Yeah, we don't have an active monitoring program
for ankle bracelets. No, we pushed that off. Kick that
can down the road. But we'll spend six hundred million

(40:52):
dollars for the Cleveland Browns. Parenthetically, the owner of the
Cleveland Browns, guy named Jimmy Haslam. You've probably heard of him.
You know how much his net worth is. I just
looked it up. If you read it on the internet,
you know it's true. Anyway, widely reported the Jimmy Hanslimbs
net worth six or seven point eight billion dollars. Terry

(41:16):
Pagola Buffalo Bill's owner Piker, he's only worth seven point
six billion dollars. And I bring him up because apparently
he's been in hot water on social media. His luxury yacht,
reportedly worth one hundred million dollars, came cruising on in
in the port of Newport, Rhode Island. They got video

(41:38):
of this, which went viral on social media. Bills fans
obviously upset, why well doesn't this have a familiar ring?
Bills are in the process of building a two point
one billion dollars stadium. Brands banking New taxpayers in the
state of New York are providing you can't make this
up six hundred million million dollars, and the taxpayers of

(42:02):
Erie County, where the stadium will be built. Are paying
two hundred and fifty million dollars? Isn't that what the
Hamilton County taxpayers are expected to pay for the the
pay cord Joe two hundred and fifty million. Isn't that
our slice of the pie. So we have sort of
an interesting, almost identical factual scenario. I wonder if Jimmy
Haslam has a one hundred million dollar yard, Well, maybe
he's got one that's bigger than that Breitbart reporting. To

(42:27):
make matters worse, the massive stadium project, valued at two
point one billion dollars, is already five hundred and sixty
million dollars over budget. Yeah, follow up story from earlier,

(42:47):
I guess it was last week. Ohio man who was
arrested for throwing a sex toy that struck a twelve
year old girl during a New York Liberty game earlier
this month has now been charged with two counts of assault.
Thirty two year old Charles Burgess, the guy that threw
the lime green sex toy onto the state, actually the
toy on top of a twelve year old girl, had

(43:09):
turned himself into authority's Wednesday this week, released without having
a post bail and without an ankle monitor. One fan
quote of saying the object was thrown from someone much
higher up, but definitely in the same direction. When I landed,
the girl started screaming slash freaking out understandably for like

(43:30):
thirty seconds and got the attention to most people within
the surrounding rows. On the same day he chucked the
sex toy, another fan threw one onto the Fever Sparks
game during the that struck Indiana star Sophie Cunningham. It's
an ever growing trend. It's gone viral, and here's one

(43:54):
related to absolutely nothing, but again continuing a Friday morning
theme carrying over the stack is stupid. Are you ready
for this? Rewind, which is a company that makes snacks.
It's a fairly new company, kind of like Doritos. They
have a brand new flavor. They announced battery flavored corn chips.

(44:16):
Battery flavored inspiration. What you may recall doing as a
little person, a young person, The sort of the taste
and feel of the tingle you get when you stick
your tongue on a nine volte battery sounds appealing, doesn't it.

(44:36):
Cord of the news released from the company Rewind, Millions
across the world have been tempted to touch their tongues
to a battery. Pop legend Britney Spears was even asked
once in an interview whether she had done so, resulting
in a viral video clip. Rewind now offers a snack
of a way to revisit the one of the nineties
weirdest shared experiences. No battery required and if you want,

(44:57):
these are apparently only currently available to Dutch folks. Certain
Dutch retailers are caring, but if you want to get
a sample, you can. You just got to work through
their Instagram site. Spokesperson from Fox Business sampling up called
it a very hard hitting, acidic zing to the tongue,

(45:18):
follow up by some salty metallic notes yuck. According to
you rewind, they say the chips are entirely safe food
grade and contain no actual battery components, concluding with we
do not recommend orcandone licking, biting, or otherwise ingesting real batteries.

(45:38):
Oh well, thanks for that, And since I mentioned Sarah Herringer,
I want to let folks know and I'm sorry that
I didn't mention this one earlier. Someone I suppose a
family friend, Rachel Cruz Rogers, organized a GoFundMe page. It's

(45:58):
called support for Patrick Herringer's Family, and the goal originally
was twenty thousand dollars and I am so pleased to
see and report that so far Dave Ray sixty eight thousand,
one hundred and seventy three dollars for Patrick Herringer's family.
So I think that's a beautiful thing. And of course

(46:20):
the whole community has risen in support for her and
her cause, which at least presently trying to deal with
a crime in downtown Cincinnati, but also the idea of
getting this legislation passed Patrick Herringer's Act, and we can
do all we can in our power. They'll be contacting
elected officials. Jay made a phone call. He can do it.
So can you see if we can't get this thing

(46:43):
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had He coming up in next segment. I always enjoy
hearing from Dave A little or well. Report Uh, you
may recall it and you probably read about it. A
hard Gender sing twenty eight year old Hard Gender Sing
enter the US illegally and was driving a commercial truck
with a trailer on a floor to turnpike when he
did an illegal U turn in an authorized area, resulting

(48:43):
in a mini van slamming right into it and all
three of the minivan's passengers Dad. It was later reported
h he did not pass English and road test before
obtaining a commercial driver's license. Granted a full commercial driver's
license in Washington in July of twenty three, despite not

(49:05):
being legally eligible given a limited term commercial driver's license
in California in twenty twenty four, DHS Assistant Secretary for
Public Affairs said because Gavin Newsom suggested that Donald Trump
administration actually issued him a work visa now a. Tricia

(49:27):
McLoughlin of DHS said, well, he was denied a work
permit in September twenty twenty under the Trump administration, but
a year later, or not even a year later, in
June of twenty twenty one Biden administration was when he
was granted the work permit. So on the heels of
that and so many stories involving illegal immigrants who can't

(49:48):
read English and ergo can't read the signs, getting involved
in accidents, as well as just erratic driving generally speaking.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday that effective immediately,
he's not issuing worker visas for commercial drivers for illegal
immigrant commercial drivers, saying the increasing number of foreign drivers

(50:10):
operating large tractor trailer trucks on US roads is endangering
American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers. Oh
that's good. Two good reasons, keeping you and I safe
and of course preserving jobs for Americans who are here legally.
What else is going on? Supreme Court yesterday major victory

(50:31):
for the Trump administration, cleared the administration to cut more
than seven hundred and thirty eight million dollars going to
the National Institute's of Health research grants that are tied
to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and LGBTQ issues. So
that's a lot of money to go out for DEI

(50:52):
and LGBTQ issues at the NIH just one little slice
segment of the government decision over rules of the lower
courts courts. There was a initial hearing in the District
Court filed by an appeal or first circuit upholding the
district court decision, which called the administration's actions arbitrary and
capricious and saying the NIH had failed to provide a
reasoned explanation for cutting the grants. The American Public Health Association,

(51:17):
not upset or very upset about the cuts, said halting
these grants would devastate biomedical research across the country, disrupting
clinical trials and delaying urgently needed discovery. Really, these are
grants for DEI issues. I don't think that has any
to do with biomedical research unless you can figure out
a way to connect the two. And maybe they did.

(51:38):
They make up stupid studies all the time to fund
with you and my taxpayer dollars. Hmm, well this would
be accurate. AP Associated Press called the ruling and letting
Trump cut this money an anti DEI push. Yeah, exactly.

(52:00):
Trum Trump administration campaigned on getting rid of this DEI
and woke nonsense. They are making good on the pledge
from the campaign trail, something all politicians don't do. Quite often,
politicians will say one thing and go out in the
world and do something either the pole or opposite, or
not do anything about it. You cannot say that about
Donald Trump. And finally, New York State judge last year

(52:23):
ordered Donald Trump and his business associates to pay four
if fifty million dollars for alleged civil fraud. That will
be the one brought by Letitia James claiming that Donald
Trump built a bank by overstating the value of his
property when the bank itself said no, we got paid
back and we're interested in doing more business with Donald Trump.
No damage, no justiciable controversy, a guilty finding in her

(52:44):
issuing a penalty of five hundred million dollars, Nope. New
York Court of Appeals yesterday said now courts disgorgement order
which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars
of the State of New York is excessive fine that
violates the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. That
in the Leit opinion. There were several opinions issued, totaling

(53:04):
three hundred and twenty three pages five Justice, but they
all came to the same conclusion with regard to that
for different legal reasons. Two judges found the lower court's
work so flawed that they wanted to give Trump a
new trial. Two of the judges found the Attorney General
acted well with interlawful power and vindicated the public interest,

(53:25):
but they think the monetary penalty was unconstitutional. So again,
some think that it was okay as far as the
action goes. Some say no. But regardless, he no longer
is obligated to pay that money, so he is very happy.
He was gloating on social media. David Friedman, the judge
who issued a partial descent, hre the must to say
about it. He said, Letitia James ultimateal was not make

(53:46):
market hygiene, but political hygiene any with the deroualment of
President's Trump political career and the destruction of his real
estate business. That's in the opinion. He wrote that it
was an unprecedented and political giving Letitia James essentially limitless
power to prosecute her political enemies, pointing out that Trump's

(54:06):
business deals involved sophisticated priorties who profited without harming the public,
and concluded he would reverse the judgment and dismiss the
complaint Section sixty three twelve. He pointed out, this is
the section that was brought filed under. He's never been
used in the way it's being used in this case,
namely to attack successful private commercial transactions negotiated at arms
length between highly sophisticated parties fully capable of monitoring and

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defending their own interest. All parties to these private transactions
profited handsomely from the deals from which there was no
discernible negative effect on the public interest. Yeah, that's the
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You on the show. Always my pleasure to be here. Brian.

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So someone decided to hack a school bathroom smoke detector.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
Well, let's define hack.

Speaker 12 (56:01):
In this case, someone discovered that these smoke detectors slash
vape detectors could be used by hackers as listening devices.
And this is my problem with so many of these
Internet of Things devices we're talking about all.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
The time, Brian, I'm just gonna joke and see you
never talk about Internet of things device.

Speaker 12 (56:18):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm a big fan of the
Orwellian spy devices that everyone keeps adding to their business
and home networks that are easily hackable and then have
this sort of additional fun capability. So in this particular case,
this is apparently a popular model again of some sort
of smoke detector slash vape detector. You know, it makes

(56:39):
me think of the good old days, Brian, like the
Motley Crue cover of smoking in the boys room. Yeah,
you're old enough like me to remember that sort of thing.
I'm sure, because you know now to call on the
National Guard and drone you. I'm sure if you did
something like that, oh, without question.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
You know, in the old days in junior high school
at Dell High Junior High you go across the street
to Shylight O Church and smoke in the Shiloh Church
front yard and then come back to class. I didn't
do it. Yeah, that's that's what That's what the burners did.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
Yeah, you just you you might have known he had
a friend that did it. Yeah, and they told you
about it, right. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (57:14):
So uh, I think this is an interesting story because again,
so this this is you know, a kid student there
at the school who quote hacked it. Now again, he
was just kind of fooling around trying to see what
he could discover on the school's network, uh, and discovered
this device and then you know, eventually kind of made
this conclusion.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
But you know, this is from the Wired article.

Speaker 12 (57:37):
The kid was connected to the Wi Fi quote using
the school network as a lab unquote right, just spotted
a handful of devices identified as IP Video Corporation.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
Uh, did a closer look, did some.

Speaker 12 (57:49):
Googling, did some searching, and then realized that this thing,
uh looks like it looks like a smoke detector, a
bunch of features, sensors and stuff, the kid says. And
then you know, I realized it has a microphone in it,
which means and I people have to understand Brian. I
know we've talked about this before, Like these incredibly small
video cameras now right, which are easily hidden anywhere. You know,

(58:13):
cameras are very small, microphones are very small. If you
have a device that has power and has an Internet
connection or network connection of any sort, it's potentially a
spy device. I'm not saying it's intended for that purpose,
but I'm saying the person that deploys it, and or
anyone that can get to it could theoretically turn it into.

Speaker 4 (58:35):
A spy device.

Speaker 12 (58:36):
Yeah, and that's you know, my issue with so called
smart devices Internet of things is twofold. I've said this
to you who knows how many times of the last
ten plus years. All of these things have their wrong
incentive for you as a consumer. You know, they're shiny,
they're cool, they're convenient, they're usually cheap because the people

(58:57):
selling you these things don't care about your privacyecurity. They
care about market share, ease of use, and speed to
market and then whatever data they can collect from it.
In some cases, they're virtually giving these things away because
they're more interested in your data. They make them difficult
to use. You won't use it if they you know. So,

(59:18):
do people know how to change the default password that
anyone could look up and figure out how to access
that device. Really not do they know how to secure
the device correctly? Above and beyond that, do they know
how to update the device. So when the manufacturer pats
as a critical vulnerability that might allow a hacker to
turn that microphone on and listen to you, probably not

(59:39):
after two or three years is the manufacturer still even
making software updates. That reminds me, you know Windows ten
real quick, because it's related. It's going into life in October.
October fourteenth is the last day for Windows ten. Now
your Windows ten will still work, but you won't get
any software updates for Microsoft after that. And as time
wears on, that creates a giant security vulnerability for your organization.

(01:00:02):
So you should be looking into that. You should be
caring about that. But I just want to tie it
back to this. Do you think that people making this
thing are going to be putting out software updates ten
fifteen years later?

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
No, they're not.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
Well they're not, Dave, And I just cut to the Jacier.
That's a device that is not marketed as having these
the nefarious capabilities. I just pulled up Amazon, I typed
in smoke detector camera, and here I am staring at
a whole bunch of them. Intelligence smoke camera supports remote
monitoring with mobile phone with audio TANADP, high definition Wi

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Fi and suitable for home security. There is you can
buy one already prepared to spy on people. Creepy absolutely jobs.
They're cheap too, I'm sure, and then one real ninety
six cents and before we're out of time.

Speaker 12 (01:00:51):
So you know, if that's your intent and it's in
your house or whatever, great, but think about that as
your Airbnb visitor.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Amen, brother, that's that thought certainly has crossed my mind
in the past.

Speaker 12 (01:01:04):
Yeah, and there are ways to detect these things. But
my point is Internet of Things is not inherently bad.
The problem is the incentives behind these things. It's all
a privacy and security dumpster fire. You should eliminate as
much of this stuff from your home and your business
as possible, because you are creating giant privacy and security
risks for yourself, your family, your colleagues, your business, et cetera.

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One if you have KARCD talk station. Brian Thomas, Dave
had our interest I dot com where you find Dave
and the crew. Alliance Life had a bit of a
breach problem they have well they say, everybody had their
information hacked in this breach. Dave, What's what's this all about?

Speaker 12 (01:02:52):
Yeah, it's looking that way. And Brian, this this is
story is interesting on two fronts. It really speaks to
although they don't address it necessarily.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
This article this way.

Speaker 12 (01:03:02):
This is from tech Radar Pro And again just a
reminder of folks, you know, if you want to read
these articles, if you want to get more detail, each
week after the show on LinkedIn on a blog, I
post the actual articles that were the basis for this.
So if you want the additional detail, you can get
it there. So Alliance Life pretty good sized company, they
got a lot of money under management. They were breached

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but to a third party. And that's where I was
going with this before. You know, increasingly companies are not
hosting their data on their own servers on site. They're
turning to third party platforms aka the cloud, and while
in general I think that's a good thing, you have
to understand when you use any cloud based service, there's

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this idea of the shared responsibility model of the cloud.
This is a well known industry concept to nerds like me,
and it basically says, when you use any kind of
third party service, there's certain things they're responsible for and
certain things you're responsible for as their customer.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
At the end of the day, you're always.

Speaker 12 (01:04:01):
Responsible and accountable for the data you put in their systems. Right,
you read their terms of service, you read their privacy policy,
all that stuff. It's usually a confuse opole. You don't
understand it. You put your stuff out there.

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:04:14):
If they make multifacture authentication available to you and you
don't use it and you get breached, that's on you, right,
it was there, you chose not to use it. We've
seen this before with Snowflake, which is a big data
analysis company. Companies like AT and T used this platform
had data breached. That's apparently what happened here. Alliance was

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using a cloud based CRM system. They don't specify which
one think Salesforce, HubSpot, etc. And They don't explain in
this particular article exactly how the bad guys come in,
But if I had to guess, Brian, I would say
probably whoever put that data out there in the CRM
there was at least one account. Because a lot of

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people use cloud based CRMs. I'm not suggesting you should
not this right. Salesfor is very popular. HubSpot, great product.
There are lots of these things out there, and I
would argue for most businesses it's much better to use
one of these products than to try to build your
own or hosts on your own platform.

Speaker 6 (01:05:13):
Right.

Speaker 12 (01:05:15):
But probably bad password, no MFA hackers get in and
then just extract all the information. So when you're using
these cloud based platforms, you have to think about third
party risk, right, because at the end of the day,
nothing's going to happen to this CRM company.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
It's going to be back on you, right, And so in.

Speaker 12 (01:05:35):
This case, specifically here, it looks like about one point
four million customers records we're stolen. Contains sensitive personally identifiable information.
I mean, you know, if you think about your average
CRM system and the kind of information depending on exactly
how it's being used, could have security numbers driver's license
numbers other things they would need, especially as an insurance

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company doesn't specify.

Speaker 4 (01:05:57):
So before we run out of time.

Speaker 12 (01:05:59):
You know, if you're an Alliance customer, you should be
much more wary about anything you get purported to be
from them. Hackers will often leverage this kind of attack,
even if it's not the people that stole your data,
to send you things claiming to be Alliance.

Speaker 4 (01:06:13):
Oh, you know, you should do this, You should do that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
And it says that in the article records can contain
more than enough sense of information for hackers to launch
highly personalized, successful phishing campaigns. That's exactly what they do.
They say, Oh, look we've got all your information. We
are from Alliance. Look we know you're social security and
of your birthday and all this information. So it gives
you a sense that you're actually dealing with the actual
company and therefore might be more agreeable to clicking on

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the link they sent or otherwise getting ripped off and
real quick.

Speaker 12 (01:06:43):
Even if you don't get something from Alliance, they could
sell this data to other hackers, pretend they could. Your point,
and my point is, be very wary of anything that
claims to come from Alliance. Now confirm it out of band,
call a number on a piece of paper you have
from them.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
If it's them.

Speaker 12 (01:06:57):
Be wary if you're one of these customers of anything
that you get now, because who knows who has this
information and how they might use it to create very
legitimate fishing. They also might use it to take out
credit in your name or you know, the identity theft
type ACKs. And you know, if you get a piece
of paper from Alliance in the mail telling you you've
been breached, do what they tell you. Sign up for

(01:07:17):
the free you know, data or identity theft monitoring, and
then you know. Brian sadly, this is just another example
of why I'm While I'm generally anti regulation, we need
a national data privacy law with teeth so that companies
are heavily incentivized to not allow this to happen, because
at the end of the day, as a consumer, we're
the ones that suffer from these things. We're the ones

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that ultimately have our money stolen, have our identity stolen,
because all this data is out there. One last point,
if you want to know if you've been in any
data breach, check out have I been poned? I'll put
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see if they show up in any of these.

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
Breaches, and it probably will. Probably you're at your LinkedIn
idea or your LinkedIn account is what is it Dave
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Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
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Speaker 12 (01:09:25):
You know, Brian, had I been thinking, I would have
had Joe look up the Who song from Who Are You?

Speaker 4 (01:09:30):
Nine oh five?

Speaker 12 (01:09:32):
Here's a here's a quick lyrics from it. My name
is nine oh five and I've just become alive. I'm
the newest populator on the planet we call Earth. My
mother was an incubator. The father father was the contents
of a test tube in the ice box. So, so
who was predicting this all the way back in nineteen
seventy eight? And U, this is a wild and creepy

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story now. Honestly, a lot of times, Brian, you can't
really believe this stuff coming out of China. True, you know,
they make all kinds of announcements and that breakthroughs and
AI and QUANM computing and so forth, and then you
know it never you never see the results of it.
But that said, you know, there's reporting that apparently they've
built a robot that has a quote woomb quote unquote

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in it. And yeah, apparently, you know, you can fertilize
an egg and put it in this womb and carry
a baby to term. And it sounds kind of crazy
and weird to me and creepy and uh, perhaps a
sign of where this is all going again. Yeah, he's

(01:10:37):
been a Hoo fan. Yeah, listen to that song back
in the day and thought, well, that could never happen.

Speaker 4 (01:10:43):
Well here we are.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
Here we are roughly fifty years later, Brave new Wor.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
Yeah, it's it's some wild stuff again. You know how
real is this?

Speaker 12 (01:10:52):
Well we'll see, uh, But you know, they say it
costs around one thousand or one hundred thousand one or
however you pronounce that, which is around thirteen thousand, seven
hundred US dollars or to me, or more.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Importantly, it's fifty five thousand shekels. I can't believe they
put the cost of this in shels.

Speaker 12 (01:11:13):
Well, and see that also makes me question the reporting
because that is such a weird thing.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
Well, maybe they were thinking about Life of Brian and
the haggling, you know, co me life story.

Speaker 12 (01:11:26):
That's such a classic movie. But it's also a little
hard for me to get my head around. Could you
really and now maybe, but could you really build a
robot that would have this capability? And you know, again
the term robot is so overplayed now, I mean, you know,
is this thing going to be up walking around like
a human person with a baby in it? I kind

(01:11:46):
of doubt it. The article doesn't really get into that
level of detail. But however, you define robot in this context,
you know, building something that could actually carry a baby
to term in nine months for fourteen thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
Find that a little hard to believe.

Speaker 12 (01:12:01):
Well, now again a minute, you know, but but there
are you know, people claiming this this is where a
lot of this sort of stuff is headed, and uh,
it's it's pretty wild. Supposedly they're going to have their
first prototype in the coming year.

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
You know, we'll see. I'm not convinced, but well, and
you're going to have a baby.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
I mean, if you pull it out of a box
where it's been just dating or or a robot, as
the case may be, that baby is going to be
just dating in a condition that's not truly human. There's
not going to be that interaction between mother and child
during the growth and development of the child, which I
think is probably profound in terms of how that child
turns out. You know, the just the and and and

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the connection women have with their children for having carried them,
determined giving birth to them, that is eliminated. I'm not
sure that they would have that bonding that they that
immediate love and concern and caring for This baby was
just kind of handed to him from from a box.
I don't know, it seems seems creepy.

Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
I agree with you, Brian, it's weird and creepy.

Speaker 12 (01:13:07):
And you know, one of the reasons why they purportedly
this is a good idea is that, you know, removes
the suffering.

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
Of pregnancy for women and so forth. I'm not a woman.
I do have four kids. I'm not a woman.

Speaker 12 (01:13:22):
I can't speak to that, but I can say that,
you know, for all the reasons you've just described, and
I can. I would bet you if you got my
wife Leslie down here and you asked her, she would
do it all again because she loves our four children.

Speaker 4 (01:13:35):
Yeah, you know, so, I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:13:37):
It's it's weird, it's creepy, and and so much of
the stuff that we're talking about nowadays comes to me
from the bucket of just because you can do something
doesn't mean you should, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
Going back to Internet of Things devices, Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
That's great, great putting it all right back together, Brian.

Speaker 12 (01:13:54):
Take your Internet of Things garbage out your room, but
sweeper your ring doorbells.

Speaker 4 (01:13:59):
Smash it the hammer. You'll thank me later.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
Dave Hatter, always a distinct pleasure to have you on.
Thanks again. Intrust it dot com to find Dave and
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I'll look forward to next Friday and another edition of
the segment which I dearly love. I hope you have
a great weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
Thanks Brian, always my pleasure. Hope you and Joe and
all your listeners have a great weekend. Talk to you
next week.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
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there is no justifiable reason for that, And I'm really
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He said, well, she's a lawyer. I said, yeah, well
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talk kind of interesting here. We had a local ice ray.
You hear that top of the UR news in Butler county.
I suppose not surprising that we might have one. Courting
a figures released from the Pew Research Center earlier this week,
just a couple of days ago, they looked at the
rate at which Biden increased illegal aliens over a two
year window. They looked at calendar year twenty twenty one,

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the first year of his administration through twenty twenty three,
and it's pointed out, and here's the problem that I've
been focusing on now, I the packing of swing states. Now,
it's one thing to pack swing states, but remember we're
talking about the number of representatives you have in the House.
Representatives that includes the illegal immigrant population. And I've noted that,

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in spite of the fact that Texas received, according to
Pew Research, four hundred and fifty thousand illegal aliens still
living there, with that two year period, they exported a
whole bunch of them. They were putting them on buses,
putting them on airplanes, sending them off the city. The
sanctuary city shot Chicago, for example. In New York. Everyone
expressed outrage, and I thought to myself, you know, behind

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the scenes on that, I think the Republican governors who
are doing that, sending these illegal immigrants to Blue sanctuary
cities were kind of maybe doing them a favor, not
from a financial standpoint or economic standpoint, but because that
increases the population, which of course gives them a likelihood
or a better chance of increasing the number of representatives

(01:18:31):
they have now. It also helped water down the mass
exodus from the Blue States, which we've been talking about
for a long time. California lost more than a million
people because well, it's California. It's like bed bath and beyond,
say and the other day. They're not going to open
a new store in California during their bankruptcy reorganization because

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it's just too impossible to do business there. Too much regulation,
too much crime, on and on and on. So that's
why a lot of people left. You pad that loss
with a bunch of illegal immigrants. But Swing state's bit
of a different thing. So Florida, for example, So it's
illegal alien population grow by seven hundred thousand folks. Again,

(01:19:15):
accorded to a Pew research, Georgia's drumped one hundred thousand. Pennsylvania,
Michigan both kind of swinging yeah, eighty thousand additional illegal
aliens in each state. North Carolina one hundred thousand, and
here in state of Ohio, seventy thousand were added again
over those two years. Now presumably more showed up in
the Latin the following couple of years in the Biden administration.

(01:19:37):
The PEW just didn't do the numbers on that. Arizona
up fifty thousand undocumented or illegal immigrants, depending on your
favorite term, Nevada, Wisconsin thirty thousand each, Colorado forty thousand,
Texas as I mentioned, four hundred and fifty thousand in
that two year period. In New Jersey up one hundred

(01:19:58):
and fifty thousand illegal immigrants in that same two year period.
So how this ultimately shakes out when we finally get
the next census remains to be seen. But then again,
there's this other component. And you heard me mention yesterday.
You probably heard it a million times over the past
couple of days. The number of Democrats, or the number
of individuals identifying as Democrats is down dramatically more than

(01:20:22):
two point one with Republican party affiliation up two point
four million people. And you look at the numbers, and
you look at the racial makeup of these various voting blocks.
The Democrats are counting on all these illegal immigrants. Ultimately
someday when they get their dream and they are sworn
in as citizens pathway to citizenship. That's always on their
minds because they presume that every single one of these

(01:20:44):
people is going to vote Democrat. They're the ones that
fought for them, They're the ones that had open borders.
The Democrats of the reason they're even in the United
States in the first place, that's going to buy and votes.
And I think there's something solid that could be said
about that theory. But also we saw what the Trump
election in twenty four that a lot of these historically
Democrat voting blocks moving on over to the conservative side

(01:21:05):
of the ledger. That was twenty twenty four before the
most recent data regarding party affiliation came out, reflecting that, Yeah,
there has been a sizable shift to the Republican side
of the ledger. And you can come up with a
million reasons why that might be. But I think it's
pretty obvious to me. What did Trump run on. He
ran on secure borders, he ran on you know, crime,

(01:21:28):
he ran on promising to do all kinds of things,
getting rid of DEI rejecting the woke mentality across the
board generally speaking, And do you think there's anything more
than this socialist communists and woke ideology crap that the
Democrats have become weed to that has driven people away.
More than that they lost a whole bunch of young men. No,

(01:21:52):
having been through these period of time where I was
a young man, you know, I wouldn't. I mean the
idea that this wolk ideology that we're supposed to embrace,
the concept up that a man can simply call himself
a woman and we're supposed to agree that, yes, well
he's transformed, he's now a woman. That's insanity. Yet they
fight for this all the time. Normal people don't buy

(01:22:14):
into that. And I would say normal people that Democrats. Yeah,
there's a whole swath of sort of middle of the
road Democrats. You know, it's like, uh, what what does
my party stand for? Mom?

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
DOMI in New York.

Speaker 2 (01:22:30):
I'm not a communist, I'm a Democrat, but the party
shifted so far left, you know, Democrats socialist. Well, I
think you know, when you when you shine a light
on what the hell does democrat socialists mean? It's just
clinging on to a traditionally perceived to be a Okay, Party,

(01:22:53):
Democrat Party and sticking that word socialist on it. What
does it mean to be a Democrat? You can ask
the same thing about Republicans. I always thought Republicans were
fiscal responsibility, limited government, free market. Boy, have I been
stabbed in the back by the Republican Party a lot
over the years. Whatever happened to fiscal responsibility? By number one?
Beef with the Republican Party?

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
What's what the.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
Republican Party would give six hundred million dollars to a
guy who owns a football team and he's worth what
did I say? It was seven plus billion dollars or
something like that. Okay, so yeah, we've got our problems
on the Republican side of the ledger too. But what
is a Democrat? It's a moving target, always has been.
You know, there's people on the far right of the
Democrat curve. There's people who are communists in the Democrat Party.

(01:23:35):
It's the one big tent created by this two party
system we have. I happen to be a little lot
of libertarian. The capital of a libertarian party can't get
any traction because of the two party system. They're viewed
as spoilers. Oh my god, you're gonna spoil the vade.
You can't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:23:49):
You need to run.

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
Okay, fine, But because we live in a two party system,
and because the Democrats have shifted so far to the left,
people have left the party. It doesn't shock anybody who
just gives it a moment's worth of attention. Me included,
why did Republicans gain so many Well, because they're reaching

(01:24:13):
out to the middle class, they're trying to provide some
middle class relief. They're tough on border issues. A lot
of people love that their own neighborhoods overwhelmed with illegal immigrants.
You got homeless encampments, you got hotels that charge used
to charge four hundred dollars a night being filled with
illegal immigrants who are living there for free. That's rather
insulting to the American taxpayer. How is it that I'm

(01:24:34):
not living here for free? How is it they get
affordable housing when they're not even American citizens? On and
on and on, so and then I see that, you know,
Pambody announced yesterday that six hundred and thirty arrest and
eighty six illegal guns were seized in Washington, d C.
Amid the outrage expressed by so many people on the

(01:24:55):
left that Donald Trump's actually trying to save d C
from itself. And if you lived in d C and
as a consequence of what Donald Trump did, homicides in
the city have gone down to zero over the past
week and a half, violent crime down by twenty two percent,
carjackings are down by eighty three percent, and robbery's down
forty six percent. If I'm a resident of that community,

(01:25:17):
that makes me happy. And I know people want to say,
oh my god, jack booted thugs and all the president
wants to take over declare Marshall law in every city. Now,
DC's a horse of a different color. You know, a
lot of control. Congress and the President have a ton
of control over Washington, DC. And you know, I don't
think he can send the troops into Chicago. I don't

(01:25:38):
think he can send the troops into New York City,
even though, again going back to the point of what's
happened in Washington, DC, filled with a bunch of Democrats,
like ninety five percent, a lot of whom are happy
that he did this because they can now feel like
they can safely walk outside. And I imagine a whole
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without worried about being well, carjacked, victim of a violent crime, anything.
They would be happy about it, I imagine. Is it
a good idea for him to do them a service
and do that? Probably not worth the legal headache and
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Fifty five KRCD talk station, Happy Friday. After this segment,
Brandon Nixon. He's a candidate for city council. He's been
in the studio before. He is transitioning to Republican. He's
one of the Democrats that was lost, so he's running
for SINCEI city council. Brand is already outside waiting to
join the program. In the meantime, over to the phones,
we go, Sue a Mississippi. James has got today. Welcome back,

(01:28:30):
my friend. It's always good hearing from you.

Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
Do come in peace, love everybody, and there's.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
Nothing you can do about it, like your message.

Speaker 5 (01:28:40):
All right, Two quick points.

Speaker 10 (01:28:42):
Now, I would say the Democrats were using an old,
outdated socialism.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
Program, so they gotta change a program.

Speaker 5 (01:28:54):
All right. Now, looking in the sixties when the Civil
Rights Bill was passed and a lot of that led to,
you know, a lot of.

Speaker 10 (01:29:03):
Giveaway program Firman action, quotas, consent decree.

Speaker 5 (01:29:10):
My question is what what did your parents teach you
about those programs? And what did how did you teach
your key? It's what would say, it's your key, it's
about those programs.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
It's interesting that that is a conversation that would come
up in It seems to me in context like if
you encounter a racial situation, or if you're watching television
and there's a news story on about one of those programs.
In my family, we talked about politics all the time,
and I can see that maybe would have come up.
But you know, those programs implemented the sixty four sixty

(01:29:44):
five time frame. I was born in sixty five, so
to the extent they were being talked about, I remember
in the background hearing conversations about bussing, for example, because
I might have gotten caught up in that at one point,
and I remember my parents concerned about me having an
hour on a bus going across town whatever. But I
wasn't involved in those conversations because I didn't have any contacts.
I was only I was less than ten years old,

(01:30:07):
so probably didn't really have any conversations about those topics
because you know, race never came up. I wasn't taught
to hate people based upon the color of their skin.
I wasn't around people who expressed that kind of opinion,
or at least maybe maybe I encountered one occasionally, but
it just wasn't something that will be in a springboard
for to discuss, James, at least that's my world. Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:30:29):
And then now you as a dad, with that, you
teach your keys about them.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
Well, I mean we were we're you love everybody. I
kind of grew up with that old uh what is it?
H It never meant. I didn't like kind of attitude.
You know, you don't hate. You approach every situation with
an open mind. You don't draw conclusions before you have
the information, logic, reason. I mean our kids were surrounded

(01:30:55):
by logic and reason because both mom and dad think
of everything from a logical and reason standpoints. So I
knowing the way my kids are today, James, I think
it worked. Must have rubbed off because they're good kids.

Speaker 5 (01:31:07):
Okay, Yeah, I'll just question and you know, see what
different people was taught.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
Just a little survey I'm doing. Yeah, Well, you know,
I suppose on one level you can if you're not
talking about it. I mean, we didn't experience any racial tensions.
You know, there was no race riots and things of
that nature. So again there's no springboard to talk about it.
And if you just don't talk about it, if you
don't raise the specter of why someone dislikes someone else

(01:31:36):
because of the color of their skin, you just accept
everybody who they are. They're not really different. They're a
human being. They're living on this planet just like you
and I. They live in our night neighborhood, just like
you and I. Why would you single someone out and
raise the specter of racism or maybe to the extent
there's people who dislike someone because of their religion, like
anti semitism. You know, you're you're born and raised as

(01:32:00):
a child who doesn't even know that that kind of
thing exists, which means you don't participate in it. Now,
maybe you'd be viewed as they stick your head in
the same kind of reality. No, you have an obligation
to talk about racism. It's the history of our country. Well,
I got a lot of that in school. We talked
about slavery, we talked about Jim Crow Law. So there
it is there from a historic standpoint, so we knew

(01:32:20):
where we came from and how far we've gotten since then,
so I'll acknowledge that kind of discussion, but it didn't
really come up in the context of discussions at home,
at least not that I can remember. Maybe my mom's
screaming at the radio right now, but I don't quite remember.
At seven twenty six, James, take care, brother, have a
great weekend, and I'll look forward to hearing from you again.

(01:32:41):
Don't go away again. In studio Brandon Nixon, Canada for
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(01:35:03):
the fifty five KRC Morning Show. Brandon Nixon, who did
get enough signatures. He's on the ballot along with his
campaign manager Cherise, who is responsible for getting all the
signatures collected. Good job, Chariz, Welcome back, Brandon. Good to
have you both in the studio. That's a campaign going excellent.
Excellent at the campaign excellent. We learned in a lot,

(01:35:23):
we got a lot of endorsements coming in. We're doing good.
I'm glad to hear that doing good. Now you're a
resident of Westwood, I share you the story I saw
last night, just one of many illustrations of the crime
problem we have in the city. And like I think
it was twenty cars. According to Channel nine reporting, twenty
cars had their windows smashed in, and of course smashing
grabs are a common thing in the city. All happened

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over Wednesday night into Thursday morning. You know, a golf air,
you said, that's happened to you. Yeah, happened to me
about two years ago. My car got broken into coming
to work. At that time, they had the Kia boys.
I called the police and they teld me they couldn't
do nothing about it because it had been happening. But

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I believe that the policy that our mayor have is
not working. And I think we have more cops on
the foot and we have a neighborhood watch that want
of my plans are going to have about invest in
savor community, then we could do that. I like the
idea of getting people involved. Yes, I mean that's a

(01:36:28):
challenge though, I mean, you know it would wouldn't it
be nice if we all lived in neighborhoods where if
someone had information about who perpetrated a crime, their immediate
normal reaction would be to get in touch with the
police rather than say nothing. Yeah, police have been cleaning
about complaining about that reality for years. So if you
can't get people to drop a dime, how do you

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think you, Brandon, are going to engage people to get
them to get off the butts out of their houses
and walk and be and participate in a community watch organization.

Speaker 13 (01:36:58):
Well, we gotta do a We got to go back
to the base and knock on doors. You know, I'm
not afraid to knock on doors talk to people. I'm
not afraid just to set up a event and trying
to get people to come in. I'm a big believer
in the community council. We could go on and talk
to them because I was a community council for Kenny
High for three years and I think that we stop
being lazy and trying to take pictures or trying to

(01:37:20):
post on folks of me that we got to do
the groundwork and knock on doors and talk to the sentences.

Speaker 2 (01:37:25):
Cincinnati.

Speaker 13 (01:37:26):
That's what I love doing, talking to people, seeing what
they complaints and seeing what how can we improve or
do that.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
You know, and I have to imagine you strengthen numbers.
If you're with a group of your neighbors, let's say
five or six, you get together, you decide you're going
to dedicate one night a week, we're gonna walk around,
begin to get pick a number, eleven pm. We're gonna
hang out, walk around the neighborhood for a couple of hours,
you know, drink a couple of coffee, got to do
our thermos, enjoy each other's company. But just being physically

(01:37:55):
present in any area probably would drive crime away. At
least you're not going to have criminals committing crimes right there.
I mean, I know somebody's out there screaming at the radio,
going yeah, what about the drive by shootings and they
unload four magazines and all that. I just really can't
see that happening with a community, with an organized community
walk no prove it.

Speaker 13 (01:38:14):
With data back in my dad in the ninety it
worked with a program called the Neighborhood Watch. And it
worked because when we go on vacation, my dad had
a next door neighbors say hey, watch our house or
you know. I grew up with all of that and
keep crime down. And I think that if we all
work together and start working against each other, we could

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make crime go down.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
You know the way you just characterize that. I didn't
realize until just now. We have a community watch program
in my neighborhood. It's not organized informal, but everyone was
looking out I remember if you remember Bewitch, missus Kravit. Yeah,
that's everybody in my neighbor It's a real comforting might
be why in the hell are they looking out the window?

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And figure out? I don't care as long as it's
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Seven thirty nine fifty five KR CD talk station Happy
Friday talking with the city council candidate Brandon Nixon, who
was kind of enough to bring his campaign manager Shares
in with him, and she's responsible for making sure he
got enough signatures. He will be on the ballot, so
we've got great options. We talked about your your political
affiliation previously. Brandon, why you are shown as being registered Democrat?

(01:41:30):
You've left the Democrat Party? Yes? And can I ask
you your motivations? I was speculating because there was an
article that Gallup I believe released some stats. Nationally speaking, anyway,
the Democrats lost two point one million members. Republican Party
actually gained two point four million, and so Democrats have

(01:41:52):
been sole searching since the twenty twenty four presidential election.
Oh my god, where'd we go wrong? And okay, being
a former Democrat, you're on your way to the Republican Party.
I think it's in between party affiliation cycles. So we're
not gonna hold it against Brandon. Why are you leaving?
What are your motivations? I woke up?

Speaker 13 (01:42:12):
It is simple because you have to be in. They click,
and if you know and they click, you can't run.
You can't do anything. I feel more comfortable with the
Republican Party. I mean being independent because I could. I'm
not a yes man, and if you say something, they'll
kick you out.

Speaker 5 (01:42:29):
Ye.

Speaker 13 (01:42:29):
And in some of the policies you look at now,
number one is the black community. You know, you keep saying,
you know, you keep want African America to keep voting
for you, but you're not doing enough for their neighborhood.
Neighbors still look the same out of the twenty years
that they've been running in Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
What do they have to lose to change? Right? Well, see,
this has been my point all along. And I know
the Republicans have been demonized over the years such so much,
such if you say Republican out loud in some circles,
they're like, oh my Republicans, it's that knee jerk reaction.
And you have a guy like former President Joe Biden
who says on the national television that if you don't

(01:43:07):
vote Democrat, you ain't black. The audacity of anybody to
say that, but for a white old guy like him
to say something like that, I'm the leader of the
free world, right, yeah. I mean I've always expressed outrage
like if I were if I try to put myself
in the position for black person. If I were black,

(01:43:28):
I would be frankly and I'll say it out out
pissed off. Nobody speaks for me.

Speaker 1 (01:43:33):
No, no, no, And for me it's.

Speaker 5 (01:43:37):
For me.

Speaker 13 (01:43:37):
It's sad because that when I say I'm independent or
if I'm not I'm going to Republican, I get all
kind of names and it's it's very sad about that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:46):
Now do you try to engage folks who react that
way and say, wait a second, he has me for that.
But I mean, I always say I just pointed out
the boil down point is if you're if the minute someone,
if you're engaged in a discussion back and forth, legitimate debate,

(01:44:06):
and someone resorts to name calling, you can chalk one
up and the win college because name calling is not debate.
That is the last passion. That is someone who is
completely run out of ideas. So have you ever tried
to engage in a debate with one of these people
who has that immediate knee jerk reaction, Oh my god,
you're a Republican.

Speaker 13 (01:44:24):
Yeah, I tell people, don't judge me by the letter
of a Democrat, republic judging by how my character is.
Judging how like going to help your family in the future.
Don't judge to become Republican. I like Democrats. I like
some Democrats, but it's not about the D and the
R and I. It's all about how your your platform

(01:44:44):
going to be. It's all about how you're going to
help your family going to be better, build a city
better for everyone. That why I'm we got to meet
and greet coming soon. We're going to invite Democrat, Republicans
and Independence to come and all come together and that
how we could save Cincinnati. That how we could be
there for Cincinnati. I'm tired all that divided. I'm tired

(01:45:07):
of everything. Why can we work together and make Cincinnati
great again? It makes Cincinnati a best again?

Speaker 2 (01:45:14):
Okay? And I like the idea of organizing these community organizations.
Keep an eye out of your neighbor's house, do some
walking patrols. All that I think would go a long
way to help out. We got to obviously have a
problem with with young people. I know they're enforcing the curfew.
You you say, no, they're not. But do you think I,
just generally speaking, that a real, actually enforced curfew was

(01:45:37):
a good idea for young people?

Speaker 5 (01:45:39):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:45:41):
Yes, well you're running. Uh no, because that how cannot
say that you don't take freedom away, you're taking they
freehom away. Plus at the same time that I think
the parents need to be there. Plus our police officers
now babies, they are not babysitters, And I think the

(01:46:03):
start with the parents. We have our mirror that had plans,
but it depends not going through. And he missed the
point that the people have been asking him that they
need help in the hotspot and been annoying them taking pictures.
But now something happened. You want to now you want
to do something. You and city council. It been happened

(01:46:24):
over over years and years, and they've been annoying that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
Right, So they're reacting to a problem that's been festering
for a long long time because this was a particularly
egregious and outrageous crime that happened. Yeah, and it's all
on video and everybody's going, really, that's the city of Cincinnati,
But that's the city of Sinnat you've been living in.

Speaker 4 (01:46:45):
Yes.

Speaker 13 (01:46:45):
And the one thing I want to say too, it
was article how all the murders of young kids today
at the West End, they promised people for cameras and
they still don't have it, and that's crazy, you know,
city council member. Don't go down there and see how
everything is. They want to take pictures, they want to
sit up front. The best way to be a canon

(01:47:07):
is go down to West End and Evandale and all
the other ones. To walk down there, talk to the people,
see how can you fix it? Stop thinking you know everything.
You don't because you don't live in them neighborhoods. You
live in Clifton and you live in Hyde Park and everything,
and that's ridiculous, you know. Do stop being lazy and

(01:47:27):
go down there and talk to the citizens cincinaty And
that was I loved doing when I was on a
campaign churn. I'm still doing that. That's the best thing
I love doing, talking to people. And my campaign manager
tell you I talk for a talk.

Speaker 2 (01:47:39):
I'm glad to hear that. We'll bring him back and
we'll talk a little bit more what Brandon Nixon has
to say and find out what in your engagement with
members within the various neighborhoods, what they want, you know,
not whether the R and D. But listen, I think
we need to do this. There's got to be some
great ideas swirling around out there. We'll tap into Brandon's
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Speaker 2 (01:49:45):
It's seven forty eight a s forty nine an kercity
talks station. Brandon Nixon running for city council with his
campaign manager who may be eligible for a crime Stopper
Bad Guy of the Week A Lord Churees. Welcome back
Officer Green and Tivity Green from the sin Say Police Department.
Thank you for everything that you and the police do
for us. Who are we looking for today? And I

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think we might have found out?

Speaker 10 (01:50:07):
Who is?

Speaker 14 (01:50:08):
Good morning Cincinnati, Please, we are looking for William Deffern.
Mister Deffern is wanted by the Ohio Adult Parole Authority
for a felony parole violation. Mister Deffern was originally charged
with drug trafficking, escape, and failure to register. William Deffern
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two and two hundred and twenty five pounds. William Deffern
has a history of assault and was last known to
live in New Richmond, Ohio. Listeners, if anyone has information
on where police can find William Defferent, please call crime
Stoppers at five point three three five two thirty forty
or submittative online at Crime death Stoppers dot Us.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
Maybe getting a call here about five minutes. My guest
in studio recognize the guy. He works at the speedway.
He works at a way that she goes into she
knew exactly who it was when you shut.

Speaker 5 (01:51:03):
Up on.

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
Anyway, thank you, Officer Green. His picture is on my
blog page fifty five Kerosey dot com. We'll catch ourselves
another one next week. Have a wonderful weekend tivity. Yeah,
that's great all And on top of everything, I do
have to acknowledge and point out he's a tattoo face guy.
So he's got a cross in the center of his
eyes forehead and some tears coming out of his eyes. Anyway,
have fun, observe him, and Cherise is probably gonna drop

(01:51:28):
a dime cash reward. Cherise, you will remain eligible, although
the world knows now that you are the one that
fingered it. Anyway, brand, she's Brandon Nixon's campaign manager. And
what are you hearing about? Just let's stick with crime
for a moment, because I want to pivot over to
the crumbling infrastructure brand, in which you're aware of as well.

(01:51:49):
But what are you hearing from folks? Just generally speaking,
if there's ideas floating around there in any given neighborhood,
what are you hearing.

Speaker 1 (01:51:57):
About the parents? Well?

Speaker 2 (01:51:58):
About crime generally means to keep coming back to that.

Speaker 13 (01:52:01):
Yes, communication because they say that the City Council is
lying to them about when they say about crime is down,
crime is down, and it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
Yeah, don't believe your eyes fail your eyes.

Speaker 13 (01:52:12):
And I think the big problem is communication because you know,
some don't know when the city council has some don't
know what the council member names.

Speaker 2 (01:52:23):
Is no, you can include me among them. I was
reading the list of the ones that are running for
re election and it's like it's just as if they
never existed. They aren't out in the news regularly. And
you know, to your point, this is something Christopher Smithman,
who's also running, has been making for a long time.
Our leaders need to be out there and engaged and
encouraging people. Going back to our point earlier to drop

(01:52:46):
the dime suis. I mean, you know, you wouldn't be
great for head mayor. I have to have Purvall walking around,
maybe showing up in the West End after they unload
four magazines in a group of people. You know, we
need to get in touch with police. We need to
work with police, We need to celebrate the police. I'm
working on rebuilding the police force. We've allocated money and resources.
We're gonna put the damn cameras up that brand is
demanding that they haven't put up, but that it doesn't

(01:53:07):
happen until after something terrible happens. Yep. So how many
more lives have to be lost before we say, hey,
let's do something anything? And the idea that people have
become sort of accepting the fact that there's gunfire that's
going on all the time. I don't know if you
hear gunfire in your neighborhood in Westwood, Yes, you do.
Sarah Heringer was on her husband stabed to death and

(01:53:28):
over the rhine. She talked about on My morning show.
She so used to gunfire that you almost don't even
pay attention to it anymore. It happens all the time.
So all right, I want to pivot over to what
I considered to be a at least an unspoken but
yet an actual acknowledgment of incompetence from city government. This program,

(01:53:52):
they paid forty thousand dollars to an outside firm to
engage in outreach. They got a five thousand dollars cash
prize to the individual or group of individuals who can
come up with a better plan for staying on top
of potholes. To me, potholes is not rocket science. I mean,
what does that suggest to you? Brandon number one? I

(01:54:14):
think that that's ridiculous. We have money for the railroad.

Speaker 13 (01:54:17):
Why can't the money from the railroad could fix thattructure.

Speaker 1 (01:54:22):
It's funny.

Speaker 13 (01:54:23):
Another thing that we need to fund the police because
use that money for potholes that our police need equipment,
Our police needs stuff, and y'all vote no for it.
You could use that money to fund the police. I'm
a big believer in fund the police, and I think
that we need to do that and certain other things.

Speaker 1 (01:54:41):
I think we need to fix our neighborhoods.

Speaker 13 (01:54:42):
You know, you waste money for potholes, but other neighborhood
like Avondale and west End and other other neighborhoods, other
neighborhoods is not getting the funds like a high park
or on some other cliftoning like that.

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
Yeah, they do express some outright favoritism for you know,
neighborhoods like over the Rhine. How much money do they
pump into over the Rhine to regentrify it a lot? Yeah,
and then they ended up angering a whole lot of
people because they can afford to live there. Although with
the crime rate going up, that tends to impact real
estate value, so maybe over the Rhine will then become
more affordable.

Speaker 13 (01:55:21):
Well that's why I'm sorry cut out, Bryan, but I
want a big noe for connect communities.

Speaker 1 (01:55:25):
I'm a big noe for it because you know why.

Speaker 13 (01:55:27):
Number one is each neighborhood got community council doing a
good job. And I don't want nobody from New Jersey
gonna tell me what to do with my neighborhood or
and I don't want city council with all the power,
and that's ridiculous. Each neighborhood is unique. You neighbor to
know what they are doing, and I think that they
just need to keep it like that. Stop trying to
fix things that are not broken.

Speaker 2 (01:55:49):
It's not broken.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
That's common sense, one.

Speaker 2 (01:55:53):
Size fits all government. I believe in less government, less government,
springing from my personal little libertarian philosophy. And I think
I heard from Scharissa Software that you're in the same
place I am, Cherisa. I love that. Well, I'll tell
you what, Brandon, I wish you all the best. Brandon Nixon.
You can find him on Facebook. I think is that
where your primary site is the website is coming soon.

(01:56:15):
Oh good, And I want to say in late September
our meeting Greek gonna be coming. Well, I'll send fires
and we'll send out and you welcome to come to
Brian Thomas, you watch you and your wife and your
family welcome to come. But that's coming soon.

Speaker 13 (01:56:29):
And to vote for Brandon Nixon, like I say, fix
it with Nixon and and talk to me at Elect
Brandon Nixon for.

Speaker 2 (01:56:40):
Since a City council. Yeah, elect Brandon Nixon until he
gets his regular web page up. Elect Brandon Nixon for
Cincinnati City Council on Facebook. Looking at the page right now,
great shot at you, Brandon, a nice big smile on
your face. I wish you all the best. We'll talk
again before the election. I'm Sartain. Take care of yourself.
Have a wonderful weekend. Seven fifty six. Right now the
return of the citizen Watchdog Todd Zenser in studio. He

(01:57:02):
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Here in studio, todds ins or he's the citizen Watchdog,
And I can't encourage you enough to subscribe to Todd

(01:57:51):
Zenser's podcast, Citizen Watchdog. You'd be glad you did. He
stays on top of all things going on in the
city of Cincinnati, specifically former Inspector General for the United
States of America. So he's got some great skills. He
knows how to crunch numbers, he knows how to interpret documents,
and he knows when pomises have been broken. He also
knows how to file information request to insist that our

(01:58:12):
elected officials in the city actually produce the documents that
they're supposed to produce. And of course we'll let us
all know when they haven't done the work that they
promised to do. We've got a specific illustration of that
here this morning. Welcome back, Todd Zenzer. It's great to
have you in the studio.

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
Thank you, Brian good to be here.

Speaker 2 (01:58:26):
I know you were listening to my conversation with Brandon Nixon,
who's running for counsel. He seems like a pretty decent guy.
But pivoting over to one of the topics we of
course dealt with, and one that's been on everybody's lips,
of course, crime in downtown Cincinnati. We're struggling with a
couple of issues going on here, the optics. I think

(01:58:47):
from everyone I've talked to, from the chief or from
the the FOP president, to specific police officers, to individuals
like Sarah Heringer and Brandon Nixon who lives in the city.
Of course, I mean, everyone says the crime is terrible,
that they witness it, that they hear it. Sarah talked
about hearing gunfire all the time, so much so that

(01:59:09):
became sort of jaded about it, just sort of desensitized
to it. Brianon said something along the same lines. I mean,
you can't tell the residents of the city Cincinnati. The
crime is not a problem when they're living the real
experience of dealing with crime, property, crime, break ins, many
of which aren't even reported to the police. That's right.
But Mary, after that, Barball came out the other day,

(01:59:31):
priority numbers one, two, and three public safety.

Speaker 3 (01:59:33):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:59:34):
You didn't believe him when he said that, did you?

Speaker 4 (01:59:36):
No? I didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:59:37):
And there's two reasons for that, Brian. One is, just
as you were suggesting, look at the real life experiences
of people living here. But also last year sometime maybe
it was twenty twenty three, when the city issued its
latest green plan. He was interviewed by an outfit called Governing,

(02:00:02):
which is an online publication, and he told them that
every issue that crosses his desk he've uwsed through two lenses.
First is equity, then climate, And you try to reconcile
that with public safety being first, second and third priority,

(02:00:23):
and they don't reconcile.

Speaker 2 (02:00:27):
Well, if we could draw a correlation between the commission
of a crime and our carbon footprint going up, do
you think he might pay closer attention to a.

Speaker 3 (02:00:38):
Todd That might be the only way to get his attention, Brian.

Speaker 2 (02:00:40):
Well, maybe we can address that in terms of gunfire,
because of course gunfire is going to produce carbon and
other particulate matter that's actual pollutants in going to the environment.
So maybe he should be all over the gun problem
the cities exacting.

Speaker 3 (02:00:52):
And I guess the thing that strikes me is that
it's just a rhetoric, it's just work.

Speaker 2 (02:01:00):
Exactly what does that mean? Yeah, for one city, one
you know, sort of medium sized city in the Grand
United States. I mean, we've we've done these conversations about
global warming, climate change, and our carbon reduction hasn't done
Jack squad because India and China keep ramping up more
and more every year. How in the hell is the
city of Cincinnati going to impact the global climate?

Speaker 3 (02:01:21):
Yeah, So he went on with governing, and he went
on to say that the in fifty years, the cities
that got these two issues right are the ones that
are going to prosper. And I put on my blog
that this guy is in La La Land.

Speaker 4 (02:01:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:01:39):
I mean it's it's really kind of you know, magical
thinking type stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:01:44):
Well, it sounds like magical thinking coming out of some
of these college degrees, the programs for you know, the
yoga LGBTQ, yoga or something and get an agree in
that and it doesn't serve anybody's purpose. But they do
talk in this this this jargon that doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 5 (02:02:01):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:02:01):
He's sort of stuck in that loop of spitting out
words that people use all the time. Equity, diversity, climate,
there's no substance to that.

Speaker 3 (02:02:13):
If you read his State of the City speeches and
things like that, they're laced with all of those terms
and all of that language.

Speaker 2 (02:02:24):
Okay, So if you're on the West End, which is
dealing with gun violence and people unloading magazines into crowds,
and we've heard Corey Bowman talk about that because he's
a West End resident, talk to the people that live
in the West End. They'll tell you the same thing.
If you're out there and you have a choice when
you move on into November, there are other options out
there beyond mayor AFTAB provol and the current council makeup.

(02:02:47):
How does the message from AFT have provol in that
State of the city or that comment back from twenty
twenty three, he' views everything through equity and climate lens
first and foremost. How do those words can act with
someone who's living this experience we're talking about. I mean,
I think I know the answer to the question, but
more fundamentally, it defies logic and reason that anybody in

(02:03:10):
the city would vote for someone given that that's his priorities. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:03:14):
Does there's no there's no connection between the crime issue
and the issues of climate and equity. They will say, uh, well,
they according to their Green Cincinnati Plan, there are five
different types of equity. I can't I can't repeat them
right now because I don't remember them. But you know,
there there there is a issue with race in the city.

(02:03:39):
And I think there are underserved neighborhoods certainly, and there
are people that have social needs that the that the
government is going to help with. But if you if
you try to say that a program like Actforsincy, where
we're we're paying nonprofits to engage with the public on different,
you know, different little community activities, if you think that

(02:04:01):
is public safety and law enforcement and crime reduction, people
just don't believe that.

Speaker 2 (02:04:07):
Well, I think most everyone will agree, except for the
friends who just literally hate the police and I suppose
don't mind crime in their neighborhood. I wonder how much
that Actorcincy program in terms of dollars allocated, what that
would translate into if they spent that money on additional
police officers, lateral hires or future classes. I mean, after
the violent beatdown, the mayor came out and pledged two

(02:04:31):
million dollars to hire additional police officers. Well, two million
dollars is not a whole lot of money when you're
talking about needing one hundred and fifty officers.

Speaker 3 (02:04:39):
That's right, And therein lies is kind of the lie
Brian because if public safety was the priority, the deficit
of police officers has to be your number one focus,
and you don't see any large attempt, her large efforts

(02:05:01):
to start hiring if it was his first and second
and third priority. If public safety was his first, second
and third priority, then when he came in as as
a mayor, he would have set a full contingent of
police officers as a priority. But instead he hires Iris
Rollie as his consultant right out of the gate, right

(02:05:24):
out of the gate, a month after he gets sworn in.

Speaker 2 (02:05:27):
And for those who don't remember, Irish Rowlli goes all
the way back to the collaborative agreement, what from two
thousand and one? Yeah, and she has been an agitator
and an anti police activist, I mean the whole entire time. Yes,
And she's the one that most recently was interfering with
officers doing their job in terms of law enforcement rights
on video doing that on video, Todd, she's on video

(02:05:50):
violating the law. There is a law against interfering with
police business. Now, I know, there's also apparently a law
in the book that's a fourth degree misdemeanor for slapping
some one in public. And so the black community, I guess,
came out, at least leaders within the black community, not
that they represent everybody, like Damon Lynch for example, Iris Rolli,
I believe, was among them demanding that that man get

(02:06:11):
issued unrest warrant for misdemeanor fourth degree. The city solicitor
forced the police department to issue that charge, right, don't
know how that works. Maybe you can explain that. So
how about we pivot over and we insist that the
city solicitor forced the police to issue a citation to
Iris Rawley. Wouldn't that make sort of sense under the circumstances.

Speaker 5 (02:06:32):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:06:32):
Unfortunately, the FOP actually filed a complaint against her for
some public comments she made where she used racial racial terms,
and the city solicitor again who looked at that issue,
decided that she wasn't on duty or it wasn't related
to her work with the city or something like that.

(02:06:55):
And it just shows you how biased they are and
they're gonna protect, you know, the people that are supporting.

Speaker 2 (02:07:00):
Them well for whatever reason, Iris Rawley carries a lot
of weight in certain areas of the City of Cincinnati.
Those certain areas are made up of voters, that's right.
You wouldn't want to rub iris Rawi the wrong way
by following the law or insisting on proper decorum. Because
while she might go out in the world and say, listen,
you've got forty six people to choose from, don't vote
for this one. This one, this one that's exactly that's

(02:07:23):
a name in it, that's exactly right. Yeah, that's a
lot of money. That'se non governmental organizations are soaking up
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Speaker 2 (02:08:28):
Twenty here fifty about KRC The Talk Station, Happy Friday.
Brian Thomas with Instudio Todd Zinzer Citizen Watchdogs, the podcast
you Gotta Subscribe to. Todd like the the conversation We're
having today talks about these kind of issues all the time,
and going back to the crime, there's been a lot
of concern and claims that part of the problem was

(02:08:49):
the eradication. I was a District five, right right, okay,
And I think Ken Kober even made this point on
my program, but I've heard it elsewhere. Now this my
understanding is, it's the concern about the elimination of District
five or the reality is response times. If you guys
sent an officer from District what is it three all

(02:09:10):
the way over to the formerly District five area, that's
going to take some time. And especially with a limited
number of police officers that are on duty at any
given moment in time, there's a compounding factor. So is
there information out there as to what response times are?
Have they gotten worse since they eliminated District five? What
do you know anything about this time?

Speaker 3 (02:09:32):
Well, at the beginning of the year, when we had
all these shootings in East and West Price Hill, and
I sent a letter to the city council. One of
the things I asked about was whether they had done
any evaluation of this redistricting, of the consolidation of these districts.
And I was told by one of the members of
city Council after the meeting that they had asked for

(02:09:53):
that and it's coming soon. That was in January of
twenty twenty five. And so when Patrick Herringer got murdered
and we had the beat down downtown and we had
the drive by shooting, I wanted to know, again, have
we looked at the evaluation of the consolidation. So I

(02:10:18):
put a request in for any kind of evaluation and
I did get a response. It was a thirteen page
PowerPoint presentation and it was dated just a couple days ago,
and the data inside the inside the PowerPoint slide deck,
they only had two pages of data. It basically said

(02:10:41):
that things hadn't changed, but they didn't do an analysis
of the geographic area of District five before and the
geographic area of District five after, even though it had
been the district had been changed, and instead of doing
that analysis, they did a city wide analysis and they

(02:11:01):
did it for the new data is only only three months.
So a year and a half later we get a report.

Speaker 2 (02:11:09):
After the promise was made. Yes, that's argue that they're
going to do this and that they eliminate the district.

Speaker 3 (02:11:15):
That's right, And it basically says that it hasn't gotten worse.
That was basically their conclusion. It hasn't gotten worse with
three months worth of data and it's stale. You can't
issue You shouldn't be issuing a report dated August eighteenth,
twenty twenty five, based on data dated twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (02:11:35):
It doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 3 (02:11:37):
No, it's not helpful.

Speaker 2 (02:11:38):
It's apples and ors comparison.

Speaker 3 (02:11:40):
It's not it's not helpful. You need current data.

Speaker 2 (02:11:45):
It makes you wonder. I mean, I would like to think,
although I couldn't definitively say that that type of information
from the moment nine to one one is called to
the moment a police officer arrives on the scene. That's
easily accessible information, and it's information. You would think that
the police chief or the police department generally speaking, would

(02:12:06):
be keeping in essence real time. Yes, they do, they do.

Speaker 5 (02:12:10):
They do that.

Speaker 2 (02:12:11):
I just didn't hand it over to council I or did.

Speaker 3 (02:12:13):
And and this analysis for example, they spend a lot
of time explaining how complex response time calculations are, and
they don't want to calculate from the minute it comes
into the emergency communications center. They want to count response

(02:12:34):
time from the time that the police get the call
to go to the.

Speaker 2 (02:12:40):
That's ridiculous because if there is a significant gap in
time between when the call comes in when the police
learned about it, that's a failure in the system that
they should be identifying. That's right, it's part of the problem.
If I'm at home and I called nine to one one,
I don't care whether the delay has become from the
between the dispatch and the police department or because the
police officers got to drive fifteen minutes to get to

(02:13:00):
my neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (02:13:01):
That's right, that's exactly right. So this analysis worthless. Yeah,
I wouldn't. It doesn't get a passing grade.

Speaker 2 (02:13:10):
Well, you can ball it up and start the fire
with it. Just thing for your grill over the weekend.

Speaker 3 (02:13:14):
And there's also an error in here that I thought
was very amusing. Even on the two pages of data
that they provided, they get they get the date wrong.
They say that they say that the analysis period is
from August fourteen, twenty twenty three to February ten, twenty
twenty three. Obviously a typo, but kind of kind of sloppy.

Speaker 2 (02:13:38):
Kinda it's illustrative of the value of that documents eight
twenty five Right now more with Todd Zinzer again. Citizen
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Speaker 2 (02:14:48):
It's a twenty nine Friday and a happy one to you.
Always enjoy my conversations. I hope you do too. With
toddsens Or our citizen watchdog, he is he follows the
antics of what goes on in the city. As I mentioned,
they don't like to see you coming, do they talk
you and your demands for records and asking for compliance
with things that they've promised to us, and your astute

(02:15:11):
observations about reports that were put out after you asked
for them pursue it to a record's demand request backdated anyway,
Let's stick with District five for a minute, because there's
an interesting component to the eradicate or the elimination of
District five, and an observation you made off air that's
worth bringing up. Just having the presence of District five

(02:15:33):
and it's old location, you know, right there in the
heart of it all, with the cops going in and out,
they're established physical presence there. Oh. Look, there's the police
department district right there, that in and of itself has
a profound effect on unimpacting crime and reducing crime.

Speaker 3 (02:15:50):
I believe that's the case, Brian, and they had actually
identified two locations for a headquarters. One was in College
Hill and one was in Clifton along Central Parkway at
the bottom of the hill. There was something called the
Pimit Center, which I'm not familiar with, but they they
were going to spend nine million dollars on that or

(02:16:11):
fourteen or fifteen million dollars for a new facility in
College Hill.

Speaker 2 (02:16:15):
Okay, that got all scrapped.

Speaker 5 (02:16:17):
It did.

Speaker 2 (02:16:18):
And here's the thing that I found interesting as you
were relaying the behind the scenes facts about this. Seventeen
million dollars. Yeah, that's the number. That's the figure that
the council identified. And you told me that they actually
had bonds issued for that.

Speaker 3 (02:16:30):
Yeah, they issued bonds back in twenty seventeen seven million
dollars worth.

Speaker 2 (02:16:34):
So we got the seven million, yes, and it was
supposed to go to District five headquarters. Yes, Well, we're
paying debt service on the bonds we got right.

Speaker 3 (02:16:43):
Well probably, yeah, I haven't where did the money go?
Todd Zinzer, Yeah, Well, unfortunately, they did have a hill
slide on Columbia Parkway that was an emergency. And I
haven't gone back and looked at how much money they
had back then. But they took that money for the
District five headquarters and they have applideed instead to the Hillside.
And then they never went back and replenished the capital

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account for the headquarters.

Speaker 2 (02:17:07):
So suggesting one they didn't have anything by way of
even a several million dollar rainy day fund that they
could tap into to deal with an emergency like Columbia
Parkway collapsing. They had to take money that they borrowed. Yeah, yes,
for the headquarters. They borrowed the money. They didn't have

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even the seven million dollars that they borrowed in the
form of issuing bonds.

Speaker 3 (02:17:33):
Yeah, it was part of some kind of finance plan
for the headquarters. They needed to fill a gap, I guess,
but all of that was scrapped.

Speaker 2 (02:17:42):
How much money does the city take in in terms
of tax revenue every year? What is their baseline budget? Well,
before the railroad idea, they've got compound.

Speaker 3 (02:17:52):
They've got an operating a budget and they've got a
capital budget, and they're both about a billion.

Speaker 2 (02:17:58):
Dollars a thousand million.

Speaker 3 (02:18:02):
Yeah, and the operating budget has restricted funds and general
funds and that's split about half and half. I believe
about five hundred thousand in general funds, which means you
spend it on whatever you want to spend it on,
and the restricted funds have strings attached to them.

Speaker 2 (02:18:22):
Okay, but that's a sizeable amount of money we're talking about. Yeah,
so where is all the money going, todd sindser.

Speaker 3 (02:18:31):
It's going all over the place, Brian, Well, there's a
lot of money that goes into public safety. They do
spend a lot of money on public safety, police, fire ems,
and I think that's part of the problem. I think
the current leadership looks at the amount of money that
they're spending and they think that's enough, when yeah, it's
a lot of money, but obviously it's not enough. And

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that's one of their main priorities under the law is
to provide public safety.

Speaker 2 (02:19:00):
Base bridges, infrastructure, and public safety.

Speaker 3 (02:19:02):
Yeah, you know, eve I even suggested at one of
the budget hearings that they need to go to the
solicitor and say, Okay, tell me all the spending that
I must legally do under the law, under grant assurances,
under contracts, tell me how much all that totals up.
And once you get all that totaled up, then you

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start using your money for a discretionary purpose.

Speaker 2 (02:19:25):
Exactly. It's like home economics, yes, exactly, since you got
to pay the electric bill and the mortgage and your
car payment or whatever, the things that are you obligated
to pay first, and if you want to go on vacation,
let's just wait and find out after the obligations are
taken care of, if we have enough money left over
to do that.

Speaker 1 (02:19:44):
And so they have.

Speaker 3 (02:19:45):
They have four big deficits right now. They have the
pension liability, which is about eight hundred forty dollars. They've
got this backlog of maintenance.

Speaker 2 (02:19:56):
We'll get to that in the next second. That's true.

Speaker 3 (02:19:58):
That's either four hundred or five hundre million. Whatever campaign
rhetoric you want to listen to it, you have to
have inherited the You have the eighty million dollars to
replenish the fleet. And now you and this one was
staring us right in the face. The deficit of police officers. Yeah,
that's a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (02:20:17):
One hundred and fifty short.

Speaker 5 (02:20:19):
Yeah, So they have these.

Speaker 3 (02:20:20):
Four deficits, and that's what they need to focus.

Speaker 2 (02:20:23):
On if they had their priorities in line. But then
going back to twenty twenty three, you know, Afteb's prior
to priorities are equity and climate. Yes, yeah, doesn't sound
like that's in one of those mandatory things the city
needs to be dealing with. First, todds ends er it's
a thirty five right now, we'll continue with Todd talk
a little bit more about the uh, well, all these

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subject matters we can't get. We are not done the
four hundred million dollars though, well, we'll dive on into
that because that one's got me really going this week,
todds ends or he inherited it. Remember that the roads problem.
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Happy Friday to you. By the time, I was Todd
Zinzer Citizen Watchdog. It's who he is and that's the
name of his podcast. I can't encourage you enough to
subscribe to it. A brilliant man. He is former Inspector
General for the United States of America, now self appointed
Inspector General for the Shenanigans. It goes on in each
and every day in downtown Cincinnati. We've identified some of

(02:22:19):
those shenanigans. Let's pivot over to what I believe to
be a recognition of absolute incompetence, and I pointed out
a million times over the years, still on blue in
the face. You know, we elect people to have these
lofty positions, you know, whether they're congressmen or women, senators,
you know, at the state or national council, people, mayors, governors.

(02:22:44):
We elect them, and I think some of us have
the perception they know exactly what they're doing. And I
keep going back to the guy who thought Guam was
going to capsize, you put another building on it. That's
the quality and caliber of intellect of people we elect
to let to draft legislation or at least claim the
draft legislation over a multitude of areas out here in
the real world that they have absolutely no concept of

(02:23:07):
how it works. I mean, go ahead and pull any
person who's an electric capacity. Can you explain bitcoin and
blockchain and how that works? And could you sit down
and write legislation? Of course not you know how a
cell phone works?

Speaker 4 (02:23:19):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (02:23:20):
I only have an electronics degree. Okay, So okay, least
have to start with that base of observation. They're not God.
They've got to rely on other people to maybe do something. Fine,
They've reached out to the general public City of Cincinnati
as an indication of something along those lines, at least
from my cap perspective, turning to the public for help
with its growing pothole problem, offering five thousand dollars to

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a team who cold provide the best innovative solution to
prove the city's road repair system. So we all know
we're behind in road repairs. It's regularly acknowledged by them.
They have a minimum obligation every year that they never
meet of a certain number of lane miles, which is
how you get into the position we're in, which is
four hundred million dollars behind the eight ball in terms

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of behind behind road repairs. Todd am I right on
that figure.

Speaker 3 (02:24:07):
Or Russians, Well, it's it's deferred maintenance of the city's infrastructure,
and a very large percentage of that would be the roads.

Speaker 2 (02:24:15):
Okay, and after have inherited that. And I've made the
point of of pointing out all the mayors of the
City Cincinnati going all the way back, I think past
the nineteen nineties. The city's been run by Democrats for
that whole period of time, so he personally may have
inherited a problem, but the backlog comes from one Democrat
administration after another, year after year.

Speaker 4 (02:24:34):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (02:24:34):
Okay, so we got that covered. Now they've asked for
help out here in the real world. If you have
if you want five thousand dollars, figure out a better
way to fix the potholes. Isn't that just like I
said in acknowledgment that they don't know what the hell
they're doing.

Speaker 3 (02:24:48):
Well, I think it's just all pr and but it's bad.

Speaker 2 (02:24:52):
Pr Oh, it's terrible.

Speaker 3 (02:24:54):
And you know, if I was in charge of the
city's dot they're transport to monument those Yeah, those guys
are They know what they're doing, and they just need
the resources to do it and they're gonna have to.
You know, one of the whole things about the railroad
money is whether the city even has the capacity to

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spend all that money. Do they have either the staff
on hand, the trucks on all.

Speaker 2 (02:25:22):
So much like the police situation, you know, the solution
to the problem, Okay, if the solution right now with
one hundred and fifty fewer officers is to pay the
officers that currently are on the force a whole bunch
of money in overtime, that's to put bodies on the
ground to cover the spaces where we don't have officers
putting dot folks out on the streets twenty four to

(02:25:45):
seven to fill potholes and fix roads. That would be
the solution to the problem. But you're saying, probably don't
have enough dot folks out there working. Yeah, and you
have the equipment that's all broken down.

Speaker 3 (02:25:55):
That's right, and the material and all that you have
to you have to have all that in order to
do all the maintenance that they are saying that they
need to do. And it's the same thing with the police.
Why are we sitting back on our heels when we've
known for six or seven years that we have a
deficit in police officers.

Speaker 2 (02:26:14):
And you know what, we could solve that at no time.
You see what Ice did? What do they do? They
gave up bonuses data there. Yeah, I have a fifty
thousand dollars signing bonus plus eradication of up to sixty
thousand dollars with the student debt. Now, obviously that will
put a financial strain on an already strained budget in
the city Cincinnati, but I'm sure they could find some
money to offer bonuses. You could probably fill those one

(02:26:34):
hundred and fifty spots with lateral hires given the benefits
that you get as an officer as well, in despite
of the fact that the pension's underfunded. That's a separate well.

Speaker 3 (02:26:43):
The police pension is okay.

Speaker 2 (02:26:45):
Okay, I'm glad you brought that out.

Speaker 3 (02:26:46):
Yeah, the police and fire pensions are doing fine as
far as I can tell. It's the regular city employees,
the people that are out there filling the potholes that
their pension system is underfunded.

Speaker 4 (02:26:59):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:27:00):
But I guess my only point is if you want
to close the gap in a very short period of time,
it seems to me the dangling carrot of monetary incentive
would do the job. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:27:11):
So, you know, just as they eliminated, you know, the
headquarters for District five, at the same time they'll give
money to Pigworks to for their brick and mortar facility
in East Wallnut Hills. Artworks gets money, we get a
million dollars skate park. So you know, if they want
to tell us that public safety as their first, second,

(02:27:32):
and third priority, then that's they should make it their first, second,
and third priority.

Speaker 2 (02:27:37):
That's great. Todd's inser always putting a fine point on it.
Eight forty five fifty five krs the talk station. One
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I hope you can stick around.

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Wrap it Up a Friday here on a high notes.
Todds insit Citizen Watchdog in city again. One more plea
to subscribe to Todds podcast Citizen Watchdog. You'd be glad
you did. You've been a lifelong West pryceal native. I understand, yes,
born and raised, born race. So I'm not going to
give away your age, but you decades, but boils it down.

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You've been there decades, seen the neighborhood change it all
over those decades.

Speaker 3 (02:29:12):
Not well, I've been there, but I also left and
came back, and when I returned, it was really shocking
what had happened to this.

Speaker 2 (02:29:20):
It's amazing what moving away, dude, isn't Because you were
in DC for a long time, Yes.

Speaker 3 (02:29:24):
And you know it's very comfortable being here, having you know,
grown up here. But there are quality of life issues
all over the place, at least on our side of
town in East Price ll West Price sho And there's
a there's a social contract between the city government and
the people that live here that we are going to

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have a quality of life that doesn't involve crime, and
it doesn't involve drug addicts and a litter all over
the streets, and the city's just not just not doing
it well.

Speaker 2 (02:29:56):
They're not interested in that. No, And you had a
recent town hall meeting over her on the West Side.

Speaker 3 (02:30:03):
Yeah, we have a meeting every month, and this past
month we had a new resident show up. They had
just moved from Orlando, Florida, and they lived they bought
a place in West Price Hill and they love the house.
It's a very cool street. It's got a lot of
nice homes on it. But she's got buyer's remorse because

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of all the quality of life issues. And she was
very very articulate about her concerns. She identified Price Hill
and West Price Hill. It's like, this place is beautiful,
the homes, it's proximity to downtown. But we've established all these,
for example, social services over on the west Side, and

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we even had the police they attend the meeting. They
even acknowledged that, yes, there are people that come to
the West Side of Cincinnati from hundreds of miles around
to take advance of all the social surfaces that we
have in our community. One of those, for example, there's
all along Glemway Avenue, there are social service providers, so

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that that results in unhoused people sleeping in the business doorways.
And really there's drug addicts walking up and down the street,
panhandlers on many corners. And that's the way it is,
and it shouldn't be that way. And it wasn't that
way when I when you and I were growing up

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in the West Side, not at all.

Speaker 2 (02:31:34):
And you know, I mean that area around like for example,
Elder High School, there's some beautiful, beautiful homes, all well maintained,
the yards were all gorgeous, and yeah, I mean, this
is not a color of skin type of thing. This
is just whether someone cares and has any concern whatsoever
about the residents in which they live.

Speaker 5 (02:31:52):
Right, and.

Speaker 3 (02:31:55):
The city just wants to keep keep moving forward in
the same same game plan.

Speaker 2 (02:32:00):
And the game plan includes more group homes. This is
taking private residences and sort of moving a bunch of
people in it. That's right on the taxpayer dollar.

Speaker 1 (02:32:09):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (02:32:10):
The people buy these homes. Groups, I mean, are these
corporate entities that are gathering up homes and these are
both both. If it's like the old slum lord, you know,
you have an apartment building, you turn into Section eight
housing and then you move back to New York or
run it from wherever's city out of it.

Speaker 3 (02:32:26):
And in the case of these group homes, these are
people that have had you know, they've they've been in
the system, so to speak, for one reason or another,
and they're transitioning back to normal society and they group
them in these homes, and the cities, the neighbors have
nothing to say about it. It falls through the cracks

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or the regulations aren't enforced.

Speaker 2 (02:32:52):
So if I can draw a loose parallel much in
the same way, let's say the well hilled neighborhood of
Hyde Park, where the city council and the mayor ignored
what they wanted by way of zoning changes. The residents
of West Price Hill and other areas where this is
going on, their desires have been overlooked by counsel and

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people who were responsible for, you know, implementing this group
home policy. No question about it. No questions to anybody
who is a home owner in any neighborhood if you
know that one of those homes in your neighborhood is
going to be in essence, it's I don't know if
the word transient is appropriate, but you're talking about temporary
residents who do not own property, have no connection with it,

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are not from that given neighborhood, don't have any sort
of loyalty to the neighborhood. It just happens to be
the house where they were parked thanks to government officials.
That's right.

Speaker 3 (02:33:47):
And you know, we know that people need a second
chance and they need to you know, reinsert themselves into
the community. But this seems this seems extreme. This doesn't
seem like there's not much consideration for the neighborhood or
the people that are living in the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (02:34:05):
Well, seems extreme. I don't think that's a strong enough
word to use. You have lived there for with the
exception of your time in DC decades. It is extreme,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (02:34:18):
Well, yes, it is extreme. It is extreme for the
West Side. And you know, again, you don't want to
throw people to the side. You just want to do
things within a normal, regulated environment, and I don't think
we have that with these types of transition homes.

Speaker 2 (02:34:39):
Well, and going back to your common and connected communities,
and you know Brandon Nixon's common earlier, I don't want
connected communities in my neighborhood. I want to be able
to decide the fate of my neighborhood. This is analogous
to that one size fits all you will accept that
we are going to do what we want to do
and it sucks to be you.

Speaker 5 (02:34:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:34:56):
The other thing that people are concerned about with the
group homes and not that there's any comparison, you know,
but are any of these people in these group poems?
Are they other Mordecai Blacks for example? I mean that
guy was a parole or a post release.

Speaker 2 (02:35:16):
Of this guy who cut his ankle bracelet off and
murdered Patrick Patrick Herringer.

Speaker 3 (02:35:20):
Yeah, how many? Sarah's put out some data about how
many of those folks are present in the county and
it's pretty it's pretty shocking how many people are out there.

Speaker 2 (02:35:34):
You know, maybe we need a registration as sex offenders
have to register, see you know where they are.

Speaker 1 (02:35:40):
That's what I think.

Speaker 2 (02:35:41):
Okay, well, maybe there's a solution. You don't get five
thousand dollars for coming up with a solution that Todd
Zendzer work on the potholes, all right, You use the
extra money, Todd. It is a pleasure as always having
you in studio. I can't thank you enough for the
work that you do on behalf of the City. It's
all done in good faith, it's all above board. It's
all in the name of keeping our elected officials honest.
And you are a true asset to the residents of

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the city. Todd to keep up the great work and
again subscribe to Citizen watch Dog. You can find the
podcast wherever you get it. We'll have you on again
real soon. Todd. All right, thank you, Brian. I have
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