55KRC Friday - Tech Friday, Todd Zinser, Keegan Corcoran, Rebecca Surendorff

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
If you do have k r C the talk station,
Happy Friday, says a vacation, there's a woohoo for Friday.

(00:34):
Inspte of what's going on in the world, which a
lot of positive stuff going on, particularly out in the
fires out west. Get to that in a moment. Bright
the time's here. Wishing everyone of every happy Friday, and uh,
good morning to executive producer Joe Stracker. Appreciate the job
he does each and every day here on the fifty
five KRC Morning Show, including winding up the guests like yes,
it is Tech Friday with Dave Hatter day six thirty

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every Friday for out of the gate for the calendar year,
at least for me, met his fact checking well firm
that got sacked by Mark Zuckerberg. Of course, no one's
giving him a pass for working and cooperating with the
Department of Justice and suppressing all kinds of information, most
notably factual information relating to COVID. Reminding you to go

(01:19):
back and listen to my interview with Congressman brad Winstrip
about the COVID report. FBI China accused the US government
devices and networks are access for other US government devices
and networks. We've already gone over that a little bit.
This week we'll get the real details from Dave Hatter,
who has a broader and greater understanding of that kind
of thing. Plus phishing attacks. You thought they were bad,

(01:41):
they doubled in counter year twenty twenty four. So those
are our topics with Dave coming up at six thirty
hour of power. Todd Zendzer and I like the label
Joe Strekker applied to Todd Zenser, our watchdog of city
council and commissioners County commissioners. Todd brilliant man. He'll be

(02:02):
in studio. We'll be talking about the recent shootings in
Price Hill at what was going on in council on Wednesday?
He was there, what was discussed? At least he was
there and probably wasn't anybody from local news there. And finally,
do we need a new arena? We'll be paying for

(02:23):
that one anyway. Our wine some friend Keegan corcor In
fifty five k s wine Sammie. He'll be joining us
just via telephone, so there will be no fake drinking
going on in the studio. But why dry January which
is which is a thing?

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
He claims it harms the hospitality and retail businesses. And
I put up a Facebook post about that, and by
all accounts, apparently stirred a big pot of of dissent
anger maybe varying opinions on whether or not it does
hurt the hospitality retail business. How many people actually uh

(03:01):
doing dry? January? Joj do you have any shlivovitz yet
this year? You have not been dry? But not shlivovitz? Okay,
fair enough, Joe Huker's celebratory drink of choice. You haven't
ever drank shlivovitz. Boy, it packs the punch. Let's just
put it that way. H And finally, eight thirty, Rebecca

(03:23):
Cerndorf Ohioans for Child Protection apparently Mike Dwaine finally signed
the legislation. It took years to get past. And we'll
be talking about, you know, the start to finish journey
that Rebecca went on, behalf of protecting children here in
the state of Ohio. That at eight thirty, And of
course between now and then, like in times right now,
no guests on the phone, no guests in the studio,

(03:44):
feel free to call five one, three, seven, four nine
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So what's going on at in La death holl up
to ten? You heard that at the top of the
UR news, which is you know, honestly when you I
don't know if you've looked online at the photographs, it's

(04:07):
not to negate the devastation or the human carnage because
we are at ten people. And this is kind of
the point I'm making. It looks like Nagasaki after the
bomb was dropped, or Hiroshima. Some of these neighborhoods. There's
multiple images online that before and after when some of

(04:28):
them have that little slide bar down the middle where
you can look at what it looked like before and
what it looked like after. I mean, it literally looks
like a massive bomb was dropped over all these neighborhoods.
And the price of the homes like this specific Palisades neighborhood,
I think they said the average, the median or the

(04:50):
sort of mid price of the homes there three and
a half million dollars a pop. We'll get to the
insurance realities of that sometime this morning. And there's no
doubt in my mind in prayers to anybody who's lost
anything out there, unlike some people Keith Oldman, for example,

(05:13):
you know, sort of making fun of or otherwise piling
on people who've lost James Wood's not a real fan
among the Hollywood leftist because of course he's one of
the few conservatives. He lost his home, and I guess
some people were making fun of him, telling him got
what he deserved, and that's not appropriate. And that's kind
of the point I'm trying to make here. I don't

(05:34):
wish anyone this kind of this terrible, terrible reality to
befall them, but I think it's pretty safe to assume
that the death Hole is not going to stay at
double at ten anyway. They're still struggling to contain the blazes.
At least five of these fires are still burning. I mean,

(05:56):
they're infernos, it's just many of them not contained at all.
They're burning simultaneously all around Los Angeles. Entire neighborhoods engulfed.
More than ten thousand and counting structures have been burned
to the ground. Medical examiner again gave the new death hole.
Los Angeles County Chef Robert Luna, speaking at a briefing

(06:20):
yesterday evening, the obvious question is do you think it's
going to grow? Refering to the death, County said, I'm
praying a dozen, but based on the devastation, it looks
like an atomic bomb dropped in these areas. I'm not
expecting good news exactly. So far, economic losses have been
estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. I've seen

(06:42):
figures from fifty billion to one hundred and thirty billion dollars.
Of course, thousands of people no longer have a place
to live, more than what two hundred thousand plus people
without power, three hundred and sixty thousand plus people under

(07:04):
a mandatory evacuation order, and one that accidentally issued for
the entire Los Angeles County, which I believe contains ten
million people. It was a woops moment everybody get out
of a Los Angeles County like, well what And I'm
not certain that you know that you know these fires
could actually engulf all of Los Angeles County, but consider

(07:26):
that as a possibility. How did ten million people evacuate,
especially when you know you're surrounded by wildfires. Pacivic Palis
Sage neighborhood absolutely just wiped out. Five thousand, three hundred
homps so far been destroyed, including businesses. And that's the

(07:51):
other element of it. Okay, First off, where do these
people stay? And if their businesses burned down, and a
lot of them did, they're not going to be going
to work anytime soon. The ripple effect of this kind
of thing is just almost overwhelming when you start contemplating

(08:15):
the subtleties and the sub layers that go on when
entire neighborhoods and city size swaths of land just disappear
in a moment's notice. I mean, this thing's only been
going on for three and a half days. The Eaton
fire and Pasadena area damaged more than five thousand structures.
It was this thirteen thousand, six hundred acre fire yesterday.

(08:38):
I'm not sure if they made any progress since yesterday.
It is early in the morning. A new fire broke
out yesterday afternoon. West Hills neighborhood of LA's San Fernando
Valley lit up, started spreading in the neighboring Ventura County,
quickly growing to one thousand acres, and officials had to
issue new evacuation orders in morning for those regions, saying

(09:02):
that it was likely to grow rapidly because of yes
the winds continue to blow and most of them uncontained. Yesterday,
of course, firefighter resources stretched to the limits, smoke literally everywhere,
and even where the fires aren't close by and jeopardizing buildings,

(09:25):
They've still had to shut down schools because, well, the
air quality index is so bad. I guess people can't breathe.
But part of me wanted to say, well, if you
can't breathe in a school and you close the schools
because of that, well where are you going to go
to breathe? Since the entire area is basically filled with smoke.

(09:51):
President Biden said that the federal government's going to be
covering one hundred percent of the disaster response for one
hundred and eighty days. That's up from the seventy five
percent and normally covers corner to Biden, I told the
governor local officials spare no expense to do what they
need to do to contain these fires. Can they turn
the water on? That's been a real problem for the

(10:11):
residents of Los Angeles, and I think if there's one
major criticism we can levy on them, shouldn't you at
least adequately prepare for water pressure. You live in a
dam tinderbox brought about largely from just well ignoring the problem.
And there are many out there screaming about global warming.
Bernie Sanders blaming global warming on this. Eight hundred or

(10:34):
eighty thousand people told to evacuate plazes, zero percent contained
eight months, since the area is seen rained, The scale
of damage and losses unimaginable. Climate change is real, not
a hoax. Donald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
It is.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
All right on that particular note. Gavin Newsom and many
many other Democrats blaming global warming or climate change for
the fires. You love in a tinder box, You have
no water pressure. You haven't done a damn thing to
remove the brush and all the tinder that's surrounding you.

(11:14):
You haven't put any fire breaks in. You haven't done
anything at all to address the real problems that exist
right now. So let's say climate change man made. Responsible
climate change is let's assume that for the sake of discussion,
and that you know, fifty years from now the temperature
will be one degree warmer, and that's the concern. I

(11:37):
guess the sea levels are going to rise, and you
know New York City's going to be underwater. Whatever. Okay,
between now and then, this so called climate change created
problem can be addressed and must be addressed with real

(11:58):
time right blos Linkan now threats that this thing has
allegedly created, in other words, the dry conditions and the
tinder box that they're sitting in. How about cleaning out
the tender how about adequately preparing for fire responses. How

(12:19):
about well, maybe getting a water supply and rather than
release all the water into the ocean because of a smell,
maybe you need more water resources because oge climate change
has created this problem. But we're gonna have to deal
with the real problem between now and then, which is
the risk, the genuine risk that this whole thing may

(12:40):
go up like a box of matches, which look it
just did. So are they're busy spending money on carbon
capture programs and trying to get people in an electric
vehicle because well, climate change, they're letting the rest of
the place create a genuine, life threatening right now problem.

(13:03):
I think it's a failure priorities, folks, and you know
they listen to somebody who doesn't believe that you and
I respond with the ups and downs of the of
the weather jays Louise. They said he's going to be
the costliest wildfires in US history. Got JP Morgan and

(13:28):
a couple of other sources saying, you know, the economic losses,
economic losses fifty billion highly of insurance losses from natural
disasters can well vary and from the initial estimates. And honestly,
if I'm a betting man, I'm putting it all down
on this costing more than fifty billion dollars five eighteen

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We'll call this Festivus California or Los Angeles Division, referring
to Rand Paul's Festivus report on all the squandering of money.
Democratic mayor Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass getting slammed from
a lot of people because she's last Los Angeles Fire
Department budget by seventeen point six million Los Angeles fire

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departments and a couple of top goals for them diversity, equity,
and inclusion as opposed to fire preparedness that's been widely reported,
Bass claiming in a press conference just yesterday, none of
the reductions would have been impacted situation that we're dealing
with over the last couple of days, and then also
having the audacity and nerve to add that the city

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is in tough budgetary times. I won't deny that I
have no idea what the city's budget is, but I'm
certain that they're in tough budgetary times. Homelessness and the
illegal immigrant problem is really soaking up a lot of resources.
Let's just use that as an illustration. It's happening, it's real.

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And yet Los Angeles allocated one hundred thousand dollars to
the Civil plus Human Rights and Equity Department for what
they call a midnight stroll transgender cafe that's in the
twenty twenty four to twenty five budget. The purpose to
support safe haven for unsheltered transgender individuals in Hollywood. See,

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they're breaking down the different types of homeless people. I'm homeless,
I need help. Wait a second, hold on, are you transgender? No,
I'm sorry, move over, getting a different line. These funds
are for unsheltered transgender individuals in Hollywood. Are you from Hollywood?
And are you Transgender? One hundred thousand dollars allocated to

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the NAACP Awards. Almost nine thousand dollars for quote one Institute,
the International Gay and Lesbian Archives, According to the reporting
here I found on town Hall one Archives at the
University of Southern California Libraries currently has an exhibit get
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The occult and the LGBTQ Movement. Thirteen grand for the

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plus fourteen thousand to the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles.
Thirteen grand apiece for the Los Angeles African American History Month,
American Indian Heritage Month, Latino Heritage Month, and Asian American

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History Month programs. One hundred and seventy thousand dollars for
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Fire Department blasted for promoting diversity equity inclusion initiatives in
its twenty twenty three to twenty twenty six strategic plans,

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stating that DEI was one of its key goals, also
stating a priority of the city's first LGBTQ and women
Fire chief Kristin Crowley as promoting a culture that values DEI.
Nothing in there about improving their fire response by twenty
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tomorrow at seven am. Gotta be having a uh wel
snow moving in. They say about eight am today floury's
looked for two to four inches, maybe even as much
as five possible. I have twenty eight I guess that's
throughout the day. It'll end around eleven o'clock at snow
overnight low of twenty. Roads will be covered. They say,

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mostly cloudy tomorrow with a high of twenty eight overnight
down to twenty with partly cloudy skies and a thirty
two high Sunday. It'll be dry and partly cloudy, twelve degrees.
Right now. If you've got KCD talk station five thirty one,
Joe Jessino, make sure you got Primus cut up. I

(21:57):
just got to instant message from Jeff. He's really looking
forward to what he said. It's been three weeks. You'll
get that in the moment. Jeff as the five bump.
Let's go to the phone. SEO, what March got this morning? Mark,
Thanks for calling. Welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 8 (22:11):
Fine, right, you know these this situation in California. I've
been watching what I can of it. The thing is
people in California keep voting these clowns in and when
you vote clowns into power, only, don't be surprised when
you have a circus you know that is happening in

(22:33):
front of the world, and then you have high profile
people that are that are you know, scouting about it now,
which is fine, but I mean you talk about incompetence
all the way from Gavin Newsom to this mayor, and
when you dig into her background evidently she's you know,
goes to Cuba on a regular basis. And also this

(22:57):
infatuation on the l with this whole gay and transgender thing.
I just don't get it, don't understand it, and I
think I have a pretty good theory on why they
may be doing it. But there's a there's a documentary
out there called Out of the Shadows dot org if

(23:19):
you can find it that goes into the whole relationship
of Hollywood with with the government and the occult and
all kinds of things. And then there was another one
that was called like I think follow the Water or
something like that. But you know, and I don't. I
can't speak to the validity of all of it, but man,
it sure does make you think. And it's just this

(23:43):
infatuation with this DEI and I think it's starting to
turn the corner and go the other way. But what
a joke, I mean. And again, but these people keep
voting clowns into office. And it's not just in California,
it's in every major city in the United States, and
Cincinnati included that. Yeah, yeah, so you know, you get

(24:04):
what you you get the government that you vote for.
And and and until people start standing up in the
smaller communities and the smaller cities and saying enough is enough.
The same thing that is happening in California right now
with fires. And I'm going to be speaking a little
bit out of turn, but we used to do a

(24:25):
lot of riding down to Daniel Boone National Forest and
there was a tornado that it went down through there
several years ago and it was to a point where
you couldn't even ride dirt bikes through most of the
forest because it was so torn up. And Daniel Boone
National Forests now they may have done work since, and
so that's what I said. Maybe I'm speaking out of turn,
but we were, we were, and they were closing down

(24:47):
a lot of the trails and now it is it's
completely closed down the off road riding. And we were
saying that it's just a matter of time before Daniel
Boone National Forest lights off. And we saw a little
bit about it in Gatlinburgh.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah, the fireworks started that out.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
Just California. Yeah, but it's not just California. And but
you're exactly right. This lack of forestry management, a lot
of this, I'm not gonna say it could have been
completely prevented, but it could have been maybe contained contained exactly.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
That's the point of putting in fire breaks, that's the
point of regularly maintaining and cleaning out the brush that's
well just basically a source of immediate combustion. I mean,
that's how you start a fire. You start with tinder
and then you start adding the big logs. And it
was just basically and acres after acre after miles square
miles of tender easily ignitable because they haven't had much rain.

(25:40):
And like they said, go ahead, believe that it's a
human caused climate change, but that doesn't mean you're not
supposed to do something about it in the meantime while
you're trying to take carbon out of the atmosphere. Ah,
appreciate it. Mark, you have a wonderful weekend. My friend, Pete,
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High of twenty eight, overnight low at twenty watch the
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Station, Can you play John the Fisherman.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
You just made Jeff a very happy man, Judge Drecker,
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two three though, before we get to the eastack oast
it what Pete's got? Pete, thanks for holding over the
very Happy Friday.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Thanks Brian.

Speaker 11 (29:05):
I saw a news clip like the people trying to
evacuate they got into big like traffic jams and then
we're getting smoked out, and so they abandoned their cars
and then they brought.

Speaker 8 (29:18):
In bulldozers and they were literally bulldozing the cars off
the roads so that fire trucks are getting through.

Speaker 7 (29:25):
That was just unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Well, and what else do you do? I mean, if
you're stuck in a traffic jam that is not moving
and the fire is coming up to you, toward you,
you need to save your life, so you get out
of your car and you run for the ocean, which
is what so many of those poor, those poor people
had to do, leaving, of course, the responders to have
the bulldoze. I mean, don't ever park in front of
a fire hydrant because if there's a fire in the

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area that requires that hydrant, trust me, the UH firefighters
will do everything they can to literally destroy your car
by not smashing the windows out, running hoses through them
and everything. I don't think that's you know, I think
it's designed to teach a lesson generally speaking, don't park
in front of a fire hydrant. But in times like this,
life is far more important than moving your car out

(30:11):
of the way. And I doubt those books had really
any place that they could put their cars. So yeah,
all right, it was just an absolute panic. Listen. I
had a dear friend that was stuck in that fire
that was just mentioned in the last segment and Gatlinburg.
He was staying in one of the chalets. The fire
was coming up the hills, they got surrounded. He had

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to drive out, could not see more than a foot
in front of his car. And if you've ever seen
those windy narrow roads that are are in and around
the Gatlinburg area. It's scary enough to drive on them
when the weather's fine. He is surrounded by fire. He
was so hot in his car he could barely stand it.
He was able to get out, Thank God. He's just

(30:51):
such a great guy. But he and his wife literally
thought they were going to die that close to death.
And so I forgive those people all day long for
abanning their cars in the street and saving their lives.
Let's see, here we go to the stack of stupid. Apparently,

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get us all outside reminded the winner just doesn't have
to be gray skies and icy sidewalks, And, as the
reporter notes, who wouldn't want to stop and snap a
selfie with a giant pink guy casually perched on a ledge.
This year's exhibit, probably funded by the Boston taxpayers, features

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fifteen artworks and interactive play elements scattered throughout the city.
Officially kicking off the fifteenth w interactive clearly loves a
good surprise. The playful pink naked guys blow up dolls
started showing up and they'll be on display until March thirtieth.
I guarantee you there are taxpayer dollars related to that.

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And since it's Friday, let's get one naked story in
here before we take a break. We got a tradition
in Polk County, North Carolina, where a man was found
naked before his arrest in the home of a child
he met on social media. R Andrew Murray, District Attorney
for Henderson, Polk and Transylvania Counties, announced that Jesse Bernard Floyd,

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twenty four pleaded guilty to a list of charges sentence Monday.
According to investigation of court trial records, he met and
befriended the child on the social media website Sniffies and
started soliciting the child for nude pictures and sex. After
building an online report, Floyd able to convince the child

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to follow Floyd to come to the child's home in
Pole County. He became The child became nervous about the
meeting and told a family member Floyd, found naked in
the home of the child, was attempting to carry out
a sexual act with a child before being arrested. Pleaded
guilty to attempted statutory sexual offense with a child fifteen
years or younger, taking indecent liberties with a child, and

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soliciting a child by computer, disseminating obscenities to a minor
under the age of sixteen period five point fifty one
fifty by Kersbecaux Station. We do get a little more
leeway in terms of content five o'clock hour and while
I will not read the entire article. Pro tip if

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you're getting an MRI, make sure you don't have a
sex toy in your rectum. As described in the Daily Mail,
patients suffered horrific injuries after leaving. The sex toy insorted
into her rectum during a medical procedure, was inside the
patient's back passage during a routine MRI scan. Why are
you doing that? No idea resulting in a hazardous reaction

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between the powerful magnets in the MRI and the metal
parts inside the toy. Post from social media detail how
the powerful magnetic forces used in the MRI detail scans
pulled the metallic core of the silicone toy through the
patient's rectum and up into her chest cavity. Patient apparently

(34:58):
believe the sex toy was one in silicone, but it
wasn't It had a metal core. But then again, why
are you doing that? Whether or not you believe that
to be a good idea in the first instance, don't
you think just as a matter of well common sense,
you might want to take it out before getting an MRI,

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which most assuredly would reveal whatever it is you've thought
was a rise idea to insert inside you?

Speaker 12 (35:26):
Now, who can argue with that?

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Good? A bat Louisiana woman at the Mall of Louisiana
rang in the New y Air naked video posted on
x shows the woman jogging through the main corridor of
the mall fully nude, while bystanders. Of course, we're turning
to stare and take a bunch of pictures. Cord to

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the Bad News Police, the incident happened January third, about
one pm. An officer was working a special assignment at
the mall reported that the mall secure initially notified about
the woman running through the mall partially undressed, with later
updates confirming no she was fully nude. Women eventually found
inside Dillard's and detained by mall security. Courton Local is

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They believe the woman could have been under the influence
of narcotics at the time. Really, New Hampshire, Gary, thanks
for calling this morning. You're interrupting the naked people in

(36:38):
the stack and stupid New Amster Gary, welcome back. That's okay.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
I I feel like we really live in a clown world.

Speaker 8 (36:46):
We really do.

Speaker 7 (36:47):
You know?

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Well, I let me assure you. I guarantee you as
sure as I'm sitting here. The only reason we feel like,
you know that the world is really coming on glued
with all this kind of stories and the craziness is
because as we have the Internet, which immediately brings the
most bizarre stories that may have been locally reported back
in the day we had local newspapers, but brings us

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to the full attention of the entire world because everybody
and his brother will repost and bring it to our
attention because it's so batcrap insane.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
You know what, fact, Brian, I'm so much. I feel
so important.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Oh my goodness, you get ready for an MRI today,
are you? Gary?

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Yeah, I'll be sure to take care of myself before
I go. Oh my goodness, thank god, it's Friday, right exactly.
Oh gee, hey, I can probably get a discount down
there in so Samati. You got your m I place
down there? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the good plug for them.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Plug a plug crazy. I'm surprised Joe let that one slide.
He was such a slow moving soft right on in
right okay, dgis. Oh my goodness, are you done?

Speaker 3 (38:16):
I can't. I can't help but to think of this uff.
I've been watching this agenda free guy. He's kind of
a geek, but he's really good at covering this on
YouTube and he actually put broadcastify with uh the.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
He's a newscast or.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
He's kind of geeky, but he really has it and
they have a chat with it, and it's kind of
like a news source and you're just watching non filtered.
It's called non Agenda, and it's on YouTube, and you
kind of get an idea of what really is going
on the magnitude of how serious this is. But I

(38:54):
was just watching an article apparently a they're getting people
who are starting now I saw a couple of them
that have been caught with torches in their hands. Yeah,
and they look like they're homeless people or they're not
really well off, and they're going to these neighborhoods and
they're torching them up. Yeah, and they got a couple

(39:15):
of those on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah, there's a report in New York Posts among others,
as it's widely reported. We got one taken a homeless
person taken to custody in Los Angeles for starting a fire.
So it was the Kenneth fire that was started by
this particular homeless individual. And there's other videos circulating as
well that I've seen. And again, you know, if you

(39:37):
want to do massive damage and you are one of
these type of people, And that go back to my
conversation with the guy from Breitbart earlier in the week
about these lone individuals. You know, it could be an active,
intentional terrorism done by a person who just absolutely hates
you know the fact that everybody in Pacific Palisades lives
in a three and a half plus million dollar home,
and oh, look around you. There's enough kindling to immediately

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start the whole place on fire. All you need is
a pack of matches that could be behind any one
of these fires. But we do have reports of arrests
for people intentionally starting fires. So crazy world. That's why
you need to take precautionary measures. The world's an imperfect
place and it's filled with a bunch of crazy people.

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you could hear from Dave Hatter Tech Friday, Dave Fredder
from Interest I T Today they fired the fact checking
group that worked for Zuckerberg's Facebook, Meta got rid of

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them for political bias. FBI. Apparently China has access to
US government devices and networks, and phishing attacks doubled in
twenty twenty four. Those are the topics with Dave at
the bottom of the hour five one, three, seven, two
three talk found five fifty on ET and T phones.
We also have Todd Zinzer and studio our watchdog of
city council and the county commissioners talking about a whole

(41:34):
bunch of topics dealing with the city and the county,
Keegan Corkor and our wine expert. Why dry January hurts
the hospitality and retail business. Apparently that social media post
caused a bit of a stir on social media and
Rebecca Cerndorf at eight thirty, Ohioan's for Child Protection Divine
signed it into law, and we'll talk about what that
means for the state of Ohio. And children, meanwhile tapping

(41:59):
into the expertise to the editorial board of the Wall
Street Journal and just summing up the stupidity of government.
Now I already pointed out, you know, all these folks
screaming about global warming, and if it wasn't for global
warming or climate change, those fires would not be raging
in California. If you believe that I got a bridge,
I want to say it, but it reveals prioritization, prioritizing

(42:20):
all these woke green policies for something that may or
probably won't happen one hundred years down the road, spending
countless billions of dollars on that, but not paying attention
real time to real problems that could result in catastrophes,
like the catastrophe that's literally going on before our very
eyes out in California right now. Nobody cleaned it up,

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Nobody put fire breaks in, Nobody anticipated needing like water pressure.
Oh my god, what happens if we have a fire. Well,
we got smelt to worry about. So hey. Public officials
are supposed to be prioritizing and doing the right thing
and anticipating real time, real life challenges that exist right
now now, pivoting over along those same lines to what

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California has done to itself in so far as insurance
is concerned. Journal op ed board California wildfire insurance catastrophe.
The state has refused to let insurers do proper pricing
for risk. Homeowners and taxpayers will pay for the mistake.
I'd say right, the politicians are blaming each other for

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the losses and the horrific Los Angeles wildfires, but the
truth is that Mother Nature can be merciless. The stories
about water shortages are conflicting any more time to sort out,
but it's not too soon to note that California's politicians
have fueled a five alarm insurance market crisis that will
hurt homeowners and taxpayers across the state once the fires
have died out. Hurricane Force Win US fanning the fires

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across Los Angeles County, especially Pacific Palisades and Alta Dina,
where two thousand structures to burn by Thursday evening. Actually
it's more than that. Ten people now reportedly are dead.
Tens of thousands of buildings remain at risk. California's Southland
has rarely experienced such strong winds in the past two

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wet winners produced loads of combustible vegetation that became tender
after the recent dry months. See you had great weather
causing growth, followed by dry weather, which creates tinder. Such
conditions have created a perfect storm that could become the
most expensive wildfire disaster in US history. The human tragedy

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is paramount, but the insurance losses will be in the
tens of billions of dollars or more. The damage could
topple the states under capitalized insurer of last resort. It's
called fair fai R. The again the insurer of last resort.
Private carriers are almost certain to increase premiums, canceled policies,

(44:57):
or withdrawal from the entire state of California, insurers that
already scrapped hundreds of thousands of policies in limited coverage
of wildfire prone areas. Democrats blame climate change, which has
become an all purpose excuse for any disaster relief failure.
But the real insurance problem is that the state regulators
have barred insurers from charging premiums that fully reflect risks

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and costs. California is the only state that heretofore hasn't
allowed insurers to incorporate the cost of reinsurance in premiums
until this year. It has also prohibited insurers from adjusting
premiums by using the standard injury industry practice of catastrophe

(45:40):
modeling to protict the property's future risk. Insurers can only
assess premiums based on historical losses. Consequently, insurers are paying
out one dollar and nine cents in expenses and claims
for every dollar they collect in premiums. Stay in the obvious.

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The journal notes this is financially unsustainable, which is why
many have paired coverage in areas at high fire risk
with expensive home State Farm dropped nearly seventy percent of
policyholders in one Pacific Palisades neighborhood where the average hump
price is three and a half million dollars. You see,

(46:24):
let me just pause on that note, and this is
where a lot of these celebrities live Pacific or lived
past tense. You're going to have to be a person
of means to afford a three and a half million
dollar house. Average price is three and a half million,
and they obviously there's a one some in there that
just go way higher than that. I would imagine they

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probably could handle a really healthy, fat insurance premium. If
State Farm jacked up the rates by you know, two
hundred percent or something to deal with the risk that
is associated with insuring a home in that area. Something
tells me the folks in Pacific policy probably could have
handled the insurance premium, but because of the rules and

(47:07):
REGs in California, State Farm said, you know, let's screw it,
we're out, We're leaving, We're done, dropping seventy percent of
the policyholders there. Bye, So this insurer in the state
of California of last resort, Fair now covers about half
a million homeowners who can't obtain private coverage. Now here's
where the rubber meets the road, folks on elected officials

(47:28):
that are failing to do their job. Fair's exposure has
now ballooned to four hundred and fifty eight to billion
dollars as of last September, up from one hundred and
fifty three billion dollars four years earlier, with five point

(47:49):
nine billion dollars exposure in this one Pacific Palisades area.
All right, a lot of numbers there. Total insurance exposure
four fifty eight one neighborhood five point nine billion in exposure.
Are you ready? It has only seven hundred million dollars

(48:09):
cash on hand to pay claims. Reminds me of underfunded
pension programs for example. Why it's because state regulators have
required Fare to cover higher priced homes while rejecting its
proposals for rate increases to account for rising risk and liabilities,

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just like it has for private insurers. This home prices
of construction costs increase to the liabilities. Building a quote
unquote affordable housing unit in California can cost one million dollars.
Last year, Fair president Victoria Roach testified to the state

(48:56):
Assembly about the insurer's precarious finances, saying, quote, as those
numbers climb, our financial stability becomes more in question. We
are one event away from a large assessment. There is
no other way to state it, because we don't have
the money on hand, and we have a lot of

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exposure out there. If Fair fails, private insurers meaning their policyholders,
are supposed to cover its claims based on their share
of the market, but insurance premiums for many homeowners are
setirized twenty to forty percent this year and even more

(49:36):
in the future, and that was before the current fires
to keep carriers from fleeing the market. California Insurance Commissioner
Ricardo Laura last month said it long last that they
could use catastrophe modeling and pricing in their reinsurance costs
well thanks a lot such reforms were needed, but he

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also imposed costly regulations that may still cause some insurers
to retreat, especially after the Los Angeles fires. Don't be
surprised if Governor Gavin Newsom asked Washington, meaning you to
pay for multimillion dollar homes that have gone up in smoke.
Mister Newsom can blame climate change all he wants, but
that does not absolve the state from the duty to

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adapt to its effects. If he really believes this. Unlike fires,
California insurance catastrophe really is the fault of the Democrats
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(52:46):
Welcome to the show, and happy Friday to you, sir.

Speaker 13 (52:49):
Hey, good morning there, Brian. I agree with what you're saying,
because see, I have family that lives out there and.

Speaker 8 (52:57):
Friends, and sometime.

Speaker 13 (53:00):
You know, I feel for them, but sometime they just
don't get it. They'll build, they build these beautiful houses
and they won't even clear out like twenty fifty yards
around them. They'll build and all this front. I mean
if they build right in the middle of you know,
a timber box and you try to say, hey man,

(53:23):
you got you you should clear to see I'm not
in Kentucky. Kentucky and Ohio. We clear out things because
we know OF's coming. They'll pole right beautiful houses and
I like I said, I love them, but I mean
they just have a different mindset. They just don't get it.

Speaker 8 (53:41):
And they're supposed to be these.

Speaker 13 (53:42):
Natural people, natural but they won't clear around their stuff
and they put in the most stupidest, with all due respect,
stupid people like that lady was on there this morning,
that one in California. Man, she she talk in the
circle with doll do respect. They bring it on themselves.

(54:07):
I mean, look at the people they put in there.
They don't clear out around and you know they want
to save the planet, but not clearing around. But I mean,
they just got a different mindset with doll do respect.

Speaker 8 (54:19):
I love them, they just don't think.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. And again, you know they
they want if they want to fight the existential crisis
they believe global climate change is, but they're not dealing
with the current realities of it. Like I said, concede
the point. It's dry in California in spite of the
fact they had a really wet couple of winters preceding

(54:42):
this one. We're going to ignore that. But it's been
dry for the last year. Oh my god, climate change
is refault. We didn't get any rain for one year
on the heels of two years worth of a lot
with a lot of rain. Again, ignore that, and then
they won't deal with the reality created by that right now,
which is your house is built next to a giant matchbox.

(55:02):
It's just fine. But you know what, let's pivot over.
My parents used to have a condo in Naples, Florida.
Now it was Inland. It was a condominium, second story
in a three story building. It had been through a

(55:23):
couple of hurricanes, you know, relatively unscathed. But in the
final analysis, there are people who build multi, multi million
dollar homes where right there on the beach, and they
get hurricanes there, and the hurricanes wipe out multi multi
billion dollar homes. Those little strips of of of of

(55:47):
a barrier islands out there like that we saw devastated
by the most recent hurricane. I mean, do you think
it's prudent or smart to invest that much money in
a home when literally even a low level hurricane is
going to be washing waves up across it because well,
the elevation of the little barrier island is only about

(56:07):
three feet above sea level. Does that sound like a
smart place to construct a home? I mean, back when
New Orleans got hit by the hurricane, I mean, lord,
how amighty hell hell broke loose on that? I made
a point a bunch of times. You know, who's the
guy with the bright idea to build a city that's
below sea level right there where they get hurricanes? And

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they have historically because well, hurricanes have been happening. I
guess as long as the globe's been spinning, Oh, it's
never going to happen to me. Well, that's why insurance
companies should be allowed to price the cost of insurance
based upon the risk presented. Let's see, might there be
a flooding risk when you're a city is below sea level? Check?

(56:53):
Is your city in a hurricane zone? Check? You know
what your a flood insurance and your hurricane insurance is
going to cost an arm and a blankened leg because
you insist on living in an area that could be
completely devastated by something that occurs in nature fairly regularly
and always has six twenty five afty five KRC detalk station.

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And I know these people have stafte some place to live.
I'm not saying Pacific policies should never have been built,
but I'm saying the officials that run the show out
there should have taken broader steps and measures to done
something along the lines of protecting their people. Hell, they've
had wildfires started because well the power company wasn't bothering
to keep up and maintain its power lines. We learned

(57:41):
a lot about that.

Speaker 9 (57:42):
Hmm.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
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But happy twenty twenty five to you, and happy New Year.
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I know you're just a terrific and highly qualified guy
and I love having you on this show each and
every week.

Speaker 7 (01:00:19):
So welcome back, well, Brian, Happy new Year to you
and all your listeners. I'm glad to be here and
glad you're back, and looking forward to hopefully another good
year of crazy tech topics.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
You know that's going to be crazy tech topics. Oh yeah,
all right, as I try to clear my throat, looks
like Mark Zuckerberg has well found Jesus or something. He
fired his so called fact checkers, and I thought it
was a big, mean, like a comedic fun fest that
the fact checkers fact checked themselves and said they weren't biased,

(01:00:53):
And that's been kind of going around as a side
splitting response for being fired. But leads is the name
of this entity, and they were I guess subcontractors to
to well take delete posts that you and I would
put up online.

Speaker 7 (01:01:09):
Yeah, it's been interesting to watch this play out. It
was kind of surprising to me when this news broke
and the reaction to it has definitely been interesting, kind
of from the Truth is Strangers in Fiction department, I mean,
you know, ten years ago, we probably both would have
laughed if we would have thought, hey, this kind of
thing would happen in the first place, and then b

(01:01:30):
we'd be talking about the reaction when it gets pulled out.
You know, the community notes feature, because from what I've
seen from Zuckerberg, he's basically indicated that they're going to
switch on meta platforms Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, et cetera to
more of an approach like ex uses right x slash Twitter.
They have this community approach feature or community notes feature,

(01:01:53):
where if somebody questions something, you know, you'll get a
community note and in many cases, like Musk himself, will
ask is this true community news? And you know you'll
get a response. And the way it works over there
is there's, you know, a group of people, people from
each side, and then the consensus of that becomes the
community more or less. It's a little more complicated than that,

(01:02:15):
but you know, it basically provides a way to question
the validity of something without necessarily taking it down right,
And Musk has gotten community notes himself a couple of times,
so it's interesting the way it works. I think it
works pretty well, and from what I've seen from Zuckerberg.
That's the approach they're going to take here, which has

(01:02:36):
apparently made a lot of people who apparently appreciated the
censorship very unhappy. I've seen some inside Baseball notes. I mean,
who knows what's really true, Brian that you know now
there's like chaos inside Meta because people are really unhappy
about this change in direction. So, you know, I'm not
a fan of Meta to begin with. I think it's

(01:02:57):
definitely a step in the right direction, assuming they do
it the way that X does it. But I guess
we'll see what happens.

Speaker 8 (01:03:04):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
I guess my question is, what are they afraid of?

Speaker 7 (01:03:07):
A good question? You know, the whole idea of community
notes again, as I understand it anyway, I mean, I
only know what I've read about it and seen the
way it's worked real time on X. I like X.
I'm a fan of X. I think X is probably
the best place to go to get information quickly and
to get what I would describe is more accurate information,

(01:03:27):
simply because of the community notes feature and the fact
that people can challenge things and you have, you know,
folks who can then weigh in on it. So I'm
a huge fan of X, especially for anything technology and
cybersecurity related. It's by far the best place to go
to get information quickly and know that you've got this
community notes capability to provide some legitimacity good for lack

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of a better description, So yeah, balance that and legitimacy again,
because people can say whatever crazy thing they want, and
then you will have people say, well, no, that's it's
not right. You know, here's the community note on why
that's not the case.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
So it's like a footnote, like citing a reference source.
So if I post something random without any citation, someone
on community notes can say, no, you're wrong, and here
is the learned treatise which points out all the reasons
you're wrong. Here's a link that kind of thing.

Speaker 7 (01:04:20):
Yeah, exactly. So, so I applaud Zuckerberg for moving in
this direction. I think it's the right direction. I think
it's interesting because of the rivalry between Musk and Zuckerberg.
If you remember, at one point they were talking about
having some sort of MMA fight. Yeah, I think it's
really interesting that. You know, Zuckerberg actually when he announced this,

(01:04:43):
said that, you know, this approach is going to be
more like X, so you know, it remains to be seen.
I haven't noticed any different, you know, with all these
snow emergencies and so forth. I've been spent a lot
of time on Facebook here lately. I haven't seen any
difference in the way it behaves currently. Now, maybe that's
just because no one I know has gotten a community

(01:05:03):
note or whatever they're going to call it on Facebook.
I don't. I don't recall him giving it a title
like that, right, So we'll see. But I think it's
a step in the right direction and a positive move,
assuming they actually do what they said they're going to do.

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But I won't forgive him for working with the Department
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bring them into the physical structure of the building in
order to tell people what is and what canon cannot
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computers because the Chinese hackers have been hard at work.
What's this one about? I saw this alert from the FBI.
This is frightening stuff day.

Speaker 7 (01:08:01):
It really is, Brian, because when you look at the
big picture, right, take the hacking out of it for
a second. I mean, if you're paying the attention to
the news at all, almost everywhere you look there's some
sort of potential or active conflict with the Chinese Communist Party.
You know, there have been stories about Chinese ships dragging
their anchors and ripping up the undersea cables that power

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the Internet yep, you know, increasingly critical in our interconnected world.
There have been stories about the Chinese Coastguard and navy,
you know, interfering with ships and around Taiwan, we've seen,
you know, all kinds of complaints and concerns about Chinese
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anywhere you look there's friction with the Chinese Communist Party. Again,
I hate this. You know, the people of China are great.
The government is a problem. It's increasingly adversarial to us.
We continue to use their apps and buy their products,
which which funds their ability to take these adversarial positions
with us, and then you know, it's probably been almost

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two months since this story force broke that Chinese hackers
had broken into various telecom companies and their networks. And
as the story unfolds, you know, and this is this
is almost always the case anytime you hear about some
sort of breach or hack like this, usually over time,
as more forensics are done, it's much worse than whatever

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was intentionally and originally reported. And as we've seen here
now apparently there's at least nine big telecom companies, people
like Verizon, AT and t et cetera, that have had
some type of hacker infiltration into their networks. I think
this was probably right around the time you went on break.
It might have been Kevin I talked to about this.

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It's ironic because for a long time, you may recall, Brian,
we've talked about it many times over the years, the
FBI and other law enforcement agencies have been against end
to end encryption because it makes it difficult, if not
in possible, for them to get into people's stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:10:03):
Well, as a result of this hacking that again continues
to be revealed apparently in worse and worse ways. You know,
now they've come out, the FBI has encouraged people to
use the end to end encryption. End to end encryption
would be an app like Signal where at no point,
you know, if I can get your device and unlock it,
I could read your messages. But if I can't unlock

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your device, Signal doesn't have the key to unencrypt the data.
Only the person at the other end would. So you know,
that's the idea of end to end encryption. The data
is encrypted all the way through the channels, all the
way to both ends, only the authorized people that have
the right keys can decrypt it. That's kind of a
layman's explanation. So when you see them telling everyone that

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they should stop using unencrypted apps and they should only
use encrypted apps, despite they're raising all kinds of cane
about not being able to access this data when they have,
you know, legitimate criminal activity they want to investigate. That
should be a real wake up call to people. And
you know, as best I can tell from all the reporting,

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there's no guarantee they've even gotten these people out of
all these things. And they think about this for a second, Brian,
you know, everything is digital Everything you do is online,
you know, whether it's a phone call, a text, an email,
your social media, whatever. You know, it's all going through
these networks. So if it's not into end encrypted in
theory they have, they could have, and possibly are still

(01:11:27):
sucking up everything that's not encrypted. It's it's bad not
to mention. You know that the data is one aspect
of it. The other aspect is do they have persistent
footholds in these networks that they could shut down if
they wanted to? And then think of the chaos that
was to think of what happened with CrowdStrike. Now, imagine

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if you could shut down basically everything because the networks
that make it work go down.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
I trust me, I have you through my in my
mind gone through the ripple effect horrors of something like that.
And you know the idea that the Chinese Communist Party
at any given moment could flip a switch and turn
the power off or stop the water flowing, which is
certainly a genuine possibility under these circumstances, it's the scenarios

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are nightmarish.

Speaker 7 (01:12:19):
Yeah, I know this probably sounds far fetched to a
lot of people, especially if you haven't paid any attention
to the story. But I mean what you just described
is absolutely well within possibilities. Yes, I'm not saying it's
going to happen. I certainly hope it does not happen.
But because everything is interconnected, because everything is digital, you know,

(01:12:41):
at least you could cause some serious supply chain disruptions
if you were able to knock all of this out
for any significant period of time. And you know when
you really dig into this, So here you go. Now
it appears the issue is more widespread than first thought.
The Wall Street General reporting to the group the group
soll Typhoon. I don't know where they come up with
these crazy names for these nation state hackers. The salt

(01:13:02):
Typhoon may have had access for quote months or longer.
And again you've got our government now telling you that
you should use into end encryption. That Wall Street Journal
goes on to say, quote Internet traffic from Internet service
providers that account business is large and small, and millions
of Americans of their customers may have had data harvested

(01:13:24):
by this attack. And again I'm very concerned about that
they could steal trade secrets. Who knows what they would know,
what they could use for blackmail, etc. But the idea
that they could still be in there and have some
sort of you know, to your point switch they could
flip that would shut one or more of these major
telecom networks down. It could be a real catastrophe. So

(01:13:50):
it's long past time, Brian, for us in this country,
every person, every agency to get really serious about this,
because we're no longer just worried about Okay, well you
crash my computer and I lost my photos. Everything is interconnected,
you know. Critical systems rely on other systems downstream, and
while your critical system might be perfectly secure, some downstream

(01:14:14):
system that goes down may bring down the critical system.
So we've got we've just got to take this seriously,
and people have got to start thinking about things like
privacy and security and how can I, as you know,
can I use an individual stop this? No, you can't,
but can use an individual start making yourself more secure,
doing a better job of maintaining your privacy, which ultimately

(01:14:38):
impact this all positively. Yes, and we've got to get
serious about this before something terrible happens.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
One of the reasons I have you on the program.
If you say it enough day, people may finally start
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on the rise apparently.

Speaker 7 (01:16:01):
Yeah, I'm hoping this doesn't come as a surprise for
people with the stats are pretty shocking now, you know,
I'm trying to get too caught up at any particular stats, Bryant,
because there are numerous organizations out there tracking this, anyone
from the FBI to Microsoft to you know, smaller organizations
you've never heard of, but like you know, once the

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year Microsoft puts out a big report on cybersecurity, Verizon does.
They're both very well known and you know, full of
useful information, especially if you're a nerd like me. So again,
I don't I don't want people to get too caught
up in any particular stat but these stats are pretty alarming,
and you know, sadly, because we see this every day
out in the field working with prospects and clients. It's
not at all surprising to me. Two hundred and two

(01:16:45):
percent rise in overall phishing messages. Just in the last
half of twenty twenty four, slash net, one of the
one of the people who report on this fishing intelligence,
support seven hundred and three percent surge and credential phishing attacks.
So one of the things that I find frustrating about
this industry is, you know, we come up with all

(01:17:06):
this sort of technical jargon and mumbo jumbo that makes
it hard for the average person to understand what it
means and how it affects them. So, credential phishing is basically,
in Layman's terms, I'm going to send out some kind
of message. Fishing usually means email, but you've also got
text based phishing, which is called smishing, You've got voice

(01:17:27):
fishing fishing. So I'm going to send out some kind
of message, might even be a post on social media, right,
And when you click that link, usually there's some social engineering,
there's some urgency you've got to do something before some
terrible thing happens. Right, And when you click that link,
you're going to end up on a log in page
that looks exactly like the Microsoft that they sixty five

(01:17:48):
log in, or exactly like the Google log in. So normally,
when you hear credential fishing. They're trying to steal your
user name and password because either because it's a targeted
attack on a specific site, or because they know that
people use the same user names and passwords over and
over and if I can steal your user name and
password your credentials for Facebook, that might also work for

(01:18:10):
your bank or your email or whatever. Right, So to
hear credential fishing, that's what they're talking about seven hundred
and three percent surge. So why would that occur, Well,
because they know many people use the same username and
password on multiple accounts, and if I can get it
for one, there's no telling what else I might be
able to get into of yours and either impersonate to

(01:18:32):
steal some sensitive data, or most likely and usually the
end goal, to steal your money. And by using the
same user name and password, by not turning on multifacture authentication,
you're making it easy. I mean, I also want to
point out Brian phishing is very easy and very cheap.
It costs these bad guys virtually nothing to do these attacks.

(01:18:53):
So you know a seven hundred and three percent surge
on one hand, Well, it's cheap and easy, so of
course they're going to go up and there's more people line,
but it probably wouldn't go up that much. If these
things weren't effective, right, they would figure out other ways
to steal your money. So you know, when I see
a surge like that, it tells me these things must
be working. And they mentioned in this article, you know

(01:19:14):
there's more of a shift to mobile based platforms again,
things like your texts. They know it's harder to look
at an email on a mobile device, or certainly a
text on a mobile device and know whether it's legitimate
or not. They reported mobile users face up the six
hundred threats annually. Underscoring is shift away from email only
phishing to multi channel approaches again, text, voice calls, postings

(01:19:38):
on social media, and you know they break it down further.
I know we're amount of time here link based threats.
You know, another reason why these things are effective is
when the good guys like Intrust are out there putting
in systems to try to help your business eat this
stuff before it ever gets delivered to people. Okay, so
phishing attack A comes out, it points to some known

(01:19:58):
website that's trying to harvest your credentials and it's Okay,
so we can block that. Well, then they just set
up a new one and then they send out another
round of fission. So until that new site that's trying
to harvest your credentials is discovered, it works. So so
much of this. While there's all kinds of technological solutions,
and there's all kinds of things you can do working

(01:20:19):
with the right partners, and that you as an individual
can do. Like I mentioned in that last segment, a
lot of this ultimately boils down to education and awareness
and being skeptical and understanding how these things work. That
it's really easy for me as a bad guy, to
send out hundreds of millions of messages and to set
up a website that looks exactly like the Microsoft log
in page or the Google login page, and to be

(01:20:40):
extremely skeptical before you click on a link and then
enter your credentials. I mean, if people would just get
that well understood and stop doing that, you cut an
enormous amount of this sort of fraud.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
Out, no question about it. I don't open anything. I
get an email, that's for sure, and you know, rarely
do it all and to text messages either. Dave Hatter
always appreciate the sound advice. Again, heed Dave's warnings and again,
if you're a company that needs help with computer systems,
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and for a pass along the information to us every week.

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Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
I'll look forward to every Friday this calendar year with
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Speaker 7 (01:21:22):
My brother, always my pleasure, Brian. I look forward to
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Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
Appreciate it. Todd zens are coming up after top of
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Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
It's seven six here at fifty five ker City Talk Station.
A very happy Friday, Love my Friday shown a fifty
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We're calling him our watchdog as city council as well
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and he does show up at city council meetings from
time to time. Todd Zenzer, Happy New Year to you,
Welcome back, man. It's always great talking with you.

Speaker 12 (01:22:29):
Thank you, Brian, Happy new year.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
Always appreciate your thoughtful and insightful information. Let us begin,
if we may. I know we got a lot to
talk about, including the shooting information as well as the
new arena. New arena anyway, but let's start with since
a council meetings. I understand from our off air conversation
you were there at the meeting on Wednesday and was

(01:22:53):
the city hard at work doing city council business relating
to matters within the city.

Speaker 12 (01:22:58):
Well, yeah, you're given an opportunity. Theoretically, you're given two
minutes to make public comments before every city council meeting.
You go in, you fill out the card, tell them
what you want to talk about. But for the last
year and four months, the public comment period has been
dominated by supporters of the Palestinians or the people in Gaza,

(01:23:23):
and they're very passionate, they're very emotional when they speak.
There were probably, I think there were only six supporters
of Gaza population there on Wednesday, but in meetings past

(01:23:43):
there have been dozens who get up and speak.

Speaker 7 (01:23:46):
And the.

Speaker 12 (01:23:49):
Issue is that the city council has brought this on itself.
That back in October, several days after the terrorist attacks,
the city council passed a resolution by the mayor and
Mark Jeffries in support of Israel. And as a result
of that, the supporters of the Palestinians have come in

(01:24:12):
every week and made a plea to the city council
to condemn Israel and calling for a boycott or of whatever,
not sending any weapons.

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
Divesting because the city has such a real tight connection
with the affairs of Israel and Palestine, and of course
the city is in a position to do something about it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
Right.

Speaker 12 (01:24:38):
Well, there are people very upset with the city council
forgetting us in this situation.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
Well, I understand that because regardless of where you are
on the situation, you're in favor of Israel, you're in
favor of Palestine. You're in favor of, I don't know,
naval contemplation. The city has no control over it. It
is it walked into an issue that it shouldn't have
walked into. This is like a you know, Bud Budweiser

(01:25:07):
making the foolish mistake of hiring the transvesti guy to
promote bud light. I mean, why would you enter into
that realm and invite the conversation. I mean, didn't you,
I mean, didn't they anticipate that there might be a
little bit of backlash for them waiting into the controversy.

Speaker 12 (01:25:21):
I don't. I don't think. I don't think they did.
Brian and the pointless gesture though. The result is that
the initially the mayor would extend the public comment period
until everybody was done, including members of the public who
want to talk about city issues. But on Monday he

(01:25:41):
announced that he was going to stick to the rules
of the Council that were enacted or passed back when
the back when the Council started in twenty two and
its extends the public comment period for thirty minutes, and
everybody gets two minutes, and if the third minutes is
over and there's people waiting to talk they'll just have

(01:26:02):
to come back next week. Sorry sucks they get on
the list. So fortunately the meeting on Wednesday was not
that well attended and there was only like three or
four of us other than the supporters of the people
in Gaza. So we all got a chance to speak.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
To speak to matters relating to the cities, affairs and
things over which council has control, right like snow removal
for example.

Speaker 12 (01:26:28):
Yeah, so which they all were patting themselves on the
back about how well they were doing in snow removal.
I mean, there's no nobody who's raising their hands saying,
well what about didn't we just hear that Mount Adams is.

Speaker 2 (01:26:45):
So it's just they have anybody from Mount Adams show up.
They said, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 12 (01:26:49):
So, but the city council doesn't doesn't engage in those
kind of conversations. It's all for one and one for all.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Right, well, how does this work? So you ignore during
the whole Israel Gaza thing, And again they stepped in
that fort and got themselves in a jam that in
passing a resolution that ultimately has zero impact or point.
But you want to talk about an issue, or you
raise the issue of let's say snow removal. You get

(01:27:17):
your two minute comment period. I live in Mount Adams
and you guys didn't shovel a single street up there.
And are are they required as a body to respond
to that or do they just listen, nod attentively and
when the comment period is over, move on to whatever's
on the agenda in front of them, in other words,
not addressing the specifics of the challenges that people bring up.

Speaker 12 (01:27:39):
In front of them. Right, it's the latter, Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
I figure that so.

Speaker 12 (01:27:44):
And the thing you look for is whether or not
they're even paying attention to you. Oh, you know, that's
because they can pull their phones their phones, look at
their phones. But I do think they were fairly attentive
during my two minutes when I was talking about the
shootings in Price Hill, because there were six or seven

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of them over the New Year's holiday or New Year's
week and that's not normal.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
No, it's not. And I know we're we're definitely going
to focus on that in detail when we come up
after the next break. But insofar as the agenda items
on the council's agenda, did they have anything that you know,
that had a point or that was going to that
it is going to impact the population of the city
of Cincinnati. I mean, what would they focused on.

Speaker 12 (01:28:34):
Actually was the shortest meeting I'd ever been to. It
was it was over by like twenty minutes after two.
The only I guess they're setting up things for the
coming year. But the only thing on the on the agenda,
for example, that had anything to do with money was
getting approval to apply for a one hundred thousand dollars

(01:28:55):
grand from Bloomberg Philanthropics for youth climate change Oh Lord program.
And I guess it's an existing program in the city
now that I guess Bloomberg has funded it, I don't
really know, but that's the kind of thing spending resources on.
Applying for grants is a big, big thing in the

(01:29:17):
city of Cincinnati. They apply for a lot of grants federal, state,
private philanthropic organizations.

Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
Well, considering you know, time translates to money because of
salaries and you know people behind the scenes that have
to fill out paperwork and all that. What have you
ever done any number crunching on how much time and
effort goes into let's say, applying for a one hundred
thousand dollars grant from Bloomberger. Mean, do they spend fifty
thousand dollars worth of time, effort, and energy applying for

(01:29:47):
one hundred thousand dollars grant? Is it something along those lines?

Speaker 12 (01:29:50):
Well, I do not believe the city has a cost
accounting system in place where they can tell you how
much time people are spending on what task. For example,
on connected communities, they said they were working on that
for two years. They've got a hundred person not a
hundred person, yeah, about one hundred person planning staff, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:30:11):
But paid positions.

Speaker 12 (01:30:13):
Yes, they spend over a million dollars on planning alone
in terms of people and resources. So you don't know
how much time any of these employees are spending on
any task. But I don't really know how you can
manage without that.

Speaker 7 (01:30:33):
So the.

Speaker 12 (01:30:36):
Point that I don't think people spend a lot of
time thinking about is in business, it takes money to
make money, right, We've all heard that absolutely. In government
it takes money to spend money, and so they it's
it's a self fulfilling thing. The more government grows, or

(01:31:01):
the more they spend, the more the government grows, it
never ends.

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
Right because unlike a business, they just take from the
taxpayer's labor and in the form of taxes.

Speaker 12 (01:31:11):
That's right, that's exactly right, and.

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
It's not a money making entity. It is big government
by its nature is designed to I guess, spend where
the private market wouldn't otherwise spend, because they're spending money
on nonprofitable things or things that they try to tell
you will ultimately be profitable because of the economic impact
of say building a multi billion dollar stadium or something.

Speaker 12 (01:31:37):
Right. So again, the more they go after these kind
of funding sources, grants and things like that, the bigger
the government grows.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
And as if there weren't enough climate change programs out
in the world that they need to chase down those dollars.
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off at mill Chuck Ingram on fifty five krc the
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Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
Seven twenty one if the five KRCD talks to talk station, sorry,
former Spector General Todd zends or he's for comm Inspector
General for the City of Cincinnati. And pivoting over to
the crime statistics that you just alluded to in the
last segment, Todd's ends are not looking really good from
a crime perspective in the City of Cincinnati, judging from
the data post it and you can find it your

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cell posts just search on your search engine city since
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emergency medical service reports, just a whole host of information
and statistics about the city. So let's break down the
information you brought in, Todd, because again this is what
you brought up at council on Wednesday, right, and your

(01:35:32):
your specific point in the comment period was.

Speaker 12 (01:35:36):
Well, I raised three issues I had. I had sent
an email to the mayor and the city council members
and the city manager asking what is going on? I mean,
why isn't anybody coming out going to the microphones for
West Price Hill, East Price Hill, Lower Price Hill to
tell us what's going on with these shootings? And so

(01:35:59):
that was number one, why don't we ever hear from
anybody when an unusual violence like this occurs? Number two,
I told them that nobody really has confidence in your
crime data. We're told that crime is going down. In fact,
I got a response from one member of council, Anna Albie,
that's the first thing. Well, the first thing she did
was blame the state legislature for something, and then she

(01:36:22):
said that she said that it's getting better, right, it says, well,
it doesn't feel better. People aren't experiencing that crime is
going down. They're experiencing that crime is going up. And
then the third point I made was last year the

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city consolidated two police districts, District three, which covers the
West Side, in District five, which is like North College
Hill and Westwood they combine those into one district. Well
that's almost half the city, it sure is. And I said, well,
has there been an assessment of that? We ought to
revisit this whole consolidation thing, because for a police officer

(01:37:05):
to speak from one end of the district to the
other end of the district, I'm going to take if
forty five.

Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
Minutes, so giving an opportunity for the perpetrator to sort
of maybe leave the area perhaps, Yeah, so I thought
we should revisit that whole consolidation.

Speaker 12 (01:37:22):
Well, after I was finished with my public comments, I
did talk to a couple of the council members and
was told that there is a reassessment or an assessment
of that consolidation that they're expecting very soon. So that's
one thing that they're going to do that is in

(01:37:42):
the right direction.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
Well, the idea that they're even looking at it, I suppose,
is the only step in the right direction you can
point to. That's what they actually conclude or come up
if by way of assessment.

Speaker 12 (01:37:52):
We have to wait and see, right, So I did
wind up speaking to somebody on our community council and
they related that youth violence is down, But when you
go to the data reports online, they don't show any
data concerning youth violence. It doesn't go down to that level.

(01:38:15):
So I don't know how they know that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:17):
Okay, so you have to take their word for it
on that one element of crime. But then the broader
thing is they can say, well crime's going down, you
have to actually have a police officer respond and fill
out a report in order for it to be documented.

Speaker 12 (01:38:33):
Correct, That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
And my understanding is it given the pathetically low morale
rate of the police department and the fact that they
know prosecutors perhaps now under the new administration as well
as the woke judges aren't really going to do anything
about it. They have a well screw it kind of
approach to going after criminals. Right.

Speaker 12 (01:38:52):
I think that's a I think that's a real issue, Brian.
And so when I suggested that we conduct an audit
of the day, that is one of the things you
would look at is how are we collecting this for example,
what is a shooting, what constitutes a shooting in their records,
and how consistent are they and coding the data in

(01:39:14):
their system? And I think factors like the ones you
just brought up with with how the police are actually
keeping the data for us. Yeah, I think that's a
real issue.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
Right, So somebody's kids got a gun, fires it, maybe
hopefully doesn't hit anybody in the cop cruises by. All right, son,
break it up, move along, you know, and that it's
a crime. But and I maybe this may be an
exaggerated sort of scenario, but that's the kind of thing
that won't result in anything. So youth committing violence, maybe

(01:39:47):
committing an act of vandalism or riding a trail bike
across the public parks or something, if the cops don't
interact with them, then there's nothing there, even though the
citizenry is well aware this kind of thing is going
on because they can and see with their very eyes.

Speaker 12 (01:40:01):
That's right.

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blocked off at mill near Forest Park, Chuck Ingram on
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Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
Seven thirty one fifty five KRCD Talk Station and Brian
Thomas Worth in studio, Former Inspector General Todd Zenzer, who's
always keeping his eye on the figures and the numbers,
the antics of Cincinna City Council as well as the
county commissioners and we will touch upon county county issues
here shortly, but let's continue with the crime statistics. And
you know, obviously reporting is a significant problem. Maybe they'll

(01:42:46):
be looking into how things are reported, like to think
they might do a reshuffle of matters over in the
Cincinnai Police Department given the low morale. Are we still
low on police officers time?

Speaker 12 (01:42:57):
Yes? I think the budget number is about a thousand
and eighty nine. Is the staffing level they want to
get to, and I think they're down in the eight
eight hundred or eight close close to nine hundred level.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
So are are are are they doing recruit classes? Are
they are they trying to hire and just having difficult
time getting people to want to become police officers? Or
is the money there? I guess, you know.

Speaker 12 (01:43:24):
I do think that they did something about the last
training class where they postponed it or they did something
like that, but I'm not really sure what the status
of all that is.

Speaker 2 (01:43:34):
Okay, well, how about I know this idea has been
floated around and actually experimented on in other cities. How
about paying people to not commit crime? That that actually
was something that they talked about.

Speaker 12 (01:43:45):
Well, they not only talked about it, but they are
They appropriated two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars to
I guess contract with a group called it's called Advance Peace,
and it's an outfit out of San Francisco where they've
got six or seven cities in San Francisco where they've

(01:44:07):
tried this program. And it almost sounds like something that
your religious institutions would be involved in in the past,
where they go out and they try to counsel of
at risk youth and youth involved in violence, and it's
a it's a mixture of you remember the Scared Straight

(01:44:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So it's kind of the flip
of that. Instead of bringing troubled youth or at risk
youth into a prison to show what it's like, to
show them what the future could be if they if
they don't get on the right path, they actually are.
This program pays a select number of youth to not

(01:44:51):
commit crimes and instead turn around and help them reach
out to the community.

Speaker 2 (01:44:57):
It just sounds so stupid on so many levels. Yeah, so, okay,
we're subcontracting this agency, this organization. We retain them for
a quarter of a million dollars. Then they in turn,
we'll get money from the city to pay the kids
not to commit crime. So there's an added ongoing expenditure there.

Speaker 12 (01:45:17):
That's part of the two seventy five.

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
Oh okay, so after this peace organization gets it slice
that leaves even less money. How many youth can you
actually reach out to? And how much do you have
to pay a kid to not commit crime?

Speaker 12 (01:45:33):
I think it was like one thousand dollars a month
or so.

Speaker 2 (01:45:35):
Oh wow. And they the pro they were working, you know, right,
I mean just like fast food job or something like that,
which is where a lot of people start out their
work career. If they were busy at work, it could
earn that much money, be contributing to society and not
have an opportunity to commit crime because they're at work.

Speaker 12 (01:45:56):
Right, So they're saying the the the similarity to scarage
straight instead of going into the prison. This program was
actually started by guys who had been to prison, who
knew what prison life was like. But they come out
to the community and engage in counseling and all of

(01:46:18):
this outreach to the youth in a neighborhood or in
a portion of the city. And it's all very ill
defined at this point as far as I can tell.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
All Right, going back to is there even a police
report to find a quote unquote troubled youth? Wouldn't that
suggest that they've already had an interaction with law enforcement
so you could identify who someone is that's likely to
commit a crime.

Speaker 12 (01:46:41):
I do believe that that is part of the program.

Speaker 2 (01:46:43):
Okay, so first you got to find the troubled youth.
Then you work out this relationship where you're paying them
a thousand dollars a month to not commit crime. Now,
assuming that youth actually got picked up by the police
for being involved in some sort of criminal activity, do
they have to disgorge the money that they were paid
up to that point in time? And how likely is

(01:47:04):
it blood from returnative that you would be able to
get the money back assuming they have that obligation.

Speaker 12 (01:47:11):
Yeah, I don't think you would look forward to getting
that money back, Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
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Station seven forty one fifty five car ce De talk station,
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to join us at eight oh five to talkers, I
guess too, is abou why we should continue to drink
in January? The former US Inspector General Todd Zinzer and
studio going through these crime statistics and before we move
away maybe from crime, and start talking about getting a
new arena, the program to pay youth not to commit crimes.

(01:50:18):
Do we have any evidence that even works? Is I mean,
it's preposterous sounding.

Speaker 12 (01:50:23):
Well, the only thing that I did was went back
to the there's eleven cities nationwide where this outfit has operated.
So I went on and did some research on crime
in each of those cities, and the headlines all look
the same. It doesn't. You don't see any headlines about
drastic reductions in youth crime. But in their this outfit

(01:50:45):
got a two million dollar grant from the Department US
Department of Justice in twenty twenty three to fund activities
and he's eleven cities, and in their grant application they
claim that they prevented one hundred and thirty four shootings
or firearm incidents and saving partner cities sixty seven to

(01:51:09):
two hundred and sixty eight million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:51:12):
Those are sphincter inspired statistics. Todd, there is no way
in God's green earth you can know that you prevented
any individual from going out and acquiring and using a firearm.
I mean, here's your check, young man. Don't commit crimes, okay,
and so that one kid abides and doesn't commit a crime.

(01:51:32):
Is that to suggests that that kid would have actually
gone out and shot somebody but for the check?

Speaker 12 (01:51:37):
Yeah, well, I mean that's nonsense. Unfortunately, I don't think
the Department of Justice went in and verified that information
before they gave them two million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:51:46):
Yeah. Well, you can't verify information that is pulled out
of someone's sphincter.

Speaker 12 (01:51:50):
I eat, Yeah, I don't know how you measure.

Speaker 2 (01:51:52):
That, Brian. I'm sorry, I just sometimes my brain just
can't process that epic level of stupidity. Things like this represent. Yeah,
these are ideas that I guess council has been convinced.
Is this group come into cities sort of like a
lobbying group and convince members of these various councils that

(01:52:16):
this is the right thing to present.

Speaker 12 (01:52:17):
Well, I think that's a good question, Brian. But nobody
on the council. We got nine people on council. One
person brings this forward and it's like, well, is anybody
asking any questions about where this outfit came from? How
we came to know about them. I get the impression
that you know, they have a network around the country.

(01:52:38):
They know that this particular council member is sympathetic to
the cause, and they approach her and work something out.
But how it comes to be is a very very
good question.

Speaker 2 (01:52:50):
Well, I think everybody's sympathetic to the idea about stopping crime.
But if you lack logic and reason and critical thinking
skills and you can be convinced that something like this
is a good idea, the problem is we don't have
people intelected capacity that have critical thinking skills and think
along the lines of hm, let me just test the

(01:53:11):
theory with a few questions right now, like where did
you get that crimes that that didn't happen? Information?

Speaker 12 (01:53:18):
Right, So, I think there are probably people on council
that can think like that, but because they don't, it's
one one for all and all for one on the
city council. There's very little dispute.

Speaker 2 (01:53:32):
Which paints them all as idiots. Yeah, I mean I
would if I'm a Democrat or something and I'm sitting
in an all Democrat council and someone comes with a
dumb idea. You know, stupid is as stupid does. Dumb
is dumb is dumb. You're not taking me down that road.
I'm not going to be labeled as an idiot. I've
got a I'm calling a red flag here on behalf

(01:53:53):
and in the name of the reputation of our party.
You know you could be a real patriot by standing
up stuff like this. Let's stop, Let's talk arena when
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Right now, time for traffic from.

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is in pretty good shape. I'm not seeing any problems
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Speaker 2 (01:56:06):
If you have KR city talk station, Tryan Thomas in
studio with Todd Zenzer closing out the hour talking about
city council and city issues generally speaking, and former inspector
general and watchdog for the collective here in the Hamilton
County generally speaking, and also can give us an analysis
on first off, was it first Star arena right fka

(01:56:27):
the Coliseum? Yeah, I've seen a gazillion shows there. I
remember when the since I Stingers were in town. I've
seen hockey games play there. Not the best venue acoustically speaking,
But is it has it outlived its useful life? Is
it's still functional as a venue? Do we need a

(01:56:48):
new arena, which is what they're talking about just generally speaking.

Speaker 12 (01:56:51):
Yeah, So the Regional Chamber of Commerce issue to report
back in November, and the report was all slanted towards
needing a new arena. Well, they want to bring in
bigger names, they want to tie the new convention Center

(01:57:14):
to things going on in the arena, and it's it's
kind of trying to boost Cincinnati to another level of
entertainment or conventions and things like that, similar to Louisville.
Louisville has a big arena down there the what is it,

(01:57:37):
the Yum Yum or.

Speaker 2 (01:57:38):
Kfc UH I lose track of rights.

Speaker 12 (01:57:42):
But they the report that they put together, of the
study they put together, did identify you know, peer cities
and the the UH Stadium or Colisseum type venues compared
to Heritage Center, and it all makes the Heritage Center
look bad. But what's interesting is that after they issued

(01:58:05):
their report, the Heritage Center claimed that the that the
Chamber commerce data was not correct, that they didn't they
didn't report the correct data about the number of events
at the Heritage Center and things like that, and the
other thing that came to mind when I looked at
the report, it it was very similar to the Cincinnati

(01:58:28):
Futures Commission, which is which was basically dead on arrival
with the city as far as we know, or it's
gone underground for now, and it's very notional. It's like,
if this happens, we could do this, if this law passes,
we could get this type of funding. And what they
did is they constructed on paper the type of facility

(01:58:53):
that they.

Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
Wanted, their dream facility.

Speaker 12 (01:58:57):
Yes, and then they went back to Heritage Center and says, well,
we can't fit that kind of facility where the Heritage
Center is currently located. Instead of saying, well, we've got
this location down on the river, what kind of facility
can we put there, uh, you know, to get to
where we want to go, they did. They didn't do that,

(01:59:18):
and so that's what yesterday or the day before, the
group down at the banks, there's actually a group that
runs the banks, they came out with their own plan
and they claimed that they could fit a bigger facility
on that same location right there. Yeah. And the the

(01:59:43):
thing is that if you move the colisseum or the
arena over to the OTR area or wherever Birdie wants
to put it.

Speaker 2 (01:59:55):
Well, there's talk about the west end right yeah, and
then that would be the way. So that would also
includes maybe the area around the new Convention Center. And
then there's over the Rhine as a possibility where they
going to put it next to the hard Rockets.

Speaker 12 (02:00:10):
I think that, yeah, there's a there's a location up
near Hard Figure, but you know that the powers of
b want to put it over there next to what
is tqute, yeah, the soccer venue. Yeah, but if they
leave the banks, if the arena leaves the banks, that's

(02:00:34):
going to impact the businesses located at the banks. Were
kind of we've spent all these resources developing that area,
and now we're going to take one of the venues
that we built up there and do away with it.
And so the business community at the banks came out

(02:00:55):
the other day and they have they have an alternative proposal.
In the mayor he's kind of swaying. He originally said
we didn't need a new arena. Then he said that, well,
I could be persuaded otherwise, And now he's saying, well,
I have to figure out how we would pay for it,
all right.

Speaker 2 (02:01:14):
I was waiting for that because that was gonna be
my next question. Whether it's there over on the West
End or any place else in the Cincinnati area, pick
a spot, anywhere is there money to build it.

Speaker 12 (02:01:28):
No, they'd have to borrow it, or they'd have to
somehow get the money from somewhere.

Speaker 2 (02:01:33):
But I would interfere with the second leg of the streetcar. Todd.

Speaker 12 (02:01:37):
Well, I'm sure streetcar funding isn't there somewhere.

Speaker 2 (02:01:41):
Todd sensor. You know, it's humorous, it's comical, but this
is real stuff, and it's going on right now by
our elected officials, and it just it just leads me
to wonder whether they really have a handle on how
to run government, because you know, I know every one
of my listeners can say their favorite road that has

(02:02:02):
not been paved or repaired in years. I always joke
about Sunset. That thing has been a nightmarish, you know,
import from some war zone for fifteen years or so,
and it has been fixed. And every year the number
of roads that have gone unrepaired gets longer and longer
and longer. I mean, you got to take care of

(02:02:23):
the stuff you've got before you start trying to buy
new stuff and things. And no one seems to care
a wit about what we've got. Going back to like
the broken windows theory, it's all broken out there. Let's
start repairing some windows. Todd's in there, thank you for
being the watchdog on behalf of the Hamilton County voters
and the residents of the City of Cincinnati, and of
course outside observers who might want to learn from the

(02:02:45):
mistakes that we've made so they don't do it themselves.
Happy New Year to you, my friend. I look forward
to having you on again throughout the year.

Speaker 12 (02:02:51):
You so much.

Speaker 2 (02:02:52):
Just hold your hand up when there's something else that
pops up you want to talk about. It's seven fifty six.
Stick around, We're gonna get We're gonna from Keegan Corkoran
our wine some actually kind of redundant when I say that,
why dry January is bad for the hospitality and retail business.
Plus reject Rebecca Serandov's going to the door for other
I'm going to talk about a Highlands for child protection.

(02:03:13):
Dwine finally signed the legislation into law. It took a
long time to pass. We'll recap that journey with Rebecca
at the bottom of the hour.

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Speaker 2 (02:03:37):
It's so rare for me to be excited week days
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(02:04:00):
getting it to it soon enough.

Speaker 7 (02:04:01):
On that.

Speaker 2 (02:04:02):
Also, he is the owner of Ignition Wines, which is
a wine wholesaler. I love to put a plug in
for that Ignitionwines dot com. Keegan if he deals with businesses,
So if you're a retailer selling wines, you're a you're
a restaurant selling wines, you just talk to Ignition Wines.
He's got access to all these wonderful, wonderful wines pre
tested and tasted with his expertise, you're getting steered in

(02:04:24):
the right direction. Welcome back to the fifty five Cadsey
Morning Show, my dear friend Keegan Corker, and it's always
great having y a man.

Speaker 7 (02:04:31):
Hey, Brian, how are you.

Speaker 2 (02:04:32):
Doing pretty well? Happy New Year to you? Yeah, thank
you you too.

Speaker 7 (02:04:36):
Man.

Speaker 1 (02:04:36):
I'm first off.

Speaker 4 (02:04:37):
Apologies of my voice because I'm.

Speaker 1 (02:04:39):
Fighting a seasonal thing going on.

Speaker 2 (02:04:42):
Well, you need to drink a little bit more in January,
which is the point having Keegan on. Normally he's in
studio and we we don't sample wines because you can't
do that, but we talk about him. He gives us
great wine recommendations at the right times a year, and
you know, Thanksgiving and Christmas and the like. And we'll
continue to do that with Keegan. But notably, and I
had never heard of this, but apparently there's something out

(02:05:04):
there in the world called dry January. It's analogous to lent.
I suppose you give up drinking during the entire month
of January and you made a public service announcement on
your Facebook page the other day. Dry January hurts hospitality,
slash retail and does nothing long term important emphasis for

(02:05:24):
your health. Take one week and a month off instead.
You got a lot of comments in response to that,
and many of them are not pleasant. You didn't expect
expect that, did you.

Speaker 12 (02:05:35):
No?

Speaker 4 (02:05:35):
It led off a firestorm apparently. And you know what's
funny is that, like a lot of people I think
that responded to that negatively were interpreting that as some
kind of personal attack and or some kind of indictment
on them participating in dry January or going sober, which

(02:05:57):
I have done many stints of variety over my over
my life for you know, personal or physical reasons or whatever,
you know, trying to drop some weight, especially around the holidays.
I understand it.

Speaker 7 (02:06:08):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:06:09):
My My point was though, is that you know, when
restaurants and bars especially, you know, still a lot of
them still reeling from the post COVID effects. And then also, uh,
you know, I mean we see articles that feel like
every single day of new restaurants and bars closing left
and right.

Speaker 2 (02:06:24):
So this is.

Speaker 4 (02:06:26):
Historically a very difficult time for restaurants and bars post holidays.
It's usually the slower period, the weather is usually you know,
I mean, shoot, Cincinnati, look outside, We've got you know,
a foot of snow still on the ground. So it's
it's it definitely has an impact on those hospitality and
industry workers, and it's it's just kind of a funny thing.

(02:06:47):
And and and so my my point was, listen, you know,
you could take one weekend off every month, so that's
per year, and that gives you twelve different weekends. Just
my pure arithmetic, you got a better and more sustainable
lifestyle change that's healthier for you, it's better for your pocketbook.

(02:07:09):
But I don't think a lot of people really bother
to do the math on that.

Speaker 12 (02:07:12):
And then.

Speaker 4 (02:07:15):
You know, it's funny as I had a bunch of
people send me private messages off off uh, you know,
off off the actual thread and and and you know,
express their like, hey, what why is everybody so angry
at this?

Speaker 12 (02:07:28):
Is like, I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (02:07:30):
Yeah, I don't understand it either, And I mean some
people call it insulting. I mean, obviously comments from folks
who did it, alcoholics and have been on the wagon
for any given period of time say well, you got
to love people, try and do it a chance and
be good to maybe his initial stepping stone to consider
not drinking at all. But I guess why pile up

(02:07:50):
in one month? As you point out, you know, and
and and and and and I guess why January? It
makes perfect sense that post holidays at the bars and
restaurants would be doing less business. Everybody's been partying it
up since Thanksgiving and so obviously people may be less
inclined to go out again. The winter weather alone might
keep people away, But why January, why not you know,

(02:08:13):
June or something.

Speaker 4 (02:08:16):
Yeah, I'm not sure. I think a lot of it
has to do with you know, maybe it's everybody indulges
a little too much over the holidays and they want
to try to give their their bodies a little reset.
And again I'm empathetic with that. I understand that. I
totally understand people going after But my whole argument was heay, like,

(02:08:37):
let's let's not just dedicate an entire months of the year.
It's particularly the slowest time of the year for bars
and restaurants to.

Speaker 7 (02:08:46):
Do this, and not an indictment.

Speaker 4 (02:08:48):
Yeah, exactly, And it's not an indictment on anybody's you know,
attempt to get sober or anything like that. If you
want to make good choices for yourself, and if you
have a bad relationship with alcohol, for example, it's probably
not good idea for you to indulge at all, let alone,
you know, just the one month out of the year.
But then the other thing is is that just like
most resolutions, it's it tends to be something that people

(02:09:09):
don't stick around with. So it's it's to me, it
kind of seems like a feudal effort that hurts an industry. Now,
the the afteris all this is I am well aware of,
you know, people maybe raising an eyebrow. It's like, oh, hey, uh,
you know, you got a guy that sells alcohol that's telling.

Speaker 7 (02:09:29):
Us to keep buying alcohol.

Speaker 4 (02:09:31):
Isn't that Isn't that coincidence? And and I would say,
you know what, my counter to that is, Brian, don't
buy my wines in January?

Speaker 7 (02:09:39):
How about that? I don't, I don't care.

Speaker 4 (02:09:42):
This is this is a this is a larger statement
that I think I would like to make on behalf
of the service industry, which you all know.

Speaker 7 (02:09:50):
I I spent all.

Speaker 4 (02:09:53):
My entire adult life in Jeff Rubi's and worked with
them and h and many other restaurants that I've worked with,
and so the hostility and bar restaurant industry is near
and dear to my heart, and I've I've witnessed and
felt personally the impacts of that over the years. And yeah,
it's just one man's uh, one one man's personal mission.

Speaker 2 (02:10:14):
I think that is important point to emphasize that you're
you're not just a wholesale wine distributor now you are now,
but you have such a familiar relationship with hospitality industry. Again,
you're the sammier for Jeff Ruby's restaurants plural so for
a very long time. So you actually saw all this
real time. You understand the realities that the restaurants face

(02:10:38):
at in the month of January. And of course, I guess,
is this dry January a growing phenomenon that actually enough
people are doing it that it could have an impact.
You're trying to nip it in the bud before it
becomes something bigger. What's what's your what's your take on
that part of it?

Speaker 3 (02:10:55):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:10:55):
Oh yeah, I mean, I mean there's there Unfortunately, isn't
too much data. There is some data that you know,
I've seen over the years that a lot of bars
and restaurants and even different different wineries and breweries have
put out. The estimates range from ten to twenty percent

(02:11:16):
of impact on alcohol sales for bars and restaurants in
January alone. And that's that's not insignificant, particularly when you're
dealing with excuse me, especially when you're dealing with already
razors sin profit margins. These bars and restaurants operate often,
so it's it's it's not it's not just you know,

(02:11:37):
a drop in the bucket. And then and the counter
of course too, there's a lot of people that say,
you know, well, what about NA beverages and and low
and no spirits and whatnot, which are starting to gain
in popularity, and the cocktail. Yes, but this is this
is one man's opinion. But I have yet to encounter

(02:11:58):
one that tastes decent. And when you talk about d
out wine or d out beer, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:12:06):
Again, I.

Speaker 4 (02:12:09):
Want to find one that actually is palatable in one
humble fumily in his.

Speaker 2 (02:12:13):
Opinion, and I get that. I actually I quit drinking
for I think it was seven solid years. Just woke
up one day and said, you know what, I'm not
gonna do that anymore. We did a lot of entertaining
when I was a practice of law in Chicago, and
you know, I brought the bad habits back with me,
and I just thought, you know what, I have no
reason to continue at this level. And so just sort

(02:12:34):
of woke up one day and went down that road.
So I tried a whole bunch of non alcoholic beers
over the time, and I don't think a single one
was what I would consider palatable. So I share your
your conclusions in that regard, but I don't regret, you know,
drinking now at all. I thoroughly enjoy a cocktail and
I find nothing wrong with it. And like everybody says,

(02:12:54):
everything in moderation, it's something that allows you a certain
level of enjoyment in life. Be bad for you on
some level, but you know what, I'd rather live life
in a happy, positive way and enjoy a couple of
bad things, and that's just what makes life worth living.
You take everything out that's bad for you, but you
have left. You know. You can't smoke anymore, you can't

(02:13:16):
drink anymore. Everything's carcinogenic. You aren't supposed to have any
more processed foods. Everybody here, here's your bowl of quinoa
and your salad, and that's all you get. I just,
you know, there's a certain loss of enjoyment of life
when it comes to things like that. Well, I just
it's you know, the other component of the broader component,
is that a simple what I would call innocuous opinion

(02:13:37):
like that garnered so much not none of it's really
angry or vile, but just so many just reactions along
the lines of what you got it's just a really
interesting phenomenon in and of itself.

Speaker 4 (02:13:51):
Yeah, and again, you know, the the argument was for
moderation and for you know, just general can control because
uh and and perhaps you know, maybe I could have
worshiped it differently. I don't know, but I thought it
was pretty plain speakly or pretty plain speaking. But you know,

(02:14:13):
moderation is the better choice if if you want to
have a better relationship with alcohol, assuming that someone may have,
If there is someone that is struggling with alcohol, certainly
go get help. Certainly you know, take a step back
and whatnot. But for the vast majority of the people
that are participating in dry January, it's you know, it's

(02:14:33):
it's it's not with the intent of creating lasting change.
And I think that that, I mean, if we want
to talk on a much more broader, esoteric level, Uh,
it's it's. Uh, it's kind of an issue that I
think a lot of people in this world today struggle with,
is creating lasting change, creating you know, habits that are
are are not only forthright, but also you know, just

(02:14:59):
beneficial for themselves and for uh, you know, their community
surrounding them. It's yeah, it's it's it's something that you
I guess, Uh, well.

Speaker 2 (02:15:10):
Yeah, I get where you're coming from.

Speaker 7 (02:15:13):
You get what I'm saying. You get what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (02:15:15):
I do, and I know my listening audience does too.
But ultimately, don't pile up on the restaurant industry. They're
beating up and battered enough. Fewer people are going out
and there's there's less disposable income out there. But keep
in mind your local you know, family on an operator,
restaurant tours and the like, and support them and don't
make things worse for me in the month of January.
They're already struggling on coming off the holidays. I think
we can leave it at that, Keegan Corcoran, you are

(02:15:37):
always welcome on the fifty five KRC Morning Show. And
next time in studio, maybe we can pretend to drink
wine as we always do.

Speaker 4 (02:15:44):
Yeah, and maybe next time I will sound like RFK
Junior or something.

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You know. There you go, appreciate the clothes and comments, Keig,
and happy New Year to you and your beautiful wife.
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A thirty fifty five KRCD talk station. Happy Friday, not
a happy subject matter, but a happy outcome for the
children in the state of behime from going on a
going forward basis. Governor Mike Dewineseina bill into law this
week making it a crime for predators to groom a
child for sexual abuse using a pattern of behavior. A

(02:18:56):
woman responsible a large part of Ohiolans for Child Protects,
Rebecca Sirendorff, is on the phone to talk about her
journey to get this bill enacted. Rebecca initially, let me
thank you on behalf of myself personally and my listening
audience and every parent of a young child out there
for getting this pass and over the finish line, what

(02:19:17):
I'm reading about this father Cutcher, for example, is just
absolutely horrific and disgusting. Welcome to the fifty five care
Sing Morning Show, Rebecca.

Speaker 10 (02:19:27):
Good morning, and thank you so much. Really, this was
such a collaborative effort from moms and dads and grandparents
picking up the phone and calling lawmakers to our bill sponsors,
Bill Sites and Cindy Abrams and great committee heads like
Manning and Hillier that helped usher this through. We had
floor speeches from both sides the aisle and support and

(02:19:50):
it went through unanimously in the Senate and all but
one vote in the House. So this really took a
village and hopefully we'll be able to collaborate again because
there's way too much sex abuse in our state.

Speaker 2 (02:20:02):
Well it really is, and you know, the job is
not over. As I'm looking at the reporting from wcpo's
Paula Christian who was following this story, Ohio is the
sixth that's six, number six in the nation to criminalize
child grooming for sex. I find that impossible to believe. Rebecca,
do you have any concept as to how or why

(02:20:23):
that might be. Because we've had the Internet around in
you know, social media and the like, which makes it
so easy for perverts to reach out to children. People
pretend to be young people and make friends online. We've
heard story after story after story, and it has been
going on for years. How is it that more states
haven't done something about this?

Speaker 10 (02:20:42):
Well, I think in part it's a few factors, right.
I think in our imaginations, a lot of us were
raised with the concept of stranger danger, right. But the
facts of child sex abuse is most children know their offender,
and many families know them and trust them. When you
look at online abuse right now, University of New Hampshire
estimates that about one in six kids in our country

(02:21:04):
are being exploited online and over sixty percent of those
offenders online already know your child and their offline life.
Many times they're presenting themselves as somebody else in peerage, right.
And so, first of all, there's a lot of misconceptions
about that how this works.

Speaker 4 (02:21:22):
Right.

Speaker 10 (02:21:23):
We also as parents believe that because we sat down
and talked to our kids about these things such a
stranger danger or that people shouldn't touch you into certain
places that your child will come home and tell you
about the assault. And the sad reality is that delayed
disclosure is a real problem for a child after they've

(02:21:46):
been assaulted. Many offenders will threaten a child, They manipulate
them in ways to make the child feel as if
they're wrongly complicit in this abuse. They'll threaten to harm
another sibling if they disclose, and also PTSD and trauma.
Usually a child can be disassociating. There's a lot happening

(02:22:09):
in the aftermath of assault, and your child may not
come home and tell you, and sometimes just fear will
you believe them is a problem. So it's important that
we have programs like Aaron's Law that was just passed
two years ago. But sadly, all the religious schools in

(02:22:31):
our state were carved out of that, so we're not
equally protecting the kids. It's only the public school kids
with Aaron's Law training, and that's age appropriate body safety training.
And many people will tell you that after a large
school has that training, they have a few children step
forward at the end of it, because this is trained

(02:22:52):
professionals that know how to phrase things in the right
way for the age of a child and their understanding,
and it just gets to a different level because many
times you have to describe a behavior, Like a forensic nurse,
for example, is not going to ask someone have you
been ranked? They will maybe describe the circumstances. That is

(02:23:14):
because even labeling what an assault is is its own
process for any age victim. Right, So getting evidence based
approaches is so key, and that's why we've been calling
for Sexual Violence Caucus up at the state House. We
would like to get all the minds to the table,

(02:23:34):
from lawmakers to forensic nurses, to the good folks that
ohiolianced sexual violence, the council and child abuse. There's so
many great organizations in our state and law enforcement, the prosecutors.
Get these people to the table and let's start taking
a comprehensive approach to updating our laws because predators are

(02:23:56):
always updating what they're doing and how they're exploiting our children,
and the legislative process can take a long time. This
bill took five years to get to the finish line.

Speaker 12 (02:24:09):
Five Yes, I.

Speaker 10 (02:24:12):
Think about the children that were exploited in that time. Well,
sta Is the Girls Report says one in five girls
were sexually assaulted in Ohio in the last twelve months
when they did a climate survey of our.

Speaker 1 (02:24:23):
Younger god and five.

Speaker 10 (02:24:27):
One in five, we're above the national average. Can you
imagine if one in five cars were stolen this year?

Speaker 2 (02:24:33):
Ah, they be screaming, bloody nightmare. Let's I tell you what.
We're not done with this conversation, re Beeck. I want
to hold you over and talk a little bit more
about it. I'm also curious to know about the lone
no vote, but I want you to lighten my listeners
as to how this will work and how this grooing
process and how far it has to go before they
might find themselves subject to criminal liability under this new law.

(02:24:57):
Will continue with and thank God for her, Rebecca Cerndorff
after these brief words.

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and there's some terrible people out in the world. One
of the good ones so fighting for protecting our young
people from molesters and would be child rapist Rebecca Cerndorf
on the program Highlands for Child Protection. It's easy to
find her organization if you're a face on Facebook. Just

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search Ohilands for Child Protection to take you right to
the web page. And congratulations on getting Mike Dwyane to
sign this. It only took five years to get the
bill that criminalizes grooming, and you mentioned it was unanimous
with the exception of one House vote. Can I ask
why that was?

Speaker 6 (02:26:46):
It?

Speaker 2 (02:26:46):
Was it a no vote or an abstention vote? And
I was there any reason associated with not embracing this seemingly,
I mean bulletproof from a needs standpoint bill.

Speaker 10 (02:27:01):
We'd never circle back with the lawmaker, but I would
imagine that maybe they just wanted to just register that
like a pause there of like, let's make sure it's
narrow enough. And that's a good thing to have, is
whenever you're looking to criminalize something, particularly when you're going
to have a new crime in your state, you want
to make sure that it's constructed in such a way

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that it won't be tossed out for vagueness or that
your nets so wide that you would sweep up and
assent people, because that is not our intention in any way.
And after further vetting of this bill, everyone became much
more comfortable with it, and it's great that that's how
this process works in committee. And basically this is constructed

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to kind of mirror other parts of OHIO revised code,
like pattern of behavior in grooming mimics that in stalking
and stalking itself. Individual behaviors and stalking can be relatively innocent, right,
Like if someone going past your house this morning, completely

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innocent behavior, isn't it. But if they came past your
house eighty times in the one week, combined with.

Speaker 2 (02:28:17):
Like they show show up at your job site, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 (02:28:22):
Right, I mean we all know the difference between like
innocent behavior creepy behavior, and clearly there is more to
this like threatening behavior, right right. And then that ties
into this reasonable adult standard which is all over US laws.
Is this notion of would any reasonable adults see that

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the purpose and purpose is also another keyword when it
comes time writing laws. It is a higher standard than,
for example, recklessness, right exactly, So does a reasonable adult
see that this was for the purpose of sex abuse?
And then the tear mirrors also are sexual battery laws.

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So if this is someone in a position of authority
over a minor, such as a teacher or a coach,
or a youth minister or a cleric, you now have
a different tier for that. It also tears it for
if there's drugs and alcohol and if the victim is
under thirteen years of age. So this starts out as
a misdemeanor and it becomes a felony based off of

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if you have priors for sex offenses as well, because
we were still leaving the door open for like someone
did not realize, like how very problematic their behavior with
a minorus, that they have a chance to clean it
up if they don't have that special relationship as a

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position of authority over the minor and that. But we
wanted something that's going to come up on a background check, right,
all these youth serving lords the background text, if they
can't see that you have a history of grooming minors,
then how are they going to guard the gates as
to who has a lot of accets and authority over children?

Speaker 2 (02:30:14):
Fair enough? And I, you know, as I sit here,
part of this reasonable standard I suppose is under what
circumstances And I personally with the exception of you know,
and my children are grown. My son's thirty, my daughter's
twenty eight. But I'm projecting backwards and I'm remembering when
they were younger, I might have a reason if I'm
trying to find where my son is, and these these

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technological age we already kids got cell phones anyway, The
only reason I can think I would even be interacting
with someone who is this young would be maybe to
try to track down my son. But that would be
an innocuous sort of hey do you know where Jerry is?
Kind of thing. It's a fair question to ask one
of his friends, even if they're only twelve years old.
But beyond that, why would any grown adult have reason

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to regularly communicate with a minor along these lines when
they're not you know, a parental figure or someone that
has an in local parentice relationship to that young child.

Speaker 10 (02:31:10):
Right, Well, there are forty two grooming behaviors that were
found in some research by Winters in jaglists out of
John Jay College. If I recall, and basically, the more
these behaviors you see, the more apt that this is
probably escalating or that abuse has already occurred. And they

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basically researched what was normal mentor behavior with people had
never been abused and those that were, and there's a
whole series of red flag behaviors that you're in a
high risk situation if you were seeing them, and some
of it is creating circumstances like we saw with the

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Sandusky case, creating circumstances to be showering with the youth,
right that you were creating circumstances for nudities, encouraging young
people the skinny dip with you, which we see in
some of the investigative reports have been done on historic
church abuse as well. Also adults that are texting minors

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about sex acts, but it is clearly not in the
spirit of sex ad We all know what that really
looks like in life, right to your health teacher or
the parent or custodian of the child having a discussion
with them, many times bringing thoughtful resources, particularly in a
classroom setting. I mean, we all know how this is

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done right out of the health books, right and this instead,
like if you look at the Culture case, I can't
even quote some of the content there on the region
because it's better regulated.

Speaker 1 (02:32:48):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:32:49):
Yes, I'm reading some of it right now. This is
why this is text messages back and forth. And again
I'm trying to envision the circumstances why any adult would
need to engage in any type of long back and forth,
regularly occurring discussion with someone of that age. And this
kid was I guess fourteen years old or I don't know,

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but for this this minister to be we have regularly engaged.
This is not providing counseling or ministry. This isn't, you know,
coming into the priest's office and sitting down and getting
advice about the lord or something.

Speaker 10 (02:33:25):
I'm just and I think as parents and concerned adults,
I would see this as that when you're seeing things
that are starting to add up and you're concerned, right,
First of all, like start monitoring the situation. Better, consider
this like a yellow light situation here, and if this
is happening at a school, you may want to start

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documenting the concerns or co child protective services. This is
one of the things we hope will come of this
is that now when you're reporting grooming behavior, you are
now reporting a crime potentially right, and in the past
this wasn't quite categorized as anything because it's very rare
for someone to witness the sexual assault, and these things

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happened behind closed doors. The grooming is the smoke and
there's usually a fire, right, but the responsible adults see
the grooming behavior, and sometimes because these are young children,
we're missing the larger context here. Like in the father
Jeff Drew case, we saw reports from boys in three

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different counting over the course of multiple decades from the
eighties right up until a few years before his arrest,
that they were reporting they didn't like the hugs from behind,
the hugs from behind. Well, these are young children. They
knew they didn't like the hugs from behind, but it
wasn't until I heard the victim impact statement two years

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after Drew's arrest when he was pleading guilty, that the
victims spelled out as an adult man that Drew was
aroused and rubbing himself on them. That's already a crime
in Ohio. Right, But this gives back to vocabulary and
the young mind.

Speaker 8 (02:35:12):
Right.

Speaker 1 (02:35:12):
Yeah, the child isn't.

Speaker 10 (02:35:13):
The vocabulary for it. It'd be very difficult to train
them to understand that moment better. Yes, but make into
account the alarm that your child has. Right, Your child
isn't coming home to report a hug that felt good.
They're coming home because their body was telling them that
they were in danger. And if anything, tell your child

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to trust themselves and their instincts. If someone's making them
feel sick to their stomach, they should tell you about it,
and they don't have to unpack it for you today,
but they're allowed to proceed with caution. And I think
it's also good for children to have a safe word.
One of the great moms that we spoke to that's
retired from working with exploited children, he said, it's great

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for your child to have something that they can text
you or say to you. I think they're quite verifiable,
but lets you know that they don't feel safe in
this moment, whether it's a sleepover.

Speaker 2 (02:36:16):
Ye, Uncle, your child's hanging out it Uncle Jim's down
the street too regularly that I mean, like that kind
of thing. Red flag. Wait, why is a grown person,
Why is a grown man spending so much time with
my minor child? You know, outside of the regular confines
of the norm. Like again, going to church and seeing

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the priest, that's one thing, But if the priest is
inviting your child over to his house, that's a completely
different thing right there.

Speaker 10 (02:36:45):
And I think this happened gradually, right, Like these things
start off looking innocent and then they take a dark turn.
And it's important to just kind of reframe it. Think
of the other trusted adults in your life, your child's life,
and then just take these behaviors, plug in different names
and if it sounds bizarre, you need to rethink is

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this perceived with a ton of caution? Or are we
picking up the phone and calling child protective services about
it or the police? And by all means, watch your
child's social media used. I can't tell you, ohapat coming up.

Speaker 2 (02:37:22):
But you hit upon one of my pet peeves right there.
We have so much capability to control our children's interactions online.
You have special software you can put on. You can
monitor your child's online behavior remotely, but just by installing
the appropriate app. I don't know why more adults just
don't do that as a default mechanism period. End of story, Rebecca.

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All I can tell you is thank you very much,
and I'm just imagining down the road all of the
children you have saved from. You know, the next step
after the initiation of this grooming process, Lord Almighty Rebecca sers.

Speaker 10 (02:37:59):
A one hundred and fifty victims. So if we can
stop them early in their offending timeline, we can save
thousands of kids.

Speaker 2 (02:38:08):
Thousands from a lifetime of psychological harm. Let us not
ignore that reality. Rebecca, thanks again on behalf of everybody
in the state of Ohio and all the other states
out there. Get on board to have a wonderful weekend, Rebecca,
and thanks again for your work. It's eight fifty two
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