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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Five O five A fifty five k r C the
talk station Epy Monday, winter is coming. That's some funny

(00:32):
Joe Jofs Tracker, Good to see you man. Brian Thomas,
back from some time off. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and
thank you for indulging me while I had some time off.
This is exactly what I was thinking about. So I'm
looking at the weather forecast as we got snow coming
our way. It's cold out. Yeah. Yeah. Just my wife
and I yesterday, just every time we had to go
outside for it, it was like the cold went right

(00:54):
through you. Not a good way, not like it went
through you and didn't body. It's like as soon as
it hit, it was like bone deep. What in the
hell is going on here? Is not that cold out?
But then again I just chalked it off to well,
it just sucks getting old. I looked at her. I said,
next thing you know, you're going to be talking about
moving to Florida, and her eyes lit up. It's like, no, no, no,

(01:15):
not yet, not yet. My dad used to have comments
all the time when they were down in Florida, when
he was still working, He's take February off. He would
make fun of then what he would call the old people.
It catches up with everybody, doesn't it. Wearing winter coats
when it was fifty degrees out. He's like, I'm over
the public. So everybody's got winter coats on? What is

(01:37):
with these people? It's not that cold out? Yeah, okay,
it does have a chance or a way of catching up.
Are you anyway? Happy Monday? Trying to make it so anyway,
Wednesday's going to be listener lunch day. Looking forward to that.
And of course, so we've got our Christmas party here
at the High Hearted Media Cluster as they refer to
the various stations at Our Heart's Control. That's on Wednesday
as well. So I got a full Wednesday coming up.

(01:59):
But I really am looking for or to listen to
lunch last one of the year we celebrate the holidays.
I know Santa Claus Bob Wetter, mister humanitarian himself and
the wish tree creator back in the nineteen eighties when
he was over at Chiltoes managing the office base of
the building there started the program. So if you're a
business like a tree, he would love to provide you
with a tree. Of course, the ornaments on the tree

(02:20):
are what's critical to that. Grab an ornament, get the
gift that the individual need really is hoping for for
Christmas and return it to where you got the tree,
or just give Bob a call. He'll pick it up.
But that's what it's all about this holiday season, engaging
the little charity. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I
can't thank my family enough for just an outstanding day.

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We're in a nice time. It was fun, and of
course time marches on. It's just the only downside is
that my fond recollections of Thanksgiving spring from when I
was a little kid, and seeing all the aunts and
uncles and family that you never saw throughout the year,
well you know a lot of them aren't with us anymore.
And noticing the age of everyone who was at Thanksgiving,

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I just it's just a little heartbreaking. It's heartwarming in
many respects. But you know, enjoy the time you had
with family. Why you've got it, you know, there but
for the grace of God go Why we do not
know the number or days we've got on this planet.
So even if you're a young person and try to
enjoy it, think of time with family and put a
smile on your face, and absolutely no political discussions at Thanksgiving,

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which I was really happy about. Didn't even have to
make a rule announcement at the outset of that thing.
Five three seven, nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and
eighty two to three talk pound five fifty on your
AT and T phone all kinds of places. Looks like uh,
I mean, just going through the headlines, we got problems

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with Somali's in Minnesota, Yes we do. Trump actually told
Maduro to get the hell out of his country to
save himself and his family. You know, if you've got
an idea of where this this war authorization is coming from,
you know me, I'm a bit of a stickler for
the rules, and I worry about unilateral waging of war
without even congressional approval or even operating pursuing to some
authorization for you, some military force. I mean, we got

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a whole carrier group down there. We keep adding more
and more military personnel, and now we've got this ultimatum.
He's on the phone with this guy yesterday, this Maduro character,
basically saying get the hell out now. Maduro wanted some assurances,
which suggested to me that he actually might have considered
this offer. No deal reached. Apparently the US rejected three

(04:36):
conditions that the Maduro's inner circle is seeking. So you
get the phone called Maduro, your days are numbered and
we're gonna let you get out, you and your family.
Can you reach any other conclusion beyond that rockets and
bombs are going to be dropped, get out of the
land that you are on in your country, the house

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you live in, or wherever you find yourself, or there's
going to be trouble that there's no other reading that
I can come up with me than anything beyond that
we're going to bomb you. And so, having declared this, this
Cartel delos Sols a terrorist organization, along with growing reports

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that maybe you've read, I've read a lot of them
that Madura's military is actively engaging in the facilitation of
drugs being flown around within and without the country. Now,
if Madua's military is being used for drug trafficking purposes,
helping and facilitating the Cartel Delo's soul As operations, does

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that not make them part of the terrorist organization? Okay,
So if you believe that we have the ability to
bomb the terrorist organization, then aren't you then by necessity
going to have to bomb Adura's military. Just trying to
sort through all this anyway, Apparently the no deal was reached.

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The three key conditions that the Maduro folks were asking
for global amnesty for crimes that Washington leaks links to
this terrorist organization Cartel de Loo Solas. Now that was
a request from Maduro folks global amnesty for crimes related

(06:30):
to this. Well, if you're seeking I guess I have
to ask this out loud. Is Donald Trump in a
position to grant global amnesty if there are other countries
out there in the world they think he's committed crimes.
I guess they, like us, could bring Maduro to justice
in whatever way, shape or form that they think is appropriate,
just like Donald Trump is doing this. The other thing

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is a Nigaraguan style transition that would allow the regime
to retain control of the armed forces. I thought was
rather weird. If you kick a man out of the
country by threatening his life and telling him his regime
is going to be overthrown, how is it that he
could maintain control of the military. I don't get that one.
And finally, a delayed resignation timetable adjusting the time. Anyway,

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it fell through. So apparently staying what's phase two? I mean,
we get to profit at phase three is the running joke.
But what's next? Are we going to start bombing? And
if we do, and there's got to be somebody out
there who say, well, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, what

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about the authorization to bomb? I'm not arguing these folks
aren't narco terrorists. That's not me. I'm not arguing that
they're not trying to bring drugs in the United States.
I know it's happening, but there's a missing sort of
I want to say, due process element. But I'm confused
by all this. And I know we play fast and

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loose with literally everything in this world. It's political expedience
the day for everyone globally, it seems so again once
the the pesky constitution that is the supreme law of
the land rears its ugly head, and so far as
military engagements are concerned. So anyway, that's unfolding as we speak.
What else is going on that we can talk about today?

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Of course, the shooting of the National Guard folks, Trump
freezing asylum claims, and one of the problems that we
are facing in how White House borders are. Tom Holman's
kind of summed it up. There's all this vetting problem,
and so when you have Afghani nationals like the one
that was committed murder and killing a couple of National
Guard folks, and you start talking about, well, well that person

(08:40):
properly vetted, and Tom Homan pointed out the problem with
that there are there is no way that we can
even begin to vet the millions of people that came
from third world countries because they don't have any information
on them. We talked about this long ago. Maybe it
was with the Afghanistan pull out, maybe it was during
other periods of time. I know this is a problem
that's been existing vetting people on the border. How do

(09:03):
you vet someone? It was under the Biden administration. We're
all alarmed about the tens of millions of people that
were flowing over the southern border. Who are these people,
where do they come from? Do they have criminal backgrounds? Well,
apparently a lot of them do. A lot of them
were dumped out of the various prisons around the world.
We don't want our prisoners, we don't have to take
care of these crazy thug murder or rapist. Let's just
ship them to the United States southern border. Hey, where

(09:26):
are you from? Pick a country? Got any papers? Nope,
they don't issue them where we're from. How many documents
do you think the afghan the Afghanistani people, the gut,
whatever form of government, the Taliban or whoever was running Afghanistan.
You had decade of plus conflict with the Soviet Union

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running it. I'm sure there was no record keeping. Then
we go in and we're there for fifteen years or whatever.
Do you think there was any record keeping going on
during that period of turmoil? Probably not ergo, you don't
know if this person's a member of Terosta organization or not.
There's no way to ever figured out.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
So.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
And it's of course Afghanistan. It's not the only country.
A lot of these third world countries have zero zero
zero tracking. I mean Homean summed it up quite nicely,
all well, And the same thing with illegal aliens of
the over ten million that came across the border under
Joe Biden, there's no way to vet these people, he
said yesterday. You think El Salvador, or Turkey or Sudan

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or any of these countries have databases or system checks
that we have. Do you think the governments of China, Russia, Turkey,
do you think they're going to share that data with us?
Even if they do have it. There's no way to
clearly vet these people one hundred percent that they're safe
to come into this country from these third world nations. Well,
I think that is in a demonstrably true statement. How

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do you vet him? And Trump said, listen, if you
can't prove but these folks are safe, they're not terrorists,
it's like trying to prove a negative, then they're going
to be kicked out or they're going to be denied
entry into our country. Now, if your job, and I

(11:14):
believe it is the president's job, is to protect the
American people and it's interest, then they are taking the
right tact on that. But it does create complications and
of course dust off the ACLU and all the civil
rights attorneys out there who are talking about due process
and these people need a day in court, et cetera,
et cetera. This is, I believe, to my military personnel,
the true definition of a Charlie Fox Trot five three seven,

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four nine fifty five eight hundred and two to three
talk pound FI fifty on AT and T phones. Talk
about whatever you want to talk about. Feel free to
get my motor run in this morning as I try
to wake up from a wonderful period of time. Off
be right back fifty five krc after that with a
high thirty three overnight twenty cloudy and on Wednesday at
partly cloudy day. Some sun is possible to for Thursday anyway,

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you gotta wait for it. Thirty six to high on Wednesday,
it's twenty seven degrees. Right now, I think about car
see the talk station there it is, so I have
twenty one. I haven't done a PLAGU update in a
long time. Since I don't have any calls on the line,
I want to talk about something more important. Let's talk
about a PLAG update. I guess maybe marijuana not as
safe as many have counted it to be. A couple

(12:27):
articles related to it. Court of the Journal of American
Medical Association did a study. They reviewed all the randomized
clinical trials and there's not enough of them out there.
They published last week Cardiovascular and Psychiatric Health Risk from
smoking medical marijuana. And the funny thing is the article
focuses on medical marijuana, which is that you know you

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get a card issued by a doctor saying this is
going to benefit you for you know, insomnia or whatever.
Some of the states have legal categories that if you're
struggling from some particular ailment, then medical marijuana can be
quote unquote. So there's not a whole lot of studies
done on this because it's scheduled one under federal law prohibits,

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you know, researchers from doing a lot of studies into
the downside effects of it. So it's so far as
the medical concerns or medical uses, they're just basically saying, now,
it's really not there. There's there's so much downside risk
and smoking weed compared to the so called potential benefits
from smoking weed that it may not be worth it

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and we need to do more study. So I'll acknowledge that.
But here's one. You know, anybody that's been having a
problem with scramating, I actually know someone who's struggle with
this scrammating. You're smoking a lot of weed, You've got
a problem on your hands. Maybe a large percentage of

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folks study sudden stomach churning attacks, doubling over in pain
lasting for hours, and the the only relief that seems
to that it can be provided to these people dealing
with what they call cannabis hyper emesis syndrome CCHS, caused

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by smoking weed triggers relentless nausea, abdominal pain, and severe
vomiting that can strike four or five times an hour.
Symptoms usually appear within twenty four hours of smoking the weed.
They say the episodes are so brutal that er staff
have coined the term scrammeting, which is a mashup of
screaming and vomiting. Most doctors don't draw a connection between

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the pain that these people are experiencing in the er
with smoking wheed. Person will often have multiple emergency department
visits until it's correctly recognized, which, of course, if you
know how much it costs going to an ER, if
thousands and thousands of dollars for something that can be
avoided just simply by not smoking weed at all. FDA

(15:00):
approved therapies for this problem, They say it can be
difficult to treat standard anti nausea medications do not work.
These are all statements sided by various doctors that were
in the article. Some patients find limited relief caused by
rubbing cap satan cream on their stomachs, but also hot
baths and showers are a key indicator because if you

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find yourself in the shower hot showers dealing with this
nausea and vomiting, and you have to acknowledge to in
the back of your head that hm, I was smoking weed.
Maybe that's the connection. Then maybe you should be drawing
that connection because apparently the hot showers are the only
thing that relieves the symptoms. Get out of the hot shower,
the symptoms come back. It says some people are in

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the shower or even a hot bath for hours every day.
Accord to one of the doctors, that's something that can
clinch the diagnosis for me when someone says they're better
with the hot shower. This doctor, patients describe going through
all the hot water in their house. So let me
just interject a free spot for plumb type plumbing. Tankless

(16:03):
water heater would solve the problem. So if you're struggling
with scrammating and you find yourself running out of water
while you're still experiencing the pain and agony, a tankless
water system may be in your future. So they say,
addiction often makes abstinence a major challenge because the key
to stopping scrammating. Once it starts, you never know what

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it's going to hit. Strikes intermittently and even the tiniest
little bit of weed smoking can trigger it. So you
gotta quit or you're going to be continuing struggling with
this peril for I guess as long as you decide
that it's a okay to smoke weed, so you've got
insufficient evidence for health claims from the medical marijuana community.

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And finally you have the whole huge problem apparently of scrammating,
which effects of a fairly sizable chunk of the weed
smokers out there. This has been your day, first day
of December. Plague update. Thank you, Joe Strecker. Appreciate that
it's five twenty six right now. Local stories or phone calls.
I'd rather have the phone calls, but I'll go either way.
Got some local stories talk about as well. Be right back.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
This is fifty five KRC an iHeartRadio station No.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
On on Monday five one, three seventy four nine fifty
five eight hundred eight two three Tako with to five
fifty on AT and T phones. Thank God for Tom, Tom.
I missed you over the break there welcome back to
the fifty five Careisday Morning Show. Thank you and for
saving me from the obligation to find some topic to
talk about.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
God, God forbid, you got to come up with something
to talk about.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
I'm surrounded by stuff to talk about. Tom, It's just
my brain is not in a picking pick an item
to talk about mood. I'd rather just, like, you know what,
what if the listeners want to talk about what's on
their mind. So anyway, that's how I ended up talking
about bombing Venezuela to start with. You know, dealer's choice.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, I guess you had a pretty good time off
several days.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
There, right, it was wonderful. Yeah, it really will. Except
I got to tell you this is the weirdest thing.

Speaker 5 (18:00):
Man.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Do you ever have a terrible night's sleep where the
same dream keeps popping in your head? It feels like
it lasts all night and it's a disturbing dream, but
it's relentless. You wake up, you go back to sleep,
You're back in the same mode, in the same dream mode.
I dreamt about a dystopian. I'm serious. Here sounds like
a fifty five Casey Morning Show topic. And maybe this
goes I was reading articles, but just the the the

(18:23):
influx of illegal immigrants, the cultural shifts that's happening in Europe,
It's happening here, this sort of global rebalancing of what
cultures are. I actually dreamt about Eugene Debs, the socialist,
communist guy. I believe he ran for president. I don't
remember hearing Eugene Deb's name mentioned in my world for decades.
Where did his name come into my dream? For God's sake?

Speaker 4 (18:46):
And it kept coming somewhere it was, it was there, somewhere,
something pulled it out.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
I felt disturbed all day yesterday, after that terrible night
sleep on Saturday. It was just like it lasted all day.
It was like, oh my god, it's like it seems
so real anyway, Sorry, it was just weird.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah, got hey, you gotta get it out. And and
I charged one hundred and fifty bucks an hour for
these counselings.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Go ahead, build me, I'll get right on it.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
Send the bill, send it.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Directly to collection stuff. Let's just ignore the process of.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
We We had a pretty good, uh time on Wednesday night.
We had a big family get together, all all five
of the kids, their significant others, their their their spouse's
significant others. That's all their kids and my wife's mother.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
It was a combination Thanksgiving and my wife's birthday, uh
Wednesday night. So yeah, yeah, so it was Uh it was.
It was a good time. We we all met up
at Matrie so uh an odd place to meet for
a Thanksgiving get together, but it was good. I don't
uh it all worked. It all worked out good. It
was down Yeah, So uh that was that was good.

(19:58):
H good. Good work a bunch. We're trying I goin
to get convention center done in time for Reds Fest.
That's gonna be uh might be a bit of a struggle,
but I think we'll get it. So it's uh, you
walk through that building. I was there yesterday and uh
you're just starting to wonder is this gonna happen or yeah.
You usually does somehow or other. We always seem to

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pull it off getting these construction projects done on time.
So anyway, you're I'm gonna, I'm gonna. You know, your
your drug topic you were you're bringing up. I'm sitting
there listening to you. It reminded me of the people
who vote Democrat and if you do it, you know,
like taking drugs. You do it because you think it's
gonna make you feel good, and maybe for a little

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bit it does make you feel good, but it causes
so many problems, whether it's health wise or legal problems
or whatever, and you know it's it's really not worth it.
Just like taking drugs, it just doesn't seem to be
worth it. You're you know, you're you're putting these things
in your body that that are gonna do more harm
than good. And and that temporary feeling of you for

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or whatever you get, whatever rush you get from taking
I'm just it's not worth all the trouble. So you know,
to kind of combine your your topic with with my
usual topic. You know, it's not worth the people. Don't
vote Democrat.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Have a great day, right, short and sweet. Appreciate it, Tom,
I do. Oh, we got John on the phone. John's
got a comment. John, thanks you for calling you. Are
you in Florida, John, I'm.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
In Saint Augustine, getting in I'm getting ready for the sun.
I'm going to have my Harley service and then I'm
going to ride down A one A. Good for you
to pick up some symbols.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
What kind of hard, what kind of Harley, do you
have as.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Twenty fifteen road Glide. Don't buy anything past fifteen. That's
when Harley created up and it it went went woke.
So don't buy anything past to fifteen. I'm telling you
right now, it's not funny. I mean, you're just gonna
get played. I've got the American Buele int and the
thing screams. I've got the modified two into one Kirker

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born out to one on eighteen. I can ride one
hundred and twenty miles an hour on with one hand.
Not that I condone that to what I wanted to
talk about.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
That's a torque month.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
With low end.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, that rides literally like Lincoln on two wheels. I
kid you not. And why that is a lot of
people don't realize. On the Harley, the Roague Glide is
the only model with the the The faring is stationary.
It doesn't move.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Danged. I know you didn't call it talk about Harley's
so John, thank you for I.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Call it recap. First of all, be nice if you
guys played some jazz on there every once in a while.
That's just a suggest.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well it's Christmas time, so the Vince Giraldi trio will
be the only sanctioned Christmas music for the morning show,
so you'll get your dose of Christmas jazz. It's soon enough, okay.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
But anyway, I called recapped some Millian thing. You know,
like you live you know where Kensy is? Remember Kenzie,
you know where Kensi is? You lived in.

Speaker 6 (23:03):
Chicago, right, yeah?

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Right?

Speaker 2 (23:07):
So when this is when I was naive, I not
naive anymore. So I moved to Chicago to work and play.
And I got my first gig and I was in
a hurry. It was kind of running late, and my
girlfriend said, well, don't ever ride in the purple cabs.
They're bad news. Well, anyway, I was late, so I
jumped into purple cab. It was this somemullion drug addict.

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I got in there. This is a true story. I
got in that cab. I was in that cab and
it was literally like being in it like the filthiest
kitchen you could The guy was living in the car.
It was filthy. I said, can you please turn down
the music? He screamed at me like in some foreign language,

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you know, And I said, all right, I just got
to focus on what I'm doing. So anyway, he pulls
up in front of the El Gato on Katzi. So
I just throw the money on the seat to get out, well,
the guys said. And when I did that, I looked
over the seat and I saw a crack pipe on
the seat, just laying there. And I said, well that
explains everything. Oh it just gets better.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
So well at a time, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, Well, quickly I got out the car. The guy
said I didn't pay me, and he grabbed me. He
put my hand and I knocked him out cold knocked
him out, defending myself a cold quickly. So I go
in the bar. She says, look, uh you you uh
their police will arrest you. I said, I didn't do anything.

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I defended myself anyway. I was trying to be good.
So they did arrest me for assault. I went to court.
I said I want a jury trial, and I had
a great lawyer, and the lawyer said, what's a public defender,
by the way, and the lawyer said, yeah, we should
have a jury trial. He didn't do anything, and so
we had to wait all afternoon and the guy the judge, said,
we're going to have to wait here to the cab

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driver till like four point thirty three thirty and he
starts cussing out the judge because he had to set
there and wait, and the judge said, I'm just missing everything,
and if I was, I would have done the same
thing that John did. Get out of my courtroom. But
the point of this story is everybody can make a

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difference if they have the courage and the guts to
stand up for their civil liberties. And we don't have
to take crap off all these people. And the sense
of entitlement that that guy had will ring with me
for the rest of his life. And in closing, I'd
like to say if he grabbed me now, he would
be probably leaving in a body bag.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Have a good day, all right. Just make sure your
your actions are justifiable under the law. The for CD
talk station five three two three talk the phones are
open if you want to give Judge Jrectory the over
and under on whether the new snowflow system will work.
I said, we didn't get any new flows, though Joe

(25:59):
reminded me, we know what we got tracking devices, So
the three I guess plows that the actually of operating
will be able to find out where they are and no,
they won't be in your neighborhood. Can we just assume that, Joe,
that's safe, especially like if you're a man Adams, all right,
first test of the of the old administration, which will
be the new administration, get a stack of stupid story

(26:21):
in here. After being arrested for breaking into a Circle
Cay two o'clock in the morning and stealing a bag
of beef jerfy a jerky, Illinois police said quote, I
know you are going to think I'm crazy, but there
is an artificial intelligence speaker in my neck. His words.
Cole Bertles, thirty three, charged with kicking in the front

(26:42):
door of the convenience store in Saint Charles, Missus, Missouri,
climbing into the lock business and proceeding to eat a
bag of beef jerky and drinking a sweet tea he
didn't pay for. Cops got there, Birtles detained asked about
the break in, he reportedly confessed saying, Hey, the voice
is in my head told me to kick in and
open and since it was locked, I just wanted to

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use the bathroom. Burtles also made his artificial intelligence claim.
Not clear what role the purported implant played in the
alleged burglary, However, he resides forty miles from the Missouri
store he broke into, adding that he had walked into
the Circle K from Illinois. Arrested for burglary, which is

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a felony, property damaged second degree misdemeanor. Also charged with
stealing property value at less than one hundred and fifty bucks.
Although with inflation, his beef jerky had gone through the roof.
Price of beef's gone up. Oh, the sweet tea is expensive,
That's what it is, Joe says. Locked Up in lieu
of a twenty five hundred dollars cash bond, Burtle's ordered
to have no contact with Circle K and also submit

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to a mental health examination if he bonds out of custody.
Drugs are made us tracker hit the nail on the
head on that one. Five forty five fifty five kercity
talk station. You know what is not bad, It's good
station five fifty fifty five kr SD talk station. A
happy Monday. Try to make it a happy one anyway.

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So you got plenty going on there. Back to the
stack of stupid Pierce County woman. Deputies claim she was
involved in four whippet related dui incidents in less than

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two weeks, four of them whipp It's nitrous ox side
for those who aren't in the no rest of Tuesday
morning on two fifty thousand dollars warrants card to Pierce
County Sheriff's off offices. The say the first case, reported
November twelfth, one pm, witness saw the woman sitting in
her vehicle using nitrous oxside, Sheriff's Office said. The witness

(28:51):
told dispatches the one looks sick impaired. While the car
was running and there were working, you might drive off
and hurt somebody. Deputy's got there for a welfare check,
said the immediately saw her throwing empty nitrous cans into
the back seat. She was also nude from the waist down,
as this tradition. Not shockingly, she agreed to complete a

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field sobriety test and failed each category. Arrested for physical
control and booked under the Pierce County Jail three days later,
November fifteenth, police arrested the same woman on suspicion of
DUI after a crash at forty fourth in Alameda Avenue
that she hit a power box, knocked down a power pole.
The car described as destroyed in the crash. Officers said

(29:36):
whippet canisters scattered around the vehicle. Booked again into the
Pierce County Jail on suspicion of DUI and first agree
malicious mischief for damaging the utility equipment. Deputy said the
pattern continued. November twentieth, another call reported woman slumped over
the inside of the car with nitrous canisters all over
the place. Officers deputies rather able to stop her before

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she pulled out out of the parking lot, determined there
was probable cause for a third duy. One deputy involved
for the rest the same deputy who arrested her less
than a week earlier. Accord to the Sheriff's office, Deputies
frustrated by an increasingly worried for public safety, especially because
she had bailed out quickly after each arrest. Maybe she

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was in Hamilton County, Joe, wouldn't doubt it. They contact
University Place City Attorney's office in hopes that she would
be held longer, calling her behavior a significant threat to
the community. On November twenty third, yes she was involved
in yet another incident, this in Tacoma. She had a
park car in a neighborhood, pushing it into another vehicle.

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The car was totaled. Her car, rather, was totaled again.
Next day, Sheriff's office said they received word that the
prosecutors had issued two fifty thousand dollars of warrants. Calling
her a high risk danger of the community. Deputies went
to her home and arrested her on November twenty six
on the outre standing Warrens to ensure that she couldn't driving.

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Sheriff's office urged people struggling with addiction, especially in Halen's
to see kelp, calling them extremely addictive and dangerous. Okay, see,
let's stick with drugs, shall we. Richard Arthur Potetrats not

(31:25):
quite sure why he started mixing hard liquor with narcotics
a narcotic cocktail of fentanyl and hydromorphone while driving a
charter bus that was carrying fifty two Saskatoon grade school students.
This happened back in March. The seventy one year old
described as veteran driver said Saskatoon Provincial Court that he
had been battling chronic backcane for a couple of decades,

(31:47):
calling the pain twelve on a ten scale. Behind the
wheel of Prince Albert Northern bus Line chartered March fourteenth,
with sixth, seventh and eighth grade students from the Hollis
And Elementary School on board. Returning from a trip. Police
responded to calls about an erratic driver. Cour to the
police news release, police say they were called to the
scene Highways sixteen at around six pm CST on March fourteenth,

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after getting a report of an impaired driver operating a
charter bus. They found the bus on the side of
the highway with port trats. The driver passed out in
the backseat of a car that was driven by a
parent who was following the bus. He said in a
letter read to the Provincial Court, I've come to the
full realization of how much fear I caused. I take

(32:32):
full responsibility for what happened that day. Pleaded guilty to
driving with a blood alcohol level higher than the legal limit.
Prosecutor presented a pre sentenced report that detailed his various
medical maladies and a victim impact statement from a teacher
on the bus who asked to remain anonymous. He represented himself,

(32:54):
who's watching your children doing idiot things? Because they're idiots
and to claim chronic back paying for twenty five years
been relying on escalating amounts of painkillers, including fentanyl and hydromorphone.
Adding the alcohol to the mix that day, in his words,
was a stupid decision. There are no excuses. Well, who

(33:15):
can argue with that? Beneath that article, former Missouri substitute
teacher gets ten years in prison for sex with students.
Thirty one year old Curriss's j Smith doing because their
idiots engaged in various performances of a variety of different
sex acts for which she exchanged money, marijuana, and alcohol

(33:37):
to the students. Who's watching your children? Fifty six five
KRC Detalk station Open Topics, six o'clock hour. Feel free
to give me a call. I'm sure I can find
something from the seemingly hundreds of articles I have in
front of me today. You can steer the top of
your conversation regardless. We'll be back after the news. Today's

(33:59):
top headlines coming up at time off not firing on
all eight. Do you have an eighthylinder car? We're not
firing on all six with a six, but I am firing.
And I'm glad to be back and appreciate Joe Strecker
seeing him in the booth as he should be, and
I appreciate phone calls. Going to jump over the phones here.
If you've got somebody want to talk about, feel free
to give me a ring five one, three, seven, four,

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nine fifty eight hundred and eight two to three talk
well pound five fifty on AT and T phone. Before
I jump into something, Let's see what CJ's got in
his mind today. CJ, thanks for calling it. A Happy
Monday to you, sir, Oh.

Speaker 6 (34:31):
Happy Monday to you as well.

Speaker 7 (34:32):
You know, there's a lot of chicken being played around
the world right now, and we're doing it in Venezuela.

Speaker 6 (34:38):
China is doing it with Japan and the Philippines.

Speaker 7 (34:41):
They're flying fighter jets over some of the Philippine islands,
claiming their airspace, and they're opening up the question of
whether or not Okinawa belongs to Japan or to China.
We are trying to force out Maduro and it is
all about who is the.

Speaker 6 (34:58):
True big dog around the world right now.

Speaker 7 (35:00):
And that is why I believe all of a sudden,
Trump is really interested in in forcing Ukraine into peace.
It is trying to break that Chinese hold with Russia.
It's never going to go away, but at the same point,
it at least tries to get our foot back in
the door with somebody who might have some interest in

(35:25):
pushing back against China. I don't think the news media
as a whole is covering how dangerous the world is
right now, because if we blink in Venezuela, that gives
China a ton of power in Central America and in South.

Speaker 6 (35:41):
America with Maduro.

Speaker 7 (35:43):
If we blink in Asia, who knows what is going
to happen with the Philippines, in China and Japan. And
we need to be paying attention to it.

Speaker 8 (35:54):
And I know you have a.

Speaker 7 (35:56):
Advertiser who sells gold, but right now is a great
time to be buying gold with everything going on in
the world.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Well, that's fine, And you know, I reflect on gold,
and I know people look at it as a safe,
you know, harbor when you know markets get volatile. I
just have always viewed gold as something well, you know,
I understand the idea of having physical gold. It always
has some sort of value. But I view it in
terms of, you know, with fiat currency collapse, what the
hell you're going to do with it? In terms of
an investment vehicle, while we still have a viable fiat currency,

(36:26):
it may make great sense, but no investment advisor am I.
But yeah, I mean accurately some up the global problems
we have. I know China's been making interested in making
inroads into South America for a long long time. Maybe
Venezuela is the key to that or not, but certainly
for decades now that China has made territorial claims to
the South China Sea, it's been building its own islands

(36:49):
i e. Military bases there for a long long time
with no response from any administration. I don't know that
we have any territorial or we don't have any defense obligations.
I think we do with you. So if wars launched
against Japan, then fine, we might have an obligation to
respond militarily. Not that that would be a pretty picture
because wouldn't that mean World War three CJ.

Speaker 7 (37:12):
Well, absolutely, and we do have bases in both the
Philippines in Japan. Sure, we do, and that immediately puts
Our troops.

Speaker 6 (37:20):
We have military bases in Okinawa, we have a keep
marine base and so yeah, and that truly puts US
in the middle of it. And we have.

Speaker 7 (37:31):
Pred obligations to both the Philippines, which at one point
we controlled, and Japan for the protection. The World War
two treaty is all about protection of Japan that they
would have no military except for ours and our protection,
and it is I think with everything going on over
in Asia, we are not putting enough visibility on the

(37:54):
dangers that is going on in Japan and China right now.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
But what I mean if CJ you were the military commander,
or you're the commander and she or what would you
do to deal with the obvious problems we got unfolding
in the South China Sea, Philippines. You know, obviously Taiwan's
an issue. We don't have a defense obligation with Taiwan,
and Trump seems to be taking a little bit more
hands off is approach visa the Taiwan. I think because
of the complications associated with it. I don't know, Yeah,

(38:20):
are we gonna send carrier groups over there? I mean,
I know we've got some military presence. Of course, you
can ask cribbage Mike about the submarine presence there. Of course,
we have subs all over the place. But what do
you do.

Speaker 6 (38:33):
Well, we don't do.

Speaker 7 (38:34):
The question is do we even have the navy to
be able to do anything anymore because we have cut
back to maybe so much. We just canceled three or
four ships that I believe Trump in the first administration
put on contracts on, but we were unable to even
complete a number of those ships, so they canceled three more.

(38:55):
We like we have a serious defense problem. Yes, China has.
There is population problem is they are starting to shrink.
But that does not make the world a less dangerous place.
It probably makes the world a more dangerous place because
you have China and eating people in order to keep

(39:16):
their economy going. And if they're going to start talking
about some of these things, at what point do you
put F sixteens or F thirty five's up over the
Philippines to say, hey, you're not allowed to fly in
here anymore. This is the Philippine airspace. We are invited here,
you are not.

Speaker 6 (39:32):
And the same thing is through with Japan.

Speaker 7 (39:34):
And then that's where the game of chicking ractors up another.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Level and maybe hit the nail on the head of
why we don't do that. I mean, we're telling Venezuela
that their military or their airspace has been shut down.
We're threatening them with bombs on the ground, isn't it?
Because maybe Venezuela is an easy target. Their military is
really built on ancient Russian and US equipment. I've read
that it's really really never been maintained, so they really

(40:00):
have not much of a military to speak of. They're
an easy target to pick on. Not so with the Chinese.
We start doing a flyovers and Philippines and flyovers in
Taiwan or flyers in the general area, doesn't that invite
a potential conflict with China? Arago the World War III
threat that we are concerned about. It's a military power

(40:21):
that's got nuclear weapons. That's a that's a horse of
a different color when it comes to you know, as
searching our strength and our military might.

Speaker 7 (40:29):
Absolutely and there and to your point about Venezuela, another
big important factor with Venezuela is what what is the
number one thing everybody's looking for? Are these rare earth minerals.
Venezuela does have a lot but they are still number
two or number three in the world with oil, and
it is we are not that far removed from Venezuela
being the richest country in the Western Hemisphere and not

(40:52):
the US. I think it was up until about the
mid sixties that the average Venezuelan was far richer than
the average American.

Speaker 6 (40:59):
Because of all the oil that they had. And if
you take away that oil from.

Speaker 7 (41:03):
China, maybe that helps cool down some of this stuff
in Asia. And you know, and that is where we
are at a point in Venezuela that I don't think
we can back down. I think we have crossed a
red line because if we back down, it gives China
more power, and it gives Maduro more power, and what
does that do to the stability of South America. I

(41:25):
would not be surprised if Maduro isn't given a free
access to go elsewhere, that we don't go in there
and do what we did with Noriega and force him out.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
That all sounds like possibilities, It all sounds like plausible
maybe quote unquote solutions to a broader problem. But see,
I'll go back to the Okay, if everything you say
is true, and it's very accurate. I'm not disagreeing with
your assessment of global affairs, but if that as well
is the key, and this is a lynchpin for our
achieving some sort of power instability in South amaera America,

(42:00):
we obviously have a drug problem. Does it not require
some congressional authority? Does can Trump unilaterally do everything? Yeah?
I know. See there's the challenge and we live in
such a screwed up country right now in so far
as if Trump wants to do literally anything, and if
you wanted to feed starving children, the Democrats are come
out against it because well, evil Orange man, there's never

(42:23):
a consensus about effective moving forward strategies. Okay, it's all accurate.
Listen to what CJ said. We all agree that this
is the problem we're facing. These are the existential threats
posed by China and others. But what do we do
about it? Well, we need some sort of authorization to
deal with Venezuela. Do you think you can get it
in this divided Congress? Do you think they'll even pass
some sort of authorization for you some military force, because

(42:46):
it's going to give Trump what he wants. I don't
I think they're willing to put United States security, long
term security in total jeopardy just simply because they seem
to be suffering collectively from Trump to arrangement syndrome. They're
not looking out for our interest. They're looking out for
political division to score the next points as we approach
the twenty twenty six elections, which is on everybody's mind

(43:06):
right now.

Speaker 7 (43:07):
It's crazy, absolutely and even you know, and I don't want.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
To get too much into another rabbit hole, but you could.

Speaker 7 (43:16):
Just see that this weekend with all the news out
of Minnesota.

Speaker 6 (43:19):
Somalia, nobody wants to cover that.

Speaker 7 (43:22):
It's billions of dollars going to.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
Somalia, exactly. Yeah, And that is insane. And that also
is a good topic because one of the reasons nobody
ever did anything about that is because everyone was apparently
afraid of being accused of racism for wanting to out
crack down on Somalian crime as if it's an attack
on all of the Somalian people when you go after

(43:46):
certain groups of Somalians who are builking the system and
ripping off the American tax payers for literally everything. Yeah, uh,
there's another factor you can add to the complications list.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
There.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
CJ. Appreciate your observations. Man, I think you summed it
up quite nicely. It's a crazy world we live in,
and sadly, our elected officials don't seem to want to
play nicely together for our own collective benefit. Six sixteen
Right now, maybe you got something else to say about that?
Five one, three, seven, four, nine to fifty five hundred,
eight hundred and eight twenty three talk Feel free to
call Chimneycare Fireplace and Stuff Talk station. It is six

(44:20):
twenty one to fifty five Kerr City Talk Station. Appreciate
CJ mentioning Tim Waltz in Minnesota and the problem within
the Somali community. No, it is not an indictment of
every Somali that exists. It's an indictment of the huge,
massive fraud that generate that started within the Somali community.
This is kind of troubling to me. Prosecutor say they
siphon these these criminal elements within the broader Smali community.

(44:43):
Maybe you got the full set, then you got a
subset subsets what we're talking about here. That's an important
thing to remember as we get into all the allegations
that are being thrown around about racism. Apparently stole over
one billion dollars from the state's social safety net programs
by creating these fraud These entities that were engaged in
fraud within the SMALI community of Minnesota. Individual established companies

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that build state agencies for services that weren't perform. I
think they've had like seventy five people convicted so far
of this convicted that's you know, guilt beyond a reevez
will doubt or otherwise admitting to guilt. Federal prosecutors have
emphasized the seriousness of the cases. Career federal prosecutor Attorney
Joseph Thompson warning of the scale of the fraud threatens

(45:28):
public confidence and stating the obvious that we need to
keep our eye on in all federal programs. No one
will support these programs if they continue to be riddled
with fraud. We're losing our way of life in Minnesota
in a very real way. Well it's not just Minnesota,
it's literally every fraud program or every program. Remember the
COVID nineteen money, that's where a lot of this started from.

(45:49):
Give people the opportunity to dip their hand of the
cookie jar. They're going to do it, whether they're entitled
or not. This problem began in twenty twenty two. That's
when it first emerged. Attorneys began executing fraud related to
the pandemic era child Nutrition program, a one program Feeding
our Future Minnesota nonprofit partner with dozens of local businesses

(46:10):
to claim reimbursements for tens of thousands of non existent meals.
What there's money spent on? Apparently luxury spending homes, vehicles,
and international real estate investments. That's where your tax payer
dollars went. Also funding terrorist organizations like Al Shabab. One
providing the autism program. Asha Faran Hassan accused of facilitating

(46:31):
fourteen million dollars in fraud. Her attorney, a guy named
Ryan Pagaya, said she started with good intentions but eventually
engaged in falsifying invoices and intends to plead guilty, even
saying no one was doing anything about the red flags.
It was like someone was stealing money from the cookie
jar and they kept refilling it. That's your oversight, or

(46:54):
rather lack thereof. Now here's your here's your reason behind
why nobody was going after him? Why did state officials hesitate?
Why do they not intervene concerns over accusations of racism
or political backlash. Oh, we can't go after them. We're

(47:16):
going to be accused of being racist or anti Somali
or some nonsense like that. A report by Minnesota's Office
of Legislative Auditor found that threats of discrimination lawsuits ultimately
influence regulatory decisions. Oh, the mere threat of a lawsuit.
Oh wait a minute, We've got allegations of fraud. We've
got illustrations of fraud. We can see it right here

(47:36):
on paper. These people aren't getting meals. Yeah, but we
don't want to be accused of discrimination to have to
face a lawsuit. This including early warnings issue by that
Feeding our Futures program I just mentioned, challenging claims from
minority owned businesses would trigger litigation in public accusations cower
behind the accusation, and so many people are guilty of this.

(47:59):
Our elected official are. I don't want to be labeled
to racist. Is there any proof that you are a racist?
Anybody who cowers in the face of that allegation, I
think maybe themselves actually are racist or something. If you're
not a racist, then you're just trying to enforce the law.
Why would you be worried about someone claiming your a racist.
Those people are flinging allegations like that all over the

(48:19):
place twenty four to seven. Just add it to the list.
One former fraud investigator investigator at the Minnesota Attorney General's Office, CASEE. Meghan,
said that pushed back contributed to reluctance among Democratic officials. Quote,
there is a perception, notice the emphasis, that forcefully tackling
this issue might cause political backlash among the Somali community.

(48:43):
Here's the salient point, folks, She concludes with, which is
a core voting block. Oh, we don't want to piss
off the criminal element within the Somali community because they
won't vote for us anymore. So we should ignore crime
and allow it to perpetuate and resulting a billion dollars
ripped off from the taxpayer because we want to keep

(49:03):
the votes. Yes, that's how shallow your politicians are. That's
how much they care about you and the taxpayer dollars
they stole from your pocket. They got one illustration of
courtroom misconduct. They claimed defendants attempted to bribe a juror
with one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in a note
asking quote, why is it always people of color and

(49:27):
immigrants prosecuted for the fault of other people? What other
people are at fault? Oh, that's right, every other human
being of any race, color, creed that ripped off any
of the programs that they shouldn't have been taken money
out of. And I've got a lot of illustrations of
those programs. And criminals, white, black, yellow, Muslim, Christian, Jew,

(49:50):
everybody of every race, affiliation, religious afiliate. Everybody on some
level or at least a subset of every community that
exists in the world is participated in fraud because we
don't care about fraud or tracking it down. That attorney
Thompson I mentioned before argue that heightened racial sensitivities after
George Floyd's death back in twenty twenty affected oversight and enforcement,

(50:14):
saying this was a huge part of the problem. Allegations
of racism can be a reputation or career killer. Yeah,
if you'll let it be, you succumb to the allegation
and cower in front of it. Nothing gets done to
solve the underlying problem, which is demonstrably and objectively criminal

(50:38):
behavior which has no connection whatsoever to the race, ethnicity
of the person committing a crime, get a spine six
twenty eight fifty five car see the talk station, Foreign
exchange the ultimate place six point thirty two here fifty
five car se detalk station. You have Local Stories in

(50:59):
front of me here five one, three, seven, four, nine
fifty five eight hundred eighty two threesh. Apparently not going
to be hearing from West Side Jim Key for this morning.
He has laryngitis. In prayers to the West Side gym,
and I hope he feels better. Thank you for the
text there, Jim, and I know I'll see you at
Listener Lunch Wednesday. We're going to be a Price Sal
Chili last one of the year. Will celebrate holidays Christmas.
Pick a holiday we're going to celebrate because well it's

(51:20):
Listener Lunch. Enjoy the fellowship. I really truly hope I
can see you there. We can look at the new
speed bumps outside of Price Hill Chili, and I will
drive on Sunset newly repaved. Yeah, it's gonna be a
great experience. Over to the Local Stories. Village in Hamilton
County weighing its options. Apparently a computer system got hacked
for ransom. The village of golf men Or Manor subject

(51:41):
to a ransomware attack resulting in the loss of its
computer files, including Dave Hatter all of their backups. November
twenty fourth, Village Council meant to discuss Resolution twenty twenty
five days thirty, which proposes to pay for the guidance
of a third party group of experts to help. Maybe
Interest dot Com interjected that resolution says experts may advise

(52:04):
the village to make ransom payment in exchange for the
decryption key for the village computer networks and backup data.
Court to one council member thanks to Fox nineteen, Mary
Labus reporting, the village is not a stage where we
have any interest whatsoever in paying this ransom. However, the
legal council that was assigned to us by our insurance
company did recommend that we passed this. Apparently a few

(52:27):
unknown answers to the situations, such as what the hackers
want and how much it's going to cost the village.
Not the first time Ohio had to deal with some
one of these things. Cyber attack in exchange for ransom.
Not clear how the cyber attack impacts Golf Manor Residents
and Services Council is going to meet again in December
at some time to discuss whether they want to pass
the resolution again, one that would require them to pay

(52:50):
one person taking to the hospital After a shooting that
happened in Avondale Saturday morning, court is Sergeant Anthony Mitchell
with Cincinna Police Department. Officers called the eight hundred blockablltl
l Air Avenue at ten fifteen in the morning. Once
they got there, they found a victim of a gunshot wound,
Corners Sergeant Mitchell. The victim was taken to the hospital
with non life threatening injuries and is in stable condition.
Not sure what led to the shooting. Police haven't stated

(53:12):
if they have a suspect, but if you have any information,
I imagine crime Stoppers number to call three five two
thirty forty five one three three five two thirty forty
oh Joe Strecker is still in a roll keeping his
UH post election tally in what neighborhoods voted for whom
in the Cincinnati Council race Corner Shtrecker village of Avondale

(53:34):
voted eighty five percent for a have to have pervoll
and the current council.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
You can draw your own conclusions on that one six
thirty five. Thank you for keeping that article, Joe, and
as Christopher Smith and may very well tell you at
seven twenty today, elections have consequences. Station Happy Monday five three,
seven fifty five D eight hundred eight two to three
talk or pound five fifty on at and TCU. Yeah, further,

(54:03):
did this sort of Minnesota Somali community problem? Yeah, and
there are a lot, there's a lot of crime going on,
and the crime is pervasive, and you know, we always
talk about the cultural impact of individuals from the four
corners of the globe ending up in the United States
of America with no connection to our rules, our societal norms,

(54:24):
no understanding of our constitution, and coming from extraordinarily corrupt
countries where crime of the type that's been revealed among
and within the Somali community of Minnesota but elsewhere is
kind of the norm. And I thought it was rather
interesting because one there was a Somali American professor, so

(54:44):
he's within the broader collective of Somali community, all right,
is Ahmed Samatar. He's a professor at McAllister College, and
he was quoted. I believe it was by the New
York Times, of all of all places. He pointed out
that Somali refugees who came to the United States after
their country's civil war were raised in a culture in
which stealing from the country's dysfunctional and corrupt government was widespread,

(55:11):
and he says Minnesota provides a proved susceptible to rampant
fraud because it is, in his words, so tolerant, so open,
and so geared toward keeping an eye on the weak.
Now couple this with the whole vetting concept, and I'm
not sure what percentage of the eighty thousand Somalians in

(55:32):
the Minnesota Somali community alone are illegally in our country
or are legally in our country. But this is a
cultural I guess normal least according to the professor, it's
just ripping off the government when you have a corrupt government,
and maybe you feel it's the right thing to do.
Oh they're not serving me, well, I'll just go ahead
and take my slice. And couple that with this blame

(55:53):
game going on. I knew Donald Trump referred to Governor
Waltz as retarded, which really I thought it was kind
of fun because in the context of calling someone that
word when they are obviously not truly cognitively impaired, he's
not casting aspersions on someone who it was out of
their hands. He's commenting on something that was demonstrably stupid

(56:15):
in the face of what probably should have been done,
which is maybe pay attention to the four hundred employees
of the Minnesota Department of Health of Human Services, which
well brought to Governor Tim Waltzs's attention that there was
all kinds of fraud going on, issuing warnings relating to
and apparently he was retaliating against whistleblowers who actually had
the audacity to mention that crime was occurring. Minnesota Department

(56:39):
of Human Services employees account. It's an ex account which
they say consists of more than four hundred and eighty
current staff members at the Minnesota DHS, claiming Waltz is
one hundred percent responsible for the massive fraud of Minnesota.
Here's what they had to say. We let Tim Waltz
know a fraud early on, hoping for a partnership and

(57:01):
stopping fraud, but no, we got the opposite response. Tim
Walls systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring threats, repression, and
did his best to discredit fraud reports. In addition to
retaliate against whistleblowers, Tim Walltz disempowered the Office of the
Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and

(57:26):
guidance audit findings that apparently revealed the level of fraud
that was going on among these various programs ongoing problems.
Walts addressed the fraud at a press conference last week,
saying it undermines trust in the government and undermines programs
that are absolutely critical and improving quality of life. Yeah,
that goes back to the quote from earlier. If you

(57:48):
don't have faith in these programs, you're not going to
be supporting the programs. Programs that might very well help
some people, but only if they are, you know, run
with an eye toward preventing fraud at the outset. I've
made this parallel before. We hear from it every single
week Tech Friday's Dave Hatter Internet of things devices never

(58:09):
start with security. They always start with the dangly shining
object that they think the world once they roll it out,
without even considering the idea that it's going to be
haven for hackers to crack into your home Wi Fi system.
They don't care about it. We need to pass COVID relief.
We need to throw a trillion dollars at COVID relief
with not an ounce of protection built into the outset

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which would stop fraud at the beginning. So that requires
individuals within the programs to raise it to the attention
of the officials and bring the fraud of their attention.
But it requires a willing administration to say, you know what,
go for it instead. Apparently, according to at least the
four hundred employees in the Minnesota Department of Human Services,

(58:52):
he basically gave him the metaphorical middle finger and threatened them. Now,
the big question is why do these eighty thousand members
of the small community. Are they collectively going to reject
Tim Walls for going after fraud? Do you want a

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vote from someone who is giving you a vote because
you allow for this fraud to run rampant? If you're
a taxpayer voter, I would like to think that no,
you would want to stop the fraud because your money,
your labor, your effort is being taken from you and
funding this fraud ridden program. This frightening stuff going on,

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and then, notably, it even gets even worse when you
realize a lot of these fraud dollars not only went
to real estate, luxury items, ripping off, taking food out
of the mouths of needy children, and well, much like
the original creators of Black Lives Matter going out and
buying five million dollar mansions with your corporate pressure donation.

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I the system apparently is broken. Jay's on the phone.
You're gonna have held on one minute.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Jay.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
You know I love hearing from you, but I got
to take a break at six forty six in fifty
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car CD talk station. Yeah, very happy Monday to you.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
The word is scromining. It's the cannabis hypermesis syndrome. I
was joking around the plumb Ti Club plumbing tankless water
heater commercial. But there's now a code for that that
doctors will be placing on your medical record if they
determine that you have a cannabis hypermesis syndrome. That way,
when you end up in the hospital again because of
the wrenching abdominal pain, they'll be able to know that, well,

(01:00:45):
it's because you're smoking weed and stop it. The only
cure for it, at least as of right now. So
with that further ado, Jay, thanks for calling this morning,
and a happy Monday to you.

Speaker 9 (01:00:56):
Hey, Happy Monday. Brian calling in from the People's Republic
of New York listening on the iHeart media app streaming
and you're coming in loud and Claire is it's son
the iHeart App.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
Thanks man, I sure appreciate you tuning in on the
iHeart App.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Jay.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
It's very nice of you. And I've never gotten over
the reality that people from all over the country can
call in and can listen to the show. It just
tickles me to death.

Speaker 5 (01:01:21):
Man.

Speaker 9 (01:01:22):
Oh not only that, but I tell the listeners that
they probably already know this. But for those who don't,
you miss the Brian Thomas Show, you can listen to
it anytime of any day, Saturday, Sunday. It's fantastic. So
I stay informed by listening to you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
Thanks Jay.

Speaker 9 (01:01:38):
Hey one or two, build on your good reporting on
what's going on with the Somali community up in Minnesota.
Maybe broaden the topic a little bit. Just the amount
of waste, broad and abuse going on up there. We
have still in Ohio, we have no reason to believe
that we're not last place in fifty states, worse than

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the nation, and because nobody has produced the data to
say otherwise. The last report we've got thanks to I
think it was either Judicial Watch or Americans for Prosperity.
I learned about it by listening to your program. This
was Brice had to be four five years ago. Somebody
did a Foyer request one of those good organizations and

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c MMS, which is the organization the Federal head of
Medicaid and medicare as a mandatory annual report that they produced.
The show's the amount of fraud by state, and Ohio
was worst. Now we've not heard a peep from our
elected representatives in this glorious red state of ours. I

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would expect this sort of thing to go on in
a blue state. Doesn't really shock me, And as time
goes on, I'm really not surprised to see it going
on in a purple state like Ohio. But I would
love for somebody. We've got this this star chamber called
the Joint Medicaid Oversight Committee, and Jennifer Gross is probably

(01:03:02):
the best member on there to come forward and give
us an update of where are we can somebody please
get the facts in the data from the mandatory report
that Obama said, don't worry about producing. That wasn't his call.
By law, they have to produce it.

Speaker 8 (01:03:18):
But it seems like.

Speaker 9 (01:03:19):
Nobody really cares that that's not being sent out and
that daylight's not being shined on the amount of medicaid
fraud by waste. You cannot find it. I can't find it.
So would somebody please step up. Jennifer Gross, if you're listening,
could you give us an update where does Ohio rank
on Medicaid fraud?

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Well, hopefully now we'll be get getting some help from
the Trump administration. Realize the Biden administration was not willing
to share the federal data they have on this, and
apparently Hchase Health and Human Services Department has let federal
investigators know that he's now trying to help eliminate dual enrollment.
They found massive, massive dual enrollment, which is basically fraud,

(01:04:00):
which and they're telling states start looking into eligibility. Here's
the data, so cross checking against your information. They said
the review of the summer. Over the summer, two point
eight million people in twenty twenty four were either claiming
Medicaid or Chip benefits in multiple states, or we're enrolled
in both programs as well as Obamacare getting the tax credit,

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even though those tax payer funded benefits are supposed to
be mutually exclusive. So the data has been rolled out,
the states have been asked to use it. Some of
them actually are, but then going back to your blue
state commons, they're not really inclined to do that. So Jay,
ask yourself why the Blue states aren't interested in ferreting
out fraud, waste, and abuse of American tax payer dollars.
I know you were talking about Medicaid fraud, but this

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is the same kind of thing. It's the lack of data.
At least you could argue that up until now we
didn't have the federal data to do a cross check.
But now that we do, what's the excuse. There should
be no excuse. Fraud harms every taxpayer. I don't care
what political stripe you are. You can be a commie.

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If you're actually working for a living, then your money's
being well used against you number one priority and that
does not bear a political stripe. That is a pledge
to people of all political stripes. I will not allow
it on my watch. I wish we had more politicians

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or rule and make that pronounced of a statement. No
fraud on my watch. I'm gonna do everything I can
within my power, under any given committee or a program
over which I have oversight to stop it from happening.
Where's the data? Where's the reports? How Come there's been
no follow up? How come we're not unilaterally engaging in
efforts to eradicate fraud, waste and abuse here in our state.
It's a damn good question. Six fifty six fifty five

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k c DE talk station. Feel free to chime in.
Christopher Smithman coming up at seven to twenty. No Brian
James this morning. He's taking the day off, but we
will get Gary Walt. He's back the Cincinnati Type and
Print Museum. Really cool place and great career opportunities. They
got an event this weekend. Plus he wants to tell
about a program they have to help autistic men. So
Gary will join the program at eight oh five. We're

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back with Christopher in the next hour. Hope we can
stick around. Today's top headlines coming up at the top
of the hour fifty five KRZ. It's seven oh six

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here fifty five car see de talk station. Tepping up
the next segment as is well tradition, Christopher Smithman with
the Smither vent from a Vice Mayor of the City
Cincinnat every Monday at seven twenty normally Money Monday, with
Brian James at at oh five. No money Monday. Today's
taking a day off, but we will get Gary Walton
from the Cincinnati Type in Print Museum, which is really

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cool place, and again a lot of career opportunities in
the print business that I was not aware of till
I first talked to Gary and learned a lot about it.
We've had him on the program a couple of times.
So we're talking about an exhibit they've got going on
this weekend coming up in one hour, but also a
program they have to help autistic men. So Gary Walton
at eight oh five, you can be on the program

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right now if you like five one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty eight hundred eight two three taco with pound five
fifty on at and t pundess. So moving away from
fraud wasted abuse in every government program, most notably recently
in Minnesota with the smaller community, I CJ brought up
the existential threats we face our American military, and we
have weapons depletion, everything that his brother wants weapons from
the United States of America. We don't really have enough

(01:07:43):
to wage our own war should become in a broader conflict,
conflicts that may start involving Venezuela and dropping bombs on Venezuela.
Got a problem with that. But we also have you know,
South China Sea, as he brought up, Taiwan, Japan's being threatened.
Now you can't overlook Russia, Ukraine, the problems in the
Middle Eagut. I mean, we have challenges facing us all
over the globe, but I worry more about the waging

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of war that is literally going on. Of course, we
have the undermining of our psychology brought to you by
social media. Our children are really struggling psychologically speaking, because
for whatever reason, they can't put down the damn devices.
A lot of manipulation, a lot of propaganda flowing in
over social media. We have the problems with hacking, clearly

(01:08:25):
a huge problem. Even happened locally here in one of
our local communities. Hacking shutting down systems, whether it's just
criminal elements or nefarious actors like our foreign enemies getting
involved in it. We know many illustrations of Chinese hacking
operations breaking into our grid. We had the financial system
shut down the other day, the futures markets shut down
because of one facility overheating outside of Chicago. And take

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that to the next level. They had one building overheated
and futures trading was shut down, And in essence, I'm
boiling it down to its boiled down points. But that's
effectively what happens out for ten hours, it couldn't do
any trading. What would happen if that happened to your
bank account or your four to oh one K accounts
or anything else like that scary stuff. So there's all
that kind of war waging going on. But then there

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is what I believe to be the intentional undermining of
the American people generally in the form of dumbing down
our students, ultimately rendering them wards of the state because
we don't do a very good job of educating them.
And I brought up this University of California, San Diego,
which ranks six on US News and War Reports College ranking.

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It's great, it's in the top ten. No it's not.
But there was an elaboration on it. By list of
Finley from just yesterday, Roughly one in eight freshman lack
rudimentary high school math skills geometry, algebra and algebra two
one in eight, and she points out against were students

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who had been placed in remedial high school math class
and twenty twenty three had a roughly fifth grade level ability.
These are high school students, folks. Only thirty nine percent
could correctly round the number three hundred and seventy four
five hundred and eighteen to its nearest one hundred, described
as a third grade skill.

Speaker 10 (01:10:16):
It is.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
So many incoming students were numerically illiterate. The university there
added remedial classes for middle and elementary school math. They
say remarkably, among students placed into that math course, the
remedial ninety four percent. This is again in college. You're
doing remedial middle and elementary school math in college, and

(01:10:40):
you're paying college credit level prices for this. Ninety four
percent of those students had completed an advanced math class
AP math class in high school that would be considered
pre calculus, calculus, or statistics, and received an average grade
of ANUS in their math courses. Talk about great inflation.

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The kids can't even compute at an eighth grade level,
and yet they're passing with a's in an advanced placement
course that's supposed to be calculus. Trust me, if you
can't do algebra, you're not gonna be doing calculus. So
she asked, you know, is this an indictment of the
University of California's admissions B public K through twelve schools,
c US News World Reports college rankings or D all

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of the above and if you had if you chose D,
you're correct. Start with A. The admissions process. The Board
of Regents at University of California did away with standardized
tests as admission requirements under the guise of promoting equity. Apparently,
some minority students scored lower on the SAT, so rather

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than try to elevate those scores, then they just got
rid of it all together. I made a push to
boost diversity and overall enrollment and ergo rake in more
government and student a The UC San Diego admit an
increased number of unqualified applicants from low income high schools.
In order to holistically admit a diverse and representative class,

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we need to admit students who may be at a
higher risk of not succeeding. That's in the report. Huh,
so we're going to set them up for failure just because,
oh and parenthetically saddle them with hundreds of thousands of debt.
That is, unless the American taxpayer is paying for it.

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She points out, this is a grave disservice to ill
prepared students who take longer to complete degrees and accrue
more debt or drop out. Few, if any students who
take remedial maths successfully complete an engineering degree. The report
knows like you couldn't absent through report's findings. If I
said your college level student can't even pass eighth grade

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level math, will they ever be able to get an
engineering degree? I think your immediate logical responsibility. Well, of
course not right. That's what the reports shows. So thank
you report for stating the obvious. They say, the University
of Mission Place admissions place a heavy emphasis on GPA's,

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but of course that doesn't reflect student preparation because of
great inflation. Some students may also cheat their way to
high school grades because of smartphones, artificial intelligence, everything that
makes it easier to cheat. And they say, at the
same time, Advance Placement tests and no, that's not set
and act those are the tests when you get out
of an AP course are less dependable. Why because the

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college Board has made the exams easier to pass, to
encourage more students to take Advanced Placement classes. Yeah, go
ahead and get an AP calculus When you can't even
calculate two plus two is four or AD fractions, she says,
call it vanity grading. Mediocre students now graduate with top
GPAs and AP scores, which make parents feel better about

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their kids' public schools and eases political pressure for education reform.
Come on, they're all getting as they must be doing great.
They're all smart. Now enter college Reality Question B. The
answer to your question B the public Key through twelve
schools and grading. The report says students have been underserved

(01:14:26):
by their prior schooling. Sure writes, no kidding. Only twenty
two percent of twelfth graders scored proficient in math on
the National Assessment of Educational Progress DEEP scores last year.
That's the lowest on record. Isn't that heartbreaking? She also
points out some of the best profession's best teachers, those

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that have been around a long time, that are capable
who enter the profession when they well really had a
desire for teaching and there were fewer women opportunities in
the workforce. They're all retiring that get a load of this.
The replacement are lacking. Teacher credential programs typically require only
a C plus average in undergraduate education. Note that goes

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along with pervasive grade inflation in colleges. In colleges, so
many young teachers find themselves with only fifth grade math
skills that your college teachers and high school teachers. And
of course, he said, so far as the US News
and Ward Reports rankings don't pay attention to that. They

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say graduation and retention makes up the largest weight in
the rankings, but gee, that might encourage colleges to inflate
grades to ensure that unqualified applicants that they admit still graduate.
Graduate employment outcomes account for only five percent of the
rankings weight. So if you're choosing a college and they
have an awesome job placement figure, wouldn't you think that

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would be to your child's best advantage because the act
actually got a job out of the college education. US
News doesn't seem to think so. And there are other
points that are made here, but fundamentally, your children apparently
are not being graded properly in K through twelve. They're

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being passed into higher levels in spite of the fact
that they fail on the level that they're in. That's okay,
They'll still get an A when they graduate. Everyone will
think they're brilliant. They'll get into college and they will fail.
They're set up for failure, and then they graduate. If
they graduate, they stick it out with a degree that
doesn't help them because the colleges aren't interested in finding

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jobs for the young people that are only interested in
turning out diplomas and collecting tuition. In a world with
artificial intelligence taking over more and more jobs, I only
see a growing broader problem. Ask yourself this question. Is
this which is truly going on? Well documented the great inflation?

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Passing children into college that are ready for college. All
that is happening right now and has been for a
long time. Question is it nefarious or are they just stupid?
I am opting for the former. This seems to me
to be a concerted effort to churn out dumb people
who have nothing to look forward to than being and
relying on some government program to feed them. Oh look,

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Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Fifty five car City Talk Station Monday, It's time the
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with this Smith event. Welcome Christopher. I hope you had
a wonderful Thanksgiving, my friend I did.

Speaker 8 (01:18:09):
And happy Thanksgiving to you and to your listening audience.
And you know it was one of those Thanksgivings with
the ambush of those two National Guard members. You know
that captured my imagination, and you know you can put
yourself in the place of those parents, you know, over

(01:18:31):
Thanksgiving where their children went out at a very young
age and signed up to serve our country. They're deployed
legally on a domestic guard case, you know, in in DC,
and then you wake up and somebody just randomly comes

(01:18:52):
up shoots your daughter twice and then shoots your son
in the head, and that's your thanksgiving. These families give
so much to all of us. I'm so disappointed in
seeing n and MSNBC. I think there are moments where
I think that they can do better turning around, but

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they hit new lows because they were there trying to
justify what happened, and so they're trying to pin the
tail of a donkey by saying they shouldn't have been there.
And if I'm a military family and I'm watching that,
if I'm a veteran, veterans have served all over the world,
all over this country. During COVID, we had the National

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Guard deployed all over in different parts of the country
trying to tell us what we could and couldn't do.
But these guardsmen are there just doing their job, and
that's what we always have to remember. And I'm just
blown away of why it's so partisan, Like this is
a moment where whether you're a Democrat or a Republican,

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no matter what your political persuasion, is a libertarian an
independent like me. This is where you say country first,
and you just extend your deepest support and condolences to
the family. You don't try to undermine orders of where
they were. They're serving our country.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
They're doing what they're supposed to do.

Speaker 8 (01:20:16):
They're following the commander in chief, and that's what you do.
And I just think it's so Unamerican to do anything
other than what I'm saying right now. And I just
want to say to the specialist Sarah Beckstrom who lost
her life twenty years old a baby, and I want
to acknowledge Andrew Woolf, who's in critical condition, who's fighting

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for his life. I think those are I think that's
where I start. And these families are around his bedside
right now. You know you're that you always wanted to
be that great dad. You know I've always wanted to
be that great dad. Like I'm involved in my kid's life,
you're involved in your children's life. This is a massive
moment for that Hire family, and I'm just looking for

(01:21:02):
the whole country to wrap our arms around them and
all those who are serving. You know, it doesn't matter
where they're serving. Everyone is watching because one of their brotherns,
one of their sisters has fallen and lost their life.
So I just can't say enough about it, and I
just want to want to send a message out. And
I have a son, by the way, I do have

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a son. His name is Caleb, Caleb Smitherman, who's serving
in the Guard right. He did four years active duty,
but he's now back serving in the Guard. And so
I'm one of those families where my son could be
deployed any place in the world. So it's not fake
for me. It's very real. And it you know, as
I'm watching my son, you know, at Thanksgiving dinner, and

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I'm happy that I have him there. You know, we're
all in a very solemn mood understanding that one of
his lost their life and one is fighting for their life.
And I think we just have to keep this in
the forefront of our mind and keep this this political
conversation that someone was having on CNN and MSNBC on
who is responsible. The person responsible is the person from

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Afghanistan who's here here in our country, who decided to
go in and take the life of Sarah Bestrom. That's
who's responsible. It's not the gun, it's the person is
the person here who engaged in terrorism in our country.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
Hey man, Christopher, I'm glad you brought that up, because
of course he is a major tragedy. Let's pause when
Christopher back, I always got a lot more on his mind.
Will continue with the Smith event after I mention Jimney
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we call it. Well, Christopher, what else is on your
mind this morning?

Speaker 8 (01:22:50):
Well, we have this Tennessee election tomorrow, and I've been
watching it very interesting because I think it has big
implications in twenty twenty six and the balance of Congress.
And I just never would believe that a person running
for Congress would say things like I hate Tennessee. I

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hate country music. I mean country music made Tennessee. And
they're in the running. I mean, this Democrat could win
this race. So you know, she's running against this representative,
this congressional member, Representative Epps, who's a veteran tied into
my first segment. I believe he was a pilot businessman

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values lined up with Tennessee and he's fighting for his
political life there as the Poland says. Now the Poland
could be all could be wrong. I agree. Joe Strecker
told me that, you know, as I was company. He says,
look at smitham in the Poland could be wrong. But
I'm even shocked that it's even somewhere close in Tennessee
and it's just a race. I'm going to be watching

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tomorrow because I think it has tremendous implications about what
could happen in twenty twenty six. This is a race
that Republicans should easily win hand down, particularly the weak
candidate on the other side, who's made a lot of
really crazy statements about Tennessee. Whatever your politics are. I mean,
if you just say I don't like Tennessee and I

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don't like country music, for most races, that would disqualify you.
This one seems to ignite the Democratic candidate. And I
just wonder whether the Republicans have it in them to
show up in an off election and make sure that
the House remains they remain controlled in control of it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
It's interesting that you point to that particular statement. Now,
grant you, Tennessee obviously huge country music. The Grand Old
Opry's there. I mean it's but and it points out
with two things. One, what politician from Tennessee would make
an utterance like that, that's just dumb, even if you
don't like country music. And here's Brian Thomas saying, you

(01:24:59):
know what, some of it's okay, but I don't gravitate
the country music very often, so it's is not my
favorite genre. But I wouldn't insult the entire you know,
country music audience or industry. So you don't touch that
with a ten foot pole politically. But the other thing
is that that matters in a political race, you know,

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I mean, wait a minute, what's your what's your favorite
country music? Do you like country music? Is if that
should be a defining factor whether or not you vote
for someone to basically help run the state or run
the country.

Speaker 8 (01:25:33):
I just think economically, it's one of those states where
people travel there, you know, it's a centerpiece of their commerce.
You know, country music, you know is where you know
Dolly Partons. I mean, it's the whole thing. And I
mean it's like it's not like you know, it's it's
very different like coming to our to a state and say, man,

(01:25:56):
I don't like the Bengals. I mean, you could be
in Cleveland and they like the Cleland know, they like Cleveland.
You know, this is like, you know, their state kind
of you know, it dies on the vine based on
this thing that they call country music. And just I
I'm just shocked. You know, Tennessee again is one of
those states like Alabama, you know, Mississippi, Florida. You know

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that that tends to be not very competitive for Democrats,
and so this is very interesting this particular race. It
should be no poland should be a twenty point lead
for this military guy who's running. And in light of
what just happened to these two National guardsmen, you would
think it would wake up those in Tennessee. Maybe it
does to come out and say, yeah, I'm gonna support

(01:26:41):
this veteran who's given so much for our country. You know,
I love it when you talk about the flight that
you take. You know, I love hearing about them. You know,
I love hearing about the the World War Two veterans,
that generation you know that's that's dying off or you know,
and they they gain so much for the United States,

(01:27:03):
and you know, you just got to tip your hat.
I can't go anywhere and see a veteran and say, hey, man,
thanks for your service. If I see their hat, you know,
or I see something on their car, because these are
people I didn't serve. These are people that put me
in a position to be able to make money in
this country, live free, and without them on the line.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Somewhere in this.

Speaker 8 (01:27:24):
World, whether it's Venezuela, whether it's China. You know, you
and I don't have the freedoms. So I just don't
understand why we don't genuflect the way you do for veterans.
I just I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
I don't either, Christopher. And as you were talking about
the murder of the National Guard troop or the one
murder and one almost murder, that will wait and see
and continue to pray for that person's health. But I
was thinking about, you know that you would go after
those folks for doing their job. They are following the law,
They are taking the orders they were ordered to do.

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They seem to, you know, be following the law generally speaking.
It reminded me a little bit about how a lot
of people treated the American veterans coming back from Vietnam.
I don't recall any of them being shot down for
their service to our country. But spit on, yell at, degraded,
and did any one of those service members who were
merely following orders and doing their job and a very

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controversial military operation. I'll grant you, were they worthy of
that kind of treatment from their own fellow citizens, I
would say absolutely not. You want to get mad at somebody,
you want to metaphorically spit on someone. I'm not advocating
for it. But and then wouldn't it be the politicians
who ordered us into Vietnam rather than the service members
who followed their orders and did their job. Hold on, Christopher,

(01:28:42):
I know we got more to talk about coming up
at seven thirty six, Right now, fifty five krs. The
Talks seven at fifty five krs DE Talk Station Brian
Thomas with Christopher Smith Aman working through the Smith Event.
Various topics with Christopher this morning. Always enjoy having you
on the program. Christopher. It's real pleasure and one of
the things I'm thankful for as I reflect back on

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Thanksgiving and all the other things that I can be
thankful for in my life. So love you have on
your show, brother, Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
Brother.

Speaker 8 (01:29:09):
Look this whole transgender conversation continues to permeate across our country,
and it's a meaningful conversation as we go into twenty
twenty six. And I want to highlight two quick things.
One is a woman out of California, Tish Hyman, a
black lesbian who was in a Planet Fitness location. There

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was a person there who identified themselves as transgender in
her locker room. That's made national news. She asked him
to leave the locker room she thought uncomfortable. She announced
this in the middle of the gymnasium. Planet Fitness not
only threw her out, but took her membership away, and
she's been out being very outspoken. This is a black
lesbian who is saying, listen, I am uncomfortable with a

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man in a locker room with women. It is unsafe.
But thisicular man, this particular man had a history of violence,
domestic violence against his wife. And so it's just amazing
that we're still having this public conversation about men in
locker rooms with women. Women deserve safe places to undress,

(01:30:20):
to do whatever they need to do in their safe places,
in their locker rooms, and men should not be integrated
in that environment. And I just don't understand why you
and I can't support the LGBTQ plus community and also
say that guys shouldn't be in locker rooms with women.
But it's a part of the Tennessee election. It's a

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part it's going to be a big part of the
twenty six election in the midterms. And I just think
common sense is absolutely leaving us as we try to
talk about these I say, wedge issues. But this is
amazing to me. And then this is weekend are last
week we have a British woman named Andrea Thompson where

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she's the strongest woman in the world. You didn't realize
or did realize, you know, they gave her the trophy.

Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
But she it's a guy. It's a biological male Christopher.

Speaker 8 (01:31:20):
I thought that Jamie Booker was which was a trans person.
That person was disqualified and Andrea Thompson was given the
first place award over the weekend. They stripped her, or
they stripped the transgender person of the of the This
this competition, I want everybody to understand, like this is

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like a man competing against women lifting weights or whatever
they were doing women, a man competing against women and
there they are on the podium. If you saw that
the woman just the the the British woman just walked away.
She was so disgusted, Like here, I I've spent my
whole life training for this moment and now it's being

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stripped from me because I'm competing against a man.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
A man.

Speaker 8 (01:32:06):
This is another example right where we have to use
our common sense. This is not like, you know, a sport.
Let's say that you're riding a motorcycle. I'm just trying
to think about a sport where there might be a
quality between men and women, you know, in a sport.
This is literally testosterum. This makes no sense. They got

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it right, and the woman should have and did win
and should be the strongest woman she won the competition.

Speaker 1 (01:32:35):
I agree with you completely. The biological male should not
have been able to compete in that tournament because it
is a strength based exercise. But what I understand, and
it throws a little bit of monkey wrench into your analysis,
it wasn't that they stripped that guy acting as their
woman or purporting to be a woman from the title
because they turned out it turns out that they discovered

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that she was a guy competing against women, but because
she had been involved or he had been involved in
the production of pornography that they found out all these
you know, porno movies or whatever that she he was
connected with after the fact, and so that was one
of the basis for the stripping of the title. I'm
a little fuzzy in the details on that, although I
did read an article to that effect. So was it

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really because of her being a biological male that they
did it, or was it because of some other untoward activity.
I don't know what the rules are, but the point being,
and I agree with you completely mentioned be competing against
women biological men that is, and you know, going back
to your.

Speaker 8 (01:33:32):
Original shaking my head, I'm shaking my head. My grandparents
are shaking their heads. I mean, I just don't even
understand the conversation. First of all, you could be right
about all of that, which just even makes it worse
that they wouldn't. They wouldn't rule and say, listen, this
is a dude who's in here competing against women on
stript training, and whether she or he acknowledged it or not,

(01:33:56):
it's absolutely the wrong director.

Speaker 6 (01:33:58):
It is.

Speaker 8 (01:33:58):
Well, anyway, you're making it even worse that, Hey, they didn't,
they didn't make the decision based on ay Man we
found out this was a dude kipedia against women.

Speaker 1 (01:34:08):
I agree and don't and don't quote me gospel on
Matt if you want to look for that particular article,
I do believe that was on the New York Post,
so you can check for yourselves on the backstory on that.
But going back to your first illustration the lesbian woman,
because I did see quite a few articles about that.
She was disturbed because this guy is junk in the
living and that made her very uncomfortable. You mentioned that

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the guy that made her uncomfortable the the the the
transgender woman, which means a guy pretending to be or
thinking that he is a woman. You mentioned that he
had a wife, that, yeah, that's a layer that I
wasn't aware of. But does that make him a lesbian?

Speaker 8 (01:34:49):
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. And I think this,
I think this is something in the past where it
was not only did he have a wife, but he
also was he also was involved in domestic by and
what and what Tish Hyman was saying, which I thought
was riveting for African Americans. She started also saying, I
am frustrated with the trans community connecting their plight to

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civil rights there is no connection between those two things,
meaning African Americans who came through this country, who were
hung who were enslaved, who worked on plantations for free,
brutally beat, raped, pillage, whatever the word you want to use.
There is no connection between this movement of trans and

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the civil rights movement. This is what this black lesbian
out of California, Tish Hyman was also saying. She's expressing
this frustration that they're trying to serve on the backs
of African Americans. And I tell African Americans who are
listening who vote straight down the Democratic ticket, they better
start learning about what they're voting for and understanding it

(01:35:58):
and not just being a sheep given a sample ballot
as they go in and vote. This is the issue.
Sometimes I don't think we have informed voters out there
that are saying, listen, what is the platform of this party?
And I think this Tish Hyman is waking up saying
what in the heck is going on in the Democratic Party?

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That here I am in a locker room, and as
you just said, there's a dude walking around with his
junk out. I'm uncomfortable with it. And Planet Fitness is
saying They're going to strip me of my membership. They're
gonna throw me out because I'm saying I'm uncomfortable with
the dude in the locker room. That's how far we've
gone in this country. The Democratic Party has left so

(01:36:39):
many Democrats behind. They better wake up and say this
left part of our party who's trying to take over
and drive it into twenty twenty six. They better take
back their party and come back to common sense. Brian Thomas,
no question about it. So I was glad to see
this African American lesbian woman, member of the elder GBTQ

(01:37:01):
plus community stand up to the trans movement saying you
could have your own trans bathroom. I'm not against you.
I support you. I just don't want you in my
safe place in a locker room with your junk out.
I'm uncomfortable with that. Yes, and I'm with this, and
I'm with Tish Hymen on that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
Yeah. Well, and the whole component of lumping all of
those particular sub sets together LDBTQ plus goes on and
on and on. You know, I think gays and lesbians
been have gotten a disserviced under them, because you know,
if you are gay or lesbian. You were demonstrably, so
that is what your sexual preference is, the same thing
with the biommunity. You enjoy having sex with both men

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and women. You're a bisexual, that that that's irrefutable. But
to say that I am a woman when I'm biologically
a mail, I can look down and see what God
gave me by way of equipment. I don't have a
problem with you believing that. I think maybe psychological counselings
in order. Because you can look down and see what
you were made with. You can do genetic testing, chromosomal

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testing to the extent that doesn't prove it to you.
They'll determine whether you got an X and X or
X and Y. That to me is scientific proof. But
as you know, I'm a live and let live guy.
If you want to believe you are, then that's okay.
But you can't force your belief to the detriment of
all the folks out here who are traditionalists when it

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comes to biology, gay, lesbian, bisexual. If you got junk
and you're in a woman's locker room, then that's a
legitimate problem people face. If you got junk, you're a
biological male, you are probably at least statistically going to
be stronger than the pharo sex Ooh, what a racist
or what a sexuist thing to say. Then women generally, so, No,
just because you think you're the opposite sex, she doesn't

(01:38:46):
qualify you to compete against people. I mean, there's a
complete difference here, nobody. I mean it's not trans. Yeah,
it's not transphobic for me to say that, I'm not
afraid of trans people. I don't want them to You'll
be eliminated from society. I'm just saying, listen, they have
to give in to some of the societal norms that
we're all used to, like biology.

Speaker 8 (01:39:09):
I don't want trans people discriminated against. No, right, this
is not about that. You know, as I have been
very open. I have a son who's gay. I have
a brother who's gay. Right, I have many people in
my families who are gay.

Speaker 2 (01:39:21):
This is not the discussion.

Speaker 8 (01:39:24):
This is what's happening. And there's so many people that
are in the LGBTQ plus community who agree with me, right,
who are saying, listen, trans people should not be in
bathrooms with women. But I'm guaranteeing everybody you're listening, audience,
this is going to be a centerpiece of the discussion
in twenty twenty six as Democrats are running for reelection

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all across the country, and all I'm saying is, we've
got to approach this with common sense. It makes no sense.
I have a beautiful daughter. She's a swimmer at a
local high school called Seatan. I don't want to dudes
competing against her, and she's trying to make time as
colleges are looking at her thinking, hey, we might pick

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you up. As a matter of fact, we had one college,
very small D three college reach out at about Camille.
So the reality of it is all of all of
her high school seniors who are swimming on that seat
and team could make it somewhere in the in the
United States of America at a college. It's the millisecond.
It's not like a second, it's like a millise. Get different.

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You cannot have men competing against girls, or boys competing
against girls in a sport like swim, as one example,
and it would be absolutely unacceptable. Then I just did frustrated.

Speaker 1 (01:40:43):
I understand your frustration. You didn't call looking for an argument.
I agree with you. Good job, Christopher. Have you on
next Monday. Have a great week Money eight oh five,
Here a fifty five krc DE talk station, A very
very happy Monday to you by In fact, we don't
get Brian James this morning Money. Monday's Brian James taking
a day off. I am so pleased bring back to

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the thirty five KC Morning Show. Something I learned from
this man, Gary Walton, that we do have a Cincinnati
type in print museum, and it's way more than the museum.
Gary Walton, welcome back man. I understand you got a
big event going on this weekend. It's good to have
you back on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:41:20):
Oh it's crazy to be back on the show. And
I do want to talk about the event. But the
most important thing I want to talk about is the
last time we were together, we were mentioning about how
we were training adults with disabilities. I'm happy to say
that we have three individuals who have done extremely well,
and our goal in this coming January twenty twenty six
is placing them on a real job in the printing industry.

(01:41:43):
And this is just the beginning of many, many, many
adults of disability actually finding real work and being able
to make a living for their family. So that's the
first thing I want to tell you back. That's just
really exciting. We're having a great time with that, and
so that's great. But the second thing I'd like to
bring to your attention is just number fourth, fifth, and
sixth at the museum, totally free from ten am to

(01:42:05):
three pm. We're going to celebrate Charles Dickens, the Christmas
Carol and make people were that this book was really incredible.
Up to that time, nobody really celebraated Christmas. But when
this book comes out, all of a sudden, the whole
Christmas tradition starts generosity and the giving of gifts multiplied
by a factor of ten after this books come out.

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So this book is really important for our society and
realizing where we have come today and how we celebrate
Christmas today.

Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
And so forth.

Speaker 1 (01:42:34):
You know, it's really interesting the concept that you just
brought up. Now, I think everyone's familiar with the Christmas Carol,
Charles Dickens book, you know, and if you aren't a
good person in life, and you don't, you know, take
advantage of your resources and help those in need, you're
going to face eternal damnation. I was like, holy cow,
I didn't realize that was in store.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
For me.

Speaker 1 (01:42:55):
So Dickens applied sort of Christian principles about helping fell
Man and turn it into a it's not a consequence
free environment. You got some serious consequences headed your way.
Don't act that way. So did it transform Christmas in
a positive way in the sense that, oh, that's right,
I'm supposed to give to those in need, and you know,

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tithe or do my fair share. Don't rely on the
state and its workhouses. No, you have to personally engage
in that conduct. But then coupling it with the idea
that you're going to be saddled with the chains and
the peril forever, really did an effective job of marketing
for charity.

Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
Yes, yes, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:43:36):
And when you come to the museum, you're going to
actually print chapter five, what she called Stage five of
the Christmas Card, which is the best chapter. I think
it's the ending. Yeah, so you actually print as in
the zoom and I'll take that home with you. You're
going to print Marley's speech that he gives about how
he should have been more involved with the community and
so forth. And then you also print some Christmas wrapping paper.

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We got to press that up where you'll print this
big piece of Christmas wrapping paper. So it's a fun event.
They'll be cookie beat and so forth, and just make
pe aware again of how important printing is to this city.

Speaker 1 (01:44:07):
Printing And this is what I learned from you, my friend,
because I was not aware that Cincinnati is like the
etic center for the printing industry, an industry that is
still flourishing. And whether or not you're in those that
he helped out from the disabled category, there are jobs
in the printing industry. And I wasn't even aware of

(01:44:28):
the need for printing in the electronic or the electronics
business with these circuit board printing that you do. Yes,
that was an eye opener.

Speaker 3 (01:44:41):
We're actually working on getting a printing press out of
Denmark where you'll be able to come to the museum
and we'll be actually printing solar panels right there in
front of you, so you can take them home and
hook them up to electric wires and actually start collecting
solar energy for free.

Speaker 1 (01:44:59):
That's wild. Obviously in the there's a special kind of
paper those have to be printed on. I presume you're
not going to throw a piece of construction.

Speaker 3 (01:45:05):
No, just we're gonna be printing on a thin plastic,
but can literally printed on anything paper, plastic, would metal,
The substrate doesn't really matter. The important thing is the ink.
All the magic is in the ink, and the ink
is would have all the magic. And so that's why
we can actually print this on a traditional printing press.
These are not super duper modern presses. These are traditional presses.

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So anybody in Cincinnati who has the printing press can
print electronic devices.

Speaker 1 (01:45:32):
Now that is amazing. With the magic ink, that's amazing.
So the key is the ink. How about learn something
else today in the morning show? Since ay type in
print museum. You're open throughout the year though, so visitors
can make arrangements to go. And I know you love
to have like tour groups with you know, maybe senior
groups or school children. Groups of school children come in
and see the museum. That that can easily be arranged.

Speaker 3 (01:45:53):
Correct, correct, And you do want to go on our
website and make an appointment because we have to get
things set up. But we now are official merit badge
for the Boy Scouts. You can learn your kittch, your
graphic arts, merriage battercoming a museum in one day. We
do have homeschoolers, lots of homeschoolers come and then we
try to where they are in their training, try to

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bring the lesson that we're going to be teaching that
day towards what they're doing. So if they're into writing books,
you know, we'll actually print a book. If they're into packaging,
we'll actually have them create a package and actually make
the package themselves right there, So we tailor make each
tour for the group that's coming.

Speaker 1 (01:46:31):
Fantastic, And I see that you have an internship program
there at at the type of pri museum. Tell my
listeners about that, because I keep going back to the
whole idea that there are jobs out there that don't
involve a four year college degree and they're good paying
jobs and their career opportunities, and right there you have
an internship program to help you achieve your career goals.

Speaker 2 (01:46:53):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (01:46:54):
So the intern program that we have is for working
at the museum. However, next year I'm going to be
working with a few of my printing buddies and saying
would you like to stay, And I know they're going
to jump at it, have an inter and come work
for you, because, like I said, there's a shortage of
graphic arts people. So I know they're going to be
up for it. So yes, we do this thing now

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called walkings, where people can walk in after they have
the chores, say you know, I want to work in
the industry, and then we connect them up with a company,
and I try to connect them a company close to
where they live, because I don't believe they should be
traveling forever and then get in place. And so this
year four individuals who walk in the door are now
working in the printing industry.

Speaker 1 (01:47:32):
That's all outstanding. Any possibility of working with vocational schools,
I know that seems to be a big push going
to vocate as opposed to traditional high schools. You can
go to one of the Diamond Oaks or the Scarlet
Oaks types of schools they had when I was a kid,
and a lot of people chose that as a career path.
And we're working a long time before I was, because
I went to a four year college. But can you

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partner up with maybe that as like a class course
that high school kids could take done already done.

Speaker 3 (01:48:01):
Diamondoaks and both Diamondoaks and Scarlok's a bus the museum,
both of them have offered that when they're ready to
graduate in the spring of twenty twenty six, that we'd
help get them jobs. So and I'm good friends with
the instructors of those two schools, so yeah, that's you know,
I taught printing for twenty five years, so I have
those connections with the education community but also with the

(01:48:23):
business community, and so it just all works out really well.

Speaker 1 (01:48:27):
Fantastic. Now going back to I had two follow up questions.
When people show up this weekend for the Christmas themed
event in print chapter five of the Christmas Carol, which
printer are they going to be using? Guys, you have
a Gutenberg original type print press.

Speaker 2 (01:48:45):
Correct, yes, yes, so Marley's speech.

Speaker 3 (01:48:49):
They will print that on the wooden Gutenberg press co
a replica of the of the fourteen fifty press. Then
they'll go in the back room and something called a
show car press print the wrapping paper and then.

Speaker 10 (01:49:04):
All the book.

Speaker 6 (01:49:04):
The book.

Speaker 3 (01:49:04):
They will actually print that on another type of a
smaller version of a show card press. But we will
also have the ability to show folks how type was
actually created. So they will be given these molds and
using our machine called the leadlow and the inner type
actually cash from hot metal type that before the mac

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is invented. Everything was done with what we call hot type,
which is molten lead and then cooled down to actually
make a type character.

Speaker 1 (01:49:33):
Is that the the little individual letters of the alphabet
that had to be stacked in a row in order
to concrete the create the plate that was used in
the printing press. I'm trying to get this a better
understanding of what you were talking about with this molten metal.

Speaker 3 (01:49:46):
So all the way back to fourteen fifty, Johann Gutenberg
invents mobile type. So you had individual individual letters, individuals
that have put together and then tied together so they
don't move. And then up Martin Reverent thought and William
Ludlow said, why are we casting one letter at a time,
Why don't we cast a line of type. So they

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made machines that you put the molds all together, just
like you're lining up the type. Now you're lining up
the molds and you cast one line of type. So
if you had a heading going across, that would be
one piece of metal that you'd cast.

Speaker 6 (01:50:20):
And beauty.

Speaker 3 (01:50:21):
Also, it's fresh, brand new type, so to print really well.
When you're using foundry type, it tends to wear down
a little bit and get old and this is always
fresh type. So the printing quality is much better when
you're casting your own type now rather.

Speaker 1 (01:50:35):
Than for demonstrative purposes and historical purposes like what's going
to happen when you're printing to Charles Dickens Chapter five
and the speech. Is that still a process that's used today,
because it sounds very labor intensive? Is it still a
very labor intensive process? When I think about modern printers?
I mean I go back to dot matrix and the
current modern printers we have now it just zips things out.

(01:50:55):
So is there still a lot of labor involved in
the print industry?

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
Yes, yeah, still a lot of labor.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
Even though AI has come into the printing industry, and
so our press is today have a lot of AI
technology and robotic technology, but you still need a human
to run those machines. There's still a lot of handwork.
Once it's printed, things that folded, stapled, and so there's
still a lot of handwork on that. And then also

(01:51:22):
the Mac computer when it comes out and it makes
it available to anybody to create images. Now you'd think
it would hurt the industry, but it did just the opposite.
Not everybody can create a green card. Everybody can create
a newsletter. So the volume of printing has actually gone
up because of the computer.

Speaker 2 (01:51:40):
So we still for every.

Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
Press that's running, there's got to be at least five
computers feeding it with artwork and so forth. Because the
press is the day are so fast. I mean I
just saw a video other day. I think Heidelberg has
one that's going twenty two thousand copies in the hour.
That's just mind boggling. Yeah, I mean, so they can
really crank out the work really fast. So we need
more and more people creating the work to feed these

(01:52:04):
machines and keep them.

Speaker 1 (01:52:05):
Going, and the program be pivoting over to the other question.
I have the program that you have helped these three
men with I suppose, flack of a better word, disabilities.
They were autistic, correct.

Speaker 3 (01:52:16):
They're autistic men.

Speaker 1 (01:52:17):
Yes, so there are career opportunities for folks out there
who might think that there's not a career opportunity. I
have a friend who's on an autistic spectrum. He's been
working for a decade or more. I mean he lives
by himself, self sufficient's got a good job. I mean
he's on a higher spectrum, and the autism scale but
definitely autistic.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
He is.

Speaker 1 (01:52:36):
But I think it's so nice to know that there
are industries out there that in spite of some struggles
people may have, are still have that they still have
career opportunities.

Speaker 2 (01:52:45):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:52:46):
And the thing that I just love about these three guys,
they're the happiest people in the base there. I mean,
we go into work, they're smiling, They're always thanking me
for everything. It's just a joy. I didn't realize going
into this, and I would have so much fun training them.
I'm gonna be sad then they leave the ogs with you.
Except with that, I think that we're gonna keep on permanently.

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He's just he gives a lot of the tours.

Speaker 1 (01:53:09):
Now and we just love that. Not gonna let that.

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
But the other I let that dad go. I love
him too much. So yes, so very very rewarding. What
I did, you know, working at Cincinnati State, I trained
over three thousand, five hundred people and that was great.
But I find this way more rewarding to be helping
these young men have a fulfilling career.

Speaker 1 (01:53:31):
Yeah, going back to the point about Charles Dickens or
Christmas Carol, I think you're in the right Wheelhouse there
by Fred.

Speaker 3 (01:53:37):
Yes, oh yes, yeah, think about that.

Speaker 1 (01:53:39):
Yes, uh huh, try to put it all together.

Speaker 5 (01:53:42):
Gary.

Speaker 1 (01:53:42):
Now, is that type of program continue throughout the year.
Maybe someone's out there going, oh, you know, my son,
my daughter, I think they'd be great at this, or
are you going to continue offering it is on a
sporadic basis?

Speaker 3 (01:53:53):
Oh no, No, we're we're we're into educating the world
and we're into creating people to go in the printing
industry twenty four to seven. So anybody interested, give us
a call, will sit down with you. Definitely. This is
an ongoing thing, that is, and we're actually expanding. I'm
hoping this year to build building number three and Building
number four to give us more space to be able

(01:54:15):
to do more training.

Speaker 6 (01:54:16):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:54:17):
So my goal is some day to be able to
have as many as forty individuals at one time being
trained for the printing industry.

Speaker 1 (01:54:22):
Well to that end, there are opportunities for memberships and
opportunity to well maybe support them Cincinnati Type in Print
Museum by maybe a little financial contribution this type of year.
Go to Cincinnati Print Our Type Print Museum Cincinnati Typeprint
Museum dot org for all the details. About the event

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this week and all that they do throughout the year
to schedule deployment, to do a tour and make it
really easy for you. There's a little request for him
you can fill out. Gary walt Man. It's so great
hearing from you again, and thanks for continuing the historic
journey through the print industry and reminding my listeners it's
alive and well and there are career opportunities out there there.
Keep up the great work. Gary. We'll have you again

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on the program again soon, I hope, yes in.

Speaker 3 (01:55:06):
January when I tell you the success story of those
two men.

Speaker 1 (01:55:09):
Yes, you already got an appointment here in the Morning Show.

Speaker 6 (01:55:11):
Gary.

Speaker 1 (01:55:12):
Hey, between now and then, if I don't see you
or hear from you, have a very merry Christmas, and
keep up the great work you and all the crew
at the Type in Print Museum. Happy Monday. Mary don't
have Gary Walton. I'm just so impressed about that, since
any Type in Print museum, it's just a neat thing.

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He's the one that gave me the information at the
outset that since he was like the print capital of
the world, and that we still are to a large extent.
Plus career opportunities, and of course an opportunity to use
the Gutenberg Press, at least a replica of one. That
should be a fun thing going on. You got three days,
take advantage of that. It's the Christmas season. What a
truly unique thing to do during Christmas time here in

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the Greater Cincinnati. You got the train exhibits, you got
the Union termament, you got all the lights, you got
all that. But who else can claim a type in
print museum. Nobody? It's us. So get the details of
fifty five KRSA dot com of course, along with the
Christopher smither Van if you can get a chance to
listen to Christopher this morning his podcast or his podcast

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You heard from a Florida listener earlier this morning. And
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Treat him with respect, don't be lippy and cursey with
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A handful? Yeah, I think I could make a list
of each and every one of those over the years.

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I love hearing from you. But you know, Joe's Treker yet, right,
don't be that guy or gallas the case. Maybe you
haven't banned any women though, ever?

Speaker 2 (01:57:05):
Have you?

Speaker 1 (01:57:07):
Really? He said? A couple And I can't remember those
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about that. Yes he is. Anyway, Since it is a
local matter and let it dominate the local stories at

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least coming out of the gate at number one. Victoria Parks,
Victoria Parks president pro time in this Cincinna City Council
didn't run for reelection. Maybe good reasons for that, he
may recall on the aftermath of July beatdowns, remember Holly
getting cole cocked in the face for no reason. People

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were quick to draw conclusions in the aftermath of that
put Cincinnati on the map nationally and even globally for
all the wrong reasons. Brought attention to the crime problem
that a pervold could claim didn't exist. Gave read the
rest of the City of Cincinnati residents great comfort in
knowing that they could go downtown and not face any
criminal problems. Victoria Parks, who said they deserved the beatdown,

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So now that you know who I'm talking about, she
was given the key to the city November seventeenth, Court
of the Report here. Accomplishments include serving as chief of
staff or former commissioner, being appointed to the commission, spearheading
initiatives like passing a resolution declaring racism a public health
crisis and making June tenth the paid holiday for the

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city and for Hamilton County employees. Her roling since government
also cited holds a leadership position as President pro tem
on City Council, Key accomplishments. Her significant achievements including serving
as the chief of staff for Commissioner Todd portun for
a number of years, being appointed to fill his seat
on the commission after his retirement, spearheading the passing of

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a resolution in Hamilton County declaring racism of public health
crisis as I just mentioned, initiating the hashtag five Pine
three Survived project, which gave youth a platform divorce voice
their feelings during the COVID nineteen pandemic. Introducing a resolution
for June thirteenth again paid holiday for Hamilton County employees.

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I'm not sure if the resolution passed. Key to the City. Oh,
did I mention? She also said the people in the
late or July beatdown in the city deserved it. I
talked to Holly about that. No, and as it turns out,

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arrests were made, people maybe serving time as a consequence
of the beatdown, which was completely undeserved, much like the
Key to the City award that was given after she
said those poor people deserved the beatdown. Fun facts here

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on the fifty five cars Se Mornings Show, eight thirty
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be get the information about the Cincinnati Print and Type
Museum event this weekend. And you can use the old
Gutenberg replica press to print out chapter five at Charles
Dickens Christmas Carol and print out your own wrapping paper.
That place is so cool, so take advantage of it.
It's just such a neat thing and maybe make it
turn it into a holiday tradition for you. Let's go
to the phones and see what Bobby's got this morning. Bobby,

(02:01:11):
welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 5 (02:01:14):
Happy Monday, my brother, welcome back everybody, Faith, flag, family,
and firearms. When you keep those, you always keep your.

Speaker 1 (02:01:21):
Freedom, yes, sir, at least we hope so, Bobby, Well, we.

Speaker 5 (02:01:25):
Had a wonderful time over the Thanksgiving holidays. I tell
you what best fifty four dollars I ever spent in
my life?

Speaker 1 (02:01:32):
What are you referring to Bobby.

Speaker 5 (02:01:35):
I took a bottle of Trump wine and when they
pulled the sleeve all it set the tone.

Speaker 1 (02:01:44):
You took Trump wine to your Thanksgiving celebration.

Speaker 5 (02:01:48):
And some paper cups.

Speaker 1 (02:01:51):
Now, hold on, let's set the stage, Bobby. If you're
in a room full of family members and friends gathering
for Thanksgiving, I would have imagined that they're probably share
the same political ideology and philosophy that you do, Bobby,
Or would I be wrong on that? And was the
Trump wine brought for the purpose of stirring the pot
on a holiday?

Speaker 5 (02:02:11):
Well, my friend, there were no family members there.

Speaker 2 (02:02:14):
I was.

Speaker 5 (02:02:14):
I went to a little third party get together that
I was invited to, and I've never been to an
A list get together. But it was about a B
you know, B minus. Okay, but it set the.

Speaker 1 (02:02:27):
Tone, my friend, well, and you see.

Speaker 5 (02:02:29):
Split, It split the room up like you wouldn't believe.

Speaker 1 (02:02:32):
So you ended up being that guy. That guy I
said don't be before we went into Thanksgiving holiday, saying,
get stay the hell away from politics, enjoy the food
and the fellowship, and don't stir the pot. So you
disregard to be Bobby. Well, we had a great time
dot Well, was it received in at least a somewhat

(02:02:54):
lighthearted way, like, oh, there's Bobby again being Bobby? Or
did people actually get over having to look and interfere
with their safe space at a bottle of Trump wine?

Speaker 5 (02:03:06):
There was a lot of peach haired women there that
couldn't hardly swallow their food.

Speaker 1 (02:03:11):
How the hell did you end up in an event
like that? Man, didn't they know who they were inviting?

Speaker 2 (02:03:17):
No?

Speaker 5 (02:03:17):
I didn't know anybody except the lady that I went with.
She said, do you mind if you go to a
get together with me? And I said, well, I don't
know anybody. And she said, well you don't have to
And I said okay, And anytime you go any place,
it's always nice to take something.

Speaker 1 (02:03:31):
I agree. Maybe this is not a bottle of Trump wine. Body,
can I read into anything? Why you weren't involved into
a family gathering? I mean, have you ostracized or alienated
the other members of your family? I don't want to
get too personal, Poppy.

Speaker 5 (02:03:47):
No, we celebrated for three or four days. This is
just one evening affair. I was invited. I thought I
would attend.

Speaker 1 (02:03:53):
Yeah, lady, did those who were the pink haired ladies
that were little upset or otherwise offended by the Trump Wine.
Did they at least partake of the Trump wine to
make comments about whether it was any good or bad?
Or did they just stay away from it?

Speaker 5 (02:04:08):
They just stayed away?

Speaker 1 (02:04:09):
Kind of figure, Bobby, take care, man. I hope you
had fun. Not everybody has to follow my advice. That's
not something I would have done, but you know what,
it kind of reminded me. I seriously, Bobby came to
mind yesterday. I mentioned earlier in the program. I had
probably the most restless, disturbing dream night of my life

(02:04:33):
on Saturday night. And I don't know why. Don't something
I ate? Maybe I had too much caffeine to me,
I don't know, but I felt like I didn't get
any sleep, and I had a recurring dream that really
a boiled down kind of was like a dystopian nightmare,

(02:04:54):
part of which was predicated on this this this great
undoing of our social norms. As a concert, it's a
bunchecked immigration. It's happening in a year. If it's happening here,
it seems like in every Western country has been overwhelmed.
And I think it's a concerted effort, folks to water
down culture and you know, everybody's the same, and you know,
we don't have any differences between us and them, and

(02:05:16):
we're all, you know, we are the world whatever. But
it's clearly happening. We talked about the Somali community up
in Minnesota earlier, not an indictment of all people smalling,
but a lot of them involved in criminal enterprises, some
of them supporting terrorists. But eighty thousand people the locals
up there refer to Little Mogadishu. You don't think that's

(02:05:36):
had a profound impact on you know, Minnesota generally. Do they,
you know, embrace American culture or don't they? I know,
when of Trump's advisors pointed out that they come from
such a corrupt country that a lot of this corruption,
this may just be an extension of their philosophy about
dealing with government, which is the government's corrupt. I don't
care if I steal from them. Nobody cares. We all

(02:05:56):
do it because well, they're corrupt, they deserve to be
stolen from. Now, that to me doesn't carry over here.
Although there's a lot of corruption in government, most notably
a lot of fraud, wasted abuse in government, programs, generally speaking,
which typically are designed to help people but are often abused. Sadly,
most of our elected officials don't really seem to care
about the fraud wasted abuse component as long as they
got the little feather in their cat. They can, you know,

(02:06:17):
crow about how much they've helped people on live's margins.
But this was such a disturbing series of dreams I
couldn't shake it. I literally would wake up, going back
to sleep and struggling with the same dystopian reality in
my dream. And in my dream Eugene Debs came up. Now,
I haven't heard the name Eugene Debs mentioned in twenty

(02:06:41):
thirty I don't know how many years. And if you'd
ask me who the first socialist slash communist party leader
was in the United States of America, I probably would
have said something like Woodrow Wilson, but no Eugene Debs.
It was a big labor activist back in the late
eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds. I think he did take
a shot as running as a socialist or communist as
a for president, but he was like the original you know,

(02:07:03):
democrats socialist. So for whatever reason, Eugene Debs was packed
back in my subconscious somewhere, and my dream was so
blank and weird and bizarre and disturbing that he popped
into it, and it was left so disturbed by it
that just you've had a dream like where it carries
over and affects your mood and how you feel the

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next day. Yeah, all day Sunday. I'm kind of got
that going to the back of my head, trying to
make sense of what I really literally felt was fear
and concern and worry for my country, simply as a
consequence of a dream and for whatever reason made me
think of Bobby forty five ah five three seven and

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lot more to on tomorrow's morning shows schedule. Let's go
to the phone, Seoul folks have to say, Sandy thanks
for calling this morning. Welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 10 (02:08:20):
Hey, Brian, I just wanted to say that, you know,
I haven't had dreams like that. Other people had dreams
like that. And you know, God uses dreams sometimes and
sometimes you will this thing you will not forget. Okay.
There are some things you know, you wake up and
you think, oh my gosh, and you forgot it. Like

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some things like these, Yeah, you do not forget. For
a reason. God is trying to show you something. He's
trying to wake some people up.

Speaker 1 (02:08:49):
Yep.

Speaker 10 (02:08:49):
And I really I'm telling you I'm not a dreamologist,
but I'm a Christian and I'm telling you the Holy
Spirit can wake people up in these ways.

Speaker 1 (02:08:58):
Well, you know, I'm agreeing with you. And I don't
know if it's a divine intervention, but I'm the type
of guy who rarely ever remembers dreams. I mean rarely ever.
I mean it's almost like if it happens, I'll mention
it to my wife. I remembered a dream that I
had last night. You know, maybe it was comical or goofy,
but I'll never wake up in the morning. It's like never.

(02:09:20):
This one was like I lived it and it lasted
again all through Sunday. It ruined my not totally ruined,
but it really impacted my mood on Sunday, and I
remembered it was such clarity. So you may have a
good point there, but it was almost as if the
puzzle pieces sort of materialized in my mind that I
saw with crystal clear vision that we are being intentionally

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undermined on so many levels.

Speaker 2 (02:09:47):
We really are.

Speaker 10 (02:09:49):
It is intentional. It's a globalist. It's the globalist, and
they've got us in fighting race against race, gender against gender.
All this is injected in by the communist. These are
the communist to us end, and they're working with other
radicals and terrorists.

Speaker 2 (02:10:03):
They're all.

Speaker 10 (02:10:05):
Amalgamation, amalgamating together until conglomerate for the same purpose. Hate America,
Hate things that were God founded on God and moral principles.
Hate these things. This is satanic, ultimately, it's satanic. God
can use anybody. He can use good people, he can
use bad people, he can use in between people. He

(02:10:25):
can use people like maybe maybe even Trump that aren't
so great. Sometimes he can use. He can use some
you wouldn't believe. God can use it anybody he chooses to,
and he can give dreams to anybody he chooses to
for a purpose. There is a purpose. You got that dream.
Others have gotten other parts of dreams, like a dystopian
thing that.

Speaker 8 (02:10:44):
Was happened to me.

Speaker 10 (02:10:46):
You couldn't even get I got up. I couldn't even talk.
It was so disturbing. Everything was dark. Everything was just
completely dark, and there had some I couldn't even describe it,
but it I know that it was pure evil. Yeah,
so I'm just telling you. I'm not saying to dwell
on it and ask God. You know, if you know

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God's showing you something for a purpose, you have a microphone.
He's trying to have you connect a missing dot, a
piece of the puzzle. See, you know the subconscious You
can answer questions sometimes, but God can give you dreams
that way He gave up people know the Bible dreams. Sure,

(02:11:32):
so Keith Fah, would you know all kinds of things.

Speaker 1 (02:11:36):
I understand. And for those out there, maybe agnostic atheists,
not of the Christian faith, doesn't matter. It was not God,
it was not the devil. It's just the ultimately realizing
because I sit and consume this type of information every
single day. But again, it was that moment of clarity
that the dream provided. But there are evil people in
the world who want to undermine what we are and
who we are for whatever nefarious purpose, call it a

(02:11:58):
satanic purpose, or call it just because it is in
their like globalist best interest that we don't have babies
and we've reduced the population. They have control everybody, and
blah blah blah. He can go on for hours and
hours and hours. So it's do you care about capitalism?
Do you care about America? Do you care about freedoms
and liberties that only we enjoy. I dearly appreciate that,

(02:12:19):
and I never lose sight of that. It's one of
the reasons why I'm so happy I was born in
the United States of America. But to see it being
eroded in front of us, and to see people being
duped by it, that's the other component I mentioned. The
education system has been ruined us for our young people.
They're ill equipped to say no, I am not abiding
by your characterization of me as a racist or a

(02:12:42):
xenophob or whatever. That's not me. You don't know me,
But here I am. I stand up to it. I'm
allowed to stand up to it because I think I
have an educational foundation and enough knowledge about what's going
on in the world to say, you know, screw you.
You're not gonna convince me. But there are a lot
of people that cower in the face of that. Maybe
they're not as smart as other people who are accusing
them of falling into one of these categories, and they
are unwilling to stand up for it. Maybe they're afraid

(02:13:04):
of being made fun of or a comment made on
social media. You gotta stand up to that. Screw it. Yeah,
you're never gonna please all the people all the time.
So embrace your principles, recognize what you've got here, the
gift of God that you were born in the United States,
and don't let it slip away from you, and fight
this nefarious activity regardless of its origin.

Speaker 5 (02:13:27):
Corey.

Speaker 1 (02:13:27):
Welcome to the Morning Show. Happy Monday to you, sir.

Speaker 11 (02:13:31):
Happy Monday. Brian listening to the City five k c
app from Fort Wyndana this morning.

Speaker 1 (02:13:36):
Thanks man.

Speaker 11 (02:13:37):
I'm just going to add if you were listening to
you were listening to the app as well this morning
in the four o'clock hour, the overnight show did have
a dream all of so on over everybody's dreams, So
ah uh but anyway, Uh some smitheman said earlier about
the uh weightlifting the guy in Britain. I think Britain's

(02:13:57):
a failed country. It has gone There is no hope
for it unless there's a civil war and they overthrow
the current government.

Speaker 2 (02:14:03):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (02:14:04):
And a prime example. I don't know if he covered it,
but there was a guy from Britain was in Florida
and he shot a shotgun and had his picture of
posted on his Reddit account, and when he got back
to Britain it was arrested for shooting a gun in.

Speaker 2 (02:14:17):
The United States.

Speaker 1 (02:14:20):
You have got to be kidding me. That country has
gone back.

Speaker 2 (02:14:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (02:14:27):
Nolk has a big piece on it on Well.

Speaker 1 (02:14:31):
All I can say is Corey used Britain as a
cautionary tale. Used to be a free society. It's not anymore.
If you want some reading along those lines Editorial, Bird
Wall Street Journal. I'm looking for the dateline on this
twenty seventh Britain budgets for national decline. They're jack in
the taxes way up, which is going to force people

(02:14:51):
to leave the country like they already haven't already. And
the reason is because they refused to reform their welfare state,
which is becoming a massive train wreck because they do
not stop immigrants at the gate. They've let everybody and
his brothers, sister's, mom, and dad into the country. It's
become a tremendous burden on it. But rather than fix that,
they're raising taxes across the board, forty seven percent income

(02:15:15):
tax rates, new property taxes on homes. The list is
on and on and on. You want to move there,
No nobody does. And then there's that whole free speech
thing which they've thrown out the window. Eight fifty six
fifty five KOs the talk station, Thank you, Joe Strekker