55KRC Morning Show with Brian Thomas -- 12/12/24

Brian talks with Senator Rand Paul about the border, the recently released COVID report and D.O.G.E., Donovan O'neil from Americans For Prosperity, Stephanie Pierucci joins the show to talk about her book "Sound the Alarm: The Maui Disaster", plus iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Five O five fifty five K see the talk stations.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
A vacation.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well let a start to my day, crazy day. Look
who's in there, Sean mcmhn covering for Joe Strucker, who
I forgot was on vacation today. You ever read one
of those days? Left my house this morning, got about
two miles down the road and realized, Brian, you forgot
to bring your cell phone. You need your cell phone

(00:49):
to even get in the building these days, and I
need my cell phone for two factor authentication so I
can get my email. So I had to turn around,
go back home get my phone. So that sent me
back a few minutes to show up joke Strucker's cars
not in the parking lot where it is, And that's
when the heart attack begins to set in because again
I forgot.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Just just a vacation. Ah.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
He normally sends me the what we call the rundown,
which I'll have to read off to here in a moment.
Didn't send it to my home email account, which is unusual,
but it was on my fifty five car Sea account,
so I finally logged in and saw that it was there.
So that gave me a sense of relaxation. I saw
that Sean was already assigned to cover for him, because
without a board operator, there would be no fifty five

(01:34):
krs morning show. So God bless you Sean for showing
up today and we can actually get a program going.
And if you feel like calling in this morning, I
certainly love the assistance. I've went three seven fifty five
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couple of people up this morning, and I already had
to apologize to them for expressing my concern and my panic. Anyway,

(01:57):
there are just limitations my abilities, My abilities very limited.
I'd be the first person to admit that anyhow, man
of unlimited abilities and someone whose name my name came
up yesterday during my conversation with Judge Enna Polatano. If
you didn't get to hear fifty five ksy dot com
Senator rand Paul seven oh five looking forward to talking
to him about the border. We'll talk to him about

(02:18):
the recently released COVID report damning it is and the
Doge with vvak ramosomic Elon Musk seeking to cut back
on the amount of government spending. As I see, our
US budget deficit has climbed to another record. Great, that's
joyful and wonderful. And the House also passed nearly a
one trillion dollar defense spending bill, adding UH thirty six,

(02:43):
adding to the US debt which is not thirty six
trillion dollars and growing every single day. You want to
talk about existential threats to the future of America, that
you can start right there. Or drones, I want to
get to that in just a second. I'm very extity.
Your opinion is about these rwones fly around New Jersey
moving away from the headier topics of the world, although

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it could be very concerning.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
I don't know. No one seems to know. Pause for
a moment on that though.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Donovan and Neil Americans for Prosperity Donovan and Neil back at
seven thirty Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee opponent testimony
for HB seventy nine. So we're gonna hear what AFP
has to say about that with our good friend Donovan
O'Neil again seven thirty. Stephanie Perucci with a book Sound

(03:31):
the Alarm the Maui Disaster, and that book will be
discussed at eight oh five, and then, of course it
being Thursday, God bless I heard me the aviation expert
Jay Ratliffe. I always enjoy talking to him. He's a
funny guy and we have some good stuff to talk
about with Jay Ratliffe again eight thirty for that. So
I think if I have caresy dot Comedy, can't listen live.

(03:52):
Great show yesterday. Thank you to Joe for lining up
those guests, Judge Ennitapolitano, Congressman Thomas Massey, and of course
the Big Picture with Jack Atherton plus Brigham account from
the Hudson Institute on Energy Policy under Trump. So what's
what is with the drones? I'm sure you've all heard

(04:14):
reports about it flying around New Jersey all the time.
They're giant. Some have been described as as big as
an suv, which that's pretty damn big, which suggests probably
not a hobbyist or an enthusiast flying it around out there.
So what do our officials have to say? How comfortable
do you feel that for the last over a month,

(04:35):
these giant drones have been flying around and no one
seems to have any answer as to what in the
hell they are or where they come from. Some of
the seemingly lesser saying folks suggesting it's an Iranian drones.
I got I thought this was crazy. Representative Jeff Vanrew

(04:56):
from New Jersey said yesterday that very qualified and reliable
sources believe the drones that are flying all over to
Jersey are originating from an Iranian mother shit parked off
the US East coast. And don't you think that our

(05:18):
American military might be able to see that. I mean,
we knew when the giant Chinese balloon was flying over
our country. We knew it was there. They just didn't
do a damn thing about it until, of course it
flew all the way across the United States, gathering up
all the data that was gathering. Oh that he'd be
shot down. Yeah, not a whole lot back on that one. Anyway,

(05:39):
I will label him as slightly batcrap in saying, although
he back pedaled on his assertion this is an Iranian mothership,
he said, here's the real deal. I'm on the Transportation Committee,
on the Aviation Subcommittee, and I've gotten to know people
and from very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources.
I'm gonna tell you Iran launched a mothership probably about

(05:59):
my mind ago that contains these drones. That mothership is
off the east coast of the United States of America. Now,
if you're the commander in chief of the United States
Military and your job is to protect us from all
threats foreign and domestic, and you know the Iranians have
a drone or I had of a giant mother ship
out there, and they're flying drones around American military.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Basis, what would you do? I would shoot it down.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I'd also shoot down some of the drones that are
flying around New Jersey. I rebody can see them. You
can't tell me there's not a piece of military hardware
or equipment. I just think, like even a shoulder launch
a missile that could shoot that thing down. Although that
comes with some complications. We'll get to that in a
second comical.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
But it did a.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Back to Jeff Andrew. So you know, you know that
Aron made a deal with China to purchase drones, motherships
and technology in order to go forward. These drones should
be shot down. Now that's a point I have of
agreement with him. He said, whether it's some crazy hobbyist
that we can't imagine, or whether it's iron I think
it very possibly could be. They should be shot down.

(07:10):
We're not going to we're not getting the full deal.
In the military is on alert with this right.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Now.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
The Pentagon spokesperson who was rolled out to address this
seemingly absurd claim. Now maybe people might listen to audience
actually think there's some validity to that.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'm willing to keep my this tiny little eenstenc.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Bag of popcorn out in reserve to wait for all
the information to come in on this. But the Pentagon
spokesperson said, there is no Iranian ship off the coast
of the United States. There is no so called mothership
launching drones toward the United States. Fine, so the FBI,
for its part, it doesn't have any information. FBI said

(07:50):
yesterday it has no answers regarding these drone sightings.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
None. They say they've been investigating.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
The reports about the drones many flying around and eye
which I read this morning. It's illegal to fly a
drone in New Jersey at night, so they're already breaking
the law. We need more laws anyway. So the FBI
has asked the public for help and identifying any information,

(08:18):
send us videos, let us know when you see them.
And again I meant going back to the representative Andrew
after or during an interview when cameras weren't where cameras
weren't a loted He said his remarks were well, maybe
taken out of context. He said they might be Iranian,
might be, and he did acknowledge he neither possesses nor
has seen any concrete evidence that the drones are Iranian.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Stay please.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Homeland Security officials discussed these sightings the other day yesterday
as well, raised growing concern among residents and officials because
they're flying near, among other concerning spots, the Picatinny Arsenal,
the US military research and manufacturing facility. That's concern not

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overly concerned about them flying around President of like Donald
Trump's golf course in Bedminster, as long as Donald Trump
is not there while the drones are flying around Associated
press is where I got the information about the legality
of this, he said.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Drones.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
They reported the drones are legal in New Jersey for
recreational and commercial use, but they are subject to local
Federal Aviation Administration regulations and flight restrictions, and operators must
be FAA certified.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
But who knows.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
And much like gun laws, just because it requires an
FAA certification, you can still go out and buy one,
and you can violate the law, But how is it?
The Governor Phil Murphy, as well as other law enforcement
officials have been able to stress and continue to stress,
that the drones don't appear to threaten the public safe.

(10:00):
No one knows where they have come from, no one
knows the origin of them, no one knows anything about them.
No one shot one down to check it out. How
do they know that it isn't a threat to public safety?

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Hmm? And there was another really comical point. I'm searching
for it. Oh, I know.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Headline can you shoot down the mysterious drones spotted over
state Nile? The answer apparently no. Shooting down an airborne
drone is considered a federal crime, also pointed out Gillian
Delaney reporting on this one. I can't remember the news
outlet site. It's no big deal, but they say not

(10:46):
to mention the enormous size of these drones can lead
to serious injury or accidents. Warren County Community College president
and Warren USA Unmanned Drone Program creator Will Austin. I
guess some sort of alleged authority on this said it's

(11:08):
even if it's over your own property, you can't legally
shoot it down. You can't interfere of it. You cannot
take it out of the sky. Fine, I assume that's
the law. That's okay. But here's the comical part in
this article not to mention the fact that many drones
contain lithium in some capacity, like a lithium polymer battery.

(11:32):
Out of the words of mister Austin, which can explode
or ignite if hit by a bullet. Those fires are
hard to put out, Austin said, and you could end
up actually burning your house down. Now you know immediately
where I'm gonna pivot on that when you mean like
an electric vehicle which do contain lithium ion batteries and

(11:54):
can't burn your house down and do take a tremendous
amount of water to put out. Even made that comment
as well. So I don't take any comfort in the
fact that nobody in any high capacity military, CIA, FBI,
local law enforcement, New York City, New Jersey police, local
sheriff's office, no one has any idea about these. So

(12:15):
here's an idea. Let's shoot one down and find out.
How about that.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
We live in a world that we live in right now?

Speaker 3 (12:28):
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Speaker 2 (12:36):
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Speaker 3 (12:46):
Very happy Friday Eve, looking forward to Senator Rampaul joining
the program at seven o five. Love talking to Senator Rampaul.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Very smart man he is. And you know, I don't
know what to make O Rfk Junior. I've been kind
of happy about the idea this quirky guy is going
to at least bring the America's attention to health and food.
This why and I told other people and I've mentioned
on the program before, in an effort to maybe try
to control my cancer as well as lose the weight
that many people in my family suggest that I needed

(13:15):
to lose one of that Keto diet.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Down fifteen pounds.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Happy to report not adhering to it as religiously as
I did during the first month because it took a
Thanksgiving break, But just doing that raises my raised my
awareness of the amount of sugar that's out there in
the world, and Lord Almighty, it is literally everywhere, the
processed food and the sugar that is literally in everything.
Go ahead, walk around Kroger or your grocery store and

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just look at the labels on everything.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
You're going to find.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
You're going to certain a number of grams of sugar.
And I love seeing labels when it says no added sugar,
which does not mean doesn't have sugar in it, like
orange juice that's natural sugar.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
There.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
I guess there may be a distinction between the two,
but they recommend, you know, if you're doing this kind
of diet, stay the hell away from that. You know,
juice like that as well, because the high concentration is sugar.
The point being with the cancer that cancer loves sugar
and it consumes tons of calories.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Which is why the cells grow.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
So I figure, why not give it a shot since
I'm in between cancer treatments. We'll see what my doctor
says in January when I did my follow up appointment.
But I thought that was a rather interesting suggestion, and
this is something that's come up before moving away from
our FK Junior. Just simply again, the I like that
you of bringing awareness of American health awareness. I'm not

(14:30):
quite sure if I'm on board with his complete vaccine
ban I did get quite a few vaccines growing up,
and I'm glad I don't have polio, for example. But
Arkansas re hopbl can go n to Sarah Huckaby, Sanders
suggested that we should end the SNAP program at least
in so far it allows people to buy junk food. Now,
the devil may be in the details. What is junk food?

(14:53):
How does one determine what is junk food and what
is not? That you know, of course, naturally occurring fruits
and vegetables, nuts and berries and things of that native
nature obviously are not. But she said that unfortunately, the
Nutrition Assistance Program is undermined health of millions of Americans
on the taxpayers, done by encouraging families to eat highly processed,

(15:15):
onhealthy junk food, which she does. It's one hundred and
thirteen billion dollar federal program designed to support low income
families with food assystems. So do not deny the need
for that. But the idea that you can use federal
tax dollars to go out and buy mountain dew candy,
desserts and cakes, and according to us Huckeby Sanders, that

(15:37):
that accounts for twenty three percent of the Snap purchases
that kind of purchase, and her point was given the
relationship between junk food and poor health. Our federal food
assistance policies are fueling obesity, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and
in a wide range of chronic health conditions around America. Ergo,
the SNAP program, designed to keep people alive and help

(15:59):
people in time of need, ultimately is killing them. And
there is a direct correlation between eating crabby food and
your health diabetes most notably, and how many people have
diabetes in this country now settling these health conditions disproportionately
affect low income families, the same people who rely on
Snap for food.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
She decided.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
A study by the Stanford University professor who's been nominated
by President electromp that head the National Institutes of Health Bataciara.
That study concluded that removing sugary drinks and snacks from
the Snack program would prevent obesity in one hundred and

(16:41):
forty one thousand children and type two diabetes in two
hundred and forty thousand adults. Huh, well, that sounds like
a good idea. You got scientific studies, the uh, we
should rely on science. If the scientists and the doctors

(17:05):
and the researchers out there all concluded, and I think
uniformly they have, that these terrible foods, these foods loaded
up with massive quantities of sugar, cause and facilitate people
getting diabetes, which is extremely expensive to the country to
deal with, which can lead to death, amputation of limbs,
all those terrible conditions go along with diabetes. You can

(17:26):
if you can do something substantial to eradicate that. Isn't
that a good idea? And someone provide me with an
argument about why it's not a good idea five twenty
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Speaker 2 (17:49):
It will be right back fifty five KRCT five thirty
two Friday e.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Over the local stories here they have more information about
the folks that well burned down the Big mac Bridge
quite the record, most notably for one of them. Thank
you to Vellerie Lyons reporting on this one CPO assault
def drug possession. Some of the past allegations against the

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four people named by authorities who intentionally started a fire
that burned down the Dan Beard Bridge. James Hamilton, Terry Styles,
Zachary Stump, and Caitlin Hall all arrested in connection with
the fire happened November first at the one thousand Hands Playground.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Court record show.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
The three men and women have all faced the judge
for unrelated misdemeanor and phony cases before yesterday's arrangement. Local
news liboit the CPO gets credit for this when they
looked into the criminal history of each suspect. Terry Styles,
thirty nine, being held in the Hamilton Canty Justice Center
on a million dollar bond, been charged with one kind
of aggravated arson. According to documents, he intentionally set the fire,

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creating a substantial risk of serious physical arm to all
of the motorists above, including the driver of a freight
liner flatbed toe truck. They keep identifying that. I'm a
little sketchy on the details of why that one truck
keeps getting identified. Anyway, he wasn't at the arrangement yesterday.
Why well, the Hamilton County Sheriff are recommended he not
showed the arrangement because he's a bit unruly, so the

(19:25):
CBO asked and got the jail video that was recorded
before the scheduled court appearance, showing deputies having to restrain
this guy in a chair and placing him in a
spit mask before wheeling him out of the jail. Pod
Fire specialist Steven Metz said, speaking with CPO, we spoke

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with a lot of people that are in that orbit
of Terry Styles, including his family, and a lot of
people have said the same thing that Terry Styles had
made it clear to them that he would never go
back to jail. He would rather die, apparently at the
first time he's been accused of unruly or violent behavior.
Before setting his bond, Hamilton County Judge Heather Russell listen

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to this spent four uninterrupted minutes reading off styles criminal record,
which goes back to when he was a juvenile and
an out of state parole transfer in Texas. She listed
off child's charges found in Butler, Warren and Campbell Counties
between twenty twenty one and twenty three.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Most ignored.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
They included obstructing official business, illegal possession of a firearm
in Middletown and OVII in Lebanon, and trespassing in Newport.
According to Judge Russell, he has one violent felony, one felony,
one violent misdemeanor, four misdemeanors, nine minor misdemeanors, three failures
to appear in a partridge into Paratree. Court apparently dismissed

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the twenty twenty arrests of resisting arrest charge as well
as a charge for assault and faire to contain his
pit bull in twenty eighteen. He was convicted of aggravated
menacing and drug trafficking in twenty seventeen, and an assault
charge from twenty sixteen was dismissed by a judge. He
was convicted of felonious assault back in two thousand and
five served the maximum sentenced eight years. Styles have pled

(21:10):
guilty to the charge, admitting assaulting Carl Legga junior when
the Carl Leggo Junior was five months old. Great unbelievable.
I could go on, but the local story segment is
over fire. At least they got the folks and oddly
enough here's a corollary headlines again CPO. Since they officials

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can't say what started the fire of the damage to
the car of the Big Mac Bridge. Since a Fire
Department Chief Frank McKinley said, because the investigation is ongoing,
he can't release too many details about what caused the fire,
how it started, or any reasoning as to why it
was set. For his part, have to have provol Thankfully,
we have a woke prosecutor on this said, these arrests

(21:56):
are just the beginning emphasizing, and now the justice system
and prosecutors have to do their jobs to hold the
fore accountable. I cannot overstate the severity of this crime.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
He said.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
All right, let's hope he feels the same way about
murderers and other people who commit crimes against humanity.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Here in the city of Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
We don't have woke judges and prosecutors letting them out
on the streets right now. Five point thirty six if
if you have Kerstee Talks, it's.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Five forty two.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
If you have Kerstee Talks Nation, Happy Friday eve A
conspiracy theorist or pattern observer friends out there are going
to enjoy hearing from author Stephanie Perucci with the book
Sound the Alarm, the Malley disaster that sparked a global awakening,
suggesting that the Lahena fire was the intentional and designed
to take property away from people. Just a little skim

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of the surface of the content of the book. Anyway,
We'll get to that.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
At eight o five.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
At the meantime, Pete, Pete, thanks for calling the Morning show.
Happy Friday, Eve, Sam.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
You Brime, thanks. Hey.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
Back on this drone issue, there's one report where a
Coastguard cutter with credible you know, officers and reporting that
there was between twelve and thirty of them following their boats.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yes, I read that.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, I didn't get to that this morning when I
was on my tear on the drones, but I did
also see that account or that report.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
So yeah, But if you.

Speaker 6 (23:17):
Think about it, you know, you can program a drone
to go here and there, but to have a minimum
of twelve following either each one has to be controlled
by an individual. It'd be hard to program all of
them to stay within a certain distance of each other.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
And then, oh, I don't know, Pete. I'm no drone operator.
I don't own one, and I don't purport to be one.
But I have seen some unbelievable drone coordination displays involving
literally hundreds of them that fly within inches of each other.
So I think yes, you could indeed part program twelve
or ten or one hundred if you wanted, and you

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would wouldn't have to operate them individually, could operate them
remotely all at once, just saying, man, I mean some
of these listen you like halftime events or you know
firework events where they now have drones flying around with
colors on them, and they, oh, my god, what they
can accomplish with those.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
They have a set place that they're going to go
with the boat moving, it's a moving.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Well wait a minute. Theoretically, here's me just offering a theory.
If you have one drone operator, all the drones are
connected and designed to fly within let's say a foot
of each other or ten feet or whatever. If one
person can control the one drone that is directing the
traffic for the rest of them to follow, then it
stands to reason that yes, you could have something follow

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independently manually that would control multiple drones at the same time.
The technology is there, I think it seems like a
simple concept given thee where the technology is these days.
So that's just my theory. I again, I don't own drones.
I don't purport to be a drone operator. They don't
port to be able to un nderstand the technology behind it,

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but I certainly believe that is easily within the realm
of capability. Is based upon what I seen with my
own eyes. By forty five you can chime in feel free,
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Speaker 2 (25:18):
By fifty fifty five KERCD talk station Brian Thomas.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Right here Sean McMahon covering for the vacationing joe'stracker and
again apology severity. I was calling this morning about Joe
not being here for good. I can't remember everything, but
I can go to the phones because Bobby's on the line. Bobby,
Welcome to the morning show. Good to hear from you.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
Happy Thursday, my brother. They like family and firearms. When
you have those, you're always half freedom.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yep. I know what I'm getting for Christmas too.

Speaker 7 (25:49):
Ah, there there you go, Cake, get any better than that?

Speaker 2 (25:55):
So on your mind today, my friend.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
Well, I got a couple of points. Everybody keeps going
on about, and it's real simple. Anything you can imagine,
they can do period.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Well, we know from their use in warfare that what
you say is pretty it's broad brush, but yeah, pretty
much kill people, blow people up, blow up buildings, obviously,
spy on people. I mean, you can go down the
whole list. Body I've gotten.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
The next thing is, uh, you know, we got a
senator we got to bring in here for the state
of Ohio to you know, to replace JD. But get
away from the old Republican Party. And I could pretty
well make a guess of who they want to put
in there, Jane Tempkin. But what about uh, what about

(26:43):
our old boy or Orlando Simson. Wouldn't he be a
nicer there for two hours and two years? Put him
in there for two years, they didn't get his feet wet.
Let him let everybody know exactly how strong he could be,
and he'd be a perfect candidate for the election coming
up in two years. Stake.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
I love that idea, Bobby, love that idea. I think
the world of Orlando Sons. I think he's a brilliant guy.
He's just a man of character and decency, a family man.
He's right on all the issues. I was so disappointed
that he was beating that election, so Bobby, I'll back
you one hundred percent. If they want to put Orlando
the Sons in that position, I will be as happy

(27:21):
as possible. And I think he will bring about great
results of this date.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
I think it's great, my brother. And if people look
at the numbers and everything, he carried Warren County by
sixty five percent. Yeah, and the only thing he had
held against him was a city of Cincinnati, not just
the whole county of you know, Hamilton, but the city
of Cincinnati. You already go ahead, and he can go
ahead and bring in all the elections. We got eighty

(27:46):
eight counties in this in this state, and there's only
eight of them at the one Democrat.

Speaker 7 (27:52):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
He well eight, I guarantee he could pull the rest.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Bobby, can't think you enough for the call this morning
with that suggestion. And I don't know why it didn't
under that outloud myself or think of it myself. But
that's why I love hearing from my listeners again. Somebody
tell me why that wouldn't be a great idea, Orlando Sonza.
Orlando sent them a letter telling you're up for the job. Uh,
Stacks Stack is stupid. Ah, we've got to Florida, where

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a lot of stupid stories come from. When I love
the Breverd County Sheriff's Office. They're working to identify the
owner of approximately twenty five kilograms of cocaine discovered along
the coastline, sealed in watertight packaging marked with scorpion logos
that was covered by a local fisherman who reported to find.
A law enforcement social media post by the Sheriff's office
said it was valued at one point seven million dollars.

(28:44):
In their post titled Brevard County Sheriff's Office is attempting
to return lost items, showed photos of the drugs multiple
pictures or pictures of the multiple drug packages, said well,
since since at the Breverd County Sheriff's Office, we always
strive to do the right thing. Are narcotics agents are

(29:06):
trying to identify the rightful owners of the twenty five
kilos of cocaine? They think the drugs fell off of
a boat while maybe its owner was traveled along the coastline.
Sheriff's office asked me when anybody with information about it
or it's rightful owned, of course, contacting Narcotics division and
the post continues so if the twenty five kilos of

(29:27):
coax belong to you, all we need you to do
is come down to our Criminal Investigation Service building on
gus Hip Boulevard in Rockridge and claim your property with
absolutely no strings attached, right and without actually running the song.

(29:51):
Given the limitations of the time, we go to Manateee County,
Florida for this one, where the Bradenton Police have arrested
a sixteen year old boy after they say he shot
a floor air gun onto a field of soccer players
while the game was being played. Courting police teen shot
the gun onto the field full of players during a
match of the brandon In Private School November twenty first.

(30:11):
Officials did not name the school, but according to the
detective as a sixteen year old who does not attend
the private school was asked to leave the soccer match
because of disruptive behavior. So the team and his friends
left the school property and returned to the vehicle they'd
showed up at the game at parked at a nearby restaurant,
when they say officers said, the team then fired the
flare gun from the passenger seat of the car towards

(30:33):
the school's soccer field. Witnesses said the flare narrowly missed
players but burned two holes in the artificial turf. Officials
said the flare caused more than one thousand dollars in damage.
Being questioned about the incident, the team admitted to doing it,
expressed remorse, and agreed to turn himself off into the police.
He was arrested his summer ninth charge of criminal mischief
damage more than a grand a third degree felony, and

(30:54):
culpable negligence with exposure to harm, which is described as
a second degree misdemeanor. Name not released by authorities, of course,
being a teenager taken to the Manitee Juvenile Detention Center
and will be without running. This song our Biggest Dute
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credit for it. He's on vacation today, it's tomorrow and

(31:36):
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talking about the border, the damning I referred to it

(32:00):
as damning COVID report, as well as Doge, the vv
A grama Swimmy elon Musk project to cut the massive
amount of waste and fraud and abuse in the government.
As I stare at the fact that our budget deficit
has now jumped climbing seventeen percent, I think that's a record,
and of course our national debt continues to go through

(32:20):
the roof. And a true as I mentioned last hour
and have said before, a true if not one of
the most important existential threats to our country's very existence.
It's too much spending. Donovan Neo Americans were prospered. He'll
join us at seven thirty talk about the AFP's position

(32:42):
and opponents to HB seventy nine States Senate Energy and
Public Utilities Committee. So Donald Neil always interesting. That'll be
at seven thirty. Something that's really interesting, particularly to my
pattern observers formerly known as conspiracy theories, Sound the Alarm,
the Maui disaster that sparked a global awakening. Stephanie Berucci,

(33:07):
author of that who authored along with Shane Duell and
Tracy Derwin. Stepanie's going to join the program. It's about
the Lahena fires and what caused them and maybe intentional
and maybe designed to take away land from people. Burn
back better. This is the original book and this is
a sequel to that, says. The book methodically walks the

(33:28):
reader from the scene of the crime towards the thirty
thousand foot view of why this fire was allowed to happen,
where other copycat fires have happened, and what communities are next.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Scary stuff. Most of me.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Wants to believe it. None of it's true, but we'll
get to talked to the author about the facts in
that book. Multiple chapters of the book and it's broken
down into three different parts, should be a fascinating conversation.
That conversation taking place at eight oh five, and of
course it being Thursday, I heard media aviation expert Jay
Ratler with the host of topics and some yucks, which
I thoroughly enjoy. As we move on into a Friday

(34:05):
five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred, eight
hundred and eighty two to three, talk Tom five fifty
on AT and T phone. Before I get to some
other topics, I've got Steve on the phone with the
comment Steve, thanks for calling this morning.

Speaker 8 (34:16):
Yes, sir, how are you doing today?

Speaker 3 (34:18):
I'm doing pretty well all things consider. My day didn't
start off great, but I'm doing all right and that's
all that matters.

Speaker 8 (34:23):
Well, it's always it's always fun to be driving to
work and remember that you have forgotten something and have
to go back. Well, that is a great way to
start the.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Day, I know. And it's the cell phone, you know.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
And I was like, normally, you know, if if it
wasn't twenty twenty four, I would have said the hell
of it, I don't need my cell phone for the
next four hours. But I needed to get into the building.
I needed to get into my computer because I got
two factor authentication. I needed to get into my email
for the same reason Facebook. I can't do anything with that.
It's to turn around. And then I forgot Joe Strecker's
on vacation.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Today.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
I show up and I don't see his car. I'll
come into the studio, which normally has the stack of
stupid and some loll the stories printed out. Nothing there,
and I'm like, holy crab. So I lose my mind
and start calling a bunch of people responsible and bothered
them for no reason, only to find that Joe had
in fact given me all the information I needed on
my email, which I hadn't opened up yet. So yeah,

(35:16):
a little disturbing morning for me psychologically, but again I'm
feeling pretty good beyond see.

Speaker 8 (35:22):
I appreciate what Sean is doing, and I told them that.
But when you said you can't do anything without your
cell phone, I was waiting for the phrasing button, but
you know's not there. That would have that would have
put you to knocked you down a notch or two
good point a couple of comments. Uh, just yesterday and
I've said this one hundred times. I'll say it one

(35:45):
hundred and one times. You had the guest on and
the climate change was talked about, and of course he's
talking about man made climate change, which is an unproven theory, right,
And the Republicans are too in articulate to every time
they're asked about climate change to preface that with are
you asking me about climate change? Or are you asking

(36:08):
me about man made climate change and unproven theory? Of
course our side can't, can't you know, we can't do
stuff like that that would require you know, something from
our people.

Speaker 9 (36:21):
But two things.

Speaker 10 (36:23):
You know.

Speaker 8 (36:23):
What I want to comment about really is a couple
of your recurring guests, one of them being Christopher Smitherman.
I really enjoy when he's on, and I don't want
you to go anywhere, but eventually you're going to retire.
But Man's he would be good on the radio. I

(36:43):
know he's got a career, a different job. And I'll
tell you what puts me a smile on my face
so much when he's talking to you is he'll be like, well,
let me tell you this, Brian Thomas I liked. I mean,
he knows you well. I like that he uses your
last name all It just is funny to me.

Speaker 7 (37:02):
It just cracks me up to it.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
I don't know why I haven't said it out loud
because when he does that, I don't want to knock
him off, as you know, his the role that he's on.
But yeah, I always want to interject. I pay Christ
for five dollars for every time he says Monday.

Speaker 8 (37:16):
Well, well, and you know, everybody is going to have
their own little unique way of stand and that somehow
and it works perfectly for him. And but that one,
that one always puts a smile on my face in
addition to all the very intelligent things he's saying. One
other guest I want to ask you about. I tried
to call in on Friday. I messed up because you

(37:38):
really had guests in the last couple of hours where
you weren't taking calls. I was going to call in
with a question for you to propose to your wine
expert Keegan.

Speaker 5 (37:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (37:51):
And how often is he on? Is it about twice
a year?

Speaker 3 (37:55):
I'd say three holiday time we usually bring him on
or you know, I don't know what the specific rhyme
or reason, but usually you can count on him being
around you either Thanksgiving or Christmas or Easter obviously time
to coordinate with the typical family feest so we can
get some wine recommendations or just have an excuse to
talk about wine rather than politics for a little while.

Speaker 8 (38:18):
He really comes across as a really nice guy, yes
you've known him for years, and really knowledgeable and kind
of you know, I mean.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
He doesn't take it too seriously so much about wine.

Speaker 8 (38:31):
I feel like I don't even know what wine is
when I'm listening to him, because you think you know
a little bit about it and then you listen to him.
But next time he's going to be on, I'll call
you a little earlier in the show and see if
you'd toss a question at.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
What's the question?

Speaker 8 (38:49):
It is something that I've seen with wine in the
last ten years, where you're starting, you know, and I
know he does the more high end stuff, screw on
caps versus quirks versus synthetic quarks. And I'm going to say,
back in the day, a screw on cap would have

(39:10):
been like the cheapest wine in the world. I noticed
a lot of white German Wines years ago started having
the screw on cap. There's not the stigma attached to it,
an I don't think there is. He may say, oh,
that's unacceptable. I really don't know. But the synthetic cork,
which I tend to find with Australian wines, to me,

(39:31):
is the most disgusting thing in the world. I mean
that I'd rather have a screw on cap than a
synthetic I don't know if you've ever opened up the
line and it's that synthetic cork and it's like some
that's really weird looking stuff. I don't know what you know,
that just kind of turns. That's like a man made
type thing. I don't know what it is.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
But yeah, it seems to be like sometimes some sort
of synthetic polymer of like a plastic or something. And
I have asked that question. I cannot specifically recall what
the answer was. The I seem to recall, and it
may have been Kegan who said it that the genuine
cork is still the preferred cork. Now it does and can,
I guess deteriorate over time and some quirks are better

(40:12):
than other. But what I'm doing right now as I'm
I'm talking to you. I'm sending them a text message,
so I'll ask him. I may get the answer this morning,
So I do have.

Speaker 8 (40:22):
Fantastic that my wife and I were in Portugal, which
is where I think most of the cork comes from.
They said, for one thing, it doesn't harm the tree.
It's like cutting fingernails on a dog or a person.
It's it doesn't hurt anything. And they don't want to
harm the tree because they're producing a product for them.
There's nothing, you know. I don't know if what the

(40:44):
deal was. Maybe it's just a cost cutting thing. Why
they they've gotten away from it a little.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Probably, I think that's a very labor intensive process, the
natural quirk, so that'd be my guess. But I did
just send in the text, and if he gets back there,
be happy to let you know. I'm pass alone to
the listeners, because I'm sure a lot of listeners may
have had the same question floating around.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Steve.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
I appreciate the call, and I know and I will
back all day long what you said about Christopher Smith,
and I thoroughly enjoy having him on the show. Yes,
he is a dear friend, but I appreciate his thoughtful
insight as a black man and as an independent, politically
minded individual who is a family man and a very
traditional guy. I think he presents a point of view
that is really desperately needed in this world. So that's

(41:25):
why I have him on the show. And he has
always welcome here to offer up his points of view.
Six fifteen fifty five cares of the TALX station five.
And you're right, you're willing to come on the program
and off of your points of view as well. Just
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high thirty one, down a twenty three overnight with clouds.
Mostly cloudy day tomorrow with light winds in a high
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If you have a care City talk station, I'm going
to have Eve Friday Eve to you, Rand Paul Senator
after the top of the R News seven to five
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down on a Neil for Americans for prosperity. Let us
go to the phones, Gary, New Hampshire. Gary's on the line.
Hey Gary, welcome back to the show.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
My friend.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
Good morning, Brian Uh. I'd like to talk about the
drones going over southern New York Ankers and well New
Jersey and apparently afford to Fox News and the sheriff
and the fire department and the FAA they're spot spotting
up to one hundred and eighty six drones a day

(43:14):
at times in those areas. You know that the the
video footage is absolutely wild.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
I think it's more shocking and more infuriating than anything is.
We know that it's not a foreign adversary sending the drones,
and then you go, Okay, you're telling me it's not foreign,
so it must be domestic or you must know, and well,
you don't know that. I don't know anything. And what's

(43:44):
even more infuriating about the whole thing is there's no
policy to deal with this, this potential threat at all,
and everybody's just ignoring it. Who anybody who's in a
leadership position is totally ignoring it. Nothing getting the dodhing.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
Nothing, nothing from the FBI, nothing from the CIA. The
Pentagon denies, although interesting, Gary, and I'm glad you brought
this back up because I was ranting about this this morning.
It's almost comical they can say with a straight face
that they don't pose any threat. And if they can't
identify where these things are coming from, how in the
hell do they know they pose no threat? Pentagon denies

(44:25):
for an entity behind drones, But if the Pentagon can
deny that, then wouldn't they maybe perhaps acknowledge that they
either know where they're coming from, or maybe it is
in fact our own government, our own military or whatever
trying out some new equipment. And I wouldn't have necessarily
any problem with that. I mean, we all know that
our military owns drones, and if they want to fly

(44:47):
them around, fine, Although there may be some legal implications
for American military operating on domestic soil. I don't know
the ramifications, but everybody wants some answers, and right now
it makes us all look like idiots.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
There's nothing.

Speaker 5 (45:04):
That's worse than the Three stooges. Yeah, it really is.
It's like, well, we know it's not a terrorist, but
we just don't know anything. And you're like, you know,
these are not the drones you're looking for?

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Right, well played, Gary. The only problem is that we
can't be manipulated by Obi Wan kenoll be waving his
hand in front of us getting us to agree, oh,
these aren't the drones we're looking for. We're all going,
where the hell did them things come from? Why are
they flying around? Why doesn't someone shoot one down to

(45:41):
identify it? That seems to be a logical conclusion, doesn't it, Gary.

Speaker 5 (45:47):
Oh my god, remind you of Pearl Harbor. You know,
they weren't allowed to shoot down the Japanese when they
were attacking, you know, And it's like, why wait, Fellas,
you're the d D.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
Yeah, but apparently in New Jersey it is illegal to
shoot down a drone. So maybe, maybe, maybe if the
politicians were around in the days of Pearl Harbor, they
might have The current politicians may have passed the law
that says you cannot shoot down a foreign plane attacking
the homeland.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
So I don't know.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
It's all crazy, Gary, I'll admit. And that's why I
started the show out because they keep reading all these
stories about it. In every single official that should know
or should provide us some measure of assurance that this
is not a problem are just throwing their hands up, going, oh,
we don't know. Oh great, I can take some great
comfort in that. Thanks, Buddie, Appreciate her from me. Five

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Middletown Fire Cruise responded reports to a fired and outlet

(47:49):
mall yesterday evening. According to w Chief Steve Ludwig, cruise
receiver reports of a possible structure fired the Gentle Family
Dentistry on marine drive. Chief Ludwig said the crews were
able to see flames burning through the roof of the
building from more than a block away. Fire crews arrived
on the scenes. All occupants fortunately had already evacuated the building.

(48:12):
In spite of the wintery conditions, Cruise managed to subdue
the fire before the weather made the situation difficult. Deputy
g for Ludwig said that there were no injuries as
a result of the fire. Damage caused by the fire
extent and whether it harmed any nearby business is not
yet clear at this time and the cause of the
fire is of course under investigation. And speaking of fires,
they got another guy responsible for the Big mac Bridge

(48:33):
arson fire a court to assault, theft and drug possession.
Some of the past allegations against the total of four
people that have been named by authorities that are responsible
allegedly for the fire that burned down the chuck of
the dan Bearn Bridge, specifically James Hamilton, Terry Styles, Zachary Stump,
and Caitlin Hall all arrested in connection with the November

(48:56):
first fire at the one thousand Hands playground at Sawyer
Point Park. Court records show the three men of the
woman of all faced a judge for unrelated misdemeanor phony
cases before the arraignment yesterday, most notably Terry Styles, who
was not present during the arraignment. Interesting fun facts for
this guy. He is being held in the Hemlin County
Justice Center on a one million dollar bond. He's been

(49:19):
charged with one kind of aggravated arson in court. To
the court documents, he intentionally set the fire, creating a
substantial risk of serious physical harm to all of the
motorists above. That's in the court documents. Again, not at
the arrangement yesterday. Why that was at the recommendation of
the Hamilton County Sheriff because of his unruly behavior in

(49:39):
the jail, Local news WCPO requested and obtained jail video
recorded hours before the scheduled court appearance, which shows deputies
restraining Styles in a chair and placing him in a
spit mask before wheeling him out of the jail pod.
Fire specialist Stephen Metz, speaking with local WCPO, said, we

(50:00):
he spoke with a lot of people that aren't in
the orbit of Terry Styles, including his family, and a
lot of people have said the same thing that Terry
Styles had made it clear to them that he would
never go back to jail. He would rather die. You
might want to want me back to jail. Well, apparently
not the first time he's been accused of unruly or
violent behavior. Before setting the bond, Hamilton County Judge Heather

(50:24):
Russell I appreciate Valerie Lions at CPOs reporting on this
spent four uninterrupted minutes reading off Style's lengthy criminal record,
which goes back to when he was a juvenile and
an out of state parole transfer in Texas. She listed
off The judge listed off charges filed in Butler, Warren

(50:45):
and Campbell Counties between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Most ignored.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Include obstructing official business, illegal possession of a firearm in
Middletown and ov Im Lebanon, and trespassing in Newport. Quote
he was he has one violent felony, one felony, one
violent misdemeanor, four misdemeanors, nine minor misdemeanors, and three failures
to appear close.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Quote from Jude Russell.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
Reports say the courts dismissed a twenty twenty resisting arrest
charge as well as a charge for assault and failure
to obtain his or to contain his pit bull. That
was back from twenty eighteen. Who was convicted of aggravated
menacing and drug trafficking in twenty seventeen. Judge dismissed an
assault charge back in twenty sixteen. He was convicted of
felonious assault in two thousand and five, and he served

(51:30):
the maximum sentence of eight years in the Ohio Department
of Correction and Rehabilitation. So you know, Great Most recently
charged in April with trespassing and that case is still pending.
Question what we do with folks like that out in
society six thirty five Here fifty tell run six forty

(51:54):
two fifty five fairc Detalk station. Before I get to
the phones, bear with me, Kribby to Mike call your
early Steve's wanted to know about the quarks. He didn't
have an opportunity to speak with Keegan Corkoran our Samlier
friend here in the fifty five KERC Morning Show. I
texted him and I knew he'd get right back to me.
Are you ready? So your choices are screw off, synthetic
or real quark. Here's the response from the second tier Samalier,

(52:16):
only one of six hundred change in the world. For
short term enjoyment doesn't matter too much, but for long
term aging avoid Synthetic screw caps actually have the most
longevity and are no indication of quality. There is your
response from one of the few people in the world
who has the status enough to actually answer the question

(52:39):
directly appreciated, Keegan. If you're out there listening, there's your answer.
Over to the phones. Cribbage Mike, Cribbage Mike Sean who's
covering for Joe's direcord today. I saw his face light
up when he saw your name because you are identified
as Cribbage Mike on the board, because Joe assigns names
so we know who people are and who to avoid.
So I saw him crack up. I saw him even

(53:01):
say Cribbage Mike, and I said, I had to explain
who you were. You're a submariner and you learn how
to play cribbage, and I told the background. So we
have inspired Sean, who said, I've always wanted to learn
how to play that game. So we've inspired him to
look into it. And so maybe we will have a
fellow cribbage player. Welcome back my suburb, your friend. Thank
you for your service to our country. It's always a

(53:22):
pleasure hearing from you.

Speaker 5 (53:23):
Thank you, my friend.

Speaker 10 (53:24):
And that wine information. So that's why Boone's farm has
grew on caps.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
Right, right, no indication of quality that remember remember Mogan
David twenty.

Speaker 10 (53:35):
Twenty absolutely Andy, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Well ripple Thunderbird, Thunderbird football games.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
Let me, I guys just gonna say you had the
same kind of childhood I did. As take me back
to high school?

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Yeah, my mom.

Speaker 10 (53:55):
Two points. Job opportunities out there for a good friend.
Orlando Sanza, even though he's doing a phenomenal job as
a director of the Hamilton County Veteran Service Organization. With
a new administration, maybe somebody in the Trump administration might
tap him as the new Southern District of Ohio federal prosecutor.
With his prosecutor prosecutorial resume.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
I you know what another sound idea I would take
Orlando suns. They put him in any position, and of
course he is gonna be great with the working for
Ham and County veteran services. He was a great prosecutor.
He's just an all round well rounded right guy. He's
just he's pleasant, he's brilliant, he's he loves America. He
probably served his country, you know. I mean he's got

(54:38):
no downside and a beautiful I mean, he married. He
outkicked his coverage as far as it can possibly out
kicked in terms of his wife, and he's got a
beautiful family.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
I just eat anything. I'll take anything at this juncture.

Speaker 10 (54:50):
Well, once once again for an army guy, he has
my vote. That's the big game this weekend. So although
it looks we have an uphill battle, that army team has.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Been very good all year.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
What's the spread on that one?

Speaker 10 (55:04):
I don't even know, but it could be interest. Maybe
that's what the drones are flying around for. They're going
to do a test drive up there in Boston.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
But you, being a military guy, I don't have to
put you on the spot. But don't you find it
a little peculiar that nobody in any of our leated
organizations seems to me to answer their question straightforward, like
where these damn things came from and what the hell
they're doing flying around New Jersey all the time.

Speaker 10 (55:26):
Well, I hate to equate it to the four seventy
one bridge, but once again we got a finger wag
by the mayor the other day, said we told you
it wasn't homeless. We knew this two weeks ago. Well,
then come out and say it so same way here.
You know, if this is good a purpose, maybe for
the inauguration, they're doing test runs, you know, don't say it.
We don't have to know all the details.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
No, they're ours. That would be enough. They belonged to us.
They're the government's drones. It's open airspace. We're allowed to
fly them there. We have the clearance and the authorizations.
Bite of the fact that you every day it isn't
might not but whatever, or if they really don't know,
why don't you just shoot one down?

Speaker 2 (56:07):
How difficult can that be? Mike?

Speaker 3 (56:09):
I mean, we have all the military technology in the world. Look,
we just approved an almost trillion dollar military budget. You
think there might be a few dollars in there for
anti drone technology, because I'm sure there was a few
dollars thrown in that direction under prior defense authorization bills.

Speaker 10 (56:23):
Well, hopefully they're easier to shoot down than Chinese Fi balloons.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
H Man, Just what a reflection of incompetence that exercise was?

Speaker 10 (56:34):
Geez yeah, real quick with Daniel Penny. To use a
Navy term, when an aircraft carrier change its course, it
starts off very slowly before it gets into its intended course.
And two things I took away from the Daniel Penny verdict.
First Off, when they dropped the manslaughter charge and they
were going to go just with reckless homicide, and I
heard that the jury came back in less than two hours,

(56:55):
I thought for sure that was going to be guilty.
So the fact that those twelve people in the box
of the New York City saw for what it was
and came back with not guilty. I was thoroughly thrilled
at that. Secondly, the BLM idiots that were out front,
Now two three years ago, we would have had Attorney
Benjamin Crump out there. The streets would have been packed,

(57:17):
but hopefully over time. And the way that BLM misused
all those funds and took a lot of people for
a song. Once again, this was not the case and
the fact that you had eight or nine people show
up and then they were gone by the six o'clock news.
Once again, maybe we're on the right course we.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Are, And with that I will strongly encourage my listeners
because I wanted to get to it myself today. I'm
a big fan of Daniel hening You're writing for the
Wall Street Journal. He addressed that very topic and an
op ed piece. Since I believe today's journal that hopeful
Daniel Penny verdict subtitle a New York City jury decision
could be the start of a long overdue social correction,

(57:58):
and he brings up some of the points you just made,
delves into them a little bit more deeply, and it
makes some great points. So if you've got an opportunity
to do it again, that hopeful Daniel Penny Verdict by
Daniel Heninger, I think you'll put a smile on your
face and give you some hope and optimism, especially during
this well, hopeful and joyous time of year. Maybe we
have turned the band Mike. Great to hear from you,

(58:20):
my friend, Thanks again for your service to our country.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
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Speaker 3 (58:23):
Right now, if you have Kercity Talk station Chimneycare fireplaces though,
they'd perform a great service. Speaking of Mike, perfect opportunity
to mention Chimneycare fireplaces though, because they're coming over to
his place and figure out why his gas fireplace is smoking. Yeah,
sorry to let the world know, Mike that you got
to smoke and gas though. But you did call the
right people, and I'm glad you're relying on one of

(58:44):
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Is very interested in hearing what the Senator has to
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all types and stripes that know how to cut the waste,
cut the fraud and waste and abuse from government and
back over real quick to the Daniel Penny verdict. You know,
the in connection with the Black Life Life's criticism of this,
they're trying to make this George Floyd thing out of it,
as if Daniel Penny actually wanted to go after this
insane guy who was threatening to kill people because the

(59:53):
insane guy threatening to kill people was black, And if
weren't for the fact that he was black, then Danielny
wouldn't have lifted a finger.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
What is the complete opposite?

Speaker 9 (01:00:01):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (01:00:01):
Not?

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
Considering who testified a trial, witnesses who say they he
actually saved their lives perhaps or at least came to
the rescue they were scared witless, included many people of color.
And if he was truly a racist and this crazy
guy was gonna kill somebody, maybe he might have kicked

(01:00:24):
back and gotten his popcorn out and just let it unfold. Right,
wouldn't that been more racist to do that? Just a thought,
But I think what we need to recognize it's like
people praising the murderer who gunned down the CEO the
other day, praising him as if he's some sort of hero.

(01:00:45):
This is a bunch of Marxists, and they failed to
appreciate why healthcare is so difficult and impossible. It's because
of government intervention and involvement that has grown exponentially, if
not geometrically, over the past hundred years. You might have
a little little deeper dive in that before you start accusing, Yes,
maybe overpaid but well paid CEOs at giant health insurance companies.

(01:01:08):
How it is that they've gotten so big and have
so much control over medical insurance. It's well because the
government regulations and involvement, mandates and edicts and the like.
We also have a bit of a healthcare problem in
this country as well. Anyhow, just give it some more
thought and remember the loudest, squeakiest wheels do not represent
the majority. Going back to Dan Heninger's piece, we probably

(01:01:30):
have turned to Ben here on the insanity that the
left has brought on this country. If you look at
what has happened, the election of Donald Trump ended of itself.
He talked about the numbers of very, very concentrated dark
blue New York bureaus are at least the word. I'm
struggling for burrows, thank you, Brian, that have substantially shifted over,

(01:01:54):
at least in so far as voting for Trump, the ones,
the prosecutors, the woke prosecutors like Gascone that have been
thrown out of office. I think we've all reached the
end of our rope on this. So just because you
hear it and it sounds insane, because it's repeated over
and over again, I think that's just the insanity being repeated.
It's like, you know, horrific news stories from around the globe.
Those things will land in front of your lap, even

(01:02:15):
though you probably it never would have landed on your
radar pre Internet. Crazy stuffs gets reported and repeated. It
doesn't mean it represents the vast majority of people. It
doesn't even mean it represents even close to a sizeable
chunk of the population. Senator and Paul after the news,
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I love having you on the morning show. My listeners
love you too. Welcome back.

Speaker 7 (01:02:53):
Good morning, Brian, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Pleasure is all mine and my listeners. Let's start at
the border.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
I think one of the reasons Donald Trump won, I
mean and handily won the election is because of the
chaos the Biden administration unleashed on the American public at
large by not shutting down the border or doing something
to control the unmitigated massive flow of humanity screen people
in Democrat cities. The blue Democrat cities are screaming their

(01:03:19):
bloody heads off at town halls and public meetings, yelling
at their Democrat mayors for not doing something about it.
The resources being soaked up, schools are overwhelmed. Are we
going to get some sense back on the border? Can
we shut it down? And can we even unring the
bell of the millions that have already flown into our country.

Speaker 7 (01:03:39):
I think the answer is yes on all fronts. I
think on day one, President Trump will reinstitute probably over
ninety executive orders that Biden removed, so during the first
Trump administration he had over ninety executive orders that did
help shut down the border. We believe that Congress has
given him a great deal of latitude. We've read the

(01:04:01):
immigration law and we think he can go further than
he's gone in the past. We believe that allowing migrants
to come in for political asylum, the entire process is optional,
so we think you don't have to begin the process.
We believe that the president has the power when people
are in the middle of the river or getting out
of the river, simply to put them back on the

(01:04:22):
Mexican side. And that's what I'm going to be advocating.
I'm going to have a hearing on this before the
president has sworn in. It's going to be called Remain
in Mexico, and we will have this hearing, and we're
going to encourage him to interpret our migration laws to
say that if you come in illegally, you're ineligible for
migration or for asylum, and then you don't have to

(01:04:43):
go through this year's long process of appeals. Now, the
people who have already come, I believe they can be
their parole can be revoked. It's sort of like a
criminal proceeding. They're out on parole pending a trial. Well,
the trials happened in four years, and you can never
find him. Nobody enforces it. If Trump comes in and says, well,
two million you know, young adult men came in last

(01:05:07):
year and we're worried whether their criminals were going to
revoke their pearl and immediately have their trials, I think
you could go forward with that. People say there aren't
enough judges. I think every border agent can be deputized
to a judge the case on whether or not someone
is validly in the country, and so no. I think

(01:05:27):
a lot of this can be reversed, and it's just
a matter of willpower. Biden had no willpower. I think
Trump comes in with a mandate on the border, and
I think you will see action.

Speaker 3 (01:05:37):
Well, and I would I would think you would see
corollary action on the part of the Mexican government, who,
if stuck with all of the would would be entrants
into the United States or they're standing in the northern
side of the Mexican border. The Mexican government isn't going
to want to allow that to happen. They're going to
stop them from flowing in through their southern border or
otherwise gaining entry into their country.

Speaker 7 (01:05:56):
We have too, the Mexican government controls only about maybe
seventy five percent of Mexico. The twenty five percent is
really controlled by the cartels. So the Mexicans probably will
try and they could block their southern border for people
coming in that They probably have more ability on their
southern border than their northern.

Speaker 10 (01:06:13):
Border, but yeah, they could.

Speaker 7 (01:06:14):
They could choose to control their borders and otherwise they're
going to be stuck with these people, many of whom
have been released from prisons in Venezuela and Colombia, different places.
So yeah, I think there's all kinds of things now.
One of the rules that Trump had put in place
during his first administration was that you have to if
you want to apply for asylum in our country, you

(01:06:35):
have to do it from a country that is, you know,
the one that is a danger. If you're standing in
a safe country, you can't apply from that country. So basically,
if you're standing in Mexico and they're not the ones
persecuting you, you say it's Venezuela, You've got to apply
from Mexico. You don't get to apply from the US.
You stay in the safe country, because it'd be no

(01:06:56):
reason for you to say you're unsafe in Mexico. And
so many of these asylums. What he was doing with
remain of Mexico is forcing them to stay in Mexico
or in the process, and they got tired of that.
They want to come in here and get as much
free stuff they can get in our country. They don't
want to stay in northern Mexico, so it deters them
after a while and they quit coming.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
And this obviously has become a very popular thing, the
idea of closing the borders, and because our own all
of our resources being taxed. I mean, even the most
liberal individual in this country has a list of things
they want from government and they cannot get it because
all of the additional dollars, to the extent we even
have any, are going to deal with this insane cost

(01:07:41):
of dealing with the migrants that are already here. I mean,
I feel so sorry for children who are trying to
get an education. Sending a class with fifty brand new
children who don't even speak English and requires English as
a second language instruction that's a lot of money.

Speaker 7 (01:07:56):
Well, imagine if you live in a Texas border town
and your wife's pregnant and you're trying to get delivered
at the local hospital and the hospitals overwhelmed with people
coming in from another country. You know, the hospitals really
in these border towns do become overwhelmed and it's difficult
for the people who live there just to get ordinary
either schooling or healthcare.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
Well, I suppose, and the media love through for this
is mass deportation, But when you're talking about focusing at
least first and foremost on the outright adjudicated criminals, there's
very little argument that one can raise an opposition to
doing it that way that's going to get any traction
with the American public.

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
Yeah, I think the public was horrified by what happened
to that wonderful young lady Lake and Riley, And I
think they were horrified to find out that there's supposedly
fifteen thousand people that are wanted for murder or convicted
of murder in our country. Another thirteen thousand they're convicted
or wanted for sexual crimes. I think people are just

(01:08:56):
horrified by that, And it didn't appear that I didn't
did anything. You know, we had thirty five thousand FBI agents,
many of them you know, working on speech censorship. They
can be reassigned from censoring my speech online and maybe
sent them after some of these criminals. So I think
if we had an all points bulletin, all hands on deck,

(01:09:16):
and we went after these, you know, if you were
able to announce that he arrested one thousand wanted criminals
in the first month or two, I think that'll be
a huge success.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
Absolutely, And those resources are better spent of chasing down
dangerous criminals than seventy two year old women who might
have walked into the Capitol building on January six. Anyway,
moving away, what was your response to the Select Committee's
report on COVID. I was just shocked by what they
revealed in that one Senator Ron Paul.

Speaker 7 (01:09:45):
You know, they did a lot of good stuff, and
they Matigulsey went through and interviewed a lot of these people,
including Anthony Fauci, and you know, the conclusion that Anthony
Fauci was dishonest, that he had lied to the committee,
I think is what we expected. I will become a
chairman in January. God willing, and I'm going to use
that power to continue to look for the records because

(01:10:07):
I believe the funding of the lab was approved by
Anthony Fauci, but I also believe that he purposely exempted
the research from the normal safety committee. So in twenty seventeen,
they set up a big committee, a safety committee, to
look at dangerous gain of function research, and yet the
Wuhan research that he funded never went before the committee.

(01:10:28):
And the question is why. He says, well, my scientist
told me it wasn't gain a function. So we've asked,
let's see the deliberation. We'd like to see the argument
you're scientists made. Because this error led to a million
Americans dying in fifteen million people dying around the world,
we want to know which scientists argued what and why
they thought it was safe to do this research instead.

(01:10:49):
None of that has come out. But I've been talking
to all of Trump's appointees. I'm ecstatic about most of them.
You know, Marty McCarey will be at the FDA, he's amazing.
J at Acharia at NIH amazing. I met Dave Weldon,
who will be at the CDC, amazing. Robert Kennedy at
the head of HHS. Amazing. All of these people have

(01:11:11):
pledged not only to me but really in public life
to get to the bottom of this. So instead of
me fighting with bureaucrats and getting nothing and being stonewalled
and having to take them to court, I think we're
going to have a friendly administration and I fully believe
that there must be something there because they've tenaciously fought
to keep these records from me.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
You were elected, along with the rest of the House
and Senate to do oversight. You are performing a function
on behalf of the American people. Those people who are
stonewalling youth Senator Ran Paul and the rest of the
elected officials are supposed to be answerable to you, and
the idea under any circumstances that they would refuse this
information from you when you have formed a select committee

(01:11:54):
to look into it, I find absolutely appalling and inexplicable absent.
As you point out something, the faery is going on
in the background.

Speaker 7 (01:12:05):
So we've sent letters and they're not signed by just me.
Some of them are signed by me, some are signed
by the Democrat chairman with me, some are signed by
five senators, and there's an actual statute that was passed
that said if any five senators, even if they're also
in the same party, sign a letter that by law,
you have to give this information. They've resisted all of these,
so I think it's actually a cause for them to

(01:12:29):
be fired, removed from office, or even prosecuted. Does that
if the Trump administration will go after these people, we're
going to find you know, people on the left say, oh,
the deep state, you're making it up. What is the
deep state? Well, the deep state are people who have
their own political agenda and they resist the will of
the people who they're elected officials. That's the deep state,

(01:12:50):
and they need to be fired. They need to be
sent packing. And boy, I am very hopeful.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
I am too, And I love hearing these words out
of your mouth because you know that fuels conspiracy theories.
I mean, every time this concept comes up, someone usually
emails me or sends me a message or otherwise communicates
with me saying, well, the reason they don't anybody know
about this is because this was all about global population control.
They wanted a lot of people to die. And I'm
thinking of myself, you know, really, is that really part

(01:13:19):
of someone's agenda? Well, I don't know, they won't let
us know. They have never explained to us what the
point was of doing gain of function research along these
lines was in the first place.

Speaker 7 (01:13:30):
And that is a real rub, and there is a
real debate to be had there, you know. Anthony Valci's
conclusion was that even if an accident should occur, the
knowledge gained would be worth the risk. And yet many
other scientists, credentialed scientist with you know, twenty years in
academia and a couple hundred peer reviewed papers, say that
they don't see any useful knowledge that's been gained. It's

(01:13:53):
it's sort of a misplaced curiosity. It's like, hey, guys,
e bowl is really deadly. It's a fifty percent deadly virus.
Why don't we mutate it and see if we can
get it spread through the air to mammals?

Speaker 5 (01:14:05):
I know.

Speaker 7 (01:14:05):
And it's like, well, that's that's a sort of a
morbid teenage curiosity that some adults should look and say, well, gosh,
what if it escaped the lab and killed everybody? You know,
might be a good idea. And yet that's the kind
of thing that Anthony Vaalci approved because he had a
very naive understanding of the dangers of this research, and

(01:14:26):
there are many people believe this is going to happen again,
and so you know, I'm going to do everything I can.
I have a bill to set up a presidential commission
to oversee this research such that if it's dangerous, this
commission we would have the ability to stop it. So
I'm going to try to get that passed. We're right,
we're trying to get it passed this year. If we don't,

(01:14:46):
we'll try to get it and get the help of
President Trump next year set.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
A rampa on it. We're really out of time.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
I know you've got to get back to your job,
but I have to ask you quickly because I have
been excited about the concept. Maybe not that it's going
to have some really wonderful success along the lines that
was originally outlined, but this DOGE independent non government office
that's going to look in and start paring down, get
riding of fraud, waste and abuse, saving the taxpayers some money.

(01:15:12):
Are you optimistic along any lines that Ramaswamy and Musk
and whoever else joins this can accomplish something.

Speaker 7 (01:15:20):
Well, Novavek Ramaswami well and communicating with him, we've advanced
him two thousand pages the waste. You know, each year
I collect waste about this time and do my Festivus
report on my grievances with government with waste. But it's
systematically done and we have ten years worth of it.
We've sent that to them.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
They have that on file.

Speaker 7 (01:15:40):
We've told them we'll assist them in any way if
nothing else. They draw great public attention to it, and
the public is, you know, outraged at this. I mean,
all I have to do is go into the you know,
talk to the people in the mountains of North Carolina
to say, you know what, there's plenty of money going
over there to help victims in Ukraine, and not that
it seem doesn't seem to be a penny to help you.

(01:16:01):
And people get that, and their politicians in North Carolina,
many of them are the ones promoting sending the money
to Ukraine. And so I think people are mad, and
I think people are smarter than you give them credit for. Ye,
So I think something's going to happen.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Shrimp on treadmill research, Senator Paul, that speaks volumes outrageous.
Senator M Paul, keep it the great work. We all
have your back I'll look forward to talking with you again.
I'm sure we won't talk for the end of the year,
So Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Festivus For the
rest of us, We'll look forward to the Festivus Report
as we do every year. God bless you, sir, and
thanks for spending time with us today.

Speaker 7 (01:16:37):
Same to you, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
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we do have the return to Donovan and Neo for
Americans for Prospery to talk about Ohio House Schools seventy nine.
But first, Donovan, hold on one moment because it's a
very important day for the fifty five KRC Morning show
listeners and most notably the West Side of Cincinnati residence

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because it is west Side Jim Keefer's birthday. So happy birthday, Jim,
and everybody in town knows. Jim, Donovan O'Neill, welcome back
to the morning show for Americans for Prosperity. It's great
to have you on today.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
It's great to be on here, especially on such a
momentous day it is.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
I listen, you're in rarefied air, so especially on the
heels of Senator Rand Paul, So this is a power
hour right now. Anyway, what the hell is Houspital seventy nine.

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
I read.

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
Hannah Cubbins letter to the various chairs and folks up
in elected capacity in Columbus Legislative director for Americans for
Prospery Ohio Chapter did a wonderful job breaking down all
of the reasons. It sounds like it's a terrible thing.
But what is the general concept of HB seventy nine.
What's it supposed to do that the Republicans that control

(01:18:47):
Columbus would actually put this thing forward?

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
Donovan?

Speaker 12 (01:18:52):
Yeah, well, so a heart at the heart of it.
What the bill sponsors are seeking to do is an
act energy efficiency programs here in the state of Ohio.
And the purpose for that, and it's a noble purpose, right,
as the bill sponsors would say, It's to bend down
the cost curve the demand curve of energy here in

(01:19:14):
the state of Ohio.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
Yeah, that's why I do commercials for USA installation, right,
you know, guaranteed savings. You buy the insulation, it pays
for itself. It makes your house more comfortable, lowers your
heating bills. That's a voluntary thing. I mean, my life,
and I paid for it for my daughter and her
boyfriend now fiance's house.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
It's the right thing to do. So I don't need
to be told that.

Speaker 12 (01:19:33):
Absolutely, absolutely, well, And that's about where our agreement on
the idea ends with the bill sponsors those in support
of this legislation, because what this does is it goes
a step further and a step too far in our opinion,
and that it is a program that once folks are
in it, they're locked in it for up to five years.

(01:19:54):
They are required to pay a monthly fee. And then
even the folks who opt out of it, both in
and out of it, there's a mechanism called lost distribution
revenue that would be a fee that the innergy utility
companies can go back to the state of Ohio and say, hey,
we're not because everybody's insulated their homes and the smart

(01:20:15):
therm stacks are, you know, working as intended, we're not
making as much money anymore, and we need to recoup
that lost revenue, and so we can add a surcharge
to folks bills to bring that money back in for us.
And so at the end of the day, it's an
anti consumer bill that doesn't do a lot to really
help folks who are feeling the pain of high energy

(01:20:37):
bills these days. Okay, okay, see that just that sounds
like like you made it up.

Speaker 13 (01:20:44):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
I mean, I'm not accusing you of lying donal.

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
In the Americans for prosperity, but you know you want us,
all of you, more energy efficion. And if we chose
to do it on our own, if there was no
house built seventy nine and all the Ohioans said, you
know what, I'm gonna get USA phone. We're not gonna
do this, I'm gonna get triple pay windows or whatever,
the amount of energy that would be used would necessarily
go down, and the fees and the money flowing into

(01:21:08):
the energy companies by consumer choice would necessarily go down,
and they could not do anything about those lost revenues
because we all acted in our own best interest.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
So screw you guys, basically.

Speaker 12 (01:21:21):
Right, Yeah, well, and that's what we would argue, right
is you need to We want to see policies and
acted right that are anti consumer right, that don't create
an uneven playing field, but allow folks to operate in
a free marketing for too long. Here in the state
of Ohio, you just go back, you know, Hospital six
being the most egregious example of this. In recent history,

(01:21:42):
we've not been doing free market when it comes to energy.
We've had to kind of trap folks into these programs.

Speaker 13 (01:21:51):
We have to.

Speaker 12 (01:21:51):
And it's what the supporters of the bill, one of
the proponents of the bill had said, because it was
brought up, a question was asked in committee last year,
what if you just made the pro entirely voluntary and
didn't have anybody, if people could opt in rather than
have to opt out of the program. And the proponent
of the legislation said, if we did that, the program
would work by nature of it. What he means, Brian, right,

(01:22:14):
is they have to have a lot of people enroll
in the enrolled in the program for order to make
it work.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
Psychobamacare work Psychobamacare. And I don't like them not unlike that. No, well,
let's pause.

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
I have more questions, and I'm sure my listeners have
now got their curiosity piqued about this insanity.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
Let's pause.

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
We'll bring Donald and Neil from Americans for Prosperity back
after I mentioned the wonderful fifty five Krcity talk station.
The more I stare at the notes. The more questions
I have on HB seventy nine, which Donovan and Neil
for Americans for Prosperities on the phone talking about you
can find them online in Americans for Prosperity dot or
we're talking Ohio chapter here, and this is a house
Ohio house built seventy nine. So the the broader theory

(01:22:57):
behind this that this house bill is going to somehow
in urage us to save money or magically save us
money on our energy bill. Because I'm not following. We
have to opt out, make an affirmative opt out. It's
not you're automatically in it unless you specifically respond to
some like postcard or something you're gonna get for your

(01:23:18):
utility company to opt out. So I'm kind of curious
to know what opting out means. But if I stay
in it, I see that I'm gonna have to pay
for this lost distribution revenue that's gonna be brought about
because people are saving money on their energy bills, which
again is baffling to me. Large companies apparently are exempt.
They can opt in, but they're not automatically included. They're

(01:23:41):
the ones that use up the most energy anyway, So
I mean, and it goes on from there. It's also
an anti privacy thing because we have these smart thermo
sets and they're allowed to spy on us through them.

Speaker 4 (01:23:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:23:55):
Well so the you know, again, the proponents sponsors bill
can make you.

Speaker 5 (01:23:59):
Know, certainly, I'm sure we've done money show and they
can make.

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
Their own case for this.

Speaker 12 (01:24:02):
But the again, the ideas behind a lot of this
makes sense, right, Like, we want folks you know who
want to do this, to be able to have smart thermostats,
and we want energy efficiency. We want folks to be
you know, good stewards of the resources that you know,
if you're a Christian like I am right that that
God has given us right. But what we don't want

(01:24:23):
to be doing is coercing people into these things.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
Right, Let's cut the chase. Let's cut the chase.

Speaker 3 (01:24:29):
How does House Bill seventy nine for someone who doesn't
opt out save them money?

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
It doesn't.

Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
It doesn't do a dang thing to save them money. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:24:40):
Well, that's that's a big part of our opposition to it.

Speaker 12 (01:24:43):
Is it's is it's uh, this is a program we
had in the state of Ohio a while back, and
Democrats when they were running the state Ted Strickland arm
and Buddhishuh, they had this same program in place. This
is a watered down version of that program, to be sure,
but it's a similar concept and we a lot of
folks advocated to remove. But I remember you would get

(01:25:05):
those boxes in the mail from your utility company with
you know, energy efficient light bulbs and other little trinkets.
And uh, you know, nobody asked for that stuff. They
were paying, they were forced to pay for it. Nobody
asked for it. It went in the junk tour for
a lot of folks, or worse yet, the trash can
and never really helped accomplish the aims of the of

(01:25:25):
the of the program and it's it's mandates right.

Speaker 3 (01:25:28):
But since then LED, I'm a fan of the modern
LED light bulbs. Not only do they save me money,
they stay looked like the old school incandescent bulbs, they're
you know, smaller, they last longer so and they're widely
available and now affordable, unlike the compact fluorescent bulbs which
they shoved down our throats, which did a miserable job
and also caused the problem with you disposed of them

(01:25:49):
because of what was inside of them. See the world
has become a more efficient place and a more affordably
efficient place. So all of these things well within the
reach of the average person. And nine times out of
ten you get the hardware stored to buy a light
bulb because you'rs burned out, you're probably gonna get it
up in led bulb anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
So we'd moved way past that.

Speaker 12 (01:26:08):
Yeah, yeah, we we've moved way past it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
And that's you know, we we should you know what
we would say.

Speaker 12 (01:26:12):
What we said too, is you know, if you're you know,
if the utility company go market these programs, right, you
can have you could have these programs today if you
wanted to. Yeah, you can go on and create these
energy efficiency programs, elevate this, do the public information campaigns.
If this is so good, And it's going to say,
folks money and rational consumers. Right, most Ohioans are going
to make a rational decision that's best for their pocketbook

(01:26:34):
if they are within the means to do so.

Speaker 10 (01:26:37):
And that's what we need to be doing.

Speaker 12 (01:26:39):
Creating that environment, setting that setting that table for folks
to be able to do that, not locking them in,
forcing them into a program, and uh, collecting the money
from them even if they're outside of the program.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
Well, and for those that don't have the means, they're
going to keep paying a dollar fifty up to seven
dollars and fifty cents to pay for lost distribution revenue
to the energy companies.

Speaker 12 (01:27:02):
Well, so that's just the fee to be in the program.
If you fail to opt out in the small window,
you have to opt out. That's which you would pay
that just for the privilege of being part of the program,
just to access the website.

Speaker 10 (01:27:14):
Brian.

Speaker 12 (01:27:15):
Beyond that, though, is the lost distribution revenue among a
number of other mechanisms that would then also at some
future date potentially be tacked onto your bill, should the
Public Utilities Commission in the state of Ohio and utility
companies determine that's necessary.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
All right, So where is this in process?

Speaker 3 (01:27:31):
Can my listeners call and raise three forms of Holy
hell with their elected officials in Columbus and do something
about this?

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
Or are we gone too far? Where are we? Donovan?

Speaker 12 (01:27:40):
It's in the Senate right now. It's had three hearings
in the Senate Energy Committee. Chairman Bill rhini Key is
the chair of that committee. You can look up the
Senate Energy Committee online here in Ohio. Contact the members
of that committee and let them know you oppose how
still seventy nine. It's a we're that critical lane duck

(01:28:01):
window where anything can happen, bills move and horse trading
the curves. We want to make sure this isn't something
that's on the table when the folks are doing the
marathon session next week for lame doc.

Speaker 7 (01:28:15):
Jeez.

Speaker 3 (01:28:16):
There's so much built with our energy bills going through
the roof, Donovan, and that's because of stupid policies related
to energy generation. We could go on for hours on that.
So there's every incentive in the world for us to
want to lower our energy bills. We do not need
some mandate or edict from government that's gonna end up
having us pay again. This lost distribution mechanism is insanity

(01:28:37):
to me. We can make these choices ourselves. Just go
ahead and do it, save yourself some money, make the
right choices, and we can move on with our lives.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
God bless you, Donovan and Neil.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
Americans for Prosperity Again online, Americans for Prosperity dot or
check them out. Donovan, You're always welcome on the program,
and I don't know whether you and I be talking
before the Christmas break, but I wish you and your
loved ones and everydy Americans for prosperity that happen is
to holidays, Merry Christmas and Festivus or whatever you want
to celebrate in a happy new year in front of it.
And I know you and I'll be talking regularly throughout
calendar year twenty twenty five at least, I hope so.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
I love it.

Speaker 12 (01:29:10):
Brian, Hey, Happy Christmas, Merry Christmas and happy Holidays.

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
See you well, Thanks brother. We'll talk for five krce
the talk station and talk right now QC Kinetics.

Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
Seven fifty three in fifty five KR see the talk stage.
Hope you're having a very very happy Friday.

Speaker 5 (01:29:32):
EVE.

Speaker 3 (01:29:32):
iHeart Meatia Aviation or Jay Ratliff of course coming up
an eight thirty. Always enjoy talking with Jay, and I
hope you enjoy hearing from good friend and a U.
It can be comical at times, which I enjoy. Lighthearted.
Way to move on into a Friday. Early in the program,
Senator Ram Paul, if you weren't around a seven o
five to hear him, we talked about the border, which
I'm starting to feel optimistic about the COVID report, and

(01:29:54):
you know Senator ram Paul is going to be all
over that moving forward during the Trump administration, and he
pretty much revealed that and a comment or two about
Doge with VVA Gramma Swammy already apparently has in hand
a huge list of ways and areas to cut government.
Because if you're familiar to Senator ram Paul, he does
release his annual Festivus Report, which is just some of

(01:30:17):
the more outlandish ways in which our government spends your
taxpayer dollars. I mean outlandish ways, especially like continuing to
send billions of dollars over to Afghanistan and the Taliban.
Does that make any sense anybody considering the struggles that
many Americans are having here. But anyhow, you can get
that podcast if you have Caresey dot com, as well

(01:30:37):
as the podcast from yesterday. Another great show yesterday with
Congressman Thomas Massey and Judge of Polton of course, among others.
And coming up off the top of the our News,
my conspiracy theorist or pattern observers are going to really
going to be enjoy hearing from the author of Burned
Back Better Laheena the perf Storm or Perfect Crime, has

(01:31:02):
written a follow up book this was the fire in Hawaii.
It's called Sound the Alarm, the Malley disaster that sparked
a global awakening, and there is some frightening, frightening stuff
in this Apparently it shows us why Lahyena Burne, who

(01:31:22):
and what was responsible for the strike at the fire,
the complete Roadmacawaians have to take to save themselves from
being rounded up into carbon neutral prison camps before it's
too late. That's a quote, So stick around. I'm looking
forward to him and Stephanie Brugia on the phone after
the top of the iron dads that we.

Speaker 9 (01:31:41):
Can stay understand the ignorance on the campuses, talk about it.

Speaker 13 (01:31:46):
They're just getting away with all this rather than know
in fact.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
Fifty five KRC.

Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
Eight O five coming to eighty six here if you
five KRC detalk station. By the time I was switching
everyone very happy Thursday slash Friday Eve and looking forward
to Jay rattl if I heard me the aviation excerpert
at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
And I know Maureen is listening right now.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
She already bought a copy of the book Sound the Alarm,
the Maui disaster that sparked global awakening be the Lahaina
fires in Hawaii. Sadly, right now John is not capable
of getting in touch with Stephanie Perucci, who is one
of the authors of the book, so struggling to do that.
He may come through on that one. I'm hoping he does,

(01:32:29):
but a lot of conspiracy theories floating around on this
and suggests that it is one of a connected series
of fires with the broader problem of globalists doing land
grabs and taking private property away from us, which I
know is a global agenda. Evil private property were flies

(01:32:51):
in the face of their Marxist ideology. So anyhow, I
apologize for those who were patiently waiting for her to
join the program. But perhaps at some other time we'll
be able to get in touch with our So let's
just move on and I can pivot away to the
article I wanted to read from earlier, the op ed
piece and dan Ninger, because it provides some optimism, and

(01:33:14):
so we said we really do need some and some
of the conversation hey with Senator Ram Paul reminded me
of this. So this is a good opportunity to dive
back on into it. Hope that hopeful Daniel Penny verdict
You're right through with hours of this week, New Yorker's
were rocked by two news alerts. First the announcement that
Manhattan and Jerry had acquitted Daniel Penny, a criminal negligent

(01:33:37):
homicide in the subway death of Jordan Neely. Hours later
came the news that cops in Altoona, Pennsylvania, had captured
Luigi Mangioni, who last week allegedly gunned down United Healthcare
CEO Brian Thompson in front of the Hilton on Sixth Avenue.
Fast forward a bit in the op ed the week
before Thanksgiving, a man in Lower Manhattan was caught on

(01:33:59):
video holding a long knife in his sweatshirt. He then
fatally stabbed a construction worker on West nineteenth Street. He
ran across town, stabbed a man fishing by the East River,
killing him, and he ran up First Avenue and stabbed
a woman sitting on a bench. She later died. Caught nearby.

(01:34:19):
Finally caught the alleged stabber, Ramon Rivera, a well known
mad man who had been arrested and released numerous times,
as had Jordan Neely. Jordan Neely had a rest record
a mile and a half long. For about twenty years
from the mid nineteen nineties, when Rudy Giuliani was mayor

(01:34:41):
through Mike Bloomberg's Maryll terms, New York City was almost
totally safe. You could walk anywhere, ride the subway anytime
without fear. After the pandemic, one reason Manhattan restaurants ended
late seatings that their workers didn't want to ride the
subway home to the outer Burrows in the wee hours.
In March, Governor Kathy Hockel deployed the National Guard and

(01:35:04):
State Police to the subway system. Just after Donald Trump
won the twenty twenty four presidential election, the City University
of New York Graduate Center produced a fascinating map of
the city's voting district showing the percentage of mister Trump's
gain in vote share from twenty twenty It was generally

(01:35:24):
between seven percent and twenty five percent. The Trump gains
in Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn are striking as his
movement to the right. In many Manhattan precincts, it was
a vote against the status quo. After Manhattan District Attorney
Alvin Bragg decided to indict mister Penny for Neelie's death.

(01:35:47):
The public reaction bifurcated along familiar lines, with conservative groups
adopting mister Penny's cause. Some three million dollars was raised
online for his defense, and left wing activists like Al
Sharpton and Black Black Lives Matter demonstrating outside the courthouse
for his conviction. The trial itself turned out to be

(01:36:07):
more complicated than our politics. The defense made clear that
many passengers in the subway car were terrified by Neely's
verbal threat to kill someone, and grateful that mister Penny
intervened his lawyer's established reasonable doubt about the cause of
Neelie's death. If this trial had occurred soon after the

(01:36:29):
two twenty twenty George Floyd killing of Minneapolis, mister Penny
almost certainly would be imprisoned. Instead, a Manhattan jury reached
no verdict on manslaughter and acquitted him of a lesser charge.

Speaker 2 (01:36:42):
My reading, damn Inger, New.

Speaker 3 (01:36:45):
York City's residents are basically okay with the result, since
the alternative would have been to confirm mister Bragg's determination
to imprison mister Pennedy for preventing yet another act of random,
often fatal violence. A verdict is a clear dissent from
the progressive criminal justice theories of mister Bragg and his
local allies. Meanwhile, other side of the country, voters in

(01:37:10):
Los Angeles County last month voted overwhelming to oust progressive
prosecutor George Gascone. California voters also approved a significant anti
crime initiative. In September, Oregon's legislature reversed the state's experiment
and drug decriminalization. The shorthand version of these events is
that voters are quote unquote moving right, perhaps more precisely,

(01:37:37):
the repudiating public policies and governing models that don't work.
Now pause on that one, because I mentioned something along
those lines. Multitude oft times tough on crime, protecting neighborhoods,
having a strong police force that doesn't bear political stripe.
Everybody wants a safe neighborhood. It's these evil leftists and

(01:38:00):
Marxist who want to paint a broad brush on entire organizations,
so you just don't believe in them anymore. Because one
guy turns out to be racist. The entire system is
inherently corrupt because we have the original sin of slavery
in this country, yet have overcome it with constitutional amendments

(01:38:20):
and laws and prohibited and discrimination is you know we
live in fairly decent racial harmony, but that it once existed,
that the whole country is irredeemable and ergo must be
undermined and thrown out. These are Marxist theories, folks. Anyway, Sorry,
getting back to jer A question for the future is
whether these same voters, especially in blue jurisdictions, will revive

(01:38:42):
policies that do work. My nominee bring back broken windows theory.
The left hate broken windows. The idea originated by the
late criminologists George Kelling and Jason Q.

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
Wilson.

Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
It argued that if you don't address small infractions, they
will grow until, in effect, you lose the neighborhood to
rampant disorder. It was pursued during the nineteen or during
New York's twenty years of around the clock safety by
police Commissioner Bill Bratton and Ray Kelly. Our hopes the
new New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tish finds a

(01:39:16):
way to move in that direction. Maybe a Cincinnati might
learn a lesson or two from that. Take care of
the roads in the infrastructure. Sorry, after the Penny acquittal
agreement emerged that the system failed Jordan Neely. That would
be the so called mental health system, which also failed
a triple stabber and so many other personally incompetent homeless people.

(01:39:42):
That isn't a slight against them, and it's just a
simple recognition that the homeless quite often have very very
very significant cognitive problems to make them think it's okay
because of psychosis or some psychotic epicoda, because they got
some massive drug problem, and it's all right to run
around a randomly stab people personally incompetent homeless people. Starting

(01:40:06):
in the nineteen seventies, the deinstitutionalization movement closed public mental
health facilities on the promise of providing prescribed medications in
community settings. That promise went unfulfilled. The abandonment to the
streets of the mentally ill maybe America's longest running catastrophically
failed public policy. It created the Penny Nearly encounter and

(01:40:29):
countless other human tragedies. This is the season of hope,
so there is no harm in hoping that Daniel Penny's
jury verdict is the start of a big needed social correction. Well, Dan,
I think you're right. I think it may be perhaps
one more step toward that. Given the points that you

(01:40:52):
make in the article about what happened on the West
Coast before this incident even occurred or during the pendency
of it, I might point out, but they're screaming in
Chicago at the mayor over the runaway border, open border policies.
Talked about that with Senator Rand Paul. They're screaming at
the mayor in New York over the open border policies

(01:41:12):
and the resources that the unmitigated flow of illegal immigrants
into various neighborhoods, along with the criminal behavior they bring
and the money they so from local government budgets which
they're all clamoring for a slice of.

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
This trade.

Speaker 3 (01:41:28):
The Aragua gang now in I described as one of
America's remote states. It has spread into multiple states. Local
authorities in West Fargo, North Dakota, of all places, a
city of forty thousand people, arrested a suspected suspected gang
member from this trend de Aragua a gang. How in

(01:41:51):
the hell did a Mexican gang member end up in
West Fargo, North Dakota, I asked rhetorically, how is it up?
Did they took over multiple hotel buildings. They're now in
seventeen states. How did that happen? Well, look at how

(01:42:12):
it happened. I think everybody knows how it happened. And
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get a slice of that action. Arlene, Welcome to the program.
Thank you so much for holding over the Brake Hi Brian.

Speaker 13 (01:43:06):
I woke up to hear part of the comments about
Ohio house built seventy nine and how it will raise
utility bills. I do not know a lot about that bill,
but I do know there are other ways that Duke
Energy is raising the cost of homeowners on their electric

(01:43:28):
They have basically told everyone they have to use a
smart meter, and if you don't opt out, that smart
meter is raising your utility bill in several ways. First off,
smart meter is not as accurate as an analog meter,
and so you're not getting one for one computation of

(01:43:51):
the amount of energy you're using. Secondly, you're charged in
fifteen minute segments at your highest rate. For those fifteen minutes,
you're charged for the entire fifteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
Oh, I did not know that.

Speaker 7 (01:44:09):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:44:09):
That reminds me of a quarter hour billing. Back when
I was practicing law as a young lawyer, if you
did two minutes worth of work on a file, the
client got built for a full quarter hour, and that
was the arrangement that you just had. Those days are
long gone for the vast majority of lawyers out there
because people will not abide. But that seems unconscionable, but
it seems like it would be actionable in terms of

(01:44:30):
legally actionable if they're charging you wrong. In other words,
if I go to the gas station and I get
a gallon of gas and they only give me three
quarters of a gallon, I'm being ripped off.

Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
That is theft. So to the extent that a smart
meter is not accurately calculating the energy and perhaps adding
on additional charges that I did not use, that sounds
like a cause of action from my lawyer perspective.

Speaker 5 (01:44:54):
Lens.

Speaker 13 (01:44:56):
Yes, you had an expert speak about this sometime ago,
and it's my foggy memory. I'm not one hundred percent
sure of his name, but he is with Southwest Ohioans
for Responsible Technology and he was on your program for
a longer stagnant, So that's where I got that information.

Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
Yeah, I vaguely remember that. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:45:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:45:19):
Also, because the smart meters have to replace be replaced
more often because it's basically a computer with computer parts
that raises your bill and it can cause surges to
the homeowner as well as fires. So he went on
and mentioned a two more things, but that's what I

(01:45:40):
remember right now. Well, in general, we all have to
be more familiar with what our utility builts are being
added up and how they're charging us.

Speaker 3 (01:45:51):
Yeah, well, I guess simply after talking to Donald and
the O for Americans for Prosperity about Houseville Sonia, and
first I would encourage all my listeners to tell your
elected officials and call Columbus to stick it where the
sun doesn't shine. And if it does pass, you are
trapped in the programmed up to five years. If you
do not opt out, you are automatically enrolled in this program.

(01:46:13):
So you're gonna get apparently one or two postcards mailed
from the utility company allowing you to opt out, fill
it out, and opt out. That well, you're not stuck
with this nonsense. And the other component of the smart meters,
I guess since they're quote unquote smart. I'm immediately thinking
of Dave Hatter, and yes he will be on tomorrow
morning for Tech Friday. I immediately think of Dave Hatter,
and that seems me yet another opportunity for hackers. So

(01:46:35):
I like the analog meters of old, Sadly they are
going the way of the Dodo. Arleen, thank you for
the call this morning. I truly appreciate it. Hey, thirty
two fifty on care CD talk station Thursday is mean
it's time for iHeartMedia Aviation expert Jay Ratliffe also does
a really good job trading stocks during the day. You
can find them online, check them out and learn more

(01:46:56):
about it at daytrade fund dot com. It's Jay Ratliffe.
Welcome back, my friend, and I saw your follow up
email said you had an interesting Charles Schwab stories, so
why not start there.

Speaker 2 (01:47:06):
Good to hear from you, my friend.

Speaker 9 (01:47:07):
Well, it's always good to be here, Brian. You know,
I'm always warning people, because I've been watching the stock
market since ninety two ninety three, to really be careful
playing follow the leader, and I was really reminded of
that this morning. Charles Schwab recently added chairs of Caros Therapeutics.
They bought like thirty two thousand more shares, meaning they
then had a total of two hundred and sixty thousand

(01:47:28):
shares of this company, and a lot of the other
institutional investors kind of followed suit because look, it's Charles Swab.
If they're doing it, I should be doing it. And
a lot of individual investors I'm sure followed suit well.
Obviously this is an obvious set up here because this
morning that stock is down seventy five percent. Oh my god,

(01:47:49):
it is now. They had the news on the adverse
drug news and as a result that the stock is
down and I lost count on how much two hundred
and sixty thousand chairs at you know, fifty bucks down
a share would be. But it's a lot there. But
Brian is just a reminder, and we talk about it
all the time, just be very careful. So many people
play follow the leader where they'll see somebody like a

(01:48:10):
Charles Schwab or a Warren Buffett or somebody else do something,
and instead of really guarding their portfolio and protecting it,
they play follow the leader, and far too many times,
instead of diversifying as they should, because it's a Charles
Schwab or whoever, they will jump in and grab these
shares and because look at Charles Wabb they know what

(01:48:31):
they're doing. And the next thing you know, you put
in most if not all, of your portfolio on a
single stock and bam, you're down big. So please, I'm
just urging everybody please be careful, and that's I appreciate
you letting me again remind our listeners of that, because
I don't care if I train them on how to
trade stocks or not. I just want them to be
careful when you're talking about playing follow the Leader.

Speaker 3 (01:48:53):
Oh, very important. I imagine you were not invested with
it dropped.

Speaker 9 (01:48:59):
Actually know I'm up nine hundred and sixty nine dollars
as we talk. I've yet to sell because you wait
for those drops when you're in our group. But Brian,
my heart goes out to everybody that just blindly plays
follow the Leader, and it just I understand why everybody's
looking for a get rich quick kind of thing. But
you just gotta be careful when you when you're following

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the Warren Buffets and others, because just because you have
a lot of money doesn't make you mean you make
a lot of really good decisions.

Speaker 3 (01:49:27):
Slow and steady wins the race, and don't have every time.
Don't don't hang around too long, say it daytrade fun
dot com, stig around. We're gonna hear about me. Aviation
issues coming up, maybe a comment or two. I'm gonna
hit you with a comment or two about drones flying
around us. Yeah, it's a thirty five right now. If
you have care see the talk station, be.

Speaker 2 (01:49:45):
Right back before it ever see a ground man mage.
You like movies about gladiators.

Speaker 3 (01:49:51):
I heart media as next Birk Jay Ratliffe always give
us an opportunity to go back to the airplane and
a couple of soundbites.

Speaker 9 (01:49:58):
Love that movie, Well, you need to watch it with
a younger person that's maybe in their twenties, that are
politically correct, and just watch their face as you go
through that movie. They could say things like that, Yeah,
when we used to have a sense of humor, you could.

Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
That is so true. Heyhow Jay I had to ask.

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
I started out the program this morning because all these
reports about the drones flat around New Jersey. They've been
having it now for the last month or so. Big
as an RV, they're a giant. There's multiple of them
at the same time. They're all found the same course
and path. They're flying around military bases or not. And
yet nobody in an elected capacity known in an official capacity, FBI, CIA,
intelligence officials, elected officials. We don't have any idea. We

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just know that there's no concern here. Like what somebody
had to nerve something and it made fun of them,
said that there was a giant Iranian like mother ship
somewhere off the coast that had these things packed on board.
As soon as I read them, like, oh Lord almighty,
you actually said that out loud, and you know, well,
I guess my short question is, why the hell hasn't

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someone just shot one down? They really can't figure out
what they are, where they came from. Shoot one out
of the sky. Let's find out.

Speaker 9 (01:51:08):
Well, I'll tell you what. If you do, you'll find
out the first people that show up who belongs to right. Yeah,
so I'm in total agreement. But this idea that there's
nothing to see here. And then you've got the meeting
that took place I think yesterday or the day before,
where the Governor of New Jersey doesn't bother to show
up for the briefing. There's just so many questions, which

(01:51:29):
makes me think somebody knows something. But to see thirty
forty fifty of these sightings where people are seeing them videotaping,
I'm recording them and notifying authorities and being told, hey,
we don't know what they are, but be there is
no concern. I mean, how can you say one without

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saying the other? I mean, there's no way you can
see we have no idea, who who they are, where
they come from. But don't worry, there's no security threat.
And of course we're all screaming. You can't say one
without the other, so it just baffles your mind. It
reminds me of the balloon that flew across the where
people were just kind of like la la la la la. Well,

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I mean, I'm sorry, I have to think that a
Ronald Reagan, that Donald Trump, if they were absolutely clueless
on who these belonged to, this would have been a
one and done type of thing and we would have
found out real quick what was going on, because look,
we deserve answers. And if I'm in New Jersey, you
better believe I'm concerned because I want to know what

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the heck's going on. A size of an SUV drone
flying over, Yeah, that's a concern.

Speaker 5 (01:52:35):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
That is not your everyday hobbyist type of drone, especially
when there are multiple of them. And I read somewhere
this morning. I thought it was rather comical the story itself,
but that it's illegal to shoot drones down. I guess
in New Jersey I would.

Speaker 9 (01:52:52):
I don't know the law. It is in the law
because you know, if somebody should look when the Amazon
deliveries begin and all this stuff happens in earnest with drones,
you will not be able to walk outside without hearing
the annoying sound that those things flying everywhere. And you
also are going to have these unmanned drones that are

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going to be uber taxis that seat two or four people,
that lands in your driveway, You jump in and it
takes you to wherever. So this is the norm and
very soon will be. And when you look at the
people going to the Federal Aviation Ministration asking them for answers,
because look, they're the ones that are supposed to manage
the airspace, control the air act know who is where

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and when they don't have an answer of what's going on,
or at least reportedly, so that's when my concern level
goes up quite a bit, because if we really don't
know what's going on, what if one of these suz
CV size the drones comes flying around the air commercial
airport when you've got arriving and departing commercial traffic, and
they might be in close proximity to a commercial play,

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then would we be concerned enough to do something? I
would like to think so.

Speaker 3 (01:53:59):
I would like to think so too. But you know, Jay,
there is a law in the books that says you
can't fly a drone around an airport, and oh my gosh,
it's also illegal apparently in New Jersey to fly these
drones at night, and oh look what's happening. Sometimes there
are laws in the books and people just choose to
ignore them.

Speaker 9 (01:54:12):
Jay, Well, you know, I'm not suggesting anybody would have
a beer and shoot at one just see if they
get in it imaging. You know, we would never do that.

Speaker 2 (01:54:21):
No, no, I no, that would never happen.

Speaker 9 (01:54:23):
I always want you to follow the law. But inn't
there also a law not to fly those bad boys
near military bases?

Speaker 2 (01:54:28):
I would think so, right.

Speaker 3 (01:54:30):
And don't you think with a trillion dollar just past
military budget out of the house, almost a trillion, that
there might be some and in some prior defense authorization
spending money or resources to create drone dropping hardware or
some way of knocking them out of the sky. I
gotta imagine we already have that technology. Why not utilize it?

Speaker 5 (01:54:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:54:51):
We'll just have to wait for the next Saturday Night
Lives get to figure it all out together.

Speaker 3 (01:54:55):
I guess so moving over to what could be a
Saturday Night Lights get ongoing Boeing. It's sixty minutes piece
highlighting Boeing anything that we found out about it that
they revealed that we didn't already know.

Speaker 9 (01:55:08):
Now, Brian, they have apparently been listening to us through
this year, because you and I were talking about at
the beginning of this year. Boeing in the last week
of December sent out a memo saying, some of the
nuts and bolts on the rudder control system are missing
or they're undertru hardware, meaning they're loose, so you might
have your mechanics keep an eye on that. And again,
rudder control that's how the pilots keep the plane in

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the sky and have control of the airplane. That's when
we knew that what's going on, because Boeing said after
the Bowing Max crashes that you know they were going
to be more attentive than ever. And then of course
we had two weeks later the door plug blow off.
That last airline slider fall off would be a better word,
since it wasn't secured. And the point is that in
that documentary there was not anything that was really new,

(01:55:52):
but for a lot of people that had not been
paying attention when they saw that sixty minutes piece on Sunday,
where many of these whistles blowers had come forward saying, look,
the supply chain is so slow that many times when
we run out of parts, it shuts everything down. And
since that is a situation for Boeing management that in

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the past had been unacceptable, they would send us as employees,
according to the whistleblowers, to the scrap bend, to pick
out the best failed part, which is marked in red
with red paint. Clean off that red paint, bring it back,
slap it on the airplane so that the production schedule
could continue. Now this isn't one or two whistleblowers, which

(01:56:34):
I'm about dozens that have come forward with these complaints
saying you can't have failed parts on aircraft. We're not
talking about rebuilding my computer or my Chevy Silverado, or
we're talking about an aircraft that is used that in
essence could be a safety issue for thousands and thousands
of people. When you look at at this and briand
it just amazes me that Boeing probably not so because

(01:56:56):
of all the defense contracts they have, but to continue
to operate like this with kind of a well we'll
get better. It's gonna be okay. We got a new
CEO now, so things are going to be a lot better.
I mean, what a bunch of crap. I mean, they
gave us those promises five years ago, and obviously they
were lying then. So do I believe them now?

Speaker 5 (01:57:15):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:57:15):
I do not big mill on that one. Let's pause.
We'll bring Jay Ratliffe back for one more. It's a
forty six IFY five krc DE talk station. Thanks, say
Brian Thomas with IRT Media agage expert Jay Ratlift Dave.

Speaker 2 (01:57:28):
We've got some more things. Talk about moving away from Boeing.

Speaker 3 (01:57:30):
Let's what about Delta forcing passengers around a different seats?

Speaker 9 (01:57:36):
You and I are going to like this one. This
is a Delta agent in Atlanta, and I wish I
had this agent's name. I'd love to acknowledge their efforts
over the airways across the country. But this particular individual,
NOS supply wasn't totally full, so an announcement was made
that the seat assignments were going to be reconfigured. I
can tell you for people to have their favorite seat

(01:57:57):
that did not go over well, but one they boarded Brian.
Every person was either in a window or anile seat.
Not a single person was in a middle seat. Now,
originally they had people in the middle seat, but this
agent redid everything so that everybody would have an empty
seat next to them. So the people get on board,
they see what has been done. They're amazed that, Oh
my gosh, like real customer service here, somebody's looking out

(01:58:20):
for us. And that story, the pictures went viral and
it was just a great, great move on the part
of a Delta agent who, instead of blindly was going
through the motions, said hey, look I can do something here.
Because normally what would happen. You and I would get
on a plane and we would see, okay, I'm in
the middle seat, that's the empty I'll move around, but
that creates the onboard chaos. This agent took every bit

(01:58:44):
of that out of the equation and did an incredible job. Yeah,
I just again absolutely loved what I saw.

Speaker 2 (01:58:52):
Oh that's great news. And then they got on a
bowing airplane of the door flew off.

Speaker 9 (01:58:56):
Well, you know, that's another story.

Speaker 3 (01:59:00):
The American Airlines says, doesn't shock me. I'm surprised they
were still servicing Haiti. But they seize service to Haiti,
probably because of gunfire. I mean, lord almighty, it's just
an absolute anarchy situation in Haiti right now.

Speaker 9 (01:59:16):
Well, and the State Department has warned people from that
Brian over the last you know, since the beginning of
I guess last last year excuse me, last fault, where
they were talking to a lot of people saying, hey, look,
you know, this is a dangerous position, dangerous place. There's
a situation where we have a lot of people that
are and gunfires around the airport. Were being very careful

(01:59:39):
and advising people to be very cautious as they're approaching
anything to do with Haiti, and sadly, when you look
at it, it's just amazing to me to see that
we still operated flights after that point, because you had
a Spirit flight that was not only shot at but struck,
You actually had bullet holes in the overhead storage compartments.
You had American Airlines that was targeted, Jet Blue that

(02:00:02):
was targeted, and these airlines eventually said we're not going
to be flying there. And then the FAA stopped in
and stepped in said okay, no more flights in and
out of Haiti for the time being. And kind of
just amazes me when you look at just how dangerous
it is to fly in there with the current situation
that exists.

Speaker 2 (02:00:20):
Well, and once you get off the plane it's even
more dangerous.

Speaker 9 (02:00:25):
Well, but you know, there are some people that want
to get back there, and I understand why. And you know,
it's to me a situation where you know, I'd be
more interested in being one of the people trying to
get out of there than anything else. But it's you know,
but again, the airlines like to air on the side
of caution. We want them to do so. So as
a result, the whole idea is, hey, let's do what

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we can to keep our passengers and crew safe, and
that's what's what they're trying to do.

Speaker 3 (02:00:52):
Well, and maybe saving lives in the process by not
bringing more people into a war torn gang run situation
where they might get kidding after murdered anyhow, well, that's probably.

Speaker 9 (02:01:02):
A pretty good idea as well.

Speaker 3 (02:01:05):
Just saying all right, I got some photographs along with
this one. Apparently American airline planes look like old nineteen
sixties vans.

Speaker 2 (02:01:13):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 9 (02:01:14):
You know whoever in American airlines, somebody's not getting it
because we're seeing more and more of these pictures go
online where you have seats that are missing, lots of
ducks duct tape which has obviously been there for more
than a few flights, and you're and you're thinking, they're
okay with this, and you know, in this era of
social media, you've got anxious flyers. They look at that

(02:01:37):
and they're thinking, if is this how you take care
of cosmetic changes, Because if it is, I'm worried about
the mechanical care, maybe the engine and takes of things.
You know what I was thinking, Oh my lord, it's unbelievable, Brian,
just unbelievable. So you know, as you look at things,
you're hoping that somebody will will catch on here what

(02:02:00):
we're talking about and do what they can to make
certain improvements. And let's hope that that's the case because
it really needs to be so well.

Speaker 2 (02:02:07):
I mean, there's a picture of a seat that doesn't
have a seat back on it.

Speaker 9 (02:02:11):
Oh no, no, the whole seat's missing in one and
the guys using a leg rest. So you know, it's
you look at that and you're thinking, somebody in Americans
just not getting it, because to allow that to continue
to be the case. What you're doing is allowing that
perception to continue. And you just Americans a good airline
in so many ways. They've got some incredible people that

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work for them. But when you allow this kind of
an aircraft, and there's several of them to be out there,
which you're older, they're going to be replaced. They're going
to probably say Boeing would give us our airplanes, we
would be you know, we would have them. But the
whole point is that you just can't allow that optic
to be out there because it gives the wrong impression.
And if I'm an anxious flyer I see those seats,

(02:02:53):
my next light's not going to be on American airlines.
I can promise you that, brother.

Speaker 3 (02:02:57):
Well, and very briefly apparently has in hell impacted global
airline profit because apparently we've like they passed a trillion
dollars in revenue.

Speaker 9 (02:03:06):
Well, they're expecting that for twenty twenty five. That's the projection.
And if you want to win a bar back, ask
somebody how much you think they think airlines make on
profit average per passenger internationally. The average is seven dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:03:23):
Oh my word, I guess you got to make that
out in the United States, we have it up.

Speaker 9 (02:03:26):
To we have it up to like twelve dollars a passenger,
but we're actually looking at twenty twenty five of having
five billion people fly, and that would put us over
the one trillion market revenue for the year, first time
we've ever done it. So it's going to be fascinating
to see if we can pull that off. But of
course a lot of that means more bag fees and
other types of things, blah blah blah. But the bottom
line is, hey, you know, let's let's let's see where

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it goes. Because the thought is if aviation doubles in
you know, the size doubles the next twenty years is expected.
Twenty years from now, Brian, you and I are gonna
look back at this as.

Speaker 3 (02:03:59):
The good old apparently, so a really quicklystance around of time.
Any problems you see out there with travel today, I
do not.

Speaker 9 (02:04:06):
It looks like it's be a beautiful day to fly.
So if you picked the day, you picked a good one.

Speaker 2 (02:04:09):
Jay Ratliffe, God bless you, sir.

Speaker 3 (02:04:10):
Love our conversations every Thursday at eight thirty and you'll
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a wonderful weekend, my brother, and we'll talk again next week.

Speaker 9 (02:04:18):
You too.

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