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Five o five and fifty five k r C the
talk station. Briddy E.

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S got no idea what's going on?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Summon it up quite nicely with that little sound by
Jess Derecker, execute producer of the program. Brian Thomas right here,
glad to be and I hope you are having a wonderful day. Initially,
shout out and thanks to everybody, shout up the listener
lunch yesterday, and thanks to the folks at Madtree Brewery
over in Summit Park who traditionally well. I enjoyed my lunch.
It was very nice, got to see some people, meet
some people, and had an emotional outbreak here for a moment.

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Someone had commented, because I get people an update on
my current cancer status, I gotta go back to treatment
start that next Thursday. But someone said that they had
been praying for me, and you know, I really got
it a kind of an allergy outbreak when I found
out that she had added me to the church's prayer list.
I thought that was just really moved me to maybe

(01:17):
a little bit of an emotional outbreak, I have to admit,
but what a wonderful thing, you know, you surrounded my
bad news. And then there's something like that which just
brightens your day up. That someone out there was thinking
of me enough to add me to the church bulletin prayerless.
So I was included in the prayer list and that
was just the sweetest thing. So thank you very much
for that, and thanks to everybody who made it. I

(01:39):
always enjoy the fellowship in the conversation. We'll do it
again next month, February fourth, going to be at Ron's Roused.
My mom and I just date there the other day.
Really had a really nice time with Mom. And the
food's always great at Ron's rus a variety of course,
and they have really good German food. By the way,
you know, I don't think of Rodzer is a German food.
It's chicken. But that's where we're going to be on

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the fourth of February. If you want to mark that down,
I would love to see you. So what's coming up
to Yesterday? It was such a fantastic show, Thanks again
to Joe Streeker for lining up all the guests from
six o'clock in the morning all the way through the
end of the program. Wall to wall guests and some
really good stuff from notably Christopher Smithman who was really
on a tear, couldn't get it out of his system
enough on Monday with a spleen event, so he came

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back yesterday to have another go at it, most notably
in connection with the after have Provoll wanted to increase
taxes and of course, in the name of public safety,
got some developments on that they had the family of
the most recently slain person in the West End. Queen
Iri read we all talked about that eleven year old
got shot and gild They were asking, they were demanding

(02:42):
answers yesterday about the situation when the cameras got some information.
But we find out that the city really just signed
in its hands and didn't do jack squat up until
like fairly recently. So anyway, the mayor thinks that he
needs to take more money from the earners in the
city of Cincinnati to pay for more safety. But then again,
read the whole list of the things the mayor wants
to do with this additional tax revenue, and you'll see

(03:02):
that it also includes some social elements like affordable housing.
Donald Trump actually coming to the maybe rescue on that
he is moving to ban big investors from buying up
single family homes and another topic we can talk about later.
I have mixed emotions on that. As a capitalist, how
is it that the government can tell any business or
person what they can and cannot buy. Of course, as

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a populist and someone who is seeking to maintain the
House lead and the Senate lead going into November, Donald
Trump wants to do something to satisfy those out there
that are trying to achieve the American dream and be
able to afford to buy a house. What do you
do you tell institutional investors that they can't go around
buying up single family homes. That sounds to me like

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a proposal that would come from a Democrat. I gotta
be honest with you on that. Do I think if
I step back from it, it might lower some housing costs.
Perhaps Institutional investors have literally billions. They make cash offers
all the time. They will outbid you. If they want
to buy a house up for the purpose of turning
into a rental property, they can do it, pricing you

(04:06):
right out of the market, and then of course using
that to maintain revenue. As on a going forward basis.
It's a wonderful business model. It's been going on since
the housing collapse. Well, the chickens may have come home
to roost, exacerbated come home to roost, exacerbated by the
COVID crisis, which told people that no, you don't need
to come into work anymore, you can work from home. Hell,
that's awesome. I'm moving way over there and I'm going

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to buy a property over there. And of course we
all know what happened in the aftermath of that, not
enough houses to go around. We got this illegal immigrants
surge to twenty million people coming in. They need a
place to live. Supply demand, and institutional investors are a
part of that problem. In some areas, institutional investors own
up to like twenty five percent of the total housing
volume that's in any given city. What do you think

(04:52):
about Donald Trump trying to stop institutional investors from buying
up homes? Don't I can't see the Democrats objecting to
that conceptually because they said it sounds like it comes
out of their playbook. Anyway, Rambling all over the place today,
FOP President Ken Kobert yesterday also talking about Mayor Aftab
Purval and the tax increase and of course the problems

(05:12):
with crime in the city. There's some new crime stats out.
We might be able to get to those this morning.
Apparently city gun violence has hit a record low, yet
if you look at any other any given neighborhood, you
may find out that the actual violence level has gone
up dramatically. Depends on where you'll live. Hmmm, big picture
with Jack Avidan yesterday, how Democrats see people and comments

(05:33):
on Venezuela. It's the second half that I just I
thought it was just brilliant, not it's always brilliant from
Jack Aviden, but I even recommend it. If you're going
to listen to a podcast and you'll have a couple
of minutes listen to the second half of Jack's commentary.
Although it's worth listening to the entire thing. It's the
second half, though, that I said, cut paste and send
to your friends so they can hear his brilliant analysis

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as well. AFP endorsement, including Zach Hines. That was yesterday
with Americans for Prosperity and we've got some good candidates
AFP on the job on that one. Zach actually called
the program toward the end of the show, thanked for
the endorsement, and he'll be looking forward to joining you
and I here on the Morning Show and talking about
his candidacy. As we move forward to in November, it's

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some information from Steve Velzo Timber County Veteran Services, and
Gary Benoit with his book Vanguard of the American Costs
or the History of the John's Birch Society. They have
been on the cutting edge of getting verbally abused for
what appears. They joked with him about conspiracy theories which
always had not always which tend to work out and

(06:37):
actually prove themselves over time. But you know, if you're
the first person to raise something that seems to be well,
it sounds like a conspiracy theory, then you're called a
conspiracy theorist. You're labeled a loom. That's pretty much the
John Birch Society's entire history. And yet what they wear
a warn us about and have told us about in
advance at the time, they're called looms that quite often

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turned out to be true. So and he's been wrestling
with that reality since he joined the Bird Society back
in the sixties. Gary Benoyt's book It's Only three Bucks
is a link right there fifty five cars dot com
so you can learn about it yourself. And then finally,
judge Unapolitano, which I know, lawless presidency. We know he's
not a fan of Trump. I know that I'll defend

(07:20):
Neapolitano all day long because he does analysis under the law, law,
state of fuck something. You know, the law can be
different depending on which judge you're in front of. For example,
you know, constitutional scholars can differ about what any particular
clause within the Constitution says or means. And of course
we have hundreds of years, two hundred and fifty years
worth a case law analyzing the Constitution, telling us what

(07:43):
it says, what it doesn't say, and then quite often,
you know, appropriately so reversing prior rulings which held one
way and we go three six or one hundred and
eighty degrees in the opposite direction. This is the evolution
of the law. And Nepolotan is entitled to his opinions.
And I know he's no big fan of doctor Trump.
I acknowledge that. But then again, in defense of napolitan
who is a friend of mine, I don't mind the

(08:05):
disagreement on these things. And I always get callers to say, yeah,
Rodgia Poulton, he hates Trump. Maybe I've never heard him
one of those words. Of course, his criticism to Trump
come come clearly through. But behind the Trump criticism is
the basis for the criticism, which is his interpretation of
the Constitution, which Thomas Massey shares, Senator Ran Paul shares.

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Fewer and fewer people share a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
So there's his opinion. You're entitled to your own. But
I'm not going to remove someone just because he doesn't
like Donald Trump. As I put it out yesterday, I said,
Strecker tries all the time to get Democrats on the program. Hey, Joe,
would Greg Landsman come on the show? That's funny, I know,

(08:58):
would you agree with something Greg Landsman wants to do?
Probably not. I mean most of my listening audience maybe
a little little libertarian like me conservative, but I hope
I have some left wingers out there listening as well.
You don't call in the show. You'll be offering an opinion.
Perhaps my listeners may reject, but we can engage in

(09:19):
a debate about it. John Cranley used to come on
all the time, Joe, you're right, Well, he may have
had juevos. That may be true, and we disagreed. We
even disagreed on the air from time to time. But
he was a champ about it. He was a sport.
He came on, said what his position was, defended it,
and he come back then later. Never took it personally,

(09:43):
of course, not He was a decent man. He still is.
Do I like him politically? Not all the time? Right,
you can't use Dusty Roads, and we're talking about democrats.
Thus these more republic look at our conservative then almost anyone.

(10:06):
He's a holdover from the Kennedy era. Dusty here are
You're all right in my book, But the point being,
of course, differences of opinion are welcome here. And you
get angry. I get emails from people, Hey, I turn
him off. You don't want to listen to him. That's
like a toddler of polding his ears and closing his
eyes and going l l L L l D. Why
not hear it and then engage in a thoughtful analysis

(10:29):
of why you disagree with him. Because the minute of
something negative about Trump comes out of his mouth, people
just like I don't want to hear it anymore. That's
a form of Trump arrangement syndrome in and of itself.
Isn't it. I'm capable of and have criticized the Trump
administer I did it just yesterday. This whole Greenland thing,
I don't get it, and we can have it. We

(10:53):
can have an argument about that as well, we can
engage in a thoughtful conversation about it. But I don't
think military involvement is going after and caps Greenland is
good for America's interest, at least in terms of global opinion.
And people roll the rise and say, well, screw global opinion,
we don't care what the rest of the globe says.
We're gonna do. It's good for us. Yeah, well that
doesn't end up working out real well in the long

(11:14):
term see history. But regardless, you can have a difference
of opinion about that and you discuss it, but don't
be the person who just wants to shut it down
the minute you hear some SoundBite that you find offensive.
Roll through it, figure out what the logical, reasonable and
debatable point is. Make your points and arguments without calling names,

(11:34):
and maybe we will all be more enlightened in the
final analysis. And that's really only what I want out
of this morning show to try to foster and encourage
I know it's what the other side does, Joe, Yeah,
I know. And when they don't agree, that's when you
hear start hearing the name calling and the screaming and

(11:58):
a lot of curse words usually involved them as well.
Of course, yes, there was a Minnesota protester. This is
what the moment they were waiting for the other day
and pivoting over to this ICE agent. They were engaging
in federal law enforcement much in the same way your local.
Since a police officer is engaging in local law enforcement,
they are doing their job. Ask Iris Rolie about that

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she likes to interfere with police officers doing their job.
We have video of that one, right. Well, at least
Iris didn't try to run over a police officer with
her car. This is what they've been waiting for. This
is the George Floyd moment of the ICE law enforcement efforts. Finally,

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idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots results in someone dying,
not being This particular idiot was blocking the road, refusing
to move her vehicle and then you know, when confronted
by ICE agents, you tried to run them over. The
officer should have gotten out of the way. Okay, yeah,
be a law enforcement officer, and you make split second decisions.

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When you got a five thousand pound vehicle, we'd be
accelerating at you. It's a deadly weapon. This kind of thing.
Did you should expect? You know, you won't get shot
if you comply with the demands of law enforcement. If
she had just, you know, done what the law enforcement
officers said to do, it would have gone on her
merry way. I complied with the instruction from federal law

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enforcement officers. I had moved my vehicle and went home.
That is the logical outcome of what should have happened yesterday.
And yet look taken a cue from our elected officials
who hate ice, Get Ice out of the neighborhood. Ice
a bunch of terrorist thugs. We've been listening to this
rhetoric since Trump got sworn in and started cracking out
an immigration illegal criminal immigrants notably. And you get these

(13:54):
protesters rolling out and wow, are in they organize and
going back to George Floyd, this one, this is going
to be even probably or well probably bigger. If I
had to read tea leaves and anticipate what's going to happen,
We're going to have massive protests today. They are a
well organized machine and is a network of all kinds
of different causes that are going to join together, even
though these causes are so disparate. Communism, climate change, Venezuela protesters,

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anti Israel protesters, if there's something anti they are all
going to gather together and run around and scream about
this person being murdered. And I heard there at the
top of the air news they're closing the schools up
in Minnesota out of abundance of caution because of these
organized protests that are going to show up today. That's great,

(14:43):
one more thing to keep kids out of school. And
they can get people to show up literally anywhere at
any time. There's so many useful idiots out there with
a bunch of time on their hands, sitting around twiddling
their thumbs, binging Netflix until they get the call from
their leftist organization. We need to meet here today at noon. Oka. Hey,
I'm free, I'll go. Yeah, that can happen any damn

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day of the week. Joe's got his sign in the
trunk of his car. Good one, Joe. Sorry for the
ramble this morning. It's just, you know, the world just
seems becoming unglued. I understand that, you know what, someone

(15:24):
put me on a prayer list in their church pamphlet
and that made my day yesterday. I'm sure I will
run into something like that that will make my day
to day and help me put aside this insanity going
on in the globe and make me realize that life
is worth living and life can be a beautiful thing
and wonderful thing. He's got to focus on what is

(15:45):
beautiful and wonderful about it. Five twenty one right now,
fifty five KR City Talks Station, be.

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Right back, w KRC Cincinnati Temperature disappeared, thirty three and
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Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, it went really long in the last segment. Sorry,
I was rambling. I will admit he Joe Stracker, I
flung the lines of my comment about Judseph Paulatan who
someone called and screamed at Joe and was just ranting
at Joe Stracker as if he has anything to do
with what Napolitana says. But I can't believe you could
put anybody on your program that is anti Trump. Well,

(16:21):
this this isn't a one hundred percent twenty four to
seven pro Trump always Trumper station. WHI to the point
I made the last segment. I'd like to foster and
encourage debate. And you know I not am not an
always Trumper kind of guy. I will listen. Get Rocanna
on the program. Line up, Billy and Omar, give me

(16:41):
Alexander Casio Cortez come on the show, Joe. None of them,
not one of them appeals to anybody in my listening audience.
But wouldn't it be an interesting conversation if someone the
left was willing to sit down and thoughtfully engage in
a debate about a given topic. Was someone is not
going to launch into a name calling ceremony or session

(17:03):
with him? Huh? We got shared brown on once. That's right, once?
And why do you think he didn't come back? Joe?
I didn't call him a name? Did I know? We
did engage in an exercise in a thoughtful conversation about
the subject matter, didn't we We just didn't agree, and

(17:25):
he didn't come back in spite of being offered the opportunity.
Five twenty six fifty five cares of the dog stations
local stories coming up. We'll get the Uh, what's the
status of the cameras over the West End. We're going
to find out they got the meeting that was yesterday.
Family demanding answers out. This little girl got shot and
killed in the promises of city council to bring cameras

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to the West End neighborhood. Among other stories, don't go way,
be right back five one three, eighter, D two to three, Talk,
PIP five fifty on eight and T phones. You want
to engage in debate or discussion. You got a topic
you want to talk about it, I'd love to hear
from you. Let's start with Maga girls, since I was

(18:11):
on that the the pro Trump anti Trump sentiment out
in the world. Police investigating this after a woman's car
was shot at while she was driving home on Ronald
Reagan Highway. This happened Monday night, Fox nineteen interviewing the
woman behind the wheel, Jody no last name, and I
think that's probably a good thing. Driving home Monday, she
heard her car hit with something. She show she got

(18:34):
home and looked at her bumper and had had dents
in what appeared to be a small caliber bullet holes.
She thinks she was targeted, saying it's just not right
as a human to want to hurt somebody else just
because they disagree with you. What is that related to, Well,
it may be her license plate. She got home, she
and her husband discovered these two small dents in a
right rear bumper where the car was hit. Not the

(18:56):
first time her vehicle has been, in the words of
Brooklyn Andres from Fox nineteen reporting and interviewing Jody vandalized.
I don't know if it's an act of vandalism. If
someone shoots at your car, I would think it's an
active attempted murder. Anyway, Her license plate maga girl, m

(19:17):
A gagrl, She said, I've had issues in the past
with people flipping me off, which is fine, but people
with people behind me honking their horn in yelling profanities.
Fine words, don't hurt me. I didn't think there was
nothing to it until last night, and now I'm like,
this is kind of serious now, that my license plate
can trigger somebody just because I believe something different than

(19:40):
somebody else, that it's okay to'll pull out a weapon
of some comment starts shooting at random people that you
don't know. Yeah, good point, We'll just let that one sit.
They're looking for someone. She filled out a police report
with the Springfield Township Police, and she hopes that she
hears from the police, maybe that they find a suspect.

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Maybe there's a camera out there. Pivoting over to yesterday
with the EA since a council having a hearing about
the promised security cameras that were never installed. The family
of the eleven year old girl was shot and killed
in the West End. Was there, Cherry Williams, the mother
of the deceased Queen Eery Reid. It shouldn't have taken

(20:23):
my child to loser life for you to put a
camera in this park. Well, eleven year old Dominic Davis
killed a couple of years ago under the same circumstances
in the same area. Cameras were promised, then after his
death they were never installed. Now last September, we all
know one hundred and fifty thousand dollars allocated for this

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camera project. Yesterday's city manager SHAREL Long said six cameras
were installed, none of them pointed toward the park where
the shooting happened. And since the shooting of the Thanks
Joe of Queen every red one, large light and camera
have been put in place. Sharyl Long announced it six

(21:07):
more cameras would be added within the next thirty days.
Look how quickly it can happen once the spotlight of
attention's been focused on the mayor and city council and
all of the promises that have made over the last
several years to do this. Look, one more person dead. Oh,
we're gonna get them up in thirty days. How about that?

(21:30):
That is a good point. FOP President Ken Cobra on yesterday,
concerned about who's going to be maintaining the cameras, also
who's going to be watching them. They're sort of short
staffed over the CINCINNT Police Department, the contingent of officers
not quite up to snuff, and those lateral hires. If
you didn't hear Ken yesterday, thank you for reminding me
about what he said, Open thirty spots for lateral hires. Attention,

(21:51):
world law enforcement officers. The City of Cincinnati wants you.
You are you're going to be hired. Sign up. We
have thirty open space. We're ready to hire, put on
the uniform and serve the city of Cincinnati. You know
how many people answered that call? Seven? I wonder why
people don't want a job in law enforcement. Huh. Anyway,

(22:18):
it was suggested whose idea was it to name the
park after Dominic Davis and Queenerye reed, Joe? Was that
have to have Pearlval's idea. It was brought up in
the council meeting as if naming the park after the
two dead children is going to be a great thing. Oh,
it's a what consolation? Probably it's okay, we're gonna remember
your murdered children by naming the park after them. Oh,

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let's go over to the eleven year old murdered kids park.
It's not a good marketing strategy, is it. Five one, three, seven,
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from yesterday as well. Great again, thank you Joe Strecker
for that lineup yesterday, and of course looking forward to
the lineup today which I hadn't mentioned yet COSA got
a special Money Thursday Brian James for Money. Money's going
to join us today to talk about the fifth third
co America merger that is coming up. At six thirty,
Congressman Warren Davidson returns. Perfect timing for Congressman Davidson, given

(23:53):
the Ice shooting. That is one of the first topic
or that is the first top we're going to talk
about with him.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Will the government shut down on January thirtieth, I know
there's little rumblings about that. Probably not this all over
the subsidies, the COVID era subsidies for your Obamacare plan.
I'm not sure if the Democrats want to expend any
more political capital to shut the government down and harm
people to the extent you're harmed by the government shut

(24:19):
down in the name of keeping something that was put
in place because of covid which isn't around anymore? What
is the Biological Intellectual Property Protection Act? Congressman Davidson's gonna
explain that one to us. Fast forward to seven thirty,
Adam Kaylor returns about a year ago, he started the
Cincinnati Exchange and the Conservative Citizens Journalists. What's the status
after one year? Adam Kayler keeping his eye on matters

(24:41):
local politics. Congressman David Taylor at eight oh five, he
too will chime in on the ice shooting. We'll ask
him what is the Congressional Trucking Caucus? And also rural
Ohio healthcare initiatives? And finally it is Thursday. I heart me.
The aviation expert Jay Rattle of first out of the
calendar year. I love talking to Jane. I hope you
enjoy that as well. Let's see here some calls coming in.

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But first, the stack is stupid, which I promise. We
have a Sicilian man who's fought a lawsuit against the
restaurant after featuring him in a promotional TikTok video. He
didn't consent to the to his image being used in it.
Apparently a bit more complicated than just that fun fact said.
The video was seen by his wife, which led to

(25:26):
their marriage falling apart. Video used as proof of his infidelity,
so the man's suing the restaurant for invasion of privacy.
Not sure how the ex wife stumbled upon the promotional
TikTok video featuring her husband or of someone else, recognized
them and included her in on it. But basically, she

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saw her spouse with another woman, even though he had
told her he was attending a business dinner with colleagues.
Welcome to the world of cameras everywhere. Humiliated boy's public infidelity,
she decided to end the relationship and kick him out
of the house. It's exactly like the Cold Play Dude
Joe the kiss cam. If you're fooling around in your

(26:14):
spouse whatever, I guess, maybe a bad decision may lead
to a bad outcome. Just remember, like all the criminals
out there in the world are slowly finding out, there
are cameras literally everywhere. Anyway, when the man learned out
that his wife had discovered his affair by watching the

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promotional video, he decided to well sue the owners of
the establishment, claiming his right suprivacy were violated. According to
the Francisco Tanasi, who's a spokesman for CODA cons which
is an Italian consumer protection association that's representing the guy
it is unacceptable for a restaurant to film its customers

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without clear consent and then broadcast the images, exposing people
to unpredictable consequences, seeking damages for his client, but also
considering finally can play with the Italian Data Protection Authority?
Do we need Dave had Her to chime in on
that one tomorrow anyhow, coming up a by forty five
if you have care see the talk station QC Kinetics.

(27:18):
How about twenty twenty six being the year of living
without pain? And you know on Friday Eve, a very
happy one to you. Were I to get back to
the stack of stupid score to my owns five one, three, seven,
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It's ah good to hear from you, Jay, Welcome back
to the Morning show and Happy Friday Eve.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
Hey, good morning, Brian. Hey, I was listening to the
iHeart podcast of previous Brian Thomas shows instead of listening
to lesser talent like Sean Hannity or anybody else on
the radio.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
You're client, Oh, I'm.

Speaker 7 (27:51):
Telling you it's uh.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
I would encourage all the listeners to do it quick
on Brian Thomas, go to episodes, scroll down through there.
You can listen to whatever you want and it's best
thing out there. But I saw the interview recently with
Alex Trantefila, and Alex, I'm sure is a nice guy,
but I am beyond frustrated, as you know that here

(28:13):
we are in the eleventh hour of the the Wine administration,
and finally Alex Trantefila, the head of the Ohio Republican Party,
is getting some righteous indignation that the governor who they
put all their power, money, influence behind will not now
get behind Vivek Ramaswami and is backing or defending Amy Acton.

(28:35):
And you were asking all the right questions and Alex
acted like, finally he wasn't all that impressed with the wine.
You know, the time not to be impressed with the
wine would have been maybe after the COVID shut down,
or maybe ten minutes into his first term, whenever he
raised the gas tax and santsa gallen because of the fiscal.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
Emergency, we gave six million dollars to the Cleveland Browns
when he vetoed the property tax reform that they had
put into the budget bill.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, you can go on and on about the reasons
to be disappointed in Mikelwaine. I understand that, and I
as I talked all one, You're right, Alex Chanfilo is
a really nice guy, and you catch him in a
candid moment, he will be honest with what Alex Triantefilo's
personal opinion is about matters involving the Republican Party. But
as the head of the Republican Party, he's got to

(29:29):
deal with the herting cats. And you know how many
nut jobs are within the public Republican Party everywhere. I mean,
not as many nut jobs as are with the Democrats.
But can you imagine being in charge of the Democrat
Party and trying to shepherd the from the commies all
the way over to the dusty road Democrats of the world.
It's an impossible task, but you got to try to
balance it. So quite often he won't be very firm

(29:50):
in his convictions when you're talking about something as worthy
of criticism as the governor of our state. But that's
because he's the head of the entire Republican Party. So
that's go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (30:03):
No, I'm sorry, go ahead, and I mean interrupt.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
No, you weren't interrupting. That's pretty much good. I don't
want to repeat myself, so go ahead and make your point.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
Well, I guess if that is the case, then two
things are true. Number one, number one, he doesn't have
the the the the influence, or the courage to get
a rhino out of power. And number two, if that's true,
we have so many rhinos in this Republican Party that
this Republican Party in Ohio is lost. If Alex trantaphila,

(30:35):
let's say he's like minded like us, but he just
can't get it done because ninety percent of the Republicans
are firmly behind the wine. After the shutdown and after
everything that he's done, Yeah, then it's over. This Republican
Party is not going to do a damn thing for
got for for conservatives in this state.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Well, you know, I hear what you're saying. But do
you think I mean anywhere in politic Donald Trump doesn't
even have the power to force voters to do anything.
In particular like taking Massy For example, Donald had this
huge post against Thomas Massey, and Donald Trump is engaging
in support for a challenger in a primary for Thomas Massey.

(31:15):
And there are organizations out there that are funding some
challenger out there to primary Thomas Massey. And every time
Tom Donald Trump opens his mouth, voters respond by throwing
money at Thomas Massey's campaign. One guy can't force voters
to change course. So ask the citizens in these various
Rhino districts what the hell their problem is that they
keep bringing back these the Rhinos and voting him into

(31:38):
office when they do crazy, stupid and seemingly non Republican
agenda kind of things.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
Well, here's a big difference is that Trump and I
like Massey. I stand behind Massey. But the big difference
is that Alex tranp decilo. I'm I'm like Trump was
singing the praises of Mike DeWine, throwing his support behind
Mike DeWine to get out the vote effort to mike
the wine. For eight years, I didn't hear a negative

(32:06):
thing ever until recently. Now that the wine is one
foot out the door. Now the Republicans gross them. You
know what they Now all of a sudden they start
turning conservative.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
And well, well they only have one person running for
governor and they've already endorsed them. So yeah, you're going
to get behind VV Ramaswa I mean, and then you
can make fun of Governor de Wine for not getting
behind VV Ramasw I mean, for whatever reason, he won't
do it. So but in terms of the Dwine moment
and when Alex Johnsfila was pushing for Dwine, I can't
remember when Alex took over the Ohio Republican Party. I

(32:38):
think the Wine was already in office. That's the guy,
and he, of course, being the incumbent, is going to
be the guy who's going to run for reelection. If
that's your only guy, I guess you go back to
the default response, which is, well, you know, I guess
it's better to have a Rhino in office than a Democrat.
And sometimes that's what we're stuck with, and clearly in
Ohio that's kind of what we're stuck with in a

(32:59):
lot of areas well.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
What would keep your Republican Party from saying, based on
the Wine's performance in the first term, that we're going
to go find somebody else. Nothing they could have done it,
It's just a spectral committee again failing us.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Well, Jay, I think the problem that the Republican Party
faces like the challenge I face all the time is
the realization that most people aren't paying that close attention
to the minutia that you and I are talking about.
We don't view it as minutia, but do you think
anybody out there in the real world who's busy binging
Netflix and taking their kids to select soccer games and
all the other ins and outs of their lives remembers

(33:32):
specifically about I don't know, not being able to buy
a drink after ten PM and a bar during COVID
nineteen five years ago, that they would cast a vote
based upon that particular action five years ago. I don't know,
but that's a challenge.

Speaker 6 (33:46):
If a Republican Party of Ohio would come out and say,
we're not endorsing the sitting governor and here's why. Yeah,
I think people would have I think people would have said,
holy craft.

Speaker 7 (33:55):
Yeah, but it's up here.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
But the next question is if we don't enforce the
sitting governor, who who are we going to endorse? Who
is the Democrat challenger? And by not endorsing the city
and governor, are we potentially giving an opportunity for a
Democrat to take over, which goes back to my point,
maybe it is better to have a Rhino than a
Democrat in office. And I'm sure that they had those
conversations and talks, and we're going back so far now

(34:18):
I can't remember when Governor Ran Dwine ran for reelection
who was challenging him at that moment in time. But
you know, that's the kind of decision making you got
to make when you are head of the Republican Party
and when you're dealing with a bunch of other people
who have the ability to chime in on matters political
and engage in strategy discussions. That's why I say it's
not an easy job. It's like being Speaker of the House.
You can get pissed off all day long about the

(34:40):
Speaker of the House. How come this and how come
that is? Because he's got a bunch of petulant children
behind him, screaming and yelling each other, even though they're
supposed to be of the same political stripe. Not easy,
especially in these trying times.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
Jay.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
I love our conversations, man, thanks for calling this morning,
coming up with five fifty seven. If you've have care,
see Talk Station.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Today's tough headlines coming up at the tuck.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
I got a couple of callers online. I welcome phone
calls here in the morning show. If you haven't gotten
that message out, I'll make it again five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty eight two three Talk Tune five fifty
on eighteen defense Real quick here, going back to Jay's comment,
Dwine already got a reelected in twenty twenty two, and
Alex Tranta Fielib became the head of the count or
to the High Republican Party in twenty twenty three. So

(35:24):
there you go. And then Dwine, as the incumbent running again,
ran as the incumbent in the primary. He beat out
Jim or Nacy pretty handily to forty eight percent to
twenty eight percent. That was the voter's decision. So you
got to wonder, how is it that a rhino like Dwine. Well,
you know he's not one hundred percent right now, He's
got a pretty good record if you go look at
each issue by issue by issue, a lot of ones

(35:46):
that rub us the wrong way, stand out and irritate
folks like Jay and quite often me, which leads you
to the conclusion they have Mike Dwin's a rhyina ver, right,
But what he ran for reelection. He was running against
Nan and apparently the Ohioans really like Dwine compared to
Nan Welly beat her sixty two and change to thirty

(36:07):
seven percent. That's what the voters wanted, So you got
choices out there. Primary went through. They said to Dwine
and look at his political history. I mean, name recognition.
As much as you might dislike any given candidate, name
recognition means a lot. Throwing back to the whole point,
is it better to have someone who's not one hundred?
You gotta throw out the good for the sake of

(36:27):
the perfect this kind of argument. Is it better to
have what you would call a rhino than a Democrat
in office? Probably? Yeah, And name recognition because people are
low information usually that means that they, yes, they will
vote for the same person. Look, he's got an R
after his name. I'm putting that guy or I'm keeping
that guy. I mean Dwine in his political career goes

(36:47):
back to nineteen eighty two seventh Congressional District, eighty four
seventh Conditional District reelections. Again, then you move over to
the Senate Lieutenant. I mean we can go on and on.
He is a well entrenched named. A politician with a

(37:09):
name and names often will result in support from the party,
whether it's Democrat or Republican, just because they want to
ensure themselves a victory. These are strategic decisions that are made,
and that's the kind of bickering and argument that goes
on behind the scenes that Alex tranp to Filo's got
a ride herd over so again, think about the good

(37:29):
and the perfect. We all want the perfect, but we
never quite get that, do we all? Right before we
move on to different topics real quick here, before we
get to looks like Jim and Steve hold On coming
up six thirty special Money Thursday with Brian James for
Money Money. He'snna talking about the fifth third co America mergers,
so we'll get an update on that. Congressman Davidson in
one hour, a whole bunch of stuff with him. Adam

(37:51):
Kaylor are one of our citizen watchdog he started Citizen Exchange.
We're gonna find out what Adam's been doing for the
past year. Congressman David Taylor at eight oh five, and
then Jay Rattloff on aviation topics at day thirty. Let's
start with Jim has been on the phone longest, Jim,
thanks for calling this morning. Welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 7 (38:08):
Good morning, Brian.

Speaker 9 (38:10):
Hey, your conversation yesterday with the judge. I want to
give you an analogy and see how you would respond.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Sure.

Speaker 9 (38:18):
This is with Venezuela. Okay, Let's say you had a
neighbor that had a big, old, dying ass tree hanging
over your property, and you knew that someday that tree
was going to fall on your property, but you don't
have any right to go on his property. Technically it's
private property next door.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Well legally if it's hanging legally, let me just crack
the record, Jim, because if it's hanging over my property,
I can cut it down because it's in my property.

Speaker 5 (38:47):
Brian.

Speaker 9 (38:47):
Let's say it's just standing there. It's a ways back
from your property, but you know when the first wind
storm and the trees dying is going to fall.

Speaker 7 (38:56):
This is like Venezuela. It's a you.

Speaker 9 (38:59):
Know it's danger coming and let's even go in. Your
kids have a playground set there, and you know it's
going to be a problem, and so what right do
you have? What That's kind of like how the United
States position is with Venezuela. We got China and Russian
We know they're you know, setting up camp there.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Oh yeah, So how did.

Speaker 9 (39:18):
You respond to that? You know, sometimes you got to
bring it to your own personal backyard. It's easy to
make big brush comments that you shouldn't be involved.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
With, right, jem. Well, and this is where reality. You're
the reality of what we face day to day demands, expedients.
This is how we end up playing a little fast
and loose with the constitution. But you know, the Constitution
being what it is, and going back to my comments
in the last hour, it depends on what kind of
person you are. A strict constitutionalists? Are you someone who
believes this is a living, breathing document that can be

(39:49):
changed and altered based upon circumstances. These arguments have been
going on since the founding of our country. But his
legal analysis leads him to the conclusion that these actions
a unlawful. This isn't like an imminent threat. I mean,
we've been making having discussions about whether a drug boat
fifteen hundred miles away is an imminent threat. It doesn't
sound like it to me, And I'd be willing to

(40:11):
side with the folks that say no, that when it
gets to our shore, then it may be represents an
imminent threat, but when it's fifteen hundred miles away, not
so much. But the circumstances, though within the confines of
the legal argument, his position is the Constitution is clear
on it. If you're going to engage in acts of war,
you got to get congressional authority on it. Now, the

(40:32):
world as it exists and the reality that we live
in now where Congress can't get a damn thing done
because everybody's gotten this particular moment in political history, trump
derangement system of a syndrome of one form or another.
Congress won't act and won't do anything. So maybe that's
the exit in circumstance that would justify Donald Trump doing this. Listen,

(40:55):
I want congressional approval, but they can't agree that the
sky is blue, so I got to go off and
do it myself. And history has supported him on that.
That was kind of the point. Judge isn't happy about
any of these quote unquote wars that have been weighed
since the end of World War Two, the last time
we declared war. He thinks all of them are illegitimate.

(41:16):
Where he justified and going to the North in fighting
the Korean War, we justified in Vietnam, Panama, Noriega. I mean,
on and on and on and on. His legal position,
constitutionally based as it is, with his perception and legal
analysis of his constitutional principles and how he abides by them,
says all of it was wrong. Hey, you know, I

(41:39):
may disagree with that conclusion. And that's why we have courts.
And that's why when you go to one district court,
you'll get one opinion on the exact same factual circumstances.
In a different district court someplace else in the country,
a judge will come up with a completely different interpretation.
The law is, you know, malleable, and it is subject
to interpretation. And that's why I say, listen, the judges

(42:01):
entitled to his opinion. I don't mind dissent on the
Morning show. I don't mind someone who doesn't like Donald
Trump coming on the Morning Show. But you see, you
take away that people's immediate knee jerk reaction, like the
woman who called and screamed at Joe Strecker, Because right
the Polaitano isn't a fan of Donald Trump, that doesn't
mean he's not welcome here. Under the program. It doesn't
negate from his legal analysis, which again you can disagree with,

(42:28):
but it's his analysis. And that's why we talk about it.
Because there are differences of opinion out in the world,
and the Polatano happens beyond the side of Thomas Massey
and Ran Paul with regard with the constitution. Democrats now
seem to be on the side of Paul and Massey
and the Politano. Why because Donald Trump took the position

(42:48):
when they were taking the exact position Donald Trump took
when they started bombing people by remote control under the
Obama administration, the Biden administration. It's okay when they do it. Hell,
Joe Biden put a what is it, twenty five million
dollars fifty million dollar bounty out on this guy's head, Maduro.
That sounds like they wanted his head, doesn't it? Fast forward?

(43:09):
New president, different opinion, and that malleability in the law,
that flexibility that exists with regard to constitutional interpretation, works
for their advantage or disadvantage, depending upon the moment in time.
It's insane. But if Congress would sit down and get
its act together, now Congress could stop Donald Trump from

(43:31):
doing this kind of thing. If they got their act together,
if they were uniformly in agreement that wait a second,
Wait a second, we don't want to get drawn into
World War III. They could put the brakes on, do
they Nope, leaving us with maybe the tree is going
to fall in our yard and we got to do
something about it right now. And that's the moment in

(43:52):
time we seem to find ourselves stepping back from whether
or not it's constitutional. Was it the right thing to do?
Some people say no, because you just toppled one of
the favorite socialists, didn't you. Some of us think think
that's a great idea. Maybe the Venezuelan people will enjoy
a measure of prosperity for a change rather than living
under the thumb of communist depression. Getting the Chinese and

(44:14):
the Russians out of this hemisphere, that's a good thing.
I will embrace that concept all day long. Will this
military action move us in that direction? Maybe we're all
gonna be waiting around to find out. Will the oil
industry reinvest in venezuela kind of keeping our popcorn out?
On that one? Donald Trump says they will. They may not.

(44:37):
They got a lot of much easier opportunities to extract
oil in these various parts of the world that have oil.
Why bother with the politically unstable moving target that is Venezuela.
We're gonna find out crazy, isn't it. Steve's next, Steve,
you don mind hold on for one moment. I appreciate
the call. I really do six sixteent fifty five KC

(44:58):
detalk station. Ever since I was hoping to see John
Roman from cover. Since yesterday, Johnny, you didn't show up
to listener. Let's that sho okay? He said he was
going to try. What he will do for you is
analyze your current medical insurance situation. I don't know if
you're still an open enrollment or not, if you got
an option to choose, still choose or not. But if
you've already chown Aeve, I'm gonna go to the phones
real quick, Steve, just one moment, because Maureen sent me

(45:21):
a link and here's here's a post purportedly I emphasize
that word from the Greene County Sentinel News apparently news
outlet green County here in Ohio, and what it says
breaking news from our state house sources. The cord to
the sources in Columbus Rhino Dwine is demanding what some
are calling a get out of jail card before endorsing
vivig Ramaswami for Governor. Dwine wants a personal guarantee from

(45:43):
vv Ramaswami not to reopen the first energy bribery investigation
looking into the Wine's direct involvement question mark. Our sources
are also saying Vivek is refusing to agree to de
Wines the man. He feels he doesn't need anything from
DeWine given his current poll numbers, the latter point being
true regardless whether it is true now, I don't know
if this is accurate. And here's one of the reasons

(46:04):
I read it. Maybe there's an answer there to why
we didn't get an immediate in endorsement from going to
why that could be the backside or the inside baseball.
That is the reason. I don't know, but I wanted
to point out because you know, Tomorrow's Tech Friday. When
I first see that, my immediate reaction is someone made
it up and posted it. I don't even know who

(46:24):
the Green County Centinel News is, Maureen, but I trust you.
You know you ford me sources all the time. Jos
stracker can churn out something exactly mirroring what you forwarded me,
and about how long that that would take you? About
five minutes or five seconds, Joe, something like that, and
it would look real. Is it real? Right? Welcome to
the world. We're surrounded with this kind of thing and

(46:48):
you're forced to read that and think, wow, that does
make sense on one level, and then the other component
of you're saying, is it real? I don't know whether
I can agree with that or disagree with that, or
just discount it because well made it using some you
know AI platform. Steve, Thanks for the indulging me on that,
and welcome to the show, and thanks for holding not
a problem.

Speaker 10 (47:08):
Three comments, if with my mosquito memory, I can remember
all three of them, because if I listen, you can't.
Your mind wanders. First one, you had a very nice
call yesterday in the five o'clock hour from Fred. He's
a good guy and in memory of the late great
Rush Limbaugh. My comment to that is ditto's. Secondly, in

(47:32):
memory of the late great Ed Koch, former mayor of
New York City, and this addresses kind of the rhino issue.
If you agree with me on seven out of ten issues.
Vote for me. If you agree with me on ten
out of ten issues, check yourself into a mental institution.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
That's what's good.

Speaker 10 (47:52):
We're we're all individuals. You're gonna have differences. It doesn't
mean you don't vote for the part.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Steve, great point, because people have called me many times.
You know, Brian, I agree with you most of the time,
and that actually puts a smile on my good You know,
I don't want lockstep agreement.

Speaker 10 (48:05):
You know.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
It's like I'm not in lockstep agreement with Trump, and
sometimes that pisses off listeners just because I have a
disagreement with Donald Trump. Welcome to the world. I'm not
going to throw out the good for the sake of
the perfect.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
You know.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
There you go. That's a good point.

Speaker 10 (48:18):
We're on the same boat there And the reason for
my call. And I don't know why I remember this,
but I remember you interviewing Sharon Brown many years ago,
and he was he's kind of a bully type guy,
and you were holding your I mean, he was a
tough interview, I thought, and at one point you absolutely
nailed him. I don't remember the issue. And he said

(48:41):
his response to you was nice try and you kind
of laughed and said pretty much hit that one out
of the park. And I don't know why I remember that,
but it cracked me up and just when I think
about it now, it puts a smile on my face.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Enjoy your day, sir, Thank you very much for taking
me down memory, lad. Yes, Joe had to remind me
that I interviewed Shared Brown at one point because again,
the offer for Democrats to come on the program is
always out there. And when we get into equal time,
and I pointed this out to one of the candidates
is going to be running against Greg Landsman to shout
up at lunch yesterday, you know, I love the idea
of equal time because that gives the opponent, the Democrat,

(49:18):
the opportunity to come on the show. They can demand
equal time. They're going to get it in national elections.
That's right, Joe, Thank you for the profound point. It's
a very important point. But do they ever take us
up on it now? Rarely. But see, that's a discussion
I want to have because I'm not going to go

(49:38):
into name calling mode. I'm going to go into issue mode,
and let's talk about the specifics of whatever given proposal
you're advocating for that I'm disagreeing with. Can you convince
me to come over to your side of the ledger
based upon and at least a reasonable, hopefully some level
of intellectual discussion. That's what discussion and debate is all about.

(49:59):
We don't have that anymore. We have yelling and screaming
and name calling, or people just hiding and cowering in
their basement refusing to engage in that process. Six twenty six. Susan,
if you don't mind holding, you've got to comment out
the cameras downtown. I love to hear. We got local
stories coming up. Addition to Susan's call, your calls are
also welcome here. Five point three seven four nine fifty
two three talk still pointing out my Duke energy bill.

(50:21):
And hey, Brian Thomas, it's not Money Monday. It is
well Thursday, but I have Brian James from Monday Monday's
all Worth Financial to talk about this interesting development research.
You know locally, Fifth third Bank is merging with Comerica.
It's another bank described as a middle market banking franchise,
and that's why we have Brian James on to explain

(50:42):
what this is going to mean for fifth Third bankers
for maybe the broader banking industry. But from my understanding,
this is going to create if it's approved, and you're
going to address the regulatory approval, but it's going to
create the ninth largest bank in the United States. Welcome back,
Brian James, and happy New Year.

Speaker 5 (50:58):
By the way, Yeah, Happy.

Speaker 11 (51:00):
New Year and money Monday except on a Thursday, So
we're changing things up and we'll be back to our
regular scheduled programming on this coming Monday, I assume, unless
those crazy headlines between now and then. But yeah, so
big headlines. Fifth third Bank, call America. This was announced
a few months ago. They were sniffing around about this.
The shareholders approved it yesterday earlier this week, and that,

(51:22):
as you mentioned, that's going to create a big bank.
Both of these banks were similar. You know, for those
of us in the listening area here familiar with Fifth Third,
co America is similar to Fifth Third, just mostly up
in the northern area. You might have heard the term
that this is where the Detroit Tigers play in Comerica Park,
so that's where you might have heard the term from.
But in any case, co America's shareholders are going to
receive one point eight fifth Third sharehold shares per coll America.

Speaker 7 (51:45):
So this is a takeover.

Speaker 11 (51:47):
Cole America is going to be swallowed by fifth Third,
and that's going to give them about a twenty percent
premium on their on the co America stock price at
the announcement. At the end of the day, fifth Third
shareholders are going to own about seventy three percent of
the combined entity and co America shareholders we get about
a quarter of it. So it's been approved by shareholders.
We are still in the final regulatory approval stage, so

(52:08):
the government has the rubber stamp it, and but that
doesn't seem to be a huge concern that that. So
I actually worked for fifth Third for a long time
and many of the projects we were involved in were
geared toward getting fifth Third back into the shape that
it could be to make major acquisitions like this and
remain competitive because in that industry, Brian Thomas, it is acquire.

Speaker 7 (52:29):
Or be acquired.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Now, is this going to result in any name changes?
I'm guessing since fifth Third is the acquire err that
Fifth Third Banks will remain Fifth Third Banks, But will
the co America customers be dealing with fifth Third going forward?
Are they just going to leave the name the same.

Speaker 12 (52:44):
Now, yes, so co America is going to become fifth Third.
Obviously nobody's really going to notice that here in this area,
but in the Comerica markets they'll be seeing fifth third
broadcast everywhere. And I'm sure they're going to own more
or advertise the more minor league ballparks that seems to
be their thing over the years.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Well, I suppose those. This may suggest, as most mergers do,
that there are going to be some job cuts. Usually
there are you know, overlapping legal departments. I remember those days,
you know, when you merge with another company, then you've
got two legal departments. You don't need to just is
that what's going to happen? Do you anticipate? Brian?

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (53:16):
Absolutely, I mean that that's that's the whole reason behind this,
and truly any merger in any industry, it's just economies
of scale and combining operations uh to to reduce overlap.

Speaker 7 (53:26):
So probably a.

Speaker 11 (53:28):
Bigger concern, unfortunately for the Comerica employees than than the
Fifth Third.

Speaker 12 (53:33):
UH.

Speaker 11 (53:33):
But sounding like at this point it may be an
opportunity here locally for jobs because fifthird obviously has a
massive operational presence, uh, you know, up up at their
operational facility in Madisonville.

Speaker 5 (53:45):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (53:45):
And I would I would expect that there's going to
be some new faces walking in those halls as as they.

Speaker 11 (53:50):
Look to increase the number of people. And it's really
on the regulatory side, because the bigger the bank is,
the more the government wants to sniff around, and you
have to have more and more, more and more people
putting the reporting together and those kinds of things. So
not looking really for any huge impact here. Their course
could be branch consolidations, but again that's probably not you know,

(54:10):
there are no Comerica branches in this area, so that'll
be again more in the co America market where they
decided that these two across the parking lot need to
be merged into one, for example.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Well, soon the branch doesn't change, Is there going to
be any noticeable difference. Let's say the listeners who are
currently fifth Third, who currently bank with fifth Third? Is
this just going to be sort of seamless, there's nothing
to see here, Life goes on for the average customer.

Speaker 9 (54:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (54:33):
I think it's going to be more for the employees,
and obviously there are thousands of them here in the
Cincinnati area. But you know, I wouldn't say as a
banking customer, which I am one, fifth Third has been
a great bank for me.

Speaker 7 (54:44):
I don't look for any major changes there, just a
bigger bank.

Speaker 11 (54:47):
And again this is all about acquire or be acquired,
because you know, co America made it as far as
they did and they got picked up. Third Or fortunately
is still on the independent side where they can kind
of be the predator not the prey.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Well, and I suppose overall with that point made it. Overall,
it's a good thing for Fifth Third Bank.

Speaker 11 (55:06):
Yeah, it depends on your view of big business.

Speaker 5 (55:09):
Right.

Speaker 7 (55:09):
Some people aren't going to be a fan of this
because you know, maybe you just.

Speaker 12 (55:12):
Love your Camerica branch and now it's going to be
changing a little bit. But at the end of the day,
it basically means that the structure is still there and
you know you'll have.

Speaker 7 (55:20):
That support going forward.

Speaker 11 (55:22):
But it's very very much Let's make no mistake here,
this is very much about profit margin and the maintenance
of the ability to stay competitive. That's really what it's about.
This isn't These are never about customers. Nobody's going to
walk away from a bank merger with a better experience.
This is this is about shareholders in the banking industry, Brian,
customers come third, the the shareholders come first, regulators come second,

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and then it's the customers. Spend a lot of time
there and that's frankly why I left the industry.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
Well, I appreciate your honesty, money mondays Brian James on
a Thursday, we'll call it money Thursday. Brian James, I
can't thank you enough for doing a special segment with
my listeners and me to data talk about the impact
on this. So probably you won't see much employees with
fifth Third in CA America, maybe you'll be seeing something.
Just hold your keep your powder dry, and keep your
fingers crossed, Brian James. I wish you all the best

(56:13):
best of health in a very happy new year again,
do you, sir? I look forward to our conversations going
forward this year.

Speaker 11 (56:18):
You bet happy to hear to you as well, and
we will talk more about this headline as it continues
to unwrap.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Looking forward to that. We'll talk on Monday. Take care
a lot to unpack this morning. Going back to Dwine
not yet endorsing Ramaswami, he did endorse him yesterday and
some are suggesting the reason Dwine waited so long he
wanted to find out who Ramaswami's running mate was going
to be, and since he chose Rob McCauley, some are
suggesting an insider kind of guy and that was what
put Dwine over the edge to help him support me

(56:45):
beg Ramaswamy. So you know, have your own theories and
articulate your own question marks about that. But at least
you've got that, So let's see what Susan Scott. Susan,
thanks so much for calin this morning. I apologize for
not being able to take your call in the last segment,
but I forgot we were doing that segment with Brian James.
But appreciate it. Welcome to the Morning Show. Hello there
you are?

Speaker 5 (57:05):
Yeah, fine, bye.

Speaker 13 (57:08):
Thank you for taking my call and no problem on waiting.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 13 (57:11):
I just wanted wanted to suggest putting cameras up are great.
Putting them on makes a big difference. Making sure that
we're working makes a big difference. You know, I can
I can stand with a cell phone all day, but
if I can't make a call on it because it's
not turned on, you know, I'm out a lot.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
That is correct, and Susan, I will double down on
your point, which is a very valid one. If you
are the mayor of a of a very large city
and you have an issue like this, and you are
going to a press conference, knowing full well you're going
to get asked questions about where the hell the cameras
are and whether they work or not, you should show
up at that meeting armed with the information to be

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able to answer the outstanding question and the reason you're
there in the first place. He didn't know we had
an the way yesterday with the city council met with
the family of Queenerie Read and answered their questions and
apparently one large light and camera were put in place
since she was murdered, and according to since I managed
your share along showing up with the information, six cameras

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were installed since the one hundred and fifty grand, but
none were pointed toward the park when the shooting happened
on New Year's Day. So some cameras are there, some
are working, Susan, none of them pointed at the park.
And if we're in a state of flux, and they
promise they are going to put up six more cameras
according to share Along within the next thirty days.

Speaker 13 (58:35):
So that's what I find. So so I don't even
know what to call it. So reprehensive, hansible, because I'm
telling you there was a case in point. This is
the reason why I say this. Make the camera so
that I can access them, You can access them, we

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can all access them, see and make sure that they're working.
Why don't we do that for the citizens here in Cincinnati.
Why can't we do that because they don't want you
to know that they're not working. Right, there was a
man hit on July fourth on Elbron and Warsaw here
in Price Hill, and it was a hit and run.

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There's a camera right at that intersection. As a matter
of fact, there's two cameras at that intersection. And this
this man is he's an older, older man. I know
him from the neighborhood. He is he has some difficulty
and he talks very slow and very methodically.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
All well, I'm good, but let's let's just cut the
chasings runt of time here, Susan I will. I just
want to point out I don't find any problem with
letting the public have access to those cameras. Because why
it's public space. You enjoy no right to privacy when
you're out in the world and you can look around
and see for yourself, it's like a camera. If you
happen to be in the area where the shooting is,
you're an eyewitness to the account. What's the difference between

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that and you looking at a battery of cameras that
are there accessible at home for you, rather than having
you get up a walk around any given neighborhood. So
no problem there. But the answer to the question is
they'll screen privacy, privacy privacy in saying you shouldn't have
access to that type of that kind of camera showing
public space. That's the argument that was made. I would

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think it would fail you under subject to some legal challenge,
but probably that Let's just get the damn cameras up
and then we'll talk about who has access to him later.
But they would help and go a long way. John
and Bobby, I'm sorry out of time six forty five
right now, be happy to take your calls to get back.
And I want to strongly encourse Ay Jim Kiefer or
who might be about yesterday's news announcement. Inquire reported that

(01:00:51):
Hey Seth Wallace just got sworn in for Sinsey City
Council for his second full term, the day after he
declared that he is running for Ohio Treasurer. All right,
Joe Drekker, wonder when ft pro Bowl was gonna make
an announcement he was running for Senate or something like that. Anyway,
Mika Owens will select his replacement in the unlikely event
in the state of Ohio that he gets elected Seth

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Walsh making a go for a higher office. Bobby, thanks
for holding John hold on. We'll get you next. Bobby.
Welcome to the morning show and happy you Friday Eve.

Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
Welcome back, my brother.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Glad to hear you back. Thanks man, I appreciate it.
What's on your mind today, my friend.

Speaker 4 (01:01:26):
Same old thing, my brother face flags, family and collective
bargaining and all the other things go along with it.
Today's handicapped Thursday.

Speaker 5 (01:01:35):
You know how that goes? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
I do, Bobby, I do, Bobby. Where are the organized
conservatives out there? I got all these protesters are gonna
be joining you're running around in the streets today. They're
going to have a protest here in Ohio. Uh and
they're gonna have a protest and many expecting people out
in the streets screaming about the ice which John wants
to have a comment about ice shooting, but it was immediate.

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All these placards and signs came out all on the
mos instantaneously after the ICE agent had to shoot that
woman who was trying to run them over with their car.
The Palestinian Youth Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation,
Refuse Fascism, Indivisible, and all these other national Alliance against
racist and political repression organizations as disparate as the day

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is long. Left wing protesters, people who are protesting Palestine,
people are protesting Israel, people who are just communists. They
joined together collectively and get out in the streets. Where
is the conservative analogy to that, Bobby? Where were all
the conservatives concerned about the wide open borders and the
inundation of various cities consuming the resources scarce as they are?

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Where the hell were they? How come they're not organized?
I know you can't answer that question, Bobby, but isn't
it a strange reality when we have social media and
we could counter this nonsense with similar type protests pointing
out our point of view, But it never happens.

Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
I've got a bunch of counter protests, is just waiting
for them to come down our street of opportunity.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
Show up in Bobby's neighborhood. You may be met with
protests in opposition. Sadly there aren't enough neighborhoods like yours. Bobby,
appreciate it, man way, they need to do it. Six
fifty six right now, fifty five k SE the talk station.
Congressman Son No. Six here by five KRCD talk Dations
are very happy Friday. You actually special day to day

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the return of Congressman More and Davidson. Great timing on
that one, considering the ice shooting of Minneapolis the other day.
Congressman Davis won Welcome back to the fifty five Carsey
Morn showing a very happy new year to you, sir.

Speaker 12 (01:03:38):
Yeah, Happy new year, Brian. Always an honor to join you,
So honored.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
To have you on. And I was lamenting that they're
we're expecting massive protests today. Of course, immediately the placards
from all the different various anti American organizations joined together
and they're going out there calling this this ice action shooting.
The woman who tried to run over the ice agent,
whether automobile murder. I was lamenting that. You know, this

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is not the first time this immediate, well organized response
has come out. We've been watching this unfold now for years.
Where is the conservative corollary to that? The answer apparently
to the question which was which a lot of people
chimed in on over the break, the conservatives are all working,
They have jobs, They don't have time to run out
in the street and protest. But putting aside any levity

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associated with that, where are we on this one? I
think the correct answer to the question is don't interfere
with federal law enforcement operations and try to run over
an officer with your car and you won't run the
risk of getting shot. Congressman Davidson, your take on this
whole thing.

Speaker 12 (01:04:37):
Well, look, you know, to your point about where you know,
the rentom mob kind of program, how do you get
all this turnout to create the riots and protests. Well,
one of the easiest ways is you just cancel school.
So that's what Minneapolis has done. They canceled school so
all the teachers can go out and organize, you know,
their regular job, which is agitating the public and continuing

(01:04:59):
the Mark Revolution. They just do it outside the classroom
for a few days here this week, and then if
you've get older students, they can also participate and you know,
get their street cred in the revolution. So you know,
this is the kind of stuff that's going on in Minneapolis.
And for them, it's essentially a religious war. I mean,

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you know, conservatives have crossed the heresy code line, which is,
you know, don't disrupt the invasion. And so they're doing
this righteous protection of the Somali pirates. They're plundering Minnesota
and frankly the taxpayer wealth around the country, and they're
doing it because you know, well, you know, you want to.

Speaker 7 (01:05:40):
Help these people.

Speaker 12 (01:05:41):
Well okay, well a little fraud is going to happen,
but you know you've got to do the right thing.
And there are people that bought into this hook line
and sinker and Ice is evil. They're like Nazi stormtroopers.
And that's how you've agitated people like this crazy lady
that was all day driving your car getting between ICE
agents and blocking people. And you know, the normal the

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normal law enforcement program goes, you know, asked tell make
you know you man, please could you please get out
of the car. Get out of the car. And then
you see the ice agent going and then they're gonna
make her get out of the car, so she, you know,
punches it to go move. Now, the car was on ice,
so it slipped a little bit, or it would have

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gone to the left and fast right over the agent.
It started that way anyway, and that's when he draws
the fires. And so to me, when I look at
that video, I think, Okay, is there a possibility he
could have done something else, Yeah, but that's not the obligation.
The obligation is he feared for his life and the
safety of others, and he took action. And uh, you know,

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lesson learned.

Speaker 7 (01:06:47):
Just as you.

Speaker 12 (01:06:48):
Said, hey, listen to the law enforcement even when they're wrong.
You know, eventually, just count on winning. But don't don't
do something escalatory that's uh, is gonna be seen as
a threat or you're gonna get hurt. And if you
do something that's viewed as a lethal threat, there's a
good chance you're gonna die. And instead of saying that,

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Governor walts and the Mayor of Minneapolis is out escalating
the situation. Instead of saying, look, take note, I don't
want anyone to get hurt. So to take note, we're
working with the federal government to make sure we're doing
this stuff better or whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:07:24):
But that's exactly it.

Speaker 12 (01:07:25):
They're not working with the federal government. They've tried to
completely lock the federal government out of their sanctuary city
and their sanctuary state, even in the wake of massive
fraud and scandal.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Yeah. Well, and this is a clear, clear parallel to
the defund the police movie he had the George Floyd shooting.
Then if people took to the street, police are illegitimate.
They are a racist organization. When you do everything we
can to stop policing neighborhoods and in crime ensues. We've
seen the aftermath of that. How we can even get
lateral hires in the city of Cincinnati, thirty open spots

(01:07:55):
for a job with a pension and working with one
of the greater law enforcement agencies here in the country.
Seven people showed up to take up on the opportunity
to join the law enforces. See, we've demonized police so
much that people don't even want to do the job anymore.
They're doing the same thing with Ice. Ice is out
trying to enforce the law. They're trying to pick up
and round up the worst of the worst of the
illegal immigrants here. They have the lawful right to do it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:16):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
You go interfere with police doing their duty, and something
bad is going to happen. I think this is what
they were waiting for. All these leftist organizations couldn't wait
for this to happen. This poor woman is dead because
she did something that she was encouraged to do by
elected officials and all these other organizations. They've got their martyr.
Now it's time to go to the streets.

Speaker 12 (01:08:38):
Yeah, looks there's not a coincidence that the Summer of
Love started in Minneapolis, right. I mean, this is brown
zero for the neo Marxist agitation that they're doing in
the country.

Speaker 7 (01:08:51):
So they're not going to miss the moment.

Speaker 12 (01:08:53):
They've got essentially field trips to the streets for the
students there, because that's what they've done, and they did
the March Long March through the institutions. One of the
first things they seized was education, and now they're doing,
you know this to make sure that the students don't
draw the wrong conclusion. You know that, you know, hey,

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don't break our laws and invade our country by coming
here illegally.

Speaker 7 (01:09:19):
And then don't stop.

Speaker 12 (01:09:20):
The people that are just enforcing the laws of the country.
We wouldn't want them to learn those things. We want
them to learn that you got to got to join
the cause and fight demand and you know continue this,
you know, anti anti law and order regime that they're doing.
So I hope the country takes a note because the

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reality is this is the vanguard for what Democrats want
to do all around the country. And it's the same
kind of thing like it spread in twenty twenty. They
wanted to spread. Look at the progress that was made
in Cincinnati and it's still not recovered to where it was.

Speaker 7 (01:09:57):
In twenty twenty.

Speaker 12 (01:09:58):
So they want to do this all over the country,
cities around the country, and it is the agenda for
the people leading the Democrat Party. I'm not saying every
Democrat believes these things, but that's where the direction of
the leadership.

Speaker 7 (01:10:12):
For the Democrat Party is.

Speaker 12 (01:10:13):
And it is, as Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, so well
normal versus crazy, and you see crazy every day, especially
in Minneapolis.

Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
Well, and then the other underlying point of all this,
or the argument that's made by those defending this fraud,
waste and abuse going on in Minneapolis. Is that if
you bring it to anybody's attention, or you go after
and you enforce the law and you prosecute people for
violating the law, somehow, that's an act of racism, which
is the most comical, stupid argument I think I've ever heard.
In making that argument, you're saying, you're just going after

(01:10:44):
the black and brown community of the Somalis, and you're
targeting them because you're racist. Now for you to protect,
to try to defend and protect the fraud, the criminal
activity by claiming it's racist to go after it is
in and of itself an active racism, which means you're
going to treat that community different from other law breakers.
We're giving them a pass because they're members of the
black and brown Somali community. That's nonsensical and in and

(01:11:07):
of itself racist. Your take, Yeah, I mean that's.

Speaker 7 (01:11:10):
One hundred percent right. But look how long that worked, right, I.

Speaker 12 (01:11:13):
Mean, this is the same playbook they effectively rolled out
on Pat Buchanan. Right, Oh, he's a racist, And there
was a well, I don't know if you're a racist.
I mean I'm not a racist guy. So you've you've
had you know, conservative couckery here where you've not fought
back or raised anything forever. Right, It's like, look, it's
not race, it's we don't get mad at them because

(01:11:36):
they're black or brown or from this community that it's
because they're stealing and we're after the people that are stealing.
Or when you look at the crime, the law and order,
you know, you look at in.

Speaker 7 (01:11:49):
Washington, d c.

Speaker 12 (01:11:50):
Two percent of the population was accounting for ninety percent
of the crime. So when you target that two percent,
it's not racist. It's the two percent that's causing the crime.

Speaker 1 (01:11:59):
Right, right, right, that's the bottom line. Just not Congressman
davids And we got so much more to talk about it.
I got to take a break though. Let it you
just go straightforward in the conversation. But it is time
for a quick couple of words here seven fifteen fifty
five Karcite Talk stations. We're gonna talk about whether there's
gonna be another governation. Sevent nineteen fifty five Karsity Talx station,

(01:12:23):
Brian Thomas, the Congressman Warren Davidson, moving over. That's right,
we did have a government shutdown over these subsidies that
were brought and put in place for Obamacare because of
COVID nineteen. COVID nineteen's left us thankfully, that's a good thing.
The Democrats put in place and end date for those supplements.
That date's come and gone. They have disappeared, and that

(01:12:45):
resulted in the government shutdown last fall. They were fighting
like hell to keep them in place, even though the
justification for them no longer existed. Are we going to
have another government shutdown since that situation has not been
resolved yet, or are we gonna come up with some
probably ridiculous compromise Congressman Davidson.

Speaker 12 (01:13:04):
Yeah, Democrats really want another shutdown.

Speaker 7 (01:13:07):
They feel like it worked.

Speaker 12 (01:13:09):
And you know, on balance, when you look at the
Democrat base, Democrats have declined with their base.

Speaker 7 (01:13:17):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (01:13:17):
And part of the reason they declined is they agreed
to reopen the government. Right, So they were they were
getting phrase from their base. When they had the government
shut down, they were you know, fighting you know, the
evil Empire.

Speaker 6 (01:13:32):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (01:13:33):
And they were, you know, great righteous warriors in this
holy war they're trying to wage.

Speaker 5 (01:13:38):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (01:13:38):
And then when they reopened the government, they took blowback,
you know, after six weeks of shutdown. So now they're like, well,
let's let's get back and engage the base again and
shut down the government again.

Speaker 7 (01:13:50):
So you know, that's what that's what Schumer's take, And from.

Speaker 12 (01:13:53):
Talk to some colleagues, they're like, yeah, you know, I
don't really see where everybody's coming from, but that's kind
of where some of our base is, and you know,
so they're probably going to try to do that. The
challenge has been that your Republicans continue to try to
have a way to accommodate that. And just last night,
you know, we had nine Republicans joined Democrats. They signed

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a discharge petition that takes the power away from the
majority party. The Speaker didn't want to put this on
the floor, but some of our colleagues joined with all
Democrats to say, let's do three year continuation of the
status quo.

Speaker 7 (01:14:30):
And what is the status quo.

Speaker 12 (01:14:31):
It's sending more cash to the insurance companies, and it's
to give subsidies to people that are at the.

Speaker 7 (01:14:38):
Very high end of the market.

Speaker 12 (01:14:40):
A member of Congress who has no other income or
assets than the base pay from Congress, which is you know,
reasonably generous, would qualify for subsidies for a family of
flour I mean that's crazy. You're looking at five thousand
dollars going to health insurance companies, and the fraud on
this program has been insane because all you have to

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do is sign somebody up for it, and the money
is getting sent in their behalf to the insurance companies.
So there are people that are that are quote getting
this benefit that don't even know that the benefit exists.
So but the checks are getting cut. There are no
controls on a lot of these programs. And that's what
Doze was identifying. And instead of going after the fact

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that he even if it was working, which it isn't,
it's rife with corruption, and they're like, yeah, but let's
keep doing it while we fix it. And I mean,
that's one of the biggest things I missed about manufacturing.
Even if you don't know everything that's wrong, once you
know you're making bad.

Speaker 7 (01:15:41):
Parts, you at least stop making bad parts.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
It's a good parallel well, and the subseing just mask
the failure that is Obamacare. That's the real devil in
the details here. You know, the premiums keep going up
with Obamacare because of the claims exposure. If you don't
have premium dollars coming in there is no nothing to
cover the losses that are being shelled out. So like,
why is my premium going up? Well, is because it's
just so damn expensive to ensure everybody out there, You've

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got to pay more to get the to get the benefits.
By giving a subsidy, you're masking the reality of the
failure of the program. So you just keep going down
with the same program, not fixing what you just pointed
out is the overall problem, which is the program itself.

Speaker 12 (01:16:20):
Yeah, and look this is the mastery, right. This subsidy
that they're fighting about isn't even everything with Obamacare.

Speaker 7 (01:16:27):
So if you're like a normal Obamacare person, you.

Speaker 12 (01:16:30):
Say you make forty fifty thousand dollars a year, you
know you've got a you know, a family plan, and
you're you know, getting by. This is a program where
you know, let's say you work at a restaurant, you
don't have health insurance, or you're a real real estate
agent or something, you don't have health insurance. You're sort
of independent. That's what Obamacare was designed to do. And

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they're not affected by this program. This is the other
portion of Obamacare, right, So it's like the really successful,
real estate agent that's making one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year, but they're getting even more subsidies for it. Yeah,
and a thing that you put subsidies on, every single
thing that we're subsidizing, the rate of inflation is higher
than if you didn't subsidize it.

Speaker 7 (01:17:14):
So for the.

Speaker 12 (01:17:14):
Broader market, the broader market, everybody in regular insurance. Insurance
is getting even more expensive. Healthcare is getting more expensive
for everyone, including the people that are paying cash.

Speaker 7 (01:17:26):
You know. It's the same for.

Speaker 12 (01:17:28):
Education, right, all of tuition is getting more expensive because
you're dumping more and more federal subsidies into it.

Speaker 7 (01:17:33):
So it's inflating the market.

Speaker 12 (01:17:36):
So more government equals worse for everybody else, in vertually
every program.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
Well, in the interest of times, since we're almost out
of it, briefly, the Biological Intellectual Property Protection Acts, what's
just real? Briefly explain that to my listeners, Congress Barren Davidson.

Speaker 12 (01:17:53):
Well, it's a ban on China, right, So look, if
you look at DNA, RNA, m RNA, all this kind
of stuff that's going on, China is basically buying up
data on Americans, indexing stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:18:05):
So if you want to do therapeutic drugs.

Speaker 12 (01:18:08):
You know, you might want to look at this kind
of data and you would design it in labs. If
you wanted to engineer viruses, on the other hand, and
build bioweapons, you know, things that are really bad bioweapons,
you could also use this kind of data.

Speaker 7 (01:18:23):
And so we're saying, you know, maybe.

Speaker 12 (01:18:25):
Just don't do this in China, like particularly in Wuhan
for example, don't send this biologic data out of the
United States. And so now you know, it's basically treating
it like subject to you know, our review on export
controls for sensitive technology. It's basically Americans biologic data is

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now going to be viewed as sensitive information that doesn't
get exported without a proper review.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
Please tell me this enjoys bipartisan support.

Speaker 12 (01:18:55):
So far, it is completely bipartisan in the House and Senate,
and we're hopeful that it'll get clear consensus. And it's
the kind of thing that a lot of time, it
won't be like a steam the loan bill where you
can get the Senate to vote on it. It'll hopefully
get passed through committee and then incorporated into a bigger package.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
Well, as long as there's bipartisan support, because that sounds
like a very logical, reasonable, and necessary thing to put
in place. Congressman Warren Davidson, thank you very much for
joining the program. I look forward to our conversations and
appreciate you coming on and being willing to talk about
these sensitive and important issues. We'll do it throughout the year,
I hope. And happy New Year to you and your family, sir.
Good to see Adam, and happy new year to you man.

Speaker 14 (01:19:32):
Yeah, you too, Brian. It's great to be back in here.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
It's as sad there's really nothing in the world to
talk about, not luckily, not nationally, not in the state.
You know, it's just it's a dead news cycle. Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:19:43):
Yeah, the worst state is Minnesota. There's absolutely nothing going on.
I know, nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
At all at all, my word and anyhow, So with
that joke out of the side, plenty to talk about,
of course. So the city of Cincinnati has been keeping
you busy. You're you know, we have Todd Zinzer. We
call him Citizen Watchdog. That's his podcast. You're a parallel
to Todd Zenzer in that you keep your eye on
the what I always refer to jokingly as shenanigans, but

(01:20:07):
sort of the you know, question marks going on with
since a city council, the silence from since a city council.
You know, why in the hell is it that they
don't support the police. We could go on and on
and on, but these are the kind of things that
you regularly focus on throughout the year. In the place
that you point out these things, the Cincinnati Exchange.

Speaker 15 (01:20:22):
Yeah, so we decided to start our own newspaper, you know,
running in a couple elections and then helping Corey with
his most recent campaign, and you know, you see how
that turned out. You know, a lot of conservatives just
feel like their voices and being heard in local news organizations,
you know, especially local papers, and over time, I think
a lot of those news organizations in general, you know,

(01:20:46):
even though the much larger ones have been their newsrooms
have been taken over by activists. There's even a collective
bargain agreement with one of the unions in this in
the Democratic Socialists of America, which is pretty wild.

Speaker 14 (01:21:00):
Yeah really, yeah, look it up.

Speaker 15 (01:21:02):
It's yeah, the News Guild and the Democratic Socialists of
America have a collective bargaining agreement between each other.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Maybe that's what Bobby who calls in the program refers
to he just he randomly throws that collective bargaining agreements,
and I'm quite often I'm like puzzled over what prompted that.
Maybe that's exactly.

Speaker 15 (01:21:19):
Because there are some some DSA employees that are also
in the union and they have their own kind of
deal worked out. Not that the DSA is somehow influencing
the newsrooms, but I mean when you have DSA people
who are pretty far left activists.

Speaker 14 (01:21:37):
Who are also working in some of these newsrooms.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
That they are influencing the news.

Speaker 14 (01:21:41):
You would assume, yeah, at least some of the larger ones,
you know.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
And I'm sure that shocks no one. That shocks nobody,
because if anybody who watches any kind of mainstream news
or reads any sort of mainstream papers, I mean, you
can just read the bias's I hear it. It's just
so obvious. It's it's all. I feel almost embarrassed for
them themselves a news organization, because when I think news,
I think traditionally an unbiased reporting of the facts. Right,

(01:22:06):
there was a killing in Minnesota and ice agent shot
a woman who was obviously trying to drive her card.
Was it justified? Some people are saying it isn't some
people are saying it is. That's a neutral, boiled down
analysis of what is ultimately a very complicated issue. But
once you start interjecting this was murder, roberber, that's not news.
That becomes opinion. And that seems to me where all
news has gone.

Speaker 15 (01:22:26):
That's right, and it's gotten very sensationalized. But depending on
the bias of the people in the newsroom. And you
know how this can be infectious. Hey, you get one
activist person in there who's outspoken. You've got other people
who aren't as outspoken. They just want to come in
and do their jobs. They can be influenced by those people.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
Oh here, what immediately popped into my mind the team
meeting at work. You got your boss in the room,
and your boss comes up with some kind of a
solution or suggestion for a new work function or whatever.
Does anybody to have any problems or objections with that?
It's her idea, she's the queen of the room, and
somebody inside has got this point. Oh my god, had

(01:23:05):
she thought about maybe this happening? Because that doesn't sound
like it's going to work out really well. Now, you
keep your mouth shut.

Speaker 14 (01:23:11):
That's right, that's right, that's exactly great.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
To make the point.

Speaker 14 (01:23:13):
Well, and you don't want to lose your job, you don't.

Speaker 15 (01:23:16):
Want to be ostracized, right, and then if it gets
too toxic, you end up leaving.

Speaker 14 (01:23:20):
And then what happened.

Speaker 15 (01:23:22):
Only five percent now of journalists consider themselves conservative. The
vast majority consider themselves either kind of centrists, right, because
that's their job actually is just so who knows if
they're even telling them the truth on that. But many
of them are democrat or they consider themselves far left.

(01:23:43):
So that's a big, big problem if that's the case.
And that's what the numbers are showing. That's an actual
survey that was taken, so people can actually look that up.
But also something came out just recently that I saw
where men, particularly conservative men of your p and descent,
were kept out of newsrooms. So this whole DEI thing

(01:24:05):
they kind of went overboard. Well, yeah, and your voice,
my voice, the things that we believe in are not
being written anymore. So that's where you see these headlines
that are slanted more to the left. And it's a
big problem in news. And it wasn't just that, like
that's stuff I found recently. We've been building this newspaper
for a while now. It actually launched maybe two months ago.

(01:24:29):
But the idea was we called it to sin Sa
Exchange because it's an exchange of ideas. It's an exchange
of everybody's ideas. And I wanted to bring people like
Todd and Todd's actually written for it, and bring those
folks in, bring those voices in that don't feel heard
and aren't getting op eds printed in local newspapers.

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
And nobody provides more supportive documentation or implement or information
than a guy like Todd Zinser. He's an important voice.
He has an opinion about it. But here are the
documents which gave rise to my commentary or gave rise
to my criticism about the mayor or council or what's

(01:25:09):
going on behind the scenes or Sheryl Long. It's like, oh,
you're just some bright wing concern. No, no, here, here
is the reason why I'm making this criticism. They haven't
followed thood with paperwork, they haven't followed through with where
the money went. Fill in the bike. Why didn't they
buy the trucks we needed to do snow removal? I mean,
he looks into that and then provides, you know, the
credibility for it. Yeah, nobody's listening to him.

Speaker 15 (01:25:30):
Well, and you don't want to feel like you're being
bullied by Plumb Street, right, Yeah. And a lot of
times those news organizations, you know, they're either ideologically ideologically
tied to what's going on at Plum Street, or they're
just afraid to challenge what's going on down there. Guys
like Todd are not afraid, No, not at all. Smitherman
not afraid. Right, And those two podcasts are actually streaming

(01:25:53):
on our home page of the website.

Speaker 1 (01:25:55):
The Cincinnati Exchange dot com. I appreciate you posting my
interview with Brian James from this morning, as well as
The Big Picture with Jack Adad and yesterday. Some of
those podcasts of link right there. Your information might be
linked as well, but I encourage you to bookmark at
the Cincinnati Exchange dot com. We'll bring out them back
and we'll talk a little bit more coming up after
I imagined whom I mentioned now Oder exit od O r XIT.

(01:26:17):
Note about GARC DE talk station. I'm very happy Thursday,
t you call it Friday Eve. We're gonna hear from
Jay Ratliff Bottom of the next hour after we hear
from Congressman David Taylor. Great day to talk with the congressman,
and of course always a great time talking with Adam Kehler.
And you can find the Cincinnati Exchange, which is his
online newspaper, and it is in a newspaper style format.

(01:26:40):
The articles are there, the links are there, the Cincinnati
Exchange dot com and obviously, as you pointed out, the
impetus behind this to provide actual reporting.

Speaker 15 (01:26:51):
Yeah, actual reporting, right, people like Todd you know. I mean,
we've got a bunch of people. You go to our
bout page and you'll see everybody that contributes to the paper.
I mean, I even got my my personal trainer looped
in somehow, my buddy Josh Smith to write some health articles,
you know, calories in, calories out type of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:27:07):
But oh, we got a new food pyramid by the way,
RF right over. I mean, I go back to the
four four three two era back in the seventies, you know,
and they were really focusing on grains and and that's
like the bottom. They treat grains and bread and things
of that nature, like carbohydrates like they used to treat sugar.

Speaker 14 (01:27:28):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. And before the break we were
just talking about food. We're talking about.

Speaker 15 (01:27:31):
Healthy habits and things that you've been doing, things that
I do, and it's it's really important to have that.
But you know, it's also important when you're talking about
the news to tell the truth, amen, and to try
to get out here and have that other perspective. And
the problem is is so the city of Cincinnatis you
could see in Corey's campaign eighty twenty, which was surprising

(01:27:52):
to me, but that's the city. When you go across
the river, you get out into the suburbs, you get
up into Butler Warren, those places are still served by
Cincinnati media. Yes, they are so those people. And you
know when I was running, I was running for Hamblin County.
So go out in different parts of Hamilton County and
you talk to these folks and they're the ones who

(01:28:14):
are like, I'm canceling my subscription to this. I don't
want to read this anymore. I don't feel like, you know,
my perspective or what I see, how I see the
world is portrayed in this particular news. So there's an
audience there that isn't being served correct by the current media.
Outside of like your your podcast, this show. You know,

(01:28:38):
i'd say Trisha Mackie, she's doing a great job. But
there's some people out here that just say, look, I
don't feel like I want to read this thing anymore
because you know, it's just not serving me. So there's
an opportunity there for another news group to come in
here that wants to tell the truth, that wants to
bring in local voices instead of local staff. So I

(01:28:59):
want to bring these people in, mix it up a
little bit and have these stories told from the people's perspective.

Speaker 1 (01:29:04):
Yeah, and you'll, of course you're inviting people to offer content,
it sounds like to me.

Speaker 14 (01:29:10):
Yeah, well yeah, I mean people can come in.

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
It's like writing a letter to the editor. You may
get it published in the enquire you may not. Yeah,
that's right now, that's I suppose that's a may or
may not with you as well. But if you've got
some legitimate point to make, if it's logical, it's reasonable,
and it presents your side of the Ledger, go ahead
and send it into Adam over at the the since
a change. Maybe you'll actually see it in print and
it might get read by someone that's right.

Speaker 15 (01:29:35):
Yeah, And guys like Todd. You know, I trust Todd.
You know I've I've I've talked to Todd so many times.
We were involved in the whole railroad sale thing. Uh,
you know, Todd knows what he's doing.

Speaker 1 (01:29:45):
I mean he does.

Speaker 15 (01:29:46):
Former US Inspector General and you know, dots his eyes,
crosses his t's and he's the type of guy I
want to I want to hear from. And Tom Brickman.
I mean, who's better at talking about tax than Tom Brickman?

Speaker 5 (01:29:58):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:29:59):
Right?

Speaker 15 (01:29:59):
So, I mean you got guys like that that I've
met through my political experience. Uh, you know, people with
some of these organizations that are very concerned about what's
going on in the city.

Speaker 14 (01:30:12):
I mean, look at what just happened.

Speaker 15 (01:30:13):
You had AFTAB come out after they promised there wouldn't
be any new taxes, you know, because of the railroad.

Speaker 14 (01:30:20):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 15 (01:30:21):
Yeah, George Bush all over again, right, and Bush at.

Speaker 1 (01:30:26):
Least faced consequences. Fore, maybe that's why AFTAB kept his
powder dried till after he got elected. And then he says, oh,
by the way, I'm going to raise your income tax exactly,
Oh the name of public safety, though, Adam, this time,
it's not equal housing or affordable housing or some kind
of nonsensical left wing program. It's for public safety right
where you've been on that topic for so long.

Speaker 14 (01:30:45):
Well, they've been hating on the police.

Speaker 1 (01:30:47):
They have been, yes, ganging up on them with obviously
the the the intended result. Nobody wants to be a
cop anymore, or we are now struggling with it. One
more with Adam Keler, followed by Congressman David Taylor after
the top of the Our News will continue in a
moment here at seven forty six right now if you
five kcity talk station, and another opportunity for me to
remind you that there is a the talk station seven

(01:31:09):
fifty here fifty five KRCD talk station probably Eve again.
Congressman David Taylor at the top of the Our News
with Jay Ratliffe if our aviation expert at the bottom
of the next hour. In the meantime, Adam Kayler in studio.
And you really should you really should bookmark and I
know regularly recommend websites of folks, But if you want local,
balanced information about what's going on, you feel like you're
not getting it from your local news outlets, maybe like

(01:31:31):
the Inquirer kind of rubs you the wrong way for
some reason, or you're reporting from Fox nineteen or five
or nine or twelve. The Cincinnati Exchange dot com may
even get your own stuff printed in there. I know
you've had some some good donations, some good offerings, including
Corey Bowman just recently wrote an article for you on
crime in the area. That's great, but moving away from

(01:31:53):
that sort of local element. And I don't want to
take the time away, but you and I just stumbled
ssembled upon something I brought up earlier this morning. I oh, yesterday,
and this is an article right there on this and
say exchange corporate home buying banned. Trump moves to block
institutional investors from buying up all these houses. We know
that's going on. And there are some regions of the
country where the city, the home ownership in the city

(01:32:14):
is like made comprised of fifteen to twenty twenty five
percent of like a Blackrock ownership.

Speaker 15 (01:32:20):
Oh, Blackrock owns a lot, hundreds of thousands of units,
all right.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
The capitalist in me says, well, wait a second, this
is government interference. They are a buyer. It's an open market.
They should be free to buy. But the realist in
me knows that's making things very difficult for the regular
I want to buy a house homeowner, the American dream.
They've been priced out of the market because Blackrock shows
up with, you know, an extra hundred thousand dollars and
you can't compete with that. So I was struggling with

(01:32:44):
that reality. Donald Trump's trying to appeal to the populism,
and this is a remarkable I said this morning. It
sounds like an idea that came from Democrats.

Speaker 14 (01:32:56):
It totally does.

Speaker 1 (01:32:56):
Well.

Speaker 14 (01:32:57):
Remember Trump used to be a Democrat.

Speaker 1 (01:32:58):
So that's he is who whatever.

Speaker 15 (01:33:00):
He's Also he's also real estate guy, right, and he
knows what he's been hearing. I mean, you know, if
I'm a political adviser and I'm talking to him right now, say, look,
the vast majority of people want cheap houses versus love
black Rock, right right, overwhelmingly overwhelming. But yeah, I mean
I think I think it's it's a little bit of overreach.
I mean the same thing he did with the Intel, right.

(01:33:21):
I mean, guys like you and I, more libertarian type folks, yes,
you know we see stuff like that. We're like, whoa
wait a minute, government overreach, but in a different way.

Speaker 1 (01:33:28):
Right, yep.

Speaker 15 (01:33:29):
Uh, And then you look at places like New York.
I mean, look what mum Donnie's doing.

Speaker 1 (01:33:33):
Listeners, Adam's going to shed a light on something that
probably should frighten you. Go ahead, Adams.

Speaker 15 (01:33:39):
Well, and this is the kind of thing I don't
think would get covered correctly here locally. But there's this
thing called the KOPA in New York. And what it
does is it doesn't necessarily seize property outright, the one
big thing we're scared of with communism, right, and socialism
eventually leads to property seizure.

Speaker 14 (01:33:56):
Well, if you own property.

Speaker 1 (01:33:57):
The elimination of private property is the goal.

Speaker 15 (01:34:00):
That's it, right, and then redistribution this is what they promise, right,
So it restricts who you can sell your property to.
And then it slows down the process, so you actually
have to offer your commercial property.

Speaker 1 (01:34:14):
Okay, So I own a building in New York, yep,
I want to sell it. I'm moving, yep. I have
to go to this entity and say I'm selling my home.
Give them. It's the right of first refusal.

Speaker 15 (01:34:24):
Correct, exactly. And in America, you want to sell your
property as quickly as possible, right, you think I live
in America? I own property in America, I could sell
it to whoever I want to sell it to, not
in the city of New York.

Speaker 1 (01:34:34):
So you have a buyer under that scenario and they
want to offer you, let's say a million dollars for
this property, you still must go to that entity and
give them the option of outbidding. Yep.

Speaker 15 (01:34:44):
And nonprofits tied to the government, right, and the government
itself gets right a first refusal. You actually, even if
you've got a deal on the table with a buyer,
you have to offer your property up to one of
these nonprofits. And if it's in a great area, do
you think the city of New York, mom, Donnie is
going to find the money to give to a nonprofit

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who's going to purchase your property?

Speaker 1 (01:35:09):
And what is phase two or perhaps phase three, which
is the ultimate goal in this nonsense. The left wing organizations,
basically a conglomerate of all these organizations will collectively get together.
It becomes sort of the left wing black rock that's right,
and buy up these properties because they have the right
of first refusal. And then what do they do with them?

Speaker 15 (01:35:27):
Oh, they bring in a whole bunch of people to
vote the way they want them to vote and they
stick them in these units and next thing you know,
the city's flooded with democratic socialist.

Speaker 1 (01:35:37):
Well, I think the fact that Mom Donnie got elected
is already an illustration of the city has been flooded
with a Democratics.

Speaker 15 (01:35:43):
So well, when a lack of effort by Republicans or
even by normal Democrats, right, I mean, just moderate people
who just didn't come out to vote. Happened in Miami,
like less than twenty percent of the people came out
to vote. Miami, they have a Democrat mayor now right
after Mayor Suarez, who's, in my opinion, has done a
great job, but nobody's voted. And look at Cincinnatickers put

(01:36:06):
Little California Riverside are the only places in Cincinnati the
vote the vote to the right anymore, and everybody else
is hardcore blue.

Speaker 1 (01:36:15):
This is a permanent fixture now in the fifty five
krecy Morning show studio is this map of the city
of Cincinnati. And when we have crime and bad things happen,
or neighborhoods want to go a different direction beyond SINCINNY
City Council's ideas, I can quickly consult like Oh, Clifton
eighty five to one hundred percent have to have provall well,
that might explain something.

Speaker 14 (01:36:34):
It's all right there, right there, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:36:36):
Appreciate Joe Strecker and what he does every day, Adam Keller,
appreciate what you do. And again to my listeners, check
it out bookmarkt the Cincinnati Exchange dot com. And obviously
there's a welcome opportunity for you to offer some news
items you might want to see there. I don't know
who makes the editorial decisions over there. Perhaps it's you, Adam, but.

Speaker 15 (01:36:53):
That's right right now, it's me. But we just hired
a growth marketer and we're hiring some more people. So yeah,
things rocking and rolling. We got writers are our full
time like kind of staff writer. But yeah, yeah, making
the decisions. But yeah, and you can also go to
cincy X c I n c y X dot com
so you don't have to type in the whole Cincinnati
e Change. Yeah, so you can just type in cinci
X dot com and get there. But yeah, I mean,

(01:37:14):
I'd love to hear from people in the suburbs especially.
I mean, I've always been in the city myself, so
a lot of the people I know are here in
the city, but I'd love to hear from the people
in the suburbs. I mean, you know, the the Northeast
Republican Women's Club folks from that organization, great organization.

Speaker 14 (01:37:29):
I'd love to hear some of their voices.

Speaker 15 (01:37:31):
You know, people on the on the Deep West Side,
who who don't feel like they're they're being heard by
by local news organizations. Like let's get out in the
in the suburbs, let's get over in the Northern Kentucky
and let's hear what everybody has to say.

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
Adam, I can't think you know. If I love the idea,
I love how it's working. The right there. It's easy
to get to cinci x dot com. It Joe's already
edit to my blog page vide five Kersey dot com
the link to the the online paper. Adam Taylor, by
all the success in the world to you, and keep
up the great work you are doing on behalf of
the residents of the area. And that's a great thing,
filling that gap. Welcome back, Congressman David Taylor. Thank you

(01:38:04):
for indulging me. Well, I got that out of my
system and let my listeners know. Welcome back in Happy
New year, sir, it's a pleasure to have you on
as always.

Speaker 5 (01:38:11):
Going to be with you. Brian. I hope you had
a great Christmas in New Year's you know.

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
I did, and I was so optimistic and hopeful that
twenty twenty six was just gonna start off, you know,
great and smiles and grins and Lord almighty, we've had
like six months worth of a news cycle in the
first couple or first week and a half. Let's start
with the most recent news cycle story dominating the headlines,
the ice shooting in Minneapolis. I mean, I guess the idea,

(01:38:36):
listen to what law enforcement has to say. Even if
you disagree with the concept of law enforcement, if you
don't screw around and try to run them over, nothing
bad will happen to you. Boiling it down to its
minimum terms there. Congressman, what's your reaction to what's going
on with this one?

Speaker 5 (01:38:52):
Yeah, it was a falling situation, and the reaction to
the the situation may be even worse than than the
in the long run. Obviously, the Left has been emboldening
their lunatic base from for months now to to take
to the streets and in many different regards, but especially

(01:39:13):
when when ICE or ICE agents are there, you know,
in care of their their mandated constitutional duties, and our people,
like the the mayor of Minneapolis and the governor of
Minnesota are out there saying, you know, we're going to
resist you. And and what they said in the wake
of this was unbelievably appalling. The mayor saying that he

(01:39:36):
instantly says it's it's not self defense when the video
certainly makes it look to me like, uh, it very
much was self defense. And then the governor follows that
up with We're going to call in our National guardsmen
to oppose federal officers who are there to perform their duties.
It was actually made me sick to my stomach. Uh
to hear those comments. Uh, you know, just I'd like

(01:39:58):
to say I'm shocked. I guess I'm not shocks because
since the day I got to Congress, which is all
that many days ago, every Democratic leader that approached a
microphone has suggested some form of violence in the streets
over this or that issue.

Speaker 1 (01:40:11):
Well, they got what I think they were looking for.
They got the martyr they wanted. It's the George Floyd.
In connection with the Ice situation, much in the same way,
it was, you know, George Floyd to start this whole
Black Lives Matter and anti defund the police process. Storm
the streets ignored some of the underlying facts, most notably
that this woman was ignoring the direction directives of authorized

(01:40:32):
law enforcement and did exactly it did, in fact, gunner
car and toward an ICE agent. I mean that's an
intentional act.

Speaker 5 (01:40:40):
I don't anyway, No, absolutely, well, you know two things
on that these ICE agents have heard these constant calls
for violence. In fact, apparently the officer, one of the
officers involved in the shooting had previously been dragged by
a car. They know that these folks that are coming
to the streets are feel fully justified in them whatever

(01:41:00):
they can to stop ICE from doing their duties. And
from a coldly political calculus, as you were referring to,
Democrats know that the American public wants ICE to be
able to do its job. We want we got the
border sealed, but they know there's more work to be
done to get the illegal criminal, aliens, terrorists out of
our country. They're hoping that some violence in the streets

(01:41:24):
were somebody that they can at least portray as an
innocent victim, might change those numbers and help them obtain power.
I mean, that's the real motivation behind the nonsense they
spew into every microphone.

Speaker 1 (01:41:38):
Yeah, and you know, it just troubles me that, you know,
behind the veero all this screaming and yelling and anger
is they're ultimately streaming and yelling and angry over us
getting rid of demonstrably horrific human beings. This has nothing
to do with the color of their skin, has nothing
to do with their country of origin, other than the
fact that they're not American citizens and they violated our
American law by coming here. Don't care what color the

(01:42:00):
skin is, black, brown, yellow, It doesn't matter if they
want to do harm to us, if they are child molesters, rapists, terrorists,
I think I want them out of the country. And
they're arguing that they should be left in our country.
They're ignoring the fraud perpetrated on the state of Minnesota
and the American taxpayers because well, it was done by the
Somali community. If we criticize them for doing this, we're

(01:42:21):
racist for that. No, we apply the law equally to
all people right there. Anyhow, I just find it impossible
to believe that there is an out loud defense of
or for keeping these people in the country when they
are are notably, demonstrably and have been convicted of multiple crimes.

(01:42:41):
I just can't understand it.

Speaker 5 (01:42:43):
Congressman, Well, I think the bulk of the public agrees
with you. And again that's what causes the prona ridiculous
rhetoric that we're hearing from the left to try to
just anything that's to change the narrative around that. And
they had a hearing yesterday with some of the Minnesota
fraud that you were just referring to, and I mean

(01:43:06):
an excellent point was made in that hearing where we
don't care about the color of the skin. All we
care about here is the green. That the fraud is
all green. That's you know, billions of dollars that could
be helping Americas being funneled Somalia to al Shabab or
just kept here and squandered by people who have no
business here in the first place.

Speaker 1 (01:43:26):
Well, I was a little I was taking aback when
I heard at the top of the our news before
the show started this morning at five o'clock that Minneapolis
was shutting their schools down. Maybe Minnesota generally speaking and
out of an abundance of caution because of the organized
protest that popped up instantaneously. Congressman Davidson earlier in the
program in at a student observation, well, that so the

(01:43:46):
teachers can go out and protest. That's so the young people,
the teenagers in high school can get out there and
join the protests. And I think that's probably an accurate assessment.

Speaker 5 (01:43:55):
Yeah, no question, we know what's being taught in some
of our schools, probably especially those around Minneapolis. I'm sure
that the kids and the teachers for sure were very
anxious to be a part of that mass that started
right after the irresponsible remarks from Walls and Fry and

(01:44:16):
Dan Goldman out here, just you know, ridiculous things that
have been said about this officer. They're going to put
his life in danger. It's really sad to see, but
it's not unexpected.

Speaker 1 (01:44:26):
It is sad to see. And then the organizations that have,
you know, have quickly organized these process are just they
vary from like different political ideologies. There are the Green
New Deal folks out there, they are pro Palestinian out there,
the anti Israeli folks, the defund the police folks. Then
you have all these Marxist organizations again collectively joining to

(01:44:49):
stoke the fire of these protests. You know, folks like
the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression, the organization
called Individual, which is a far left wing organization. I mean,
the list is endless, The causes are disparate and varied,
but they are all far left organizations collectively, I think
joining together to undermine America generally speaking. That's the only

(01:45:11):
conclusion I can reach. Include the Palestinian youth movement. What
do they have to do with ice agents?

Speaker 5 (01:45:17):
Right? Well, it's kind of funny, but it's not funny.
But something I've seen here and watching DC, you'll see
a group of protesters in front of a building that
say protesting, you know, maybe in front of the embassy
for Israel or a place like that. Now have three
or four other issue signs or flags laid by their
feet for where they're going next. They're just professional protesters.

(01:45:40):
The cause is less important than the fact that they're out.
There's sturd crap up.

Speaker 1 (01:45:45):
And that goes back to my point earlier, is like,
where in the hell are the conservatives of the world
organizing and taking to the streets in opposition of all
these left winging IDL or left winging organizations, and they're
principles and what they're doing to our country they just are.
And a bunch of people respond to me is everybody
has jobs. The conservatives has had jobs. Now the professional protesters.

(01:46:07):
Your point, it's which sign am I carrying today? Someone's
paying me. I'll just grab the side. We'll continue with
Congressman David Taylor, will find out about what is the
Caro City Talk station. It's a new year and it's
a new conversation with Congressman David Taylor, who is kind
enough to join the morning show and inform my listeners
and me about what's going on on a variety of

(01:46:29):
different topics. So moving over, we've had quite a few
really seriously tragic highway accidents involving commercial driver's licensed drivers.
These big semis get behind the wheel and sadly we
find out they can't even read the road signs. Real problem.
And I think I guess as a response to that,
is that your motivation behind launching this what it says

(01:46:50):
right here, Bipartisan Congressional Trucking Caucus Congressman Taylor, that.

Speaker 5 (01:46:58):
Absolutely plays a role. Brian, for sure, you know trucking
is a big issue in every district, but you know,
in our district maybe more so than some. We've the
Kenworth factories in Ross County. They built eighty five percent
of their their big semis but right there in the
second district. So and of course we talked a little
bit about Connor's Law last time I was on with you,

(01:47:20):
which he addresses a CDL issue you were talking about.
But meeting with my staff one day, I said, you know, well,
we should probably join the Trucking Caucus. There's a caucus
out here for literally everything, which was great, but come
to find out there is not a trucking caucus. So
I talked to my friend Shamari Figures represented from Alabama.
We're kicking off the trucking Caucus. Interest has been off

(01:47:43):
the charts. On a somewhat said note, with one of
our original members, Dougla Malfa of California, unfortunately just passed away,
but he was he was already becoming a very good
friend and very knowledgeable on the trucking issues. So he'll
be missed in many ways. We were missed. Not to

(01:48:04):
mention that, but right the CDL issue has been in
the forefront of the news because of all the horrible
accidents lately, But there are all kinds of trucking related
issues from EPA emissions rules that are currently under review.
It started to know seven that were counterproductive and actually
made trucking less safe. We've sponsored two bills regarding the

(01:48:25):
English proficiency and this is sort of a small trucking issue,
but there's a rule where if you have a semi
broke broken down on the side of the road, it
has to be towed. That tow truck operator has to
break that truck down and toe. You can't toe the
whole thing because of the length requirement LinkedIn weight requirements

(01:48:47):
set everybody's hair on fire in the trucking business. Have
to be very careful dealing with that. But we just
sponsored a bill that said you can pull it to
the next safe exit, next safe place and then break
it down because breaking it down on the side of
road in that situation, and Daniel is not just the
driver toe truck driver, police officer. That's there other drivers
on the road. So we're hoping to get some of
those kind of things done and generally make truckers safer.

(01:49:11):
People are traveling with truckers safer and ultimately trucker's more prosperous.

Speaker 1 (01:49:16):
Wow, before we put it over to the Royal Health
Transfer Transformation Program and some money and love you bring
them back to the state of Ohio. Can I just
ask you out lot, is there any opposition to that
that that that English language requirement if you're going to
operate one of these multi tone commercial vehicles? Is someone
articulated opposition to that?

Speaker 5 (01:49:34):
Generally, Brian, nothing's been articulated. My concern I've expected by
partisan support for it, but.

Speaker 1 (01:49:41):
I would hope.

Speaker 5 (01:49:42):
I'm a I'm a chronic optimist. I get blamed for
that all the time, but so I anticipate, you know,
good ideas to get supported by everybody. But my concern
is the keeping illegal immigrants in the United States is
like a central plank of the Democrat platform now, so
somehow this will tangentially affect that and they may just

(01:50:03):
not say anything about it, but they darn sure may
not vote for it.

Speaker 1 (01:50:07):
At the same time, Well, we will keep our hop
card out and anticipation of that one. And finally we
have the money. The two hundred and two million dollars
it was ward of the state of Ohio as a
consequence of your efforts, what's going on with this, Well.

Speaker 5 (01:50:19):
It took a lot of people's efforts, Brian, I appreciate
that this was huge just as part of the Big
Beautiful Bill. The second District has the worst health outcomes
in Ohio. You know, most chronic illness, is shortest lifespan, obesity,
the list goes on and on. And we have great
community hospitals, we don't have nearly enough of them. We

(01:50:40):
have amazing quality of care, but it's too hard to
get to it, it's too expensive. All those things are
still true, and the situation coming out of the Big
Beautiful Bill is going to threaten the sustainability of our
great community hospitals. And I want to especially thank not
only President Trump, who played a huge role, of course,

(01:51:01):
but Senator Houston and Senator Marino because the bills already
in their hands at that point, they did incredible work.
Especially want to tip my hat to Senator Houstad who
really did excellent work to make Ohio's outcome in that
and that bill as good as could possibly be. So
I don't want to I'm happy to share the information
with your listeners. I don't want to take I don't

(01:51:23):
want to take all the credit that those guys deserve.
They did a great show. We did everything we could
in our office to help it along, but really the
hard work happened over there. But yeah, we'll get two
hundred and two million dollars a year for five years
to strengthen your rural hospitals and clinics and expand access
to primary care, behavioral health services, modernized healthcare infrastructure, and

(01:51:44):
you just improve the health outcomes for people in rural
areas like the second district. The one thing I do
want to add is several Ohio reps of myself, including
Chairman Jordan and Mike Ruley, my good friend, and my
friend Lawren Davidson that you spoke to earlier. We led
a letter to Governor to Wine to make sure that

(01:52:04):
when we get these dollars, they go to rural hospitals.
There are dual designation hospitals that are both urban and rural,
and I'm for all the good work all of them do.
Not all of those dual designated ones have the financial
issues that our real rural hospitals have, so I'd like
to see them prioritize, and hopefully that's what I know
the governor will do the right thing. He has the

(01:52:26):
soft spot for Appalachia and we love that.

Speaker 1 (01:52:28):
That's wonderful. Congressman, it is pleasure always. As always, they
have you on. Congressman David Taylor. I look forward to
our further conversations and counter your twenty twenty six and again,
a very happy new year to you. I appreciate the
work that you're doing on behalf of the Highlands and
the country generally speaking. Keep up the great work and
until our next conversation, best of health to you and
your family.

Speaker 5 (01:52:48):
Thank you, my friend saying to you and yours.

Speaker 1 (01:52:50):
Thank you much. Stay around and I heard me the
aviation next for Jay rattleve it's new year. It's another
segment with Jay. I always look forward to this time
of the week because it's time to get some aviation
and pformation from iHeartMedia aviation expert. Jay ratleft. Jay ratleft,
welcome back and a very happy new year. And my friend,
I'm glad we're continuing this segment because I always look
forward to it.

Speaker 16 (01:53:09):
Yeah, first chance I've had to issue. A happy new
year and a lot to be thankful for us always.

Speaker 1 (01:53:14):
Yeah, yeah, I got through some trials and tribulations in
my life, and I always go out in search of
something that's really positive to sort of negate the blue
that might overcome my mood.

Speaker 16 (01:53:27):
I was taught a long time ago, if you're feeling
really bad about yourself, just got and try to help
somebody else, and it it tends to lift your spirits
a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:53:34):
Yes, it does, no question about it.

Speaker 7 (01:53:36):
I had them.

Speaker 1 (01:53:37):
I won't go back over it. But I had a
beautiful moment yesterday at listener lunch. It actually brought a
tear to my eye. So that was my bright spot. Oh,
the woman added me. She added me to the church's
prayer list and the pamphlet for service because she heard
me mention that I had to go back into my
cancer treatment. I'm starting that next week because my lymph
note started growing again, and so she thought that was

(01:53:57):
the kindest gesture.

Speaker 16 (01:54:00):
I know, there's a lot of people praying for you,
not only when that's going on, but other times as well,
so i'd.

Speaker 1 (01:54:05):
See right there, you know, it sucks, I gotta go
get chemogain, But you know what, I got people out
there thinking about me and doing beautiful things like that,
So I feel positive overall about that. New calendar year
and a new curveball throwing at you instead of the
list that you provided with me, which we will get.

Speaker 16 (01:54:20):
Oh, you mean the nineteen things I threw you.

Speaker 7 (01:54:21):
Yeah, let's talk about something else.

Speaker 5 (01:54:23):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:54:24):
I just thought it was rather unusual. And how often
does this happen? Hopefully not very often. All eight tires
burst on landing and this flight coming into Atlanta the
other day.

Speaker 16 (01:54:36):
Yeah, it's unusual to have. Formally, when a tire blows,
if the crew comes down and has what we call
a hard landing, the main tires, which are the main
landing gear underneath the wing, sometimes you'll see a tire
or to burst on the landing if it's a hard landing, right,
I mean, I don't know that I can control all

(01:54:58):
the brain cells in my head right now. I can't
recall a single time where every you had all these
tires it just boom, went flat. And it suggests some
sort of a maintenance issue more than anything else, because
you know, to impact all tires at the same time
you're talking about an aircraft cut carrier landing, you know, boom,

(01:55:19):
all the main in the front landing gear landing at
the same time, landing hard that's not how we do
commercial aviation. It's more like a space shuttle comes in,
you know, the noses up, the main gears hit and
then they rowed slowly down.

Speaker 1 (01:55:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:55:33):
So but yeah, in this case, it's going to be
interesting to see and we don't know for sure, but
it's either an issue with the crew and I don't
think so, or some sort of mechanical malfunction. Probably it's
a breaking system. It might have engaged something where there
was extreme pressure and stress put on those tires at
one time.

Speaker 1 (01:55:53):
All good news is like they'll locked up for example.

Speaker 16 (01:55:56):
Yeah, exactly. So we don't know that that's the case,
and you know, it may have been a combination of factors.
It was not something that created a safety issue, thank
thankfully for that. But what ended up taking place was that, Yeah,
it was inconvenience for the passengers who had a delay
in getting off the airplane. And you know that's always frustrating.

(01:56:16):
But the good news is you got a story to
tell and on something that rarely happens in aviation. So yeah,
that's that's kind of a I don't want to say,
a cool thing because I went on the plane trying
to make a connection but yeah, it was. It was
definitely unusual.

Speaker 1 (01:56:31):
Fortunately again no injuries, a couple of hundred people on
that plane, but that would just freak me out anyway,
I don't need any more things to freaked me out
about air travel. We'll continue with I heard media aviation
expert Jay Ratliff. Maybe you have a drunk pilot. We
got to ask an airlines pilot on the plane when
the door flew up, apparently now engaging in some litigation.
That and a whole lot more with Jay Ratliffe stick around.

Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
Fifty five KRC been in the cockpit before.

Speaker 1 (01:56:56):
Jay Ratliffe, has I heard media aviation expert? We are
blessed at him every Thursday beginning at eight thirty to
close out the show. Pivoting over Jay Ratliffe, the Alaskan
Airline pilot. This is the guy who's flying the plane
where the door just kind of flew off at a
newer he's suing boeing what.

Speaker 16 (01:57:14):
Yeah, it was well initially when this happened, and it
was actually two years ago Monday, January twenty four, it's
been two years when that seven thirty seven took off,
they left Portland. They were in the air just a
matter of minutes when that door flew flew off, fell off,
however you want to put it. Initially, Boeing was indicating

(01:57:39):
alluding to not outright suggesting, but leaning in the direction
that perhaps the crew oh bit to blame.

Speaker 1 (01:57:48):
And that's like an excuational damage kind of thing.

Speaker 16 (01:57:51):
So yeah, oh absolutely. So what happened was, it was
later discovered by the All Star team the National Transportation
Safety Board, the crew had nothing to do with it
other than doing an incredible job of you know, when
that decompression took place. We talked about how the explosive
decompression was so severe that the cockpit door flew open

(01:58:14):
through the pilots forward. Everything in the cockpit was flying
immediately all through the air. Pilots are trying to figure
out what's going on. They thought maybe a bomb had
gone off. They're trying to do what they can to
make an emergency landing, and I mean they're doing an
A plus plus plus job. And you know, there was
a lot of things that you know, that the crew
was responsible for in a good way. They landed the

(01:58:36):
plane minor injuries, no fatalities, and I guess on a
lot of these briands that you have two years or
so from the event to file a claim of some
kind and towards again, and apparently that that was approaching
and this is a ten million dollar lawsuit. We'll see
where it goes. Strangely and enough, Boeing, who was maybe

(01:58:56):
accusing others, Uh, they were asked to provide documentation the
video in the training records of who was overseeing the
installation of that door at the time that it was
put in the airplane. They lost that right they they
couldn't find it anywhere. So yeah, yeah, exactly. So while
there may be blaming the pilots, you know, they're they're

(01:59:17):
doing Oliver North shredding documents in the back room. But
it's just frustrating. It's you know, and you know, the
movie solely there was an there was kind of a
theme throughout the movie that there was blame on the
crew for not you know, landing the airplane back at
an airport versus going in the Hudson River. There was
some issue with the insurance company, but that wasn't an

(01:59:39):
airline or an aircraft manufacturer necessarily that was blaming a
flight crew. That was more the insurance company that was
you know, responsible for that, Yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:59:48):
A coverage dispute. That's that's independent of that. Yeah, all
rights and exclusions and they're going to assert them. Trust me,
I used to represent insurance companies, would do that, just
that kind of thing almost every single day of my life.
All Right, Well, I thought maybe it was like for
emotional distress or something, considering well.

Speaker 16 (02:00:05):
That's being thrown in there as well obviously, because yeah,
but you know, we'll see where it goes. And again,
that crew just did an incredible job. In fact, such
a good job. The way they reacted is something that
other crews can train with the same ways that the
Southwest Airlines flight over Pennsylvania when that engine decompressed, struck
the side of the aircraft and we had it sadly

(02:00:27):
a fatality. That flight crew Tamy Joe Schultz, who is
the captain on that one of the Navy's first fighter pilots.
She did a great job in what that crew did
is also a subject of training. So yeah, most of
the time, these flight crews just do an unbelievable job,
and it's sad when it suggests that they do otherwise.

Speaker 1 (02:00:45):
Amen to that Air India, I guess got a pilot
there that. I mean, come on, they don't pilots understand
the general you can't drink before flying. What happened with
this I failed to breathalyzer test.

Speaker 16 (02:00:59):
Yeah, what took put in And depending on the airline,
it's either eight or ten or twelve hours a bottle
to throttle, meaning if you know you're on duty at
X amount of time, you cannot have anything to drink
at all, so many hours before you report to duty.
That's where pilots, mechanics and others. So this incident happened
last month late and we're just not getting the details.

(02:01:19):
Where this crew was showing up Vancouver. They were taking
an aircraft to Delhi, and somebody at the airport, one
of the screeners or somebody with the airport operations, noticed
one of the pilots behaving like perhaps they were under
the influence of something. We don't say they were drawn,
because you know, sometimes it could be medication they're reacting

(02:01:40):
to or whatever. So they did what they were supposed to.
They reported it. The police were notified and they pulled
the pilot off I think it was a captain and
gave him a pre flight alcohol test, which he failed.

Speaker 5 (02:01:53):
So they were moved.

Speaker 16 (02:01:54):
Him from service. Air India had another crew come in
to take care of it. And when you've got four
hundreds and pilots or whatever we've got worldwide, anytime one
of these things makes the news, it really goes viral
and people think, oh my gosh, you know, are all
these pilots drinking? And it seems like women never drink
because it's always a man that gets caught. And then
I remind people we have probably less than four percent

(02:02:15):
of the world's population of pilots or women, so statistically speaking,
there's a better chance we're going to be talking about
a man. But obviously men and women both have issues
with substance. And in this case, it was caught, as
most of these are, by somebody at the airport who
notices something and says something, so great job to whoever

(02:02:35):
was responsible for making sure that that was looked into.

Speaker 1 (02:02:38):
Well, it's a good reminder all the pilots of the
world because these are widely reported. So you know, it's
just one more thing. Yeah, don't do that, don't be
that guy.

Speaker 16 (02:02:46):
We'll Spirit You risk your whole career for something like that, right,
it makes no sense.

Speaker 1 (02:02:50):
Now, will Spirit Airlines survive the year topic number three
here on your chart. Will they I hope?

Speaker 7 (02:02:56):
So, I think they're going to need to merge.

Speaker 16 (02:02:58):
I think they're gonna have to merge wither or you know,
somebody may come along and say, we need some additional
silver revenue tubes in our fleet. As far as aircraft,
and you know, spirits there with one hundred and two
or something of these airbus aircraft. Airbus itself, the manufacturer
has about a nine thousand plane back laws. So if

(02:03:20):
you're thinking, you know, I could really use some aircraft,
somebody might look in and go at acquiring Spirit for
no other reason than those resources. So you just don't know.
Now they've got an influx of cash that's going to
keep them moving that they're adjusting some of the things
that are eliminating a lot of the not so profitable routes,
which is good. They've reached an agreement with their employees

(02:03:40):
to for reduce paying benefits. Great job there. They're bringing
in premium seats which are going to allow them to
add create some additional revenue. So brand they're checking all
the boxes, They're doing all the things that they need
to do.

Speaker 5 (02:03:52):
The question is the.

Speaker 16 (02:03:53):
Time on the clock are they going to have enough
cash to keep things moving. Remember they filed for bankruptcy
twice in the last year year and a half, so
they've gone through the Chapter eleven process more than once.
And you know what, we'll see where it goes. I
really hope that they survived. Now they don't fly into
Cincinnati at this point. But anytime you have a low
cost carrier, it helps in whatever market that they're in

(02:04:15):
to keep the fares down because you love that competition
between airlines, and anytime there's a merger or one of
these airlines goes out of business, the legacy carriers behind
closed doors are doing a snoopy dance, and it gives
them the opportunity to raise fairs in a lot of markets.

Speaker 1 (02:04:31):
And make more money.

Speaker 16 (02:04:31):
Remember Delta and the United last year making a billion
dollars in profit in a single quarter, Thank you very much.
So yeah, they would love to see that happen. In fact,
that I think it was the president of United said
the low cost you know model, it's broken never really
worked well. A lot of these low cost carriers are like,

(02:04:52):
we'll show you. So that's why I'm always cheering for
the little guys, you know, CVGS.

Speaker 1 (02:04:56):
Where we fly in and out of. I remember when
there weren't any low cost care. We were one of
the most expensive airports in the country. Welcome to the
reality of competition. Let's bring it now.

Speaker 16 (02:05:06):
We're the airport that a lot of people around the
country want to be. I can't tell you the number
of times I've been on a Sacramento in La San Diego,
a Chicago New York radio station and they say, Jay,
we've looked into the airport at Cincinnati. My gosh, you know,
there used to be a hub they had. This happened
and now they're, you know, a mega hub and cargo
and they've got some of the cheapest fairs now in

(02:05:27):
the country. How did they do it? And it comes
back to the low cost carriers on the commercial side
of things, and we are the envy of the world.
The Wall Street Journal a couple of years ago did
a great article on the turnaround at CBG, and I'm
sworn to secrecy because there's a lot of names I'd
like to drop here, people that are responsible for that
at the airport, and I'm forbidden to do so. But

(02:05:50):
they're working NonStop to do a great job. And that's
why I love seeing the community support the low cost carriers.
Or when we get a British Airways or a new
international carrier that comes in, there's immediate support there as well.
Delta or American adds more flights, bigger airplanes, there's an
immediate response to that as well. So, man, this market's
just doing a great, great job, and I just wanted

(02:06:10):
to continue.

Speaker 1 (02:06:11):
Never thought i'd hear those words. Wasn't that long ago?
Never would anybody even predict that possibility.

Speaker 16 (02:06:16):
Keep low cost carriers came here to die? That was
it in Frontier. Well, look hats off to them. They
led the way. They had one flight to day to Denver.
That they did that for seven years. They came to Cincinnati,
people said you got to be nuts. And then here
comes Allegiant. Then here comes Southwest moving the Daton operation,
and boom it went from there with so many other carriers,
and yeah, you can go around trip to Florida for

(02:06:39):
a hundred hundred bucks. Can't do that without low cost carriers.
And thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (02:06:43):
Let's pause, bring j back and he'll tell you why
you shouldn't wash your hands while on a flight in
the lavatory eight forty seven, Right now, if you have
KERSD Talk Station fifty five the talk Dee if if
you have KERCD talks dation Brian Thomas that I heard
media aviation expert Jay Ratliff moving through the topics this morning.
I think we'll have time to get to American airlines

(02:07:03):
doing using artificial intelligence for the benefit of its customers.
But I got to ask you about this recent study
that apparently was done warning passengers to never wash their
hands during a flight using the laboratory. Is this like
the coffee, like, don't drink the coffee on the airplane.

Speaker 16 (02:07:18):
Yes, sir, I knew you would be all over that
because you're right. But yeah, this comes from the Center
for Food as Medicine and Longevity. It's a nonprofit organization
and they poured over three years of data and they
actually assigned airlines a grade. Now, if you are ever
at airplanes when they are working on the water lines
and you see the mechanic pull it and look at it,

(02:07:40):
you're like, oh my gosh, water coming, I mean it
is it's crudd It is just yes nice. So when
Sherry and I are on an airplane, it's no coffee.
If there's ice and it comes in bag dice that
comes in. That's fine, but no, I mean, and yes,
as far as washing your hands, you need to be
careful because this study came out and said, look, if

(02:08:02):
you're flying Delta Airlines, they were given a grade of
an A. Fact they in Frontier the only two airlines
that received and A from their water cleanliness side of things.
The last airlines a B. But then you sit down
to American Airlines and Jet Blue D and D they're
not doing well at all there. So they said that
there's instances of E. Coli bacteria in the water samples.

(02:08:26):
Two positive tests from E. Coli from Jet Blue. As
if the bathroom isn't a laboratory enough for germs. Now, yeah,
this end, and you know they ought to have a
hazmat sticker on the outside the door. I think that
would be the best way to describe. Never let your
kids ever, ever, ever go in there barefoot ever because

(02:08:47):
of just how bad that it is. And yeah, now
the water is such so it's again you and I've
talked about the water to be careful and not to
do the coffee and the other types of things. And
most people that fly a lot, and especially those that
have listen to us recognize that's not the thing to do.
So yeah, it's just another reminder here in apologies for

(02:09:07):
anybody that's, you know, trying to enjoy their breakfast or
coffee this morning. But look, you didn't get off an airplane,
so you should be happy.

Speaker 1 (02:09:12):
No, but you know there's a whole bunch of people
out there who sort of I think enjoining the mile
high Club might be a good idea. Noe, you don't
want to be in there in that festering peatrie dish
of bacteria, gross.

Speaker 16 (02:09:26):
Panes where they pull out the black light and they
shine and see everything.

Speaker 5 (02:09:29):
Yeah, there, it's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (02:09:31):
The same thing, Flord almighty. U. Yeah, like, well you asked,
like at Jackson Pollock painting Joseph's American Airlines using artificial
intelligence to actually benefit its customers. What's going on with
this one?

Speaker 16 (02:09:42):
I love this. What they've done is a delta of course,
is using artificial intelligence for pricing fares, which is actually
working against us. Not a big fan of that. So
American Airlines said, now we're going to use artificial intelligent
a little bit different in our flight following flight management
process where we can actually plug all this in there,
and we're testing it in Dallas. So the flights are

(02:10:04):
running late. We can use our artificial intelligence software to
tell us how much we can delay a flight going
out of Dallas to accommodate people coming in late. So
they may see that a flight to New York, which
they are normally block, to block whatever time it might
happen to be. Maybe the airflow is not as crowded

(02:10:25):
as normal, maybe they've got good weather, maybe more of
a direct route. Artificial intelligence so tell them that flight
can lead ten to twelve minutes late and still arrive
on time.

Speaker 5 (02:10:34):
Brian.

Speaker 16 (02:10:34):
They're using this to try to better serve their customers,
and I cannot I can't wait till the next time
I want on our Dallas affiliate because I want to
want to brag on American they're in Dallas, because what
they're doing is trying this. It's working out very well. Obviously,
customers love it, and as a result, what's taking place
is they're thinking about using this across the country at
other hubs. Now you know, I've been on a Delta

(02:10:56):
flight where I rush to get from one gate to
the next with a bunch of people, where they let
the connecting flight leave ten minutes early and then look
at me like it's my fault. Here's American Airlines saying,
you know, we'd really like to put the customer first.
And I love it when they're doing that, and I
wish other carriers would have that mentality. But you know,
American used to be the flight leaves on time, regardless

(02:11:17):
of who has to die. Again, that's an overreach, but
that was it, and nothing ever left late, and airline
agents at the gate were held to extreme measures if
one of their flights left late, and American finally said,
you know what, yes, the late flights cost us money,
but there's a little wiggle room. So they relaxed it
and said, if it's the agent's call now, if they

(02:11:38):
need to let that flight leave a minute or two
late based on the customer's needs, then that's what we're
going to do. And it changed the entire mindset. The
agents love this, customers absolutely love it, and again, hass
off to American Airlines. It's an incredible story. We rarely
get to talk about increasing customer service when we talk
about airlines.

Speaker 1 (02:11:58):
Good called, just real quick, any problem of their travel
out there.

Speaker 16 (02:12:01):
Hubb Lice, Denver, Early Chicago late. Other than that, just
don't go to Des Moines. They're getting cream, but that's
not a hub, so we don't care.