55KRC Thursday Show - Congressman Davidson, Vets and Brews, Empower U, Jay Ratliff

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Five O five fifty five kr C Detalk Station Friday.

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Eve S.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Some s s will to a vacation.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
What the hell?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
A pretty great SoundBite to select this morning, Joe, because
that's my reaction to pretty much every headline I'm staring
at this morning in my pile of stuff. Bright time,
it's right here. Glad to be looking forward to the
guests on the morning show, looking forward to talking to
you as well. Feel free to call if you got
something you want to talk about. Maybe you have in
mind one of the many articles and headlines I've got
in front of me, Perhaps grab one and give me

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your shout. Five one three, seven, four ninety eight two
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Also get your I Heart Mediapolist of the podcast great
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Can you imagine being one hundred and fifty plus feet
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go to the surface from that sub This is a
World War two era thing. No modern technology. Yeah that
other things happened to the USS tang got to read
about that. Just a real exciting book and nonfiction it is,
That's what he writes Tom Craven right there for drive

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cares dot com, right next to Judge Enninapolitano. Apparently we're
at it again because subject matter again. We've talked with
Judge before and he and I see eye to eye
about blowing up boats off the coast of Venezuela, and
now we've moved them to the Pacific. So apparently we
are now shooting boats and blowing up boats in the
Pacific Ocean, Pacific side of South America. We just did

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this the other day. This springs. The number of strikes
I think to eight usually kill most of the people
on those. The judge pointed out death toll is now
at thirty seven to actually survived. I think it was
two from the submarine we blew up the other day.
And I find this to be beyond the pale and unconstitutional.

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Judge feels the same way. Draw your own conclusions. I
know it's politically expedient and it's quick. Just blow them
up and don't worry about it. What are they going
to do? Lawyer up. It's a possibility. As the judge
pointed out, the two people who lived survive may very
well have a legal cause of action against the United
States of America for the attempted murder. Just hear what
the judge has to say and draw your own conclusions.

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Lakita Cole joined the program. She's running for since I
a city council. Oh, look top of the rundown Judge
Treker reminding me of something I do remember. But it
is a reminder. Remind you early voting. It's going on now.
You don't have to wait till election day to cast
your vote, and strongly encourages the residents of the City
of Cincinnati, most notably to do that, although you know
there are other issues to vote on, lots of school
levies out there. A lot of listeners have reached out

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to me about the school lo thees and people are
a little upset about the ask. So do your research.
Get a copy of your ballot before you go vote.
That way you know what to vote on. And please,
dear guy, pay attention to the judges. Know ahead of
time which judges you are going to vote for. So important.
What else Americans prosperity. Some results out of Columbus ohiobot

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property taxes, A couple of bills are on the way
to being passed. And of course Jack evident with the
big picture truly affordable healthcare not really headline Wall Street Journal.
Get a load of this headline and you got to
read it to break it down. The average cost of
a family health insurance plan is now twenty seven thousand

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dollars rose deeply for the third year in a row,
they say, reaching just under twenty seven thousand dollars for
a family plan. This annual server from KFF, which provides
well health coverage information, six percent increase from last year.

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The prior to years we had seven percent increases. Yes,
the rising cost of health insurance, you see it every
single day. Maybe your employer sees it. The employers are
more likely to pass it along to you. These days,
nearly half the United States population gets health coverage through
their job. But the rising cost of employer coverage is
becoming a real problem for employers, so they're choosing different

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options to defray the costs passing along to their employees,
turning things into health savings accounts, which allow the employees
to select their own insurance and use the money that's
allocated into the health insurance savings account to buy whatever
they want. In other words, the employer isn't directing your
coverage anymore, just giving you some money that they would
have paid toward a premium. Premium has become too expensive,

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so keep the money the same and just give it
to the employee. So that's going on all over the place.
I always recommend Cover sincecy Hey free spot for cover,
since he call them and see if there's a better
way to get you insured. Electricity bills going up too,
Isn't that a wonderful thing. I've got an exclamation to

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point on that. I saw a local local story John Mattaree,
who does the investigator reporting, you know, don't don't waste
your money kind of reporting. Winner Price Outlook, National Energy
Assistants and Directors Association, whatever that organization is, estimates home
heating average increased eight percent more this year nine and
seventy six bucks. But if you heat with electricity, you're

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going to be hit harder. It's average heating cost twelve
hundred and five dollars. Now, of course, matterise doing what
he does talks about ways you can lower your your
your energy bill. But it's a typical thing you might
think of, you know, get a smart thermostat, you know,
insulate USA, insulation, et cetera. But it's going up, and

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what are the things There's an issue here, although it's
probably not first and foremost in the hearts and mind
to the greater Cincinnati voters as they determine who they
want to vote for for mayor. Aftab purval is mister green.
He's even had on the record statements to the effect
that he views everything that he does as mayor of
the City of Cincinnati first and foremost through the lens
of green, green carbon reduction, you know, global warming, et cetera.

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So with that in mind, and I've said many times,
so many times you probably know exactly what going to
say ab out loud. How much impact does the city
of Cincinnati has as much energy resources and most notably
taxpayer dollars are being thrown in the way of making
us a green city. How much good is that going
to do on a global stage, since we are one
tiny city in the world. Don't even say, probably not much.

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It's not going to do anything at all. Here's a
great fact to support my conclusions in that regard. Now,
Australia is big on trying to reduce their carbon emissions.
They spent a lot of money Australia does on doing that.
They allocate a lot of researches, in resources in order
to get to that net zero carbon emissions. That's our goal. Oh,

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this is great. Every effort the continent of Australia, the
country of Australia, also continent size, are being totally negated
by China, which admits as much carbon as much carbon
in twelve days as Australia does in an entire calendar year.
This research by the Institute of Public Affairs. According to

(07:38):
Chain Hussey research fellow, there even in a highly unlikely
event Australia would would ever reach net zero carbon emissions,
this would be canceled out every fortnight by China. He's
a research fellow with this instant, says continuing the pursuit
of goal of net zero missions amounts to an act

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of devastating economic self harm. Not the words I've selected
in the past, but I always say we're cutting our
own throats. Look what the European Union does. Look at
Germany's economy after pursuing this, for every ton of emissions
Australia has cut, let me emphasize this again. I'll say
out loud, I'm emphasizing it case you can't get the

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ton of my voice for emphasis. For every ton of
emissions Australia has cut, China has increased its output by
thirty six thousand tons. Okay. This instant cites a range

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of other measures that it says prove Australia's and net
zero policy is reckless and utterly futile. For instance, China's
responsible for seventy three percent of the increase in global
carbon emissions since two thousand and four. Well, during that
period of time, Australia's emissions declined from one point three
percent of the world's total to one point one percent.
Congratulations on that zero point two percent drop there, Australia

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over a full decade plus. For every coal fired power
station currently operating in Australia, China operates sixty six. That's
up from fifty seven just a few years ago, and
they're currently building another one hundred and seventy seven coal
fired power stations, with a further two hundred and twenty

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six coal fired power stations in pre construction phase Australia,
how many think they have in pre construction in maybe
a glean in somebody's eye, stage zero none. This researcher,
maintaining zero net zero requires turning a blind eye to

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the significant economic, social, and humanitarian cost it is causing.
As the Productivity Commission recently acknowledged, Australia is pursuing this
policy even though our emissions do not have any impact
on the global climate, a continence worth of people. I
know that the Australian population is not massive, but you're

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talking about in an entire country's emissions. What are the
emissions of the three hundred thousand or so residents of
the city of Cincinnati. I'd love to see the comparison
of that tiny fraction to even Australia's total emissions. Massive
cost without any meaningful environmental benefit, he said. We're seeing

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the de industrialization of Australia and you can scratch out
the word Australia. Put European Union, Put any given country
in the EU, Put the United States in there if
you want. Fortunately, we seem to be moving in the
opposite direction, waking up to the cold, harsh reality that
this is a wasted effort if China's not going to
reduce its missions and reduce its carbon output. And I

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really firmly believe that carbon dioxide is plant food. It
is not a polue, and I don't think it's doing
a damn thing anywhere anybody. And a volcano will put
out more carbon than probably China in a given year,
negating all efforts by all countries in the entire globe
to reduce their carbon emissions, wildfires, volcanoes. I mean, look,
we could go on for hours. I just wish we

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would collectively wake up to the reality this is just dumb.
So got that out of my system. Five three, seven,
four nine fifty five eight hundred and eight two three
talk Pound five fifty on AT and T phones five
sixteen right now. I'll be right back after these brief words.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
This is fifty five KRC an iHeartRadio State.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Five twenty year, fifty five K season talkstations. I didn't
see this, but Joe Strecker did.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Came in.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
It was in my stack this morning and I read
the announcement. Community Shares it's an organization Community Shares. The
Greater Cincinnati UH describes itself as well an incubator social
Justice Incubator, providing the only local charitable umbrella for social
slash economic justice organizations, environmental causes, animal welfare agencies, serving

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the strikes Day for nearly thirty years. You can check
it out yourself since he shares dot org that organization
is in investing the quote unquote investing about a quarter
of a million dollars to promote mental health and safety
for transgender and non binary youth. They say in the announcement.
The funding will expand after school programs and youth groups,
supporting legal clinics, lawyers, transsensitivity training, provide trans youth with

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access to summer camps, retreats, and tailored healthcare services. They say,
we'll also launch a new digital magazine run by and
for trans youth, giving them a space to share their stories, creativity,
and perspectives. Well along comes Signal ninety nine. Little upset
about this because as I was reading this, I was
I wonder where Community Shares gets its money. It's a

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little it's money from the broader public. It's got some
corporate sponsors. If you want to check it out, decide
to offer yourself, whether you think it's appropriate for the
corporate sponsors to support this organization and then the draw
your own conclusions. But apparently a courd to Signal ninety nine,
it's the City of Cincinnati taxpayers that are parting funding
part of this. Let me just read what you had
to say about this. Thank you Signal ninety nine follower
on Facebook. Residents of the city was waken up to

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the fact that once again their tax dollars are being
steered towards a highly divisive policy well the city. Since
a leadership rolls ahead with the second half of a
five hundred thousand dollars fund for transgender or non binary
youth services, many ordinary taxpayers say, Hey, I didn't sign
up for this, and they're less than thrilled about how
the money is being spent. At the heart of the
matter of motion by Cincinnati City Council to take a

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quarter of a million dollars every year from the city
Health Department budget, which signal points out dollars secured from
the taxpayers and allocated for quote mental health and safety
services for transgendered and non binary youth close quote motion
introduced by Counselman Mark Jeffries stating quote, we need to

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take care of our kids, in this case, kids who
are in the LGBTQ community who clearly needs some services
and help mental health assistance close quote. He then stated,
it's a very small amount that could have a pretty
significant impact on the lives of these young people. Now
only pause and interject real quick here, the money's being
allocated at transgender programs. What does that have to do

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with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, or I don't even know
what queer necessarily means. It's transgender. So you didn't need
to put the whole LGBTQ letters together their Jeff, I'm
making the announcement. It only deals with the t all right.
Further to signal ninety nine posts and the membo from
the city manager share along to Council funding announcement protecting
the mental health and safety of transgender and gender non

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binary Youth. That's the announcement says there is a priority
focus on projects that provide safe spaces for tgd slash
non binary youth. Yeah, glaze over your eyes because it's
min are remove barriers to participation in healthcare, supports, community,
educate providers in the public on TGD needs, and increased
opportunities for tgd slash non binary use lah and that

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has signal ninety nine points out. Not everyone is buying
the narrative that we're all paying for it, you said,
she said. In practical terms, those opposed question why the
tax dollars should be earmarked for a cause they didn't
vote for, especially when other budget needs loom largead roads
need repairing, schools need funding. The city pension stressed. Meanwhile,

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that's an understatement, signal a stress city pension. Meanwhile, this
program is seen by some is pushing a politically charged
agenda rather than strictly a universal health or social service need.
Right broadly speaking, she kind of acknowledges that there's some
people that need some help on services out there. Why
are they limiting this money just one small slice of

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the population. The t component of the lgbt, q RSWXYZ
group shed, we're all for your marketing. Public health funds
for mental health therapy generally, but not summer camps, say,
spaces legal gender renaming activities and programs, or clothing allowances

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for kids suffering from generice foria issues. It's a very
lengthy post. I only read about half of it. She
just that makes wonderful, wonderful points. But the reason I
even interjected her comments was because apparently the and her
she's got the quotes from Jefferies and the allocation of fundings,
the money that went to the Community Shares, the outside

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organization and NNGO, if I might say, was allocated for
these programs priorities. We got an election coming up. Is
this an appropriate priority for you? Given the limited number
of dollars that we have, Would you rather have some
lane miles or roads paved? Would you rather have the
money go to mental health generally for all the troubled

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youth out there, regardless of which category they fall into
in terms of their sexual preferences or their clothing preferences. Yeah,
that seems to me to be I don't know. I'm
troubled and bothered by that. Bobby and Carl are on
the phone, and I'm happy to take their calls. Got
a pause right now, it's already five twenty six, fifty
five KR City Talk station. We get to phone calls,

(17:21):
maybe local stories. I'll go either way, but right now
it's looking toward phone calls.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Be right back fifty five KRC five twenty nine.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
I didn't even mention who's coming up on the fifty
five KRC Morning Show. Before I jump to the phones,
got a few callers on the line. Congressman Warren Davidson
coming up at seven oh five. Latest on the shutdown. Ooh,
this sounds interesting getting rid of the irs. Question Mark
plus Tomahawk missiles the Ukraine. I think that's a big no. Matt, Damaris,
vets and Bruce. Matt returns to the studio talking about
Honor Bus twenty twenty five. He's a good man helping

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out the American veterans, buying them beers all the time.
You can help them out with that effort empower you.
Jed Harding's going to tour of the Cincinnati Classical Academy
that he'll in the program ANADO five, and then we'll
hear from Jay Rhet Love coming up at eight thirty.
Our favorite iHeart media aviation expert, well the only one,
but he's a great guy. Over to the phone, got
Carl on the line first, Carl, thanks for calling this morning,

(18:11):
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (18:13):
Good morning, Brian say, I've got a public service announcement
for everybody. You were talking about early voting. I turned
in my absentee ballot request over a month ago. I
hand delivered it to the Hamilton County Board of Elections
and I still have not received my ballot. So I
did call them yesterday. Well, no, first of all, I

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went to their website and I checked and it said
that they had received it, but it didn't say that
it was mailed out. So I did call them, and
what they're going to be doing is they're going to
be sending me another ballot. And the lady there mentioned
go ahead and vote on the first ballot that I
received and then turn it in. But we've got less

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than two weeks before the election, so I thought i'd
throw that out there. Somebody hasn't received their ballot yet,
they can check the website.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Thanks to the head's up, Carl, I didn't realize they
were having a problem. I hope it's just an isolated
incident for you that got lost in the mail, or
maybe some idiot stole it. I don't know, but I'm
happy that they at least let you know what was
going on.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
Right then a comment about the police chief Fiji. That
story has gone international.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (19:24):
They are writing about it in the International News or
International Business Times, in Singapore news Week and Hindu Times.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
I saw it.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
I do.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
You're going to say that for whatever reason, the HINDUO
Times has taken a keen interest in the city of Cincinnati. Yes,
it is funny, it is, and they're.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
Doing a much better job at the reporting than our
local reporters. For example, The Hindu or the International Business
Times mentioned that she is making two hundred and three
thousand dollars a year, and I was wondering, how much
you know the salary he was of the police chief.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
I saw that reported locally as well, Carl, I have
to acknowledge that.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Oh yeah, okay, I didn't see that.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
I think, honestly, Carl, I think it's irrelevant to the story.
I mean, her salary is her salary. She was making
that last year, let's say nothing was going on, and
this year. I don't think it becomes irrelevant issue because
she's been canned or they're leaning toward getting rid of her.
But yeah, I it bit it has been reported.

Speaker 6 (20:24):
Anyway, Okay. Also, I was wondering, who is Mayor Prierval's
campaign manager to not advise him that firing the police
chief before the election is not a good idea. It's
not a good look at all, you know, they're short
on police officers in the city of Cincinnati, so they

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do they get rid of the top cop.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, and spend two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
on the LGBTQ safe spaces and I guess newsletter.

Speaker 6 (20:57):
Yeah, I just heard you say that. Yeah, absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
You could pay a police chief a full year's salary
with that money, Carl.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Yes, And nobody's mentioned they wasted the money on sending
the police chief out to Denver. I assumed the city
of Cincinnati paid in advance to help this chief go
out there. Sure, there's a fee for that to attend
the conference. There's the hotel, room, plane flight, all of that,
and then they call her back. They could have left

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her out there. They could have told her, Hey, when
you're out there, ask some questions. See what we can
do about the crime problem that we're having in Cincinnati.
Maybe some of the other chiefs have some good ideas.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
That's about what we can do here. That's the point
of those conventions, to share information and learn best practices,
what's worked in some areas, what's failed in others. That's
the idea of those conferences from my perspective.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
Yeah, and quick comment about former fire chief Chief Washington.
There is a photograph of him out there and he
is dressed in his dress blue and he is standing
next to the presidential limousine with the presidential seal. If

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his lawyers, oh and of course he's he's got his
gold badge on. He looks very handsome. If his lawyers
don't get that picture introduced to the jury, they should
be disparred. I mean that picture is worth not only
a thousand words, it's probably worth one hundred thousand dollars
to his case, maybe up to a million.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Well, yeah, we'll see maybe even a millions of fraction
of what he's going to get from the City of
Sincinnta taxpayers when they settle the lawsuit that he will.
I mean, he's already won. He was wrongfully terminated. It
was determined by a judge. So it just becomes a
question of what size check. I believe the city's going
to write good parts. Carl, appreciate your call this morning. Man.
There you can get Bobby in real quick, Joe, real quick, Bobby.
Welcome to the Morning Show.

Speaker 7 (22:50):
Happy Thursday, My brother face flag family firearms. You keep those,
you always keep your freedom. Yes, sir, well, I got
one thing. What's planned B?

Speaker 2 (23:02):
And it has to do with the mayor, city countsil
and everything.

Speaker 7 (23:07):
We may get a token independent or of somebody on council,
but the mayorag is going to hold his position, and
the council members, if they got a D next to them,
will probably hold theirs. So we got some of the
best listeners and the best course bondings and commentators.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
What's planned B?

Speaker 7 (23:27):
When they get right back in office?

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Does anybody have plan B?

Speaker 1 (23:32):
It's a legitimate question. Perhaps we'll view it the way
Derek Hunter, opinion editor over at the town Hall, just
except that New York City has lost his conclusion in
his op ed piece, why do we care? You probably don't.
What the hell does anybody care out here beyond the
residents of New York City that they're going in that direction?
Watch them fail. Use it as a cautionary tale down

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the road for for future campaigns about what not to do.
Maybe that's what people outside of the city of Cincinnati
will be doing relative to the choices that the residents
of the City of Cincinnati make in the upcoming election. Wow,
they went full on leftist again. They re elected a
guy who was failing the city. It's only gonna get worse.
Let's sit back, get our popcorn out, as I like

(24:13):
to say, and watch the whole thing fall apart. Is
that what we want, it may be what we get.
You have a choice, go ahead and make it. Appreciate
the call, Bobby. Five point thirty six. Tom, you're up next.
You know that, looking forward to hearing what you have
to say. USA installation E Friday Eve. Before I grabbed

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Tom's phone, call your phone calls are welcome. Five one three, seven,
four nine fifty eight hundred eight two three talk a
little bird. Good friend of mine, longtime friend of mine,
a very influential person in my life, lives in Cleaves
and he asked me to pass along to you. If
you're a Cleave's resident or you're just interested, the Committee
for the Preservation of Cleaves Safety Services is invites you

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to a public meeting on Issue ten. This meeting begins
at seven pm at Miami Township town Hall tonight. So
if you want to show up, please residence. I recommend
you do seven pm at Miami Township town Hall tonight. Tom,
thanks for calling this morning. Welcome to the Morning Show.
Appreciate you holding over the break there.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
Yeah, good morning, and thanks for all the all the
good topics there for Carl and Bobby. Good question, Bobby,
what will we do in the sort of likely event?
But you know, let's let's let's keep our let's keep
our hopes up at the city the citizens of Cincinnati.

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I have realized just how ridiculous these democrats are. I mean,
you think of the topics that you had brought up
this morning, and just how dumb it is to be
funding things that, I mean affect a very very small
percentage of people. I'm not saying people don't have problems
and issues to deal with, but why is it the

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public's responsibility to deal with these Especially if you're talking
about children, that's their parents' responsible ability. You know, maybe
we should be less of a financial burden on families
as a government, and maybe they'll have extra money so
that they can deal with whatever issues their children have,
whether it's that kind of issue or any other health

(26:15):
or mental issue, whatever. But these these democrats are picking
these ridiculous topics because they pull on people's heartstrings and
they affect emotion.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Well some people's heart strings to it doesn't work with me.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
Well, I mean it kind of it affects our emotions
because it kind of picks us off that money is
being wasted on this stupid stuff, whether it's Green Initiatives,
whether it's the LGBT community. I mean, it does affect
all of us if we're paying attention and effects us.

(26:51):
If we're not, if we're just not even bothering worrying
about this stuff and just voting whatever or however, or
not even voting at all, then yeah, it doesn't affect
But if we're paying attention somewhere or another, we're affected
by this and were called to action one way or another,
and to speak to people who are voting for this stuff,

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who are voting for the people who are in favor
of this stuff, use some common sense. It doesn't make
any sense to be dealing with Green Initiative, Like you said,
I mean, why are we wasting our time with this?

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, I mean we're talking about That's the easiest one
as far as I'm concerned to focus on. Now, how
they out of the letter Salad chows trans people to
allocate funding for mental health resources. I'm not quite sure
if that's fair to the other people that are struggling
in on life's margins financially, who are not trans and
yet are struggling mental health. But that can be put

(27:46):
aside and let's focus on the whole green thing. Noting
that China puts out in twelve days carbon dioxide the
carbon dioxide output of Australia for annual carbon dioxide output,
that point alone illustrates these absolute outright stupidity of Cincinnati
engaging in any green project period.

Speaker 5 (28:06):
Well, I hardly agree with that. That's why I'm saying,
you're bringing these topics up, and it's making it obvious
how absurd it is that we're that we're trying to
do or at least they're making it sound like they're
trying to do things, and it's it's it's dumb. And
if you want to make create some safe spaces, and
why not spend money on police officers, maybe people like

(28:28):
Holly would feel like that, you know, maybe they could
use a safe space, you know, and have a couple
of extra police officers downtown so people aren't acting stupidly
and violently because there's a police officer around. How About
how about some safe spaces for the residents and maybe
visitors to the city who are going to spend their

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money and actually help economically instead of throwing it. And
it causes that that are not our responsibility as a public.
It doesn't make any sense. So obviously the responses. Don't
vote Democrat.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Have a great day, Brian, Thanks Tom, you did the same.
Five three two three talk absent phone Friday, Congress, Baren
Davidson seven oh five, First test of the morning phone calls.
Always walking here in the fifty five cars a morning show,
and good morning to my mom if you're listening. The
granola you made is awesome. She makes homemade granola. Oh,
it's off the charts good and nutritions and doesn't have

(29:23):
any preservatives or additives. Anyway, Over the locals or over
to stack of stupid, and we start with the local story.
Guys been arrested after Fairfield students a board of school
bus witnessed him touching himself. Fairfield Township Police Department said
Brandon Kohlenberg. Brandon's forty three. He's from Middletown, charged with

(29:44):
misdemeanor publican decency. Police said it happened the the the well,
what he did you find out here in a second
happened the day before he got arrested anyway, a court
of Fairfield Township Police they were notified by the school
resource officer of a public indecency in sident. This Kuhlenberg
guy driving on State Route four bypass toward Tylersville Road

(30:05):
High School students said they saw him inappropriately touching himself
next to the school bus. Sergeant Brandon McCroskey the police
department I received a phone call from the SRO Fairfield
Freshman Building that two of their students saw a male
engaging in sexual activity in his car driving up the
bypass and they saw it. Now, remember big brother is

(30:27):
watching you. Police said that flock cameras, traffic cameras, and
cameras on the bus all helped them identify Kuhlenberg as
a suspect. Embarrassing it must have been. The forty three
year old was arrested while he was at work. Another
local pervert, sixty seven year old Westchester, Kentucky man, arrested
yesterday after police say he exposed himself walking around a

(30:50):
group of children at a school bus stop. Elvis Jones,
now facing charge of indies and exposure resisting arrested after
incidents that occurred earlier in the week on College Street,
eight half mile from the elementary school and a public park.
Westchester Police Chief Travis Thompson talking to reporters as Fox
nineteen no wkyt give them credit anyway. First receive reports

(31:13):
about Jones's behavior toward teenagers waiting for the bus. We
received a call earlier Monday morning and an adult female
who witnessed an elderly gentleman with an interaction with teenage
walking teenage walking to the bus stop grammatically incorrect. Daveman apologized,
Please say Jones tried to build a relationship with a
fourteen year old and attempted to give her pajamas as

(31:35):
a gift. Department received a similar call on Tuesday from
another mother whose daughter had been given fifty dollars from
an elderly man. Incidents Monday and Tuesday led to the
arrest yesterday. Thompson said the department deployed ten plain clothes
officers Wednesday to catch him. One officer identified Jones as
he was approaching the bus stop with children present. According

(31:55):
to Thompson, he was approaching at the time the bus
stop was some kids at where God, what is with
grammar here? Bus stop? Where children were when an officer
circumvented and immediately identified him as a police officer and
told him he was under arrest. Bottomount has not yet
been sent. Thompson urged parents and children to remain vigilant.
Just be aware of your surroundings.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
If you're the.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Child, your head needs to be on a swivel. And
if someone approaches that you are not familiar with, you
need to be prepared what you're going to do in
that situation. Although not offering any words to the ferious,
the biggest douche of the universe, in all the galaxies,
there's no bigger douche than you.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
You've reached the top, the pinnacle of douche.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Dum, good going, dou Your dreams have come true.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Uh and finally we go to apparently South Korea. Bizarre
incident sparking sparking national attention. A woman accidentally said her
apartment building on fire while attempting to kill a cockroach
city of Osan, resulting in the death of a neighbor,
left several others injured. That's the fire in the apartment,
According to local news, A woman in her twenties used
a makeshift flamethrower that will be a lighter and a

(33:15):
flamma flammable spray can in an effort to burn the incident.
The flames quickly spread the household items, sparking a fire
that engulf the apartment and spled throughout the entire building.
A woman in her thirties, tragically Chinese national, living on
the fifth floor with her husband and two month old baby,
lost her life in the fire as the flames and
thick smoke blocked the escape routes. Lesson to be learned here,

(33:42):
don't do that. It's doing idiot things because they're idiots
plenty coming up. Oh look, I guess it's police Chiefdiji's
and employment at will employee. They don't need cause to
fire her.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Well, as we dive into detail of that, think about this, Well,
wait a second, why would they get rid of her.
They can't come up with a reason for having put
her on unpaid or on paid administrative leave. I'm confused
by everything that's going on in the city of Cincinnati.
More to talk about coming up. Your phone calls are
always welcome. It's five fifty six right now, be right back.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
Today's top headlines.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Found Thomas Share wishing everyone a very happy Friday, even
inviting you to stick around all morning.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
For now.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Congressman Warren Davidson returns with the latest on the government shutdown. Yeah,
it's still shutdown. I don't know. I'm seeming to be
optimistic about topic number two, which is written down getting
rid of the irs question mark, Hm, dream about that?
Giving Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine? Question Mark, No, I don't
think so. I think that's a stick a fork in

(34:47):
that concept. It's done, although we will see see that
landscape seems to change daily. Matt Damarius vets and Bruce.
Mattdmarus is going to return buying beers four veterans Noble Cause.
So if you want to buy a beer for beer
for a veteran, you've donate a little bit of contribution
to Matt de Maris. He make sure that there's these
donation boxes in the various bars that help out with

(35:07):
the Bets and Bruce program. And he does Honor Bus
every year. It's Honor Bus twenty twenty five, and Matt's
going to show up at seven thirty in studio to
talk about this year's Honor Bus. I've been on that.
It's a lot of fun. Thankfully they let me go,
even though I'm not a veteran empower you. Jed Harding's
going to join the program at eight o five tour
the Cincinnati Classical Academy. Good thing to do. You have
education choices fortunately here in the state of Ohio, and

(35:30):
if I had a young person, I would get in
that really really really long line and hopefully get the
benefit of that child, my child having a Cincinnti Classical
Academy education. It wasn't around when my children went to school,
although these seem to have done okay with public education
thanks to Loveland Schools. Anyway, Jay Ratliffe, I heard me.
The aviation expert joins us at eight thirty. Looking forward

(35:51):
to that. As always always fun topics with Jay Ratliffe.
Feel free to steer the topic of conversation here by
calling five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred,
eight hundred and eight two three talk pound five fifty
on AT and T phones. Wait a minute, maybe she
doesn't have a contract that requires a four cause termination
Fox nineteen. Jennifer Edwards Baker says a December twenty twenty
two letter signed by police Chief well On administratively Teresa

(36:15):
Thiji isn't in line with her attorney's statement the other day,
which he said she can only be terminated if there's cause.
Remember he claimed that as an employee for more than
six months, she's subject to well the collective bargaining provisions
or something along those lines. Anyway that required cause. In
other words, there has to be a reason. She's not
employment at will, which is what most people in Ohio are.

(36:38):
Not all states have employment at will. But if your
boss comes in and fires you, in most cases they
don't need a reason. Sorry, we're just letting you go,
so cause or no cause. So Fox nineteen got a
copy of this data December twenty twenty two. This document
apparently signed by Fiji from the City of Cincinnati, where

(37:02):
she acknowledges the position of police chief is what they
call an unclassified position. It explains in writing in this
case Thji quote accepting unclassified positions serve at the pleasure
of the appointing authority and can be dismissed from employment
without cause at any time. Unclassified employees are not recognized

(37:23):
under this civil service system. And I think that's what
the attorney was hanging his hat on. And are therefore
not afforded civil service protections and or hearing scranted classified employees.
So a bit of a wrinkle developing here, we'll see,
and then pivoting over, I'm still unclear. Maybe you're clear,

(37:44):
and that's why I invite you to give me a call,
because I can't stay up on all the reporting on
everything in the world. It's literally impossible. Has anybody ever
articulated a reason why police Chiefdji was asked to step away,
asked to resign maybe a subject to getting fired, whether
it's for cause or not. What's the reason? Is it
just crime in the city and we need escapegoat to

(38:08):
blame someone for crime? Does police Chief Theji, or did
she when she was actively police chief, have any leeway
regarding policing policies. That seems like a stupid question to
even ask. Well, she's chief of police. Of course she's
got some leeway. But that's not what been rumbling behind
the scenes. Because we do have a woke administration. We
do have a mayor and a council, most of whom

(38:29):
were you know, pro rethinking the police when that was
all the rage, you know, the post post George Floyd world.
We live in and oh, my god, please are all
terrible racists. We need to take money away from the police,
rethink it and give the money to, oh, I don't know,
some non governmental organization who's gonna I don't know, engage
in some therapy session on the street or something. The

(38:50):
point being not police officers doing police officer work, in
other words, arresting people to have committed crimes and sort
of presenting a display in order to maintain public sas
safety just by virtue of their visual presence. Did she
have any authority to do anything? And that's what's actually
gonna come out if this goes anywhere litigation or otherwise,

(39:11):
these conversations that we all presume happened behind the scenes
between Purval Cheryl Long and the police chief, or maybe
Iris Rawley was in the room. I don't know. We're
gonna have to find out. But as of right now,
one day she's police chief, and you know, in the
preceding weeks getting you know, pats on the back and
rave reviews, and now she's doing a great job, YadA YadA,

(39:31):
YadA YadA, and next thing you know, the lights are
turned off. Why does anybody know why? And the reason
I labor that point, Scott Wartman to the Inquirer is
reporting that Mayor I have to have par Baal said
he expects the city's internal investigation into the police chief

(39:52):
to last months. In sead, addressing the media off to
the city council meeting yesterday, Purvoll said he could not
offer details about the internal investigation, referring questions this is great,
how convenient, referring questions to the city manager Cheryl Long,

(40:14):
who the mayor is saying, is the one that made
the decision to place Dji on paid administrative leave. I
heard him say that the other day. It's like, what,
Perval and the city manager are the ones that have
control over her destiny. They hired her and they can
fire her. That's a two person decision making process. I
presume Cheryl Long didn't go off on her own and
let the police chief go or put Parker on the

(40:35):
side without mayor have to have Provoll's express approval. So
he likes to kind of dodge that, Oh, city manager,
I stand by the city manager's decision yet, and you
stand by your own damn decision. Aftab just say it
out loud, but what are they investigating? Have to have
provoll I can't reveal the details about the investigation. Okay,
well that's convenient. You need to go to City Manager

(40:58):
Cheryl Long to get questions about that quote. The city
manager's office declined to comment. I know this goes on
in politics all the time. It reminds me of like
everything that happened in Biden's White House. Biden won't answer
the question. Biden's press secretary, I won't answer the question.
Refers it over to the Department of Justice. Now you

(41:18):
got to ask the Department of Justice about that. You
go to the Department of Justice. We don't discuss ongoing investigations.
It's a circular pleasure exercise, if you can read between
the lines of that statement. So what are they investigating?
Question mark? We don't know, Why is it going to
take months? Don't know? Why was police chief three? So

(41:40):
that Thigi let go don't know? And I suppose you know,
if you draw the conclusions that I'm drawing, the investigation,
if they really are doing one, will lead them to conclude.
Whoever the investigators are, Let's hope it's independent council, not
swayed by politics. Like that's gonna happen. It'll lead them
right back to we have to have Parvoll's office and

(42:01):
city Manager Cheryl Long's office, where they will have concluded
that Purvoll and Long the ones that told police Chief
Fiji how to run her job and how to allocate resources,
and that it was completely out of her hands because
while she listened to what they had to say. And
then here here's the next jump. We decided to park
threes A thij place her on administrative leave, otherwise fire her,

(42:23):
get her to resign because she was such a poor
police chief. She actually listened to what the mayor and
the city manager said, heeded their advice in terms of
allocating police resources, which resulted in maybe statistically an increase
of crime. Or we can draw conclusions that the failure
of the police apartment's allocation of resources resulted in some

(42:47):
crime hotspots in the city. That was a dumb decision,
a decision made by the current mayor and the current
city manager. That's my conclusion right now. But we're all
in there collectively, and I'm sure it's no coincidence that
we've been collectively left in the dark. Or to call
her earlier, everyone can equally observe, really, really, really stupid

(43:10):
for the mayor to go down this road or the
city manager to go down this road in advance of
the election. It's two weeks away. People are gonna draw
conclusions about it. It may impact the outcome of the election.
I don't know, but timing seems really really stupid. And
what makes it really really stupid is because of the
secrecy now that's surrounding it. If you had a legitimate

(43:32):
reason to fire her, you'd have set it out loud.
I'm doing this for the best interests of the city
of Cincinnati. We have determined XYZ and that police Chief
Dji's responsible for x y Z, all of which you're
bad or maybe provide a basis for her being fired
or whatever. Don't you think if you're a politician in
that position, you're any responsible human being. If you're answerable

(43:54):
to the people that you purport to represent, you give
them the straight answer. That will be me anyway. Six
twenty fifty five rc DE Talk station five one, three, seven, four,
nine fifty five, eight hundred and eight two three talk
tuns five fifty on eighteen and two phones. Going over

(44:15):
to the phones right now, I'll see what Mississippi James
has got today. Welcome back, James. Always good to hear
from you, sir.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Good morning, sir. Come in peace, love everybody. There's nothing
you can do about it.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
Live a peaceful life with that attitude, James.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Now I'm listening at you and you talk about this
circle of thinking, and that's a good point. It's a
big circle. A lot of interest and exits on this
big old circle depends on where you get in at top,
the bottom, the middle, size, you know, and people have
an opinion coming from where they get into this circle.

(44:49):
All right, I want to talk about the circle of
the public school counseling. The yellow school buses and Metro
funneled all these kids downtown on that Government Square. That
was like a waltz that's just waiting to explode. And
when I rolled it. What she's doing down there for
the last two three years, and I'm speaking from experience

(45:12):
because I volunteered down there and she and we got
a bunch of high school, middle school kids, you know,
coming from all parts of the city at one time,
and they would do what teenage kid would do. Now, Yeah,
it may look disrupted to the downtown business to the people.

(45:32):
They was running playing clowning police get involved, maybe the
kids say, well, I'm not doing anything wrong. Well that's
sort of like this obeying the direct order. So I
think Hiris, given the circumstance that she did a decent
job for my volunteer. Now, people that have not volunteered

(45:54):
to just listen to the circle of talking on the
political scene that we're into now trying to destroy this
lady when she actually deserve a little credit. I'm not
saying praise, but she stepped into something that was created
by canceling the yellow school buses. And once again I

(46:14):
went down and volunteered two or three times, so I
saw firsthand the potential for calamity down there.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
So what I'm hearing, Okay, let me see if I'm
walking through this correctly with you here, James. I mean,
you could see a mile away point well taken by
consolidating all of these young people from different areas of
town into one central area, which is government square for
pick up and drop off on the buses, that's the
recipe for disaster. Because, let's face it, they're teenagers. We

(46:44):
know how teenagers are. So are you suggesting that because
of they, the powers that be created that atmosphere which
led to crime. Iris Rolli's job in part with allocating funds.
She got allocated funds to deal with the problem of
government square or the crimel problem, and that she did
do some good in the aftermath of that consolidation of

(47:05):
young people. Are you saying what we witness because we
continue to witness crime in that area, It hasn't gone away.
You're saying what Irish really did made it less of
a problem that it would have been, even though it
is a problem still, Yes, okay.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
It's less of a problem, right And by me volunteer,
So to other people that's talking, I hope they speaking
from experience instead of just in this political climate where
we're looking to create whether you you know Democrat, Republic
or whatever, you need to come down and see for yourself.
Volunteers speak from existing us. I mean from experience, experience.

(47:44):
I say this all the time, but most people will
not well they'll pick up they finel vactum thinking point.
I can't.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
I can't argue with that logic. You know, if you
really want to know what's going on, you got to
go down there and live the experience in some way
or another. Whether you're volunteer, whether you live downtown, maybe
experience what it's life and downtown. I get it, But
what specifically are you Because we can't say with certainty
that the problem wouldn't or that would have been much

(48:14):
worse had it not been for the efforts of iris Rola.
We don't know. Because she has been engaged for a
while with whatever activities she has been doing. Now you
give her credit, what specifically do you give her credit
for that you believe led to less of a problem?
What specifically what actions did she take?

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Well, she's sort of like a mother Hen over these kids,
and she's very active down there, jumping from group to
group talking to him. So it's that mother Hen type nurse,
and that she did to keep these kids at bay.
There was no magic peel bullet or whatever that legally

(48:54):
that she was able to do. She came in as
that mother Hen with a bunch of little what chicken
chic lit some bit is whatever you want to And
I'm using that as a metaphor from a country boy.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
I understand that, James, it makes perfect sense. And you
were not in a paid position in your volunteer work
down there, correct, No, okay? And you I'm imagining giving
your comments on the radio show, and your wisdom and
your knowledge and life experience. You were down there, maybe
as a grandfatherly figure or in something in that capacity,
trying to counsel the youth and interact with them.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Okay, Now, if there were more people like you that
we're willing to do that on a voluntary basis, then
we wouldn't need an Irish role, and we wouldn't need
her five hundred and eighty thousand dollars contract. We wouldn't
need her son on the city payroll, indirectly as it
may be, doing work on government square. Shouldn't we as
a community collectively care about what's going on and counsel
our youth and provide that guidance and expertise and experience

(49:51):
that our life experience can only provide. That's the obligation
of every human being. And if you're a parent, that's
your damn responsibility. You're the one that's supposed to be
doing that. So we don't need to pay the Irish
rollies of the world to keep our kids in line
because they're unruly and have no ethics and morals and
run them up and do stupid things. That's my take
on it.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
That's true. When the school stopped, it stopped the school bus.
That created a new situation that no one was ridded.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
But you're so right on that. And why do we
use the metro buses to get the kids back and
forth from school? It's always comes down to a cost thing.
Parents can't get their kids to school. They don't have
the resources, they don't have the funds, they don't have
their own car. Whatever it happens to be used to
be yellow school buses, which was an additional charge. I
remember my mom writing a check to the school bus company.

(50:39):
You know it was back in the seventies. It wasn't
that much, but whatever, you had to pay for the transportation.
Because some children, some families can't pay for the transportation,
we got to come up with another solution. Can't have
the school bus, the yellow school buses. We have this
metro system which is underutilized. Let's put the kids on
metro buses. What about the transfer. We got to find
a place to the transfer. Then it comes government square.
So you see governmental solutions to the problem ultimately create

(51:02):
the chaos on government square.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
We have.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Think we're back in that circular pleasure fest. I alluded
to earlier James Talk station. Thank you, Maureen. I was
asking out loud, why was police chief three g let
go call her? Let go caller in and the ministry whatever?
What led to that? What was the point? Nothing out
there by way of information unless Maureene is onto something

(51:27):
I had forgot about the lawsuit that was filed against her,
specifically in the city of Cincinnati, claiming they discriminated against
white people. This goes back to I think the lawsuit
was filed in May. Officers involved in a federal lawsuit
or white guys. They claim Fiji favors women and people
of color when making assignment decisions, claim they were skipped

(51:48):
over for assignments that are considered career enhancing. Lawsuit claiming
that out of the Cincinni police departments female lieutenants, eighty
nine percent were given preferred assignments. Seventy nine percent of
minority lieutenants also got preferred assignments, compared to forty four
percent of white male lieutenants being given preferred assignments. Now
you may say, well, whatever, but when you look at

(52:09):
the contingent of white versus women and people of color,
sixty five percent of the lieutenants are white, thirty five
percent are women or people of color. So statistically it
does seem that they may have a good argument here.
Now could it be that I have to have purvol
is afraid of this lawsuit? And could it be the
police chief three Fiji's assignment allocation, which let's say preferred

(52:32):
women and people of color over white guys, was a
directive from the mayor and the city manager. So ultimately,
if this, if Thiji was following their directive to engage in,
I guess diversity hires, the whole equity thing, the color chart.
You don't have enough black people there, you don't have
enough women there. Whatever. If the hiring decisions were not

(52:54):
based on merit was that police chief trees a Thiji's
idea or did she answer to her boss when making
well basically employment decisions. I mean, if you've got a
boss at work, you want to do one thing, and
a lot of people complain about their management.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
Right.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Have you ever been in a business and work for
someone you complain about them? Jeezs If I was in
that job, I do things a lot better. But then
you're going to have to do what they tell you
to do. Anyway, she does report to them. She's not
just on top of of the totem poll. That will
be a have to have pervol with Cheryl Long right
underneath him. Go ahead and use that as a visual
paint that in your head. So maybe that's it, Maureen.

(53:40):
You could be onto something that's as close as I've
heard so far to something that makes actual, you know,
rational sense. So we're not going to get the answer
to that question before the election, that you might want
to factor it into your voting decisions as you head
on into the polls. Did I mentioned early voting is
in play right now? Six thirty five right now, if
you have k CED talk station, something else you might

(54:00):
want to do. My folks out see the talk station.
It's six forty here for five ker City talk station.
It's widely reported. I just want to kind of put
a thought in your head kind of something. I just
come to the conclusion here lots and lots of reporting
of late about all of these multi, multi millions of

(54:21):
dollars flowing into the riots. Basically, I'm gonna boil it
down to that. Some are calling it riot incorporated. You
got millions of dollars. Arabella Network from seventy nine point
seven million dollars seventy two point one from the Soros Empire,
fifty one point seven million from the Ford Foundation, forty
five and a half million from the Tides Foundation. Rockefeller

(54:43):
based organizations shoving in almost thirty million dollars, Buffet Foundation,
shoving all in. It all goes into these funds, and
it all funds a lot of these this network of
what I'm gonna call a bunch of terrorists, communists, Antifa,
bom and of course segue over to no Kings, it's
sort of mutes it all along. If the first one,
the ones I remember at first was Antifa and the

(55:04):
occupied I think during the Trump's first administration, camped out
downtown in the middle of the streets. They were all
over the place, staking the place up and you know,
taking up space and just generally being a hippie like nuisance.
And it kind of faded a little bit. I know
they're still out there. Then you had BLM. George Floyd, right,
oh my god, everybody taking it to the streets. Let's
paint a rainbow on the street. Let's paint black lives matter. No,

(55:27):
only black lives matter. If you dare interject the concept
of people matter, or lives generally matter. You were ridiculed
as being a racist or something. Fine. Didn't make any
sense to me. But whatever we live through that that
seems to have faded away, most notably amid a whole
swirling concerns about corruption within the Black Lives Matter organization
and the leaders of the organization not committed to the

(55:47):
communism that they expoused on their website, but more committed
to a commercial, capitalist like lifestyle, buying up million dollar
homes and doing weird things with their money. Money that
was donated to an organization that the donors thought was
going to go to a broader, larger purpose like maybe
cleaning up neighborhoods or making black lives matter, something that
will lead to a betterment of the black live condition.

(56:09):
And I stumbled upon this Christopher Rufo, who is a
fellow with the Manhattan Institute, and he did an op
ed piece and it was really it was sad and
depressing but revealing at the same time. Here, let me
just read it to you because I think it's important.
So he is riding this first person. When I arrived
in Minneapolis, the frost just lifted, A great clouds hung

(56:31):
low over the Horizon. I had come to make a
pilgrimage to George Floyd Square, where the Revolution of twenty
twenty began. It's been more than five years since George
Floyd lost his life and became a patron saint of
the left, and I wanted to see what had happened
here since then. The square is situated in a Rundown
intersection that now features a statue of a clenched black

(56:51):
fist in the central roundabout. On one corner standza mini
market called Unity Foods formerly Cup Foods, where George Floyd
passed the counterfeit bills that set off the chain of
events that culminated in his death. Across the street is
an abandoned gas station that's been covered in graffiti and
protest slogan since the initial unrest. A group of vagrants
had lit a bonfire in a metal drum beneath the

(57:13):
gas station canopy. When I asked them about Floyd, they
avoided the question. They weren't interested in politics. They'd chosen
that spot to light fires, fence stolen goods, and smoke
fentanyl because it was peaceful and nobody bothered them. And
the friends of the Year of twenty twenty politicians in
Minneapolis and the Minnesota state government made grand promises about
what George Floyd Square would become. They purchased property in

(57:37):
a pledge of and pledged monuments. Then, as the years passed,
the political will evaporated and everything ground to a halt.
One city official told me the neighborhood wanted to reopen
for business, while political leaders wanted to preserve the square
as an ideological symbol. The result, nobody got what he wanted.
The scars of the revolution remained. The intersection of thirty

(57:59):
eighth in Chicago Avenue now is an eerie feeling, as
if the George Floyd moment were frozen in time. A
shattered window at Unity Foods has remained unrepaired for five years.
The graffiti and the bus stop shelters has started a
chip and peel. The slogans scrawled on the gas station
walls or fading reminders of the naive embulence of that
early moment. As I walked around, I spotted two smartly

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dressed white women who appeared to be visiting the square
as one might a religious shrine, striking up a conversation.
I learned that one was a Minneapolis resident. The other
her sister, was visiting from New York City. They wanted
to pay their respects to Floyd. They seem to be
trying not to show fear at the visible homelessness and disorder.
When I asked the woman about Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye,

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the woman said no comment. She instead shifted her conversation
to President Trump, who she said, was, in her words,
clawing back all of the progress that have been made
towards social justice. I was dumbfounded. George Floyd Square was
a single street corner of Minneapolis, fully under the jurisdiction
of law, local and state authorities who had five years

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to fulfill their promises and turn the square into something more.
But rather than address this obvious failure, both women blamed
Trump for the fact that racial justice had not materialized.
One man was still trying to do something about it.
He called himself Maestro, presided over a community garden sprawled
along the street outside Unity Foods. He spoke with the nervous,

(59:24):
rapid cadence of an addict. After pressing me for a donation,
Maestro said that the white man continues to promise justice
but only exploits the black man. Instead of waiting for
the white city officials to transform the square, he had
taken it upon himself to evict the homeless campers from
the bus stop shelter and to bring dozens of potted
flowers along the road. Maestro had known Floyd from the

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time hustling together on the streets. He seemed to be
the only one who remembered him in an idealistic way.
Reggae music throbbed from a bluetooth speaker as he dashed
madly from plant to plant with a watering can. It
looked like at his greenhouse. I told him that if
he kept his plants tightly inside, some might survive. The winner.
Whenever a white person class passed by, he hectored them

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with a QR code, linking them to his Venmo account.
The scene saddened me. I never supported the George Floyd Revolution,
and I knew it wouldn't end with I knew it
would end with disappointment, But to witness that disappointment firsthand
still stirred a sense of pity. The political leaders who

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turned that summer's events into a multi billion dollar activist
apparatus never built anything that would last. The fury they
unleashed remains visible in the abundant storefronts, burned out corners
of cities like Minneapolis. The promises of social justice has
vanished into memory. There remains some true believers, like Maestro,

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but in the centers of power, the activists have already
moved on to the next revolution. Hence the reason I
outlined this and if followed by you know, black Lives matter,
followed by you this no king's thing. We're in evolution
number three or four. Back to his points, may Or
Fry struggling to salvage his reelection campaign with promises of

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a fordability, while his opponent, left wing Somali politician Omar Fata,
vows to deliver the racialist revolution promised in twenty twenty.
I left Minneapolis that night for New York City, which
has its own mayoral race featuring choices ranging from bad
to worse. Many residents have seemingly forgotten the damage bad

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leadership can do to a city, and a contest between
Fry and Fata, the most productive outcome would be for
both to lose, but inevitably one will win and doing
so make Minneapolis worse, and neither, I would wager, will
build a monument at George Floyd Square, excellent points, colossal protests,

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promises of the moon and the stars. Moving on to
the next version of the revolution, you feel like you
got your money's worth. Coming up on six forty eighty
five KRC the talk station and opportunity. It's six point
fifty two, coming up with six fifty three five KRCD

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talk station.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
I've had this story in my hand since Monday, and
since I only have a couple of minutes in this segment,
I'm just so really really disgusted and disturbed by this,
and I'm going to go to Colorado on this one.
They have a clinic now that offers and really is
proud of this, and this is what is so disgusting
about it. Organization called RISE Reproductive Health, Inclusive Care, Support

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and Empowerment now one of I guess around five clinics
in the United States which offers abortion up to thirty
four weeks of gestation. And I paused for a moment.
I just I always think of my children. Both of
my children were born at eight months. Both of my

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children were born as healthy as a nine month old gestation.
They just wanted to get out. They were ready to
get life going. Why would you? I mean, I can't
describe this as anything other than murder. You had its
fetal viability, what is it twenty four weeks Now the
baby can live outside of the womb. I mean that

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you no longer have this whole state involvement kind of thing.
You know, the old argument is, willy, where's the feet
is going? Togest that you're gonna put it in a box.
You can't remove a baby from a woman who wants
to abort it. It's a complicating issue. It's how they
came up with a concept to try mesters in that
Roe v. Wade decision, which intruded on well all states
rights because it isn't mentioned in the Constitution. But states
have gone their own way, and apparently in Colorado you

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can kill a baby up to nine months in Boulder,
car This is an announcement in Boulder, Colorado, a place
with a historic legacy of all trimester abortion care. A
new chapter is rising at Rise Collective. We believe that
any reason you have for needing an abortion care is
yours and it's the right one. Well, how about this

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is an option. Since the baby's alive, it can walk
around basically on its own. Why not induce labor, give birth,
and let somebody adopt the baby rather than just killing it.
Pre viability At least you can make this conceptual argument.
And I don't want to get into a discussion where
life begins. Everyone has their own attitude about that. But

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since the baby can't live outside of the womb, the
whole point of is that the state can't come in
and take it and you know, bring it all the
way through gestation where it's viable. I said, women's control thing.
But you know, if the baby can why would you
do that? I'm just I'm just pleading with the world.
Why don't you consider that I can imagine induced pregnancy

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or induced a birth can't be really much more of
a challenge than well, slaughtering a baby that could live
outside of the wine while it's in the womb. Point
made Sorry, I had to get that out of my system.
Six fifty five. Let's see what Congressman Warren Davidson has
to say after the top of the hour news get
the latest on the shutdown? Can we get rid of
the irs? And are we gonna give Tomahocks missiles to

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the Ukrainians? Matt Damaris Vets and Bruce. He'll be in studio.
Great guy Matt is helping out the American veteran. We've
got Honor Bus twenty twenty five. He's gonna tell us
all about it. I hope you can stay.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
Today's top headlines coming up at the top of the hour.
Everything will change in a moment's moon. I can be
heard fifty KRC Talk station.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
Seven oh six. I think about KRCD talk station or
a Happy Friday, d to you. Great day you listening
to fIF about the Carsey warning shit this moment in time,
the return of Congressman Warren Davidson. We do have some
good members of he is one of them. At least
that's my subjective opinion. I think it's an opinion shared
widely by my listeners. And thanks to the folks that
he represents for voting him into office time and time again.

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Welcome back, Congressman Davidson. It's always great to have you
on the fifty five KRC Morning Show.

Speaker 8 (01:06:15):
Always an honor. Thanks Brian, good to talk.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
So the government's still shut down if I missed any
news breaking their Congressman Davidson.

Speaker 8 (01:06:23):
Yeah, it is in fact still shut down. I mean,
so you know a lot of people are coming up
to me going, well, this is great. I don't really
notice anything. People that live closer to write Patterson Air
Force Base, if not directly affected, have a friend or
family member that works at the base, and some of
them are people that are considered quote not essential. People
are like, well, why do we have non essential workers

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in the first place? Well, right, Patterson Air Force Base
largest employer in the state, and the Air Force procurement
hub is at right Patterson Air Force Base. When you
buy stuff for the Air Force, you know, not necessari
if they buy it this afternoon, but you've got to
buy it eventually. So you know, those are people that
are quote furlough. They're not at work today. The military

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people that write Patterson your force base are at work,
but then they're working on any procurement stuff. Their productivity
is totally disrupted because the people that they need to
work with day in and day out, who are civilians,
aren't at work in a lot of cases. So you know,
those kinds of things go on, they're going to be
more and more felt, and it's certainly going to be
more noticeable when at the end of the month a

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lot of people don't get paid.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
Well, no question, they're going to start feeling the sting
of that now, are there. My understanding is that most
government employees have resources available to them where they can
get no interest loans from banks because the banks know
full well that they are going to get paid and
fully reimbursed once the government opens back up, so it's
a no risk loan for them. Is that a widely
available thing? So people aren't literally not eating or incapable

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of paying their rent that kind of thing.

Speaker 8 (01:07:52):
Yeah, Yeah, those resources are out there. Everyone's communicating that
to employees, including the companies that want their business. But
if they don't already have an account with you know,
USA Navy, Federal Credit Union, Congressional Credit Union, you know,
et cetera, all those kinds of things, and a lot
of normal privacy right credit union will do the same

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for a lot of people. You know, a lot a
lot of banks will do it even you know, depending
on your relationship with them and the fact that you
have direct depositive with a government paycheck, they know the
money is going to eventually be there. So you know,
we're working right now obviously occasionally trying to convince Democrats
that they should change their mind. I think a lot

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of people are rooting for the congressional staffers on the
Senate Democrats staff to say, hey, boss, you know, maybe
we should consider the CR thing as the enddn't want approaches.
But in the meantime, you know, right now, if we
head past the CR and Democrats have just said okay,
we would be right now doing hearings and meetings and

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working on appropriations so that come November twenty first, we
don't need another CR. We've actually got everything funded on time.
So you know, that's what brings me to DC this
week working on legislation, trying to make sure that we
have our ducks in a row so that we know
what we want funded, what the priorities are, because we're
going to have to run a faster playbook if we

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ever get open. But in some of the collaboration on
a non appropriations bill is working with a Democrat colleague
to strategize how we might get this across the finish line,
and they're like, well, you know, if it's not open
by mid November, you know, it's kind of going to
push us probably into twenty twenty six before we can
even get a vote on the floor and you're like, wow, okay,

(01:09:42):
well thanks for talking about topic X. But interesting perspective
on the shutdown. So I think mentally there are a
lot of Democrats that are like, yeah, I mean, we're
not upset that Republicans haven't held hearings and aren't making
progress on their agenda. So it's really up to the
public to persuade Democrats to say, you know, you've got
to open it up, or it's up to the Senate
to say, Okay, this sixty vote rule probably has to

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go away on appropriations because they've got a majority of
the Senate, they just don't have that sixty vote rule.
And that isn't actually even on the bill that it's
called cloture. It's like the rules. They say, all right,
we're going to have a vote on X on the topic,
and they need sixty votes to.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
Get that done.

Speaker 8 (01:10:24):
Well, if they see what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Yeah, do you see any cracks in the dam on
the Democrats side? I guess I'm kind of wondering if
anybody takes the moment in time to look at this
logically and reasonably, they would understand that the cr is
Biden era funding level. You didn't do anything to interrupt
that level of funding. That was their level of funding,
So they don't have any to complain about keeping things
as status quo on that now. I know, the Big

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Beautiful Bill did some things they were very unhappy with,
but a Republicans shouldn't be un ringing that bell. The
Democrats are responsible for the deadline of the subsidies. They
incorporated that into what was the Inflation Reduction Act. It
was an extension that took it in the end of
this year. They have no one to blame for themselves
for ending the subsidies in the original legislation, you know,
something that was a big red flag that's been waving

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since the moment Biden signed that into law. So it
you know, and just get there of another so you
can do the work to get the twelve appropriations bills
fully passed. I don't get it. Is there any like
poll out there that you can rely on. Is there
any perception that you've reached that the American public is
painfully aware this is squarely in the Democrats' hands.

Speaker 8 (01:11:30):
I think that's what the polling shows. But you know,
there are people that will still try to blame Republicans. Well,
of course you have a control of the House, the Senate,
and the White House, and the controlled media will publish
whatever the Democrats tell them.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
To, overlooking the sixty vote majority needed in the Senate.
I mean that goes back to the rules, And that
was what my next question was going to be, Congressman Davidson.
Is that where we're headed to get rid of that?

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:11:56):
You know, I think some of the Democrats want that
because they were trying to get it done in the
first place, yep. And they want Republicans to break that
they have on that so they don't have to take
the blame for breaking it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:12:06):
But for.

Speaker 8 (01:12:09):
Oh gosh, I'm drawing her name from Arizona and mansion
from West Virginia. They had two Democrats that didn't go
along with the plan. They were going to pack the courts,
recognize Puerto Rico and DC estates and all kinds of stuff,
right with civil majorities. But you had two Democrats that
didn't go along with the plan to break the sixty
vote rule. So I think that that this is part

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of the play for Democrats, is they want Republicans to
break the sixty vote rules so that if they ever
get you know, back in georgl of the Senate. They
can do everything with the cimpl majority in the Senate,
So that's that's that's at play here. There are a
lot of people that feel like the sixty vote rule
is an important time on our tradition, it does develop
some form of consensus. But the idea that to your point,

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this isn't like the Republican Appropriation Package, it, you know,
massively changes funding on our regular appropriations process. We haven't
got that done yet. We're still negotiating that. And the
CR is just status quote funding what they voted for
when Joe Biden was president and they controlled the Senate.

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So this is the first time ever that anyone is
used the leverage of votes to shut down the government
over status quo funding. People have had objections over our
priority or another and said well I'm not going to
give my vote to that, and that resulted in a shutdown.
But this is the first time that it was well, okay,

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we're going to call a truce and just do status
quo as we negotiate all these things. And then the
other party said, well, we'll just shut it down. So
the problem is Democrats are being rewarded for it with
their base and a lot of a lot of public quotes.
I mean the whip the Democrat Clark from Massachusetts. She's

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out there saying, yeah, we're fine with it if it
causes us some suffering. This is going to create leverage
for us. It's very intentional play, and they basically want
the headlines of families that need whatever, people that aren't
getting food stamps and everything, and then try to put
pressure on Trump. And honestly, I think that's why they
want to get to Thanksgiving because they'll say, these heartless

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people are are letting people go into Thanksgiving with you,
and the media will cover the lies. It's like, well, look,
you guys are the ones that shut it down. The
votes are called, they're recorded.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
People can check.

Speaker 8 (01:14:36):
Who voted to keep the government open and who didn't.
It's Democrats.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
Congressman David's a real quick here for we part company
come back and talk about the irs, among other things.
In terms of the sixty vote majority, how many votes
does it take to change that rule?

Speaker 8 (01:14:52):
You know, that's a good question. It's a Senate rule,
and I think they can do it with a simple
majority of majority.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
How about this majority.

Speaker 8 (01:15:01):
Part of the majority of the Senate so all the
all the the majority of the Senate does it. So
if all the Republicans in the Senate worked together, they
would be able to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
All right, how about this as a play, just to
let you leave it there. I'm just saying, do the
change and rule vote, get the government back open, and
then the next day vote to change the rule back
to sixty and move on.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
Yeah. You know.

Speaker 8 (01:15:24):
One of the proposals, and this is from a guy
in the House, is what if we made it a
law that there's a sixty vote rule, and then you
make the Democrats take the vote so you can see
who really wants to get rid of the sixty vote
rule and who doesn't. And then it would require the House,
the Senate, and the President to change the sixty vote rule.

(01:15:46):
And I was like, well, that's an interesting strategy. I
personally liked the old the old sixty vote rule. Before
it was a sixty vote rule, it was three fifths
of the members present on the floor of the Senate.
Change this in the seventies and then if you wanted
to shut everything down, you had to actually be present
on the floor of the Senate. So, yeah, you could

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do it. You could work together but you would literally
have to hold the floor, and the only thing that
could get done is what was being held up on
the floor. So then public pressure mounted, and of course
everybody's attention was focused because four to seven the only
thing going on in the Senate, and that's the mister
Smith goes to Washington thing. He eventually ran out of

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steam because he didn't have anyone to hand the baton too.
But if you just have you know, two people doing it,
you could take you know, two hours at a time,
three hours at a time, and take blocks and rotate.
So obviously, if you've got forty forty seven Democrats working together,
you can schedule shifts and keep the floor held open,

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but you would literally have to hold the floor to
do it. And that's the old filibuster rule.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
People, I guess don't want to show the Senate, so
then want to show up and do their job. Connors
Moore day, and should we just tell the irs to
go away? We're gonna ask him that question coming up
seven to seventeen, fifty five KRCD Talk Station. Lead Talk
Station seven twenty one fifty five KRCD Talk Station. Brian
Thomas here with Congressman Warren Davidson appreciate his willingness to
come on with fifty five KRC mornings and talk about

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important issues, like here's a quote from somebody, Congressman Davidson.
Do you know who said this quote? I'm rooting for
the IRS to be closed. I've got a constitutional amendment
to repeal the sixteenth Amendment. I think it's a massive
invasion of privacy to collect all this information from citizens
in the first place, and so I hope we will
be we will completely repeal the sixteenth Amendment and fully
close the IRS. That sounds like a great idea. Who

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came up with that one?

Speaker 8 (01:17:39):
Oh, that's Warren Davidson. That's a pretty good quote. I'm
glad you found it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:17:45):
I was doing a CNN interview and they wanted to
try to say, oh, Trump's doing these bad things to
the IRS and people are getting laid off and he's
going to abuse the power of the IRS and weaponized
government and everything. And they brought me on to try
to try to get me to box into that corner.
I mean, well, the purpose of the interview was something else,
but that's always sit you with some ambush stuff. So

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that was one of their little ambush things, and I'm like, well,
I didn't even want the IRS to exist. I'm trying
to close the whole thing. So that's usually changed the
conversation a bit. They weren't really prepared for that angle.

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
Well, the comical part of that isiz Donald Trump weaponizing
the government against the IRS. Well, okay, you know, go
back to who's responsible for the shutdown. I think we've
clearly concluded the Democrats are, So that gives Donald Trump
an opportunity to quote unquote weaponize the executive brands to
do a whole lot of things the otherwise wouldn't have
the power to do if the government was open. Fine,
they created that scenario, But the IRS itself was weaponized

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against the are the American people, Lois Learner. She was
treating the conservative organizations terribly and denying them five oh
one three C status, much like you know, Eric Holder's
Justice Department went after banks who were doing business with
lawful firearms manufacturers and pay they lenders, weaponizing these governments
against the own people. And even more comical Congress than

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Davidson got to this end. The tax code itself is
weaponized to protect the interest of politicians and special interest
in large money donors, like major corporations. It's what, ten
thousand plus pages long. It is filled with loopholes and
write ins and carve outs and exemptions and incentives and listen.
I hate the code being used to incentivize the American

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people for literally anything, and I hate it being used
as a carrot and stick mechanism to get us to
do what we might not want to do.

Speaker 8 (01:19:27):
Amen, I mean one hundred percent all that is exactly like,
That's exactly it. I hate the income tax. I get
we got to pay some form of tax, right, you know, Okay,
I don't like property tax that much either, but at
least you vote on it locally and spend it locally.
The income tax is first and foremost this surveillance tool.

(01:19:48):
You know, did somebody pay you? Did you pay somebody else?
Did you buy or sell something? Did you make or
lose money? Did somebody give you a gift? Did you
give a gift? Was the gift too generous? What kind
of car do you drive? What kind of windows do
you have in your house? How many kids are in
your house? You know, et cetera, et cetera. All this
insane stuff. You're like, get out of my life and
get a warrant if you need to know that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
Amen.

Speaker 8 (01:20:08):
And then it's so complicated. The Democrats wanted to hire
eighty seven thousand more IRS agents. I mean, it's five
infantry divisions worth of VIRS agents. They wanted to add
to the already too large IRS. So thankfully westalled the
plan to grow the IRS. But we need to build
momentum towards just going ahead and deleting the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
Well, we eradicated slavery in this country, and I can't
view the income taxes anything more than slavery because I
can do the math when I look at the percentage
of my income the federal government takes out of my
check in form of income tax, and they can set
it at whatever level they want. Historically it's been eighty
plus percent in the old days, right remember the Taxman
song from the Beatles, When the Brits are being tacked
at ninety five percent of a certain amount of income.

(01:20:53):
You are literally working for the government. They are taking
you our salary. In other words, they're taking your labor literally.
I suppose you could argue without your consent, although I
do know it's a constitutional amendment, but come on, it's
for slavery.

Speaker 8 (01:21:08):
Yeah, you know, people talk about McCarthyism, and you know,
I certainly wasn't alive back in the McCarthy era, but
they talk about, you know, oh, it was all a
hoax and there wasn't really a big threat of communism.
And you're like, well, what was the tax rate at
that time? Well, okay, it was ninety percent? Like ninety percent? Okay, Well,
I guess the government doesn't known everything, but ninety percent

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is quite.

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
A lot, right, So.

Speaker 8 (01:21:33):
It's not a vindication of everything the guy might have done.
But you're like, yeah, there were some concerns because the
government's like, you know, the Jesus famous saying, you know,
render under Caesar what is Caesar's and render under God?
What is God's?

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (01:21:46):
The problem with the communists they think.

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
Everything is Caesar's right, leaving nothing for God, which is
part and part of the communist strategy. They don't believe
in God either. Congressman Warren Davidson, one are the good ones.
Keep going up, keep up the great work. Congressman Davidson,
You'll have a voice here in the fifty five Carsite
Morning Show if you need to get some information out.
And I appreciate your willingness to do that. Thanks for
your time today and best to health you and your family, sir.

Speaker 8 (01:22:09):
Thanks Brian gad bless you and all your listeners.

Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
Seven twenty six fifty five KRSITE talk station. Let's give
us some logstation seven thirty right now if you have
KRCD talk station, changing gears here and welcome changing gears
kind of like changing gears on a busy politics day
and talking to Jay Ratliff, I heart media aviation expert.
At eight thirty we have right now in studio Matt

(01:22:32):
Demris back again this year for the Vets and Brews
organization that he started. We're doing Honor Bus twenty twenty five.
Matt de Maris God bless you, sir. Welcome back and
thank you for your support of the American veteran.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
Thank you, bro, Thank you for your support all the time.
It's constant.

Speaker 1 (01:22:47):
I love it all. Listen everything I can do. I
didn't sign up, is I like to point out, so
I try to make up for that lack of Oh,
I don't know, we'll call myself a coward. I know
you right, you didn't serve either. You're making up for it, okay, Well,
see that's the point. You know, everybody does something.

Speaker 3 (01:23:04):
Two of my favorite things are craft beer and veterans.
So can you put that a way to put them together?

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
And you put vets first, so it's not Bruce and Vets,
it's Bruise. You can find them with that's in Bruis
dot com. It looks like at least a quarter of
the website, which probably isn't you know ready real time
up to date, thirty four hundred beers donated to the
deserving veterans, and you've raised another one of my favorite organizations,
Patriots Landing, and they're playing an integral role in this.

(01:23:31):
Patriots Landing is the wood shop where veterans come and
you know, commiserate and share each other's experience and make
these wonderful craft items that you can buy. Patriots Landing website.
Check it out and support them. You donate a portion
of the like if I give you ten dollars, seven
dollars goes to buy the beer and three dollars goes
to Patriots Landing. Correct, so far you've raised about twenty

(01:23:53):
one thousand dollars for Patriots Landing alone. That little slice.

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
Yeah, it's nuts.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
I mean, this is the third year you've been doing this.

Speaker 3 (01:24:00):
This will for Vets and Bruce total. I started right
before COVID, but then you know, we weren't out in
the breweries. So really it's been post COVID is all
the time that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
I've read years that it was caught four.

Speaker 3 (01:24:11):
This will be my fourth year for Honor Boss. So
it's it's crazy, man.

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
It really is. But I like the idea. And then
the speaking of Patriots Landing, you have the donation box
for your organization in the flag case that was made
by Patriots Landing got a little slot in it. It's
got a plex class cover like it would cover the flag,
and the money fits in there. So folks, if you're
out at a bar, a pub, a participating brewery, stuff

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some money in the Patriot Landing box.

Speaker 9 (01:24:38):
Or if you're a veteran and you see that, go
up to the bar and say, hey, old I'm a
veteran and they'll have a beer ready for you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:44):
Yeah, I prepay for him, pre paid. And don't be
that guy who who claims to be a veteran just
to get a free beer. There's a special place in
hell for anyone who would do that. Anyway, your impetus
behind this to help the American veteran. But you know
conceptually what prompted you to do this? Matt damars Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:25:01):
You know, my dad's a Vietnam VET, and I've always
been a craft beer guy. Obviously I'm a I'm a
real estate agent. As a way to market myself, this
is this is how I do it. I I go
out to veteran events or joined veteran veteran groups that
are meeting at breweries, and I show up and buying beer.

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
You gotta be the most popular guy.

Speaker 3 (01:25:20):
It's pretty cool. When I come in, they're like, what
are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
Are you kidding me? Matt's hold him his head around
in the house.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
Yeah, well, round on everybody. The donations come in from.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
Everywhere, okay, And you can donate on the website. Correct,
that's right. There's a little buy a Vet a beer
link so if you don't want to show up at
a bar and drop the money and you can just
give it directly through the Vets and Bruce website.

Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
That's my dad on that picture too.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Oh that's awesome. What a nice looking guy. How long
have this have been since you passed?

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
It's coming up on four years.

Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
I know what that's like.

Speaker 9 (01:25:53):
Man, He never got to see an honor bus, but
he did get to come to an event where I
was able to buy him a donate a beer.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
So and he wasn't even a drinker. He just came
to the support, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
That's great, that's great, all right. That's and Bruce dot
com was gonna put a link at ffty five cars
dot com if you can't remember that particular element, but
I do encourage you to support that organization. Of course,
support Patriots Landing. If you're out there, Patriots Landing folks,
you guys are the best. Well you add Matt Damars,
you can also sponsor an honor bus. Is a link
there for that. So Ram gonna take an earlier break

(01:26:23):
because I know we need to talk about the Honor
Bus twenty twenty five, what that's all about, where people
need to be and who's invited. So we're going to
continue with Matt Demaris, Vets and Bruce help out the
American veteran put a smile in the face with the
free beer that will most certainly put a smile on
their face. Stick around. Want to mention zip It's seven
point thirty nine here fifty five KRSIT talk station in

(01:26:45):
Mattamarson Studio. That's and Bruce dot Com his organization just
helping out the American veteran by putt a smile on
a face because you donate a little bit of money,
he buys them a beer or you're effectively buying them beer.
And then we also help support Patriots Landing with their
wonderful Veteran craft shop in Kentucky, which I suggest you
visit sometime. Matt D. Marris? When is this honor bus?

(01:27:05):
This year? I went on? I was it last year?
I went on the one? Or was the year year before?

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
What a great time it is, isn't it fun?

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
Yeah? A couple of school buses. It's filled with veterans,
although you do allow you to have a couple of
spaces for you know, folks like me that you invite.
But what day is it and what time to start?
Let's talk about the details on this, because I know
there are a couple of spots still remaining on the bus.
That's right, get that second.

Speaker 9 (01:27:28):
So it's it's on November eighth this year. We we
go to three different breweries, you know, and we start
around noon it's going to be starting at dead Low Brewing.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
That's Kellogg Avenue, right, Yep.

Speaker 9 (01:27:40):
We're going to be hosting a honoring Vietnam veteran event there.
So if if you know Vietnam veteran, bring them in.
It's open to the public. If you're not a veteran,
you can come and cheer people in. We do, you know,
we do like a receiving line. I've kind of modled
this after the honor flights, you know what I mean.
When you come back to CVG, there's all those people
there waving flags and stuff. Try to recreate that enthusiasm

(01:28:02):
in that atmosphere every time the bus pulls in. Then
we're going to Wooden Cast Brewing down in Newport on
York Street. We're gonna be doing a sponsor recognition event there,
and then over to West Side Brewing in Cheviot I
believe it's Chevy. It's on Harrison, Yeah, and we're gonna
do an all branch toast there, so all branches of
the military come in and celebrate with us. We're gonna

(01:28:24):
raise a glass and celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
They've also teamed up with toys for Tots. They're brewing
a special chocolate porter that they're releasing that day. And
I don't know what the amount is, but some portion
of the proceeds for every one of those beer souls
goes for toys for Tots.

Speaker 1 (01:28:41):
Oh that's wonderful. Ye, I mean, the love keeps expanding.

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
It's how it is, man, It's crazy how this is
blown up.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
And you mentioned the sponsor recognition stop at the that's
gonna be at Wooden Casper and that's stop number two.
But I presume that it's not too late to be
a sponsor.

Speaker 9 (01:28:58):
No, and we need sponsors. It's uh, you know we haven't.
We're we're a little bit over half of what we
raised last year. This thing runs on donations, you know
what I mean. Betsen Bergers is one hundred percent volunteer
ran and basically if you if you, if you go
in as a sponsor, you're basically sponsoring one of the
veterans on the bus. And we have one hundred dollars
slots left, and we also have a couple five hundred

(01:29:21):
dollars sponsors left. If you want to get your logo
on the shirt.

Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
Well, can I owe you twenty Yeah, there's eighty you nothing.
I'm I'm going to be a full sponks. I'm gonna
make it one hundred dollars. They just don't have the
extra twenty on me right now.

Speaker 3 (01:29:34):
They're always a full spot.

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Now, So there you go. I just donated. You can donate,
so please do that. If you want to be a sponsor,
please sign up for that.

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

Speaker 1 (01:29:42):
If you want to get some recognition in love, you
want to be on a T shirt with recognition, you
will be because he prints the T shirts out with
sponsors on it. So that's all a great thing. And
I guess the stops are important for my listening audience
because you don't have to be on the bus to
honor the veterans. Much like you said, CDG on or
flight next Tuesday be at a Lunkin airport for that

(01:30:02):
it's the last one of the year. But just show
up either show up at you know, twelve o'clock at
dead Low Brewery. Make it stop over at Wooden Caspering
the next stop its close to two o'clock and you
get all the details on the website. And of course
then you got your final stop to the West Cybery.
Show up there if you can be there by three
o'clock three thirty get a part to be a part
of the welcome ceremony. But I want to mention the
bus itself out loud because it just asked you off

(01:30:23):
air on this and I'm gonna breach orthodoxy here, and
I'm gonna get Jostrekker really angry at me, and I
will take I will follow on the sword to the
extent I'm violating any rules of procedure here. But since
I consider the space on the bus at zero monetary value,
it is a charity. We're doing charitable work here for
the American veteran. There are two seats available for veterans.
If you are a veteran or you have a veteran

(01:30:45):
in your world and you know that they'll join the
fun on November eighth, it's a Saturday, and they want
to be on the bus for these multiple stops. Call
seven four, nine fifty, five hundred, eight hundred and eighty
two to three talk or pound five fifty on AT
and T phones. Joe, just write down your name, maybe
just a tiny bit of information so Matt can verify
you when you show up at dead Low Brewer to
get on the bus right yep, call right now, seven

(01:31:06):
four nine, eight hundred and eighty two to three TOC.
We'll fill those two spots up. We got two solid
busses full and all the fun that goes along with it.
And it really is kind of an interesting from a
civilian standpoint or one who hasn't served to watch the
veterans do their thing. They've got their own ceremonies and
what's the toast? Remember the toast they did? Is that
the Marine toast?

Speaker 7 (01:31:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:31:27):
The Marine Corps Toast isn't happening this year. Unfortunately, he's
still involved. He got Toys for Tots, involved with West
Side Brewing. He's going through some medical stuff so he
won't be able to attend this year, but he's still
contributing with the with the connecting West Side to Toys
for Tots. So, but we do different things there. The
big one for me is the honoring Vietnam vets. My

(01:31:47):
dad was a Vietnam Vet and as I grew up,
we always went to these veteran events and he was like, man.

Speaker 3 (01:31:52):
They didn't do this stuff for us when we came home,
you know what I mean? Right, So it's like it's
special to me.

Speaker 9 (01:31:57):
I'm kind of honoring him with these, So we we
pull the Vietnam veterans down away from the civilians. We
surround them with the veterans on the honor bus, and
they're family and friends, and it's only five ten minutes,
but we we kind of honor them and welcome them
home properly.

Speaker 1 (01:32:12):
Fair enough. That's great. Seven four nine fifty five hundred,
eight hundred and eighty two to three talk or a
pound five fifty fill those two spots up on the
honor bus twenty twenty five. You plan it on continuing
this on into the future. I presume I am.

Speaker 9 (01:32:25):
Every year, it's getting bigger, and I've got a big
announcement that I'm gonna be making.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
I'm trying to tease it without giving away anything.

Speaker 9 (01:32:32):
Matt, I'm not gonna say it man cough, but uh, yeah,
we every year I try to surprise or like kind
of upgrade the experience for the veterans on there. You know,
I'm trying to outdo myself every year, and uh, I'm
pretty sure I've done it this year, and I can't
wait to tell everybody what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
Yeah, I am really excited for you and the organization.
I think they're gonna make a big splash on into
the future and you're gonna have a special surprise. Also,
assuming the weather is good. Yeah, which stop is that
going to take place on?

Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
That's going to be at Deadlow, the very first one.

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
The check Okay, yeah, Well, all I can say is,
and I'm not allowed to reveal it, it's going to
be pretty damn cool at Deadlow Brewering for veterans. So
if you're please please show up for that as well.
All right, one more time seven four nine fifty five hundred,
eight hundred and eighty two three talk found five fifty
on AT and T phones. So there's got to be
a couple of veterans in the listening audience right now
that want to go on this. It's such a hell
of a good time. I've been there, I've done that.

(01:33:27):
You're not going to be disappointed. So fill the two spots.
Give Jostrecker a call, and just drop your name. Matt
DeMars vetsenbrus dot com. I cannot thank you enough for
what you're doing for the American veteran I would encourage
you to keep up the great work and encourage my
listeners to help sponsor you and make the event even
more special.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
Heck yeah, I appreciate you brother.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
Anytime you hang in there. Keep up the great work.
Seven forty six right now fifty five KRC the Talk
station Cover SINCI seven to fifty one, fifty five KRC
DE Talk Station. I actually don't what you do want
to you know? Anyway, I got a remaining segment here
before we get to the top of the our News,
and then we'll hear from Jed Harding's tour the Cincinni

(01:34:06):
Classical Academy and Power Use Seminar. And boy, I just
bush the Classical Academy was around My kids were starting
school out, so join and getting the line to go
to the Sinsi Classical Academy to ensure your children have
a fantastic education. That's coming up after the top of
the our News. Nobody called for the bus spots. I'm
just surprised about that. But I didn't want to get

(01:34:29):
into this quote unquote controversy, faux outrage. They left his
pulling its hair out of Donald Trump's ballroom, and it's
just kind of making me. I mean, the White House,
you know, is in constant need of approvals and upgrades
or improvements and upgrades and all that kind of thing.
And yeah, this is a huge construction project and they
don't have a whole lot to complain about it. I
suppose Trump's paying for it himself. It's all private donations,

(01:34:50):
so not a single taxpayer dollar has been spent. Many
people have complained about the space limitations in the past
about the White House. The currently the White House only
can handle like two hundred people. So when you have
a state dinner and you want to invite all the
huhas from around the world, two hundred seats just doesn't
cut it, which means they quite often extend the events
out into the outside of the building. So this one's

(01:35:12):
going to have sixty six hundred and fifty seats ninety
thousand square feet. But people are upset about it. Not
only God, he's ruining history and all that. So go
ahead and be distracted by that and the pay of
attention to the fact that government's will one of keeping
the government shut down. Treasury Department said, since they have
a view of the construction site from where they're situated

(01:35:34):
relative to the White House, apparently a lot of the
Treasury Department folks are taking pictures that are showing up
and going viral on the online. The Treasury Department has
instructed its employees do not share photos of the demolition.
Apparently it presents a security issue or something. Court of
the spokesman for the Treasury Department that would sent the

(01:35:55):
email photos could quote potentially reveal sensitive items, including security
features or confidential structural details. I suppose the complicated endeavor
to work on the White House and all the security
issues you got to have on that. And I remember
comments from some of my political science professors talking about
espionage and how during the Cold War they were so

(01:36:19):
meticulous and concerned about the Soviets sneaking in and incorporating
into these secret rooms, in these quiet rooms and these
supposedly offline rooms that no one can bug, that they
were in there installing bugs while the construction was going on.
So it just brought back memories of those comments from
my political science professor. Anyway, go ahead and complain, I'm

(01:36:39):
sure now you know. And I think what they're really
angry about most is that it doesn't include taxpayer dollars,
and that every time they walk into the newly constructed ballroom,
they're going to have to somewhere in the back of
their mind be thinking about this wouldn't exist but for
Donald Trump. And he's probably doing this to create that

(01:37:01):
lasting legacy, that constant, ever present thorn in their side.
He knows he's living in their brain, rent free. And
this is a way long after Donald Trump leaves this
mortal earth for him to continue to annoy people. Now,
I'm sure it's not going to have a big golden
Trump sign on it. Probably won't you have a plaque

(01:37:23):
acknowledging Donald Trump paid for it. But it was built
by Donald Trump and it being part of the White House,
I suspect it's going to be around long, long after
all of us have moved on to the next phase
of our journey. Seven fifty five fifty five KR seedy
talk station. He's trolling them. We're gonna learn about the

(01:37:44):
since a classical academy coming up next fall by iHeart
Media Aviation Expert Jay Rattle. If I sure hope you
can stick around.

Speaker 4 (01:37:51):
Today's tough headlines, care see the talk station.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
Eight a six ifty five carsed talk station. If you're
having a great Friday Eve, stick around bottom of the hour,
We're gonna have iHeart Media Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff. Folks
out there and listening audience have children and grandchildren that
are of K through twelve age. You know you may
be disappointed in your school offerings. You aren't going to
be disappointed in the Cincinnati Classical Academy. Joining me today,
Back when the fifty five KRC Morning Show, Doctor Jed Hardings,

(01:38:21):
the Westside native. I went to Xavier High School, went
to the University of Notre Dame, got a PhD in
euroscience from the University of Pittsburgh, and he served as
a medical research officer in the US Army and left
the services rank of major. Thank you for your service
to our country. And throughout his business life highly successful,
and then he realized, well we have a massive decline
in American education. He is responsible for founding the Cincinnati

(01:38:45):
Classical Academy back in twenty nineteen. Welcome back to the
morning show, Doctor Hardings. It is a real pleasure to
have you on today.

Speaker 10 (01:38:51):
Thanks so much, Brian.

Speaker 1 (01:38:52):
How does one start a school? This is so you know, folks,
tonight seven pm. It's an empower you America seminar, a
tool of the Sin Sant Classical Academy. So you're not
logging in from home, and you're not showing up at
the Empower Youth studios. You're actually going to show up
at the Sin Sant Classical Academy. We'll get the details
on that in a minute, but it's a great concept
bringing the Hillsdale College classical education on a college level

(01:39:15):
to K through twelve education. So conceptually it's a bulletproof
idea given the needs we have out here in the
education world. But the idea of going out and starting
a school, that'd be like peace of God for me.
Doctor Harding's where does one start and how are you
able to successfully pull this off?

Speaker 10 (01:39:33):
Well, I mean it was the labor of love, Brian,
But you know, I was blessed with having a great education,
but there were you know, as you grow up and
you'll learn about the world. I realized how many omissions
there were of sort of essential knowledge from that education.
And when I discovered that Hillsdale curriculum and how rich

(01:39:56):
it is in its content, how deep it dives, the
number of requirements, you know, the course work there, it's
not optional, it's not elective to study you know, great literature.

Speaker 6 (01:40:08):
You have to study it.

Speaker 10 (01:40:10):
So you just get filled with this passion to offer
this gift of pure gold to our next generation and
help form human beings who are going to benefit society
for decades to come with their learning. So it just
becomes such a great passion that we had to do it.
And it took about three years. We started in twenty

(01:40:33):
nineteen on the founding effort and we didn't open the
doors of the school until three years later. So it's
just a matter of rolling up your sleeves and asking
the right questions and then doing the work to find
the answers to how you can make this work.

Speaker 1 (01:40:50):
And of course along the way and if from the
whole old, if you build it, they will come. You
build a better mouse trap, people are going to buy it.
You build a better school structure, the school system, you
provide classical occasion, people are going to knock down the
doors wanting to get in. You always have You've always
had like a waiting list, and you started out with
a limited numbers. It was like K through four or six,
I can't remember the initials, the initial of the student

(01:41:12):
body K through six, Yeah, K through.

Speaker 10 (01:41:16):
Six, and we were we had all feats filled that
first year and the growing weight list that blossomed in
nearly five hundred students by the next year, and what
was impressive to me was was how we had ninety
nine percent student retention from that very first year to
the next year and that's been sustained through these years.

(01:41:39):
So we still have a long waitlist, but have now
grown to K through nine with nearly a thousand students,
and that first ninth grade class, that first high school
class will we'll go on to tenth and eleven to
twelfth grade until we have a first graduates in twenty
twenty nine, which we're looking forward to.

Speaker 1 (01:41:58):
I can't only imagine how excited you are about that now.
You obviously, with the growth in size and the growth
of student body, you had to expand the space. And
that's why you're showing folks tonight on this empower you
summon are the new Summit Park campus. Let my listeners
know all about that.

Speaker 10 (01:42:16):
Yeah, So that's been one of the toughest lifts in
the founding was fine in the space, and we spend
years searching and finally closed on a property last fall,
and it spent the last year. Last time we talked,
we were knee deep in construction out there in Blue
ash for the middle and upper school campus. But I'm

(01:42:37):
happy to report that we're on the other side of
that now. We finished construction, we opened the school there
on time. We had a beautiful grand opening celebration with
over three thousand people coming through the doors the first
the week before school started. But for anyone who didn't
make it that day, tonight, we're having an event, a

(01:42:59):
free tour of the school through our new campus.

Speaker 7 (01:43:02):
It's free.

Speaker 10 (01:43:03):
Just have to register and empower you America dot org
and anyone's welcome to come out and learn about Cincinnati
Academy Classical Academy, and see what we've built, learn about
our educational philosophy, and uh see what it's sort of
back to the future, you know, old school education in
a very modern building. So we welcome everyone to come out.

Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
I just I'm kind of curious about how you go
about hiring the teachers, the educators. I suspect that, given
you're doing classical education, there are a bunch of teachers
out there who embrace that concept and would want nothing
more than to work in an environment like the Since
at Classical Academy, have you ever had any problem of
hiring and retaining teachers?

Speaker 10 (01:43:47):
We have not we've had, we've had exceptional teacher retention,
and we've been able to fill all those positions.

Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
It's there.

Speaker 10 (01:43:54):
There's a phrase for it that our headmaster uses. He
calls them refugee teachers. It turns out there are lots
of teachers who've been wanting to be able to do
this kind of thing for their whole careers, and they
are refugees from the educational system in general, and they
find it home with us, and they're very glad to

(01:44:15):
be empowered to do their jobs and lead and teach
in the classroom.

Speaker 1 (01:44:21):
And I suppose concepts like woke ideology and DEI mandates
and Dick Todds, that's not part of since at classical academy.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
It is not.

Speaker 1 (01:44:32):
That's why it's a refuse for all those disappointed teachers.
There's freedom escape the since a classical academy and enjoy
what you're doing being a teacher. I've always commented on
one of the greatest things that I enjoyed about, particularly
law school, but it did exist in the K through
twelve education with a certain degree is the Socratic method,
the engaging in the question and answers back and forth

(01:44:54):
with whoever's teaching a class. Do you have that kind
of concept at the Sin Santa Classical Academy?

Speaker 10 (01:45:00):
Absolutely, And you know it starts gradually in the in
the sort of the middle school, but it really starts
to blossom as you get into the high school levels. Yeah,
it's it's throughout the school. Is the main method of
instruction outstanding.

Speaker 1 (01:45:18):
Now, can you explain to me and my listeners, of course,
this concept of citadel life, the house system as you
refer to as since I Classical Academy, what's that all about?

Speaker 11 (01:45:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:45:29):
Exactly, Well, it's it serves multiple purposes, but it kind
of organizes the culture within the student body. I mean
we we sort of have a breakdown in community in
society today, right and people lost, right especially in the
digital world. Well, uh, this is kind of one answer
to that. Although it's it's a system that's that's quite ancient,

(01:45:51):
going back hundreds of years at school's. Great schools.

Speaker 7 (01:45:56):
Have used it.

Speaker 10 (01:45:57):
But it organizes the students into four houses where and
it's and it goes across grade levels down to uh
grade grade seven on up and hy they work together,
they mentor each other.

Speaker 11 (01:46:12):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (01:46:12):
The older students model good behavior and virtue for the
younger students, and the younger students, you know, learn from
from the older students.

Speaker 2 (01:46:20):
So uh.

Speaker 10 (01:46:22):
And it's they compete with each other and cooperate on
various various areas of service of academic achievement, athletic achievement,
and various other kind of cultural things that they do
at the at the school.

Speaker 1 (01:46:39):
Civics and morality and character, these are all part of
the curriculum at since classical academy, and those concepts just
disappeared in public education.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
Sir.

Speaker 10 (01:46:51):
It's it's the aim of of our school is to
cultivate moral character and civic virtues. I mean, those are
the aims of the educational enterprise. It's to form the
whole person. It's to form the habits of excellence concerning mind, body,

(01:47:14):
and soul.

Speaker 1 (01:47:15):
I just wish that this concept was embraced by all
public education because some of the hardest to reach children
out there are the ones that really are in desperate
need of civic virtue and moral character. They're clearly not
getting it at home. And I can only imagine the
weight that any given educator might have with a classroom
full of thirty five kids who lack moral character and
civic virtue. How do you transform that group? I mean,

(01:47:37):
I think that's at the root of the problem. If
you have a broken home or of the nuclear families disappeared,
you need resources. The kid needs to have proper guidance,
not going to get it from a public education. I
wish your school was available literally across this entire country
of ours, doctor and Brian.

Speaker 10 (01:47:54):
The public teachers unions, they came after us and attacked
us because we write about morality on our on our website,
in our materials, and our were teaching in our classrooms.

Speaker 7 (01:48:08):
They object to.

Speaker 10 (01:48:09):
The very nature of that. The only way that they
know how to care for in their minds, because it's
such a foreign concept to them, is to come out
and call as Christian nationalists, or to accuse us of
being a religious school masquerading, you know, you know, take
taking dollars from the public treasury. It's nonsense.

Speaker 7 (01:48:28):
Uh More.

Speaker 10 (01:48:31):
Moral character and morality and what is the good and
what is beautiful has been around uh lots of cultures
and for a long time before Christianity.

Speaker 1 (01:48:40):
Yes, uh, Socrates played you go prior to the Greek civilizations.
Of course you have uh you know, the religious times
and thousands and thousands of years ago, morality and character
were always discussed. But as I'm looking at the Cincinnati
Classical Academy page, which is for my listeners who are interested,
since you with why Classical dot org, I don't see
anything in here about Christianity, sir.

Speaker 11 (01:49:04):
No.

Speaker 10 (01:49:04):
And we teach all the major religions. We want all
of our students to be culturally literate and informed about
the world cultures and the world religions.

Speaker 1 (01:49:17):
Because they exist as a factual matter. You got to
go live in a world with multiple religions. It's good
to get a concept and understand them within and underneath
the umbrella of moral character and civic virtue. So glad
about this. So the tour is tonight at seven. It
begins at seven pm, but they do need a registered
empower you America dot org. Correct, doctor, that's correct?

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:49:38):
Is this going to be yep, one tour beginning at
seven and going through the space or what if people
show up late? Is that possible? I guess I want
to get the lowdown on the logistics. Sir.

Speaker 10 (01:49:50):
You should probably aim to show up at seven o'clock.
Maybe get there a little early. Register before six forty
five and it's we plan on one tour, but we'll
make adjustments. We'll have contingency plans in case, in case
there's some stragglers or more people. But yeah, we'll go
through all the major spaces and from symposium room to

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how we furnish the school to the reviewing the virtue
posters that are on the wall. So we'll talk about
the Citadel Life House system and see the library and
see the new construction. We're building thirty thousand square feet
of a gymnasium and a music wing and lots of
other stuff as well, so we'll get to see all

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of it and see how it implements physically our educational philosophy.

Speaker 1 (01:50:41):
All right, there's somebody right now out there going, wait
a second, my kids have to go there, or my
grandchildren need to register. When is registration? How does that
go about? I mean, when is it open and for
what grades? There's got to be some sort of limitations
on that, doctor.

Speaker 10 (01:50:56):
Yeah, enrollment usually begins at the end of the year
December perhaps, and we always accept all applications from kindergarten
through up through tenth grade this coming year. So go
to Sincy classicoal dot org and it takes about five
minutes to apply and if there's more, if there's more applications,

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then we have seats available. Then it goes to a
lottery system. There's no aptitude tests, there's no financial means
tests because we're tuition free. So if you're lucky enough
to win the lottery, you get a seat.

Speaker 1 (01:51:35):
And this your academy, draws people from all over the region.
I mean, there are some people who go through some
significant lengths and difficult challenges getting their children to school
every day, but they fight that battle and they win
that battle and they make it there every day because
of the draw of the education. I mean, you're literally
with people from all over the Tri state area, are you?

Speaker 10 (01:51:58):
We are Incredibly those numbers continue to grow. I got
corrected recently that we're not drawing from sixty zip codes,
but we're drawing from seventy one zip codes now and
over forty different home school districts. I didn't know there's
forty school districts in Greater Cincinnati, but the answer is

(01:52:20):
there aren't. Because this goes This includes up to six
different counties. I can't even name all the six.

Speaker 1 (01:52:27):
That's amazing, but that's yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:52:31):
People are feel pretty fortunate when they get in and
they're willing to make sacrifices and prioritize it in their lives.
I mean, and it makes sense. It's their children's formation.
It's who you're entrusting these beautiful souls that you've created,
who you're.

Speaker 6 (01:52:49):
Entrusting them to.

Speaker 1 (01:52:50):
I've said in a million times, doctor, the second greatest
gift my parents ever gave me, after the gift of life,
was the gift of education. They insisted on it, and
I'm thankful for it and I've been fitting from it.
And boy, what a great opportunity to do just that
by getting your children in the Sin Sant Classical Academy.
It starts tonight. Do the tour. It's seven pm. Go
to empower you America dot org. Make sure you register

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and make sure you they're on time. Doctor Hardings, thank
you for the work you've been doing over these years.
And I can't I thank you enough. And I certainly
know the families of the children that you educate are
truly appreciative of it. And we'll look forward to having
me back on the show again real soon. Doctor, Thanks
so much, my pleasure, A say twenty one right now,
fifty five KRCITY talk station. What talk station A twenty

(01:53:32):
four fifty five kersit talk station. And I promised a
dear friend of mine that I passed along this information,
so one more opportunity to do so, since I only
have a minute left in the segment before we get
to iHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Rattleff Cleave's residents, my friends
and Cleaves. Apparently tonight is the night they had the
Committee for the Preservation of Cleaves Safety Services, and they'd

(01:53:54):
like you to attend the public meeting tonight regarding issue ten. Now,
that public meeting starts at seven pm and it takes
place at the at Miami Township town Hall. So let
you know that if you're interested in what's going on
in Cleeves, you want to know about issue ten and
discuss it amongst your fellow Cleaves residents, show up tonight
again seven pm, Miami Township Hall. So there you go.

(01:54:15):
My friend passed it along as I promised I would do,
and happy to do so. Also happy to talk to
iHeart media Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff. He'll join the program next.
Got some fun topics score with Jay. As always, I
hope you can stick around I'll be.

Speaker 4 (01:54:26):
Right back fifty five KRC dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:54:30):
This I always looking forward to this time of the
week and this day because we get to talk to
iHeart media aviation expert Jay Ratliff, which I thoroughly enjoy
doing and I hope my listening audience enjoys it as
much as I do. Some really cool topics you got
in this morning on the list here, Jay Ratliffe is
I'm going to go out of order, wildly curious about
the before we get the hub delays, which we always

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end on so we know how travel is out there.
Today it says Boeing has been given permission to increase
production of the seven thirty seven Max aircraft. They need
to seek permission in terms of their output. I mean,
I know they do it to themselves sometimes in terms
of delays and backlogs and all that kind of thing.
But who has to give Boeing permission for production of
aircraft numbers?

Speaker 11 (01:55:11):
The Federal Aviation Administration After the two Boeing Max crashes,
after some of the situations we've had since, the FAA
has said, you guys need to slow it down, and
slow it down now. So they actually capped to the
maximum number of Boeing seven thirty seven max aircraft that
they could make it to twenty six or something. They

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increased it to thirty eight a month, and now that's
been further increased to forty two a month. So yes, Boeing,
who hasn't made a profit since I think twenty eighteen,
is now allowed and that is the proper word, to
produce as many as two aircraft a month, because the
FAA had to be convinced that they were doing things
the right way, not using scrap parts that shouldn't be used,

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making sure the production has to be making sure that
no more door plugs fall off of airplanes like we
had last year with your last airline's flight. So and
they are convinced that Boeing is making the necessary corrections,
and we'll see. But yes, Boeing did need to get
permission to push more planes through the through their production schedule.

Speaker 1 (01:56:21):
Well, I'll acknowledge it is a heavily regulated industry and
maybe that's a really good thing considering what they're doing,
but you would never go to a bad part bin
and use one of the parts that's been labeled, you know,
non compliant, or it doesn't mean our safety at whatever,
it's a non approved part. You would never use one
of those parts if you had an adequate supply of parts.

(01:56:43):
Now have they overcome whatever supply shortages that led people
to wander over to the the rejected parts bin.

Speaker 11 (01:56:49):
Yeah, they've had issues in the past, and Bright that's
exactly the problem is that some of the supply side things,
because remember Boeing has just hundreds and hundreds of companies
that feed them different parts and services to kind of
keep everything going. And there's been times that they did,
according to the whistleblowers and some confirmed reports, where they
ran out of parts and you were looking at an

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airplane that was going to be stationary in this production
cycle for an extended period of time, and supervisors told
the employees, go find the best failed part that we
can put on this aircraft to keep the airplane moving
through production. And it seems ridiculous, it seems stupid, nasinine,
and it's just unbelievably not safe to use a failed

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part on an aircraft. But that's what they were doing.
And it's just again Boeing told us five years ago
that they had turned the corner to learned their lessons.
They were not going to be you know, the same company,
and they lied to us. So I'm really hoping this
time around, all of these paragraphs of promise that come
out and all their you know, press releases really mean

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something because before they didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:57:56):
Well, I hope they have a guard post at the
rejected park closet, because if they haven't solved that problem,
then telling them they can increase the number of airplanes
they can produce on a monthly basis, that doesn't mean
a thing. If you don't have the part, they can't
put the plane together.

Speaker 11 (01:58:09):
Sometimes they have the big red pain on them showing
that they're failed. So you've got people scrubbing the red paint.
Yet I mean, it's like it's like, you know, what
would go on in Russia with some of the stuff
they do, and the idea that that's going on here
in the United States. And I mean you had thirty

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some whistleblowers come forward saying I can't be a part
of this anymore because we're putting the lives at risk.
And you know, thank god, none of this stuff other
than of course, those two horrific plane crashes with a
Boeing Max five years ago, which were you know, coming
up on that anniversary very very soon here on the
first one. But it's just a scary thing. And you know,

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Boeing was told by the FAA five years ago, we
really gave you too much slack, and we're going to
be all over you, And of course they weren't. So
the FAA failed us like Boeing failed us. And you're
just hoping that the two entities that failed us as
a traveling you know, segment of population, that they're gonna
both come through for us. And certainly we hope that's going.

Speaker 7 (01:59:16):
To be the case.

Speaker 1 (01:59:17):
Certainly do well for we part company and take a
break here. How about Southwest Airlines new boarding policy? What's
this one about?

Speaker 11 (01:59:23):
Well, they decided that instead of having like Delta's eight
or ten boarding zones and United ten boarding zones or
whatever it is, that they're going to simplify it. And
they said, it's a very easy process. All we have
to do is board all the window seat people first, duh,
all the middle seats second, and then the aisle people third,
and we will be able to put people on the airplane.

(01:59:44):
It's so easy. Why haven't people thought about this before?
Blah blah blah, And it's really going to make the
boarding process much less stressful. Well, note to Southwest, we
have tried that before, and there's a big time problem
because when all of your window seats and all your
it'll seat passengers board, they fill up the overhead storage compartments.

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Then you have the aisle passengers boarding last. They've paid
more for their ticket than the middle seat people, and
they now have no place to put their bag, which
is a problem. So we've had this happen before, so
I think we should start an office pool about how
long this is going to last. But look, Southwest has
the best boarding policy in certain weather locations where they

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can do it. They bring people off the front of
the airplane while they're boarding them on the stairs from
the rear. And when you can do that, it's a
great process. You can turn that silver revenue tube fast.
But the problem is you can't do it in the winter,
you can't do it in bad weather, can't do it
in windy weather, all those things. So it's a perfect
weather situation to do that. But look, for the last

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seventy years, Airlines has been trying to figure out a
way for us to how can we more quickly put
people on the airplane and they have tried every single
combination that they can to try to figure out the
best way. We'll board from the back, front, We'll board
from the front, back, We'll board all these different ways,
and it just creates problems. Look, when you bored from
the back of the airplane forward, you have all these

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people dropping their carry on bags and Row thirteen n
Rode twenty eight.

Speaker 2 (02:01:19):
I know.

Speaker 11 (02:01:19):
So it just regardless of which way we pivot, Brian,
it creates problems on tops of problems. And while yes,
it seems logical to do it XYZ, the problem is
in a real world environment where you're actually there watching
what takes place. When this happens, it doesn't exactly go
as the theories in the office might suggest they would

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at the case, it's like a college professor who has
all the answers, even though they probably never ran a business.

Speaker 1 (02:01:46):
Well, at the risk running over too long, real quickly, here,
if you have a sign seating, can't you have a sign? Ben?

Speaker 11 (02:01:52):
You could, and I'm surprised they've not done that before.
Now the problem is how you're going to regulate that
because you don't have enough flight attendants to really.

Speaker 7 (02:01:59):
Be able to do it.

Speaker 11 (02:02:00):
And I don't know why they don't charge us for
the overhead bins. If you need extra room, saying you
can have the seat, the space underneath the seat in
front of you, bring a small bag, no feet, you
need the overhead bind pooh gonna cost you.

Speaker 1 (02:02:13):
There you what it gave him? A couple of sound
ideas Jay Rautlift Pousive.

Speaker 11 (02:02:16):
No, no, no, they've got listened to me along other
than the things they complain about me. That those things they.

Speaker 1 (02:02:22):
Hear stay around assault rifles, emergency landings, dead people and
space degree more with Jay Ratliffe coming up right.

Speaker 4 (02:02:28):
Back, fifty five karc the ra month fifty five krs.

Speaker 1 (02:02:33):
He talks station.

Speaker 4 (02:02:35):
We've never been in a cockpit before.

Speaker 1 (02:02:37):
Jay right Loff has he's I heard media aviation expert.
We have the pleasure of talking to Jay Ratliffe every
week at beginning at eight thirty onto section or segment two.
Here Jay Rattliffe sounds like it's a bad IDEA man
with an assault rifle was arrested at the Atlanta Airport.

Speaker 11 (02:02:51):
Yeah, this is a forty nine year old from Cartersville, Georgia,
and apparently Brian. He had coasted to a social Carter's Mill.

Speaker 1 (02:03:00):
Seriously, go ahead. I'm sorry to interject with a delight.
I had one of the best experiences of my life.
We are car broke down and when I was in college,
were on spring break. The car broke down right on
the on ramp to Cartersville, Georgia, and the mayor, I
believe he was of Cartersville, was out with his son.
He stopped, he picked us up. There were six of us.

(02:03:21):
He let us stay at his house. He kicked his
daughter out, he kicked his son out. They went and
stayed at friend's houses. He's his wife fed us all.
This is like midnight on a weekday or something. Let
us let us sleep there. No, it was a Saturday,
because I remember we were really worried because Sunday nothing's open.
It was in our our and here I am laboring
on about this. Anyway, the fuel the fuel pump went out,

(02:03:45):
so we needed to buy a fuel pump really easy
fixed in the van that we were in. So he
ended up getting his buddy, He won the auto parts
store to open up on a Sunday, got us the
fuel pump, got the van fixed. It was It was
one of those renewal of faith in humanity moments in
time so that I heard cards. We just could not

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believe how much gratitude we had for him, and we
ended up sending him a big fruit basket and a
big letter of thanks to him and his wife. They
treated it so wonderfully, and I've always thought the world
of Cartersville just because of that moment in time.

Speaker 11 (02:04:18):
Well, I hope you kept in touch with him, thanking
him repeatedly for something like that. That's great, that's great,
And I love the fact that a story like this
can can spur a nice memory like that that can
be shared, because yeah, let's hope that encourages other people.
You know, not that you are saying, let strangers into
your house and fend the night, but you know, I
get it, and that's a great thing because it makes

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you think that people. You know, it's kind of like
things used to be. But yeah, this story was a
forty nine year old from that place that posted to
a social media count that he was going to go
to the Atlanta Airport shoot it up, and you had
family members that spotted those social media posts. They notified
the local police, who then notified the Atlanta Airport. All
this was in like fifteen minutes. The man was later

(02:05:01):
spotted walking into the airport. He was unarmed at the
time and the thought was he was scoping it out.
He had his vehicle right outside the door, had an
assault rifle loaded inside the vehicle. He was approached by
law enforcement, he was questioned and detained and it's currently
undergoing a mental health evaluation. And look, this is a
perfect example of how a lot of these tragedies can

(02:05:23):
be averted if you just have family and friends that
might see something, hear something, notify authorities and say, look
is what we see as far as what may or
may not be going on. And I think the family
certainly saved some lives there. But it's a lot like
I tell people at the airport, if you see unattended bags,
or see somebody acting in a suspicious fashion, immediately pointed

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out to the airport police. And so many people say, well, Jay,
if it's nothing, I said, I don't care. And you'll
never have any law enforcement officer tell you you never
should do this, because when you have two million people
a day flying and you've got two million sets of eyes,
all that does is ratchet up our security. So if
you see something that doesn't look right. Even if it's

(02:06:05):
something where you might suspect that there's child trafficking or
something else going on, you may not be an expert
at that, So notify somebody who is, and then they
can determine whether or not there's an issue.

Speaker 1 (02:06:17):
Sounds like common sense and logic to me. Jay Radley,
all right, American Airlines flight making an emergency landing.

Speaker 11 (02:06:24):
Why this was sky West flight sixty five sixty nine,
taken off from Omahall. They're headed for LA. About forty
minutes into the flight, the pilots start hearing a loud
banging on the cockpit door. Okay, so they called for
the flight attendants over the intercom. Flight attendants do not respond. Oh,

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they said, okay, we've got a protocol. They immediately declared
an inflight emergency for security, turned the airplane around, went
back to Omahall, and here come law enforcement. But when
they boarded, they found out that it was the flight
attendant it's knocking on the door to try to tell
him the intercom wasn't working. Whoops.

Speaker 7 (02:07:05):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 11 (02:07:08):
Apparently they didn't have a secret codd knock. It was us,
you know, But look, the pilots, you know, because they
can't see anything, and it really surprises you that there's
not something in the cockpit that would have a camera
of the door or something. I mean, the technology is
so affordable, even for cheap airlines, that that type of
thing should exist right where pilots can look back at

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least at the door and beyond. But absent of that,
they didn't know what was going on, and they are
taught that door stays shut. You'd land that airplane notify
law enforcement just in case. And being in Omaha close
to the military base is there. I don't know if
they launched any military intercept that would be part of
the process here if you've got an aircraft that you

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suspect maybe in the process of being taken over. So
the crew did exactly what they should have and when
the pilot landed, the captain he told his passengers, look,
we still don't know what's going on. Just bear with us.
But they aired on the side of caution, and even
though it delayed the flight, they did exactly what they
should have done.

Speaker 1 (02:08:07):
I was just going to say, exactly the same thing.
That's exactly the way I would want it. Abundance of caution,
little delay and it's always the right thing to do.
Let's pause, we'll bring it back. We'll talk about space
debris and a Hong Kong plane crash plus a hub
delay with one more. Iheard Mediavation expert.

Speaker 4 (02:08:21):
Ja rat lefts to Crown fifty five KRC.

Speaker 1 (02:08:24):
It's cyber. It is eight forty nine on a Friday
eve talking with I heard Mediavation expert J rat one
moving through the multitude of a variety of topics. This
morning we go over to Hong Kong. We had a
plane crash. Out of the plane crash, and I see
we had recorded the notes a couple of deaths.

Speaker 2 (02:08:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (02:08:40):
I was a Boeing seven forty seven cargo plane landing
at like three point fifty three in the morning in
Hong Kong, had four pilots aboard, and after they touched
down and rotated down, they were in the process of
slowing down and there was some sort of a security
vehicle on the runway uh oh, and the plane struck it.

(02:09:01):
And when it did, it caused the aircraft to veer
off the runway down to the embankment into the sea.
So you've got the aircraft in the sea and you've
got two people on the ground vehicle that were killed,
and the accident investigations continuing as far as why in
the world this vehicle was on an active runway, and
because you know, anytime you're at an airport, you're taught

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first thing about you know, how you approach, how you cross,
everything that has to be done to make sure that
you're not where you need to be at the wrong time.
So hopefully they'll be able to find out why that happened,
because yeah, we've not had an incident Hong Kong for
a while, and to see two people killed, you know,
certainly avoidable, and hopefully they'll find out exactly what took place.

Speaker 1 (02:09:43):
Yeah, well, being on the runway in a vehicle sounds
like a bad idea in most all cases today.

Speaker 11 (02:09:49):
Well, no, no, they do runway inspections all the time.
Oh you know, they drive up and down the runway
to make sure there's no debris or animals things like
that that might interfere with it take offered landing. So yeah,
it runways are used all the time by ground vehicles,
but obviously never won an aircraft is.

Speaker 1 (02:10:06):
Landing exactly all right, space debris.

Speaker 11 (02:10:11):
Who was thought of that United flight ten ninety three
Denver to La. Their crew as long as thirty six
thousand feet kind of mined in their own business when
all of a sudden, the cockpit windshield on the first
officer side shatters. Now, the cockpit windshield is not like
a car windshield. You've got three layers of in essence,
chemically strengthened glass that's designed for bird strikes, hail, the

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temperature changes, and everything else. But what made this different, Briand,
was that when this shattered, part of the debris actually
entered to the flight deck and caused injuries to one
of the pilots. He had a bloodied arm in the process. Now,
the crew was still able to control the airplane. It
wasn't a big deal as far as operating it. They
landed the plane fifty minutes later in Salt Lake City,

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and when they were on the ground appeared to be
some sort of scorch marks that were found on the
outer side of the airplane indicating a kind of antal impact. Yeah,
and they there wasn't any hail reported in the area.
Birds at thirty six thousand feet not real likely, but
they thought, okay, it could have been a piece of
space debris, which is like never happened that could have
actually struck the airplane. The latest well a trillion to

(02:11:16):
one at the point. Yeah, but the thought is that
they're thinking it may have also been a weather balloon
that could have been in the area. They're still investigating
at the sea. But Brian, anytime I talk about a
cockpit window, I have to talk about British Airways flight
fifty three to ninety. This was a plane that was
cruising at seventeen thousand feet and the captain's windshield totally

(02:11:38):
blew off. It was improperly installed, he was not wearing
his seatbelt. Close a decompression send him right out the window.
Now there was a flight attendant who had just entered
the cabin that lunged forward and grabbed the captain's knee
and feet and was hanging on to him as he's

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outside the airt.

Speaker 1 (02:12:00):
Oh, this was several years ago, correcked many years ago.
But I think a picture about that or something.

Speaker 11 (02:12:08):
That's what I'm going to say. If you've not googled
the image of British Airways fifty three ninety, you gotta
do it, because there were pictures taken of this aircraft
in flight as it was trying to land. That has
the captain laying across the top of the aircraft.

Speaker 1 (02:12:24):
Wild howl is going when the when the window blew out.

Speaker 11 (02:12:28):
Well seventeen thousand feet you've been going, depending on the
specific I mean, you're going one hundred and eighty two
hundred miles an hours. You're coming down and slowing down.

Speaker 1 (02:12:37):
Stick your hat out of a of a moving cart.

Speaker 11 (02:12:41):
Yeah, but you know the captain survived. You had frostbite
and different things. He didn't remember a lot of things
that happened, obviously, But look, this guy was flying six
months later. But if you go to just to a
Google lemits image surge of BA British Airways fifty three ninety,
you will swear that's a there's no way that's a

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real picture. And every time I talk about it, people
look at they're like, oh my gosh. But yes, fifty
three to ninety is the most famous cockpit windows story
that I've ever encountered in thirty three years of doing this.

Speaker 1 (02:13:14):
Yep, it didn't take much for me to find it. Jay,
as we were talking, Yeah, the fifty three ninety All right,
let's close up with hub delays as we typically do.
Has it looking out there for air travel, Jay ratlift.

Speaker 11 (02:13:24):
As far as hubs Detroit, maybe late in the day,
but Brian, there's just not a lot of inclement weather
out there that's going to really get in the way
of any hubs and as a result, should be a
good day to fly. If you're heading out west. We've
got weather that might give us some turbulence, but you know,
most people are going to keep their seat built on anyways,
which is always a good idea even when you're flying.
So I think today's going to be one of the
better days of the week we've had to fly.

Speaker 1 (02:13:45):
Jay Ratliffe, always a real pleasure to have you on
the program, Sarah'll look forward to next Thursday another aviation
report morning, and I hope you have a great week
and best of health and love to you in your
better half, my friend, and to you as well, thank you.
Thanks brother eight point fifty four coming to be fifty five.
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