55KRC Thursday Show - Cory Bowman, AFP, State Sen. Bill Blessing, Jay Ratliff

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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often I do not. You not to bide a lot
of things anyway. Brian Thomas right here. Glad to be
and glad to see Joe's Trekker in the Executive Producers
studio where he belongs. And what a wonderful rundown today.
Thank you Joe Strekker for lining up the guests. I
truly appreciate what you do. I hope listeners do as well.
The return to court bom and running from their of
the city of Cincinnati and uphill challenge we all know

(00:54):
for a Republican candidate, but I think he's got some
good ideas and a welcome refreshing change given what we
learned about from Todd Zenzer, just scraping the surface of
the problems of the city of Cincinnati faces. You can
check out that podcast from earlier in the week fifty
five car Se dot Com. Corey Bumman will get his
thoughts on Hyde Park and the three hundred thousand dollars
for skate park. Yeah, one of the things Todd talked

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about photo op is I think Todd described he's so
mellow and mild mannered, not pointed in his criticism, but
nonetheless offering his criticisms while being very subtle about it. Anyhow,
skate park, it's like a million dollar thing, but they
needed some additional money, so of course finding finding Hey

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look an additional one point three million dollars laying around
City of Cincinnati sides are going to allocate three hundred
thousand for a skate park. Anyway, we'll see what Corey
thinks about that. Will there be a debate f TEB
pervol versus Corey Bowman? That would be interesting, wouldn't it.
Wouldn't that be enlightening and helpful for the City of
Cincinnati's voters, plus as a fundraiser company April eighth, and
Corey will let us know the details about that. You

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can find him online if you to learn more about
Corey's candidacy, what he stands for, his seven policy pillars,
It's Coreybowman dot Com. After Corey, we'll hear from Donovan
and Neil from Americans prosperity A pole was taken after
Mike Dewaines's State of the State, which took place the
other day, got some details on that and Donovan on

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that and the poll what do people think about it?
State Senator Bill Blessing on property taxes, as well as
his proposal, which I again find interesting and somewhat out
of left field, for a Republican to provide free breakfast
and lunch at the schools for children, every child. That'd
so if you've got a really wealthy family and maybe

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mom's packing a really nice lunch, or the nanny or
one of the staff is prevaring a real nice lunch
for them to take the school, or they can actually
afford to buy the lunch at school. Nonetheless, it'll be free.
I think they price tagged three hundred million dollars. We'll
let Bill explain that after he explains the empower you

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some of our details, or at least scratching the surface.
What's going to go on tonight? At the power you
sing are on property taxes. iHeart met the aviation expert,
Jay Ratlift at eight thirty thankfully every Thursday. Looking forward
to talking to Jay. Always like winding down a Thursday
as we segue into Friday with lighter topics and the
air of aviation. Today, a passenger was shamed now suing

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the airline and suing fellow passengers. The stems from a
December incident we previously talked about with Jay Air India
recomminds passengers don't flush close down the toilet. We end
the stack is stupid. The other day, I'm glad Jay's
going to be addressing that Southwest Airlines bags are no
longer flying for free and airlines looking to reduce summer capacity,

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which she describes as a bad thing for travelers. Anyway,
those are the topics with Jay. There's a topic you'd
like to talk about, feel free to give me a
call five one, three, seven eight, two to three talk
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sure and check out the podcast page fifty five. Caref
you're scratching your head over what Congressman mass he voted.
Knowing the cr he outlined and explained it very well yesterday,

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pointing out that it just keeps the Biden level of
spending at the same level, which in Washington is described
as a cut. And this Chuckie Schumer's coming out saying
they don't have the votes to pass this in the Senate,
so we're looking for a government shutdown tomorrow now. Thomas
Massey suggested this was all a setup and then it
would pass through the Senate. Keep your popcorn out. Schumer's

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pushing for a thirty day extension, which will give them
more time to work out a bipartisan arrangement. Yeah right,
I got a bridge I want to sell you. So
if there's a shutdown, the Democrats will own this one. Clearly,
they will own this one anyway. Some interesting points made
along the lines of what Congressman Massy was talking about

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regarding what is a cut and what isn't. And of
course the continuing resolution keeping finding at basically the same
level unto the biding administration, is not a cut, but
the Democrats in Washington perceive it to be. There's an
interesting editorial commentary by Linda Mashbarne Newman where does this
show up? Epoch Times, talking about what Doge is doing
and looking at it from a business perspective, what Elon

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Musk is doing radically different from any other effort to
bring efficiency to government. It's not all radical by business standards. Remember,
government doesn't make anything, it doesn't produce anything. It just
consumes our tax dollars and spends them any damn playway
they please which doesn't suggest it operate like a business
looking for efficiency. When new management comes into a company,

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good management will scrutinize every aspect of the business to
figure out what everything is and how it impacts the
bottom line. They'll start with a zero based budget, zeroing
out each budget item and requiring each program, product, line,
and widget to justify why it deserves its line item
back in the budget. Government does the furthest thing from
zero based budgeting. The various budgets of the federal government

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know how to do only one thing, and that's grow.
For example, mandatory, which makes up more than sixty percent
of federal budget and includes programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and
Social Security, is authorized by law to provide benefits to
any person meeting the eligibility requirements with a growing population.
These statutes effectively set the budget into auto grow. For

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discretionary spending, which makes up a quarter of federal spending,
the House and Senate pass appropriations bills. These bills generally
use as their budget based lines the existing funding amount
plus infilation, and almost always add more based on the
various special interests of the senators, representatives and their constituents.

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The rest of the federal budget is interest on the debt,
which anyone with a credit card debt can tell you compounds.
All these are a far cry from zero based budgeting,
and in fact, anything that isn't an increase is viewed
as a cut. Going back to Massey's point, yeah, you
heard that correctly. If government budget stays the same year

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over year, according to Washington math, that's a cut. Ostensibly,
this is to make up for the inflation that cuts
the budget in real terms, and politicians of all stripes
underscore all stripes will take to the floor of the
House and send it to lamb best anyone who tries
to slow that spending growth. Departments and agencies also face

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incentives to spend any unused funds before the end of
the fiscal year, not because the money is use it
or lose it, but because it ensures their budgets plus
inflation will become the new baseline next year. Heaven forbid
you not spend money you didn't need. Go ahead and
hurry up and use it up. What the Washington class

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is really bristling about is doge bringing to government what
any ordinary business would consider best practices. It's importantly clear
so far itself, a doge itself is not actually done
any cutting. What it has done has brought much needed
sunlight what the average American might reasonably view as shady, frivolous,

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or absurd at government spending with their money. Admittedly, it's
a short distance from there to waste, fraud, and abuse.
Go ahead and lambask for saying doch hasn't cut anything,
But what about all the grants that were stopped? Some
point to that. What do you mean they haven't cut anything?

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You're reminded is simply that pausing government spending is not
the same thing as cutting it. Also, those pauses have
been made by the executive branch, to which Congress has,
in its infinite wisdom or dereliction of constitutional duty, chosen
to largely delegate allocation decisions. By all means, yes, Congress
needs to do the tough work to trim its appropriations

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and fix entitlements. Sadly, it has no incentive to stop
spending money it does not have. Instead, it leads it
to the executive branch via the Treasury and also the
Federal Reserve figure it out. So why not let the
guy who built the reusable rocket give it a try?
With thirty six trillion dollars in federal debt and interest

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payments expected to cost nearly one trillion dollars this year,
more than the government spends on national defense, which we
spend more than any other nation, I think, probably more
than all the nations combined on defense. And you know
there's a hell of a lot of fraud, waste, and
abuse in the defense budget. Anyway. She concludes, a high
time Uncle Sam stopped treating itself as Uncle money bags

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and just maybe that tech sevy nephew Jo Doge can
help them do that. Amen, Amen, I just my mind
is blown. I mean, we elect these folks to take
care of the nation. We elect these folks to deal
with the right thing for the American people, and look

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what they are doing, Republicans and Democrats alike, with the
exception of massing a handful of others, no effort is
ever made, not my pecked project, not my state, most
notably along the lines of the military industrial complex. A
lot of those weapons manufacturers and are in Republican states,
and they won't cut a program that is unnecessary. I

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still believe we don't need the F thirty five fighter
jet with drones dominating the airspace, and really the new
theater of war is drone related. You don't have to
have a pilot in there, and all the millions and
millions of dollars that go into those aircraft just merely
to protect the guy flying it. Drones go in, go out.
They are basically disposable items. You blow one up, you know,

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we can rebuild another one. How many drones can you
build for the cost of an F thirty five fighter?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Those things are billions of dollars. Time for us to
rethink a lot of allocations in the American military. And
I don't mean to pick on the American military, you
know how much I love our veteran friends out there,
and God bless the people who are willing to enlist
and do the hardest work out there. Yes, get them
the equipment they actually need, the appropriate mechanisms to fight
wars and defend the United States. But let's cut some

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of the crap out of the defense budget. Let's get
to pare it back from eight hundred almost nine hundred
billion dollars. One area of government in need of analysis
and some sunlight, as does goes through the various other
areas of government, Look what you're looking at USA. Look
at how many programs that it's brought to the attention

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of the American people that who are all out there collectively,
regardless of political stripe, going are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (11:26):
I worked for that.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
And recognizing that a lot of that money maybe didn't
accomplish anything at all and probably looped back or never
left Washington, DC and serves the interest of those political
people who are supposed to be helping us out and
saving us from ours well not saving us from ourselves.
There the one that put us in this position, spending
way beyond what they take in every year and taking

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us further and further into debt. The death the debt
death spiral three seven fifty eight hundred eighty two to
three talko ton five to fifty on AT and T phones.
Got plenty to talk about this morning, but I'd love
to hear from You've got some ideas. I'll be right
back after these brief words.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
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in five one three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred
hundred eight two three talk here in Ohiodwine State of
the State address which will be talking about with Donovan O'Neill,
and the poll that was taken after the State of
the State address, Mike the Wine reporting that the state
of our state is strong here in Ohio. He highlighted
some manufacturing jobs. He pointed out that Ohio had more
than eighty one thousand private sector jobs. He cited two

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particular projects, a soybean processing plan, Wine Dot County and
bourbon barrel manufacturing in Jackson and Pike Counties. Jim Tressel
has been assigned with ten Governor. Jim Trussels been a
signed with the developing a workforce playbook to help grow
jobs here in Ohio, identifying workforce needs in various regions
around Ohio and work with schools and businesses to meet

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the needs here in Ohio. Workforce remains both our greatest
opportunity in our most significant challenge. Dwine said, I like this.
There's a new law and he said it's time to
finish the job in ban cell phones in all Ohio
schools so kids can learn. Apparently, school districts have until
July to have a cell phone policy in place under
a new state law. Let us see here. Two year

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budget plan, Dwine call for new child tax credit for
parents with a full time minimum weight job, a program
for K through three students who need eyeglasses, and expand
school based health centers. A stress the need to provide
career counseling and opportunities for people with disabilities, formerly incarcerated adults, teenagers, seniors,

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and people recovering from addiction to mental health issues. So
among his in his address Dwine said. Dwine announced investment
into Certified Peers Supporters, a job opportunity for people who
have overcome addiction or mental health challenges, a chance to
help other people struggling with those issues. Dwainestead over sixty
four hundred people have completed the program since twenty nineteen.

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I guess he wants to expand it. He directed the
Department of Education and Workforce developed reading and writing curriculum
incorporating more social studies and civics content. Lighted efforts with
the Ohio History Connection to increase the focus on Ohio
history in schools beginning with kindergarten. Called upon the Department
of Education Workforce to develop recommendations for teaching basic life

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skills like cooking and budgeting into schools. That would be
great that bring back home economics, maybe bring back shop class,
but budgeting, how to maintain a family budget. Simple things
like that, rather than indoctrinating our children into woke ideology,
and let's allocate a little bit of time to some

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basic life skills. I like that, and announced a plan
to celebrate schools that are fully aligned with the science
of reading, a phonics based method for literacy, bringing back
classical education is the right way to go. This new
wave of learning is obviously ill served our children given

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the test scores. I mean we're graduating students from high
school that can't even read. How do you expect to
go to college if you can't read? Or how do
you expect to get through life if you can't read.
Let's bring back phonics that worked for so many generations
of people.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
He in sized the need for several programs, creating child
wellness campuses to make sure children can remain in their
communities with support when they can't stay with their families.
Funding Ohio C see Ohio c a program to help
students who need eyeglasses in kindergarten through third grade. Putting
driver's education back into Ohio schools. I remember that that's

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not a thing anymore. Joe, do they have Did they
have drivers ed when you went to high school?

Speaker 5 (16:36):
No?

Speaker 2 (16:37):
I don't know when they got rid of that. I
mean you had Ohio, you had, you had school Driver's
ed or you could go to like BIX Driving School.
I suppose if your parents had the means to afford
Bixed Driving School and institute a new program for Ninoha
counties providing dental screenings and treatments in schools for low
income families that might not otherwise have access. So there's

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your rundown from the state of the state. I do
like the jobs, the adding of eighty one thousand private
sector jobs. I suppose that's probably the highlight of the
whole thing. Probably could use a whole lot more here
in the state of Ohio. Feel free to call in.
I got local stories coming up and I'll be right.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
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Right now, time for oh no, not yet premature in
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get to the local stories, what saie?

Speaker 6 (18:16):
Jim.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Welcome to the show, Jim. It's always a pleasure for
having you on.

Speaker 7 (18:19):
Oh, good morning, Brian. I know it's early, but I
figured i'd give you a call. You kind of hit
a good nerve.

Speaker 8 (18:27):
I wish I would have had the opportunity.

Speaker 7 (18:28):
And I know since you went to the Highlanders school,
oh Kills. Yeah, there was a choice. You could have
went to Diamond Oaks and you know, been a welder
or whatever. True, but I didn't have that choice. You know,
I went to a all boys Camtholic school at Roger Bacon,
and you know, we came out and of course I

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went into the police academy.

Speaker 8 (18:51):
So that was my choice.

Speaker 7 (18:54):
But if I would have had that choice to maybe
go to something like Diamond Oaks, I might have become
a owner of the dry.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Cleaners like Andrew Pappits exactly. Or you could you could
have made a six plus, six figure plus income if
you had chosen welding as a profession. I understand that
some of those welders do really, really well.

Speaker 7 (19:18):
Especially female. I mean they understand. I understand that if
you're a female want to travel, that you could be
looking at one hundred and fifty and up. Yeah, that's
that's unbelievable. And then it's then you get into the
underwater ones where you're talking a quarter million and of that.

Speaker 6 (19:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Stuff, that's but that work takes some huevos, if you
know what I mean.

Speaker 9 (19:39):
Oh god, I watched films on that.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
It's incredible, it really really is.

Speaker 7 (19:45):
But you know, I would like to have the opportunity
that the kids have nowadays instead of just you know,
either dropping out of school or taking your your oak kills.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
What the hell is that? What that means? Joe, the
phone died, Jim, your phone went completely haywire. It's time. Well,
I'm sorry I got to end the call because we
can't deal with that's screeching. You can try back, okay.
Then Joe Jim didn't get a chance to get to

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his point. That's okay. Feel free to call if you've
got something to comment on anyway. Since I police investigating
after a body was found in a dumpster outside of
fast food restaurant to say this was in Camp Washington
early yesterday, officers showed up with a Wendy's on Hoffel
Street shortly I had before two thirty in the morning
and discover the man's body. Death appears to be accidental
with foul play not suspected, but it does remain under

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investigation with the Hamlin Kenny Coroner's Office court in Police.
Thank you to the Inquirer for reporting. Uh school board
member from Forest Hill School District stepped down from a
position since I inquired reporting. Props School District on Sinceny's
Eastide announced a news release yesterday board vice president Katie
Stewart's been a resignation, citing that she'll be moving to

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a home outside of the district and this is in
accordance with Ohio law, which states that a school board
member must be a resident of the district and registered voter.
In the district. Bob Bibb, a Board education president, had
this to say, I want to thank missus Stewart for
more than three years of service to our school district
and her role as a member of the Board of
Education for dedication and commitment to this community. Stuart and

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Anderson Township native elected to the school board in twenty
one after having lived in Forest Hill School District for
ten years. At that time, she was a GOP endorse
candidate who ran in an opposition of critical race theory
being taught in the schools. During the pandemic, she decided
to homeschool her children. Became critical of Forest Hills School
District after she said her children had quote a lot

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of gaps in their education close quote, motivating her to
run for school board. Her children did end up going
back to school, but to Guardian Angels School instead, not
Forest Hills. That's according to previous coverage from the Enquiry,
apparely second time in a three week span that the
school board has lost a member. In February, the board

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voted three to two to part ways with Treasurer Alana
Cooper for an undisclosed reason. Let us see Dan Monk
paula Christian prop supporting building a CPO. New public advocacy

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group plans to use March Madness as a launch pad
for its campaign to convince Hamilton County commissioners to spend
sales tax dollars on a new arena, even if it
comes at the expense of old stadiums. Hamilton County Growth
Alliances naming the organization plans to use radio, digital and
direct direct mail ads to build public support for an
arena capable of hosting major concerts and sporting events like

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the NC two A Final four. According to Jay Kinkaid,
the alliance is founder and executive director, It's very clear
that the lack of a modern arena is a huge
drag on our counties ability to maxmeser economic growth. We're
losing out on attracting sporting events like March Madness, which
we haven't hosted here in Cincinnati in thirty three years.
I've seen Bruce Springsteen more in Pittsburgh than I've seen

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him here at home. Kincaid, a veteran CINCINNTI political consultant
and a principal at Single Strength LLC, started working on
the campaign last September, when Hamilton County unveiled a one
point two billion dollar renovation concept for pay Course Stadium
that included a new headquarters building for Cincinnati Bengals and
luxury seating options for fans that could afford it. Released

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the public records in January of the county and the
team were exploring a roughly six hundred million dollar renovation
with one hundred and twenty million contributions from the team
in the NFL. That's when talks broke down. Both of
those ideas will leave less public funding available for an
arena that would cost up to eight hundred million dollars
that according to established study published in November by the Cincinnai,

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USA Regional Chamber of Commerce. Bengals. When reached out for
comment to Climb comment for the story, Kincaid said, I
guess I understand the county has a number of needs,
and I also understand that there are limited funds to
address those needs. But because there are those limited funds,
it makes even more imperative that we get this right.
We can't afford to make the same mistakes that the

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commissioners made thirty years ago when they entered into what
is widely considered to be and is I might interject
the worst stadium deal in the history of our country.
He declined to reveal who is funding the arena campaign.
Because the Alliance is a nonprofit five on one see
four corporation, it isn't required to make that information available
to the public. He shared the results of polling funding

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funded by those donors with the Cincinni Mayor AFTAB pro
of All Hamilton County Commissioners. Public Opinion Strategy surveyed four
hundred Hamilton County residents in November and December for a
poll margin of era four to five percent. Kincaid said
it convened two focus groups of twenty people said it's
pretty clear the public understands we have as a community
multiple needs and limited resources. They want the commissioners and

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another elected official to make good decisions and maximize the impact.
Sixty three percent ranked a new arena as their top priority,
compared to thirteen percent for pay Course Stadium and nine
percent for Great American Ballpark. Eighty eight percent said it
was important to keep Cincinnati Bengals from leaving town. Thirty
six percent said taxpayer should not have to pay more
than one fourth of the net pay Course Stadium deal.

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Ninety percent said they should be allowed to vote before
the county allocates new money for stadium. Oh I like that.
Seventy eight percent they would support the creation of a
public exposition in sports authority to manage arena and stadium investments.
Five thirty six fifty five k see the talk station, Nick,
I'll be happy to take your call right after these.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
Quick break fifty five KRC.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Is your New Year's resolution fifty five CARC the talk station.
Happy Thursday slash Friday Eve before I get this stack
of stupid Nick's on the line calling in, you can
feel free to call us. Well, Nick, thanks for calling
in the morning show.

Speaker 8 (25:57):
Hey, I went to a better middle school.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
It did.

Speaker 8 (26:00):
Chuck Burkholtz was my Ohio history teacher.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
O O kidding. He was my He is, like, absolutely
my favorite teacher. He taught government class and at Okills,
and we had awesome discussions.

Speaker 8 (26:11):
It wasn't econ?

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Was it econ?

Speaker 8 (26:15):
Yes? It was econ?

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Huh, I don't remember it being called that, Nick. Honestly,
we're going back to nineteen eighty three, though, so that's
a lot of years and a lot I've lost a
lot of brain cells since then. Well, I call it
a lot of beer though.

Speaker 8 (26:28):
But the point that I'm getting at is that stuff
that the wine was talking about. How my wife turned
around and helped me with my vest in home econ
class because we shared the way of homeie, the way
that the classes worked back then. And I don't know
how it worked at your bad school for middle school. Uh,

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but we had five weeks at home neck, five weeks
of shop.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah that's what I did.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
Okay, Well, I turned around and didn't get to help
her with her woodwork project and her it's like crap
compared to mount. But I did beggar, and she did
help me with my vest that we had to sew
because she was really good at sewing.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
I made a dog I med a h a big
dog bed. It was basically a giant ball that was
filled with you know, filling, and you know it's like
you settled down it like a bean bag for a dog.
So I remember that guy. You bring it back some memories, Nick.

Speaker 8 (27:26):
We did. We did lamps. And the reason that Keither
wanted to turn around and be maybe a dry cleaner
is because he likes chemicals that make you enjoy fun.
So like when we did the Schillac room, you had
the exhaust fans with the burnouts. Really like turning off
the exhaust fans while they were doing their slaking projects.
It would work.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Keifer hung out of there.

Speaker 8 (27:47):
Okay, I guarantee mister Keeper would have enjoyed working in
that labe. On top of that, though, what you're missing
on one thing on the Fighter jets, if you look
at the original Top Gun movie and then you look
at the second Top Gun movie that they change names,

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the drones would have been far smarter on the second one.
The second one was a joke. It was just how
to milk a dying cow out on the first one.
You really do need at times a pilot, but you
really do need the stealth radar crap and the new
stuff that's going to happen that proves your point. That

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doesn't prove your point, though, is that one single reaper. Okay,
it can be fifteen to twenty million bucks. You can't
afford to do that. The way that it works is
you turn around and you use little bitty drones in
a swarm. Right, that's the way that you're got to
do it. But you got to get the little bitty
drones in with the swarm with a smart pilot and

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a smart expensive ass to Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I don't profess to be a military strategist. I just
can observe that drones seem to be the way of
the future, and that those drones swarms overwhelm missile defense
systems because there's so many of them, and they come
at a much lesser cost than, for example, your reaper
missile at twenty million dollars. If you're right on that,
I don't know which could be shot down by a
ground based missile defense system these days, so it's very complicated.

(29:23):
I just use that F thirty five because it is
so unbelievably expensive, and that the idea that we're moving
more and more towards drones that seems to be an
area of government perhaps we could cut I don't know,
just throw it out there and welcome your types of input,
because sometimes I'm wrong or sometimes I overstate the case.
That's why I love my listening audience. Man. I don't

(29:44):
profess to be an expert. I'm a jack of all
trades and master of none, so I rely on my
very very intelligent listening audience to counter my points or
at least point out why in some areas I am wrong,
and I'm happy to be told and enlightened along those lines. Nick,
you cracked me up this morning, and also thank you
for the fond memories of I forgot. I even took

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that sewing class. Yeah, it was cooking sewing, and then
we had shop class that was it was divided up
during the year, and Chuck Burkholtz did not teach either
of those classes. Thought what I thought we recall was
government class. But he was an outstanding teacher and very
influential in my life. Five forty five. If you five
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Speaker 2 (32:22):
Five fifty fifty five PRCD talk station Happy Thursday. I'm
going to get a real quick couple of stack of
stupid stories here for a jump to the phone, So
bear with me. We're going to start locally here Sycamore Township,
specifically where a Sycamore teacher has been accused of indecent exposure,
public intoxication, and making racist remarks during a school board
meeting back in September of last year, incidents that were

(32:42):
caught on incidents that were caught on camera. Video appears
to show Brett Buganski of WCPO reporting props show daniel
Danielle s Grace scr A. S. S Grace or is Gracie,
also described as the president of the Sycamore Education Association,
three different times pulling her pants down in a common

(33:03):
area on the way to the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Why are you doing?

Speaker 2 (33:06):
I don't know. This is a part of the Sycamore
School's investigation into her conduct from September eighteenth, the last
board of Education meeting, where witnesses described her as under
the influence and smelling of alcohol, accused of making racist
remarks directed at the principal of Sycamore High School, Taylor Porter,
during a presentation. A district investigation noted two witnesses heard
her make racist remarks, including quote, oh, look, an incompetent

(33:29):
black man taking a photo. Close quote end quote incompetent
black man shouldn't be in the picture close quote all right,
dear what that?

Speaker 6 (33:39):
Amen?

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Brother reports that both witnesses did not indicate that the
comments made were directed at Porter in order the indicated
Porter heard the remarks. Both witnesses did find the statements
inappropriate and offensive and reported the comments of the district.
She's also accused of sending a disparaging text message to
the Community Relations director Mallory Bombright during the meeting. During
the meeting, while she was trying to fix technical problems,

(34:01):
the tech said quote, you know you are a joke,
right and you are lucky to have your job and
pay district suspendedor for forty five days initially without pay.
But she filed a grievance challenging the suspension. Both sides
settled on a fifteen day suspension at a March fourth
board meeting. Reached out for comment, WCPO has not heard

(34:25):
back from MSUs Grace and real quickly here batcrap Insanity
abounds in this country. A member of the state panel
this is in Oregon, remember the state panel advising the
Director of Oregon's Health Authority on best practices and policies
on underscore mental health, identifies as a turtle. J. D.

(34:50):
Holt also goes by J. D. Terrapin. She's on THEOHA
Consumer Advisory Council, which is appointed by the director, doctor
Sej al Hafi, who was appointed by the governor or
the governor. The purpose of this board is to advise
the doctor on the state's provision of mental health services,
including through investigations and reviews the current practices. Quote during

(35:14):
a December twentieth virtual meeting quote, Hi, everybody, it's JD.
I use they, them and turtle for my pronouns. I'm
in the Springfield Eugene area and I get to be
part of the Council Gender wiki website. The documents will listen.
Non Binary Genders describes turtle gender sometimes called tortoise gender,

(35:39):
as a quote zeno gender identity in which one feels
a gendered connection to turtle's close quote. No, there's no
reference to Mitch McConnell in this article, Joe that you
may think he looks like one, but he doesn't identify
as one. At least give Mitch McConnell that much. This

(36:02):
this is a real thing, Fox News reporting on it.
I could go on, but I think that's enough. Let's
see what CJ's got. Welcome to the program. Thanks for
calling in this morning.

Speaker 11 (36:13):
You know I did not call about that, but I
enough for the days that you had the Klingon language
job posting an organ and that seams thing compared to that.
But the reason why I called it is that there's
a lot of news out there, but the reality is probably.

Speaker 12 (36:30):
The biggest news yesterday was that was on CNBC A
major bond buyer and seller sat there and said, there
is nobody out there buying US bonds and nobody wants
them because there's far too many of them and what
that could do to the bond market would be tremendous.
And it makes me come back to was DAGES never

(36:53):
supposed to do what it is doing. It was just
going to go in and take the email to quote
Barack Obama staff will and not take a hacks off
to the government. But basically I question whether or not
Donald Trump, on his first day in office, was told
the bomb market's ready to seams up, and if you're
not going to start doing massive cuts now, we are

(37:16):
going to be in serious trouble. I think that what
they are doing with those and just cutting things, they
have made some mistakes. There's some people who probably shouldn't
have been let go of that have been But at
the same time, I don't know if they have time
based off of what was said on CNBC yesterday.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Well, and that sort of echoes what Massey pointed out
the other day that Republican oppressed Continuing Resolution keeps these
spending levels at the Biden level spending, and that digs
us further into a hole. I mean, it's you're right.
I am terribly worried that we're going to end up
in this death spiral that we've been talking about forever
and that people have been warned about forever and ever,

(37:55):
and that our elected officials continue to ignore. They're fiddling
while Rome is burning thanks to the call man. It's
it's it's a major concern out there, and you know,
young people are aware of this. You wonder why young
people have this sort of you know, give up mentality.
This is the reason they can see it for what

(38:16):
it is. They're smarter than we all think. Five fifty six,
five KRCD talk station, Big news and the environment and
the cutting of the Biden administration in a Bamba administration's
decision to declare CO two a pollutant. Great news coming
out of the EPA. Well, you can talk about that
coming up, and your phone calls are welcome if you
want to go a different direction. I don't mind that

(38:36):
a bit. I'll be right back.

Speaker 13 (38:38):
News happens fast, Stay up to date at the top
of the hour.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Not gonna be complicated, It's going to go very fast.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Fifty five KRZ the talk station coming up on six
or six fifty five KRCD talk station. Brian Thomas wishing
everyone a very happy Thursday slash Friday. Eve's looking forward
to the next hour. Seven oh five. Corey Bowman, he's
Mayor Oal Canada here in the city of Cincinnai, running
as a Republican maybe Sisyphian challenge. Not sure you can
see you on what he's all about at Corey Bowman
dot Com. Cory's going to join the program in an

(39:06):
hour to talk about Hyde Park. I'm going to talk
about the money allocated by the city for that skate park.
Will there be a debate between between him and a
half to have parlol and another fundraiser he's got coming
up in April eighth, to get the details. In an hour,
Donald and Neil following Corey Bowman at at seven point thirty.
Uh Dwine did the State of the State address yesterday
and there was a poll take and Donovan's going to

(39:27):
give us the results of that poll. Fast forward to
eight oh five. State Senator Bill Blusting's going to join
the program to talk about potential property tax relief efforts
going on in Columbus, as well as his idea to
provide all students in element at K through twelve with
free breakfast and lunch. I think price tag on that
one up some like three hundred million dollars, which again
I think seems odd coming from a Republican, But he'll

(39:49):
offer his explanation for that again. At eight oh five,
Jay Ratliffe yay for JAA thirty with iHeart Media aviation
expert Jay Ratliffe. Apparently a passenger was shamed last December
and is now suing the airline along with fellow passengers
were being shamed. Air India reminding passengers to stop flushing,
closed down the aircraft lavatories, the story coming from the
stack of stupid. The other day, Southwest Airlines bags are

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no longer flying for free, and finally, airlines are looking
to reduce summer capacity, which may be a bad thing
if you're planning on traveling this summer. That at eight thirty,
feel free to call if you got a comment on
something five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five hundred,
eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk found five
fifty on AT and T phone and thanks to Mary
for forwarding me the announcement. I guess it's legitimate. You know,

(40:32):
I'm always questioning what I read on the internet. As
Abraham Lincoln did say, you should put all full faith
and everything that's on the internet. It's all real, said
Abraham Lincoln. But apparently Hamilton County Prossy your college commy
pillach is uh? Has I guess got Sharon Coolidge from
the Cincinnti Inquirer to be her communications director?

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (40:52):
I guess is Sharon no longer going to be reporting
for the Inquirer anyhow? Interest hasn't posted anything in she say?
How about that? Oh, maybe there is some truth to that.
Maybe a better paying job, Joe. Anyway, over to Lee Zelden,
He's got some big announcements in terms of climate policy
and in opposite one hundred and eighty degree shift from

(41:14):
the Biden and Obama administrations, and thank god for it.
Turned the editorial Bard of the Journal does a good
job explaining this. He also wrote an open letter to
the public Zelden did yesterday that also is appearing at
least among other places in the Journal. You can read
it The Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Zelden yesterday proposed a
host of well big rule changes. Most important, maybe has

(41:38):
moved to reconsider the two thousand and nine so called
endangerment finding. Get to the details on endangerment finding declaring
greenhouse gases a pollutant subject to agency regulation. They write,
cue the panic and misinformation campaign amen on that no
climate change believer m I, or at least in terms
of us being responsible for it anyway. There As a refresher,

(42:00):
the Supreme Court ruled in Mass versus EPA back in
two thousand and seven that greenhouse gases qualify as pollutants
under the Clean Air Act. The EPA must regulate pollutants
that can quote reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health
or welfare. It's critical you point out to those words
endanger public health or welfare. No surprise the Obama administration

(42:23):
in two thousand and nine determine the greenhouse gases do
endanger public health or welfare. The Obama endangerment finding undergirds
EPA's limits on plant foods, CO two emissions from power plants, autos, trucks,
as well as methane fees on oil and gas companies.
Among other rules. The Obama Biden administrations used the finding

(42:46):
to bypass Congress important words to bypass Congress to advance
their anti fossil fuel agenda. Mister Trump's first term advisors
considering considered withdrawing endangerment finding, but we're worried about being sued.
The Trump EPA merely revised the Obama CO two regulations
to make them less punitive. The Trump administration was sued anyway,

(43:08):
then the Biden team reverse course made the Obama rules
even more punitive. The climate lobby now says mister Zelden
doesn't have legal authority to rescind the endangerment finding, despite
the fact that it was a random finding by then EPA.
But agencies re examined past decisions all the time. Mister
Zelden can reconsider the EPA's s greenhouse gas findings in

(43:29):
light of the new or in light of new or
other evidence. Most of the science cited in the Obama
endangerment finding eg. Climate change will harm US agriculture and
increase the size and frequency of wildfires is debatable understatement.
The finding that US CO two emissions will directly harm
Americans is even more tenuous. Unlike pollutants explicitly covered by

(43:54):
the Clean Air Act. CO two emissions don't affect local
air quality. They're in impact on global temperature is intermediated
by other factors like cloud cover. Curbing CO two emissions
in the United States will have scant impacts on Americans,
especially since India and China emit with abandon. Just As
antonin Scalia noted as much in Mass Versus EPA dissent quote,

(44:19):
sadly it was a descent quote. Regulating the build up
of CO two and other greenhouse gases in the upper
reaches of the atmosphere is not akin to regulating the
concentration of some substance that is polluting the air. Chief
Justice Roberts and Justice Thomas and Samuel Alito also dissented.

(44:41):
They were outnumbered. Withdrawing the endangerment finding could tee up
a lawsuit that provides the High Court an opportunity to
reconsider that Mass Versus EPA decision. And this is where
it's important. Under its major questions doctrine, significant executive actions
reques acquire express congressional authority, but Congress never authorized the

(45:05):
EPA to regulate CO two emissions. Democrats have tried and
failed several times when they had a majority, So there's
no express authorization from Congress. And because it's non express authorization,
it's a major question. Congress must do the work to
curb or ban CO two emissions if it would ever
do it. But they don't, and they haven't. Some energy

(45:28):
companies warned the withdrawing the engagement finding could make them
vulnerable to lawsuits by states and localities ledging their emissions
cause a public nuisance by contributing to climate change. You know,
but oil and gas producers already face dozens of lawsuits
and state courts. In defense, they have cited the high
courts AEP versus Connecticut ruling that the Clean Air Act

(45:50):
preempts federal torts against oil and gas companies. Their supposed
worry is that AEP will become a dead letter if
the endangerment finding is revers But withdrawing the finding wouldn't
change the court's fundamental holding that quote, it is primarily
the office of Congress, not the federal courts, to prescribe

(46:14):
national policies in the area of special federal interests quote
close quote like climate. This is all the more reason
why the Obama Biden EPA power grab endangers the constitutional
separation of powers by usurping Congress's authority. President Trump isn't
shrinking from legal fights and scrapping EPA's endangerment finding is

(46:38):
one well worth having. Amen, if you're gonna do something
of that magnitude, Congress must act expressly and direct the
EPA to do it. The EPA on its own does
not have the power and authority because it was never
established into law that they had this power and authority.
And CO two is plant food for God's sake, and
the idea that that could, as the greenhouse guys, it

(47:00):
can harm farming. The more CO two, the happier the
plants are. And on that note, get a load of
this backcrap insanity. This iss outright insanity, and it illustrates
the point that CO two is good anyway. Instead of
holding a virtual meeting, thus eliminating the need for the

(47:22):
November conference, this is the climate alarmist Planning Conference, the
twenty twenty five UN Climate Change Conference. Apparently more than
fifty thousand participants from around the world are going to
fly into it when they could meet virtually. It's going
to be held in a place called Belma, Brazil. Described

(47:42):
as a gateway to the Amazon River Amazon Rainforest. Remember
when Sting was out there raising money to preserve and
protect the Amazon rainforest to ensure that they can easily
get back and forth in and out of the city.
They are building a four lane high highway cut through
the protected Amazon forests, which absorbs one fourth of these

(48:07):
supposedly problematic carbon dioxide absorbed by all the land on Earth.
It's plant food, and they're cutting down the rainforest to
build a highway. Cord to the BBC, eight miles of
rainforest has already been cut down to make room for
the partially built Avenida Liberdade Highway. Like reporting on Blaze

(48:35):
Joseph McKinnon credit where credits to former carbon capture systems
are being stacked high along the roadside. Yes, it's widely reported.
All the logs that have been cut down to build
a highway are laid along the roadside carbon capture systems.
The American conservation site Manga Bay reported the construction on

(48:56):
the highway through the eighteen twenty seven eight or Bellum
Environmentally Protected Area began June of last year. State government's
Infrastructure Secretary Outler Silver Area stated at the outset quote,
we are committed to advancing the works, respecting environmental legislation
and the preservation of local fauna and flora. While cutting

(49:21):
it down, State government pointed out that the high will
be eliminated with solar powered lights and have bicycle lanes
right next to the cars going by. State government reportedly
been interested in clearing the eight point three mile stretch
through the beleaguered rainforest to build a highway since at
least twenty twelve, but environmental concerns got in the way.

(49:45):
The decision to hold the COP thirty in Balem, Brazil
provided the state with an excuse to cut down the trees.
Brazil's President designate for the sum of a guy named
Andre r Ouran Correra do Lago note in a letter
Monday to other parties at the United States the United

(50:07):
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that quote COP thirty
will be the first to undeniably take place at the
epicenter of the climate crisis, and the first to be
hosted in the Amazon, one of the world's most vital ecosystems,
now at risk of reaching an irreversible tipping point, according
to scientists. Close quote Yeah, why don't you go ahead

(50:27):
and build another highway in it. He noted further forests
like the one being chopped down quote can buy us
time in climate action and a rapidly closing window of opportunity.
If we reverse deforestation and recover what has been lost,
we can unlock massive removals of greenous gases from the
atmosphere while bringing ecosystems back to life. I mean, seriously,

(50:57):
what is right with this picture. We've been hearing about
deforestation on the Amazon since, I mean for decades now,
and they're chopping it down so cars can drive through
it for a climate change meeting. Eh.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
I just.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
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what Mississippi James has got this morning. James, welcome back
to the Morning Show and a very happy Friday eve
to you, sir.

Speaker 14 (53:48):
Hey, good morning, doctor Brian. All Right, I got a
point I want to make and it's going to lead
to a question that I need to act. Okay, and
it's gonna be in the category of education. Now, we
know back in the day, and I don't want to
seem like I'm rambling, but at one time it was

(54:08):
illegal for my ancestors to read. Right done through the government,
you could not be allowed to read. All right, Then
that's shifted. It changed that everybody need to know how
to read to be productive. Then we went to another
phase more common called school the prison pipeline. And if

(54:30):
a keen it cannot read effectively by the third grade,
he's targeted for prison. Now, I don't know whether that's
a straight line or whether that's just you know, zig zag.
All right, you get up to today's Department of Education. Yes,
we know it's top hav it. We know most of
the money go towards the administration and bureaucracy, and the

(54:52):
kids are losing out on the end. Also because a
lot of time the parents didn't read a lot of time,
they come out of post traumatic stress syndrome. So it's
a lot of moving parts there.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 8 (55:06):
Now the question I'm going to out.

Speaker 14 (55:09):
Of all the money that's being saved our CUTNY Department
of Education and other program what becomes of that saves money.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Well, I suppose that remains to be seen. The head
of the Partner of Education now is suggesting that'll be
money that could be available to schools, and that would
mean more resources that are going to the states in
the form of these federal grants that won't be spent
on administration of bureaucracy. So that will be a positive thing,
presumably if you are of the mind that money translates

(55:41):
to positive results for the children. But in these modern
times that does not hold true because if you look
out at all the money on a per pupil basis
that goes into cities like in the Chicago schools districts
and in Baltimore and other failing school districts, they have,
you know, twenty thousand plus per pupil. Yet they're reading
schools are in these single digits, which means money does

(56:02):
not translate into education. So what we need is a
different path forward in teaching children how to read that
actually works, like going back to phonics, for example, which
is something we're doing here in the state of Ohio
that does not require more money. It just requires rethinking
education that will provide a benefit for the student as
opposed to whatever the hell it is they're trying to

(56:23):
teach now, which obviously has a isn't isn't working clearly fundamentally.
So that's that's my response to the question, James, And
that's about as good as I can do. But I
think quite clearly money does not mean a good education.
We need outcome based research and data and change and

(56:44):
a change in the methodology that's going on right now,
moving away from what's going on right now. That's my take,
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Turn out your radio, here's a Sean Hannity Morning Minute.

Speaker 4 (57:43):
Donald Trump, in many ways he has the upper hand.
I would argue over Vladimir Putin because of the state
of Putin's economy.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
And I'll tell you.

Speaker 4 (57:51):
If Putin keeps ratcheting up the pressure. I think what
Donald Trump needs to do is is really follow through
on his push for energy dominance, of making it America
the most energy rich country on the face of the Earth.
And then as soon as we do that, we can
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(58:14):
which would be safer for them if for the national
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and hundreds of thousands of high paying career jobs for Americans.

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tomorrow with a high of eighty one. Just so can't
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Here come the break bits On found two seventy five
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construction work north found seventy five that's still doing okay,
and under seven minutes out of Marlline are into town
chuck ingramon fifty five KR see the.

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Talk station six thirty one fifty five KRCD talk station.
As in phone calls, We're gonna head on over to
local stories, including the State of the State from Governor
de Wine yesterday. Something we'll be talking about in one
hour with Donovan and Neil. Apparently Americans were prosperity at

(01:00:54):
a poll. After the State of the State. We'll see
the outcome of that and see what Donald has to say. Anyway,
Mike Dwine out in the creation of eighty one thousand
private sector jobs good thing. Pointed to a bourbon barrel
manufacturing plant in Jackson and Pike Counties, as well as
a soybean processing plant in Windot County, which is good.
He's tasked Lieutenant Governor Jim Trussel with a workforce playbook

(01:01:16):
to help grow jobs in Ohio. I like this time
to finish the job and ban cell phones in all
Ohio schools so kids can learn. Quote from DeWine, Apparently
there's a new state law and Ohio school districts have
until July to put a cell phone policy in place.
Call for new child tax credit for parents with the
full time minimum weight jobs and programs for K through
three students. He also announced investment into Certified Peer Supporters,

(01:01:41):
a job opportunity for people who have to overcome addiction
or mental health challenges and a chance to help other
people struggling with those issues. He said, of our sixty
four hundred people have already completed the program since twenty nineteen.
Directed the Department of Education and Workforce to develop a
reading and writing curriculum that incorporates more social studies and
civics content. Also announce a plan to celebrate schools that

(01:02:05):
have fully aligned with the science of reading a phonics
based method for literacy. So there you have it, Mississippi. James,
at least the DWINE is pressing those issues in his
state of the state. Highlight an effort with Ohio History
Connection to increase a focus on Ohio history and schools
starting in kindergarten. Called on Department of Education and Workforce

(01:02:26):
to develop recommendations for teaching I love this basic life
skills like cooking and budgeting so important education direction in
the speech, and I think that's all great personally anyway,
you might find anything I'm wrong anyway, emphasize the need
for several programs, and it's to your state budget. Creating
child wellness campuses to make sure children can remain in

(01:02:48):
their communities with support when they can't stay with their families.
Funding for Ohio C See Ohio c program to help
students who need eyeglasses in kindergarten through third grade driver's
education back into Ohio schools, which I didn't even realize
it had left anyway, instituting a new program for nine
Ohio counties to provide dental screenings and treatment in schools

(01:03:09):
for low income families that might not otherwise have access.
So highlights from the state of the state. We have
a body that was found in a dumpster. Since they
please investigating this one. A body found in a dumpster
outside of fast food restaurants, specifically Wendy's on Hopple Street
about two thirty yesterday morning. Death appears to be an

(01:03:30):
accident and a foul play is not suspected, but it
remains under investigation with the Hamilton County Coroner's Office and
in Main News School Board member of Forest Hill School
District stepped down from a position. Board vice president Katie
Stewart submitted a resignation this week, citing she was removing

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from to a home outside this district boundaries. Moone, you
got to live in the district apparently under the rules.
Bob ib Board of Education director said, this is a
Forest Hills High School, by the way, or Forest Hill
School District. He said, I want to thank me Stewart
for more than three years of service to our school
district and a role as member of the Board of Education,
and for her dedication and commitment to this community. Elected

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in twenty twenty one after having lived in Forest Hill's
school district more than ten years, GOP endorsed candidate who
ran on the opposition of critical race theory being taught
in the schools. So she did. She homeschooled her kids
during the pandemic, and then they did end up going
back to school, but to Guardian Angels School rather than

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Forest Hills. That's according to prior news coverage on that.
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Chuck Ingram on fifty five krc the talk station.

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Six forty Here if you have KRCD talk station after
the top of the hour and new's Corey Baumann Meyrill,
Canada for the City of Since an joins a program,
will get a good conversation with him. Then Donovan one
on the poll following Mike Dwaine State of this date,
address a couple government fraud, waste and abuse areas to
just dive on into real quick here. You know again

(01:07:28):
it's these are low hanging fruit items, but they do
all at a Department of Government efficiency. We turn to
them first before we get to the the GAO Government
Accountability Office independent of DOGE. Nothing no connection to that
one GAO has been around a long time anyway. Start
with DOGE reviewing grants from the National Institutes of Health.

(01:07:51):
Now it's yesterday, among the crazy grants that they revealed
a six and twenty thousand dollars grant four quote and
LGB plus inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys. Now,

(01:08:12):
contrast that from a pregnancy prevention program for girls. And
if you are a believer in biological reality and science,
you'll understand that there is no difference between those programs.
I mean, you know, the parts work in the same way.
Pregnancy is accomplished in the exact same way, whether you

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consider yourself a boy or you live your life as
you were born as a girl. And yet apparently six
hundred and twenty thousand dollars was needed. It's a grant, right,
Someone who has a friend in Washington asked for this
money and received it. It's like what goes on in

(01:08:55):
the city of Cincinnati. Listen to Todd zenz Er from
the interview I had with them, or from his time
in this studio earlier this week, like the skateboard park,
for example, Health Institute, which is part of the Department
of Health and Human Services was also spending about seven
hundred thousand dollars to study cannabis use in quote sexual minority,
gender diverse individuals close quote, Pause and ask yourself, does

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anybody really truly believe much in the same way in
my comments about the pregnancy program that merely because you
identify as a person of a different sex, that your
cannabis use will be different than a cannabis use of
a person who does not so identify, that your sexuality

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has a change in how cannabis impacts you. Seven hundred
and forty thousand dollars allocated for examining quote a social
network's close quote among unquote Black and Latina sexual minority
men in New Jersey. You know, does this sound like

(01:10:09):
Babylon b stuff? Fifty thousand dollars on assessing quote sexual
health close quote among unquote LGBTQ plus LATINX youth in
an agricultural community. And seventy five thousand dollars on researching

(01:10:29):
structural racism. No elaboration on that one. You know, it's
fun pointing these things out because as we are in
this death spiral, these are great illustrations of how we
got there. And moving over to the general county, a
Government Accountability Office GAO, multiple federal agencies they determine the

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GAO not DOJ wasted one hundred and sixty two billion
of your hard earned dollars in government funds making improper
payments during fiscal year twenty twenty four one fiscal year
one hundred and sixty two billion dollars the support from
the US Government Accountability Office money spent by sixteen agencies

(01:11:15):
across sixty eight programs. This report came out in on
March eleventh. JO said improper payments those that shouldn't have
been made or were made in the incorrect amount, have
been a government wide issue for more than twenty years.
I'm going back to good practices in regular businesses. This
is something that should have been eradicated a long time ago.
Easy to figure this out, the GAO did it. Five

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government programs accounted for roughly seventy five percent of the
improper spending, start with Medicare topped the list fifty four
point three billion dollars in one fiscal year alone, followed
by Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit SNAP Program, and
Restaurant Revitalization Fund. What the Hell's that report said? Eighteen
federal programs reported improper payment rate estimates of at least

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ten percent, including six program programs whose rates range from
over twenty five percent to forty five percent. Out of
the one hundred and sixty two billion dollars in improper payments,
one hundred and thirty five billion, eighty four percent were
for over payments. God, and we put our trust in government.

(01:12:30):
We put our faith in government. You want you give
the decisions in your life be made by government. They
don't care a wit about your taxpayer dollars. They don't
care that we're on a sinking ship. They don't care
that the interest payment on what they overspent already is
a trillion dollars this year. Get your head around that
one one thousand stacks of one billion dollars, which, of

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course each billion dollars is one thousand stacks of one
million dollars. You could fill pay course stadium with the
money that they waste every year. Or that our debt
service alone, which springs from well overspending, and a whole
bunch of programs in the waste and fraud and abuse
that goes on in federal government. Why do we continue
year after year to well I guess allow this to happen.

(01:13:20):
It is easy to say, but you know, they're in
a position where they could stop this. It has to
be identified first, and it's easy to identify. What are
the Social Security Administration people have been doing all these years.
Dads comes in in like five minutes, determine we've got
like one hundred and seventy five year old people still
on the Act of Social Security ranks, and you talk
about getting rid of those, and you hear people criticize online,
Oh my god, they're coming after my social Security. No

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they're not. They're trying to save it for you. You know.
I don't know if this that kind of response from
the detractors springs from Trump derangement syndrome, or if they
have a vested interest in the fraud and the overpayments
that are going out into the world. I don't know.

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of rain possible along with gusty winds seventy three for

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fine at the moment through Lachland southbound two seventy five.
Starting to see a few break lights approaching the Carroll

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Cropper Bridge from the Lawrenceburg Ramp. Chuck Ingram, I'm fifty
five krs the talk station six forty two at fifty
five pr C. The talk station Mayor Old candidate Corey Bowman.
After the top of the ur News plus Donald and
Neil with the comments on state of the state from
Dwine last night, along with a poll that was taken
there after. Fast forward to eight oh five with State

(01:16:31):
Senator Bill Blessing on property texts changes perhaps being discussed
any Wayam Columbus and his ideas for free lunch for
all students and Jay rattlif at eight thirty. Meanwhile, over
to the phones five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty
five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk Bobby,
Welcome back to the program.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
Happy Friday, Eve, do you sir.

Speaker 9 (01:16:50):
Good morning to you, my brother. I'll make it real
quick today. I got a couple comments. So it has
to do with smoking mirrors. Smoking mirrors within the corporation
limits of Cincinnati. They always like to use the words
greater metropolitan area. These are some facts here. People that

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live within the corporation limits at Cincinnati period and work there.
A family of three, The average incomes only twenty four
thousand dollars. They are one hundred and thirty percent below
the poverty range. That's why you keep hearing all the
time about jobs. They don't go within the corporation limits.

(01:17:32):
There's not a family that makes good money, that lives
within the corporation limit. Those are facts. Hopefully we've got
a conservative individual coming up that's going to run for mayre.
You hear the smoking mirrors about the federal government. How
about just Cincinnati, not the surrounding areas just within the

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corporation limits.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
Well, I mean, no, down, I understand, but that's one
of the I mean, one of the claims that you
hear from the elected officials in the city of Cincinnati
is they're trying to create areas that will draw people
who are making money bringing people. That's what with the
idea of of of over the winerydevelopment to get urban
hipsters that have a salary to move there so they
can increase the tax base. You know, it's it's an

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uphill challenge given the situation they have in there, if
you know, call crumbling infrastructure following tax base. It just
seems like, you know, speaking of death spiral, that that
kind of thing seems to be going on. But I
don't know if building a skateboard park is going to
solve the problem. I think a problem would be greater
solved if they just start fixing the road, so it
makes it, you know, more appealing for folks to even

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consider the idea of moving into the city. But all
I hear, at least for my listeners, are people that
want to move out.

Speaker 9 (01:18:49):
I've got one thing for you. The people that you
work with, the great one, the big one, all the areas,
stations and everything that are part of the iHeartMedia. How
many individuals you know that work with Igheart Media that
live within the corporation then of Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
Well, I do not profess to know anything about where
those folks live, but I'm willing to guess, which is
what I think you're expecting me to say, that they
don't live in the city of Cincinnati. There may be
exceptions to that, but I think I'm pretty sure I
know which neighborhood Well Cunningham lives in, and I know
which neighborhood McConnell lives in, and they don't live in

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the city of Cincinnati.

Speaker 9 (01:19:29):
Probably haven't got two skateboards for you, Joe, though, when
they build.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
The park, I'll drop a ball, don't sut up. I
know you, Bobby. You probably will make good on that,
but don't do it, man, Save your money, Spend it
on Ammo or something like that. Thanks Bobby, appreciate it Man,
six fifty five if you five care City talk Station.
Corey Bauman, Republican actually running for mayor City of Cincinnati.

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Cory's going to join the program at the top of
the oir news follow by Donald and Neil with a
pole on to want State of the State. Stick around
or at least I hope you can.

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News happens fast, stay up to date. At the top
of the hour. We're moving very quickly at fifty five KRC.
The talk station.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
Seven oh six, fifty five kr CD talk station, Friday Eve,
bottom of the hour, down on Neal returns the Dwine
State of the State. Yesterday they did a poll from
Americans for Prosperity. We'll find out what the poll reflected.
That's at the bottom of the hour. In the meantime,
I'm happy to welcome back to the fifty five KRC
Morning Show Cincinnati City a city mayor candidate Corey Bowman
running as a Republican in a pretty blue city. Corey,

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welcome back, Man. It's always great talking to you.

Speaker 16 (01:20:53):
Brian. It's awesome to be back. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
So, how's things going out there as you are on
the campaign trail? Meeting people, shaking hands, and you're our
website so I can tell my listeners Coreybowman dot com
so you can see his seven policy pillars, among other things.
And also up a right hand corner there's a little
donate button. I'm sure he'd appreciate a campaign contribution. Anyway,
how's it going before we get into some of the
specific topics this morning, Corey.

Speaker 5 (01:21:16):
It's going great.

Speaker 16 (01:21:16):
And you know I've told people that, you know, when
we first got into this, I thought I was just
going to the slaughterhouse and it was just going to
be me and about.

Speaker 5 (01:21:24):
Every day I get a reason.

Speaker 16 (01:21:26):
To get more encourage on this campaign trail and really
just get more motivated to know that there's a chance
to get this thing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
Well, that's wonderful to hear. And you're getting support from
the Hamilton County Republican Party, I hope.

Speaker 16 (01:21:40):
Yeah, Yeah, the Chairman Russell and Hampson County have been
very helpful and very time throughout the whole process, especially
for somebody that has really never gone into a race
like this, and so I'm very appreciative of Well.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
We live in rather unusual times, and of course obviously
the policies and platforms of the Democrat Party who run
the city of Cincinnata and now for Cincinnati now for
the last several decades, don't seem to really care about
stuff they've already have that's on their plate to take
care of roads and infrastructure. And I know a lot
of people are really upset about that, and that seems
to me one thing if we focused on would make

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the city a more attractive magnet for people who otherwise
wouldn't consider moving into the city. I mean, we got
some problems on our hands in the city, Corey.

Speaker 16 (01:22:24):
No, absolutely, And if you look at our points on
our website in the whenever we were first getting the
signatures for our petition, I was really honing in on
where the key policies that we need to focus on
and really just don't get distracted by anything. And as
I looked at it, number one.

Speaker 8 (01:22:42):
Is money management.

Speaker 16 (01:22:43):
Money management, where's the money going? Are you going to
prioritize the budget to where it benefits the residents of Cincinnati?

Speaker 5 (01:22:49):
And I don't think there's a greater example where.

Speaker 16 (01:22:52):
That mismanagement of funds is than in our infrastructure and
in our roads.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
Indeed, I couldn't agree with you more on that, and
let's just pivot over to an allocation of money that
was just announced the other day for whatever I guess,
they quote unquote found like one point three million dollars.
And so there were a bunch of hands reaching out
to try to get into the cookie guard, a lot
of non governmental organizations who typically get some funding as
directed by the mayor and council. They didn't get it.

Speaker 9 (01:23:17):
But what.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Did get three hundred thousand dollars anyway, went for a
skate park, and then the rest of it went for
the acquisition of two more dump trucks to help deal
with the behind the eight ball equipment that is used
for snow removal. We found ourselves in a precarious position
with the last snowfall, and so we learned that twenty
percent of the equipment was inoperable. So buying two dump

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trucks and three hundred thousand for a skate park. Your
comments and reflections on the skate park, what would you
have done.

Speaker 8 (01:23:50):
Well?

Speaker 16 (01:23:50):
I use the example of in your own personal funds, right,
because a lot of people are asking for things like
not just a skate park, but you are we going
to have a new arena in the city.

Speaker 8 (01:24:00):
Are we going to do this?

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Are we going to do that?

Speaker 16 (01:24:02):
And the problem is is that we have a personal
budget that is completely out of control. We have no
clue where we are necessarily and if we do that,
we're not using it properly. So it's we have to
have a good foundation in our budget of knowing what
takes priority.

Speaker 8 (01:24:16):
The fact that you're.

Speaker 16 (01:24:17):
Buying dumb trucks and stuff just shows me that this
administration and the council is really being reactionary instead of proactive.
And I think that's the key thing with your finances
is that you have to be proactive on those just
practical issues, you know, the snow removal, the dumb trucks,
the public services, the potholes. We shouldn't be patching up

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potholes at a rapid pace right now because that's reactionary.
These things should have been prevented months or years ago.

Speaker 6 (01:24:48):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
And my understanding is there an obligation to take care
of a certain number of road miles every year, and
that they have been behind in doing that for years
and years and years, which of course pounds of problem
and causes this reactionary allocation resources.

Speaker 16 (01:25:06):
No, absolutely, and that's the thing I kept feeling is
that we have to switch from being reactionary to proactive
on things.

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
We have to be able to plan ahead, we have
to be able to see.

Speaker 16 (01:25:16):
The future, and it's actually very hard to do that
when you're being distracted by other things that shouldn't take precedent.
I'm not saying that a skate park wouldn't be beneficial
to that certain aspect of that community. I'm saying it
doesn't make sense when you see the rest of these
areas and shambles that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
See And that's where I go. Don't build bright and
shiny new objects and get your photo ops in when
you have things around you that are supposed to be
taken care of that you've ignored for a long time,
like for example, being proactive and forward thinking. Did they
do a budget analysis to find out how much upkeep
and maintenance that skate park is going to require? Because
you know certain elements that are going to deteriorate. What's

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it going to call going forward? This isn't just a static,
one time cost when you build something like that, it
comes with future needs and obligations.

Speaker 6 (01:26:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:26:09):
Absolutely, And that's with a lot of these projects. I
think a lot of times when these projects like you said,
that provide photo ops, or they just look good on paper,
they don't realize the maintenance that's going to take, or
you're just not thinking ahead, and then that just puts
you further further in the whole of what you really
need to focus on.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
Indeed, and I let's see here, well the one of
the other elements of your platform. And I had to
bring this up because I ran into some rather frightening
statistics that I had in front of me for this
morning's morning show. You talk about increased safety as one
of your platforms policy platform number five. Safety the city residents.

(01:26:51):
It's extraordinarily important. And as I look at these statistics
and this is it's kind of like a buried reality.
I haven't read it, but we rank in terms of
homicides per capita, we are number twelve in the country.

(01:27:13):
Your reaction, Cory, No.

Speaker 16 (01:27:17):
I think that what was funny is that we had
our kickoff of last week or two weeks ago actually,
and whenever we had our kickoff, that same week, their
aftab had his kickoff, and they were running off of
a platform of lower crime and things that had benefited
the community. And I'm sitting there like Bro. You know,
if you're gonna ping is is that people that live

(01:27:40):
in the city, people that are experiencing these crime rates
and these gunshots every night, and these things that are happening,
they're not going to look at satistic or the people
are what a certain administration wants to say this happening.
They're going to see it for what it actually is.
And so it's very frustrating when you see the crime
rate it's up in certain areas, when you see this happening.

(01:28:03):
And so when we talk about increased safety, we're talking
about getting behind the local law enforcement, getting behind the firefighters,
not supplementing their key roles with programs like three to
one one and other comprehensive violence reduction agencies or whatever
that might be. We've got to back what works, which

(01:28:26):
is our police department. Now, I've talked with police department,
and I've talked with police officers that's been in for
over a decade in the CPD, and what they say
is that we have to find that balance between being
that protecting and that force of law in the city,

(01:28:49):
but also they have to be involved in the community.
You have to have that community's trust. It's very hard
to have the trust of the community when there's another
agency that's like three to one one one that's basically
answering other calls. We need to fully back the police
department and our fire department in ways that really hasn't
been seen in.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
The past, and be outspoken in support of the City
of Sin Saints Police department are public. Elected officials, council
members and the mayor never rise to the challenge of
saying out loud that we need to support the police,
need to talk about them in a positive way. We
need to keep them in the neighborhoods, and again, like
you said, get the police in the neighborhoods and establish
a relationship that proves that they are there to protect

(01:29:31):
the citizenry, not this evil, racist force that so many
people try to characterize them as, which by not saying anything,
suggests that the elected officials share that belief, and I
think many of them may very well do it. Let's pause,
We'll bring Corey back, talk about whether or not there's
going to be a debate and his fundraiser that's coming
up on April eighth, and maybe some of his other

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Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
At seven twenty fifty five k Seedy talk station Brian
Thomas with mayor old candidate Corey Bowman. Found my line
at Corey Bowman dot com. Read his policy platforms and
maybe consider helping him out. Get on the campaign trail,
go do a knocking, get a T shirt and maybe
make a campaign contribution. Corey, let us see here. Do
you know whether or not after a purvoll might agree
to a debate? Has that been discussed? Have you reached

(01:32:44):
out to him about doing something like that, and even
are you interested in debating mayor Afterab Parvoll.

Speaker 5 (01:32:50):
There is talk about it that I've heard.

Speaker 16 (01:32:53):
There's no confirmation as of right now, but yeah, if
mayor Aftab would agree to debate, and I think that
that would be good.

Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
I do as well. And fundraiser coming up, speaking of
campaign contributions and donations. Fundraiser I understands taking place April eighth.
What are the details on that one, Corey.

Speaker 16 (01:33:13):
Yeah, so we've just announced three events. It'll be on
our website by today. But specifically, what you're talking about
is we're at Tuesday, April eighth. We're going to be
a Price Hill Chili and that's going to be from
five to seven pm and it's all all is welcome
and Brian, I would like to extend a personal invitation

(01:33:34):
to you if you could be there as well, that
would be amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
If my schedule laws for it, I will be happy
to be there. Love Price Heal Chili, really excellent location
in venue. Usually a lot of people show up for those.
I presume west Side Jim Keefer will be there. Yeah, yeah,
I think he's got an apartment there somewhere. Edie. Anyhow
your your your proposal regarding practical housing. I know there's

(01:33:59):
a lot of screaming and yellow and the connected communities
has been talked about in what's your take on Housing
in the City of Cincinnati, and as a mechanism to
get more people to want to live there. It seemed
to have worked when they read when they gentrified over
the Rhine area. I know a lot of urban hipsters
moved in there. That worked, But then people turned around

(01:34:20):
and started saying, well, I can no longer afford to
live in the area where I used to live. So
it always comes with detractors when you invested in any
given neighborhood. But what's your plan to create some sort
of practical approach to housing.

Speaker 16 (01:34:34):
Well, I think one of the things that you have
to hone in on is one of Cincinnati's best resources
is our local small businesses and our developers. There's a
lot of developers, a lot of people that are invested
in the city, that loved the city, that grew up
here or where they're from here. They call it their
home that they're able to flip one or two properties

(01:34:55):
at a time.

Speaker 5 (01:34:56):
But when you have.

Speaker 16 (01:34:57):
An overall plan, let's say, or a vision that the
city has for an area, and it's only going to
be done by one big time developer. That's really what
you're seeing with these connected communities is that you're not
allowing people in the community to do it. You're actually
just bypassing that saying.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
No, this is what we see for the community.

Speaker 16 (01:35:15):
And then in these policies, it's a trojan horse for
a lot of things that have failed in the past
and other communities in the city.

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
Well, and I know one of the hurdles to you
doing any kind of development, small or large. We have
an overburden of regulations in the city.

Speaker 16 (01:35:32):
Yes, absolutely, And I witnessed that firsthand as a business
owner in the West End. I remember the year that
we went to the Super Bowl with the Bengals, and
that the year after that, it was nothing short of
like crazy in a lot of these streets in the
West End, specifically where I was from. Is that there

(01:35:53):
was developers and investors that were lining up the streets
ready to pour into this city. And the way that
you saw, you're like, man, this place is going to
blow up into in two years time, max. There's gonna
be so much development, there's gonna be so much housing available,
there's gonna be so much resources available. This is amazing.
Two years later, you just realize there's a kink in

(01:36:14):
the hose. What is it.

Speaker 5 (01:36:16):
Well, it has to do with regulation.

Speaker 16 (01:36:18):
It has to do with zoning that is just not
practical to the area. When you've got an area that's
over eighty percent affordable housing or government subsidized housing, and
then you're trying to put more of that in that
community instead of just allowing businesses to thrive and people
to have market rate or middle income apartments and condos

(01:36:42):
and townhomes. This is just something that really hinders the
growth of all these communities.

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
Yeah, it concentrates poverty in certain areas which prevents them
from economic development.

Speaker 5 (01:36:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:36:53):
Absolutely, And that honestly is probably one of the biggest
factors of this campaign with the money management starting to
see that just certain funds need to go to certain
places and be prioritized. But then on top of that,
we have to have a practical housing approach because it
is an issue. You know, when people say that there's
a housing crisis, you've got to realize that there's a disparity.

(01:37:15):
There's the very low income housing and then there's a
very high income housing. But for us, in our coffee shop,
there's several individuals that work in the city, and they're
able to afford a great price in our apartment, in
the apartments that are above the building. We don't own
the building itself, but we're able to pay a market
rate for our business as well, and it's helped the

(01:37:36):
community thrive. But there's a shortage of available units like
that unless you have you know, if you play by
the rules with the red tape of you've got to
put this type of business here, and you've got to
put this type of housing here, and really that shouldn't
be the case.

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
Coreybowman dot com for all the info and of course
price wal Chili April eighth, beginning at five pm for
the fundraiser and get a chance to shake hands with
Corey and meet him up front. Corey, has been a
pleasure having you on the show, with you all the
beck the best on the campaign trail, and I know
we'll we talk again real soon here on the morning show.

Speaker 16 (01:38:09):
Absolutely, thank you Brian for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:38:11):
My pleasure, my pleasure, and good luck stick around. We're
gonna hear Domin O'Neil his reaction to the Dwines State
of the State last evening, plus the poll and what
people thought of it. That's coming up next with Americans
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Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
At seven thirty one on a Thursday slash Friday eve.
Any day's a good day to have Donald O'Neil on
for Americans for prosperity, doing the great work here in
the state of how to right the ship and make
it a good place to live and get the right
policies in place. Welcome back, Donald and' neil. It's a
pleasure to have you on again. It's good to be here.
Stat of State last night highlighting what Governor to Wy

(01:40:59):
wants to accomplish, and I guess what he has accomplished.
He noted there were more to eighty one thousand private
sector jobs have been added, which is a great thing.
Couple of businesses he highlighted. He had some I think
some excellent points on education, like notably phonics, bringing back phonics,
and getting cell phones out of schools, which I guess
the state law is going to require that school districts

(01:41:21):
have an anti cell phone policy in place at least
by July of this year. That can only do good
for the students who are so distracted these days. What
was your take on this date of the state.

Speaker 17 (01:41:32):
Yeah, I think once again, you know, it's an opportunity
to kind of reflect on the accomplishments over the last
two years, set some priorities for the legislature as they
you know, are getting to the halfway point in that process.
And you know what I think we saw from Governor
want on this was he's focused on pointing to the

(01:41:52):
right issues right education, families, workforce, jobs, opportunity. What we
have to caution though, Brian, as you as you well know,
and I've been on the show many times talking about it,
is what government's role is in those things and making
sure that we're what we're doing for creating an environment
where folks can thrive and succeed and we can be

(01:42:15):
the number one state of the nation, but doing it
through freedom and limited government. So that's always the thing
you got to be listening out for in these speeches
is wait, what are what is the executive asking for?

Speaker 9 (01:42:26):
Now?

Speaker 17 (01:42:28):
What kind of power are they asking for from the
legislature as they talk about these priorities and initiatives.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
Well, some of the things are like common sense, like
bringing more Civics education in teaching the basic life skills.
I remember a home economics class. I thought that was great,
But budgeting things like that, that isn't that local school
board based decision making? And bun't the school boards to
make those determinations.

Speaker 17 (01:42:52):
Well, I think miner standing is you've got a lot
of different requirements coming from the state and the federal government.
I think what we should be doing, yeah, is priortizing
some of those things and then also making sure when
we're talking about education, we're really focused on the stuff
that are going to set folks up for success, right
the core essentials, reading, writing, arithmetic, which I know Governor

(01:43:13):
Dewines put a heavy emphasis on making sure students are
equipped to read, and we've got some good indicators of that.
But yeah, life skills like budgeting. I think that's really
important in making sure folks understand how to live their life.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
Once they once they get out of school. That's important. Joe,
just ask will our elected officials take those classes first, budgeting,
most notably Strecker. Now, you did a poll the folks

(01:43:51):
reaction on the state of the state.

Speaker 17 (01:43:52):
I understand, well, this was a pre state of the
state pole. We wanted to get our finger on the
pulse where Ohio voters are. We could kind of, you know,
deliver that map. We want to deliver that message to
the legislations and say, hey, here's what you're hearing from governor,
here's what you're you know, you guys are talking about.
How does the lineup with actually where voters are and
what they want to see y'all do with the two

(01:44:13):
hundred and eleven billion dollars you're going to be spending
over the next two years.

Speaker 2 (01:44:16):
All Right, we'll let that set up for the next
segment where we'll see if Dwine's comments in the State
of the State align with what Americans for Prosperity polls
said that folks want. That's a great I like the
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and I guess in earnest they're expecting maybe one to
two inches of rain along with dusty wins possible seventy
three to high on Saturday. It's forty four right now,
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five KRZE the talk.

Speaker 2 (01:46:47):
Station seven forty Here fifty five KRCD Talk Station, A
very happy Thursday to you. Senator Bill Blessing at the
aut top of the UR News talk about property taxes,
which we all are upset about. In the meantime, Donovan
and Neil for Americans for Prosperity talking about the state
of the state. So you did a poll in advance
of the state of the state, and as I gravitated

(01:47:09):
to some of the comments that Governor de w I
mentioned about education, which appealed to me. Apparently addressing education
was one of the right things to do because that
was really important to the folks you pulled.

Speaker 17 (01:47:20):
Yeah, over over seventy five percent of Ohio voters said
that they want it. It's a very or extremely important
combined to address education here in the state of Ohio.
And I think we you know, something that we had
seen coming out of COVID right as parents were better
connected to their kids' education or saw their kids not
being educated because they shut the school down. This continues

(01:47:43):
to be an issue that folks want to see resolved.
And I think you've got a mix of folks who
care about it from the academic and what we're being
taught perspective right in choice. But then you've also got it,
I think from the folks who want to know they're
getting value and the talking about property taxes, the property
taxes they're paying to go to fund the schools and education.

(01:48:05):
And so we really hope all makers pay attention here
and work to address some of those challenges of which
we also had voters care about.

Speaker 2 (01:48:16):
In terms of education, flexibility, Brian, Yeah, and I don't
know did Governor de Wine say anything about that school choice, flexibility,
options for parents to send their children, Not that I caught.

Speaker 17 (01:48:27):
Unfortunately, last State of the State he did, and that
actually really helped supercharge the conversation. So I didn't catch
anything like that in his comments yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:48:39):
That seems a lost opportunity because I think, you know,
education choice, I think resonates with people of all political stripes,
and unless you remember the teachers Unit, I think your
job's at stake or something. You know, if you are
a state that offers this, that is a magnet for
families considering places to live. It's just one more, you know,

(01:49:00):
piece of the puzzle to make Ohio an in demand
state as opposed to something that's completely overlooked. Oh totally,
and that's why.

Speaker 17 (01:49:08):
Yeah, So sixty eight percent of the voters we pulled
on this question support education flexibility. And what that means, right,
is it's not just money following the child. It's the
ability to go to the school that's going to best
meet that kids needs. Are access to the resources that's
going to help, you know, maybe close a learning loss
gap that the child might have, and so increasing policy.

Speaker 2 (01:49:31):
Passing policies that are.

Speaker 17 (01:49:32):
Going to increase education flexibility are incredibly critical and it's
something that voters are wanting.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
And I think something else I don't think he addressed,
but it's energy prices. Folks a little upset about energy
and energy policy is a prioritization.

Speaker 17 (01:49:49):
I don't think I've met anybody for a while Brian
who has said, boy, I'm really happy about these low energy.

Speaker 2 (01:49:55):
Oh my god, I know going through the roof. So
no surprises day.

Speaker 17 (01:50:00):
But what I think was insightful because we wanted to
kind of understand where folks want to see the legislature
take things. Sixty percent of voters say the government's number
one priority should be ensuring affordable and reliable energy, even
if it may slow the pace of renewable energy developments.
So we're opposed to renewable energy, right, But the signal
is we got we gotta unleash energy abundance here, not

(01:50:23):
just in the country, but particularly here in the state Ohio.
We got an abundance of resources, abundants opportunity, and that's
what two thirds of voters want.

Speaker 5 (01:50:31):
To see happen.

Speaker 2 (01:50:32):
Yeah, I mean, I died. I'm glad Donald Trumps and
I guess you probably saw the EPA has got has
moved away from this Green New Deal garbage and going
back to more sensible Donald Trump, you know all of
the above energy strategy. And you know, and that's another thing.
Ohio could be the leader of nuclear power. I mean,
we just need to just get rid of the regulatory
overburdens and the impediments to nuclear energy, embrace this modern

(01:50:56):
nuclear power generation technology, the modular nuclear your plans. I mean,
we could be a real leader and another magnet for
artificial intelligence to come here, because that's the that's the
key to drawing AI facilities and the jobs that they have.
Oh without a doubt.

Speaker 17 (01:51:12):
And unfortunately, there are are already legislative vehicles. There have
been many hearings talking about just that. And it's not
what we typically see, right, which are subsidies or picking
winners and losers in the energy marketplace. The policies we're
seeing Center Bill two, House Bill fifteen, those are focused
on speeding up in many ways, speeding up the permitting

(01:51:34):
process so that if somebody's got an energy project and
energy generation project they want to get off the ground,
they're going to know they're going to have an answer
to it and not just go into a black hole
like they often do, you know, on the federal level
as they work through these things.

Speaker 2 (01:51:46):
Well, since i'll be talking about property tax relief coming
up off top of the our news with Senator Blessing,
I see that's a big concern for ohioan's because everybody's
upset about the size of their property tax bill. At
least the corner of your survey. It's a big priority,
it is.

Speaker 17 (01:52:01):
We've got sixty five percent of folks say property taxes
are too high. Again, not not in the realm of
big surprises here, right, folks are paying a lot and
they they're they're they're starting to feel the pain and
the pinch. What I think was especially insightful though, was
that what they want to see lawmakers focus on. And
there's really kind of two competing tracks that we're seeing
here at the State House's legislative proposals come in. One

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is providing you know, what I would deter what I
would call temporary relief, right like, hey, let's let's subsidize
this through the state and not not in like a lower.

Speaker 2 (01:52:30):
Case that subsidized Brian.

Speaker 17 (01:52:31):
Right, like, let's have the state, you know, provide some
relief to communities with high tax burdens that sort of
weather's storm, or let's provide some more exemptions to particular
groups or populations. But what voters want to see actually
is long term structural changes. And so I think, you know,
reforms that will address the twenty mil floor, or we'll

(01:52:52):
get to you know, making sure that folks have transparency
in you know, what sorts of levees have, what impact
on their property tax.

Speaker 2 (01:53:00):
Bill, those kinds of policies.

Speaker 17 (01:53:02):
I think voters are going to reward next November if
wallmakers get to get to work on addressing them.

Speaker 6 (01:53:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53:08):
I know there's a lot of seniors out there that
were just shocked and dismay and really concerned about their
ability to stay in the places they've been in for
a long time. You know, the properties have all increased
in value dramatically as on the heels of COVID and
the demand, and you know they just can't manage. So
relief for seniors seems to be a top priority, and
I think mister Blessing is going to be addressing that
in some part. After the top of the air news

(01:53:30):
I got a big chuckle out of no phanomi of
tax dollars being used to support sporting organizations. You did
a pull on the taxpayer funding for the new Cleveland
brown Stadium. Wow, look at that one eighty.

Speaker 17 (01:53:51):
And this isn't just Cincinnati, by the way, this wasn't
a poll we just ran in Southwestal House. These aren't
Bengals fans, you know, dogging on the team up north.

Speaker 2 (01:53:58):
That is.

Speaker 17 (01:53:59):
This is you know, across the state of Ohio. And
I think that's right right. You know, folks don't want
to see their panheigh property taxes or pay more on
energy bills. The last thing they want to see their
tax dollars going to or new taxes being opposed on
them to pay for our stadium deals for you know,
over five billion dollar infl franchises. I don't think we

(01:54:22):
need to be doing that, and the voters seem to
feel the same way. So I think there's been a
lot of cold water doused on some of the governor's
proposals around funding stadium, the Cleveland Brown Stadium deal, and
I'd be curious to see how that may be, what
maneuvers they take now.

Speaker 2 (01:54:38):
Yeah, and it's a growing number of people just are
I think we've all learned a lesson from the pay
Course stadium and always described as the worst stadium deal
negotiated in the entire country. We've been living with that
for a long time. And now they got their hand
in the public funds cookie jar to do some expansions
and some improvements that we're all going to be on
the hook on thanks to the terrible deal we dealt.

(01:55:00):
So anyhow, eighty percent a pose. And again we're talking
about a two point four billion dollars stadium they're considering.
That just seems outrageous, man, But I always thought the
way of the future was sitting in your own basement
watching it on a giant screen TV and not paying
twelve dollars to fifteen dollars for a beer Donovan.

Speaker 17 (01:55:20):
See, well, you know, I like that front row seat
as well, so it's fun to go to a game.
But yeah, it's a it's a pricey endeavor. Yeah, but
each their own, I suppose.

Speaker 2 (01:55:28):
Yeah, it's well, they're built for the wealthy among us,
and that's part of the redevelopment plan for pay Corps
to put you know, new boxes and high end boxes
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Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
To shy As seven fifty five fifty five k SEA
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it's coming. There's an Empower You seminar that's taking place
tonight beginning at seven o'clock, beginning with martyse Thompson the
eighteen fifty one Center to talk about what's going on
with the eighteen fifty one Center and what they've been
going on and are doing lately. That'll be a half hour,

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followed by Senator Bill Blessing from the State of Ohio
on property tax relief. Do they have some ideas, apparently
recently submitted twenty one recommendations for review. He is on
the ten member Joint Committee of Property Tax Review, and
we're going to hear what he has in terms of
property tax relief. Fingers crossed Bill Blessing after the top
of the our news.

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Speaker 2 (01:59:45):
People are mad as hell when they got that most
recent tax bill, and people are really demanding answers and
looking for solutions to how to solve the problems. So
we don't get whacked like that again. I understand you'd
be talking about this at Thursday evening at the Empower
You seminary.

Speaker 5 (02:00:00):
Yes, that's correct, and you are absolutely correct. A lot
of anger out there, and particularly with seniors on fixed incomes.
You are right about that.

Speaker 2 (02:00:10):
So I understand there's a ten member joint committee on
property tax reform you are heading it up. Are you
looking for people to show up to offer their concerns,
problems and solutions or are you going to be providing
information about potential legislative fixes what's going to take place.

Speaker 5 (02:00:26):
So I'm happy to go over elements of the report.
And I should qualify this by saying I'm a co
chair Representative Bill Romer, who's the Houseways and Means Chairman.
And I should also clarify the Ways and Means Committee
as the committee that deals with taxes. I chair the
Senate Ways and Means Committee. I think at this point

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the focus is going to be more on what we
should be doing going forward. And admittedly, you know, myself
and other members of the General Assembly, we didn't wait
for the report to come out before we started dropping
legislation and attempts to address this even last General Assembly.

(02:01:06):
So but I also hope to like clear up some
you know, misconceptions with with what's going on, what we
can and can't do. You know a good example of
that is, you know, people will say, well, why can't
you just freeze property taxes? And you know a big
issue with that is, well, a lot of these provisions
in the constitutions, so you'd have to go to the

(02:01:27):
ballot in order to repeal them if you if that
was something that we were going to.

Speaker 2 (02:01:32):
Do, okay, and my what are the springboards? And this
has to be the Supreme Court case from I guess
two decades ago declaring that the funding of schools was
on constitutional, Yet there's been no change that the line's
share of our property taxes goes goes to the schools.

Speaker 5 (02:01:48):
Yeah, so now so now you know where I'll be
going in this budget discussion. You're right, in fact, when
as introduced budget passes and there's some nuance to this.
But if that, let's say that passes and is our
school funding formula going forward, the state versus local share

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split will be lower than it actually was during d'olf.
So in other words, that during d'off I think it
was in the low forties. So, in other words, forty
percent of the funding came from the state, sixty percent
from locals. If this school funding formula goes through, it'll
be I believe in the load of mid thirties. So

(02:02:36):
obviously we need to, you know, fix that. And for
what it's worth, the formula that is being phased in,
if we fully phased it in, it is, in my
at least in my estimation, a fully content formula. I
think you'd find the school districts would say the same thing.
But yes, you are, you're absolutely right that that is

(02:02:56):
a huge piece of this in the sense that if
you do more at the state level, it's not like
school districts like going to the ballot, I think there'd
be a lot less pressure.

Speaker 2 (02:03:06):
To do so, Okay, so fewer levees then fewer tax
levy ballot initiatives. Absolutely, well, that's I'm sure that it
sounds like that's going to be welcome for my listening audience.
And of late, most of them get shot down because
people's property tax burden is just you know, it's too challenging,
so they're less likely to vote to maybe vote for

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a levee that is actually needed. Some view them as
not unneeded in many cases, but that's up to our
voters to decide. But now, how will this help in
terms of tax relief for the taxpayer? Since the fundamental
issue is here the bottom line, what do we have
to pay in terms of taxes?

Speaker 5 (02:03:45):
If you're looking at fixing the school funding formula, that
would be something that I would say is more in
the future a fix that would be more future looking
and it's not going to offer immediate relief. But that's
There are a number of bills in the General Assembly,
some of which I carry, that would offer immediate relief

(02:04:07):
I still maintain the three best ideas are one the
property tax circuit breaker to an expanded homestead exemption, and
three a property tax deferral program, and some other states
do that. To give you an idea, how that works
is that the state creates a large fund and you apply,

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and let's say you're a senior on fixed income, for example,
your property taxes would be freeze at their current level,
and the state would then take on the burden as
they continue to go up. But then either when you
pass away or sell the home, the state would then
recoup the lost out revenue via a lean on the property.

Speaker 2 (02:04:55):
That seems logical. I mean that mechanism. At least the
state is not out this money completely, like it's some
sort of government program to just pay for things for people.
But you get the money back when the house is
sold or the estate is disposed.

Speaker 5 (02:05:09):
That's exactly right, I mean it was. The basic gist
of it is that if you have a lot of
equity in your home, which a lot of seniors do, uh,
they're able to tap into that early, which I think
the vast majority of them would say, we're totally for.

Speaker 2 (02:05:24):
That, all right, But the lean would be established upfront,
so they couldn't so get like a second mortgage and
get all the equity out of the home and leave
in debt.

Speaker 5 (02:05:34):
Correct And there's there's a lot of guardrails that would
have to you know, be in place for this. But
the state, the state that did this, well, there's two
of them that did it. One is Maine, the others Minnesota.
The draft that I have is based on Maine, though
I have not introduced that at this moment because it
was well at the time, there was some talk of

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which who who pays for the fund and and you know,
my contention was let's do this at the state level.
There were others that would say, we'll have this done
at the county level. It's we're still trying to negotiate that.

Speaker 2 (02:06:11):
I see. Now you mentioned the circuit breaker. Can you
explain that to my audience.

Speaker 5 (02:06:16):
Yes, So, the way the circuit breaker operates is people
property taxes are you know, hated by people because they're
not tied in any way to your ability to pay.
So most seniors feel this when they, you know, they
retire and then all of a sudden twenty years later,

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their fixed income is eroded, but yet their property taxes
keep rising and they find themselves unable to pay. What
the property tax circuit breaker does is caps the amount
of property taxes that you pay at a percentage of
your income. So, in other words, you, if you're making

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fifty grand a year in retirement, the percentage in the
bill that we introduced is fixed at five percent if
you go. If your property tax burden rises above five
percent of your income, the circuit breaks and then the
state starts taking on the additional burden for that. So

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you basically will never pay more property taxes than in
theory you can afford with that. The drawback of it
is is excuse me, it's an expensive program. But a
colleague of mind introduced legislation last YA that made this
revenue neutral. We paid for it by going after a

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number of what we would consider corporate welfare pieces of
statute that really needed to be reworked in order to
provide relief to seniors in this Actually, although I shouldn't
say that that's relegated to just seniors, this would be
everybody within reason. I mean, there are guardrails if you
have a you know, two million dollar home and a

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half a million dollar salary and retirement, Yeah, that the
circuit breaker is not going to apply to you fair enough.

Speaker 2 (02:08:14):
And then the homestead expansion, just briefly, how does that work.

Speaker 5 (02:08:19):
So right now the homestead exemption is now there's an
income limit and there's a benefit. So broadly speaking, the
benefit is a dollar amount that comes off your valuation.
So if you have a two hundred thousand dollars home,
homestead exemption is under thirty grand, but now it's adjusted

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for inflation. So for ease of example, let's say it's
twenty five grand your home's value to two hundred thousand.
Let's say you qualify you're a senior over sixty five,
disabled veteran, there's some other widow of a disabled veteran.
You get that twenty five thousand off, so you're the
valuation of your home for tax purposes goes down to

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one hundred and seventy five thousand, and you pay taxes
on that. So it's not a huge benefit. But the
caveat is that you can only get this if your
income is less than about thirty six thousand per year,
which really cuts off the vast majority of Ohioans. Not

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only that it was universal at one point, so there
are some folks that make significantly more that are grandfathered in,
but in all cases it's really not the best benefit.
So the idea is with this legislation is to say,
look at this as a percentage of what you're actually taxed.

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So if you pay over the course of a year
six thousand in property taxes and you qualify at the
lowest level, you might get twenty percent off your property taxes.
So if you're paying six thousand, you would be getting
a twelve thousand dollars benefit from the state. However, as
your income rises, that percentage drops. It's like a progressively

(02:10:15):
declining curve, so that you know by the time you
hit one hundred some thousand or more, you're not getting
any benefit. But the nice part about this is is
that since it's tied to median income and tied to
percentage of the property taxes that you actually pay, if
you're a senior on fixed income, that you know you're

(02:10:37):
right at the line towards the top. When you retire,
you actually start walking back up the curve as your
fixed income is eroded away, so your benefit actually grows
over time, which I think is a great way to
do this, and I think it would be significantly cheaper,
although we're still trying to find the cost estimate for this.

(02:10:58):
But again, the homestead exemption only applies to generally speaking
people over the age of sixty five.

Speaker 2 (02:11:06):
All right, well, if you're concerned about your property taxes,
you want to learn a little bit more about this
and more lengthy conversation with Senator Bill Blessing taking place
Thursday night, that's March thirteenth, coming up seven pm. Is
beginning again Martice Thompson on what the eighteen fifty one
center con law is doing. That'll start at seven and
Bill will take over at seven thirty for a full hour.

(02:11:26):
So I just make pivot over real quick here. You
are one of the bipartisan sponsors are behind the bill
to pay for students to have a free breakfast and
lunch at school. Can you explain your motivations behind this
and how much is it going to cost? I have
to observe, this doesn't sound like a thing usually a
Republican would embrace. So what's the motive the motive behind this?

(02:11:48):
And I've had some of my listeners say that out loud.
That's why I'm asking on their behalf. But in this
as the way the article reads from the Ohio Capital Journal,
this is a free lunch and breakfast for all students.

Speaker 5 (02:12:01):
Yes, that's correct. So let me step back for a moment.
It's the cost of this is so this is the
Senate built one oh nine for those who want to
research democrat out again per fiscal year. But I have
to add a caveat to that because there's been some
confusion for folks who have reached out to my office

(02:12:21):
and have said, well, you know, we pay en up
in property taxes for school, we don't want to pay
more property taxes for this. Very briefly, this will not
raise your property taxes. This would be entirely state funded.
And you know, once again like the property tax circuit breaker,
we had a bill last General Assembly that made this

(02:12:44):
revenue neutral, so it was already paid for. But the
advocates of this particular program, in light of the fact
that we're in budget season, wanted something introduced for public inspection,
and they wanted it clean, no other elements in there.
Which admittedly, the bill that we had last year that

(02:13:06):
paid for this was what I would consider sort of
a mini budget. But the motivation for this is simple
that when you look at a lot of the administrative
burden behind doing something like this with respect to free
and reduced lunch. That adds a significant cost to this,
and in the end, it's actually pretty cheap just to

(02:13:28):
have it universal and end a lot of the stigma
behind this, which is one of the reasons why we're
doing this. But more importantly, I think that it's also
something that I think will reduce truancy. Because the income
limits for free and reduced lunch aren't exactly high, there's

(02:13:48):
a lot of lower middle class parents that would be
included in this. Beyond that, when we talk about tax
cuts at the state, at the state level, and we
have a number of people you know that that look
at a top rate income tax cut and they're like, well,
how does this benefit us? It really, it really doesn't.

(02:14:10):
And we as families pay a significant amount of money
to raise our children. And yes, I understand that not
everybody has children, and you know, but this would be
a significant benefit to families, which frankly, you know, my party,
Republican Party, we we pay a lot of lip service
to and for parents. I have universally heard on both

(02:14:34):
sides of the aisle that they liked this idea because
it you know, it's a tax cut to them, and
at the same time it also absolves them of a
lot of things that are quite difficult actually as parents.
I mean I have three boys myself, and you know,
packing the lunch in the evening for them, you know,
getting them up and getting them breakfast in the morning.

(02:14:57):
That all would be taken care of at the school.
And it actually achieves an economy of scale from that standpoint.
So it's expensive obviously for parents to you know, buy
school lunches and breakfasts and prepare them at home. Having
this done at the school level I think would be
ultimately cheaper for parents and for the state. So yes,

(02:15:18):
I do understand that there are people that disagree with this.
They think, you know, this is more government in their lives.
But bear in mind that with respect to you know,
the idea of a common good, I mean, we do
have that in K through twelve public schools where you
are constitutionally guaranteed a public education. In this state. There's

(02:15:43):
a lot of research about kids struggling to learn if
they're not well fed. This makes an attempt to bolster
our public education system. So in other words, your education
is already free in the sense at the point of sale.
I mean, the state does pay for it, and so
do property taxes. Adding school lunches to this is, in

(02:16:05):
my opinion, the logical next step.

Speaker 2 (02:16:07):
Okay, I just some people say, well, listen, you know,
folks on Life's Margins, they had the SNAP program. They're
capable of buying food and preparing lunch. You know, my
mom will always packed me a lunch and she got
to select what we ate. The food offerings at school
weren't exactly the best when I was going to school.
And I'm not sure what sort of nutritional guidelines you're
going to have on this, but I'd like to think
if you're going to be providing a free lunch to everybody,

(02:16:28):
at least will be subject to maybe some sort of
RFK junior type quality of foods as opposed to the
stuff that we're normally accustomed to in a school lunch line.

Speaker 5 (02:16:39):
Yeah, there are rules to it now, they're supposed to
be somewhat healthy. I mean, I don't have the details
on the top of my head on that, but you know,
certainly we can make that more strict at the state
level if we need to. But even then, in the end,
having a kid said, is in my opinion, better than

(02:17:01):
having them not fed and trying to sit through class
just thinking about one and only thing, which is I
need to eat. But you're right, I don't. I mean,
I for what it's worth, I think there would be
a lot of local outcry if if the schools school districts,
for example, decided that, you know, we're just going to
serve donuts in the morning because that's cheap processed food.

(02:17:24):
I just, you know, to the extent that we need
to at guardrails, that's fine, But I just I struggle
to believe that they would go ahead and do that.
And oh there's real real quick. One thing I did
forget to say about this. This isn't just public schools.
This would also be you know, chartered on public So
your Catholic schools would be uh would be receiving this

(02:17:46):
as well, all.

Speaker 2 (02:17:48):
Right, but not not homeschools.

Speaker 5 (02:17:51):
No, no, no, no, no, no, right, that's correct. And
you would you would want some sort of physical presence.

Speaker 2 (02:17:57):
Yeah, that's right, Senator Bill Blessing, Do you have widespread
support for this? Is this a sure thing that's going
to go through or is there going to be some
pushback from.

Speaker 5 (02:18:07):
Oh, there's pushback, so from at the legislative level. That's
where I've gotten the most pushback. So the governor has
said that he supports this, but says we we can't
afford it, which I challenge him on that, because we
you know, in the budget we do have that five

(02:18:29):
thousand dollars childcare tax credit piece. There's you know a
number of other provisions that he's trying to do for
families that probably have similar costs. Just the choice of
what we want to do. The bigger concern is Speaker
Matt Huffman, who I don't believe that he wants to

(02:18:50):
do it. He made he made the argument that well,
you know they get these free breakfasts and lunches, they
may not want them. The kids are just going to
throw them away and that's going to lead to a
lot of a food waste. And I kind of chockoled, Well,
if you know you can't, you can. You can lead
a horse to water, you can't make them drink. I

(02:19:10):
remember in grade school myself a number of times that
I had a PB and J sandwich that turned into
I guess a PB and J crape. YEP, it was
all smashed up and I would end up throwing it
away because I'm not eating that. But you know, at
least being paid to make the attempt I think is
worth it. And frankly, I'm sure there's a lot of

(02:19:30):
food waste that you know, their parents have all the
good intentions of giving them, you know, green beans, I
think was the example that Speaker Hoffman used. Uh yeah,
the kids see that and there there. You know, you'd
hope that they would eat it, but chances are they
may not.

Speaker 2 (02:19:46):
Well, that's why I suggested really healthy food options only
in the free school lunch and they either you either
eat it or you don't. You know, there's got to
be some tough love in the room if we're looking
out for our children's self. We do have a massive
obesity crisis in this country. Senator Bill Blessing, thank you
so much for spending time with my listeners of me today.
Look forward to the Empower You seminar again Thursday, beginning

(02:20:07):
at seven pm. Empower Youamerica dot org. Register and either
attend live or log in from the comfort of your
own home. Thanks for spending the time with us today,
Senator Blessing.

Speaker 5 (02:20:17):
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Chuck king Ram on fifty five kro see the talk station.

Speaker 2 (02:21:15):
It's a thirty two to fifty five k see talk station.
Get a little bit of late start, but better late
than never. With iHeart media aviation expert Jay Ratliff. Welcome back,
my dear friend Jay. It's always a pleasure to have
you on the morning show.

Speaker 6 (02:21:25):
Pleasing, good morning.

Speaker 2 (02:21:27):
Let's start out of order because I want to give
a little more time to the first story about the
passenger shaming. Let's just jump to one that made the
stack as stupid this week Air India passengers stopping up
the toilets on the airplane. What the hell, Brian, I've.

Speaker 18 (02:21:40):
Said this before, I'll say it again. You'll never hear
me make that arrogant claim of well, I've seen it
all because fails to recognize people can still come up
with ways to surprise us. And this stems from a
fourteen hour scheduled flight from Chicago to Delhi. Win eight
of the twelve laboratories and yes, I said eight of

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the twelve stopped working because passengers had flushed.

Speaker 6 (02:22:05):
Clothing down the lavatories. Now, I remember a number.

Speaker 18 (02:22:10):
Of years ago with Gilbert and Narley, with our friend
Gary Burbank, he called one of the airlines panic that
he had he was in trouble with the law because
he flushed a foreign objects down the toilet, and it
was a chicklet made in Mexico. And he thought for
sure he'd broken some sort of FAA rule because there
is a sign in the lavatory saying no foreign objects

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in the lavatories. I guess we need to expand that,
my attorney friends to clothing is not allowed down. I
just you know, well, I went around the industry since
October of eighty one. I've never heard of a story
where the clothing caused the laboratory to stop working. Certainly
not at eight of the twelve.

Speaker 2 (02:22:51):
Okay, the flight, and see now that was my point
because I wanted to ask you about that. This sounds like,
you know, it was a concerted effort. It was an
intentional thing to sabbage ties to toilets for some reason.

Speaker 18 (02:23:01):
I don't know if it's sabotaged, Brian, or if it's
a thing that I'm just oblivious to. But they were
five hours into the fourteen hour flight, and they turned
around and came.

Speaker 6 (02:23:10):
All the way back to Chicago.

Speaker 18 (02:23:12):
Because anytime we're on a flight where you don't have
an appropriate number of lavoratories that are operational, you're not
to operate the flight. So at that point in time,
it was it's quicker to go back and land than
it is to go forward in land. And to think
that it wasn't a mechanical situation with the lavatories, which
happens from time to time, but it was the fact

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that people were flushing clothing down the last When the
story hit my desk, I thought, okay, this is you know,
somebody's having fun with something, because this isn't a real thing.
And I saw report after report after report after report,
and yeah, because I'm always very guarded on anything you
and I talk about, I want to make sure that
I've got all the facts, and.

Speaker 6 (02:23:54):
This one just blew me away.

Speaker 18 (02:23:55):
But yeah, eight of twelve laboratories on the Boeing Triple
seven in opera because of clothing that people had flushed.

Speaker 6 (02:24:03):
Down the lamage.

Speaker 2 (02:24:04):
Again, it made the stack as stupid earlier this week,
we'll pause and bring Jay Ratler back, talker, is it
actionable to passenger shame plus a lot more. I'll be
right back after these brief words.

Speaker 13 (02:24:15):
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Speaker 2 (02:24:17):
All right, Gary self, it here for shut off TV
talk station. It is a Friday. He always enjoyed clothing
up to get the bout Teressey morning shows on Thursdays
with iheartmediaviah next work Jay Ratlo. So let's resume the
conversation and this next topic goes back to an incident
I think that happened in December. Remind my listeners about that,
and we've got a new development on it, which is

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well a lawsuit.

Speaker 18 (02:24:40):
Yeah, it's a twenty nine year old She was flying
low cost carrier South American carrier gall Col. She boarded
her flight Brian, she noticed that a child he was
seated in her window seat. She asked the child, you know,
if she could sit there, and he moved. Everything was
nice and once the passenger sat down, the mom of
the child approach saying, hey, is it okay if my

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son sits in your seat? Now, apparently he had another seat,
another window seat, but he preferred her seat, and this
traveler polightly refused, saying no, I'm just gonna sit here,
And that's when the moms started yelling at her and
takes out her phone and starts recording her. Thinks she
was a bad person. Well, this video, as most travel

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videos do, went viral more than two million views, and
this woman was forced to quit her job as a banker,
lived in seclusion at her home.

Speaker 6 (02:25:32):
As a result.

Speaker 18 (02:25:34):
And now she's seen the airline and the passenger who
took the video saying they were trying to shame her
when all she was trying to do was sit in
the seat she had paid for. And we're seeing so
many times I hear from somebody I know at least
once a week that's on a flight where there's normally
a family of a bunch that bored and they started
asking a bunch of people to change their seats that

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they paid for to accommodate them so they can all
sit together. Now keep in mind, this family could have
gotten the seeds together, could have paid whatever they had
for the family to sit together. But somehow we're the
bad guys when we say no, thank you and bright.
Some of these requests are so ridiculous. It's like, can
I have your aisle seat in row eight so you

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can sit in my middle seat in row third?

Speaker 2 (02:26:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's a hard no.

Speaker 18 (02:26:21):
But people are upset when you say no to that.

Speaker 6 (02:26:24):
I mean, I just you know.

Speaker 18 (02:26:26):
And sadly, this is getting more and more prevalent as
the behavior on board airplanes continues to spiral.

Speaker 6 (02:26:33):
In fact, a term you're.

Speaker 18 (02:26:35):
Gonna We've talked about gate liights, the people that tried
to board the flight earlier. Yeah, they're supposed to. There's
a new term out there that's called speakers gum. These
are people that are on board an airplane that fail
to use their earbuds air buds where they have the
recording the noise just to them, not to everybody else.
Right now, we've got so many people on planes that,

(02:26:56):
for whatever the reason, just play. They're elect on a
device at high volumes where it's not only where they
can hear it, but everybody was in seven rows and
if light intents are trying to tell the people to
stop it. But we're seeing more and more of that
kind of behavior. So it's getting to the point where
it's just absolutely ridiculous to fly. And yeah, I mean

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speakers come if you hear that, that's what they're talking about.

Speaker 2 (02:27:20):
I always learn a new term from you. I think
this has become a common occurrence with you, Jay Ratliff.

Speaker 6 (02:27:24):
I'm not making these up.

Speaker 18 (02:27:26):
It's sad that we have behavior so bad we have
to assign names to it, but hey, that's what we do.

Speaker 2 (02:27:30):
Yeah, and don't be that person. You know, if you
were on an airplane, would you want someone playing their
favorite music which might you might find offensive or not
within your liking, sitting next to you? And that is
just the most inconsiderate thing.

Speaker 18 (02:27:45):
Jay, Yeah, well you and I can't comprehend it because
I know how you were raised. I know, yes, there's
no way on God's green.

Speaker 6 (02:27:52):
Earth we would do that.

Speaker 18 (02:27:54):
But the idea that not only do people feel comfortable
doing it, they take exception when you add them to please,
could you turn that down? So you know only four
rows can hear it instead of seven.

Speaker 6 (02:28:05):
It's just yeah.

Speaker 18 (02:28:06):
Now there's been times where you have people on board
the airplane decide to watch porn in the flighty and
say would you please turn that off? Because other passengers
could find it defensive. So you just have this behavior
that is just permeating from flights these days that you know, yes,
the number of irate passengers is down compared to years before,

(02:28:30):
but some of this behavior is just beyond my ability
to comprehend because I don't think that way, and thank
God I don't think that way because it just makes
no sense to me.

Speaker 2 (02:28:39):
I am still reeling when you said someone had the
audacity to watch porn on an air airplane lord a
regular occurrence. Oh my god.

Speaker 18 (02:28:48):
And you and I've talked about these flight attendants already
not getting the respect that they deserve from the people
who fly that are responsible for protecting against in an
emergency and all the things they have to do. Just
add that on top of it, where they have to
tell people to try to act in something that would
be considered a civil fashion of some kind.

Speaker 6 (02:29:06):
I don't know, I just you know.

Speaker 18 (02:29:09):
That's why they continue to get my undying gratitude because
of the crap they have to put up with people that.

Speaker 6 (02:29:14):
Fly every day. Amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:29:15):
Well, it's pause, we'll bring it back. We'll talk about
Southwest with a new baggage policy and reduction of summer
capacity for airlines just in time for the summer travel season.
More with Jay Rightliff after these brief words, fifty five
KRC the talk station.

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five and Red Bank. Chuck Ingram on fifty five KRC
the talk station, Hey.

Speaker 2 (02:30:36):
Forty nine, I think you have a KIRCD talk station.
One more with iHeart mediaviation expert Jay Ratlift All right,
moving over, got a new in Southwest Airlines baggage policy.

Speaker 18 (02:30:46):
They're you know, bags fly free right well, as of
May I think twenty sixth or twenty eighth, that's.

Speaker 6 (02:30:51):
Not going to be the case.

Speaker 18 (02:30:52):
Southwest has announced that they're going to have to start
charging for checked bags. And this is after fifty four
years of bag fly free. Now, if you are a
member of their frequent flyer program, I believe you're still
going to get the two bags if you have the
credit card for through Southwest, I think one bag, but
everyone else is going to be paying for the further bags.

(02:31:15):
And of course, you know, Southwest is seen for years airlines,
they're competitors making hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions
of dollars a year in bag faith and they have
constantly consistently said.

Speaker 6 (02:31:28):
No, we're not going to do that.

Speaker 18 (02:31:30):
Well, the Elliott management group, who came in to try
to do hostile takeover here a while back, has really
forced Southwest into adopting things they had not done before,
such as a signed seating which is supposed to begin
sometime next year, premium seats where people can pay for
more leg room, and now for bags that the passengers
are going to have to pay for and we don't

(02:31:52):
know yet what the cost is going to be, but
it is a it's a step the Southwest had to take,
and pretty much my only surprise is that.

Speaker 6 (02:32:01):
It took so long.

Speaker 18 (02:32:02):
I thought they would have done this years ago because
Southwest used.

Speaker 6 (02:32:05):
To make money falling out of BED.

Speaker 18 (02:32:07):
I mean, they would make money when everybody else was
losing money decade after decade.

Speaker 6 (02:32:12):
But the problem is.

Speaker 18 (02:32:13):
That right now they changed their business practice. They used
to be successful in flying in and out of smaller,
not regional airports, but smaller airports where they could get
in and out quickly, limited flight activity, very few, little congestion,
and they could use that silver revenue tube for five
segments a day.

Speaker 6 (02:32:33):
Well, then they decided, well, we're going to go to
La Guardian, We're going to fly in out of Atlanta, We're.

Speaker 18 (02:32:37):
Going to do this, this and this, and now they're
dealing with airports that are known for some of their
flying delays. And now that aircraft can't be used for
five segments a day, it's three or four, and all
of a sudden they start making much less in revenue. Well,
obviously they're hurting. And this is a step that they're
going to be taking to try to get it back,
and of course passengers are either understanding or kicked because

(02:32:59):
now they have to pays. Well, you had fifty four years,
come on. And the other thing is I like that
Amtrak had fun with this. They put out a tweet saying,
I guess we're the only ones where bags to go free,
so come on. So I love it when a business.

Speaker 6 (02:33:13):
Has fun like that.

Speaker 2 (02:33:14):
Yeah, but the Amtrak train will most likely be delayed
and those always yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:33:19):
This is all true.

Speaker 18 (02:33:20):
But I'm still going to give them credit for having fun.
Oh yeah, I'm glad Southwest is making the changes they
need to make because they're a great airline. They have
been struggling over a lot of different self inflicted issues
over the last several years, and they're trying to turn
things around, and I think that they're going to be
able to do it.

Speaker 6 (02:33:40):
And look, this is an.

Speaker 18 (02:33:41):
Airline that the passengers are the employees rather At one time,
they only had four airplanes in the early early days,
and for them to make money, they had to turn
that airplane in ten minutes, that's six hundred seconds.

Speaker 6 (02:33:56):
And they found a way to make it happen.

Speaker 2 (02:33:58):
Yeah, now.

Speaker 18 (02:33:58):
A lot of times they were business and a lot
of things have changed since those early days. But the
bottom line is, if anybody can pull this turnaround off,
it's going to be the people at Southwest Airlines.

Speaker 2 (02:34:08):
All right, Well, just in time for summer travel and
vacation season, airlines are reducing summer capacity.

Speaker 6 (02:34:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (02:34:14):
In fact, Delta now late last week that they are
reducing their future guidance. They're slashing some of those expectations
in half. So as a result, they're saying that the
economy is starting to slow or the future demand for
travel is slowing, so they, as a result, are going
to reduce the number of flights during the busy and
incredibly lucrative summer travel season. A Brian, This scares me

(02:34:36):
because if we see Delta and now United and other
carriers do that where they're reducing the number of seats
during that busy summer travel season, it means that the
fairs for the remaining seats are going to go up, up, up, up,
up up up. I'm hoping that most of the people
listen to us if livery summer bought their tickets six

(02:34:57):
seven months ago, But if you've not yet on it,
I would suggest quickly doing so, because the fares are
only going to go up, and you know, grab the
trip cancelation insurance to protect yourself and make your reservations
as quickly as you can, because as this trend continues,
the fares are going to go up, go up, and
it's going to be considerably more to fly this summer

(02:35:17):
than it was last simply because we have few receipts.

Speaker 2 (02:35:21):
Sound advice from Jay Rylof as always and finally, as
we always do, the part before we part company, hub
delis for today.

Speaker 18 (02:35:27):
Today Los Angeles has given us issues, some big time
issues there. If you're flying to and through there, Ryan,
the real story is going to be later tonight over
the next couple of days, where we're going to storms
through the central in the eastern part of the United States.
If you're gonna be flying over the next forty eight hours,
please make sure the airlines have a way to get
a hold of you. That way, if your itinerary is impacted,
they can get a hold of you long before you

(02:35:48):
get to the airport. Maybe give you options where you
can decide, you know, what you would like to have
if something happens to your flight. But yeah, it's going
to be problematic over probably through Sunday, so if you're
scheduled to fly, just make sure that your lunch.

Speaker 6 (02:36:00):
Can get ahold of you.

Speaker 2 (02:36:01):
Thank you, Jay Rattler for all the information and sound advice.
I look forward to another segment of this top or
another segment of our aviation discussion next Thursday, and between
now and then, best of health you and your better half.

Speaker 18 (02:36:14):
Imagine the fun that will happen between now and then, brother,
But I'll be.

Speaker 2 (02:36:17):
Right, no doubt about, it's going to be a long
list expected. Thanks Jay, I have a great day. Fay
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and Meryl Candidate joined the program this morning. Got quite
a few things to talk about on his campaign trail
as well as a fundraiser that's coming up April eighth
at Price Old Chili, Donald and Eel about the state
of the state with Dwine and the poll that was

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taken about what's important to Ohiolands that preceded that, and
find out if Mike got it right on the Issues
podcast at five Carcy dot com. Senator Bill Blessing will
Empower You seminar tonight beginning at seven with the eighteen
fifty one Center talking about property tax and Senator Blessing
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Podcast and the conversation tonight empower Youoamerica dot org beginning

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