55KRC Thursday Show - FrankLaRose, Tim Keller, Dr. Paul Winfree, Jay Ratliff

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Five oh five. If it's five k r c DE
talk station. Friday Eve. Here, let's say what you want

(00:30):
about the tenants of national socialism, dude, At least it's
an ethos. At least it is versus nihilism. Happy Friday, Eve.
Hope you're having a decent day so far, probably just
waking up. Get your coffee out and get the day going.
Brian Thomas right here, glad to be Love to see
Joe juk Or where he belongs. You won't be here tomorrow. Gosh,

(00:52):
darn it heat when Joe's not here. Anyway, Joe's entitled
would take a day off even if he's not going
to be having a good time during his day off.
If I just leave it at that anyhow, Joss Jreckers
that I get producer of the fifty five Cassite Morning
Show and liner upper of Guesters coming up on the
fifty five Cars Morning Show in studio. I told you
I just stopped in his studio. I said, if I'd

(01:13):
have owned, Frank LeRose is going to be in studios.
Secretary of State Frank LeRose to talk about voter turnout
for the primary as poultry and sad as it was
qualified immunity Amendment and running for state auditor. I wouldn't
have worn the T shirt that I have on today,
which is a T shirt bearing the words defund politicians.

(01:34):
It just picked that one up recently. Joe anyway, Uh,
I don't know if I own an apology or not.
I think he'll get That's what Joe's reaction was, Well,
he'll get it anyway. Stecorty. Secretary of State Frank LeRose
in the studio coming up at seven o five, followed
by Tim Keller, founder of US Diabetes Care. He'll be
talking about educating the public about ending the diabetes epidemic
in America. And it is send you adults with chronic conditions,

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including diabetes. We got a real problem with hypertension and
obesity in this country. Interesting timing on this headline for
the Wall Street General. How chronic disease become became the
biggest scourge in American health. Americans live shorter and sicker
lives than people in other high income countries. Hypertension number one.
Percentage of adults with hypertension just under fifty percent, Obesity

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a little bit north of forty percent. This is the
entire US population the adult population, diabetes coming into number third.
About fifteen percent of the nation's adults have diabetes. Kidney
disease right behind it, just by a tiny little bit
asthma about eight percent, and then COPD looks like about
five or six percent. So we're in a sorry state

(02:51):
of affairs when it comes to our health. And you know,
cheers the RFK Junior for trying to bring it all
to our attention. You know, again, I've talked mentioned many times.
I was really happy that he got that appointment because
he's not going to touch the crazy stuff that he
believes in, like, for example, the Green New Deal crap,
which I'm going to touch on just here in a second.
So following Tim Keller from US Diabetes Care, we'll hear

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from doctor Paul Winfrey, CEO Economic Policy Innovation Center on
Medicaid reform. He happens to be a former White House
Budget Director. And then, of course it being Friday Eve,
Jay Ratliffe. I heard me the Aviation Expert at eight
thirty every Thursday, and I certainly enjoy talking to Jay Ratliffe.
Also enjoy talking to you. If you can, feel free
to call five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred,

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eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk found five
fifty on AT and T phone, and a shout out
to Jenny, who sent me an email after my conversation
yesterday with Judge Hannona Paulaitano, who is a massive Pete
Rose fan, and I know they had that big celebration
last night. She agrees with me, least in so far
as my view of his violation of the cardinal rule
of baseball, which he knew well, he knew about well

(03:58):
in advance, then his repeated lies to all of his
fans that he never bet at all on sports, and
then never bet on baseball. Oh then I did bet
on baseball, but I never bet on the Reds. And
then oh yeah, I did bet on the Reds, but
I never bet against him. Okay, I know he's one
of the greatest, if not the greatest game player in
the game of baseball of all time. Statistics do not lie.

(04:20):
I watched him play. I know all that. But you know,
gotta be consequences for violating the rules anyhow. But thank you, Jenny.
She sent me an in some message on Facebook saying,
I agree with you. So I just wanted to nothing
not alone anyway five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty,
eight hundred and eight two three Talk Time five fifty

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on eighteen de funes. Care to call a comment, I'd
love to hear from you. I enjoyed talking with the listeners.
I really do. Judge Nita Polatano yesterday you can hear
Congressman Massi preceding Judge Nita Politano and mostly the Budget
Reconciliation Bill, and they're still arguing over that, which is
why I'm glad we got the uh uh, the Economic
and Policy Innovation Center guide doctor Paul Win for you
on talk about Medicaid reform, because the Left is just

(05:03):
nuts on this one. Oh my god, they're going to
take medicare away from millions of America. We're talking about
able body, working age people they should be working. Got almighty.
That's it, really, I mean, it doesn't really cut that
much out. It's just that, dude, you use the job
opportunities out here, and we're only asking to work twenty

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hours a week, work twenty hours a week. Put that work,
make that effort toward getting a career in the trades. Look,
thousands and thousands and thousands of trade jobs are out there.
And available waiting to be filled. People from the industries
are out going into high schools and hiring juniors in

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high schools to work for them. Another article just was
several days ago, if not when we last week, was
within the last week, talking about that kid out of
high school starting hitting the ground running at seventy thousand
dollars a year, because as the company went into the
school and started soliciting young people to work for them,
get him interested in the trades. Hey, look, you know

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you can be an electrician. I'd love to have you
working at my company. Let's start you on the right path.
You're in shop class. Great, that's the kind of people
we're looking for. So you know, there's all these able
bodied people out in the world. And they're also removing
illegal immigrants from the medicaid roles or medicaid availability, which

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is good. And you know, Gavin Newsom's wanting to run
for president because he just now has proposed to freeze
on allowing adult illegal immigrants to join California's medicaid program.
Oh why, because it's wildly popular in California's found itself
in a twelve billion dollar budget hole. Got to find

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the money somewhere, don't you. Let's not give it to
illegal immigrants. They're straining the system. It's one of the
reasons why the open borders created a massive problem for
our economy and for local school districts and everything else
that they flooded. It's one of the areas the Democrats

(07:10):
are on the wrong side of the Ledger politically. Maybe
it's why they're failing so bad. And I can pivot
over to this given the amount of time I have
left in the segment. Joe Biden is obviously a problem.
You and I knew about it. We talked about it
all the time. His cognitive decline was evident for the
whole world to see. It was an embarrassment, a global embarrassment.

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We all knew about it, and yet everybody around him
kept saying nothing wrong with him. He's sharp as attack. Well,
all these new books are coming out from all the
left wingers who defended Joe Biden and said he was
not cognitively impaired and there was no doubt downhill slide,
And so a lot of the former Biden's supporters or

(07:55):
deniers as I should I could say, are being asked
questions about it. There's a new talking point in town, folks.
And when you read it all together in one article.
I got this Fox News article by Hannah Panrik, it
comes across as just comical, which is why in the
five o'clock I remay as well focus on a little
comedy like we do with the Stacker is stupid. They're

(08:18):
deflecting questions about President former President Biden's cognitive decline since
all these books are coming out with specific quotes and
examples and illustrations of it. Sentimnority leader Chuck Schimmer dismissed
questions surrounding this latest book to come out with allegations
of the president's decline. On cn and MSNBC, various media

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outlets that are typically left winning are asking pointed questions
about Biden. So he's on CNN, Casey Hunt is asking
him a question, did you really not have any idea
that he was not fit to serve a second term?
Straightforward question? His reply, Cassie looking forward. Then he pivoted

(09:02):
over to Medicaid, which wasn't part of the question. We
have the largest Medicaid cut in front of us, we
have the whole federal government. That's kind of where he ended.
But she pushed back, is that not Joe Biden's responsibility
for deciding to run again? Meaning the fact that Donald
Trump is president of the United States of America. Now.

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His reply, We're looking forward. Then she said that's it.
Schumer said, that's it, and that was, in fact the
end of the interview. So the most recent book Jack
Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson have this book
coming out, and there's a lot of quotes from it
out there in the world already original sin President Biden's decline,

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it's cover up, and his disastrous choice to run again.
Schumer over on MSNBC being interviewed by Katie Turr, who
asked him, well about a quoted a specific portion of
the book, and then then and asked, do you think
Biden deserves the blame for the loss in twenty twenty four,
on the heels of a question about one of these
batcrap and saying statements that Biden had made to Chucky.

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His reply, you know what's coming, Katie, We're looking forward.
We have the largest medicaid cut in history. Facing this,
we are focused on the future and doing right for
the American people. Plain and simple sounds remarkably similar to
his pat answer over in CNN.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Doesn't it did just answer the question that question to
be honest, big yeah, answer to answer the question, Claire,
talk to us.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Come on here, Jersey.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
It's only one question, Joe.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
You know what, as I was reading through this article,
that's exactly the SoundBite I was going to just speak
to you about even adding that. But see, you know
so Turf follows up and asked if Biden actually said
what was reported in the book the quote that she read.
His reply, you know, it's we're looking forward. Gave the

(11:03):
same responsoring a press conference early today when reporter asked
if he was being straight with the American people and
posting on X in June that the president was quote
in command and impressive close quote that's Chuckie Schumer's ex
post report apparently juxtapost Schumer's post with an insider describing
Tapper and Thompson a terrifying that's in quotes moment. That

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same month, when Biden failed to recognize award winning actor
George Clooney at a June fundraiser, Schumer dismissed the question, saying, ready,
we're just looking forward. Asked by a reporter on Tuesday,
whether it was helpful for Democrats Democratic Caucus to have
these books about Biden in the twenty four campaign. Oh yeah,

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it's really helpful, and whether he wanted Biden to help
campaign for Democrats Minority Leader Hakim Jeffreys, pivoting over to
another Democrat politician who got the same talking points, quote,
we're not looking backward, We're looking forward at this particular
moment in time. Thanks Hakem. Moving over to Governor J. B. Pritzker,

(12:11):
who would like to be president. I think they'll have
to enlarge the Oval office if he becomes president. He
said the commentary about the president self was very backward looking.
On CNN a sort of a twist on that we're

(12:38):
looking forward talking point from Pritzker. Amy Klobashar, Senator mission
Minnesota on NBC talking to Christen Welker about Biden's insistence
that it didn't matter they drop out of the race
in July, only giving former President of Vice President Kamala
Harris ninety days the campaign. You know, everything we look

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at in a rear view mirror after you lose an election. Yes,
we would like to have been served better by a primary,
but we are where we are. We're not in the
history channel right now. And I believe that President Biden
can come out and speak and do interviews whenever he wants,
but I will say this, we're not in a history
channel doubling down. So there's your Democrat talking point. They

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don't want to answer any questions about they're lying to you,
and that's kind of worth pointing out. He was a
starry state of affairs. He wasn't in control of his
own faculties. The executive pen was not being wielded by
Joe Biden's own hand. That was being wielded by a machine.

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We all joked about wondering who the puppet masters were
for years during the Biden presidency. Who's the puppet masters,
Who's the one pulling the strings? A lot of my
listening audience believed to be Barack Obama. Maybe it was
doctor Jill. I don't know, but the Democrats surrounding him
lied to you. Not worthy of being rewarded for that

(14:11):
lying to you. Five nineteen fifty five kres see the
dog station and feel free to give me a call.
I got more to talk about coming up right back
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fifty five per CEB Talk station five two. Happy Thursday two.

(15:17):
You after Trump's executive role to reduce to the costs
of prescription pharmaceutical drugs. Listen to most Favored nation status.
Say what you want about it. It's price fixing. Republicans
aren't into that, but you know what, it's an unequal
playing field. Why do other countries get the benefit of
lower pharmaceuticals shouldering, leaving the burden, just leaving us to

(15:38):
shoulder the burden of all the fat profit for the
pharmaceutical companies funding research and development. That's one of the
cries from people who are against the proposal. But I've
been speculating and wondering what the Democrats were going to
do by way of response to that, because you know,
evil orange Man proposes literally anything, and they're against it
just because well, evil orange Man said it. So I

(15:59):
was actually surprised. Representative Rocanna, no right winger or Trump fan, Rocana,
Democrat from California, he has introduced legislation to codify Trump's
executive order. He shared a video which he spoke from
the House floor, explaining that if he can cross the

(16:22):
aisle and support Trump's executive order and legislation, each Republican
should be willing to cross the isle as well. Will
basically not him across theil just support Trump and his
efforts to make this and make this a law. You say,
the only way lawmakers could stand up the big farmer
is to codify in legislation what the President wants to
do in an executive order. Today, I am introducing legislation

(16:44):
to codify President Trump's executive order he wrote ensuring Americans
do not pay more than people in other countries for drugs.
Will Congress members stand with sixteen billion dollars in big
pharm of money, meaning that's to be the campaign contributions
that farmer shells out or with the American people by
co sponsoring this bipartisan legislation. How about that? So Trump

(17:08):
did something the Democrats like, well, at least one. It'll
be interesting to see where this goes. And this legislation,
the Democrats legislation apparently comes as Representative Andy Ouggles of
Tennessee and sixteen other colleagues working to encourage Mike Johnson

(17:30):
Speaker to start codifying some of Trump's other executive orders
into law. So maybe we'll have nice big package of
executive orders codified, which will remove the argument that Trump
does not wield the authority with his executive pen to
make such sweeping changes to the landscape out there. I
know that's a criticism from the left about Trump the
imperial presidency. I have concerns about it myself, generally speaking,

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because you know, someday there may be a Democrat in
office and he or she may wield the pen even
more than Donald Trump's wielding it. So anyhow, there's the
answer to my question. I guess the Democrats actually have
found something that Donald Trump does that they don't get
wigged out over. Five twenty five. I five KRCD talk stations.

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Stick around. IVE got local stories coming up. Alternatively your
phone calls, which I appreciate, but there is plenty to
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Speaker 5 (18:26):
I want you to.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's five twenty nine. If they do have KRCD talk station,
then a happy Thursday to you local stories. You know,
I don't have a problem if you gamble. I'm not
much of a gambler myself, because you're likely to lose.
That's how casinos are built. Look around you, Where did
all the money come from to build this place? Yeah,
the odds are against you. And a lot of people

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have problems with it, you know, with with gambling. They're
addicted to it. The problem gamblers. That's why we have,
you know, a gambling addiction clinics and programs out there
in the world. That's a proposal here in the State
of Ohio. Legislation introduced in the State House legalizing eye gaming.
This making it easy for you to gamble right from

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your phone. Some of the states have already done this.
Senate President Rob McCauley Napoleon Republican, once to potentially legalize
a new form of gaming. Talking to State House News Bureau,
it might be the time to make the movie, he said,
I think there's a different tone and tenor about some
of the things that maybe there there was ten than
there was ten years ago. I think a lot of

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times Ohioans want to have a little bit more choice
and how they spend their money and spend the recreational time.
I think it's something we're going to talk about. Well,
the reason he's doing this is because it's a huge
amount of taxes that will be generated on it. They
point out it will generate millions of tax revenue. Michigan
in twenty twenty four collected four hundred and fifty one

(19:55):
million dollars. Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania brought in eight hundred and four
one million dollars. Oh look a revenue source. Yeah, let's
make it really easy. You can place slot machines on
your cell phone. State Representative Bride Rose Sweeney, she's a
Democrat from West Lake introduced legislation asking that any new

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money generated from this be spent on K through twelve,
public education, publicly funded childcare, and yes programs to address
problem gambling, facilitate the problem gambling, and then seek to
solve the problems from your facilitation. Again, I'm not against it,
mainly because I think people should be free to spend
their money as they wish. I just realize that this

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is going to create more problem gamblers out there, so
easy to just pick your phone up and go down
that road. Since any father accused of recklessly fleeing a
traffic stop and almost causing a crash with his newborn baby,
a toddler and cocaine in the car, please say it
happened Tuesday afternoon in Baltimore Avenue near President and Drive

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according to his ticket for reckless driving and driving under
a suspended license. To Von Lowe, twenty three years old,
of Villages at roll Hill, under arrest on two counts
each of a dangering children in Fairey to comply with
the police. His two month old infant and three year
old toddler he was caring for at the time were
in his Nissan at the time of the charges. Also

(21:23):
charged with felony possession of drug. Police found four point
four grams of cocaine in the center console of his car.
Green Township Police are investigating a single vehicle cafedal crash
happened early yesterday morning Piers the result of the driver's
suffering from a medical episode. According to Lieutenant Sabers, speaking

(21:44):
of Fox nineteen, please shut up thirty two hundredlock North
End Road for the report of a vehicle that went
off the road and hit a utility pole. Witnesses reported
it to nine poet one as a vehicle into a
pole that's split in half. Female driver taking a UC
medical centem where she was pronounced dead corner Helen County
Corners Office. Tishia Schaeffer, forty eight years old, a Mount Area.

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According to police identification, her passenger, a forty eight year
old Mount Healthy man, taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Duke Energy had to be called into repair and replace
the damaged poll. Witnesses, if you're out there, the Green
Township Police Department would love to hear from you. Five
one three five seven four zero zero zero seven. No

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charges will be filed against the Ohio State Highway Patrol
trooper who killed the wrong killed the wrong way driver
in Union Township this back in April. Climont County Prosecutor
Mark to Culvey announced yesterday that the trooper's actions April
eleventh were, in his words, reasonable and appropriate for him
to protect his own life in the lives of others.

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Officer involved shooting took place on IW seventy five year,
Ohio thirty two in Clairemont County eleven fifteen pm. Troopers
saw maroon suv driven by thirty four year old Kelsey
Hildall of Blue Ash, traveling northbound in the South Mountains.
After getting a clearance from a supervisor, the trooper decided
he uses cruiser to make a controlled physical contact with
the suv pit maneuver, probably Prosecutor's office rode in a

(23:10):
press release, he was able to pin her vehicle against
the concrete barrier, bringing it to his stop. When he
exited his cruiser, he noticed the driver brandish a firearm,
all seen on bodycam video. Trooper told Hildaal to drop
the weapon multiple times. According to the prosecutor's statement. After
initially complying with the troopers commands, mus Hildahal picked up

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the firearm again. That's when the trooper discharged his firearm,
killing her. Killing her inside the vehicle body and vehicle
bodycam footage shows a Glock forty three nine millimeters semi
automatic pistol following from the SUV and the gun was loaded.
They also found two Mosburg five hundred shotguns in the
vehicle prosecutor's office seven, all of which were legally owned

(23:53):
by her. Shooting was investigatate by investigative by the High
Bureau of Criminal Investigations. Based on their findings, Prosser to
call they will not be pressing charges against the truer, saying,
I want to extend my deepest appreciation to the dedicated
law enforcement officers who risk their lives each day to
ensure the safety of our communities. It should be clear
to all the police officers have the right to protect
their own lives as well as those of the public. Amen,

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Carce Morning show. Uh we go to Louisiana U slide

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ol Police responded to a call it a Low's parking
lot Sunday evening reportedly found a naked man inside a
display shed engaged in lude behavior would.

Speaker 6 (26:52):
Get deliberate antility so we could get int the penalty
box all.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
By himself or in this particular case, a display shed.
Cording to police call came in five pm. Witness reported
a naked guy inside one of the stores outdoor tool sheds,
which are typically used to show customers various storage options
for purchase. You've seen those in the parking lot. Officers
showed up at the scene and began searching the line
of sheds on display. It was shed number four or

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fifth when they located the suspect lying on his back,
pants around his ankles, using an open container of asolene
and what is described in the article Fox nineteen reporting
an electronic device while pleasuring himself with taser drawn please say,

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the officer order the man to pull up his pants
and roll onto his stomach to be handcuffed. Well, at
least they wanted him do that. For the purpose of
being handcuffed. Please say the man complied without resistance. Reportedly
admitted to his actions. I guess soustance. They caught him
in the middle of it, telling officers he was watching
you two tube at the time. Rested on one count
of vicinity and booked into jail the residence of Slidell,

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Louisiana'll be happy to know the man was not from
their town. Wow. That paints a real wild visual, doesn't it.
We go to West Virginia, Clawdon, West Virginia, specifically, mom
from there ran and hid from Child Protective Services during
a welfare check. Corning to the criminal complaint, deputies and

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child Protective Service workers has arrived at Brittney Vandale's home
in Culdon. No one answered the door. Officials walked around
back to the home and heard a child crying in
the bushes nearby. When asked why she ran into the
woods with the child, Vandell reportedly said she was tired
of dealing with the cops and CPS.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
Do what the hell.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
A corner to the criminal complaint, flies were seen in
the home, which officials described as unlivable, with an extreme
odor of fecal matter and Urine Court officials drive Fecal
matter found on the child's face, neck, and legs. Child
shorts also appear to be staying with Urine van Dale
also covered in filth the court of the deputies arrested

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for child neglect creating risk of injury or resulting in injury.
Child is now, of course, in CPS custody. How about
this one. We'll get to Pokemon cards in the next one.
Shoe Norwalk, Ohio, Chief police there said South of Sandusky

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confirmed a man was recently arrested arrested for his congratulations
twentieth DUI courtA Chief Scott Dollgren. Seventy five year old
Spencer Baltanik arrested in May second while driving erratically rest
of fort States. He was driving under the speed limit
fifteen miles per hour and of twenty five, then sped up,

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then slowed down to fifteen and a thirty five. After
stopping his van in a crosswalk and seeing the plate
was registered to a suspended driver, the officer pulled him
over and an officer smelled a strong art of alcohol.
Baldnick tried to explain he spilled beer in the van.
This was a twenty time he's been arrested, but the

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last time was in twenty twelve. Baltnick arrested for DUI
in twenty twelve to two thousand and nine, two times
in two thoy nine, nineteen ninety nine, ninety four, ninety three,
eighty nine, twice in eighty eight, eighty four, eighty three,
eighty two, twice, three times in nineteen eighty, nineteen seventy nine,
and nineteen seventy four. I don't know if they gave
him a plaque for this one, Joe, I mean, it

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is kind of a a milestone state of how does
have a habitual ov IDUI registered website. It says Baltnick
doesn't qualify to be listed on the side of person
must have five convictions during the past twenty years, and
at least one of the convictions must have been since
the law took effect, which was September thirtieth, two thousand

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and eight, five forty five ety five K see the
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five for the high. Today, overnight low is sixty eight
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for the general areas starting around five pm, and they

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Tomorrow's high eighty two, overnight low is sixty two with
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There's an accident at Kenwood Road. The right two.

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Lanes are currently blocked off for that wreck. Chuck Ingram
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Five fifty here fifty five kr CD talk station looking
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COVID at seven oh five. Tim Kellor, founder of US
Diabetes Care, also in the seven o'clock hour seven thirty.
He's trying to educate the public about ending the diabetes
epidemic in America. Back over to the eastack is stupid. Wow,
that's a lot of tequila. Alabama, Limestone County, specifically, a

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commercial truck driver charged with murder accused of causing eight
crashes over the span of miles during rush hour traffic
on I sixty five. I've Alabama Uniform Traffic crash report
says John McAdams admitted to state troopers to drinking, in
his words, quote an unknown amount of tequila that before

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the crashes that spanned about twenty eight miles on the
interstate seven May sixth He's since been charged with murder,
driving under the influence, and leaving the scene of an accident.
Accused of killing Willie Hendrick of Adamsville. Hendrick's mother said
he was driving home that day when the crash happened.
He played football for Austin p State University. Thirty state

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reports have been completed for about four to eight crashes.
The corner of the report's first crash six forty five pm,
McAdam store investigators he pulled over a semi truck at
the three hundred and sixty five mile marker to arrest
and drank tequila before taking a nap a cord to
the officer's report. After waking up, he got back on
the road, but didn't remember the specific details of when
or why. Shortly after pulling back on the interstate, McAdams

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twice hit a driver in the sedan while going eight
e five miles an hour. Driver able to exit the
Interstate was transported to the Athens Hospital, and then he
picked up speed before slamming into Hadric's car. Six miles
after the first crash, going ninety miles an hour corner
of the troopers report, McAdams aggressively struck Hadrick's vehicle, forcing

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him off the road into a ditch, and then it
rolled several times. Hadrick partially ejected from the car a
corner of the prish he was pronounced oad oft the scene.
Next crashed a few minutes later miles down the road.
The Godoms accused of crashing into the back of an
suv going ninety miles per hour and partially over rode
the bumper driver was able to pull off to the
side next crashed mile posts three forty six. Victim told

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investigators he saw the semi truck in his rear view
mirror and sped up to move to a different lane,
but was still hit from behind and forced off the road.
The Godams continued driving down I sixty five southbound for
twelve more miles before he could no longer operate the
vehicle and came to a controlled stops. He agreed to
field sobriety tests, which revealed several clues of impairment, according

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to the troopers. Not clear how much time passed between
his admission of drinking tequila and his booking into the
Limestone County Jail. Court records vealed the result of his
breath alcohol tests being point zero nine above the legal limit.
Yeah h Pokemon cards. I guess there's still a thing. Florence, Kentucky.

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Businesses on Mall Road and Florence have claimed a pair
of thieves caught stealing over one thousand dollars worth the
Pokemon cards. Thank you, Joe, you could have a semi
truck filled with Pokemon cards. I wouldn't give you a
thousand dollars for him? What is with people? Spot? Fox

(36:50):
nineteen spoke to the man reportedly chased him out of
the game Stock parking lot immediately after the second incident.
Owner of Mall Road Treasures, a vendor there the mall,
told Fox nineteen that on May eighth, the two men
caught on surveillance video breaking into a display cabinet stealing
the three Pokemon cards, posted the video on social media.
The interviewed Jerry Carpenter, also a vendor at mal Road Treasures,

(37:11):
saw the surveillance video. Carpenter said he was down in
the street down the street at game stop the next
day when he saw a pair of men. Soon realized
they were from the surveillance video, got on the back
of his car and looked to the video up on
his phone to confirm it. That's when Carpenter said the
men bolted out of the game stop. He said they
had stolen a whole rack of Pokemon cards and jumped
into the car. Carpenter said he told his son to

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buckle up. They followed the car to the parking lot.
He said he called nine to one one while his
son took pictures of the vehicle they were driving. He
said police told him to stop following the car, so
he went back to the game stop to tell the
manager that he had been robbed. Fox nineteen speaking with
the manager, who said he didn't realize what had happened,
said he called nine to one one and police told
him the alleged thieves had already been caught. Merchandise was

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returned the next day. Merchandise stolen from All Rose Treasures again,
allegedly worth over one thousand dollars. I like the fact
that the word allegedly is in there, Pokemon cards. You're
reading my mind this morning, Joe five fifty five ify

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Talk down five fifty on your AT and T phones.
And I knew it. I knew it. Chinese are the
ones that are shoving this green energy crap down our
throats because they make fat bank off of it. But
they also are spying on us and could put us
at risk. Scary stuff to report coming up after the

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top of the hour. News will be right back. Another
update coming up.

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The day's top stories at the top of the hour, important.

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Issues that are facing this country.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
On fifty five krs the talk station. I have fifty
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Thursday to you. By the time I was second four
to the next hour seven to five with Secry State
Frank Rose and Studio talk about the paltry voter turnout
for the Primary Qualified Immunity Amendment and running for state Auditor.
Jim Kullak joins a program at seven thirty, founder of
the US Diabetes Care It's an organization. He's going to

(39:11):
be speaking about educating the public about ending the diabetes
epidemic in America. And it is really a bad situation
we've got going on here. Doctor Paul Winfrey, CEO Economic
Policy Innovation Center on to discuss Medicaid reform, which has
got the Democrats all wigged out. The former White House
Budget Director Jay Ratliffe, I heard med the Aviation Expert
every Thursday at eight thirty. Quite a few topics to

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go over with Jay and Jack Dan in the show.
On a fun note on a Thursday, which is typically
the case with Jay Ratliffe. Love hearing from you. Going
to go to the phones right now, five one three
seven four nine fifty five hundred eight hundred eight two
three You talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Jay,
thanks for calling the program this morning. And Happy Thursday, Hey,
Happy Thursdayday, Bryan.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
Hey.

Speaker 6 (39:50):
Wanted to tell you about an experiment I ran recently
regarding the Browns and their six hundred million dollar gifts
I guess from the Ohio taxpayers. I called the Attorney
General's office and also the auditor State Auditor's Office, and
they have a fraud hotline, and so I reported it
as fraud and just to see if I could get

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somebody to say yes or no, this is or is
not constitutional. You could put your finger on the part
of the Ohio State Constitution that allows us to happen.
And the State Auditor's Office sent me an email back saying, quote,
we discussed it, it's staff and decided there's nothing nothing

(40:34):
really to pursue here. And that's all the response I
got from the Auditor's Office, which I think their purpose
and the reason they exist is to make sure that
Ohio tax dollars aren't being wasted. The other point I
made to them is recall that Jobs Ohio exists is
a private public partnership where all the liquor license sales

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in the state of Ohio goes to Jobs Ohio, and
that's where our economic development dollars are supposed to be
be coming from and funded through Jobs Ohio, which just
recently got like a ten or fifteen year extension. This
is the six hundred million that the Browns didn't come
from Jobs Ohio. They came out of just general legislation,

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out of the you know we're gonna we're gonna raise
bonds to fund this called the Attorney General's office, and
it wasn't any better. They they pretty much told me
that if I wanted to get any help, I need
to have to hire a lawyer. And I told them
I already did. It's called the Ohio Attorney General's Office,
and I'm asking them, do you not support the Ohio taxpayers?

(41:42):
And they told me no, we represent the state of
Ohio and the departments within the state of Ohio. I
had to go up through three people before I was
able to get a hold of a guy who agreed
with me that they're supposed to be acting on behalf
of the Ohio taxpayers. But then he told me to
stay tuned. You know that gun contact my legislator. Yes,

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he said, well, it hasn't been voted on in the Senate.
I said, this is not the point. I'm not talking
to you about what the legislative process is. I'm asking you,
are you the highest law enforcement and can you put
your finger on the part of the constitution that what
allows this to happen? And how is this any different
from Larry Householders bail.

Speaker 8 (42:23):
Out of First Energy?

Speaker 6 (42:26):
And there was no good answers. But you know, Matt
Hoffman is just a cheaper horner than Larry Householder. I
think his campaign donation from the Browns with sixty three
thousand dollars or six hundred million. So First Energy probably
needs to talk to the Browns to figure out to
get maybe pointers on how to buy influence with Republicans

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in Columbus. But I wanted to get your opinion on this.
Am I way out of in left field on reporting
this as fraud?

Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yeah? If fraud, is it wrongful or deception intended to
result in financial personal gain. Now, what you have here
is a situation where you're trying to find someone who
actually represents the taxpayers of the state of Ohio. That's
who our elected officials are supposed to be They're supposed
to represent us and our interests. Now, clearly they are
interested in helping the Browns. And I suppose the retort

(43:19):
will be that, well, this is a worthwhile investment because
the amount of taxpayer dollars that will be generated as
a consequence of this stadium and the activities that go
on around it will be a net plus for the
state of Ohio, or at least for Cuyahoga County. So
and they'll cite some nonsensical Barber Streiss in a foundation
survey that will support that, Yeah, this is going to

(43:41):
bring in a lot of jobs, is going to bring
a lot of tax revenue, it's going to generate a
lot of interest, et cetera, and ergo, it's worth the investment.
And you know, I'm using that term delicately of six
hundred million dollars in Ohio tax payer dollars and the
debt goes along with it.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
Yeah, well, but the Browns have been around for seventy
years and is still a dumb so uh, I would
I would say, I would say it's trying to call
that a failed experiment on that Ohio tax payer funding. Well,
it's it'd be it'd be a great question for frank
LeRose if he was to get down Auditor's office. Number one,
my favorite topic is what about this medicaid fraud? Where

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are we.

Speaker 9 (44:18):
At right now?

Speaker 6 (44:19):
Are we still last in the country? And can we
take that a fraction of the six hundred million we're
going to give to the Browns. Could we have put
a hundred million into the fixing the system across eighty
eight counties? Where Keith Faber said it it smells like work,
it looks kind of hard. Therefore, I'd rather not which
Frank LeRose take that on, and would he also take

(44:40):
a look at this, as somebody explained to me, the
difference between Larry Householder and First Energy and Matt Humpman
and the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Yeah, I think it's a fair point you're making on that. Obviously,
campaign contributions flowed into him. Uh and uh the money
came from the Browns and the family in the in
the in the group that owns the Browns. So there's
there's an interesting parallel that can be drawn there. But
let's face it, every single day of the year, some
politician is getting money from somebody that's got a vested

(45:09):
interest in legislation that's coming out of the u of
the House and Senate. It's just the way politics works.

Speaker 10 (45:16):
I mean, that's why some people who's our watchdog, Brian
is the Attorney General's office?

Speaker 6 (45:22):
Is it the auditors who's not doing their job here?

Speaker 1 (45:24):
We aren't doing our job. The phone should be lit up.
A yeah, we have an obligation to scream bloody murder
at those guys for even considering the proposal in the
first place. I mean, we have an obligation to our
fellow citizens to to to light the phones up and
say this must stop. You know, I would hope.

Speaker 6 (45:44):
That there is there's more safeguards that if they can't
put their finger on them a part of the constitution
that says that this is allowed, that there would be
some watchdog Otherwise, you know what, just cut the Attorney
General's office, cut the Auditor's office. It's one more expensive
we don't need.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Well, I'll agree with you another expense we don't need.
I'll agree with you that it just stinks of impropriety.
We're paying for a private company's play field. It it
won't be used much during the year, and it's just wrong.
Across the board. But these are the who these are
the people that we elected. And remember it hasn't passed yet.
I mean, you know, if you're gonna like the phones

(46:19):
of get in touch with your senator, say hell no, I.

Speaker 6 (46:24):
Haven't believed me. But I'm thinking that if we are
just the state of Ohio is just the wild West
where we have all of these false front attorney generals
as state auditors. But really it's going to fall in
the back of voters to guide the politicians with no
oversight of who is the one that's going to throw

(46:45):
the flag and say that's not in the constitution. Plus,
we have this thing called drops Ohio Economic Development Dollars
we're supposed to come out of there. What's this other
bucket of money coming out of the general fund that
we're going to raise debt to go fund. I haven't
heard anybody ask that question. That seems like we've extended
jobs Ohio ten fifteen more years recently the inxpectation to

(47:07):
death six hundred million come out of there.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Well, I mean, I can't argue with what you're saying,
but you know, based on just just simple principle, it's wrong.
And how is it that the Cleveland Browns are the
ones that get the money to the exclusion of all
the other counties, because remember the legislation is for counties
with the population of a million or more. Ow look
Cuyhoga County and probably Franklin County, but certainly not Hamilton

(47:29):
Hamilton County.

Speaker 6 (47:31):
And that was the other ask I had for each
of them, is if you're going to do this, then
you have to codify it for every business owner in Ohio.
Tell us the process by which that we can I mean,
if it's good for one, you guys ought to put
out of paper, put out a statement, put out a
process and a policy that says, here's how you too

(47:54):
can pay Matt Upman sixty three thousand dollars and get
six hundred million voted.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
As you say that, you know, in my mind is
pivoting over to these green new deal energy projects. How
is it that one company is the recipient of literally
millions of American taxpayer dollars and the other company, which
is engaged in the same business is not. They're always
they always are in the business of picking and choosing
the winners and losers. And this is what elected officials
do every day on every level in every jurisdiction. Yeah, well,

(48:25):
at least the Hamlin kind of voters got to say
when they voted to build the stadium here so long ago.
The deal that was worked out was obviously not what
was sold to the public generally speaking before we voted
on it. So but in this particular case, our elected
officials were sent there for a reason to represent us
and our best interests, and I think they failed across

(48:45):
the board in letting this get through. So like the
phones up, get in touch with your senators and tell
them hell no, appreciate the call Jay six fifteen right
now if you have KCV talk station. Sounds like you
could probably use a little bit of time at Gata
Heaven Cemetery to relax and engage in quiet contemplation maybe
prayer reflection. It's a perfect place to do that. It's gorgeous.

(49:07):
I drive by it every single day on my way
home from work on Montgomery Road. It is beautifully maintained.
It is a just the trees and the landscaping and
the spring flowers that are coming up right now. Yeah,
this is the perfect location for that, you know, quiet contemplation.
That's what it's there for. And The Gate of Heaven
Cemetery welcomes everyone. It is a Catholic cemetery, but you

(49:29):
know it's open for everybody to enjoy, so take advantage
of those beautiful surroundings. They've been ministering to the Trisay
for more than seventy seven years and that's where they're
honoring life on sacred ground. To learn more, check them
out online. Go to Gate of Heaven dot org. That's
Gate of Heaven dot org.

Speaker 5 (49:44):
Fifty five KRC.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Did you hear a recent stash of tail? Jed Night
says this about the weather today, It's going to be
partly thotty, warm and humid late afternoon and evening storms
expected to begin sometime around seven pm. I have a
five some more storm possible overnight. It'll remain buggy and cloudy.
Sixty eight for the low. Eighty two are high tomorrow
in the South. We get some morning storms and then

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later in the afternoon the evening, starting around five PM
storms along with potential wind gus, tornadoes and torrential downpours
Overnight Friday, the Ray of Land it will drop the
sixty two and got a nice day on Saturday and
partly thouty dry and seventy three sixty two degrees Right
now from gout KERR City Talk station. What's going on
with traffic? Chuck Ingram from the U see on traffic center.

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Learn more. Right you see hewth dot com. Then eastbound
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Speaker 7 (50:38):
There's an accident before you get the two seventy five
at the Whitewater Split. The traffic backing up towards drive
Ford northbound seventy five. Our wreck at Kyle's is on
the right hand side. Clear the wreck on northbound seventy
one at Kenwood. Chuck Ingram on fifty five KRC the
talk station.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Six twenty here fifty five KRSED talks Happy Thursday. Over
the phones. We go and Al, I'm the liney. Al,
thanks for calling today, Welcome to the program.

Speaker 11 (51:07):
Good morning, and how are you today?

Speaker 1 (51:10):
I'm doing okay, IL hope you can say the same.

Speaker 11 (51:13):
Oh, I was doing fine until the ad Hominin attack
on my fair city of Cleveland. By j.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
We have a Cleveland supporter. I'll go ahead, have about it.
I was gonna say me, if you take Jay at
his word and Cleveland is as bad as he says
it is, then maybe that's one of the reasons why
they need this multi billion dollar mega complex for everyone
to enjoy, to improve, to improve Cuihoga.

Speaker 11 (51:37):
Guy, they are trying. Unfortunately, we've got the wrong political
stripe running the city, just as Cincinnati is. Yeah, but
you know, I've lived in both towns, and my statement
to Jay is and Cincinnati is different.

Speaker 12 (51:57):
How So.

Speaker 11 (52:05):
That's they're pros and cons to both cities.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Yes, there are, So I'm on your side. I have
never attacked Cleveland. I've been there many many times. In
my prior capacity is in house attorney for Anton Blue Cross,
Blue Shield, I had to go to Cleveland quite a bit.
I never had any problem with Cleveland. I never found
it to be repulsive or awful or nasty. And I
think that's just kind of like you east side versus
west side. You know, everybody just kind of criticizes the

(52:29):
other side because it's the thing to do. You got
the Browns, we got the Bengals. So there's that rivalry
that's built in there. And of course Cleveland does have
this have its problem but you make a valid point
about Cincinnati. How I can't argue with you.

Speaker 11 (52:41):
Man, there you go, all right, Well that's it. I
will let you go have a wonderful day, and I
hope you have a wonderful Memorial Holiday.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Thank you, sir, truly appreciated. I have no problem with
you defending Cleveland. That's okay. And here's something I really
wanted to get in here because this is absolutely frightening
and it doesn't come as any shock to me, but
United States engineers have discovered what are described as mysterious
undocumented communication devices in some Chinese made solar power inverters

(53:14):
along with batteries as well. Reuters did a write up
on this. This is scary stuff corner Reuter's sources, who
did speak on a condition of anonymity because they were
not given permission to speak on the record. The rogue
components provide additional undocumented communication channels that could allow firewalls
to be circumvented remotely with potentially catastrophic consequences. And as

(53:38):
something that Tech Friday's Dave Hatter talks about this Internet
of Things, they say that illustrates the security issues that
have haunted analysts since the dawn of Internet of Things,
where every single thing we buy for some reason has
to be hooked up to the Internet, which Dave Hatter
always points out is extremely dangerous because they don't provide
security within these little devices like your coffee maker, which
can then gain access to your home Wi Fi SISM,

(54:00):
which then is where the nefarious activity shows up. This
is signing the longest exact same line. Number of devices
broadcasting information online grown exponentially, of course, but the dangers
that go along with that also have grown exponentially. In
the case of these suspicious Chinese power inverters, the device
is designed to connect solar power arrays and windmills to

(54:21):
the power grids. They have Internet capabilities so the performance
can be monitored and their software can be updated easily.
But knowing this to be the practice, it teams that
solar and wind farms set up firewalls is a precaution
to prevent the devices from sending these unauthorized signals. They
also physically inspect equipment from China to look for bugs
that they find with shocking regularity. According to the statement

(54:46):
from Reuters, the two people who decline to name the
Chinese manufacturers of the inverters and batteries with extra communication devices,
nor say how many they found in total, but the
existence of the rogue devices has not been previously reported.
The US government has not publicly acknowledged discoveries. They say
these road communication devices could do a lot more than
merely spy on the American power grids that use them.

(55:08):
Cybersecurity experts been warning that these well the Chinese Communist
Party in this particular case, very interested in targeting America's infrastructure.
Hidden internet connections could allow the attacker to yes shut
down the power grids or damage sensitive machinery, apparently not
even a hypothetical threat. Back in November fifteenth last year,

(55:30):
users of inverters manufactured by a Chinese company called Dye
the Eye reported their units suddenly displayed a pop up
bear message and became what they call bricked, basically unusable
hmm now. For its part, Die said the units were
sold without proper authorization outside of the normal distribution contracts

(55:52):
with Western Hemisphere, but users doubt that explanation, and they
believed I did use remote commands to kill the invert
described as an unwelcome reminder for solar panel owners and
their equipment that could be controlled or shut down using
the Internet. Carlos jim And as a Republican out of

(56:13):
Florida in the House of Representative, Senator Rick Scott, along
with Democrat Maggie Hassan, introduced legislation trying to decouple US
companies from batteries made by Chinese companies. Cybersecurity vulnerability listed
as one of the most important reasons to move away
from Chinese equipment. Senator Scott said, well, listen when our
country nation, with our nation currently sourcing a majority of

(56:36):
its batteries from Chinese link manufacturers, were subject to major
unnecessary risk or our national security. One of the fun
facts revealed in this In Europe, they say exercise and
control over just three to four gigawatts of energy could
cause widespread disruption of electricity supplies. European Solar Manufacturing Council

(57:02):
they have one of those estimates. Over two hundred gigawatts
of European solar power capacity is linked to inverters made
in China, which is equivalent to more than two hundred
nuclear power plants. Get your head wrapped around that. At
the end of last year, three hundred and thirty eight
gigawatts have installed solar power in Europe. According to Industry

(57:23):
Association Solar Power Europe one cybersecurity program director, if you
remotely control a large enough number of home solar inverters
and do something nefarious at once that could have catastrophic
implications to the grid for a prolonged period of time,
we invite these enemies into our own home. And so

(57:48):
this is why I say this is a nefarious link.
You know, social media and global pressure and all these
crazy organizations who think we're all going to die because
plant foods going out into the world, but from a
production of fossil fuel electricity. They try to convince you
and legislate and mandate and dangle carrots, have incentive for
you to go fully electric. EPA issues edicts and mandates

(58:12):
to convert your otherwise totally reliable and superior gas stove
to an electric one which will cost more, won't last
as long, and which requires electricity to work. Right, We're
pressured into this more and more and more, and think
of all the components that go into these things made
by Yes China, and every company in China is obligated

(58:36):
to report its activities to the Chinese Communist Party. That's
how they do business there, So does it come as
a shock to anybody that these inverters would be able
to communicate with China? You know, the beginning of the war.
The lights are going to go out, That's how you know,
and China's going to invade Taiwan, or that's how you

(58:58):
know when the Chinese are on the shores of the
United States of America, because the lights will go out,
the grid will come to a screeching hault, catastrophe will ensue.
People be screaming and yelling in the streets. You know,
Bobby calls every once in a while and talks about
the seventy two hours you got. That's basically how long
it's gonna be before it completely hits the fan, because
guess what. The grocery stores are gonna be closed, the

(59:18):
gasoline pumps aren't gonna work, You're not gonna have a
lestricity in your home. And you know, it's just the
ripple effect is profound. And here we have given an
opportunity openly buying products from China, which is the only
place that manufactures them, giving them a clear opportunity to

(59:42):
cause that chaos that I just mentioned six twenty eight,
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No way, no shape, matter, no form. It just isn't happening.
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If Iran's leadership rejects the olive branch and continues to
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have taken in. They have used that money to foment
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Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Six thirty three if you got KCD talk station. Oh look,
local stories. Somebody wrote editorial comments all over this. Joe
Strecker City Leaders five nineteen reporting this. City leaders unveiled
plans for the summer in sins he described as a
collaborati effort to reduce youth violence and gun violence during

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the summer months in the city. They say violence spikes
when there's no school and when temperatures rise. Data collected
by since Ant Police showed about five percent of the
city's area considered summer hotspots and since At Police Chief
three strategic used the data. Says the department now able
to focus on specific high crime areas. Said they're focusing

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on six high priority areas with more patrols and towing
of illegally parked cars. She said a significant number of
people came down park wherever they wanted to and went
to different areas and created problem. So you take one
simple action item and we saw that that made a
significant gains for us. Impound lots going to be staying
open longer. Additionally, data shows that juvenile car thefts or

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thefts from cars is above the three year average, with
the Chief saying this is an area we will focus
on heavily throughout the summer, and one of the ways
we do that is by engaging with the youth. Apparently
that's where Cincinnti Parks and the Cincinnti Recreation Commission comes in.
Numerous opportunities, and they've done this before for kids and
teens at local rec centers, pools and parks. This year,

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all twenty three public pools and the CINCINNTI Rec Center
will be operating in full swing. First few open May
twenty fourth. Kid number one, this is editorial commentor from
Joe Strecker. Hey man, let's break into cars, Kid number two,
No way, I want to go watch Finding Nemo at

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the rec Center. Do you think that's the way that's
going to shake out? Hi, Joe reck at night, that's back,
they say by popular No Man teen event will take
place every Saturday, June seventh through August ninth at the
Lincoln Hers Rec Center. According to Rec Commissioner Director Daniel Betts,
last year we served over three thousand teens. This year

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we're amy to googin higher. We ended up having on
any given Saturday night four to five hundred teens at
both sites. Other youth programs the Camp CRC free golf
lessons and two hundred job opportunities for teens. City leaders
launching mitigation efforts at riverfront parks after new data showed
teens are clustering in those areas. Won't they then be

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clustering altogether at the rec center. I thought the problem
was getting all these teens in one spot. That's where
the fights come out, right, I don't know. I guess
we'll keep our popcorn out and just see how it unfolds.
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at and T Phonds. Glad to see somebody's doing the
right thing. When the Democrats wigged out over transgender issues
and diversity equity inclusion, we saw heaploaded that into the

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Biden administration although he probably wasn't even aware it was
going on. But this is one of those issues where
the vast majority of American people are all on the
same side of the ledger, and it is not on
the left wing, far progressive side of the Democratic Party
who are really struggling mightily to come up with a
message that's palatable to the American people. I see the
Justice Department is taking funds that are for that were

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formerly granted to groups supporting transgender ideology and diversity along
with the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. And that word
group in there troubles me because they're in lies the
challenge we face and one of the problems with the
federal government spending. They get all of this money in
a big pile, and as we mentioned earlier about picking

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and choosing the winners and losers. For example, the context
of the state of Ohio choosing that the Browns are
going to get six hundred million dollars of Ohio taxpayer money.
What about the rest of the teams out in the state. Nope,
nothing for you. There are a whole bunch of non
governmental organizations out there in the world, and they get
theyd a lot of money. Even though they're listed as
non for profit, each and every one of them gets

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a salary, and sometimes very large salaries, and I think
their mere existence is to extract taxpayer dollars and really
not accomplish anything. Some of that money goes back to
the politicians who picked the ones that got the money.
There's that money train, the circular money train, although unfortunately

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you're not part of the circle. It just comes from
you and ends up from the politicians into the NGOs
who then contribute back to the politicians. Anyway, back over
to the point of this one. That money is now
going to be going to well law enforcement. Justice Department
officials speaking with Fox News under Attorney General Pam Bondy,

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they claim they will not be wasting funds on DEI,
with the statements saying, the Department of Justice under Pambondi
will not waste discretionary funds on DEI passion projects that
do not make Americans safer. We will use the money
to get criminals off the streets, see drugs, and in
some cases fund programs that deliver a tangible impact for
victims of crime. Seems to be a higher priority in

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a more worthy pursuit don't you think. On our first
day at work, Bondi directed officials to ensure that all
DEI programs were terminated, demanding the removal of all references
to DEI training programs and ending the emphasis on race
and sexual criteria, refocusing hiring and promotion on guidelines solely
on merit. Back to a meritocracy. Who should get the job?

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I mean, she seems so illogical and unreasonable, the Defendantcy's
DEI programs, And really all that's saying is you must
fit a certain criteria that has nothing to do with
your abilities, has nothing to do with the merit, nothing
to do with your worth in terms of your ability
to perform the functions of any given job. You have

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to be fill in the black, black, or Asian or
not white. Of course, you have to be transgender, you
have to be a woman. I mean, all these things
that have no connection with merit. It's the same thing
that goes on in our K through twelve education system.
Now having merit and being able to perform at grade

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level is no longer relevant. Oh, we need to advance them,
we need to bring up to the next grade, because well,
they can't ever really answered the question why what it's
not fair to pass a child you can't meet the
grade level criteria.

Speaker 12 (01:13:00):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
It's not fair that you've moved them on to the
next grade when they can't perform at grade level, because
then you're just going to make matters worse and it's
a downward spiral from that point. I mean that our
colleges teach remedial mathematics classes, stuff that you needed to
learn in high school to advance under traditional grading standards.
It's an atrocity. I mean that concept exists regularly in

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the world. Our children are not prepared for life. It's
undermining the fabric of our nation. We're creating a nation
of idiots. And maybe that's the point of it all.
I mean, you think you move down that path where
you turn all the children are a vast majority of
in the idiots, they become then useful idiots for a nonsensical,

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illogical and failed political philosophy which is either socialism or Marxism.
Oh the other company countries who've tried it just didn't
do it right. How many times you heard that in
your lifetime. But that's exactly what's going on, folks. That's
what I firmly believe anyway. My c MIC's on the
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done this several times with CT scans. Never has my

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doctor complained at all. I didn't go to the hospital
imaging department because the CT scan there could set me
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includes the radiologist report. It's the savings are amazing. I

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Speaker 8 (01:16:43):
Hey, Brian, real quick about the group that's one to
eliminate property taxes?

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
Yeah, into a conspettional amendment.

Speaker 8 (01:16:51):
Are they gonna start getting signatures you get on the ballot, Hey,
like four hundred and fifty thousand signatures if I'm do
those have property owners or or anybody?

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
No, anybody, I believe as long as you're a resident
of the state of Ohio. I don't think they can
limit it to property owners. Yeah, just anybody who might
be impacted by legislation in the state or the ballot
initiative can be you know, can sign on to it.
They have to get signatures.

Speaker 8 (01:17:16):
Signatures will be pretty easy to get.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
I would think. That was my comment the other day
when I first read about that being circulated. It's like,
wait a second, this should be an easy, easy task
to accomplish. So you have to get five percent of
the total voters in the most recent I guess is
it gubernatorial election. That's the that's the criteria. And you
got to get signatures from forty four of the eighty

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eight counties.

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
So.

Speaker 8 (01:17:42):
The apartment buildings and yeah, those people don't pay taxes, property.

Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
Tax, So oh yeah, I think this is going to
be hilarious because if it passes, I mean, are there
enough property owners that I actually get out and vote
in favor of this or with the people who don't
own property and to continue with property tax because it's
not impacting them. Although really it is. If you're a renter,
you are impacted by property tax as well. So if

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there are enough people that will be against this, I
just I'm wondering what they're going to do elected officials
in Columbus, if this actually comes to pass and property
taxes banned under the Hong Kong Constitution, how are schools
going to be funded they.

Speaker 8 (01:18:21):
Ever fights that, whatever money they use to fight it
could easily pay what is offset.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
And to state that again, because you broke up, Oh
he hung up, didn't quite understand this comment. Yeah, that's
one of those things I'm gonna be looking at with
I don't know, significant interest. What will the aftermath of
that be, because I mean, property tax is what funds

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all kinds of things, his school levies, and he got
park issues and all these initiatives are are they going
to start? What are the suggestions? Was increase the sales tax,
which conceptually I'm not necessarily against, because everybody buys things
at some point or other. Some people buy more than others.
Of course, more disposable income, the more options you have

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to actually buy things. But if you're buying something, you're
going to be helping to pay for something that you
might not be paying for but enjoying. Think of the
park district, for example, maybe you have people who aren't
property owners are going to the parks.

Speaker 9 (01:19:24):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
I know they get their funds from resource or sources
other than property taxes. But when you vote to for
an increase or a levey, of course that's a property
tax levee, So only property owners are paying for that.
So if you raise the sales tax, then everyone's going
to be covering a slice of the action, which I
think is a fairer way of approaching it. I'm sure

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you'll get some advocates for the poor and folks on
life's margins who will screen their bloody heads off over
that that these evil property owners should be shouldering the
burden because they're elite and they're well off. But you know,
I really feel for the seniors out there. You've been
in your home for forty years, maybe you've got it
paid off, and you're living on social Security or some
modest form of income, and along comes the assessment and

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you find out your property taxes bill has gone up
thirty percent, and that puts a dent in what you've
got left over. Maybe you can't afford it. I mean,
there's been arguments over the years that maybe at some
point in time, like when you own your home fully
or something, you reach some certain age that you no
longer have to pay property tax. A lot of different
ways of looking at it and viewing it. But in

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the final analysis, that's the ballot initiative is going to
be circulated. The language has to be approved. The title
has already been approved, so phase two is approving the
actual language in the ballot initiative, which again is a
constitutional amendment six to fifty five. Fifty five kres to
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to be in studio talking about the paltry voter turnout.
I think that's one issue if it's on the ballot,
would bring out voters qualified immunity amendment and his run
for state auditor. So that'll be next after the news.
I hope you can stick around, stay on top of
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Thursday Friday Eve is what I prefer, and I always
prefer having guests in the studio. And it is a
wonderful thing to look across the booth here and see
Secretary of State Frank LeRose in the studio to talk
about a variety different topics. Welcome man, good to see
you again.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
Great to be back in the Queen City at fifty
five KRC and not talking to you on the phone.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
For us to be here, I know, And yeah, we've
run into each other in person all the time, and
I will say out loud, it's glad to see you, Casu.
You're going running after And I apologize to Frank because
I didn't realize who's going to be in my studio
this morning. And I have my defund politicians t shirt on.
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
I'm glad, but you know, I'm in charge of campaign
finance in Ohio, so we want to defund the you know,
the bad ones.

Speaker 1 (01:22:16):
Doing it right, plee real quick here, right out of
the gate. I know we've got other things to talk about,
but I think there's probably no one of my listening
audiences happy at all about this. Cleveland Browns getting six
hundred million dollars through bond money that we have to
pay debt service on. I don't I don't understand where
that come from, How that can be, How in a
representative government that all the Ohio tax payers are going

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to beholding the burden for debt service so the Browns
can get their new playfield and this this, this, this facility.
It's just it's really rubbed my listeners the wrong way.
And I know you're not.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
I'm going to disclose something here in Cincinnati, Ohio, what
a city I love. I'm a lifelong Browns fan. I
grew up in Cleveland, right right. But I also am
one that believes that football should be played out door.
I think men should play football outdoors in the weather, yes,
as God intended. But further, I think that there's this
national arms race as it relates to stadium funding exactly.

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And I think that the thought by a lot of
our legislators is, well, we're not going to unil lot
of early disarmed because all these other states are putting
public money and public bond deals into these stadiums, and
so Ohio doesn't want to be the state with shabby
stadiums where we can't have big national events where we
can't attract top talent, and Lord knows the Browns need
all the help they can get when it comes to

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attracting talent. So again, there's two sides to this. I
can see your point completely.

Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
Yeah, multimillionaire families sometimes billionaire families, and we the taxpayers,
pay for them so they can make money off of
the stadiums that we build on our backs. I just
I find the whole thing just I don't know one
thing that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
There's a thing that's called the model rule, where if
any public money goes into a stadium and that team leaves,
then that money can be clawed back. It's that's I mean,
if there's anything that should be rock solid, it would
be that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
Well, I'll just put an exclamation point on your point
that men should play football out in the weather. My
view is, listen, football fields are regulated size. They all
have to be the exact same size. If you've got
the football field and you got a place for people
to sit, that's all that's needed to play the game.
They could play at Nippert Stadium, they could play football
field at like Elder High School. I mean, you know,

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I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
If you're ever at the old old Brown Stadium. I
was ruined from like one year old. My dad would
take me to the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium, but you
had to pee in a trough.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
Yeah oh that was yeah, okay, yeah, you know, so
remember those days and listen.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
Here's something that Cleveland and Cincinnati have in common as
a release to football, the great legacy of Paul Brown,
who would have been rolling in his grave seeing the pampered,
the pamper millionaires that are playing football these days.

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
You know, oh my god. And also the pampered millionaires
who seem to have all the resources that like, for example,
we have to stadium upgrades here in the city. So
Sinnati from pay Course Stadium, obligated by that terrible lease
deal that we approved, they put all the money into
the booths, the elite booths that none of the unwashed
masters are ever going to get into. So it's like, oh,
we need four hundred million dollars or tw hundrellion dollars

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or whatever, and you know the X amount of that,
A large slice of that is going to go to
the private booths where the elite get to watch the
games and let's face it, the unwashed masses and Zip
champagne cavias they wash. Yeah, I'm sorry to get down
that road. We had a conversation early in the program
this morning about it. Let's talk about voter turnout, which

(01:25:34):
was pathetic. Yeah, I mean, I know it was an
off cycle election. I fully appreciate that, but you know,
issue too, was there there was a reason to go
out and vote?

Speaker 12 (01:25:43):
And what was it?

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
Ten percent?

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
It was just over ten percent. And this is funny
because we have what we call election night operations. It's
a room where we're running. We got a direct line
to each of the eighty eight county boards of Elections.
We're pulling the numbers in from them every half hour.
We're validating those numbers, were flashing them up on the website.
So we're in the in the mode. We're in the game.
And when we went over ten percent, everybody cheered, and

(01:26:05):
I was so excited that we went over ten percent,
and then I said, stop, team, just realize here that
we're celebrating that ninety percent didn't vote. I know, only
ten percent, But listen, when we have a party, we
don't want people to not come, and so we want
to see high voter turnout, and so we were happy
to see that it went over ten percent because we
weren't expecting much. I mean, the total number was eight

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hundred and sixty eighty one hundred and twenty four of
our fellow Ohioans who bothered to get off their butts
and participate in one of the three forms of voting
we have either early voting for a whole month, or
absently voting where we literally mail your ballot to your
house for you, or election day voting. Now, again, it's
hard to get people excited about what they're so called

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off year elections, these these even these odd numbered years
like twenty twenty five. Now contrast that, though to the
even number years twenty twenty record breaking year twenty twenty two,
we broke the record for a goom viatorial election. Last
year in twenty twenty four, we broke the all time
record for early voting. So it's not that Ohioans are
not civically engaged. Ohioans care about voting, and they're engaged

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in it, and they know that it's both easy to
vote and hard to cheat in our state, and they
show up in record numbers when they care. The problem
is getting people to care about local issues, local elections.
People get excited about presidential elections. People get excited about
governor's elections, US senate races. It's hard to get people
excited about the mayor's race and the city council race

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and a statewide ballot issue. And it's unfortunate because listen,
it matters who lives in the White House. As a soldier,
I can tell you this, I leave for army duty
next week, and as a reservist, it matters who my
commander in chief is. But who lives in the White
House is probably not as important in your daily life
as who works at the courthouse and the schoolhouse and
at city hall. And in twenty twenty five and years

(01:27:55):
like that, that's when we make those decisions. So you know,
get off your button, go vote well.

Speaker 1 (01:27:59):
Going back to the record year, the twenty twenty four election,
that was a record year for early voting.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
Correct and by the way, Republicans dominated early voting, which
is historically unusual. We were now again we can't tell
how people voted, but we could tell in the numbers
leading up to election day, Republicans had out voted Democrats
by over two hundred and fifty thousand, a quarter million.
So we started election day up by a quarter million.
No wonder we dominated on election Day. I hope that's

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a lesson to my fellow Republicans to continue taking advantage
of all three good options. It's like if you're a
football coach, you can score points by by running, passing,
or kicking. You'd be foolish to only use one of
those three. We need to make sure that people vote
whichever way is convenient for them, but they got to vote. Well,
what percentage of eligible islands voted in the presidential election? Generally,

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like if you had ten percent in Ohio for the
off cycle election, we just went through. Yeah, it's always
north of fifty. I mean sometimes we get into the
sixties and seventies. I tell the story about when I
was when I was serving in Iraq. This is go
back to two thousand and five, had their first real election.
They'd had the BS elections where Saddam Hussein got one
hundred percent of the vote. Everybody knew that was nonsense,
but I was there as a soldier to see their

(01:29:07):
first real election. So the Purple Finger and I tell
the story. People were being threatened though these Islamist groups
from backed by Iran. We're telling people that it was
un Islamic to vote. That's a lie. They were saying
that if they saw that purple ink on your finger,
they would cut your finger off. And so when those
Iraqis held that purple finger in the air, it might
as well have been another finger. They were saying, I'm

(01:29:28):
not afraid of you. And so that election we saw
over seventy percent. I always joke that listen, nobody's threatening
to cut fingers off in a while. No, and we
almost never get over seventy percent. But again, it shows
you that free people can make a difference when they
go out to vote, and we need to not take
that right for granted here well, and to.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
Those people who are upset about the six hundred million
dollars you just referred to, that was my retort, which is,
you know it isn't illegal. Necessarily. Elected officials are always
picking the winners and losers in terms of where our
taxpayers go. It's the ballot box is how you hold
them accountable.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
Every vote is determined by those who show up, and
I always laugh when I encounter protesters that don't vote,
like you're missing like you're gonna wave a picket sign,
You're gonna go out there and protest, but you're not
gonna vote. You're missing the most important part of the process.
We're continue with Secretary of Stave frankkel Rose in studio.
We'll talk a little bit about qualified community and his

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Speaker 1 (01:32:36):
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I gotta ask you, man before we get the qualified
immunity in your comments on that. That's an amendment that's
being circulated ballot initiative out there, and I know you're
responsible for the language, and you just approve the least

(01:32:58):
the language of the headache.

Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
We approved it as one issue, so that's a multi
step process. Chair really called the ballot board.

Speaker 1 (01:33:06):
Okay, By way of explanation, I'm talking about pivoting over
to the amendment of the constitution that would remove property tax.
And I wanted to gauge your reaction on that because
I'm not sure how things would work out if it passed,
and I'm guessing it probably would if it's actually on
the ballot.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
So let's even take a step back. And I kind
of editorialized on this yesterday when I was chairing the
ballot board to look at it and approve whether it
should be one issue or separate issues on the ballot.
We're leaning too far into direct democracy right now.

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
In Ohio.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
We are a representative republic. It has served us well
for two hundred years. We do not want to govern
via constitutional amendment. Legislation should be done in the state
House and the state Senate. That should not be done
by constitutional amendment. I listen, I believe that property tax
is entirely too high. When your mortgage payment is more

(01:33:59):
than half of it is your property tax, something's wrong, right.
It feels like you are And how about seniors on
a fixed income. They've paid off that mortgage, they burned
that note already, and now it feels like they're renting
their property from the state government, from the local government.
Too high. Property taxes are too high. This may not
be the way to fix it, though, right and so
I think that things like putting a cap on it,

(01:34:22):
revisiting a thing called the homestead exemption that provides property
tax relief for seniors. And something I'm going to focus
on as the state auditor, is who the heck's spending
all this money at the local level and are they
accountable and are they efficient? Really, the State Auditor's Office
could be o DOGE, Ohio Department of Government Efficiency. And
you know, if you're not happy with your county commissioners,

(01:34:44):
you know who to vote out. If you're not happy
with your city, you know who to vote out. But
how about the local housing authority, how about the planning commission?
How about the park district? Who do you hold accountable
for that kind of stuff?

Speaker 1 (01:34:56):
Well, and we keep voting to have those levies replaced
or in increased or continuing resolution. I know it's on
the backs of the people who show up to vote,
but a large chunk of the property taxes is schools. Yeah,
And the Ohio Supreme Court declared two decades ago that
our funding mechanism for schools in the state of Ohio
is unconstitutional. And yet here we are, twenty years later,

(01:35:17):
still doing it the same way. Now someone had called
in because I'm a lawyer, this was a mystery to me.
How it will be characterized as a complaint. Isn't there
some mechanism we could refuse to pay our property taxes
because the Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional at least
that portion of the property taxes.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
That's like the sovereign citizen. I say, I don't need
a license plate. That doesn't work. But here's the thing
that what you're talking about is the thing from God.
I was a high school student when this happened, the
d'off decision, and what it was based on is school facilities.
The first draft decision was all about you had these
little Appalachian schools with dirt floors, and then you had

(01:35:53):
these suburban schools that were beautiful, and there was disparity
between that. Honestly, that part has been largely fixed through
a thing that the Ohio the state government calls the
school Facilities Commission. You've noticed a lot of nice schools
built over the last few decades in Ohio. Maybe some
of them too nice College University exactly. But that was

(01:36:14):
the School Facilities Commission. So we've largely fixed the disparity
in school buildings. Now what happens inside of those is
still a problem, right, And we know that your zip
code has a lot to do with what quality of
schools you have. And I think, honestly, this is why
school choice is so important. I think the school choice
is the civil rights issue of our era. Amen, no kid.

(01:36:35):
If we believe in a meritocracy, we do that any
kid should be able to grow up and make something
of themselves and live up to their God given potential.
It has to start with good schools for any kid.
By the way, this was one of our founding ideals
when the Northwest Ordinance created this thing that we now
call Ohio Right public schools was a revolutionary idea that

(01:36:57):
didn't exist and and and so you know, we need
to have good schools and property tax is currently part
of the mix. Now here's the problem too, though. If
you get rid of property taxes, are you relying entirely
on state level taxation. You don't have local taxation because
guess what, the people that are paying are making the decisions.
And so if you want to have local control over

(01:37:18):
your schools, you need to have some level of local
funding as well.

Speaker 1 (01:37:22):
Yeah, no question about it. It complicates matters just I
mean beyond my comprehension, And sometimes I think.

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
How would this all work? You wouldn't design it this way.
If you were going to start today to design a state,
you just wouldn't build it this way. But we're stuck
with some legacy issues that we need to work through.

Speaker 1 (01:37:36):
Yeah, And on school choice, Indiana has had demonstrably great
luck with the school choice. They've expanded it, but it's
proven benefits for the students. The numbers have gone up,
the reading scores are now in the top ten, their
math stores are now in the top ten. And it
wasn't always that way. So I think we should embrace
that model and run with it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
We've gone a long way on school choice, We've got
further to go. Yes, we do, Yes, we do real quick.

Speaker 1 (01:37:59):
On qualify immunity as qualified immunity men, and speaking of
ballot isituatives, police do enjoy qualified immunity for the job.

Speaker 2 (01:38:08):
That they are doing. What's your take on the measure itself. Yeah,
terrible idea. Imagine a scenario, We're in a completely justifiable
use of force, So bad guy pulls a gun, police
officer shoots bad guy, bad guy dies, bad guy's family
if this past could then personally sue that police officer

(01:38:30):
for pain and suffering and lost wages and even a
completely justifiable situation. And now nobody's going to want to
be a police officer. If your personal assets, your home,
your personal wages could be taken away to compensate some
bad guy's family. It's a crazy idea and it's something
that really, if it makes the ballot, Ohioan should roundly

(01:38:52):
reject it in the name of public safety and standing
with police. Now, let me be clear, ninety nine point
nine percent of the time the men and women in
law enforcement do the right thing. On that fraction of
a percent. When they don't, they'll face justice for it.
They need to write and their consequences. But qualified getting
rid of qualified immunity is a kooky idea.

Speaker 1 (01:39:12):
I agree completely. It's tough enough getting police who are
getting citizens to consider entering into law enforcement these days,
and for someone out there screaming, going, well, if there's
nothing wrong, it was justifiable shooting, then there's no way
that could be found liable. There's a thing called legal expenses,
and having to lawyer up and pay that lawyer four
or five hundred dollars for every hour work is an

(01:39:32):
insurmountable challenge in and of itself. Most people can't afford
that kind of money, and to foist that upon law
enforcement officers, it's just going to be a horrific thing. So,
Frank LeRose, a comment on your run for state Auditor,
just a real brief before we part company this morning. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
So the auditor has two job, catching crooks that engage
in public corruption. Anybody that would break the public trust
by taking tax dollars and put in their own pocket
needs to be in jail. That happens, unfortunately. I'll do
that as Auditor of state. The other thing is government efficiency.
The auditor can come into any of six thousand different
local and state government offices and find out if they're

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running as smoothly as they should.

Speaker 1 (01:40:08):
Think about it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
As Ohio doje, That's how I plan to use it
to shake the waste out of local and state government.

Speaker 1 (01:40:14):
I'm excited about this. I've got quite a few listeners
out there right now probably screaming the word medicaid at
the rate because I know we got some problems during
the State of Ohiowa.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
Brawd abuse all of that. Yeah, and our current auditor,
Keith Faber, has has gone a long way. He's done
an audit of the state medicaid system. But now it's
time that we implement some of those things. By the way,
this is why I'm excited for our next governor, who
I believe is going to be Viviak Ramaswami. I think
he's the man that's got the courage to actually fix
the stuff that the auditor finds wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:40:41):
Boy, he have the backing of the Ohio Republican Party too.
Was it vote sixty sixty to three or something like that?
Tell you what, Yeah, is a good man.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
You're seeing a consolidation early because he's a visionary leader
that actually has the courage to get things done. I
describe it as you know in the military, you've got
leaders you have to follow because they've got more rank.
Is that rare leader that you want to follow? And
I was the first one back. Yeah, I was the
first one to back him. I'm out on the campaign
trail with him all the time, and I think he's
got the potential to be the most transformative governor of

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our generation.

Speaker 1 (01:41:13):
I share your belief in that. I truly do. Frank Lrose.
It has been a real pleasure and thanks for stopping
in the studio this morning, folks, stick around. Coming up,
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Seven thirty one fifty foo KRCD talk Station. Very Happy Friday,
Eve to you. Happy to welcome to the fifty five
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expert led education, proven tools, better access to care, and
a comprehensive approach that puts long term health first. Welcome
to the program, Tim Kellert. It's a real pleasure to
have you on.

Speaker 12 (01:44:17):
Thank you, good morning, A pleasure to be on.

Speaker 1 (01:44:20):
But it's timing is really interesting because I woke up
this morning and I was going through my notes and
looking at the updated news, and I always refer to
the Wall Street Journal. There's their headline right there. How
chronic disease became the biggest scourge in American health and
diabetes number three on the list of common chronic conditions,
with about fifteen percent of the US population dealing with diabetes.
And this has gone up over the years, hasn't it.

(01:44:42):
I mean, there's been a real problem in the United
States with a growing problem with diabetes. Yes, I mean diabetes.

Speaker 9 (01:44:50):
Right now, we have ninety three million pre diabetics in
the country, well thirty nine registered diabetics, which means on
a Medicare Medicaid numbers. They're registered as you know, type two,
which means A and C above seven. The reality is
is pre DIBs. I don't really buy into that whole
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(01:45:11):
either you're diabetic, you're not. They've they've diagnosed pre ibs
from A five, six or seven, oh, A and C
so they can sell more drugs. I mean, it's it's
very simple. If there is a precondition, it's a good
place to get a diabetic because we can make lifestyle
changes through education that can really reverse the disease pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (01:45:31):
Reverse by meaning if you are diabetic, you can at
some point in your life maybe no longer be diabetic.
Now does that depend on the type of diabetes you
are diagnosed with?

Speaker 12 (01:45:42):
Absolutely so type.

Speaker 9 (01:45:43):
One autoimmune you're intdependent. You can't you're not doing uploading
to the muscle for lucagon. So that's kind of a
you know, a way different disease. But TYE two, type
three baster, type three dementia, destation of diabetes in some resistance,
all those things can be reversed.

Speaker 1 (01:46:01):
And what is the problem. And we also have a
growing obesity problem. Quite often obesity is cited as one
of the things that might lead you to having diabetes.
This is all about our diet.

Speaker 9 (01:46:12):
Absolutely. So you know, big Pharma, big medical, they got
they got together with the processed food industry convinced of it.
And there's no money in a cure, so came up
with a bunch of ideals around food to make us thick.
The whole inner aisle of the grocery stores fast foods

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are filled with you know, saturated fats, processed fats, refined foods,
refine wheat, hypertuos, corn strup, processed sugar, flour, hydrizing, and
nice wheat. And these are all chemical poisons in these
foods that are quite honestly killing Americans. And you know
that's interesting. I saw that in the Wall Street Journal

(01:46:53):
as well. But I'm not buying that diabetes is the
number three calls because people are dying of heart disease.
Guarantee their bottom line is because of diabetes. If somebody
dies or heart attack or stroke, to say, oh, they
had died a heart attack or stroke, but really the
underline tradition will get them with diabetes.

Speaker 1 (01:47:10):
Yes, I'll tell you what. Let's pause, We'll bring you back,
we'll talk a little bit more about this very important topic, diabetes.
Tim Keller, founder of US Diabetes Care. In this website,
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Speaker 1 (01:49:33):
Seven thirty nine on a Thursday, Brian Thomas with Tim Keller.
He's with US Diabetes Care, which you can find a
lot of US diabetescare dot com, which makes perfect sense.
We're talking about diabetes and apparently you can reverse it
and that's what they're all about, not just using drugs
and lifetime a lifelong use of medications and all that,
but they focus on reversal there, so you can reverse

(01:49:56):
type two, type three gestational and insulin resistance in I
think that's pretty clearly what you said in the last segment.
I guess it boils down to a simple question.

Speaker 12 (01:50:04):
How.

Speaker 9 (01:50:07):
Yeah, so you know, but the actually infant resistance is
a precursor for diabetes TYE two type three.

Speaker 4 (01:50:13):
Gestational diabetes is all.

Speaker 9 (01:50:15):
A sentiment instant resistance. An infant resistance starts from uploading
the muscle earlier than it becomes a hyperglycemia in the body.
So what we do is we basically do a lifestyle platform,
lumble into education, blue zone, educate people into mind so
they can make lifestyle choices to fix your body. And
it's real simple, Brian. I mean a get moving, exercise, hydration,

(01:50:40):
a lot of water, fiber, you know, increase your fiber,
and take eat a lot more fruits and vegetables. Westerny's
medicine is broken. Doctors don't have any nutrition training at all.
They treat a symptom, not a patient, and they have
very little education around nutrition. They tell diabetics they can't
eat fruit. It's the most ridiculous lie. For all the

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(01:51:24):
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Speaker 1 (01:51:40):
Well how about that? Now? What is the story on carves?

Speaker 11 (01:51:43):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:51:43):
I'm staring at the modern current food pyramid, which is
different from what I was taught as a child. And
who created the food pyramid? And are we supposed to
really truly consume thirty percent of our diet in the
form of carves because I thought carbs were We learned
that carves were the problem, or at least were a problem.

Speaker 9 (01:52:01):
Yeah, So carbs, you know, is always the confusing part,
and that's where education comes in. There's healthy carbs and
there's bad carbs. The bad carbs or anything from process
white foods, process flour, so anything like baked goods, breads,
you know, anything that's white, we say isn't right. So,

(01:52:22):
you know, those kinds of carbs are bad for you.
But there's carbs and fruits and vegetables that are good
for you. So we try to have people focus on
good carbs and not bad carbs.

Speaker 1 (01:52:33):
Well, what about the idea of I'm sure that you're
an opponent of consuming process sugary foods and my experience
with that, I learned that there's a direct correlation with
sugar intake and cancer because cancer apparently loves sugar, and
I've been diagnosed with lymphoma. So I thought. I took
it upon myself last October to try to cut almost
every single added sugar out of my diet along with

(01:52:56):
curving carbs. I end up losing about twenty pounds and
I feel a lot better. Tim That's kind of why
I bring it up. But uh, what I learned over
the process though, by reading labels, sugar is everywhere. It's
in everything added sugars. I kind even quit eating ketchup
because there's like a whole bunch of it in the tablespood.

Speaker 9 (01:53:14):
Yeah, it's sugar is literally, and the problem is it's Brian,
It's not just sugar, it's processed sugar. Yeah, and there
you know there's a link to processed sugar bean is
it is more addictive than cocaine. Okay, So there's studies
all over with that and for the children and all
the process foods, they're pretting this in everything, So you
wonder why these kids have addiction to refine processed foods

(01:53:37):
and living a lot much more sanitary lifestyle and in
bract of cancer. You know, this is the thing about
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I mean, we're we can help you, you know, curve.
You know cancer as well, Cancer lives in the cnic environment,
right and they acid dry as a cancer and a
lot of that acid comes from sugar. So if you

(01:53:59):
stuff off sugar and the acid in the body, cancer
can't survive. So you know, there's no guarantee around that.
But you know, we've had patients you know, ironically that
have diabetes and cancer on our lifestyle platform and they've
been able to reverse their disease.

Speaker 1 (01:54:15):
And that lifestyle platform at us diabetescare dot com. So
what what services do you offer there that that my
listeners could take advantage of to the ese stents they're
dealing with these problems.

Speaker 9 (01:54:25):
Yeah, so we're full of the Transition program Care diabet
Clinic as well, so we do you know, clinical diabetes,
We have everything underrun roof so basically do automot nervous
system tests brain stands in house neurologists, so we deal
a lot with the type three after demensied diabetes and
then from a you know, obviously we have two large

(01:54:46):
education classes where we do live education and I think
you know once again we have it through and a
half now as well as dibescare dot com. You can
go to our website, hit learn more tab and get
our app through there are you can go on Apple
and Android the App Store and usib's Career Education and
get our app that way. But the key to all this,

(01:55:10):
you know, taking apart the clinical side, is for everybody
who's really educated about the truth about diabetes. We talk
about more thanch is what you put in your mouth.
We talk about oxidative stress. We talk about healthy fats,
good versus good fats. We talk about brain health and beyond.
I mean, we really dive into things that people just
aren't learning in regular western ice medicine. And you can't

(01:55:33):
learn it when you have a two hour wait in
the way room and you get a five minute appointment.
You're not going to change somebody's life.

Speaker 1 (01:55:39):
That way, no question. Tim it's I mean, western medicine
does it just treats the symptom. But I don't know
how you feel about RFK Junior, But I'm kind of
excited that he's sort of bringing this proactivity, getting in
front of the disease and starting out with a more
healthy lifestyle in order to prevent it from occurring in
the first instance. And I think that's a more practical
and common sense approach to dealing with it. But as

(01:56:01):
you point out, you know, one of the big elephants
in the room is the existence of these pharmaceutical companies
and they're in the business of getting people to pop pills.
That's how they make their money, and they're happy to
see more and more people have to pop them or
you know, buy the insulin.

Speaker 9 (01:56:14):
Absolutely, and the RFK juniors got a big task in
front of them. But I like what he's doing, you know,
I like the Donald Trump passed the Executive Order for
the Decrease in Drugs. I think along with that, they
have to pass an executive order to get rid of
these prior authorizations, which is the mental band that deny
these drugs when patients go to the pharmacy to try

(01:56:35):
to get them or make them two way too costly.
I mean, like Jardians, which is one of the best
drugs out there for diabets right now. I mean, we're
our goal to get people off. But if there's a
good drugs, Juardians is a really good drug and it's
like thirteen hundred dollars on homes cash out of pocket,
and means who can afford that? And so we and
we spend a lot of time fighting with the insurance

(01:56:55):
companies to pay for these drugs for diabets that really
need them, and so that that's a big problem too.
So I think along with you know, the thirty percent off,
they need to you know, look into the middleman of
the drugs too.

Speaker 1 (01:57:09):
Yeah, the pharmacy benefit managers. Get rid of those. Boy,
that would streamline the process. Wouldn't take a lot of
the cost out of there.

Speaker 12 (01:57:15):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:57:16):
US Diabeticscare dot Com are us diabetescare dot com where
you find Tim Keller and the tips and information about
diabetes along with the opportunity to get the app if
you're so inclined. Tim, I appreciate you giving out the
wonderful information, sending people in the right direction, and what
you're doing at US Diabetes Care, helping folks out of
need and curing it, getting rid of it. How long

(01:57:38):
have you been diabetes free?

Speaker 11 (01:57:39):
Tim?

Speaker 9 (01:57:42):
I was diagnosed in two thousand and nine and I've
been diabetic free since.

Speaker 1 (01:57:47):
That's absolutely amazing. So there is hope out there for
my diabetic friends in the audience. Tim Good having you
on the program did an interesting conversation. I appreciate the
opportunity to speak with you and that you spent some
time with my listeners to me today.

Speaker 9 (01:57:58):
Hey, Brian, thank you very much.

Speaker 12 (01:58:00):
I like sense.

Speaker 4 (01:58:00):
It's a good place.

Speaker 1 (01:58:01):
It is a good place. Come visit anytime you want. Tim,
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Paul Winfrey, President CEO of an organization called the Economic
Policy Innovation Center. He served a top management policy roles
in the White House, US Senate as well as think tanks,
and during the first Trump administration. He served as the
Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy
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Business Daily, The USA Today, in Congressional Quartery, among other publications.
Also the author of the History and Future of the
Budget Process in the United States. Doctor Winfree, Welcome to
the program. It's a real pleasure to have you on, sir.
Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Well. When you
read the news, you think the world is coming to
an end. Oh my god, eight point six million people

(02:04:06):
are going to be deprived of healthcare if these reforms
go in that the Republicans are talking about. Let us
start with it seems to me that many of the
Democrats who are railing against requiring people who are able
bodied in their prime work years to actually participate and
work or do something for twenty hours a week, they
shouldn't be on Medicaid. Can you remind my listeners who

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may be on this fence and about the issue what
Medicaid was originally designed to do.

Speaker 4 (02:04:36):
That's exactly right. I mean, if you break down the
eight million person number, or the eight million lost coverage number.
One point four million of those folks are illegal immigrants.
One and a half million of them are not eligible
for Medicaid, but they've been retained on the program by
regulations that are promulgated by the Biden administration. Another couple
of million are people who don't even exist right now,

(02:04:58):
but CBO says may this in the future and maybe
eligible for Medicaid. And everybody else are working age adults
who are healthy and currently on the program and don't
have any don't have any requirement to work. When the
program was created, as you mentioned, in the nineteen sixties,
this was a program for the vulnerable folks, the disabled,

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the blind, pregnant moms and kids. And what we've seen
over the last ten years is the program has evolved
to benefit the healthy adults without dependence over the truly vulnerable,
which is changing the way that medicine is delivered and
ultimately making it harder for folks who truly need the
Medicaid program to see to see doctors, and to get

(02:05:44):
the healthcare that they ultimately need.

Speaker 1 (02:05:46):
So what they've done is they've undermined Medicaid's original intent.
They put all these people on who weren't eligible for
it originally. How is it that it expanded so much
and people didn't say, well, well, whoa, whoa, we're we're
this has gone way beyond the scope of what was
truly intended. Yeah, So get this.

Speaker 4 (02:06:04):
When Obamacare was created in twenty ten, and then it
expanded the medicaid program to the healthy adults in twenty fourteen,
they knew that states would be disinclined to expand Medicaid
to the healthy population because it would have added to
their state budgets. And so what they did is they
set up a new financing structure that rewards states for

(02:06:27):
enrolling healthy adults.

Speaker 11 (02:06:29):
So for every one.

Speaker 4 (02:06:30):
Dollar that states spend, they get nine dollars from the
federal government if they enroll in help healthy adults without kids,
and they get a dollar thirty three for every dollar
that they spend for every pregnant mom, disabled person, blind person,
elderly person or child that they put on the Medicaid program.
And so if you think about it that way from

(02:06:53):
a state's perspective, they're literally rewarded by the federal government
for enrolling and shifting medicine towards it's healthy adults over
people who truly need it, and and that those those
incentives have become even more strengthened because of some Biden
regulations that have been pushed out over the last four

(02:07:13):
years that have just accelerated that and encouraged states even
more to take up the Obamacare expansion. And that's that's
that's really what we're talking about here.

Speaker 1 (02:07:23):
So the left has been advocating for universal health care.
I mean, it was supposed to Obamacare is supposed to
do that. I know Hillary Clinton never to do it
back when she was the first Lady, but obviously it
didn't go through then. But this sounds just like a
nefarious backdoor mechanism to create that reality because more and
more people are expanded put on Medicaid and are not
in private insurance or or dealing with it on their own.

Speaker 10 (02:07:44):
Is that that kind of what's actually unfolding here, Bingo,
You're exactly right. So the left has been talking for
years about medicare for all. Right, Bernie Sanders has been
talking about medicare for all for years.

Speaker 4 (02:07:56):
You've got bills to do this. Democrats in the House, AOC,
they also have.

Speaker 1 (02:08:00):
Bills to do this.

Speaker 4 (02:08:01):
The real Trojan horse here is that it was never
intended to be Medicare for all. It was intended to
be Medicaid for all. And one of the big differences
the seniors know between Medicare and Medicaid is that doctors
get paid much less for seeing the vulnerable population in
Medicaid than they do for Medicare or private health insurance

(02:08:23):
or even Medicaid for the healthy adults because of the
incentive structure to push medicine towards the healthy adults in
the Medicaid program. What that means is that right now
today there are about seven hundred and ten thousand disabled
Americans on Medicaid waitlists to get things like home health

(02:08:44):
care because the states have again been incentivized not to
spend on that population because that's what the federal government
has been telling them to do. And if they keep
moving this in the tenet non expansion states expand Meday
cave like Texas and Florida and Georgia, then we are
going to become that much closer to a Medicaid for

(02:09:07):
all system where there's just a takeover of healthcare and
it's all run out of HHS. That's where we're going
right now. Eighty million Americans are on Medicaid, a program
that was originally intended to.

Speaker 1 (02:09:19):
Be for the truly vulnerable. And I know you've pointed
out in your research, in your in your writings on
this that states exploit medical medicaid with with what you
referred to as loopholes, private provider taxes and state directed payments,
which you I think referred to as money laundering schemes.
How do these work? And isn't this a reform that
should be incorporated into what the Republicans are trying to

(02:09:40):
do right now?

Speaker 4 (02:09:42):
So the medicaid provider taxes, if the private sector were
to do this, it would be illegal.

Speaker 1 (02:09:48):
People will go to jail. Literally.

Speaker 4 (02:09:50):
What happens is that the states tax medicaid providers, insurers,
and hospitals in particular. They then re the same amount
of money that they're taxing the hospitals and the insurance,
So they pay the insurers and the hospitals to pay
the tax. They then build the federal government for the

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amount of that tax, and the federal government reimburses the state.
The states then split the money that they get from
the federal government with the providers, so they send it
to the insurers and through higher capitation rates or higher premiums,
and they send it to the hospitals to higher payments.
But here's the really wild thing that's going on here again.

(02:10:36):
Because states get nine dollars from the federal government for
every one dollar that they spend on the healthy population,
they're incentivized to gain this in particular in the direction
of the healthy population. And so what we're seeing right
now play out in quite literally real time is that

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there's a collusion between state governments and the hospitals and
the insurers to figure out ways in which they can
increase premiums and prices for the healthy adult population to
take advantage of these money laundering schemes. And what that's
doing is it's quite literally redirecting the way that medicine

(02:11:20):
is delivered so that the vulnerable folks don't want to
be seen by doctors. Rather, the doctors want to see
healthy folks because they get paid more for seeing them
by the federal and state governments. And if in personally,
I mean just as a as a tax paying American,
I think that that's wrong and I don't want to
see my own my own tax dollars go for things like.

Speaker 1 (02:11:41):
That that structure is just I'm just my mind is
boggled by this, doctor Winfrey. And then that's the way
it exists, creating zero incentive whatsoever for states that want
to reign in or or ride heard over the Medicaid
dollars that are being spent. I mean, there's zero incentive there.
Their zero incentive. And we've seen, I mean, your listeners.

Speaker 4 (02:12:04):
Know exactly the states that have abused us the most
without me even saying the name's California and New York.
But California and New York have used these money long
during scams to funnel more and more money back to
the back back to the state governments from the Feil government.
They've then used the profits from these money laundering scams
to provide health insurance Medicaid for illegal immigrants, but also

(02:12:28):
to pay for things that have absolutely nothing to do
with healthcare to fund budget shortfalls in their own states.
And they're doing this on the backs of Medicaid. They're
literally using Medicaid to funnel federal money back to the
state to fund their budget fund their budget shortfalls. And
so Congress is looking right now at closing or at
least limiting some of those loopholes, But really I think

(02:12:52):
that they can go even even further than than what they're.

Speaker 1 (02:12:56):
Doing well, And you know, it's sort of I wish
the American public who could listen to this particular interview
now or at least have the understanding that doctor Winfrey
here has, because then they would easily reject these screams
and wailing and gnashing of teeth about all these eight
million people are going to lose their medical benefits because
as you describe it, of course clearly they shouldn't have

(02:13:18):
them anyway. But the idea that this system has been
so upside down that it incentivizes treating the healthy people
to the exclusion of the original point of medicaid, I
think would rile people up and will be anger.

Speaker 4 (02:13:32):
That's exactly right. The Congressional Budget Office just last week
put out a letter that said that if you reduced
the f MAP, or the amount of the federal contribution
for the healthy population down to the down to the
rate that the phligarment paced for the vulnerable population, it
will save about seventy one billion dollars a year. At

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the same time, only about two million people will become uninsured.
Based on their estimates, If you divide the seventy one
billion by the two million, you get about thirty thousand
dollars a year that the federal government is paying to
ensure the marginal person on the Medicaid program, even though

(02:14:14):
the even though the federal government tells us that it
only costs about eight thousand dollars to ensure a person
on Medicaid. So one has to ask the question where
did the other twenty two thousand dollars go? And the
answer is that it's being channeled to the state governments
and the insurers and the hospitals, which is why those

(02:14:34):
groups are the ones that are actually panicking about what
Congress is doing right now and trying to incite a
riot in Washington, DC amongst the vulnerable Medicaid recipients.

Speaker 1 (02:14:45):
I can only imagine the lobbying frenzy that's going on
right now in DC given this as a topic of
conversation with reconciliation.

Speaker 4 (02:14:55):
It's absolutely incredible. And let me give you another just
a quick fact here that really surprised me when I
discovered it a couple of months ago, and that is
is that the highest compensated healthcare insurance CEO in the
country is a Medicaid managed care provider. He covers Medicaid recipients.

(02:15:16):
Eighty eight percent of his beneficiaries are on Medicaid, the
rest are on the other twelve percent are either on
Obamacare subsidized plans or Medicare advantage plan. They cover about
five point two million people in America. This is the
highest compensated health insurance CEO.

Speaker 1 (02:15:32):
In the country.

Speaker 4 (02:15:33):
And you know, like, I don't you want to speak
for other people, but I personally believe that, you know,
we shouldn't be creating a system where you can get
rich off of providing welfare to people, right, I think
that that's wrong, and also one in which one hundred
percent of your revenue is connected to the federal government. Right, Like,

(02:15:55):
we should, you know, we should have a better profit
motive for people who could make money by actually improving
people's lives and making them healthier.

Speaker 1 (02:16:04):
Amen to that sounds like a lot of the problems
we're have with non governmental organizations just generally speaking. I mean,
they exist to create jobs for the people that work
within the organizations and taking federal taxpayer dollars and really
I think going out into the world and literally accomplishing
nothing except perhaps letting the money loop back a little
bit to line the pockets of politicians in DC. Bingo.
I mean, that's exactly right.

Speaker 4 (02:16:25):
And you know, one of the things actually, you know,
that we've been talking to some of the Members of
Commerce about is that there's pretty good data on how
when you expand Medicaid and other welfare programs, democratic turnout
in democratic counties goes up. And the reason for that
is because the healthcare industrial and welfare industrial complex uses

(02:16:50):
these NGOs that are are that are far left in
many cases, like Planned Parenthood and others to help them
and enroll people. And then that gives those same NGO's
access to you know, names and addresses, which allows them
to go out and and increase turnout right and into
put into the harvest and uh and so you know,

(02:17:12):
by by expanding the welfare state, not only are we
creating a culture of dependency, but we're also creating a
culture that feeds one party, one political party over the other.
And that's intentional. They that's they they know that that's
what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (02:17:30):
We are You didn't you didn't come looking for an
argument today, doctor Paul Winfrey. Unbelievable, so so revealing, and
so nefarious. If I can boil down this entire concept
of what's gone on and what's what's unfolded over the
years with Medicaid, EPIC, ep I CE, epic for America
dot org, really valuable website you've got going there, and
the work that you're doing there is just is so important. Doctor.

(02:17:52):
Thank you so much for spending time with my listeners
and enlightening them and me on the how bad this
is out there, and let's keep our fingers crossed and
we do get some reform passed, because this is a
this is a sinking ship round. This is just one
part of the of the budget and clearly we have
outspent ourselves to a degree that I think it's an
existential threat to our existence as a country. Thank you

(02:18:14):
very much for having me. I really appreciate it. It's
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Speaker 1 (02:21:06):
Chuck Ingram on fifty five KROOC the talk station, Hey,
thirty fIF you've have KRCD talk station. Happy Thursday always
made extra special because this is the time of week
when we get to talk to iHeart met the aviation
expert Jay Ratlift. Jay Rattlift, Welcome back, my friend. I
always love having you on the show.

Speaker 12 (02:21:24):
Highlight of my week.

Speaker 1 (02:21:24):
Brother, I appreciate that so much, and it's not much
of a curveball. And I just want to talk to
you briefly, even though it's not on your list. The
jet that cutter is offering President Donald Trump to serve
as a new air Force one. I think the optics
of it look bad. Just don't even go down that road,
was my just initial reaction, the Democrats pulling their hair out,

(02:21:45):
saying it's a bribe or whatever. It's a violation of
the law. Anyway, it serves to give them some talking
point because they literally have nothing to talk about. But
it's not just that simple, because as I've read, according
to three aviation experts feed with nbcn IS, it would
cost more than a billion dollars and take years to
retrofit it. So this isn't exactly a great deal.

Speaker 9 (02:22:07):
Is it.

Speaker 4 (02:22:09):
It is not.

Speaker 14 (02:22:09):
But you know, if President Trump, it's always about he
always gets from point A to point B.

Speaker 12 (02:22:16):
We may not like how he gets there, but he doesn't.

Speaker 14 (02:22:18):
And I always wonder if this, a lot like the
initial tariff talks, is designed for another purpose.

Speaker 12 (02:22:24):
So I don't know if it's he doesn't have to negotiate.

Speaker 14 (02:22:27):
With Boeing because all that's locked in as far as
what the government's paying for the next air Force one.
But it's been delayed, delayed, delayed, and well, I'll be
interested to see how far this progresses.

Speaker 1 (02:22:40):
Well maybe that's the point. He knows about everything I
mentioned in optics and all of that. But maybe by saying, hey, listen,
I'm gonna get a brain, I'm gonna get a fairly
new airport right out of the gate. It's going to
be delivered. And by the way, Boeing, where's mine? I mean,
that thing's been in order for years and years and
it's not scheduled to be delivered.

Speaker 14 (02:22:58):
And so what year Jay is like, I don't think
he'll I don't think he'll fly in it as president.
So he may get on it as he you know,
as he departs Washington, DC at the end of this term.
Maybe if he's lucky. I don't think they'll have it
ready by then, because the initial delivery time is one thing.

(02:23:18):
But this thing's been delayed so many times. I don't
believe anything Boeing says. I think it's gonna be delayed,
should be delayed even further.

Speaker 1 (02:23:25):
Wow, you messing with the wrong customer. I would think
the President of the United States of America, regardless of
what political stripe he bears. If you're just if you're
not delivering on something that's been ordered forever, you'd think
that they would allocate the necessary resources to at least
getting that project done and moved ahead. Just because the
optics are so bad given everything else that's going on
with the company.

Speaker 14 (02:23:44):
Well, you know, if you're if you're gonna be late
delivering aircraft to Ryan Air in Europe, that may fly
under the radar here. Yeah, if you're going to be
late in delivering air Force air Force one excuse me,
I think somebody's gonna notice. So you're right, that should
be a priority.

Speaker 1 (02:23:59):
Yeah, you think the board of directors would recognize that
as a priority since it makes the news fairly regularly,
and now even more so. Going back to your point
of reason, maybe why he wants to accept the plane
is this elevates everybody's attention to it. In the context
of this conversation, you know, the American population might be saying, hey,
why don't you buy it from an American Manufacturer's like, well,
we've been trying to do that now for the past

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fifteen years. But they're not delivering right.

Speaker 14 (02:24:24):
And it also makes the people that are jump backing
up and down on the other side, nipping at his heels, yeah,
look even more full. It's like when Sean Duffy, the
Transportation Secretary, had his wife's upcoming flight adjusted, or she's
gonna be flying out of JFK instead of Newark because
there's a lot of delays.

Speaker 12 (02:24:41):
She's going to a conference. He wants her to be
on time.

Speaker 14 (02:24:44):
But the minute that happens, it's a matter of, well,
you did that because it's not safe to fly out
of Newark. That's not safe to fly out of Newark
because what President Trump has done in the last one
hundred days. And of course that's ridiculous. Everybody, well most
everybody recognized is that. But Brian, I mean, I've been
getting emails from people all over the country ever since

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this mess started saying, Jay, would you go through Newark?
And I said no, not if I could avoid it,
And so all he did was a just things as
you and I would. It's a lot like, Okay, it's January,
I'm flying United. Am I going to connect through Chicago
for Houston? I think I'll choose Houston because we know
what happens in Chicago in the month of January. So

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when they make these ridiculous arguments, it's like, that's really
what you want to jump up and down on. That's
the point you're going to try to make to make
yourself look I don't know better politically, it's stupidity, and
I did. I just don't get well. I'm glad I
don't get it because you and I don't think that way.

Speaker 1 (02:25:43):
Well, we don't think that way. We try to stay
a little bit closer updated on the actual realities that
we're dealing with day in and day out, rather than
just clinging to some ridiculous SoundBite it's not based on facts.
Let's bring Jay Ratliffe back. We will talk about the
outage at Newark, which seems to be happen more often,
getting parts from eBay more with Jay alive. After these

(02:26:04):
brief words up, you can stick around fifty five.

Speaker 5 (02:26:07):
Krc's had a number of surgeries.

Speaker 1 (02:26:09):
He's all right. I heard media aviation expert. We get
him every Thursday between eight thirty and the close of
the show, and it's an enjoyable experience for me. I
know my listeners enjoy hearing from you. Jay and maybe
you can explain what the hell is going on at
Newark Airport. I was laughing because he said, would you
want to would you want to fly through Newark and
or you know, layover in Newark? And I think my

(02:26:30):
initial reaction, regardless of the status of the air traffic
control system, will we know right out of the gate,
I don't want to go to Newark for any reason.
But most notably they have made the news regularly lately
with their with the outages. So what's the story behind
this one, Jay.

Speaker 14 (02:26:44):
Well, we've got a couple of different issues. It's a
technology issue as well as a staffing issue. And what
we've seen in the last two weeks or three occasions
were the FAA technology for tracking aircraft, which of course
we've talked about how antiquated fast century plus that technology is.

Speaker 12 (02:27:02):
Where we've had.

Speaker 14 (02:27:03):
Three instances in two weeks. The first two were primary
systems that failed that actually caused the scopes, the radar screens,
to go blank. You could not see the air traffic
that you were managing. You could fortunately then speak to them,
which was good because you could at least still communicate.
The second instance, that happened on Sunday morning, was a

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backup or secondary system that failed. And that's my biggest
concern is like, wait a minute. Now, we've got the
primary and the secondary systems that are being effected. And
what's happening is this technology that is so old it's
simply just wearing down. It just cannot withstand the demands
that are being placed on it. So what we're seeing
is the same system which is used across the country.

(02:27:48):
I look at Newark as an indication of this is
just the beginning. We could see other types of situations
like this occur, and that is certainly something that's an issue.

Speaker 12 (02:27:57):
Now.

Speaker 14 (02:27:57):
The question I get is, Jade, does that mean it
is unsafe for us if we're going to be flying
in that part of the country. Now, the FAA is
doing a very good job from a traffic management standpoint,
where they keep the number of aircraft headed into a
certain region, especially that congested Northeast, limited to a certain number.
If they start to have issues with technology, they slow

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that down. We have frequent ground stops in cities like Cincinnati, Columbus.

Speaker 12 (02:28:24):
Chicago, anything headed towards the Northeast.

Speaker 14 (02:28:26):
If there's an issue, they'll issue a groundstop and say no,
your plane can't take off until this time because we're
only managing a certain number of aircraft in this vicinity
in this timeframe. So I think they do a pretty
good job of managing it. So it's something that their
controllers do not get overwhelmed with. Obviously, you want them
to have the technology working, because look, we're forty air

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traffic controllers short in Newark at this point in time
that part of the country, and what's taken place is
three thousand air traffic controllers short across the country. So
you have air traffic controllers that are working over time
because they are short staff, and you have a situation
where they don't they can't count on their technology because

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it's failing, and you have a lot of these individuals
that are just saying, look, I'm going to go get
a less stressful job, like you know, bomb detection or something,
because this is just if we've had five of them
that had to take a leave of absence because of
the emotional distress that they had when they lost contact
with their aircraft for ninety seconds. Now, sometimes I would
be like, oh, not come up, but what these men

(02:29:33):
and women are going through, I totally understand that where
they're taking a forty five day leave of absence and
going from there. The problem, of course, Brian, is neither
of those two systems are two issues with the shortage
of air traffic controllers or technology is anything we can
fix fast. In other words, it's going to take years
for us to get the technology updated. Thank god President

(02:29:54):
Trump has made this an item of priority. And if
we have a Manhattan Project kind of approach, all hands
on deck, we can knock it out maybe two years.
That's great staffing. It's going to take years for the
staffing to get up where it needs to be, which
means neither of these situations are going to be resolved
anytime soon. And when Sean Duffy comes out as the

(02:30:16):
Transfer taking Secretary saying that some of these parts are
so old from the last century that they have to
go to eBay to buy the parts for the FAA,
if that doesn't tell you what we're up against, I
don't know. That's terrifying and scary at the same time,
because it's one thing to find people qualified to still
work on equipment from the seventies and eighties and nineties,

(02:30:37):
but to find parts on eBay to do so again.
Thank God, President Trump's doing something because all these useless
people in Washington, d C, on both sides of the
aisle that want to use this as a political ping
pong ball. Excuse me, you've been in DC for forty
fifty years, thirty years, twelve, and you've done nothing to
address this FAA issue, which we've known it was coming.

(02:30:59):
But the idea is, it's a lot easier to give
money for a bridge where I can get my picture
taken versus spending it on something boring like the FAA's
upgraded computer system. We've waited too long and we're behind
the eight ball, and we've got to do a lot,
and I'm glad President Trump's at the helm to.

Speaker 12 (02:31:14):
Do something about it.

Speaker 1 (02:31:14):
Well, when you talk about getting parts off EVA, that's
because no one manufactures the type of equipment that these
computers are relying on, Like, for example, I think I
jokingly reference five and a quarter floppy drives with you,
but that sounds to me exactly like what they're using.

Speaker 14 (02:31:30):
Yeah, it's like trying to find a part from my
Radio Shack computer from nineteen ninety six.

Speaker 1 (02:31:35):
Realistic, where's it going to be?

Speaker 14 (02:31:37):
I mean, you know, nobody's going to stock that part
because one person every three years is going to buy it,
and that's what they're running into. And some people thought
Sean Duffy was making a joke. He's like, no, I'm serious.
These are the ends that we have to go to
to try to keep this stuff working. And I've seen
some of these computers that overheat frequently that are part

(02:31:59):
of the air traffic contro system where they have to
open up the back panels and put fans there they
try to keep them cool from overheating. And I'm thinking
we've had their traffic controllers have to have an umbrella
at their desk inside the Why because it leaks at
the ceiling. I'm trying to keep water off of my computer.
Look at all of these different things that they have
to deal with.

Speaker 12 (02:32:19):
Why.

Speaker 14 (02:32:20):
Oh, by the way, we're supposed to have fourteen people
on duty. We can only have three, four or five.
It's just an emotional mess right now with what they're
going through. And again, the people that politically are saying,
you know, Donald Trump has all these issues. No, We've
had issues like this for a number of decades. And
I blame both sides of the aisle because it's been

(02:32:43):
a joint effort that's in essence ignored what the FA
has needed all these years. It reminds me of let's say,
social security and some of these other things that they
just don't want to touch. And you know, there're gonna
spend more time seeing that they can blame versus trying
to fix the problem.

Speaker 1 (02:32:57):
Well, if there were more air traffic accidents and more
loss of lives than it would have been elevated their attention.
I think they figured, as long as it's working, there
are thousands of flights every single day, and nothing seems
to be happening, so status quo is a okay.

Speaker 14 (02:33:09):
And that is such a great, great point because yes,
we were enjoying the safest era of commercial jet travel
in as long as it's working. Why invest hundreds of
billions of dollars in something when something's working? And that's
exactly the mindset these people have. The bridge hasn't collapsed, so.

Speaker 12 (02:33:26):
What do we need to spend money to rebuild it?

Speaker 4 (02:33:28):
Yees?

Speaker 14 (02:33:29):
You know, And that's why I'm glad that you're right
down the middle on things. You call it the way
you see it, because both sides of the aisle are
guilty in this.

Speaker 12 (02:33:37):
They should be held accountable.

Speaker 14 (02:33:39):
But I think it's been half the energy that they
spend pointing fingers and actually get some work done on
all the things are there for I'd feel so much better.

Speaker 1 (02:33:47):
Oh my god, wouldn't the world be a much better place? Jeez? Anyway, Jay,
now you talk about air traffics and controllers. Now, if
I were to go today and enroll in air traffic
control school, they're going to be training me on how
work equipment that's fifty years old. That I mean, that's
kind of be a fact of the current situation, right yep.

Speaker 12 (02:34:05):
And we only have so many we can do.

Speaker 14 (02:34:08):
We can we can comfortably get fifteen hundred to two
thousand through at a time. Last year, the FAA had
a goal for the whole year of hiring fifteen hundred
air traffic controllers. They did that by September first. I
was bragging on a big time by hitting their goal.
Early this year, they were hoping to get two thousand hired.
But look, only a portion of those make it through

(02:34:29):
the training, and it could be three years, four years
or even longer before you're final fully trained at your
post by yourself.

Speaker 12 (02:34:37):
Doing your job.

Speaker 1 (02:34:38):
Let's the equivalent of getting a four year degree to college.

Speaker 14 (02:34:40):
Then that's why you can't turn the spiket on and
inspect immediate results here because all this stuff takes time.
And the fa does a good job of training these people,
but it takes a while to get them there. So
that's why when you look at all of this, it's
like you and I are going to be talking about
Newark and the FAA and all this stuff a whole
lot more as we move forward, because we're going to

(02:35:03):
see other computers around the country that are going to
start experiencing some of these similar.

Speaker 12 (02:35:07):
Kinds of issues.

Speaker 14 (02:35:08):
We've already seen them in the past, but this is
three currencies in a couple of weeks, and it's in
a point part of the country that's incredibly congested, and
it's become a major talking point for all the obvious reasons.

Speaker 1 (02:35:20):
Well, I just hope it doesn't turn into a major
talking about a point about loss of life. Well, is
it real quick here on air traffic control? Is it
a lucrative profession? Is it something that's worth pursuing as
an endeavor?

Speaker 12 (02:35:33):
I mean, some of these people one.

Speaker 14 (02:35:35):
Hundred and fifty grand a year, sometimes more, sometimes less,
especially with some of the ones that are.

Speaker 12 (02:35:39):
Working over time at this point.

Speaker 14 (02:35:40):
Yeah, but you remember coming out of the pandemic, how
we had a lot of people that adjusted their entire
mindset on work. It was like, I'm working three jobs
to do this, I'm only going to work too, or
I'm busting my butt working two jobs for my quality
of life's sake, I'm only going to have one. We
see pilots that could qualify to become captains that turn

(02:36:03):
it down because they like the first officer. They like
their seniority where they can call the shots. If I
get promoted and I'm sitting in the left seat when
I'm at the bottom of the list and I can't
have that much control over my schedule, yeah, I would
get paid more, but I control my life more in
this situation. And these air traffic controllers, it's the same
thing when they get there and they're saying, I'm going

(02:36:26):
through so much for this when I could be happier
doing something else, and all of that stuff not all,
but a great deal of it is stuff that we
shove on them because we're giving them tools that they
can't depend on, and we're asking them to do the
job of several people because we can't keep everything staffed
as we should. And a lot of these people are

(02:36:47):
just saying I've had it in a way they go
and Brian, I can't blame them, because if every single
day you're in charge of the safeguarding the lives of
people that are you know that you're helping to facilitate
the movement of those aircraft. There's no room for margin
as far as for safety. You've got to jump in
there and do your job, and everything has to work
as it's supposed to, and you're worried every day is

(02:37:09):
it really gonna work? Am I gonna be able to
get through my shift without a problem? And you know
that's certainly a concern.

Speaker 1 (02:37:16):
Well, all right, well, we always part company on hub delays.
So what's the status today for air traffic.

Speaker 14 (02:37:22):
I think Minneapolis is gonna be the only problem shot,
and I think it's gonna be kind of a glancing blow,
so we might see delays at most it might approach
an hour, but that's pretty much.

Speaker 1 (02:37:30):
Yep.

Speaker 14 (02:37:30):
We've got these afternoon thunderstorms which can pop up anywhere,
which goes to show why Sharry and I when we fly,
we catch the first flight out in the morning because
a that's the flight. Airlines concentrate on the most to
get it out on.

Speaker 12 (02:37:42):
Time, so your odds go up.

Speaker 14 (02:37:43):
And to these afternoon thunderstorms that can pop up any
of the where, that really create a lot of afternoon.

Speaker 12 (02:37:49):
Messes and delays.

Speaker 14 (02:37:51):
You know you've got your bags out of baggage claim,
you're driving to your destination long before those things hit
if you fly out early in the morning.

Speaker 12 (02:37:56):
I'm not telling people to do that. I'm just explaining
why we do that.

Speaker 1 (02:38:00):
Fair enough, Jay, Always appreciate your our conversations and enlightening
and in today slightly scary, but got to get the
info out there. And uh and let's spread the truth
about all these things. I'll look forward to next Thursday,
another edition of this aviation segment. You have a wonderful weekend,
my friend.

Speaker 14 (02:38:18):
And looking forward to next week. This has got to
be the fastest twenty minutes of my week. To be sure,
it seems like six Yah.

Speaker 1 (02:38:24):
You too, I love it. Eight fifty one fifty five
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