55KRC Thursday Show - Warren Davidson, Empower U, Jay Ratliff

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Five oh five at fifty five KRC, The Doctoration Serious.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Friday Eve some sillation. I had no idea, what's fun?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, you know what? Sometimes I don't either. Welcome to
the Morning Show. Happy Friday, Eves. I like to call
Thursdays and looking forward to the uh well guests that
are lined up in the morning Show. Joe Strecker, execun
producer fifty five k RC Morning Show has lined up
Congressman Warren Davidson. Always great to have Congressman Davidson on
the show. He's coming up at seven oh five. We
have the final empower You of Spring. It's gonna be

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a celebration at Glendale y C Him beginning at five thirty.
We're gonna have food, gonna have fun, gonna have some
great barbecue thanks to my good friend Kevin. Kevin's out
there getting rid of me. He's probably in the barbecue
right now. In fact, this is one of the friends
that I made during from listener lunch. Over the years,
Kevin and I become friends shooting buddies out on the range,
and he is providing the barbecue because he's so awesome

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at it. For my daughter and Eric's wedding, Ah that's
a great thing. So we're going to enjoy some fantastic
barbecue and hear from some great speakers, including a few
minutes from Christopher Smithman, who I understand has got a
workload that is just mind blowing for him, so he's
going to be with us for a while this evening.
I have the honor and privilege of doing a little
facilitation there, so we'll hear from doctor Jay, who I

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saw a listener lunch yesterday along with a fantastic group
of people, and Kevin was there. I won a battle
against cribbage Mike. Yes, I can put another win in
the win column with my ongoing uh we listener lunch
curbbage game with my submarine or friend cribbage Mike. That
was fun. All the folks, we had a really nice turnout.
Anderson Pub mcgrow was terrific as they always are, and

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thanks to everybody who showed up. I met quite a
few folks that have never been to a listener lunch before,
and of course saw my the regular friends that I
always just really just have the great, greatest time with
in talking and chatting. Josh Girth was there, which is great.
New chair of the Hamilton kind of Republican party along
with his former cohort Drew Pappis. I felt like I

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was in an Anderson Township trustee meeting yesterday. Sit at
the table. It's nice chatting going on with those guys.
Speaking of chatting, you can feel free to give me
a call. Names Brian Thomas. I do host the fifty
five Casey Morning Show, and I always welcome hearing from listeners
five on three, seven, four, nine, fifty, five hundred, eight
hundred and eighty two to three talk or pound five
fifty on at and T phones one more guests, of
course regular listeners know. On Thursdays, Jay Ratliff, I heart

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Meat the aviation Expert. He'll be on at eight thirty.
Great topics to talk over with Jay, including some always
bizarre weird things in the aviation world. So multiple places.
I could start this morning real quick here since Tom
Zawastowski from We the People Convention was on the other
day talking about this anti artificial intelligence propaganda. Don't believe

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the propaganda AI is never going away. The question is
who's going to ultimately dominate it. Is it a problem
having an AI facility near you? In most cases probably not.
Is the AI facility just gobble up gobs and gobs
of water. Not really. When you think about closed loop
systems like existing your automobile, you know, anti freezing your radiator.

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Nobody ever changes that, at least rarely. That's what keeps
it cool. It's not going anywhere. So a lot of
the arguments against artificial intelligence not what it can do
and the problems associated with you know, chat GPT for example,
which is a subset of what AI can do. It's
more the focus on the anti AI facility propaganda is

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designed to get you to hate it and not want
it in your backyard for a variety of trumped up reasons.
I understand energy demands and things like that, but you
got to look at where the problem comes from, and
it may be the multiple billions of dollars the Chinese
Communist Party is throwing at the propaganda campaign. As Tom
and Z and I talked about, I've been saying this
for a long time. AI is critical to a success

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in the world. Whether or not you like it, it's here.
Question is who's going to control it and dominate it?
Do you want free speech America? I know how we
have our problems, but would rather have someone who well
embraces the concept of freedom of speech and liberty, or
would you rather have the Chinese Communists can Party controlled
AI controlling the narrative. I know the answer to that
question myself. China has been funding an equally expansive, expensive

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influence campaign equaling to its own AI investment here in
the United States to get us to oppose the building
these data centers. It's a great article for Newsmax by
Paul Bond on this China's spending billions to stop AI
data centers in the United States. Secretary Doug Bargram recently said,
whoever dominates the field of AI is going to control

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the world. His words, not mine. Nobody can read the future,
but it seems to me that that is exactly which
where we are going. So while China spends billions of
dollars to expand their IAI industry growth, they're pushing this
misinformation and excuse me, misinformation campaign here. They want to
stop us building data centers, and they're having some great

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success on that, including controlling some of our politicians who
may very well want the Chinese Communist Party to control
the whole narrative. Senator Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Casio Cortez,
two of the farthest left idiot politicians we have YEP.
They convened a panel on Capitol Hill to discuss what
they called the existential threat of AI, claiming the richest,

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most powerful people in the world are now building a
runaway train with no brakes, and they invited a couple
of Chinese Communist Party officials to join in the fun.
At that meeting, as Paul Bond writes, Sanders did not
hide China's interest in stopping USAI development. He asked two
of their senior officials to host the panel with him,

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far lough On equivocally seeking to completely stop US vancement.
Sanders and AOC had introduced already a bill to freeze
all new US construction of AI data centers, probably penned
by the Chinese Communist Party. Apparently, in May, a big

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report from Bitcoin Policy Institute raising genuine concerns about China's
efforts the back to back and so distrust of data
centers and block AI programs in the United States. The
Institute's report, called foreign Intelligence in the Campaign against American AI,
breaks down what it calls a multi year influence operation

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back by China targeting a USAI data centers. BPI's had
a research A guy named Sam Lyman, senior advisor to
Treasury Secretary Scott Descent, talked about three different factors Chinese
state media, propaganda, US based nonprofit network bankrolled by Neville
Roy Singham, the Shanghai based America with huge ties to

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the CCP some describe as a Marxist along with more
than two billion dollars in dark money from foreign billionaires
that are routed into these various local groups here in
the United States which are demanding moratorium. According to the report,
none of this is hidden. Each layer is documentable from
primary sources. In other words, this isn't speculation. They can

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show you where the dollars come from and where they're going.
According to the Sam Liman that Sam Liman, the head
of research, data centers are critical to winning the AI race.
Whoever wins will control the information layer of the global economy,
which is why the US, with its commitment to free expression,
must win. Going back to my prior point, China media

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at media outlets published and aired reports warning US Americans
that data centers are going to spike our electric bills,
strain our power grids contribute to global warming global warming
pause on that one think about think about China generally speaking,
these are the same outlets trumpeting Beijing's subsidies that slash
energy costs for China's own AI business by up to

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fifty percent, So they have eased the burden on the
while they build their AI data centers using I guess,
their own taxpayer dollars to the extent they have that
concept there. Anyway, the subsidies allow them to gain an
advantage over here in the United States. I don't know
that AI data centers are being subsidized other than by
local projects who might you know, waive tax or in
tax increments or whatever. But that doesn't seem to be

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going on well here. But anyway, they're advancing their AI
and helping facilitate the advancement, while they at the simultaneously
try to undermine our AI advancement inside the US. Here,
the most operationally significant player the web of five oh
one c three nonprofits funded by mister Singham. Tax records.

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Here's the smoking gun we have in paperwork showing that
the tech billionaire and Marxist activists has put two hundred
and eighty five million dollars or so into activist groups.
Over the past multiple years, his wife, co founder of
Code Pink far left protest group, has run explicit campaigns
against us AI data centers. Doesn't that worry you? These Marxists,

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these people who are regularly undermining us in all various areas,
have sided with the CCP and trying to get us
to not go down this road. Hmmm. Movement also getting
assistance from leftist billionaires, a guy named Hans Georg Wiz
who's described as a billionaire, a Swiss billionaire, along with
Britain's Allen Parker and his foundation called Oak Foundation. Together

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these billionaires have funded more than two billion in the
US advocacy thirty nine million dollar million dollars reaching twelve
organizations that are designed to actively oppose data center expansion.
Put some money behind a campaign, you can sway the
hearts and minds of people. Ask Congressman Massey about that.
Oh oh yeah, that was a thirty nine million dollar

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campaign roughly, wasn't it? Huh, funded by a bunch of
multiple millionaire billionaires. So money does work, especially when people
are ill informed about the realities of what's going on
in the world. Geopolitical realities that are implicated here when
we're talking about AI in the future of the world.

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A single one point three million dollar grant from that
Swiss guy, Hans Georg Wize went to a signatory the
December twenty twenty fifth moratorium demand letter, and here you
go while a grant using with the grant. I'm sorry,
the signatory of the letter received the one point three
million dollar grant from this guy. That grant used the

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exact same language that appears in the bill from alexandri
Ocasio Cortez and Bernie Sanders. Here we've done the work
for you. Use this language in your opposition to AI. Basically,
five dozen moratoriums have already passed at the local government level.

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This demonstrates the success of this misinformation campaign, or this
fear mongering campaign, resulting in the pausing of construction of
new data centers in multiple states. Beyond claims that AI
is causing electric bills to surge, left using environmentalism as
an excuse. Of course, everything's got to relate to the
global climate change panic. AOC pulled out some dirty water

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jars at a May twentieth hearing on AI data centers
claiming that well the dirty water was a consequence of
the AI data center. They apparently the brown water actually
came from four private wells. They just said it was
probably from the normal construction dirt that started when Meta
broke ground. Something that went away, and apparently the stunt
still whipped up panic. No one bothered to look behind

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the veneer of her holding up a glass of dirty water,
and it's pointed out water used by most data centers
less than the mountain to manage a typical eighteen hole
golf course. I suppose that is, if they don't have
a closed loop system, in which case I presume the
amount of water actually being used is nominal. Hudson Institute

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Research fellow zenab Raboa talked about a deep ideological driver
behind the desperate left wing coalition, a coalition of organizations
that includes Get to Go to this disparate group. These
folks are behind anti AI, Code Pink, the aforementioned yeah
leftist donor NAACP chapters. Can I ask the NAACP what

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the hell AI centers have to do with the work
at the NAACP environmental groups and anti Israeli activist groups.
That's a mixed bag isn't it. All of them, though,
have this leftist Marxist ideological bent, which means they're on
the side of the CCP HM Zenebraboa from the Hudson Ensuits.

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They hold the conviction that Western capitalism is structurally predatory
and that the American technological power is merely colonialism by
another name. Where have I heard that crap before? China
is building data centers at scale and speed that dwarfs
the American build out, he pointed out. And here you

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go to your environmental concerns, consuming coal fired power with
no environmental review, no community consultation, no indigenous land acknowledgment,
and there's not a single code pink rally, NAACP resolution
or climate justice statement directed at any of China's activities.

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Nothing to see here, folks. Five nineteen fifty five KRCD
talk station. Looks like I got a couple of callers online.
I love that. I'll be right back. Let us go
over to the phones. Five three seven fifty eight hundred
eight two three talk. Bobby first out of the gate.
Welcome to the morning show.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Oh happy Thursday, My brother, faith, flagged family, and God
bless the men that wear the.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Blues Amen had another shooting overnight eleven fifteen Wednesday, winsd Avenue.
Somebody got shot in the head and you'd think right
there that that is a life entered apparently non life
threatening injury taking a UC medical center. So chalk one
another one up there, Bobby, Well.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
We're handicapping it this week, my brother at five and
a half. We think it'll go over. And we got
all kinds of things going on in the great city
of Polkopolis. We got another big ball suit against the city.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah. Sarah Heringer murders. Sarah Heringer, her husband Patrick murdered
in their home. I've had her on the morning show.
She obviously is still dealing with the grief. It's been
one year and a wrongful death suit has been filed
against the City of Cincinnati in connection with that because
Mordisha Black, convicted felon who broke into the couple's home
and killed them, had quite a criminal record and although

(14:57):
he did he cut his ankle monitor off, didn't show
up a halfway home. They lost track of him. The
state admitted that spokesperson for the how Department of Rehabilitation
and Corrections, quoted by Fox nineteen, is saying, yeah, well, sorry,
we lost track of Black after his release from prison
and cut off his ankle Monter. According to Joe Dieter's
former prosecutor, Mardisha, Black shouldn't have been free. Maybe that's

(15:20):
the basis for the lawsuit. How in the hell is
it that they lost track of this guy? Why didn't
they take steps to go round him up and find him?
How could he have been out for so long without
an ankle monitor without checking you with a brawl officer?
Lots of swirling questions. We'll see if it bears fruit
in her lawsuit.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Well, look at the stabbing incident at lunch time. I'm
not gonna say the great place that had happened, because
they're wonderful people and it's a wonderful business. But people
don't care. They don't care if it's nighttime or daytime.
They'll come out and commit a murder with a firearm,
a hatchet, a screwdriver, it doesn't matter. Yeah, that lens
a Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Judge Silverstein at that guy out on a five thousand
dollars bond, ten percent cash fives basically got him out
in spite of the fact that he had a huge
criminal history. And another one of these things that should
not have happened. Apparently he had more than twenty charges
on his rap sheet. So how do you let someone
out for five hundred bucks who is demonstrably a recidivous criminal.

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Not take that into account? Oh my god. Yes, in
fact went out and got all stabby, and now someone
has lost their life as a consequence of leniency in
the judicial system.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Well, everybody, just protect yourself. And remember how the numbers
go to twenty three and it's written out there.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
You go, that's right, isn't that proverbs?

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Hey, protect yourself, protect your family. Yeah, I want to
hear a busy sigma when you call someone.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Chapter twenty two, verse three. I think it's proverbs. Anyway,
that's the how twenty two to three on Route forty
two between Mason eleven and got its name. Yeah, and
a word of caution from my friend who understands this
type of concern. This the terror that could exist, the
evils of the world. Bob Katire, he was a listener
lunch yesterday, retired Colonel Bob Katyre and I his catchphrase

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is stave Frosty, And he said, he said, listen July fourth,
as much as we want to just be in a
celebratory mood America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. You know,
red flags, folks, places of high populations, concentrations of people.
Be very concerned, stay frosty, and you know in his
advice you might want to carry sounds like a solid

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advice to me. Don't go away New Hampshire. Gary, We'll
get your call out of the gate and come back out.
Local stories and for other phone calls are all welcome
here on the fifty five Carsite Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Be right back fifty five krc.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
You ever wonder how far an EVY can station by
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We're here to the stacker stupid this morning. I got
Jeff on laun Jeff, thanks for holding over the breake there,
welcome to the show. Proud of you, thanks man, right

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back at you.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yeah, there was a there was a caller earlier commenting
about the blue ash issue last year.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Gary, that's the reason why my wife and I no
longer go to Red's games and Bengals games or concerts
in Cincinnati can't carry?

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Is that the reason why, because they prohibit you from
concealed carry those events? Or is this not worth it? Both?
There you have it. Gun free zones can present a
problem to the general public psychologically, if not in reality. Yes, sir,
fair enough, stay safe, Jeff. And in the words of

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Bob Katire, good morning, Bob, stay frosty five W three
two three talk pivoting over to the stack of stupid
anger that a fellow police officer used the office's micro
wave to heat up fish. Never do that. A detective
allegedly drew his weapon and pointed it at the officer

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who was microwaving the fish because of the odor. Idiot,
you know on this interject, I love Indian food a lot,
but you know for those who do not, is that's
the curry flavors can sort of invade the environment in
the atmosphere here. I could talk about odor exit right now,

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couldn't I? Anyway? Moving back over, According to investigators, Michael
Debays close Enough, forty six years old, at a police
headquarters of Myrtle Beach over the weekend, got into a
dispute with the patrolman. Debate confronted the patrolman about warming
up fish in the microwave, causing an odor in the office,
and during the confrontation, Detective Belaz's debase drew and pointed

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his department issue handgun at the other officer. Arrested for
blusted for doing that, which is a pelony. He booked
into the Hordy County Jail, from which he was later
released without bail. Court records do not indicate what kind
of fish was being microwaved. I love the smoking gun reporting.
He was placed on administrative leave after the incident. Subsequent

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investigation identified in several policy violations, resulting in his termination.
Eminent apprehension of grievous bodily harm or fear of death
reasonable that justifies pulling out a firearm and using it
under no other circumstances. Should you do that? Ever, it's
a dumb idea. Sometimes people die doing stupid things like that,

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and of course people lose their jobs by forty five
fifty five KRC detalk station, more stupid, more phone calls.
Whichever way we go is going to be a okay
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thanks gutting, everybody made to listen to lunch and the
folks at Nison PUBLC grow for well providing some great
service in some great food in a nice time yesterday.
Looking forward to the next one. W Chandler's Burger Bistro
not the first Wednesday of July, because of course fourth
of July scheme throws a wrinkle in that one. But
we're still doing listener lunch and it'll be on July

(21:22):
eighth at Chandler's Burger Bistro on the West Saied anyway
over to the stack is stupid. A prominent LGBTQ activist
and a drag queen charged with possession of child porn.
Berlin performer Jurassica Parker aka real name Mario Olzinski charged

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with hoarding one hundred and thirty one videos containing suspected
child porn five hours and twenty five minutes in length,
along with twenty eight images of child porn. This is
in Berlin. Public prosecutors confirmed they search his apartment after
receiving a tip from US based national from Missing Exploited
Children which linked this pervert to the suspected child porn.

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Once the investigation was opened, it was revealed this guy
had previously been convicted in twenty twenty three for acquiring
pressure by possessing and distributing child porn. He was handed
a reduced sentence at the time because, according to the judgment,
he was quote remorseful and confessed the act was spontaneous
and the offense had occurred some time ago close quote

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consequently charged with a fine eleven thousand euros or seventy
euros every day for the over the course of one
hundred and sixty days. He was not immediately charged and
attempted to initially defend himself on social media. However, formal
charges have now been launched against this pervert after months
of investigations. Police submite it clear that the content is

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independent of the twenty twenty three conviction, involving new materials
and new well videos, et cetera. Spokes from the prosecutors
off said his prior conviction could have an aggravating effect
on the current case. Let's hope it does. He's a
recidibus pervert that's the problem with these pedophiles. Apparently they

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can't get over it. Back in a twenty fifteen interview,
because this guy is a social media influencer, look LGBTQ activists,
he explained that the true or the urge to wear
women's clothes has always been in me, describing childhood memories
wearing his grandmother's clothes. In the same interview, he claimed

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that wearing women's clothes was a way for him to
express himself. I have for myself found a channel through
which I could release energy. Immediately I was hooked. Yeah,
like the child porn.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Perio is the biggest douche of the universe, in all
the galaxies, there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached
the top, the pinnacle of douche dum good going deue
dreams have come.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
True and I'm sure you're right, Joe. In the European Union,
he will be able to wear women's clothing in the jail. Okay,
we got a probably in New York City. People going
in and out of New York City's what they describe
as vast subterranean sewer system city wondering what the hell's

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going on All kinds of video exists in the world,
of course, ring doorbell video. You got business cameras, and
all of this activity has been captured, and people are
they're seeing like mask groups of people jumping in and
out of maintenance holes. In fact. One video taken last
Friday in Brooklyn show a group of about seven people
popping out of a maintenance hole in the middle of

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an intersection in view of passing cars. Some why are
they don't know? Some wearing headlamps, caring what appeared to
be shovels and other Toolsparently one narrowly missed getting run
over by a vehicle. They came out of the ground
through the manhole, phrasing that actually was the name of
a bar in Chicago back when I lived up there,
Joe the man Hole. I'll leave it to your imagination

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to guess what kind of bar it was anyway. Another video,
group of vets seven people could be seen emerging from
a maintenance hold about two o'clock in the morning in Brooklyn.
They made their way to a couple of parked cars,
pulled out, fresh clothes, changed into them. Police say the
group entered the sewers about eleven pm, meaning they were
underground for several hours. There were a whole one after

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another about these. One owner of an auto dealership who
caught some of this on video camera, he said he
couldn't figure quite out what they were doing out there,
but you know red flag. He suspected they were, in
his words, up to no good. Considering we have a
potential terrorist problem thanks to open borders and millions of
people who came in without any vetting procedure, finding all

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kinds of terrorist organizations among the illegal immigrant propagate population
that ICE is rounding up worrying about terrorist activity in
the as we hope to celebrate our two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary. Going back to the comments of retired Colonel
Bob Katyre yesterday, be careful on the fourth of July
this year, you gotta worry about this kind of thing.

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They said, they went down into the sewers, at least
in some cases, the check and see if anything was
damaged out there. They couldn't find anything, but some of
the incidents are still under investigation. How could you possibly
cover or deal with all of the access to the
underground sewer system twenty four to seven. Hardly have enough

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police to deal with the activities above ground five point
fifty five right now, plenty to talk about in a
six o'clock hour. Maybe I'll be able to get into
the American Idol comment I made earlier about too many
lazy people. Jason Riley did some great commentary on that,
and I got it back it up with the work
requirement for Medicaid and oh my god, what a burden.
Couple of linked articles there, and more to talk about

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coming up. I hope you can stick around at the
top of the hour. Here the top stories of the day.
I heard radio. It's six oh five and fifty five
kar CD talk station Friday. Friend Thomas right here. Glad
to see just Treker Executi producer where he belongs, and
glad to see he's got some guests lined up coming
up in one hour. Congressman Warren Davidson got a lot

(27:15):
to talk about with Congressman Davidson, including the House vote
to rebuke Trump over the Iran War. Yes, they passed
this Iran War Powers Resolution two fifteen to twoh eight,
Congressman Davidson voting for it. Apparently, it will direct Trump
to remove US armed forces from hostilities with Iran unless
there's a declaration of war or an authorization for use

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of military force. However, this particular resolution was passed yesterday
will not force Donald Trump to end the conflict, described
at least in NBC's reporting as a symbolic expression of
disapproval of the war with the rod. We'll ask Congressman
Davidson about that and get his perception of it, since
he voted for it that among other things, we got
another filibuster proof package coming from Speaker Johnson, and the

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Senate also advanced immigration enforcement funding bill as well. Presumably
the House be voting on that. Plenty of things with
Congressman Davidson, and real quick going back to the subterranean
groups of people who are roving the sewer systems in
New York. Lots of question marks swirling about what groups
of people will be doing out there popping in and
out of the sewers. According to Marine who sent me

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this NBC New York report, Are you ready so? The
leading theory on why these people are down there, surprisingly mundane.
Investigators believe that many of these individuals may be treasure
hunters or urban explorers, searching sewers for valuables that have
fallen through street grades or washed into draining systems. Law

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enforcement sources have described this as their primary working theory.
I think I'd stick with nefarious activities rather than treasure hunting.
Thanks Marnen for that. Thanks every Day made the listener
lunch yesterday. Had a fantastic time, wonderful seeing friends, meeting
new people, and of course appreciate it. Anderson Pub and
Girl for the good grub. Got to be a Chandler's

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Burger Bistro, second Wednesday in July, if you want to
mark that down in your calendar anyway. Going back to
a comment that Jack Eddan brought up yesterday, if you
didn't get to hear him, his commentary yes say fifty
five KRC dot com is pretty good take on clothing
making the man. But he commented about the idle individuals
here in the United States for whatever reason, in spite

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of the fact there's roughly seven and a half million
open positions, that so many people refuse to work or
just don't pick up a finger to even bother to
go try and find a job. And with that, I
was delighted to read Jason Riley's column about that American idol.
The work ethic goes out of style and going back
to a comment early in the program for one of
the callers, too many lazy people. We've created a system

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that fosters and encourages it. And as Jason writes, maybe
you've seen the old video clip on social media, the
one which com meeting Chris Rock explains how to tell
a good neighborhood from a bad one based simply on
who isn't working in the middle of the day. Chris
Rock explains, and I'll quote it, if you're in any
neighborhood in America at twelve fifteen in the afternoon on

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a Wednesday, and you see women with sweatpants on coming
out of the gym, pushing babies, riding bikes, Chances are
you're in a nice neighborhood. There's probably a Whole Foods nearby.
But if you see men's in sweatpants, smoking cigarettes, hanging
out with their boys, lifting weights in the yard, riding
children's bicycles as their actual transportation, then you are in danger.

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Clothes quall Chris Rock, and Jason says, you know, mister
Rock's funny and insightful bit came to mind as I
read last month jobs report which showed that a share
of American men in the labor force has dropped to
record lows. According to the Department of Labor, one in
three men were neither working nor looking for a job
in April. Among males twenty and older, the sixty six

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percent labor force partition participation rate is down from seventy
three percent in two thousand and six. Mister Rock was
highlighting the correlation between unemployment and crime, but public safety
isn't the only concern raised by a large population of
idle young men. The premature absence of millions of able
bodied men from our workforce, combined with the continuing retirement

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of the Baby Boomers and significant reductions in immigration, bodes
ill for the country. A life without gainful employment has
become a viable alternative for an increasing number of American men.
COVID job disruptions didn't help, but the problem in men
in primary working years twenty five to fifty four exiting
the job market long pre dates the pandemic. Demographer Nicholas Eberstadt,

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in his book Men Without Work, reported that the work
rate for men twenty in older fellm by more than
thirteen percent between nineteen sixty five and twenty fifteen. During
that half century. He pointed out, the fraction of men
without jobs of any sort in the broad twenty two
twenty to sixty four group went from ten percent to
almost twenty two percent, and the percentage of holy jobless

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prime age men shot from six percent to nearly sixteen percent.
The long term rise in male joblessness doesn't stem from
an inability to find employment the result instead, or it
results instead from an unwillingness to search for work. And
while labor force participation rates vary by race and ethnicity,

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factors other than hiring discriminations seem to be playing a
larger role in the disparities. The legacy of prejudice might
seem to explain why prime age male work rates and
workforce participation rates are lower for blacks than whites today.
But according to mister Everstadt, this is what he said.
But today they cannot explain why work work rates and

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labor force participation rates for white men today are decidedly
lower than they were for black men in nineteen sixty five,
Ebstatt said, nor can they explain why labor participation rates
of married black men twenty to fifty four are higher
than for never married white guys. In the same age group.

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Some blame technological advancement and deindustrialization for the increase of
male idleness, but those barriers are hardly insurmountable. Like married
men trying to support their families, foreign Born males coming
to the United States and search for work also tend
to have higher work rates, notwithstanding globalization and other macroeconomic trends.

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Neither married men nor immigrants are stealing these jobs. Rather,
they're seizing employment opportunities that others spurn. The more likely
culprit is a social safety net full of generous government
benefits that allow men who will not work to subsist.

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Welfare and disability programs at state and federal levels are
well funded by the political left, are easily gained by design,
and have become a significant source of income for men
with no job and sadly no interest in finding one.
Because these men often have no problem mooching off the
women who take them in, they're able to live on

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welfare payments send to others in the same household. Democrats
in Washington often look to Europe as a social welfare
model for the United States, and a recent Wall Street
Journal editorial on Britain's workforce woes ought to give them pause.
According to a new report from former Labor Health Secretary
Alan Milburn, nearly a million Brits under twenty five are

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not employed in school or in job. Training. Journal noted
nearly half of Britain's idle youth now claimed to have
a work limiting disability, and around seven to ten youth
who claimed the disability benefit are still on it a
decade later. Europe's large safety net isn't a model for America.

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It's a cautionary tale which pivots over quite nicely in
an article I found on the Hill. It's a left
leaning website, but take it for what it is about
Medicaid work requirements making it harder for low income and
sick people to maintain health coverage. Point is, if you
had Medicaid expansion here in Hio, we took it, expanded
the roles. They issued a rule earlier this week to

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guide the forties two states and DC in carrying out
work rules implemented by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,
of course, that passed as a way to combat waste, fraud,
and abuse in the Medicaid program. Work requirements set to
a take effect this coming January, beneficiaries part of the
Medicaid expansion have to work or volunteer at least eighty
hours a month, attend school, or participate in job training

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or here's the ore. They must prove they qualify for
certain exemptions like, for example, caring for a child thirteen
or younger, or caring for a parent with a disability.
But there's a carve out for the quote medically frail.

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States have a little bit of discretion decide what that
actually qualifies for. According to Dan Brollman, Trump Administration's Medicaid director,
if your condition significantly impairs your ability to engage in
work and the requirements, then you're likely not subject to
the work requirements. Well, how do you prove that presently?

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During the first year of implementation Again, beginning in January,
states will allow people to self attest on their Medicaid
renewal form that they actually qualify for an exemption. You
know how that's going to work out After next year's
States are going to have to verify that exemptions using
claims data and other available valuable resources. The patients will

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have to provide documentation if the state doesn't have the data,
that's a big ask isn't it. This is like the
photo idea requirement. We can't force people. They're not going
to be able to provide the documents. They're gonna lose
their medical care because well, you know what, it's like,
all government benefits comes with preconditions. In order to receive
you got to fill out a form. In order to
get the medical disability exemption or the medical disability exemption

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or work requirement exemption, you have to basically fill out
a form, in other words, provide some documents showing that
you're incapable of work. It seems like a small ask,
doesn't It seems like something that's designed to address this
lack of work ethic, this modern phenomenon that it's aoka
to mooch off somebody else's labor because that's what funds

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the system. Amendment Oz, talking about the work requirement earlier
this week, pointed out, Hey, President Clinton signed a work
requirement into law for enrollees and the Temporary Assistance for
Needy families. Hey, did the world end? Then that was
a Democrat? If I have to remind people, Bill Clinton,

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he said, we need to get people to try to work.
It's a path to prosperity men that I said, we
are put here to make a difference. But if you're
sitting at home, which is true for millions of people
who are able bodied on medicaid on average, you're spending
six point one hours watching TV, are just hanging around,

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That's not why you're here. Yeah, let's go back to
that philosophy six seventeen. Right now at fifty five KARSD
talk station five one three seven, it is six twenty
two fifty five CARSIT talk station fifty five Karosite dot com.
Get try Heart Media app, listen wherever you happen to be,

(38:41):
and let's go to the phone. It's got Steve online. Steve,
thanks for calling this morning, and happy Friday Eve to you, sir,
Uh you too.

Speaker 6 (38:48):
Thank you. Brian, how are you doing this morning?

Speaker 1 (38:49):
I'm doing really well. Appreciate you asking. I hope you
can say the same.

Speaker 6 (38:53):
So far, so good.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Good.

Speaker 7 (38:55):
Quick comment on the people who have to do the.

Speaker 8 (38:58):
Work requirements, they have to fill out forms, They might
have to go to a.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
Doctor's office and get a physical.

Speaker 7 (39:03):
Don't all those things require some sort of government issued ID?

Speaker 1 (39:08):
More than likely. That's why I commented about that the
idea of having to simply provide medical records that are
yours and pretty easily accessible seems like a small ask
when you're getting just gobs and gobs of money on
a social welfare program.

Speaker 6 (39:24):
Right, But asking for an ID to vote is completely
out of the.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Absolutely that disenfranchises people. Right Yet, I think most people
have gotten the message on that that is a nonsensical
and absolutely insulting argument to make. Women couldn't get an ID,
Black people can't get an ID. Oh yeah, going down
that road again. I'm surprised that that the response didn't
come earlier on that nonsense, that people didn't step up

(39:48):
to the plate and point out the foolishness and the
insulting reality of the argument that Democrats are making merely
because they want it to be easy to vote and
I think cheat in an election. It's crazy. Good point,
Steve Well, This work requirement seems very reasonable ask. The
exception to the work requirement is that you're not capable

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of working. Are we going to trust people in this
modern age of well accepted laziness to self report no,
I can't work. I got a medical condition. Oh okay,
working age men and women, it seems a small ask

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and it's again it's only eighty hours a month. And
I like the idea that you can use job training
because that's going to set you down a path of freedom.
Going back to mend and Oz comment about that. Anyhow,
I got some interesting polling data out of state of Ohio.
It's not really looking good. Of course, like the rest
of the nation, Ohio views Trump negatively, but it's the
baggage that Trump brings to our local or our state elections.

(40:52):
Senator Houston forty percent favorable, fifty percent unfavorable. This is
a Fox News poll was released yesterday. Sharon Brown fifty
three favorable to forty four unfavorable. So he's got it
up on Senator Houston. Along those lines, Brown outperforms Houston
fifty three to forty five in in head to head matchup.

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According to those polled, ninety eight percent of the Democrats
support Brown. Houston gets eighty six percent report US support
among Republicans. Non white voters favor Brown by fifty eight
points and the race a dead heat among white voters
forty nine forty nine for Brown. Houston tied among voters
age forty five and over. Brown leads by twenty three

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points among those under age forty five. Jared Brown making
some in roads and advancing again the baggage that Donald
Trump brings to the tables, kind of harming some of them.
This is a it's the country wide phenomenon. Six point margin.
More Democrats than Republicans say they're extremely or very motivated
to vote, and that one kind of bothers me as well,
because you've got to get out and vote this November.

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Got to be enthused to go in spite of how
you feel on the bomb and I'm disgusted with everything.
I don't want to go vote. What's the point of voting? No,
do not harbor that belief. And for those who are
interested and anxious to vote, bring your friends who might
not be so motivated. Six twenty five right now. Other
statistics from that do have local stories coming up, but
I appreciate phone calls. You can go that direction too,

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and course cover since e deep talk station it is
six point thirty here fifty five KCD talk station Ready
Eve Minder next week, I'm not in Dan Carl's going
to cover me Monday through Thursday and for a Wednesday
rather Gary Jeff Walker for Thursday and Friday next week
will I space out of the consequence chemo treatments start

(42:40):
to day, last two in this six month round, so hopefully,
fingers crossed, it'll last me the five years I got
out of the first round of treatments. And God bless
each and every folk out there that is dealing with
cancer issue. I only bring it up in context because
I won't be here, but also shared experience spreading awareness.
Please take care of yourself. Earlier you get on it,

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the more likely it is you're going to have success
fighting it off. And the seemingly the only thing that
unites anyone in America anymore, the fact that we can
all uniformly hate cancer. Cancer sucks. Local stories. Someone shot
last night. This was hot off the presses and Joe
sent it my way. Just reported this morning last night
eleven to fifteen at courting Lieutenant Luke Neville since Saint
Police Department, we have a person that was shot in

(43:23):
the head five thousand block on one SD Avenue in
Winton Hills. Non life threatening injuries is what's been reported.
I'll get Fox nineteen credit for that. Taking to UC
Medical Center. No suspect information released and yes it is
still under investigation. Perverts are around. Be careful. We have
a fifty four year old man who's been accused of
trying to lure a three year old girl with candy.

(43:46):
This according to Montgomery Police, Worry Sow was arrested. He's
from Shiva at misdemeanor charge of criminal child enticement. The
child's nanny reported it happened Tuesday Swain Park on Cooper Road.

(44:07):
Nanny says she took the girl out of the car,
had her weight in the grass while she took another
juvenile from the vehicle. According to the affidavit, a man
walking in the grass asked the three year old girl
if she knew him and asked if she would like
a piece of candy, and walked towards his car. Police
wrote and Sow his criminal complaint that he was charged
based on the child caretaker statements and his quote unquote

(44:29):
admission in court yesterday. So pleaded not guilty, and his
lawyer insisted it's a big misunderstanding. His attorney said, he
has a stable residence here. He indicates to me that
this is all a misunderstanding or maybe not understanding English
quite as well as he should. He has no court
record whatsoever, according's attorney, he doesn't understand English. Hamlinkindy Municipal

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Court Judge Rodney Harris said his bond a fifteen grand.
When he is released from jail, he'll be under a
court order to wear an electronic ankle monitor. Reminding me
of the Sarah Earinger lawsuit that was followed yesterday for
wrongful death against the City of Cincinnati. Yeah, her husband
was murdered by a guy that was supposed to have
an ankle monitor on. If you remember the facts of
that one year ago over to King's Island. Visitor speaking

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out about what she says with a frightening encounter in
the park bathroom Northern Kentucky. Woman remaining anonymous said a
stranger tried to reach under her bathroom stall and attempted
to take photos of her during a visit last weekend.
She felt violated, she said her first visit to King's
Island great optics. She said she was alone in the

(45:38):
park restroom when a stranger entered the stall next to her.
She said, I can I hear her struggling. She's audibly
making sounds like she's uncomfortable. Woman said stranger reached her
hand under the stall and then tried to grab her.
She said, I was like, Hey, what are you doing.
She didn't say anything back to the woman, said. Woman said.
The stranger then slid a phone with the front camera
opened under the stall. Said she knocked the phone away,

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left the stall in me Lean told a park employee
that you watched the staff at the escort the stranger
out of the area. King's Island, in a statement, said,
we are a family friendly environment. We do not tolerate
inappropriate unlawful behavior. Guests who violator code of conduct are
not welcome in our parks. Thank you, Legal department. Apparently
no arrests was made in the stranger's identity identity currently unknown.

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In spite of that, I guess she's looking on the
bright side. When interviewed, she said she does plan on
returning to King's Island. Oh, we got a new program
for a plan for Hyde Park. The developer behind the
plan to redevelop Hyde Park Square which got shut down. Yeah, remember,
they've unveiled a new proposal and PLK Communities. The Loring

(46:45):
Group and North Point Group announced that they have submitted
the revised plan to the City of Cincinnati for a
new mixed use development on the south side of Hyde
Park Square. So it's a revised The tallest side of
the building is now going to be seventy five feet
six inches, but at the street front, the facade on
on just off the square is going to be sixty
five feet tall. Remember the height of the building was
one of the impediments and one of the problems that

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Hyde Park residents had with it. Anyway, this new proposal,
and you can read all about it, hinges on changing
the zoning and High Park Square to a planned development
that requires a more stringent public review process than a
typical zoning variance. Remember the one size fits all program
that was rolled out by Mayor aftab Pervoll. Sucks to
be you. We don't care what you want in your neighborhood.

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You're going to deal with what we tell you to do.
So but we'll still vote for you. I know, Joe,
I know, it's just heartbreaking. Anyway, requires the public review process.
Before that happens, city planners have to review the developer's
submission over the summer hold virtual conferences. That's when you
can give your input, and the city's Planning Commission will

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have to vote to approve or deny the application, following
which the City of Cincinnati Council will vote for that.
None of the dates for the hearings have been set,
so new proposal role out. It's six thirty six right
now and fifty five KERCD talk station. At the of
our news, Congressman Warren Davidson, who did vote with the

(48:09):
other folks who sort of end the war absent declaration
of war War Powers resolution. So his thoughts and comments
on that and the other bills that are pending included
this new reconciliation bill that's being floated around. That's after
the news. At the top, we'll hear from my friend
doctor j Risto what our friend collectively, doctor j Rissover,
who was at lunch yesterday. Good to see you, Jay,
and glad to have him on the program today at

(48:31):
eight oh five empower You America dot org. You can
get the details or go to my blog page fifty
five KRC dot com. Got a big party going on
tonight at the Glendale. I see him beginning at five thirty.
End of the Empower You summonar series for the year
Celebratory Mood. We're going to be in America's two hundred
and fiftieth love. We're gonna have great food works pizza
as well as the unbelievably awesome barbecue for my friend Kevin.

(48:54):
Kevin Nichols, you rock man, looking forward to having your
barbecue at my daughter's wedding as well. Anyway, back over
to this Fox News poll regarding Shared Brown and John Houstad,
Apparently Brown supporters say their vote is mainly for Shared Brown.
Going back to the Trump effect, which is what this
was diving on into, it's for him rather than against

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John Houston. So sixty eight percent are voting for Shared Brown,
thirty percent are voting against John Houston. Those back in
Houston fifty eight say the support is for him. Thirty
nine percent are voting for him because they don't want
Shared Brown in office. Thirty nine percent of Ohiglands our
concerned Brown is too liberal thirteen percent, including thirteen percent

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of his own supporters. Forty six of the folks that
were polled in so far as John Houston is concerned
are worried that he's too close to Trump, including ten
percent of his backers. Inflation the number one concern, shocking
no one I suppose inflation dominating forty three percent say
it's the most important issue in their vote. For Houston

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or behind that healthcare twelve percent, immigration and border security eleven,
political divisions nine percent. I scratched my head over that
one can't vote for either one of those guys and
political divisions maybe, I guess it depends on who you
think is going to play more nicely with the opposite
side of the ledger there anyway, eight percent on job,

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seven percent cite Iran and at the bottom here four
percent for abortion and crime. In terms of independence, inflation
the number one issue fifty percent, and Democrats come into
forty four percent on that forty percent. For Republicans, voters
focused on infilation favor Brown by fourteen points, along with

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the healthcare concerned people forty four points. Those prioritizing immigration
and border security, of course logically and reasonably go for
John Hewest. It's by seventy six percent. And the race
for how governor voters divided half backing here's your worry
and concern, folks. This is why, and because the poll
reveals Democrats are slightly more enthused about going to the

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polls in November, half are backing Amy Act. And this
is across the board fifty or forty nine percent to
vive Ramaswami. Of course that's a statistical wash when you
factor in the margin of error, fourteen percent prefer Brown
in the Senate, go across party lines and support Ramaswami,
which that gives me a little bit of hope there.
Most Democrats, of course going for Acting ninety three percent,

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most Republicans eighty nine percent for Ramaswami. Let's get the
rest of those Republicans on board, please, so And going
back to the AI problem, and I pointed out that
China spending billions and billions and dollars to convince you
that we're all going to die with an AI center

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in your yard. It is absolutely based on their desire
to dominate the globe with artificial intelligence. Telling us we
can't do it, and then convincing you we shouldn't do it.
That gives them the advantage over time. Then wonder they're
spending billions of dollars to convince you that it's a
bad thing. By more than two to one. According to
the survey, Buckeye voters oppose having AI data centers building

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their area thirty two in favor of sixty five opposed.
Across political spectrum, this opposition carries. Democrats seventy two feel
that way, Independence sixty four feel that way, and fifty
nine percent of Republicans are against building data centers. And
you're on the wrong side of the ledger on that one.
It's here, it's we either deal with it or the

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Chinese get to deal with it. I'd rather have control here,
and most people can manage a data center and don't
believe the lies you've been told about. You know it's
going to suck up every bit of electricity and the
water's going to be polluted. And Tom z Awastowski on
the program earlier this week talking about that. We the
People Convention dot org check it out. Be right back
with more information, including a little shot in fro Cy

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talk station six fifty I fifty bought KARASD talk station
reminder after the top of the our news Congressman Warren
Davidson lots talk about with him and love talking with
you as well. Five one three, seven eighty two to
three talk a pound five fifty on AT and T
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in Florida that I'm enjoying with this next with this

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next move by a massive business out of New Jersey.
Let's see what Todd's got. Todd, thanks for calling this morning,
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 9 (53:23):
Hey, good morning, Brian. Before I comment on the data centers,
just want to give a shout out to one of
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Speaker 1 (53:51):
Shout out to Cover since I appreciate that, and it's
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for supporting the sponsors. Todd, I'm glad it worked out
for you. What was the other issue that we drove
your call?

Speaker 9 (54:44):
Primarily data centers. I'm not opposed to data centers. The
thing I find baffling is they want to find a
spot out in the middle of the country, you know,
countryside and by hundreds or thousands of acres of land

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and stick in a data center where there's no infrastructure
for it, no power, no water. You know, it's got
to be run to it. When we have at least
within the it seventy five bell at least three nearly
empty shopping malls that are just sitting there doing absolutely

(55:28):
nothing good point, that would be wonderful spots for a
data center because the you know, utility infrastructure is already
right there.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
Yep. I couldn't agree more. But don't get on the
don't don't be a convince of the belief that these
things are all massive, multi football field size, as Tom's
Awastowski pointed out and talking about this earlier in the week,
most of them aren't. Most of them are smaller. You
would see one of the buildings. It's the same thing
as any other type of building for any use, for

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any other purpose. And you don't need to be out
in a field, out in the middle of nowhere to
do that. And I scratch my head over the logistics
of doing it that way for the reasons that you
point out, but that people choose maybe what you and
I would proceed to be stupid areas to put them
doesn't mean they're bad, period. And that's the argument we're
having right now. People are convinced that all of this
is evil, nefarious, can come to know good, and therefore

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we shouldn't even bother building them. Why participate in this nonsense?
All of that ignores the reality that it's here and
they are being built, and the Chinese while pointing to
us and saying oh, global warming, climate issues, you know
you shouldn't be doing that they're building their data centers
as quickly as they're building the coal fired plans to
power the data centers. It's obvious that they are trying

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to influence us, so they gain the upper hand on that.
And I mentioned that Paul Bond article which you can
find at Newsmax dated yesterday, China spending billions to stop
AI data centers in US, which mirrors the information that
Tom Z gave us earlier in the pro earlier in
the week on that. So good points Todd. But that
reality doesn't mean we shouldn't embrace it. Maybe just embrace

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it where it's logic and logical and reasonable to put
them anyway, Samsung is the shodenfreud to moment South Korean
tech giant, Samsung moving its headquarters from New Jersey to
Texas Plano, Texas. Specifically, they have their existing campus there
which is now being expanded. Abandoning and here's the exclamation

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point on that, how much does it suck in New
Jersey highest taxation rate out there, it's pretty darn onerous
effective top taxation rate eleven and a half percent for
companies doing business in New Jersey. So Samsung is abandoning
New Jersey and the exclamation comepoint comes from the fact

(57:46):
that they're abandoning. Also in doing that, they're brand new
two hundred and seventy thousand square foot New Jersey headquarters.
They've been there eight months and they're washing their hands
in New Jersey. The economic climate, of the regulatory climate
is so much better there. Going back to the fiduciary
obligation argument that the Journal wrote about the other day,

(58:07):
what a brilliant idea. As a board of directors member
of any major corporation publicly traded, you of a duty
to maximize shareholder value. How can you maximize shareholder value? Well,
you do a lot of things, but they're now contemplating
maybe requiring as a fiduciary obligation to headquarters your business
in the place that will allow you to maximize shareholder value. Right,

(58:29):
less taxes, better regulatory environment, improves stock value. Congratulations Samsung,
Enjoy things in Texas. Six fifty six, right now, don't
go away. Congressman Davidson coming up next at the top
of the hour fifty five Carose detalk station Ryan Thomas
wishing everyone a very happy Friday, even thanking everybody made it.

(58:49):
A listener lunch yesterday and always happy to welcome to
the fifty five Caroseame Morning Show. It's that day the
return of Congressman Orren Davidson. Congressman Davidson, welcome back, my friend,
thanks for coming on the program again.

Speaker 7 (59:02):
Always a joy to talk with you.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Brian, thank you well, at least you had three more
and your company. Yesterday, you, along with Brian Fitzpatrick, Thomas Massey,
and Tom Barrett of Michigan voted to pass this I
guess measure to limit Donald Trump's Ukraine War. The vote
total was two fifteen to two o eight. I ran

(59:23):
Warpowers resolution. What will this do? I mean, assuming the
unlikely that it goes and passes in the Senate and
it survives a Donald Trump veto, which I think may
be inevitable. But what was this design to do?

Speaker 7 (59:34):
Congressman Davidson, Well, it was really designed to support and
defend the Constitution. I mean, so if you look at
the War Powers Act, it was passed in nineteen seventy
three and Congress had sort of just passively cut the
checks for the Vietnam War. They couldn't get control of
the floor of the House to really schedule a vote
the committee's of jurisdiction tend to be populated by people

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that are for all the wars and all the places.
That's been true really in the post World War two era.
So the Korean War went on all three years of
the Korean War. We don't call it the police Korean
police action. We call it the Korean War because it
was a war. But Congress would never vote to authorize it.
The Vietnam War had gone on for a decade in

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nineteen seventy three, and so they passed this War Powers Act,
which gives you a privileged vote for Congress to be
able to go on record to say, hey, this is unauthorized,
and it puts some pressure, albeit public relations pr or whatever,
on the president to seek authorization for the war. And
that's what the that's what the Constitution says. Is not

(01:00:41):
so much whether you should do this war or that war.
The Constitution says, Congress is supposed to vote to authorize it.
And I you have not only a constitutional duty, but
a moral obligation to the people that you asked to
wage your wars, to define the mission, to then authorize
that mission, and then accomplish the mission. So those kinds
of things happen't happen, and then when you fail to

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do that, that's how you wind up with these aimless
and endless wars.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
Well, and defining the mission seems to be one of
the more critical elements we need right now. And I'm
with you on your perception of all this, because the
Constitution says what it says. You need the input of
Congress in terms in dealing with matters of war. And sorry,
let me interject, I had to crack up. You said,
we don't call it the Korean police accidents the Korean War.
It's one of those Orwellian things. It's like, for example,

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in our current spat with the Iranians, we have a
ceasefire on paper, and people keep saying it's a ceasefire,
and yet both sides keep shooting each other. Just don't
ignore your lying eyes, right, Congressman Davidson.

Speaker 7 (01:01:40):
But yeah, I mean it was embarrassing when the war
in Iran first, I guess, renewed really active hostilities on
February twenty eighth, and people were calling it a war
and then catching themselves. Well, I mean, you know, conflict,
you know, kinetic engagement, you know, whatever, every kind of

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thing to avoid saying war. It's you know, it's like
I don't know what a woman is. Well, of course
we know what a woman is, and of course we
know what a war is. And you know, it should
be self evident what a ceasefire is. But you know,
President Trump yesterday in a fitting response, people said, what
do you mean by ceasefire? And he goes, well, in
that region, maybe it means you go after each other

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a little less intensely. And so you know, as you
look in the Middle East, and you know, well, it
is progress. And I will say the blockade part seems
to be working. I had the privilege of questioning Secretary
Rubio yesterday, and I think, look, they've done so many things. Well,
one of the primary focuses was you didn't need to
change the law to secure the border. You know, border securities,

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national security. This mass migration nonsense that's flooding our country
with illegals. President trumpet shut off. This administration has been
very effective, and the national security strategy focuses on that
that national security begins at our own border, spreads through
our hemisphere, and then goes out around the world and
looks at our own interests. I talked about other authorizations

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for force, like, you know, we're still not really dealing
with the Uranian proxies correctly. We should authorize, you know,
the activity we should actually authorize. What the administration has
done is treating the drug cartels as enemies of our country,
and that migration linkage is exploiting people, killing Americans and
lots of other people. But then when it comes to war,

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you know that basically every administration says, yeah, we basically
we can do whatever we want, and that's not what
the Constitution says. There are a lot of people that
think it would be better if the Constitution did say that,
then find him. I'm open to having a debate about
a constitutional amendment to that. But there are no free wars.
And that was a big part of the congressional or
the constitutional debate when the founding fathers were drafting the Constitution.

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That's where they created the tension between Article one and
the legislature in Article two and the presidency and basically
gave the president the power to wage the war, but
Congress the duty to declare the war.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
Well, I guess I'd have to ask even in the
absence of war powers resolution or obviously the declaration of
war seems to be even off the table, but you
retain the power of the purse. Can you not deny
funds to continue the ongoing efforts against the Iranians? I mean,
is that not another independent mechanism? I know that's a
tall ask given the dysfunction in Congress these days, Congressman Davidson,

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But isn't that certainly possible?

Speaker 7 (01:04:30):
Well, it is possible. But the problem is this is,
once you've got troops in harm's way, how do you
not fund them? So there's really the dilemma is, well,
how do you not give them the resources to do things?
And the way you really do the resources is, you know,
when the country is united. But look, it took three
days after nine to eleven for Congress to vote to

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authorize the war. We knew we should go to war, right,
But then what failed after that? Well, they didn't define
the mission. That's where George W. Bush know was out
on a carrier waving a flag, say, a big banner
mission accomplished. Everyone knew that wasn't true, except apparently George Bush.
I think he knew too right. But it was all
pr and designed to build the support for going into Iraq, Well,

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how did that turn out? How did Afghanistan turnout? Congress
has consistently failed in its obligation to a define the
mission and be you know, tie the money to results
and measure and hold people accountable for actually accomplishing the
mission instead of just waging the war actually winning the war.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Well, and I'm glad you mentioned in Afghanistan because it's
great illustration for those who think since because we have
the biggest, baddest military in the world, and there's no
denying that that Afghanistans, these crazy guys with Ak forty
sevens in the mountains were able to fend off for
over a long period of time. I camember was it
a decade? With the Russian invasion and then following that
we invaded Afghanistan and ultimately really had nothing to show

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for it when we when we pulled out immediately. It
just shows the tenacity of a very well obviously fundamentalist
religious group and how much and how long they are
willing to just wage this guerrilla warfare against major military powers.
I mean, just because you have a big military does
not ensure your victory under those circumstances.

Speaker 7 (01:06:21):
No, I mean their religion Basically, the more they suffer,
the more it validates, you know, the righteousness of their cause.
So they just keep digging in and digging in, and
you know they want more gi hot and everything. These
people are crazy. Their right to be viewed as enemies
of our country. I mean, our military is waging a
just you know, it's just to take out Ayatola many.

(01:06:44):
I mean, that was a just action. It was also
you know, not unprecedented to do something like that without
congressional authorization, but it is unconstitutional still, and you know
it's fair if if the public really wants a debate
on constitutional amendment, and whoever gets elected president gets this.
You can't forget student debt, but you can go to

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World War three if you want to, you know, you know,
all those kinds of things. It's like, well, look, I
want the president to have the flexibility to respond in
a time of crisis. That's a duty defined in the Constitution.
You should be able to say, repel an invasion and
take a decisive, swift action. But you know that's for

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like an exigent circumstance where you don't have the ability
to convene Congress. And you know, if you look at it,
the country isn't truly united behind this war, and even
Republicans aren't and I behind this war. Even some of
the most enthusiastic people in the initial days after you know,
early March Show when this began, are starting to go,

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what are we doing here? And why are we doing it?
And you know, what is the what does victory look
like here? And those are the kinds of questions that
you should ask. And that's why you should have the
debate on the floor of Congress and vote not just
for funding but for the actual this is the mission,
go accomplish it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
Yes, And the Iranians have been, you know, blowing stuff
up and killing American servicemen and funding terrorist proxies that
in turn kill people who we are allies with or
kill our troop. This has going on for well since
nineteen seventy nine. The urgency, the imminent threat or the
eminent concern that I suppose served as a predicate to
starting a war with Iran, the Operation Epic Fury. I

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think that's a that's something we're hiding behind now, or
administration's hiding behind, because I think the urgency was because
they knew that thirty five or so the head leaders
of the Iranian religious fundamentalist group that runs the country.
We're in one spot at one time, and we needed
to hurry up and blow them all up. Whether we're
in one spot and thinking it was going to be
more like Venezuela with the decapitation of Maduro and the

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inevitable quick fall of that regime.

Speaker 7 (01:08:48):
Yeah, I mean, and look even within the administration to
pull off the successful decapitation strike, I mean, you know, operationally,
I mean that was brilliant, well executed mission. I mean,
as an army I look at it and go, well,
that was, you know, well executed. Our military has done
amazing things in combat. But even opset wise, I mean,

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they kept that super tight, even within the Pentagon on
whether that was even going to be a mission. And
that's the only way you could accomplish a mission like that,
And so that's a fair question to say, well, can
you do these kinds of things in a modern era
and have a vote in Congress? And you know, the
right sequence would have been to authorize the combat before

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it took place, but you've had ninety days now, and
that's not what the War Powers Acts say is by
the way, but some people claimed that early on, like,
well the war powers access president do whatever he wants
for ninety days. Well he's basically done what he wants
for ninety days. But one of the things that he
doesn't want to do is come get congressional authorization. And
I just asked Secretary Review about that yesterday and they

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basically said that we think we have all the authority
we need.

Speaker 5 (01:09:58):
We do.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
And this is big because I think since World War Two,
Congressman Davidson, we've just sort of been ignoring the whole
legal framework upon which war's supposed to be waged. Convenient
to just let it slide by the wayside, and all
the other guys did it. Ergo, I'm allowed to do it.
Let's bring Congressman Warren Davidson back a few more points
on that, but some other topics as well, including some
maybe another reconciliation bill. We'll find out with Congressman Warren

(01:10:19):
Davidson fifty five K the talk station seven twenty here
fifty five Kerr see the talk station Brian Thomas talking
with Congressman Warren Davidson. Sticking with the subject of the
war with the Iranians. Donald Trump just said, I guess
yesterday he will not resume what has been described as
all out war unless Iran kills US troops. Now that

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sounds like a line in the sand, but we've been
down this road quite a few times. If we don't,
if they don't do this, if they don't step up
and do that, then I'm going to start blowing them
off the map and off the face of the earth.
This wash, rinse, repeat cycle. I don't know what all
out means. Does that mean boots on the ground. Are
we actually going to invade and this raises obviously much
bigger problems, or are we just going to ultimately pull

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the plug on this because the Iranians have a stranglehold
on the Straight of Horror Moves and obviously our American
military is incapable of farying enough boats to get regular
order going on the straight. Seems like we've got kind
of a stalemate here with their ports being closed and
the Straight of Horror Moves being closed. Your thoughts and comments,
Congressman Davidson, Yeah, I.

Speaker 7 (01:11:21):
Mean, I think you want to be careful not to
get baited into a conflict. You don't really want to
let your enemy pick the time in or a place
of any engagement. You want to dictate that in combat.
And that's why I think the blockade is effective. The
navy blocked. I mean, our navy is big enough and
powerful enough to impose its will on a Ran. I mean, ay,

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we've destroyed their navy and b yeah, Okay, they've got
drones and they've got stuff that you know, for a
commercial vessel to drive through a straight you know, they
risk the whole cargo, they risk the crew. There's no
way the insurance is going to cover that. And so
people don't want to risk losing a tanker load worth
of oil and the liability for the lives that could

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be lost. So the ships stay put and they don't
go through. But nevertheless, what ELSO doesn't go through is
there's no commerce going on in Iran right now. So
this is crippling Iran. I mean, this is you know,
when maximum pressure forced her into the table in the
first Trump administration. This is nothing on the kind of

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level of the blockade. So look that as a military operation,
I mean, I think it's an effective one. I think
it's if we have the strategic patience to continue doing that.
I think it can be effective. If you pump oil
every day. You eventually have to ship oil sometime, and
I hope it doesn't turn into an environmental disaster, but

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it is putting pressure on Iran. They need resources in
their economy. You know, they have back door ways to
get some things across land, but they're fundamentally being crippled
with this blockade.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
Well, and I suppose the future may be different. A
lot of hard lessons are being learned. And I saw
this article by Georgie Kantschev headlined the Horror Moves squeeze
is redrawing the oil map for good. Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates and Iraq are pouring money into pipelines,
rail in storage to keep the oil flowing even when
the strait isn't they see the future. They see the present,

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and the future is let's pipe it out and never
have to rely on the strait of horror moves again.
So that could be a real positive thing down the road,
although billions of dollars will have to be spent and
will take years to accomplish it. They've already ramped up
pipeline shipping of oil in the area wherever they possibly can,
along with rail.

Speaker 7 (01:13:36):
Yeah, I mean so look at you a little more
resilient supply chain. In the meantime, the US is like,
I hear you guys need oil. We got oil.

Speaker 9 (01:13:43):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:13:44):
The downside is, look, you know we European pressure higher
prices at the pump in the United States, I think
we're feeling the pain less than a lot of places
around the world. That doesn't mean we don't feel the pain,
but I mean, I want to be clear. Look that
the price at the pump is the tip of the
iceberg in terms of the cost of war. And you know,
I mean the first Sunday after we voted on this

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in March, I got a text from you know, a friend,
former Ranger guy, but I didn't serve with him, and
he served much younger than me in Afghanistan and Iraq,
and he's like, hey, I lost another bat boy guy
from Ranger battalion to suicide. And you look at the
cost of war. This guy lost ten friends in the

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wake of war. And if you look at you know,
another metric for the cost of war, not just twenty
plus veteran suicide to day on average. But you know,
in two thousand and five, twenty years ago, we were
spending about sixty billion dollars a year on the VA,
and we have a moral obligation to care for those
people who've served our country and we have and you

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know last year we spent over four hundred billion dollars
and we still have twenty plus suicide. So like the
cost of war is enduring and ongoing for the people
that you asked to wage it. And I think that's
why the least you could do is expect Congress.

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
To vote the least. Congressman Davidson, can you stick around
for one more segment? Got a few questions about the
reconciliation bill that's being proposed over in the Senate. Want
to see where you are on that or not. If
you don't have enough time, that's great, I understand completely.

Speaker 7 (01:15:15):
Yeah, heavy to talk. Plenty going on there.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
Oh yeah, hold on one more with Congressman Davidson at
seven twenty five right now fifty five cares seven thirty
eight to fifty five care CD talks aasan Brian Thomas
with Congressman Warren Davidson pivoting over. I guess the Senate
has now got a reconciliation package number two. We got
one through earlier, and of course you have to use
reconciliation because of the Senate filibuster. Democrats are not going
to give in and do anything to help benefit the

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American people or most notably reasons to go because of
Donald Trump, but this one regarding immigration enforcement, notably the
US Immigrations and Customs enforcement and Customs and Border Protection
funding which has never yet been funded. That's still that
thing that was the reason for the shutdown. But part
of the stumbling block and not moving this forward sooner
apparently is the White House ballroom funding and the Anti

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Weaponization fund, which is rather controversial. I thought Trump had
backed off on the ladder, but the funding for the
for the ballroom at over a billion dollars, seemed to
rub people the wrong way. Anyway, with that out of
that package, is this going to move forward? And what
do you think? And will it pass?

Speaker 7 (01:16:20):
Yeah? I was just at at dinner with some conservative
senators last night. They feel like they've got a path
through the Senate finally. I mean, it's just frustrating sitting
and looking at the Senate. So you know, people back
home are you know, always say what's up with Thune,
what's up with the Senate? How are they not taking action?
On Save America and gazillion other things, and you know, hey,

(01:16:40):
I get a ring side seat. It's frustrating. We've spent
hours and hours and hours passing things in the House
only to go watch them ignore it and do nothing
in the Senate and then trip up over our own stuff.
Like the ballroom goes back to Obama. I mean, there's
a whole lot of other things that are going on besides,
you know, under the floor of the ballroom, there's going
to be other stuff off out of that building. This

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is an idea that's a long time standing, and somehow
they've turned it into Trump's vanity project. It's like, no,
it's a common sense thing to have there. You do
need to appropriate some money and authorize some of the
things that you need to do there. This isn't the
perfect bill to do it, but you know, as long
as Trump's president, Democrats are going to be opposed to
doing those things. But the real mistake here is look

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last December or last October. Unfortunately the Senate folded and
let Senate Democrats strip out the Homeland security funding package.
Let them strip out the funding for ice and border patrol.
So we've been depleting the one hundred plus billion dollars
that we've put to you know, plus up the effort

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at ice and border patrol. We've been burning through that
cash to continue operating ice and border patrol. So you know,
that's not an unlimited amount of money. We're supposed to
have ongoing appropriations for ice and bordertrol. So we need
to send it to take action. And now it's going
to be as skinny as you can make it. But
they are finally supposed to put on it today, So

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even if they drag it into the end of the week,
they'll get it done this week, I believe.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
Well, it's good to hear that some and maybe you
don't get everything you want, but I'll take a step
in the right direction along those lines. But save America,
that is, as I understand it, since it's not budget related,
you couldn't put that into a budget reconciliation in order
to dodge the filibusters.

Speaker 7 (01:18:23):
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, this is this And I don't
even think they're going to attempt to do it, but yeah,
would it's a policy thing. So look, reconciliation is this
magic word that breaks the sixty vote spell on the Senate.
So that you can just get us, you can answer
the actual question, you can call it straight with the Senate,

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and they got to go on record, and a simple
majority passes things in the Senate. The cloture rule, the
sixty vote rules what they use to basically prevent an
actual vote on the underlying topic. And yeah, because it's
policy related, the rules for budget reconciliation don't allow policy.
That's known as the Bird rule, so it would be

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stripped out.

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
Well, and you know what, always, I guess I'm frustrated
by this when you see the protesters at these ice facilities,
obviously well funded by massive billionaire infusions of cash, giving
them all the supplies and resources they need. You got
people that are twenty four hours a day, seven days
a week, for multiple days, the same people protesting something
is amiss there, but that the Democrats are wed to

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the whole idea that they do not want to do
anything about. And it would rather have criminal illegal immigrants
released out on the streets, people who have committed horrific crimes,
convicted in many cases horrific crimes like child rape, that
they want them released. I don't understand how any rational,
saying human being could advocate for that with a straight face.

(01:19:48):
And I'd like to hope and pray that the vast
majority of the American population agrees with me on that
topic and things the Democrats are crazy. What do you
hear on the hill there when you're talking with Democrats
about that reality?

Speaker 7 (01:20:01):
Yeah, I mean here, it's a total disconnect. Like when
I talk we poll in our district, and you know,
it's been a little while since we went out and
did any kind of polling. But a lot of the
things that they're not really even partisan issues. I mean,
you know, illegal immigrations, I legal immigration. Now you know,
my opponent thinks there's no such thing as illegal people
and they should be able to vote in elections, you know,

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even if you're here illegally of course, so you know
there are radicals out there, but that's not a consensus
position of even Democrats in Southwest Ohio. But when you
come to Congress, they vote that way. And it's the same,
like it's bipartisan to deal with scams. I mean, this
medicaid fraud stuff that's going on, that's not a partisan
issue in Ohio. To go after that, punish it and

(01:20:43):
prosecute people. And in Congress, look if you want to
go after people that are scamming seniors, there's no partisanship there.
Democrats are happy to work with me on that issue.

Speaker 6 (01:20:54):
In any way.

Speaker 7 (01:20:55):
But when the scam involves ripping off the federal government
to give money, even to illegals that they wire out
or leave with to go back to Somaya or Bhutan
or wherever else, somehow it becomes partisan. I mean, I
think this stuff is crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Well, and they try to accuse people of racism when
people are merely going after the fraud. I did another
frustrating thing for me that in Minnesota anyway, that was
the argument, well, we didn't really go after fraud because
it was racist to do so. And I'm thinking, well, no,
it isn't that one segment of the Somali population having
to be fraudsters. I don't care where they came from.
They could come from, you know, Iowa. If they're criminals

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ripping the American taxpayers off, those are the people we
are going after. It has nothing to do with the
fact that they originated from Somalia here legally or illegally.
They are criminals. That's why we're going after him. And
shouldn't everyone be going after people who are ripping off
every single American taxpayer of any political stripe.

Speaker 7 (01:21:51):
Yeah, I mean that was the whole point of Doze
in the first place. And part of this that's coming
out is because Doge went in and dug into the
files and said, look, DOGE being the US Digital Service
legally the brand name when the Musk came in was
a Department of Government Efficiency DOGE. And they pulled this
data out. And what really happened as investigative journalists went

(01:22:12):
out and started going, well, gee, why would we have
ninety four LLCs at this same address?

Speaker 1 (01:22:20):
What is this about?

Speaker 7 (01:22:21):
And they started going, well, where's our money going? Well,
it's going to this building right here, and there's ninety
four LLCs related who's controlling this? And they started asking
questions that mainstream journalists weren't that. You know, in some cases,
when I talk to the auditor Keith Faber, he's highlighted, look,
they're complying with this level of the law, but there's
stuff going on. He's highlighted, you know, tens of millions,

(01:22:44):
if not billion plus dollars of fraud. As the auditor,
I think he's going to do a great job getting
after this with prosecutions as Attorney General. I think that's
where the public's rightly frustrated and say, how is it
that we have these scams going on? I mean, President
Trump's getting scrutiny because he's putting pressure on Treasury. We
get the Bank Secrecy Act that spies on everyone on

(01:23:04):
your bank accounts and your money. But somehow this thing
that's supposed to catch the people that are laundering money
for the drug cartels and stop North Korea from getting,
you know, weapons that we don't approve of. That's why
they spy on you on your bank accounts officially, but
you can't filter out the people that aren't even legally
in the country. And now they've got bank accounts I mean,

(01:23:26):
and medicaid payments going to them. And this is crazy
stuff that's going on, and thankfully we're exposing.

Speaker 1 (01:23:34):
It, thankfully, and I hope that continues to be a
big prominent issue as we move into November, because I again,
to me, this bears absolutely no political stripe. We're being
ripped off and that has to stop. I hope that
gets some headway from at least the Republicans are embracing
the concept of going after it like you, Congressman Warren Davidson,
thank you for your time today, and thank you for

(01:23:55):
your service to our country in the American military and
your ongoing services. Congressman, I appreciate your willingness to come
on the program and share thoughts and comments about these
important issues with my listeners and me, and I really
can't wait to get you back on again, sir.

Speaker 7 (01:24:07):
That's always an honor. God bless you and all your listeners.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
Brian and you, sir, Thanks again, seven seven thirty eight.
Right now, if you have Kercity talk Station four nine
fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two three Talk found
five fifty on AT and T phones. We're all waiting
around for the outcome of the California ballot counting, which
is just stupid the way they do it, and of
course raises all kinds of eyebrows about you know, cheating
going on. It's like, how come you know you got

(01:24:29):
you know, sixty eight percent of the vote in and
when this guy's winning by a but giant percentage and
then overnight almost they get flooded with all these ballots
that have yet to be counted. The rules are so lax,
it's crazy. I saw a Babylon be meme on this
earlier today and I was just cracking up. Say, California
has finally determined the winner of the gubernatorial race, Ronald
Reagan his won the nineteen sixty six contest. Yeah, that's

(01:24:52):
kind of not that far from the truth anyway. Governor's
race still being decided. Republicans Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt
on one side, I'd won enough support early in the
election returns to appear in the November ballot. In the
governor's race, leads, they say could be wiped out by
thousands of mail in ballots, and state officials say they're
not going to be able to get finished counting for

(01:25:13):
days or even weeks. Hilton head of all sixty candidates
in the governor's race as of yesterday morning, twenty seven
point eight percent of the vote. That's pretty sizable. They
had sixty three percent of the ballots counted so far.
But we've seen this play out before. It's like, all
of a sudden, with a flip of the switch, the

(01:25:35):
vote and the outcome dramatically changes state mail's ballots to
every eligible voter. And think about California, what do they
consider eligible in California anyway, if you're registered, and I
think if you go to the DMV and get a
driver's license, which they give to even illegal immigrants, then
I suppose they're registered to vote. And I think in
some elections local ones, certainly not federal elections, which preclude

(01:25:58):
non citizens from voting, that they may have immigrants voting
in their local elections. So that creates an opportunity for
people to vote. In presidential elections and congressional elections and
Senate elections. It shouldn't be eligible to vote, but there
they are. Ballots can be returned as late as eight
PM on election day if the pre paid envelopes are
postmarked by that time. State officials have to accept mail

(01:26:22):
in ballots for up to seven days after the election,
long as they have that qualifying postmark. I guess they
have factored into the equation that the US Postal Service
can't deliver mail in a very quick fashion. So the
statewide results actually are not certified until July tenth, which
gives the state another thirty seven more days to tally
the results for the governor's race. And history demonstrates that

(01:26:51):
in California, the mail in votes have in the past,
of course leaned Democrat. Making sense because how many people
in California are still Republican the vast majority of them,
of course, maybe not too vast, but the majority of
the folks in California Democrat. So it's it's really disturbing.
You know, Tom Fitting from the Judicial Watch noted you

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federal courts or federal courts. That's election day day singular,
not an election week, and certainly not an election month.
Wait for it, we'll ultimately get the outcome. Wouldn't it
be a truly amazing thing if a Republican won either
the LA mayoral race or god, can you imagine a

(01:27:36):
Republican governor of California. People have had it and that
they would go that route after all these years, Maybe
there's still hope. Seven forty seven fifty five kr C
DE Talk Station SHAFFAXX Credit Union. Yeah I've been I
was banking with Emory Federal seven fifty two a fifty
five kr CD talks Day, Happy Faday. Thanks again everybody

(01:27:58):
made a listen to lunch yesterday and thanks to Anderson
Pub and Grove. We'll go back there next year. Shortlist
as always, great food and of course the fellowship second
and ue of the fifty five k se listened to
Lunchalodo all the new folks I got to meet and
all my old friends there, and hope you can make
it to Chandler's Burger Bestro. I think it's July ninth,
second Wednesday in July. The first one obviously interrupted a
little bit by the fourth of July Independence Day of

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course holiday. Thank you, Joe strecord breaking news. Thank you
to Fox eight WJW. In Cleveland. Former Cleveland Mayor Dennis
Cascinach lost another round to stop the Cleveland Browns from
moving out of Greater Cleveland into brook Park, where you're
and my money is being spent giving a multi billionaire

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owner of a Cleveland Browns team six hundred million dollars
from the unclaimed funds to build the Dome Stadium in
brook Park. So it's obviously a worry and concern for
the city elected officials. So we have the former mayor
launched this legal action to stop that from happening, and recently,
according to the reporting in Cuyahoga County COMMA, please Judge
Holly Gallagher dismissed the lawsuit. Caucinach appeal the Browns in

(01:29:09):
the City of Cleveland asked the court to dismiss that appeal. Actually,
the city of Cleveland also asked them to dismiss it,
So I guess maybe the elected officials are okay with
this anyway, He says, the appeal has been dismissed. But
according to the presiding judge in dismissing this, the appellant
Caercentage is an unlicensed attorney, cannot represent the city or

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taxpayers of Cleveland. He does not have standing to bring
the appeal based upon his individual interests. There's that pesky
standing thing standing in the way of a lot of
lawsuits that you and I might file. You have to
have a unique harm that you showed as a consequence
of the Cleveland Browns moving out of the city. If
there is a harm, it's going to be felt by anyone,
everyone's going to feel it equally. So he obviously is

(01:29:55):
not a unique person in this regard. So the court
threw it out. He plans on appealing to the High
Supreme Court. Once you go to one of those betting sites, Joe,
and see what the odds are on this one of
him prevailing in the Ohio Supreme Court. So I know
slim left. I guess it is a more rhetorical question,
although I'm sure people are betting on that anyway. Last year,

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the city Cleveland dropped its fight to keep them on
the leg front as part of a one hundred million
dollar deal. They gave up. They're obviously moving. This is
a thread everyone faces, but I am on record for
a long long time the idea of taxpayer dollars or
even unclaimed fund dollars going to a multi billionaire sports
owner is nonsensical. Whether it's in Cleveland or and I

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know you voted for it, or in the city of Cincinnati.
I think they can manage the expenses on their own.
It coming up in seven fifty five and after the
top of the air news friend of the Show and
friend of the Empower You Seminar series, doctor j Rissover,
He's gonna give us all the details about tonight's event
at Glendale Lyceum. It should be a great time, food

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and fun, and a celebration of America's two hundred and
fiftieth and a celebration of all the great things that
we've learned as a consequence of Dan Reagnold and empower
You find empower You and all the details about this
event and the other classes that are coming up. Just
go to empower Youamerica dot org. I hope you can
stick around because what's more, it's Thursday, so we get
to hear from my heart media Aviation expert, Jay Ratliffe.

(01:31:19):
Got some great topics as always with Jay. That'll be
at eight thirty. I'll be right back. We put the
app in Happy at two fifty at fifty five krc
D talkstation, eight o five at fifty five kr CV
talk station and very happy Friday. E to you, Brian Thomas,

(01:31:42):
looking forward to the bottom of the hours I always
do to Jay Ratliffe, I heart media Aviation Expert, a
fully aviation report, ending a Thursday on a very happy note,
and some comical things as well as some interesting things
with Jay, which is always the case. And speaking of Jay's,
my dear friend doctor j Risover is on the phone
right now to talk about a horrific event that's taken
place tonight. You are invited and fans of empower You

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America dot org know how great that is. The classes
that are put together of a whole variety of topics
from political to just topics about music. Dan Regnold's behind this.
He's the inventor of the whole concept. He's been behind
it now for years and years. He did a seminar
on George Washington this past Tuesday, and the great thing

(01:32:24):
about empower You America dot org. You can log in
from home for these various classes. You can show up
at the empower You classroom, but also they have the
prior classes right there, so down the road you can
log in and check it out if you missed it live,
which you can do and I would encourage you to do.
With Dan Reynolds class on George Washington. Somebody knows all

(01:32:46):
about this and it's going to be helping out since
Dan is parting company here with the City Doctor j Rissover.
Great to see it, listener lunch yesterday. Thanks for joining
me today.

Speaker 6 (01:32:55):
Oh it's my pleasure, Brian, Thank you for having me
and thanks for everything that you do. But tonight we
are going to talk about empower You at our wonderful
end of the year picnic and celebration of Dan Regnold
and all he's done is starting and founding empower You.
We've gone through thirty one semesters, dozens and dozens perhaps

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one hundred topics in that time, and today it's a
chance to get together, eat some good food, listen to
to the music, and thank Dan for all his work.
A couple of things about today's event. First off, everybody
listening to me is invited acts at the glendeale ly SEEUM.
You can easily look that up. It's eight sixty five
Congress Avenue. The doors will open about five point thirty.

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We'll start serving food and music at five point forty five,
and we have some great speakers starting at seven o'clock.
But we even have a even better MC, and that,
of course would be you, Brian Thomas. Thank you again
for offering to come tonight. And I'm seeing this event.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
How could I miss it? I love the whole concept
and some think just fantastic learning opportunities over the years,
and I'm just pleased to be a part of it
and to help out spread the word because it is
such a great thing. It's free, you know, I mean
a good way to spend an hour of your time
in some terrific subject matters. Who who is going to
be speaking tonight? Beyond beyond me, I guess I see

(01:34:17):
Christopher Smitheman's face right there. I talked to him the
other day and he is overwhelmed with his obligations to
his mom. He is our caretaker insight. I know he's
on a short lease in terms of his schedule. So
we'll hear from Chrisopher who else, Doctor J.

Speaker 6 (01:34:30):
It'll be Chris Manzell. We'll be speaking there were reforming
the old rap pack of Empower You, of Chris, Chris
and You. We'll also have Mike Wilson, who is one
of the local founders of the Tea Party. We thought
a little local history might be good and he also
worked with Dan Reginald in the early years before Empowered You,

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so we're going to hear a little bit about that.
We also have besides the speakers, we have live music
with Farm Chats, a really excellent local band with Pete
Denoit on guitar, Mike Fletcher on bass and vocals, Acrus
Chris Lute on lead guitar, and Rick Powell on drums

(01:35:13):
and vocals. So really good group. They're playing their unique
music and some blues and rock.

Speaker 1 (01:35:19):
You're not sitting in with them, Jay, because I know
you regularly perform your musical act around town from time
to time.

Speaker 6 (01:35:25):
I agree, I'm not gonna I'm not these guys practice together,
so no, I'm definitely not sitting in with them. We
also have an amazing thing. We're gonna have an Americana
almost like a history tent. Since it is in honor
of our last event before the two hundred and fiftieth
Birthday of the United States, we're kind of celebrating America too,
trying to throw everything into this one event.

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
So we have.

Speaker 6 (01:35:49):
Artifacts from World War two and other stuff that Eric
Eric Barrow Barrow is put together for us who have
a whole ten of this.

Speaker 1 (01:36:02):
Well, I want to stand from the notes, he'd been
collecting these artifacts since he was aged Twelve's got some
World War two era, World War One era stuff, and
just a really unique collection of items that are going
to be very interesting to see. I'm looking forward to
seeing that myself.

Speaker 6 (01:36:18):
Yeah, items from the pilot of the Memphis Bell for example,
even that, Yeah, yes, we're doing that. Two things that
when ask people to do, who are coming maybe three things.
This is the beginning of a new era for empower you.
This would be our first year with Dan helping out
but not actually running things. That will be this coming

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year he's still gonna be managing, he's still gonna be around,
still being lecturing, but he's beginning the process of moving
out of town. And so we really want to celebrate Dan.
I want everybody to come and say thank you to
Dan for thirty one semesters. We've been in impeller you
since twenty twenty twenty one and it's a fundraiser for
empower you to make sure the next year is even better.

(01:37:01):
So if you could bring some kind of a donation,
we'll have donation envelope. You could take that home with
you and think about it and nail it back to us.
No stress at the day of But if you can
take us some way to donate to empower you, this
would be very important for the coming year. It empower
you well. I think I also want to say ahead.

(01:37:22):
The food yep, yeah, we have that. You know is
Chef Kevin Nichols is amazing. Smoked pork old pork sandwiches
will be there and his homemade baked beans.

Speaker 1 (01:37:36):
Oh my god, it's so good, so good.

Speaker 6 (01:37:40):
I've not had it, but I've seen pictures of it smoking.
It sounds amazing. I can't wait to taste it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:44):
I've been blessed. I've been blessed with Kevin's barbecue nous.
I mean, we've been friends for a long long time
and thanks to listener lines for you know, me being
able to meet Kevin Nichols and finding out about how
tremendous is barbecue is so tremendous that he's the guy
we've got doing barbecue for my daughter and Eric's wedding
coming up. So my mouth is salivating right now just

(01:38:05):
thinking about it. But it's not just Kevin's barbecue. It's
also The Work's Pizza.

Speaker 6 (01:38:10):
Correct, We have The Works Pizza from Loveland. They are
giving us a whole bunch of well, they're helping us
with a bunch of pizza, and we are happy to
have that. We'll have salad, we'll have polst law and
Heaven's Baked beans to go with this, plus a little
cake for dessert. We have lots of fluidge there. We'll
have pop, and we'll have water. If you want something

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a little stronger, i'd ask people to bring your own bottle.
Certainly that's acceptable and improved, but we don't really have
that for everyone, So bring your own bottle if you'd
like to indulge a bit. Bring your appetite for sure,
come for some fun. One thing that's helpful if you
could bring a lawn share. Ye limited chairs, so you know,

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sure you can sit on the grass. Anybody's welcome to
do that. You can bring a blanket and do that,
but I think a share might be more comfortable. We'll
have a few, but not enough for everyone, and we're expected,
so bring a chair. If you need a bottle, bring that,
but come and enjoy the fun, eat some food, Listen
to you Brian Thomas, Chris Smithman, and Chris Monzel. We're

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going to have a great time.

Speaker 1 (01:39:13):
I assure you of that, yes, and please bring a smile.
We're celebrating two hundred and fiftieth. We're celebrating Dan Regnold
and all he has done for our community beyond just
empower you America. The man's a tremendous guy. And so
just with that in mind, leave your attitude at home
and just bring a smile on your face and enjoy
the fun and the awesome food as well as the
live music and the speakers. You know, I'm minimize my

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involvement in this one. Got some important work to do
there tonight, and I'm looking forward to it. Five thirty
at Glendale. I see him. We made it real easy, Jay.
Joe has put all this information up on my blog
page fifty five care seed dot com, as well as
just go straight to empower you America dot org and
click on the link right there. It does say register
to a tend in person on the site so help
people get an understanding how many folks are going to

(01:39:57):
show up. I think that would help.

Speaker 6 (01:40:00):
At this point. Since it's today, you can do it
or not. I'm okay with that. We're preparing for an
onslaught of people and come join the crowd.

Speaker 1 (01:40:10):
That's exactly right. Enjoy the festivities and the fellowship, just
like we had yesterday at listener lunch, except much bigger
and Kevin's barbecue on top of a doctor j Rissover
is great scene yesterday. I look forward to tonight and
seeing you again, and I look forward to seeing all
the listeners who are interested in showing up. It'll be
worth your time. You'll have fun tonight. Five thirty Glendale,
I seem Jay, thanks again for giving us the information today.

(01:40:32):
See you tonight, Thank you, thank you, see you tonight.
All right, coming up on eight fifteen, not quite there yet,
got a little time a few minutes before we get
to iHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliffe direction as we fast
approach iHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliffe. Yeah, I talked about
the Glendale I SIAM event tonight for empower Your America's
in celebrating the America's two fifty if and of coourse
celebrating Dan reaganold a Salute to the Man tomorrow. I

(01:40:55):
just want to I'm sorry, Saturday, I want to remind
folks about the flag retirement ceremony that's at Uniontown chip
Civic Summer Amphitheater. Bring your old tattered flag. Do not
fly a flag that's tattered. Flirt from that from the
other day from the Klemat County Veteran Services who were
promoting this event as well, and thanks to Ken Williamson
and all the Vietnam Veterans at Chapter six forty nine.

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They do this every single year and I've been pleased
to have been a part of it for quite some time,
just a facilitating it. But the Boy Scouts Troop four
to fifty two is going to be there, Saint Thomas
Moore specifically Boy Scout Troop four to fifty two, and
they will show us how to properly retire an American flag.
You just don't throw it on the ground. You just
don't throw in the garbage can. It's a questions. It's

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respect is really what we're looking for with the American flag.
Sort of considered as you would the burial of a
loved one. You loved them during their life, and it's
something that you should be respectful of. So don't tear
it up and make something out of it. Learn how
to properly retire a flag, and you can do that
this weekend. First eighteen, folks who show up with a
flag that needs to be retired are going to receive
a three a free three foot by five foot flag

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at the end of the ceremony that will be a
replacement flag. I've already got a tattered flag to bring
to the event on Saturday, So it starts at one
o'clock and you can see that information also at fifty
five KRC dot com. Pivoting over to the plague update,
Oh my god, we're all gonna die. It's not just
El Nino, it's a Godzilla El Nino. Of course, the
folks over the Telegraph need to put a big exclamation

(01:42:23):
point on this to get us all ginned up. And
I love the word could because when I read the
word could, well, that doesn't mean it's necessarily happened. We
could get hit by a meteor tomorrow. Do I think
it's gonna happen. Not really, but you could put a
headline up. World could be blown up with a meteor strike.
This one about the godzilla el Nino. The world could
be on the brink of Godzilla Like Elnina, extreme weather

(01:42:45):
pattern that could trigger economic and political disruption around the world.
It's this three time a decade oceanic warming period. We've
all lived through this before or not. Could impact droughts
and make storms. And while they point out droughts and
storms are bad enough, experts say experts, hey, Joe, is

(01:43:08):
there a consensus on this one. Let's check that out.
Could be the strongest El Nini on record. This reminds
me of a hurricane forecast. Experts predict we're gonna have
seventeen hurricanes and you look back with hindsight like, well,
there were six. Could be the strongest Alnini on record.
Problems could include flooding, landslides, wildfire, wildfire's, famine, conflict, and migration,

(01:43:34):
food supply disruption identified as the problem number one. Of course,
if these will impact crops, clearly it's going to probably
be a problem. Drought conditions already an issue in some countries,
so they suggest this may be worse. I say, historically
onlyin he's been associated with major food crises. The famine
of eighteen seventy seven, exacerbated by severe weather conditions, killed
millions across the tropics and exposed deep inequalities in the

(01:43:57):
global food system. And to read that and they talk
about some of the areas that are going to be
struggling more mightily than others in so far as food production.
The areas that struggle more mightily already in the great
in the best possible conditions, already struggle with food production anyway. Gee,
I mean we live with inequities in the food distribution system. Yes,
naturally migration al Nina driven droughts can trigger migration, particularly

(01:44:25):
in regions going back to my prior point, heavily dependent
on hand to mouth agriculture occurs within countries rather than
across borders. According to experts quoted in the article conflict
zone flare ups El Nino apparently, and the extreme weather
conditions that might or could come as a consequence of

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it can heighten instability in already fragile states. Going back
to the point about food production, if you're already in
a shaky ground in terms of being able to produce
food at any given time, if you're living in basically
a war zone and bad weather shows up, things might
get worse. It's a British article, of course, they talk
about the impact on Britain, although the UK lies more

(01:45:08):
than eight thousand miles from the tropical Pacific. Experts say
the powerful El Nino godzo alike could there's that word again,
still brings significant consequences from extreme heat and flooding and
higher food prices. Britain could feel the effects of climate
phenomena within the next twelve to eighteen months. There's that
window of opportunity. It goes on and on. It's just

(01:45:30):
one of those articles is like, Okay, I'm sure that
there are possibilities this might happen, but the way it's
phrased them, the way it's worded obviously designed to get
us all on the edge of our seat. Congo's Ebola
outbreak topic number two in the stack and the plague update.
Rare strand of a Bola. You probably read about it
floating around the Democratic Republic of Congo, and now it's

(01:45:51):
moved into an area that is absolutely instable, going back
to the instab unstable regions of the world, an area
controlled by Islamic st eight militants, specifically militant controlled Mambasa,
which for warren zvon Fans reminded me of rolling the
Headless Thompson Gunner. And that song was recorded so long ago.
They've been having problems in Congo for way longer than

(01:46:14):
I've been living. And it's still the epicenter of well
war stronghold of the Aullied Democratic Forces initial cap on
all that it's one of a multitude of Islamic state
affiliated insurgency agencies. This one happens to be fighting the
Congolese and Ugandan troops. The point of the Ebola related

(01:46:36):
point is well, the area so far is in well
areas controlled by the government where the outbreak has occurred.
So medical resources and teams are there on the ground
in the area that is stable to try to deal
with this outbreak of Abola. Well, now it's in an
area that is not accessible by the government because it's
overrun with terrorists. That described as a forested area where

(01:46:59):
health workers who are already coping with short supplies and
local suspicions will not go. There is a compounding problem.
The local suspicions will prevent people from seeking medical care
and also of course result in the wider spread of ebola,
very deadly. And finally, as if that wasn't bad enough,

(01:47:19):
headline flesh eating screw worm found in Texas. According to
the USDA, a single calf in southern Texas tested positive
for the new World screw worm. It's a deadly flyborn
parasite has now been detected in US livestock, but it
hasn't been since nineteen sixty six, So yes, scary phenomenon

(01:47:43):
was a three year old calf in Texas. Flesh eating
parasite can be deadly to animals, but not common in humans,
and they say it is not a food safety risk.
What is the risk is that it kills the cows,
and America's cattle herd already at its smallest since the
nineteen fifties, according to information from the USDA. Rancher's struggling
with rising costs drought, of course, is already an issue

(01:48:05):
in some estates where they raise beef, and a tight
livestock market already has driven beef prices through the roof.
Anybody who goes to the grocery store knows that if
they're interested in beef, the screwworm could exacerbate that if
we don't get on top of it. This has been
your plague update. Stick around. I heart media aviation expert
Jay Ratlift coming up next. I hope you can do that.

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Fifty five car the talk station, the Simply Money, fifty
five K the Talk Station eight twenty nine on a Thursday,
it's a good time to be tuned in the fifty
five Karrisee Morning Show from my subjective point of view,
because gain iHeart media aviation expert Jay Rats to join
the program and talk about sometimes quite comical issues in aviation.
My friend, welcome back to the morning show. It's always

(01:48:49):
great having you on.

Speaker 8 (01:48:51):
Pleasure to get morning to you.

Speaker 1 (01:48:52):
My friend, Hey, I can live on what you made
in an hour. Yesterday, I.

Speaker 8 (01:48:58):
Hey, Jerry was making dinner. She's making cube steak, and
I was in my office shuffling a few papers. Looked up,
saw a couple of stocks that were moving, and yeah,
she was making the cube steak for dinner. I made
that a ninety two hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:49:12):
In an hour. I could live on that hourly rate.
Joe strekkerd just left the building to go sign up
for your training class on trading.

Speaker 2 (01:49:18):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:49:20):
Yeah, that's what Jay does and he does really well
at it. Anyways, pivoting back over to aviation news, which
is why you're really here. A turtle turtle.

Speaker 8 (01:49:30):
Yeah, in the Dallas Airport, we had a turtle that
was out sunning itself and he had a plane that
was departing, and had a rather comical exchange with air
traffic control saying that, you know, I got this turtle
out here in the middle of the runway, right on
the center line, just happy as could be, just sitting there.
And of course it's an issue because anytime you've got

(01:49:51):
a plane landing or taking off, it's a critical moment
of flight and you don't want to have something out
there that you're going to strike that could prevent somebody
from taking off, or an issue with an aircraft landing,
so it becomes a problem. So it's we have birds
a lot of times we talk about as far as
a collision with wildlife, but we also have deer the

(01:50:12):
jump fences and they're out there and sometimes get impacted
by an aircraft. We have that happened quite a bit
at night. We've had moose that have been hit, alligators, snakes, fish,
if you can believe it, that aircraft have encountered out
on the runway. And yeah, turtles. So this was a
situation where you had some flight delayed because of a

(01:50:33):
very content turtle on the runway. And you know, we're
at the airport a lot of times and see those
vehicles going up and down the runway. That's what they're
looking for, any sort of what we call FOD for
an object debris that might have fallen off of an
aircraft or could be you know, some wildlife or remains
of wildlife, you know, that might have been left there
by another.

Speaker 1 (01:50:53):
Critter or some crazy random dude comes thinks it's appropriate
to go running out of the runway and ends up
getting well mowe over or ingested.

Speaker 8 (01:51:01):
Yeah, that's that's happened. Well, it's breakfast time. I'm trying
to be trying to be delicate here, but yes, it's
not a good thing. When that takes place.

Speaker 1 (01:51:10):
Okay, since you provided us a list of random animals
and other critters who have been on runways in the past,
I just have to ask, because you know I've seen
shark Nato. I did waste an hour and fifteen minutes
of my life watching that. Any sharks obviously a joke there, Jay,
unless you tell me, yes, there's this instance of a shark,
cause you did mention fish.

Speaker 8 (01:51:29):
Not yet. Well, yeah, because sometimes bird will catch birds
will catch fish and drop them and they'll be on
the runway and that can create a problem if it's
sucked into an engine, because you know, birds and fish
and different types of things. But to my knowledge, in
the thirty six years i've been doing this, I don't
think I've encountered a shark issue on a runway. But
you never say never, not in this world.

Speaker 1 (01:51:51):
Never say never. I will move. Since this is a
lighthearted topic to talk about, before we get the United
Airlines and their upgrades and engine fires and not kind
of thing, let's talk about visibly intoxicated passengers. What's this
all about with Alaska Airlines?

Speaker 8 (01:52:07):
Jay, Alaska Airlines have been fined. Well, it's a proposed fine,
it's not going to be this, But the FAA, federally
of the AAS Administration is proposing one hundred and sixty
five thousand dollars fine because in the twelve month period
of February twenty twenty four to February of twenty twenty five,
there were eleven instances where passengers boarded aircraft that became

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a problem and in the investigation it was determined, you know,
these people were pretty intoxicated in the in the gate area,
and the airline never should have let them on the
plane because that creates a safety issue for the flight attendants,
for the crew, for the passengers. Blah blah blah.

Speaker 1 (01:52:45):
Huh.

Speaker 8 (01:52:45):
So, yeah, they have this proposed fine, and I keep
saying propose because that's what it is. It's going to
be negotiated down to some insane low number as long
as Alaska promises never to do it again or do
a better job. We have these maintenance sometimes finds a
you know, eleven million dollars that's proposed, and they negotiated
down to one million. If they, you know, promise to

(01:53:08):
change this or that. It drives me crazy because I
want to negotiate down a smeeting ticket, But I don't
think they're gonna let.

Speaker 4 (01:53:14):
Me do that.

Speaker 8 (01:53:14):
I can't go to the irs and say, you know,
can we negotiate this number down as far as what
I've got to pay, That's not going to work. But
with airlines, they they're just no serious consequences a lot
of times for some of the garbage they keep pulling.

Speaker 1 (01:53:27):
Well, I gotta imagine this happened, was this would happen
more often, considering you know, the restrictions on alcohol consumptions
on planes, and you can't buy like nine drinks. So
people load up ahead of time and then get on
the plane because well, some people are stressed out overflying,
and I can certainly understand that, but this is an
FAA rule regarding the regarding an existing obligation on airlines

(01:53:49):
to prevent drunks from getting on the plane. They I
mean they knew about this ahead of time.

Speaker 8 (01:53:53):
Yeah, Because if you see somebody acting in a certain behavior,
it's it's it is the responsibility the airline to try
to keep those kinds of problems off off of a
flight that could create a safety issue or a diverted flight,
or something else that might happen on board an aircraft
because you know, you can never say to somebody, you know,
you appear to be intoxicated, I'm not going to let

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you on the flight. You can say that they appear
to be under the influence of something that's causing them
to act this, or that it could be medication, it
could be a whole bunch of other things that make
people act in a certain way. Somebody may have spilled
a drink on them that they smell like alcohol, but
maybe not had a drink at all, and it's just
a change in medication that's causing them to act in
a certain way. So, but the FAA is saying the

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airlines are responsible for making sure that you don't have
a problem getting on an airplane, and they had so
many of these in that twelve month period of time.
That's one of the reasons that the find was proposed.
And I can't recall ever that we've had the FAA
do this. I'm sure that they have. But keep in mind,
these gate agents, a lot of them are short staffed.
You've got a short window, you are under an incredible

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pressure to dispatch that silver revenue tube on time. And
oh yeah, by the way, I've got to stop and
look at every passenger comes on board to make sure
they're walking straight. Sometimes that's asking a bit much of
them given some of the conditions that we see, at
least in today's airports.

Speaker 1 (01:55:12):
Yeah, and I would think out of it about it's
a caution for fear that there might be some repercussions
against the airline for erroneously flagging someone that they got
to tread lightly and actually telling someone they can't get
on the plane.

Speaker 8 (01:55:23):
We went through tons of training on just how to
address that specific conversation, let alone to carry it out.

Speaker 1 (01:55:29):
Well, let's bring Jay Ratliff back other interesting topics, including
Europe doing something that Jay Ratliff has been advocating here
on our segment for as long as we've been fifty
five KRC the Talk station. Have you ever been in
a cockpit before? Jay Ratliff hass He's I heard be
the aviation expert that we get the pleasure of his
company every Thursday beginning at eight thirty for a few
segments talking about aviation. Is Jay Rattler pivoting over? Hey,

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at least Europe listen to you?

Speaker 8 (01:55:54):
Well, I mean the idea of consequences for your actions
on board a flight, I think is something that makes
common sense. But you know, somebody acts up on a
flight in the United States, especially when it's a physical altercation.
You and I've talked about that so many times before,
where somebody pushes a flight attendant, pushes a passenger, something

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like that, and they're banned from that airline for the
rest of their life, as they should be, but then
they can just skip down the counter to another airline
and off they go. In Europe, they're saying, if you
have somebody that is aggressively or has assaulted a passenger
or a crew member, not only should you be banned
on that airline, but all the European carriers.

Speaker 6 (01:56:35):
Now.

Speaker 8 (01:56:35):
I don't know if it's for a period of time
or if it's a lifetime ban, but certainly I think,
you know, three years, two years, five years, something. The
problem is airlines would then be required in the United
States here to create this database, to share this database,
and it would take time, energy, money, and they're not
going to do it because the airlines are cheap. I
remember when the pandemic was coming around, the government was

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asking for the air lines help in the establishing lists
of passengers on certain flights so that they can provide
to the CDC information on anybody that might have been
impacted or coming from a specific area, and the airline
said no, it would cost too much money. These are
the same airlines where the executives pull hamstrings, running to
the microphones talking about how much they care and how

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safeties are number one concerned and how blah blah blah blah.
But no, no, no, no, no no. If that were
the case, actions would actually support those kinds of claims,
which far too often.

Speaker 1 (01:57:31):
Do not true. But I mean, we do have no
fly list. I mean lists are created all the time.
It doesn't seem to be a big ask. You got
a person who's obviously identified that airline itself can ban
and does ban individuals from flying. Ever, again, let's say
just have them share the information like a central database.
It doesn't seem like that huge of an ask. Jay,

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It's not.

Speaker 8 (01:57:54):
But it requires effort, money and time. And airlines have
pushed back on this from the thing that is just
blowing more brain cells than I can afford to lose.
Is aren't you caring enough about your employees that you
would want to keep somebody that has assaulted? I mean,
what happens if somebody assaults a passenger because of too

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much to drink or whatever on one flight, gets on
another flight and critically injures a passenger or another flight attendant.
I would just think from the legal standpoint of wouldn't
we like to prevent us from being liable for something,
that there would be a lot more consideration on what
you can do. But airlines have resisted this, and even

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in Europe they're talking about some of the legal hoops
are going to have to jump through may make this
an impossible task. But the idea that there's consequences for
those kinds of actions, and again during the pandemic, we
talked about this, but a lot of those were just
over verbal disputes and disagreements and you know, those kinds
of things. But when it comes to assault, totally different

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ball game, and I should have totally different consequences.

Speaker 1 (01:59:02):
Amen, brother, I share that all day long, all right.
Pivoting back one more, the force retirement age for pilots.
This issue, I guess has come up again. We've talked
about this one before too, Jay.

Speaker 8 (01:59:12):
Ratley, Well, during the you know the shortage of pilots
and the things that we saw with the pandemic, and everything.
It was recognized that we need more pilots and we're
forcing them to retire at sixty five. And a lot
of these men and women are in great shape, and
yet we're forcing them and their experience out of the
flight deck and that's really become a problem. So we

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thought that the easiest thing to do would be, you know,
and Lindsey Graham was trying to really push this a
number of years ago, simply raised the retirement age from
mandatory sixty five to sixty seven. It used to be
sixty from the nineteen fifties, and in two thousand and
seven that was pushed to sixty five. And I think
now sixty seven would be great, but a lot of

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the airlines are resisting it. The Airlines Union is resisting it,
really and I don't understand why. So it's got to happen.
And I and now we're seeing more bipartisan support for this,
and Brian, I'm really holding out hope here that something's
good is going to happen because what we have are
seeing far, far, far too often is that we have

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experienced pilots that were kicking out the door that could
do the job. I think for another five years. But
at least if we raised it from sixty five to
sixty seven, it would allow us to you know, slow
down some of the understaffing that's taking place right now
with a pilot shortage.

Speaker 1 (02:00:33):
Well, I guess it seems to me to be well,
it's this, this this issue suggests that the pilots themselves,
I would hope, are regularly subjected to some sort of
medical tests, the cognitive tests to make sure throughout their flying,
whether they're thirty years old or sixty five, that they
have the wherewithal to fly the plane.

Speaker 8 (02:00:52):
Oh yeah, they have their you know, their their physicals
that they go through and you have to prove that
you are fit physically mentally to fly and where you go. Now,
sometimes we're a little soft on the mental side of
the evaluations, but it's still there. It's still something that's
in the process. But it's easy for us to do that,

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and I don't see it as being a problem. But
for some reason, there's been so much pushback from the
lobbying group with with airlines that this thing is really
never pardoned me gotten off the ground. And it makes
no sense to me because it solves a lot of problems.
Plus it allows us to maintain a lot more experience
on the flight deck because we're bringing in a lot

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of really young pilots. So you know, there's just nothing
about it that I don't think is an issue. But
you know, hopefully we'll wake up one day and we'll
actually see this, you know, initiated where we've got pilots
that are going to be able to fly past the
you know six age.

Speaker 3 (02:01:52):
Of sixty five.

Speaker 1 (02:01:53):
Yeah, well, as we go into the next break here,
I just have to observe you. I guess there was
some physician up and wash in DC that gave Joe
Biden clean bill of health and we all know how
well that went out. Anyhow, Jay Ratlift, don't go away.
We've got a couple issues with United and some wake
turbulence injuring some people. So we'll hear from eighty eight

(02:02:15):
here fifty five krcdtalk station Brian Thomas with iHeartMedia aviation
expert Jay Rattle. Pivoting over artificial intelligence in the airline world,
most notably United Airlines, I guess is using AI to
upgrade their systems to deal with delayed and canceled flights.
This is a positive use of AI, Jay I think.

Speaker 8 (02:02:33):
So, they've got something called every Flight as a Story.
It's a program using artificial intelligence to keep passengers updated
on delays to their flight. And the thought is we
can provide this in a timely fashion. It gives passengers
the opportunity, sometimes quickly to change the reservation to another option,

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so that saves their connection. But what they want to
do now is enhance that even more so that you
can communicate not only that there's a delay. Maybe it's
a mechanical