55KRC Tuesday Show - Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
All right, fifty five KRC. He talks stations, Joe Strucker
rolling out to Van Hale, and I'm Dan Carroll and
for Brian Thomas, who's taking a take a little breather today.
So it's my great honor to come before the fifty
five KRC audience here in the morning. I got up, Joe.
I got up early this morning. Well not up, I

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mean relatively relative to coming in and doing this show.
And I was reading last night about the coronal mass
ejection that the sun center our way over the weekend,
and it's gonna be here and you're gonna be able
to see some Aurora borealis in the Cincinnati area starting

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about midnight till about three point thirty four o'clock in
the morning. So I'm up before three and I'm thinking,
I'm gonna go outside and I'm gonna see the northern lights.
I got nothing, Joe, did you even look up this
morning when you came outside? It was cold? I mean

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it felt like it has I mean we have, look,
we've had a few cold days, but this morning I
was thinking to myself, it really feels like January. But nonetheless,
I threw my sweatshirt on ran outside, I'm looking around it.
It was a little cloudy, and I'm thinking to myself,
you know, maybe there's a little bit of an amber

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hue to this, maybe a little you know, maybe just
a little bit of red. And maybe I'm just trying
to convince myself that I've actually seen something. But I
but upon further analysis, I don't think I really did.

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And I'm trying. I mean, this is it seems to me.
In the last seven eight months, we've had a handful
of days where they come out and say, hey, and
I've seen some of the pictures on My wife put
the put the pictures. She's got the Facebook. I'm on Facebook.
I don't look at it all the time. She's got
it on her phone. I don't have it on my phone.

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She looks at it. She hey, look at these pictures.
And people in northern Kentucky, people around the around our neighborhood,
putting these pictures out seeing the northern lights. And I'm
walking outside, I'm looking she's out there with me. No, no,
but three or four times in the last few once
we tried that hasn't happened. And I heard about this

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yesterday and I think I thought, well, you know, I'm
not going to be up at midnight. Hopefully I'll be
in bed asleep at midnight, and when the alarm goes off,
I'm going to set it a little bit earlier, a
little bit before three. Are going to jump up, run outside,
and I'm gonna see the northern lights.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
But nothing.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
So if you saw something five one, three, fifty five hundred,
I'd like to hear if I'm the only one who
missed out. And Joe didn't even look. So it was
too it was too cold. I don't blame him. It's
too cold to look. It's too cold to look up
this morning. One of these days and me, you know,

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maybe I'll just have to bite the bullet and get on,
you know, one of those trips to Alaska or maybe Greenland.
You know, once we take over Greenland, we'll be up there.
I mean, what do you really, what do you make
of that? Uh, I'm I'm gonna hold my fire. Look,

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I do not understand. I understand. On one hand, I
understand when it comes to Greenland the strategic importance of
location wise, and that we need to beat the sovieton
not the Soviet Union, but Russia and China and these

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others to the punch on having control of that. Can
I understand why strategically from a military and national security
perspective space perspective, that can be very important. But the way,
I'll be honest, the way Trump is playing this, I

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don't know that. I don't see his bigger pece. He's
always got a bigger picture. Whenever he makes a move
over here, it's it's because of something else that's going
on that may not be readily apparent. But the bigger
picture on Greenland, I am not an expert on that.
Maybe our guest from bite Bart will have some sense.

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Joe has set up a bunch of guests in the
seven o'clock hour and the eight o'clock hour this morning.
Brother Andre Ewing is going to be here at seven
o five, tom zoatowski seven point thirty, we will talk
to the deputy politics editor Bradley Jay of Breitbart and
get the inside scoop on that. That'll be at eight

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oh five, and then Daniel Davis at eight thirty. So
the last couple hours of the show are really are
really filled up. In the meantime, I've got a couple
of things I want to talk about that I've been
looking forward to talking about I had a chance to
speak yesterday with a young woman. Her name is Julianna Freeman,

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and she wrote a piece in The Federalist a few
days ago. Federal It's a great website always, it's one
of the websites I look at every day, especially when
I'm preparing for this show or the other shows I
do down in the Hall. And so much good coverage.
Molly Hemingway is there. She's the editor in chief I

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believe is her title over there at the Federal List.
It just does a great job and saying so many
great writers over there, so much great perspective on things.
And Julianna Freeman wrote a piece that talks about it's
really aimed at younger generations. Even when I say younger generations,

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younger than mine and Joe Strecker, I think I'm a
little bit older than Joe, but he still we're still
about the same. Joe. You're old enough to remember when
when TV was the three channels, right, ABC, CBS, and NBC.
And you were a kid, right if the president was
on TV. The president was on every channel. You had

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no choice, but you're gonna watch, You're gonna so you remember,
he's old. He's been around long enough to remember those days.
And those days I think were important to us as
a nation because whenever there was a big event, at
least one third of the nation was tuned into that

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big event. Last night was the National Championship football game,
and congratulations to the Indiana Hoosiers. They won that game.
But that was that was a big event. Now we
are you know, we are so fragmented and segmented in
terms of what we are able to look at for

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entertainment purposes. I don't know that one third of the
country saw that game last night. There's a big game.
I'm sure you know the ratings were up there. It
would all be interested to see how many how many
people tuned in, but we don't. The point is, though,
back then, we all we all watched the same TV series,
We saw the big events on TV. We had a

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lot of the same shared experiences, and I think that
went a long way towards galvanizing us as a nation
and getting a lot of Americans on the same page.
But now we really we don't have that anymore. You've
got when it comes to entertain attainment choices, you've got
far more than you can ever in reality be a

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part of, or look at or spend a lot of time.
You can spend a you can spend a little bit
of time with each one of them, or maybe a
lot of time with maybe just one or two. But
there's no way you can see them all. And so anything,
any entertainment venue that satisfies your interest is where you're

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going to go. But Juliana Freemany, a young writer, wrote
a great piece about this, and I'm going to get
into this here in the first hour because it is
just filled with very profound statements and just a lot
of truth when it talks. And she relates this to
civic responsibility and especially what young people are doing with

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and how they're running their lives based on technology. And
it's not and it's not just in the The brilliant
thing about this piece is and I recommend everyone read it.
If you go to the Federalist, look it up. It
was it was it appeared over the weekend and the
title of the piece is parents must actively opt out

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of turning their kids into digital age zombies. And it
was published on January sixteenth, so four days ago. And
I'm going to go through this piece, because there's just
so much great writing and so much great and great
person effective in this. And I had a chance to
talk to her yesterday and she really is an excellent

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young person. So we're going to get into that, and
your phone calls as well. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred as we roll on till nine o'clock
this morning. Dan Carroll sitting in for Brian Thomas on
this very cold Tuesday morning, fifty five KRCV Talk station
w KRC. Since then, right now we have hold on

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one second, we have eleven at fifty five KRCV talk
stations and good morning once again, Dan Carroll in for
Brian Thomas. So I was talking about Julianna Freeman and
the piece she wrote in The Federalist parents must actively

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opt out of turning their kids into digital age zombies.
And it's really not just about parents, but really it's
about all of us. And she starts off about talking
about technology and television and when we were younger, we
were all warned about television when parents fretted over too
many hours glued to the screen after school teachers rolled
in a TV on a metal cart like contraband cultural

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critics caution that the glowing box in our living rooms
might rot our brains. Television was the villain of its age,
and just like social media today, it existed as a passive,
mind numbing force that threatened attention spans in civic life.
Neil Postman took that fear seriously, and in nineteen eighty
five he declared that we Americans are amusing ourselves to death.

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What feels almost quaint now is not Postman's alarm, but
his target. Television was merely the prototype for the power
that cell phones and tablets have over the population. The
danger was never the screen itself, but what happens when
a society allows its dominant media to define how truth
is presented, how politics is understood, and how meaning is measured.

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Think about that. What happens when a society allows its
dominant media? And what is the dominant media today? It's
the cell phone, It's what you see on the cell phone.
In some cases, it's social media or the websites you
look at. But the dominant media is it? It is?
And that's I think that's a serious question that we

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should ask ourselves. Is this defining how truth is presented,
how politics is understood how meaning is measured, and she
goes on to explain herself further. In this piece, Postman
was not arguing against technology. He was warning that every
medium carries a philosophy, and that some philosophies are incompatible

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with serious thoughts. Or Well feared those who would ban books,
Postman wrote. Huxley feared that there would be no reason
to ban a book, for there would be no one
who wanted to read one. George Orwell, the author of
nineteen eighty four, imagined a tyrannical government suppressing the flow
of truth and free speech through pain. Aldus Huxley, who

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wrote the book Brave New World, imagine tyranny through pleasure.
The modern digital ecosystem has reignited the debate as to
whether the United States will devolve into a vision of
Orwell or Huxley. We are not overly constrained by the
heavy hand of federal overlords. Instead, atomized citizens entertain themselves

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into irrelevance. This is how we arrived to a Postman
calls peekaboo news information without continuity or consequence. Stories surface, briefly, disappear,
and are replaced before they can demand action or reflection.
A war, a scandal, a meme, and a sponsored post

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flash before your eyes, quicker than meaningful comprehension. We are
flooded with information postman morn, but starved for knowledge. The
algorithm does not ask whether someone or something is true
or important, only whether it's clickable. And think about that
for a second. Think about and this is something that

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I've talked about many, many times, is that the news
cycle that we have these days, the stories come and
go so fast, and stories that years ago would have
been major stories, major stories with major consequences, stories that
would have led the newscast every morning, every night for

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days on end, with reporters and news anchors digging deep
into these stories to do what to find meeting to
find out why things happen, and if it was something
that was that was wrong, something that shouldn't have happened,
you find out who did it, you find out why
they did it, and then you expose the consequences of

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what their actions were. Do we get that anymore? With
so many major major news stories and what she writes
here is absolutely true. Story surface briefly, disappear and are
replaced before they can demand action or reflection. And I

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mean as a radio talk show host. This is something
I talk about all the time, and I prepare for
shows and I'm like, and I see these stories, and
I come on and I'm telling you, I am going
to talk about this story because it is a major story.
And I present these stories, and then then in the

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course of the same show, there's something of equal importance
that happens and gets exposed. So on one hand, we
are fortunate that we have all the alternative news sources
that we have to bring us this information, but all
of it happens so quickly that we do not have

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the time for meaningful comprehension. We don't have the time
for meaning meaningful exploration, and meaningful ferreting out of all
the information in these stories. That's one of the reasons
I appreciate Brian Thomas and what he does, because he
will on stories of that are of great importance or
he thinks should be of great importance. He will spend

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the time to dig deep into those stories and hopefully
provide some context and some meaning. And that's that's why
I recommend to everyone in this audience to find this
piece and to read it. I'm going to continue talking
about this on the other side of this little break
right here. But it's five twenty five, Dan Carroll and

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for Brian Thomas on fifty five KRCV talk.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Station fifty five KRC now that in New Year.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
That's one of my all time favorite songs right there,
Joe Strecker Scorpions the Zoo. Just great music. I could
I just when I got that on an album and
just absolutely wore out the grooves on that on that LP.
He used to sit around in my dorm room and

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just crank this up as loud as I possibly could, Unbold,
I wanted, I wanted everyone in the building to hear it,
and they did. That was fantastic. I want to get
back to this piece though, and uh, just make a
couple of more points here and then we'll get to
Thomas on the line. We'll get Tom I'm here in
a minute. But the we're talking about, uh, the the

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modern digital ecosystem, and we are talking about the piece
that it was written by Juliana Freeman in the in
the Federalist, and we talked about peekaboo news, how information
appears and disappears and we really don't have the time
for meaningful COMPREHENSI comprehension anymore. We are We are flooded

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with information Postman warned, but we are starved for knowledge.
So think about that. How true is that we have information,
all kinds of information in our fingertips, but do we
really have the knowledge to back it up and be
able to deal with that information in a meaningful way?

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The algorithm. The algorithm does not ask whether something is
true or important, only whether it's clickable clicks equal revenue
for advertisers, big tech company. So in a sense, we
are operating both under the imagined societies of Huxley and Orwell.
Follow the money, the private public partnerships, and you will

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find yourself entwined in a web of commercial interests that
likely do not bend to your benefit. But that doesn't matter,
because you're more concerned with being a participant in the
modern world than untangling something you don't understand. And how

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true is that? I think that addresses so many of
the keyboard warriors that we have these days, so many
people who just put so much stuff out there that
that really carries no meaning at all, but yet to

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them it does because what because they're getting clicks, and
the only reason they're doing it is because they want
to be a participant in the modern world, and it
does it doesn't matter that. I mean, we have so
many people that and I think about this whenever I
see someone with a million different apps on their phone

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and they may be involved in commercial enterprises that do
not bend to their benefit. It benefits the commercial and
this is something that Dave Hatter talks about all the time.
So you want to be part of all that's going on,

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but you're entangled in something that you really don't understand,
and there's just it's just way too confusing to try
and separate it all out. Let's go to Tom Tom.
You're on fifty five KRC Thy morning, Dan going Tom,
I'm going great, great to hear from you what's.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
Going on and any a very unlikely chance that Brian listening.
We certainly hope he feels.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Better, absolutely very soon.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
And then what he's going through, for lack of a
better term, sucks.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Well, yeah, it sucks. And uh, I would imagine that
he's getting some some some shut eye right now, so
more more power to him. I hope he's sleeping.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
All. On that note, during the hours that you mentioned
of when you were talking about that Aurora borealis. I
too was staring at the back of my eyelids, so
uh didn't even actually didn't even hear about it. But
even if I did, I'm not gonna bother.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
With Have you ever have you ever seen the northern lights?
Have you ever had a chance. I've looked to.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
The north that I've seen some lights, So that's I mean,
if I'm gonna go do that, like you said, one
of these days, we're gonna have to go up and
actually see him for real and not wonder if we're
really seeing them, you know what I mean. Yeah, so
you've got to sometimes you got to go through a
little trouble to see something cool. So nothing wrong with that.
On your on your topic that you're talking about, say

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catch twenty two that we were in, because it is
it is nice to have, as you said, it's nice
to have all these different options available to us. And
it takes some it takes some discipline to stop yourself
and and research something and look something up and spend
some time. Uh. Even an example, people that like read

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the Bible and they have a they have a website
that sends them an email with the verse of the day.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yes, uh and and you'll read a verse.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
You know, you'll read a couple of sentences and then
you'll move on. Do you stop yourself and maybe read
that whole chapter, or you know, spend the little time
researching that topic, or you just read that one and
then move on to do a video of something. You know,
we do have to discipline ourselves to stop and look
at stuff and research and pay attention.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
And you know, that's one point. And there's so many,
and I see so many, and especially this one goal.
I don't know what her name is, but she's got
that podcast called I've Had It, and she's out there
and she's bashing Trump every time, and been bashing Republicans,
bashing conservatives, and I mean, when you really stop and
listen to what she's saying, there is really no substance
to what she's saying at all. She's simply she's simply

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repeating the talking points that she gets from the d
n C. And and she was repeating stuff that Jasmine
Crockett says and stuff that AOC says, and and she
and and somehow she's becoming ultra famous because she's able
to regurgitate these lines. But there's really there's really no
substance to anything that she says. And there's a there's
a whole lot of people out there that are capitalizing

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on on that sort of nonsense.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
Yeah, so we had the we had the big three networks,
as she spoke of. But by the way, when you
were talking about an LP, I'm curious if there were
some how many people in your listening audience even knew
what you were talking about.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Hey, vinyls making a comeback. Man, there's all there's all places. Yeah,
I walk into you walk into stores now and there's
racks and racks and racks you can you can find
the people are buying turntables and vinyl records again, and
it's a it's making a little bit of a renaissance
right now. But Tom, we got to run. I appreciate
the phone call, brother.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
Tell everybody don't vote Democrat. Thank you, have a good day.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
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Talk station, and Joe Strecord told me I should know
this song is this Sammy Hagar. I don't want to
say I got it wrong. And it's from a movie
that and he said it's from a Movi movie that
I shouldn't know what's heavy though I didn't know. I

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know it's from heavy Metal. I never did see heavy Metal.
Can't win them all, You can't win them while he tried.
He tried. He thought I was gonna knock that one
out of the park and it was a swing of
the miss. All right, that's on me. Well, you know what,
I never saw. Uh, I never saw Ferris Bueller's Day

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Off either until a few a few summers ago, if
some friends of mine had an intervention they forced me
to watch it because they because they kept dropping all
these references from Ferris Bueller's Day Off and I wasn't
getting it, and they said, you got to see that movie.
So we went over and watched it. All right back
to the piece I'm talking about here, and we were

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talking about how news comes and disappears. We don't have
any meaningful, meaningful analysis of news anymore. But some people,
they a lot of people these days, get involved in
this stuff and they really don't understand what they're doing.
They just want to be part. They just want to contribute,
They just want to be out there in the mix.

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Don't really understand what they're getting into the subtle genius
of the digital ecosystem. Unlike Orwell's nightmare, no one is
forced to comply, unlike Huxley's. Unlike Huxley, some of no
chemical pacifiers required. We volunteer our attention, outsource our thinking,
and mistake constant stimulation for participation. The algorithm flatters us

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by reflecting our beliefs back at us, sharpening tribal lines
while dulling our capacity for doubt. Disagreement becomes hostility, Nuance
becomes weakness, and silence is interpreted as guilt. In a
media ecosystem optimized for affirmation, the pursuit of truth becomes

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socially costly. Consider that American's obsession politics is a symptom
of societal sickness. A healthy society does not experience politics
as a twenty four hour performance that flings in your
face like fragments from debris from a relentless storm. Postman

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warned that when politics becomes entertainment, it ceases to function
as a serious mechanism for self government. Average citizens do
not deliberate. We root for our team instead of trying
to persuade others of our perspective. Gen Z is often
blamed for this lack of seriousness, but that accusation misses
the point. Young people are not the authors of this condition.

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They are its most complete expression. They grow up in
an environment where everything is content, everyone is a brand.
The self becomes something to curate, not something to cultivate.
A culture cannot think itself out of a medium. It
doesn't understand Postman believe that schools or one of the

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last places capable of resisting technological dominance. Instead, we surrender them.
Older gen Z students may remember the elementary school computer
lab as a separate class. Technology was something you learned about. Today,
it is something you breathe. Media and technology are now

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embedded into education. It is omnipresent, largely unexamined, and composed
of substances few fully understand. Teachers tell children that screens,
digital platforms, gamified lessons, and algorithmic feedback are simply how
the world works. But as Postmen warned, technological change is

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not addictive. It is ecological. America did not add media
to its learning, It transformed learning. Itself. The gamification of
serious subjects subjects has consequences. When everything is designed to
be engaging, nothing is allowed to be different. When learning

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must always entertain, boredom becomes an emergency rather than a
teacher or an opportunity to think. America produces students fluent
in interfaces but impatient with complexity. Students are comfortable with
expression but unfamiliar with thoughts, only to grow up into

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adults who vote based on the media's emotional current rather
than opinions rooted in reason and self of sense or
sense of self. I should say some interesting thoughts there,
and we'll break that down on the other side of
this five point forty six on fifty five KRCV talk station,

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Dwayne Brandstetter says he doesn't think he'd be president of
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A Little Detroit Rock City Kiss one of the greatest
of rock songs of all time. Strucker is killing it.

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And he asked me earlier to tell my story about
about the scorpions and the zoo, So I may do
that the next hour, but I want to get back
to this piece and she talks. He was talking about
education now and how you know, one time when we
learned about technology, we used to have computer labs. But
computer labs are gone now and technology is in every
aspect of education. And she's making the case that we

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may not have the full understanding that we need to
of education. Media and technology are now embedded into education,
largely unexamined to compose the substances that we fully understand.
The teachers simply say, this is how the world works,
so this is what we do. The gamification of serious

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subjects has consequences. When everything is designed to be engaging,
nothing is allowed to be different. When learning must always entertain,
boredom becomes an emergency rather than a teacher and an
opportunity to think. I mean, think about that. We have
this sense now that every moment, every waking moment of

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the day must be filled with some sort of stimulation,
some sort of activity in boredom, As she's making the case,
here can be a good thing. The solution is not
to abolish technology, but to separate it from immersion. Technology
and media should be taught as subjects, not atmospheres. Like
history or science. Students would study how digital algorithms shape

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perspective how data is harvested and sold, how platforms incentivize behavior,
how media forms privilege to certain kinds of truth while
excluding others. They would learn when not to use technology,
just as they learn when not to use chemicals or machinery.

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America's teachers must inform students that they have a choice
between using technology and being used by it. The highest
civic skill in the digital age is not coding or
content creation, but the ability to look away And when's

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the when's the last time you hurt anyone? Say anything
like that, The ability to look away using technology. Sure,
it's a great thing, but letting it run your life
is something that we do at our own peril. I
really think that's uh, that's what she is, what she's

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saying here. But schools cannot teach what families refuse to practice.
A child cannot learn to look away from technology if
every idole is filled for them. Parental discomfort with boredom
where emotionally needy children often drives the very dependency educators
are called to undo. Today, many children live in dual

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income households. Both mom and dad are often at work,
other parents are divorced, but the outcome is the same
a discomforted, confused, and overwhelmingly stressed out child left to
their own devices. So the screen offers something irresistibly appealing
escape without consequence. Online identity is malleable, Pain can be muted,

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attention can be curated, and the self can be endlessly
reinvented across user names, platforms and digital avatars. And just
start to wrap this up. If we want to be
a country capable of attention, judgment and self command, the

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work does not begin with schools, platforms or policy. It
begins at home with parents willing to be present, to
be uncomfortable, and to raise their own children. And so,
I mean, all this stuff that she talks about in here,
what our digital society is now, how we view politics,
how we allow ourselves to be controlled by the algorithm

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and the social media and all the rest of it,
And what does it all boil down to. It all
boils down to what happens in the home and parents
who are willing to be a little uncomfortable and be
more than just a buddy or a pal to their kids.
Five point fifty five Dan Carrol for Brian Thomas fifty

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five KRC The Talk Station Today.

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Fifty five k see the talk station six oh six
on this Tuesday morning, Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas. Brian
Thomas taken a little bit of a breathe of today,
So I am glad to be here in his stead
Joe Streker rolling out the van Halen always love that. Joe,

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do you want you want me to tell that that
story right now about the scorpions. He's not answering. So
the last hour Joe Streker rolled out the intro to
the Zoo by the Scorpions, and he said, he said,
you always tell the story about you know when I
played Detroit Rock City And I said, well, I got
a story about the scorpions too. So this goes back

(35:45):
to when I was in the service back in nineteen
eighty one and I went to Okinawa, Japan. And so
back then, the you know, whatever was going on when
you know Armed Forces radio and television. I mean we
had Paul Harvey and you could get stuff on the radio,
but stuff you saw on TV. The TV shows we

(36:08):
had back then were about I don't know seven to
eight months behind what was going on here in the States.
You know, I walked into the the barracks that I
used to live in, and we had a big room
out there with a television in it and everyone sit
around and watch TV. And they had on General Hospital
soap opera, and for some reason back then, I don't

(36:28):
know why, but people were watching General Hospital like that
was that was a big thing. And I had been
looking at it myself and I and I walked in
and I'm thinking, well, I've seen this, say this was
you know, six months ago back in the States. So
also back then when you went to Okinawa, Japan, and

(36:49):
you could purchase very high end stereo equipment at a
relatively cheap price. So everyone in the barracks you know it.
And it was one of the nice accommodations that the
Air Force had, was you had your own room in
the barracks and it was it wasn't anything great, but
it was your own room. And everyone in the barracks
had just unbelievable stereo equipment set up well. And you

(37:16):
and I saw, you know, you spent the first couple
of weeks there and you're checking out, you know, you're
meeting guys, and you're checking out, checking out their stereo equipment,
and they're explaining things to you, and you know, where's
the best place to buy all buy your gear, you know,
your your amp and pre amp and turntables and equalizers
and speakers and all the rest of it. So so

(37:37):
I'm looking at this and I'm listening to the music
these guys are playing. And at that time, no one's
playing The Scorpions. No one. And before I had left
the States, the Scorpions and the and the Zoo, that
album was getting a lot of airtime, played on EBN
and some of the other rock stations around town. And
so I was thinking, well, I wonder why no one's

(37:58):
playing any Scorpions. So I get my, I get my
you know, I've been there a couple of months. I
got a few paychecks under my belt, had some money
scraped together, and went out and made the purchase, bought
an ice you know, stereo, set up audio gear, and
get it all stacked up. And I go out and
find a Scorpions album with the Zoo on it, and

(38:20):
I'm like, man, like, these guys have never heard this
stuff before. Crank that up in the one day and
it was like, the first thing I played, I left
the door open, I just turned I just cranked it
up as loud as I could, and guys start coming
from down the hall and they're sticking their head in
my door. What is that? What is that? I'm like,

(38:41):
that's the Scorpions. I've never heard that before. It was awesome.
And at that time the Scorpions had were relatively new
to the States. They had some commercial success in Germany
and in Europe, so it it's it's not like it

(39:01):
is today, when you know, when when some artists drops
a song, it's immediately all over the world. Back then,
even in the eighties, it took a little time for
music to spread from one country to another. So what
you heard in Europe and what you heard in the
United States could be two completely different things. So the

(39:22):
Scorpions were did not have they Then they put out
I don't know, three or four albums before this album
came out, and so they had some some success with that,
but in the United States they hadn't really didn't have
much of a following at all. And so when that
song came on the radio here, I bought the other
in the album, just fool of great songs, just a

(39:43):
full of great rock, hard rock, hard rock and music.
And it wasn't but a few days later, everyone walk
up and down the hall. Everyone is just cranking that album.
And we played it continuously, wore the grooves out on it.
So that's my that's my star wry about the Scorpions
and the zoo.

Speaker 6 (40:02):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
I want to get into some of the audio that
I brought in today, and this is one from a
couple of days ago, Josh Hawley. There was a hearing,
and you may have heard about this. There was a
hearing in the Senate and the hearing was about was
about abortion pills and you and I guess now, if
if you want to have an abortion, you can you

(40:24):
can send away online, you can get the pills delivered
to your house. And so they were having a hearing
on the efficacy of getting abortion drugs in the mail.
And there there are a lot of people who will
tell you that, oh, this is perfectly safe. You pop
a pill, you have an abortion, no big deal. But

(40:45):
in a lot of cases, there can be a lot
of complications with these abortion drugs. And so the Senate
was having heering a hearing on this is this something
that should be continued. And one of the doctors, a
doctor named Nisha Verma, it was testifying for the Democrats,
obviously in favor of getting your abortion drugs in the mail,

(41:08):
was being questioned and Josh Hawley, it was his term,
to ask some questions, and he was asking one very
simple question that the doctor was struggling with, and it
sounded like this, Joe, let's hear cut number five?

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Do you think that men can get pregnant?

Speaker 7 (41:26):
I hesitated there because I wasn't sure where the conversation
was going or what the goal was. I mean, I
do take care of patients with different identities. I take
care of many women. I take care of people with
different identities, and so that's where I paused. I think, yeah,
I wasn't sure where you were going with that.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Well, the goal is is the truth? So can men
get pregnant?

Speaker 7 (41:47):
Again? The reason I paused there is I'm not really
sure what the goal of the question.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Goal is is to establish a biological reality.

Speaker 8 (41:54):
You just said a moment ago that science and evidence
should control not politics.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
So let's just test that proposition. Can men get pregnant?

Speaker 7 (42:03):
I take care of people with many identities.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
But can men get pregnant.

Speaker 7 (42:07):
Many women that can get pregnant. I do take care
of people that don't identify as women.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
That can Can men get pregnant?

Speaker 7 (42:15):
Again, as I'm saying, let me just.

Speaker 8 (42:17):
Remind you testified to a moment ago. Science and evidence
should control not politics. So should can men get pregnant?
You're a doctor at day.

Speaker 7 (42:27):
Science and evidence should guide medicine.

Speaker 8 (42:29):
I do science and evidence tell us that men can
get pregnant? Biological men? Can they get pregnant?

Speaker 7 (42:34):
I also think yes, no questions like this are a
political tool and.

Speaker 8 (42:38):
No, yes, no questions are about the truth. Doctor, Let's
not make a mockery of this proceeding. This is about
science and evidence. So I'm asking you. You know, the
United States Supreme Court just heard arguments yesterday at great
lengths on this question. This is not a hypothetical question.
This is not theoretical that affects real people in their
real lives. And you're here as an expert, called by
the other side as an expert, and you've been telling

(43:01):
us that you that you follow right, You're a doctor
and you follow the science and the evidence. So I
just want to know, based on the science, can men
get pregnant. That's a yes or no question, it really is.

Speaker 7 (43:14):
I think I think you're trying to reduce the complexity.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
Of a low I'm not.

Speaker 8 (43:18):
I'm trying to get it's not complex. I'm trying to
get to an answer. And I'm trying to test, frankly,
your veracity as a medical professional and as a scientist,
can men get pregnant?

Speaker 7 (43:29):
I think you're also conflating this extraordinary forgot i'mating, okay, Joe.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
So look, you get the idea, you get the flat
And this went on for five minutes. Hey, when you
when you when you're a hearing like that, that's all
you get. You get five minutes, say they ask questions,
and he spent his entire time. And you've got this
doctor nishe Verman. And and in the end, she did
not answer the question. She did not. This is a

(43:56):
This is a woman who is so ideologically drin, who
is so wedded and attached to the leftist agenda. She
dares not break rank with that in order to speak
the truth. And this is one of the major problems
that you have with the left in this country, that

(44:20):
the agenda trumps everything everything else, everything including a simple
truth that men do not get pregnant. But yet she
could not bring herself to speak that simple truth. And

(44:40):
this is a doctor. She knows, she knows the answer,
but yet she couldn't bring herself to say it. Got
to take a break here, We'll continue on with this
five poet three seven fifty five hundred. If you want
to get on board. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty
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Speaker 3 (45:00):
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Speaker 1 (45:09):
Fifty five KRCV talk station. Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas,
just played the clip from the Senate hearing with Josh
Holly asked asking doctor Niche of Verma if men can
get pregnant, and she was She was stumped by that one,
a Democrat witness who was there to talk about science

(45:30):
and truth and how important that all is, but she
couldn't bring herself to answer the question. Jamie, you're on
fifty five krc this morning. How are you, Jamie?

Speaker 9 (45:41):
I'm great, Dan, Thank you so much for taking my call.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Thanks for picking up.

Speaker 9 (45:46):
Yeah, the technology chat has me very interested. I own
a school. We served kids ages three through eighth grade. Okay,
and I'm seeing in real time the kids brains have
extreme difficulty and problem solving critical thinking. We do no
technology at my school until they get to middle school.

(46:10):
Then they use it for very specific purposes. But you're right,
it does start at home. But I think the schools
are going to need to make some radical changes because
they are. I mean, daycares are putting two year olds
on iPads. I know this for a fact. In my community.
It's so outrageous.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
And a two year old on an iPad that that
that that to me just sounds that sounds like an
absolute nightmare.

Speaker 10 (46:39):
It is.

Speaker 9 (46:39):
It's it's like in the moment, it can be calming, obviously,
but the brain gets used to meeting, like you were saying,
constant stimulation and constant you know, life and music, and
it's it's it's really a problem. I mean, it's really
a problem.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Well, Jamie, I'm I'm glad you listened to that piece
because she makes the case in here that boredom is
not a bad thing. Boredom is an opportunity for thought.
Boredom is an opportunity to think about things. Boredom is
an opportunity to step away from the constant stimulation and
rely on your own resources. You know, she writes in here,
the solution is not to abolish technology, but separate it out,

(47:22):
separate it from immersion. She says, you know, technology should
be taught as a subject in school like history or science.
It shouldn't be part of every single thing that you do.
And it sounds to me like that's what you're doing
at the school that you run.

Speaker 9 (47:39):
Yeah, and let me tell you also, when I get
new families, who I mean, I've had kids who are
addicted to video games. They'll do like a thirty or
sixty day challenge and it is unbelievable. The report is
just what you're saying. The creativity increases. They're able to, like,
you know, be by themselves and play and work and
do something thing without constant simulation. I mean, the feedback

(48:03):
from taking it away and it really observing is pretty
pretty amazing. And it's hard, it's absolutely hard, but it's
completely worth it. I mean, you're protecting your child's brain
so that they can think, not only think, but manage
their emotions, you know, come against hard things and not
completely melt down and then be diagnosed with anxiety and

(48:24):
depression because of real life challenges that are going to
come for all of us.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
Yeah, what what do you think when you go to
a social setting, whether it's a family event or an
event where there's people of your own age group who
are gathered at an event. And and I see this
more even with people of my own age. I like
to think that, you know, there's a pretty good group

(48:51):
that I hang around with and and uh, and we
actually sit around and talk to each other, and the
the you know, the cell of the cell phones and
all that kind of stuff as secondary. But I see
time and time again where we go to an event
where there's people around and everyone is staring at their
cell phone and not talking to each other. I think
we have entire generations now who have grown up with

(49:14):
that sort of thing as the norm and just something
that is accepted and that's that's just what people do
these days.

Speaker 9 (49:23):
Yeah, it's really heartbreaking because especially young children, they need
to be conversing, they need to be talking, they need
to be communicating. We don't allow phones like in our
car line. We're very you know, we're not controlling about it.
We're trying to educate, but we need the kids to
arrive to school with their brains available and for every

(49:44):
you know, hour on an iPad or some kind of
device before they come to school. They're literally not available.
They cannot get online with learning for probably twenty to
thirty minutes. So it's really insane. I mean, if parents
really knew what was happening in their brain, in their kids' brains,
I think that they would not be doing it. But

(50:05):
it's such an a normalized phenomenon now, and it's you know,
I'm hoping the tide is turning with articles like what
you just read. So I really.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Appreciate that, Jamie. I appreciate you picking up the phone call.
I appreciate you weighing in on that, and keep up
the great work. And thank you so much for weighing
in on this this morning. And with that we will
move on, Jamie, Thank you so much. Six twenty five
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Speaker 1 (50:47):
Fifty five karc DE talk station, Dan Carolyn for Brian
Thomas this morning five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty
five hundred. Want to get back some of the audio
cuts that I that I brought in this morning, and
this one is the yeah I'm seeing articles pop up
from time to time, and they seem to suggest that

(51:13):
Hillary Clinton, Joe, do you would you think for a
minute that Hillary Clinton is a viable candidate anymore for president?
I mean, hasn't she run her course? But there are
there is I don't want to say it's it's growing
or it's big, but there's still a faction out there
who thinks that Hillary Clinton, it could be a viable
candidate for president of the United States. It may be

(51:38):
slightly bigger than the people. There's still some people who
think Joe Biden not hot to run again. But Hillary
Clinton was on it doesn't matter what she the CNN
or MSNBC and what do they call MSNBC, MS and
ms now they call it. I don't know. I don't know,

(52:00):
I don't know what they YEA. But she was on
one of those shows a day or so ago. And
this is not the first time she has said something
like this. But we just spent the last hour talking
about social media and how it how kids are dealing

(52:24):
with it, and how so much of the population is
dealing with it. Is something that a lot of people
don't really understand, but they get entangled in any way
and we need to have constant stimulation and social media.
There's no doubt it is a very powerful force in
our life today, in society today. And guess who wants

(52:44):
to control all of it? Hillary Clinton. Let's hear cut
number three.

Speaker 11 (52:49):
If the platforms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter x or
Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don't moderate
and monitor the content, we lose total control. And it's
not just the social and psychological effects, it's real harm.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
It's real harm. So there's Hillary Clinton, and God bless her,
she's only looking out for what's best for us because
people like Hillary and those that she surrounds herself with,
and they really are the smart ones. They really are
the ones who need to have total, as she says,
total control of social media, because we all know there's

(53:32):
just so much fake and harmful stuff out there, and
I mean there is. But as sovereign American citizens, as
sovereign individuals unto ourselves, isn't it up to us ourselves
to decide what content we we take in, what content

(53:54):
we believe in, what content we act on. Isn't it? It
takes a village, According Joe Strecker and Hillary Clinton. But
make no mistake, she is still out there and this
is something that she has been preaching for a long
long time. And she and Bernie Sanders and Occasio Cortes

(54:15):
and the squad. And how how grateful would Tim Walls
be right now and this mayor in Minneapolis if they
could control all the media, if they could control everything
that is coming out of Minnesota, and in at least

(54:35):
Minneapolis that is quickly becoming an absolute hell home. And
Stephen Miller from the administration was on, and I've got
a couple of bites from Steve. Stephen Miller is just
just absolutely fantastic as a as a White House advisor,
and he was on. He was talking about laying it out,

(54:57):
why Tim Wall and the mayor there in Minneapolis, why
they want us to see what we are seeing on
TV right now? Cut number two.

Speaker 12 (55:09):
What Democrats are doing is vote harvesting, fraud harvesting, ballot harvesting,
crime harvesting. Ask yourself, why would Fry, why would Waltz
sanction such egregious violence against ice officers? Because they understand
that this scheme, this mass migration scheme, is the heart

(55:33):
of the Democratic Party's political power. It is their plan
for power today and long into the future.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
So they know that if.

Speaker 12 (55:40):
This administration to President Trump is successful in reversing this invasion,
it will deal a generational blow to Democrat political power.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
So they're Stephen Miller laying it out as plainly as
you possibly can that all the activity that we see
whenever there's an Ice agent on the street, all the
people out there, and you got Don Lemon rolling into
the churches now trying to claim that he's just a
journalist just exercising his First Amendment rights. Yes, but Stephen

(56:17):
Miller lays it out as plainly as you can possibly
lay it out. All part of a bigger plan, all
part of we know, we don't want to really talk
about the fraud. We don't want to talk about the
ballot harvesting that goes on. We don't want to talk
about all the other elements that are in play here
for Democrats to maintain their grip on power. I almost

(56:44):
said unbelievable there, but it's really not unbelievable. It's it's
par for the course. Six thirty five at fifty five KRC,
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Little nude Ted Nugent, great stuff here. Remember when he

(57:25):
was in town. Got remember that time Joe Strucker, he
was in town, got arrested for shooting the flaming arrow.
And I was working, I was working overnights, doing news
overnight at over at seven hundred and Ted Nugent actually
spoke to I think it was Channel five that chased

(57:47):
him down and he was talking to me. You know,
got booked into the Justice Center and all that, and
he was talking about how you know he loves all
the sheriff step of ease, they love him. He was
signing autographs, having a great time. So yeah, he got
he got arrested. We got the got those open flame
laws here in Cincinnati back then that could not be tolerated.

(58:13):
One more cut from Steven Miller here, and this is
Steven Miller, and he was laying out if you want
to get a good handle on what the Minnesota fraud
is all about. He lays this out as only Steven
Miller can cut. Number one.

Speaker 14 (58:28):
Believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the
single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in
American history. We believe that we have only scratched the
very top of the surface of how deep this goes.
And you're familiar with all the scams, with pretending that
children have autism who are not in fact autistic, with

(58:50):
pretending to enroll people in food programs when in fact
nobody was ever enrolled, and engaging in massive fraud, lying,
and theft and grift on a scale we've never seen
before in American history. The total bill, the total tab
for this is going to be far beyond the numbers.

Speaker 15 (59:08):
We've already seen reported.

Speaker 14 (59:09):
We believe the state government is fully complicit in this scheme,
and we believe that what we are going to uncover
is going to shock the American people.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Look based on the.

Speaker 14 (59:19):
Rutgers that we already have, this is a significant undercount.
By the way, seventy five percent of the Somali population
in Minnesota is on welfare. That's likely a significant undercount
of just how much of a financial burden the Somali
reffigee population is imposing.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
On this country. So they're Stephen Miller and I think
that's one of the elements of this story that we
are largely forgetting about is not only was this Somali daycare,
this was the Feeding our Children program. They called it

(01:00:00):
Feeding the Future. And I believe this was really the
first element, the first component of this that was exposed
by the investigations that found I believe the number is
around sixty individuals already convicted in many of these cases

(01:00:20):
where they said they were feeding all these children on
a daily basis, tens of thousands of them, and it
was being done at a little, tiny restaurant, a restaurant
that's probably smaller or about the same size as the
studio I'm sitting in right now. How do you feed
tens of thousands of children out of a facility this

(01:00:42):
size every single day. And the fraud went on for years,
and they just said, hey, we're feeding all these kids.
Here's a government check has started doing the wluhan and
they just kept coming. And then you have the specter
of signing your kids up. Hey, I've got an autistic kid,

(01:01:04):
and God bless anyone with an autistic kid, and I
hope you get all the help that is out there
available to you. And this is what they were doing.
You have just some of the I think who sits
around and thinks of a scheme like this, Hey, we

(01:01:24):
can say we're treating autistic children. You get parents to
come in, parents, have a baby, cug go visit the
autistic clinic down the road there and you sign up.
You get a little kickback, you got some money coming in.
And then you go to another clinic and you sign
your kid up there, and another and another and another.

(01:01:44):
And then you have the housing aspect, housing for people
who are drug addicts, people who are veterans, people who
are elderly supposed to be helping out with some housing
issues there. That's a whole other component of the fraud.
So it's a lot more than just the daycare. You
have the transportation companies.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Try.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
These transportation companies were set up and they were we're
giving people rides to their doctor's appointments, people who need help,
and you know we're doing this. We're doing that all
this transportation. One hundred bucks a ride, five hundred bucks
for this, five hundred bucks for that. And after a
while that starts to add up. So Steven Miller is

(01:02:28):
talking about they just scratched the surface on this, and
so do Tim Walls and do the does the mayor
need to keep the distractions out there, I mean the
what do they take over yesterday, Joel Walmart? Not a Walmart,
but as Target store. What's the purpose of that? What?

(01:02:52):
What does what does Target have to do with any
of this? I don't know, but they were in who
knows where? Do we know where they're gonna be today?
Are they gonna take over a Bucky's? They gonna No
one's gonna be able to get a brisket surround the

(01:03:15):
brisket table. You get all the Karen's out there with
their whistles and drums and no more, no more brisket
until they until they get their way. Sex forty five
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Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
Six fifty On this Tuesday morning, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas,
gonna be talking with brother Andre Ewing in a seven
o'clock hour, So I am looking forward to that and
we'll be kicking around some local issues. I want to
just wrap up the audio that I brought in this morning.
And I saw this cut late last night and it
appeared on my social media, and this is this goes

(01:03:58):
back to twenty ten. And so this whole notion of
going out and trying to get illegal aliens out of
the country, it is nothing new. What is new is
all the angst and all the protests and all the
phony Bologney gnashing of teeth and people being upset about

(01:04:21):
this and AA, these are our neighbors, and we're not gonna,
you know, we're not gonna let the Trump administration come
in and do what, you know, act like Nazis and
the Gestapo and all that. This goes back to twenty ten.
Here's a blast from the past. Janet Napolitana, who was
the director of Homeland Security. She was the Secretary of

(01:04:43):
Homeland Security under Barack Obama, and here she is extolling
all the virtues of the Obama administration and how they
dealt with the illegals in this country. Joe, can we
please hear cut number four.

Speaker 6 (01:05:00):
We are here today to announce our progress on immigration
enforcement over the past year. But before I give you
some of the numbers, I'd like to step back and
provide some context to our immigration and border security efforts
as a whole. Since the beginning of the administration, we

(01:05:22):
have really I think strengthened the federal government's approach to
immigration enforcement, both at the border but also in the
interior of the country. We have deployed unprecedented infrastructure, unprecedented
technology manpower, particularly along the southwest border, including more than

(01:05:42):
seventeen thousand Border Patrol agents and twelve hundred National Guard
currently stationed at the southwest border.

Speaker 5 (01:05:49):
So I am very.

Speaker 6 (01:05:50):
Pleased to be standing here with our colleagues today to
say that as a result of this new strategic approach
and fiscal year two ten, immigration and Customs enforcement has, indeed,
as the Assistant Secretary said, broken a number of records. First,

(01:06:10):
in fiscal year twenty ten, ICE removed more than three
hundred and ninety two thousand illegal aliens, the most removals
in our or the highest number of removals in our
nation's history, and over twenty three thousand more than fiscal
year two thousand and eight. One half of these removals,

(01:06:32):
more than one hundred and ninety five thousand were convicted
criminal aliens. That is itself another record that, to give
you some context, is seventy percent more criminal aliens than
were removed by the previous administration in fiscal year two
thousand and eight. These record breaking statistics in twenty ten

(01:06:57):
built on the historic work that we began in two
thousand and nine. ICE has significantly increased the audits of
employers and the prosecutions of employers who repeatedly and egregiously
hire illegal workers.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
All right, Joe, so Jane, I mean, this cut goes
on for about four minutes, but I think we get
the idea there. Listen to listen to Janet Napolitana from
twenty ten, and listen, this is some harsh language. This
is and and not even the majority she will what
she say about half half convictions, half are half engaged

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in criminal activity, the number of illegal and what was
she called them? Illegal aliens, illegal criminals. I mean, that
is some That is some harsh. Are we even allowed
to say that anymore? And you say that these days
and people want to have a bother? No one's illegal.

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This is the Obama administration. Where were all the demonstrations then?
Where were all these people who had to go out
and now they have to go out and stand up
and protect their name? Where were they then? Did we
see any of this in twenty ten? All this these
were democrats. You will never hear a Democrat talk like

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this today, But back then there was no one, no group,
no political group that was stronger on the idea of
getting illegals out of the country. And she also said
in there that what ice. Yes, we had ICE back
in twenty ten, and they were working with what state

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and local law enforcement. Great cooperation there, and we had
we had calmness on the streets. We didn't have all
this crazy crap that's going on now. What changed? What's
the difference? Something to think about for the rest of
your morning. After the news here at the top of

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the hour, Andre Ewing will be here in studio and
we will be kicking around some local issues, so we
invite you to stay tuned for that. Dan Carroll in
for Brian Thomas on fifty five krc the talk station.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
Today's top headlines coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
Fifty five KRCD Talk Station seven o five. I'm on
this Tuesday morning, Dan Carol, sitting for Brian Thomas, who
was getting a little getting a little R and R today,
so good for him and we we'll see what happens tomorrow.
In the meantime, we have my first time meeting brother

(01:09:51):
Andre Ewing, who has graced us with his presence in
studio this morning and Andre Ewing, Welcome to fifty five KRC.
It's good to meet you, sir.

Speaker 5 (01:09:59):
Good to meet you.

Speaker 16 (01:10:00):
Well everything everything is beautiful this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
You are bundled up, my friend. Yes, sir, you're free
to take that jacket and that if you if you feel.

Speaker 16 (01:10:11):
I'm prepared this how this is how I work out
in the gym. I work out to be hot.

Speaker 5 (01:10:16):
I'm not.

Speaker 16 (01:10:16):
I'm not here to just show off the muscularity. I
need to be hot when I'm in the gym.

Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
All right, Well, it's uh, it's great to meet you.
Former Cincinnati Police.

Speaker 5 (01:10:29):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
How long on the job?

Speaker 16 (01:10:31):
Close to thirty years? Just shotted thirty years, yes sir,
yes sir.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
How hard is it to walk away?

Speaker 5 (01:10:38):
Oh? It wasn't hard at all. It wasn't hard at
all for you, not at all.

Speaker 16 (01:10:42):
I checked all the boxes, did exactly what I needed
to do, served to the best of my ability, and
just had an awesome time serving the community and doing
what was necessary. And it was time to finally just
move on to better things.

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
So thirty years on the job. What the things that
you do now? You do a lot on social media,
you comment a lot on what is happening in and
around Cincinnati as it relates to police issues, safety issues.

(01:11:18):
What kind of perspective has that given you? What was
given me now that now that you were on the
inside and that now you're outside looking.

Speaker 16 (01:11:26):
At I would give me a lot of perspective. And
I've tried, even in my lengthy career to what I say,
exercise my gifts to the command staffs, give them the
knowledge of interacting with communities, and it's really given me
a true focus on what is happening today. And when

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I was on here last time talking to Brian, I'm
just disappointed in a lot of the community activities and
involvement that the police is not being able to do
and implement at this pretty time.

Speaker 5 (01:11:58):
And we always see that they're always late.

Speaker 16 (01:12:02):
When I mean late is is we should have done this,
but we didn't do this. The police is not in
line with council. Council, UH is not in line with
the mayor. The mayor is not aligned with the chief.
The chief is not aligned with the city manager. And
why what I call it is one big hot mess.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
It is it is a hot mess. And UH, I
don't know if you heard Chris Chris Smithman yesterday. But uh,
I I was trying to check myself after the most
recent election, and there was a there was a shooting
that happened. And this is not the one that was
in the West End where the eleven year old girl

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was killed. This was one that happened, and and it
was it was just a day or two after the election,
and there and and and I said, you know what,
this is what the people of Cincinnati voted for. The
people of Cincinnati voted for a city council that does
not feel the need to address crime in a serious way.

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We have a mayor who talks about it and says
he's got a plan for this, that and the other thing,
and then comes out on his inauguration day and says, hey,
we're going to have public we need public safety. We're
going to have to ask you to dig a little
bit deeper, caugh up a little bit more money. Well,
I think we have a city manager who is in

(01:13:22):
over her head when it comes with dealing comes to
dealing with serious issues like this. And so I asked
Chris smith and I said, am I off base here?
Suggesting that this is what the voters the small amount
of voters who turned out in this last election cycle.
I said, is this what representative of what they voted

(01:13:44):
for to continue these kind of policies? And he said, yeah,
I'll ask you the same question. Is this what the
majority of voters said? We're fine with the way things
are going at City Hall because everything that's going on
right now now was going on before. And I don't
see anything to indicate that there's going to be any

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sort of meaningful change or this will be addressed in
a meaningful way.

Speaker 16 (01:14:10):
Correct, to make it straight and simple, Yes, you get
what you want. It looked like a duck. Quite like
a duck. Walk like a duck. It's a duck. After
that was very clear, he said that he was gonna
raise taxes, whether it's through the public safety or whether
it's through housing. He told everybody he was gonna raise taxes.

(01:14:30):
So at this point, are you surprised? And my surprise,
absolutely not, because we've already seen the body of work.
So to be honest with you, at this point, no
one should be shocked. No one should be surprised because
we've seen how the administration operates, and this is what
you get when you deal with this type of process,

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in this type of system, so I keep things straight
to the point, Brother Dan, I'm not surprised, and it's
going to continue to get worse. The tax are going
to get slammed, and this is going to be one
of the worst summers that is going to happen here
in Cincinnati. I've predicted it several times on my pages,
and everything I've predicted has come to pass. Dealing whether

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it's city issues, whether it's being homicide, whether it's being
crime constantly going up within the community. It all has
been predicted and come to pass. Just like with the
issues that went on with Captain Denita Pettis, I predicted
she was going to get everything back, all back paying benefits,
and when she was terminated I immediately came out with

(01:15:37):
a post and told her to hold your hell up.
How Why? Because I knew the system, I knew how
vicious the system could be.

Speaker 5 (01:15:45):
I knew she was a target, And here we are
today she is.

Speaker 16 (01:15:49):
A one hundred percent winner and has been awarded everything back,
paying all benefits.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
Yeah, I'll be honest. I did not follow the Thenita
Pettiest story all that closely when it was rolling out
in real time. But when I saw the statement that
Ken Kober put out on this a couple of days ago,
I read that and it just just it just smacked
to me of that there was heavy handed political influence

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in everything that surrounded her. Correct, correct, And that, to
my way of thinking, that is not what the Cincinnati
Police Department should be about. I think we had a
long history with the Cincinnati Police Department where they were
in a position to resist that sort of thing. I mean,

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there are stories about Tom Striker when he was the
police chief. You know, he would have, you know, the
mayor or other political figures would walk into his office
and say Chief, I need you to do this, that
and the other thing, and he would say, there's the door,
get the hell out of my office. So I think
the ways that we have things set up now that

(01:17:04):
the chief doesn't have that same ability. And I say
resist because I'm not naive enough to believe that there's
never any political influence in the police department. But I
think it's gotten to such a point now to where
it's sort of part and parcel of the everyday activity
right right.

Speaker 16 (01:17:21):
But I'm gonna ask you, brother Dan, what's the truth
right now? What is actually the truth where everybody is
putting blame on everybody, when I've been very consistent. I've
actually said, from the mayor, from the city manager, from the.

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
Chief, get rid of all of them.

Speaker 16 (01:17:36):
See, I'm not just gonna point the finger at one person,
because this is an entire body of work. And when
you have an entire body of work like this, no
one gets a pass from me, not one particular person.
And this is where we have to be honest and
real about the situations. And I have proof just looking
at the report, even from the decision from the arbitrators

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and attorney Kimberly Rotowski is clear and she said it
not in her twenty plus years has she ever seen
anything as egregious as this particular arbitration filing and what
the city did to captain Denita Pettis.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
So, and you know what, you you asked me, what
what is the truth right now? And we got we
got a break coming up here. So I will tell
you what. I what my perception of the truth. And
look what my perception of the truth is may not
be actually true, but I can I can I can read,
I can look, I can see what's going on, and

(01:18:38):
I know, I know the message that I think that
is being sent forth and it's it's it's not one
that that we should be proud of.

Speaker 5 (01:18:48):
That's right. So that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:18:49):
Yeah, So I'll expound that. We got to get to
a quick little break here and we will continue with
brother Andre Ewing on the other side of this, Dan
Carroll and for Brian Thomas on fifty five ARC. The
talk station Experience, Comfort and Reliability was zimmer HVAC for
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(01:19:10):
about being an individual.

Speaker 5 (01:19:11):
Come on, let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
You know what I'm saying, Yes, sir, you know did
you hear christ Smitherman yesterday talking about his thoughts on
MLK that he had an hour on with Brian Thomas yesterday?
It was that that was just a great hour of radio.

Speaker 16 (01:19:23):
He is so passionate. Shout out to Christopher Smitherman.

Speaker 5 (01:19:27):
He is amazing.

Speaker 16 (01:19:28):
He's passionate, extremely intelligent, and the city passed up on
a very very educated and reasonable man. And I just
want to give him a shout out. Awesome father, and
awesome just mentor. And I appreciate him in every way.

Speaker 1 (01:19:48):
Yeah, he loves the city. He loves Hamilton County. He
wants only the best for this city and it it
pains him to see the path that that we are
taking as as a city right now. So you asked
me before, you know what, what's the truth? Well, the
truth as I see it, is that the message that

(01:20:09):
is going out right now is that crime pays in
the city of Cincinnati. When I see a settlement of
eight point one million dollars, that is going to be
a financial windfall for hundreds of individuals who came into
our city, that that broke curfew, that damaged property. There

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was a Cincinnati police officer who, thank god he had
a kevlar helmet on, that was hit with a bullet.
The notion that because you had and I remember saying
this at the time back in twenty twenty, and I
would go to my TV every night. My wife would say,

(01:20:51):
what what do you want to watch on TV? I'd say, well,
I'm gonna I'm gonna watch the riots tonight. See. You know,
is it Philadelphia, is it Chicago? Is it some other
city that has cars overturned and things are burning and
all the rest of it. You know, we was going
on in Minneapolis, and so he had all these riots
that were spreading all across the country, all these different cities, right,

(01:21:13):
and then it tried to come to Cincinnati, and I said,
Cincinnati police did the right They nipped this in the butt.
We had some sort we had what there was like
forty different businesses had their windows broken out, damage, all
kinds of just terrible things that was going on, and
Cincinnati police nipped it in the butt and did what

(01:21:33):
they could. Then John Cranley comes out, the mayor, and says, Purfew,
We're not tolerating this. We're going to shut it down.
People go out the next night, they get arrested, hundreds
of people. The only place they can go is to
the Hamilton County Justice Center. Takes a while to get
them all into the justice center. And so based on

(01:21:55):
that that they were you know, they had to sit
outside for a little while, or maybe they didn't get
a bottle of water, you know, maybe they didn't have
their medication with it. So they sue and then we
turn around and say we're going to pay these people
eight point one million dollars. Then Ken Kober comes out
a couple of weeks ago and says he's caught wind

(01:22:16):
of that there could possibly be a settlement in the
works for the Hinton family. A terrible tragedy with that
young man who decided to boost some cars with some
buddies of his. They get caught by police, they run,
he's got a gun, turns toward police, and all those
sort of facts get blurred that they're talking about a

(01:22:39):
settlement with him. Then we have the settlement that gets
announced with the other young man whose name escapes me
at the moment, who also pointed a gun at police.
Was there some question there, possibly, but the police were cleared.
We don't stand behind them. So the message that is
going out is that crime pays in the city of Cincinnati.

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And I think those who are of such a mind
look at that, see what's happening, and the results are
what they are.

Speaker 16 (01:23:11):
Well, the bottom line, Dan, is that there's no trust
in this city, zero trust, and crime does pay. Excuse me,
And that's obvious from what we see on a daily basis,
And there's no real structure of what we see. And
that's why I said that the city is broken. The
structure is broken, and something needs to pull back this

(01:23:33):
entire process. And of course, since we have four more
years of administration and council, we're going to get the
exact same results. There's something that's going on with the
city manager writing all these checks, feeling very very passionate
about giving individuals large sums of money regardless of the

(01:23:57):
facts or even how the information comes out. And this
is where we have to really look at what is
going on with our city leaders that none of them
are on the same page. And when you lose trust,
you lose the community. When you lose the community, you
are in trouble. And this is a clear fact of

(01:24:18):
how these situations go. But even taken further when we
talk about, say the collaborative agreement that everybody brings up.
But what's interesting, within like a twenty four to fourty
eight hour period, they have to show the family the
video tape of what the shooting and what has occurred immediately. Now,
really that is backfired because emotionally, you bring in a

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father and that's what they're claiming now that he witnessed
his son being a shot and killed writing on a video.
But now there was no structure in place, and they
just allow him to leave without proper council, proper care,
proper prep to show you what's going on. And he

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leaves this situation and then goes kills Officer Henderson. So
now they need to re evaluate the entire collaborative agreement.
And what does it look like for someone to review
your child or your loved one being murdered. Yeah, that
would shock anybody. I don't care who you are. That

(01:25:22):
will shock anybody. But now what do we do when
we just allow a system to just tell you and
demand I never like the situation of just releasing information
immediately within like twenty four hours, because there's so much
deeptail that needs to be expressed. And so what do
you get. You get emotion versus reason. And when you

(01:25:42):
deal with that, brother Dan, you get a hot mess
once again is what you have in this city. But
you know, I know that. With all that being said,
I wanted to get on the situation, which you know
Captain Pettis and how she scored super super high on
all these exams.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
Yeah, you've brought the receipts right here.

Speaker 16 (01:26:00):
I brought the receipts second highest lieutenant score when she
was twenty fourteen to twenty fifteen, second highest captain score.
So there was no DEI for Captain Pettis.

Speaker 5 (01:26:12):
This woman is brilliant.

Speaker 16 (01:26:14):
She has skills. I mean, her resume is incredible. She
was she served in the Record's commander. She was a
Special Service Section Commander, Guns Crime Tour Task Force Commander,
Planning Section Commander, Civil Disturbance Response Team Commander, and a
subject matter specialist when it comes to promotional exams this woman.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
That was something yeah, and that was something you mentioned
to me when you walked in this morning, that she
is not a DEI Higher And I have not seen
individuals who are criticizing her in that sort of way.
But you're telling me that there's a I guess there's
a faction out there that is suggesting that Captain Pettis
was a DEI Higher.

Speaker 16 (01:27:00):
As Absolutely on the social media pages that that we
always see that they're saying because she's a black woman,
she must have just didn't earn it. But I'm here
to sit back and say it's clear that it's obvious
that she earned it. And obviously when the arbitrators, three
of them, mind you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:17):
And don't know what the hell they're talking about.

Speaker 16 (01:27:20):
Absolutely, yes, sir, And that's why I said that Chief
Thiji doesn't get a pass. We can't just put this
on the city manager, because even in the Chief Thiji's
own writing, she said, I'm disapproving Chief McKinley's recommendation he's
a fire chief and recommending Captain Pettis be dismissed from

(01:27:41):
the CPD.

Speaker 5 (01:27:42):
So don't put it on Cheryl Long.

Speaker 16 (01:27:45):
Sure a Long messed up by just taking a piece
of paper and just signing it. You you don't sign
anything or concur with anything until you read the fine print.
And this is where counsel and everyone else instead of
making all these payoffs, even with Michael Washington, I give
him a shout out. People better start sitting back and

(01:28:06):
reevaluating the whole charter on the power of the city
manager because she is making a wreck of this entire city.
And how much money do the taxpayers have?

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
Well, it seems that and we got to run. But
it seems to me that her way of doing business
is to reach into the treasury and write write a
check in order to address an issue.

Speaker 5 (01:28:32):
And I will never ever solve anything.

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
Absolutely. Pastor, you're also a pastor, leave us with before
we let you go, leave us with a good word
that we can we can think about during the course
of the day.

Speaker 16 (01:28:44):
What a good word is out of the abundance of
the heart. The mouth speaks and you have to be
careful what is in your heart. And so when you
see somebody today, don't judge them. Go into them, look
them in an eye, tell them you love them, tell
them dah bless them. And won't you actually pray with them,
talk with them just for a moment. You might be

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surprised what you both.

Speaker 5 (01:29:07):
Have in common.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
Andre Ewing, great to meet you, my friend. Likewise, I
hope you get a chance to do this again.

Speaker 5 (01:29:13):
Yes, sir, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:29:15):
Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas on fifty five KRC de
Talk Station Football postseason lip fifty five KRC The Talk Station,
Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas, want to thank brother Andrea
Ewing for being here in studio. First time I had
a chance to meet him, so that was a great
conversation and also looking forward to speaking with our next guest.

(01:29:37):
Tom Zelatowski runs the website we the People Convention dot
org and Tom, it's great to have you on fifty
five KRC this morning. How are you, Good morning.

Speaker 17 (01:29:46):
Dan, glad to be with you, Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (01:29:49):
Thank you for being here. You know I told this
story last week on one of my shows on seven
hundred and I was saying that in the news business
here locally, he used to say that every national story
has a way of touching Cincinnati. And so I see
this story about Jim O'Neil, Deputy Secretary and the Apartment

(01:30:12):
of Human Services came out and he talked about Abukar Osmon,
who was Somalia's permanent representative to the United States, to
the United Nations and the UN Security Council, and records
show that he has ties to Ohio and a Cincinnati
company that had to pay ninety thousand dollars in restitution

(01:30:33):
for medicaid fraud. So it is absolutely amazing, and I think,
you know, there are calls now by some state lawmakers
who are talking about investigating some of the daycares and
other fraudulent situations that may have appeared in and around
the Columbus area. So when we look at this story

(01:30:56):
about what's going on in Minnesota, I think a lot
of us need to be aware that it's not just
happening in Minnesota, but really it sort of has its
fingers and tentacles touching a lot of us right here
in Ohio.

Speaker 17 (01:31:10):
Well, you know, people just forget how long this has
been going on, the Somali problem in Ohio, Dan, you know,
we were the Tea Party movement was screaming about this
when they first arrived, you know, fifteen years ago or
whatever it was. Because what's amazing about this story is
that it's like Springfield with the Haitians, right, you know,

(01:31:31):
where over night these people just show up in your
community with no plan.

Speaker 1 (01:31:36):
Right.

Speaker 17 (01:31:37):
It's not like, hey, we're going to bring ten thousand
people to your town, and here's federal money for housing
and for food and for medical and to help with
you know, interpreters at your schools. Oh no, no, you know,
Catholic charities just brings them in because they get billions
of dollars to help, you know, break our immigration laws,
and they just bring them in and drop them off. Well,

(01:31:57):
when they did that outside of Columbus, the sheriff was
going Bizerko because they were having the same problem they
had in Springfield. There were car accidents because they were driving.
They didn't know how to drive our cars, they didn't
know our rules, they couldn't speak English. The schools were
a disaster because they were just inundated with all these
children that didn't speak English, and nobody would do anything

(01:32:19):
about it. We brought it to the attention of Chasik,
you know, and then and then the wine, and look
at what the wine did with Springfield. He just kind
of like said, there's plenty to see here, Dan, there's
plenty to see and it ain't good.

Speaker 1 (01:32:33):
Well, why do you think that is? Why do you
think there's at least on the part of the governor
that there's really no appetite to investigate this or get
to the bottom of it, or even try and separate
in a meaningful way what is true and what is
not true. It is It is amazing to me. Look,
fraud is fraud. Ripping off the government or ripping off

(01:32:55):
anyone is ripping people off. It doesn't matter where you
come from. It doesn't matter what your heritage is. If
you're an American, I don't want you to do it.
If you're an immigrant, I don't want you to do it.
If you're an illegal alien, I don't want you to
do it. But yet there's no appetite on the part
of the governor and his staff, I guess to really

(01:33:15):
get to the bottom of this. So now there's a
growing body of lawmakers in Columbus who want this looked into.
But as you said, I mean, you know this, this
horse has been out of the barn for a long
time already.

Speaker 17 (01:33:27):
Well, so you know what do we as people do
you know, as citizens? Because I just think that you
know again and you were right as listen says you
earlier in the podcast show here where you know this hold,
the riots and the anti ice stuff is a distraction
from the real issue, which is the fraud. What's interesting
is that, you know, for all of us, you know,

(01:33:49):
what's going on up there with Ice doesn't really affect
I don't have ICE agents knocking down the doors of
my neighbor's house. I don't have some allays in my town.
But we all have our tax dollars there. And the
outrage among the American people about this stuff, I just
don't think the political class really understands how deep and

(01:34:11):
how serious it is. We are pissed, people are angry
because this isn't just Somali's It's just not in you know, Minneapolis,
it's here in Ohio, it's in Maine, it's in Washington state.
Boy boy, wait till we get into Los Angeles. And
New York. If you want to see what fraud is.
Our problem is what are our senators and congressmen doing

(01:34:33):
to stop it? And my position is not.

Speaker 1 (01:34:36):
Nearly enough, not nearly enough, absolutely, So I want to
continue on with this topic and I want to sort
of pivot into how this is going to relate to
evak Ramaswami and what he's saying about these issues. But
we got to get to a quick break right now.
Tom z Allatowski, stay right there. Will continue on on
fifty five KRC, the Talk Station.

Speaker 5 (01:34:58):
This is doctor Jesse Mills, host of the Mailroom podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:35:01):
KARC the talk station fifty five KRC, the Talk Station
seven on this Tuesday morning, continuing our conversation with Tom Zawatowski.
We the People Convention dot Org and Tom, so, we've

(01:35:22):
got a big governor's race coming up in the in
the fall, and I was talking to Alex trianta Filou
yesterday and he was talking about the campaign that the
viak Ramaswami is running. So far, so good, it looks like,
but I'm also a little bit concerned that h that

(01:35:44):
I guess the message that he's got could get could
get watered down or overrun and somehow, I hope this
doesn't happen, that Amy Acton could jump up and surprise
a lot of people come this fall. How how you're
sizing up that race so far, Well.

Speaker 17 (01:36:04):
You know, I'm I'm very confident, uh, you know, with
you know what's going on as far as you know,
our election here in Ohio. I think, Dan, the biggest
problem for us is to get our voters to turn
out without Trump on the ballot. I think that's really
the issue. And uh, you know, the Bank was on
last night on Jesse Waters Show addressing you know, the

(01:36:25):
situation Minneapolis, and and boy, you know, he's just so articulate,
and he's so really just clear on his positions. You know, people,
you know, people ask me, like, you know, we're the
tea party I you represent you know, the grassroots people
here in Ohio have for sixteen years, and they say, well,
what do we want most? We want to restore equal

(01:36:47):
justice under the law. We want to restore the rule
of law. And but they talked about that when he
said that, you know, we're not going to let Ohio
become Minneapo Minnesota. We're going to you know, work with
the federal government. We're going to worst federal law. Even
though you know, the state doesn't enforce it. They do
work with ICE and the FBI and the DOJ and
HHS and all those guys. And it was good to

(01:37:09):
see him say that. But it was great you had
Alex on. I love Alex you know, he's a really
good leader of the Republican Party. But if you don't mind,
I want to talk a little bit about some skull
drudgery that's going on with the Republicans in Ohio that
everyone in the state should understand. I always say that
the Columbus cartel, you know, is just as bad as

(01:37:31):
the deep state in Washington. And it's and here's a
perfect example, and involved Cincinnati, and it involves the whole state.
You know that we wanted to redistrict because Ohio had
the potential to pick up three seats. We could have
made Cincinnati more competitive than the first district. We could
have made Akron the thirteenth district, which was lost by

(01:37:53):
only two percent two years ago, we could have won
that House seat, and then the ninth district up in Toledo,
where seventy nine year old Marcy Captor has been hanging
on forever. We were going to redistrict that. So what happened, Well,
instead of redistricting to win all three seats, they ended
up redistricting the Toledo district to be like a plus

(01:38:14):
ten district, like you could win it with a toaster, okay.
And they didn't help the first and they didn't help
the thirteenth. And the whole reason for that, I was
told was that Rob McCauley, our Senate President, was going
to run in Toledo, and his Senate district was up there,
and he expanded the district to include him. Well, then,

(01:38:35):
as you guys know, Rob McCauley ended up running with
the bike as his lieutenant governor. And so we're like, okay,
we're really mad because President Trump needs as many House
seats as we can get and they didn't do the
resisting right. Well, what happens in the ninth district. Just
this week, all of a sudden, this woman shows up.

(01:38:57):
Her name is Madison, she had sh Aha n She's
twenty eight years old. She's never run for any position ever.
She was working at ice with Christy Nome for the
last ten months, and all of a sudden she shows
up to run for Congress in the ninth district and

(01:39:19):
you're like, wait a minute. We got a guy named
Derek Merin who only lost by two percentage points last time,
who's leading in the polls. Why do we need this
new person? And then man, she shows up on Laura
Trump's TV show on Saturday night, saam out of nowhere,
down eight year old person shows up. And what I

(01:39:40):
want your listeners to understand is this is the problem
with politics, and it's all about the power and money.
There's a political operative in Ohio named Bob Paducciic. He
used to represent Rob Portman, he got involved with with
Trump and things, and this is all about him getting

(01:40:00):
a payday. This is all about We're going to bring
in this unknown person with millions of dollars and Bob
Padujik's gonna run her campaign and you know what, He's
probably gonna get Donald Trump endorse this person, and the
Ohio voters are not going to have a choice for
who they want in the in the ninth district. And

(01:40:20):
this is what's wrong with our whole system because money
picks our candidates, not the people. And that's happening right
here in Ohio and it's just a tragedy. We should have.
We should flip three seats here and now we're gonna
be lucky if we put this one with a twenty
eight year old running well.

Speaker 1 (01:40:39):
Paducchick's a brilliant guy, so I have no doubt that
he can pull off just about whatever it is he
wants to pull off. But it's it's selfish it, I mean,
this kind of stuff. This is not to my way
of thinking. This is not what conservatives or are Republicans

(01:41:00):
ought to be about. You know, it ought to be
about doing the right thing. And when you're you're running operation,
the way you're describing to me certainly doesn't sound like
it's the right thing. Well, so, and this is what
So I want to pivot back to the Veke now,
because you know there's people who are saying, oh geez,
you know Rob McCauley's now is lieutenant governor.

Speaker 17 (01:41:21):
So the Veke has been captured by the Columbus cartel, right.

Speaker 1 (01:41:24):
I hope that I can assure you.

Speaker 17 (01:41:26):
I can assure you guys, that is not the case.
The Veke is a change agent as much as Donald
Trump was. The cartel is scared to death of them,
and that's why you're seeing these hit pieces coming out
where they're trying to promote amy acting. And and this
is the John Kasic people, the you know, the Lex
Wexner people, you know, they're behind this. Don Price guy

(01:41:50):
is the one behind all these hit pieces about the Veke,
you know, pulling up things like he you know, he's
part of a an investigation in Georgia for an illegal
takeover some company and stuff. It's gonna get crazy because
the cartel your listeners write this down. Republicans in Ohio
would always rather have a Democrat win than a Republican.

(01:42:13):
They can't control. They can't control the Bank Ramaswami because
like Trump, he doesn't need them. He can self fund
and he's going to do things they don't want. And
that's why you're sending these efforts to undermine him. It's
not going to work the bank. It's going to be
our next governor. You're gonna from real good changes in Ohio.

Speaker 1 (01:42:33):
You can't, can't, John Kasik, just go back to CNN
or MSNBC and please leave uss alone Ohio. You know,
at least money shows up on one of those shows
you got. You have the ability to turn the sound
down or turn it off. Tom stay right there, we gotta,
we gotta work in a quick break on fifty five
KRCV Talk Station.

Speaker 5 (01:42:53):
Are you tired of losing money in the stock mark
and not winning enough?

Speaker 1 (01:42:56):
From fifty five krc the Talk Station, Joe Strecker rolling
out a little homage to all the Hoosier fans out there.
So congratulations to the Hoosiers winning the national championship. Great game.
Last night I watched Bits and Pieces. I was trying

(01:43:18):
to fall asleep and watch the show. But wrapping things
up here with Tom z Awatowski, we the People Convention
Dot Org and and Tom let me be as we
let you go, let me I want to get your
thought on this that there is a growing, some growing
discontent amongst Republicans, including myself, that we have not have

(01:43:41):
made any progress. Okay, we passed a big, beautiful bill. Okay,
that's all fine and dandy, no tax on tips, no
tax on overtime. But as it relates to voter fraud,
as it relates to doge cuts, as it relates to
certain individuals being prosecuted that we thought would be prosecuted
for their misdeeds, none of that has happened. And so

(01:44:04):
the longer that that languishes and those things don't don't
get done. To my way of thinking, that does not
accrue to the benefit of Donald Trump and does not
accrue to the benefit of Republicans who who are currently
in power in DC.

Speaker 17 (01:44:23):
Yeah, Dan, there's a lot of there's a lot of concern.
I have to tell you that I spent yesterday all
day talking to leaders from around the country, around the state,
trying to keep them more positive because they're really they
don't understand why these things aren't happening. I mean, what
more do you need to invoke the Insurrection Act than

(01:44:45):
what's going on in Minneapolis, from you know, breaking into
our ice vehicles and stealing weapons, you know, to the
emails that came out saying that the City of Minneapolis
employees were actually aiding and embedding the anti American, anti
Ice Marxists to track and hamper ICE agents. We're tired

(01:45:05):
of it. We want to see arrest, we want to
see this stop. We want the rule of law reestablished,
and we're not seeing it. And you know, I think
that our patience is wearing thin. And then when you
get to the Congress, remember and Trump's first term, the
only thing they passed in four years. Was the tax

(01:45:27):
reform in twenty seventeen. Then Paul Ryan who's the House Speaker,
and mcconnoey and those guys that said it, they sandbag
Trump for the rest of his time. We can't let
that happen again. And so now they're talking about another
budget reconciliation type bill and we're talking about the say back, right, Dan,
I mean, wouldn't that be a single important thing to

(01:45:50):
get passed so that we can stop the cheating this November?
But we haven't seen anything. And I'm asking your listeners,
I'm asking people who are you know following this show,
get on the phone this week, call your center, call
your House member, and say, don't you do this again.
We want action. You've got to implement Trump's agenda in legislation.

(01:46:12):
It can't just be executive orders. We've lived that before.
We never want to live that again.

Speaker 1 (01:46:18):
Yeah, legislation, And I mean that's the thing you go
out this is this is the agenda, not just Trump,
but the agenda that he was talking about that people
voted for. And if you're not going to pass the agenda,
people are going to say, well, why do why should
I even bother to vote for you guys, you're gonna
sit up there and do and literally do nothing. I

(01:46:41):
mean it's on one hand, it's easy to say, look,
Trump accomplished a lot this first year in office. Here
in the second term, but there's no need to stop
there because you know what, if the shoe was on
the other foot, do you think the Democrats will be taking,
you know, easing up on the gas a little bit?

Speaker 17 (01:46:59):
Yeah, I mean again, what will they do? You know
what they're gonna do.

Speaker 18 (01:47:03):
They get back.

Speaker 1 (01:47:07):
Absolutely right.

Speaker 17 (01:47:09):
Let's get rid of the fellow buster. Let's start passing
this stuff, and let's walk down the border forever. Let's
you know, get rid of you know, the illegal immigration.
Let's uh, you know, let's get the ballot process fixed
because we know they're cheating and and and then how
about cutting some of the budgets because it's a bunch
of it is fraud. How about that.

Speaker 1 (01:47:33):
Six hundred billion in fraud every single year. And it's
time to start playing some hardball on that on the
national level. And here in Ohio, Tom, great talking to
you this morning. We got to run, but keep up
the great work and all the best to you, and
I'll look forward to the next time we get a
chance to talk again.

Speaker 17 (01:47:50):
Thanks Dan, thanks for setting our friend Brian.

Speaker 1 (01:47:52):
I hope it gets better, absolutely absolutely, Tom, thank you
very much for that station, fifty five KRC, the talk

(01:48:14):
station eight o six on this Tuesday morning. Good morning,
glad to be here, Glad you are here as well.
I'm Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas, who was taking
taking a little breather today, so I'm always glad to
be here. Joe Strecker is running the big board in
the fifty five KRC Command Center. Always glad to have

(01:48:34):
Joe Strecker there, and uh Man. Some great guests in
the past hour, and we continue with some great guests.
And one of the reasons I love doing this show
is because Joe's got a great connection with the folks
over at Breitbart News and I always get to talk
with great, interesting individuals from Breitbart, and today it is
Bradley J. Who is the deputy political politics editor at Breitbart,

(01:48:58):
and Bradley J. Happy new year to you, and it's
great to have you on fifty five KRC.

Speaker 15 (01:49:03):
Happy new year, Dan, great to join you well, Thank.

Speaker 1 (01:49:05):
You so much for being here. Peter Sweitzer is out
with another new book. I mean, first of all, Schweitzer
is amazing. He I don't know where he finds the
time to write so many books. But this one is
called The Invisible Coup. How America elites and foreign powers
use immigration as a weapon, and they're using it as

(01:49:27):
a weapon against the United States. And once again we
find Peter Schweitzer sounding the alarm, and this time it's
about he's talking about a million Chinese who have US
citizenship in this country going to the polls in the
year twenty thirty. Give me a little breakdown on.

Speaker 10 (01:49:49):
This, Yeah, I mean, this is it's really a truly
remarkable book from Peter. We've all heard about birthright citizenship
and how it has been abused. It takes essentially what
this is is the fourteenth Amendment, which was passed partly

(01:50:14):
to ensure that slaves are people who had.

Speaker 15 (01:50:18):
Been slaves and children of slaves that.

Speaker 10 (01:50:21):
They could fully enjoy citizenship from the thirteenth Amendment.

Speaker 15 (01:50:28):
So it's been abused.

Speaker 10 (01:50:31):
And the Chinese, the Chinese Communist Party, they are dynastic thinkers.

Speaker 15 (01:50:36):
They don't think like we do. We think you two
and four and.

Speaker 10 (01:50:41):
Six year election cycles that the Chinese think like fifty
in one.

Speaker 15 (01:50:45):
Hundred years down the road. What they're doing, and what
Peter has found out through his research is that essentially,
there are going.

Speaker 10 (01:50:52):
To be more than one million Chinese with US citizenship
who grew up in communist China but who will be
able to vote in American elections, and by twenty thirty
there might.

Speaker 15 (01:51:06):
Be one million of them or more who are voting
through what's called birth tourism.

Speaker 10 (01:51:15):
What they've done is all of these these Chinese elites,
and we're not just talking.

Speaker 15 (01:51:20):
About you know, any Jimmy and Joe. We're talking about
these Chinese elites.

Speaker 10 (01:51:25):
Who have had children, often with surrogates, have had children
on American soil, who have become by virtue of birthright citizenship,
which is not practiced.

Speaker 15 (01:51:40):
Around the world. The United States is a rarity here.

Speaker 10 (01:51:43):
But these children have been granted American citizen citizenship. Then
they've been shipped back over to China to get indoctrinated
by the Chinese Communist Party, yet they retain American citizenship
and they'll be able to vote in the twenty thirty election.
Really really horrifying to think about, and it's astounding that

(01:52:04):
Peter's uncovered.

Speaker 1 (01:52:05):
With Yeah, and when you talk about all these individuals
who are going to come to the polls, So what's
the likelihood that they'll be voting in whatever the interest
of China is in twenty thirty compared to what the
best interest of America is in twenty thirty.

Speaker 15 (01:52:25):
And that's a great question, because look.

Speaker 10 (01:52:29):
What, I'm not a Chinese Communist Party scholar, but I
do understand that there is only one party in China,
only one political party, and when you.

Speaker 18 (01:52:40):
Go to the polls to vote, you vote who you're
told to vote for. So my inclination is that, you
know what, all of these kids who have been raised
up indoctrinated in the Chinese Communist Party teachings, they're going
to cast about for exactly who they're told to cast
that ballot for.

Speaker 10 (01:53:01):
And here here's the thing, Dan, all of all of
these people, I don't care if you're a Republican or
a Democrat.

Speaker 15 (01:53:09):
You should be concerned.

Speaker 10 (01:53:10):
About foreign election in our in our own elections.

Speaker 15 (01:53:15):
This is a big deal.

Speaker 10 (01:53:16):
And there's been there's been a lot of a pearl
clutching unnecessarily, I think about false accusations of foreign for
foreign electionary experience of the year. Well, look, here's the
thing Peter has uncovered it like this is coming down
the pike.

Speaker 15 (01:53:34):
This is an actual, real scheme.

Speaker 10 (01:53:36):
And if you purport to worry about this, but you
you are not concerned about this.

Speaker 15 (01:53:43):
You've been exposed as a fraud. Because this is a
huge scandal.

Speaker 10 (01:53:47):
It's a huge scheme, and every single American, regardless of
political party, needs.

Speaker 15 (01:53:53):
To be clamoring to get to the phone to.

Speaker 10 (01:53:56):
Contact their elected official to say you've got to do something, to.

Speaker 1 (01:53:59):
Say, you know, and you touched on this at the
beginning of our conversation. It just has to deal with
the fourteenth Amendment. And there's so many people who want
to come out and try and make the case that
the fourteenth Amendment confers birthright citizenship upon anyone who was
born in the United States. And to me, this is

(01:54:20):
one of the more frustrating things that has been going.
There's a look, there's a lot of things I'm frustrated
with right now when it comes to action on certain items.
And when Donald Trump was elected in an office, he
said he was going to come out and he is
challenging this notion of birthright citizenship. And so many times

(01:54:40):
what gets left out when this story gets reported on
the news or when you've got pundits talking about it
on TV, they like to stop and say, well, you
know what, the Constitution is clear on this because it
says all persons born and naturalized in the United States
I get to become citizens. They leave out the part

(01:55:02):
here's the text right here, all persons born are naturalized
in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
They always leave that part out. And that is the
key phrase in the fourteenth Amendment, that first sentence of
the fourteenth Amendment, subject to the jurisdiction thereof. And so

(01:55:24):
when you have individuals who come in and do the
birth tourism that you talk about, they are not subject
to the jurisdiction of the United States of America. And
so to my way of thinking, that does not confer
automatic citizenship just because you happen to be born in
this country. And there is a well established president that

(01:55:46):
backs up that notion. But when we have the debate
on this, or at least it's carried out in public
and in the media, it seems that that issue they're
that particular element of the issue always seems convenient to
get left out.

Speaker 10 (01:56:03):
Then anytime the left says that something settled that that
should send up a red flag. They say the law
is settled in this or the science has settled.

Speaker 15 (01:56:15):
Look out. That's like when.

Speaker 10 (01:56:16):
People call a law or a bill common sense that
always figgers a red flag. That's that to me, that's
they're they're trying to tell you up, well, just trust
us on this. You don't even have to think about it.
But yeah, this looked at the fourteenth Amendment was passed
to UH.

Speaker 15 (01:56:33):
I think it was UH is.

Speaker 10 (01:56:35):
To undo the dread Scott decision, which had to do
with your runaway slaves with slaves go into a free state.

Speaker 4 (01:56:43):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (01:56:43):
That's where it talks about like the jurisdiction.

Speaker 2 (01:56:45):
And all that.

Speaker 10 (01:56:46):
It was not intended to just be a blanket golden
ticket for either a Chinese mother who just swooped in
flew into California real quick, or some Pacific.

Speaker 15 (01:56:58):
Island had baby then flew back. That's not what it's
meant to do.

Speaker 10 (01:57:03):
It certainly wasn't meant to do as the Chinese Communist
Party's exploiting.

Speaker 15 (01:57:08):
Now these children.

Speaker 10 (01:57:09):
Who are born to with through birth tourism, when they
turn like like I mean, it even had it triggers
birth or chain migration so that even their parents are
both of their parents are extended citizenship like that is
not the way that this was meant to be. And
just a year ago, I mean, look, we're at one

(01:57:32):
year now the second Trump administration. One of the first
things that Trump did was issue an executive order I
believe it was on birthright citizenship saying we're going to
put a stop to this. And of course the courts
are doing everything that they can to impede him, and
to his credit, Trump has been silently doing the work

(01:57:56):
behind the scenes. Stephen Miller, who's my former boss, has
been one of the leaders in this and trying to
put a stop to this. Back I mean, gosh, back
when we worked in the Senate together many many minutes ago,
but this was one of Stevens big things that.

Speaker 15 (01:58:11):
We had to put a stop with.

Speaker 10 (01:58:12):
Is so important, and we didn't even fully realize at
the time what the Chinese Communist Party was doing. We're
just now, through Peter's valuable scholarship and now this book,
are learning the extent of it.

Speaker 15 (01:58:29):
But this was it was.

Speaker 10 (01:58:31):
Changes made during the Obama administration that allowed the Chinese to.

Speaker 15 (01:58:38):
Fully exploit this.

Speaker 10 (01:58:40):
And now the chickens are coming home to roost unfortunately,
and honestly, I worry that that Eric Holder.

Speaker 15 (01:58:48):
And Obama may have known that this was coming and
didn't care, and it was by a part of why
they were doing it. But regardless, the consequences are.

Speaker 10 (01:58:56):
Coming now and it is imperative that lawmakers do something
to stop it.

Speaker 15 (01:59:01):
And I think that this is just.

Speaker 10 (01:59:03):
One of many many blockbuster issues that are going to
be exposed by invisible coup that comes out today that
lawmakers will want to do something about, and I believe
that there will be movement to do something about.

Speaker 1 (01:59:18):
Yeah. Well, of course Barack Obama doesn't care, because he's
a proponent of the hard left agenda in this country,
and when it comes to promoting the agenda, that trumps
everything else. And so that is the major component and
really the only thing that the left in this country
is concerned about. But Bradley, Jay, stay right there. We

(01:59:38):
got to get to a quick break, and I want
to use to work with Steven Miller. I want to
ask you a question about that as we continue on,
and we will do that momentarily here on fifty five
KRC The Talks Days HICs.

Speaker 8 (01:59:49):
Brian Thomas here for FOURGR fifty.

Speaker 1 (01:59:56):
Five KRC the talk station, Dan Carroll and for Brian
to mis Continuing our conversation with Bradleyjy of Breitbart dot
Com and Bradleyjay, you mentioned earlier that you used to
work with Steven Miller, and look, I'm a guy that
whenever I get a chance on my radio shows to
play a cut from Steven Miller, I do. I played

(02:00:17):
a couple of cuts from him earlier this morning. When
is this guy always this intense? Is he always this
on or when you have a chance to kick back
and sit around the office and talk a little bit,
I get a sense that Steven Miller is a guy
that has a great sense of humor.

Speaker 15 (02:00:36):
She was very funny every now and then. Every now
and then.

Speaker 10 (02:00:41):
Look, he was one of the reasons I respected him
so much is that he was so professional and so focused.
That was also one of the reasons that not everyone.

Speaker 15 (02:00:52):
In the Senate liked him. Then it's kind of a
good old boys club, and that.

Speaker 10 (02:00:58):
Extends to the staff as well. Many people in congressional staffers.
I was a congressional staffer for over ten years. They're
very impressed with themselves. When frankly they shouldn't be. Stephen
was not there for all that, for the backslapping. He
was there, he was on a mission. He was there
to take care of business. But every now and then

(02:01:21):
we'd cut up a little bit. And I really like
Steven learned a lot working working with him, and for
the last six months or so before he went to
the to the Trump campaign back in Gosh, I was
twenty sixteen, sweet fifteen, twenty sixteen.

Speaker 15 (02:01:39):
He was my direct boss, but great to work with.

Speaker 10 (02:01:45):
And I'm glad to see him rise to the position
he is because he is he is a force.

Speaker 1 (02:01:52):
Yeah, he is. He is absolutely fantastic, and I just
get a sense that he actually absolutely loves eviscerating the
left every chance that he gets. Voter fraud is one
of the most serious issues that we have. Everything that
happened in twenty twenty has been exposed. Now there's no
question that Joe Biden should not have been certified as

(02:02:14):
President of the United States. And we've got in Oregon,
we've got election officials finally beginning to what to purge
the roles. There more voter fraud in Washington, and this
just showed up just minutes ago. Bradley Jay on my
social media and this is in Virginia, and Democrats in

(02:02:34):
Virginia have been in power now for forty eight hours
and they've just introduced a bill. And let me read
to you part of the text of this bill, election
results counting machine readable ballots, requires ballot scanner machines to
be used to count machine readable ballots, and prohibits such

(02:02:55):
ballots from being counted by hand for any reason or
purpose not specifically authorized by the law. So there you go.
There's Democrats in Virginia, and in my opinion, they're seeking
to institutionalize and right into law all the voter fraud

(02:03:17):
that they want to engage in.

Speaker 10 (02:03:20):
Well, Dan, look, I read in the New York Times
that Trump's claims the voter fraud are not credible.

Speaker 15 (02:03:24):
So I don't know what you're talking about. It's just
like we were talking about earlier.

Speaker 10 (02:03:31):
Whenever, whenever the establishment media is like, move on, move along.

Speaker 15 (02:03:35):
Nothing to see here. This is not credible, this is
there There is no evidence of this.

Speaker 10 (02:03:41):
Uh, your your your antennass should perk up. We all
know that this goes on. It goes on at the
the micro level across the country and has for many years.

Speaker 15 (02:03:53):
Increasingly it's gone on.

Speaker 10 (02:03:56):
At the macro level, on an organized industrial scale, and
we need to get to the bottom of it. It's
just like we were talking about with with what Peter
Schweitzer is uncovered in his book Invisible Coup.

Speaker 1 (02:04:10):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (02:04:10):
There, you know, if there.

Speaker 10 (02:04:12):
Is a loophole something to be exploited, Uh, folks, folks
are gonna exploit it. And it's a matter of time
before even our foreign adversaries do it as well.

Speaker 1 (02:04:24):
All right, well, Bradley, Jay, great talking to you. We've
got to run What's what's the big story you're working
on in break Bart today?

Speaker 10 (02:04:32):
Hey, I'm excited about Davos. I can't wait for Trump
to go overseas and stick it to the globalists. So
that's gonna be a lot of fun that speeches tomorrow,
so stay tuned for that. And then we might get
a Supreme Court decision today on tariffs and maybe even
the Voting Rights Act Section two. So that's that's exciting
as well. Stay tuned at Bridbart dot com.

Speaker 1 (02:04:53):
Hey, Breitbart dot com. I look at it every single
day as I get ready for these shows. Bradley, great
talking to you. Creep up the great work and certainly
hope you get a chance to talk on down the road.

Speaker 15 (02:05:04):
Looking forward to Dan.

Speaker 1 (02:05:05):
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Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas coming down the final
half hour of the show today, and my great honor
to welcome in Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis, retired from the
United States Army, a analyst of all things that deal
with Warren policy and Daniel Davis, so great to have

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you on the show this morning. How are you, sir,
I'm doing really well.

Speaker 13 (02:05:49):
Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (02:05:50):
Thank thank you for being here. I think a lot
of Americans have been trying over the last several weeks
ever since the Maduro caper. Well actually, I would say
starting with blowing the Venezuelan drug boats out of the water,
and then we roll in there and we get Maduro
out of there, and he's on trial now, and we
just saw a lot of I think it was thirteen

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individuals who were guarding him come in from Cuba. A
lot of people trying to get their head around you
why are we taking these actions in Venezuela. And I
fought from the very beginning that this is part of
a larger play on foreign policy with what's happening in Venezuela.
Give me your take on what we've seen as it

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relates to Venezuela.

Speaker 13 (02:06:37):
It's a bit of a puzzle, we have to admit,
because a lot of the stated reasons seem to have
just vanished over not which was always about national security
for the United States. It was about keeping the drugs
out of the United States, even though by our own accounting,
even by the administration itself, that the priority are the
primary number of fentanyl, for example, and even cocaine comes

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out of Colombia, comes out of Mexico. Ironically, even China
and India. People are not aware of that those two
especially and a very small amount had even comes out
of Venezuela. Most of what is produced there goes to Europe. Interestingly,
so that was the claim. But then we went in
and we took him out, We knocked out a lot

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of those drug boats, et cetera. And then after we
take took Maduro. You haven't heard any I haven't seen
a single report of a drug boat being taken out
since that time, so I don't know why that would
have stopped if it was about drugs into the US.
But then of course we have the focus on Actually
it's about oil and about taking the oil infrastructure, setting
up this long term situation where the United States controls

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the oil coming out, and we left the Maduro government
in the Maduro himself was taken out, but the government
was left in place. And other than the fact that
we now have access to the Venezuelan oil, not much
else has changed.

Speaker 1 (02:07:55):
Well. I think from the very beginning it was all
about the oil. And one of Venezuela's largest customers, if
not the largest customer, is China, and China gets a
lot of it's oil from Venezuela. I believe Iran gets
a lot of their oil from Venezuela as well, or
they've got some kind of relationship going on there. So

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I look at this as a positioning move on the
part of Trump and Marco Rubio to I guess, facilitate
whatever it is they want to get out of Iran
and whatever they want to get out of China.

Speaker 13 (02:08:31):
Well, yeah, I mean you really can't not acknowledge those
facts there. And you can add Cuba into that mix
because they got most of their oil from Venezuela, at
least a large portion of it. So that's a big
question what's going to happen to that country internally? That
that's something that apparently Marco Rubio is quite excited about
the possibility of bringing down that government. But you know,
we have to look at it from a national security perspective,

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from a diplomatic perspective in the United States, and I'm
just not sure how that benefits us and upon what
basis and what legality or any other kind of morality
can we just say we're going to take the head
of state out of a country, We're going to take
their natural resources and drive China and Russia out of
that market. I mean, we always talk about how we

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want the global comments to be open to everybody, to
include areas in Asia and in Europe and in the
South America, et cetera. We want to keep everything open.
But now we're saying it's only open to us, so
we're going to literally drive out other people. And looking
at when you take actions like this, very often there's
a tip for tat there's a reaction. People are not
just going to be driven out of a market and
do nothing. We could find ourselves potentially being blocked out

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of other markets that we want to be in. So
it's a problem when we say we want the rule
of law and the open global commons in one hand,
but then we take it by force in another. It
just doesn't play out.

Speaker 1 (02:09:49):
Well for us. Yeah, that's a good point. Well, let
me ask you about this. How interested were you to
read about the operation that conducted to get Maduro out
of there and the information that came out afterwards about
these sonic weapons that the United States may have used

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during that operation that incapacitated these guardsmen. And I guess
you bleed from the years, and you bleed from the
eyes and all that sort of thing. This use of
this sonic weapon in order to make this operation take place,
is that something you knew about or is that something

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that is relatively new on the scene.

Speaker 13 (02:10:33):
It's relatively new on the scene in terms of its
production and performance in a real operation. It's been something
that's been deployed for quite a long time. I remember
in the mid two thousands, when I was still in
active duty, I was assigned to the Future Combat Systems
at Ford Plus, Texas, where we were doing a lot
of futures things, and one of the weapons systems that
was publicly being developed at that time was a microwavetop

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technology that does those kinds of things. We didn't hear
a lot about it after that, but obviously, at least
according to reports. I don't have any insider info, but
just according to reports, it just kind of went dark.
No one was talking much about it. Now, this is
the first time I'm aware that something has occurred in
an operational environment. So you can be sure that this
is like everything else you ever see in war. Once

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it's something that opens on the scene, others are going
to emulate it. So's it was helpful to us in
this operation here, but we can probably count on it
at some point where it's going to be used against
us as well. That's just the nature of war.

Speaker 1 (02:11:28):
Yeah, and my next question was going to be, doesn't
send a message to those who might be our enemies
that look, here's another component that you're going to have
to deal with. Yeah, it is.

Speaker 13 (02:11:40):
I mean that, of course, we see that on routine
display in the RUSSI of Ukraine War about the development
of various types of drones counter drone technology, and then
the other side always emulates it, tries to improve upon it,
then the other side tries to counter it, et cetera.
And that is definitely the play here where our adversaries
are saying, Okay, I see that that works, let me
develop one. It's been out in the open anyway. I'm

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sure they've ben't doing it anyway. But if if they
needed any incentive to accelerate their invaluement, it's now.

Speaker 1 (02:12:08):
In your opinion, how much trouble is the leadership in Iran?
How much trouble are they in? And the reports of
this that there are billions, millions or billions of dollars
that are that are leaving the country, and Scott Descent
was talking about that over the weekend, that they're they're
seeing all this money being deposited in other banks around

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the world. How much trouble is the leadership in Iran?
And in the face of these demonstrations that we've seen
in the streets.

Speaker 13 (02:12:39):
Well, there is no question that they are in a
weekened position from what they were prior to the twenty
eighth of December, when a lot of this stuff started,
but I think that it's an exaggeration to say they're
in a seriously weakened position. So far, we've seen that
they the regime has been able to handle this. They've
been able to crack down on a lot of this
descent that happened. And we also have to acknowledge that
a lot of the just according to Mike Pompeo, was

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because of we and the Mossad and probably six were
part of actively trying to foment a lot of this stuff.
So it's trying to create more because there's already a
fisher there. There's already weakness because of the regime itself.
There's also a weakness because of these sanctions we've imposed
upon them to try to bring their economy to crashing
to the floor anyway. So a lot of these things

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have existed before, but so far it appears that the
Iranian government is wathered the worst of the storm here.
And then the real question is, since that appears to
be the case, now, what is the Trump administration and
the Israelis going to do, Because it looks to me
like that they're getting ready to do something bigger than
what they might have done earlier.

Speaker 2 (02:13:40):
This month.

Speaker 13 (02:13:40):
According to Lindsey Graham, anyway, something bigger is coming and
a regime change operation is coming. We'll see if that's
just hyperbole or if we see another attack.

Speaker 1 (02:13:50):
Yeah, I mean, what do you think the next step
would be? Because I feel pretty confident in saying that
there really is no appetite in this country to see
anything that looks like boots on the ground in in Iran.

Speaker 13 (02:14:08):
That is the real problem to some of these people
who want regime change. They want regime change on the cheap,
and they want it with that, with cost free. Lindsey
Graham and his pronouncement of this last I think Friday
made this comment that, yeah, once that the regime is dropped,
it's gonna usher in a whole new era. And I
just couldn't help but cringe. I'm like, dude, you realize
that's exactly what the United States said in the Bush

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administration before Iraq in two thousand and three. And we
see how that turned out, and we see it nearly
always turns out like that. If you think you can
go on on the cheap and just throw a few
missiles out there, and that's going to make the regime fall,
and it's going to be great after that man, you
hadn't been paying attention to world history or paying any
attention to human nature. It's almost certainly not going to
work out that way. And the regime is aware of

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our plans, and they have plans. They have con continuity
of government plans. So even if you took out the
the Ayatola, they said, by the way, that would be
full and war. And now then they have no reason
to withhold and they would tack other Americans in the region.
We don't want a situation to where we bring our
own troops else in the region under fire. And by
the way, their missiles can penetrate our air defense out there,

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and if they choose to, they can reach a wreak
a lot of damage and death on our troops. And
I hope we don't find out.

Speaker 1 (02:15:22):
Yeah, absolutely, when you when you look at green have
you ever been to Greenland, by the way, as beautiful.

Speaker 13 (02:15:29):
Colt Okay, been to Austin that had been to Greenland?

Speaker 1 (02:15:32):
Right, But when it when it comes to Greenland, I
think it's easy to make the and and understand the
argument for its its position on the on the on
the globe, why it would be a strategic importance for
the United States. Uh, I don't know that I can
get my head around with. You know what has been
coming from the administration as far as wanting to have

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more influence in Greenland. How do you size up that situation.

Speaker 13 (02:15:58):
Look, here's the here's the troubling part about all this,
this claim that we have to have Greenland or our
national security will be at risk, and Denmark can't defend it,
et cetera. Denmark has never defended Greenland. It's always been NATO.
It's got Article five protections, the same as every other
NATO country. So I mean, just like you'd say, well,

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you can't say Lithuania, the little Lithuania can defend itself
against Russia.

Speaker 1 (02:16:26):
It can't.

Speaker 13 (02:16:26):
That's why it's a part of NATO, because it wants
that protection. The same would be for Greenland. But the
other issue that I talked about is that, look, even
when you look at Russia, why in the world would
Russia ever want Greenland to risk an Article five attack
against a nuclear powered alliance when it already has a
massive Arctic presence on its own border. China is even worse.

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China wants access to the Arctic for economic reasons, but
they don't have the military to project naval and air
power to even make an attempt to seize it. So
there is literally there is no is from it. Our
Article five already protects it. And by the way, if
you want it for air defense or this Golden Dome situation,
you already have that. With the treaties that we have

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in place, we can expand our footprint. We don't need
to own it in order to have those things met.
So I don't really understand, though, what's really at the
heart of why President Trump seems so emphatic about owning
it because it comes a great cost to us, and
I'm talking great cost over an extended period of time.
I don't know that he's thought through a lot of that,
because I think if he did, he would see, we

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don't want to saddle our country with billions of dollars
already going to another country just to keep them afloat.

Speaker 1 (02:17:36):
All right, Well, Daniel Davis, Lieutenant colonel retired from the Army,
and thank you so much for your perspective this morning.
Great to have you on for the fifty five KRC
Morning Show, and keep up the great work. I certainly
hope we can get a chance to talk on down
the road or too. Thank you lot, all right, thank
you very much, and with that we will get to
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Talk station.

Speaker 3 (02:18:01):
Now that a new year is here, Start twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (02:18:07):
Fifty five karc DE Talk Station. Dan Carrell sitting for
Brian Thomas. Always a great pleasure to come in and
be here for the UH one of the probably the
greatest audience in Cincinnati radio, the Brian Thomas audience. All
the best to him and everything that he's going through,
and if he wants to take a day off, I'm

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here for it. So thanks to Joe Strecker, thanks to
Brian for letting me sit in, and if you want
to jump on board here in the last seven or
eight minutes five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred, Joe,
if I asked you off the top of your head,
could you name the nine biggest companies in Cincinnati? Okay?

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But I think most anyone could probably get the top
four or five easily. And Alexander Coolidge of The Inquirer
has got this piece out this morning, I identifying the
nine biggest companies in Cincinnati in terms of in terms
of money, in terms of revenue, what they're worth. And

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so it starts off with number nine is TQL. Would
you have guess TQL? And there Joe at number nine,
not at number nine, but yeah, but it's got And
this is one of these things that I love this
kind of stuff because here in Cincinnati, we love our history,

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we love the nostalgia, We love the knowing about our
local companies and where they come from, how they got started,
and all the rest of it. And that's what he's
done here. TQL number nine. Total Quality Logistics freight broker's
firm helps businesses make connections to get products to where
they need to go. Founded in nineteen ninety seven by

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Ken Oaks, former produced buyer. So frustrated with unreliable freight
shipping he started his own company. And the rest history
and that building they've got out there in Eastgate right
along two seventy five, absolutely amazing, So congratulations to them.
American Financial Group comes in at number eight. Eight point

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three billion. Specially Insured traces its roots back to eighteen
seventy two, when the German American Insurance Company sold its
first ever policy to a rubber comb factory company changed
its name because of anti German sentiment during World War Two,
and then in nineteen seventy three, Carl Linder Junior acquired

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a majority share of the conglomerate and merged it with
his holding company, American Financial Group. Number seven is sentas
nine point six billion and sentas of course, they make uniforms.
They make all kinds of stuff, mops, shop towels, restrooms, supplies.

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I did not know. This company traces its roots back
to nineteen twenty nine, when a couple of out of
work circus performers, Doc and Amelia Farmer began an industrial
laundry business called the Acme Industrial Laundry Company. They collected
rags thrown out by factories, cleaned them, and resold them

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to manufacturers. So how about that Their grandson, Dick Farmer,
expanded the business by providing uniforms. So there's that's a
little little history of the sentas company. Cincinnati Financial found
that in nineteen fifty comes in at eleven point three billion.

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Core business is casualty insurance, So there's that. Then then
we get to then we get to the really big ones.
Everyone knows. Fifth Third Bank comes in that at fifth
place thirteen point three billion. Fifth third founded an eighteen
fifty eight as the Bank of the Ohio Valley. Then

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number four is Western Southern thirteen point eight billion, started
as a small door to door life insurance. Amazing, how
many life insurance companies and insurance companies have their home
and started here in Cincinnati. But Western Southern eighteen eighty
eight started as a door to door life insurance business
selling policies to local industrial workers. GE Aerospace thirty eight

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point seven billion, and we all pretty much know about GE.
Then you got Procter and Gamble. Eighty four billion dollars
is the net worth there? I would suspect that Procter
and gambles Joe, would you say, Procter and Gamble is
worth more than eighty four billion? I would I would think, so.

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I think that's that's a low number there. And then
Kroger comes in at number If it was me, I
would have put Procter and Gamble in front of Crow.
I would have thought Kroger is a little bit I mean,
you know, look, Kroger is a great company. But number
one Pappas and the papist number one Andrew Pappas. We

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got a couple of minutes here what's uh, what's what's
gotta be in your bonnet this morning?

Speaker 19 (02:23:15):
I'm just kind of shocked. There was in a smally
and run daycare is number one here and there.

Speaker 1 (02:23:21):
They're quickly moving up the chain.

Speaker 19 (02:23:24):
I think you need to re evaluate that list.

Speaker 1 (02:23:27):
They've got great cash flow, so wonderful cast.

Speaker 19 (02:23:30):
When you have quarantined income and no expenses, it makes
for an easy bottom line.

Speaker 1 (02:23:39):
It's a it's a whole new business model. It needs
to be fully explored.

Speaker 19 (02:23:44):
I I agree, and I concur Now let's I just
want to remind everybody that if you have an old
smelly shoe laying around the house, perfectly burking stock, it's
apparently at two pm today the Libs are going to
walk outside.

Speaker 1 (02:23:57):
What is the deal with that? What is that? What
is that supposed to me?

Speaker 19 (02:24:02):
I have no idea what they're doing, but you know,
a lot of what the Democrats and Liberals do these days,
much like that church storming with Don Lemon yesterday or
over the weekend. I just don't understand what the Libs do.

Speaker 17 (02:24:16):
But I just wanted to give.

Speaker 19 (02:24:17):
Them something for you know, you get much like a
pet that's destructive. You've got to give them something to
focus their energy on. I feel like if you leave
a pair of stinky, smelly I don't own birkenstocks. I
think you do, Dan Carroll, you.

Speaker 1 (02:24:31):
Never had a pair of birkinstuns.

Speaker 19 (02:24:33):
I think that if you leave them outside, it will
give them something to chew on for a few minutes
and direct their energy into into something less destructive.

Speaker 1 (02:24:42):
You think I've got it. I've got an old gym
shoe I can put out there to show my solidarity
with the what what? What are they walking out for
thirty seconds?

Speaker 19 (02:24:52):
I think just just general, just general mayhem. I mean,
that's what I've heard.

Speaker 2 (02:24:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 19 (02:24:57):
I've saw it online. We shall see. I'll wait outside
your office today, so you walk outside at two pm.

Speaker 1 (02:25:04):
I'll have to make sure I bring my up put.
Don't forget to put your coat on out it might
be cold outside. Andrew, we got to run, buddy. We'll
talk to you later. Thank you very much. Papus Wigan
in here at the end of the show. That's it
for me. I'm out of here. Glenn Beck is up next.
Joe Strecker, thank you for everything and all the best
to Brian Thomas, and thank you for listening on fifty

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