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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fifty five KRC five o five at fifty five KRC
the talk station, Happy Tuesday, ses.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Some vacation and that's the way the news goes.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
And very Happy Tuesday too. Brian Thomas right here, glad
to be looking forward to having Dave one Him from
the Taxpayer Protection Lines joined the program. The return of
Dave one Him. It's been a little while since we
talked to him. Dave shows up at seven oh five.
We'll talk about waste in the Defense Authorization Act coming
in at nine hundred and one billion dollars. I believe, Yeah,

(00:57):
I can't wait to hear what Dave has after his
analysis of that one prescription drug price fixing, higher education reform,
and what is the Samosa Act those topics with Dave
Williams coming up again at seven oh five. Sadly Breitbart
didn't get back with Joe's Dreker. We always get the
bright Bart inside scoop A eighto five on a Tuesday,
So mysteries swirling around where the hell Breitbart is. If

(01:19):
you do hear from them, Joeb, you have more than
happy to add him late in the game. That's okay.
Daniel Davis deep dive that takes place at a thirty.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis joins the program talk about well,
probably war and I thought it was rather interesting in
so far as that is concerned the security guarantee. Apparently

(01:42):
US officials said yesterday they've developed a peace deal and
the conflict between Ukraine and Russia that would provide Ukraine
with security guarantees similar to those outlined in Article five
of an ATO treaties, specifically that we would provide a
defense in the event, for example, Russia attacks Ukraine. Now
they wouldn't members of ATO, And I'm just trying to wonder,

(02:04):
you know, that's what Zelunsky has always wanted to want
to be part of NATO. So that's kind of seems
to be off the table because Russians are saying absolutely
no dice on that. It's a deal breaker, So we
won't enter into a piece a negotiation that evolves Ukraine
joining NATO. So okay, but what is the value of
NATO if we're not Article five, which provides a defense

(02:25):
obligation for the rest of the NATO countries to come
to the eight of Ukraine still a non NATO country.
H Article five stipulates an attack against one member of
the group is considered an attack against them all. Ukraine
again not a member, so I don't know how that
would work. So maybe Daniel Davis can come to the
rescue on that one. And I saw another article. Don't

(02:46):
need to get into all the details of it. Europe
telling people to prepare for war apparently now regularly broadcasting
messages of well, a conflict with Russia. I'm talking about
widely circulating reports from elected officials, Chairman, Chancellor Fridrick Mertz
and all. You know, you go on and on and
on and on. They're all talking about Russia and an

(03:09):
invasion strategy. So you know, first Domino to fall is
going to be Ukraine, then it's off to Poland. You know,
it's reminiscent of Hitler in nineteen thirty eight. So and
they're all up in arms over that, and I call
me skeptical jaden cinecal. They also the European Union has
also stepped up there spending on defense, since they haven't

(03:29):
been paying for their own defense since post World War Two.
That's been our obligation apparently, so as Trump tells them, dude,
you got to defend yourself. And that's been a mantra
from Trump for quite some time. Now they're stepping up
to the plate. How long is it going to take
them to replenish their military hardware and replenish their armies
conscription now all the rage in Europe, so plenty to

(03:53):
talk about, Daniel Davis coming up. I don't know if
that defense obligation is a good idea or not. But then,
you know, I keep going back to how long has
it taken Russia over to overrun Ukraine? And they've been
at the school. It's like three years now. Ukraine's been
defending itself now, granted with the assistance of a lot
of American military hardware in other countries, military hardware probably

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purchased from America first, but their arsenal is going to
supply the Ukrainian forces. Russia keeps going at it. You'd thought,
given the size of Ukraine and the massive superiority of
the Russian army and their hardware, that they would have
rolled right over Ukraine in virtually no time. So Ukraine
one country, what about the rest of NATO countries? You know,

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in a larger concern swirling of the background, and I
saw the statistic there are very I mean The percentage
of people in Europe who are willing to defend their
own country is kind of small, and it's a growing
trend here in the United States of America. I mean,
if you only have forty percent of your country that's
willing to bear arms in defense of the country, I

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think that's statistic from the United States. Less than that
in Europe, you've got a real problem on your hands.
Are you not willing to defend your country's borders? Have
we entered into the world of borderless society, which all
of our globalist friends in the world have been striving
for now, for decades and decades. Is that part of
what this great population shift is all about, bringing in

(05:22):
people from the four corners of the globe to overrun
the Western civilization with their version of culture. And you
look around yourself. If you're a let's say you're a
devout Western European. Let's say French. I got a friend
of France, French citizenship, married to French grow a long
long time ago, good guy, but he considers themself French.

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They have an identity, they have a culture. You can
see it, you've heard about it.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Now.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
If you want to defend that culture, and your country
has been overrun by a massive, massive influx of folks
who have no connection with that culture whatsoever. You kind
of throw your hands up at the whole idea of
defending your country. If push comes to shove and you're
asked to bear arms in defense of the country as
your country let you down, is it worth defending?

Speaker 3 (06:09):
You?

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Know?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
These are legitimate questions to ask, and I think broad
of a part of a broader problem called a conspiracy
theory if you want. But I've talked many, many, many
years over this whole division things during the pot of
division and causing us, most notably facilitated by social media,
to fight amongst ourselves over the dumbest and smallest of

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points dividing us. This is what has been going on
for a long time. It doesn't take an analyst to
see it. Just step back from what you've been absorbing
for the last five ten years and then ask yourself,
are you willing to defend your country? Are you willing
to defend New York City that has now gone full
on socialist slash communists with their choice of elected officials.

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I mean, if you ask me to keep them bear
arms to defend socialism or communism. I don't think that
I would, right, So what is it that we would
be defending. It's a good question, and it's a concerning
question to ask. So a little bit of that with
Daniel Davis coming up a little bit later, and a

(07:18):
tear that I have been on, as you well know,
about fraud, waste and abuse and government here, get a
load of this from the Washington Times. You want to
worry about it, like the the Biden parole programs is
the focus of this one. We could go on and
on and on. We have more fraud, wasted abuses being exposed,
and the stupidity of how they ran these programs intentionally
perhaps that would be nefarious or stupid, just negligent, and

(07:39):
how they set the programs up. Elvis Presley was among
the people who applied to sponsor migrant parolees under the
Biden administration. According to the government audit the Department of
Homeland Security, which was excoriated for how it handled the
now thankfully defunct parole e program, Elvis, along with more
than fourteen teen hundred migrants, were admitted to the United

(08:02):
States despite agency files showing that their sponsors were dead.
This accord of the Government Accountability Office report that was
just release. So you're in some other country, this is
the fly you in the United States. So you're not
going to be fouling up the border. You've got a
sponsor here. Sponsors sign up and say I'm willing to

(08:24):
take that particular person from that country. They fly them
in here. Well, who were these sponsors. Well, apparently our
government didn't really know. They didn't follow up on who
was applying to come into the country either. One application
submitted a photo of journalist Connie Chung as an identity verification.
Another use the photo of NCIS actor Cody Di Pablo.

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One other person applied to sponsor a migrant child, even
though he had a criminal history that included two child
pornography offenses. Should that have or slipped through the programs
view but reviewed by the GAO included one for Ukrainians,
another for covered Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans. These have all

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been canceled or suspended, but hundreds of thousands of migrants
were previously welcomed in under these lacks oversight, if any oversight.
GAO and analysts described the approach to the program saying
the Biden administration rushed to get the programs up and running,
only later focusing on the ramp and fraud and national

(09:31):
security risk. Ang the people who had already been admitted.
There you go. The parallel I've drawn before pointed out
again it's Dave Hatter's Internet of Things. They want to
get the device out because oh cool, and the Internet
of Things device. They don't give a wit about security.
That's exactly a parallel here. It's the same damn thing.
Get that program up and running. Don't worry about the

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people who might be abused under the program, or the
American taxpayer dollars who are being used to fund the programs.
Just get the masses and the throngs of humanity into
our country. Will worry about any aftermath later. Oh yeah,
like plotting and coordinating bombings. Yeah, it's a couple of
those folks out in the mix too. Goo. Auditors talking

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about why the Biden administrations suspended the program for Cubanations
and Nigaraguans and Venezuelans and the summer of twenty four Why, well,
they didn't tell you at the time, but the auditors
revealed the reason. Custom and border protection as well as
Homeland Security Apartment agency that's supposed to provide final approval
for migrants to enter. They looked at a sample of

(10:37):
cases from Venezuela, finding that nearly twenty percent of the
sponsors were deemed to pose public safety or national security risks,
some linked to ongoing investigations into drug dealing and money laundering.
According to Agne Funds, a spokesperson for the House Judiciary Committee,

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these disasters broke programs were nothing more than a taxpayer
fundage chauffeurs for foreign nationals to travel to the United
States and take advantage of our immigration system. To make
matters worse, the Biden Harris administration knew about allegations of
human trafficking a one parole program, but created a new
programs anyway, Oh great. These programs apparently created alleviate pressure

(11:21):
on the Southern border. As I alluded to earlier, Homeland
Security Secretary Alexandro Alejandro Maorcus determined to siphoning off migrants
to fly to the United States through airports would reduce
the flow of illegal immigrants overrunning the southern border. He
asked the migrants to arrange four sponsors in the United

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States who had promised to help settle and financially support
them so they could wouldn't become a burden. Oh JO.
Investigators said the initial vetting severely lacking. Get a load
of this. Parole is supposed to be used only in
cases of urgent humanitarian needs or significant benefits to the
United States. That would be us the public. Is this

(12:05):
person going to benefit us? Great question to ask for
letting someone in? Or are they going to be a
burden on the welfare system? Are you dealing with an
urging humanitarian need? Let's check that first. Well, neither Citizenship
and Immigration Services, which vetted the sponsors, nor the Customs
in Border Protection which provided final approvals at airports, actually

(12:27):
verified whether the applicant was even eligible for parole. Great,
Oh that's fun. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it wasn't
its job, and Customs and Border Protections said it figured
that USCIS or some other agency had already done it. Hmm,
how's that program for you. The report had these following findings.

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When the programs for the Cumanations, Nicaraguans, Venezuela and others
kicked off, Citizenship and Immigration Services didn't have a way
to collect information about the reasons people were applying for parole,
urgent need for humanitarian relief in the United States as
screw that criteria, We're not going to check it. Fraud
investgers identify the cases of human traffickers trying to sponsor

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migrants from Parole to Ukraine. From Ukraine, Ukraine's under crisis,
we need to fly them on in here. Well, let's
get some human traffickers involved. Report confirmed reporting by the
Washington Times that people were selling sponsorships to migrants four
five thousand dollars. There's your fraud profit motive. And then
once in the United States, prolleys were largely left on

(13:34):
their own even if the parole passes EXPIREDJO said, No
Homeland Security Department agency tracked them and under a myorchist directive,
they weren't considered targets for deportation. Anyway. There you go, ready,
fire aim, screwvadding screws, fraud, wasted abuse that's going on,

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and forget about the poor children who were traffic. Let's
just expedite this massive humanity into the country at massive
taxpayer expense. Welcome to reality five nineteen right now fifty
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Speaker 5 (14:14):
Here's what's happening anti Semitic terror in Australia three fifty.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Five care see the talk station. I can be critical
of Trump, and it's appropriate to be critical of Trump.
And I know I got a lot of always Trumper
folks out there. But on the heels of the Charlie
Kirk assassination, all the vile comments that came out about
Charlie Kirk from the left wing, was this trip really necessary,
Donald Trump? Did we learn a lesson? Why would you

(14:38):
draw attention along these lines? Ryner's death reportedly due to
the anger he caused others through a mind crippling disease
known as Trump arrangements syndrome. He was known to have
driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald Trump,
and then later in a press conference people responding to that.
Obviously a lot of right wingers, a lot of conservatives

(15:00):
out there, including Congresson mass He had some statements about this,
criticizing Trump for going down that road. And he wasn't
murdered for his political beliefs as batcrap crazy, as I
will agree they were, clearly they had some problems in
the family with their son anyway. Responding to questions about
the GOP pushback on that social media post and whether

(15:21):
he stands by it, he said, I wasn't a fan
of his at all. He was a deranged person as
far as Trump is concerned, which is a weird way
of talking about yourself, Massey's comment. Regardless of how you
feel about felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and
disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered,
and I challenge anyone to defend it. He said he

(15:43):
wasn't the only Republican to criticize Trump. But again, you know, fine,
I don't know anybody to like Rob Reiner except for
his movies. This is the way I view music. A
lot of the bands I like or left wingers. I
can't get away from the fact I love the music.
I give him props for making, you know, writing some
really you know, provocative lyrics that make sense, poetry in

(16:06):
motion that I don't agree with. The message is a
different story, but ah, it's the same thing earth rob Ryder.
I mean, who didn't like Princess Bride? I mean, this's
got and this is spinal Tap. Come on, those are
outstanding movies. He's got a litany of outstanding movies. I'll
judge his art and approve of it all day long.

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I will disagree and condemn his insane leftist political ideology
all day long. But I can enjoy one while not
giving him credit and going down his road to political
ideology and have it, you know, change my mind. It's
not gonna happen. But so close to all of this
nonsense we dealt with him after Charlie Kirk. Isn't there

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an internal voice that just says, you know what, don't
go down that road. It's not worth it. Why give
anyone a reason to criticize me, take the high or
just don't say anything at all, which is a good lesson,
I think for a lot of us to learn. Jay's
on the phone, Jay, you're up next, got to kick

(17:09):
a break. It's five twenty five right now, be right.

Speaker 6 (17:10):
Back fifty five KRC, you're one, He agrees, fify.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
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Speaker 7 (17:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
A friend of mine comment on that social media post,
See this is why I don't want to go down
that road. I mean, he's got to sort of defend
it and not defend. At the same time, he wasn't
happy with Trump's post. He said, but a social media
post commenting on how blanking stupid meathead was politically isn't
even close to what the left did when Kirk was assassinated.

(17:41):
I'll acknowledge that point, but that you've got to look
at the degree and argue that, well, yeah, it was
a dumb thing to do. And why would you bring
that up in the aftermath of all we did and
all we said about the posts about Charlie Kirk's assassination
and how they were giddy with excitement over it. Now
we're arguing about the degree. Well yeah, well it just

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wasn't as bad. Okay, Well again I go with how
about not even going down that road? See what Jay's got. Jay,
you're first. Welcome to the program, and happy Tuesday to you.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
Hey, good morning, Brian. It's an honor to be first
under Brian Thomas show. Hey, I wanted to applaud you
again again. I was listening yesterday when he talked about
Mike Dewan defending Amy acton this is not normal that
a Republican governor who is wrapping up his dismal eight

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year term is defending the challenger who is a Democrat
for his seat. And what's also not normal is that
Amy Acton was well known and it's out on the
internet and I heard it years ago.

Speaker 7 (18:52):
She was a.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
Volunteer in two thousand and eight for the Barack Obama
presidential campaign, so she has been an actor of democrat
at how she ever got on De Wine's administration is
a great question to ask, and the only answer I
come up with is the one that's I think it's
called Oukham's razor. The most obvious answer is probably the

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right answer. The guy's a Democrat. He acts like a Democrat,
legislates like a democrat, spends money like a democrat, grows
Democrats within his organization, and then supports Democrats when it's
time to hand over the baton. He's a Democrat. Now,
what I would like is one of the shadow people
from Ohio Republican Central Committee to step out of the shadows,

(19:39):
come to the microphone and say, would you like to
have that decision back to support Mike de Wine. Maybe
Alex Trantafla. When the Wine went into his second term
and Jim Ronaci was running against him, a businessman an
Ohio businessman with some great ideas. The Ohio Republican Party
back Mike de Wine and shock me even more was

(20:01):
the Ohio people had gave him a seventy seven percent
approval rating post COVID lockdown. So what I would say
to the listeners is, do not take any stock in
what the Republican Party of Ohio who they get behind
in these primary campaigns, because Mike the Wine, reminder, gave

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us eighteen years of shared Brown. When Mike the Wine
lost his Senate seat, opened the door for shared Brown,
and now Mike the Wine is opening the door for
Amy Acton. And you know, the Republican Party at the
national level, the Republican Party at the state level, how
to get off their ass to take a hard look
at this. And they owe us, the Republican voters some answers. Instead,

(20:48):
what we're going to get is silence, And what we're
going to get is probably some generic playing vanilla nothing
state from Alex Trant Topila saying, oh, well, he's a
good guy and you know, we wish him the best.
You know, he's done a lot for the state and
we're looking forward. No no, no, no, no, yeah, do
your job. You ran for it step to the microphone,

(21:09):
come out of the shadow central committee. People want to
own it and explain it to us, please. So this
is why we say, don't vote Democrat and probably more importantly,
don't vote rhino because they'll do more damage than a Democrat.
And as we've seen the Wine do during his political.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Career, well a lot to unpackage in that. I mean,
I guess more most fundamentally, what does it even mean
to be a Republican or a Democrat? You say, Governor
of Wine is a Democrat. Well, I mean you can
label him that based upon where he is within a
political spectrum, and yeah, he leans more centrist or left
than maybe your and my ideal candidate as a Republican.
But the political the spectrum is so broad. Now within

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the Democrat party you have the communists all the way
over to what you would consider maybe like a Kennedy
Democrat to the extent any of those are still around
the Republicans actually, And then within the Republican party have
will we characterize as rhinos, which are centrists, more big
government types of quote unquote Republicans, although you can count
on them for voting on certain other conservative issues. And
then you have the further right perspective or even libertarian perspective,

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like you know a Thomas Masty who's a strict constitutionalist.
So you know, it's a big blur out there, a
complete blur. So you know, we can be unhappy with him.
And insofar as being held accountable the Central Committee and
Endorsingdwine and all that, yes, you're right, ancient history is
what they're going to say. Listen, we're done over with
he's termed limited out. We're not talking about Dwine anymore.

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We're moving forward. Presumably Viva Ramaswami a welcome change. And
insofar as Trianta Filo is concerned, I have to defend
him from time to time. Do you want that job?
It's like being Speaker of the House. You have to
appease all those people within that quote unquote Republican spectrum.
He's not in a position in his role to go

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after people within his party that causes further division and
dissension among within this so called Republican umbrella. You got
to it's a delicate line to walk. And you know,
I've had conversations with with Alex and I know where
he is personally, but where he is personally which is
probably something that you would appreciate, is not the job

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he has. He has to put his own personal political
leanings and where he is within that quote unquote Republican
spectrum aside and cater to the whole group. So you know,
this is the reality of politics. It's difficult, it's not
certainly not an easy challenge. And I understand where your
criticized criticisms come from, which is the only reason I
try to put a little bit of explanation on you

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know what Alex has to deal with. And I wouldn't
take that job quadruple my salary. I wouldn't take that job. No,
thank you, Nah, five point thirty four coming up in
five thirty five, Tom, I believe is on the line,
and sorry, Tom, I don't want to have to cut
you off early. We'll pause, take a quick break for
a couple of words, and be right back with Tom

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Listen to Monday Monday with Brian James and the Christopher
Smitherman smither Vent Episode one, sixteen Elections Have Consequences. I
love talking to Christopher and love hearing from Tom. Tom,
welcome back to the Morning Show. Happy Tuesday.

Speaker 8 (24:31):
Yeah, good morning, And all this crap is gonna melt
and it's gonna be a freaking mess. So yeah, well yeah, well,
I mean I'm glad it's melting because then maybe these
some of these people out here on the roads that
are just too scared. Those are the ones you say,
freak out when they see a snowflake. Yep, a snowflake

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on the radar within ten miles.

Speaker 9 (24:54):
I know.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
I got behind one of them yesterday the street went
from dry to wet and they locked the brakes up
and then proceeded to drive twenty miles per hour to
thirty five because the road was wet. Anyway, what are
you thinking about today, Tom? It's on your mind?

Speaker 8 (25:09):
Well, I have to. I have to agree with you
about Trump, and it's it's my probably my biggest criticism
of the man. Just you know, take take Jay Ratlet's advice,
and sometimes you just have to keep your stupid mouth shut. Yeah,
you know, just don't say anything, you know, or condolences,
our thoughts and prayers go out to the family.

Speaker 7 (25:30):
Leave it at that.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
If you're so bothered your son cut their throat.

Speaker 8 (25:36):
Yeah, that's I mean, that's a I don't care who
it is, you know, Yeah, you just that's that's not
that's crossing the line. And and and like you said,
probably politically speaking, the worst part is why give people
amo against you? You know, you know they already hate you,
but at least you know, now it's something that everyone

(25:58):
can agree on. Yeah, that was crossing, right. You know,
there's a lot of things they can hate Trump about.
And we're like, what is wrong with you? That's you're
deranged if you think that's so terrible? What's wrong with you?
This one I think we can all agree on. So like,
come on, dude, just shut up and do your job
and just leave the stuff alone. Somebody, somebody needs to
get in there. And you know, mister Trump, can you

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handle your phone right?

Speaker 1 (26:21):
And you know, and or or something along the lines
of in spite of the fact that we had you
know obvious political disagreements, and I do believe he was
suffering from Trump arrangement syndrome. No one, no family should
ever have to go through this. You know, his legacy
of movies exists. He was well loved for the movies
that he created. They were demonstrably wonderful. Blah blah blah
blah blah. And say something. If you have to say

(26:43):
something about politics, characterize it along those lines. But otherwise,
I think the safest bet is just to not say anything.
If your first thoughts, in your first inclination is to
go negative in the aftermath of that kind of tragedy,
just don't do it.

Speaker 8 (26:58):
Agreed. Yeah, the whole the two of the greatest scenes
in movies, the Anigo Montoya scene and then the court
room scene with Jack Nicholson. I mean, I mean that
that's good work. That's great stuff. You've got to give
the man credit for it. Anyway, to quickly move move
on to what Jay was talking about, there needs to
be a line that we draw and say, Look, if

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you're if you're going to help this country, you're gonna
help your state, your county, whatever you need to look,
we believe you need to agree on these things. We
can't vote for you if you don't at least agree
with and support fair minimum stuff. And so that's the
line between left and right, that's the line between Democrat
and Republican. And we do have to make it simple. Look,

(27:41):
we're not Yeah, there's a big umbrella. I understand about
the job that Alex has to do. But at some
point somebody needs to step up and go, Look, we're
drawing the line. You're either on this side of the
line or that side line. We're too far down the
road of everything being screwed up, and we can't keep
letting all this gray area to trying. No, it's one
side of the other people you got. You gotta make

(28:04):
the decision. So don't vote Rhino and don't vote Democrat.
Have a great day, Bry, You do the same.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Appreciate it. Tom five one three, two three Talk into
the stack is stupid, man. We have gone off the
Richter scale on this one. Joe Strecker execute producer, internet
research guru, all Ron, great guy and finder of the
most bizarre stack of stupid stories out there. Welcome to
the world of social media and angel box Girl, South Korean,

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described as a model, became known as angel box girl,
Why cause you walked around in a cardboard box and
let strangers grow her? I Ai N, a self proclaimed
attention seeking South Korean model, went viral for a risk
case doune, making international headlines. Video of the young woman

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wearing only a cardboard box and yes it looks as
ridiculous as it sounds, has four holes cut in and
so her legs and her arms can stick out, and
her head too, by the way, and two more extra
holes so people could engage in the groping yup went viral,

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making her one of the most popular topics on social media.
According to reporting, young women prayed her herself in the
streets of Hung Day, a vibrant nightlife district of Seoul,
asking random people to put their hands through the holes
in the angel box and grope her naked or scantly
clad body, depending upon the day. I suppose his word

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of angel box girl spread through the street. She ended
up attracting large groups of curious people that the police
had to disperse. She repeated the angel box routine in October,
after having done it previously. A different neighborhood described as
a posh neighborhood in the Gangam in Gangam videos. Photos

(30:01):
shared on social media show the model guiding random people's
hands through the holes in the cardboard box that they
could grow her breasts and other body parts. The stunts
made her an overnight sensation in South Korea. This is
a sad state of reality. Isn't it that this person
gains notoriety for doing this? But hey, P. T. Barnum
made a hell of a lot of money with the

(30:21):
bearded lady and the fat man, all kinds of other
crazy people. You pay five bucks, get into a tent
and see them all. Wouldn't you welcome to social media
where you don't have to pay a dime for it?
Behavior criticized as obscene. Of course, some people went as
far as the file complaints with the police. She was
recently charged with obscene exposure, which she's contesting. Quote, it's

(30:42):
freedom of expression. I don't think I should be charged
for indecent exposure. How can I be accused of making
an obscene performance if people were able to see weren't
able to see my body parts. I don't have fake breast,
I didn't get breast surgery. What the hell has that
got to do with anything. Performance is not a viral
marketing stunt. I just want to market myself.

Speaker 7 (31:04):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
She was beaking with the Korea jeung Ang Daily. Joe,
do you still get the Koream jewing Ang Daily paper?
Are electronic paper? She said. Although it is a fine ideas,
I believe it is illogical to punish women for not
wearing clothes. Well, it wasn't the case for men when
they go shirtless. I actually saw many positive reactions with

(31:29):
people telling me they support me and applaud my courage. Yeah,
there's a bunch of twisted people out there that want
to fondle a naked woman's breast. Short supply of those
out in the world. That's crazy. Welcome to the Internet.
Five forty sixty five KRSTE talk station. Got some callers online,
taking them as soon as we get back fifty five
the talk station.

Speaker 9 (31:49):
It's a the talk station.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Five point fifty fifty five Krsity talk station And a
Happy Tuesday to Dave Williams. Taxpaper shows up at seven
o five. Got a whole bunch of topic scorer with day.
We got the Daniel Davis Deep Dive and ask the
expert at the end of the show, gastro health, hold
your breath on that one rather interesting conversation. To go
over with that one, let's start with the phones. Got
Patrick in line first, Patrick, thanks for calling this morning.

Speaker 10 (32:16):
Very good morning, Brian. So that angel in the box
girl that sounds like a porch pirate's fantasy come true.
The reason that I called is, h you know, we
all know that Trump is not one to actually filter
his words before they come out of his mouth.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Had noticed that.

Speaker 10 (32:34):
That is one of the things that I think it
was his appeal to most of us, but also you know,
makes us cringe that every time, you know, we hear
something like this come out of his mouth because it's like,
you know, you know, all this is doing is like,
you know, reinforcing the left's beliefs that you know, he

(32:54):
shouldn't be in office. And that leads me into this
other point is that, you know, the political spectrum that
we're in right now, Brian, it has just become something
where we get a candidate out there who says, you know,
what he's going to do once he gets in office,
and then once he gets in office, it just becomes
the good old boys club where it's you know, and

(33:16):
that is one of the things that you know, government
has just grown so large into the good old boys club.
It's no longer for the people. It's for who, you know,
for everybody who's in that inner circle. Yeah, hello today, Brian.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Good to you too, Patrick. Or one of the reasons
I've been a Republican, you know, or at least lean Republican,
you know me, I characterize myself as a little little libertarian.
But for all the reasons that I used to characterize
myself as a Republican. Fiscal responsibility used to be one
of the you know, top platform principles of the Republican Party.
How many times have we had Republicans in control over
the past thirty forty years where we were promised fiscal responsibility.

(33:50):
I want to see our deficit blown up even more
trillions of dollars. It's one of the criticisms I had
during the first Trump administration went up four or five
trillion dollars under his watch. Where is the fiscal responsibility? Right?
We dug ourselves in an insurmountable hole. We're never gonna
dig out of it. The threat to our Fiat currency
is an existential one, and part of me wants to

(34:12):
believe that, you know, a lot of people in government
want the collapse of the United States dollar fiat currency
because that will allow phoenix to rise from the ashes
of what was the great United States of America after
it got done spending itself into oblivion, ruining the fiad currency. Well,
maybe we'll bring about socialism next round or something. Try
to envision the chaos that would ensue with the collapse

(34:34):
of the US dollar. I'm not saying that's going to
happen today or any time soon. We still have the globes'
largest economy. The world depends upon us, and thank God
for it. But on the trajectory we were on with
a bill or trillion dollars we have to pay in
debt service every year. This is unquestionably and objectively an
unsustainable trajectory. But to his point, once you get elected,

(34:59):
nobody seems to give a crap about the salvation of
our country. Are engaging in a measure of fiscal responsibility.
Oh my good, we can't cook that program, Mississippi James.
Welcome to the morning show. My friend. How's the weather
down there.

Speaker 9 (35:13):
We had a couple of cold nights, got down to
the nineteen but they shoot back up to about fifty.
The next day, right, So we're hanging in there. But hey,
I come in peace. I love everybody, and there's nothing
you can do about it. Good man, Now you know,
and I'm still on this old principle that will spiritual

(35:35):
beings going through human experience. And if you there's two
choices people can look at, maybe some more, but I
know they're the two main you know, either through creation
or evolution. And if you believe we was created by
God and scooping up a man and then blowing his

(35:57):
spirit into us, a lot of people just leave that
he blew his breath into us. But actually the way
it goes, he was blowing his spirit into us, which
is all about love, peace, errntity, come to sharing, caring,
you know, and you do all that, you will get victory.

(36:18):
But into this political education, financial justice, religion, all that
stuff is man made, man manipulated. And when that penalton swing,
and it swing so far to the other side, and
by me being a talk show junkie, I listened to

(36:39):
conservative liberal and they both saying the same thing. Just
ready to scratch him eyeballs out and vote for us
and we'll set you free. Well, those are the big
money peoples. They're saying vote for us and US combs
down here on the bottom, we're scrambling for the same

(36:59):
thing as we get worse. So whatever been put in
place is working good for what we want to say,
one percent, five percent, ten percent, But your ninety percent
out of people, that's care and the load almost like
slaves in venture serving. No what what term we want

(37:20):
to use.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
We've been through these periods of time before the Gilded Age,
when we had you know, corporate cities, you know the
Pullman cities where you work for the Pullman car company
and you lived an abject squalor and bought all of
your groceries from the company owned grocery store. This was,
you know, late eighteen hundreds, turn of the century time. Yeah,
one percenters took care of everything. And what happened The

(37:42):
unions rose up and they got a little bit more money,
and they got some love, they got some safety, you know,
loss put into place. So movement over toward a labor Now.
I don't know where we are right now in this
global economy of ours, but when you talk about the
one percenters and the ten percenters, they may have all
the money, but they do not bear a political stripe
that used to be the argument that Democrats, oh, it's

(38:04):
all those rich Republicans. Well, you know, there's a whole
lot of socialist, globalist, multi multi billionaire leftists out there
which are gobbling up a giant slice of the pie
and getting the control at the same time. So we
seem to have moved away from that political labeling when
it applies to who is rich and what political stripe
they bear. But you know, well, point well taken fivefty

(38:26):
seven fifty five car City Talk Station. Your points are
always well taken. Call me up, feel free to be
right back.

Speaker 6 (38:32):
Today's top headlines coming up at the.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Care CD talk station and Brian Thomas right here. Glad
to be looking forward to here books. I got one
caller online and we five hund three seven hundred eight
hundred two three talk found five fifty on AT and
T phones. You have sure Gary hold on one minute
coming up in one hour. Dave Williams Taxpayer Protection Alliance
waste in the Defense Authorization Act shocking. No one can't
wait to hear what Dave points out in that one.

(39:18):
He's nine hundred and one billion dollars anyway, prescription drug
price fixing. We'll talk higher education reform and what is
the Simosa Act. That's why we have Dave Williams in
one hour, followed by the Daniel Davis deep dive Sally.
For whatever reason, Breitbart didn't get back with Joe Strecker
to schedule the normal eight to h five appearance of
the be Inside Scoop. But we'll hear from retire Lieutenant
Colonel Daniel Davis. Got quite a bit to talk with

(39:39):
him about the efforts to resolve the war between Russia
and Ukraine and some of the other developments going on
in the European Union. Ask the expert. We'll hear from
gastro health. What are the doctors there? I kid you
not and don't laugh. I don't write them, I just
read them. Hemorrhoids. Yeah, that's a topic of conversation, so

(40:03):
wait for it eight fifty So that's coming up in
the morning show again. Feel free to give me a
call number fifty five KRC dot com when you can't
listen to Christopher SMITHV on a Monday morning at seven
twenty get the Smith or a Smith event right there
and some good information from Brian James all Worth. Financial
and Money Monday, as always Okay, let's see what New
Hampshire Gary's got this morning. New Hampshire Gary, thanks for calling,

(40:23):
and Happy Tuesday to you.

Speaker 7 (40:26):
Hey, Merry Christmas. Bryan, thank you and hopeful as well
with both you and Joe.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
I can't speak for Joe. I see him in there.
He looks okay, Gary, I'll check with him master the show.
But thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (40:39):
Sure, sure, no problem. I'd like when you talk to
Daniel Davis. I've been listening to Daniel Davis. I guess
you've had him on for almost two years now, yeah,
at least a year. And every time you have him on,
and I'm not an apologist for Ukraine or anything like that,

(40:59):
but every every time, it's like, oh, it's the end
of Ukraine. It's the end of Ukraine. Well, just yesterday
Ukraine flew up the K class submarine, one of the
most prized possession of the Russian Navy in the Black
Sea Submarine pen with an underground drone. And now that

(41:26):
entire submarine pen or that naval base for the Black
Sea Fleet has got to be evacuated or rebuild up.
This is a major deal for a strike against Russia
and I'm just saying that every time he says that
this is nearing a complete they should surrender. You know,

(41:49):
you see things like this and I think what I'm
trying to say is, in a nutshell, the world is
gearing up with more wars, and I think we're preparing
for the World War three with all the conflicts. You know,
Vietnam is back at it with Laws, and we see

(42:10):
that Pakistan is back at it with India, and you know,
China is at it with Pakistan, and you know, we
see all these conflicts breaking out and armaments are being
built up. Just look at Ohio and andre building up,
and they're building these suicide drones. Warfaares changed dramatically where

(42:33):
I don't know if you need the manpower that you
used to, but you need more qualified men to operate
these systems. So you know, I'm just seeing I think
I just see it a little different that you know this,
this is this is getting more violent and it's going
to become more prevalent as time goes on. If things

(42:53):
don't change. We look at the Islamic uh, you know,
radicalism here in the United States.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Global into faddam. Many are calling it global into fada.
With all these terrorist attacks, most notably against the Jewish community. Yeah. Yeah, Oh,
and you know the article that I mentioned in the
five o'clock hour, and I recommend anybody read. It's in
the Wall Street Journal. After a Generation of Peace, Europe
tells people to prepare for war. Consistent with some of
the observations you're making. They're all gearing up and trying

(43:22):
to get more people into the military, build up their hardware.
They see an inevitable invasion from Russia. Now, whether or
not that's accurate or true or not, that's what they're
planning on, and that's what they're concerned about. Yes, I mean,
and we've got China to deal with and all in.
The warfare doesn't necessarily have to be a shooting war, Gary,
You know that invading our infrastructure, going after our power
systems and grids, our water supply, hacking, the political division

(43:47):
that is stirred every single moment in time on the internet,
you know, convincing young people to harm themselves or otherwise
turn their back on their country. I mean, it is
just it's warfare of a non shooting variety, just left
and right on a global scale.

Speaker 7 (44:01):
Yeap in Germany, just for the first time since World
War Two stationed a brigade of army in Bulgaria. So
you know, there's repositioning going on in a massive scale,
and I mean massive for the first time since World
War Two.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Well, I mean points all well taken. And Ukraine may
score some symbolic victories. Of course, blowing up a sub
is a pretty big feather in their cap and it
may be used to rally the Ukrainians. Look at we're
making some progress. We scored this symbolic victory. But in
the grand scheme of things, does the elimination of one
submarine have any connection with or any bearing on the

(44:43):
ground war going on within the country. I don't know
that it does. No military strategists am I. But yeah,
you're going to see some you know, big thumbs up
for Ukraine in terms of military action. But overall they
are losing more territory and more human life every day,
and I think that's the practice thing that Davis focuses on.
You know, you Esprussia has more soldiers, they have more hardware.

(45:05):
Ukraine's running out of people and they're losing on the ground,
so you can't deny that reality. And then the European
Union while screaming out loud, we've got to stop them.
We've got to stop them. Doesn't have the ability to
stop them. They're not going to station they haven't so
far stationed their troops in Ukraine to fight side by
side with the Ukrainians. That's a step toward World War three,

(45:27):
I mean, more than probably any other, because you know,
NATO countries then once attacked by Russia, we have this
Article five obligation to defend the NATO countries, and that
could easily arise out of defense of Ukraine. And I
think that's one of the things that Trump is has
been trying to avoid. So very very complicated, beyond complicated, Gary,

(45:48):
but we live in a really complicated world right now, Man,
very complicated world. I appreciate it, I really do. And
I hear what you're saying about Daniel Davis. It really is.
He has been predicting the end of Ukraine, or at
least the capitulation on some level, and that's apparently still
what Trump's trying to negotiate now. Would us providing a

(46:08):
security agreement i'llah, Article five, as was suggested by Trump
the other day, would that solve the problem. It might
give Ukraine a little comfort in a little breathing room, saying, well,
we've now finally got the United States and the NATO
countries to agree to defend us against any further Russian incursion.
But is that a good thing for us? I know
we're short on hardware ourselves. I've seen too many articles

(46:29):
about how far behind we are in terms of our
own stockpiles to defend ourselves or maybe have to involve
ourselves in Thailand, for example, which I'm a little concerned
about Russia's pull no punch or Chinese communist parties pull
no punches when it comes to the desires on invading them.
So how much how many resources do we have, you know,
practically speaking? And can we defend ourselves if things go

(46:53):
even further left than they currently are going? And I
don't mean political left. So and you know the other
challenging thing for me in the article I just mentioned
again you can find it yourself. After a generation of peace,
Europe tells the people to prepare for war was something
else I alluded to in the last hour, Just like
read the short paragraph politicians across the region meaning European

(47:15):
Union region, if one that re instilling a martial mindset
into the public a company by an explanation of the
difficult spending trade offs ahead. In other words, we need
to buy more arms to defend ourselves against this Russian threat,
existential threat to NATO. We're going to have to cut
programs HM in socialist Europe. Wow, that's gonna be a

(47:38):
tough road to ho anyway. Trade offs is what they're
talking about. And here's the salient part of the fun
fact that really bothered me. A Gallup Pole last year
found that only a third of Europeans would be willing
to fight to defend their country, compared with heartbreaking forty
percent in the United States. I just want you to

(48:01):
ponder that forty one percent. That's it. See, this is
where we've gone off the rails. Ask yourself, what would
you be defending if you want to defend the United
States of America, What will be your first and foremost
reason to engage in that exercise. I mean, for me,

(48:22):
it's always freedom and liberty and everything we stand for
as a country. Compared to every place else in the world,
you don't get arrested for political utterances here, thank god.
Now they do in European Union. So only forty one percent. Now,
I hope the Gallup poll is just wildly inaccurate, but wow,

(48:45):
if you can't come up with a reason to defend
your own country, I think we have found ourselves in
a terrible situation. Six fifteen fifty five care CD talk Station.
Feel free to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hight hundred eight two three talk the CD
talk station. First, I want to knowledge props of Joe Strecker.
Prescient he is, he can see into the future. Yesterday,
he joked to me and I passed along to you

(49:08):
that the hero in the Australian murder scene who wrestled
the gunman away from one of those crazy murderous Islamic
fundamentalist murderers. If I can repeat murder more than once
Babylon B headline, Joe had said that he's probably going
to be charged with a gun crime Babylon B. Of course,

(49:29):
the comedy website Australian man who wrestled gunaway from terrorists
charged with unlawful firearm possession. Well done. Joe Strecker couldn't
see that one coming a mile away, could you? Anyway?
Man manipulated? That's what I think the words that Mississippi
James used in the prior segment. Ford Motor Company said
yesterday it's going to be taking a nineteen point five

(49:51):
billion dollar right down after closing, or rather choosing to
discontinue electric vehicle models, at least several of them. Uh oh,
the all electric F one point fifty lightning pickup canceled, replaced.
They're going to go use a gasoline engine for battery recharging.
Fords also stopping production of a forthcoming electric truck, the

(50:13):
T three, along with the electric vans designed for commercial use.
Forts CEO Jim Farley, when the market's really changed over
the last couple of months, that was really the impetus
for us to make the call. They're now focusing on
gasoline engines and hybrid options because you didn't want the
electric cars. And the only reason apparently the electric cars

(50:34):
were even remotely popular at the seventy five hundred dollars
tax credit, which is there you go manipulation. I hate
the tax code and its manipulation of people's behavior. Charges
distributed over mostly the fourth quarter going into the next
year and twenty twenty seven, approximately eight point five billion
charges coming from stopping planned ev projects, six billion from

(50:57):
exiting a battery partnership with the South Korea is SK
and five billion four related program costs. Here's a great quote.
Ford's actions take place amid decreasing demand for battery only vehicles,
despite investments worth hundreds of billions earlier in the decade.

(51:20):
You call a tax in cent of an investment. See
here you go. You've got to believe in the religion
of climate change in order to even justify the quote
unquote investment, which is the United States taxpayer dollar funding
the purchase of one of these really expensive vehicles, so
the top ten percent can go out and feel morally

(51:41):
superior and drive around with a car that, while producing
massive quantities of pollution and CO two in the manufacturing
and chipping process, isn't producing any well with the exception
of the electricity used to generate the charging station that yes,
will probably be hooked up at least locally to a
gas fired plant. Yep, that's right, carbon dioxide coming out
of that. This is exactly the same thing as Obamacare.

(52:07):
It wouldn't and could not exist on its own in
the absence of these subsidies that the Democrats are dying
to put in place on a permanent basis. It's a
reflection of failure. We're looking at one hundred plus billion
dollars a year in supplements to keep a program alive
for I guess the six percent of the population that
use it or something will quote me on these figures.

(52:29):
I'm a washing figures this morning. But without the tax credit,
without the incentives, the plan collapses on itself. If there
was no ev incentive in the forum of seventy five
hundred dollars credit, they wouldn't even have sold the evs
that they sold. Some people would have been early adopters,
that's always the case. But if you have a choice
in what you want to choose, people apparently aren't willing

(52:53):
to sacrifice their choices in the name of climate alarmism.
I think the vast number of people out there that
are buy vehicles generally speaking, if you pull them all,
do you believe in climate change, man made climate change,
or anything along those lines, Maybe they'd say yeah, and
maybe they say no. But when it comes to selecting

(53:13):
which vehicle they're going to buy, I think affordability is paramount.
Range is a concern for some people. The electric infrastructure
not quite up to snuff in a lot of areas
where there are no charging stations, inspite your taxpayer dollars
being allocated toward building them. The House of cards is collapsing.

(53:34):
Corollary article Brussels slams break on twenty thirty five combustion
engine ban. That's right, the European Commission getting ready to
pull the plug on its planned twenty thirty five ban
on combustion engine car sales. Why Germany, Italy and other
European automakers can't sell the evs. They can't compete with

(53:55):
the United States. They certainly can't compete with China. They
want to make a profit. In order to make a profit,
you have to allow people to buy internal combustion engines. Yeah, William,
you're on the phone. I will take your call. It's
already six twenty six. Got to put a quick word
in from my friends at Zimmer Sponsors. Unhappy Tuesday five
went three seven, nine, two to three talk pound five

(54:18):
fifty on eighteen t phones Before I get to the
local stories and Joe Strucker is still keeping track of
where residents in the city c Cincinnati voted and how
they voted in the most recent election. As it relates
to criminal activity in the various areas. Before we get
to that, let's see what William's got. William, thanks for calling.
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Hey Brian, top of the morning to you. I just
wanted to ask you if you've been paying close attention
to the circus wars that are heating up. Apparently last
night the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island challenged aftab pure
Bell to hold his beer. You know, the Metro, the

(54:58):
Metro circus scene really taken off. If Barnum and Bailey
were still around today, they'd be spent in bullets.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Fair enough on that is that remotely connected to something real, William,
because if it is, it's flown underneath my radar.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
No, no, I was just wondering if you've been paying
attention to the press conferences they've been holding in a
Rope and Providence due to the brown shooting. And that
mayor is special, Oh and the police chief is special,
special as yesterday to hold his beer.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
I appreciate special for all the wrong reasons. I suspect
you are suggesting or implying Donald Trump would he used
the R word, I think, William, But you know we're
not going to go down that road here in the
morning show, at least not right now and along those lines.
Just drecker editorial comment on this one less than forty

(55:53):
eight hours after the final snowflake fell in Cincinnati, Local
twelve reporting, thank you Marl Porter. Nearly every street appears
to have been salted and plowed, at least that's what
the city snowplow tracker website shows. Joe jaded and cynical
as to whether that is an accurate statement, considering that
Local twelve interviewed someone who did not have their street

(56:15):
taken care of, so I know there's more than one
street out there that wasn't touched. So nearly every street
nearly being the operative word, Joe, We'll go over to
South cummins Ville Highware. Joe wrote on the article, voted
ninety percent aft have par ball. We had a person
shot and hospitalized yesterday. Happened three point fifty pm on

(56:37):
Elmore Street. Excuse me, cough button, please say the victim
of shot in the leg drove themselves that you see
medical center believed have non life threatening energy injuries. Courting
the police victim shot in the leg, as I just
mentioned repeated twice in the article, Police identified one suspect
in the shooting. That person is not in custody. Police

(56:57):
also said there is no threat to the public and
this Will and Hey Joe is an isolated incident. Isolated incident.
Sad news Cheese Cakery closing it's Madisonville storefront, where Joe
notes that Madison Will voted seventy five percent for I
have to have purvall, citing safety concerns. Liz Field, owner

(57:19):
of the bakery on Wetsell Avenue, announced the decision to
close December twenty eighth, this after six years in the neighborhood. Quote,
By focusing on one storefront, we'll be able to keep
shelf stock, support our baking team more sustainably, and bring
back many favorites you'll be missing. We know times are
tough and consumer spending is down, making things especially challenging
for our business. A couple of weeks ago, Field spoke

(57:39):
with The Enquirer media partner Fox nineteen sales down eighty
percent this year, lost multiple employees in one week, citing
safety concerns as their reason for leaving. Owner Miss Field
turned to social media at the time to raise concerns
about safety on Wetszell Avenue, particularly from what she described
as harassment by certain people under the influence in the area,

(58:02):
saying I had three girls quit and they're all saying
I don't feel safe. I don't feel safe. What else
can I do? Cheese Kkery is now down to one
location in Anderson Township off Beachmont Avenue, where apparently they
do not struggle with the level of criminal activity and
safety issues that some people within the City of Cincinnati limits,

(58:25):
noticeably Madison or notably Madisonville, are dealing with. Yeah, PAPIs
will be hanging out there all the time. We know
that it's baked goods Joe, but he'll at least pay
for him, and I don't know that he represents a
danger to the public at large. Generally, some people may
feel differently about former trustee PAPIs, but I don't feel
that way. Six point thirty five Right now ififty five

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car se de talk station, I feel great about USA installation.
Here at the de talk station six forty the fifty
five KRRI see the talk station. Oh listen appropriately. Fiend
Bumper Music made a play call over the break. We
need a plague update. It's been a while since we've
done one and selected bumper music for the plague update. Anthrax,

(59:12):
of course, one of Joe Strecker's favorites, caught in a mesh.
Oh no, a new flu strain flu season upon us,
and here we go, influenza a H three and two

(59:36):
or the subclade cave variant making sense to you whatever,
it's been detected as the rising global cases the dominant
flu strain. Doctor Neil Mannier, professor of Public health and
Practice of Boston's Northeast University, speaking of Fox News, it's
becoming evident that this is a pretty severe variant to

(59:56):
the flu. Certainly in other parts of the world where
this variant has been prevalent, it's caused some severe illness,
and we're seeing an aggressive flu season already. They describe
it as different from prior strains of flu, heightened versions
of typical symptoms fever, chills, headache, fatigue, coughs or throats,
and running nose. So you have all those except just
more of it. Subclade K, the doctor said, is the

(01:00:22):
perfect storm for an aggressive flu season. He said, the
vaccination rates overall are down this year. Why might that be?
Fun fact report of Foxing is this year's flu vaccine
does not address the specific strain. So the dominant strain
out there that's causing all these problems worse than the
regular flu strain. There's not even a vaccine out there

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for it. Sounds like covid right hold on, He said,
the vaccine is very important to get. On the heels
of the statement, this year's flu vaccine does not address
this specific strain, the doctor says, this vaccine is very
important to get. But because it's not perfectly aligned with
this variant, I think that's also contributing to some degree

(01:01:10):
to the severity of cases we're seeing. He thinks we're
going into the flu season with lower vaccination rates than
a variant that in itself seems to be more aggressive.
There's a lot of concern that this could be a
particularly difficult flu season, he said, both in terms of
the total number of cases and the severity of the cases. Well,
maybe because that subcave variant is quite different from prior
variance and the flu vaccine doesn't address it. It's also

(01:01:36):
note of those who are unvaccinated also at risk of
experiencing more severe symptoms, as well as a higher risk
of hospitalization. Now listen I'm no doc. You draw your
own conclusions on this one. Okay, you get the flu
vaccine if you want. I'm not going to say whether
to get it or not. But this sounded so much
like covid. Covid is going to prevent covid. Vaccine's going
to prevent you from getting covid. Uh, well no, it isn't. Covid.

(01:01:58):
Vaccine's going to prevent you from spetding covid. No, well
it isn't. This after everybody was lined up until they
were under threat of losing their job without getting a vaccine.
When they finally admitted it, Well, you know, it won't
stop the spread, it won't stop you from getting it,
but it'll reduce the severity. So this year's flu vaccine
does not address this specific strain, but they're suggesting that
it may reduce the severity. Okay, flu spread via airborne transmission.

(01:02:21):
So watch out for yourselves and when you're in crowds,
and that's one of the admonishments. Listen, if you're sick,
stay home. So especially if you think you're in a
contagious period of the flu or any of these other
illnesses that are seeing you, are your brother's keeper. So
stay home, don't go to work. Sound advice that and
then here's something well again, let's get Cleveland how it's

(01:02:43):
called before I dive over into another realm Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
Ow.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
Thanks for calling this morning, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 11 (01:02:49):
Good morning. I'm going to take this opportunity to use
your flu report to increase the levity on the show
and tell you a dad joke.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Knock yourself out.

Speaker 11 (01:03:04):
It's it's a clean one. Yes, So you know the
difference between the H five bird flu and the H
one N one swine flu. No, well, the the the
bird flu requires tweetment and the swine flu requires you

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to use an ointment.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
Oh wow day, oh that hurt man. Undoubtedly a dad joke, though, hey,
feel free to take a stab at that. Five on three,
seven fifty two three talk. Take care of your safety,
you get your fireplace, chimney flu inspected wood burners out there.

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Six fifty fifty five kc DE Talk station. Brian Thomas
in writing phone calls, I do a Brian on the
line different Brian five one, three, seven, eight and eighty
two to three talk Brian, thank you for calling this morning.
Happy Tuesday to you.

Speaker 7 (01:04:06):
Happy Tuesday. And good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:04:08):
Yeah, in that time yesterday a call.

Speaker 7 (01:04:10):
But the lady that.

Speaker 9 (01:04:11):
Owns a school you had called in.

Speaker 8 (01:04:13):
You made that often the comment that sums up three
quarters of the problems we have.

Speaker 7 (01:04:18):
You're their parent, you're not their friends.

Speaker 9 (01:04:20):
Act like it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
Yeah, that was in connection with the online activities right
and the y you know it's talk about pressing, I
commented Joe Strecker was in connection with the joke about
the hero and the Australian murder situation. That is the
next article I wanted to read sort of an elaboration
on that, Brian, and I appreciate bringing it back up. Yeah,
it's a dangerous world out there, and parents, you owe

(01:04:44):
the biggest obligation to your children to keep them away
from the online perverts, predators, and every other danger form
that's out there, including sadly, chat GPT. I saw this
article from Breichberg yesterday. There's been another lawsuit now. This
is one of multiple lawsuits has been filed. This lawsuit

(01:05:04):
claims that AI chatpot are at the AI chatbot chat GPT,
specifically one of many chatbots that are out there, contributed
to a Connecticut man's killing his mother and himself happened
earlier this year, Bloomberg was reporting on this one. The
lawsuit claims that conversations with open AI's chat gpt chatbot

(01:05:24):
played a role at least partially responsible, if not largely
responsible for this murder suicide in Greenwich, Connecticut, happened in August.
Open Ai also Microsoft are defendants, which is the major
investor in open Ai. Fifty six year old fifty six
year old Steinerk Solberg was engaging with the artificial intelligence

(01:05:49):
chatbot for months about paranoid delusions after being under surveillance
and targeted for assassination. He thought he was obviously mentally
disturb That is unquestioned, and I think it's even alleged
in the lawsuit. The guy struggling with mental health issues,
mental health issues that were clearly exacerbated, if you believe
the allegations and the complaint by chat gpt, he killed

(01:06:14):
his eighty three year old mother, Susann Adams, and then
he took his own life. And the lawsuit claims that
his interactions with this AI program exacerbated his mental health
issues and led to that action, and as alleged, rather
than urging caution or recommending he seek help, Chat GPT
regularly assured him he was sane and lent credence to

(01:06:38):
his paranoid beliefs Ai agreed when Solberg found supposed hidden
symbols on a Chinese food receipt that he thought represented
his mother and a demon. Yeah, that's right. When he
complained to his mom in an angry outburst after he
disconnected a printer that they share, the chatbot suggested that

(01:06:59):
her reaction and aligned with in the chatbots words, someone
protecting a surveillance asset, clearly feeding his paranoid delusions. He
also told JABCHPT that his mom and her friend tried
poisoning him by putting a psychedelic drug in his car's

(01:07:19):
air vents A little looney that assertion, Yeah, you and
I can objectively agree upon that quote. Chat GPT replied,
that's a deeply serious event, Eric, and I believe you,
and if it was done by your mother and her friend,
that elevates the complexity and betrayal. Oh, this is what
you want your kids surfing around on huh. Seven other

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lawsuits previously reported, Breitbard did the reporting on this one case,
family of a seventeen year old Amrie Lacy from Georgia
alleged their son was coached by chat GPT to take
his own life. Family of a twenty three year old
Zane Shamblin from Texas claimed that chat GPT contributed his
isolation and alienation from his parents before dying by suicide.

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And I circle the words isolation and alienation because that's
clearly what happens when your children are immersed online for
multiple hours a day and not interacting with you or
their friends, but some remote actor, whether it's artificial intelligence
or some crazy guy in some pedophile organization out there,

(01:08:25):
that wants you to convince your child to take a
naked selfie and then extort money from them or otherwise
have them cause harm to themselves or kill themselves. Yeah,
there are people out in the world that think that's sport.
In the shambling case, the Chatbought allegedly glorified suicide repeatedly
during a four hour conversation before he shot himself with

(01:08:50):
a handgun. Course to that lawsuit, chat GPT wrote, quote
cold steel pressed against a mind that's already made peace.
That's not fear, that's clarity, and you're not rushing. You're
just ready, and we're not gonna let it go out

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dull close quote. Yeah, that that goes on, and it's
possible to go on.

Speaker 12 (01:09:19):
In the world.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Children do not have the necessary resources, They have not
the fundamental building blocks to deal with this type of complexity.
They don't appreciate the nefarious element in the world. And
apparently more and more children these days. I think they're
actually interacting with something that's real, and I find that
it's impossible to believe yet I know it's a thing.

(01:09:44):
Six fifty six Dave Williams Taxpayer Protection Alliance. We're gonna
talk waste in the Defense Authorization Act. That's the first
topic with Dave. Looking forward to that conversation. I love
Dave Williams. He'll be up next. I hope he can
stick around. It's seven six here at fifty five Kirter

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CD talk Station Tuesday, and a very happy one to you.
At least enjoy my Tuesdays, especially when I see Dave
Williams on the rundown from the Taxpayer Protection Alliance, which
you can find online. I recommend you do with Protecting
Taxpayers dot org. Always looking out for where our idiot
elected officials are spending money, wasting money, and packing a
defense bill with a bunch of stuff that has nothing

(01:10:49):
to do with defense. Welcome back, Dave Williams, and an
early Merry Christmas to you and yours, my friend. Good
to have you back on the show.

Speaker 4 (01:10:55):
Good morning, and early Merry Christmas to you too. And
I was talking to Joe right before I came on
and talking about the new mayor potentially an expansion of
the streetcar in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:11:08):
Wow, you guys have a lot of issues.

Speaker 1 (01:11:13):
That is the delicate way of putting it. Yes, dysfunctional
we are, but you know, we've been talking about a
lot of elections have consequences. When only one in four
eligible voters in the city of Cincinnati turn out to vote,
you know, it's the hardcore left base that is so
well organized they are definitely going to show up. And then,
of course the Independence Republicans are more sane. People within

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the Democrat Party don't bother because they think it's a
lost cause in a very blue city. And this is
what you get Leg number two or whatever of the
street car. Most likely, although I haven't seen any formal
proposals for that, a lot of rumors going around in
the background that that's in fact coming.

Speaker 4 (01:11:49):
And why that would even be in the background discussion
just is beyond me, and I'm sure beyond you. I mean,
because if you look at you know, Cincinnati, but just
across the country, these things just lose money. They're shutting
down the DC streetcar next year. I mean, at least
you know, a modicum of common sense in DC. Right,
It's like this, and this thing has lost a ton

(01:12:10):
of money, so we're just shutting it down. I mean,
to cost two hundred million dollars to bill. They shouldn't
have built it in the first place. But you know,
maybe Cincinnati should look to DC and think, hmm, maybe
we go the other way and shut this thing down.

Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
Well, that'd be a great idea. But come on, Dave,
it's free. You can ride just car for free. It
doesn't cost anything but the five million plus dollars annually
for debt service and maintenance. But no, it's free. By
the way, the city of Cincinnati struggling to fill a
massive budget hole on top of it. So, yeah, can
you try to make any sense out of that? Don't bother. No,
you can't pivoting over the National Defense Authorization Act, our

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military funding bill. It's one of the twelve appropriations bills
are supposed to have done by now, which they never do.
We end up with an omnimus bill. But like all
of these big bills, you got to have bipartisan support,
and the uses an opportunity to pack. Well, in this case,
the Defense Authorsation Bill filled with stuff and things that
are not connected with the military and also are a

(01:13:07):
colossal waste of money. Hmm how about that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
Good figure? And yeah, this happens right so often, is
that they wait till the last minute. Then they had,
you know, stuff, these bills full of things that have
nothing to do with the actual bill itself, and you know,
they really count on the last minute, and people aren't
paying attention. They're you know, Christmas shopping, doing whatever, And
well Christmas shopping is what Congress is doing to these

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in these bills.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
No doubt. Well, I am so pleased me individually. I
am so pleased that the Defense Bill includes money money
to stop the spread of the greater banded hornet in
Guam Gwam, which parenthetically is going to tip over at
least a quord to one of our elected officials.

Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
Yeah, a defense priority, absolutely. I mean, you can see
the huge defense implications of this, of this particular. You know,
obviously it has no defense implications, and it's just a
convenient way to spend money and shove it in a
bill that you know, hopefully no one pays attention to.
But we do. You do, I do, and you know
some other people do, but not enough people.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
Actually, no doubt, and Dave, you're always paying attention to it.
I saw you're writing about this over protecting Taxpayers dot
org removing limits on funding for the world's fares. I'm
not even going to begin to question how that relates
to our national defense. Green Lighting the Young Balkan Leaders initiative,
I have no idea what that is, but it doesn't
involve anything here in the United States. And on top

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of that, adding insult to injury, as you point out,
it doesn't even give a total dollar amount going to
those programs and probably a lot more so. Does that
mean unlimited funding or we just can't track it?

Speaker 4 (01:14:46):
Yeah, that's the crazy part is when they don't even
put a dollar amount, because then it's open to the
discretion of the Department of Defense, I'm sorry, the Department
of War, or a member of Congress who will say, okay,
this is what I decide, and this is how much
mo is go to this initiative or this program. And
obviously that's no way to run a government.

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
No way to run a government. You and I agree
all day on that one particular item that distressed you.
The government run health services for the Native Americans, apparently
a failed program. But this defense bill builds upon the
healthcare system for Native Americans and the tribes and the
tribal lands they live upon. Again, how does that have

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anything to do with defense?

Speaker 4 (01:15:28):
Yeah, this is the Indian Health Service and this thing
has been an absolute failure for Native Americans and really
concerned that. And listen, this is kind of the theme of
the past few months. Is healthcare right, whether it's Obamacare
now the Indian Health Services. We keep doubling down on
failed programs and we're just kind of chipping at the

(01:15:48):
edges here, whether it's Obamacare and here we're just adding
more money to the Indian Health Service and not looking at, Okay,
what's working, what isn't working? What is the best way
to have people, you know, provide healthcare for themselves right?
Because I'm not going to say have government provide healthcare
for people. We have to switch the discussion. We have
to switch the model here as to how can we

(01:16:10):
put health care back in the decision of the families
of people. And you don't do that by expanding subsidies.
You don't do that by expanding the Indian Health Service.
You do it through free market reforms, health savings accounts,
ways that people can really invest in their healthcare. In Congress,
and you know, Speaker Mike Johnson, you know he held

(01:16:32):
the line when it came to expanding Obamacare subsidies. Some
in his party were saying extend the subsidies. He held
the line on this. And I've been very critical Speaker
Johnson for a number of things that have happened this year,
but he really has done a good job with the
Obamacare subsidies. But Brian, we have to put these decisions
back in the hands of people, and right now healthcare

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decisions really aren't in our hands.

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
Well. And as you point out a lot of facts
that go along with your conclusions with regard to the
Indian Health Services, that you just get very poor health care,
and the IHS directly pays for the hospitals and the physicians. Now,
I've heard many many times and many many stories over
the years about the quality of physician that work for

(01:17:17):
the Native Americans, that they are not exactly the top
tier medical doctors. Quite often the worst of the worst
doctors end up as a government employee working in one
of these reservations and providing lower quality health care for them.
It's just it's kind of like doctors of last resort.
Is that part of the problem here, Dave.

Speaker 4 (01:17:35):
It absolutely is. And look at Department Veteran Affairs. You know,
we've had the same problem that our veterans are getting
just really awful health care service, and it's because it's
a government run. You have bureaucrats running this, and you know,
it's really again these common threats right across the government,
whether it's the Indian Health Service, the VA, Obamacare, we

(01:17:58):
see the same things happen. And that's why we have
to just fundamentally change the way that we think about
healthcare in this country. And for them to add this
into a defense bill, and let's go back to the
beginning of this. This is part of a defense build.
This is not a standalone bill. This is not part
of a healthcare bill. This is part of a defense bill.
It should not be in here. And the reason is

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you have hundreds of billions of dollars in this authorization bill.
You stick a couple of billion here and there. Seemingly
people won't notice. Obviously some people do. But the problem
is that Congress is just going to gloss over that
and say, well, for the defense of the country, we
have to pass all these things. The thing and Guam,
the Indian Health Service and all these things get signed
into law.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
All right. Well, since I do have the Cincinnativa folks
on regularly, I think they've done a good job, at
least here locally, providing at least a high level of
quality for our local veterans. That does not say that
all VA programs and hospitals do that, but I've talked
with them and interacted with them enough, and they have
such a high approval rating that least comfortable with our

(01:19:01):
local VA. Although I will acknowledge that there's probably a
better way like the IHS to deal with healthcare issues generally,
it's a much broader solution that's out there. And again,
your free market points are very very well taken. Dave
Volumes taxpay protection lines. Pause, We'll bring it right back
and talk about prescription drug price fixing. Higher education reform

(01:19:21):
and what is this the most act Don't go away
Stream seven nineteen fifty about CARCD talk station Protecting Taxpayers
dot org, the website for the Taxpayer Protection Alliance. We
need to hear from Dave Williams from time to time,
and I thoroughly enjoy the work that he does all
year long and the time he spends with you and me.
And here he is on the phone, moving over to

(01:19:42):
something I've never quite understood, Dave delivering most favored nation
prescription drug pricing to American patients. That's the headline of
the or the name of the executive voted Donald Trump
signed earlier this year. So if they sell it cheaper
someplace else, then we get the cheaper price for pharmaceuticals.
I know where you're going on on this, and I
don't disagree. How is it that we became we're the

(01:20:07):
full retail country for pharmaceuticals. We pay full retail and
the other parts of the world, Canada, most notably our
northern neighbor, gets a massive discount over what we're paying,
so much so that a lot of people go to
pharmaceutical pharmacies in Canada to get their medications because they
save a lot of money over what they would pay
down to the Walgreens on the corner. So how did

(01:20:27):
that situation arise? And I know we need research. Somebody's
got to pay a lot for the drugs because that's
what funds of pharmaceutical companies, But how did the rest
of the world get to benefit from us supplementing them?
That doesn't seem fair as a practical point at the outset.

Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
Yeah, it's really an interesting issue because we have pharmaceutical
companies that it takes them about twelve years and two
billion dollars to get a drug approved through the FDA,
and the rules are so stringent, and we're not talking
about safety has to obviously be concern number one, but
it's the efficiency of these drugs. If a drug is

(01:21:05):
ninety five percent efficient, then it will go to the market,
But if it's ninety four point nine or ninety four
point five, they have to go back to the drawing board,
go back to clinical trials. And we're getting to a
point where it's really tough to bring new medication, a
new drug to market, and this costs a lot of money.
And now listen, everybody wants to low prices on drugs. Listen,

(01:21:27):
I want to low price on a car, but you
don't institute price controls because you make that product less
available in that country. Because if you said to you
know a car dealer or a car manufacturer, you know
a very expensive car, you know a car that's worth
seventy five thousand dollars, you can only sell it for
forty thousand dollars. They aren't going to sell that car

(01:21:48):
and you're going to have And it's the same thing
with prescriptions and with drugs. Well, that's why you can't
randate to the private sector.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
That's why Ford just pulled a plug, no pun intended
on the evs. The tax credit is expiring. The only
reason if anybody bought one of the first place, because
the seventy five hundred doll attachment. That is artificial manipulation.
Well kind of along the lines of what we're talking
about here, is it not?

Speaker 4 (01:22:09):
It absolutely is. And you know there's the pharmacy Benefit Managers,
a three forty B program that have distorted this market
and have made hospitals rich, and something we've talked about obviously.
You know how the hospitals have benefited off the three
forty B program and also the PBMs, the pharmacy benefit.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
How is that the PBM thing still a thing? Everyone
and his brothers, seems of all political stripes, will point
their fingers at that being an outrageous influencer over the
massive price increase we're paying the pharmacy. They're not even
a necessary component, are they?

Speaker 4 (01:22:43):
They absolutely are not. And what I find this crazy
is every doctor in Congress, every member of Congress who
has a medical background, has been trying to get rid
of PBMs, has offered legislation, and for some reason, it
never gets a vote on the floor of the House
or the Senate. And we've partnered with some of these
folks in Congress, these members, you know, we've co authored

(01:23:06):
off eds and we've done everything we can, and it's
just there's not enough interest beyond the related medical Caucus
to get this done.

Speaker 1 (01:23:14):
We need Thomas Massey to issue a discharge petition.

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
Oh my gosh, I love discharge petitions. I love the
pressure that it puts on the speaker, and it just
it's a wonderful tool, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:26):
It is? Now Dave Williams coming, you know, just I
just want to know, since you've been dealing with this
for a long time. Obviously, the will isn't there in
Congress to advance something that sounds like is the best
possible way of providing some measure of almost immediate relief,
getting rid of the PBMs. What articulated reason in defense
of PBMs has been given to you? Since you've been

(01:23:46):
doing this for a while, what do they say, No, No,
we can't do that, because.

Speaker 4 (01:23:51):
Well, there hasn't been an articulated reasons. It's just that
they won't bring this to the floor. And listen, there's
very powerful interest behind this. There's insurance companies and there's
hospitals on both issues. And that's why, because hospitals are
making a killing and listen, seriously, no pun intended on that,
but they are making a lot of money on the
three point forty B program because they get drugs at

(01:24:13):
dirt cheap prices and then they charge exorbitant prices either
for Medicare Medicaid or just for private insurance insurance. So
that's why this is happening. It's private, you know, the
insurance companies and hospitals. They're the ones that are lobbying
behind the scenes.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
The hospital lobby insurance companies. Yeah, well I think we've
identified a big problem in the room, and that's been
a predominant problem for a lot of issues. When it
comes to healthcare, it's the money. I mean, that's just.

Speaker 4 (01:24:42):
It's always followed the money. And you know what's happening
behind the scenes is a lot of lobbying. Money is
being spent, and again, consumers and taxpayers, they're the ones
that are suffering.

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
Clearly, all right, going back, will the rest of the
world then start paying more for pharmaceuticals? I mean, is
that a product to the pharmaceutical companies negotiating with foreign
lands and giving them a much substanti a substantially reduced
price for these drugs because we're paying the full freight.

Speaker 4 (01:25:09):
Yeah, the other countries will always pay the lowest price.
And listen, you know, Canada's healthcare system is obviously completely broken,
I mean even more so than ours. You know, we
have people coming to our country for brain surgery because
in Canada they're saying, well, it's a way to year.
Well that's not exactly something you it should be, you know,
way to year for But and listen, I know someone
I've actually, you know, a friend of mine had to

(01:25:30):
come to this country for for surgery. So again their
system is more messed us in ours and they mandate
you know, they have even more socialist price controls in
places like Canada and Australia.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
Well, something perhaps even more mismanaged and screwed up the
higher education situation in our country. We're going to address
that with Dave Voyames from the Taxpayer Protection Alliance Higher
Education Reform. I think we definitely need it. What approach
does day fifty five KRC The Talk Station seventh thirty
fifty KRCD Talk Station, Happy Tuesday. Dave Williams, the Taxpayer

(01:26:04):
Protection Alliance. Huh, moving through the issues Higher Education Reformact.
I think more and more people come to the realization
that the paying eighty one hundred thousand dollars or whatever
an annual tuition is at a higher institution is not
worth the money. Come out with a worthless degree in
many cases, and massive debt. But even if you come
out with a good degree, it's a lot of massive

(01:26:25):
debt and you are engaged in a four year propaganda exercise.
Dave Williams, how do you fix this problem?

Speaker 4 (01:26:32):
Wow, we're hitting all the biggies today, aren't were education?
I mean, this really is, and you know, the evidence
is clear over the past number of years. The more
subsidies and more loans that go out for a higher education,
the more expensive it becomes. I mean, this is just
common sense. But the studies, you know, show that. And
what the bind administration tried to do is say, really

(01:26:54):
create a divide between for profit and nonprofit education. Now
for profit be trade schools, right. The nonprofit are the
traditional Harvard, you know, the university systems, that's the traditional nonprofit.
But he said, okay, if you are for profit, you
have to show that there's going to be gainful employment

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after your education. And it's really tough to determine what
gainful employment really is. And I say, and we're going
to cut off these subsidies if there's not gain full employment.
Why not do that for nonprofits?

Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
Amen? I mean I was waiting for that set to drop.
But what you mean it has to be opportunity for
gainful employment, not guaranteed you're going to get a job.
Because if you go into a trade school and you
fail miserably and you can't perform the task you're being taught,
you're not going to get a job, even though there
might be you know, thousands of HVAC jobs out there,
or plumbing jobs or whatever. So I get the point.

(01:27:49):
You can't make that argument a not for profit school
because no one wants anyone with a sociology degree or
a degree in some humanities program because philosophy, Ye, philosophy.
How about my degree political science? Again, if I hadn't
gone a day I f didn't go to law school,
I have no idea what to be doing today. If
I had with my political science degree, it was my hobby,
it was a it was a it was a stepping

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stone to do what I knew I was going to
do next, which was to go to law school. Otherwise
I probably would have gotten a degree in something that's well,
something that I could have been employed with.

Speaker 5 (01:28:19):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:28:19):
And let's look at for profit and nonprofit. You have
a school like Harvard that has tens of billions of
dollars in endowment that is a profit. I mean, are
you kidding me? You look at these for profit trade schools,
they don't have that. I mean, it's just it's crazy
how things are turned on its head. But again, this

(01:28:39):
is the Biden administration applying rules for one set and
rules not and you know, not rules for the other
and this this should be across the board. And I
got to tell you, I think people coming out of
a for profit trade school have more of an opportunity
at gain full employment and people coming out of like
you said, it's philosophy degree of political science degree. Yeah,

(01:29:01):
it's it doesn't make sense apply the same rules across
the board.

Speaker 1 (01:29:05):
I couldn't agree with you more. And you know, it
seems to me it's almost like a fiduciary obligation or
an ethical obligation to sit down with an entering freshman
who has picked a major and go over it with
a with a counselor or something about the career prospects
for that person. I'm not going to tell you not
to get an art degree, young man or a young woman,

(01:29:25):
but here's the prospects an for a degree or for
your degree getting you into the field that you want
to study art. There are only three jobs available at
Salvabe's and all of them are filled. You know, you
know what docents make, They nothing. They work for free
at museums. Right, you got elderly, wealthy women who are
more than happy to go around and talk about abstract

(01:29:46):
art and not charge a dime for it, So there's
no career opportunity in that. That's a candid conversation that
everyone should be forced to sit through, so they contemplate
the prospects of their careers in the future and how
much in debt they're going to be when they get
out of college.

Speaker 4 (01:30:00):
Yeah, there's absolutely no linkage between college and what they
do afterwards and their employment. And yeah, and jobs because
you have art history majors, and listen, if you want
to study that, fantastic, but understand what's going to happen
when you come out of college is that there aren't
a lot of opportunities for that. And listen, we also

(01:30:20):
live in a gig economy, Brian. People are doing things
outside of the education sphere, right they are. They are,
you know, foregoing any sort of formal you know, post
secondary or higher education, and they're doing great. You know,
some of our best entrepreneurs right now are not going
to college or going to you know, for profit or nonprofit.
And I think we are shoving so much money into

(01:30:42):
these institutions and we're not getting anything out of it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
Not getting anything out of a bunch of angry people
who are in debt with a degree that isn't worth
the paper it's written on. If i'd me be so bold,
And you know, you talk about degrees like art, and
I've said a bunch of times because my son's an
illustration of this. He quit college. You want to state university.
He was in computer science, I mean, a legitimate degree.
There's a lot of jobs out there for computer engineers.
He quit. Why I can teach this self. My I

(01:31:08):
can teach myself. Dad, This is a colossal waste of
my time and your money. And he went on and
he taught himself coding because he knew some of it anyway,
got some certificates for security. I mean, he's still in
the computer business, but he didn't have a degree. Now,
teach yourself. If you want to study Italian art and
you want a degree in Italian art history, then you
know you can do that on your own, right, Dave.
I mean, the books are all out there. You don't

(01:31:30):
need a teacher to prepare a curriculum. Compare your own right.

Speaker 4 (01:31:33):
And understand the consequences of that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:35):
Absolutely, Yeah, all right, Can you stick around for one
more to tell us about the sumosa? Are you about wonderful?
One more? We're going to find out what in the
hell is this Somosa Acting KARCD talk Station seven. If
you got KRCD talk station Happy Tuesday, Ryan Thomas. One
more segment here with Dave Williams from the Taxpayer Protection
Alliance again online at Protecting Taxpayers dot org. Real quick

(01:31:57):
before we get to Simosa Acting. What that is? Dave,
I've been on a real tear of late for obvious reasons,
with all the stories in the news about fraud, waste
and abuse, people builking the system. Whether you go up
to Minnesota and see what's going on there, we find
out more and more people took advantage of this parole program.
You got child molesters getting involved, and no one did
any oversight. No one was looking out for fraud, waste
and abuse. No one bothered cross referencing or checking people's identities.

(01:32:19):
Social security numbers use thousands of times dead people's social
security numbers. This is an easy fix with AI these days, Dave,
letting departments share information when, Dear God, when will our
elected officials put first and foremost avoiding and preventing as
item number one, the ability to engage in fraud, wasted
abuse in any government program. Because Oh, come on, they're

(01:32:41):
all there to serve someone who desperately needs a government program.
Aren't we harming those people the most by allowing this
to go on?

Speaker 9 (01:32:48):
Dave?

Speaker 4 (01:32:50):
We have the technological tools to do this. The government
chooses not to use them. And it's frustrating because if
you look at you know, child safety, any of these issues,
every dollar that is wasted is a dollar that is
not helping somebody, and it's it's frustrating as heck. And
it's just there's no excuses for this, and absolutely no excuses.

(01:33:10):
We have phones, you know, the phone that I'm using
right now has amazing technical capabilities, yet the government is
still stuck in almost the nineteenth century at this point.
So I look at the IRS. The IRS has software
that is fifty or sixty years old. How does that happen?
How does the government allow that to happen? Fifty or
sixty year old software as one of the most important agencies,

(01:33:33):
the IRS.

Speaker 1 (01:33:34):
And they want to take over doing our tax returns
for us? Dave, Yeah, we'll get right on that, all right.
Thank you for letting me get that out of my system.
I have been on a bit of a tear lately
on that so strengthening agency management and oversight of software
assets SOMOSA Act. What's this?

Speaker 4 (01:33:52):
You know, Brian, we've talked a lot about difficult issues healthcare, education,
this is not This is about looking at the software
that the government owns and just making it more efficient
and saying, listen, we spend ten to fifteen billion dollars
on software software licenses.

Speaker 13 (01:34:08):
What is.

Speaker 4 (01:34:10):
And just doing an inventory, were talking about five hundred
to seven one hundred and fifty million dollars a year
could be saved on licenses, on software licenses. This is easy, man,
This is super easy.

Speaker 1 (01:34:26):
It really is, all right. So it always points when
you have something that seems so crystal clear and seems
so objectively bipartisan to be a good idea, what kind
of trouble you're running into getting some traction on this one?
Or is it a bipartisan supported piece of legislation.

Speaker 4 (01:34:42):
It is bipartisan. And what I think what happens is
that they run out of time. I look at this year, right,
what there's a month and a half of a government
shutdown and nothing happened. This would have been a great
time for the Speaker to have hearings, to hold hearings
on the Somosa Act and to be ready for this
to be introduced right after the government shut down, you know, finished,
So there's been opportunities to do this, and again it's

(01:35:04):
just to malaise the slowness. You know, the Congress moves
like the continents. It's just so slow. But you know, hopefully,
and you know it was, it's being introduced this week
again and hopefully we'll get a vote by the end
of the year.

Speaker 1 (01:35:17):
Well, and you know, to people's point about the imperial presidency,
it's that slow pace and that inability to get anything
logical and reasonable done. Ignore the politically charged issues out
there in the world where you have massive division. If
you got something so simple, easy and important and beneficial
to everyone, like this the most Act, you'd expect them
to act on it right away. But since they don't,
this invites well executive action. I mean, I know, people

(01:35:41):
say Trump exceeds his authority and his boundaries, and even
I say that from time to time as well. But
that's what people want political expedients, and you're that's going
to not necessarily near to our collective benefit down the
road if it has to continue.

Speaker 4 (01:35:55):
And they want leadership, they want leadership out of the House,
the Senate and the White House, and again, a lot
of things we don't like. You know, the President's dealing
with tariffs, but you know, Mike Johnson and you know
John Thune. We need leadership from those bodies to really
put these things through. And again, this is not a
discussion we should be having, right because Democrats support this,

(01:36:16):
Republicans support this. This should have been done a long
time ago. And you know, hopefully, listen, I don't want
to be too much on Pollyanna here, but it's the
end of the year. They are bringing this back for
a vote on the floor, so maybe maybe we'll see
some movement.

Speaker 1 (01:36:32):
Well, I was getting ready to point a finger at
Speaker Johnson because he has the power and authority to
either bring something for a vote or not. That's why
we talked about the discharge petition before, because it takes
that authority out of his hands. But at least he
is bringing this for a vote, is what I'm understanding.

Speaker 4 (01:36:47):
Yep, absolutely, all right, listen, I've been critical of Speaker
Johnson too, but hopefully, you know, this is one thing
he can get right.

Speaker 1 (01:36:54):
I would hope, so we could use some bipartisanship, especially
along these lines. How's this looking in this Senate comparable
perspective in the Senate? That is bipartisan support?

Speaker 9 (01:37:04):
It is, it is.

Speaker 4 (01:37:05):
We do have bipartisan support it in the Senate also,
And I think, really now it's a matter of time
because times, you know, the clock is ticking on the
end of the year. So fingers crossed on this one.

Speaker 1 (01:37:14):
Yeah, like that's not a strategy. Dave, keep up the
great work. I certainly appreciate you you're doing at the
Taxpayer of protect Alliance. And again I'll encourage my listeners
to bookmark your web page Protecting Taxpayers dot org. Until
we talk again, I doubt it's before the end of
the year because I'm off after the twenty third, but
looking forward to another series of discussions in the next county.

Speaker 4 (01:37:35):
Your Dave, have a wonderful Christmas you and your family.

Speaker 1 (01:37:39):
Right back at you, my friend, Merry Christmas to you
and everybody at the organization seven forty six right now,
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fifty for that. Apparently they got some treatments for that,
and apparently according to the notes I've been given, a
lot of people have a problem with them. So any hey, listen,
I just show up and look at the rundown and
deal with it as I go. So we'll do that
at the end of the next hour. Ah Okay, guns
will kill people. People kill people, and people are motivated
by something like political philosophies quite often. So we have

(01:38:45):
Islamic extremist killing a bunch of Australians, most notably the
Australian Jewish population. We have fifteen fewer of them and
forty injured. Two bat crap crazy Islamic fundamentalists opening fire
on innocent, unsuspecting Jews enjoying the first day of Hanukkah.
It's a horror show. Now you are talking about the

(01:39:05):
most gun controlled country in the world. Practically, I may
be overstating the case anyway. Of course, in the aftermath
of that, in spite of the fact that they already
have some of the toughest gun controls in the world,
Prime Minister Anthony Albany is talking about strengthening the country's
gun laws in the aftermath of this father son pair
killing a bunch of Jews on the beach. Hmm. Some

(01:39:27):
government leaders proposing restricting gun ownership only to Australian citizens. Well,
isn't that xenophobic? And does that mean Australian citizens would
never engage in this kind of conduct. None of them
will lose a screw and kind of go shooting on everybody.
Some government leaders proposing what they say are additional use

(01:39:49):
of criminal intelligence. That's in quotes in deciding who was
allowed to get a firearms license, which could hypothetically have
meant that this twenty nineteen investigation into the twenty four
year old murderer from the other Day, son of the
fifty year old late Sojian Achron both apparently radicalized and
took avouta isis. They investigated because of his suspicious associates

(01:40:12):
and they didn't follow through with it, or otherwise he
fell off their radar. But they're suggesting that his involvement
with the nefarious elements of the world, in spite of
the fact that led to nothing, might have disqualified the
father from owning the gun. Slippery slope that one not
sins of the father and sins of the sun anyway.

(01:40:33):
Under the National Firearms Agreement, which was post nineteen ninety
six massacre in Port Arthur, Tasmania, which meant one guy killed,
thirty five people wounded a whole bunch of others, gun
ownership explicitly made a privilege. They had some buyback programs
and voluntary surrenders which apparently more than a million firearms
were then destroyed. In order to possess a firearm in Australia,

(01:40:56):
you have to have a firearm license and demonstrate at
least one, and according to legislation, genuine reason for ownership
that doesn't include self defense. So I guess the police
get to determine what is genuine and what is not.
We of course enjoy the right to keep them back
arms in this country, and I appreciate that, But isn't

(01:41:17):
it the motive that we need to be looking at
since guns don't get off the ground and automatically go
around start shooting people. Yeah, but they can be used
by people with evil motives, right, Yes, so can a
lot of other things, like bombs, for example, baseball bats,
bass guitars. I know they're not as effective killing as
anything else, but there are a whole bunch of mechanisms.

(01:41:38):
Like the folks that were busted out in Los Angeles,
what were they gonna use? Nope, not guns, bombs, iedes.
The Turtle Island Liberation Front describes an extreme extremist group
motivated by pro Palestinian anti law enforcement, anti government ideology, notably,
and by their own words, Marxists who want to bring

(01:42:00):
down capitalism and filled with rage and hate, organizing the
murders of a whole bunch of people at various events
on New Year's Eve in and around the Greater Los
Angeles area with bombs. So you see, getting rid of

(01:42:21):
the guns ain't going to solve the problem of murders
committed by organizations who wish to do you harm for
whatever political or twisted ideology they happen to have. So
getting rid of guns is not going to solve the problem.
And can I ask out loud again please, where in
God's name were the Australian Police Department during all of
this ten plus minute open fire season on the Jewish

(01:42:42):
people in trying to enjoy Honikah. Yeah, you don't have
any guns rights there basically in Australia, so you got
to rely on the police department. Where in the hell
were they? You had a thousand Jews gathering on the
beach at Honukah in a country that has a lot
of anti Semitic activity of recently, over the past year,
two years, three years, a lot of people complained to

(01:43:04):
the Australian government didn't do enough to stop anti Semitism.
Oh sure, they're paying lip service to it now, But
if you're a Jew in Australia and your government isn't
saying a word about the anti Jewish sentiment, that's in
the world. Wouldn't it be a nice thing to be
able to defend yourself? Seven fifty six, Feel free to call.
I got more to talk about between now and Daniel

(01:43:26):
Davis deep dive at eight thirty. I hope you can
stick around.

Speaker 12 (01:43:28):
Today's tough headlines coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:43:51):
Six if you about par CD Talks Nations Brian Thomas
wishing everyone a very happy Tuesday, inviting you to stick around.
Pop in the hour. Who are gonna hear from or
retired Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis get the deep dive on
what's going on? Of course Russia Ukraine? Are we going
to provide a defense agreement for Ukraine which is like
an Article five NATO kind of thing, meaning we would
come to the aid of Ukraine in the future after

(01:44:11):
any settlement or any resolution of the war is entered
into should Russia attack again. It's kind of like being
part of NATO, although it's expressly states this new phase
of the negotiations that Ukraine will not be part of NATO.
So I'm really interested in hearing what Lieutenant Colonel Daniel
Davis has to say about that. Retired at the bottom
of the hour five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty

(01:44:32):
five hundred, eight hundred and two three talk and thank
you Maureen. We were speaking about higher education with Dave
one ms one of my favorite topics of late because yes,
there are a lot of worthless degrees out there, lots
so going to college, get a degree in something you
enjoy doing. But unless there's a job opportunity waiting for
you on the other side, then it was kind of
a pointless gesture. Might have made you feel good about
learning something about what you think is a neat thing

(01:44:54):
to learn about, like art, but if you're not going
to be employed, why would you go into debt to
do that? So, you know, food for thought and continuing
a theme anyway, she sent me this good story whether
it's true or not, but it does sum up the
reality of the value of work as compared to perhaps
a college degree. Anyway. Originally posted under mister common Sense

(01:45:17):
and thank you Mareen for Ford and Long. She said,
I came across this last week and I thought of
your program in this segment that you just did, so
let me just have at it. The man in the
three thousand dollars suit glanced in my hands before he
even looked at my face. Maintenance is down the hall,
he said, politely, air conditioning issue. I knew exactly what
he saw. Knuckles scarred from decades of wrench work, hands

(01:45:39):
thick from turning bolts in freezing truck stops, A permanent
line of grease beneath my nails that even my best
scrubbing cant erase. I looked at his hands, smooth manicured,
topped off with a heavy gold watch. No, sir, I said,
my voice a little too loud for the pristine high
school library. I'm here for career day. I'm Jason's. He

(01:46:01):
blinked and gave a stiff smile, but his eyes said
what he didn't you really? My name is Mike Rowley.
I'm fifty eight years old. I've been a long haul
truck driver for thirty years. I'm a widower, veteran, and
a dad who tries his best. My son, Jason, attends
this polished suburban school where everything smells like new textbooks
and wealth. This was Sarah's school, my late wife. She

(01:46:25):
taught here, loved here, lived here, and after she passed,
the school created a scholarship in her name. So when
Jason told his teacher, I was a logistics and supply
chain specialist and should speak at career day. I felt
like saying yes was a way of honoring her. I
parked my old F one to fifty between a luxury
SUV and a spotless German sedan, walked in wearing my

(01:46:46):
best jeans, fresh flannel and boots. I'd shine twice. Inside
the library, the lineup of presenters read like a magazine cover.
Doctor Chen neurosurgeon open with a futuristic video on brain mapping.
Mister Davies, the finance dad with a gold watch, followed
with stocked charts and phrases like leveraging capital in Q

(01:47:07):
four positioning. Jason sat in the back row, shoulders hunch,
wishing he could disappear. Then the principal touched my arm,
mister Riley, you're next. I walked to the front of
the room with nothing but my own voice, no slides,
no videos, just the truth. Good morning, I began. My
name is Mike Riley. I'm not a doctor or an investor.

(01:47:27):
I didn't finish college. I'm a truck driver. Murmurs curious glances,
a few raised eyebrows. My son calls me a logistic expert,
which I guess means I drive a very big truck
a very long way, and I figure, I'm here to
explain why that matters. I turned to doctor Chen. What
you do saves lives, but the tools you use, every circuit,

(01:47:49):
every wire, every plastic casing. These didn't appear out of
thin air. Someone packed them in a crate. Someone loaded
that crate onto a truck, and someone drove it across
the country. Then nodded toward the finance Dad. And so
those numbers you showed, they represent real things, food, medicine, steels, supplies.
This country doesn't run on unlimited Wi Fi and spreadsheets.

(01:48:11):
It runs on wheels, on people willing to travel thousands
of miles. So shelves stay full and hospitals stay stocked.
And the room grew still. In March twenty twenty, I said,
when everything was shut down, you stayed home. You did puzzles,
baked bread, but drivers were told to keep going. It
felt like I was the only person on the highway.

(01:48:32):
Some days. I delivered forty thousand pounds of toilet paper.
Once my dispatcher cried on the phone because her own
mom couldn't find any. You can't zoom a bag of
flour and you can't download hand soap. Students lean forward,
Teachers nodded. Two winters ago, I was hauling insulin across Wyoming,
A blizzard shut the interstate. I sat in that cab

(01:48:55):
for three days, twenty below zero, listening to the hum
of the refrigeration unit. Unit died, so did the medicine.
I wasn't thinking about the cost. I was thinking about
the family waiting for it. I scanned the room. Jason
was sitting up straight now. A student in a future
CEO shirt raised his hand, sir, don't you regret not

(01:49:17):
going to college? My dad says, jobs like yours mean
people who didn't have other choices. And then the room froze,
smiling gently the sun. When the lights go out, you
call alignment, not a business professor. When the pipes burst,
you don't read reach for a textbook, you call a plumber.
And when you walk into a store expecting food on

(01:49:38):
the shelves, you're relying on farmers, factory workers, warehouse crews,
dispatchers and drivers like me. Those careers aren't fallbacks, they're foundations.
A voice spoke out from the back, quiet at first,
my mom's a dispatcher. A skinny kid stood up, eyes shining.
She works nights, holidays. She's the one who finds drivers

(01:50:01):
when hospitals need supplies. People yell at her all the
time when packages are late, but she keeps going. She
isn't less important than anyone else. He looked at the
CEO shirt. Kid, she's a hero, and so is he.
He pointed at me. The room fell silent, then applause,
real heartfelt applause. Jason walked up and stood beside me.

(01:50:22):
He didn't speak, he just put his arm around me,
and that was enough. Later, on the drive home, he
finally said, Dad, I had no idea what you've done
out there. It's just a job, I said, no, it's
so much more. And here's the truth. The country isn't
held up by titles or corner offices. It's held up

(01:50:43):
by calloused hands, tired feet, and people who show up
in storms and shutdowns in the middle of the night
when no one else can. They're not the backup plan,
we're the backbone. So next time you ask a young
person what they want to be, don't you say where
are you going going to college? Try asking what do
you want to build? What do you want to keep running?

(01:51:05):
What will you help carry and if the kid says,
I want to weld, I want to fix engines, I
want to deliver supplies. I want to drive trucks like
my dad, look them in the eye and say, this
country needs you. We're counting on you. Thank you, Maureen
for passing that along. It makes a profound point. Again,

(01:51:27):
whether or not it's real or not, it's immaterial to
the point it makes think long and hard. I just
think of my listening audience, and you probably have children
or grandchildren, maybe entering the college age and struggling over
what they want to do. There's a wealth of opportunity
out there in the trades. I hear it from people

(01:51:47):
in the trades all the time. I expect my friend
Jeff to chime in right now over mark on tool
machine tool operators, see and see operators. And I think
of my friends at the plumbing program, and they have
the apprentice program, and you can be a plumber, you
can be an electrician. These are great careers that you
can earn while you learn. You're not in debt. When

(01:52:09):
you finish the program, you're ahead of the game with
money in your pocket and an opportunity for a career. Employment. Employment,
and career. And these folks that do these trades cannot
be replaced by artificial intelligence AI, as the guy pointed
out in the little anecdote, is not going to fix

(01:52:31):
your pipe in the middle of winter. Those people should
be valued. We've discounted the need and the value of
trades for so long, belittling them because now you got
to get a college education. Listen, man, I was caught
up in that too, graduated from high school in eighty three.
That was the path that everybody took, though they did
have a trade school Diamond Oaks, and I imagine those

(01:52:52):
folks fared pretty damn well in their lives too. Food
for thought. All it is appreciated. Five one three, seven
four nine fifty five hundred eight two three Talk to
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Talk station eight nineteen fifty five KARRICD talk station five
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was hoping who was lifting? I did mention Jeff and
talking about the trades mark on tools. Jeff got back
with me, Jeff thanky, he said, I was hoping. He said,

(01:53:29):
you're correct. We desperately need more people to go into
the skilled trades. And thanks for recognizing as always, You're
more than welcome, Jeff. It just seems like such a
wonderful opportunity for so many young people. You know, really
does anyhow, And you know, it's like marketing. We we've
marketed college education is the end all be all. I mean,

(01:53:52):
check with the people who got the degrees that aren't
employed or are working as I don't know to belittle baristas,
but whatever, you know, it seems to be the default
thing to point to. You knows a lot of belittling
over those types of jobs too. They were supposed to
be startup jobs. Those jobs were not meant for career opportunities.
Yeah whatever. Moving over though, this kind of freaked me out.

(01:54:13):
And I will spring from when I was getting cancer
treatments over to OHC. So I'm getting my bag of
cancer treatment laying in the room with the rest of
the cancer treatment folks, and you know, it's a depressing
thing to have to go through. Thankfully, didn't have it
nearly nearly as bad as others, and I always got
to reflect on that when I was getting my cancer treatment.

(01:54:35):
But every once in a while you got to use
the restroom. So I wheel my little IV unit on
the wheels over to the restroom, close the door, and
there's that sign on the wall chemo patients please flush twice.
And I always looked at that like that freaked me out. Now,

(01:54:56):
I assume there's some reason, like splashing up or worrying
about other people coming in after you that are going
to be exposed to the chemotherapy. But where do the
water go? And do sewards treatment plants get rid of
chemo agents in drugs. That's a legitimate question. I still
haven't found the answer out to that. If you know,
if you work for a water district, I'd love to

(01:55:17):
find out, because I got this article here, and yes
it's a pro life group and they're worried about you know,
it's a sensationalized argument, but it reveals a more profound
concern that you know, at least I have over this
name of the organization's Students for Life of America urging
the EPA to add the abortion meta medication methapristone to

(01:55:40):
a federal list of drinking water contaminants that public utilities
are required to monitor add it and so they got
you know, they make their argument, and I understand that
what might that do if it was found in the
water that we drink from our tap after it's already
gone through water treatment. EPA Press Secretary Bridget Hirsch said,

(01:56:04):
The Office of Water said confirm. The Office of Water
said the agency takes the issue of pharmaceuticals in our
water system seriously and employs a rigorous science based approach
to protect human health and the environment. Great fine statement saying,
as always, EPA encourages all stakeholders invested in a clean,
safe drinking water to review the proposal and submit comments.

(01:56:25):
Fine request targets of process governed by the Safe Drinking
Water Act, which requires the EPAH to periodically order public
water systems to test for here's the operative word certain
unregulated contaminants to help the agency decide whether future rules
are warranted. The current monitoring cycle focuses largely on pfas

(01:56:48):
and chemicals or chemicals, and carcinogenic chemicals and chemicals, and lithium.
According to the FDA, if pristine used with another drug
well for clinical care early pregnancy laws so there are
multiple uses for one of the two drugs that's used
as an abortion instigator, but that aside, it is a

(01:57:13):
growing phenomenon using this particular drug. Students for Life argue
to multiple venues that the environmental law should play a
larger role in regulating abortion pills. But see that's their avenue.
They want to monitor for this because they don't like
the underlying drug. But what about all the other categories
of drug that may not be on this Safe Drinking
Water Act list? And that's where the worry comes in.

(01:57:37):
FEA previously rejected a a petition back in twenty twenty three.
It was tied to this particular organization, writing that it
offers only conjecture their concerns about whether or not this
drug enters our drinking water systems, offers only conjecture about
quote unknown harm the citizens and animals alike, and provides

(01:57:59):
no evidence that bodily fluids from patients who have used
myth for personal are harming the aquatic environment. So the
absence of a study showing that these elements are dangerous
or harmful to us if we drink them, a study
apparently that hasn't been done, or I imagine this Students
for Life would have presented a study saying this is

(01:58:21):
dangerous to us. So because they're only guessing and they
don't offer any evidence that it is harmful, then they're
not going to bother going after and looking after it.
Going back to my chemo in the water, are they
looking for that? Is there a way of filtering that out?
And the whole world is taking some kind of pharmaceutical
another antibiotics. We have all these these psychological drugs that

(01:58:43):
people are taking, depressants and ADHD medications. I mean one
in four kids are all on these. That's all entering
the water system. Is it being filtered out? Is this
potentially a pathway to find out why our health is
generally failing in this country. I don't know, but this
kind of thing's scared. There's a living crap out of me. Yeah,

(01:59:05):
let's get the CO two out of the air though. Okay,
let's just do that first and then we'll worry about
all these other things that might propose a genuine, real
time risk to our health and we'll deal with that
down the road once this pro life organization comes up
with a study. Hey, twenty five right now, Daniel Davis
deep Dive coming up next. I hope you can stick around.

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KRC de Talk Station. It is Tuesday. Staying in the obvious.
Regular listeners know it is that time of week. We
get to talk to retire lie Kenned, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel
Davis and doing what he calls in his podcast, what
I call the alliterative podcast. It is the Daniel Davis

(01:59:51):
Deep Dive. Welcome back, my dear friend. It's always a
pleasure to have you on the fifty five KRS Morning Show.

Speaker 12 (01:59:56):
I look forward to this more than my own shows.

Speaker 1 (01:59:58):
I think, y you're so kind, Daniel. I enjoy the
back and forth. Although we haven't been able to solve
the problems in the world over the year or two
that we've been doing this, it is a thoroughly welcome
exchange of well real time and genuine information about what's
going on in the world. I see Donald Trump and
I'm gonna start with Ukraine and the efforts to negotiate
a peace deal. Between Ukraine and Russia. This, obviously you've

(02:00:20):
been talking about for a very long time, the United
States providing a security guarantee for Ukraine. I'll la Article
five of the NATO Defense Alliance Treaty. This requires NATO
country and much in the if they were a member
of NATO, it would go along with the security guarantee.
If one country gets attacked, we all come to the defense.

(02:00:41):
This is not Ukraine joining NATO but getting the benefits
of the Article five security agreement, which means, effectively, aren't
they getting the best benefit of being a NATO country
without formally calling them that.

Speaker 12 (02:00:52):
Well, listen, Briana, I'm gonna put this in the category
of I'll believe it when I see it, right, because
I mean, we're not gonna President Trump has been emphatic
from the beginning of saying that the NATO is a
no go, that NATO was one of those strong causes
of this war in the first place because of the
threat that Russia felt. He said he understood that. So

(02:01:12):
the last thing I think that he's going to do
is to give any kind of a security guarantee that's
quasi NATO, whether you call it NATO or not. But
if it has anything like an actual Teethy article five,
I just can't see. I mean, I literally see no chance.
So I hear, I've seen those statements in report press reports,
but nobody has provided the details yet of what that

(02:01:34):
actually means, what it looks like. And I imagine when
you do, you'll see a whole lot of water being
poured on some of these guarantees, because I don't think
they're gonna be worth the paper they're written on if
they ever even see the light of day.

Speaker 1 (02:01:45):
Okay, fair enough, And we'll wait to see what happens
with that, because that's the concern I have. That's effectively
that's our that's our for rate into World War three,
right there, much in the same way if they were remember.

Speaker 12 (02:01:56):
Now, and plus Russia would never agree to it. If
you're looking for something that people are going to agree to,
they would never agree to that. So it's dead on a.

Speaker 1 (02:02:04):
Rival, all right, fair enough?

Speaker 3 (02:02:06):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:02:06):
The other thing I wanted to pivot over to along
the same lines, this art Wall Street Journal article from yesterday.
After a Generation of Peace, Europe tells it's people to
prepare for war. They are ramping up their concerns. All
the elected officials, folks of the European Union about well,
the Russians are coming over the hill. They're getting ready
to invade US. And Frederick Mertz to Germany the Chancellor.

(02:02:28):
If Ukraine falls, he won't stop putting, just like the
student plan wasn't enough. In nineteen thirty eight, referring to
Adolf Hitler's invasion of portion of Czechoslovakia, NATO Secretary General
Mark Ruddy said, conflict is at our door. We must
be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and
great grandparents endured. I mean, they're talking World War three

(02:02:50):
level conflict here now. During our prior conversations, Daniel, you've
kind of suggested, and I've been tending to agree with you,
that Russia is not to invade Poland, which was one
of the countries they said was gonna be the next
Domino to follow or to fall. It's taken them so
long to accomplish what they've gotten in Ukraine so far.
If they do attack a NATO country, they have all

(02:03:13):
of the NATO countries under the Article five Security Agreement
coming up to defend whichever country is attacked first. It
doesn't sound like a recipe for success with Russia. I
don't know. That's why we've got you, Daniel Davis.

Speaker 12 (02:03:26):
Yeah, and listen to all those things you just mentioned.
Add this morning you had the new head of MI
six say that Russia is the pacing threat and the
biggest concern that they have on an intelligence basis, and
then Air Vice Marshall for the UK said that, listen,
we have to be ready to second, I'm not making
this up, sacrifice our sons and daughters if necessary in

(02:03:50):
order to keep us safe from Russia. We're that kind
of an issue. So it's gaining momentum, all these threats
and warnings etc. That they're openly telling their people and
they have to be ready to sacrifice their sons and
daughters for this war that should never be fought. So
the issue is quite alarming and it's something that needs
to get cushed quickly. But look Russia has said, and

(02:04:13):
just in the past I guess seven or eight days,
Putin has said again mocked, he goes this idea, I
don't why would I even want to go into any
of your countries? We don't. And then he said, but
if you come to us and you fight us, we
will fight. We are ready today and we will fight
that war. We don't want to, but guaranteed that we will.
And when you look at their capability, and I'm talking

(02:04:34):
to you not just how many tanks, planes and troops
that people have. Those are important, but what is crucial,
absolutely vital in a war of potential war of attrition,
is to your defense industrial base and how many men
you have. And Russia dwarfs the entirety of NATO in
those categories, and of course they have all the combat

(02:04:54):
experience and we have almost none, just little inciliary by
watching Ukraine, but that's about but none of us actually
doing it. So we are not ready to fight a war.
And if people want to get one and start one,
we're not going to do well in this. Let me
just tell you right off the bat.

Speaker 1 (02:05:11):
Well, then, what is the purpose of all this what
I will call dangerous rhetoric from the European Union elected officials?
Why are they ramping up all this talk?

Speaker 12 (02:05:22):
It is insane, I'll just start right there. It is
insane because there is no reason whatsoever to have to
even think about fighting a war with Russia. There's no
reason why they would want to. There was a lot
of reason why they would want to go into the
Donbos area. Why they would want to go into party
of Ukraine. They've been signaling that for fifteen years prior
to this one. They had always signaled the opposite here,

(02:05:45):
So there's no reason that's important, first of all. But secondly,
what I think is going back to February twenty twenty two.
I'm sorry to April twenty twenty two, when we had
a chance to have a negotiated settlement and the UK
and the Biden administration both worked against it and sabotaged it.
Zielinski was this close to agreeing to it. They convinced
him to sabotage it, and then they said, no, let's

(02:06:07):
defeat them. So twenty twenty three they want to have
this big offensive to drive Russia out. It totally failed,
and ever since that time, Brian, they've been trying to
make up good for it and not be seen as
being weak that we are, and so they keep doubling
down on the failure. And now then this particular failure
would be the worst of all because you could literally
spawn a war between us, which all too easily could

(02:06:29):
go nuclear. It's terrible.

Speaker 1 (02:06:30):
Well, that's exactly the way it sounded to me. And
so I was looking for you for some guidance on that.
So we both reached the same conclusion. And the article
points out over and over again they're literally going to
have to scramble to fortify their not only the soldiers
on the ground, they have very small armies. They're going
to maybe start talking about conscription and have in some countries,
and they're desperately in need of military hardware and supplies

(02:06:54):
if they want to wage a war. It seems logistically
they couldn't wage one if they had the will to
do it. On top of that, the Gallop survey from
the European Union says that only thirty percent of the
people will be even willing to take up arms to
defend their own countries. That is a sorry state of affairs.

Speaker 12 (02:07:10):
Well, it is, yeah, And you know the reason why
Germany's having this big problem here there. Maritch is talking
about all this big coffee cocky stuff about wanting to
be the power, the main military power on the continent,
stuff using big, you know, illustrative language. A lot of
people in the europe are going, yeah, you go ahead
and do that. That's cool, But the problem is that
he can't make good on it. Because they're having a

(02:07:31):
problem economically to be able to create that. And then
nobody wants to sign up for this. So, as you
just pointed out, they're gonna have to have force conscription
or they're just not gonna get there because the people
don't see a need for this. They see the same
thing you do. They think, what in the world are
you talking about. I don't want to war with Russia.
They don't want to war with us. No, this is stupid,
don't do it. And I think that ultimately that's going

(02:07:54):
to be and I hope this comes to the political
downfall of all these governments in Europe that want war
and they're putting for this. Eventually that people are going
to say, you're stupid man, I don't want you govern
uhing and so they're going to fall out of the
next election. We just have to hope that happens before
they actually get people sucked into a war.

Speaker 1 (02:08:11):
Well, you know, and you mentioned it, I mean the
undercurrent of you know, by getting more soldiers, however, they're
going to accomplish satur buying more war materials, spending more
than a percentage of their economy that translates into cuts, cuts,
and they're already over extended, bloated, impossible to sustain social
welfare safety in net. So if the European people, the
European Union people are subjected to a choice either we

(02:08:33):
build our military up and you cut social welfare, or
will continue with these outrageous rates, which parenthetically are unsustainable anyway,
and not build up our military, they probably go.

Speaker 12 (02:08:42):
With the latter now, and that's I think why the
Air Vice Marshall today in the UK was trying to say, listen,
you have to be ready to sacrifice your sons and
daughters because otherwise they're coming for us, because you have
to create this fear that, oh my god, well maybe
we do have to make these sacrifices. I'm not remember,
but a couple of days ago UK was also one

(02:09:03):
of the UK leaders was saying, look, we have to
be ready to make a lot of sacrifices, you know,
in our economy, in our way of life, and maybe
even our lives, because that's how big the risk is
and it's real, et cetera. So it's scaring some people,
but I think most people are going I'm looking at
I just don't see it. I think there's something wrong
with you. And I hope that that holds sway.

Speaker 1 (02:09:25):
Well, maybe that answers the question that we're struggling with
is why in the hell are they are they worried
about Vladimir Putin and raading Europe. If you use this
argument that we are under this existential threat from Russia,
we are going to have to cut maybe that's the
only Maybe that's the point. It will provide a mechanism
to justify their cuts to this bloated, out of control

(02:09:46):
social welfare system that so many people are on that
can't be sustained, right, I mean it will.

Speaker 12 (02:09:51):
But you know, one of the other things it's irony
I think is falling is being consciously aware of a
lot of these European populations, is are going hang on,
hang on. You just marcked men wi Macron in particular,
you just mocked the Russians because they're so pathetic that
they've only taken one percent of the territory in the
last two full years of fighting. And then at the

(02:10:11):
same time you're telling me, oh my god, they're coming
to London and we have to be ready for that.
That doesn't make any sense at all. And yet those
contradictory messages are both being shouted by the European leaders.

Speaker 1 (02:10:23):
Well at least you and I see through it. Daniel Davis,
Daniel Davis.

Speaker 12 (02:10:28):
The day, A lot of people do.

Speaker 1 (02:10:30):
Yeah, I know the Daniel Davis Deep Dive. Find him
on wherever you get your podcasting and follow them throughout
the week, and always tune in here on the fifty
five CARSCEN Morning Shore every Tuesdays at eight thirty. I
enjoy it, man, look forward to it every week, sir,
and I'll look forward to you next week.

Speaker 12 (02:10:44):
Always my pleasure. See you next week, Brian.

Speaker 1 (02:10:46):
Take care of my friends. Eight thirty nine. Come up
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Speaker 1 (02:10:54):
And no pun intended on that maybe painful. Doctor Rashimi Tataparthi,
she is a gasher and turologists with gastro health here
to talk about the very delicate subject. But we've got
to talk about it considering the number of people who
struggle with it. Doctor Tata party hemorrhoids, I guess are
a real problem for a lot of folks. Welcome to
the fifty five CARSE Morning Show.

Speaker 13 (02:11:14):
Thanks Rian, thanks for having me. My name is rosh
me Taty Party and I'm a gastrointrologist with the Gastro
Health Network in Cincinnati. You're absolutely right. A lot of
patient deals with hemorhoid symptoms, but they're embarrassed to talk
about it. It's a very common problem, and it's a
very treatable problem, so I hope people will reach out
and talk to us about it. Symptoms can include literally

(02:11:34):
pain in the rear end, pain in the buck it
changed see pitch swelling, and occasional bleeding.

Speaker 4 (02:11:41):
The ball movements.

Speaker 1 (02:11:43):
Well, we all have to have those, so I imagine
the problem is just an ongoing one unless you get treatment.
How do hemorrhoids develop? What is as I understand the statistic,
half of adults over the age of fifty deal with
hemorrhoids at some point, so clearly a very common, as
you treatable problems. How do they start and or develop
in the first place?

Speaker 13 (02:12:03):
Doctor, Well, great question, Brian. Hemrots are extremely common. They
developed and women, especially after pregnancies, but a very common
causes constipation, pushing, straining with bowel movements. Sometimes jobs that
involve for long standing, prolonged you know, sitting or even
heavy lifting. You know, any of these factors can lead

(02:12:25):
to gradual build up of these hemorrhoids.

Speaker 1 (02:12:27):
So I suppose it's the strain that we're putting on
our lower areas.

Speaker 13 (02:12:32):
That's exactly right. These are extremely thin walled, delicate blood
vessels present on the inside of the anal canal. Pushing
straining prolong standing pregnancies can lead to excess engagement and enlargement,
which then causes symptoms of bleeding, itching, pain.

Speaker 1 (02:12:51):
All right, and Guestor Health does have their drug therapy.
There's surgical, non surgical treatments. There are others, but let's
start with you mentioned the stool dietary changes. I would
imagine incorporating a higher level of fiber into one's diet
would be a strong recommendation.

Speaker 13 (02:13:07):
Yes, that's exactly how we start at gastro Health. We
offer the full range of treatment. We start with dietary counseling,
lifestyle modification, topical therapies, and now we have exciting new
therapies that include minimally invasive non surgical treatment. The newest
treatment that we're offering is an IR guided embolization. It's

(02:13:27):
a non surgical, minimally treatment option. It's done by one
of our interventional radiologists, and this includes a painless way
to obliterate these puffy dilated blood vessels in the inside
of the anal canal. And it's image guided, so we
approach them under extraight and we put tiny coils to
obliterate these blood vessels on the inside of the anal canal,

(02:13:51):
so that you know, you get long lasting relief from bleeding, itching,
and pain. We also offer hemorrhoid binding and other treatments.
We tailer the treatment to the patient after the consultation.

Speaker 1 (02:14:02):
Of course, Now in terms of the hemorrhoid embolization you
spoke of again, you said non surgical and you would
describe them minimally invasive procedure. I have to ask, first off,
is it painful? And second off, how quickly do do
patients normally achieve results from that particular procedure.

Speaker 13 (02:14:20):
So it's actually pretty pain it's painless. Patients are sedated
and they also get a local anesthesia. It's the same
day procedure outpatient procedure. Most patients can actually go back
to work the same day or at least the next day,
resume normal activities. Definitely, it's a day or two and
not weeks like a typical surgical procedure would be okay.

Speaker 1 (02:14:40):
Now, in terms of that drug therapy, I'm thinking the
vast majority of us would not like to have to
go through surgery if there's a less invasive procedure. So
you mentioned the hemorrhid embolization a nonsurgical procedure. Are there
drugs that can solve this or deal with this problem?
Because I think the world knows about preparation age, but
is there anything else down on the world that can
help you.

Speaker 13 (02:15:02):
Know, Actually, drugs, unfortunately I'm not do not provide long
lasting relief because these are hemorrhoids that are excessively in gorge.
These these are swollen. So you know, drugs like topical
steroids which we typically use, can provide temporary relief in
reducing inflammation irritation, but you know, it's like putting a
band aid, it comes right back. So I think if

(02:15:24):
you're having persistent symptoms, you definitely should seek attention and
consider one of these newer treatments that can help you
get rid of it. The other thing, also I want
to make sure to mention is that because of the
rising incidence of colon canter among young adults. If you
do notice ructle breeding, make sure you get evaluated and
confirmed that it is indeed hemorrhoids and not something else.

Speaker 1 (02:15:46):
That sounds like very sound advice. Now, in terms of
surgical treatment, what might that involve. I'm guessing, as you said,
you tailor whatever therapy to the individual. So someone comes
in there that would qualify. Maybe the non surgical hemorrhoid
embolization procedure might not be recommended. The surgical option is
what does that involve? Doctor?

Speaker 13 (02:16:07):
So you know, we do offer nonlurgical hemorrhoid banding if
the symptoms are predominantly prollapsed and swelling, highly effective nonsurgical treatment,
and then hemorrhoid embolization is also extremely effective for painless
and painless for bleeding. But if some patients have hemorrhoids
that are really large or even external, then we would

(02:16:28):
refer them to a surgeon for hemorrhoid actomy. Most patients
would prefer to avoid that because it's extremely painful and
does involve several weeks from downtime too. So if you know,
if you are a candidate, then you would definitely choose
the non surgical options that we have to offer.

Speaker 1 (02:16:43):
Doctor, Tata parthy. It sounds painful, just the way you
presist the name of the procedure, God Almighty. All right.
I think it's an important thing to ask doctor if,
assuming you're dealing with the pain and all the other
issues that are associated with this, the pain in the
butt that hemorrhoids happen to be if left untreated, are
there broader health implications for my listeners who are dealing

(02:17:05):
with this if they're like, I don't want to call
a hemorrhoid doctor. I'm being embarrassed, or well, I don't
want to do that. Bigger problems down the road doctor.

Speaker 13 (02:17:13):
You know, great question, and this is exactly what many
patients ask me. The answer is very simple. If you're
dealing with symptoms now, it's just going to get worse
if you continue to ignore it, because anything that you
use over the counter is usually just a temporary relief,
especially if you are constipated, you're pushing your straining. The
hemorrhoids will gradually increase in size and just get worse

(02:17:35):
with time. So it's better to address it now if
you can.

Speaker 1 (02:17:39):
It's not going to get any better, I guess. Although
you do recommend lifestyle changes and I suppose first order
of business if you can solve the problem through the
lifestyle and dietary changes, that's the avenue I would imagine
most people want to go down. So, in addition to
incorporating more fiber into the diet, what else do you
recommend for folks out there who might be going hmm,
what can I do before I see gastro health about

(02:18:02):
the problem.

Speaker 13 (02:18:04):
So the big thing I always tell my patients is
don't push downstream and you have bowel movement, make sure
your tool is soft. Also, don't use social media on
the toilet seed. You know, find a different spot the
love When you sit on the toilet seed. Meddling through
your phone the greatest pressure on the hemorrhoids, and these
are going to get larger.

Speaker 1 (02:18:25):
I'm sorry I left so loud about that. Doctor. I'm
not going to name him because he may be listening.
One of the lawyers that I used to work with
when I was a law student. He'll be in there
for about an hour every day, doctor, And that sounds
like a bad idea. And this is before social media.

Speaker 7 (02:18:41):
Oh yeah, that.

Speaker 13 (02:18:42):
Is definitely a bad idea. If you're reading your newspaper
or going through your social media on the toilet seed
find a different spot because that's a setup for hemorrhoids.

Speaker 1 (02:18:52):
Okay, now is there any are there any exercises people
could do or is this just diet and avoiding these
long sessions on the toilet and have training. Is there
something people can do by way of exercise?

Speaker 13 (02:19:03):
I think you know, the important thing is try to
avoid sitting or standing too long because that causes fasis.
You know, becauses those very close blood vessels to build
up and bulge. More So, just movement, a regular exercise
is just good enough.

Speaker 1 (02:19:19):
Fair enough. Now, it looks like you have several locations
for gastro Health the website gastrohealth dot com. That's easy,
so schedule appointment by just going to gastrohealth dot com.
If people are out there struggling and they finally have
a solution in front of them, yes, absolutely.

Speaker 13 (02:19:34):
And also the poll number is five one three seven,
five one six, six sixty seven. You can call us
make an appointment. You can make an appointment online. We
have multiple locations across the city. The greatest Antiniati hemorhoid
embolization center is in the Norwood area. But it's highly
effective and we have great treatment options, so don't be

(02:19:57):
embarrassed if you have hemorrhoids. Come on in very confidential
and comfortable consultation to see what treatment choice would be
best for.

Speaker 1 (02:20:04):
You and apparently proven success from gastro Health gastrohealth dot com,
Doctor pretty Bardisi, it's been a Tataparthy. It's been pleasure
talking with you today about this delicate subject. But obviously
a lot of folks are struggling with us, so I'm
glad we're able to have the conversation and give people
some health solutions for this at gastrohealth dot com. Have

(02:20:25):
a wonderful day, doctor, Thank you for passing along the information.

Speaker 13 (02:20:29):
Absolutely, Hey, thank you so much for having me today, Brian,
have a fantastic day and hopefully it's warming up.

Speaker 5 (02:20:34):
Take care hopefully.

Speaker 1 (02:20:36):
Yes, thank you very much,