55KRC Tuesday Show - Don Driehaus, Deep Dive, Sen Jon Husted

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Some sensation.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I had no idea what's going on. Neither do I
tally and that's why that's a great SoundBite. That's five
o'clock hour. That's typically the case, I'll admit it. Brian
Thomas wishing everyone a very happy Tuesday. Try to make
it so and stick around all morning. Got some good
stuff coming your way. Uh, sans Breitbart. Jo didn't hear
back from Breitbart. We always do the inside scoop with
Breitbart News at eight o five. Sadly, I guess today

(00:35):
we're not going to be doing it, so a little
disappointed about that, but we'll get him back again. Uh,
and welcome back Joe Strecker. Missed having you in yesterday.
Tony the big Dog Benner filling in for Joe Strecker
to the best of his abilities, of course, So I
accused Tony of being rusty, and he accused me of
well prevaricating. I suppose he says I'm not rusty anyway. Tony,

(00:57):
thank you very much if you're awake, which I doubt
you are, giving you to get out of bed early
yesterday to cover for Joe. I appreciate you covering. I'm
glad as I can be to see Joe back and
thank you very much, Joe Strekker for making the additional effort. Insphy,
you're feeling a little bit under the weather. What's coming
up in the fifty five Cassey Morning Show, Don Dreehouse,
John is running as a Charter committee candidate for since
City Council. We're gonna hear what Don's running on, what

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he cares about, what he thinks you care about, and
established whether he's worthy of your vote. TikTok, TikTok. One
week from today, it's time to well cast a vote
in the city of Cincinnati. Dear God, I hope the
residents of the city come out and vote. It's just
so heartbreaking that twenty five percent of the residents of
the city are going to determine the city's future. Every

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single person in the city is going to be impacted
by this election, perhaps profoundly. So I get some updates
on what's going on with the police chief and this
is even further into the realm of bizarre. But don't
worry about that. We get to that shortly. Empower you.
This is going to be enlightening. So after Don House
at seven five, fast forward to seven thirty empower you,

(02:03):
Always empower you. America dot org, where you register and
sign in to either show up in person or well
log in from the comfort of your own home. In
this particular case, what are we doing? I think it's
logging in from home anyway. Gee, Van Fleet will join
us this morning at seven thirty. She well grew up

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in communist China and she's got a warning for us,
author of Mao's Americas A Survivor's Warning. Born in China,
lift through the Cultural Revolution, she got sent to work
out in the countryside at age sixteen for re education.
Sat after Mao's death, she was able to go to
college and eventually come to America for graduate study. She's

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lived here in the United States since nineteen eighty six.
Back in twenty twenty one, she delivered a speech to
the Loud and County, Virginia School Board against critical race theory.
That speech went viral ignited national conservative media attention. Since
going public with a message, she's appeared on Fox News,
Tucker Carlson's program, Tucker Carlson dot Com, Newsmax radio shows

(03:08):
podcast across the country. What is she going to talk about?
The scary frightening out Loud right in front of you,
like waving a red flag. Parallels between Marxist ideology that
our young people are being shoved, having shoved down their
throat by the progressive left, and the parallels to the
China Cultural Revolution. Oh look at this. Among the points

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she's going to discuss, the Marxists used tactics of division,
something I've been pointing out for years and years on
this program. Any place. Our enemies, most notably the well
oiled machine that is the Chinese Communist Party, most relying
on social media, dividing us across the board on everything,
pick a topic, division, anger, vitriol, comments online dosing, name

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a topic they love, sturing the Pott division and deception, coercion, cancelation, subversion,
and also violence, which is becoming a more and more
common thing, most notably among the leftists. Another the left
wants to keep pointing the finger at the right as

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if some sort of evil cadre of white supremacist is
lurking in the background committing all of these violent offenses,
when in fact, every time you find out somebody's committing
a vile offense, it happens to be someone on the left. Anyway,
also aimed to destroy the foundation and the traditional culture
to replace it with wealth flat out marx societyologies. Do

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you feel as if your cultural tradition has been a
road eroded over the past several years. Huh? Kind of
felt like it started with Obama and it went on
steroids with the Biden administration. Boy, they were really hoping
Hillary Clinton got beat Donald Trump that twenty sixteen election.
That burst the hell out of their bubble. They were
on a steamroll over American culture, tearing down statues, just

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telling us we were all irredeemably terrible as a country.
Our country was born of original sin and was not deserving.
There is not deserving to continue to exist. Yeah, weaponizing youth,
using them as a means to an end. Youth have
always been weaponized. That's the Marxist favorite group. Because well,

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and this is no insult to the young people of America.
You just happen to be dumb. You don't have the
call the world experience that just merely living life will
give you. Right through that old adage, he who's not
from the left as a youth has no heart. He
who is not from the right as an adult has
no brain, you wake up to the reality that your
useful idiocy in supporting Marxist principles, Well was stupid, So

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youth weaponization share the same goal of achieving absolute power
at the expense of the people. Right, your freedoms get
eroded under the totalitarian mark reality. No, it's not each
according news ability to each according to his need. It's
one superstructure of wealthy elite oligarchs basically dictating the terms

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and conditions of your life, micro manage you, telling you
what you can and can't do in the case of
g while sending you off to the fields for re education. Anyway,
it's going to be a fascinating conversation, of course, the
fascinating power you seminar. She'll join the program at seven thirty,
follow by the Daniel Davis Deep Dive, fast forwarding one
hour to eight thirty, the latest on Russia, Ukraine, Israel

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and Hamas, and then at the close of the program,
Senator John Houston returns to talk about the shutdown which
is still in effect. Answer me this what the how
is going on in the city of Cincinnati, pivoting back
to the ongoing Sago have to have paral City Manager

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Sherry Long, Police Chief Threes Thiji why did she get
put on him in straight of leave to keep reminding folks,
she reported to SHAYL. Wong, and have to have Parvoll
the people who hired her over the objections of the
CINCINNTI Police department. Hey, we want this person. No, no, no,
you're not going to get that person others Lisa Davis.
You're going to get police chief Fiji. We want her,

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she's the best for the job. We don't care what
the police department wants. Put her in the position. Fast
forward to most recently, let her go because well, we've
got a problem in the city of Cincinnati. After months
and years of denial, we do have a crime problem
in the city. Have to have Provoll, perhaps, seeing his
job in jeopardy, please let that be a possibility, starts
talking about rethinking the police. Let's put more police on

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the street. Let's take the governor up on his offer
for some additional resources from the High State Patrol. Well,
we'll take a few days anyway, we'll start enforcing the curfew,
and we'll get rid of the police chief because apparently
she's the one responsible for the violence in the city.
Now it has nothing to do with the woke policies
of the administration. Nothing to do with the judges that

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stupidly elected and won't bother administering punishment to people who
are well deserving of it. Let's get rid of the chief.
So it's with great bewilderment that I'm looking at this
article from Fox nineteen Alexis Martin, Trey Matthews. What's going

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on is since a city council member Seth Walsh handed
out the document of the retention of the law firm
that the city retained to look into and investigate the
since a police chief trees of Thiji documents released money
after council member Seth Walsh said the council was blindsided
by the announcement, so he, along with Jeff Cramerting, Mark

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Jeffreys Amika Owens, signed a motion requesting the document the
retention documents of the law firm that was rehired to
look into police cheve Thiji. Blindsided. They didn't know this
was going to happen. Four objectives listed. One determinive. Fiji
had been quote an effective leader and manager of the

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Citincinnati Police Department, including personnel and resources. Effective leader and manager.
It sounds to me like entering into the realm of subjectivity. Well,
the law firm will render its objective opinion on that. Well. Also,
issue number two determinedive Figi's leadership quote within the context

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of city government, including by furthering the broader goals and
objective of the city administration. Well, wait a minute, objectives
of the city administration have to have par ball. Perhaps
City Manager Cheryl Long, weren't they defund the police reimagine
the police IRIS Roly supporters. It was those two that

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got a contract with IRIS defund reimagine the police Rowley,
wasn't it their objectives? This is something I've been pointing
out for the last several well, not only me reiterating
the words of many other people who are more in
the know than I am, Police Chief Thiji. Because she
reported Long and parvol was well, working at their behest,

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working to fulfill the objectives of the city administration, part
of the work that this law firm is going to
be doing. Yeah, maybe that's why the police department, and
it's in her decision making with regard to policing didn't
work out so well because she was furthering the objectives
of the city administration rather than focusing on best practices

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for dealing with criminals on the street. Number three determined
I Fiji has quote committed any infraction or policy violation
while serving as police chief. Got a particularly good chuckle
out of that one. Her record apparel is spotless by
all accounts. Haven't seen her file, but up until a
moment of time ago, she'd been getting the praises of

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have to have pervaw in the administry. She'd been at
her job for a long time. She had never been
disciplined in her thirty five careers in law enforcement for
the city. I'm not saying she was the ideal choice
for police chief, but a part according to her records,
no blemishes. So a law firm with twenty twenty hindsights
been retained to go back and look through her thirty
five years of service to see if there's anything in

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there that could be perceived to be an infraction or
policy violation. Actually it's limited to her time as police chief,
so they won't have thirty five years of work to do,
they'll only have like four. But still as the chief
of police, I imagine she had a laser focus on
her and her actions and her activities. I imagine among the

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police chief or the brother of the police personnel, if
she had done anything that would qualify as an infraction
or policy violation, we might have heard from one of
the officers on the street that was well violated or
some way infracted, subject to anyway and finally determined ifieds
has quote disregarded best practices in the running of the

(12:03):
CPD to the detriment of public safety and crime prevention,
which of course perhaps goes back to her fulfilling the
objectives of the city administration rather than following best practices
in the running the Cincinnati Police Department. It's okay. The
law firm's going to find out the answers to all
these questions, and they will, I guess by eleven fifty

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nine pm December thirty. First, the agreement says that the
maximum compensation under the contract forty thousand dollars with a
tenet of date ending at December and the end of
December forty thousand dollars. I don't know. As an attorney,
having practiced law for a lot of years sixteen specifically
active practice, I don't know that I can necessarily tell
you ahead of time how much work any lawyer group

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is going to do or are going to have to
do to fulfill those objectives in there. I don't know
how much work it's going to how much paper is there,
how many hours were going to have to review? How
do you pull forty thousand dollars as a max out
of your sphincter and put it into a contract whatever.
I guess they put the brakes on once they reach
the forty thousand dollar mark. And trust me, because the
lawyer fees a ranging between four to twenty five an

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hour and twohundred and fifty per hour, they'll reach that
number very quickly, probably before December thirty first, and probably
before the work is done, which means they'll go back
to the city and say, hey, the work's not done,
we're going to need an extension of this contractual limitation
of forty thousand dollars going to get more money. The
answer will certainly be yes. Councilmember Walsh quote, we barely

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got more of a heads up than you did speaking
with Fox nineteen you news reporters regarding the Frost Brown Todd.
That's the law firm regarding the Frost Brown Todd hiring.
We're using a source of funds that we don't know
what the source is that doesn't need council's approval. Huh.
Flying underneath council's radar, you'd think they'd have some say
in the matter, considering it's well, the expenditure is Cincinnati

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taxpayer dollars. Add that to the equation before you go
in and vote. Mike's on the phone. It's on or
flight day, out of time. I'll get you right out
of the gate. Mic, I promise you be right back.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
This is fifty five shoe Talk station.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
On a flight trist eight, last one of the year.
Get to CDG tonight and be there around eight thirty
with the thousands of folks who will be there along
with my submarine O friend Cribbage. Mike, welcome back. You
down at CBG right now.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
I bet yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
About five minutes here, the bag pipes will start cranking
up and we will kick off our sendoff ceremony here
at CBG for eighty five Vietnam veterans and three Korean
War veterans.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
That's amazing. That is so are you flying on the flight, Mike.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
I will be on the flight. Yes, I figured too.
As a continguency, maybe our four buses could camp outside
Chuck Schumer's office and maybe get the bill passed to
the Senate. So we'll do what we can, but it
should be all systems normal. We did find out today though,
that we're just going to have to do a drive
by past the Air Force Memorial, But other than that,

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everything was as we'd normally do in DC as far
as having these veterans visit their memorials. And I couldn't
help but think these three consecutive Tuesdays in a row,
with today with the honor flight, next Tuesday with Election Day,
and then a following Tuesday is Veterans Day. So if
people are available, there is no better way to celebrate

(15:17):
veteran then be here tonight, enjoy the patriotism and shake
a veteran's hands.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, that's it's so true, Mike. And what a beautiful
display of patriotism, which we certainly need these days, you know.
And it's interesting, it's a good thing you didn't that
the Honer flight isn't going when Barack Obama had this shutdown,
because he would have shut down the memorials that you're
going to see by putting up barriers and barricades.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
There's a legendary story. It wasn't our group, but supposedly
during that shutdown, one of the honor flights back then too,
there were several World War Two veterans and they said,
I stormed the beaches of Normandy.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
There's no snow.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Fences that's going to keep me from seeing my will
And they went right through. So I would have loved
have been there.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
For that day. Amen, brother, who's gonna stop them?

Speaker 6 (16:02):
Right?

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Who's gonna do that? You got a World War Two veteran,
I wouldn't do his seated Eang memorial. And you got
a fence up which you could hop over, even if
World War Two venter Gonda hopped over the fence. Yeah,
don't mess with them. Don't mess with them. They liberated
the world and they're damn well going to see the
memorial and I'm glad that they are open for your visitation.
Is there a reason the Air Force UH memorial is

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gonna be a drive by uh?

Speaker 4 (16:25):
Cheryl pop our CEO, just got the word on Monday. So,
and it's a lot of these, like the restrooms are
run by the Park Service, but she said this actually
came down from the Air Force itself. So huh, maybe
we should go to a swing by Pete Hexa's office too.
Just the Navy would never do that.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
No, no, that's right. God bless the American veteran and
of course Courbage, Mike. God bless you for your service
to our country and your continued service by working with
Honor Flight and doing such a wonderful job. Mike, I
appreciate you chiming out. Show up tonight be it CVG.
Just get there a little bit early. You want to
at least played about eight thirty or about eight thirty, right, Mike,
aight a thirty.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Get a parking spot. Yeah, because if everything goes the
parade should start quarter to nine, nine o'clock.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Fantastic. Last time you hit about two thousand folks there.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
That's usually ever since we've been in this new area.
And what we like seeing too, I call them the
alumni and when we get a lot of yellow shirts,
and that's what the veterans wear because they know what
it was like when they were doing that parade. To
see them come back, and of course all the family
members are there, and especially now the school's back in session,
I know we're going to see boys, scouts, girls, Scouts,
kids from elementary school, and that's how I've been doing

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this now for twelve years, and it still gets the
hair to stand up on the back of my neck.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yes, I'm certain it does, because just hearing about those
young people being there and supporting the American veterans, it
does the same thing to me. Mike, Thank you again,
appreciate you chiming in and best of luck and safe
travels for everyone on the flight.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
Thank you, Brian.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
My pleasure is five twenty seven to fifty five KARSD
talk station, phone calls or local stories. Either way we go,
it's a okay with me. But right back after these brief.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
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Speaker 2 (18:04):
Tuesday Happy one, one week from the election day. It's
on our flight Tries Day day CDG place to be
tonight about e thirty. Get there and enjoy the celebration.
Welcome home those awesome American veterans, and welcome back to
the Morning Show. Tom. Always good to hear from you.

Speaker 7 (18:19):
Good morning. I found that tiny, tiny chance of rain
up here, seventy five coming up on Monroe, So yeah,
I found it.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, at least the forecast isn't wrong.

Speaker 7 (18:33):
Correct, correct.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
I can't always say that.

Speaker 7 (18:36):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 8 (18:38):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
So I'll tell everybody. I always feel just slightly. It's
not embarrassed. I just a little reluctant every time I
read the weather forecast, because you know, I know what
I read when I experienced the following day's weather, and
I'm like, wait a second, the weather's nothing like what
I was told it was going to be like today.
So I get it. I hear it, I know it.
I don't write it, I just read it.

Speaker 7 (18:58):
All right, we all know you're just the voice, you're
not the guy that wrote it out. And as long
as as long as you don't try to do the
traffic before five forty, you're good shaped. So that that's
that's been known to happen before, hasn't it.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
It has Uh?

Speaker 7 (19:13):
And and by the way, uh, even though the boss
had to fill in for for Joe yesterday, UH, I
reassured Joe his job is not jeopardy. He's he's in
pretty good shape. He's locked in pretty good man, right right.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (19:28):
You're talking about all the left and malism and the
different variations of of and that we've seen over the years,
and and we've learned about through uh, through learning about
history of what the left looks like, and you know
all the different names we can use for it.

Speaker 9 (19:46):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (19:47):
I heard a word yesterday about it seductive. The the
the left has a lot of seductive language and and
their their the planks of their platform for for people
who who have the you know, are young and don't
have the experience. As you mentioned earlier, people who are
you know, refer to like bleeding heart liberals. It's very

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seductive language. It pulls you in and and causes you
to believe something that common sense tells you, well, that's
not really possible, that's not really possible. And then and
then you start really paying attention, you understand what's really
going on there. And I'm saying I'm saying all this
because I want to encourage people to not not think, oh,

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we're screwed. Uh No, not necessarily. What you're seeing you
with all this violence that you mentioned is the Left
becoming unhinged because they're not winning.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
What they used to.

Speaker 7 (20:43):
You're losing ground they have. They have a lot of
people will put you in that in that number that
are speaking out against it and and and are not
afraid to say what they think and uh and point
out the truth and just share facts. I mean, just
the just the stuff you're talking about about the City
of Cincinnati is just eye opening. How ridiculous that that

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administration is and behind the scenes. And if we're gonna
take this council member's word, uh, you're not even letting
your counsel know what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (21:15):
Uh. And money from somewhere that we don't know where
it's coming from.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, it's this dysfunction level has reached I think epic proportions. Right.

Speaker 7 (21:28):
And and keep in mind as you hear that that
money that they don't know where it's coming from, we
all know exactly where it's coming from. It's not coming
out of their pocket. It's coming out of yours, voters.
Your money is being taken and used for things. Your
money is being given away as candy for people to hey,

(21:48):
keep voting for us. Here's some more free stuff that
is your money that they're giving away.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
You know.

Speaker 7 (21:54):
One of the you know, biggest parts of the story
about the you know, the White House ballroom is is
the private money going into that. And they it just
it drives them nuts because they they don't have anything
to counter except your money. They're stealing your money to
get their way. They're stealing your money to get in
and stay in office, and they're using your money to

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ruin this country. And of course you got you got rhinos,
you got some, You got some Republicans that are just greedy,
so we got to watch out for them. They may
not necessarily be Rhinos, but they're greedy. And then of
course we got Rhinos who are basically Democrats but call
themselves Republicans. And of course we got the Democrats who
are just full throated with this liberal left ideology. Let's

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not vote for any of them. Let's find some fiscal
conservatives and let's get it. And I'm encouraging you because
it's working. We're gaining ground back. Keep up the good work,
pay attention to what you're doing. Vote these people out,
don't vote rhino and don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Have a great day you do the same time, appreciate that.
And a nod to Richard who he lives in Ludlow, Kentucky,
and he was talking to one of his employees who
was on the battle back in two thousand. He schooled
me about recent history. He says, in the city with
the current mayor and the city council. It wasn't good.
They were gonna throw the bums out campaign, and it worked.
All four council members plus the mayor were ousted for

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a clean slate. It's only a week before the election,
he says, But please start saying the phrase throw the
bums out during your show. I hope at least there's
a majority of newcomers and returning sound thinking members will
take his stand against aftab knucklehead. All the best, Richard,
Thank you, Richard, Throw the Bums Out. Five thirty six
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be had Joe Strucker been producing the program yesterday. Sadly
it's not there, but at some point maybe it will be.

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It's good for the show. I really really appreciate those
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That's great with me. Five one, three seven for nine
to fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight two to
three talk. We get to New Jersey where we have

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a woman who pleaded guilty to a four to a
m torching of a man's home after he fell asleep
inside the home and stood her up on a booty call.
What I'm just reading it? Friday court hearing, Taija Russell,
who's thirty five, admitted to aggravated arson, second degree felloning

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and a plead deal. Prosecutors agreed to recommend an eight
year prison term, of which Russell will be statutorily required
to serve eighty five percent That will be six and
a half years. Russell and died on five other charges,
including attempted murder aggravated assault, but as part of the deal,
prosecutors moved to dismiss those counts when she's sentenced in January. Anyways,

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detailed in the court records, Russell traveled to the Woodbury
home of victim Curtis Stokes, who told police that he
invited the defendant into his residence to have sexual intercourse.
Stokes head of the Russell was a side chick that's
in quote with whom he had been having sex. They

(25:22):
be friends with benefits anyway. The pair is what is
described as pre dawn communication. It consisted of Russell texting
Stokes hello, to which he romantically responded, bring yah, hold on,
let me get a reading. Okay He said, yes, bring

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ya ass that's in quotes. Now. I don't know how
you can show up without it reminds me of that
song from what was it back in the nineties, Detachable Penis. Anyway,
by the time Russell arrived, Stokes had fallen asleep and
didn't respond to her. At the door, Russell mad sent

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a text complaining you wasted my money to come out here.
Having received no reply, Russell then texted a series of threats,
you smoked, and I see you want to die, and
also I swear to God I hope you die. At
that point, Russell went to a Conico gas station, bought lighter,

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fluid matches and a cigarette lighter, return to the home
and set it fire outside the rear apartment's sole entrance.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Stokes told police he awoke to the smell of smoke
and was unable to leave because the door, but the
fire was too intense in the single exit door where
she let the fire, Stokes, who suffered first, first and
second degree burns, forcefully removed an entire window frame to escape,
wearing only a T shirt covered head to toe and
soot and ash. That's in the report. He ran to
in your By police headquarters to report the fire, later

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treated by a local hospital for burns and smoke in elation.
Criminal case against Russell dragged on for more than six
years for unknown reasons. It said. During that period of time,
Russell gave birth to a child who could be seen
with her during one video court appearance. Oh how lovely.
We'll have that fond memory to share with each other
as we get older together. Five forty five. Jay's on

(27:24):
the phone, Jay, You're next. As soon as I get back,
and after I mentioned cross country Morgan five forty nine
on Tuesday, Happy win till you Before I get to
this stackers toupid, I'm going to go over to the phones.
Five three seven fifty eight two three Talk Jay. Good
to hear from you again. Welcome back to the fifty
five Carsey Morning Show.

Speaker 9 (27:41):
Hey, good morning, Brian, and all is well on this
glorious government shut down, I think we are at about
one hundred and thirty eight billion dollars of discretionary spending.
Just a reminder to the listeners that there's only like
twenty five percent of the government shut down, so seventy
five percent.

Speaker 7 (27:58):
Of the waste is still in place.

Speaker 9 (28:00):
Going on day after day, so nobody panicked that this
government has to be reopened. Shifting from federal to state.
I heard and I always enjoyed listening to Donovan O'Neill
from American Prosperity whenever you have him on. He's the
gentleman that educated me years ago about the amount of

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medicaid fraud in Ohio and we were worse than the
nation at forty five percent. Disappointed to hear him say
recently during an interview he was talking about he went
down to the path that a lot of people are
going down, saying we can't get rid of property text
because what are they going to replace it with? And you,
my friend, I stood up and cheered. You said, well,

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some of our listeners suggest that there's plenty of money
in medicaid fraud that could pay for that. And his
response was, yeah, but if they do an audit, it
looks like they're only going to find one billion dollars
if that's true. Well, if that's true, that means we
went from forty three percent improper payment rate to two

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percent with a national average of twenty percent. I don't
believe that happened at all. And the last time I
heard somebody start talking about, yeah, we don't need to
do an audit is when Biden won the election and
everybody was saying there's not enough fraud to do an investigation. Well,
from my understanding of an audit, you have no idea

(29:31):
what the outcome is going to be until.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
You do the audit. Yeah, that's a good point, Jay,
How could you possibly know. It's like the law firms,
but bill has been captured forty grand for specific work
to be performed, as if you can cap the billable
time ahead of time, not knowing what the work is
going to require doing, I mean, it's the same damn thing, correct.

Speaker 9 (29:52):
So let me give you the real numbers where I
think they are that if we say on ohiocheckbook dot gov,
which you turned me on two years ago, if people
can get on air and see where the Ohio is
spending your money, forty five billion dollars is in medicaid.
Let's just assume we have the national average of a
twenty percent improper payment rate. I think it's forty percent,

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but let's say twenty that's nine billion dollars. What does
it take to fun public schools about fifteen billion? So
if we say that, what if we say it's forty
percent and forty five percent in proper payment, that puts
US right around eighteen billion dollars with an average spend
of public schools of fifteen billion dollars. So Donovan, my friend,

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I don't I'm not sure what happened. He was also
handing out awards to Matt Huffman. Matt Huffman who took
campaign money from Cleveland Brown's and then mysteriously they got
a six hundred million dollar stadium. But I would tell
the listeners, hang in there, don't worry about what are
they going to replace it with medicaid fraud? Don't forget
Dwine has three billion dollars in a rainy day. Nobody

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can explain to me what the hell that is. That
is tax that we paid more than what they needed
and it goes into a rainy day fund. I guess
at the discretion of the governor. Nobody knows. They have
plenty of money. Vote this thing down, get rid of
property tax. They can figure it out. And this is
a result of voting Rhino. I'm going to say that

(31:22):
we've done a decent job in a state not voting Democrat,
but we need to stay on track. Don't vote Rhino,
don't vote Democrats, and have a good day of Bryan.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Thanks Jay, I appreciate your your laser like focus on
that whole fraud issue. Fraud, waste and abuse. That is
something that should not exist and any company out in
the world it would not exist because, well, your bottom
line is impacted and your goal, of course is to
maintain profit, profitability, employment for your employees, et cetera, et cetera,

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So you don't allow it. Government doesn't have to worry
about that because frankly, they do not care about being
responsible stewards of your money. It's just too easy to
ignore it. They can take whatever they want, all right, Joe,
cue it up, gotta have it. Give an award out
because we have one opportunity for one more stack of
stupid or a stack of stupid. We got to Addison, Illinois.

(32:14):
Lawsuits been filed against an ice cream shop owner accused
of secretly recording at least eleven underage employees in a bathroom.
Flavor Frenzy owner Steve Weisberg our winner this morning fifty
eight charge of two counts of chob pornography, two counts
of unauthorized video recording. Grand jury returned and to night
been charging him with sixty six counts of child porn

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and third two counts of unauthorized video recording. Eleven former
employees between the ages of fourteen and seventeen when employed
by the ice cream shop filed suit earlier this week.
According to the lawsuit, he used the Flavor Frenzy to recruit,
exploit next endangered teenage girls, llegily installed a hidden camera
in the stores only restroom, required the teenage girls to
repeatedly change in the restroom, often supplying bras in Flavor

(33:00):
Frenzy branded garments. Tourney said abused his position of authority
and repeatedly convinced high school girls that they needed to
change their shirts and bras in the store bathroom as
part of their employment to be photographed for shop marketing purposes.
Also offered girls alcohol and marijuana gummies when working on
behalf of Flavor Frenzy at festivals, and Quote expressed a

(33:23):
desire to hire high school girls with large breasts close
quote to work on a promotion for the store. Like
he's stealing from the Hooters concept anyway, the attorney and
the sprinkle on the top of his abuse of these
girls was his texting them outside of work, telling them
to take an online purity test and asking them about
the results, and also touching them in unwanted ways on

(33:45):
their hair backs and bout us butt ox Hey's accused
of withholding paychecks and paying employees less than minimum wage.
He's currently in place custody, and he's the winner of
our award this morning. PERI the biggest two shove the
du universe, In all the galaxies, there's no bigger douche
than you. You've reached the top, the pinnacle.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Of doue, the good going douce. Your dreams have come true.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Feel free to call got more to talk about coming
up at six o'clock hour before we get to Don
Dreehouse at seven oh five. Charter Committee candidate for Councils.
Stick around me right back. Today's top headline five krs
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See the talk station. Brian Thomas right here. We' sh everybody.
Everybody a very happy Tuesday. One week one week early

(34:41):
voting is open. Get to the Board of Elections, cast
your vote. City Cincinnati. Most notably, please dear Gud, let's
set a better turnout than twenty five percent. So you
got a week, so put it on your calendar. It
is on our flight day to day. Heard from Cribbage,
my submarine r friend. He's there, He's going to be
on the flight. Most notably, it's filled with Vietnam War
veterans and a handful of Korean War veterans, So wishing

(35:03):
them save travels and reminding you to show up at
CVEG for the welcome home ceremony. It is worth the effort.
Just get down to CVG by eight thirty, case self
a parking spot and join the couple of thousand people
who will be there with this amazing show of patriotism.
And one week from tomorrow we're going to have a
listener lunch, so I'll give you the details on that later.

(35:25):
I'm looking forward to Dondree House joining the program coming
up in an hour. He's a Charter Committee candidate running
for counsel. You do have some options. You don't have
to vote Democrat. Does Dondree House have what it takes
to get elected? What's he running on? We're going to
find out together in an hour, followed by g Van Fleet.
It's going to be an amazing power youth seminar Maus America.
She lived through the Cultural Revolution, she moved here and

(35:45):
then saw back in from nineteen eighty six forward. How
unbelievably horrific what she is witnessing here in America is
following exactly what happened in China. We are being duped, manipulated,
and it's all in the name of moving toward Marxism
and taking away You're right, the bottom line, Daniel Davis
Deep Dive at eight thirty. Yes, Bright Bart inside Scoop.

(36:06):
I didn't mention that because apparently they didn't get back
with Joe Strekker still wondering what's going on with them?
I don't think they've disappeared. We'll get the bright Bart
inside scoop in the future. But the Daniel Davis deep
dive today, of course the latest on Russia, Ukraine, Israel
and Hamas. Then Senator John Houstill returned to the program
at eight forty to talk about the shut down. If
you want to talk about something, call me five one, three, seven, four,

(36:27):
nine fifty, five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to
three talk pound five fifty on eight and t phone.
No Moss on the shutdown moving in that direction, Perhaps
it's going to get a lot worse. Maybe this is
what the Democrats are waiting for, when more people start
feeling the pain of the recognition that they are hooked
up to the Biblical court of government to live. And
that's what I'm kind of seeing here. So the longer

(36:49):
the shutdown looms, the more benefits will be cut off.
Let's start with SNAP food Assistance. I guess more than
forty million people are on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program SNAP.
They say it's going to run out of money on Sunday,
or start running out of money on Saturday. Rather, Trump
administration may not be able to land any emergency funds
to keep the food benefits coming. Twenty five states already

(37:10):
planned to cut off SNAP benefits. Some lawmakers pressing the
Trump administration to tap into an agricultural contingency fund to
pay some of the benefits. But apparently the agricultural contingency fund,
what is that and why does it exist? For what
reason does it exist? I can't answer that question. But
it's there, but five billion dollars in it, which is

(37:31):
less than the nine billion dollars which is needed to
cover food age just through November. Yeah, let that sink in.
Head Start. Federal funding is going to stop flowing Saturday
to some, not all, of the early childhood education programs.
More than one hundred and thirty programs and head Start

(37:52):
set to miss federal funding. Forty one states and Puerto
Rico are going to be hit. Fifty nine thousand children that,
according to the National Headstart is Sonociation, had start sort
about sixty five hundred children didn't get their usual cash
after funding first laps October first. The Wick Nutrition Assistance
program had already been bullied by funding earlier in the

(38:16):
month from the for the federal nutrition assistance program that
serves seven million low income, mothers and babies. The coffers,
they say, are going to dry up on Saturday unless
the administration taps another three hundred million in emergency cash
for the Wick program. Emergency cash. Somewhere out there there

(38:36):
is a pile of what is called emergency cash. Isn't
it weird? You know? Jay talked about the three billion
dollar reserve fund. We have rainy day fund here in
the state of Ohio. You kind of scratch your head
and water where are all these extra funds coming from?

Speaker 10 (38:50):
That?

Speaker 2 (38:50):
This money even lurks in the background while we dig
ourselves a massive deficit hole. Seems to be puzzling. Well
it is to me anyway. And then there's the pesky
essential air service. So of course the air traffic controllers
are considered essential, but that doesn't mean they aren't or
they have to show up to work. They have six days,
apparently they're using them. More than fifty six hundred flights

(39:12):
delayed yesterday just in the United States, primarily due to
traffic air traffic controllers staffing shortages. FAA said ground delay
programs were put into place at major airparks, notably Newark,
New Jersey, Austin, Texas, Dallas Fort Worth International Southeast flights
also experienced delays to staffing shortages at Atlanta Terminal Radar

(39:35):
Approach Control that oversees much of the region's air traffic
record of the FAA. FAA sided Air Traffic controller absences
is the main factor behind the well delays happened the
prior day, October twenty six, eighty eight hundred flights were
delayed nationwide. You know, some multiple hour shutdowns in Lax
and others. So they're accruing pay and they're just taking

(39:59):
their vacation days anyway, So military pay members of the
military are going to miss paychecks Friday unless there's some
sort of intervention. I know Trump did tap into some
money earlier, six point five billion from military research and
development programs. Well they got their pay because the programs

(40:23):
weren't funded. But they say it's going to be difficult
to do the same thing. That pot of cash has
about had rather ten billion dollars before the President pulled
out the first six and a half billion, So those
funds are going to run out. And of course the
Democrats rejected the idea of continuing to pay servicemen and
other central employees. They aren't going to have any of that. Well,
what do the employees have to say about it? Oh,

(40:45):
looky here, the inmates are starting to rebel. It's time
to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shut
down today. That's a quote, oddly enough, a quote from
a guy named Edward Kelly, who Edward Kelly, who's the

(41:06):
president of the American Federation of Government Employees, eight hundred
thousand strong, calling the situation an avoidable crisis. He did
harming families and communities, says both political parties have made
their point, and still there is no clear end in sight.
They're calling for the continuing Resolution to be bad. They

(41:26):
passed it, the House passed, but already this is what
now the employee union is advocating. Look, the House did
its job, contique, keeping funding levels of the Joe Biden era.
Let's get this over with and sign that AMCR. Democrats
in the Senate, let's put us back to work. Let's
ensure that our paychecks come in. Let's get rid of

(41:46):
this avoidable crisis. Hmm I that seems to be a
positive development. So maybe that will be the e straw
of the the camel's back, or maybe the tens of
millions of people who rely on the government to eat.

(42:07):
Maybe that will result in the government reopening. Can't answer
the question, but I do view the federal employee union
calls and this is a direct This call is directed
at Democrats. They're embracing the concept of the continued resolution
that the Republicans passed already, that they've been trying to

(42:27):
pass now for the past month. So if you're keeping
score of the in the win loss comments to who's
going to get ultimately blamed for this shutdown, there's one
more chit on the side of the Democrats being blamed
for it. The unions, which are typically you know, of
course Democrat backed Democrats supported traditionally anyway, we saw with

(42:53):
the Trump election that maybe things are changing in this
country of ours. Populist man he is, and that populist
nature does resonate quite well with the regular run of
the union person out in the world who appreciate the
reality what's going on. This is stupid, it's avoidable. The
question is how much pain are the Democrats going to

(43:14):
make us go through before we get to move forward
with this? And I suppose there's always the possibility that
the Republicans will capitulate and extend these subsidies on into
the future. And notwithstanding the fact that the Democrats are
the ones putting the deadline on the subsidies in the
first place, I swear the only conclusion I can reach,

(43:35):
and I think it's a logical one. When they put
the deadline in, they really thought either Hillary Clinton was
going to become president or someone other than Donald Trump
would be president in this administration. I think we all
know what they did to themselves with running Joe Biden
in the first place and then doing a quick swap
at the end with Kamala Harris. Yeah, that didn't work

(43:56):
out obviously real well for them, and now they have
to face their own deadline. How can it possibly be
the Republican's fault? Five one three, seven four nine fifty
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indulge me here For a moment, I was so moved
by the post yesterday from CINCINNTI then and now Jack Morgan,
I think is the moderator of the page. But he's
been doing some biographies of sort of famous Cincinnatians and

(44:44):
he did one for my dad and I just it
just I'm seriously allergy outbreak when I read it. And
I was just been thinking about my dad NonStop since
yesterday when I first encountered this just beautiful commentary from
from Jack, and I had several listeners reach out to
me and say, why don't you read it? Why don't
you read it? So I'm gonna take a moment here
and just go ahead and read it if you don't mind.
And thanks in advance to everyone who listened to my

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father and for years and years and this again, I'm
coming up on my twentieth year in radio, and every
time someone said, oh, I used to listen to your dad,
I always thank them and you for putting me through college.
And Jack writes about my dad. Granny was spotted on
Fountain Square. Jerry Thomas born in nineteen thirty nine, passed
away at eighty three. Wasn't just a voice on Cincinnati radio.

(45:26):
He was the soul of the city, a presence that
made mornings warmer, afternoon's brighter, and heart's fuller for forty
four unforgettable years, most famously a fifty five KRC. He
started at age nineteen in Paris, Kentucky as a DJ,
spent a little time in Louisville learning his craft, and
in nineteen sixty two he arrived in Cincinnati, ready to
leave a mark that would echo through the city for decades.

(45:46):
From the very first broadcast, you could hear it in
his voice, warmth, humor, a connection that made every listener
feel like family. His show wasn't just about entertainment. It
was a rallying cry for the community, a place where
the joy, concern, laughter and tears were shared in real time.
This program was always ranked in the top ten, but
the real measure of Jerry Thomas wasn't in the numbers.
It was the way he made people feel alive, seen,

(46:09):
and part of something bigger than themselves. And then there
was Granny, so real, so vivid, so unforgettable that people
actually believe she walked the streets of Cincinnati. Granny would
appear in Jerry's voice, a sly wink in the airwaves,
a trickster spirit, making the city laugh some jokes. She
could be spotted on Fountain Square, laughing, stirring up the crowd.
A character born from the imagination of a man whose

(46:31):
creativity had no bounds. Granny wasn't just a radio alter ego.
She was a pioneer of personality, humor and human connection,
a template for every dj who would dare to be
more than a voice behind a microphone. And there was
a joke of the day. Each morning, Jerry would break
for the news the community updates the serious moments and
deliver pure, effortless humor, one simple line, one perfectly time punchline.

(46:54):
The city would pause, breathe, laugh, and feel a little lighter.
Those moments weren't just jokes. There were small miracles of
joy shared by tens of thousands who knew that no
matter what, Jerry Thomas had a way of lifting spirits.
Jerry's life wasn't only in the studio. He was popular
host on PM magazine, a dominant golfer at Western Hills
Country Club whose triumphs are still whispered on early morning rounds.

(47:18):
He gave tirelessly to his community. From the Dell High
Skirt Game, an event full of laughter, fun and local pride.
To little league coaching, he taught by example the life's
richness is measured in service and kindness and the joy
of lifting others. Watching him in action was to witness
a man whose heart radiated generosity and warmth, whose laughter
was contagious, whose presence demanded attention without ever seeking it.

(47:42):
Then there was Joan, his beautiful wife, Mom, the love
of his life. Amen. Partnership is a living lesson in devotion.
Decades shared laughter, support and unspoken understanding. Together they created
a family rooted in integrity, courage, and love. He mentions
my sister and watch his daughter, Lisa rise to the
rank of police lieutenant of the Cincinnati Police Department brought

(48:02):
a quiet, radiant pride to Jerry that was almost tangible.
Her courage and dedication and integrity were reflections of the
values he lived by and instilled in his family. And
he did mention me. He mentioned listener lunch specifically, and
some very kind words Jack, and I'm not going to
pat myself on the back by reading them, but I
appreciate you recognize me, and the shoes that I cannot

(48:25):
fill are still sitting here beneath the board. Then he
goes on, we lost Jerry at the age of eighty three,
and the city felt that loss deeply. His laughter still
echoes in the corners of Cincinnati, his generosity still ripples
in the community. His love still lives in the family
he nurtured and the lives he touched. He rallied his city,

(48:45):
He lifted hearts. He crafted a legacy that is impossible
to ignore. To know Jerry Thomas is to love him instantly,
to remember that one person can change his city with humor, courage,
and heart. He made the city believe in itself, and
in every act, every way, every laugh, he reminded us
of what is truly worth, cherishing family, community, and the

(49:07):
courage to live boldly and kindly. It is essential to
document his greatness for Cincinnati, for the world, and for
generations who deserve to know that such a man existed,
A man who made laughter, sacred community a priority, and
a love a force, and love a force that can
never be measured by anything less than a full heart.
Jack Morgan, Jack just hitting that allergy mode again. My friend,

(49:32):
cannot thank you enough for remembering my father and the
kind words he passed along about my sister and me
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I mentioned that several times today CVG tonight's eight thirty
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(50:06):
into your arm and probably an emotional outbursts which I
like to call an allergy attack. Think good morning to
Jeff and the crew at mark on Tool. Jeff's always
good man, supports all the sponsors and listens to the
program every day at a few words about my dad
and God bless you Jeff for your regular commentary and
your support of the sponsors. As I mentioned real quick here,

(50:26):
every time there's a natural disaster someplace out there, most
notably in the world, Matthew twenty five ministries. Now there
are tons of charitable organizations you can go ahead and
donate money to if you care or have any concern
about the soon to be devastating, horrific conditions that are
going to exist in Jamaica and the surrounding areas. Hurricane Melissa,

(50:48):
reportedly one of the strongest hurricanes recorded on record at
the CAT five right now, sustain wins of one hundred
and seventy five miles an hour and they clocked winds
record wins north of two hundred miles per hour right
there heading to a devastate Jamaica. Matthew twenty five ministries.
If you want a dollar to go to a charity
to go for relief, don't give it to a well United

(51:11):
Way because about fifteen cents on the dollar, and I
am joking a little bit will end up making it
to the charitable purpose that you're donating to. They have
a massive, massive bureaucracy. Salaries need to be paid. None
I need to pick on them, but you know that's
an illustration of a sizeable bureaucracy that needs to be funded,
which means a lot of your money doesn't go to
where you want it to go. Matthew twenty five ministries.

(51:32):
A dollar is a dollar pretty much effectively m twenty
five m dot org And apparently because they've done work
in Jamaica already in past years and prior disasters, They
already have the infrastructure set up, they had stuff on
the ground already, and they are prepared to help help
those folks who are desperately going to need your assistance.
So if you have charity in your heart and you're

(51:52):
worried about the folks that are going to be impacted
by this unbelievably strong hurricane, let me just suggest you
don't have to take my advice, but let me strong.
Let me suggest Matthew twenty five ministries again at M
twenty five m dot org. Over the local stories. Cincinnat
Police Department released a video showing the vandalism the Marty
Brenneman statue outside Great American Ballpark. Idiots doing idiot things anyway.

(52:16):
They started investigating the vandalism after they found damage to
the microphone that was attached to the statue. Police say
they have no further information, but are asking anyone with
information to call Detective Blank. He can be reached at
five one three three five two fifty four forty two,
or she is in case maybe no no initial name
on that, but five one three three five two fifty
four forty two or I'm guessing crimestoppers are three five

(52:40):
two thirty forty, but they got a video of the guy.
Or it could be a girl. A girl, I can't
quite tell. In this day and age, who really knows. Uh,
We've got a Ross Township to people facing charges after
a near crash escalated into a road rage assault. Of

(53:02):
course it did. Fifty one year old James Holbert Junior
and fifty year old Brian Gesner East Feaching facing multiple charges.
What happened on October twenty six, According to Ross Township Police,
four thirty pm, officers called a Lark Street in Cincinnati
Brookville Road for a road rage Inci. Then Holbrook, driving
a Ford F three point fifty on a suspended license,

(53:23):
nearly hit another vehicle. Verbal dispute began quickly evolved into
a physical confrontation. Fifty one year old Holbert returned to
his ford, grabbed a large piece of wood, then through
the wood, through then through the wood through the other
vehicle's window, hitting the victim in the head just away.

(53:46):
Considering this guy's childish actions, Joe, the way he acted
and responded, I don't think we're dealing with a large
piece of wood anyway. Hulbert and Guestner arrested later. Holbert's home.
Hilbert was being taken a jail police city, threatened to
kill an officer and shoot him in the face. Chief
Robert Gerhart commented, we will not tolerate this type of

(54:08):
violent behavior in Ross Township. If you threaten to harm
our officers in any way, we will seek the maximum
prison sentence possible. Colbert charged with aggravated assault, aggravated menacing,
criminal damaging, driving under license suspension. Ross Township Police didn't
explain what Gesner did during the road rage incident, but
said he was cited for assault and wrongful entrustment of

(54:29):
a motor vehicle six point thirty five. Right now fifty
five KR see the talk station. What is going on?
Dwell tomorrow the talk station. Hey, six forty years fifty
five care CEV talk station. You're gonna hear from you
in another since a council candidate. After the top of
the air news, dondry House joined the program Charter Committee candidate,

(54:51):
you do have options other than Democrats. We got an
empower you summon our Rejie Van Fleet. She lived in
China during the Cultural Revolution and she is frightened for
Hi America wrote a book about it. Mouths America a
survivor's Warning seven point thirty. For that, get some initial
details about the seminar that's taking place. Daniel Davis steep
dive at eight thirty, and then Senator John Houston we'll
talk about the shutdown with the Senator coming up at

(55:13):
the end of the eight o'clock hour. Phone calls are
always welcome here and something I'm totally excited about. I'm
finally going to see it in my lifetime. This is
something I brought up many times before, as everyone in
my listening audience knows painfully aware. I don't believe carbon
dioxide is a pollutant. I don't believe our efforts and
chasing our tails and try to eliminate carbon dioxide from
the manufacturing processes in anyplace else that produces carbon dioxide

(55:35):
does any wits worth of good for the world. It
may exacerbate other pollutants, but it isn't a pllutant. And
the answer to the problem. If you believe in carbon
dioxide is a pollutant and you want to get rid
of it, what is the answer to unlimited energy supply
with zero carbon output? Yes, it's nuclear of power. Are
we ever going to get it? Our lords and masses

(55:56):
have said for no, years and years and years, as
we decarbonize and we get rid of nuclear plants at
the same time, which seems to be the dumbest, dumbest
thing ever. Why are we closing these plants and why
don't people wake up to modern technology? Well, finally talking
about this was my submarin or friend submarine a friend

(56:16):
cribbage Mike. Yes, nuclear power has been running America's military
ship since the late nineteen fifties without a single incident.
Small nuclear reactors producing a bunch of power. Now welcome
and fast forward to twenty twenty five, and the idea
of small modular reactors has existed for a while. They
are truly amazing. You don't have to worry about waste.
You certainly don't have any carbon output. They put out

(56:36):
an abundance of power. And who's going to bring them
to us? I've initially said it's going to be artificial intelligence. Look,
a dormant nuclear plant in Iowa ploys to power Google's
energy needs. Google needs power, So yesterday they announced his
partnering with next Era Energy to reopen a previously shuttered
nuclear plant called the Dwayne Arnold Energy Center. It closed

(56:57):
five years ago after damage from a windstorm. Well, Google
has a pre existing plan in this particular case. It's
going to spend some money reopen it, and it's going
to use the electricity which never stops. Plant's going to
provide over six hundred megawatts of nuclear energy for not
just Google, for the regional grid, meaning that citizens are

(57:20):
going to also benefit from this private company's investment in
its own power needs a spillover effect. Will anybody stand
in Google's way and opening this Hell, no guarantee they won't.
They're well connected. You and I apparently are not well
connected enough to get a constant source of electricity in
our world, ie a small modular nuclear reactor, which I'm

(57:40):
pivoting over to right now. Army, the nation's military are
pivoting to enhance their resiliency to powering their bases with
nuclear power. Doctor Jeff Walks Waksman, Principal WUT, Assistant Secretary
the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment. We've got one

(58:03):
of those said, what resilience means to us is that
we have power no matter what. Twenty four to seven,
now the American military can make a statement about that,
and the vast majority of people go, well, that's a
good idea. Our threats never go away. Our threats are
twenty four to seven. Shouldn't the American military run twenty
four to seven? Absolutely? But if the American military needs

(58:25):
to run twenty four to seven, shouldn't we should we?
The American people worry about brownouts and rolling blackouts because
we don't make enough electricity, a problem that could be
solved by the approval the prompt, speedy approval of small
modular reactors. I guarantee you the military is going to

(58:46):
do it. They have a new program, the Janus Army Program.
The Army's plan directs the Department of War to commence
operation of an Army regulated nuclear reactor at domestic military installations.
Are you ready no later than September thirtieth, twenty twenty eight,
three years, three years and in advance of an election.

(59:17):
And they're saying that any additional power generated at the
base will be shared with the local communities, which is
where all the military people live. You got to have
the energy going on within the confines of the base,
But what about all the personnel who live outside of
the base. That was a point that was noted and

(59:41):
it's pretty amazing. Let's see here, energy resilience, the core
of this Janus program. Currently power resiliency is currently one
hundred percent fossil fuels right now, see look at their
fossil fuel energy production. For the exact reason I stated,
American military should not sleep, it should not rest. The

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threats exist twenty four to seven, so they're looking for
obviously a better and more reliable get a load of this.
The micro reactors that Janus will seek to deploy will
be what commercial industry refers to as Generation four, are
so called passive reactors. Here's the fun fact information, folks.

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By design, they cannot melt down. So people who are
screaming about three mile island in the radio, sorry, modern technology,
they can't melt down. They utilized low enriched uranium, which
is about five percent enrichment, unlike what the Iranians were
going for, which was what ninety five percent? Oh, they
want to make a bomb with that. You don't need
to enrich uranium that much to have nuclear power, but

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in this particular case, the passive reactor only needs five
percent enriched uranium. These power plants generally not higher than
twenty megawatts each, but even so they'll offer surplus power
which could protect actually provide energy resiliency to local communities.
I love that phrase energy resiliency, something that I think

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we're all worthy of and that we should be entitled to.
We're the most powerful, successful country the planet has ever known,
and we built this technology. We know how to make
it so in the process right now, this Janus Plan,
they are teaming up with a variety of different vendors
out there. They're going to phase it in. They're going
to select from these vendors, they're going to see who
can scale the production of these one size fits all

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things that produce abundance of power and no carbon. Seems
to me our problems are solved. So on the private side,
you've got multi billion dollar corporations which will most assuredly
get their energy source. We got to have AI to
compete in the world. And on the military side, of course,
they're going to get what they want because they have
since the nineteen fifties been able to power all their
ships with nuclear plants, demonstrating they can be reliable and safe.

(01:01:54):
You know, I go through this and I wonder, why
in the hell do we have to have this damned conversation.
Why what is the motive behind these crazy green nutcases
to say no nuclear power the ultimate answer to their problems.
This is why I always conclude it's something extremely nefarious

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going on behind the scenes. They don't want us to
have an abundance of power. An abundance of affordable energy, unlimited,
reliable energy twenty four to seven never going to go out,
means prosperity. It means abundance, of course, translates oftentimes to consumption.
And I really have always thought that this whole green
crap was about consumption because they view humanity as a

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bunch of cockroaches ruining the entire planet. Six forty eight
right now, ify five kers detalk station. Feel free to
compute six two fifty five cars de talk station. You're
going to jump to the phone. Just one more quick
quote from this Deputy Assistant Secretary for Army Installations on nukes. Quote.
Unless you're in one of the few places in the
world where geothermal is viable, or you have a damn nearby,

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your only choices are nuclear or fossil fuel. At this time,
there's just no ability to have a grid that works
solely on solar and wind and batteries at this point, amen, brother,
and you can take that and apply it to the
rest of the world. Let's see what Jim's got. Jim,
thanks for calling. Happy Tuesday.

Speaker 6 (01:03:20):
Good morning, Brian, Happy Tuesday. You got it. It's nefarious.
These people are uneducated and they've been scared by these
rufty leonies that want to control everything. We have power.
They can't control us.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Amen. I couldn't agree more. It's got to be right.
That's got to be all there is to it. Because
nuclear is safe. It doesn't produce carbon, it doesn't produce
waste anymore, and it can't melt down. Where's the problem
with it?

Speaker 6 (01:03:46):
Because it's the fossil fuels. I mean, the nuclear fuel
is already there. It's in the ground. I had my
house in Sewing when I left, had right on in
the basement because what the king, yeah, held over here
in Claremont County radium in the basement. Why you can'tium

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in the soil. It is just there. We're not making
your stuff up, We're just.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
Using it exactly. And it's only five percent and rich
so you know that's done an controlled environment. But five
percent in Richmond is nothing like you know, nuclear weapon
technology or that kind of thing. So yeah, you have
to reach that conclusion. Jim, I have never heard anything
that can satisfy my curiosity over the anti nuke green folks.

(01:04:31):
It does. You can't reconcile the positions at all. Appreciate
Jane pile On man.

Speaker 6 (01:04:39):
An only Jane and Jack Lemon in that movie back
in the seventies, China Syndrome.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
It did. But we're not talking about that kind of reactor.
It's it's fusion reactors, not fission reactors or vice versa.
I get the too confused, but the world is a
different place from when they built three Mile Island. That's
not the kind of nuclear reactors we're even talking about
building the footprint that it takes acres and acres and
acres miles literally miles of space to have one of

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those reactors function and operate. You don't need it with
a small modular reactor. They can put them in a submarine,
for God's sake, and that's the old school kind anyway.
But they can build them within a nuclear within a
military base apparently, and they certainly could build them. Hell,
I've offered my backyard as an option. No one's taking
me up. On it. But that's how much I have
faith in the small modular reactor, small footprint, massive energy production, safe, reliable, abundant,

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unlimited power. Don Dreehouse, who's running as a Charter candidate
for Cincinni City Council. Don, Welcome to the Morning Show.
It's great to have you on today, Brian.

Speaker 5 (01:05:51):
Thanks for having me, and I appreciate the opportunity.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
I like your message. I've just some of my listeners
know if they want to check out your website, Don Dreehouse,
do you or I E H A U S for
Cincinnati dot org. You're running on a well, keep it simple,
back to the basis kind of campaign. We can't. We
should fix what's both broken and build some trust and
bring about some real results for residents. I appreciate all that.

(01:06:16):
Do you feel as though the sin city the city
has bitten off more than it should be chewing on
in terms of what it thinks that it can accomplish
and what it's trying to do.

Speaker 5 (01:06:23):
Don, Yes, And in fact, I think we the city
government itself, needs to get refocused, just like you know
we're saying we think that you know, paving the streets
has become a big issue. Here and in cleaning up
the litter and dealing with public safety. Those are three
key issues and they need to be focused on first.

(01:06:44):
And I think the word first is where I was
in College Shill the other night and somebody said, you know,
talking about this and that, but they said, you know,
first is what the city needs to do. It needs
to do the basic first. Then you can kind of
expand your presence. But there's all kind of opportunity of
these to deal with deeper issues. But right now the
city seems to be lost and heading in multiple directions.

(01:07:06):
We need to get refocused on our core, you know,
the core issues with the city and what the city
should be bringing to the table.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Well, every time there's a ribbon cutting ceremony where I
have to have Purvall shows up, I just look at
it like it's a new skate park or it's a
new fill in the blank that the taxpayers paid for.
My immediate reaction, I think is along the lines of
the way you're thinking, Wait a second, these roads behind
me haven't been paved or touched for years. The city
looks terrible. There's garbage everywhere, or lots of places that

(01:07:36):
whole broken windows, philosophy is being ignored. We let the
neighborhood deteriorate, crime increases, but look, we got a new
skate park that we have to take and maintain on
a going forward basis. They've forgotten the maintenance and upkeep
component of seemingly everything that they've already took, they've already built.

Speaker 5 (01:07:52):
Don I could agree with you more. I live in
Pray Hill. I've been actively engaged with the prey Sell
Safety Committy Action Team for sixteen years and when we
pick up cash, we get out with kids and we
work on the weekends and we do the work. And
yet we're constantly cleaning the same sites that were good intentions.

(01:08:13):
For example, there's a top lot upon Warsaw which is
a great little spot and you know, twenty years ago
was out there with great fanfare and now it's just
turned into a unfortunately a haven for you know, in essence,
people that are addicted to drugs and you know, low
level crime and it's not real well maintained, and we

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maintain it. So it's you know, when you got volunteers
in the street who end up taking care of good intentions,
that's a lot of pressure and burden on a community.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Well, I have to give you props for caring don
And I suppose if there were, you know, residents within
each of the neglected communities that actually stepped up to
the plate and demonstrated their care and concern for their
own communities, maybe the city would look a lot better
than it currently does. But not an approval to you
perceptions about city council, and it's just ignoring these growing problems.

(01:09:05):
I mean, who among us can say the roads in
the City of Cincinnati are well maintained or taken care
of even remotely. I got to say, actually ask this
out loud on the heels of my conversation earlier in
the program about nuclear power being the answer to all
of our energy demand needs have to have Parvoll I
believe was quoted as saying something along the lines of
he views everything that lands on his desk as mayor

(01:09:25):
of the City of Cincinnati initially through the green lens.
In other words, as if the City of Cincinnati could
take some sort of decarbonization efforts and apply it to
whatever project is being done and have some impact globally
on climate I personally, you don't need to agree with me.
Dondree House I personally find that to be almost comical,
if not actually comical. Given the insignificant amount of carbon

(01:09:48):
we might put out in the city relative to entire
countries whose carbon negation efforts have been blown away by
China's output of carbon. We cannot we cannot do a
thing about it. Why are we even trying?

Speaker 5 (01:10:01):
Don your reaction, you know, I again, it seems a
little inflated to be worrying about global warming and global
issues if we're not even paving our streets. And as
far as I'm concerned, you know, it's it's a noble thought,
but I kind of listen to people talking about, you know,

(01:10:24):
growing gardens in the city and doing all these nice things.
I'm more concerned about keeping the krog grow open in
Price Hell. All right, that's what's important. We need to
keep our businesses open, and that involves public safety and
cleanliness and in essence, curve appeal in all of our neighborhoods.
If our businesses are struggling, if we're having if we're

(01:10:45):
struggling with low level criminal activity, if we're struggling with
base again, the basic services that the city should be providing,
then guess what these global thoughts that are way out there.
They don't make any sense because they're not real. It's
it's kind of like Maslov's you know, pyramid of needs.

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If you can't if you can't pave the streets, and
you can't do the basics first, I don't care about
the philosophy at the top. If the reality at the
bottom is bad, that's not the way it should work.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
Amen, brother, Can I get a campaign pledge from your
downdry House that you'll see that Sunset gets paved. I'm
not sure. Since you're a West Side you may experience
the war torn reality of that road on a more
regular basis than I do. But it's become a poster
child for me in dealing with neglect. That road's been
in that shape for years and years now.

Speaker 5 (01:11:39):
We plant the planners, we go down there and work
on Sunset. I'm very familiar, and I agree. I have
to say something. I was the other evening, I was
out in Kennedy Heights and I was lost in Kennedy Heights.
It was dark, and so I'm going down Kennedy Avenue
to their community meeting, and even Kennedy Avenue is just

(01:11:59):
it looks like ashell. I mean, you're rattling along. It's
all over the place. And I walked in and I
was building one there, you know, running for council. And
we talked for a minute with the group, and all
I had to do is say, Kenny Ebny is a mess.
And they were nodding their head, going yeah, sure is.
And it's like okay, So all the things we can

(01:12:19):
talk about, but we can't get Kennedy Avenue paid in
Kendy Heights, just like Sunset on the west side those
and that can be across the city. I mean, you
see that example across the city, and that's the first
one of the first items that need to be addressed.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
Well. Being a longtime resident of the Price Hill area,
I guess you've noticed the neighborhood has changed quite a
bit over the past maybe ten fifteen years. What are
the residents in Price Will say about the nature of
the changes there and are they happy with the leadership
that we've had, which has been under Democrat control I
believe for the last forty years.

Speaker 5 (01:12:57):
Well, you know the old line, there's not a political
way to pick up the garbage. I think the problem
in Price Hill, and I've been active on the Tuning
councilor and the Safety group for years. We just feel neglected.
I mean it's you know, the West Side just kind
of feels like we've taken on the brunt of a
lot of social issues and a lot of issues over

(01:13:17):
the last twenty years, and I've been actively engaged with it.
So there's a real feeling of ambivalence that city Hall
has not been paying attention, and when they do pay attention,
they don't really give us any real answers. I mean,
you know, I look at it as if hey, guys,
you know, like you said, recent example, right here, we

(01:13:39):
have all these issues going on up here in the
streets and their idea of pandering at this point in
time is to dumple out of money into Dunham. Now
Dunham's great, don't get me wrong, it's a wonderful complex.
We meet down there, but it's down at the bottom
of Sunset. It's it's not a walking distance of anywhere
in the neighborhood. But if you start walking west a

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Street Lanway, you start walking Harrison Avenue, all of a sudden,
you're going, wait a minute, why do we need all that?
We want a pop shot down at Dunham when we
should be dealing with the in essence to yourpoint for
broken windows, they're all over the neighborhood, which you see
every day.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
That's a good point about the walking nature of Dunham.
I'm very familiar with that. And yeah, there isn't an
easy way to get there in terms of walking.

Speaker 5 (01:14:25):
Yeah, I run, and they've talked about putting a pathway
through the cemetery to get the Dunham I'm looking at
that going is that really a priority. I mean, it's
it's interesting, but it's you know, and I run, I'll
run down there, and I'm like, but I don't know
how many other people are going to run from the
top of the hill to the bottom of helm back.
I mean, only crazy old people like me do that.

(01:14:47):
And I'm like, you know, I just don't know if
that's really something that's important or at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
Well, see, you're you're talking logical and reasonable along the
lines that I've always said. Everybody has a list of
things they want from government, everybody, and it's always different.
But some responsible person has to be the adult in
the room to prioritize the most important things. And I'm
with you all day long. Roads. Infrastructure should be a

(01:15:15):
top priority. The skateboard park can wait. When we get
the roads fixed, then we'll start talking about that. But
we've got to do what the work. You've got to
do the work that needs to be done to make
people satisfied so they can live, drive, thrive, and and
and better their communities in other ways. I'm gonna stop
and to bring it back. It's Dondree House for Cincinnati
dot orgs his website. I'm gonna go, but a little
bit of his background because some really great background in

(01:15:37):
terms of skill sets that I think are talk station
seven fifty five KCIT talk station Happy Tuesday. Election Tuesday's
next Tuesday. You have a choice. You don't have to
run on the same path. The definition of stupidity is
doing the same thing over and over again expecting a
different result. And if you're not happy with the way
the city is currently run, and Dondree House seems to

(01:15:59):
be a man who is not happy way the city's run,
maybe go a different path. Dondry House for Cincinnati dot
orgers where you'll find his campaign website. Don you have
a background I think is really beneficial to the City
of Cincinnati. If you're elected a financial background.

Speaker 5 (01:16:16):
Yes, I worked thirty years in the financial industry. I
started out with Gradison, which was one of the original
brokerage burns in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:16:27):
Yeah, I started there in nineteen ninety. I literally, I
have to say, prior to that, I kind of ran
the Bloomin Saloon, so you know that was back in
the day, and you're old enough to remember the two
in Hyde Park and over on the West Side I started. Yeah.
So I have a long and varied career starting at

(01:16:48):
the age of twelve, and I had, you know, worked
on the river everything else. But yes, when I was thirty,
I went to work with Gradison and pretty much spent
the next twenty nine thirty years working in finance. And
it was, you know, is very profitable career and also
you learn a lot. You're constantly learning. You constantly have
to stay up on the trends of what's going on,
you know, in the world economy, in the market. And

(01:17:11):
by the time I was finished, I was doing institutional
investing for Cincinnati Financial and I managed to I don't know,
I mean it's a number of about a four or
five billion dollars on portfolio. We had sixteen billion dollar portfolio.
At the time, I was handling a lot of corporate space.
And if you're looking at interest rates today, you're looking
at corporate spreads or what's going on in the economy.

(01:17:32):
It's a good way to gauge, you know, a much
bigger number of what's happening, you know, in the economy.
But it's been a couple of years since I used
to track breads, and I used to work in the
you were talking about energy. I was in the energy sector,
so we used to follow call and gas and nuclear
and you saw the rigs and the like where it
would impact the credit rating or the credit and you

(01:17:56):
also had to be very careful about, you know, how
you were investing, because there would be situations where, for example,
there was there was a utility out of Illinois that
in essence came in and broke up their holding company
and left the bondholders with the debt and they split
off equity to the investors, and we were stuck with

(01:18:17):
a bad investment. At that point. They were shuttering coal plants,
you know, and they used they used a parliamentary trick
or a legal trick to stick it to the bondholders.
So you know, you're familiar with some of these, you know,
I am kind of familiar with how things work behind
the scenes when it comes to the rigs, and you

(01:18:37):
just have to keep an eye on it. That's all
there is.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Tondres were we pot comedy. I needed a word or
two on the situation involving crime, ignoring the issues regarding
the police chief and where that takes us. What is
your perception of crime in the city of Cincinnati and
what would Councilman Dondrey House to do about it? If anything.

Speaker 5 (01:18:56):
Well, first off, let's talk about the chief. I think
she's a scapebouit at this point. I think, you know,
running the chief with the flag poll is bad. Look,
and it was. It's bad.

Speaker 11 (01:19:05):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
The policies that were laid out there about three or
four years ago was more of a hands off approach
to what's going on at the street level, and I
don't think that works. We need to do the basics,
you know. Again, they need to write traffic tickets, We
need to deal with litter, we need to we need
to deal with, you know, the day to day issues. Now,
the problem we have with booth, the Cincinnati Police Force

(01:19:27):
and the fire Department or the calls for service are
out of control. Okay, and right now as we know,
the police compliment is down about twenty percent, and it's
going to take three to four years to rebuild the
ranks if they do it, because you have retirements that
are going to supersede or exceed, you know, the ability
to train new officers. But I'm going to go back

(01:19:50):
to the fireside of this. I went up to Station
twenty four here in Price Hill and spoke with the
gang of their and over fifty eight period, they had
one hundred and seventy eight calls for service for manned
down slash overdoses. Okay, that's one firehouse fifty days. Every
one of those calls for service costs approximately eighteen hundred

(01:20:12):
dollars a pop. So I'm going do the math there.
Take it across the city, and you have a huge
amount of money we're spending on calls for service. With
fire and police compliments going out every time, you're draining
the ability for the responders to do their job, and
it's breaking them around. And what you need to do

(01:20:34):
is say, hey, I do believe in place based type
of focus. We have AI, we have technology, we have
heat maps, so you can go in and say, Okay,
we've got four sights right here, one around me, right
around the corner on Greenwell, active drug dealing for problems
for months, if not years. We know who it is,
we know the property is problem. We've had a landlord

(01:20:57):
on the grill that nobody's see seems to be able
to get the results we want. And I'm saying, who's
the landlord there? You are paying into this property, Who's
who's dealing with it, and let's charge them. Forget the
criminal side of this. Yeah, we should be charging owners
and providers that are free riding on city services. That's

(01:21:18):
my take on it. It's like once you start putting
a search charge on calls for service for people that
are abusing the system, they'll start cleaning up the problems
on their own.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Don Dreehouse for Cincinnati dot orgs where you find Don's
campaign web page. Got one week to make your decisions.
I strongly encourage my listeners to take a look what
Don is saying on his website, but also what he
had to say here on the fifty five KC Morning Show.
Don sounds good to me, my friend. I wish you
all the best, and if you are elected. I pray
that you help can help steer the Cincinnati City of Cincinnati,
that we all love in a better direction. Best luck

(01:21:51):
as we fit. Quickly moved forward to next Tuesday, my friend,
good to have you on the show today, don local stories.
We got two women, one injured, one man in jail.
This after a shooting in Warren County happened yesterday afternoon.
Warren County Sheriff's Office says deputies were dispatched to the
shooting intersection at Lytel and Ferry Road and Wayne Township
just about one pm. Two women took taken to the

(01:22:12):
hospital with non life threatening injuries. Thirty one year old
Noah Brandon Column Bays He's from Piqua, Ohio, arrested for
the shooting, being held in the Miami County jail pending extradition.
They charged with two Countsilfloronia assault, two hundred thousand dollars bond. Clearly,
this did not happen in Hamilton County. Peaceful city. That's

(01:22:36):
what we've got here. Oh no, maybe not. Investigation underway
after shots were fired in the vicinity of well in
vicinity of the police wood Burn Avenue in Madison Road
in Niese Walnut Hills, three forty five yesterday afternoon. Oh, morning, God,
thank god. Not that it makes it any better, but
I would expect it in the morning. It was in
the morning yesterday. Anyway. Police had to block multiple roads

(01:22:58):
in the area, including Madison Road a Victory Parkway, before
reopening about ninety minutes later, deployed drones. They had a
canine unit out searching for a possible suspect described as
ready this this guy got'd be easy to capture. Ready
quote a black man in a red jacket. Close quote.

(01:23:19):
You know who I'm talking about, don't you, Joe? We
all do. Anyway, this guy heading southbound on Madison Road.
Police vehicle is also seen going up an I seventy
one between MLK and Downtown searching for the suspects vehicle
that may have fled the area. According to initial emergency
communication reports, I suppose you have any information on this
crime Stoppers three five two thirty forty. Well, they got

(01:23:42):
what should be an award winner from our fifty five
KRC Morning Show award Winnings song in the morning five
o'clock hour for that one normally today sinceint Police Department
had released a video showing the vandalism of the Marty
Brenneman statue outside of a Great American ballpark. They investigated

(01:24:02):
the act of vandalism happened on Sunday. They found a
damage to the microphone that was attached to the Brennemant statue.
Police said they have no further information, but they would
like you to see the video because the person should
be easily identifiable. Check it out and then give either
Detective Blank a call at three five two fifty four
forty two, or called the non emergency line or I'm

(01:24:25):
thinking crime Stoppers three five to two thirty forty. I'm
sure they'll take your tip and maybe they'll read to
the arrest of this creep. Heay, you wonder how I
feel about that. Two people facing charges after a crash
escalated into a road rage assault. Here we go. James
Holbert fifty one years old, junior, I should say, making
dad proud. Brian Guessner fifty years old, now facing multiple charges.

(01:24:49):
Happened on October twenty six. Ross Township Police say four
thirty in the afternoon, officers called a Lark Street in
Cincinnati Brookville Road for a road rage incident. Hulbert driving
his Ford three point fifty on a suspended license, nearly
hit another vehicle. A verbal dispute began, then it evolved
into a physical confrontation. Fifty one year old Holbert returned

(01:25:11):
in his truck, grabbed a large piece of wood, according
to the township police, and through the wood through the
other guy's vehicle, hitting the victim in the head. Hulbert
and Gesner arrested later at Hulbert's home, which I find
it really weird both of them were there anyway. Hulbert
being taken to jail, the police said that he threatened
to kill an officer and shoot him in the face,

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prompting Chief Robert Gerhart to point out, we will not
tolerate this type of violent behavior in Ross Township, and
if you threaten to harm our officers in any way,
we will seek the maximum prison sentence possible. That sentence
will be maybe being convicted of aggravated assault. He's been
charged with that, aggravated menacing, criminal damaging, and driving under
a licensed suspension. Ross Township Police didn't explain by Gesner

(01:25:55):
what Gesner did during the road rage incident, but they
said he was cited for assault and wrongful entrustment of
a motor vehicle. Bil frael I got Carl on the line. Carl,
you'll be up first soon as I return. After mentioning
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we're gonna hear not bright bart insights scoop that we
get the Daniel Davis deep dive at eight thirty bright
bird kind of mi I A this morning. Anyway, Let's
see what Carl's got. Carl, thanks for calling this morning,
Thanks for holding over the break, and welcome to the
morning show.

Speaker 10 (01:26:32):
Yeah, you're you're one person. It was supposed to be
on about the Chinese thing.

Speaker 8 (01:26:39):
I took my wife to the Holocaust down at Union
Termal yesterday. If people wanted an idea what would go on?
That would be the place to take your kids and
people down here to see that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
A strong recommendation for that, that Holocaust Center for hum
Uh Humanities, and it is an amazing place. Did you
it's it's did you did you get a sense, because
here's my strange reaction. Sarah Ways used to run the
UH the Holocaust Museum before it had moved locations, and

(01:27:18):
I went in and I was surprised. How I think
that may be a wrong word, but uplifting it was.
You didn't walk out feeling like you were depressed and
the world's just miserable place. It provided you, uh, some
measure of positivity that balanced out the horror that was
the Holocaust? Is it is it still doing that kind

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of thing?

Speaker 8 (01:27:41):
This is this came from Germany and it was up
in Canada, and this is calm down here to Cincinnati.
And then the nice thing is this is the nice
thing is that they're bringing high school students in for free.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
Oh okay, so this is a different exhibit. I am sorry,
I kind of.

Speaker 10 (01:28:03):
Exhibits.

Speaker 8 (01:28:03):
Okay, this is totally different and it is eye opening,
uh about what happened. But you're also with today's some
things going on in the Middle East and everything else.
It makes you think that it happened to the Jews,

(01:28:25):
but it can happen to UH, Christians and everybody else
that doesn't want to believe the rhetoric that's going on.

Speaker 2 (01:28:35):
Isn't that the truth?

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
And you see about the oppression of Christians in a
whole lot of country and countries. And we're fortunate, of
course here because we have guaranteed free exercise of religion
clause in the Constitution, that Testy Constitution, Really, Carl, that
is the only thing that stands in the way of
us becoming something like I don't know, Mao's cultural revolution

(01:28:58):
kind of country. You know, we have all these people reporting,
and it goes both ways, both sides the political spectrum,
but the internet. You know, somebody says something and immediately
get docks by these countless numbers of people. You're not
towing the party line, You're a heretic, You're you're the
one in outing you and all of that. That's a
lot like what we know with Nazi Germany. Right, you
had the brown shirts running around. People would turn in

(01:29:19):
their own moms and dads to the Nazi Party if
they disagreed with the party philosophy, right, and.

Speaker 8 (01:29:26):
It chews you how they took the not only the Jews,
but it took the Russian soldiers and the gay population
and people with handicap and everything else.

Speaker 10 (01:29:44):
That's why we need to come to the gas chambers.

Speaker 2 (01:29:47):
That's why we need to study history so we avoid
making the mistakes of the past and unleashing the horrors
of the past. Good call, man. Do you know how
long the exhibits are going to be there?

Speaker 10 (01:29:58):
I think it's going to be there until April and.

Speaker 2 (01:30:01):
It's and again it's.

Speaker 10 (01:30:02):
Where at the Natural History Museum, the Union Internal.

Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
Union Ternal Natural History Museum. A strong encouragement for my
listeners get out there and do what Carl did. Carl,
thanks for bringing that to my attention, because I think
I feel like I'm gonna check that one out as well.
Thanks brother, have a great day. Hey, Mark, You're next.
Don't go away. I'm gonna be right back. I got
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to forty five overnight. Another slight chanceer rain, cloudy all
day tomorrow with the highest fifty rain very likely forty
four overnight with more rain and rain will continue on
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Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
J F fifty five KR CD talk stations. Oh yeah,
there it is three smiley faces from Jeff who took
my advice, went to cover cis over to the pods. Mark,
thanks for calling this morning, Welcome to the Morning Show.
Happy Tuesday to you, sir.

Speaker 10 (01:31:31):
Hey, good morning, Ray Hey.

Speaker 11 (01:31:33):
I just wanted to make a good comment regarding h
Toresadichi so as a hem, and I really want to
feel bad for the whole situation her, you know, being
put out as the front man for this whole situation.
So at the same time, I think back just a
few months ago, I think she was directly asked by

(01:31:55):
the media when some other stuff was going on as
she supported the policy the.

Speaker 6 (01:32:01):
Uh AS task.

Speaker 11 (01:32:02):
Yes, and she came out and conequivalently said, oh, I
stand by it. This is this is my policy. We're
we're doing what we believe is best. This is this
is what I think we ought to do. And now
now look at her, so it's it's kind of hard
not to kind of you know, I think, well, you know,
it's it's kind of nice watch and that meets her arm.

Speaker 2 (01:32:23):
But having a little shot in freudy experience, are you Mark,
I'm with you. The purval and picked her over the
objections of the police department. They didn't want her, they
specifically told her, but nonetheless it was like the next
day they went ahead and appointed Teresadiji as chief. They
have the ability to do that thanks to Issue five.

(01:32:44):
Nobody else gets to say in the matter. She obviously
was doing what they wanted to do. She was in
good standing with the administration up until a couple of
weeks ago, and that's when they decided they needed an
escapegoat for the obvious crime problem that was going on.
And this this resulted in their selection of police chief
being put on an unpaid administrative leave so they can
hire a law firm to investigate her and her actions,

(01:33:07):
including h determining whether her leadership was within the context
I'm reading now city government, including by furthering the broader
goals and objectives of the city administration. She said she
was supporting the city administration, which what ultimately led to
her being let go sort of kind of and now
leads to an investigation so they can go through her
entire background as police chief to see they can find

(01:33:28):
anything untoward that would justify her being let go for
following the directors of a to provall and Cheryl Long,
she's being let go because she did I guess perception
wise she did a lows e job with crime because
she did what they told her to do.

Speaker 7 (01:33:44):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
This is a circular firing for a circular firing squad. Yeah,
that's law. Firms should have been hired to look into
Cheryl Long and have to have provoll and what they
Directeddigi to do. But you know what, maybe they will, Yeah,
after exercising some measure of independence, maybe they will. I
appreciate that, Mark, You obviously have your eye on the ball. Yeah,
and this is puzzling as well. I started the morning

(01:34:07):
show talking about this. Council members they since I your
Fox nineteen were reporting blindsided by the announcement of the
retention of this law firm to investigate police Chief Diji
Frost Brown Todd's Columbus office is hired, and counsel of
Walsh speaking with Fox nineteen saying, we barely got more

(01:34:28):
of a heads up than you Fox nineteen did regarding
the Frost Frost Brown Todd hiring. We're using a source
of funds that we don't know what the source is
that doesn't need counsel's approval. So he's swirling with questions
about where this money's coming from. And apparently according to
the agreement with the law firm, it says the maximum

(01:34:50):
compensation will be forty thousand dollars with the contract tentatively
ending December thirty first. Now I laughed about that, because
is how can anybody know how much investigation needs to
be done and how much work it's going to be
with their law firm billable rate being between four to
twenty five per hour and down to two hundred and

(01:35:10):
fifty dollars per hour, I suppose, depending on whether a
partner or associates working on it. But how can you know,
possibly in advance, that the work can be done for
forty thousand dollars or less, and by that time frame,
here's what they've been retained to do. Determine if the
chief has been an effective leader and manager of the
City Police Department, including personnel and resources. I suppose they're

(01:35:35):
going to talk to the police officers. Determinive Fiji's leadership
was within the context of city government, including by furthering
the broader goals and objections of the city administration. Well,
the city administration's made up a bunch of defund the
police and reimagine the police, and let's get some community
activists out there assisting the police. Let's hire Iris Rowley,

(01:35:56):
who hates the police. We all know what the objectives
of the city administration are. So she probably was furthering
the broader goals and objectives of the city administration. Anyway,
Number three determined ive Thigi has committed any infraction or
policy violation while serving as police chief. So they got
four years of background review that she has never had

(01:36:16):
a black mark on her record. From all accounts, there
has never been a criticism of Fiji. Mayor have to have.
Par Ball was supporting her in her efforts as recently
as several weeks ago, until he realized that crime was
actually a problem. The City of Cincinnati residents know about it.
He's got an election coming up and he's got to
do something, so let's well put Fiji on administrative leave. Now,

(01:36:37):
that doesn't mean she has clean hands, As I guess mentioned,
If she's doing what par Ball and Long says she
should do, and she believes it was in against best
practices for the police department, then maybe there's a problem there.
But I think the problem circles back to pear Ball
and Long and finally the law while the law firms
also going to determine if she has disregarded best practices,

(01:37:02):
speaking of which in the running of the Sinci Police
Department to the detriment of public safety and crime prevention.
So there's your agenda items for the Frost Brown Law firm.
Leaving the council members blindsided and scratching their heads and
asking a lot of questions that certainly weren't presented to
them or run by them before they went ahead and
hired this firm. Hey, you can vote next week seven

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I welcomed them and encourage them. We'll get to Daniel
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stick around.

Speaker 13 (01:37:34):
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Happy Tuesday. Try to make it so anyway, A little
less happy for me because I always enjoyed talking with
breit Bart. Today didn't get a bright or didn't reach

(01:38:00):
out to Strucker, or didn't get back to Strucker reasons unknown,
but feel pretty confidable we have him back. Next week
we will have Daniel Davis doin the deep dive at
bottom of the air with the former retire of the
retired Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis give it us analysis of
the latest on the Russia Ukraine War and what's going
on with Israel and Hamas. I still see can you
call it a ceasefire when they're shooting at each other? Anyway,

(01:38:22):
he'll have a common or two on that. I know
he always does. Eight po forty we're here from Senator
John Houston about the government shut down, and the big
News started out the program and that the largest union
of federal workers urging Congress yesterday brand new development here
to pass the CR that the Republicans passed in the
House before they went on recess, the Clean Funding Bill

(01:38:45):
that keeps funding levels brought Joe Biden era levels. Taking
any argument the dynam Democrats might have, you know, the
Congressman Massy argument, I'm not signing this because the CR
does not cut government valid point Antoniam is due on
that one. But the political strategy you keep it at
Biden levels. The Democrats can't complain and say the government

(01:39:06):
is being shut down because these evil draconi Republicans want
to cut funding from federal government so no one's getting paid. Now,
along come the Federal Workers Union, American Federation of Government Employees,
which represents I think it's eight hundred thousand government employees,
all demanding that well open the government up, pass the

(01:39:30):
Clean Funding Bill. Much of the Democrats chagrin because the
American Federation of Government Employees is usually a democratic ally.
But now that we're in four we send of the shutdown.
We have all these workers that have been furloughed, They're
now missing paychecks, and more and more damage is going
to happen every single day. This is, I suppose, what
the Democrats wants, although they're doing it their own political peril,

(01:39:53):
their own people are rebelling against them. Their own people
see through this nonsense that what the Republicans did was
strategically in terms of politics, pretty damn smart, and that
they own the shutdown. What complaint can you possibly have
when you're the one that established the funding levels last
year which will remain the same. You Democrats are the

(01:40:16):
ones that put the expiration date for the supplements that
you're complaining about in the original bill providing the supplements,
and then extended them with the deadline. Republicans had nothing
to do with that. You own that now. I know
your bubble was burst that Donald Trump got elected and
your favorite Gal Kamala Harris didn't, But that was an
obvious conclusion after you did what you did running Joe

(01:40:38):
Biden as president. So you're living with the mistakes that
you made. But because Donald Trump is president and you're
not in control, you can't extend them forever, which is
exactly what they planned on doing, creating this illusion that
Abonnacare was actually working by supplementing your premium payments, just
a gift directly to insurers out there in the medical providers. Anyhow, Well,

(01:41:02):
we'll see if that has any measure of any impact
on moving the Democrats to go ahead and do the
right thing, and let's get get on with business and
get back to the twelve appropriations bills, which honestly, I
don't think is going to happen given the limited amount
of time that we have under the current legislation that's
still being proposed. So we'll hear from Senator Houston on
that most recent development. What else, Oh, you know, may

(01:41:27):
as well just go ahead and jump into this because
it helps me conclude my thought.

Speaker 11 (01:41:31):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
Earlier I was on a rant, and it's all My
rant was built on the positive development that we are
going to see in a short period of time, at
least in political history and in terms of our what
lived experience we're going to live to see nuclear microreactors.
You have already the artificial intelligence giants, the googles of

(01:41:54):
the world's alphabet, et cetera, the billions of dollars wanting
to build their own small nuclear reactors to power their
own AI facilities, which is going to be wonderful for
any community which agreed to have one of these monstrosities built,
because you're probably going to be able to share in
the love that the nuclear power is going to provide
you efficient, clean, safe, abundant twenty four to seven power.

(01:42:18):
It's the answer in everybody's dream. Pivot over now, the
Army has released information about this Janus project that they're pursuing,
so each of the military bases will be independently powered
by their own micro nuclear reactors. It's pretty damn cool,
and they realize that, yes, American military faces threats twenty

(01:42:41):
four hours a day, seven days a week. Presently, our
bases are powered by fossil fuels unless they're close enough
to get unlimited hydro power or geothermal, which is not
the case in the vast majority of the location. So
let's get small reactors and power these nuclear bases. This
Janus project, which is the whole which was this was
Donald Trump's executive order. It's number one four to two

(01:43:02):
nine nine if you're interested in looking it up. Deploying
advanced nuclear reactor technologies for National security, and it directs
the Department of War to do these army regulated nuclear
actors at domestic military installations no later than September thirtieth
of twenty twenty eight, conveniently in advance of the presidential election.
But yeah, and they point out that neighborhood communities that

(01:43:25):
are close to the nuclear bases will be able to
share in the love of abundant, unlimited twenty four to
seven no rolling blackout electric power produced by the nuclear plants. Great, wonderful,
and it's safe. I love this. These generation four passive
reactors cannot melt down. They utilize low enriched uranium five

(01:43:50):
percent enrichment, and they generate about twenty megawatts per plant,
which is a fairly significant amount considering how small the
footprint is on these plants. So they point out this
could potentially provide energy resilience to local communities near the bases.
And I just had my hand up, going, how come
we don't get ours. I don't know that I'm necessarily

(01:44:10):
going to ever be living next to an AI plant
where the abundance of power might be given to be
sort of as a spillover effect of the artificial intelligence
giants getting their nuclear plants. I don't think I'm men
ever going to live next to a nuclear or next
to an army base where that might happen, And it's
going to happen fast track if we stay on this
three year more a three year window. But why can't

(01:44:31):
you and I, the unwashed masses have access to twenty
four to seven nuclear power? Well, because green and now
there's no answer to the question. They don't produce carbon dioxide,
they're safe, they don't melt down. There's no argument all
a three mile island that these plants aren't the answer
to every green alarmists moist dreams and then pivot over

(01:44:55):
to say, well, how come we just don't do wind turbines.
There's a brand new report out in Nature. There's a
whole bunch of ecologists. A group of them got together
and they revealed the effect of utility scale wind energy production,
which is unbelievable in terms of its devastation on the wildlife.
They point out that one million bats are killed in

(01:45:17):
countries with the highest number of turbines. Predators are also impacted, jaguars,
jungle cats, and golden jackals. They're bothered by the wind
turbines that these idiots have put up in tropical forests.
The researchers said the possibility of cascading effects of significant degradation.

(01:45:40):
Science team pointed out that these turbines can kill birds, bats,
and insects, change animal behavior. You may have read about
the whales behavior being impacted by these offshore developments, same
kind of thing physiologically and demography, altering the ecosystems. The
installation of these turbines invariably results in habitat d gradation,

(01:46:02):
and they point out its regions rich in biodiversity that
have the biggest impact. They suffer the most, these unspoiled
lands where these green alarmists want to build these big
windmill facilities and recognizing and knowing full well in advance
how much death they caused to the wildlife population. And
it was kind of an interesting point they made in

(01:46:23):
the reporting on this. You can check the Daily Skeptic
article by Chris Morrison just sort of breaking down what
this Nature article on the ecologist concluded. But he interjected,
remember BP's Deepwater Horizon one of the worst offsore oil spills. Ever.
This estimates vary, but it's thought to have led to
the deaths of around six hundred thousand seabirds and widespread

(01:46:47):
condemnation by environmentalists. Oh my god, the seabirds got oil
on it. Look, Oh my god, bring out the dawn
dishwashing liquid. Yeah, I won't argue that. I wouldn't buy
BP gasoline for years and years after that happen, and
a drunk captain ran a boat into the ground. That's unforgivable.
But nobody's paying an attention to the five hundred thousand

(01:47:11):
bats that are killed on shore in the United States
by wind turbines every single year. You know, there were
times when he read reports about oil companies and there
would be a bird that got oil on it, and
they would take a picture of it. They would find
the oil companies because of the degradation to the environment,
of the damage they were doing to the poor animals

(01:47:33):
out there in the world. Look a bird's been soiled
by oil. Look a bird's been chopped up by a
spinning wind turbine. Now we don't care about that. We
won't even talk about that. And that wind turbine not
providing you twenty four hour day, seven a week, unlimited power,
Inefficient yes, costly yes, in need of maintenance and repair, yes,
massive amounts of carbon and the production of windmills, Yes,

(01:47:54):
built by Chinese companies to the benefit of the Chinese
Communist Party, Yes, what's right with them? And horrific eye sores.
The people that complained about spoiling the unspoiled Aleskan wilderness
with this evil oil drill out there. Look over the
great state of Indiana and the thousands of windows you
gotta stare out as you're driving from here to eat.

(01:48:15):
I don't know Indianapolis or up to Gary, they're everywhere
and they look terrible. And by the way, on the
ground beneath all those windmills are countless birds and bats
that have been slaughtered by them. But that's okay. We're
supposed to put up with that. The amount of birds
that get fried in solar panel rays. They just took
down that Ivanho I think was the name of a

(01:48:36):
plant out west. Not only did it underperform, it never
did get full scale production. They spent literally hundreds of
millions of dollars building it, and when the birds would
fly through the array, they would fry at a thousand
degrees temperature. But the sun reflection, Yeah, that's environmentally correct.
This is nuts, folks, absolutely nuts. This glow global warming

(01:49:00):
carbon capture scam is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on mankind.
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(01:49:22):
Honor flight last one of the year. I strongly encourage listeners.
I've been pointing this out all morning, and I always
do when again an honor flight. I heard from my
submarine or friend Mike this morning. Was there seeing the
primarily Vietnam veterans and a handful of Korean war veterans
off this morning. He's probably in the air right now.
Lookin of a great day in Washington, DC. In spite
of the fact the government has shut down, unlike the

(01:49:43):
Obama administration, they're actually going to be able to see
their memorials. H interesting that see. If you don't put
a fence up, you have access to walk around. Interesting concept. Anyway,
Show up tonight at CBG if you're able to do so.
A couple of thousand people usually show up and it
is a well well worth the trip effort for you.

(01:50:04):
And if you have some young people in your world.
Please get him out there to see the American veterans
and it puts a smile on everybody's faces and a
much needed dose of healthy patriotism going on at CVG
tonight for the welcome home ceremony, so that Daniel Davis
deep dive coming over to the next segment. In the meantime,
I wanted to get this out there because your passwords
may have been exposed. Thank God for Tech Freddy's Dave Hatter,

(01:50:27):
and he just did a segment on passwords last Friday.
If you want to know how to do passwords better
when it comes to accessing your online material, listen to
the podcast at fifty five carecy dot com. He's brought
this topic up many many times, and I'd like to
thank all of my listeners at least got the message. Anyway,
there's been a massive leak just reported exposed more than

(01:50:48):
one hundred and eighty three million email passwords. I always
check these security breaches because yeah, I have had them happen,
But every time I read about one of these breaches,
well they they got your email address, they got your
physical address, your home address, and none of which I
care about because all of it's readily available on the
Internet anyway. Passwords, however, should not be and well represent

(01:51:11):
the biggest problem, and that's one of the problems we
have here. As Davis pointed out, let me guess you
have the same password for all of your accounts. Lots
and lots of people do. I mean, you know, don't
feel guilty if that's you. But that's the point. You shouldn't.
Password managers are apparently the key to the problem. But
this was three point five terabytes of data. It was

(01:51:34):
released online this month. According to the researcher who runs
a breach notification site called have I Been Poned? Pwned?
I spell it because that's where you need to go
to find out if your email address and any other
information has been stolen. Have I been poned pwnd dot com?
I did it this morning, and yeah I have been.

(01:51:55):
But then again I knew about it. I took the
liberty of typing in Jostreker's company address into it. He
has also been poned with twenty two data breaches, having
at least his email address. So check it out, and
the recommendation is, of course, change your password. So the
newest data set contained again one hundred and eighty three
million unique accounts, including roughly sixteen point four addresses million

(01:52:21):
addresses that had never been released in any other prior breach,
according to the researchers on this so if it's never
happened to you before, it may very well be that
this one has now landed your doorstep. Cord to the researchers,
most of the entries are recycled from older breaches, which
gives me some comfort, But millions of newly compromised Gmail
accounts were verified when affected users confirmed that existing passwords

(01:52:45):
still matched their active credentials. Apparently they can link your
old email address some prior breach and they got your password,
you're still using the same password. Bad idea. So this league,
apparently first detected in April, made public just last week,
covers not only Gmail data, but also log in information
for Outlook, Yahoo, and they say hundreds of other web services.

(01:53:11):
Hunt said the breaches did not involve a direct hack
of Google's Gmail. They said they didn't go through the
Big Guy. What they did was sent out malware onto
your computer that ultimately captured your login information like a
keystroke monitor or something. Again, going back to Dave Hatter,
be careful what you click on, but at least check

(01:53:32):
it out to see if you've had a data breach.
Haveiben poned dot com again poned his pwned? Maybe hearing
about this from Dave Hatter on Friday as well. Stick around,
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Show as always, my friend.

Speaker 13 (01:54:08):
Always great to be here, Brian, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:54:10):
Okay, little before we get to and I'm guessing this
has some connection with maybe some sort of peace negotiation
between Putin and the Ukrainian President's Lunsky. But Russia said
it had successfully tested its Burrovestnik cruise missile, described by
Moscow as being capable of piercing any defense shield. Donald

(01:54:31):
Trump responds by saying Hey, we do have nuclear submarine
or a nuclear submarine off your shore. Discussing the test
is inappropriate. Is this all posturing related to Russia Ukraine
or does this transcend that and involve more geopolitical global
issues between Russia and the United States.

Speaker 13 (01:54:49):
Yeah, this is this transcends it. It's it certainly is
related to it, but it also goes beyond it. And
this boro of Sthnik missile is this significant advance technologically,
and it just makes the job a lot more difficult
to you know, Trump's earlier this summer he talked about
wanting to have this big golden dome that would be

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this impervious shield that would protect us.

Speaker 2 (01:55:13):
It was never going to be the case.

Speaker 13 (01:55:14):
I mean, it's kind of an aspirational situation because the
technology of existing ICBMs and other kinds of hypersonic missiles,
the Rashnik they already are, we don't have the capability
to defend against any of those. This one adds a
new layer of complexity, So it's just another thing that
we couldn't intercept, and it certainly our missiles are the

(01:55:35):
same way for Russia. They can't intercept a majority of
our missile force either. Whether from a submarine or from
a silo or a bomber that we may fire, et cetera. Basically,
this just restates what already exists. Don't go to nuclear
war because it's going to be mutually sure destruction. That's
the bottom line.

Speaker 2 (01:55:54):
Literally, just wrote mutually sure destruction down because if you
think about it, we were getting further away from the
concept of mutually assured destruction because of our ability to
shoot down rockets that are coming our way. Well, if
you can't shoot down the rockets coming your way, they
have it to be nuclear bombs. No one's gonna want
to launch them. We've got the technology, they've got the technology.

(01:56:14):
So it's it seems to me, at least in terms
of cold war reality and nuclear reality, we're kind of
back to a status quo thing here.

Speaker 13 (01:56:21):
Yeah, it doesn't really change anything, just on a technical
capability and just looking at what this weapon will do,
it is pretty amazing, we got to admit, because it has. It's,
as far as I'm aware, the first missile that uses
nuclear fuel to actually propel it, which means basically kind

(01:56:42):
of like an aircraft carrier or nuclear powered aircraft carrier
that never in needs fuels so it literally can fly
forever or as long as the components will allow, which
means it can fly all over the world. It can
come in from angles where your weapon systems are not oriented,
places were historically there was no threat. So nothing is
off the table here. So it just adds another layer

(01:57:03):
of don't get into a nuclear war, but it doesn't
change anything in the overall game.

Speaker 2 (01:57:07):
As you pointed out, well, and that's the first time
I've ever had to describe that way, this sort of
unlimited range kind of thing. You're talking about unlimited range
at hypersonic speeds, it's.

Speaker 13 (01:57:18):
Actually subsonic speed. It's like a cruise missile. It's not
too much dissimilar from our Tomahawk's cruise missile, except that
it has no limits on range. It literally can fly
everywhere because of the nuclear fuel.

Speaker 2 (01:57:30):
Okay, well, let's pivot back over to the actual fighting
war going on between Russia and Ukraine. It appears as
those Lensky's trying to entertain another discussion on peace negotiations.
Venue seems to be an issue, but he doesn't want
to move out of any area. He doesn't want to
seed any area to Russia. In other words, week number whatever,

(01:57:51):
Daniel Davis, we're kind of in the status quo position
relative to the bargaining and the negotiations, are we not.
The Ukraine side wants to have a just and lasting
peace according to their definition. The Russians I actually had
or will have on my show earlier this or later
this morning, the ambassador, the deputy UN Ambassador for Russia,

(01:58:14):
whom I point blank and impressed him and ask I said,
if you don't get these these conditions that you're asking for,
what will you do?

Speaker 13 (01:58:23):
And he just says, we'll either get this negotiation or
we'll win it on the battlefield. And he said there's
no way around it, and he laid it out. Their conditions,
which are what Putin has said many times is the
root causes of the war, the NATO, the you know,
the so called demilitarization, denoxification, and the territory, et cetera.
So you have what Zelensky's saying is a fair and
just peace and what the Russians are saying are wholly incompatible.

(01:58:46):
And then you have to look at who's got the
military capacity, and right now, I mean, we know where
that's going to go. But there are two big pockets
where up to ten thousand Ukrainian soldiers are in a
cauldron right now, and things don't change pretty quick. If
they don't withdraw from those things, they could lose thousands
of troops in a short period of time. As Russia

(01:59:08):
just continues its relentless and methodical move forward, however slow
it is, it still moves forward well.

Speaker 2 (01:59:14):
In addition to their own troops, Russia seems to have
an extra source of troops. We've talked about this before,
North Koreans on the front lines and providing some military
assistance for this conflict. I just heard, I believe it
was this morning or yesterday, that the reward to North
Korea may be that it's getting assistance from Russia insofar
as the development of its chrismisile technology for nuclear weapons.

(01:59:36):
Any suggestion of truth to that, Daniel Davis.

Speaker 13 (01:59:40):
That's been suggested from the beginning with the first time
that North Korean troops went in to help Russians in
the course area. There's also been reports over the last
couple of months that there could be as many as
seventy thousand North Korean troops come over. And one of
the things I suspect you just from a military analyst
specific perspective is that the North Koreas that we're sending

(02:00:01):
troops over there not so much of a big help
to Russia because they don't really need it, and it's
actually a headache to try incorporate a large formations that
speak a different language and aren't used to operating the
way you do. As a stop to Kim Jong Lun
for the artillery rounds, he's getting the missiles that the
physical missiles he's been getting. He's getting combat experience for
his troops that they haven't had since, you know, nineteen fifties.

(02:00:24):
So and now then you see they're taking what they
had already from the course area and they're expanding it within.
So I think this is just an example and an
opportunity for North Korea to expand its combat capability.

Speaker 2 (02:00:36):
Fair enough on that, and you have brought up the
troop experience component before, and it's something really worth noting
considering that's a real powder keg going on in between
North and South Korea as well. Let's here we go.
Let's die back over to Israel. Gaza, as I said
I think last week, and I've certainly mentioned in the
morning show. If you're shooting at each other. I don't
know how you can call it a cease fire, but

(02:00:57):
there still seems to be some quote unquote warfare going
on right now. What's where are we with h with
with moving toward phase two phase one declaration of a ceasefire,
obviously these complications with that, but we need to move
forward with the peace process. Is it falling apart?

Speaker 13 (02:01:14):
Daniel Davis, Uh, I'm not sure it ever fell together completely.
So so yeah, that uh, it's it's definitely tenuous, is
the best you can put it. But there continues to
be uh you know, offensive operations going on in the
Gaza strip, in the West Bank, in Lebanon, uh, even
some in Yemen of recent days.

Speaker 2 (02:01:35):
And uh, the there's there's.

Speaker 13 (02:01:36):
A different stories. You can decide who you want to believe.
We don't really know really where the truth is. You
have Hamas sand with a Red Cross that they're doing
everything they can to get the remainder of those uh
deceased hostage remains back the Uh. The Israeli sets said, no,
we have intelligence that they're holding on to them and
they're not returning them, and so that we're gonna go
back in maybe militarily et cetera. We're gonna push this

(02:01:59):
so called yellow line back further into them. We're going
to reduce the amount of food aid going into the
entire Gauza Strip, which, by the way, whatever you may
view on the situation, you can't do that international law.
You can't punish an entire population because of what the
leadership of the Hamas is doing.

Speaker 2 (02:02:15):
But that's what's.

Speaker 13 (02:02:15):
Happening right now, and so that is just it continues
to undermine trust in all directions, if there was any
at all. And it is better than it was, but
it's it's not really a cease far and so far
until you get those hostage remains back, or at least
that resolved. I don't think they're even going to start
negotiation for the so called phase two, So I think

(02:02:36):
we're still in a sort of phase one ish time.

Speaker 2 (02:02:39):
Okay, in so far and before we part come to
here getting the hostages, the deceased hostages back. I think
you had previously suggest that this isn't really Hamas foot
dragging so much as they just don't know where the
remains might happen to be. Is that still your.

Speaker 13 (02:02:54):
Perception, not that they didn't know where they were but
that they couldn't get at them. Oh but now, of
course these Raeli side is saying no, they do know
where they are, they know how to get them, and
they're just not giving them up.

Speaker 2 (02:03:05):
And I'm not in a.

Speaker 13 (02:03:06):
Position to say whether that's true or not true. But
that's the accusation. So both sides are lobbying counter accusations,
and you know, we have the risk of this thing
blowing back up at any time. That's the bottom line.
Maybe prayer is in order since we don't really have.

Speaker 2 (02:03:19):
Any easy see there is, and I do that on
a daily basis. Amen, Brother, pray for the folks that
are dealing with those terrible situations. Daniel Davis Deep Dive again,
get it where you get your podcasts. I always enjoy
your thoughtful analysis, Daniel Davis, to look forward to doing
it again next week.

Speaker 13 (02:03:34):
Sir, always my pleasure, my friends, see you next week.

Speaker 2 (02:03:37):
Have great week A thirty nine. Right now, Senator John Houston,
we join in the program. Next is a shutdown and
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Speaker 2 (02:04:42):
Eight forty one fifty five kr CD Talk station. Hey,
I recognize the federal government to shutdown someone who's intimately
familiar with the problem that we're facing right now. Senator
John Houston, Welcome back to the fifty five KRCE Morning Show.
It's a real pleasure to have you on today.

Speaker 3 (02:04:56):
Great to be with you, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (02:04:58):
I note that the American Federation of Government Employees is
on the Republicans side of the ledger, telling the Democrats
basically because this has got to be levy that the Democrats,
normally Democratic allies this union. They're saying, pass the continuing resolution,
you got a clean funding bills sitting there, put us
all back to work. Gosh darn it. Is this going
to change the dynamic, Senator? Or are we going to

(02:05:19):
wait for even more pain to come, which might include
the end of SNAP for some people with nutrition assistance
being impacted. Headstart the problems we're already having with the
air traffic controllers not showing up to work even though
they're critical employees. The problems are mounting. But when is
the breaking point, I presume, for the Democrats, or will
the Republicans end up capitulating.

Speaker 3 (02:05:40):
The Republicans are united in this because we are not
playing games. We're just saying, hey, open the government, keep
it at its current funding levels, serve the American people.
By the way, it costs US four hundred million dollars
a week in salaries, and many of those salaries ultimately
will be paid but we will not get the work
in return that rialry from all of these hundreds of

(02:06:02):
thousands of people, and just let's go. Let's stop playing games.
Chuck Schumer. Thirteen times when Joe Biden was president, passed
clean continuing resolutions Republicans. You know, Republicans helped, but now
they hate Donald Trump so much that they're not willing
to They're willing to make the American people suffer to

(02:06:24):
try to embarrass the president. But it's not working. And
I don't see, unfortunately, any break in sight. Democrats seem
to be dug in in their position because their left
flank will not let them do otherwise. At a point
in time, well, I mean, frankly, they made a decision
they can't wiggle their way out of. Right now they're

(02:06:45):
having a hard time figuring out how to do that.

Speaker 2 (02:06:48):
Yeah, the only solution seems to be continuing at the
Biden era funding levels, which we can't emphasize enough. And
this was the prudent, smart political move by Republicans, much
of the chagrin of Congress from Massy Night. Understand his
point on this. We need to cut government, not keep
things a status quo. But you took all the wind
of the Democrats' sales and saying no, these are your
funding levels and parenthetically, it's your deadline in December, and

(02:07:11):
these supplements, this is something one hundred percent owned by you.
That's just it's made. It's put the Democrats in an
impossible position.

Speaker 3 (02:07:19):
Yeah, you can. It's easy to start a fight, it's
hard to get out of one, and political fights especially
because you know, you have to say, well, what did
I get for all of this? What did I you know,
twenty eight days of shutting the government down, causing all
kinds of challenges for working you know, families from military
air traffic controllers, Homeland security TS agents, all those people. Okay,

(02:07:41):
we put them through all of this, didn't pay them,
made them work. But but now we're just gonna do what, like,
what's what's their exit strategy? They don't have an exit strategy,
and they're in a pickle.

Speaker 2 (02:07:54):
Well, I don't expect this to happen to Congressman John Houston,
but I have to. My guess is there are more Democrats,
say leaning Fetterman, And at what point in time did
you and I ever think that we would be pointing
to Fetterman as the example of common sense and reason
the Democrat party, but the Alexander or Casio Coortes socialist,

(02:08:18):
far leftist, when the party has totally dominated the conversation
and the narrative and the political moves by the Democrats,
is there still a will to maybe say, uh, these
are all loser issues, the AOC's of the world, and
that when you're the party are on the wrong side
of all these eighty twenty issues. If we're going to
ever get our party back, we need to change gears.

Speaker 3 (02:08:39):
I think that you're onto something right there, because I
do sense that there are a number of Democrats who
who don't like this left leaning lurch that's happened, I
mean extreme left leaning lurch that's happened in their party.
And when they see because I remember, like they they're
going to see real people suffer. Who are their constituents

(02:09:03):
that they said they should be fighting for, who are
going to lose as a result and really have hardships
as a result of their decisions. And I think that
there's a growing sentiment among some Democrats. At least five
or remember three of them evoated with us, we need
five more. There's at least five more Democrats who agree
that we should do a continuing resolution and get back

(02:09:24):
to work. But right now Chuck Schumer is so scared
of his left flank that he must continue the Schumer
shut down as a way to protect himself, because what's
he going to say if he if he said, Okay,
twenty eight days is enough, the radical left would skewer him.

Speaker 2 (02:09:41):
They would but be acknowledgment that was a terrible strategy,
which you and I have pointed out here in this conversation.
It's a terrible strategy. I think.

Speaker 3 (02:09:48):
I think that sometimes leaders need need the troops to
save them from themselves. If he could get I think
if you just hold his nose and allow five of
the more moderate leaning Democrats to join us, get the
government open, they could do a reset and then begin
a negotiation over the next few weeks, because remember, a

(02:10:08):
clean cr only keeps the government open until November twenty one. No,
they don't lose any leverage. They can will be right
back where we are. It's just that right now there's
no discussions going on because they won't open the government
so that we can fund things and move on from
that debate. Every day they wait, the things that they
want are less likely to happen. And I have to

(02:10:29):
tell you that there's something that's really rich that's happening
where the Democrats are saying the president should just fund
snap right the food program. They held a rally last week,
and that a weekend to Sogo. So it's no kings.
But now they want them to act like a king
right and just just fund the things that they want,
even though they are refusing to fulfill their responsibility. You

(02:10:54):
want kings, then Congress act fund things that you want,
and don't force them to have to act like a king.
For goodness sakes, this is crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:11:02):
And of course they passed up a couple of opportunities
to do just that, getting the American military paid, for example,
the air traffic controllers paid. No, we're not going to
do a piece mail. They're just going to put too
much power in the hands of Donald Trump, a man
who I guess they wish had more power so he
could get things paid for that they want to get
paid for.

Speaker 3 (02:11:17):
Senator Johnas literally empowering him more and more every day
that they do this, and then they claim that they
don't want to empower him, but that's exactly what they're doing.
It's just such hypocrisy, not that.

Speaker 2 (02:11:28):
It changes the political landscape if they change their minds
and open the government backup, Senator Houston, before we part company,
do you think part of them just wants to wait
till the election next week to see how things go.
The elections that have some sort of that are closely
watched that are kind of cliffhangers for whether a state's
gone blue or red. Is that part of the game
plan you think at all? Could be?

Speaker 3 (02:11:50):
Could be part of it. Look, they're looking for an
exit strategy, and you know, look they're running in the
mayor for New York like, geea, Democrats going to win that.
You know, it's likely that in the blue states where
all the elections are that they will do well. But
then they're going to try to claim some kind of
victory over that. Well, I mean hardly. That's like saying

(02:12:13):
that if a Republican wins the governorship of Indiana that
that's a big deal. I mean, come on, now, no question,
I think that they're looking for any excuse that they
can to get out of a pickle that they've created
for themselves.

Speaker 2 (02:12:29):
Well, let's say Mondami lost, Let's say some of the
other government races that are closely watching the darkouts lose.
Wouldn't that be a golden opportunity for Chucky Schumer to
stand up and say, all right, all right, the people
have spoken us. Shifting so far to the left has
lost our voters. We need to right the ship and
head on the right direction. Here's what we're going to do.
What are going forward basis beginning with opening the government

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up possible political strategy to get things going in the direction.
Senator Houston.

Speaker 3 (02:12:55):
Uh, there is no chance. No, that's what Chuck Shamber
will conclude.

Speaker 2 (02:12:58):
I had to throw it out there, John.

Speaker 3 (02:13:00):
God bless you, even though though it makes a lot
of sense.

Speaker 2 (02:13:03):
No chance he's gonna use that, you know, if I
was king of the world anyhow, Senor Johnny, thank you
for your time today, Sir. Keep fighting the good fight
on behalf of the American people, and we'll see what happens.
All of our collective popcorn is out.

Speaker 3 (02:13:17):
Yeah, thanks Brian, Take care.

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Pleasure man. It's coming up on eight fifty to fifty
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