55KRC Wednesday - Jack Atherton, Brigham McCown, Massie, Judge Napolitano

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the stuff they are pushing. People aren't talking about
a violent.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Rhetoric against hush, But if we dare to fight back,
we are the violent one.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Fifty five KRS the talk station five o five at
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Every Wednesday, some sad hope they will vacation.

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And that's the way the news goes, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Brian Thomas, happy to be here on a Wednesday and
wishing you a very happy one and hoping you can
stick around all morning here on the fifty five KRC
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coming up at the fifty five kt ORSE Morning Show.
Great day to be listening. I hope you think so anyway,
I certainly do. Because it being Wednesday. We get Jackatherdon
big story with Jack and added and coming up at
seven oh five. Don't know what he's want to talk
about Santa's politics. It's real, they're interesting. So we'll hear
from Jack on that insightful, brilliant man he is. And

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I always enjoy having Jack on the program. A dear, dear,
dear friend and good man. Bring him Accowen Hudson in
stud he returns. He's been on many times over the years. Today,
Trump's energy policies. Gregham certainly knows about energy policies. Congressman,
my favorite hour of radio. And today at eighth five,
Congressman Thomas Massey, followed by Judge Aninapoulatana. Today, Congress mass

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He's going to be speaking about Syria, his opposition to
Trump's choice for the DEA head and uh Elon and
Vvk Rama swim in the Doge program, which I embrace.
I think it's an awesome idea. Just because Elon and
Vvik say it, just because Elon and Vivek identify it,
just because Elon and Vivek say it's a waste of

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money doesn't mean Congress has to act. But being outside
government and not intelected capacity and not drawing a salary
from government. They're just like I don't know, like op
ed opinion commentators, but elevated to a level of national
focus given their prominence and their unbelievably amazing business prowess

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as demonstrated by their well, absolute wonderful success in the
world of independent private business on their own and doing
whatever they can to make money. They're very successful, so
they know how that's accomplished. So I'm not sure what
Congress mass He has to say about it. I'm looking
forward to talking with him, So stick around for Radio

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five on half and then judgment Politano, will Trump stop
domestic spying? We can only help, but I doubt it's
going to happen. And it wasn't quite sure where I
wanted to start this morning, And for some reason, I
have this wonderful op ed from Corey Brooks noted pastor.

(03:38):
I have United Health executives shooting, heightens debate over three
D printed ghost guns, and then this whole thing going
on in New Jersey as well as elsewhere about drones
flying around. How do those three lay on top of
my stack to dive on into this morning? Well, I'll
see if I can make any sense out of it,
and I'm not quite sure I can. First off, just

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you have to we live in an insane period of time.
Technology has advanced so rapidly that I think mankind is
just as incapable of keeping up with it, or coping
with it, or dealing with it. And it's the coping
part that I was thinking of. All Right, there are

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drones out there. You can't stop the fact that there
are drones. You could buy one yourself, Go ahead, hop
on Amazon and buy one. Of course, government has much
greater resources and money and can make them work together
and coordinate them. And of course they have the money
and technology to mount firearms on them and bombs on

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them and use them in warfare. You and I can't
do that yet, I underscore the word. Yet. I imagine
there's going to be a time, not that far down
the road, and probably within my lifetime, where I could
go online, buy a drone and mount some sort of
weapon on it by myself without a license or in

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spite of a law or license requirement, and do some
harm with that.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Can you cope with that?

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Because I know right now that I am capable of
although I don't own one, and I have no desire
to own a three D printer. I know they're very,
very affordable these days. Used to be that they were
way out of the realm of anyone going out and
buying one. Oh my god, a three D printer? Are
you kidding me? Those things cost tens of thousands of dollars. Hey,
get out of the store and buy one for a
few hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Now.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
I don't know if that's kind of printer that can
print a gun out, but they're out there. People do
them all the time. We have a world where the
Internet has connected everyone. Oh there's that pesky internet again,
another amazing technological advance that has just sort of blown
people's mind. You can talk to someone in China right now,

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real time, you know, I mean ten, fifteen, twenty years ago,
how far back you want to go? That would have
been a little difficult. You also would have had to
pay Mobel or some telephone company for the additional expense
of a long distance call.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Now it's free.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
People have been posting radical documents and you know the
rules for radicals how to make bombs hell. I seem
to recall at one point reading that if you go
online and search enough, you can find blueprints and plants
on how to make a nuclear weapon now as anybody

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doing that, well, I know the Iranians have been busy
working on nuclear bombs for quite some time. Maybe step
back a little bit and a lot of what's going
on in Syria as well as elsewhere in the Middle East.
But you know, the world is a smaller place and
the information is abundant. It's everywhere, and for those with
the resources or underscore the word motivation to do harm

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to another human being. You know, you can print a
gun and shoot a CEO in the back? Is that
going to be transformative for the world? As I see
all these journalists, you know, praising them, college professors praising
this murderer of a CEO. United Healthcare exists for a reason,
and you know, you may hate them for what they do.

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They do deny claims, but they manage claims and they
try try to allocate what are genuinely scarce resources the
dollars to pay claims when claims are properly payable, and

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deny claims when they're not. Have you ever notice there
are a lot of physicians out in the world that
will well, maybe order too many medical tests, maybe keep
you in the hospital for too long. A lot of
nefarious actors out there, top to bottom. It's not just
the CEOs of United Healthcare, which we're trying to maintain
the company. Oh my god, but he makes millions of dollars. Yeah,
I know, Is that right?

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Well?

Speaker 3 (08:11):
I suppose if you are going to be the person
that's drawing the ire of every single human being who's
ever had a medical claim denied, then maybe you need
to be paid that much to even take the position.
I don't know, nobody's ever offered me a job that
pays that kind of money. I don't know what I'd
be willing to do for that kind of job. In fact,
I probably wouldn't take it. But this advance of technology

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is something that seems to me we're either not capable
of dealing with, or alternatively, it's just being used for
nefarious purposes in lieu of technology that didn't exist previously.
For example, as I read the story about ghost guns
and the genies out of the bottle on that, it's
kind of one of the reasons I even brought this up.

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You can't unring that bell. Blueprints are out there, and
do you think taking away three D printers would solve
the problem. For all the good that they do and
all the amazing things that those are capable of on

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a nonviolent, non nefarious level, No, I think society's better
off because we have three D printing technology. Hell, they
basically three D print buildings. Now it's pretty cool if
I've ever seen that, by the way, it's rather amazing.
But that it can be used for nefarious purposes, people

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freak out, like, oh my god, I got to do
something about this. The drones flying around over New Jersey?
Where'd those come from? No idea? Are they nefariously being used?
Are they being used as spy or is it just
some chucklehead out there who's got a brand new drone
and he's flying around car Ajuago golf course or flying
around New Jersey just to kind of freak people out

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for the sake of getting in the press. I don't know.
But they're out there and you can't unring the bells.
So we're gonna have to learn to evolve as a
society and deal with this technology. But fundamentally, it's the

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motivation that's the problem, isn't it. Where do evil people
come from? Why are they willing to do this kind
of thing. Is it the technology itself that motivates people
to evil or do they harbor evil intent? And then
just look around and say, you know what about twenty

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five years ago, I couldn't three D print myself a gun,
but I could go down to the local sporting goods
store and buy a baseball bat, or go down to
the local hardware store and buy a hatchet and walk
up behind some guy walking down the street in New
York City that I think I need to kill for
some stupid reason and just hit him in the back

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of the head with it and kill him. And as
close as this idiot was, he could have done that.
I mean, you've seen the video. He's like five feet
behind the CEO and he just shoots him in the back.
If he'd took four steps forward and had a hatchet
in his hand, he could have put it in the
back of the guy's head and would have had the

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exact same result. Why did he do it? Just killing
the CEO of United Healthcare? Change the healthcare system?

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Now?

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Are there still limited dollars available for the payment of
healthcare claims?

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (11:50):
What did we do before there was even medical insurance?
Did we deal with our problems. Yeah, we died at
a younger age probably, but we rolled with it. That
was the society we lived in. That was where technology
was right. I just this, I don't know. I'm just

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as I stare at my stack this morning and looking around,
it just seems to me so much insanity and people
pulling their hair out over really the realities of the
modern world that we live in, and that the evil
people which have existed since Cain slew able right, you
can go back to the beginning of time. If you're

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a biblical person, you leave that actually happened, That was
a real event. There's always people with chips on the
shoulder to think it's the right thing to do to
murder someone. You're not of my tribe.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Kill you, you're not for my neighborhood. Kill you.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
You're not the same color skin as I am. Kill you.
The mechanisms have changed of technology has allowed people to, yes,
perhaps more easily, but for the same underlying stupid motives,

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slay their fellow man or commit the farious acts against
mankind just because they harbor some I would argue, in
the vast majority of cases, ridiculous position. I don't know,
Like I said, I wasn't quite sure where I wanted

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to begin this morning. But Corey Brooks says, this wonderful
op ed piece about Jordan Neely's father playing a role
in his death, and boy did he hit the nail
on the head on that one. Five one, three, seven,
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A little bit of light.

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I have twenty nine Thursday night.

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It's going to be a little twenty two with a
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I'm mostly Friday Day going up to forty.

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happy Wednesday too.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
I have a personal tradition I always watch a Christmas
story every year. The older one than I think it's
nineteen thirty eight version. I always get moved by that.
So you got three spirits coming in the middle of
the night. Yeah, you have to have a sort of
belief in the afterlife for that to actually work, because
if you don't believe there is an afterlife, you're not
worried about being chained to a bunch of chains because

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you were an idiot during life. Right makes a good point, though,
But opportunity for redemption revealed to Ebenezer Scrooge because he
was visited by three spirits in the night, changed and
transformed his life. Sometimes there's no one around to do that, right.
So with that, I turned to Corey Brooks, who's a
pastor known as the Rooftop Pastor, founder and a senior

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pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago, CEO of this
thing called Project Hood helping others obtain destiny and that
and he has a mission is a Chicago pastor. So
he writes, Jordan Neely's father played a role in his death.
Don't ignore America's fatherhood crisis. And this is where I

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substitute the three spirits for the fathers that are absent
in the lives of young people. The ones that are
there to provide guidance. And if you watch Christmas Story,
remember Ebany's the Scoos was left at school. All of
the schoolmates went home for Christmas, and for whatever reason,
his dad was a total fill in the blank with
your favorite FCC no compliant word. He wasn't invited, he

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was left alone. Maybe that had an impact on his
life and why he turned into into such a jerk
in life later.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Fathers are very important, and he writes, it's fair to
say that the New York City resident Jordan Neely was
born unlucky. Jordan Neely obviously the guy who was ended
up in a choke hold. Neeli was living on the
streets when he died, was Fox News report. He had
with a lengthy criminal history and shouted death threats in
a subway car before he was subdued and choked out.

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He was just fourteen years old. Neely's mother was murdered
by her abusive boyfriend. The murderer left her body in
the suitcase on the side of a New York City
Henry Hudson parkway. Young Neely had to testify in court
on his mother mother's behalf imagine how that traumatizes the
young mind. Then he was immediately placed in a foster

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care As an orphan, one is lucky to find love
or human compassion within the foster care system, and it
is likely that Neelie did not. Despite possessing enough talent
to impersonate Michael Jackson on subway platforms throughout New York City,
nearly struggled with homelessness, drug abuse, and mental health issues
including depression and schizophrenia, who is also arrested forty two

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times for petty larsony, jumping, subway termstyles, and three assaults
on women. When he finally met his fate in the
New York City subway, car and marine veteran Daniel Penny
was charged with his death. New York City leaders from
Representative Alexandria Casio Cortes and Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado shut up.
At a funeral, activists and MSNBC host Al Sharpton delivered

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eulogy where he predictably blamed systemic racism for Neelie's death.
At the time, I said this would be again, Reverend
Corey Brooks.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Where were all of you when he was alive?

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Then I recently learned that Jordan's father, Andrea Zachary, filed
a lawsuit against Daniel Penny that demands judgment awarding damages
in a son which exceeds the jurisdictional limits of all
lower courts which would otherwise have jurisdiction. Now I was incensed.
Where the heck was Zachary all these years? Why did

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he do for his What did he do for his
son who had to witness an abusive relationship? Where was
he when his son was shipped off of the foster
care system? Where was he all those years when his
son was in the system? Did he visit even once?
Where was he when his son got out? Where the
heck was he when his son was dealing with his

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demons all by himself and drifting in and out of homelessness?
And now he shows up when his son is cold
and buried. To be clear, he didn't show up for Jordan.
He showed up for himself. Andrea Zachary was ever a
father in any meaningful way and does not deserve that
precious title. This angers me in ways that most people

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wouldn't understand. I minister and work on the South Side
of Chicago, and I understand more than most. How detrimental
the absentee father has been to our community. I work
with them every day. I counsel them on how God
has blessed them with children, and how it is their
sacred responsibility to be there and raise the child. I

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provide these young men with pathways to opportunities. I've seen
them leave paths of destruction to become forklift operators and
construction workers. Some have even returned to college while working
a full time job. And you see, that's where I
pause and made the connection with the Christmas story. This
man is basically the three spirits who visited Ebenezer Scrooge

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in the night, providing counsel and guidance and direction for
men who have obviously lost their way.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
He continues, These men are good men.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
They were lost, but the possibility of redemption was within them,
and they simply needed a nudge in the right direction.
They are nothing like the lost soul that Andre and
Andrea Zachary still is. While I would never turn my
back fully on any man, that man has never shown

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one ounce of fatherhood. I know there are those who
will try to use rays to excuse him because he's black,
but that is immoral. Almost every absentee father I deal
with his black If I allow that to be an excuse,
then where would we be as a society. That is
why I stand here and hold Andrea Zachary fully accountable

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for his actions. He played a role in his son's death.
That is what he needs to acknowledge if he wants
to make it right with a far higher power than money, God.
If he chooses this unholy pursuit of money, then we
must make an example out of him. Pastor Corey Brooks,

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thank you for the inspiration. Five nine fifty five car
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Speaker 2 (22:10):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Look, some guys were charged with aggravated arson for the
fire that damaged a Big Mac Bridge. Joe Strecker expressing
some skepticism as I look at the printed out local
news he provides for me every morning. I don't believe this.

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Two women and two men and a woman facing charges
in connection with the massive fire damaging the Daniel Carter
Beard Bridge aka Big Mac Cornehammer County Court records. Terry Styles,
Zachary Stump, and Caitlin Hall arrested yesterday in connection with
the fire at the one thousand Hands playground in Sawyer
Point Park. Officials said none of the people arrested are homeless.

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That's where his words are written. Despite the fire sparking
new debate about homeless encampments around Cincinnati, it has been
widely discussed behind the scenes by folks in the know
that may aftamp Pervall may have removed the homeless from
the Greater Cincinnati area and directed them to beneath the
Big Mac Bridge in order to clean the place up.

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For blink. I don't know if that's true or not.
I've just heard that so many times now I'm starting
to believe it. You draw your own conclusions anyway. Court
records show that Zachary Stumped twenty three Terry Styles thirty nine,
now facing aggravated arson charges based on video and witness
statements both in health to Hemlin County jail gourd to

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court doguments. Stump intentionally set a fire on a playground
located underneath an interstate overpass. Styles also intentionally set a
fire at eight oh one East Pete Roseway, quote creating
a substantial risk of serious physical harm to all of
the mosts above. And this I thought was odd, including
the driver of a freightliner flatbed toe truck. Now how

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they singled that particular vehicle out for specific targeting, But
they got to prove it in court anyway. A court
record show Hall facing two counts of obstructing justice after
she allegedly gave misleading information to investigators about Styles and
Stump during the arson investigation. Hall also currently booked at
the Hamilton County Justice Center. Hall quote was asked questions

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about styles telephone number and his whereabouts, and she gave
the investigators false information. Another court document says she was
asked questions about her friendship of greater than six years
and denied knowing Stump's last name, when in fact she
was where of that information Style Stump Hall expected to
be in court this morning for those folks that don't

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have anything to do. Oh congratulations. Another editorial comment from
Joe Strekker, Hamilton County loses again and real quick here
at Kentucky Governor Andy Bisheer announced the major investment in
their states food and beverage industry. Chick fil A Supply
is planning on building a one hundred million dollars distribution

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center in Ellesmere, Kentucky. It's expected to create one hundred
and seventy eight jobs over the next five years. Congratulations
to my friends in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It's five
thirty six got stack is stupid coming up. If you
want to stick around for that, I'll be right back.

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Five forty ifty five kr cdtalk station. Very happy Wednesday
to you five one three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred,
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I always enjoy talking to folks about whatever's on your mind,
so feel free to engage in that conversation by a
call in the morning show. Beyond that, let us go

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to the stack of stupid. Oh, by the way, uh, Joe.
I suppose my listeners probably know this already. It's been
widely reported. It was in the local stories. Joe Burrow's
home got broke into while he was playing football. And
to my listeners out there who think it's a bright
idea to go ahead and post on social media that
you were leaving town and going out of town for

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the next couple of weeks, probably not a good idea.
I mean, everybody knows the Bengals football schedule and knows
that the players will be out of town or at
least occupied if they're playing at home at Peykhorse Stadium,
meaning maybe no one's home. And in the past, you know,

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it was something that the criminals used to do. They
would read obituaries and find out where funerals were going
to be and break into people's homes while they knew
you were at the funeral. That was the old school
way to do it before the internet. Don't voluntarily tell
everyone you're not going to be at home.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
It's a bad idea.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
If you're not going to be at home and you're
telling people, make sure someone's at your home. Always have
someone at our house whenever we go out of town
watching the house. I'm you choose your own direction of life.
It just seems to be common sense information. Just don't
telegraph it to the world. We live in a very

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small world where literally anyone in the world can read
your social media posts and know you're out of town.
Dadnyhow over to the stack of stupid Florida was starting Florida.
Twenty three year old allegedly shot his mom and killed
his dad after an argument about a video game as

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well as getting a job.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
I know.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Fifty eight year old Susan Voyd called nine one one
about twelve twenty minutes after eleven December seventh report that
her son, twenty three year old Joseph Voyd, had shot
her and her husband, Marvin. Deputy from the Pole County
Sheriff's Office showed up with the boyd home. They found
Marvin with apparent gunshot wounds, lying dad in the driveway.

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Susan found further inside the home with serious gunshot wound
and told officers that she had been shot by her son,
who fled the scene. Medical personnel arrive showed up after
and pronounced Marvin dad, and then took Susan to the hospital,
where a police reported she was in critical, however stable condition.
About two am following day, Orlando Police Department spotted a

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vehicle to match the description of the car that Joseph
Voight fled his home in. They conducted a felony traffic
stop and arrested the twenty three year old. Deputy said
that while questioning Joseph Vod in custody, he admitted to
shooting his parents after an argument in which quote his
father was upset with him about spending the majority of

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his time playing video games and writing his ass about
making something of himself and getting a job close quote.
He'd been previously arrested for firing a weapon in a
residential area and battery, but the authorities did not disclose
what charges he faces in connection with that incident.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Dear, what the hecked?

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Thank you, Joe Strecker, that is the exact SoundBite. I
was thinking of actually Dad trying to do him son
of favor by verbally be slapping him for wasting his time.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Hm.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
A bit of a tear this morning. I'm in a mood.
I think you can probably tell if you've been listening
since the show started. Got A grocery shopper in the
United Kingdom reportedly knocked unconscious after discounted cauliflower fell on
her head. What resident of Kingston up on Thames, sammy My,

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told local news she was recently browsing the discount rack
at a waitress grocery store in Bath when the vegetable
hit the back of her head. According to the woman,
suddenly a really large and heavy item fell down on
top of my head and he hit my head. I
fell hard, is it?

Speaker 7 (30:06):
I fell?

Speaker 3 (30:06):
And when I woke up I was suffering from a
concussion and had been knocked out. A court of the
reporting here. Cauliflowers tend to weigh around two pounds. A
woman said the cauliflower fell between four and six feet
before finally landing upon her head. She later told the
local news that she is still experiencing a variety of symptoms,

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from neck pain to anxiety in the incident has had
a damaging impact on her health, setting herself up for
probably a lawsuit, although it's much more difficult to suit
people in the UK than it is here, said she's
considering legal action against the chain.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Quote.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
I was very unwell and I'm still suffering and unable
to work. I don't know how the cauliflower fell, but
they should not store heavy, roundish items like that on
the top shelf quite in the company spokesperson for the

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shopping store. Our customer was seen and immediately by a
trained first aid or at the time of the accident,
and we are sorry to hear she is unwell. We
take customer safety incredibly seriously and have thoroughly investigated this case,
but we'll consider any new information she wishes to share
with us.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
They interviewed.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Doctor Mark Siegel from Fox News said those significant brain
injury unlikely to result from the incident. Anything's possible. Quote
A cauliflower is soft, he said, and even following four feet,
it's unlikely that it would cause significant head trauma, though again,
anything is possible. By fifty five KFC the dog station,

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City Talk station jing stacking stupid. We got a late
addition here. Just Trekker is riled up, so riled up
that he says these lawmakers should have their positions removed
and be replaced by Democrats. We are here in the
state of Ohio. Ohio lawmaker wants to make it a

(33:32):
felony to plan a flag in the center of Ohio Stadium.
This after the fight that broke out between Ohio State
and Michigan players after the Wolverines tried to plan a
flag on Ohio State University's field. Following the Buckeyes loss
Big ten find Ohio State and Michigan one hundred thousand
dollars each of the team's role in the fight, identified

(33:58):
as I don't see you got to get an award
this morning, Joe, I'm waiting to see a few roll a.
State Representative Josh Williams, Republican out of Slovania Township, introduced
the Ohio periods after each Ohio Sportsmanship Act yesterday, and
according to Columbus because Dispatch, he could not be reached
for comment, maybe because he was cowering recognizing how stupid

(34:20):
this felon e bill would be. House Bill seven hundred
would prohibit planning a flagpole and flag in the center
of the Ohio Stadium football field on the day of
a college football game. And to name this act the
Ohio Sportsmanship Act.

Speaker 8 (34:36):
Period the biggest douche of the universe. In all the galaxies,
there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached the top,
the pinnacle of douche dump. Good going, douche, Your dreams
have come true.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
What of the Columbus dispatcher report of the bill doesn't
have much hope. At least the corner of the House
Speaker Stason Stevens Joseph said about the colossal waste of
taxpayer money. I agree with you, drecker on that one.
Over to the United Kingdom again for the stack of stupid.

(35:20):
Authorities there recovered a stolen van filled with two thousand,
five hundred pies, described it as an unusual food heightst
that went wrong. Value of the pies estimated at twenty
five thousand British pounds that be thirty two thousand American
food items. Owned by Tommy Banks, a restaurant tour hero
owns to Michelin Start Establishments, vehicle which was filled with

(35:43):
steak and ale pies as well as turkey and butternut variety,
supposed to head to a Christmas market in York. Theft
for the pies caused a stir on social media earlier
in the week, leading Banks to call on his followers
to find the lost pies, phrasing thieves, keep your eyes

(36:03):
on the pies, Banks wrote on x before the van
was found. Help find the pies. Let's try and recover
them and feed some people. You also asked the thieves
to do the right thing and drop the pies off
at a community center so the food wouldn't go to waste.
Pies were left in the stolen van, he said, but
were too damaged to be eaten or sold. He confirmed
the van was insured, but was bothered by the loss

(36:26):
of the pies, calling you so much waste, it's just rubbish. Sorry,
it's not a happier ending to the story. In a
related incident in October, a group of thieves that posed
this wholesale distributors sold stole over nine hundred and fifty
wheels of English cheddar. Heaven and a rather unusual morning

(36:55):
here on the morning show, forgive me and just roll
with it. We've got some great guys coming up, including
Jack avid in and enjoy hearing from you, So feel
free to call in at the six o'clock hour plenty
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find out together. And of course, Judge Enna Polatano every
Wednesday a thirty, will Trump stop domestic spying? I wouldn't
hold my breath waiting for it. That is the topic
of his uh OP ed piece.

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Today.

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still have a little bit of cough. Joe Pollock talking
about Syria. Daniel Davis d Dive also talking about Syria.

(39:02):
That is an interesting thing going on. There perhaps an
unusual word to ascribe to it, but it is just
an unfolding mess and we are going to be dealing
with the aftermath of that. And I can only hope
that it turns into perhaps a coalition government, a stable
form of government where each of these warning factions might
have a say in the direction of the country, although

(39:23):
I wouldn't hold my breath thinking that's going to happen.
Christopher Smith Aman with an excellent Smith event on the
Daniel Penny acquittal, which he of course approved of the
acquittal that is, and going back to the op ed
piece by the Reverend that I'd read in the top
of the hour, maybe if Dad was around, rather than
just a little gloming on with a civil lawsuit after

(39:45):
his son with whom he had practically, if not zero relationship,
a bit of an opportunitist.

Speaker 9 (39:52):
That man.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
It's disgusting when you really look behind the vinear five three, seven,
nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to
three taco if I fifty on AT and T funds
and maybe consider not going to college. And we see
this kind of thing all the time. We all know
what opinions are like. With opinions like sphincters, we all
have one. And with the murder of United Healthcare CEO

(40:14):
Brian Thompson, an opportunity for a lot radical left wing
college professors to chime in and praise, praise the murderer,
Luigi Mangioni for killing the United Healthcare CEO who was
doing nothing but his job, a job that he was
paid for it. Maybe paid too much, that's your decision.
But I suppose if you're under threat of death constantly

(40:37):
because you work for a health insurance company, maybe you
need to be paid that much anyway. In addition to
college professors, social media flooded with posts celebrating or mocking
Thompson's killing as justified because some people are angry about
their health insurance claims being denied. And I understand being

(40:59):
angry about it. It's a complicated system. Ask yourself why
at today a complicated and try to look back in time.
We didn't have massive health insurance companies and the government
intervention wasn't so widespread that the cost of doing business
and healthcare went through the roof over the years. And
there's also plane eff lawyers out there which helped, and

(41:20):
there's some unscrupulous doctors out there which helped. We'd go
on and on and on about the problems inherent in
the system. Anyway, after Mangioni, the murderers alleged taking the
custody you penned, Professor Julia Alexsavia close enough shared her

(41:43):
thoughts and opinions on social media, which she probably shouldn't
have done it. She posts under the name the Soviet,
which I think gives you an indication of her political affiliation. Anyhow,
have never been a producer, A prouder to be a
professor at the University of Pennsylvania, she re quoted. She's

(42:08):
an assistant professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies
at the university. Identifies herself as a of out socialists
and ardent anti fascist on her website. Anyway, after celebrating
the murder of the CEO. Obviously, there was a lot
of response to that, much of it negative, and of

(42:28):
course she had to remove her social media posts after
posting them, so she has an opinion like everybody. It's
quite revealing though, and honestly, I'm glad we have the
Internet so these idiots can go ahead and make stupid
statements on them, so we know exactly where they stand,
celebrating the murder of an innocent man merely for doing

(42:48):
his job, which allows me to pivot over to the
Wall Street Journal again, the editorial bird commenting on this
the madness of Luigi Mangione, sort of continuing the theme
for the last hour, and they write the rest of
the twenty six year old Luigi Mangioni in the charge
of murdering the Healthcare ceo ends the hunt for the
mysterious man with a hoodie. But what it doesn't solve

(43:11):
is the mystery of why an intelligent, well liked young
man who had much to live for would allegedly shoot
a stranger in the back on New York City Street.
When possible explanation is the had some kind of mental break,
as many young men do in their twenties. The fact
of his life in recent years are coming fast and
perhaps too furious to trust on the fly, But it

(43:32):
appears that a back injury followed by surgery had left
him in pain and frustrated. He'd become isolated from family
and longtime friends, as many young men also do. He
trafficked in theories of exploitation and blame that dominate the
corners of the Internet. He saw wisdom, not madness, in

(43:55):
the writing of Ted Kazinsky, the notorious unibomber. The manifesto
that mister Mangioni allegedly wrote and the authorities say they
found on his arrest railed against the US healthcare system.
Perhaps he saw himself as an avenging hero who would
take on the system. This is a common trait of

(44:17):
young men, and they are mostly young and men who
justify violence with the perverse logic of a cause. It
doesn't take much for a disturbed individual to pick up
the populis theme of blaming seemingly distant and faceless corporations
for social ills and flipping a metal switch into murder.

(44:40):
Internet sites and podcasts on the right and left often
marinate these resentments. Yet the man mister Mangioni shot was
neither faceless nor distant. He was Brian Thompson, a married
father of two who was walking to a business meeting
several feet away from the shooter. He was doing what

(45:02):
his company, United Healthcare and its shareholders asked him to do.
He was like the Unibomber's targets, innocent. I don't know
if he recalled the unibomber. He would send these handmade
bombs to random college professors. They would open them.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Up and they would blow up.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
I don't understand how he picked his targets. I'm not
that familiar with Ted Kazinsky and his insanity, but he
was clearly insane. But the people he murdered had nothing,
no connection with Kazinski, and they were literally murdered random.
It's a dreadful sign of the times that mister Mangiuni
is being celebrated in too many places as a worthy

(45:43):
avenger instead of an allegedly deranged killer college professors. But
that is how our culture has degraded, agged on for
political purposes or audience ratings by many who know better.
Ryan Thompson's sons will never see him again. Mister man

(46:06):
Jenny face is a murder charge in New York that
could send him to prison for the rest of his life.
Anyone who sees that as anything other than a tragedy
deserves the scorn that we hope they receive. Amen well,
stated Wall Street Journal again continuing with him. You're on
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holding over the break there.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
It's good to have you on.

Speaker 9 (49:18):
Thanks bring good morning. Just listening to that tragic story
where the sun murdered his parents. Yeah, you know, I
own a school and I see kids as young as
five addicted to video and it's pretty tragic. And I
think parents don't understand that the video games for young
children is actually keeping their brain from doing what it

(49:42):
needs to do. It's like numbing their brain pathways. Yes,
and if parents don't get a hold of it at
a young age, you are in a heap, a heap
of trouble, and we're seeing it. We're seeing it play out.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
I've had this theory.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
Let me run this by and Jamie, because you know,
when I was a little kid when video games first
came out, remember Pong, like the original video game, it
was just like you bounce, it was like a playing
ping pong. You bounce this little chip back and forth,
and that's all it did. But the idea that you
could control something on your from a little box on

(50:15):
the screen was fascinating. But it was an endorphin rush,
and you had this you know, this, this like, oh
my god, this is so cool. And of course it's
just gotten amazingly more graphic and more realistic and all
these different, you know, different types of games. And then
you couple that with the online interaction with other people.

(50:35):
You know, you're screaming and yelling at each other because
I've witnessed this playing these exciting video games. It just
takes away everything else. You get this endorphin rush and
you it's almost like you need to be there and
play it. You're drawn to it, of course, as your
point me to the exclusion of everything else. You're not reading,

(50:58):
you're not expanding your brain, and you're just ramping up
to try to get to the next level. And that's
all that, that's all that your life is boiled down to.
It's scary and no wonder we've got so many kids
with so many mental problems these days. It's all they
are doing.

Speaker 9 (51:14):
Yeah, And the other piece that we're seeing is that
which isn't going to make sense, but a disconnect from reality.
So they're not in reality when they're in a video game.
So when they are in reality, you're trying to connect
and they're in relationships and they're trying to make decisions
in reality. And it's it's really astounding to see, and

(51:36):
it is it's it's frightening. And I don't think many
parents really understand their wood into the games and the
educational value supposedly, and you know, it's it's very easy
to hand your kid. I mean, you go to a restaurant,
You're going to see a whole family on their electronics.
Oh my heart, it kills me.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
It really kills me.

Speaker 9 (51:57):
They're not engaged in conversation or not at the grocery
store picking out things to get off through. I mean,
all these opportunities, again, particularly for young kids, is how
to create a monster? One oh one, for sure.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
You're right, You are dead right. I couldn't agree with
you more. And a rule in our family, and from
time to time I will admit that I break it
because we'll have a conversation we're like, I can't remember
the name of blah blah blah, blah blah. I'm like, well,
let's just look it up. You pull your cell phone out.
My wife, My god, my wife, don't pull that out.
Keep that phone away. You can't have a cell phone

(52:33):
out when we're having dinner, period, end of story. Rule
will not be broken except in some court of you know,
like justifiable circumstances, but only after we have a conversation
about whether or not the phone should be pulled out.
I mean, well, how do we exist before the damn
cell phones were around? I don't know, but we made

(52:54):
it this far. I'm fifty nine. I remember before we
had them. We didn't pull them out during dinner because
there wasn't one. We actual engaged in conversation. And some
of the best things in my life in terms of
my learning, my education, my expansion, and my knowledge and wisdom,
logic and reason, happened over dinner table conversations with my
dad and mom and sister. That's where you exchange thoughts

(53:17):
and ideas. You learn about your day, You learn about
what people are doing. You learn about maybe challenges and
frustrations that your kids are having. You can't do that.
The freaking phone is out, and you're right. You go
to a restaurant these days, everybody's sitting around looking at
the damn phones and not talking to each other. What's
the point. Why did you make a lunch appointment with someone?

(53:39):
Why did you decide as a family to go out
to dinner If you're just gonna stare your phone, stay home,
save the money, or make it a rule in your
house that at least during dinner time you're not going
to be on social media. Can you manage that for
an hour?

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Is it? Oh?

Speaker 3 (53:57):
My god? Can I go without my over an hour?
It's so sad. Obviously that subject matter gets me gimmed up.
And I'm no saint. I'm not telling you that. You
know I'm not on well, I don't do social media,
so I can at least say that, with the exception
of the occasional Facebook post. But I don't do TikTok,

(54:21):
and I don't do X and I just don't want
to do it. I have no desire to get involved
with it. We get better things to do with my life.
I'd rather watch an old movie from the nineteen forties
than do any of that. And maybe that is my
downfall that I do watch old movies. That's my form
of winding down after work, but not at the dinner table.

(54:46):
Lord Almighty, my wife had divorced me. If I had,
if I regularly engage in that activity, and she'd be
justified in doing it. Gary and Teresa, hang on a second.
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Gary is ahead of you. New Hampshire Gary walking into
the program. Thanks for holding over the brake.

Speaker 7 (57:32):
Good morning, Brian. I'm going to hit you up rapid
fire this morning. I do use X. I go to
some open source media. It seems to be real good.
I follow the macade as well as open source Andy. No,
there are some really good sources on there, but that's
the first goal preference. I really don't use it for socialize.

(57:56):
Let's see back in two thy fifteen, the first gun
video mounted on a drone was an eighteen year old
kid from Connecticut. He was convicted felony back in twenty fifteen.
You can watch the video that he posted on YouTube. Second,
the rebels, they are saying that on open source that

(58:19):
they have funding from Ukraine funded the rebels to harass
Iran and Ukraine, and now the rebels are showing executions
and they're freeing all the x Serbian soldiers that were

(58:42):
Islam and they're setting those guys free, which they're not
a good group of people. And third, there's also showing
Assad had large warehouses full of crystal mep so apparently
he was one of the largest man manufacturers of crystal
math in the Middle East, so they claim, and they

(59:05):
actually have videos of that, so that's for funding. And Third,
those mostly moderate peaceful rebels who are going public execution
of anybody that they caught are now telling women that
they're not allowed to leave the house without.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
Having Yeah, sure, real law. I did see that it
was being implemented there, so yes, lots of bad aftermath.
And as far as the crystal meth is concerned, I mean, hey,
the Mexican cartels realize there's some profit in that. If
you're an unethical country if you're an immoral country, you
go ahead and make myth. Apparently there is a massive

(59:43):
demand out there for drugs in the world. Right, you
need to fund your government, and the tax dollars aren't
coming in. Why not manufacture drugs? The world craves them.
So it's a problem with mankind generally speaking from what
I can gather, let's take Teresa's I'm going to go
along in this segment. Teresa, thanks for holding. Welcome to
the Morning Show.

Speaker 11 (01:00:05):
Thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
By too happy.

Speaker 11 (01:00:07):
I'll be right to the point.

Speaker 12 (01:00:08):
I was really happy to see that you are on
Facebook because I've been noticing some posts that are popping
up about the CEO of United Healthcare and that company
are under investigation for insider trading and fraud, yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:00:25):
Since last year. So and they're also implicating that Nancy
Pelosi's name is being brought up as part of that.
So there must be a lot more to this murder
than just a kid who's mad about not getting his
prescription drugs for.

Speaker 7 (01:00:40):
His back pain.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
Well, and hopefully we'll find out. See this is my thing.
I hear all that, I have read all that, and
you're channeling my dear friend my pattern observer friend Maureen,
who I used to call a conspiracy theorist, decided it's
pattern observer now, and she's been writing a lot of
times over the years. You just got to give it
time to find out the reality of it, and ultimately

(01:01:03):
you find out, much like all of the things we
were saying about COVID nineteen, like six foot social distancing
is stupid. Masks don't work that kind of stuff. And
you say it, you know, a few years ago, and
your ostracized and your thrown off, and your posts are deleted,
and then you find out that, no, you were right
the whole time. Yeah, I've seen this stuff on the

(01:01:24):
Insider training and God knows what's going on behind the scenes,
but you know, I saw the story. Barack Obama came
into the presidency I think with a value of one
point seven million dollars and when he left he was
worth thirty some odd million dollars, and it was a story. Oh,
here we go. Let's see. Clinton entered the White House
one point three million nineteen ninety three. By the time

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he left he had one hundred and twenty million dollars.
Barack Obama started his presidency in two thousand and nine
with a net worth of one point three million dollars.
It grew to seventy million dollars after he left office.
How can that be? Well, maybe there is something to
insider training, you think, Maybe, just maybe Nancy Pelosi and

(01:02:06):
United Health do have some sort of relationship from what
I've been reading. Maybe we'll find out, although, as I
say that, we didn't really find anything about how Clinton
made his money or how Barack Obama made his money
while occupying an office that paid I think right now
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars annually, a sum which
President Trump, soon to be again, has turned down. He

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Musk and Viva Gramma swam Me who've demonstrably shown the
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to make large corporations employing literally thousands and thousands of
people and providing the world with apparently with products and
services that the world demands, ergo, making them the heapsloads

(01:04:37):
of money keeping their businesses lean and efficient. Boy, if
you only had people like that that could bring those
talents to the federal government. Oh, look, there they are
doing that. Going back to my comments about the presidential salary,
Trump was interviewed by somebody who was described by.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
Who did this?

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Oh it was the Gateway punted no one under Maureen
your favorite website, Kristen Welker, leftist, whatever, it doesn't matter.
She was just asking questions, are you planning to accept
a salary as president?

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
She asked?

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
His response, President Trump, I am not going to accept
a salary. No, I'm giving up a lot of money.
Do you know what amazed me? Maybe this isn't right,
But other than George Washington and they're not sure about that.
Every president has accepted their salary accept me. She followed
up with, did you you did accept the pension?

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
Correct?

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
And he said, I don't think so. You didn't accept
your pension. I don't think I accepted anything.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
He said.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
The president gets about four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
a year and I didn't take it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Hmm. So I want to ask.

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
You again about and he interrupted, by the way, I
got no credit for that. That's okay. Her follow well,
I'm asking you about it for a reason. I think
it's notable that you're not going to accept a salary.
He said, I didn't and I'm not going to and
I don't believe I got any credit for that. But
I just feel for me it's a nice thing to do. Yeah,

(01:06:05):
And the point was it was his commitment to fiscal responsibility. Obviously,
Donald Trump has enough money in his bank accounts, even
after being the victim of law fair and every single
leftist prosecutor and judge trying to liberate the money he
has from him, including that ridiculous lawsuit about the valuation

(01:06:27):
of real estate. What's your house worth? What is your
house worth? Go ahead, tell me No, it's not. You're wrong.
What do you mean I'm wrong? Well, I looked on Zillo.
You're wrong. Your house is worth what someone is willing
to pay for it on the day, Yes, shake hands
and sign the sales contract. That is the one moment

(01:06:50):
in time that you know what your real estate is worth.
What do they do to Donald Trump? Well, he said
his scope was worth blah blah blah, and that was
an outright lie. He was dealing with sophistic financial institutions
who have their own real estate appraisers. It was an
arm's length transaction between sophisticated parties. And yet they went

(01:07:10):
after him. They accused him of lying and committing crimes.
Why well, because he's Donald Trump. That's why nobody else
would have been subjected to that. And the banks that
loaned him the money got paid back completely with interest.
Unlike those people are getting their student loans fulfilled. They're
not fulfilling their obligations. They're having it wiped away. They

(01:07:31):
didn't pay the interest that they promised to pay. They're
having it wiped away. Why cause well, somebody needed votes.
Donald Trump goes to a bank and says, I want
a loan. They say, well, what are you using as collateral?
Here's mar a lago. What's it worth? I don't know,
nine gajillion dollars. Well, let me take a look at it.
We'll decide for ourself whether it's sufficient collateral for a loan.
Yeah it is. Here's your money, and pay it back

(01:07:54):
by X number of years. Donald Trump fulfilled his contractual obligations.
Those banks testified in court they weren't out a dime,
they were not harmed in any way, shape or form.
And yet Donald Trump has found liable for what hundreds
of millions of dollars. Tell me that's not, in and
of itself, the prosecution under the circumstances, in and of
itself a crime. But his commitment to fiscal responsibility is

(01:08:20):
the reason he waived his salary. That was his point.
Rather than keeping the compensation, he donated it to federal agencies,
including the National Park Service and even the Department of Education.
And again going back to former President Bill Clinton, according

(01:08:42):
to Newsweek, showed up with the White House of the
net worth of one point three million dollars back in
nineteen ninety three. And you may think that's a lot
of money, but if you go ahead and consider all
of your retirement savings and the value of the real
estate that you own, if you own some, and your
cars and your stuff and your things, you might surprise
yourself and how much money you're actually worth on paper. Anyway,

(01:09:08):
how did he end up leaving the White House with
one hundred and twenty million dollars? How how is that possible?
Barack Obama again one point three million dollars when he
shut up with the White House ended up with seventy
million dollars again Newsweek. I'll take Newsweek at their word

(01:09:32):
on this one, not that I normally would, but I'm
sure the figures and facts are all out there, and
they may be off just a little bit here in
this reporting. But the reality is, you enter into the
White House and you make four hundred thousand dollars a year,
How in the hell can you turn that into seventy
million dollars and move away from those chuckleheads and start
looking at I don't know, maybe Mitch McConnell, John Bainer,

(01:09:54):
and Nancy Pelosi, we could go down the list. There's
a lot of folks in politics making heaploads of money
even though their base salaries would never under any circumstance
that you and I would be living through. We could
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if you had one of those show up on your account,
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him for things that you and I wouldn't have gone after.
For a matter of fact, I was filling out my
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love being of friends with him. Welcome back, jack Athan.

Speaker 14 (01:15:20):
Oh ho ho, My friend tell me, Brian, have you
ever dressed up to play Santa Claus?

Speaker 7 (01:15:27):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
Well, I did.

Speaker 14 (01:15:30):
I dressed up with Santa for years until Amesley said,
I freaked out our daughters and their boyfriends, so I
had to stop.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
I don't even want to know how you could freak
someone out, Jack. Although you know you don't have the
frame for Santa Claus.

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
I know you can. You can.

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
You can add some padding and everything like that to
kind of fill the foot the bill. But I suppose
it's the words that come out of your mouth is
what determines whether you freak someone.

Speaker 14 (01:15:56):
Now well, promising to give away is a fun tradition,
except in politics. The political giveaway tradition goes back thousands
of years, ancient Greeks called leaders who bought off their
supporters demagogues, meaning dictators who led the demos the people

(01:16:18):
by the nose, promising them free stuff. In Rome, Julius
Caesar was a demagogue who promised his followers bread and circuses,
meaning the gladiators and now slicing each other up in
movie theaters. We've had demagogues in our country too well.
Into the Great Depression, Huey Long ruled Louisiana, first as governor,

(01:16:42):
then in the US Senate. The Kingfish, as he was called,
was a populist, but unlike Donald Trump, Huey was a
left wing populist. Huey Long filled Louisiana governor and its
government with political cronies, and then demanded that they kicked
back part of their salaries. His Share our Wealth program

(01:17:05):
set a cap on all salaries public and private. We
distributed property and pushed massive public spending, so massive that
Franklin Roosevelt, to keep Huey from challenging him for the
White House, spent just as much. Huey famously promised that
he'd put a chicken in every pot and make every

(01:17:26):
man a king. He told that his socialism was unconstitutional,
the Kingfish said, and I quote, I am the Constitution
told the same thing about his new deal. FDR threatened
to pack the US Supreme Court. Ultimately, Huey Long was
assassinated by the son in law of the judge that

(01:17:47):
Huey pushed into retirement. Today, Coach Brian Kelly can thank
Huey Long for putting LSU on the map with a
lot of spending, and also spending a ton of money
on other public works. But the Kingfish also left a
legacy of boss government in Louisiana and making millions of

(01:18:08):
people dependent on handouts. Huey Long was a white Santa Claus.
Black demagogues have done perhaps even more damage, Brian. For
decades centuries, people of color were denied equality under the law.
Nobody is denying that. But once America atoned for that
sin by winning the Civil War, passing three amendments to

(01:18:32):
our Constitution, and then finally the Civil Rights Acts of
the nineteen sixties. True civil rights leaders like doctor Martin
Luther King Junior did not want to play Santa Claus.
They wanted black people to be treated as equals, not
as perpetual victims. But Doctor King was soon replaced by

(01:18:54):
the likes of Reverend Al Sharpton. He became famous promoting
a black girl who who lied about being raped by whites.
Sharpton still believes not in character but in identity politics.
We have discussed for years Brian so called civil rights
inspired laws that showered unwed black mothers with welfare so

(01:19:17):
long as there was no man living in the house,
that destroyed black and many poor white and Hispanic family
formations like as you have been discussing this morning, Jordan
Neely's no man in the house. That was not the
vision of doctor King. That was not even the vision
of Santa Claus, who rewards good little boys and girls

(01:19:40):
and their fathers of every race, creed and color, for
all of our shortcomings. The United States of America was
founded on virtue, the limited decentralized government set out in
our actual constitution. That limited decentralized government is what Donald
Trump's right wing populism is trying to restore. Because Donald

(01:20:04):
Trump is not Santa Claus. He has promised to preserve
social safety nets, including social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. But
Donald Trump is not a demogogue. This president wants boys
and girls to grow up to be responsible parents who
can raise their own boys and girls and buy them

(01:20:26):
presents themselves, maybe pretending that they were left by Santa Claus,
but knowing that those presents and the roof over their
heads and the food on their tables all come from
a booming economy, equal opportunity, and hard, honest labor. That's
why more and more men and women of all races

(01:20:48):
voted for Trump. And having a president not a demagogue,
is the best president, best present as well that anybody
can get.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
Indeed, you know, you mentioned bread and circuses, and I
immediately wrote that down. I mean, isn't that really one
of the things that the reasons the Roman Empire fell?
They expanded beyond their ability to maintain the borders. They
spent gazillions and gazillions of dollars trying to keep the
people appeased with freey stuff and things, only to find

(01:21:21):
out that it was completely unaffordable and incapable of being sustained,
and gradually the system decays and falls apart. Now I
say that thinking about in the back of my mind,
as I'm sure you're probably already anticipating thirty six trillion
dollars in national debt and growing with no and in sight.
That's one of the reasons why I'm so excited about

(01:21:42):
this whole concept of DOGE. Someone's got to put the
brakes on it. And if you've worried about your own
personal favorite program, the thing that you are hooked up
to the umbilical court of governments of providing you whatever
thing bread and circus or whatever you're getting, you might
want to be concerned. But in the broader scheme, the
government has gotten so large in size and scope that

(01:22:03):
they can't even account for the money that they spend. Jack,
they did how many audits of the Defense Department now
and they still haven't been able to account for the
money they spend. Our own government doesn't know where the
money went. That is I'm sorry. There are two words,
and I can't utter them on the radio except the

(01:22:23):
second one, which is up.

Speaker 14 (01:22:27):
Well, of course, you're absolutely right, may I add, Brian.
Some listeners may be saying, wait a minute, even Donald
Trump wants to keep Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid,
and those were left wing populist programs, And that's very true.
But until Trump, the GOP was not a right wing

(01:22:50):
populist Party, the white shoe Republicans, the Bushes and the
Cheneys and Mitt Romney. They got us into the Great Depression,
and more recently they've been shipping America's manufacturing jobs off
to China. They created the Huey Longs and FDR. But
as we've discussed, Otto von Bismarck, no big liberal, as

(01:23:15):
the head of the United Germany in the eighteen seventies,
gave Germany a social safety net in the nineteenth century.
What's different about Trump is that he wants the smallest
freest government that's possible, with a social safety net, a
reasonable one, not a hammock, to give all Americans the

(01:23:35):
freedom to succeed.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
Yeah, And the reason people get uptight about Social Security,
I hear it all the time. I paid into that.
I paid in that. You're right, you did. But when
it was created, people died in their mid sixties. They
were not on a program, I mean to the extent
even well back then when it did when it first existed, well,
he had fifteen workers for every Social Security recipient. Social

(01:24:00):
Security recipient was probably going to be dead by age
sixty eight. You only had several years of reliance on
that program financially, it actually worked out on paper. Now
what there are three workers for every Social Security recipient.
They're paying out more than they take in. It's a
recipe for collapse. I understand, and I appreciate the fact

(01:24:22):
that people are reliant upon it because they have lived
their life with the promise from government that they would
be getting a Social Security check. Fine, you must fulfill
that promise because people have, you know, based and built
their entire financial you know situation, you know, their savings,
their their their their retirement expectations on the idea of

(01:24:45):
getting a Social Security check which they paid into. Unfortunately,
the system isn't working out over the long haul, and
it is destined to collapse by every government you know projection,
whether from the left or the right, all of the programs,
all the analysis says this is unsustainable. So what we
need to do is create a different future expectation, give

(01:25:08):
people some flexibility. You want to be in the Social
Security program or would you rather invest that monthly so
that that withdraw from your paycheck into your personal financial
retirement account where you could probably end up doing a
lot better in terms of return on investment. Jack, I
don't know what you paid in over the years of
your working or what ultimately I have paid in over
the years. But I bet you that if all the

(01:25:29):
money that they had taken out of my paycheck for
the Social Security program I had in my personal retirement
account earning interest and getting a compounding interest return, I
will be in a lot better position than whatever I'm
going to end up getting from Social Security. And you know,
everybody read your Social Security form. It says right there
on the front, this is an estimated payment of what

(01:25:51):
you can get when you are retired, but don't count
on it. It's not a guarantee, which means you know,
you may be getting a lot less than what they
have written on the piece of paper.

Speaker 14 (01:26:02):
The underlying problem is even more dire birth rates in
our country now one point three percent replacement rate. You
need two point one just to remain steady. And the
answer is not illegal immigration, unless you just want people
to cut your lawn and maybe be a nanny. I mean,
the answer is to have the kind of legal immigration

(01:26:24):
that Orlando Sanza and the vike Ramaswami talk about on
your show all the time. We need more people in
this country, but we also need and this circles. Back
to what we were talking about earlier. We need to
raise people who are responsible, who want to form families,
who aren't paid off simply to vote for Democrats, quants

(01:26:47):
and for establishment Republicans. People who want to be the
kind of people that we had in the World War
II generation who then spoiled their kids. And that's a
whole different talk that we've had before, but who at
least had the kids we're able to pay it into
social security and build up this country for the next generation.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
Yeah, and you know that's interesting, Jack, and probably the
subject matter for a future conversation between you and my
listening audience. Why young people don't want to have children.
It seems to be a mixed bag of it's too
damn expensive, and then we could sort of do an
analysis of why it's so expensive to have children. But
then there's that corollary where everything is built on, every

(01:27:27):
piece of legislation, every activity that mankind engages in, always
ends up going back to a discussion about global warming
or climate change. People, young people these days think that,
you know, children and humanity are a bunch of cockroaches
killing the planet. They have no desire to participate in
a world where we are all personally responsible for the

(01:27:49):
death of the planet some you know, X number of
years in the future. If we just could eradicate that
as a concept and start from scratch and just eliminate
the discussion about exhalation causing our collective demise, maybe we
might re examine the benefits, the virtues, the value of

(01:28:09):
being parents. I'm a much better human being for having
had my two children. It did cost a lot, yes,
of course it did. But it was a brilliant, brilliant, wonderful,
joyous learning experience. It creates this love that you wouldn't
have absent the children being involved, the satisfaction enjoy you
get watching your children grow and develop. You don't have kids.

(01:28:32):
You don't get that, and people can't. People just don't
understand that. It boil it down to simple either monetary
or global warming crapping ergo. No one wants to have
kids anymore.

Speaker 14 (01:28:42):
I don't know, man, It's always going to be too
expensive to have children if you remain a child yourself.
But post election analysis of the vote shows that the
youngest voters were the ones who were most likely to
vote for Trump. They're getting over the basillas of the
nineteen sixties. It's taken this many generations, but in that

(01:29:06):
cohort of eighteen to I think about twenty four or five,
you saw a big movement toward Trump among men and women. Yeah,
and that's one of the most hopeful things that's happened.

Speaker 3 (01:29:17):
Indeed, I love your quote though, children, if you never
developed you on childhood yourself, I think there's some real
wisdom in that one. Brother, And of course that's what
we get from you every time you're on the Morning show. Jack,
I think, God bless you, my best you, your beautiful
better half. Look forward to next Wednesday and another conversation,
and just have a wonderful week, my friend. And thanks

(01:29:40):
for spending time with my listeners and me every week.

Speaker 14 (01:29:42):
Happy holiday, everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:29:44):
Appreciate that, Jack, and back at you from all my listeners.
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can find online at Hudson dot org. Brigham mcowen to
talk about Trump's energy policies. Welcome back, Brigham. You know
I love having you on the show. It's good to
have you back on today. Well, Brian, thank you so much.
It's always an honor and a pleasure. And I'm reporting
to you live from our nation's capital this morning. Oh
you're in the swamp. Huh.

Speaker 10 (01:32:42):
Well, you know we're gonna make it shiny again. We're
gonna clean things up.

Speaker 3 (01:32:45):
I think, I hope so, and I honestly, I have
to be honest with you. When I saw the topic today,
Trump's energy policies my only reaction because I honestly, and
as much as I read as much news as I
go through, I haven't really personally, I've seen a whole
lot about it, except that he is what has been
described as or for what I've generally read as everything approaches,

(01:33:09):
like all the everything you know, we'll go with it all.
Whatever you want, everything open, let's use that gas oil
and coal, and if you want a windmill, do that.
All the above kind of strategy in order to bring
down our energy bills and create a more efficient energy
system here.

Speaker 10 (01:33:26):
Absolutely, that is one of the key pillars. And I
think you know, this notion of energy dominance or energy independence,
which we've talked about, is more critical than ever. You know,
we've talked on the program previously about watching mistakes that
other countries have made, so your inflicted.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
Wounds the European Union collectively Germany most notably.

Speaker 10 (01:33:50):
Yes, absolutely, and you know this is part of President
Trump has several pillars. And if I may real quickly,
and I'll explain how energy fits into this. First is
this return to peace through strength by re establishing de terrence,
renewing America's industrial base, which requires a lot of energy,
and protecting the US against espionage and different ask actions

(01:34:13):
like that. I'll skip over secure our borders. That's pretty
self explanatory. But on our economy, you know, that's really
where energy comes in, because you know, it is a
huge component of what makes a country, any country, competitive
or not competitive when you're trying to build and sell things.

(01:34:35):
And I think that's something a lot of the world
has forgotten. And we've seded this to China and to
some extent some other places of people that don't like
us very much. It's very odd, don't you agree?

Speaker 3 (01:34:47):
I agree one hundred percent, And that's what I always
go back to. I mean, I know, I think I'm
one of the few heretics that are left in the
world that doesn't believe that you and I are axhiling
ourselves into existence. I don't believe in committing economic suicide
by trying to rely on the sun to power literally everything.
I'm smarter than that. But I watch as other countries

(01:35:08):
benefiting unbelievably in terms of their building of their economy.

Speaker 1 (01:35:12):
The Chinese.

Speaker 3 (01:35:12):
Chinese are a perfect example. They push this global warming
stuff on the rest of the world through all of
their connectivity with social media and influencing and all that,
and yet they do not lift a finger. They are
not interested in committing economic suicide. They burn coal, they
still build coal plants, they do anything they damn well please,

(01:35:33):
while they manufacture all of the green stuff that we
think we need to rely on. Completely. It's just absolute insanity.

Speaker 10 (01:35:42):
Brigham, Amen, Amen, it is in fact. And you know,
if you look just a couple miles away from me,
down down Pennsylvania Avenue at the White House, you know
for the last four years, you've heard this administration to
Biden Harris administration talk about, well, we compete with China
over here, but in climate they agree with us on climate.

Speaker 1 (01:36:05):
We are cooperating.

Speaker 10 (01:36:07):
Now, Brian, it's unilateral economic disarmament. They want us to
believe all this nonsense because they want us to destroy
what's left of our industrial base, to destroy what's left
of American and American strength energy. I mean, a lot
of countries don't have the natural resources that we have.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
Japan has to.

Speaker 10 (01:36:30):
Import almost all of its raw materials and energy. But
American we're blessed with this. Why on earth would we
take one of our biggest markers off the table.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
That is a legitimate question, and the only thing that
I've been able to conclude over the years, Brigand, is
that there are you know, these the globalist mentality forces
out there, those that wish to control us, generally speaking,
see us as the outlier. We're the big wart, We're

(01:37:03):
the ones that stick out. And why do we stick out?
Because freedom, independence, capitalism, and an abundance of energy has
built an economy that nobody in the world can compete with.
And because of that, they want to take all our
money and redistribute it. They want to kneecappus. They want
us to commit this suicide in the name of global

(01:37:24):
climate change or something, so we flatten out our economy
so the rest of the world can. Well, we can
join the rest of the world and be equally poor.
I mean, it sounds conspiratorial, but that's the only conclusion
I can be left with, Brigham.

Speaker 10 (01:37:38):
Well, I think you're onto something because another part of
President Trump's pillars and re establishing our economy. He's not
opposed to trade. People are freaking out all over the
place right now, right, this is his opening move. This
is fantastic. He's not opposed to trade. He wants fair trade,
not free trade. And a lot of the trade we've

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made the Parish climate change. This all goes in the
same bucket of giving away our stuff to other people.
And you cannot save, cut, conserve your way to prosperity.
That's not how it works. And I think he gets well,
I know he gets that, and his new administration gets that,

(01:38:20):
and hence the make America great again.

Speaker 3 (01:38:22):
All right, let's pause with bring Briga McComb back. We
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was bringing a down from the Hudson Institute online Hudson
dot org, talking energy policy and Brigham you mentioned and
moving just slightly away from and I know it's all interconnected.
But going back to your statement about fair trade and
the concept of fair trade, I know that's where these
tariffs come in, because it is literally impossible to have

(01:41:28):
fair trade with a country like China. They don't have OSHA,
they don't have a regulatory scheme, they don't have an
environmental protection agency, they don't give a crap about anything
at all. They also have slave labor. So how is
it you could ever achieve quote unquote fair trade with
a country that has such a substantial advantage in terms
of manufacturing at a discount compared to what our companies

(01:41:52):
here have to deal with under our regulatory environment. Hut Brigham.

Speaker 10 (01:41:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's a great point. At it's
actually very difficult. And you may remember back some years
ago when we let China into d G seven and
into the World Trade Organization. The wto the thought was, gosh,
if we traded, we'd all become friends.

Speaker 1 (01:42:18):
You guys wouldn't be.

Speaker 10 (01:42:19):
Communists any longer, you would support freedom, we'll all get along.

Speaker 7 (01:42:23):
Well.

Speaker 10 (01:42:23):
One of President Trump's current advisors, Robert Leiitthheiser, who was
the US Trade rep said that is a mistake. And
everybody said, oh, you don't know what you're talking about. Well,
he was right. It is difficult because every single company
in China is owned by the Communist Party of China.

(01:42:45):
In no, yeah, there is no free market. And Brian
and I know you know this, some of your listeners
may not. They all have to swear allegiance to the
state and that they will do everything possible to put
the state first, including espionage, spying, stealing of intellectual property,
all of that. And unless and until America can restore deterrence,

(01:43:10):
military deterrence with Taiwan, economic deterrence, energy deterrence, that's how
you get these people to understand you. You don't deal
with a playground bully by ignoring them, right, you.

Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
Have to stand up to them.

Speaker 10 (01:43:27):
And that's not if we have not been doing that.
And fast fact, China now emits more carbon. If you're
keeping track of carbon and greenhouse gases, then the rest
of the industrial world combined, we can all hold our
breaths and it wouldn't make a darn bit of difference
even if you felt it would.

Speaker 3 (01:43:47):
Well, again, another illustration of the stupidity of trying to
control the emissions, at least in terms of naturally occurring
emissions like carbon dioxide. I mean, you can keep you know,
benz out of the air. You can take lead out
of gasoline and keep that from out of the air
and still have an efficient internal combustion engine. So there

(01:44:09):
are technological advances we can make to keep toxic chemicals out.
But carbon dioxide isn't toxic. It's plant food.

Speaker 1 (01:44:16):
And you know.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
Yeah, And I going back to your point on the
economic realities of China. They didn't play along. I think
that was Nixon's idea of opening up free trade with China. Well,
if we just trade with them, they're enemies of the
Soviet Union. But looking at the Soviet Union and our
policies toward them and all the other Western nations, nobody
traded with them. They were isolated, and they fell apart

(01:44:39):
and collapsed economically for a multitude of reasons, but most
notably because we wouldn't engage in commerce and industry with them.
We choked them off. And if the rest of the
world decided to choke off the Chinese and they wouldn't
be able to build their military industrial complex.

Speaker 1 (01:44:55):
You're exactly right.

Speaker 10 (01:44:56):
And I think you'll also see speaking of speak King
of sanctions, a return to maximum pressure on Iran because
the last four years have not been good. We've given
them billions of dollars and they have sowed hate and
discontent all throughout the Middle East. But real quickly, we
talk about a lot of these energy pieces. Just uploaded

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a new version of Charged Conversation speaking of Higheart Radio,
where you can find it there or any other place
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the background and some of the political philosophy that has
gotten into this this climate debate, and it's really not
about climate debate, as you've pointed out, it's anti capitalism

(01:45:40):
and a lot of people are starting to wake up
and realize they've been lied to. So point in fact
that you just mentioned in our atmosphere, seventy eight percent
of our atmosphere is nitrogen, about twenty one percent is oxygen,
one percent is argone gas. That's the stuff that goes
in neon lights. It's also harmless, although it is an
oxygen and displacement that machines. When we get down to it,

(01:46:04):
we have four to one hundreds of one percent of
our atmosphere is carbon.

Speaker 1 (01:46:12):
Dioxide plant food, plant.

Speaker 10 (01:46:16):
Food less than four to one hundreds of one percent,
and as best as we can tell, humans are responsible
for sixteen If I'm reading this right, how many decimal
places is for tens hundreds thousand, ten thousands, sixteen to
ten thousandths of one percent.

Speaker 3 (01:46:37):
Yeah, it's not a thing. It's nothing. It's absolutely nothing.
And you know what, really, really, and I'm going to
use the words pisses me off, recognizing that some people's
sensitivities may be bothered by that, but at that level
that I'm uttering it out loud. I was reading about
the so called Inflation Reduction Act, which was really the

(01:46:59):
Green New Deal project, and all of the programs and
incentives and millions and billions of dollars that are going
to various states for the purposes of carbon capture. And
to see Republican administration officials in those those dollar receiving
states fight to keep things like carbon capture just because

(01:47:19):
it benefits their bottom line. There reveals the reality and
the nefarious nature of all of this. It's really just
a it's wealth redistribution by another name, and it flows
into the coffers of administrations regardless of political stripes, and
once they get hooked on the opium that that is
they won't let it go to our detriment.

Speaker 7 (01:47:42):
Yeah, we are.

Speaker 10 (01:47:42):
The government is creating a false economy that is not
based on products or services that people want to purchase,
and that can only be sustained so long as you
have these tax breaks or tax credits or other pieces.
And I think getting back to President Trump on his

(01:48:03):
all the above strategy, which is actually something both parties
used to embrace. Yep, you want to buy an EV, great,
buy a EV, but I'm not going to make you
buy one. You want solar panels on your roof, perfect,
you know you want nuclear fantastic. We're gonna need it all,
and we're going to need it where it makes the
most amount of sense. And the things that are economically

(01:48:26):
viable are going to survive. Your Elon Musk knows about
you build stuff that people want. You can have the
greatest idea in the world, but no E's going to
pay you for it. Only the government creates an industry
that doesn't exist.

Speaker 3 (01:48:42):
Right exactly, Now, where do you think DEI came from?
Which college education folks came out with degrees and something
where there was no market for them. So, well, we're
going to make everybody have a DEI department, in their company,
in their in their in their college, and their business,
and we'll employ all these people who otherwise have valueless degrees.
Brigham Acgown Hudson dot org is where you find the

(01:49:02):
Hudson Institute Charged Conversation. Search for it. It's brilliant. You'll
love listening to it. Find it on your iHeartMedia app.
Bring them until we get to talk again. If we
don't talk before Christmas, So if you have wonderful holidays
and merry Christmas, and of course a happy New Year.
But I will welcome the opportunity to have you back
on the program before the end of the year. But
that doesn't happen, of course. Best to health and to

(01:49:23):
you and all of your loved ones.

Speaker 10 (01:49:26):
Thank you, Brian, same to you and yours.

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Speaker 1 (01:51:21):
Great to be on the show with you this morning, Brian.

Speaker 3 (01:51:24):
We did a lot of discussion yesterday abt the unfolding
situation in Syria, and that was the first topic that
we're gonna be talking about this morning. And there are
no love loss for Ushar al asade I don't know
a human being on the planet that thought he was
a great guyer.

Speaker 1 (01:51:38):
That is a good thing.

Speaker 3 (01:51:39):
He was empowered, obviously a ruthless dictator, killed hundreds of
thousands and people, tortured tens of thousands of people. He's
now gone. But what happens now in the aftermath with
the rebel forces taking over the country. Aren't these rebels
made up and comprised of largely Islamic fundamentalists.

Speaker 1 (01:52:00):
Well, the person in charge now is the head of
a terrorist organization designated as a terrorist organization by the
US government. And so we've got the ironic situation where
people in America, in our State Department, are celebrating their
success in installing a terrorist organization at the head of

(01:52:22):
a sovereign country. I mean, meanwhile, we've been meddling there
for over a decade. I was elected in twenty twelve
and took office in November twenty twelve, and by the
spring of twenty thirteen, I was already offering bills and
resolutions to get us out of Syria. And we had

(01:52:43):
a vote. We were going to have a vote when
Obama was president on whether to go to war in Syria,
to put US troops there, and people rallied around the
United States and said, we don't want a war in Syria.
So we didn't do a war in Syria. But what
happened and I've got to put I'm doing air quotes
right now at my desk here in DC. According to

(01:53:05):
the New York Times, we spent a billion dollars on
a clandestine program in Syria after refused to vote to
go to war there. According to the New York Times
air quotes, we basically undertook an operation to destabilize Asad

(01:53:28):
in Syria, and it was multi year, multi prong operation.
When Trump came into office, Pompeo basically reversed a lot
of that, and then it all went back into place
after Biden took over, And frankly, I would say probably

(01:53:49):
when when Trump was there, it didn't completely stop either.
I mean, the State Department, the Deep State was not
going to be deterred by mere surface nuisance, i e.
Elected officials. They kept on with this, and meanwhile, hundreds
of thousands of Christians were displaced in this country. And

(01:54:09):
I'm not saying that you know that we shouldn't worry
about the other people who were affected by meddling over there.
We absolutely should. But Christians in the United States who
might find themselves cheering this recent development need to understand.
As you said, Asad was not a nice guy, but
the Christians were much better off over there under him.

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
He protected them because he was an allow eight or whatever.
His minority group was ten percent of the population. But
he protected his crew, but he also provided protection for Christians.
So yeah, I mean, you're gonna have to break this
down for me, because I'm really confused. Didn't the Iranians
support the b Charlesade regime or have I got that
upside down?

Speaker 1 (01:54:51):
No, that's correct.

Speaker 3 (01:54:52):
Okay, So wait a second Biden administration and Obama was
all about supporting the Iranians. We gave him millions of
gave them, you know, truckloads of money, literally pallets of money,
lightened sanctions on the Iranians, I suppose, with the hope
that they wouldn't develop a nuclear weapon. How is it
that by helping the Iranians in that way, but then
trying to undermine Syria, which the Iranians support, And was

(01:55:17):
there an endgame contemplated when we were spending billions of
dollars trying to undermine the Bashar Ali Shad regime? I mean,
what were we hoping to accomplish by doing that? Did
we not think about what would happen if he did fault?
Like what's happening right now?

Speaker 1 (01:55:33):
Well, I think that Syria and Assad was just a
pawn in a much larger global game here. And this
is why they won't tell you what our goals are
because they don't want you to know the goals. But
now that they're celebrating, you can see what they're celebrating
they're celebrating an embarrassment to Russia because Russia was also

(01:55:53):
one of the supporters of ASAD. And again they were
in there, not particularly because they ideologically care about ASAD
or any of the things going on there. This was
a proxy, proxy hot war, not a Cold War, but
a continuation, I would say, of the Cold War, reigniting
of the Cold War. And it was a proxy hot

(01:56:14):
war civil war in Syria with American interests on one side,
although I'm not sure what they were other than opposing
Iran in Russia and Russia and Iranian interests on another side,
although I'm not sure what those were other than opposing America.
And in the meantime, you've got millions of people who
were suffering. So I think the people there are a

(01:56:35):
lot of people in Syria who are just glad that
it's over to some degree, but we don't know what's
coming next. This terrorist organization that's running Syria at this point,
again designated by our own State Department, the ones who
did this as a terrorist organization, they started with al Qaeda.

(01:56:56):
Now they say they've severed their ties to al Qaeda
and al Ustra, all this and that and the other
thing but they're still comprised of the same rebels that
they were when they were al Qaeda. So it'll be
interesting to see what comes next. Maybe maybe the trains
will run on time, maybe the buses will run, maybe
the shops will be open. But we'll see. It's not

(01:57:17):
worked out well in other countries. And meanwhile, get ready,
we're gonna hear all of these reasons why we need
to take more refugees into this country from the Middle
East because of what happened.

Speaker 3 (01:57:29):
Well, well, yes, like day following night, that of course
will be the reality there. Going back to your earlier
comment though, because this is a subject matter the judge,
Judge and I talk about all the time. Judge and Politano.
You said earlier on that there was a vote on
whether we would be entering into war with Syria. Was
that a vote to declare war like is required by

(01:57:51):
the Constitution or was it a vote to just sort
of like authorization for use of military force, which I
think is extra constitutional.

Speaker 1 (01:58:00):
Well, it was going to be the extra constitutional variety
at AUMF. But here's what happened. Obama threw it to Congress,
and Pelosi was all in. John Bayner was all in.
I suppose the leaders in the Senate were all in.
But we received one hundred phone calls a day each
congressional office from our own constituents, which is a record.

(01:58:22):
This past week, there was one day I received no
phone calls from any constituents to my office. So to
get a hundred phone calls as remarkable. Now I know,
I just invited at least three dozen phone calls on
my staff today, which is fine. We were listening. Operators
are standing by. But we had one hundred phone calls
a day for a solid week, and everybody wanted us

(01:58:45):
not to vote to go to war or to do
the AUMF and SIA. So what they did is the
vote never happened. They quietly didn't vote on it at
all because they knew American support wasn't there for it.
And then they, according to the New York Times, undertook
a secret war in Syria.

Speaker 3 (01:59:07):
Wow, which doesn't surprise me. We have our fingers literally
everywhere around the globe for reasons that are mysterious and
unknown to me.

Speaker 1 (01:59:15):
So and one more thing about the mysterious and the unknown,
the timing of this. Look, who's going to be the
head of d and I Tulci Gabbert. She's the one who,
along with me, was famously opposed to our meddling there.
She even went to Syria, she visited Syria, and now
she's being named into this cabinet. And Trump is the

(01:59:37):
one during his administration we had troops there. He tried
to pull our troops out, and then the deep state
tried to go after him for that, tried to say,
you can't do that. We had votes in Congress. The
timing of this is I think as soon as the
November election results were in and Trump was declared the winner,
our deep state and some of our global allies went

(01:59:57):
into overdrive to bring this to a to you know,
consummate the overthrow before Trump could get in there or
Tulsi Gabbard or some of the other people who have
questioned this policy of overthrowing a said, I mean, if
if a turtle gets on a fence post, it didn't
get there by the by accident, right exactly. This cool.

(02:00:18):
The timing here is remarkable, and I'm gonna call it
for what it is. They just got this done before
Trump could get in there and stop it.

Speaker 3 (02:00:26):
Yeah, no doubt, and just real quick here, I'm reminded
of Afghanistan when the Russians went into Afghanistan. That was
back when they were the Soviet Union, and we you know,
the enemy of my enemy is my friends. We would
fund the majah Haadeen to fight the Russians, which made
us look good. But then again, when the Russians get
kicked out, that leaves the power void, and then the
Majahadeen then becomes the enemy of us, right, and we

(02:00:47):
end up fight fundamental as terrorists. And it's just it's
a Charlie Fox trot. If I mean to be so
bold as to call it that, Can I just ask
it real briefly because we're gonna take a break, I'm
and bring it back talk about the topics. But did
we miss an opportun unity with the fall of the
Berlin Wall and the fall of the Soviet Union to
just sort of make good and play nice with the
Russians and sort of you know, maybe perhaps trading with
them rather than just viewing them as the Soviet Union

(02:01:09):
just under different guys. Did we miss an opportunity because
we've been playing nice with the Chinese, much to the
Chinese benefit, since Nixon was in office. And look what
happened to them. I mean, they did not become a
capitalist country. They became our mortal enemy. Yet we still
continue to trade with them. But I just didn't see
that unfolding in Russia in the fall the Soviet Union.

Speaker 1 (02:01:29):
We didn't just miss an opportunity, We poisoned the well
by expanding NATO. We told them, okay, you do this,
you concede everything to us, you make nice, we'll trade
with you, and we won't expand NATO. And then what
do we do. We just keep expanding NATO. And that's frankly,
what Ukraine was about. So you're right, we missed an opportunity,

(02:01:49):
but we also poisoned the well. And it's a shame
because our real competitors in this next century are China is,
China here and whatever alliance they can build, and they're
working over time to do that, and we should be
aligned with with Russia, frankly, instead of being fighting them,

(02:02:10):
because China is It's ten times the power that Russia is.
Whether there'sure economically or other than nuclear weapons, in every
other category, China is a bigger threat than Russia.

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And like us, their fingertips are all over the globe
and growing more and more every day. Take a look
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Chuck Ingram on fifty five krs, the talk station.

Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
Hey twenty one, filth car Ce the talk station. Brian
Thomas with one of the few good ones. We've got
an elected capacity Congressman Thomas Massey, and God bless the
folks in the Commonwealth of Kentucky for bringing me back.
He's a good man. He knows what he's talking about.
Back when we had COVID and we're all being lied to,
we effectively had martial law declared, even without declaring it.

(02:04:58):
I know we have the free exercise of religon and
guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution the United
States of America, along with the right to assembly, freedom
of assembly, and yet those were taken away by government officials.
And at the time they did it, I was screaming
in the radio. What you can't tell people they're not
allowed to be running around on the streets.

Speaker 1 (02:05:15):
You can't me.

Speaker 3 (02:05:16):
But yet we had that, and apparently Chad Cronister, who
was selected by President ele like Donald Trump to serve
as the Drug Enforcement Administration administrator did just that. He
participated in this ridiculous Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:05:32):
He ordered the arrest of a pastor. And as you know,
the chief law enforcement officer for a county, the sheriff.
The sheriff, by the way, is your last line of
defense when somebody's trying to violate the constitution, and if
the sheriff will stand up for you, you can stop all
sorts of bad things, even coming from the federal level.
But instead of standing up and protecting constitution, he went

(02:05:54):
right along with the lockdowns, ordered the arrest of a pastor.
You know, we had this nonsense in Kentucky. Our own
governor Andy Basher sent the state troopers out to write
down license plates and send them into local health authorities
and put notices on windows and try to intimidate people
into not going to church. But this sheriff in Florida
did the same thing. Unfortunately, I don't think they vetted

(02:06:17):
him fully. And to Trump's credit, maybe the sheriff. The
sheriff issued a press release saying I'm withdrawing my name,
but Trump came out and said, no, I withdrew you're
thanking for this. But that's not all that this sheriff did.
I mean, in twenty twelve, this sheriff gave thousands of
dollars to Obama. Okay, I presume he's a Republican now

(02:06:38):
or Trump wouldn't have picked him. But somebody needs to
vet that kind of stuff. And also he had a
de facto, de facto COVID vaccine mandate in his office
because he said, if you get sick, if you're one
of my deputies and you get sick and you need
time off, we're not paying for it if you haven't
had the vaccine, but if you've taken the vaccine, and

(02:07:00):
we'll pay for it. So he was all around bad guy.
I went out on social media. I asked my staff
because I get fact checked. I mean I get fact
checked every day. People would just love to catch me
being wrong. Unfortunately it doesn't happen because I checked my
facts before I go out. We researched all this stuff
on this guy, and within hours of him being named

(02:07:22):
for this position, I went on a speaking of Syria,
I went on a jihad to expose this guy. We
cannot let him be in the DEA. The drug enforcement agency.
He can't be running that he's a bad law enforcement officer.
So went out on social media, got three million views
on the tweet where I said he should be disqualified

(02:07:44):
for the things that he's done. And again, to his credit,
Trump's said, after the public outcry, this is one instance
where the people spoke and it mattered. You didn't have
to go to the ballot box. People said no, we
don't want this guy and all the wrongs. Yeah, and
Trump said, yep, you're right, We're taking the name off

(02:08:05):
the list. So hats off to the people.

Speaker 3 (02:08:07):
All right, Well, two guys that are on a list anyway,
not going to be getting a government salary, not going
to be enjoying the benefits of government, but you know,
benefits of Viva Elon musk and Viva Gramma swimming. They're
going to be sitting down. I just kind of have
this vision of them being in some unused government office building,
pouring through the books and just saying unnecessary, wrong, no misspent,

(02:08:29):
and just handing over to Congress to see what they
do and so we can identify the good guys and
bad guys, see where they cut. They make great recommendations.
I assume they're going to and they'll point out the
flaws and the and the government waste and abuse and
see and see what elected officials do about it. What's
your take on this doge thing, Well.

Speaker 1 (02:08:48):
The Douche Committee, I tell people, it's like the Constitution.
If you can get my colleagues to follow it, great,
But if they don't, you're in trouble because the Douche
Committee needs executive action, and more importantly, it needs Congressional
action to cut these programs, to de authorize this craziness.
Although what I've observed in my twelve years is that

(02:09:11):
we don't even have the spine or the wherewithal to
defund one toner cartridge at the FBI when they do
something bad and they won't give us answers. Instead of
saying we're not going to pay for your copier machine
there in Office ONEAB, we say here's a new building
to conduct your malfeasance in, and we build them a

(02:09:31):
new building. So, and by the way, I tweeted that,
because Congress takes over on January third and the President
is sworn in on January twentieth, we have seventeen days
to pile up a stack of good bills on his desk,
so that on his first day, I know he's going
to do a lot of executive actions or more importantly,
undo a lot of bad executive activity from Biden. He

(02:09:54):
should be able to sign legislation mean that we have
already done. And so I tweeted that and vivek Tech
to me. We go back, you know, we text back
and forth, and he said which bills are you talking about?
And I was like, Wow, I need to think about this,
don't I before I send a tweet? So I said,
the Rains Act is the first one that the Doge
Committee should be after. That would save so much money

(02:10:16):
because if and by the way, we've here's the other
good thing about the Rains Act. Regulations of the executive
in need of scrutiny? Is it what it is? If
there's a if there's an administrative rule that's being promulgated
that costs more than one hundred million dollars to our
economy or to our government or them combined, then it
has to come back to Congress for a voes. It's

(02:10:37):
not rule making, Yeah, it's lawmaking. At that point, let's
draw the line in the sand. And that would be
so great it would stop so many regulations that that
shouldn't be promulgated because they're basically laws. It would be
the administrative branch overstepping their authority and costing money to
the government and to the people. So that's the one

(02:10:58):
that I sus proposed to of evight. That's like the
first one we should do. And the good news about
the Rains Act is it's already been through committee. It's
already been marked up in at least two different Congresses
that I know of, because it's come through actually my
subcommittee on Regulatory Reform on the Judiciary Committee. So we
we already had a hearing on this, we marked it up,

(02:11:20):
we passed it in the House. So I know on
January third, we're going to have you know, it's it's ready.
We're gonna have some new Yeah, we're gonna have some
new Congressmen. But they can vote on this thing. It's
been fully vetted, and then let's put that on send
it to the Senate first of all, and shame them.
Shame that this is.

Speaker 3 (02:11:38):
You see, that's what they see the benefits of the dog.
They can't do anything themselves but correct. They can point
it out and when they when and when they when
they do nothing, congress or senators say no, no, no,
we can't cut that program that's gonna impact my stage
bottom line. Then we know who the bad guys are
and we can publicly shame them. And you'll be right
at the forefront of the public shaming. Congressman Thomas Massey,

(02:12:00):
judge of Paulton, is listening in on you right now,
getting ready to queue him up left to Judge. I
know you do that. J loves you too. We all
love each other cause yeah, we talk common sense and
it's a rare commodity these days until we get to
speak again, and I doubt it'll before the end of
the year. So Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones,
best of health and a happy new Year, and we'll
hit the ground running after the first of the year.

Speaker 1 (02:12:20):
Congressman Massing, Merry Christmas to you and your listeners and
Joe Strecker there, who you're probably going to make work
during the Christmas break even if you're not there.

Speaker 3 (02:12:28):
His vacation time is up to him. But I won't
be around. God bless you, Thomas Massy. We'll talk real soon.
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to putting twinkle whites on his inflatable constitution, he now
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Speaker 6 (02:13:37):
Does Congressman Massey get introduced that way?

Speaker 3 (02:13:41):
No, he does not, Judgement Poltia, pardon the voice here
in the Little Froggy to day. Now you are the
only person who gets specialized treatment from Ingram. He's on
every segment doing the traffic he's on other stations around
the country. You're it, my friend, and it's it's well.

Speaker 6 (02:13:59):
Deserved in Cincinnati, about which we've been speaking for years,
but you and I once did about ten years ago. Yeah,
I have to hug and kiss Ingram in front of
the crowd.

Speaker 3 (02:14:09):
You will get a to in someday. You're honor, I'm
certain of it. I was glad you're able to listen
in to Congressman Thomas Massey too, because obviously we all play
well together.

Speaker 6 (02:14:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:14:22):
Anyway, pivoting over.

Speaker 6 (02:14:24):
Maybe Joe can Joe Strecker can set up that three
way between you and Thomas Massey and I. And of
course I agree with everything he said. But the sacred
cow there and he knows this and he agrees, is
the Defense Department. Donald Trump actually wants to increase the
budget to over nine hundred billion. This, of course, is

(02:14:48):
more than the next ten countries combined, including Russia, which
has a bigger army and China, which has a bigger navy.

Speaker 3 (02:14:55):
Yes, and in spite of the fact that after eight
attempts to audit defense spending, they've been coming up belly up.
They can't do it. They have no blanking idea where
the money's going, and that disgusts me to no end.

Speaker 6 (02:15:14):
Right, Thomas A. Congressman Massey knows all of this. He
is a voice crying in the wilderness often when it
comes to it. But I am delighted he's still Congressman
Massy and did not fall for any seduction of joining
the Trump administration because he's far more valuable to the

(02:15:36):
first principles that we believe in and to the Constitution
on the floor of the House than in the Department
of Agriculture or whatever they were considering him for.

Speaker 3 (02:15:46):
Yeah. I mean, when Thomason Massy speaks, people listen, and
I think it largely springs from the fact that he
is such a thorn in the side of those who
want to and regularly play fast and loose with the Constitution.
He's got a target on his back, so when he speaks,
like he said, he fact checks everything he does before
he puts it out there. And guess what, people apparently

(02:16:08):
pay attention. He prevented the Dea guy from getting appointed
just by pointing out that the sheriff locked up up
Minister for Conducting Services during COVID nineteen. That is not
someone who understands the First Amendment and the right to
free assembly.

Speaker 1 (02:16:24):
And back to.

Speaker 6 (02:16:28):
Ingram's comment about Rand Paul, which is equally as flattering
to me. He does the same thing in the Senate.
He'll stand up, read a portion of the Constitution and
then read legislation that's on the floor of the Senate
which directly contradicts the portion of the Constitution. And these characters,
big government characters in both parties, they can't answer. They're dumbfounded.

Speaker 3 (02:16:49):
Well, and that stumbles right into probably intentionally your column today,
will Donald Trump stop domestic spying? Which I think the
answer is going to be no, for the reasons you
articulate so well in your column today.

Speaker 6 (02:17:03):
You know, it's very unsettling because he was the victim
of domestic spying back in twenty fifteen and sixteen before
he was president, and we now know during his first
term in the presidency, you would think that he would
put a stop to it. He can put a stop

(02:17:24):
to it with the stroke of a pen. He can
resind Ronald Reagan's Executive Order twelve Triple three, which I
don't mention in the column, which has language in it
that's so vague it enables the intelligence community to spy
on everyone. He can dial back the NSA. He can
prohibit the CIA from doing anything other than administrative work

(02:17:47):
in the United States. He can tell Cash Ptel, his
new director of the FBI, we're the business of solving crime,
not predicting crime. No computer hacking, no surveillance other than
that which is authorized by an Article three judge pursuing
to the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. He can do
all that, but he won't. He won't because the intelligence

(02:18:10):
community has its pause on him and on members of Congress,
not on Commis Massey and Rand Paul, but on the
vast majority of those in both houses and both parties
who are terrified of what the intelligence community has on
them and might reveal. That includes the Speaker of the House,

(02:18:32):
who voted against all this surveillance when he was Congressman.
Johnson then had a two hour secret meeting with leaders
of the intelligence community. Then came out of his office
and said, I'm going to break the tie and vote
in favor of authorizing the NSSA to spy on Americans and.

Speaker 3 (02:18:51):
All an absolute, outright violence violation of the Constitution. I
talk with a Congressman who I'm going to let remain unnamed,
a personal friend of mine, but have a profound disagreement
on this point.

Speaker 1 (02:19:04):
It was innocence.

Speaker 3 (02:19:05):
No, we need this, Brian, because if you knew what
I knew, Like for example, if you had a security
clearance as high as mine and you sat in the
back room and heard all this stuff, if you knew
what I knew, you would support these unconstitutional actions. And
I'm sorry, I can't abide.

Speaker 6 (02:19:23):
Now, what is the sense of the constitution, What is
the meaning of it? What is the value of it?
If these guys in secret, based on secret knowledge, can
abrogate it? I mean, who knows more the people or
the government? The government knows more about us than we
know about the government. Do we work for the government

(02:19:43):
or does the government work for us? This guy, whoever' gal,
whoever the person is, totally has priorities inverted.

Speaker 3 (02:19:51):
Well that was my reaction, because of course, if you
speak with Congress m Assey or someone like you who
appreciates and understands the supreme law of the land, then
you cannot justify its violation. You know, if there's a
dangerous activity going on there that sounds something like it
rises to the level of criminal activity. If it does,
then you can justify by getting a war in front

(02:20:13):
of a judge and then go spy you.

Speaker 6 (02:20:15):
Know, of course, of course. I mean basically what they're
doing is computer hacking. You want to jump to Syria.
We gave aid and comfort to a terrorist organization, the
leader of which we have put a ten million dollar
bounty on his head, and we trained his forces. If

(02:20:36):
that's not giving aid and terror aid and comfort to
our terror organization, I don't know what is. And when
the FBI jumps into this, I'm holding up my mobile device.
If that isn't computer hacking, I don't know what is.
So does the government work for us or do we
work for the government. Do the laws only apply to
the people, or do they apply to the government as well?

Speaker 3 (02:20:57):
Well, we all know the answer to those rhetorical questions,
and sadly they're not positive answers, And we continue to
move on.

Speaker 6 (02:21:06):
And uh, I think Trump is awake, and maybe he's listening.

Speaker 3 (02:21:08):
I don't know, maybe he is. Well, just send him
a copy of this conversation. I'll referm the podcast link
and he can listen for himself and decide for himself
whether it's time to finally put an end to all
of these ridiculous violations.

Speaker 1 (02:21:20):
Of our rights.

Speaker 3 (02:21:22):
Judge Enna Polaitano, I'm glad we've got you, and I'm
glad we've got Congress from Massey to continually remind people
of the shenanigans that are going on in government and
also the strange reality. And I really find it so disturbing.
And we've talked about it before. You brought it up
in your column and we talked about it today. The
idea that our elected officials are afraid to take these

(02:21:45):
powers away for fear that we will find out what
these behind the scenes spies know about them. That is
a frightening, frightening reality. It's blackmail, it's black justice.

Speaker 6 (02:21:58):
Justice Scalia. To me, the members of the court knew
that they were being spied upon. Now if they can supy,
if they can spy in the Supreme Court, they can
spy in anybody. I asked my intelligence community people, does
the CIA spy on the White House? Answer?

Speaker 3 (02:22:16):
Yes, frightening Glad we get to talk about it. Judging
Freedom the podcast Judging of Paulton the hosts and you
need to check it out online where we get your podcasts, Judge,
as we always in the conversation, who are you gonna
be talking with today? I see you're still in New
York here.

Speaker 6 (02:22:31):
Douglas McGregor at eleven fifteen, Professor John Meerscheimer at two o'clock,
Phil Giraldi, the famous CIA agent who told George Bush
that Deamosine has no weapons of mass destruction and Bush
threw them out of the Opal office at three o'clock.

Speaker 3 (02:22:46):
That's a solid lineup as always, until next Wednesday, my
dear friend, have a wonderful day week, best of health,
and we'll have another great conversation next Wednesday.

Speaker 6 (02:22:55):
Back at you, Brian, Thank you all the best.

Speaker 3 (02:22:57):
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