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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Five oh five. I think you've got KRC the talk station.
Happy Wednesday, listen to Lunch Wednesday Snow's Lakeside Taverns will Yes, indeed,

(00:34):
Danny Gleason, good to see you behind the board today,
although the circumstances have me very down and troubled and
leading me to a request my listening audience for those
who believe in the power of prayer, and maybe those
who don't even believe in it, can you give it
a shot? Maybe help out Joe Strecker. Joe had a
medical emergency yesterday. Do not have any details at all,

(00:54):
but Joe is not here today and I am enlisting
the services of anybody who is willing to help in
terms of the power prayer. So please take a moment
and pause and pray a moment for Joe Strecker and
wish him the best of possible health. I certainly feel
that way myself. Danny's nodding in approval with the big
thumbs up. Thank you, Danny. If you care to call comment,

(01:14):
I got election results in front of me. I hope
you look interested in that. Because it is post primary
Wednesday five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred
eight hundred and eighty two to three talk pound five
fifty on AT and T phones. Not real good for
the school levies. That's one thing. I observe. No shock
with vig Ramaswami overwhelmingly defeating Casey Putch, who had a
melt down here on the fifty five Kersey Morning Show.

(01:36):
A little upset about that that I try to interview him. Anyway,
eighty two to seventeen looks like eighty two and a
half to the seventeen and a half is where that
one came out. V vig Ramaswamy on to November, and
I think he's got a great shot of beating Amy Acton.
I'm looking forward to that debate. That's going to be
a hell of a debate. I do have some of

(01:57):
the Democrat wins too. Yeah, for these who voted for
John Coolwitz for Attorney General, he's going to be the
man in November. Democrat Secretary of State Alison Russo handily
defeated Hambley. Anyway, over to the Robert Sprague over Sturbadge.
You know, I had some high hopes for Marcel Sturbadge,

(02:18):
and I honestly I feel we were in we were
going to be in good hands whether Sturbage won or
Sprague one. Sprague overwhelmingly defeated Marcel Sturbridge seventy to thirties.
Where that one came out little I thought it would
be closer to that, To be quite honest with that,
I've heard a lot of people in my listening audience
we're really back in Marcel Sturbage. But again I have
no problem with Robert Sprague overall a treasurer's it's Jay

(02:41):
Edwards at fifty three forty seven over Rogner. That was
a tight one right there. Supreme Court Justice Colleen O'Connell
walking away with thirty two percent of the vote, Andrew
King coming into close second second Amendment man Andrew King
is he got about thirty percent, She got thirty two,
so two point variants on that. Lanzag are running in

(03:01):
third place at just under twenty percent shared Brown of
course walked away with that one. For US Senator Eric Conroy,
that was one that was closely watched over Holly Adams,
followed by Ogles b Henry. Conroy got seventy two percent
of the vote, Holly Adams coming at second with just
under twenty percent. Of course, you got Greg Lansman in

(03:24):
the mix. There dump up eighth district that will be
Enoch for the Democrats, tenth district that'll be Knickerbocker for
the Democrats. And I got a whole bunch of other
ones here that we can talk about. I mean, just
the school levies. Though North College Hill fell fifty six
point six y three said no dice on that one.

(03:46):
Superintendent Blaylock said, the failing Lovey will mean the district
will have to cut at least ten more teachers, five
more educational legs. Educational or extracurricular programs may also be cut,
like banded drama and athletics. New Richmond seventy percent oppose.
That was an eight millli levee and that was wow.
Seventy New Richmond said no with an exclamation point on

(04:08):
that one. Apparently December last year, district submitted its fiscal
precaution plan after voters there rejected at prior levee. Beck
George Remember Beck George plant. Yeah, that closed in twenty fourteen.
The Zimber plan closed in twenty twenty two, and those
two plants were responsible for thirty seven percent of the
revenue in New Richmond. Power closures have consquince is Mount

(04:34):
Healthy passed congratulations. Mount Healthy fifty one point two four
percent in favor. That was a real squeaker. They've been
in a fiscal emergency since April twenty four. Fairfield fifty
three point nine said no, so that one point twenty
five percent school district earned income tax levee shot down

(04:57):
for post cuts include eliminating school field trips, reducing elementary
building hours, cutting eight custodial positions, reducing ten English learner
tutor positions, and modifying the fee structure for extracurricular participation.
The superintendent, though, said, we're going to do it again
in the current months. District leadership will engage with bord

(05:18):
of It engaged with the Board of Education regarding the
possibility of future ballot issues, in which case those fail,
then they're going to have to do further reduction. So
school district's school levees not real popular in this election,
as I noted, just a periphery actually a cursory scanning
of the various levees around the various counties here most
of them. I think she got shot down. No one's

(05:39):
in the mood to pay more, and I certainly understand
that let's see here. But Robert Sprague seventy to thirty
O resturbhiche I mentioned that one. Jay Edwards over Rugner,
I mentioned that one fifty three forty seven Supreme Court,
I mentioned first district, congressional district lands. When I mentioned
that one already, Eric Conroy mentioned, I was just trying

(06:01):
to go through and see some of the ones that
stood out. Maybe there's one or two you want to
know about. Five, one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five hundred,
eight hundred and eighty two to three talked on five
to fifty on at and t phones seventh district. State
Senator Zach Haynes over Kim Luken's that was another one
that I think a lot of my listeners were watching
a little bit more closely. Let's see. Uh. Well, anyway,

(06:22):
there you have it. Primarily, and then in terms of
voter turnout, it's a banner year for the primary. At well,
nineteen point nine percent of the voters in Hamilton County
showed up, which apparently is a lot the most for
an even year primary in the county since twenty twenty.

(06:43):
Twenty three percent people showed up in twenty twenty, so
nineteen point nine my friends in Warren County, twenty one
point three percent showed up, twenty one point six in
Butler County. Turnout for the City of Cincinnati. What's your guests,
seventeen point four? Elections have consequences without a question. Okay,

(07:18):
just I want to go through more of these races,
and I just obviously with all the counties and the
various races around, I don't know which ones mean the
most of the folks. Oka over Warren County. We can
dive into a couple of those. Eric Conroy mentioned, Zach Kynes,
I mentioned Grossman. Tom Grossman over Mark Messer over Warren
County Commissioner. Good morning, Warren County. Friends out there. Locksley

(07:42):
over Hessley in the common please judge position over in
Claremont County. What do we got here? M Becker over
Genteel fifty five forty four for Auditor State Report, end
of sixty second history Gene Schmidt. That was one that

(08:03):
I heard from a lot of people on behind the
scenes the Blue twenty two? Can they beat? Can Gene
Schmidt defeat Dylan Blevins with the campaign ads that accused
him suggested anyway he was a criminal of sorts Jean
Schmidt coming in with sixty two and a half percent,
Dylan Blevins thirty seven and a half. I guess advertising
has consequences, you know. I woke up this morning thinking

(08:24):
about Thomas Massey and last night was probably the most
offensive back to back ad is competing advertising with Gowrain
and Massy dueling commercials back and forth, and I suffered
through a lot of them. And I woke up this
morning thinking, well, at least I'll find out of Congressman Massy.
I'm like, no, the Kentucky primary is a couple of

(08:46):
weeks away, says, suck it up and deal with the advertising,
or change channels or hit the mute button. Anyway. Congratulations
to my friend Claire Corkoran, who remains in her position.
Clairemont County Commissioner Claire corkran seventy three two point four percent. Claire,
congratulations over and noe ed. Listen to ms mc Louisa McQueen.
She got twenty six point six. It's not a criticism

(09:09):
of her. I just some friends with Claire, and I'm
glad that she has well won the race. Uh see
proposed tax levy for New Richmond mentioned that one shot
down in a huge way. Clairemont County Park District proposed
levy renewal four fifty eight to forty one. That one passed.
Senior Citizens Servants Services levey that passed fifty eight to

(09:31):
forty one. Children's Services proposed levy these again against fifty
three forty six. Developmental Disability proposed tax levee against sixty
thirty nine. That one shot down. Uh Datavia Township unincorporated
area proposed tax levee No. Fifty five forty four. Proposed

(09:53):
tax levee Miami Township. That one passed fifty three forty six.
There are some some levy's the past. I actually shocked
that they did fifty two to forty eight for the
Franklin Township proposed renewal and the liquor option Betavia. Of
course it passed sixty six to thirty three. Just a
handful of the races there. If does anything, we want

(10:13):
to talk about it, Like I said, feel free to
give me a call. Not a whole lot of surprises
from my perspective. Five nineteen and then the post primary
day here on the fifty five Parasee Morning Show five one, three, seven,
four nine, fifty five hundred eight hundred eight two three
talg found five fifty on your AT and T phones.
Great day to have Alex treanutafilo Oni or the Ohio

(10:35):
Republican Party chair. He's going to be calling it. At
six thirty. We'll get his reaction to the Uh. Well,
the primary results, of course the e V ramas from
he handily defeated the challenger. Casey Butch Big Picture with
Jack Avidan, they it's a regular Wednesday here in the
fifty five Karasee Morning Show seven five with Jack Adiden,
do not have a subject matter? Again, the absence of
Joe Strucker kind of changes the dynamic here in the

(10:56):
morning show. Uh So we'll get the details from Jack
Atherden we need a program at seven oh five, followed
by of course Donald and Neil Americans for a Prosperity
at seven thirty. Again, topic do not have Clemont County
Veteran Services Commission returns at seven forty with some information
to pass along to my veteran friends. And it being
a Wednesday. Judge and an Apolitano at a thirty, Yeah,

(11:16):
you got to take the good with the bad with
free speech in his column, which I enjoy. Early Comy
indictment and free speech. Talking about Comey's being indicted for
that eighty six forty seven ridiculous, painful, stupid, insulting post.
Is it free speech or can you be indicted for
something like that? Well, you can be indicted. You can
indict a ham Sandwich, right, Remember, except here in Hamilton

(11:38):
County where a felony threatening a judge life and the
judges family's lives, that only will net you a misdemeanor,
in spite of the fact that with multiple witnesses it
did constitute a felony.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Hm hm.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Anyhow, going back to elections have consequences. You'll have an
opportunity to vote in November for some really really decent
judges on the Republican side of the judicial ledger, I
strongly encourage you not to vote for the Democrat judges,
or maybe they'll just let people out on the streets
who deserve to be behind bars for long periods of time. There,
got that out of my system, and the trend continues.

(12:10):
Living away from the election results. Two different stories here
reflecting the same thing. We've been talking about this a lot,
observing and had the big conversation yesterday about this, talking
about the political dynamic Hamilton County, So blew, I guess
that the Republicans didn't even bother fielding a whole bunch
of judicial candidates in the primary, not a single one
in a whole bunch of races, and you you scratch
your head over that it has the Republicans just pulled

(12:31):
the plug and given up completely, which resulted in a
couple of comments from a former Anderson Township elected official
commenting about how blue and how left leaning Anderson Township
has become, and it kind of worried me. And the
sort of suggestion is that people have left. The conservative
folks that lived there have moved away. Armont County a

(12:52):
destination for a lot of them. But that's a phenomenon
that's going all across this country. And you ask yourself,
why would someone move away? The answer is oppressive oppressive
political climate. First off, the heavy taxation, the heavy regulatory burden.
You can't make as much profit in some states in
some areas as you can in others. Quality of life
may be better in certain areas, but there's a lot

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of decision making that goes into that, and most decision making,
insofar as corporate structure comes down to, well, can I
survive until and make a profit in Chicago? Apparently Walgreens can't.
They've closed a store there and this resulted in some
really outrageous outbursts from some left leaning Democrat Aldermen. Walgreens

(13:33):
citing safety concerns closing a Walmart star a Walmart Walmart store.
Brian spit it out. William Hall Aldermen along with several
community members had a news conference on this and they
are angry that Walgreens is closing the store. Walgreens issued

(13:55):
a statement previously in announcing the closure of the store.
Despite a range of efforts, including previous operating adjustments, the
ongoing safety challenges have made it increasingly difficult to maintain
a secure environment for our team members and customers. While
this was not an easy decision, safety must remain a
top priority. Hey, the employees at that Walgreens store, they're
gonna get to be able to transfer. They were given

(14:16):
opportunities for jobs, so the jobs aren't gone, They've just
moved out of that particular neighborhood. Now, what does Alderman
Hall say about this? William Hall, Walgreens should be charged
with first degree corporate abandonment. It should be a crime
the way they're treating our elders. It should be a
crime the way they're treating our families. Huh, he said.

(14:40):
The community is not begging Walgreens to stay. We're not
here to beg Walgreens to stay. We are saying that
their decision is the wrong decision. In my Alderman Hall's opinion,
it should be considered a first degree corporate crime. The
number of elders who will not have access to healthcare
is evil. Well, it's safety. Lots of crime, lots of theft,

(15:04):
lots of you know, sort of takeovers which we see regularly.
This has been going on San Francisco for a long time.
Guess what. The stores closed in San Francisco because of
the crime. Now, who's to blame here? No, there is
no such thing as as corporate abandonment. That is not
a legal challenge or a claim you can bring against

(15:25):
the corporation for pulling the plug because they're losing money,
hand over fist because people who go into the store
rip them off. Offering a refreshing counter to Alderman Hall's
position on this, you must be here, you can't leave.
Let's turn to Alderman Raymond Lopez a Democrat. Yes, of

(15:45):
course he is. He's in Chicago. Quote, where was that
anger when the stores in our communities were under years
and years of assault by criminals allowed to shoplift, vandalize,
and destroy neighborhood institutions. Many leaders say it's simply an
insurance matter. They are wrong. There are real world consequences
for crime running rampant. This closure is the perfect example

(16:09):
of that effect. Now pivot over and consider the number
of companies that have pulled the plug on Los Angeles,
San Francisco, and including Chicago and even New York because
of crime. Their employees have to go to work day
in to day out. If they're assaulted, they're confronted by panhandlers,
homeless people, drug addicts, needles in the street, feces in
the street. You know what, that's a safety concern for

(16:31):
the employees. And therefore boards of directors and management make
decisions looking out for the best interest of not only
their company but their employees, and they leave Who's to
blame for that, obviously the criminals, but also perhaps the

(16:51):
administrations in those various cities. And we're not talking about
conservative leading folks here, We're not talking about Republicans in charge.
We're talking about democrat and the leaning of the left
obviously going more and more socialists and whole this judicial reform,
this criminal reform thing. Just let them out. It's not
their fault they commit crimes. It's society's fault they commit crimes. Really, hum,

(17:16):
how is it the vast majority of us can get
along with our lives every single day and not go
in and rip people off? Danny, you ever go and
rip people off?

Speaker 3 (17:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (17:26):
That's not you, is it.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
No?

Speaker 1 (17:28):
Are you a corporate billionaire?

Speaker 4 (17:31):
No?

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Huh. So you need the paycheck sitting in the production
booth there, but you're not stealing from other people? Now, okay,
just checking with Danny, Just pulling the room here. The
same thing is happening with corporations. But a lot of
corporations are leaving simply because of the owner's tax burden
and the regulatory burden. Oh and in Delaware, which used
to be the capital of all corporations, that was where

(17:54):
you went to incorporate your company a Delaware corporation used
to be a great environment for corporates. In Delaware. The
court system treated the corporations well. At least you had
some you know, some foundation. You had a good idea
of how you're going to be treated there. No, it's changed.
The left has taken over Delaware. Left leaning judges have

(18:16):
allowed plain this bar to go after corporations and file
shareholder derivative suits on a whim. Guess who's leaving Delaware? Right?
A huge, huge list of companies, most recently Dell Technologies
pulled the plug on Delaware. Where are they going? Where's
the climate better? What have we learned over the past

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couple of years about companies pulling the plug on California,
New York, Illinois? Where are they going? Well, that was
a good guess. Texas, Congratulations, Danny. You had two choices
on that, when Texas or Florida? Right, this particular case,
it's Texas. Five thirty one. I think abou KERCD talk
station again shouting out for folks, prayerful, preyerful folks out

(19:01):
there to help pray for Joe Strecker who has had
a health issue yesterday. He is not here today and
I am personally worried about Joe and hoping he recovers
very quickly. I know, the show kind of kind of
can go with Danny Gleeson in the production booth. But
you know, without Joe the show don't go quite as well.
So I'm feeling a bit out of sorts today worrying
about Joe Strecker. And if you could help me pray

(19:22):
for Joe, I would greatly appreciate that. So there's my
top of the morning, top local story for the morning.
And looking up, No Tom, I'm concerned. See, I have
two reasons to be concerned. Less concerned about Tom because
I haven't heard from Tom in terms of whether he's
not called him because he's had some kind of medical issue. Anyway,
here's one to freak me out. I saw this yesterday.

(19:42):
A friend circulated it local news reporting Fox nineteen. In
this particular case, although it may be reported elsewhere, several
suspects armed with rifles tried to get into the Oakley
Cinemak last week. Since I Police Department released the released
photos of the suspects that they're trying to identify. This
happened on May third. Courting the SINSI Police statement, several

(20:04):
suspects involved were armed with rifles and made an attempt
to enter the theater. That's all we got. Anybody with
information about the suspects, please call Detective Blay at five
one three nine nine forty four hundred. I think you
can probably drop a dime to crimestoppers on that one.
Why would a group of people armed with rifles want
to break into the Oakley Cinemak? Did we just avoid

(20:29):
a mass shooting? And I don't know how they were
prevented from gaining entry, but props to whoever locked the door.
I guess no more details on that at least as
of right now. Highland County man in federal court yesterday
charged with sexually exploiting miners from several states. Courted to
Dominic Gracie, the second US Attorney for Southern District, Ohio.
He said, Mark Chandler, thirty seven, charged with sexual exploitation

(20:53):
of children, coercion and enticement, and receipt of child porn
court documents. Highland County Sheriff's office got tip regarding this
pervert November of last year. The office found that Chandler
allegedly paid at least five girls, including girls in California, Texas,
and Michigan, to engage in sexually explicit acts on video.

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They say connected with the girls all approximately fourteen years old.
Various social media apps were used. Gracie said that Chandler
groomed the girls for up to two years and he
would pay them with Visa gift cards in exchange for
these sexual videos and photos. He also threatened to kill
at least one of the victims if she tattled on him.
His word, that's the court of his screen recordings and

(21:35):
messages on his electronic devices. Messages showed Chandler talked about
drowning the girl or using knives to cut her throat. Danny,
could you find the Biggest Douche of the Universe award
and queue that one up here. According to Gracie, Chandler,
who was originally arrested on local charges in Highland County,
facing decades in prison if he's convicted sexual exploitation of children,

(21:56):
a federal crime punishable by at least fifteen years, version
of enticement separate crimes punishable by at least ten years
and up to life in prison. Well, assuming he's convicted
beyond a reasonable doubt, he's going to spend a lot
of time in prison. Danny had a computer lock up. Well,
my regular listeners can probably sing the song in their head, Danny,

(22:19):
We all know about that one's that's our local award
winner and I hate to see him local. But then again,
in terms of this kind of conduct, hate to see
it anywhere I encounter it. Good luck in prison, buddy,
assuming you're convicted. Long well documented history of how pedophiles
are treated in prison, and they deserve every bit they get.

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And it's five forty coming up on five forty one
here at five ker CD talks station. Feel free to
call five one three, seven four nine fifty five hundred,
eight hundred eighty two to three talk found five fifty
on AT and T phones. First guest of the morning
six point thirty with a high Republican Party chair Alex Treantipila,
with his reaction to the primary election yesterday, and feel
free to chime in on those two. Feel free showing

(23:00):
a moment aledged drunk driver. Oh, we're in the stack
of stupid. By the way, drunk driver drove onto the
sidewalk and started chasing a child who was riding a
dirt bike. This in Washington State. Wendy Clemente, fifty six,
arrested for allegedly trying to run down the child with

(23:20):
her vehicle while important under the influence. Cell phone footage. Footage,
of course, there's that take of my neighbors shows the
car turning toward the boy riding his dirt bike while
Clemente is honking her horn repeatedly on a street and
upscale Pacific northwest town of Cheney, Washington. Neighbor on the

(23:40):
video is heard saying this woman is crazy. Yeah. Clemente
yells something at the child who and you can see
the kid look back and he kind of accelerates away,
at which point the car accelerates toward him along the sidewalk.
She jumped off of the road and drove up onto
the sidewalk, narrowly missing a fire hydrant and as well
as some bushes. Person filming her yelling she's trying to

(24:03):
run this. Oh my god, you're kidding, Oh my god.
You couldn't believe it, and who could you watched the video, like,
what in God's name is this woman's problem. Officers got there,
they found Clemente and her ford focus. Clemente attempted to
kick the patrol deputy. According to the police report. She
told deputies that she, in her words, took her dogs

(24:23):
for a ride and was, in her words, looking for
other dogs to socialize with it, which time the incident occurred.
She was suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
as well as drugs. Booked under the Spokane County Jail
charges of first degree attempted to assault the uy criminal trespass. Clemente,
for her part, denied knowing anything about the incident involving

(24:45):
the child on the dirt bike? What what me anyway?
Stupid right? An award winning award to share. Here we
go to Fort Myers, Florida. Southwest Florida coach sentenced to

(25:06):
a decade's plural why child sexual abuse crimes? Dagoberdol Miguel Pigna.
That's the guy thirty seven from Punter Gordon's sentence. Punter
Gorda sentenced the sixty count them years in serious prison.
That's federal prison. He pled guilty to charges including producing
and possessing images of child sexual abuse. Prosecutors say he

(25:28):
used up, he persuaded miners and used them to engage
in sexually explicit conduct, as well as recording the abuse.
The investigation started in twenty twenty five a parent reported
inappropriate communications between Paynya and a minorthority's later found messages,
images and videos involving multiple victims on his devices. Sentenced

(25:49):
to a lifetime of supervisor. Released. I guess after he's
sixty years in prison, and of course he must register
as a sex offender. Will let him share in any
award to the local guy this morning? You know, hey,
what are your kids doing? A local person was using
online means to solicit local fourteen year olds for sex,

(26:11):
spending a couple of years grooming them. This is a
long term prospect for these perverts. They got a lot
of time invested in it. Secret Service officer arrested and
charged because he exposed himself in front of guests in
Miami hotel. Thirty three year old John Spilman accused of

(26:32):
exposing himself as well as pleasuring himself in the hallway
of a hotel, specifically the Hilton Hotel Miami Airport. In
the lobby, he followed a female guest upstairs. One another
guests immediately entered the room because they were afraid. They
called security. Secret Service Uniform Division officer arrested because of

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this act of self pleasuring. Judge said about one thousand
dollars you want to show up to his court hearing
it takes place May twenty seventh. Exercise a measure of
self control. I mean, can't you just wait till you
get your hotel room five fifty if if you're five

(27:14):
ARCD talk station Hapy Wednesday, Listener Lunch Wednesday, Snow's Lakeside
terrans where we're gonna meet, jump over to the phones.
Kind of all's right with the world. Better late than never.
Good morning, Tom. Good to have you back on the show.
Kind of worried about you at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Oh, I appreciate it. Just switched things up a little
bit this morning.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
That's okay. Listen man, if you call your call, if
you don't.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
I was, I was listening to you the whole time.
So yeah, prayers for Joe, Thank you, very hard working man.
And we miss him and hope he's doing all right.
So do I I'm disappointed. This is as close as
you've been, as far as I can tell, the whole
time I've been listening to my house with Listener Lunch.
You're about three miles from the house when you're gonna

(27:58):
be at Snows today. Oh but I, of course, I
of course is over one hundred miles away in Indianapolis,
so yeah, you know you'll have that, I guess. So
I'll make it. I'll make it back. I'll make it
to one again.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Here since someday we'll see you, Tom. And have you
been to snows Lakeside Tavern?

Speaker 5 (28:15):
I have. I've been there. It's uh, yeah, it's it's
a decent little place. So okay, I've only been there once.
That's fine, not one of us, not not on our rotation.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
That's okay.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
I have been there, saying, of course, Donna Schwabin's like
right next door.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
That is correct. It's real close to Cora and Avenue
exit off at two seventy five for those kind of
want to get an idea generally speaking.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
Correct, gotta go, gotta go up around up north, you
gotta go around Skyline, turn in where Low's is.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
And yeah it's a little little loop, yep, yeah, a
little loop.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
So anyway, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be hammering the
words stupid, uh leading up to this next election in November,
because you know, first of all, one out of five
people give a crap enough to uh to actually vote.
That's kind of stupid, isn't it. I Mean, you're you're
talking about the things that affect your life in a

(29:06):
in a in a very significant way, and you don't
you don't have it in you to figure out how
to cast your vote. So some way, somehow, you know,
like like I'm out of town and so when I
was in town last weekend on a Friday, I was
able to get to the Court of Elections. You know,
do do what you gotta do. This stuff is is
very impactful in your life. Whether it's the levees. We

(29:28):
didn't have any in our in our area. But you know,
the people that voted for the levees are voted against them.
You know, they they actually give a crap enough to vote.
So if you don't, if you're if you're those four
out of five people who don't give a crap enough
to vote, well you're stupid. Uh that is I mean,
there's not a whole lot of things we have left

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that we can do to affect change in our governments
and and what happens in our lives and our paychecks.
That is one of them. And if you don't vote,
you're stupid. And if you vote Democrat, you're even or stupid.
I have a great day.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
You do the same toime not pulling any punches this morning?
Was he your calls are welcome here? Five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five hundred eight hund eight two three
taco pound five fifty on at and T founds And
interesting comment or two on the racial jeremany. We talked
about that with Tom Zawastowski from whither People Convention dot
org the other day that podcast right there fifty five
KRC dot com. Got a couple of little elaboration on

(30:26):
that by Jason Riley from The Wall Street Journey We
can get to before we get to alex Chaerondrafilo and
some more election results up to the top of the air.
And it is but one more stack is stupid? And
why not? And if Joe is here again, Prayers for
Joe Strecker and his medical condition and issues domestic dispute.
It's a just walk away story. I imagine you draw
your own conclusions. Happened Sunday morning after a man allegedly

(30:46):
broke into a mount Door home and was shot by
the homeowner Porta Lake County Sheriff's Office eight forty eight
a m. Saturday at the home of Corey Latourelle. Deputies
encountered to witnesses Amelia Padilla and Christopher Lane on the
front porch. Sheriff's office said the mount door police confrontation

(31:07):
began as a verbal dispute before it got violent inside
a bedroom. That's where authorities located. Michael Luttz suffering from
gunshot wounds plural to both arms and his torso officers
were rendering aid to him before he took He was
taken to the Lake County EMS and Local Hospital. Torrel
identified himself to deputies as the guy that pulled the trigger.

(31:28):
He told investigators that the handgun used in the incident
was on his night stand in his bedroom. Derri's deputy
sheriff reported finding a couple of forty five caliber shell
casings at the foot of the bed. Also a second
handgun discovered on a separate night stand in the same room,
but that one was not involved in the incident. Lutts
approached the residents and began knocking and banging on the

(31:49):
front door, then gained entry to the home through an
unlocked sliding glass door. We'll call that breaking and entering.
Once there and inside the home, he reportedly kicked in
a bedroom door, behind which was a man with a
forty five caliber handgun. At that point, the homeowner shot
him twice. Sheriff's office statement said there was a domestic

(32:10):
link between the parties. The man that was shot reportedly
the husband of the homeowner's girlfriend. Hmmm, couple currently in
the process of a divorce. Listen, you're going through divorce.
Just walk away, don't get all kick in the dory
and breaking and entering e because somebody might have a

(32:31):
firearm there. That happens. Sheriff's office, though has not officially
released a motive. You draw your own conclusion. Investigators secured
the scene and uh, well, let's conscious and breathing when
emergency responders showed up. Took taking as a mension to
the local hospital for treatment. No word on his current condition.

(32:52):
He's being charged with one kind of burglary and will
be held without bond, according to the Sheriff's office. Five
point fifty six fifty five KRCD Talk Station Alex Treot
de Filo High Republican Chair at six thirty got some
time to talk between the top and the bottom of
the hour, and I sure hope you can stick around
at six oh five if if you about GARRICD Talk
Station Brian Thomas hosted the Thinking About Kersey Morn Show,

(33:17):
praying for Joe Strekker and inviting my listening audience to
please join in my prayers for Joe. He had a
medical emergency yesterday in the afternoon. Not here today. Danny
Gleeson doing a great job covering for Joe, but I'm
so worried I am about Joe, and I invite you
to join with me in praying for Joe Strekker's speedy recovery.
Please and also to join me at listener Lunch today.

(33:37):
Gonna be at Snow's Lakeside Tavern, Colerain Avenue, exit off
of off of two seventy five, real close to that,
but find it online Snowslakeside Tavern dot net, I believe,
but if you can show up there, I'd love to
see it Listener Lunch today and enjoy the fellowship. Love
to hear from you as well. Maybe you got some
reaction to the elections five one three the election result
from yesterday's primary. If you were one of the twenty
percent roughly that actually showed up to vote yesterday, congratulatestions

(34:00):
and thank you for participating in representative government. Alex Tchantapilo
is going to be talking about that coming up the
bottom of the hour, Ohio Republican Party Chair Alex Tantapilo,
and congratulations to Alex he won yesterday as well. Big
Picture with Jack Addan at seven oh five one hour
from now and Donovan iill from Americans for Prosperity with
some info. At seven thirty. We're gonna hear from Steve

(34:21):
Belzo the Clairmont County Veteran Services about Memorial Day coming up.
What's the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day? Quick?
Can you answer that question? Lots of info Memorial Day
and God bless those each and everyone who well gave
their life up in service to our country. Judge Edito
Polatano at eight thirty free speech. You got free speech?

(34:41):
Does that allow you to say eighty six forty seven?
He's got a couple of criticisms about the prosecution of
COMI and I would not personally want to be prosecuted
for a little, you know, random comment online. You know,
free speech comes with some noxious behavior, and you can
be noxious and engage in free speech. And how many

(35:02):
step back from that one? If I haven't seen the
actual details of the indictment. But if eighty six forty seven,
if that is the reason for him being prosecuted, where
are all the other prosecutions for equal, if not more,
overt death threats against the president of the United States
of America. Good question. That's why we have the Judge
Ennit of Polaitano eight thirty for that one. Over at

(35:24):
fifty five case dot com, you can hear what Tom
Zawastowski from We the People Convention dot org had to
say yesterday, part of which dealt with the racial gerrymandering
case from the Supreme Court. No, you can't use race
to create specific race based jurisdictions. That's illegal. Now. The
Supreme Court is on record pointing that out. Jason Riley
op ed contributed to The Wall Street Journal a black man.

(35:45):
I want to identify him as a black man up front,
because I guess it gives some credibility to someone who
has comments about racial issues. I think anybody could write
the words of Jason Riley and I share his analysis
of this racial jerimander in case. You can find the
op ed yourself yourself caption, good riddens to racial gerrymandering.
If there was any doubt Barack Obama proved that white

(36:07):
voters are willing to support black candidates subtitled, and as
he writes, the fainting spells in the left after last
week's Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana versus Calais were probably
were probably to be expected. Democrats these days reject colorblind
public policies that they champion in a previous area era
scoff at clear evidence of America's social racial progress. A

(36:32):
court decision that reigns in racially gerrymandered voting districts checked
both boxes. So it's no wonder that Democrat elites from
Barack Obama on down are outraged. Obama wrote in response
to the decision. Quote Today's Supreme Court decision effectively guts
a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state
legislatures to jerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken

(36:57):
the voting power of racial minorities. Obama went on, and
it serves as just one more example of how a
majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its
vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and
protecting the rights of minority groups against minority overreach. Oh
my god, is it that bad? Jason Riley, Jason Rally,

(37:20):
what nonsense? He writes. Case before the Court concerned Luisiana's
twenty twenty four decision, under pressure from the courts, to
draw a congressional map that included a second majority black district.
Supporters said the racial gerrymanner was necessary to comply with
Section two of the Voting Rights Act the sixty five,

(37:41):
which bars the use of qualifications, standards, or procedures that
make it harder for minorities to cast a ballot. Notice
the emphasis I put on that one to cast a ballot.
Opponents contended that the map violated the Constitution's equal protection
clause by voters based on race. Six to three ruling,

(38:03):
the justices side with the challengers, saying Louisiana unlawfully discriminated
by race when it created a second majority black district.
All right, so Obama is pretending that the decision somehow
threatens the black franchise. But it didn't touch Section two
protections against efforts to restrict black voting. All the court

(38:26):
did was scale back a judicially created doctrine based on
the assumption the doctrine is based on the assumption that
most white voters would never support a black candidate. The
former president Barack Obama, of all people, should appreciate that
this is no longer the case. Statistically. He knocks it
out of the park on this one, folks. When Obama
won the presidency in two thousand and eight, he secured

(38:48):
a larger share of the white vote than the two
previous nominees of his party, John Kerry in two thousand
and four and Al Gore in two thousand. Hey, isn't
that interesting? More white people voted for Obama than carried
out Gore. That's great. Carried a majority of the white
vote nearly all a third of the states. When he

(39:09):
was re elected in twenty twelve, the black voter turnout
rate exceeded white turnout, and today, black voter registration in
the South, where black voters suppression was most pronounced in
the Jim Crow era, is higher than in other regions
of the United States. They have the ability to vote,
and they have registered to vote in large numbers. Is
the point. Arguably, Obama's race was more of a political

(39:32):
advantage than a barrier to his success. Before his arrival
and long before his arrival on the political scene, majority
white electorates. Majority white electorates demonstrated a willingness to vote
for black candidates. Carl Stokes, first black mayor of Cleveland
in nineteen sixty eight, where most residents were white. Also

(39:54):
true when Tom Bradley became the first black mayor of
la in seventy three, and when David dinkin this one
New York's mayor election in nineteen eighty nine, most of
the residents were right white. The political website five thirty
eight reported back in twenty twenty three that most black
members of Congress no longer hail from majority black districts quote,

(40:16):
which indicates that black representatives are winning more on multi
racial or majority white turf. Where's the racism? The real
reason Obama is upset with last week's ruling has nothing
to do with voting rights and everything to do with
the ability of Democrats to use the nineteen sixty five
Act to gain a partisan advantage in drawing political maps.

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The Voting Rights Act was intended to ensure ballot access,
not to ensure the election of black Democrats. Republicans and
Democrats alike jockey to drawmacks maps to give them the
edge on election day. It's unseemly because it amounts to
the lawmakers choosing voters instead of the other way around.
But it is lee goal. But what is illegal, as

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the court pointed out, throwing race into the map, drawing
nips mixed absent specific evidence of discrimination, as Democrats have
been doing for decades in the name of protecting the
black vote. The irony is the racial gerrymandering probably has
done more to throttle black political ambitions and deepen our

(41:23):
political divisions, according to Abigail Threnstrom. She wrote in her
two thousand and nine history of the nineteen sixty five
Voting Rights Act, while the country has moved steadily, if unleaked, evenly,
toward racial integration, the law has created a black political
class two isolated from mainstream political discourse. Race based districts

(41:46):
have kept black legislators clustered together on the sidelines of
American political life, precisely the opposite of what the statute intended.
That's her opinion, she's entitled to it, and Jason Riwley
cited it. But under segregation, black America kins generally shared
a common experience of being second class citizens. That's no
longer the case, but the supporters of segregated voting districts

(42:09):
and racial preferences in hiring and college admissions would have
us believe that nothing has really changed. Racial germandering advocatesy
today assume that black voters are essentially fungible and share
identical political preferences. I say that slowly and pointedly, and
I'm thinking of Christopher smitham and good morning Christopher Smitheman,

(42:30):
black man who is an independent. But the Gerymanning advocates
assume that all black voters are theirs Democrats period. Riley concludes,
that's not only false but insulting, Amen, and the Supreme
Court corrective couldn't come soon enough. Yes, it is insulting.

(42:52):
I would say, as I pointed out many many times
over the years, the idea that you know, if you vote,
if you don't vote Democrat, you ain't black. Coming from
white guy Joe Biden. I'd like to think a lot
of my black friends out there, regardless of political stripe,
sort of reacted that with the audacity of him to

(43:14):
suggest that am I not a free person and free
to exercise my own political judgment? And will am I
personally being served by the Democrats that Joe Biden says
I must vote for and I know quite a few
black people who would definitely react that way. It's six

(43:39):
twenty one, if it's my fair City talk station five one, three, seven,
nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to
three talk him five fifty on AT and T phone. Steve,
thanks so much for holding over the break there. Welcome
to the program.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Yes, sir, you and I have budded heads the last
six months or so. A little bit about Thomas Massey.
I live in Independence, so he's my representative of and
I was just so fed up when the Republicans needed
that one vote and weren't getting it, and I decided
I wasn't going to vote for him. But I have

(44:10):
changed my mind. My wife and I will now vote
for him. And maybe it takes a little time just
to get over the initial anger. He's been a good
representative for us. There is a frustration, and you know
the biggest reason that I will support him and not Gaulreen.
You have Massy on your show, I think once a

(44:32):
month for a half hour or twenty minutes, but whatever.
Obviously his opponent could request equal time. Oh yeah, I'm
guessing you haven't been contacted by him. He is flying
so far under the radar. I don't even know what
his voice sounds like. And I've not heard anything from
him anywhere, with.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
The exception of quote I'm ed and I approve this.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Yeah, but nothing, nothing important. And uh so I just
wanted to throw some positive stuff at you. I mean,
sometimes it takes a little you know, you get angry
and you know, and then you sit back and reflect
and I've changed my mind.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
So well, I'm glad, you know, to these I had
anything to do with it. I think he made the
right choice. I know Ed Gowering served his country. He
is a combat veteran, well decorated, but beyond that, I
don't really know what his experience is or what he
brings to the table. Connors from Thomas Massey at least
embraces and appreciates and upholds his his his sworn oath
to the Constitution of the United States of America. I

(45:36):
don't think you can find a single politician who is
more committed to the Constitution than Thomas Massey. But he's
also and more fundamentally for me, a deficit hawk. And
we've got a real problem on her half. You haven't
seen there, Stee, with our with our spending. And that's
why Thomas mass I.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Mean, I remember when I was a kid hearing about it.
That's nothing new. Oh yeah, you know, yeah that that
good luck on that one.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
I know. But we are running into a genuine threat,
and at least Massey is the voice in the room
that makes people have to pay attention to the reality
that that is a huge issue and they've all turned
their backs on our financial our fiscal stability here. I
appreciate Steve, and I hope Thomas Massey wins, and I
hope maybe your one vote pushes him over the top.

(46:22):
It'll ouse there you go, Thank you, Steve. I don't
mind arguing with listeners. I don't mind going back and forth.
I don't mean any disrespect whatsoever. I've got opinions and
conclusions and other people have them as well. I mean
Jay called in the other day. We kind of had
a spot on the air and argue back and forth,
and I'm just looking at it from a practical position. Look,
this is what we were left with in terms of

(46:43):
who we can vote for. And since I can't change that,
I'm not going to scream and lament and moan that's
some more conservative, more fiscally responsible person or whatever isn't
the Republican Party nominee. You know, sometimes you got a
primary where you can make a choice. By the way,
vive Ramaswamy overwhelming beat his competitor in the primary, I
mean overwhelmingly, Sorry, Casey. But if you got a choice,

(47:08):
then you have a choice and you can make a vote.
But if you don't have a choice and there's one
guy running there, there's really nothing you can do but
vote for that guy, because voting for the Democrat would
be a huge mistake. And real quick here, speaking of
the deficit, you know, Thomas Massey really is concerned as
am I. We're already one hundred percent of GBT on
debt service. Congressional Budget Office now estimating that we are

(47:31):
going to accumulate more than twenty four trillion in additional
debt over the next ten years, leading us to fifty
six trillion dollars with debt service at that's one hundred
and twenty percent of estimated GDP in ten years twenty
five years ago. Interest payments we're two percent of GDP
this year, three point three ten years from now four

(47:53):
point six translated into dollars, we now spend a trillion annually.
That's our interest payment like your credit card bill. Twenty
thirty six will be spending two point one trillion, nineteen
percent of the total federal budget. And ten years from now,
more than two out of every three dollars that we borrow,
we'll be going to finance interest on the debt. Who's

(48:15):
got a loanus money? Can I ask that sign a
simple question out loud? And can you imagine borrowing money
to cover the interest payment on your credit card debt? Yeah?
Is that sound fiscal policy from your perspective? And no,
you do not need to be an economist to appreciate that. No,
it's not. It's a train wreck. And see one of

(48:37):
the only few people that is in elected elected capacities,
Thomas Massey, that cares about that. Thank god, he's there
bringing the issue up and reminding all of us of
the problem that we face. Six twenty six Alex Chantafilo
Next six thirty one and fifty five Karaseed Talk Station
EMPY Wednesday Hoopseet Listener lunch today it snow's lakeside tavern

(48:58):
And again, please pray for Joe Strucker had a medical
emergency yesterday, so he is not in and I'm hoping
for his speedy recovery. And I'm pleased to hear from
Alex Charantefilo, head of the High Republican Party. And congratulations
Alex Trantefilo sixty one to thirty nine yesterday for State
Central Committee, besting Kurt Hartman. And Alex. Good to have
you back on the show. It's been a while, sir, Brian.

Speaker 6 (49:19):
Good to be with you, and I got to tell
you I'm sorry to hear about our friend Joe. I
just just pick it up on that, so we'll keep
a good thought for Joe Strecker. But thanks for having
me on, Brian.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
I love talking with you. I appreciate you your willingness
to speak with me in the listening audience here this morning.
Your reaction, just generally speaking of yesterday's primary results, I
turn out. Some were saying turnout was really high since
we got basically twenty percent of the voters to actually
show up. Although I still view that as pathetic, Alex,
but it is what it is. And your your reactions
to some of the races and him stand out. Viv

(49:48):
ramas on me obviously walked away with it eighty two
to seventeen percent for vv.

Speaker 6 (49:55):
Yeah, you know, we feel very good, very bullish actually
at the Republican Party and Brian, Look, I'm real us
thick about midterm elections. I know what the numbers are,
I know what the polling is. You know, we see
these things routinely. Midterms are generally a challenge for the
party in power. But the safany Ohio Republican Party this
morning is very strong. We did make an endorsement in
the Vike Ramaswami race, who joined with President Trump and

(50:18):
doing so, the Vike really never had a real primary,
Let's just be honest about that. So if he won
every single county last night, want an overwhelming majority of
the vote, you know, more than eighty percent of the
vote in his primary. And you know, if you look
at the numbers, we turned out a bigger raw number
of Republican voters last night to the Democrats state wives.
And so that's good news for us. Look, we've got

(50:41):
our work cutout for us in the fall. It's to
turn out our vote. That's our number one challenge in
twenty twenty six is to turn out a massive number
of Republican votes, and you know, we've got many strategies
to do that from you know, the next one hundred
and eighty days, and I you know, I feel very
good about it. And as it relates to my race,
I thank you for your kind work. You know, we

(51:01):
worked hard, and I'm glad to be a victorious in
my state central race.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Well, and you know, I wish you all the best,
and I know you try to do your best to
represent well. And sometimes, Alex, I gotta be honest with you.
I feel like I want to apologize for you, because
quite often you personally will get some criticism from various
listeners who call in and chime in on the topic,
and I have to step back and say, listen, you
know what I know about Alex and how he has

(51:25):
to run his job or kind of two different things.
But he can't be critical of Republicans. It's sort of
like it's a line that you can't cross. Yes, there
are various factions within the Republican Party. Some people call
them rhinos and others call them yeah, whatever, But it's
your Republican party and you have to deal with all
facets within the umbrella of Republican I imagine you find

(51:46):
that job to be challenging from time to time. Alex.

Speaker 6 (51:50):
Look, I've been a party chairman for a long time,
first at the county level and then at the state
and I know that job as well as anybody, and
dare I say it modestly, as well as anybody in
the country. I've just been a chairman. The chairman takes grief, Brian.
It just comes with the job. I mean, you know,
on any given day, people will call in and suggest
that we've sold out the party to Donald Trump, and

(52:12):
we're you know, we're we've walked away from the principles
of the Republican Party. The next call will come in
and it will suggest that we're a bunch of rhinos.
I mean, you get it from both sides, you get
it from all camps. That's just part of leadership. For me, personally,
I'm not deterred by any of that. I love the
Republican movement, I love the conservative movement. I'm motivated to
do this, not, believe me, not out of any personal gain,

(52:35):
but primarily out of a love of my country. And
I believe that the conservative principles of the Republican Party
are actively saving the country. I'll work with anybody that
wants to work with me. But too many people, frankly,
don't understand ultimately with the Republican Party as an entity,
Briant is about. If you look at the Ohio Republican
Party long before I got there, but especially frankly, during

(52:58):
my three year tenure, we've had an incredible run of victories.
We're designed to win races.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
We've won.

Speaker 6 (53:05):
We've beat Shared Brown, We've won the governor's race, every
executive office. We have supermajorities in the House, in the Senate,
we control six of seven of these Supreme Court races.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
So we win.

Speaker 6 (53:16):
We win in Ohio if the Ohio a Republican Party,
and that's what I'm here to do. I'm here to
help us win elections and use whatever skill and experience
that I have to help us do that. And I
look forward to doing that. We'll get past this primary
primaries are what they are. They're ugly sometimes, but the
adults in the political room, Brian, know that we have
to come together.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Now.

Speaker 6 (53:36):
We have one hundred and eighty days to push back
on the socialist amy, acting to push back on this
national move to win the United States Senate. We've got
an elect John Houstead. Certainly the VAK is going to
be very well positioned to be our next governor as
a businessman and an outsider, really a dream voat candidate
if you're really believe in conservative principles and an outsider,

(53:57):
drain the swamp mentality the Vake. Robinson me, we'll bring that.
So that's where we are today, and we're pretty pleased
about it.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
You sound like it, and I'm I feel equally enthused
here in Ohio. A little more concern on a national
level given the war and the gas price increase, But
I have a comment or two on that. Can I
hold you over where you spend a few more minutes
with my listeners and me after the break? Absolutely great.
It is six forty one if you have Kerse the
talk station right Thomas with Alex Trumppilo, head of Halet

(54:28):
or head of the Hio Republican Party. I always wanted
to say, Hamilton Kunty Republican Party because that's what you
were for so long. But that allows me to ask
a question. One of my listener friends had asked the question.
I had it on my list of things to ask
you anyway, I got to profess. I was Alex. I
was a little disturbed at Hamilton County and all of
the open spots no Republican judicial candidates on the primary.
I mean, just if you held your hand up and

(54:50):
say I will run for judge as a Republican, it
was going to be unopposed at least had a chance
to go into November and try. People have thrown in
the towel. Is this a growing phenomena own or is
this just Hamilton County? What do you see around the
state and why won't Republicans run in these races?

Speaker 7 (55:07):
Yeah, so you're correct.

Speaker 6 (55:09):
It's been three years since I left that job ran
as you know, But listen, I know just from osposis
and the things that pick up, and you know I
still still have a house here in Cincinnati and stuff.
Any Way, all have to tell you that it's hard,
and Brian, you're a uniquely a position to understand this
as a lawyer in your own right. If you're practicing
law and things are coming along well, and you know
you have a good thriving practice, to step away and

(55:31):
run in a race that feels unwinnable is a real
is a real challenge, and it's hard to have your
partners support that. It's hard to have your clients understand
that you're not with them, you know, all the time
when you're campaigning, and those kind of things really make
it harder. And you know, again, Brian, I've been around
long enough to remember when we as Republicans won everything

(55:54):
in Hamilton County my first frankly ten years as the
county chairman. You know, we did things like win back
county commissioners and the Democrats.

Speaker 7 (56:01):
Et cetera.

Speaker 6 (56:02):
Democrats had the exact same problem. We would have judicial
candidates unopposed. So there's a myth out there, Brian that
maybe if people are listening to actually accept my response here,
but that the party can simply walk in, tap you
and make you run for office.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
That's just not right.

Speaker 7 (56:19):
That's not the way it works.

Speaker 6 (56:20):
And to get good qualified attorneys to run for these
judicial spots when they have a healthy practice and anotherwise
of good life, when they know that, you know, this
county now is one of three or four in the
states that's pretty decidedly blue, it's hard to get people.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
To do it.

Speaker 6 (56:37):
I think that's ultimately the answer. And while people may
see that as a failure of the County Republican Party.
You can do a lot of cajoling and arm twisting,
and but you have to have people step up and
actually agree to run. And that's the challenge, Brian, is
that people just look at that race and they know
it's a challenge for them, especially in the general election,
so that they don't want to put themselves out there

(56:58):
and you know, hurt their law practice and take time
away from their family.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
I get all that, and I understand it. Now, assume
you can find someone to run. Is it not possible?
And there's a predicate for this question, because it sounds absurd.
Is it not possible that Democrats might vote for a
tough on crime Republican endorsed judge because here in Hamilton
County we got a real problem with crime and a
lot of it goes over to the prosecutor's office as
well as the bench, which is very liberal. It's comprised

(57:26):
of a bunch of left leaning judges who want to
do whatever they believe to be criminal justice reform, which
basically lets people out that have committed heinous crimes. You know,
no bond. We've got people that are recidivous to keep
getting let out. It's a revolving door of justice. I
can see a Democrat going, you know what, No, Moss,
I will not vote for one of these left leaning,
woke judges anymore. Give me a heart on crime Republican

(57:46):
because my neighborhood's going to hell in a handbasket. So
that's possible. But if there's no one there to give
them the option to Democrats, then they're stuck with the
left leaning judge that they or that they ran for
off is now pivoting over. You mentioned. Voter turnout in
November is going to be critical here in Ohio for
a lot of reasons. Let's look at the war. Gasoline

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prices have gone through the roof, and I struggle with
the idea that gasoline prices are somehow going to cause
a Republican to vote for some crazy loon, left wing
socialist candidate because they're individually pissed off about the price
of gas. Would I give up my values because the
price has gone up on something and vote for someone
who represents the antithesis of everything I believe. No way,

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and I can't believe that people would actually do that.
But that's the suggestion Democrats are going to get a
bunch of seats in Congress because well, Donald Trump, evil
Orange man. Doesn't this come down to voter turnout? Alex,
Will the Democrats actually win in November if the Republicans
show up in large numbers?

Speaker 8 (58:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (58:49):
He answered that. That's the final question. There is yes,
And this is the challenge of really across the country.
For us in Ohio, it's easy in twenty twenty four.
We want everything with Donald Trump's style turnout in Ohio.
We just have to do the very same thing here,
and that is to remind people about what the stakes
are in the race like this. You know, look, the

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Democrats are impeachment crazy. They will try to impeach President
Trump if they have a chance. They did it last
time they were in power. They did a couple three times.
So we have to point out the stakes. You know,
on gas prices, I actually am confident. If you look
this morning breaking news here in the Wall Street Journal,
the oil prices plunged overnight. Their talk of diplomacy, oil

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prices are going to go up and down. I feel
like the gas prices will level off and come down and.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
Look they were Yeah.

Speaker 6 (59:37):
So anyway, the answer is we have to turn out
our votes. We have to remind people. I want to
can what you just said about principles, Brian, how they are,
but you go to vote and to not abandon those principles.
Because the price of gas went up because Donald Trump
finally had the guts I'm not going to use the
other word I want to use there, but he had
the guts to take on the Iranian nuclear challenge. We've

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had president after president talk about it. One president finally
said I've got to act. Yeah, so we're paying small
price at the at the pump, yes, but ultimately those
people cannot have a nuclear weapon. The President's been clear
about that. So you know, I hope that resolved. I
think it will. I think it will by Midsummer.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Well, and you know, the Republicans are on the side,
on the right side of so many eighty twenty issues,
you know, but that's how Donald Trump got elected. He
was on the right side of all these important issues,
including issues that are important to Democrats. Who was on
the right side because a lot of Democrats feel the
same way that you know, Republicans do. In so far
as maybe border security and illegal immigration, the LGBTQ plus
plus plus plus argument, you know, we just go on

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and on. It just blows my mind that these left,
these further and further Zorhan Mandami type democrats are getting
elected and that they can beat they can best a challenger.
I live in a strange world. Going back to your point,
I too remember the day when Hamilton County was blood red.
The world's a different place, Alex, and we got to
do something to stop this tidal wave of left.

Speaker 6 (01:01:02):
Well, I agree completely. And look that's what I wake
up thinking about every single day and what we're doing
here in Ohio. And I won't get going into the
nitty gritty, but we have an incredible data set, Brian,
that we know who the people are who stay home.
That's how good the sort of political science is in
the year twenty twenty six. We know those people that
we have to talk to, so we intend to knock

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their doors, send them a tech, deliver them mail, call
them and urge them to get out. And if you're
listening today you're worried about a big Democrat wave, a
blue wave here in November, you can help us. You
can really help us by making sure that you tell
everybody in your orbit to get out and vote. Make
sure your family's properly registered, and go on your social media,

(01:01:44):
your Twitter, your Facebook, your LinkedIn, whatever, and remind everyone
that this election cannot be one that we sit out.
So if we turn out a massive number of votes,
we can win and defy history. When I say define history,
I mean you know, we know that midterm's gonna be
tough at the party power, So right, that's it. The
stakes are very high, Brian, very high.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Very high. But a note of optimism. I detected that
in your voice, Alex Charataphila. We will talk again soon,
I hope. Keep up the great work and congratulations on
the victory, and we'll see how things go as we
fast approach November, Alex, have a wonderful week and weekend, sir,
God bless you, Brian, Thanks so much and you sir.
Six fifty three here fifty five kro CD talk station

(01:02:27):
after the time of the hour news Jack Atherton with
a big picture. Since Joe is out, and again I've
been asking folks to pray for Joe. Strekker had a
medical emergency yesterday. Do not have any details on the
nature and scope of it, but he did get to
have to get rushed off over to the emergency room.
So please give Joe a shout out in your prayers. Thanks,

(01:02:47):
thank you very much for doing so, and that as
a consequence of Joe and I being here, I don't
know what Jack Adadan wants to talk about. But you know,
if you've ever heard Jack speak, it's always brilliant. It's
always you know, woven history along with some commentary about
what's going on in the world right now, and what
is going on in the world right now. Real quick.
It was only one day and I honestly I have
no idea what this is all about. Project Freedom, Trump

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called it over the weekend. Details were kind of sketchy,
but he was going to provide some sort of barrier
with US military to help ships get ferried through the
quote unquote closed straight to horror moves. So yesterday he
stopped it after only one day of this so called,
you know, operation Project Freedom. Trump said he was now

(01:03:29):
pausing this operation after a request by the mediator from
Pakistan as well as some other countries, as it's been reported,
saying that great progress, this is his words, great progress
has been made toward complete and final agreement. We have
mutually agreed that while the blockade will remain in force.
That will be the blockade of the Iranian ports project.

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Freedom will be paused for a short period of time
to see whether or not the agreement can be finalized
and signed. I think that is why the market has
reacted in the oil prices have dropped. Now, if you're
a poly market or betting fan, and you can literally
bet on anything these days, a lot of people have
been pointing out, you know, the best indicator are the experts.
The pay people who typically win in these types of

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gambles are folks that are steeped in knowledge and in
the know. Isn't the best polymarket out there all of
the stock markets themselves. When you have institutional investors in
charge of trillions of dollars in investments and a fuduciary
obligation to those who've entrusted their money with these investors,
they're making their buys and sells and trades based upon

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what they perceive to be in the future. And nobody
can read the tea leaves better, I would argue, than
the market. And if the market isn't overreacting and the
market hasn't dropped twenty five percent, which some said it
was going to happen as soon as we started dropping
bombs on the Iranians in this second wave or this
war we're in right now, paused as it may be,
but if the market didn't react, doesn't that suggest to

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you that a lot of really, really really smart money
people out there think it's going to be resolved rather soon.
I think it does. I'd like to hope that they're right.
I'm pretty damn happy that my investments haven't gone into
the toilet, been up and down that road a lot
of times over the years, hasn't happened yet right now,

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and so that leads me to a little bit of optimism.
As we get closer to November, you get this war
situation out of the way, and oh my god, can
you imagine if Donald Trump emerges as the victorious party
in this, if he gets the rid of the nuclear
program in Iran, if that brings about stability in the

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Middle East, He'll be held as a global hero. And wow,
I can only imagine the heartache and psychological problems the
Democrats are going to have if Donald Trump scores yet
another win in that regard. Six point fifty six Right now,
Jack Aviden, after the top of the our news. I
hope you can stick around seven six Happy Wednesday listener,

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lunch Snow's Lakeside Tavern. Hope to see you there. And
as I have been starting out and bringing up from
time to time. Before we get to Jack addid in
pause for a moment, please extend your prayers and positive
thoughts for Joe Strecker who struggled with a medical emergency yesterday.
He's not here today or praying for his swift recovery.
Got to get him back in the executive producer booth.
Although Danny Gleeson is doing a great job covering for

(01:06:38):
Joe Strecker, But prayers for Joe Strecker and welcome back.
It's time for the big Picture with Jack Adverton. It's
a pleasure to have you back on the show as
it is every week, Jack Adidan, Welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:06:47):
Back, Brian. All fans of your show, and I'm chief
among them, are praying for a super producer Joe and
we hope he's going to be back soon. But most
of all, Bravery is gonna stay healthy. All right, Well,
let's smile so that we can lighten things up a little.
In one of the funniest movies of all time mel

(01:07:09):
Brooks's original version of the Producers with Zera Mistelle and
Gene Wilder. Yeah, you remember hippie Adolph Adolf Hitler played
by Dick Sewan as a hippie things This one on
one is two two and two is Paul. I'm feeling
so bad because we're losing the war until the FIRA

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calls for his Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Gerbels and asks Joey,
why didn't you just tell the people? I told them
we invaded England and happy do Joey? We won? Of course,
Hitler's propaganda could not convince the German people for long,
not with Allied bombs reducing Berlin to rubble and sending

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to Ferra and his underground bunker mates. Just like the
propagand and the Minister to suicide, they both committed suicide.
Mel Brooks Hitler mirrors what's going on right now with Iron.
The Democrat media is gleefully telling Americans that the Mullahs
and the Revolutionary God are winning. Secretary of War has

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set to responded in biblical terms, accusing safe news reporters
of being pharisees. But the history of Lyne goes back
way before the New Testament. The very first lie was
sold to the very first woman, not by Adam. He
did not go on a dating app and claim I'm

(01:08:38):
six foot two and everyone mistakes me for Brad Pitt. Now,
the first lie was sold by the serpent. God ordered Adam,
you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil, for when you eat from it,
you will certainly die. But the crafty serpent is sure
to Eve you won't die. Girl. God does want you

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to eat that scrumptious fruit, because if you do, you'll
be like God. Well, the upshot was that God condemned
serpents thereafter to crawl on the earth and be the
lowliest of all animals, and Adam and Eve did eventually
die after they were expelled from Eden. As Archie Bunker quoted, God,

(01:09:21):
get your clothes on and get the hell out of here.
On the other end of the spectrum, Brian, one of
my favorite philosophers, believed ethical conduct depends on telling the truth.
Immanual Kant condemned lying even when you have good intentions,
because lyon deprives other people of their humanity. They cannot

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make good choices if they don't have truthful information the trouble,
as God does not always step in the way he
did the Garden of Eden. Liars often get away with
their lives. This comes up in history's first book about politics,
Plato's Republic, about a Greek shepherd named Guijes who discovers

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a magic ring. This ring makes him invisible, letting Guijes
get away with murder. He kills the king to deuces,
the queen and the people he rules have no way
of judging his true worth, which brings us back to
the Nazis, not mel Brooks, the real Nazis. In chapter

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ten of his book Mine Kam or My Struggle, Adolf
Hitler advocates the big lie, the idea that the bigger
the lie, the more people will believe it, because they
figure nobody would dare tell a lie that preposterous. Hitler
was a great big liar, and so was Gebels because
the propaganda minister also ran the newspapers in Germany, radio

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and even their movie industry, almost like today's serpents mainstream media.
When it comes to line, as Carly Simon would sing,
nobody does it better than democrats beside just one golden oldie,
because it shows how government colludes with the media today.
Democrats in twenty sixteen claimed that a videotape showed Donald

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Trump with Russian hookers at a Moscow hotel. You know,
a hooker and got a cover of the kid's ears
for this. They heard him endlessly on Democrat media that
videotape supposedly showed the hookers urinating on the bed that
Baraka and Michelle Obama had previously slept in, because we

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were told Trump wanted to show how much he despised
the Obamas. That lie went as viral as COVID nineteen
Golden Shower means, rained down everywhere on social media. Stephen
Colbert did a skit where he bounced on the hotel bed.
The so called p tape became a pillar of the
wider Russia Russia, Russia scandal, which was a total or

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maybe I should say totalitarian hopes as even Special counsel
Robert Muller finally admitted a lie in a fake dossier
paid for by Hillary Clinton's twenty sixteen presidential campaign, but
half the country believed her big lie, and now political
line has grown to pandemic proportions from leftist media to

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tax exempt activists like the Southern Poverty Law Center paying
three million bucks at least to the KKK and other
hate groups to make conservatives look like haters. It's the
opposite of Guige's turning invisible. The left pays villains to
go public and incite violence, including three assassination attempts on

(01:12:47):
Donald Trump, egged on by hatemongers like Jimmy Kimmel, Brian
You know. George Orwell's nineteen eighty four is not just
about surveillance, although that's bad enough, It's also about the
kind of lives that Hitler and Stalin institutionalized. Big Brother's
Ministry of Truth spreads propaganda, but even worse, it destroys history,

(01:13:12):
what we talk about every week. It destroys history by
dumping old newspapers and books down what's called a memory hole.
By Orwell, true history disappears, just the way American students
are now being taught safe history, including the New York
Times sixteen nineteen projects, which claims America from its founding

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at its core, was a slave state. This lie is
an attempt to define Black Americans, women, sexual minorities, and
others today not as individuals with opportunities, not as Americans,
but as victims eternally dependent on big state socialism. Folks,
Today's Democrats Socialist party is by definition a lie, big lie,

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because most people living under socialism are pessants. Only the
elites thrive. So the best way to celebrate the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America's independence is to spread
the truth, which, luckily for us, what you and Joe
do every morning. What are you saying?

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
Well, I appreciate the kind words there at the tail end.
I try my best to do that. Sometimes I feel
personally I fail epically. But as you point out, history
proves your point on socialism, and we bring this up constantly.
Every time it's been tried, it is a result in
failure in the form of misery of the people, collective misery.

(01:14:40):
I guess, since everyone's sharing and share alike in the
misery that socialism brings around that that makes things good
or equal. No, you have a demonstrably opposite proof that
our system of government freedom, coupled with free markets and
capitalism is far superior for generating wealth for all people.
That is demonstrable, demonstrated by history. For those who take

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the moment in time to study it now. Going back
to your Adam and Eve point, maybe it was Adam's
failure by listening to Eve rather than listening to God.
Maybe there's something to learn there about relationships with He.
I believe he failed in some way by listening to
her and not listening exactly to the commandment of God,
which is don't touch it. Lies work collectively on us

(01:15:22):
when we fail to get the information, when we ignore politics.
How can you get away within such an obvious lie
if by doing a little bit of research, which is
easy to do in this information age, and you can
learn for yourself that maybe it is not true, or
in fact, it could be an outright lie. So that
seems to be our failure. And I recognize that when
information is controlled allah or Well, you're only going to

(01:15:45):
get one view and I think we're farther away from
that one viewpoint than we ever have been because of
all of the information that we find ourselves capable of
reading and learning. So maybe there's a a lesson here
for us out here. And I talk about low information
voters all the time, going back to campaign ads and
lies which are in campaign ads, that money that pay

(01:16:09):
for the campaign ads would be thrown down the toilet
effectively if we all could see through the lies in
the campaign ads. But because we don't paying attention to
politics generally speaking, that stuff can have some significant effect
on the outcome of an election. Well, because you learn
what you learn simply because you listen to a thirty
second spot on TV.

Speaker 7 (01:16:31):
You you're right. I believe most people accept lives because
of peer pressure, which we're gonna be talking about it
as a topic soon, but for now. When you live
in a healthy society, one where faith, family, free markets,
and personal responsibility are values, peer pressure builds virtue. But

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in a decay decade of society, one with a pop
culture that traps people and arrested adolescent, virtue is replaced
by mindless conformity. To get the most clicks, you sink
to the lowest common denominator because it can't be a
lie if everyone you know believes it. One other thing

(01:17:13):
that we talk about constantly, Brian is Iran. And look
what's going on now is I've been saying for more
than a month while Democrat propagandists lie when they say
Iran is winning this war. Donald Trump could yet lose
the peace. We pray he won't, but it's possible. Iran
boasted to Steve would cough back in February. They don't

(01:17:36):
deny it that they had enough highly enriched uranium to
build eleven nuclear bombs in a matter of weeks. That
was like a mugger holding a gun to your head.
You have to grab the gun, and our military did
that brilliantly. But Trump then felt and apparently still feels,
he can treat the surviving Mullahs and Revolutionary Guard the

(01:17:58):
way he treated Delsi Rodrigue in Venezuela. The difference is
that Maduro's vice president is not a religious fanatic. Yeah,
she's willing to do our bidding, and I bet she'll
hold free elections sooner rather than later. By sharp contrast,
Iran's dead enders will not keep any deal that Trump negotiates.

(01:18:19):
As we've said, they're like cockroaches. They're survivors. So while yes,
we have won the war militarily, America may yet lose
the peace if we don't stop losing time and the
midterms negotiating a worthless peace deal and instead demand unconditional surrender. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
I really am glad you brought up the point about religion,
because that turns the conflict into something completely different. And
I always like to suggest my listening audience, many of
whom are people of profound faith, would you turn your
back on your religion, I mean, under really any circumstance,
or would you fight to the end in the name
of your religion and your God. So that horse of

(01:19:01):
a different color when you're talking about just sort of
like being weed to a political philosophy versus being weed
to God and religion. That transforms the whole nature of
the conflict. Yeah, I love talking about it. And there's
go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:19:14):
There's plenty to eat other than that apples.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
Yeah, Well, God.

Speaker 7 (01:19:19):
Is magnificent in his blessings. You just lead a decent life.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
Thank you. Oh the world would be such a better place.
And you know what, Communism as a concept wouldn't exist
if they're the politicians, the liars, the crazies that want
to control us. Couldn't capitalize and win based upon covetousness, envy,
and greed, which is really all what it's all about.
Going back to religion.

Speaker 7 (01:19:44):
Yep, all right, Joe stays strong.

Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
Amen seven twenty three. If you have ks detalk station
Americans for a Prosperity Donovan and Neil next segment, And
since we found out from Alex Trancepilo, a high Republican
party chair, that they have lists and they do metrics
and they know where registered voters are that do not vote.
I don't know how many elections go by each time

(01:20:08):
where someone doesn't vote even though there registered, but apparently
it happens a lot. Twenty percent showed up yesterday in
Ollile roughly, So we're gonna find out if he's got
that list, because they door knock and they help out,
and they're going to get people motivated to go out
to vote in November. Again. I don't think the problem
is Republicans being angry about gasoline prizes or angry that
Donald Trump started war that they would vote for Democrats.

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To me, that's like turning your back on your own religion.
How could you do that? Why would you vote vote
for someone who guarantees to not represent what you believe in?
So the only way I believe that Democrats can win
is because of course they've got evil Orange man fever
and they're rare in to go to vote in November
believing they can take over Congress. And the only way

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that can survive or actually work for them is if
we don't go up and go encounter that. You know,
you hold your nose and say, Okay, maybe evil Orange
Man isn't perfect, but I sure as hell don't want
fill in the buying from the Democrat Party. I don't
want socialism in other words, but we got to get
up and vote for that. Get out and vote for that.
You have to get out and vote. Pray everybody I'm

(01:21:17):
a listening audience, are all ready like Thomas, I vote.
There's no way I wouldn't get out and vote. Yeah,
that's you. Maybe it's your family. Maybe if it's not
your family, you'll get them to go out and vote. Talk,
knock on your neighbor's door. Are you going to vote
in November? Of course this becomes more important as we
get closer to the election. We have a lot more
to talk about between now and then, of course, and
maybe Dear God, let us all pray that the war
will be over and that we negotiate some the best

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possible terms for the good of the world, quite frankly,
and it would be for the good of the world.
And Lord on, I think that's probably behind more that
the Democrats, the more of the Democrats anger about this conflict.
And I agree personally legally speaking that you know kind
of played fast in looth with with launching a war
against another country. It's happened a lot since World War Two. Parties,

(01:22:04):
presidents of both political parties have done it. This is
like the new norm. So I may be outraged at
the ignoring the law, but here we find ourselves and
to the extent Donald Trump can prevail in this, and
an American military does what it does best, kills people
and breaks things and gets the Iranians to capitulate. What

(01:22:25):
an amazing accomplishment for evil Orange man. You want to
see people outrage, You want to see heads explode, like
remember the movie Scanners. Look at your Democrat friends after November.
If the Republicans in fact maintain control of Congress, indeed,
somebody who's going to help do that, Donald O'Neil coming
up next for Americans for Prosperity seven thirty one. IFKTI

(01:22:48):
have kc DE talk station, It's time to get people
motivated to help out and make sure that we have
a huge turnout that will be we on the conservative
side of the ledger of this November. Welcome back from
Americans for prosper Donovan and Neil. Great to have you
back in on as it always is.

Speaker 9 (01:23:02):
Donovan, Brian, always a pleasure to be with you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
I had Alex chruncefiel on earlier from the Higo Republican
share as you know, and he let it slip or
actually set out loud. I don't think he's let it
slip that you've got metrics, you've got lists or their
Publican party anyway does and they know where people are
who are registered to vote that simply just don't go
out and vote, so they can go to that address
and say, hey, by the way, you know, maybe November

(01:23:27):
is the time you might want to take advantage of
your registration and go out and cast a vote. So
do you have that list or something like that at
AFP Donovan O'Neil.

Speaker 9 (01:23:38):
Well, yeah, all of that's available through the Secretary of
State's office. I mean, I know who you vote for, right,
but they know it's public record who is registered to
vote and how often we vote. But we go we
go actually a level deeper than that, Brian. You know
through the work that we do, the continual I mean
we knocked doors twenty four to seven three sixty five,

(01:23:59):
and that helps us build profiles on voters, types of voters,
constituency blocks, and so all of that data helps power
the grassroots work that we do. And so when you
volunteer with us, for instance, quick shameless plug for us
here right, what you're doing is you're volunteering with a
team that has some of the best data in the business.

Speaker 1 (01:24:17):
So when you go and.

Speaker 9 (01:24:18):
Talk to a voter, it's highly targeted, highly focused to
what we believe is going to help, you know, persuade
that voter and help connect them to the importance of
this upcoming election. It's all about getting the vote turned
out though.

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
It is, and for those who might be reluctant to
help out and become a citizen advocate, as AFP action
dot Com allows everyone to easily do. I think, you know,
especially in these trying times where everyone is angry, like
perpetually angry, and that they might not want to get in,
they might not want to knock on a door for
fear they're gonna end up in some shouting match with someone.

(01:24:51):
I just give people some context. How often would something
like that happen or how often in your experience and
your door knocking campaigns, which have been going on forever, Donovan,
do you really ever encounter many people like that? Or
is it a challenge to deal with people like that.
I'll be straight with you.

Speaker 9 (01:25:07):
I've been knocking doors for over twenty years for the
various campaigns presidential non presidential elections. Knocked about one thousand
doors myself in this primary election for our endorsed candidates,
and knock a lot between now in November. I'll tell
you what, in an election, one or two out of

(01:25:27):
the thousands of doors that I knock do I have
somebody who says I don't want it, get off my
porch and don't come back again. And it's not even
ever that aggressive, Brian. But the reality is most people
actually appreciate when we come to their door, knock on it,
smiling doorhannger in hand and say hey, my name's Donovan
with Americans for Prosperity. We're just letting you know about

(01:25:48):
the upcoming election and some candidates you might be interested
in have a moment to talk with me. More often
than not, Brian, they say yes, actually, I've seen the
mail and I've had these questions. I've wondered about this.
The door to door works, and I think it really
breaks through that political frustration that social media perpetuates, or
other forms of political campaigning perpetuate. Door to door campaigning

(01:26:11):
by and large, head and shoulders above all the other tactics,
and really kind of can help instill some faith in
our political process. Well we go out and do it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
Which, since you're interacting with real human beings on a
very very large scale, it suggests that that anger and
that vitriol on social media represents only a small section
of humanity. So maybe the message that we're getting is
in fact some sort of like a lie.

Speaker 9 (01:26:36):
Well yeah, I mean I think, you know, whenever anybody
has the anonymity of social media, even when it's your
own Facebook with your picture, you with your kids, there's
still something distant, right. But it's different when you're actually,
you know, knocking on someone's doors, having a conversation to
ohiolence to Americans, even if you walk on I've had

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situations in primaries. We just came out of the primary yesterday,
right where I go up to a door and they've
got the opponent's sign in the yard, and I you know,
it's still a cordial conversation between two conservatives who both
want the best for the state. We may not see
eye to eye on who the best candidate is to
achieve that, but I'll tell you what those are actually
some of the most productive I feel like conversations because

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they're engaged, right, They've put the sign in the yard,
they've done their research and found their candidate, and they
know that I'm out there advocating for mine. I think
it's good, it's healthy, and more often than not it is.
It is a positive experience. Then I think everybody who
believes that in this country ought to take.

Speaker 1 (01:27:35):
Part in Donald any Americans for Prosperity a call for
action today with my listening audience.

Speaker 9 (01:27:40):
Well, primary is over, but it doesn't mean this election
is one. We've got November. Go to AFP action dot com.
Let's get in the fight for Senator John Houston. We
got to send Shery Brown back and to retire one
more time.

Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
Americans for Prosperity makes it so easy for you to
help out a little bit, a whole lot, whatever you
want to do. If you help out, obviously we're going
to go to November with a better advantage. Thank you,
Donovan and Neil each a week coming on the program
and I appreciate what you and AFP are doing throughout
the year. We'll have you back on next week and
get an update. Sounds good. Take care, Brian, thanks my friends,
stick around Clerma Kenny Veteran Services. Next seven about krc

(01:28:14):
DE talk Station. Brian Thomas always happy to see the
clemic Keutty Veteran Services folks in the studio, and that
would mean, of course Steve Belso, the executive director of
the Clema County Veteran Service com Mission. But we also
have a new character in the room, Louke Gordon's his name,
Steve Belzo. Good to see a man.

Speaker 8 (01:28:29):
What's with lou Brian, I'll tell you what. It's always
a great morning when I get to come in here
and see the energy of Brian Thomas and what you
do for a veterans.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
So love the veteran Thank you. That's the one thing
it'll get me out of bed.

Speaker 8 (01:28:44):
I don't know about that. There's plenty of aggravated stuff
out there, keep and Brian Thomas going, but I have,
I have, I have pulled the stinger away and I
didn't say a thing about lou that you asked me,
So this is how we do it on radio and television,
isn't it. Nonetheless, well it's lous.

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
You called it session planning. I said, wait a second,
I did, Deeve Belzo. You got to foot out the
door already.

Speaker 8 (01:29:05):
You know I'm still learning to spell succession. So that
is why this is so unique that I even said
the word Brian.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
Okay, well we know you. What about Lou? It was
so acri. We'll talk about Memorial Day. I know why
you're here, but I have a feeling we're gonna see
We're gonna see Lou Gordon in the studio maybe more
down the road. Sometimes that is correct. That is correct.

Speaker 8 (01:29:25):
So with most places, especially in a business concept, veteran
service officers large budget identified by the state. How much
you want to ensure that someone taking over as the
executive director has an understanding and background and business so
that budgets are developed, spending is done in concert with

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you have a mission of the office that you ensure
it's going correctly. Lou came to the office one day.
We're talking. He's got a master's from Xavier. He's doing
another degree at U. See, he won't get his nose
out of his books. He's got a callous on his no,
his books are in his noses in the books so much. Nonetheless,
talented young man exceeds me. So surround yourself with white people.

Speaker 1 (01:30:09):
Right as I would expect. Steve Bells is looking out
for the American veteran that's served by the Clemont County
Veteran Services on into the future, anticipating it someday. Yes,
like all of us, Steve will not be in that role.
So Lou, I'm glad to see you man. I wish
you all the best on your future role, and we
will be talking more soon. But you know you came
in here today and I mean to sidetrack you talking

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about lose so much. Memorial Day, Memorial Day, and some
people confuse Memorial Day with Veterans Day.

Speaker 8 (01:30:35):
That are barbecue grill Day. I'm not sure, but there
is a big distinction between Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
And how many Sunday mornings in church, how many times
that's off track again, it's embarrassing, and people look at
me when I won't stand up on Memorial Day and
you want to jump up there and say stop, it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:30:57):
About us, No, it's about those who gave the ultimate
sacrifice and service of their country.

Speaker 8 (01:31:02):
Let's look at the definition of the day. It's a
memorial right, Yeah, it's Memorial Day. So answer the question
in front it does words have meaning? And when I
look for that definition, it's not about Steve, who's still
upright on his two shoes. So it's just one of

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those messages to get out there is one America. Remember
why it's called Memorial Day and who we are memorializing,
and basically for the freedoms we have in this country still,
whether you think we still have them or not, we
are still the freest country on God's green Earth.

Speaker 1 (01:31:41):
I wish people wouldn't lose sight of that.

Speaker 7 (01:31:43):
Please.

Speaker 1 (01:31:44):
That's one of the reasons I appreciate supporting the American
Veterans and the causes because they represent the freedom that
our country has sim we would not be here. Don't
go away, Morris Steve Belzo from the Klimic County Veterans Services.
We're going to talk about what is Decoration Day. We'll
talk about also what services the Veteran Service Organization offers
family members who have lost members in service of our country.

(01:32:04):
Don't go Away. At seven forty five seven fifty fifty
five k C detalk Dation Clima County Veteran Service Mission.
They're there to help the American veteran the Claimont County area.
Steve Belzo, the executive director of the Cleamon County Veteran
Service Commission, in studio, we're talking about Memorial Day. No,
it's not Veterans Day. It's for those who died in
military service, paying the ultimate sacrifice for your freedom and

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my freedom and godless each and every one of them.
It used to be decoration.

Speaker 8 (01:32:28):
Day, Steve, it did, right, Yeah, when this decoration.

Speaker 1 (01:32:33):
Does not define the day like Memorial Day does.

Speaker 8 (01:32:35):
No, it doesn't when you think of Decoration Day. This
whole Memorial Day concept has variable beginnings depending on who
you talk to. That originally they believe the well, they're
known as Buffalo soldiers later on, but the African Americans
that fought in the Civil War down in the Carolinas

(01:32:59):
were recognizing their war dead and certainly proud of what
they were fighting for during that war.

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
Talk about a vested interest.

Speaker 8 (01:33:07):
Exactly so the honor of their own kin have died
in the war. They were decorating the graves and then
another state picks up. So that's pretty neat what they're doing,
and it just continued to porpoise from there that other
people Pennsylvania then started one and they said, well, we
started the first one. And so there's no real definitive
answer who started this. But yet we know that this

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started as a decoration day of decorating the graves of
those who have given their lives.

Speaker 1 (01:33:35):
That makes for freedom, that makes sense, and of course
that tradition is still going on, is absolutely more toward
Memorial Day. But what about the families. I mean, part
of the tragedy of all this is you know, anytime
someone dies that leave behind grieving family members. Are family
members a part of this remembrance process?

Speaker 8 (01:33:53):
They are, and it's I want to say, yes, it's
in design, but they're often left behind. Everybody remembers Sergeant
Joe from my high school class, but they don't think
of Sergeant Joe's family exactly or mom. So back during
World War one and two, we had the Blue Star
families and it was a little flag you would hang
in your window that you had a family member serving

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in the war. And so you hang a little flag
and had a little blue star on it. But when
you lost your loved one, that blue star changed to
a gold star and we were able to identify the
families who lost a loved one in the war. Then
that morphed into gold star, mother's gold Star family, golds
Star spouses, which is true right, and it's just another

(01:34:37):
way to recognize, especially during Memorial Day. It's not about
the veterans still breathing. It's about those who have given
their lives and the families who lent their loved ones
to their nation to die on their behalf so that
we enjoy the freedoms that we have.

Speaker 1 (01:34:53):
Well stateds the bells as always, what services did the
VSO offer to families that have lost members and service
to our country?

Speaker 8 (01:35:00):
There are the multiplicity, there is.

Speaker 1 (01:35:05):
One.

Speaker 8 (01:35:06):
A lot of the individuals family wise, don't recognize or
understand medals or ribbons that were awarded their loved ones.
They may have documents such as on a D two
to fourteen, which is a federal document of separation that
will list that service members decorations earned, and they'll come
in with the documents, say what what are these and

(01:35:26):
how do we get these medals? We'll put them together
for them. We'll actually hand the family a rack of
ribbons that their loved one would have earned or the medals.

Speaker 1 (01:35:35):
That's wonderful. Yeah, that's wonderful. Now, insofar as Clemont County
Veteran Services are aware of events, maybe you might want
to point out that are going on in honor Memorial
Day for my listening audience.

Speaker 8 (01:35:45):
Oh my gosh, they're going all over the tri State
everywhere you look, right, Yes, it is everywhere you look.
We have a very robust we call them veteran service organizations.
Think of the VFW, the DAV that's Veterans Foreign Wars,
Disabled American Veterans, the American Legion, and they will be

(01:36:06):
out placing flags and temporary grave markers at veterans grave
sites throughout this whole Southwest region, primarily across the Ohio
I imagine as well. But there are organizations you can
connect with, look up in your phone book or on
Google because Google knows everything, what's my locust Legion and
ask them if they're doing anything for Memorial Day. But
there's also other organizations who are out there identifying the graves.

(01:36:30):
Plus this year we have the Revolutionary War Soldiers coming
up on the fourth of July. There'll be events coming up,
So it's of course it's kind of special this Memorial
Day as well, right.

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
Truly special. And you know, when you go back to
the Civil War and you look at the numbers of
dead just from the Civil War, it's just astronomical, It
is insane, It is really hard to really fathom and comprehend.
But they're there for us to remember. And hopefully my
listening audience is filled with folks who will be doing
just that. Hon are those who paid the ultimate sacrifice
this Memorial Day. Show up at one of the events,

(01:37:02):
put a flag on your deceased love one, veterans or
it's veterans grave. It's the right thing to do, and
let's keep this proud tradition going, most notably in honor
of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this great country.

Speaker 8 (01:37:14):
That's right, Absolutely, so.

Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
Many people died making it work.

Speaker 8 (01:37:18):
It's yes, right, it's their blood that covers the granite
foundation of what our diplomacy is built upon.

Speaker 1 (01:37:26):
Clemont County Veterans Service Commission. You find them online so
easily with just typing in that. Steve Belzo, thank you
for all that you do throughout the year for the
American veterans, Lou. Great to have you aboard. You're joining
an outstanding organization. It's wonderful having you both in and
you know I'll have you right back ASAA. It's always
here for you my friends.

Speaker 8 (01:37:43):
Thank you, brother. I appreciate the teamwork.

Speaker 1 (01:37:45):
Happy to do it. Seven fifty six, right now, don't
go away. After the top of the hour news, we
have lots to talk about between now and at eight
thirty one, Judge Nitapolatana returns. Talk about free speech. You
gotta take the good with the bed, says Judge Nitapolatana.
Don't go away. I'll be right back, you know. Five
fifty five KRCD Talk Station. I hope you're having a

(01:38:05):
happy Wednesday. I hope to see a listener lunch today.
Snow's Lakeside Tavern's the venue, and I appreciate those already
chimed in. Let me know they are going to be there.
And if you just want to sit down and enjoy
some fellowship with some great people, you're in the best
group of people possible with the fifty five KRC listening audience.
Love each and every one of you, and I always
get kind of a boost after a listener of lunch
and go in feel a little bit blue. But man,

(01:38:28):
hanging out with my friends at listener lunch just puts
a big smile on my face. It improves my day,
and I'd like to think, given the people that show
up regularly, that it improves their day as well. And
nothing puts a bigger smile on my face. And looking
out at the crowd of people, so many of my
listeners have found like really close friends. At listener lunch,
you see the same groups of people sitting at the
table together. They don't care one way or another whether

(01:38:49):
I'm there or not. They're just there to enjoy each
other's companies. So joining the fun Snow's Lakeside Tavern today
and feel free to call me if you have a
comment about the elections, maybe something that Big Jack Atheran
said earlier, or a reflection or a rather comment on
Alex Treantifilo's comments from earlier in the program. You can
find this podcast at fifty five care see dot com
and the number is five one, three, seven four nine

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fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three
talk or pound five fifty on at and T phones.
Bottom of the hour with Judgeennena Polatano on free speech.
You gotta take the good with the bad, and can't you. Oh,
you want to know how early people can showup for lunch,
someone just call it in on that, Danny, Thank you
very much. The official start time is about eleven thirty.
I have a lot of folks that like at eleven

(01:39:33):
you check, check when Snow's Lakeside Tavern opens. I could
do that in a minute, but yeah, some some folks
like to get there and get the lunch part out
of the way early so they can mingle and talk
with folks, and some people will show up after noontime.
I know that my friend Submariner cribbage Mike. We play
cribbage from time to time. He will be at listener
lunch today, which means I will probably be at Snow's

(01:39:55):
Lakeside Tavern until about one thirty, uh maybe even later
than that. He waits till I'm done talking with folks
I want. Speaking of talking with people, you know, I'm easy,
the most easy to approach guy on the planet. If
you show up with a listener lunch and I just walk
around talk, we don't there's no speech you find going on.
I don't stand in front of the room and you know,

(01:40:15):
and make comments and statements. And that's because I have
respect for the restaurant clientele. Not everybody that's at any
given restaurant we're at is part of the fifty five
Casey listener lunch. So there could be a table over
there that like doesn't want to hear a word that
Thomas says, and I would be interrupting their lunch if
I launched into some sort of speech in front of
the rooms. That's why I say, you got something you

(01:40:36):
want to talk about, just walk up to me and
say hi. I'll be happy to spend some time with
you as well. I just feel bad from time to
time and I'll look around the room and someone will
come up to me and like, well, I was here
the whole time and we got to go now, Like
dang it, I meant to get over and talk with you,
get engaged and again. All morning. All morning, I have
been asking my listening audience to please pray for Joe

(01:40:57):
strek Or. He had a medical emergency yesterday later in
the day, so he's not here today. Danny Gleason's covering
for him is Danny always does a great job, but
I got some good news a moment, or at least
I think it's good. I suppose the hospital wouldn't have
sent him home last evening or late last night if
he wasn't well enough to go home, So I view
that as a positive step. I have no details whatsoever

(01:41:21):
about Joe's condition beyond what I just told you, but
since he is out and it was an emergency, that's
why I'm asking for your kind prayers this morning, so
and early in the pro all Mississippi. James on the line, James,
welcome back, my friend. Good to hear from me this morning.
Happy Wednesday, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:41:36):
Hey man, I come in peace, love everybody, and there's
nothing you can do about it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:41):
Share James philosophy. The world will be a better place.

Speaker 4 (01:41:45):
Hey, Sir, James in the middle. You know, I just
look at pendulum swinging back and forth.

Speaker 1 (01:41:51):
I know you do.

Speaker 4 (01:41:52):
Now, now we can talk about the Civil Rights Bill,
we can talk about the Jeer Manning, we can talk
about out the Southern poplic Law Center. Now, all the
three of those things came into play to try to
combat something that was so unjustly. Now, when they got created,

(01:42:15):
did they go too far? Did they swing too far. Hey, maybe,
So that's up to the individual to decide that. But
when you want to adjust something, do you throw the
baby out with the bath water? You know? And we
sitting here caught in the middle of religion and politics
and a lot of that stuff is man made, man manipulated,

(01:42:37):
and we sit here and have.

Speaker 10 (01:42:39):
Vitriol hate for each other.

Speaker 4 (01:42:41):
Or themselves or whatever's going down to and I think
we missing the mark, you know, So we gotta we
gotta get back to that middle respect to each other
and see where we can go from there.

Speaker 1 (01:42:54):
That would be a good starting point.

Speaker 4 (01:42:56):
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:42:56):
You don't have to reach complete agreement, you don't have
to capitulate on what you believe in, but civility would
be a nice thing in these crazy times. Who live
in James Right.

Speaker 4 (01:43:07):
Well, you have to look at why do you believe
what you believe in? Yeah, I would use an example
of that white European walking on water and they told
us that was Jesus in God's Son. Well, we believed
in that. Now we know better than that. So you
have to look out. If the pitch and imagy was
a lie, how much more is a lie? Well, that's

(01:43:28):
the reason I call people's buffet Christians.

Speaker 1 (01:43:30):
You know, James, I'll let you engage in theological discussions
with my listening audience on a one on one basis,
and you know you're entitled to speak your voice here
on the Morning Show. And I have never disagreed with
your point about how could Jesus have been a white
European looking guy when he came from that region of
the world. We can certainly presume that he was a

(01:43:52):
person of some color at any way. But as I
pointed out, my understanding of how that image came about
is because when you're trying to do marketing among an uneducated,
illiterate group of people, which was pretty much all of
humanity in the period of time after Jesus's birth and resurrection.
If you're so inclined to believe, how do you sell
Alex say, a person of color to pretty much an

(01:44:13):
all exclusively white European audience. If you want to spread
the message, you have to have an image that they
are inclined to follow. So is the image a lie?
Maybe I'll let people conclude for themselves. Again, I'm no theologian,
but isn't it the message that they were trying to spread?
And the message of Christianity, I think is a good one.
You know, the idea of assisting fellow man, they'll read

(01:44:35):
the sermon on the mat if you don't remember what's
in That had some good points about living life the
right way. That's the point. So if you have to
perpetuate a little bit of a white lie, white, isn't
that funny white lie to get the religion in place.
If the religion ultimately benefits society, then maybe it was
worth that exercise. Now fast forward to a time where
we're all literate, we have connections to all types of information,

(01:44:58):
maybe it wouldn't have to work that way. And I
think we also, as it was pointed out this morning
in Jason Riley's op ed piece, I think we live
in a post racist world. At least we've made a
lot of inroads, which means and suggests to me that
if this concept of Jesus came up now and he
was depicted as whatever he actually looked like, you could
sell the message even if it's a black image to

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white people, because it's the message. That's what's important. James,
It's the message. So I appreciate it, though I always
love hearing from you James, and I'll keep my fingers
crossed to you and your beautiful bride might make it
to listener lunch today over at snows Lakeside Tavern. Thanks
for Colin James. Always a pleasure hearing from you. Yeah,
and I did read the column from Riley earlier on
the racial gerrymandering thing, and you know, he pointed out

(01:45:42):
what's illegal is throwing race into the map, drawing mix
without specific evidence of discrimination. And he does a great
historical analysis. White people vote for black people all the time.
It's modern times. We've kind of overcome the racial challenges.
Black people are registered and sometimes show up in greater
numbers and white folks. It's the message from the member

(01:46:05):
who is running. It's the person running. Is that person
going to represent my interests? The point being Jason Riley,
a black man, is making it doesn't matter what your
color your skin is, is are you going to get
a good representation? And my comment going back to Joe Biden,
if you don't vote Democrat, you ain't black. How insulting
is that another sub point he kind of made at

(01:46:27):
the end of the article. So something to be said
on all that. Bobby, welcome to the Morning Show, Happy Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
Happy Hunt Day, Happy hump Day, my friend. Wish Joe
well and thanks Danny for a cover and last minute
you know, Amen, a good team work. That's about it.
Just don't wished well and have a good listener once
today and just wish and Joe well. You know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:46:52):
I do you know what you're saying. And let me
get a real quick response from you on this, Bobby,
because you usually mentioned firearms from time to time, and
you and I are both big believers in the second.
Do you think the situation in Iran would be different
if the citizenry was armed. Let's say we sprinkle three
hundred or so million ar fifteens over the country there.
Do you think the situation would be different? Would they

(01:47:13):
be ruled under the thumb of an oppressive mullah.

Speaker 3 (01:47:17):
I've got a book for you that shows the pre
events and everything Ukraine because they were not armed. It's
no different in Gus and everything. Poor Jewish state people
over there and they weren't armed. If you're not being
able to protect yourself and protect your family, you're gonna
have problems when you have energy comes about. And right
now we're arming the Curds and have been for the

(01:47:38):
last four and a half weeks up in the northern
part of Iran. So we're arming the Kurds right now
to go ahead and help the population. They haven't advertised
a yet, that's a fact.

Speaker 1 (01:47:50):
Yeah. Well, and something in the back of my mind
was suggesting exactly that we got CIA operatives literally in
the four corners of the globe, and quite often they're
the ones who ferry and facilitate the transfer of arms
and other things to those who need it on the
front lines. So appreciated Bobby as always eight nineteen here
fifty five kros the talk station every Wednesday. If I

(01:48:14):
went three seven, four nine fifty eight hundred eight two
three talkco time five fifty. If you have an eighteen
T phone, feel free to call me up. Judge Jita Polatano.
Next on freedom of speech, cribbage, Mike, my submarine or friend.
Looking forward to listener lunch today, expecting to walk away
with defeat, which is typical with me. But it's okay.
I can handle it because I do beat you from
time to time. Welcome back, my friend.

Speaker 6 (01:48:35):
Thank you, Brian. Yeah, looking forward to a hearty gain
and my lovely bride and I once again are going
to one of the Price State's establishments for the first time.
One of the beauties of listener lunch, and I've been
hearing a lot of good things about it, so looking
forward to the fellowship, the food, and the game of cards.

Speaker 1 (01:48:53):
Yeah, well, you hit the nail on the head. I
really have enjoyed going to restaurants over the past. Coming
up on well, it's twenty years I've been on behind
the Mic here December, but for about eighteen of those
years we've been doing listener to Lunch. There are so
many places I have got at listened to lunch I
never even had heard of before in show. Snow's Lakeside
Tavern happens to be one of those. My former salesperson,
Debbie Howeller, is responsible. She assists me with lining these

(01:49:15):
up and she's the one that found Snows and apparently
the folks that Snows are really excited about having us today.
I just know that I'm going to have a good
time because the listeners like you are going to be there.

Speaker 6 (01:49:23):
So anyway, well, I have no doubt that we are
going to make the Snows stay up to day.

Speaker 1 (01:49:29):
I hope, So, I hope we don't overwhelm them. You know,
there have been times, Mike, over the years, Well, we
show up and sometimes larger numbers. Typically it's i'd say, average,
what do you say about fifty to seventy people? Mike, sure, okay, Well,
and sometimes it's more than that and wait staff for like,
what the hell happened? It's a Wednesday. Nobody's ever here
on a Wednesday. So I'm pleased to help support the

(01:49:53):
independently owned restaurants in the greater Cincinnati area. So and
I'm glad you why.

Speaker 6 (01:49:57):
I want to give a good, good Yeah, I want
to give a big shit out to all the poll
workers in the Tri state area.

Speaker 7 (01:50:03):
But predominantly I have.

Speaker 6 (01:50:04):
A special place in my heart from my group out
here in Clarmont County that spent fifteen wonderful hours together yesterday.
And you know, just talking about listener lunch, Brian, that's
kind of what my group reminds me of. You got
sixteen dedicated, like minded people that want to assist in
the election, but by law we're eight and eight down
to split down the middle, and you would never know it.

(01:50:25):
It's people getting along facilitating the vote. And what was
so heartening Yesterday is for the because I about eighty
percent of my team is there, you know, every May,
every November, but there's usually one or two due to
you know, for whatever reason. I can't have one hundred
percent so that we get new people. Yesterday, I had
a young gentleman who did a phenomenal job one year

(01:50:47):
out of high school. Had another young lady. It appeared
to be I didn't want to ask great but appeared
to be like early twenties. So it's so nice to
see the youth getting involved as well. And another little
anecdotal story of my voting location managers told me that
she had a neighbor that was always skeptical about the
election process here in Ohio. So she worked last November's

(01:51:08):
election and they had a discussion afterwards, and she told
me that yesterday she had no idea. It feels one
thousand percent better about the integrity of our elections here
in Ohio.

Speaker 1 (01:51:19):
Exactly. I knew you were going to say that, changing
the hearts and minds of the doubters out there. It
is a well oiled machiningy right. The Democrats and Republicans
who worked the polls do play nicely together, you know,
it's kind of funny, Mike. On that note, when I
handed my driver's license over and the woman that was
working the polls pulled up the options I had, which

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were Democrat, Libertarian or Republican slate. And as she rotated
the screen to me to point out my three options
to choose from, she had her finger pointing right at
the Democrat ticket. And I obviously didn't hit that. I
did vote with the Republican party, you though, I call
myself a little libertarian, so I hit the Republican And

(01:52:00):
I don't know that her reaction was a negative reaction,
but it looked to me like I kind of caught
her off guard and she wasn't really thrilled. I think
you're a Publican valved but she didn't say.

Speaker 6 (01:52:09):
And that's what I'm glad that they instituted this year
with the tamblet there, because before we used to have
to ask them and a lot of voters that maybe
could use a little bit more education about the primary process.
You know, very look puzzled at us.

Speaker 7 (01:52:23):
You know, yeah, we don't.

Speaker 6 (01:52:24):
We don't go by what you voted for in to pass.
In fact, I had a nice discussion with a young
man from Virginia who just moved into the area. He
pulled an issues only ballot because he said he didn't
know that what he could do. I said, oh, yeah,
you're no, I every every you know you picked the
ballot you want. You know, you're not You're not tied
to it. It isn't like in sub states where if
you're a registered Republican or Democrat you have to go

(01:52:45):
down to the board and reregister.

Speaker 1 (01:52:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:52:47):
That, and so the beauty of yesterday being able to
flip that screen and have four choices of Republican, Democrat, libertarian,
or just an issues only ballot. Once again, Power to
the people.

Speaker 1 (01:52:57):
Power the people. And thank you for working the polls, Mike,
and of course your service to our country. I will
look forward to trying to beat you at curbage listener
on today snows like here. I am too man, Real quick, Joyce?
Can we can take Joyce's call real quick? Joyce got
about a minute left. Thanks for calling this morning.

Speaker 11 (01:53:13):
Hey, good morning, Brian. I also wanted to say I
prayed for Joe immediately upon hearing.

Speaker 1 (01:53:18):
About his bad days.

Speaker 10 (01:53:20):
Thank you, You're welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:53:23):
I mean, I have the power of prayer.

Speaker 11 (01:53:24):
Is I'm Deny a ball. But just real quick, all
those school levies that didn't pass. Yes, you know we
voted against ours here I'm I'm a bin Clark County.
But you know what, if we were getting in return
on our investment and the children could read and do maths,
they might get I mean, yeah, they're they're they're producing

(01:53:49):
children they can't read pass the sixth grade level, and
they're asking me.

Speaker 1 (01:53:55):
For more money for what, Joyce fair enough conclusion. I
applaud your perception of the reality of that. Yes, if
you're not getting what you expect from a school, which
is core learning functions reading, writing, and arithmetic, and what
you're getting is actual political indoctrination, a bunch of left
wing nut job causes, that's not an environment you want

(01:54:16):
your schools in. It's certainly not an environment you want
your money going to support. Thank you, Joyce. Exclamation point.
North College, Hill Levey failed, New Richmond Levy failed, least
some of the local ones. Mount Healthy years past, Fairfield failed.
Just a few of the ones I got in front
of me. Judge entered Apolitano from the UCL Trumphic Center.

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slowed between buttermilk and Kyle's Well. Today is National Beverage Day,
so why not just sit back and relax with your
cup of tea, your cup of coffee, orange juice, maybe
even something a little bit stronger. The Judge is next,

(01:55:21):
Chuck Ingram on fifty five kr seat the talk station.

Speaker 1 (01:55:25):
A thirty two fifty five KRCD talk station. The Judge,
of course, Judge Enna Polaton, and we are blessed. I
feel I'm blessed. I know a listening audience is always
interested in hearing what Judge Enna Paula has not that
Napolitana has to say about these legal issues that we
encounter all the time. Welcome back, Judge Enna Polaton, and
thanks for joining the show again.

Speaker 10 (01:55:41):
Thank you, thank you, Brian. It's a pleasure to be here.
I'm not sure what Ingram was talking about neither mind.

Speaker 7 (01:55:46):
I do have a friend.

Speaker 10 (01:55:47):
I won't tell you who it is, a well known,
well known public figure who has sambuca with his espresso
every morning. But he made me promise not to say
who it is, not me, because I wouldn't drink at
that hour of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:56:01):
No, no, no, I gotta wait till at least ten
o'clock in the morning to start getting your drink on. Jude,
in these trying times.

Speaker 10 (01:56:09):
About espresso in my.

Speaker 1 (01:56:12):
Column, Good for you and your column. I you know,
you know what I wrote on the top of your column,
and I read it yesterday, and I think you made
great points there. But for the grace of God, go
anybody that participates in social media in any way, shape
or form. If the government can go after you for
a free speech post, and it's their decision about what

(01:56:33):
constitutes I guess an actionable offense, We've got a lot
of people that are going to be hauled in and
be subject to criminal prosecution by the FBI. This is
talking about James Comey's I think vile post about eighty
six forty seven, which everyone interpreted, as you point out,
in your column eighty six referring to basically killing something
or not offering anymore and forty seven. Of course a

(01:56:55):
reference to President Trump. At least that's how many interpreted it.
Judge Enna Paltano, this is a square in the wheelhouse,
a protected speech in this country.

Speaker 10 (01:57:05):
Yeah, absolutely is. When confronted with us on the Sunday
talk shows, Todd blanche, the acting Attorney General of the
United States, said, well, we have more evidence that we
can't reveal. Well, what more evidence do you have and
why can't you reveal it? How serious a threat did
the government believe this was if they sat on it

(01:57:28):
for a year and a half before they decided to
do anything about it. This is little more than the
President using the Department of Justice to make life miserable
for a person who made life miserable for him. Yeah,
Jim Comey, and he was the head of the FBI.
I mean, under Jim Comey's stewardship, Mister Donald Trump, we're

(01:57:51):
back in twenty and fifteen. Now was surveilled by the government.
I mean, this is now a well established At the
time I made this allegation, I was excoriated at Fox,
But it's now well established that this happened. The President's
animosity board Comy is prof is palpable and understandable.

Speaker 1 (01:58:16):
As much as Comy's as much as Comy's for Trump,
I said, as much as Comy's animosity to Trump, They're on,
They're equal in their dislife.

Speaker 10 (01:58:28):
That does not give the d O J Cart launched
the press kute somebody for speech. Look, this was a
stupid thing for him to have posted, but stupidity is
not a felony. But where we couldn't build, we couldn't
build enough jails.

Speaker 1 (01:58:42):
Yeah, and that's I was thinking of literally almost every
Hollywood celebrity who came out with something far more vile
than what Coney Coney put up. You know, the severed
head of Donald Trump, you know, in in the in
in that one so called comedian's hand, and you know
the the suggestions of violence towards Trump. All of every
single hue human being who did anything like that could
be subject to the same kind of prosecution.

Speaker 10 (01:59:05):
You're exactly right. So that's why the whole purpose of
the first of the First Amendment is to keep the
government out of the business of speech. So if I'm
haranguing a crowd and Hillary Clinton walks by and I
say to the crowd, there's Hillary, let's get her, and
the crowd descends on her. I can be prosecuted for

(01:59:28):
incitement to violence. But if I'm haranguing a crowd and
I say I wish somebody would get Hillary Clinton and
nobody is around there, it is absolutely protected speech. In
Comy's case, there is no incitement produced by it. There
for the speech is protected. And no matter how vile,

(01:59:51):
no matter how personal, no matter how offful wall it
may be. That's why we have a First Amendment to
protect the speech we hate. The speech we like doesn't
need any protection.

Speaker 1 (02:00:03):
Yeah, And I think the worst example of you know,
hate speech we all can really point to and say,
no one agrees with that clown is that Brandenburg versus
Ohio case where the clan leader was encouraging violence against
blacks and Jewish people. That is protected. Nobody likes the klan,
nobody thinks we should. You know, well, I see nobody
with a broadbrush. But you get the point. If that's protected,

(02:00:23):
you got to take the good with the bad. That's
the point of the First Amendment.

Speaker 10 (02:00:27):
Correct. Correct The Brandenburg case, which took place not far
from where you are now is the classic defense of
free speech. He's in Ohio. He encourages violence against blacks
and Jewish people in Washington, d C. No violence comes about.
The Supreme Court says, this speech was inoculus, and all

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innocuous speech is protected, and all speeches inoculous when there
is time for more speech to reject and neutralize it,
which in the Brandenburg case there was. He was convicted
in an Ohio trial court. His conviction was upheld in
an Ohio appellate court. The Ohio Supreme Court refused to

(02:01:09):
hear his appeal. He filed an appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States, which unanimously reversed his conviction.
End of story.

Speaker 1 (02:01:17):
End of story. It's on the books and it's been
the law since what nineteen sixty nine. So with that
guy in mind, I got to ask the goohead.

Speaker 10 (02:01:28):
I also found a case I didn't know existed when
doing my research of some kid.

Speaker 7 (02:01:33):
He was a kid at the time.

Speaker 10 (02:01:34):
He's my age now, who when drafted in nineteen sixty
six that a Senate the government puts a rifle in
my hand LBJLB in my cross heres. He was convicted
for threatening to kill the President of the United States
unanimously reversed by the Supreme Court.

Speaker 1 (02:01:53):
Of course, this isn't support for threatening to kill the
president the United States of America, but it is a
reflection of how broad our free speech rights are acted. Correct,
you don't. If you don't like that, then go ahead
and move to the United Kingdom, where you have no
free speech rights. Unfortunately, briefly though, because we're you know,
you and I are speaking right now to a listening
audience that I'm sure is not comprised of a bunch

(02:02:14):
of James Comy fans, most notably given the Russia Gate
and all the links he has to that. Of course
he's subject to a DOJ subpoena in connection with that.
All of our popcorn out collectively waiting to find out
what that reveals. But pivoting back to your comment about
other evidence, well we don't. You don't have all of
the information in reference to Comy's eighty six forty two post.
Wouldn't that information be in the the the indictment or

(02:02:36):
the criminal charge? Well, what's missing here, I'm it's.

Speaker 10 (02:02:42):
Not, which is why those of us who monitor it
for a living are questioning what the Heck is Todd
blintch talking about if they have evidence that he planned
and plotted to harm the president, they're applied to lay
that evidence out in the indict and then it's not there.

Speaker 1 (02:02:59):
Well, I guess sounds me like a motion to dismiss.

Speaker 10 (02:03:03):
Well, emotion to dismiss is coming, probably on First Amendment grounds,
and that will force the government to cough up whatever
else it has. And then if it's anything substantial, and
I can't imagine what it could be, but if it's
something substantial and credible, then company's lawyers will have to
deal with it, and I'll have to reevaluate what I said.
Maybe this is not a First Amendment case, but on

(02:03:26):
the basis of the indictment, yeah, the charge instant. This
is pure speech and it's absolutely protected in speech and
speak alone. It is unaccompanied by any other behavior alleged
in the indictment.

Speaker 1 (02:03:40):
Well, I will note that even if it is not
a free speech case, ultimately your comments provide a wonderful
the indictment based upon your perception serves as a wonderful
springboard to remind us how broad our free speech rights are.
And again, thank God for it. Real quick here, if
swirling in the background of all this is the burn
bag stuff, the Russia gate bag, that apparently on some

(02:04:00):
level may reveal that this was a concerted, coordinated plot
by folks in the Justice Department to go after Donald Trump.
If that is true, and maybe some of the subpoene
information and the research will will bear that out, is
that a prosecutable offense, the coordinated effort to undermine Donald Trump?

Speaker 10 (02:04:20):
Not anymore because the statummentations this five years than it's.

Speaker 1 (02:04:24):
Passed missed opportunity.

Speaker 10 (02:04:28):
Yes, yes, it would have to have been done in
the Biden administration or in the first year of the
Trump administration. But it's more than five years since all
this happened. Yeah, why the Trump DOJ sat on it?
It tells me either they had other priorities or there's

(02:04:50):
no there there.

Speaker 1 (02:04:51):
Yeah, and this burn Bag, with all this juicy information,
it sounds like it's a brand new breaking story now.
They found this last year. Even casp Tell even said
an interview last year that you're going to see everything
we found in that room one way or another. But
as of at least the time of our current conversation,
Judge of polatano I haven't seen any documents, and I
don't believe that any documents have been released from that

(02:05:12):
burn bag hmm.

Speaker 10 (02:05:14):
You know, mate, Worse than making a promise and not
keeping it is making a promise that cannot be kept.
I don't know why they keep boasting about what's going
to come out, just like with Epstein. Yes, and then
nothing is there.

Speaker 1 (02:05:26):
I know I wrote at the top of the article
about that Epstein files. Question mark, Judge editor Poltano.

Speaker 10 (02:05:33):
Did you know that the government released the jfk assassination
files there was nothing there? Yeah, meaning the CIA or
somebody denuded the files before they were released.

Speaker 1 (02:05:43):
Yep. Well maybe there's a room that's not on any
any blueprint where those documents are being held currently, Judge
and Polatan like this burn bag room. Judge of Polatano,
it's Judging Freedom the Man's podcast. You got to check
it out throughout the week, Judge of Poultana, who are
you going to speaking with today?

Speaker 10 (02:06:00):
I have a professor Muhammed Mirandi born in Alexandria, Virginia,
now professor of literature at the University of Tehran, who
comes on with me most Wednesday to tell me about
life in Iran. To the Professor Glenn Dieson from Norway
who fills us in on the European reaction to the

(02:06:22):
war in Iran and the war in Ukraine. Pepe Escobar
from Beijing, and Phil Geraldi, the CIA agent whom Bush
kicked out of his office when he told them what
we now all know, Saddam Hussein did not have weapons
of miss destruction.

Speaker 1 (02:06:39):
Yeah, another regular guest on a Wednesdays on your show.
As I've come to understand, we'll check it out. Judging
Freedom Judge of Politano. Tune in every Wednesday at eight
thirty for the legal analysis from our dear friend, the
Judge of Platano. Have a great week, my friend. We'll
talk again next week.

Speaker 10 (02:06:54):
Back at you, Brian, Thank you well, thank us.

Speaker 1 (02:06:56):
Thank you. Eighteen fifty one here you KERCD talk station.
A few minutes left here If you like to use
up the time by calling in, I'd love to hear
from me five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five
hundred eight hundred eight two three talk one more opportunity
for as the listening audience prayers for Joe Strecker. He
had a medical emergency yesterday. He ended up in the hospital.
They did send him home at some point last night,
and I was glad to hear that that's a breaking

(02:07:17):
piece of development this morning. I don't know anything about
his condition, what led him to the hospital, but couldn't
make it into work today. And that's bad enough for
me and sufficient enough for me to ask for the
power of prayer on behalf of Joe Strecker. So thank
you very much for all those who helped out along
those lines. Keep them up until we get Joe back. Right,
Danny Gleeson covering for Joe'strecker. Danny doing a great job

(02:07:39):
dealing with the situation this morning. And yeah, further to
the point, Cash Betel, you know, it's interesting because Cash
Betel and Dan Bonginia both on Hannity's podcast talking about
this you know, burnbag, and again this has made it
to the top of the news again because this is
something that we found out about last year which has
me scratching my had allah the Epstein files. So he's

(02:08:02):
on the podcast and he said more than one burn
bag was found inside a secret room locked away at
the FBI headquarters. Apparently didn't even have the key to
the room. It wasn't even this room on the blueprints,
sort of an interesting line of inquiry that they went
on down that and so the documents were not burned
in the burn bag. Name suggests that that's what it's for.

(02:08:24):
You put the documents in the bag. It's intended to
be destroyed, burned or otherwise completely shredded up. So question mark,
how was it there? Some are saying, well, maybe it
was they wanted someone whoever they are, wanted the documents
to be found. And the suggestions are it was the
revelation of this Russia Gate plot against Trump plot. The

(02:08:46):
important word because it was a lie. It's all been
born out through all the years we had to deal
with Racha RuSHA, Russia, Russia and Pencil next Shift and
all the others screaming and yelling about how Donald Trump,
you know, was colluding with the Russians. It was all
made up. Hillary Clinton paid for the dossier. It was
all made up dossier. And boy wasn't at front page
headline factual information when it came out and you were

(02:09:07):
lied to. So if this burn bag has in it
what cash Betel suggests and what Dan Bongino also suggests,
he even felt his life is on the line. Dan Bongini,
he said he walks around every day worried about it.
This is our government. This is the kind of thing
I never ever, ever, ever woulded to believe for a moment.
We're better than that. Are in TWI maybe not? But

(02:09:31):
what of the documents. That's why I'm saying they are
like the Epstein files. Documents stuffed in burn bag at
FBI headquarters may be a to be made public headline
from the Epic Times November thirtieth last year, where they
reported sensitive documents found in these burn bags at FBI

(02:09:52):
headquarters will all be made public. Quote FBI Director Cash Betel,
You're going to see everything we found in that room
in one way or another, be it through investigation, public trial,
or disclosure to Congress. So we're gonna put those in
the category of the Epstein files. I guess now, maybe
that since they've issued a subpoena to Comy about his

(02:10:18):
role in the twenty seventeen Intelligence Community assessment on Russian
election interference, maybe some of these documents will use when
he is deposed or otherwise hauled in front of Congress
to talk about this. But I was a little disheartened
to find out that, in spite of the fact that
this could have been a criminal claim brought against Kmye
or anybody else involved in trying to basically overthrow Trump
impeach him based upon fraudulent information. And some of me really,

(02:10:42):
really really hopes that Judge and Politano is flat out wrong,
that the Statute of Limitations has passed on. That there's
something else that you can fester in the back of
your mind and contemplate. If they had all the goods,
why wasn't a challenge or a case brought before. Why
wasn't the first order of business when Trump was sworn
in in January. I can't answer that question, but it

(02:11:05):
sure is really gotten under my skin this morning. A
fifty five Alex Charantifilo, High Republican Party chair joined the
program this morning to talk about the outcome of the
primaries and the takeaway from that. We are going to
have to show up in November and vote. Do everything
you can to show up in November and vote, maybe,
joined Jonathan and Neil Americans for Prosperity AFP action dot Com.

(02:11:27):
Donovan joined the program to talk about just that this morning.
Sandwiched in between brilliant as always Big Picture with Jack Addidan,
we had the Claremont County Veteran Service Commission Steve Belzo
talking about Memorial Day, fast approaching, remembering those who gave
the ultimate sacrifice in service to this great country of ours,
and finally, of course judgment. Polatana podcasts are all there.
Fifty five car Se dot com hope to see at

(02:11:48):
lunch at Snow's Lakeside Tavern today roughly eleven thirty. Feel
free to exercise as much leeways you want about the
start time. It's a fun time. Danny Gleeson, thank you
for covering for Joe. Appreciate your prayers as well. Folks,
have a wonderful day and don't go Wegg Glenn Back
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