55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, CCVS, Southern Ohio Tech Institute, John Zinsser

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Five o five at the five k r C, the
talk station. Every Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Some say.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
A vacations, I'm the dude man, I am not.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
I am Brian Thomas.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's the Dove KRC Morning Show and I appreciate you
tuning in this morning, and I hope you can stick
around all morning. Got some great stuff going down this
morning on the Rundown. Guests began at seven o five.
Of course it's Wednesday. It means we get the big
picture with Jack Aviden today. Beware what you read on
the beach. That should be interesting. Jack's always an amazing

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uh intellectual and we'll find out what he meant by
that be where you read on the beach. I always
love hearing from Jack advident dot on any Americans for prosperity.
They got the Ohio Cent and Budget Bill. Yes, it
does include the two point seventy five percent flat tax proposal,
lowering the income tax as opposed to a graded income tax,

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just a plain old two point seventy five percent flat tax,
but also a grant for the Cleveland Browns Stadium six
hundred million dollars to get to that. Claremont County Vener
Service t Belzo for the and at seven forty to
talk about Flag Day, which is coming up. Mike Tribble,
the Director and instructor for the Southern Ohio Technical Institute,

(01:42):
Trade Schools and Special and Special Opportunities at the Southern
Ohio Tech Institute been I've been all about the trades
of lay. I know how many jobs are out there
and available. I've been dovetailing that in with the idea
of requiring folks that are able bodied and capable of
work from being obligated to do something in furtherance of

(02:03):
their future and independence by having to work twenty hours
a week. How many hours do you work a week,
Probably forty, maybe more. Yeah, only twenty a week to
get medicaid. So if you're able bodied, get out there,
get into trade school, and take advantage of the opportunity

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of getting yourself off the umbilical court of government. By Tripple,
we'll be talking exactly about that at eight oh five,
followed by John Zenzer the Save Pike Hyde Park Square.
John Zenzer no relation to Todd Zenzer. Last name spelled
differently anyway. A voting issue is going to be up
for the voter's decision in November. A huge victory for
not just Hyde Park, for all the neighborhoods in the

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City of Cincinnati. I love the fact that they were
able to get so many signatures in that campaign and
that signature drive in such a short period of time.
Your voice will be heard, in spite of the fact
that since a city council refused to live listen to
the voice of the folks in Hyde Park in connection
with that variance that they allowed for the building of

(03:07):
that monstrous hotel which would completely change the look and
feel and dynamics of Hyde Park Square, which you know,
aren't the residents in a neighborhood allowed to determine their
own future and destiny, Not according to the City of Cincinnati,
the mayor and the city Council. Anyway, That's what's coming

(03:28):
up on the morning show. I always love to hear
from you. You've got a comment about something five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to
three talk or go with pound five fifty on at
and g Funes. Moving aside from the Senate version of
the budget, they announced their version of the state budget yesterday.

(03:51):
Slide increase in public school funding and the thing that's
got me are the six hundred million dollars which is
now described as a grant the Senate's version, it's not
bond issue. It is a straight out grant to the
Cleveland Browns for the new stadium. And yes, it's important
that their version of the budget also includes that two
point seventy five percent flat tax, which we'll be talking

(04:12):
about later with Donovan O'Neil. But it includes six hundred
million dollars for the new Cleveland Browns Stadium in brook Park. Now,
the funding different from what the Browns proposed to what
the House approved earlier this year, which was borrowing six
hundred million dollars by issuing bonds and then having to

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repay the debt with interest over twenty five years for
a total cost of a billion dollars. Now you've got
to scratch your head when you look at the Senates
version of the bill, which reveals that we've got four
point eight billion dollars in unclaimed funds. A high Department
of Commerce website says it's sitting on four point eight
billion dollars the state's holding that it's actually that money

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is a emulated from things like forgotten bank accounts, rent
or utility deposits or uncashed insurance policies. So somewhere out
there someone failed to take advantage of this money. The
higher Department of Commerce, I guess, is sitting on it.
But it's four point eight billion dollars. That's a whole
lot of money. So the Senate's proposing a six hundred

(05:23):
million dollar grant from for the stadium out of that money,
which I will admit it makes more sense to go
ahead and hand that money over and not incur debt
totaling one billion dollars having to pay it back over
twenty five years with interest. But more fundamentally, why in
the hell are we giving them the money in the
first place. I'm sorry, during the five o'clock hour, I

(05:46):
can say, without concern for the FCC, this kind of
thing really just pisses me off.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh we'll make it back.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Senate thinks to state will more than recoup the quote
unquote investment through sales tax, income tax, and commercial activity
revenues from this one hundred and seventy six acre Brook
Park Stadium district that they're building from scratch, bread and circuses.

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Then the Roman Empire collapse on that kind of thing. Well,
it had difficulty maintaining the ever growing expansive empire that
had created through wars. But nonetheless, there's always so much
you can pay for, which is kind of Rand Paul's

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point on the Big Beautiful Bill, and he and Donald
Trump going at it back and forth. Donald Trump having
a jab at Rand Paul over his concerns about increasing
the debt five trillion dollars a debt limit, claiming that
Senator Ran Paul has little understanding of the budget bill.

(07:05):
Paul's chief criticism of the bill is not most of
the things that are in it, which he's in favor of.
Even he's on record as saying that he just pointed
out the math doesn't add up. Said, one of the
things in the Big Beautiful Bill is that the vehicle
for increasing spending for the military and the border. It's
about three hundred and twenty billion in new spending, he

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pointed out. To put it in perspective, he said, that's
more than all the DOGE cuts that we found so far,
stating the obvious. Now, I applauded the work to Elon
Musk had done, but it didn't come anywhere near the
one trillion dollars he was hoping to cut out of
the federal government, at least identify four cuts out of
the federal government. We've got a nine point four billion
dollar Doge cut bill heading for Capitol Hill, I think,

(07:49):
which is designed to, you know, appease and assuage some
of the concerns that are well articulated and stated by
some of the senators who also in addition, Senator Ran Paul,
who's facing most of the yre have also come out
with concerns. I think there's a total of four senators
who are like, I don't think so, and you can't

(08:09):
afford to lose that many on given the margins in
the Senate. Hell, the bill only passed by one vote
in the House. Paul called it a big a bill
by the military industrial complex advocates who are padding the
military budgets. I think they're asking for too much money.
And in the end, the way he added up, how
much debt are you going to borrow? Five trillion over

(08:32):
two years? That is an enormous amount. He pointed out, Yeah,
it is. We have never raised the debt ceiling without
actually meeting that target. He put it out, so you
can say it doesn't directly add to the debt. But
if you increase the ceiling five trillion dollars, you'll meet that.

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And what it does, it puts it on the back
burner and then we won't discuss it for a year
or two. His proposal, let's just to increase the dead
ceiling for maybe three months. That'll force us to come
back to reality. That'll force us to review all of
the cuts that can't be done in this particular form
the reconciliation, which must deal only with matters of spending.

(09:17):
You can't have a discretionary spending dealt with. And that's
what all the DOGE cuts relate to. And that's what
the nine point four billion a billion dollar piece of
legislation is headed for Capitol Hill to discuss cutting us AID, NPR,
and other organizations or entities which probably shouldn't be funded.

(09:41):
In the first instance. Trump called out ram Paul yesterday morning.
Rampaul has very little understanding of the BBB, the big
beautiful bill, especially the tremendous growth is coming. He loves
voting no on everything. He thinks it's good politics, but
it's not. The BBB is a big winner, followed up

(10:03):
by rand votes know on everything, but never has any
practical or constructive ideas. His ideas are actually crazy, parenthetical
losers exclamation point. And my friends in the Commonwealth, I'm
interested in gage your reaction, he said Trump did in
the conclusion of this ex post or truth post, the
people of Kentucky can't stand him. Is that true? My

(10:30):
listeners in the Commonwealth Kentucky, do you hate rand Paul?
Can you? You can't stand him? He's gotten reelected and
he's facing criticism for pointing out something that is an
actulut It's an absolute truth. Five trillion dollars is no

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one but Senator Ran Paul worried about that rlordy north
of thirty six trillion dollars in debt. We have to
pay debt service on that. The more debt service we have,
the more interest on the money we borrow that we
have to pay. We have to honor that obligation. Of
the Fiat currency collapses, the globe will reject the US

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dollar as a reliable source. That would be the end.
I give credit for Brand Paul for standing up and
just pointing this out. And he said, listen, I'll vote
for everything else that's in it. I'm in favor of
literally everything else that's in it. It's just increasing the

(11:35):
debt ceiling. According to CBO, out of the terms of
the bill would add two trillion dollars of budget deficits
over the decade. Altogether, the tax cuts and reforms in
the package add nearly three point eight trillion to the
deficit over a decade. Those spending reductions in other parts

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of the bill offset some of that, which is how
you arrived at the two point three trillion dollar increase.
Elon Musk calling it an abomination, a break with the
White House.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Obviously.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yesterday he wrote in his expost, I'm sorry, but I
just can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork filled
congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those
who voted for it. You know you did wrong. You
know it. And some are saying, well, that's just because

(12:32):
it cuts out the green stuff. No Trump's or a rather,
Musk is on record saying he was in favor of
all of those cuts, the Green New Deal cuts under
the guise of the Inflation Reduction Act. So you know,

(12:55):
say what you want about my opinion. I'm on Ram
Paul's side of this. Why five t's million. Why not
something much smaller? Why not something that only lasts a
few months. I think Senator ram Paul suggested six hundred
billion dollars, which you give us maybe a few months,

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and then we'd have to revisit the issue. I got
no problem with that, he said. I support the tax cuts.
I vote for them. At twenty seventeen, I support making
the tax cuts permanent. I support and voted for basically
allowing the tips on no tax on tips in fact
pass the Senate unanimously. I'm hoping they will do that
in the House and take it out of the big

(13:39):
beautiful bill and do it separately by unanimous consent. If
we do that, it actually makes the bill a little
easier in terms of accounting numbers. That is part of
the if that part's taken out. I'm for the tax cuts,
for making the tax cuts permanent. I'm for as many
spending cuts as we can get Republicans to vote for.
But even if that's not perfect, I'd still vote for
the tax cuts and the spending cuts. The thing I'm

(14:00):
adamantly opposed to is raising the debts only by five
trillion dollars. I propose an alternative instead of five trillion,
which is estimated to be two years worth of debt.
I've said, let's do it three months worth of debt
because I don't trust the Republican leadership to enact spending cuts. Amen,
Ran Paul, we give them three months worth, which is

(14:21):
about five hundred million dollars, which is hard to believe
that five hundred billion is only three months of borrowing.
He said, borrow for three months and then have the
debate again. I have the opposite opinion of what many
others have. People say, we don't want to vote on
the debt ceiling. It's embarrassing. Let's just do two years
and then we only have to vote once during the
entire Trump administration. He said, I'd vote on it every

(14:43):
day if I had the choice. Three months, three four,
five months. It's more reasonable.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
YEP. It is.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
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September hour, it's five forty three. Every Friday, we get
Tech Friday with Dave Hatter. I hope regular listeners well
know that and always tune into it or get the
podcast at five care see dot com and Dave sends
me emails throughout the week, and I think I'm on

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a you know, a bulk list of Hatter's emails, just
continuing my rant about our debt and are overspending, and
and and and the existential threat that it actually is
a genuine one. We can speculate all day and worry
all day as our elected officials are now worrying following
the Ukraine surprise drone assault on Russia. Hey, maybe we

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need to think about our own homeland in the concerns
face by well many outside threats that they could do
the same damn thing here, since we don't really have
any way of protecting our internal infrastructure in our military
bases from comparable threats like Ukraine and their drone strike.

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But in so far as Dave Hatter and his emails
are concerned, it's oh Ron Paul father of rand. A
million seconds ago was May twenty third, A billion seconds
ago was nineteen ninety three. A trillion seconds ago was

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thirty thousand BC.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
In connection with the.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
Comment, the US national debt is now rising by one
trillion dollars every one hundred and eighty days, one thousand
billion dollars. I don't know if you can get your
mind around what a stack of a billion dollars looks like.

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But put a thousand of them next to each other
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Good to hear from you.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
Hey, good morning. How are you doing today.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
I'm doing I guess okay, you know, it's one of
those things. I was going to qualify it in spite
of all of the news that I'm surrounded by, with
the articles I have to talk about, which are depressing
as hell.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
I'm personally doing fine.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
Tom One of the downsides of the job, the side
effects of all the information that's that's going in your brain.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Huh it is, you know, and I'm honest, I've said
it before. It is literally depressing. I can't put this
stuff aside and go on about my daily business without
this stuff being in the back of my head all
the time. Because this is what I do for a living.
And you know, I'm not complaining about my job. It's
just one of the one of the problem. Everybody's got
problems with their jobs, you know. Like if you're a surgeon,

(20:23):
you know you've got your you got lives that are
in your hands. You do a surgery, you don't know
if that guy's gonna live. You gotta have that weight
over your shoulders all the time. My job is not
life and death. No one dies as a consequence of
the fifty five KRCY Morning Show. But the realities of
the world are in front of me literally every day.
Hours in the afternoon I spent printing things out, and

(20:44):
a couple of hours in advance of the show that
I'm looking at more stuff, and honestly, there's very little
positive information in the stuff that I'm looking at every day,
so it wears on me.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
Well, well, there's always the stack of stupid cheeri.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
O amen, Amen. That's one of the reasons I do it.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
At least for twenty minutes, I can just just not
focus on matters serious and talk about the crazy in
the world and be thankful that I'm not in the
stack is stupid.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
So we don't need to start up and feel sorry
for Brian clubs.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
No, no, no, no, nor I don't want to go
fund me paide for my psychological help.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
We can't afford it anyway. We're trillions of dollars in days. Yeah,
this is nuts. I mean, uh, you know, people could
just try to think about it on their own level, uh,
and then just multiply it by how many trillions of
dollars you cannot Just the fact that the government can
raise its own credit limit, ye is basically what they're

(21:51):
talking about the debt ceiling, right. Yeah, So if I
want my credit limit to go up, I've got to
ask somebody else, the person that I'm borrowing money from,
to uh, you know to tell me, uh, you know what,
We're not ready to We're not ready to raise your
limit yet. We need you to prove to us that
you know a little bit more, that you can be
responsible for this. Whatever five thousand dollars credit limits you got,

(22:16):
we're not ready to go up to ten yet.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
So you got a credit you got a credit card,
you got a credit card you're maxed out on let's
just say randomly, ten thousand dollars credit card. That's your limit,
and you've already gotten up to the ten grand so
you can't charge more on it, and you're only paying
the interest on the credit card every month. You're not
just just that you're not you're not getting the total

(22:37):
borrored amount is not coming down any And you go
to the credit card company and say, hey, can I
have thirty thousand dollars worth of credit now because I've
maxed out my credit card?

Speaker 1 (22:46):
That's exactly what's going on.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
That's a yeah times how many trillions? Yeah, that is
that's insanity. The fact that we can do and the
elected officials do not have to go to anybody to
that's been permission for that. They just do it themselves. Yeah,
that's the insane part about this. So uh yeah, you
don't want people to be able to raise their own

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credit limit. That's just all that does is just give
them permission to be irresponsible and reckless, which is exactly
what we've done. Now we're in this position of we
are so far in debt, most of us can't even
imagine how this is all gonna get paid off.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
Now.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
Flip side of that, whatever happens in order to start
getting this thing going in the right direction is going
to hurt. It's gonna be painful. People are gonna have
to go without things that they've been given or they've
been whatever, and it's gonna hurt. It's just a matter
of who's gonna feel the pain first and then next.
And you know, especially if you're a Republican, are you

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willing to vote for something that's going to directly hurt
your state, your constituents or whatever. That's the that's the
hard part that's going on right now, and nobody wants
to do that because they want to get re elected.
And you know, people like Ran Paul, I mean, I
appreciate somebody who's willing to say, you know what, this
is ridiculous we can't do this. I'm not voting for this.

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This is insanity, and you know more of them need
to do that. But I get the hesitation, but because
you're going to vote against something that might benefit your state.
So what, we've been benefiting our states enough. We need
to roll it back. We need to start making and
these are tough call These are tough decisions. That's a

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job that's a lot harder and has a lot more
responsibility than yours in mind, does I get it?

Speaker 6 (24:34):
Tough?

Speaker 7 (24:34):
One to be done.

Speaker 5 (24:35):
It has to be done somewhere or another. We've got
to start feeling the pain of bringing this back the
other way. And no matter what, whatever we do, don't
vote Democrats.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Have a great day, Brian, Thanks Tom, appreciate the message
as always. But as Paul pointed out Senator Ran Paul,
the Republicans own the issue. If they increase the debt
ceiling five trillion dollars, the Republicans are always supposed to
be the party of this responsibility, and they can't make
that claim anymore. That's his point. Five point thirty six.

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the award this morning. I haven't gone through the entire stack.
It's stupid to know if someone's more deserving. But this

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one certainly qualifies as a nominee. Woman behind bars a
Florida woman, most notably after police said she fatally struck
her pedestrian before driving away, later trying to minimize her actions.
We'll get to that in a moment. Ivana Gomez, thirty two,
faced in charge of leaving the scene of a crash
resulting in death and resisting an offer with the officer

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without violence. Currently, the Miami Dade County jellen a two
hundred and fifty one thousand dollars bond citing a probable
cause arrest. Aff A David. Local media outlets support. The
accident occurred at one fifteen in the morning Friday, Miami's
Little Havana neighborhood. The victim, identified as a forty one
year old Catherine Kipness, prosecutor set at a bond hearing

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on Saturday. Gomez's BMW hit the victims so hard that
the victim's head went into the through the windshield and
some of the victim's hair got caught on the passenger
seat belt. Police officer witness a crash and tried to
stop Gomez. She didn't allegedly kept driving until she was
slowed by traffic. When the cop caught up to her

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and he could smell alcohol coming from her breath and
notice she had bloodshot eyes, in addition to noticing vomit
in the passenger seat. Refused a sobriety test, requested to
speak with a lawyer at the scene. Judge reportedly note
in the bond hearing that Gomez allegedly said that it

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was just a homeless person that I hit. It's just
an accident, periods.

Speaker 8 (28:43):
The biggest douche of the universe, in all the galaxies,
there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached the top,
the pinnacle of douche. Dum good going douce, your dreams
have come.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Just a homeless person, that's all.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Just trying to figure out which one of these I
should go to the next got A guy arrested for
murder a woman in Glendale, Arizona, at a bus stop
where police say he used a metal pen to stab
her in the neck. Twenty seven year old James Marshawn
Christopher Weekly confessed to the murder. According to the Glendale
police officer Maroni Mendez, He's been charged with second degree murder.

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April twenty eighth, after nine pm local time, officers showed
up to the reford of stabbing. Was there they found an
injured Judy Ann Lopez sixty two, taken to the hospital
where she died from her injuries. Mendez described the difficulties
in finding a lead in the case due to there
being no video surveillance of the stabbing, but footage from
a Metro Valley a Valley metro bus helped carry the

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investigation forward a court to the officer. We had discovered
that Judy had boarded one of our Valley Metro buses
in the valley, got off at the intersection seen on
bus video. Judy had a cell phone with her. She
had a cell phone with her when she was getting
off the bus, and after being taken to the hospital
and the scene was completely gone through, this cell phone
was nowhere to be found.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
So it was after.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
Extensive detective work in investigating that we were able to obtain
cell phone data records and those are the ones we
used to locate where the cell phone went. The phone
had been brought westward to a nearby neighborhood. By checking
the home surveillance cameras, they learned that a man later
to be identified as mister Weekly had moved through the
streets Shortly after the stabbing, they got a search warrant

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for his residence, executed it, and according to officer Mendez,
James was apprehended and a cell phone matching Judy's cell
phone was located inside the home. Not to mention, the
same exact clothing that he was seen wearing on the bus,
the same bus that Judy was on in the security videos,
was also discovered court. The police officer Weekly confessed to

(31:05):
quite a few things, including that, in his words, he
did it. He said he stabbed her and used a
metal pen to poker in the neck. And it's unfortunate,
but it's difficult to understand what the motive was, according
to the officer.

Speaker 6 (31:23):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
He added that Weekly maintain Lopez was suffering some sort
of medical episode and then he tried to see if
she was okay, and she swatted away his hand, cutting
it and that's when the assault happened. He did express
remorse for what he did. Five forty six bit of

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Let's do it.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Jay's gut Jay, thanks for holding over the break. Welcome
to the morning Show.

Speaker 9 (32:58):
Hey good morning, Brian, Hey, I just you know, the
six hundred million dollars being given to the Cleveland Browns
because the Republicans, and I'm going to put this at
the Republicancy, because they feel like that this time we're
going to get a return on the investment. All all
I ask in return is just for them to codify

(33:19):
that if you have a business, or if you want
to start a business and you want six hundred million dollars,
just put that down and we'll call it something fancied
like a white paper or put it.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Out in a policy document.

Speaker 9 (33:30):
And what building should we start the line? And what
time should we start applying today? And the line starts
where at what door of what building in Columbus so
that we can all show up and get our get
our document, our policy. What's the process for us too
to receive a six hundred million dollar grant? Because if
we just kind of pull on the thread of that

(33:51):
twisted logic that they're going to give six hundred million
dollars to a tax payer money to a private business
because they feel like that there's going to be return
on investment. Even though, as I've said before, Cleveland Browns
have been around for seventy years.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
For seventy years they've.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
Been playing in Cleveland.

Speaker 9 (34:08):
And I'll say it again, Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Is still a dump.

Speaker 9 (34:10):
And the guy who called last time I said this
and said, what's different about Cincinnati. Look at the Milkan
Institute that shows economic development. Cincinnati is like middle of
the pack. Cleveland is in last place. That whole northeast
region of Ohio is an economic dumpster fire. It has
been for decades, for generations. So so if we're going

(34:33):
to give free money away, if our elected representatives are
just going to grant six hundred million dollars to a business,
isn't it the least that they can do is to
put together a process and a policy and a procedure
to say here's.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
How you go about it.

Speaker 9 (34:47):
Yeah, so that everybody, all Ohio wands, every American can
sign up and get the same treatment. Jesus, we're going
to pick winners and losers.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
And Jay, let us not overlook the fact that any
individual out there who starts a business the entrepreneurial time,
he who chooses the neighborhood, puts a building up and
employs people, provides a return on investment to the community
they're in. They generate tax dollars and revenue by their
mere existence. So literally every business out there does that.

(35:14):
And yet you got to be the Cleveland Browns in
order to get six hundred million dollars from the Ohio taxpayers.
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, does it not
at all?

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Uh See, you can get another stack of stupid in
here we go.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
We go to Nebraska. Lincoln, Nebraska. Woman there will be
spending up to two decades in prison after being sentenced
for her husband's death, forty two year old A man
to right sentence them nineteen to twenty years behind bars
after pleading no contest the manslaughter earlier this year in
the death of her husband, thirty eight year old Zachary Zvolva.
There's an essence of v next to each other, hence

(35:51):
the mangled name pronunciation. Prosecutors argue that she intentionally gave
her husband a mix of fentanyl and methn fhetamine that
killed him.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
What I Know.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Also said made no effort to help him or call
nine one one. Officials said she tried to cover up
the circumstances around his death. Going to court records, she
arranged for other people to discover her husband's body while
she was away from their home. Autopsy can conduct it
on his body revealed he died from acute intoxication by
fentanyl methamphetamine. She was arrested and originally pleaded not guilty

(36:25):
to first degree murder before pleading no contrast to a
reduced charge of manslaughter, which again editor two decades in prison,
don't do that would.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Him been any easier to get a divorce. I'm just saying.

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And a very very happy Wednesday to you, coming in
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(37:27):
and I hope you do too. So one hour from
Now filed by Donald and Neil for Americans per Prosperity.
The House Center budget includes the two point seventy five
percent flat tax proposal, but also a grant of six
hundred million dollars for the Cleveland Browns, which is just
really gutting under my skin. Clairemont County Veterans Services Steve
Belsa returns talking about Flag Day. Mike Tripple at eight
oh five, Director and instructor of Southern Ohio Technical Institute

(37:49):
on the trades, trade schools and special opportunities. So if
they Medicaid reforms go through and you gotta work twenty
hours a week or educate yourself twenty hours a week,
there's a trade school opportunity right there. Mike Tripp's going
to talk about it at ayoh five fall by Todd
Zinser on the Save Hyde Park Square campaign. It's on

(38:09):
the ballot for November five, one three sight two to
three talk. It is listener lunch day. We're going to
be at Mantree Bewis Summit Park location hopefully where I
will see cribbage. Mike welcome back to the program, my
submarine or friend or retired submarine or friend.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Good to hear from you.

Speaker 10 (38:27):
Good morning Brian Thomas, Yes so much looking forward to it.
And since school is out, your number one cheerleader will
be in toe so your grand sat tell battle to
break this losing streak.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
That's two in a row for me. Man, I'm I'm
telling you I and with him there, I don't know.
I think my chances have improved. He's a good, good
young man. You got there for your grandson.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 6 (38:52):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (38:52):
First off, what a fantastic interview with the marine colonel yesterday.
I'm definitely gonna have to check that book out. He
was just top notch most marines are.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
What a great guy.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
I mean, talk about someone who just was gushing over
his service in American military. He's referring to retired Colonel
William Dunn with a book Gunfighters Rule, and I'll encourage
my listeners he didn't get a chance to hear from
a retired colonel done to listen to the podcast. What
an enthusiastic guy, I mean he I've never heard anybody

(39:22):
speak as highly about military service as him, or at
least on par.

Speaker 10 (39:26):
With yes, Sir, And then in that same light, I
would also like to reach out and thank Mass Sargent
Beelzer he got coming up because in my circles with
Tri State Honor Flight and with the VFW Memorial Team
here in Claremont County, his office and his staff has
helped out so many veterans. So once again, before he
comes on, I want to give out a big thanks

(39:47):
to the Sergeant Major.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
He's a great guy, a great guy.

Speaker 10 (39:52):
And if people are looking for events to do this
weekend to honor and thank veterans too, I got two
right up your alley. This weekend Friday, as a matter
of fact, is the eighty first anniversary at D Day,
So our good friends at Cincinnati Warbirds Friday, Saturday and
Sunday is going to be done at Lunkin Airport with
not only static displays, but also planes that you.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Can actually ride in.

Speaker 10 (40:15):
And I would advise you to go to Cincinnati war
Boards dot Org to their website for more details. Along that,
the premiere piece this weekend and celebration of the D
Day anniversary is an actual C forty seven transport plane
that the paratroopers utilized, and actually they're on Saturday at
twelve thirty, there will be a ceremony honoring the one

(40:36):
hundred first airborne. So that's all weekend long at Lunkin Airports.
So hopefully mother nature will provide a good sunshine for
that event. And Brian Thomas, you so well know about
tri State Honor Flight. Well, once a year we do
what we call a flightless honor flight.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Yeah, as you haven't gone.

Speaker 10 (40:55):
On flights yourself, you know how taxing that can be
a long yes, sir, This gives the ability for us
to thank these veterans. We have sixty five veterans lined
up and actually three World War two veterans. If anybody's
familiar in Blue Ash with the Cincinnati Institute, it's a
building right across the parking lot.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
You can't miss it.

Speaker 10 (41:16):
Sunday that place is going to be dead, so look
for all the cars and that's where we'll be starting
at two o'clock and basically these veterans will be given
a video tour of Washington, d C. We'll have bands,
we'll have guest speakers. There are some other dignitaries that
are scheduled to attend as well. But then we also
have a slightly scaled down version, but still just as

(41:40):
an emotional welcome home ceremony.

Speaker 5 (41:42):
It's conclusion.

Speaker 10 (41:43):
So if that's if you're available for that, and it
have never been to a regular honor flight over at CBG,
this is the next best thing. And for these individuals
that will also get their pat on the back and
shake your hands. Allergy outbreak guaranteed, absolutely, you know, and
I really truly appreciate you calling up and reminding my

(42:03):
listeners about all those events that are coming up, and
of course and sincere thanks for your service to our country,
which continues with your involvement an honor flight in these
other organizations and the USS Cincinnati exhibit.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yes sir, yes, sir.

Speaker 10 (42:18):
That mother nature kind of got us behind the scales,
behind schedule, but right now we're at dark target date
is spring of next year. I think the artist rendition
has been out there. I know I forwarded you Accomloge
a tremendous celebration of what that submarine did for the
short time that it was.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
In service YEP during the Cold War, and that I'll
tell you what, the artist's rendition of that is just
absolutely amazing. It's going to be one hell of a
cool exhibit.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Mike, Yes, sir, looking forward to it.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
Well, thanks again for calling in reminding my listeners about
all that. And I'm seeing you at lunch today hopefully
hopefully three in a row for me. If I was
a betting man, I'd be betting on you. Mike, love
your brother, Thank you man. Seen a few hours. Yeah again,
mad tree Bury's Summit Park location. If you want to

(43:08):
hang out till about a little after one o'clock is
usually when the cribbage game kicks in. Mike is one
hell of a good guy, and his grandson is a
hell of a great young man too. And since I
didn't know what direction I was going to know, it's
going to do a mashup of a couple of columns
involving why the Democrats are losing minority voters and the
political alignment or realignment that's going on in our country,

(43:31):
all in a positive direction. Let me pivot on the
comments of Mike to Dan Driscoll, the Secretary of the Army,
and his commentary, and so I'll just read it. Dan
Driscoll rights, well, the fifteen years ago I signed up
to serve my country, packed my bags and I left

(43:52):
home for Fort Jackson, South Carolina to begin Army basic training.
The values I gained discipline duty on have shaped me
into the husband, father, and citizen i am today. Choosing
to serve was one of the most meaningful decisions of
my life. That's why the news that the United States
Army has met its fiscal twenty twenty five recruiting contract

(44:15):
goals four months early. What a turnaround. Welcoming more than
sixty one thousand new recruits is personal. It's also something
that all Americans should be proud of. Reaching this milestone
wasn't easy. The Army has faced challenges in recruiting and
retaining talent in recent years, but thanks to the tireless
work of General Randy George, Lieutenant General Johnny Davis, recruiters,

(44:39):
drill sergeants, and many others, we've turned the tide. These
men and women could have chosen any path in a
country full of opportunity. Instead, they chose to serve their country.
I can think of no nobler calling. It's especially fitting
that these sixty one thousand recruits are joining as the

(44:59):
Army sol It's his two hundred and fiftieth birthday. For
two and a half centuries, American soldiers have answered the
call to support and defend the nation and the constitution.
These new recruits will carry forward that legacy of honor, courage,
and service. Their decision to join also reflects something deeper,
a resurgence of pride in our country. Young Americans are

(45:20):
more inspired by purpose and patriotism, ready to stand up
for our values and protect our freedoms. They're stepping up
during a time of global uncertainty and complex threats. We
owe it to these young men and women to ensure
they're equipped, train, and supported to meet the challenges ahead.
With clear vision from President Trump and steadfast leadership from
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth, the Army is again focused on

(45:44):
what matters most, strength, readiness, and winning. I would have
written killing people and breaking things, but he's obviously more
delicate and eloquent with his words. Thanks to Congressional action,
the quality of life for our soldiers has also improve.
The twenty twenty five Service Member Quality of Life Improvement
and National Defense Authorization Act delivered a history pay rays

(46:07):
for junior enlisted soldiers, housing improvements, healthcare access and childcare
and spousal support from the White House in Congress to
the Pentagon. Our soldiers are a priority. This is only
the beginning. As more Americans learn about the Army's mission
and legacy. I hope more will choose to serve. The
Army shaped me into the man I am today, and

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I know it will shape them too. Dan Driscoll, Secretary
of the Army, sounds like he's of kindred spirit. With
Colonel William Dunn, who I spoke with yesterday about his
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Always welcome phone calls around at the Cloud Pasty Morning
Show five or three eighty two three Talk Pound five

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fifty on eight and T phones. Let's take one of
those calls, Brian, thanks for calling the program this morning.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Happy Wednesday to you.

Speaker 12 (49:08):
Yeah, Happy Wednesday, Brian Day. I've been meaning to call
you since the day after Election Day. I wanted to
give Cribbage aka Bubblehead Mike a shout out from Target Brian.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
Ah, you're a navy man, hey.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
Brian, Yes, sir, you were floating on top while Mike
was underneath.

Speaker 8 (49:30):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Mike has referred to ships at sea as targets before,
so little context.

Speaker 12 (49:37):
That rivalry goes way back.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
I got it up real quick. Where you get to
your comments real quick?

Speaker 3 (49:46):
I got to ask you about that while you were
serving and thank you for your service to our country.
Did did it bother you that you're floating bubbles sitting
on top of the water, which you know, I think
a modern warfare, and I think, gee, is it a
kind of easy to hit his ship that's floating on
top of the water. I mean, is that kind of
thing ever creep into your mind while you're serving out there?

Speaker 10 (50:08):
No?

Speaker 1 (50:08):
I was twenty and too dumb to realize.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Okay, hey, that's why they have a military age cut off.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Exactly. Okay, I was in the boiler room.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
Anyway.

Speaker 12 (50:20):
If anybody hit our ship, I wouldn't feel a thing.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
Oh wow, Okay, I've seen too many, too many war
movies to want to ever think about being in serving
in a boiler room.

Speaker 5 (50:32):
Yeah, it's all right, you don't get cold.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
I suppose that's true. So I didn't mean to interrupt
your trade of thought.

Speaker 13 (50:38):
There probably no no, no worries, No I've had of
After election there I realized that bubblehead Mike's my neighbor,
and I wanted to thank him and Kevin for keeping
my property taxes from going any higher and adding to
an income tax with their efforts on that levee they
were trying to pass.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
He did successfully advocate for a no on that levee.

Speaker 12 (51:00):
Yes, thank you to both of them.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
Hey, he's out there listener right now, so I'm sure
he's smiling.

Speaker 12 (51:05):
Figured was, And I had a question about the stack
of stupid the lady that got stabbed with a pen?
Was that a black assault style pin? And do I
have to get a background check to buy one?

Speaker 6 (51:19):
Now?

Speaker 1 (51:21):
You know, Brian, it's funny they do make those, Oh
i'd imagine. Yeah, I'm serious.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
I'm a fan of the company. Micro Tech makes absolutely
wonderful knives and I own several of them. But one
of the things they do make is basically an assault pen.
It's a you know, solid piece of metal and it's
got a point on it and you can carry it
in your pocket if you had a pocket protector or whatever.

(51:47):
And you can, of course use it for self defense.
I don't even know if it operates as a ballpoint pen,
but it's I certainly wouldn't want to get stabbed by one.
That's funny though.

Speaker 12 (51:57):
Yes, Hey, you have a good day, and these days
all make it the listener lunch, I hope.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
And I hope to see you there, Brian. I truly
appreciate the call. I do five one, three, seven, five hundred.
I also appreciate your service to our country, Brian.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
In the target.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
Let us see here moving, okay, I wanted to ask
an al loud question given the uh uh the Secretary
of the Army's comments about we have met the recruiting
goal four months ahead of time. Sixty one thousand have
signed up for service to our country, and I thought
that was a wonderful, wonderful news, considering the recruiting numbers

(52:39):
were just down, just way down head mental recruiting goals
in the number of years. Does anyone think that the
the change in American military and getting rid of the
whole woke ideology, the DEI and pro transgender and all
that kind of crap that with the Biden administration went

(53:02):
in full forcewith defense Secretary of Pete Hegzeth reversing all
of that focusing on killing people and breaking things, which
is the important component of the American military. The other
thing that truly matters preparing our armed forces for combat readiness,
defense of the of our country threats both foreign and abroad.

(53:22):
With the refocus of the American military on what is
important and the reason for the American military, does anyone
also like I believe that the change in policy has
something to do with our recruiting goals being met four
months ahead of time. I just have to say that
out loud, because I truly believe that is the case. Now,
maybe that the increase in pay had some impact on it,

(53:43):
but you know, as a you know, a recruit, and
you know, as someone who's serving the military, this isn't
exactly the way to become a multi millionaire, if you
know what I mean. It's a question of service to
your country, defense of the constitution, protecting America interests is
the primary motivating factor for your young people to do that.

(54:04):
If you think you're going to go into a woke
military and have to sit through classes talking about you know,
pronoun usage and DEI realities that you're not going to
be promoted based on merit. That to me is something
that might cause someone decide, well, you know what, that's
not an environment I want to work in. So that's
my conclusion. I don't know if you shared it or not.

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Happy Wednesday, A little sum there with Iggy Pop. Always
loved that song. Anyway, let's go to the phone before
we get the local stories. Got Bobby on the line. Bobby,
welcome back to the Morning Show. Good year from you.

Speaker 6 (57:35):
Today, Happy hump to day, my friend, keep that torture,
freedom high and bright trying.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
Hey, there's a lot of things going on. I think
it's great.

Speaker 6 (57:46):
Like Corey Booker when he was out in California Saturday
at Anaheim giving the Roman salute two or three times.
But that's what hypocrites.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Do, you know, I mean liars and hypocrites.

Speaker 6 (57:58):
I mean they're the top two categories.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
I'm still going back with it.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
Any given time in any human beings life, if someone
is standing there with a camera, they could catch someone
in what they could later describe at doing a Nazi salute.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
I agree with you.

Speaker 6 (58:16):
The next thing is what's going on out California on
this grading systems. I think it's great. Let these kids
go through school and let them go ahead and you know,
test out four or five times. I think it's great
for them out in California. Just leave them out there,
leave all the students out there. That way, we don't
have to contend.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
With Well, then it is California. They probably will end
up staying there since they have that massive social welfare
giveaway program. Literally for everyone to live off the public dole,
they will not be able to care for themselves given
the lack of education. Obviously that's going to happen with
you can pass high school and get a diploma with
a twenty one or something like that, A D, A

(58:57):
D will be passing, right, isn't a D passing?

Speaker 1 (59:00):
Can't you go get all d's and still get a diploma?

Speaker 6 (59:03):
I think with a twenty one percent rating on it?
I mean it's comical.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
The only problem is it's more useful idiots for the
Democrats to exploit with their illogical and unreasonable programs. And
they're uh, and they're they're constant lying about the realities
of life. So that's that's that's actually, I think that's
the point of it. Bobby. You dumb down the populace
by not educating them in schools, and then you create

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a dependent, idiot class of people. So I know your
tongue was in your cheek saying it's a good thing,
But the practical reality is that there's California is not
the only place that's going in that direction. It's frightening,
which is why more and more people embracing the idea
of school choice over the log story five one three

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seventy fifty eight two three talk you want to call in,
chime in, maybe I'd love to hear from you. A
teen dead and a dry by shooting. Wow, Now, this
never happens in Cincinnati. Happened early yesterday morning. Police identified
the victim as a seventeen year old Jayshawn Cornelius Court
of Police Captain Steve Bauer speaking with Fox nineteen so
in inside a vehicle drove up an open fire into

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a home of the three thousand block of Percy Avenue
in Westwood, then took off one point thirty in the morning.
It was seventeen year old Mail identified as Cornelias, found
inside with three gunshot wounds. Pronounced dead at the scene.
Multiple shellcasings found outside the home. Shot spotter Court of
Cincinni Police detected as many as fourteen shots fired. No

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suspect information release and no one is yet under the arrest.
So sad juvenile taken to the hospital after a drowning
incident happened in Union Township yesterday, according to Sergeant Scott
Marshall with Union Township Police, again Fox nineteen reporting. Sergeant
Marshall said Cruise were called to the private swimming pool
and the forty one hundred block of Independence Drive at
five pm. When they got there, they found a juvenile

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being given life saving measures by community members. Sergeant Marshall
said the juvenile was quickly taken a nearby hospital listed
in critical condition. Union Township Investigations Division continues to investigate
the incident. That's sad prayer squa out to the family
on that at least one person is injured after an
ATV accident current Dearborn County.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Last night.

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the call about eight thirty pm for an incident at
Indiana three point fifty and Huffman Road. AirCare call took
at least one person a nearby hospital. Number of police
people involved in the extent of the injuries not yet clear.
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A little op ed mash up here. Writing along the
same lines in the Wall Street Journal, we start with
William Galston, the American political realignment is real subtitle Trump
has built a diverse working class coalition. Can he pass
it on to his successor? Question mark? So William Goalson
starts out pointing out that New York Times showing that

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Republican parties increased its vote share in three consecutive presidential
elections in one, four and thirty three counties nearly half
the nation total. Democrats increase share only fifty seven counties
over three elections.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
How about that?

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
Where the points out Democratic demographic patterns indicate these geographical shifts.
The clearest divide on education level. In not a single
county which the Republican Party is increases shared the vote.
Did a majority of adults told to college degree? Ethnicity
also mattered sixty six of the sixty seven counties and
with a majority Hispanic population voted more Republican in twenty

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twenty four than in twenty twelve. Income was important to
ninety five percent of the US counties, trending more Republican
had median incomes below the national medium. Republicans a party
of the working class, ultimately is really what we have
concluded here. They're the ones that are fighting for lower
taxes and fighting for more freedom, fighting for lower regulations.

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The regulatory burden is just a weight on the American populace,
so you can feel the benefit from it. And of
course they're Republicans making inroads across all ethnicities, which is
where I pivot over to Jason Riley, who was pleased
to have on the program, talking about his most recent book,
Jason Rice Riley, a black man who wrote about how

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the basically the welfare system has destroyed the black families.
He writes why Democrats are losing minority voters. Liberals seldom
turned to this column, Jason Riley's column for political advice.
They do, however, seem to trust the New York Times,
so maybe they caught the gray ladies. Recent analysis of
why the Democratic Party is in the demographic dumps. Leftists

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like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Casio Court has denounced Republicans
as oligarchs, yet millions of blue collar voters flocking to
the GOP remain unpersuaded. Liberals are in denial about these trends.
But the reality, according to the Times, is that quote,
Republicans are overwhelmingly making gains and working class counties, while

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Democrats are improving almost exclusively in wealthier areas. There's your
elite liberal leftist college people. My words interjected there, sorry, Jason.
The paper's county level distillation or trump air voting patterns
reveals how badly Democrats miscalculate that in allowing progressive elite

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to determine the party's priorities, Donald Trump quote has increased
the Republican Party's share of the presidential vote in each
election He's been on the ballots in close to half
the counties in America. That's that four hundred and thirty
three figure I read a moment ago. The Times reported that,
worse for the Democrats indulging in class warfare, only three
of those counties had a median household income of more

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than one hundred thousand dollars. Blacks and Latinos are overrepresented
among lower income voters and those without a college degree,
and Democrats are also losing ground with non whites.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
Quote.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
The erosion of working class support among black, white, and
Latino voters alike has unnerved every ideological wing of the
Democratic Party close quote The Times wrote, while most blacks
aremained loyal Democrats, again from the Times. In these in
his three presidential campaigns, mister Trump made serious inroads in
heavily black counties across the Deep South and beyond. Problem

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for the Left has to do with its identity based
appeals to certain voting blocks. Minority voters are courted as
minorities rather than as Americans who have the same priorities,
good schools, safe neighborhoods, gainful employment as everybody else. Instead,
Democrats have pretended that Hispanics don't care about illegal immigration
or the blacks thing policing is a bigger problem than crime,

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even though polls have consistently pointed in the opposite direction.
This is what happens when a small subset of progressive
sets the policy agenda for tens of millions of people.
Last month marked five years since George Floyd's death, a
half decade that overlaps with declining minorities of minority support

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for the Democratic Party. The tragedy of Floyd's death was
politicized to attack law enforcement broadly. Activist organizations like Black
Lives Matter use it to raise money. Democratic collected officials
use it to secure black votes. Floyd became a left
wing martyr man who is targeted daily by villainous police officers.

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The media ran with this preposterous narrative and street protests
and riots and sued nationwide. The political fallout hasn't been
what Democrats expected. Gallupole released last month shows black confidence
in law enforcement has increased since Floyd's death. Since twenty
twenty two. It's grown significantly faster than the average among

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all groups. In twenty twenty four to sixty four percent
of black respondents expressed confidence in police, which is up
from fifty eight percent and twenty three, fifty five percent
in twenty twenty two and fifty nine percent in twenty
twenty one. Gallup also found that sixty four percent of
black adults are satisfied with the relationship between police and
their local community, which has edged up three points since

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twenty twenty three, and five points since the low point
in twenty twenty two. The irony is that Black support
for law enforcement, even after Floyd's death, remained above fifty percent,
notwithstanding efforts by liberal activists, academics, and cable news commentators
to shrink police budgets and curry favor with black voters.

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This comes as no surprise to anyone who listens to
the residents of high crime neighborhoods, and not to the
intelligentsia who claim to speak for the black underclass. A
twenty twenty one ballot initiative in Minneapolis that would have
replaced the police department with a quote public health oriented
close quote Department of Public Safety was voted down, and

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some of the strongest opposition came from low income black neighborhoods.
Crime control isn't the only matter in which the average
black voter in left wing elites. Divert survey show the
most Black supports school choice, amen, voter id laws, and
colorblind college admission, all of which the Biden administration opposed,
and the Trump administration supports democratic outreach based on black

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victimhood anger and paranoia. Isn't working like it used to.
So long as the party fuses to change its methods,
Republicans stand to benefit. If black voting habits are increasingly
driven by issues rather than by blind partisan loyalty. It
is a welcome trend. George Floyd wasn't representative of black

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people any more than Derek Chauvin is representative of police officers,
but the fallout does fairly represent how the lefts racial
politics have backfired. It also helps explain why, as The
Times concluded, the Democratic Party is quote hemorrhaging vital support
from what we're once among its most rock solid constituencies.

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Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
Let us see here, Josh Trucker. Breaking news just came out.
Uh well, just less than an hour ago. Oops, and
it disappeared, Joe. The article keeps just disappearing. Guy got
hospital is being stabbed in the neck this morning. So
another local story involving violent crime over the Rhine. Yeah,
over the Rhine. Oh, but it's safe, did Aftaber of all?

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Let you know that it's safe to be downtown. Got
a guy getting stabbed in the neck after multiple shootings
and all everything else that's going on. But got crimes down, Joe.
That that's what they keep telling us, crimes down and
in completely unrelated news. And you know, the Chinese Communist

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Party is the nefarious actors behind the fentanyl crisis we're
having in our country, a fentanyl crisis which has precipitably
declined since Trump took office because he secured the border.
I think the seizures of fentanyl dropped like fifty percent.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
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Long Beach seized fifty five tons of a thing called
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China destined for the Cineloa drug cartel in Mexico. According
to news release from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Diachma peroxide identified as as a result of initiative launched

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by ICE to identify suspicious shipments of the chemical precursors
for fentanyl coming from China, Indian other source source countries
heading for Mexico for the drug cartels. Since the initiative
was launched in twenty nineteen, it's led to the interdiction
of almost nineteen hundred tons of chemicals used to manufacture

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of methad fhetamines, and fentanyl. In March, they seized forty
four tons of glacial acetic acid in Port Houston, which
is also destined for the Cinealoa cartel. According to ICE,
in a statement, I said this initiative provides homeland security
investigations with a game changing method to stay one step

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ahead of the cartels by disrupting the flow of chemicals
that they depend on to produce illicit narcotics. And you know,
I always got to point out that's what they seized
considering the quantity of federyl and methane fetamine flowing into
our country. Although it has been reduced, it certainly hasn't
been shut off completely. There's your Chinese Communist Party at work.

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Just one of the weapons of a war that they
are using against us on a daily basis. Six fifty
six The Big Picture with Jack add in after the
top of the hour news, we together will find out
what beware what you read on the beach means. Jack
Atherden next from a full.

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Couple up in seven oh six. It's time of the week.
We talked to Jack Atherton, get the Big Picture. Jack,
welcome back to the morning show, my friend. I always
enjoy hearing from you on the program.

Speaker 15 (01:16:02):
Thank you for having me Backpal, and happy summer reading season.
Now I'm talking about reading books at the beach, not
the seashells that fired FBI director James call Mey claims
he just stumbled across shells that spelled out a death
threat for President Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
What a creep this guy is, Brian, and.

Speaker 15 (01:16:23):
After getting blown back, call me blamed his wife, saying
she told him to post that photo. Now, I'm just
guessing callmy arranged the shells, took the picture, and his wife,
like your wife and my wife would have said, what.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
The heck did you do that for? Exactly?

Speaker 15 (01:16:41):
Think you get in enough trouble lying about Trump and
Russian hookers?

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
Exactly.

Speaker 15 (01:16:49):
Speaking about liars, last week we talked about Jake tappers
very lucrative confession that well, okay, yes, he and everyone
and de crap media knew that President Biden was an
auto pen nothing more. Please, folks, don't take Tapper's book
to the beach. But even if you avoid politics and

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stick to more obvious fiction, you may still get mugged
by liberal propaganda. Take Michael Conley, who writes about Harry
Bush and the Lincoln Lawyer. Have you read any of
those books, Brian, or seen the movies?

Speaker 16 (01:17:25):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
No, I don't think I have.

Speaker 15 (01:17:27):
Well, they're good. My wife has read all of the
Bosh novels and now we're listening to the audiobooks together
in the car. But I was surprised to find that
Michael Conley, who targets crushed.

Speaker 1 (01:17:40):
The detective Bosh. Yeah, I did watch that whole series.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
It didn't register when you said it, because that kind
of came out of nowhere given the subject matter of
our conversation. I just watched the series and I never
attributed to Conley or books. I just thought it was
an interesting and well done series. My mom may had
wrecked mended it to me. That's why I ended up
watching it. But yeah, I'm familiar with that it is.

Speaker 15 (01:18:04):
And the Lincoln Lawyer has been done by Matthew McConaughey
in a movie and then they had a TV series
about that too. They're excellent on many levels. But Michael
Conley targets corruption in the old Jim call mey FBI
writes about that a lot. So I was surprised to
find Brian a political attack on conservatives in our latest

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audio book this one is called Resurrection Walk. Harry Bosh,
a retired police detective, teams up with Mickey Holler, who's
called the Lincoln Lawyer because he works out of his
town car. At one point, these half brothers are mourning
the death of an old lawyer who was Jewish. They
note that the upscale Los Angeles neighborhood where he lived

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used to be restricted, meaning covenants in deeds included a
restriction on selling homes to Jews or Blacks or other minorities.
The Supreme Court struck down those restrictions after World War II,
but in their conversation in this book, Bosh and the
Lincoln lawyers say, the new Supreme Court seems to be

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going the other way.

Speaker 7 (01:19:15):
Now.

Speaker 15 (01:19:15):
When we heard that, Amesley and I paused the audio
book and wondered what the heck Michael Conley might have meant.
Resurrection Walk came out in twenty twenty three. That same year,
the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court that included
three nominees from Donald Trump's first term. That majority struck

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down DEI affirmative action admissions at Harvard and the University
of North Carolina. If that's the ruling, Conley was attacking.
His attack misled a lot of readers because Michael Conley's
books have sold over eighty million copies worldwide, and his
two heroes, Harry Bosh and the Lincoln Lawyer, are a

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saying the so called Trump Court is turning back the
clock on civil rights. Is that true? Well, let's take
a look. In the nineteen forties, when the Supreme Court
overturned restrictive real estate covenants, it was ruling that bigots
could not ask the courts to enforce discrimination based on

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skin color, ethnicity, or religious beliefs. However, refusing to enforce
discrimination is very different from requiring that college admissions must
be based on merit, not race or sex. In that
Harvard case two years ago, all three liberal justices Kagan, Sodomayor,

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and Brown Jackson of course supported Harvard, but the conservative
majority based its ruling on the equal protection clause of
the Constitution. They recognized that college admissions are zero's sum.
If you admit one student on the basis of race
or sex, you exclude another student who may otherwise objectively

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be more qualified. Harvard and UNC were in effect asking
the Supreme Court to enforce discrimination. The liberals, of course,
don't see it that way, because they believe in the
greater good of promoting not equality under the law, folks,
but racial or gender equity, meaning there must be equality

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of racial and gender outcomes. There must be quotas regardless
of merit. Of course, there's another way to increase the
chance that your child will be admitted to so called
elite universities. Demand that schools and unionized teachers do a
better job teaching our children, but much more important, help

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your own children study and do their homework. Demand that
they become better students. Thankfully, in twenty twenty five, we're
all learning that the best thing you could ever do
for your children is not send them to Harvard. And
since I admire them so much, I can only hope
that somebody is influential in pop culture, as Michael Conley

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comes to agree with that, even if he despises Donald Trump. Meantime,
this summer, if you're soaking up sun on the beach,
you know, Coney Island, Michigan, wherever you're able to go,
watching James Comey arranging death threats with seashells, keep in
mind that the fiction you are reading may slip in
some truly fictitious liberal propaganda.

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
What do your sayd Cousel, I agree with you completely.
It isn't crazy that the equity component, this idea that
you are going to admit someone purely based upon the
color of their skin, even though they haven't the educational foundation,

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the quality of excellence, that the universities expect the merit
to compete against other students ignoring the color of their skin.
That that is a product of what they claim to
be a systemically racist society. That's the reason you want
to let someone in who otherwise wouldn't qualify to enter

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the higher education because they can't.

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
You know, they're not on.

Speaker 3 (01:23:15):
Par with some other student who has the higher standards,
who tested higher, who has met the merit component. And
yet if you look where the education came from, public
education most notably is where I'm thinking, and on the
heels of this revelation from California that they're going to
let students who get a twenty after taking a test

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multiple times as many times it takes to pass that
they somehow are capable or are deserving of a high
school diploma, that you're going to allow one of those
folks to get in when the system itself has failed them.
The educational system that's supposed to provide them with the
foundational building blocks to have the merit to compete against

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other students to get into the education system that they've
grade to the quality of the education such that you
can leave the school without those foundational building walks. In
other words, you don't qualify to get into college because
you can't appreciate and understand the college level material. So
it's it's a top to bottom thing. And then they
want to blame the system. Well, if you want to
blame the system, then blame the failure of the education

(01:24:19):
system below college for allowing people to move forward in
life when they don't have the skills necessary to get
into the next grade. I mean, it's just the whole
thing is structurally unsound.

Speaker 13 (01:24:30):
Jack.

Speaker 15 (01:24:31):
In fairness, it was San Francisco, not the entire state
of California that trying to impose that twenty one percent threshold, yeah,
for a deed passing, and it was overturned in San Francisco,
but only because there was an outcry from conservative media.
Otherwise it would be there. And they're going to put
something like that back under another nick. That's what they

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always do.

Speaker 3 (01:24:53):
But I mean, we all know about great inflation, we
all know about you know, at Harvard, at Harvard, Yeah yeah,
and I know an entire.

Speaker 15 (01:25:03):
Movement affirmative action DEI. When it concerns blacks, it's about reparations.
And the question becomes, and I don't think that it's
a whole racist or unfair. You know, at what point
do you stop talking about reparations and at what point
do you talk about pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps?

(01:25:23):
In a way, this country that we both love so much,
everybody in your audience does, has always been quote unquote racist,
not just on the slavery issue, all of the waves
of immigrants who came to our country, the Irish, Germans, Jews,
Eastern Europeans, people coming from Asia now, they have always

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faced discrimination of one sort or another, either institutionalized or
just the kind that you met on the streets. And
the answer, of course, was to work hard to assimilate.
It was a wonderful movie that came out a few
years ago. It's called Brooklyn, and it was about a
young girl who came to America from Ireland. There was
an arrangement made through the church to find her a

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job so that something was waiting for her here. She
would not have been admitted to America without having a
job waiting. But she went to night school and learned
to be an accountant. And we understood by the end
of the movie that she and her Italian husband, that
she met Italian American who also faced a level of discrimination.
We're both going to be very successful. Not hyphenated Americans,

(01:26:29):
but Americans. And at one point you've got to ask yourself,
especially if you're a liberal, when am I going to
expect people.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
To be grown ups?

Speaker 3 (01:26:40):
Yeah, that's why I've been advocating for this Medicaid reform,
where you know, if you're able bodied and capable of work,
and you're not lifting a finger to try to move
yourself forward and free yourself from the bbilical court of government,
I find the whole concept preposterous. Here we are offering
an opportunity. You can continue your Medicaid and get your

(01:27:00):
medical coverage. Just work twenty hours a week, or just
go to a trade school for twenty hours a week.

Speaker 1 (01:27:07):
Do something.

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
Even community service will qualify you to continue your health care.
It's just a question of actually getting involved and participating
and hopefully better in your life?

Speaker 15 (01:27:18):
Mean what the liberals really want, Brian, as you know,
they want a headline. They want to be able to
go out and say Trump and the Republicans want to
cut Medicaid, and it ends there and once it's proven
that what Trump and the Republicans really are trying to
do is to end waste, fraud and abuse, keep people

(01:27:38):
who young, people, able bodied, people who just don't want
to work, keep them from getting Medicaid, and other people
who are committing to Medicaid fraud. You know, then you
never hear anything about it. The liberals move on to
some other headline. I don't even say issue, because they
have no issues. They only have headlines.

Speaker 3 (01:27:57):
Indeed, well, and I think the original predict for the
Medicaid was to help those with with significant disabilities and
the poor elderly from going without. The purpose was not
for a permanent, free medical system. And for those who
are who get into the Medicaid program, it's a temporary
lifeline until you get off of it. So the Republican

(01:28:20):
measures are consistent with the idea of helping people help themselves. Yes,
we will help you out, but you must start to
move toward freedom. And that is education. Freedom comes from education,
its from everybody remembers.

Speaker 15 (01:28:37):
During the Obama administration, and remember, Barack Obama wanted to
have nationalized healthcare. Obamacare was just a step toward that,
and he was always looking for a way to turn
more and more of one sixth of our economy, the
healthcare industry, over to the government. But during the Obama administration,

(01:28:57):
they raised the threshold for Medicaid. You were able to
essentially have a middle class income and still qualify for Medicaid.
And who went along with that? Right here in Ohio
A man I liked a lot. We weren't friends, but
we were very nicely acquainted. Our governor John Kasik, who
went on to become I don't know what happened at

(01:29:18):
John Kaysick, but he became so sanctimonious and so yeah,
you know, once he won a couple of primaries that
you know, now he was, you know, not answering to
the voters anymore. He was answering to Saint Peter and well,
a lot of damage and we're dealing with that now.
We have people on the Medicaid roles who have no
business being there given, as you say, the original intention.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
Yeah, you broke it down great, Jack out of it,
as you always do. I was intrigued by the subject
matter topic, not knowing where you were going to go
with beware of what you read on the beach.

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
It's always you.

Speaker 15 (01:29:52):
Know the way the government follows you. I don't want
people to know where I'm going.

Speaker 3 (01:29:59):
Jack Brilliants always shines through every Wednesday, and I appreciate
the segment we have each week and already looking forward
to next Wednesday with another discussion. You have a wonderful week,
and best of health and love to you and your
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A very happy Wednesday to you again listener. Lunch Mantree Brewery,
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pleasure to welcome back to the fifty five krc Morning
Show at this time of the week. Donovan and Neil
from Americans for Prosperity to comment on the Ohio Sentence

(01:31:38):
GOP version of the budget. Welcome back, Donovan. Great to
have you on the program again. Bryan, always a pleasure
to be with you. All Right, I'm having a difficult time.
I know you want to talk about the two point
seventy five percent flat tax. I'm all in favor of that,
I get it. But yeah, I'm sorry, I'm just frankly
I've said used the words pissed off about six hundred
million dollars going to the Cleveland brown Stadium brook Park.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
Bah.

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
Did you know Donovan and Neil for Americans for Prosperity?
The High Department of Commerce has said it's sitting on
four point eight billion dollars in unclaimed funds. They got
a pile of money. They're four point eight billion worth
of the things like forgotten bank accounts, rent utility deposits,
and uncashed insurance policies. And apparently when the Browns ask
for money, they can tap into that and pull out

(01:32:21):
six hundred million dollars and hand it over to them.

Speaker 14 (01:32:25):
Well, I think it's an interesting way, and it's a
long way from where we started in this conversation, right
which the original proposal was raising taxes.

Speaker 5 (01:32:33):
I oh, I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:32:35):
I'm certainly glad we're not raising taxes to do to
do these kinds of things.

Speaker 14 (01:32:41):
It's at a creative way. The unclaimed funds was a
creative way to accomplish that.

Speaker 3 (01:32:44):
Though, well, it's better than borrowing the money and paying
interest over twenty five years by issuing bonds. But fundamentally,
we're giving money to a private sports organization owned by
private individuals for the benefit of folks who can afford
to go into a stadium and pay twelve to fifteen
dollars for a beer. I'm sorry, these things never work out,

(01:33:05):
and they say, well, the revenue generated from the taxes
on the purchases at the brook Park is more than
adequately going to repay the six hundred million dollars we're
giving them.

Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
I'll blow it at here, you know what. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:33:17):
I didn't mean to catch you off guard, Donovan, but
this kind of thing rubs me obviously the wrong way.
So we can get back on focus and talk about
the flat income tax.

Speaker 14 (01:33:28):
Well, and I think that's the important thing, right These
big budget bills, whether it's one big beautiful bill in
DC or you know, the two hundred billion dollar all
spend budget here in Ohio, which, by the way, I've
got some there's some silver linings there too, you know,
there's a reason they say it's the look you're watching
the sausage you get made, because none of these things
are beautiful or perfect. But I think there's some there's

(01:33:51):
some bright spots in this budget that send a signal
that there is a culture shift happening in Columbus, and
I think we need to keep our eyes focused on that.
And that's certainly what we're doing at AFP is saying
focused on the things that we identified as top priorities
that this budget delivers on.

Speaker 3 (01:34:08):
Well, we had a tiered in Well, we do have
a tiered income tax system here in the state of Ohio. Correct,
And this, this Senate proposal is in line, isn't it
with the House proposal to get it down to a
flat two point seventy five percent?

Speaker 14 (01:34:21):
Well, no, knock on our friends in the House, but
they actually failed to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:34:25):
Oh old ones.

Speaker 1 (01:34:27):
I misremembered of the ones.

Speaker 14 (01:34:29):
No, that's all right, yeah, the Senate actually, so we
launched in fact little self promotion here AFP Ohio. We
launched it with Leebray Ohio, a campaign back on May twentieth,
a couple of weeks ago, calling on the Senate to
put its flat.

Speaker 1 (01:34:43):
Tax in the budget.

Speaker 14 (01:34:44):
We're proud to say they did and buy over the
course of this biennium. If this budget gets signed by
the governors, ultimately, let's get sent and signed by the governor,
Ohio will have the lowest rate in the Midwest and
be well on its way towards the zero percent income
tax position us Well for that, I should say, over
the next decade.

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
Well, and that's something that gubernatorial candidate and probably our
next coverer, Governor of viveg Ramaswami, is advocating for as well.
He wants to be he wants to how to be
the most competitive state out there.

Speaker 14 (01:35:15):
Well, and that's a big part of the argument that
we've been making. And I think a lot of our
friends in the Senate, the folks who are real fiscal
stewards and champions of the taxpayer, like George Lang, Senate President,
around McCauley, terce Rino, they get that right. They understand
that we've got to keep making the margin if we
pause that because over the last decade, Brian, by the way,

(01:35:35):
over the last decade, we have cut from nine tax
brackets with the top marginal rate at about five percent
to this point where we're currently at two brackets, and
it's the Senate has their way, we have our way, right,
Ohio will be a flat income tax date a two
point seventy five percent. It's a phenomenal accomplishment over the
last decade. If you ask me, it's taken too long,
but hey, we're here now.

Speaker 2 (01:35:56):
And and what it does is yet, if that's someone
like a governor swall me up to give that mandate
to the General Assembly and over the eight year seas
governor put Ohio at a zero percent income tax, well.

Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
And that certainly go a long way to making Aye
more competitive. I mean, obviously, if you look at like
Texas and Florida, businesses flock the states with no income tax.

Speaker 14 (01:36:17):
Yeah, and that's what in the press converence actually the
Senate President was talking about, the Finance Chair, Jerry Serena,
was talking about is and it's not just warm weather states, right, folks.
Businesses go where them where the economic climate is most favorable.
And when we think about economic development, not to bring
up the beginning of the segment necessarily, but one of
the challenges we have, I believe as a state is

(01:36:40):
because of our complexity, because of the amount of local
governments we have because of the tax burning we have
compared to states like Texas, Tennessee, or Florida, there's a
compelling nature the lawmakers are compelled to use taxpayer dollars
to try to lure businesses and develop into the state.
We can change that paradigm by creating a foundation that
is much more favorable the economic opportunity and prosperity. One

(01:37:03):
of the key ingredients of that is having a zero
percent income tax states. So when you bring your employees
to Ohio, you can tell them they're going to keep
all of their hard earned money yea, that they earn
nine to five Monday through Friday. It's great policy and
great politics.

Speaker 3 (01:37:15):
It is now Obviously things like this get pushback. And
since the House did not have that, and I apologize
for misremembering that ALS build ninety six past the House
in April, that this is going to be a reconciliation
process that goes on between the Senates version of the
House version.

Speaker 14 (01:37:31):
Then well, fortunately in Ohio we're not as complex and
convoluted as Washington, DCA. We have our own laws. But yeah,
so what we've got right now is we're really on
a clock. We have till probably about June twelfth is
when the Senate is expected to vote on the floor
for their version of the budget. What that would do
is then send it back over the House and they'll

(01:37:53):
do a They'll do a what's called a concurrence vote,
and typically they vote that down.

Speaker 1 (01:37:59):
Depending on what this product is, it's maybe it just.

Speaker 14 (01:38:01):
Makes sense to vote straight up and concur But if
they fail to concur which is historically what happens, they
go into a conference committee, sort of hash some details out,
send the bill back out.

Speaker 1 (01:38:13):
So pretty straightforward process.

Speaker 14 (01:38:15):
In that once the Senate's done, it really then goes
to a combined committee of the finances finance committees in
the House and Senate to kind of reconcile the process
and send it to the governor.

Speaker 3 (01:38:26):
Now, do you find faults with anything that's currently in
the Senates version that you prefer the House version? Obviously
the House version doesn't have the cap of two point
seventy five, so there's a difference there. But are there
things in the House bill that aren't in the Senate
bill that AFP and my listeners should know about.

Speaker 14 (01:38:44):
Well, I think what you saw with the House budget.
To answer your question, directly, No, based on what we're
seeing right now. In fact, what it looks like the
Senate has done, and this is sort of what they've
done historically over the past decade or so. In fact,
you'll see the House increase spending from what the executive
has asked for, and the Senate often over the last
several years, has come in and cut curb spending, restraint

(01:39:07):
spending from what the House is looking for. The House
actually curb spending about four point one billion dollars from
what Governor.

Speaker 1 (01:39:14):
Dwine asked for.

Speaker 14 (01:39:15):
The Senate came in and found another one point six
billion in in moneies that just don't fit the proper
role of government. And so I think what we're seeing,
I think it's a combination of former Senate President Matt
Huffman in leading the House Chamber and new Senate President
Rob mccaullay, who's a long time AFP Bucket Blueprint champion,

(01:39:35):
bringing his you know, restraint to the philosophy of leading
to the Senate Chamber.

Speaker 1 (01:39:40):
And we've got two legislative leaders, two legislative chambers that.

Speaker 14 (01:39:43):
Are really dialed in on the idea that you know,
this money isn't Columbus's money, it's the people of Ohio's money,
and we've got to exhibit fiscal stewardship because you know,
you know, for all the reasons Conservatives exhibit fiscal stewardship,
and that I think what we're seeing here and so
I think they took a good product, made it even better,
and I think our hope is sifting.

Speaker 1 (01:40:03):
Through it still that this is probably a very good product.

Speaker 14 (01:40:06):
Maybe you can make some additional tweaks and modifications, but
let's get this thing done and get it to the
governor and deliver on a flat tax for ohilands.

Speaker 1 (01:40:14):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
It sounds like both sides are in the right going
in the right direction. In terms of those who are
opposed to reducing the income tax, I'm sure they're screaming
about not being able to afford what we do here
in Columbus on behalf of the Ohioans. How will they
deal with less revenue? Is the reduced revenue by reducing
this tax satisfied by the cuts that have been offered

(01:40:37):
by the House and Senate.

Speaker 14 (01:40:39):
Yeah, that's sort of the idea, and really what we've
argued we did. We worked with the Buckeye Institute, Greg
Lawson and Ray Hederman to put together a study a
couple of years ago on how you get Ohio those
zero percent income tax.

Speaker 1 (01:40:50):
One of the key ways you do is just don't
grow government so dang fast. Right, you can grow it,
just don't grow it so dang fast.

Speaker 14 (01:40:55):
And that's what I think we're seeing in this budget
where I'm historic, be notoriously bad at math Brian, but
I think you know, the governor wanted to grow the
budget by about I think eight percent over the last
by anium. What the Senate comes in at is just
the just about four and a half percent growth by
anium over by anem And so when we just grow

(01:41:16):
it maybe where it's necessary right, where you just have
inflationary policies or what have you that have caused that
delivery of services to go up, that's the kind of
fiscal restraint we're asking for that enables you to then
buy down the tax. And that's what we're that's what
we're doing in this budget.

Speaker 5 (01:41:30):
As far as we can.

Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
Tell, Donald Neil, Americans for Prosperity usually end with the
call of action? Is there one today? And is there
a website? My listeners should go.

Speaker 14 (01:41:38):
To Buckeye Blueprint dot com flash soo s Buckeye Blueprint
dot com slash sos. There's some information in dowalod there.
And then we're going to be having a rally in
Columbus next week to encourage lawmakers to finish the job
and get this done and vote this budget over to
the House and so go there you can find out
some more details and we'd love to have you join
us in Columbus.

Speaker 3 (01:41:58):
Courage my listeners to do just that. AFP Donovan and Eil.
Pleasure having you back on today. Keep keeping us in
form and reminding me about things that happened and didn't
happen but I can't remember. Great having you on, Donnav.
We'll talk again next week. Have a wonderful week in
the meantime, always a pleasure.

Speaker 1 (01:42:14):
Take care. It's seven thirty eight. We're gonna talk about
flag Day.

Speaker 3 (01:42:18):
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Speaker 3 (01:43:48):
Seven forty three fifty five KRCD talk station. Happy Wednesday
in studio. Always a pleasure to have him here, Steve Belzo,
the executive director of the Klema County Veteran Service Commission.
God bless Steve and his service to our entry and
his ongoing service with the services provided by the Clemic
County Veterans Service Commission, and to talk about something of
vital importance to him and all veterans, and I would

(01:44:09):
hope the vast majority of the American people.

Speaker 1 (01:44:11):
Flag Day. Good to have you in the studio, Brian.

Speaker 17 (01:44:14):
You're the coffee of Cincinnati. So thanks for being out here.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
Bro, that's a nice compliment. I appreciate that anyhow. You know,
I love the flag, and for me, the flag stands
for freedom. Freedom, freedom for you and me to live
as we choose to live in a country doesn't force
us to live in a particular way, and that's what
the symbol stands for. And I hate the fact that
people use it as a source of division.

Speaker 17 (01:44:37):
As a token to somehow divide the masses. I know,
it makes no sense. They thrive to enter our country,
and yet then there's this movement to disgrace the symbol
that we have.

Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
Well, and Flag Day is a great idea for us
to get back on track, and it is coming up
June fourteenth. When was the first Flag Day?

Speaker 1 (01:44:59):
In hell? Long as we have we been I hope celebrating.

Speaker 17 (01:45:03):
Wow. Yeah, So the actual adoption of the flags back
in seventeen seventy seven, we know, but the celebration of
Flag Day started back in nineteen sixteen. However, it wasn't
until President Woodrow Wilson, of all people, of all people,
in nineteen sixteen entered legislation, but it didn't take and

(01:45:23):
then it wasn't until nineteen forty nine. So you think
about that, thirty three years later, the National Flag Day
was adopted by an Act of Congress. Isn't that something?

Speaker 3 (01:45:32):
It is? It's sad when you think about it, but
thank god at least they got around to it, right.

Speaker 1 (01:45:39):
Right, right?

Speaker 17 (01:45:39):
I guess World War One kind of set it aside
in sixteen.

Speaker 1 (01:45:42):
I don't know a little distracted by that one.

Speaker 3 (01:45:44):
Yeah, I can imagine anyway, I tell you what we're
up at a break, but we'll continue to talk about
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Speaker 3 (01:47:51):
Station seven fifty fifty five KRCV talk Station. A Happy Wednesday.
Steve Belzo in studio, Executive director of the Comic County
Veterans Commission, talking about Flag Day. It's next Saturday, and
I have the honor of participating in the flag retirement
ceremony every year will be at the Union Township Civic Center,
and I'm going to be honored to say a few

(01:48:12):
words there and learn how to properly dispose of a flag.
And there is a proper way, right, And let's maybe
briefly talk about that, Steve.

Speaker 17 (01:48:21):
Sure, you know most people are flying a flag that's tattered, torn, worn, dirty.

Speaker 1 (01:48:28):
Don't let Steve tam see that.

Speaker 17 (01:48:30):
No, And then.

Speaker 1 (01:48:33):
He'll give you an earfull.

Speaker 17 (01:48:36):
Homeowners aren't sure what to do. They may throw it
in the trash, they may just let it continue to
fly in this ragged captain.

Speaker 1 (01:48:45):
Faded. Really, it's almost like a white piece of cloth
at right the time.

Speaker 17 (01:48:48):
Right so that there is a serviceability to our United
States flag. And when you see it starting to tear
or it's becoming fraid worn, faded out, pull it down,
put up a fresh one. But now what do I
do with the one I just retired? Great question. There
is a description in many military manuals and the Department

(01:49:12):
Offense of how we retire and dispose of a flag.
And that's done in a discrete ceremony, Brian. It's not
done by wearing it into a new pair of shorts.
We're not burning it in the front yard. It is
a small, discrete way. Matter of fact that Claremont County veterans,
we have a box where you can I buy another

(01:49:33):
hook to dispose of your worn flag and we will
take care of that discrete flag ceremony for you.

Speaker 3 (01:49:40):
Yeah, and that's all what the flag retirement ceremony is
all about. And there are drop off locations all around.
It doesn't take much to find out where they are.
It makes sure you just don't throw it in the trash.
I mean, it is absolutely it's a sign of disrespect.
And if you really truly have respect for the flag
as well, you should. You should take care of it
properly when it's reached the end of its life and

(01:50:00):
don't fly a tattered, worn flag that in and of
itself is a sign of disrespect. And that's the purpose
of retiring the flag. Why should we fly the flag?
I have one minds up all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:50:13):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:50:14):
I love driving into my driveway and see my flag
hanging there, right, because again, freedom it is.

Speaker 17 (01:50:19):
It is freedom. But there are some caveat with that.
If you were flying your flag twenty four hours a
day from dusk to dawn, she should be illuminated. There
should be lights illuminating her. Otherwise we take it down
at night. Yes, that is respectful. It's not to be
hanging out beside the tree, and I guess they'll see
it in the morning, So have it illuminated at night.

(01:50:42):
Many of these flagpoles today have this rechargeable battery and
they shine down on the flag, and that's the purpose.

Speaker 12 (01:50:49):
Right.

Speaker 17 (01:50:49):
So I love my neighbors and all and people like
you that are standing for liberty, justice and freedom for all,
which is what that great flag stands for. The whole
world recognizes the United States flag.

Speaker 1 (01:51:07):
They do.

Speaker 3 (01:51:09):
And you know what I pointed out off air that
you know, I think one of the tragedies, if you
can even call that, of the fall of the Soviet Union,
that was our moral barometer. That was the country of
breadlines and political prisoners and oppression, right and outright murder
of citizenry. You think about Stalin and all the people
that they killed, because you know, good ideas don't require force.

(01:51:30):
Bad ideas require force. Right, the flag represents the antithesis
of that.

Speaker 17 (01:51:35):
When you are taking a naval or model forward to
a foreign country. We see four pillars of power in
the United States or of any government, diplomacy, information, military,
and economic. When they see the military force off their
shores flying the United States flag, they know whose navy

(01:51:58):
and Marines are on board. It is a show of force,
and it is a force of strength because they can
recognize the flag that's flying.

Speaker 3 (01:52:05):
And the accomplishments of the American military in the name
of freedom. I mean, we're not perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:52:11):
Nobody has that's right. Nobody is well trying.

Speaker 3 (01:52:15):
We're not going to come there to conquer you, take
you over and force things upon you or lock you
up for your thoughts and beliefs.

Speaker 17 (01:52:22):
It's freeing other citizens in other countries bring in diplomacy.

Speaker 3 (01:52:25):
Well, I'd like to encourage all my listeners to if
you don't have a flag, why not get one?

Speaker 17 (01:52:31):
Why they're inexpensive. Matter of fact, if you need one
to fly, come see me in the Clarmont County Office.

Speaker 1 (01:52:36):
I have one for you.

Speaker 17 (01:52:37):
Then you will fly respectfully from a proper position in
front of your house. But I gotta say, Brian Flag
Day June fourteenth is also the Armies, my sisters and
another service two hundred and fiftieth birthday exactly? Is that
a by centennial and a half. I don't know how
to count that. I'll just say two fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:52:58):
It's an amazing accomplishment. And I I read the article
this morning from the head of the Defense Department. He
wrote a letter just sort of proudly letting everyone know
that the Army has already met its recruiting goals. Sixty
one thousand enlistedes four months ahead of schedule, and we

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were behind for the last four years. Yes, no one
was signing up. And gee, I wonder why things have
changed when you look at.

Speaker 17 (01:53:26):
The size of our Navy and our army. It takes
an exceedingly large combine to bring enough young men and
women in to fill the ranks for them to exceed
this goal. Is a phenomenal effort by the Army. Good
on them, Good on them, and good on you again.
Klaimont County Veterans Service Commission. Amazing services they offer for

(01:53:47):
my veterans in the community. You need help with the
A benefits and the services, outreach programs, financial assistance. You
could just go down the line. It would take me
a couple of hours to get through it.

Speaker 2 (01:53:57):
All.

Speaker 3 (01:53:57):
You need to talk to Steve and the good people
to the climat County Veteran Service Commission, and maybe even
pick up a flag if you don't have one. I'm
very kind of you to offer that and thank you
again for your service to our country.

Speaker 1 (01:54:07):
Steve.

Speaker 3 (01:54:08):
It's always a pleasure seeing you. And I'll be at
the Union Cemetery or the Union Civic Center, Union Township
next Saturday. What time is it start one one o'clock,
so be there and you can also witness how to
properly dispose of a flag. The Boy Scouts always show
up and go through that procedure and it's a wonder

(01:54:28):
wonderful event. Gentlemen, take care, great seeing you and proudly
support the United States flag or remember the freedom that
it stands for.

Speaker 1 (01:54:36):
Ryan, Thanks for your support, brother, my pleasure.

Speaker 3 (01:54:39):
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High Technical Institute Trades.

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He's going to be talking all about a trade schools
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Speaker 3 (01:55:02):
This report Nicolin Institute of a man who's gonna confirm
I firmly believe what I just got done, saying Mike Triple,
the director and instructor at the Southern Ohio Technical Institute.
Welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (01:55:13):
Mike. It's a real pleasure to have you on today.

Speaker 6 (01:55:16):
Yeah, great to be on.

Speaker 3 (01:55:18):
Well, and I got to tell you Steve Belzo from
the Klema County Veteran Service Commission just walked out of
the studio when he found out you were on the program,
he immediately began singing your praises. He's the guys, a
wonderful guy, a true humanitarian, a true patriot, And he
went and gave me a few stories about some things
that you had done for his veteran friends, and I

(01:55:39):
just want to salute you for for those efforts and
just to pass along that Steve thinks the world of you, sir.

Speaker 16 (01:55:47):
Yeah, that's great. Steve's a great guy and those things
that he mentioned to you, that was my pleasure. I
was more than happy to do that for our vets.

Speaker 1 (01:55:56):
Yeah. I know, I know you do.

Speaker 3 (01:55:57):
And that's why I wanted to sing your praises out
loud so I listen the kind of quality and character
guy you are now pivoting over. Let my listeners know
this is a trade school HVAC and refrigeration, and there
are careers out there in these in the trades in
HVAC are careers correct, There.

Speaker 16 (01:56:16):
Is absolutely, as a matter of fact, the numbers on
that reflect that we are going through what we call
a mass retirement of what we are actually referred to
in the industry as the silver tsunami. That's guys that
are the baby boomers that we're coming up through these trades,

(01:56:40):
hvac in particular, and they are retiring, okay, at a
very high rate right now. So in the next two
to five years, we are in need of about over
forty thousand new hires to fill these positions over throughout
the United States of course, per year in the next

(01:57:01):
five years for the HVAC industry particularly.

Speaker 3 (01:57:06):
And when you graduate from the Southern Ohio Technical Institute,
you are career ready.

Speaker 6 (01:57:13):
Yes, you are. Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:57:15):
What we do is we have a program, a ten
week accelerated course, and basically what we do is we
give you the tools as an individual to be rehired
or be a new what we call a new hire
into the industry. So you are ready to go in
and start building your career and actually expanding your education

(01:57:39):
in the HVAC industry when you leave our school.

Speaker 1 (01:57:42):
Now, how many hours does it take to complete the course?

Speaker 16 (01:57:47):
The course is a two hundred hour course ten weeks.
We have both evening classes and we have morning classes.
The morning classes from nine till two and then our
evening classes are five till ten. Those are four days
a week, Monday through Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:58:08):
And what kind of certifications do these students earn when
they're when they complete the program.

Speaker 16 (01:58:14):
The certifications that are earned, we have that what is
called a six oh eight EPA certification, which is a
must certification. You have to have that certification or you
cannot work in the HVAC refrigeration industry. That's you get
that certification. You also get an OSHA Safety certification, which

(01:58:37):
is a great hiring enhancement for the employers because you've
already had safety training. You also will receive an HVAC
Excellence Employment Ready Electrical certification. You also will receive an
HVAC Excellence air Conditioning certification, and you also will receive

(01:59:02):
an A to L refrigerant certification. What are the new
refrigerants that are coming on to the market right now today,
and those are the ones that are replacing the ones
that we have now to help with the greenhouse effect
that these refrigerants are actually bringing onto the.

Speaker 1 (01:59:26):
The industry.

Speaker 16 (01:59:27):
Okay, so it said a two L certification will beginning,
So five certifications wow in total?

Speaker 3 (01:59:33):
Yeah, well ten weeks and your career ready. I mean,
this to me is just absolutely what the world needs.
And of course, with the demand out there for HVAC folks, you.

Speaker 1 (01:59:45):
Know this is career. This is career stuff here.

Speaker 3 (01:59:47):
I mean the salaries as you have on your website,
which I let my listeners though is s O T
I dash hvac dot com. You can get all the
information about the program. And also I wanted to focus
on the Shore grant s h O R let my
listeners know about that.

Speaker 16 (02:00:03):
Yeah, the Short grand is a great uh, is a
great tool financing tool, Okay for these young people that
are wanting to get into the industry. And for the vets.

Speaker 6 (02:00:16):
Uh.

Speaker 16 (02:00:16):
The Charles Shore Foundation has partnered with our school and
for the veteran I'll go over those first.

Speaker 1 (02:00:22):
Please veteran uh.

Speaker 16 (02:00:25):
For the veterans, UH, they can come to our school
and say if the veteran has already exhausted his post
nine to eleven benefits and maybe went to another school
and he's uh went through that four year course or
whatever and the business course and you know he figured
out what that really isn't what I wanted to do.

(02:00:45):
But now his benefits have been exhausted. Okay, we come
in with the Charles Short brand and we will give
that veteran a full ride okay to our school. And
that full ride will include would pull tuition. It includes
actually a gas stiphen for them to come to and

(02:01:06):
from school, and we also provide tools for them to
start into the industry after they after they have graduated.

Speaker 3 (02:01:16):
Wow, that's great and God bless you and for helping
out the American veterans because you know this is the
g I Bill cover this as well.

Speaker 16 (02:01:28):
You know, well the GI Bill does cover it. That is,
so many veterans go out into the world and when
they actually when they come in and they get out
of the armed forces, unfortunately, you know, they go into
something and they spend their benefits and they do something
that they really don't want and by the time they

(02:01:49):
realize that their benefits have been exhausted. Okay, and uh
that's where we step in with the Charles Shore grants
and we take care of this. But yes, to answer
your question, if you're rush out of the service, absolutely,
your your post nine to eleven benefits will cover the
school tuition.

Speaker 3 (02:02:07):
Perfect fit for military veterans looking for a career path.
It sounds like now I'm guessing and you can fill
in the blanks for me, Mike, that HVAC companies out
there who I guess are searching for people for these
roles know about the Southern High Technical Institute. Are they
knocking on your door asking for graduates?

Speaker 16 (02:02:29):
Oh? Absolutely, we get tons and tons of phone calls
every day, and real quick, I want to kind of
step back a little bit too. We also have this program,
Charles Shore Grant available for high school students. Okay, mister
Shore thinks that that is a very important part, Okay,
that these high school students need to be aware of

(02:02:51):
that they have options. They don't always have to go
to college.

Speaker 1 (02:02:54):
Amen.

Speaker 16 (02:02:56):
And so we offer the same benefit. If you were
a a student in high school and you are ninety
days before graduation or ninety days after graduation, you were
eligible for this Charles Shore Grant.

Speaker 3 (02:03:10):
Oh that's fantastic. I know there's some parents out there.
They'll be steering their kids in the direction of the
Southern High Technical Institute because yeah, I mean, you can
work your entire life in the HVAC A refrigeration industry.
You can put a food on your family's table, a
career opportunity, and you don't have to go into debt
one hundred plus thousand dollars. With a college education, you

(02:03:32):
may come out the other side that if you find
out it's worthless.

Speaker 16 (02:03:36):
Yeah, and not to mention think about this. A lot
of these careers are a lot of these educations, that's
so called educations, okay, and they're great educations in a
lot of cases. But guess what we have the new
factor going in AI. We don't have to worry about
AI and our industry quite honestly, because you know what,

(02:03:57):
you always are going to have to be kept warm,
always going to.

Speaker 2 (02:04:00):
Need your.

Speaker 16 (02:04:02):
Refrigeration for your grocery industry, so on and so forth.
So guess what we're not going to be affected by.

Speaker 1 (02:04:09):
AI, nor is this job.

Speaker 16 (02:04:12):
It's just a great, great thing to get into. And
I think that. And when you mentioned about hiring and
companies calling us, they call us every day. We actually
have two large job fairs every year which involves about
sixteen of the local companies around the greater Cincinnati area

(02:04:33):
and our school. Presently, for our graduates, we're at about
an eighty five percent job placement. So we not only
will educate you, we also it's serious business for us.
We want to see you out there and work, and
so we are involved from A to Z from the
time you go to school till the time you get

(02:04:53):
hired with a company.

Speaker 3 (02:04:55):
Well, and I'd recommend my listeners check out the website again.
It's SOTI Technical Institute s t I dash hvac dot com.
You got some really interesting and sort of moving stories
about some of the graduates overcoming challenges in life and
pursuing this as a career absent or after efforts in

(02:05:15):
other areas. Because you alluded to veterans sometimes find themselves
in a job that they really don't like and this
is an option for them. But you've got some really
good success stories. They're posted on your website as well.

Speaker 16 (02:05:26):
Absolutely we do. Yeah, we we have a lot of
great stories and a lot of great individuals and a
lot of great young people have come through this program.
And I'll tell you what it is. The desire of
our school to see you succeed.

Speaker 6 (02:05:43):
That's what we're here for.

Speaker 16 (02:05:44):
We're here to see you get into a career. Okay,
not just an education, but a career. It's going to
last you for life. And by the way, you know,
profit's not a dirty word either. The these guys you're
starting out usually at about a forty thousand dollars a

(02:06:04):
year based salary, okay while they're training. And guess what,
within five years, if you really put yourself to it
and you are a season serviceman going to a season
service tech position, you're making high five figures and then
sometimes you reach six figures.

Speaker 3 (02:06:23):
Oh my, well, that steals it right there, Mike, Mike
tribal director and instructor at Southern Technical Institute. There's a
career and a money and opportunity for you in the
HVAC in refrigeration field. And you can get that degree
again two hundred hours ten weeks, go during the day,
go after work in the evening. If you can manage

(02:06:43):
to fit that in your schedule, and you're on your
way to freedom and a career opportunity with people barking
down the doors looking to hire you. It's you know what, Mike,
I'm so happy I was able to have you on
the program to talk about this, you know, just one
of the trades demonstrating that there are options for folks
out there without a college degree, and for even those
folks who are victims of the four year program finding

(02:07:06):
themselves without employment. You art degree majors out there, get
the HVAC field, get in touch with the Southern Technical Institute,
and you may even qualify for that shot grant. Mike, outstanding, man,
I appreciate you what you're doing.

Speaker 1 (02:07:20):
That great and now real.

Speaker 3 (02:07:21):
Quick here, Yeah, do you have classes starting soon? Is
there a rotation on this? How does it work?

Speaker 16 (02:07:27):
Absolutely? These we go every ten weeks. So our next
class both day and night classes, they start from July
are once coming up July fourteenth through September the eighteenth.
Then we will also have classes one from August fourth
running through October ninth. Those are the next classes that

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are going to be available.

Speaker 3 (02:07:49):
Well, and I checked out the pricing. Even if you
don't qualify for a shot grant, this is a very
affordable program considering the return on investment. Man, this is
amazing Southern High Technical Institute. Mike, it has been a
pleasure having you on the program, and I'll encourage my
listeners to get the link on my blog page fifty
five KRC dot com or go directly to s O

(02:08:10):
T I dash HVAC dot com and learn about it
for yourself.

Speaker 1 (02:08:14):
Mike, keep up the great work, my friend.

Speaker 5 (02:08:17):
It's great.

Speaker 16 (02:08:17):
It's been a great pleasure being on your show.

Speaker 1 (02:08:20):
My pleasure.

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Speaker 1 (02:10:31):
Looking forward to that.

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Love the fellowship at listener lunch and if you haven't
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up today and welcoming back to the fifty five CARS
Morning Show. One of the more prominent figures behind the
signature drive to save Hyde Park Square, John Zinzer, Welcome
back to the fifty five KRC Morning Show and a
big congratulations see you and all the signature gatherers for
really hitting a home run and getting way more than

(02:10:53):
was needed to get on the ballot this November.

Speaker 2 (02:10:56):
Thank you, Brian, and I'm no more significant than all
three hundred for the people who are out there more
than three hundred collecting signatures.

Speaker 1 (02:11:03):
I really appreciate it having us back.

Speaker 3 (02:11:05):
And as you mentioned last time, you were on folks
from all kinds of neighborhoods throughout the city of Cincinnati.
We're backing this because you know, as I mentioned before,
I think it's there. But for the grace of God,
go iy it happened to Bond Hill. It happened to
Hyde Park since the city Council, you know, modifying the
zoning rules to help well connected developers do what they
want in the face of what their own constituents wanted.

(02:11:28):
I mean, I just I get so irked by this
John that they absolutely flat out refused to listen to
the throngs that showed up in opposition to this hotel
and apartment and underground parking. I mean, it's described as
a boutique hotel. It's not like that's going to solve
the homeless problem or the housing shorts in the city
of Cincinnati. Plus, I mean when you look at the

(02:11:49):
designs and the drawing of it, yes, it is about
the size in many cases, Despite what council Member Mika
Owens said about it, I'm wi you.

Speaker 2 (02:11:58):
We're really proud of the twenty two different neighborhoods that
were represented in the among the collectors, the circulators of petitions,
and we had signatures from all over the city. And
you're word that may be a really good one, right
there is. People are irked, people would like to be heard.
We gave city Council chance after chance after chance, starting

(02:12:19):
in January at the Planning Commission staff meeting, more than
seven hundred emails, sixty people speaking against, four people speaking for.
That was a really good chance where we could have
just said, you know what, this isn't the right way
to go, let's do something else. They didn't. Here's the
really good news today though, we are giving City Council

(02:12:39):
yet another chance. They have a wonderful second opportunity today
to begin the process. They could excuse me, repeal the
decision from April twenty third, and everything could get started.
We want the smart development. We're open to the developer
engaging with us and sticking to the zon and that

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could happen. All City Council has to do is repeal
their decision. They have that opportunity now, and if they don't,
and I have to say, I really wonder I don't
have a crystal ball. I'm not going to try to
predict what City Council would do. We are ready and
waiting to go into a ballot drive. I feel very
comfortable that we can motivate the same kind of response

(02:13:23):
we got to the signatures to turn out voters and
have people say you have to listen to the neighborhoods,
you have to listen to the people. You can't just
listen to the developers.

Speaker 3 (02:13:35):
Yeah, and this concept really, this voter initiative, the citizen
initiative to have control over their lives. I think it
just it transcends development. I mean, you're taking a stand
against a council who won't listen. I don't care what
issue it is. I mean there was no question and
I go ahead.

Speaker 2 (02:13:55):
Yeah, you and I touched on this once before. I
believe in a twenty twenty four place on engagement for
the city, ten glassy pages beautifully produced, the words neighborhood
council and community council don't appear once. This administration and
this iteration of City Council is very clear that they

(02:14:18):
know what we need and they don't need to hear
from us. Yeah, they really want our vote, they really
don't want our voice. Is how it feels. And that's
what this is really about. And that's why I have
such comfort about November. If it comes to that again,
I think City Council should do the right thing and
repeal this right now. But if they don't, I think

(02:14:40):
citizens are going to show up. And if I ask
you the question, hey, do you want to say in
what goes on in your neighborhood or do you want
a developer to make a little bit more money. I
think I'll get the right answer to that most times.

Speaker 1 (02:14:53):
John, with our question. And you know what, this is
kind of like it's supposed to be.

Speaker 3 (02:14:57):
And I think council and the mayor of lost the
conc of representative democracy. The citizens of the city of
Cincinnati didn't elect this group to be dictators and control
exclusively the direction of the city. They're there to represent
the will of the citizenry, which differs from neighborhood to neighborhood.
That's what irked me about the connected communities thing. They

(02:15:18):
shoved down everybody suits. They didn't listen to any local
communities about that. Some embraced the concept, others outright wanted
to reject it, but they all wanted control locally. And
all the communities are different in many respects. I mean
the Hyde Park is a great illustration of that. You're
not the same as bond Hill. You guys have different
needs and different ones and different desires by the citizens.

(02:15:39):
But again it's the citizen who should control. Conceptually, the
direction of the city goes.

Speaker 2 (02:15:44):
Well and specifically neighborhood by neighborhood, as you're saying, we
have fifty two fantastic neighborhoods across the city, and many
of them were represented in this effort. From Mount Washington
all the way to Salor Park. They showed up because
they agree with what you're saying. Of we should get
a say, and it's not just being known. I don't

(02:16:05):
want to split a hair here. I know City Council listened,
but I know we weren't heard. And I've seen plenty
of op eds and plenty of Reddit pieces that say, oh,
they just don't like the answer. Oh, Hyde Park, it's
just another nimby thing. This is anything but not in
my backyard. This is not in our city. We want

(02:16:29):
a representative government that not only listens or shows up
and sits in the room while we're talking, but communicates
and engages. And that's what we're asking from the developer
as well. City Hall and the developer, in my opinion,
have engaged in this in a very similar manner. They
want to do what they want to do.

Speaker 6 (02:16:48):
They have not.

Speaker 2 (02:16:49):
Engaged in real dialogue. We certainly sat down with many
different council members at different times, some of them took
the time to come out to the square, et cetera,
but we were not heard. The way to do this
was to stop it and say, no, we have We're
not giving the PD. We're not giving planned development just

(02:17:09):
because somebody asks for it, and we really want to
see that change. And again, city Council has the opportunity.
We don't have to wait until November to move forward
with this development. We are good for smart development and
the zoning is fine. The local zoning could work. We
have had other developers say I could make money within

(02:17:30):
the local zoning. Sure they could make more money. Why
don't we just let them build one hundred stories and
see how much money they could make off of that.
So our goal right now, I would encourage City Council
to hear us do the repeal, do the right thing.
That would help the developer to get started on the process.
It would help the citizens to both feel heard and
know that the current zoning is being respected and that

(02:17:52):
there'll be some engagement from day one. We've only asked
for one thing, that zoning be respected and we engage
with the developer in the process. That's all we've asked for.
And eighteen four hundred plus people said yeah, we should
even vote on that rather than this just going through.

Speaker 1 (02:18:11):
Amen to that.

Speaker 3 (02:18:12):
Well, I think illustrative of the attitude of council when
I asked, I believe about repealing it, because the various
council members were asked about that, Why just throw in
the towel and just repeal the variance of the zoning.
Council member Mika Owens quoted as saying the following, we
are leaving all options open. There's where the sailing part
comes in. During tough decisions, I have centered myself in

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my values. The high park development required me to critically
to do it critically centering values around accessible housing for all,
support for small businesses, and more spaces for the people
of our city to gather in community. Whatever the hell
that's supposed to mean. This referendum is not about the height.
This referendum is on development as a whole. I will

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always to stand behind projects that share my value use
for collective and collaborative growth for the people of the
city of Cincinnati. I mean, it's all about what she wants.
Apparently I hear those two minds in there. That last
line about collective and collaborative. There was nothing collective or
collaborative about this process with either the developer or city council.

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The other piece that's in there, there's nothing in here
about housing that actually is going to work for the community,
that what we actually.

Speaker 1 (02:19:26):
Need in this city.

Speaker 2 (02:19:28):
This is a money making, profit driven piece for the developer,
and that is fine. I want developers to make a good,
solid profit. That makes great sense, but it shouldn't be
cloaked in oh, we're getting city housing. No, you're getting
a hotel, and you're getting stuff that's going to be
beyond the price range of the vast majority of citizens

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of this city. That's not answering the issue of the moment.

Speaker 1 (02:19:55):
It isn't well.

Speaker 3 (02:19:56):
Her values for collective and collaborative growth apparently don't mean
elaborate collaborating with the citizen ry.

Speaker 1 (02:20:02):
Johnsons or Is you.

Speaker 2 (02:20:03):
Pointed out those were two bad choices of words and
the other pieces. Have you ever been to Hyde Park Square,
for say, the Farmer's Market on Sunday or even just
a regular summer weeknight. There are people in the square
all the time. It is one of the most livable
community places in this city, and it's a real treasure.

(02:20:24):
And this would quite simply change that on the forever.
It would be a complete change in how people could
live there. We would actually lose what I think she's saying.
She's very much for of places where people can gather.

Speaker 1 (02:20:40):
Well, let's hope they do the right thing.

Speaker 3 (02:20:42):
Actually, I believe repealing the zoning variants and going back
to square one will probably help them in their re
election efforts in November. But let them sink or swim
on the weight of their own decision making.

Speaker 2 (02:20:54):
I'm not a political expert, but I can't imagine any
of their political directors are going, oh, yeah, this is
a great issue for us. For the seven people who
voted the way they did, I don't think they want
to be going looking for getting re elected with us
walking around behind them saying you voted the wrong way
on this, and all those people from all those neighborhoods
with them. I really hope they will help us, help

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the developer, and help themselves by doing the right thing
and repealing.

Speaker 3 (02:21:22):
Well, it's a good campaign for Corey Bowman. I don't
care how you feel one way or another about Corey Bowman,
but he has at least that issue to run on
the current circumstances John's inzer. I'm really impressed by you
and the team and the hard work that you put
into this, making a stand for the right thing and
standing up to a council who obviously is not listening.
This is a true showing of representative democracy and action

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and the people wanting the representatives to do what they
want and go in the direction they want. So great
illustration of what can be done when you put some
effort behind it. John, keep up the great work, and
let's hope they repeal it, but if not, we're off
with the polls in November.

Speaker 1 (02:22:00):
Thank you, Brian.

Speaker 2 (02:22:00):
It is a great team and we really appreciate your support.

Speaker 3 (02:22:03):
I'm happy to be here to let people know about
it and talk about it, because again you can tell
by my agitated voice that it really really irked me
to know when John, good luck. We'll talk again before November.
If they don't repeal it, I'm certain of that.

Speaker 1 (02:22:16):
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Speaker 1 (02:23:50):
Shame on those who voted for it. You know you
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Speaker 3 (02:23:56):
He wanted more cuts. Donald Trump having a go at
Senator Rand Paul. My friends in the Commonwealth, do you
agree with Donald Trump? He had a follow up to
his original to eat Senator ran Paul has very little
understanding of this bb of the BBB, especially the tremendous
growth that is coming. He loves voting no on everything.

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He thinks it's good politics, but it's not. The BBB
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on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas.
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Commonwealth really feel that way about Senator ran Paul, who
clearly does have practical or constructive ideas. He doesn't want
to increase the debt ceiling five trillion dollars, five trillion dollars,
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to forty thousand dollars. Republicans did that thanks to three states.
And here's the proof that Ran Paul knows what's in it.
Let me quote the Senator. I support the tax cuts.
I voted for them in twenty seventeen. I support making
the tax cuts permanent. I support and voted for basically

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allowing the tips the note tax on tips, and in fact,
it passed the Senate unanimously. I'm hoping they will do
that in the House and take it out of the
big beautiful bill and do it separately by unanimous consent.
If we do that, it actually makes the bill a
little easier in terms of the accounting numbers if that
part's taken out. I'm for the tax cuts, for making
the tax cuts permanent, he repeated. I'm for as many

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spending cuts as we can get Republicans to vote for.
But even if that's not perfect, I'd still vote for
the tax cuts and the spending cuts. The thing I
am adamantly opposed to is raising the debt ceiling by
five trillion dollars. Now here's what, in contrast to what
Donald Trump says, he has no practical or constructive ideas.

(02:26:06):
Let me pivot over to what Paul said. I've proposed
an alternative. Instead of five trillion, which is estimated to
be two years worth of debt, I've said, let's do
three months worth of debt, because I don't trust the
Republican leadership to an act spending cuts. He's got a

(02:26:28):
historic foundation upon which to make that statement too. I
might interject, we'd give them three months worth, which is
about five hundred billion, which is hard to believe that
five hundred billion is only three months of borrowing. Borrow
for three months, and then have the debate again. I
have the opposite opinion of what many others have. People say,

(02:26:49):
we don't want to vote on the debt ceiling. It's embarrassing.
Let's just do two years and then we only have
to vote once during the entire Trump administration. I'd vote
on it every day if I had the choice three months,
three or four or five months. It's more reasonable.

Speaker 1 (02:27:09):
And amen to that.

Speaker 3 (02:27:11):
How about delivering on the maybe more difficult things, cutting
non discretionary spending, which they're endeavoring to do with the
nine point four billion dollar DOGE cut proposal. According to
Speaker Mike Johnson yesterday in a statement today, we have
officially received the recisions request. I mean we've got we

(02:27:35):
got budget reconciliation, which only requires a majority in the Senate,
barely barely past the House. Because it didn't cut enough.
You got an uphill challenge in the Senate with Paul
among others. There are other senators who are not pleased
because well you got Senator Ron Johnson Wisconsin blasting the
bill for not cutting enough spending. Rick Scott of Florida

(02:27:57):
also calling for fiscal sanity in the bill. You can't
lose many or any really when it comes right down
to it to get fifty one. But anyway, that's under reconciliation.
But insofar as recision, we've officially received the recision request
from the White House to eliminate nine point four billion
in wasteful foreign aid spending at State and USAID and

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the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds MPR and PBS.

Speaker 1 (02:28:24):
The House will act quickly on this request.

Speaker 3 (02:28:26):
The recision package reflects many of Doge's findings, and as
one of the many legislative tools Republicans are using to
restore fiscal sanity. Congress will continue working closely with the
White House to codify these recommendations, and the House will
bring the package to the floor as quickly as possible. See,
I think this is leverage to get people who don't
really truly believe that the Republicans, like Senator Ram Paul,

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doesn't believe that the Republicans actually move forward in advance
bills that will cut spending.

Speaker 1 (02:28:54):
So magically.

Speaker 3 (02:28:56):
On the while the Senate is considering the big, beautiful
little bill, and you got guys like Senator Ran Paul
talking about five trillion dollars and sadly the only one
that sounds like he's voicing his concerns over digging us
out into a far bigger hole. They toss out this
recision bill to eliminate eight nine point four billion. Now

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that's a lot of money, but it's nowhere near the
amount of money that needs to be cut out of
a federal government. Why because we spend trillions of dollars
more than we take in every year, or rather they do,
and many of commented, the Republicans are going to own
the national debt once they've passed this five trillion dollar increase,
they're going to blow through that. You know, it's happening.
They haven't cut enough to pair back what they spend.

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Every year, year after year after year, the hole gets
deeper and the debt service on what we borrow gets bigger,
and it cut requires more money. North of a trillion
dollars in debt service one hundred and twenty two percent
of gross domestic product already. You haven't seen numbers like
this outside of wartime, and we're not in a war.

Speaker 1 (02:30:02):
Yet.

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