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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Five o five at fifty five krc DE talk station
had the Wednesday serious.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Some vacation and that's the way the news goes.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It is the way the news goes. Brian Thomas right here.
Glad to be in a little bit more awake than yesterday. Uh,
and appreciate your indulgent me yesterday kind of shaking off
that four day weekend. Today, I feel a little bit
more well talkative. Maybe love talking to you though, So
I'll encourage you to call if you got a comment,
you got something to say, maybebout the Epstein file is
moving forward, I don't know. Maybe the new Banks development

(00:54):
which city council and the county commissioners were talking about
the other day. A little bit of question of cost
on that one. Yeah, do you have the money? Oh,
it's something wonderful we all want. It's gonna be great.
It's gonna be awesome. Yeah, but can you pay for it?
It's gonna be the first foremost thing. Do you have
the money to pay for it? We'll get to that
a little bit coming up with a fifty filf KC
morning show. It is Ondesday. We get the big picture

(01:15):
with Jack. Other than the brilliance of Jack add than
every Wednesday at seven o five Today the topic social
mobility and a great movie always fun with Jack weaving
things together that otherwise wouldn't be woven together. That's what
the brilliance of Jack Adden always is. Donovan and Neil
Everyondesday at seven thirty Today, no different. Today we're going
to talk about Greg Landsman and House Bill five h three,

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which is a good thing because, according to Donovan and
everybody else, we're getting hit with double taxation while you're
paying municipal income tax where you work. Many cities are
cutting reciprocity credits, so you're also paying income tax where
you live. A double dip used to be able to reduce,
like if you're getting tax within the city, you can

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reduce your local taxes by the amount that you're already
being taxed for where you work. Apparently that's going by
the wayside and a lot of municipalities, so Houspital five
O three says basically boil down. If a city wants
to double tax you, they have to ask you first.
In other words, you get to vote on it, just
like any other tax increase. No surprises, no paycheck shock, look,

(02:22):
cast a vote, some Ofhowan's paying more than four percent
local income tax, which is higher than the state income
tax rate. City shouldn't be able to take a city
shouldn't be able to change your tax bill without your approval.
Every other major local tax decision requires a vote. This
five O three says, well, this is applies to this too,
so sounds logical. Reasonable addresses the clearest unfairness in the system,

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that would be double taxation, cord to the statement from Donovan.
More More, municipalities are reducing your eliminating the reciprocity credits,
meaning you the Ohio and are forced to pay taxes
both where you live and where you work. So, as
the bill sponsors point out, someone living in a no
credit community Marysville was cited as an example, working in
Columbus can end up paying a combined four percent, far

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higher than the income tax. So there's the point of
five oh three should be well, I guess since we're
in Ohio, this should be a no brainer. You would
think that given the I would argue, this is a
conservative leaning thing, lower taxation, ensuring that you are not

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double taxed. Now, Democrats love taxes, so I would assume
that this would be embraced by Republicans. Republicans dominate Columbus,
of course, the House, the Senate, the Governor's office. This
is going to sail right through, isn't it. Joe can't
wait for Donald O'Neill's comment about that. We'll see what happens. No, thanks, Dad,

(03:52):
love you. Man. Mission Congressman Thomas Massey the greatest hour
o power in radio as far as I'm concerned. Anyway,
Congressman Thomas Massey fall by Judge General Paultona. When the
eight o'clock are we're going to talk about the Epstein
files of the Congressman Massy. What's next? I guess you
know the revelations of what has been released so far,
And isn't it comical they move forward to this? I mean,

(04:16):
I said, a discharge petition that went through and sailed through.
This it's going to be signed in the law. The
Epstein files, and there are limitations on what the Department
of Justice has to release because there may be pedophilia
material in their child porn whatever, and the details are
we can talk about. But we get a little bit here,
we get a little bit there. We get the Justice

(04:37):
Department saying, man, we looked at it and there's no
evidence of criminal activity. We get told that the Epstein
black Book is going to be released. It's on my desk,
and we find out, well, there is no Epstein black book.
Thomas Massey wants the documents released. Actually Trump did too,
Remember he wanted them released when he was campaigning, and
then he said no, we don't want them released, and
Thomas Massey says, no, let's get them released. The Democrats

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all join together in spite after four four years of
the Biden administration and then having control of the situation,
they didn't release them because the big cause of the
Democrats that want to release the Epstein documents, Thomas Massey's
a trader, says Donald Trump. Well, guess what. Overwhelmingly only
one person voted not to release them the other day,
and of course the Senate moved forward with the unanimous consent.

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It's a foregone conclusion. But amid this going back and
forth and before the vote, you had twenty thousand additional
documents released by Republicans. Wait a minute, they've been sitting
on all this stuff all this time. We could have
had it. The Republicans could have released the information it
was apparently produced by the Epstein estate or something like that.

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I just find it all confusing. But the most confusing
element to me of late has been the additional twenty
thousand documents that magically popped up during the debate on this. Well,
couldn't we have had those a year ago or whatever? Jananigans?
So we get Congressman Massy talking about the Epste files,
Judge and an Apolitano on what the founders feared. Of course,

(06:04):
I think when this one's mostly the idea of unilateral warfare,
which bothers me. He also has a problem with disrupting
free speech, arresting Americans and those suspicious here of unlawful
presence in the United States, suggesting those warrantless arrests without

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probable cause are wrong. And now we have the collecting
of biometric data on people that they encounter as well.
So lots of problems to congressmen or rather a judgement
Polatan has taught. Napolitan has on a constitutional level with
things that the Trump administration is doing, but also a
nod to the fact that other administrations have done it
as well. The Constitution that pesky impediment to doing things

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expeditiously and fiveally Oh, this is going to be great
rescheduled previously. Je and Fleet, author of Maol's America, A
Survivor's Warning, She's going to join the program at the
end of the join the show at the end of
the program about eight forty five. Her book, she recounts
living through Mao's Cultural Revolution and getting the hell out

(07:14):
to move to America and now seeing this Marxist ideology
well being embraced by most notably young people here, but
even some more senior members that you think will be
saner than to embrace Marxist policy. She sees parallels between
the Marxist ideology being pushed by the progressive on the
left as well as the China compared to the China's

(07:35):
Cultural Revolution Marxist tactics of division. Oh, there's something I've
brought up multiple times. Indoctrination, deception, coercion, cancelation, subversion, violence,
the aim to destroy the foundation of the traditional culture
replacing with marxiscieteologies. Yes, that's in fact happening our K
through twelve education system, because they don't teach civics anymore

(07:58):
unless you live in a state high which mandates the
teaching of civics, which would involve the founding fathers, the
reason we declared independence from Britain, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera. Freedom and talking about freedom contextually and comparing
it to the awful lack of freedom that exists in
the Chinese Communist Party run China. Well, if our youth

(08:19):
only heads an eye full of what is what life
is like there versus what life is like here, that's
what she's talking about. Empower You Seminar Tonight Special one
seven pm. Log in, learn something empower you America dot org.
Should we join in the program and again at the

(08:39):
tail end, to talk about a little bit of insight
into the seminar going on tonight, Looking forward to that tomorrow,
Warren Davidson, and hopefully the prayers have worked. I think
Jay Rattlet's going to be back tomorrow, which would be great.
We have a funny aviation article real quick here. I

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can go ahead and get it in simply because I
remember talking to Jay about this one a little insight.
Maybe he'll bring it up as well. Remember the Alaskan
airline pilot who tried to cut the engines off on
a passenger jet midflight while writing off duty in the cockpit. Well,
a US judge ruled earlier this week on Monday, Well,
that person is not going to serve an additional prison

(09:22):
time in spite of the fact he could have killed
more than eighty people on the airplane. Joseph David Emerson,
forty six years old, sentenced by the judge, a US
District Judge Amy Boggio out in Portland to time served
and three years of supervisor release. Now. The prosecutors wanted
a one year prison turn. His attorneys, however, argued for probation.

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That was back in October of twenty twenty three. I
can't believe it's been that long. Horizon Air flight twenty
fifty nine, on its way from Everett, Washington to San Francisco, Emerson,
sitting in the cockpit jump seat, reached up, grabbed two
fires suppression handles and began pulling them down, which would
have cut fuel to the plane's engine. Thank you Online

(10:05):
duty pilot successfully restrained him. According to the court documents,
he told police he hadn't slept for forty eight hours,
took psychedelic mushrooms a couple of days prior to that,
and believed he was dreaming and trying to wake himself up.
Also said he was grieving a friend's death and experiencing
a mental health crisis. Okay, he did plead guilty to
interfering with the flight crew and no contest to a

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state charge of endangering an aircraft and eighty three counts
of reckless endangerment. In other words, the eighty three people
that were on the airline. His lawyer and head of
the sentencing mister Emerson's forty six days in jail was impactful, cathartic,
and punishing. He will never be able to expunge this conviction.

(10:51):
I honestly, I don't think that's quite enough understand a
psychological breakdown, but I mean that plane could have fallen
out of the air easily with the engines being cut off. Anyway,
Maybe Ja'll be back tomorrow and pray for him. Please.
Bell's palsy diagnosis several weeks ago. He has not been
able to speak very well, but he has been working

(11:13):
on it. Therapy apparently has worked well enough to at
least give him optimism. That will be on the Morning
show tomorrow at eight thirty, and I hope he can
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hundred eighty two to three Talk bound five fifty on
AT and T phone. Yeah, what about this new banks
development plan? Where's the money gonna come from? Some people
don't really seem to care. Stick around, We'll dive into that,

(11:33):
maybe some other things. Uh, or you can decide which
direction we're gonna go. Be right back regardless. Fifty five KRC.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Hey, it's carried.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Five twenty on Wednesday five one three, seven nine to
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American veterans job fair and virtual job fair that's coming
up in Empower you Bright Barton News director of Brandon Darby,

(12:04):
hope you enjoyed the empower you seminar from him last
night if you were able to make it. Yeah, let
us see here. Yeah, down to the Banks local story,
little advance of the bottom of the UR news. Tom,
if you're out there, feel free to call when you do.
Five one three seven fifty five hundred two three talk
the concept for the future Banks presented to the Hamilton
County Border of Commissioners as well as Cincinni City Council yesterday.

(12:26):
There's this bank's public partnership guid named Phil Beck from
that one the design firm Perkins Will Andrew Broadrick was
the person designated from that firm, and then Mary or
Mark Kobzak Kubzik close enough, it doesn't mean anything to
you HR and A advisors anyway. These are the three
that presented the concept for this Are you ready for it?

(12:48):
Eight hundred million dollars what they described as an investment
to the bank's district, creating Thank you Joe, creating residential space,
retail space, parking, office space, and a hotel all in
the five remaining empty parcels in the general area HMM.

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Designed to, in their words, reinvigorate the banks. Grips of
the proposal aims to highlight the riverfront as a mixed
used entertainment district catering to residents and tourists. Are you
ready a one hundred to one hundred and fifty room hotel?
Hey Joe, aren't they building a brand new hotel there
at the convention center site? Yeah? They are, aren't they?

(13:31):
How far away would this new hotel be from the
currently being built monstrosity there at the commitment like pretty
darn close. I think that's a fairly accurate assessment of
the distance there, Joe. And also, yeah, it'll be affordable.
What do you think it's going to include up to
I'm reading Matt Schaefer's reporting from Fox nineteen. Apparently was

(13:53):
there twelve thousand multi family units? You're questioning the affordability
of that, Joe. Hamic Candon Board of Commissioners raised some
concerns during the presentation the Urban Design Review Committee. We
have one of those brought up budgetary constraints. The project

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has a fifteen year timeline. Denis Streethouse, commission President. The
reason it's striking is because it's so different to what's
been developed, what has been developed at this point. I
guess they threw them a curveball changing the development and
how it looks. Point of contention among the commission includes
the cost to the taxpayers, at least they're thinking about

(14:38):
you also taking into consideration, logically, the county's budget as
well as those folks that were paying taxes for this.
Remember this is the county budget we're talking about, being
asked to pay the fund and shoulder part of the
burden of this. So my friends in Anderson Township, let's
just pick a township that came up. You were then

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Hamilton County. You're going to be paying for this. So
how does the people outside of the city benefit from this?
Some are also questioning the height of the brand new
two twenty fourth story buildings that are being proposed right there.
Commissioner Alishers quote, I represent two hundred and eighteen thousand people,
not all living in downtown. So here's Anderson Township. So

(15:22):
Anderton Township wants to know how will this help them
because their money goes into it. Corean Township wants to
know how this will help them because their money's going
into it. Thank you, Aliserice props. She said. The county's
budget has already been stretched thin, especially following preprepared to laugh,

(15:45):
somebody wrote loll after this one. Oh that's right, that
was me. County budget being stretched in, especially after the
lengthy contract negotiations with the Cincinnati Bengals, Noting the county
recently entered into the new eleven year lease agreement with
the Bengals that it's expected to end the same year
as the county's lease agreement with the Reds, which will

(16:07):
require new negotiations, and you know that's going to require
new financial obligations. So she's at least being forward thinking
recognizing that no. Eleven years isn't that far down the
road if we're going to embrace something that's going to
cost you the taxpayer eight hundred million dollars. This says
each each commissioner express concerns about funding. Despite the concerns,

(16:31):
this is what an East tree House had to say
it by way of statement, The Urban Design Review Committee
has given us a strong foundation to finally complete the banks.
I'm especially excited to see the recommendations that emphasize residential
mixed use space in a vibrant community where our small
businesses can truly thrive. This is our front door to
the city at at Hamilton County and finishing these final lots,
it's essential to making it as welcoming and dynamic as

(16:54):
it deserves to be. Well lofty goals, and who can
argue with her? This is the front door and it's
going to be awesome and great. Do we have any
money to buy it and pay for it? Seemed to
be a pressing issue for him when they're talking about it,
but oh, it looks so pretty. Council members that their
presentation emphasized the importance of housing, parking vice Jeremika Owens

(17:25):
quote for me, the bigger, the better. For sixty years,
our city was dying and losing population. That was Evan
Nolan's statement. When you look at our urban core and
what we've done in the past fifteen to twenty years,
it's a great transformation and stabilization. I think now it's
time to shift to a growth mindset. You think that

(17:48):
means get rid of more poor people, Joe, Is that
what you said? You mean kind of like they did
when they gentrified over the wrong Yeah, you God, I'm
getting a nod from you on that. So that worked,
I suppose in luring urban hipsters. And while they're still
working on North of Liberty, they have another urban hipster
destination there on the Ohio River with his brand new development.

(18:10):
How much do you think the apartments are going to cost?
Fifteen hundred dollars that's the price of the ones that
they're putting there at Central Parkway and Walnut. You're lucky
if you can get one for fifteen hundred dollars. That's
a brand new development for housing as well. Hmmm, affordable housing.

(18:31):
Affordable housing five twenty seven right now fifty five k
see the talk station five on three seven five one
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three Talk got a couple of callers online, Tom hold on,
Jay was first, Jay, Welcome to the morning show, Happy Wednesday,
Taking one.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
And Brian two quick points. Hey, I know where all
of the money for Cincinnati went. I think if you
watch the Bengals game, I think it's number seven. Last
name Burrows. Two hundred and seventy five million dollars contract
a number nine, and so here's how foot here's I
was the number nine. You can tell how much football
I can.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
So that's okay, you know how much football I w was?
Joe's wont to pass along the info of me. I'm
capable of watching a game without memorizing players' names or
giving a crap about him.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
Well, whatever you pay for a stadium for a private
business called the Bengals, that means that frees up payroll,
and that means they can put a two hundred and
seventy five million dollars record breaking NFL contract and that's
where the money goes. And so I think he's on
the bench with an injured toe. So that's point number one,
back to football tax. Point number two, Yeah, point number two.

(19:40):
I want to thank an in point out to the
listeners out when we say don't vote Rhinos, which I
think was your contribution to Tom's don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
Well done.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
Mike de Wine has done more damage to the state
of Ohio than any Democrat ever could. He's the reason
we had eighteen years of shared Brown after the line
la his Senate seat Tom and then for some unknown
reason other than he's a Rhino, he brought in doctor
Amy Acton, who was a known Obama like community organizer,

(20:10):
worked on behalf of the Obama administration. The Wine brought
her in to his administration, launched her political career, and
now eleven days ago. I don't know that I believe
the polls, but it's saying that she's edging out of
the Viake Ramaswami for the governor's race right now in Ohio.
I think it's a long shot, but the fact that

(20:31):
it's even close, we have Mike DeWine to.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Think so, well, then you know, Mike Dwine and v
Vike Ramaswami are two completely different people, and we are
a mile I know it. It's fast approaching, but nonetheless
we're miles away from next November. And so any poll
that's being taken right now which suggests Amy Acton is
even a viable candidate, I think I'm going to throw
a little bit of a red flag on that.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
Oh I don't disagree. But at the same time, she
had no political career. There hadn't been Mike de Wine.
For what reason would he bring her in and in
a Republican administration, in a in a in a red
state and and put her in charge of COVID other
than he's a Democrat in Republican clothing. Absolutely, So, in conclusion,

(21:18):
because Tom's up next, don't vote Democrat, don't vote Rhino.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Off to Tom. Have a good day, Thunder, Tom, Welcome
to the Morning Show.

Speaker 6 (21:29):
You can really, you.

Speaker 7 (21:31):
Really can't steal that thunder that. It's like, it needs
to be said often as many times as possible as
many callers in a row need to say that, so
that gets through people's heads that all we are doing
is causing ourselves more and more problems. By continuing to
elect and re elect these uh, these rhinos and these Democrats.

(21:54):
So the banks thing that you're talking about is just
another example of them taking your money. You made a
statement some people don't care where the money comes from. Well,
I got news for everybody in case you don't know this.
If you're dealing with the government, the money comes from you.

(22:15):
It's coming from your taxes, whatever taxes they come up with,
so that the county operates a lot on sales taxes.
If I'm not mistaken, correct, yeah, yeah, yeah, So got
sales tax, you got property tax, you got gas tax,
you got cigarette tax, you got taxes on all kinds
of things. This is how they get your money. And

(22:36):
then they take your money and then they decide to
spend it how they feel like spending it. Now, I'm
my first question is are is the county going to
own this hotel? Is the county going to make the
profits off of this hotel? I mean, we shouldn't even
be in the business of building a hotel to begin with,
But if the county owns it, you know, I think

(22:58):
counties own parking lot Maybe I don't know, I think
the city does. I mean, if the county is going
to invest the county's money into something. Shouldn't the county
be making the profits? I mean, unlike what they're doing
with the Bengals and the Reds. They're letting the Bengals
and the Reds make the profits. I don't know what
they're getting out of out of the Bengals and Reds

(23:20):
deals except we got people coming downtown and we could
charge the sales tax. That's not nearly enough. It doesn't
make any sense logically, and it certainly doesn't make any
sense economically to keep throwing our money at billion dollar
companies and these massively wealthy sports teams. Even though we

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are considered a quote unquote small market. They're still making
millions and millions of dollars every year. And yet we
feel like, oh, we have to fund we have to
help them out. Are you kidding me? You don't have
to help them out. You have to help your citizens out.
The people that walk the streets and drive on this
you know, walk this star walks and drive on the streets.

(24:01):
These are the people that you need to help. And
this is a fast actwords way of thinking that these
that these democrats and and and really any politicians get
in there. Here's this big pile of money we have
access to. Who can we make happy? We Who can
we get to come here and have.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
Their business here?

Speaker 7 (24:20):
It's insanity, So we gotta I don't know, we got
to do something about this. The only thing I can
think of but keep thinking of. Don't vote Rhino and
don't vote Democrats. Thanks Jay, and every caller needs to
follow up with that.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Have a great day, Brian, take care of Tom Tom's
lasting legacy. De talk station. A real quick as to
that eight hundred million dollar proposal for the banks, Brud,
Does that mean we're not going to get a new
streetcar leg Joe, and we've got to pick between one
of the others since we don't have enough money for
either project. Means we'll probably get both of them anyway.
Where the stack is stupid Off of that, idiots doing

(24:56):
idiot things because they're idiots. I'm not quite sure if
this will happen on a leg to the street car
if they build one, maybe it'll happen on Leg one.
But police say they apprehended a person of interest yesterday
after a man allegedly doused a woman with apparently flammable
liquid and set her on fire on a Chicago transit train.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Why are you doing that?

Speaker 1 (25:15):
I don't think we'll ever find out. Twenty six year
old woman riding the train near Clark in Lake about
nine thirty pm ended up verbal dispute with a guy,
apparently forty five year old man described as anyway. Dispute
escalated when the man doused her with liquid and lit
her on fire. The attacker fled. When the train stopped
at Clark Street, a burning woman stumbled out of the

(25:37):
car and fell to the ground. Chicago Fire Department paramedics
took her to an area hospital. She had severe burns
all over her body. When rittan As said, I just
saw a lady that was lying on the ground and
they were trying to give her CPR, and she looked
like she was in an awful lot of pain. She
was taking away in an ambulance. Suspect described as wearing
an ankle monitor for an aggravated battery case in which

(25:59):
a judge refused to keep him in jail. Hair they
are those ankle monitors. We found about how effective those are,
didn't we? With Sarah Herringer, Now, who can argue with that?
Arson detectives were looking into the matter, but they did
arrest a person of interest. The fire, happily was already
extinguished when the cops showed up to the scene. Did

(26:22):
you ever contemplate that when youre getting on public transportation?
I mean I reade public transportation every single day when
I lived in Chicago eight years worth. Now it basically
was the big metro trains, but I did ride the
L a lot. Used to live in Logan Square, which
is the L wine that goes from downtown to the
Loop area out to O'Hare Airport. And you know what,

(26:43):
I was, in fact Acosta on the L. It was crazy,
but it was already after we had decided we were
moving back. This woman, who was a baggage handler for
United Airlines, was a little bit of a B word,
if I might be so bold as to say so,
following a bit of a dispute over as she got
off the train I was moving on to go to
my destination, didn't get off the train. She clobbered me

(27:06):
on top of the head with her purse before she
got off the train. Sort of. I sat there and
I didn't disbelief, but I thought to myself, Paulette and
I have made the right decision and pulling the plug
on living in Chicago. I'm station. It's five fifty to
fifty five K City Talk station. Happy Wednesday. I returned

(27:28):
to the stack of stupid. We'll took a bump call
and get one, but you need to go to Indiana
for the stack of stupid. Evansville specifically. Man. They're arrested
after claiming he was having what he called a spiritual
awakening after misusing the nine to one to one service.
Luther Hanaway placed under arrest rest after law enforcement responded

(27:50):
to the South Green River Road in Evansville for a
medical emergency. Dispatcher said told police Hanaway had called and
requested an ambulance because he had possibly ingested too much caffeine. Please,
I know, Please guide to the scene. Officers noticed EMS
had responded to Thornton Gas station. Accord to the report,

(28:11):
EMS employee told police, Hannaway called nine to one one
for assistance just before she had walked by him. When
he was standing near the door place, said Hanaway asked
if her if she could assist him with the Galactic
Federation as she walked by him. He was eventually taken

(28:34):
into custody with police later determining that he had contacted
emergency services eleven times since November two. Report for the
states that he was charged with unlawful use of nine
to one one services and taken to the Vanderbilt County Jail. M. Drudge, Yeah,
I'm thinking something more than caffeine was involved in that one.

(28:57):
Back in Evansville, Indiana. Man in Indiana he cused of
trying to flee the scene of a crash while a
person was on the hood of the car. Thirty eight
year old Patrick Ryan reported had been swerving in and
out of traffic while hitting curbs before rear ending another
vehicle Joseph. This was said both the other driver and

(29:23):
Ryan got out of the vehicles to look at the damage.
The other driver says Ryan got back into his car
showing signs of impairment, and this is one of those
opportunities where I wish the listening audience was able to
see this guy's mugshot in effort to keep him from
driving away. The other driver told police that he stepped
in front of Ryan's vehicle and was bumped but not injured.

(29:45):
They say Ryan then tried to flee the scene, but
the other driver got back in front of his vehicle
and then tried to jump on the hood of Ryan's
vehicle to avoid being hit again. Well, it's what happens
when you stand in front of carry said Ryan's out
the vehicle a short distance away. The other driver was
able to safely get off the hood. Multiple witnesses of
the crash and officers all smelling alcohol on Ryan's breath

(30:10):
as this tradition. Arrested for criminal recklessness with a deadly
weapon the car battery, driving while intoxic kid and leaving
the scene of a crash medically cleared before being booked
without bond, obviously not in front of Judge Silverstein in
Hamilton County. Oh great, I know you've been waiting for

(30:33):
this development. I can't believe I'm reading this. Breast milk
produced by men who transitioned to women apparently as good
for babies as milk from genetic females. This, according to
British health officials University of Sussex Hospitals NHS TRUST contend

(30:57):
milk produced by transgender women after taking a combination of
drugs and hormones quote comparable to that produced by a
mother following the birth of a baby. I had no idea,
what's fauna, dude? Many Apparently a formal complaint has been
filed against the Progressive Hospital Group for reaching this conclusion.

(31:21):
This report was leaked. Staff further clarified that the term
human milk is meant to be neutral and is not
gender biased. Hospital claims it's the first to use gender
inclusive term. Chest feeding said transgender women can develop lactation
partly by taking the hormone progested, which helps biological men

(31:44):
produce milk with their typically dormant milk producing glands. No
thank you, dad, they say. Drugs such as dome paradon,
which is often given a biological woman struggling to breastfeed,
then helps stimulate the production of prolac, then a separate
hormone that tells the body to produce milk. This drug

(32:06):
not intended for this use, according to the reporting practice, though,
they claim the hospital system that released this stupid report
claims it's safe, even though the medication could be transferred
to the baby through breastfeeding and has the potential to
affect the baby's heart. I'm sorry. All the while I'm
reading this, I'm thinking of some goofy, crazy, immoral, unethical

(32:29):
experiment by Joseph Mengela.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
God bless America.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
UK in this particular case. That's all I'm reading out
of that five fifty six talks station. It's a Wednesday
and a very happy one to you when I are
from now The Big Picture with Jack Avident. I always
enjoy hearing from Jack Aveidan. Brilliant. He is today Social
mobility and a great movie. That's the subject of the
topic of his conversation should be fun and I love
how he links seemingly unlinkable items when he has his

(32:58):
conversations with us Donald and Neil for Americans for Prosperity,
House Bill five o three, which will prevent you from
being double taxed. Apparently a lot of municipalities out there
are not allowing you to discount what you pay when
you go to work and a separate entity like downtown Cincinnati,
only to go home and then have to pay the
income tax where you live as well. You should be
able to offset that, and that's what Donald ban'nill is

(33:20):
advocating for, and House Bill five oh three would prevent
them from doing that unless you vote to allow it.
Is there anybody out there who would vote to allow
them to double income tax? You, I would like to
think not. Congressman Thomas Massey, fast forward to eight o
five at least will be talking about the Epstein files.
It's been voted to move forward, sending unanimous consent, went through,
the bill, will move forward. It will land on Donald

(33:42):
Trump's desk, and they will release the documents, probably redacted
and some withheld by the Department of Justice, who will
be claiming that there's ongoing investigations. Will just keep our
popcorn out on that one. Add that to the list.
So Congressman Massy eight o five, Judge Innapolitana, what the
Founder's fear? That's his column subject matter comes out tonight.

(34:02):
I get it early. Thank you. G Van Fleet lived
through Mao's Revolution, got the hell out of China afterwards,
and sees it happening here in the United States. Lots
of parallels to be drawn with what we're going through
right now and the malised cultural revolution. So she wrote

(34:22):
a book Maos America Surviving a Survivor's Warning. Special empower
U a seminar tonight, seven o'clock. Empower You America dot org.
Register for it. It's loggin only so you consider it
home and watch this what exactly are the most commonly
used Marxist tactics. She's going to be talking about that,
and of course her time under the Cultural Revolution probably

(34:44):
an explanation for why she got out, and a giant
red flag of warning to the American people that it's
fast approaching. So should be a fantastic little introduction to
the empower Use seminar taking place tonight five one, three, seven,
nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight to two
three pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Obviously
a couple more comments about this crazy Banks project, but

(35:06):
I got a couple of callers online, so let's start
with New Hampshire.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
Gary.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Oh, it's cribbage, Mike, New Hampshire, Wait, cribbage Mike was
first welcome back my submarine to friend Mike.

Speaker 8 (35:15):
Good morning, Brian, and uh kind of ironic that so
much discussion this morning has been about the Banks. Because
I'd like to throw some kudos out to the Bengals
and to Hamilton County for stepping up to the plate
and so that Saint ex and Elder can play this
game Friday down there, and if nothing else from a
PR move, it's not like the Bengals couldn't use a

(35:35):
good shot in the arm to help out the community.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Well, you know, I mean, isn't it. I agree with
you all day long. They obviously have a sort of
They do have a monopoly control over who can use
the stadium, right, we paid for the damn thing, but
they control exclusively apparently anybody who uses it. This is
an outstanding use of the stadium which rarely gets used
except for the occasional football game they play in it.

(35:58):
How about letting letting elder play in it for a change.
Wouldn't that be cool if you were an elder high
school football player. I mean, to be able to play,
to play in a professional stadium. It's not going to
tear it up and ruin it for everybody else. That's
an exciting thing.

Speaker 8 (36:13):
Yes, the forecast is looking too good as weird. Joe
and I were just discussion. But hopefully the field turfle hope.
But yeah, but what a throw for the kids. And
I'm happy for both programs. You know, and as I
travel to the country during my naval career, and it's
no headline here that you know, high school sports and
especially high school football is so unique too and special

(36:34):
to this area. You know that, and then there will
always be a regional championship and once again to at
least raise it to the level of where that stadium
is used fifteen times maybe a year between the jazz
festival and a couple of big concerts. You got, you
got eight home games. You know what, It would a
treat once again for their parents that help pay to

(36:54):
build this stadium every every year, this regional final. I
don't care what schools are down there, and as you
just said, a thrill for these kids to play in
an NFL stadium.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Oh yeah, I mean hell, when I was a little kid,
I was fortunate enough because of who my dad was,
to get to walk down on you know, the field.
Obviously it was Riverfront Stadium back then. But well that's
really wild because you're you're walking around in a place
where very few people can just sort of walk around.
You're looking around. Wow, it's cool, it's cool. But you're
playing a game there. Yeah, the Bengal should do that
more often. So yeah, I'm all about it, you know,

(37:25):
letting us get a greater use over something we all
went in the hole to to to build and pay for.
Appreciate that observation and call cribbage.

Speaker 9 (37:33):
Mike.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
God bless you, sir. Let's take it there. Have a
great day, New Hampshire, Gary, Thanks for holding. Welcome to
the Morning Show.

Speaker 5 (37:40):
Hey Brian, how you doing. I'm going to switch gears
on you. I'm sorry about that. I think you'll I
think you'll find this interesting And I really like get
Maureen's take on this because it's really wild. I was
watching Matt Walsh the tich that makes people. Uh, there's
apparently a tick that's in in affect it with an

(38:00):
enzyme and it's making people allergic to meet and apparently
four hundred thousand people are already allergic to it, and
they've actually got a report of one person dying. But
if you really get in there, you'll find out. There's
a Matthew Low. He's a bioethicis who works at New

(38:23):
York State University, Oxford, Hopskins, Georgetown Princeton, and he's also
given lectures at the World Economic Forum, and he's all
over the internet as telling people that we should really
allow this enzyme to proliferate and to save the planet

(38:47):
from global.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Warming because of cal flatulence.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
Well, correct, that is correct. And they've also got a
professor from Michigan, an who also backs it up, saying
that not only should we should keep this on the
down low. And he's a he's a medical ethesis and
writing papers like this, and it's like, you know, the

(39:15):
more you think about doctor Fauci and doctor Mangola, there's
a bunch of these people out there and they're not
thinking of you but their own little agenda, and they're
really evil. They're really evil. And I tell you, until
the point I trust nobody, you know, it's.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
A good that's a good default position. I remain jaded,
in cynical about everything until he convinced me that, well, uh,
there's either you know, scientific proof behind it that you
know we're not being lied to. But you know, you
think we had an epidemius epidemiologist on the program last
year talking about this, and you know, I always wonder,
wait a second, it's a you get this virus disease

(39:56):
from a tick and it makes you allergic to meet
no on the heels of COVID nineteen, recognizing that was
released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, And you do
have a world filled with the crazy type of people
that you're talking about. New Hampshire garry, those that think
that you and I are cockroaches that are destroying the planet.
We shouldn't be here in the first place. The depopulation crowd.
There's a lot of them out there who think this

(40:17):
is an outstanding idea, which would be why this person
or these people wouldn't want anybody to be speaking about it.
Let it fester, let it go out there. The fewer
people will eat meat. And in the name of what
global warming or something.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
Oh, it's totally wicked. And it also because you got
to remember, these are the people who are teaching your
children when you're at work, you know, oh, I know
the poor kids.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Yeah, I mean this is I mean I always reading
this articles and talking about this the whole time. Mean
a matter of fact, The guest on at the end
of the show's y Van Fleet, talking about propaganda. You
get waves of this from the Chinese Communist Party. I
mean this is like supported by governments that oppose us.
It's ported by global activists who think the world's population

(41:04):
needs to be reduced. I mean there's a multitude of
well moneyed or you know, big money supported or government
supported entities out there that provide and feed the narrative
about this, and it can't. I don't know how you
counter something like that. You can talk about it, you
can point out the absurdity of it, you can point
out maybe the nefarious element about it. We've had other

(41:24):
illustrations of bad things happening at the best of crazy
people who want this kind of problem to befall us
for whatever cause they're fighting for. We know about it,
we can talk about it. But can you counter the
overwhelming narrative, including the adoption of these ideas and thoughts
within our K through twelve education system, thereby legitimizing them

(41:47):
beyond the means and the social media influence that perpetuates
them all the time. You're kind of getting it from
all sides. You can't escape. It requires effort, requires discussion,
requires logic and reason in the face of this overwhelming
narrative that has been embraced for a lot of nefarious reasons,

(42:07):
scary stuff.

Speaker 10 (42:08):
Man.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
I acknowledge that, uh, the alpha gal syndrome, Thank you, Eric.
I believe that is in fact the meat allergy that's
brought about by the tick. Great was that it was
that created in a lab. I was just asking for
a friend five seven, eight hundred and eighty two to
three talk pound Fi fifty on AT and T phones.

(42:30):
Maybe PTA has labs like the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
That sounds like a total Peda inspired kind of thing.
Done it, Kay, what a crazy world we live in?
Color in electric for all your residential electric me station

(42:53):
six twenty a thirty about Kroc detalk station. Happy Wednesday.
Let's see listener lunch. First Wednesday of December, last one
of the year. Kind of call that the holiday slash
Christmas and for Eric the Flying Spaghetti Monster, honoring celebration
as we head on into the holiday season. First ones.

(43:13):
They we're gonna be at Price sal Chili and we'll
get to West Side. Jim you out there, are we
gonna be able to see the new speed bump. They're
at the intersection in front of Frysal Chili that they
got it installed already. I know we talked about that yesterday.
Oh they're there, are joking firm. They are there so
you'll be able to see the new speed bump if
you're a resident of the city, since nay, you're taxpayer
dollars at work seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight

(43:36):
hundred and eighty two to three talk go with Town
five fifty on AT and T phones. I'm just still
puzzling over this proposed Banks development ten to fifteen year project.
It's a long term investment and some of the comments
are actually kind of surprising. I find myself siding with
members of the commissioner members who I normally don't agree with.
At least they're keeping the idea of taxes and whether

(43:58):
or not we have the money to pay for this
damn thing in mind. Interesting comments as they presented this proposal,
that developers presented it to the commissioners and then separately
the since City Council Alisia Reese commissioner rees talking about
the high rise building component of this What makes it
special is you can see the river, you can see

(44:20):
the water. So why would we have these high rises
where only this super rich can see the water referring
to the twenty four story high rises that only rich
people who can afford to buy condos in there will
be enjoying nice class warfare common Alicia contrast that was

(44:40):
since a council of Ramka owens. I'm beyond excited where
we are. We should go big or go home. It's
truly transformative. She wants something even larger than this eight
hundred or so million dollar project. Seth Walls said he
wondered whether the two high rise buildings were tall enough
at twenty four stories, as well as the other two

(45:03):
mid rise buildings at eleven stories. Now maybe he does
think a tyde park. Joe, you have much no idea
how much of a delight it is they have, Jest
Trecker and his editorial comments streaming in my head all morning.
It's awesome. So this is our vised plan. They previously

(45:30):
unveiled a plan back in June, and this one shows
edition of several different plaza spaces including are you are
you ready? You remember this is your tax pay dollars
at work, including a tailgate plaza near the river and
a new fan plaza near pay Corse Stadium Maybe at
the Engel's fingers were involved in the development of this project.

(45:51):
Also plazas multiple plazas, one outside of the National Underground
Railroad Freedom Center and near the Black Music Walk of Fame.
A plaza outside of the Freedom Center, also the potential
for a festival street on Freedomway that they would close
for large scale events, and one of the comments that
was raised. It was either the commissioners since SAT Council,

(46:14):
would this actually these proposed condos and residential spaces actually
be a draw? Do you want to live in an
area where massive crowds of people show up for festivals?
The Brady Center event? Not necessarily massive with Brady's Center,
but yes, another opportunity for crowds to be milling around.

(46:34):
You of course have games at Great American Ballpark, pay
Corpse Stadium regularly. You have events down on the wall itself.
So you are literally going to be surrounded by humanity
if you dwell in one of these residential things that
they're proposing. I'm not sure that I necessarily want to
do that. And notably, when does crime pop up? Right

(46:56):
when large gatherings of people happen where there's no police
presence and people from different neighborhoods or different walks of
life or whatever can't play nicely together, and you ended
with brutal beatdowns. Ask Holly about that one. No, that
wouldn't happen downtown, Joe. It'll happen four blocks up, but

(47:18):
not here at the Manx. And the reporting is a
little bit confusing because I saw and the reporting from
I believe it was Fox nineteen talking about twelve thousand
residential units. The Channel nine reporting a bit more lengthy,
developers said they aim to create over one thousand new

(47:39):
luxury and market rate condominiums and apartments in the high rises.
Now that may be separate from residential proposals in the area,
but I love the red luxury and market rate condos. Now,
assuming these are a draw, that the river and the
view is a draw, that living in this newly created
environment is going to be a draw for people to
live there. Now, you've already acknowledged that a thousand of these,

(48:04):
or at least a partial thousand of the units are
going to be luxury. But what is market rate? Given
that AFT have Pearl voll On City Council keep paying
lip service to the idea of affordable housing, does anybody
think market rate is going to be within the realm
of affordability? There you go, Joe Strecker, you hit the
nail on the head six twenty six, right now, fifty

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and then there's others which are can I say, remotely
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I Hurt Media available at fifty five casey dot com.
Thanks again, folks, use it. Good morning to my wife
who's using it. Man accused of driving through a crash
scene on a closed highway, nearly hitting a Green Township
police officer and tow truck driver last week westbound I
seventy four. Jonathan Barron fifty five of Fairfield was arrested

(49:56):
earlier this week, held overnight without bond and having kind
of justice center doing it in court yesterday and four
counts are fair to comply with police one kind of
driving on a closed highway, misconduct at an emergency, reckless
operation of a motor vehicle, and possession of drug paraphernalia
licensed under suspension. Also, Baron drove in the highway while

(50:19):
it was closed for a crash investigation on Wednesday, November twelfth.
According to the affidavit, they say when he then drove
up to the police roadblock, was told to stop, failed
to comply with officers commands, drove through the crash scene,
almost striking officers and a tow truck driver. After driving
through the roadblock that was the same night mark our

(50:41):
Green Township police, a cruiser was struck on the highway
and they say Officer Brandon Rue twenty four blocking the
right lane of the highway with his cruiser. Emergency lights
were activated because of the crash. Seventy eight year old
man behind the wheel of a westbound twenty twenty six
Corolla failed to move over for the police cruiser, causing
a crash. What's going on out there. OFFICERU Trent taking

(51:02):
to Mercy West Hospital, treated and released minor injuries thankfully.
Ronald Jackson, the driver treated to the scene by the
fire Ems folks from Green Township. He refused transportation to
a medical facility described also as minor injuries. Alcohol and
drugs and speed do not appear to be a factory
in that crash. Peris is the biggest douche of the universe,

(51:26):
in all the galaxies. There's no bigger douche than you.
You've reached the top, the pinnacle of douche dom.

Speaker 11 (51:36):
Good going, dude, I know, yeah, your dreams have come true.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
I was thinking to myself, no drugs, no alcohol, kind
of a senior man drive. But he didn't. He ignored
police orders and warnings. He ignored everything that was going
on around him, so that netted in the award. Joe
thought it would have been better if he was under
drugs and alcohol, impacted by drugs and alcohol, because at
least he would have had an excuse for being such
a well award winner. This Let's see what Brian's got. Brian,

(52:02):
thanks for calling the Morning Show. Welcome my friend. Happy Wednesday, Yeah,
happy hump Day.

Speaker 12 (52:07):
Brian. Yeah, that guy didn't deserve a doucebag, a worried
needed the you moron.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Well, there's also that kind of interchangeable you know. I'd
like to mix things up with the SoundBite here in
the morning show.

Speaker 12 (52:21):
Now we can't hear in all these elected officials telling
us all about affordable housing. Most of them are all
pretty affluent, could definitely afford to invest somewhere between twenty
and fifty thousand dollars in a tooled effort to a
little private equity of affordable housing. Put your money where
your mouth is. It's a losing proposition, and don't make

(52:42):
me pay for it.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Yeah, but they would argue because they have the means,
they wouldn't want to take an affordable unit off the
market because that would deprive someone without the financial means
of living there. They're going to be altruistic about it.
They're going to fall on the sword and pay more
for their home because well, they don't want to soak
up the affordable housing. Unlike Zorhan Mndami, who would live
in a rent control department in New York and spite
of the fact that he too came from wealthy uh

(53:04):
means wealthy background. It's kind of crazy situation. Let the
leftist defended for themselves, Brian.

Speaker 12 (53:12):
They could they could pool their resources and build a giant,
giant apartment complex and charge two hundred dollars a month
for it and break in the profits.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
Yeah, yeah, don't think obviously, Brian. The math does not
work out that way, or more people would be doing it.
Appreciate that, obactly. Bride, thanks to the call. Appreciate you too,
in to the program as well. Five three seven fifty
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right now. See what Jim's got to say.

Speaker 5 (53:58):
Jim, thanks for calling this morning, Hey, Brian, former Highlanders
such as yourself.

Speaker 12 (54:05):
You mentioned listener lunch.

Speaker 5 (54:06):
I was on the West Side the other day.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
And I wanted to mention if you didn't know already,
Sunset has been repaved.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
They actually are finished already, all the way up the
Rapid Run Park. Oh my word. Yeah, I've been told.
The first person to let me know that there was
equipment on the road which suggested they might be repaving
Sunset Corey Bowman. He was on his way this was
the election day, I think, or the day before, on

(54:34):
his way to Sailor Park for some kind of fundraiser
or you know, closing event, and he texted me he said,
there's road crew equipment on Sunset. Maybe your wish will
come true. And I was like, yeah, right, they're probably
just staging for some other project, you know, around the corner.
Then I had two more reports. Todd Zinzer was one
of them who said they're repaving Sunset, like no way.
Thank you Jim for confirming they're done with it. That's amazing.

(54:56):
And look, I mean, between the election and now they
were able to pave all all of Sunset, at least
the worst part of it. What the hell is this?
Why did we wait twenty years for that? Jim? I appreciate,
thank you, and there was much rejoicing. I'm gonna have
to go over and drive a on it just to

(55:17):
have the smooth sunset experience after all those years. Interesting
kind of I wanted to get into this because if
you are a parent who has a college age student, maybe,
if you're in high school and you're considering your career
opportunity choices out in the world. We've talked about this
many times, the trades may be the best option for

(55:38):
you now. Springing from an op ed piece by Jason
Riley dated November eighteenth, how do you spell Harvard with
an endless supply of a's? The article is primarily about
great inflation, but it comes to a point here towards
the end, the more fundamental problems that colleges are admitting
too many students who don't belong in college. Policymakers believe

(56:00):
that a four year degree is the optimal choice for
almost every high school graduate. They play down the worth
of alternatives like community college or here you go learning
a skilled trade. Like the student debt problem, Great inflation
is a function of far too many young people with
too little to gain from four years in a classroom
being tempted to attend college anyway. So great point made,

(56:22):
and that pivots over to the editorial board. Why Ford
can't make or find more mechanics. This is a real
eye opener. Corporate CEOs keeping their heads down these days.
They're right unless they get chopped off by the Trump administration.
So last week remarks by Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley
deserve credit for candor as well as for the public

(56:42):
service of telling politicians a hard truth about the American
labor for US, Farley told a podcast that he can't
find enough skilled mechanics to run his auto plans. Specifically,
and here's where the fun fact comes in. Ford can't
fill five thousand mechanic jobs that pay one hundred and

(57:02):
twenty thousand dollars a year. He said. We are in
h We are in trouble in our country. We are
not talking enough about this. We have over one million
openings and critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians,
and tradesmen, and they're struggling to hire mechanics at salaries

(57:23):
that he points out in the article, that they point
out in the article. Ivy League grads might envy, most
notably Ivy League grads coming out with a college education
diploma in maybe art history, maybe you know equity and
diversity issues. You know, parenthetically, if you haven't noticed there's
no jobs available in those markets, at least no jobs

(57:43):
that actually pay something more than you might make it.
McDonald's not that I'm belitving McDonald workers. God bless each
and every one.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
Eve.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
It's a wonderful stepping stone opportunity, he said. A bay
with a lift and tools and no one to work
in it. Are you kidding me? Nope. We do not
have trade schools in this country, he pointed out, so
right to a large degree, few high school teach. High
schools teach trades these days. This is something we should

(58:10):
all demand. Community colleges are mostly remedial high school education.
Government worker training programs have poor results. Government subsidies for
college and graduate education have encouraged the young to go
to college, even though they might be better off learning
a trade. This has created a skills mismatch in the
labor market. Unemployment among young college grads is increasing, while

(58:31):
employers struggle to hire skilled manufacturing workers, technicians, and contractors.
More fun facts, only one hundred and fourteen thousand Americans
in their twenties completed vocational programs during the first ten
months of last year, compared to one point two four
million who graduated from four year colleges and four hundred

(58:54):
and five thousand who got advanced degrees. Yet recent bachelorscipions
were in their twenties were five point six percent points
less likely to be employed than those who finished vocational programs,
plus those vocational programs clearly paying a lot of money.
National Federation of Independent Businesses reported this month that one

(59:15):
third of small business owners reported jobs they could not fill.
Forty nine percent reported few or no qualified applicants for
positions they were trying to fill. Twenty seven percent cited
labor quality as the most important problem employees. If companies

(59:35):
can't find skilled workers in the US and aren't allowed
to import them, that's where the Donald Trump component comes in,
or opening shot to the Trump administration. He says, well,
they're going to move productions offshore to the extent they can,
but an American who's f one to fifty truck breaks
down will still have to pay more at the repair
shop owing to the mechanics shortage. It's like a guaranteed

(59:57):
career built into it. Vocational school learn how to be
an automobile mechanic. Wouldn't that be fun? I've always been
envious of people who've been able to work on their
own cars. I think the most the most technical thing
I ever did was replace a fuel pump on a
nineteen seventy three Caprice Classic convertible three point fifty. Yeah,

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real difficult. There's somebody out there laughing, like, what two
bolts underneath the car? Yeah? Easy access. But I've always
been envious the folks had been able to do that
and make one hundred and twenty thousand dollars fixing cars.
I don't know, man, that sounds a lot more tempting
than maybe spending four years and getting two hundred thousand
dollars in debt and come out with a great inflated

(01:00:39):
degree in sociology or something. Six forty eight fifty five
K City Talk station. Mike, I see here on the phone.
Your call is next. If you don't mind holding just
a moment, I want to mention twenty two three Route
forty two between Mason and love It in all right,
get ready coming up, Black Friday Beat Talk station. It's

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six point fifty two on a Wednesday. The Big Picture
would the brilliant Jack had of coming up after the
top of the hour news the subject social mobility and
a great movie. Looking for that. Donovan O'Neil as well,
coming up seven thirty and coming up right now, Mike
was kind of enough to hold over the break. Mike,
thanks for doing so. Welcome to the program.

Speaker 13 (01:01:20):
Hi, Brian, talking about the trades. My cousin straight out
of high school when became a into apprenticeship for a
pipe fitter. And he's thirty six years old now, no
college debt, big house, big truck.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 8 (01:01:39):
He's happy.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
I bet he is.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
You know, listen, I've been in these sort of this
type of position, you know, white collar if you want
to call it. I don't get my nails thirty. You know,
practice law for sixteen years. You know, some days you're
sitting there practicing law and you're behind your desk and
you're working on something you actually hate to work on.
It's like, just, oh God, I gotta work on this
damn project. I can't imagine really ever feeling that way

(01:02:04):
about being a mechanic, or even maybe a plumber or pipefitter.
I don't know. I mean, there's something rewarding to me
about looking at the work you have performed, presumably successfully.
I look back on some of the projects that I've
done over my life, and I haven't done projects a
lot since I don't know. The house pretty much got done,
but I've laid hardwood floors, I've done plaster and lathe work.

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I've done some electric work. I've done all kinds of
stripping of furniture. I've even built some furniture. And every
time you see it, you know where the imperfections are,
you know where things weren't done to a professional level,
but you take pride in it. You look at it
and think, I did that job well done. And you've
got to have that sense of accomplishment when you're doing
the trade work, because I've heard guys who you know
hang in high iron every time they drive by that

(01:02:48):
building they worked on thirty years ago, they get a
sense of pride and enjoyment. Trust me, there is no
time in my life, no point in my life where
ever looked back at some brief I wrote, or some
argument I made in court and court and myself on
the back of I remember that beaming with pride milpe,
not an ounce of it. Maybe that's just me, Maybe
I'm weird along those lines, But I don't know, a

(01:03:08):
sense of accomplishment goes along with trade work. Plus it
can be very lucrative. Sense of independence can go along
with it, and real quick props to the welders out
in the world. I've talked about being impressed by welding,
and I've always desired to learn how to weld. When
I was doing that Bourbon tour with my wife and
friends over the weekend, they were talking about all this
old equipment. They've got equipment that's been in this facility

(01:03:30):
since you like nineteen fifties, nineteen thirties. But one of
these tanks, they said they couldn't patch it anymore. We
do everything we can, you know, cut and paste and
patch and keep these things usable because it's in an
enclosed space. Things giant, I mean twenty five feet wide, round, cylindrical,
you know pot kind of thing that well, they had

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to replace one, and I just asked a simple question,
how did you get how do you replace something like
that considering there's no door or you know, entry to
slide it in. They bring it in pieces, and of
course you can see the welding, all this welding that
went into it, and I said, oh, those are the
really well paid welders. And he got this big grin
in his face. He said, Oh, they are really well

(01:04:14):
paid working on stuff like that. You can make ah
way north of six figures doing welding, so career opportunity.
Plus you get a sense of pride every time you
go back to the Castle and Key Distillery and take
a look at the work you did. I just saying
five fifty six fifty five car see the talk station
Jack Atherton after the top of the Iron News, Donovan

(01:04:34):
and Neil on the House Bill five oh three which
should pass. We'll talk about that coming up.

Speaker 14 (01:04:40):
Today's top headlines coming up at the top of the
talk station.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
Seven oh six at fifty five parisd talk station. I
love this time of the week and little get to
hear from Cott, Donald and Neil Bottom of the hour
every Wednesday at seven thirty. Today, House Bill five oh
three real important when Congress Fomassie come up in an hour,
followed by Judge Ennapolitano, Our power there and g Van Fleet,
who's got the I did a wrote a book called

(01:05:23):
Maus America. She's doing an empowery sumar tonight, please market
down to your counter seven pm. Log in from home.
She escaped Chinese communist suppression and sees it well before
her very eyes, unfolding here in our great United States
of America. So g Van Fleet at eight forty five,
and right now you waited for it. I've waited for
it every week, Jack Addton with the Big Picture. My friend, Jack,

(01:05:46):
welcome back. It's a great honor having you on the show.

Speaker 11 (01:05:49):
Always grateful to be with you and Joe and the
smartest audience anywhere. Friends, if you only wake up now,
you don't hear the brilliant call between five and set
better than anything I have to say.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
You know I always joke about it. Jack, I've getting
kind of a consistency with certain callers calling you, which
doesn't bother me. I always like to remind people, you know,
Jay and Tom and Mississippi James, and you know they
in New Hampshire, Greate. They don't own any particular segment.
You too can call in and interject your thoughts. But
I love hearing from those guys and everybody else who
calls in, Jack, and I love talking to you.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
Man.

Speaker 11 (01:06:29):
Well, I'm thankful to have this segment. We're coming up
on Thanksgiving, when some of America's first European settlers gave
thanks to God and then feasted peacefully with Native Americans.
I think some schools still teach that today. More likely
they teach that the Pilgrims scouted the Indians and ate

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all the turkey themselves and then took their casinos. You know, friends,
it's not accurate to describe the pilgrims guests as Native Americans,
much less Indians. They were called Indians only because Columbus
goofed thinking he had covered a shortcut to India, and
the Indians were called natives because Europeans did not know

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that these Natives had been immigrants just like themselves. They
had arrived in North America thousands of years sooner than
the Europeans. When Asian tribes during the Last Ice Age
crossed a land bridge to what's now called Alaska. They
were seeking animals to hunt and probably a little warmth.
Some of these immigrants headed south to California, and then east,

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and more recently, like everybody else, they've moved to Florida.
The thing is, throughout history and prehistory, folks the world
over have come to the New World in pursuit of happiness,
As the Declaration of Independence says, even though hideously, more
than twelve million people from Africa did not choose to come.

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They were captured and made slaves. He fought a civil
war to atoned for that, but waited another century to
guarantee the former slaves equality before the law, which is
the only equality our Constitution guarantees to anyone. For the
hundreds of millions of people since Columbus who've chosen to

(01:08:19):
become Americans, the goal was always the same, And that's
what I want to talk about this morning, social mobility,
not through government decree or social engineering, but through freedom
of opportunity. So, in honor of Thanksgiving, let's look first
at the Pilgrims. Why did they need to leave England

(01:08:41):
in order to find freedom of religion and the freedom
to govern themselves. Well, that all goes back to when
the Roman Empire ruled what was called Britannia for four
hundred years just after the Crucifixion of Christ till Rome
fell to Germanic invaders. Brittanny was then led by Celts,

(01:09:01):
with the people in Boston call Celts, and then Vikings
and Saxon's Robin Hood's people until William the Conqueror crossed
the English Channel from Normandy and made himself king. Today
many English aristocrats still trace their lineage back to the
Norman conquest, even some fictional ones. Readers of Jane Austen's

(01:09:23):
Pride and Prejudice back in eighteen thirteen would have recognized
that mister Darcy had a French name. British society for
centuries remained rigid. Static lords owned almost all the land
under the medieval feudal system. Knights provided troops for the lords,
and serfs farmed the lord's land. The feudal equivalent of

(01:09:47):
Marlon Brando never said I could have been a contender,
not even with an English accent, because the British knew
their place in society and it didn't change pride and prejudice.
This is a fantasy, a Cinderella story, precisely because aristocrats
did not tend to marry poor commoners. Much more realistic

(01:10:09):
is Jane Austen's Emma, where the heroine hates to even
befriend so called inferiors, because that would have blurred rigid
social distinctions. This class system began breaking down with the
growth of cities and the Industrial Revolution, when factory owners
became millionaires. Monarchs made them part of the expanded nobility,

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but great Britain is a small island much less powerful
since the loss of its empire after World War Two.
So even today, even if you're a rock star, class
distinctions where you went to school, how you speak could
still make you feel like a peasant unless you showed
some gumption and left English. Scots and millions of Irish

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during the Victorian Potato Famine who did not want to
live like peasants all sought opportunity in America, starting with
the Thanksgiving Pilgrims, who were dissenters from England's established church.
In America, they found both religious and social freedom. The
Pilgrims were Puritanical. They were wild, a different breed of

(01:11:17):
settlers pushed into the wild wild West. They called westward
expansion God's will manifest destiny. We can't get into the
arguments foreign against, but in fairness to our pioneers, the
history of the world Brian, going back to ancient Egypt, Greece,

(01:11:38):
you name it. The history of the world is a
history of invasion, conquest, and new government groups. We may
be living through that today, but for now. What made
the Old West quite essentially American, It's that it was
anything but a static society. There were no class distinctions

(01:11:59):
in Dodge City other than being dead or alive depending
on how quick you were with a gun.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
Ye Harvid.

Speaker 11 (01:12:06):
In the Southern aristocracy, they created a different sort of American,
one of well established elites. Right here at home. The
westerner was more democratic, more willing to embrace newcomers, as
you can see in a classic old time movie. It's
one of our favorites. Ruggles of Red Gap is about

(01:12:29):
an English butler in nineteen oh eight whose aristocratic master
loses him in a poker game to an American millionaire.
But this is a Western millionaire with no snobbery, no pretensions.
The millionaire takes Ruggles back to his gold mining town
in the West, Red Gap, not as a butler, but

(01:12:51):
as a friend. He then helps Ruggles open a restaurant
so he can become part of the bedrock of america
small business owner. The highlight of the film is Charles
Lawton as Ruggles, reciting a speech everyone else in Red
Gap had forgotten, the Gettysburg address. Abraham Lincoln was a

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Westerner from the days when Kentucky and Ohio were part
of the untamed wilderness. Now, folks, I'm not forgetting that
the West could be brutal. Mining towns exploited their workers viciously.
Chinese railroad workers suffered almost as much as Southern slaves,
and of course Native Americans they lost everything. Still, let's

(01:13:34):
remember that on our big, beautiful country, there's room for
the good and the bad. There's room to make yourself
good or bad. The American West allowed more room to
grow than anywhere on Earth, and Americans everywhere still benefit
if they choose. They still benefit from Lincoln's legacy of

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a government, a society not of aristocrats, not a privileged
races or sexes or classes, but a free society of
the people, by the people, and for the people. So
once we've eaten enough turkey this Thanksgiving and watched enough football,
I'd recommend gathering the family and streaming ruggles of red Gas.

(01:14:18):
You'll laugh, and maybe you'll tear her up a little
and have one more thing to be thankful for. I
appreciate an American. So what do you say, Kimo Sabi?
I like called the Lone Ranger. If Elizabeth Warren can
pretend to be an American Indian, then why not us,
my trusted friends?

Speaker 1 (01:14:37):
There you have it. I appreciate the movie recommendation. Honestly,
that's what I'm not familiar with, which surprises me. But
at a couple of observations. You know, the beauty which
you talk about of the idea, the freedom to flee
whatever form of oppression you're living under, to go someplace
where you can engage in and enjoy what you were
deprived of. Freedom wise, of course, the settlers, original sellers,

(01:14:58):
did a lot of that. The Pilgrims and the reason
they left religious persecution. They came here very difficult, I'll
just insurmountable challenges. Of course, a lot of them died,
and that concept continued to work well for us. We
were very strict about who we allowed in. Once you
had the establishment of an organized immigration system, like you

(01:15:19):
know Ellis Island. They checked for disease. They wanted to
make sure you were capable of surviving and defending for
yourself and feeding and clothing yourself. There was there was
no social welfare safety net, and if we took I
would wonder Jack Avidan if there was no social welfare
safety net which everyone and his brother who comes into
our country apparently can get access to on the backs

(01:15:39):
of the American people who may be relying on that
for their own interest. But if there was no social
welfare safety net, I wonder how many people would be
trying to get into the United States if they had
to survive on their own merits. I imagine it would
still be a pretty significant number, giving the amount of
oppression that exists in the world. But we would probably
end up drawing only the best and brightest, because if

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you've got to fend for yourself, you better damn well
have some skill sets, or you're going to be like
someone out in the wilderness with no water and no
provisions and no skill sets to survive out in the wilderness.

Speaker 11 (01:16:11):
Well, that's what Milton Friedman had said, Dan, we often
quote him. You can't have open borders and a welfare
state just does it work economically. And you also don't
get the kind of people who were willing to brave
the ocean and brave the braves, you know, going west
and all the rest. Those people were magnificent. A lot
of the people coming into our country today are not.

(01:16:34):
Too many people today are willing to trade social mobility
for government crumbs. It seems easier safer to snuggle up
with your iPhone and self righteously proclaim that you're a
victim of some kind of oppression capitalism, racism, sexism. People
looking at you funny. So you deserve to live off

(01:16:55):
the big state, off your neighbor's taxes. What we have
got to do? Maybe not during Thanksgiving dinner, there are
too many knives at the table, but we got to
condense people that being an American, a real American, beats
being a grifter a socialist. Which is why you and
Joe go on the air every morning at five oh five,

(01:17:16):
and we are thankful for that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
God bless you, Jack Avidan and you are a reason
that we have so many listeners tuning into the morning show,
most notably at this time of the morning every Wednesday.
And I'm already looking to next Wednesday, another very insightful
and historically connected discussion. You do a wonderful job, Jack Avid,
and that's why I am blessed to have you on
the show, and I know my listeners feel the same way.
As always, Best to you, you're better half, Amsley, and

(01:17:40):
much love, best to health, and we'll see you next Wednesday.
Jack Athdan love to Paul that thanks thanks brother. I
will pass it along. I think he just did anyway,
she normally listens, which I appreciate. Seven nineteen Right now
fifty five kros the talk station from Patrician Newbury headline.
With inflation will get less bridge for more money in
place for Western Hills Viadact. Remember the restural the Westernis

(01:18:02):
Viadact product project was supposed to cost. I guess it
got increased over time. Three hundred and ninety eight million
was the last estimate. Now it's going to be more
than that, and they've they've reduced the size of the
design now because of inflation now calling for a new
single deck bridge with three lanes instead of four in
each direction, among other cuts, because well it's been languishing

(01:18:24):
for such a long time now considering the eight hundred
million dollar proposal that was rolled out for the Banks
project yesterday. Just an out loud question rhetorical it may be.
How much is that eight hundred million dollar project going
to be when they ultimately decide to finally break around? Yeah,
I know, Marcy. Welcome to the Morning Show. Thanks for calling,
and a happy Wednesday to you.

Speaker 15 (01:18:43):
Thanks Brian, you.

Speaker 6 (01:18:43):
Too, and we love your show.

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 15 (01:18:46):
I just wanted to call and you're welcome. I just
wanted to call and tell you my daughter lives on
Cape Cod and there is a wait list for kids
to get into.

Speaker 13 (01:18:57):
Trade schools there.

Speaker 15 (01:19:00):
And she said that, yeah, she said it's been like
that for about the last eight or nine years.

Speaker 6 (01:19:05):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:19:07):
Yeah, And what would be logical response to that, be, Marcy,
maybe more trade schools to meet the growing demand. Huh,
that'd be a good idea, I would think.

Speaker 15 (01:19:18):
So, there are a lot of wealthy people who live
on the Cape that don't live there year round. They
come just for a few weeks here and there, so
you know, their houses sit empty, and so you know
there's always a problem that they need somebody to fix
something right away. Well everybody does, not just the wealthy,
but you know you want to fixed right away and
you have to wait a long time. Another point that

(01:19:41):
she discovered is she was going to a PTA meeting
early at her son's school at about eight thirty, I guess.
And she noticed that there were a lot of men
there and not many women at the PTA meetings, a
lot of fathers, huh. And she looked out on the
parking lot and she thought, oh my gosh, look at

(01:20:01):
all those big, expensive trucks in the parking lot, and
she said that's because they own their own business and
they can make their own hours.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
Another advantage of the tree. Really Yeah, independent business owner,
that's a wonderful thing. Make your own hours, work as
much as little as you want, control your own destiny.
I love it. I need more trades, We need more
trade schools here as well. Marcie apparently is a huge demand.
When I mentioned the welders out there, I got an
immediate message from my machine tool owning shop friend Jeff,

(01:20:32):
who said master wilders are in huge demand, so confirming
what he deals with every single day. Congratulations Jeff for
observations and confirming my suspicions. And a shout out to
the crew at Marcon Tool. Marcy, thanks for the call
stick around. We're gonna hear from Donald O'Neil next House
Bill five to three. Yeah, they want more money from you,
and House Bill five oh three may give you an

(01:20:54):
option to say how about no hour power? Come up
the beginning at eight with Congressman Thomas Massey and we'll
talk a little Epstein files among other topics with Massey.
One hour from now, Judge in and of Poulaitano and
what the founders feared. We'll hear from g Van Fleet,
author of Maus America. She fled the Chinese Communist Party

(01:21:17):
and says we got a real problem on our hands
brewing here in the United States of America, based upon
her life experiences. That'll be at eight to forty five
with an empower you Smar tonight at seven pm log
in from home. It's going to be a fascinating conversation
without further ado. Always a fascinating conversation, and appreciate what
Americans for Prosperity does each and every day helping you
get involved. Every little bit counts, so nobody knows that

(01:21:37):
more than Donovan and Neil. Welcome back, my friend. It's
always great having you on the program this time of.

Speaker 3 (01:21:41):
Week, Brian.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
Always a pleasure to be with you.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
Midwek Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
And I didn't realize that this double taxation thing was
actually going on. My impression has been, has always been,
and obviously needs to be corrected that if I work
like here in the City of Cincinnati, the charge you
in income tax, my local municipality was also charging a
tax because I would be getting taxed in both municipalities

(01:22:06):
that I would be able to write off or reduce
my local level taxation based upon what I paid in
the city. That's kind of normal, isn't it, Donovan? Or
isn't it Why do we need House Bill five oh three?

Speaker 14 (01:22:20):
Well, it was normal up until it seems like recent
last couple of years, maybe a couple months.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
What we're finding, right, Yeah, you're right. You work in
a city.

Speaker 14 (01:22:29):
The norm here in Ohio has been the city you
work in is the place where you pay your income tax, right,
and then the community you live in or if you
also live in a city, they oftentimes will give you
a reciprocal credit. And most of the time those would
even out. Right, So if it was a two percent
income tax and the time you worked in and then
two percent in the time you lived in, you'd only
paid two percent of your income for municipal services.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
But cities were not bound to that.

Speaker 14 (01:22:54):
And so what they found, the bill sponsors Bill Rome
or Heidi Workmen have found is that they have costs
reaching out saying that their taxes are going up and
their cities, their councils are voting to increase remove that reciprocity,
I should say, and so you're finding a situation where
Ohioans who work in one town live in another are
being double taxed. To the point, Brian, because we're now

(01:23:16):
a flat tax state at two point seventy five percent,
people are paying more in local municipal income taxes than
they are to the state of Ohio for services. It's ludicrous,
and House both five H three stops that practice.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
Puts the brakes on it puts the brakes on it.
We'll talk about the details in that in just a minute.
But did this spring from COVID? I know, we had
a real problem with the City of Cincinnati. They continue
to withhold taxes from folks who were working at home,
working at home not within the City of Cincinnati limits,
which meant under the prior structure, or at least I
mean even the then existing structure, that the city was

(01:23:51):
not allowed to collect those taxes even though it continued
to do so while people were working at home. Real
problem for me, I mean ethically, I thought that was wrong.
I don't know whether the city ultimately had to refund
the taxes they took out, but that was inconsistent with
that law. Did did municipalities change this taxation structure? To

(01:24:12):
the point where we need House Bill five o three
to deal with it because of that type of situation
with COVID.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
Well, I think what.

Speaker 14 (01:24:19):
I've understood from reading from bill sponsor or opponents of
this legislation is that cities are feeling the pinch. They
feel like they need more funds, and they are, you know,
they're using this tactic as a way to raise pack
to collect more tax revenue without having to go to
the voters and ask for it. So I think that's

(01:24:39):
the largest drivers They're saying, where can we get more
money from our citizens. Well, we're gonna we're going to
remove this reciprocity credit so that we can you know,
get that get those moneys from them.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
There's never enough, is there, Donovan? There's just never never enough. Well, pause,
we'll bring back, bring back Donovan talk about the details
on this and which I think is my understand Uh,
the House bill, it'll give you a say and whether
or not you want that to happen question. We do
vote for a higher income tax. A kerc DE talk
station Brian Thomas with Americans for Prosperities Donald and hil segment.

(01:25:11):
We do every week. They are really working hard for Ohio.
And the bottom line is the bottom line on this one.
HB five oh three. If a city wants a double
tax you, they got to ask you first. And this
of course springs from the reality. And I did not
realize and according to your notes, and I know AFP
is always right on these things. Ohio has some of
the highest municipal tax income tax rates in the entire country,

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the sixth most, six most local taxing jurisdictions. And of course,
eliminating reciprocity, meaning your local jurisdiction can charge you income
tax along with the city where you work. That's going
to really increase your taxes. And of course that's happening
to people right now now. House Billed five oh three
provides some relief on this. Now, is this unusual requiring

(01:25:53):
voter approval for reciprocity, because that's what this calls for
if they want to if they want to take away
reciprocity waivers and we at least get a say over
it where we live.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
Well, I don't think that's necessarily required right now.

Speaker 14 (01:26:06):
I'm sure a city could, if they wanted to wright
be good governance, put that in front of their voters
and give them the choice, but right now they can
do that unilaterally.

Speaker 3 (01:26:16):
This bill would require that.

Speaker 14 (01:26:18):
They go to the citizens as well as give the
citizens an ability to go out circulate a petition and
change that reciprocity rate themselves if their council is unwilling.

Speaker 12 (01:26:30):
To do so.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
Okay, I understand the petition idea. We've seen that quite
a bit lately. But I'm wondering whether there would there
be a legal challenge to this, Like, is this violating
some sort of home rule right that municipalities have to
set their own tax rates? Is this going to be
ultimately challenged in court. I don't know that you necessarily

(01:26:52):
know that, but I understand how municipalities might find this
to be a rather touchy subject.

Speaker 14 (01:26:58):
Yeah, I'm not quite sure exactly what the legal challenges
might get presented there. But I think at the end
of the day, right we want to be putting right now,
from property taxes to income taxes.

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
The balance of power exists with the bureaucrats, with.

Speaker 14 (01:27:14):
The governments, right, And what bills like this and many
of the bills that'll be passed later today on property
tax reform, what these bills do is put the tax payer,
the citizen back in the driver's seat of having final
stay on their local taxation.

Speaker 1 (01:27:30):
And I think that's the important part here. You said
the property tax former bills are going to pass today.
That's hopeful fingers crossed, Brian, I hope I don't jinx it.
But there are four bills.

Speaker 14 (01:27:41):
That the Senate I've already been passed out of the House,
the Senate Committee has, and the ideas they've been vetted,
They've been heard opponents, proponents, interested parties alike. And the
goal I think we'll see if it happens this afternoon
through one of these marathon sessions, they can move these
bills to the government.

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
What of House Built five three in terms of its
passage or in terms of your tea leaf predicting on
whether or not this has the support to pass, I
would imagine that it would enjoy bipartisan support. But then again,
we're talking about the state of Ohio and Columbus.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
Well, yeah, municipalities have been tricked.

Speaker 14 (01:28:21):
I mean any local government because we have the sixth
most political subdivisions in the country, right, Cities, townships, villages, schools, counties,
special districts, Brian, you name them, they get a slice
of your pocketbook. And wallet every month. The likelihood of
this passing I think is pretty good. We're still early phase.
We're going in as proponents today for the third hearing

(01:28:41):
supporting this legislation. Chairman Bill Romer is really effective.

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
At what he does.

Speaker 14 (01:28:46):
He's why he's somebody AFP is long time supported and
still alongside fights for the taxpayers. We'll see what happens,
but I think this is an important one. It's got
to be pretty universally accepted, right Brian that if Yeah,
the voters should have the final say on their taxes,
especially at a local level.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
Yeah, it's it's as a matter of fairness as well.
I just when when you start considering where you might
live and work, I mean people might factor this into
the equation. If you're going to get tax where you
live and tax where you work, you might gravitate away
from even entering into that possibility.

Speaker 14 (01:29:19):
Well, you know Southwest Ohio better than me, but you
know you could. I looked at the rates you could
live in the city of Norwood. That'd be a reasonable
place to live in Southwest Ohio, right, Norwood, all right?

Speaker 1 (01:29:29):
And work in the it is still somewhat affordable. I
think that's like your next Oakley or you know, which
which used to be kind of like Norwood in terms
of perception. Now it's more like Hyde Park, which is
a very affluent neighborhood. You know, give it time, all
the neighborhoods, we'll transform into something rather And I've always
had real positive hope for Norwood as one of those
neighborhoods who's just going to continue to be more and

(01:29:51):
more successful and affluent.

Speaker 14 (01:29:53):
But I could have it wrong, But my point is
you could live in Norwood working since anat and you're
going to pay right now three point eight percent. Now,
they may the reciprocity credit in those in Norwood may
already be in place, So I don't want your listeners
to go with pitchforks and torches to city Hall.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
But if this bill doesn't pass and the City.

Speaker 14 (01:30:14):
Of Norwood would remove any reciprocity credits it may or
may not provide right now, you could realistically pay living
in that city, working in Cincinnati three point eight percent
of your income just to local municipalities both where you
live and work. That's far less than the two point
seventy percent you're going to pay to the state, and
just seems unreasonable in many ways.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
I couldn't agree with you more. Donovan and Neil rarely
have a disagreement with you. Sir, Hey, real quick, I
don't want to put you on the spot. The property
tax reform bills that we're going to see today, let's
assume they pass real quick. What kind of relief is
this going to provide us? Donovan, if you if you
don't mind recapping that before we before we part company
this morning.

Speaker 14 (01:30:53):
Yeah, so, in sure, one of the things that's going
to do is provide more local control by empowering these
county budget commissions to look at unnecessary or excessive and
they define what unnecessary and excessive is in the bill,
so that if you have a local political subdivision that's
just pulling too much money in this county budget commission

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can be a check and balance on behalf of the
taxpayer to say you don't actually need that new tax revenue,
how about you give it back to your constituents. So
that's a direct relief that folks will receive. The other
piece that I think is key here is the unvoted
tax increases. They're capping those to inflation, and that's where
you see right where property valuations will go twenty thirty
forty percent, and the local subdivisions would be able to

(01:31:37):
enjoy all of that increase in revenue without any vote
by the taxpayer.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
They're going to cap that.

Speaker 14 (01:31:43):
To inflation so that we don't see these massive spikes
like we saw coming out of the COVID years. Ever, again,
it's the most significant property tax reform in the last
since the nineteen seventies. And there's another piece where they're
going to believe they will provide a credit based on
updated valuations, so there's some money that will also go

(01:32:03):
back into people's pockets. So structurally changing the system as
well as giving some folks some relief across the state of.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
Awio steps in the right direction. Obviously an effort because
it's needed, but also in an effort to maybe head
off eradication of property tax a petition that's circulating. They
do need to get ahead of that. Do you expect
more property tax reform between now and sometime before next
year's election?

Speaker 14 (01:32:29):
Yeah, I mean this stuff they're doing is pretty significant
and it tackles a lot of the things that the
governor had vetoed.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
We could have been crazy.

Speaker 14 (01:32:34):
Thing is, Brian, we could have been already had this
done back in the summer, But here we are.

Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
It's going to get done today, we hope. Well yeah,
and I think there's going to need to be more
on this issue.

Speaker 14 (01:32:45):
I think we'll get through this sort of see where
the opportunities lie. But from municipal tax collection to property taxes.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
Our problem at.

Speaker 14 (01:32:53):
The heart of this all, Brian, is the amount of
government we have at that local level. It's burdensome, it's
holding people back, and it's robbing our pocketbooks, starving our pocketbooks.

Speaker 1 (01:33:03):
Understand. We had a conversation about that not too long ago,
within the last week or two, Donovan and Nel Americans
for Prosperity Call to Action Plan. Do we need people
to get in touch with their elected officials to tell
them to push forward with HB five thirty or five
oh three rather Yeah, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:33:18):
HB five oh three.

Speaker 14 (01:33:18):
Go to Buckeye Blueprint dot com sign up if you
want to join us take action.

Speaker 3 (01:33:22):
You can join a chapter.

Speaker 14 (01:33:22):
Will we bring it folks to the State House on
issues like this, and we'd love to have your listeners
take part in it.

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so well. Here from Congressman Thomas Massey after the top
of the air news, what does it mean now that
the Epstein file disclosure vote is on record, It's gonna
land on Donald Trump's desk, maybe as early as today.
We'll hear from Massey about that. Plus Judge Jennita Polaitano
at eight thirty. I'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
Today's top headlines coming up here.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
These days, you need to keep an open mind. On
fifty five krc D talkstation. Oh five fifty five krc
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(01:36:40):
Judge Ennitor Politano, and then you pile on g Van
Fleet author of Mao's America. This is a great hour
of power in fifty five KRC Morning Show. Welcome back,
Congressman Massy. I always enjoy having you on the program,
and I certainly appreciate your willingness to talk with my
listeners and me.

Speaker 6 (01:36:55):
It's a very special day in Washington, DC. I gotta
I've been fighting for five months against the Speaker of
the House, the President of the United States, the FBI director,
the Attorney General, basically every power that's in Washington, DC
was trying to stop me. And yesterday I succeeded is

(01:37:18):
passing a bill in the House of Representatives to release
the Epstein files. And the vote was four hundred and
twenty seven to.

Speaker 1 (01:37:24):
One plus unanimous consent to release it out of the sentence.
This is going through. This is a done deal.

Speaker 6 (01:37:31):
Yeah, for the for the process nerds. The Senate usually
takes three days to even bring up a bill on
the calendar. They passed our bill before it even got
to the Senate. They didn't even have our bill yet.
In fact, they'll get it at ten am this morning,
but they've already voted and agreed that as soon as

(01:37:52):
it's there, it's passed. I've never seen the Senate work
so fast that they work like give time to pass
the bill for three days or a year.

Speaker 1 (01:38:05):
Well, I know there was some discussions, there might be
some amendments over in the Senate to deal with at
least a concern raised by one member of the House.
But beyond that, clearly there are going to be no amendments.
It is moving through it at light speed, which, as
you point out, never happens. The burning question for America
Congressman Thomas Massy does this mean you and Donald Trump
will now be playing nicely together since you obviously were

(01:38:26):
on the right side of this given the overwhelming bipartisan approval,
I mean almost unanimous across the board approval.

Speaker 6 (01:38:34):
Well, you know, somebody asked, why did he eventually come
over to my side on this bill because he did
at the last minute endorse its passage, and I said,
he got tired of me winning.

Speaker 1 (01:38:46):
I saw that.

Speaker 6 (01:38:49):
There. I mean, there were Brian, there were so many
last minute efforts to kill this thing once we got
two hundred and eighteen signatures that I had to stay
on my toes every second. They invited Lauren Bobert, one
of the co signers that had to sign it to

(01:39:10):
get me to two eighteen. In the hour before we
picked up the two hundred and eighteenth co signer, they
had her over at the White House in the situation
with the Attorney Journal and the FBI director trying to
get her to take her name off of the discharge petition,
which was the vehicle I used to force the vote.

(01:39:31):
And then after they did that, you know they can
play with the rules.

Speaker 3 (01:39:36):
It was.

Speaker 6 (01:39:36):
It was quite a delicate dance. They instead of passing
my bill as I had intended, they decided to bring
it up under a suspension of the rules. I know,
I'm getting in the weeds here, but they were going
to try. The Speaker Johnson wanted to amend it, but
there were and he wanted to put a loophole in

(01:39:57):
there that would have effectively killed the bill. He was
saying that they needed to protect the people in the
Epstein files that would maybe be embarrassed by these disclosures. Well,
if you protect everybody who's going to be embarrassed by

(01:40:19):
the disclosures, you're also going to protect the rapists and
the pedophiles, because they're going to be embarrassed too. He
was so he wanted this loophole in there that said
if there's no if there's not a credible conviction or
something or investigation, here's here's what they wanted. Ultimately, they
want to hold the files back because of active ongoing investigation,

(01:40:41):
and they don't want to release anybody's name unless there's
a legitimate investigation of them. Expectively, they would have locked
the whole thing up, but Speaker Johnson lost control of
the House yesterday, so he had to let the bill pass.
And then he was saying, the Senate will amend this,
the Senate will amend this, They'll fix Nope, and fun

(01:41:02):
and Schumer were like, ah, we ain't touching this thing.
Nobody's coming to a microphone to talk about this. We
saw you fumble this thing for five months and we're
just going to go ahead and pass it before it
gets here.

Speaker 3 (01:41:15):
Well, that's what they did in the.

Speaker 6 (01:41:16):
Senate, and the Speaker is just he is just apoplectic
today that this bill passed and he couldn't get the
Senate to do his dirty work.

Speaker 1 (01:41:24):
Okay, we got to do a real brief history on this.
Democrats were in control under the Biden administration. They had
all the opportunity of the world to release these documents,
which has been in a pile someplace. They didn't lift
a finger to do it. Donald Trump gets elected, he
had campaigned on releasing the documents, said he would release
them and then lo and behold. As soon as he
gets elected, He's like, well, no, we're not going to
do that. The DJ looked at him as there's nothing there.

(01:41:46):
There is no Epstein black book. So the position was
a one eighty. And what puzzled everybody, me included, I
know it puzzled you. Why the one eighty? Why this
strong opposition in the face of prior promises to release
What is behind all of this? Congressman Thomas Massey.

Speaker 6 (01:42:05):
Well, there's only one explanation. They all got elected and
they looked at these files and they old, dear Lord,
we can't let this get out. And even as recently
as a few weeks ago, Cash Betel was testifying that
there was only one sexual predator and that was Jeffrey Epstein.

(01:42:26):
Well the problem here, Brian, is there a thousand victims.
This thing was so widespread and so pervasive and went
on so long that this sex trafficking ring accumulated a
thousand victims, and we had We've had two dozen of
them come to Congress rocann and I gave them a form.
We had a press conference, the biggest press conference that

(01:42:49):
anybody can remember in Washington, DC. We did that a
couple months ago, and then we did one yesterday again
with these survivors. And they can't deny that there are
other men who committed these crimes, because the survivors know
there are other men. Yeah, so this is it's just

(01:43:12):
a great day. I spent some time with the survivors.
They as they said, this is the first time in
a long time, they've had tears of joy.

Speaker 3 (01:43:22):
They really.

Speaker 6 (01:43:24):
Were so emotional because I mean, they brought pictures of
themselves when they were fourteen when they were molested and
trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein. Because you know, they're older now.
They have daughters that are fourteen now. These women do,
so they brought pictures to our press conference to humanize

(01:43:44):
and for people to realize this guy was a pedophile.
It wasn't that he liked younger women. He liked girls
that were not young women.

Speaker 3 (01:43:55):
He was a predator on them, clearly, and.

Speaker 6 (01:44:00):
Then he trafficked and then he trafficked them even even
when they became an age of consent. He farmed them
out to other men. I mean, it's so disgusting. And
then he used their shame and guilt and fear to
get fourteen year olds to recruit other fourteen year olds.

Speaker 1 (01:44:19):
Well, you know, my listening audience, I'd like to hope
is along the same lines as I am. I don't
care if it's a Republican, a democratic, socialist, and independent.
If you're engaged in molesting children, you should be held accountable.
And you know, I'm sorry, sucks to be you. If you,
you know, spent time with Epstein, if you really didn't
molest them, but you hung out with them a lot,
you got advice from him. Sorry, sucks to you. You're
a public figure, you're outed. You can deal with it.

(01:44:41):
You've got a bully pulpit in a form you can say, yeah,
I did talk to him, Yeah we exchange text or emails,
but I had nothing to do with that. Fine, do
what everybody else has to do. Go out and defend
yourself like we're all stuck with doing. But it still
doesn't answer the question of why did they In the
face of what you're saying out loud, the victims are
right there, we know all that. Yeah, why do they

(01:45:02):
want to hide it?

Speaker 5 (01:45:02):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:45:03):
And I'm sorry if you're embarrassed by the release of
these files, maybe you shouldn't got on a private jet
and gone to his rape island.

Speaker 3 (01:45:09):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:45:10):
I agree, But are there are the Democrats on this list?
Because again they mean they were all about disclosing them
as soon as Trump got elected, and I see some
of the more salacious deals involving Democrats, so they knew
what they were getting into.

Speaker 6 (01:45:26):
Well, I think we're past the era of Bill Clinton
and Hillary Clinton, like it took with Biden now gone
and Hillary Clinton not really in the picture and Bill
Clinton faded out. I think the Democrats were willing to
do the Epstein stuff now they know there's Democrats in there.

(01:45:47):
But here's the reality. There were politicians and there will
be politicians and princes we know, and ambassadors, political people,
but there are billionaires in these files, and they transcend parties.
The billionaires go look at their donation record, like the
billionaires running running a candidate against me in Kentucky right now,

(01:46:11):
they do fundraisers for Chuck Schumer. They max donate to
Donald Trump, they give to Liz Cheney and then they
call them. They start a super pack called MAGA. Look,
they have no party, they have no ideology, they have
no allegiance. What they have is money, and they assume
they can buy a judge, they can buy a politician,

(01:46:31):
they can buy a police department, or they can buy
off victims and get record sealed. Because they have so
much money, they're just used to operating above the law.
They don't care if the president's got an R or
a D next to his name. And these are the
people that.

Speaker 3 (01:46:47):
Need to be brought to justice, Yes they do.

Speaker 1 (01:46:50):
Let's pause. We'll bring Congressman Thomas Massey back. It's eight
fifteen right now. If if you have KCD talk station
is something you really need to do. This is a
time of year. The talk station eight nineteen Here fifty
five KRC the talk station by Thoma Smith, Congressman Thomas
Massey follow by Judge Enna Politano. Uh okay, real quick,
Congressman Messy, you had mentioned I thought it was unusual.

(01:47:11):
So we go through this whole Epstein thing. We have
handful of documents, release, we get a little more documents release.
Justice Department says there's nothing there. Democrats come out and
release a couple of emails suggesting Donald Trump was involved
and knew about the girls, and blah blah blah, blah blah.
And then the Republicans come out, released twenty thousand pages.
And I keep thinking to myself, what's the point of
this exercise voting to release the documents? Everyone seems to

(01:47:33):
have them, and they seem to magically pop up at
some politically opportune time. Have you seen the documents, because
you mentioned they have seen them earlier in our conversation
this morning. Have you seen the documents that are subject
to this soon to be passed law.

Speaker 6 (01:47:51):
I have not, but I have particular insight into those documents,
and let me tell you why. But here's the thing.
Don't get distracted. They say, we've released ten thousand documents,
thirty thousand documents. We're going to release another fifty thousand documents.
What they have failed to do so far is to
release a single name.

Speaker 12 (01:48:10):
Like we know there are.

Speaker 6 (01:48:12):
Dozens of men who who took advantage of these women,
raped them, participate in sex trafficking, and not a single
name has come out. So they are carefully what they're doing.
They are dipping a bucket in the well and bringing
up the bucket and looking through the bucket. My bill says,
give us the entire well. We want everything in the well. Now,

(01:48:34):
what's the insight that I have into those documents? It
comes from the survivors. The survivors got together. Now they
are like a thousand victims, okay, or survivors. Some have
passed away, but they you, dozen of them got together,

(01:48:56):
compared notes and came up with at least twenty names
that know they've given to the FBI. Now, the FBI
doesn't just forget. When you give somebody a name, they
write it down in a form called an FD three
oh two. That's when they interview a witness. And so
those names are in those FD three oh twos, at
least twenty names. And I asked Cash Pattel in a hearing,

(01:49:20):
have you looked at the three oh two files? And
he admitted to me that he hadn't. And they said, well, then,
how can you testify today that there are no other
men implicated? He said, because I trust the people that
work for me. Hold on a second, these are people
that have been there twenty years. We don't trust any
of them. We didn't. We didn't elect Trump because we

(01:49:42):
trusted the deep state. We elected Trump because we don't
trust the deep state. And Trump put Cash Battel and
Dan Bongino in there because they said that would go
after the deep state. And now they say they trust
the guys that have already been working on this for
you know, two decades. No, so so be careful when

(01:50:02):
they say we've released ten thousand or twenty thousand. Oh,
when they say, oh, we found Trump's and this is
not about Trump, everybody, the Dems try to make it
about Trump, the Republicans try to make it about Trump's innocent,
and Trump tries to make it about Trump. Oh, it's
a hoax. It's not about Trump. It's about other rich
and powerful men who are criminally implicated to say in

(01:50:23):
these files.

Speaker 1 (01:50:24):
And you may have just pointed out the obvious reason
why Cash Mattel, the Democrats or the Republicans and others
maybe trying to protect what little reputation the FBI has
at this point, because if those investigative files revealed that
they talked to these men and there was some substance
or credibility in connection with what the witnesses said, then

(01:50:44):
there should have been some follow up by the FBI
to go after these folks for molesting, raping underage girls.

Speaker 6 (01:50:52):
Correct included in these files. When you take them as
a whole, you're going to find out that our justice
system is broken and the FBI her up. That's what
you're going to find out. Also going to find out
Jeffrey Epsteam was connected to the CIA and to Israeli intelligence.
That's what else you're going to find out. Even the
Speaker of the House in one of these rants yesterday

(01:51:14):
admitted as much. He said, this was going to affect
national security. You know, our intelligence ANDPLA is going to
be exposed. It's fake. Wait hold on there, you're now
you're supporting my my assertion me to Speaker Johnson that
the intelligence agencies are implicated by a release of these files,

(01:51:35):
which is true. By the way, before before we run
out of time, I know most of your listeners are
in a car and they're driving. They're not going to
have time to look at this. But there is information
coming about coming out about the January sixth pipe bomber. Oh,
and it's pretty explosive. I went very deep into this.
I researched it, I've interviewed witnesses, I've asked Chris for

(01:52:00):
Ray about the pipe bomber. I asked the FBI in
charge of the DC Field office about this investigation. We've
got troves of documents. We wrote a report on this,
but new information just came out today, well this week
and then last week. You're remember the name Steve Baker
and the Blaze and go look up what he's put

(01:52:21):
out this week. Yes, it's a big deal.

Speaker 1 (01:52:25):
That's the one that it suggested it was an FBI agent,
or rather Capitol police officer that dropped off the bombs
at the Republican and Democrat headquarters.

Speaker 3 (01:52:34):
Yes, and that's the.

Speaker 1 (01:52:37):
Event that closed Capitol Hill. The bomb discovery was what
it wasn't the drunken fraternity party that was going on.
As I understand it, Congressman Masters.

Speaker 6 (01:52:47):
The pipe bomb thing was a ruse to distract police
away from the Capitol so that would be easier to
breach the Capitol. And it worked, and it worked.

Speaker 12 (01:52:56):
It blocked.

Speaker 6 (01:52:58):
They wanted more bicycle racks to come over to the Capitol,
but where they stored them was on the other side
of where the pipe bomb was discovered, and so the
roads were closed down. They couldn't get him over there.
So did some degree it worked. But what you're going
to find out when you see So Steve Baker put
out an article a couple of weeks ago and he

(01:53:19):
postulated that it was the Capitol Hill police officer who
now works at the CIA who placed the pipe bombs.
But I think his new information, which is video. He
went through and poured through thousands of hours of video
and found new information about the pipe bomber and the
people who discovered the pipe bombs. It looks really fishy.

(01:53:41):
They knew exactly where to go to find the pipe bombs,
and we found out there's a third location of pipe bombs.
We always assumed there were two. We found out there
was a third where the pipe bomber lingered for over
a minute and tried to place the pipe bomb. It
looks like, well, the cops the next day went exactly
to that spot and looked in that bush to try

(01:54:02):
and find a pipe bob There's no way they could
have seen the video from the night before, so it's
almost as if there was a map of where the
pipe bombs were going to be and a pipe bomber
didn't get the third pipe bomb placed, but the cops
went and looked where the third pipe bomb was supposed
to be. And it's all on video, all.

Speaker 1 (01:54:21):
On video, and ultimately all this done presumably for the
purpose of undermining Donald Trump, coordinated behind the scenes, coordinated.

Speaker 6 (01:54:31):
Not just Donald Trump, but an entire movement of people, yes,
behind Donald Trump, to make the Republicans look like insane
people that wanted to overthrow the government.

Speaker 1 (01:54:44):
Bombs and whatnot, well, and insane FBI agents who were
egging people on in the crowd they're breaking, breached the
Capitol and throw out the bike racks, et cetera. This
has got huge legs in the meantime, blooming in the background.
Congressman Massy the whole Arctic Frost thing, which looks he's
terrible as well, among others.

Speaker 6 (01:55:03):
Did you know that the Senators put half a million
dollars each for themselves who were the subject of Arctic
Cross so that they can get payouts from being spied
on instead of fixing the law. They put that in
the CR that passed last week. And people are like,
why did you vote for the CR Matthew, why didn't
you want to open the government. Because Lindsey Graham and
seven other Republicans in the Senate just gave themselves half

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a million dollars. You and I wouldn't have standing or
able to prove damages. They just went ahead and changed
the laws. Yes, eight people have standing and can get
half a million dollars in damages for being spied on.

Speaker 1 (01:55:38):
Oh self dealing. It's fully revealed, boy, Congressman Thomas Massey,
which we had longer to talk, I knew. Judge Jenital
Paulton is waiting in the wings, one of your favorite fans. Congratulations,
congratulations on stick to your guns in the face of
all that opposition. Congressman Massy. That's why we love you
so much. Keep up the great work. I'll look forward
to having you back on as soon as possible. And

(01:55:59):
best wishes from my entire listening audience, my family, particularly
on your wedding. I'm really happy for you, sir, so
hope you enjoy that and as you move forward in
your life together, take care.

Speaker 6 (01:56:09):
Thank you. I'll press that onto my bride.

Speaker 1 (01:56:12):
Please do, please do. I'm looking forward to meeting or
someday eight twenty eight. Judge Entitapolitano, he's waiting in the wings.
He's right there. We'll have him on just a moment
after I mentioned Zimmer heating and air conditioning the best
in the business.

Speaker 16 (01:56:23):
I'm getting better through Westchester, still heavy through the lock
when split northbound four seventy one backs up past Grand
and there's a wreck on the ramp from Kellogg now
westbound two seventy five. Then slow onto the bridge thanks
to the new lane configuration coming up next. Ryan talks
to the latest defensive end for the Bengals. I it's

(01:56:43):
certainly better than what we have on the field right now,
and brings up an interesting twist for this weekend's game,
the Judge versus the Patriots. Chuck Ingram on fifty five
krs the talk station.

Speaker 1 (01:57:00):
In pett about KRCD talk station, No insult to Judge
of Polatana, but things have gotten so bad that we
need the judge defensive end.

Speaker 10 (01:57:12):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:57:13):
That a laughter, he said me, Judge of Polatana. But
it may be a reflection of just how bad things
are for the Bengels, which is an accurate statement. Florida Almighty.

Speaker 10 (01:57:21):
It wasn't that long ago when they were flying high
and Joe Burrow was the talk not just of Cincinnati,
but of the entire sports world.

Speaker 1 (01:57:31):
Yeah. Glass jaw turf toe Burrow. I feel badly for
the poor guy, but every time he gets up from
an injury, he ends up getting another injury. I'm not
sure we got in a good ro o I on
that investment, but we'll hope springs eternal for the insane Bengals.
Judge of Polatana, We'll keep see what happens. I obviously
did you hear. I was just talking to Congressman A.

(01:57:52):
Massy about these Epstein files, and I kept, you know,
why were they so just insistent on not releasing these?
And as it turns out, it probably is because the
FBI is going to be revealed for the incompetent organization
that it may be, or the corrupt one. A lot
of women claim to have been molested as fourteen to
fifteen year olds. He's got hundreds of them. There were

(01:58:12):
a thousand of them reportedly involved in this sexual trafficking
with Epstein. Obviously it wasn't just Epstein who was engaging
in the sexual conduct. There are a lot of others
swirling about his network of friends, many of whom these
women have confirmed did indeed molest them. Congress Massy's looking
for some justice for those folks. But cash Betel said, Oh,
there's nothing there, But he didn't even bother a looking

(01:58:33):
at the FBI investigative files. These women came forward, they
recorded the information, yet there were no criminal prosecutions that
came about from this, suggesting that the more connected you are,
the higher up you are in the political echelon, the
less likely is you're going to be held accountable for
your crimes.

Speaker 6 (01:58:51):
You know.

Speaker 10 (01:58:52):
Professor Alan Dershowitz was Epstein's lawyer who negotiated the most
fantastic sweetheart plea agreement which resulted in either weekends only
or weekdays only I forget, which in a low level

(01:59:13):
confinement environment for thirteen months, notwithstanding the vast number of
underage victims that were involved. This was negotiated by the
then US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, which
includes where Epstein was living at the time, who eventually
became the Secretary of Labor in the first Trump administration,

(01:59:35):
Alexander Acosta. When Acosta was interrogated under oath about this
by the House Judiciary Committee, he insisted that no one
ever told him that Epstein was involved in intel and
therefore was protected, So I don't know who's being truthful here,

(01:59:56):
but I agree.

Speaker 3 (01:59:57):
Obviously with what you said.

Speaker 10 (02:00:00):
That is off to the extraordinary personal courage of our
dear friend, Congressman Thomas Massey, and my congratulations to him
on his beginning his new life. But back to his
political life. You know, missus Abelson can throw all the
cats you want at then nobody that's running against him.
Thomas Massey is not only the personification of fidelity the Constitution,

(02:00:24):
he's the personification of personal courage and intellectual honesty. And
I'm sure his constituents will recognize that. And he has
said to you, me and others that there are names
in there being protected, and some of those names are
probably FBI agents. So the FBI wants to be protected,
the Intel people with whom Epstein was involved, Cia Massad,

(02:00:49):
and probably six that's the British want to be protected.
And Congressman Massey also said yesterday or the day before,
and I was able to hear your entire interview with
him because of another commitment I had here that he
expects some resistance not from the President, but from the
powers that be in the DOJ excuses for not revealing

(02:01:14):
what they don't want to reveal. I mean people could
lose their careers over what is about to be revealed.
Think of how mightily they will struggle to prevent it
from coming out.

Speaker 1 (02:01:26):
Amen. But you know what if they deserve to lose
their careers for what they have done untoward criminal conduct,
perhaps sweeping information under the rug in the name of
protecting other people, candidly, they deserve to lose their.

Speaker 10 (02:01:38):
Agreed, agreed, agreed, agreed. Brian, I'm sorry my answer was
so long. This case, as Alice in Wonderland once said,
gets curiouser and curious their every time.

Speaker 3 (02:01:48):
You look at it.

Speaker 1 (02:01:50):
And it is and it will continue to be because
you know, the points you just made are going to
result in the Department of Justice redacting almost everything in
the first round of prituction, and then they're going to
have to explain the redactions according to the law that's
been passed or will soon be passed and or signed
into law by the Trump by Trump. But that they're
going to be a fight over those reactions and other
undisclosed information as we move forward. So I don't think

(02:02:13):
the Fat Lady has yet sung on the whole issue yet.

Speaker 10 (02:02:16):
I got to point out one other piece of nonsense
that the DOJ will use. Last week, the President ordered
the DOJ to investigate Democrats that he believes were involved
with Epstein. Well, this raises two interesting issues. One, the
DOJ is absolutely prohibited from investigating anyone based upon their

(02:02:37):
political affiliation, right And two Epstein's been dead since twenty nineteen,
that is six years ago, that is outside the statute
of limitations of five years. The DOJ is prohibited if
I'm investigating anybody that they can't prosecute, and that nobody
can be prosecuted after the statute limitations has expired. So

(02:03:00):
this excuse we're investigating people and therefore we can't call
of up our file is a meaningless excuse, and I
hope the Congress sees right through it.

Speaker 1 (02:03:10):
I'm glad you brought that up, because, honestly, Jesseph Paul Tunney,
you're the first person to sort of raise the spector
of the Statute of limitations and that sort of demands,
asking is there a statute limitations in connection with being
raped as a minor. For the women who really are
demanding justice at this point, late stage in the game,
it may be they can they hope for any justice
if names are reviewed.

Speaker 10 (02:03:31):
They can hope for civil litigation, but not for criminal prosecution.

Speaker 1 (02:03:36):
Well, civil litigation has a way of, at least financially,
trying to unring or undo the bell of harm that's
been done to them, and it certainly never does.

Speaker 10 (02:03:46):
There were many civil cases. Two lawyers that are friends
of mine were involved on opposite side, David Boyce and
Arthur I Dallas. So I don't know how those litigations
ended up. I don't know the the size of the
epstein the state. The man was very wealthy. I don't
even know how he raised how he acquired his wealth?
Was that really blackmail? Who well knows?

Speaker 3 (02:04:09):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:04:11):
How does one become a CIA operative and foremant? How
does one become connected so much with all of these
wealthy and extremely influential people. How is it a memor
of Congress is getting questions fed from him real time
during a hearing. I just find the whole thing to
be just bizarre.

Speaker 3 (02:04:29):
You'r honor.

Speaker 1 (02:04:29):
I hopefully the answer will come with the release of
these documents.

Speaker 7 (02:04:33):
Right right that.

Speaker 10 (02:04:34):
Some of the documents are probably going to embarrass the president.
I don't think there's pictures of him with his clothes off,
but I think there are communications involving him that he
would just assume not have to address things that he
may have said or done thoughtlessly many years ago. I'm
not suggesting any criminal behavior at all, but just stuff

(02:04:56):
he would just as soon not have to deal with
right now, in the midst of this second presidency.

Speaker 1 (02:05:01):
Right but stuff he's capable of managing. I'm sure he
can provide the exculpatory information to the extent his name
is revealed, and he could say the same thing about
anybody else's name who pops up. If you weren't guilty
of anything, you got a bully pulpit, you're a multi billionaire,
you hung out with the guy, explain yourself to the
American public and let them digest and then draw their
own conclusions. We're all kind of stuck in that position

(02:05:22):
of this day and age and liston.

Speaker 10 (02:05:23):
Epstein was very generous to his alma mater, Harvard University,
and drew into his orbit the then president of Harvard,
Larry Summers, who, after he resigned as the president of Harvard,
became the Secretary of the Treasury and now is issuing
all kinds of statements. He regrets this involvement with Epstein.
I don't know what the involvement was. Did he just

(02:05:44):
have dinner with the guy or he spend time on
that island doing things that were inappropriate. I'm not suggesting
he did. I think Larry Summers is a very smart guy.
I listened to him all the time on another network.
But this is the type of name that's going to
come out, that's going to force people to make public statements.

Speaker 1 (02:06:05):
Finally get into the bottom of it after all this time,
judg Enna Palatano, Judging Freedom is your podcast? Who are
you talking with today is We've got to close out
the segment.

Speaker 10 (02:06:13):
I have the great Colonel Douglas McGregor on who who
is convinced that war is coming for the United States
and Venezuela again in Iran and soon.

Speaker 1 (02:06:25):
Oh God, we'll talk about that soon, I hope, judg
Enna Paulatano, God bless you appreciate your willingness to come
on the program if you want.

Speaker 10 (02:06:32):
Thank you, my friend, all the best to you.

Speaker 1 (02:06:34):
Have a wonderful week. Eight forty one fifty five KRCD
talkstation coming up next. Empower You summonar tonight seven pm Night,
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get registered right now, and empower you America dot org.
You are going to be engrossed in a conversation with
g Van Fleet, the author of Mao's America, A Survivor's Warning.
She was born in China and live through the Cultural Revolution.

(02:06:54):
Actually got sent to work in the countryside at age
sixteen for what they called re education. Following Mao's death,
she was able to go to college and eventually come
to the United States for graduate study. She has lived
in the United States since nineteen eighty six. She delivered
a speech in twenty twenty one in the Louden County,
Virginia school Board against critical race theory. That speech went viral,

(02:07:16):
ignited a national conservative media attention, and she has since
written a book, which You've got to get, Mao's America,
A Survivor's Warning. G Van Fleet, Welcome to the fifty
five Ksey Morning Show. It's a distinct pleasure to have
you on today.

Speaker 9 (02:07:28):
Well, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (02:07:30):
I guess I'm kind of curious before we dive on
in tonight's seminar in what you are seeing frighteningly so
here in America. You left China in nineteen eighty six,
to do graduate studies here. What was your impression of
the Tanneman Square massacre in nineteen eighty nine as a
someone so familiar with what it was like in China

(02:07:50):
at the time. Honestly, from my American perspective, I was
so excited up until the massacre. The crowds were gathering,
they had symbols of the United States Statue of Liberty.
I thought China was going to go full on capitalists.
But no, that's when the massacre took place. What were
you thinking at the time.

Speaker 9 (02:08:11):
Yeah, I was here. I was right Florida, Yeah, attending
a college there. And I because I was in indoctrinated
my whole entire life. I until the last last minute,
I did not believe that the army would open fire
to the students, because we were taught, you know, the

(02:08:34):
army is the people's army. They protect people. That was
a very very important moment for me, and I lost
all remaining hope or or you losing about the CCP.
But the tragedy is that soon after that, the whole
world forgot about it. They forgot the thousands of students

(02:08:57):
who were killed, and then they do business a ceolure
and that they imported, they transfer technology, they import, they
put so much investment there and because they just want
to get money out of China. And now look at

(02:09:18):
today today we really build China and now it becomes
our number one threat.

Speaker 1 (02:09:25):
Well, and we can follow the the you know, the
aros on how that came about, beginning with Save Nixon's
administrations normalizing trade with China, obviously with the China was
not friends with the Soviet Union. At the time, it
seemed like it was in our best interest maybe for
the goal of flipping China to capitalism, like giving them
a taste of the experience. But we've seen what happened
since then, we offshore manufacturing, China has dominated, like for example,

(02:09:48):
the climate industry, which I'll get to in a minute.
But you point out the people who were slaughtered a
tenements where were the youth and the Chinese Communist Party,
And part of the Marxist philosophy is to weapize youth,
as you'll point out tonight in greater detail, and use
them as a means to the rends. That clearly is
what's going on here. But this was sort of weaponizing
the youth in China against the oppressive Communist or Maoist government.

Speaker 9 (02:10:14):
Yes tonight, I are talking in more details, just as
you said. And that is called the Red Guard of
German Mouth. And they weaponized the indoctrinated youth to do
his bits or what he wanted to achieve. He Uh,
he wanted to overthrow the Chinese government, his own government,

(02:10:34):
because he thought he was losing power.

Speaker 3 (02:10:37):
Just for his own gain.

Speaker 9 (02:10:39):
He was willing to sacrifice all the youths and then
bring down the entire country. And Uh, by the time
of his death, China was in the brink of total claps.
We were living in object poverty, and that's what communism
brought to Chinese people. But Chinese people same to forget,

(02:11:03):
and the Americans seems to forget. The whole world seems
to forget. It's the same communist party that's ruling China today,
and they always always regard America as number one enemy.
Now they don't even hide it. Now we see they
are true intentionious. But it's never changed. It's always that way.
We just fail to understand because we don't.

Speaker 3 (02:11:27):
Want to understand.

Speaker 1 (02:11:28):
We don't want to understand, we don't want to give
up our TikTok z Van fleet because you know, hey,
how we have to have this which which is a
source of indoctrination. I have been I've been saying, and
maybe you can confirm from a listening audience that I've
been right on all this. My belief is and there
are multiple different weapons of war that don't involve shooting
each other, one of which is in doctrination via social media,

(02:11:49):
which the Chinese Communist Party seems to dominate and own.
They are looking at every element of our society and
trying to divide us. You mentioned, I mean, I mentioned
before you did that speech in front of the Louden Kinty,
Virginia school Board against critical race theory that divides Americans
among themselves. We can't even unite a underneath our own
flag because well, it's an inherently racist society. Well that's

(02:12:13):
just one the LGBTQ plus division, ruining the nuclear family.
I mean climate change as a concept. The Chinese love
the idea.

Speaker 16 (02:12:22):
That we are.

Speaker 1 (02:12:24):
Just ruining our own economies chasing a carbon free environment
while they build coal plants every single day. They have
to be laughing at us.

Speaker 9 (02:12:31):
G absolutely, and I always this is something I have
really trying really hard to weaken up America. The real
thread is not the CCP. The real thread is the
American Marxist It's the Democratic Party. And because everything the
CSIP was able to do is because they were allowed

(02:12:54):
to do, they're encouraged to do and do what to
enrich themselves and hollow out America manufacturer basis. And it's
all applaud to weaken America, to take down America. So
the enemy is here, the enemy is the enemy within.

Speaker 1 (02:13:16):
Gee Van Fleet should be speaking tonight again. Empower you
America dot org log in. It's log in remote view only,
so make sure you're registered to hit the ground running
at seven pm. I get the impression and your passion
behind what your message is is so profound. You have
not yet given up on America. We do need to
wake up.

Speaker 3 (02:13:36):
What do we need to do?

Speaker 1 (02:13:38):
How do we fight back other than recognize this ridiculous,
obvious manipulation of the hearts and minds of our apparently
ignorant young people.

Speaker 9 (02:13:48):
Yeah, they're ignorant because we have lost the control of
our educational system. It's over one hundred years that the
Marxist Communists have being in control of our education system,
from college to public school, now to kindergarten. What they teach,

(02:14:08):
they teach, they don't teach, They indoctrinate and so today,
you know, so how can they How can we have
a communist mayor in New York City and in Seattle.
It's not that we had bad people like amount Dandy
and that woman whatever her name is. It's because the
voters choose them. The voters were so indoctrinated. They have

(02:14:32):
no idea about real history, they have no idea about
the horrors of communism, and they hate America. And that's
why they were able, uh to use the useful it
is and get power.

Speaker 3 (02:14:44):
And that is our real issue.

Speaker 9 (02:14:46):
The issue is that we have to re educate. Here's
the word the miracle used to help them to understand
they live in the freest country in the world and
their freedom can be lost if they don't understand it.
And they, of course they don't understand it. They are

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not for freedom, they are for free stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:15:10):
That is all a problem.

Speaker 1 (02:15:12):
Gevan Fleet profound words elaborated on tonight at seven pm
empower Youamerica dot org something it sounds like destroy you
from within. Gee doesn't that sound familiar?

Speaker 3 (02:15:23):
Huh yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 6 (02:15:25):
I.

Speaker 1 (02:15:29):
Zev infleet. I want to thank you from the bottom
of my heart for what you're doing. Your message resonates
among my listening audience. I hope everyone joins the program tonight,
learns something that spreads the word, and also buys a
copy of Mao's America Survive, a Survivor's Warning, which they
can get on my blog page fifty five krs dot com.
God bless you, Zee. Keep up the great work. Keep
speaking truth to the powerful communists that are out there.

(02:15:51):
Maybe we can change the direction. Thank you so much,
my pleasure. A fifty four coming up in E fifty
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