Brian Thomas - 7/9/2026 - Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Five o five, A fifty five scene the talking station
Serious Friday E.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
S hope they will.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
A vacation.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yep, Well, I guess it's finally over a ceasefire that
never really was a ceasefire, is no longer a ceasefire,
and happy trying to make it a happy Friday E.
Brian Thomas right here, host of the fifty five Case
Morning Show. Juss Trucker still on vacation. I hope he's
having a good time. Hey, Danny, Danny Gleason covered for
the vacationing Judge Trucker. Have you heard from him? Is

(00:52):
he having a good time? Yeah? He sent me one
text about today's guest, which at eight oh five is
Ashley Don. Sayton's lemonade stand is back. Awesome, awesome event
that happens every year. Just a very young lady started
the lemonade stand, going to help some folks out, and
it grew and it is now nationwide. I mean it
is massive, nationwide. So we're here about Peyton's lemonade stand.

(01:14):
But I got a text from Joe saying, hey, it's
Ashley Don. We had somebody else originally on the lineup,
So he's paying attention even while he's out of town.
Let me to ask him, I hope you have had
a good time. No response. I'm going to take that
as a yes. Preceded by Ashley Donn, preceded by Congressman
Noaron Davidson. We've got a lot to talk about with
Congressman Davidson, most notably the well the exchange of fire yesterday,

(01:35):
which is continuing, leading Donald Trump to suggest that he's
acknowledged that he ceasefire. Isn't so. Congressman Warren Davidson coming
up at seven o five, and then, of course it's Thursday,
and on a normal Thursday, which this apparently is Jay Ratliff.
I heard Media Aviation Expert coming on at eight thirty
round and at the end of the show on a
what I always like to think is a positive note.
So that is all well and good tech Friday with

(02:00):
I've had tomorrow plus Jack's Windsor from the Ohio Press Network.
That'll be Friday in the morning show and again my
last day, and I'll be taking a two week vacation,
which I don't think I've ever done two weeks. And inchell,
thank you very much for all the folks that shout
up at Schanders Burger b Slow Bistro yesterday, had a
really nice time. Always enjoy my listener lunches, and of
course yesterday was no exception to the norm. And for

(02:22):
those keeping track at home, and probably no one is
cribbage Mike beat me. Been kind of a tit for
tat of late but three point when, so congratulations my
submariner friend. Cribbage Mike. And it looks like Mike will
be doing an empower youth seminar on the USS Cincinnati
or Jay Rissover, who is taking over for Dan Ragnold,

(02:44):
was at lunch yesterday. Good morning Jay, and I heard
him talking to Mike about doing an empower youth seminar,
maybe about just being in the Navy as a submariner
or a sub mariner your choice. Mike chooses a submariner,
so I defaulted that typically saying sub marine. It doesn't matter,
but you know what he does. He was in a
submarine and forout his entire entire military career, spent entire

(03:06):
six years underwater. That in and of itself has got
to be an interesting discussion. But usas Cincinnati exhibit up
and Voice of America Park, which is an outstanding thing
because you have the Cold War USS Cincinnati Submarine, and
you have the Cold War exhibit inside the Voice of
America Park, the Broadcast Museum, so you can see what
it was like back in the fifties and sixties trying

(03:28):
to get signals into the former Soviet Union. Wild stuff.
That is so an outstanding exhibit. Strongly encourage everyone to
get out there and check it out. That's coming up.
But I said, well, the guests are coming up in
the Morning Show, and the phone calls are always welcome
here on the fifty five carssee Morning Show five one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight to two three
talk fifty on at and T phones. Lots of different

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things going on in the world. But okay, let's start
out with we'll delay the exchange of bombing and the
end of the ceasefire. And I called this one, Bobby,
you were wrong. He dropped out of the race. Graham
Plattiner has ended his Senate campaign in Maine. They finally
brought the goods to the table. I guess you can't

(04:12):
walk away from a hardcore Democrat rape allegation, which is
really what she was claiming. He did you know, you
can't get around it. Definitionally speaking, if you boil her
allegations down, it was rape. But whether or not it happened,
Graham Plattner's career is over, at least as a potential
budding politician, probably over beyond that. Yeah, he ended it,

(04:33):
and he's blaming the Democratic machine. Oh yeah, this is
well from Platner's perspective, exactly what Kamala Harris did to
Joe Biden or the Democratic Party did to the Democrats
who did go with Biden in spite of the fact
that he was cognitively impaired. So they kick him out

(04:55):
and then they just nominate Coornate otherwise, just advanced Kamala Harris,
and everybody's like, who oh, that's right, the woman who
couldn't even get a single vote, who was one of
fifteen or so people out and running in the primary
for the presidential nominee and quit early on because no
one wanted her as the nominee. Here you go, Kamala Harris.
Congratulations Democrats, We in the Democrat Party know better than you.

(05:22):
That's basically, at least from my perspective, exactly what Graham
platter is saying. Excuse me, you know, in a video.
You can watch it. Exit. We'll call it an exit video.
He blamed the media and the political establishment for acting,
in his words, as judge, jury and executioner, and continued

(05:44):
denying wrong going. Of course he did. So it's not
his fault. It's the media's fault, and it's the political
establishment's fault. And of course he's not talking about the Republicans.
You know, the Republicans are bashing him as long as
they could, and in fact, probably the wind got got
knocked out of the sales just a little bit because
he was an easy target given his background and all

(06:05):
the documented perversion and everything else he has done in
his life. Plus these new recently raised rape allegations. Yeah,
that was easy fodder for the Republicans had he stuck
to it and ran the race in November. But no,
it was the political establishment and media that did it
to him, nothing of his own doing. Vlatner said he
was targeted by democratic forces that opposed his brand of

(06:29):
populist politics and they wanted to get him out of
the race. Not these sexual assault accusations plural, because it
was more than this most recent one. In fact, another
one came out after the alleged rape about him removing
stealthily removing condoms while having sex, and that's just that's

(06:52):
just weird, man, Okay, I stopped myself from going down
that road. I was tempted anyway, obviously after the most
recent piling on top of endless allegation, endless revelations, i
should say, which is really allegations, all of his posts
on social media, just the his conduct in spite of

(07:15):
the fact that he was married, you know whatever. But
on and on and on and they and they kept
sticking with him and kept sticking with him. No, it
wasn't the media and the political establishment so much as
all of the Democrats who had previously endorsed you, mister Plattner,
that turned their back on you and came out and
outright rescinded their endorsements, cut off funding. Hmm. There is

(07:37):
another key to why Platner fell out of the race.
Let's see, I've lost all my Democrat friends. They have
cut off all the money for him, and they have
all asked me to drop out of the race out
loud and in print. That's something the media is actually
going to report, So they're reporting facts in that and
not just bias reporting. It's well, Bernie Sanders dropped his

(07:57):
endorsement of Graham Plattner. That is a factual statement. Somebody's
going to read it. Ladner said, this was the last
week to try to get me off the ballot, and
that's why this is occurring. We him and the mouse
in his pocket. We believe that for the moment, for
the movement to continue, it can't be me, and for

(08:20):
that reason we are suspending the campaign. Operation politics. Politicians
always talking the WII form. If you ever hear me
do that, you know it's usually because I'm collectively referring
to we, you, the listening audience, me or me. And
in this morning Danny Gleason covering the border, Joe Strecker,
I don't use the royal we, at least as I
see it in my head. Anyhow, Democrats are now trying

(08:42):
to figure out what they're going to do in terms
of a candidate who has to face Susan Collins deadline
set by state law July twenty seventh to put a
new name on the ballot, and right ahead of Platinus announcement,
the Democratic State Committee of Maine said it will be
holding a nominating convention. They didn't have any details on
who would attend and what the threshold for winning the

(09:03):
nomination would be. But golf button there actually sneeze button.
Platner cited his overwhelming victory in the June ninth Democratic primary.
He did get seventy percent of the vote. I'm not
quite sure what the percentage of turnout was, but of
the people who got up to vote. Again, going back

(09:23):
to these socialist crazy people really being enthused to go vote,
that's how you get a guy like Platner getting a nomination.
Everybody doesn't show up, you get crazies. But in so
far as this Democratic State Committee of main announcing a
nominating convention, he said, and I think it's fairly accurate. We, again,
the collective, did it the right way. We built a campaign,

(09:44):
We engaged in electoral politics. We motivated people, we banded together.
We did it the way we were told we are
supposed to make a change. We won. And now they,
the evil Democratic Party machine, are not going to let
us have it. Not if it's me close quote. Okay,
So obviously this is a veiled reference to the Kamala

(10:06):
Harris Joe Biden thing. And I get that. I think
he's accurate across the board, but he refuses to take
and accept blame for bringing about this result. Listen, Graham,
if they didn't have all this on you, the goods,
the documents backing up the allegations, then you wouldn't be

(10:27):
kicked out of the race. Duh. Of course, if Democrats
lose Maine, they got a little bit of a tough
roto in terms of taking back over the Senate, which
they're all giddy with excitement expecting it to actually happen
without any resistance. Now they have to win states normally
considered solidly republic game like Texas or Ohio and Iowa.

(10:52):
Oddsmakers are suggesting that probably will not happen, but we'll
have to collectively wait and see on that. So play
stupid games, win stupid prizes. Grand Platner often of the wilderness.
No comment on whether or no suggestion that grand Platter
is going to have any influence whatsoever over who's going
to be the choice to act as his replacement. Some

(11:12):
were speculating that he would demand his foot in the
door and have a role in that doesn't appear that
that happened, at least by knowing there's been no reporting
on it that I could find. Also, the big payoff.
Did he get a job promise? Maybe many were speculating
he might get in some think tank or some five
hundred thousand dollars a year cushy job where he doesn't
even have to show up in return for him bowing

(11:33):
out of the race. It's not your night, Johnny. Here
you got a great union job or you don't have
to work, remember on the waterfront. Well, we'll see if
he ends up in a high paying gig because he
only has one client as an oyster farmer, was that
like his his mom or his father in law or
something like that has a restaurant or a business that

(11:55):
buys that bought his oysters. Yeah, that also turned out
to be a bit of a prevarication oyster farmer all right,
Often in the sunset, Graham Platner goes, it should be
very interesting race going forward as well, certainly has been
up to date. Don't go away. We got plenty to
talk about and New Hampshire. Gary is on the line. Gary,
looking forward to talking with you man. Just hanging there

(12:16):
for just a few minutes, Be right back Friday, Eve
five one, three seven two three talk found five fifty
on eighteen phone. There he is New Hampshire. Gary was
kind of stay on hold over the break. Welcome back
New Hampshire Grey. It's good hear from me as always.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Thank you, Brian. Hey, just in case I don't get
to it, I want to wish you a very happy
two week vacation.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Thanks man. I appreciate that very much, I really do.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
I hope you enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
I think I will.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Good you deserve.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
I'm feeling a little lighter, you know, emotionally and from
a stress standpoint. As this week has rolled on, I'm
get closer and closer to Friday. I always feel a
little lessening of the pressure I put on myself. But
a start it earlier this week, just knowing that I
was going to get two weeks off.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
Well, you enjoy it wherever you go.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Thanks.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
I want to get with Graham Plattners will kroquick. It
looks like Bernie got his uh uh, his check book
out or Graham Plattner is probably going to wind up
write in a book that some union's going to buy
at four hundred dollars nobody's going to read. They might
as well name it my struggle.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, we'll have to We'll have to wait for that one.
You know, he'll get a ghost writer probably or maybe
let chat Gpt write the book for him. But yet
you'll have to wait and see what the payoff was
to Plattin to the extent there was. They're not going
to just put him in a cushy job right away,
and he's not going to come out with a book
like next week, so we'll take a little time on that.
But the payoff will We'll we'll emerge at some juncture.

(13:52):
We'll make oh that's what he got and returned to
drop in the rais.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
I my guess is they're going to go on up
put in, probably somebody who's a covert socialist, kind of
like the Virginia did with She was a moderate. I
forgot her name, but she ran as a moderate and
then extreme socialists. Once they get in.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Well, we'll have to wait to see. There's like a
half a dozen names swirling around, and quite honestly, I
haven't done any research on any of them yet to
find out who they are, because I'd like to see
who emerges, you know, like as the leading couple of people,
so wet least have some idea of because I think
they'll probably be one who is closer to the DSA
Democrat socialist side of the ledger, which is kind of

(14:38):
where Platinir is, and then there be another one who
is going to be arguably a centrist Democrat. To the
extent any of them exists anymore, I think Fetterman's the
only one that really comes across as a centrist Democrat.
But if they'll try to maybe push someone in that direction,
which I I think if I was a betting man,
I kind of go with someone who's a little more
centrist because that way you appeal to more of the voters,

(14:58):
because not all the Democrat Party has gone on full
on COMMI but listen, this is their decision and it
may spell the direction of the Democrat Party down the road.
So they have to win this Senate race. It's really important.
So the decision they make on this one, I think
is going to be quite revealing.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
I will tell you because I live up here and
my wife owns a house up in Maine. They are
extraordinarily socialistic, and especially in the southern part really of
Oh my gosh, yes, around Bowden and in this Portland
that's they've locked that City up and Lewiston, they got

(15:37):
all they packed up with the invaders, you know, they Muslim.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
So this the cities, the larger cities in Maine are
the epicenter of leftism, like all the other cities. I
guess because I've always had the impression that that maners
are more rugged, individualist kind of types. They aren't in
big government types. They like their solitude and the beautiful countryside.
I don't want to draw a parallel to like folks

(16:06):
that live in Montana or anything, but that's the impression
I always got, maybe a completely erroneous one. I didn't
realize the dramatic leftist political shift that had gone on.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
There, huge leftists. If you remember, they have Angus King
and he has been a he is a socialist and
he's been part of the party for almost fifteen years now.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Well, I guess, honestly, Gary, you know, there's revealing my ignorance.
Got fifty states in the Union. It's a little difficult
to follow the individual politics of each and everyone. But
you know, and before Platner came along, I didn't really
pay any attention to main politics.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
Well, I'll tell you there's more Shenanikins going on in
Maine than Minnesota, and you might find that weird. But
with Janet Mills and all the radicals, the really radicals,
and they've got this whole place locked up tight main I.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Mean, you know, well, then maybe they will go with
a more socialist leaning replacement for Platinir to win the state.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
Socialist you know, somebody who runs moderate and then will
turn sharply left once they get.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
In wolf in sheep's clothing. That would jock me, that
would not shock me. Well, all right, popcorn out, Gary,
keep your popcorn out. I appreciate you tune into the program,
my friend, and I appreciate the kind words as I
fast approach my two week vacation. Thank you again, five
twenty five Right now, fifty five K sit the talk station,
local stories or phone calls. Either way, we go, we go.

(17:43):
I'll be right back, five twenty eight Friday. Thanks again,
everybody made listening to us yesterday Chandler's Burger Pistro. Great time,
and thanks to Chandler's Burger Bistro. I thoroughly enjoyed my burger.
And good morn to Renee, who also is going on vacation.
She'd been over Chanlisbergerbisa for a long, long time. Lovely

(18:05):
young lady Renee Ed took great care of the listeners,
which is always a wonderful thing. Over the phones. We're
gonna go, Tom, you gotta hang on for a minute
because Bobby jumped on the phones ahead of Bobby. Welcome back.
You called it wrong yesterday, Buddy.

Speaker 6 (18:17):
I was just I was just praying that the Oorychester
farmer would shove it to the Democratic Party up there.
But he's going to get a nice gig gal, I'd.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Say, yeah, wait for it. You're probably right. We'll see
what happens. But he is having a very it's only
slightly veiled attack on the Democratic machine. Of course. No,
he's an outsider. He ran as a political outsider, as
a socialist, bucking the Democrat machine, and well, the Democrat
machine wins.

Speaker 6 (18:47):
That's exactly correct. Hey, you know today's handicapped Thursday. Oh
this for God, with rainy raining this morning and everything
and the violence in Cincinnati, you know, shooting, stabbings, beatings,
I'd say it'll be six and a half.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Six and a half. Actually, I thought you were going
to say something like four and a half because of
the rain.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
I know that's not gonna hold them back.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Six and a half. That's shootings, shootings, stabbings, beatings, okay,
shootings of acts of violence from again, from one person
against another human being. Okay, correct, all right. I don't
know if polymarket's taking bets, but someday they will, and
you'll be able to maybe put a wager down there, Bobby.

Speaker 6 (19:32):
I got one main thing, sir, God bless collective bargaining.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
God, blessed collective bargaining.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Enjoy your dication.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Thank you man. Hey, And yet story we had yesterday
with a former FOP president Dan Hills on the firing
of that police officer Sailor. I actually made local news.
They have a story about it, and I'm not taking
credit for it, but at least it was more widely
reported than Dan Hill's post on Facebook. Tom, Welcome to
the Morning Show. Happy Friday to your brother.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
Hey, good morning. I'll take you under on Bobby's uh
just knee jerk reaction. I'm just going to go with
the under because yeah, yeah, well, you know, you don't
want to go out and get wet while you're stabbing somebody.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
That's true.

Speaker 7 (20:21):
That'd be unacceptable. So it's great it's just just the
fact that we have this kind of discussion is crazy.
And you just got you got people that just don't
really care about anybody else to themselves, and they just
they treat each other horribly. And I don't know, I
don't get it. I don't know what all the all

(20:41):
the promotion up there Maine is about. Why do they
feel they need to replace Susan Collins. I mean, she's
doing a great job for the Democrat Party already, you know,
being being a Rhino and all. I mean, she's usually uh,
he's usually one of the votes they can count on
to go against you know, some of us spe the
more conservative type of legislation that the that the Republicans

(21:05):
are trying to get through.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
So yeah, back in the I would argue that you're
you're right that I don't even think you have to
go back to the Kennedy era Democrats. But she certainly
would have been right there, uh, in the Democrat Party
not that long ago. From a political perspective, again.

Speaker 7 (21:20):
Yeah, she may not be left enough for them, but
she is definitely not conservative enough as far as I'm concerned, uh,
for what we're trying to get done. I mean, she
she does have an R next to your name. Uh
So I would definitely if I was in Maine and
that's all I had to choose from, I would definitely
vote for but only because she's got an R next
to your name, not because not because she does. She's

(21:43):
doing a good enough job as far as Republicans.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
But what you would not get, what you would not
do is sit at home because you're pissed off about
both choices, right, thank you?

Speaker 7 (21:53):
Correct? That's that, Yeah, And I'm glad that that's something
that's gotten in your crawl. And I'm sure when you
get back from your vacation you're going to really be
hammering that people got to get out and vote, even
in the even in the primaries. You know, I know
the primary season's over, and you know, well we'll wait
another couple of years to do another one of those.
But people got to get out and vote. This all

(22:13):
this stuff directly affects you, and your only way to
fight back is the vote. And when you do, don't
vote Democrat. Have a great day.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Thanks Tom, to appreciate that. Ah five on three seven
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one maybe two in here with the remaining time go
to Batavia eighteen year old firefighters now dad after a
three vehicle crash involving a motorcycle having at Claremont County
on Monday afternoon in high State Highway Patrol reports that
crash happened state Route one. Thirty one year driver run
Rode about twelve thirty in the afternoon found a two
thousand and six Honda motorcycle driven by an eighteen year

(23:03):
old named Wyatt Fisher going eastbound when a Volkswagen in
front of him slowed for traffic. Troopers said the motorcycle
crashed into the back of the Volkswagen, traveled left to
the center lane, and then hit a Ford escape traveling west.
Fisher taking my Hospital UC Medical centerary later dot firefighter.

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He was a firefighter at a stone Lick Township Fire
Department in Batavia. After the crash, the department released his
statement on social media expressing their sadness and praise for
the laid mister Fisher, he said. Before joining Fisher served
as a cadet at Wayne Township Fire and Ems and
graduated from Claremont Northeastern High School, where he accepted a
position as assistant soccer coach. Waynefire Rescue Auxiliary also made

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a post honoring Fisher, stating he worked alongside parents and
younger and younger brother while a cadet in Wayne Township
Fire and Ems. That's a shame. Please be careful out there.
Motorcycles Line signed Ohio House Bill four ninety two in
law on Tuesday this week, requiring you, as a driver

(24:09):
as well as passengers in a vehicle that have been
pulled over for any moving violation, to disclose their names, addresses,
and dates of birth to the peace officer upon request.
Also increases the penalty for anybody who refuses by now
making interfering with making interfering with arrest a second degree misdemeanor.
M A Republicans State Reps Sharon Ray and Cinny Abrams

(24:33):
sponsored the bill. Say said in news release, our law
enforcement face risk each day they put their uniform on
and start with their shift. Traffic stops, gun runs, and
domestic violence calls are all some of the most dangerous
calls for our police. House Bill four ninety two provides
our law enforcement with an extra tool in the toolbox
as they work to keep our community safe. Goes into
effect ninety days after signature. That would be October fifth,

(24:56):
twenty twenty six. It's all the cops who you are?
Five thirty five cought up a five thirty six fifty
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of stupid remembers stick around all morning if you can
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an AT and T phone and make sure a round
seven to five. Congressman Warren Davidson. Boy, we have a
lot to talk about with the Congressman, including the war
is on and to what extent we're going to engage
in military conflict with the Iranians after the ceasefire I
guess is now officially over, so say it, Donald Trump. Anyhow,
let's go to the stack of stupid off duty sergeant
with the Sheriff's Office in central Florida now arrested because

(25:41):
police say surveillance video showed him assaulting an older couple
at a bar. Jason Stickles, who's forty four, was at
Merks Bar and Grill. It was Monday when he, accorded
the police report, created an unwonted contact with a couple
seated near the bar. This is all on video. This
according to the statement from the Belusa County Sheriff's Office,
where mister Stickles has been employed since two thousand and four. Now,

(26:03):
the Belusa County Sheriff Mike Chitwood put out a statement
criticizing this Stickles guy and also apologizing to the couple
at the bar. Here's what Chitwood had to say in
his social media posts, how to throw away your law
enforcement career in two minutes off duty, stumbling, drunk, harassing
people who are just trying to enjoy their afternoon. I

(26:24):
apologize for this soon to be Formervelusa Sheriff's Office sergeant's
idiotic behavior today. Wow, not pulling any punches on that
was he. Officers with the new smRNA Beach Police Department
responded to report of a fight happened about four point
thirty in the afternoon, ultimately arresting Stickles on charges related
to the incident no injuries. Lusa County Sheriff's Office said

(26:47):
Stickles first battered a seventy one year old woman seated
at the table, then battered he's seventy seven year old
husband when he intervened again. Refern to the surveillance video
at the bar that was reviewed shows Stickles standing between
the couple before leaning in close to the woman, who
backed away and got up. You can see in the
video she is visibly upset with him leaning in between

(27:07):
the two as they were trying to enjoy their cocktails.
A woman later told police a Stickles had tried to
kiss her. Woman's husband got up confronted him. Stickles charged
and grabbed the husband's throat. Seconds after, a waitress got
in the middle of them men. As this was happening,
a bystander sitting at a nearby table came up from

(27:28):
behind and put Stickles in a chokehold. That guy came
out of nowhere if you watch the video, tackle them
to the ground and subdued and police got there. Stickle
told responding officers you know who I am. He's one
of those guys before showing his badge with the Sheriff's office.
Oh okay, guess what. You're still getting arrested sheriff or sergeant.

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After the incident, he was immediately put on administrative leave,
forced to surrender his law enforcement equipment, give me your
gun and badge pending final discipline, which will presumably mean termination.
At least they have a real reason to charge him
and terminate him, thinking of yesterday's conversation with Dan Hills
and the city. Mason Stickle has been charged with two

(28:12):
counts of felony battery on persons sixty five years of
age or older. Released from jail after posting a surety bond. Hey, Danny,
you think he'll apply to the Cincinni Police Department for
a job. He's got law enforcement credentials and I know
they're hiring an in desperate need of officers. Just ask him.

(28:33):
He might. Uh, Indiana man cut off his penis with
a kitchen knife. Isn't that enough for the stacking? Stupid
it goes on poured gasoline on the area and then
set fire in his family grind and set it on
fire his genitals according to police investio's legsid Christopher Pedin

(28:54):
Pedean Peden Anyway, thirty six, set the fire at a
Fort Wayne residence owned by his mom. At the same
time fire officials were investigating the two am blaze, police
were responding to a reported stabbing of the property, quickly
realizing that the victim of the stabbing of the missing
and the missing resident of the fire were the same person.

(29:15):
After he was located by police, Peddon claimed to have
been stabbed somewhere downtown Fort Wayne. That's quote. However, he
was taking a Parkview Regional Medical Center reportedly said that
he lied about the stabbing and wanted to be truthful.
That's when he told officers that he had gone into
a detached garage around two am and quote harmed himself

(29:35):
with a kitchen knife, cutting off his penis clothes. Quote.
He then quote poured gasolene on his penis and set
it on fire on the floor of the garage, just
inside the door. Pedden added that he quote left the
garage and began walking away from the property until he
encountered police close quotem stright as he didn't just pass

(29:56):
out from loss of blood anyway, AFFI David says fort
Wayne fired apart investigator reported to collecting evidence from the
Gala garage. Uh huh. That evidence included the gasoline container,
four big lighters in a kitchen knife. No mention of
the body parts collected, or if they were. Details of

(30:19):
the incident only only emerged after his initial court appearance
earlier in the month. He was freed from custody after
posting a ten thousand dollars bond. Scheduled for another court appearance.
Rahap sheet includes a pair of driving drunk convictions. Wow,
no mention in drugs either. Five forty five Right now,

(30:40):
I think if I have k C the talk stays
more stupid coming up and be right back. It is
five point fifty on a Thursday. Going back over to
the stack is stupid. Let's see here, Takia Sherman, and
I will quickly point out that her mugshot reveals that
she has a very very very prominent giant neck tattoo,

(31:05):
long sin face tattoos, and of course she's in the
status too, But you know she was involved with law
enforcement anyway. Takia Sherman, She's thirty two, arrested on Sunday
on multiple felony charges related to a violent confrontation happened
last month in Saint Petersburg, Florida, as his tradition. The victim,
who's thirty one, told police that after she refused to

(31:26):
engage in sexual activity with this miss Sherman, woman, Sherman
became upset and shoved her against the wall and then
struck her numerous times. Also, she pointed out that Sherman
then choked her and slammed her onto the couch, a
cord to the rest staff and David. An independent witness
told investigator she observed the defendant chased the victim out

(31:47):
of the house and fall to the ground. Sherman a
convicted fellow who's rap. She includes two separate convictions for
assaulting prior girlfriends. In both incidents, she strangled the victim
while beating them. One of the cases, Sherman texted her
then girlfriend, ho, you walk through this door, I'm gonna

(32:10):
kill you, Hey, Danny? Is that grammatically correct? Thank you?
That's a rhetorical question. She's threatened to put the victim
in the dirt. Court to the court record, Sherman locked
up in Louis a one hundred thousand dollars bond, obviously
not in front of Judge Silverstein in Hamlin County. The

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two and twenty pound defendant has numerous tattoos again, and
one of them apparently is an AK forty seven assault rifle,
although that is not the one prominently displayed on her
neck looks more like a dog collar going all the
way around her neck. Should I take Jay's call? Jay's

(32:54):
on the line. Let's see what Jay's got to say. Jay,
Welcome in the morning show. Happy Friday, Eve Hey, Happy Friday.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Eve Brian Hey calling in regarding a Laine Chow meeting
with the vice President of China.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Three days I wait, three days after her husband goes
in critical condition, basically into the hospital. I said something
the other day, I don't think my wife would do that.
I'm not perfect, but my wife tells me she loves me,
and if I'm in critical condition in the hospital, I
doubt she's going to take off on a trip halfway
around the world.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
By yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Well, the other thing is that if your wife did
do that, I think there would be in a knock
at the door with the Justice Department or the FBI
saying you can't do that because you're not registered as
a foreign agent, and we all learned about that. When
did we all learn about that, Brian? It was Hunter
Biden with all of his dealings with China and Ukraine

(33:50):
and globe trotting all over the world. Now, to my understanding,
there's never been any repercussions or consequences for Hunter Biden,
which I'm still touching my head on that.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
But what it.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Goes to show is that if you're part of the
political class, you can do whatever you want, and it
doesn't matter if Joe Biden's in office or Donald Trump's
in office. You'll get away with it where the rest
of us would be locked up and thrown into prison.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yes, I think that is an accurate statement. Jay, You
did not call me looking for an argument on that assessment.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Yeah, so, I think the uniparty's alive and well the
political theater goes on. All's forgiven. I guess with Hunter
Biden everything that he did, our guys now in control
has been for some time in Elaine Chile's meeting with
the Chinese of verifying what it is that we all knew.
I don't know why when you cross that border into Kentucky,
Why Kentucky listeners keep putting him back into power. But

(34:43):
this is why we say don't vote Rhino, because many
of them are bought and paid for Miss McConnell, in
particular by the Chinese. But boy, wouldn't be nice if
we could ever get back to law and order in
this country. What doesn't matter if you're married to Senator
miss McConnell, or if you're Biden Son that if you're
not a registered foreign agent and you're meeting with a

(35:06):
politicians and leaders of a foreign country, your ass is
going to jail. Wouldn't that be a refreshing day? So
don't vote, don't vote Rhino, and don't vote Democrats.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Thanks Bryan, no problem, Jay. I appreciate the observations and
the sentiment. And yeah, it's the one political class that
seems to work when you hear the words do you
know who I am? That's pretty much any federally elected
politician when dealing with the Department of Justice or the FBI.
Oh that's right, you're a senator. Oh that's right, you're

(35:38):
a representative. Never mind, we'll just go back to our
office now. Feel free to go about your regular and
probably corrupt business. Coming up in five fifty six fifty
five Kirsity Talk station. The war is back on. Platner
is out and thank you, Maureen Graham. Platner has announced
who he's backing for his replacement. Whether they listen to
him or not remains to be seen. Plus I will

(35:59):
since you met in Kentucky, Kentucky did not make the list,
and trust me, you don't want to be on the list.
I be right back six oh five if krc DE
Talk station, Brian Thomas right near host a fifty five
krsee Morning Show. Joe Trucker is not here. He's on vacation.
Danny Danny Gleason covering for Joseph. You can call Danny
and say hello. You also called it fifty five krsee

(36:21):
Morning Show. That's something you like to talk about? Five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty eight hundred eight two three talk pound
five fifty on AT and T phone. So we updated
you about the Platinir dropping on the race in the
last hour. As I went into the close of the
last segment, I did mention that Kentucky was not on
the list, and it's a list you don't want to
be on. So you think you're curious, I can get
that one out of the way before he's talking about

(36:43):
World War three breaking out. It's Orcans twenty twenty six
bed bug lists. Sadly, Ohio is the most represented state
on the list. We have six cities in the state
of Ohio who've made Orcans Top twenty twenty six bedbug cities.
That would be the one with the most bed bugs gross.
Fortunately Cincinnati is not one of them. Number one, Chicago.

(37:12):
As if Chicago didn't have enough problems on its hands already,
it's Newmero Uno, So go there and get some bed bugs.
Down to number four Cleveland, Ohio. Indianapolis coming at number five. Sorry, Colomas,
Ohio coming in at number eight. So that's the at
least the tri state areas rounding out the top ten list.
Fast forward to number fifteen. That's where Cincinnati comes in.

(37:34):
We were in the top ten not that many years ago.
If I recall correctly. South Bend, Indiana also making a
list at number twenty nine, Youngstown, Ohio, number thirty two, Dayton, Ohio,
number thirty eight, Toledo, Ohio, number forty two, fort Wayne, Indiana,
number forty five, And you get through the whole list.
My friends in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. You can say

(37:55):
you've got a clean state, not in the top fifty,
so congratulations. They blame travel. It's usually cities that have
a lot of travelers coming in and out, because these
little bedbugs climb onto your luggage and your clothes, and
you bring them from your home and you bring them
to a hotel and you end up infesting the rest
of the world. So there's some whole bunch of tips
about looking for bedbugs. And I've when my uncle and

(38:16):
I used to go on those motorcycle trips. We ended
up in a ramata one time and pulled the sheet back,
as I always do that first thing in a hotel room.
Don't put your bags on the floor, keep them elevated,
pull the corner of the bed up, and there it
is just a whole bunch of those damn critters. I
creep me out. We laughed, of course. So that's my
only experience in my entire life of bedbugs. Trust me,

(38:36):
that's one more than anyone should have to go through.
Those things make me want to throw up. So without
further ado, let's not leave the state of Illinois be
cuz have some shot in Freuda. Enjoy it here it
is they've lost another huge business. Yes, hardware giant. True Value,

(38:59):
which has been in Chicago, where it's whereas headquarters has
been for almost eighty years, has announced it is moving
too well, making the bed bug list anyway, Fort Wayne,
Indiana as the fourth of July years some bad news
for the state of Illinois, the reporting goes, Another major
employer has announced that it's moving its headquarters out of

(39:19):
the land of Lincoln. Do It Best Group recently announced
it will relocate True Values headquarters from Chicago to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The announcement marks the latest in a series of high
profile departures in Illinois under Governor Pritzker. Major companies including Caterpillar, Boeing, Morton,
salt Tyson Food, and Citadel have all left well the

(39:41):
governor has been in office and move their headquarters out
of the state of Illinois, raising continued concerns about Illinois
business climate and long term economic competitiveness. Your state sucks.
Who's been running Illinois and for how long?

Speaker 4 (39:54):
Right?

Speaker 1 (39:54):
The Democrats? You did it to yourself. They kept spending
and spending, The debt kept growing and growing, The pension
program kept getting worse and worse. Taxes kept going higher
and higher regulations, and the business and climate just kept deteriorating.
While regulations didn't deteriorate, they just kept increasing. You know what,
At some point business is like, you know, I'm not

(40:15):
gonna take the abuse anymore. Screw you guys. I'm taking
my ball and going to Fort Wayne. Which is kind
of funny. Well it's collec just think it's funny in
and of itself. But you know, the Chicago Bears look
like they are leaving the state of Ohio. Yeah, in fact,
ABC seven they're reported it's a done deal. Bears in

(40:39):
Chicago for a century and a half. Democrats ruined the
whole place, and they got to pack it up and
go someplace where the business climate is better. I've heard
a billion dollars in taxpayer dollars are on the table
for the Bears in this new once they pick a
new site in Indiana. So look, this is not rocket science, folks.
Look at California. Business is flee. Look at New York,

(41:01):
business is flee Look at the entire state of Illinois.
Business is flee. Why are they fleeing? For all the reason?
Just mention boiled down and summarized. You're doing it wrong.
I how a lot of people have missed the message.
How is it that socialism as a concept is growing

(41:22):
in popularity in this country. It's the socialism that makes
business want to leave. And let's not lose sight, my
socialist friends, business, these are the ones that generate the money.
Do I need to man explain that you need money?
You need money to give away for your social welfare programs.
You need money for literally everything you want to do.

(41:44):
You want to defund the military, find but you want
the money from the military to go to all your
social programs. The money is still flowing out. You're not
interested in shrinking the size of government, You're interested in
expanding it, just in different areas. The only dispute we
have between the parties is where we overspend, it seems,
I mean, you can all come down to that. That's

(42:04):
maybe one of the reasons why I'm a little ill libertarian,
why I love the Tea Party in its original form.

Speaker 8 (42:10):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Let's see fiscal responsibility numero uma, limited government, free markets,
the stuff that works. Why did businesses flee these crazy states?
They went to states where they have better fiscal responsibility,
more limited government. Right, it's a recipe for success. It

(42:32):
is the proven recipe of why America has become so
wealthy over the years compared to the rest of the world,
despite our evils and our problems over time. You have
to make a reference to that anytime you start to
praise America and America's greatness. Right, recognize the problems we've
had over the years. Fine, but also do overlooks a

(42:53):
site the fact that I mean, we've got a very
small country population wise. Chinese had like a billion and
a half people. We still out before from them economically.
Look at India, same thing, Turkey, other countries around the world.
We've got three hundred and fifty million people here. Yeah,
we generate tens of trillions of dollars in revenue that
the rest of the world seems to want to feed
off of. Why would all the immigrants and refugees and

(43:16):
people be tired of the starving Yeah, give me your
tired whatever. Why do they want to come here for
the same reasons? I guess true value hardware wants to
leave Illinois and go indi Indiana. Business climate's better there,
the water temperature is better there. From a business perspective,

(43:36):
I am just just don't understand, are people completely oblivious
to the just the obvious reality of all this, and
yet they're doing their damness to export these insane policies
and growth of government and higher taxation around the rest
of the land. Hell, if the Democrats could have their way,

(43:57):
there would be a uniform, massive, flat tax over every
single human being in the United States, so you couldn't
escape the rapacious taxation. Thankfully, we live in a republic
where states still have a measure of flexibility of their
own direction. Gods are well the framing the founding Father's
gift to every single human being, recognizing we do of

(44:19):
the freedom of travel, our constitution guarantees it, and you
can flee and run away. And again, looking at the
rest of the world. If you ask them and you
want to know if they could flee, or if they
want to flee, where would they flee to, they always
say here. Democrats are working their damned just to undo that.

(44:40):
Let's make life terrible for everybody here, just like it
is in the rest of the world. Like I always
point out, capitalism perhaps the unequal sharing of blessings, socialism
the equal distribution of misery. This is what globalism is
all about. Folks, equal distribution of misery. I'm just glad

(45:04):
we have this wonderful social experiment here in the United
States of America where over the last five years, you see,
you have witnessed it happening. COVID nineteen helped it along.
One of the benefits of COVID nineteen, businesses woke up, Hey,
we can remotely work. That's awesome. You mean I don't
have to be stuck here in Chicago anymore. It's not
the epicenter that it once was. Much like New York City.

(45:25):
You mean, we can leave Miami here I come. It's
happened time and time and time and time again. If
you're one of the socialists out there, you're like, well,
let's just realm those evil corporations. Yeah, you know what,
where are the taxpayer dolls? Where are the tax dollars
coming from? You want to spend it on housing, you
want to spend it on food, You want to spend

(45:47):
it on uplifting members of the community. You got to
have somebody's money to take to do that. Quit demeaning capitalism,
and I have to just sort of wildly speculate without
the mass of wealth in the United States of America,
a massive quantity of wealth which still isn't enough for government,
which still spends trillions of dollars more than it takes
in in taxation. How much money would be spent on

(46:15):
social welfare if we gain if we started as a
socialist state, How much revenue and business and income would
be generated. How much help would we be providing to
the world. How much support would the United States be
giving to the United Nations or whatever? Right, none of
it because we'd be poor like the rest of the

(46:36):
socialist world. Six fifteen. Comingup fifty five KC Detalk station.
More to talk about, including as the war, great opportunity
to support Peyton's lemonade Stam. We'll learn all about it
with Ashley darn coming up at eight o five and
Jay Rattlevetti thirty or I Heart media Aviation Expert. Feel
free to call. I'd love to hear from you. Five one, three, seven,
four nine to fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight
to two three Talk found five fifty on eighteen T phone. Yeah,

(46:59):
we're at it again and we exchanged fire with the
Iranians yesterday last night, which Donald Trump even said is
the end of the so called ceasefire that I never
really thought was, but at least he said it out loud,
it must be. Over targets were missile and drone site
near the Strait of Horror Moves. Iran was shooting at
Kuwait and bah Rain. We have military bases there. All
in told, apparently we hit ninety military targets. A US

(47:23):
Central Command said the further degrade Iran's ability to attack
commercial shipping and innocent civilian mariners in the Strait of
Horror Moves. US attacks a lot heavier than the Tuesday attacks,
as it's reported air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, navil capabilities,
logistics infrastructure, those are the targets at least Sendcom itemized.

(47:43):
The US also hit bridges. Bridges we claimed that the
Iran military was using to transport missiles, drones, and parts,
as well as other war materials. Senior US officials reported
as these bridges were hit. Trump described these strikes as
he as retribution for Iranian attacks on commercial vessels near
the Strait of Horror Moves, the ones ie that were
going through the Oman side. He said, if it happens again,

(48:06):
it will get much worse. Okay, assuming we don't run
out of bombs. Iran responded to the strikes by attacking
bah Rain and Kuwait. Both countries reported that they were
being targeted and asked the citizens to seek safety. Equate
said on social media that its air defenses were confronting
missile and drone attacks. Cutter briefly had its security level

(48:26):
threat raised too high, but later then said it was normal.
No indications Iran was hitting the Cutter. Iran said a
US bases in Kuwait and bah Rain. Central Command didn't
immediately respond those whether we whether those bases were hit.
No reports on damage yet. Iran's parliamentary speaker America still
hasn't learned that bullying and breaking promises are no longer

(48:48):
cost free. The strait of horn Moves will only open
with Iranian arrangements, not American threats. Again going back to
the huge misunderstanding or inability to read the words of
the memorandum of understanding, which says the straight of horror
moves will be open, but does not say anything about

(49:09):
the Iranians controlling it. So, in addition to the Tuesday strikes,
you may recall Trump also revoked the Iranian license to
sell oil in the open market. Another reason Tehran I
guess was shooting at ships. Trump said he believed the
ceasefire deal is over morning that the United States would
carry out more strikes, saying we hit them very hard

(49:29):
last night. We probably will hit them again hard tonight.
That was last night. I'll give them a little warning.
We're going to hit them hard tonight. Yesterday afternoon, Trump
called the Iranian leader's scum, liars and vicious, violent people,
and also said he was going to reimpose the naval blockade.
So what's next? According to the Iranian security sources speaking

(49:55):
with their state TV, they say Tehran has adopted what
they're calling a new military doctrine. Accord to the news sources,
following any strike against Iran, two immediate actions will be taken. First,
the straight of Horror moves will be completely close to
all maritime traffic. Second, Iran will strike enemy targets at

(50:17):
a ratio of at least two to one, meaning that
forever Iranian target hit, at least two enemy targets will
be struck in return. The Memorandum of Understanding sign in
this matter clearly states that Iran will reopen the strait
in accordance with its own arrangements. See that's in the quote.
And no, the memorandum of understanding does not say that.

(50:39):
They went on to say, therefore, Iran will not permit
the establishment of any new route outside the framework of
its own arrangements. Okay, I don't see in the memorandum
of understanding that the Iranians get to choose how and
when and under what circumstances the strait will open. Those
were things that were supposed to be ultimately negotiated and

(51:00):
to assuming we all end up agreeing on terms of conditions,
be in the final settlement, agreement or or resolution. That
did not happen. We never even got there. So I
don't know if we're gonna I mean swirling speculation. They're
just gonna wait around till Dan Well for me to
come back from vacation, to Doug to Daniel Davis. Although
some people discount his assessment, he's been pretty damn accurate

(51:21):
up until now. So what do we do. We've got
quite a bit of nable resources there. We can continue
a tit for tat. They shoot at a ship, we
bomb their targets to That just seems to be where
we are. They have the capabilities to continue this tit
for tat six twenty five go to a six twenty

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(52:08):
a direction you'd like to go over the local stories
we had This eighteen year old firefighter died after three
vehicles crash in Claremont County. Sad thing. Three vehicle crash
happened in Clairemont County Monday afternoon. High State Highway Patrol
say the crash was on State Route one thirty one
year Drive one Road twelve thirty in the afternoon. Eighteen
year old firefighter, also a high school soccer coach, was killed,

(52:33):
named Wyatt Fisher, going eastbound when a Volkswagen in front
of him slowed down for traffic. The motorcycle crashed into
the back of the Volkswagen, went left to center and
then in a ford escape traveling west taking the UC
Medical Center where mister Fisher died. Firefighter at stone Look
Township Fight Depart Fire Department and also soccer coach boys
soccer coach over at Claremont Northeastern School District. God rest

(52:56):
his soul. That is really a sad thing. It's always
dangerous being on a motorcycle. And please, Dear God, if
you're in a car, man, would you check your rear
view mirrors and your side view mirrors before you start
making lane changes. I mean, it's bad enough you don't
see automobiles. Put yourself on a motorcycle. And here we

(53:17):
go again. Over to Indiana. Indiana State Police say a
man was killed. Happened on a Monday, Ripley County Monday,
five thirty pm near the eight thousand block of East
State Road three fifty in Milan, Indiana. Nissan passenger vehicle
traveling eastbound slowed for another vehicle making a turn. Fifty
five year old Augustus Reichman of Greensburg, Indiana ran into

(53:40):
the back of the Nissan, taking to Margaret Mary Hospital
in Baithville with life threatening injuries, where he later died.
Drugs an alcohol not believed to be a factors, but
toxicology report is pending and they continue the investigation. Indiana
State Police do obviously in that particular case, I don't
think it was the car's fault. So let us admonish
a motorcycle right. Pay attention to the car in front

(54:02):
of you. That's another thing I learned a Motorcycle Safety
Foundation fun factor. If you at a stop light and
you have a car in front of you and you
are behind the car, don't line up with the both
of the with the tail lights of the car if
you're a motorcyclist, and also flick your brake light a
lot as the cars are approaching you, because they probably
don't see you. At least that's my presumption when I'm

(54:24):
on my motorcycle, they do not see you. So make
yourself as visible as possible. Feel better on that. Newport
Police had a town hall yesterday last night to let
residents know rather way in on whether the city's automated
license plate reader program should become permanent. Pilot program has
been running using cameras made by the Flock Safety Company

(54:47):
since the end of last year seventeen cameras and then
ultimately narrowing down to six location. Flock Safety representatives clarified
during the meeting that the cameras do not catch speederst those.
They said the cameras take photo of the back of
the vehicle, capturing license play in the back of the vehicle,
does not capture individuals, how many anything about them. Cameras

(55:09):
the Lord police has stolen cars help track one in suspects,
they said. Fishers also said sharing flock data with federal
government is not under consideration, which I guess some raised
concerns about that. In other US cities obviously relating to
immigration enforcement can't use flock for immigration that bad. Newport
Police said they wanted to hear opposition to the and
hear opposition to the program. Department representative said, you know,

(55:34):
it's very important. Like I said, I wouldn't do this.
We wouldn't be as eager to have a meeting knowing
the contention with the cameras, had we not wanted to
hear some of the opposition. Again, I know it's a
very tenuous subject. I know a lot of people have
their concerns, and we want to hear it because Flock
Safety is a private company of surveillance dated collected by the
Newport Police not fully controlled by the police department. That

(55:57):
raised concern among residents as well that well, we cannot
trust them, So I trust our police. I don't trust
FLOCK Newport, not alone the technology. Communities all across Greater Cincinnati,
Mount Mount, Healthy, Blue Ash, Golf man Or, Franklin, and
Cincinnati are already using the FLOCK systems. Apparently, six cameras
over in the in Newport would cost the city three

(56:20):
thousand dollars each annually. Six thirty five fifty five kr
CEED talk station. Plenty more coming up and again, Congressman
warn Davidson at the top of the air news it's
six forty one fifty one KRCD talk station. Well, score
a win for Donald Trump. You know, if a Canadian

(56:40):
Prime Minister Mark Carney is saying Trump is right, then Trump,
I guess, is right. He scored a victory for the
United States of America. He worried about sending all our
money overseas. You're worried about as I always was. Why
in the hell is it that our NATO allies, our
friends quote unquote, I guess when they want to be
don't have any military of their own, they don't have

(57:01):
any resources. They rely on us completely to do their policing.
That that has been the case for a long long time.
You know, this is not new information. And billions and
billions of dollars. I'd love to know the total figure
we have spent defending our European quote unquote allies. Well,
yesterday Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said, you know what,

(57:23):
Trump's won the argument. He's right, who's talking to the
NATO summit in nink Turkey, that he spoke with Trump
before the gathering and told him that NATO members increasingly
recognize that, yes, they do need to boost their military spending. Quote.
It's not just that he's winning the argument. He's won
the argument countries realize they need to take more responsibility.

(57:44):
They see the direct threats. Right, the president is looking
for a shift in the burden within NATO. That's appropriate,
That is happening, that's gaining momentum. How about that. That's
the guy who hates Donald Trump. He's been one outstanding
critic of Donald Trump since well taken office, mostly about

(58:05):
the tariffs and the you know, the trade relations between
US and Canada has been the source of most of
his criticism. But he's never been a Trump fan. But
he does realize that Donald Trump was right, NATO should
spend some money on its own defense. The other ones
worried about the Russians. Russians are in their own backyard,
damn it. At the twenty twenty five NATOS some of

(58:27):
the Hague Netherlands Alliance leaders did agree to a new
goal spending five percent of GDP, which is what Trump demanded.
That'll be at least by twenty thirty five on defense
and security. That's doubling their long standing two percent benchmark. Spain,
they got the memo on this, but they're sticking with
their two percent. They've raised their metaphorical middle finger at

(58:49):
Donald Trump, with the rest of the NATO country saying now,
we're not going to do it. Well. Spain has gone
full on socialists, so they don't agree politically with the
wealth the United States generally speaking, or many of their
NATO allies European Union allies. I should say, but Trump
said he would cut off trade with Spain. It's a
little difficult to cut off trade with a European Union
affiliated country. That's like saying, you know, I'm cutting off

(59:11):
trade with Ohio if you're a foreign nation when you're
dealing with the United States of America generally speaking, but whatever,
they're the outliers. All the other countries are saying, yeah,
five percent, that's a good idea. They rely and they
realize they rely too heavily on the United States. You know,
we're out of we're running short on weaponry systems. So

(59:33):
you know, Ukraine wants them. What we sell, we sell
to the European Union, who then decides that, oh, well, okay,
we're gonna go ahead and give it to the Ukrainians.
That's their decision making. But when you realize if you're NATO,
one of the NATO countries, that the United States may
not be in a position to defend you because we've
exhausted a lot of our military hardware. There's been a

(59:53):
lot of rumblings about Russia maybe expanding the war and
hitting NATO countries because they are coordinating the war with
the Ukrainians. Daniel Davis has talked about that, maybe take
a look in the mirror and say, we are ill
prepared to engage in combat period. I guess somebody had
to give us a wake up call, you know, one
of those b slap moments. That would be President Donald

(01:00:17):
Trump to the entire NATO alliance. Get your act together,
fund your own military. We're not going to be around
anymore to do it. That's why I boil that down.
But I guess you can score a win in the
win column on that one, and maybe ultimately this will
save us a lot of money. That's my hope. Six

(01:00:37):
fifty one. If any about ker City Talk, Nation and
Congress and Warren Davidson at the top of the Aeron News,
and I know Jay's out there somewhere. Jay, every time
I mentioned the word fraud tends to call in, although
we called in earlier today just a quick rundown on fraud.
So what do we tal it up so far? Remember
the Trump Trump Trump hasn't been in office is two years, right,
somebody's taken some steps to deal with the fraud, waste

(01:00:59):
abuse government. Finally, this has been going on under Republican administrations.
Of course Democrat administration. Democrats have no interest whatsoever in
preventing fraud, waste, and abuse. As matter of fact, they
seem to embrace it. It's like its own economy. And
of course people hooked up to the Biblical court of government,
they are refused to have any fixes to the programs
that they're a part of. Democrats will have nothing to

(01:01:20):
do with that. But that's where you go after the fraud, waste,
and abuse, because people are getting money out of these
programs designed most notably for the poor among us, and
ripping them off. So what do we got? Thirty five
percent of the Obama Exchange in rollies and forty percent
of fully subsidized low income and rollees generated zero medical
claims in twenty twenty four. In other words, those are

(01:01:42):
not real people. Tens of billions dollars once to big
insurance companies to pay for fake people. That was one controversy.
We of course know about the the leering centers in
Minnesota one hundred million dollars reportedly maybe even more, run
operated by the Somalis who figured out how to rip
us off. Not also, mind you, Thomas is an a racist.

(01:02:03):
He's just pointing out there's a criminal element within the
Smali community and they were the ones scamming Minnesota ands
and all of this out of our taxpayer dollars. Hospice
fraud in California massive, we got that fraud found in
snap recipient seven hundred thousand people recently removed from Snap
because of fraud. Record healthcare fraud busted. Four hundred and

(01:02:27):
fifty defendants have been charged by the Trump DOJ healthcare fraud.
There one point one million dollars from some single childcare
provider in Michigan. One illegal alien got eight years in
prison for an eighty nine million dollar payroll scheme employeeing
illegal alien construction workers. It goes on and on and on.
Millions and probably billions of dollars in COVID nineteen. Fraud

(01:02:49):
schemes has been widely reported for years. Guess what still
at it? Vice President JD Vance's Task Force noted a
seven thousand, one hundred percent spike in medical claims for
tissue and organ donations over just the last six years.

(01:03:12):
This increase seven that's not an outlier?

Speaker 4 (01:03:15):
Is?

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
It occur between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty five, searching
from two hundred million to fourteen point four billion dollars,
which prompted the Anti Fraud Task Force and CMS to
identify the fraudulent claims and deny ninety six percent of
them since March of this year. See it takes a while,
but once you identify a problem, it's easy to find

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the fraudulent claims. You just got to look for them
CMS under amen that OZ identified four thousand, two hundred
suspicious claims for tissue organ transplants two hundred and twenty
four million dollars worth in charges through May of this year.
OZ dating the obvious during a press conference yesterday, that's

(01:03:59):
a lot of money moving over to durable medical equipment claims.
They found fraud there. That will be wheelchairs, walkers, hospital beds,
other essential equipment. Agency said payments have been suspended to
one hundred and two suppliers and they revoked billing privileges
for an additional seven hundred and twenty five suppliers. Oh okay,

(01:04:31):
I saw a call on the screen there, but it
was on the hotline. I apologized for the pause, that
I had to clear things with Danny Court to the
spokesperson into for Vance. In just six months, a task
force had effectively wiped out durable medical equipment fraud in
America after the Vice President and doctor OZ announced the
moratorium on new DME companies, paired with aggressive enforcement actions
by the DOJ and HHS, this kind of fraud has

(01:04:52):
effectively ended suppliers who suspected of fraud. Had payments suspended
represented eight point six of all medical funded DME equipment
in last year. Fraud was identified for suppliers, ified claims
for filed claims for equipment that was not necessary or
even ordered, filed claims for equipment more complex or expensive
than ordered, and claims for equipment that was never delivered.

(01:05:17):
So progress not quickly enough, I will admit. But you
have to remember and give credit to Now this is
a bipartisan issue, is it not. I have to say
it again, these are your tax payer dollars. I don't
care if I'm talking to a communist or some kind
of right wing fascist person or whoever. You have to

(01:05:38):
give the Trump administration, evil orange man, credit for cracking
down on fraud. And one can only hope that this
is not end, this continues and actually at some point,
and I've been praying for this for a long time.
How about the Defense Department? Eight audits in a row.
They could not do an audit because they lack the

(01:06:01):
paperwork and documentation and subfision evidence of what's going on
over the Defense Department. Why is that? Does anybody think
that their hands are clean? I certainly don't. Six fifty
six right now, Congressman Davidson. We'll be up after the
top of the air news. We're also going to hear
from Peyton's Lemonade Stand at eight h five. Yay, that
is a great charity. That's a heartwarming story behind that one.

(01:06:22):
Plus Jay Ratliffe, our aviation expert at eight thirty Stick
around me right back. I wasn't quite sure of the
nature of the reason for your being here, but you
are welcome to join the Morning show. We can start
by just a short conversation about what the Export Import
Bank in the United States does before we pivot over
to what current issues are.

Speaker 5 (01:06:40):
Yeah, that'd be great. So the Expert Import Bank was
started by Franklin Roosevelt in nineteen thirty four to basically
help US companies large and small be able to sell
all around the world. And so everything we do translates
to more jobs here in America. And you know, thanks
to President Trump's leadership, what we've been able to do
is revitalize it to once again via frontline economic tool

(01:07:02):
for everyday American companies. And so Chairman Davidson and I
have a great working relationship. And by the way, the
eighth Congressional District of Ohio is so lucky to have.
It's a champion, a smart businessman who understands what to
do with taxpayer dollars, how to make sure he's a
good steward of it, to make sure that it makes
an impact. And so we worked very closely together on
issues on reindustrializing America. And so I promised the months

(01:07:25):
ago that I would pay him a visit, and so
he and I were actually a g Aerospace yesterday, one
of the most innovative companies in the history of the world.
Seeing how they bring motors, engines, equipment that they design,
manufacture right here in Ohio and they bring it all
around the world and exten really helps those companies to
be able to level the paying field against foreign competition.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
Wonderful, John, I tell you, as you were speaking and
explaining the Export Import Bank, Congressman Davidson has joined the conversation.
Good morning, Congressman Davidson started a little off guard here
as we started the program.

Speaker 9 (01:07:59):
Yeah, good morning Brian, Good morning John, and Chairman. It
is nice to join you guys. We had a little
technical difficulty there, so glad we're all synced up now,
and you know, it's just great to have you know,
John and the Export Import Bank in town.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
And you know, people don't.

Speaker 9 (01:08:14):
Really know necessarily what XM is or does, but it's
an important part of strengthen and America's supply chain. And
we were out together at GE celebrating some of the
work that they're doing, and you look at the impact
they have, not just for a big company like GE,
but down the supply chain of a company like g
GE hundreds of suppliers right here, and then separate from that,

(01:08:37):
just small businesses. We got a small business in Hamilton
that's used them to shift their product around the world
and makeing it right there in Hamilton, Ohio. So great
to have the chairman in town.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
Well, he before you came on, he was singing the
praises of your your district, and of course we always
sing the praises of your district because the constituents elect
you and do an outstanding and you do an outstanding
job for them. You're also obviously very pro business and GE,
as he described as a wonderful aerospace company. We are
proud of having GE in our backyard here. But the

(01:09:07):
idea of the Export Import Bank, it facilitates the export
of US goods and services abroad. Is that is that
accurate to a certain degree.

Speaker 9 (01:09:17):
Yeah, And frankly, you know the import of things that
drive foreign direct investment in America and grow jobs here.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
Now I saw just yesterday. I hate to tie the
yesterday's statement from Donald Trump about cutting off business ties
to Spain because he's angry with them for not opponing
up for NATO military hardware. But is there is the
export impak Was it impacted at all by Donald Trump's
tariff efforts early on and did that have some impact
on the Export Import Bank or did you guys have

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anything to say about that.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
You know, we've been incredible beneficiaries of the President's economic
agenda because he's doing two things, Brian. One, he's reindustrializing America.
So when he's rolled out a massive bread carpet for
companies and countries from all around the world to want
to build and manufacture and process and do things in America,

(01:10:13):
and all that translates into more jobs here at home.
And number two, he's really open the opportunity for people
to buy American and build their future and to really
think about how do I partner with American companies, American
technology providers to really do what I want to do best,
which is again provide jobs and provide economic security for
my own country. And so in Trimidata is absolutely correct.

(01:10:36):
It's not just the big companies that benefit from our work.
You know, for every ge air space, they have seven
hundred and seventy local suppliers, small and medium sized companies.
So on top of the eleven thousand people that they
employ in Cincinnati, ten percent of whom are veterans. By
the way, you know, they help hundreds of other suppliers
be able to reach markets all around the globe. And

(01:10:57):
those are the exact type of jobs that we need
here in America. And that's the return on your taxpayer dollar.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Well, and this sort of if I can characterize it
as a renaissance of American manufacturing, I have to credit.
And there are certain things you can say COVID nineteen
was good about. We had a great awakening that, oh
my god, because of COVID, we realize we don't really
make a lot of things here anymore. We don't have saline,
we don't have mass, we don't have durable medical equipment.

(01:11:23):
I mean, the list was seemingly endless, and it was like,
we better look at our own at ourselves and be
able to start making things, for example, like pharmaceuticals. You know,
our own military relies on Chinese Communist Party country manufactured pharmaceuticals.
That is really a profound threat to our United States military,
but also the United States we get into a major
conflict with them, they're going to cut off our stuff

(01:11:45):
in things. Do you give credit to COVID for that
or is there just is it the change of administration
because for years the whole concept was, well, we need
to export manufacturing because it's a hell of a lot
cheaper and there's a hell of a lot less regulatory burden.
In a variety of different countries around the world, we
can pay people two bucks an hour to make stuff.
It costs twenty five or thirty bucks an hour pay

(01:12:06):
here in the United States. What's changed? Yeah, Brian, you're.

Speaker 5 (01:12:10):
Asking all the right questions, and I'd give credit to
President Trump. He's been asking exactly those questions since twenty fifteen,
since beforehand, and so what we're this is common sensed
up and thanks to Chairman Davidson's leadership on Capitol Hill,
what we're saying is, guys, what will it take for
American companies to build more here, to ensure that every

(01:12:31):
day Americans have what we need when we need it most.
And it's not just the large companies that really need
our help, it's the small, medium sized suppliers who need
that supply chain security. So, whether it's an initiative like
Project Vault, which we've done at XM to actually create
a strategic reserve for critical minerals for the first time
in American history, that doesn't just benefit defense companies, it's

(01:12:51):
really focused on everyday manufacturers, or whether it's our Make
More in America initiative, which allows you know, startups companies
for the first time building in America the opportunity to
top capital markets. And again, everything we're doing is saying,
how do we crowd in the private sector, How do
we get private capital to do not just the right
thing to them mere term, but what the thing that's

(01:13:13):
going to strengthen America in the long term, keep us competitive,
keep more well paying jobs here. These are the exact
questions that President Trump's been asking, Brian, that you're asking
this morning, and now we're providing the answers.

Speaker 1 (01:13:24):
Well, and I know you were talking you trying to
put you give a lot of credit to the smaller businesses.
But I saw Toyota is now building a three point
six billion dollar plant in Texas, moving the manufacturing of
I believe it was trucks from Mexico into Texas. At
one point they thought it was wise to move to Mexico.
How is it that we're able to bring Toyota back
into the United States of America for these this two

(01:13:46):
thousand jobs apparently this plant's going to create.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
You're absolutely rights are yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:13:53):
Go ahead, sorry, Sharon Divison, Yeah, yeah, Brian.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
You look at that.

Speaker 9 (01:13:58):
Companies respond just like people to incentives, and you know
a lot of the approach that you know, prior administrations had,
well go back to Ross Perrot, right, he said there
would be a giant sucking sound of jobs. And Okay,
some people might have thought that isn't gonna work, or
if it does, somehow it's going to be good for us.
But with the benefit of hindsight, you have to admit
he was right. There was a big sucking sound, especially

(01:14:20):
here in Ohio. And you know, Ohio's adapted and overcome.
But now look at the difference your leadership is making
with the president. A lot of companies tried and look
at the incentives of the Hips Act. That hasn't worked
the greatest with Intel to say we'll build a factory
here for you and you can keep the profits.

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
Would you still do it?

Speaker 9 (01:14:39):
It's still not even on schedule. What has turbo charged
that is the President's leadership to put tariffs and incentives
to say, look, you can make stuff elsewhere, but you're
not going to have a competitive advantage. If you could
make it in the United States and you won't, then
you're going to have a hard time. And that's that's
the leverage that he's applying to Mexico, to Spain, to
companies like Toyota, frankly, to companies like Intel, and a

(01:15:01):
lot of countries are smart to take the trade deals
because when they do, they.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
Get zero tariffs.

Speaker 9 (01:15:07):
If you look at aviation and aerospace, the European Union
was able to work out a deal. They have air
Bus and Rolls Royce putting engines on planes. G makes
a far better engine. They get three out of the
four engines in the air today are GE engines. But
Boeing and Airbusts are going head to head. Instead of
having an arms race with tariffs, they went to zero,

(01:15:28):
and that's what President Trump is offering to other countries.
A lot of the Asian countries are taking it. You
look Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and not only are they going
with low tariffs and fair trade, they're making big investments
in the United States. And you know, Toyota is doing
the same smart thing with their truck. And if you're
gonna buy truck, why wouldn't you want one made in America.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
Well, that's certainly my feeling. Congressman Davidson, let's pause. We'll
bring back x M. John Jovanovic as well as Congressman
Warren Davidson. I'm kind of curious to know. I'm presuming John,
you talked to other businesses abroad and deal with foreign countries.
What else needs to be done here in the United
States to make this environment even more appealing to investment

(01:16:13):
and growth, because I suspect the regulatory hurdles and burdens
probably remain, and there may be something we can collectively
do about it more. It's seven twenty one on a Thursday,
and a happy one to you, bry Thomas with Congressman
Warren Davidson and the President and Chairman of the Export
Import Bank the United States. John Jovanovic at Moving John,

(01:16:34):
your Job and the Export Import Bank to facilitate our
companies reaching out and selling their products abroad and building
bigger businesses here in the United States went through a
couple of illustrations of that. What are the major impediments
we still have to deal with to get more people
interested in investing and building manufacturing and business here in
the United States. We've got to be facing challenges still

(01:16:55):
because I don't think we've solved all the problems in
the world, because the regulatory burden that we've imposed on
businesses generally here always seems to me to be far
too onerous. But what do you think else needs to
be done, mister Jovanovic and Congressman Davidson.

Speaker 5 (01:17:08):
Yeah, Brian, great question. You know you've identified a big
one which we're trying to clear as much as we can,
and thanks to President Trump's leadership, we try to fast
track as much permitting and sort of clear a lot
of the red tape so that business is interested in
building more here it can do so quickly. Another big one, though,
we've got to get out of our own way on energy.
We are so blessed with natural resources across the board,

(01:17:32):
and that's a massive differentiating factor. It brings down the cost,
It allows all sorts of other processes to take hold.
It really allows people to not just innovate, but to
manufacture at scale and employee Americans all across the country.
Unleashing energy and our natural resources is a key point,
and we've got to keep going.

Speaker 1 (01:17:52):
You are a mind reader, sir, because I literally before
we even started into that meant common about energy, I
wrote energy down because I'm wondering if you look at
a country like Germany, a massive manufacturing history, they did
a wonderful job. They've pretty much supported the entire European
Union with their manufacturing prowess, and their economic might just
reduced to their knees because they chase their tail trying

(01:18:13):
to eliminate carbon dioxide and building windmills and solar panels
rather than a reliable source of energy. Is that a
concern you hear from abroad about the United States, Because
we have a serious, not only concern, not only problem
with that in States, you know, impeding the development of
wonderful energy resource sources, like for example, small small modular reactors,

(01:18:33):
which I'm a huge fan of, but that we don't
have the grid, the infrastructure to transmit the power. I mean,
we're behind years and years on stand on top of that,
and we have a lot of impediments to both the
generation of power, whether it be by coal or natural
gas or nuclear because of the regulatory environment, but also
regulations regarding transmission lines, which nobody wants around. Apparently that's

(01:18:58):
a huge problem, but it's a long term chick challenge.
Our business is generally concerned about that.

Speaker 5 (01:19:04):
Yeah, Brian, you bring up a good point. But I'll
tell you what as I travel around the world supporting
and promoting US companies and US businesses, what I hear
from everybody as well. The way you're approaching energy now,
thanks to President Trump's leadership, is a breath of fresh air.
It's common sense stuff. We need to have an all
of the above approach, and we need to unlock it

(01:19:24):
for businesses, for companies all across the country. And so sure,
do we have undue regulatory burdens. Absolutely, and unfortunately, I
think it's going to be a state by state situation, Brian.
Your great states like Ohio, my home state of Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, right by and large, we've got it figured out,
and states like Texas will continue to say, listen, we

(01:19:45):
are blessed with natural resources. We have great people, we
have world class research and innovation institutions. Come build here
because we have all the ingredients that you need. Sure,
we absolutely need to invest in the grid. We need
to invest in more generation, more distribution, and more transmission.
But the bottom line is that we have the key
ingredients here and that's where, thanks to President Trump's leadership,

(01:20:06):
we have to We've made it the same common sense conversation.
Now we have to keep going and ensure that we
can unlock it all right.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
One more cog in the in the successful building, luring,
and managing and running businesses is the workforce. A lot
of concerns about the workforce. A lot of people don't
want to work. Our K through twelve education systems seems
to be a total state of disarray. They're not teaching children.
Do we have the workforce base, a competent, reliable workforce

(01:20:35):
base to handle a growing manufacturing complex in this country?

Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
You know we have it.

Speaker 5 (01:20:44):
And on top of that, we need to also think
about how artificial intelligence can help supercharge our manufacturers and
our workers. And so we spend a lot of time
Brian talking about all these doomsday scenarios around artificial intelligence.
The reality is in conversman Datason and I saw it yesterday.
We didn't see fewer people at the Gero Space facility
as a result of them using artificial intelligence. We saw

(01:21:06):
people supercharged with AI being able to shorten the timeline
for developing new equipment, increase the amount of capacity they're
able to manufacture. And so you know, again thanks to
President Trump's same common sense conversation around this, we want
more people in America equipped with AI, more people working
and well paying jobs where we're actually creating manufacturing things

(01:21:29):
here at home that we could sell.

Speaker 4 (01:21:30):
All around the world.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
Well, it sounds all positive and all wonderful and all
great for America, regardless of your political stripe. President Chairman
of the Export Import Bank in the United States, John Jovonvick,
and Congressman Warren Davidson. I can't thank you enough for
your time this morning. Sorry for the bit of confusion
as we started the segment, but a lot of information
unpack and I appreciate all the new information that I
learned from you both this morning. I would say keep

(01:21:53):
up the great work and you always have an open
spot here on the fifty five KC Morning Show to
push along any additional reforms that we might need to
make America even better. Gentlemen, Thank God for both of you,
and keep up the great work.

Speaker 4 (01:22:06):
Thanks Brian Goad.

Speaker 9 (01:22:07):
Bless you and all your listeners.

Speaker 1 (01:22:08):
It's always a pleasure, Congressman Davidson, and a pleasure to
talk with you today, mister Jivanovic. Stick around, folks plenty
to come up here in the seven o'clock hour. I'd
love to hear from you. Maybe have a comment, please
feel free to offer it. Five one three, seven, four nine,
fifty eight hundred eight two three Talk seven thirty two
fifty five care seedy Talk station. Apologies for the top
of the air confusion there. Congressman david was trying to

(01:22:30):
get in apparently he said the line was busy, but
did get him on, and we learned a little bit
about the Export Import Bank, which is good. We are
our own worst enemy. It really comes down to that.
I think that's intentionally so. All that export of manufacturing
and building of factories in China and Mexico and all
that was us trying to I guess modernize the rest
of the world or something, but to the disadvantage of

(01:22:52):
the citizens in the United States of America. So at
least Donald Trump has the United States and even those
who didn't vote for him best interest at heart, bringing
back jobs and industry and business and profit and taxes
that are generated as a consequence to that to the
United States evil capitalism.

Speaker 4 (01:23:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
Governor Mike Dwine signed out how Health built four ninety
two in the law happened in the on Tuesday. The
law now requires a driver and passengers of vehicles pulled
over for any moving violation to disclose their names, addresses,
and dates of birth to the police officer when they
ask for It also increases the penalty for anybody who refuses.
It's now a second degree misdemeanor if you refuse. Representative

(01:23:35):
Sharon Ray and Cindy Adram sponsored the bills, saying, our
law enforcement face risk each day they put their in
uniform on and start their shift. Traffic stops, gun runs,
domestic violence calls are some of the most dangerous calls
for our police. HB four ninety two provides our law
enforcement with an extra tool in the toolbox as they
work to keep our communities safe. Goes into effect ninety
days after signature. That makes it October fifth, twenty twenty six.

(01:23:58):
I don't know if it's wise for you to refuse
that information when officer pulls you over right now, but
you do have a little bit of buffer if you
want to be a jerk about it between now in
October fifth. After that you can make your argument with
the courts, say it's unconstitutional or something. Good luck. Let's
see here, planned decks over Fort Washington Way will not
be funded by the Cincinna Southern Railway Trust Fund. Mayor,

(01:24:20):
I have to have Parvo actually acknowledge that. Remember its
existing infrastructure. The railway money goes into a fund that
generates in interest. They live off the interest fifty eight
plus billion or million dollars or something this year. You
can't spend it on news stuff and things. I thought
that was well well known and not even an issue anymore.
But the mayor's comments and acknowledgment of that fact come

(01:24:43):
after former Mayor Charlie Lucan, who is key in the
sale of the railway and the creation of this fund,
said the trust can't be used for the decks. Purvoll,
speaking with reporters yesterday, the railroad dollars are specifically for
existing infrastructure. The caps on Fort Washington Way are not
existing infrastructure, so they're not in appropriate use. And that
is so much stating the obvious. I guess somewhere behind

(01:25:07):
the scenes someone must have suggested that was a possibility. Now,
modifications or improvements to the overpasses currently over the highway,
A Vine and Walnut may be needed, but since those
exist already, they're suggesting that the railway money can be
used on them. Now there's a question of whether they

(01:25:28):
really truly need to be replaced. I think that was
reported that they're like halfway through their expected lifespan, so
I don't think they necessarily need any work on them.
But if you need to modify them to support the
caps over the Fort Washington Way, can someone not make
an argument that that is unnecessary in the absence of
new infrastructure, and therefore the railway dollars shouldn't go for that.

(01:25:51):
Someone may make that argument, but as of right now,
at least I have to have provol is well agreeing,
because that's what it said existing infrastructure. Todd Zinzer was
at listener Lunch yesterday our Citizen Watchdog. He's got a
keen eye on how this money's being spent. And yeah,
he's made a shenaniganst declaration before, just sort of trying

(01:26:12):
to bait and switch us into believing that the railway
dollars are actually going to well existing infrastructure projects when
it may just be a labeling thing. Plus, never forget
the fungibility of money. You got infrastructure or you have
railway dollars over here, that's one pile of money only
for existing infrastructure. And then you have the budget and

(01:26:33):
that all the items that the budget is supposed to cover,
which would include new projects. If you free up the
current of the annual budget by using railway money to
deal with things that would otherwise come out of the
regular budget, you just shifted the dollars, but that frees
up money that otherwise would have been spent on existing infrastructure,

(01:26:53):
which allows them to well build new projects and stuff
and things which will probably let fall apart like they
have with our roads and other existing infrastructure. It's crazy,
isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:04):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:27:04):
I keep going back to elections have consequences. If you
want your road taking care of and you don't want
a new skateboard park in the area, you need to
vote for different people with different priorities. Seven thirty seven
right now, fifty five? Care see the talk station seven
forty two, fifty five care see the talk station? Yeah, Corey,
I was waiting for someone like you to chime in.
That's why I said, go ahead and try to fight

(01:27:25):
it out in court if you want Governor to Wines.
Bill mandated that you disclose your name and I personal
information to the police officers they pull you over. Now
under law, is there a Fourth Amendment question? Corey suggests
that there is, citing Brendlyn versus California in two thousand
and seven, where he said passengers are considered seized or

(01:27:46):
stopped during a Travis stop just like the driver, suggesting
that they have the same Fifth Amendment rights, you right
to vote. Fifth Amendment protections against incriminating oneself. So let
them make the argument in court. Because the law doesn't
go in effect to October fifth. We'll see. I personally
don't have any problem volunteering my name and handing over
my driver's license. I try to play nice with the cops,

(01:28:07):
you know, not that I get pulled over. It's been
a long time anyway. Anyways, I was going on a
tear on socialism earlier, which is kind of a normal
thing for me. Just citing the state of Illinois is
one more illustration because they lost yet another business that
is the most ill managed mismanaged state I think you
can find, although they compete mightily for that title with

(01:28:28):
the likes of New York and California. Yeah, California, California,
they got a twenty two billion dollar bill yesterday. Labor
Department announced yesterday they have a bit of a financial
struggle out in California. They have more than twenty two
billion dollars to the US Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. They

(01:28:49):
took out loans during COVID nineteen, you know, the pandemic.
Oh my god, we're all gonna die, COVID nineteen pandemic
loans to pay unemployment benefits. California is now the only
state in the Union that has an outstanding federal Unemployment
Insurance loan balance. So as a consequence, California business owners
are now forced to pay higher federal payroll taxes to

(01:29:12):
bail out the incompetence and corruption that came out of
Sacramento and their failure to repay the money they borrowed
during and alfter of the pandemic California apparently, according to
the reporting I saw this over at Gateway ponded, I
had record budget surpluses and at one point neared one
hundred billion dollars. But they didn't use that taxpayer money

(01:29:33):
to repay the federal loans like the other described as
more responsible states did. They spent the money on other priorities,
like maybe that high speed rail line to nowhere, which
has got like a trillion dollar price tag. Now they
don't even have a mile of rail laid. Yeah, that's
the most comical public works project I think ever. Anyway,
the state has paid one point eight billion dollars in

(01:29:57):
interest since twenty twenty one. Newsom's latest budget proposing another
six hundred and sixty eight million in interest payment. How
much money is going to principle huh according to reporting, none,
which means like our national or federal deficit, which keeps
getting bigger and bigger, the interest payment's gonna keep getting

(01:30:18):
bigger and bigger. Gavin Newsom, well, what are you gonna do?
In competence? Demonstrably seven five fifty five KRCD talk station
seven fifty one IF fifty five KRCD talk station every
Thursday too. You we're gonna get some love for Peyton's
Lemonade Stand aft top of the Air News. An outstanding

(01:30:40):
charity with the most heartwarming story behind it. We've been
talking with the Peyton Lemonade Stands for with quite a
few years now in a row, and it's on their
ninth annual Lemonade Stand coming up on July twenty fifth,
that after Top of the Air News. If I can
get this in Jason Riley for folks who know that
don't know who. Jason Riley is calmness for the Wall
Street Journal, and he has an answer to the juvenile
crimes in downtown Cincinnati and elsewhere. Socialism, isn't it Jason

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happens to be a black man. And I say that
because it tends to lend more credibility because some white
guys saying the same thing might be discounted by some people.
But see that's not me. But I'm providing you with
the information. You should read the column Socialism and Decline
of the Black Family. By now, it's clear that Zorhan
Mandami's Mayril victory in New York last year for over
former Governor Andrew Cuomo was less a fluke than a harbinger.

(01:31:26):
Non coastal socialists have racked up congressional primary victories against
establishment Democrats in Colorado and Pennsylvania. They've won state and
local contest in Kentucky and Georgia, and are on the
ballot in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. These far left
candidates aren't hiding their extremism. They want to punished or
where they want punishing taxes on the wealthy to fund
free daycare, healthcare, housing, and college. Some oppose private property

(01:31:50):
in prisons. Others view border security as an unnecess unnecessary
and racist. Conservatives are right to be concerned about the
impact on our free market capitalist system if enough people
with such views are elected positions of power. But socialism's
impact on the traditional family structure is no less concerning.
Children from intact families are more likely to finish school

(01:32:13):
and avoid poverty. The absence of father is strongly correlated
between with a teen, parenthood, drug addiction, and involvement with
the criminal justice system. I'll look at that. Cultural anthropologist
Margaret Meade wrote that every known human society rests firmly
on the learned and nurturing behavior of men, and that
civilization depends upon social inventions that will make each generation

(01:32:38):
of males want to nurture women and children. But socialists
like Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels dismiss the traditional family
as a tool of oppression that advance the patriarchy by
exploiting the domestic labor of women. Similar thinking in forms
today's politicians and policymakers who want to expand the welfare
state to address economic inequality for them. Nuclear families in

(01:33:01):
general and fathers in particular, are an obstacle to central
planning schemes. Ultimately, the state is promoted as the best provider,
and dads are seen as superfluous, if not part of
the problem. The upshot is that preserving the family and
its autonomy is less important as socialists than preserving their
own ability to tell other people how to live their lives.

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One of the real world experiments with this approach is
the Black family, which has been in disarray for more
than half century and is the subject of an important
new book, The Vanishing Black Family. How welfare and feminism
made marriage optional and children vulnerable. The author is Delano Esquire's,
a black husband and father, who focuses on marriage and

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parenthood of Heritage Foundation. He spends more than spent more
than a decade employed by the District of Columbia in
a program aimed at reducing gun violence. The book offers
something many others can't, which is scholarly analysis alongside the
astute observation of a practitioner who has lived and worked
with the people he's discussing. Mister Squier's contends that many

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of the social and economic problems in low income black
communities stem from the sad fact that some seventy percent
of black children are born to unwed parents and nearly
forty five percent live with a single mother. Quote. Progressives
talk a lot about racial disparities and household incomes, but
never seem to include family structure in their calculations. Close quote.

(01:34:27):
That's what he wrote. Asians are the highest earners, followed
by whites, Hispanics, and blacks. Similarly, Asians have the highest
marriage rates, followed by whites, Hispanics, and blacks. Maybe it's
no coincidence. Politicians, journalists, and academics typically blame the state
of the black family on the country's history of slavery
and segregation. Mister Squiers believes that that ugly history has

(01:34:50):
played a role, but not a decisive one. Following emancipation,
one of the first things black people did was seek
out spouses and children from whom they had been forcibly
set bridded during slavery. A project called Last Scene Finding
Families after Slavery has compiled thousands of ads taken out
in hundreds of newspapers nationwide between the eighteen thirties and

(01:35:11):
nineteen twenties by former slaves searching for loved ones. Between
eighteen ninety and nineteen fifty, black men and women married
earlier and were more likely to be married by thirty
five than their white peers. Mister Squier's points out this
suggests Black attitudes towards married and child rearing today are
the product of incentives and circumstances that developed long after

(01:35:32):
the end of slavery. According to mister Squire's, more than
seventy percent of black children were born to married parents
in nineteen sixty five, a century after the abolitionist slavery. Today,
only thirty percent are This may seem counterintuitive to most people,
with the facts are clear of the black family was
more intact after three centuries of chattel slavery than after

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three generations of the federal government's War on poverty. Quote
from him. Mister Squire's Christian faith and deep understand of
the role that the black church has played in the
civil rights victories of the nineteen fifties and sixties informs
his view that too many black religious leaders have since
lost their way. Still, he believes that blacks, including faith
leaders quote not white liberals close quote ultimately must drive

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the effort to restore the black family. Socialism isn't the answer. Well,
I would say add that to the list of the things.
Socialism isn't the answer for seven fifty seven Love for
Peyton's Lemonade. Coming up after the top of the air
News plus I heart media aviation expert Jay Ratliffe at
A thirty I'll be right ato six here fifty five
KRSD talk station, A very happy e Friday Eve to you.

(01:36:37):
My name is Brian Thomas. I host this show and
I am so excited to bring back to the fifty
five KRS Morning Show. It's coming up. It's fifteen days,
fifteen hours, fifty four minutes and two seconds away. Peyton's
Lemonade Stan. Welcome Ashley Dawn speaking with us this morning
about Peyton's lemonade stand. It's great to have you on
the program this morning, and thanks for the great work

(01:36:57):
you're doing with the Peyton lemonade stands.

Speaker 10 (01:37:00):
Oh, Brian, we are happy to do so.

Speaker 3 (01:37:02):
I've worked with Peyton and her lemonade stand for years
and you know, this was a six year old originally driveway.

Speaker 10 (01:37:11):
Just you know, trying to get the word out and
help kids in need.

Speaker 3 (01:37:14):
And now it's just grown so much, I mean, from
kids facing medical, personal economic hardships. We have over one
hundred stands this year, different companies helping out and it's
just great.

Speaker 10 (01:37:29):
And who doesn't like lemonade right exactly?

Speaker 1 (01:37:31):
But this is they were the great things about this story,
not only if you've met Peyton in person. She is
a charming, articulate, you know, just just a wonderful like
you know, you can't find anything wrong with this kid.
Why don't we have more kids like this kind of kid?
But I've heard her speak before, she's so inspiring. But
the whole beginning of this at six years old, that

(01:37:53):
she wanted to do a lemonade stand and donate the
proceeds to kids in needs, those kids who were she
had been in the hospital apparently as a child, like
a children's hospital.

Speaker 3 (01:38:02):
Yep, and received a toy and originally thought, you know,
once she got out and got better, she wanted to
be able to provide that for children that were still
in the hospital. And you know, just just doing something
bigger than herself as a child.

Speaker 10 (01:38:16):
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:38:17):
And her idea too, right, yeah, yeah, see, Okay, so six,
she's got philanthropy and mind at age six. It starts
singular lemonade state. And I love the pictures you've got
over history, but there she is building your first lemonade stand.
And who'd have thought that just fast forward, this is
the ninth year for it, that there would be one
hundred plus additional lemonade stands. And it grew rather quickly too.

(01:38:40):
And the amount of money you've raised over the years
is substantial.

Speaker 10 (01:38:44):
Oh a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
And this is this is now expanding from just you know,
getting kids toys.

Speaker 10 (01:38:50):
We're doing getting them.

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
Books, school supplies, summer swim bundles, beds. I mean, just
just think, if there's anything we can help with, we
are doing so. And it's really important, like you said
as a child, it's kids serving kids, right.

Speaker 1 (01:39:04):
Yeah, No, I was just saying the power of one person.
We're just taking the initial step and just showing and
demonstrating to the rest of the world. Well, hey, that's
a great idea. I love your idea. Can I help out?
You know, it always takes one person to advance the agenda,
and then they find out there's a whole bunch of

(01:39:24):
people that are like, I'd like to help you with that.
And now you have one hundred plus lemonade stands, one.

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
Hundred plus lemonade stands, and now even organizations like Chowdown Cincinnati.

Speaker 10 (01:39:34):
Are you food guy?

Speaker 1 (01:39:35):
Oh you kidding me? Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
So Chowdown Cincinnati if you're not familiar, it's a Facebook
group with you know, over three hundred thousand local people
always looking for the best takas, the best wings, the
best burgers. So the people are there and no pun
intended bread, they're hungry and they want to help as well.
So Chowdown Cincinnati and Peyton's Lemonade Stand have teams up
where we're encouraging local bars and restaurants to make you know,

(01:40:03):
kind of like an.

Speaker 10 (01:40:04):
Adult drink with our pour it Forward campaign.

Speaker 3 (01:40:08):
Yes, yes, yes, a LeMond Yeah, it's it's it's. Oh,
we've already we know the ingredients and everything and we
can provide that to the bar.

Speaker 10 (01:40:18):
Simple.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
It's obviously lemonade is in there with a grenadine. We've
got a vodka in it as well. And with this drink,
donations are being poured back into Peyton Lemonade Stand with
participating bars and restaurants.

Speaker 1 (01:40:32):
Oh, that's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:40:33):
Cool to see the community come together, involve our local restaurants.
We've already got King Corona, Maloney's Pub, the Casual Pint,
They've already launched this signature lemonade cocktail.

Speaker 1 (01:40:44):
Yeah no, well, somebody that owns a bar or is
affiliated with a bar that they can get involved in.
It Is it too late for someone to join in
the fun?

Speaker 3 (01:40:51):
Oh no, no, no, we are expanding and obviously this
is like a summer drink, like I told you, a
cranberry juice s grenadine topped with lemonade.

Speaker 10 (01:40:59):
With that lemon we own a cherry garnish.

Speaker 3 (01:41:01):
We would love for this to kind of take over,
you know, and with Chowdown and Peyton's Lemonade Stand, we
can all come together and really share the love over
a nice drink.

Speaker 10 (01:41:12):
Peyton's Lemonade.

Speaker 1 (01:41:13):
Well, you know you can drink those in the middle
of the wintertime too. We might have taken my wife
to the Turf Club for great burgers, and I'm shouting
out to the turf Club get involved in this because
they have the secret ingreenent for a lemon drop. It's
not regular vodka, it's hundred proof vodka. That's how you
actually make one. It's a really good drink.

Speaker 4 (01:41:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:41:29):
I know, trust me, I've been the beneficiary of that
cocktail many times. But no I get into it. So
they just go to peyton Pa y t o NS
Peyton's Lemonade Stand dot org to get involved.

Speaker 10 (01:41:42):
Yep, or they can email me. I'm Ashley at Chowdown
dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:41:47):
Ashley at Chowdown and.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
There's no O's in Chowdown c hw d WN Chowdown
no O's.

Speaker 1 (01:41:54):
D Okay, I'm glad you pointed that out. Chowton All right,
So yeah, I looked at your map. Is really a
site to behold on your website with all the lemonade stands,
you show where all of them are located. If you
had to move out and to get all of them in.
There so many people involved, so it's not it's businesses
that have a lemonade stand at their business as well

(01:42:16):
as homes or children having one in their homes too. Right.

Speaker 3 (01:42:20):
Oh yeah, we've had fired apartments help out all kinds
of different businesses. And you know, we're grateful for our
sponsors to be a part of this, to really expand it.

Speaker 10 (01:42:29):
And it's just it's just incredible, it really is.

Speaker 1 (01:42:32):
It is. And can I ask you, I don't remember
what the goal was for last year's of funds or
money raising, but what did you take in last year?
Because we have to have a goal to beat.

Speaker 3 (01:42:44):
Well, anything is appreciated, of course. So last year we
did really well, and I'm just going to say for
this year, let's just let's just knock the roof off
of this.

Speaker 10 (01:42:54):
Let's not put a number on it, let's just go
for it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:56):
Well, and folks in the listening on as you can
do what I did. I just went down to one
of the little businesses in Loveland that was doing a
Peyton's lemonade stand. I just made a cash contribution. The
glass of lemonade was I don't know how much they wanted,
but I gave them a lot more than that. I said,
please make sure he gets in the right hands. I
just been so inspired by this young lady. She's fantastic
and what she's been able to accomplish. It's just an

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inspiration for you out there. You've just got to take
the ball and run with it because everyone around you
probably wants to help out along some level. And if
you oil the machine and grease the skids to make
it easy, they will come and you can fulfill your
charitable goals. Now in so far as supplies are concerned,
I mean you mentioned the bar supplies and the drink.
What about like if someone says, I'd love to have
a lemonade stand in my business, or you hear maybe

(01:43:39):
a local police department of fire department heard that the
Blue Ash fire department's having one. Hey, we need to
do one of those too. What do they need by
way of, you know, supplies and how do they get those?

Speaker 3 (01:43:47):
Yeah, So if they reach out through Peyton's Lemonade Stand
dot Org Jess her mother who runs this whole thing,
she will get with you and gets you hooked up.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
Great. So you do provide the supplies, Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:44:02):
To an extent, they can be provided through a certain timeframe.
I think you can still get in. Yeah, yeah, because
we've got the big you know, debut of the twenty fifth,
our event on the twenty fifth is coming up, and
that's where everybody will be really hitting the stands. But
I think you can still get in, right, you know,
we can make shifts, some stuff, We can.

Speaker 10 (01:44:19):
Make it happen.

Speaker 1 (01:44:20):
Peyton's Yeah, they will accommodate you, trust me. This is
all for charity, so Peyton Yeah, yeah, no hard and
fast rules. Oh you want to help out, we will
accommodate you. There's a little donate now. Speaking of that,
there's a donate now button in the upper right end
corner on Peyton's lemonade stand dot org. If you can't
make it out on the twenty fifth between ten am
and one pm, it's still easy to donate to this
charity and the sponsors. The sponsors helped like fund the

(01:44:45):
sort of the supplies that you do provide. Is that
why we want to give them props of course, and.

Speaker 3 (01:44:50):
Just you know, really stepping up in their community to
help Peyton and push this thing forward.

Speaker 10 (01:44:55):
Of course, we love our sponsors.

Speaker 1 (01:44:57):
No question about it. Now. The pro that you're involved with.
I know the mission originally, as you pointed out, was
the wonderful toy. And I think back in my time
when I got my tonsils out, the Ruth Lyons Fund
gave me a It was like a soccer ball. And
you know, anything that puts a smile on your face
reading the hospital is a great thing, So toys. But
you mentioned books and other resources. Are you teaming up

(01:45:18):
with charitable organizations to fund them and provide these supplies
or does Peyton's Lemonade Stand do all the supplying and
the distribution of this yourself.

Speaker 10 (01:45:28):
We do a lot of the supplying on our own.

Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
We're definitely open to working with other people because you know,
this is helping kids with medical, personal any kind of
economic hardship.

Speaker 10 (01:45:37):
So the more people, the better, we say.

Speaker 1 (01:45:40):
Fantastic. Well, I'll tell you what, Ashley, it has been
a pleasure talking with you, and I'm so glad that
chow Down Cincinnati is helping down with is helping out
with this. I'm going to have to find the website
and check that out too, because I am a foodie.
But you said, Ashley at ATCHWDWN.

Speaker 3 (01:45:56):
Dot com, that's right, And Brian, you mentioned you're a foodie,
get on Chowdown's website and purchase what's called a discount
card and that has discounts to over sixty local restaurants
on the card. It's a thirty dollars card, and ten
dollars of every card sold this month will be going
to Peyton's Lemonade Stand.

Speaker 1 (01:46:13):
Well, I may have to go down that road. I'm
sure somewhere in the litany of restaurants that are involved
with that, I can find a lower carb alternative.

Speaker 3 (01:46:20):
Try my best right down, Ashley, Hey, that's the vodka
in this drink.

Speaker 10 (01:46:26):
It'll be good for you.

Speaker 1 (01:46:27):
That's right, Yes, that's vodka or tequila. Those are the
ones you should gravitate, Cord if you're if you're doing
what I'm doing, Ashley Don, it is distinct pleasure to
have you on the pro program today. Folks, I really
really really encourage you go to Peyton's Lemonade Stand dot
org and pay to you and Peyton's Lemonade Stand dot
or get involved in some way at minimum, find out
where the lemonade stand is nearest you and go in

(01:46:49):
and buy some lemonade. You'll love it and you'll be
helping out charity at the same time. And you know what,
this year're gonna make more than last year, and next
year more than this year, and next year maybe two
hundred stands right.

Speaker 10 (01:47:00):
Hey, Yeah, let's pour it forward.

Speaker 1 (01:47:02):
Grind big big Ashley. Thanks so much for your time
and best of luck on the fundraising this year. Cheers,
cheers indeed eight sixteen Right now, fifty five car, see
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(01:48:08):
story this morning, along with the fact that we were
back at war and the ceasefire is officially over. Trump
set it out loud yesterday for those like me who said,
you can't have a ceasefire or it's not a definitional
ceasefire when you're shooting missiles at each other. Well, we
started shooting missiles at each other last night, bombed a
whole bunch of targets, described as like ninety of them,
and of course the Iranians had to go at shooting

(01:48:29):
at Kuwait and some of the other regional neighbors and
friends of ours where we have military bases. Not quite
sure what the damage was, but we reportedly did some
serious damage to military targets yesterday, air defense systems, coastal
surveillance assets, navy capabilities, logistics infrastructure. We blew up some
bridges that they said were being used by Iran's military

(01:48:51):
to transport missiles and drones and other war related parts,
although yes, used for the citizenry as well. So some
bridges are gone. A car island, I don't know if
got hit. The Iranians said, if you hit carg Island,
we're gonna kill two of your We're gonna wipe out
all of your military. Yeah. I know that's like bagdad, Bob.
But they do still have missiles and hardware and drones

(01:49:12):
capable of hitting ships. And that's how it all started.
The Iranians claim that they're entitled to decide how traffic
goes through the Strait of Ormuz. They don't like people
going around the their side of the of the strait.
They want people to stay away from the Oman side,
where we are ferrying boats through, and so boats going
through the Oman side have been subject to attack. Of course,
we retaliate on Tuesday, they do it again. We retaliate

(01:49:34):
last night, and so finally Trump says, all right, the
ceasefire is over. Now where this takes us, I don't know,
I truly don't. I wish I hadn't answer to that question. Also,
the other big story this morning, Yes, he dropped out.
Graham Platner has been told it's not his night. He
finally listened to all of the Democrats who had previously

(01:49:55):
supported him, because he is a demonstrable pervert, always has been.
But then when you have a Democrat coming out accusing
him of rape five years ago and has the goods
to bring with her to support her claim, like contemporaneous
conversations with her then boyfriend and her therapist. Yeah, way
before Platina decided to stick his head up and run
for office, this was going on, and it's documented, and

(01:50:17):
the Democrats knew damn well that that was That was it.
We can't take anymore. We can defend a Nazi tattoo
guy and a guy who acted like a fourteen year
old on social media and a married man who was
flirting with and more with women not his wife. That's all, okay,
it's your modern Democrat party. But I guess when it

(01:50:38):
comes to raping, and that's the word you use definitionally speaking,
if in fact that happen, he's allegedly did this, but
doing it to a Democrat, someone who is seeing eye
to eyeball with his politics, and even said so out loud,
then you got to take that one seriously. So ignoring
the conservative leaning women that he obviously had some problems

(01:50:59):
with in the past. Now he's gone, So where does
that leave him. I've been kind of swirling around about
are they gonna go full on Democratic socialists? I don't
know the politics in Maine, and I had New Hampshire
Gary call this morning and said, now they're pretty far
far left in Maine. Fun fact new to me. So
do they do they go DSA? Because the Democrat Party

(01:51:21):
is going to decide this, And of course Platner. You
got to give him props in his statements saying I'm
throwing I'm out, But he did not attack directly the machine,
but he attacked pretty much directly the machine, reminding everyone,
you know, swirling behind the words he didn't say was
Kamala Harris, you know, and they kicked out Joe Biden
and didn't give you Democrats any choice in the matter.

(01:51:42):
Here's Kamala Harris. Sucks to be you and a terrible
candidate to select too. Remember she's the one that didn't
get anybody to even look at her during the primaries
and dropped out early on. I think she was the
first one out, so right, that's exactly what's going to
happen in Maine now, now they're going to go full
on DSA or are they going to go with the

(01:52:02):
centrist someone who's more palatable to the broader scope of
Democrats remains unanswered, But Graham Platner has already come out
endorsing Mainstep State Representative Valley Geiger. Geiger, speaking with the
News apparently, Platner called her Monday night and said he

(01:52:23):
was throwing into support behind her. Valley, you're a fighter.
You've been with this movement since the beginning. She said
that she was heartbroken by the allegations against Platter. I
found this rather peculiar, she responded yesterday. Earlier this week
Tuesday on social media the rape allegation against the candidates Platner,
I will not throw Graham under the bus, but neither

(01:52:46):
will I slander or accuse miss Rasicot of anything more
than telling the truth as she experienced it. I acknowledge
the pain on all sides and offer compassion on all sides.
What's that supposed to mean? Hmm? I I don't know

(01:53:09):
that mister Plattner suffered any pain other than attacks from Republicans,
which if you're a politician, you better have a thick skin,
because you're gonna get that. So if you are dealing
with pain and need to be in a safe space,
mister Platt, you're in the wrong place. I suppose it
was the pain that was heaped down upon him by
his fellow Democrats, Bernie Sanders, ro Kanna, all the ones

(01:53:31):
who just just fell fell all over themselves supporting this
guy in the face of Yes, the Nazi tattoo and
all the social media posts and all the other baggage
he brought with him. This was a bridge too far
for them. Is that the pain he's experiencing, the pain
of reality setting in the pain of his own people
realizing he is an unelectable candidate. Uh self inflicted pain, ma'am.

(01:53:57):
I don't know where Valley Geiger is on the political spectrum,
but giving her support remains for him, and that they
see eye to eye together, I think you realize that
they're probably going to go dsa wing of the party.
Keep your popcorn out and o'l Colway Jay Ratlift's coming
up next. Hey thirty two. If you have Karsity talk station,
thank god it's Thursday. It is that time of week.

(01:54:19):
We get the benefit and the joy of the presidence
of iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. Jay, welcome back, my friend.
Really appreciate you being on the show every Thursday. It's fun, ah.

Speaker 11 (01:54:28):
Blead the good morning, it's today. I look forward to
from the moment we hang up each Thursday.

Speaker 1 (01:54:33):
So you're great. I appreciate you, man, I really do.
Fuel prices continue to fall. Airfares are not dropping their prices,
although I have to I say that since it's your
first topic recognizing since we're back in full on war
and Trump has now recognized that we never really did
have a ceasefire, I'm not sure if the fuel prices
are going to continue to drop. We'll all wait and
see about that. But I guess much like the barrel

(01:54:54):
of oil drops precipitously and we have to wait for
some long protracted period of time for the gasoline prices
go out. But seemingly the gasoline prices go up immediately
after the barrel of oil goes up. So what's the
story on airline fuel?

Speaker 11 (01:55:08):
Well, you know, the airlines are always quick to say
that you know, the fuel prices are going up, we
have to adjust, and as a result, they pass those
things quickly onto us. And we look back at the
fuel prices from the last numbers that we had, and
we learned that airlines spent six billion dollars in May

(01:55:29):
for fuel. That's up eighty four percent from a year ago.
So airlines can say, yes, the prices may be dropping
a bit as the hostilities are kind of doing this
or that, but they're saying, look, we can't count on that,
So what we have to do is plan accordingly. And
they're reluctant, Brian, but they've got to keep the fares
high because that's what they're going to pay and they

(01:55:50):
can't do the up and down kind of things. Plus
the head of Delta Airlines that Bastion made it clear
when he was asked, hey, the fuel price is going
to be dropping in fares dropping, and his initial response
was no, We're going to keep fares as the demand allows.
In other words, no, we're going to keep the fares
as high for as long as we can. And I'm

(01:56:13):
not surprised and I appreciate that the candor from at Bastian,
but it just goes to show that airlines will look
for any reason they can to race fares, and they
will be reluctant if at all to ever bring those down.
I remember when fuel surch charges became a thing. You know,
we have to charge extra for fuel because of this,
and when fuel prices plummeted and airlines were asked, okay,

(01:56:34):
are those fuel surcharges going to go away? Crickets, and
it's it's the same sort of thing. Until the demand
for travel demands a change in their approach. They're going
to keep fares exactly where they're at, which is why
it's incredibly important for all of us. As I've said
time and time and time and time again, buy those
tickets as far in advance as you can because airlines

(01:56:55):
are going to continue to change the landscape. And even
Delta Airlines they're taking their basic economy approach where you
can buy the cheapest fare with no seat assignment, no
pre complyer miles, all this, Brian. They're applying that now
to some of their discounted first class seats. So oh yeah,
where you can like sharing and I fly all the
time a discounted, non refundable first class ticket. But now

(01:57:18):
would we do that? They're saying, you make that reservation,
but we're not going to sign your seat until you
get there. You're only going to get a reduced freaking
flyer a number of miles. You're not going to be
granted access to the first class lounge. So airlines are
constantly doing what they feel like they can do that's
in their best interest and customer service.

Speaker 1 (01:57:37):
After thought, well, I suppose if if you want to fly,
you've got to deal with the airlines and their rules
and their prices. Otherwise, get behind the wheel and drive there.
It may not even be an honest into their music
at Don't Go Away, We're gonna continue to find out
about well windows seats that aren't and also Southwest having
a good time with people who do it always drives

(01:57:59):
me crazy. That and a whole lot more. Jay rat
Lived look away you.

Speaker 4 (01:58:02):
Ever been in a cockpit before? It?

Speaker 1 (01:58:05):
Hey thirty nine to fifive my fair cdcalk station and
of course referring to iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay ratlif It
joins us every Thursday for a few segments talk Aviation
X views, including this just had to be a mistake,
didn't it? United Airlines sold a seat and he gives
a photograph of it that was within the article. That is,
there is no window there, so how could it be
marketed as a window seat.

Speaker 11 (01:58:25):
That is a great question, and that is the reason
it has initially gone to court because you have people
that buy a window seat, which is considered a premium seat,
which gives the airlines the right to charge us more
if that's what they choose to do.

Speaker 1 (01:58:40):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (01:58:40):
And what happens is airlines sometimes will decide to put
in more premium coach seats, or they'll adjust the interior
configuration just a bit where the airline seats instead of
like it was when the aircraft was first delivered, they're
now offset a bit where seats are moved back forward,
what have you. And instead of having a window directly

(01:59:01):
to your left or right, you've.

Speaker 1 (01:59:02):
Got a piece of a window between well if that.

Speaker 11 (01:59:07):
Yeah, between you know the one before you had on
behind you. So there were people that were flying Delta,
United and others that were paying for this window seat.
And for some people it's because they're just claustrophobic. They
need or scared to death to fly, so they just
want to look out the window, have something to distract
them so that they can endure it until they get
to their destination. They sit down on that airplane, they're

(01:59:28):
findly like, wait a minute, this is a wall I
pay for a window seat. And that's where the lawsuit
came into play because you had people with United. They said, look,
you can't sell me a window seat and flop my
butt down in a seat that doesn't have a window.
And the airlines, both Delta and United, said no, no, no,
a window seat doesn't mean you're necessarily a guarantee. Ran

(01:59:53):
The arrogance of these airlines drive me absolutely out of
my mind. But they said, uh, you know, you simply
pyeing the seat that's you know, furthest away from the aisle,
that's total Looking at it, it's stupid. So what happened
was it went to court. United's like this should be
tossed out, this is there's no basis here, and the

(02:00:14):
ruling came back said, oh yeah there is. So it's
gonna proceed and United is gonna have to go to court.
Delta is also being sued as well from people that
have the exact same issue there. But it comes, you know,
it's it's it's as though and this isn't true, but
it's as though executives get into a room and say,
how can we make it even more miserable for the

(02:00:35):
Let's just see how bad we can make it before
they finally stop coming back.

Speaker 1 (02:00:40):
Iculous, Let's see what we can get away with. It's
like the Orwell Ministry of Truth. You know, war is
peace pieces war, a window seat is Yeah, that's a
window seat. You know, there's no window. Suck it up.
It's our definition.

Speaker 11 (02:00:52):
It is so and that's why when these these surveys
on the customer service of airlines around the world, the
rankings them out, people are amazed that no US carrier
made the top twenty in the world. We should be
leading the world in everything. We're not. We don't even
make the top twenty on customer service because they suck
at it.

Speaker 1 (02:01:13):
Yeah. Well, we also have an air traffic controller systems
using five and a quarter floppy drive, so there's that
set as well. It's not just the business side of it,
it's the government side of it as well. Southwest Airlines
having to go and people who do something that drives
me crazy, Jay, this is great.

Speaker 4 (02:01:29):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 11 (02:01:30):
They put out a tweet saying just because just because
you spring out of your seat in essence one point
or zero point zer zero one seconds after the seat
belt sign goes off, you're not getting off the plane earlier.
But there were a lot of people who responded to
that slap in the face saying, time out here. I
just need to stand up because I've been in that
cramp seat for three hours. Okay, I want to stand up.

(02:01:52):
And there's some people in the middle seat says, look,
I've been between these two buzzards the whole time. I'm
out of here. And you've got the person in the
in the window seat saying, look, I'm clusterphobic. I mean,
I just need to stand And that's all they say
that they're wanting to do. It's not to bolt down
the door. Even though you do have the idiots that
when a plane gets somewhere, they're in road thirty eight
and they're going to try to fly up the aisle

(02:02:13):
before anybody else stands up to get off the plane earlier,
maybe to catch it. You know, they're connecting flight in
de boinne Iowa. Now they're just trying to get off
the plane faster. So well, guess what you can pay
for a seat up there and you can get off
the plane faster. But the pushback was significant, and it
really makes you wonder why Southwest would go down this
road where they would insult a bit some of they're

(02:02:37):
paying passengers who are simply just trying to stand up
and stretch their legs.

Speaker 1 (02:02:40):
Well, there was a viral video of this just absolutely
rude woman. She was in the back of the plane
and everybody's standing in the aisle getting ready for the
door of the plane to open up and let people off.
No one's going anywhere, and yet she's trying to move
through the crowd and she's saying, let me through, let
me through. That all look at her like, what are
you out of your mind? No one's leaving the plane,
yet you're not going anywhere. So maybe is on the
heels of that, because that went really viral.

Speaker 11 (02:03:02):
Yeah, and it's always been a pet peeve of flight
attendants and crew members and as far as this kind
of behavior, because look, there's this there's this desire obsession.
What have you for people to board the airplane as
soon as they can, even if they have no bags.
And that makes no sense to me. When Sharry and
I fly, if we have no bags, we're sitting back,

(02:03:23):
relaxing somewhere in the gate area, and then you know
we'll be one of the last ones to board, grab
our seats, and off we go. The idea and I
like sitting in the aisle seat. We sit kind of
towards the front. I don't get banged by seventy three
bags when they're getting on board, by everything. No, I'd
prefer to just relax, take it easy, get on that
plane at the last possible moment. And that's my preference.

Speaker 4 (02:03:44):
Now.

Speaker 11 (02:03:45):
Obviously, if you carry on bag, you're worried about that
bag being near you. I totally get while you want
to get on the airplane sooner than later. But there's
just this Black Friday mentality that says you're not going
to get on before I get on, And it's like
why why? I mean, what's the thought process behind that?
When it really doesn't matter. We're all kind of getting

(02:04:05):
there at the same time.

Speaker 1 (02:04:07):
Excellent point. Try to keep that in mind. Yeah, Black
Friday mentality, That is a great way of putting it.
Jay Ratlift Don't Go Away collisions with fireworks, which I
guess I understand, but large silver object collisions We're gonna
find out about that one and maybe more with Jay
Ratlift Don't Go Away.

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Speaker 1 (02:08:54):
Eight fifty on a Friday. Even a happy one to you,
Brian Thomas wrapping up another segment on aviation with iHeartMedia
AVA extpert Jay Ratlift collisions and I saw the one
about the fireworks collision. I guess you know, when you're
around Independence date of the two and fiftieth anniversary of
this great country of ours, I can envision how that
might happen. I'm kind of curious how it might reach
the area of where airplanes are flying around, but also

(02:09:17):
silver orbs. Let's first address the fireworks issue. How did
this come about? And did they ever catch anybody?

Speaker 11 (02:09:23):
They did not from the last report I saw, Brian.
This was a Delta flight final approach into Chicago's Midway Airport.
When the crew called the notified air traffic control that
they had a firework that had gone off underneath them.
They said they not only heard it, they felt it ooh,
and feared it may have impacted the aircraft. The fascinating

(02:09:46):
part about this to a lot of people is listening
to the tone of the pilots as they're reporting it
to the air traffic control it sounds like you and
I just casual conversation, just kind of FYI, that's what happened. Uh,
no issue yet, We're going to land and they did
out APPS without any problem at all.

Speaker 1 (02:10:05):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (02:10:05):
They will report it. They report it to the FAA,
who will investigate with the local authorities. But you're never
going to see who lit the fuse on it. Uh.
The aircraft was at a critical moment of flight. It
was at a lower altitude as they were coming in
UH to Chicago. And in the thirty four years I've
been doing this, Bran, I don't ever remember a time
where we've had an aircraft impacted by a firework. The

(02:10:29):
most time the restricted airspace. You don't have people doing
it close to airports those kinds of things, and the
even the FAA considers this an exceedingly rare occurrence. We've
had situations where they've gotten close. We've had we've had
rockets and things that the Lexington has a Lexington Duck
has a rocket association, and they they were sometimes launching

(02:10:51):
them a little close to the Lexington Airport and the
FAA kind of had say, you know, can we kind
of move those out of the way a bit, and
they did, but there wasn't anything that got close. But
it was a precaution. But this one apparently struck the aircraft,
but I don't know any damage. I obviously nothing happened
to the aircraft to such a critical extent that the
crew was unable to control the airplane or fly it.

(02:11:13):
But yeah, I mean to now, I've been on a
flight before, coming on a fourth of July, coming back
from Boston. We're Sharon. I could watch fireworks on the
ground as we were flying altitude, and it was it
was super cool to see from above. I don't want
to be flying over them. So that's to HMP back
the aircraft.

Speaker 1 (02:11:31):
Amen to that? All right? What's with the silver object?

Speaker 4 (02:11:35):
Jay?

Speaker 1 (02:11:36):
With all this talk about whatever they call these unidentified
aerial phenomenon or whatever, is that what we're talking about
here over in New York?

Speaker 4 (02:11:43):
YEP.

Speaker 11 (02:11:44):
It was an aircraft that came in that said, hey,
we almost got hit by a large object. And the
kind of back and forth was okay, it was at
a drone and they said, look, we're fifteen eight hundred
feet over New York and it's a lot larger than
a drone. They still still don't know what it was,
so the investigation continues, and you know, we've got to

(02:12:07):
see exactly what was taking place here because we're having
more and more drones obviously that are flying, and I
have been pleasantly surprised that we've not had more encounters
between commercial aircraft and drones that are operated because we
have so many of them, millions of them around the
world that have been made. So as a result, I'm

(02:12:28):
pleased in that regard. But when you have something that's
so large, that's apparently larger than a typical drone, you
got to find out exactly what it is. So I
kind of thought, I kind of thought, with everybody having
cameras on every phone, we can thank you video capabilities,
that we would be inundated with all these objects that
people say are out there, are going to see them,

(02:12:50):
but it's like, where are they. I'm so disappointed because
I thought we would finally have everything we needed.

Speaker 1 (02:12:55):
I figured the headline should have read Aircraft in New
York nearly collides with Bigfoot.

Speaker 4 (02:13:00):
Same thing, well, bigfoots at fifteen thousand.

Speaker 11 (02:13:03):
I'm not going to say there's not life scause.

Speaker 4 (02:13:06):
Listen hard time.

Speaker 1 (02:13:07):
If people believe in bigfoot, generally speaking, why not a
flying bigfoot, same damn thing from my perspective, Jay, all right, let's.

Speaker 11 (02:13:13):
Wrap it up with I'm still looking for intelligent life here, amen.

Speaker 1 (02:13:19):
All right, as we typically wrap it up house things
looking out for travel today, Jay rattlift hub delays Philadelphia.

Speaker 11 (02:13:24):
Philadelphia delays light maybe a minor thirty minutes or less.
And other than that, we've got rain across the country,
but nothing this could impact any major hubs. So all
in all, it should be a pretty good day of flying.
Keep your seatbelt on. There's certainly gonna be turbulenon, no.

Speaker 1 (02:13:39):
Question about that. As always, and Jay Rightliff, I will
one of the things I'll miss being on vacation, very
few things, is I won't be able to talk to
you next week or the following week. We'll pit the
ground running after that. I'll be on vacation next two weeks.
I really appreciate you coming on the show and spending
some time with us, Jay, I always enjoy it, and
I wish.

Speaker 11 (02:13:56):
Just for a matter of fact, I'm taking vacation the
twenty fourth, but I'm coming back on Wednesday, so we
can talk on the thirties, all right. I just want
you to know I'm arranging my vacation. I'm kidding, but
that it is helpful.

Speaker 1 (02:14:07):
You should have left it that way. I'm always on it.
I'm always on it that you come on anyway day.
We'll do it in a couple three weeks and between
now and then, have a wonderful July and best of
health and loved you in your better half, my brother.

Speaker 4 (02:14:19):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 1 (02:14:20):
Take care, folks. You didn't get a chance to listen
Congressman Warren Davidson along with the head of the Export
Import Bank. That was an interesting conversation, much much different
conversation with Congressman Davidson the normal, but it's fascinating and
really very positive in terms of bringing more business and
industry into the United States of America. Peyton's Lemonade Stand
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(02:15:04):
starting with a single stand nine years ago. So get
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Stand dot org and also my conversation there of course
with Jay Ratliffe. Tomorrow, big show lined up. We've got
Tech Friday with Dave Hatter, Jack Winsor from the Hot
Press Network and a full hour with former Congressman brad

(02:15:25):
Winstrip who's now with the Hudson Organization Brigham Accounts Hudson Institute,
and we're going to learn about what he's planning on
doing there, among other along with other topics tomorrow with
brad Winstrip. Folks, thank you for helping me muddle through
today and I hope you stick around. Glenn Beck's coming
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