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Speaker 1 (00:16):
I got a girl that lives down the block, look
kind of funky, a pick and white sock.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
When she boogies, she does the tube snake boogie.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
We're booging this morning as we launched you into Frank
Beard of Eazy Tops seventy seventh birthday.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
He's the guy in the drums. Let's listen, just for
a second. Shake it.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Frank Beard, one of the two remaining original members of
zz Top living uh. Frank Beard also the one who
famously did not have a beard. Billy Gibbons Dusty Hill
both lots of facial but not Frank Beard. Ironically enough,
Happy birthday, and by the way, if it's your birthday,

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it is the best birthday ever and you get to
spend it with the people you love, doing the things
you love to do. And if it's just another day,
well I don't care. Happy birthday anyway, we'll celebrate. You
can sit and moan Gary Jeff Walker for Brian Thomas
on this Thursday, June eleventh, twenty twenty six, before we

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look at to look back at significant events and people
tied to this particular date in history, including but not
limited to these fifteen oh nine I remember it well
Henry the eighth, the King of England, married his first wife,
Catherine of Aragon. Now, unlike other wives of Henry the eighth,
he actually did not kill her. There was suspected foul

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play with poison. But doctors now believe that Catherine of
Aragon died of a form of cancer melanoic sarcoma, maybe
cancer of the heart. Even but Henry the eighth was
not responsible for murdering that life. Not on the OJ list.

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This date in seventeen seventy six, and this is I'm
going to get into this in just a little while
in further detail, just some thoughts, but leading up to
what would be assigning and a declaration of independence seventeen
seventy six, On June eleventh, the Second Continental Congress appointed
the Committee of five John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson,

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Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman to draft a declaration.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Of independence from Great Britain.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
And they expected it to be done in seven days,
no seventeen days. Rather so the whole premise of starting
a new nation, you guys, put it on paper and
let's happen in a couple of weeks. There's got no

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time to lose This date in nineteen fifty five, and
I have seen some film footage of this wasn't around
but motor racing's worst disaster at the twenty four hours
of Lamon's in France. Two cars colliding crashing into spectators

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in the stands. More than eighty people were killed and
they weren't even behind the wheel. Nineteen sixty two. This
is a famous date in American I guess penitentiary lore

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the island prison of Alcatraz. The year's nineteen sixty two,
when Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin, and John Englin stage an escape,
supposedly leaving the island on a makeshift raft, never found
or heard from again. The speculation has always been they

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didn't make it, but there is evidence to point to
the fact that some of them did. At least two
of them made it, never to be heard from again.
But it's been the subject of movies and books and
all kinds of speculation in the years since. And that

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was this date in nineteen sixty two. A year later
you see the iconic pictures of this as well. A
Vietnamese Buddhist monk lit himself on fire on a Saigon
Street as a protest against the Vietnamese government's persecution of Buddhists,
lit himself on fire.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
That's dedication.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Nineteen eighty seven, the woman they would call the Iron Lady,
Margaret Thatcher, became the first British Prime minister in over
one hundred and sixty years to win a third consecutive
term of office, the Conservative Party holding that if Margaret
Thatcher could see what has happened.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
To the UK.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Since her passing, it's a tragedy. A little bit of
controversy about this one too. It was on this date
in two thousand and one to Timothy McVeigh, the accused
and convicted Oklahoma City bomber, executed by lethal injection at

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Terre Hate for the bombing in nineteen ninety five that
killed one hundred and sixty eight people. Well, I'll tell
you what that's. That's a real rush on capital punishment.
There are murderers, there are mass murderers. There are people

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who have done horrific things and been sentenced to the
ultimate sentence, the death penalty, and they they certainly sit
a lot longer than five years in prison before they
put the needle to them. A lot of questions still

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remain in some people's minds about the rush to put
Timothy McVeigh down and did he know more information than
the authorities wanted the public to know about Oklahoma City
and the bombing of the Murrap Federal Building two thousand

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and nine, remember h one and once wine flew reporting
it in more than seven nations. The WHO, which were
no longer a part of Thank God, declared the first
global flu pandemic in forty one years. They were just
getting warmed up for COVID nineteen. And it was just

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two years ago that the President's son, Hunter Biden convicted
of three felonies for purchasing a gun in twenty eighteen
when he lied on a federal form by claiming he
was not illegally using or addicted to drugs. We all
saw the pictures on the laptop and all kinds of
empirical evidence to deflect that point. The President, his dad,

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Joe Biden, in December of twenty twenty four, pardoned his
son for that and the tax related convictions too. Some
people have even rumored Hunter Biden as a candidate for
president in twenty twenty eight. There comes a time for

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all good dynasties and bad ones to end. Great rhythm
and blues drummer Bernard Perdy is eighty seven.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Today.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
International Motorsports Hall of Famer Jackie Stewart is eighty seven.
Adrian Barbo is eighty one. I remember Adrian Barbou in
the late nineteen seventies and early nineteen eighties, and you
may as well whow woman has some talent mentioned? Frank

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Beard is easy top. Graham Russell Joe one of your
favorite bands. Air supply Graham Russell the Australian is seventy six.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Today. I expect to.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Hear making love out of nothing at all, or or
lost in love or all out of love or something
at some point this morning, just to irritate you.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Nothing else.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Main of Cincinnati football fans existence. Joe Montana, the Hall
of Famer, is seventy Today. Actor Hugh Laurie turned sixty seven.
Mehmet Oz, doctor Oroz's sixty sixth birthday on this June eleven.
Actor Peter Dinklage, which sounds like a condition, doesn't it.
Fifty seven. Diana Tarasi, the great US Olympic basketball star.

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She's forty four. Sheia Lebouffe Leboeuf Leboeuf is forty and
that's playing on the list. Anyway, we're going to talk
about the Declaration of Independence. As I mentioned just a
few moments ago, it was this date, in seventeen seventy

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six that the Party of Five was commissioned by the
Continental Congress, which led in short order, some seventeen days
to a final draft of the Declaration of Independence. As
we come up on America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday,
it's five point fifteen Gary jeff and for Brian Thomas

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in fifty five KRC the talks day FKRCV talk station.
So it's June eleventh, seventeen seventy six. The Second Continental
Congress have decided that they need they need some guys

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to get their heads together to write a declaration of
independence from King George and Great Britain, a drafting of
formal statement. But they don't just rely on one guy. Now,
Thomas Jefferson writes the first draft because he's got extensive

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writing experience, he's a wordsmith.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
He's the principal author.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
But you got John Adams, who would be our second
President of the United States, who is a passionate advocate
for independence. You've got a guy named Roger Sherman, who
was the only signer of all four of a Miracle's
America's original state papers. He's from Connecticut. Robert Livingstone, who's

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from New York later would be a Secretary of Foreign
Affairs and negotiated the Louisiana purchase for Thomas Jefferson. He's
in this committee of five to draft this document. And
of course Benjamin Franklin certainly one of the most influential

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Founding fathers, who edited and refined Jefferson's draft records, and
Adams added a lot too after Jefferson wrote the first draft.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
The committee.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
This was all because of what had happened a few
days before, what happened on June eleventh, seventeen seventy six,
where a direct response to what had happened in the
Second Continental Congress on June seventh of that year, when
Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed the Lee Resolution calling
for independence, and that led to this committee presented their

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work to Congress on June twenty eighth, adopted July fourth,
and then of course is finally signed and ratified. Even later,
Thomas Jefferson was tasked with providing rhetorical foundations, the philosophy

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behind it, emphasizing natural rights, consent of the governed, which
some people in Washington seem to have forgotten. Some people
in Columbus too, for that matter, and the right to
alter or abolish oppressive governments. I think January sixth perhaps

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the right to do that, to alter or abolish oppressive governments.
We've got an obviously fraudulent vote that they're going to certify.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Who can blame them? My opinion.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Benjamin Franklin just kind of honed it. He kind of styled,
crafted what Jefferson had written. He wanted to make sure
that the document was as persuasive as could be to
both the colonists and to the international the rest of

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the world, because this was not just a statement about
what was going on in this continent. This was a
statement to all the despots and dictators and monarchies and
oppressive governments around the world. Look what we're doing your people.

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Your people may want a taste of this, and it
turns out many of them did. John Adams was the
guy behind the scenes, the political guy who kind of
went and talked to people and said, you know, this
is really something you need to get behind and we

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all need to be standing together on this. So he
was a good organizer. Sherman and Livingston well, they had
legal and other expertise in the process, kind of diplomat guys.
But it is still the foundational document of the reason

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we have a country. And it's hard to believe that
two hundred and fifty years on, there are people, and
not a small number of people. There are people in
this country who are citizens of this country who just

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want to trash the Declaration, the Constitution, and everything else
that makes this country truly the greatest nation on the
face of the earth to this day, even with all
of our flaws and faults. The Committee of Five started
their work on June eleventh, seventeen seventy six, two hundred

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and fifty years ago. Today it's five point twenty five
fifty five KRCV talk station.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Fifty five KRCS.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
And dry Saturday Sunny Skies and higher round eighty four
or so. We're at seventy six now at fifty five
KRCV talk station.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Tom requested this waiting on the line. Oh you got
to play a little bit of it. Come on Joe's
air supply. I'm land alone, get my head on the phone.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
You get a few till it hurts.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
I know you had too good blind out candy too.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
So.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
The Australians. No yacht rock, you shot.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Good carry You're smile in my heart for times when
my life.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Happy birthday to Graham Russell. The beer supply today make
me believe? What's a good bring? Yeah? Definitely play the hook,
pump it up, Joe, come on, I'm a love. I'm
so lost to life.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
How don't you ride?

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Believe in the soul all out of lone?

Speaker 5 (17:04):
Just say that.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
I love this.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Whenever a song like this comes on the radio and
I'm driving with my wife, who's eight years younger than me,
I always say I played that on the radio when
it was new. She just looks at me and she goes, well,
I listened to it on the radio when it was new.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yes, A little air supply never hurt anybody, not even Tom.
Five point thirty in the morning, Tom, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (17:33):
I don't know. I just got done vomiting. This is
what happens. This is what happens when you ask Joe
Strecker to not play something. He takes it upon himself
to that that was really funny. I just got done
like crying, laughing. That was very, very funny.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
No, Tom, here's the thing. Here's the thing, as someone
who who played that song and many others like it
thousands of time on the radio back in the day,
thousands of times, and not just air supply, and not
just soft rock, you know, anything that was on the radio.

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I played a lot back in the eighties and seventies
and eighties and nineties, so I got to a point
of burnout with almost everything. But but I will say
that I have a finer appreciation even for air supply
than I did then now because there's some time and

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distance behind it.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
I don't know if that makes sense to you or not.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
But I can even I can even handle air supply.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
To me, it's compared to the crap that's coming out
these days. That's kind of how I feel about it.
You're because most of it's just noise, most of it.
And the thing with air supply with me was my
best friend's little sister. She would make her boyfriend sit
in the car with her and listen to supply whenever

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they were having a fight. It was sickening. I don't
know how he tolerated it.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
I really well, you know the things, the things that
a guy will do to get lucky.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
Yep, keep the girl and all that stuff. Yeah, what
else is on your mind?

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Tom?

Speaker 6 (19:16):
Great great information today about the lead up to the
to the Declaration of Independence. Always appreciate all the insight
that you put out there with all the different people
whose birthdays it is or things that happen on this
date in history. So I really enjoy that.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
When today was today was a landmark one. I mean, yeah,
that's a big one.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
You get you get the escape from al Alcatraz, you
get the and I didn't even mention the integration. The
racial integration at the University of Alabama happened on this
day in nineteen sixty three, when when a black female
walked onto campus for the first time and and attended
classes and Alabama. So, I mean, there were a lot

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of landmark things today on June eleventh, which kind of
surprised me.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
Yeah. And and and I think a good lesson for
for people to always remember is that there's been a
lot of There's been a lot of landmarks, and there's
going to be more. And and because because the way
this country was founded as you mentioned, was that we
could continue to change it. We keep fixing it and
working on it. Yeah, it's not it's not perfect, but

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it's believe it or not. You know, don't listen to
CNN or MSNBC. But this is that this is the
best country in the world. Oh, we have the ability.
We have the ability to make it better and continue
to work on it and fix things. And and I
would say that the best thing that we can do
to fix this country and make it better is don't

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vote Democrat. Have a great day.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Oh right, simple answer.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
And he may have been getting it something, but it's
a little bit it's a little bit more even than
don't vote Democrat. Number one it's about, especially for Republicans
or people who are not Democrats, is just getting out
and voting.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Period.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
We seem to have a hard time with that. On
the right, exercising our right. We seem to have a
real disconnect here with loudly protesting the Marxism, the socialism,
the communism that has crept into our politics in this country.

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And yet time after time after time, whether it's a
primary or an off year election, Republicans sit on their hands.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
These people. These people put their lives, their honor, their fortune,
their sacred honor, their lives on the line by signing
that document that instantly became that made them criminals in
the eyes of the British Crown, subject to death. And

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the principles that they laid out there and they defined
and they stuck their necks on the line for and
so many people have died for over the years since.
And you can't get up and cast a vote on

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election day. Well, the Democrats are voting early and often
in California. It's legal to cheat. The legislature made sure
of it, and we saw a great, great prime example
of it in the La mayor's race this past week.

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But don't vote Democrat. But for goodness sake, get out
and vote enough already make it too big to rig,
as the President said in twenty twenty four, And they

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definitely tried to rig and pull another one over us
in the race Trump v.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Kamala.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Millions upon millions of dead voters and ineligible voters and
illegal citizens. I am confident voted in the last presidential
election and we'll vote in this upcoming midterms. So if
you're a legal voter, if you're a registered voter, you're
born in this country, you're a citizen by God, and

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you have to get out and vote. There's no excuse.
They're ballot harvesting. They're going and helping people fill out ballots.
They're picking people up in buses in mass and bringing
them to the polls.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
And you can't get up off your duff and cast
a ballot.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Back to point A don't vote Democrat five point thirty
seven at fifty five KRC, the talk station.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
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the the talk station, Good Morning, five forty one.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
On this Thursday, June eleventh, twenty twenty six, Garry Jeff
Walker in for Brian Thomas New reporting Popular Mechanics. It
was the last time you ever heard of popular Mechanics.
Says that while we think we know how many people

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are on the planet, we may be maybe under counting
that Most estimates place the current human population around eight
point two billion. But they analyzed like three hundred rural
dam projects across thirty five countries, and researchers in Finland

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at Alto University found discrepancies among independent population counts and
other population data gathered between nineteen seventy five and twenty ten.
Such underreporting could have consequences in terms of resource allocation
within a country. Other experts remained skeptical the decades of
population counting could be off by such a wide margin.

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I didn't I thought rats outnumbered us, but apparently no.
We are Homo sapiens, they said, sapien Joe. And according
to this article, the most successful mammalian species in Earth
history not even close, and outnumbers the second place contender,

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the rat, by at least a billion. So there are
more people than rats. And I don't know if you
If you they are, they're all in Washington. You've got
to decentralize the rat population to fix this country. Good morning, Bobby,

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what's on your mind?

Speaker 7 (26:40):
Hey, my brother, thanks for taking my call and faith
flag family and give me shelter. It's handicapped Thursday.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
What else you got, brother?

Speaker 7 (26:52):
Brother? We got handicap Thursday that today it's six and
a half in one street to take over.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
So I I'm not familiar with handicapped Thursday. Bobby, You've
got to explain this to me.

Speaker 7 (27:05):
Well, what we do is we got a lot of
individuals within our group. We count the shootings, stabbings, beat downs.
Oh May and Cincinnati is one of the most violent
cities per capita, and we handicap it the next this
weekend at six and a half and one small street takeover.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
So you're predicting, oh he is, there're going to be
six and a half. Now, how do you shoot a
half a person?

Speaker 7 (27:33):
Well, you got to go either over or under, and
we kind of separate.

Speaker 6 (27:36):
It that way.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Okay, I don't like over under bets in anything, but
I'm going to go with eight. I'm going to go
with eight shootings.

Speaker 7 (27:51):
I think count the stabbings, the beatdowns and all the
street violence we got. I think eight's a pretty good
number this weekend. Yeah, and all this heat out, all
the thugs will be on the street. There you go.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Well, we're going to have a reduction in humidity Saturday
and Sunday. That may tamp it down a bit, Bobby.
It has to be hot and humid, so people get
really irritated and perhaps more trigger or knife happy. The
hotter it gets, you know, the more dangerous it is
on the mean streets of Cincinnati.

Speaker 7 (28:24):
Exactly true my brand. Last week it was an overallso.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Well so, Bobby, what would be your solution to end
these street takeovers, and I think they're working towards it.
I'm not necessarily a fan of seizing property, but in
this case I'll make an upsex an exception. I think

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confiscating the vehicles that are being used to committee illegal
acts is perfectly acceptable in this case.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
What do you think?

Speaker 7 (29:01):
I think it's absolutely correct. They need to be pulling
people over, checking them out, and they see four thugs
at two point thirty in the morning driving around, they
need to find out what's going on. No insurance, no
driver's license, you know, a main firearms inside, under handicapped individuals.
It doesn't end back the blue. Let them go out

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and do their job.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
I agree with you, all right, Bobby, Well listen, thanks.
Handicapped Thursdays on and the again, the over under four
shootings is six.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
And a half.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
I mean maybe maybe the half could be like a
little person, hopefully not a child, my.

Speaker 7 (29:41):
Friend, when they start random shootings and stuff the people
on the sidewalks and nobody's say it, Cincinnati is a
dangerous street. People don't realize that city doesn't want to
tell you the truth.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Well, of course not, of course not. They're too busy
traveling on your dime five forty six at fifty five
KRC the talk station.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
My Heart's yacht Rock Radio goes rc DE talk station.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Ten minutes away from six o'clock, and all of a sudden,
we're walking in Memphis.

Speaker 8 (30:17):
Put on my blue sweet shoes and boarded the plane.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Touched down in the land of the downs Blues in
the middle of the poor'sc Ham won't shoot down on me.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Jack got the first class ticket.

Speaker 9 (30:42):
But I'm as blue as a fore can then in Memphis.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
That is a song that uh. I was doing my
interpretation of it memph in the summer of nineteen ninety
nine on the patio at Longworth's on Mount Adams.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
They're on Saint Street. I sang that song. The owner
heard me and immediately put me to work with the
little duo that was playing Happy Hour on Wednesdays, and
that started my career of singing out in Cincinnati. Because
of that song, Apparently I didn't suck, so all these

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years later, I still play occasional gigs with my friend
Chris Gohens, who was an amazing guitarist, and he and
I are going back to one of the places where
we started playing back in well twenty years ago, two
thousand and five plus twenty years ago the Bellevue Vets.

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We'll be back there on Sunday afternoon from three to
six pm on June twenty eighth at the Bellevue Vets.
The Gowen's Walker Farewell Tour. We've been on the farewell
tour for twenty years.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
And get rid of us.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
So an invitation to come join us Bellevue Vet's there, Bellevue,
Kentucky on June twenty eighth, Sunday afternoon. A little song,
a little dance, a little seltzer down my pants. So
have you ever have you ever been in a work
situation where somebody brings in some food or makes some food.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
And it just stinks. I mean, it's just.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
That the horrific odors emanating from like a microwave or
a kitchen just absolutely drive you to distraction or you
just want you just want to get out of the
whole office. It happened for an officer in Myrtle Beach,

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South Carolina, Michael Dbasse, age forty six, I believe, at
police headquarters there in Myrtle Beach. Last week he got
into a dispute with a patrolman Dbias confronted the patrolman

(33:20):
about warming up fish in the microwave. Number one, who
puts fish in the microwave to warm it up? I mean,
fish is one of those things depending on what it
is that you heat and eat once. I don't even

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want leftover fish for the most part.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
But you certainly, if you're gonna heat it up again
the next day, you don't put it in the microwave.
Maybe an air fryer, but that'll stink up the joint too,
or the oven, but not in the microwave. Fish in
the microwave.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Anyway. So he confronts this guy.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
And the guys just I guess, just warming up his
fish in the microwave anyway, stinking up the whole joint.
So Detective dBase drew and pointed his gun at the
other officer right there in the kitchen area of the
police headquarters, and he was arrested consequently for allegedly pointing

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and presenting a firearm at a person, a felony, booked
into jail, later released without bail. I love this taglement
in the story. Court records do not indicate what kind
of fish was being microwaved. You don't microwave fish, and

(34:53):
certainly don't. If you want to get into that kind
of depravity, do it at home. Nobody else is subjected
to your sick proclivities microwaving fish. It's five point fifty
five Joseph.

Speaker 5 (35:09):
Two and fifty years of news Whether and traffic. No,
there was no traffic then US five krs. The talk station, AH,
good morning, how you doing.

Speaker 9 (35:27):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
They're coming to America. They're coming to America, and if
they're coming illegally, they should be detained and deported. Right,
isn't that what the law says. We're going to figure out,
according to the Supreme Court, whether one of President Trump's

(35:49):
key immigration detention policies maybe legal or not.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Because there have.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Been courts, different courts, liberal courts, conservative courts all across
country issuing rulings on the Trump administration's policy, a key
plank of it to deport illegals expected to reach the
highest court in the land. The policy allows authorities to

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detain illegal immigrants who have been in the country for years,
and do so without releasing them on bond. In other words,
they are detained for an indeterminate period of time until
they're thrown out or their case is hurt or whatever.
They just adopted it last year, and it's a huge
change from how previous administrations have interpreted a provision of

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the Immigration and Nationality Act the IONA, and it led
to a flood of lawsuits from immigrants challenging their detention.
The speculation is the justices at the Supreme Court would
intervene after several different appealed courts issued confluting interpretations of
the law. In the words, nobody can agree whether this

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is constitutionally I legal or not. This detention of illegal immigrants,
and it will determine how millions of illegal immigrants will
be detained, if they'll be detained at all. The US
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected the Trump policy,
suggesting it would be the broadest mass attention without bond

(37:30):
mandate in the nation's history for millions of non citizens.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
The INA.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Or the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act that's
a mouthful amended thena requiring detention without bond for illegals
seeking entry into the country. The thing that's the main
crux of the issue says individuals seeking admission shall be

(38:01):
detained if an immigration officer determines they are not clearly
and beyond a doubt entitled to be admitted under the
second ministration for President Trump, the government said this detention
mandate applied to individuals who were already entered the United States.
Multiple illegal immigrants argued that the portion of the INNA

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didn't apply to them because they were already in the country,
therefore no longer seeking admission. Already here, don't need to
seek admission or undergoing a formal admission admissions process. Instead,
they said, another provision of the IONA, which is Section

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twelve twenty six, applied and allowed them to receive bond hearings.
But the Trump interpretation President Trump's interpretation of this is
a huge change in federal policy from what has been
which is I think a part of the problem, not

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only the interpretation thereof of the law, but the actual
enforcement of the law has always been an issue for
the last fifty years with the illegal immigration in this country.
The law is what the law is, and always trying

(39:28):
to find some loopholes in some gray areas there so
you can jump the line.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
And feel secure.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Well, I've been here for five years, for goodness sake,
It's got to count for something.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
How'd you get in?

Speaker 1 (39:42):
I overstate a visa, came over the border illegally, I
didn't go to my court date. I'm still here, sorry,
Charlie or one or whomever. You are still technically breaking

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the law, and you have been for as long as
you've been in the country. It's kind of like squatters' rights,
is what they're claiming, basically. And somebody moves into your house. Well,
you're gone on vacation, you come back home and they've
set up shop right there in your bedroom, in your

(40:25):
living room, at your pool. Well, we were here all weekend,
but you need to get out of my house. You're
breaking in there, and you're breaking the law. You're trespassing.
Oh well, we've been here for like five days. It's okay. No,

(40:45):
it's not okay. Get out of my house. And yet
there are people who legally find ways to wrangle and
impose quatered rights on your property. It's the same thing
when it comes to immigration in our country. You don't

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have this nonsense going on in Japan, do you no?

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Not in China, do you no?

Speaker 1 (41:20):
You don't have people breaking into these countries illegally. They've
let it happen in England, in Ireland, in Europe, and
you see what that has wrought, unfettered mass immigration that
they have allowed under the auspice of compassion. You see

(41:45):
the riots in Ireland after the Sudanese dude almost beheaded
an irishman on the street with a knife.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
He was trying to cut his head off.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
And then of course in London, in the UK, the
young man who bled out while he was in police
handcuffs because a Hindu Sikh used his ceremonial sword to
stab him to death, arguing that he had used racial epithets.

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When this happens, and it's happened in France, it's happened
in Spain, it's happened in Germany, it's happened in great
measure in the UK, especially with Muslims more or less
taking over a culture and a country in the space
of a few short years. That's what's being attempted here

(42:57):
in this country. And it's being condoned and encouraged by
one of the political parties who just wants power. And
we know who that party is. They're the ones with
the ass on their insignia, and so any kind of

(43:25):
power that president Trump's administration have tried to wield while
enforcing the law.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Is fine with me. Well I've been detained without bond.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Well, I guess you'll sit there for a minute while
we sort this out and figure out whether you're supposed
to be here or not, won't we instead of releasing them,
which has been the policy of the other administrations, especially
the last one, the Biden administration, releasing them, losing track

(44:01):
of them, and then they just blend right in until
they commit a murder or a rape, or get behind
the wheel of a tractor trailer and kill a family
because they can't read or speak English, know the traffic laws,

(44:22):
any number of wonderful, wonderful benefits of our illegal immigrants
in these United States of America. So good luck at
the Supreme Court. It's six fifteen on a Thursday morning.
Gary Jeffin for Brian Thomas on fifty five KRC the
talk station.

Speaker 10 (44:41):
Our iHeartRadio Music Festival presented by.

Speaker 11 (44:43):
From Kentucky between two seventy five and downtown, and that
he's not like On fifty five KRC the talk station.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
Bill walcked me to my door last night.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
And he said, before I go.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Something about our love affair.

Speaker 9 (45:03):
That I have a right to know.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
And I said, Bill, let's not stand out here like this.
What would the neighbors think. I said, let's just slip
inside and I'll fix us both a drink.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
My girl Bill, My my girl Bill.

Speaker 4 (45:29):
I can't say enough about the way I feel about
my girl, my girl Bill.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Oh, this is cruel. Twenty minutes past the hour.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Whenever I hear the name Bill, I automatically think of
that stupid novelty song by Jim Stafford from the seventies
called my Girl Bill, and look, Bill's on the line, Bill,
how'd you like that song?

Speaker 12 (45:53):
Whenever I hear the name Bill, I automatically into a
stupid novelty song by Jim Stafford so the seventies called
of course.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Of course he's listening to the radio instead of the phone. Bill.

Speaker 6 (46:07):
Yeah, how you doing?

Speaker 2 (46:09):
I'm fine? How come you're not listening to the phone.

Speaker 9 (46:13):
I am. I'm on the phone right now.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
I know you were listening to the radio, though, And
so when I went to you, you weren't there. I
could hear the I could hear me in the background. See,
when you're on hold, you're supposed to listen on the phone,
not on the radio because there's a delay.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Get it.

Speaker 12 (46:28):
Yeah, that that song sucks.

Speaker 13 (46:30):
Man, don't play Land no more. Man, You're gonna piss
up a lot of people called Bill out there. I'm
telling you talk. Ain't no girls named Bill.

Speaker 12 (46:41):
And ain't no men that is uh mail going to
be called a girl or we're gonna punch somebody.

Speaker 9 (46:50):
In the face.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Okay, Bill, So what's on your mind this morning? Bill?

Speaker 12 (46:58):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (46:59):
Well what else taken? Brother?

Speaker 12 (47:01):
Is this is the most important thing that it's not
being brought to the table upfront. If we got to
get these judges stopped drawing roadblocks, roadblocks in front of
what the people of this country voted for, the change

(47:24):
from socialist communists called the Democrat Party. It's going to
take another fifty years for people to finally wake up
and say the true evil within is true.

Speaker 7 (47:37):
It's the Democrat Party.

Speaker 13 (47:39):
Look at them.

Speaker 14 (47:39):
They they created the cred They're the wares that wanted
to hold down the black population here. It was always
the Republicans that brought us out of it.

Speaker 6 (47:53):
Now it's going to take that long.

Speaker 7 (47:56):
Black people out there wake up.

Speaker 14 (47:59):
Quit same way with the Jews, my god, the Jews
fell in place because they were steeling.

Speaker 15 (48:08):
That they were being not equally a part of America.
Now look at him, Bill, They are the greatest country
on the world.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
That's to us, Bill, Bill, there's no question, you know.
And that was beautiful and I think you are too.
Thank you so much. No, the main salient point is
the fact that and and Bill did make this very well.
He made the point very well. The Democrats are the party,

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the original party of the original sin in America, racism.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
They are absolutely.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Of the people behind the KKK, behind planned parenthood, eugenics,
all kinds of racist policies. And then they it's the
olde They break your leg and then they hand you
a crutch. And that's what they've done with the minority
population in this country. And they're cow telling to its

(49:08):
supposed coddling of blacks and other minorities in this country
and getting them to vote for them when they're the
actual repressive party. If you're going to pick one of
the two, Republicans have been the Party of Abraham Lincoln,
the Party of emancipation, the party of opportunity. Democrats have

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always been the status party of control of power, maintaining
power at any cost by any method, and now they've
been overrun by communists. It's not that it's the Democrat
Party was never a party of civil rights just because

(49:57):
LBJ had a D in front of his name. He
is not the great civil rights president that he's hailed
as by Democrats. He was a Dixiecrat. He was a racist.
And he said when he got some of this legislation
passed in the mid sixties, the Civil Rights Acts and all,
that this won't be enough to make a difference. So

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it'll be enough to keep them voting for Democrats for
the next two hundred years. And he was talking about
black people. Their strategy worked. But if you want to
look for a racist, fascist party, look to Democrats, especially
in twenty twenty six and again so it's been overrun

(50:45):
by Marxist and communists now. So it's not even the
Democrat Party you may remember from the sixties or seventies,
which wasn't good either. It's just progressively gotten progressively worse
over time. So Bill's right about that. And how how

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America's Jews can vote for Democrats is just it's it's
beyond me because they've proven to be in twenty twenty
six an extremely anti Semitic Party six six fifty five

(51:27):
KRCB talk station.

Speaker 7 (51:29):
Turn up your radio, here's a.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
The talk station.

Speaker 7 (51:35):
All right.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
So, having done this showing a long time, I didn't
know about handicap Thursday, but.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Apparently the over under is six and.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
A half shootings in Cincinnati this weekend between now and
Sunday night next month. Okay, six and a half shootings
and one small street takeover. Well, we're already well on
our way. Shooting in col Rain, shooting in Coryville already,
So we're at.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Two, two shootings on our way. My prediction was eight.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
And it's not because I'm a pessimist or because I'm
hoping somebody is gonna get shot, but I've seen the
trend and the trend as you know, every year when
the weather gets as warm, the trend is always upward
as we get into the summer months, and there'll be
more mass mayhem on the mean streets of Cincinnati this weekend.

(52:37):
We're already at two shootings. I mean, Joe, we do
need some gunshots to measure how many shootings, if one
should occur this morning. We need to get that information
on the air as soon as possible so people can
get their DraftKings accounts in order before the betting window closes. Yeah,

(52:59):
a little polymar on shootings in Cincinnati. I did marvel
earlier that it was six and a half was the prediction.
And what would the half be? Would that be an
almost shooting? Would that be a grazing perhaps or a stabbing?

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You know, they've taken away guns for the most part
for the entire law abiding population of England, of UK,
United Kingdom. So alass and lacts stabbings are on the
rise because the evil doesn't care what kind of a

(53:47):
weapon it uses. If I can't use a gun, I'll
use a knife. If I can't use a knife, I'll
get in my van and roll over people. We've seen
that happen, haven't we, So it really doesn't matter what
tool or purveyance of violence is utilized. Crazy people gon't

(54:10):
be crazy. Violent people gon't be violent. It's more a
question of the rot inside our society and people who
keep on trying to draw lines of division between us
to create chaos so the whole thing falls under its

(54:33):
own weight and they can rebuild society again in their
own image. That's what the Democrat, socialist and the communists
are trying to do and all of these groups that
are paying the protesters to protest not so peacefully in
places all over this country and any number of different issues.

(54:59):
The topic really doesn't matter, whether it's Palestine, or climate
or racial violence or something else. The protesters will show
up ice. The protesters will show up, they will be paid,
and they're paying the people to do this strictly to

(55:22):
bring our society down. So two of those involved in
the brawl last summer downtown been sentenced, almost a whole
year after the event made national headlines. Aisha Devaughan pleaded
guilty aggravated right aggravated assault in connection with the fight,

(55:45):
after she repeatedly kicked and stopped a man while he
was on the ground.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
You may have remember seeing that. Huh.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
The Hamilton County Common Please, Judge Virginia Talent sentenced her
to six months at River City correctional service, followed by
four years of community control and to community control I'm
not even sure what that is, and two hundred hours
of community servances. She did say for her part, I'm

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standing here today to take full responsible for the role
I played that brought me before this court. Talent also
sentenced to a thirty three year old man, Gregory Wright,
to felony theft and misdemeanor riot after police said he
stole a necklace off the neck of an alleged assault

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victim during the fight. He apologized write sentenced to three
years of community control in two hundred hours of community service.
Another defendant connected to the case was also scheduled to
be sentenced yesterday, but the hearing was continued to a
later date, Jermaine math Use. Four of the eight charged

(57:03):
in the brawl have now been sentenced. Two additional defendants
continue to move through the court system. And uh, you know,
two hundred hours of community service for violently kicking and
stomping someone who's already on the ground after being pummeled

(57:24):
by the rest of the crowd. Two hundred dollars of
community service six months, correct, I think you know? Felon
The assault apparently is not is not a high profile
crime anymore in Cincinnati, of course, depending on the color

(57:45):
of your skin. Perhaps hate to think of it that way,
but that's what it seems like.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Six point thirty six and some change. GJ dubs in
for Brian Thomas on The Morning Show on fifty five
KRCV talk station.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Not every chimney system is the same.

Speaker 8 (58:02):
At the Chimney Care Company, they've specific de talk station.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
All right, you already have to have a photo ID
to vote in Ohio. It's the law, but.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
There is a push in the Assembly and the Senate
in Ohio Joint Resolution ten would enshrine that law in
the state constitution because even though it's a law, you
have to have a voter idea photo ID to vote
in Ohio in person. If it's not enshrined in the constitution,

(58:38):
they could just change the law. And we've seen evidence
of how important it is to actually have to prove
who you are to vote in this country, because every
state is different, as we all know. And it saw
a perfect illustration of this in California in the primaries there,

(59:00):
where you only have to have a gym membership card
to register to vote, not a station ID or not
a driver's ID, not a state ID, not anything that
is definitively proving who you are, or a debit card.

(59:23):
You can use a debit card to register to vote.
In California, there's no voter ID laws. I wonder why
they wanted all those millions of illegal immigrants to come
into the country, maybe because their policy sucked and the
citizens wouldn't vote for it, but they can get these

(59:44):
people to do it a non no ink, free money
for you. Just vote for us, not a citizen, don't
worry about it. And of course the mail in voting
nightmare debacle that is California. We were all witnessed to

(01:00:04):
with the latest but I mean it's been going on
for years. They made it a law in California that
you can commit voter fraud as long as you're a Democrat.
That's basically what the law says, not verbatim, but you know.
But in Ohio, the Senate President Rob McCauley said that

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photo ID for voting went into effect in twenty twenty three.
He said, this will be, if not the strongest, one
of the strongest election integrity, voter identification voter identification measures ever. Now,
while there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Ohio,

(01:00:58):
I mean, we do have photo Even before photo ID
wasn't the law. Thousands upon thousands of audits have proven that.
So let's let's make sure that there's no voter fraud
in Ohio. Democrats, for their part, say this is an

(01:01:20):
effort for to to increase Republican turnout in the midterms.
Uh one, they'll be better for Democrats than twenty twenty four. Okay,
So Democrats who are worried about Republican turnabout turnout, That's
what I was talking about earlier. You got to get
out and vote. Mike, good morning, You're on fifty five K.

(01:01:45):
See what's on your mind.

Speaker 10 (01:01:48):
In California, it takes some one a week to count
the governor vote and all this stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:01:54):
But during a.

Speaker 10 (01:01:55):
Presidential election, as the Paul's closed with like percent reporting,
turn California blue instantly wait, oh.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Well, yes, yes, when there's actually when there's actually a
challenge though in California, you know, Gavin Newsen famously said
when it looked like at one point two Republicans might
make the jungle primary in the governor's race, he said, well,
we have a break the glass scenario. He didn't elaborate
on what that was, but the break the glass emergency

(01:02:28):
scenario for the LA mayor's race and for the California
gubernatorial primary was was we'll just cheat, We'll just produce
enough mail in ballots, find out how many we need
and Rotham and Ramen will will overtake Spencer Pratt, no problem.

(01:02:52):
How many votes do you need? Like the twenty twenty
presidential election all over again. We know that COVID and
the mail in balloting that was allowed in mass in
twenty twenty had a great deal to do with the
fraud in election. Fraudulent election that gave us Joe Biden

(01:03:16):
a vegetable as president. Oh, there's no proof of there's
no evidence of voter fraud in twenty twenty all over
the board, from Pennsylvania to Georgia, and certainly in places
like New York and California where they don't where it's
legal to cheat. Anyway, I'm all in favor of photo

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voter ID, just like I'm all in favor of voting
in person. There's absolutely zero reason unless you are sick
in the hospital or you're out of the country that
you can't get to a polling place on election day
and vote.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Zero reason.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
Unless you're a Democrat and you want a ballot harvest
and you want to cheat. Six forty seven on a
Thursday morning, Gary Cheffin for Brian on fifty five KRC,
the talk.

Speaker 9 (01:04:14):
Station getting a little older doesn't have to mean, well,
getting older.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
The talk station, so expecting the Donna Schwaben people to
come in about eight o'clock or so this morning, I
gotta I'm gonna ask them again. I always forget what's
the name of that special recipe sausage they make exclusively
for Donna Schwaben, and they just do it for the

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festival every year.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
So I'm going to get them to explain it to
me one more.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
Time, Lucy when they're in later on this morning, and
hopefully they brought some of that with them. You know,
I don't consider myself an a fisionado of sausage or
anything thing. I do enjoy certain sausage, but the Donna
Schwaben sausage, that special recipe is, I don't know, it's otherworldly.

(01:05:15):
You just don't find sausage like that every single day,
and there's a reason for that, because they only do
it once a year. Anyway, expecting to have a good
conversation with those guys when they saunter into the studio
a little bit later on, and tonight marks the beginning
of the thirty fourth annual Newport Italian Fest. They're at

(01:05:39):
Festival Park right there on the banks of the Mighty
Ohio River just below the Newport on the Levee and
for the fifteenth year excluding the COVID year, I will
be Master of Ceremonies at the Grand Opening ceremonies tonight
on stage about six thirty or so. It has become

(01:06:01):
a part of woven into the fabric of summer life
for me. I was honored to be asked the first
time in twenty ten if I would like to MC
the Grand opening ceremonies. I said, sure, I'll give it

(01:06:21):
a whirl. And the City of Newport and the Foundation
have had me back all these years. Like I said,
twenty twenty was a bummer for everybody on a lot
of fronts, but particularly for Italian Fest because of the scamdemic.

(01:06:44):
No festival. We were all going to kill Graham Off.
We showed up together. Of course, we were riding in
a Black Lives Matter protest. It was perfectly fine to
gather in mass, but not for something fun and wholesome
and American like Newport Italian Fest. But it not only

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highlights the Italian immigrants who came to this country and
settled down in northern Kentucky and is specifically Newport, the
families as they call them. But it celebrates America itself.
And yet we are a country of immigrants, but we're

(01:07:32):
a country of orderly immigration, where there's a process, you
have to obey the law, you have to wait your
place in line. And the wave of immigration in the
late eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds in this country through
Ellis Island, many people had to wait a long time.

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Some never got into the country because they were sick
or they were deemed to be unfit to be in
a general population and allowing them into the rest of
the citizenry. But Newport Italian Fest is very unique. I'm
very glad and humbled to be asked to be a

(01:08:18):
part of it again, and I look forward to it tonight.
Hopefully we'll see you out there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
It's going to be hot.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
There's about two times a year I wear a suit.
One is if somebody gets married or somebody dies. The
other is MCing Italian Fest. So I will be there
in a black jacket, black pants, a white button down
shirt and a tie in the hundred degree heat.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
And I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
Joe Salomon, Joe Salomon is kayaking for a cause right now.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
He is somewhere in the Mississippi River along with a buddy.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
They're going all the way down to the mouth of
the Gulf, and then Joe plans to finish what's called
the Great American Loop and go through the Panhandle of Florida,
around Florida to the Eastern Seaboard and kayaking up the
Eastern Seaboard along the Inner coastal all the way to

(01:09:23):
make connections with the Great Lakes and come back home
to Cincinnati. We will talk to him, hopefully in just
a few minutes if we can raise him on his
kayak as we travel through this Thursday, Gary Jeff Walker
in for Brian on fifty five KRC, the talk station.

Speaker 5 (01:09:38):
The iHeartRadio app. It's where we put the app in
here on fifty five KRS the talk station.

Speaker 1 (01:09:49):
Actually not necessarily news, but a fantastic journey that is
currently going on right down the middle all of our
country on the Mississippi River on a kayak with a
local man named Joe Solomon, kayaking with a buddy from

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the source of the Mississippi River all the way down
to the Gulf.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Joe set out last year.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
On what we be a year long odyssey in a
kayak on what is called the Great American Loop. The
Great American Loop just cuts the country in half down
to the Mississippi all the way. He left out of
here in July.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
Of last year.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
From Cincinnati, going down the missis the Ohio to the
Mississippi and all the way down to the Gulf of
America in Louisiana, and then was going to cut across
our southern states during the winter last year. Sadly, his

(01:11:02):
mother passed and he had to come back home, which
she was sick, and he had to come back home
and take care of his mom. In November, he has
just set out on this new journey with a friend,
and we'll find out about his progress right now. Kayaking
for a Cause. Joe Solomon somewhere on the Mississippi River. Joe,
good morning, Good morning, And where are you, if anywhere

(01:11:26):
right now in your journey? I know you started at
the source of the Mississippi. How many miles have you
put down since you began.

Speaker 9 (01:11:35):
We've put down a total of sixty eight miles so far.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Okay, when did you start again?

Speaker 9 (01:11:42):
About two weeks ago and the first day David, my
paddle partner, got bit by a leech and it ended
up getting the staff infections. Oh geez, So we've been
held up for the last week while he recovers.

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
Yeah, when you contact me, you were already about fifty
miles into your trip, and that's been since last week.
So you've only gotten eighteen more miles in since then.
I guess that's a pretty darn good reason why.

Speaker 9 (01:12:12):
Yeah, And I'll tell you the headwaters of the Mississippi
are very arduous.

Speaker 11 (01:12:18):
Go at it.

Speaker 9 (01:12:18):
It's it's full of down trees and strainers all over
the place.

Speaker 11 (01:12:24):
Tell them about the de Racho.

Speaker 9 (01:12:27):
Yeah, they had a dracho come through here in Mini
in Minnesota last year and it ended up wiping out
over a million trees.

Speaker 5 (01:12:37):
A what.

Speaker 9 (01:12:39):
What they call it dracho, which is a giant straight
line winds. Yeah, okay, and then it's winds tore a
bunch of trees down. So the first five days we
were climbing trees all day long.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
Do you have to carry the kayak?

Speaker 9 (01:12:55):
I don't have the kayak this time. I got a canoe.
Oh okay, this past winter we're using canoes.

Speaker 11 (01:13:01):
Now, you got a WA seventeen explorer or voyager.

Speaker 9 (01:13:06):
And then he's got a grumm and so we're both
solo and our own canoes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Right, Okay, so you're not in the same canoe. Your
two guys in a canoe.

Speaker 16 (01:13:18):
And a.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
And so you're you're kind of tandem writing together though.

Speaker 9 (01:13:25):
No, we're just paddling next to each other, That's.

Speaker 7 (01:13:27):
What I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
You're yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 11 (01:13:32):
So two people in a boat, but it works you right,
are you right?

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
Yeah? Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:13:38):
So anyway, outside of the trees, the down trees, what
what were the other what what are the other obstacles
you plan on encounter? Because you've already done this once, Joe,
you did in a kayak last year, last summer, all
the way to uh to Louis Yeah, to Baton Rouge. Right,

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you did last summer. What was what was for you
in that journey?

Speaker 6 (01:14:05):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
The biggest obstacle you faced? What was your great what
was your greatest fear? What was something that you always
had to look out for? What do you expect on
the journey to come?

Speaker 9 (01:14:17):
Well, the the main thing we had to deal with
last year was a lot of barges and a lot
of low waters. There's not enough room in the channel
for a canoeist and a barge at the same time,
so we had to pull over quite a bit to
get out of their way.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Oh yeah, I would, I would highly recommend that.

Speaker 9 (01:14:38):
Yeah, yeah, we weren't. We weren't playing chicken with with
uh with barges. And then what we expect the rest
of this trip is pretty much to go through a
lot of reeds and and and and tall grass because
we're still in the marsh up here.

Speaker 11 (01:14:57):
Probably the biggest thing on our psych you is probably
the ticks.

Speaker 9 (01:15:01):
Ticks and the mosquitos are bad.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
Well, you just got infected with a leech bite, so
I can understand how you would be kind of wary
of any kind of biting, sucking insect or animal that
you can encounter along the way.

Speaker 9 (01:15:16):
Leeches in Paris. It's all about here.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
So how are you feeling? How are you feeling since
the staff infection? Are you everything cleared up?

Speaker 11 (01:15:27):
I'm doing a whole lot better now. And it now
looks like what it started with, which was just a
little bite and a little redness long before it like
spread past my ankle. And just when it said I
gotta go, because I started catching red streak and running
up my leg. Oh yeah, that took me off the river.
Feel a pretty good do about it. Quite excited. We

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just accomplished a part of our goal, which Louisiana now
have the Marveloust eighth of January restored as a holiday.
It'll be now called Battle in the Orlands Day and
Louisiana the governor just fought that in the law.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
All right, So what time?

Speaker 9 (01:16:08):
What? What?

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
What's your estimate of when you actually get down to Louisiana.

Speaker 9 (01:16:14):
We think about three months that should take us to
get down there.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
Now, how do you I mean, what do you bring
for provisions? Have you got a lot of room in
the canoe for any any gear? Or what do you
do at night when you pull over? Do you have
places to pull over?

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
Are there?

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
I know the first time you took this journey, Joe,
you told me that you had friends along the way
down there that you would stop and stay with.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
Is that the same plan this time?

Speaker 6 (01:16:44):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 9 (01:16:45):
We ran into probably five or six different river angels already.
Those are folks that come out of nowhere to help
you out. We've done a lot of done a lot
of reflecting over the past couple of days and were
excited to get back on the river sometime soon.

Speaker 11 (01:17:04):
Yeah, yesterday we got to be River Angels ourselves.

Speaker 9 (01:17:08):
Yeah, we're helping other paddlers out as we wait.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
So is there a pretty is there a pretty large committee?

Speaker 9 (01:17:15):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:17:17):
Pretty large family of paddlers and stuff. Do you guys
have your own links social media and stuff that you
communicate back and forth. And there's a good network.

Speaker 9 (01:17:27):
There is Mississippi River Angels or Mississippi River Paddlers. Those
are two groups on Facebook that if we have trouble
we can reach out on there, or you know, if
people want to meet us, they can reach out on
there as well. And we get spent some time with

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some really good people all over the country.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
So what was the impetus for this?

Speaker 1 (01:17:54):
Cause you've told me your story before, Joe, when when
you started last year's journey that got cuts you sadly
because of your mother's passing and by the way, my
belated condolences on that and everything you went through.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
I remember you.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
I called you to check on your progress and you
told me what had happened with your mom and you
had to come home and I was I know you
were disappointed, and then to have on top of that
the grief of losing your mom. But what was the
original impetus for you doing this Great American Loop? Do
you still plan on doing the Great American Loop?

Speaker 9 (01:18:31):
Yeah, So this summer doing the entirements of Hippy River
is kind of a warm up for the rest of
the loop. When we get to the Sunshine Bridge just
south of Baton Rouge, we're going to continue on the
rest of the Great Loop. Social media wise, we're kayaking

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for a cause with the number four. Instead of spelling
it out and on there, we just we is pretty
much daily or we've been tagging the page a lot
with our own personal post. People can find either one
of us Joseph Solomon from Cincinnati or David Smith from
New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
Okay, so, but was there original charitable reason you were
doing this or what?

Speaker 9 (01:19:22):
We're doing this? To raise awareness for mental health in America?
Not enough people are out there talking about it, and
we're we're using our vessels as as a driving force
to raise awareness as we go.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
Good good well.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
Mental health is is very much kind of like the
the untalked about elephant in the room when it comes
to homelessness, when it comes to criminal activity, when it
comes to you know, all kinds of societal problems that
are caused because we've a banned and in many cases

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are mentally ill, haven't we Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 9 (01:20:08):
Think Dave and I may have a little touch ourselves,
and that's why we're out here doing that.

Speaker 11 (01:20:14):
It's be a little ill to go get sucked by
a leach and then think it's fun.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
Yeah, yeah, you don't want to. Oh jeez, I can't
even imagine.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
Well, guys, as chip as chip Hart says on the
big outdoors, be safe in the woods and.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
Be safe on the water.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
And Joe, I'll be checking in with you again through
the summer to see how you're doing. All right, Hey, hey,
do me a favor. Don't don't die out there? Okay,
Oh yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:20:49):
We're not going to speak that one into existing one.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
All right, Kayaking for a cause? Is your can people?
Can people follow your journey there? Or do you have
any cameras and rolling?

Speaker 9 (01:21:01):
Oh yeah, we got a starlank system so we can
upload videos out in the wild blue yonder and yeah,
we post pretty much daily on Facebook and doing some
live YouTube interviews as well. So we're staying putting active
on the social media for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
Is the Facebook, Joe Solomon or how do people find
you on Facebook?

Speaker 6 (01:21:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:21:26):
You can find me on Facebook at Joseph Solomon. You
have to type in Cincinnati behind it because there's a
famous Joseph Solomon singer, not me. And then David Smith
from New Orleans. He's another good one to follow it too,
because we've both been cranking out some social media stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
Yeah. I want to see some I want to see
some footage.

Speaker 11 (01:21:50):
Yeah, go check it out on my personal page on Facebook.
As far as far as we're away. The first person
to ever go live in the headwaters have a live
feed for six hours while we went through the headwaters.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
Oh that's that's awesome. Well guys, guys, have a great
trip and we will check in with you, Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:22:12):
All right, thank you.

Speaker 11 (01:22:13):
You have a great day yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Live from the Mississippi River Joe Solomon, Joseph Solomon from
this area and David Smith from New Orleans as they
go from the source of the Mississippi River on down
to the Gulf of America and the Sunshine Bridge there
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, seven nineteen at fifty five KRC,

(01:22:36):
the talk station. This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio Station.

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
Our iHeartRadio Music Festival, Preason.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
Ah yes, about twenty four minutes after the hour. Thursday morning,
June eleventh, twenty twenty six, Gary jeff In for Brian
Thomas coming up at eight o'clock just was assured by
Joe Donnas Schwaben is on the way, which probably means
less to you than it does to me, because that

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great sausage is coming. I hope it would be really
disappointing to me if they don't bring me that at
least a piece of that special sausage. Exciting to talk
to him anyway, Donna Schwaben is always just one of
those great local annual events that you don't want to miss,

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just like Newport's Italian Fest, which begins tonight as well.
The Ohio House just passed legislation increasing monitoring pro calls
protocols named after victims of two high profile murders in
the Bunckeye, two Ohioans allegedly murdered at the hands of

(01:23:57):
individuals on post release control, which lawmakers say expose serious
gaps in the current parole system. This is House Bill
six sixty seven, named the Reagan Toaks and Patrick Herringer Act. Harringer,
of course, the forty six year old from Cincinnati killed

(01:24:19):
in his home back in June of last year. The
murder sparked uproar after Black, the accused, identified as a
person on parole, which the state lost track of. I

(01:24:41):
don't know how you feel about this.

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
Do you feel like.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
Prison is rehabilitory. Do you feel like there's real rehabilitation
in the prison system or is it just punitive?

Speaker 9 (01:24:59):
It is just.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
I know, people believing in giving others a second chance
always pushed the rehabilitation aspect of incarcerating someone, and sometimes
the focus is more on that than it is punishing
someone who has violated someone else's law rights or otherwise

(01:25:25):
broke the law. But the rate of recidivism, especially among
violent criminals, is very, very high, which means that for
those individuals, the rate of rehabilitation is very low. I'd

(01:25:51):
say eighty to eighty five, and I don't have the
exact numbers in front of you. Eighty to eighty five
percent of people who commit crimes in this country have
offended before and they will offend again. Is just the

(01:26:12):
pattern that seems to be hard to break. But to
not know who they are or where they are after
they're released. Given that second chance, maybe a bill like
this is needed. It includes an increase in discretion for
judges to send repeat offenders to prison. Requirement that warrants

(01:26:34):
issued for any Tier one offenses or prole violations be
reported to law enforcement Automated data system and the appropriate
National Crime Information Center database within forty eight hours. Requirement
that emergency dispatchers be notified within forty eight hours of
a warrant being issued, because if the warrants issued and

(01:26:58):
the dispatchers don't know, they can't get the word out.
Requirement that the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections contract
with a single vendor for continuous GPS monitoring of offenders
in real time. State Representative Cindy Abrams of Harrison says
that this legislation will save lives without public safety, nothing

(01:27:20):
else matters. I want to thank Lisa Toakes and Sarah
Herringer for entrusting me with their loved one stories and
their work to turn tragedy into meaningful action that will
make Ohio safer.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
I say here here in agreement.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
We'll see see if it passes. And I don't know
who would object to this. Seven twenty eight and some change.
Gary Jeffin for Bran on fifty five KRC the talk station.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
Nobody one's talking about the feast ce the talk station, thankfully.
I will never know the pain of menstruation.

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
Except, you know, by proxy, Except being in the vicinity
of someone who was suffering through such a grueling dynological procedure,
biological function of being a woman. Well, there are Democrats

(01:28:28):
in Congress. These are the kind of people who get elected.
They just happen to have a D in front of
their name. I don't know if there's an association, a
connection or not, but it seems to be a pattern.
Representative Adelita Grahova from Arizona, a Democrat, said during a

(01:28:53):
press conference May twenty first, that forcing a wor to
choose between paying her rent or losing a day's pay
to recover from a grueling gonological procedure is not a choice,
it's economic violence. She was joined by Yasamine Ansari, also

(01:29:16):
a Democrat from Arizona, and Rashida to leave the Democrat
from Michigan, you know, the one with the mustache, who
are backing on Seri's Reproductive Healthcare Live Act, which is
part of her her human equity rights agenda. The Reproductive

(01:29:38):
Healthcare Live Act HR eighty one fifty eight. The flagship
bill would provide up to twelve days of paid leave
per year for reproductive health needs, including severe menstrual pain, abortions,
menopause systems, miscarriages, biopsies, visectomies, and vasectomies for women.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:30:07):
Her agenda also includes studies regarding gynological pain management and
pre menstrual dysphoric disorder. Awareness that some believe men can have.
No one should have to choose between their paycheck and
their health to be able to manage that kind of
incredible pain to leave. Said during the press conference, what

(01:30:32):
about the incredible pain you deliver every time you speak
on anything? Rashida, I'm sorry, As the youngest woman in Congress,
ties the build to her own period pain telling Time
magazine and an article that she once woke up on

(01:30:53):
the floor of her local bodega, drenched in sweat, being
dragged into an ambulance, and said she has days every
month where she feels barbed wire inside of her. Well,
that's terrible, but you should get paid time off for
menstrual pain. I'm to ask my wife about this. She's

(01:31:17):
she's already been through menopause and all, but is it
really that bad? And can men have menstrual pain? They
did argue for time off for vasectomies here, and of
course abortions. If you're gonna kill your offspring in your roomb,

(01:31:40):
if you're gonna murder a baby, I guess you need
some time after that. The grueling pain of menopause and
the brutal act of infanticide both deserve some paid time off.
How about it, ladies strange in this committee, no Republicans

(01:32:07):
voted for it. Huh fifty five KRC.

Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
The talk station performance matters in intimate mois.

Speaker 8 (01:32:15):
See the talks station.

Speaker 1 (01:32:25):
I wonder if it's hot, hot hot Where Buster Poindexter
is now curious? The United States Attorney for the Central
District in California said that his office is multiple fraud
investigations underway in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
related to California's elections.

Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
Bill A.

Speaker 1 (01:32:48):
Saley, who's a prosecutor, also said that he's working with
the Harmeat Dylan, US Assistant Attorney General for the Justice
Department's Civil Rights Division, to conduct comprehensive.

Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
Audits of the state voter rolls. Not that it's going
to make a difference this time.

Speaker 1 (01:33:07):
That ship has sailed, and everything they did in California
is legal because they passed a law in that state
that says it's okay to cheat in an election any
way possible. Is Sale didn't comment on any specific investigation.

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He said he'd follow the evidence wherever it leads and
prosecute any violations of federal election law to the fullest extent.
The state has stonewalled every effort, he said, to verify
that only eligible US citizens are registered to vote. Is
Sale referred to the case in which Brinda Lee Brown Armstrong,

(01:33:50):
aged sixty four, took a plea deal for one felony
count of paying another person to register to vote in
a federal election. You can't do that, prosecutors said. She
paid homeless people on skid road to register to vote,
letting them use her address to register. This allowed mail

(01:34:11):
in ballots to be sent to her home, according to
the plea agreement, and that you know, if this happened
in this one instance, it happened all over Los Angeles
and other places in the state of California, where the

(01:34:31):
voting laws are just insane. The scheme allegedly went on
for twenty years. So she's pin fomenting fraudulent votes in
California for twenty years. This is one person, you know,
there's a network of people that are doing this all
over the state of California. Islee told the Post that

(01:34:55):
a lot of fraud could have been prevented if the
state shared the voter roles with his with the office,
and a lawsuit over the state's refusal to share the
roles is before the Ninth Circuit Court. So ballots, as

(01:35:15):
you know last week, were still being counted on Friday
and Saturday and had large mail in ballot dumps by
the thousands, which put to Nitia Ramen, the far left
socialist councilwoman, in the runoff with the current mayor, Karen Bass,
and edged out Spencer Pratt, who was leading or in

(01:35:39):
a solid second place on election night and the day
after and the day after. But somehow they found the
mail in ballots to push Ramen into the general against Bass.
So they maintained their party rule in the City of

(01:36:01):
Los Angeles, even as poor as that leadership and governance
has been. When Gavin Newsom was worried about the governor's
race because it looked as if for a while that
Steve Hilton was going to win, but Sarah wound up

(01:36:24):
eking out a victory in that primary, that jungle primary,
and of course Hilton did make second place. So there
will be a chance for a Republican to get elected governor,
but not with a system like that where they've got
people actively going to the homeless people which they say

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they care about so much, registering them, paying them to
register to vote, and then letting them use their address
for mail in ballots. In California, I know you've probably
heard the stories sends out if you're registered to vote,
they sound out mail in ballots to everybody, even if
you've moved out of the state, even if you've died,

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there's a mail in ballad at your address on the
registration and somebody is filling it out and voting.

Speaker 2 (01:37:18):
In your name.

Speaker 1 (01:37:21):
If you're not doing it yourself while living in another state,
or not being a resident or a citizen of the country.
How about that being a resident but not a citizen
of the country. There's no safeguard there, there's no way
to prevent it. But it's legal, that's the argument they

(01:37:42):
always make. But it's legal, that's what the law says
now seven forty seven the time, not the plane back
in a moment. Hence, on fifty five k se DE
talk station, tweat.

Speaker 8 (01:37:58):
Yourself to Andy's Mediterranean.

Speaker 3 (01:38:00):
And I'll also throw a rock at the Republican Party.
Remember during the twenty twenty election, when everybody knows knew
Joe Biden did not get elected fairly, Yeah, and all
of the Secretary of the State, including Frank Frank LeRose
of all these different Now now we went Trump. But
everybody said there's not enough fraud to warrant an investigation.

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And I always scratched my head and said, well, how
much fraud do you How do you know how much
fraud there is unless you launch an investigation?

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
Right exactly how many votes were fraudulent?

Speaker 9 (01:38:33):
Well? Not enough?

Speaker 3 (01:38:35):
Yeah, And how do you even get to that conclusion
unless you do some sort of data analysis. But you're
refusing to do the data analysis because somehow you know
that there's not enough fraud. And what is that threshold?
By the way, can you share that with all of
us voters? What is the threshold at which it warrants
an investigation?

Speaker 1 (01:38:53):
Well, in Pennsylvania, I know for a fact, in Pennsylvania
which if Donald Trump had won the state of Pennsylvania
and none of the rest to the swing states, he
would have won the election electorally and in Pennsylvania alone.
We know, and it was proven in a court of
law by a man named Greg Sandstrom, who I've had
interviewed multiple times. It was proven in a court of

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law that Pennsylvania violated their own voting laws and enabled
a fraud genial election in the presidential election of twenty twenty.
It was proven in a court of law in twenty
twenty two, too late after the fact.

Speaker 3 (01:39:31):
Correct. The election was not certified. I think it's supposed
to be certified by the Senate, and instead it was
certified by the governor and the Attorney general. It was
like not even close.

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
Yeah, they didn't follow their laws.

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
They had a yeah, and they have a pack court
of liberals on their Supreme Court that you know. They're
in the powdered wigs and the black robes and they're
just completely objective. They're not even human. They're like angels
from heaven.

Speaker 6 (01:39:56):
They're so unobjective.

Speaker 3 (01:39:58):
And yeah, any time anybody says that you're you're absolutely right.
Anybody says that there's no data where is the proof
that that Biden stole the election? One word, Pennsylvania. You're
absolutely right, but this isn't new. It's been going on
a long time, and evidently Republicans leadership they don't mind
it because they're not doing a damn thing about it,

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as even right now with the Save Act and the
Senate with Trader soon doing nothing. It's amazing to me
how when Republicans have all the power, they just don't
have the votes. When when that, when the Democrats don't
have any of the power, they get everything they want.
They're in power, Jay.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
What does that tell you?

Speaker 1 (01:40:39):
What it tells Yeah, what it tells me is the
system supports the system, uh and and doesn't support the
people who they're supposed to represent, i e. Us the
people who pay the bills. The system represents the system.

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Republican Democrat.

Speaker 2 (01:41:04):
We know who we'd.

Speaker 1 (01:41:05):
Prefer ideologically as voters, but when push comes to show,
we'd get down to brass tacks. You're not going to
change the system because they're all sucking at the same trough. Hmm,
sucking at the trough. We're back to beer and Donna

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Schwaben in just a few minutes here on fifty five KRC,
the talk station.

Speaker 5 (01:41:33):
We put the app in Happening for gotta know what's
happening in my city, report.

Speaker 6 (01:41:41):
Economy.

Speaker 5 (01:41:41):
I want to know how we are and where we're going.

Speaker 16 (01:41:43):
I gotta know the weather.

Speaker 9 (01:41:44):
Listen and you'll know my city.

Speaker 5 (01:41:46):
Excuse me, sharp talk station.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
Well, because.

Speaker 1 (01:41:57):
We're all Irish on Saint Patrick's Day, we're all Italians
at Italian Fest.

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
We're all Germans at Donna Schwaben.

Speaker 1 (01:42:06):
Nick Crummin from the Donna Schwabin Festival in the studio
and he is, uh, he has brought for me this
wonderful sausage that I've been stolen the virtues about all morning.
And you know, Nick, you and I were talking and
and I just wondered, and you're right. We're all Germans
at Octoberfest or Donna Schwabin. We're all Italians at Italian Fest,
and that's going on in Newport this weekend, all Irish

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on Saint Patrick's Day. Does it mean we're all non
binary during Pride Month?

Speaker 7 (01:42:34):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:42:34):
I think I think a lot of these a lot
of these events is about bringing people.

Speaker 2 (01:42:39):
Together, yes, and that's the most diplomatic one.

Speaker 8 (01:42:43):
But I think when it comes to like the German
beer garden experience. It's really everyone's welcome. It's fun for everyone.
You know, it's not a group that excludes other No, absolutely,
let's coming together having a good time.

Speaker 1 (01:42:56):
And I mean, my last name doesn't end in a vowel,
but I'll be well come to an Italian fest. So
I understand exactly what you mean and feel the same way.
Donnas Schwaben.

Speaker 8 (01:43:07):
This is the sixteenth year, sixteenth year for Schwabenfest. Okay,
we've been doing Octoberfest over thirty years now. This is
our spring fest. Swab Fest kickoff the festival season here
for the German Cincinnati lineup.

Speaker 1 (01:43:20):
So I've been talking about this sausage all morning exactly.
This is a special recipe that you guys do, right.

Speaker 8 (01:43:26):
Yeah, this is our Schwaben sausage. And this is one
of the things that makes our club unique is is
a lot of people, a lot of our members physically
came over from the Donswaben area and they brought over
their own recipes. So this isn't things that we're just
getting from stores. It's our own recipes from from the whole,
from the old country, and we make it ourselves.

Speaker 2 (01:43:46):
We handmake it.

Speaker 8 (01:43:47):
You know at our club.

Speaker 2 (01:43:49):
Where is Donna Schwaben in Germany.

Speaker 8 (01:43:52):
Dona Swabin is an area, so yeah do now is
a river and then Schwaben or Swabia is an area.
And these people left Germany into Eastern Europe to develop
what became the bread basket of Europe. So they cultivated
the fields like in Romania and Hungary, but they kept
their German heritage and their culture, so they kept German

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speaking and all that culture.

Speaker 2 (01:44:14):
How many of them came here to this area.

Speaker 8 (01:44:18):
Well, so after well getting into after World War Two,
even though they were in those areas they were still
German speaking, they weren't welcome anymore. So they had to
leave their homeland, even that's where they were born and raised.
So they came to the United States. They came to Brazil.
There's multiple clubs of Dunis Swaben all over the US

(01:44:38):
and internationally.

Speaker 2 (01:44:40):
Cincinnati, though, has a large population of German descent.

Speaker 8 (01:44:46):
That's right, and our club is over seventy years old.

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
Now wow, wow, So how long you been doing Octoberfest.

Speaker 8 (01:44:53):
I think this is our thirty fourth year for Octoberfest.

Speaker 1 (01:44:57):
Crazy, So tell me about Schwabenfest and uh it starts today.

Speaker 8 (01:45:02):
Or it starts Friday. It's Friday and Saturday, so it's
only it's only two days, so it's it's kind of
like Octoberfest. It's you know, we're we're just celebrating our
culture we have and we can talk about all this.
We will have German uh entertainment, our dancers. We have
five different dance groups at club, starting at age four

(01:45:22):
all the way up to age eighty four, and each
group has their own special dances that you know, a
culture from from the villages. And it's really neat to see,
especially the little ones, and then the older ones are
really good. We have a German live music playing, and
then then we have all of our food and drink.

Speaker 2 (01:45:40):
So yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:45:42):
The thing you talk about though, with you say, especially
the little ones, Yeah, the fact that that culture is
not only passed down still but as embraced by that
generation has got to be exciting because it, you know,
for a culture to continue, it has to be passed

(01:46:02):
from generation to generation, and and you see that in
little kids and it's like, oh, this is great, this
is like renewal.

Speaker 8 (01:46:10):
Yeah, it's it's really neat to see I'm nothing cuter
than a little kid out there and later hosting or Darndel.
But you know, we take it a step further at
club when when they get into youth group, when they're
like teenagers, Yeah, we actually send them over to Germany
so they can so they can see it firsthand themselves.
So it's one thing to teach it for them, but
then fundraisers like like our festivals are able to send

(01:46:31):
our kids over there to see it firsthand, and I
think that's really important.

Speaker 1 (01:46:35):
So that's one of the things that your festival supports,
this continuing education in a way, yes, you know, an
edification of a culture.

Speaker 2 (01:46:43):
That's great. So the bands, where do the bands come from? Mostly?

Speaker 8 (01:46:48):
I mean we have a lot of Cincinnati bands over
the weekend, you know, we'll have three bands playing, but
typically their ead from Cincinnati, Cleveland area, Saint Louis, well
from German bands wherever they are. Pre COVID, we used
to bring bands from Germany over and that was really fun.
You know, they play a lot of the same music

(01:47:09):
that our bands play. But just like the intermission part
was fun because they were talking German or they have
these sayings that we're not used to and it was
really really uh. You know, we try to be as
authentic as possible. Yeah, and you know a lot of
people say that, but we take it very seriously.

Speaker 2 (01:47:23):
Are there a lot of your members that speak fluent German?

Speaker 8 (01:47:27):
Yes, yes, there was only a bitch a little bit.
I speak a little German, but only not too long ago.
Even our club meetings, you know, in finance reports were
in German, so.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
It's oh, yeah, it's cool. And and of course plenty
of beer, and plenty of beer.

Speaker 8 (01:47:43):
Yeah, that's that's good. That's a good part of it.
You know, it helps with conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:47:48):
You said that during COVID and the and the aftermath
you didn't have a Schwaben in twenty twenty during the
COVID thing.

Speaker 2 (01:47:55):
No, we did not in twenty twenty, and you did
in twenty twenty one.

Speaker 1 (01:47:58):
There was some still rich restrictions, but you said it
was kind of tough to get beer and everything.

Speaker 8 (01:48:04):
It's tough to get beer and and and one of
the flag chips of our swab Infest festival was an
ox roast where we built an oven and uh, and
we would rotisserie cook an entire ox on a spit
and it was amazing, but after that it was hard
to get you know, to get the beast and everything
lined up again. So we still have beef dinners, but yeah,

(01:48:27):
the ox ros was impressive to see an entire ox
on a spit turning.

Speaker 2 (01:48:31):
Our ox prices as high as beef prices right.

Speaker 8 (01:48:33):
Now, and it was pretty high. It was pretty hot.

Speaker 2 (01:48:38):
What do you what do you charge for like a
beef dinner at the Schwab and Fest.

Speaker 8 (01:48:43):
I think it's like, I don't know if I'm sorry,
I don't have in front of me. It's either fourteen
or sixteen dollars. Okay, pretty good beef dinner and two sides, and.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
And you got sour kraut cabbage.

Speaker 8 (01:48:54):
That so yeah, so we have we have our ox
beef dinners, we have our rotisserie chicken dinner, we have
our swab and sausage dinners, right, but then we also
got our fest foods outside, you know, typical broughts and mets,
but we also got this special thing made just for
us called the meter worst. It's very traditional in in Germany,
but it's about a half meter brought worst on a

(01:49:15):
foot long bun.

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
That's what I was looking for. Yeah, so I gotta
go to the schwab And Fest to get the.

Speaker 8 (01:49:24):
Yeah, it's made for us fresh on actually today on
Thursday is made so it's fresh for the fest. But
it's not. They're making it right now.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
All right, Well, I got to figure out a way
to get over there where we're the.

Speaker 8 (01:49:35):
You gotta have the metawors.

Speaker 2 (01:49:36):
We're the grounds. Uh, it's people have never been. I've
never been, so tell me how to get there. Where
are you?

Speaker 8 (01:49:43):
Yeah, it's out in cold rain off two seventy five.
It's forty two ninety drive Ridge Road. It's offul it's
right behind the loads out there. Okay, if you look
up forty two ninety drive Ridge you'll find it really
nice grounds. We're kind of back and completely surrounded by
woods in the driveway, but it's it's a nice area
to sit down and you have some have some drinks

(01:50:04):
with some friends.

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:50:05):
Good.

Speaker 1 (01:50:05):
Plenty of places to park, plenty of places of park.
Yeah all right, Uh, schwabin Fest this weekend. Donna, Schwaben
and man. Thanks for the food.

Speaker 8 (01:50:15):
Oh yeah, I'm glad.

Speaker 9 (01:50:16):
You liked that.

Speaker 2 (01:50:17):
What was that apple liqueur you brought in?

Speaker 8 (01:50:19):
Oh yeah, that's some of the snops yeah, we have
a we have a shop booth. You have some snops
to help there, so we that was a Barretts and
apple corn. It's a it's a German schnapps. We have
pear and cherry and and the other kind of snaps.

Speaker 1 (01:50:34):
So it doesn't seem like the time of year. But
I'm a I'm a stout beer fan. If I'm gonna
drink beer, do you have a good stout even the summertime?

Speaker 8 (01:50:42):
We don't have any stouts. That's not Irish, but but
we do have but I would encourage you very good.
A dunkle. Yes, we do have duncle and we'd dunkle
loggers and duncle wess beers, and those are very good.
Some people think duncles are dark and the therefore the heavy,
but they're really not. They're pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:51:02):
All right? Are you what are you? Are you a
hefer Weisen fan? What are you like?

Speaker 8 (01:51:07):
I got this question yesterday and it's I really it depends.
I like them all. I mean the hell is like
a light logger, have advisen like from airthinger or a dunkle.
Those are really good beers. But you know, German beers
only have four ingredients. So they're you know, they're not
packed full of you don't know what, they're just really good, refreshing,

(01:51:27):
enjoyable beers.

Speaker 1 (01:51:29):
Yeah, there's nothing worse than a fruity I p a
for me. I want it's simple beer, Have a beer,
Nick crummin, Thank you so much. Schwab and feest this
weekend starting tomorrow, forty nine twenty dry Ridge Road for
ninety forty two ninety okay, just Lexia getting the best
of me again. Forty two ninety Drive Ridge Road out
in cold rain, right behind the lows. Come see this

(01:51:51):
and what are the hours?

Speaker 8 (01:51:53):
Five thirty two eleven on Friday and one to eleven
on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:51:56):
All right, fantastic, Thanks for coming in, man, thanks, How
much much does it cost to get in?

Speaker 8 (01:52:01):
It's five dollars to get in, and yeah, five dollars
to get in. And oh, we can't forget our desserts.
Oh we have an entire hall just for desserts. And
you know our ladies are out there making them right now.
A lot of them are all homemade from their own,
their own recipes. You know, it's a little different flavor

(01:52:22):
to the European flavor, with nuts and fruit fillings. They're
pretty good. And then we also have our bodies also
helps us, uh, you know, with all of our bakery needs.

Speaker 1 (01:52:32):
Okay, I'm a chocolate fanatic, so I'll have to find something,
all right, You'll be in luck there, Dona Swabin the
Schwabinfest going on starting tomorrow out in Cold Rain, starting
at five thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:52:45):
In the evening. Gary Jeffen for Brian. It's eight sixteen
at fifty five k r C the talk station.

Speaker 14 (01:52:51):
Fifty five KRC dot com our iHeartRadio Music Festival five
kr the talk station.

Speaker 1 (01:52:59):
Good twenty minutes past the hour, and I thought Nick
Crummin would stay with us.

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
He was nice enough to come on for one more segment.

Speaker 1 (01:53:07):
Shrav and Fest going on this weekend starting tomorrow and Saturday,
as we covered in the previous segment. But he said something,
and I wanted to talk about this for a minute
because it matters to all of us, I think. And
I saw something. He said, he saw something on YouTube
where actually some of the gen Z there's actually a

(01:53:32):
movement of being involved in life, real life again and
getting outside and unplugging from your mobile device. And I
was thinking, how wonderful if that's true. It's about time
we turned that corner. There's a pendulum swing that always

(01:53:52):
happens with stuff and culture and society, and apparently it's
swinging back now. Yeah, and a backlash to all of
the social media and technology and the focusing on screens
instead of like looking at the sky and noticing your
neighbor and walking outside and touching the grass.

Speaker 8 (01:54:13):
It's just not natural for humans to be just sitting
down looking at a screen all day. And like gen
X and younger millennials or older millennials grew up with technology,
but then the next batch of kids that all they
had was technology and that they grew up with it
from little kids. So I think as they become adults,
they want to realize, hey, go outside and touch grass
and look at nature.

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
Yeah, there be a human. There is an entire population.

Speaker 1 (01:54:40):
That are in their twenties now and all they've ever
known is computers and social medias and smartphones and the like.

Speaker 2 (01:54:50):
That's crazy.

Speaker 8 (01:54:51):
And even further through COVID, people got a lot of
interactions just came through digital through through phones and social media.

Speaker 2 (01:54:58):
And well work environments and room calls.

Speaker 1 (01:55:02):
You know, it's it's hard for employers now to get
people come back.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
To the office.

Speaker 1 (01:55:09):
Yes, uh, and and there's been a big struggle over
that in the last couple of years, you know. And
and employers are finally putting their foots down and said, look,
we need we need to see your face.

Speaker 2 (01:55:19):
You need to be in here at least a few
days a week, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:55:24):
And and uh, you know, qut sitting on your duff
in your underwear doing god knows what where you're supposed
to be on our dime.

Speaker 8 (01:55:31):
Well, you can do good work in your underwear, but
but well, what's you? What's your what's you?

Speaker 2 (01:55:36):
What you miss Joe flag that Vick said, you can
do good work in your underwear.

Speaker 8 (01:55:42):
But what you missed in the office is is this
human connection? Yes, and learning from the same thing bumping
into someone at the at.

Speaker 1 (01:55:50):
The water cooler, same thing we're talking about about getting outside.
It is the interaction between people instead of this you know,
faceless kind of I don't know, surreal world where people
don't matter.

Speaker 8 (01:56:08):
Yeah, and people should always matter and be the front
of it. And that's you know, I've always liked our
festival and that's just a new inspiring way I like it.
It's just to bring community people together.

Speaker 2 (01:56:18):
You know, and get outside.

Speaker 8 (01:56:19):
Get outside. You know, we're some police rounding by trees.
Like I said, it's such a great place for people
to get out, unplug and dis enjoy each other's company.

Speaker 1 (01:56:27):
I will tell you you mentioned during COVID how it
made us all more secluded, and and all of that
was going on. Actually for my wife and I, we
we purposely when we were told not to go outside,
went outside. We purposely traveled across state lines. I called
it asphalt therapy. You know, you're not allowed to work

(01:56:52):
because you're a non essential employee. That was That was
another crazy thing is some people were essential and some
people to call you non essential. I mean, how dehumanizing
is that in and of itself. There were so many things,
but we purposely would get in the car and just
roll down the road. We had a governor. We live

(01:57:15):
in Kentucky, Northern Kentucky. We had a governor who didn't
want us crossing state lines because we were going to
bring the virus with us or bring it back home.
You know, this mysterious boogeyman. We were all told to
fear like nothing like the grim Reaper. And we took
off in the car and we just went and got outside,
smelled the fresh air, didn't wear a mask, all that

(01:57:38):
stuff that they told us that we had to do
or couldn't do. So we weren't really affected during COVID
by all that, but a lot of people were, as
you mentioned, and now it's time to get back out
and experience life again in person.

Speaker 9 (01:57:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:57:53):
I think we got some good lessons from COVID, like
if you're sick, just stay home, that's mane. A good
thing was you hands, wash your hands. That's a great lesson.

Speaker 2 (01:58:01):
That's really great.

Speaker 8 (01:58:01):
It have happened anyways, right, but the overboard everyonees day
and I think, yeah, yeah, I think we learned from that.

Speaker 1 (01:58:08):
Yeah, okay, well listen, and we know that the virus
can't travel past six feet.

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
Right, keep your distance.

Speaker 8 (01:58:16):
It respects state lines.

Speaker 1 (01:58:18):
Schwabinfest again this weekend, Nick Crumbbing, thanks for sticking around
a few extra minutes. That's a fun conversation and a
necessary one. I think fifty five KRS the talk.

Speaker 5 (01:58:27):
Station celebrating two hundred and fifty or something.

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
Freedom to speak, just the talk Station. Good morning, eight
twenty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:58:43):
I'm fifty five KRC and Garry Jeff Walker in for
Brian Thomas. This morning friend sent me this Wall Street
Journal opinion documentary on the COVID nineteen pandemic, the Lockdown Dissidents,
and he says he recommends it highly. It's short, it's

(01:59:04):
about thirty seven minutes, and it's about a group of
prominent scientists challenged the challenging the prevailing government approach to
lockdowns during COVID. The Lockdown Dissonance tell the story of
research is like Jay Bodicaria, Scott Atlas, Robert Redfield, other
voices who say they were sidelined and censored when they

(01:59:26):
questioned the public health consensus.

Speaker 2 (01:59:31):
Of the VID. So these are all people that I
have followed, and I don't know. I kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:59:44):
Feel like I'm in their camp, because well, I didn't
have the conventionals. I was a lockdown dissident throughout the
entire scamdemic. Switching gears. The Northern Kentucky Music Hall of
Fame is inducting new members, and one of those people

(02:00:06):
is on the phone with us. He is a man
behind Mike's music and also the Village Theater, and he
is our guest for the next few minutes. Mike Reader,
good morning, how are you.

Speaker 16 (02:00:18):
Good morning, Gary hope you're doing well. Thanks for having
me back on.

Speaker 1 (02:00:22):
No, No, it's great to talk to you again. So
tonight at Tower Park in Fort Thomas, the induction ceremonies
we'll go on for the Northern Kentucky Music Hall of
Fame class at twenty six. And you remember that class,
aren't you? Congratulations?

Speaker 16 (02:00:41):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 17 (02:00:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (02:00:42):
I don't know how I ended up with all those
great people, but it's certainly an honor to be included,
and I'm really looking forward to it tonight.

Speaker 1 (02:00:49):
So, I mean, this has a long history in Northern Kentucky,
and a man named Mickey Folger is prominently involved. He
was a family court judge and a musician for years
with Wheels and other bands, and has quite a long
legacy in music there in Northern Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (02:01:12):
So tell me, do you know who else is going in? Mike?

Speaker 16 (02:01:17):
Yeah, I'm gonna screw these names up, but I'll try
my best. Danny's Danny's side Bottom, Mark kormackin Doghouse, Ben
Ben Walls, Wayne Loosen, and Steve Popovich. So yeah, a
bunch of talented people are going to be there, and

(02:01:38):
you know, in the past they've had some amazing people
you know, they've been doing this for a long time.

Speaker 1 (02:01:42):
So I've seen I've seen Ben wallas Man and he's
just he's the best. And of course I've met you
and heard you play with your band Chalk Eye and
the other things you do. Uh well, I mean, what
what category are you being inducted under?

Speaker 9 (02:01:58):
There?

Speaker 16 (02:01:59):
I think I think it's it's well, they have me
mentioned as Mike's music, so I think it's like a
you know, they're honoring what Mike's music has done.

Speaker 6 (02:02:06):
For the area.

Speaker 16 (02:02:07):
Is what I'm being inducted under. Yeah, it doesn't really
specifically say that, but it says Mike Reader Mike's music.
So yeah, it's it's under that category. And you know,
it's it's wonderful to be included with these guys and
uh this, you know, I think the ceremony starts at six,
you know, and I'm just going from when I'm told

(02:02:27):
here the concert is at seven to ten. And like
you said, yeah, it's a tower park. Looks like it's
going to be a nice night, and uh be nice
and warm and everybody should have a great time.

Speaker 2 (02:02:38):
Are you are you playing tonight or I mean who
is playing.

Speaker 7 (02:02:42):
In the I think I don't.

Speaker 16 (02:02:46):
I'm not going to be playing unless somebody asked me to. Yeah,
Ben Walls is definitely playing Popovich. Yeah, and I think
maybe probably most of the other people are being honored. Doghouse,
I know for sure is and yeah, it's man a great,
great time and I've been to them before and it's
just wonderful. It's it's really really good for the community,

(02:03:09):
and a lot of people come out and it's it's
great for the music community for sure, and I'm really
honored to be included.

Speaker 1 (02:03:15):
Well, if I wasn't busy with Italian Fest, i'd see
you there. But I'm I'm gonna be on stage at
the same time down on the on the River welcoming
in Newport Italian Fest. But that's tonight at Tower Park,
you say, around six o'clock the induction ceremony again, all right, it.

Speaker 16 (02:03:32):
Starts at six and it goes till ten. Music after
the ceremony, which starts at seven.

Speaker 1 (02:03:36):
And it's free and and you know, I've been out
there once or twice before for this event. People bring,
you know, blankets and coolers and enjoy the night. And yeah,
and I don't think it's supposed to rain until overnight,
so you guys should have good weather for that, a
little hot, yeah, decent weather.

Speaker 16 (02:03:55):
Tonight it's a cool down I think hopefully then evening.
So yeah, I hope to see every body, and great
honor be included. And thanks Gary for asking me to
be on.

Speaker 2 (02:04:03):
No, no problem.

Speaker 1 (02:04:05):
Tell folks just a minute or two here, sure about
about Mike's Music and the reason you're being inducted and
what you do at Mike's Music.

Speaker 6 (02:04:16):
They're well, yeah, well, we have a.

Speaker 16 (02:04:20):
New location in Newport. We're back in Campbell County again,
which is a great honor. We started in Campbell County.
We're at one thousand and seven Mama Street, and you
know it's that location is basically a retailed music store
where we sell vintage guitars and we're going to start
selling LPs and stuff too. We're branching out a little
bit at that location. My Cincinnati store also does the

(02:04:43):
Nege guitars. And then in Covington we have a production
house at the Village Theater where we have live events
and we do audio video production as well as having
a music store. So we've dabbled in in you know,
music related things in this area for a long time,
and we've been lucky to meet tons of big bands

(02:05:04):
and stuff as they come through and became friends with
a lot of them. And you know, it's just been
an honor to be here in Northern Kentucky and have
these people you know, recognize us well.

Speaker 1 (02:05:15):
Mike, I've known you for a while now, and it
is no secret to me why you are being inducted
in the Northern Kentucky Music Hall of Fame, because you
have done as much to promote through your shows at
the Village Theater and all the other things that you
were involved with promote music, especially local music, and you've

(02:05:36):
been a hawk for that and a real champion of
that for quite a while.

Speaker 2 (02:05:42):
And I think it's well deserved honor for you. Congratulations,
Thank you, Gery, Thank you very much. All right, brother,
I have fun tonight.

Speaker 1 (02:05:50):
Northern Kentucky Music Hall of Fame inductions at Tower Park
and Fort Thomas about six o'clock, the concert at seven.
Unless you're at Italian Fest seeing me or Schwabinfest eating
sausage with Nick. Eight thirty seven fifty five karc.

Speaker 2 (02:06:08):
DE Talk Station. No one tells you what actually happens
when someone passes Buck.

Speaker 1 (02:06:13):
Station about twenty minutes till the top of the hour,
Gary jeff in for Brian Thomas this morning and tomorrow, when,
among other things, we'll have Dave Hatter in for his
Friday Morning Tech Talk a little bit past six thirty,
working on some other guests for then, and of course

(02:06:35):
you're always welcome to chime in with anything you happen
to have at five one, three, seven, four nine fifty
five hundred. Back to this bill and Ohio, which would
require but it's going to be on the on the
ballot in November for the people to decide to amend

(02:06:59):
the constitution in Ohio to require real voter ID photo ID.
Now it's already law in Ohio, and the argument by
some is codifying this in the constitution is going to
ensure less people vote. That was one of the arguments

(02:07:19):
made against it.

Speaker 2 (02:07:26):
People are.

Speaker 1 (02:07:30):
Lawmakers have amended the unrelated House built four seventy two,
the original one of that would WAVEYD fees for individuals
facing homelessness or the unhoused. The new version requires an
applicant to provide two forms of ID out of multiple options,
including a live capture of a photo ID or electronic signature.

(02:07:51):
People could upload this via New state portal. They could
also mail a photo copy to their Board of Elections.
And the argument is you're preventing not only seniors, but
people with disability abilities, many of whom who are veterans,
from access to the ballot.

Speaker 2 (02:08:09):
We should be getting more people to vote, not fewer.
When you have fewer people voting, that is.

Speaker 1 (02:08:14):
How billionaires get what they want from state legislators and
from Congress. No, I think billionaires get what they want
and dark forces who don't have the public's best interest
at heart, get what they want when fewer people vote.

Speaker 2 (02:08:31):
I mean the.

Speaker 1 (02:08:33):
Billionaires that they're talking about ostensibly, I guess they're Republicans,
but no, Democrats win when fewer people vote, not the
other way around. Brian Stewart, that was who was this? Isaacson.
Danny Isaacson, a Democrat from Cincinnati, said that Brian Stewart

(02:08:58):
of Asheville pushed back, if you're sick, this bill doesn't
apply to you. If you're disabled, this bill does not
apply to you. If you're in jail, this bill does
not apply to you. If you can't work to computer
or show your idea, you can stop by the Board
of Elections. If you can't work your phone to show
your ID. You can stop by the Board of Elections.
If you don't have a copier to make a copy
of your photo idea, you can go use your phone

(02:09:20):
or go online to the Board of Elections. Easypsy. You
have to be able to prove who you are to vote,
plain and simple. And this bill that's putting it on
the ballot for voters to decide in a constitutional amendment
in November would make sure that nobody can change the

(02:09:44):
law and say you don't have to have a voter
photo ID to vote in Ohio. Every time there's an
argument against using valid photo IDs.

Speaker 2 (02:10:00):
To tell who you are.

Speaker 1 (02:10:05):
Every time this is pushed from the Save Act to
what's going on in Ohio. The other side says, oh, well,
you're going to keep people from voting, Yeah, going to
keep non citizens from voting, going to keep people who
aren't registered from voting. Yeah, it's going to keep people
from voting. But there are people who aren't eligible to vote.

(02:10:26):
It's going to keep dead people from voting. Hopefully, see
what Sandy has Sandy, good morning.

Speaker 7 (02:10:36):
Hi, Hi.

Speaker 17 (02:10:37):
I was just calling about the last hour and you
were talking about the system, supporting the system and indeed
it does. You know, I wonder why Republicans have done
anything about this, because the only thing I can conclude
is that you know, they don't mind if somebody cheats
for them too, so that ought not be. This is

(02:10:59):
total What we have is lawlessness and total corruption at
this point. And if we can't have that, and so
you can see what the Dems are doing. The Left
is setting this up so they can so they can,
you know, get it all cleaned up now, so when
so they can really master cheat and have it spotified

(02:11:20):
and with impunity, you know, get by with it. And
the other thing is, yesterday somebody was maybe I misheard it,
but I want to clarify we are not a pure democracy. No,
we're democratic republic.

Speaker 1 (02:11:35):
Yes, we're We're a democracy, actually a constitutional republic, democrat,
democratically represented right.

Speaker 17 (02:11:42):
Correct, We are representative republic or constitutional republic because our
representation laws are written into the constitution.

Speaker 1 (02:11:49):
And the Democrats always cried democracy democracy, Well we're not
technically a democracy. Democracy as you well know. Saying Andy
is two coyotes and a hen voting on what's for dinner,
and the hen doesn't come out well when the two

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coyotes have an advantage like that, a democratic advantage eighty
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Speaker 2 (02:12:31):
Well much too.

Speaker 1 (02:12:32):
I'm sure some in the Kroger community of Chagrin public says,
come to the area northern Kentucky anyway, famous in the South,
and I guess one of their one of their featured
products at a publix. I'm sure you can get these
at Kroger two or banana chips. But in Florida, the

(02:12:58):
great Banana Chip bandit has finally been apprehended. The story
from the Smoking Gun goes A bizarre crime spree ended
last night. This was on Tuesday evening with the arrest
of fifty nine year old Florida woman for the theft
of about three hundred dollars worth of banana chips from

(02:13:18):
a supermarket publis near her Vero Beach residence. Annette Nichols
is the accused. Over the past few weeks, Nichols has
been coming into the store and stealing the same one
piece of merchandise off of the shelves. That item a

(02:13:41):
six dollars forty nine cent bag of banana chips, A
public's deli manager told cops that Nichols had stolen banana
chips on six separate occasions. She's a serial banana chips stealer.

(02:14:01):
It should be important to note that due to this
original or the ongoing theft of banana chips, the deli
manager has limited the amount of banana chip stock he
puts on the shelf. In another word, her swiping the
banana chips have deprived other banana chip shoppers at this

(02:14:22):
publix from being the access banana chips, which, of course,
they certainly have a constitutional right to have banana chips
available at all times, don't they, just like they have
a constitutional right to healthcare. Annette continues to take all

(02:14:42):
of the bags she can. While Nichols did pay for
some chips itself checkout, she failed to scan other bags
before exiting the store. So do you think it's possible
that she just forgot the extra bags of banana chips? Well,

(02:15:05):
scan these stiff these in my pocket. When she was
confronted by police, Annette reportedly confessed to the banana chip
thefts and said she did not know why she steals
something so stupid, adding it's not worth going to jail
over and losing her job. Well, she she certainly should

(02:15:30):
have thought about that.

Speaker 2 (02:15:34):
A search of.

Speaker 1 (02:15:36):
Nichol's car turned up thirteen bags of banana chips, some
of which were apparently stolen Monday from the Vero Beach store,
as well as a second publix in a neighboring county.
This is a serial banana chip stealer.

Speaker 2 (02:15:51):
Is this is important?

Speaker 1 (02:15:54):
She was charged with theft, freed from custody last night
after posting a hundred and fifty dollars bond. She was
convicted in twenty twenty four for retail theft for skip
scanning items and an Indian River retailer. Court records did

(02:16:22):
not indicate whether Nichols was consuming the banana chips. Nichols
occupation is accountant and collections accounting. She's been collecting chips illegally,
banana chips that is. It is really an a bizarre

(02:16:43):
thing to steal, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (02:16:48):
And what.

Speaker 1 (02:16:51):
Turned her to this life of crime? Was she deprived
of banana chips as a child. Is this perhaps some
kind of new mental illness that is going to sweep
the nation? Is it possibly President Trump's fault? Because everything

(02:17:14):
and by the way, The Knicks won last night at
the Garden without the President there, so they're three and
one on the verge of winning an NBA championship for
the first time since nineteen seventy three. Go next, anyway, Yeah,
it's probably you're right, Joe. It's probably Trump's Trump's fault.

(02:17:39):
Still waiting to see this big, beautiful deal that's about
to be signed any day now with the Iranians, and
kinetic activity may be required, more military action may be required.

Speaker 2 (02:18:03):
You think I do.

Speaker 1 (02:18:05):
That's it for today. I'll be back tomorrow morning, bright
and early five am. You're a jef in for Brian
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