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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Seven oh six. Here fifty back pair CD talk station.
Very happy Tuesday to interesting day it is. We've got
Ken Cober FOP President coming to the bottom of the
ar to talk about the no confidence vote yesterday against
the AFT have purval and right now in studio. Wonderful
to see her in studio. Shelley Funky fro Meyer, Senator
running for reelection in the state of Kentucky. My friends
in the Commonwealth, you got a great person in Shelley
(00:36):
Funky fro Meyer. Welcome back, Shelley. It's always a real
pleasure seeing you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Thank you. Brian. Love to see you too, and I
especially love to see you when you visit us in Kentucky.
Now I'm visiting you in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And I love Kentucky. You know that, big fan. And
of course, thank you so much for the old Root
eight single barrel unfiltered cast strength bourbon you brought me
as a little gift.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
This is wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Just a distillery, these brilliant minds converted a button factory
into a distillery in Augusta, Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I think that's great. I just the concept of all
these micro brews and micro distilleries. I just think it's
a neat concept. Yes, you have to go back very far,
and you only had like three beers made in town,
you topol and like, oh god. And the bourbons. Of course,
Kentucky's widely known for the bourbons, but more and more
popping up each and every day. So do the bourbon
(01:28):
trail tour, right.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yes, please, urban urban Bourbon. By the way, if you
throw a stone just across into Kentucky, you get the
new riff On Bourbon, which is the new rift distillery
right there in Newport, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Fantastic excellent, Another opportunity and reason to visit my friends
in northern Kentucky. Shelley Funky from I are running for
re election. You mentioned in the comments offare where we're
just kind of chatting a little bit. You said, right
now is the time when the work really gets done.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
The legislative interim begins in June, and we go June
through December, and then we gabble back in in January
for four months. This coming January twenty twenty six, this
upcoming legislative session will be focused on our budget. But
right now, during the legislative interim, we will meet in
(02:20):
legislative groups, groupings called committees, as well as task forces
and such in commissions, but we'll meet on topical issues
relative in my case economic development. I'm the vice chair
of Economic Development, Tourism and Labor and those meetings go
about two hours during and we'll meet once a month,
(02:41):
but will really dig in deep. For example, we care
so much about Bourbon, but we're looking at ways to amplify, well,
what changes have we made in Kentucky and what difference
is it making. So that's what we'll review in the interim,
so that we determine what policy maybe needs to be
scrubbed a little more or polished a little more to
(03:04):
help achieve the economic impacts that we're looking for.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Now, everybody's scrapping for businesses and folks to move in.
Of course, we're all in competition together, that's the nature
of it. In the United States. We've got our problems
here in Ohio, in the state of Ohio. We could
probably my listening on it, it could certainly identify them.
But what are the that you perceive and you're fighting
to reconcile the impediments to economic development? What do you
see as the big the primary reasons let's say someone
(03:27):
might not choose to invest or move into the Commonwealth.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So great question. My focus areas are economic development, wellness,
and energy. So I'm part of the Energy Commission in Kentucky.
The nuclear energy.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Oh my favorite subject.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's right. So that could be an impediment. But Kentucky
has made such a dedicated effort to keeping our coal
plants firing so that we can keep energy reliable and
affordable Kentucky while we are digging in deeply to nuclear,
and we believe and we recognize that nuclear is Kentucky's
(04:09):
way forward, so in order to keep energy consistently available
and affordable, but that will pair and partner with coal.
We do not want to run coal out of business.
We have got plenty in the earth and we like
to keep extracting it and keep our plans firing while
we're bringing on all of the above nuclear as well
(04:33):
as renewables well.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And I applaud that across the board as strategy. I
think the state who makes it first in line as
far as greasing the skids to bring about nuclear, they're
going to be the winners in the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Small modular nuclear reactors are the way of the future,
unlimited power, little to no way, small footprint, one size
fits all. It's like putting together legos. You don't have
to have a different design depending upon where you're putting it.
You could avoid all the regulatory hurdles that go along
with these individually designed nuclear plants that were previously used,
you know, like if the three mile Island version. They
(05:11):
don't do them that way anymore. People are stuck in
the seventies mindset on nuclear power, and it's insane.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's insane in the recognition there are businesses that will invest.
You don't need to draw out of every Commonwealth member's
pocket to bring this in. Businesses want to bring it in.
We need to wrap our arms around the regulatory process, amplify,
speed up that process, because, as you've said, there are
(05:37):
known processes throughout the world. Our military, Yes, that's.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
My favorite, that go ahead, Yes, that's the thought.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, our military has done this for decades. Yes, and
why wouldn't we capitalize on that? And that's brilliant. Thankfully,
that's part of our Nuclear Commission in Kentucky working on this.
But we can't pretend like this is a new idea, right,
So we need to bring the very successful, reliable, consistent
(06:09):
processes that will bring on, as you said, the small
modular nuclear.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And you know, this isn't a technological Herderle deal we're
dealing with. This is a marketing problems. There's been so
much negative a reaction to the concept of using nuclear, like,
oh my god, we're all gonna glow in the dark.
We're all gonna die. Chernobyl, you know, Fukushima, it's like
cheese Louise. First off, Chernobyls built by the Russians the
Soviet Union days. It wasn't safe when it was first
(06:36):
put on. So yes, you're gonna have problems with that.
You need people to competently run it. But that's the
old school's kind of a nuclear reactor. Anyway, Fukushima, Oh
my god, we're all going tonight. Who's the idiot who
decided to build a nuclear plant in it's tsunami zone?
I mean, didn't anybody say, well, wait a minute, it's
a little too close to sea level for it to
be safe if we get a tsunami. Hell, we've got
(06:57):
a country that has tsunami warnings all around.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You know, yes, And let's don't forget American exceptionalism. I mean,
let's don't forget. We want to come into our next
generation of reliable, affordable energy. But again using the knowledge
that we have, we've got exceptional people involved. We take
a different approach in the United States of America than
(07:24):
the troublesome examples that you've shared, and we'll continue to
take that approach. However, we've overdone it, We've over regulated,
We've created this.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Month's regulatory nightmare.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, we're our own worst enemies when it comes to
stuff like that. And it's like the whole concept of
you know, carbon dioxide, which is planted food killing us
all we cut our own throats in the name of
achieving a zero carbon emission goal. And going back to
your point about your continuing to use and rely on
the very valuable natural resource coal, Why can't Kentucky use it?
If the Chinese are building new coal plants every single day,
(08:01):
that's right. And India, you know, I mean, they're free
to use it. They're not barred by any treaty or
packed or it's just doing it right in front of
our very eyes.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So, yes, tap into that natural resource. But you know,
if you could grease the skids. As I mentioned, as
far as nuclear goes, the companies that want these small
modular nuclear plants the course artificial intelligence companies. These are corporations.
There are billions and billions of dollars in profits. Move
aside the regulatory burden. Give them the opportunity to shoulder
(08:33):
the burden of building the damn plants so they can
fund their own natural productor their own production of electricity.
And it'll produce so much that it will not only
run the artificial intelligence plant, but able to share the
energy production with your fellow Commonwealth residents.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Absolutely, and you see that. So GE announced a tremendous
investment to talk about America first agenda being on point,
on track. Let's bring back from all over the world
some of the GE and Kentucky will benefit. There're two
billion dollar investment. Kentucky will benefit. We do have GE
(09:11):
headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and we've got plants. And you know,
when you can bring manufacturing back, imagine that's a bullseye.
But there are supportive manufacturing suppliers for anything that you
can manufacture in America. It's not just the refrigerator or
the washer and dryer, it's all of those components and
(09:35):
those small suppliers, and that helps when I think about
my senate district in northern Kentucky, Campbell, Penalton, Bracken, these
small little beautiful Butler, Kentucky, Little Founou, Kentucky, Little Augusta,
you know, Brooksville.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
We have these.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Small communities Alexandria that can have these small microeconomic centers
that can filter in. And we've got excellent roads, We've
got rail, we've got river. We've got so much infrastructure
in Kentucky that we just need to plug in more
(10:11):
manufacturing and keep all of our Kentuckians working.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Sounds solid to me. Shelley Funking Fromer will continue. She's
in the studio and really enjoying the conversation more ideas
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(10:55):
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Speaker 3 (12:19):
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Speaker 1 (12:24):
My friends in the Commonwealth Kentucky, you have an opportunity
to real elect Shelley Frankie Foemyer, who's in studio, and
what a wonderful woman she is a solid common sense
representing proudly District twenty four in the Commonwealth. She's been
there since January twenty three, up for next another election cycle,
so it's it's a solid vote. You'd be very happy
you have her in place for another term. Pivoting over,
(12:45):
we move away from energy, which you know you and
I are complete a court on that. Again, the first
state to make it easy to build a small nuclear
reactor without the regulatory impediments, without litigation is going to win.
That's my prediction. So you're in a Ohio and that
one too because a vivek Ramaswami, who I'm certain will
be our next governor, and I've talked to him about
(13:06):
the given the puff for.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That, yes, I'd love to have him as our neighbors.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Oh, I know, wouldn't that be great? But he is
all about the same plan, small modular nuclear reactory exactly.
But let's talk about the income tax over in Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You got to drop on that.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yes we do. Come January one, our Kentuckians will be
proud three point five percent on your income. So what
we look for in Kentucky is more income. So let's
lower tax on what we want more of isn't that
a sensible approach? Yes, yes, So we'd like to see
more Kentuckian's working. We like to see them paying less
(13:47):
an income tax. And in fact, as I shared with
you our wonderful Augusta Distillery bourbon, we want more tourism,
so we we would like to invite more people to Kentucky.
So let's cut income tax, but let's invite more people
to Kentucky. Which also, by the way, America America's river
(14:07):
routes coming up October eighth through October twelfth. Our dear
friend the Bbe Riverboat Alan Bernstein reached out to all
of his dear friends. So we've got some of the
most special boats that are coming October eighth or the twelfth.
You can tour those boats, you can do dinner cruises,
(14:29):
you can be up and down this beautiful Ohio River
with not just Bbe Riverboats, but all their friends.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Now this sounds like a Tall Stacks event, remember there
it does.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, so Allen was front and center and hosting that
as well. All of these boats will launch from the
Ohio side, so you'll get your beautiful views of Kentucky.
So you come over to Ohio, jump on the Natchez,
the Belle of Louisville will come up as well. But
you've got boats coming from everywhere. And Alan was front
(15:02):
and center and making that happen. His daughter runs BB
Riverboats along with him now. But yes, so sharing America's
river roots, you're gonna be right there on the High River.
So look for that's it's easy to find. I'll have
it on my website, my Facebook as well. Shelley Funky
from R shelleyfour Kentucky dot com. You can find information.
(15:24):
But that effort in Kentucky to really amplify our tourism
as we lower our income tax, it's hand in hand
our approach. That's that America River Roots. That's something pretty special.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Shelley for Kentucky. That's f O R as opposed to
the number four. It's f O R shelleyfour Kentucky dot
Kentucky spelled out fair enough.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
All Right, one more thing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I know you wanted to talk about your Make America
Healthy Again task Force. And we have Keith Tannenfeld and
George Brennan on my program about once a month. They
spend an hour and they're all about you know, restoring health.
You know about holistic approaches and natural and improving the
quality of food and putting less things in our body
that are damaging. So what's your motive and what's your
involvement with this Kentucky task Force?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yes, so we formed the task force certainly inspired at
the MAHA ball back on January twentieth, and two of
our senators are two of our congressmen are very dedicated
to Congressman Massy and Senator Ran Paul great So informing
it in Kentucky. Were started out with supplemental nutrition assistance
(16:32):
program that we really need to supplement nutrition amen and
recognizing so.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Are no mountain dew on snap correct?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And I love mountain dew. It's always a treat, but
the reality is you can have it occasionally, but it
doesn't need to be your supplemental nutrition.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
But it's not nutrition.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It's pure sugar and water, right, I mean that's not nutrition.
I mean I do know what your definition nutrition is.
But you don't get any vitamins, you don't get minerals,
you don't get protein, you get nothing but empty wasted
sugar calories.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Right in somewhere we've lost what does nutrition really mean?
So our task force is very focused and this last
meeting last Wednesday, we had one of your own, doctor
Gary Huber came to Frankfort and he spent an hour
just really showing the value of tier one, Tier two,
(17:27):
Tier three, tier four and basically the one food is
what you can grow in your backyard. He said, pick it,
pluck it, or shoot it with an arrow, but harvest
your own meats. Yes, but eating more whole foods. He
really amplified the focus on prevention through just those simple
things as simple as great sleep, daily exercise, in eating
(17:51):
more whole foods. He also got into fats a little bit.
And then following him was doctor Larkin focused on your
mouth health, the health of your mouth, recognizing that you've
also got things happening in your mouth that may have
come out of your gut causing bad breath and other things.
You've really got to understand your mouth is the entry
(18:13):
to your health, your wellbeing, and your ability to be
proactive and preventative.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And the gut has become a really big focus of
attention and health awareness because apparently that is like the
key to everything is what's going on in your stomach
and if you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Feed it some great vegetables and some wonderful fats and
fantastic beef from Kentucky by the way, then you're feeding
it well and you're improving that gut microbiome. And of
course you've got to improve your sleep as well. Don't
ignore that your body needs time. But we overeat and
we overfeed.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Our Lord, we do.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And then going back to snap, that's just really a
guide for all of us to be more thoughtful around
are you eating ultra processed? Is that what's consuming? And
doctor Huber said, yeah, seventy five percent of the calories
people are consuming came from ultra processed. It didn't come
from that apple or.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know that well, and let's face that, the beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Banana that I see sitting over there, Brian, you're working
at it.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Turn back to clock.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
In my lifetime, I mean, I'll be sixty in September,
coming up fast. But all this process food really has gotten,
you know, this snowball effect just within my lifetime. If
everybody when I was a kid was skinny, I was
the fat kid. And by today's standards, nobody would have
called me fat today. But back then, in nineteen let's
say seventy three or four, Yeah, ten Ton Thomas that was.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Me, and you know, I hate to hear that and
that American exceptionalism is ignored. We could be exceptional, We're not.
We're obese.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Shelley Franky Foe Myer boy. I wish we had an
hour to talk, but maybe we can talk again before
the election. I strongly encourage my Kentucky listeners, shelleyfo Kentucky
dot com get behind her support.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Order.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Well, we have the dynamic trio. We have Senator Rampaul,
we have Congressman Thomas Massey, and we have State Senator
Shelley Fucky Fromeyer wonderful from my friends in the common Well,
God bless each and every one of you, Shelley, It's
always a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
God bless you.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Brian, good luck on the campaign trail. Oh, I'm grateful
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Seven oh six. Here fifty back pair CD talk station.
Very happy Tuesday to interesting day it is. We've got
Ken Cober FOP President coming to the bottom of the
ar to talk about the no confidence vote yesterday against
the AFT have purval and right now in studio. Wonderful
to see her in studio. Shelley Funky fro Meyer, Senator
running for reelection in the state of Kentucky. My friends
in the Commonwealth, you got a great person in Shelley
(00:36):
Funky fro Meyer. Welcome back, Shelley. It's always a real
pleasure seeing you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Thank you. Brian. Love to see you too, and I
especially love to see you when you visit us in Kentucky.
Now I'm visiting you in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And I love Kentucky. You know that, big fan. And
of course, thank you so much for the old Root
eight single barrel unfiltered cast strength bourbon you brought me
as a little gift.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
This is wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Just a distillery, these brilliant minds converted a button factory
into a distillery in Augusta, Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I think that's great. I just the concept of all
these micro brews and micro distilleries. I just think it's
a neat concept. Yes, you have to go back very far,
and you only had like three beers made in town,
you topol and like, oh god. And the bourbons. Of course,
Kentucky's widely known for the bourbons, but more and more
popping up each and every day. So do the bourbon
(01:28):
trail tour, right.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yes, please, urban urban Bourbon. By the way, if you
throw a stone just across into Kentucky, you get the
new riff On Bourbon, which is the new rift distillery
right there in Newport, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Fantastic excellent, Another opportunity and reason to visit my friends
in northern Kentucky. Shelley Funky from I are running for
re election. You mentioned in the comments offare where we're
just kind of chatting a little bit. You said, right
now is the time when the work really gets done.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
The legislative interim begins in June, and we go June
through December, and then we gabble back in in January
for four months. This coming January twenty twenty six, this
upcoming legislative session will be focused on our budget. But
right now, during the legislative interim, we will meet in
(02:20):
legislative groups, groupings called committees, as well as task forces
and such in commissions, but we'll meet on topical issues
relative in my case economic development. I'm the vice chair
of Economic Development, Tourism and Labor and those meetings go
about two hours during and we'll meet once a month,
(02:41):
but will really dig in deep. For example, we care
so much about Bourbon, but we're looking at ways to amplify, well,
what changes have we made in Kentucky and what difference
is it making. So that's what we'll review in the interim,
so that we determine what policy maybe needs to be
scrubbed a little more or polished a little more to
(03:04):
help achieve the economic impacts that we're looking for.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Now, everybody's scrapping for businesses and folks to move in.
Of course, we're all in competition together, that's the nature
of it. In the United States. We've got our problems
here in Ohio, in the state of Ohio. We could
probably my listening on it, it could certainly identify them.
But what are the that you perceive and you're fighting
to reconcile the impediments to economic development? What do you
see as the big the primary reasons let's say someone
(03:27):
might not choose to invest or move into the Commonwealth.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So great question. My focus areas are economic development, wellness,
and energy. So I'm part of the Energy Commission in Kentucky.
The nuclear energy.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Oh my favorite subject.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's right. So that could be an impediment. But Kentucky
has made such a dedicated effort to keeping our coal
plants firing so that we can keep energy reliable and
affordable Kentucky while we are digging in deeply to nuclear,
and we believe and we recognize that nuclear is Kentucky's
(04:09):
way forward, so in order to keep energy consistently available
and affordable, but that will pair and partner with coal.
We do not want to run coal out of business.
We have got plenty in the earth and we like
to keep extracting it and keep our plans firing while
we're bringing on all of the above nuclear as well
(04:33):
as renewables well.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And I applaud that across the board as strategy. I
think the state who makes it first in line as
far as greasing the skids to bring about nuclear, they're
going to be the winners in the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Small modular nuclear reactors are the way of the future,
unlimited power, little to no way, small footprint, one size
fits all. It's like putting together legos. You don't have
to have a different design depending upon where you're putting it.
You could avoid all the regulatory hurdles that go along
with these individually designed nuclear plants that were previously used,
you know, like if the three mile Island version. They
(05:11):
don't do them that way anymore. People are stuck in
the seventies mindset on nuclear power, and it's insane.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's insane in the recognition there are businesses that will invest.
You don't need to draw out of every Commonwealth member's
pocket to bring this in. Businesses want to bring it in.
We need to wrap our arms around the regulatory process, amplify,
speed up that process, because, as you've said, there are
(05:37):
known processes throughout the world. Our military, Yes, that's.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
My favorite, that go ahead, Yes, that's the thought.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, our military has done this for decades. Yes, and
why wouldn't we capitalize on that? And that's brilliant. Thankfully,
that's part of our Nuclear Commission in Kentucky working on this.
But we can't pretend like this is a new idea, right,
So we need to bring the very successful, reliable, consistent
(06:09):
processes that will bring on, as you said, the small
modular nuclear.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And you know, this isn't a technological Herderle deal we're
dealing with. This is a marketing problems. There's been so
much negative a reaction to the concept of using nuclear, like,
oh my god, we're all gonna glow in the dark.
We're all gonna die. Chernobyl, you know, Fukushima, it's like
cheese Louise. First off, Chernobyls built by the Russians the
Soviet Union days. It wasn't safe when it was first
(06:36):
put on. So yes, you're gonna have problems with that.
You need people to competently run it. But that's the
old school's kind of a nuclear reactor. Anyway, Fukushima, Oh
my god, we're all going tonight. Who's the idiot who
decided to build a nuclear plant in it's tsunami zone?
I mean, didn't anybody say, well, wait a minute, it's
a little too close to sea level for it to
be safe if we get a tsunami. Hell, we've got
(06:57):
a country that has tsunami warnings all around.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You know, yes, And let's don't forget American exceptionalism. I mean,
let's don't forget. We want to come into our next
generation of reliable, affordable energy. But again using the knowledge
that we have, we've got exceptional people involved. We take
a different approach in the United States of America than
(07:24):
the troublesome examples that you've shared, and we'll continue to
take that approach. However, we've overdone it, We've over regulated,
We've created this.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Month's regulatory nightmare.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, we're our own worst enemies when it comes to
stuff like that. And it's like the whole concept of
you know, carbon dioxide, which is planted food killing us
all we cut our own throats in the name of
achieving a zero carbon emission goal. And going back to
your point about your continuing to use and rely on
the very valuable natural resource coal, Why can't Kentucky use it?
If the Chinese are building new coal plants every single day,
(08:01):
that's right. And India, you know, I mean, they're free
to use it. They're not barred by any treaty or
packed or it's just doing it right in front of
our very eyes.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So, yes, tap into that natural resource. But you know,
if you could grease the skids. As I mentioned, as
far as nuclear goes, the companies that want these small
modular nuclear plants the course artificial intelligence companies. These are corporations.
There are billions and billions of dollars in profits. Move
aside the regulatory burden. Give them the opportunity to shoulder
(08:33):
the burden of building the damn plants so they can
fund their own natural productor their own production of electricity.
And it'll produce so much that it will not only
run the artificial intelligence plant, but able to share the
energy production with your fellow Commonwealth residents.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Absolutely, and you see that. So GE announced a tremendous
investment to talk about America first agenda being on point,
on track. Let's bring back from all over the world
some of the GE and Kentucky will benefit. There're two
billion dollar investment. Kentucky will benefit. We do have GE
(09:11):
headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and we've got plants. And you know,
when you can bring manufacturing back, imagine that's a bullseye.
But there are supportive manufacturing suppliers for anything that you
can manufacture in America. It's not just the refrigerator or
the washer and dryer, it's all of those components and
(09:35):
those small suppliers, and that helps when I think about
my senate district in northern Kentucky, Campbell, Penalton, Bracken, these
small little beautiful Butler, Kentucky, Little Founou, Kentucky, Little Augusta,
you know, Brooksville.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
We have these.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Small communities Alexandria that can have these small microeconomic centers
that can filter in. And we've got excellent roads, We've
got rail, we've got river. We've got so much infrastructure
in Kentucky that we just need to plug in more
(10:11):
manufacturing and keep all of our Kentuckians working.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Sounds solid to me. Shelley Funking Fromer will continue. She's
in the studio and really enjoying the conversation more ideas
with the senator. After I quickly mentioned my friend John
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He did our kitchen about ten years ago. And you know,
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we are with our kitchen. You're going to feel the
same way. Whether it's a simple project like replacing cabinets
and countertops or gutting the whole thing and starting from scratch,
which is the option we went with. He's going to
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Speaker 3 (12:19):
Seven fifty have KRCD talk station. Vote Funky fro Meyer.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
My friends in the Commonwealth Kentucky, you have an opportunity
to real elect Shelley Frankie Foemyer, who's in studio, and
what a wonderful woman she is a solid common sense
representing proudly District twenty four in the Commonwealth. She's been
there since January twenty three, up for next another election cycle,
so it's it's a solid vote. You'd be very happy
you have her in place for another term. Pivoting over,
(12:45):
we move away from energy, which you know you and
I are complete a court on that. Again, the first
state to make it easy to build a small nuclear
reactor without the regulatory impediments, without litigation is going to win.
That's my prediction. So you're in a Ohio and that
one too because a vivek Ramaswami, who I'm certain will
be our next governor, and I've talked to him about
(13:06):
the given the puff for.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That, yes, I'd love to have him as our neighbors.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Oh, I know, wouldn't that be great? But he is
all about the same plan, small modular nuclear reactory exactly.
But let's talk about the income tax over in Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You got to drop on that.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yes we do. Come January one, our Kentuckians will be
proud three point five percent on your income. So what
we look for in Kentucky is more income. So let's
lower tax on what we want more of isn't that
a sensible approach? Yes, yes, So we'd like to see
more Kentuckian's working. We like to see them paying less
(13:47):
an income tax. And in fact, as I shared with
you our wonderful Augusta Distillery bourbon, we want more tourism,
so we we would like to invite more people to Kentucky.
So let's cut income tax, but let's invite more people
to Kentucky. Which also, by the way, America America's river
(14:07):
routes coming up October eighth through October twelfth. Our dear
friend the Bbe Riverboat Alan Bernstein reached out to all
of his dear friends. So we've got some of the
most special boats that are coming October eighth or the twelfth.
You can tour those boats, you can do dinner cruises,
(14:29):
you can be up and down this beautiful Ohio River
with not just Bbe Riverboats, but all their friends.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Now this sounds like a Tall Stacks event, remember there
it does.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, so Allen was front and center and hosting that
as well. All of these boats will launch from the
Ohio side, so you'll get your beautiful views of Kentucky.
So you come over to Ohio, jump on the Natchez,
the Belle of Louisville will come up as well. But
you've got boats coming from everywhere. And Alan was front
(15:02):
and center and making that happen. His daughter runs BB
Riverboats along with him now. But yes, so sharing America's
river roots, you're gonna be right there on the High River.
So look for that's it's easy to find. I'll have
it on my website, my Facebook as well. Shelley Funky
from R shelleyfour Kentucky dot com. You can find information.
(15:24):
But that effort in Kentucky to really amplify our tourism
as we lower our income tax, it's hand in hand
our approach. That's that America River Roots. That's something pretty special.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Shelley for Kentucky. That's f O R as opposed to
the number four. It's f O R shelleyfour Kentucky dot
Kentucky spelled out fair enough.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
All Right, one more thing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I know you wanted to talk about your Make America
Healthy Again task Force. And we have Keith Tannenfeld and
George Brennan on my program about once a month. They
spend an hour and they're all about you know, restoring health.
You know about holistic approaches and natural and improving the
quality of food and putting less things in our body
that are damaging. So what's your motive and what's your
involvement with this Kentucky task Force?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yes, so we formed the task force certainly inspired at
the MAHA ball back on January twentieth, and two of
our senators are two of our congressmen are very dedicated
to Congressman Massy and Senator Ran Paul great So informing
it in Kentucky. Were started out with supplemental nutrition assistance
(16:32):
program that we really need to supplement nutrition amen and
recognizing so.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Are no mountain dew on snap correct?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And I love mountain dew. It's always a treat, but
the reality is you can have it occasionally, but it
doesn't need to be your supplemental nutrition.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
But it's not nutrition.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It's pure sugar and water, right, I mean that's not nutrition.
I mean I do know what your definition nutrition is.
But you don't get any vitamins, you don't get minerals,
you don't get protein, you get nothing but empty wasted
sugar calories.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Right in somewhere we've lost what does nutrition really mean?
So our task force is very focused and this last
meeting last Wednesday, we had one of your own, doctor
Gary Huber came to Frankfort and he spent an hour
just really showing the value of tier one, Tier two,
(17:27):
Tier three, tier four and basically the one food is
what you can grow in your backyard. He said, pick it,
pluck it, or shoot it with an arrow, but harvest
your own meats. Yes, but eating more whole foods. He
really amplified the focus on prevention through just those simple
things as simple as great sleep, daily exercise, in eating
(17:51):
more whole foods. He also got into fats a little bit.
And then following him was doctor Larkin focused on your
mouth health, the health of your mouth, recognizing that you've
also got things happening in your mouth that may have
come out of your gut causing bad breath and other things.
You've really got to understand your mouth is the entry
(18:13):
to your health, your wellbeing, and your ability to be
proactive and preventative.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And the gut has become a really big focus of
attention and health awareness because apparently that is like the
key to everything is what's going on in your stomach
and if you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Feed it some great vegetables and some wonderful fats and
fantastic beef from Kentucky by the way, then you're feeding
it well and you're improving that gut microbiome. And of
course you've got to improve your sleep as well. Don't
ignore that your body needs time. But we overeat and
we overfeed.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Our Lord, we do.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And then going back to snap, that's just really a
guide for all of us to be more thoughtful around
are you eating ultra processed? Is that what's consuming? And
doctor Huber said, yeah, seventy five percent of the calories
people are consuming came from ultra processed. It didn't come
from that apple or.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know that well, and let's face that, the beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Banana that I see sitting over there, Brian, you're working
at it.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Turn back to clock.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
In my lifetime, I mean, I'll be sixty in September,
coming up fast. But all this process food really has gotten,
you know, this snowball effect just within my lifetime. If
everybody when I was a kid was skinny, I was
the fat kid. And by today's standards, nobody would have
called me fat today. But back then, in nineteen let's
say seventy three or four, Yeah, ten Ton Thomas that was.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Me, and you know, I hate to hear that and
that American exceptionalism is ignored. We could be exceptional, We're not.
We're obese.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Shelley Franky Foe Myer boy. I wish we had an
hour to talk, but maybe we can talk again before
the election. I strongly encourage my Kentucky listeners, shelleyfo Kentucky
dot com get behind her support.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Order.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Well, we have the dynamic trio. We have Senator Rampaul,
we have Congressman Thomas Massey, and we have State Senator
Shelley Fucky Fromeyer wonderful from my friends in the common Well,
God bless each and every one of you, Shelley, It's
always a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
God bless you.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Brian, good luck on the campaign trail. Oh, I'm grateful
to have you around. Stick around. FOP President Ken Coober
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