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Speaker 1 (00:12):
You know, it made me think of just now based
on what you just said to him, Chuck, don't.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Think about your legs. I'm sorry, they just look good.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Well no, that not that, but thank you. That's very
kind of you. You were talking about your birthday coming
up and in July, and my son this morning said
he said to me, he goes, what's your when's your
next Who would you go to be? And I said
my next birthday? Goes yeah, I go fifty seven and
he goes, that's not old. And he's eleven. I go, oh,
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when's it old? He goes seventy. He goes, so you
got like thirteen plus years. Well, bless his heart. Can
he come hang around me for a while? He says,
killing me, you have thirteen plus years before all think
you're old. And I said, oh, well, okay, well thank you.
That's very nice. So just so you know, an eleven
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year old doesn't think you're.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Going to be old, that's good. I appreciate him very much.
But I have to convince myself of that. It's just
I you know, I don't feel old. I don't I
don't act old, I don't think old. I don't nothing
about me is old except my knees, and I just
this is hard to grasp that I'm putting another decade
under my belt. Man. That's that's that's weird. It just
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feels weird.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Uh, father time's undefeated, as you know. Yeah, so it's uh,
you just you just roll with the punches. You just
go with what you can go with and just try
to you know, you just try to make it last forever.
If I could go, Keith sweat on you, you remember
that one he could last?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Anyway, that's that's everybody's fighting, man. You know, everybody's fighting.
So you're not alone, my brother, I know you are
not alone. And then we got this young and joining
us right now, FOP President Lodge nine, Brian Steele is
joining us.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
As a child. He's a child.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Shave good to talk to you, too, young, and thank
you for joining us.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
We appreciate it. Welcome to old man talk. So you
get to be the guy that's not so old talking
to him.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I prelisted forty seven. I know I look like I'm
twenty two, and I'm as a limber as a fifteen
year old girl. But forty seven, well.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That's fantastic. That's got all kinds of side benefits man
being Limberlus.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Although I don't think he should really wear the leotard
all the time to make the points.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
That's no, you got that, you got it? How is
everybody doing?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
But man, you know you pull that off so well,
that's the thing because you take care of yourself and
that's what matters, Brian, So for.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Sure, that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And great hair too.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Let's not forget that you do.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Really have great hair. More okay, isn't he?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh man, you guys started this right a bottom sweet
talk them or head lock them, and you're putting me
in a corner.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
We got to change an even show. Kojack and Curly.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Exactly love it. So let's start with Yeah, there's a
swat standoff that happened and it resulted in a dead
bad guy. I got to be honest, Brian when I
first saw and there might be some other information that
has has kind of surfaced here at this point, but
based on the way that it looks like it plays out,
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I almost and I don't know, you probably can't speculate
on this because nobody possibly will even ever know, but
it almost looked like you know, you've heard suicide by cop.
It's like when you come to the door and you
know that swat is outside and you have a gun
in your hand. Now I know he had the Uh.
I believe it was a young lady that was with him, correct,
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that was standing there with him?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. It's suspected out of a domestic
violent incident. You're talking about a very high risk, life
threatened situation where where officers responding literally a neighbor's calling,
they're here and screaming. They think someone's being held against
their will. Patrol officers get there, like they do every time,
they get there immediately, they get there quick. They're there
to help somebody, and they automatically start taking gunfire from
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inside the house. Very very high, high threat situation, which
is why they bring in Columbus SWOT, which we've talked
about them before. Some of the best of the best
are Columbus SWAT.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, a female hostage. So is there any indication that
it was his girlfriend? Was it a relative? I mean,
do they know any of those particulars at this point?
Or I should say, do you know any of those?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah? So I do not know. Obviously, there's an investigation
and the vision has not released that again, we suspect
that it was some kind of domestic situation. Now I
remember the officers just think they're immediately fired upon, and
just the dedication the restrained. They don't know one where
the shots are coming from inside a house, but they
have reason to believe there's at least one innocent victim
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in the house. So officers are not just going to
indiscriminately start firing into an occupied structure. They took cover
and waited, and even when SWAT came and a and
a houstin negotiation team, they were there for at least
an hour trying to talk this person out. When the
individual came out with the gun and started firing, and
the officers were able to have a clear target fired back,
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and the officers are going home and that individual is not.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
You know, if it seems like you only have and
by you, i'm talking a third person like myself or
the listener, you only have maybe movies or that kind
of thing to draw on what would be considered almost
text book in a situation like this where they roll up,
they establish a communication, talking to him, maybe trying to
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find out, hey, what do you want? You know, all
of those things again, I don't know that that's really
how all of that plays out, but to see that
part of this story where they did make contact with
him and then they did speak to him, and then
I read that during some of the conversation is when
some of the fire took place, some of it from
him shooting out.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah. Man, And again, those officers are patient SWAT host negotiator.
They would have stayed there for hours, days for a
peaceful resolution. The person put them on a minute danger.
They responded with deadly force to protect themselves and that
innocent life inside that house and brought it to an end.
And again, these brave actions by highly portrayed professionals from
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both patrol and SWAP prevented a more potential tragedy. The
victim is going home and that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, Brian, what's been the immediate reaction. I mean, are
you getting any fallout, any any media idiots, any of
these ridiculous social media groups that want to tell you
everything you did wrong here? Or does everybody pretty much
understand this was a necessity. The guy raised his weapon,
he had a hostage and there was no choice.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So social media, the court of social media, there will
always be somebody with some cockamae. The idea that you
could have done. You could have air dropped the kitten
in the air for the person for a little bit
and calmed down. I don't know. I'm just going to condemn.
I'm going to commend the men and women of the
Division of Police and also sometimes we forget the tactical
medics for the Division of Fire. Professional heroes. They are
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embedded with our swat team and they immediately go to
render aid to this individual. And I definitely I cannot
speak more highly from Steve Stein's boys and girls over
there at Local sixty seven. Great job.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, that's the thing. You're on social media. It's well,
you could have shot him in the leg, you know,
or you could have shot him in the armor. You
could have here's the best one, which I didn't see this,
but you do see these silly you know, like as
you put at kakamami posts or whatever the court of
social media, you could have shot the weapon out of
his hand when he's waving it around. I mean, if
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they're such good shot, you know, that's the thing. I
don't envy you guys having to deal with that kind
of idiocy post these kinds of situations, and you know,
real lives are at stake, and you know, all of
this tension and everything else, it's it's just silly. And
God bless you guys for what you put up with.
And you know how you handle these things and you
eliminate threats and you your bottom line is you want
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to keep the public safety. I mean, that's really and
and it shines too in this particular situation. All right,
let's shift gears to you testified earlier today for the
anti ticket anti quota bill. What is this and tell
me about this.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
So this has been going on. This is in the
General Assembly, it died out last year, it got passed
out through the Senate. Now we're over in the House.
This is a bill, common sense bill that every professional
law enforce organization, including the FOP, can get behind, every citizen,
every motoring public can get behind. We're trying to make
it a violational law and make it a criminal act
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to have an illegal, unethical ticket quota arrest system. It's
very very rare, but it does happen in occasions where
rogue administration's, rogue police chiefs will have ticket quotas and
pressures on their officer. So it's everything you've heard. The
end of the month, you got to get your tickets in.
Maybe you get stopped for five over a good driver's record.
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It's not egregious. You should technically and most likely are
going to get a warning. Officers under these these unethical
practices are pressured to write that ticket so they don't
get they don't get harassed at work or anything like that.
And we can get behind this. And it also has
a metric in there where if any of this corruption
is going on, the officers can report it to the
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Attorney General to be investigated. We're all public servants. We're
charged with upholding safety, fairness, justice. It goes the same
way to the officer.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, it's interesting because we've heard those kinds of things
for years and years and years, and depending on who
you talk to, they're like, Nah, that's all, that's all hogwash,
that's that's not a real thing, or whatever. So this
is interesting that this is a bill that's been introduced
and hopefully gets through. It sounds like you're in favor
of it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
No, I'm in favor of this bill. And again it's
very small. But if they don't come out and call
it ticket quota. They'll use some words out and say
performance objectives. If you don't make your performance objectives, maybe
you won't be issued a written reprimand. But maybe if
you are the officer in charge, or you had some
incentives like a training class you wanted to go to,
those would be stripped away because you're not what someone
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call a high performer PVC OFV, you're not writing enough tickets.
And it always seems to be kind of these these
little towns who are not doing very good financially, maybe
not very well run. Maybe their chiefs have no confidence
votes against them by their members. In order to try
to supplement that, they're trying to force their officers to
serve and collect instead of serve and protect, which we
took an oath to do.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
FOP President Lodge and I'm Brian Steal joining US Police
Week last week.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I hear it was a smashing success. Eric Delbert was
on with us talking about it last week too, and
tell me what you learned and how you feel about it.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
So what I learned was three hundred and forty five
names were added to our National Police Memorial down in
cit DC, and that includes one hundred and forty eight
men and women of American law enforcement in twenty fourteen
that left home, kissed their families, go bye, and never
came home. You know, there's over twenty four thousand names
on that wall and it keeps growing. And if you
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ever went out to d C, go to World War
two Memorial, go to Korean War Memorial, go see your
police memorial. It is the only wall where we keep
adding and it's not going to stop adding. Unfortunately. That's
the dangers that the mental women of American peace officer.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Face every day. So please to me.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Every day it's Police Office Appreciation Day, Memorial Day. I
think of them. If you live in town here Thursday
night CPD Police Memorial, fifty nine officers a Columbus Division
of Police have been killed in on our wall. It'll
be Thursday night at the Police Academy at eight pm.
Please come on buy and pay your respects.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Hey, I also want to throw this in. I misjudged.
I had the wrong idea about what Police Week was
and what you were talking about last week when I
introduced this. I guess I should have went further when
I talked to you earlier before we went on. It
was something else that I was thinking, and once you
start talking about it, I realized that, so I apologize
I was off on that.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
So no worries. We have a we have peace source
FRO Memorial Days, the national holiday, and we have recognized
this police week.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Very good, all right. FFP President Lodge nine, Brian Steele, Brian,
thanks for all you do. Thanks for jumping on with
us and keep fighting the good fight.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Brother, appreciate you, Thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
See you man, I was gonna say, and I know
he was a little bited on time, but you know,
every year right now we're doing it. The blue lights.
Put your blue porch light in or whatever, show your
support for law enforcement. I think the FOP Lodge nine
should sell blue lights. It is like a fundraiser for
FOP charities or police athletics or or whatever. They would,
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you know, further, because they do so much public service stuff,
I'd pay him twenty bucks for a blue light bulb, yeah,
just because it's what it's going for.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Knowing what it's going for exactly. And when that all
that whole thing first started, I remember you couldn't find
a blue light anyway, You couldn't find a blue bulb
anywhere everywhere you go sold out. And then sometimes after
that you would show up at let's fill in the blank,
and I'm just I don't know for sure that they
were one of them, but home excuse me, home Depot
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or Low's or whatever. You would walk in and there
would be like a sign that said we have blue
light bulbs, like it would just just to let you know.
But that was I remember when all that first started,
and it was it was pretty crazy, and you're right,
that would be a great way for them to earn money.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
The first year they did it, I bought a black
light bulb because when it lights up it looked blue.
I didn't buy them was actually blue. So I felt
kind of bad about that until I saw it at night.
I'm like, Okay, that looks blue. I'm good.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Right, Well, and look you were looking for him. They
were just out everywhere, right.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I ended up a little you know, mom and pop
hardware store when I finally because I went on at
Home Depot and Low's and went out to Walmart. Could
not find one that first year anywhere.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Weather Sports and the Mark Blazer Show on six ten WTVN.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
All right, chief meteorologist Marshall McPeak joining us now in Marshall.
That lightning strike into that police car was absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And I'm well, I don't know you saw it right
or did you?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I have not seen that?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Where was that?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
So it was so this morning I saw it. It
was on GDC, And so Katie was asking Buck about,
you know, as far as the lightning strike and is
it a you know whatever at Old Wives Tale or
whatever about that's sitting on rubber So but this it's crazy.
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It's just you know, it's it's surveillance of a police
lot where the police cars are parked. You can tell
it's at the station, and so one of them is
just sitting there kind of you know, by itself, and
the camera happens to be right on it, and I'm
it's a direct strike lightning boom one right into the
car and you can see it smoked, you know, plumes
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from it. And so they were talking about that. Chuck
and I were just talking about it, and you know,
it was like if somebody was inside that vehicle, would
they be toast and you know those kinds of things.
Buck was saying, Look, if somebody it's better to be
inside of a vehicle like that than clearly standing outside
of it if lightning, you know, striking, but remains to
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be seeing whether somebody would have made it through that
or not. But they would have. Part of the.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Issue is that usually a lot of times what will
happen when those kinds of strikes happen is that the
electricity gets channeled around the frame of the vehicle. So
in theory, if you're not touching the frame of the vehicle,
you'd be okay, well, good luck with that. How are
you gonna not touch the frame of the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Even if you get electrocuted? In this case, what you
see the video, you'll know what I'm talking about. It
looked like a rocket had been fired through the windshield.
I mean, it just it hits so hard. And then
last week, where was that? Was that also, Louis, Yeah,
did you see the lightning ball floating around the parking lot?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So ball lightning is so fascinating.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
It was like looking for somebody.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
It was freaking yeah, And we still don't know what
causes it. So it's occasionally they'll see it actually floating
through a plane like it will it will almost look
like it's.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Rolling down the aisle of a plane, oh.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
So.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
But yeah, the ball lightning is still a bit of
a mystery as to how and why it happens. And
the descriptions are fascinating because people talk about this ball
that just sizzles as it goes by and it Yeah,
it's really fascinating. But still a question as to what
its origins are. How does that happen. We're still trying
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to figure that out. But yeah, ball lightning is cool.
It's raining outside in Columbus right now. Not a lot
of lightning with this, but you may still get some
lightning and thunder yet this evening. It is heavy all
over Franklin County, even heavier in Pickaway and Ross Counties
right now. As we go through the night tonight, the
best chance for strongest severe storms remains to our south
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and west, but we could still get some pretty good
thunder here. Fifty seven for an overnight low. Wednesday, showers
and thunderstorms, more showers than storms, but seventy degrees. It'll
be a windy day and chilli on Thursday, some showers
and sixty one for a high.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
All right, Marshall, thank you, It is fifty nine right now.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Could you imagine a ball of lightning just kind of
floating around the studio in here.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I in my life. First of all, I'd never even
heard of it. And then the description I said, sounds horrific,
is what it's like.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh you didn't see that. No, that was it was
somewhere in the southern United States last week and it
was a parking lot and the ball was just kind
of it literally looked like it was searching for somebody,
just kind of floating around the parking lot, goes over
by this car and then comes back over this way.
I thought, there's some idiot's going to see one of
those in touch it one day and know exactly how
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powerful it is. But it's just just this big orb
of light floating about. It looks about the size of
a basketball, and it's and it's lightning. It's lightning. Yeah,
but it's never even heard floating lightning. That's Marshall said.
They don't even know how it happens.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
So because that sounds like a I if I saw
that online, I didn't see it, but I'd be going, man,
that's artificial. Tell that's not even real.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's just been happening for for you know, my whole lifetime.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
So you've heard of it? Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, it's rare. It's not very often, but yeah, I've
heard of it when I was a youngster.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Hey, what is the latest on the inmates that escaped
to New Orleans? I mean they there was through a
hole in a wall behind a toilet and there were
ten of the showers and thunderstorms. Breezy Raw Okay, Uh,
that's the latest on them. Yeah, showers and thumb there
in the midst of well. Breezy and Raw are the
two leaders of the escape.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The mates.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
So four of them they've been captured. Six are still
at large. But what's the latest done.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well, they have now fired a maintenance worker from me
because jail. Yes, this maintenance worker, apparently, at the direction
of an inmates, Stirling Williams, thirty three years of age,
at the direction of an inmate, turned off the water
to that cell. Okay, so when they disconnected the toilet
and crawled out of the hole, that's like the most
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ghetto escape anyway.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
However you can do it. I mean, are you looking
for something glamorous?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, I mean, come on, man, they'll chopohead tunnels. So anyway,
he disconnected the water, so they could disconnect the toilet
and the water would not flow out of the cell
and make it obvious what they were doing. So he
has been arrested and charged in complicity with these inmates
ten counts of assisting them. He's also facing a malfeasance
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of duty while employed by the County Sheriff's Department down there.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
You wonder if they those people said to him, we
know who you're fan. See there you go exactly, because
why why would you risk being connected to an escape
if you worked there? I mean, what did they promise you?
You know, jewels and what thirteen virgins when you die?
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I mean, come on, what is good? So I wonder
if they're like, we have people on the outside, we're
gonna harm your family, your wife, we know, and they
get to that information about people, if they're around them enough,
they try anything. And did they even have the ability
to do that with this guy? And I'm just I'm
just floating this out there because nothing makes sense with
why would this guy help them?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Why?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I don't know. Yeah, is it money? Was it fear?
It could have been. I mean when you get ten
inmates that want to escape and they say, yeah, we
know who you are where you live, and we will
go kill your wife. You'll kill it, we'll kill your kids. Well,
you know it doesn't excuse it, but I can understand it.
I would. I think at least if I were in
that situation, I would be brighter than this. Okay, I'll
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do what you say, but I'm going to very quietly
arrange for your butts to get caught as soon as
you leave the prison grounds so that you know, I
do my thing, I don't look bad and you accidentally
get re arrested and go back to prison. I wouldn't
just let it happen. I'd have to stop it from happening,
but I'd have to do it strategically because you know,
fear of repercussions to your family. Man' that's a strong motivator.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I mean, if you tell the I see, I think
I would have been on the side of going, well,
I'm gonna yeah, yeah, I'll help you out or whatever,
and then I go to the people in charge or
even higher up and go, hey, these guys are threatening me.
I'm gonna need some help with my family. We're gonna
we need you know, surveillance security and around the I
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mean something.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And it's Louisiana. I don't know what all the inmates were,
the six that remain out, they've got mugshots here on
the MSN website and they're all black people. Okay. I
would seriously if I were in Sterling, William's thirty three
year old maintenance worker, I would have found the most
race whitest sheriff's deputy I could find in the parish
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and say I got something to tell you, because I
want to make sure somehow, some way, whoever I go
to is not also complicit in a situation. For all,
the warden could be on the prison payroll for all.
You know, man, that's a great point. So I would
I go get somebody who's you know, they're basically their
hatred was more motivating than any money they might have
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been offered by somebody to make sure my boat was covered.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, because you get somebody who really hates them and
they get involved, those guys aren't going to have time
or the connection then to go ahead and send the
orders to take out you know Sterling's family. Is that
his name? Sterling?
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah, I know somebody out there's going I chucked And
you know what that means? That just means those those
men that just be shot dead by those racist deputies,
if that's what you did, if they threatened my family,
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, anything goes.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Ever, tools I got to use to protect my family
I always will.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I gotta tell you too, if they know who you are,
your family and all that, what's going to stop them
from when they get out to go right where they
are and then flip it around and go, Yeah, Sterling
told us, you know you would help us out.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I mean, well, apparently this one that they caught the
other night is what gave the law enforcement the key
to arresting Sterling is he let him know how they
were able to do it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Man, there's no honor among thee not at all.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Man.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
If you're because you know, we will cut half off
of what we're going to give you if you'll tell
us how you did it, who helped you exactly. Of
course you're gonna do it absolutely.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Were just finishing up going back and forth with Congressman Balderson,
who was instrumental in helping set up Representative Warren Davidson,
who represents the eighth congressional district here in the state
of Ohio.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
He is going to be joining us tomorrow. And it's
interesting because he is where did it go?
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Where is it? He proposed his study on TDS. Yes,
that TDS, Trump Derangement sindrome.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Gosh.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
He introduced the Trump Derangement Syndrome Research Act of twenty
twenty five. So this legislation aims to direct the National
Institutes of Health to investigate the psychological and social origins
of Trump Arrangement syndrome. And I love how on here
it's like a term used to describe the extreme negative
reactions to former President Donald J.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Trump.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
And why are they saying former because he's not former,
he's the current president anyway. Representative out of Alabama was
a co sponsor on this bill, and TEDS has divided
families the country led to nationwide violence, including two assassination attempts.
The TDS Research Act would require the NIH to study
this toxic state of mind so we can understand the
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root cause and identity or identify rather solutions. And in studying,
now see this is where because I was like reading this,
going hmmm. Instead of funding ludacrous studies such as giving
methanphetamine to cats or teaching monkeys to gamble for their
drinking water. The NIH should and I don't know if
those are real life to double check with him, the
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NIH should use that funding to research issues that are
relevant to the real world.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Interesting, kind of interesting. I don't know. I it seems
kind of frivolous to me. Yeah, yeah, the whole Trump derangements.
That's a social thing that It's just there's so many
things in our world today that people just don't make sense.
I don't want to see government funded study of each
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otherm and just we're just crazy. That's our problem right there.
We're just crazy as people anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
So part of kind of and you just kind of
answered part of what he's even saying here is they're
already using appropriated funds that the NIH is using on
other ludicrous, stupid stuff, and so he's gone, why not
use it on something that there could be something that
comes out of it that helps somebody. So why continue
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to use this money? Just light it on fire, basically,
I feel like, is what he's kind of saying with this.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
People are gullible, which is a sad thing. What's worse
that was when you were when you were a combination
of glible and condescending. That's that's where I'm having problems
with a lot of my Democrat left wing friends, where
you know, they want to tell you how you worship
Donald Trump, the alter of Donald Trump, Donald Trump is
your god, but they will believe any Look yesterday, one
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of them put out there, Trump falls asleep at Saudi Arabia.
I'm sorry, if like four and a half seconds of
close in your eyes and go, oh my gosh, what
is this fool going to ask for next? If that's sleeping?
Biden was in a coma that come on, they'll jump
on anything, and it's just it's ridiculous. And then when
you try to tell them, look it was four point
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two seconds or whatever CNN timed it out to be,
that is not sleeping at a press conference, and they
want to come back with the condescension. Come on, you're
smarter than that, You're oh my gosh. It's just it
makes me sick that they they hate this man so
much and they want to they want to try to
be little you for not agreeing with him.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Well, I would also say, even if he did fall asleep,
if he nod, if he nodded, excuse me if he
nodded off for however long it was, whooped e ding dong.
Who cares if he did? You know how many time
zones he crossed to get to where he was. He
didn't have time to acclimate to that. It happens to
me when I go to Las Vegas, for the love
(27:56):
of God, because they're three hours behind us. So it's
twelve after one in Las Vegas right now in the afternoon,
but in the morning and in the evening. So say
it gets to eleven twelve o'clock in Las Vegas and
you're still awake, Well that's two or three am hour
time anyway. Point being going across all of those time
zones and such, I was even thinking, how do they
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even stay awake in something like that when it could
be eight hours or six hours or ten hours. I'm
not even sure what it is. But even if he
nodded off for a little, what does that mean? Does
that mean it means that he's tired? Does that mean
that he's some dumb old man who shouldn't be running
the country.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
He's a dynamo.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I mean, I think we've discovered, or there's it's been
on display for how long now that Donald Trump is
heads and stop trying to compare him to the pisspoor
president that we had before, who wasn't even the president.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Let's just be honest, and didn't do anything before ten
am or after four pm because he was so tired.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Just like, knock it off with the trying to compare
because he's old and people are calling him dementia. Don
got up. He doesn't have dementia.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
But he held the glass with two hands when he
took a drink. He's got a disease.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I'm just tired of that they're trying to compare him
and saying he's some feeble old You know again, I
can own who cares?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
If he nodded off for a a few who cares?
I mean it was it's not that big of a deal.
I really, in the scheme of things. It's not like
he fell on the floor and was like convulsing and
flipping around. I mean Biden did that constantly. As far
as nodding off, that wasn't the problem I had with Biden.
The problem I had with Biden was his all of
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his policies.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Or turns out it wasn't even his probably half home,
And you know what, I defy anybody to go back
over the four years that Joe Biden was president and
find anything that I said negative about him when it
came to being old or you know, when the.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Rest of a president poopy pants. You don't hear me
talking about that kind of stuff that you know what
your old stuff happens your body is. If the man
pooped his pants, God bless him. I'm sorry he did
that with the cameras running. But the fact that my disagreements,
my criticisms were of his policies, his politics is his
lack of leadership had nothing to do with something that's stupid.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
If they want to stack up those kinds of things,
President poopye pants, and all we can go. You know,
we can go category by category if you want to
compare Donald Trump to him. But you know, if we're
really going to do that, let's do all of the categories.
And if both of them nodded off at some point, okay,
I'd be nodding off. I think even like a thirty five,
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which you know, we had a thirty five forty year
old president who's fit as a fiddle, and you know,
so on and so might be doing that over the
time you're talking about all those time zones. It is
until you've I have never even traveled that far far
the most that I've done, and I think Hawaii's six hours,
but I've never traveled overseas. I've never done that. Until
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you've done that, and you can speak to it because
think about how exhausted with Bouley. You can only get
so much rest in an aircraft. And I understand it's
palatial on you know, Air Force one. He's got a
bet and all that stuff, But I don't know how
just the act of flying makes you tired. You can
stay in the same time zone, but if you're going
you know, Columbus, Ohio to say, a resort in the
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Dominican Republic, you're in the same time though, but just
that time on the plane is going to make you tired. Hey,
I had this yesterday. We didn't get to it. But
the prison officials that are being sued now because they
open mail to keep drugs out and it's a method
for keeping illegal drugs out of state prisons. Is it's
being challenged now, invasion of privacy for incarcerated Ohioans. It's
(31:43):
the Ohio Justice and Policy Center, and it's a they
filed a civil rights lawsuit against top managers of the
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction over the practice of
intercepting legal mail. So the Ohio prison system they open
and scan letters and cards and then deliver the material
(32:04):
to inmates on their state issued tablets. Now at four prisons,
legal mail from attorneys to inmates also is opened, scanned,
and delivered electronically. So the lawsuit is saying alleging that
this practice pierces the attorney client confidentiality and makes it
less likely that inmates will trust the communication they have
with their attorneys. And then somebody who's with the Ohio
(32:29):
Justice and Policy Center Chief executive Officer Gabe Davis, was like,
this policy is a blatant violation of legal mail confidentiality.
The paramount aspect of an attorney client privilege is trust.
The relationship is trust. This policy undermines that trust, opens
the door for private correspondence to be viewed total disregard
for our client civil rights, First Amendment rights. We're suing
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the department because this has to stop now. But then
they go on to say the scanning is done to
prevent drugs being mailed into the state prison system. Here's
how they do it. Illegal drugs such as K two
tune or spice are chemicals that are soaked onto paper.
It's then cut up and sold as individual hits. Suboxone
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strips and other drugs can also be concealed in mail.
So they're asking the court to issue a permanent injunction
to force the prisons in Lucasville, Maria and living On
and Chilkaty to stop screening legal mail. So then I
started digging a little bit because the you know, when
you see K two tune or spice chemicals soaked onto
(33:35):
paper and then it's individual hits, it's cut up and
all of that. So what would stop an attorney from
doing that for his client if he knew for a
fact they were not able to open that mail. Now
you would think, well, they're not going to risk helping
get contraband in there or whatever something like Well, you
(33:57):
would think that that would be the case that they
wouldn't do that. But so I started looking up and
I googled do prisoners have rights in prison? Do they
have rights? And of course well not to let well,
it says they do retain certain rights even though they're incarcerated.
(34:18):
Some lose freedoms like freedom of movement, you know, some
of the some of the more common sense answers to
that side of this question. They still have constitutional protections
including freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, due process, and
religious freedom. So I'm looking down this and uh, freedom
of speech. And then it says limited prisoners retain certain
(34:40):
aspects of free speech, I as the right to send
and receive mail and the right to voice concerns about
prison conditions. However, these rights can be restricted in order
to maintain order and security. You do, so that right
there is That's that's I would think all they need.
I don't even know that, but this, I mean, how
(35:01):
do they move forward with this lawsuit knowing that that
right there is the answer?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
And it's it's a completely logical, reasonable protective action for
the prison system to take. You have to open the
mail when it comes in. Yes, that just makes sense,
don't I don't even understand what the argument is. Hell,
I've had stuff here that goes through it comes to
the radio station, and I get it opened because you know,
they either they don't know who I am, or they
(35:26):
want to make sure I'm not getting any anthrax delivered.
Ors I don't know. But that's because my mail is
coming to my employer's address. So if I don't have
a problem with that, how can somebody who's incarcerated have
a problem with their male being checked. That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Well, that's that's the thing they're they're saying. The attorney
client privilege is being pierced.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Right, the attorneys male stuff to their clients. Don't they
go in and actually speak to their clients.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I think they do that as well.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I don't know that an attorney would necessarily be sending
anything except you know, public information paperwork. Here's a copy
of the you know, the the summons that you're going
to have for I can't see them sending any you know,
classified information.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
They're calling this legal mail confidentiality. It's a blatant violation
of legal mail confidentiality. But right from what I looked
up again, uh, these rights can be restricted in order
to maintain order and security, and it's about security at
this level. You know what's funny is this would have
probably never even turned into a thing had somebody not
(36:30):
taken advantage of it at some point. So then they go,
all right, well we have to go another step, and
you know what, you guys can't have nice things because
somebody did something they shouldn't have been doing, and now
we get to open all your stuff. And let's face it,
when you get arrested for certain day, you lose some
of your privileges, if you lose some of your rights.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
To maintain the safety and security of all people involved,
they should be able to check the mail. If the court,
some idiot judge finds the opposite, the first thing I
would do is look for someone to go challenge the
existence of the TSA that we were talking about yesterday,
because that's an infringement upon my Fourth Amendment right to
be safe in my person, to be secure in my
person without being searched by some government entity simply because
(37:10):
I'm going somewhere or doing something. If it's not illegal,
you have no just cause to be searching. But it
maintains security on the airport, No, no, If we don't
need to maintain security in the prison, we don't need
it on that seven forty seven.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, that's a good point. Hey, John, welcome to the show.
Speaker 9 (37:26):
Hey guys, good show. Hey, thanks, Hey, you're missing it.
It's not an attorney that's going to send it. How
hard is it to go to a law firm's website,
gout and pace their logo and stick it on an envelope.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Oh, I see what you're saying. So then it looks
like it's being sent from them there you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
I mean yeah, all right, thanks, yeah, I mean so,
given what you just said, which I feel like is John,
thank you, it's obvious. But given that, that's why they
have to They can't have nice things. As I said, Yeah,
(38:01):
you gotta open them up. You gotta look at everything.
You gotta see sad breaking.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, Norm, he's gone.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
Ay.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Norm George Wentz, who was Norm on Cheers, has passed
away seventy six years of age. To a developing story.
They don't have a lot of details yet, but the
family issued a statement today and so that he has
passed away at seventy six.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Rest in peace. You're marrying me, Yeah, goodbye? Rest in peace.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Traffic, Weather, Sports and the Mark Blazer Show on sixty
ten WT me.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
All right, Chief Meteorologists Marshall McPeek joining us right this moment,
and so we do have rain in the forecast for
the next few days.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Marshall, don't wait, it's.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Soggy out there now and it keeps getting soggy er.
So we've, like a week and a half ago, we
actually hit the monthly total for May, and we've been
adding to that ever since the normal month of May
we get about three point nine to nine inches of rain.
We're already at four and three quarters, so we're way
above average so far, and we're gonna add more to that.
(39:13):
So it's coming down in buckets right now out in
the Newark area.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Some of that in Patascla.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
Is really heavy, and down into Fairfield County near Pleasantville
it's really heavy as well. You're seeing some moderate to
heavy rain in parts of Union County, Madison County on
up into Delaware and Marion Counties.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Yeah, that's not going anywhere for a while.
Speaker 6 (39:31):
It's gonna be wet tonight, fifty seven for the overnight,
low showers and a few thunderstorms Tomorrow with a hine
ear seventy degrees and a chilli sixty one on Thursday
with more rain and some gusty winds.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
All right, marshall, thank you. It is fifty seven. Just
online try to buy materials for an ARC. I think
we're at the build of arc here pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I'm wondering, if you know, getting all this rain now, though,
is this going to help us out come mid July
into August, when you know, we start worrying about drought
conditions and things like that. Hopefully No, Okay then.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
No, I'm just I know what you're what you're saying,
and it's like how And we'll monitor because if we
get there and we start hearing well I'm drunking, we'll
be like remember when we got all that rain, excess
rain in May. Where did all that go?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:24):
I mean did it just evaporate? Well it could, it
could have just evaporate a lot of it, you know, whatever,
we get to a point where it has to partially
evaporate because it's not gonna uh you know, it's not
going to uh go into the ground very you know,
any farther if you will. So I think at some
point it begins to partially evaporate and it can only
(40:46):
help so much depending on how much we get. But
you would think that we would not be suffering from
any kind of drought conditions if we go I remember,
I think it was last year where we had a
long time where it did not rain, and I want
to say it was like August July August area, is that?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah, it sounds about right. Usually what it happens the
Corton gets knee high by the fourth of July and
then wilts away because there's no water after that.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yeah, that's bad, bad, bad bad. Do you you have
any young'un's that's still like Sesame Street or Peppa Pig.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
The Peppa Pig is kind of gone by the wayside.
I don't know, because I like, I liked Pepper Pig.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
I love it, man, I enjoy watching Pepa You sound
just like the dad.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Yeah, but the kids just didn't. They didn't stick with
Pepper and uh oh, mine loved it. They loved Peppa Pig.
The baby girl just turned to Yesterday. She's in love
with it and it's old. But Miss Rachel she loves
her Miss Rachel and she'll watch that like crazy. The
five year old boy is still a Paul Patrol kid.
He loves his Paul Patrol yep, and the three year
old will will watch anything, so you know.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
So, yeah, the iconic Sesame Street and Peppa Pig are
moving to Netflix new home my gosh.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Yeah, so you're gonna have to pay for Sesame Street.
Well a PBS show, a public broadcasting. Then yeah, cut
off their funding forget it. Then said, Sesame Street lost
me when when Jim Henson died and snuffle of because
his voice changed, because whoever took over could not do
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snubble loving as useless l oh Bird when he would
come to see Big Bird. Well, they can AI it
and now there's it sounds so different, he could kurmy kermey.
Sounds different today than he did back when Jim Henson
was alight. So they the voice changes just lost me.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
So they could uh thinking about that. They could AI
that and and go back to that. Well what about
the kids who have grown up with the current voice
and didn't know that? Jaffers House, they don't matter. They
don't matter, those little brats, they don't matter.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
You're watching their YouTube. They don't care about that.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
So they're going to be associated games for both as well,
a new mobile game called World of Peppa Pig and
a Sesame Street game that now in the works for
Netflix Gaming Sector. No word on premier dates for the
programming or the games, but yeah, it's like you want
to get ready to sign up for the platform. Think
(43:34):
about this what kind of an investment for Netflix was that?
What did they have to shell out to get both
of those?
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:41):
I think which one cost?
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Sesame Street has to cost more, right, I would say
probably so given.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Its longevity, it would have to cost more.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
I would think. What's funny is the did you ever
watch Daniel Tiger? Yeah? I, uh well maybe Stone watched.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Yeah. I was gonna say because of the kids, but
you vaguely I remember it was mister Rogers.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
They just took mister Rogers neighborhood and made mister Rogers
Daniel Tiger just ripped it all. Yeah, it was. I
mean the same characters and everything, and the theme music
was the same.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
Hey, I wanted to wait till the end to give
you good news. Uh oh, but both iconic series will
still run on PBS and.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
People okay, good good. Then they can keep some money.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
It just says on the day of the episode, drops
is how they end this.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
But there it is.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
It's going to continue PVS, PBS kids.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
I was still probably more of an Electric Company kid
than anything else. When I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
Man, I used to lose my mind when Spider Man
would come on that.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Yeah, Spider Man was cool. On Electric Company. Yeah, and
easy Reader. Yeah, pretty easy Reader. That's my name, and
that's Morgan Freeman. I didn't know that that's Morgan Freeman. Yes,
when he was like thirty five, well, he was probably
in his twenties, twenty and yeah, but yeah, the easy
Reader character was Morgan Freeman. Everybody's going to google right
(45:02):
now easy Reader character to see if I'm making it up.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
I'm being honest, not to be confused with easy Rider.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
No, No, that was not Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
No, that's very different if you accidentally search that up
the average US adult. Well, by the way, Congressman Jim
Jordan is going to be joining us just after I believe.
Hold on, let me double check.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Does he know we're going to be here, because he
might not come on if he knows we're here.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
He did know we're here. Okay, he's going to be
joining us coming up just after the top of the hour. Yeah,
there's a couple. The big beautiful bill is something we're
going to be able to talk to him about. You know,
I was here in speaker Johnson say that he wanted
to get this thing wrapped up by Memorial Day. Now
they're saying middle of July is when he wants to
(45:48):
have it wrapped up. I'm like, well, what's going on here?
Did you see Senator Warren tweeted about, you know, fourteen
million people are going to lose health care to give
billionaires another tax break. Why is it there allowed to
just blatantly tweet lies like that. They they put like
just a sliver, little teeny, just a partial truth, so
(46:12):
they just just to fit their narrative or what have you.
He'll touch on that, the timing and the mental decline
for Biden's Remember Robert heard the you know, the interview,
the audio that we're hearing now from October of twenty
twenty three, and you know, I'm gonna ask him too
about hopefully these people that are involved in this cover
(46:34):
up and that's what it is. Let's face it, this
is this is one hundred percent full blown cover up
that's happened. Now, how else can they dodge that it
is a cover up. There were so many people who
knew exactly what was going on, and we already knew this.
It's just more and more receipts are now servicing. So
I hope they're going to be held accountable one way
(46:54):
or another and then this this congresswoman too, who did
wait didn't it keem Jeffrey say, you're crossing a line, Yes,
a red line at that red line? Yeah, so what's
gonna happen? We'll see that's probably racist too. Are the
American Indian tribes on board with that line? They should
be upset?
Speaker 2 (47:13):
Red line? Why does a red line have to be bad?
Kimo sabi? I don't understand. Is kimo sabi a bad word? Now?
Can you still say kimo sabi? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
You're not supposed to say. I don't think so or
midget or there's so many you're not supposed to say
so many words. I've lost track, jeff I've lost that.
I don't know how many are we not supposed to say?
Speaker 2 (47:34):
I have no idea. I just you know what. I
just say what I want to say. It's easier that way.
Speaker 3 (47:39):
I think we know the real important ones that you're
not supposed to say that could result in separation. You're
on the air, that's true, and those are the only
ones that matter to me at this point right The
other ones I think we can just we'll go with.
I'm sorry if you get called out on the.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Words don't mean any intent is everything. Words are just
sounds that come out of your face.
You know, it made me think of just now based
on what you just said to him, Chuck, don't.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Think about your legs. I'm sorry, they just look good.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Well no, that not that, but thank you. That's very
kind of you. You were talking about your birthday coming
up and in July, and my son this morning said
he said to me, he goes, what's your when's your
next Who would you go to be? And I said
my next birthday? Goes yeah, I go fifty seven and
he goes, that's not old. And he's eleven. I go, oh,
(00:44):
when's it old? He goes seventy. He goes, so you
got like thirteen plus years. Well, bless his heart. Can
he come hang around me for a while? He says,
killing me, you have thirteen plus years before all think
you're old. And I said, oh, well, okay, well thank you.
That's very nice. So just so you know, an eleven
(01:05):
year old doesn't think you're.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Going to be old, that's good. I appreciate him very much.
But I have to convince myself of that. It's just
I you know, I don't feel old. I don't I
don't act old, I don't think old. I don't nothing
about me is old except my knees, and I just
this is hard to grasp that I'm putting another decade
under my belt. Man. That's that's that's weird. It just
(01:30):
feels weird.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Uh, father time's undefeated, as you know. Yeah, so it's uh,
you just you just roll with the punches. You just
go with what you can go with and just try
to you know, you just try to make it last forever.
If I could go, Keith sweat on you, you remember
that one he could last?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Anyway, that's that's everybody's fighting, man. You know, everybody's fighting.
So you're not alone, my brother, I know you are
not alone. And then we got this young and joining
us right now, FOP President Lodge nine, Brian Steele is
joining us.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
As a child. He's a child.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Shave good to talk to you, too, young, and thank
you for joining us.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
We appreciate it. Welcome to old man talk. So you
get to be the guy that's not so old talking
to him.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I prelisted forty seven. I know I look like I'm
twenty two, and I'm as a limber as a fifteen
year old girl. But forty seven, well.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That's fantastic. That's got all kinds of side benefits man
being Limberlus.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Although I don't think he should really wear the leotard
all the time to make the points.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
That's no, you got that, you got it? How is
everybody doing?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
But man, you know you pull that off so well,
that's the thing because you take care of yourself and
that's what matters, Brian, So for.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Sure, that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And great hair too.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Let's not forget that you do.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Really have great hair. More okay, isn't he?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh man, you guys started this right a bottom sweet
talk them or head lock them, and you're putting me
in a corner.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
We got to change an even show. Kojack and Curly.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Exactly love it. So let's start with Yeah, there's a
swat standoff that happened and it resulted in a dead
bad guy. I got to be honest, Brian when I
first saw and there might be some other information that
has has kind of surfaced here at this point, but
based on the way that it looks like it plays out,
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I almost and I don't know, you probably can't speculate
on this because nobody possibly will even ever know, but
it almost looked like you know, you've heard suicide by cop.
It's like when you come to the door and you
know that swat is outside and you have a gun
in your hand. Now I know he had the Uh.
I believe it was a young lady that was with him, correct,
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that was standing there with him?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. It's suspected out of a domestic
violent incident. You're talking about a very high risk, life
threatened situation where where officers responding literally a neighbor's calling,
they're here and screaming. They think someone's being held against
their will. Patrol officers get there, like they do every time,
they get there immediately, they get there quick. They're there
to help somebody, and they automatically start taking gunfire from
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inside the house. Very very high, high threat situation, which
is why they bring in Columbus SWOT, which we've talked
about them before. Some of the best of the best
are Columbus SWAT.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, a female hostage. So is there any indication that
it was his girlfriend? Was it a relative? I mean,
do they know any of those particulars at this point?
Or I should say, do you know any of those?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah? So I do not know. Obviously, there's an investigation
and the vision has not released that again, we suspect
that it was some kind of domestic situation. Now I
remember the officers just think they're immediately fired upon, and
just the dedication the restrained. They don't know one where
the shots are coming from inside a house, but they
have reason to believe there's at least one innocent victim
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in the house. So officers are not just going to
indiscriminately start firing into an occupied structure. They took cover
and waited, and even when SWAT came and a and
a houstin negotiation team, they were there for at least
an hour trying to talk this person out. When the
individual came out with the gun and started firing, and
the officers were able to have a clear target fired back,
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and the officers are going home and that individual is not.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
You know, if it seems like you only have and
by you, i'm talking a third person like myself or
the listener, you only have maybe movies or that kind
of thing to draw on what would be considered almost
text book in a situation like this where they roll up,
they establish a communication, talking to him, maybe trying to
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find out, hey, what do you want? You know, all
of those things again, I don't know that that's really
how all of that plays out, but to see that
part of this story where they did make contact with
him and then they did speak to him, and then
I read that during some of the conversation is when
some of the fire took place, some of it from
him shooting out.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah. Man, And again, those officers are patient SWAT host negotiator.
They would have stayed there for hours, days for a
peaceful resolution. The person put them on a minute danger.
They responded with deadly force to protect themselves and that
innocent life inside that house and brought it to an end.
And again, these brave actions by highly portrayed professionals from
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both patrol and SWAP prevented a more potential tragedy. The
victim is going home and that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, Brian, what's been the immediate reaction. I mean, are
you getting any fallout, any any media idiots, any of
these ridiculous social media groups that want to tell you
everything you did wrong here? Or does everybody pretty much
understand this was a necessity. The guy raised his weapon,
he had a hostage and there was no choice.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So social media, the court of social media, there will
always be somebody with some cockamae. The idea that you
could have done. You could have air dropped the kitten
in the air for the person for a little bit
and calmed down. I don't know. I'm just going to condemn.
I'm going to commend the men and women of the
Division of Police and also sometimes we forget the tactical
medics for the Division of Fire. Professional heroes. They are
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embedded with our swat team and they immediately go to
render aid to this individual. And I definitely I cannot
speak more highly from Steve Stein's boys and girls over
there at Local sixty seven. Great job.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, that's the thing. You're on social media. It's well,
you could have shot him in the leg, you know,
or you could have shot him in the armor. You
could have here's the best one, which I didn't see this,
but you do see these silly you know, like as
you put at kakamami posts or whatever the court of
social media, you could have shot the weapon out of
his hand when he's waving it around. I mean, if
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they're such good shot, you know, that's the thing. I
don't envy you guys having to deal with that kind
of idiocy post these kinds of situations, and you know,
real lives are at stake, and you know, all of
this tension and everything else, it's it's just silly. And
God bless you guys for what you put up with.
And you know how you handle these things and you
eliminate threats and you your bottom line is you want
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to keep the public safety. I mean, that's really and
and it shines too in this particular situation. All right,
let's shift gears to you testified earlier today for the
anti ticket anti quota bill. What is this and tell
me about this.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
So this has been going on. This is in the
General Assembly, it died out last year, it got passed
out through the Senate. Now we're over in the House.
This is a bill, common sense bill that every professional
law enforce organization, including the FOP, can get behind, every citizen,
every motoring public can get behind. We're trying to make
it a violational law and make it a criminal act
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to have an illegal, unethical ticket quota arrest system. It's
very very rare, but it does happen in occasions where
rogue administration's, rogue police chiefs will have ticket quotas and
pressures on their officer. So it's everything you've heard. The
end of the month, you got to get your tickets in.
Maybe you get stopped for five over a good driver's record.
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It's not egregious. You should technically and most likely are
going to get a warning. Officers under these these unethical
practices are pressured to write that ticket so they don't
get they don't get harassed at work or anything like that.
And we can get behind this. And it also has
a metric in there where if any of this corruption
is going on, the officers can report it to the
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Attorney General to be investigated. We're all public servants. We're
charged with upholding safety, fairness, justice. It goes the same
way to the officer.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, it's interesting because we've heard those kinds of things
for years and years and years, and depending on who
you talk to, they're like, Nah, that's all, that's all hogwash,
that's that's not a real thing, or whatever. So this
is interesting that this is a bill that's been introduced
and hopefully gets through. It sounds like you're in favor
of it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
No, I'm in favor of this bill. And again it's
very small. But if they don't come out and call
it ticket quota. They'll use some words out and say
performance objectives. If you don't make your performance objectives, maybe
you won't be issued a written reprimand. But maybe if
you are the officer in charge, or you had some
incentives like a training class you wanted to go to,
those would be stripped away because you're not what someone
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call a high performer PVC OFV, you're not writing enough tickets.
And it always seems to be kind of these these
little towns who are not doing very good financially, maybe
not very well run. Maybe their chiefs have no confidence
votes against them by their members. In order to try
to supplement that, they're trying to force their officers to
serve and collect instead of serve and protect, which we
took an oath to do.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
FOP President Lodge and I'm Brian Steal joining US Police
Week last week.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I hear it was a smashing success. Eric Delbert was
on with us talking about it last week too, and
tell me what you learned and how you feel about it.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
So what I learned was three hundred and forty five
names were added to our National Police Memorial down in
cit DC, and that includes one hundred and forty eight
men and women of American law enforcement in twenty fourteen
that left home, kissed their families, go bye, and never
came home. You know, there's over twenty four thousand names
on that wall and it keeps growing. And if you
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ever went out to d C, go to World War
two Memorial, go to Korean War Memorial, go see your
police memorial. It is the only wall where we keep
adding and it's not going to stop adding. Unfortunately. That's
the dangers that the mental women of American peace officer.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Face every day. So please to me.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Every day it's Police Office Appreciation Day, Memorial Day. I
think of them. If you live in town here Thursday
night CPD Police Memorial, fifty nine officers a Columbus Division
of Police have been killed in on our wall. It'll
be Thursday night at the Police Academy at eight pm.
Please come on buy and pay your respects.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Hey, I also want to throw this in. I misjudged.
I had the wrong idea about what Police Week was
and what you were talking about last week when I
introduced this. I guess I should have went further when
I talked to you earlier before we went on. It
was something else that I was thinking, and once you
start talking about it, I realized that, so I apologize
I was off on that.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
So no worries. We have a we have peace source
FRO Memorial Days, the national holiday, and we have recognized
this police week.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Very good, all right. FFP President Lodge nine, Brian Steele, Brian,
thanks for all you do. Thanks for jumping on with
us and keep fighting the good fight.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Brother, appreciate you, Thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
See you man, I was gonna say, and I know
he was a little bited on time, but you know,
every year right now we're doing it. The blue lights.
Put your blue porch light in or whatever, show your
support for law enforcement. I think the FOP Lodge nine
should sell blue lights. It is like a fundraiser for
FOP charities or police athletics or or whatever. They would,
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you know, further, because they do so much public service stuff,
I'd pay him twenty bucks for a blue light bulb, yeah,
just because it's what it's going for.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Knowing what it's going for exactly. And when that all
that whole thing first started, I remember you couldn't find
a blue light anyway, You couldn't find a blue bulb
anywhere everywhere you go sold out. And then sometimes after
that you would show up at let's fill in the blank,
and I'm just I don't know for sure that they
were one of them, but home excuse me, home Depot
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or Low's or whatever. You would walk in and there
would be like a sign that said we have blue
light bulbs, like it would just just to let you know.
But that was I remember when all that first started,
and it was it was pretty crazy, and you're right,
that would be a great way for them to earn money.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
The first year they did it, I bought a black
light bulb because when it lights up it looked blue.
I didn't buy them was actually blue. So I felt
kind of bad about that until I saw it at night.
I'm like, Okay, that looks blue. I'm good.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Right, Well, and look you were looking for him. They
were just out everywhere, right.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I ended up a little you know, mom and pop
hardware store when I finally because I went on at
Home Depot and Low's and went out to Walmart. Could
not find one that first year anywhere.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Weather Sports and the Mark Blazer Show on six ten WTVN.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
All right, chief meteorologist Marshall McPeak joining us now in Marshall.
That lightning strike into that police car was absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And I'm well, I don't know you saw it right
or did you?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I have not seen that?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Where was that?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
So it was so this morning I saw it. It
was on GDC, And so Katie was asking Buck about,
you know, as far as the lightning strike and is
it a you know whatever at Old Wives Tale or
whatever about that's sitting on rubber So but this it's crazy.
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It's just you know, it's it's surveillance of a police
lot where the police cars are parked. You can tell
it's at the station, and so one of them is
just sitting there kind of you know, by itself, and
the camera happens to be right on it, and I'm
it's a direct strike lightning boom one right into the
car and you can see it smoked, you know, plumes
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from it. And so they were talking about that. Chuck
and I were just talking about it, and you know,
it was like if somebody was inside that vehicle, would
they be toast and you know those kinds of things.
Buck was saying, Look, if somebody it's better to be
inside of a vehicle like that than clearly standing outside
of it if lightning, you know, striking, but remains to
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be seeing whether somebody would have made it through that
or not. But they would have. Part of the.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Issue is that usually a lot of times what will
happen when those kinds of strikes happen is that the
electricity gets channeled around the frame of the vehicle. So
in theory, if you're not touching the frame of the vehicle,
you'd be okay, well, good luck with that. How are
you gonna not touch the frame of the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Even if you get electrocuted? In this case, what you
see the video, you'll know what I'm talking about. It
looked like a rocket had been fired through the windshield.
I mean, it just it hits so hard. And then
last week, where was that? Was that also, Louis, Yeah,
did you see the lightning ball floating around the parking lot?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So ball lightning is so fascinating.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
It was like looking for somebody.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
It was freaking yeah, And we still don't know what
causes it. So it's occasionally they'll see it actually floating
through a plane like it will it will almost look
like it's.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Rolling down the aisle of a plane, oh.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
So.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
But yeah, the ball lightning is still a bit of
a mystery as to how and why it happens. And
the descriptions are fascinating because people talk about this ball
that just sizzles as it goes by and it Yeah,
it's really fascinating. But still a question as to what
its origins are. How does that happen. We're still trying
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to figure that out. But yeah, ball lightning is cool.
It's raining outside in Columbus right now. Not a lot
of lightning with this, but you may still get some
lightning and thunder yet this evening. It is heavy all
over Franklin County, even heavier in Pickaway and Ross Counties
right now. As we go through the night tonight, the
best chance for strongest severe storms remains to our south
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and west, but we could still get some pretty good
thunder here. Fifty seven for an overnight low. Wednesday, showers
and thunderstorms, more showers than storms, but seventy degrees. It'll
be a windy day and chilli on Thursday, some showers
and sixty one for a high.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
All right, Marshall, thank you, It is fifty nine right now.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Could you imagine a ball of lightning just kind of
floating around the studio in here.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I in my life. First of all, I'd never even
heard of it. And then the description I said, sounds horrific,
is what it's like.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh you didn't see that. No, that was it was
somewhere in the southern United States last week and it
was a parking lot and the ball was just kind
of it literally looked like it was searching for somebody,
just kind of floating around the parking lot, goes over
by this car and then comes back over this way.
I thought, there's some idiot's going to see one of
those in touch it one day and know exactly how
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powerful it is. But it's just just this big orb
of light floating about. It looks about the size of
a basketball, and it's and it's lightning. It's lightning. Yeah,
but it's never even heard floating lightning. That's Marshall said.
They don't even know how it happens.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
So because that sounds like a I if I saw
that online, I didn't see it, but I'd be going, man,
that's artificial. Tell that's not even real.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's just been happening for for you know, my whole lifetime.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
So you've heard of it? Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, it's rare. It's not very often, but yeah, I've
heard of it when I was a youngster.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Hey, what is the latest on the inmates that escaped
to New Orleans? I mean they there was through a
hole in a wall behind a toilet and there were
ten of the showers and thunderstorms. Breezy Raw Okay, Uh,
that's the latest on them. Yeah, showers and thumb there
in the midst of well. Breezy and Raw are the
two leaders of the escape.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The mates.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
So four of them they've been captured. Six are still
at large. But what's the latest done.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well, they have now fired a maintenance worker from me
because jail. Yes, this maintenance worker, apparently, at the direction
of an inmates, Stirling Williams, thirty three years of age,
at the direction of an inmate, turned off the water
to that cell. Okay, so when they disconnected the toilet
and crawled out of the hole, that's like the most
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ghetto escape anyway.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
However you can do it. I mean, are you looking
for something glamorous?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, I mean, come on, man, they'll chopohead tunnels. So anyway,
he disconnected the water, so they could disconnect the toilet
and the water would not flow out of the cell
and make it obvious what they were doing. So he
has been arrested and charged in complicity with these inmates
ten counts of assisting them. He's also facing a malfeasance
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of duty while employed by the County Sheriff's Department down there.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
You wonder if they those people said to him, we
know who you're fan. See there you go exactly, because
why why would you risk being connected to an escape
if you worked there? I mean, what did they promise you?
You know, jewels and what thirteen virgins when you die?
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I mean, come on, what is good? So I wonder
if they're like, we have people on the outside, we're
gonna harm your family, your wife, we know, and they
get to that information about people, if they're around them enough,
they try anything. And did they even have the ability
to do that with this guy? And I'm just I'm
just floating this out there because nothing makes sense with
why would this guy help them?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Why?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I don't know. Yeah, is it money? Was it fear?
It could have been. I mean when you get ten
inmates that want to escape and they say, yeah, we
know who you are where you live, and we will
go kill your wife. You'll kill it, we'll kill your kids. Well,
you know it doesn't excuse it, but I can understand it.
I would. I think at least if I were in
that situation, I would be brighter than this. Okay, I'll
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do what you say, but I'm going to very quietly
arrange for your butts to get caught as soon as
you leave the prison grounds so that you know, I
do my thing, I don't look bad and you accidentally
get re arrested and go back to prison. I wouldn't
just let it happen. I'd have to stop it from happening,
but I'd have to do it strategically because you know,
fear of repercussions to your family. Man' that's a strong motivator.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I mean, if you tell the I see, I think
I would have been on the side of going, well,
I'm gonna yeah, yeah, I'll help you out or whatever,
and then I go to the people in charge or
even higher up and go, hey, these guys are threatening me.
I'm gonna need some help with my family. We're gonna
we need you know, surveillance security and around the I
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mean something.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And it's Louisiana. I don't know what all the inmates were,
the six that remain out, they've got mugshots here on
the MSN website and they're all black people. Okay. I
would seriously if I were in Sterling, William's thirty three
year old maintenance worker, I would have found the most
race whitest sheriff's deputy I could find in the parish
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and say I got something to tell you, because I
want to make sure somehow, some way, whoever I go
to is not also complicit in a situation. For all,
the warden could be on the prison payroll for all.
You know, man, that's a great point. So I would
I go get somebody who's you know, they're basically their
hatred was more motivating than any money they might have
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been offered by somebody to make sure my boat was covered.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, because you get somebody who really hates them and
they get involved, those guys aren't going to have time
or the connection then to go ahead and send the
orders to take out you know Sterling's family. Is that
his name? Sterling?
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah, I know somebody out there's going I chucked And
you know what that means? That just means those those
men that just be shot dead by those racist deputies,
if that's what you did, if they threatened my family,
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, anything goes.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Ever, tools I got to use to protect my family
I always will.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I gotta tell you too, if they know who you are,
your family and all that, what's going to stop them
from when they get out to go right where they
are and then flip it around and go, Yeah, Sterling
told us, you know you would help us out.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I mean, well, apparently this one that they caught the
other night is what gave the law enforcement the key
to arresting Sterling is he let him know how they
were able to do it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Man, there's no honor among thee not at all.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Man.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
If you're because you know, we will cut half off
of what we're going to give you if you'll tell
us how you did it, who helped you exactly. Of
course you're gonna do it absolutely.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Were just finishing up going back and forth with Congressman Balderson,
who was instrumental in helping set up Representative Warren Davidson,
who represents the eighth congressional district here in the state
of Ohio.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
He is going to be joining us tomorrow. And it's
interesting because he is where did it go?
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Where is it? He proposed his study on TDS. Yes,
that TDS, Trump Derangement sindrome.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Gosh.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
He introduced the Trump Derangement Syndrome Research Act of twenty
twenty five. So this legislation aims to direct the National
Institutes of Health to investigate the psychological and social origins
of Trump Arrangement syndrome. And I love how on here
it's like a term used to describe the extreme negative
reactions to former President Donald J.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Trump.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
And why are they saying former because he's not former,
he's the current president anyway. Representative out of Alabama was
a co sponsor on this bill, and TEDS has divided
families the country led to nationwide violence, including two assassination attempts.
The TDS Research Act would require the NIH to study
this toxic state of mind so we can understand the
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root cause and identity or identify rather solutions. And in studying,
now see this is where because I was like reading this,
going hmmm. Instead of funding ludacrous studies such as giving
methanphetamine to cats or teaching monkeys to gamble for their
drinking water. The NIH should and I don't know if
those are real life to double check with him, the
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NIH should use that funding to research issues that are
relevant to the real world.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Interesting, kind of interesting. I don't know. I it seems
kind of frivolous to me. Yeah, yeah, the whole Trump derangements.
That's a social thing that It's just there's so many
things in our world today that people just don't make sense.
I don't want to see government funded study of each
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otherm and just we're just crazy. That's our problem right there.
We're just crazy as people anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
So part of kind of and you just kind of
answered part of what he's even saying here is they're
already using appropriated funds that the NIH is using on
other ludicrous, stupid stuff, and so he's gone, why not
use it on something that there could be something that
comes out of it that helps somebody. So why continue
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to use this money? Just light it on fire, basically,
I feel like, is what he's kind of saying with this.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
People are gullible, which is a sad thing. What's worse
that was when you were when you were a combination
of glible and condescending. That's that's where I'm having problems
with a lot of my Democrat left wing friends, where
you know, they want to tell you how you worship
Donald Trump, the alter of Donald Trump, Donald Trump is
your god, but they will believe any Look yesterday, one
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of them put out there, Trump falls asleep at Saudi Arabia.
I'm sorry, if like four and a half seconds of
close in your eyes and go, oh my gosh, what
is this fool going to ask for next? If that's sleeping?
Biden was in a coma that come on, they'll jump
on anything, and it's just it's ridiculous. And then when
you try to tell them, look it was four point
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two seconds or whatever CNN timed it out to be,
that is not sleeping at a press conference, and they
want to come back with the condescension. Come on, you're
smarter than that, You're oh my gosh. It's just it
makes me sick that they they hate this man so
much and they want to they want to try to
be little you for not agreeing with him.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Well, I would also say, even if he did fall asleep,
if he nod, if he nodded, excuse me if he
nodded off for however long it was, whooped e ding dong.
Who cares if he did? You know how many time
zones he crossed to get to where he was. He
didn't have time to acclimate to that. It happens to
me when I go to Las Vegas, for the love
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of God, because they're three hours behind us. So it's
twelve after one in Las Vegas right now in the afternoon,
but in the morning and in the evening. So say
it gets to eleven twelve o'clock in Las Vegas and
you're still awake, Well that's two or three am hour
time anyway. Point being going across all of those time
zones and such, I was even thinking, how do they
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even stay awake in something like that when it could
be eight hours or six hours or ten hours. I'm
not even sure what it is. But even if he
nodded off for a little, what does that mean? Does
that mean it means that he's tired? Does that mean
that he's some dumb old man who shouldn't be running
the country.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
He's a dynamo.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I mean, I think we've discovered, or there's it's been
on display for how long now that Donald Trump is
heads and stop trying to compare him to the pisspoor
president that we had before, who wasn't even the president.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Let's just be honest, and didn't do anything before ten
am or after four pm because he was so tired.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Just like, knock it off with the trying to compare
because he's old and people are calling him dementia. Don
got up. He doesn't have dementia.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
But he held the glass with two hands when he
took a drink. He's got a disease.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I'm just tired of that they're trying to compare him
and saying he's some feeble old You know again, I
can own who cares?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
If he nodded off for a a few who cares?
I mean it was it's not that big of a deal.
I really, in the scheme of things. It's not like
he fell on the floor and was like convulsing and
flipping around. I mean Biden did that constantly. As far
as nodding off, that wasn't the problem I had with Biden.
The problem I had with Biden was his all of
(29:37):
his policies.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Or turns out it wasn't even his probably half home,
And you know what, I defy anybody to go back
over the four years that Joe Biden was president and
find anything that I said negative about him when it
came to being old or you know, when the.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Rest of a president poopy pants. You don't hear me
talking about that kind of stuff that you know what
your old stuff happens your body is. If the man
pooped his pants, God bless him. I'm sorry he did
that with the cameras running. But the fact that my disagreements,
my criticisms were of his policies, his politics is his
lack of leadership had nothing to do with something that's stupid.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
If they want to stack up those kinds of things,
President poopye pants, and all we can go. You know,
we can go category by category if you want to
compare Donald Trump to him. But you know, if we're
really going to do that, let's do all of the categories.
And if both of them nodded off at some point, okay,
I'd be nodding off. I think even like a thirty five,
(30:33):
which you know, we had a thirty five forty year
old president who's fit as a fiddle, and you know,
so on and so might be doing that over the
time you're talking about all those time zones. It is
until you've I have never even traveled that far far
the most that I've done, and I think Hawaii's six hours,
but I've never traveled overseas. I've never done that. Until
(30:55):
you've done that, and you can speak to it because
think about how exhausted with Bouley. You can only get
so much rest in an aircraft. And I understand it's
palatial on you know, Air Force one. He's got a
bet and all that stuff, But I don't know how
just the act of flying makes you tired. You can
stay in the same time zone, but if you're going
you know, Columbus, Ohio to say, a resort in the
(31:19):
Dominican Republic, you're in the same time though, but just
that time on the plane is going to make you tired. Hey,
I had this yesterday. We didn't get to it. But
the prison officials that are being sued now because they
open mail to keep drugs out and it's a method
for keeping illegal drugs out of state prisons. Is it's
being challenged now, invasion of privacy for incarcerated Ohioans. It's
(31:43):
the Ohio Justice and Policy Center, and it's a they
filed a civil rights lawsuit against top managers of the
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction over the practice of
intercepting legal mail. So the Ohio prison system they open
and scan letters and cards and then deliver the material
(32:04):
to inmates on their state issued tablets. Now at four prisons,
legal mail from attorneys to inmates also is opened, scanned,
and delivered electronically. So the lawsuit is saying alleging that
this practice pierces the attorney client confidentiality and makes it
less likely that inmates will trust the communication they have
with their attorneys. And then somebody who's with the Ohio
(32:29):
Justice and Policy Center Chief executive Officer Gabe Davis, was like,
this policy is a blatant violation of legal mail confidentiality.
The paramount aspect of an attorney client privilege is trust.
The relationship is trust. This policy undermines that trust, opens
the door for private correspondence to be viewed total disregard
for our client civil rights, First Amendment rights. We're suing
(32:51):
the department because this has to stop now. But then
they go on to say the scanning is done to
prevent drugs being mailed into the state prison system. Here's
how they do it. Illegal drugs such as K two
tune or spice are chemicals that are soaked onto paper.
It's then cut up and sold as individual hits. Suboxone
(33:13):
strips and other drugs can also be concealed in mail.
So they're asking the court to issue a permanent injunction
to force the prisons in Lucasville, Maria and living On
and Chilkaty to stop screening legal mail. So then I
started digging a little bit because the you know, when
you see K two tune or spice chemicals soaked onto
(33:35):
paper and then it's individual hits, it's cut up and
all of that. So what would stop an attorney from
doing that for his client if he knew for a
fact they were not able to open that mail. Now
you would think, well, they're not going to risk helping
get contraband in there or whatever something like Well, you
(33:57):
would think that that would be the case that they
wouldn't do that. But so I started looking up and
I googled do prisoners have rights in prison? Do they
have rights? And of course well not to let well,
it says they do retain certain rights even though they're incarcerated.
(34:18):
Some lose freedoms like freedom of movement, you know, some
of the some of the more common sense answers to
that side of this question. They still have constitutional protections
including freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, due process, and
religious freedom. So I'm looking down this and uh, freedom
of speech. And then it says limited prisoners retain certain
(34:40):
aspects of free speech, I as the right to send
and receive mail and the right to voice concerns about
prison conditions. However, these rights can be restricted in order
to maintain order and security. You do, so that right
there is That's that's I would think all they need.
I don't even know that, but this, I mean, how
(35:01):
do they move forward with this lawsuit knowing that that
right there is the answer?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
And it's it's a completely logical, reasonable protective action for
the prison system to take. You have to open the
mail when it comes in. Yes, that just makes sense,
don't I don't even understand what the argument is. Hell,
I've had stuff here that goes through it comes to
the radio station, and I get it opened because you know,
they either they don't know who I am, or they
(35:26):
want to make sure I'm not getting any anthrax delivered.
Ors I don't know. But that's because my mail is
coming to my employer's address. So if I don't have
a problem with that, how can somebody who's incarcerated have
a problem with their male being checked. That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Well, that's that's the thing they're they're saying. The attorney
client privilege is being pierced.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Right, the attorneys male stuff to their clients. Don't they
go in and actually speak to their clients.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I think they do that as well.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I don't know that an attorney would necessarily be sending
anything except you know, public information paperwork. Here's a copy
of the you know, the the summons that you're going
to have for I can't see them sending any you know,
classified information.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
They're calling this legal mail confidentiality. It's a blatant violation
of legal mail confidentiality. But right from what I looked
up again, uh, these rights can be restricted in order
to maintain order and security, and it's about security at
this level. You know what's funny is this would have
probably never even turned into a thing had somebody not
(36:30):
taken advantage of it at some point. So then they go,
all right, well we have to go another step, and
you know what, you guys can't have nice things because
somebody did something they shouldn't have been doing, and now
we get to open all your stuff. And let's face it,
when you get arrested for certain day, you lose some
of your privileges, if you lose some of your rights.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
To maintain the safety and security of all people involved,
they should be able to check the mail. If the court,
some idiot judge finds the opposite, the first thing I
would do is look for someone to go challenge the
existence of the TSA that we were talking about yesterday,
because that's an infringement upon my Fourth Amendment right to
be safe in my person, to be secure in my
person without being searched by some government entity simply because
(37:10):
I'm going somewhere or doing something. If it's not illegal,
you have no just cause to be searching. But it
maintains security on the airport, No, no, If we don't
need to maintain security in the prison, we don't need
it on that seven forty seven.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, that's a good point. Hey, John, welcome to the show.
Speaker 9 (37:26):
Hey guys, good show. Hey, thanks, Hey, you're missing it.
It's not an attorney that's going to send it. How
hard is it to go to a law firm's website,
gout and pace their logo and stick it on an envelope.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Oh, I see what you're saying. So then it looks
like it's being sent from them there you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
I mean yeah, all right, thanks, yeah, I mean so,
given what you just said, which I feel like is John,
thank you, it's obvious. But given that, that's why they
have to They can't have nice things. As I said, Yeah,
(38:01):
you gotta open them up. You gotta look at everything.
You gotta see sad breaking.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, Norm, he's gone.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
Ay.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Norm George Wentz, who was Norm on Cheers, has passed
away seventy six years of age. To a developing story.
They don't have a lot of details yet, but the
family issued a statement today and so that he has
passed away at seventy six.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Rest in peace. You're marrying me, Yeah, goodbye? Rest in peace.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Traffic, Weather, Sports and the Mark Blazer Show on sixty
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Speaker 1 (38:39):
All right, Chief Meteorologists Marshall McPeek joining us right this moment,
and so we do have rain in the forecast for
the next few days.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Marshall, don't wait, it's.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Soggy out there now and it keeps getting soggy er.
So we've, like a week and a half ago, we
actually hit the monthly total for May, and we've been
adding to that ever since the normal month of May
we get about three point nine to nine inches of rain.
We're already at four and three quarters, so we're way
above average so far, and we're gonna add more to that.
(39:13):
So it's coming down in buckets right now out in
the Newark area.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Some of that in Patascla.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
Is really heavy, and down into Fairfield County near Pleasantville
it's really heavy as well. You're seeing some moderate to
heavy rain in parts of Union County, Madison County on
up into Delaware and Marion Counties.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Yeah, that's not going anywhere for a while.
Speaker 6 (39:31):
It's gonna be wet tonight, fifty seven for the overnight,
low showers and a few thunderstorms Tomorrow with a hine
ear seventy degrees and a chilli sixty one on Thursday
with more rain and some gusty winds.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
All right, marshall, thank you. It is fifty seven. Just
online try to buy materials for an ARC. I think
we're at the build of arc here pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I'm wondering, if you know, getting all this rain now, though,
is this going to help us out come mid July
into August, when you know, we start worrying about drought
conditions and things like that. Hopefully No, Okay then.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
No, I'm just I know what you're what you're saying,
and it's like how And we'll monitor because if we
get there and we start hearing well I'm drunking, we'll
be like remember when we got all that rain, excess
rain in May. Where did all that go?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:24):
I mean did it just evaporate? Well it could, it
could have just evaporate a lot of it, you know, whatever,
we get to a point where it has to partially
evaporate because it's not gonna uh you know, it's not
going to uh go into the ground very you know,
any farther if you will. So I think at some
point it begins to partially evaporate and it can only
(40:46):
help so much depending on how much we get. But
you would think that we would not be suffering from
any kind of drought conditions if we go I remember,
I think it was last year where we had a
long time where it did not rain, and I want
to say it was like August July August area, is that?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah, it sounds about right. Usually what it happens the
Corton gets knee high by the fourth of July and
then wilts away because there's no water after that.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yeah, that's bad, bad, bad bad. Do you you have
any young'un's that's still like Sesame Street or Peppa Pig.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
The Peppa Pig is kind of gone by the wayside.
I don't know, because I like, I liked Pepper Pig.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
I love it, man, I enjoy watching Pepa You sound
just like the dad.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Yeah, but the kids just didn't. They didn't stick with
Pepper and uh oh, mine loved it. They loved Peppa Pig.
The baby girl just turned to Yesterday. She's in love
with it and it's old. But Miss Rachel she loves
her Miss Rachel and she'll watch that like crazy. The
five year old boy is still a Paul Patrol kid.
He loves his Paul Patrol yep, and the three year
old will will watch anything, so you know.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
So, yeah, the iconic Sesame Street and Peppa Pig are
moving to Netflix new home my gosh.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Yeah, so you're gonna have to pay for Sesame Street.
Well a PBS show, a public broadcasting. Then yeah, cut
off their funding forget it. Then said, Sesame Street lost
me when when Jim Henson died and snuffle of because
his voice changed, because whoever took over could not do
(42:33):
snubble loving as useless l oh Bird when he would
come to see Big Bird. Well, they can AI it
and now there's it sounds so different, he could kurmy kermey.
Sounds different today than he did back when Jim Henson
was alight. So they the voice changes just lost me.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
So they could uh thinking about that. They could AI
that and and go back to that. Well what about
the kids who have grown up with the current voice
and didn't know that? Jaffers House, they don't matter. They
don't matter, those little brats, they don't matter.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
You're watching their YouTube. They don't care about that.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
So they're going to be associated games for both as well,
a new mobile game called World of Peppa Pig and
a Sesame Street game that now in the works for
Netflix Gaming Sector. No word on premier dates for the
programming or the games, but yeah, it's like you want
to get ready to sign up for the platform. Think
(43:34):
about this what kind of an investment for Netflix was that?
What did they have to shell out to get both
of those?
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:41):
I think which one cost?
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Sesame Street has to cost more, right, I would say
probably so given.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Its longevity, it would have to cost more.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
I would think. What's funny is the did you ever
watch Daniel Tiger? Yeah? I, uh well maybe Stone watched.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Yeah. I was gonna say because of the kids, but
you vaguely I remember it was mister Rogers.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
They just took mister Rogers neighborhood and made mister Rogers
Daniel Tiger just ripped it all. Yeah, it was. I
mean the same characters and everything, and the theme music
was the same.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
Hey, I wanted to wait till the end to give
you good news. Uh oh, but both iconic series will
still run on PBS and.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
People okay, good good. Then they can keep some money.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
It just says on the day of the episode, drops
is how they end this.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
But there it is.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
It's going to continue PVS, PBS kids.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
I was still probably more of an Electric Company kid
than anything else. When I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
Man, I used to lose my mind when Spider Man
would come on that.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Yeah, Spider Man was cool. On Electric Company. Yeah, and
easy Reader. Yeah, pretty easy Reader. That's my name, and
that's Morgan Freeman. I didn't know that that's Morgan Freeman. Yes,
when he was like thirty five, well, he was probably
in his twenties, twenty and yeah, but yeah, the easy
Reader character was Morgan Freeman. Everybody's going to google right
(45:02):
now easy Reader character to see if I'm making it up.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
I'm being honest, not to be confused with easy Rider.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
No, No, that was not Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
No, that's very different if you accidentally search that up
the average US adult. Well, by the way, Congressman Jim
Jordan is going to be joining us just after I believe.
Hold on, let me double check.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Does he know we're going to be here, because he
might not come on if he knows we're here.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
He did know we're here. Okay, he's going to be
joining us coming up just after the top of the hour. Yeah,
there's a couple. The big beautiful bill is something we're
going to be able to talk to him about. You know,
I was here in speaker Johnson say that he wanted
to get this thing wrapped up by Memorial Day. Now
they're saying middle of July is when he wants to
(45:48):
have it wrapped up. I'm like, well, what's going on here?
Did you see Senator Warren tweeted about, you know, fourteen
million people are going to lose health care to give
billionaires another tax break. Why is it there allowed to
just blatantly tweet lies like that. They they put like
just a sliver, little teeny, just a partial truth, so
(46:12):
they just just to fit their narrative or what have you.
He'll touch on that, the timing and the mental decline
for Biden's Remember Robert heard the you know, the interview,
the audio that we're hearing now from October of twenty
twenty three, and you know, I'm gonna ask him too
about hopefully these people that are involved in this cover
(46:34):
up and that's what it is. Let's face it, this
is this is one hundred percent full blown cover up
that's happened. Now, how else can they dodge that it
is a cover up. There were so many people who
knew exactly what was going on, and we already knew this.
It's just more and more receipts are now servicing. So
I hope they're going to be held accountable one way
(46:54):
or another and then this this congresswoman too, who did
wait didn't it keem Jeffrey say, you're crossing a line, Yes,
a red line at that red line? Yeah, so what's
gonna happen? We'll see that's probably racist too. Are the
American Indian tribes on board with that line? They should
be upset?
Speaker 2 (47:13):
Red line? Why does a red line have to be bad?
Kimo sabi? I don't understand. Is kimo sabi a bad word? Now?
Can you still say kimo sabi? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
You're not supposed to say. I don't think so or
midget or there's so many you're not supposed to say
so many words. I've lost track, jeff I've lost that.
I don't know how many are we not supposed to say?
Speaker 2 (47:34):
I have no idea. I just you know what. I
just say what I want to say. It's easier that way.
Speaker 3 (47:39):
I think we know the real important ones that you're
not supposed to say that could result in separation. You're
on the air, that's true, and those are the only
ones that matter to me at this point right The
other ones I think we can just we'll go with.
I'm sorry if you get called out on the.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Words don't mean any intent is everything. Words are just
sounds that come out of your face.
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