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Speaker 2: This is no crying baseball true.
Speaker 1: Sorry for the pause there head to operate the cough button.
Speaker 1: You know, the first utterances of my morning come at
Speaker 1: five oh five when I say five five needed to
Speaker 1: clear my throat. Didn't know that anyway. Happy Friday Eve
Speaker 1: to your Thursday and a great opening day. I'm certain
Speaker 1: it will be you. Optimistic Joe for the Reds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's baseball season. That's true. There is no crying in baseball,
Speaker 1: and there's of course no guarantee the Reds are going
Speaker 1: to be successful this year, but we can all keep
Speaker 1: our fingers crossed. What is coming up in the fifty
Speaker 1: five kerr see morning show. I love when Todd Zenser
Speaker 1: comes in the studio Citizen Watchdog former Inspector General Todd
Speaker 1: Zendzer keeping his eye. He's the doge of Hamilton County
Speaker 1: basically and most notably the city, and does wonderful work.
Speaker 1: Citizens Watchdog is his podcast. I strongly encourage listeners, most
Speaker 1: notably residents of the city of Cincinnati, to check that
Speaker 1: podcast out. Todd is all over what's going on Shenanigan Shenanigan,
Speaker 1: Shenanigan's Declaration, City fraud, waist and Abuse hotline. We have
Speaker 1: a new sports arena discussion and who he supports for mayor.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, Corey Bowman is going to join the
Speaker 1: program at eight oh five. Not in studio this time,
Speaker 1: but we'll get his thoughts and comments about the debate
Speaker 1: the other day. How his campaign is going, and I
Speaker 1: think his support is growing. And according to Westside Jim Keefer,
Speaker 1: who did attended the debate, a lot of attention from
Speaker 1: AFTAB Provoll focused far more on Corey Bowman than the
Speaker 1: other so called Republican who's seeking the nomination of the
Speaker 1: primary so primaries. I think it's pretty much foregone conclusion.
Speaker 1: If I was reading Tea Leaves, I would say we
Speaker 1: have a race between Corey Bowman and AFTAB Proval. I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm going on too much of a limit
Speaker 1: suggesting that I heard media aviation expert Jay Ratliff. We
Speaker 1: always look forward to talking to Jay. I enjoyed my
Speaker 1: conversations with Jay. He's a really great guy, and of
Speaker 1: course there's always something crazy going on in the world
Speaker 1: of aviation, and every time I talk with him, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of flying. Conceptually, I understand the physics
Speaker 1: of flying and how successful so many airplanes are in
Speaker 1: taking off and landing without incident, apparently safer than driving
Speaker 1: an automobile, especially these days people are crazy on the
Speaker 1: roads out there. But that being said, it's always like,
Speaker 1: every time he gives me an update on something going
Speaker 1: on in the world of aviation, it's just like one
Speaker 1: more check mark on the fly don't fly division, it's
Speaker 1: don't fly. So I've got a rule. If I can
Speaker 1: get there, and I think I've extended it out of
Speaker 1: eight hours, if I can drive someplace in eight hours
Speaker 1: or less, I'm going to drive. Then again, I do
Speaker 1: enjoy driving. I hate being stuck in the tin can. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: I do love hearing from you, though five one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Speaker 1: lot going on in the world. Of course, there's plenty
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Speaker 1: dot com judge in and Apolotan on the history of
Speaker 1: the freedom of speech. Got to take the good with
Speaker 1: the bad, that's the bottom line on that one. We
Speaker 1: talked wine tariffs yesterday with Keegan Corcoran and his well
Speaker 1: vineyard owning a friend Thomas was his name, AFP Bernie
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Speaker 1: and the politics of envy. Excellent commentary as always by
Speaker 1: our friend Jack Adad and he's a friend of everyone.
Speaker 1: Brilliant Manny is in very thoughtful and insightful comments. So
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Speaker 1: can listen to those podcasts and stream all the iHeart
Speaker 1: content real time. Just point like my wife is probably
Speaker 1: doing right now. Anyhow, Good morning, real quick here, I
Speaker 1: just go over the road closures because it is going
Speaker 1: to be a bit of a mess downtown since I
Speaker 1: of course the Opening Day parade. I just beloved Opening
Speaker 1: Day Parade. It's one of the things you can put
Speaker 1: a smile on your face about. It's a group of
Speaker 1: people that get together, a diverse group of people, people
Speaker 1: of all race, ethnicities, creeds, and income levels joining together
Speaker 1: to celebrate Opening Day and having a good time. Hopefully
Speaker 1: the weather holds, we'll have a nice day for it.
Speaker 1: See here, showers are still possible after two pm. We're
Speaker 1: going to be partly cloudy at fifty five at noontime
Speaker 1: when the parade starts, and of course four to ten
Speaker 1: for the first pitch, they're expecting cloudy skies. Fifteen percent
Speaker 1: precipitation is what's in the forecast, so very limited likelihood
Speaker 1: of rain, which is wonderful. But if you're going to
Speaker 1: be going downtown as a lot of road closures, soon
Speaker 1: as we'll get through those again. Parde starts at noon.
Speaker 1: Streets will close beginning at eight a m. Fun fact
Speaker 1: on that one Race Street closed between Liberty and mcmickon
Speaker 1: Elm closed between Liberty, mcmick and Finley Street closed between
Speaker 1: Central Parkway and Vine. Elder Street closed between Central and
Speaker 1: Vine Green Street, between Vine and Logan, Henry between Race
Speaker 1: and Dunlap. Dunlap closed between Finley and mcmickon Logan between
Speaker 1: Liberty Street and Finley. Parde Route and Cross streets will
Speaker 1: also close. Ahead of the parade beginning at eleven fifteen.
Speaker 1: Make sure you get down there early, I think is
Speaker 1: what's important to note about that. Now that I'm now
Speaker 1: I'm stating the obvious, just a reminder though. Parade begins
Speaker 1: at the intersection of Race and Liberty, then goes down
Speaker 1: Race to Fifth. At Fifth, it goes east to the
Speaker 1: demarcation area at Sentinel Street, where the route ends. Cross
Speaker 1: streets that will close in addition to the prade route
Speaker 1: eighth Street, Seventh, Sixth, Vine, Walnut, Maine, Sycamore, and Broadway,
Speaker 1: said the City Center press release that access the downtown
Speaker 1: hotels within the Parde route closures will be maintained. Access now,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that means on foot or you'll
Speaker 1: be able to take a vehicle to get to the hotel.
Speaker 1: I strongly encourage folks to not consider taking a vehicle
Speaker 1: anywhere near the played Parde route because you're probably not
Speaker 1: going to get through. There are a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: people that show up at that thing let's see here
Speaker 1: and driving downtown for the game and celebrations. They suggest
Speaker 1: checking out I seventy five South Freeman Avenue to exit
Speaker 1: to Merrick seventy five North fifth Street exit, then right
Speaker 1: on Central Avenue seventy one south take the Reading Road
Speaker 1: exit to Eggleston, and I four seventy one Columbia Parkway
Speaker 1: third Street exit to the Riverfront. They recommend using parking
Speaker 1: facilities around the Riverfront and downtown to walk to the game. Also,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Metro offering free bus rides during all of opening Day,
Speaker 1: so Metro is a freebe today. They will maintain service
Speaker 1: during the faily Market parade. Some downtown stops obviously going
Speaker 1: to be closed in the morning and afternoon because of
Speaker 1: course the parade route stops include Government Square and other
Speaker 1: downtown location. Streetcar service will begin after the parade, and
Speaker 1: so no streetcar today. Apparently all so happening on open
Speaker 1: Day the Reds Community Fund block party that starts at
Speaker 1: eleven in this morning, and streets will close at six pm.
Speaker 1: Let's see these streets was Wednesday evening for the block party.
Speaker 1: I guess that was yesterday. So anyhow, WCPO appreciate the
Speaker 1: reporting on the street closures and that allowed me to
Speaker 1: give my listeners advanced notice of what's going on. So
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty safe to say not going to
Speaker 1: be easy to get around downtown today unless you're walking,
Speaker 1: and why not.
Speaker 2: Good for you.
Speaker 1: It's healthy, it's exercise, and you get to see all
Speaker 1: the people, wonderful people watching opportunity which I thoroughly enjoy.
Speaker 1: So let's hope we get a win today. That would
Speaker 1: be a good thing. Start the season off right. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's so many different places I can go. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the big news this morning you here on top of
Speaker 1: the hour, and the United Auto Workers are big fans
Speaker 1: of Trump because he just imposed or he's imposing, a
Speaker 1: twenty five percent tariff on imported automobiles. And you know,
Speaker 1: on the heels of the conversation yesterday with Keegan on
Speaker 1: tariffs on wines, a very complicated issue here, I wonder
Speaker 1: about the import automobile dealers and their struggles because, of course,
Speaker 1: if a twenty five percent tariff on imported automobiles, that's
Speaker 1: going to push them of buyers potentially over to domestic automobiles.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly why the UAW is excited about that.
Speaker 1: The statement UAW said, Trump's plans imposed this terrifying imported
Speaker 1: auto is a continuation of his Made in America renaissance.
Speaker 1: Their words and mark the beginning of the end of
Speaker 1: the North American Free Trade Agreement. We applaud the Trump
Speaker 1: administration for stepping up to end the free trade disaster
Speaker 1: that has devastated working class communities for decades. Ending the
Speaker 1: race to the bottom in the auto industry starts with
Speaker 1: fixing our broken trade deals. And the Trump administration has
Speaker 1: made history with today's actions. You draw your own conclusions
Speaker 1: of whether that's a good thing or not, but you know,
Speaker 1: you got to go back to the realc that we have.
Speaker 1: It's an unfair playing field out there in the world.
Speaker 1: We the United States of America, have made it very
Speaker 1: complicated for manufacturing to exist in this country. Why we
Speaker 1: have a lot of rules regulations, you know, of course,
Speaker 1: the collective bargaining agreements with the unions. I get their argument.
Speaker 1: They get together in an effort to you know, be
Speaker 1: able to create a level playing field with management, to
Speaker 1: get better terms of conditions. But that of course increases
Speaker 1: the salaries that are paid the unions. Unions have a
Speaker 1: lot of stupid rules in place which increase the cost
Speaker 1: of doing business. And that's just through the collective bargaining agreements.
Speaker 1: So there's one reason it's more expensive to build cars
Speaker 1: here in America. But then pivot over to the rules
Speaker 1: and regulations. You got Osha, you got environmental regulations, you
Speaker 1: got all these different regulations that also drive up the cost.
Speaker 1: Do they have those in Mexico? No, at least far fewer.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to set up shop in Mexico given
Speaker 1: the insanely stupid and out of control system of government
Speaker 1: they had there and the overrunning of their country and
Speaker 1: control by drug cartels. It's a violent country. Politicians have
Speaker 1: very little leverage over the violent cartels because if they
Speaker 1: step up and try to stop them, they usually end
Speaker 1: up dead. So it's a downwards spiral there. And of course,
Speaker 1: if you've got employees that are going to and from
Speaker 1: work in a manufacturing facility in Mexico, they face challenges
Speaker 1: and have to deal with that. Standard of living is
Speaker 1: probably much lower there, but it's a lot cheaper to
Speaker 1: manufacture things there because they don't have any of the
Speaker 1: previously the previous shortlist I gave you to deal with.
Speaker 1: So taxing cars imported from elsewhere, and you know, when
Speaker 1: I think a car is coming from the European Union.
Speaker 1: They have heavy regulations, rules and obligations and everything like that.
Speaker 1: They have to deal with even more so in terms
Speaker 1: of the environmental environmental rules, which creates less options for
Speaker 1: the consumer. I know Germany is struggling with this because
Speaker 1: of the environmental rules and not making internal combustion engines
Speaker 1: any more. I mean, you look at Porsches and you think, well,
Speaker 1: that was a car that was built on the eternal
Speaker 1: combustion engine. Got a great reputation. They are well world
Speaker 1: renowned for their performance and handling. Now they've got to
Speaker 1: make them all electric and nobody wants to buy them.
Speaker 1: So problem for you know, manufacturers in Europe. But hey,
Speaker 1: you pivot over to manufacturers in Mexico or China, We're
Speaker 1: now going to be worried about electric vehicles coming from China.
Speaker 1: Now they'll be twenty five percent more, I suppose. But
Speaker 1: they have zero world that they do whatever the hell
Speaker 1: they want. They also have slave labor and they don't
Speaker 1: pay employees very much, so there isn't eleven level playing
Speaker 1: field out there. So you try to create a level
Speaker 1: playing field by just making them imported cars more expensive
Speaker 1: simply because they're less expensive to build elsewhere. And with
Speaker 1: global corporations, obviously, if you're an executive at a corporation.
Speaker 1: You're think, how do we increase profit, improve shareholder profitability.
Speaker 1: If it was easier to build a car and cheaper
Speaker 1: to build a car, we can make more profit. Huh, Well,
Speaker 1: it's expensive to do it here in America. Let's build
Speaker 1: a factory elsewhere. And that's been going on for decades.
Speaker 1: That's how we lost so much manufacturing. Ignoring tariffs, the
Speaker 1: playing field is not level at all. We've created a
Speaker 1: situation in this country that makes it simply more expensive
Speaker 1: to build literally anything or do literally literally anything. So
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if this is ultimately going to work out.
Speaker 1: The head of the Labors of UAW President Sean Fain, said,
Speaker 1: ending the race of the bottom lust include securing union
Speaker 1: rights for auto workers everywhere with a strong national labor
Speaker 1: relations board, a decent retirement with social Security benefits protected.
Speaker 1: Underscore that word, healthcare for all workers, including through Medicare
Speaker 1: and Medicaid, and dignity on and off the job. Well
Speaker 1: that's great, mister Fane, but if you take just that
Speaker 1: one program out of his sentence, social security, it's a
Speaker 1: train wreck, and our elected officials aren't doing anything about
Speaker 1: it because we can all get freaked out. Oh, my god,
Speaker 1: they're going to touch social Security. We can't have that.
Speaker 1: It's a train wreck. It's falling apart. There's not enough
Speaker 1: money coming in to pay the benefits going out. We've
Speaker 1: known about this for years and years and years and years.
Speaker 1: Now here's a union representative. They could have had a
Speaker 1: pension program, and they could have funded a pension program
Speaker 1: and not have to worry about Social Security and whether
Speaker 1: or not it's going to continue to provide benefits. But
Speaker 1: just saying out loud that we need decent retirement with
Speaker 1: social security benefits protected, fine, it makes a great statement.
Speaker 1: But will our elected officials do something to ensure that
Speaker 1: they are protected with social security benefits. I haven't touch
Speaker 1: Medicare and Medicaid, and I got this terrible, terrible news
Speaker 1: for you. On Medicare and Medicaid. We got a real
Speaker 1: problem on our hands. Those are the three programs that
Speaker 1: are bringing us to our financial collapse.
Speaker 2: And relying on them.
Speaker 1: And you could say that the greatest programs in the world,
Speaker 1: and I won't argue with you on that, But our
Speaker 1: elected officials are having duty and obligation finuciary, ethical, moral
Speaker 1: for the fiscal stability of our country to make sure
Speaker 1: that those programs do not collapse. Our entire fiscal structure
Speaker 1: will collapse if something isn't done about those three programs. Something.
Speaker 1: And they never touch him. And there's Donald Trump, Love him,
Speaker 1: hate him, say what you want about him, but he
Speaker 1: always keeps saying I'm not touching it. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do anything because he knows if he utters the
Speaker 1: words we need to do something to fix the problem,
Speaker 1: his poll numbers will collapse, which actually I think is
Speaker 1: a reflection of America's stupidity about the financial reality of
Speaker 1: these programs and where they're leading us. Hate to be
Speaker 1: the bearer of bad news, but it's just simply a
Speaker 1: statement of fact. Five twenty fifty five kosit talks, stations,
Speaker 1: stick around, play more to talk about, hope you can
Speaker 1: and feel free to call if there's something you want
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Speaker 3: This is fifty five two to three talk pound five
Speaker 3: fifty on AT and T phones.
Speaker 1: I met all these talks about cutting this, cutting that,
Speaker 1: getting rid of this, getting rider that. I just have
Speaker 1: to wonder out loud, why in the hell do we
Speaker 1: pay for national public radio? I mean, it's a legitimate question,
Speaker 1: is it not. It started out a long time ago,
Speaker 1: when the world had much fewer news outlets, and I
Speaker 1: guess they felt it was necessary to fund an NPR
Speaker 1: who governs the content of NPR, Individuals, editors, people that
Speaker 1: are in charge of NPR, and they decide which direction
Speaker 1: the organization is going to go, exactly the way independent
Speaker 1: media is. But you've got so many outlets for news
Speaker 1: these days, why is it the American taxpayer has to
Speaker 1: fund what isn't an obviously openly objectively left wing propaganda
Speaker 1: arm for the basically the Democrats and NPR CEO Katherine
Speaker 1: Mara Mayer was, you know, did testimony yesterday and admitted that,
Speaker 1: among other things, they well, of course covered up the
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden laptop story, grilled by House Republicans because Doge
Speaker 1: is recommended, you know, shutting this thing down. She's speaking
Speaker 1: with In response, Representative Michael Cloud from Texas, I do
Speaker 1: want to say that MPR acknowledges we were mistaken in
Speaker 1: failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptops during more aggressive
Speaker 1: and sooner And the sooner part is what's important there,
Speaker 1: because one of the Hunter Biden laptops come out right
Speaker 1: before the election, and what happened then fifty one really
Speaker 1: qualified people, experts in national security and former intelligence officers.
Speaker 1: This has all the earmarks of well Russian interference in
Speaker 1: the election. They were suggesting it was a lie, it
Speaker 1: was a fake, but you know it wasn't our own
Speaker 1: people in government, the FBI knew that it was real,
Speaker 1: and they knew it was real months before this thing broke.
Speaker 1: And yet the administration organized this letter, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: NPR reported on the letter a sing at all his
Speaker 1: Russian collusion, so perpetuating lies on behalf of the Biden
Speaker 1: administration to make sure he got elected, and you paid
Speaker 1: for that. I mean, I don't think taxpayer dollars go
Speaker 1: over to CNN or MSNBC. They'll sink or swim on
Speaker 1: their own based on advertising revenue and whether people watch
Speaker 1: it or not. And fear and fewer people are watching
Speaker 1: it why because American public woke up to the fact
Speaker 1: that it's just a bunch of propaganda and people aren't
Speaker 1: interested in just consuming left wing propaganda to the exclusion
Speaker 1: of all the other accurate information that is out there
Speaker 1: and available to report on. Neutral, independent fact reporting is
Speaker 1: what reporters are supposed to do. NPR is merely an
Speaker 1: editorial outlet for left wing left leaning I argue propaganda,
Speaker 1: so let's not pay for it anymore. Okay, But they
Speaker 1: did back around the corner on a lot of things anyhow.
Speaker 1: And it's just a tiny slice of spending I know,
Speaker 1: And everything the doge is exposed, and everything they've endeavored
Speaker 1: to cut off in spite of whatever court order prevents
Speaker 1: them from cutting off stupid things. It all adds up
Speaker 1: to very little when you compare it to the problems
Speaker 1: we are facing, as I mentioned a moment ago, with
Speaker 1: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and the national debt and
Speaker 1: the debt service on it. They're getting ready to downgrade
Speaker 1: our credit rating because of the fiscal strength in our
Speaker 1: country deteriorating. Moody's issued a warning about that, just I
Speaker 1: believe it was yesterday. Great, all the red flags flying
Speaker 1: and waving they have been for years and years, and
Speaker 1: not a finger lifted to correct the problem. We have
Speaker 1: a spending problem, and a massive one. Five twenty seven
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Speaker 1: See the talk station. Friday Eve reminder, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: a listener lunch next week. Barleycorn's Wilder, Kentucky location. Pretty
Speaker 1: convenient actually either I think four to seventy one or
Speaker 1: is it seventy one anyhow, not that difficult to get to,
Speaker 1: and everybody says it's a really great place. I've never
Speaker 1: been there, but it'll definitely be great in terms of
Speaker 1: the fellowship, which I always find to be the just
Speaker 1: most of the best part about listening to lunches. We
Speaker 1: usually try to pick a good spot. We've been doing
Speaker 1: the micro brew Tour, the brewery tour this year. We
Speaker 1: may DEVI eight from that. I've talked to the lady
Speaker 1: that I have to take care of setting up listener lunches.
Speaker 1: At one point may end up at Jim and Jacks.
Speaker 1: My friends at Jim and Jacks have been asking us
Speaker 1: to show back up, so I thought maybe we'll do
Speaker 1: that as we get closer to the election, so beyond
Speaker 1: that next week. Schedule for it usually started about eleven
Speaker 1: thirty Barli Corns Wilder, Kentucky location. Looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: my friends in the Commonwealth. It's been a while since
Speaker 1: we've been there, and my apologies for not making it
Speaker 1: over more often. Anyhow, we got local stories here. Two
Speaker 1: people hospitalized after a late afternoon shooting. Winton Hills is
Speaker 1: where the look at where it happened. According to police,
Speaker 1: shooting coccurred in the five thousand block of Vivian Place
Speaker 1: and wenton Hills about five fifteen in the afternoon. City
Speaker 1: bus in say Police department talking to Fox nineteen thanks
Speaker 1: them for reporting two men shot, one in the neck,
Speaker 1: described it in critical condition I imagine, the other in
Speaker 1: the arm with non life threatening injuries. When witnesses at
Speaker 1: the scene said they heard more than a dozen gun shots,
Speaker 1: Police recovered fifteen bullet casings from the scene, so apparently
Speaker 1: victim fell. The first victim fell on the ground of
Speaker 1: being shot in the neck bystanders scattered as the gunfire erupted.
Speaker 1: One of the alleged gunmen followed the second victim, who
Speaker 1: he then shoots in the arm and then away. No
Speaker 1: one's been arrested, according to police. The investigation is ongoing.
Speaker 1: I imagine if you know anything about this, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to give crime strivers a call. It three five
Speaker 1: to two thirty forty, Hamilton County selling several office buildings
Speaker 1: in order to save money in streamline operations. According to
Speaker 1: announcement yesterday from county officials, they've hired a commercial real
Speaker 1: estate broker called Jones Langlessou to sell five county owned
Speaker 1: office buildings that provided past dance office face for Hamilton
Speaker 1: County Job and Family Service, Hamilton County Developmental Disability Service,
Speaker 1: in Hamilton County Public Health, among other departments. If you're interested,
Speaker 1: the building's range in science from thirty thousand square feet
Speaker 1: to approximately two hundred and fifty thousand square feet, Located
Speaker 1: in various Cincinna neighborhoods, including over the Rhyane, Walnut Hills,
Speaker 1: Madison Villan Quarryville specifically two twenty two East Central Parkway
Speaker 1: assessed value fourteen point four million, two fifty William Howard
Speaker 1: Taft Road three point two million, two sixty four William
Speaker 1: Howard taft On hundred and eighty nine thousand for that
Speaker 1: one discount, fifteen twenty Madison Road two point six million,
Speaker 1: and fifty ninety three Kingsley Drive at two million. Buildings
Speaker 1: combined value just over twenty two million. According to the
Speaker 1: latest assessment from the auditor. Proceeds from the building sales
Speaker 1: will be used to offset the cost to purchase and
Speaker 1: renovate the old Mercy Health Building a bond Hill, where
Speaker 1: the county plans to consolidate about fourteen hundred employees, including
Speaker 1: those moving from the buildings that I just mentioned. Consolidating
Speaker 1: operations expected to save the county taxpayers hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars annually, according to county officials Commissioner Stephanie Dumas
Speaker 1: quote by consolidating multiple departments in a more modern facility
Speaker 1: in bond Hill, where streamlining operations saving taxpayers, she says
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars a year and delivering direct services
Speaker 1: closer to the first suburbs. Some of the buildings sold,
Speaker 1: including the Alms and dup Key Building Central Parkway designed
Speaker 1: by architects Samuel Hunneford and Diana Burnham, and will be
Speaker 1: prime candidates for office conversions to residential or mixed use development.
Speaker 1: At least that's what the the officials have said. Alms
Speaker 1: and Duky also known locally and colloquially as the Arms
Speaker 1: and Deputy Building. Anyway, Commissioner reset, I'm hopeful the consolidating
Speaker 1: service is one location at the old Mercy site will
Speaker 1: allow the cand to free up other real estate to
Speaker 1: create more opportunities for affordable workforce and student housing. Okay,
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Speaker 1: It's funnier if you actually see the visual of this guy,
Speaker 1: because remember, if you're going to damage a tesla to
Speaker 1: a car, it's got cameras all over it. So we
Speaker 1: got video camera footage, and it's very clear video camera
Speaker 1: footage of an ATV riding Texas guy ramming his four
Speaker 1: wheeler into multiple cars during what it's described as an
Speaker 1: unprovoked hitting run spree that happened on Tuesday this week.
Speaker 4: What the hell?
Speaker 1: So just you gotta see it because he's five foot
Speaker 1: two clocking in at four hundred and forty nine pounds.
Speaker 1: What yep? De marc quiun Marquez cox I was waiting
Speaker 1: for that, hence the pause. Cox Joe Phrasing arrested after
Speaker 1: one of the alleged tax was recorded by the Tesla
Speaker 1: that he ran into. According to police and Texar Kind
Speaker 1: of Texas, thirty three yeld allegedly spotted the electric spot
Speaker 1: of the electric vehicles sitting in the parking lot of
Speaker 1: a Golden Palace Chinese buffet while its owner was having
Speaker 1: lunch in the restaurant. Cox rammed head on into the
Speaker 1: side of the red Tesla. Corner of the video obtained
Speaker 1: by local news there ktbs laving noticeable damage to the
Speaker 1: front driver's side door corner. To owner Christine Carsteffan, she
Speaker 1: was alerted the attack by her phone, which, of course
Speaker 1: there's an app connected to the Tesla automobile which said
Speaker 1: your car basically is being attacked. Apparently it's going to
Speaker 1: cost her over one thousand dollars to replace the entire door.
Speaker 1: Police call it to the area of the rampage. After
Speaker 1: a second Tesla was damaged in a nearby lows. Cox
Speaker 1: was stopped by cops just over a mile south the
Speaker 1: Golden Palace after an offer to recognized Cox from the
Speaker 1: Chinese buffet video. He claimed to be a different person
Speaker 1: than the one in the video, provided a false name
Speaker 1: during his initial interrogation, but he is dressed the same.
Speaker 1: He is five foot two and four hundred and forty
Speaker 1: nine pounds riding around in an ATV. How many people
Speaker 1: fit that discription. Officers arrested the guy. They of course
Speaker 1: didn't buy into his story, but according to the Tech
Speaker 1: Star Pan Arcada Public Information Office, based on what they
Speaker 1: had seen the video, they knew for a fact that
Speaker 1: he was the only one who at least hit the
Speaker 1: initial tesla charged with felony criminal mischief resulting in damage
Speaker 1: between twenty five hundred and thirty thousand dollars in failure
Speaker 1: to identify suspect had carved also elon into the side
Speaker 1: of the other two cars. He's been charged with damaging
Speaker 1: the first carved. Officials said the investigation is ongoing and
Speaker 1: there may be more charges filed. Later being held at
Speaker 1: the Bystate Justice Center on one hundred and five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars bond, I don't think logistically that's possible, Joe, meaning
Speaker 1: he's four and fifty pounds. This kind of cracker scratched
Speaker 1: my head. O her hygiene issues. Sorry, internal monologue coming out.
Speaker 1: Twenty one year old Florida man angry at his dad,
Speaker 1: so he drove dad's vehicle into the ocean. BET's gotta say?
Speaker 1: Had Joshua Cuss borrowed his father's car, but he failed
Speaker 1: to return the vehicle to his parents. In Jacksonville Beach
Speaker 1: around two o'clock in the morning, cops received a report
Speaker 1: about an automobile floating around the ocean, a cord to
Speaker 1: the rest report. Upon arriving at the beach, officer spotted
Speaker 1: a gray Subaru floating in the water. Elsewhere in the report,
Speaker 1: the car is identified as a twenty eleven Volvo x
Speaker 1: C seventy.
Speaker 5: Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.
Speaker 1: Police soon Locatedcus since his father had been pinging the
Speaker 1: location of his son's phone. Cuss cop to the ocean littering,
Speaker 1: saying that he sought to use a cinder block to
Speaker 1: send the car into the ocean. What when that failed,
Speaker 1: he got into the car and drove it in all
Speaker 1: I guess on the accelerator. He got into the car,
Speaker 1: drove it into the water, reported turning all the lights
Speaker 1: and turning on all the lights and making sure no
Speaker 1: one was nearby before accelerating the vehicle into the ocean.
Speaker 1: Quote While driving, he grinned and wished he could point
Speaker 1: his middle finger at his father and aunt, as this tradition.
Speaker 1: After departing the beach, Cuss walked to his mom's nearby house.
Speaker 1: His parents apparently divorced in twenty twenty three. Recording the
Speaker 1: court records after his dad decided to press charges, Cuss
Speaker 1: arrested on felony criminal mischief. John Cuss, dad sixty years old,
Speaker 1: reported a loss of sixty five hundred dollars on the
Speaker 1: submerged vehicle.
Speaker 5: Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.
Speaker 1: Being helped me kind of Joe on loeu of a
Speaker 1: twenty five hundred dollars bond. Apparently back in twenty two,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Cuss pleaated no contest to a dui
Speaker 1: charge and was sentenced to twelve months probation. He was
Speaker 1: eighteen at the time, driving his father's Volvo when he
Speaker 1: got arrested on that charge, and a letter to his
Speaker 1: son's sentencing judge, Cuss wrote that Joshua has a lot
Speaker 1: of work ahead of him, and I can only hope
Speaker 1: that he learns from his mistake, his mistake and turns
Speaker 1: into a good into a good life. Lesson, Well, dad,
Speaker 1: he didn't need your advice. By forty five ify five
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Speaker 1: returning to the stack of stupid. We go to Houston, Texas,
Speaker 1: where three teenage girls are in custody after allegedly planning
Speaker 1: to kill their mom. Motive she turned off the Wi
Speaker 1: Fi in the home.
Speaker 2: Why are you doing that?
Speaker 1: Harris Kond of wtysay. The incident occurred in Houston on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Girls fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen reportedly grabbed kitchen knives and
Speaker 1: chased their mom through the house and into the street,
Speaker 1: attempting to stab her. Thirty say. One of the teens
Speaker 1: struck her mother with a brick. Grandmother also knocked down
Speaker 1: while trying to protect the mother.
Speaker 4: Dear, what the hell?
Speaker 1: Fortunately neither of those women sustained serious injuries. All three
Speaker 1: teens arrested a charge with aggravated assault with the deadly weapon.
Speaker 1: They've been booked the Harris County Juvenile Facility. They turned
Speaker 1: off the Wi Fi and just staring disbelief at something
Speaker 1: like that. Okay. We go to Winnipeg. Women in her
Speaker 1: thirties run over via a vehicle after an argument with
Speaker 1: a driver about saving an open parking spot. Winnipeg Police
Speaker 1: Service responded to a report of a motor vehicle collision
Speaker 1: involving a pedestrian in a parking lot Saint James Street,
Speaker 1: two thirty in the afternoon. Victims standing in an unoccupied
Speaker 1: parking spot to save it for a family member who
Speaker 1: was driving through a lot at a recreational facility. The
Speaker 1: woman waited for them to drive up, and then a
Speaker 1: separate vehicle showed up first. The driver began arguing with
Speaker 1: the woman and proceeded to drive into the stall, knocking
Speaker 1: her to the ground. Women became trapped under the front
Speaker 1: tires of the SUV before the driver left. Quote with
Speaker 1: no concern clothes. Quote for the victim women taking to
Speaker 1: the hospital and the stable condition with lower body injuries,
Speaker 1: please say. They arrested a forty year old woman and
Speaker 1: charged her with assault with a weapon and driving carelessly
Speaker 1: under the highway traffic act. I know you're tempted to
Speaker 1: do that, now are what are the if you're a
Speaker 1: human being standing in a parking lot, isn't that a
Speaker 1: parking store? Isn't that considered occupied, or do you have
Speaker 1: an obligation ethically and morally to move away and allow
Speaker 1: someone else to park there If you know your friend's
Speaker 1: car is coming or your relatives car is coming and
Speaker 1: you've just secured the spot with your body, isn't that
Speaker 1: the same thing as the car getting there first? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's that, and probably all to avoid walking in additional
Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty feet because you know there's another parking
Speaker 1: spot right right down the lane there. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: go to Southet Little Highway and how a teen is
Speaker 1: accused of causing major damage to a McDonald's manager's suv.
Speaker 2: So how are you doing?
Speaker 1: Seventeen year old boy banned from a McDonald's location after
Speaker 1: allegedly causing extensive damage to the car. Media outlet there,
Speaker 1: reported Cleveland dot com. The authorities were called McDonald's on
Speaker 1: South Euclid about almost six pm March tenth, after officers
Speaker 1: received the port of a teenager breaking out the windows
Speaker 1: of the car. Police arrived and the scene found extensive
Speaker 1: damage had been done to the vehicle's body and windows,
Speaker 1: but could not locate the suspect, who was identified by
Speaker 1: several students in the area. Manager of the location told
Speaker 1: the officers that the teen had entered the restaurant with
Speaker 1: a metal object in his hand and threatened to fight him.
Speaker 1: The authorities contact of the teen's mom. She reportedly told
Speaker 1: police that he had likely damaged the SUV because he
Speaker 1: was upset over something the manager had done to his sister.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the day. Police informed a woman that the
Speaker 1: teen had been banned from the business and that charges
Speaker 1: would be filed in juvenile court. He also hit with
Speaker 1: trespass charges several days later after he returned to McDonald's
Speaker 1: but left before the police arrived on the scene. He's
Speaker 1: been charged with criminal damaging and menacing.
Speaker 5: Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots, no doubt about him.
Speaker 1: Scheduled trip to a near driver's license in South Florida
Speaker 1: apparently highly sought, so highly sought after that you would
Speaker 1: think it's like trying to get a ticket to a
Speaker 1: concert that sold out. Anyway. The Miami Dade County Tax
Speaker 1: Collector's Office announced earlier this week that had uncovered a
Speaker 1: network of scalpers who hoarded free DMV appointments and resold
Speaker 1: them for up to two hundred and fifty bucks. What
Speaker 1: apparently get an appointment to the DMV such a problematic
Speaker 1: experience of drivers were willing to pay to avoid it
Speaker 1: in the first place. It's a free service. Scoppers a
Speaker 1: massed appointments using bots and fake accounts to exploit an
Speaker 1: online system. Tax collector's office. By the two hundred suspicious
Speaker 1: appointments in the first three weeks after opening the new
Speaker 1: downtown Miami location for the DMV service agency headed sites
Speaker 1: set on individuals who are part of a local driving school,
Speaker 1: driving schools and suspects in well clogging up the DMV system.
Speaker 1: Miami Dade County tax Collector DEWO. Fernandez said in a
Speaker 1: release that, well, we know who they are and how
Speaker 1: they operate. We will not accept any appointment obtained through
Speaker 1: system abuse. Our office is committed to ensuring that all
Speaker 1: residents have a fair and equal access to service without
Speaker 1: interference from those seeking to exploit the system. You know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting because a very similar thing was occurring apparently
Speaker 1: with popular restaurant reservations. People are using bots to make
Speaker 1: reservations that highly sought after restaurants and then selling those
Speaker 1: reservations to people. So techn lot of technology abuse something
Speaker 1: what arresting me for what I'm not allowed to stand
Speaker 1: up for myself.
Speaker 2: I thought this was America. Is this America?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I thought this was America's.
Speaker 1: Funny to talk about the six o'clock hour. Feel free
Speaker 1: to call. I would love to talk to you. Five
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Speaker 1: State buck station and it is Friday eighty. I'm very
Speaker 1: happy one to you. I always enjoy it. For no
Speaker 1: other reason. I heard me. Aviation expert Jay Ratliff's coming on.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of things to talk about with Jay
Speaker 1: this morning. That'll take place at eight thirty, as it
Speaker 1: does every Thursday. Corey Bowman from Ericory's gonna call in
Speaker 1: the show at eight oh five. We'll talk about the
Speaker 1: debate and how his campaign's going. Thank You's a good
Speaker 1: guy and a refreshing alternative from the well. How many
Speaker 1: decades now have Democrats been running the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, And here's a suggestion. Since Todd's Zen is
Speaker 1: going to join the program in an hour, he'll be
Speaker 1: in studio former Inspector General and watch dog for the
Speaker 1: taxpayers and citizens generally in Cincinnati as well as Hamilton County.
Speaker 1: We'll be talking about cities fraud, waste and abuse hotline.
Speaker 1: I guess there is one of those. I talk about
Speaker 1: the new sports arena, the ideas being talked about, but
Speaker 1: we don't have any money to build one, and his
Speaker 1: thoughts on who he is in favor of and support
Speaker 1: for mayor. So I think it's going to come down
Speaker 1: to Cory Bowman and have to have pro ball. That's
Speaker 1: my bet and I'd put all my money in on
Speaker 1: that outcome. Anyway, that's the rundown for today. Five one, three, seven, four,
Speaker 1: nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three
Speaker 1: talk pound five to fifty on AT and T funds anyway,
Speaker 1: since apparently it is a city fraud waste abuse hotline
Speaker 1: and I read this article, it was either earlier this
Speaker 1: week or last week. Yeah, you're supposed to be able
Speaker 1: to get reimbursed for damage done to your car by
Speaker 1: hitting potholes, but that's only if the city has neglected
Speaker 1: the road and not dealt with or recently addressed pothole
Speaker 1: situation after it's been called in and so not a
Speaker 1: single claim has been paid because the city claims, well,
Speaker 1: we were recently there and we recently dealt with the pothole.
Speaker 1: So it sucks to be you. I think that's boiled
Speaker 1: down the final analysis. That's it. So going back to
Speaker 1: my favorite road, the war torn Sunset, somebody gets if
Speaker 1: your car is damage when you drive it on Sutset,
Speaker 1: calling a claim and ask the reimbursement for it, because
Speaker 1: there is no way in hell they can claim that
Speaker 1: they have addressed the situation on Sunset recently, I mean
Speaker 1: decades anyhow. So bad news in the for our US
Speaker 1: government and US government's fiscal strength is deteriorating as they
Speaker 1: talk about extending the debt ceiling, which is barely going
Speaker 1: to have to be done sooner rather than later. Moody's
Speaker 1: Rating issued a report on Tuesday this week. Our fiscal
Speaker 1: strength deteriorating is a trend of larger budget deficits and
Speaker 1: mounting debt continues. They say, our fiscal health is worsened
Speaker 1: in the time since it's lowered its outlook on the
Speaker 1: country's Triple A credit rating back in November of twenty three, independently,
Speaker 1: Fitch cut the US credit rating one tier from Triple
Speaker 1: A down to Double A plus and twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: over fiscal challenges and debt limit to brinkmanship, which I
Speaker 1: think refers to those, you know, extraordinary measures that we
Speaker 1: have to go through and the government shutdown anyway. Standard
Speaker 1: and Poors did so after the twenty eleven debt limit
Speaker 1: crisis that spurred a partial government shutdown. So all the
Speaker 1: credit agencies are coming through the cold dose cold water
Speaker 1: reality realization that while we suck now compared to the
Speaker 1: rest of the world, maybe we don't suck as much,
Speaker 1: but we got a spending problem. Moody's road. Even in
Speaker 1: a very positive and low probability economic and financial scenario,
Speaker 1: debt affordability remains materially weaker than for other triple A
Speaker 1: rated and highly rated sovereigns. Other people, I guess have
Speaker 1: their fiscal house in order much better than we do.
Speaker 1: Moody's projected the ratio of public debt to gross domestic product,
Speaker 1: a metric favored by economists and determining government debt relative
Speaker 1: to the size of the economy, will rise from nearly
Speaker 1: one hundred percent this year to about one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty percent in twenty thirty five, interest payments accounting for
Speaker 1: thirty percent of revenue by twenty thirty five. That's the
Speaker 1: trillions of dollars in a hole that we've dug ourselves
Speaker 1: because of overspending. It was nine percent in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Think about that. Your credit card payment is consuming thirty
Speaker 1: percent of all the money you take in household. Cannot
Speaker 1: survive on that, now, can they? And how can our
Speaker 1: nations go? How can our government? It can't. Moody said,
Speaker 1: we see diminished prospects of this time and that these
Speaker 1: strengths will continue to offset widening fiscal deficits and decline
Speaker 1: debt affordability because of the need for bipartisan support. Here's
Speaker 1: an observation which would cut against many Republican and Democrat
Speaker 1: politicians' pledges to leave mandatory spending programs like Social Security, Medicare,
Speaker 1: Medicaid untouched. Moody said, large spending cuts would be difficult
Speaker 1: to implement. That's the target right there. There is the
Speaker 1: challenge right there, the three social welfare spending plans. Now,
Speaker 1: let's turn over to Medicaid. Interesting analysis. Taxpayers spent billions
Speaker 1: covering the same Medicaid patients twice. Article from the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journals health insurers got double paid by Medicaid for
Speaker 1: the coverage of hundreds of thousands of patients across the country.
Speaker 1: Insurers are paid by state and federal governments to cover
Speaker 1: low income Medicaid recipients. Right collected at least four point
Speaker 1: three billion dollars over three years for patients who were
Speaker 1: enrolled and paid for in other states. Patients sign up
Speaker 1: for Medicaid in two states at once in many cases
Speaker 1: following a move from one state to another, most getting
Speaker 1: all of their healthcare service through one insurer in one state,
Speaker 1: even though Medicaid was paying insurers in both states to
Speaker 1: cover them. Private insurers oversee Medicaid benefits for more than
Speaker 1: seventy percent of the seventy two million low income and
Speaker 1: disabled people that are in the program. Companies get paid
Speaker 1: each month for each person they cover. They aren't supposed
Speaker 1: to get paid of a patient lease for another state,
Speaker 1: but they do. Medicaid Medicare together cost taxpayers more than
Speaker 1: one point eight trillion dollars every single year. Biggest Medicaid
Speaker 1: insurer Centa received six hundred and twenty million dollars in
Speaker 1: double payments between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one, the
Speaker 1: three years that were analyzed by the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 1: and you can know that problem hasn't gone away since then.
Speaker 1: Elevant's Health an extra three hundred and forty six million dollars,
Speaker 1: United Health Group two hundred and ninety eight million dollars
Speaker 1: extra double payments received. Apparently, individual states design their own
Speaker 1: Medicaid programs, following federal guidelines and setting rules on who
Speaker 1: will be eligible and what services are going to be covered.
Speaker 1: US government covers more than half the cost. States are
Speaker 1: responsible for monitoring whether people qualify for benefits, including conducting
Speaker 1: yearly eligibility checks for most people. Is that being done?
Speaker 1: I probably? I'm thinking not. They say. Government guidelines stipulate
Speaker 1: that if Medicaid recipients moved to another state, they are
Speaker 1: supposed to cancel their coverage in the former state when
Speaker 1: the signing up to the new one, which often gives
Speaker 1: them a different insurer. But the recipients don't always cancel,
Speaker 1: and the states apparently don't lift a finger to follow
Speaker 1: up and find out who's legitimately on the roles and
Speaker 1: who's not. And you'd think in these modern times, with
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence and multiple systems being connected, and the ability
Speaker 1: of states to communicate with each other and play nicely
Speaker 1: together and avoid these expenditures, thus saving the American tax
Speaker 1: payer billions of dollars in a program that is set
Speaker 1: up like a house of cards and destined to fail,
Speaker 1: leading US further in the hole every single year because
Speaker 1: Congress refuses to act that they might do something about it.
Speaker 1: But I'll know, these insurance companies obviously have no incentive
Speaker 1: whatsoever to clean up the roles and make sure they're
Speaker 1: not getting dumb. Oh look, we're getting extra payment. Why
Speaker 1: if you're an insurance company responsible like SENTA or Sentien CNTNY.
Speaker 1: This first time I ever heard of the place, And
Speaker 1: you're getting paid every single year for someone that you
Speaker 1: report as eligible to receive Medicaid, you getting less money
Speaker 1: if you take them off the eligibility roles. Wouldn't you well,
Speaker 1: why would you bother? Why would you bother to look
Speaker 1: at it? The states clearly don't care now for the
Speaker 1: insurance for their parts that it's up to states to
Speaker 1: verify people's eligibility and to disenroll them if necessary. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: it's a state's fault. Medicare and Medicaid agency doesn't screen
Speaker 1: for the double payments, leaving that to the states to do.
Speaker 1: State officials say identifying people who moved is difficult. On
Speaker 1: that recoveries of improper payments from managed care companies are
Speaker 1: limited because state agencies often don't realize Medicaid recipients have
Speaker 1: moved until their annual eligibility checks. Managed care companies can
Speaker 1: collect monthly payments before a patient is dropped off the roles.
Speaker 1: Obviously a financial incentive to ignore the problem that exists.
Speaker 1: And this is just double payments, folks, that they cleaned
Speaker 1: up the roles and got the ranks, just like Social
Speaker 1: Security is doing now under Evil Doge and Evil Elon Musker.
Speaker 1: It's easy to commit fraud, it's easy to collect payments.
Speaker 1: What incentive do you have? Your profitability goes up when
Speaker 1: you ignore the reality and then someone no longer lives
Speaker 1: in the state. Sounds like the system is structurally designed
Speaker 1: to encourage and incentivize this, doesn't it. Six fifteen five
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Speaker 1: Comline says to day opening day grade starts at noon,
Speaker 1: first pitch four to ten bouts of increase. Showers are
Speaker 1: possible after two pm. Likelihood is kind of low, they say.
Speaker 1: By the time it's the first pitch, there's only a
Speaker 1: fifteen percent chance of rain. Fifty eight over the high today,
Speaker 1: comfortable forty eight overnight with a few showers. Showers are
Speaker 1: likely tomorrow morning. It'll be partly thady afterwards. Seventy three
Speaker 1: for the high, partly cloudy overnight, fifty seven Saturday, maybe
Speaker 1: some Rainhio seventy seven. It's thirty six right now. In
Speaker 1: time for traffic, chuck well, you.
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Speaker 6: Highway traffic doing just fine for your opening day commute,
Speaker 6: no accidents to deal with downtown at Finlay Market, you
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Speaker 1: Six twenty five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred,
Speaker 1: eight hundred and eighty two three talk pound five fifty
Speaker 1: on AT and T phone. Steve was kind enough to
Speaker 1: hold over the brake. I promise you, Steve, you're first
Speaker 1: out of the gate. Welcome to the program, Sarah, thanks
Speaker 1: for holding in calling in this morning.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, thank you for taking my phone call for
Speaker 8: me too. I am in Independence and I'm looking forward
Speaker 8: to listener love. I think it's on the double A
Speaker 8: Highway that Barley Corns and Wilder.
Speaker 1: That was what I was trying to think of, because
Speaker 1: it's you can get to it from four to seventy
Speaker 1: one was an exit that makes it really convenient double
Speaker 1: A Highway. Also, it's not that difficult to get to.
Speaker 1: I'm just pointing that out for my Ohio listeners who
Speaker 1: are like, wait a minute, Wilder, Kentucky, where's that. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's really really convenient for everyone from the major expressways.
Speaker 8: It is, and I mean it's a fairly new establishment,
Speaker 8: maybe in the last year or two it was built,
Speaker 8: and a lot of outdoor seatings, so hopefully the weather
Speaker 8: is going to be good. I went to a listener
Speaker 8: lunch about a year ago, so this will be my
Speaker 8: second one. I'm sure you remember meeting me. I'm the
Speaker 8: guy that shook your hand and said I like your
Speaker 8: show a lot. So I mean, I'm sure I made
Speaker 8: a big impact on you. You remember that, right, He
Speaker 8: ever said? Nothing ever?
Speaker 2: Does that eat?
Speaker 1: First time that's ever happened, Steve? Of course.
Speaker 8: Well, and I know you told one time somebody asked
Speaker 8: for your autograph and you felt really funny, So I
Speaker 8: might you.
Speaker 1: Know whatever, But yeah, I am really.
Speaker 8: You're like one of the family. You're not a celebrity.
Speaker 8: You don't let anything go to your head.
Speaker 1: There never ever ever gonna happen.
Speaker 8: And I'm actually going to bring my lovely spouse this time.
Speaker 8: You might remember me. I might. I we might make
Speaker 8: more of an impact than I did.
Speaker 1: That's certainly possible. I imagine, Steve, because you called him before
Speaker 1: and we've had conversations before. You seem like a bright guy.
Speaker 1: I imagine you outkicked your coverage as.
Speaker 8: Most definitely, and that seems to be the theme with
Speaker 8: a lot of people that talk to you, and yourself included.
Speaker 8: Oh well, what I wanted to just comment on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,
Speaker 8: the big three that no politician touches, and whenever they've
Speaker 8: talked about the massive debt in this country, you are
Speaker 8: really not permitted to touch those because promises made and
Speaker 8: you know, in other words, commitments were made. People paid
Speaker 8: into the programs to a large degree, certainly on Social
Speaker 8: Security and Medicare anyway, maybe you know, not Medicaid, but
Speaker 8: you really aren't supposed to touch those. And they would
Speaker 8: always say, there's only so even somebody who's trying to
Speaker 8: fix the broken system only has so much to work
Speaker 8: with because of these major commitments of money that go
Speaker 8: to those three programs. But if you look at the fraud, waste,
Speaker 8: and abuse, I'm going to make up a number and
Speaker 8: it might be realistic. You might be able to cut
Speaker 8: each one of those programs twenty five percent, just making
Speaker 8: it and not screwing anybody out of any money. Exactly,
Speaker 8: accept people builking the system. That is like a you know,
Speaker 8: the just a glimmer of hope for us. There is
Speaker 8: a chance to get us, you know, a little more
Speaker 8: fiscally correct in the way we operate, just by saving
Speaker 8: those programs, and there is hope. So hopefully, you know,
Speaker 8: we get in there and they get cleaned up and
Speaker 8: everybody gets what they're entitled to, but we quit wasting
Speaker 8: the money. Wouldn't that be nice?
Speaker 1: It would be a beautiful thing, and that should be
Speaker 1: the mindset of everyone in government. Efficiency ZIP and getting
Speaker 1: rid of fraud and being responsible stewards for the dollars
Speaker 1: that they take from us. It's you know, if it
Speaker 1: was a private business and with shareholders they were dealing with,
Speaker 1: they would have that fiscal are they would have that
Speaker 1: fiduciary obligation, you know, maximize profit. And one of the
Speaker 1: ways of doing that is minimizing waste in the company,
Speaker 1: streamlining processes, making the company more profitable. In the case
Speaker 1: of government, they aren't there to earn profit, they're there
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Speaker 1: efficiency because they know they're going to get the tax
Speaker 1: dollars regardless of how or stupid they are. They just
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Speaker 1: pretty promising, so noontime is the when the parade started.
Speaker 1: It will just be partly claude with a high fifty
Speaker 1: It would be fifty five degrees around the noon for
Speaker 1: the first pitch fifty eight degrees. Cloud's precipitation only at
Speaker 1: fifteen percent that there is a possibility of showers after
Speaker 1: two PM today. Today's high is fifty eight two showers
Speaker 1: every night mostly cloudy otherwise with a little forty eight
Speaker 1: seventy three the high We've got morning showers likely then
Speaker 1: partly cloudy skuys partly Claudia over night.
Speaker 2: We dropped a.
Speaker 1: Fifty seven and seventy seven on Saturday with the possibility
Speaker 1: of some showers. It's thirty nine degrees right now. In
Speaker 1: time for a traffic update from.
Speaker 6: The UCLP Traffic Center for National Doctor's Day Sunday. We
Speaker 6: on are the u SEE Health physicians who are leading
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Speaker 6: dot com. Highway traffic in pretty good shape, with one
Speaker 6: exception Northern Kentucky.
Speaker 2: He's been two seventy five.
Speaker 6: There's an accident at Dixie Highway over on the right shoulder.
Speaker 6: But even with that, I'm seeing no delays out of
Speaker 6: ural anger towards keep foot Chucking rom on fifty five KRC,
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Speaker 1: Station six thirty coming up with six thirty one Happy
Speaker 1: to five KR see talk station Happy Friday. Do some
Speaker 1: local stories. But if you care to call, I'd love
Speaker 1: to take your call five one three seven two three
Speaker 1: talk or pound five fifty on AT and T phone.
Speaker 1: That is, assuming Joe puts your name up on the
Speaker 1: call screen right Joe, oh Me, say what I know,
Speaker 1: you don't understand it, just the heads up. Do find
Speaker 1: the road closure schedule because it is opening day and
Speaker 1: everyone and his brother goes down for Opening Day parade
Speaker 1: and has a wonderful time getting along and playing nicely together.
Speaker 1: It's a fantastic thing we've got going here in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: is a beautiful thing now, you know, even if you're
Speaker 1: not a baseball fan, you like people watching head on down.
Speaker 1: This makes sure you get there early because there are
Speaker 1: road closures and they start rather early. And metro bus
Speaker 1: service is free today parenthetically, so you can always catch
Speaker 1: the bus. Maybe whenever it had been on a bus,
Speaker 1: it'd be a good day to try it out. Oh
Speaker 1: on the street Well, the street car is not open
Speaker 1: during the prey though, Joe. But it is theoretically free,
Speaker 1: much like the free metro bus is theoretically free. You're
Speaker 1: still paying for, obviously, the fuel, maintenance, upkeep, and the
Speaker 1: salaries for the people operating the bus. So everyone likes
Speaker 1: to point out there is no free launch and let
Speaker 1: us see Evanston Rebinson residents described as unhappy after a
Speaker 1: plan to help block noise from traffic on Ice seventy
Speaker 1: one has been canceled. Multiple residents talking with WCPO reporting
Speaker 1: on this thank You Jay Shacker, asking for answers on
Speaker 1: the status of the project. They said they've been waiting
Speaker 1: and wondering about it while dealing with the ongoing noise
Speaker 1: from the interstate. Residents had hoped some kind of barrier
Speaker 1: would be built like the one they have in Kentucky.
Speaker 1: This state installed its first transparent noise screening panel as
Speaker 1: part of the project near I seventy one and seventy five.
Speaker 1: One local resident describing the noise as horrible. So CBO
Speaker 1: asked a High Department of Transportation about it, and ODOT
Speaker 1: spokesperson Kathleen Fuller told them the project, yes, was canceled.
Speaker 1: She said the cancelation comes down to two reasons. The
Speaker 1: project is considered not quote economically reasonable, close quote and odd,
Speaker 1: also citing lack of participation and advocacy from the Evanston
Speaker 1: Community Council. Community Council one of the groups that can
Speaker 1: initiate a petition to the state to the state to
Speaker 1: get this type of project going. Noise level in the
Speaker 1: area hits approximately seventy six decibels near the stretch of
Speaker 1: Ice seventy one by one of the residents they interviews
Speaker 1: home the equivalent to noise a garbage disposal or washing
Speaker 1: machine makes, But of course, as CPO points out, a
Speaker 1: disposal only makes noise when you're using it. They did
Speaker 1: reach out to the Evanston Community Council, which CPO said,
Speaker 1: haven't heard back from him yet. We go to Winton
Speaker 1: Hills where a couple of people are being are hospitalized
Speaker 1: after a late afternoon shooting. It happened yesterday, accorded to police,
Speaker 1: five thousand block of Vivian Place five point fifteen in
Speaker 1: the afternoon. Two men were shot. One guy hit in
Speaker 1: the neck and is in critical condition, the other guy
Speaker 1: shot in the arm, non life threatening. Witnesses at the
Speaker 1: scene said they heard more than a dozen gun shots
Speaker 1: and apparently police recovered fifteen bullet casings from the scene,
Speaker 1: so the reports are accurate. Surveillance of the shooting that
Speaker 1: was provided to Fox nineteen reporting on this props shows
Speaker 1: at least two gunmen firing again more than twelve As
Speaker 1: the shooting breaks out. The first victim is seen falling
Speaker 1: to the ground. He's the one that got shot in
Speaker 1: the neck by s Genders scattered as the gunfire erupted,
Speaker 1: but one of the governmen allegedly followed the second victim,
Speaker 1: who then got shot in the arm. The gunman ran away.
Speaker 1: Police says no one had been arrested. You get investigations ongoing,
Speaker 1: and we go ahead and give you crime stoppers number
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Speaker 2: Joe?
Speaker 1: Now, William, hang on, brother. I appreciate you calling, but
Speaker 1: I look up the clock does say six thirty five,
Speaker 1: So I got to take a quick break here. But
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Speaker 1: Channel nine says not bad for today. We may get
Speaker 1: a little rain out there, but it's looking pretty good.
Speaker 1: Showers are possible after two pm. They're saying, we'll see
Speaker 1: if I have fifty eight and only a fifteen percent
Speaker 1: chance of rain at first pitch, so it should be
Speaker 1: pretty good. Showers overnight mostly cloudie otherwise with a little
Speaker 1: forty eight morning showers. On Friday morning, it'll turn partly
Speaker 1: cloudy and warmer though seventy three for the high, down
Speaker 1: to fifty seven overnight with some clouds and a little
Speaker 1: rain on Saturday is forecast at high of seventy seven
Speaker 1: thirty nine. Right now, time for a traffic updates from.
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Speaker 6: stappend two seventy five break lights between the Lawrence purg
Speaker 6: Rampa and the Carroll Cropper Bridge.
Speaker 2: It didn't take along at all to clear and accident.
Speaker 6: And he's found two seventy five near Dixie Highway in
Speaker 6: northern Kentucky. All looking good there now Chuck Ingram on
Speaker 6: fifty five k see the talk station.
Speaker 1: Six thirty nine Happy five kars de talk station Opening day.
Speaker 1: Everybody's a Reds fan on opening day at least so
Speaker 1: and good luck to the Reds. I'm hoping they have
Speaker 1: a good season. Be nice, wouldn't it? Over to the phone,
Speaker 1: so I five went three two three talk Edwin, Thanks
Speaker 1: for calling this morning, welcome to the program. Oh, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Good morning to you and everyone.
Speaker 3: I just had a quick question.
Speaker 10: When when the Wuhan stuff started a long time ago
Speaker 10: and the President said that it possibly came from there, they.
Speaker 3: Call them racist because you know it.
Speaker 10: Did come from there, but anyway, and they proved that
Speaker 10: it did. Now, my question to you is with this
Speaker 10: upticking measles that's going on, it's happened, it's been found
Speaker 10: that it's happened between the last.
Speaker 1: Few years or so.
Speaker 10: Could it be related to the amount of people that
Speaker 10: crossed the border. I'm not saying it is. I'm just
Speaker 10: finding a coincidental.
Speaker 1: Well, it's easy for you to line up those those
Speaker 1: dots and reach that conclusion. You know, of course, like
Speaker 1: the like the Wuhan institud of Virology lab leak which
Speaker 1: I think everyone is right, mind knows exactly. That's where
Speaker 1: it came from, our lords and masters, controlling and manipulating
Speaker 1: what we learn and what we know, probably depriving us
Speaker 1: of a lot of information that might allow you to
Speaker 1: reach eight and a real conclusion in that regard, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3: Because they haven't been vetted.
Speaker 10: They haven't been vetted, coming in a lot of them
Speaker 10: that snuck in, and so I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 10: I'm I'm Spanish myself, I'm not I'm not calling. I'm
Speaker 10: not saying it's from them, but I just find a
Speaker 10: coincidental that yeah, I mean, well, the uptakes all of
Speaker 10: a sudden has happened within the last few years, and
Speaker 10: now we.
Speaker 1: Have to deal with this again exactly. And I think
Speaker 1: it's reasonable to come to that conclusion. And I hate
Speaker 1: the idea. And I know you're not concluding it's anything
Speaker 1: to do with race. It's nothing to do with race.
Speaker 1: Being critical of a lab being critical, right, being critical
Speaker 1: of a lab that is manufacturing deadly viruses is being
Speaker 1: critical of a lab that's manufacturing deadly virus that happens
Speaker 1: to be in China and it's being run by the
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party is not a statement that is racist.
Speaker 1: That's where it is. We are essentially at war Wood,
Speaker 1: sure thing man, thanks for calling. I always get outraged
Speaker 1: when people accuse people of racism. Our borders are open.
Speaker 1: I don't care what color or what country anyone comes
Speaker 1: from that comes across the border. As I've mentioned several
Speaker 1: times this morning, we are in a fiscal crisis in
Speaker 1: this country, and every human being who comes across the
Speaker 1: border illegally is a drain on the system. Look at
Speaker 1: the school districts that have been overwhelmed, Look at the
Speaker 1: number of people that have added to the ranks. California
Speaker 1: is putting all of the illegal immigrants on Medicaid. I
Speaker 1: got an article right here that points it out. Already
Speaker 1: problematic financially, already broad with fraud, waste, and abuses. I
Speaker 1: just talked about the other day, double dippers. You're gonna
Speaker 1: add tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: additional people on a system that's already troubled, and and
Speaker 1: and and one of the components of the fiscal calamity
Speaker 1: that we are currently dealing with on a federal level.
Speaker 1: It's a dollars and cents issue. It has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with race. And in terms of the Chinese Communist Party,
Speaker 1: another article I read, you got how many people? I'll
Speaker 1: find a figure, but tens of thousands of military age
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party people are have come into our country
Speaker 1: because of Joe Biden's open borders policy. Now you think
Speaker 1: they're not up to know they're up to no good?
Speaker 1: I do. You can't get out of China and come
Speaker 1: to the northern border or southern border without some sort
Speaker 1: of facilitation from the Chinese Communist Party. They run a
Speaker 1: really oppressed to regime there. They know what people are
Speaker 1: doing and where they are going, and they need to
Speaker 1: offer you get you have. You need approval from the
Speaker 1: government to leave the country. Listen, one of the freedoms
Speaker 1: in America, there's so many people that take for granted
Speaker 1: is you can get up and drive out of your
Speaker 1: state and decide to move to a different state. You
Speaker 1: don't need approval from anyone. They need a passport, of course,
Speaker 1: to get out of the country, because well, the country
Speaker 1: that you are going to requires that you have a passport.
Speaker 1: It proves who you are. Wow, there's a protection in place.
Speaker 1: Is it racist that they require passports. It's a mechanism
Speaker 1: of control. It's a mechanism of keeping evil people out
Speaker 1: of the country. That's why they have terrorist watch lists
Speaker 1: in other countries as well as ours. That's one of
Speaker 1: those left wing talking points of racist.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have anything to do with race, not a thing.
Speaker 1: And I tell you, I love the Chinese people, but
Speaker 1: I to test their authoritarian regime. I detest that they
Speaker 1: micro manage people's lives. I detest that they have the
Speaker 1: ability to deny you the opportunity to buy something if
Speaker 1: you don't meet their standards, which includes towing the Chinese
Speaker 1: Communist party line. You can be denied goods and services
Speaker 1: in China. You can be denied an opportunity for a
Speaker 1: place to live if you're not a kami in China,
Speaker 1: or you don't bow to the whims of Xizhenping. That's
Speaker 1: an evil regime. It doesn't matter what you look like.
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Speaker 1: Here's the wether forecast in twel nine. We have clouds
Speaker 1: increasing throughout the day. The showers become possible anyway after
Speaker 1: two pm. Fifty eighth is going to be the high
Speaker 1: over night little forty eight with a few showers. Seventy
Speaker 1: three to high tomorrow with showers in the morning. Otherwise
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Speaker 1: It is time for traffic chuck.
Speaker 2: From the UCL Tramphing Center.
Speaker 6: For National Doctor's Day Sunday, we honor the u SEE
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Speaker 6: more at UCHealth dot com. Highway traffic doing just fine.
Speaker 6: I'm not seeing any major problems to deal with, with
Speaker 6: the exception of southbound two seventy five slowing between the
Speaker 6: Lawrenceburg ramp and the work on the Carrol Cropper Finley
Speaker 6: Market streets are set to close around eight o'clock to
Speaker 6: get ready for the parade. Chuck Ingram fifty five KRS
Speaker 6: feet talk station. I just looked up Facebook.
Speaker 1: There's a meme Thank you, Drew Bappas. I didn't notice
Speaker 1: the first day you posted it, but it's the I
Speaker 1: guess it's an IRS building and someone put a Tesla
Speaker 1: sign on top of it. Headline from the Babylon b
Speaker 1: Elon Musk disguises IRS building as a Tesla dealership, so
Speaker 1: Democrats will burn it down. Oh high comedy compliments of
Speaker 1: memes these days. Department of Government officially, okay warning, if
Speaker 1: you're upset at where your taxpayer dollars are being sent
Speaker 1: because they take your labor converting into tax dollars and
Speaker 1: then spend it on stupid things. I'm just giving you
Speaker 1: a trigger alert. So we have an announcement from the
Speaker 1: Department of Government Efficiency. It has terminated thankfully, one and
Speaker 1: thirteen contracts total value four point seven billion dollars quarter
Speaker 1: release on x Tuesday, Agencies terminated one hundred and thirteen
Speaker 1: wasteful contracts with the ceiling values four point seven billion,
Speaker 1: in savings of three point three billion, including a one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty five thousand dollars USDA consulting contract for
Speaker 1: PERU climate change activities. Five hundred and fifty seven million
Speaker 1: canceled for in American last grants totally two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven million in savings funding it was canceled. Includes
Speaker 1: ten million dollars for gender equity in the Mexican workplace,
Speaker 1: twelve point two million for worker empowerment in South America.
Speaker 1: Think of how big South America is. It's a continent,
Speaker 1: for God's sake. How far would twelve point two million
Speaker 1: dollars go? And what is worker empowerment anyway? Sounds like
Speaker 1: a slush fund that people would tap in to use
Speaker 1: for nefarious purposes. Six point twenty five million four quote
Speaker 1: improving respect for workers' rights in agricultural supply chains in
Speaker 1: the countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Would you say, Joe?
Speaker 1: Oddly specific also eliminated Fox News reporting five million dollars
Speaker 1: to elevate women's participation in the workplace in pick a country,
Speaker 1: wrong rest Africa four Joe Cho's believe four point three
Speaker 1: million dollars to assist foreign migrant workers workers in Joe
Speaker 1: say shells No, Malaysia. Three million dollars to enhance socials, security,
Speaker 1: access and worker protection for internal migrant workers in not
Speaker 1: New Zealand, Joe, Bangladesh Sosia security access. So wait a second,
Speaker 1: in actual cap on socias security, you might not understand
Speaker 1: that social security benefits are going to internal migrant workers.
Speaker 1: That seems to me to be Bangladeshi's in Bangladesh. Wrap
Speaker 1: your head around that. Three million dollars for safe and
Speaker 1: inclusive work environments in not Indonesia, Joe, the southern African
Speaker 1: country of Losfo says, Oh, it's beautiful there this time
Speaker 1: of the year. Is that where you're going when you
Speaker 1: go on vacation? Joe lesotho, Oh, okay, I'm not. I
Speaker 1: won't reveal now again in the grand colossal scheme of
Speaker 1: things low hanging fruit, and it does doesn't add up
Speaker 1: to a whole lot compared to what we are in
Speaker 1: the hole in in terms of trillions of dollars. So
Speaker 1: so far, at least as of March twenty six, those
Speaker 1: claims on its side anyway, that it has saved Americans
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty billion dollars. So when you stare
Speaker 1: at a trillion dollars, which is one thousand stacks of
Speaker 1: one billion dollars, you can just take a basically one
Speaker 1: and one third stack out of the trillion dollars, This
Speaker 1: translates to eight hundred and seven dollars and forty five
Speaker 1: cents per American taxpayer, which you know, if you're on
Speaker 1: a budget, that's some money. But see, and they just
Speaker 1: really literally started to work. And once they start incorporating
Speaker 1: some artificial intelligence and they start incorporating a little more
Speaker 1: deep dive into like, for example, the Medicaid problems that
Speaker 1: I just pointed out earlier, people getting insurers getting paid double,
Speaker 1: getting paid for patients that are not even living in
Speaker 1: the state. You know, that adds up to a whole
Speaker 1: lot of money, as the Wall Street Journal reported four
Speaker 1: point three billion dollars over three years. It adds up
Speaker 1: Medicare and Medicaid together to US taxpayers more than one
Speaker 1: point eight trillion dollars a year. So you can shave
Speaker 1: a sizeable portion out of that one program simply by
Speaker 1: not paying twice for the same patient. Six fifty five
Speaker 1: and Musk is evil. As you go out and getting
Speaker 1: ready to burn a Tesla today or Kia Tesla, you're
Speaker 1: angry at Elon Musk for doing what were you one
Speaker 1: of the one that was going to be getting one
Speaker 1: of the Peruvian climate change activity grants. Is that why
Speaker 1: you're mad? Are any of the people destroying Elon musk
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Speaker 1: A thirty, Corey Bowman's going to join the program in
Speaker 1: one hour telephone. This time. He won't be in studio,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna get his comments about the debate and
Speaker 1: his campaign seems to be doing pretty well by all accounts,
Speaker 1: and someone knows all about that. Our citizen watch dog,
Speaker 1: Todd Zinzer, former Inspector General, is in studio. Todd Man,
Speaker 1: it's always a pleasure. You know so much about what's
Speaker 1: going on in the city of Cincinnati. It just cracks
Speaker 1: me up. I mean, the couple of stories you talked
Speaker 1: about as you came in the in the studio this morning,
Speaker 1: you have got me laughing, and we're gonna get to those.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to keep that information under wraps, but
Speaker 1: it's good to have you in the studio. Mike you Brian,
Speaker 1: thank you for what you're doing. Oh and real quick,
Speaker 1: I just want to interject because cribbage Mike, my listeners
Speaker 1: know cribbage. Mike's guy played cribbage with he was a submariner.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your service to our country, but also
Speaker 1: for passing this along. If you're gonna go to the parade,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be something extra special going on. Uh, Mike,
Speaker 1: let me know that he along with his local submarine veterans,
Speaker 1: are going to be in the opening day parade with
Speaker 1: the thirty foot replica of the United USS Cincinnati sub
Speaker 1: and he noted that the actual parts of the decommission
Speaker 1: in the USS Cincinnati will be the centerpiece of the
Speaker 1: Cold War Memorial and Museum at the Voice of America Park.
Speaker 1: So keep your eyes peeled for that and give him
Speaker 1: a big round of applause and thank those guys for
Speaker 1: the amazing service for our country. Can you imagine being
Speaker 1: stuck in that tin can underwater for I think he
Speaker 1: said his longest was fifty seven days or something like that. Ah,
Speaker 1: tough job. That one is tough job. Toms Enzer's got
Speaker 1: keep it on top of all the fraud, waste and
Speaker 1: abuse in Shenanigans going on.
Speaker 2: Let us begin.
Speaker 1: With atab provol Okay, we'll get to the debate and
Speaker 1: your perception of the debate a little bit later in
Speaker 1: the segment, but let me tell my listeners about the
Speaker 1: complaint that's been filed, because I think we have what
Speaker 1: is rightfully called a Shenanigan's declaration in the form of
Speaker 1: a lawsuit.
Speaker 7: Well, it's a complaint to the Ohio Election Commission. Oh, okay, okay, Oh,
Speaker 7: you see, filed by Kurt Hartman. Ah, Kurt's at it again.
Speaker 7: And the report in the Inquirer said he filed it
Speaker 7: on behalf of Jim Burns. People who are in the
Speaker 7: Republican Party know who Jim Burns is. But the complaint
Speaker 7: is about debt that Mayor Purval has on his financial
Speaker 7: disclosure report to three different outfits totally in about eighty
Speaker 7: thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: So you got to file a financial disclosure report in
Speaker 1: connection with what campaign contributions, the work that's been done
Speaker 1: on behalf of the campaign, that kind of thing.
Speaker 7: Exactly, you have to disclose your donors and then you
Speaker 7: have to disclose what you spent your donor's money on.
Speaker 7: So the complaint concerns the fact that this debt was
Speaker 7: on the books for Mayor Purvol so long that it's
Speaker 7: essentially forgiven under election law. I guess, almost like a
Speaker 7: statute of limitations. Yes, it's a statute of limitations. And
Speaker 7: so Kurt's complaint is that the fact that these debts
Speaker 7: were allowed to expire constitute campaign contributions.
Speaker 1: Okay, The money that is expressed is debt, that's for
Speaker 1: services rendered. Yes, So if I'm doing like legal work
Speaker 1: on behalf of a campaign, or you know, I've I've
Speaker 1: printed up signs on behalf of a campaign, the presumption
Speaker 1: is that is disclosed, it's listed as a debt, and
Speaker 1: that the debtor pays me back for the services that
Speaker 1: I render. That's correc That's exactly what these three line
Speaker 1: items represent. Yes.
Speaker 7: And the three firms include Perkins cooy Oh. Now, the
Speaker 7: Enquirer says it's Seattle base, but they're very they at
Speaker 7: least during Russia Gate, which is what they were all
Speaker 7: caught up in. They're at Washington, d C. Law firm.
Speaker 7: And then he owes them fifty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 7: The second is an outfit called Spiro's Consulting, also a
Speaker 7: big Democrat consulting firm in Washington, DC. And the third
Speaker 7: is SKD Knickerbocker and Mayor Purvol's campaign owes them fifteen
Speaker 7: thousand dollars. So SKD Knickerbocker is a heavy hitter in
Speaker 7: the Democratic circles in Washington, DC. And as it turns out,
Speaker 7: that's the outfit that the Norfolk Southern's Political Action Committee
Speaker 7: used during the railway campaign. And SKD. Knickerbocker got about
Speaker 7: ninety percent of that six million dollars.
Speaker 1: And I run the propaganda campaign to sell the railroad.
Speaker 7: Yes, that was SK Knickerbocker. I don't know if this
Speaker 7: bureau's consulting was part of the railway campaign or not,
Speaker 7: but it could have been. But there's definitely some interconnections there. Well,
Speaker 7: I would say, and it's like rounding up the usual suspects,
Speaker 7: getting the gang back together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're putting the band back together anyway, it's late
Speaker 1: for lunch, that's right. It was me money.
Speaker 7: So the only issue is and actually, when I filed
Speaker 7: a complaint against Purvoll's campaign during the railway campaign, if
Speaker 7: you remember Mayor Purval in the Political Action Committee for
Speaker 7: Norfolk Southern shared the same treasurer.
Speaker 1: Remember that it's a really incestuous relationship.
Speaker 7: Yes it is. So the complaint we filed was that
Speaker 7: who's deciding that Mayor Purval is in these commercials? Is
Speaker 7: that his campaign treasurer who's running the Norfolk Southern campaign.
Speaker 7: So we we filed that complaint. In the penalties for
Speaker 7: violations of Ohio election law is kind of pitiful and
Speaker 7: at least the report in the report in the Enquirer
Speaker 7: this morning said that the potential penalties are one hundred
Speaker 7: dollars a day.
Speaker 1: So this has been sitting around for three years. Though,
Speaker 1: you know what you said at the outset, I don't
Speaker 1: well sustatied limitations.
Speaker 7: I think it's probably I don't know exactly how long,
Speaker 7: but it's probably five years, I would think so. But
Speaker 7: the Election Commission is not gonna if they even hear
Speaker 7: the complaint, they're not going to impose a significant penalty
Speaker 7: like that. I'd be very very surprised.
Speaker 1: Well, why is that. I mean, they have a record
Speaker 1: of being, you know, lightto on the touches.
Speaker 7: Yes, when I filed my complaint back during the railway campaign,
Speaker 7: Kurt even told me that, well, you'll get a good
Speaker 7: experience going to the Election Commission, but don't expect a
Speaker 7: lot of results.
Speaker 1: Well, who sits on the election Commission? I didn't really
Speaker 1: look into that.
Speaker 7: I'm I'm assuming that they're appointee of the governor, but
Speaker 7: don't I don't really know. I think there are appointees
Speaker 7: from the governor.
Speaker 1: Well, you'd like to think that they would be politically
Speaker 1: neutral if there is a violation, and let's just assume,
Speaker 1: for the sake of this discussion, is a clear violation.
Speaker 1: He owes these people money and he didn't pay it,
Speaker 1: which means he got services for free, and as services
Speaker 1: translate to a campaign contribution under law. Yes, so if
Speaker 1: any politician, Republican or Democrat, did that, then you'd like
Speaker 1: to think that the reason that there is a penalty
Speaker 1: for doing that is to prevent people from getting free
Speaker 1: campaign contributions and campaign dollars. And well, that's disturbing that
Speaker 1: they don't exercise their enforcement power.
Speaker 7: Right and as a result, the campaigns just look at
Speaker 7: it as these whatever penalties they get is kind of
Speaker 7: the cost of doing business.
Speaker 1: So well you wonder why there's three Well, I know
Speaker 1: why they wouldn't seek a collections action or you know,
Speaker 1: send a letter, a dunning letter or something is because
Speaker 1: they're Democrats and they wanted to get a Democrat elected.
Speaker 1: That was their job and they succeeded in that regard.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's that would be my analysis as well.
Speaker 1: But that's why it's considered a campaign contribution.
Speaker 7: That is what Kurt's alleging.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, so he at least goes through the process.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's been exposed in the Enquirer, so it's negative
Speaker 1: press for provol We can all say, well, this doesn't
Speaker 1: seem right, it doesn't smell right, and we can all
Speaker 1: look to the Elections Commission and if they don't do
Speaker 1: anything about it, maybe we can press the governor or
Speaker 1: whoever appoints the individual and the election Commission to do
Speaker 1: a better job of appointees and get people on there,
Speaker 1: like judges that we elect that don't enforce the law,
Speaker 1: to start doing their job.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 7: So the good thing about the complaint we filed, and
Speaker 7: I actually talk about this on my latest podcast, is
Speaker 7: that we got an atha David from a mayor Perval's
Speaker 7: treasurer who basically said, well, I wasn't just making the
Speaker 7: decisions about these commercials. We had a steering committee for
Speaker 7: the pack. Well, the steering committee's never been identified. We
Speaker 7: don't know who the steering committee is, who its membership is,
Speaker 7: and you know that's another one of these secret you know,
Speaker 7: deals with the city. So and the reason I started,
Speaker 7: the reason I went back to it is because of
Speaker 7: this arena issue where this five oh one C four
Speaker 7: has been formed and you know that's that's a potential
Speaker 7: dark money source.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll call that a tease for the next
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Speaker 1: or former Inspector General, and he's basically effectively the Inspector
Speaker 1: General or DOGE for the city of Cincinnati. Diving over
Speaker 1: to the new sports arena, you say it's called the
Speaker 1: Heritage Center, Now, I always call it the Coliseum because
Speaker 1: I'm old. Yes, that's the building. Yes, and they still
Speaker 1: have events there by the way. Oh yeah, okay, I
Speaker 1: don't know how.
Speaker 7: One of the issues is that they think with a
Speaker 7: new arena that they will have, they'll be able to
Speaker 7: put more events in a new arena than the one
Speaker 7: that Heritage has.
Speaker 1: So the claim is we're missing out on some big acts,
Speaker 1: big draws because there's not enough seating there for like
Speaker 1: the artists, and you know, hey, I'm selling out twenty
Speaker 1: five thirty thousand seed arenas that's only got what fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand seats in it or something like that.
Speaker 7: I think that's probably right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, okay, I've seen the gazillion concerts there, and
Speaker 1: I know the acoustics suck, and I know it's old.
Speaker 1: But well, they also pray.
Speaker 7: On the the fact that Cincinnati's a sports town and
Speaker 7: they say, oh, we want to get the NCAA tournament here.
Speaker 1: And okay, so grandiose ideas. Yeah, I think they tried
Speaker 1: to get the Olympics here too one time. I think
Speaker 1: you have right. What a colossal waste of effort that is. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So my understanding from you and the off air comments
Speaker 1: is the local businesses want the if there is a
Speaker 1: new one, and we haven't gotten into the logistics and
Speaker 1: realities whether or not we can even afford it. They
Speaker 1: w wanted to stay in the same place.
Speaker 7: Right, the businesses that the banks have an association, They
Speaker 7: even have a little taxing authority that group does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and.
Speaker 7: They want to keep the arena on the banks, and
Speaker 7: there's a lot of people that agree with them. But
Speaker 7: the people proposing a new arena, they've concluded that that
Speaker 7: footprint of the current arena isn't large enough for the
Speaker 7: size arena they want to build.
Speaker 1: Do we know what size arena that they want to build?
Speaker 1: Is there some proposal? And no, it's going to have
Speaker 1: like that this many seats.
Speaker 7: Yes, the it was either the Regional Chamber or a
Speaker 7: consultant for the Regional Chamber has done a study for them,
Speaker 7: and it's several months old. Now, Okay, I haven't looked
Speaker 7: at it recently, but it's it's it's not all that persuasive,
Speaker 7: to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: And for what specific reasons?
Speaker 7: Well, they you know, for example, they conclude that the
Speaker 7: current arena would have to shut down and not have
Speaker 7: any events.
Speaker 1: Well, it's probably owned. They can't do that, that's right.
Speaker 7: So there, their proposal assumes that they're not going to
Speaker 7: have any competition for these events. And I don't think
Speaker 7: the Heritage Center is going to go. Are they going
Speaker 7: to get rid of P and C Pavilion or River
Speaker 7: Bend too? Yeah, look at them all and the one
Speaker 7: that's across the river that is one university. That is
Speaker 7: one thing you hear from people is that don't we
Speaker 7: have enough I know venues around here?
Speaker 1: I know, but you're hoping. I think they are hoping
Speaker 1: that if you build this new grand facility that they're
Speaker 1: going to get like the NC two A tournaments to
Speaker 1: come correct. Okay, all right now, pivoting over to the
Speaker 1: location that is proposed. I know the current owners and
Speaker 1: the resident or the businesses around the Heritage Center want
Speaker 1: it to stay there. Let's assume for the sake of discussion,
Speaker 1: there isn't a big enough for print. Where do the
Speaker 1: powers that be that are pushing this agenda item want
Speaker 1: it to go.
Speaker 7: Well, the two locations that I've heard about is someplace
Speaker 7: in Queen's Gate I'm not exactly sure aware, and then
Speaker 7: the other is right there on Central Avenue where WCET is.
Speaker 7: Oh sure, I think they've tried to talk to WCET
Speaker 7: about selling out, and WCET has come back with an
Speaker 7: outrageous amount of money.
Speaker 1: That it will I bet so to move.
Speaker 7: I think it's up like the fifty million or something
Speaker 7: like that to move to move them.
Speaker 1: But that wouldn't be the only property to have to
Speaker 1: acquire to build a big facility there. They'd have to
Speaker 1: acquire a lot of land around there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm not really sure about all that, but it
Speaker 7: will take a lot of land and a.
Speaker 2: Lot of money.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, your negotiation power goes up dramatically. It's like
Speaker 1: the last person standing over with the Rookwood comp Remember
Speaker 1: that one house that they refuse to give in and
Speaker 1: that one loan house with all the open field land,
Speaker 1: after all the other houses have been knocked down. You
Speaker 1: can hold out. You can get a lot of money. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the financials on this one. Wherever it
Speaker 1: might happen to go. I guess the folks in the
Speaker 1: Heritage aren't going to sell and they're not going to
Speaker 1: close down their operation. This sort of renders this entire
Speaker 1: conversation moot.
Speaker 7: Well, like I said, I think that the proponents of
Speaker 7: the new arena are assuming that the current arena will
Speaker 7: go away. But you know they could stick around and
Speaker 7: outcompete the new arena. Actually they certainly could.
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Speaker 1: Fifty five KRCD Talk station Happy Friday. Eve Todds ends
Speaker 1: are in studio again his podcast Citizen watch Dog, talking
Speaker 1: about the kind of thing we're talking about here at
Speaker 1: the fifty five KRC Morning Show this morning. Well, I
Speaker 1: told you off air that this whole arena thing seems
Speaker 1: sort of kind of half baked, and it's not even
Speaker 1: half baked. It's just like an amorphous blob under the
Speaker 1: head and under the heading we need a new arena.
Speaker 1: And then as soon as you pull back to veneer
Speaker 1: of just the general concept, because you might get everybody
Speaker 1: nod their head and go, yeah, wouldn't it be nice? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Colisseum or you know, Heritage Center, it sucks. It's outdated.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing the cinc Any Stingers playing there back
Speaker 1: in the seventies and it hasn't changed much. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not big enough. You get the big act, So, okay,
Speaker 1: that sounds like a great idea, and then as soon
Speaker 1: as you move to the logistics behind it, it just
Speaker 1: seems like an insurmountable task. Yeah, so you got location problems.
Speaker 1: They want it to be, say on Central Avenue, but
Speaker 1: you have to buy out thet w CET building, and
Speaker 1: then a whole lot of other privately owned properties around that,
Speaker 1: So acquisition costs for just the land, you haven't even
Speaker 1: put a brick in the ground in terms of building
Speaker 1: the stadium, and you're already tens of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: in the hole from an acquisition costs. Plus they'll probably
Speaker 1: be litigation because some people wouldn't want to sell, like
Speaker 1: you're not going not to our neighborhood. There's always that.
Speaker 1: Then you've got the competition factor that you pointed out
Speaker 1: Heritage Center that we're privately own. We're not going to
Speaker 1: shut down. Screw you guys, right, we can still get draws.
Speaker 1: An act that comes in that can't fill a thirty
Speaker 1: thousands for arena, we've got fifteen thousand. They may sell
Speaker 1: that out. We're the perfect size. There's also Riverband PNC,
Speaker 1: the venue across the street of across the river over
Speaker 1: at the University. I'm sorry, I can't remember what that
Speaker 1: one's called. And of course the smaller venues like the
Speaker 1: Brady Center, which you know, we're talking different types of acts.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot, a whole lot, and then money,
Speaker 1: of course, money relates to exsition goes. But we all
Speaker 1: have a bad taste in our mouth from the stadium deal.
Speaker 1: But you told me off air, and it's important for
Speaker 1: listeners to know there's a five oh one C four
Speaker 1: corporation that's behind this. Yes, the Hamilton County Growth Alliance.
Speaker 1: Wait till you hear what their idea is. Listeners who
Speaker 1: know what the stadium deal, remember when you voted to
Speaker 1: build the stadium FKA Paul Brown Stadium the Great American Ballpark,
Speaker 1: what did you agree to? You agreed to pay more
Speaker 1: taxes for the purposes of building those two venues, and
Speaker 1: then you got stabbed in the back because they didn't
Speaker 1: get the reduction of taxes that was promised to you
Speaker 1: when you voted for it. So with that background, go ahead.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, the report about the Hamilton County Growth Alliance
Speaker 7: is that one of the sources of funding that they're
Speaker 7: looking for, they think they'll be able to get access
Speaker 7: to the sales tax receipts that were approved by the
Speaker 7: voters for the stadium and the Great American Ballpark. And
Speaker 7: don't I don't understand that enough to know what they're
Speaker 7: really even talking about. It doesn't sound like that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: No, And if they've somehow got their hand in that
Speaker 1: cookie jar, maybe there might be litigation related to doing that.
Speaker 7: Well, here's the thing about five oh one c fours
Speaker 7: is that they do not have to disclose their donors.
Speaker 7: So that creates a situation where it kind of becomes
Speaker 7: or could become, what they call dark money, and that
Speaker 7: that money you don't know who it's coming from, and
Speaker 7: you don't know what other areas of our civic life
Speaker 7: that they're influencing. For example, two incumbent members of city
Speaker 7: council came right out supporting the Hamilton County Growth Alliance
Speaker 7: and you have to wonder, well, what's their relationship with
Speaker 7: this FIB four.
Speaker 1: Going back to a to provall financial disclosure statements of
Speaker 1: just tuckling along those lines.
Speaker 7: And it is it is a very similar situation. You
Speaker 7: don't know who the donors are, just like you don't
Speaker 7: for the Hamilton County Growth Alianes, just like you don't
Speaker 7: know who's on the steering committee. And there's there's a
Speaker 7: lot of secrets that go on in this town. I've
Speaker 7: always heard about the meeting before the meeting, which means
Speaker 7: somehow the city council members get together and make decisions
Speaker 7: before they come into the council room, and.
Speaker 1: It got me thinking that it sounds like the Gang
Speaker 1: of Five problem.
Speaker 7: H Well, I don't know how they do it. Like
Speaker 7: do you remember the scandal that Sherry Coolidge reported on
Speaker 7: about the railroad board meeting in executive session and making
Speaker 7: decisions in executive session?
Speaker 1: Oh? Sure, an executive session excludes the public.
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, Well, I've never seen the city Council go
Speaker 7: into executive session to talk about anything. Where when do
Speaker 7: they get their information about what they're voting on it?
Speaker 7: I think what happens is I think what I think
Speaker 7: what happens at the city manager. I heard her speak
Speaker 7: one time and she kind of let it slip. She
Speaker 7: kind of indicated that she meets with every member of
Speaker 7: city Council on a regular basis individually, individually. And I
Speaker 7: know that's what Aftab did on or Mayor Purval did
Speaker 7: on the railway deal. They kept that secret, and he
Speaker 7: would he went around and I think he said this,
Speaker 7: He went around to each member of city Council individually
Speaker 7: on the QT to tell them that hey, we're talking
Speaker 7: about selling a railway. And I thought that was very unusual.
Speaker 1: Well, and of course the transparency raw laws and rules
Speaker 1: would require them to announce this and make it an
Speaker 1: open discussion. And we know the Gang of five got
Speaker 1: in trouble because they were making decisions collect five of
Speaker 1: them anyway behind the scenes, got busted for that. So
Speaker 1: you're telling me the way around this and the way
Speaker 1: they work around this, which is very easy to do.
Speaker 1: It just requires a little more time. Rather than meeting
Speaker 1: one big room, you got the mayor going individually and
Speaker 1: then talking to one of the council people and saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: the other council people I've already talked to have already
Speaker 1: agreed with me that this is the direction we need
Speaker 1: to go. Are you on board with me on this?
Speaker 7: I think that's how it I think that's how it
Speaker 7: has to be working, because they have litigation, they have
Speaker 7: personnel matters, they have all kinds of things that you
Speaker 7: know they should discuss as a council but not in public.
Speaker 7: That's why executive sessions exist. But you never see them
Speaker 7: going into executive session. So I don't know how they deliberate.
Speaker 7: I think you may have stumbled upon it, Toddzinser, which
Speaker 7: is why you're great at what you do. Seven thirty seven.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Ingram on fifty five KR Scene Deep Talk Station
Speaker 1: bou Krecity Talk Station. I love my conversations with Todd Zinzer,
Speaker 1: and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Speaker 1: Kind of frustrating recognizing all the problems that you are
Speaker 1: uncovering and all the realities that make them even seem
Speaker 1: even more batcrap insane than they are. Todd, and you
Speaker 1: got the Shenanigans going along with it, Like, how are
Speaker 1: all these efforts just like sort of coordinated and magically
Speaker 1: show up one day where everybody's in agreement on what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. But before we get to your thoughts
Speaker 1: and impressions on the mayor ol debate the other day,
Speaker 1: which I'm interested in, the city borrowed another thirty million
Speaker 1: dollars yesterday.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they have they approved either approved that they just
Speaker 7: moved it on to another another meeting. But the bottom
Speaker 7: line is they're going to borrow thirty million dollars. They're
Speaker 7: going to issue bonds for an additional thirty million dollars
Speaker 7: five point five I think for a health center and
Speaker 7: OTR and twenty nine million for a like a community
Speaker 7: center around Findlay around Finley Market, because.
Speaker 1: They're going to be a whole brand new couple of
Speaker 1: buildings for these Yes, they're relocating, well, they're selling off
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of buildings like the Elms and Ducky
Speaker 1: building and some of the other buildings that were identify
Speaker 1: up for sale.
Speaker 7: That's the county.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's the county. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 7: And it's funny because that's the same thing that's going
Speaker 7: on in the federal government that everybody's complaining about.
Speaker 1: I don't here.
Speaker 7: The county commissioners are smart enough to do it here locally, so.
Speaker 1: Good for them. Good for them. Yeah, I agree, But
Speaker 1: I just I mean, there has to be available space.
Speaker 1: I mean, isn't something out there that is being unused
Speaker 1: there could be easily acquired that wouldn't require that level
Speaker 1: of capital expenditure. To have it done and accomplish the
Speaker 1: goals they want to accomplish. Oh, but it won't be
Speaker 1: LEADS certified or something, right, Yeah, exactly, And it won't
Speaker 1: put their friends in the construction business into more jobs either. Huh.
Speaker 7: Well, that area is getting a lot of has gotten
Speaker 7: and it continues to get a lot of resources from
Speaker 7: the city.
Speaker 1: All right, But in terms of dollars and cents you
Speaker 1: mentioned to me off air, it's important to understand they
Speaker 1: had they got an initial twenty one million dollars laying
Speaker 1: around over there.
Speaker 7: Well, the city manager issues a memo every month about
Speaker 7: the finances, and this most recent memo says that they
Speaker 7: have collected twenty one million dollars more than they had
Speaker 7: budgeted for. So they're in high cotton right now in
Speaker 7: terms of in terms of cash.
Speaker 1: Well, they just write a check. At least one building's
Speaker 1: only five and only five and a half million dollars
Speaker 1: they could pay for that other pocket.
Speaker 7: Well that's what that's what I think. But I guess
Speaker 7: I guess that's not how they do business.
Speaker 1: So did were the terms of conditions of the borrowing released?
Speaker 1: I mean, what the percentage of interest is, how many
Speaker 1: years it's going to be that we're paying interest on them.
Speaker 7: They're going to leave all that up to the finance
Speaker 7: department for the city. So they have just general parameters
Speaker 7: that they that they've approved, but the actual borrowing is
Speaker 7: going to be decided by the city administration.
Speaker 1: And of course the taxpayers have no say in this matter.
Speaker 7: No our says. As soon as they vote to prove it,
Speaker 7: our say is pretty much over.
Speaker 1: I think, jeez, did anybody vote or come to some
Speaker 1: understanding that yes, these are absolutely necessary structures to build.
Speaker 7: Well, that's all done by the city council, and it's
Speaker 7: all you know we talked about how.
Speaker 1: They Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure. All right, Well, let's pause.
Speaker 1: We'll bring Todd back his analysis of the mayor Old
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Speaker 1: in studio Todds Enter Citizen Watchdog the podcast. Follow him
Speaker 1: and check out what he's got to say Former Inspector
Speaker 1: General all over the Shenanigans going on, mostly in the
Speaker 1: City Council. Before I get you know, every time we
Speaker 1: go out of Breakman, you give me something else I
Speaker 1: want to talk about. I want you to, really, really
Speaker 1: quickly just give us an update on the status of
Speaker 1: the Hyde Park redevelopment, which requires a zoning change, a
Speaker 1: variance from the zoning laws. Now Hyde Park has a
Speaker 1: say on certain matters. They've got their own community council
Speaker 1: and they're against it. The citizens of Hyde Park don't
Speaker 1: want that, absolutely one percent.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: In my backyard. The City of Cincinnati City Council wants it.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 7: I believe that they will vote to approve it if
Speaker 7: but only because they're so far in the pocket of
Speaker 7: these developers.
Speaker 1: Right, We've talked about how influential these developers are with
Speaker 1: the city council members in the area. So if the
Speaker 1: city pushes it forward and approves it, that trumps what
Speaker 1: the voters in Hyde Park want. Yes, absolutely, which may
Speaker 1: have a significant outcome on the upcoming elections.
Speaker 7: Well, I would think so if you've got a voting
Speaker 7: block over they have over three thousand, I think I
Speaker 7: heard the number thirty five hundred signatures on a petition.
Speaker 7: Now that's a pretty big voting block.
Speaker 1: And that's a significant amount of moneyed voters as well. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is. They sometimes write campaign checks.
Speaker 7: And here's the thing. They're not opposing development. They're opposing
Speaker 7: this development because it doesn't conform to the current zoning right,
Speaker 7: and it seems like a no brainer for the council
Speaker 7: to say, you know what, let's think about this some more.
Speaker 1: No, Okay, I got my popcorn out on that one,
Speaker 1: and none of this influences me, But man, I'm telling
Speaker 1: you that could have a sizeable, sizeable influence on the
Speaker 1: upcoming election. So pivoting over to that. You were there
Speaker 1: for the debate the other night, I was what'd you think?
Speaker 1: What was your takeaway? Because what I heard primarily from
Speaker 1: Jim Kiefer. I mean, he did get into some specific topics,
Speaker 1: but generally speaking, the moderator was quite biased in favor
Speaker 1: of aftab pur Ball.
Speaker 7: I think for the most part, yes, I mean early,
Speaker 7: the first question out of the box for all three, well,
Speaker 7: for the two Republicans, the question was what qualifies you
Speaker 7: to be mayor? And then for Mayor Pervoll, the question
Speaker 7: was what have been your accomplishments?
Speaker 2: Okay, so right off the bat.
Speaker 7: So that led him into probably it was much longer
Speaker 7: than two minutes. A whole narrative, which is all he's
Speaker 7: all about, is narrative of all his accomplishments, including the
Speaker 7: real road sale. He took credit for the Brent Spence Bridge,
Speaker 7: even though that's been an op you know, an ongoing
Speaker 7: saga for decades.
Speaker 1: Obama campaign in front of the bridge.
Speaker 7: He took credit for connected communities, which nobody likes. And
Speaker 7: so he went through all of his accomplishments and which
Speaker 7: I think is a good thing, so that Corey Bowman
Speaker 7: knows exactly what his narrative is and can start poking
Speaker 7: holes in it.
Speaker 1: I agree, it's a perfect setup. It's like bullet points.
Speaker 1: Here's what Pervoll is proud of and his accomplishments. Here's
Speaker 1: why it was a bad idea and a bad thing. Yes,
Speaker 1: and template.
Speaker 7: So I went to City Hall yesterday, to the City
Speaker 7: council meeting, and I suggested that or I said, one
Speaker 7: question that wasn't asked, that should have been asked, is
Speaker 7: the candidates that emerged from the primary, will you commit
Speaker 7: to additional debates in the general election?
Speaker 1: And of course council and the mayor don't have to
Speaker 1: answer questions that you pose, but you pose it anyway.
Speaker 1: What was the reaction from Prowall?
Speaker 7: He was pretty deadpan. Actually, I'm sure he doesn't have
Speaker 7: much of a reaction, which which kind of leads to
Speaker 7: my working in DC for over twenty years, and this
Speaker 7: is I think a lot of people do this. You
Speaker 7: put politicians in one of two camps. They're either a
Speaker 7: show horse or a workhorse. And Mayor Purvoll is a
Speaker 7: show horse. I think Corey Bowman is a workhorse, and
Speaker 7: so I think that's the choice that voters are going
Speaker 7: to have. And mister Purvoll is all about the narratives,
Speaker 7: and I don't really know that he feels what Corey
Speaker 7: Bowman feels in terms of the condition of the city
Speaker 7: and Corey.
Speaker 1: I've talked to Corey face to face quite a few times.
Speaker 1: I like the man. I like how engaged he is.
Speaker 1: You know, he doesn't come across at all as a
Speaker 1: polished politician, but he is passionate about the city. He
Speaker 1: loves the city. He has invested in an area that
Speaker 1: most people don't invest in, and he understands that there
Speaker 1: are some people that really truly wanted to invest in
Speaker 1: that particular area or by Dayton Street, but they had
Speaker 1: roadblocks done the way by city council that it doesn't
Speaker 1: conform with what their vision of a community should be,
Speaker 1: you know, denser housing and this whole connected community's crap.
Speaker 1: And since the developers that wanted to put money into
Speaker 1: the neighborhood weren't planning on doing something like that, then
Speaker 1: they just basically were told about And.
Speaker 7: What Corey pointed out in the debate on Tuesday night
Speaker 7: was that it seems like the city council wants to
Speaker 7: rely on these big developers to come in and do
Speaker 7: these big developments. Well, and meanwhile Corey wants to support
Speaker 7: the local builders and the local developers that have designs
Speaker 7: on smaller developments.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the one big difference.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I guess we'll see what happens. But I
Speaker 7: thought Corey did a good job. Again, mister Purvol's very
Speaker 7: polished and it was I thought it was a very informative,
Speaker 7: very entertaining debate.
Speaker 1: Great, well, I'm glad you're able to be there. You
Speaker 1: happen to always take you take time out of your
Speaker 1: life and your other responsibilities to always manage to be
Speaker 1: at the city Council, to be at the open events,
Speaker 1: be the take up on the opportunity to follow politics
Speaker 1: and very closely and on behalf of all of my listeners,
Speaker 1: most notably the residents of the City of Cincinnati and
Speaker 1: today's topics. I appreciate what you're doing. I really do.
Speaker 1: Thank you because we don't get reporting that are providing
Speaker 1: this type of information, and if it is provided, it
Speaker 1: comes across with a certain measure of bias. I agree
Speaker 1: with that you just report the facts as you observe them.
Speaker 1: Thanks again, brother, I appreciate you coming in and spending
Speaker 1: time with a citizen watchdog podcast. You find him online.
Speaker 1: Todd zenz Er will help you back again. I hope
Speaker 1: real soon stick around. Speaking of Corey Bowman, he's going
Speaker 1: to call in the program after the top of the
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Speaker 1: in the meantime, Welcome back to the fifty five KRSE
Speaker 1: Morning Show, coming off of what I understand was a
Speaker 1: pretty successful debate with Maraf tab Purval and the other guy,
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman running from mayor of the City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, my friend. It's good to have you on
Speaker 1: the show this morning.
Speaker 3: Hello Brian our happy opening day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you being the huge fan of the city
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati. You are, I presume you are a Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Reds fan. I think that kind of goes without saying,
Speaker 1: right absolutely, And where are you going to be today,
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman?
Speaker 3: So obviously the parade is going on, I believe I'll
Speaker 3: probably be I'll try to be around the Countain Square
Speaker 3: area if I can get through the crowd and everything.
Speaker 3: That's the main place I'm going to be. And then
Speaker 3: me and my family are sending the game.
Speaker 1: Great. Well, yeah, assuming you are identified, well, you're going
Speaker 1: to have a Corey Bowman T shirt on or a
Speaker 1: big sign that says Hi, I'm Corey Bowman and I'm
Speaker 1: running for mayor, or some way that people can identify
Speaker 1: you if they want to ask you a question or two.
Speaker 3: Corey, I'm going to have my flip the Natty T
Speaker 3: shirt on. I think that goes pretty well with the
Speaker 3: Reds coloring and everything as well. And then yeah, I'll
Speaker 3: probably have my pen on and hopefully people we can
Speaker 3: hopefully the right people will recognize me.
Speaker 1: I hope so. And you can get in touch with
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman through his website Coreybowman dot com. There's his
Speaker 1: campaign pledges and what he hopes to accomplish, an opportunity
Speaker 1: to donate, maybe get a yard sign, get some Corey
Speaker 1: Bowman T shirt so he can spread his name around.
Speaker 1: What did you think of the debate when you look
Speaker 1: back on and reflect on it. Were you happy? Because
Speaker 1: you know, Westside Jim was there. I know Todd Zenzer
Speaker 1: was there. He just got done talking about it. He
Speaker 1: said it came off he came off pretty well.
Speaker 2: Well, that means a lot.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: It was my first political debate outside of just family dinners,
Speaker 3: and so I felt really good about where we came
Speaker 3: across at the end of the night. You know, I
Speaker 3: don't want to say that I came in with low expectations,
Speaker 3: but I did. I just want to come through knowing
Speaker 3: that we stood our ground and that we were able
Speaker 3: to go toe to toe with him, And I believe
Speaker 3: that's exactly what happened. I believe that there was a
Speaker 3: lot of valid points that we made and we gave
Speaker 3: people opportunity to see.
Speaker 2: What we stand for.
Speaker 1: That's great. And understand from the reports, I got that
Speaker 1: Perval kind of ignoring the other candidate and really focusing
Speaker 1: his attention more on you, And I think that sort
Speaker 1: of speaks volume for the likelihood that you are going
Speaker 1: to win in the primary. It's going to be you
Speaker 1: head to head with with have to have pur ball.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, with everything with the campaign, you know, whenever
Speaker 3: we got getting the signatures to get on the ballot,
Speaker 3: I try to stay as tunnel visioned as I can,
Speaker 3: and so we've gotten a lot of positive feedback about
Speaker 3: the primary. But I'm just telling people we have to
Speaker 3: get out and vote. You know, specifically, I'm calling on
Speaker 3: all the Republicans in Cincinnati that if you believe that
Speaker 3: we could be the one on the ticket, for you
Speaker 3: to get out April eighth through May sixth, as early
Speaker 3: voting starts, and let's get this thing solidified.
Speaker 1: Well, one of the things I just learned from Todd
Speaker 1: Zenzer is you may end up finding yourself having a
Speaker 1: pretty good support for my friends in Hyde Park. Often,
Speaker 1: you know, they're educated, they're very you know what, It's
Speaker 1: a typically you know, stereotypically wealthy community but quite often
Speaker 1: lean blue and support Democrat candidates. But this whole project
Speaker 1: that they are all against, this redevelopment project. Their community
Speaker 1: council voted against it. This idea that this huge developer
Speaker 1: is going to come in and build these big structures
Speaker 1: which don't know, are completely inconsistent with the vibe and
Speaker 1: the architectural style of that historic community. But Cincinnati City
Speaker 1: Council looks likely to approve it, which means that trumps
Speaker 1: what the Hyde Park voters want. So you might find
Speaker 1: yourself in some good company in Hyde Park. Corey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, if you're going with the citizens
Speaker 3: and what they want to do, then in local government you.
Speaker 1: Should find yourself a good company.
Speaker 3: You know. Whenever all this development was first happening and
Speaker 3: we were researching it, that was a big thing we
Speaker 3: realized is that the opinions of the community councils were
Speaker 3: being completely ignored through the process. They said that they
Speaker 3: did some preliminary to get the opinions of voters, but
Speaker 3: when it was about to be solidified, people made their
Speaker 3: voices loud and clear that they did not want this
Speaker 3: to happen in High Park, and those voices, it looks like,
Speaker 3: are just being ignored by the local government.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's something that you experienced in your own life.
Speaker 1: Last time you're on you told me about there were
Speaker 1: a lot of developers, small developers, not politically connected developers
Speaker 1: who wanted to put a lot of you know, investment
Speaker 1: and money into rehabilitating some of the houses in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1: That's roughly around Dayton Street, right, Corey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's around they called bay Miller Block Dayton Street,
Speaker 3: really close to Lynn Street.
Speaker 1: Okay. So real developers with real projects and real money
Speaker 1: that will help the community, because any investment is better
Speaker 1: than leaving something dormant and empty. And yet the city
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati throws roadblocks up but because it isn't part
Speaker 1: of their connected community's vision. I mean that, I just
Speaker 1: I really quite often, Corey, you go back to what
Speaker 1: the what the citizens want, what the constituents want, versus
Speaker 1: what special interest group or moneyed developers want. And when
Speaker 1: the city defaults and goes with the money developers and
Speaker 1: these political action groups or these you know, non governmental
Speaker 1: you know, outrage constantly organizations which running contrast to what
Speaker 1: the voters want. You know, you got a real potential
Speaker 1: on this one, in spite of the fact that you're
Speaker 1: a Republican running in a blue city. I think more
Speaker 1: and more people waking up to this kind of reality.
Speaker 1: It's the connected people. It's not what you stand for.
Speaker 1: It's not the specific values of Democrats or Republicans, it's
Speaker 1: what's good for the citizenry. And they're not delivering on
Speaker 1: what's good for the city of Cincinnati and the voters.
Speaker 3: You're exactly right, And to be honest with you, when
Speaker 3: I look at what we're standing for, I'm amazed because
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm a nineteen seventy Democrat, you know,
Speaker 3: finding the establishment of big times. Yeah, you know, government
Speaker 3: or corporations. But yet I'm running on a Republican ticket
Speaker 3: and I'm just sitting here like, weren't Isn't this supposed
Speaker 3: to be the party that is for the common man,
Speaker 3: that's supposed to be fighting against this stuff. But the
Speaker 3: developers and the city officials, the ones, these are the
Speaker 3: ones that are kind of holding back. In my mind,
Speaker 3: what I think is one of the best things about
Speaker 3: our city is the small businesses. The local developers might
Speaker 3: be able to flip one or two properties at a time,
Speaker 3: they're really not getting the benefit out of any of those.
Speaker 1: No, they're not. And I think more people are waking
Speaker 1: up to that reality, which gives you a fighting chance.
Speaker 1: Corey and a city that you know, a Republican couldn't
Speaker 1: get elected in I just see this opportunity, this possibility.
Speaker 1: Now after what's the same. For the sake of discussion,
Speaker 1: you win the primary, it's just you and after Purwall
Speaker 1: that's when the campaign kicks off in Ernest. I imagine
Speaker 1: you're going to be hitting the ground in all of
Speaker 1: the neighborhoods in the city. Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean our strategy we have to mobilize and
Speaker 3: unify the Republican Party in our city because the last
Speaker 3: mayoral election only twenty six percent of voters showed up,
Speaker 3: So you've got seventy four seventy three percent of voters
Speaker 3: that didn't even feel like they had a voice, that
Speaker 3: didn't even feel like it mattered if they came out
Speaker 3: and vote. So for this primary, we're primarily focusing on
Speaker 3: the Republican Party or those that we know just have
Speaker 3: felt like they haven't had a voice. And then after
Speaker 3: the primary, that's when we really kick it into gear
Speaker 3: because we've got to go to these communities and show
Speaker 3: them that were.
Speaker 1: The right people for the job. Well, and I understand
Speaker 1: the after have Purvol pretty much gave you an outline
Speaker 1: on your for your campaign and his opening statement at
Speaker 1: the debate, he went through all of what he thought
Speaker 1: were his accomplishments, many of which I can't I don't
Speaker 1: think you can call an accomplishment Corey.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, when it comes to statistics and everything.
Speaker 3: I mean, you read some of the articles about the debate,
Speaker 3: they said that it wasn't in our favor, and then
Speaker 3: people that were in person they say it was in
Speaker 3: our favor. So I think that whatever your perspective is,
Speaker 3: you really got to go to the facts and the statistics.
Speaker 3: And I think one of the biggest things that was
Speaker 3: said was that crime has been low, that crime over
Speaker 3: the last four years is low, and really that's not
Speaker 3: the case. There's a few examples of very small incremental
Speaker 3: decrease when it comes to homicides and shootings, but overall,
Speaker 3: when you look at the statistics, you're looking at aggravated
Speaker 3: assault is actually up eight percent, I believe, and then
Speaker 3: you're looking at auto theft is up forty percent, and
Speaker 3: then you're looking at that, and then you're looking at
Speaker 3: robbery that's up nineteen percent, and overall the crime statistics
Speaker 3: this is talking about from twenty twenty two, first year
Speaker 3: he took office, to twenty twenty four. Overall, the crime
Speaker 3: reporting is up two point six percent. And so if
Speaker 3: you just focus or cherry pick certain statistics, you can
Speaker 3: say whatever you want about what's being accomplished. But if
Speaker 3: you're in the downtown area, you realize this isn't the case.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and I like to think of the quote
Speaker 1: unquote uninformed voter, the one that really doesn't pay attention
Speaker 1: to politics. But if he hears the mayor suggests that
Speaker 1: crime is down, and he or she lives in a
Speaker 1: crime laden neighborhood, they're not going to buy that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like, don't tell me crime is down. You don't
Speaker 1: live where I do. Apparently I could tell you all
Speaker 1: day long how bad crime is.
Speaker 3: No exactly, And you know, voters that are in these areas.
Speaker 3: It used to be that you can just concentrate all
Speaker 3: these failed policies into an area like the West End,
Speaker 3: and you can just always, you know, count on their
Speaker 3: vote no matter what, because you just think that they're
Speaker 3: ignorant to it. But all of these failed policies now
Speaker 3: are bleeding into all these other communities and people are
Speaker 3: starting to wake up all around the district.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Corey, you know, Coreybowman dot com. I encourage
Speaker 1: my listeners, most notably in the greater Cincinnati area. You
Speaker 1: can help him out, even if you don't live in
Speaker 1: downtown Cincinnati. What happens and goes on in the city
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati, the decisions are made by city Council and
Speaker 1: the mayor have a broad impact that transcends the boundary
Speaker 1: of the city limits. So the good it's good for
Speaker 1: all of us. If the city conditions improve, more people
Speaker 1: would likely to consider the area, generally speaking, including in
Speaker 1: Hamilton County the surrounding counties. If we have a stable,
Speaker 1: vibrant downtown Cincinnati, it's important for everybody. So with that
Speaker 1: in mind, get involved, get engaged, help Corey out, and
Speaker 1: maybe we can have a change in this in this
Speaker 1: community for the better. I know you're passionate about the
Speaker 1: city you love so much, Corey. It's why you're doing
Speaker 1: this and why you're running. And I don't know Aftab.
Speaker 1: I think he just enjoys being a politician more than
Speaker 1: he is passionate about the Cincinnati area.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd like to think that people get into public
Speaker 3: service to help people, and that's ultimately what we're in
Speaker 3: this to do.
Speaker 2: And so I tell people is if you're voting for.
Speaker 3: Me, you're not going for somebody that moved to Cincinnati
Speaker 3: to get into politics. Moved to Cincinnati in the downtown
Speaker 3: area because it's from here. He loves the city and
Speaker 3: he wants to see the best sports citizens there.
Speaker 1: You are, Coreybowman dot com. Is how you help him out? Corey,
Speaker 1: we'll have you back on the morning show soon. Will
Speaker 1: we show all the best on the campaign trail as
Speaker 1: we head on into the primaries. Hey, and enjoy Opening Day.
Speaker 1: It's just what's a wonderful tradition we have here in
Speaker 1: the city and one of the things that makes the
Speaker 1: city so great. And we'll keep our fingers crossed for
Speaker 1: a victory for the Reds today.
Speaker 3: No, absolutely. I told my son, my five year old son,
Speaker 3: last night. I'm surprised him. I told him we were
Speaker 3: going to the game, and I think that was a
Speaker 3: mistake because I don't think he slept the next three hours.
Speaker 1: It's his first game, it's his first.
Speaker 3: Opening Day game. We make a point to go to
Speaker 3: at least three to four games a year, but he's
Speaker 3: always wanted to go to Opening Day because he sees
Speaker 3: all the pictures of everything so we're all very excited.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. And if you want to talk to
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman, find him on Fountain Square during the parade time, Corey,
Speaker 1: have a great day today, be safe and we'll talk
Speaker 1: real soon. Thank you so much, my pleasure. Eight eighteen
Speaker 1: Here if you have KRCD Talk station, we got a
Speaker 1: little more to talk about. Plus Jay Rattliffe coming up
Speaker 1: at bottom of the hour. Look forward to that and
Speaker 1: I hope you do too. I'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Hey twenty one if you five CARSD Talk Station Opening Day.
Speaker 1: I hope the Reds have a good season this year.
Speaker 1: I know it's easy to say that out loud, but
Speaker 1: we've quite often gotten let down over the years, so anyway,
Speaker 1: I know it's it's a proud tradition. It's one of
Speaker 1: the things that makes sense. Any great opening day parade
Speaker 1: is phenomenal. And as I've said earlier, if even if
Speaker 1: you're not a baseball fan, you know, it's just cool
Speaker 1: to see all the people down there and that everybody
Speaker 1: gets along. We just there's like one day a year
Speaker 1: you can count on where there's really probably not going
Speaker 1: to be much crime or any crime, and that people
Speaker 1: get along. All people of all different races and creeds
Speaker 1: and cities all have one thing in common. They like
Speaker 1: the reds managed to play nicely together. Oh if we
Speaker 1: could only do it that way all year long. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I just have to go back over this. Joe and
Speaker 1: I were having some fun with this this morning, and
Speaker 1: in spite of the much much, much broader problems we
Speaker 1: have in the federal government and spending. And thank god
Speaker 1: for the Apartment of Governmental Efficiency for letting us know
Speaker 1: that you and I had to go to work and
Speaker 1: pay taxes to get this stuff accomplished. And thank god
Speaker 1: for the Department of Government Efficiency for terminating it before
Speaker 1: the money went out the door. Announcements made earlier this week,
Speaker 1: agents the DOTCH terminated one hundred thirteen wasteful contracts with
Speaker 1: a sealing value of four point seven billion dollars, which
Speaker 1: results in three point three billion dollars in savings for
Speaker 1: you and me, including one hundred and forty five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars USDA consulting contract for Peru climate change activities.
Speaker 2: Peru.
Speaker 1: It does not and there and this sort of it
Speaker 1: is like a downhill slide in terms of the epics
Speaker 1: stupidity of these programs that thankfully had been canceled. Why
Speaker 1: is Elon Musk evil for canceling this Department of Labor
Speaker 1: canceled a five hundred and seventy seven million dollar American
Speaker 1: last grants totally two hundred and thirty seven million in savings.
Speaker 1: Savings from canceled contracts included ten million dollars for gender
Speaker 1: equity in the Mexican workplace, twelve point two million for
Speaker 1: worker empowerment in South America, and a comment I made earlier,
Speaker 1: I mean South America is a continent, millions and millions
Speaker 1: of people there. I mean, how quickly would you go
Speaker 1: through two point two million dollars in an entire continent?
Speaker 1: And how much how much you know, how how much
Speaker 1: worker empowerment whatever the hell that's supposed to mean? How
Speaker 1: much worker empowerment could you actually bring to an entire continent?
Speaker 1: Six point twenty five million for quote, improving respect for
Speaker 1: workers' rights in agricultural supply chains in Honduras, Quantmaa, Guatemala
Speaker 1: and El Salvador. Five million to elevate women's applicant women's
Speaker 1: app or participation rather in the workplace in West Africa
Speaker 1: four point three million to assist foreign migrant workers in Malaysia.
Speaker 1: Three million dollars to enhance this social security like initial
Speaker 1: cap as in what the United States Social Security system apparently,
Speaker 1: so I'm just relying on Fox News reporting on this anyway.
Speaker 1: Three million dollars to enhance social security access and worker
Speaker 1: protection for internal migrant workers in Bangladesh. Three million dollars
Speaker 1: for safe and inclusive work environments in the Southern African
Speaker 1: country of Lesotho. Had to look that one up. So
Speaker 1: the quest continues. And I went over this again because
Speaker 1: it's so epically dumb and stupid, and it's offensive to
Speaker 1: me as an American taxpayer, that this money is gone
Speaker 1: out the door. And I am the last person in
Speaker 1: the world to believe that that twelve point two million
Speaker 1: dollars by way of illustration for worker empowerment in South
Speaker 1: America actually left the country and wasn't put to some
Speaker 1: other probably nefarious from my perspective purpose. And Musk is evil,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna You're gonna go out and key up
Speaker 1: a tesla because he is revealing this kind of stuff
Speaker 1: to the American people. Right eight twenty six fifty five,
Speaker 1: Kirsty Talk Station thank God for iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay
Speaker 1: Ratliffe coming.
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Speaker 2: Chuck Ingram on fifty five KR see the Talk station.
Speaker 1: Thirty one fifty both krcite Talk station always made a
Speaker 1: better day because this is the time of week we
Speaker 1: get the opportunity and the privilege and pleasure of talking
Speaker 1: with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratlif Jay, welcome back, my friend.
Speaker 1: Great heaving you on today.
Speaker 11: We get to talk on opening day as well. That
Speaker 11: makes it a double nice thing.
Speaker 1: It really is. Are you going to be into Are
Speaker 1: you in You're not the South and commands, so you're
Speaker 1: in town? Are you going to the game by any
Speaker 1: hands or the pred We are not.
Speaker 11: And I've gone to a couple of opening days and
Speaker 11: it's just been incredible. But this year now that but
Speaker 11: you know, we've got the Atlanta Brave season tickets, so
Speaker 11: we will be going to that opener next weekend. But no,
Speaker 11: we're in Cincinnati and joined this wonderful weather that we
Speaker 11: have here. But I'm excited. I mean, I work with
Speaker 11: Boston radio stations and Cleveland radio stations and they both
Speaker 11: say to me, Jay, you don't understand what you've got
Speaker 11: that manager. They took our young team and took us
Speaker 11: to the World Series. You guys have our young team
Speaker 11: and it's not going to be like the Reds of old,
Speaker 11: and of course I want to believe that, but you know,
Speaker 11: we so often feel like Charlie Brown with Lucy holding
Speaker 11: the football, and.
Speaker 2: You just don't know.
Speaker 1: That's a good parallel right there.
Speaker 11: Oh, it's a perfect analogy for all of us that
Speaker 11: follow and plead for the Reds to win anytime this century.
Speaker 1: It's like the one moment in time, you know, they
Speaker 1: haven't played a game yet we can think about the
Speaker 1: idea and the concept of the Reds getting a pennant, right,
Speaker 1: it's like making it all the way so and that
Speaker 1: that quite often is a fleeting hupe. Anyhow well, fingers
Speaker 1: crossed with the Reds this year and whip. We got
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of topics today which I dearly love.
Speaker 1: Jay ratlifts and I commented out loud earlier it's like
Speaker 1: every time I talk to you, I've got this sort
Speaker 1: of running checklist reasons to fly and reasons not to fly.
Speaker 1: Number one on the list reason not to fly taken
Speaker 1: off from a taxiway.
Speaker 11: Oh my gosh, this one defies my ability to understand.
Speaker 11: I know you have a highly trained.
Speaker 2: Well I mean that's that's what they're.
Speaker 1: Supposed to be, right, could be an equity higher.
Speaker 11: Well, let's hope you're in the cockpit of a commercial
Speaker 11: airliner and you're in Orlando. It's nine thirty in the morning,
Speaker 11: so it's not night. You don't have the sun in
Speaker 11: your ryot at sunrise, and you turn onto a taxiway
Speaker 11: and you actually start the world to take off, and
Speaker 11: it takes an alert air traffic controller, thank you very much,
Speaker 11: that shut them down and fast to keep them from
Speaker 11: taking off. Now understand that a taxiway would be like
Speaker 11: you and I going down a one lade road versus
Speaker 11: an interstate that has four lanes. And how you could
Speaker 11: mistake that for that? I just it just it just
Speaker 11: boggles my mind because as often as these men and
Speaker 11: women fly and you pull out on taxiway, you're obviously
Speaker 11: on that one lane road. You're obviously not on a runway.
Speaker 11: It's not anywhere near us. I mean, it's at least
Speaker 11: three to four times wider than the taxiway, doesn't.
Speaker 1: It Also isn't it also illuminated with different colored lights?
Speaker 1: Being a taxiway in lines?
Speaker 11: I tell you the big signs that tell you turn here, yeah,
Speaker 11: I mean they're out there as well as far as
Speaker 11: as everything is just labeled out there. And I can
Speaker 11: only think back and it's been like twenty five years
Speaker 11: ago that we had something on the West coast. I
Speaker 11: don't know if it was China Airlines, China Eastern, somebody
Speaker 11: that did take off from a taxiway and they were
Speaker 11: able to do it successfully. There were no injuries and
Speaker 11: nobody got hurt, no aircraft damage or anything like that.
Speaker 11: But you know, the taxiways are the things at the
Speaker 11: airport when when we're moving around the airport, we're coming
Speaker 11: up on an active runway, we request permission to cross
Speaker 11: the runway from air traffic control if you're on the
Speaker 11: ground or if you're in an aircraft. Now, if you're
Speaker 11: in a taxiway, it's a little bit different, meaning that
Speaker 11: if you've got somebody rolling down a taxiway, you could
Speaker 11: have a piece of ground equipment out there, you could
Speaker 11: have people working on the runway, you could have another
Speaker 11: aircraft that's positioning going where it's opposed to. But the
Speaker 11: Southwest Airline Slights was stopped from taking off. They were
Speaker 11: they were turned to the gate as they needed to.
Speaker 11: The pilots were replaced as they should have been, and
Speaker 11: there's an ongoing investigation. I've got students that work in
Speaker 11: the airline industry, and some of them for Southwest that
Speaker 11: are captains, and they're like, Jay, I just I don't
Speaker 11: understand this one. I just do not, because I always
Speaker 11: trying to figure out, Okay, what could have led to
Speaker 11: this kind of a mistake right taking place? And the
Speaker 11: first thing I thought of was that not that might
Speaker 11: have been a later thought, but my first thought, tragically
Speaker 11: was the Common air crash in Lexington, because one of
Speaker 11: the contributing factors of that aircraft disaster when that crew
Speaker 11: lined up on the wrong shorter runway and took off
Speaker 11: didn't have enough room in the plane crash, was they
Speaker 11: were talking about things that didn't pertain to the operation
Speaker 11: of the aircraft. Generally, a VACE administration has a very
Speaker 11: clear sterile cockpit rule, and that says from the time
Speaker 11: you push back from the gate until you're at an
Speaker 11: altitude of ten thousand feet, every single thing that's discussed
Speaker 11: is only regarding the aircraft. I like that that's the rule,
Speaker 11: but they didn't. That was one of the things that
Speaker 11: didn't happen on the Common air flight. They were talking
Speaker 11: about everything, but and they those distractions cost live. So
Speaker 11: one of the things I'll look at here was what
Speaker 11: was the conversation going and did that lead to some
Speaker 11: sort of distraction that caused this crew to make a mistake.
Speaker 11: But brand, I just it's beyond my ability to comprehend this.
Speaker 11: I've seen crews try to land on taxiways like at
Speaker 11: night it's brightly lit, and I kind of get that
Speaker 11: as far as sometimes initially you would line up for
Speaker 11: the wrong thing, but to take off from one in
Speaker 11: the middle of the morning, No, I've this one I've
Speaker 11: never seen before.
Speaker 1: All right, well, coming up, don't forget your passport. Eight
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Speaker 1: Keep your Stupid Mouth Shut at age forty evy about
Speaker 1: KCD talks days in I had in the International listener.
Speaker 1: My friend Keith, who listens locally, was in Tokyo last week.
Speaker 1: He let me know he was listening to the program
Speaker 1: in Tokyo and his iHeartMedia app Jay and he just
Speaker 1: let me know. He said they would landed in Dallas
Speaker 1: Fort Worth on their way home. Pilot had to abort
Speaker 1: the landing the last moon because the plane turned into
Speaker 1: their runway. He said there was the pilot of the
Speaker 1: plane was not happy, so Dallas Fort worth on that one.
Speaker 1: I didn't see anything in the in the news on that,
Speaker 1: but see it's.
Speaker 11: A runway incursion. They happen every day, oh the con news.
Speaker 11: And all it does is really tick off the crew
Speaker 11: because then they have to power up, go back around
Speaker 11: and get in line and in land. And of course
Speaker 11: if you're making a tight connection, thank you very much.
Speaker 11: Now you've got ten or fifteen, maybe twenty minutes actly
Speaker 11: tacked onto that, which just takes you off even further.
Speaker 11: But you know, everybody needs to be safe.
Speaker 1: So not unusual is the operative point here. So that
Speaker 1: happens every day. Okay, all right, sadly it doesn't like it.
Speaker 2: Don't to minimize it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well at least he got out of the situation. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't forget your password passport you think a pilot would
Speaker 1: like have that as a first order of business.
Speaker 11: Jay, Most pilots have it in their go bags, so
Speaker 11: they never it's their airline ID and their passport at
Speaker 11: their international crew members. And I mean we had a
Speaker 11: United flight on its way from Los Angeles to Shanghai.
Speaker 11: United Airlines takes off their into the flight when whoops
Speaker 11: is just determined one of the pilots forgot the passport,
Speaker 11: so they divert over to San Francisco Land. The passengers
Speaker 11: d plane, they have to have another crew member who
Speaker 11: is properly documented to get on the plane, and off
Speaker 11: they go, and it's like a fourteen hour flight. So
Speaker 11: again you would think that that would be something that
Speaker 11: they would have. But Brian, the most I guess unusual
Speaker 11: twist of the story is that it happened twice in
Speaker 11: one week to United. Now, I don't think the other
Speaker 11: one that they got airborne. I don't believe I could
Speaker 11: be wrong there, but it happened twice in a week,
Speaker 11: so you only had one occasion but a second. And
Speaker 11: of course my initial thought is, and I've got friends
Speaker 11: at United. I've been asking about this. Don't we check
Speaker 11: the pilots like we checked the passengers. Don't we make
Speaker 11: sure that they have proper documentation like passengers, because a
Speaker 11: lot of times you just flash your airline ID and
Speaker 11: boom on, you go as far as through the gate area.
Speaker 11: But I don't know, so I don't know enough about
Speaker 11: United's procedures. I know what we did at Northwest, but
Speaker 11: that was a gazillion years ago. As far as what
Speaker 11: the current United procedures are. But I can tell you
Speaker 11: if the procedures are that they don't check passports, I
Speaker 11: can guarantee you now that they probably are, especially on
Speaker 11: those international flights, to make sure that the pilots have
Speaker 11: everything that they need.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess we've really irked the Canadians off. I
Speaker 1: see that the number of flights between Canada and the
Speaker 1: United States is down seventy percent.
Speaker 11: It's it's you know, I knew it was down, but
Speaker 11: when you look at the numbers, it's it's unreal. Last
Speaker 11: March in twenty twenty four, when we're looking at April
Speaker 11: bookings between Canada and the United States, there was one
Speaker 11: point two million it's that had been booked for travel
Speaker 11: for April. This year, We're looking next month and it's
Speaker 11: not one point two million, it's two hundred ninety five thousand.
Speaker 2: Hum.
Speaker 11: Now, part of this is a reduction for the demand
Speaker 11: and travel. The economy sloan just a bit, and some
Speaker 11: of it as Canadian carriers have cut back in part
Speaker 11: because they're irritated over politics. And now they're simply saying that,
Speaker 11: you know, there's just not the demand there. But the
Speaker 11: numbers are actually a seventy five point seven percent production
Speaker 11: and tickets booked year every year, And that floored me.
Speaker 11: I knew that it had been down a bit, but right,
Speaker 11: I didn't think it was down that mouth. But that's
Speaker 11: what the numbers show. So yeah, now people still are going,
Speaker 11: you know, up to Toronto Boom or Montreal and using
Speaker 11: that as an international hub and going to Europe in
Speaker 11: other different places. But when you're talking about point to
Speaker 11: point travel just between the United States and Canada, yeah,
Speaker 11: it's down big time.
Speaker 1: That's amazing to me. Anyhow, here's a really important topic.
Speaker 1: And I talked about that Boeing seven thirty seven Max case.
Speaker 1: They didn't bother telling pilots about the software changes that
Speaker 1: ultimately led ultimately led to two plane crashing and multiple
Speaker 1: loss of lives. They want to withdraw their guilty.
Speaker 2: Plea, yes this year, you working on my blood pressure?
Speaker 1: You get my friend.
Speaker 11: You know they are because finally Boeing, after admitting that
Speaker 11: day in essence, covered things up from the Department of Transportation,
Speaker 11: from the FAA, from pilots, from airlines, and from the
Speaker 11: public about all the deficiencies that were involved in that
Speaker 11: Boeing Max airplane that crashed killing more than three hundred
Speaker 11: and forty people. Boeing struck a plea deal last year
Speaker 11: that included four hundred and fifty five million dollars in
Speaker 11: their words, to improve safety and compliance over three years
Speaker 11: of court supervised probation as well as supervision by some
Speaker 11: independent monitor for three years. And it didn't really please
Speaker 11: the victims of the seven thirty seven Max crashes that
Speaker 11: are suing Boeing because this was in their eyes, and
Speaker 11: I think it's an accurate assessment, Boeing was doing this
Speaker 11: to keep it out of court. They didn't want to
Speaker 11: have the court process, all the documents poured out, all
Speaker 11: this stuff going to public to remind everybody of how
Speaker 11: four years Boeing was hiding the deficiencies from everybody that
Speaker 11: was buying their airplane as they were simply trying to
Speaker 11: mass produce as quickly as possible these deficient aircraft that
Speaker 11: they knew had problems that they planned on fixing them
Speaker 11: sometime in the future. Well, now Boeing, under a very
Speaker 11: friendly Trump administration, has decided, no, we don't want to
Speaker 11: do that anymore now, Bryant, I don't know if I'm
Speaker 11: reading the tea leaves here right, but it's as though
Speaker 11: Boeing is perhaps looking for a sweeter deal under a
Speaker 11: less restrictiveness administration. Now I don't know if that's accurate,
Speaker 11: and please tell me if I'm all wrong here, But
Speaker 11: you and I talked about how when the Trump administration
Speaker 11: we knew it was coming, airline stocks went up, yet
Speaker 11: airlines donating to the Trump Inaugural Fund, Boeing donating to
Speaker 11: the Trump and Augural Fund, the idea being that, oh,
Speaker 11: this is going to be like to buy administration. This
Speaker 11: is going to be a business airline friendly administration and
Speaker 11: not holding our feet to the fire like we had before,
Speaker 11: which again I complimented to bide administration repeatedly on that. Yeah,
Speaker 11: So am I wrong that Boeing is trying to walk
Speaker 11: this back because they think it's it's a more friendly
Speaker 11: environment for them.
Speaker 1: I just think it puts some more on the spotlight
Speaker 1: and minds the American public that look, this is what
Speaker 1: they did and they didn't and most fundamentally bother telling
Speaker 1: the pilots what was going to happen with this software upgrade.
Speaker 1: I think it's an extraordinarily stupid move, but it'll play out.
Speaker 1: We'll find out ourselves let's pause. We're bringing back and
Speaker 1: one of the things we'll learn the next segment with
Speaker 1: Jay Ratliffe don't make Bob jokes. Eight forty six fifty
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Speaker 1: Hey forty nine coming on with any fifty fifty five
Speaker 1: care city talk station talking with I heard media aviation
Speaker 1: expert Jay Rattler pull host topics this morning, and something
Speaker 1: I think you alluded to last week the Southwest Airlines
Speaker 1: suggesting they may need some smaller aircraft. I think you
Speaker 1: were kind of excited about that, I am, because.
Speaker 11: You know Southwest they fly to seven thirty seven. That's
Speaker 11: the only thing they've found. They did play seven to
Speaker 11: seventeens briefly when they gobbled up air Tram, but it's
Speaker 11: they got rid of those. It's the seven thirty seven
Speaker 11: fleet has been for fifty seven years. Southwest is saying
Speaker 11: that there's certain markets that the demand for seven thirty
Speaker 11: seven just isn't there. Some of these smaller regional airports,
Speaker 11: it would be great if they had like a seventy
Speaker 11: seat aircraft, something that accommodates something closer to one hundred seats,
Speaker 11: which obviously is not the seven thirty seven. So when
Speaker 11: the demand is that low, Southwest has to make one
Speaker 11: of two options choices. Do we continue to operate with
Speaker 11: more seats than the market needs at that time? Of
Speaker 11: day or do we pull out of the city. Most
Speaker 11: of the time, it's going to be the second option.
Speaker 11: We're going to take that aircraft and crew to another
Speaker 11: market where our yield or a profit for passenger is
Speaker 11: where it needs to be. So now Southwest is saying,
Speaker 11: maybe we need to look at a different sized aircraft.
Speaker 11: Now that would mean a non Boeing seven thirty seven.
Speaker 11: It might mean a Bombardier aircraft or Embry air it
Speaker 11: could be an airbus. Now a lot of times you
Speaker 11: would look at this saying that's just you know, Southwest
Speaker 11: being clever and trying to you know, negotiate with Boweling
Speaker 11: put a little pressure on them. I don't think so.
Speaker 11: This is not the Southwest of old. This is now
Speaker 11: the Southwest that's going to be charging for check bags
Speaker 11: in May. The Southwest has gone to assigned seats. The
Speaker 11: Southwest is going to offer premium seats. This is the Southwest.
Speaker 11: They've been laying off employees for the first time in
Speaker 11: their history. I think they're serious and they could actually
Speaker 11: look at using smaller airplanes, and I really think they should.
Speaker 11: There's certainly an operational advantage when you only have one
Speaker 11: type of aircraft. When you're talking about ground equipment, training
Speaker 11: and all the things that go along with having a
Speaker 11: very consistent fleet. But when you're talking about making as
Speaker 11: much money as you can, it's like when we trade stocks, Bryan.
Speaker 11: There's certain stocks you can make a lot of money
Speaker 11: on and some you make less, and you adjust based
Speaker 11: on that particular opportunity. Right with airlines, it's the same
Speaker 11: thought process. There's certain cities you make a lot of
Speaker 11: money if you go in, but you can't do it
Speaker 11: with larger aircraft than what the demand is for there,
Speaker 11: So for smaller airports. I hope Southwest goes this route
Speaker 11: because I think that it would allow regional airports to
Speaker 11: enjoy the Southwest service in the lower fares instead of
Speaker 11: perhaps losing that service altogether.
Speaker 1: Makes sense to me, I understand, and I've understood for
Speaker 1: a long time. You don't make bomb jokes at the airports.
Speaker 1: You got a woman who found that out.
Speaker 11: Yeah, she's only fifty five. I mean, obviously she doesn't
Speaker 11: know better. But she's at the airport. She's got three
Speaker 11: bags and she's consolidating them to two. She's tried to
Speaker 11: save money. She's talking to the gate agent, and I
Speaker 11: guess in the course of the back and forth, she
Speaker 11: made a comment about, well, you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 11: challenging because of this bomb I've got in my bag.
Speaker 11: And of course the minute you say those words, everything stops.
Speaker 11: The police are you're taking away, they question you. Anybody
Speaker 11: that's with you goes with you, and you're gonna miss
Speaker 11: your flight, maybe not fly at all. So she kept saying, oh, no, no, no,
Speaker 11: it's a joke. But Brian, I cannot tell you the
Speaker 11: number of times that we've had people that, you know,
Speaker 11: maybe they're nervous. People sometimes say stupid things when they
Speaker 11: are nervous, and they try to joke their way out
Speaker 11: of it.
Speaker 2: And there's been so many times.
Speaker 11: That that's happened. I used to tell our boys when
Speaker 11: they were growing up, I will kill you. I will
Speaker 11: literally kill them if you use the word bomb. And
Speaker 11: you know, because kids, how the kids are. Oh, Jay,
Speaker 11: I didn't you don't want me to say this word.
Speaker 11: I told him, No, we're not gonna be tomorrow's story,
Speaker 11: so I just don't do it. In fact, Sherry was
Speaker 11: traveling one time with bath bombs and the TSA asked
Speaker 11: her what they were. She says, I can't tell you
Speaker 11: and the agent says, well, you're gonna have to tay.
Speaker 11: She goes, I can't because my husband said, never use
Speaker 11: that word at dinner. So she finally told him it
Speaker 11: was bath bombs, a little bath busies that you put
Speaker 11: in the bath, you know, when you take a bath.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you just don't use that term.
Speaker 11: This lady did. And it's just a reminder of how
Speaker 11: you try to make a joke, and it's not only
Speaker 11: going to inconvenience you, but probably every single person in
Speaker 11: your party. So even though I don't want to see
Speaker 11: Joe's you know clip there, Yeah, I keep.
Speaker 1: Your mouth shut, keep your stupid mouth shut. And at
Speaker 1: fifty five, yes, you should know better. And I know
Speaker 1: you said that, you said that with your togue in
Speaker 1: your cheek. Anyhow well, I guess, Yeah, we get in
Speaker 1: the remaining time. We'll just go ahead and let you
Speaker 1: do because I know we got another subject here, but
Speaker 1: we'll let you do the hub delays because we always
Speaker 1: done on that top Shop Dick com'romos out of time.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Chicago and Houston, especially Houston. Houston is getting absolutely hammered.
Speaker 11: If you're flying United Airlines connecting through Houston, get to
Speaker 11: the airportal lecture. Early today, they may decide to do
Speaker 11: what's called an online reroute, getting you to your destination
Speaker 11: through another hub, because Houston's just gonna get hammered through
Speaker 11: the rest of the Chicago's going to get a look,
Speaker 11: kind of a glancing blow later in the morning, but
Speaker 11: Houston clearly the problem.
Speaker 2: Child of the day.
Speaker 1: Appreciate what you do. Jay Ratliff, It's always a pleasure
Speaker 1: to have you on the program, and I look forward
Speaker 1: to next Thursday like I always do to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Have a great week, weekend, and a happy opening day
Speaker 1: to you brothers. Well, thank you, Thanks man. Coming up
Speaker 1: an eight fifty five fifty five KR City talkstation, great
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Speaker 1: What an eye opening conversation it is every time we
Speaker 1: talk with the former Inspector General host of the Citizen
Speaker 1: Watchdog Project, because he is City of Cincinnati. Should be
Speaker 1: thanking Todd Zenzer for everything he does exposing fraud, waste,
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Speaker 1: among other things, and we had Corey Bowman back in
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Speaker 1: We'll hear from Dave Hatter as we do every Friday
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