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Speaker 1: Happy Friday. Say, well, there it is Friday on the
Speaker 1: Morning Show. What an amazing line up today, Thank you
Speaker 1: Joe Strecker. This morning's gonna fly by Happy Friday at
Speaker 1: all the listeners we got going on today. Well, let's
Speaker 1: Tech Friday with Dayatter every Friday at six thirty. You
Speaker 1: know that's coming. And today we'll be talking with Dave
Speaker 1: about time to delete the most invasive apps on your phone.
Speaker 1: I think they're all to some degree invasive, as we've
Speaker 1: learned from Dave over the years, but the most invasive.
Speaker 1: Let's see how they determined which one of the most
Speaker 1: invasive are He did an op ed piece Dave did
Speaker 1: Chinese evi's threat to national security and privacy, and he'll
Speaker 1: talk about a video that shows how easy it is
Speaker 1: to install a card skimmer. Excuse me, I had to
Speaker 1: exercise the cough button. Get my voice going in the
Speaker 1: five o'clock hours sometimes can be a struggle for me,
Speaker 1: So apologies for that. What has Orlando's sons have been
Speaker 1: up to? Of course we were all weeping over the
Speaker 1: victory of Greg Greg Landsman over Orlando Sanza, but I
Speaker 1: know he's still active, and we're going to find out
Speaker 1: from him today at seven oh five. What's he been
Speaker 1: doing since the election, his thoughts on what's going on
Speaker 1: in DC and what's in store for him future wise
Speaker 1: in terms of politics. And I can only hope that
Speaker 1: he does pursue some office down the road. I think
Speaker 1: he's just such a brilliant man and just a family man,
Speaker 1: an honorable man, a decent man, and I think he's
Speaker 1: well deserving in some position if he chooses to run.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's of course his choice. Corey Mawman one
Speaker 1: of three now running for the mayor city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Correy's going to j join the program at seven thirty.
Speaker 1: That's great. We had him on early on in his
Speaker 1: efforts and apparently got enough signatures, so we have options
Speaker 1: in the city of Cincinnati. Question, does anybody think that
Speaker 1: a Republican can win in the city of Cincinnati. Christopher P. Hotel,
Speaker 1: with the book wanted the FBI, I once knew cash
Speaker 1: Mittel got confirmed yesterday by a squeak. A squeaker, but
Speaker 1: cash Mittel was confirmed FBI director. So Christopher on his
Speaker 1: book as well as his thoughts on cash Hotel at
Speaker 1: eighth five, and they'll look not a new book to
Speaker 1: talk about. Bill O'Reilly's been on the program a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of times over the years. Every time he releases
Speaker 1: a new book, I just you pour right through it.
Speaker 1: They're great reads or easy reads. They're informative, very interesting,
Speaker 1: and no book to talk about today. But we will
Speaker 1: get his thoughts on what's going on in DC. We
Speaker 1: will get his thoughts on Mitch McConnell, who is not
Speaker 1: seeking reelection. Can't believe I didn't get a woo who
Speaker 1: on that one. Joe. The audience is going, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: eighty three years old. For god's sake, the next campaign
Speaker 1: would be twenty twenty six, so he's gonna just, I
Speaker 1: guess fade away. Cash Bettel will be on the subject
Speaker 1: Metalist with Bill O'Reilly, and then we will of course
Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly dot com if you're interested in getting his books,
Speaker 1: they're fantastic as well as his commentary. He does a
Speaker 1: lot of activity over Bill O'Reilly dot com. So Bill
Speaker 1: O'Reilly at eight thirty, closing out of Friday here on
Speaker 1: the fifty five Carssey Morning Show, Outstanding, Joe, Outstanding, did
Speaker 1: you reach out to him or did he reach out
Speaker 1: to you? You reached out to him. That's great. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a busy man. He doesn't necessarily have to spend
Speaker 1: time on the fifty five Cassey Morning Show on a
Speaker 1: Friday morning. So it's awfully cool that he is. We
Speaker 1: have a good relationship with Bill. It's kind of funny
Speaker 1: because if you get a Bill O'Reilly book, you damn
Speaker 1: well better read it before you talk to him about it,
Speaker 1: because he's going to ask you, did you read my book?
Speaker 1: So has he? Fun fact from Joe Strecker, he's hung
Speaker 1: up on people who haven't read his book. Oh that's funny.
Speaker 1: But again, there are good books. We'll get to catch
Speaker 1: yoursel as a crime stopper bag guy the week later
Speaker 1: in the program as well, Jay Ratlife from yesterday, Michael
Speaker 1: Walsh with his book A Rage to Conquer Twelve Battles
Speaker 1: have changed the course of Western history. Ohio State Representative
Speaker 1: Jennifer Gross on medicaid. And we'll see if we can't
Speaker 1: bring back to the top of the conversation we had
Speaker 1: with the state auditor Keith Faber, because previously on the
Speaker 1: program it was sometime last year. He didn't seem overly
Speaker 1: concerned about the amount of well, for example, payments that
Speaker 1: went out of state. He subsequently did some sort of
Speaker 1: analysis and review and uncovered that about was it, twenty
Speaker 1: five percent of the Medicaid dollars floats to some other state,
Speaker 1: to a resident of some other state, which should be
Speaker 1: verboten and should be ferreted out. If you can figure
Speaker 1: it out through an audit of a handful of sample
Speaker 1: of claims, let's start cutting the payments. But as Jennifer
Speaker 1: Gross explained, you've got to get approval from the basically
Speaker 1: the administration, the federal government to make any changes whatsoever,
Speaker 1: including adding a work requirement. So that's the strings attached
Speaker 1: that she pointed out. You know, ninety percent of the
Speaker 1: Medicaid money. We did that Medicaid expansion some years ago,
Speaker 1: and ninety percent of that money comes from the federal government.
Speaker 1: Menial highlands are on the hook for the other ten percent.
Speaker 1: What if they cut that money? And what of the
Speaker 1: folks that just entered into the program under the expansion
Speaker 1: weren't there previously? Can they manage themselves without it? And
Speaker 1: she said, they are all the people we're talking about here,
Speaker 1: able bodied folks who could get jobs, and so the
Speaker 1: job requirement or a job training requirement, you know, that
Speaker 1: might help them move away from the welfare state and
Speaker 1: get themselves unhooked from the umbilical court of government. How
Speaker 1: about that? And yesterday I got a fun text from
Speaker 1: Joe Strecker the protest outside the Greater Cincinnati Tesla store.
Speaker 1: Are those independently owned and operated? Joe, do you know?
Speaker 1: Or is that z line Muscow in it? I don't
Speaker 1: know either. So about fifty people showed up Wednesday, upset
Speaker 1: over the mass layoffs that are happening under the Trump administration,
Speaker 1: with this Department of Government Efficiency. And there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of lawsuits filed over it. And those lawsuits intentionally
Speaker 1: brought about by Donald Trump. He knew they were coming.
Speaker 1: And there's a great op ed from Kim Strassel on
Speaker 1: that maybe we can get some of the details on
Speaker 1: that later. But they're outside the Tesla store and they're
Speaker 1: screaming about, well these firings. Hamilton County Prosecutor Connie Pillage
Speaker 1: was there. Well, if you've been able to draw connection
Speaker 1: between Hamilton County crimes and the prosecution of crimes here
Speaker 1: in Hamilton County with the firing of various government employees
Speaker 1: in the federal government level, Joe, because I'm struggling with
Speaker 1: that one all the time. Yeah, you think about it
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, right. We love spending money to
Speaker 1: send them to war, but we usually forget about them
Speaker 1: when they come home, and that's disgusting. Referring to I
Speaker 1: guess the recent firings at the Department of Veteran Affairs
Speaker 1: as an example of the cruelty of the Trump administration,
Speaker 1: the American Federal Federation of Government Employees Local thirty eight
Speaker 1: to forty Save our Services SOS of course, haha, that's
Speaker 1: the I guess, the banner under which these protests are
Speaker 1: flying said the jobscups would have a trickle down effect
Speaker 1: on services people throughout Greater Cincinnati rely on. So Connie Pillach,
Speaker 1: Hamilton County Prosecutor making a pitch to protest the firings
Speaker 1: of these federal government employees now rewind And I appreciate
Speaker 1: Joe going back to this because November twelfth, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: WVXU reported, after having spoken with her after the election,
Speaker 1: when she did win, she beat Melissa Powers with fifty
Speaker 1: one percent of the vote, Obviously the first time that
Speaker 1: a Democrat has taken over the prosecutor's office. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it was the report of ninety one years of
Speaker 1: Republicans handling the prosecutor's office here in the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: The people of the city of Cincinnati kind of liked that.
Speaker 1: In Hamilton County most specifically because, well, she would the
Speaker 1: Republicans over the years have been rather tough on crime.
Speaker 1: But back then, quote, I don't see this as a
Speaker 1: political job. I'd like to see us focus on the
Speaker 1: job instead of the politics. Close Quote what do you
Speaker 1: think she forgot.
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 3: She said that.
Speaker 1: Picking and choosing. All right, let's see here, Mexican President
Speaker 1: Dunnas doesn't want us to invade Mexico over the cartels
Speaker 1: recently designated as terrorist organizations, And honestly, I don't feel
Speaker 1: that way either. I don't like the idea of just
Speaker 1: chucking rockets in the countries against whom we have no
Speaker 1: declaration of war. Mentioned that a million times, talk about
Speaker 1: it with the Polatano all the time. It just came
Speaker 1: up with I think Daniel Davis earlier in the week
Speaker 1: we did a deep, deep dive, but we are using
Speaker 1: drones and flying over to discover where these ventnol lambs
Speaker 1: are manufactured and you think that's a new development uner
Speaker 1: the Trump administration in preparation for war, and oh my god,
Speaker 1: you know this is an atrocity. We can't be doing this.
Speaker 1: That started under the Biden administration. Jones part of a
Speaker 1: covert program started during the Biden administration. The effort was
Speaker 1: not disclosed until this week, so it's been an ongoing thing.
Speaker 1: But fortunately, as reported and I appreciate the reporting on
Speaker 1: that one, we're sharing that information with Mexico. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know that that gets the president of Mexico out
Speaker 1: of a lurch, because the Cartels presents this literally existential
Speaker 1: threat to the well being in the lives of the
Speaker 1: various politicians in Mexico. They kill them all the time,
Speaker 1: and it was widely speculated the President Scheinbaum actually came
Speaker 1: out and said, do not designate these folks as terrorist organizations,
Speaker 1: probably because they had threatened her. You better do something
Speaker 1: about Trump or we're gonna do something about you. It's
Speaker 1: a pretty lawless country when it comes right down to it,
Speaker 1: unless you know, you think the cartels are providing some
Speaker 1: form of structure for the citizenry there. But in fun
Speaker 1: facts on our border. Related to the situation borders are,
Speaker 1: Tom Homan pointed out earlier this week that there were
Speaker 1: only two hundred and twenty nine border patrol encounters along
Speaker 1: the entire US Mexican border within the prior day, which
Speaker 1: he pointed out was the lowest since he first joined
Speaker 1: the border patrol in nineteen eighty four. But when you
Speaker 1: review the border patrol encounters, which they've been tracking for
Speaker 1: decades and decades, apparently the numbers have not been this
Speaker 1: low since the nineteen sixties. They say, if the agents
Speaker 1: working on the border continue to encounter this a mirror
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty nine every single day, the entire
Speaker 1: fiscal year would would ultimately be eighty three thousand, five
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five, which again is a figure that
Speaker 1: hasn't been seen since nineteen sixty eight, when there were
Speaker 1: only sixty two thousand, six hundred and forty reported encounters
Speaker 1: along the southwest sectors. And I imagine that figure probably
Speaker 1: was actually higher. We have it's easier to track people
Speaker 1: these days with modern technology, of course, computers, and you know,
Speaker 1: we encounter them, we take a DNA sample, we give
Speaker 1: them a cell phone and a place to live, and
Speaker 1: all that. But regardless, obviously the Trove administration is making
Speaker 1: some serious product progress on the southern border, much to
Speaker 1: the chagrin of the Catholic bishops who filed the suit
Speaker 1: the other day and sadly their first round in court
Speaker 1: didn't go their way. A well, A federal money is
Speaker 1: not permanent and you're not entitled to it. Five seventeen
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Speaker 1: Joe summing it up quite nicely. Five point three seven
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Speaker 1: If I went three seven eight two three talk, I
Speaker 1: personally love what Doje is doing and I'd love finding
Speaker 1: out all these illustrations of the insanity. Now while the
Speaker 1: federal workers are suing the Trump administration because they've been
Speaker 1: let go, at least some of them get a load
Speaker 1: of this one props. The Aubrey Spady of Fox News
Speaker 1: reporting there's apparently a cafeteria. Department of Interior cafeteria initially
Speaker 1: closed during the coronavirus virus pandemic. That was we were
Speaker 1: on freak out mode. Oh my god, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So the employees in the cafeteria were
Speaker 1: told to go home. They continue to be paid. It's
Speaker 1: been closed for years now, and yet they're not going
Speaker 1: back to work, and they refuse to go back to work.
Speaker 1: It's a cafeteria. You can't do remote work. One source
Speaker 1: speaking with Fox is, you have federal workers showing up
Speaker 1: to protest President Trump's plan to make government work for
Speaker 1: the people on a federal holiday, but they refuse to
Speaker 1: show up to work when they're collecting a paycheck. Courtisying
Speaker 1: the American taxpayers. It's just nuts. Yeah, I can sum
Speaker 1: it up that way too. Department of Interior Care cafeteria
Speaker 1: closed during the coronavirus pandemic, but the lunch room remained
Speaker 1: shut down for several years because the Biden administration did
Speaker 1: not require federal employees to work in person. The photo
Speaker 1: was circulated from the twenty inhes the other Day, five
Speaker 1: years after the pandemic, the lunch room remains empty and unmanned.
Speaker 1: Which the source speaking Fox says, shows you exactly what's
Speaker 1: wrong with the mindset of far too many federal workers.
Speaker 1: They would to get paid for doing nothing. Interior Secretary
Speaker 1: Doug bergerm in the statement, he's requiring that all federal workers,
Speaker 1: federal employees returned to the office to comply with the
Speaker 1: return to work order that was issued by the president. Now,
Speaker 1: this was the idea that you know, you either return
Speaker 1: to work or you take the buyout package, which shed
Speaker 1: a deadline, and the deadline has passed. So enter lawsuits
Speaker 1: where people getting canned because they aren't doing anything on
Speaker 1: behalf of you and me and the cafeteria is just
Speaker 1: the greatest illustration of how stupid federal government is. Now,
Speaker 1: if you can remote work at home on a computer
Speaker 1: and get the work actually done, and you know, props
Speaker 1: to my wife, she's been doing that. Now since the lockdown,
Speaker 1: they're shutting down to the legal office at her business.
Speaker 1: But every single day she's down there working on contracts,
Speaker 1: on conference calls, video and otherwise every single day putting
Speaker 1: into full day's work and doing the job that is
Speaker 1: necessary for her to keep her employment. If she was
Speaker 1: a cafeteria worker, she couldn't do that from the basement
Speaker 1: of her home. And I know I'm stating the obvious.
Speaker 1: Don't man explain Thomas, but this is I'm just incensed
Speaker 1: by this. They want to continue to work from home.
Speaker 1: Someone asked me, or answer the question, how can a
Speaker 1: cafeteria employee work from home and justify the salary that
Speaker 1: you and I are still paying for them? Go ahead,
Speaker 1: Democrats defend that and those has found out that there
Speaker 1: are four point six million credit cards out in the
Speaker 1: world issued by the US government active credit card accounts,
Speaker 1: which spent thirty nine point seven billion dollars in more
Speaker 1: than ninety million transactions in the last fiscal year alone.
Speaker 1: General Service Administration Smartpay credit card system has seen what
Speaker 1: they've described in bright Bard Props to Olivia Rondo, total
Speaker 1: amount of money spent on the cards, as well as
Speaker 1: dramatic surge and the total number of transactions over the
Speaker 1: past few years. Fiscal year twenty twenty two, they spent
Speaker 1: thirty two point eight billion, a seven billion dollar jump
Speaker 1: in two years, seventy eight point five million in fiscal
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty three built million transactions. I might point
Speaker 1: out that's in billions of dollars. And now ninety million
Speaker 1: transactions for fiscal year twenty twenty four. Here's the problem.
Speaker 1: The audit found a staggering thinking about the Medicaid payments
Speaker 1: to out of state individuals here in the state of Ohio,
Speaker 1: coming in about twenty five percent. They found twelve percent
Speaker 1: of credit card purchases on government issued cards quote, may
Speaker 1: have violated the Pentagon's spending policies. These are just for
Speaker 1: Pentagon cards, by the way, Developed Veteran Affairs has them,
Speaker 1: Department of Defense has them, all these other government agencies
Speaker 1: have them. But this is in Pentagon spending eleven thousand
Speaker 1: transactions totally, more than half a million dollars made at casinos, ATMs,
Speaker 1: mobile application stores, bars, nightclubs during holidays and sporting events.
Speaker 1: The oh, we can't have dogs doing this work, folks.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, there's nothing to see here. Everything's
Speaker 1: being spent and we're all just dutifully minding the dollars
Speaker 1: we steal from you, the American public five twenty six
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Speaker 1: forecast's gonna get mostly sunny day to day with thirty
Speaker 1: one for a high dot eighteen overy night partly clotty skies,
Speaker 1: thirty six with partly sunny skies Tomorrow down to twenty one,
Speaker 1: clear skyes Sunday partly cloutie going up to forty four degrees.
Speaker 1: They see attempts in the fifties to start the new
Speaker 1: work week next week. Not too bad by fifteen degrees
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Speaker 1: Had happy Friday. Local story is thirteen year old dead
Speaker 1: after a shooting happened in Wentton Woods last night. According
Speaker 1: to Sincinnti Police, they showed up of the scene to
Speaker 1: Dutch Colony Drive reported person down. When they got there,
Speaker 1: they found a thirteen year old who had been shot
Speaker 1: teen pronounced dead at the hospital. Local news WCPA reporting
Speaker 1: they were at the scene checking on it and they
Speaker 1: said they report more additional information when it becomes available.
Speaker 1: What a tragedy, Climon Unnedy Prosecutor Mark to call. They
Speaker 1: and Claarmont County Police chief Sheriff's Association are concerned, They
Speaker 1: say for the safety of residence conducting investigations into child
Speaker 1: predators to Calley Center press releases, come to our attention
Speaker 1: that there are various vigilante groups who've taken it upon
Speaker 1: themselves to engage in the two catchup predator style undercovers things.
Speaker 1: Calvey said, the groups have met up and confronted various
Speaker 1: individuals suspected to be predators. We had that these meetings
Speaker 1: could often or rather occur publicly. Often occur publicly rather
Speaker 1: within Claremont County, he said. While we applaud and appreciate
Speaker 1: your intent, we cannot stress enough the danger of engaging
Speaker 1: in such conduct. Prosecutor's office and law enforcement arguing that
Speaker 1: citizens are putting themselves and others at risk by endangering
Speaker 1: these engaging in these investigations. Law enforcement says that the
Speaker 1: vigilanti groups should stop participating in these investigations and instead
Speaker 1: contact the police that they believe there's speaking with a
Speaker 1: person who has sexual interest in young children. Quote from Tacolby.
Speaker 1: Please leave this work to the professionals, and please help
Speaker 1: us keep all citizens of Claremont County safe by not
Speaker 1: engaging in potentially dangerous acts or confrontations. They say, if
Speaker 1: you know of any potential criminal activity, just contact your
Speaker 1: local police department. I hate child predators. I don't know
Speaker 1: how I feel about that one, but yeah, if you
Speaker 1: do know something, it's like drop a dime. Report to
Speaker 1: your local law enforcement if you know about criminal activity,
Speaker 1: if you know someone who's committed a crime. The idea
Speaker 1: is for the public to work with law enforcement. Let
Speaker 1: them do their job. And I suppose in the final analysis,
Speaker 1: I can come down on the side of mister Chacoalabi.
Speaker 1: Go to Oxford where my fraternity, sadly I wasn't there.
Speaker 1: I went to the University of Cincinnati, so different chapter,
Speaker 1: and we actually didn't get along with the members of
Speaker 1: the Miami University chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, who's now
Speaker 1: in trouble suspended. They are over allegations of hazing. Fox
Speaker 1: nineteen speaking with legal analysts Mary Curmbine on college campuses,
Speaker 1: there is a certain large group of people that still
Speaker 1: accepted they call it a sort of rite of passage,
Speaker 1: but the legislature has really put its foot down and
Speaker 1: really more heavily criminalizing those actions. Apparently, the hazing report
Speaker 1: indicates someone claiming to be a pledge for the fraternity
Speaker 1: told someone else he was being Hayes from multiple days
Speaker 1: during rush week. Also said he was forced into accepting
Speaker 1: a bid into the fraternity. There were forced activities included
Speaker 1: described as humane in the report which the report says
Speaker 1: a member was forced to ingest an entire can of
Speaker 1: chewing tobacco and do a handstand which made him vomit.
Speaker 1: Also said he was forced to cut off all communications
Speaker 1: with others, delete social media, and be at annexes for
Speaker 1: up to twenty four hours a day. Also had to
Speaker 1: perform what was will perform wall sits covered in baby
Speaker 1: oil and each time they slipped, they were forced to drink.
Speaker 1: Butler County Prosecutor Mike Moser, where of course university is
Speaker 1: Butler County, it has gone on record maytime saying that
Speaker 1: he is very much against hazing and he's taken it
Speaker 1: very seriously in the past. Spokesman for the university sent
Speaker 1: a statement to Fox nineteen said hazing of any kind
Speaker 1: is illegal and strictly prohibited Miami University. Miami seeks to
Speaker 1: promote a safe environment where students may participate in activities
Speaker 1: in organizations without compromise in health, safety, and welfare. Welfare.
Speaker 1: University policies hazing is defined as doing, requiring, or encouraging
Speaker 1: or or coursing another, including the victim, to do any
Speaker 1: act of initiation into any student organization or other university
Speaker 1: sanctioned organization or athletic team. Also includes any act that
Speaker 1: causes or creates a substantial risk of causing mental or
Speaker 1: physical harm to any person, including coursing and other to
Speaker 1: consume alcohol or any other drug. Geez, you know, I
Speaker 1: went to college. I think I pledged that fraternity at
Speaker 1: University of Cincinnati, at least I got pledged in fall
Speaker 1: of eighty three and was initiated in eighty four. And
Speaker 1: I look back on my time there, and I really
Speaker 1: can't think of anything that they did that I personally
Speaker 1: viewed as hazing. You got a lot of older brothers
Speaker 1: screaming at you about cleaning up and things like that.
Speaker 1: But I didn't view cleaning up as hazing, as as
Speaker 1: part of the process. Somebody's got to clean the place. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome to the new pledge class. Here's a mop, and
Speaker 1: we may get some freshes restaurants back. Former landlord of
Speaker 1: Fish's Big Boy Real Estate Company indicated last week in
Speaker 1: corporate filings it was still in the eviction process for
Speaker 1: a bunch of the restaurants, but the company N N
Speaker 1: and RET said it's taken back possession of more than
Speaker 1: half of the locations quote twenty eight of which properties
Speaker 1: have been released to another restaurant operator with rent commencing
Speaker 1: May first. Seems to confirm acclaim by fish As last
Speaker 1: week that a Michigan based Big Boy plans to reopen
Speaker 1: dozens of its restaurants that have been shut down since
Speaker 1: they were evicted last October. Date of the filing indicates
Speaker 1: the restaurants could open it this spring. So keep your
Speaker 1: finger scrashed. We might get our Big Boys back. And
Speaker 1: let's hope that the equality of the product increases dramatically.
Speaker 1: And I think it's one of the reasons Big Boy
Speaker 1: ran into some problems. They just kind of let it
Speaker 1: slip over the years. But I have a got a
Speaker 1: soft spot in my heart for Fish's. Big Boy just
Speaker 1: brings back some good memories from when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Five point thirty five Stack is stupid coming up. Jeff's
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Speaker 1: Austin, Texas woman mourning others about a man who attacked
Speaker 1: her while she was walking to her car in East
Speaker 1: Austin Cherrywood neighboring. Specifically, if you want to steer clear
Speaker 1: of itage said, it happened in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: and the man was naked. Candice arm Brewster, speaking with
Speaker 1: local news. He came out of nowhere and he disappeared
Speaker 1: just as quickly. Oh Joe, Joe, Okay, let me see
Speaker 1: if I can get my composure back. Okay, And this
Speaker 1: Armburser went to a concert of the Moody Center earlier
Speaker 1: the month, she said, the concert let out, she started
Speaker 1: walking to her car, a little bit of a walk
Speaker 1: across I thirty five in the Cherrywood neighborhood. Quote. Whenever
Speaker 1: the crowd would go, I wouldn't maneuver myself and to
Speaker 1: stay with him, even if that meant elongated my walk.
Speaker 1: The whole way, I was pretty much with other people
Speaker 1: about ninety five percent of the time until I had
Speaker 1: a cross over into the neighborhood or my car was parked.
Speaker 1: When she got into the neighborhood, she saw someone. I
Speaker 1: saw a movement of a male figure, assuming that this
Speaker 1: guy just lived in this house and was outside, perhaps
Speaker 1: smoking a cigarette. He looked naked. Like from first glance,
Speaker 1: I thought, wow, he looks naked, but I just didn't
Speaker 1: think that could be. But I followed my gut, and
Speaker 1: my gut said, don't go that way. Well played, miss
Speaker 1: arm Broisterer. Instead of going straight, she turned, she said.
Speaker 1: Then she finally saw her car. I was steps away
Speaker 1: from a when I heard very fast running footsteps behind me.
Speaker 1: I turned, and as I turned, he was literally right
Speaker 1: on me. Right there, he grabbed my hips. I imagine
Speaker 1: if someone was trying to pull your pants off. Imagine
Speaker 1: if someone was trying to pull your pants off aggressively.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what he was doing. I was able to
Speaker 1: break free from him, I know, and because she was
Speaker 1: at a concert, Joe, she wouldn't have been able to
Speaker 1: be carrying a firearm even in the state of Texas, right,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they prohibit those in concerts. I was able
Speaker 1: to break free of them, and then I bolted running
Speaker 1: while I continued to scream, and I think that chaos
Speaker 1: created also scared him. He wasn't expecting that and he
Speaker 1: bolted in the other direction. She called nine one one,
Speaker 1: saying I was having trouble breathing. I was crying and
Speaker 1: just screaming randomly. I was shaking so bad. Austin police,
Speaker 1: of course, trying to find the man. She said, I
Speaker 1: want people to know. I want them to keep their
Speaker 1: eye I don't want them to know this happened, so
Speaker 1: they can protect themselves. If you know anything at all,
Speaker 1: you can get a lead that helps will will help
Speaker 1: find him, because we've not found him, and I want
Speaker 1: to keep others safe. She said. She hopes to start
Speaker 1: a self defense class with other women, say would know
Speaker 1: what to do if anything like this ever happened again.
Speaker 1: Of course, calls for folks with information about the purp
Speaker 1: are requested by local police there Jeez October fourth. Last year,
Speaker 1: Mountain Hope police received a complain about a woman sleeping
Speaker 1: in a truck and responded to an address on Highway
Speaker 1: sixty two. When officers arrived in the scene, they were
Speaker 1: told the woman had gotten out of the vehicle was
Speaker 1: walking eastbound into town. A number of units began initially
Speaker 1: unsuccessful hunt for the woman. One officer returned to the
Speaker 1: apartment complex and drove throughout the parking lot. He reported
Speaker 1: seeing a pickup truck with a passenger side door open
Speaker 1: and a woman standing by the door. She was said
Speaker 1: to be taking items out of the truck and throwing
Speaker 1: them on the ground. When the officer spoke to her,
Speaker 1: she said she woke up in the truck and was
Speaker 1: now cleaning it out. Items removed from the vehicle included
Speaker 1: vape packages, red bull cans, gatorade bottles, and medication packages.
Speaker 1: When she was asked if the truck belonged to her,
Speaker 1: she said no, they said. The officer said she also
Speaker 1: was disoriented and stumbling, as this tradition. Officer reported that
Speaker 1: he smelled no alcohol over this woman's person. Witness told
Speaker 1: the officer that she had been wandering around the complex
Speaker 1: and had attempted to get into her apartment. The woman
Speaker 1: indicated she was staying in one of the apartments, but
Speaker 1: had no identification while its cell phone or key to
Speaker 1: any apartment or vehicle in the area. At tempt was
Speaker 1: made to have someone let officers into the apartment, she claimed,
Speaker 1: but no one answered. The door officers scribe she began
Speaker 1: speaking with witnesses. They were told that this woman named
Speaker 1: Overmeyer had allegedly been trying to gain entry to a
Speaker 1: number of vehicles in the complex. Also moved through the parking.
Speaker 1: She would frequently lift her dress, exposing herself. Which is
Speaker 1: why I made the Friday stacker stupid because she was
Speaker 1: described by what are you doing? Partially naked. Owner of
Speaker 1: the truck in which Overmyer had been seen sleeping in
Speaker 1: was a resident of the complex. Police were able to
Speaker 1: talk with him, and he said he didn't know her
Speaker 1: and had not given her permission to be in his
Speaker 1: truck or remove the items from the vehicle. And to
Speaker 1: that point, police took her into custody and took her
Speaker 1: to the Baxter kind of detention Center, where she is
Speaker 1: said to have had difficult time understanding instructions from the
Speaker 1: jail staff as this tradition. Previously, she'd been arrested January
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen for breaking into a house wearing no clothes.
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Speaker 1: I KR set the top station back to the stack
Speaker 1: of stupid, back to naked people in Florida.
Speaker 6: As this tradition.
Speaker 1: UH fifty two year old adult son of a Palm
Speaker 1: Beach County school board member now facing multiple charges after
Speaker 1: he was found naked at a at Florida Atlantic University.
Speaker 1: Police arrested Stephen Barbieri unclothed. He allegedly admitted to pulling
Speaker 1: a file alarm and claiming that a pending chemical attack
Speaker 1: is the calm before the storm. His words those are
Speaker 1: in quotes also till police. He wants to see people suffer.
Speaker 1: There's a whole arrested report here. I think just fast
Speaker 1: forward at the officer writes due to the reasonable suspicion
Speaker 1: of the fire alarm activation and to the detained individual.
Speaker 1: I read him as Miranda warning rights from Miranda cart
Speaker 1: And during my preliminary Miranda conversation, I asked him if
Speaker 1: he pulled the fire alarm poll station, and he said
Speaker 1: I did. When asked why he pulled a fire alarm,
Speaker 1: he stated he wanted to Okay, further stated he was
Speaker 1: going to use a chemical weapon from his portable phone
Speaker 1: charger to burn the building down, and if the building
Speaker 1: was going to burn down, he was going to watch
Speaker 1: people suffer. He made references to the building blowing up
Speaker 1: and that this incident was the call before the storm.
Speaker 1: Due to the above references of a chemical weapon and
Speaker 1: weapons of mass destruction to an occupied building, I find
Speaker 1: probable cause to charge him with violations including the following
Speaker 1: manufactured possession, sale, delivery, display, use, or attempted or threatened
Speaker 1: use of a weapon of mass destruction, false alarms for fires.
Speaker 1: Individual taken to and booked into the Palm Beach Guinty
Speaker 1: Jail without further incident. Described as son of longtime board
Speaker 1: member and former board chair Frank Barbieri Junior. Also described
Speaker 1: as a well respected attorney. Apparently, this guy has faced
Speaker 1: multiple charges over the past several years and is now
Speaker 1: the subject of a quote mental health hold close quote
Speaker 1: that was initiated rather by the University police. Fifty two
Speaker 1: years old got an award to give out Joe. Married
Speaker 1: couple been arrested on felony charges after their eight year
Speaker 1: old son suffered what they describe as permanent disfigurement when
Speaker 1: he was bound with tape from his shoulders down to
Speaker 1: his feet in an apparent disciplinary measure. According to police,
Speaker 1: Nicholas Barsett, fifty six, admitted chasing his child around their
Speaker 1: Florida home before grabbing the victim against his will. Barsett
Speaker 1: then picked up the boy and carried him into the
Speaker 1: child's bedroom. Quote The defendant held the victim down as
Speaker 1: he utilized tape to tie the child up from his
Speaker 1: shoulders down to his feet. While this was occurring, Barsett's wife,
Speaker 1: forty five, stood there look don in didn't do anything
Speaker 1: to intercede. Boy left home alone in his room, told
Speaker 1: cops that he yelled for help and attempted to stand
Speaker 1: up despite not being able to move to to the
Speaker 1: duct tape. Trying to get up, the child fell on
Speaker 1: his face, splitting his chin open. Said the victim could
Speaker 1: not brace himself for the fall due to his limbs
Speaker 1: being bound or bonded to his body by the tape.
Speaker 1: Affi David says the boy's parents later found him bleeding
Speaker 1: on the bedroom floor. Nicholas Barsett told cops he performed
Speaker 1: first day to get the bleeding to stop. The couple
Speaker 1: did not call emergency services or bring their son to
Speaker 1: a medical facility to have the laceration properly checked and closed.
Speaker 1: Court filings did not indicate how police who arrested the
Speaker 1: bar Sets learned from learn of the taping punishment, which
Speaker 1: reportedly occurred around two months ago. Both parents, copsay, confessed
Speaker 1: the respective roles in the incident after being read the
Speaker 1: Miranda rights Perios the biggest douche of the universe in
Speaker 1: all the gown There's no bigger douche than you. You've
Speaker 1: reached the top, the pinnacle of douche dum. Good going due.
Speaker 1: Your dreams have come true. No kidding. Nicholas Barsett charged
Speaker 1: with felony chout abuse and booked into the County jail,
Speaker 1: released with a one fifteen thousand dollars bond, which seems
Speaker 1: woefully inadequate. Alex bar of Barset spent the night in
Speaker 1: County jail before she was freed on her own recognizance.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Very quickly, using a fingerprint lifted off
Speaker 1: of a goldfish package, cops identified and arrested Demand for
Speaker 1: hitting a female family doctor manager in the face with
Speaker 1: the crackers when she confronted him about stealing from the retailer.
Speaker 1: Cops alleged that Michael Gonzalez, aka Gizmo, struck the sixty
Speaker 1: five year old victim of walking out of a Florida
Speaker 1: business with approximately fifty dollars worth of cleaning supplies and
Speaker 1: a box of goldfish crackers. Why are you doing that?
Speaker 1: Cops say. The victim approached Gonzalez as he handed the
Speaker 1: stolen goods to a passenger and a vehicle parked out
Speaker 1: front of the Golf Court store. Upon being challenged by
Speaker 1: the woman, Gonzalez, who's twenty nine, allegedly hit her in
Speaker 1: the face with the goldfish crackers, causing a small cut
Speaker 1: under her lip. Gonzalez arrested for strong arm robbery, a felony,
Speaker 1: in connection with the September twenty twenty four goldfish incident.
Speaker 1: He was in custody for a prior alleged robbery during
Speaker 1: which he stole a skateboard from a man who he punched,
Speaker 1: bit and stabbed in the face and head. Surveillance images
Speaker 1: from the Family Dollar Gonzales had served several distinctive tattoos
Speaker 1: and if you could see him, yeah, they're quite distinctive,
Speaker 1: including one between his eyes. He apparently told cops. He
Speaker 1: he admitted, yes, that was me in the photos. Through
Speaker 1: the interview. Police noted Gonza has stated that this was
Speaker 1: petty and that he should just get time served. Judge disagreed,
Speaker 1: setting his bond at thirty thousand dollars for the two
Speaker 1: pending robbery cases. Five fifty six plenty to talk about
Speaker 1: before we go with tech Friday's day've hat or coming
Speaker 1: up in six thirty. You can feel free to call in.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from if youve got a topic
Speaker 1: you want to talk about. I'll be right back covering
Speaker 1: Trump's first one hundred days.
Speaker 5: Every day America's deadline is over fifty five dr.
Speaker 1: Say talk station is your New Year's resolution to such
Speaker 1: it is time for you to delete the most invasive
Speaker 1: apps on your phone. He did an op ed about
Speaker 1: Chinese electric vehicles being a threat to our national security
Speaker 1: and a video showing how easy it is to install
Speaker 1: a card skimmer. Fast forward an hour Orlando's Sonza returns,
Speaker 1: We're so sad that Greg Landsman beat him, but I
Speaker 1: know he's got a future doing something. We'll find out
Speaker 1: what he's been doing since the election. His thoughts about
Speaker 1: what's going on in DC and will he be seeking
Speaker 1: an office at some point his future. Corey Bowman hops
Speaker 1: he has a future for Asmeri City of Cincinnati. He's
Speaker 1: one of three people now running. Corey who joins the
Speaker 1: program at seven thirty uh. Fast forward to eight oh
Speaker 1: five Christopher Pihorda with the book Wanted the FBI I
Speaker 1: once knew. Also get his thoughts about Cash Bettel, who
Speaker 1: just succeeded in securing the position to run the FBI.
Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly great to have Bill on. We get his
Speaker 1: thoughts on what's going on in DC. We'll get his
Speaker 1: reaction to Mitch McConnell's saying he's not going to run
Speaker 1: for reelection. He's already eighty three and the elections not
Speaker 1: for another couple of years. Cash battel thoughts on that.
Speaker 1: And of course you can get all of Bill O'Reilly's
Speaker 1: commentary as well as his outstanding books at Bill O'Reilly
Speaker 1: dot com. So that's coming up five three seven two
Speaker 1: three Talk now is interesting analysis by Kim Straussel explaining
Speaker 1: almost it's almost a former reverse lawfair. Now, of course,
Speaker 1: you've got all these organizations suing Donald Trump because of
Speaker 1: his you know, some describe as ham fitted actions firing
Speaker 1: thousands of people of various different organizations. Some are claiming
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the legal right to do that. One
Speaker 1: of those groups shot down the other day. A couple
Speaker 1: of federal judges this week declined to stop the Trump
Speaker 1: administration from firing federal workers and doing these math at
Speaker 1: mass layoffs. Yesterday, the US District Judge Christopher Cooper shot
Speaker 1: down a request from several federal labor unions, among them
Speaker 1: the National Treasury Employees Union. They, along with other labor unions,
Speaker 1: filed a complaint in February twelfth challenging the firing of
Speaker 1: the probationary employees as well as that deferred resignation program
Speaker 1: if you recall, that offered them an opportunity to just
Speaker 1: sort of quit and take a cash payout through September.
Speaker 1: So the judge denied the request for a temporary restraining
Speaker 1: order and preliminary injunction.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 1: The judge ruled that the unions must person sue their
Speaker 1: challenges to the Federal Services Labor Management Relations Statute, which
Speaker 1: apparently provides for an administrative review by the Federal Labor
Speaker 1: Right Relations Authority, So no lawsuit here. I mentioned the
Speaker 1: Catholic bishops suing the Trump administration because their non governmental
Speaker 1: organization money was being withdrawn up, and they got a
Speaker 1: little upset about that. I believe, yes, it was yesterday
Speaker 1: the federal judge rejected the US Conference Catholic BIDUS bishop's
Speaker 1: request to turn back the money that's flowing. They called
Speaker 1: upon the administration to pause. They called it a rather
Speaker 1: illegal asking the federal court in Washington to issue a
Speaker 1: temporary restraining order, which US District Judge Trevor McFadden declined
Speaker 1: to do, saying, the court finds a plaintiff has not
Speaker 1: made the requisite showing and will thus deny plain its
Speaker 1: motion to extend that requests a temporary restraining order. He
Speaker 1: set a speedy schedule for the bishops to argue for
Speaker 1: a preliminary in johnction more powerful than a temporary restraining order,
Speaker 1: but that's going to require some time. So an initial
Speaker 1: sort of loss for the bishops, that lawsuit will continue.
Speaker 1: So now all these lawsuits come in, and Kimberly Strassel
Speaker 1: suggests that this is exactly what Donald Trump wants to happen,
Speaker 1: and she writes in the Journal, Trump's constitutional cleanup starts
Speaker 1: out with Franklin Delana Roosevelt fundamentally redefine the purpose of
Speaker 1: federal government, setting off an air of ever expanding Washington's
Speaker 1: scope and reach. Nearly a century later, Donald Trump's White
Speaker 1: House has taken on itself to challenge the legitimacy of
Speaker 1: some foundations of that expansion. The left calls this a
Speaker 1: constitutional crisis, how about a constitutional cleanup. The sheer volume
Speaker 1: of mister Trump's actions can make it hard to distinguish
Speaker 1: between the merely aggressive and the truly striking. In the
Speaker 1: former category of the Department of Government efficiency moves to
Speaker 1: cut the size of the federal workforce, change civil service rules,
Speaker 1: and eliminate wasteful spending. These moves are unconventional. Most presidents
Speaker 1: role with the bureaucracy that they are given, but hardly lawless.
Speaker 1: Progressive litigators may soon discover presidents have a lot of
Speaker 1: authority to manage employees and programs. It's the truly striking
Speaker 1: class that deserves Note. This is the growing list of
Speaker 1: Trump actions deliberately designed to provoke a lejudicial review of
Speaker 1: the legality of long standing Washington features. Congress spent a
Speaker 1: century creating dozens of agencies that blur the boundaries between
Speaker 1: the executive, legislative, and judicial power, while the administrative state
Speaker 1: produced thousands of rules that diverge from congressional intent. Constitutionalists
Speaker 1: have long disputed the legality of those actions, but over
Speaker 1: time even most critics succumb to the status quo. See
Speaker 1: the White House revive that fight audaciously questioning the foundations
Speaker 1: of the DC architecture is remarkable. Trump unveiled the largest
Speaker 1: of the rather the latest zinger this week, detonating what
Speaker 1: the American Actions Forum Daniel Goldbeck labeled a thermonuke de
Speaker 1: regulatory warhead. The President ordered the agency heads to scour
Speaker 1: every regulation and bit of guidance under the remit and
Speaker 1: make lists of those that violate the Constitution, exceed legislative power,
Speaker 1: go beyond the clear words of a statute, or harm
Speaker 1: the national interest. The White House is laying the groundwork
Speaker 1: to declare hundreds of rules null and void on the
Speaker 1: grounds that they were not lawful in the first place.
Speaker 1: Will it get sued, Yes, and the White House knows it.
Speaker 1: The clear hope is to build on recent Supreme Court
Speaker 1: rulings that reign in the bureaucratic state. The thermonuke, followed
Speaker 1: by a separate executive voter, taking aim at agencies that
Speaker 1: Congress created who perform executive functions administer laws, yet left
Speaker 1: free of executive control, they instead report to Congress. These
Speaker 1: congressional minions, now numbering far more than one hundred, populate
Speaker 1: Washington and many flex far bigger regulatory muscle than even
Speaker 1: cabinet departments. They include major agencies like the Federal Communications
Speaker 1: Commissions and the Securities Exchange Commission, in smaller outfits like
Speaker 1: the Election Assistance Commission and the African Development Foundation. Trump
Speaker 1: has ordered independent agencies to submit all proposed regulatory changes
Speaker 1: to the White House for review. Q freak out pair
Speaker 1: this with a separate order this week, drastically reducing the
Speaker 1: function of a handful of smaller independent agencies, as well
Speaker 1: as his recent firing of National Labor Relations Board member
Speaker 1: Gwynn Wilcox despite statutory restrictions on a president's removal authority.
Speaker 1: The White House is actively courting a law suit that
Speaker 1: will ask courts to reconsider nineteen thirty five ruling upholding
Speaker 1: independent agencies. Ms Wilcox has already sued, it's the point
Speaker 1: of doing it. It also wants clarity in Congress's nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy eight law creating Inspectors General congressional watchdogs that sit
Speaker 1: with the executive branch and conduct investigations. This is a
Speaker 1: separation of power's nightmare and issue Trump is raising with
Speaker 1: his decision to fire seventeen inspectors general his first week
Speaker 1: in office. Now the president has the undisputed power to
Speaker 1: remove inspector generals. Mister Trump flouted Congress's rule demanding he
Speaker 1: provided thirty day notice. Eight of those dismissed would have
Speaker 1: sued to be reinstated, what the White House surely expected.
Speaker 1: Watch now to see if Trump also flouts Congressional structures
Speaker 1: as the who he is as to who he is
Speaker 1: allowed to name as replacements. Another fight likely upcoming impoundment
Speaker 1: or the presidential power to decline to spend full amounts
Speaker 1: appropriated by Congress. So far, Trump is simply paused by
Speaker 1: their spending, but he has argued that a nineteen seventies
Speaker 1: law restricting a president's impoundment power is on constitutional, suggesting
Speaker 1: the administration may seek to tee up a lawsuit here too.
Speaker 1: Note that what Trump is doing is very different than
Speaker 1: Barack Obama's practice of just ignoring inconvenient laws or Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's habit of searching through dusty statutes to find some
Speaker 1: contorted rationale for a new exercise of power. This administration
Speaker 1: hope its actions will compel the judiciary to re examine
Speaker 1: the constitutional underpinnings of today's heaving federal infrastructure. Winnorless, the
Speaker 1: effort is long overdue. Vigorous debate over the powers and
Speaker 1: structure of government ought to be a feature of every administration.
Speaker 1: What should worry us isn't that Trump is doing this now,
Speaker 1: but that our drowsy political system considers it an anomaly.
Speaker 1: So keep your popcorn out. The lawsuits have been and
Speaker 1: will continue to be filed, and she's right on par
Speaker 1: on point, and Trump is right in terms of this strategy.
Speaker 1: There have been a lot of Supreme Court cases pairing
Speaker 1: back the ability of the regulatory branch that's behind the
Speaker 1: actual structure of government, the three divisions of government, the
Speaker 1: regulatory state. Hopefully we'll get the Rains Act in any
Speaker 1: regulation that costs the American public more than one hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars must be specifically approved by Congress. We got
Speaker 1: the West Virginia versus EPA case which said no, a
Speaker 1: tablespoon of water effectively is not a navigable body of water.
Speaker 1: You exceeded your regulatory authority under I think it was
Speaker 1: the Clean Water Act. There's just one after another, pairing
Speaker 1: it back and providing a constitutional slash legal challenge that
Speaker 1: Trump is intentionally inviting right now through his actions. So
Speaker 1: hopefully these efforts will bear fruit. Six sixteen fifty five
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Speaker 1: Super happy, very very very happy Friday, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: run a celebratory dinner tonight. My daughter's fiance, Eric turned
Speaker 1: thirty yesterday, so happy birthday, Eric. He's a good kid.
Speaker 1: We're happy that those two are getting married. Anyway, Uh,
Speaker 1: I asked you to quip a Plague Update theme song,
Speaker 1: but it's unnecessary since I'm gonna do it anyway. Joe
Speaker 1: and we have to do the David Bowie song at
Speaker 1: that point on Fridays anyhow. But this is kind of
Speaker 1: frightening thing, and you know it's coming on the heels
Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen and all the insanity that we were
Speaker 1: that that brought about. You remember that US Department of
Speaker 1: Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service announced earlier this week
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, that the avian flu aka H five and
Speaker 1: one has been detected in rats in California. Black rats
Speaker 1: found to have this highly contagious bird flu. Apparently they
Speaker 1: discovered in late January and Riverside County, California, which they
Speaker 1: had two recent poultry outbreaks. Makes you think the rats
Speaker 1: may have been eaten the chickens, don't know. Agency update
Speaker 1: released this week knows that did H five N one
Speaker 1: detection in a fox in North Dakota, a harbor seal
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts, a bobcat in Washington State. And here's a
Speaker 1: frightening one from my cat loving people out there. Eric
Speaker 1: domestic cats in Oregon and Montana. USDA said and Steve
Speaker 1: and all those several oppositions supporting highly pathogenic avian influenza
Speaker 1: were notified the terminations over the weekend. We were working
Speaker 1: to swiftly rectify the situation and restind those letters. Yep,
Speaker 1: USDA had removed. USDA had removed and to rehire the
Speaker 1: critical staff who worked on the avian flu area. So
Speaker 1: that was one of those perhaps ready fire aim kind
Speaker 1: of things from the Trump administration. Hey, we're firing all
Speaker 1: of you, and oh my god, by the way, maybe
Speaker 1: we're bringing you back because we still have an ever
Speaker 1: growing increasing amount of av and flu floating around out there.
Speaker 1: According to Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska, speaking with
Speaker 1: the AP, while President Trump is fulfilling his promise to
Speaker 1: shed light on waste fraud abuse, and government does needs
Speaker 1: to measure twice and cut once. Downsizing decisions must be
Speaker 1: narrowly tailored to preserve the critical missions. Which is kind
Speaker 1: of funny because I was having a conversation along these
Speaker 1: lines with my sister yesterday, who is a little miffed
Speaker 1: at just the outright wholesale firing of thousands and thousands
Speaker 1: of people, believing the administration did engage in a ready
Speaker 1: fire aim process. I'll let you draw your own conclusions
Speaker 1: on that. But we do have an overly outsized government.
Speaker 1: Let's see, since the latest outbreak of bird flu back
Speaker 1: in nineteen or in twenty twenty two, one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty million birds have been euthanized, and since most of
Speaker 1: them were chickens, you know why your egg prices are high.
Speaker 1: And I always tried to kind of bite my tongue
Speaker 1: with the Biden administration and can connecting that to the
Speaker 1: bird or to the egg prices which went up throughout
Speaker 1: the Biden administration. Yes, they were responsible for a large
Speaker 1: measure of inflation, but they had nothing to do at
Speaker 1: least I don't believe in the conspiracy that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: unleashed bird flu on the world. But egg prices have
Speaker 1: gone up over five bucks a dozen in a lot
Speaker 1: of areas of the state. So now they deal with
Speaker 1: bird flu by killing all the birds?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Are we going to go out and just just wholesale
Speaker 1: kill literally every moving eacher now that is capable of
Speaker 1: getting bird FLUU and you know chapter two human bird flu,
Speaker 1: And from all accounts, it really isn't that severe. You
Speaker 1: get red, watery eyes, it's almost like kind of a cold.
Speaker 1: So are we gonna have a massive overreaction to this
Speaker 1: like you do with COVID? I hope not. Part of
Speaker 1: me thinks that you know if there is an effort
Speaker 1: to engage in one of these massive overreactions that the
Speaker 1: general public having been lied to about COVID nineteen, most
Speaker 1: notably the COVID vaccine, which early on we were told
Speaker 1: absolutely prevented you from getting it and spreading it. That
Speaker 1: was a lie and they knew it then. Doctor Deborah
Speaker 1: bricks On Burks, rather was a White House Coordinator Response
Speaker 1: coordinator under President Trump, admitted during a recent appearance on
Speaker 1: Piers Morgan that the government did in fact lie to us,
Speaker 1: and that early treatment would have been the key to it.
Speaker 1: Not a vaccine. They pushed the vaccine down on a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of people who were not supposed to get it. Fact,
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty two, Jim Jordan was talking with her.
Speaker 1: He said, when the government told us the vaccination couldn't
Speaker 1: transmit COVID, was that a lie or a guess? Doctor burks,
Speaker 1: I think it was hope that the vaccine would work
Speaker 1: in that way. Hmm. Now apparently she's claiming the vaccine
Speaker 1: rollout also ignored science. She stated that the mRNA jab
Speaker 1: was developed to target those at high risk of severe illness,
Speaker 1: not specifically the general population. Quote the messenger, RNA vaccine
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Speaker 1: a week, regular listeners, No, it's Tech Friday time. Dave
Speaker 1: had it brought to you by Interest I T which
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Speaker 1: and business computing problems and needs are the things that
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Speaker 1: always appreciate coming on the program.
Speaker 3: Always my pleasure to be here, Brian look forward to
Speaker 3: it every week.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that too time to delete the most invasive
Speaker 1: apps on your phone, suggesting we all are invasive to
Speaker 1: some degree. You've ided the most invasive one. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I encourage people to go see this from
Speaker 3: solf PC magazine. Put this together based on research from
Speaker 3: a guy who does this sort of thing. And the
Speaker 3: reason why I encourage people to look at it and
Speaker 3: I'll put it in my notes with the link is
Speaker 3: they break down categories. So yeah, I agree with you, Bryan.
Speaker 3: All apps are collecting some data, and you know, all
Speaker 3: all apps need to collect a certain amount of data
Speaker 3: to perform whatever service it is they perform for you.
Speaker 3: The problem is so many of these things collect a
Speaker 3: lot more data that really has no benefit to you,
Speaker 3: but lots of benefit to these companies. As a reminder,
Speaker 3: if an app is free, an app, software platform, whatever
Speaker 3: whatever you want to call it is free, it's because
Speaker 3: you are the product, not the customers. So this guy
Speaker 3: broke this down into categories. Percent of personal data shared
Speaker 3: with third parties, percent of personal data collected for developers,
Speaker 3: advertising or marketing, percent of personal data collected for analytics,
Speaker 3: percent of personal data collected for product personalization, percent of
Speaker 3: personal data collected for app functionality and percent of personal
Speaker 3: data collected for quote other purposes unquote. Now some of
Speaker 3: these categories. You know, percent of data collected for analytics. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's understandable. They need that to figure out does the
Speaker 3: thing work? How could they improve it? You know, percent
Speaker 3: collected for product personalization. Again, that's helping you in theory, right,
Speaker 3: They're making the product more personalized to you based on
Speaker 3: that data. Data collected for app functionality. Okay, Again, it's
Speaker 3: required for the app to provide the service to you.
Speaker 3: I get it. But personal data shared with third parties
Speaker 3: is disturbing, you know, advertising, our marketing. That's how they're
Speaker 3: making their money, and as is selling it to third parties.
Speaker 3: But collected for other purposes, well, what is that?
Speaker 1: Well? I love these I love these two sentences back
Speaker 1: to back. For example, why would a calendar app need
Speaker 1: access to the health data on your phone? Why would
Speaker 1: a calculator require your list of contact? That's the nefarious
Speaker 1: elements going on behind the scene with all these apps.
Speaker 1: You give them permissions and they just go scoop everything up.
Speaker 3: Yes, because it's in their interest and that's how they're
Speaker 3: making their money. And you know in general, Brian, the
Speaker 3: less apps you have, the better off you'll be. On
Speaker 3: my Apple phone, I have some work related stuff that
Speaker 3: I need for interust and other than that and the
Speaker 3: apps that came on my phone, I have virtually nothing
Speaker 3: and almost nothing on this list except LinkedIn because I
Speaker 3: use it for work. But when you look at this list,
Speaker 3: it's all the players you and I have been talking
Speaker 3: about now for ten plus years. Number one Facebook, Slash, Messenger,
Speaker 3: and Instagram threads all meta platforms. Sixty eight point six
Speaker 3: percent of your data is shared with third parties, seventy
Speaker 3: one point four percent collected for other purposes, sixty eight
Speaker 3: point six percent collected for advertising or marketing. You know,
Speaker 3: Google makes many entries in this list. LinkedIn didn't make
Speaker 3: it at number two thirty seven point one percent, so
Speaker 3: roughly half of what the Facebook platforms are collecting. And
Speaker 3: as a reminder, Microsoft owns LinkedIn that that does not
Speaker 3: eschew any responsibility or and I'm not saying that makes
Speaker 3: them better. I just like to remind people in general,
Speaker 3: Microsoft is less in the business of selling your data
Speaker 3: and more in the business of selling you software products
Speaker 3: Like Apple right, they're in the business of selling you
Speaker 3: hardware and software and not your data. I'm not saying
Speaker 3: they don't collect it. I'm not saying they might not
Speaker 3: sell it, and I'm not saying that couldn't change, saying
Speaker 3: their business model is different than these companies like Meta
Speaker 3: the parent of Facebook, or Alphabet the patent of Google,
Speaker 3: where almost their entire business model relies on collecting your data.
Speaker 3: And then, going back to your comment, quoting from this article,
Speaker 3: you know you have apps on here like Candy Crush
Speaker 3: and Roadblocks, and Roadblocks is essentially a kids game. I mean,
Speaker 3: adults play it, but it's really a kids game Candy Crush. Now,
Speaker 3: they also are collecting a lot less data relative to
Speaker 3: some of the other Hoover type apps on here. But
Speaker 3: you know, again, why does why does a calculator need
Speaker 3: to know your location? It doesn't to just perform math functions. Right,
Speaker 3: So the big takeaway, in my opinion, Brian, people should
Speaker 3: look at this again, Google Maps, Google, Amazon, Prime Video, YouTube.
Speaker 3: There's lots of very very common apps, probably almost everyone
Speaker 3: you're listening and interfaces with. And the three takeaways I
Speaker 3: would say are less apps is better if a product, service, platform,
Speaker 3: whatever has a web based version like Facebook. Right started
Speaker 3: out as a web based thing and then they built
Speaker 3: an app for it, And frankly, it's because the app,
Speaker 3: you know, is more convenient for people in some ways,
Speaker 3: and it definitely can collect a lot more data anything
Speaker 3: that you can use through a browser. If you have
Speaker 3: a privacy friendly browser like Brave or Firefox, and you
Speaker 3: have a VPN and you lock that down, the amount
Speaker 3: of information they can collect about you is nominal at
Speaker 3: best unless you explicitly give it to them. So most
Speaker 3: of these things on here you can use a browser
Speaker 3: and then finally, you know, read the privacy label and
Speaker 3: then decide for yourself does it make sense to use
Speaker 3: an app that's collecting all this data?
Speaker 1: Make an informed decision, which is why we have you, Dave,
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Speaker 1: find online at interest it dot com. Well, this comes
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Speaker 1: to national security and privacy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, big chaka, right. So this actually is an op
Speaker 3: ed I wrote that got picked up by some local
Speaker 3: papers just worrying about I mean, all modern cars are
Speaker 3: basically rolling, rolling surveillance devices.
Speaker 1: Ye, thank you.
Speaker 3: And I've talked about this before Mozilla. I encourage people
Speaker 3: to check this out on any number of things. Mozilla,
Speaker 3: the people that make the Firefox browser, have a website
Speaker 3: called Privacy Not Included. It's a valuable place to go
Speaker 3: to learn about anything you might be thinking about buying. Now,
Speaker 3: obviously they don't know everything about every product on the planet,
Speaker 3: but they have a very large catalog of things they've
Speaker 3: looked into. So, you know, any sort of Internet of
Speaker 3: Things device you might be thinking about, good place to
Speaker 3: take a look at that and to try to focus
Speaker 3: on the vendors that are making more privacy your things.
Speaker 3: And I bring that up again because they did a
Speaker 3: large expose on modern cars and the amount of information
Speaker 3: they're collecting. You know, they're full of computers, they're collecting
Speaker 3: all kinds of data and kind of like that last
Speaker 3: story we did Brian, where you know, people are these
Speaker 3: companies are collecting information in some cases for your benefit
Speaker 3: and in some cases to provide the service. In other cases,
Speaker 3: and in most cases it's for their benefit. So these
Speaker 3: modern cars, they have microphones, they have cameras, they have
Speaker 3: all kinds of sensors. They're collecting all kinds of information
Speaker 3: that I would argue to you as the owner of
Speaker 3: the car, And even that I would question, are you
Speaker 3: even really the owner of a car now? Because you
Speaker 3: can't really fix it or do anything to it. But anyway,
Speaker 3: it's kind of wild. And now when you throw into
Speaker 3: the mix, and you know, we see this over and
Speaker 3: over again. DHS has recently warned about surveillance cameras made
Speaker 3: in China if you're buying products. And I hate this
Speaker 3: because this is it's not about the people of China.
Speaker 3: It's not about not liking the Chinese people. It's all
Speaker 3: about the Chinese card.
Speaker 1: Yes, accuse you of racism because you're upset about the
Speaker 1: Chinese Commune Party whover that data.
Speaker 3: It's their government, right, it's the government. It's the problem.
Speaker 3: They're increasingly adversarial with us, and with these cars coming
Speaker 3: from China controlled by the People's Republic of China, they're
Speaker 3: full of sensors, they're collecting all kinds of data, just
Speaker 3: like the non Chinese cars. But the issue is, you know,
Speaker 3: you have an adversarial country. They have actual laws, you
Speaker 3: can look them up in China, but say, any Chinese
Speaker 3: company must turn over any information that the government wants
Speaker 3: anytime they want it. But this is so much more
Speaker 3: than the data. It's the same argument with TikTok. Yes,
Speaker 3: the data is bad. You know, once you connect your
Speaker 3: phone to the infotainment center in your car, can all
Speaker 3: of your contacts, your texts, everything off that phone, just
Speaker 3: like with TikTok, go back to China through the car manufacturer. Well,
Speaker 3: yes it could. But the more important thing is can
Speaker 3: these devices then basically be rolling surveillance tools for China.
Speaker 3: It's well documented that during the Russian Ukraine War, Russia
Speaker 3: was hacking surveillance cameras, webcams, whatever you want to call them,
Speaker 3: and then using them to target things in Ukraine because
Speaker 3: they're cheap, crappy Internet of Things, dumpster fires like so
Speaker 3: much of this stuff. Is it feasible that while you're
Speaker 3: driving around in your PRC controlled car, it's collecting surveillance
Speaker 3: that in the event of a hot war they would
Speaker 3: use against us. Yes, that is very feasible. But even
Speaker 3: worse because the car is all computerized, it's all digital,
Speaker 3: could have back doors in the software that would eventually
Speaker 3: allow them to send commands to the car and then
Speaker 3: in self driving mode, it would become a weapon. Yes,
Speaker 3: that is absolutely within the realm of possibility. They could
Speaker 3: at five o'clock on a Friday, at rush hour, decide
Speaker 3: every model of car X. Now, again this isn't exclusive
Speaker 3: to Chinese evs. Any car that has self driving mode
Speaker 3: could theoretically be hacked like this. But when you have
Speaker 3: an adversarial nation, they're you know, crashing ships over near Taiwan,
Speaker 3: They're doing all kinds of stuff. They've you know, there's
Speaker 3: it's well documented and you've had FBI DA chest says
Speaker 3: a warning about infiltration in our telecom networks, infiltration and
Speaker 3: our critical infrastructure. Could they turn these you know, these
Speaker 3: cars are very heavy, They're full of all kinds of
Speaker 3: toxic chemicals in these batteries. If a if a six
Speaker 3: thousand pound rolling missile were to suddenly accelerate to one
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty miles an hour and run into the
Speaker 3: local duke substation, What do you think would happen? So again,
Speaker 3: I yeah, I know a lot of this sounds far
Speaker 3: if fetched to people, or where to roll into like
Speaker 3: a gas refinding plant or whatever. Pick whatever local target
Speaker 3: that could cause chaos, bring the grid down, disrupt this
Speaker 3: supply chain. That's where we're at with this stuff. Now again,
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that a foreign adversary couldn't do similar
Speaker 3: things to cars that aren't coming from China, But I'm
Speaker 3: saying by buying chot cars controlled by the People's Republic
Speaker 3: of China, you literally could be putting actual surveillance devices
Speaker 3: and weapons on our streets. So yeah, we need to
Speaker 3: take a strong, long stance against this. It's just a
Speaker 3: bad idea and people should not be buying these things.
Speaker 1: I agree completely. And you know, it makes someone who
Speaker 1: doesn't like laws on the books all the time, for
Speaker 1: every little problem that we encounter, makes me think that
Speaker 1: we should not allow the Chinese Communist Party controlled countries
Speaker 1: vehicles to come into our country. For all of these
Speaker 1: reasons and so many more, it represents a security threat
Speaker 1: to the United States of America period.
Speaker 3: It really does. As crazy as that may sound to people,
Speaker 3: And you know, again, I'll link to opbed. I encourage
Speaker 3: people to go read it, share it, share it with
Speaker 3: your elected officials. I think the more people that understand
Speaker 3: this and I can do some research and see the
Speaker 3: risks for themselves, will realize while like you, I'm generally
Speaker 3: against regulation, this is such a potential threat. We just
Speaker 3: we need to not allow this.
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Speaker 3: Unfortunately a R Brian. This was a story that was
Speaker 3: reported on I mean, this has happened here, it's made
Speaker 3: the local media many times, but this was a story
Speaker 3: from w x y Z and Detroit, and they have
Speaker 3: video of a guy actually placing a card skimmer in
Speaker 3: a store. It's interesting. He kind of distracts the clerk
Speaker 3: he's paying with cash, and you watch him kind of
Speaker 3: manipulate the point of sales system there. And you know,
Speaker 3: the problem with so much of this technology now is
Speaker 3: is as it wrapped up the advances, it gets smaller
Speaker 3: and more capable. And you know, in the old days,
Speaker 3: one of the red flags for a skimmer on a
Speaker 3: device would be they'd have to mess with the aperture
Speaker 3: where the card goes in, right, So sometimes it might
Speaker 3: have an overlay over it, or it would look a
Speaker 3: little different, or it would be loose. And almost all
Speaker 3: of that stuff is no longer relevant because so many
Speaker 3: of these things are basically about the size of a
Speaker 3: credit card themselves, maybe smaller. They drop them inside the
Speaker 3: device that doesn't really require any sort of manipulation of
Speaker 3: the device itself. There's no extra thing sitting over the
Speaker 3: top of it. It doesn't look funny, it's not loose.
Speaker 3: It's down inside the device. So when you put your
Speaker 3: card in there, it can read that mag stripe. So yeah,
Speaker 3: unfortunately now you know that's not always the case. But
Speaker 3: the bottom line is these continue to get smaller, they're
Speaker 3: easier to plant, and that the old school look like.
Speaker 3: I can tell you before I put my credit card
Speaker 3: in any device, I touch it, I try to move
Speaker 3: it around, is it loose? Does it feel like it's
Speaker 3: been manipulated in any way? And if so, I'm going
Speaker 3: to use a different device. But now because these things
Speaker 3: can go inside, it's much more difficult to know if
Speaker 3: there is a skill.
Speaker 1: This seems to me to be most concerning when you're
Speaker 1: using your debit card, because it's going to record your
Speaker 1: pin number and they can empty your bank account out
Speaker 1: of a moment. In a moment's notice, if you use
Speaker 1: a credit card, is my recollection of the uniform commercial code.
Speaker 1: You are only liable for fifty dollars if a fraudulent
Speaker 1: transaction is made on your card, So you can unring
Speaker 1: that bell by flagging that fraudulent transaction and having the
Speaker 1: credit card go and claw the money back, but at
Speaker 1: least your captain in terms of liability. So stealing a
Speaker 1: credit card number, you know, I've had that happen before.
Speaker 1: I've lost credit cards. He just asked for a new one.
Speaker 1: And you just look at your transaction list to see
Speaker 1: if there's any fraudulent transactions and you go on your
Speaker 1: merry way. But if you get got your pin, you're screwed.
Speaker 3: If you if you, I think there's like a time
Speaker 3: limit on that. You're right about the fifty dollars limit.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that, but I think there's a time limit
Speaker 3: in which you have to report it for that cap
Speaker 3: to kick in. But either way, yeah, I agree with
Speaker 3: what you're saying. Essentially, it's better to use a credit
Speaker 3: card than a debit card because you're letting you have
Speaker 3: less exposure. But as a societal thing, you know that money,
Speaker 3: you know that that's stolen money. Somebody's paying for it,
Speaker 3: and it's ultimately us in the end with higher prices,
Speaker 3: higher insurance costs, et cetera. And you know, bottom bottom
Speaker 3: line I think really is you know, you should still
Speaker 3: physically inspect a device before you put your card in there.
Speaker 3: I also suggest that you try to use the point
Speaker 3: of sale systems, whether it's a gas pump or in
Speaker 3: a store or whatever, in the most highly trafficked places
Speaker 3: where it's harder for them to manipulate it. You know,
Speaker 3: if you're at a gas pump right by the clerk
Speaker 3: where there's a lot of foot traffic, it's going to
Speaker 3: be harder to manipulate that than it with the one
Speaker 3: that's the furthest away and the most difficult to see,
Speaker 3: you know, same in a store, So keep that in mind.
Speaker 3: And then also things like tap to pay, which uses
Speaker 3: near field communication. Now I'm not saying there's none skimmer
Speaker 3: out there that can't read that too, Brian, I'm just
Speaker 3: saying your average skimmer is trying to read the mag
Speaker 3: strip on the back of the credit card, you know,
Speaker 3: So tap to pay, Apple, pay, Venmo, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Although I don't use Venmo or any of those services,
Speaker 3: they have their own set of problems and no consumer protection.
Speaker 3: You know, there are more secure ways, or go old school,
Speaker 3: which I know you're a subscriber to pay if you
Speaker 3: don't have any of these problems, good old cash.
Speaker 1: That's my default method of paying has been paying in cash.
Speaker 1: It served me well over the years. At least I
Speaker 1: think it has.
Speaker 3: Its keep you out of trouble, yeah, a lot less tracking.
Speaker 1: It keeps you out of trouble along the lines of
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, but it also keeps you out
Speaker 1: of financial trouble because if you don't have the money right,
Speaker 1: it'll prevent them from making a stupid mistake like an
Speaker 1: impulse by Oh my god, there's that perse I love
Speaker 1: so much. It's only five thousand dollars or whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to put another credit card bill
Speaker 1: that you won't be able to pay off at the
Speaker 1: end of the month, So period, end of story. That's
Speaker 1: it's a prudent way of going about life, at least
Speaker 1: from my perspective.
Speaker 3: And if I could just start out there real quick,
Speaker 3: I'm going to be speaking on the twenty six for
Speaker 3: the Circuit with a friend of mine, Adam Evans from
Speaker 3: Densmore Shall We're going to be talking about how to
Speaker 3: changing privacy laws are affecting it departments and just privacy
Speaker 3: in general. So eight thirty to ten, twenty six, look
Speaker 3: up the circuit. I'll post it in my notes. Hope
Speaker 3: to see some listeners there.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you doing that. Those are always very informative discussions
Speaker 1: you have there, Dave, Dave, look forward to next Friday already.
Speaker 1: Thanks for everything you do for my listeners and me,
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Speaker 1: to the race against Greg Landsman. And one of the
Speaker 1: most disappointing things in the November election for me was
Speaker 1: that Greg Landsman prevailed. I just could not believe that
Speaker 1: you are such a superior person. Your background, your quality
Speaker 1: of your character, your service to our country, your experience.
Speaker 1: I thought you would have brought so much of that seat.
Speaker 1: And there we go. We got Greg Landsman, Gang of
Speaker 1: five Landsman in the role, and by all accounts he's
Speaker 1: keeping his head down and not really doing anything.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, like we always I think thoughts throughout
Speaker 7: the race, right, Brian, is that we weren't going against
Speaker 7: necessarily our opponent. We were going against the index, specifically
Speaker 7: in Hamilton County, in the city. So but we put
Speaker 7: it all out in the field. I could not have
Speaker 7: been more proud of the work that the team put
Speaker 7: in and all the volunteers and all the support. But
Speaker 7: we keep up the fight, We keep up the fight
Speaker 7: moving forward.
Speaker 1: Well, it hasn't taken the wind out of your sales,
Speaker 1: I hope are you still considering something down the road
Speaker 1: by way of elected office.
Speaker 7: Well, look, Brian, what I say is this is that
Speaker 7: for the current moment, I'm fully committed to the great
Speaker 7: work that we're doing at the Hamilton County Veteran Service Commission. Yeah,
Speaker 7: what greater honor and mission to help support and serve
Speaker 7: those who have served our country. And in Hamilton County
Speaker 7: with over forty thousand veterans, third largest county in Ohio
Speaker 7: with by veteran population, we're doing good work at the
Speaker 7: present time. I'm fully committed to it.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that, And what better person to
Speaker 1: be in that role than you, who also probably served
Speaker 1: your country. West Point graduate you were, and you know
Speaker 1: your time in the service, I know is valuable to you,
Speaker 1: and you learned a lot have the knowledge and experience
Speaker 1: for that role because you understand what it is to
Speaker 1: have served your country, which is I think it's a
Speaker 1: necessary element to take that job.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's what we're seeing right in our country
Speaker 7: today is just this desperate need for a focus on
Speaker 7: not just supporting those that have served, but for supporting
Speaker 7: those that are currently serving. And so I believe I'm
Speaker 7: just as much in the fight as anyone else that's
Speaker 7: looking to again, whether it's revitalizing our military or just
Speaker 7: showing that we are a country that supports those service
Speaker 7: men and women that have sacrificed so much. It truly
Speaker 7: is an honor, not just for me, but for my
Speaker 7: wife as well as you know, Brian. She served her
Speaker 7: country proudly, and I think the future is bright for
Speaker 7: our country with the way that our military is again
Speaker 7: being prioritized.
Speaker 1: Well, see another reason you're happy you went to West
Speaker 1: Point because that's where you met her, as I met
Speaker 1: my wife in law school. Probably the best part about
Speaker 1: going to law school is I got her out of
Speaker 1: the thing. I mean, I got a law degree and
Speaker 1: I practiced. But you know there there are there are priorities.
Speaker 1: So you got that.
Speaker 6: That's just like just like me.
Speaker 7: Your wife also outranks you.
Speaker 1: I know, we have to keep it that way to
Speaker 1: that well, see we get okay, we you and I
Speaker 1: both know you experience in Hamilton County's gone blue. I mean,
Speaker 1: damn it. We lost the prosecutor's office to Connie Pillach,
Speaker 1: who was out in front of TESLA protesting to the
Speaker 1: DOJE efforts to get rid of the size and scope
Speaker 1: of government. When she promised right after being elected she's
Speaker 1: going to keep politics out of it. I guess she
Speaker 1: forgot that pledge anyway. But no recognizing what's going on.
Speaker 1: And I have seen a lot of polls. Trump's popularity
Speaker 1: story is pretty high, and people are thoroughly appalled and
Speaker 1: upset about what we are learning and how and and
Speaker 1: and the revelations about where our hard earned taxpayers have
Speaker 1: been spent. And I find it posterous that the Democrats
Speaker 1: are at their screaming, bloody murder trying to defend programs
Speaker 1: like you know, circumcisions in Mozambique or whatever. I mean,
Speaker 1: we have something that's completely out of control. These policies
Speaker 1: and programs are indefensible, and I have to imagine a
Speaker 1: lot of the Democrat voters in Hamilton County probably feel
Speaker 1: the same way. It's one of the reasons, you know,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump on his pledges when he was running for
Speaker 1: presidents to do exactly this made a lot of inroads
Speaker 1: into the Black community, the Hispanic community. Obviously, immigration had
Speaker 1: a large thing to do with that because it's impacting
Speaker 1: the black and Hispanic communities also. So do you think
Speaker 1: do you hold out any hope that we could write
Speaker 1: the ship that is Hamilton County right now down the
Speaker 1: road orlanda.
Speaker 7: Well, I'll say this is that this past selection, Brian
Speaker 7: is it was truly a turning point for our country
Speaker 7: where people from all across communities and you speak of,
Speaker 7: you know, just urban communities that have typically voted one
Speaker 7: way for decades, really saw that this was the year
Speaker 7: where we needed to write the ship. And specifically when
Speaker 7: it comes to overbloated government, the fraud, waste and abuse
Speaker 7: that we see across the entire federal government. Americans were
Speaker 7: sick and tired of it. And for those that are
Speaker 7: quote unquote upset with the way that the president the
Speaker 7: administration has been operating in trying to cut down the fraud, waste,
Speaker 7: and abuse in just his first month in office. This
Speaker 7: is what he ran on to your point, Brian, he
Speaker 7: ran on this campaign for two plus years. Everyone knew
Speaker 7: that that was his mission. He was going to do
Speaker 7: what no other president has done in the modern era,
Speaker 7: and that was actually go in there into the belly
Speaker 7: of the beast and cut whether it's deregulation or cut
Speaker 7: federal spending. I mean the things that we uncovered with
Speaker 7: the millions of dollars that have gone into programs. You
Speaker 7: mentioned some of them, but I mean Sesame Street in Iraq,
Speaker 7: a tune of twenty million dollars. You know, the waste
Speaker 7: it's created, this federal government that people were sick and
Speaker 7: tired of, that Americans were paying for, hard working taxpayers.
Speaker 6: Were paying for.
Speaker 7: So, you know, do I have sympathy for those that
Speaker 7: don't necessarily like the way that he's operating. The answer
Speaker 7: is no, because this is the way that he was
Speaker 7: running on and for the millions of voters that voted
Speaker 7: to elect him into office. We put him there the
Speaker 7: American people overwhelmingly put him there. And the thing that
Speaker 7: I will say is allow the president to do his
Speaker 7: job to literally enact the policies that he ran on.
Speaker 7: That Brian is democracy, indeed is a threat to democracy,
Speaker 7: you know, is these unelected career bureaucrats that hide behind
Speaker 7: civil servant status thinking that they answer to no one
Speaker 7: and are completely unchecked. It's not the way that our
Speaker 7: founding fathers intended. What they intended was that one person
Speaker 7: would run to get all the votes, hopefully a majority
Speaker 7: of the votes across America. They would run on platforms,
Speaker 7: they'd be able to be elected as president of the
Speaker 7: United States, choose the people by advice and consent of
Speaker 7: the Senate to carry out the mission. And that's exactly
Speaker 7: what we're seeing now.
Speaker 1: Yes we are, and it's refreshing alternative for other prior presidents,
Speaker 1: including Clinton, Obama, and Biden, who also promised to get
Speaker 1: rid of fraud, waste, and abuse in government. They're on tape,
Speaker 1: they're on record, there's YouTube videos out there with all
Speaker 1: their comments along the same lines. They promised to do
Speaker 1: the same thing, yet they didn't deliver. The government just
Speaker 1: merely got bigger and the regulatory environment just got more
Speaker 1: difficult to deal with and navigate, and had they delivered
Speaker 1: on the promises, I just kind of scratched my head
Speaker 1: and kind of wonder theoretically if the Democrats would be
Speaker 1: screaming and yelling about if their Democrat president had the efforts.
Speaker 7: Right right, I mean at the end of the day. Again, Uh,
Speaker 7: there's there's growing pains right now because it's one thing
Speaker 7: to say it on the campaign trail, and it really
Speaker 7: doesn't matter what party the presidential candidates running on. We've
Speaker 7: seen it on both sides to your point, Brian. We've
Speaker 7: seen candidates on both sides say that they would go
Speaker 7: in there and they would cut waste, they would cut
Speaker 7: fraud abuse, they would shrink the size of government. But
Speaker 7: no one's actually done it to the extent that President
Speaker 7: Trump is doing right now. He my gosh, we are
Speaker 7: He hit the one month mark yesterday of being the
Speaker 7: forty seventh president the United States, and the amount of
Speaker 7: money that we're already uncovering that are being saved for
Speaker 7: the American people. It's just astounding, and no one the
Speaker 7: only surprise that people should have is the speed at
Speaker 7: which he's doing it, and the people that he has
Speaker 7: apt to lead. These government agencies are committed to the
Speaker 7: mission that they are there to, yes, serve the best
Speaker 7: interests of the American people.
Speaker 6: But guess what.
Speaker 7: They are not there to make overbloated government bigger. They're
Speaker 7: there to shrink the size of government.
Speaker 6: And here's the.
Speaker 7: Word that you know has gotten a lot of flak
Speaker 7: these last few weeks. Efficient, to make federal government more efficient.
Speaker 7: The question that we should be asking is, for any
Speaker 7: of these agencies, whether it's the DOJ, the FBI, energy Treasury,
Speaker 7: can we operate with a more streamlined, efficient federal agency.
Speaker 7: And if the answer is yes, then we should be
Speaker 7: doing everything we can to get there exactly.
Speaker 1: And you know, that's what Elon Musk is really notably
Speaker 1: famous for. I mean, I talk to an author of
Speaker 1: a book about Elon Musk and his business practices. You know,
Speaker 1: he buys Twitter and imediately fires like eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the employees. And yet there it is as acts, it
Speaker 1: still runs, it still works, it doesn't have the limitations
Speaker 1: on free speech. Is a very wildly popular platform that
Speaker 1: apparently didn't need all those extra employees in the first place.
Speaker 1: That author also pointed out that he instructed the folks
Speaker 1: at Tesla to start literally removing every single component product
Speaker 1: in the cars until such point that they wouldn't work
Speaker 1: anymore in order to increase efficiency, weight and keep costs down.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the point of Elon Musk being efficiency
Speaker 1: and getting rid of you know, unnecessary components.
Speaker 6: That's exactly right.
Speaker 7: And you know you mentioned layoffs. You know, that's exactly
Speaker 7: what we would expect for a company that is trying
Speaker 7: to be more efficient, it's trying to go into cost
Speaker 7: saving mode. It's so that for the end user, for
Speaker 7: the end customer, they deliver a better product, better experience
Speaker 7: at a better price.
Speaker 6: For government, what should we expect again, we.
Speaker 7: Should expect a federal government that is the size, no
Speaker 7: bigger than it needs to be in order to deliver
Speaker 7: the same efficient, productive service or product that the American
Speaker 7: citizen should expect. And so for these layoffs, you know,
Speaker 7: again we cannot say, although some do that it's cruel
Speaker 7: that we're seeing, you know, these overnight layoffs of thousands employees.
Speaker 7: Number One, in his first couple weeks, President Trump offered
Speaker 7: a incredible, never heard of deal for federal employees to
Speaker 7: essentially not go back to work and take an amazing
Speaker 7: six plus months before they can early retire and give
Speaker 7: them full benefit, full pay. I mean, that's unheard of.
Speaker 7: If he really wanted to, he would have fired those
Speaker 7: employees on January twentieth, but no, instead he offered a
Speaker 7: great buyout. If you want to retire, you don't want
Speaker 7: to stay while this ship is moved, then by all
Speaker 7: means you know you can leave and will offer you
Speaker 7: a great benefits package for these employees have been laid
Speaker 7: off in the last couple of weeks. They are probationary employees,
Speaker 7: and these employees that have entered into the federal workforce
Speaker 7: know that they are subject to a certain amount of
Speaker 7: time as a probationary employee that I don't know what
Speaker 7: the majority of people expect when they hear the term probationary,
Speaker 7: but working just in government in the past, is probationary
Speaker 7: means that you could be removed at will at any time.
Speaker 7: You serve with the pleasure of the federal government or
Speaker 7: the agency you work for, and if the federal agency
Speaker 7: or the administration views that that is not the most
Speaker 7: efficient means for federal government, then you.
Speaker 6: Could be laid off. You knew that going in and
Speaker 6: the question is that can we operate again with greater
Speaker 6: efficiency with lower workforce. It's not like we are leaving
Speaker 6: these people out to dry. Think about, Brian, the thousands,
Speaker 6: if not hundreds of thousands of jobs that are out there,
Speaker 6: whether it's in the private sector or whether it's in
Speaker 6: state government that these American hardworking, yes, hopefully hardworking American
Speaker 6: citizens now have to find ulterior employment.
Speaker 1: But they're out there.
Speaker 7: You know, we have an abundance of opportunity here. Just
Speaker 7: because they may have worked in federal government for the
Speaker 7: last eighteen months doesn't mean that there's nothing else that
Speaker 7: they can do. Hopefully they picked themselves up by the
Speaker 7: bootstrapsy as we would expect for every American. You get
Speaker 7: out there, you do hard work, it's based on merit,
Speaker 7: and you go ahead and continue to contribute to the
Speaker 7: economy and to the way of life here in America.
Speaker 1: Orlando Sanza, it's just such a pleasure hearing you and
Speaker 1: you're insightful, logical and reasonable comments. I wish you all
Speaker 1: the best, the best of health, love to you and
Speaker 1: your family and your continued success with the Hamilton County
Speaker 1: Veteran Services. I can't thank you enough. My just my
Speaker 1: love for the American veteran is well known to my
Speaker 1: listening audience, and it's wonderful to know if someone like
Speaker 1: you is there helping the veterans out of the Hamilton
Speaker 1: County Veteran Services Commissioned. So we'll be on. We'll talk again.
Speaker 1: You got some development you want to pass along to
Speaker 1: my listeners along those lines, you always have an opportunity
Speaker 1: in a form here on the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
Speaker 6: Brian, thanks so much, my friend, Take care, have a
Speaker 6: great weekend.
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Speaker 1: There. Very happy Forriday to you, and I'd like to
Speaker 1: welcome back and congratulate running for mayor of the City
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati. Got the signatures turned in, They've all been approved.
Speaker 1: He is running for mayor. He is Corey Bowman. Corey,
Speaker 1: good to have you back on the morning show.
Speaker 8: Good to be back, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Did you get a lot of people showing up at
Speaker 1: your coffee shop to sign the petition to get you
Speaker 1: on the ballot.
Speaker 8: It was a combination of a lot of different things
Speaker 8: that brought it all together at the last minute.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of people out there on the
Speaker 1: streets working for you, I hope.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So we had We had many individuals that were just
Speaker 8: very excited about what we were doing. They were going
Speaker 8: door to door, we were going to communities, families. When
Speaker 8: it came down to it the last night, we were
Speaker 8: driving around till midnight gathering whatever we could.
Speaker 1: Well and again they've already certified. You haven't kind of
Speaker 1: Board of Elections to certified the signatures for you. And
Speaker 1: when you're out in about gathering signs to get on
Speaker 1: the ballot, and you're going to have to continue doing this.
Speaker 1: On the campaign trail, people are going to ask you
Speaker 1: questions about what you stand for, what your goals, your motivations,
Speaker 1: and your ideas are for the city. So did you
Speaker 1: hear a lot of or did you get a lot
Speaker 1: of questions along those lines when you're around circulating position.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And honestly, I I'd made a lot of those
Speaker 8: questions myself to the people a lot of times when
Speaker 8: we weren't just you know, paying somebody to get the
Speaker 8: signatures on our behalf, we were actually going out to
Speaker 8: our future voters. And so most of the people that
Speaker 8: we if we had the time to we would ask
Speaker 8: them what are the issues that are important to you?
Speaker 8: And then we would have really great discussions.
Speaker 1: What are you hearing from folks? What are the issues
Speaker 1: that are most important to them?
Speaker 8: I mean, for the most part, if you're downtown, they
Speaker 8: just say, fix the damn potholes.
Speaker 1: My god. One of my favorite pet peeves about the
Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati is just the absolute deteriorating, deteriorating nature
Speaker 1: of the infrastructure. You know, Corey, what they're like, four
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollars worth of project behind. They're
Speaker 1: supposed to do X number of road miles a year
Speaker 1: and repairs, they have the money allocated for it, and
Speaker 1: for some reason or other, it never gets done. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's that should be a motivating factor to run
Speaker 1: for mayor in and of itself.
Speaker 8: Yeah, can you imagine from day one of being elected
Speaker 8: that that's the first thing that we actually do.
Speaker 1: That we said that we were going to do, just
Speaker 1: kind of like Donald Trump. Yeah, they can get a
Speaker 1: lot of people.
Speaker 8: It's you know, we live in a city. There is
Speaker 8: certain key issues that pertain to the residents of our city,
Speaker 8: and so yeah, there's a lot of issues that face
Speaker 8: the country as a whole, and there's a lot of
Speaker 8: broad statements that we could make, but ultimately there's real
Speaker 8: issues that people care about. And you know, if you
Speaker 8: drive over a pothole, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: Whether you're a Democrat or Republican. You're tired getting.
Speaker 1: Flat exactly right, and suppost notably, those neighborhoods that seem
Speaker 1: to be overlooked, you know, for decades, it's as if
Speaker 1: they don't exist, and I don't I don't know how
Speaker 1: in that situation someone could continue to vote for the
Speaker 1: same party that hasn't served their interests for however many
Speaker 1: years we've been going on with this problem, So maybe
Speaker 1: you stand a chance. Did you get a sense of
Speaker 1: you there's a possibility for you, because you know it
Speaker 1: is the city of Cincinnati. You're not running as a Democrat, Corey,
Speaker 1: And I just wonder what your enthusiasm level is after
Speaker 1: going out and about meeting with folks out in the communities.
Speaker 8: My enthusiasm level probably was improved every day that I
Speaker 8: spoke to people. I'll be honest, I mean I had
Speaker 8: no clue whether this was the right decision or not
Speaker 8: when we first made We just knew it had to
Speaker 8: be done. And every morning I would wake up, I'll
Speaker 8: just say, you know, what are you doing, Corey? Why
Speaker 8: are you making this run? And every night I would
Speaker 8: go to bed more encouraged than not because of the
Speaker 8: conversations I had. People are very excited about what we
Speaker 8: stand for. They're very hungry for change in the city.
Speaker 8: And yes, it's gonna be an uphill battle the next
Speaker 8: eight months, but every conversation I had just gave me
Speaker 8: that extra energy that I.
Speaker 6: Needed to keep on going well.
Speaker 1: And I know your jd Vance's half brother, and that
Speaker 1: propelled you sort of the national stage. I mean, there
Speaker 1: was a lot of reporting on major media outlets that
Speaker 1: you were, in fact or you are, in fact running
Speaker 1: for the mayor city of Cincinnati. Do you feel as
Speaker 1: if it's a I mean, it's a benefit for me
Speaker 1: from a publicity standpoint, but you somehow feel maybe you're
Speaker 1: in the shadow of your vice presidential half brother.
Speaker 8: Well, like I said in my post whenever I announced
Speaker 8: it that you know, he's a great role model of mine.
Speaker 8: And when I saw the enthusiasm and the hope and
Speaker 8: the change behind you know, the inauguration weekend, that's what
Speaker 8: inspired me because our hometown can't fall behind these next
Speaker 8: four years. So we're gonna we're gonna work very hard
Speaker 8: the next eight months to go into every district, talk
Speaker 8: to every community. We're going to get the right endorsements,
Speaker 8: We're going to get the right groups behind us. But
Speaker 8: then also I think one of the biggest motivators for
Speaker 8: people to vote for us is going to be this
Speaker 8: upcoming year with the current administration.
Speaker 1: Well, certainly a lot of talking points and different ideas
Speaker 1: are welcomed by a lot of folks across political stripes.
Speaker 1: One of the things I want to ask you when
Speaker 1: we come back, Corey, is about this Connected Communities program,
Speaker 1: because a lot of folks are rebelling against it, and
Speaker 1: it's a program that was pretty much shoved down every
Speaker 1: single neighborhood in the city's throat without their input. Let's
Speaker 1: bring Corey Bowman back. He is running for mayor of
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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman, who is officially a candidate for the mayor
Speaker 1: of the City of Cincinnati, got all the signatures been certified,
Speaker 1: and he's going to hit the ground running. You'll see
Speaker 1: him in neighborhoods. You're planning on it having town halls
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. Corey, You're willing to actually
Speaker 1: meet and talk with the people. I kind of got
Speaker 1: that impression in the last segment.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that's got to be a key thing
Speaker 8: with this campaign. We're definitely going to be doing live
Speaker 8: Q AND's on livestream most likely every week. I'm trying
Speaker 8: to fork out what the best day is for it,
Speaker 8: but then every week we're going to have to hit
Speaker 8: different areas in different districts. My goal would be to
Speaker 8: find the local key businesses in the area. You know,
Speaker 8: we had our first one of our first meetings in
Speaker 8: our downtown coffee shop and it was a great response.
Speaker 8: You know, we had a meeting in price Field Chili.
Speaker 8: So what I want to do is just find these
Speaker 8: key businesses in these districts with the business owners that
Speaker 8: are hurting and really just have these events there and
Speaker 8: hear from.
Speaker 1: People wonderful and by way of background, and I think
Speaker 1: it's important for our listeners to know you, uh, you
Speaker 1: own the King's Arms Coffee Roasters, which we've been mentioned
Speaker 1: a couple of times. You're also a pastor at the
Speaker 1: River Church in Cincinnati. I suppose being a pastor you
Speaker 1: have to regularly communicate with parishioners and spread the message
Speaker 1: and relate and connect to people. Does that is that a?
Speaker 1: Is that that served you well in your efforts thus far?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I joked around because one of the biggest things
Speaker 8: that helped me in politics, unexpectedly was ministry, and partly
Speaker 8: because you deal with people and you're dealing with people's
Speaker 8: opinions and you're talking with people, also because you care
Speaker 8: for people. But then another one is because ministry they'll
Speaker 8: cut your throat at any point in time. So that's
Speaker 8: something that I'm learning about politics as well.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, Now moving over to one of the more
Speaker 1: interesting thing, and I think problematic issues for the City
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati residents is this connected Communities thing that city
Speaker 1: council pass really without any input from the various neighborhoods
Speaker 1: within the City of Cincinnati, requiring you know, changing in
Speaker 1: zoning and dense population in other words, knocking down single
Speaker 1: family homes and putting up higher volume apartments, many of
Speaker 1: which will not have any parking. I know neighborhoods like
Speaker 1: Hyde Park are worried about impacting the community. Where are
Speaker 1: these people are going to park? But it's all a
Speaker 1: design to get people on buses. And I think it's
Speaker 1: really an affront to the single family property owner to
Speaker 1: know that, you know, held next door neighbor could sell
Speaker 1: their house and next thing you know, you're living in
Speaker 1: a next to a ten to twelve unit condomenty or
Speaker 1: rather apartment complex. Where are you on connected communities? Corey?
Speaker 8: Well, when I first heard about these issues, you know,
Speaker 8: I decided we have to hear people's opinions, we have
Speaker 8: to research. So one of the first things that we
Speaker 8: did over the course to find these signatures was we
Speaker 8: went to a town hall meeting that was in bond
Speaker 8: Hill area related to this Connected communities and Sky Johnson,
Speaker 8: count Sky Johnson and Vice Mayor Kearney were there. And
Speaker 8: as we were there, I give it up for the
Speaker 8: councilmen mayor, they were kind of, you know, doing some
Speaker 8: crowd control with the very disgruntled people in the room.
Speaker 8: But a lot of people showed up and you could
Speaker 8: tell that they are very frustrated with how this has
Speaker 8: been brought to the city, and so I was going
Speaker 8: through asking people questions, and I think the biggest thing
Speaker 8: is that if you take the cover sheet on top
Speaker 8: of these connected community policies that most likely were written
Speaker 8: by chat GBT, you would sit there and say, yeah,
Speaker 8: we kind of like bringing communities together, but yeah, we
Speaker 8: like helpless in need, we like bringing business. But it's
Speaker 8: what they're trying to kind of sneak in through these policies,
Speaker 8: and what they're really trying to sneak in through.
Speaker 6: This is exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 8: It's you know, improperly managed affordable housing policies. You're bringing
Speaker 8: in big time developers instead of small time businesses that
Speaker 8: actually want to enhance the properties and want to utilize
Speaker 8: the historic buildings that are there.
Speaker 6: And then you're exactly right.
Speaker 8: They're trying to get it to a point to where
Speaker 8: people have to take the bus, they have to be
Speaker 8: in a multi level apartment, they can't own their own home,
Speaker 8: they can't park anywhere, and this isn't right for certain
Speaker 8: communities to where the historic aspect that like park and
Speaker 8: other areas in our city that's invaluable and connected community
Speaker 8: policies like this are just going to rip that out
Speaker 8: from people.
Speaker 1: Well, and hasn't the city learned anything over the years
Speaker 1: about absentee landlords, which have been a problem and a
Speaker 1: plague on the general Greater Cincinnati area for so long.
Speaker 1: Good properties deteriorate, they're nowhere to be found. When you
Speaker 1: finally try to find them, they change the corporate structure,
Speaker 1: so you have to start all over again in terms
Speaker 1: of any litigation, and you're waging against them. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know that seems to be written on the wall
Speaker 1: or baked into the cake when you got out these
Speaker 1: outside developers building these units.
Speaker 8: Well you know when me and my wife have lived here,
Speaker 8: and well, we lived here, I've been.
Speaker 6: From here my whole life.
Speaker 8: But being downtown for four years with the Church of Business,
Speaker 8: we've had many friends have never visited Cincinnati before, and
Speaker 8: then they come in and they're blown away by the
Speaker 8: historic buildings. They're blown away by the beauty of Dayton
Speaker 8: Street and other areas that have these amazing town homes,
Speaker 8: amazing business fronts. I mean, I mean, my coffee shop
Speaker 8: is in one of these buildings. And when you bring
Speaker 8: in developers and absentee landlords and all these things, it's
Speaker 8: taking away from the beauty and the character of our city.
Speaker 8: And also, I'll be honest with you, We've been in
Speaker 8: the West End and we have many people connected to
Speaker 8: us that are small time business owners. They can only
Speaker 8: flip one property at a time or have one business
Speaker 8: location at a time, and they are hungry to utilize
Speaker 8: these spaces to better the community. But these policies took
Speaker 8: out developers any of these small businesses that really want
Speaker 8: to utilize this. And so, yeah, you have thousands of
Speaker 8: vacant properties, but it's done by the hand of the
Speaker 8: city policies.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, obviously tinkering with other people's neighborhoods
Speaker 1: and individual zoning rules. I just I mean, it's such
Speaker 1: an intrusion into that neighborhood's own rights and freedoms and
Speaker 1: ability to control their own direction that they just passed
Speaker 1: this without going to the various communities and getting input
Speaker 1: and asking if any given neighborhood was in favor of it,
Speaker 1: ever or not. Some of them are, many of them
Speaker 1: are not. Again, I turned back to Hyde Park, and
Speaker 1: I guess the idea is this is going to somehow
Speaker 1: make a housing affordable. I mean, I'm sorry, but I'm
Speaker 1: a little skeptical that any player in Hyde Park, regardless
Speaker 1: of who builds it, it's going to be affordable. Mean,
Speaker 1: lot of people love High Park. It's a beautiful neighborhood.
Speaker 1: It's safe, it's walkable, it's got a lot of businesses
Speaker 1: that you can just walk around, generally speaking. But if
Speaker 1: you build an apartment building there, the apartments are going
Speaker 1: to fetch a pretty high rent. I'm willing to bet anyone.
Speaker 8: Well, even if it does become affordable. This is a
Speaker 8: major issue in our city. Is that for the sake
Speaker 8: of affordable housing or income based housing, what's happening is
Speaker 8: that you have poorly managed policies that are really keeping
Speaker 8: those individuals. Yeah, they might be able to afford it,
Speaker 8: but they'll never be able to afford something higher in
Speaker 8: their lives because the way that they're structuring this, it's
Speaker 8: keeping people in bondage to the system.
Speaker 1: It's a great way of putting it. We can end
Speaker 1: on that note. Corey Bowman, he's got a Facebook page
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman Bowma and beautiful. You got a beautiful wife there,
Speaker 1: so congratulations on out kicking your coverage, my friend, and
Speaker 1: beutiful a beautiful family as well. You got three children,
Speaker 1: is that correct?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we have a fourth on the way to end
Speaker 8: of June early July.
Speaker 1: No, that's beautiful. Well, good luck with all that, and
Speaker 1: thanks for spending time with my listeners me. I know,
Speaker 1: and I hope that you and I will be talking
Speaker 1: a lot between now and the election, and I wish
Speaker 1: you the best of luck. Get the message out there
Speaker 1: and maybe we can transform the city to a better
Speaker 1: place for everyone.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, we're going to do it.
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Speaker 5: of the our news Christopher Pihoda. He is a PhD,
Speaker 5: also formerly with the FBI. Twenty five year FBI special
Speaker 5: agent retired as one of the bureau's eight most senior
Speaker 5: career executives. We're going to get his thoughts and feelings
Speaker 5: about the FBI's organizational change. He's author of the book
Speaker 5: Wanted the FBI I Once Knew, apparently described as an
Speaker 5: inside his view that tells a cautionary tale of how
Speaker 5: the FBI, once was one of the world's highest performing organizations,
Speaker 5: could fall victim to leadership atrophy, cultural erosion, complacency, and
Speaker 5: core mission distraction. Perfect timing to have Christopher on the
Speaker 5: program given the Cash Battel was confirmed in a narrow
Speaker 5: vote fifty one forty nine. Cash Betel is the FBI Director,
Speaker 5: and even Senator Mitch McConnell i think it had previously
Speaker 5: expressed some reservations voted yes. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins,
Speaker 5: of course voted no, which we've come to expect from them.
Speaker 5: But swirling in controversy, Cash Betel got the job, and
Speaker 5: so we can keep our fingers crossed that he can. Well,
Speaker 5: we'll right the ship if I may be so bold
Speaker 5: as to say that, because I have a lot of
Speaker 5: respect for the FBI, but we've learned a lot over
Speaker 5: the Biden administration years in the Obama administration years that
Speaker 5: it does house it does somehow seem to be highly politicized.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and let's not overlook the Trump's first term
Speaker 5: and some of the shenanigans. We'll see what Chris has
Speaker 5: to say about that.
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Speaker 1: that's right, he announced the other day on his birthday.
Speaker 1: I guess he's eighty three. He will not be running
Speaker 1: for reelection in twenty twenty six. Okay, and we'll also
Speaker 1: get Bill O'Reilly's thoughts on cash Betel stick around. Christopher
Speaker 1: Pehota is coming up next.
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Speaker 1: very happy Friday and happy as I can be to
Speaker 1: welcome with the fifty five KRC Morning Show Chris pie Hoode.
Speaker 1: And what an impressive resume Chris is got. He served
Speaker 1: as a chief executive for FBI Science and Technology Programs.
Speaker 1: In his earlier career, he was with the US government
Speaker 1: senior executive service official. Retired from the FBI after twenty
Speaker 1: five years. And I just mentioned part of the FBI
Speaker 1: Science and Technology program he was a one point director
Speaker 1: of the US government twenty four hour Global Terrorist Screening Center,
Speaker 1: also Special Agent in charge of the FBI's Buffalo, New
Speaker 1: York Field office. In his early career, he worked on
Speaker 1: programs and areas regarding counter terrorism, counterintelligence, technical programs, physical
Speaker 1: and informational security, weapons of mass destruction, intelligence collection. I
Speaker 1: could go on, we wouldn't be able to talk about
Speaker 1: his book Wanted the FBI. I once knew how to
Speaker 1: restore faith in the world's premieer long enforcement agency. Chris Pihota,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Morning Show. It's a pleasure to have
Speaker 1: you on.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's a pleasure to be with you this morning.
Speaker 6: And thanks for the opportunity to visit with you and
Speaker 6: your audience.
Speaker 1: Oh and I'm sure they are excited to hear from you.
Speaker 1: And the name of the book I think suggests it
Speaker 1: all how to restore faith, suggesting of course that a
Speaker 1: lot of us have lost faith in the FBI. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to get your impressions where you think it
Speaker 1: went wrong. But as I observe from the notes and information,
Speaker 1: somewhere after September eleventh, that's when the problems kicked in.
Speaker 1: How do you connect September eleventh and how has the
Speaker 1: direction of the FBI deteriorated leading to you writing about
Speaker 1: this in the book Wanted the FBI. I once knew.
Speaker 6: Well after nine to eleven there are some obvious, of course,
Speaker 6: shortfalls that allowed that tragedy to happen. So the FBI
Speaker 6: made a very violent shift in its organizational operations, moving
Speaker 6: from a traditional law enforcement kind of the cops and
Speaker 6: robbers organization that it was into being a national security
Speaker 6: focused intelligence organization domestic security related function that it became.
Speaker 6: And as all things in the government do, they start
Speaker 6: with good intention and then move into other areas of
Speaker 6: mission creep and then a lack of mission focus after
Speaker 6: a while, and what we saw was certain decisions were
Speaker 6: being made that led the FBI to becoming what we
Speaker 6: what I call corporatized. There were a lot of private sector,
Speaker 6: private sector approaches, private sector ideas brought into the FBI
Speaker 6: to change its culture after nine to eleven, and the
Speaker 6: corporatized FBI moved away from the beliefs and values and
Speaker 6: practices that made the FBI legendary leading up to that point. Well,
Speaker 6: I think we threw out the baby with the bathwater.
Speaker 1: Okay, I understand, and I guess you know what I
Speaker 1: I think a traditional FBI, you know, going back to
Speaker 1: you know, the television program and busting people for you know,
Speaker 1: RICO violations, organized crime and all those complex criminal investigations.
Speaker 1: The world has changed dramatically because of the Internet and cybersecurity,
Speaker 1: and you are an expert in cyber operations and security practices.
Speaker 1: Is that part of the challenge the FBI faced in
Speaker 1: this culture shift, dealing with the realities of this wide,
Speaker 1: open and insecure systems that we have.
Speaker 6: It was definitely a challenge. Back when the Internet came
Speaker 6: online very quickly, we found that the Internet enhanced our lives,
Speaker 6: but it also made better bad guys, and it gave
Speaker 6: them better opportunities to attack people from afar, And we
Speaker 6: saw a lot of the traditional criminal activities become enhanced
Speaker 6: and unlimited by geography and other logistics that used to
Speaker 6: limit the criminal activity and effectiveness. So what we found
Speaker 6: also was that the national security threat environment changed with
Speaker 6: the Internet as well when it came to terrorism and
Speaker 6: counterintelligence activities. So the FBI had a lot of searching
Speaker 6: to do when it came to looking at how we're
Speaker 6: going to protect the American people while still upholding the
Speaker 6: constitutional freedoms that our society enjoys. And it was a
Speaker 6: difficult transition.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess it seemed to have become very politicized
Speaker 1: in you know, the the investigations of January sixth, for example,
Speaker 1: it seems to me that the entire resources of all
Speaker 1: the FBI we were turned on every single individual that
Speaker 1: happened to be in the area of the of the
Speaker 1: Capitol building during that riot. It would that have been
Speaker 1: the norm under earlier FBI times, that they would spend
Speaker 1: so much time and effort to go after those folks.
Speaker 6: No, what you saw there was the result of the
Speaker 6: last iteration of SBI leadership allowing their own personal and
Speaker 6: political views to overly influence SBI operational decision making and
Speaker 6: resource allocation. Used to be where the FBI would have
Speaker 6: been very reluctant and almost unwilling to do something like that,
Speaker 6: But we've seen that cultural decline and erosion over time
Speaker 6: where the leadership was either amenable to it or unable
Speaker 6: to resist the maybe the influence of the last administration.
Speaker 1: Well, As a lawyer, I viewed the law as the law.
Speaker 1: You know, as long as it's equally applied, it says
Speaker 1: what it is. There are crimes on the book. You
Speaker 1: go after people regardless of political stride. But is this
Speaker 1: politization that seems to have gone on, is that because
Speaker 1: of the hiring practices. Did they actually seek out and
Speaker 1: seek to hire and hire people who were of a
Speaker 1: particular political mindsets that they would embrace this kind of operation.
Speaker 6: I'm not. I don't think it's the recruitment of new people.
Speaker 6: It was the promotion of people inside the organization who
Speaker 6: showed a guess, you can call it, a likeness to
Speaker 6: the senior leadership's political views. So what you saw was
Speaker 6: all those people of like mind rising into very senior
Speaker 6: and influential positions that then pushed those ideas and practices
Speaker 6: down into the workforce.
Speaker 1: And I suppose a frontline agent who was interested in
Speaker 1: the old school idea of just finding criminals and prosecuting
Speaker 1: bad guys. They were told and instructed by their politicized
Speaker 1: seniors that you do the job that I'm telling you
Speaker 1: to do, and they probably had no say in the matter.
Speaker 6: Then, yeah, you have very little say in what you
Speaker 6: can actually do. You accept direction and order. And this
Speaker 6: is what I tried to explain this somebody the other day.
Speaker 6: If you're given an order or direction that's not illegal
Speaker 6: or unsafe, you know, causing bodily harm, I mean, you're
Speaker 6: you're obligated to do what you're told on a certain level.
Speaker 6: And I said, there's a difference between being an independent
Speaker 6: investigator versus being an insubordinate investigator. So it's a fine
Speaker 6: line you walk, and people will voice their displeasure and
Speaker 6: their disagreement, but ultimately, if it's a lawful, legal order
Speaker 6: that comes from the White House to the Attorney General,
Speaker 6: from the director of the FBI, the folks are going
Speaker 6: to grit their teeth and still do their best to
Speaker 6: you know, conduct a mission and protect the American people.
Speaker 1: And my recollection is the FBI was at least on
Speaker 1: some level involved with and sometimes inside social media suppressing
Speaker 1: speech of the certain viewpoints. Your reaction to that even happening,
Speaker 1: it seems to me to be something that should be
Speaker 1: way beyond and outside of the FBI's job to tell
Speaker 1: people what they can and cannot say on social media
Speaker 1: or direct social media companies to suppress certain types of
Speaker 1: speech or messages.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, there was no there was no place for that.
Speaker 6: I think the relationship that the FBI has with social
Speaker 6: media is a cooperative one to identify potential threats to
Speaker 6: public safety and then work with social media to you know,
Speaker 6: to to put messaging out to people on how they
Speaker 6: can remain safe and then take care of themselves, not
Speaker 6: to suppress speech, not to target certain types of speech,
Speaker 6: whether conservative or liberal, or whatever your your flavor is.
Speaker 6: But the FBI, and it's in its last iteration again,
Speaker 6: allowed its own personal at the leadership level, allowed its
Speaker 6: own personal ideas and beliefs to form some of those
Speaker 6: relationships that were to me unhealthy and took took us
Speaker 6: down a bad path toward that I would call almost
Speaker 6: you know, a certain level of censorship.
Speaker 1: Now, with Cash Mattel being confirmed as the new FBI director,
Speaker 1: your reaction to the confirmation to Cash Hotel generally, and
Speaker 1: do you think he's in a position and can sort
Speaker 1: of right the ship if I can use that term again.
Speaker 6: Sure, Well, first of all, I'd like to offer congratulations
Speaker 6: to Director Patel. I'm glad he made it through the
Speaker 6: confirmation process as he did. I saw it was a
Speaker 6: It was a pretty close vote, but these days, I
Speaker 6: think we received voting on these matters that roll along,
Speaker 6: you know, political lines, So it wasn't unexpected. As far
Speaker 6: as mister Patel's future goes, I think, you know, he's
Speaker 6: the right guy for right now. He has the confidence
Speaker 6: of the Chief Executive and the Attorney General, and I
Speaker 6: think he actually wants to be part of a foundational
Speaker 6: change of the FBI, and he wants to be part
Speaker 6: of that return of the FBI to being that trusted
Speaker 6: and dependable organization that so many people counted on for decades.
Speaker 6: And you know, he wants to return the FBI to
Speaker 6: the trust of the American people. So I think he
Speaker 6: has a good background. He understands the threat environment that
Speaker 6: the FBI will be working in with him, and I
Speaker 6: think he's got to form a senior leadership team around
Speaker 6: him to help him make some of those foundational changes.
Speaker 6: Those are one of his.
Speaker 1: First orders of business.
Speaker 6: He's got to figure out where his command and control
Speaker 6: is going to come from in the organization.
Speaker 1: What kind of reminds me of in some parallels with
Speaker 1: Pete hegseeth trying to return the military to its core
Speaker 1: mission of as I, boil it down, kill people, and
Speaker 1: break things the military ethos as opposed to DEI and
Speaker 1: expanding you know what, wolf policies and the like, and
Speaker 1: to that end, do you think that had a deleterious
Speaker 1: effect on the FBI those types of policies, the DEI
Speaker 1: and and focusing on things that seem totally unrelated to
Speaker 1: law enforcement.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely terribly damaging to the FBI. The FBI, in
Speaker 6: and its core mission set is there to protect us
Speaker 6: from national security threats and crime problems. That's what the
Speaker 6: FBI does, and they're good at it when they're allowed
Speaker 6: to do it and they're given the proper leadership environment.
Speaker 6: What we saw over the past four years was a
Speaker 6: series of distractions from the core mission set, and we
Speaker 6: also saw again the substitution of some of the senior
Speaker 6: leadership's personal political ideas and ideologies and personal preferences versus
Speaker 6: the objective, apolitical, skilled investigative work that the FBI was
Speaker 6: known for.
Speaker 1: Well, and you speak of national security threats and crime,
Speaker 1: I'm rather concerned, and of course I don't. I'm not
Speaker 1: alone in my concerns. With the last multiple years of
Speaker 1: open borders, we know of significant numbers of Chinese military
Speaker 1: age man not picking on the race of China, but
Speaker 1: we know if they're here and they got here, they
Speaker 1: probably had the approval of the Chinese Communist Party, and
Speaker 1: therein lies the challenge. We know that CCP has hacked
Speaker 1: into all kinds of our operations, both in private industry
Speaker 1: but also into the federal government. You're an expert in
Speaker 1: security matters like cyber operations and security practices. Do you
Speaker 1: view this as significant a threat? Is at least I
Speaker 1: perceive it to be, And if so, what can we
Speaker 1: possibly do about it?
Speaker 6: It is an absolutely significant threat. I mean, we have
Speaker 6: allowed a threat environment to form and intensify over the
Speaker 6: past four years like we've never seen before. And you know,
Speaker 6: the last administration had certain I think ideological or political
Speaker 6: views that they allowed this to happen and now the
Speaker 6: American people will suffer for it. The FBI has to
Speaker 6: take a look at the current threat environment. We can't
Speaker 6: be fighting the last threat, the last threatn environment like
Speaker 6: the military gets accused of fighting the last war. We
Speaker 6: can't be stuck in the last threat environment. We have
Speaker 6: to look at what we have now when it comes
Speaker 6: to international adversaries and opponents versus the internal threat that
Speaker 6: is now within our borders. You said the unchecked migration
Speaker 6: of unvetted personnel. These people have come to the United States,
Speaker 6: some seeking a better life, some looking to be here
Speaker 6: for I would say, reasons that are not good for
Speaker 6: our communities. And the FBI has to reallocate its resources,
Speaker 6: reprioritize its operations, and look at its current partnerships with
Speaker 6: other federal, state, and local law enforcement to go out
Speaker 6: and find these people and quantify the threats to our
Speaker 6: communities and keep everybody safe.
Speaker 1: Indeed, and you know, it's just I sit here and
Speaker 1: I look at my watch, going, well, it's just a
Speaker 1: moment in time away for a sleeper cell to launch
Speaker 1: its nefarious activities. And I have to I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel just as confident as I can be that part
Speaker 1: of the illegal immigration population are here for the purposes
Speaker 1: of launching nefarious operations like terrorist actions. They're just waiting
Speaker 1: for the green light.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think you have a group of folks,
Speaker 6: you know, factions of people who may be here for
Speaker 6: something like that, but you also have factions of people
Speaker 6: who are here simply to commit crime, and they're here
Speaker 6: to damage the safety and security of our communities. The
Speaker 6: United States is a relatively soft target. These people come
Speaker 6: from hard, hard lives, and they come from rough places,
Speaker 6: and the United States has always been a fairly high trust,
Speaker 6: high security community, and they come from different places that
Speaker 6: we're not used to certain behaviors and activities, and I
Speaker 6: think we're going to find that the American people are
Speaker 6: going to be subjected to increase crime, violence, and possible,
Speaker 6: as you said, terrorism, Not to mention the national security
Speaker 6: counterintelligence espionage activities that largely go on quietly but also
Speaker 6: damage our national security and welfare.
Speaker 1: Well be up to the FBI more maybe perhaps engage
Speaker 1: in more widespread use of RICO to go after some
Speaker 1: of these criminal enterprises, like the gangs, for example. If
Speaker 1: they're coordinating efforts two or more people and further and
Speaker 1: so of a criminal activity you're in rico and that's
Speaker 1: going to subject into some serious prosecutorial possibilities there.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Absolutely, And also the you know, the administration has
Speaker 6: just designated certain international crime international gangs as terrorist organizations,
Speaker 6: which opens up another avenue for use of certain investigative
Speaker 6: and legal tools. So the FBI's got to also make
Speaker 6: sure that it's not overly concerned, which it has been,
Speaker 6: about offending people. Oh, just like other organizations, they're worried
Speaker 6: about offending people and notwith keeping the American people safe.
Speaker 6: And I think that was a mistake.
Speaker 1: Amen. Christopher Plihotel, the name of the book wanted the FBI,
Speaker 1: I once knew how to restore faith in the world,
Speaker 1: world's premier law enforcement agency, a guideline to do that.
Speaker 1: So I gotta draw from the name of the book
Speaker 1: and our conversation today. You do have at least some
Speaker 1: measure of hope and this thing can get turned around
Speaker 1: and they can get back to their core mission.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, I think there are people, there are enough people
Speaker 6: with any FBI who will respond very favorably to a proper,
Speaker 6: principled leadership environment that focuses on upholding the Constitution, protecting
Speaker 6: the American people, and being the FBI of old. And
Speaker 6: there are enough people who are waiting for that environment
Speaker 6: to come back. They'll snap back into place and they're
Speaker 6: going to give the people back the FBI that we
Speaker 6: all deserve and need.
Speaker 1: Chris, I'm so happy we're able to end on a
Speaker 1: little dose of optimism at the end. There, get a
Speaker 1: copy of the book. You can get it. I put
Speaker 1: your book up at fifty five KRC dot com on
Speaker 1: my blog page so people can easily buy a copy
Speaker 1: of an all a courage them to do that. Chris,
Speaker 1: thanks for your time today, Thanks for writing the book,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate your uh well, your work for the
Speaker 1: American people throughout your entire career. That's the approaching a
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Speaker 1: happy day it is to be listening to the fifty
Speaker 1: five KRC Morning Show. Wonderful guest leading up to the
Speaker 1: final guests of the morning, and thank God for Bill O'Reilly.
Speaker 1: I cannot encourage my listeners enough to go to Bill
Speaker 1: O'Reilly dot com. Bill O'Reilly, welcome back to the fifty
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Speaker 1: informative web page there. I want to applaud you on
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Well.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Brian.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you having me in I speak to you again.
Speaker 2: You know, it's really interesting what's happened since Trump got
Speaker 2: elected in November. The American people were so angry with
Speaker 2: the Biden administration that even people who don't like Donald
Speaker 2: Trump said, look, he may not be what I think
Speaker 2: a president should be, but he's so much better than
Speaker 2: the alternative that we're going to vote for him. But
Speaker 2: the media never accepted that. Never, and so the strategy
Speaker 2: now is no matter what Trump does, he's evil. It's
Speaker 2: not wrong, it's evil. It's changed now the media strategy.
Speaker 2: So my job is basically not sheerly donald Trump. We
Speaker 2: don't do that, no, but to put it to perspective
Speaker 2: things that he does, so that people can make a
Speaker 2: decision based on reality. And that's why we're successful. On
Speaker 2: Bill O'Reilly dot com has now it's almost eight years
Speaker 2: and the thing is the most successful independent news site
Speaker 2: in the world.
Speaker 1: And that does not shock me a bit. Bill O'Reilly,
Speaker 1: and I've had you on many times over the years,
Speaker 1: and I got to ask you because I love your
Speaker 1: books and I'll encourage my listeners to read them. They
Speaker 1: are fascinating, you can't put them down kind of reads.
Speaker 1: Are we going to get another one out of you
Speaker 1: soon before we die back into politics, Bill, because I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to the next one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. As you may know, Brian, Confronting the President's been
Speaker 2: on the New York Times bestseller list for twenty free
Speaker 2: consecutive weeks.
Speaker 6: Still there.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a phenomenal seller, as most of my
Speaker 2: books have been. In September, we have Confronting Evil and
Speaker 2: we got the cover up on Bill O'Reilly dot com.
Speaker 2: Putin's on a cover along with the Ayatollah, Halmani, Mazitung
Speaker 2: and Hitler, and inside there are about ten other evil
Speaker 2: doers that couldn't put them all on the cover. And
Speaker 2: that book is going to be very controversial, that's for sure,
Speaker 2: because you're going to learn things about Everybody thinks they
Speaker 2: know these evil doers, but you really don't know how
Speaker 2: the extent of what they did. And so we're editing
Speaker 2: that now, actually going to turn it in next week
Speaker 2: to the publisher.
Speaker 1: And going back to your comments about the mainstream media,
Speaker 1: he's evil. He's evil. This reminds me of the whole
Speaker 1: campaign that Donald Trump's a Nazi, which suggests to me
Speaker 1: that they don't understand the definition of the Nationalist Socialist Party,
Speaker 1: but during their ignorance, they cling to this notion that
Speaker 1: somehow he is an evil man. But look what he
Speaker 1: is doing, and he's brilliant in his strategy, beginning with
Speaker 1: deporting illegal immigrants, not all of them, not going in
Speaker 1: and grabbing moms who've been here for ten years. They're
Speaker 1: going after criminals, child rapists, for example. And the left
Speaker 1: and the Democrats that are out protesting this are trying
Speaker 1: to defend the indefensible. I really can't imagine any human
Speaker 1: being of any political stripe wanting a child molester in
Speaker 1: their neighborhood if that person came here illegally and could
Speaker 1: be easily ejected from our country.
Speaker 2: Here's the game. Most Americans who follow the news, and
Speaker 2: that would be about half of us, so I half
Speaker 2: the population, they don't know what the deuce is going on, right,
Speaker 2: and that's your choice, And I mean they just sort
Speaker 2: of lazy or disinterested, whatever it may be. But the
Speaker 2: people who follow the cycle understand that the Trump administration
Speaker 2: wants immigration law enforced, and the way to do that
Speaker 2: is to present to the public the danger of not
Speaker 2: enforcing it. And just as you just said, you have
Speaker 2: fourteen million people allowed in by Biden, well, ten percent
Speaker 2: of those people are going to be heinous criminals. That's
Speaker 2: ten percent of every group is evil. So that's one million,
Speaker 2: four hundred thousand, all right, that are running around causing trouble.
Speaker 2: And the problem is that when ice raids and when
Speaker 2: they go in, there are undocumented migrants who do not
Speaker 2: have a criminal record that are swept up in the raid. So,
Speaker 2: for example, they are living with the bank robber, they
Speaker 2: are living with the drug dealer. A lot of women
Speaker 2: are in this category and they have a child. Well,
Speaker 2: that woman and child, they're swept up. They're taken because
Speaker 2: they're in the residence with the dope dealer. The press
Speaker 2: cleaves that off and says, oh, look at this, this
Speaker 2: woman never did anything, and they're burtner. How dishonest is
Speaker 2: that they don't explain that the woman has a relationship
Speaker 2: with the drug dealer. So what are you supposed to do?
Speaker 2: And I could give you a hundred examples of that
Speaker 2: kind of press dishonesty, and I do on the No
Speaker 2: Spin News every day. I mean, it's what we do
Speaker 2: because we have to protect Americans from falsehoods.
Speaker 1: Well, and the other thing component, and I talk about
Speaker 1: low hanging fruit, defending the indefensible, is what the left
Speaker 1: is trying to do. When you look at, for example,
Speaker 1: some of the programs that were revealed by the Doge
Speaker 1: effort over US eight, you know, tens of millions, hundreds
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars of the American taxpayer's money going
Speaker 1: to programs that on their face are indefensible. And yet
Speaker 1: and and and the second component of that is nobody
Speaker 1: knows if the money actually went to any given program
Speaker 1: to accomplish the goal that was stated in the grant.
Speaker 1: They don't follow the reality. And it seems to me
Speaker 1: just a bunch of bribes, kickbacks, and payoffs for a
Speaker 1: bunch of organizations, either here within the country or out
Speaker 1: in the world. They're just soaking up the American taxpayers dollars.
Speaker 2: It's always been that way. Whenever American tax money leaves
Speaker 2: the United States and goes to a foreign country, we
Speaker 2: don't have any authority over it. So we don't have
Speaker 2: investigators in Gaza or in Israel or in Ukraine, to
Speaker 2: make sure that the money is spent the way it's designated.
Speaker 2: That has never existed. So Trump, that drives him nuts.
Speaker 2: That drives him absolutely crazy. And what he did was
Speaker 2: he said, look to Musk you find out the most
Speaker 2: extreme examples and our presented to the American people, and
Speaker 2: we'll try to clean this thing up to some extent.
Speaker 6: They'll never be.
Speaker 2: Able to clean it up entirely, but we'll try to
Speaker 2: get people outraged about the waste of taxpayer's dolls. That's
Speaker 2: what they're doing now. The fact that the Democrats are resisting,
Speaker 2: that works the Trump's advantage and the Republican Party's advantage
Speaker 2: because most Americans they're going, well, why aren't you supporting
Speaker 2: programs that are better? Why you want millions of dollars
Speaker 2: to go to a sesame street show in Iraq? That
Speaker 2: there's no good for anybody. If they want a sesame
Speaker 2: street show, let them put it on. Why do we
Speaker 2: have to put it pay for it?
Speaker 1: All?
Speaker 2: Right? So the Democratic Party at this point is fracturing,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if they're going to come back
Speaker 2: anytime soon because there's no leader. They don't have a leader,
Speaker 2: and without a leader, it's all over the place. They're
Speaker 2: actually losing ground, even in the face of Trump being
Speaker 2: so controversial.
Speaker 1: Well, and one of the things most identified he was
Speaker 1: looking at Social Security and all of the folks over
Speaker 1: the age of one hundred who are still at least
Speaker 1: on the books eligible and this remains to be seen
Speaker 1: whether checks are still going out to them, but everyone is,
Speaker 1: it seems, counting on Social Security again, regardless of political stripe.
Speaker 1: When you see that, if you just are a casual
Speaker 1: political observer, you're like, wait a second, what, there's people
Speaker 1: on the Social Security roles that are one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty years old. How can that be? The things underwater?
Speaker 1: The CBO has been warning about it for decades. Nobody
Speaker 1: lifts a finger to try to salvage the system that
Speaker 1: so many people think that's what they're going to have
Speaker 1: to rely on in retirement. That angers a lot of people, sure, and.
Speaker 2: It should, but it's unrealistic to think that in a
Speaker 2: nation of three hundred and sixty million people that the
Speaker 2: federal government is going to be able to monitor each
Speaker 2: check entitlement check that goes out. They're never going to
Speaker 2: be able to do that. But you want to bring
Speaker 2: some kind of discipline into these agencies, and under Biden
Speaker 2: there is zero accountability. It got way out of control.
Speaker 2: The COVID stuff was insane, absolutely Okay. Trump is trying
Speaker 2: to bring in a new paradigm for these agencies where
Speaker 2: they have to apply some kind of discipline, They have
Speaker 2: to get rid of the ivy logues, they have to
Speaker 2: hire people who are going to watch the dough. Now
Speaker 2: is he going to succeed? Partially because it should. The
Speaker 2: problem is just to mammoth. But he's doing the right thing.
Speaker 2: But again, the press is so hateful toward him. They're
Speaker 2: never going to say that, They're never going to report
Speaker 2: on him fairly, and therefore many millions of Americas think
Speaker 2: the guys the devil because they don't really pay attention
Speaker 2: to what's actually happening.
Speaker 1: Well, Elon Musk said it the other day, and I
Speaker 1: have to paraphrase because I can't quote the man, but
Speaker 1: he warned of what is quite literally the existential threat
Speaker 1: posed by our national debt and deficit, and that we
Speaker 1: are going to fall apart literally and we will fall
Speaker 1: apart along with the rest of the world, who seems
Speaker 1: to rely on the American taxpayers to stay afloat. Somebody said,
Speaker 1: you know, oh, well you have this whole idea about you. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll just move to New Zealand if the Fiat currency collapsed.
Speaker 1: He said, no, that's not going to be possible because
Speaker 1: New Zealand will go down the toilet too.
Speaker 2: Sure, And you can't tax the people anymore, Brian, you can't.
Speaker 2: They're just up to their eyebrows. Yes, in paying to local,
Speaker 2: state and federal officials. I mean New York, where I live,
Speaker 2: is the highest tax state and union. We are losing
Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of people a year moving out of here,
Speaker 2: and replacing those people are foreign nationals who are on welfare. Okay,
Speaker 2: so the people who are earning a decent buck they're
Speaker 2: leaving replaced by people who need government assistance. Now I'm generalizing,
Speaker 2: but that's the accurate picture. So the Democratic Party again
Speaker 2: doesn't seem to understand that you cannot tax people anymore
Speaker 2: than you are now. And then Bernie Sanders and these
Speaker 2: social is, Oh, the brillionaires, and that's a bunch of garbage.
Speaker 2: There are very few of those people. The bulk of
Speaker 2: the tax receipts are working class, blue collar folks. Who
Speaker 2: cannot pay anymore. So you've got to cut the waste
Speaker 2: and the massive spending, which is what Musk has been
Speaker 2: tasked to do well in.
Speaker 1: So far doing an excellent job of elevating this type
Speaker 1: of thing to the average Americans' attention and the average
Speaker 1: Americans seeing some positive in all this based upon the
Speaker 1: points you've made today here on the Morning Show. And
Speaker 1: we can only hope that the energy and the effort
Speaker 1: behind it continues to neure to our advantage. Because we
Speaker 1: go back the other direction, we're stuck. We're screwed. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you may as well just pull the flag down and
Speaker 1: go hide in a hole or something. Bill O'Reilly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, the Trump administration has an opportunity. It needs
Speaker 2: to be more disciplined. I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 2: That's not how the president rolls, as a cre cliche goes,
Speaker 2: I would do it a little bit differently in style form.
Speaker 2: But what they're trying to do is a positive for
Speaker 2: the country. Unfortunately, many people in the country don't understand
Speaker 2: that now, but you know, we all do.
Speaker 6: We do, Brian.
Speaker 2: I mean, you do a good show every morning in
Speaker 2: Cincinnati and tell the folks what you think. I do
Speaker 2: the same thing on Bill O'Reilly dot com, and I
Speaker 2: write the books and I get the word out and
Speaker 2: then folks believe what they want to believe. But we
Speaker 2: have an opportunity here in the next forty seven months.
Speaker 2: That's what Trump has, and if he does well, then
Speaker 2: Vance will be the next president, because I don't think
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party is going to be able to recover
Speaker 2: in you know, the forty seven months that Trump has well.
Speaker 1: They're going to have to find somebody other than Gavin Newsome,
Speaker 1: the guy no backbench finished, thankfully, no backbench in the
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Speaker 1: Of Bill I'm already looking forward to September when your
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Speaker 1: Morning show and we will talk about it after I
Speaker 1: read it, because I always read your books before we talk.
Speaker 3: I know that rule.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Brian, stay strong, Thanks.
Speaker 1: For having me my pleasure anytime, sir, have a wonderful weekend.
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