Speaker 1: Five o four. I think you've bought a k r
Speaker 1: C the talk station. Happy Friday, there are a vacation
Speaker 1: from this Yes, indeed, Happy uh Friday to everybody. Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas right here, Danny Gleason covering for the I don't
Speaker 1: know where the hell Joe Tracker is. Danny, do you
Speaker 1: know where j Just Tracker is? All right, taking some vacation.
Speaker 1: He's entitled to it. I'm not saying he's not. Just
Speaker 1: don't know where he is anyway. Uh okay, I'll use
Speaker 1: all the help I can get this morning. If you
Speaker 1: want a phone call in, I will be using the
Speaker 1: cough button regularly this morning. I'm morning ahead of time.
Speaker 1: I and my wife even told me not to come
Speaker 1: in today. I said, who's going to cover for me?
Speaker 1: No one knows I'm sick. I've got this really one
Speaker 1: of those deep, deep, deep deep coughs. So you know,
Speaker 1: apologies ahead of time. I'll do all I can to
Speaker 1: sort of again hit the cough button at the appropriate time,
Speaker 1: assuming it doesn't get covered up by paper. Hey, the
Speaker 1: phone number to reach me five one three seven fifty
Speaker 1: five hundred eight hundred eighty two to three talk pound
Speaker 1: five fifty on at and T phones and it being Friday.
Speaker 1: Of course, I always look forward to six thirty Tech
Speaker 1: Friday with Dave Hatter in addition to celebrating him being
Speaker 1: elected Official of the Year in Kentucky, we'll also be
Speaker 1: talking tech, which is of course the point of the segment.
Speaker 1: Smart TVs are spying on you. That's a hard full
Speaker 1: stop on that one, so we'll get the details from
Speaker 1: Dave on that. We'll also be talking about data brokers
Speaker 1: tracking your phone. Apparently the chi cooms are as well.
Speaker 1: A couple of comments and stories on that too. Here
Speaker 1: in a moment business email scams costing companies only fifty
Speaker 1: five billion dollars over the last ten years. I can't
Speaker 1: believe that figure is not more than that for ten years,
Speaker 1: but that one's gonna jump. Dave Williams tax Payer Protection
Speaker 1: Alliance returns at seven oh five. Thank god, we got
Speaker 1: a guess at seven oh five. Will Trump real in
Speaker 1: government spending? I sure hope. So I've got so much
Speaker 1: positivity in connection with Elon Musk and him being involved
Speaker 1: in reducing government spending. We can only hope that that
Speaker 1: can happen, and everyone should want that. I you know,
Speaker 1: I think about people who are angry over Trump getting elected.
Speaker 1: At least he's promised to cut the spending. The question
Speaker 1: becomes where we can have a thoughtful debate on what
Speaker 1: should be cut. I mean, you know, even I who
Speaker 1: love my American military, I love my veteran friends out there,
Speaker 1: are you do you think for a minute that I
Speaker 1: don't believe there's fraud, waste, and abuse and government spending
Speaker 1: when it comes to the military. I would maybe even
Speaker 1: argue it could be the worst possible place for fraud,
Speaker 1: wasted abuse. Do I want to defund the military?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: You know what I want. I want ships, I want subs,
Speaker 1: I want munitions. I want it done at the right price,
Speaker 1: and I want some oversight. So evil, nefarious, idiot contractors
Speaker 1: out there aren't taking advantage of us, because of course,
Speaker 1: the nation's security is contingent on it. I think of
Speaker 1: all of our contracts with Boeing. Boeing's falling apart, and
Speaker 1: Jay Ratliff joins the program every Thursday, even brought it
Speaker 1: up yesterday. Boeing's struggling. It's got all these problems on
Speaker 1: its hands. Manufacturings, you know, lines are doing shoddy production,
Speaker 1: and you're like, well, how in the hell can they
Speaker 1: stay in business and either well, there's nobody else to
Speaker 1: replace them, and they've got massive numbers of government contracts,
Speaker 1: which may be the one reason they're still in business.
Speaker 1: In the world of airplanes, basically got Airbus and Boeing.
Speaker 1: Boeing stays afloat because our American government keeps hiring them
Speaker 1: to do the manufacturing of all this military stuff. I
Speaker 1: know we need it. I'm sorry, I don't know how
Speaker 1: I got that in that tangent. Is the future looking brighter?
Speaker 1: Dave Williams w lask answer that question, and what is
Speaker 1: the Pharmacy, Audit and Transparency Act. No Day's going to
Speaker 1: talk about that, and seems to me something that maybe
Speaker 1: RFK Junior might be involved with, since he's going to
Speaker 1: be taking a prominent role in the Trump administration by
Speaker 1: all accounts. So that's the topics with Dave Williams. We
Speaker 1: fast forward to eighth five. Got Steve Gorum joined the program,
Speaker 1: Got an empower use simminar to talk about with Steve. Steve,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be talking about no more green new deal, really,
Speaker 1: no more our to believe, although you know likelihood that
Speaker 1: we pair back on this nonsense is significant, and I
Speaker 1: saw that the the global climate community is a little
Speaker 1: concerned about a Trump administration. Those rather funny. Anybody listens
Speaker 1: to the programs knows that I'm not a big fan
Speaker 1: of the United Nations. Quite often, the United Nations has
Speaker 1: absolutely zero interest in the interest of the United States.
Speaker 1: I really fully believe that the only reason we're still
Speaker 1: involved in the United Nations and many nations as well,
Speaker 1: considering they don't get much done. They certainly don't stop
Speaker 1: wars and conflicts, They certainly don't try to well seemingly
Speaker 1: they don't try to negotiate any peace, but they do
Speaker 1: try to show things like climate and legislation down our throats.
Speaker 1: And according to Lawrence Tubiana, the lead negotiator of the
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen Paris Climate Agreement, in his post yesterday, I
Speaker 1: believe it was yesterday or maybe Wednesday, after the election
Speaker 1: results came in. The US election result is a blow
Speaker 1: in the fight against the climate crisis. She went on, Lawrence,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that was a female name. I don't
Speaker 1: know in these day and age, maybe Lawrence is male
Speaker 1: but goes by the pronouns she I'm confused on all that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the window here we go. The window to limit warming
Speaker 1: to one point five degrees celsius is closing. These next
Speaker 1: four years are critical. How now long have been listening
Speaker 1: to that? When did al Gore come out of the
Speaker 1: woodwork and start screaming about the climate going up one
Speaker 1: point five degrees or something like twenty years ago? Wasn't it,
Speaker 1: Danny remember Man Bear Pig? Yeah, it was the nineties.
Speaker 1: Remember the South Park episode Man Bear Pig, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're going back forever and he said we're all gonna die,
Speaker 1: I like in the next fifteen minutes. So they're still
Speaker 1: added again. Anyway, I know that was predicated on my
Speaker 1: comment about Steve Gorham joining the program. Steve is informative
Speaker 1: and engaging speaker, delivering compelling and provocative programs the business,
Speaker 1: universities and diverse organizations. I'm just reading from the list
Speaker 1: on the Empower You America? So can we effectively transition
Speaker 1: to one renewable energy rhetorical question which is the springboard
Speaker 1: for the Empower You seven are taking place on Tuesday
Speaker 1: beginning at seven pm. Do you think when solar batteries
Speaker 1: can replace the hydrocarbon fuels the power our modern industrial society?
Speaker 1: My short answer is sure as hell.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: It is a virtual class only, so you can register
Speaker 1: at empower Youoamerica dot org. Just click on the little
Speaker 1: link there to register virtually. Again, sorry for the lack
Speaker 1: of parent enthusiasm this morning. I'm really just trying to
Speaker 1: prevent my just just entering into a massive coughing fit
Speaker 1: on a Friday. But a very happy Friday to everyone. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: it's a great day because well for no other reason,
Speaker 1: it is Friday. Let's see here over fifty five care
Speaker 1: Sea dot Commin Edition to your iHeartMedia app. We have
Speaker 1: my conversation with Steve Goodin yesterday. If you have any
Speaker 1: questions about the litigation that's ongoing with Trump. He's got
Speaker 1: state actions against him, thirty four felony convictions. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, and nobody else on
Speaker 1: the planet would have ever been subjected to that. They
Speaker 1: created that sort of mechanism to go after Trump whole cloth,
Speaker 1: and likely we'll be thrown out on appeal. But we
Speaker 1: talked about that, we talked about the federal cases against
Speaker 1: Trump as well, and all the answers from Steve Gooden
Speaker 1: from Porter right are right there on the podcast page
Speaker 1: fifty five care Sea Dot Alex Chantefilo joined the program
Speaker 1: to give us do an election recap, and you can
Speaker 1: get it right there with I've curiously that Tom, let
Speaker 1: us see here, everybody's going crazy, and you know, really
Speaker 1: kind of I just sort of wonder people it's ready
Speaker 1: fire aim in connection with the reaction to Trump winning.
Speaker 1: And I could go all over the place with this,
Speaker 1: but let's start with the Hispanic community. And I don't
Speaker 1: watch the View. The only thing I really know about
Speaker 1: the View is other than it is a bunch of
Speaker 1: very left wing women sitting around a table just in
Speaker 1: hysterics about you know, conservative ideology and now of course
Speaker 1: Donald Trump being president elect. But earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, it was on the View one of the hosts,
Speaker 1: person named Sonny Hoston, talking about Latino men and their
Speaker 1: support of Trump, which really was pretty substantial. Hispanic majority
Speaker 1: counties went for Trump by ten percentage points according to
Speaker 1: the breakdown by the New York Times. So you have
Speaker 1: a whole lot of Hispanic men who are on the
Speaker 1: Trump side of the ledger, and I think that's for
Speaker 1: cultural reasons. You know, we're trying to tell people that
Speaker 1: your daughters should have to look at some naked guy
Speaker 1: in the bathroom. I don't think that really cottons well
Speaker 1: with the Hispanic community, many of whom are quite religious.
Speaker 1: But that's just my own gas on that. But the
Speaker 1: point is the numbers reflect that the Hispanic community leaned
Speaker 1: over toward and embraced Trump, which flies in the face
Speaker 1: of the narrative that all of the illegal immigrants or
Speaker 1: Hispanic folks who ended up around the country are going
Speaker 1: to be end up being a Democrat voters. But along
Speaker 1: those lines, she suggested Latino men supported Trump to deport themselves,
Speaker 1: as if they weren't thinking about their own best interest.
Speaker 1: And what conclusion does one draw about Sunny Houston and
Speaker 1: her perception of Hispanic men exactly that she believes them
Speaker 1: to be all illegal immigrants. How insulting is that that's her?
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't make a statement about that like
Speaker 1: that unless you perceive every Hispanic person you walk by
Speaker 1: as someone who is in the country illegally. Lots of
Speaker 1: Hispanic people have been in this country, lot of Hispanic
Speaker 1: people born here. You know, their heritage and their race
Speaker 1: cannot be denied, But the fact that they are legal
Speaker 1: or obtained legal citizenship cannot be denied either, and there
Speaker 1: is a massive swath of the population that falls right
Speaker 1: into that category. They yes, voted for Trump. If they
Speaker 1: were here illegally, Sonny, they wouldn't have been eligible to
Speaker 1: vote in a federal election for the president of the
Speaker 1: United States of America. So you are directing your comments
Speaker 1: in an extraordinarily insulting way at a giant chunk of Americans,
Speaker 1: white women out there my listening audience that voted for Trump. Apparently,
Speaker 1: in her words, specifically, you are uneducated. And I cite
Speaker 1: these examples of this one example because they're a multitude
Speaker 1: of them. And I listen to the comments from gut
Speaker 1: Field when I come in the morning, because they rerun
Speaker 1: the late night program and he's always making fun of
Speaker 1: the view and the hosts on there, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of funny. But he was spreading his commentary or talking
Speaker 1: about all of the late night hosts and how they're
Speaker 1: just pulling their hair outs, like Jimmy Kimmel, you know,
Speaker 1: remember former host of The Man Show. He's gone all woke,
Speaker 1: left wing. You think he was the you know, the
Speaker 1: modern woman's best friend and shared their ideology. He's pulling
Speaker 1: his hair out, He's crying but while doing so. And
Speaker 1: this is the part that just blows my mind. It's
Speaker 1: almost like Budweiser, you know, getting the transgender person to
Speaker 1: talk about how awesome bud Light is failing to appreciate
Speaker 1: who their core audience is. Jimmy Kimmel, I imagine has
Speaker 1: some conservative individuals in the audience, or at least some
Speaker 1: people who chose the economy over whatever Kamala Harris was
Speaker 1: trying to sell. But he is literally being insulting to
Speaker 1: the vast majority of Americans who voted in the election.
Speaker 1: Trump won the popular vote by about five million people.
Speaker 1: Everybody who turned out to vote in the election, you know,
Speaker 1: more than half of them voted Trump. The Senate is
Speaker 1: now controlled by Republicans, and I know it hasn't yet
Speaker 1: been called, which really kind of concerns me. If you're
Speaker 1: worried about voter shenanigans and election interference or anything like that,
Speaker 1: you might pay attention to the House race. But House
Speaker 1: looks like it's going to go Republican too. And here's
Speaker 1: a person who's life, whose income, whose livelihood depends upon ratings,
Speaker 1: and it depends upon sponsorships. And he's not the only
Speaker 1: one that is citiment. As an example, It's like Sunny
Speaker 1: host and who rever the heuse? She is making these
Speaker 1: broad brushes just unbelievably insulting statements. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: don't understand the echo chamber that they must live in
Speaker 1: that makes them think and believe, in spite of the
Speaker 1: positions that they are in on air and being in
Speaker 1: the public view and relying on ratings and advertising revenue,
Speaker 1: that they would utter these statements. I know they were
Speaker 1: proudly supporting Harrison the lead up, but I don't think
Speaker 1: this is the way you respond when your person lost
Speaker 1: in your arguments, Well fell on deaf ears here in America,
Speaker 1: who well are facing grocery bills and gasoline charges and
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. It's five nineteen right now, fifty
Speaker 1: five Detalk station. Mark is on the phone. I appreciate
Speaker 1: any phone calls, most notably today when I have a
Speaker 1: difficult time talking without coughing. Stick around right here at
Speaker 1: fifty five car Se Detalk station.
Speaker 4: I'm Donald J.
Speaker 5: Trump. Can I improve this message?
Speaker 1: Well, that's a welcome refreshing change from the Kamala Harris message.
Speaker 1: Thank you Danny Gleason covering for me wherever the hell.
Speaker 1: Joe's Trekker is Joe's treker. Let me a little refreshing
Speaker 1: wake up shout from Lemmy. Let's get to Mark as promised. Mark,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for holding over the phone break
Speaker 1: there while from the show.
Speaker 5: Don't worries. Good morning, Brian. We had got the best
Speaker 5: bumper music. Anybody plays pool at five o'clock in the
Speaker 5: morning can't be all bad.
Speaker 1: Mark, thank you very much. I am proud of that song,
Speaker 1: inspite of the fact that we can't play more than
Speaker 1: a couple of seconds of it because all the curse words.
Speaker 1: I always encourage people to just read it. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm warning you ahead of time. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: f bombs in there. But the message in that song
Speaker 1: is all about everything I stand for. I love that
Speaker 1: song andema ae n I am a a yes, go
Speaker 1: ahead and look it up.
Speaker 5: So anyway, what I was calling about yesterday I called
Speaker 5: in after will and and my original point was for
Speaker 5: Colin was I was most.
Speaker 2: Touch on day.
Speaker 5: But back to him from yesterday, I hope that he
Speaker 5: really sits back and reflects. I thought a lot about
Speaker 5: his rant yesterday morning, and I think if he took
Speaker 5: the breath and realized that and so is aren't the devil,
Speaker 5: and that the party does have the best interest of
Speaker 5: people at heart, and it's not going to be the
Speaker 5: end of the world. And let's face it, Joe Biden
Speaker 5: has always been an idiot, but he's also a corrupt idiot.
Speaker 5: And then they put Amala Harris in there, and let's
Speaker 5: face it, she does not have a skill set to
Speaker 5: be vice president, let alone president. So I just hope
Speaker 5: that he took a breath yesterday and realizes that everything's
Speaker 5: going to be okay. Yeah, we've weathered presidents that we
Speaker 5: don't particularly care for, but based on their personality. I
Speaker 5: mean again, I could spend two hours talking about the
Speaker 5: various presidents that have been in my eyes that were
Speaker 5: absolute disasters. But my point today for calling was the
Speaker 5: reaction of the left. It's like there, they haven't learned anything.
Speaker 5: And it's like you're at a poker table and you've
Speaker 5: just lost everything that you have in your bank accounts
Speaker 5: and and you're you just cannot get the message that
Speaker 5: you maybe you should walk away from the table and
Speaker 5: you throw the deed at your house up on the
Speaker 5: table and you're gonna win this time. And the reactions
Speaker 5: from you know, the the scholars of Whoope Goldberg and
Speaker 5: Sonny Houston and and you know these people that the
Speaker 5: Tisia James. I saw a video of her reacting to
Speaker 5: Trump being elected, and she is just eat up with
Speaker 5: anger and is vowing to somehow put Donald Trump in jail.
Speaker 5: And it's like, you guys have not learned anything. And
Speaker 5: the media is right there lockstep that I saw an
Speaker 5: MSN on MSN homepage yesterday of a news story interest
Speaker 5: rates and inflation will rise under the Donald Trump administration.
Speaker 5: I mean that was yesterday, so they're already starting. And
Speaker 5: so I hope that Donald Trump and his administration right
Speaker 5: off the jump does things that make a huge difference,
Speaker 5: like you said, cutting the spending in Washington and just
Speaker 5: getting things done to prove once and for all that
Speaker 5: the Democrat model is a socialist model. It's not it's
Speaker 5: not capitalism. They say they run as moderate as when
Speaker 5: it's election time, but once they get in, you know,
Speaker 5: it's it's the opposite, and it's just the socialist model.
Speaker 5: We've got to defeat it otherwise it's going to be
Speaker 5: every four years or when they do get in power,
Speaker 5: we're going to be faced with the same challenges until
Speaker 5: they finally get their way and wear everybody down, or
Speaker 5: you know, get a hold of the election process. And
Speaker 5: I mean, this was a very consequential election. I believe
Speaker 5: in the fact that it stopped this This agenda hasn't
Speaker 5: stopped it, but it's slowed it down and now it
Speaker 5: needs to be stomped out.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree with a lot of what you said,
Speaker 1: just just bear in mind. And I have always acknowledged
Speaker 1: and was during the Trump administration and during the last
Speaker 1: several years of Joe Biden always pointing out that, you
Speaker 1: know what, I want a Republican to be a fiscal hawk,
Speaker 1: a deficit hawk. I want someone who's going to be
Speaker 1: cutting spending. Donald Trump wasn't that way in his first term.
Speaker 1: And we are on an unsustainable trajectory, whether your values
Speaker 1: are conservative or liberal, if the government continues to outspend
Speaker 1: what it takes in, we are going to continue to
Speaker 1: have debt service that is going to become to the
Speaker 1: point where it's just an insurmountable challenge. Default on the
Speaker 1: national debt. You know what that would do to our country.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about a true existential threat. And
Speaker 1: some people, I mean everyone in federal government, top to
Speaker 1: bottom should wake up to that blank in reality, we
Speaker 1: can't continue this path. I appreciate the call, Mark, I
Speaker 1: really do, and yeah, I mean I honestly feel the
Speaker 1: same way about Well. I reeled about that over yesterday
Speaker 1: because you know, I always liked his calls. He offered
Speaker 1: a Democrat perspective, but also was willing to engage in
Speaker 1: a discussion and so obviously quite angry at the outcome
Speaker 1: of the election. He's not alone, it's We're surrounded by
Speaker 1: folks that are feeling that way. And you know, we've
Speaker 1: all felt bad after elections. We always managed to survive,
Speaker 1: and that's one thing the Republic has been proven for
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years, you know, from Wilson administration
Speaker 1: to Reagan and everything else in between. Good ones, bad ones,
Speaker 1: corrupt ones. We managed to move forward as a society. Now.
Speaker 1: The world has always worked. It's five twenty eight right now,
Speaker 1: Local stories or phone calls. I prefer the latter, But
Speaker 1: get to local stories too. I'll be right back five
Speaker 1: thirty three on a Friday, in a very heavy friday too.
Speaker 1: If you're just tuning in my bottom of the bottom
Speaker 1: of my heart of apologies struggling with a really really
Speaker 1: deep cough this morning. Probably shouldn't have come in, but
Speaker 1: Joe Stracker out, Danny Gleeson certainly doing an awesome job
Speaker 1: covering for the board and producing the show today. Just
Speaker 1: a little late to try to get somebody to sub
Speaker 1: in for me, so you can help sub and just
Speaker 1: feel free to give me a call five one, three, seven,
Speaker 1: four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two
Speaker 1: to three talk over the local stories actually Franklin County.
Speaker 1: After a two day trial, judge found that a twenty
Speaker 1: eight year old Elijah Thomas guilty of murdering twenty three
Speaker 1: year old Kaitlin Puckett at her home in Franklin, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Thomas convicted a one kind of aggravated murder with a
Speaker 1: firearm specification, two counts of murder, one count each of
Speaker 1: Flonia's assaultant improperly firing a gun at or into habitation.
Speaker 1: Warren County prosecutor said GPS data showed that on June seventeenth,
Speaker 1: last year, Thomas was waiting at Puckett's home for her
Speaker 1: for about thirty minutes before she and others returned. Happened
Speaker 1: around midnight then, in front of multiple witnesses, he approached
Speaker 1: her fired nine shots, six of which hit her, killing her.
Speaker 1: Family members told police Thomas had made multiple violent threats
Speaker 1: to Pucket in the days and weeks before her murder.
Speaker 1: Police called the one und block Abuler Drive about twelve thirty.
Speaker 1: A little after twelve thirty in the morning, I found
Speaker 1: Pucket shot multiple times. Despite first respondente efforts to save
Speaker 1: her life, she did die at the scene. Thomas taken
Speaker 1: into custody during a police traffic stop hours later, about
Speaker 1: quarter to ten in the morning. Thomas formerly sentenced to
Speaker 1: a later day the charges which he was convicted Kerrie
Speaker 1: at least a mandatory life sentence five point thirty five
Speaker 1: Right now, fifty five Carsini talk station. Pats on the line.
Speaker 1: I have a stack of stupid to get to as well,
Speaker 1: but you know me, I'd prefer the phone calls. We'll
Speaker 1: do both. Pat, you're next, Just give you a minute.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
Speaker 4: Can you play John the Fisherman.
Speaker 1: Friday? Even if Joe Strecker is not any answer is
Speaker 1: yeah us? In honor of the vacationing Joe's tractor. Danny
Speaker 1: Gleeson covering the board today five forty five k CV
Speaker 1: talks rations and to the Bones we go. Got a
Speaker 1: few callers online and as promised, Pat was waiting over
Speaker 1: the break. There, Pat, thanks for holding over the break.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Morning Show.
Speaker 6: Oh thanks, Brian. My heart just went out the wheel yesterday.
Speaker 6: I was praying for him because the anger he had.
Speaker 6: I went through that with what was going on with
Speaker 6: this country and the anything. I can say to people
Speaker 6: that I don't watch TV a whole lot anymore because
Speaker 6: I just can't listen to what the garbage. I mean
Speaker 6: now I found out I'm uneducated, yes, but I think
Speaker 6: what kind of turned me from being a Democrat over
Speaker 6: towards voting for some of the Republicans except the Rhinos.
Speaker 6: It's I mean, Brian, when you hear people tell tell
Speaker 6: you that you've got to change the way you talk,
Speaker 6: the way you think, we got to move to a
Speaker 6: different place, or another one saying we got to transform
Speaker 6: this country, I tell you, I think the men in
Speaker 6: this country are coming back because the way Trump got
Speaker 6: the votes. But all I can say is if you
Speaker 6: don't know how to pray, talk to God, talk to Mary,
Speaker 6: and pray for the children, because there's a lot of
Speaker 6: children they don't talk about on the news that are missing.
Speaker 6: But anyway, Brian, I pray for everybody, and I pray
Speaker 6: for you and hope everything comes out of pay for you.
Speaker 6: But anyway, I think people in this country you're a
Speaker 6: waking up because I've woke up to the fact the
Speaker 6: Democrats do not care about money. They like to spend it,
Speaker 6: and the republic kittens are trying to stop that. I mean,
Speaker 6: you've got to start using your brain because I never
Speaker 6: paid two hundred dollars for groceries and I'm buying the
Speaker 6: bare minimum. So anyway, Brian, you have a nice day.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Pat, And I pray for all of you.
Speaker 1: We all appreciate it. We all do. And if you
Speaker 1: don't appreciate Pat's prayers, then there's something wrong with you
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. You don't believe in prayer.
Speaker 1: That's okay. She's offering them to you and with the
Speaker 1: hope that you benefit from them. That's the beautiful thing
Speaker 1: about people's offer of prayers. And it always bothered me
Speaker 1: when something tragic happens and someone says, you know, thoughts
Speaker 1: and prayers go out and like, eh, you thoughting prayers
Speaker 1: are with jokes Squad, particularly in the area of like
Speaker 1: gun violence. Now, they are worth something. Anybody's experiencing a
Speaker 1: bad time time in their life, at least when someone
Speaker 1: is offering you that. And I've said this before, I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to double down on it. It means you
Speaker 1: got at least someone who has compassion, concern, caring a
Speaker 1: friend in a time of desperation and need. And it
Speaker 1: beats the hell out of nothing, and it beats the
Speaker 1: hell out of an insult. That's what Chris has got
Speaker 1: this morning. Chris, thanks for calling the Morning Show this morning.
Speaker 1: Have happy Friday to you.
Speaker 3: Peter will I just wanted to call before I go
Speaker 3: into work real fast. I was watching Fox News yesterday
Speaker 3: and I want to say it was Ari Fleischer. I
Speaker 3: can't really remember fully, but he said that he'd like
Speaker 3: to see Ramaswami be the press secretary and if that happens,
Speaker 3: if that happened, about every time it come on to
Speaker 3: see the press conference, that would be very entertaining.
Speaker 1: Chris, I had not heard that. Would that's actually the
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be awesome?
Speaker 3: Probably won't happen, but that's that I heard that, and
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great. Well, you know, you got to laugh
Speaker 1: out of you out of Friday morning. But I'm not
Speaker 1: even feeling one hundred percent Chris. That's good. It would
Speaker 1: be a phenomenal thing. That guy's razor sharp.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the reporters would wouldn't want to show up
Speaker 3: for those conferences.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, I know they would. Well, they'd have to
Speaker 1: actually ask articulate questions and be prepared to follow up
Speaker 1: with some really difficult follow up questions because he would
Speaker 1: answer the questions directly. Chris, thank you man. That was
Speaker 1: a good one. I like that. Maybe we'll see more
Speaker 1: of that. It's wide open as of right now. In
Speaker 1: terms of the the administration, although Trump named Susie Wiles
Speaker 1: the first female White House Chief of staff in history,
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with this woman apparently, though she has been,
Speaker 1: you know, behind the scenes, a real powerhouse in terms
Speaker 1: of you know, campaigning and all that. So first one
Speaker 1: out of the gate chief of staff, Susie Wiles, first woman,
Speaker 1: and so much for the Republicans being anti women. I
Speaker 1: suppose you could make that argument five point fifty one
Speaker 1: coming up with five fifty two at the five Kereseitton
Speaker 1: talk station, moving before I get I haven't got to
Speaker 1: the stack of stupid yet, because you know I love
Speaker 1: to talk to you, and Dick's on the phone, so
Speaker 1: let's talk to Dick. Dick, welcome to the show. In
Speaker 1: a happy Friday to you.
Speaker 5: Hey, good morning.
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 7: I live over here in Kentucky, and you know Tom
Speaker 7: Massey's my rep. And you mentioned something about going to
Speaker 7: agricult agriculture secretary. But I think you and I can
Speaker 7: both agree. Tom Massey's a big picture guy. And I
Speaker 7: think McConnell is going to retire. And I guarantee you,
Speaker 7: I guarantee you a four way onion. I'll buy you one,
Speaker 7: because I know Adye Basheer is going to run for
Speaker 7: the Senator in twenty six. The guy's power mad. You
Speaker 7: didn't have to live with them. You had to deal
Speaker 7: with Mike de Wine during that whole pandemic thing. But
Speaker 7: we are here at he could tell you, almost to
Speaker 7: a man, what a petty tyrant the guy is or
Speaker 7: was at that time. So I just believe he's going
Speaker 7: to run for the center because he just everything, everything
Speaker 7: comes out of his mouth as I want more power.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
Speaker 7: Andy Basheer needs to I mean, he needs to be
Speaker 7: put down and stayed down by Tom Massey as Senator
Speaker 7: for the state, because I can see, Man, what a
Speaker 7: pair Rand Paul and Tom Massey as our senators hopefully
Speaker 7: caw listen.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Dick, You're right. And I know
Speaker 1: by taking Tom I suggested Secretary Agriculture and by putting
Speaker 1: him in that role, as awesome as he would be
Speaker 1: in that role, he's no longer a representative for the
Speaker 1: state of Kentucky. And you're right, I think, well, as
Speaker 1: long as Thomas Massey is in some elected capacity, in
Speaker 1: some position of power, the more power for Thomas Massey,
Speaker 1: the better for America. Dick. Then I'll take it so
Speaker 1: and thank you, Dick, and everybody else in Kentucky who
Speaker 1: is responsible for Thomas Massey being around. God bless all
Speaker 1: of you.
Speaker 7: Well, I can tell you I didn't vote for him
Speaker 7: this time, and only because he was running on a post.
Speaker 8: But that's that's the old that's the old.
Speaker 7: Thing I learned from my dad was if they run unopposed,
Speaker 7: you only need one vote.
Speaker 1: You know, it saves you. It saves you having to
Speaker 1: fill in the little box.
Speaker 7: Yes, saved save that, you know, an eighth of a
Speaker 7: gram of ink.
Speaker 1: This is not a win right out of the gate.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's a win right out of
Speaker 1: the gate, but it's an acknowledgment by the folks in
Speaker 1: the area that nobody can beat Thomas Vassey. Keep them coming, Dick,
Speaker 1: you got more over there. Come on, let's get him
Speaker 1: in office. Have a great weekend, man. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 1: I can get me one stack of stupid story in here,
Speaker 1: so let's go with the one that's on the top.
Speaker 1: A drunk, naked, feces covered British man crashed to the
Speaker 1: ceiling of an internet cafe in what is called a
Speaker 1: notoriously cedy holiday destination. UH apparently understood that the fifty
Speaker 1: one year old tourists plunged through his hotel balcony, even
Speaker 1: found dangling above the busy cafe in Thailand. Hotel staff
Speaker 1: said the British man could be heard making loud groans
Speaker 1: and banging around his room before hearing the humongous bang.
Speaker 1: Moments later, the man's legs were dangling above his shocked
Speaker 1: cafe goers as he cried for help. At least in
Speaker 1: Paramedics attended to the scene quickly found the guy in
Speaker 1: a dazed state trapped between wooden boards. No witnesses saw
Speaker 1: him plummet through the roof, but his crash landing forced
Speaker 1: the folks there to flee due to the stench. One
Speaker 1: customer said quote at the time, the shop was full
Speaker 1: of people, more than twenty people. I was sitting playing
Speaker 1: games downstairs, and after a while I heard the first thump.
Speaker 1: I didn't think much of it. After a while, there
Speaker 1: was another thump. The ceiling started to break more and
Speaker 1: then there were legs coming down right on my head.
Speaker 1: So I called the staff to come and look. And
Speaker 1: after a while he said it seemed like the ceiling
Speaker 1: started to sink. Those very shocks, so I ran up
Speaker 1: to look. I smelled it, but I thought it was
Speaker 1: a broken water pipe or something. Cops later checked on
Speaker 1: the British Man's room, where horrified to allegedly find feces
Speaker 1: smeared across the floor, the bed, the sheets and the blankets.
Speaker 1: Police say they were suspicious around what the man was
Speaker 1: doing as he plummeted through the balcony. Police Lieutenant there
Speaker 1: Tanawe Yarn guests see said the tourist had minor injuries,
Speaker 1: but he will be discharged from the hospital to have
Speaker 1: time to rest and become sober. Excuse me, we have
Speaker 1: some ideas about what he was doing in the room
Speaker 1: to make it so dirty, but there was nothing illegal.
Speaker 1: Man taken to the hospital for a checkup and to
Speaker 1: sober up in a safe environment.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Five fifty sixty five care see de talk station. Stick around.
Speaker 1: It's Tech Friday coming up at six thirty. God bless
Speaker 1: Dave hat or an Interest it for sponsoring the segment,
Speaker 1: keeping us well out of trouble. And yes, your smart
Speaker 1: TV apparently is spying on you. That'll be the first
Speaker 1: topic with David six thirty. We'll have time to talk
Speaker 1: between now and then. I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 1: It's six oh five on a Friday. In a happy one,
Speaker 1: say Brian Thomas, wishing everyone happy Friday. We've got some
Speaker 1: great plans going on this weekend, and I hope you
Speaker 1: feel phil like Colin call me on five one three, seven, four,
Speaker 1: nine fifty five eight hundred eight two to three talk
Speaker 1: not to be a dead horse. You've been listening since five,
Speaker 1: you know. And I just want to qualify this for
Speaker 1: folks who are just tuning and struggling with really deep
Speaker 1: kind of heavy heavy inside cough, so I apologize. I'm
Speaker 1: doing my best not to interrupt the conversation with having
Speaker 1: to hit the cough button. But if you hear some silence,
Speaker 1: you'll know exactly what's going on in my world, which
Speaker 1: again is why I'm looking for a little additional support
Speaker 1: this morning. So far as conversation is concern, but managed
Speaker 1: to get through one hour, and I hope it'd be
Speaker 1: able to make it through the balance. I'm not overly
Speaker 1: concerned as long as you can deal with a couple
Speaker 1: of hiccups here and there. Tech Friday with Dave Hatter
Speaker 1: coming up to the bottom of the hour, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be talking. This is I can't wait to hear about
Speaker 1: these smart TVs. He says they're spying on you, and
Speaker 1: I've known that, and I haven't bought a TV in
Speaker 1: a long time. And one of the reasons is, you know,
Speaker 1: first off, I don't really need a TV. The other
Speaker 1: one is I think they're all smart now, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna find out are there anything other than smart TVs
Speaker 1: available out there? Because I don't really appreciate the idea
Speaker 1: of be inspired upon. Also, data brokers are tracking your
Speaker 1: phone and on the heels of that racist text messages
Speaker 1: that went a message that went out over the entire country,
Speaker 1: all over the place, New York, Alabama, California, here in
Speaker 1: Ohio is locally reported Pennsylvania, Tennessee. It's just just a
Speaker 1: disgusting text and they claim it came from well, the
Speaker 1: text itself suggests it came from Trump or Maga. And
Speaker 1: if you believe that I got a bridge and actually
Speaker 1: a couple of bridges and a planet or two, I
Speaker 1: want to sell you. And given that I've got another
Speaker 1: article on run by Dave Hatter as well, the United
Speaker 1: States Agency Federal Agency issued a directive to employees generally
Speaker 1: to reduce the use of cell phones for work matters
Speaker 1: because of China's recent hack of the United States telecommunications infrastructure.
Speaker 1: So Chief Information off of the Consumer Financial Protection Beer
Speaker 1: warned that internal and external work related meetings and conversations
Speaker 1: involving non public data should only be held on certain
Speaker 1: platforms like Microsoft Teams and Cisco's WebEx, but not on
Speaker 1: work issued personal phones. Dave Hatter has warned us a
Speaker 1: number of times about the fact that your data is
Speaker 1: being stolen. That if you've got a bunch of apps
Speaker 1: on your phone like TikTok. They've gathered up literally everything
Speaker 1: on your phone, all your text back and forth, what
Speaker 1: you you know, your contact information. They know everything there
Speaker 1: is to know about you. And if they want to
Speaker 1: send out a pot stirring, evil text to further divide America,
Speaker 1: that's going to be in their best interest, like it
Speaker 1: is for the Iranians and the Russians and anybody else
Speaker 1: who hates us, They're going to do it. So you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got a text. It was offensive, it was racist,
Speaker 1: It never should have happened. But in the world in
Speaker 1: which we find ourselves, I mean, let's be logical and
Speaker 1: reasonable about that. And does anyone really in the right
Speaker 1: mind think that a true, really true Trump supporter or
Speaker 1: Maga folks would want to send something like that to
Speaker 1: further divide our country. If that is indeed the case,
Speaker 1: and that guy's out there or these people are out there, now,
Speaker 1: there's a special place in hell that's been reserved for them.
Speaker 1: Beelzebelb's got a devil put aside for the whole lot
Speaker 1: of them. So that's uh, I just want to get
Speaker 1: that out of my system, because you know, we are
Speaker 1: in little rather tense times right now. So don't buy
Speaker 1: into the narrative that this has anything to do with well,
Speaker 1: more conservative minded folks who went with Trump, probably because
Speaker 1: they're grocery bill is through the roof and they're a
Speaker 1: little concerned about the security here in the United States
Speaker 1: of America given the open borders. Before I move on,
Speaker 1: let's see what Jeff's got this morning. Jeff, thanks for colling,
Speaker 1: and welcome to the Morning Show.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Brian, hope you get better.
Speaker 1: Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Hey, Hey, On November thirteenth, Mitch McConnell was pushing through
Speaker 8: this secret ballot vote for the new Senate GOP leadership.
Speaker 8: It actually bi lates GOP bylaws, and the two people
Speaker 8: at the top of the list are Senator Johnson and
Speaker 8: Senator John Cornying, two never Trumpers. Tim Scott, I guess
Speaker 8: from Florida. He's in the Runnie. I think it's really
Speaker 8: important to have a solid Senator GOP later from the
Speaker 8: get go, so they don't do the same thing they
Speaker 8: did in twenty sixteen and block Trump's agenda.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Well, I agree with it with
Speaker 1: the latter part. But Jeff, let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: what day did you say they're supposed to vote on this.
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with the legislation, and I apologize them,
Speaker 1: but they're doing this before the new Senate gets sworn in.
Speaker 8: Yeah, violates goot bylaws. They're doing it November thirteenth. Mitch
Speaker 8: McConnell is pushing it through. And it's supposed to be
Speaker 8: done in January when all the new Senators take their seats,
Speaker 8: but for some reason, Mitch McConnell is pushing this through
Speaker 8: on November thirteenth.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, that in and of itself is a massive
Speaker 1: red flag. And I have no idea what is in that.
Speaker 1: But the idea that you're going to vote on something
Speaker 1: like that before the new Senate gets sworn in, where
Speaker 1: there will be a majority Republican Republican balance in the
Speaker 1: Senate seems really fishy, my friend. So I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to look further into that. And you know that the
Speaker 1: Republicans may Yeah, and the Republicans, remember the Republicans made
Speaker 1: the argument that no, we're not going to vote in
Speaker 1: a new Supreme Court when we've got a new Congress
Speaker 1: being elected, and we right, Okay, same argument applies right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that goes to.
Speaker 8: Soon got on TV the other day and he told, uh,
Speaker 8: the interviewer, Trump needs to keep his Basically, Trump needs
Speaker 8: to keep his nose out of it, which is you
Speaker 8: know the way they they do. You know, he's supposed
Speaker 8: to keep his nose out of it. But Soon saying
Speaker 8: tell him Trump, you know, don't get involved, it burns. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it brings up some red flags for sure.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what my perception to Trump is, if
Speaker 1: you tell him don't get involved, then the first thing
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna do is get in evolved. So I came,
Speaker 1: I'll look into that and I'll keep my popcorn out
Speaker 1: on that one. But yeah, that sounds like just on
Speaker 1: its face and again not knowing what the substance of
Speaker 1: this vote is. If it has a profound impact on
Speaker 1: the next Senate, Uh, then I'm going to call Shenanigan's
Speaker 1: declaration on it right away and yeah for.
Speaker 8: The next GOP later. Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 1: Uh, well, hey it's Mitch McConnell. Does this Does it
Speaker 1: shock anybody?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 1: Anyhow? I appreciate the heads up, Jeff. I'll have to
Speaker 1: look into it, but it doesn't sound right on it.
Speaker 8: Or you're elected officials and say no secret ballot.
Speaker 1: No secret ballots. I'm away with that. I like transparency. Hank.
Speaker 1: Appreciate the call this morning. Welcome to the morning, showing
Speaker 1: a happy Friday to you, sir.
Speaker 2: Brian.
Speaker 10: I appreciate you taking my call, man, and I enjoyed
Speaker 10: meeting the other day, the listening a lot.
Speaker 1: Great meeting you, Hank. I'm glad you're able to make it.
Speaker 1: That was a very celebratory environment. I really happy that
Speaker 1: it was that, rather than sitting at the bar drinking ourselves.
Speaker 11: Into stupid hou yeah, into the morning that we that
Speaker 11: we're hearing from the the radicals and especially the foolishness
Speaker 11: coming out of CNN. But I wanted to call in
Speaker 11: this morning, brother and have the out and talk to
Speaker 11: my black brothers, especially since, uh, you know, we've called
Speaker 11: out so much this election, and now we even got
Speaker 11: some black sisters going around talking about how outraged they are,
Speaker 11: blaming the black men for this morning that they're in
Speaker 11: right now. And I just wanted to talk to my
Speaker 11: black brothers who are like myself, who possibly didn't vote
Speaker 11: for Trump the first time, but and talk to them
Speaker 11: about why we voted this time and let my brothers. Know, listen,
Speaker 11: you aint the only one you need, the only one
Speaker 11: to the a risk. And now we're sitting back with
Speaker 11: arms folded and saying we'll see because here's what's true.
Speaker 11: They could not defeat what was going on with the economy.
Speaker 11: You can throw out all the lies, claim everybody's racists,
Speaker 11: call them Hitler and all that kind of stuff. I
Speaker 11: don't care about that, Brian, not like they.
Speaker 5: Think I should.
Speaker 10: Listen, brother, when I go to the grocery store and
Speaker 10: I can't get out of Costco with less than three
Speaker 10: hundred dollars and I got a quarter of a grocery basketfull,
Speaker 10: I got three teenage boys. Brian, that's unacceptable. We can't
Speaker 10: roll like that. I drive for a certain ride share
Speaker 10: company early in the morning, and I pick up passengers
Speaker 10: from about four in the morning at about nine, and brother,
Speaker 10: the cost of gasoline means something to me, okay, And
Speaker 10: you can call them the Cheeto dictator from day one,
Speaker 10: Hitler and all that kind of stuff. All I know
Speaker 10: is that when he was in office, I filled up
Speaker 10: for a dollar seventy cent per gallon. I took a
Speaker 10: picture of it with my cell phone because I hadn't
Speaker 10: seen prices like that since I was in the Navy
Speaker 10: in the nineties early nineties.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 10: Yes, So for all my brothers, listen, there are more
Speaker 10: of us than you think. And if some of the
Speaker 10: black women want to be mad at us, they'll be
Speaker 10: all right. But most of the time, it's us that's
Speaker 10: going to the grocery store. And I'm speaking to those
Speaker 10: black brothers, y'all keep on voting. Find some other conservative
Speaker 10: brothers that you can talk to and talk through these
Speaker 10: issues about. Don't believe the lies that these people are
Speaker 10: telling us, because America has spoken and we have said,
Speaker 10: I believe my wallet more than I believe your lies.
Speaker 1: Very very thoughtful analogy. I know there was probably a
Speaker 1: bit of a nose holding to do that. I get
Speaker 1: that all day long. And believe me, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of people that voted for Trump that did hold
Speaker 1: their nose to a certain degree for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1: But you're right in the final analysis, you're the one
Speaker 1: that went grocery shopping. You're the one that fills your tank,
Speaker 1: You're the one that sees where we're going in this
Speaker 1: country culturally. Even I think it probably rubs a lot
Speaker 1: of folks on even both sides of the ledger a
Speaker 1: little bit wrong. I keep going back to guys in
Speaker 1: girls' bathrooms and women having to compete against men in sports.
Speaker 1: It just seems so bizarre. So you buy, you put
Speaker 1: aside the offense that Trump might bring to the table,
Speaker 1: and you look at what he is promising to offer,
Speaker 1: and you know what, Hank, I'm with you. I hope
Speaker 1: he delivers. We know we felt very strongly that Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris was not going to deliver on lower prices or
Speaker 1: anything like that. So give Trump a shot. It worked
Speaker 1: out the first time. We all didn't die, the world
Speaker 1: didn't end, the democracy or republic has firm and strong,
Speaker 1: and I believe that's still going to be the case
Speaker 1: after four years of Trump. But we're all gonna find
Speaker 1: out together. But I really appreciate your thoughtful analysis. And
Speaker 1: you're reaching out to your fellow black brothers as well
Speaker 1: as maybe black sisters who will find the grocery prices
Speaker 1: are lowered down the road. And wouldn't that be a
Speaker 1: wonderful thing for everybody? God bless you, Hank. Thanks for
Speaker 1: calling in this morning. I really appreciate Its six seventeen
Speaker 1: right now, fifty five cares to the detalk station six
Speaker 1: twenty three fifty five Karsie Detalk Station. Anybody else happy
Speaker 1: It's Friday, David. That is a Deafmit. Yes, over to
Speaker 1: the phones. I'm gonna go right now. And I really
Speaker 1: appreciate all the calls this morning. It's been very refreshing
Speaker 1: and it does help take the strain off well my
Speaker 1: voice and well for me having to cough. So let's
Speaker 1: see what Paul's got this morning. Paul, thanks for calling
Speaker 1: this morning, and very happy Friday to you, sir.
Speaker 2: Hey name right back at you, Brian, and prayers every
Speaker 2: day for you.
Speaker 12: Hey, I'm five years out from prostate cancer, so there
Speaker 12: is a lot of hope and medical improvements and all
Speaker 12: this kind of stuff going on.
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping only the best for you.
Speaker 1: I can't thank you. And you know what I always
Speaker 1: have to remind folks, you know, you get cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 1: I won the lottery of cancer diagnosis. I have low
Speaker 1: spectrum lymphoma. It sucks, it's got side effects, but my
Speaker 1: doctors and I'm in good quality care, said Brian, you
Speaker 1: probably die with it, not from it, so we just
Speaker 1: stay on it. We'll keep your symptoms at Bay and
Speaker 1: everything's going to be fine. So my attitude is a
Speaker 1: very very positive one. But man, I'm telling you that
Speaker 1: it is just so beautiful that when people wish you
Speaker 1: well and express concern for you. And that's why I
Speaker 1: keep going back to folks who are offering prayers generally speaking, Man,
Speaker 1: that is just it's a wonderful thing. It's just.
Speaker 2: Ohc people. I mean, they are a godsend.
Speaker 1: Yes they are.
Speaker 2: I love them.
Speaker 12: Getting back to my brother Hank, Yeah, I'm white, but
Speaker 12: he's my brother.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: That's my viewpoint.
Speaker 2: Hey, my family's Democrat. We come from coal miners down
Speaker 2: there in Harlan, Kentucky, and my dad and his brother, Grandpa,
Speaker 2: all of them were coal miners. Were always voted Democrat, Democrat,
Speaker 2: blue and blue. So but in nineteen eighty my dad
Speaker 2: he said, son, you know, we need to listen to
Speaker 2: this man named Ronald Reagan, and he said he makes
Speaker 2: good sense. I know we always Democrat, but I'm going
Speaker 2: to vote for him this year. And ever since then,
Speaker 2: we yeah, we held our nose. We said, man, this
Speaker 2: is strange, this is not right, it doesn't feel good
Speaker 2: or whatever, but we went ahead and voted, and sure, enough,
Speaker 2: he turned out to be the one of the greatest
Speaker 2: presidents in our history. And so to me, when you
Speaker 2: size everything up, like Hank was saying, I remember on
Speaker 2: election night twenty twenty, when Biden wins, I'm going up
Speaker 2: and down the strip on Route four heading into work,
Speaker 2: A worked third shift, and every gas station was a
Speaker 2: dollar eighty two cents a gallon every gas station. Now,
Speaker 2: gas Buddy, if you want to confirm that, just look
Speaker 2: on gas Buddy and see what the national average was
Speaker 2: the election night twenty twenty. Yeah, and it was a
Speaker 2: dollar eighty seven. And during Trump's tenure, my goodness, gas
Speaker 2: was always under two dollars, and so ever since, and
Speaker 2: then from that night, from a buck eighty two. On
Speaker 2: January twentieth, when Biden took office, it was two thirty two.
Speaker 2: So it went up fifty cents and it's been going
Speaker 2: up ever since. And so who has control of you know,
Speaker 2: who's really looking at for my wallet? And if I've
Speaker 2: had to pay an extra dollar or two or three
Speaker 2: for every gallon of gas I've had to buy for
Speaker 2: four years, how is that good for my family? It's not.
Speaker 2: It is not you brothers, my black brothers, and sisters,
Speaker 2: please please start thinking with your wallet and you've got
Speaker 2: to get off this demo crat plantation. Please get off
Speaker 2: of that Democrat plan taste.
Speaker 1: I love you all, Love you to Paul, God bless
Speaker 1: you and thank you so much for the well wishes
Speaker 1: and sound words of wisdom. Six twenty eight fifty five
Speaker 1: They Talk Station Dave Hatter next smart TVs spying on
Speaker 1: you first topic of conversation and I cannot wait to
Speaker 1: hear about that. A little behind time here as we
Speaker 1: started interest Its Tech Friday with Dave Hatter interest I
Speaker 1: dot com or you get Dave and the crew working
Speaker 1: on your computer related your business computer related issues. Dave,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the program. Struggling with my uh voice
Speaker 1: this morning. Apologies, congratulations on being the Kentucky elected official
Speaker 1: of the year. Just saw that notice you are the man.
Speaker 1: Oh thanks, Let's, without further ado dive into if you
Speaker 1: don't mind jumping right into smart TVs which are spying
Speaker 1: on us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a little voice problem myself this morning. Okay,
Speaker 4: so we can we can commiserate with each other. Go now.
Speaker 4: I guess my first question for you when you listening
Speaker 4: would be, is anyone surprised to know that you're smart
Speaker 4: TV is spying.
Speaker 1: On not anymore. I just want to know are their
Speaker 1: options to smart TVs if I want to buy a
Speaker 1: new TV, are they all smart? Or can you avoid
Speaker 1: this crap?
Speaker 4: Well, it's really hard to avoid it. I'm not aware
Speaker 4: of any manufacturer that makes TVs that don't at least
Speaker 4: have this capability. But here here's the problem with it.
Speaker 4: And then I'll tell you what you can do to
Speaker 4: try to limit your exposure because at this point, again,
Speaker 4: I'm not aware of any manufacturer that makes a TV
Speaker 4: that isn't smart quote unquote, and you know, people can't
Speaker 4: see my fingers doing the air quote as we say this.
Speaker 4: You know all of these sort of IoT devices because
Speaker 4: these things, you know, they have a perverse incentive versus
Speaker 4: your incentive is someone that might care about your privacy
Speaker 4: and security. These things are often, if not normally, made
Speaker 4: in China. Their goal is speed to market, market share,
Speaker 4: and ease of use. And anytime you're focused on ease
Speaker 4: of use, you're almost always at the expense of privacy
Speaker 4: and security. So again, whether it's something like an ring
Speaker 4: doorbell or a smart TV or whatever, the smart TVs,
Speaker 4: I think they are particularly insidious in how they work.
Speaker 4: If you have concerns about this. Now, I'm not saying
Speaker 4: that everything this does is some sort of evil plot,
Speaker 4: but I think it's like so many of these other
Speaker 4: smart devices, they play off the fact that people don't
Speaker 4: really understand how any of this works. They don't understand
Speaker 4: how much surveillance can be done on them, and you know,
Speaker 4: they don't really go into it with informed consent. As
Speaker 4: I've said to you many times over the last ten years,
Speaker 4: if you understand what you're signing up for when you
Speaker 4: use these things, and you understand the potential risks, and
Speaker 4: you choose to move forward, well that's on you. You're
Speaker 4: an adult. Do what you want, right, But I don't
Speaker 4: think most people really get again, just how invasive this
Speaker 4: kind of surveillance can be. Now most of these new
Speaker 4: smart TVs, probably all of them, and you may see
Speaker 4: the term CTV for connected TV. That's sort of another
Speaker 4: term you might find if you look into this. You know,
Speaker 4: they have microphones so you can talk to them. So
Speaker 4: there's a potential problem. The thing might be listening to you,
Speaker 4: it could be recording what you're saying. And I would
Speaker 4: remind folks. In addition to the fact that recent information
Speaker 4: has come out that a company that people like Facebook
Speaker 4: works with who claim they are listening to you, because
Speaker 4: Facebook has claimed they're not. If you think about it, Brian,
Speaker 4: any so called smart device that you can talk to
Speaker 4: for whatever purpose must be listening to you in order
Speaker 4: to know when you wanted to do something right.
Speaker 1: Always scene makes sense to me along those lines, Dave.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So, so with that said, you know, if it
Speaker 4: has a microphone, it could be listening to you. Some
Speaker 4: of these things have cameras in them. But the real
Speaker 4: bottom line, and this is going to be a good
Speaker 4: segue into another topic this morning, is these TVs come
Speaker 4: with what's known as an advertising ID, and then that
Speaker 4: advertising ID when you watch things, is connected back to you,
Speaker 4: and it might be connected to other devices. So you
Speaker 4: know a lot of people will use their phone or
Speaker 4: tablet or PC while they're watching TV. You're coming from
Speaker 4: the same IP address. It's possible, through the use of
Speaker 4: cooking keys and browser fingerprinting and things like that, to
Speaker 4: connect that while you were watching this show, you were
Speaker 4: also doing this on your phone. That must mean that
Speaker 4: you like this, So let's sell you some ads. But
Speaker 4: One of the things they point out specifically in here
Speaker 4: is a lot of these free channels that are streaming based,
Speaker 4: they point out to be and specifically are essentially designed
Speaker 4: for tracking you. And you know, they'll see while you're
Speaker 4: watching a show, how that show is ranked in terms
Speaker 4: of like it's psychographic impact on people, and then they'll
Speaker 4: put ads in there based on that, so you know,
Speaker 4: again it's collecting enormous amounts of information about you. There
Speaker 4: was a lawsuit against Visio at one point, like every
Speaker 4: second they were taking a screenshot of what you were watching.
Speaker 4: So if you think when you're using one of these
Speaker 4: smart TVs you have any privacy whatsoever and out by default,
Speaker 4: you do not. Now I answer your question, what can
Speaker 4: you do about it? Well, it's tough. I mean I
Speaker 4: would remind everyone you could buy a smart TV and
Speaker 4: then just not connect it to the internet, right, you know,
Speaker 4: use it like an old TV. Now, of course, that's
Speaker 4: going to significantly limit how the capabilities of the TV.
Speaker 4: Another thing you could do would be instead of giving
Speaker 4: your data to let's say a Samsung or a Visio
Speaker 4: or whoever makes the TV, you could use a different
Speaker 4: streaming product like a Roku or something now it's going
Speaker 4: to track you to. It's just a question of who's
Speaker 4: getting all that data right.
Speaker 1: Right, your laptop would be getting the TV signal, which
Speaker 1: would be transferred to your TV, which is not hooked up.
Speaker 1: Meaning whatever protections you have on your laptop like a
Speaker 1: VPN might offer additional security that a smart TV hooked
Speaker 1: directly up would not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or I mean you could. There's a lot of
Speaker 4: different ways you can potentially choke off some of this flow,
Speaker 4: but a lot of it boils down to going into
Speaker 4: the settings on the TV itself and seeing what you
Speaker 4: can disable. You know, can you turn off any of
Speaker 4: this sort of tracking? You know, use either some kind
Speaker 4: of privacy settings. Now you get into the privacy washing
Speaker 4: and the dark patterns of the stuff's hidden, and they
Speaker 4: don't really want you to turn it off, right. Well,
Speaker 4: but you may be able to, on any given TV
Speaker 4: disable some of this stuff. You might be able to,
Speaker 4: like if something will let me, but if it will
Speaker 4: let me turn it off, I'll go in and change
Speaker 4: that advertising idea every once in a while, just so
Speaker 4: it's harder to track me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know me, I never run a call
Speaker 1: for legislation, but the technology to turn this stuff off
Speaker 1: does exist widely in the world. It's not expensive. Everything
Speaker 1: should have the option to let us decide what goes
Speaker 1: out into the world. Period end of story, exclamation point,
Speaker 1: and I'll reserve my explotives for when the microphone is off. Dave,
Speaker 1: we got to take a break or out of time
Speaker 1: and six forty fifty five krcity talks station so far
Speaker 1: behind six forty four fifty five krcity talks. See if
Speaker 1: we try to make some time back up. Dave had
Speaker 1: our interest it dot com. Thank you for you and
Speaker 1: the teams scheduling the segment on Tech Friday, data brokers
Speaker 1: also tracking our phones. I suppose we shouldn't be shocked
Speaker 1: by this either.
Speaker 4: You know, again, Brian Good, segue from the previous topic,
Speaker 4: because this stuff is all related. I just have to
Speaker 4: once again remind people, as we've done so many times,
Speaker 4: that these companies that are making extremely low cost products
Speaker 4: or giving you anything for free, believe it or not,
Speaker 4: are not making it for free. You become their product.
Speaker 4: They capture your data, they monetize that data. And I
Speaker 4: think as we're finding out slowly in chunks, as I
Speaker 4: mentioned that last segment, we've now seen a company claim
Speaker 4: that they've worked with companies like Facebook. They're listening to
Speaker 4: you all the time. So when people say, how is
Speaker 4: it possible that I'm having a private conversation with my
Speaker 4: spouse and suddenly I get ads for X, Well, it's
Speaker 4: due to all of this sort of thing. You know,
Speaker 4: any so called smart device certainly has the capability to
Speaker 4: track you in some way if they want to, and
Speaker 4: most of them do because again, they're either making additional
Speaker 4: money even if you paid for something, and you know,
Speaker 4: recurring money, or that's how they're offsetting the cost of
Speaker 4: whatever they're providing to you for free quote unquote. So
Speaker 4: this story I thought was really interesting because basically it's
Speaker 4: saying that they can track your phone using a variety
Speaker 4: of different techniques, and it comes back to that advertising
Speaker 4: identifier again. You know, Apple and Google both give your
Speaker 4: phone an advertising identifier as well as other types of
Speaker 4: unique identifiers that identify it to the carrier, network and
Speaker 4: so forth. But the point they're making out here is
Speaker 4: that you can use this advertising ID to track where
Speaker 4: the phone is going. They sell this data to various
Speaker 4: data brokers, and that's how over time, these incredibly detailed
Speaker 4: and grantular dossiers are built up about you, so you
Speaker 4: know whether it's location tracking, it's the thing you're viewing,
Speaker 4: things you're viewing on the phone. Some of this gets
Speaker 4: sold to data broker X by application Y, some of
Speaker 4: it gets sold to another data broker. They sell this
Speaker 4: stuff amongst each other, and then over time again you
Speaker 4: have this unbelievably granular and detailed dossier about you, where
Speaker 4: you've been, what you're doing. And you know, I know
Speaker 4: some people will say, well, I don't care about that.
Speaker 4: I have nothing to hide, and I would just remind folks.
Speaker 4: Just in the past six months, we've seen two massive
Speaker 4: data breaches, the National Public Data Data Breach and mc square.
Speaker 4: Both of these are background check companies where they have
Speaker 4: incredibly sensitive information about you. Think about it, Brian, If
Speaker 4: I had all the background check information about you, I'd
Speaker 4: know places you worked, places you lived, your family members,
Speaker 4: all kinds of other information. So whether I wanted to
Speaker 4: impersonate you and commit fraud in your name, or I
Speaker 4: wanted to attack you and have legitimacy because I know
Speaker 4: information that only the legitimate player would know. That kind
Speaker 4: of data provides that, and the more data that gets
Speaker 4: collected about you by these sorts of hidden tracking capabilities.
Speaker 4: You know, that's all feeding into this. Then when it
Speaker 4: gets breached or leaked, it comes back to bite you.
Speaker 4: And that's why you should care about these.
Speaker 1: Indeed, and you know judgement Paulitano has mentioned this before,
Speaker 1: and he's not the only one that's brought it up.
Speaker 1: When you wonder why a politician votes a certain way
Speaker 1: which seems to fly directly in the face of what
Speaker 1: he or she had campaigned on her you previously stood for,
Speaker 1: you may have the answer right there. Dave Hatter, let's pause.
Speaker 1: Exactly frightening stuff. Apparently, businesses have lost a lot of
Speaker 1: money in email scans, a huge amount. It's six fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty five k RC detoxation interest dot com. That's
Speaker 1: where you find Dave Hatter and his team. If you
Speaker 1: have a business, you have computers, and he'll keep you
Speaker 1: from stepping in it, hopefully best practices and avoiding all
Speaker 1: the problems. And we talk about speaking and stepping in it,
Speaker 1: and real quick here we'll talk about the email scans
Speaker 1: and how much it's cost businesses. Speaking of that, but
Speaker 1: real quick here, Rick wanted to know, and I think
Speaker 1: it's a great question, because I don't know, but it
Speaker 1: sounds good. Can my router be configured to block out
Speaker 1: going packets from the television?
Speaker 4: Potentially? Yes, It's going to depend on the capabilities of
Speaker 4: your router, how smart it is.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: One of the things you could do too, to protect
Speaker 4: your other devices from any smart device would be to
Speaker 4: set up what nerds like you would call a v
Speaker 4: land and basically create a separate network inside your network
Speaker 4: so these smart devices can't talk to other devices. You
Speaker 4: could potentially, you know, if if the TV is using
Speaker 4: a domain name or something to send it back to
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, you could potentially configure your devices to
Speaker 4: try to block that traffic. The problem, Brian is most
Speaker 4: people wouldn't even know how to ask that question. You know,
Speaker 4: you could go online and probably get some help depending
Speaker 4: on your specific device, It is theoretically possible.
Speaker 1: To do that. Well, there's your next business model there.
Speaker 1: You need to set out to help homes secure themselves
Speaker 1: and keep their smart devices from revealing all the information
Speaker 1: in the world. I think the first thing you do
Speaker 1: is just don't get an Alexa type device anyway. Business
Speaker 1: email scams.
Speaker 4: So this is a huge problem, Brian. We see this regularly,
Speaker 4: and it really you know, it's kind of shocking to
Speaker 4: me how bad this problem is and how much money
Speaker 4: is being lost as a result this. The FBI says
Speaker 4: it's fifty five billion dollars from twenty thirteen to twenty three.
Speaker 4: I can tell you that I believe it's a lot
Speaker 4: more than that.
Speaker 1: Businesses don't report it. You've mentioned that so many times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in many cases, unless there's a regulatory reason to
Speaker 4: report it, they won't. Right I have firsthand knowledge of
Speaker 4: a company here in Cincinnati that was referred to us
Speaker 4: after this un unfortunate situation like this. They lost nine
Speaker 4: hundred and eighty three thousand dollars. Think about that for
Speaker 4: a second. And this often occurs because people do not
Speaker 4: have strong passwords, strong unique passwords, and they don't have
Speaker 4: MFA turned on. If I can get into your email,
Speaker 4: I can look around in there and figure out, like, well,
Speaker 4: who do you communicate with on a regular basis? Right now?
Speaker 4: For a frontline employee working in a factory, maybe I
Speaker 4: won't ever get access to this kind of information, but
Speaker 4: I might also be able to move latterly within your
Speaker 4: network once I'm in there. But if I can get
Speaker 4: into let's say, like someone that works in your accounting
Speaker 4: department or your finance department because they have a bad
Speaker 4: password and or no MFA. I'm eventually going to figure out,
Speaker 4: if I have enough time, how to get to some money.
Speaker 4: It often involves fraudulent invoicing or request for wire transfers.
Speaker 4: I know we don't have time today, but I think
Speaker 4: I told the story. Not too long after I became
Speaker 4: mayor and Fort Wright, the city clerk, got an email
Speaker 4: that looked like it came for me. Wanted to do
Speaker 4: an international wire transfer, and thankfully, you know, she said,
Speaker 4: find the world with the city of Fort right, Kentucky,
Speaker 4: do an international wire transfer. Yeah, picked up the phone
Speaker 4: and called me, which is always the right answer. Anytime
Speaker 4: there's any question about something, especially if it's financial, you
Speaker 4: should stop what you're doing and either call your IT
Speaker 4: people or your manager or the CEO or whomever and
Speaker 4: say is this legit? Right? But the scope and scale
Speaker 4: of this is insane, And I'm just telling people from
Speaker 4: someone that works in the field. Every day, we see
Speaker 4: this all the time. These are not ridiculously overblown numbers.
Speaker 4: Business email compromise is happening all the time, and I
Speaker 4: just keep trying to remind people. If you make it easy,
Speaker 4: they will steal your money. Your money has value to
Speaker 4: them because I often well, I'm too small, I don't
Speaker 4: even think we're stealing. Well, your money is worth stealing,
Speaker 4: and they will steal your money if you make it easy.
Speaker 4: The good news is, well, there's nothing that is bulletproof
Speaker 4: against this, Brian. There's a lot of things you can do,
Speaker 4: including training, that will significantly reduce the likelihood of a
Speaker 4: successful attack. But if you don't take it seriously, and
Speaker 4: if you allow people to not have strong unique passwords
Speaker 4: and not use MFA, you are eventually going to fall
Speaker 4: prey to one of these kinds of scams. It's just
Speaker 4: a matter of time until they find you with something
Speaker 4: that's compelling to people.
Speaker 1: Well and find you. They will, and it usually those
Speaker 1: require an individual on the other side, you know, picking
Speaker 1: up a phone or launching the attack. They do this
Speaker 1: remotely with bots and and bot farms, and you know,
Speaker 1: just flip a switch. You got thousands of basically micro
Speaker 1: computers going to work trying to get you to you know,
Speaker 1: respond to an email. Doesn't cost them much money at all,
Speaker 1: and it's a volume business, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, think about it, Brian, if I could, if I
Speaker 4: could send you a phishing email that leads to nine
Speaker 4: hundred and eighty three thousand dollars to me, I just
Speaker 4: really that's like some Hillary Clinton type return on investment.
Speaker 1: It is cattle futures, and it's a much easier ROI.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is, Yes, it is.
Speaker 1: It's you know, I had to joke about this. You know,
Speaker 1: if you don't ask, you're you're not going to know.
Speaker 1: This is like go out and ask every woman you
Speaker 1: run into if they want to go out, and eventually
Speaker 1: one of them will. But if you don't ask, they're
Speaker 1: never going to have someone who said yes. If you
Speaker 1: send thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of phishing emails out in the world, somebody's going to
Speaker 1: respond and you're gonna get nine hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Maybe Tech Friday, Dave had or intrust dot COM's where
Speaker 1: you find Dave and the crew you need them if
Speaker 1: you have problems along the lines of what we talk
Speaker 1: about each and every week. Thank you Dave for spending
Speaker 1: time with my listeners and me. I always really truly
Speaker 1: look forward to the segment and appreciate the sage, wisdoms
Speaker 1: and advice. Look forward to your next business venture helping
Speaker 1: individuals and homes avoid the snooping and all the other
Speaker 1: things that go along with it. Until next Friday, my friend,
Speaker 1: have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 4: Always my pleasure, Brian. I look forward to chatting with
Speaker 4: you next week.
Speaker 1: Thanks, take care brother. Coming to It's six eighty seven
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Speaker 1: Alliance Dave Williams will Trump real in government spending. God
Speaker 1: I hope so that and a few more things to
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Speaker 1: November twelve. We'll get the details on that at eight
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Speaker 1: fifty five ker C Detalk Station. Brian Thomas welcoming back
Speaker 1: to the fifty five CARC Morning Show. Dave Williams from
Speaker 1: the Taxpayer Protection Alliance, looking out for where government spending
Speaker 1: our money, usually in the worst possible places and not
Speaker 1: minding the financial shop. Find them online at Protecting Taxpayers
Speaker 1: dot org. Welcome back, Dave Williams, and I'll let you
Speaker 1: know like I've been letting my listeners know this morning.
Speaker 1: Sorry for the repetition for those who been listening all morning.
Speaker 1: I'm struggling with some really deep, long coughing issues, so
Speaker 1: I'll try to do my best not to stumble. But
Speaker 1: if you hear me pause, it's because I'm hitting the
Speaker 1: cough button. Welcome back, Dave Williams. Always love having you
Speaker 1: on the show.
Speaker 9: Brian, good morning. Sorry to hear you're a little bit
Speaker 9: under the weather, and listen. I like to talk, so
Speaker 9: don't worry about us.
Speaker 1: I know you did up the slack. I always enjoy
Speaker 1: all conversations, David. Let us start off with something that
Speaker 1: to me is, if not the most important, got to
Speaker 1: be in the top two most important things, shutting down
Speaker 1: and reeling in government spending. And I was really excited
Speaker 1: about it. I think Elon Musk is just a neat guy.
Speaker 1: He is goofy, he's weird, He's got great ideas. He's
Speaker 1: obviously brilliant, way way way out of the box, and
Speaker 1: is thinking but demonstrably successful, brilliant multi billionaire. He knows
Speaker 1: how to cut government and looks like he's going to
Speaker 1: have at least some sort of role, perhaps a prominent
Speaker 1: role in doing that in the Trump administration. Now, if
Speaker 1: you're a betting man, Dave isn't going to happen.
Speaker 9: Wow, so much to unpack the Yeah, Elon Musk really
Speaker 9: is a fascinating guy, right Tesla SpaceX. I mean, so
Speaker 9: many things that he has his hands in, and he's
Speaker 9: the last month or two he's been talking about this
Speaker 9: Department of Government Efficiency really going through the federal government
Speaker 9: looking for a raceful spending, redundant spending, duplicative, you name it.
Speaker 9: And this really, you know, scratches the itch for me
Speaker 9: when we talk about doing an audit of the federal government,
Speaker 9: and that's what he's talking about, is an audit. I
Speaker 9: remember back in the eighties we had the Grace Commission,
Speaker 9: and this was a really comprehensive look at the federal government.
Speaker 9: I mean it was a long time ago, but it
Speaker 9: really set the tone for auditing the government. And I think,
Speaker 9: you know what, forty years later, now we can do
Speaker 9: the same thing. But we have an advantage forty years later.
Speaker 9: It's technology. We have ways of going inside the government
Speaker 9: now and I'm hoping and looking and finding a government
Speaker 9: waste a lot easier than we did in the nineteen eighties,
Speaker 9: and that's why I'm excited. Now, Brian, I'm not so
Speaker 9: excited if you look at the history of Republicans when
Speaker 9: it comes to spending.
Speaker 1: Amen, Trump right there, go ahead, I'm gonna I'm calling
Speaker 1: out Trump right now. It's one of the biggest criticisms
Speaker 1: I had. I said, he has never been a deficit hawk.
Speaker 1: The government spending went up under his administration. Our deficit
Speaker 1: went up what five trillion under the Trump administration?
Speaker 9: It did you know, and look at before COVID. You know,
Speaker 9: the Democrats would have done nothing different. During COVID. They
Speaker 9: would have spent trillions upon trillions of dollars. But let's
Speaker 9: look at what happened before COVID. When Trump was president,
Speaker 9: we had a deficit of two point two trillion dollars.
Speaker 9: That's concerning. That's very concerning. So now he's coming back
Speaker 9: in January, we're going to have a House and a
Speaker 9: Senate that's going to be controlled, right Republicans, this is
Speaker 9: their opportunity to do something, some meaningful reform, whether a
Speaker 9: speaker Mike Johnson or another speaker who comes in. It's
Speaker 9: time and it's I mean, it's past time. As as
Speaker 9: me honest, I mean we're talking. You know, interest on
Speaker 9: the debt is eight hundred and nine hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 9: That's interest, that's multiple government agencies put together, spending wise.
Speaker 9: And that's why this needs to be addressed immediately. But
Speaker 9: Speaker Johnson has an opportunity to do this. And again,
Speaker 9: you know Trump has been talking about this. If you're
Speaker 9: gonna walk, you know, if you're going to talk the talk,
Speaker 9: you have to walk the walk. But again, their track
Speaker 9: record isn't great.
Speaker 1: No, it's not because politicians have a difficult time saying no.
Speaker 1: I mean they're worried about the next election even though
Speaker 1: the first one. Then the ink isn't even dry on
Speaker 1: Trump winning the other day, and you know they're already
Speaker 1: thinking about two years from now and running again. And
Speaker 1: to cut means you know, boiling it down to its
Speaker 1: bottom line, pissing some people off. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: eradicate jobs in government. Dave, you been following this. The
Speaker 1: biggest growth in jobs has been government jobs. It's been
Speaker 1: nothing but expansion of government over decades, and it just
Speaker 1: got worse over the past three and a half four years. Plage.
Speaker 9: You brought that up because these job numbers where they
Speaker 9: say we've added three hundred thousand jobs. A lot of
Speaker 9: them have been government jobs, mean taxpayer funded jobs, and
Speaker 9: a lot of people don't know that and they think that,
Speaker 9: you know, it's really an illusion of these jobs gains
Speaker 9: have been an illusion because they're really not. When the
Speaker 9: government's adding that means you're subtracting from taxpayers. So, you know,
Speaker 9: the economy is still it's the economy is struggling. You know,
Speaker 9: the administration one to put a happy face on it,
Speaker 9: and you know, they reduced interest rates and did a
Speaker 9: lot of other things, but we're still in a very
Speaker 9: weak and tenuous economy.
Speaker 1: Well, and let's look at the nature of government jobs.
Speaker 1: Unlike the private sector, government jobs live thrive and survive
Speaker 1: on taking money from us out here trying to be
Speaker 1: productive and support a basically a consumer consumption driven economy.
Speaker 1: Government jobs don't create money. They merely confiscate money and
Speaker 1: spend it on the administration and overhead and office space
Speaker 1: and you know, fiddling around and issuing edicts and mandates
Speaker 1: that further restrain our economic activity. It's just it is
Speaker 1: a you know, it isn't a recipe for making money.
Speaker 1: It's taking money out isn't that really the final analysis
Speaker 1: how it boils down, Dave, It.
Speaker 9: Really isn't you know. The best example I can give
Speaker 9: you is the United States Postal Service versus the private
Speaker 9: sector when it comes to seasonal hiring. So everyone's ramping
Speaker 9: up for Christmas and the holidays, you know, deliver packages,
Speaker 9: deliver mail. Well, what the Postal Service does is they
Speaker 9: have seasonal hiring like the private sector, but you have
Speaker 9: the option of becoming full time after Christmas and after
Speaker 9: the holidays, because the unions have negotiated this with the
Speaker 9: Postal Service. Now, if you work for the private sector,
Speaker 9: if it's UPS or Fedexio, no, we're just hiring you
Speaker 9: until January, and we are going to let you go
Speaker 9: because it's seasonal. Hence the term seasonal. The Postal Service
Speaker 9: almost guarantee that if you want a full time job
Speaker 9: after your seasonal employment, you can have it. So there
Speaker 9: you have the difference between the private sector and the
Speaker 9: public sector. And when it comes to stupidity and really
Speaker 9: bad hiring decisions and you know, economic decisions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a wonder and I just I step
Speaker 1: back and I stare at the US Postal Service. How
Speaker 1: many years in a row. Have they lost billions of dollars?
Speaker 1: This has been going on for as long as ey
Speaker 1: as you have been have been talking, if not much longer.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I had a lot more hair when they were
Speaker 9: making money. You know. It's they've lost what one hundred
Speaker 9: and more than one hundred billion dollars over the last
Speaker 9: fifteen years. I mean, this is an entity that has
Speaker 9: a monopoly on first class mail and they're blowing it.
Speaker 9: I mean, I would love to have a monopoly in
Speaker 9: any sort of business, and I guarantee you if I
Speaker 9: had a monopoly, I'd be making money hand over fist.
Speaker 9: But for some reason, the Postal Service, and we know
Speaker 9: a lot of the reasons that the Postal Service just
Speaker 9: came into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate this them, and I know that the
Speaker 1: post guy, that person that delivers my mail is not
Speaker 1: the one that's to blame. It's the model. It's the system,
Speaker 1: and it's the refusal of those in charge to well
Speaker 1: crack down on it for reasons that escape me. Protecting
Speaker 1: Taxpayers dot orgs where you find Dave and the Taxpayer
Speaker 1: Protection Alliance at seven twenty fifty five KERCD Talk Station.
Speaker 1: Happy Friday to you. Somebody's got to look out for
Speaker 1: our money, and someone is protecting taxpayers dot Org, Dave
Speaker 1: william and the Taxpayer Protection Alliance. Dave's joined the program,
Speaker 1: as he does about once a month. And here's an
Speaker 1: interesting question. Is the future looking brighter? Interesting sort of
Speaker 1: loaded question, Dave. I guess it depends on which direction
Speaker 1: we're looking.
Speaker 9: I think the future is looking brighter. Two examples tax reform.
Speaker 9: We have the tax cuts that are going to expire
Speaker 9: at the end of twenty twenty five next year. This
Speaker 9: was Trump's signature piece of legislation, right, I mean, and
Speaker 9: this gave the economy a shot in the arm that
Speaker 9: it desperately need. At the end of twenty seventeen and
Speaker 9: beginning of twenty eighteen, companies sent out thousand dollars bonuses
Speaker 9: to people. It really was a great time, obviously a
Speaker 9: year or so before COVID hit. But we have an
Speaker 9: opportunity to extend the tax cuts to remain competitive around
Speaker 9: the world, but to make sure that people's taxes are
Speaker 9: still relatively low. Listen, there's a lot of work to do.
Speaker 9: I'm not going to lie, but if these tax cuts
Speaker 9: expired would be awful for the economy. We had the trifecta.
Speaker 9: Now we have the House, the Senate, and the White House,
Speaker 9: there is no excuse not to extend the tax cuts.
Speaker 9: So that's where I'm really really excited about. And there's
Speaker 9: a commitment, i think, from everyone in the Republican Party
Speaker 9: to do that. There are differences in the Republican Party
Speaker 9: on some issues, but not when it comes to tax cuts.
Speaker 3: Energy.
Speaker 9: Wow, this is going to be fascinating. Is he going
Speaker 9: to restart the Keystone Excel pipeline in Jane? That was
Speaker 9: Biden's first thing that he did was shut it down
Speaker 9: when he came into office. I would love for Trump
Speaker 9: for that to be one of the first things that
Speaker 9: he does.
Speaker 1: Is there still time to do that? That thing's been
Speaker 1: flipped on and off more times than I care to
Speaker 1: even remember over the past what eight ten years? I mean,
Speaker 1: I've lost track on that day.
Speaker 9: There absolutely is. And what's frustrating is if they if
Speaker 9: Biden wouldn't have done this, that thing would be pumping
Speaker 9: eight hundred thousand barrels of oil into this country a day.
Speaker 9: I mean, that's where we would be, and obviously gas
Speaker 9: prices would be lower, but there'd be a lot more
Speaker 9: jobs in that part of the country. And these are
Speaker 9: good paying jobs, Brian, you know, one hundred thousand dollars jobs.
Speaker 9: So just it's all good for the economy when we
Speaker 9: have more oil exploration and more oil coming into this country.
Speaker 9: And really it's the green energy mandates, you know, just
Speaker 9: getting rid of these mandates. Listen, if you want to
Speaker 9: drive an electric vehicle, go for it.
Speaker 1: I don't care, amen, just don't use.
Speaker 9: My money to do it. You know, we're building all
Speaker 9: of what we're trying to build these charger stations all
Speaker 9: across the country. I think three or four have been built.
Speaker 9: But my bigger question is, Brian, can you imagine if
Speaker 9: they were taxpayer money building gas stations? People would lose
Speaker 9: their minds. Yeah, rightly, so, I mean rightly. So listen,
Speaker 9: our money shouldn't be used to build gas stations or
Speaker 9: charging stations. This is corporate welfare. This should not be happening.
Speaker 9: So but again, I am very optimistic about energy. Come
Speaker 9: next year, and you know what we could see, will
Speaker 9: there be more nuclear plants? Where we see nuclear plants
Speaker 9: being built. We have tech companies that are now moving
Speaker 9: to nuclear and trying to open nuclear plants because their
Speaker 9: data centers take so much energy that they don't want
Speaker 9: to be a draw on the grid. I mean, this
Speaker 9: is what the private sector is doing. Is Trump and
Speaker 9: is Congress? Are they going to move forward with this
Speaker 9: and say okay, it's time that we move more towards nuclear.
Speaker 1: Well I have a strong gu reaction to that, and
Speaker 1: the answer is yes. But note Dave that these tech companies,
Speaker 1: the Googles, the Alphabet whatevers say they're gonna get these
Speaker 1: modular reactors, and no one in the Biden Harris administration
Speaker 1: reacts with the hell, no, you're not going to do
Speaker 1: that three mile while and they actually kind of embraced it.
Speaker 1: They they didn't say no. So, if you're big and
Speaker 1: powerful enough that you have enough money, I suppose to
Speaker 1: donate money to campaigns and spend a billion dollars trying
Speaker 1: to get Kamala Harris lugged. And you're the one that's
Speaker 1: going to get a nuclear power plant. But the neighborhood
Speaker 1: next to the Giant AI facility, sorry, sucks to be you.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to live off a windmill.
Speaker 9: You know, You're absolutely right, is that it can't be
Speaker 9: just for these companies. There has to be a larger
Speaker 9: deployment of this because it's gonna bring down our energy costs,
Speaker 9: and that's what kills small business. You talk to any
Speaker 9: small business, you know, it's the energy costs when you
Speaker 9: have a spike and electricity cost that kills small business,
Speaker 9: especially restaurants and the ones that use a lot of electricity.
Speaker 9: So I agree with you one hundred percent. You can't
Speaker 9: just favorite the you know, have favoritism towards the big guys.
Speaker 9: It has to be spread all around the country.
Speaker 1: And again reminding folks that these modular reactors, one size
Speaker 1: literally fits all. You get the plan, you know how
Speaker 1: to do it. It's like putting legos together. Got one
Speaker 1: right here, We're gonna put one over there, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be the same design, same principles. They're small, uh,
Speaker 1: And it's just we don't have to build giant cooling
Speaker 1: towers and have them next to massive water sources like
Speaker 1: the old days. That's amazing what technology can do to
Speaker 1: bring us around cheap energy. But Dave, I keep going
Speaker 1: back to the fact the green folks, the globalists of
Speaker 1: the world, do not want us to have inexpensive energy
Speaker 1: because we're too damned and successful with it and we're
Speaker 1: too damn consumptive for their perceptive of perception of life.
Speaker 9: Well, and they're kind of backed into a corner because
Speaker 9: nuclear is a renewable energy. Yeah, it's really the carbon
Speaker 9: free though it really puts them in a real awkward position,
Speaker 9: which I love that nuclear energy really is the you know,
Speaker 9: the answer to a lot of our energy needs at
Speaker 9: this point.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. And something that RFK Junior may
Speaker 1: have something to do with more with Dave Williams coming
Speaker 1: up next, What is the Pharmacy, Audit and Transparency Act
Speaker 1: seven and fifty five kerc DE Talk Station Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: with Dave Williams from the Taxpayer Protection Alliance. All Right,
Speaker 1: we answered the question or anticipated about Trump reeling in
Speaker 1: government spending. Please, dear guy, let that happen. The future
Speaker 1: does appear to be looking brighter, at least in so
Speaker 1: far as one thing energy policy across the board. Energy
Speaker 1: policy is in our future, I think quite quite promising
Speaker 1: along those lines. And moving over to something and I said,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk or rather RFK Junior may have something to
Speaker 1: do with it. What is the Pharmacy Audit and trans
Speaker 1: Pharreency Act?
Speaker 9: Dave, boy, this is a little bit complicated, but let's
Speaker 9: see if we can get to this. And you know
Speaker 9: right now, Department of in Human Services, the FDA, a
Speaker 9: lot of improvement is needed, especially in pricing of drugs.
Speaker 9: And you have these pharmacy benefit managers who act as
Speaker 9: middlemen between pharmacies and insurance companies. And it's really listen,
Speaker 9: whenever a middleman is involved in anything, you know, someone's
Speaker 9: taking something off the top here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's like pharmacy benefit managers.
Speaker 9: Yeah. And what they're doing is they're negotiating between the
Speaker 9: insurers and the pharmacies. So they say, okay, pharmacy, we're
Speaker 9: gonna give you X amount for a drug. But then
Speaker 9: they go to the insurers and they ask more. So
Speaker 9: the pharmacy benefit managers are making money just being a
Speaker 9: middleman and negotiating prices between insurance companies and in pharmacies.
Speaker 9: And you know, you look at Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania,
Speaker 9: a lot of pharmacies are going out of business because
Speaker 9: of the low reimbursements that they're getting for for the drugs.
Speaker 1: Is there really truly a need for that middleman, Dave.
Speaker 9: No, absolutely not. You know, this was created a number
Speaker 9: of years ago. Of pharmacy benefit managers, and they're not
Speaker 9: benefiting anybody. I mean, it's it's you know, healthcare. There's
Speaker 9: no such thing as the free market in healthcare. Right,
Speaker 9: You go to the hospital, you have no idea what
Speaker 9: that procedure costs. And you know, I heard the commercial
Speaker 9: you had, you know, a couple of minutes. Yeah, I
Speaker 9: mean it shows you that we need reform in the
Speaker 9: healthcare system. You break an arm, how much does that cost?
Speaker 9: How much are you being charged? How much does that
Speaker 9: actually cost? We never know, And that's why you need
Speaker 9: to look at this top to bottom, including the costs
Speaker 9: of drugs and these pharmacy benefit managers.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I've been hearing about pharmacy benefit managers now for
Speaker 1: years and years, and I just I really don't understand.
Speaker 1: We go back to modern technology. Maybe there was a
Speaker 1: time back a while back, before you know, we communicated
Speaker 1: with emails and had artificial intelligence and could do things
Speaker 1: sort of very quickly and easily from a communications standpoint.
Speaker 1: We're not in those days anymore. We've got all this technology.
Speaker 1: It should be very easy for an insurance company to
Speaker 1: work directly with the manufacturers to negotiate a price. It's
Speaker 1: best for their insurance and everyone can be happy and
Speaker 1: satisfied with it. But throwing that extra slice of bureaucracy in,
Speaker 1: I mean just by saying that, you know it comes
Speaker 1: at a significant cost.
Speaker 9: Well, and look at the cause of the problems to
Speaker 9: Food and Drug administration. It takes twelve years at about
Speaker 9: two billion dollars to bring a drug to market.
Speaker 1: And unless it's unless it's a COVID mRNA vaccine, which
Speaker 1: which with complete immunity from any liability associated with the dangers,
Speaker 1: then they'll put that through in about five se weeconds.
Speaker 9: Yeah, talk about Operation warps it for sure. Yeah. So again,
Speaker 9: healthcare is a mess, and listen, I don't know if
Speaker 9: one administration can unravel all the intricacies of the nonsense
Speaker 9: that's happening. But you have to start somewhere, and you
Speaker 9: know this is this is a great place to start
Speaker 9: with pharmacy benefit managers.
Speaker 1: Agreed, Dave Williams again, get him online. It's Protecting Taxpayers
Speaker 1: dot org Taxpayer Protection Alliance until we talk again. Keep
Speaker 1: up the great work you're doing, Dave. I always appreciate
Speaker 1: our conversations, and I know my listeners do as well.
Speaker 9: Brian feel better and have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do the same. Man, appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1: It's seven forty two fifty five Karrosity Talk station. Pardon
Speaker 1: me struggling with the cough this morning. Real quick. Here
Speaker 1: as Trump decides who's going to be in his cabinet,
Speaker 1: and he has named a woman named Susan Wiles. She'll
Speaker 1: be the first. I know Donald Trump hates women, right,
Speaker 1: and women hate Donald Trump, but he has appointed Susan
Speaker 1: Wills to be the very first female chief of staff
Speaker 1: in history. So, uh, you draw your own conclusions on that.
Speaker 1: I don't know a whole lot about her, but according
Speaker 1: to everything I've read about her, she's got really really
Speaker 1: a savvy, savvy lady. H And a shout out to
Speaker 1: my dear friend Keegan Corcoran, who is an accomplished Sammier,
Speaker 1: one of only six hundred of the world to hold
Speaker 1: the title of Advanced Saier. And since Donald Trump's putting
Speaker 1: his cabinet together, I know there is no cabinet position
Speaker 1: for White House samiier, but I found out the other
Speaker 1: day there is such a thing. So I'm pulling for
Speaker 1: Kegan Corcoran and his hopefully political connections to end up
Speaker 1: being the White House Samoier giving him global exposure would
Speaker 1: not have you a cool job. It's being a Samier
Speaker 1: and having those kind of skills. Anyway, It's just always
Speaker 1: been impressive to me. But good luck Keegan of Ignition Wines.
Speaker 1: He's a wholesaler now. Anyway, he was Jeff Ruby Samier
Speaker 1: for like almost fifteen twenty years. Anyway, I always admit
Speaker 1: to standing on the shoulders of giants, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to do that right now because I love the observations,
Speaker 1: and quite often i'll do. And I read an op
Speaker 1: ed piece from the Wall Street Journal and Kimberly Strassel,
Speaker 1: I think does a wonderful job. And she had a
Speaker 1: few words for the mainstream media in her op ed
Speaker 1: from the other day, a landslide against the media, And
Speaker 1: Kimberly writes, you know, the recriminations are flying as Barack
Speaker 1: Obama and Joe Biden's forces go to war over who's
Speaker 1: more to blame for the democrats humilitating defeat on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: So as long as the leftist pointing fingers, let's direct
Speaker 1: a big, fat digit at the outfit that played the
Speaker 1: biggest role in losing this election, the US media that
Speaker 1: isn't the conventional wisdom which told that the press is
Speaker 1: naked shilling for Democratic candidates amounts to an in kind
Speaker 1: campaign contribution, And no doubt, the media's ceaseless attacks on
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Republicans did help round up some undecided voters.
Speaker 1: Yet the boosterism for Kamala Harris and co. Came at
Speaker 1: a far bigger cost. A narrative full of fantasy enabled
Speaker 1: Democrats to live in a world disconnected from the mood
Speaker 1: and worries of the country. Among those damaging of these
Speaker 1: fantasies was the four year press assurance that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: was as sharp as attack. Even video evidence in June
Speaker 1: of a confused president wandering aimlessly at the Group of
Speaker 1: Seven was met with claims that the footage was edited
Speaker 1: or lacking contexts or misleading. Only when a Trump Biden
Speaker 1: debate made Biden's decline undeniable did the media drop the charade.
Speaker 1: Then it immediately turned to recast miss Harris, a presidential
Speaker 1: primary loser turned unpopular vice president, as a political genius
Speaker 1: in the obvious Savior of the Democratic Party. How'd that
Speaker 1: work out in a world with competent press. Mister Biden's
Speaker 1: failing failing constitution would have been front page news in
Speaker 1: time for Democrats to confront the unpleasant yet manageable reality
Speaker 1: of needed change. A primary would have produced a tested nominee,
Speaker 1: likely one less unencumbered by the Biden record. As Harris
Speaker 1: advisor and Obama veteran David Plouff complains that the team
Speaker 1: Biden created a hole too deep for his sidekick to
Speaker 1: dig out of. Don't forget the industry whose job it
Speaker 1: is to call out political fiction, but instead wrote the
Speaker 1: Joe Is Fine novel. Of course, Democrats are shocked that
Speaker 1: they lost. In a world with a functioning press. The
Speaker 1: politician he tries to make lemonade out of inflation, crime,
Speaker 1: border chaos is slapptis out of touch. In a Biden
Speaker 1: Harris world, opress printed their spinish gospel. For years, our
Speaker 1: headlines insisted Americans live in one of the strongest economies ever.
Speaker 1: Crime rates were following red state governors engaged in stunts
Speaker 1: to magnify the migrant problem. The biggest issues facing our
Speaker 1: country were climate, systemic racism, abortion, and transgender rights fantasies
Speaker 1: were maintained right up to the election, even as Republicans
Speaker 1: pointed a surging voter registration, unprecedented early votes, and notable
Speaker 1: demographic shifts. The headlines insisted that Kamala would claim victory
Speaker 1: on a wave of abortion and Liz Cheney loving suburban women,
Speaker 1: comedian condemning Puerto Ricans, and white dudes impressed by Tim
Speaker 1: Waltz's camo hat. No wonder Tuesday was a surprise. The
Speaker 1: America that voted for mister Trump has never made even
Speaker 1: made an appearance in these outlets. Democrats now face a choice.
Speaker 1: On one side, there are party grown ups who are
Speaker 1: publicly acknowledging this defeat as a sharp voter rebuke of
Speaker 1: progressive policies. They're admitting that Lawfair was a mistake, that
Speaker 1: the party is culturally out of touch, that lunatic interest
Speaker 1: groups are running the asylum. They worry about a growing
Speaker 1: political realignment that threatens the party's future. We are hearing
Speaker 1: these voices is an improvement over the past eight years.
Speaker 1: Yet on the other side, there are the progressive architects
Speaker 1: of the mess, already rationalizing away the night as a
Speaker 1: function of racism, sexism in America's supposed love affair with fascism.
Speaker 1: They mark the loss down to tactical errors, the failure
Speaker 1: to court pro Palestinian voters, a misallocation of door knockers,
Speaker 1: poor timing, and adviys. The party just needs better messaging
Speaker 1: of its historic achievements. No surprise, the media is already
Speaker 1: running with the latter narrative again, providing the party with
Speaker 1: a soothing alternative to the blunt reality of its ideological
Speaker 1: fail Will Democrats be lulled again? If they really want
Speaker 1: to reconnect with voters, they will at some point have
Speaker 1: to break with what is proving to be a debilitating
Speaker 1: feedback loop. The media itself was put on sharp notice
Speaker 1: this cycle, pushed aside by podcasters and influencers, whom voters
Speaker 1: now trust more to provide reality. Nearly fifty million people
Speaker 1: have listening to Joe Rogan's interview with mister Trump, as
Speaker 1: it provided a more accurate assessment of the GOP nominees'
Speaker 1: positions and the concerns of the country than the news
Speaker 1: articles about the authoritarian intent on destroying the climate. Abortion rights, democracy,
Speaker 1: choose your obsession. The Founder is a court of the press.
Speaker 1: The honor of inclusion in the First Amendment in recognition
Speaker 1: of the vital role it plays in keeping poles honest.
Speaker 1: The industry is meant to ride herd on government on
Speaker 1: both sides in the interest of the people. That job
Speaker 1: is essential not only for transparency, but to provide self
Speaker 1: deluding politician constant gut checks as to how their policies
Speaker 1: sit with a nation. When that guard rail fails, the
Speaker 1: nation suffers, but so too does the party that gets
Speaker 1: to live the make believe brilliance again. Props to Kim Strassel,
Speaker 1: summon it up wonderfully. Seven fifty four on a Friday.
Speaker 1: It is that time to catch ourselves a crime server
Speaker 1: bad guy of the week. Welcome back Officer Lisa Baker
Speaker 1: and God bless us in sant Police Department for all
Speaker 1: they do keeping our community safe each and every day.
Speaker 1: You know, Lisa, Every once in while, I'll play the
Speaker 1: game guess the crime by just looking at the mugshot.
Speaker 1: I got this one right today. For whatever reason, Lisa,
Speaker 1: just indulge. Well, good morning, good morning, and happy Friday
Speaker 1: to you. Who are we looking for today?
Speaker 6: We are looking for Adam Lofner.
Speaker 13: He's wonder for trafficking and drugs. It counts of fellai,
Speaker 13: possession of drugs and falsification. I guess you thought he
Speaker 13: looked like he did drugs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, sometimes I'm not trying to stereotype. And you know,
Speaker 1: looking at pictures like, okay, he's there's a wanted picture.
Speaker 1: He's a crime stopper, bag guy of the week. What
Speaker 1: do you think he did? And the drugs was the
Speaker 1: first thing that bought my mind anyway, Lisa, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to put a smile on my face today.
Speaker 1: So what are we going to do if we know
Speaker 1: where this guy happens?
Speaker 13: Be well, Adam Laughner. He's a white male, he's forty
Speaker 13: years old, he's five ten, one hundred and eighty pounds.
Speaker 13: He has a history of drug charges. He's lasting on
Speaker 13: to live on mckenry Avenue and Westwood. So if you
Speaker 13: know where he is, call crime Stoppers five one three
Speaker 13: three five two thirty forty, or you can go to
Speaker 13: pthree tips dot com and submit a tip online and
Speaker 13: you never have to talk to me.
Speaker 1: And you remain anonymous, and if your tip leaves and
Speaker 1: the rest you will be eligible for a cash reward.
Speaker 1: Thanks again, Lisa for indulging me in for the work
Speaker 1: that you and the police department do for us. God
Speaker 1: bless you. His pictures on my blog page fifty five
Speaker 1: Karsey dot com. Have a great weekend, Lisa. We'll get
Speaker 1: another one next week, seven fifty six. Right now, Steve Gorum,
Speaker 1: this is going to be a great conversation. He's doing
Speaker 1: to Empower Youth Seminar next Tuesday about well the Green Breakdown,
Speaker 1: his book The Green Breakdown, the coming renewable energy failure
Speaker 1: with the Trump administration keyed up to do an across
Speaker 1: the board energy policy, perfect time to have Steve on
Speaker 1: the program. Who'll give us a little insight into the
Speaker 1: empower Youse seminar that is virtual only, easy to log
Speaker 1: in from home and get the details when I get
Speaker 1: back after the news eight o five, a fifty five
Speaker 1: care CD talk station. I'm very happy Friday to you.
Speaker 1: You've got an assignment that is to log into empower
Speaker 1: Youamerica dot org next Tuesday, seven pm. It's a virtual
Speaker 1: class only register beforehand and learn something. My next guest,
Speaker 1: and I'm so happy, happy to welcome to the fifty
Speaker 1: five carsse Morning show. The speaker that night again Tuesday,
Speaker 1: seven pm, empower You America dot Org. Steve Gorem, a
Speaker 1: well respected speaker and expert in a bunch of different
Speaker 1: important areas energy, industry, agriculture, environment, sustainable development, economic trends,
Speaker 1: climate change, corporate environmental policy. He's written a heapload of
Speaker 1: books on it, most recently I can't go the whole list.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to him, but a green breakdown
Speaker 1: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure gotten five star reviews on Amazon.
Speaker 1: Walking to the fifty five Carsy Morning Show Steve Gorman
Speaker 1: is a real pleasure to have you on today.
Speaker 14: Hey, Brian, great to join you again.
Speaker 1: We were having a conversation earlier with the man called
Speaker 1: Dave Williams. He's with the Taxpayer Protection Alliance, and I
Speaker 1: was joking around. I have always screamed out loud in
Speaker 1: the face of all of the people who say no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: As far as nuclear power is concerned, I do not
Speaker 1: believe carbon dioxide is a problem. It's plant food. I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm exhaling my planet into oblivion. Although there
Speaker 1: are people on the other side to say it's a
Speaker 1: real problem. Nuclear power seems to me the answer. Small
Speaker 1: modular power plants, brand new, modern technology, not your three
Speaker 1: mile Islands with your giant cooling tower. They have a
Speaker 1: very small footprint. They are amazingly efficient to producing energy
Speaker 1: and don't produce any the bad exhalation things that we're
Speaker 1: all so worried about allegedly, how come we can't have those?
Speaker 1: Can you answer that question of front, Steve.
Speaker 14: Well, Brian, we all have hopes for these new innovations
Speaker 14: in nuclear power. The problem with nuclear power really the
Speaker 14: biggest thing is it's been just too expensive the large plants.
Speaker 14: Over the last few years. They just put a couple
Speaker 14: of plants in in Georgia that are working now, but
Speaker 14: they end up costing over thirty billion dollars and took
Speaker 14: a decade to do.
Speaker 1: You know why that is, though, don't you, Steve Well.
Speaker 14: A lot of it's regulation. I talked to Yeah, I
Speaker 14: talked to the guy at the Plastic pipe Institute. He
Speaker 14: said that when he produces pipe for a customer, it
Speaker 14: usually takes a couple pages of background. If he does
Speaker 14: something for a nuclear plant, it takes, you know, like
Speaker 14: about a half inch full of paperwork. I mean, it's
Speaker 14: just the regulations are really an issue. So we do
Speaker 14: need the relief from regulations, but we need some we
Speaker 14: need some technological breakthroughs as well. We're hoping these new
Speaker 14: smaller power plants will do that, and it is needed.
Speaker 14: And we have a lot of guys want to go
Speaker 14: nuclear now, a lot of the big guys to support
Speaker 14: the demand for artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's the other component that is so damn
Speaker 1: insulting to me, Steve, is that you know, Alphabet, Google
Speaker 1: and all these massive artificial intelligence global, multi billion corporations,
Speaker 1: they start talking about it. Most recently, Hey, we can
Speaker 1: build a small nuclear plant and we can get all
Speaker 1: the power we need for our artificial intelligence needs. No
Speaker 1: one seemed to be screaming out loud and objecting to it.
Speaker 1: Yet if some city wanted to do it, then oh
Speaker 1: my god, Oh it's going to take ten years. It's
Speaker 1: going to be billions of dollars. Every single plan under
Speaker 1: modern regulations has to be individually designed and created. Talking
Speaker 1: about massive increase. That's why it cost so much in Georgia.
Speaker 1: These modular plants are like legos, one size fits all.
Speaker 1: They're small. You build one exactly the same as the other.
Speaker 1: And we certainly can manage the waste, the nuclear waste
Speaker 1: that's pretty used by all these plants. It's just not
Speaker 1: I mean, it's totally manageable with a place like Yaka Mountain.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think so we really need to depository for waste.
Speaker 14: There's not a lot of it in each plant. All
Speaker 14: the plants today are storing it on site because it
Speaker 14: doesn't require a lot of room. But we need a
Speaker 14: better solution. So yeah, we're hoping these small nuclear plants.
Speaker 14: Are something like fifty companies in the United States now
Speaker 14: they're trying to produce small nuclear plants. So we're hoping
Speaker 14: these will have some breakthroughs. And as you say, the
Speaker 14: big guys Meta, Google, Amazon, to support these artificial intelligence processors,
Speaker 14: they need reliable twenty four hour power, and wind and
Speaker 14: solar can't do that, so they're looking at nuclear to
Speaker 14: try and.
Speaker 1: Do that, Okay, and recognize okay, and I'm obviously I
Speaker 1: think that comes across pretty pretty clearly that I am
Speaker 1: not a believer that we are personally responsible for all
Speaker 1: the changes in the temperatures of the world. I do
Speaker 1: agree that climate does change, because in the state of Ohio,
Speaker 1: once you had a glacier covering the the whole state.
Speaker 1: Thankfully it warmed up. There have been times like the
Speaker 1: many ice Age and different ebbs and flows in the
Speaker 1: global temperatures that went on for hundreds of years and
Speaker 1: then gradually shifted back. We all know that how come
Speaker 1: that happened. Before the Industrial Revolution, we weren't responsible, But
Speaker 1: now we're responsible, literally for every hurricane that comes in.
Speaker 14: Well, we're actually in the midst of the biggest modern
Speaker 14: superstition in history. I call it climatism, the fear that
Speaker 14: humans are causing dangerous global warming. Actually, our new President
Speaker 14: Trump has used that term on the campaign trio of
Speaker 14: climatism in the past. But you're right, and I'm going
Speaker 14: to talk about that in the Empower You podcast. But
Speaker 14: two bottom lines. A, Today's temperatures are not particularly warm.
Speaker 14: We've had many times in the last ten thousand years
Speaker 14: when it was warmer today, when we didn't have cars
Speaker 14: and power plants. And B human industry is responsible for
Speaker 14: only a very small part of the greenhouse effect and
Speaker 14: a very all part of global temperatures, maybe one or
Speaker 14: two percent, which means if we eliminate all emissions, all
Speaker 14: carbon dioxide emissions, we probably won't be able to measure
Speaker 14: the difference in global temperatures. Nevertheless, the world is spent
Speaker 14: one point eight trillion dollars last year on renewables trying
Speaker 14: to control the global temperatures. People say, if we all
Speaker 14: drive electric vehicles, we can stop the oceans from rising.
Speaker 14: And that's that's really the closest thing to modern superstition,
Speaker 14: that that you can consider.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and before we might dive into some of the
Speaker 1: subtler details about that component, let me ask you this question,
Speaker 1: recognizing what you just said, and I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1: We get a couple of volcanoes or up during some
Speaker 1: massive wildfires, it negates any effort by us to get
Speaker 1: particulate out of the air. The question is, then, why
Speaker 1: are they shoving this down our throat? There clearly was
Speaker 1: no demand for it within the market. They can't make
Speaker 1: us buy electric vehicles even though they're shoving them down
Speaker 1: our throats. It's only market manipulation that has brought this around,
Speaker 1: regulatory mandates and edicts. So behind the scenes, though, do
Speaker 1: you know why they are insisting that we do this?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 14: I think the first of the world jumped to a
Speaker 14: conclusion on this. A bunch of computer modelers back in
Speaker 14: the nineteen seventies nineteen eighty saw that climate carbon dioxide
Speaker 14: was rising in the atmosphere, and doctor James Hansen, for example,
Speaker 14: testified before the Senate in nineteen eighty eight, he said
Speaker 14: he was ninety eight percent sure the planet was warming
Speaker 14: and humans were causing it, and the United Nations that
Speaker 14: very next year formed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
Speaker 14: which concluded humans were causing dangerous warming. And then by
Speaker 14: nineteen ninety two, only four years later, forty five nations
Speaker 14: in the European Union signed a treaty saying we would
Speaker 14: reduce greenhouse gases. They've been arguing about it for the
Speaker 14: last fifty years. But the temperature rise, we've had a
Speaker 14: little bit of a rise, but it's far below what
Speaker 14: the climate models are predicting. We've had a whole bunch
Speaker 14: of groups that have seized on this. We have whole
Speaker 14: new industries. We have biofuels and wind and solar. We
Speaker 14: have deans of sustainability at universities and vice presence of
Speaker 14: sustainability at corporations. It's become the center of every environmental
Speaker 14: group in the world, the central issue, and so we
Speaker 14: have tremendous momentum behind this. But if you really look
Speaker 14: at the data, the storms aren't getting stronger. The ocean
Speaker 14: has been rising for twenty thousand years, and it just
Speaker 14: doesn't the science doesn't support the concern.
Speaker 1: Right, and they have adjusted their projections. They have moved
Speaker 1: back the deadline by which we're all going to die.
Speaker 1: I mean, al Gore is screaming about in ten years
Speaker 1: that New York City is going to be underwater. We
Speaker 1: know that was more than twenty years ago. So none
Speaker 1: of it has come true. And yet we continue to
Speaker 1: chase down this ridiculous path. So again, why, if we
Speaker 1: know so much more, are they continuing to shove this
Speaker 1: down our throats in the face of all the evidence
Speaker 1: to the contra of what they're preaching. This has got
Speaker 1: to be about something more than saving the planet. And
Speaker 1: when you talk about the UN embracing something that immediately
Speaker 1: raises a John Decive skepticism in my mind, because the
Speaker 1: UN is seemingly the most incompetent organization that exists on
Speaker 1: the planet in terms of what they're able to accomplish.
Speaker 14: Well. Certainly, many many groups use the fear man made
Speaker 14: warming for all sorts of objectives. The United Nations is
Speaker 14: one example. The United Nations has had three big objectives
Speaker 14: for for many years, and the fear man made warming
Speaker 14: has served those. One is they want to become an
Speaker 14: environmental leader globally. The second is they want to redistribute wealth,
Speaker 14: trying the wealthy nations to the poor nations. Then the
Speaker 14: fear man made warming does that. And the third is
Speaker 14: they wanted a global a world government for many years
Speaker 14: and Jack Sharrock, president of France, said that the Climate
Speaker 14: Treaty Group was the first example of world government. So
Speaker 14: we have we have many groups that want to do
Speaker 14: Another one is computer modeling. Talk about in my second book,
Speaker 14: The Mad Mad Mad Rule to Climatism, a scientist told
Speaker 14: us that to set up a computer modeling team to
Speaker 14: run climate models on a supercomputer costs fifty million dollars
Speaker 14: and it costs twenty million dollars a year to run.
Speaker 14: There are thirty of these teams across the world that
Speaker 14: are running me. So there's a vast amount of money involved.
Speaker 14: And by the way, if one of those teams says,
Speaker 14: well we think climate is driven by natural not man
Speaker 14: made factors, well then their funding isn't going to come through.
Speaker 14: So there's a tremendous amount of value that various groups
Speaker 14: get from this. And you know, we have tens of
Speaker 14: thousands of consultants across the world that are vising companies.
Speaker 14: How to reduce their greenhouse gases. But again, I think
Speaker 14: most people are sincere. It's just that they're mistaken. The
Speaker 14: science and the economics don't support what we're trying to
Speaker 14: do right now.
Speaker 1: Well suffer the little children come unto me. They start
Speaker 1: teaching this good Man is responsible nonsense to children in
Speaker 1: elementary school, and it begins from there, and people can't
Speaker 1: turn their back. It's like turning your back on your
Speaker 1: lifelong religion. You know, there must be a Christian out
Speaker 1: there in the audience, ask them to renounce Christ and
Speaker 1: then be like, oh my god, are you crazy? That
Speaker 1: would never happen. That's kind of this what this has become.
Speaker 1: It's just this, it's a new religion.
Speaker 14: Well, and it's throughout the schools. As you mentioned, University
Speaker 14: of California, San Diego has just made a climate course
Speaker 14: of requirement to graduate. We have instances in Washington State
Speaker 14: and in Utah where teachers are feeding kids insects in
Speaker 14: class with the lesson that they shouldn't be eating beef
Speaker 14: because of the climate. So, you know, this is not
Speaker 14: a good thing. But it is all going to come down.
Speaker 14: That's what green breakdown is about. It's going to take
Speaker 14: a decade or two, but the world's going to get
Speaker 14: back to sensible policy again.
Speaker 1: So you are optimistic along those lines.
Speaker 14: Well, I am, and I hope I'm around long enough
Speaker 14: to see this turnaround. But we see a lot of
Speaker 14: signs that this is changing already. We have this big
Speaker 14: speed bump that electric cars have hit. Electric car shares
Speaker 14: in the US and Europe have fallen this last year.
Speaker 14: We have all sorts of problems with offshore wind, and
Speaker 14: we now have mister Trump elected and he's going to
Speaker 14: change a whole bunch of things, maybe even restarting the
Speaker 14: Keystone pipeline. He said he's going to get rid of
Speaker 14: government mandates, to get rid of gasoline cars. That's going
Speaker 14: to be difficult, though. He's got to get the EPA
Speaker 14: to change their policies. We'll see if he can do that.
Speaker 14: But we see this around the world. By the way,
Speaker 14: Europe is pulled back as well from a lot of
Speaker 14: agriculture and climate measures, and a lot of conservatives were
Speaker 14: elected this last year in Europe and they opposed these policies.
Speaker 14: So I think things are starting to shift, but we'll
Speaker 14: just have to see.
Speaker 1: Steve Gorham is going to be doing this empower you
Speaker 1: someonear on this topic next Tuesday, beginning at seven pm.
Speaker 1: It is a virtual class only he's going to empower
Speaker 1: you America dot organ log in. I encourage you to
Speaker 1: do that. And the other elephant that room going back
Speaker 1: to the UN and it wanting to be the global
Speaker 1: dominance and established this one world government and wealthree distribution.
Speaker 1: I get all that and agree with that being the
Speaker 1: probably core motive. What of China and India and other
Speaker 1: countries who continue to build coal plants dirtier than ours,
Speaker 1: belching out more pollution than we retract from the planet
Speaker 1: with all of our unbelievably costly efforts. They don't seem
Speaker 1: to caroll wit and no one seems to be pointing
Speaker 1: to them and saying, well, wait, wait, wait, what about China?
Speaker 1: What about India? They're not doing anything and they're polluting
Speaker 1: more than anybody on the globe.
Speaker 14: Well it really we have many many nations developing right
Speaker 14: now and they use hydrocarbon fuels. Earlier this year, John
Speaker 14: Carey called for the end to all coal fire power
Speaker 14: plants across the world, said none should be allowed. But
Speaker 14: that's an amazing statement. Today coal provides thirty five percent
Speaker 14: of the world's electricity. Yet we still have seven hundred
Speaker 14: million people that don't have access to electricity, and there's
Speaker 14: another two billion people who have blackouts and brownouts every
Speaker 14: other day because they don't have enough power. So if
Speaker 14: you if you're running an air conditioner in Cincinnati, you
Speaker 14: use more electricity than a third of the people in
Speaker 14: the world. That one appliance uses more electricity than a
Speaker 14: third of the world's people get to use on any
Speaker 14: given day. And uh, mister Carey saying that let's get
Speaker 14: rid of co fired power plants is like Marie Antoinette saying,
Speaker 14: if the port don't have food, let them eat cake.
Speaker 14: I mean, it's it's really crazy. So, uh, there's going
Speaker 14: to be a need. And what you do in Ohio
Speaker 14: as far as the greenhouse gases, it's going to have
Speaker 14: no effect. The rest of the world is going to
Speaker 14: go and do what they're going to do. But the
Speaker 14: great news again is that CO two, as you say.
Speaker 1: Is makes grow.
Speaker 14: It isn't buzzing dangerous warming. So that's that's the real,
Speaker 14: powerful and possible positive note of it all.
Speaker 1: I don't even scratch the surface for everything I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk with you about today. Steve, and sadly we're
Speaker 1: out of time. We're going to get more time with
Speaker 1: you though. Empower you America dot or log in virtually
Speaker 1: from home. It's easy to do. Empower your America Dot
Speaker 1: or just clicked the little register. You'll be there at
Speaker 1: seven pm Tuesday. Steve, thanks for the time you spent
Speaker 1: with me today. And I also encourage my listeners to
Speaker 1: get a copy of your book Green Breakdown the Coming
Speaker 1: Renewable Energy Failure. Just go to Amazon and order copy
Speaker 1: of that. Steve, thanks again for everything that you do.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian, my pleasure. It's a twenty here fifty
Speaker 1: five k see THEE talk station. It's a twenty nine
Speaker 1: on a Friday, and a happy one to you. Have
Speaker 1: you had some wonderful plans going on for yourself this weekend.
Speaker 1: Five one, three, seven fifty five hundred, eight hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty two to three talk pound five fifty on AT
Speaker 1: and T phones. I love hearing from you. I've got
Speaker 1: a lot of calls this morning. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I've been mentioning all morning as an apology to my
Speaker 1: listeners struggling with the cough suppression this morning, and I
Speaker 1: did bring my wife was like, take the cough syrup
Speaker 1: with the day. I got this codeine, you know, prescribed
Speaker 1: cough syrup, and I've been avoided in taking it because well,
Speaker 1: it does make you kind of loopy. God knows what
Speaker 1: might come out of my mouth. Danny Gleeson covering for
Speaker 1: the vacationing Joe's record today, he's in there laughing, going yep.
Speaker 1: So anyhow, if you'd like to call, that's fine. I
Speaker 1: do have some local stories too, dive on into, so
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and do that. Some sad news and
Speaker 1: local stories too. A little bit depressing for a Friday, especially.
Speaker 1: We got a Loveland man facing murder charges and connection
Speaker 1: with the death of his three month old daughter. He
Speaker 1: claimed she fell off at changing table. The indictment says
Speaker 1: thirty three year old and do Camera facing an aggravated
Speaker 1: murder charge, three counts of murder, two counts of felonious
Speaker 1: assault in four counts of endangering children and connections with
Speaker 1: the death investigation all ten counts felonies. AFFI David Fouled
Speaker 1: in court stated Gosh and police officers showed up his
Speaker 1: home on East Meadowbrook Drive six fifty roughly in the morning.
Speaker 1: On Monday, after he called nine to one one told
Speaker 1: dispatchers the baby girl was experiencing breathing problems after a fall.
Speaker 1: Court records say he told Goshen officers during the interview
Speaker 1: he was changing the child. She fell from the changing table.
Speaker 1: Taught officers she was faced down on the floor. Heeded
Speaker 1: her up and called nine to one one. He said
Speaker 1: he performed CPR as instructed by dispatchers until the EMS
Speaker 1: showed up. Officers were on their way. They were told
Speaker 1: that the child had stopped breathing. First responders took it
Speaker 1: up Bethesda North Hospital, but she was later transferred to
Speaker 1: since Ant Children's and placed on life support. Sadly, the
Speaker 1: child succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at
Speaker 1: about twenty after ten pm the same day. Report from
Speaker 1: the Corner's office sent the next morning listed three month
Speaker 1: old Evelyn Cameras having died Monday. Since Anti Children's, though
Speaker 1: the circumstances were still noted as pending. Court records state
Speaker 1: and MRI showed quote a substantial amount of hemorrhaging closed
Speaker 1: quote around the girl's brain after she died. Corners performed
Speaker 1: an autopsy on Tuesday, which showed significant internal trauma to
Speaker 1: her brain, spinal column, and liver, released from the office
Speaker 1: of Claremont County Prosecutor Mark to Colby quote due to
Speaker 1: the multitude and severity of the injuries suffered Evely by
Speaker 1: Evely and various professionals have indicated those injuries did not
Speaker 1: occur as reported by camera as the Sinsint Children's Hospital
Speaker 1: Medical Center was fighting to save the life of I'm
Speaker 1: sorry that got caught off. Beyond that, clearly, I guess
Speaker 1: if this was the five o'clock hour, we might be
Speaker 1: going ahead and giving an award for that one. We'll
Speaker 1: just kind of let it ride at this juncture. Westbound
Speaker 1: I seventy four completely shut down this weekend between I
Speaker 1: seventy five just to the west of southbound Beakman Street,
Speaker 1: according to how Department of Transportation, all part of the
Speaker 1: I seventy five I seventy four Mill Creek Expressway project
Speaker 1: and in preparation for the next round of paving. Motorists
Speaker 1: from mind to be cautious ad here to post it
Speaker 1: reduced speeds when traveling through construction work zones and detours
Speaker 1: detours suggested by ODOT. Westbound Ronald Reagan Cross, Canada, southbound
Speaker 1: I two seventy five, then over to westbound seven four,
Speaker 1: westbound US fifty to westbound seventy four, and I Ohio
Speaker 1: one twenty eight to westbound I seventy four. On ramps
Speaker 1: from northbound and southbound Beacon Street Coleraine Avenue to westbound
Speaker 1: Ice seventy four will remain open, So obviously some issues there.
Speaker 1: It's seemed to be having problems with roads around here,
Speaker 1: of lay, don't we. We got a man found to
Speaker 1: be making this is weird pipe bombs in his Goshen
Speaker 1: Township shed. Thirty one year old Ricky Lewis the second
Speaker 1: has been charged with two counts of possession of a
Speaker 1: dangerous ordinance. According to the Claremont County records, These charges
Speaker 1: stem from November one, when document state officers were flagged
Speaker 1: down by Lewis as a strange girlfriend. Yeah, strange girlfriends
Speaker 1: do that, won't they? She reported police, according to the
Speaker 1: court documents, that her gun was missing slash stolen from
Speaker 1: her home on State Route one thirty four, So apparently
Speaker 1: she's said. She asked him why he was making pipe bombs.
Speaker 1: He said it was so that he would have protection.
Speaker 1: I guess at some point down the road, sergeant observed
Speaker 1: green metal ammo can, two separate metal pipes that closed
Speaker 1: caps on both ends, a red colored fuse inserted in
Speaker 1: the middle of the pipe with adhesive around the base,
Speaker 1: along with a rifle, powder and large amounts of ammunition
Speaker 1: search weren't obtained by since ant bomb squad responded and
Speaker 1: removed the pipe bombs. Alcoholic to back on firearms also
Speaker 1: showed up to help with the investigation. Shocking literally no
Speaker 1: one and father of twin baby girls indicted on multiple
Speaker 1: counts following the death of one twins and injuries to
Speaker 1: the other. Klemont County Prosecutor said, Oh, that's the same guy,
Speaker 1: Andrew Kamer, same guy who got indicted for aggravated murder,
Speaker 1: of felonious assault and dangering children. So I guess there's
Speaker 1: one more involved. That's where I got those two stories
Speaker 1: mixed up, and I sincerely apologize for that. I'd love
Speaker 1: to be able to play the codeine cough syrup, but
Speaker 1: as I pointed out before, I didn't have any of that.
Speaker 1: Feel free call it is Friday, folks. I hope you
Speaker 1: can appreciate the potentially lower bar of seriousness I'm engaged
Speaker 1: in the day again. I'm struggling with this cough. It's
Speaker 1: eight thirty five. Feel free to call and save me
Speaker 1: here at fifty five kr S DE talk station eight
Speaker 1: thirty nine on a Friday five one, three, seven five
Speaker 1: eight hundred eighty two to three talk fifty on at
Speaker 1: and T phones. What a wonderful thing listener lunch was
Speaker 1: this week at Ron's rus really enjoyed the celebration and
Speaker 1: of course the company. And it's always a real pleasure
Speaker 1: when Andrew Pappis, former Anderson Township Trustee, can swing by
Speaker 1: even for a little bit. Drew, Andrews great sceneing he
Speaker 1: did this this week, and thanks for calling this morning.
Speaker 15: You know what, Brian, it really was great seeing you
Speaker 15: and seeing all those smiling faces over there at Ron's
Speaker 15: Roost was really amazing. It was, and there were a
Speaker 15: lot of tired faces, not gonna lie, everybody was kind
Speaker 15: of dragging, including that, but yeah, but you know what,
Speaker 15: it was well worth it. And uh, not to gloat
Speaker 15: too terribly much, but you know, the sun seems a
Speaker 15: little brighter today, the air seems a little fresher today,
Speaker 15: and America definitely is waking up to a very bright future.
Speaker 2: In my very humble opinion.
Speaker 15: But I was gonna I was gonna just say I
Speaker 15: didn't get a chance to tell you I really enjoyed
Speaker 15: earlier this week having Christopher Smith Amen there in studio
Speaker 15: rather than on the phone. I mean, I Christopher and
Speaker 15: I get along very well. We don't agree on every issue.
Speaker 15: That does but and that's the beauty of America. And
Speaker 15: I really enjoy Christopher's perspective on things and the way
Speaker 15: he might help me look at things differently and vice versa.
Speaker 15: And I really think that hopefully that might be a
Speaker 15: trend to continue, because, as you you know, as I know,
Speaker 15: being in is a little bit easier sometimes than being
Speaker 15: on the phone.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I love when people are in the city, look
Speaker 1: at me in the eye, have a regular conversation which
Speaker 1: the listeners can enjoy. And you don't have that. You know,
Speaker 1: quite often the cell phone breaks down or you know,
Speaker 1: all the complication goes along with it, but there's really
Speaker 1: no substitute for face to face communication. So I also
Speaker 1: welcome the opportunity for that to happen. And you know,
Speaker 1: he's got obligations with him getting his daughter to school,
Speaker 1: and of course he has his own business as a
Speaker 1: financial planner. So I'm not going to put any pressure
Speaker 1: on him, but you know, as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: the door is wide open for that to happen again
Speaker 1: and more regularly.
Speaker 15: It's good to hear because, as I said, I really
Speaker 15: and I think all your listeners. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 15: I know all of your listeners, and I did hear
Speaker 15: the listener yesterday that kind of seemed to catch everybody
Speaker 15: off guard, how he's not going to listen anymore. He
Speaker 15: was upset and whatever. But you know, I'm seeing I
Speaker 15: am enjoying, and I hope the listeners are. I've been
Speaker 15: going to the Libs of TikTok and watching the meltdowns
Speaker 15: of the Liberals over the election yesterday or tuesday, and
Speaker 15: I got to tell you, it's quite enjoyable. It's providing
Speaker 15: me with hours and hours and hours of entertainment.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 15: You know, it's it's just an you know, it's an
Speaker 15: argument for perhaps that we really need to focus on
Speaker 15: mental illness in this country because it's on display, and
Speaker 15: you know, listens as you and I, perhaps at least
Speaker 15: me myself. I won't speak for you, but you know
Speaker 15: I was upset the last four years and you know,
Speaker 15: if you look at the poll or the election results,
Speaker 15: and you look at the election of twenty twenty, you
Speaker 15: really do begin to wonder where did all those votes,
Speaker 15: extra votes for Biden come from. I'm not here to
Speaker 15: you know, we're not going to refight that, but I
Speaker 15: mean it does make you task to John Dee Aiah
Speaker 15: and you're like, holy cow, where did you know his
Speaker 15: vote suddenly appeared? And then the next election they're gone
Speaker 15: into the ether. But I will say this the amount
Speaker 15: of entertainment simply watching people unable to process their emotions.
Speaker 15: I didn't like the twenty twenty elections, but you didn't
Speaker 15: see me flipping out, you know, bearing my soul and
Speaker 15: crying and gnashing of teeth. I just put my head down,
Speaker 15: went back to work and you know, lived my life.
Speaker 15: I'm not going to let an election dictate my happiness.
Speaker 15: It might I might be upset, but you know life
Speaker 15: goes on.
Speaker 1: Yes, it does, absolutely. And it's an excellent point you're
Speaker 1: making there, because you know, if I've always pointed out,
Speaker 1: if you allow the other side, and it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: which side of the political spectrum you're on, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll say there's two sides. We know there's more than that.
Speaker 1: But if you let the other side get so under
Speaker 1: your skin that it's impacting your life, your emotions, your
Speaker 1: relationships with your family. We're talking about politics here, for
Speaker 1: God's sake. That means they've won. You can chalk them
Speaker 1: up with a little hashtag victory mark on their side
Speaker 1: because they've gotten simply under your skin and made your
Speaker 1: life miserable. Don't allow them to do that. I mean
Speaker 1: I was happy under the Obama administration. Know that I
Speaker 1: think the world was come to an end. No that
Speaker 1: I cry, No, of course not. You know, was I
Speaker 1: happy in the aftermath of the Trump administration across the board? No,
Speaker 1: the guy spent five trillion dollars more than he took in.
Speaker 1: That pissed me off. I can't avoid that, and I
Speaker 1: know it might happen again, but Lord knows. At least
Speaker 1: with the idea of the guy like Elon Musk being
Speaker 1: around and promising to curb the size of government, there
Speaker 1: is a possibility. With Republicans government hopefully got the House,
Speaker 1: they've already got the cent and the presidency. Maybe we
Speaker 1: can bring pressure to bear on the right side of
Speaker 1: the Ledger to actually engage in some cutting, so we're
Speaker 1: not overspending ourselves into oblivion. Lord almight know.
Speaker 15: And I got and I got to say the two
Speaker 15: things I'm most excited about, and I'm stunned. I'm actually
Speaker 15: a little surprised, I'm saying it. You mentioned one of them.
Speaker 15: I'm most excited about Elon Musk and putting his brain
Speaker 15: power and insight into the workings of government. Maybe, but
Speaker 15: you know, you know the one I'm really excited about.
Speaker 15: And I mean, I'm stunned I'm saying this. I really am.
Speaker 15: I'm excited about Robert F. Kennedy Junior puting an eye
Speaker 15: to the FDA and our food supply because I you know,
Speaker 15: I don't agree with him on a lot of issues. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 15: but I respect the man's knowledge and I respect his
Speaker 15: his insight into health and wellness because look at him.
Speaker 15: The man is a physical specimen. And I got to
Speaker 15: tell you he knows his business. And I'm really excited
Speaker 15: about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I share your excitement. I think I've mentioned before you're
Speaker 1: like Elon Musk. I think he's a great guy. He's goofy,
Speaker 1: He's done some goofy stuff, and he's an out of
Speaker 1: the box kind of weird, sort of outlier guy, but
Speaker 1: overall demonstrably brilliant and he is a problem solver and
Speaker 1: he knows how to run a business. So that's me excited.
Speaker 1: But I feel the same way about RFK Junior. He's
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of the Ledger for me, with
Speaker 1: the Green New Deal kind of crap. But yeah, he's
Speaker 1: intelligent and what will he do? Much like Christopher Smith
Speaker 1: of an Independent, he comes from a different side of
Speaker 1: the political spectrum of a certain degree, and he offers
Speaker 1: an alternative perspective that will at least get us engaged
Speaker 1: in a conversation about it. It's not an echo chamber
Speaker 1: when you've got an administration that's conservat and presumably the
Speaker 1: Trump administration will be. You got RFK Junior in there
Speaker 1: stirring the pod a little bit. It's going to force
Speaker 1: people to actually talk about it. I want that it's
Speaker 1: good for the country.
Speaker 3: And argue with that.
Speaker 15: There's no point what I've learned through my very brief
Speaker 15: career in politics and on this planet, you know, being
Speaker 15: in a room with the people with you know, ten
Speaker 15: people that agree with you, and you all are just
Speaker 15: sitting there around saying, oh, yeah, we're right. We're right,
Speaker 15: really doesn't move the ball down the field. You have
Speaker 15: to open up your perspective a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 15: I'm not saying give up your principles, but man, you know,
Speaker 15: welcome in some outside perspectives. And that's the amazing thing
Speaker 15: about the most amazing thing about this Trump campaign is
Speaker 15: the coalition of really different bring views that have come
Speaker 15: together to put this man over the finish line. And
Speaker 15: I think the next four years are hopefully going to
Speaker 15: be truly transformative for not only our country, but for
Speaker 15: politics in general.
Speaker 1: Amen to that, Andrew Pappas, thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 1: I truly appreciate you listening to the program and chiming
Speaker 1: in from time to time. And I'll look forward to
Speaker 1: running into again India again real soon, maybe at listening
Speaker 1: to Lunch of Price sal Chili next in the first
Speaker 1: week of December. Take care of your brother, have a
Speaker 1: wonderful weekend. Eight forty seven. Janet is on the line. Janet,
Speaker 1: You're going to be next. If you don't mind holding
Speaker 1: for a moment, take quick break, stick around right here.
Speaker 1: Fifty five kre C DE Talk station eight fifty one Agree.
Speaker 16: Ho me, It indeed can be depending on where you're
Speaker 16: looking at it.
Speaker 1: Even if you're the most politically angry person in the
Speaker 1: world right now, it is still a wonderful world. You're
Speaker 1: just not looking close enough. God bless all my listeners
Speaker 1: out there. And I'm going to jump over to the
Speaker 1: phones because Janet is on the line. Janet, I saw
Speaker 1: the article this morning. I even mentioned about the racist
Speaker 1: text messages. There was a local story about it, but
Speaker 1: apparently they went out to New York, Alabama, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: and Tennessee talk about plantations and was sent to black people.
Speaker 1: Just absolutely appalling. Welcome to the show. I'm glad you
Speaker 1: brought this up.
Speaker 17: Well, Brian, I think it was so blatantly obvious that
Speaker 17: it's somebody anti Trump, anti Trump supporters. Clearly it was
Speaker 17: signed a hashtag. It was signed a hashtag mega hashtag
Speaker 17: Trump supporters. Come on, people, let's don't let them divide.
Speaker 7: Okay, there are.
Speaker 17: You know, let me explain the access of evil. I
Speaker 17: ran China, Russia. Okay, those are the enemies, not US. Okay,
Speaker 17: it's not black against white. Please wake up, Please do
Speaker 17: not let this cause problems. These are haters that are
Speaker 17: have great angst. It could be pro African American outfits.
Speaker 17: It could be anybody. It could be somebody on the
Speaker 17: other side of the continent. It could be China. It
Speaker 17: could But you know, after Russia Gate, it sounds so stupid,
Speaker 17: the whole thing. I don't want to detail, you know,
Speaker 17: the stuff that was so hanos so the prostitutes with
Speaker 17: Trump put the prostitutes in the Russian bult crap. It
Speaker 17: sounds a lot like that. It's that blatantly racist. I
Speaker 17: don't know how can anybody fall for something that.
Speaker 1: Honestly, Janet, you're right, and let's just move back a step.
Speaker 1: Do you really think even any individual out there who's
Speaker 1: screaming about how this is some kind of reflection, a
Speaker 1: reflection of Maga folks or Trump support anything, do you
Speaker 1: really think they believe what's coming out of their mouth,
Speaker 1: Given how easy it is to do exactly what was done.
Speaker 1: We've got everybody in the world on TikTok. They have
Speaker 1: vacuumed up literally every ounce of information on your phone.
Speaker 1: In that particular case, the Chinese Communist Party, it's you're
Speaker 1: the one who've given them all the information. So yes,
Speaker 1: they know what race you are, they know what religion
Speaker 1: you are They know what political side of the ledger
Speaker 1: you want, They know all about you. It doesn't require
Speaker 1: some maga group to send this out, although it's possible
Speaker 1: they could, it wouldn't be in their best interest. And yeah,
Speaker 1: are there racists in the world, Yes, would they benefit
Speaker 1: by stirring the pot and bringing attention to themselves to
Speaker 1: doing this because you know the FBI and others are
Speaker 1: going to be looking into it. Hell no, they wouldn't.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, it's a hoax, it's stupid, it's offensive, and
Speaker 1: let's just call it what it is, just one more
Speaker 1: effort to piss people off and stir the pot of division.
Speaker 1: As you point out, Janet, let's enjoy our weekend. Let's
Speaker 1: live in peace and harmony. Let's put our political differences aside,
Speaker 1: or at least collectively try to work toward a better
Speaker 1: place for all of us without this ridiculous fake stirred
Speaker 1: up division.
Speaker 17: It could be hostile from other from either side anywhere.
Speaker 1: Absolutely No, that's the point of it.
Speaker 2: You make multiple sides.
Speaker 17: Our enemies are, Our enemies are not each other. Please people,
Speaker 17: just please, I wish we should. I don't know how
Speaker 17: much to stress that we cannot let that kind of thing.
Speaker 17: We've got to understand who the enemies of America are.
Speaker 17: They fear Trump because they know he is going for
Speaker 17: as far as born domestic policies go. He's going to
Speaker 17: clean their clocks if if he needs to.
Speaker 9: We'll see, he's going to do what it takes.
Speaker 1: We'll see. As far as that goes, we're tea leaf reading.
Speaker 1: But as far as our reaction to that particular ridiculous
Speaker 1: text goes, I think we should all just write it
Speaker 1: off as just one more in a long line of
Speaker 1: fake Oh, I almost dropped an FCC bomb there. Danny
Speaker 1: gonna do the dump button on myself. We all know
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say, though Barbaris Dreice had. I know.
Speaker 1: I combat myself on the back for catching myself. I
Speaker 1: have to do that so many times during the Morning Show,
Speaker 1: every single day. I've made it this long. I'm closing
Speaker 1: out my eighteenth year. Haven't screwed up yet. Knock Wood
Speaker 1: Tune in Monday for Christopher Smith in the Monday Morning
Speaker 1: Smith event. He's not on the rundown that as I
Speaker 1: see it yet, but I presume Brian James and Monday
Speaker 1: Monday as well I hope you can tune into that
Speaker 1: if you didn't get a chance to listen to live
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Speaker 1: for Joe Strecker. You always do a wonderful job. Folks.
Speaker 1: Hope you have a wonderful weekend. Don't go away. Glenn
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