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Speaker 1: gonna have to try to find those. I appreciate that.
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Speaker 1: Joe Strecker's on vacation still. Actually I got a picture
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Speaker 1: He said he was wondering if he's down in Florida.
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Speaker 1: He's wondering if iHeartMedia is hiring there in Florida locally.
Speaker 1: He does not want to come back, so I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm going to take him seriously on that.
Speaker 1: I guess we'll find out on Tuesday if he shows
Speaker 1: up back to work again, Danny. Otherwise you might be
Speaker 1: stuck in that room anyway. Uh Tech Friday Dave Patter
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Speaker 1: So what's going on in the wide wide world of
Speaker 1: sports this morning? That's just may as well get into
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden interesting surprise guilty please. Some are suggesting maybe
Speaker 1: he has gone ahead and pled guilty to avoid the
Speaker 1: salacious details that would have most notably come out in court.
Speaker 1: It didn't go real well for him with his gun trial.
Speaker 1: If you recall that when he was found guilty of
Speaker 1: wying when he filled out his FFL form under the
Speaker 1: influence of drugs at the time. He purchased the firearms
Speaker 1: sentencing on that one. I believes in November. So he
Speaker 1: played guilty to federal tax charges yesterday, which ended the trial.
Speaker 1: Jury selection was set to begin, and they pulled the
Speaker 1: plug on it. Now, it's interesting there was a certain
Speaker 1: type of plea deal that they tried to get. They're
Speaker 1: not a plea deal, rather a guilty plea where you
Speaker 1: plead guilty, but you say you're innocent, describe as unusual,
Speaker 1: maintain innocence while conceding that the evidence is sufficient for
Speaker 1: a jury verdict. It's called an Alford deal. And that's
Speaker 1: from a case from nineteen seventy North Carolina versus Alford,
Speaker 1: which said, while most pleas of guilty consist of both
Speaker 1: a waiver of a trial and an express admission of guilt,
Speaker 1: the express admission of guilt is not a constitutional requisite
Speaker 1: to impose a criminal penalty. That's the ruling from this
Speaker 1: Alford case. The accused may consent to the imposition of
Speaker 1: a prison sentence even if he's unwilling or unable to
Speaker 1: admit to his participation in the acts constituting the crime. Now,
Speaker 1: the FEDS don't like this necessarily, and according to the
Speaker 1: Justice Department's Policy Manual for tax cases, and that's what
Speaker 1: this is, the US Attorney's Office may not consent to
Speaker 1: a so called Alfred plea except in the most unusual circumstances,
Speaker 1: and only after the Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division or
Speaker 1: a higher department official has approved a written request for
Speaker 1: this type of deal. So when they try to propose
Speaker 1: this Alfred deal, prosecutors said, no, no, Now, we're not
Speaker 1: going to support any plea deal without an express admission
Speaker 1: of guilt. Quote, Hunter Biden is not innocent, Hunter Biden
Speaker 1: is guilty. That's a quote from the prosecutor Leo Wi
Speaker 1: speaking with the judge Mark Scarci. So fast forward a
Speaker 1: little bit later in the day, Biden's lawyer came back
Speaker 1: from a break and told the judge his client would
Speaker 1: abandon that Alfred plea deal go ahead and plead guilty
Speaker 1: without any negotiated deal with prosecutors working under Special Counselor
Speaker 1: David Wis. So, you know, my initial reaction was out
Speaker 1: they negotiated a plea deal behind the scenes. He's going
Speaker 1: to avoid jail time. Et cetera, et cetera. Well, they're
Speaker 1: saying now that there was no negotiated plea deal. Biden's leader,
Speaker 1: Abe Lowell, his lawyer, and court said, let's move on.
Speaker 1: It's been a difficult time for the Biden family, and
Speaker 1: further strain would come from this trial because Biden family
Speaker 1: members would be witnesses and we all know about the
Speaker 1: salacious details of a hunter Biden's life and dragon family
Speaker 1: members and probably not really great optics, especially since we're
Speaker 1: moments away from the November presidential election, while Joe Biden
Speaker 1: isn't part of it anymore. Of course, a lot of
Speaker 1: this would rub off on Kamala Harris, at least to
Speaker 1: a certain degree. The judge told Biden the charges he
Speaker 1: was honest with him. Hey, hey, buddy, the charges come
Speaker 1: of the maximum sentence of seventeen years in prison and
Speaker 1: a maximum finded more than a million dollars, and then
Speaker 1: scheduled sentencing for December sixteenth, which is a little over
Speaker 1: a month before Biden's hunter. Biden's dad, You remember Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: don't you. He hasn't been around for a while. You
Speaker 1: can find him on the beach. That's when he leaves office,
Speaker 1: so that again people are suggesting, well, that'll give Joe
Speaker 1: Biden time to change his mind and while pardon Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden for his crimes. President previously well, Hunter Biden previously
Speaker 1: pleaded guilty not guilty in January the charges that he
Speaker 1: failed to pay at least one point four million in
Speaker 1: taxes yore. That's what this trial was all about for
Speaker 1: the years twenty sixteen through twenty nineteen. Now it should
Speaker 1: be a lot more years than that. But remember they
Speaker 1: treated Hunter Biden with kid gloves, slow walking there at
Speaker 1: tax evasion and far a failure to register as a
Speaker 1: foreign agent investigation. They drugged their heels so long that
Speaker 1: the statute limitations ran. So the literally millions and millions
Speaker 1: of dollars that Hunter Biden and collected using his father's
Speaker 1: name as a saleable commodity out in the global market
Speaker 1: never going to see the light of justice. That was
Speaker 1: obviously a favor to the Biden family thanks to our
Speaker 1: lettered agencies. Anyway, the fallerty charges in this one involved
Speaker 1: allegations that Hunter evaded taxes on millions of dollars in
Speaker 1: income from foreign businesses. And this information again would have
Speaker 1: come out and seen the light of Day prosecutors alleged
Speaker 1: he gave that Biden gave taxpayers are wrecked rather taxpayer
Speaker 1: papers to his accountants in early twenty twenty that included
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars in false tax deductions right
Speaker 1: off for escorts, exotic dancers, sex club membership, his daughter's
Speaker 1: law school tuition, all of them labeled as business expenses,
Speaker 1: and many of these charges well after he had regained sobriety,
Speaker 1: which is kind of funny. They brought that up because
Speaker 1: in his statement, Hunter Biden said, like millions of Americans,
Speaker 1: I failed to file and pay my taxes on time,
Speaker 1: and for that I am responsible. As I've stated, addiction
Speaker 1: is not an excuse, but it is an explanation for
Speaker 1: some of my failures. That issue in this case, okay.
Speaker 1: Now was pointed out that the federal prosecutors they had
Speaker 1: a rather aggressive trial strategy. They were going to show
Speaker 1: how foreign interest paid Hunter Biden to influence you as
Speaker 1: a government while Daddy was Vice president during the Obama administration.
Speaker 1: They planned to show the lucrative arrangement that he had
Speaker 1: with the Romanian real estate magnate who was facing corruption
Speaker 1: investigation in his home country, along with his ties to
Speaker 1: the oil company CEFC China Energy, as well as all
Speaker 1: the shenanigans going on while he was on the board
Speaker 1: of directors of Barissma, the Ukrainian gas company, that he
Speaker 1: had no knowledge about or even in in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, the business and what they were involved in.
Speaker 1: He was basically hired because he was Joe Biden's son.
Speaker 1: We all know that all of these details were going
Speaker 1: to be just a over probably a month long period
Speaker 1: of time. So rather than face that, and rather they
Speaker 1: have all these details be brought back to the public's attention,
Speaker 1: he pleads guilty. Wise insisted on reading the entire fifty
Speaker 1: six page indictment into the record yesterday. Biden's lawyers objected
Speaker 1: to that, but that was the point, was to establish
Speaker 1: the facts underlying the guilty plea. In other words, Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden is standing here before you and is pleading guilty
Speaker 1: to all of the charges. For those of you who
Speaker 1: don't remember what the charges are here, let me read
Speaker 1: the fifty six page indictment word for word. So while
Speaker 1: they didn't have a trial on the merits on that
Speaker 1: with punter blyden pleading guilty to the charges in the indictment,
Speaker 1: the charges of the indictment are and therefore you don't
Speaker 1: have to go through a trial to bring it to
Speaker 1: everybody's attention anymore. So out there you have it. So
Speaker 1: over in Delaware, it's November thirteenth, is apparently when he's
Speaker 1: going to be sentenced for the handgun purchase where he
Speaker 1: claimed he was not using drug and that one he
Speaker 1: is facing a maximum sentence of twenty five years, but
Speaker 1: it's noted that because he's a first time offender, it
Speaker 1: probably received just a fraction of that penalty and probably
Speaker 1: no prison time at all. Now, if you or I
Speaker 1: were to get caught file lighting lying on an FFL form,
Speaker 1: we probably would go to jail. It's like anybody who
Speaker 1: was even in the neighborhood of Washington, d C. On
Speaker 1: January sixth, is going to be investigated by the FBI
Speaker 1: and probably brought the trial for I don't know, efforts
Speaker 1: to overthrow the United States government or something. Different treatment
Speaker 1: for different folks depending on what your last name is
Speaker 1: and your connection to the high level officials. In terms
Speaker 1: of the pardon thing, we all know Biden has previously
Speaker 1: said out loud that he would not use his clemency
Speaker 1: powers to pardon Hunter Biden for any potential sentences. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: Green Jean Pierre wheeled out and promised and repeated that
Speaker 1: pledge when reporters asked her about it. She declined to
Speaker 1: comment on whether Biden's decision not to seek another term
Speaker 1: had any impact on well the legal strategy unfolding yesterday
Speaker 1: in the trial for Hunter Biden. But a campaign spokesperson
Speaker 1: for Vice President Kamala Harris, speaking with NBC's Meet the Press, said, well,
Speaker 1: Harris doesn't have plans to pardon Biden's son should she
Speaker 1: win the presidential election. Now, I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: bold enough statement. Doesn't have plans currently much in the
Speaker 1: same way back in oh I don't know. Pick something
Speaker 1: she's flip flopped on. Back in twenty nineteen, she wanted
Speaker 1: to ban fracking, absolutely today she doesn't. She had plans
Speaker 1: to ban fracking back when she was running for president
Speaker 1: the United States of America. Now she's running for president
Speaker 1: of the United States of America again without the approval of
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, I might point out, and now she
Speaker 1: doesn't have plans of banfracking. So that's an unknown variable
Speaker 1: right there. And I still think it's more likely that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden himself will change his mind and will pardon
Speaker 1: his son before he leaves office. That's my take on
Speaker 1: it anyway. So interesting developments will see whether justice will
Speaker 1: actually see any light here and whether Hunter Biden will
Speaker 1: actually be held accountable for his multitude of crimes again,
Speaker 1: most of which weren't even on full display in this
Speaker 1: particular case.
Speaker 4: I'm Kamala Harris, and I approve this message.
Speaker 5: Keep your stupid mouth shot.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jay Ratlers. By twenty three, I bout her
Speaker 1: talk dation hilarious on the heels of our Justice Department
Speaker 1: cracking down on so called Russian disinformation. I still am
Speaker 1: laughing about that. They failed to appreciate how comical and
Speaker 1: laughable it is. After four years of Russian Russia, Russia
Speaker 1: Russia and colluding with Donald Trump, all of the disproven,
Speaker 1: after all the efforts and time we spent talking about it,
Speaker 1: and then we find out that they're claiming that Russia
Speaker 1: is in the bag for the Trump campaign and spreading
Speaker 1: disinformation online, failing to register as a foreign agency andre Biden. President.
Speaker 1: Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday came out expressing support for
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris claiming he prefers her to be
Speaker 1: the next US president because he wants the Biden administration
Speaker 1: to continue, and because, in his words, she laughs so
Speaker 1: expressively and infectiously. Do you think he is not trolling
Speaker 1: the United States of America with that one? He's pointed
Speaker 1: out him in his works with tongue in cheek at
Speaker 1: the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, mocking, yes, the idea
Speaker 1: that Russia actually has a preference in the election. I
Speaker 1: told you, I told you our favorite, if you can
Speaker 1: call it, that was the current president, mister Biden. He
Speaker 1: was removed from the race, but he recommended all his
Speaker 1: supporters support Ms. Arras, so he will do the same.
Speaker 1: We will support her. She laughs so expressively and effectiously
Speaker 1: that it means that everything is fine with her. He
Speaker 1: said he preferred not to see Donald Trump return to
Speaker 1: the White House because he introduced such a number of
Speaker 1: restrictions and sanctions against Russia that no president is ever
Speaker 1: introduced before. If Ms Harris is doing well, then maybe
Speaker 1: she will refrain from actions of this kind. He did say, ultimately,
Speaker 1: the choice is up to you, the American people, and
Speaker 1: he said we will respect that choice. As for the favorites.
Speaker 1: It's not up to us to determine that. It is,
Speaker 1: after all, the choice of the American people. Interesting statement,
Speaker 1: and he's accurate on that. Five fifty five K see
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Speaker 1: a Friday. Happy Friday, Always happy Friday. One hour from now,
Speaker 1: even happier because we talk to Tech Friday's Dave Hatter.
Speaker 1: Subject matter remains unknown. Dave, if you're out there, shoot
Speaker 1: me a list of topics. I'm sure he'll be able
Speaker 1: to manage on the fly. No question anyway. I guess
Speaker 1: we'll have to give an award out this morning. I
Speaker 1: already gave Dany the que that we're going to need
Speaker 1: to give you an award out because we go to Westchester.
Speaker 1: We're of a Westchester man who held jobs as a
Speaker 1: social worker and a u both counselor, now facing twenty
Speaker 1: one charges, including rape, following allegations he groomed and abused
Speaker 1: multiple children. According to the court documents, Michael LESCo, our
Speaker 1: award winner this morning, and died by the grand jury
Speaker 1: on seven counts of rape, six counts of gross sexual imposition,
Speaker 1: and eight counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
Speaker 1: Accused of sexually abusing multiple male victims who were children
Speaker 1: when the abuse happened. Corner spokesperson for the Westchester township
Speaker 1: LESCo operated a privately run counseling service out of his
Speaker 1: Westchester residence, and props the WCPO Channel nine for the
Speaker 1: reporting on this ac coordinated with the spokesperson in an email.
Speaker 1: Due to the grooming activity, ages of the victims and
Speaker 1: the trusted positions LESCo held, it is possible there are
Speaker 1: other victims that have not been identified. The investigation report
Speaker 1: of the LESCo has been engaging in the abuse for
Speaker 1: the past fifteen years. Abuse case tied Luscoe also reported
Speaker 1: in Montgomery County, Warren County, Butler County folks person said
Speaker 1: it as a September fifth, LESCo has not been charged
Speaker 1: in Warner Montgomery Counties for any recent offenses. Warn't for
Speaker 1: his arrest issued September fourth. After the indictment. Police said
Speaker 1: he was arrested in Georgia. Please want to know if
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Speaker 1: Danny Gleason, Perios, the biggest douche of the universe, in
Speaker 1: all the galaxies, There's no bigger douche than you. You've
Speaker 1: reached the top, the pinnacle of Deusdom. Good going, du
Speaker 1: Your dreams have come true. Ah suspect accused of killing
Speaker 1: a handyman back in twenty twenty one, has been found
Speaker 1: guilty of murder. In addition to murder charge, Jerry also
Speaker 1: found Arthur Smith guilty of felonious assault and the weapons
Speaker 1: charges in the Corn of the Gmlton County Prosecutor's Office
Speaker 1: Court of the Prosecutors. The victim, thirty four year old
Speaker 1: Antwine Morris, was replacing locks inside an apartment building the
Speaker 1: North Side when he and Smith got into an argument.
Speaker 1: Smith shot Morris, who died at the hospital three days later.
Speaker 1: Smith wasn't allowed to have a gun at the time
Speaker 1: because of a prior assault conviction. Morris's family members said
Speaker 1: he was a father who loved the Bengals and was
Speaker 1: a skilled handyman ran his own business. Smith will be
Speaker 1: sentenced October eighth, and he's facing life in prison. He's
Speaker 1: facing charges in an October twenty twenty two cases well.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors think Smith was inside the Hamilton County jail when
Speaker 1: he planned out DeVante Hollis's shooting death. He and a
Speaker 1: guy named Wendell Foster are accused of murder. I guess
Speaker 1: there was heightened security yesterday Several Greater Cincinnati schools one
Speaker 1: district canceling classes after a shooting threat was made online.
Speaker 1: Mount Healthy Schools canceled classes yesterday, and U Local News
Speaker 1: confirmed also that since SINT Public Schools increased security along
Speaker 1: with the CODA West Northwest Local, Princeton, Sycamore, and winn Woods,
Speaker 1: Mount Healthy units statements that was closing Thursday out of
Speaker 1: an abundance of caution and time that we needed to
Speaker 1: complete an investigation with law enforcement. They later announced the
Speaker 1: threat was found not to be credible and of course
Speaker 1: classes are resuming today and the statement to parents and
Speaker 1: guardians the safety of our students and staff from in
Speaker 1: our top priority and we will continue to stay vigilant.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your understanding and support. Other schools also
Speaker 1: related release comparable statements. So anyway, five point thirty five
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Speaker 1: John the Fisherman? Yes, even when Joe's checker's on vacation
Speaker 1: by forty one on a Friday. What do what Joe's
Speaker 1: doing right now? You think you're staring at the back
Speaker 1: of his eyelids ere Danny, Yes, wow, and why do
Speaker 1: you have a stacker stupid in front of me? And
Speaker 1: more importantly, liked to talk to folks. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to go to the phones. We have a couple of
Speaker 1: callers online, beginning with he was a listener lunch Mississippi. James,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the morning show, my friend. Good seeing
Speaker 1: you on Wednesday.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, doctor Brian same here. Enjoyed talking to some
Speaker 6: of your listeners and getting to meeting some of those.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But you know, I was told that location was an
Speaker 6: old funeral home.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 1: Yes, One of my listeners, Joan said, uh, I think
Speaker 1: it was her husband or her father was actually laid
Speaker 1: out there when it was a funeral home. I'd go
Speaker 1: here all the time because she's close, she lives close by.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Okay, okay, that was interesting.
Speaker 1: I think it's an improvement the way it is now.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So the person that was there at the lunch and
Speaker 6: they said their father was laid out in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was father, it was a relative
Speaker 1: in any event, but yeah, she says she always thinks
Speaker 1: about that when she goes in to eat, because yeah,
Speaker 1: it was formerly a funeral home. So that's Wheedham and Brewery.
Speaker 1: For those who are not knowing about what James and
Speaker 1: I are talking about.
Speaker 2: So neat place, okay, okay, well all right, just listening
Speaker 2: in and we're looking at I guess Hunt A. Biden
Speaker 2: be getting a pardon coming up?
Speaker 1: Yeah you too, Yeah, I mean, I'm with you on
Speaker 1: that one, James. I'm pretty I'm pretty much betting at
Speaker 1: all on Hunter Biden getting a pass and the final
Speaker 1: analysis on this one, notwithstanding what his dad has said
Speaker 1: and what Kamala Harris has said.
Speaker 6: Hey, it's nice to have fathers in high places.
Speaker 1: Well isn't that the truth? Good point, James, man, you
Speaker 1: have a great weekend and give your wife a hug,
Speaker 1: would you please? It was wonderful see both you at lunch. Man,
Speaker 1: Let's see what Larry's got before you to the stupid Larry.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Morning Show and happy Friday to you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 10: Hey, I just kind of want to give my opinion
Speaker 10: and get yours on a couple of things. How did
Speaker 10: how that kid sneak that ar fifteen end of that school.
Speaker 10: Obviously there's no security at a school, no metal detectives,
Speaker 10: no no. When are they going to beef up security
Speaker 10: at his schools? I just can't comprehend how he could
Speaker 10: have got that gun in there.
Speaker 6: It was a long gun.
Speaker 1: It's a legitimate question. It's one that I don't have
Speaker 1: an answer to. I haven't seen enough details, and they're
Speaker 1: still gathering information. Of course, there's slow to release anything,
Speaker 1: and that's typically the case anymore. But I heard in
Speaker 1: some news report I was listening as I was driving
Speaker 1: to work or I was in my car, that he
Speaker 1: had left the room and the room was locked, and
Speaker 1: he knocked on the door and was then allowed access
Speaker 1: back into the schoolroom where the shooting took place. So
Speaker 1: I don't know it's security protocol, is there or at
Speaker 1: any school? I know it differs from district to district,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. But you make a good point. I
Speaker 1: have no problem having armed, uh you know, responsible armed
Speaker 1: adults in schools defending folks. But you've got to get
Speaker 1: the armed person near the person who's shooting people up.
Speaker 1: So time is of the essence, and it's certainly easy
Speaker 1: if you can get a gun into the building to
Speaker 1: do some serious damage before someone with a firearm puts
Speaker 1: you down and out of your misery.
Speaker 10: And metal detectors, why don't they all have metal detectors
Speaker 10: that have.
Speaker 11: Called that gun coming in with it?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, I get, I suppose. I mean
Speaker 1: one one would imagine a metal detector would have detected
Speaker 1: an AR fifteen. But I suppose you know there are
Speaker 1: workarounds to that. You know, you can hide a gun
Speaker 1: in the building after hours, and yeah, I'm just just yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's I'm from my standpoint, it's too early to tell,
Speaker 1: but I've got no objection to having metal detectors outside
Speaker 1: buildings as long as everybody has to go through them
Speaker 1: and they're properly searched. So appreciate the call man. Hope
Speaker 1: you have a wonderful weekend. Out of time. In the segment,
Speaker 1: it is five forty five and five fifty fifty five
Speaker 1: fair CD talk station driving on into the stacker stupid
Speaker 1: which I don't know. It can begin with the receipt
Speaker 1: that my friend Jeff sent me on Facebook this morning. Danny,
Speaker 1: your guests, A big boy and an iced tea. What
Speaker 1: do you think that costs?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Wow? You okay, well then you'll be happy. Nine dollars
Speaker 1: and forty eight cents. Danny gets thirteen, but just a
Speaker 1: plain big boy and an iced tea.
Speaker 5: That was it.
Speaker 1: Jeez, Louise Hey, maybe inflation anyhow, Stack is stupid. Got
Speaker 1: A man accused of fleeing from Pierce County deputies two
Speaker 1: times arrested after a canine found him hiding in a
Speaker 1: garbage can where he was naked. This according a new
Speaker 1: video in court documents. Jeff Jacob Matthew Patterson arrested August
Speaker 1: twenty first in Fredrickson, Washington, after multiple attempts to escape
Speaker 1: law enforce from now facing eight charges. Court documents say
Speaker 1: he was first a first incident had on August eleventh,
Speaker 1: where he allegedly was found slumped over in a stolen
Speaker 1: Ford f Three to fifty deputies attempted to prevent the
Speaker 1: vehicle from fleeing with stop sticks. He woke up, evaded
Speaker 1: patrol cars, and led deputies on a chase. Patterson drove
Speaker 1: into oncoming traffic multiple times, reaching speeds over one hundred
Speaker 1: and eight miles an hour, but Washington State Patrol then
Speaker 1: took over the chase once it went onto a different highway,
Speaker 1: specifically I. Five vehicle later crashed in Seattle's were near
Speaker 1: Valley neighborhood, and officers identified two occupants of the stolen
Speaker 1: F three fifty one, a woman who said she had
Speaker 1: previously been in a relationship with this Patterson guy. They
Speaker 1: share a four year old child who was unbuckled in
Speaker 1: the back seat as Patterson fled from the deputies. Woman
Speaker 1: claimed she and Patterson broke up a couple of weeks prior,
Speaker 1: and then she was only with him to see her son.
Speaker 1: Said Patterson appeared to be high, so he pulled over
Speaker 1: to sober up. She fell asleep by the time he
Speaker 1: started the chase. Court documents also state that she called
Speaker 1: nine to one one from Patterson's phone during the pursuit,
Speaker 1: telling dispatchers that her four year old was inside the
Speaker 1: stolen vehicle. Despite the woman and her son being present
Speaker 1: at the crash site, Patterson wasn't there. However. Ten days later,
Speaker 1: Pierce Keunny deputies received a report of a suspicious vehicle
Speaker 1: seventy fourth Avenue in a one to eighty eighth street.
Speaker 1: A check on the vehicle's license plate showed belonged to
Speaker 1: Patterson's girlfriend, and Patterson appeared to be in the car
Speaker 1: with her. Deputies blocked and surrounded the vehicle, ordering Patterson
Speaker 1: to surrender. His four year old son exited the car
Speaker 1: and walked toward the deputies. After not complying, the deputy
Speaker 1: shot out the back window of the car, and the
Speaker 1: woman could be heard yelling something about getting dressed. Shortly after,
Speaker 1: Patterson exits from the passenger's side door and begins running
Speaker 1: from the deputies, completely naked. That defence deputy's lost sight
Speaker 1: of him, so Canine Bronco was called onto the scene
Speaker 1: for an assist, and after combing the neighborhood, Bronco located
Speaker 1: Patterson hiding inside a garbage can. That time, he was
Speaker 1: taken into custody without further incident. He's now in the
Speaker 1: Pierce County Jail three hundred thousand dollars bail, facing charge
Speaker 1: of unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle to count the
Speaker 1: reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, unlawful imprisonment, attempting to elude police,
Speaker 1: property damage, driving on a suspended or revoked license. The
Speaker 1: child turned over to Child Protective Services. Of course, we
Speaker 1: got to go to Florida for one. That's where we
Speaker 1: usually are or end up on a stack of stupid. Friday,
Speaker 1: police in Orlando, Florida, arrested a man wearing an ankle
Speaker 1: monitor who allegedly tried to kidnap a woman at a
Speaker 1: Walmart parking lot. Officers with the Orlando Police Department showed
Speaker 1: up a four thirty the afternoon Monday to a Walmart
Speaker 1: for an armed rob attempted kidnapping, Please say the suspect,
Speaker 1: fifty four year old Juan Marcos Perez, was pacing the
Speaker 1: parking lot before approaching the victim. He pulled out a
Speaker 1: knife held it to the woman's throat before first enforcing
Speaker 1: her into the trunk of her car. Ac cord to
Speaker 1: the probably Cause Arrest STAFFI David, the victim tried to
Speaker 1: fight back. He's told the victim, if you keep this up,
Speaker 1: I'll slice your throat, police said. The bystander intervened and
Speaker 1: Perez ran away. Witness later told police she saw the
Speaker 1: victim's legs flailing out of the trunk in Perez trying
Speaker 1: to push her in. Witness stopped the car and got
Speaker 1: out to see if the woman needed help. That's when
Speaker 1: Perez reportedly ran away. Cops identified Perez as a suspect
Speaker 1: and learned that he's a registered sex offender with a
Speaker 1: previous conviction for kidnapping and was also on parole. Prole
Speaker 1: officer positively identified him as the suspect via surveillance camera.
Speaker 1: Pro officer also told cops that Perez was wearing a
Speaker 1: GPS and CO monitor, and data from the monitor showed
Speaker 1: that he was in fact at the walmart the time
Speaker 1: of the arm robbery and kidnapping. Resting on Tuesday taking
Speaker 1: to the Orange County Jail in charge of arm robbery,
Speaker 1: attempted kidnapping, aggravated battery of a deadly weapon. He remained
Speaker 1: there without bond. He'll be in court again on September tenth,
Speaker 1: five point fifty six. I know what do you do
Speaker 1: but shake your head, Danny, Right, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: And I always point out the reason I do the
Speaker 1: stack of stupid or one of the reasons is it's
Speaker 1: something to smile about because you're not in it right.
Speaker 1: Stick around, got more to talk about plus tech Friday
Speaker 1: coming up at six thirty with Dave Hatter. I'll be
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Speaker 1: happy Friday. Danny Glee is covering for the vacationing Joseph
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Speaker 1: He's not coming back, obviously having a good time coming
Speaker 1: to them. Out of the hour. Tech Friday with Dave
Speaker 1: Hatter still don't know what we're talking about day. If
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Speaker 1: on the fly five one three, seven fifty five nd
Speaker 1: AT eight hundred and eighty two three Taco with pound
Speaker 1: five fifty on AT and T Funds. Kind of having
Speaker 1: to go continuing this sort of joke with the Biden
Speaker 1: administration accusing Vladimir Putin of orchestrating a covert campaign to
Speaker 1: influence you. I just I still find it so comical
Speaker 1: on so many levels. It's really a technicality. Had they,
Speaker 1: you know, sort of identified themselves as Russians, you know how,
Speaker 1: I am from Russia and I am funding an article here.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you immediately would reject that, because
Speaker 1: I suppose not everything Russia says in its own media
Speaker 1: outlets is a lie. Of course, it's going to be
Speaker 1: a narrative that supports the Russian people, the Russian political perspective.
Speaker 4: What have you.
Speaker 1: But that's the same with literally every news site you
Speaker 1: would go with, everybody seems to have a bias or
Speaker 1: event along some lines. They haven't all gone to journalism
Speaker 1: school and pledge of and given us a pledge of neutrality.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it's Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. Meanwhile, and all
Speaker 1: the other reporting, we have the Chinese Communist Party apparently
Speaker 1: infiltrating the four corners of American government. But let's not
Speaker 1: pay attention to the Chinese Communist Party, And Kim Strassel
Speaker 1: writes about it today in the Journal Justice Department Trump's
Speaker 1: Russian disinformation. It's rather comical. Which is more likely to
Speaker 1: influence a US election? A dribble of Russian propaganda in
Speaker 1: an ocean of online electioneering, or a federal law enforcement
Speaker 1: campaign against one of the candidates you decide. Bear that
Speaker 1: choice in mind when analyzing the Justice Department's decision this
Speaker 1: week to jump again into the election fray with another
Speaker 1: round of warnings over Russian disinformation, even as the first
Speaker 1: mail in ballots go out and they are I think
Speaker 1: today's day when the election kicks off North Carolina. The
Speaker 1: mail in ballot process begins today, So timing on this
Speaker 1: one couldn't be any better. Most striking party, She writes
Speaker 1: of the Wednesday press conference from which the Department unveiled
Speaker 1: indictments against covert Russian actors, was its lack of self awareness,
Speaker 1: as if this weren't the same government agency that fed
Speaker 1: us the Trump Russia collusion lies of twenty sixteen and
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen, an ally
Speaker 1: of an intelligence community that four years ago falsely branded
Speaker 1: reporting about Hunter Biden's laptop disinformation. Whatever the merits of
Speaker 1: this week's accident against Russians, and they look legit. The
Speaker 1: Justice Department's failures to acknowledge it has enormous credibility problems
Speaker 1: is almost comical. I would say it is truly comical.
Speaker 1: KM gap comes not only from past whoppers, but from
Speaker 1: continued mishandling of the disinformation question. Somewhere buried in Special
Speaker 1: Counselor Robert Muller's voluminous report was some useful information about
Speaker 1: Russian shenanigans back in the twenty sixteen cycle. But the
Speaker 1: partisan need to magnify that threat and tie it that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump produced this much more consequential propaganda campaign. What
Speaker 1: the news of recent years shows is that bad guys everywhere,
Speaker 1: not only Russia, are seeking to influence Americans, always, not
Speaker 1: only at election time, and for their own malevolent purposes,
Speaker 1: not to help one US political party or another. I'm
Speaker 1: reading this because she's making the same point in this
Speaker 1: op ed that I've been making for years. The Chinese
Speaker 1: Communist Party is using online trolls to stoke US division
Speaker 1: on hot button topics ranging from Israel Hamas conflict to
Speaker 1: racial inequality via an operation known as spamouflage. It's also
Speaker 1: backing operatives who have fueled US street protests and infiltrated universities,
Speaker 1: think tax and even. We learned this week the office
Speaker 1: of New York Governor Kathy Hockel that'll be of investigation
Speaker 1: only last month said the Iranian government was behind a
Speaker 1: hack and leak operation against the Trump campaign. Federal investigators
Speaker 1: are looking into whether Turkey funneled money into New York
Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams campaign. Former Senator Bob and Endez was
Speaker 1: convicted of bribery and other charges for providing favors to
Speaker 1: Egypt and Cutter, while Texas Representative Henry Kuller stands accused
Speaker 1: of accepting brides from a government owned azer by Johnny entity.
Speaker 1: It's far easier to name a country that isn't trying
Speaker 1: to influence US and one that is. Contrary many press accounts,
Speaker 1: these operations usually aren't focused on putting a candidate in office.
Speaker 1: As Attorney General Mary Garland acknowledged this week, the recent
Speaker 1: Russian operation, backed by the State Media Operation RT, worked
Speaker 1: to amplify, in his words, US domestic divisions in order
Speaker 1: to weaken US opposition to core Russian interests, most notably
Speaker 1: support for Ukraine. Foreign actors devote most of the efforts
Speaker 1: to setting Americans against each other, undermining faith in elections
Speaker 1: and institutions. Again, that is a point I make regularly.
Speaker 1: They don't care where they're sewing division as long as
Speaker 1: they're sewing division. And when you buy into it, and
Speaker 1: you help foster and and feed that division with your
Speaker 1: rude and stupid comments online, you're doing their bidding. They
Speaker 1: smile with glee at the division that they well like
Speaker 1: the results of the division they sew. She writes a
Speaker 1: Justice Department It's media pack also do a grave disservice
Speaker 1: in overstating these destabilizing effects and in the process aiding them.
Speaker 1: The Russian ops are nasty and criminal, but also a
Speaker 1: drop in the content or drop of content in the vast,
Speaker 1: heaving universe of political commentary. They hardly compare to the
Speaker 1: many red blooded Americans who don't need foreign health to
Speaker 1: spread nut job theories. The Justice Department should absolutely be
Speaker 1: shutting down foreign operations as they are found and making
Speaker 1: Americans aware of risk. But the grandiose press conferences and
Speaker 1: alarmed warnings of a flood of disinformation breed far more
Speaker 1: anxiety over the integrity of elections than anything Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: is is hoping for. Don't forget the power of that
Speaker 1: pulpit in the universe of influence, the federal government has
Speaker 1: a megaphone to make mister Putin and Iran's bots weep
Speaker 1: with envy. The Biden administration is highly aware. For the
Speaker 1: first time in history, its prosecutors obtained an indictment against
Speaker 1: the former president and used its power to press a
Speaker 1: meedy thumb on the scale of this election, with accusations
Speaker 1: against mister Trump that include conspiracy, corruption, and obstruction. Who
Speaker 1: has more influence with Americans the unknown Russian functionary slinging
Speaker 1: a video into the black hole of YouTube, or a
Speaker 1: prosecutor backed by the Justice Department seal press cameras flashing
Speaker 1: using a superseding indictment ten weeks before an election to
Speaker 1: swear Americans. So the claim that the Republican presidential nominee
Speaker 1: is a criminal. Yeah, you decide who's got more influence.
Speaker 1: There was a time when the Department and sought to
Speaker 1: avoid politically charged prosecutions before elections, the better to preserve
Speaker 1: its reputation for impartiality. It managed to foil or disrupt
Speaker 1: decades of Soviet propaganda campaigns without roiling the civic debate.
Speaker 1: The Department today is as much as part of the
Speaker 1: news cycle as the candidates themselves. If it wants to
Speaker 1: cut down on an improper influence in the elections, it
Speaker 1: could do no greater good than to go quiet until
Speaker 1: November sixth, Well stated, And don't overlook the ultimate point,
Speaker 1: the point that she's making, the point again that I've
Speaker 1: made for years. I always point to the United States Flag,
Speaker 1: our great stars and stripes, and how I look at
Speaker 1: that and still in my heart of hearts view that
Speaker 1: as a symbol of freedom, a beautiful symbol of freedom,
Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that those freedoms are eroding
Speaker 1: moment by moment. In our own country before our very
Speaker 1: eyes by evil, manipulative force. But to me, it's a
Speaker 1: symbol of freedom. Freedom for you to believe in your ideas,
Speaker 1: Freedom for you to worship your God and your religion.
Speaker 1: Freedom for you to pursue your own life choices. Yes,
Speaker 1: freedom for you to be gay or lesbian, don't care.
Speaker 1: It's part of the freedom that we all enjoy. I
Speaker 1: can't shove my ideas down your throat, and you can't
Speaker 1: shove yours down minds, so don't try to do it
Speaker 1: through the education system. Freedom is what that flag stands for.
Speaker 1: But as I've noted, while I look at it as
Speaker 1: a symbol of freedom, it has also been viewed by
Speaker 1: so many people now as a sign and a symbol
Speaker 1: of division. By demonizing the United States, calling it inherently racist,
Speaker 1: saying that we were born of original sin, wanting to
Speaker 1: bring it down and create something from the ashes of
Speaker 1: what was the greatest republic and greatest government the world
Speaker 1: has ever seen. That symbol becomes a source of division,
Speaker 1: and that division is sowed by every foe out in
Speaker 1: the world that you can come up with, whether it's
Speaker 1: the Iranians, the Russians, the Communist Party of China, you
Speaker 1: name it, or in the vast sea of opportunity out
Speaker 1: there on the internet, some random dude can also help
Speaker 1: stir the seeds of division. Don't help them with it.
Speaker 1: Six at five Karse the talk station. Else happy it's Friday. David. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's looking for a new Yeah from David, can count
Speaker 1: on it. Let us see here over to illegal immigration,
Speaker 1: obviously a massive problem, big and very top ten, maybe
Speaker 1: top three on most people's willstcoring the election. How is
Speaker 1: it that Kamala Harris under her watch could allow nine
Speaker 1: million folks in since twenty twenty and still be pulling real,
Speaker 1: actually quite well up against Donald Trump given the illegal
Speaker 1: immigration situation, which is a real problem. I know we've
Speaker 1: talked before about the gangs, the very very very dangerous
Speaker 1: gangs that have been creeping in, gangs that have taken
Speaker 1: over hotels and the migrant shelters. Some information that we've
Speaker 1: talked about earlier in the week on that and now
Speaker 1: I saw over on zero Heads and apparently we have
Speaker 1: concerns about terrorism by armed Venezuela and gangs, notably this
Speaker 1: trendy Aragua gang that was terrorizing the northern Denver suburb
Speaker 1: of Aurora, as well as other sanctuary cities. Texas based
Speaker 1: oil Gas Company issued a memo to their employees informing
Speaker 1: them that the police and FBI have warned armed Cuban
Speaker 1: and Venezuela migrant gangs are committing thefts in the Permian Basin,
Speaker 1: which is America's highest producing oil field. According to the memos,
Speaker 1: that industry peers and law enforcement in West Texas are
Speaker 1: aware of a recent increase and organized criminal activity inclusive
Speaker 1: of violent crimes, gang activity, and oil field thefts in
Speaker 1: and around WTX operation areas West Texas. Specifically, regional law
Speaker 1: enforcement the FBI advised gang members emanating from Cuban and
Speaker 1: Venezuela are organizing and working in concert to commit thefts
Speaker 1: within the permiting base, and these individuals and groups are armed,
Speaker 1: violent and violent in nature and will not hesitate to
Speaker 1: use force. Crimes associated with these groups include theft of oil,
Speaker 1: diesel fuel, copper wire, and catalyst elements. Recent incidents have
Speaker 1: also included two assaults by waterhulers who are attempting to
Speaker 1: steal oil from WTX oil field sites. After being observed
Speaker 1: by witnesses, the thieves drove up to they drove up
Speaker 1: to investigate the thieves attempted to use their vehicle to
Speaker 1: run into the witnesses and run them off the road.
Speaker 1: Another incident, a thief acting as a spotter attempted to
Speaker 1: run a witness off the road. There have been numerous
Speaker 1: reports of second vehicles acting as spotters for waterhaulers committing
Speaker 1: oil thefts. So just one more thing to add to
Speaker 1: the growing list of crimes committed by these organized gangs.
Speaker 1: And in a related we have a problem with our
Speaker 1: own Customs and Border Protection officials. We have two US
Speaker 1: Customs and Border Protection officers now accused of working for
Speaker 1: Mexican drug trafficking organization, allowing vehicles loaded with fentanyl, heroin, cocaine,
Speaker 1: and methn phetamine to pass unchecked through their inspection lanes
Speaker 1: in southern California. Where there's an opportunity to make money,
Speaker 1: loyalty to country and your job responsibilities sometimes takes a
Speaker 1: major back seat. Six twenty five five K site Talk
Speaker 1: Station Tech frit with Dave Hatter next, including concerns over
Speaker 1: job seekers employment scams are skyrocketing. One of the three
Speaker 1: topics we're talking about with Dave it is six point
Speaker 1: thirty It is Friday. It is that time. Thank you
Speaker 1: to interest it. You'll find an interest it dot com,
Speaker 1: which the Business Courier says it's the best business out
Speaker 1: there to help businesses with their computer related needs and
Speaker 1: problems and best practices. And the man, the mental, the
Speaker 1: legend behind interest i T joins us every Friday at
Speaker 1: this time. His name Dave Adda. Welcome back, Dave. Always
Speaker 1: a pleasure to have you on the show, my friend.
Speaker 7: Always my pleasure to be here, Brian, thanks for having
Speaker 7: me on.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, where do you want to start? I got
Speaker 1: the three articles you send, We've got dogs, we've got
Speaker 1: job seekers, and we've got Apple helping the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 7: Why don't we do that one last? Why don't we
Speaker 7: start with the Ukraine deployees nine thousand dollars robot All okay,
Speaker 7: you know, the last ten years or so, Brian, we've
Speaker 7: talked about, you know, robots and how far this technology's
Speaker 7: advanced for a long time, and you know, he obviously
Speaker 7: continues to advance. I encourage people to go out and
Speaker 7: check out like Atlas for example, or Musks, robots, optimists
Speaker 7: and see what these things can do. I know again,
Speaker 7: we've talked about this. I'm sure you've watched some of
Speaker 7: these videos. You know, I stumble into these things all
Speaker 7: the time. But there's been concern by many experts out
Speaker 7: there for you know, quite a while that these robots,
Speaker 7: even though many of them have more industrial type applications.
Speaker 7: And let's be real here, industrial robots have been around
Speaker 7: for a long long time, right, I mean probably into
Speaker 7: the late sixties or early seventies. We've seen factories in
Speaker 7: places like GM and John Deere and so forth, Caterpillar,
Speaker 7: you know, with the robot arm that's what. Yeah, so
Speaker 7: that kind of I mean, the concept of robots itself
Speaker 7: is not new, but when you look at the advanced
Speaker 7: capabilities these things now have, it's pretty pretty wild on
Speaker 7: a number of fronts. But the weaponization, you know, continues
Speaker 7: to advance, and it is really kind of scary.
Speaker 1: It is really really scary. And the other creepy thing
Speaker 1: about it. At least the robots back on the ones
Speaker 1: you're referring to, the early one and didn't have animal
Speaker 1: like or human like qualities. They look like industrial machinery.
Speaker 1: Now you got these creepy armed dogs. They got four
Speaker 1: legs and they run around. They kind of act like animals,
Speaker 1: but they're not, and they're just scary as hell.
Speaker 7: Yeah, to your point, you know, a lot of those
Speaker 7: earlier industrial robots had limited mobility, right, they were fixed
Speaker 7: to the ground, and they had a certain you know,
Speaker 7: range of motion and certain tasks they perform, but for
Speaker 7: the most part, they were you know, pretty much fixed
Speaker 7: to one place. Now you've got to your point. Robots
Speaker 7: that either look like animals are humanoid. They have a
Speaker 7: wide range of motion, they can perform a wide array
Speaker 7: of tasks. And again this idea of weaponization, which obviously
Speaker 7: science fiction writers have been predicting for a long time.
Speaker 7: But you know, we've seen examples now. And this is
Speaker 7: a headline from the New York Post. Ukraine deploys nine
Speaker 7: thousand dollars robot dogs versus Russia with plants to use
Speaker 7: them as quote Kamakazi's unquote on the front lines. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and you know that this article gets into a variety
Speaker 7: of different uses. They have pictures of what I'm assuming
Speaker 7: are Ukrainian soldiers with these robot dogs, which look like
Speaker 7: something out of an X Files episode, or there is
Speaker 7: a Black Mirror episode. For folks who haven't seen Black
Speaker 7: Mirror on Netflix. You know, there's a Black Mirror episode
Speaker 7: that once you see this headline and watch it, you
Speaker 7: will you will definitely see why there are concerns.
Speaker 1: But they watch that show.
Speaker 7: I get it, Brian, I understand.
Speaker 1: So creepy real, and it's like a moment and it's
Speaker 1: one moment in time ahead of where we are right now.
Speaker 1: And that's what's so creepy about that show.
Speaker 7: I am not gonna just what you're saying, but they've
Speaker 7: got some photos and here are the dogs doing different things,
Speaker 7: and they point out because about nine obviously can't train
Speaker 7: a soldier for nine thousand dollars, or field a soldier
Speaker 7: and feed a soldier for.
Speaker 1: Nine thousand dollars, get a soldier to kill ourselves?
Speaker 7: Yes, well exactly. I was in the Army of Reserves
Speaker 7: for eight years back between eighty six and ninety two
Speaker 7: as a combat engineer, So you know, I'm really familiar
Speaker 7: with things like C four and landmines and such. And
Speaker 7: when you think about and that's really old technology. Uh,
Speaker 7: you know, we're going back almost forty years now. When
Speaker 7: you think of modern landmines, modern explosives that may be
Speaker 7: much more powerful than C four that I don't know
Speaker 7: about when you look at the size of one of
Speaker 7: these robots, you could pack a substantial amount of C
Speaker 7: four or other military grade explosive on one of these things. Oh,
Speaker 7: you just literally have it walk into a truck or
Speaker 7: a tank, you know. Now, these don't go that fast
Speaker 7: at this point. Their maximum speed is nine miles an hour.
Speaker 7: But what human being can run nine miles an hour
Speaker 7: for any extended period of time. Not many, you know,
Speaker 7: So it's it's pretty crazy when you think that. You know,
Speaker 7: in the old days, you go back and think about
Speaker 7: World War two or something like that, and you have
Speaker 7: a machine gun nest right, yeah, and you know you've
Speaker 7: got to fight the guys and try to take them out,
Speaker 7: hand grenades, you know, obviously a variety of different weapons.
Speaker 7: But here you could just have one of these things
Speaker 7: walk right into it. And depending on how heavily armored
Speaker 7: it is and how good of a shot you are,
Speaker 7: I mean, obviously, if you hit this with enough rounds,
Speaker 7: it's probably not going to survive. But this is the
Speaker 7: first generation of this stuff. You know, it does not
Speaker 7: look heavily armored, and obviously that would weigh it down
Speaker 7: and make it you waste more battery life because according
Speaker 7: to this article, these things only run about five hours.
Speaker 7: But it just it shows you the potential future of
Speaker 7: these sorts of weapons and war. I know there's other
Speaker 7: articles out there about the Army testing robot tanks, and
Speaker 7: you know, you've got drones. I think drones, obviously in
Speaker 7: my mind are a type of robot.
Speaker 1: They've got drone boats, cazi's that blow up ships in
Speaker 1: the shipping line over in the Middle East.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's uh. And I saw an article which I
Speaker 7: didn't send you this morning apparently and again you know,
Speaker 7: I always like to try to fact check this stuff
Speaker 7: as much as I can, but apparently the Ukrainians have
Speaker 7: used some sort of drone with a flamethrower on it.
Speaker 1: Now, So yeah, it's if you can imagine it, it's real.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's where we are. If you can just
Speaker 1: imagine it, it probably is a reality out there somewhere
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, just coming to a theater near you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, even if it's not in public, Yes, it's probably
Speaker 7: in a lab somewhere.
Speaker 1: There's a great you know, it's real quick here because
Speaker 1: you get right. I watched the drone display the Eban fireworks,
Speaker 1: thousand drones flying in synchronicity, and the thing that struck
Speaker 1: me is like, holy crap, this is a I could
Speaker 1: write a check and pay for that myself. Like, if
Speaker 1: I had enough money, I could hire the company. It's
Speaker 1: it's a private company that does this, right. Absolutely, they
Speaker 1: have the technology to perform that kind of intricate ballet
Speaker 1: in the sky with a thousand different drones. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine what the military tick can do. It's just frightening stuff. Thanks, right,
Speaker 1: we'll come back. We'll talked about employment scams as well
Speaker 1: as Apple and why are they promoting Chinese communist parties?
Speaker 1: Spy our apps? So forty two week about DRECD talk station.
Speaker 1: You can find Dave and his crew Dave Adders Crew,
Speaker 1: interest it dot com. Thank you for sponsoring this important segment.
Speaker 1: Which way you want to go? You want to go
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist party or employment scams?
Speaker 7: Why don't we do employment scams next?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 7: So, I think this is such an important topic and
Speaker 7: if you just go do a quick search on this, right,
Speaker 7: So I hit duck dot go. I did a quick
Speaker 7: search on job scams and I mean they're just pages
Speaker 7: and pages of information. Let me give you a couple
Speaker 7: of headlines here and then we'll delve into some specifics.
Speaker 7: The FTC says how to spot the latest job scams.
Speaker 7: The FBI has reported on this Better Business Bureau job
Speaker 7: Scam Alert, how to spot a job scam. Indeed, a
Speaker 7: job hosting site right says ten signs of job posting,
Speaker 7: maybe a scam. NBC says job scam searched one hundred
Speaker 7: and eighteen percent twenty two three aided by AI. CNN
Speaker 7: has a similar headline. And then Money Magazine common job
Speaker 7: scams and how to avoid them. That's just just me
Speaker 7: scanning what I found on a simple search. Okay, And
Speaker 7: I bring this up because I think this is not
Speaker 7: news to anyone listening. The job market is not good.
Speaker 7: It's getting worse rapidly from everything I've read, and I
Speaker 7: know many people who are looking for jobs and struggling
Speaker 7: mightily at this time. So I wanted to raise this
Speaker 7: point because I know people are looking for jobs, and
Speaker 7: I know the market is tough, and scammers, unfortunately, as
Speaker 7: we've discussed so many times, Brian will go wherever people are.
Speaker 7: These people are creative and devious and they will steal
Speaker 7: your information and or your money any possible way. So
Speaker 7: I want to warn people while obviously keep looking for
Speaker 7: a job. I just think it's so despicable that there
Speaker 7: are scammers out there who would want to hit someone
Speaker 7: when they're already down. I mean, how would you feel
Speaker 7: and what impact would that have on you in your
Speaker 7: family if you're already in financial trouble because you can't
Speaker 7: find a job and now you have people stealing your
Speaker 7: money and stealing your information and perhaps your identity as
Speaker 7: a result. I mean, it's just absolutely despicable. So you know,
Speaker 7: whether it's something like search engine poisoning, We've talked about
Speaker 7: this before. People need to understand that the bad guys
Speaker 7: will spend some moderate amount of money, some nominal amount
Speaker 7: of money to go post a job on Indeed or
Speaker 7: Monster or Dice or any job board they'll buy. They'll
Speaker 7: use search engine optimization techniques and buy sponsored ads. So
Speaker 7: when you search for something, what shows up on a
Speaker 7: search engine like Google or Being or a start page
Speaker 7: or Duck Duck or whatever is fake. Because they know
Speaker 7: the average person doesn't know search engine poisoning is a thing, right,
Speaker 7: They think that because things show up in a search engine,
Speaker 7: they must be legit, or they show up on a
Speaker 7: job board, they must be legit, and it's critical to
Speaker 7: understand it. Just because something shows up in a search,
Speaker 7: or just because a job is posted to a legitimate
Speaker 7: job site doesn't mean there isn't a scammer behind it. Right,
Speaker 7: everything is easy to spoof. These people are smart. They
Speaker 7: know that average folks don't understand how these things work.
Speaker 7: So you know real quick, because I know what arou
Speaker 7: out of time, I encourage people, and I'll post this
Speaker 7: in my notes on Twitter and LinkedIn and so forth.
Speaker 7: If you just look at the ND ten signs of
Speaker 7: job posting maybe fake or the FTC's guidance, there's some
Speaker 7: great tips there that help you kind of wrap your
Speaker 7: head around what to look out for. The number one
Speaker 7: obviously being of it's too good to be true, it
Speaker 7: probably is. Yeah. Hey, if you suddenly get an unsolicited
Speaker 7: email from a quote recruiter or headhunter unquote and they
Speaker 7: want to offer you a three hundred thousand dollars a
Speaker 7: year remote job working four hours a day, Hey guess what.
Speaker 1: Probably scam I'm going to go with. Definitely a scam.
Speaker 1: Not a week goes by, I don't get an opportunity
Speaker 1: to represent someone. Are you interested in doing some legal work.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh god, you know a delete, just delete, delete,
Speaker 1: delete delet.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, healthy dotes of skepticism and paranoia goes
Speaker 7: a long long way in this stuff. And you know,
Speaker 7: if they want you to pay upfront for training, product,
Speaker 7: something and then you're going to reimburse you almost a
Speaker 7: guaranteed scam. You know, if if the recruiter quote unquote
Speaker 7: wants you to pay up front, you know, I want
Speaker 7: to remind people, almost all legitimate recruiters get paid by
Speaker 7: the employer who wants to hire you when you're placed,
Speaker 7: and they have an incentive to help you get the
Speaker 7: largest salary possible because they're getting paid a percentage of
Speaker 7: your starting salary. So again, the FTC has a bunch
Speaker 7: of tips. The Federal Trade Commission FBI has information that's
Speaker 7: indeed page with the ten tips, and I'll wink all
Speaker 7: this stuff. So you know, if you are someone you
Speaker 7: know as looking for a job, your kids, your grandkids,
Speaker 7: your family, there are plenty of resources out there that
Speaker 7: will help arm them so that they can make smart decisions,
Speaker 7: because again, looking for jobs online, that's the way this works.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Obviously, good Land minds literally everywhere.
Speaker 7: Everywhere, everywhere, all right, but beware, folks, beware.
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party being helped out by Apple. Apparently we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that next with Dave had six two. But
Speaker 1: you have KRC detalk station. Dave Hatter's gonna tell us
Speaker 1: about the Chinese spyware app being promoted by Apple. What's
Speaker 1: the story on this one? I thought Apple was supposed
Speaker 1: to be one of the good guys out there, Dave.
Speaker 7: Well, Apple generally is much more privacy and security friendly
Speaker 7: than their competitors. And I'd just like to remind folks,
Speaker 7: you know, all these big tech companies have their issues,
Speaker 7: but when you look at Apple and Microsoft versus folks
Speaker 7: like Google, Facebook, et cetera, their whole business model really
Speaker 7: is different. Apple and Microsoft both sell you products. You know,
Speaker 7: Apple both hardware and software, Microsoft mostly software. And you
Speaker 7: have folks can argue with the Yeah, Google makes Pixel phones,
Speaker 7: the Android operating system, so they do have some products.
Speaker 7: Most of the money coming from Google is from your data,
Speaker 7: same as meta slash Facebook. Right, So I think this
Speaker 7: is an interesting take and I'm glad someone is raising
Speaker 7: the concern about this. It gets back to these Chinese
Speaker 7: apps you and I have talked about before. Namely TikTok
Speaker 7: for a long time and the privacy concerns and propaganda
Speaker 7: concerns around TikTok. But this guy is an attorney. It's
Speaker 7: the article is written by Joel Thayer, and it's in
Speaker 7: the Hill Again. I'll post the link. I encourage people
Speaker 7: to go read it for themselves. This guy apparently is
Speaker 7: the president of the Digital Progress Institute institute and a
Speaker 7: tech and telecom lawyer in DC, and he makes some
Speaker 7: interesting points, really going back to the fact that at
Speaker 7: the end of the day, if a company is based
Speaker 7: out of China, it's controlled by the People's Republic of
Speaker 7: China and the Chinese Communist Party, who have some very
Speaker 7: onerous laws in general and specifically around data collection and privacy.
Speaker 7: And he states in here. So I'm going to read
Speaker 7: directly from the article. For instance, China's twenty fifteen National
Speaker 7: Security Law compels locally employed China these nationals of American
Speaker 7: companies to assist investigations that they expose operating elements of
Speaker 7: American companies with citizens. China's twenty twenty one cyber Vulnerability
Speaker 7: Reporting Law requires Chinese based companies to report security flaws
Speaker 7: to the Chinese government. So they can quote exploit system
Speaker 7: flaws before cyber vulnerabilities are publicly known unquote. And then
Speaker 7: you know, he goes on with some other laws. You know,
Speaker 7: twenty seventeen National Intelligence Law creates a legal obligation for
Speaker 7: those entities to turnover data collected abroad and domestically to
Speaker 7: the Chinese government, So that twenty twenty one cyber Vulnerability
Speaker 7: Reporting Law, basically in Layman's term, says, if you, as
Speaker 7: a Chinese national, become aware of a vulnerability and software,
Speaker 7: you are required to report it to the Chinese government
Speaker 7: so they can exploit it before this would be a
Speaker 7: zero day exploit, before it can be fixed by the manufacturer.
Speaker 7: That's essentially what that means. So his point, So his
Speaker 7: point here is you have an app store, and this
Speaker 7: is not exclusive to Apple. I think he put his
Speaker 7: sights on Apple primarily because they are seen as more
Speaker 7: privacy and security friendly. So when you look at it
Speaker 7: through that lens, this is you know, even more problematic
Speaker 7: than you know something like the Android store. But this
Speaker 7: would have the same problems, right if the app originates
Speaker 7: from a company controlled by a Chinese company or directly
Speaker 7: from China, you can guarantee any and all data it collects.
Speaker 7: And let me remind folks, go look at the Apple
Speaker 7: app Store privacy label for TikTok or any app that
Speaker 7: Temu right has recently come in the crosshairs. It's a
Speaker 7: Chinese shopping app similar to Amazon right and for a
Speaker 7: lot of these same problems. Look at the privacy label
Speaker 7: which is required by Apple to be in their store and.
Speaker 3: See what it collects.
Speaker 7: It's astounding, and most of it is stuff they don't
Speaker 7: need to provide the service they claim to provide. So,
Speaker 7: you know, he points out in more detail later in here,
Speaker 7: you know some of the issues with specific types of apps.
Speaker 7: But the bottom line is if you're using an app
Speaker 7: that's controlled by a Chinese company, they are collecting enormous
Speaker 7: amounts of data about you and potentially using it as
Speaker 7: a propaganda tool to push pro prc CCP narratives and
Speaker 7: to push anti American, anti Western narratives, propaganda, spyware, etc.
Speaker 7: So again, this is a theme that keeps coming up, right,
Speaker 7: and there are many people who have now warned about this.
Speaker 7: It's why we've seen the push for the TikTok band.
Speaker 7: There are now people calling for bands on things like
Speaker 7: Tamu again, I encourage people. There was a great article recently,
Speaker 7: I can't remember the exact headline with something like Tamu
Speaker 7: is a spyware app in your pocket, and you know
Speaker 7: it goes into detail around this again, I'll link all
Speaker 7: this stuff so people can get more information, share with
Speaker 7: their family members who might be using these things. I
Speaker 7: understand the convenience. I understand that it's nice to get
Speaker 7: cheap goods that will fall apart the first time you
Speaker 7: use them. But you got to understand the larger psio ops,
Speaker 7: black ops, propaganda affects of these things. And even if
Speaker 7: that isn't a concern to you, where you don't believe it,
Speaker 7: all of your extremely sensitive data going to Chinese companies
Speaker 7: who are controlled by the CCP and the PRC, who
Speaker 7: are increasingly adversarial to all Western countries. Just look at
Speaker 7: what's been going on in the Philippines recently with them
Speaker 7: ramming Coast Guard and Philippine Coast Guard chips and so forth.
Speaker 7: It's not good. There's nothing good that can come of
Speaker 7: this for you using these apps.
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Speaker 7: Always my pleasure, Brian. I have a great day and
Speaker 7: I'll talk to you in.
Speaker 1: Six fifty seven. Coming up at top of the our news,
Speaker 1: Greg Phillips Creative speaking of AI ground fusion artificial intelligence
Speaker 1: using it for political technology has been at this forty years,
Speaker 1: voter data campaign strategies. We'll talk about that with Greg
Speaker 1: after the newness up the right back seven oh seven
Speaker 1: here at fifty five KRC Detalk Station Bryan tim switching
Speaker 1: everyone a very happy Friday and continuing our Friday theme,
Speaker 1: which is always tech Friday with Dave Hatter, we were
Speaker 1: moving over to artificial intelligence. My next guest, Greg Phillips,
Speaker 1: you probably know and my listening audience is familiar with
Speaker 1: the docu drama two Thousand Mules. He happened to have
Speaker 1: been executive producer and co starred in that. But you
Speaker 1: also know may not know him, because we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about his company, ground Fusion AI, which apparently revolutionizes
Speaker 1: target targeted political engagement. They have data on two hundred
Speaker 1: and eleven million voters and like what billions of data points.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the program, Greg Phillips. It's a pleasure to
Speaker 1: have you on today.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it so much.
Speaker 1: You Okay, first off, you have you have data in
Speaker 1: your in your website is ground fusion dot ai. My
Speaker 1: listeners want to go there. It's it's it's mind boggling
Speaker 1: how much information you have. Over one hundred billion would
Speaker 1: be data elements and two hundred and eleven million voter
Speaker 1: data information. Have I got that right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 11: You do.
Speaker 12: We we really got tired of getting beat by the
Speaker 12: other side because they've been doing things like this US
Speaker 12: for all these years. Obama did it, everybody does it,
Speaker 12: and so my partner Katherine Ingebrickt and I just decided,
Speaker 12: you know what, we're going to build our own. So
Speaker 12: we started collecting data aback years ago. We've got as
Speaker 12: as you point out, we have two hundred and eleven
Speaker 12: million registered voters in America. We have the entire country
Speaker 12: geo coded. We have cell phones, we have email addresses,
Speaker 12: we have consumer type data.
Speaker 4: What do people like?
Speaker 1: What do people do?
Speaker 12: We have you know, we know if they're you know,
Speaker 12: if they're pro gun, if they're pro you know, if
Speaker 12: they're if they have a faith base. And and we're
Speaker 12: able to not just put it all together and be
Speaker 12: able to pull out saying everybody in Cincinnati that's over
Speaker 12: sixty five and is widowed, that that's what that's what
Speaker 12: it's called a target. What we have the ability to
Speaker 12: do because not only do we have all the data,
Speaker 12: but we have a very sophisticated analytics underpinning that we
Speaker 12: can go in and do micro targeting.
Speaker 4: So I could tell you everybody in Cincinnati that's.
Speaker 12: Over sixty five and widowed and on a fixed income
Speaker 12: and that likes the REDS and it does this and
Speaker 12: does that, and we can take that out to forty
Speaker 12: seven different data elements and do it. It's so we
Speaker 12: could do it not just in Cincinnati, but all over
Speaker 12: the country for anyone to fit that category. And then
Speaker 12: we can send them a text, we can send them
Speaker 12: an email, we can send their information out to our
Speaker 12: volunteers to make calls, and.
Speaker 4: So it's absolutely game changing.
Speaker 12: In forty four years in this business, I've never not
Speaker 12: only seen anything like it, I've certainly never had an
Speaker 12: opportunity to use something like it.
Speaker 4: And it absolutely has change in the game for us
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 1: Well, the context in which I can see this is
Speaker 1: most valuable, and you're talking with someone who is in
Speaker 1: no way, shape or form anything related to a tech guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I try to avoid it at all costs,
Speaker 1: be quite candid with you. But in the old days,
Speaker 1: I would say you had to blanket, like with a
Speaker 1: mail or you just send it to literally every address
Speaker 1: and hope that you know, you made some good with
Speaker 1: somebody who was maybe capable of being influenced and undecided voter.
Speaker 1: But it had to go out to all the addresses. Now,
Speaker 1: with your ground Fusion AI platform, it seems to me
Speaker 1: that by doing this data analytics, you can find the
Speaker 1: voters that appear to be the ones who are independent,
Speaker 1: who maybe are swing voters, and so you could you
Speaker 1: could go after the ones. You know that guy over
Speaker 1: there is a diehard Republicans voted Republican for the last
Speaker 1: ten twelve fourteen elections. And that guy over there is
Speaker 1: a diehard Democrat. You know what organizations he supports and
Speaker 1: belongs to. He's never going to be convinced. But here's
Speaker 1: a big group of people you might be able to
Speaker 1: influence with some sort of targeted advertisings. If I got
Speaker 1: that down sort of right, Yeah, you.
Speaker 4: Got it exactly right.
Speaker 12: And even better than that, we can create targeted messages
Speaker 12: at each one of those individual groups. So that group
Speaker 12: that I described earlier, we may we may send a look,
Speaker 12: she's destroying us with their inflationary policies. A younger group,
Speaker 12: we may send out something completely different that is targeted
Speaker 12: at young people that just says, look, the reason you
Speaker 12: can't buy a house and you'll never be able to
Speaker 12: buy a house is Kamala Harris. And so we can
Speaker 12: take those kind of cohorts and blend them and get
Speaker 12: them available, make them available to campaigns, but not just
Speaker 12: make them available, but deliver those messages. That's sort of
Speaker 12: on the get out the vote side and the political side.
Speaker 4: On the other side. Katherine Ingelbrack, my partner who runs
Speaker 4: a srip called True of.
Speaker 12: The Vote, who was also in the movie with Ye, Yeah,
Speaker 12: we are able to not just do what we're doing
Speaker 12: on the political side, but we can take this data
Speaker 12: and do it on the election integrity side. So we
Speaker 12: have built apps on top of it so groups like
Speaker 12: Catherines can go use. We have an app called IV
Speaker 12: three IV three dot us. Katherine and her team just
Speaker 12: completed a project to clean a million ineligible voters off
Speaker 12: of the roles across the United States.
Speaker 4: And the most amazing project I've ever seen.
Speaker 12: And again it's just another way to use the quality
Speaker 12: data and the capability we have to be able to
Speaker 12: deliver these answers in real time.
Speaker 1: So in US and she you, we're doing the work
Speaker 1: of the Secretary of State's office.
Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly, and in fact it was her volunteers that
Speaker 12: were doing it. So we created an app that would
Speaker 12: allow somebody to sit it home on their phone. We'd
Speaker 12: have to enroll them and get them all set up
Speaker 12: in their county, but once they were set up in
Speaker 12: our system, we would serve them record by record by record.
Speaker 7: Just in a row.
Speaker 12: They could do one or they could do one hundred
Speaker 12: and one. We had a few people do over ten
Speaker 12: thousand challenges in their county and we would serve up
Speaker 12: the information that we had said, Okay, this person doesn't
Speaker 12: live here anymore, this person lives in Georgia and they
Speaker 12: voted in Georgia in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: They don't need to be on the rolls.
Speaker 12: And so we would create the mechanism for them to
Speaker 12: be able to challenge that person who had already moved
Speaker 12: and send it along to the county and or to
Speaker 12: say copious states and in what state they were in.
Speaker 12: I think I think there are thirty one hundred or
Speaker 12: so counties in the United States, and we cleaned ineligible
Speaker 12: voters off of off of eighteen hundred counties, eighteen hundred counties,
Speaker 12: more than a million people.
Speaker 4: It was really really.
Speaker 12: Exciting and and you know, part of it is just
Speaker 12: an overall effort to give people the tools.
Speaker 4: People in America are awake now.
Speaker 12: They want to help, and so if you give them
Speaker 12: an opportunity to get out and help, you know, some
Speaker 12: people might want to work on their phone, maybe a
Speaker 12: little a little introverted. We have we have other apps
Speaker 12: that plug into the database that allow people to go
Speaker 12: out and do that door knocking that I was talking about.
Speaker 12: And as you point out, instead of knocking on every
Speaker 12: single door in the neighborhood. Well, you really on the
Speaker 12: need to knock on these twenty doors, and so give
Speaker 12: them that, give them the maps, give them everything that
Speaker 12: they need. We have a little survey capability inside of
Speaker 12: the system so that we can create those surveys when
Speaker 12: they go knock on the door. Say hey, Greg Phillips
Speaker 12: is I'm working with Greg Phillips. He's running for school board.
Speaker 4: You know, have you heard of him?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Okay, mark that on the phone, and you know, would
Speaker 4: you consider voting for him if you knew that, you
Speaker 4: know that he supported you know this, this and this,
Speaker 4: and so having that is great, and having those answers
Speaker 4: is great. But now we can take that and put
Speaker 4: that back into the system.
Speaker 12: And so then when they're when they're wanting to send
Speaker 12: out messages to people who answer yes to all three
Speaker 12: of those questions and five of those questions, they simply
Speaker 12: just hit a button and it's out the door and
Speaker 12: we're contacting them in real time with this message.
Speaker 3: Absolutely amazing, it's just yeah, it's it's it's true.
Speaker 4: It's truly game changing.
Speaker 1: And now I speak with Americans for Prosperity regularly on
Speaker 1: the Morning show, and they have an entity AFP action
Speaker 1: dot com and their job is to get people my listeners,
Speaker 1: anybody who wants to help out to become doorknockers to
Speaker 1: spread the information. Would an organization like AFP action contact
Speaker 1: you so they know which doors to knock on? I mean,
Speaker 1: are they doing I don't know if you're familiar with
Speaker 1: the American for Prosperity, but it seems to me like
Speaker 1: that's the best possible place to go is your organization
Speaker 1: because you have all these data points, they want to
Speaker 1: do the door knocking work. You're not going out knocking
Speaker 1: on doors gregularly, so I presume that's not the goal
Speaker 1: of ground fusion, but it's to provide the opportunity for
Speaker 1: that targeted door knocking or targeted messaging. So any organization
Speaker 1: out there like AFP would be working with you, I imagine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they are.
Speaker 12: And while AFP in particular, we have an end opportunity
Speaker 12: to speak with them. We have groups all over the
Speaker 12: country that we are providing now the data to or
Speaker 12: providing the tools. And the best thing about it is
Speaker 12: because some of these people, including AFP by the way,
Speaker 12: have some of their own tools, we can just give
Speaker 12: them the data and they can run it through their tools.
Speaker 4: Ours happens to be.
Speaker 12: We built our own mapping system because we at one
Speaker 12: Tom after Bly on Google or anybody else. So we've
Speaker 12: we've done a lot of things in ours that are interesting,
Speaker 12: but again we're not We're not interested in, you know,
Speaker 12: fame or fortune or anything else in this.
Speaker 4: We want to work with as many groups as we can.
Speaker 12: Catherine's working with Moms to Liberty on an election integrity
Speaker 12: project right now. Around the United States. We're doing individual
Speaker 12: state based projects.
Speaker 3: We even have a.
Speaker 12: Project called Community Data Grants where that guy was talking
Speaker 12: to you maybe running for school board. Uh, that example
Speaker 12: I gave earlier, Well, what what what if it wasn't me?
Speaker 12: What if it was somebody else? The hardest part about
Speaker 12: running down ballot is a lot of these people have
Speaker 12: never run before. They don't have data, they don't have tools,
Speaker 12: they don't know who the FP is, they don't they
Speaker 12: can't do anything right. We created a mechanism to get
Speaker 12: those down ballot races that they're voters, the voters that
Speaker 12: fit their needs and their profiles, and just give it
Speaker 12: to them because I'll tell you what if we moved
Speaker 12: the needle down ballot Let's say we a thousand races
Speaker 12: around the country, which we're close to it to being
Speaker 12: at right now, a thousand down ballot races, and we
Speaker 12: can change just one hundred, one hundred, or put one
Speaker 12: hundred ballots on our side of the scoreboard for those
Speaker 12: hundred thousand people.
Speaker 4: If you don't think that's going to move.
Speaker 12: The needle on the up ballot side, the presidential side,
Speaker 12: oh yeah, or the Senate side, or you know, you
Speaker 12: guys have some really important races in Alia this year
Speaker 12: in Kentucky, we're doing some amazing work, and pretty much
Speaker 12: throughout your listening areas, really there's a way to make
Speaker 12: this benefit not just for the president, not just for
Speaker 12: these guys ladies running for governors or senators or Congress
Speaker 12: or whatever they're doing, but that down ballot stuff is
Speaker 12: going to move the needle and make a difference in
Speaker 12: a way that we have never seen on our side
Speaker 12: in all of my life.
Speaker 1: Done no, without question. And going back to down ball races,
Speaker 1: usually they're very low funded and not a whole lot
Speaker 1: of people making massive campaign contributions to them. Folks can
Speaker 1: barely afford to get yard signs out and pay for those,
Speaker 1: let alone come up with critical breakdown analysis that you're
Speaker 1: doing at Ground Fusion. It's just wow. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: This sounds truly truly game changing, and you do work.
Speaker 1: I mean, the front page of your website specifically mentioned
Speaker 1: conservative campaign you're working for and in the interest of
Speaker 1: conservative individuals and organizations. It sounds.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: We've spent a lot of time really segmenting and figuring
Speaker 12: out sort of who we wanted to go with and
Speaker 12: how we wanted to do this, and it's the reason
Speaker 12: that we decided to move to the community data grants.
Speaker 12: You know, working on the presidential race and working in
Speaker 12: these senate races and statewide races broadly all the way
Speaker 12: down to Congress.
Speaker 4: Is pretty easy, right. I mean, we can go out
Speaker 4: and calling people. We know a lot of folks have
Speaker 4: been in this business a long time, and we can
Speaker 4: get those campaigns.
Speaker 12: But by far the most gratifying work that we're doing
Speaker 12: right now, and the most meaningful work, in my opinion,
Speaker 12: is through these community beta grants.
Speaker 3: Many of these races.
Speaker 12: Are nonpartisan, right, if you've got a school board races
Speaker 12: are not, let's or not they could be able to
Speaker 12: in many states, you can't tell those Republicans or Democrats,
Speaker 12: and so you need to know who those people are.
Speaker 12: And so going out and doing that level of work
Speaker 12: figuring out who are the people we need to be
Speaker 12: supporting across the across the state. We're doing a project
Speaker 12: down in Alabama with the chairman or well with them,
Speaker 12: but if they helped us target into the district and
Speaker 12: chairman of the Alabama GOP, I mean John Wall John
Speaker 12: and I got together and figured out I think it's
Speaker 12: sixty eight different races down ballot, all of them nothing
Speaker 12: above say a county level election. We found sixty eight
Speaker 12: of them in Alabama that we believed that if we
Speaker 12: were all these up, it can turn it can it
Speaker 12: can flip at least one congressional district from A from
Speaker 12: A from d Are and so. And even though it's
Speaker 12: not partisan, we were able to use our data to
Speaker 12: say there's no way that this district, uh, you know,
Speaker 12: should this county should be represented by people that are
Speaker 12: you know, have all of these vote policies right, these
Speaker 12: ideas on kids and things which should and shouldn't be
Speaker 12: teaching them and should should be showing them, and so
Speaker 12: to go then into that county. We're across that that
Speaker 12: those down ballot races in the eight congressional district and
Speaker 12: find sixty races that that all we asked them to
Speaker 12: do is look, just use our data to to your right,
Speaker 12: because we already know that they support the type or
Speaker 12: that they're going to be supported by the type of
Speaker 12: people that would vote.
Speaker 4: For our Uh you know who who the you know
Speaker 4: ballot races are?
Speaker 1: Yeah, help me help you here. You are Community Grand Program,
Speaker 1: Greg Phillips, interesting and listen. I could probably talk to
Speaker 1: you for hours. I am out of time, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna recommend my listeners check it out. I know there's
Speaker 1: a lot of races going on that can certainly use
Speaker 1: your data and your information. Ground Fusion dot ai is
Speaker 1: where you find Greg and his team. Greg's been fascinating conversation.
Speaker 1: I wish you all. I thank you for what you're
Speaker 1: doing first off, but wish you all the luck with
Speaker 1: the upcoming November election. And I know we'll be hearing
Speaker 1: about you and from you again, I hope soon. Thank you,
Speaker 1: My pleasure, Greg, my pleasures. When hour from now Fred
Speaker 1: Galvin with the book A Few Bad Men, He'll you
Speaker 1: joined the program at the talent end of the segment,
Speaker 1: the true story of US Marines ambush in Afghanistan and
Speaker 1: betrayed in America HM. And prior to that, at eight
Speaker 1: oh five, Douglas Ernest with his book Spirit of a
Speaker 1: True Patriot, The inspiring story of Retired Captain Douglas J. Ernest.
Speaker 1: So we'll hear about that at eight oh five. In
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Speaker 1: local stories here. Award winner from this morning an award
Speaker 1: that no one wants to get local awards. Sometimes the
Speaker 1: award usually goes to the stack of stupid, but no
Speaker 1: today it goes to a Westchester man and we'll put
Speaker 1: it in the alleged category. Westchester manheld jobs as a
Speaker 1: social worker and youth councilor, now facing twenty one criminal charges,
Speaker 1: including rape, after allegations that he groomed and abused multiple children.
Speaker 1: According to the court documents Michael LESCo this morning's biggest
Speaker 1: duche to the universe and died by a grand aurry
Speaker 1: on seven council of rape, six counts of gross sexual imposition,
Speaker 1: and eight counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
Speaker 1: He's accused of sexually abusing multiple male victims who were
Speaker 1: children when the abuse occurred. Spokesperson for Westchester Township that
Speaker 1: LESCo operated to privately run counseling service out of his
Speaker 1: residence in west Chester. Court of the spokesperson in an email.
Speaker 1: Due to the grooming activity, ages of the victims and
Speaker 1: the trusted positions LESCo held, it is possible that there
Speaker 1: are other victims that have not been identified. The investigation
Speaker 1: report of the LESCo had been engaging in abuse for
Speaker 1: the past fifteen years. Abuse cases tied to this guy
Speaker 1: also reported to Montgomery County, Warren County, and Butler County.
Speaker 1: As a September fifth, however, he has not been charged yet,
Speaker 1: I suppose in Warner Montgomery Counties for any recent offenses.
Speaker 1: Warrant for his arrest issued September fourth, after the indictment.
Speaker 1: Police said he was arrested in Georgia. Now, given the
Speaker 1: length of time. The nature of this guy's creepy activities,
Speaker 1: there may be other victims out there, and so police
Speaker 1: are encouraging anyone who may have been a victim of
Speaker 1: his alleged actions should give the police a call five
Speaker 1: to one, three seven five in seventy two seventies. That's
Speaker 1: seventy five nine seventy two seventy. Suspect accused of killing
Speaker 1: a handyman back in twenty twenty one has been found
Speaker 1: guilty of murder. In addition to the murder charge, Jerry
Speaker 1: also found Arthur Smith guilty of felonious assault and a
Speaker 1: weapons charges. According to Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office, the victim,
Speaker 1: thirty four year old Antwine Morris, was replacing locks inside
Speaker 1: an apartment building in the North Side when he and
Speaker 1: Smith got into an argument. Smith shot Morris, who died
Speaker 1: at the hospital three days later. He wasn't allowed to
Speaker 1: have a gun at the time because of a prior
Speaker 1: assault conviction. Smith's going to be setence October eighth, and
Speaker 1: he faced his life in prison. He's also facing charges
Speaker 1: from an October twenty twenty two cases well. Prosecutors think
Speaker 1: he was inside the Hamilton County jail when he planned
Speaker 1: out DeVante Hollis's shooting death. He and Wendell Foster are
Speaker 1: accused of murder. Let's see what Jay's got. I got
Speaker 1: a phone call. Come in here, Jay, Welcome to the
Speaker 1: B five Casey Morning Show, and a Happy Friday to you. Hey.
Speaker 8: Happy Friday, Brian Hey.
Speaker 9: First of all, compliments on the interview with Bernie Marino
Speaker 9: earlier this week. Guy inspired me enough to get on
Speaker 9: his website and get him a donation.
Speaker 6: I would.
Speaker 9: Encourage everybody five bucks, ten bucks, let's get rid of
Speaker 9: Shared Brown. But more importantly, I was thinking about what
Speaker 9: he was saying, as far as you can't vote Trump
Speaker 9: and vote Shared Brown, and you know we must have
Speaker 9: in Ohio. The numbers would suggest that we have this
Speaker 9: nasty habit of voting Republican at the top of the
Speaker 9: ticket and then voting Shared Brown. And this has been
Speaker 9: going on. He's been in office now for seventeen years.
Speaker 9: So he talked about how critical Northeast Ohio is. I
Speaker 9: want people to think about this, the people who may
Speaker 9: vote for Trump and then vote for Shared Brown. We
Speaker 9: need to get rid of Chuck Schumer as Senate majority leader.
Speaker 9: We need to get control of the Senate back. If
Speaker 9: you're going to vote Trump and then vote Shared Brown,
Speaker 9: you're going to get the least effective lame duck version
Speaker 9: of Donald Trump, because Chuck Schumer, You're going to get
Speaker 9: New York values, California values inflicted on Ohio once again.
Speaker 9: They have a plan already in a playbook drawn up
Speaker 9: for how they can keep him in court, keep him
Speaker 9: in impeachment. We've already seen it. So if you think
Speaker 9: that you're going to vote for the person, which I
Speaker 9: understand that, but Shared Brown must be a damn good
Speaker 9: liar for a liberal Democrat senator to have a seventeen
Speaker 9: year career in the Senate. And my hope and prayer
Speaker 9: is that people out there who would vote for a
Speaker 9: Republican president, Republican governor and the Democrat senator, wake up.
Speaker 9: You are wasting your votes. Your votes are counteracting each other.
Speaker 9: If you want the most efficient form of Donald Trump,
Speaker 9: the most effective form, vote for Bernie Marino and then
Speaker 9: that gives the Senate back to the Republicans. Trump can
Speaker 9: actually do something avoid all this impeacement maloney.
Speaker 3: They're going to do it again.
Speaker 9: So just wanted to kind of say, hey, you're not
Speaker 9: just voting against Sharon Brown, You're also voting against Chuck Schumer,
Speaker 9: and all the ideas has great ideas coming out of
Speaker 9: liberal states like New.
Speaker 8: York to get inflicted on us.
Speaker 6: That's all I wanted to say.
Speaker 1: Brian Well stated, Jay, I'm glad you called in and
Speaker 1: offered your thoughts on that, because you are right. You
Speaker 1: knocked it out of the park on that, and it
Speaker 1: is mind boggling, and it will be even more mind
Speaker 1: boggling this year if Sharon Brown also is reelected and
Speaker 1: Donald Trump still takes the state of Ohio. I find
Speaker 1: that outcome to be absolutely baffling. Excellent point, Jay, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Five one three, seven four nine fifty, five hundred, eight
Speaker 1: hundred and eight two three talk go with pound five
Speaker 1: fifty on AT and T phones. By the way, Jay,
Speaker 1: Maureen loves your calls. Just got an instant message from her.
Speaker 1: I do to Maureen seven forty two here at fifty
Speaker 1: five KERCIT talk station. Happy Friday to number here if
Speaker 1: you'd like to call five one three, seven one hundred,
Speaker 1: eight hundred and eighty two to three talk found five
Speaker 1: fifty on AT and G phones. Got a couple of
Speaker 1: things real quick. I guess Chuckie Schimmer said the quiet
Speaker 1: part out loud, and he was dead serious about it.
Speaker 1: Our ultimate goal is to help the dreamers, but also
Speaker 1: create a path to citizenship for all eleven million or
Speaker 1: however many undocumented immigrants are here. Well, there you have it.
Speaker 1: I would call that statement unequivocal. But what of the
Speaker 1: two million or so got aways one of the folks
Speaker 1: a little bit about the illegal immigrants are on the
Speaker 1: terrorists watch list that they keep letting out. What about
Speaker 1: the gang members? If he wants to, you know, give
Speaker 1: citizenship to all eleven million or however many million there
Speaker 1: are here, then that has to include the people in
Speaker 1: the in these gangs that we know are coming into
Speaker 1: our country, well documented, even more so well documented of late,
Speaker 1: because we've got you know, we now reports of use
Speaker 1: these gangs, including that that that trend d Arragua gang
Speaker 1: that took over the Aurora suburbs since other sanctuary city
Speaker 1: housing units in the light. We got this Texas based
Speaker 1: oil gas company talking about well criminal organized criminal activity
Speaker 1: including violent crimes and gang activity and oil field thefts
Speaker 1: around the West Texas WTX operational areas. Frightening stuff there,
Speaker 1: and we have efforts, at least by Senator Rick Scott
Speaker 1: of Florida. He was speaking with reporters at a Republican
Speaker 1: Jewish Coalition leadership meeting just the other day. He said,
Speaker 1: a Senate leader, majority leader or majority leader Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: refuses to allow a vote on a bill requiring proof
Speaker 1: of citizenship to vote in US elections, and the government
Speaker 1: shuts down as a consequence, then it's on Chuck Schumer's shoulders,
Speaker 1: And of course was referring to the SAVE Act Safeguard
Speaker 1: American Voter Eligibility Act, requiring individual to provide documentary proof
Speaker 1: of US citizenship in order to register to vote in
Speaker 1: federal elections. Mike Johnson, House Speaker considering attaching the Save
Speaker 1: Act to a stopgap spending measure that would have to
Speaker 1: be signed in law by September thirtieth in order for
Speaker 1: the federal government to remain open. Now you know how
Speaker 1: I feel about stopgams spending measures. It's just like you know,
Speaker 1: kicking the can down the road. Usually kicking the can
Speaker 1: down the road with some extra stuff and things going
Speaker 1: along with it. But if it includes the Save Act,
Speaker 1: it'll be slightly more palatable, I suppose, asked whether there
Speaker 1: was some risk to Republicans of a government shutdown ahead
Speaker 1: of the presidential elections. Meaning this specific reason, Scott suggested
Speaker 1: if Schumer allow to shut down over non citizens voting,
Speaker 1: then Democrats would be the ones who would suffer. They'd
Speaker 1: have to answer to the everyone else. Why specifically did
Speaker 1: you not sign this into law? Why specifically did you
Speaker 1: refuse to allow a vote on the Save Act? Why
Speaker 1: will you refusing to go on record in the Republicans'
Speaker 1: efforts to stop illegal immigrants from voting? Makes a good question,
Speaker 1: doesn't it? And you can't go pointing it like races
Speaker 1: through xenophobic or whatever. You must be a US citizen
Speaker 1: to vote in a federal election already, so it seems
Speaker 1: to me that the Save Act is unnecessary. But because
Speaker 1: various state laws are different, the question remains is one
Speaker 1: size fits all. This federal law governing federal elections, which
Speaker 1: would require you to provide documentation of your proof of citizenship,
Speaker 1: doesn't seem too owners from my perspective, And who would
Speaker 1: be against that? Of course, ask that requestion rhetorically. Anybody
Speaker 1: who wants to try to cheat would be against that.
Speaker 1: Anyone who wants illegal immigrants to vote even though they're
Speaker 1: not lawfully allowed to do it would be against it.
Speaker 1: So I want to see hands raised. I want to
Speaker 1: see yay and nay on this specific provision. And I
Speaker 1: hope the federal government doesn't have to shut down because
Speaker 1: the Save Act passes some picty tube about cars de
Speaker 1: talk station after the top of the our News Spirit
Speaker 1: of a True Patriot, the Inspiring Story Retired Captain Douglas
Speaker 1: Jay Ernst, and then at eight thirty Fred Galvin's book
Speaker 1: A Few Bad Men, The True story of the US
Speaker 1: Marines ambushed in Afghanistan and betrayed in America. No further doo,
Speaker 1: let's go to the phones. Got a couple of clos
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with Jeff. Jeff, thanks for calling this morning.
Speaker 1: Happy Friday, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 5: I think you were way, way, way too kind regarding
Speaker 5: your assessment of folks like Shared Brown and Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 5: This is beyond a gentleman's difference of opinion regarding policy. Okay,
Speaker 5: if you take everything that these people have done, they're
Speaker 5: an accessory to murder. In my opinion, they're they're definitely
Speaker 5: in a voter for I mean, you can go down
Speaker 5: the list you have a lot of other people that
Speaker 5: want to talk to you, so I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 5: This is not a difference of opinion. The only thing
Speaker 5: these people care about is the acquisition and maintenance of
Speaker 5: power and control. They're stinking communists.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You didn't call looking for an argument, man, And there's
Speaker 1: only so many points you can get in at any
Speaker 1: given time. I think collectively, I try to get that
Speaker 1: general message across throughout the show, throughout the week, but
Speaker 1: comes a bits and start.
Speaker 5: Yeah, one more thing real quick. I wish these people
Speaker 5: had the opportunity to take care of the patients that
Speaker 5: I did when I was on active duty. I mean
Speaker 5: real heroes, gentlemen. That was on the hornet when Doolittle
Speaker 5: bomb Tokyo. I can go down the line. These politicians
Speaker 5: aren't worthy to shine their shoes. And that was being
Speaker 5: very polite, very polite.
Speaker 1: That's CC compliant. Thanks for your service to our country
Speaker 1: and for calling in today.
Speaker 6: Jay.
Speaker 1: You're up next, Jay, thanks for calling this morning, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show. Thank you, Good morning.
Speaker 13: And I took a friend to the DMV down here
Speaker 13: in Athens yesterday to get a state I D. They
Speaker 13: had their security card, original birth certificate, and that wasn't
Speaker 13: enough to get one. They had to have some kind
Speaker 13: of letter head or bill in their name, like electric bill,
Speaker 13: foam bill. The police have never had any bills, so
Speaker 13: so how are they supposed to get that? Where would
Speaker 13: that be a problem? And where is this Athens, Ohio?
Speaker 7: Huh?
Speaker 1: I thought those were adequate. I mean, I know the
Speaker 1: form of ID is certainly you know anyone, I mean
Speaker 1: the one you were trying to get state ID is.
Speaker 1: They made those available for free. That's all you need
Speaker 1: to vote, So I guess it takes more to get
Speaker 1: that ID than you need to even prove who you
Speaker 1: are to vote. So I don't understand why that wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been adequate. The forms of identification you got, I
Speaker 1: think I can say, see Secretary of State's office has
Speaker 1: got a great website for voting, but it takes how
Speaker 1: to register voting, information, how to in person, vote by mail, everything,
Speaker 1: and it may very well include these specifics on getting
Speaker 1: that identification. It's just out of my element right now.
Speaker 1: I've never had to get one of those IDs, so
Speaker 1: I don't know what the legal requirements are, so I
Speaker 1: can't really say they were wrong or they were right.
Speaker 1: Or maybe come up with an explanation as to why
Speaker 1: that you need to bring something like a bill. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that part doesn't shock me. Jay anyway, Good luck, man,
Speaker 1: And it's at Ohio SOS dot gov is a Secretary
Speaker 1: of State site and there's just a great information there
Speaker 1: on voting. All right, we're gonna hear from Douglas Ernest.
Speaker 1: Got that book Spirit of a True Patriot. After the
Speaker 1: top of the our news and another off through a
Speaker 1: day thirty Fred Galvin with a few bad men stick
Speaker 1: around eight o five here, fifty five KRC DE talk station.
Speaker 1: All right, time of switching everyone, a very happy Friday,
Speaker 1: and welcoming to the fifty five KRS Morning Show. Entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1: Retired soldier and author the book we're gonna talking about today,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the fifty five Carsey Morning Show. Douglas Ernest.
Speaker 1: He he's written a book called The Spirit of a
Speaker 1: True Patriot, The Inspiring story of Retired Captain Douglas Ernest. Douglas,
Speaker 1: welcome to the program. It's a good heavy on today, sir.
Speaker 11: Great, Thank you very much, Brian. I appreciate you having
Speaker 11: me on this beautiful morning.
Speaker 1: Well, and I do love corvettes. And we're going to
Speaker 1: get into that. There's a reason I bring that car
Speaker 1: up because that's what Doug does now, he is an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about his entrepreneurial spirit because that's part of
Speaker 1: what this book is about. How he transformed from Pfc.
Speaker 1: Douglas Ernest to a successful businessman retired Captain Douglas Ernest.
Speaker 1: And that's the story of the book. Now let me
Speaker 1: ask you this just to and first off, thank you
Speaker 1: very much to your for your service to our country.
Speaker 4: Sir.
Speaker 1: I respect anyone who serves in the America's military. It
Speaker 1: means a great deal and I love helping and support
Speaker 1: military causes here in the morning show. I want to
Speaker 1: ask you this. You obviously are a votivated man. You
Speaker 1: wanted to use this book as an opportunity to tell
Speaker 1: other people or teach other people to learn how they
Speaker 1: can embrace a mindset to achieve greatness just like you did.
Speaker 1: How do you motivate the unmotivated? You know, I always
Speaker 1: joke about it. I've been at W two employee my
Speaker 1: entire life. I have such profound respect for men like
Speaker 1: you who build a business, who start from scratch, knowing
Speaker 1: full well that creating a business is very difficult. Most
Speaker 1: of them fail. But you got that drive, that motivation
Speaker 1: that keeps you going day in and day out in
Speaker 1: spite of the struggles and challenges. How do you tap
Speaker 1: into that?
Speaker 11: Well, man, that's a great question, Brian, and I would
Speaker 11: say the first thing that comes to my mind intuitively
Speaker 11: is progress. I just remember as a kid, you know,
Speaker 11: being twenty three, twenty four years old and starting this company,
Speaker 11: that it's about doing progress, setting your goals, coming up
Speaker 11: with a vision, and then finding a way to execute
Speaker 11: and the way you could execute. I learned from you know,
Speaker 11: my military experience was being able to do progress reports
Speaker 11: then on the military to make it turn into progress
Speaker 11: report every day. Hey, you got to turn in what
Speaker 11: you did today, what you complished, what your goals were,
Speaker 11: how far behind you are or how far ahead you got.
Speaker 11: What it was was just progress.
Speaker 6: If you set your goal to.
Speaker 11: You know, say make fifty thousand dollars this year, and
Speaker 11: you have a target.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a.
Speaker 11: Theory in school I learned years ago, also called goal
Speaker 11: setting theory nineteen sixty four and empirical based results showed
Speaker 11: that when people set a target, they have a much
Speaker 11: much much higher chance of hitting that target when they
Speaker 11: set the goal. And if you readjust to hit that goal,
Speaker 11: when you do or don't hit it, you have a
Speaker 11: better chance of hitting it in the future. So it's
Speaker 11: making progress. You get up every day, you go to work,
Speaker 11: and you know you're not always going to succeed. To
Speaker 11: the contrary, you're only going to succeed.
Speaker 7: You know, one out of ten.
Speaker 11: The most successful people that we admire in society's like
Speaker 11: set as baseball players. You know, they hit three hundred
Speaker 11: and thirty out of a thousand. They do a thirty
Speaker 11: three percent success rate, and they're considered heroes because of that.
Speaker 11: It's just getting progress, trying it, you know, going against
Speaker 11: the odds to find the odds, and continuing to try
Speaker 11: and strive when things are tough.
Speaker 1: So it is worthwhile establishing these goals. The planning for
Speaker 1: a future. I've always been sort of like, I'll wake
Speaker 1: up tomorrow and I'll deal with tomorrow when it finally
Speaker 1: gets here. You know, it's a line from Costablanca. I
Speaker 1: never make plans that far in advance. You know, well,
Speaker 1: I see you tonight. I don't know own said, so,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, maybe that's where that folks don't
Speaker 1: have what I'm calling motivation, They just don't have planning.
Speaker 1: And when you have a plan, you then can say
Speaker 1: as you reflect back on the day, I at least
Speaker 1: did at why or the infurtherance of my goal to
Speaker 1: get to where I want to be.
Speaker 11: Absolutely and this type of goal setting theory, you know,
Speaker 11: I didn't create it. It was someone like a scientist
Speaker 11: made it in a university back like what sixty years ago,
Speaker 11: and the Army embraced it. They'd always talk about goal
Speaker 11: sitting theory, goal setting theory, goal setting or you set
Speaker 11: your goal. You know, do you want to lose five pounds,
Speaker 11: you want to lose ten pounds, go ahead and set
Speaker 11: your goals. You're going to lose ten pounds in thirty days,
Speaker 11: or you're going to in our case, you would want
Speaker 11: to pass a physical training test or pass an obstacle course.
Speaker 11: You set your goal, you watch yourself, you try, and
Speaker 11: your mind locks onto a target, like when a you know,
Speaker 11: a tank is in the in the battlefield and they
Speaker 11: have the electronic GPS and it's going to lock onto
Speaker 11: the target to want to get it, and your mind's
Speaker 11: going to continuously want to go there, and you can
Speaker 11: use this application anywhere in your life. And you know,
Speaker 11: you would talk about helping yourself, but you can also
Speaker 11: use it for your kids. My kids now are I
Speaker 11: got my kids got to read thirty six books for
Speaker 11: some headmaster's group that's coming here. We set our goal
Speaker 11: like six months ago that we were going to read
Speaker 11: these books, and my kids on number twenty four or
Speaker 11: thirty six. And I can't tell you how good I feel.
Speaker 11: I can tell all my accomplishments are great, but my
Speaker 11: kid teaching her at nine years old to be able
Speaker 11: to read twenty four out of thirty six books so
Speaker 11: she can be in this group and you know, and
Speaker 11: just be you know, I don't want to say success
Speaker 11: year a nine year old, but it's just start the foundation,
Speaker 11: you know, because when I was nine, I wasn't reading
Speaker 11: twenty four books in thirty six. You know that thirty six,
Speaker 11: I was you know, barely getting by, you know, getting
Speaker 11: sees and wasn't really doing real good as a kid.
Speaker 11: So for me to be able to instill that in
Speaker 11: my kid is so just fulfilling, and I want to
Speaker 11: share this with the world. The book talks about all
Speaker 11: these strategies. You know, I didn't come up with them.
Speaker 11: I just am able to regurgitate.
Speaker 6: If you will, what I was taught.
Speaker 11: The military taught me all these skill sets, and it
Speaker 11: as a way that I achieved success in the military,
Speaker 11: becoming a captain, helping other soldiers learn how to do it,
Speaker 11: helping other soldiers make improve its in their lives. And
Speaker 11: this is the way that I can do it. You
Speaker 11: know it works because I've watched thousands and thousands of
Speaker 11: soldiers improved their lives. I've watched hundreds of people I've
Speaker 11: worked with and my business improved their lives. And I've
Speaker 11: watched my family and myself grow over the last thirty
Speaker 11: years that I've had access to these methodologies, if that's
Speaker 11: the correct word. Methodologies, these perspectives, these frameworks to be
Speaker 11: able to achieve. And the other thing I'd like to say, Brian,
Speaker 11: is that it's not hard. It's something that everybody does.
Speaker 11: If you look at the world around you, you look
Speaker 11: at your neighbor, you look at your friends, you look
Speaker 11: at people in your life or people that you look
Speaker 11: up to, they've achieved it. A lot of people that
Speaker 11: are successful, people that started with nothing. They came from
Speaker 11: nothing and they were hungry and they learned skill sets,
Speaker 11: how to achieve, how to get where they wanted to go,
Speaker 11: how to find the road to get to the end path.
Speaker 1: I keep turning to the fact that you served in
Speaker 1: America's military and that those things that you learned in
Speaker 1: the military are the very skill sets that you applied
Speaker 1: in the private sector to build your very successful business,
Speaker 1: which is Corvette Warehouse. You can find them online at
Speaker 1: Corvette warehouse dot com. I was checking out your C
Speaker 1: eight inventory, my friend. Pretty nice looking sweet cars there.
Speaker 1: But because you know, I know, it's suicide Awareness month
Speaker 1: and I just had the Veterans Services on the other
Speaker 1: day talking about, you know, some of the reasons why
Speaker 1: you have post traumatic stress or why many men and
Speaker 1: women who get out of the service struggle with depression
Speaker 1: because they miss that camaraderie, that teamwork, that working together,
Speaker 1: the cohesive, well oiled machine that is the American military,
Speaker 1: and they come out here in the sort of the
Speaker 1: real world and life is so completely different. You paint
Speaker 1: such a positive spin on your time in America's military
Speaker 1: and how it helped you. I think that's just a
Speaker 1: great way of looking at it.
Speaker 4: Because you were that man, Brian, you nailed it.
Speaker 11: On the camanaraderie ship. The most of the veterans that
Speaker 11: I served with and people that I'm meeting in today's world,
Speaker 11: they tell you, Oh, when I got out, life was
Speaker 11: so boring. There was no excitement.
Speaker 4: There was no bizaz anymore.
Speaker 11: And it just because you don't have a team, You're
Speaker 11: on your own. You have to go find a new
Speaker 11: team to get on. I got out of the military
Speaker 11: after two years, four months, three weeks and two days.
Speaker 11: I know my contract by heart because I tell I
Speaker 11: got my college money when I got out of there
Speaker 11: and I was back in.
Speaker 10: I was back in like.
Speaker 11: Ninety days later.
Speaker 4: I signed up because I missed it so bad.
Speaker 11: I got out of the military, I went to college,
Speaker 11: got some classes, couldn't connect.
Speaker 10: With anybody, didn't have anything.
Speaker 11: I'm used to having friends that God, they risked their
Speaker 11: lives to help me. They were my brothers, my sisters.
Speaker 11: They were like, they'll do anything performed to say, Hey, I'm.
Speaker 4: I need money.
Speaker 11: Oh you here's some money, Just take it. It's yours,
Speaker 11: you know it was you didn't have any friends like
Speaker 11: that in the civilian world. And I went back in
Speaker 11: and immediately into the National Guard unit and a condom Walk, Wisconsin,
Speaker 11: and immediately I connected with other fellows that had the
Speaker 11: same interest as me, and I had that network again.
Speaker 11: I had those friends, and I wound up staying in
Speaker 11: for all those years and even today at fifty three.
Speaker 11: My networks of best friends or my bellow veterans, fellow
Speaker 11: veterans that I connect with, I don't I connect good
Speaker 11: with people in the regular world, Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 11: But my when I need a veteran and the guy
Speaker 11: says I was in Homestille, Germany and I was in operation,
Speaker 11: doesn't start camp. Me and him are friends. We have
Speaker 11: instant connections.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's my that's my philosophy of life. You know,
Speaker 1: if ee, if all you need to do is start
Speaker 1: from a point of agreement, like I like to ride motorcycles.
Speaker 1: If you ride a motorcycle and you go someplace where
Speaker 1: other motorcycles are, you immediately are sort of friends with
Speaker 1: them because you have that one point of connection. Hey
Speaker 1: might sit down and figure out your different religions or
Speaker 1: your different political perspectives, but you'll start off on a
Speaker 1: positive thing, which is that one connection that you know
Speaker 1: you have. Because you can always move over and start
Speaker 1: talking about motorcycles. Again as the things go south when
Speaker 1: you move into the area of politics or religion.
Speaker 4: And over time.
Speaker 11: You've learned to develop skill sets to correct rapport with people,
Speaker 11: especially those that are self employed or want to be
Speaker 11: self employed. You have to be able to get along
Speaker 11: with people, your suppliers, your vendors, your buyers, your community,
Speaker 11: your stakeholders. You have to get along with everybody. And
Speaker 11: then you learn these skill sets from the military. And yes,
Speaker 11: veterans do suffer right now. They get out, they don't
Speaker 11: have direction, they don't know where they're going, they don't
Speaker 11: have friends, they don't have a network, and then you're
Speaker 11: coupled with the alcohol and the drugs. Right now, Americans
Speaker 11: have access to illicit drugs more than ever in the
Speaker 11: history of mankind. Our border is wide open. You can
Speaker 11: come across the border right now. Actually you're welcomed, you're
Speaker 11: given benefits to come here, so you're people are invited
Speaker 11: to come here. That also invites an open road of
Speaker 11: illicit drug trade. And those drugs are porn into our country.
Speaker 11: Where my office is at in Dallas, five years ago,
Speaker 11: you'd rarely see a person on drugs, homeless or the
Speaker 11: worst you'd see of someone under the influence of alcohol
Speaker 11: from time to time wandering the streets, my streets around
Speaker 11: where I work a course, that warehouse right now has
Speaker 11: thousands of drug addicts on the streets, homeless, And it's
Speaker 11: like that in the city all these every metropolitan city
Speaker 11: has that. Now where you go I go to California
Speaker 11: on vacation with my kid is in sane what you see,
Speaker 11: and a lot of these homeless people are veterans. They
Speaker 11: are You'll see a guy on the street with a
Speaker 11: sign and says that turn homeless, police help. And it's
Speaker 11: a sixty year old man that has been served in
Speaker 11: the military that just got hooked on drugs or whatever
Speaker 11: whatever he got himself into. And once you get on
Speaker 11: that pack, you can't get out. It's like the the
Speaker 11: the you know, path dependent theory. I get, give him
Speaker 11: theory to talk about in the military, but once you start,
Speaker 11: you can't stop. You get momentum's both good and bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that idea of self medication. If you're struggling
Speaker 1: with psychological stress issues post traumatic stress, for example, if
Speaker 1: you're having issues with your time and your service in
Speaker 1: the military, your combat service most notably comes up, or
Speaker 1: anything else. A lot of people self medicate. Alcohol was
Speaker 1: kind of one of the self medication things traditionally speaking.
Speaker 1: But you're right with the type of drugs and the
Speaker 1: quantity of drugs and how addictive modern drugs are. I
Speaker 1: think that's what you got. People start with just self medication,
Speaker 1: They look and take an edge off of the edge
Speaker 1: in their life, and the next thing you know, they've
Speaker 1: got a powerful fentanyl addiction. It's a horror show, absolute
Speaker 1: horror show.
Speaker 11: And I hope that in time we have a government
Speaker 11: of bureaucracy that's created to help combat this in a
Speaker 11: more advantatious way, because it has become awful and it's
Speaker 11: now inflicted every school, every kid. When I was a kid,
Speaker 11: I didn't even know what cocaine was. I didn't know
Speaker 11: what settanol was. I don't know what heroin was. My
Speaker 11: kids are nine and they're trained at school identify it,
Speaker 11: because kids in school at twelve hackney drugs and it's like,
Speaker 11: you don't. You can't like not address it and say, oh,
Speaker 11: doesn't exist, because your kids might touch it and might
Speaker 11: try it and might get it. You know, you've got
Speaker 11: to address it. You have to be educated, you have
Speaker 11: to be able to identify and understand so that you
Speaker 11: don't ever become sucked into it. And again we talked
Speaker 11: about some things that are you know, maybe not the
Speaker 11: most positive on the show, but I believe you have
Speaker 11: to have it. And it's become such a huge part
Speaker 11: of a society that we have now that's integrating the society,
Speaker 11: and the drugs have gotten much much worse. Setanol deaths
Speaker 11: are over one hundred thousand year. Think about that. Vietnam,
Speaker 11: fifty thousand soldiers died, put their life on the battle
Speaker 11: field and passed away. In our country, one hundred thousand
Speaker 11: people die a year from just settanol. Now, think about
Speaker 11: all the loss of opportunity, all the people that could
Speaker 11: have been doctors, lawyers, you know, soldiers, you know, scientists.
Speaker 11: That we can give us a bureaucracy, a government that
Speaker 11: can help actually combat this and it to an end,
Speaker 11: or at least give us some type of cure.
Speaker 1: My guest today, author of the Spirit of a True Patriot,
Speaker 1: The Inspiring Story Retired Captain Douglas j Ernest my guest today,
Speaker 1: author of the book as well as successful businessman. If
Speaker 1: you like Corvette's He's your guy. Corvette Warehouse dot Com
Speaker 1: check out his website and see the business that he
Speaker 1: built from scratch. Inspiring story. Douglas, it's been a real
Speaker 1: pleasure having you on the program. I appreciate your spending
Speaker 1: time with my listeners of me today, and I put
Speaker 1: a link to your book on my blog page fifty
Speaker 1: five krse dot com, so my listeners know exactly where
Speaker 1: to get a copy.
Speaker 11: All right, Bright, if you could please let me just
Speaker 11: plug the book if you go to Douglas Ernest dot
Speaker 11: com again, that's Douglas Ernest dot com. There's a link
Speaker 11: to get some books or some pictures of the story
Speaker 11: of Operation Judges Storm, and it gives a chance for
Speaker 11: veterans to get money because all proceeds and royalty from
Speaker 11: the book do go to veterans groups percent that we
Speaker 11: can help my brothers and sisters that need help.
Speaker 1: Right, you just sold a bunch more books with that comment.
Speaker 1: I was not aware of that. So the proceeds going
Speaker 1: to help veterans causes. That is awesome. Yeah, that link
Speaker 1: will take back that. My link on my page will
Speaker 1: take them directly to the link you just mentioned. So
Speaker 1: either way, go directly or go through fifty five cars
Speaker 1: dot com. Douglas real pleasure, my friend. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much again for your service to our country.
Speaker 11: RAN appreciate you, sir. Have a great weekend, you do say.
Speaker 1: Ay thirty here fifty five cars de talk station run Times,
Speaker 1: wishing a very happy Friday, and welcoming to the fifty
Speaker 1: five KRC Morning Show. I think probably the definition of
Speaker 1: badassory US Marine Corps retired Major Fred Galvin, author of
Speaker 1: A Few Bad Men, The true story of US Marines
Speaker 1: ambushed in Afghanistan and Betrayed in America. Major Galvin, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the fifty five KOSITE Morning Show. It's my distinct
Speaker 1: pleasure to have you on the program.
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me as your guest today.
Speaker 1: Twenty six years and listened Marine Corps officer. You went
Speaker 1: on assignments and the Infantry Resconnaissance Force, Reconnaissance Marine Special
Speaker 1: Operation Command. Hundreds of combat missions you led, including raids,
Speaker 1: deeper connaissance, ship seizures, ambush operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Speaker 1: the Arabian Golf Golf of Oman Golf of Aiden. And
Speaker 1: you were selected to command the first Marine Special Operation
Speaker 1: Task Force to deployed combat. And I don't understand what
Speaker 1: happened to you, sir, you were ambushed when you were
Speaker 1: serving in Afghanistan. I want you to explain to my
Speaker 1: listeners how that set you up for what is revealed
Speaker 1: in the title of the book, the Betrayal here in America.
Speaker 8: Yes, it's a really important that the listeners know that
Speaker 8: when we went into Afghanistan originally, and when I say
Speaker 8: we am talk in the United States of America or
Speaker 8: military went in in two thousand and one, it was
Speaker 8: shock and all, and we defeated Taliban decisively right off
Speaker 8: the bat, and it became just sleepy meadows. However, Talaban
Speaker 8: and El Kaeda, they did a surgeons training foreign fighters
Speaker 8: in Pakistan. But the other really devious thing that turned
Speaker 8: a decisive victory into a forever war was in two
Speaker 8: thousand and six he had then Lieutenant General Petraeus as
Speaker 8: well as then Lieutenant Drumatis. They developed a counterinsurgency doctrine
Speaker 8: not just for the Army and the Marines which they
Speaker 8: served in, but for all of the joint services of
Speaker 8: the United States military. So this doctrine became effective, and
Speaker 8: in two thousand and seven when we went in, that
Speaker 8: was the new rules of engagement and the law that
Speaker 8: we would follow. So all the combat appointments that we
Speaker 8: had done in Iraq, all the ship seizures that we
Speaker 8: could do when we saw and had, you know, bomb proof,
Speaker 8: incontrovertible evidence that these guys are bad guys.
Speaker 3: A ship is a bad ship, we can take it down.
Speaker 3: As you read, you know, we.
Speaker 8: Had done hundreds and hundreds of combat missions. Now you
Speaker 8: had to engage the population, win them over.
Speaker 3: You couldn't. So we went in on this mission in
Speaker 3: two thousand and seven.
Speaker 8: I was the commanding officer the first Marine Special Operations
Speaker 8: Task Force, and they put us into the tor Bora Mountains.
Speaker 8: That's where we were operating as we got into Afghanistan
Speaker 8: in the beginning of two thousand and seven. But these
Speaker 8: foreign fighters, we couldn't go into Pakistan, so they were
Speaker 8: coming across the border from Pakistan, which was Pakistan was
Speaker 8: a training sanctuary, and they'd go into Afghanistan on this
Speaker 8: new highway that the US taxpayers built, the very first
Speaker 8: highway in Afghanistan, and so the very first town in Afghanistan.
Speaker 8: Compare that to Amazon Fulfillment Center. That's where they foreign
Speaker 8: fighters would come in across the border. They'd link up
Speaker 8: with their handlers who would take them basically for that
Speaker 8: last mile of service to get their jihat on against
Speaker 8: the Infidel and Kabbabi Kandahar wherever.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So we had bomb proof evidence, Brian, there's four suicide bombers.
Speaker 8: We knew the house that they're in, but we were
Speaker 8: still by this counterinsurgency doctrine that we resurrected from Vietnam,
Speaker 8: the winning hearts and minds to hijack the hippocratic oath
Speaker 8: of first do no harm. So it required us to
Speaker 8: do a tribal leader engagement to sit down literally have
Speaker 8: chai with the tribal elders hope that they would sucks
Speaker 8: out and give us information on the Taliban in their village,
Speaker 8: which never would happen. But so we go into this
Speaker 8: village which we'd been through three hours before, and that
Speaker 8: was the normal atmospherics of a roadside bizarre hustle and
Speaker 8: bustle buying different items. Now this time there was a
Speaker 8: mass exodus of women and children. We knew what that
Speaker 8: always turns into as a as a gunfight. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 8: So we get into the throat of this town and
Speaker 8: we get blown up by a van filled with explosives
Speaker 8: and shrapnel fuel detonates right in the front of our
Speaker 8: patrol on our second hum vy. Then we get shot
Speaker 8: at on both sides from jee Hottis fighting out of
Speaker 8: vehicles and on another side jee Hottis informations that some
Speaker 8: would be providing stationary fire while the other would bound
Speaker 8: towards us. They dragged a vehicle across the road. Mob
Speaker 8: swarmed at us. We're getting shot from a hilltop of
Speaker 8: sniper fire, and we did what American Marines are trained
Speaker 8: to do in this type of a kill zone is
Speaker 8: we conducted a counter attack.
Speaker 3: And this was at nine oh three in the morning,
Speaker 3: so there's no fog of war. We didn't know what
Speaker 3: was going on. That's not the facts.
Speaker 8: I was on the patrol with our marines and we
Speaker 8: counter attacks, aimed in and killed all those that were
Speaker 8: firing at us with their a K forty seven. It
Speaker 8: happened in very short order, but we so we aborted
Speaker 8: the mission because there's no sense in having chi and
Speaker 8: trying to see if this town was going.
Speaker 3: To be giving up the goods on these fighters.
Speaker 8: It just happened, So we returned to the base Brian
Speaker 8: twenty minutes after that ambush. We're back on the base
Speaker 8: our operations chief comes and meets us at those salesman, Sir,
Speaker 8: this is already out on the BBC radio that you
Speaker 8: guys have killed women and children. And so then it
Speaker 8: turned into this which ended up being the longest war
Speaker 8: crimes trial Marine Corps history, three and a half weeks
Speaker 8: in a courtroom the following year.
Speaker 3: But how they did?
Speaker 8: You know, we're working for the US Army Special Forces
Speaker 8: over in Afghanistan. So that's well, it's akin if you
Speaker 8: brought your girlfriend.
Speaker 3: Home to meet your wife.
Speaker 8: They didn't want this extra competition from this new Marine
Speaker 8: Special Operations unit, so they were happy to kick us out,
Speaker 8: which is what the Taliban did, this information warfare. They
Speaker 8: rioted in the streets and they all the way up
Speaker 8: to President Amid Cars are condemning us. So the Army
Speaker 8: was quick to kick us out. And then they turned
Speaker 8: it over the Marines. And I'm sure your listeners will
Speaker 8: never believe that. You know, the Marine Corps put a
Speaker 8: three star general in charge of it, and at that
Speaker 8: time it was General mad Dog Mattis. He was our
Speaker 8: convening authority, and he sent forty five criminal investigators and
Speaker 8: four prosecuting attorneys to dogpile the seven of us who
Speaker 8: were false accused in this case of killing nineteen and
Speaker 8: wounding another fifty. They said innocent Afghan civilians to include
Speaker 8: women and children, but the tactics that General Maddie allowed
Speaker 8: them to use to include the prosecuting toorney's dressing a
Speaker 8: civilian clothes, threatening to deport one of our marines parents,
Speaker 8: in this case his mother to Mexico, which they couldn't do.
Speaker 8: But you know, they tricked him and he signed their
Speaker 8: prepared statement which basically nailed their coffin shed. And they
Speaker 8: attempted to do that to two other Marines, this ethnic targeting,
Speaker 8: one of Egyptian descent, one of from Puerto Rico. They
Speaker 8: tried to trick them using polographs and so it would
Speaker 8: show deception, indicated them they were coming after us with
Speaker 8: every trick in the book, legal or illegal, and it
Speaker 8: all comes out in the courtroom. And it took me
Speaker 8: Brian eleven years to get the courtroom transcripts declassified, many
Speaker 8: of them put out there on different reports online and
Speaker 8: you can see people freak out, Hey, this says secret
Speaker 8: at the top with a line treatments. It has been declassified,
Speaker 8: and it's in this book so you see it for
Speaker 8: the first time in one place. People are just shocked
Speaker 8: that how did this happen to our own marines?
Speaker 3: Buyer marine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like what I mean, the burning question here,
Speaker 1: Major Gallen, why did they do this to you? It
Speaker 1: seems to me, I mean and unwinding how the events occurred.
Speaker 1: You go there to engage and try to, you know,
Speaker 1: make nicey with the locals and see if they'll drop
Speaker 1: a dime on the Taliban. Find instead you get ambushed.
Speaker 1: You kill the people who are ambushing you, right, and
Speaker 1: you already noted that the women and children had moved out,
Speaker 1: which is an obvious indicator. It's going to hit the
Speaker 1: fan and you know what it is. So it does
Speaker 1: you defend yourself and apparently the BBC gets information from
Speaker 1: let me guess the Taliban side of the equation or
Speaker 1: the Afghani side saying women and children. They immediately took
Speaker 1: it at face value and printed it. And that's where
Speaker 1: it all started.
Speaker 12: Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that how that unfolded?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, so remember well I'm just trying to draw patty
Speaker 1: because you know when Hamask went into Israel and killed
Speaker 1: and slaughtered women in a women and children and Israel,
Speaker 1: I believe properly responded to defend itself. You know, we're
Speaker 1: oh my god, forty thousand people died, women and children.
Speaker 1: Well that was Hamas reporting that. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: laughable thing. You just going to take that at face
Speaker 1: vag and repeat it over and over again. Why did
Speaker 1: they take such strenuous efforts to convict you here in
Speaker 1: America for this event when they could have just as
Speaker 1: strenuously argued that the narrative was false.
Speaker 8: Yes, well, just like in the title of the book
Speaker 8: or the subtitle ambushed in Afghanistan, betrayed in America. So
Speaker 8: let me unroll that for a second. Yeah, we expect
Speaker 8: the Taliban or Hamas to use information warfare. They're terrorists,
Speaker 8: that's what they do. We expected that. And just like
Speaker 8: before Israel actually went into the counter attack, you felt
Speaker 8: Hamas winding up. As they said on the International Omni
Speaker 8: Channel media, Israel is conducting genocide, genocide. They haven't even
Speaker 8: gone into and conducted any attacks. So you're already tilting
Speaker 8: your hand. But we expect that of the terrorists, but
Speaker 8: we don't expect And let me explain the motive because
Speaker 8: I'm can make a connection here. So let's go back
Speaker 8: to the last war that we actually won, a war,
Speaker 8: not something minor. World War two. The Japanese attacked us
Speaker 8: in Pearl Harbor. They attacked us with aircraft carriers, they
Speaker 8: had battleships. They had the largest, well trained and most
Speaker 8: disciplined force across all the stick nations. And after they
Speaker 8: blew us up three and a half years later, after
Speaker 8: the United States Marines and the Army and the Navy
Speaker 8: conducted this joint operations all across the Pacific, raised the
Speaker 8: flag on a regima.
Speaker 3: We fought like hell.
Speaker 4: Guess what.
Speaker 8: We had an unconditional surrender on the United States the
Speaker 8: USS Missouri midship on the surrender deck in Tokyo Bay.
Speaker 8: Unconditional surrender. Now, the Taliban was using weapons designed two
Speaker 8: years after that war, AK forty seven's and homemade explosives,
Speaker 8: and they didn't have any battleshipped aircraft carriers, planes, they
Speaker 8: didn't have any of that technology. But they brought us
Speaker 8: to our knees and put the largest most advanced sophist kid.
Speaker 8: Now we have satellites, we have supersonic fifth generation aircraft.
Speaker 3: We lost to these guys using rifle.
Speaker 8: Well, we wanted to do this we wanted by putting
Speaker 8: this failed during Vietnam, This counterinsurgency strategy, the hearts and
Speaker 8: minds campaign that failed in Vietnam resurrected that. But you
Speaker 8: when you connect the dots and say, hey, wait a second,
Speaker 8: where is mattis now? Oh, that's right, he works at
Speaker 8: General Dynamics. He used to work on the board. I'm
Speaker 8: not saying working like he was the same patial field
Speaker 8: is me infantry? All these guys are infantry, Betraeus. They
Speaker 8: don't have advanced degrees in aerospace and high tech communication.
Speaker 8: They're not doing anything involving AI. They're paid for access
Speaker 8: and placement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly like Conor Biden. You know, he didn't know
Speaker 1: anything about Barisma or gas industry, but he knew the
Speaker 1: right people and then he could hook him up. I
Speaker 1: get that. Yeah.
Speaker 8: So they turned this into a forever war and they're
Speaker 8: still involved in it now. And your listeners, mark my words, listeners,
Speaker 8: there's going to be a war. There's going to be
Speaker 8: a war in Northeast Asia. And if you love your
Speaker 8: sons and daughters, your nieces and nephews, you need to
Speaker 8: be very well aware where all these generals are working.
Speaker 8: General Miley. He's not an investment professional. Why is he
Speaker 8: working at JP Morgan? Is he picking out stocks?
Speaker 4: Is you know?
Speaker 8: No, it's he has access and placement, the same thing
Speaker 8: with all these The Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
Speaker 8: before him in Dunford he works at Lucke'd marked the
Speaker 8: largest defense contractor in the world. Where does our current
Speaker 8: Secretary of Defense, who was a four star general, where
Speaker 8: did he come from? That's right raytheon. So this revolving
Speaker 8: door of where all these guys go to, and we
Speaker 8: could pull out of Afghanistan, which we did, and you know,
Speaker 8: the tail wags the dog, and they'll find the next
Speaker 8: war that they'll tell depending on This is a righteous
Speaker 8: just cause that we're going to spend countless billions of
Speaker 8: dollars in Ukraine and they did, and we are spending
Speaker 8: so much money we can't even keep track of this
Speaker 8: moneyball military industrial complex. Yes, unfortunately, name of the book
Speaker 8: A Few Bad Men, The true story of US Marines
Speaker 8: ambushed in Afghanistan and betrayed in America by my guests
Speaker 8: that they retired Major Fred Gallvin from the United States
Speaker 8: Marine Corps probably served well. I guess the pride I
Speaker 8: presume on some levels still exists in spite of the
Speaker 8: treatment that you receive from your country. Did you ever
Speaker 8: resolve that in your mind and your heart and your mind, sir,
Speaker 8: that once you got through all this and you were
Speaker 8: exonerated and acquitted and we're able to tell your story,
Speaker 8: do you get a better sense of your connection to
Speaker 8: the country or have you been sort of scarred by this.
Speaker 6: Both?
Speaker 8: But Brian, you have to, you know, in order to
Speaker 8: have a fruitful life, and I talk about this, you
Speaker 8: have to let this stuff go. And some people may
Speaker 8: call me stupid or an idiot because I went right
Speaker 8: after we got exoneraated, went back to Afghanistan, fought again,
Speaker 8: and served seven more years until I was actually forced
Speaker 8: you to service.
Speaker 3: Limitations say you got to go.
Speaker 8: I didn't come back and start my own business in
Speaker 8: Midwest and then went back and served in the Marine
Speaker 8: Corps as civilian. But our national defense is vital now
Speaker 8: more than ever. And we're seeing a lot of these
Speaker 8: radical agenda being injected into the military. You're seeing our
Speaker 8: military disgrace as these Marines had bags put over their
Speaker 8: head in Turkey. We have a former Navy seal who's
Speaker 8: still it us or US Navy sailor apprehended done in Venezuela. Yeah,
Speaker 8: we're we are looked at on the international stage as
Speaker 8: a joke right now, and we need a strong military
Speaker 8: now more than ever. And hopefully some things change here
Speaker 8: in a couple of months, and we amen, we had
Speaker 8: that respect restored.
Speaker 1: Amen to that underscore bold in caps, Major of Fred
Speaker 1: Galvin USMC retired the book A Few Bad Men, The
Speaker 1: True Store of US Marines' ambush in Afghanistan and Betrayed.
Speaker 1: But in America, my listeners. I got a lot of
Speaker 1: listeners in America's military, military families out there, and I
Speaker 1: do everything I can to support military causes. You're going
Speaker 1: to sell a few of these books, my friend. They're
Speaker 1: going to be available on my blog page II five
Speaker 1: krse dot com will be a link there to take
Speaker 1: them where they buy it, and I'm sure they will
Speaker 1: thoroughly enjoy the book. I feel like I want to
Speaker 1: apologize on behalf of America to you personally and everybody
Speaker 1: else on your team for being drug through this ordeal.
Speaker 1: But you got stones, you fought through it, and then
Speaker 1: you continue to serve and fight your country. I think
Speaker 1: that speaks volumes to your character.
Speaker 4: Sir.
Speaker 1: It has been a pleasure speaking with you today, and
Speaker 1: I know my listener is going to love the book.
Speaker 3: Thank you and God bless you and your listeners.
Speaker 1: Bron thank you very much for the time today A
Speaker 1: forty seven and your service fit you five KCD talk
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Speaker 1: So I hope you have a wonderful world weekend. I
Speaker 1: hope you find some wonderful things to take a note of,
Speaker 1: so life is not so bleak for you anyway. I
Speaker 1: always appreciate hearing those notes on a Friday once we
Speaker 1: close out the morning show. Thank you Danny Gleason for
Speaker 1: covering for the vacationing Joe Strecker. He'll be back on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: You're not covering from me on Monday though, I know that,
Speaker 1: so maybe Sean will be back. Doesn't matter. You did
Speaker 1: a great job this week, Danny, and I thank you
Speaker 1: for it. We had Tech Friday this morning with Dave Hatter,
Speaker 1: always important appointment listening. We had ground Fusion AI that
Speaker 1: is amazing. We talked to the creator of ground Fusion AI,
Speaker 1: Greg Phillips who has amassed billions of data points on
Speaker 1: matters political and he helps conservative organizations use the data
Speaker 1: to help target market and help promote campaigns, including way
Speaker 1: down Battot campaigns that otherwise couldn't afford. The type of
Speaker 1: technology and the type of data that this guy has accumulated.
Speaker 1: Listen to the podcast. It's amazing. The books Spirit of
Speaker 1: a True Patriot, Douglas Ernest's autobiography, and then Fred Galvin's book, Wow,
Speaker 1: what a terrible situation he went through, but a brave
Speaker 1: and like I said, definitional badassory Fred Galvin's book A
Speaker 1: Few Bad Men, both available at fifty five care see
Speaker 1: dot com. Tune in Monday for the Smither Vent and
Speaker 1: Monday Monday. Have a great weekend, folks, and don't go
Speaker 1: away because Glenn Back's coming right up.