55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, Massie, Judge Napolitano

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Fibo five.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
If you got KRC the talk station. Happy Wednesday is.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
A va.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
I'm the dude, man, I am not.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
I am Brian Thomas, not the dude, and I uh
looking forward to the show today. I got some great
people to talk with and thoroughly enjoy that. And I
also enjoy talking with you, as you well know. Five one, three, seven, four,
nine two three talk or pound five fifty on AT
and T phones. Just some things I come in here.
I just get overwhelmed with the number of stories that

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are worthy of speaking about. And I know it's a
comment I make regularly. I can't get to everything, and
and at the end of the week it's She's like,
I don't get to most of the things I want
to talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
But we'll work our way through it. Which is why
I always invite listeners to call on.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Maybe there's something on your mind that you think is
important topic of conversation, so you can feel free, as
always to direct the nature of the conversation here on
the morning Show. But further to that, man who'll be
directing the nature of the conversation on the morning Show
today seven five.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
First guest on the show, Jack Atherden, We get.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
The Big Picture with Jack Atherden every Wednesday here in
the Morning Show at seven oh five. Today should be
interesting how Art became woke? All right, Jack does a
brilliant job, always offers a one offers a wonderful analysis.
Also doing a great job and a man who stands
on principle as he did yesterday Congressman Thomas Massey. Love

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him or hate him for not voting for the CR,
it passed anyway, so we will talk about the continuing
resolution that passed. We will talk about Trump's tweet demanding
a primary against Congress from Athlety if he didn't vote
for the CR, which he didn't. Does anybody in northern
Kentucky think that they are going to primary Congressman Thomas
Massey and one of my voter friends in Kentucky think

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about that.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
You can feel free to call about that topic as well.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
And the FED another conversation with Congressman Massy, and finally
the Safer Voter Act will learn together the what's involved
with that one. And then of course Judge Nitta Politano
on his weekend in Moscow, and I think he kind
of shares my philosophy. And we're gonna wait and see
what happens with this ceasefire that was negotiated, yes, or

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that's yes, ceasefire with Ukraine agreeing to it. Now the
ball is in Moscow's court, in Vladimir Putin's lap. A
lot of concerns that he's going to demand even more
than he's demanded previously, and that he will just merely
use the time of the ceasefire to sort of regroup,
re arm and then maybe launch more attacks sort of
on that taking await and see approach on that one.

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But the idea though, of normalizing relations with Moscow rather
than continuing this this sort of cold war approach that
we had when they were the Soviet Union. And you know,
I've said it out loud before, I'll say it again.
And I think judge of Paulatana, based upon what he
wrote in his column my weekend in Moscow, that it
seems puzzling to me then after the fall of the

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Soviet Union, we didn't endeavor to negotiate some.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Sort of.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
I don't know dayton normalizing of relationships. And I know
that the Putin's an evil oligarchs, he's a dictator and
he's not exactly a nice guy. He does have his
political foes eliminated. But we work with and trade with
a multitude of countries that basically have the same philosophy.

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We just sort of pick and choose who we're going to,
you know, condemn, versus those who were willing to overlook
their faults and in the nature of or for the
benefit of just you know, not engaging in war, or
engaging in perhaps rather keeping trade for the purpose of
keeping trade open and securing regional control as opposed to

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letting the Chinese Communist Party seize control. Anyhow, it's a
crazy world we live, and I think I can just
sort of conclude and observe. But those are the guests
on the Morning Show today tomorrow. State Senator Blessing on
his empower Youse seminar taking place a Thursday night on
what's going on here in the state of Ohio with

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regard to school funding and property taxes and how those
relate in what the proposals are going on in Columbus.
Sender Blessing tomorrow, along with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. A, Well,
we're not going to get a government shut down, at
least as far as the House of Representatives concerned. The
ball is now in the Senate's lap. Republicans passed the
federal funding bill back by Trump yesterday along partisan lines.

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As you might have imagined. The final vote two seventeen
to two thirteen. Massey was the only Republican no vote,
and only one Democrat, Representative Jared Golden of Maine, voted
for it. Apparently they erupted into cheers on the House floor,
and now the House will be out of session until
March twenty fourth. Short term extension of the twenty twenty

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four funding of course, a continuing resolution now going over
to the Senate. It must pass there and then get
to Trump's desk before Friday, March fourteenth to avert this
partial government shutdown. So it'll be in the Democrats. I mean,
if there is a government shutdown, fault will lay in
the Democrats lap because the bill isn't overly controversial. Only

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one senator has, i think on the Republican side, said
no already, and of course from the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
State Senator Ran Paul has already rejected the bill, says
no so along with the same lines as Commresom Massie.
From a philosophical standpoint, at least I think that's the
reason Republican's going to need the help of eight at
least eight Democrats to meet the sixty vote threshold in

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the Senate. What this bill includes is eight billion dollars
in defense spending. Additional hmm, let us see here non
defense spending that Congress annually appropriates will decrease by thirteen billion.
There's also six billion dollars in additional benefits for our

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American veterans for health care. So I know there's some
concern floating around with the cuts over the VA that
somehow this is going to impact the American veteran and
really actually know they promise and they assure us that
it will not impact healthcare one iota, But just trying
to get rid of the bloat in federal government, which
is also happening over the Education Department with the announcement
that they are firing about half of the workers. There

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no impact to our education system, though is widely reported.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
So what else we got here?

Speaker 5 (06:40):
The White House requested additional spending in areas that were
not president in the last a government funding extension allowing
what they call anomalies funding for women, infants, and children,
A federal benefits program one billion dollars to aid with
immigrations and customs enforcement. Also added funding for defense, which
I mentioned. It's about what we've got here by way

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of reporting on that. And the other big issue is
going over to Ukraine. Didn't get a chance to listen
to Daniel Davis Deep Dive. Find the podcast at fifty
five careca dot com. We talked about just this. So
Trump in return for this a Ukraine's agreement for a
thirty day ceasefire lifted its suspension of military aid and

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intelligence sharing.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
See that.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Was the pressure that was applied to Vladimir Zelensky by
the Trump administration withheld the intelligence sharing and military aid
to pressure him to enter into this ceasefire again going
over now to putin what's he going to do about it?
Secretary of State Marko Arubo had said the United States
would present the ceasefire offer to the Kremlin. Quote, We're
going to tell them this is what's on the table.

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Ukraine is ready to stop shooting and start talking, and
now it'll be up to them to say yes or no.
If they say no, then we'll unfortunately know what the
impediment is to peace here. And then that obviously would
be Vladimir Putin's presumably growing list of demands and the
conflicts since they are making substantial inroads into the Ukraine,

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apparently taking over one fifth of ukraine territory since the
war started. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff expected to travel later
to Moscow this week, where he's going to meet with Butten,
according to the persons familiar with the matter, but they
say that the scheduling could change. It'll depend on again
putting a Putin on that one. So progress maybe Kremlin

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hasn't public offered any concessions yet. Russia has said it's
ready to cease hostilities on the condition that Ukraine drops
its bid to join NATO and recognizes regions that Moscow
occupies as Russian.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Again.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
One fifth of Ukraine's territory has been captured, and there
are areas of Ukraine that are you know, dominated by
people that are shan't consider themselves Russian and probably would
rather be a part of Russia than separately in Ukraine.
So not sure where it's going to go. Keep your
pop goorn out, and keep your fingers crossed that this
results in some sort of lasting peace there and that

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Putin doesn't get all crazy and demand outrageously increasingly outrageous
terms of conditions for his willingness to accept the ceasefire.
I just have to note, the slaughter of people needs
to end. It's just such a sad, sad thing when
you think about all of those lives that have been

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lost over these skirmishes and the odd reality. And I
think it's just so strange that all the North Korean
soldiers are their waging war. And as Daniel Davis has
pointed out previously, North Korea needs seasoned soldiers. And you
might wonder why might that be?

Speaker 6 (09:52):
Ha ha ha.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah, everybody's got designs on other people's lands and countries
in North Korea, they're bad crap insane, but there are
they are going to get their seasoned fighters as a
consequence of this war with Ukraine. Anyway, and it would
be nice going back to the idea of negotiating some
sort of relationship with Russia to get Russia away from China.

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I mean, if we could get a deal going between
Russia and the European Union and the United States, better
the Russian conditions because of greater trade, improving their lives
and their conditions, that would be a benefit to the
Russian people and would tear them away from this growing
relationship with China. I note that China, Russia, and Iran

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have been holding naval drills in the Gulf of Oman,
the three amigos there, and we drove them into each
other's arm effectively through foreign policy. That to me is
an unsettling situation, a very unsettling reality. Anyhow, again, feel
free to call if you got something to say on
any of those topics or something else. I'll take a

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quick break here, I'll be right back. I hope you
can stick around.

Speaker 7 (11:01):
Fifty five KRC cow.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
Right coming up on five twenty eight, five ks you
Talk Stations. Very interesting conversation with former Inspector General Todd
Zenzer yesterday here in the fifty five KRCE Morning Show
if you get a chance to listen live. We had
a Shenanigans declaration during this segment, Todd revealing the inherent

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corrupt nature of the system with downtown Cincinnati and the budgeting.
So a worthy conversation to listen to, because you know,
it really mirrors what's going on with the federal government
level when you hand out money to organizations that you
handpick and hand select as Todd pointed out, with connection
with some of these entities wanting money, they found like
one point three million dollars and so they needed to

(11:48):
spend it. They bought two dollars. They got planning on
buying two dump trucks to help with snow removal and
build a skate park or at least provide adititional three
hundred thousand dollars for a skateboard park, you know photo
optunes before the November elections. But there were several groups
that wanted their hand to the cookie jar and felt
like they had an expectation of entitlement. Jam Michelle lemon

(12:11):
Kearney Vice Mayor, wanted the money to go to these organizations,
and as Todd pointed out, what happens is they select
these organizations to get city tax payer money. It's handed out,
and in return for that, those organizations and their employees
basically provide either financial resources or foot resources on the
streets to help get these council people and the mayors elected.

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So it's that quid pro quo we talk about. And
you can look at what DOGE is doing with us AID,
most notably with these literally billions of dollars flowing out
of the federal government to these random non governmental organizations,
And you wonder how is it that they were selected
versus the nine thousand other organizations lining up to achieve
their goals and projects. Well, probably because there's that little

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quid pro quo. The money goes out and in return
some support for the current administration and keeping these elected
officials in office, whether it's financial money coming back in
the form of lobbying dollars or merely helping people you
know on the streets, promoting and sending out flyers or
working on campaigns. That's the quid pro quo that goes on,
and it goes on with your tax dollars, whether it's

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City of Cincinnati tax dollars or federal tax dollars. So
that's just just so so right for corruption, and probably
there is a lot of corruption, and we can only
help that they follow the paper trail and the money
trail to these outside organizations to find out if anything
was accomplished. Did they achieve the purpose that they set

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out to achieve when they got the grant in the
first place, or did the money flow back to Washington, DC,
or in some cases never leave it.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Anyhow, I want to just.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
Pivot over to this because it's a you know, it's
an illustration of not only we saved ourselves from something
that could have been a true disaster, which is President
Kamala Harris, but also the hypocrisy of someone who really
sings this global warming we are responsible in zero carbon
emissions mantra every single day. That lands right in the

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lap of Kamala Harris, for example. So she's at this conference.
It's an Artificial intelligence conference human X full ten Blue
Hotel in Los Angeles. Over the weekend, Businesswire said Harris
was announced as speaker. Former Vice president Harris will share
her vision for the future of AI, emphasizing the responsibility

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to shape this technology in a way that promotes human rights, privacy,
and equal opportunity. So Harris has this to say. We
did door dash now, right, is what DoorDash is? You
call them up and they go pick up a delivery
for you, Like you can send them to McDonald's and
they'll pick up your big Mac and bring it to
your house. Right, we did door dash because I wanted

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Dorito's and the red carpet part was about to start,
and nobody wanted to leave to go to the grow
grocery store. So it was DoorDash. So I was wanting
to give up whatever might be the tracking. This is
that security part, the tracking of Kamala Harris particular fondness
for nacho cheese doritos for the sake of getting a
big bag of doritos. As I watched the oscars and

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here's where the word's salid and high comedy comes in.
Quote And you can debate with me if it should
be a right. I think it should to expect that
the innovation would also be weighed in terms of solving
their everyday problems, which are beyond my craving for doritos,
but about whatever. And I know the work is happening,
the scientific discoveries, for example, to cure long standing disease,

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and I would love it if there was an investment
in resources and solving the affordable housing issues in America.
If you can make sense of that, please feel free
to let me know what.

Speaker 7 (15:45):
Everyone is in this room is now dumber for having
listened to it.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
So while RFK Junior tries to get artificial food dies
out of food and is asking completing with companies to
do it, So we don't have to mandate and edict
to get these artificial colors out of foods, which I
think we can all safely agree that Dorito's nacho cheese
flavors probably are artificially colored since that color does not
exist in nature. But moving away from that, in the

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name of, you know, stopping climate change, do you think
that we should be supporting people just going out to
the store for the purpose of getting a bag of Dorito's.
Dorrito's aren't good for you anyway, right, part of the
growing more obesity problem in this country. Check. But it's
just the bag of Dorito's. Is it worth firing up
your car or having door dash fire up its engine

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and go to the store for you to deliver you
a bag of Dorito's. Can't you just say no? For
five minutes? It's like, you know, I really would like Dorito's,
but it's not worth the damage to the environment. It's
not worth the expenditure of carbon and belching out pollution
into the environment. So I get what I want, which
is a bag of Dorito's. Just reminds me of these

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global warming alarmist flying around the world to their global
warming conferences in private jets. They don't walk the walk.
They talk to talk all day long, but it's people
like you and me that they demand, you know, a submission.
It's people like you and me they want to take
things away from It's you and I that are supposed
to rely on an electric vehicle, which we probably can't afford,

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and the inconvenience associated with it. They want to take
away the internal combustion engine in the name of global warming.
We're the ones that must capitulate. They don't walk the walk,
though they don't have to. They're the elites telling us
what to do. If I have twenty six to fifty
five k see de talk station local stories coming up,
you can feel free to chime in prefer that, but

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I do have a stack of the local stories to
get to it. Be right back after these brief words.

Speaker 8 (17:44):
Fifty five the time.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
By, here's your channel nine. First one to the forecast.
Sunny day to day. Clouds may show up around one
o'clock seventy seven for the high partly cloudy every night
own of forty six, partly cloude tomorrow with a maybe
a slotty shower or two over northern Kentucky seventy six
for the high overnight low of forty eight, eclipse night
partly clyde into mostly clear skies without eclipse, and a

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partly cloudie Friday. Best chance of storm showing up on Saturday,
although maybe a late storm on Friday night or evening
highest seventy seven. Then it's forty two degrees right now
here at twelve year CD thought stations, it's five point
thirty on a Wednesday, and a very happy one to you.
Looking forward to talking with Jack other than seven oh five.
Congressman Massi, eighth five, the lone Republican novode on the

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Continuing Resolution Judge of Paulatana. My weekend in Moscow that'll
take place in eight thirty over two local stories. Let's
start in Kentucky speaking of Congressman Massi Kentucky Center Bill
one hundred, it's supposed to come out of the House
Committee this week proposing new regulations for businesses selling tobacco, nicotine,
and vape products. Aims to introduce a licensing requirement for

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retailers and enforce stricter penalties for those caught selling these
product to anybody under the age of twenty one. A
lot of discussions on this with among various stakeholders, lobbying
groups supporting the initiative, and smoke shop owners with their opposition.
Of course, one guy pharmacy student member of the hashtag

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I can End the trend it's called it to it,
referred to as a tobacco use prevention group, interviewed by
aj Pattel at WCPO, says decided his college career to
research the effect of youth vaping, arguing the accessibility to
peel of vape products make them especially dangerous for young people,
saying vaping is something that's new and we're not exactly
sure how the best treaty yet, especially with some of

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these products that can cane up to twenty cigarettes in
one pod, that may be an understatement, and he pointed out, well,
they are designed to look like everyday items many of
these vake products, calling them attractive youth. He said they're
making vapes into the shape of pens, school supplies, and highlighters.
For its part, it's a CDC. More than one point

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six million middle aged and high school students reported using
e cigarettes last year. This Griffin Nemis kid said not
only are these products more attractive and appealing in cigarettes
than cigarettes ever were, but They're also more discreet, making
it harder for us to ensure youth are not getting them.
He is lobbying in favor of Centate Bill one hundred.

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Owner of Botany Bay, Jenny Savelle, for her part, argues
that the proposed legislation could have dire consequences for small businesses, saying,
if the state ons control access to minors, what they're
doing is not going to accomplish that objective. It's just
going to push it. I do is put small businesses
out of business. She has concerns over the financial burden

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the licensing requirement would impose, mirroring the effects of previous
anti vaping legislation. He said, I don't want to lose
half my crew. I don't want my own personal standard
of living to come down. None of this is fair
some businesses viewed by government as more important than others.
I got back to my thoughts about Anthony's cigar bar
back when he put all that money in million dollars

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plus to build that place, offering food and opportunities for
put people to smoke inside, and then Ohio outlawed it,
pulled the plug in his business. He lost all of
his investment money, but no one seemed to care. It's
a question of whose boxes being goreed when people lose
jobs as a consequence of government action, isn't it. Camelton County,
our Governor Mike Dwine on Tuesday announced the appointment of

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Lea dinke Locker to serve Hamilton County's Common Police Court. Yes,
along with her father. She's thirty eight, going to fill
the Common Police Court seat vacated by Megan Shanahan, elected
to the House Supreme Court last November. Lea served as
an assistant prosecutor for the county since twenty twelve. Previously
was a constable for two judges. Daughter of longtime Hamilton

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County judge Patrick dink Locker, who's a great guy. Lead
denk Locker, currently Assistant chief of the Hamilton County Prosecutor
Office as Juvenile Division. She'll serve the remainder of Shanahan's
term and retain the seat and we'll have to run
election in twenty twenty six, twenty eleven graduate from law school.

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Since I inquires Jennifer Edwards Baker reporting, a fifty eight
year old Warren County woman is dead after being a
quote unquote in a report consumed by fire in an
incident in her backyard burn pit. According to the Sheriff's
report and the Deerfield Township Fire Department, fire crews found
Cynthia has suffering from burns on ninety percent of her

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body when they report responded to an explosion near her
backyard burn pit and Greenfield Drive about eight pm on Monday.
Taken to Westchester Hospital. An ambulance airlifted UC Medical Center
has to come to her burn injuries at the hospital
early Tuesday. According to the Hemlin County Corner's Office, incident
remains under investigation by the Deerfield Township Fire Department and

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the Warren County Sheriff's Office, as well as the State
Fire Marshall's Office. Preliminary findings determine this appears to be
a freak accident. Hes burned wood in the pit corner
to the Deerfield Township Fire Captain Patrick Strasburg, who stated
quoted as saying there's no evidence of any crime or
any other involvement with any other person or anything that
would have done harm so far. Investigators also do not

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believe it was a true explosion. Firepit located sixty feet
from the home nothing was damaged, so it wasn't there
like there was any debris afield or anything like that.
One of the neighbors told the Sheriff's office she was
burning something in the backyard near the fire pit when
he heard an explosion.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
His words.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
When he was on the road and saw a plume
of black smoke. Neighbor City ran to the home, Saul
large fire, jumped the fence, found the woman actively burning.
He immediately began trying to get the fire offer, burning
his hands in the process, and contacted nine to one
one and that neighbor did so for burns trying to
help the victim. He was treated to the scene, did
not need to go to the hospital. They ste tried

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investigators awaiting the test results. They tried to determine what's
going on here. So and it's reminded people should only
burn clean and drywood and never burn a trash. According
to fire captain, definitely do you not use any kind
of ignitable fluids to get it started. Pay attention to
what you're burning. If you have any questions, ask your
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Speaker 2 (25:02):
Very happy Wednesday to you.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
I do have a stack of stupid, but feel free
to call. You'd rather talk than hear the stack is
stupid five three seven four fifty hundred eight two three talk.
I've had people calling the six o'clock cards say I
held off because I wanted to hear the stack is stupid.
Fair enough, Let's get the most egregious offender out of
the way, right out of the gate.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
A Houston m balmer has surrendered to authorities after allegedly
cutting off a dead man's penis and placing it in
his mouth upon learning he was a registered sex offender.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Why are you doing that?

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Amber Laudermolk, thirty four, charged with felony abuse of a
corpse following the alleged incident February seventh, had Memorial Mortuary
after allegedly mutilating the Corps Loudermilk license tax Texas and
Balmer threatened other employees do not say anything about it.
Texas Funeral Service Commission immediately suspended her license Tuesday. They're
asking for anyone with information to contact them. Laudermilk surrendered

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the court, where her bond was set at five thousand dollars.
Incident investigated by a Constable Rosen Office, happened at Memorial
Mortuary and Crematory on Pine Street. Funeral director in charge
had a conversation on the phone with a family of
Charles Roy Rodriguez fifty eight. According to the investigators, Rodriguez
had been charged with a sexual assault and given deferred

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adjudication related to an instant involving a woman at a bar,
also required to register as a sex offender. They discussed
splitting rodriguez remains between the new spouse and his daughter
gross Soon after that phone call, an employee said they
witnessed Loudermilk cut off Rodriguez venus halfway and then stuff
it into his mouth.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
There's no flag for us.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Harris County Prettinct one Constable Alan Rosen said this. This
is a vicious, brutal attack of a corpse. When someone dies,
there is some dignity that should be left. It's kind
of a shocking event to me. Yeah, I would agree
with that. One of the employees, described as a trainee,
said he witnessed Laudermaul cut off the penis and twice
stab Rodriguez with a scalpel in his groin before telling

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her quote you didn't see anything close quote do what
the hell? Another place said they noticed the penis in
Rodriguez's mouth and Loudermow quickly covered the groin area with
the towel, claiming he had quote a lot going on
with him close quote okay, uh, let us see here

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we go to Dunlap, Tennessee, a woman who returned home
early from a trip allegedly found his wife in bed
with a barely eighteen year old boy, stabbed him to death,
then said he was quote worried about my relationship with
my wife due to the fact that I offend him
close quote what what is right? Oh, OFFI yeah, Joe,

(28:01):
you're right. It's still the five o'clock hour through the
fact that I offed him. So yeah, she killed a
boyfriend or he killed a boyfriend. Anyway, I apologize for that.
It does make a hell of a lot more sense. Joe.
There's only so much my brain can you really act
on as I read these articles. According to the criminal complain

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at tamed by the local news, forty one year old
Jonathan Belk returned home early from a trip to find
his thirty one year old wife in bed with the well,
I guess he just had a birthday. They say he's
a newly eighteen year old boy, which sent him into
a rage that led him to stab the boy to
death and stuff his body into a trash can. Police
said that when they arrived, Belk was quote standing in

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the doorway covered in blood. Beulk reportedly later admitted attacking
the teenager, and when asked if he was worried about
anything other than his legal issues, he said, well, I'm
worried about my relationship, my wife.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
The fact that I offed him.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Dulk's wife, also injured in the stabbing, taken to the hospital,
was his day wounds.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. I make it
off on a crime of passion, Joe.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
They they, well, it's not like premeditated murder. Anyway, We'll
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A happy Wednesday, Good morning to my wife who is
listening to me and that stack of stupid story about
the funeral home director. She's the one that texted me
had turned the cell phone volume down because I didn't
realize it was odd. Yes, honey, you're right, that was
particularly disgusting anyhow. York, Pennsylvania, a suspect who shot another

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woman also accidentally shot herself. Happened Monday. According to police,
the woman were arguing on West king Street when the suspect,
identified as a fifty three year old woman, went to
the vehicle went to her vehicle to get a gun.
She then shot the other woman. Please say thirty three
year old Autumn Reel shot in the shoulder. Somehow, the

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suspect then also shot herself in the hands. The paramedic
was assisting the woman who was hitting the shoulder, Autumn
Reel spit in the medic's face. She charged with aggravated
assaulting harassment Captain Dan Lenz of the York Police Department.
As soon as the victim was assaulted in the paramedic,

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they opened up a whole new case and she will
be charged with that. If I got shot in the shoulder,
the last thing I would want to do is spit
in the individual that is treating me.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
True. Two women apparently knew each other. Courting investigators.

Speaker 5 (33:13):
Reel's uncle, Charles Logan express thanks his niece was not killed, okay,
human interest element to the story. So far, police haven't
charged a woman who they say shot Reel. Reel still
hospitalize on Tuesday evening, according to Police dright, Megan Hall,

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your dog while wearing a uniform in blazon with a
Tennessee Department of Health insignia. According to The Daily Mail,
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workers at laverne At Police Department. The scandal broke back
in twenty twenty two. Internal investigation by officials found a
law enforcer had an ongoing affair with one of the

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department's sergeants. They also found out that Hall had once
engaged in a threesome with another officer and his wife,
while also getting involved with a Girls Gone Wild hot
tub themed party. Some of the sexual encounters took place
on the job and on police property. Details of the

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Hall's affairs emerged after Laverne Mayor Jason Cole was tipped
off by a guy named Patrick Maglikio co who confessed
to the encounter with Hall, which included his wife, triggering
the revelation of the series of other ROMs. Sergeant Lewis Powell,
Officer Juan Lugo, Sergeant Toy McGowan, and Detective Seneca Shields
lost their jobs, while the two others implicated in the

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flings with Hall, Mcglicio Guy and Larry Holliday were suspended
but kept their jobs During investigation. Hall flamed that Sergeant
Powell pestered asking Hall for sex despite her resisting her.
Lawsuits said eventually Ms Hall gave into Sergeant Powell's request
for sexual favors. She sued the city by the way

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that seems obvious from the statement there, these kind of
stories just blow my mind. Bells sued the City of Laverne,
It's mayor Jason Cole, LAPDHR director Andrew Patten, and former
police chief Chip Davis. Following these revelations, Hall licensed to

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work as a pharmacy tech in twenty eighteen before she
became a part of the police department.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
She has a future.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
Uh maybe this is something I heard media aviation expert
Jay Ratt. We'll talk about in Air India flight from
Chicago and New Delhi last ones, they forced to return
several hours into his journey after multiple bathrooms on the
plane were clogged with rags, clothes and plastic bags. Air
India flight A L one six five hours into which

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journeyman was forced to turn around a court of the
flight tracking website flight Aware crew were first notified as
some of the toilets we out of order and forty
five minutes into the flight. They later on determined that
eight of the twelve bathrooms were unserviceable, causing discomfort to
all on board. I imagine subsequent investments.

Speaker 7 (36:25):
What the hell?

Speaker 5 (36:26):
Subsequent investigation of the incident revealed that polythiline bags, rags
and clothes, among other items have been flushed down the
laboratories and stuck in the plumbing.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Why are you doing that? No idea. It was over
the Atlantic.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
When they had to turn around because the restrictions on
nightly operations at European airports. A decision was made to
return all the way to Chicago. They said this corner
of the spokesperson. The decision to divert was taken entirely
in the interest of passenger comfort and safety. Flightware data

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shows that the planes total ernie was roughly ten hours,
and that it turned around over Greenland once in Chicago.
Passages were plied to were provided with hotel, accommodations and
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Great day to betune in the Morning show if you
like hearing from Jack Aithen. We get the big Picture
from Jack either in every Wednesday at seven oh five,
So fast forward an hour for that subject matter today
with Jack how Art became woke. I'm really looking forward
to hearing how he describes that or explains that. So
it's always very interesting. The guy's brilliant and I'm a

(38:18):
blessed to have him on the Morning show, and I
hope you appreciate his just wonderful commentary as much as
I do. Two hours from now, eight oh five with
Congressman Massy, Yes, the loan hold out and the continuing
resolution on the Republican side, they had one Democrat vote
in favor of it, and it did pass. And it's
kind of the big story this morning because it's uh,
that was a two seventeen to two thirteen vote. Folks

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from pins and needles worrying about whether it would pass
or not if they had all the Republicans lockstep in
favor of it, because everyone knew ahead of time because
he said it a million times. But Thomas Massy was
not going to vote in favor of it, and he
delivered on his promise to vote no. Donald Trump Ofcourt
took to social media to condemn and lambass Massy and

(38:59):
all so called for Massa to be primary. Yes, we
will be talking about that with Coxsamassy this morning. So
the continued resolution, what's in it, what's not in it?
Why he voted no for it, and of course his
response to Donald Trump's tweet also talk about ending the
FED and the Safer Voter Act. At eight thirty, Judge
Annapolitana on his weekend in Moscow, interesting column about what

(39:22):
a wonderful time he had and sort of scratching his
head over why we don't get along with Russia better.
I share those kind of head scratching, but let's see
what he's got to say. At eight thirty together five one, three, seven,
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Multiple Maloma Awareness Month. Yesterday I talked with ohc Uh,
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lot about multiple maloma. Daniel Davis deep dive on the
Russia Ukraine situation. Of course, Ukraine has agreed to accept
a thirty day ceasefire. The United States has resume the AID.
Of course, can cutting the AID off an intelligence sharing
off was the lever that was needed to get Ukraine

(40:05):
to agree to this question mark, what's Russia going to do?
No one seems to know. I think their list of
demands actually would get longer as opposed to shorter. But
we'll find out together. Let's just hope there is an
end of this bloodshed. Inside scoop of bright Bart News,
Randy Clark on the situation of the border, which has
gotten dramatically better. He lives right there. It's just an

(40:29):
just You could hear it in his voice how optimistic
he was for the communities there that have been struggling
for the last four or five years with the open
borders policies under the Biden administration, and so the border
crossing has slowed down to a trickle. I've got other
news on that, maybe later this morning, and then a
great hour with Todd Zenzer, former Inspector General, who is
now what I would say is like the Elon Musk

(40:50):
or the city of Cincinnati, although with no power or
authority to get rid of fraud, waste, and abuse. He
certainly does explain it really well, along with the idea
that these non g NGOs that are out there with
their hands trying to get in the cookie jar, quite
often are given money from the city randomly and arbitrarily
selected by the mayor to receive funds, with the presumabed

(41:12):
idea that they're going to help the mayor and other
elected officials get re elected with boots on the ground
and of course campaign contributions. So it's just kind of
a small illustration on a really small level of presumably
what's going on with the federal government, most notably these
US Aid programs, you know, throwing out billions and billions
of dollars around the world, with a lot of it

(41:34):
probably staying in Washington and landing in the pockets of
various politicians. So in terms of work that's going on,
in pairing back the size and scope of the federal
bureaucracy which is going on in full steam ahead, and
of the Trump administration, note that in the Continuing Resolution
they have added another six billion dollars for veteran health care,

(41:55):
all right, So that's more money, not a cut, more money.
Also additional eight million dollars for defense spending, which I
honestly don't. I think there's a lot of fraud wasted
abuse in the defense spending. Since they get eight hundred
and fifty or so billion dollars annually, and since Doug
has when all this work and all these other departments,

(42:16):
let's get to the Defense department and find out where
all the money is going there as well. Maybe we
wouldn't even needed to add an additional eight million dollars
in defense dollars, and we just cut back on garbage
programs that we're funding through the defense or defense money.
But my rant for a different day. But in terms
of the VA, Doug Collins, VA secretary has just already

(42:36):
found nine hundred million dollars in waste. For people screaming about,
oh my god, that Trump's going to impact veterans' healthcare
and oh my god, what are they doing to the
American veteran they're doing They're helping them. Department of Veterans
Affairs has saved roughly nine hundred million dollars after only
looking at two percent of its contracts, according to VA

(42:59):
Secretary Doug Collins in an announcement. In terms of reducing
the number of VA employees, Colins said, this is say
you know, VA will always fulfil it to duty to
provide veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors of the healthcare that
benefits they have earned. That's a promise. And while we
conduct our review, the VA will continue to hire for

(43:19):
more than three hundred thousand mission critical positions to ensure
healthcare and benefits or VA beneficiaries are not impacted. There
are many people complaining about the changes we're making, the
VA said, but what were most of them are really
saying is let's just keep doing the same thing the
VA has always done. No, not going to happen. The

(43:40):
days of kicking the can down the road and measuring
VA's progress by how much money it spends and how
many people it employs rather than how many veterans it
helps are over. Here's one example. He went on to say,
we're conducting a comprehensive review of the VA's ninety thousand contracts,
which are worth more than sixty seven billion dollars. He

(44:04):
pointed out it after reviewing just two percent of these
veterans affairs contracts, they were able to cancel nearly six
hundred non mission critical or duplicative agreements that will save
the department roughly nine hundred million, just two percent. And
the point to be made as he made it, Just

(44:25):
imagine how much more we'll be able to save after
we review the rest of the VIA contracts. The money
we're saving by eliminating nondeplicative contracts is money we're going
to redirect to veterans facing healthcare, veteran facing healthcare benefits
and services, resulting in massive improvements in customer service and convenience.

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So if we regret anybody who loses their job, it's
extraordinarily difficult for me, especially as a VA leader and
your secretary, to make these types of decisions. But the
federal government does not exist to employ people. It exists
to serve people. Lo the VA, we are focused on
serving veterans better than ever before, and doing so requires
changing and improving the organization. And isn't that the point

(45:12):
of what's going on here? And you can move over
from veterans being served by the VA and all the
massive extra hiring and all the massive employment they've got
for areas that really don't help the American veteran. What
about the American taxpayer everywhere, all of the American tax players.
And every time, you know, Elon Musk pops his head
back up to point out that billions of dollars are

(45:34):
being thrown at stupid programs globally. That's money that is
not going to the American taxpayer or for the American
taxpayers benefit.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
It's saved.

Speaker 5 (45:43):
It's like the va A subset of the American population.
Don't we want efficiency in government?

Speaker 2 (45:51):
You know?

Speaker 5 (45:51):
And all this bleeding that's coming from all these employees
getting fired and people wailing and cashing their teeth about it,
it's not fair. It's not fair. Go back to what
he said. The federal government does not exist to merely
employ people. It's supposed to provide services for the American people.
And if the people employed are not doing that, or
they're doing services and things that really don't matter the

(46:12):
American people, then that stuff is supposed to be eliminated.
Your job would fire you if you were not critical
to the mission of your employer. It happens every day
everywhere in every type of business. I remember going through
many reorganizations in my prior company. You know, lots of

(46:33):
people got the acts. I didn't hear any articles written
or people wailing and gnashing teeth or crying over it,
except for the people that lost their job, but you know,
they probably landed on their feet. This bloated bureaucracy is
just killing us. And they haven't even gotten the Social Security, Medicare,
and Medicaid yet. And I know these are the three
the third rail of government, and oh my god, they're

(46:54):
gonna cut here and they're gonna cut there. You know,
I'm sure there's room for cuts in all those areas.
And in fact, Elon Musk came out the other day
that out with regard to Social Security, you know, the
mere fact that you've got tens of thousands of dead
people with active Social Security numbers is a concern, and
it should be a concern for the people that are

(47:14):
on Social Security or that are planning on relying on it.
Why would anyone have a problem with getting rid of
those people. It creates an opportunity for fraud. And I'm
not suggesting that any one of those people is actually
getting a check, although I'm sure they'll find that out.
But isn't that a great illustration of the employees that
the Social Security Administration not doing their job? A simple,

(47:37):
you know, the simple concept of reporting and reflecting that
the person has passed on and removing that number as
an active number into inactive status or whatever they do
to flip the switch. Isn't that a fundamental component of
what they should do in order to prevent fraud, waste,
and abuse. I would think yes, But wow, I mean

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I just look at the reactions on social media. You
think the world was coming to an end. No, we're
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Speaker 11 (49:57):
Happy hep day, My brother face, flag, FA Family and
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Speaker 2 (50:02):
You've got those.

Speaker 11 (50:03):
You always have freedom.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Yeah, that's a hell of around, Bobby. It sure is.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
One thing.

Speaker 11 (50:12):
I've got a question. We got six Olier guards from
Ukraine that are in Monte Carlo with nice, beautiful villas,
and I was wondering why they have those individuals and
the two hundred and sixty thousand temporary status individuals aren't
over there fighting in their own country.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
Yeah, okay, And you're free to wonder about that. And
I can wonder about it as well, because they're rich,
because they're rich oligarchs, Bobby, the poor, the poor fight
the wars, don't they. Isn't that always the case, the
poor fight the wars has like been in gazillion songs
written about that concept.

Speaker 11 (50:50):
Very true. My next question is this, in the last
twenty years, what has the Russians done against our country personally?

Speaker 2 (51:03):
I don't know. Nothing jumps out.

Speaker 11 (51:06):
There is nothing and I can think of and I
looked into it.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Yeah, except some.

Speaker 11 (51:11):
Fight stuff about you know Hillary clon Clinton's bowl craft
that she did, well, yeah, all the lies and everything.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
Well and okay, but we do it too, So I'll
preface my comment on that we're doing it for our
best interest presumably, but you know, hacking as well as
you know, spying and engaging that espionage type stuff. But
that is logical for any government to do to on
its own behalf or its own security interest. So I

(51:39):
can understand why they would engage in that activity except
for you know, malicious hacking, which I would do as
an active war that's coming from the Chinese Communist Party.
I don't know any specific illustration of Russia's Russian doing it.
But beyond that, which is normal course of business for governments,
I can't think of a thing. And that goes back
to my point, and why didn't we ever just sort
of try to normalize relations with Russia after the fall

(52:00):
of the Soviet Union rather than now demonized them as
if the Cold War was still existing.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
It just doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 11 (52:08):
I agree with you, my friend, it doesn't make any
sense at all.

Speaker 5 (52:11):
The evil boogieman, yeah, I think we always need one,
but sadly, right now we've got several out in the world.
You know, we have brought North Korea evil boogeyman, Iran
evil boogeyman, China obvious boogieyman, and of course Russia, at
least from the Democrat perspective, I think they've got a
Russian complex going on in their heads a Democrats do.
But we're gonna be talking about that coming up with

(52:33):
Judge of Paula Tano. He just got done spending a
weekend in Moscow and he wrote very favorably about the
people there and the leaders that he met with when
he sat down and talked with him, and we'll see
what he has to say about it. I think he's
kind of along our lines. Bobby, Bobby, great to hear
from you. Yeah, Faith Flag, family freedom in forty five
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Daniel Davis deep dive on Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine of
course agreed to a ceasefire yesterday for thirty days. Ball
is now in Vladimir Putin's court. What's he going to do?
I just thinking if I was a betting man, He's
list of demands is probably going to grow, But we'll
find out together. Randy Clark from Bright Barton News reporter
on the Southern border, he lives there, and he noticed

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that he's seen and has appreciated fully the massive reduction
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Speaker 2 (57:05):
Out there over the local stories.

Speaker 5 (57:08):
Let us see here one it didn't get to yet
this morning alexand Alexandria City councilman this is Kentucky, of course,
charged with domestic violence in January, now facing a second
accusation of physically assaulting his wife. Police records obtained by
WCPO channel nine locally here outlined both incidents involving the
city councilman. First she had this January thirty first incident.
Police records obtained by WCPS. The officers were called the

(57:30):
Shane Collins home late evening January thirty first for reports
of an active physical disturbance. Report reflects Collin's wife told
officers the fight was between her and Collins. She told
officers she caught Collins cheating over the phone, which started
an argument. She told officers the argument escalated and Collins
grabbed her shirt and ripped her to the ground. Officer

(57:52):
wrote in the report he noticed red marks near her throat,
which the woman said, we're from Collins. She told officers
Collins never wrapped his hands around her throat, though Collins
little officers he never hit his wife or grabbed her shirt,
and said the marks and ripped shirt were probably from
his two year old son. His wife, however, said the
son had been sleeping since seven pm. Counsman also told

(58:13):
officers she was probably doing this because she was trying
to get a divorce. Wife told officers Collins had a
history of being abusive and it wasn't the one time thing.
February twenty eighth, Collins allegedly broke that a no contact
order that was put in place previously. Officers once again
called to the home that day for an active physical
domestic situation. Wife said to the officer she and Collins

(58:34):
had an argument but didn't get physical. Collins had already
left the scene by the time they showed up. Her son,
who witnessed the incident, had called nine to one one,
told officers Collins shoved his mother to the ground. Collins's
wife didn't want to press charges, but told officers he
was not welcome back. Campbell kind of judge ordered Collins
to find another place to stay while this case is active.

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As the last week, court officials say they had not
been able to contact Collins about the case. Shan Collins,
recently elected member of city council, appear in his first
Council meeting January sixteenth, then he was appointed chair of
the city's Safety Committee. That was the only meeting Collins
has appeared since he was elected. Special meeting has been
called for Wednesday in March twelfth, seven pm.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Yeah. On the agenda and.

Speaker 5 (59:19):
Executive Session listed quote for discussions which might lead to
the appointment, discipline, or dismissal of an individual employee. H
Fox w CBO says it's not clear if that discussion
is about Collins. Okay, well, I'm going to draw a
different conclusion. I think it seems logical that it is.

(59:40):
Let us see here. Lei denk Locker has been ported
to Megan Shanahan's seat. Mike Dwine announced this yesterday. Lead
dank Licker the last name sounds familiar to you. Yes,
she's thirty eight. She's the daughter of longtime Hamilton County
highly respected and great guy, Judge Patrick denke Locker. Thirty
eight year old lead Denklockcker will fill the Common Police

(01:00:01):
Court seat vacated by Megan Shanahan after she got elected
the IUF of Supreme Court last November. She has served
as an assistant prosecutor for the county since twenty twelve
and previously was a constable for two judge. Currently Assistant
chief of the Hamilton County Prosecutors' Office's Juvenile Division, she'll
serve the remainder of Shanahan's term and have to run
for reelection or election rather in twenty twenty six. Earned

(01:00:22):
her law degree in twenty eleven from Northern Kentucky University
Chase College of Law. And I read that I remember
when I got my law degree. Makes me feel old,
which I guess comparatively a dink locker who's thirty eight,
I am six, thirty five fifty five. Kirsteve talks station.
More to talk about coming up. I hope you can

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stick around or call line on phone calls this morning.
I guess people don't have anything to talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:00:48):
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Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
Six thirty nine I fifty five KRCD talk station, Happy
Wednesday to you. I've observed many times over the years
that consider most politicians malignant narcissists. They think think highly
of themselves. They're better than you and me, and that's
why they want to make our decisions for us. And
an illustration of this, just moving away from the doge work,
it's alimining fraud, waste and abuse and idea of quite

(01:03:10):
a few other illustrations that I just had to get
this out of my system because I saw this article
on Breitbart. Gavin Newsom. We all know Governor Gavin Newsom
slick guy.

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
He is.

Speaker 5 (01:03:20):
He wants to be president of the United States of America,
and they report he secretly paid for his own bust
inside San Francisco City Hall. He had a bronze sculpture
funded by himself made to place in city Hall. Now
initially feigned ignorance about the identity of the private donors

(01:03:41):
who funded the bus, but it has been revealed in
this book that came out fools goal, the radicals, con
honorists and traders who killed the Californian dream and now
threaten us all. Susan Crabtree and Jed mc mcpatter authors.
The analysis of Newsom's Behested payments reveals of between twenty
fifteen and twenty sixteen, three private organizations each donated to

(01:04:01):
a nonprofit called Community Initiatives. Two of the payments came
from companies that Newsom owns, Balboa Cafe Partners and plump
Jack Management Group. Newsom's companies specifically earmarked these behested payments
for quote Meyrill bust at San Francisco City Hall close
quote how much do you have to think of yourself

(01:04:26):
to pay with your own money have a bronze bust
made for public display, as if the public wanted this,
and he thought he was so worthy and such an
awesome guy that he deserved a bronze bust on display
at San Francisco City Hall. I just find that just
disgusting anyway, sounds like a typical action of a politician

(01:04:50):
to me. Back over the Doge Elon Musk Department of
Government Efficiency. What else are they doing? Case I mentioned
these the Social Security system and why haven't they deleted
all of those numbers that we know have to be
dead people? Someone should have done that. It seems like
a logical extension of the job of the Social Security
for the benefit of recipients to try to keep the

(01:05:11):
program in place as long as possible, rather than allowing
to be the subject of fraud, waste and abuse. Another area,
why didn't they shut off the old credit cards?

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Well they have been now.

Speaker 5 (01:05:20):
DOGE announced yes or Monday this week that more than
two hundred thousand credit cards connected to sixteen federal agencies
were now deactivated after an auto revealed they were either
unused or unneeded. So first off you see that they're
unused or unneeded, but yet they're active. Were they used

(01:05:45):
for unnecessary or perhaps illegal payments? I don't know. It
doesn't matter. The opportunity for fraud, wasting abuse is there,
and usually there are people out in the world that
are ready to take up the idea of the fraud
and the government if they get an opportunity. So he
got rid of them. Department noted as a reminder, at
the start of the audit there were four point six

(01:06:08):
million active cards and accounts, so there's still more work
to do. Court to announcement, there appears to never have
been a manager or HR person who audited in anything
or closed anything out. I am in disbelief of how
very little functioned well. One person noted, news comes as

(01:06:28):
does works to cut wasteful government spending, government spending that
is not helping the American people. The agencies which have
credit cards canceled the General Service Administration Officer, Personnel Management,
Labor Department, Small Business Administration, Education Department.

Speaker 4 (01:06:40):
Which also is being subject to cuts itself.

Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
Interior Department, Treasure Department, Commerce Department, Environmental Protection Agency, A Department, NASA,
Department of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Social Security Department,
and Department Housing and erman Development. Interior Department had the
largest number of credit card terminations. Nearly twenty thousand purchase
cards Nearly forty thousand travel cards were canceled from the

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Interior Department alone, HHS coming into number two with forty
three thousand, seven hundred travel cards and two two hundred
and thirty five purchase cards canceled. Bride part reporting. Department
of Defense Inspector General report last month found five hundred
thousand transactions made at casinos, mobile app stores, bars, nightclubs,

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and major sporting events including the Super Bowl. How many
out my listening audience had the money, time, ability, and
access to Super Bowl tickets? Apparently over the department events
they did another three point nine million transactions and totally
one point two billion dollars were not even reviewed by

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supervisors according to the Inspector General's findings, and overall, Elon
Musk DOGE uncovered more and four million government credit cards
responsible for ninety million transactions. According to DOGE calculations, it
is saved taxpayers one hundred and five billion dollars so
far in their cuts to the fraud, waste and abuse

(01:08:15):
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a ton of additional work to do. Six forty five
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Speaker 7 (01:09:18):
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Speaker 5 (01:09:21):
To which Donald Trump tweeted about him wanting someone the
primary Thomas Massey for voting no on the Continuing Resolution.
He did vote no, so we'll talk about that, and
we'll talk about Trump's tweet. We'll talk about ending the
FED as well as Safer Voter Act. And I love
having Congressman massy On in advance of Judge Nitta Politano
great one two punts. That is Judgment Polatano at eight
thirty my weekend in Moscow, subject matter of his column,

(01:09:43):
talking about the time he spent in Moscow and what
a good time he had to apparently, let us see
here over to additional cuts not related to DOGE cuts,
but related to Donald Trump's Donald Trump's campaign promise and
pledge he ran on this at least in part fulfilling
the promise. Secretary of Education lininic Mann said her agency

(01:10:04):
is now well eliminating about half the workforce. Department of
Education announced it's cutting nearly half of the workforce. Impact
of Department staff are going to be placed on administrative
leave beginning Friday. A memo out yesterday informing the Education Apartment.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
I apologize.

Speaker 5 (01:10:22):
Telling the Education Department the offices be closed last evening
all the way through Wednesday due to security reasons, full lockdown.
Employees instructed to leave the office by six pm yesterday.
Education Secondary lineinc Man said in the statement, today's reduction
enforced reflects the Apartment of Education's commitment to efficiency, accountability,
and ensuring that resources are directed where they matter. Students,

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parents and teachers calling the move a significant step toward
restorting the greatness of the American education system, which it's not.
I mean, the statistics on reading and writing and mathematics
in our country are horrific. If you think tinkering with
the Education Department is some I'm kind of going to
have a negative impact on our children's learning. I'd like

(01:11:06):
you to explain how it is that you can defend
Department of Education to the extent they control the learning issues,
and I think to a degree they do because of
the money that flows out of the Apartment of Education,
which money is is not going to stop flowing. This
is merely to increase the efficiency and reduce the unnecessary
staff there. Trump is also expected to sign an executive

(01:11:29):
order instructing McMahon to look for ways to actually dismantle
Department of Education, but it's noted that that likely can't
eliminate it without a congressional act since a congressional act
established the department. Two thousand remaining staff members reportedly will
make sure outward facing programs like grants and appropriations from
Congress are still being met and handled appropriately. So you

(01:11:52):
on the you know, on the receiving end of whatever
it is they do, aren't going to notice any change.
We're just not going to have a two thousand additional
employees on the public on the federal taxpayer dollar. President
of the American Federation of Teachers, Randy Winingarden, of course
not happy about this, and I don't really quite get this,

(01:12:16):
she said over the weekend. Staffing down the Education Department
is a disaster symbolically as much as a disaster in reality. Quote,
the federal government does not control education. The states do,
the local school boards do. This is about opportunity. This
is why so many people are so mad about it,

(01:12:37):
because they're just taking opportunity away from kids who don't
have it. Huh, Well, if he grants and appropriation is
going to continue to flow, there's the money that parts
of managed. And if the Apartment of Education doesn't control education,
it's managed by local school board, then what the hell

(01:12:59):
is she talking about? What is this opportunity that our
children will be deprived of? In responding to that nonsense,
the Secretary Apartment of Education linmic Man. So the President
never said that he's taking the bureaucracy out of education
so that more money flows to the states. Better education

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is closest to the kids with parents, with local superintendents,
with local school boards. I think we'll see our scores
go up with our students when we can educate them
with parental input as well. Agreed, Do you allow me
to quickly pivot over to something where parents are not
allowed to participate? Go to Maryland. Trump Justice Department siding

(01:13:49):
with parents at the Supreme Court challenging Maryland Public School's
decision to mandate LGBTQ friendly books to children in elementary schools.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris said Montgomery County Board of
Education's decision to not allow parents to opt their children

(01:14:09):
out of certain reading materials interferes with the First Amendment,
rights under the and freedom of religion. The books regarding
in this conflict we gate two gender transitioning pride parades
and other LGBTQ issues. One of them, a book titled
Pride Puppy, tells preschool age pupils to find images related
to drag, queen, intersex, flag, leather, and underwear, each of

(01:14:36):
those in quotes, as well as the name of a
celebrated LGBTQ activist and sex worker. This is for K
through six education, folks, and your parents are not allowed
to take you out of it. That's an edict and
mandate from the local school board. Yeah, it's controlled on

(01:14:57):
a local level, and you'd think the local folks in
Marria one might stand up to this. There's been a
legal challenge by people in multiple of multiple different faiths
challenging this edic. Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish families argue
their school board was infringing on their free exercise of
religion since there's no option to get their children out
of this. Story time, that's outrageous. Fifty six fifty five

(01:15:24):
KR City Talks Station Big Picture with Jack Evidan after
the news hope you can stick around.

Speaker 8 (01:15:29):
Covering Trump's first one hundred days.

Speaker 4 (01:15:32):
Every day we stand on the verge of the four
greatest years in American history.

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
Fifty five KRC D Talk Station, seven oh five hal
fifty five kr C DE talk station. If you're having
a happy Wednesday, good kind of you, tune into the

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fifty five krc Morning Show. Nition to the show we
started quite a few weeks ago, and I certainly have
some one more thing to look forward to on a Wednesday,
beyond jud Jennena, Paulitano, and of course today Congressman Thomas Massey.
It is that time of week where we get the
big picture with our dear friend Jack Atherton, anchorman, lawyer, author, historian,
and all around the intellectually wonderful man.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Good to have you back on Jack.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
Thanks brother, there's always great to be back. Every week
we've been discussing Donald Trump's middle class revolution, from border
security to Doge, protecting children, Ukraine, Israel, tariffs, taxes, energy,
eggs which we can finally afford. Setting side up, and

(01:16:42):
this is just the first seven weeks. How do you
take your eggs, Brian?

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
I like mine fried over easy.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
Under Biden, I took my eggs seldom, So how about
talking today. I'm not a different side of Donald Trump.
Trump the patron of the arts, not because he dances
to YMCA. It's because by cutting woke government, Trump may
be inaugurating a cultural golden age. Authoritarian regimes demand art

(01:17:17):
in their own image. Stalin had so called Soviet realism,
tried turning musical geniuses into hacks. Hitler, who was himself
a hack post guard painter, outlawed Jewish artists and other
quote degenerates. Until last November. The greatest hack artist in
our country, patronized by those seeking favors from the last regime, was,

(01:17:40):
of course Hunter Biden. Hunter can't get over the fact
that sales of his paintings at Picasso prices have dried up.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
Shocking.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
Leftists have been promoting woke artists for decades. Folks around
here still remember the nineteen eighty seven four by Andre
Serrano showing a crucifix submerged in urine. It was called
if you recall, everyone say it with me so I
don't have to say it by myself, piss Christ, and

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that abomination received taxpayer funding from the National Endowment for
the Arts. If someone produce so called art that insulted
traditional values. Chances were the FEDS would pay for it.
But Brian, our cultural crisis has deeper roots. We call
this segment the big picture. So let's take one of

(01:18:36):
our quick looks at a thousand years of history, in
this case art history. How did art become woke? In
the early Christian era, the church used art to tell
Bible stories to people who otherwise would never have heard them.
Services were all in Latin, which almost nobody understood. A

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priest and the Bible, yeah, the Bible of Night been
translated into your own language. So you would go to
a great cathedral like chart in France and see the
Nativity through the Resurrection carved in stone. At another church,
San Chapelle in Paris. Old Testament stories went all the
way back to creation. They depicted in magnificent stained glass

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windows everything that you needed to know. Art was meant
to communicate a shared truth. Things got a little diceier
during the Renaissance, the so called rebirth of reason rather
than revelation. Scholars and many artists survived the saying from
ancient Greece, man is the measure of all things? Leonardo

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da Vinci dealt into science. Michelangelo carved and painted human
bodily perfection until the Renaissance led the way to Romanticism
as the era we're still living through truth now sprang
from individual feelings, and while some artists celebrated universal sentiments
I'm thinking of Dutch scenes of family life or British

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pictures extolling the beauty of nature, other more alienated artists
got lost in their own souls. The philosopher Nietzsche spoke
for many artists when he pronounced God is dead. This
led to nihilism, nothingism, absurdity, and a refusal to even
try to communicate to a wide public. For instance, the

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Russian artist Malevich in nineteen eighteen, the middle of the
First World War, painted a white square on a white
canvas and called it white on white Hey. He wasn't
great with titles soon, but his idea was that the
supremacy of individual feeling makes representation of objects or anything

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in the world irrelevant. Around the same time of French
artists to move to America, Marcel Duchamp displayed a urinal
a bathroom urinal in an art gallery and called it fountain.
Urine seems to be our themous boy. Dusham's idea was
that art can be whatever the hell you choose it

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to be. Art that does communicate to a wide audience
is now mostly confined to animation in movies and videos,
and a lot of it is beautiful, but let's face it,
friends pretty juvenile. It keeps our cultures stuck in a
state of arrested adolescence. And yet, and yet, Brian, I'm optimistic.

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I believe the growing youth movement we're now living through.
Look at the youth vote in the last election that
returned to American values, including individual rights and responsibilities that
resist big government, as well as family formation and even
religious devotion. They're all coming back. I believe these values

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will be reflected in a rebirth of art, all the arts.
And one way to speed this along is to learn
from the past and build on it. That's what makes
us human, building on the past to make a better future.
So my advice, take the whole family and visit an
art museum here in Cincinnati, we have three of the best,

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and then support someone who is making a new masterpiece,
one that inspires uplifts and brings us together instead of
isolating us. This Saturday, if I may mention, at one pm,
I once again am seeing the Overture Awards at the
Aeronauf Center. Hundreds of high schoolers from all over the

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region competed to get into these finals and win scholarships.
They'll sing and play instruments, dance, act, read their own poetry,
show their own artwork. Tickets are ten or fifteen dollars.
It's a bargain for the best show in town. Was
putting the Overture Awards details on your website. If you come,

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please come and say hello to me and applaud a
bright future.

Speaker 5 (01:23:09):
Yeah, it's interesting about art. You know, you go back
to the times you spoke of and and and when
people were frankly illiterate. They certainly didn't speak Latin. So
I it always cracked me out that they did the
Mass in Latin that no one knew it. Yeah, okay,
that's fine, but yeah, you had the stained glass surrounding you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
You could see, you know, the.

Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
Stations of the cross or whatever else they wanted to
de pick so that we conveyed the message art. He
was used to convey the message that people didn't have.
But also people were illiterate, and I know that many
in power were concerned about the printing press, you know,
creating wide availability of print to the masses, because that
might undermine you know, their control over print as well.

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But you know, you when you mentioned that an obnoxious
crucifix in a glass of urine funded by taxpayer dollars,
that's where the laws of economics come in. You know,
without us paying for it, it probably wouldn't have been done.
The guy wouldn't have made any money off of it
because it's offensive and probably not something someone would have
in their living room or on display in their home.

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There is no demand for that, and there in lies
the challenge for artists to create something that people actually
would like to purchase so they can at least have
an earn a living and enjoy the benefits of the
art for their own financial benefit. And that's the real
challenge when it comes to art. There has to be
a demand for it, absolutely right, Yeah, I mean in
the early I mean just looking at the Western civilization.

(01:24:31):
Of course, we could talk about ancient civilization, which was different,
but you know, you started with the church as patron
then aristocrats. Then when capitalism got going, you had middle
class art that was being produced. The most obvious was
in the Netherlands. Actually because of Protestantism, they weren't allowed
to the artists weren't allowed to produce religious images anymore,

(01:24:55):
so they started doing these these domestic pictures, portraits, that
sort of thing. Very much determined by economics. But when
you have the government coming in, you woke economy and
they determine what's going to be produced. That's with the
high art as they say it's being produced. Everything is
completely upended. Yeah, and the other guy, I went to

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see an exhibit with the girl I was going out
with in college. It was a Franz Klient exhibit at
the Art Museum. And the Art Museum is a wonderful place.
I mean, it's just some absolutely stunning, stunning works there.
So I'm a big fan of the Art Museum. And
in fact, Christmas Mass is my wife and i favorite picture.
It's a depiction of the church up in Mount Adams
in the middle of winter time and it's got that

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milky coating over it. It's just really beautiful, beautiful. We
go to the Art Museum every year around Christmas time
just to see that. We walk in, we walk directly
to it, we stand there and look at it for
like fifteen or twenty minutes, reflect on it. It's just
such a moving piece, and then we turn around.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
We walked back.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
Well, you know our art museum. I mentioned this to
people who haven't been there recently. On the ground floor,
they have rooms that are devoted to Cincinnati artists. And
we had fabulous artists, Duvenik and twalked a minute, all
terrific people. And you can see what life was like
in Cincinnati at the turn of the last century. And

(01:26:15):
it's wonderful and it's sometimes heartbreaking because sometimes anyway we
can bring it back and we will.

Speaker 5 (01:26:21):
Yeah, indeed, and it's actually I think it's Midnight Mass,
not Christmas Mass. But I went going back to the
Franz Clime comment. Anyway, I went there with this girl
who was very into art and Franz Climb dying a
pauper because no one bought his stuff, and it was
it's pretty minimalist. It's like a paintbrush, black line, vertical
and just look at you and think, Okay, this took
what like five minutes to make, and it's you know,

(01:26:43):
the art is totally subjective, though someone might be screaming
at the radio. Now all Frans Climb was a genius. Fine,
it didn't help him out financially when he was turning
out these works of quote unquote art. Anyhow, it's a
nice thing. We have it, and it's a nice thing
actually like Frant's Climb. And Aimsley is looking at me
because this is an amazing coincidence. Our daughter Chase, who

(01:27:06):
now lives in New York City, went to a costume
party for modern Art and she wore a dress that
she fashioned herself that looked like a Franz Climb painting.
It was white and it had these enormous black brushstrokes
going horizontally, if you know, Franz client was really amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
And so yeah, that's great. See I.

Speaker 4 (01:27:28):
Likes that.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
And she chose the dress. It wasn't funded by the government.

Speaker 5 (01:27:33):
Exclamation point. See market forces at work. Everybody's subjectivity can
be enjoyed. And thank God, like your Norwegian common I
think it was that you couldn't do religious works. I
mean you imagine being told that you're not allowed to
produce something even though you'd like to, you know, to
create something of artistic value least from your perspective, and

(01:27:53):
get away with it. And not have someone tell you
you can't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:56):
So I actually, Brian, just to correct the record, that
wasn't because government told you not to. Many Protestant sects
of your Catholic of course, but many Protestants.

Speaker 2 (01:28:07):
No, I'm not in images. I'm not Catholic Bible.

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
We had a dear friend who left his church because
they wanted to show that famous image of Christ's hands,
and he felt that that was against biblical structures as
Protestants understand it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:21):
Ah, kind of along the lines of Muslim paith not
being able to detect Mohammed okay too. Yeah, And Jeeves
Jack Aden in brilliant historical coverage of art and woke art.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
God, I love you having you on the program. Jack.

Speaker 5 (01:28:33):
I'll look forward to another conversation next Wednesday. At this time,
have a wonderful week and a nod to your beautiful
Wifely and I accept her appreciation of Fran's client.

Speaker 4 (01:28:43):
No problem with that.

Speaker 8 (01:28:44):
He's not into you.

Speaker 5 (01:28:45):
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tomorrow for the high partly cloudy then late late late
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Then we get to Thursday evening, it's overnight low forty eight.

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It'll stay dry though, and the eclipses at three o'clock
in the morning, so it's either going to be partly
cloudy at mostly clear skies. Fridays the day I was
thinking about with the storms very late in the day,
but most likely on Saturday beyond that, partly cloudy Friday
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Fifty five Krcity talk Station, Happy Wednesday to you. You
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on AT and T phones. And you know, further the
whole conversation about art generally speaking of course, music also subjective.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
And you know, I I I think.

Speaker 5 (01:30:31):
Bernie Sanders maybe oblivious to what went on at his
event the other day. This this, this, this, I don't know,
anti capitalism, you know, left wing socialism, speaking engagements. He's
been going around connecting these meetings and gatherings of people
and in opposition obviously to Donald Trump and everything else
Donald Trump stands about stands for. He had this Laura

(01:30:54):
Jane Grace person performing on stage described as some form
of a punk artist. But you know art just trans
punk artist. Joe reminded me, Yeah, if you saw this person,
you know it's one of those Oh my god, but hey,
that's the circus side show of life right there.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
You don't have to look like that.

Speaker 5 (01:31:14):
But you know, you either choose to reject it or
just enjoy the entertainment as people like that walk by
you tattooed heavily and looking very very very unusual, but
sung this song that I can't even make FCC compliant,
and it is such an offense to folks that are
religious minded. It's just just absolute filled with profanities, but

(01:31:38):
basically conveying a message that God is an evil entity
and so horrific. The lyrics are that no rationally thinking
human being would say thank you very much and you know,
wonderful job or whatever it was that Bernie Sanders uttered,
but he didn't utter this person's name out loud. Thank you,

(01:31:58):
Laura Jane Grace. You know, it's like, really, thank you
for that. And I can't imagine. And you know, I've
listened to some pretty offensive songs in my life. Jo
just Tracker a huge cannibal corpse fan, right, Joe. But
that this would have been offered as a musical entertainment
act in the first instance is beyond my understanding. And

(01:32:23):
I'm certain there are other transgender artists out there that
might have been able to sing, dance, or otherwise perform
for the audience there that wouldn't engage in this outrageously
horrific insult to people of faith. And you know, I'm
not Bernie Sanders pr person, but you know, any rationally

(01:32:45):
thinking person would think, you know, this is probably not
a good idea of all the thousands, tens of thousands
of opportunities that people would love to have to be
on the stage there to you know, promote their act
or otherwise perform for people. You picked this one one
to come on and hurl these this, this, this constant,

(01:33:06):
lengthy stream of profanities at the audience, and then for
Bernie Sanders to be so oblivious of what was just
said they would come on and specifically thank him. You
want to look up the lyrics, you know, knock yourself out.
Just look up your God. I can't I can't say
out loud on the radio, the alternative name for the
song You're God by Laura Jane Grace. See how horrific

(01:33:30):
it is, and see if you don't draw the same conclusions.
You know, Beauty's in the eye of the holder. Arts
in the eye of the holder is the same thing
as music. But just the point being, you know, it
might have been a smarter idea not to have Laura
on the stage screaming this kind of this, these kind
of profanities at people and insulting maybe many people in
the crowd who, in spite of the fact that their
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Thirty one pp on KRCD talk station. Happy Wednesday, get
into local stories the University of Cincinnati. Thank you Daniel
Goodman and Dejah Gross from WCPO reporting. Apparently, University of
Cincinnati one of among sixty diversities here that have been

(01:36:02):
sent a letter from the US Department of Education Office
for Civil Rights warning the school is at risk of,
in their words, potential enforcement actions if they do not
fulfill their obligations in their Title six of the Civil
Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus. That letters
sent to all universities that are presently under investigation for
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according to news release from the Office for Civil Rights.
Title six, for its part, prohibits any institution receiving federal
funds from discriminating based on race, color, and religious national origin.
National origin includes shared Jewish ancestry. Secretary Education Secretary of
Education Linna McMahon, The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish

(01:36:48):
students studying on elite US campuses continue to fear for
their safety amid the relentless anti Semitic eruptions that a
severely disrupted campus life for more than a year. University
leaders must do better. College and the universities benefit from
enormous public investments funded by US taxpayers. That support is
a privilege and its contingent on scrupulous adherents to federal

(01:37:08):
anti discrimination laws. And boy, are we learning a heapload
about how much money the federal government sends off to
these elite universities, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars
going to some individual institutions. Since the Jewish Community Relations
Council releases statement after that went out to UC, the

(01:37:29):
US Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights finding regarding
allegations of harassment discrimination against Jewish students at the University
of Cincinnati highlight the urgent need to address anti Semitism
on campus. As the public affairs arm of the Jewish
Federation of Cincinnati, Jewish Community Relations Council has been aware
of many of these incidents and is protected for that
proactively rather engaged with UC to express our concerns and

(01:37:52):
advocate for change. We're encouraged by the university's commitment to
addressing these issues through the Resolution Agreement, which represents an
important step towards fostering a more inclusive and safer campus environment.
JCRC remains dedicated to work in collaborative with collaboratively with
UC to ensure sustained progress and no students should ever
feel unsafe due to their religious, cultural, or racial identity,

(01:38:14):
amen to that. University, Ohio State University in Indiana University
Bloomington also among the schools that were listed in recipients
of a similar letter. That's just sure a shame. Let's
just outright anti semitism. It's just racism, basically, it's in
a different form. You know, Jewish people are a race
as well as sometimes a religion. You know, I have

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many Jewish friends, and I think most of my friends
who are Jewish are not practicing Jews of faith, so
they don't show up at synagogue, but they are still
Jewish anyhow. And congratulations Lead denk Locker. She was appointed
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She's thirty eight and she is the daughter of longtime
Hamilton County Judge Patrick Denkelocker, who is a terrific, terrific judge.
Hopefully she will fill her father's shoes at least along
the lines of our ability to be a great jurist.
Thirty eight years old, she gets Megan Shanahan's seat, who

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is elected of the High Supreme Court this past November.
She'll have to run for election in twenty twenty six
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Speaker 5 (01:41:52):
At seven forty to fifty five kerr CEE the talk
station to figure out which some wanted to go and
why not go here? Jack Adathan brought it up. Price
eggs already coming down, which is rather interesting. I didn't
think it could happen that quickly, but based upon the
Trump's actions, the Agricultural Secretary Brook Rawlins telling reporters yesterday morning,

(01:42:14):
egg prices have dropped by nearly two bucks after the
bio Safety strategy to strategy to combat H five and
one bird flu was sent out to the poulstry and
poultry industry last month, Rowlins announced that a partner of
Agriculture would spend a billion dollars to low egg prices
and curb the spread of bird flu, also importing up

(01:42:35):
to one hundred million eggs from foreign markets. Don't know
if that's happened.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
Yet, but.

Speaker 5 (01:42:40):
Yeah, I think I don't know if there's a tariff
on those, Joe, that's a legitimate question. Terrorists kicked in
on the aluminum steel last night at midnight or this
morning whatever, anyway. Rowlins plan included subsidizing biosecurity measures for
poultry farms and continuing research on the efficacy of preventative
vaccines for poultry. I know that's a huge red flag

(01:43:02):
for quite a few of my listening audience, wondering whether
that's a good idea to vaccinate all of the chickens
if a new vaccine comes out. Anyway, speaking with reporters yesterday,
Roland said, we're more focused on how we bring the
egg prices down, and the avian bird flew for everyone.
A good piece of news we just got last day
or two is the average cost of a dozen eggs

(01:43:23):
has gone down one dollar and eighty five cents since
we now start a plan about a week and a
half ago. I also found that surprising that what happened
that quickly. I doubt the plan has been fully implemented.
I guess the farmers are considering, well, if we're going
to get federal government help with these biosecurity measures and
we don't have to slaughter all of our chickens, maybe
that's like a sign of, you know, good positive things

(01:43:45):
coming down the road. Anyway, they say an average price
of a dozen large white eggs fell to six dollars
and eight cents as of yesterday. This is according to
the USDA, not according to Donald Trump. So USDA figures
prices eclipsed eight dollars at the beginning of the month,
So that's a lot more than we pay. I think

(01:44:06):
our price the brown eggs that we buy over at
Kruger during our weekly Kroger trip takes like four dollars
and fifty to just under five dollars a dozen, so
I know there are cheaper prices out there, but again,
this is a national average, and they're like north of
thirteen in some states. USDA report published in February found

(01:44:27):
that egg price is increased by approximately fifty three percent
since January twenty four. Price eggs increase nearly fourteen percent
from December to January, on top of an eight percent
increase from November to December. So positive news at least
that might dent or take a chunk out of your
grocery bill or maybe have you going back to eating eggs.

(01:44:48):
And hopefully there's more improvement on that as we reach
as we get out on the road. But brace yourself,
and I don't know that I'm a huge fan of
the tariffs. So teariffs on stealing alumin producers twenty five
percent on all imports of the metal and extends the
duties to hundreds of downstream products made from the metals,

(01:45:10):
everything from nuts and bolts to bulldozer blades and soda cans.
We're going to be eating this, and this is one
thing that's got me concerned. I think we can take
great joy and pleasure at Donald Trump and Elon Musk
all trying to save us money and reducing the fraud,
waste and abuse in government, cutting the side and the
scope of government out. This is all salaries and things

(01:45:31):
that we have to pay on the taxpayer dollar. And
we do have a spending problem in this country. It's
not a well oiled machine. It's not business. Government is
not run like business. I think every single one of
us in private sector of faced firings, we faced layoffs,
may ourselves have been fired or laid off because well,
the business didn't need us. And there's no crying over

(01:45:51):
lost jobs out there, unless, of course it's government jobs.
But one thing that we have to worry about is
that inflation will kick in by governments with a great
argument to have them get re elected. Now, not that
they can offer any solution, but when you increase the
price of goods coming into the country, we are all
going to have to pay for it, and I understand,

(01:46:13):
you know, reciprocal tariffs. Those make sense to me because
if someone slapping a tariff apparently like South Korea or
something that, no, it's Canada that has really like triple
digit tariffs on our dairy products.

Speaker 8 (01:46:26):
Well why.

Speaker 2 (01:46:29):
I understand, even in.

Speaker 5 (01:46:30):
The playing field, and that's one of the reasons why
you might want to put a tariff on something. But
these tariffs, that is twenty five percent on steel and aluminum,
were designed to get the Canadian government to deal with
the border and the fentanyl flow. And how many administrations
in a row here in the United States have been
trying to get a handle on the drugs coming across
the border. And it's different kind of drugs depending on

(01:46:52):
which period in history you're looking at. And I know Mexico,
you know, coddles and caters to the cartels and allows
them to engage in their criminal enterprises and doesn't look
the finger to stop it. And you can ask Mexico
to stop that, and this administration has and one of
the reasons their incentives for them doing that is because
we're slapping a tariff on them. But how far do
they have to go and how much work do they

(01:47:14):
need to do in order to justify the removal of
the tariff. I'm not quite sure how you gauge that.
So anyway, they do have me trouble these tariffs, and
I think it is one of the very few threats

(01:47:34):
before we get to midterm elections that the Republican Party
is going to face, because, let's face it, Donald Trump
promised and pledged he would reduce inflation, and this is
the antithesis of inflation reduction. Actually, all economists, most everyone,
and man that Wall Street journal is really all over
Trump about these tariffs, one paper most notably. But I

(01:47:57):
don't think it's going to help the situation at all.
And that's what's me concerned. Democrats need something to run on,
and this may be the one issue they can seven
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Speaker 5 (01:50:19):
It is seven fifty fifty one after the top of
our news. Congressman Thomas Massey, who did vote knowing the
Continuing Resolutions, he said he was going to and he
fulfilled that promise. Obviously, the ire of President Trump and
the tweet. So we'll talk to Thomas Massey about that
because Trump wants him primary. I don't know if my
friends and the Commonwealth are going to want to do that,
but you guys have choices when it comes to elections,

(01:50:40):
and he's been primary before with no effect. But the
cr went through, and there's additional money for defense, but
also for my veteran friends out there, six billion more
dollars for VA healthcare. And I had reported earlier via
Secretary Doug Collins, saved the veterans nine hundred million dollars.
They had a bunch of dupe contracts and there's like

(01:51:02):
ninety thousand contracts out there worth sixty seven billion dollars.
He took a look at two percent of them, and
six hundred these contracts had the contracts that were not
mission critical or duplicative, which means they were doing double work,
which unnecessary. So he saved nine hundred thousand dollars. And
he said, the money we're saving by eliminating these duplicative

(01:51:23):
contractors money that's going to go to redirective veteran facing
healthcare benefits and services, he said, resulting in massive improvements
in customer service and convenience. And he also talked about
hiring for more than three hundred thousand mission critical positions
to ensure healthcare benefits for VA beneficiaries are not impacted.
So making some cuts, but at the same time bringing

(01:51:44):
about more money. Same thing that's going on in the
Department of Education getting rid of two thousand jobs that
do not do a thing for the American education system
at all. So I think these are important steps, and
I guess Will's on the phone to talk about that.

Speaker 4 (01:51:58):
Will.

Speaker 5 (01:51:59):
Welcome to the program. A veteran friend. I understand you
a little upset about what's going on to the VA.

Speaker 6 (01:52:03):
Oh yeah, it's it's it's it's it's a mess over there.
And I just don't I just don't get it. Why,
you know, and you know this guy, you know, a
guy that never served in war, decides to do all this.
And I haven't seen any numbers on this. I don't
believe in people. They tell you things, they don't show
you anything on paper that this happened.

Speaker 2 (01:52:26):
No, it did this is going on that it just did.

Speaker 6 (01:52:28):
I haven't seen it.

Speaker 5 (01:52:29):
Well, you can read about it on the news. Well,
it's been widely reported. He spoke to the American people
just yesterday on this.

Speaker 6 (01:52:36):
I mean, well, I went and did me some fishing
after work. I've been going fishing, so I don't have
to look at television anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:52:42):
I guess My only point is the informations out there,
if you look for it, and if it.

Speaker 6 (01:52:48):
Well, I just know when I go over to the
VA what kind of problems I'm having. And I've got conditions,
not very very very bad conditions, but conditions I need
to keep an eye on. Sure, And here it is
this guy through a monkey wrench and everything. No, you've
had to reschedule some appointments and everything. Well, I'm not
happy about it because I have to work, I have
a family, I have a recreation time and I try

(01:53:11):
to plan my whole day out. Now I got to
worry about if I'm gonna get seen. And I hear
all this stuff y'all talking about it's gonna be better
for the veterans. I don't believe anything this man tells you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:21):
You're allowed to not believe it.

Speaker 5 (01:53:23):
I tell you what if you been impacted by it
in a negative way, that's one thing, But you don't
believe that it's going on or that it's happening. And
I don't know that your appointment issues have any connection
with this whatsoever because it literally just happened yesterday. But
what else happened yesterday? You're gonna get six six billion
dollars additional money flowing out through the American Veterans if

(01:53:43):
the cr goes through the Senate. That should be a
good thing for you. And if you've got a problem
with the Cincinniva, they want to know about it. You
need to report the problem, because I know Todd Sledge
of the Cincinniva listens to the show and he works there,
and he regularly recommends any veteran who has a problem
or can concern about what's going on to the VA
to let them know and they will do their best

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to rectify the situation, and that'll end up help your
other fellow veterans. So you know, I don't disbelieve something
if the information is out there, will I never lie
to you. And I never mentioned something like this on
the air unless it came from a reputable source. So
you can ignore it if you want, and not believe
it if you want. But I'm here to tell you
this is what's going on. And there's no way that

(01:54:25):
what was announced yesterday could have had any impact on
what happened with you the other day at the VA.
Hanging there, brother, hopefully things will improve even more. I'm
glad you're going to the VA to get your benefits,
and I'm glad they're there to help the American veteran.
And I got to admit, I gotta tell you a
lot of us have scheduling issues out here in the
world where we did not serve. But God bless you
for your service. Will I truly appreciate your service?

Speaker 4 (01:54:47):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
Hang on, he's on next.

Speaker 5 (01:54:50):
Always controversial, always sticking to his principles, Congressman Thomas Massey,
followed by Judge Napolitano.

Speaker 12 (01:54:57):
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Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
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Show always begins with Congressman Thomas Massey. Welcome back, my friend.
It's a pleasure having you on my program.

Speaker 4 (01:55:27):
Wow, I feel like I've been run over by a
freight train. That's good to be on.

Speaker 5 (01:55:31):
Well, you know, I z Iggy Pop observed the lust
for life. You know, I've had it in the year before.
You've got in the year before. But have you ever
got into the ear before from Tom Donald Trump? He
came out swinging the other day on social media and
asking the UV primary because you set it out loud
in advance of the Continued Resolution vote that you would
be a no, and you delivered on your promise. It
was a two seventeen to two thirteen pass, with one Democrat,

(01:55:52):
Jared Golden from Maine, defying his party. But you defied
your party and said no. What was the premise behind
your Well, first off, your reaction to Donald Trump actually
singling you out.

Speaker 4 (01:56:03):
Well, you know President Trump went after Canada and me yesterday,
and the difference is Canada is eventually going to cave.

Speaker 5 (01:56:12):
Yeah, I know you're not one to cave. Standing on principle.
Now your principal.

Speaker 4 (01:56:18):
Yeah, let me give you the simplest description of what
this bill does. This is a continuing resolution. It's a
cut copy paste of last year's budget, which means yesterday
every Republican except for me, voted to lock in Biden's
agenda and the exact same spending levels on the exact
same things until September thirtieth. Like they have now tied

(01:56:43):
Trump's hands until September thirtieth on all the discretionary spending.
It's off the table. Doach, you can't cut it, et cetera,
et cetera. Now there is one chance, a last ditch chance,
which is you can do recisions. You can get Bill's
with fifty one votes in the Senate to take some
of the spending out. But for now they have respent,

(01:57:06):
refunded all of the Doge cuts, those waste fraud abuse
that we're supposed to get cut. Congress just re upped it.
And Brian, I love coming on your show because we
could go back and find the history of me telling
you what's going to happen, and then it happened.

Speaker 2 (01:57:22):
Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 4 (01:57:23):
Yeah, this spending bill was due on September thirtieth of
last year. Okay, Yeah, and instead of doing the twelve
separate bills, which is what we should be doing. People
are always like, well, Connor's and Massy, what would you do?
I would do twelve separate bills and take the threat
of a shutdown off the table. Because if you put

(01:57:44):
twelve bills over in the Senate and they don't like
three of them, well there's only three things that are
not funded. Nine tenths nine twelves of the government gets funded.
So they didn't do twelve bills by September thirtieth, So
they did a c R. They said, Okay, we don't
want to fight before the November election. It's too important.
We might lose the majority if we fight, and we

(01:58:05):
might not win the White House if we fight. So
let's fight after the election. So they punted it. They
punted the spending bill using a CR into December of
last year. Okay, oh, guess what. We won the election. Guys,
we won the Senate, we kept the House, and we
won the White House. But you know what, it's not
time to fight. We shouldn't fight yet because let's let's

(01:58:27):
wait until we're in charge of the Senate, until we
have the Senate majority leader, until we have a president
who can signed the bill. And instead of going to
January because January a cr from last December to this
past January. Well, that won't give Trump enough time to
get his feet underneath of him. So let's do it
until March. Okay, well here comes, here comes March.

Speaker 8 (01:58:52):
This is this is where we are, Brian.

Speaker 4 (01:58:53):
Tomorrow the funding runs out. And what's their excuse. Now
they've used two excuses. They used, oh, wait till the election.
The second excuse was wait until everybody gets sworn in
the new majority. And now the excuse is we don't
have we need more time. We need more time. That
is the worst excuse in the world. It's basically saying
we've run out of excuses. Because what happens with time

(01:59:15):
is the mandate that President Trump achieved in that in
the victory, that overwhelmed the victory, It wears off, It
doesn't last four years. In fact, when I talked to
President Trump two weeks after the election last November, I said,
you've got I think you got about six months to
get all this done and then they're going to try

(01:59:38):
to bog us down and tie us up. And he
seemed to agree with me then. But now the strategy is,
let's wait nine months to fight.

Speaker 5 (01:59:49):
What is I guess by way of you know, time
you mentioned the twelve appropriations bills. We've talked about this
so many times. Congress hasn't done their job. Now for
how long with twelve individual appropriate bills as they're required
to do onto the terms of their job descriptions? Where
were those in process before we got to the fall
and the need to do a continuing resolution?

Speaker 4 (02:00:12):
Well, under Kevin McCarthy, we got like six or nine
of them done, depending of the twelve, depending on what
you count as done, whether it's in committee or whether
it's on the floor. Last year none, zero, and this
year I don't think they're even going to try. But
here's the thing, Brian, even if you didn't go through committees,

(02:00:33):
you know, even if you didn't do the regular order,
the process that we're supposed to follow, we would still
be better off if they went in the back room
and wrote twelve separate bills instead of going in a
back room and shaking hands with Hakeem Jeffries and agreeing
to a fake fight and just extending Biden's spending levels
into the first nine months of Trump's administration. Like this

(02:00:56):
fight was so fake yesterday and you know, I was
taking the brunt of it. I'm good. I'm okay with
that because I was calling it out as a fake
fight because all but one Republican voted for this bill,
and all but one Democrat voted against it. So they
made it look like conservative versus liberal fight, which wouldn't
this thing gets to the Senate. They need sixty votes

(02:01:19):
in the Senate. I called up a certain senator over
there and I'm like, how many Democrats are going to
vote for this? And he said between ten and fifteen.
They've they added some money in this thing to sweeten
it up for the Democrats. They made it look like
a fight in the House. And here's how sure that

(02:01:40):
I am that this is a fake fight that's not
even going to get fought in the Senate even though
it was the fake fight in the House. They've sent
us all home, like I'm still in DC. But they
put everybody on planes last night and today and said
we're done in the House. And by the way, the
funding doesn't run out until Friday, so the Senate has
two days to do this. They know the Senate's going

(02:02:02):
to pass it if they because if they so much
has changed the punctuation, they have to call everybody back
from the House Representatives and past that version.

Speaker 5 (02:02:10):
Well, as you observe, this continues the spending levels under
the Biden administration. So why would the Democrats vote against it?

Speaker 4 (02:02:20):
Oh? I just talked to a I can't say somebody
used to be in Congress, and he's like, I don't
get it. Tell me what you all are doing, Tell
me what you are to do it, because it looks
like this is the Democrats dream. Here's something else that happened, Brian.
Remember under the FRA two years ago when we raised

(02:02:43):
the debt limit and I took a lot of flak
for agreeing to vote for that, and the Rules Committee.
The reason I voted for it, we got a deal
where if they do a CR that goes past April thirtieth,
everything gets cut one percent, right, And I was taking
the bet, I was making the that these jokers up
here wouldn't get the twelve separate bills done, that they

(02:03:04):
wouldn't even get an omnibus done, that they would eventually
just do a CR for the whole year. Well guess what,
that's just what they did. And that term it's called
a sequester. It's in language. It was passed into law
and they got a bunch of legal parliamentarians up here
who huddled and decided that if this r goes past April,

(02:03:26):
it would be a one percent cut. But since they're
going all the way to September thirtieth, not September twenty nine.
Since they're going all the way to September thirtieth for
the purposes of that one percent cut, it is the
one percent cuts no longer valid because they're counting it
as an omnibus, as a full year spending omnibus. What. Yeah,
So basically they're turning off the one percent across the

(02:03:48):
board cut that was agreed to and signed into law
as a sequester two years ago.

Speaker 5 (02:03:56):
Well that sounds that sounds rather orwell, and that you
can you can call it an obolost when it's a
continued resolution.

Speaker 4 (02:04:03):
Yes, correct, they've just decided for the purposes of, since
it suits their purposes, not to have the cut. It's
like t ball, Bryant. All all Speaker Johnson had to
do was walk up to the plate and swing the bat.
The ball was already on the tee to cut things
one percent. Here's the problem. The military guys were. When

(02:04:25):
I say military guys, I mean military industrial complex. Yes,
I don't mean the soldiers, right. The soldiers deserve a
pay raise, they deserve the veterans deserve to be taken
care of all that. What I'm saying is the people
who are here for Lockheed Martin and raze On and
Boeing and GE. I know there's ge jobs in today,

(02:04:47):
but all of those because they make the motors for
the engines for these things. Those lobbyists and those congressmen
that are most subservient to those lobbyists demanded that they're
not be a one percent cut. And I'm talking about republic.

Speaker 2 (02:05:02):
That's I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:05:04):
I'm struggling to find something that's FCC compliance by way
of reaction in or Congressman Massey.

Speaker 4 (02:05:11):
So I'm just laying it all out there for you, Brian,
and for your listeners. And I know there's a lot
of crazy terms like cre onto this blah blah blah.
All you got to remember is what just happened in
the House yesterday and it's going to happen in the
Senate today or tomorrow, is going to lock in the
spending levels of Biden's last fifteen months his term. Those

(02:05:33):
will be locked in until September thirtieth. That Trump's agenda,
if he's going to do it through spending, which is
basically how you do ninety percent of this either cutting
or expanding spending in different regions, he can't implement it
until September thirtieth because it's already locked down. The Biden

(02:05:56):
money is locked down the Democrats. It was a fake
fight in the House, and you're going to find out
when this thing passes the Senate that the Democrats actually like.

Speaker 5 (02:06:04):
It well at the risk are running over. I just
got to ask this, But for their part, what do
the Republican side of the ledge, of the ones that
you had to deal with at voter for this, how
do they defend what you just pointed out? What is
their motivation? This running out of time when they could have,
you know, done some cuts or at least not called
it an omnibus and left it as a cr so
we would be guaranteed the one percent cut across the board.

(02:06:25):
Is it all this nefarious type of military industrial complex
type Republicans?

Speaker 4 (02:06:29):
Well, that's that's part of it. But the question is
how did the Freedom Caucus come along? Yeah, yeah, exactly,
And the answer is Trump's advisor said you don't. We
got to avoid a shutdown, and the Democrats are itching
for a shutdown, but so basically, give them what they
want so we don't have a shutdown, and then we'll

(02:06:50):
try to take a different bite at the apple. Another
bite at the apple September thirtieth. That's a false promise
and a different bite of the apple with the Reconciliation
Bill early summer. But I guess ex mandatory.

Speaker 5 (02:07:04):
Spinning recognize they were at least believing in part and
ignoring the military industrial complex states. If you had cut
the problem didn't lie in the House, you probably would have.
Let's assume you had enough votes to vote for something
that reduced the size of scope of government. But these
had some cuts in it, and all the Republicans got
there together and said, yeah, that's fine. The problem was
that would be the Senate then, right, because they wouldn't

(02:07:25):
get sixty votes in the Senate for this. They will
because it extends everything. The Democrats wont because it's one
of the Biden and Jenna spending levels, but they the
shutdown would have come as a consequence of the vote
in the Senate though, right, well, listen.

Speaker 4 (02:07:37):
If you if if you resign yourself to that mass
and that logic. By the way, that's one of ten
things they pull out of the hat the reasons not
to fight ever versus we don't have the Senate or
we don't have the White House. But when you get
the White House, the Senate in the House, they say,
we don't have sixty votes in the Senate. If you
if you believe, if you truly believe that, and you

(02:08:00):
absolutely know, on September thirtieth of this year, we are
not going to fight because there we aren't picking up
eight seats in the Senate. That's right, Like there is
no election between now and September thirtie. So if you
believe that logic, which I don't buy, I say you
put them on the spot. And by the way, crs
are a crappy way to do it, like even the

(02:08:21):
one percent cut CR is a crappy way to do it,
and omnibus is a crappy way to do it. But
because then you have this giant shutdown where everything shuts
down if you don't if you don't get it past
the Senate, that's why you should send twelve separate bills
to the Senate, like the law prescribes the nineteen seventy
four budget control.

Speaker 2 (02:08:39):
At amen to that.

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A twenty one fIF give out KRCD Talk station. Judge
Napolitano up next, he's probably listening right now. Joe Gamon
heads up the Congressman Thomas Massive beyond the program. Judsephulaton
a huge fan of Congressman massy as Am. I let's
talk about either end the FED or Safer Voter Act.
I want to make sure we get the most important
topic in your world before we go to the end
of the segment.

Speaker 4 (02:11:07):
Congressman, well, yeah, easiest one to cover. I think we
can do in both. Safer Voter Act stands for second
Amendment for every registerable voter. So what I'm doing is
tying the age that you can buy a handgun to
the age at which you can vote. There should be
basically one age of adulthood, and I believe it's eighteen.

(02:11:30):
The problem right now is you are not allowed to
buy a handgun from a licensed FFL if you are eighteen,
nineteen or twenty years old. Right, you have to register
for the draft. You can go die for your country,
but or somebody other's country.

Speaker 2 (02:11:47):
Unfortunately, same thing with alcohol or Yeah there's.

Speaker 4 (02:11:52):
Another one now that one's ostensibly a state issue, but
they've mandated it through a traffic total highway dollarge.

Speaker 2 (02:12:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:12:00):
Yeah, but the federal firearms you know, laws prevent eighteen,
nineteen and twenty year olds from buying. Now, you could
buy one off of a family member, you can buy
one off of a friend. This is the irony. I
don't think the liberals realize this. They want everybody to
go through a background check, but you're not even allowed
to go through that if you're eighteen, nineteen or twenty

(02:12:23):
anyone of these. You got to find one in the
back alley or get it for Christmas. So I want
to change that by lowering that age to eighteen. And
so that's the easy one in the FED. This should
be obvious. We should end the Federal Reserve. Somebody asked
me at a speech after a speech last weekend in Kentucky,

(02:12:45):
do you think Trump went into the federal Reserve? I said,
I think he wants to be the Federal Reserve like
he would He would like to have a knob with
the interest rates, and he would like to turn the
knob right. But the reality is we shouldn't be turning
that knob. Shouldn't be fine monetizing our debt. Yet that's
what we do. And it's really Congress uses the Federal

(02:13:08):
Reserve to devalue the dollar. We shouldn't be doing that.
And then the Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent.
They're not really. It's a revolving door between bankers, investment bankers,
and the Treasury. They go to the FED and they
turn knobs, and then they come back and collect on
whether or their friends are collecting on the benefits of

(02:13:29):
the way they set the knobs there at the FED.
That's why it needs to be audited. That's my other bill.
Some people say, if you audit to Fed find out
what's really going, you'll want to end the FED. So
I've introduced both bills, one to audit it and one
to end.

Speaker 5 (02:13:42):
It all Right, any tu reading on whether either or
both will pass.

Speaker 4 (02:13:48):
I don't think we're going to get into Fed audit
to FED. We've got that pass in the House a
few times, it goes through the Oversight Committee, and it's
passed the House. I think they should bring it up
up in the Senate. You've got Democrats over in the Senate.
You know, you've got to get to sixty. Like Bernie
Sanders who voted for audit the FED in the House,
but now that he's a Senator, maybe he doesn't want

(02:14:10):
to audit the FED.

Speaker 5 (02:14:13):
It might be too revealing and it might cause Congress
the well yeah, yeah, uh huh. Monetizing the we're going
to end up the Fiat currency is just going to
collapse and the whole world's going to fall apart.

Speaker 2 (02:14:23):
Congress from messy.

Speaker 4 (02:14:25):
That's when the music stops, is when they stop using
US as reserve currency because we basically we don't just
tax our own citizens when we devalue the money through inflation.
We're taxing every country that holds our dollars as we are,
or holds our bonds treasuries. That's like kind of how
they hold the dollars, and they're kind of getting tired
of it. They've got less appetite to buy our debt.

(02:14:46):
That's why interest rates are going up. They're not going
up because the Fed wants them to go up. They
really don't have complete control over interest rates anymore. It's
the people who buy our debt, and eventually, with bills
that like the one that passed yesterday, they are going
to demand more interest Yeah, and it's just going to
start compounding.

Speaker 5 (02:15:04):
I wish we ended on a better note, Congress from Massy,
but it is reality and we've got to know it
and understand it to get something done going in the
right direction. Congressman Thomas Massey, I understand and appreciate everything
you do, and I thank you for coming on the
morning show and sharing your time with my listeners and me.
And keep I guess I'll say, keep speaking truth to power,
even though no one apparently listening to you lie.

Speaker 4 (02:15:25):
It's streaming into the void. But say hi to the
judge for me.

Speaker 2 (02:15:29):
Yeah, I think you just did.

Speaker 5 (02:15:30):
I do believe he's he's streaming the audio right now.
But I will make a point of doing that. Take
care of my friend. We'll talk again soon. Stick around, folks,
Judge antonapolitanum my weekend in Moscow.

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Five Carcity Talk Station. No, I don't think we can
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legend that is here on the fifty five Carcy Morning
Show every Wednesday at eight thirty. Welcome back to Judge
Enita Polatano, and a hello from your dear friend, Congressman
Thomas Massey, who preceded you and wanted me to pass
it along to the extent you weren't listening.

Speaker 2 (02:17:29):
Welcome back, Oh thank you.

Speaker 10 (02:17:32):
Congressman Massey and I spent about a half an hour
together on my podcast two weeks ago, and the numbers,
of course, were through the roof. He has incurred the
wrath of the White House.

Speaker 13 (02:17:42):
Too bad. He's one hundred percent correct.

Speaker 10 (02:17:45):
The defense budget is already at eight hundred and ninety billion,
and the new budget offers.

Speaker 13 (02:17:52):
Some mere five billion more.

Speaker 10 (02:17:55):
Yeah, I would have voted against it as well, no
matter what the my report, Publican masters or his Republican
masters told them.

Speaker 5 (02:18:04):
Well, nice if they did their jobs pursued to their
job descriptions. As he explained in the last segment the
twelve appropriations bills, they just threw that whole concept out
the window for I don't know how many years running.
They don't do their job, They run up to a deadline,
and then they shove more spending down our throats because
of well urgency or something.

Speaker 10 (02:18:25):
And the only intellectually honest person there shouldn't say it only,
but the foremost intellectually honest person there is Congressman Massie Well,
I understand, has been threatened by the President of the
United States. Now, yeah, he was with primary abs of opposition.
Let them go ahead and try. Thomas Massey will either

(02:18:45):
keep his seat in the House, become the junior Senator
from Kentucky or become the governor of Kentucky.

Speaker 5 (02:18:55):
I can count on my friends in the Commonwealth to
vote for congressome Man, at least I believe that he
has been primary in the past with absolutely zero's success.
So good Man and some great people in the Commonwealth
to keep him in office. How was it you flew them?

Speaker 2 (02:19:12):
You flew to Moscow by way of Dubai, which I
gotta kick twenty.

Speaker 10 (02:19:17):
Hours of flying if you count an hour and a
half or two hour layover in Dubai because thanks to
the Biden slash Trump sanctions, you cannot fly directly to
Moscow from an American or a Western European airport. Have
the sanctions impaired Moscow, not one bit. Moscow has the

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hustle and bustle of midtown Manhattan. It is absolutely beautiful.
There is no filth, there are no homeless, there are
no potholes, There is great prosperity. The Russian Orthodox churches
are packed daily and on Sunday.

Speaker 13 (02:20:00):
Russian Orthodoxy has risen out of the ashes of the
old Soviet Union. It was an extraordinary eye opener for me.

Speaker 10 (02:20:11):
It was a very very very pleasant, hectic, but pleasant
five days that I was there culminating in a two
hour interview with Foreign Minister lev Roth.

Speaker 13 (02:20:21):
There were three of us that got to interview him.
And his questions are very long.

Speaker 4 (02:20:25):
It's not a Q and A like.

Speaker 13 (02:20:27):
His answers are very long. It's not a Q and
A like you and I have.

Speaker 10 (02:20:31):
But it was marvelous to be able to interact with them.
And then he came over to me afterwards and we
chatted for a while. He used to live in the
same neighborhood that I live in in New York City
when he was the Russian ambassador to the UN, so
it was a remarkable time. The American public has a

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Cold War perception of Russia, and that's not the case.
The sanctions have no damaged it. It is actually more
prosperous and economically independent than before the sanctions. The top
tax rate is ten ten percent. Of the free market

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reigns and people are happy.

Speaker 5 (02:21:18):
And I have to interject, and I've noted this, and
I mentioned it to you in my reply to your
wonderful Colum, which comes out tonight. My weekend in Moscow,
I have never been in quite comprehend why we didn't
normalize relations with Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
They have turned themselves around. They do have a tremendous
amount of wealth, as you observe, they of course ignore

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these climate nonsense. They're not chasing their zero carbon emissions tail.
And a lot of that wealth comes from their sale
of oil and natural gas, most notably to a lot
of European countries who are chasing their tail in the
name of zero carbon emissions. But regardless of how the
wealth is generated, the opportunity would be available there like
it is in China since the Nixon administration for investments,

(02:22:01):
I think we have direct flights from the United States
into China, Judge Neapolitano, if I may be wrong on you, yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:22:08):
We do.

Speaker 13 (02:22:09):
You're one hundred percent correct.

Speaker 10 (02:22:11):
You know what we have that the Russians don't nine
hundred foreign military installations that we constructed and that we
pay to maintain. The Russians have twenty five, all of
which are around Russia and of strategic importance to the

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Russian military. Their military budget is a fraction of ours,
even though their army is larger and a more forceful
gathering than ours.

Speaker 13 (02:22:46):
And you know, not only did the Russians not suffer
in the sanctions.

Speaker 10 (02:22:52):
Foreign Minister Levroff's figures and no one's challenged them, say
that American industry lost three one hundred and thirty billion
in income in the past three years during the Biden
Trump sanctions.

Speaker 13 (02:23:07):
So who did the sanctions harm? The answers rather obvious.

Speaker 5 (02:23:13):
And the big question looming around is why why is
it like this? Is the fearmongers who insist that this
evil Russian baron needs to be kept at bay in
spite of the fact they don't represent any existential threat
to us really other than the nuclear weapons they have,
but they haven't threatened the United States or United States
interest with them.

Speaker 13 (02:23:32):
It's the.

Speaker 10 (02:23:34):
It's the iron grip that the military industrial complex has
on the American Congress and the American government.

Speaker 13 (02:23:41):
They may not have that on Donald Trump, but they
certainly had it on Joe Biden and on all.

Speaker 10 (02:23:48):
Of his predecessors. I was very disappointed, however, when President
Trump announced the resumption the opening of the Joe Biden pipeline,
which he had closed for two weeks, back to Kiev,
and the opening of the re engagement of the American
intelligence community back to Kiev.

Speaker 13 (02:24:09):
And wherever they go in that part of the world.

Speaker 10 (02:24:12):
I was very disappointed to see that, because that continues
the Biden nonsense of using Ukraine.

Speaker 13 (02:24:18):
As a battering ram with which to disrupt Russia.

Speaker 10 (02:24:22):
And even if you're paraphrasing Victoria Newland and Hillary Clinton
to drive Vladimir Putin from office, he's got an eight
to eighty two percent approval rating. If you go there,
you can see why. I mean, it's a radically different
country from the one the Soviets left Yeltsin and Gorbachev,

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and they don't spend that much money on the military.
I think I've diverted from.

Speaker 13 (02:24:50):
Your question, but I was extremely impressed with what I saw.

Speaker 5 (02:24:57):
Well again, I just, I just, I just beside myself.
But going to the cutting off of assistance to Ukraine,
it's a foregone conclusion. Ukraine cannot win this conflict. It
is impossibility. And even as we speak, the Russians are
making advances. There's been a thirty day ceasefire, and that
was the incentive for them to engage in the thirty

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day ceasefires because Donald Trump cut off their intelligence and aid.
Obviously he got the effect the effect he wanted, which
is the ceasefire. However, the ball is now in Russia's court,
and what Vladimir Putin demands in order to end the
conflict remains to be seen. Do you get a sense
from your conversation with Lavrov what that might entail, what
the Russians are going to demand by way of concessions.

Speaker 13 (02:25:39):
Yes, yes, it would.

Speaker 10 (02:25:41):
It would entail Ukrainian Putin has announced this publicly. It
would entail Ukrainian neutrality. It would entail a promise of
no NATO in Ukraine first longest NATO exists. It would
entail the recognition of the oblasts. An oblast could be

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compared to an American state or a Canadian province. That's
just the Russian word for it. The recognition of the
four oblasts in eastern Ukraine, now all under the control
of the Russian military, are in fact parts of Russia,
the acknowledgment that Crimea is part of Russia. As Lensky

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can't agree to any of this, which is why when
Secretary of State Rubio says we have a ceasefire agreement,
the ball is in Russia's court, he knows that Russia
is going.

Speaker 13 (02:26:35):
To reject it. In the small talk that I had with.

Speaker 10 (02:26:40):
Foreign Minister Lavrov, I said, is there any circumstance under
which President Putin would accept a ceasefire short.

Speaker 13 (02:26:48):
Of the achievement of all of your five goals, which
I've just ticked off. And he looked at me and
he said no. And Marco Rubio knows that. So why
is Marco Rubio taunting them in public?

Speaker 10 (02:27:00):
What is that going to accomplish other than to send
markor Orubia back to Florida.

Speaker 5 (02:27:06):
So that necessarily, if this all plays out the way
you mentioned, and I have every reason to believe it will,
then the war goes on and Russia continue to make
inroads into Ukraine, it could conceivably take over the entire country,
although I can't imagine that will be to its advantage
because it has to make They don't want.

Speaker 13 (02:27:22):
The entire country. They just want those four oblasts, which.

Speaker 10 (02:27:25):
Are Russian culturally, Russian, historically Russian speaking, Russian Orthodox Church,
not Ukrainian Russian Orthodox the one that I went to
when I was there, and neutrality for Ukraine. You know,
there was an agreement negotiated by the Zelensky government agreed

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to buy the Russian government. It was one hundred and
twenty six pages long. Every page was initialed and it
provided for Ukraine to become like Austra free, independent, prosperous
and neutral.

Speaker 13 (02:28:05):
No NATO neutral.

Speaker 10 (02:28:08):
And Joe Biden sent Boris Johnson, then the British Prime Minister,
to kievs saying, tell him not to sign it. Tell
him we'll back him up, we'll beat Russia, we'll drive
Putin from office, and he'll have a place in history.

Speaker 13 (02:28:23):
Well it didn't happen that way.

Speaker 5 (02:28:25):
No, it didn't. And you got a question what Biden's
motivation was for that. I mean, it doesn't make any
try and give him credit.

Speaker 10 (02:28:36):
Has a Cold War mentality and believes that Russia today
is the same as the old Soviet Union, a threat
to freedom, peace and prosperity.

Speaker 13 (02:28:48):
And it's not.

Speaker 10 (02:28:50):
President Putin would love nothing more than what Elsair Crook
calls the Grand Reset, an opening of the United States
and Russia, total opening to cultural and financial interchange.

Speaker 13 (02:29:05):
To the benefit of both. We never had that under
the Soviet Union. We didn't want it.

Speaker 10 (02:29:10):
We tried to restrain them. They run the economy, they
run freedom, They crushed the Church. Russia is the opposite
in all of those areas today.

Speaker 5 (02:29:22):
Yeah, and that's why I said in the aftermath of
the Soviet Union. We would have been a position, if
we normalize relations with them after that, to have shaped
that environment and to have assisted them and to engage
in trade and this reform and all these positive and
good that's come within the Russian economy post Soviet Union
probably would have come about a lot earlier, and we
would have been able to take advantage of me.

Speaker 10 (02:29:41):
You know which American president they can't stand. This might
surprise you. When Jim Baker and George HW. Bush talked
Mikhayel Korbachev into releasing East Germany and letting it unite
with West Germany in a foreign Germany as we know
it today. They both promised a president Gorbachev that NATO

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would not move one inch farther eastward, and they kept
that promise. Who succeeded George H. W in the White
House who got Poland to join NATO and began arming Ukraine.

Speaker 13 (02:30:25):
William Jefferson Clinton. They just have a very very negative
view of Clinton.

Speaker 5 (02:30:32):
I appreciate your reminding my listeners that it was Clinton
who did that. Judge Ennita Polaitano a wonderful conversation. I
appreciate your being on the program. Every Wednesday. Fantastic little I'm.

Speaker 10 (02:30:42):
Just a little ex judge from New Jersey. What am
I doing in this grand mansion with Saraghi Lavrov? It
was mind boggling.

Speaker 13 (02:30:48):
It was almost like an out of body experience for
a couple of minutes.

Speaker 2 (02:30:51):
You come a long way from your time on the bench,
your honor. We got to all acknowledge that, and with
good reason. I'll look forward to next week in another
wonderful conversation. Take care of my friend.

Speaker 5 (02:31:01):
Thank you, Brian, all the best, all the best, eight
forty three or fifty five krs the talk station, Stick
around and be right back fifty five krs.