55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, Alex T, Judge Napolitano

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Five o five at fifty five r C Detalk Station,
Happy Wednesday, the vacation and that's the way the news

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goes Yeah or doesn't, as the case may be, depending
upon your perception of the top of the iron is right,
Joe right, I was right here, Joe Trecker. Glad to
see him in there where he belongs. The executive production booth.
Jack Abden always loves seeing Jack's name on the rundown,
and it happens every Wednesday of late the Trump's Biblical Cabinet. Wow,

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Jack Etherdan's going to be explaining himself at seven oh
five on that one. Is there something biblical about Drum's cabinet?
I don't know, but we'll see what Jack has to
say about it. I always appreciate his thoughtful insights and commentary.
Brilliant man he is. So it's just a wonderful, wonderful
addition to have him on the fifty five Casey Morning Show.
My feeling about it anyway, and Climont County Veteran Services

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joins the program at seven forty. Always have great things
to pass along and information to pass along to veterans
and the veteran families. Today at seven forty. We'll be
doing just that. And I'm really not to discount Jack
at the other day or the Climont County veterans, but
I'm really looking forward to eight oh five Alex Chionta Filo.
He'll be commenting on things political. Ohio did great, Hamilton

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County not so much. I'm guessing those are the words
of Joe Strekker on the rundown, stating the obvious. I
just think of my wife's reaction before I went to
bed on election. I certainly not knowing what the outcome
of of the vast majority of the election is going

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to be, but having pretty much all the Hamilton County
races completely called by that point in seeing that Hamilton
County has gone full on one hundred percent blue. We
lost Hamilton County prosecutor powers, we didn't get Sheriff Jim Neal,
and then go around all the other races. It is
just over my lifetime. I had the conversation just yesterday

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with someone about that, how is it that Hamilton County
has gotten so damn blue? And my thought was, I
guess people just left. You know, our population increases, the
world is a much bigger place now we've got a
lot more people in it, you know, physically bigger, but
at least in terms of number of people, and over time,
people you know, expand move. They want to build a

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bigger house on a bigger lot. They go out of
Hamilton County and take their money and their conservative politics
with them. Congratulations Claremont County, Butler County and Warren County. Anyway,
Alex will comment on that, but inside baseball, will he
tell us who JD. Van's replacement will be? Does he
have any insight on that? About the State House? Is

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that your question, Joe? All of them are yours? How
about no, I'm just gonna answer your question that will
they be constituent friendly? Will the cats in Columbus be herded?
Will they get on the same page? And what, if anything,

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can we do in Hamilton County? Of course, going back
to the initial overarching conversation topics with Alex Chirantifido again
eightoh five for that, and then a really wild episode
with Judge Edna Polatano his column three cheers for Hunter's pardon.
Now you're gonna wonder why Judge and Polatona might be
happy about the pardon, And I don't know these are

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happy about the partner. He's happy about the discussion that
he hopes will spring from it. Are you're going to
have to go hardcore constitutional conservatism. The limitations on the
federal government that are in bold letters in the Constitution.
But the power of the federal government has gotten so

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big in spite of the limitations that the Constitution places
on the federal government. At one point, there were no
federal level crimes, with the exception of treason and I
one other one. But you know, the idea that there
could be prosecutions, for example, income to failure to pay
income taxes. When the founding fathers created the document of

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the Constitution, states would be doing that. And there was no,
of course provision for paying income taxes, and the Constitution
wasn'manted to allow for that. But this whole idea of
federal government, you know, expansion and the creation of the FBI,
and all of these federal crimes. In the judge's position,
I think from a hardcore pure constitutional perspective, they're all
extra constitutional. So it's one thing to you know, say, yeah,

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everybody else would have been prosecuted under the law. Hunter
Biden's getting a free pass. He is of course he's
being treated better than the rest of us would be
because he's the President's son. President's got the power of
the part, and who else enjoys that. Well, he's getting
the benefit of it, and it's really hurting the Democrats politically.
You and I be mad about it because you and
I would be in the crossairs of some federal agency,

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the Department of Justice of the FBI. We would be
prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We would
have already probably been in jail right now. But behind
all that, the judge's point being, the Constitution doesn't even
allow for any of that, so more of a legal
theoretical kind of thing, and of course judge tends to

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do that, so it makes this conversations interesting. So if
you want to give me a call five one, three, seven,
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Of course, case Hunter Biden's name is still all over
the news and people are still reacting to it, and
Democrats pulling their hair out over the whole thing because
it made them all look like liars and idiots, and

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it took the wind out of their sales about being
able to point to Donald Trump and say, oh, he
thinks he's above the law. You know, you get the
basic premise of it, But I thought this thing was
particularly funny on a number of levels. Federal judge who
was overseeing the Hunter Biden tax cases, had a bit

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of a rebuke of President Biden's claim issued or statements
issued at the time he issued the pardon, the predicate
for the pardon, the whole idea that he was treated unfairly.
US District Judge Mark Scarze, Central District of California for
keeping track q's President Biden, and what is described by

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Fox News as a scathing five page order of in
the judge's words, rewriting history with the pardon and suggesting
that the bread of the pardon granted to his son
is unconstitutional. Speaking of things constitutional, maybe you we'll get
the judge a comment on this. He wrote, quote, the

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Constitution provides the president with the broad authority to grant
reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, but
nowhere does the Constitution give the president the authority to
rewrite history. Soar as he went on reacting to the
President's statement on his son's tax case.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
The President asserts that mister Biden was treated differently from
others who were late in paying their taxes because of
serious addictions. The implication that Biden was among those individuals
who ultimately paid taxes due to the due to addiction
untimely taxes, rather not ultimately he did ultimately pay them.
But that's beside the point of course I was addicted.

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I didn't pay my taxes. I'm sorry. It was my drugs.
The judgment, that's not true. According to the President, no
reasonable person who looks at the facts that mister Biden's
cases can reach any other conclusion than mister Biden was
singled out only because he is the President's son. But

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two federal judges expressly rejected Biden's arguments that the government
prosecuted mister Biden because of his famelia relation to the
President and the president's own attorney general and Department of
Justice personnel oversaw the investigation leading to the charge. In
the President's estimation, this legion of federal civil sergeon servants,

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the undersigned included, meaning himself the judge, are unreasonable people.
Judge said he would dispose of the case. He was
he found fault with the way the pardon was issued.
It was a technical thing. He has a hyperlink link
that that allowed people to go over clicking on the

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link to see the wording of the pardon. And he said,
and that's not satisfactory. It's got to be formally executed.
And I will dismiss all this stuff once has been
formally executed. But I fought one of the comical points
on this, The judge wrote, subject to the following discussion,
the Court assumes the pardon is effective and will dispose

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of the case, referencing the formality. The Supreme Court long
has recognized that, notwithstanding its nearly unlimited nature, the pardon
power extends only two past offenses. Close quote. Now, why
do I find that funny? Because, first off, you know,

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we all joke about and in awe of and dismay
over the reality that you know, he gave basically Hunter
Biden a free pass for literally anything the guy did
that represents a federal crime. Now he can't pardon him
for state crime. So if you know Hunter Biden committed
murder in the state of New York, it may have

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been you know, going back to Nepolitana's point about the
seis scope and expansive nature of the federal government and
the crimes under it. Murder, I guess, in certain circumstances
actually can be found to be a federal crime. But
if he committed murder in the state of New York,
New York law would govern and the pardon wouldn't cover him. So, okay,
five years ago he blew somebody away with his formally
disposed of in a trash can near a high school handgun,

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then he can still go to jail for it. But
I think the judge is a little skeptical that hunter
Biden is going to Oh, here's upon keep his nose clean,
noting that the pardon power extends only two passed offenses.
So judge pointing out that a hunter, don't go back

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to your old ways because that piece of paper that
saved your life and your neck while ruining the political
careers of a lot of Democrats and taking the wind
out of their sales. As Trump gets ready to be
sworn into office next January, you could still be held
accountable five sixteen fifty five care see the talk station
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They don't just want to control our healthcare live do.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Control our children's buying through their education system. Loud.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
We have to fight to take America back and logo.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
You have the luxury of giving your opinion. It's just
neighbors being neighborly.

Speaker 6 (11:33):
Yeah, I'll agree with the whole heart Lake of course
most of the time.

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Bring it back to what the founding fault is believes in.
That's the individual whipping and the individual responsibility that goes
with us.

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Station five twenty on a Wednesday extra special Wednesday Listener
Lunch Wednesday. Looking forward to that and I hope you
are as well. Be a Price Hill Chili. Closing out
the year, Bob Wetter, mister Wishtree himself is going to
be there dressed as Santa Claus and strong encouragement for

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you to help out those in need by getting an
ornament off one of the multitude of wish trees out
there that are almost everywhere and you can ship it
directly to the person in need of the group that's
that hung the ornament up in need, I think you
bring it back to wherever you pick up the ornament
in the first place. Bob will give you all the
details on that today. I just want to support the organization.
Bob's been at this since nineteen eighty five. Just really

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a great thing he does every year. And as far
as Listener Lunch goes, I did mention we're going to
be a Price Hell Chili gonna go a new direction
next year.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Maybe.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
I know we have our favorite places to go and
you know short on the list of course Priceal Chili,
and Ron's Roost and Anderson Pub and Grow. And I'm
not going to mention all my West Side places like
Chandlers and anyway, folks who regularly tend Listener to Lunch
know the pretty much the list. We're maybe going to
maybe hitting some breweries next year. We're gonna start with
High Green Brewery in January. That's on Winton Road. They

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got a really nice menu there. It looks like everything
that it's going to have something for everybody in terms
of the menu. And then back to Little Miami Brewery
in Milford. I talked to Debbie, the woman who I
sort of have on retention to shadow, to set up
listener lunch. I said, maybe we can just, you know,
once a month hit a new brewery. Lord knows there's
no shortage of them. I said, first thing start with

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is that they have a at least reasonably comprehensive menu, and
then we'll move on from there. So that's kind of
the theory and the the idea behind it. We'll see
how things shake out in twenty twenty five. Beyond that,
I thought this was a little bit scary as Vva
Ramaswammy and the Doge Department, looking for places to save

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money shut down. Ramaswammy wants to pull the plug on
that battery plant over in Indiana. Of course, in order
to make these batteries, you got to have the well
rare earth minerals, right, the key ingredients for making these batteries,
and sadly get the vast majority of that comes from China,
so we directly support China's economy. Get a load of this.

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China just announced some restrictions banning certain specific rare earth minerals.
So we have the Biden administration issuing new restrictions on
China's semiconductor industry. They're calling it a tit for tat.
Beijing announced an export ban on the following gallium, germanium, antimony,

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as well as other critical minerals with I would argue
significant potential military implications for the United States. Bloomberg reporting
on this one, saying that the Chinese Communist Ministry announced
the new export controls yesterday morning, adding that tighter controls
on graphite sales will also be seen, suggesting this ain't

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over yet. According to the statement, the US has generalized
the concept of national security and politicized and weaponized econom
trade and tech issues. It has abused export control measures
and unreasonably restricted certain products. Are product exports to China?
All true and with more to come if you think

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about what Trump's been saying, but you know, tariffs and
export restrictions, et cetera. Now, Biden administration on Monday revealed
broader restrictions on these artificial intelligence chips that can be
delivered to China, prohibiting the sale of advanced chips to
more than one hundred Chinese companies. In other words, the
military and China is going to use them. We don't

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want to help the Chinese military with our cutting edge chips, Ergo,
we're not going to send them there anymore. Commerce Secretary
Go Riomando told reporters on over the weekend on Sunday,
the move represented these strongest controls ever enacted by the
US to degrade the PRC's ability to make the most
advanced chips and that they're using in their military modernization.

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Said they. You know, they worked closely with experts and
then history and allied countries to ensure that our actions
protect national security while minimizing unintended commercial consequences. Well, maybe
China isn't played by the commercial consequence rules, because of course,
after that announcement was made, this announcement about the banning

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of these various rare earth minerals was announced. And here's
where the fun part comes. China produces ninety four percent
of the world's gallium eighty three percent of the germanium
critical metals used in the production of semiconductors, LEDs, and transistors. Okay,

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and they had a breakdown here. I found this on Breitbart,
the breakdown of rare earth materials used to make each
go to Europe no longer necessary and ridiculously expensive f
thirty five airplane. Nine hundred and twenty pounds in that one.
You know, Arlely Burke DDG DASH fifty one looks like
a destroyer of some sort. That's five two hundred pounds

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in one of those boats. And to cribbage, my submarine
or friend in SSN with seven seventy four Virginia class
submarine has nine thousand, two hundred pounds of rare earth
ingredients going back to some of which China produces the
vast majority of senior analysts at the consulting firm Trivia,

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a Trivium China guy named Joe Mazer, speaking with Bloomberg,
said these export bands on critical minerals have been in
the hopper for a long time and are intended as
a warning. He said it's a clear signal of China's
preparedness strike back more forcefully against the US economic pressure
than it has in the past few years. Accord to

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data from the US Geological Survey, we here in the
United States import about half our supply of gallium and
germanium metals from right China. It's you know, they got
you by the short ones, if you really think about it.
We learned a lot of lessons in COVID nineteen and
one of the biggest lessons I think we all learned

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is apparently we are just inextricably intertwined with I guess
probably our biggest foe in the world, China. We get
everything from him, including critical resources that may go into
our pharmaceuticals. Five twenty six fifty five are seed de

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As we embrace the end of an era.

Speaker 7 (18:39):
The outcome of this election is not just what we
want to defeat.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Does not mean we are defeated.

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There's plenty to celebrate this holiday season and it's dead.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Hopefully this isn't the last time I call in feeling
this good.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
I'm happy about everything.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah, I think he's got a great game of people
around him.

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I just want the man protected.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
I am so excited about the potential to changes.

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Government and the conversation's happening here.

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It's really exciting.

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funds over the local story. A little over a year

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and a half after its debut, a safe Haven baby box,
the one in Lovinon, was actually used to s render
a baby girl, according to Lebanon Police. The box, located
at the fire station on North Broadway, installed October of
last year, the tenth one in Ohio. On Monday, Lebanon
Police said the City of Lebanon Communications Center received an

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alarm from the box spent three point thirty in the afternoon.
Police fire responded They found a baby girl had been surrendered,
immediately taking it since a children's hospital and Warren County
Children's Service officials were notified. Of course, these baby boxes
installed by fire departments across the country, giving parents the
option to safely and securely and anonymously surrender a newborn

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if they're unable to provide care. Under Ohio law, the
baby box, known as a Newborn Safety Incubator, allows parents
to anonymously surrender the newborn without facing any criminal charges.
Once the baby is placed inside, the device locks and
sends a series of alerts to first responders. Thank god.

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Since it's launched in twenty sixteen, thirty five babies have
been surrendered nation and wide in these baby boxes. I
guess not everyone can work in advance with an adoption agency,
so certainly I feel very confident that those babies will
find good homes down the road. Let's pray for that,

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don't speculate that. According to the Cincinnati Fire Department, of course,
we all know about the Dan Carterbeard Bridge. They're in
the process of fixing it. It's taking a little while.
We all know it started with a fire beneath the bridge,
burning and melting the girders, obviously negating any argument from
the nine to eleven skeptics that fire started by airplane

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fuel could burn a building down. If you can light
a well, some rubber in a playground on fire and
bring a bridge down, we know we have a problem
to question who started it, and that's where the rumors
circular are circulating. We heard initially maybe it was a
car fire, maybe it was a homeless encampment SINCINNTI Fire

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Department of statement yesterday. Sharing information too soon can compromise
the integrity investigation by jeopardizing witness safety, alerting potential suspects,
and revealing crucial strategies. For this reason, until the fire
investigative unit has definitive reason to share, we will not
be able to share anything. So WCPO attended the Cincinnati Climate,

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Environment and Infrastructure Committee meeting held last night Apparently that's
held bi weekly, and they asked each member of the
committee about the status of the fire investigation. Basically, each
of the council members, Mick Owens, Mark Jeffries, and Jeff Cramerton,
as well as Seth Walsh merely confirmed what the fire
department said. We don't know and we're not going to speculate.

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Mark Jeffries said, you know. They asked if the fire
department needs to share an update on where they are,
which is I suppose a legitimate question. Can you just
least get us something Jeffrey's response, I do. I asked
the city manager recently when we're going to provide an update.
I know that there we're working diligently to get to
the bottom of it. I think will be helpful now,
given it's a few weeks to just provide an update,

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even if it's work in progress, like, hey, we don't
have all the answers, but here are the areas we're exploring,
I think will be helpful to share an update, So
I agree something anyway. Nonprofit bike share program Red Bike.
They have enough funds to operate until April next year.

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Apparently there are still questions if it can well go
beyond that astute observation. For all those folks that are
going to be riding bikes in January, you can get
a red bike, don't count on it when the warm
weather shows up. Though. You should see Jeff's face right now.

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It's times like this I wish we had a camera
on him. Well.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
I do.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Red Bike apparently looking for long term funding commitments to
continue operations past April, they stayed looking for a three
year commitment from public partners. Mark Jefferies Council members that
he's been working with a coalition of partners for the
last eight months as he's confident that the deal will
be reached for funding before April. Quote, we've had considerations

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with Northern Kentucky and the Metro. I think in the
early part of the year we will have all the commitments.
Red Bike's new financial structure proposal includes moneys from Metro,
Northern Kentucky, the City of Cincinnati, and maybe corporate sponsors
or tourist partnerships. Which reminds me of a conversation I
had yesterday. Wasn't it just yesterday Joe Strekker with Todd Zenzer,

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fraud expert and accountant expert, doing an analysis of the
CINCINNTI pension program. All the money seems to go to
pet projects, and we'll just throw the Red Bike program,
as cool as it may be, into one of the
pet projects. The penn is so underfunded. We have a colossal,
slow moving train wreck facing us in the City of Cincinnati.

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Not doing anything about that. Though, if you didn't get
to hear Todd. I recommend strongly you check out that
podcast fifty five k SEE dot com. I'll be right
back with the stack of stupid. I hope you can
stick around.

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This is what's happening.

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Martial law in South Korea.

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Opposition party accused of sympathizing.

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With North Korea.

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Stay Current said he wrestled with us father the one
had done the same thing.

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happy Wednesday. Hope see you pray sill chilly for listener.
Launch a judge trecker curbage, Mike, just send me an
instant message on facebooks. Why can't red bikes be free
like the street car? I know, I said, That's exactly
what Joe said. Joe had written out of the top

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of the article. Just make it free. Yeah, all we
need to do is red peel the laws of physics
and we don't have to worry about friction and things
like that. Blah, stacker stupid. Now you can call if
you won. You know, I go. I say I'd rather

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talk to the listeners. But here we go, and wow,
this is pretty amazing to me. Several top veteran affairs
official in Tennessee had to resign following an internal investigation
as well as a broader congressional probe into alleged sexual misconduct.

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Credit to Breitbart for reporting on this one, congressional investigators
discovered that one single guy who resigned, whose name they
did not say out loud, but sources familiar say was
I say it was bargaining, was a bargaining unit biomedical employee.

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One guy had dozens of sexual relationships with women who
worked at the Mountain Home VA Medical Center in Tennessee.
Investigation and investigators told Breitbart this one guy slept with
no fewer than thirty two different women who worked at
this one medical center, and the man had several of

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the women and bragged about their exploits, heading insult to
injury on an online group forum on a government communication
portal that VA officials used to communicate about veteran healthcare
and facility operations. Apparently, what's more, sources familiar with the
congressional investigation said the uncovered than an orgy of at

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least twelve officials who worked at the facility took place.
At this point, not clear whether it happened on government
I know, on government property at the VA facility or
an off site orgy. But well, I guess the point
that being that a dozen government workers all got together,
all employed in the same place. At least two of

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the employees of the facility admitted to having sex on
the grounds of the VA hospital. The senior Congressional aid
familiar with the facts of the ongoing investigation, speaking with
Breke bart quote, the fact that the culture would even
allow this to happen in the first place is absolutely wild,
and it all starts at the top, so it threatens
to upend the closing days of the outgoing to Democrat

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President Joe Biden's administration. Couldn't go senior officials like VA
Secretary Dennis McDonagh, I don't know. In addition to the
biomedical employee, the guy who investigators said had sex with
again thirty two different women, several other officials have also resigned,
and the as the investigations have gotten in have intensified.

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The director of the Mountain Home facility also resigned, and
at least two other employees there have resigned thirty two
and one facility. Let's just say they have rather loose
moral standards, wouldn't you. I'm not here to cast argue.

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I'm here to cast judgment. But wow, what about all
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If you care anything at all about the city of Cincinnati,
it does have broader implications than just within the city limits.

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Listen todds ens Or yesterday here on the fifty five
krc Morning Show, crazy stuff regarding that pension plan and
negligence on the part of our elected officials over a
period of decades. Anyway, the stack is stupid. Apparently Raising
Caine's dipping sauce really high on just Wreckords list of
thumbs up, so much so that he said this maybe

(33:05):
justified this stack of stupid article. Who can argue with that.
Last Friday afternoon, thirty one year old woman arrested for
strong arm robbery after she became a hostile both verbically
and physically. That's in the arrest report after fast food
workers did not include eight eight raising cane dipping sauce

(33:29):
containers in her pickup order. What, according to the court reports,
Mackenzie neil A Keeling rather picked up her grub from
a Raising Caine's restaurant in Clearwater. Later discovering that she
was missing eight packs of Caine's sauce, she went back
to the restaurant spoke to the female manager who provided

(33:51):
the achilling with the dipping sauce. However, the manager, Tatiana Herbert,
declined her request that she provided with extra sauces in
return for, in the woman's words, wasting her time in gasoline. So,
after being denied the sauce, Keeling became what was described

(34:12):
as hostile, both verbally and physically, began yelling at the eatery,
disturbing staff and customers, and during this tirade, Kling shot
out of her shot out her right hand with force,
hitting Herbert in the in one of her legs, and
then she then allegedly tried to tear off the victim's

(34:32):
keys and Kine's ID from a lanyard attached to Herbert's belt.
Police pointed out the victim was in fear and noted
that a couple of raising Kine's employees were there to
witness the whole thing, and the whole thing was captured
on close circuit television footage. No kidding, just killing. Arrested

(34:54):
and booked into the County Jail, from which she was
released on a twenty five hundred dollars bond. Her lawyer
entered it not plea on her behalf, presumably to give
him enough time to negotiate a settlement agreement. And it's
pointed out here, an extra one point five ounce container
of Cain's dipping sauce, beloved by executive producer Joe Strecker,

(35:19):
costs thirty nine cents. So these things aren't free, and
you should have no expectation that you should be given
eight of them with your one order of whatever Cain's
product you bought. How's that we go to Western Connecticut,
a multi million dollar mansion destroyed by a fire happened
on Thanksgiving. Western Fire Department responded to the fire three

(35:42):
forty PM. Said the callers initially described the incident as
a garage fire, but when the firefighters got there, apparently
the fire had rapidly extended to the home. And I'm
staring at a picture of it and I would say, yeah,
it's completely engulfed in flames. They tried what they called
an aggressive fire attack. Anyway, the dangerous fire conditions were overwhelming,

(36:03):
and the entire home burned down multi million dollar home.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
It was.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Apparently, in addition to that problem, a vehicle drove over
the water supply hose on the road. Fire officials said
that damaged the line and completely stopped the flow of
water for several minutes, and at that point firefighters defensive
operations were initiated and personnel remained unseen for more than
sixteen hours. Cord to the Western Fire Department statement, the
cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Western

(36:31):
Fire Marshal. However, based on the preliminary investigation, it appears
the fire began in the garage and was the result
of deep frying a turkey. Idiots doing idiot things because
there idiots home. Yet a stute observation, just tracker who

(36:52):
pointed out they could figure out that this multi million
it's actually three point eight million dollar home burned to
the ground, but because of a turkey fire, they can't
figure out what burned down the Dan Beard Bridge. Legitimate point.
Let's see here, Florida man, let's stay in Florida. Mom

(37:13):
there allegedly stole several items from Target using what they
call a bar code trick, police said, though she posted
incriminating evidence on her popular tictok account that ultimately alerted
authorities to her crimes and leading to her arrest twenty
three years yep. Marlena VELAs twenty two hosts a TikTok
page posting more than three hundred and fifty six thousand

(37:33):
followers that receives millions of views. Don't know why. Her
Marlena Villas account features mom content with her two small
children and also highlights products. Cape Coral Police Department accused
they're stealing hundreds of dollars in merchandise from a Target
store commenced. The caper commenced October thirtieth when the loss

(37:55):
prevention team over at Target Cape Coral caught a woman
using the self checkout register without scanning the product's actual
bar codes. Instead, she allegedly scanned a fake bar code,
of course, with cheaper prices and a press release, police
said sixteen nights miscellanious household goods clothing were stolen. Total
losses stolen items valued at five hundred dollars and thirty

(38:17):
two cents. They verified this with Target security cameras. They
shared video screenshots shots of her on social media pages
and asked the public to help identify her as she
was unknown to police, but of course, because she's not
unknown on TikTok, officers ultimately found her TikTok account, which

(38:37):
documents her getting ready on October thirtieth in the same
outfit and glasses going to target.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Marlee, you're stupid now shot.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Marlena documents herself picking out items inside the store and
placing them in her car after exiting the store. That
TikTok post appears to have been deleted social media account,
but police downloaded the incriminating video before it was scrubbed
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I would enjoy hearing from you. If you want to call,
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Time for some fellowship and some fun. Continuing the holiday spirit,
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obviously in years past has been a little closer to Christmas,
but since we implemented the first Wednesday of the month
policy with notable exceptions like the January listener once, which
I think is going to take place on the eighth,
so be like the second Wednesday of the month could
give him the holidays and New Year's Day and all that.
But we'll get the details on that down the road.

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In any event, though, pryceill chilly today about eleven thirty.
You can show up whenever you feel like it. We'll
say our I heard media Christmas party today. I know
Joe Strekker's looking forward to that again, another time at
which I wish the listeners could see the look on
Joe Strekker's face. Clairemont Caddy Veterans, It's coming up in
one hour, go ahead and do the rundown for folks

(40:42):
just tuning in, and thank you for tuning in. Jack Aviden,
we get to hear from Jack the brilliance of Jack
advidon uh Trump's biblical Cabinet. That's the title of his
subject matter today. I'm really looking forward to how Jack
shakes that out. But he's always brilliant though. It's fun
to listen to Jack. Seven Clarmont County Veteran Services returns
to talk about well veteran services. Alex Charantifilo coming up

(41:05):
with two hours. We're looking forward to having Alex on
the program. Ohio Republican Party chairman he is, we'll get
the inside baseball. Does he know anything about who jd.
Vance's replacement is going to be? If he does, will
he tell us State House?

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Just J.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Ecker wants to know, will they be constituent friendly? Will
someone be able to herd the cats that are the
Republican Party here in the state of Ohio in Columbus?
And what if anything can be done about Hamilton County.
Obviously we've shifted completely blue. Is there any way to
bring the flag back in Hamilton County? I don't know.
I don't know if Alex knows, but we're going to
tap his intellect for that. In the eight o'clock hour,

(41:45):
and of course, Judge Ennen of Polatano with an interesting
take on Hunter Biden's pardon, moving away from whether or
not it was right or wrong, regardless of the politics
of it. The politano thinks that it's extra constitutional the
crimes that he has and he was accused of committing, like,
for example, the Second Amendment, the right to keep him

(42:07):
bare arms shall not be infringe. Well, why is it
then that you have to fill out an FFL form
to acquire a firearm? At least in some cases, of course,
you buy one from your neighbor. You don't have to
do that. That's the gun show loophole that so many
Democrats want to get rid of. But if, as the
judge argues, the federal government and the constitutional you know,

(42:29):
the original Constitution and as the country was founded, the
republic that we are, which limits expressly the powers of
the federal government to certain specific defined areas which do
not include all include the thousands and thousands of federal
crimes on the books. So yeah, Hunter Biden is guilty

(42:49):
of the charges. He agreed that he was guilty. He
admitted the lying on his income taxes, and he of
course was found guilty of the firearms charge. If the
underlying crimes are not constitutional, it's something to think about.
It's food for thought. We'll be going to law school
with Judge of Poloton at eight thirty to talk about

(43:10):
that on a theoretical level. And I think at the
end of the column that I that I'm thankful to
get early. If history is a guide, my hopes, along
with those of Thomas Jefferson, are illusory. No, I don't
think the federal government is going to get rid of
its criminal code. I'd love to hear from you. For

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got a comment five one three seven fifty, eight hundred
and eight two three taco with Tom five fifty on
eighteen and t found And back over to Hunter Biden's
and still the hot topic going on in the world today.
We call that topic a I guess in radio that's
what they call it anyway, speaking because they did all
the behind the scenes research. The whistleblowers Joseph Ziegler and

(43:52):
Gary Shapeley defending themselves in an opinion piece Hunter Biden's
Pardon your tax dollars at work? Ordinary Americans are held
accountable when they defraud the irs, not the president's son,
stating the obvious. So we got this whole series of

(44:13):
events leading up to the pardon of Hunter Biden. And
as they point out, these Disney narrative shifts happened because
of the two of us blew the whistle and exposed
the preferential treatment the Biden Justice Department gave to a
powerful political family. Our story never changed because we told

(44:34):
the truth. Going back to the reasons, President Biden articulated
for issuing the pardon of his poor son, who was
picked on by evil forces in the government. That sounds familiar.
They say President Biden's pardon is an insult to every honest,
tax paying American. He claimed that his own Justice department

(44:56):
unfairly targeted his son. On the contrary, we the irs investigators,
produced mountains of evidence and testified under oath about the
machinations his Justice Department, including mister Weiss, used to shield
the Biden family from a thorough investigation of alleged corruption

(45:17):
in Ukraine, Romania and China. Those of us who remember,
these are the guys that wanted to interview him. These
are the guys that were told they couldn't interview them.
These are the guys that were victims of the slow
walking of the investigation which caused the statute limitations to
run out on all these behind the scenes criminal activity
and probably FARO violations. As they point out that this

(45:41):
year jury found Hunter Biden guilty of federal gun charges
in Delaware, and he pleaded guilty to wilful. He emphasized
that word wilful tax felonies in California. President's letter falsely
suggests that his son was merely late in filing and
paying his taxes because of serious addictions. He wrote that
in such cases, when back taxes are paid with penalties

(46:04):
and interests, they are often resolved without criminal penalties. But
his son was treated different differently. That's malarkey, they wrote,
of course, not even bailed reference to Joe Biden's favorite word.
The American people need to know, and the President's letter

(46:25):
omits that Hunter Biden admitted to intentional felony tax evasion,
criminal charges for which ordinary Americans are held accountable every day.
Hunter Biden admitted that he filed false tax returns with
the Internal Revenue Service knowingly and willfully while sober false

(46:52):
deductions taken on his tax return contradicted statements he made
in his memoir, which he wrote while sober. These false
deductions included things like sex club membership, luxury vehicle rentals,
and house rentals for his then girlfriend. Ordinary Americans that
be you and me or routine held accountable for that

(47:12):
kind of tax fraudmund Hunter Biden will escape accountability because
his father is president, and Joe Biden's letter doesn't mention
that his broad pardon also absolves his son of any
other crime in the past decade that the Justice Department
didn't fully investigate. A public filing in August, Special Council
Weiss's office allegs that Hunter Biden quote agreed to attempt

(47:35):
to influence US public policy he was quote on behalf
of a Romanian businessman, but didn't charge Hunter with a
violation of the Foreign Agent's Relation Registration Act. I'm not
sure if those charges have a statute limitations, folks, But
because they had the evidence that would support a Foreign

(47:57):
Agent Registration Act a charge that could certainly be pursued
by the Trump administration, that's obviously something that Joe Biden
wanted to get ahead of the dishonesty that has infected
the Washington political class must stop, they write, And the

(48:17):
bureaucrats and the Justice Department and IRS who have abused
their power and acted unethically ought to be held accountable. Yeah,
don't hold your breath for that. I'm still waiting for
Lois Learner to be held accountable for the actions that
she committed und to the Obama administration. Not gonna happen,
they write. The concert retaliation against us as whistleblowers should cease,

(48:38):
and those responsibles should be held to account. Nonprofit efforts
such as Defendwhistleblowers dot Com are helping. Without serious reform
and major changes in personnel and policies, something like this
will happen again. We the irs, investigator whistleblowers, will keep
our oathes as sworn federal law enforcement officers, stand up
for fair and equal treatment of every taxpayer and speak

(49:01):
out against improper politization of the Justice Department, which of
course was the point of their letter to the American people.
Rules for thee, not for me. And the Democrats are
getting angrier and angrier as they view the wasteland before them.
In the aftermath of Joe Barton and Joe Biden's pardon

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of his criminal son, taking the wind out of their
sales about Trump and what he might do in the future.
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Talk fifty on the AT and T phones. Let's go
to the phone see what Jay's got this morning. Hey Jay,
thanks for calling today and Happy Wednesday to you, sir.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
Happy Wednesday, Brian, Hey, I want to tell you that
I really enjoyed the Todd Zenzer segment yesterday. I'm glad
and I enjoyed it from from getting uh informed.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Yeah, you're because you're not a resident, Because you're not
a resident of the city, are you?

Speaker 3 (51:42):
I am not.

Speaker 6 (51:44):
And when I heard that what the city? You know,
not being a resident of the city means, I don't
get the vote on the mirror, I don't get the
vote on the city council, I don't get any of
the handouts.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
That continuously go on.

Speaker 6 (51:58):
And what I did, and I would encourage all your
listeners to do the same, those of us who live
outside of the big city limits of Cleveland and Sense
and Columbus.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
I sent an email to my state.

Speaker 6 (52:10):
Senator Steve Wilson and encourage him to get on your
program and send a preemptive message to Cincinnati first, and
then go to Cleveland and Columbus and tell them that
we are not going to entertain the idea of taking
the pension issue that was created in Cincinnati and put

(52:30):
that on the backs of the rest of Ohioans who
live outside of the city limits.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Ay Man, Jay Kid, that was my biggest question for
Todd is is opers even if they even get down
to a level that'll make it a viable option. That
would I think that the payoff half of the debt,
which is like down four hundred million, they got an
eight hundred and fifty do million dollar hole or something
like that. It would have to get down to four
hundred million for OPAHS to even consider it. Why in

(52:56):
the hell would the state of ote I would agree
to take on the ridiculous this pension lie build it
in the city of Cincinnati, ignored and underfunded for decades.
It's insanity.

Speaker 6 (53:05):
I love you, I especially with the super majority of
Republicans in Columbus, and I put this at the seat
of the voters of Cincinnati, who have now turned every
single seat, every city council member, every mayor, and every
big city I'll get. Well, go beyond Cincinnati. I think
I learned this on your program. Every city council member,

(53:27):
every mayor, and every big city in Ohio is Democrat.
So people inside the city limits to continue to.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Vote this way, this is your problem. I don't get
to vote, I.

Speaker 6 (53:40):
Don't get the weigh in on it. So therefore, why should.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
I, as a a a.

Speaker 6 (53:45):
Small business owner have to try to absorb this along
with everything else. And so I would encourage everybody reach
out to your politicians.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
And by the way, keep Alicia.

Speaker 6 (53:58):
Reese, I think city council member who's constantly talking about
how she needs how we need to get up to
Columbus to make sure that we get our half a
billion dollars to pay in the stadium, because the Cleveland
Browns are, you know, beating us to the trough while
they're at at Columbus. Tell them we're not in the
business to supporting private enterprise so quick, So don't think

(54:20):
about coming up here looking for your football tax.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
We're not going to pay it.

Speaker 6 (54:23):
And keep your bad decisions inside the city limits. You
guys have to clean this up, and people of Cincinnati
need to vote better.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
No vote Democrats A jay and I think again going
back to the question was raised yesterday and what the
hell happened to Hamilton County? How did it get so ployed? Well,
this is the kind of thing over time, anybody with
a measure of common sense, it doesn't realize it doesn't
want to have to deal with these outstanding obligations and
knows full well that the taxes are going to going
to have to go up to fill these holes that

(54:53):
they still want. All this stuff and things that Cincinnati
government things they can provide to them. He's just going
to pack up your bags. You're going to move to
Claremont County, or Warren County, or Butler County, or may
even head across the river to the beautiful state Commonwealth
of Kentucky. I'm glad you're doing that, Jay, and I
hope you inspired other listeners to do exactly the same.
Because if I'm in Columbus as an elected official and

(55:14):
the city as society comes to me with hat and
hands saying we're really gonna have a big problem here,
I was like, you know, where did this start? I mean,
how many years has this hole been getting bigger and bigger?
How many years do you continue to throw taxpayer dollars
at new stuff and things. Oh, I see that you
built a streetcar on debt. It's got five million dollars
a year of maintenance and upkeep charges, and oh you

(55:37):
call it free and you call it a success. You
had to sell the railroad because you refuse to take
care of the roads and infrastructure that you were responsible for.
Since the moment in time they were built or constructed,
you let them fall apart part every year, the number
of miles of roads you're supposed to repair never gets addressed.

(55:57):
And that problem just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger,
to the point where you have to sell the most
valuable money generating asset in the city of Cincinnati owns.
I'd call this a problem of your own making. I
got two words for you, and it ain't Happy Birthday, Goodbye,
go back to Cincinnati. Well, that is if I was
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Six thirty one fifty five care and see the talk station.
Don't forget I think about casy dot com. Appreciate Jay
bringing up that. I mentioned it several times this morning,
and normally I don't over and over and over remind
you about specific podcasts. But Todd Zenzer did a brilliant
analysis of that pension problem situation going on in downtown Cincinnati.

(59:14):
And you know, there they are off chasing pet projects
left and right. You know, hey, the pension problem keeps
getting worse worse every year. We're paying out of principle,
we're losing money, the investments not getting the rate of
return that we thought it was going to get. Problem
keeps getting worse. They keep ignoring it. It's one of
the things he brought up is I can't remember which

(59:35):
council person wanted to for the taxpayers of the cities
Cincinnati to pay for installing. Was it stained glass windows
in Avondale?

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Joe?

Speaker 1 (59:42):
Isn't that what he said? Joe can't remember something like that,
but it was stained glass windows for homes. Okay, you know,
I love stained glass windows. I don't expect somebody else
to pay for them. But any event, just one minor
of you know, brightened, shiny object that they want to
chase the check and that allows me to segue nicely
over to this thing we were making fun of in

(01:00:02):
the last hour, The Red Bike. I'm described as a
nonprofit red bike share program. You may have seen those
downtown if you borrow the bike and you know it's
motorized and you con cruise around. They do have enough
fund to operate until April, but according to Daniel Goodman
and Rowan reporting the for WCPO, there are questions about

(01:00:25):
whether it's going to last beyond April. Props to Joe
Strecker for observing that probably very few people are going
to want ride around on a red bike when it's
seventeen degrees out, but ignore that reality. Red Bike looking
for long term funding commitments to continue operations past April.
They say they're looking for three year commitments from public partners.

(01:00:47):
Mark Jefferies, counselman, said he's been working with a coalition
of folks over the last eight months. He says he's
confident that a deal can be reached for funding, saying
we've had conversations with in Northern Kentucky and Metro I
think early part of the year we'll have all the commitments.
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Bike share requires subsidies for all users. Consultants analyze that
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You know, like the street car. If you make it free,
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Since a fire department refuses to say what happened yet
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has definitive reason to share. We will not be able
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today is no different than the norm. Uh fast forward
one hour from now, we get the Claimont County Veteran
Services back in study to talk about well veteran services
and some updates and things that are available from my
veteran friends in the audience. Alex Trout Tofilo. At eight
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Will Alex reveal anything about who the replacement might be?

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Has someone been chosen yet that we don't know about it?
How about the State House? A think got to be
a constituent friendly question from us, Trecker. I'm gonna go
know on that one in advance and we'll see what
he has to say about that. And can we do
anything about Hamilton County? Is it a lost cause getting
Hamilton County to get more conservative? And I say the
answers no. Judge of Poltano also at eight thirty, I

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say the answer is no, it can be done. You
can turn things around. And I think you saw that
with the presidential election. Who thought Donald Trump was gonna win.
None of the Democrats. I mean, we had eight constant years,
if not more, of just constant badgering, prosecutions, law fair, demonization.

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The whole mainstream media is always one hundred percent against him.
He couldn't walk outside his front door about getting criticized
for how he ran outside his front door. Racist, misogynist,
Nazi came out, the Nazi thing, the threat to democracy,
which of course they're well, they don't have that argument
anymore given Joe Biden's parting of Hunter Biden. But the

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left wing policies in democrats cities that unfolded during the
period of time over Joe Biden's presidency, the defunding the police,
lack lives matter protests, just this absolute you know, the
decriminalization of things. And of course California has been living
with that for a little bit longer than just the

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Biden administration. But the effects are literally being felt, and
none of the effects are positive ones. I mean, going
back to Todd Zenser's comments about the financial state of
the City of Cincinnati, how you can't get rid of
the pension obligation. I'm sorry. What you have done is
pet project yourself and failure failed to do your jobs.

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Roads have fallen apart, Bridges are falling apart. The stuff
you're supposed to take care of, you well pushed to
the side in favor of this organization funding that organization.
You know the fill in the blank. You probably have
your own favorite list. Mine happens to be number one.
The streetcar, but we all know that. But another Democrat city, Chicago,

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you may have heard of it. Mayor Brandon Johnson, Democrat
among a city overwhelmingly Democrat. I live there. I know
how bad it is to be a conservative individual in Chicago.
He's getting airfral from his own people, which makes sense.
Democrats fighting back against Democrat policies, most notably Chicago's New

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Arrivals Mission, which of course relates to illegal immigrants, Sanctuary
City declaration, and everything that goes with it, food, clothing, houses, housing, shelter, education, etc.
So far has cost the city five hundred and seventy
four and a half million dollars since August of twenty two,

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and the mayor is now trying to overcome a one
billion with a B budget shortfall by the end of
the year. The solution a sixty million dollar property tax increase,
and of course the residents there that probably voted for
mayor of Brandon Johnson are not real happy about it.

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And I watched some video from this open hearing they
had the other day on this and they are mad
as hell. One woman, I got a great way we
can do with this budget. First, let's start with cutting
off illegals getting free everything, free housing, free schooling, free food. Yeah,
let's start with that. That'll save us a lot of money.
Let's start there. And let's start with you. Your salary.

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You're going down in history, is the worst mayor in America.
Let's start with cutting yours. You make too much money.
It's a cheap shot. But Rah, one of the residents,
said that she is an immigrant who came to the
United States legally, and that she, in her words, very
very embarrassed for what my other fellow Latin American citizens
are doing in this city. On behalf of the people

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that work, on behalf of the people that pay taxes,
on behalf of the people that can contribute to the city. Said,
I like to make clear that not everyone's the same.
These people came with a wide door open, and they
feel entitled to many things that nobody has. There are
US citizens suffering from poverty, there are US citizens on

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public aid, and these people are here just enjoying the
benefits becoming delinquents and they have no consequences. One guy said,
after asking for mayor's undivided attention. So this just proves
to you the lack of leadership that you show in
this city. You can't even give me straight eye contact.
Now I'm going to let you know now, the people

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of Chicago, we're done with you. The new Arrivals program,
he said in April, was to provide short term emergency
shelter to manage the humanitarian crisis, while making long term
investments in the city's capacity to handle future challenges related
to displacement and emerging migration patterns. In other words, this

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ain't over. This flood of illegals is going to continue
to come into this country. Oh but maybe a presidential
watch had something to do with stopping the flow. Maybe,
just maybe, if Donald Trump can bring about a closed
border and can solve the problem of at least the
criminal immigrants. I do not believe as I sit here
today and I will not believe that there is going
to be such a thing as mass deportation. That's a label.

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The Left is stuck on this because they're going to
talk just get the humanitarian crisis mass deportation. This is
like rounding up the Japanese and putting them in internment camps.
You can hear the rhetoric right now. But if you
start with the criminals, if you start with the known convicted,
bind through process, people who are out on the street
committing crimes, Immigrants who have come here and let allow

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to be stayed, like in sanctuary cities where they have
committed crimes, that have been through the system, prosecuted or
maybe even released back out on bail or no bail.
You got them demonstrallly having committed a crime. Start there,
and it's to be one of those now who can
argue with that kind of things. Start from the premise
that they're here illegally, that you have the right to

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deport them. Let us put them at the front of
the hearings because they've committed crimes, proving themselves to be
well a danger to the citizenry. This is something someone
in elected capacity has an obligation to do. Uphold the
laws of the United States of America protect us from
threats both foreign and domestic. That kind of stuff welcome

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to well, threats domestic people who have no legal right
to be in our country, committing felonies and killing people
and raping children in traffic children if you know where
they are and you have them dead to right, or
they have been convicted of something like that is the
other side, the left or whoever supports this unmitigated, unflowed,

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unregulated flow of humanity into our country. Are they going
to try to argue that they shouldn't be deported. There
aren't enough seats at the trough right now, and I
don't believe you can accomplish getting every single human being
who qualifies as an illegal entrant into our country out
of our country. It will be chaos. It would take decades.

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So let's just start with the hardened criminals. Let's start
with the known gang members. Let's start with well, the
people on the terrorists watch list. Let's start with maybe
trying to use some of those efforts like the efforts
they engaged in for the January sixth rioters. They spend
tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, if not
hundreds of millions, searching for that one old lady that

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they saw on video that they haven't been able to
find yet. Well, i'll tell you what, you got two
million known god aways. You don't know who they are.
They could be members of terrorist organizations. Why don't you
start trying to look for them in the same way
you started looking for the old lady that was at
the Capitol building on the January sixth. Just suggesting it,
but you got really really pissed off residents in Chicago,

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same thing in New York. If you've ever looked at
any of these meetings, they're not happy. And they're the
ones that elected these clowns into office. They're the ones
that decided they wanted to be a sanctuary city, and
now seeing the aftermath and experiencing the pain and anguish
and seeing their taxpayer dollars go someplace that they shouldn't
be going, seeing their schools being overwhelmed by people who

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do not speak English and therefore soak up the resources
for children who are supposed to be. They're learning the
basics of well building blocks of an education, reading, writing, arithmetic,
that kind of thing, so they can move forward and
maybe be successful in life. Those resources being all soaked
up by a bunch of children that don't speak English.
I mean, the list is endless, the problems are endless,

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It's seven o five. All right, Happy Wednesday listener, once
Wednesday at see priest Chili. Wednesdays at this time means
and thank god, it means the brilliant. Jack Addaden returns
to the program to offer his commentary renaissance man, lawyer, anchorman, author, historian, raconteur.
Welcome back, Jack Adaden. It's great to have you on
the fifty five KRC Morning Show again.

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
My friend.

Speaker 9 (01:16:39):
Happy holidays, Brian, Joe, all of our friends and neighbors.
We're now well into advent, the preparation for Christmas. You
already have your tree, of.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
Course, although we're missing a string of lights. You know,
every year, Jack, and we went through this again, literally
every year we buy brand new lights to replace the
ones that, for whatever magical reason, decide to die over
the storage period of the summer. You put the damn
tree up and you find out, you know, half your
light strings don't work. So we have a half lit tree.
Got to go out today. Probably should have done it yesterday.

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But yeah, the tree is up. It's just not finished yet.
Damn those lights really really anger me. They have like
an internal self destruct mechanism. It's just part of the
joy of the season. Oh that's joy.

Speaker 9 (01:17:23):
This here, Honika, by the way, coincides with Christmas, and
all of that got me thinking about something I hope
people won't find blasphemous. Is Donald Trump try to assemble
a biblical cabinet?

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
Now?

Speaker 9 (01:17:38):
Wait, I am in no way equitting Trump with God,
the Father or the Son. And since he escaped assassination twice,
he's not a ghost, but God's partners. We're not all
obvious choices, and neither are President Trump's. For instance, when
God picked Moses to leave the Jews at a bondage

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in Egypt, Moses himself said, Lord, you got the wrong guy.
He pleaded, I am slow of speech and tongue, and
he had other issues. Moses was quick to lose his temper,
as when he caught the ungrateful Israelites worshiping a golden calf.
Where's you're Moses?

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
Now?

Speaker 9 (01:18:22):
Yeah, that's when Moses smashed the tablets that God gave
him that contained the Ten Commandments your tone. For all
of that, the Israelites had to wander around the desert
for forty years. So even if he looked like Charlton Heston,
Moses was not which you would call central casting to
be a leader. Neither were the New Testament Disciples Brian Brian.

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Jesus did not choose any temple scholars, no generals. Yes,
Herod had generals, Jesus gave them a pass. He instead
chose nobody who would be considered experience much less distinguished.
Jesus set out to save the world with a few fishermen,
alongside a tax collector, a thief, and a zealot, what

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today we'd call a fanatic. Jesus was not looking for
men and women who could work smoothly with the Jerusalem establishment,
because he wanted to establish an entirely new way of
thinking and acting. The religious member of my family, Aimesley,
always gave the fish eye to the disciples, and yes

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that as a religious pun. Fish was the first Christian symbol.
Because when the going got rough and Jesus was arrested,
the disciples headed for the hills. Peter, the future rock
of the church, even denied Jesus three times, the really
brave ones were women, as my wife never tires of
reminding me. Yet, once the disciples grew backbones, they were

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willing to be martyred, and they weren't seeking riches or advancement.
They weren't looking for some revolving door. They believed fervently
in their cause. Contrary to what the establishment media says,
Donald Trump is not looking for knee jerk disciples. At
one point, his vice president JD. Vance of Middletown denied

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Trump pretty vividly. Another heretic, Elon Musk Trump, but didn't
hesitate to reach out to him. He is not only
a visionary but also a patriot. More than anybody. His
ex platform is preserving the foundation of our freedom, free speech,
and now Elon and Cincinnati's own Vivek Ramaswami will help

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shrink government to assize that's fit for free citizens, not dictatorship.
Trump's cabinet is not devoid of experience. Soon to be
treachery Secretary Scott Bessant is one of the most respected
masterminds on Wall Street. By the way, Besson happens to
be gay, but unlike Biden's Transportation Secretary Pete Buddha Judge

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Bessen was not picked because he's gay. Besson to unlike
paternity leave, Pete is actually qualified to do his job
or take incoming borders.

Speaker 1 (01:21:17):
Are Tom Homan.

Speaker 9 (01:21:19):
He's going to build on his previous work with Ice
to secure our borders and to port vicious criminals, drug dealers,
and human traffickers who were waved in by Biden and Harris.
Those illegals have been beefing up blue congressional districts from
California to New York, from which Democrats have fled. Yes, folks,

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the census counts illegals, including illegals who should have been
deported years ago. One point four million of these serious
criminals have already had hearings and are now sitting in
detention facilities, eating three squares a day, waiting to.

Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
Be to it.

Speaker 9 (01:22:01):
Yet Biden and Harris have let them stay at taxpayer expense.
Now we have to admit some other Trump nominees appear
to be more problematic. The biggest surprise was Trump's original
choice for Attorney General, Florida Congressman Matt Gays. But look,
even Jesus made one bad pick. Although many believed Judas

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was meant to fulfill biblical prophecy, and maybe Trump had
a plan too. Matt Gates denies accusations that he had
sex with the teenager Trump, who has been the target
of damnable lies starting with Hillary's fake Russia dossier. Trump
believed Matt Gates because even Biden's Justice Department refused to

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prosecute him. And now we'll have to see how things
shake out with Pete Hegseth. But in any event, Brian
Trump now has the nominee he probably should have picked
in the first place.

Speaker 2 (01:22:53):
For Justice.

Speaker 9 (01:22:55):
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi scans of experience, and
anybody who's heard Pam on Fox for years knows she
will fight like a zealot against political lawfare at Justice,
including the FBI, which Cash Bettel will cleanse the way
Moses melted down the Golden Calf and Jesus turned out

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the Temple money changers. In short, Donald Trump knows that
the whole Washington establishment, the corrupt globalist in too many cases,
bipartisan Washington establishment needs to come to Jesus moment. The
elites don't care about ordinary American people, which is why

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ordinary people like us, the extraordinary people, maybe not like us,
who work hard, raise families, and celebrate this holiday season
for all the right reasons. Trump knows we the people
need a different kind of elite. And in the season
of hope, I pray this new religious cabinet consume, get

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down to work.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
I wondered how you were going to work all that
in I saw the headliner the caption Trump's Biblical Cabinet.
I was kind of joking around all morning. I have
no idea which way Jack's going to go with this one.
I didn't know either. I like it, just I hope
for the best.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
You always do a great job bring things full circle.
That's why you're so brilliant man. Now, let me you know.

Speaker 9 (01:24:21):
There was one other thing I wanted to mention. Unless
you want to touch on this, and I know you've
been hitting hard as well as you should. This Hunter
Biden clemency from a devoted father. That's a croc. I
haven't seen enough comment about this, so maybe I'm wrong.
I think that's sitting around the Thanksgiving table with a

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Hunter Biden sentencing now, I think eleven days away, everybody
is worried that Hunter is going to rat on the
big guy and the whole Biden family in order to
make some money selling the book and going on TV.
There is still a chance after Biden leaves office, Hunter
will do that because he'll always be hard up, and

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I think he's passed the golden period of his artwork.
But yeah, there was absolutely nothing benevolent about this. The
way that Biden has treated his children driven them in
large measure to drug dependency and a lot of other
poor behavior. Look at the Trump kids, every single one

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of them. They've all turned out to be sterling citizens.
Joe Biden had to give this pardon to save himself.

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
Yeah, I suppose that there is something in that. And
of course, you, being a lawyer, you understand this as
well that since Hunter Biden has been forgiven and given
a free pass for literally any federal crime he had
committed over the past decade plus, he no longer can
claim the right, or the Fifth Amendment right to be
free of self incrimination, because on any issue that crops

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up criminally that he has facts involving, he could be
called as a material witness and be forced to testify,
even if it would have been against his criminal interest.
Without the pardon, So that's gone and he then becomes
a rather interesting target for depositions.

Speaker 9 (01:26:09):
So if he rants, if he rats Brian, I think
he's going to want to be paid for it. But yes,
your point is well taken.

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
Well, you're going to love this quote. I read this.
A federal judge was the dismissal of the tax case issue,
and he first saw found that it was lacked the
appropriate form, So there's a technical issue before he dismisses
the case. But he had a few things to say
about it, and he initially pointed out, you know, constitution

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does give him broad authority to grant reprieve, but it
does not give him the authority to rewrite history. And
so he gave him a tongue lashing about that no
reasonable person look at the facts and they could reach
any of the consideration that Biden was singled out orly
because he's the president's son. And then the judge says, hey,
but two federal judges expressly rejected Biden's agreements. Hunters arguments

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that the government persecuted and prosecuted him because of his
famil relations with the president, and the president's own attorney
general and Apartment of Justice personnel oversaw the investigation which
led to the charges and the President's at estimation this
legion of federal civil surgeons, the unservants, the undersigned, included

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the judge, are unreasonable people. So yeah, that whole contingency
in cadre of folks that worked under the Biden administrations,
all the one that brought these charges against them. But
this is the part you're going to get a kick
out of. To your point that he may want to
sell his information or for his own personal benefit or otherwise,
you know, rat them all out, he said. Subject to

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the following this discussion, the Court assumes the pardon is
effective and we'll dispose of the case. The Supreme Court
long is recognized that notwithstanding its nearly unlimited nature, here
you get to the punchline. The pardon power extends only
to past offenses. I think that was kind of a
shot over the bowel that he expects Hunter Biden to

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go back and start engaging in criminal conduct after at
some future date. So pardon only applies to things in
the past. And real quick before you go, you mentioned
hope at the end of your monologue.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:28:15):
I'm optimistic and maybe overly so, and I keep looking
for someone perhaps with a greater sense of logic and
reason to burst my bubble or at least support my
hope for this musk rama swimy doge Department. They're not
paid officials. They exist outside of the government. They're going
to basically sit in a room, unpaid, go through the
books and try to cut everything. Now, I'm optimistic. I

(01:28:38):
don't know that what they are going to present and
hand over to Congress by way of recommendations for consolidations
or cuds or whatever, I don't know if that's going
to be embraced by everybody. But what this is going
to do and why I'm finding my hope, is that
it's going to educate the American people on both sides
of the political ledger about who the people are that

(01:28:59):
want to protect these ridiculous vested interests in taxpayer dollars
and political boondoggles. It's already started with regard to the
Inflation Reduction Act, that nonsensical Green New Deal, and you've
already got Republican governors and Republican representatives from states who
get a lot of ethanol money and carbon capture money.

(01:29:20):
They're saying no, no, no, no, we're we're we're gonna
make a lot of tax payer money on that. We
really need those programs. See it started already.

Speaker 9 (01:29:28):
Well, that's always the greatest problem. We have it right here,
Mike Turner up the street. As far as Vivek and
Elon go, it's no slight to them to say that
what they really are as advisors. There's there's a long
tradition of that. FDR had a man named named Bernard Baruch,
Woodrow Wilson had General House. Every president has advisors, and

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that doesn't mean that they're not immensely powerful. And depending
on the quality of the recommendations that those who come
up with, and I think they're going to be sterling too,
there's going to be a big change in the direction
of this government.

Speaker 1 (01:30:07):
I hope so. And at minimum we're going to learn
who the bad actors are on both sides of the equation.
Because if it's something that is there's so much fraud, waste,
and abuse, I think every effort along those lines to
ferret it out is a great idea. And you'll see
as of today quite a few Democrats are actually saying, yeah,
this is a good idea. Now they want to, you know,

(01:30:27):
support this doge concept because they want to protect their
turf in a lot of ways, and by supporting it,
maybe they'll be able to control what is and isn't cut.
But that's where the sausage is made, and that's what
I'm looking forward to, finding out who the people are. Jackie.

Speaker 9 (01:30:41):
Let me alert people to one thing. Yeah, that you're
going to be hearing that the DOGE recommendations will be
expensive because we're going to have to give severance pay
of people and retraining. Now there's already a commitment to that,
but those are one time payments. Yes, what we are
living with goes on to eternity. To get back to
the biblical side.

Speaker 1 (01:31:01):
It sure does get a little theology lesson couple with politics,
so Jack added, and you'll find a podcast at five
cars dot com. Jack until next Wednesday. God bless you sir,
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Chili last one of the years celebratory mood. We are
going to be and I know Santa Claus is going
to show up aka Bob letter from the wish Tree.
There'll be a wish tree there at price still Chili,
and I'm strongly encourage my listeners to help those on
life margins by grabbing an ornament off of the wish

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tree and purchasing whatever it is on the ornament. They'll
take care of it for you. Great operation.

Speaker 2 (01:32:51):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:32:53):
Well, I'm very proud of the I think this is
the fortieth year for that. In any event, we get
to the talk about County Veteran Services Steve Belzo in
studio to talk about some things they got going on
for my veteran friends, local stories, and this is you know,
actually it's a wonderful thing. It's sad on so many levels,

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but fortunately we have what are called now safe Haven
baby box and the one in Lebanon was just used
to safely surrender a baby girl. Webanon Police said. This
is a year and a half after it was installed.
Boxes located at the fire station on North Broadway installed
of October last year, the tenth safe Haven baby box

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in the state. Lebanon Police say Monday the City of
Lebanon Communications Center received an alarm from the box about
three thirty in the afternoon. Police and fires showed up,
finding a baby girl had been surrendered. Theyby immediately taken
to since sint Children's Hospital and Warren County Children's Services
officials were notified. These boxes are being installed in fire
departments across the country, thus allowing parents the option to

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safely and securely as well as anonymously surrender in newborn
if they are unable to provide care for it. Under
Ohio's safe Haven Law, baby Box allows parents to again
anonymously surrender newborn without any criminal charges related to it.
Once the baby's inside the box, it locks itself and
then sends a series of alerts to first responders. And

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since safe Haven's launch in twenty sixteen, thirty five babies
have been surrendered nationwide. That's according to their website. So
one wife saved and going back and please, please, please,
if you care about finances and you want to know
what politicians are capable of doing by way of destruction

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in terms of budgetary realities. Todd Zinzer on the program
yesterday talking without the City of Cincinnati and the Pension
problems that they face which are seemingly insurmountable. And one
of the things that he was joking about, sort of
half joking, is just the reality. And Westside Jim Keefer
told me it was council member Kearney whose idea was

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for the city to pay for stained glass windows. I
believe it was in Avondale. And this is after Todd
and I'd been talking about the six hundred and nearly
seven hundred billion dollars a million dollar hole in the
pensions program which has been just ignored largely for the
past several decades. With that, I pivot over to the
Red Bike program. Nonprofit Red Bike. They just announced they

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have enough funds for you to ride a red bike
all winter long up until April of next year, but
then they don't they have any money after that. They're
looking for what they describe as long term funding commitment
so they can continue operation past April when the weather
gets warm enough to ride a bike. Council Member Mark
Jefferies said he's been working with a coalition it would
be partners over several months and said he's confident a

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deal is going to be reached with funding before April,
including funding from vriety different sources going back to budgetary
problems facing the city. They say money from Metro Northern Kentucky,
the City of Cincinnati, and maybe some corporate sponsors or
tourist partnerships. The latter two I embrace all day long.
You can get a corporate sponsor, make it work fine,

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that's less taxpayer dollars to go for that program. Bike
Share requires subsidies for all users. Props to WCPO Danielle
Goodman and Andrew Rowan for the reporting on this. Consultants
analyze that the fair box only covers thirty seven percent

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of the overall cost of the bike per ride. The
Go program requires further subsidy for lower cost so the
new plan spreads the investment across multiple stakeholders. It's a
comment from a counsulman, Jefferies and said it's a very
sensible plan. Bike Share Program board voted to shut red

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Bike down per in March because of funding issues that
arose after it's lost a major sponsor. Executive director Doug
mcclinty previously told WCPO that would have taken well over
a quarter of a million dollars to really make sure
that we're not having to close things down, but multiple
organizations across creators SINCINNY have pledged to fund the Red

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Bike program. They have four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
totally pledged. I guess ridership down this year versus last,
but its Go pass program has seen a steady increase
in popularity, at least according to Red Bike. It's a
five dollar monthly membership for low income customers compared to

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full fare thirty dollars monthly memberships. And again that go
program requires further subsidies to keep the cost down. So
we'll see if they can't find the money for that program.
So at thirty six, if you have Kesee talk station,
we're gonna learn some things from Carmack County Veteran Services.
Steve Belzo in studio to talk about that. And I
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The talk station seven forty one here, I could you
have k City talk station so happy it's Wednesday, listener
on It's Wednesday. As I keep reminded folks throughout the morning,
we're gonna be a price heal chilly today, last one
of the year. Come and enjoy some food, food, fellowship
and the celebratory nature of the holiday season. It's always
a great time, at least from my perspective, and it's

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always a great time, and it's a wonderful thing for
me to invite into the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
Anybody that's looking out for veterans causes and someone who does,
Steve Bozo with the Clarmont County Veterans Services. You can
find him on my Comer County Veterans dot com. Steve.
Good to have you here, my friend.

Speaker 4 (01:41:12):
Good morning, Brian, and just a shout out to our
fellow warriors out there on the streets listening.

Speaker 1 (01:41:17):
Amen, Amen to all of them. And whatever kind of
holiday you're celebrating, I personally don't care. My only point
is at least be in a celebratory mood. I feel
like we've been living with so much anger division. The
politics has gotten so out of hand, absolutely the elections
behind us. Let's exhale, let's enjoy and embrace each other
this holiday spirit. And that was one of the wonderful things.

(01:41:37):
I don't to eat into your time, but thanks I
was just telling you about Thanksgiving, about my diet, just
how wonderful it was, the p con pie. But uh,
zero discussion of politics, great, nothing, zero, zilch, nada. No
one brought up anybody's name, No one said yay. No
one said, oh my god, this sucks. It was just

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talking about family and how great the food was. No
more dissension, it was so wonderful. And then you know
the other component of it was, you know, I was
waiting for all hell to break loose to day after
the election, regardless who won, the riots in the streets
and again, oh my god. Anyway, Steve Beck over to
the Climate K Veteran Services ROI return on investment. That's

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I said, I didn't get any notes today and you
said return on investment? Like, no, the hell?

Speaker 4 (01:42:29):
Yeah, how do we spend this for veterans? Let's let's
talk about I'm from the senior enlisted, from the sergeant major.
There is constant investment in the troops. You're constantly teaching
to benefit them both in war time and in peace.
How do you improve your life? How are we going
to combat the enemy. It's always this direction and redirection

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so that we are the most competent lethal force that
we can be. Now, bring that back out in civilian world.
I've got to start out though, Brian. The seventh of
December is coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
Yeah, everyone knows what I hope is right.

Speaker 4 (01:43:08):
God's say December seven's coming up. We all know the
attack on Pearl Harbor World War two, the door that
the enemy kicked open that engaged our involvement. Now I
bring that up because one World War two veterans. They
are passing away and going to Devin's hats quicker than
we can count. But yet they're still out there.

Speaker 2 (01:43:30):
So thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:43:31):
Amen.

Speaker 4 (01:43:32):
You've set a precedent of who America is on the
global scale. So great job. There is also a degree
of leadership, or lack thereof behind December seventh. There's conversation
that we actually knew the Japanese Imperial Army was looking

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at data at the United States and the time to
hit them days in advance of December seventh. Yes, I've
heard that President Roosevelt put a little bit of leadership
effort and forethought into where do you think if they
are wheld, they come from Japan?

Speaker 1 (01:44:17):
Right, right, specific exactly between California and Japan.

Speaker 4 (01:44:22):
Oh my gosh, we have this small bump out in
the middle of the ocean, right so to fly sorties.
This was an aircraft flying a mission. We call them sorties. Yeah,
two to four hours out.

Speaker 1 (01:44:33):
Every day.

Speaker 4 (01:44:34):
Do you think we would have seen the Imperial Army
steaming towards Hawaii life effected a strike on them in surprise,
rather than on us. The lack of leadership and decision
making is what affected Pearl Harbor.

Speaker 1 (01:44:51):
Yeah, now.

Speaker 4 (01:44:54):
It's behind us. So what's in front of us now?
Veterans are on active duty, veterans come on effective duty.
And what I want to talk about is that the
lack of a leadership by our government for our veterans.
We often look at the military individual just twenty years. Wow,
that's great. Twenty years. You're thirty eight years old. You've

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got a lifetime retirement already, better than one four oh
one k fifty percent of your base pay for the
rest of your life at twenty years. Back in the
late eighties early nineties, the government came out with what
was called the Reducts Plan. Now, the Reducts Plan is
what fifteen years, a career service member could receive a

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thirty thousand dollars bonus. The trade off fifteen years, I'm
going to send a thirty thousand dollars bonus to your
bank account. I'm attacks at first, So at twenty percent, right,
you're maybe receiving twenty four thousand now, right, Now for
that is that when you hit twenty years and you retire,

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and let's say A seven for one of the branches
retires at twenty years, fifty percent of his base pay.
That base pay now, because you accepted that thirty thousand
dollars bonus at fifteen years is reduced to forty percent.
Oh wow, I'm giving up ten percent of my retirement
every year for the rest of my life. Now, consider

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it's about two hundred and fifty dollars a year that
you're giving up. And in ten years the government would
have reclaimed it's thirty thousand dollars or it's twenty four
thousand dollars at lent tea. Yeah, right, what eight years
is twenty four? Yeah, I'm sure they'd give ten years. Right,
she retired twenty years. I've paid them back two hundred

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percent of the thirty thousand they gave me.

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Seven fifty two. We up here CD talk station Brian Thomas,
Steve Belzo from Clemont County Veteran Services. Find them online
at Claremont County Veterans dot com. Okay, you set the
stage for why it's a bad idea to take that
thirty grand dangling care to fifteen years into service. Right
if you just wait, you're gonna get so much more
by way of your your your post service retirement retirement

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of fits.

Speaker 4 (01:49:49):
It's but you know, in the lifespan of retirement of
a veteran that equates to almost six hundred to eight
hundred thousand dollars, because not only are you giving up
ten percent of your carrement pay, your cost of living
adjustments are next until you hit sixty two, you get
a one time cost of living adjustment where the rest

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of the world gets it every year, right, or the
United States? Right, the social curity says, oh, this is
the cost of living adjustment. You don't get it, so
your retirement pay is declining every year. We are advancing
this economy.

Speaker 1 (01:50:22):
That's amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:50:23):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:50:23):
Let's just all explain in detail to active service members
at fifteen years when they're offered this very very tempting
I'm going to go buy a new car thirty thousand
dollars payment.

Speaker 4 (01:50:34):
You know, how many would you see in line with
their fingers in their ears even though you're trying to
teach them, because all they see is the fact period
of thirty thousand dollars. So it's the education, right, it's
having as a leader.

Speaker 2 (01:50:47):
Stop right.

Speaker 4 (01:50:48):
My admin's not allowed to sign it until they come
see me that they want it, and they're gonna dance
the boogie dance in front of me to validate why
this is beneficial to them, and then I get to
turn it back on them. This is what that's going
to cost you. Now, when we consider that, where's the wisdom?
If I'm not there, where's the wisdom I'm not Oh,

(01:51:10):
thirty grand looks great, sounds great, man, boy, could I
pay off some bills today? We're just going to start
increasing them again tomorrow. Right, it's like the credit card scheme, right,
I'm just gonna start adding to it. So it's like
you taking your foreign car to Steve's oil change. I
just started it down the corner. Come on, bring your
car over to me. I'll change the oil. Brian, I've

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got I've got a filter and a couple of courts
of oil. I don't know what weight they are. Would
you take your car to me?

Speaker 2 (01:51:35):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:51:36):
No, right, So I had foreign exchange absolutely right, certified technicians.

Speaker 8 (01:51:44):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:51:44):
And so when we're talking now outside the military, my
office Claremont County Veteran Service Office, my service officers are
as certified as your mechanics are at foreign exchange. They
are certified with the state, they are certified nationally. They
are smart, intelligent, and have the ability to file paperwork

(01:52:08):
with the VA in accordance with how the VA wants
to see it. There are things of primary presumptive secondary conditions.
But just like the reducts plan, who does that benefit?
Obviously the government, the VA decides, I'm we are going
to let veterans apply on their own behalf now, so

(01:52:30):
we're gonna put it out on our website. Do you
really think that's going to benefit the veteran?

Speaker 1 (01:52:35):
If there are pitfalls and problems and traps that you
can fall into, then the answer is no. It requires
someone like you to explain it does.

Speaker 4 (01:52:46):
It is atrocious. Alls I have to have is an
old form. Alls I have to have is an inappropriate
sequence of filing. And all this gets denied and then
I've got to set an appeal, so it's one of
two months to hear back. Now I got it to
set an appeal, it's one to two months for that,
and it keeps snowballing. So then what happens They call

(01:53:07):
my office and want to talk to my service officers.
What did I do wrong? I did this on my own.
It's kind of like your friend back in high school
decide he's going to rebuild his own motorcycle and he
ends up taking all the boxes of parts down the
local motorcycle shower and go, I couldn't figure it out.
We you assemble it, which would have been more economical
for your friend.

Speaker 1 (01:53:26):
Always hire the professional. Hire the professional. Rests money.

Speaker 4 (01:53:29):
Yes, absolutely, and agreed, So my services they're free. Make
the appointment. I'm not even charging you to put the
motorcycle back together.

Speaker 1 (01:53:37):
That's that's awesome advice, Steve. It's terrific what you do.
And I know everyone there shares your enthusiasms health the
American veterans.

Speaker 2 (01:53:44):
They do.

Speaker 1 (01:53:45):
That's the great thing about it. It's not the government,
you know. I know you were government anty in the
sense you're funding, but you know, the point is you're
on the side of the veteran. You have a fiduciary
obligation to the veteran. Yes, it's not something written down
it says that because you could steer them in the
wrong way and say no, no, just go ahead and
fill off the form online. They'll take care of it.
Or you can walk through the pitfalls, the challenges and

(01:54:07):
the concerns that they may very well fall in to
avoid the whole headache. And they're happy and you are
fulfilled in your.

Speaker 4 (01:54:13):
Mission and they're tracking your claim for you.

Speaker 1 (01:54:15):
See Claremont County Veterans dot Com. Stephen, the cur will
take great care of you. God bless you, stee you
for your service for our country, your continued service for
the American veteran and everything you all do out there
day to day. It is my pleasure. I love love
helping out the veterans. Seven fifty seven fifty five KR
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do a little aftermath. We're going to find out about
jd Vance's replacement maybe and is Hamilton County a loss
cause he'll be up next.

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Look what it happened.

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This has ever been two, three, four.

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Speaker 1 (01:55:08):
Eight oh five IA. I have KRCD Talk Station. A
very happy Wednesday to you friend Thomas. Inviting everyone to
listen to Lunch at Price so Chilli. I'll do that
a couple more times for the end of the show today.
Looking forward to seeing everyone and been looking forward to
this moment in time all morning when I saw him
on the rundown. Welcome back to the morning show, Alex Chanceafilo,
head of the Ohio Republican Party. That's a pleasure to

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have you on the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:55:30):
Show, Brian, Good morning, sir, Good to be with you.

Speaker 1 (01:55:34):
Did you have a particularly thankful Thanksgiving this year, sir?

Speaker 3 (01:55:38):
Well, you know, I certainly did. I, as I've told
a lot of friends, this is the most enjoyable post
election period of my career. We obviously had a very
good night here in Ohio, an excellent night actually, So yeah,
I'm thankful for good things. But you know, Brian, much
like yourself, I know I see you on social and
I know a little bit about you. I'm grateful to
have a wonderful family and a hugely supportive and solid,

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loving family. That's that's all around me, And that's really, Brian,
what ultimately matters, my friend, You and I both know
and that that was great. Watch a little football. None
of it any good.

Speaker 2 (01:56:12):
You know, all the teams I cared about went down.

Speaker 3 (01:56:14):
But you know, Ohio State loses the Michigan, the Bengals
take another painful loss, the Bearcats get beat.

Speaker 2 (01:56:22):
I know that the hat trick of bad.

Speaker 1 (01:56:25):
You know, it's tough being a football fan here in
Ohio of late, But anyway, the games have been enjoyable.
I've enjoyed watching football more this year I think than
any year of my life. In spite of the fact
that most of the teams that I support are losers,
I'm just starting to enjoy the game. Maybe it's my
old age kicking in, but anyhow, Yes, and you're right,
I'll double down on your on your your noting thanks

(01:56:46):
for wonderful family. I mean without family, I don't know. Well,
I wouldn't be I wouldn't be Alie right now without
my wife and family. So, without further ado, one of
the reasons that Thanksgiving was so wonderful, in addition to
taking a break from a ridiculous diet and enjoying pecan
pie made by my wife, nobody taught politics, and it
was a glorious thing. We all just sort of just

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smiled and chatted and remembered and had stories to tell
and what we were doing in our lives, and that
was a refreshing experience. And I feel a little lighter
after the election is over, because I really and I
don't know how you felt, or those in your inner
circle felt, but I think most of my listeners, because
I've heard from so many of them, were really concerned
about the day after and that it was going to

(01:57:29):
some sort of riot in the street kind of thing.
Most notably, and I want to just get your reaction
on this point on that if Trump had not won
the popular vote, they would have been screaming in the
streets about getting rid of the electoral college. Right. Oh,
here it happens again. The popular vote went for you know,
Kamala Harrison. Nonetheless, the electoral college bubble burst nothing. The

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silence is deafening, and it's beautiful, and it just it
just it was like a tremendous weight had been lifted
off my shoulders out about over the abundance of concern
that I had been keeping internally.

Speaker 3 (01:58:02):
Well, no, I agree, and you know the noise that
I experienced eight years ago. Actually, and I won't recount
the whole story, but I was. I was an elector
for President Trump even eight years ago, meaning I was
one of you know, at the time, seventeen or I
think it was seventeen people that went to the electoral College,
and I was inundated with calls and emails and letters

(01:58:23):
sent to me saying ignore the will of Ohio voters
and do not, let you know, do not name Donald Trump.
That noise was overwhelming and really pushing back and I've
heard none of that. I mean, I really think, Brian,
I really my observation of this election cycle was, especially now,
the nation got a major course correction, and.

Speaker 2 (01:58:42):
You're seeing it.

Speaker 3 (01:58:42):
I mean, you see things like AOC stripping her bio
of her chosen pronouns, right. I mean, I think that
Democrats are saying, gosh, we went too far, too fast,
something we've been saying forever. And you know, I said
for really a year, especially as the Ohio chairman, because
I would get these calls saying, well, you know, it's
not a swing state anymore, and I would say, listen,

(01:59:04):
it's not that the state has changed that dramatically. Our
populations haven't shifted. The Democrats shifted. They they left the
mainstream of American politics. And you're seeing it now, you know,
from some of the gray hairs in their party. James Carville.
I saw something with Ron mcmanuel saying, you know, we've
we've lost our way. We've been saying that. I mean,
I you know, the Democrats used to talk about kitchen
table issues as well, and we would have a healthy debate,

(01:59:26):
you know, Brian, about how to split up the American pie,
how to how to make the best use of this
this wonderful capitalist system of ours, and that stopped that
that the Democrats have walked away. They don't even believe
in the system anymore. It seems to me most Democrats,
you know, barely sort of support the Constitution and patriotism
in the Statue of Liberty. So you know, it's that's

(01:59:48):
that's where they are. And you know they've paid a
price at the poll. So uh, you know, we've seen
we've seen a shift here over the last month where
I think even Democrats are chasened a bit and they
know that, you know, they I know that they have
to find themselves back to the center of American politics.

Speaker 2 (02:00:03):
So this is going to continue to happen.

Speaker 1 (02:00:05):
Amen. And I guess the mere fact that although I
know he is going to be sworn in as president,
he is the next president Donald Trump. They no longer
have that whipping boy that they would card out literally
every other word in any subject matter they were talking about.
You know, the Congress accent fails, the passive piece of legislation.
What's Trump's fault, Well, he's not in office, amn its

(02:00:26):
trumps fault Trump drop trum trump tr Trump. And they
tried to build it up so much and make people
feel so guilty for even uttering the man's name with
anything positive to say about him. People shut their mouths,
kept quiet and low, and behold, he got elected president,
and he got elected by the majority of the people
in the country. On top of it, so boom, the
whole argument is gone, and leaving them with what nothing

(02:00:48):
other than to recalibrate, readjust and realize that the majority
of American people are not woke. They're not in favor
of DEI, they're not in favor of defunding police, not
in favor of decriminalizing the system. And we've all witnessed
the aftermath of those ridiculous policies that have been embraced
over the past four to six years. Man, it's uh,
it's it's I'm sorry. I'm just really enjoying on a

(02:01:11):
sort of a Shoden Freud a kind of level right now.
Except for Hamilton County. I can ask you about that one.
Is it too late? And I part of me wants
to think, you know, and we can talk about some
of the larger issues Jdvans for example here Alex, But
you know, Hamilton County. I went to bed knowing that
it was all blue. We lost the prosecutor, we didn't
get the shareff we got. You know, we all knew

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what the outcome of the other races was going to be,
you know, depending on where they were. But blue, blue, blue, blue, blue,
all across. But as you look out over the landscape,
and you know, sort of like the discussion we're having
right now, people are rejecting. They are reversing, They are
going back on what used to work. The bluest cities
in the country are screaming their bloody heads off over
the resources being allocated to the illegal immigration flow. They're

(02:01:54):
screaming about their neighborhoods being taken over by drug addicts
and drug dealers. All the stores being closed is because
no one prosecutes a crime for stealing. Stores are closing.
It's in the citizen read. The Democrats who elected the
woke officials to put these pauses into place are now

(02:02:15):
seeing the aftermath and demanding that they do a one eighty. Now,
with that said, can that happen in Hamilton County?

Speaker 3 (02:02:25):
Well, you know the answer is that I remain hopeful.
You know, I left being the chair there a couple
of years ago, and I you know, I walked very carefully.
What's happening here? I still live here half the time,
so you know, it's important that things go well in
Hamilton County. Look, the answer really is this, Brian, It's
an answer unfortunately I've given a long time. I mean,
big cities really across the America, that's not It's certainly

(02:02:46):
believed me having gotten around the state. It's the exact
same conversation is happening in Cleveland. The exact same conversation
is happening in Columbus. You know they have am can
tell you in Columbus for instance, they've really the Republican
Party there and they've got a great, strong leader, much
like we have here. They just you know, they didn't
even field candidates because you know, you're picking your spots.
I mean, the future really for Hamilton County is I've

(02:03:07):
got a couple of prescriptions and they're not you know,
none of them aarticularly sexy. I mean, but one thing
I want Hamilton County residents to not forget is you
are an important voter to the messaging here in Ohio.
I mean, look, Hamilton County delivered one hundred and seventy thousand,
roughly votes for Donald Trump. Just to give you a comparison,

(02:03:27):
Butler County, which is a very red county, delivered about
one hundred and fifteen thousand votes for Donald Trump. So
we need Hamilton County fully functioning, fully voting, and the
same is true for Bernie Marino and everybody else. So
you know, the impact that big counties have on this
statewide ticket, it's not going away. So you know, these

(02:03:48):
counties matter very very much now, these county level races,
I think. So the first thing is you can't lose
sight of that as a Republican in Hamilton County. The
second thing is, you know, we can actually, you know,
begin to field targeted races with candidates with crossover appeal.
And sometimes, you know, that's a hard message to hear,
especially from you know, some of my really conservative friends,
and I count myself among that group, but it's hard

(02:04:11):
to say it, but sometimes you have to find and
I think most of the powers had that. I think
she had ran a wonderful campaign, but you know, you're
just you're just in a blue city and it just
makes it harder and harder. But you know, look, I mean,
as I've as I've shared with the local chairman here
and the ones in Cleveland and Columbus, you know, don't
don't You know you have to celebrate what you were
a part of, and that is winning Ohio because, believe me,

(02:04:32):
Ohio does not go for Donald Trump without Cleveland, Columbus
and Cincinnati showing up in huge numbers. And make no mistake,
Brian Republicans in Hamilton County turned out. They did turn out.
The problem is there's just too many people in the
cities continuing to hear this left wing message from the
Democratic Party. And look, can we turn that around? I
think we can. You're seeing us make inroads, certainly with

(02:04:54):
halfcan American males for making inroads. You're seeing crime as
a key issue for our party. So yeah, there is
hope ahead, but you know it's going to take a slow,
steady progression and candidates who can speak to issues that
Democrats care about in the big cities.

Speaker 1 (02:05:08):
Well, and you know, I like meless of power. She
went literally everywhere in the county, all over the place,
much in the same way Donald Trump as a presidential candidate,
went into areas and neighborhoods and edit forums that no
other Republican president would have dare trod and he proved
and got unable to was able to get his message out.
I mean, even just by running a candidate that may

(02:05:29):
have a very low likelihood of winning as a Republican,
you can get forced the other side to have to
address these key issues. And that's kind of where my
hope comes from, because those far left wing policies have
ruined cities, and even the Democrats who voted for the
people who enacted them realize that. And that's why I
think there's a positive direction opportunity here. So let's pause,

(02:05:52):
weib bring Alex back because we want to talk about
Jade Vance's replacement and how things are looking in Columbus
as we look forward into the next a period there.
So it's paused right now. It's EGE sixteen. And let
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She bought a case of AMMA. I got ten percent
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(02:06:35):
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Speaker 5 (02:07:12):
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Speaker 1 (02:07:19):
Twenty on a Wednesday, Brian Thomas with are the Ohio
Republican Party Chairman Alex tirant Tofilo going a little aftermath
post election analysis of the state and one of the
things we got to talk about now JD. Vance and
what a wonderful a choice he ended up turning out
to be and maybe future President of the United States
of America. Hometown hero JD. Who's going to replace JD? Vans? Alex,

(02:07:44):
any inside baseball on that you want to let my
listeners know about.

Speaker 3 (02:07:49):
Well, Brian, no, I'm having some fun. Yeah, No, I
mean Lexa, the governor makes this appointment. For anyone listening
to they, I'd understand that the governor of Ohio, under
our state constitution makes this makes this appointment to the
United States Senate.

Speaker 2 (02:08:03):
And there are many good candidates.

Speaker 3 (02:08:05):
And really the reason I'm being a little coy and
having some fun with you is there are some people
that think can quote Republican Party makes this call the
Republican Party's antithy I run, we don't look, we're we
think there are a slew of great candidates. You know,
if I start naming them, I probably miss some. But
you know, certainly Frank Larrose is interested who's our secretary
of State. I think that's been out there. Jane Timpkin,

(02:08:26):
who's you know, a native Cincinnati and actually now lives
in Can'ton, Ohio. And a name that's well known in
Republican Party circles, you know, Warren Davidson, I know is interviewed.
Who's our congress my congressman on the west side of
Hamilton County.

Speaker 2 (02:08:39):
I don't know that.

Speaker 3 (02:08:39):
I don't I think I've made news. I'm even sure
he interviewed. I just think he might be interested, So,
you know, I just there are lots of good people.
Again I've left out other names, people that maybe in
this part of the state do not know might carry
from central Ohio. I think is one of the names
that's been bandied about. So you know, there are other
people that have shown an interest in this. You know,
lots of people have, I mean, being a United States

(02:08:59):
Center or you know, it's one of the one hundred
most powerful legislative jobs in the world. Really, so if
the governor has to make a call here, you know,
the timing of this, I just don't know. I mean
I believe and I don't have any you know, sort
of inside information here necessarily, but I believe that's gonna
run right up until right around January to twentieth's only
because Senator advances vote, you know, in a Senate that's

(02:09:20):
you know, only a couple votes of going the wrong
way there. So I think his vote will be needed
to confirm him any of the President Trump's nominees. So
you know, I think that you're going to see that
that run, you know, into January. I don't think we're
gonna have news on that front, you know, for some time.
And listen, I mean, my job and the job of
the Ohio Republican Party is to elect Republicans. That's the
number one obligation of the organization. So we'll we'll wait,

(02:09:43):
and you know, whoever the nominee of the Republican Party
is in twenty twenty six, that's who will run.

Speaker 2 (02:09:48):
Brian, This is one of important point.

Speaker 3 (02:09:49):
Do I just again, I know you've got some of
the most educated listeners anywhere, but people need to understand
that whoever gets appointed will run two times in four years, and.

Speaker 2 (02:09:58):
That is a daunting task, I want to tell you.

Speaker 3 (02:10:00):
On others, someone like Bernie Marino had to raise four
hundred to million dollars that's a number that's hard to
say for people who have to raise money. And I'm
one of those folks. So it is a serious commitment.
Bernie Marino is you know, he is he He had
to have broken records on the amount of miles that
the man put on his on his vehicle because he
was all over the state. The commitment to take on

(02:10:23):
this challenge is a real one. These are not just
TV TV appearances and speeches. This is a commitment that's
a seven day a week commitment for years. And I
you know again, Brian, well, well, I've got the floor
on that point. I do want to just make one
additional point. I wish people sometimes could see behind the
curtain what I've seen for a long time, and that
is the commitment that people make to actually run for office.

(02:10:44):
And I know there's a cynicism Brian, around politics and
about politicians, and you know, some of that's the warranted,
but you know, these people work very very hard for
the right to go and represent you, and somebody like
Bernie is a post to child for that. Others I mean, well,
it's the powers work very very hard.

Speaker 2 (02:11:00):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:11:01):
Sharon Kennedy is notorious. Our chief Justice here in Ohio
for just having laid it out. I mean, these people
set aside their lives, and I look, I got a
little taste of that myself. You know, I went I
probably went a month without you know, a serious day
where I didn't do anything political. So, you know, again
not being a martyr, but people should understand during this
holiday season some level of gratitude towards these people and

(02:11:21):
the work they put out to go and fight for us.

Speaker 2 (02:11:23):
I think is is you know, I think is merited.

Speaker 1 (02:11:26):
So it is, and you know, the the jaded and
cynical among us then say, well, there's a reason they
work that hard for us, because they're going to go off,
you know, not you know, being of modest financial means,
and like every other human being that ends up getting
elected and going to d C. Somehow magically they come
back multi millionaires. Which is why I like guys like Moreno,

(02:11:46):
I like Ramas swimming, I like must because they seem
to be wanting to do the job for the good
of the people. They don't need the damn money, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (02:11:54):
Well, there's no question I mean, I you know, Bernie
marino Is has taken a pay cut for that you
can be sure or as are lots of other people
in this business who I know personally, but you know,
it's it's it's a serious commitment. And look, I mean
that cynicism is healthy sometimes, Brian, because we should hold
these people to account. You know the other point I
would quickly make, and I know you're not answer the question,

(02:12:15):
but what we as Republicans need to do. And I've
told this to everybody, and I've said it every time
I've been part of winning elections and losing ones. We
now got to go do the job. I mean, we
enjoyed this victory really for about two or three days.
But we must as Republicans go and do what we
said we're gonna do under Donald Trump's leadership. We're gonna
have the House in the Senate federally, we must do

(02:12:35):
what we said deportations, we must steal the border. We've
got to cut taxes. We've got to you know, keep
the cut the tax cuts that we're in place to
keep this economy growing, cut prices, drill for energy, all
the things. And I say, Donald Trump is a guy
who has a checklist. This guy's tireless too. He works
his tail off. We got to do these things so
that the pendulum does not swing back, because ultimately, in

(02:12:57):
American politics it tends to swing back. These wins can
be fleeting, but we must do what we said we
are going to do. So people like me who have
to go out and sell the Republican Party and talk
about our accomplishments, not just you know, our aspirations.

Speaker 1 (02:13:10):
Amen that Chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, Alex Charantafila. Alex,
if you and I don't talk before the Christmas season
kicks in, I hope you have a very merry Christmas.
Best to health to you and your entire family, And
again I share your true appreciation for family and the
importance of it. God bless you, my friend. I hope
we get to talk again real soon.

Speaker 2 (02:13:29):
Me too, Mary. Christmas to you and your family and
all your listeners. Brian, thanks so much, Thanks much.

Speaker 1 (02:13:32):
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Now, who can argue with that? Eight thirty and a
very happy Wednesday reminder, since I know so many people
are tuned in right now because it's appointment listening with
Judge entital Platano. It's listener lunch day, last day or
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know how much I look forward to this. It looks
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Speaker 8 (02:15:48):
I am. I am I'm in my office in New
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Speaker 1 (02:15:57):
Slightly different schedules.

Speaker 8 (02:15:58):
See you see me instead of yes, allow shirt and
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Speaker 1 (02:16:04):
Look, you're looking great. I'm sure you've got a whole
lot on your plate, as you typically do. And we'll
find out what's going on with judging freedom coming up
at the end of the segment, as we always do.
But this one I've been calling all morning an upcoming
constitutional law lesson. We're going to be We're going to
be engaged in a deeper die because when I read

(02:16:27):
the topic, or when I read your columns heading, you
captured the column three cheers for Hunter's pardon, and I
started worrying, because you know, every once in a while,
my listener's perspectives on politics and life will come into
a measure of disagreement with the judge, like I can't
believe he said that. And I'll defend you all day long.

(02:16:47):
I'll defend your position even if I disagree with it,
because we engage in a thoughtful conversation, and I wasn't
expecting you to back up to where you went when
I was starting to read the column, and the point
being fundamentally the original point that you make regularly one
that the foundation, the highest law of the land in

(02:17:09):
our country is the Constitution, and it limits the size
and scope of government so much so that Hunter Biden
shouldn't even have been charged into these because they don't
have the authority for the various charges like, for example,
the Second Amendment. You shouldn't have to fill out a
form to have your exercise your Second Amendment. So go ahead,
I make you please.

Speaker 8 (02:17:28):
So there's two charges here. I mean, first of all,
no one can really analyze what's going on in Joe
Biden's brain. I don't know if he knows what's going
on fair enough in his brain. This is obviously Joe Biden,
the father over Joe Biden, the institutionalist who were railed
against the concept of pardons, who railed against Gerald Ford's pardon.

Speaker 1 (02:17:49):
Of Richard Nixon.

Speaker 8 (02:17:50):
There are, of course, just by way of background, two
classes of pardons, one for a specific crime, and one
a broad form for all crimes that you might have committed,
whether charged or uncharged, whether known or unknown. That's the
pardon that Ford gave to Nixon. That's the pardon that
Joe gave to Hunter. But the crimes for which he

(02:18:13):
was prosecuted, you and I would not have been prosecuted
for them. The tax crime, he actually paid the taxes
with interest and with penalty, and they still prosecuted him
because of pressure the Republicans put on the Justice Department.

Speaker 1 (02:18:31):
The gun crime.

Speaker 8 (02:18:33):
Under the Supreme Court's ruling, the current gun laws are
supposed to reflect what they were in seventeen ninety one.
When the Second Amendment was adopted. In seventeen ninety one,
you could smoke all the hemp you wanted and still
carry a sidearm proof. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were
millionaires by selling hemp.

Speaker 2 (02:18:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:18:55):
Yeah, I they can't make this upright, no, I know.
And at some point and maybe we can just look
at that one specific issue, the FFL form you have
to fill out, and also the barrel length restriction rules.
You know, you have to have a special license for
short barreled rifles and all these layers of laws. I

(02:19:16):
am wondering whether now we have with the current you know,
the Brewin decision and the others, if we have this
opportunity now for someone, for example, Hunter of Biden could
have defended himself and said, no, this FFL nonsense, even
though I was stoned out of my mind and I
lied on the form. This FFL nonsense is unconstitutional on
its face because none of it existed at the time

(02:19:38):
the Second Amendment was acknowledged by the Bill of Rights,
and ergo, you can't put that kind of impediment in
front of me when I'm trying to exercise my Second
Amendment rights.

Speaker 8 (02:19:49):
So the standard definitions of crime, you know this, I
know this, many of your listeners probably do, has three requirements.
One the crime is promulgated by a legitimate authority that
has the authority to make the event a crime.

Speaker 1 (02:20:07):
Two that there was harm.

Speaker 8 (02:20:09):
Three that there was a victim.

Speaker 2 (02:20:11):
There was no harm here.

Speaker 8 (02:20:13):
The gun that he bought, he had his girlfriend throw
away in a dumpster before it was ever even fired.
There was no victim here. I suppose the government would
claim it was a victim because he lied to the government,
But the government can't show that it was harmed by
its victimhood. And then we get back to where we started. Brian,

(02:20:33):
does the Congress have the authority to make these things
a crime? This will scandalize the public. What I'm about
to say. You know this, and lawyers know this, and
students of the Constitution know this. The Constitution authorizes just
two crimes. Debasing the money supply, you know, putting out
a coin that's half gold and half pewter and claiming

(02:20:57):
it's all gold and getting the full face value for it.
Debasing the money supply and then that coin is out
in the money supply. And treason, which is defined in
the Constitution as giving aid and comfort to the country's
enemies or waging war against against the States. How many
crimes has Congress created five thousand, one and ninety nine,

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and only two of them are authorized by the Constitution.

Speaker 1 (02:21:26):
And that's why I said we were going to law
school today, because you know a lot of people said, well, listen,
anybody else on the planet, we would be prosecuted if
we had that many some suspicious activity reports on our
multiple bank accounts with money flowing three the inflowing them
from from foreign governments into our own personal hands. They
would have investigated us had we done something like that.

(02:21:46):
They wouldn't have slow walked the IRS investigation to the
point where they let the Statute of limitations run, they'd
have been all over us like white on rises. My
dad used to say. But to your point, there are
five and ninety nine federal crimes on the books now,
only two of which really are legitimate under the limitations
of the Constitution. The balance are in the hands of

(02:22:07):
the states. The states, as you acknowledge in point out
in your historical review in the column, would be responsible
for prosecuting anyone who violated the law.

Speaker 8 (02:22:18):
Correct like the Whiskey Rebellion, where a bunch of farmers
in western Pennsylvania in seventeen ninety one to two three
and four refused to pay an exercise tax on whiskey
because they needed to sell the whiskey to stay alive
and operate their farms, and they resisted the tax collector
with violence. They were prosecuted in a Pennsylvania state court.

(02:22:41):
Two of them were prosecuted for treason. How can failure
to pay a tax be treason? Well, they persuaded a
federal judge that using violence against the federal tax collector
was the moral equivalent of treason. They were convicted and
George Washington pardoned them. In the first part presidential pardons

(02:23:02):
in American history now there is a downside to this,
to Joe, not to Hunter. Last week, if Hunter was
dragged before the House Oversight Committee and sworn to tell
the truth and said, and they asked him, did you
funnel money to your father from Barisma when he was
Vice President of the United States?

Speaker 2 (02:23:23):
Answer?

Speaker 8 (02:23:24):
I refusually declined to answer on the grounds of the
Fifth Amendment right. Ask him that question tomorrow. He has
to answer it. He has no Fifth Amendment right. By
accepting the pardon, he gave up his Fifth Amendment.

Speaker 1 (02:23:36):
Rights and ergo, he could be a witness in some
future prosecution related to some criminal activity on a federal level.
Because this pardon only absolves him of federal crimes state crimes,
it does not involve ergo, he could be still criminally
prosecuted in a state had he done something during this
window of time. I don't know. Go ahead.

Speaker 8 (02:23:58):
His testimony, of course, could also be used to embarrass
humiliate the father. It's too late to prosecute the father.
Let's say that Joe was bribed just hypothetically when he
was vice president. The statute of limitations is five years,
so it's too late to prosecut him. It's not too
late to impeach him even after he leaves office, and
of course it's never too late to tarnish his legacy.

(02:24:23):
But his own Justice Department said he's a doddering old
man and he can't put him in.

Speaker 2 (02:24:28):
The defense chair.

Speaker 1 (02:24:30):
And given his age and his obvious health issues, it
could be that, you know, God rest his soul. Joe
Biden's not around for a long time. Hunter Biden may
very well find himself in need of money, and Ergo
could write memoirs and expose everybody and everything that's gone
on in the name of making literally millions of dollars correct.

Speaker 2 (02:24:49):
Correct.

Speaker 8 (02:24:51):
Most of the people that I interact with are furious
about the pardon because they hate the father and they
hate the son, and they think that the father it's
a kruk and he helped the Sun get away with
being a crook. But all of that is a legitimate
opinion that is widely held. My analysis is based upon
what I suggest and argue is a prudent reading of

(02:25:13):
the Constitution, a Madisonian reading of the Constitution, which says
the Constitution chains down the federal government. Congress can't give
itself the power to enact laws that the Constitution doesn't
authorize it to an act.

Speaker 1 (02:25:28):
Well, I can only wait for the day when someone
can raise these arguments, have standing to raise them, raise
them in a federal court, and maybe make it up
to the Supreme Court, who would say, you know what,
after two hundred and fifty years, you're right, this is
gonna stop real quick. I just got to read this
line the judge who is dismissing the I believe it's

(02:25:48):
the tax case. And apparently the pardon wasn't properly filed.
So he made a point about the appropriate nature of
the filing. You know how courts aren't judges are with
eyes properly being dotted and teas crossed. Yes, I'm going
to dismiss it when it's properly filed with me. But
he had this today, had this to say, and I
thought it was rather funny. Something for the following discussion.

(02:26:08):
The court assumes the pardon is effective and we'll dispose
of the case. The Supreme Court long has recognized that,
notwithstanding it's nearly unlimited nature, the pardon power extends only
to past offenses, which to me sounded like this sort
of perception that Hunter Biden was going to go back
to criminal activity on a going forwards.

Speaker 8 (02:26:29):
Right, imagine if you could pardon someone into the future.

Speaker 1 (02:26:36):
My god, Judge edit of Politano, I always love our conversations.
Thanks for taking everybody to law school today and reminding
us that the Constitution is a limiting document. Enjoy yourself
in New York if that's possible, and have a wonderful week,
and I'll look forward to next one day, Wednesday and
another great conversation with you, sir.

Speaker 2 (02:26:55):
Right right back at you.

Speaker 8 (02:26:56):
Colonel Douglas McGregor on Judge Freedom today, what's going on
in South Korea? And why is Joe Biden continuing to
extend the war in Ukraine to dump it into Donald
Trump's lap.

Speaker 1 (02:27:10):
I think you're right on that one, Sir. Can't make
heads or tail out of that debacle. We're looking forward
to checking out your podcast, Judging Freedom. Search for it
where you find your podcast, and tune in every Wednesday
at eight thirty for the Judge here in the fifty
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