Speaker 1: All right, here you go seven hundred WLW nine oh eight,
Speaker 1: Dan Carrol till midnight tonight. We call this the Thursday
Speaker 1: Night edition of the Midweek Crisis. And now that the
Speaker 1: Reds are done, this is going to become a regular
Speaker 1: thing Wednesday night, Thursday Night until basketball season starts. Are
Speaker 1: we looking forward to basketball, Joe? You're looking forward to
Speaker 1: basketball season already?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Well, he says, we're still in the middle of football.
Speaker 1: But for crying out loud, I mean, if it's not
Speaker 1: going to get any better than what we saw the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, it's going to be a long, long,
Speaker 1: long football season. But we've got business to get to,
Speaker 1: so let's go ahead and do that. In the in
Speaker 1: the wake of Charlie Kirk, there has been an awakening
Speaker 1: of what it means to be I think a decent
Speaker 1: person in our society and especially amongst a lot of
Speaker 1: young people. And I think that's a great thing. And
Speaker 1: there is an event coming up on Monday, the October
Speaker 1: the sixth in Butler County and it's going to be
Speaker 1: a celebration of life and a candlelight vigil for Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 1: And it is being put on by the Butler County
Speaker 1: Republican Party. And joining me now is the executive director
Speaker 1: of the Butler County GOP, and that is Joe Statzer.
Speaker 1: And Joe, it is great to have you on the show.
Speaker 1: How are you tonight?
Speaker 2: I'm doing fine.
Speaker 3: Thank you, it's great to be here.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Talk about Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, thank you so much. And it's but it's
Speaker 1: a terrible thing that we have to talk about him.
Speaker 1: And we all know what happened to Charlie Kirk. But
Speaker 1: let me before we talk about the event, let me
Speaker 1: ask you this. There's been so much reporting about how,
Speaker 1: especially in look Charlie Kirk made we found out. I
Speaker 1: think we had an idea that he was makingnnections with
Speaker 1: young people all across the country, and I think in
Speaker 1: the wake of his assassination, we found out just how
Speaker 1: profound that connection really was. And we've seen the literal
Speaker 1: explosion of Turning Point USA clubs popping up and growing
Speaker 1: in high schools and colleges all across the country, but
Speaker 1: especially in the high school level. How has that manifested itself?
Speaker 1: Have you seen this yourself happening there in Butler County, Oh?
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I know there is a couple of schools in
Speaker 3: Butler County that starting chapters. Ironically, Miami University had just
Speaker 3: launched a Turning Point USA had had a meeting just
Speaker 3: before the assassination. But it's already growing. It's just bursting.
Speaker 3: And I was actually talking to a couple of the
Speaker 3: college Republicans tonight and the interest up there is overwhelming.
Speaker 3: I mean, Charlie's influence on what happened, it's having an
Speaker 3: amazing impact.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think when you look at the kind
Speaker 1: of things that Charlie cur was about, yeah, it can't
Speaker 1: help but make four young people who are much better rounded,
Speaker 1: much better prepared to face adversity in their life, much
Speaker 1: better prepared to deal on an intellectual level. And uh
Speaker 1: and and have I think a more realistic view of
Speaker 1: the world and the world and and actually be more
Speaker 1: aware of the world around them if they if they
Speaker 1: get involved in in in something like Turning Point in USA.
Speaker 3: Well at least you get two sides that way. And
Speaker 3: college campuses, which I'm not sure you really ever did
Speaker 3: you know? That was what was amazing about it is
Speaker 3: that you know, people were some of the responses and
Speaker 3: you know what we're talking about here. Some of the
Speaker 3: responses on social media from the from the left, from
Speaker 3: the from the left wingers has been nothing short of
Speaker 3: just terrible, just awful pathetic. But you know what he
Speaker 3: was doing, what Charlie was doing, was he was at
Speaker 3: least giving the other side a saying, and he was
Speaker 3: doing it with courage, and he was doing it with
Speaker 3: civil debate. He was letting people give their side and
Speaker 3: then having logical discussion, which I thought that was what
Speaker 3: college and universities were all about. And he was doing that,
Speaker 3: and he was doing it civilly, and he was doing
Speaker 3: it with with with a great touch of view and
Speaker 3: human connection with people and UH. And we're going to
Speaker 3: miss it. But I'll tell you what. What's happened since
Speaker 3: the assassination that terrible day has been, like you said,
Speaker 3: just an outpouring of support and UH for turning point
Speaker 3: us a and for these for these type of UH
Speaker 3: connections with people, young people on college campuses and young
Speaker 3: people all over.
Speaker 1: And that's one of the things that's so frustrating to
Speaker 1: me in the wake of all this, all the people
Speaker 1: that want to call him a Nazi, all the people
Speaker 1: that want to call him a purveyor of hate, all
Speaker 1: these other nasty terms that they that they would they
Speaker 1: still use about him when they when they do this,
Speaker 1: and people like Jasmine Crockett, nil ha ilhan Omar and
Speaker 1: some of the other UH regular suspects have doubled and
Speaker 1: tripled down on some of the nasty things that they
Speaker 1: said in the wake of this assassination. And I've always said,
Speaker 1: I mean, the body of work is there for anyone
Speaker 1: to see that there there is an abundance of videos
Speaker 1: and writings and clips. I mean, people don't tell me.
Speaker 1: People know how to use YouTube and and just go
Speaker 1: look up Charlie Kirk and you will see that a
Speaker 1: lot of the things that are being said about him
Speaker 1: that he said, mean things about women, that he said,
Speaker 1: mean things about transgenders and all this. You know, the
Speaker 1: homophobia is homophobia. Look it up. Look it up and
Speaker 1: look at what he actually said. Don't listen to people
Speaker 1: who are just saying these things and that what was
Speaker 1: in the wake of this assassination that was so frustrating
Speaker 1: to me. And people just simply regurgitate what they hear
Speaker 1: on some of the leftists and socialist media out there,
Speaker 1: and they and they act as if they're the ones
Speaker 1: who really know what this guy was all about.
Speaker 3: Exactly. These left wing talking heads who are not you know,
Speaker 3: if they do quote him, they take his words out
Speaker 3: of context, but you're right, most of the time they
Speaker 3: don't quote him at all. And you know what they
Speaker 3: say about the name callers, I mean, they've got no argument,
Speaker 3: they don't they can't even rise to anything close to
Speaker 3: Charlie's abilities, so they just start calling them names and
Speaker 3: stating things out of context and name calling, and it's
Speaker 3: it's pathetic because you're right, there was none of that there.
Speaker 3: His his his videos are out there. Watched them give
Speaker 3: him five minutes and then tried to tell me that
Speaker 3: he was anything but civil and that he was just
Speaker 3: trying to engage in good solid debate, which is, you know,
Speaker 3: the cornerstone of one of the cornerstones of America. So yeah,
Speaker 3: just some of the some of the responses has been
Speaker 3: a sad commentary on not not America, but that's just
Speaker 3: the left wing America and where they're at these days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the other part that's amazing to me is
Speaker 1: how some people can be so ultra critical of a
Speaker 1: guy who is so upfront and open about his faith
Speaker 1: and what his faith meant to him, and it just
Speaker 1: it really showed some of the worst. But you know what,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that is in time, a
Speaker 1: lot of that is going to be erased. And I
Speaker 1: think the events like you're having on this coming Monday night,
Speaker 1: October the sixth, is going to be you know, those
Speaker 1: kind of events I think go a long way into
Speaker 1: dispelling some of that. So tell me about this candlelight
Speaker 1: vigil that you guys are having for Charlie cart.
Speaker 3: Well, you pointed it out. Let me just start with
Speaker 3: Dan that. Look, when the left wing gets feels wrong,
Speaker 3: they have riots, they burned down cities, they attack law enforcement.
Speaker 3: We've been seeing peaceful vigils all over the nation.
Speaker 1: Excellent point. And that is an excellent point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And that's what conservatives do. And we're not
Speaker 3: out to destroy the country. We're out to try to
Speaker 3: rebuild it, and the left wing just wants to just
Speaker 3: tear it down. So what we're having for Charlie Kirk is,
Speaker 3: as you said, a celebration of life prayer vigil on
Speaker 3: October sixth, twenty twenty five. That's this Monday night at
Speaker 3: the Butler County Fairgrounds, which is over at seventeen fifteen
Speaker 3: Fairgrove Avenue in Hamilton, in the downtown Hamilton on the
Speaker 3: east side over there. So we have some speakers. Cook
Speaker 3: who is a Fox, who's contributor and has been a
Speaker 3: speaker at our Lincoln Day dinners. Uh, she wanted to
Speaker 3: come and do this. She's done a couple of vigils.
Speaker 3: Our chair our chairman are We actually have the College
Speaker 3: Republican president from Miami who is part of the Turning
Speaker 3: Point USA chapter at good.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And he's going to speak. We have the Vice
Speaker 3: Mayor of Hamilton, big Charlie supporter, good Conservative Michael Ryan
Speaker 3: is going to be there and say a few words.
Speaker 3: One of the judges who's also has some pastor background,
Speaker 3: Judge Greg Stevens, is going to talk about Charlie's favorite
Speaker 3: versus Biblical versus Romans twenty eight is I think his
Speaker 3: favorite verse or was his favorite verse? Look, this is
Speaker 3: going to be there's gonna be a spiritual side to this,
Speaker 3: and we're not ashamed of that. We you know, Charlie
Speaker 3: said he wanted to be in member for the courage
Speaker 3: that he had for his faith, and I think that
Speaker 3: goes a long way too. There's a lot of people
Speaker 3: that want to come to celebrate Charlie and who have
Speaker 3: a very strong spiritual uh core and foundation, and that's
Speaker 3: going to come out there, so uh too. So U candlelight,
Speaker 3: We're gonna have some candles lit. We're gonna have some
Speaker 3: really beautiful music that's going to be played, and I
Speaker 3: think people will really really enjoy coming out and celebrating
Speaker 3: Charlie in his memory and what he meant, and then
Speaker 3: moving forward to carry that torch.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, just tell Charlie we got it from here.
Speaker 3: We have to take it from here, and.
Speaker 1: We will absolutely so. I found the information on the
Speaker 1: butlercountygp dot org. I went to that website, went to
Speaker 1: events and just scrolled down and all the information was
Speaker 1: right there. Do you have, you know, on Facebook and
Speaker 1: other social media where people can find this information if
Speaker 1: they need to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll try the website first, but we have a
Speaker 3: lot of people sharing it on a social medi If
Speaker 3: you find it, please share it. Let your friends and
Speaker 3: neighbors know. Obviously it's not just a Butler County event.
Speaker 3: It can be anywhere in the large WLW listening area.
Speaker 3: But anybody wants to come as welcome.
Speaker 4: There will be a tight.
Speaker 3: Security, so that's that's part of it too, because you
Speaker 3: never know who's.
Speaker 2: Going to try to come and do something.
Speaker 3: But I think that would be a bad idea. It's
Speaker 3: going to be a very very nice event, and I
Speaker 3: think it's going to be a wonderful night to just
Speaker 3: really celebrate civility and America and Charlie Kirk and what
Speaker 3: he meant in faith and conservative values, and that's what
Speaker 3: we're all about in Butler County. As you know, it's
Speaker 3: it's led the state of Ohio and plurality vote for
Speaker 3: three straight elections. So that's what we're all about, and
Speaker 3: we're on a bass we're unashamed to share that. So
Speaker 3: this will be a very very fine event.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, Joe Statzer of the Butler County GOP, I can't
Speaker 1: thank you enough for spending some time with us tonight
Speaker 1: and I'm more than happy to plug this event. And
Speaker 1: I wanted to do it tonight because I'm not on
Speaker 1: the air tonight. Between tonight and Monday night, October sixth,
Speaker 1: I think I got to check with my wife. I
Speaker 1: think my schedule is clear, so I would definitely love
Speaker 1: to attend. This event starts at six o'clock and the program,
Speaker 1: the guest. The doors open at six, the program begins
Speaker 1: at seven, and that's Monday night, October six and Joe
Speaker 1: Statser again, thank you so much for the time, and
Speaker 1: thank you so much for doing everything you can to
Speaker 1: keep the life and the legacy of Charlie Kirk alive
Speaker 1: and in vibrant here in the Southwest Ohive.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Dan, our pleasure. We'll see you on Monday night
Speaker 3: and thank you for having me on and it'll be
Speaker 3: a great event.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Joe, appreciate it. Keep up the
Speaker 1: great work. And again, just all you have to do
Speaker 1: is go to the Butler County GOP website and it's all.
Speaker 1: They've got it out there on their social media and
Speaker 1: all the rest of that. So that's a Charlie Kirk
Speaker 1: event Butler County fair Grounds, October sixth. This coming out
Speaker 1: Monday night, Butler County fair Grounds and doors open at
Speaker 1: six and the program starts at seven. So we are
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. It is nine to twenty coming
Speaker 1: up on the show tonight. I was I almost had
Speaker 1: the show where I only had one guest, and then
Speaker 1: things started happening, and I got a hold of Corey Bowman,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to have Corey Bowman on because he
Speaker 1: has just been putting out some some of the most
Speaker 1: provocative stuff on his social media. And I mean that
Speaker 1: in the best way possible. It's amazing that this guy's
Speaker 1: a Republican. It has been decades, it seems like, since
Speaker 1: a Republican has mounted a serious challenge to become the
Speaker 1: mayor of the city of Cincinnati, and this guy's campaign
Speaker 1: has just mean you talk about, you know, grassroots, you
Speaker 1: talk about genuine, you talk about not being fake. When
Speaker 1: this guy's campaign started, I don't think anyone really knew
Speaker 1: who Corey Bowman was other than the fact that there
Speaker 1: was a tagline that he is the brother of Jade Vans,
Speaker 1: and I think it's actually, if I'm not mistaken, I
Speaker 1: think it's actually step brother. But that was sort of
Speaker 1: the you know that, you know, that was it sort
Speaker 1: of stopped right there. But as you listen to him speak,
Speaker 1: and you listen to the ideas that he has, and
Speaker 1: you listen to the seriousness, seriousness in which he is
Speaker 1: approaching this this this is a guy who is not
Speaker 1: to be taken lightly and so I'm going to have
Speaker 1: him on tonight, and he posted a video that was
Speaker 1: absolutely startling about what is really happened happening on the
Speaker 1: streets of downtown Cincinnati. And if you've seen it, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. And we will we will
Speaker 1: play the video and the audio of it as we
Speaker 1: get into he's going to join me after the news
Speaker 1: here at the bottom of the hour. As we get
Speaker 1: into that interview, we will play that audio. And I
Speaker 1: also want to get his thoughts on the item piece
Speaker 1: to Channel nine put out earlier this week, and it
Speaker 1: has to do with this consultant for the City of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: Iris Rolie. So she not only does she head up
Speaker 1: the Citizens Complaint Authority, and not only does she love
Speaker 1: to interfere with police work and make the lives of
Speaker 1: our Cincinnati police officers a living hell. She gets paid
Speaker 1: very nicely by the City of Cincinnati, by your tax dollars.
Speaker 1: And so there was an item piece that was done
Speaker 1: on her and well, yeah, well it's under the heading
Speaker 1: of I'm looking at the website right now. It's under
Speaker 1: the heading of itam for WCPO Channel nine and Paula
Speaker 1: Christian and they found her contract and how much she
Speaker 1: is being She is being paid for three years work
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood of six hundred thousand dollars. Not only
Speaker 1: that she was able to hire her son to apparently
Speaker 1: walk around Fountain Square, not Fountain Square, but Government Square
Speaker 1: just a little bit to the east there a Fountain
Speaker 1: Square and pass out some pamphlets, some flyers, some informational things.
Speaker 1: And this was a part time job that paid fifty
Speaker 1: eight dollars an hour. And apparently there was no review process,
Speaker 1: no oversight, no no red tape, no paperwork for iris
Speaker 1: rolely to fill out. She you know, just hey, hey,
Speaker 1: here's my son. Yeah, I know, he's had a rough
Speaker 1: you know, a rough way to go. Got some convictions
Speaker 1: for having a weapon, under disability. I think there might
Speaker 1: have been a drug conviction in there, a couple other things.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna pay him fifty eight
Speaker 1: bucks an hour to go walking around Government Square passing
Speaker 1: out some literature. Not a bad gig if you can
Speaker 1: get it. So we'll get his thoughts on that crime
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. And this this notion that the city of
Speaker 1: Cincinnati is relieving medical debt for about one hundred thousand people.
Speaker 1: How does that happen? So stick around for that. Corey
Speaker 1: Bowman will join me after the news here at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour. We got to get to that directly.
Speaker 1: It is nine to twenty five Dan Carroll till midnight tonight,
Speaker 1: Thursday Night of the Midweek Crisis on seven hundred WLW
Speaker 1: back on the Big One, seven hundred WLW nine thirty
Speaker 1: seven Dan Carrol till midnight tonight. It is the Thursday
Speaker 1: night edition of the Midweek Crisis. A. Cory Bowman is
Speaker 1: joining me, and before I get to him, I want
Speaker 1: to I want to play something that he posted on
Speaker 1: his social media feed yesterday. And this was absolutely startling,
Speaker 1: at least it was to me. It is video from
Speaker 1: downtown Cincinnati this past Sunday morning at just after three am.
Speaker 1: And this is what it sounded like in the city
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati at that time. And Joe hit that cut
Speaker 1: cut number one. So that's not be Root, that's not
Speaker 1: some city in the Middle East. That's downtown Cincinnati at
Speaker 1: just after three o'clock in the morning this past Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: And uh mayoral candidate Corey Bowman, who posted that video,
Speaker 1: is joining me now. And Corey Bowman Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for being here. It is absolutely startling and and
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you why. When I first saw
Speaker 1: you posted that video, I was looking at it on
Speaker 1: my cell phone. And so in the lower right hand
Speaker 1: corner is is the shot that comes from that that's
Speaker 1: race just north of Third Street, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: And I couldn't see it that well on my cell phone.
Speaker 1: But when I watched it earlier or before I came
Speaker 1: into the studio tonight, I had it on my computer
Speaker 1: and watched it full screen on my computer. Those aren't
Speaker 1: just gunshots being and that was a running gun battle
Speaker 1: that was taking place on the streets of downtown Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: just a couple of blocks from pay Corse Stadium.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, well Dan, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 6: It's it's an honor and be on.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I got set that video actually from a business owner
Speaker 6: in downtown. He's got cameras, and he basically said, we've
Speaker 6: got to get this out here because it's been four
Speaker 6: days later and I have I'm really not getting asked
Speaker 6: by local authorities to, you.
Speaker 4: Know, provide this video.
Speaker 6: And he had the video he let authorities know, you know,
Speaker 6: but that's just kind of the state of what's going
Speaker 6: on downtown. That was right off the third Street, like
Speaker 6: what you said, said the block away from Payport Stadium.
Speaker 6: I think it's actually notable to say that, you know,
Speaker 6: the Reds even though we didn't have a home game,
Speaker 6: many people were at the banks at the local restaurants
Speaker 6: watching the late night game of us playing the Dodgers
Speaker 6: just about probably two hours before that. So that's something
Speaker 6: that's happening in our city. And then I would, you know,
Speaker 6: send you the video. I literally just got it about
Speaker 6: fifteen twenty minutes ago, but two teenagers were just shot
Speaker 6: in OTR north of Liberty, and I got a similar
Speaker 6: video from another business owner that has videos, and you know,
Speaker 6: people are crying out and they basically saying something's got
Speaker 6: to happen right now, because this is a date. It's
Speaker 6: becoming almost a daily occurrence in our city.
Speaker 1: It really is a shame though, because it seems like
Speaker 1: crime is at least a dealing with crime. So my
Speaker 1: way of thinking, should be the number one issue that
Speaker 1: is concerning those it's city haul right now and when
Speaker 1: we have events like this. Chris Smithman posted on his
Speaker 1: social media a day or so ago a person who
Speaker 1: put a frightening narrative about a guy who was on
Speaker 1: Madison Avenue and an s u V for a full
Speaker 1: of teenagers rolled up next to his car, cut in
Speaker 1: front of him, jumped out and put a gun to
Speaker 1: his face, and only because he had the quick enough
Speaker 1: reaction to throw it in reverse, back out of there,
Speaker 1: do a like what we what we used to call
Speaker 1: a Rockford turn and get the hell out of there.
Speaker 1: You know, this guy thought for sure he was going
Speaker 1: to be shot and killed. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw that post, but that is absolutely frightening.
Speaker 1: And and these kind of things. It doesn't seem it
Speaker 1: does just doesn't seem like they want to deal with this.
Speaker 1: And I mean there's a lot of lip service. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of talk about how they're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: do this, that and the other thing. But when you
Speaker 1: have a running gun battle in the streets of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: no one gets arrested. I haven't heard of want arrest
Speaker 1: on this. I know on Short Vine a couple of
Speaker 1: nights ago, there was a person who was jumped by
Speaker 1: a gang and and and and this person on Short
Speaker 1: Vine had the me you know, had the they have
Speaker 1: the living crap beat out of them. And this is
Speaker 1: going on. I am told there are gangs of young
Speaker 1: teenagers who are running around the streets to Cincinnati, stealing cars,
Speaker 1: committing crimes, putting guns at people. And this shooting gun
Speaker 1: battle I think is probably just one of the latest episodes,
Speaker 1: you know, and then we've got I can scroll through
Speaker 1: your feed right here, and you know, some dude gets
Speaker 1: shot and over the rhine two people got shot earlier tonight.
Speaker 1: It is it just seems like it's completely out of control.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 6: And what we're talking about here is incompetence from the
Speaker 6: top down. We're calling this trick trickle down in top
Speaker 6: because what's happening even though we see the violence on
Speaker 6: the streets and there's a lot of emotions that are
Speaker 6: tied into this, and everybody wants to throw in politics,
Speaker 6: but really what we're having an issue with right now
Speaker 6: is the administrative failures from city hall. Because as long
Speaker 6: as we can remember, ever since the days of canaan Abel,
Speaker 6: there has been crime on the earth and there has
Speaker 6: been very simple ways that you have to combat this,
Speaker 6: and you have to be able to enforce laws. You
Speaker 6: have to have your police force be able to do
Speaker 6: their job, and then you have to have people to
Speaker 6: have these consequences when they are booked through the judges
Speaker 6: and the prosecution and the judicial area. And that's not
Speaker 6: what's happening in our city. And what's happening really is
Speaker 6: that people are getting so desensitized, people are getting so
Speaker 6: used to what's happening right now, the cops don't even
Speaker 6: see a point in making the arrest because they think
Speaker 6: that the people are just going to be on the
Speaker 6: street the next week. And then what happens too is
Speaker 6: that many people, because we have non pursuit laws in
Speaker 6: our city, they're openly taunting police officers by driving by
Speaker 6: a high speeds in their cars or in their ATVs
Speaker 6: or dirt bike, and the cops don't do anything about it.
Speaker 6: And this is coming from the top down. This isn't
Speaker 6: lazy cops, This isn't cops that don't care about our city.
Speaker 2: This is about.
Speaker 6: Mismanagement of our city and what we've seen over the
Speaker 6: course of the summer, what we've seen over the course
Speaker 6: of continuing on in the fall. This has to change
Speaker 6: from the top down. And that's actually why we're having
Speaker 6: this election in November. Is because people have a choice.
Speaker 6: If they're unhappy with the state of our city, they
Speaker 6: have to get out and vote. They got to be
Speaker 6: a part of these elections that are happening.
Speaker 1: So, Corey Bowman, I know you did an event I
Speaker 1: think it was this past Friday with Aviake Ramaswami. He
Speaker 1: was in town. He grew up in Cincinnati. He is
Speaker 1: taking very seriously as he is running for governor the
Speaker 1: crime situation in the city of Cincinnati. You, as mayor,
Speaker 1: if you were mayor of Cincinnati and the governor, whether
Speaker 1: it be Mike Dwine or Viake Ramaswami or god forbid
Speaker 1: Amy acted, if the governor came to you as mayor
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati and said, look, we're going to offer you
Speaker 1: some state resources to help you deal with the issues
Speaker 1: you have here. Are you going to say that's great,
Speaker 1: that's great, governor, But you know what, we only needed
Speaker 1: a couple of days and months to day. You know,
Speaker 1: we got things under control here. A couple of days
Speaker 1: a month and we're good to go. Is that going
Speaker 1: to be your policy if you become mayors.
Speaker 6: Based on the current state of our city. Absolutely, Now
Speaker 6: I would be taking in every bit of a package
Speaker 6: from the state that was offered what I told people,
Speaker 6: and people have been asking a lot because you're seeing
Speaker 6: from a federal government perspective, you're seeing National Guard going
Speaker 6: into major cities. This is last ditch effort. This is
Speaker 6: like last case scenarios that you see in these cities,
Speaker 6: because really what's happening is that the city halls of
Speaker 6: these cities and even the states are not doing their
Speaker 6: job to be able to make sure that the cities
Speaker 6: are safe. I'm under the understanding from what I've talked
Speaker 6: about with cops and what I've talked about with leaders,
Speaker 6: is that the city is able to take care of
Speaker 6: itself and the city is able to manage crime properly.
Speaker 6: As long as you have proper administration, as long as
Speaker 6: you have people that know what they're doing, they're going
Speaker 6: to allow the cops to do their job. But that's
Speaker 6: not what's happening right now. So a short term solution
Speaker 6: right now, I truly believe, is accept every bit of
Speaker 6: help from the state. That you can have a great
Speaker 6: relationship with the state first and foremost, and that's something
Speaker 6: that's not happening from city hall. We've become an island
Speaker 6: under ourselves in Cincinnati. But we've got to be able
Speaker 6: to work with the counting, We've got to be able
Speaker 6: to work with the state, and we've got to be
Speaker 6: able to work with the federal to be able to
Speaker 6: make sure that Cincinnati is the statist that it can be.
Speaker 6: And that's not what's happening right now.
Speaker 1: On another issue, Channel nine WCPO put out earlier this
Speaker 1: week a Iteam repor it about Iris Rowley, who is
Speaker 1: a consultant with the City of Cincinnati. And I guess,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess the city needs consultants, outside contractors
Speaker 1: and things like that. But this seems like a pretty
Speaker 1: sweet deal, a three year deal that pays her about
Speaker 1: five hundred and seventy thousand dollars through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: She can apparently do whatever she damn well pleases. She
Speaker 1: can go out and pass out some literature out around
Speaker 1: Government Square, hire her son to do this, pay him
Speaker 1: fifty eight bucks an hour. I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman, but I know a lot of people out
Speaker 1: there who would love to have a part time job
Speaker 1: that pays about eleven hundred dollars a week for about
Speaker 1: twelve weeks work. And you know, I guess it's pretty
Speaker 1: good if your Irish Roly's son that you can do
Speaker 1: this with no oversight and no direction from city Hall
Speaker 1: at all. And then we have the city manager who
Speaker 1: she's supposed to answer to. The I team says, we'd
Speaker 1: like to ask you some questions, and the city manager says, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm going to talk to you. So,
Speaker 1: is is this the way to do business at city Hall?
Speaker 1: They have consultants like this and just let them run
Speaker 1: rough shot over everything that goes on at city Hall.
Speaker 4: No, we'll see.
Speaker 6: So the story that you're talking about right now, everybody
Speaker 6: wants focused on the name of IRUs Rollie, and then
Speaker 6: every other month you're hearing of another name, whether it
Speaker 6: be a council member that makes comments toward violence that's
Speaker 6: happening in our city, or whether it be certain things
Speaker 6: that you're seeing from the city manager.
Speaker 4: And here's what we.
Speaker 6: Have to realize is that when the mayor is elected,
Speaker 6: you have to basically appoint the CEO of the city,
Speaker 6: the administrative leader of the city, which is a city manager,
Speaker 6: and that's in charge of all the tasks that are
Speaker 6: going on. And so then that city manager not only
Speaker 6: is in charge of many different administrative tax in the city.
Speaker 6: But then also they are to a point a police
Speaker 6: chief and then the fire chief as well, and many
Speaker 6: of the boards and committees and all sorts of stuff
Speaker 6: that's going on here. But what's happened right now is
Speaker 6: that the same individuals, the same people, most likely over
Speaker 6: the course of twenty years, if you really look at it,
Speaker 6: have been pulling the strings administratively in the city Manager's office,
Speaker 6: in a lot of the halls of city Hall, and
Speaker 6: then even in the administration of CFD and cpds, and
Speaker 6: a lot of people that have the experience with the
Speaker 6: police force are planted by the city to be a
Speaker 6: chief of staff or the police chief or something like that.
Speaker 6: So there's many individuals that are contributing to the mismanagement
Speaker 6: of our city right now. And that's why our strong
Speaker 6: leadership needs.
Speaker 2: To be in.
Speaker 6: You're not voting in a mayor that is basically just
Speaker 6: going to be there for photo ops. We're going to
Speaker 6: look through every single thing. We're going to make sure
Speaker 6: that there is an extensive audit of how every dollar
Speaker 6: is being spent in our city. We're going to make
Speaker 6: sure that the proper people are in charge for city managers,
Speaker 6: City Managers Office, the fire department, and the police chief.
Speaker 6: And we got to make sure that our city is
Speaker 6: run by people that have the citizens the Cincinnati at
Speaker 6: the best interests of their hearts. And that's really not
Speaker 6: what's happening right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't seem like it. You know, I used
Speaker 1: to cover city Hall. I've seen my share of dirty tricks.
Speaker 1: I can look at this, this story that came out
Speaker 1: I believe it was yesterday or the day before that,
Speaker 1: the city announces that more than one hundred thousand residents
Speaker 1: of City of Cincinnati are going to have their medical
Speaker 1: debt relieved by some program that came out of that
Speaker 1: came out of City Hall. One point four or five
Speaker 1: million dollars two hundred and twenty million dollars in debt
Speaker 1: relieve for one hundred and nineteen thousand individuals. And this
Speaker 1: happens on, you know, about a week before early voting
Speaker 1: is supposed to start. So they get a letter in
Speaker 1: the mail. There's aftabs picture on it. Hey, I'm relieving
Speaker 1: your medical debt. What Merry Christmas. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, but just to me, this is reeks
Speaker 1: of a of a political dirty trick.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because a lot of people are going to what
Speaker 6: the other side is going to try to do is
Speaker 6: they're going to try to spin it into making it
Speaker 6: seem like we're not compassionate to those individuals that had
Speaker 6: their debts relieve But you got to realize this that
Speaker 6: the city put one point four five million dollars toward
Speaker 6: a company and then through that with you see medicals,
Speaker 6: they were able to relieve all that debt. A lot
Speaker 6: of this debt, well, actually, I'll say that the majority,
Speaker 6: it's not all of this debt was already written off
Speaker 6: either by medicaid or written off as debt that just
Speaker 6: wasn't going to get paid off, and so that was
Speaker 6: debt that Hey, it's basically like you're paying for the
Speaker 6: tip and you're taking credit for the entire bill. And
Speaker 6: that's essentially what the city's doing. Not to mention that
Speaker 6: one point four to five million dollars this tax taxpayer
Speaker 6: dollars that is being spent from the city budget. Now
Speaker 6: I would rather not focus on necessarily the individuals that
Speaker 6: are getting their debts cleared away, but the timing of everything.
Speaker 6: Why didn't this take place two years ago? Why didn't
Speaker 6: this take place even earlier in the year. Why is
Speaker 6: it exactly, why is it happening just a week before
Speaker 6: early voting starts, and why are these letters being sent out?
Speaker 6: And we're hearing a lot of other stuff as well.
Speaker 6: It's just part of the playbooks. But that's why it's
Speaker 6: so important the race that we're running, that this is,
Speaker 6: like you said earlier in your show, this is the
Speaker 6: very definition of a grassroots effort of people waking up
Speaker 6: realizing that we've got to get out and vote. We've
Speaker 6: got to be able to make the numbers work in
Speaker 6: our favor, and we got to put in leadership that
Speaker 6: are actually fighting for us. Because the vote for an
Speaker 6: elected official is not a blank check to do whatever
Speaker 6: you want. A vote for an elected official is a
Speaker 6: promise that you are always going to be able to
Speaker 6: hear our voice, that we voted for you to be
Speaker 6: in that office to do. And that's what I'm going
Speaker 6: to see it as, is that I told the FOP
Speaker 6: whenever they gave me the endorsement, and I've talked to
Speaker 6: many other people when an endorsement or a vote for
Speaker 6: me is a confidence I'm always going to listen to
Speaker 6: your voice, and I'm always going to act in the
Speaker 6: best interests of the people of the city.
Speaker 1: Well, Corey Bauman, you're doing God's work. I don't need
Speaker 1: to tell you that. I mean you're you're a pastor
Speaker 1: as well, and keep up the great work. When we've
Speaker 1: got about one minute here. When you go out and
Speaker 1: you're out and knocking on doors and you're going to
Speaker 1: events and you're meeting people, what's the number one thing
Speaker 1: that you hear from people in the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: What's the number one thing that they want to talk
Speaker 1: to you about.
Speaker 6: You know what's funny, Dan, is that I talk to people,
Speaker 6: whether it be in the high income of certain parts
Speaker 6: of town or whether it be in the low income
Speaker 6: of where our coffee shop in our church is in
Speaker 6: the West End, and you think you get different answers,
Speaker 6: But there are three common things that everybody cares about
Speaker 6: in this city, and they don't feel like it's being
Speaker 6: done properly. No matter what side of the aisle that
Speaker 6: they're on, they care about Number one crime. You ask
Speaker 6: a single mom in the West End that's living in
Speaker 6: affordable housing, or you ask somebody that's living in a
Speaker 6: gated community on the East Side, they are going to
Speaker 6: tell you that the crime is out of control, and
Speaker 6: that's from their personal experience, not just from the perception
Speaker 6: of the news. Number Two, they care about the infrastructure.
Speaker 6: They care about these potholes and the cracks in our
Speaker 6: roads and the overwhelming disorganized maintenance of our city roads,
Speaker 6: and even the landscaping and the cleanliness of our city.
Speaker 6: And then number three, they care about where the money's going.
Speaker 6: If you're telling us that you have a one point
Speaker 6: nine billion dollar budget for the city that's proposed next year,
Speaker 6: where is the money going. Is it going into the
Speaker 6: pockets of nonprofits in goos and contractors, or is it
Speaker 6: going towards the city streets and going towards fighting crime
Speaker 6: and making our children safe. And those are the three
Speaker 6: issues that we're running on and we're going to make
Speaker 6: it better starting in January twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: All Right, well, Corey Bowman, I appreciate the time. I
Speaker 1: know you've you got to be unbelievably busy right now,
Speaker 1: but it's always great to hear from you. Keep up
Speaker 1: the great work and hopefully we'll talk a few more
Speaker 1: times before election day gets here. And keep the faith, brother,
Speaker 1: you're doing You're doing God's work and it looks the
Speaker 1: people who vote in this city. We can't keep going
Speaker 1: down this road. We need to do something different, and
Speaker 1: I think this is the guy to do it. But
Speaker 1: Corey Bowman, thanks again, have a great night. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you again before too long.
Speaker 6: Hey, thank you, Dan, talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Corey Bowman, Republican from Mayor.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, I don't live in the city.
Speaker 1: I don't vote in the city, but if I did,
Speaker 1: that's where it was good. That's where it would go.
Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon is going to join me next day after
Speaker 1: the news top of the hour. He is he does
Speaker 1: the American struck In Network program that runs after this show.
Speaker 1: And I found something that is just absolutely unbelievable as
Speaker 1: it relates to trucking and illegals in this country, and
Speaker 1: we're going to break that down after the news here
Speaker 1: at the top of the hour. So sticking around for that.
Speaker 1: Dan Carroll Thursday Night edition of the Midweek Crisis on
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW seven WLW ten oh seven Dan Carroll
Speaker 1: till midnight tonight. It is the Thursday night edition of
Speaker 1: the Midweek Crisis. And I was getting ready for the
Speaker 1: show A couple of days ago and I saw this
Speaker 1: headline and it absolutely blew me away. And the headline
Speaker 1: is this no name given is a pretty common name
Speaker 1: on commercial drivers licenses CDL. You drive a big rig,
Speaker 1: you got to have a CDL license. And getting a
Speaker 1: CDL license requires some training, requires that you know the
Speaker 1: rules of the road. And now we have places like
Speaker 1: the state of California and the State of New York
Speaker 1: issuing driver's licenses to people who don't even give a name.
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, how in the world can
Speaker 1: this even happen? So I reached out to my buddy,
Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon, the main man behind America's truck in networking,
Speaker 1: and Kevin Gordon, it's great to have you on the
Speaker 1: show tonight.
Speaker 8: How are you, Dan, Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 8: You know, this just shows that great minds think alike.
Speaker 8: You know, you two you were saying two weeks or
Speaker 8: two days ago, you were doing some show prep that
Speaker 8: came across this story. Well, I was doing some show
Speaker 8: prep over the weekend, not knowing what days we were
Speaker 8: going to be on this week. Yeah, and I came
Speaker 8: across a story by Sean Duffy talking about CDLs and
Speaker 8: how they're issued and whatever. So I was I'm talking
Speaker 8: about this later on tonight on America's Truck and Network.
Speaker 8: So you and I are on the same page here.
Speaker 1: I mean, did this blow you away?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: And look, we're not talking about We're not talking about
Speaker 1: fake driver's licenses. I read through the whole story and
Speaker 1: we're talking about driver's licenses issued by the State of
Speaker 1: New York and the state. The state of the state says, well,
Speaker 1: you know, in some countries people only have one name
Speaker 1: or they didn't want to give us their name, but
Speaker 1: we gave him the driver's license anyway, And I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of myself, well, wait a minute, this is America. Shouldn't
Speaker 1: we do things a little differently here in America? I
Speaker 1: mean Kevin Gordon, Look, I used to work overnight news
Speaker 1: with the truck and Bozone and me know Dale Summers,
Speaker 1: I mean he was the original overnight truck and trucking guy.
Speaker 1: Of some people want to claim differently, but I would
Speaker 1: beg the difference. But anyway, yes, I mean, you know, look,
Speaker 1: truckers are my people, and I used to listen to
Speaker 1: the issues that they talked about at that time with
Speaker 1: the truck and bozo. And one of the things they
Speaker 1: talked about was that they they were not considered professionals
Speaker 1: behind the wheel. You had all these imbeciles in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. Cranking up regulation after regulation after regulation with
Speaker 1: absolutely no idea of what a professional truck driver goes
Speaker 1: through on a daily or a nightly basis, and so
Speaker 1: they were. You know, so many people in DC just
Speaker 1: have this idea that anyone can get behind a big rig,
Speaker 1: step on the gas, and away you go, and it's
Speaker 1: no big deal. And this makes an absolute mockery of
Speaker 1: the professionalism that so many, the vast majority of truck
Speaker 1: drivers try to exhibit every single day.
Speaker 8: Well, absolutely, and the fact that the state of California
Speaker 8: will issue these driver's license Now you mentioned the monnem names,
Speaker 8: Well I look that up and there are very few
Speaker 8: countries that use monoonymes, in other words, mononyms, which is
Speaker 8: just a single name for a person. Now, if you
Speaker 8: saw there was a Snopes article, which you can't believe
Speaker 8: because Snopes is a bunch of liars, but the fact
Speaker 8: checking on this said that these licenses were issued to
Speaker 8: people who had mononyms and then where the first name
Speaker 8: is supposed to be, that's where they put no name,
Speaker 8: so it's not a license issue. Okay, all right, it's
Speaker 8: not issued to somebody with no name, but it's listed
Speaker 8: to somebody who only has one name. And they there
Speaker 8: aren't many cultures that do that. They are trying to
Speaker 8: hide from something by doing that. Now, Sean Duffy when
Speaker 8: he laid down the wall last week, he laid down
Speaker 8: this emergency order on behalf of the dot saying that
Speaker 8: there needs to be a crackdown on these driver's license
Speaker 8: that are given to non residential people, non people that
Speaker 8: don't have green cards or people because what they were
Speaker 8: finding is that people were getting issued a driver's license
Speaker 8: a CDL in twenty twenty five when they're in their
Speaker 8: work papers or work visa expired in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 8: So part of having to have a driver's license or
Speaker 8: apply to that, you have to have a work permit
Speaker 8: allowed to be working in the United States. So they
Speaker 8: weren't even doing that step. And in this crackdown they
Speaker 8: were talking about that in California, there are sixty thousand
Speaker 8: truck drivers or CDL licenses that were issued for non
Speaker 8: domiciled people and of that search that they did, twenty
Speaker 8: five percent were not valid, were done illegally, or had
Speaker 8: something that would have flagged that they were the vision
Speaker 8: that So, just in the state of California alone, from
Speaker 8: what they looked at, fifteen thousand people are out on
Speaker 8: the road going cross country putting your life at risk,
Speaker 8: my life at risk, that are driving without having the
Speaker 8: necessary qualifications. And it's just incredible. You know, at the
Speaker 8: mass convention down there, to the Mid America Trucking Show.
Speaker 8: Over the last couple of years, that's been one of
Speaker 8: the driving forces. One of the big things that truckers
Speaker 8: talked to me about down there is the fact that
Speaker 8: the FMCSA Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, were not enforcing
Speaker 8: the English language proficiency portion of the license. And that
Speaker 8: is exactly what happened with that accident down in Florida
Speaker 8: where that hard gender sing tried to do that U
Speaker 8: turn and wound up killing three people because he didn't
Speaker 8: know how he couldn't read road signs, he couldn't speak English,
Speaker 8: So how in the hell.
Speaker 3: Did he get a driver's license?
Speaker 1: That's sanity, Yeah, great question, because he was given a
Speaker 1: test after that accident, and I think they asked him
Speaker 1: to identify what was twenty or twenty five different road
Speaker 1: signs and he could only identify what what was two
Speaker 1: or three? I mean that is there's no way that guy.
Speaker 1: And he's pleaed not guilty, by the way, but you
Speaker 1: know the yeah, he's pleaded not guilty. But the governor
Speaker 1: of Oklahoma, thank god, says he put this statement out.
Speaker 1: He said, if New York wants to hand out CDLs
Speaker 1: to illegal immigrants with no name given on them, the
Speaker 1: moment they cross into Oklahoma, they answer to our laws.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma Highway Patrol performed an enforcement action along I forty
Speaker 1: apprehended one hundred and twenty five illegals, one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five illegal immigrants. And that's on one enforcement action
Speaker 1: on one highway in Oklahoma. So thank god, there's at
Speaker 1: least one state out there that has taken this seriously.
Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon. But I think about say says, Look, I
Speaker 1: mean getting getting a cd L and driving that that is,
Speaker 1: if you ask me, that is a major accomplishment. That
Speaker 1: that is something that that is not to be looked
Speaker 1: looked upon lightly. This is a serious thing.
Speaker 8: But you saw how important, you saw how important the
Speaker 8: truckers were back during COVID died.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 8: If it didn't get on a truck, it wasn't on
Speaker 8: your shelf.
Speaker 2: And everybody's going, well, why.
Speaker 8: Isn't there stuff on the on the shelves. Well, all
Speaker 8: the trucks aren't rolling. Oh, you mean that this stuff
Speaker 8: doesn't magically appear all of a sudden. Truckers were heroes
Speaker 8: until the pandemic was over, and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: It was back there business as usual. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm looking, I mean, I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: you know, this one article that's got pictures of these
Speaker 1: different driver's licenses, and then these are legit licenses from California,
Speaker 1: from New York and it says right there, no name given,
Speaker 1: no name given. How can I mean think, if you're
Speaker 1: the person at the state agency and you have to
Speaker 1: produce this license, are are you going to give a
Speaker 1: license just as a matter of common sense? Are you
Speaker 1: going to give a license to someone who doesn't want
Speaker 1: to give you their name? How on God's earth can
Speaker 1: you do something like that? And so, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: you endanger every person on the road when you do
Speaker 1: something like that, And I mean, this cannot this cannot
Speaker 1: continue to happen.
Speaker 8: It can't and you know they have the requirements. Okay,
Speaker 8: you have to pass the written test, you have to
Speaker 8: pass the training requirement, so which means that you had
Speaker 8: to have some training ahead of time, either through a
Speaker 8: trade school or you know, maybe co opting through a
Speaker 8: trucking company that winds up training you. And then you
Speaker 8: have to do a skills test. Then you have to
Speaker 8: present that to a licensing bureau, give them that information.
Speaker 8: And if you are a non resident, you have to
Speaker 8: then produce to them that you have a work permit
Speaker 8: or that you're here in this country legally, and if
Speaker 8: that has expired or if you're issue, if it hasn't
Speaker 8: expired yet, you shouldn't be issuing them a license that
Speaker 8: if their work visa expires in three months, that you
Speaker 8: give them a license that's good for four years. That
Speaker 8: just makes common sense. And the fact that if somebody,
Speaker 8: you know, you look at their permits, you look at
Speaker 8: their paperwork, and I doubt seriously whether they had just
Speaker 8: a single name on there.
Speaker 6: I mean, even in.
Speaker 8: The Arab countries you have some of these guys by
Speaker 8: the name of so and so been such and such so.
Speaker 8: In other words, if in the bin refers to the
Speaker 8: father so if I was Arab, my name would be
Speaker 8: Kevin ben Jack because that was my dad's name. So
Speaker 8: everybody has a last name, or most people have a
Speaker 8: last name, and the fact that there are so many
Speaker 8: of these that don't that is highly suspicious.
Speaker 1: Well, why can't we have state agencies or agencies that
Speaker 1: issue driver's license Why can't we say, you know what,
Speaker 1: go back until you can give us a name, don't
Speaker 1: come here asking me if if it was my job,
Speaker 1: I would say I would, and this has never happened before.
Speaker 1: I would say, no, you can't give me a name,
Speaker 1: I can't give you a license. It doesn't it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like that far of a stretch to me.
Speaker 8: And I don't know what you can't identify, If you
Speaker 8: can't identify yourself, if you can't prove that you are
Speaker 8: who you say you are, I don't think it makes
Speaker 8: sense to put them behind an eighty thousand pound vehicle
Speaker 8: rocket and send them down the road, you know, and
Speaker 8: then we have One of the things they've uncovered is
Speaker 8: that there was this SENS have charged six people in
Speaker 8: connection with a scam to fraudulently issue CDLs, So we
Speaker 8: don't know in some of these case is there some
Speaker 8: of these states, New York, California, if the issuing agency,
Speaker 8: if somebody in that organization wasn't bribed by these people
Speaker 8: or a group of people to get these licenses, because
Speaker 8: they can falsify the skills test, they can falsify the
Speaker 8: training requirement, they can counterfeit, uh, the documents for these
Speaker 8: various skill tests and issue that if they're paid off.
Speaker 8: So were these issues paid off? Were they? And there
Speaker 8: are some people, I mean, I guess if share went
Speaker 8: out wanted to get a CDL, maybe she could get
Speaker 8: by with having one name, or Madonna or somebody like that.
Speaker 8: But Liberachi, uh, you know, probably a CDL with one
Speaker 8: name because he's more known by that. But for the
Speaker 8: most part, everybody seems to have a last name. I
Speaker 8: mean every one of these people that I mean, I mean, what's.
Speaker 1: The was married to Sonny Bono. Her last name is Bona.
Speaker 1: I mean, but you go, I'm reading this piece about
Speaker 1: when Sean Duffy signed the executive order early this year,
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump's the one who put it out. And
Speaker 1: so here's here's what the here's a little bit of
Speaker 1: history on this. M FMCSA regulations provide that a driver
Speaker 1: unable to sufficiently read or speak English or understand highway
Speaker 1: traffic signs and signals is not qualified to operate a
Speaker 1: commercial motor vehicle. However, in twenty sixteen, Kevin Gordon, the
Speaker 1: Obama administration directed inspectors not to place CMB drivers out
Speaker 1: of service for such violations. The failure toally enforced driver
Speaker 1: qualification standards pose a serious safety concerns and increases the
Speaker 1: likelihood of a crash. So Donald Trump knew about this,
Speaker 1: Sean Duffy knew about this, and thank god they took
Speaker 1: action to to reverse this Obama era policy.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I got to question a little bit, I mean,
Speaker 8: just you know, to be fair here, that this was
Speaker 8: put in the final days of the Obama administration in
Speaker 8: twenty sixteen, So twenty seventeen, eighteen nineteen, during the first
Speaker 8: Trump term, somebody at the Department of Transportation or somebody
Speaker 8: of the FMCSA, unless they were holdovers from the Obama
Speaker 8: not the Secretary, but at least the administers of the
Speaker 8: FMCSA CMA Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Administration CMVSA, if they
Speaker 8: were holdover overs, maybe they weren't enforcing this, but the
Speaker 8: directive had already gone out, so a lot of these
Speaker 8: agencies probably weren't enforcing it because of that. And you know,
Speaker 8: you can't know everything, but the fact that this was
Speaker 8: still on the books and that they weren't somebody should
Speaker 8: have blown the whistle on this and gotten this fix
Speaker 8: a lot faster.
Speaker 1: As I recall it, twenty sixteen, Trump had a pretty
Speaker 1: full plate trying to try to tell the truth about
Speaker 1: the rush.
Speaker 4: The rush.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that way, that's let's look up an affair amount
Speaker 1: of time in this country, Kevin Gordon, let me ask
Speaker 1: you about something else before I let you go. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a survey that is out today talking
Speaker 1: about trust and American media, and it finds that trust
Speaker 1: in media is at its lowest level in more than
Speaker 1: fifty years. So, Kevin Gordon, you and I have been around.
Speaker 1: You maybe do a little bit longer than me, but
Speaker 1: I can remember fifty years ago. That takes us back
Speaker 1: into the nineteen seventies, and I would I remember as
Speaker 1: a little kid. Uh, And I think this is where
Speaker 1: my love for news came from. Is I used to
Speaker 1: visit my grandparents and they had one of those giant TVs,
Speaker 1: you know, the giant console TVs and uh, and my
Speaker 1: my grandfather would watch Walter conkright on the on the
Speaker 1: news every night. And so I sat there watching Walter conkrite,
Speaker 1: and and you know what his approval reading was what
Speaker 1: probably in the ninety percent time.
Speaker 8: But we'll talk about him being most trusted.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Well, I.
Speaker 8: Was raised a very conservative woman and dad. But she
Speaker 8: would sit there and point out the adjectives that were
Speaker 8: used and read between the lines of stuff that wasn't
Speaker 8: being covered because she subscribed to that newspaper, Human Events,
Speaker 8: the Wanderer, and some of these conservative publications, and she say,
Speaker 8: what he's not saying here is this. Listen to this
Speaker 8: adjective how he described. That's where you started getting this
Speaker 8: stuff about so and so a conservative commentator. And then
Speaker 8: when you're talking about a liberal, it's just their name
Speaker 8: and they're a commentator, no description there. So even he
Speaker 8: I mean, most of the part, but yeah, there were
Speaker 8: some times when I could tell some of the stuff
Speaker 8: that would creep in that were a little bit bubble
Speaker 8: or two left of center. So but yeah, you're right,
Speaker 8: was very well respected and it's gone downhill since then.
Speaker 8: And what we've seen basically as a result of the
Speaker 8: Biden cover up with I'm sorry with the auto Pen
Speaker 8: cover up the President auto Pen that the spoon fed
Speaker 8: regurgitators in the mainstream media have been basically spoon fed
Speaker 8: this news and handled handed this information by the administration
Speaker 8: and then they just regurgitated to the American public. And
Speaker 8: so the trust there, I mean, they are a propaganda
Speaker 8: arm and have been a propaganda arm of the DNC
Speaker 8: for decades now, and people are more and more finding
Speaker 8: about and that came, I mean as obvious by you know,
Speaker 8: we're seeing the cheat sheets that Biden had call on
Speaker 8: this reporter and then he has the question in front
Speaker 8: of him that the reporter is going to ask. I mean,
Speaker 8: that is collusion right there. You can't trust the media
Speaker 8: that does that. And then you've got the media that
Speaker 8: covered for Biden, I'm sorry for President auto Pen, and
Speaker 8: you know, so you know, they knew what was going on,
Speaker 8: and then all of a sudden Trump comes into office
Speaker 8: and all of a sudden people are going, gee, you know,
Speaker 8: we thought there was a little something off, but we
Speaker 8: just couldn't quite put our finger on it. So, yeah,
Speaker 8: you're right, the trust in the media is is way.
Speaker 1: Down there, all right, Kevin Gordon. We got a run.
Speaker 1: But are we going to hear ATN tonight after I'm
Speaker 1: done here at midnight tonight?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, we are back.
Speaker 1: Sure we are ATN is back and swaying after a
Speaker 1: couple of late night a couple of late nights with
Speaker 1: the Reds and the Bengals. And yeah, the Bengals too,
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. They did. They have a Monday
Speaker 1: night game this week. All right, Kevin Gordon, You're the
Speaker 1: best man. Always great having you all.
Speaker 8: Brother, Dan, thank you so much for having me on.
Speaker 6: I certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 2: We're going to do this more often.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Whenever there's a big trucking issue, we're going
Speaker 1: to do it. We're going to do it because it's
Speaker 1: too much fun. Kevin, You're the best. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you again soon, brother, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: There you go, Kevin Gordon from ATN ten twenty five
Speaker 1: on seven hundred WW All right, here we go, seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW ten thirty seven. It is the Thursday night
Speaker 1: edition of the Midweek Crisis. I'm Dan Carroll, glad to
Speaker 1: be here, glad you are here as well, and always
Speaker 1: glad to welcome in this guy from the Conservative Caucus.
Speaker 1: My buddy, Jim Faff, have you gotten over the the
Speaker 1: the dismissal of the Reds from the from the first
Speaker 1: playoff appearance since nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 5: I think it was I am just I'm down. I'm down,
Speaker 5: and as I as I told you privately, I mean,
Speaker 5: this is such a talented, capable team just at the core.
Speaker 4: You know, we just got to get over the hump.
Speaker 5: And I mean we should be in at least in
Speaker 5: the you know, National League Championship Series every year right now,
Speaker 5: and it's not getting to the World Series.
Speaker 4: But you know, it's just it's a bummer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's always next year. Were Reds fans, you know,
Speaker 5: we kind of we pop up in the seventies, pop
Speaker 5: up in the early nineties, and then we have to
Speaker 5: wait again, you know how it goes.
Speaker 1: Well. Ager said something the other day. He said, he said, look,
Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily saying the Reds are going to win
Speaker 1: a championship this year, but he said, I hope it's
Speaker 1: the start of with regularity, this team getting into the postseason.
Speaker 1: And so I'm kind of hanging my hat on that.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good way to look at it.
Speaker 4: I still I think I agree with you.
Speaker 5: And whenever I am at a time like this, I
Speaker 5: always remember coming down from the red seats many years ago,
Speaker 5: standing at the looking down the third base line and
Speaker 5: watching Eric Davison a walk off Homer. That's the thing
Speaker 5: that I always remember.
Speaker 1: How about Eric the red Man. I mean, you bring
Speaker 1: back some you have some great memories, Jim, I swear
Speaker 1: to God. All right, So let's uh, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the issue at hand. Every time I listen to the
Speaker 1: news today, Top of the Hour, Bottom of the Hour, ABC, NBC,
Speaker 1: government shutdown, government shutdown, government shutdown? Does the government ever
Speaker 1: really shut down? I mean does it I mean there's
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's a few things that are closed,
Speaker 1: but I mean, really there's Does it really ever shut down?
Speaker 1: Is it possible?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it doesn't in one sense and not
Speaker 5: in another. So really, everything that really matters in government
Speaker 5: that actually needs to be done never shuts down, that
Speaker 5: never goes away. But the other side of it is
Speaker 5: you have federal employees that go on furlough and in
Speaker 5: almost every case, they're sitting at home just waiting for
Speaker 5: this to all be over, and they're still going to
Speaker 5: get the paycheck when they're not working. So you know,
Speaker 5: there are people who don't come into the office. There
Speaker 5: is are things to shut down, but it's all of
Speaker 5: the areas that we don't even need to be doing
Speaker 5: in government anyway. And uh, you know, because social Security
Speaker 5: checks go out, which you know, listen, I don't know
Speaker 5: how we get rid of Social Security, but it's an
Speaker 5: unconstitutional program. But those checks go out, Medicare payments and
Speaker 5: processing happens, Medicaid happens because it's happening at the state
Speaker 5: level mostly, so you know, it's it's it's just it's
Speaker 5: other than those things the military, the judicial system and
Speaker 5: various things they keep going on, and those are really
Speaker 5: about the only things.
Speaker 4: We need anyone.
Speaker 5: But it's really sad because the furlough thing, you know,
Speaker 5: these people.
Speaker 4: Sit at home and then get paid.
Speaker 5: I had to go in the office every day when
Speaker 5: I when I was on Capitol Hill, and I wasn't
Speaker 5: ostensibly getting paid, but then again I ended up getting paid,
Speaker 5: but I was working. The federal employees don't do that,
Speaker 5: So it's it's it's both sides.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you would have you would have done it for
Speaker 1: free if you had to, because you just love.
Speaker 5: You love wonderful working in Congress.
Speaker 1: Not you love the work, but you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're really it's almost a necessity to understand what the
Speaker 1: you know, what the syntax is here that's being used
Speaker 1: when you talk about the way that the Democrats are
Speaker 1: trying to frame the issue, and I think the Republicans
Speaker 1: are making it pretty simple. You know, the big beautiful
Speaker 1: Bill Trump cut out the idea that anyone who's in
Speaker 1: the country illegally is going to get free health care benefits,
Speaker 1: and essentially the Democrats, through a trick of the language,
Speaker 1: are trying to reinstate that at the cost of about
Speaker 1: what one point five to two trillion dollars for what
Speaker 1: seven weeks or seven months or hover long? This continuing
Speaker 1: resolution is so the thing is, you know, Jim, I
Speaker 1: look back, and there was a time when Democrats were
Speaker 1: fully on board with the idea of illegals not getting healthcare,
Speaker 1: and chief among them, I want to play a sound
Speaker 1: by here and tell me if you recognize this voice
Speaker 1: from the past, well really not from the past, but
Speaker 1: a younger version of a voice that we hear these days.
Speaker 1: And Joe, let's hear cut number five as to illegal aliens.
Speaker 9: We agree with you that we do not think the
Speaker 9: comprehensive healthcare benefits should be extended to those who are
Speaker 9: undocumented workers and illegal aliens. We do not want to
Speaker 9: do anything to encourage more illegal immigration into this country.
Speaker 9: We know now that too many people come in for
Speaker 9: medical care as it is. We certainly don't want them
Speaker 9: having the same benefits that American citizens are entitled to
Speaker 9: have as to illegal aliens.
Speaker 5: Jim So Jim, who was that, Well, first of all,
Speaker 5: she didn't know how to use email at the time
Speaker 5: and figured it out how to do it illegally later obviously,
Speaker 5: Hillary Clinton, Well.
Speaker 1: I think what like nineteen ninety two or something like that,
Speaker 1: in early nineties, Yeah, what changed? What changed? Because that's
Speaker 1: that sounds like, you know, far right wing conspiracy policy
Speaker 1: to me. Right, you know, it is what the left
Speaker 1: would have you believe.
Speaker 5: Now, well, the difference is this, and it's just it's
Speaker 5: a mere political calculation.
Speaker 2: This is this is.
Speaker 4: How fungible anything that.
Speaker 5: Democrats say is so Back then in the nineties they're
Speaker 5: concerned about immigration, was that the immigrant illegal immigrants would
Speaker 5: take jobs away from union workers.
Speaker 4: So they were standing up for the unions. That's where
Speaker 4: the Union stood.
Speaker 5: Fast forward almost thirty years later, and suddenly all these
Speaker 5: illegals are potential voters for them, and many of them
Speaker 5: are voting. We know that it's happening. The other thing
Speaker 5: is they change the census calculations, which which Barack Obama instituted.
Speaker 5: That helps them to get more seats in Congress than
Speaker 5: they deserve, and we're trying to fix that right now.
Speaker 5: So it's nearly the grabbing for power. That's all that
Speaker 5: it is.
Speaker 4: With these Democrats.
Speaker 5: Democrats are about hour and authority. They're not about the
Speaker 5: American ideal, which is why I'm saying all the time
Speaker 5: right now that the Democrat Party is not an American party.
Speaker 4: It is not.
Speaker 5: Every bit of our problems in this country has its
Speaker 5: origin in Democrat politics and on the margins sometimes the
Speaker 5: weakness of Republicans not going back against it. But that
Speaker 5: calculus is changing in this Trump administration because you have
Speaker 5: new leaders in each of the houses, new Republican leaders
Speaker 5: in each of the houses who are acting differently than
Speaker 5: the Paul Ryans and the John Bahinners and the Mitch
Speaker 5: McConnell's of the world. And they're being led by Donald Trump,
Speaker 5: which is really the real force behind this where finally
Speaker 5: we're out of place where we take a strong stand
Speaker 5: and people aren't going to back down or not likely to.
Speaker 5: So it's kind of a new day on Capitol Hill,
Speaker 5: much different than what I experienced when I was working.
Speaker 1: With Yeah, but it's amazing to me how many mainstream
Speaker 1: Democrats are getting on board with Zorhan Mandani. Or in
Speaker 1: New York City, he was on the View a day
Speaker 1: or so ago and Joy Behar asked him if he
Speaker 1: was a communist, and he said, oh, I'm not a communist.
Speaker 1: I'm a Democrat socialist because because he said, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, we believe in dignity for every human being. Jim,
Speaker 1: can you explain to me how living under a socialist
Speaker 1: system promotes human dignity? Where where you know, under the
Speaker 1: ideas of Mandami, if you if you're able to earn
Speaker 1: a decent living, then his socialist government wants to come
Speaker 1: and take more than half of what you earn. And
Speaker 1: then the you know, there the there's another whole class
Speaker 1: of people to which will be dependent upon the government.
Speaker 1: Where's the human dignity in any of that that Mondnad
Speaker 1: likes to talk about.
Speaker 5: Well, they can make it seem like, or at least
Speaker 5: up to this point, have been able to make it
Speaker 5: seem like it's human dignity because of this idea of equity,
Speaker 5: where you equalize outcomes, which is a message it's easy
Speaker 5: to throw out there in a world where things are
Speaker 5: not perfect, someone or some group of people have lost
Speaker 5: their jobs, or they're having some temporary financial setbacks that
Speaker 5: might be caused by something in the economy. Of course,
Speaker 5: government destroys the economy through the Federal Reserve and inflation,
Speaker 5: and so that helps enhance the message. That's why Democrats
Speaker 5: do like the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 4: And the way it acts. But what it really is,
Speaker 4: it's a.
Speaker 5: Utopian ideal that there is somehow a way, if we
Speaker 5: just get enough power.
Speaker 4: In government and central things in government.
Speaker 5: Enough that that's going to end up allowing all of
Speaker 5: us to live wonderfully. The reality is that's never worked.
Speaker 5: Every utopian idealistic idea related to government of any form
Speaker 5: throughout world history has always failed miserably. Every time that
Speaker 5: someone else says that they're going to come in and
Speaker 5: order society for us in a certain way, it never works.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's happened everywhere. What has been unique about
Speaker 5: the American experiment is from our founding, the idea was, no,
Speaker 5: you cannot have a utopian lifestyle. Yes, there are going
Speaker 5: to be ups and downs in life, but you get
Speaker 5: to the side how you're going to react to that.
Speaker 5: You get the power to do that by yourselves, and
Speaker 5: therefore you can secure how your life runs so that
Speaker 5: you can get all the benefits of the good decisions
Speaker 5: you make, and the fear of God can be in
Speaker 5: you for making bad decisions, because you're going to reap
Speaker 5: the benefits or the disbenefits of your bad decisions. I
Speaker 5: mean this idea of popular sovereignty, the idea that the
Speaker 5: people are the kings of the country, which is stated
Speaker 5: clearly in the beginning of our constitution.
Speaker 4: We the people in order to form a more perfect union.
Speaker 5: That ideal works and when you allow it to happen,
Speaker 5: it works best. And we are on the back end
Speaker 5: of a one hundred year experiment of progressivism, which is
Speaker 5: just the beginning ideas of socialism and communism that democrats
Speaker 5: have since Wodrow Wilson have been eking into our system
Speaker 5: through FBR and LBJ and Obama, and all those negative
Speaker 5: things are coming to roost right now, which is why
Speaker 5: Donald Trump was able to get elected, and it's why, frankly,
Speaker 5: even through all the missmash of what's happening in Washington,
Speaker 5: d C. His poll numbers are still up because he's
Speaker 5: got the right ideal, and I think we have a
Speaker 5: chance that the American people are starting to see, Yeah,
Speaker 5: we got to take a different direction because these Democrats
Speaker 5: don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you picked up your copy of the Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: book yet one hundred and seven days?
Speaker 10: No, but I am, But I am actually really enjoying
Speaker 10: the stand up comedy and freak show of all of
Speaker 10: her interviews and the reminder I'm glad for the reminder
Speaker 10: that everyone's getting.
Speaker 5: About how we really dodged a bullet last November.
Speaker 1: I think I think when when I look at her
Speaker 1: and I see her on this book tour that she's
Speaker 1: doing and the interviews that she's doing, I think she
Speaker 1: thinks that she's really forging a foundation for another presidential run.
Speaker 1: I really think she has put that thought in her
Speaker 1: mind and she's and she's living on that. Are you
Speaker 1: seeing the same thing I'm saying.
Speaker 5: No, I agree with your assessment and what's interesting is
Speaker 5: it just re emphasizes how much of a bubble this
Speaker 5: woman has lived in. You know, it's kind of funny.
Speaker 5: I really wonder how she got a law degree. She
Speaker 5: has had to be a dei thing on her part
Speaker 5: because she's not very smart. She doesn't even show like
Speaker 5: like your standard lawyer, even if they're evil, know how
Speaker 5: to utilize language and twists of logic or ill logic
Speaker 5: to try to, you know, impress people enough to do
Speaker 5: what they want to happen, and you know they can
Speaker 5: hit it from time to time. She doesn't even have
Speaker 5: that skill. So she's lived in this bubble. But it's
Speaker 5: what's even more important is that she has is continuing
Speaker 5: the I don't know, the the absurd freaking uh incompetent
Speaker 5: responses to every question that she gets. The excerpts of
Speaker 5: the books that I've seen fall really show that she
Speaker 5: has no clue.
Speaker 4: What happened last year.
Speaker 5: She just really has no idea at all. And although
Speaker 5: I think in her course, she knows.
Speaker 3: That she failed this thing and has.
Speaker 5: Some degree of embarrassment about having had two billion dollars
Speaker 5: and and I don't know, more than twice the amount
Speaker 5: of money that Donald Trump hadn't still.
Speaker 1: Lost wasted a billion dollars, and she was, you know,
Speaker 1: I read one excerpt from her book where she talks
Speaker 1: about how I guess it was the night of the debate,
Speaker 1: or before the debate. Her people booked her for a
Speaker 1: podcast with this doctor, and so she had to go
Speaker 1: on this Heaven forbid, she had to go on a
Speaker 1: podcast unprepared, didn't get her briefing before she went onto
Speaker 1: the platform. Jim, how how much of a briefing do
Speaker 1: you have before you come on on my show on
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW. Do you have a whole team of
Speaker 1: people write down, you know, a possible question, you know,
Speaker 1: Dan might ask you about this. You got to prepared
Speaker 1: to talk about that, And so she writes, she writes
Speaker 1: in the book, the doctor comes on and says, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk with the Vice President of the
Speaker 1: United States today, and I'm going to ask her about healthcare,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to ask her about women's issues, which
Speaker 1: means abortion. Uh, you know, she and it was it
Speaker 1: was five or six boilerplate things. She had been vice
Speaker 1: president of the United States for four years at that point,
Speaker 1: and she and she was freaking out because she couldn't
Speaker 1: handle these these simple questions. And this was a friendly interview.
Speaker 1: And and then and she and she goes on to
Speaker 1: talk about how difficult it is because these people that
Speaker 1: and she gave this, she read them the riot that boy,
Speaker 1: I mean, she let them, you know, these people that
Speaker 1: are working for her. I don't know if she if
Speaker 1: she reads that and thinks that makes her look good,
Speaker 1: it makes her look like an imbecile.
Speaker 4: Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 5: Listen, both and speaking both of you, like both you
Speaker 5: and I, we can we can speak off the cuff
Speaker 5: and be ready to go on something quickly because we're like, these.
Speaker 4: Things are running through her mind. I mean, the most
Speaker 4: we have to.
Speaker 5: Do on our own is just verify some facts, double
Speaker 5: check what's really going on. I mean, it doesn't take
Speaker 5: a lot of time at all. If you're not capable
Speaker 5: of doing that. Now, one advantage that both you and
Speaker 5: I have. You know, I spent four years doing a
Speaker 5: daily radio show in Denver, so you know there's something
Speaker 5: to that that that might bring something there. But that's
Speaker 5: what politicians have. If you're doing politics, then you're having
Speaker 5: to be able to speak quickly on subjects that you
Speaker 5: should at least have some knowledge about this just kind
Speaker 5: of re emphasizes to me what I've said quite a
Speaker 5: bit I probably said on your show from time to time,
Speaker 5: is that it scares me the people that we elect
Speaker 5: to Congress. I mean, she's not the only one.
Speaker 4: I've been around.
Speaker 5: These people, and I'm telling you, well, more than half
Speaker 5: of them scare me to death. There's about forty percent
Speaker 5: on either.
Speaker 2: Side of the aisle who.
Speaker 5: I think have competence and skill to at least address
Speaker 5: issues and think through what's going on. Even if they
Speaker 5: make the wrong decision, they thought through it and spent
Speaker 5: some time on it. The rest of them are just
Speaker 5: showing up, and they like the prestige of being able
Speaker 5: to wear that button on their lapel so that they
Speaker 5: can get around all of the metal detectors really easily
Speaker 5: on Capitol Hill. And I've seen the city a time
Speaker 5: at the time, you know, they love the prestige. And
Speaker 5: you know, I worked for Thomas Matthew. Thomas always called
Speaker 5: that button my preshest you know, speaking.
Speaker 4: Of Gullam and Lord the Rings.
Speaker 5: You know, once you put that on, it suddenly immorphs
Speaker 5: you into something else. And she but she's even worse
Speaker 5: than that, and it's really scary when you think that
Speaker 5: she might have become president.
Speaker 1: Man, we dodged literally dodged a dodged a bullet there.
Speaker 1: Jim Fath as always, buddy, great having you on. Conservative
Speaker 1: Caucus is the website. Keep up the great work and
Speaker 1: we'll be talking again before too long. But as always, Man, thanks,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Thanks, thanks for being here.
Speaker 4: Thanks Dan, look forward to talking to you soon.
Speaker 1: All right, Jim Faff the Conservative Caucus. Always great to
Speaker 1: have him. We got to get to a break news
Speaker 1: coming up top of the hour, and then phone lines
Speaker 1: will be open. Five three, seven, the Big One as
Speaker 1: we roll on till midnight tonight on seven hundred WLW,
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW. It's eleven o six. We go to
Speaker 1: midnight tonight on the Thursday night edition of the Midweek Crisis.
Speaker 1: One of the things Jim for being here. That guy
Speaker 1: is great and Kevin Goon and Gordon from the ATN
Speaker 1: talked about it. I mean, just just think about that.
Speaker 1: You go in to get a commercial driver's license, gonna
Speaker 1: drive a big rig. And let's say that you're the
Speaker 1: person who is working there. It's your job to distribute
Speaker 1: these licenses. You got to see some paperwork. Don't you
Speaker 1: got to put a name on the license. What is
Speaker 1: your name?
Speaker 8: Sir?
Speaker 1: I can't give you my name. Are you gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and give that person a license to drive a
Speaker 1: big rig? Who does that? Okay? No, no, no name.
Speaker 1: I'll just put no name given. We have no idea
Speaker 1: who this guy is, but by god, he can go
Speaker 1: out there and earn a living driving his eighteen wheeler.
Speaker 1: If you have no name given on a driver's license,
Speaker 1: who does the company make out their paychecks to you?
Speaker 1: Drive a truck? I know, I know a lot of
Speaker 1: guys in the trucking business who have made a lot
Speaker 1: of money. I got a buddy who's in town right now,
Speaker 1: drives a drives a big ring, delivers attractors and farm equipment,
Speaker 1: machinery and stuff like that. If you if you can't
Speaker 1: give a name for your driver's license, who do they
Speaker 1: Who do they make the checkout? I mean, do you
Speaker 1: walk into a bank with your paycheck? And I guess
Speaker 1: most of it's dirrect deposit these days, so.
Speaker 2: They just.
Speaker 1: Put it to a send it to a routing number
Speaker 1: and a bank account, I guess. But if you actually
Speaker 1: and I know that there's some there's some people who
Speaker 1: still get regular paychecks. Take them to the bank. And
Speaker 1: if you're at the bank and the you know, it
Speaker 1: says pay to the order of no name given. How
Speaker 1: do you?
Speaker 2: How do you?
Speaker 1: How do you process that? I don't know? Five, one, three, seven, nine,
Speaker 1: the big one. Uh, let's see, Joe, let's get cut
Speaker 1: number cut, number eight, ready to go. Earlier this week,
Speaker 1: I was on the air when this happened, and you
Speaker 1: had Pete hag Seth and Donald Trump. They uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's big. There was big mystery there for a couple
Speaker 1: of days because they called all the top commanders, all
Speaker 1: the top military billets to show up at Quantico and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a little talking to And everyone was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. You know, Trump's gonna consolidate his power.
Speaker 1: Is gonna make sure they pledge allegiance to him. If not,
Speaker 1: they're going to get fired. All this crazy stuff's going
Speaker 1: and so what do they do. They put it on TV.
Speaker 1: Pete hegg Set's speech was on TV. The Trumpster was
Speaker 1: on TV talked for I don't know about an hour
Speaker 1: and a half. I had it on the studio here.
Speaker 1: I was on the air at that time, so I
Speaker 1: could I couldn't listen to what was being said. But
Speaker 1: afterwards I saw all these folks on the left very
Speaker 1: upset with Pete Heg Seth because he said something about fitness.
Speaker 1: He said something about military people being in shape, and
Speaker 1: maybe you're like me, and you didn't get to hear it.
Speaker 1: And so I found the SoundBite of what he said
Speaker 1: that got so many people upset. And if you listen
Speaker 1: to this now, you tell me what's what's so bad
Speaker 1: about this? What is so upsetting that this is what
Speaker 1: Pete Hegg said. I said to the top members of
Speaker 1: the military. And with that, Joe, let's hear cut number eight.
Speaker 1: Please with physical fitness and appearance.
Speaker 11: If the Secretary of War can do regular hard pt,
Speaker 11: so can every member of our joint force.
Speaker 1: Frankly, it's tiring.
Speaker 11: To look out at combat formations or really any formation
Speaker 11: and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see.
Speaker 1: Fat generals and admirals in the halls.
Speaker 11: Of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country in
Speaker 11: the world.
Speaker 1: It's a bad look. It is bad and it's not
Speaker 1: who we are.
Speaker 11: So whether you're an airborne ranger or a chairborne ranger,
Speaker 11: a brand new private.
Speaker 1: Or a four star general.
Speaker 11: You need to meet the height and weight standards and
Speaker 11: pass the PT test.
Speaker 2: And as the Chairman said, yes there is no PT test.
Speaker 11: But today, at my direction, every member of the Joint
Speaker 11: Force at every rank is required to take a PT
Speaker 11: test twice a year, as well as me height and
Speaker 11: weight requirements twice a year every year of service. Also today,
Speaker 11: at my direction, every warrior across our Joint Force is
Speaker 11: required to do PT.
Speaker 1: Every duty day. Should be common sense. I mean most
Speaker 1: units do that already. So there you go. There is
Speaker 1: the Secretary of Defense, or they don't call it the
Speaker 1: Defense Department anymore. They call it the Department of War,
Speaker 1: the War Department, telling these top military leaders, you know,
Speaker 1: let's be in shape. I don't want to look out
Speaker 1: there and see a bunch of fat slobs wearing the
Speaker 1: uniform of the United States of America. Those are my words,
Speaker 1: not his, But at least that's my takeaway from what
Speaker 1: he said. And there's all kinds of video out there.
Speaker 1: We've seen hegseeth doing those early morning workouts. They'll do
Speaker 1: it with the Marines, do it with the Rangers. They'll
Speaker 1: do the workouts with anyone. Now, maybe he doesn't live
Speaker 1: up to the same physical standards that he used to
Speaker 1: when he was active duty. But the guy is pretty fit,
Speaker 1: in pretty good shape. So what about that speech makes
Speaker 1: you upset? I'm listening to it and somehow the according
Speaker 1: to those on the left, this is anti woman, anti LGBTQ,
Speaker 1: anti this anti that. Now things are changing in the
Speaker 1: military recruitment. Recruitment numbers are way up. There's a spread
Speaker 1: of corps now that we didn't have not that long ago.
Speaker 1: So they're doing good things and being physically fit and
Speaker 1: wearing the uniform of the Army, of the Air Force,
Speaker 1: the Navy, Marines Guard. Those are two things my way
Speaker 1: of thinking that going. If you're going to be a
Speaker 1: warrior for this country, can't hurt you to get a
Speaker 1: little exercise. Mark, you's smelling what I'm cooking? Mark and Monroe, Wisconsin.
Speaker 7: I think I am all right.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, did you did you what? What
Speaker 1: did you hear in that that segment of speech by
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth. That's worthy of condemnation.
Speaker 7: Well, unless you have something drastically against integrity and professionalism,
Speaker 7: I can't think of I can't think of anything.
Speaker 1: Very well, said sir very, I can't say it any
Speaker 1: better than that. That is fantastic.
Speaker 7: Now, the one thing I would say, kind of across
Speaker 7: the board with the US, and I'm not necessarily this
Speaker 7: isn't necessarily the physical aspect of it, but again it's
Speaker 7: the integrity and professionalism. My concern is if we can't
Speaker 7: go across the board, let's say, like with the FBI,
Speaker 7: if we can't get that up to snuff from integrity
Speaker 7: and professionalism, and we can't get the DOJ up the
Speaker 7: snuff and integrity of in professionalism, we could have the
Speaker 7: greatest you know, Department of War or defense from foreign enemies,
Speaker 7: but if we can't clean up clean house with our
Speaker 7: domestic enemies, which I think are so infiltrated, and like
Speaker 7: I said, with the DOJ and the FBI. And that's
Speaker 7: not a knock on cash Pattel, and you know, we
Speaker 7: do have some good personnel out there, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 7: I'm just afraid that over the course of time, you know,
Speaker 7: And I'll go back to paracusaying Obama that I think
Speaker 7: he was a huge uh responsible for the infiltration that
Speaker 7: took place with the US with his transfer transformation of
Speaker 7: the US and his affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood. And
Speaker 7: you know, I don't know how much how many Islamist
Speaker 7: and potential shariass out there that we that we have
Speaker 7: integrated into our US government.
Speaker 1: No, No, I I agree, Mark, and I look, the
Speaker 1: deep state, the deep state is is deeper than anyone thought.
Speaker 1: You know, so much of this is ingrained in the
Speaker 1: different agencies than we have. I like to think that
Speaker 1: because there's a culture of following orders within the military,
Speaker 1: that that maybe the military it would be easier to
Speaker 1: whip into shape than something like the FBI or the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice or the different intelligence agencies that we have,
Speaker 1: because I think that's where the real heartbeat of the
Speaker 1: deep state lies is in those particular agencies. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're so vast, and I mean, you know, there's more
Speaker 1: than over there's more than three million people and depending
Speaker 1: on how you count it, as many as five million
Speaker 1: people or more working for the federal government. I saw
Speaker 1: this thing today where you know, they're talking about all
Speaker 1: these thousands of layoffs that are going to happen, and
Speaker 1: already one hundred and fifty thousand people have left the
Speaker 1: federal government under the Trump administration, and one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand sounds like a lot, but when you're talking
Speaker 1: about you know, anywhere between three and five million people,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand, that's not that much. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, these agencies, it is just so
Speaker 1: vast and so cumbersome, and so much of this stuff
Speaker 1: is so deeply ingrained. And I spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time this past week after the James Comey got indicted,
Speaker 1: and you know, this is a guy that couldn't separate
Speaker 1: his job that he is supposed to do on behalf
Speaker 1: of the people of the United States and doing the
Speaker 1: best for the president of the United States. He couldn't
Speaker 1: separate his politics from that. So he single handedly allowed
Speaker 1: the FBI to get to my way of thinking, they
Speaker 1: get dragged into the political sphere and really just ruin
Speaker 1: any confidence that the American people had in that agency.
Speaker 7: I agree with you, Dan. Another thing. I would go
Speaker 7: with this thing just to spin off the government shutdown.
Speaker 7: I would reinvent a form of DOGE, and I think
Speaker 7: it's a perfect opportunity to clean house and to see
Speaker 7: how many of these un American I would just assume
Speaker 7: call him traders and get them out of our system.
Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, you know, Chuck Schumer should be in
Speaker 7: office in the first places, especially after he had threatened
Speaker 7: two Supreme Court judges. And you know, it's guys like
Speaker 7: him that are totally wrecking America, plain and simple. I mean,
Speaker 7: I could I could list probably the whole Democratic you
Speaker 7: know entourage there, you know, with anywhere from Hillary Clinton
Speaker 7: and Pocahontas and Corey Booker, and you know, I could
Speaker 7: go down the whole list. I think they're all substantial socialistic,
Speaker 7: borderline communists that are destroying the country.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you know, Elizabeth Warren is on record
Speaker 1: supporting zorhan Loandami, You've got Nadler, You've got all these
Speaker 1: other mainstream Democrats. Kathy Hochele is supporting him. She's the
Speaker 1: governor of New York. So they're talking about how this
Speaker 1: guy is the future of the Democrat Party and and
Speaker 1: he says, you know, you look, he says he's a socialist.
Speaker 1: And Mark, my.
Speaker 7: Question would be, if they obliged to h honor the Constitution,
Speaker 7: why wouldn't they be considered traders by by other you
Speaker 7: know again.
Speaker 1: Well, I think, look, I think that's a good point,
Speaker 1: and I think in a lot of these cases that
Speaker 1: that needs to be talked about in a meaningful way,
Speaker 1: that we start that we start looking at that.
Speaker 7: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: But I but think about it, though, if if if Pan,
Speaker 1: Bondi or Trump, you know, one started talking about you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to look at the treasonous activities of some
Speaker 1: of these individuals, look at the look at the Can
Speaker 1: you imagine the conniption that that the left and the
Speaker 1: media would have about that?
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I can see the bull back from the
Speaker 7: whole thing. By On the other hand, if you don't
Speaker 7: take that course, what's they going to leave you with?
Speaker 1: Mark? I appreciate the phone call tonight. Okay, thank you,
Speaker 1: all right, there you go, Mark, And he was was
Speaker 1: he Joe? Was he really in Wisconsin? It's pretty cool?
Speaker 1: All right, well, he said he was. So I don't
Speaker 1: have any reason not to believe five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 1: seven thousand. I touched on this earlier that the media
Speaker 1: trust in the media is at its lowest level more
Speaker 1: than fifty years. The development comes as Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: for almost a decade raged against fake news. Legacy at
Speaker 1: legacy outlets. New media has arisen to combat the left
Speaker 1: leaning bias of mainstream platforms u This is a Gallup survey.
Speaker 1: Twenty eight percent say they have a great deal or
Speaker 1: fair amount of trust in media to report the news
Speaker 1: accurately and fairly. Thirty six percent said they had not
Speaker 1: very much uh faith in the media, and thirty four
Speaker 1: percent say they have no trust in the media at all.
Speaker 1: Thirty four percent, that's more than a third of this
Speaker 1: country has no trust in the media whatsoever. And that
Speaker 1: is it has been well earned by those in those
Speaker 1: various positions. Yeah, here's the number. More than one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty bureaucrats have exited the federal payroll this week.
Speaker 1: These are the bureaucrats who accepted President Trump's buyout. They'll
Speaker 1: be removed from the federal payroll. This week represents the
Speaker 1: largest one year exodus of federal workers in eighty years.
Speaker 1: Eighty years since as many people have left the federal government.
Speaker 1: I don't know how big the federal government was eighty
Speaker 1: years ago, but if they could afford to shed one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four thousand workers eighty years ago, it
Speaker 1: was way too big back then. If he asked me,
Speaker 1: and then my buddy David Strom over at hot Air
Speaker 1: writes about what's going on in Malibu, not LA and
Speaker 1: I texted him when I saw this piece that he wrote,
Speaker 1: and I said, I had this headline five or six
Speaker 1: months ago, but then it struck me it was about
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Malibu is not Los Angeles, but Malibu had
Speaker 1: the devastating wildfires as well. Seven hundred and twenty structures
Speaker 1: in Malibu were lost during those wildfires, and so far
Speaker 1: they've had two building permits issued for people who want
Speaker 1: to rebuild. Absolutely unbelievable. The slow pace of reconstruction after
Speaker 1: January's fired disaster has touched off a political tempest in Malibu,
Speaker 1: prompting the residignation of the city's volunteer rebuilding ambassador after
Speaker 1: his suggestion and along with some other rebuilding activists that
Speaker 1: may Or Mary Ann Riggins considered gracefully stepping down. The
Speaker 1: controversy continues to boil a conflict that's been simmering for
Speaker 1: months over what Malibu residents say are overly onerous rebuilding requirements.
Speaker 1: Seven hundred and twenty structures in the city burned down
Speaker 1: in January, but just sixty nine have received initial plan
Speaker 1: approval and only two have obtained permits to allow them
Speaker 1: to begin construction. I mean, think about that. Two permits
Speaker 1: in nearly ten months is absolutely horrible. And there's you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people in Malibu who have the
Speaker 1: means to rebuild, and I don't thinket my buddy Michael Monk.
Speaker 1: Michael Monk's back on the show and see if he's
Speaker 1: been following what's been happening in Malibu and all we
Speaker 1: got some more audio to get to. One is really
Speaker 1: good of a great example. You know, we talked about
Speaker 1: how trust and media is at a fifty year low,
Speaker 1: and I've got a great example of how CNN does
Speaker 1: what they can to to earn that rating, to earn
Speaker 1: the distrust of the American people. So we'll get to
Speaker 1: that one. And man, I'm just scrolling through my stuff.
Speaker 1: We've got a ton of other stuff here too as well.
Speaker 1: It just goes so fast, but that's why I love
Speaker 1: being here. Uh five, one, three, seven, four, nine, seven hundred.
Speaker 1: The big one if you want to get on board
Speaker 1: between now and midnight, and we will see what happens
Speaker 1: between now and then. But a lot more stuff I
Speaker 1: want to get to, so hope you can hang around
Speaker 1: till then. It is Dan Carroll in the Midweek Crisis
Speaker 1: Thursday Night edition on seven hundred WLW. Got got the
Speaker 1: Big One, seven hundred w l W eleven thirty seven.
Speaker 1: We go to midnight tonight five one three, seven hundred
Speaker 1: the Big One. Phillip from Colrain is on on hold
Speaker 1: and get to him in just a second. And if
Speaker 1: you want to get on board and pick up the phone.
Speaker 1: And those are the numbers to call. Uh Zohan man
Speaker 1: Don he was on I mean, he's been doing a
Speaker 1: lot of TV lately. He was on MSNBC the other
Speaker 1: day and he was talking about the one of the
Speaker 1: things he's running on for New York. Free buses for everyone. Right,
Speaker 1: you get, you get, You got to go somewhere to
Speaker 1: get on the bus. Doesn't cost you eight dime, doesn't
Speaker 1: cost a dime. Well, in this country, in any kind
Speaker 1: of and any it is. It's not just this country,
Speaker 1: it's anywhere there is no free lunch. Someone's got to
Speaker 1: pay for that stuff. And the word is out that
Speaker 1: the free buses in New York going to cost about
Speaker 1: seven hundred million dollars, seven hundred million dollars for the
Speaker 1: city of New York. How do I know that? Well,
Speaker 1: the guy said it himself, here is mondani On on
Speaker 1: MSNBC talking about buses and Joe, let's go with cut
Speaker 1: number six.
Speaker 12: Please, really, people who ask me questions about is it
Speaker 12: possible to make buses fasten free? I say the costs
Speaker 12: would be about six seven hundred million dollars, which is
Speaker 12: less than Andrew Komo gave to Elon Musk one year
Speaker 12: in tax breaks at nine hundred and fifty nine million.
Speaker 12: Showing people the context that we're in and building a
Speaker 12: coalition where they may not see themselves in me perhaps,
Speaker 12: but they may see themselves in the best in the
Speaker 12: brightest that I'll hire to surround me and city hope you.
Speaker 1: Have the best in the brightest. He's going to hire
Speaker 1: the best in the brightest and it's only going to
Speaker 1: cost six to seven hundred million dollars. And you're going
Speaker 1: to talk about a a what do you say nine
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar tax break for Elon Musk? Anyone believed that?
Speaker 1: I don't think so? And well let's go to we'll
Speaker 1: see what Phillips got on his mind. Phillip seven WW.
Speaker 13: Hello Darren, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, do you.
Speaker 13: Remember this past January second presidential inauguration speech? When none
Speaker 13: of the Democrats were wanting to stand up and clap
Speaker 13: for anything that Donald Trump was saying.
Speaker 1: Oh, they hated they were hating life that night.
Speaker 13: I'm wondering about all the military people that was sitting
Speaker 13: in the two front rows. None of them should up either.
Speaker 13: Were they all hand picked by Democrats?
Speaker 1: I think. I think when you look at the when
Speaker 1: I watched the State of the Union speech, is you
Speaker 1: got the Supreme Court justices down there. They tried to
Speaker 1: at least outwardly show their impartiality by not standing and
Speaker 1: not applauding for certain things. I think members in the
Speaker 1: military try to maintain that air of you know, non
Speaker 1: be you know, being non political, which I think is
Speaker 1: probably a good thing when you get to that level
Speaker 1: though of you know, whatever branch of service you're in,
Speaker 1: then there's obviously their own brand of politics that goes
Speaker 1: along with that. But no, I think that's just more
Speaker 1: for show than anything else. That they're not going to
Speaker 1: at least overtly applaud the president when he talks about
Speaker 1: different policy and issues.
Speaker 13: So they were just trying to remain neutral. You were
Speaker 13: talking up to that, Okay, thank you, because I was
Speaker 13: very confused about that, and you know, I heard a
Speaker 13: lot of rhetoric about nobody else.
Speaker 14: Well, I guess what struck me is that.
Speaker 13: And previous speeches they would stand up for some things,
Speaker 13: you know, but this was the first time that none
Speaker 13: of the people in military sit up for anything, even
Speaker 13: when those awards were given, you know, so I just
Speaker 13: even the most fuss point, you know.
Speaker 14: They you would have thought that somebody from the army
Speaker 14: would have sit up for that. But that just struck
Speaker 14: me as very odd, and I was wanting to get
Speaker 14: your take on that.
Speaker 1: All right, Philip, I appreciate the phone call tonight, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Let me give you this is probably
Speaker 1: one of the best examples I've seen in a while
Speaker 1: of how the the main street well I guess not
Speaker 1: well the cable media anyway, in this case CNN, and
Speaker 1: what they did was Mike Johnson was on earlier this week,
Speaker 1: he was having a live news availability, and so CNN
Speaker 1: decided that, you know what this was just wasn't good
Speaker 1: enough anymore. And this is what it sounded like. And
Speaker 1: with that, Joe, let's hear a cut number two, if
Speaker 1: we could police.
Speaker 15: The working families tax cut included a huge provision a
Speaker 15: big chunk of that bill was the health provisions. Now,
Speaker 15: why are we saying that they want to return and
Speaker 15: restore taxpayer funded benefits to legal aliens, because that's exactly
Speaker 15: what they did when they rejected the clean cr that
Speaker 15: we sent over the Senate, filed the Senate.
Speaker 16: Here to Speaker Johnson, he's trying to frame the shutdown
Speaker 16: as a Democratic shutdown. He also also claimed that Democrats
Speaker 16: want to give healthcare scent healthcare to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 12: That is not true.
Speaker 16: Illegal immigrants are not eligible for federal health care program.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Their CNN not only cutting off
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson but running interference for Democrats, and the White
Speaker 1: House put out a memo of exactly how the Democrats
Speaker 1: are trying to do this, buried inside the continuing Resolution
Speaker 1: as a demand to repeal press and in Trump's historic
Speaker 1: American First healthcare reforms, the safeguards that protect US citizens
Speaker 1: from putting the bill for illegal alien medical care. So
Speaker 1: the that's the term is illegal alien. And so what
Speaker 1: what the Democrats are saying is that, well, if you're
Speaker 1: an illegal alien, you don't get health care. And so
Speaker 1: what they're trying to do is classify the people who
Speaker 1: are in the country illegally as parolees. That if you
Speaker 1: if you came in and you had contact with the
Speaker 1: system under the Biden administration, you're ted, you're I guess
Speaker 1: you know, you're just designated a parole ee. You're still
Speaker 1: in the country illegally. But because the Democrats want to
Speaker 1: put a different name on it, they're saying, no, you're
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're illegal, You're never you're a parole
Speaker 1: You're not illegal. So you get health care. Let's see,
Speaker 1: it's it's all it's all semantics. So they put out
Speaker 1: their their memo, and the memo in it talks about
Speaker 1: they want to spend one hundred and ninety make that
Speaker 1: ninety one point four billion restoring Obamacare funding for non citizens,
Speaker 1: thirty four point six billion to reopen California's Medicaid plan,
Speaker 1: emergency care reimbursement for illegals, twenty eight point two billion,
Speaker 1: Obamacare special rules subsidies for non non citizens, twenty seven billion,
Speaker 1: six billion for Medicaid for non citizens, five billion for
Speaker 1: Medicare for non citizens. So they put it all out there,
Speaker 1: but CNN is like, oh, well, they made it. That's
Speaker 1: the speaker Johnson. He made a false claim Ray in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: You're up next on seven hundred. W w.
Speaker 2: Hey, there was two items. The one was when you
Speaker 2: were talking about the military in terms of how the
Speaker 2: top brass just kind of sat there stoic. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: in the in the Navy, I mean your air force.
Speaker 2: In the Navy, you're on an enclosed boat. The wardroom
Speaker 2: is your lunch room. So you're still on an enclosed boat.
Speaker 2: What would get you in trouble in terms of conversation
Speaker 2: is two items. And there would be a senior enlisted
Speaker 2: that would nail you because you also had the officers
Speaker 2: quarters or you know, lunch room. But if you started
Speaker 2: talking about women or politics, your ass was reprimanded in
Speaker 2: a hurry.
Speaker 1: That was that was that was round upon Huh, Well, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think about it. You start getting in the fights
Speaker 2: and you're in an enclosing environments like just shut up,
Speaker 2: go away. Though that was maybe one of the reasons
Speaker 2: why that comment is actually accurate, But that would be
Speaker 2: a reason why now they might still hate Trump though
Speaker 2: I could very well have been true. But the other part,
Speaker 2: that's funny when you're talking about this Mundabi because he's
Speaker 2: not a communist. Well, the Soviets said the same thing
Speaker 2: as Soviet Socialist Republic. They didn't, they didn't say that
Speaker 2: they were communists, right, yeah, okay, Well there was a
Speaker 2: girl that was in graduate school with me at UC
Speaker 2: and she's a lot younger, and Inga came from Saint
Speaker 2: Petersburg and her dad was a Russian admiral, Soviet admiral
Speaker 2: back then. And I asked her, I said, Inga, what
Speaker 2: was it like when the wall fell down? She was
Speaker 2: only eight or nine. She's a real pretty woman, real
Speaker 2: big brown eyes and straight round face, real pretty. And
Speaker 2: Inga looked up at me and she says, we were very,
Speaker 2: very hungry. Her eye got her right, her irish got
Speaker 2: bigger than her eye lids. I mean, she she just opened.
Speaker 2: She was it was a very very bad time to
Speaker 2: all of a sudden go to capitalists from socialists. And
Speaker 2: she was coming from class staff too, so she got
Speaker 2: to get to the better grocery stores.
Speaker 1: Sure you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So no, that's where my mommy, it's called. We all
Speaker 2: equally make the same crap, except for the important people.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, look, he if he if he loves
Speaker 1: socialism so much, he's got his family's got all kinds
Speaker 1: of money. He can go live in a socialist country
Speaker 1: if he wants, but no, he wants to be in charge. See,
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to live under socialism. He wants to
Speaker 1: be in charge of the socialist socialists. Yeah, those folks,
Speaker 1: those folks do pretty well for themselves.
Speaker 2: Did you hear about the Russians in terms of what
Speaker 2: they're they're hiring in Cubans. They're paying these Cubans something
Speaker 2: like two thousand a month when a Cuban makes only
Speaker 2: like twenty bucks a month, because they're desperate to get
Speaker 2: him over into Ukraine.
Speaker 1: To fight in the war. Yeah, it's uh no conscript concerpts.
Speaker 4: It's got.
Speaker 2: He just did a call up for either a hundred
Speaker 2: or one hundred and twenty thousand in the Soviet Union,
Speaker 2: and he said that if you enlist, you were getting
Speaker 2: something like a fifty or one hundred thousand dollars bonus.
Speaker 2: He was that desperate. And at the same time, their
Speaker 2: inflation rate in the Soviet Union or well Russia right
Speaker 2: now is there's every bit of twenty percent.
Speaker 1: I read that that they're the Russia is losing like
Speaker 1: a thousand guys a week. Yeah, think about that.
Speaker 2: There's a reason why, there's the reason why they can't
Speaker 2: anybody paying them a lot of money.
Speaker 1: It might it might be higher than that. Ray, I
Speaker 1: got a run. I appreciate the call out of here.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you. Right, let's go to Lisa, and
Speaker 1: Lisa's been on hold for a little bit. Lisa seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW.
Speaker 17: I had two things too with the no name given license.
Speaker 17: You know, my sister had to fight the problem of
Speaker 17: license d MD for years trying to get an e
Speaker 17: off of her name that they accidentally put on in
Speaker 17: two eighteen. You know, of course certificate everything. They didn't care.
Speaker 17: They you know, hoops that she had to jump through.
Speaker 1: I mean, dealing with those people.
Speaker 17: Well there, and they're trying to say, oh, he just
Speaker 17: has one name probably, but I don't see that name
Speaker 17: on that ID. But okay, temporary protective status. People don't
Speaker 17: realize that everyone that's here under that can get the
Speaker 17: work authorization, can get licenses, can get Social Security cards,
Speaker 17: you know, and a lot of people don't understand that.
Speaker 17: But my main point was the Democrat Party now like
Speaker 17: they've basically been taken over, you know, by the Democrat socialists.
Speaker 17: You know, they think it's there to put Democrats put
Speaker 17: the name, but the socialists and you know.
Speaker 4: There's groups out there.
Speaker 17: How like AOC got in there. She was recruited, you know,
Speaker 17: her her brother nominated her. And she looked good, she
Speaker 17: talked good, and they can put the words in their mouth.
Speaker 17: You know, did her through the first couple of years.
Speaker 17: That's why any deep questions. You know, she didn't have
Speaker 17: impestis she only knew like the talking point for years.
Speaker 17: But they literally are just recruiting people and putting them
Speaker 17: in Congress. And they said, I don't know how that's allowed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I read that her her net worth now is
Speaker 1: in excess of thirty million dollars. And then think about that
Speaker 1: she was she was a bartender before she came to
Speaker 1: the Congress and now she's a multi millionaire. How does
Speaker 1: that work?
Speaker 17: And they can see it. But things like that are
Speaker 17: allowed to go on.
Speaker 1: Lisa, thank you so much for picking up the phone tonight.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Good night YouTube. There you go, Lisa,
Speaker 1: and I believe she was in Butler County executives braced
Speaker 1: him for a free fall in the electric vehicle sale
Speaker 1: following the disappearance of the seven thousand five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: tax break for buyers of electric vehicles. That tax subsidy
Speaker 1: ended yesterday. Jim Farley, CEO of a Ford, said it's
Speaker 1: a game changer. He was in Detroit just hours before
Speaker 1: the subsidy expired. He said he would not be surprised
Speaker 1: if electric car sales dropped five to five percent of
Speaker 1: US of total US vehicle sales next month. That would
Speaker 1: be about half the level from August, a monthly record
Speaker 1: as consumers hurried to take advantage of the credit and
Speaker 1: among the lowest level in several years. The EV market
Speaker 1: is going to collapse in October, said the chairman of
Speaker 1: Nissan American Japan's Nissan is still rolling out redesigned versions
Speaker 1: of the Nissan Leaf, the small EV. Let's see what.
Speaker 1: Congress approved a seven five hundred dollars tax credit credit
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight for buyers of electric cars
Speaker 1: and plug in hybrids. The Inflation Reduction Act extended the
Speaker 1: credit while limiting eligibility to evs built in the US.
Speaker 1: See this is all. This is all government manipulation reaching
Speaker 1: into the sales of automobiles. Yeah, you buy, you buy
Speaker 1: the right kind of Carboy, you're gonna get you gonna
Speaker 1: get a big fat tax credit seventy five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the things that Trump
Speaker 1: and Elon Elon Musk saw differently, and it may be
Speaker 1: one of the uh, one of the more unpleasant things
Speaker 1: that they have between them. Oh that reminds me. Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is not happy with Netflix. Elon Musk has been
Speaker 1: putting out some stuff about Netflix, telling people do not
Speaker 1: let your kids watch Netflix. Apparently they've got all these
Speaker 1: different shows, and I guess we watch I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1: I don't normally if I'm looking to watch a movie
Speaker 1: or I want to see something on TV, and Netflix
Speaker 1: is kind of I've scrolled through the you know, some
Speaker 1: of the stuff they have, and it just doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like there's really all that much there, at least that
Speaker 1: I want to see. But they've got all these shows
Speaker 1: targeting kids and daygone it. I had that article up
Speaker 1: here and I can't find it now. But apparently I'll
Speaker 1: talk about the next time on the air. But Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is apparently blowing the whistle on this. And if
Speaker 1: you're like me and you've got grandchildren, you got to
Speaker 1: look at what they're watching. Because Netflix has all these
Speaker 1: shows that are geared towards kids, and they're pushing the
Speaker 1: LGBT and the transagenda and all this other stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're exposing these kids to some of just
Speaker 1: some of the worst stuff possible. They've lost more than
Speaker 1: fifteen billion since Musk put this out, so he is
Speaker 1: not a big fan of Netflix. So you got kids
Speaker 1: and Netflix, stay away from it. Dagone and I forgot
Speaker 1: to talk about that. I waited too long, but my
Speaker 1: time is gone. So Joe Waddell, thank you for everything,
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening, and how about those Reds. We
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