WEBVTT - 10-2-25 Midweek Crisis with Dan Carroll 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.800 All right, here you go seven hundred WLW nine oh eight, 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:12.640 Dan Carrol till midnight tonight. We call this the Thursday 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:14.760 Night edition of the Midweek Crisis. And now that the 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.360 Reds are done, this is going to become a regular 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:22.800 thing Wednesday night, Thursday Night until basketball season starts. Are 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:24.919 we looking forward to basketball, Joe? You're looking forward to 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:26.160 basketball season already? 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:29.600 You know? 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.200 Well, he says, we're still in the middle of football. 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.640 But for crying out loud, I mean, if it's not 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:38.880 going to get any better than what we saw the 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.080 last couple of weeks, it's going to be a long, long, 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.640 long football season. But we've got business to get to, 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.960 so let's go ahead and do that. In the in 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.760 the wake of Charlie Kirk, there has been an awakening 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:57.240 of what it means to be I think a decent 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:02.800 person in our society and especially amongst a lot of 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:07.440 young people. And I think that's a great thing. And 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.839 there is an event coming up on Monday, the October 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:16.120 the sixth in Butler County and it's going to be 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:20.720 a celebration of life and a candlelight vigil for Charlie Kirk. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.679 And it is being put on by the Butler County 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.800 Republican Party. And joining me now is the executive director 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.160 of the Butler County GOP, and that is Joe Statzer. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:32.959 And Joe, it is great to have you on the show. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:33.839 How are you tonight? 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:35.920 I'm doing fine. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:37.360 Thank you, it's great to be here. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:38.040 Thank you so much. 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:39.080 Talk about Charlie Kirk. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.640 Yeah, well, thank you so much. And it's but it's 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.520 a terrible thing that we have to talk about him. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.880 And we all know what happened to Charlie Kirk. But 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.880 let me before we talk about the event, let me 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.440 ask you this. There's been so much reporting about how, 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:56.720 especially in look Charlie Kirk made we found out. I 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.560 think we had an idea that he was makingnnections with 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.240 young people all across the country, and I think in 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.840 the wake of his assassination, we found out just how 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:11.240 profound that connection really was. And we've seen the literal 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:17.560 explosion of Turning Point USA clubs popping up and growing 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.760 in high schools and colleges all across the country, but 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:25.519 especially in the high school level. How has that manifested itself? 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:30.640 Have you seen this yourself happening there in Butler County, Oh? 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.000 Absolutely. I know there is a couple of schools in 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:38.000 Butler County that starting chapters. Ironically, Miami University had just 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.320 launched a Turning Point USA had had a meeting just 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:45.400 before the assassination. But it's already growing. It's just bursting. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:47.639 And I was actually talking to a couple of the 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.440 college Republicans tonight and the interest up there is overwhelming. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.480 I mean, Charlie's influence on what happened, it's having an 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:55.280 amazing impact. 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.280 Yeah, and I think when you look at the kind 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.120 of things that Charlie cur was about, yeah, it can't 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:08.320 help but make four young people who are much better rounded, 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:13.000 much better prepared to face adversity in their life, much 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:18.040 better prepared to deal on an intellectual level. And uh 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:23.640 and and have I think a more realistic view of 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.320 the world and the world and and actually be more 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.000 aware of the world around them if they if they 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.760 get involved in in in something like Turning Point in USA. 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.040 Well at least you get two sides that way. And 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.760 college campuses, which I'm not sure you really ever did 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.080 you know? That was what was amazing about it is 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.040 that you know, people were some of the responses and 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:46.880 you know what we're talking about here. Some of the 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.320 responses on social media from the from the left, from 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.760 the from the left wingers has been nothing short of 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.480 just terrible, just awful pathetic. But you know what he 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.120 was doing, what Charlie was doing, was he was at 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.400 least giving the other side a saying, and he was 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.360 doing it with courage, and he was doing it with 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.480 civil debate. He was letting people give their side and 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.360 then having logical discussion, which I thought that was what 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.200 college and universities were all about. And he was doing that, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:12.760 and he was doing it civilly, and he was doing 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.159 it with with with a great touch of view and 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.600 human connection with people and UH. And we're going to 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:22.400 miss it. But I'll tell you what. What's happened since 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.719 the assassination that terrible day has been, like you said, 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.880 just an outpouring of support and UH for turning point 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.800 us a and for these for these type of UH 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.120 connections with people, young people on college campuses and young 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:36.800 people all over. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.920 And that's one of the things that's so frustrating to 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.240 me in the wake of all this, all the people 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.080 that want to call him a Nazi, all the people 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.039 that want to call him a purveyor of hate, all 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.960 these other nasty terms that they that they would they 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.880 still use about him when they when they do this, 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.680 and people like Jasmine Crockett, nil ha ilhan Omar and 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.880 some of the other UH regular suspects have doubled and 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.600 tripled down on some of the nasty things that they 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.279 said in the wake of this assassination. And I've always said, 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.760 I mean, the body of work is there for anyone 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.520 to see that there there is an abundance of videos 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:18.760 and writings and clips. I mean, people don't tell me. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.520 People know how to use YouTube and and just go 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.039 look up Charlie Kirk and you will see that a 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.159 lot of the things that are being said about him 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.640 that he said, mean things about women, that he said, 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.320 mean things about transgenders and all this. You know, the 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.560 homophobia is homophobia. Look it up. Look it up and 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.640 look at what he actually said. Don't listen to people 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.719 who are just saying these things and that what was 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.080 in the wake of this assassination that was so frustrating 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:49.080 to me. And people just simply regurgitate what they hear 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.640 on some of the leftists and socialist media out there, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.520 and they and they act as if they're the ones 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:57.960 who really know what this guy was all about. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.480 Exactly. These left wing talking heads who are not you know, 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.360 if they do quote him, they take his words out 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.279 of context, but you're right, most of the time they 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:07.680 don't quote him at all. And you know what they 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.480 say about the name callers, I mean, they've got no argument, 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.200 they don't they can't even rise to anything close to 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.800 Charlie's abilities, so they just start calling them names and 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.080 stating things out of context and name calling, and it's 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.479 it's pathetic because you're right, there was none of that there. 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.720 His his his videos are out there. Watched them give 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.520 him five minutes and then tried to tell me that 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.760 he was anything but civil and that he was just 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.200 trying to engage in good solid debate, which is, you know, 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.200 the cornerstone of one of the cornerstones of America. So yeah, 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.640 just some of the some of the responses has been 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.920 a sad commentary on not not America, but that's just 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.800 the left wing America and where they're at these days. 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.279 Yeah, And the other part that's amazing to me is 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.080 how some people can be so ultra critical of a 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:56.039 guy who is so upfront and open about his faith 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.279 and what his faith meant to him, and it just 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.440 it really showed some of the worst. But you know what, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.120 I think a lot of that is in time, a 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.080 lot of that is going to be erased. And I 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.159 think the events like you're having on this coming Monday night, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.080 October the sixth, is going to be you know, those 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.480 kind of events I think go a long way into 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.440 dispelling some of that. So tell me about this candlelight 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.880 vigil that you guys are having for Charlie cart. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.520 Well, you pointed it out. Let me just start with 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.600 Dan that. Look, when the left wing gets feels wrong, 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.920 they have riots, they burned down cities, they attack law enforcement. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.640 We've been seeing peaceful vigils all over the nation. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.679 Excellent point. And that is an excellent point. 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.960 Yeah, yeah, And that's what conservatives do. And we're not 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.920 out to destroy the country. We're out to try to 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.960 rebuild it, and the left wing just wants to just 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.200 tear it down. So what we're having for Charlie Kirk is, 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.920 as you said, a celebration of life prayer vigil on 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.920 October sixth, twenty twenty five. That's this Monday night at 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.520 the Butler County Fairgrounds, which is over at seventeen fifteen 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.640 Fairgrove Avenue in Hamilton, in the downtown Hamilton on the 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:06.600 east side over there. So we have some speakers. Cook 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.880 who is a Fox, who's contributor and has been a 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.080 speaker at our Lincoln Day dinners. Uh, she wanted to 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:15.880 come and do this. She's done a couple of vigils. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.480 Our chair our chairman are We actually have the College 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.880 Republican president from Miami who is part of the Turning 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.160 Point USA chapter at good. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:26.600 That's good. 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:27.320 I like that. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.320 Yeah, And he's going to speak. We have the Vice 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:36.000 Mayor of Hamilton, big Charlie supporter, good Conservative Michael Ryan 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.000 is going to be there and say a few words. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.760 One of the judges who's also has some pastor background, 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.640 Judge Greg Stevens, is going to talk about Charlie's favorite 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:51.600 versus Biblical versus Romans twenty eight is I think his 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.280 favorite verse or was his favorite verse? Look, this is 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.720 going to be there's gonna be a spiritual side to this, 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.240 and we're not ashamed of that. We you know, Charlie 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:00.800 said he wanted to be in member for the courage 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.280 that he had for his faith, and I think that 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:04.920 goes a long way too. There's a lot of people 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.360 that want to come to celebrate Charlie and who have 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:13.880 a very strong spiritual uh core and foundation, and that's 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.520 going to come out there, so uh too. So U candlelight, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.480 We're gonna have some candles lit. We're gonna have some 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.800 really beautiful music that's going to be played, and I 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.440 think people will really really enjoy coming out and celebrating 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.679 Charlie in his memory and what he meant, and then 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.720 moving forward to carry that torch. 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:33.360 Uh. 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.120 You know, just tell Charlie we got it from here. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:36.840 We have to take it from here, and. 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:40.880 We will absolutely so. I found the information on the 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:45.160 butlercountygp dot org. I went to that website, went to 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.360 events and just scrolled down and all the information was 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.800 right there. Do you have, you know, on Facebook and 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.080 other social media where people can find this information if 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:55.520 they need to. 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.480 Yeah, I'll try the website first, but we have a 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.440 lot of people sharing it on a social medi If 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.959 you find it, please share it. Let your friends and 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.360 neighbors know. Obviously it's not just a Butler County event. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:09.559 It can be anywhere in the large WLW listening area. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.160 But anybody wants to come as welcome. 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:13.120 There will be a tight. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:17.640 Security, so that's that's part of it too, because you 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:18.560 never know who's. 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:19.400 Going to try to come and do something. 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.160 But I think that would be a bad idea. It's 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.960 going to be a very very nice event, and I 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.560 think it's going to be a wonderful night to just 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:31.960 really celebrate civility and America and Charlie Kirk and what 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.760 he meant in faith and conservative values, and that's what 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.600 we're all about in Butler County. As you know, it's 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.640 it's led the state of Ohio and plurality vote for 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.800 three straight elections. So that's what we're all about, and 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.240 we're on a bass we're unashamed to share that. So 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.080 this will be a very very fine event. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:51.640 All right. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.000 Well, Joe Statzer of the Butler County GOP, I can't 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.040 thank you enough for spending some time with us tonight 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.480 and I'm more than happy to plug this event. And 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.240 I wanted to do it tonight because I'm not on 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.560 the air tonight. Between tonight and Monday night, October sixth, 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:07.439 I think I got to check with my wife. I 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.000 think my schedule is clear, so I would definitely love 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.679 to attend. This event starts at six o'clock and the program, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.400 the guest. The doors open at six, the program begins 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.920 at seven, and that's Monday night, October six and Joe 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.839 Statser again, thank you so much for the time, and 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.680 thank you so much for doing everything you can to 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.000 keep the life and the legacy of Charlie Kirk alive 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.560 and in vibrant here in the Southwest Ohive. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:35.839 Yeah. 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.240 Absolutely, Dan, our pleasure. We'll see you on Monday night 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.679 and thank you for having me on and it'll be 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:41.240 a great event. 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.400 Thank you, thank you, Joe, appreciate it. Keep up the 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.040 great work. And again, just all you have to do 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.319 is go to the Butler County GOP website and it's all. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.760 They've got it out there on their social media and 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.439 all the rest of that. So that's a Charlie Kirk 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.719 event Butler County fair Grounds, October sixth. This coming out 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.240 Monday night, Butler County fair Grounds and doors open at 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.800 six and the program starts at seven. So we are 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.480 looking forward to that. It is nine to twenty coming 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.400 up on the show tonight. I was I almost had 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.720 the show where I only had one guest, and then 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:18.640 things started happening, and I got a hold of Corey Bowman, 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.480 and I wanted to have Corey Bowman on because he 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.960 has just been putting out some some of the most 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.760 provocative stuff on his social media. And I mean that 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.400 in the best way possible. It's amazing that this guy's 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:39.760 a Republican. It has been decades, it seems like, since 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:44.280 a Republican has mounted a serious challenge to become the 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:48.880 mayor of the city of Cincinnati, and this guy's campaign 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:54.080 has just mean you talk about, you know, grassroots, you 0:12:54.160 --> 0:13:00.360 talk about genuine, you talk about not being fake. When 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.920 this guy's campaign started, I don't think anyone really knew 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.160 who Corey Bowman was other than the fact that there 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.880 was a tagline that he is the brother of Jade Vans, 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:13.800 and I think it's actually, if I'm not mistaken, I 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:18.560 think it's actually step brother. But that was sort of 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:20.800 the you know that, you know, that was it sort 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.600 of stopped right there. But as you listen to him speak, 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.040 and you listen to the ideas that he has, and 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:32.200 you listen to the seriousness, seriousness in which he is 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:37.360 approaching this this this is a guy who is not 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.200 to be taken lightly and so I'm going to have 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:46.640 him on tonight, and he posted a video that was 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:53.840 absolutely startling about what is really happened happening on the 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.560 streets of downtown Cincinnati. And if you've seen it, you 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:02.000 know what I'm talking about. And we will we will 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.920 play the video and the audio of it as we 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.400 get into he's going to join me after the news 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.040 here at the bottom of the hour. As we get 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.800 into that interview, we will play that audio. And I 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.960 also want to get his thoughts on the item piece 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:21.760 to Channel nine put out earlier this week, and it 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.920 has to do with this consultant for the City of Cincinnati, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:31.360 Iris Rolie. So she not only does she head up 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:35.720 the Citizens Complaint Authority, and not only does she love 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:41.000 to interfere with police work and make the lives of 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:46.360 our Cincinnati police officers a living hell. She gets paid 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:53.240 very nicely by the City of Cincinnati, by your tax dollars. 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:59.360 And so there was an item piece that was done 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.480 on her and well, yeah, well it's under the heading 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.200 of I'm looking at the website right now. It's under 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:08.880 the heading of itam for WCPO Channel nine and Paula 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:15.480 Christian and they found her contract and how much she 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.000 is being She is being paid for three years work 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:25.160 in the neighborhood of six hundred thousand dollars. Not only 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:32.040 that she was able to hire her son to apparently 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.240 walk around Fountain Square, not Fountain Square, but Government Square 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:37.840 just a little bit to the east there a Fountain 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:46.560 Square and pass out some pamphlets, some flyers, some informational things. 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:52.360 And this was a part time job that paid fifty 0:15:52.400 --> 0:16:00.360 eight dollars an hour. And apparently there was no review process, 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:06.840 no oversight, no no red tape, no paperwork for iris 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.000 rolely to fill out. She you know, just hey, hey, 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.680 here's my son. Yeah, I know, he's had a rough 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.680 you know, a rough way to go. Got some convictions 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.400 for having a weapon, under disability. I think there might 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.640 have been a drug conviction in there, a couple other things. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.960 But yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna pay him fifty eight 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.480 bucks an hour to go walking around Government Square passing 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.760 out some literature. Not a bad gig if you can 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.360 get it. So we'll get his thoughts on that crime 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:43.320 in Cincinnati. And this this notion that the city of 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:48.280 Cincinnati is relieving medical debt for about one hundred thousand people. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.520 How does that happen? So stick around for that. Corey 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.360 Bowman will join me after the news here at the 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.040 bottom of the hour. We got to get to that directly. 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.200 It is nine to twenty five Dan Carroll till midnight tonight, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:07.600 Thursday Night of the Midweek Crisis on seven hundred WLW 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.679 back on the Big One, seven hundred WLW nine thirty 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.959 seven Dan Carrol till midnight tonight. It is the Thursday 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.040 night edition of the Midweek Crisis. A. Cory Bowman is 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.640 joining me, and before I get to him, I want 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:28.080 to I want to play something that he posted on 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:34.160 his social media feed yesterday. And this was absolutely startling, 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.360 at least it was to me. It is video from 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:45.160 downtown Cincinnati this past Sunday morning at just after three am. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.680 And this is what it sounded like in the city 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.359 of Cincinnati at that time. And Joe hit that cut 0:17:51.359 --> 0:18:28.240 cut number one. So that's not be Root, that's not 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.040 some city in the Middle East. That's downtown Cincinnati at 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.439 just after three o'clock in the morning this past Sunday morning. 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:39.200 And uh mayoral candidate Corey Bowman, who posted that video, 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.359 is joining me now. And Corey Bowman Thank you so 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.080 much for being here. It is absolutely startling and and 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.800 and I'm gonna tell you why. When I first saw 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.439 you posted that video, I was looking at it on 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.879 my cell phone. And so in the lower right hand 0:18:53.920 --> 0:19:00.360 corner is is the shot that comes from that that's 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.400 race just north of Third Street, if I'm not mistaken. 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.000 And I couldn't see it that well on my cell phone. 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.560 But when I watched it earlier or before I came 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.560 into the studio tonight, I had it on my computer 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.879 and watched it full screen on my computer. Those aren't 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.520 just gunshots being and that was a running gun battle 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.440 that was taking place on the streets of downtown Cincinnati, 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:27.320 just a couple of blocks from pay Corse Stadium. 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.960 Yes, sir, well Dan, thank you so much for having me. 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:31.480 It's it's an honor and be on. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:32.320 Yeah. 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.520 I got set that video actually from a business owner 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.720 in downtown. He's got cameras, and he basically said, we've 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:41.760 got to get this out here because it's been four 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.240 days later and I have I'm really not getting asked 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.320 by local authorities to, you. 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.200 Know, provide this video. 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.320 And he had the video he let authorities know, you know, 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:56.640 but that's just kind of the state of what's going 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.600 on downtown. That was right off the third Street, like 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.480 what you said, said the block away from Payport Stadium. 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.320 I think it's actually notable to say that, you know, 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.760 the Reds even though we didn't have a home game, 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:12.800 many people were at the banks at the local restaurants 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:16.359 watching the late night game of us playing the Dodgers 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:21.159 just about probably two hours before that. So that's something 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.959 that's happening in our city. And then I would, you know, 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.879 send you the video. I literally just got it about 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.359 fifteen twenty minutes ago, but two teenagers were just shot 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.440 in OTR north of Liberty, and I got a similar 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:37.159 video from another business owner that has videos, and you know, 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.760 people are crying out and they basically saying something's got 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:42.040 to happen right now, because this is a date. It's 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:44.960 becoming almost a daily occurrence in our city. 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:49.879 It really is a shame though, because it seems like 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:54.800 crime is at least a dealing with crime. So my 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:58.120 way of thinking, should be the number one issue that 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:01.840 is concerning those it's city haul right now and when 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:05.160 we have events like this. Chris Smithman posted on his 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.880 social media a day or so ago a person who 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:12.439 put a frightening narrative about a guy who was on 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:17.040 Madison Avenue and an s u V for a full 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:20.639 of teenagers rolled up next to his car, cut in 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.159 front of him, jumped out and put a gun to 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.880 his face, and only because he had the quick enough 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.880 reaction to throw it in reverse, back out of there, 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.480 do a like what we what we used to call 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.120 a Rockford turn and get the hell out of there. 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:38.879 You know, this guy thought for sure he was going 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:41.480 to be shot and killed. I mean, I don't know 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:43.880 if you saw that post, but that is absolutely frightening. 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:47.240 And and these kind of things. It doesn't seem it 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:49.800 does just doesn't seem like they want to deal with this. 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:52.560 And I mean there's a lot of lip service. There's 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.080 a lot of talk about how they're gonna, you know, 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:57.479 do this, that and the other thing. But when you 0:21:57.560 --> 0:21:59.920 have a running gun battle in the streets of Cincinnati, 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.000 no one gets arrested. I haven't heard of want arrest 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.240 on this. I know on Short Vine a couple of 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:08.280 nights ago, there was a person who was jumped by 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:12.120 a gang and and and and this person on Short 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:15.960 Vine had the me you know, had the they have 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:19.199 the living crap beat out of them. And this is 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:22.200 going on. I am told there are gangs of young 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:28.119 teenagers who are running around the streets to Cincinnati, stealing cars, 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:31.800 committing crimes, putting guns at people. And this shooting gun 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.359 battle I think is probably just one of the latest episodes, 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:37.440 you know, and then we've got I can scroll through 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:40.360 your feed right here, and you know, some dude gets 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:43.600 shot and over the rhine two people got shot earlier tonight. 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:47.120 It is it just seems like it's completely out of control. 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:49.640 It really is. 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:52.480 And what we're talking about here is incompetence from the 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:55.440 top down. We're calling this trick trickle down in top 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:59.159 because what's happening even though we see the violence on 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:01.800 the streets and there's a lot of emotions that are 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:04.520 tied into this, and everybody wants to throw in politics, 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:07.320 but really what we're having an issue with right now 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:12.160 is the administrative failures from city hall. Because as long 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.040 as we can remember, ever since the days of canaan Abel, 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:18.040 there has been crime on the earth and there has 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:20.800 been very simple ways that you have to combat this, 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:24.000 and you have to be able to enforce laws. You 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:26.119 have to have your police force be able to do 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:28.439 their job, and then you have to have people to 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:31.760 have these consequences when they are booked through the judges 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:34.719 and the prosecution and the judicial area. And that's not 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:38.560 what's happening in our city. And what's happening really is 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:42.080 that people are getting so desensitized, people are getting so 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:45.360 used to what's happening right now, the cops don't even 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:48.840 see a point in making the arrest because they think 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:50.280 that the people are just going to be on the 0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:53.600 street the next week. And then what happens too is 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:57.239 that many people, because we have non pursuit laws in 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:02.480 our city, they're openly taunting police officers by driving by 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:06.280 a high speeds in their cars or in their ATVs 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:09.440 or dirt bike, and the cops don't do anything about it. 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:12.000 And this is coming from the top down. This isn't 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:15.760 lazy cops, This isn't cops that don't care about our city. 0:24:16.119 --> 0:24:17.160 This is about. 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:19.840 Mismanagement of our city and what we've seen over the 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:22.399 course of the summer, what we've seen over the course 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:25.719 of continuing on in the fall. This has to change 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:29.080 from the top down. And that's actually why we're having 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:32.200 this election in November. Is because people have a choice. 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:35.040 If they're unhappy with the state of our city, they 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:37.000 have to get out and vote. They got to be 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:39.000 a part of these elections that are happening. 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:41.600 So, Corey Bowman, I know you did an event I 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:44.640 think it was this past Friday with Aviake Ramaswami. He 0:24:44.760 --> 0:24:47.719 was in town. He grew up in Cincinnati. He is 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:50.800 taking very seriously as he is running for governor the 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:54.960 crime situation in the city of Cincinnati. You, as mayor, 0:24:55.560 --> 0:24:58.800 if you were mayor of Cincinnati and the governor, whether 0:24:58.840 --> 0:25:02.240 it be Mike Dwine or Viake Ramaswami or god forbid 0:25:02.240 --> 0:25:06.639 Amy acted, if the governor came to you as mayor 0:25:06.680 --> 0:25:09.159 of Cincinnati and said, look, we're going to offer you 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:12.240 some state resources to help you deal with the issues 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:14.480 you have here. Are you going to say that's great, 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:16.480 that's great, governor, But you know what, we only needed 0:25:16.480 --> 0:25:18.600 a couple of days and months to day. You know, 0:25:18.960 --> 0:25:21.360 we got things under control here. A couple of days 0:25:21.359 --> 0:25:23.600 a month and we're good to go. Is that going 0:25:23.680 --> 0:25:26.159 to be your policy if you become mayors. 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:30.040 Based on the current state of our city. Absolutely, Now 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:32.280 I would be taking in every bit of a package 0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:35.120 from the state that was offered what I told people, 0:25:35.160 --> 0:25:37.439 and people have been asking a lot because you're seeing 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:41.440 from a federal government perspective, you're seeing National Guard going 0:25:41.480 --> 0:25:45.520 into major cities. This is last ditch effort. This is 0:25:45.600 --> 0:25:48.399 like last case scenarios that you see in these cities, 0:25:48.520 --> 0:25:51.960 because really what's happening is that the city halls of 0:25:52.000 --> 0:25:54.880 these cities and even the states are not doing their 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:57.000 job to be able to make sure that the cities 0:25:57.040 --> 0:26:00.600 are safe. I'm under the understanding from what I've talked 0:26:00.600 --> 0:26:03.480 about with cops and what I've talked about with leaders, 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:07.040 is that the city is able to take care of 0:26:07.080 --> 0:26:10.280 itself and the city is able to manage crime properly. 0:26:10.600 --> 0:26:13.080 As long as you have proper administration, as long as 0:26:13.080 --> 0:26:15.199 you have people that know what they're doing, they're going 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:17.640 to allow the cops to do their job. But that's 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:20.320 not what's happening right now. So a short term solution 0:26:20.560 --> 0:26:23.520 right now, I truly believe, is accept every bit of 0:26:23.560 --> 0:26:26.160 help from the state. That you can have a great 0:26:26.200 --> 0:26:28.840 relationship with the state first and foremost, and that's something 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:31.840 that's not happening from city hall. We've become an island 0:26:31.880 --> 0:26:35.000 under ourselves in Cincinnati. But we've got to be able 0:26:35.040 --> 0:26:37.080 to work with the counting, We've got to be able 0:26:37.080 --> 0:26:38.920 to work with the state, and we've got to be 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:41.119 able to work with the federal to be able to 0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:44.160 make sure that Cincinnati is the statist that it can be. 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:45.960 And that's not what's happening right now. 0:26:46.840 --> 0:26:50.639 On another issue, Channel nine WCPO put out earlier this 0:26:50.720 --> 0:26:54.439 week a Iteam repor it about Iris Rowley, who is 0:26:54.960 --> 0:26:57.520 a consultant with the City of Cincinnati. And I guess, 0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:01.959 you know, I guess the city needs consultants, outside contractors 0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:04.720 and things like that. But this seems like a pretty 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:08.040 sweet deal, a three year deal that pays her about 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:12.280 five hundred and seventy thousand dollars through twenty twenty seven. 0:27:12.720 --> 0:27:16.879 She can apparently do whatever she damn well pleases. She 0:27:16.960 --> 0:27:20.280 can go out and pass out some literature out around 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:24.760 Government Square, hire her son to do this, pay him 0:27:24.760 --> 0:27:27.240 fifty eight bucks an hour. I don't know about you, 0:27:27.640 --> 0:27:29.440 Corey Bowman, but I know a lot of people out 0:27:29.440 --> 0:27:31.600 there who would love to have a part time job 0:27:31.640 --> 0:27:35.600 that pays about eleven hundred dollars a week for about 0:27:35.600 --> 0:27:39.440 twelve weeks work. And you know, I guess it's pretty 0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:41.919 good if your Irish Roly's son that you can do 0:27:41.920 --> 0:27:45.280 this with no oversight and no direction from city Hall 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:47.960 at all. And then we have the city manager who 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:51.040 she's supposed to answer to. The I team says, we'd 0:27:51.080 --> 0:27:54.040 like to ask you some questions, and the city manager says, no, 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:56.280 I don't think I'm going to talk to you. So, 0:27:57.400 --> 0:28:01.200 is is this the way to do business at city Hall? 0:28:01.600 --> 0:28:05.400 They have consultants like this and just let them run 0:28:05.480 --> 0:28:08.360 rough shot over everything that goes on at city Hall. 0:28:09.960 --> 0:28:10.639 No, we'll see. 0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:14.679 So the story that you're talking about right now, everybody 0:28:14.720 --> 0:28:17.520 wants focused on the name of IRUs Rollie, and then 0:28:17.600 --> 0:28:20.600 every other month you're hearing of another name, whether it 0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:24.280 be a council member that makes comments toward violence that's 0:28:24.280 --> 0:28:26.840 happening in our city, or whether it be certain things 0:28:26.840 --> 0:28:29.080 that you're seeing from the city manager. 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:30.720 And here's what we. 0:28:30.760 --> 0:28:35.160 Have to realize is that when the mayor is elected, 0:28:36.000 --> 0:28:40.000 you have to basically appoint the CEO of the city, 0:28:40.240 --> 0:28:43.680 the administrative leader of the city, which is a city manager, 0:28:44.120 --> 0:28:46.160 and that's in charge of all the tasks that are 0:28:46.160 --> 0:28:50.120 going on. And so then that city manager not only 0:28:50.240 --> 0:28:53.440 is in charge of many different administrative tax in the city. 0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:55.840 But then also they are to a point a police 0:28:55.880 --> 0:28:59.760 chief and then the fire chief as well, and many 0:28:59.800 --> 0:29:02.520 of the boards and committees and all sorts of stuff 0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:05.720 that's going on here. But what's happened right now is 0:29:05.760 --> 0:29:10.360 that the same individuals, the same people, most likely over 0:29:10.360 --> 0:29:12.880 the course of twenty years, if you really look at it, 0:29:13.360 --> 0:29:17.440 have been pulling the strings administratively in the city Manager's office, 0:29:17.920 --> 0:29:20.040 in a lot of the halls of city Hall, and 0:29:20.080 --> 0:29:24.240 then even in the administration of CFD and cpds, and 0:29:24.320 --> 0:29:27.640 a lot of people that have the experience with the 0:29:27.680 --> 0:29:30.840 police force are planted by the city to be a 0:29:30.960 --> 0:29:34.160 chief of staff or the police chief or something like that. 0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:38.360 So there's many individuals that are contributing to the mismanagement 0:29:38.440 --> 0:29:40.600 of our city right now. And that's why our strong 0:29:40.720 --> 0:29:41.680 leadership needs. 0:29:41.440 --> 0:29:41.840 To be in. 0:29:42.280 --> 0:29:44.640 You're not voting in a mayor that is basically just 0:29:44.720 --> 0:29:46.920 going to be there for photo ops. We're going to 0:29:46.960 --> 0:29:49.200 look through every single thing. We're going to make sure 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:52.760 that there is an extensive audit of how every dollar 0:29:52.840 --> 0:29:55.600 is being spent in our city. We're going to make 0:29:55.640 --> 0:29:58.920 sure that the proper people are in charge for city managers, 0:29:59.280 --> 0:30:03.280 City Managers Office, the fire department, and the police chief. 0:30:03.520 --> 0:30:05.240 And we got to make sure that our city is 0:30:05.320 --> 0:30:08.840 run by people that have the citizens the Cincinnati at 0:30:08.880 --> 0:30:11.160 the best interests of their hearts. And that's really not 0:30:11.200 --> 0:30:12.240 what's happening right now. 0:30:12.320 --> 0:30:14.720 Yeah, it doesn't seem like it. You know, I used 0:30:14.720 --> 0:30:18.760 to cover city Hall. I've seen my share of dirty tricks. 0:30:19.200 --> 0:30:21.840 I can look at this, this story that came out 0:30:22.160 --> 0:30:24.800 I believe it was yesterday or the day before that, 0:30:25.160 --> 0:30:28.520 the city announces that more than one hundred thousand residents 0:30:28.520 --> 0:30:33.040 of City of Cincinnati are going to have their medical 0:30:33.120 --> 0:30:37.360 debt relieved by some program that came out of that 0:30:37.480 --> 0:30:40.200 came out of City Hall. One point four or five 0:30:40.280 --> 0:30:43.640 million dollars two hundred and twenty million dollars in debt 0:30:43.960 --> 0:30:48.520 relieve for one hundred and nineteen thousand individuals. And this 0:30:48.800 --> 0:30:52.440 happens on, you know, about a week before early voting 0:30:52.840 --> 0:30:56.720 is supposed to start. So they get a letter in 0:30:56.760 --> 0:30:59.959 the mail. There's aftabs picture on it. Hey, I'm relieving 0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:06.520 your medical debt. What Merry Christmas. I mean, I don't 0:31:06.520 --> 0:31:08.800 know about you, but just to me, this is reeks 0:31:08.840 --> 0:31:10.640 of a of a political dirty trick. 0:31:12.440 --> 0:31:14.400 Yeah, because a lot of people are going to what 0:31:14.440 --> 0:31:15.960 the other side is going to try to do is 0:31:16.000 --> 0:31:18.120 they're going to try to spin it into making it 0:31:18.160 --> 0:31:21.200 seem like we're not compassionate to those individuals that had 0:31:21.240 --> 0:31:24.880 their debts relieve But you got to realize this that 0:31:25.360 --> 0:31:29.280 the city put one point four five million dollars toward 0:31:29.360 --> 0:31:32.560 a company and then through that with you see medicals, 0:31:32.600 --> 0:31:34.920 they were able to relieve all that debt. A lot 0:31:34.960 --> 0:31:37.080 of this debt, well, actually, I'll say that the majority, 0:31:37.080 --> 0:31:39.560 it's not all of this debt was already written off 0:31:39.600 --> 0:31:43.760 either by medicaid or written off as debt that just 0:31:43.880 --> 0:31:46.960 wasn't going to get paid off, and so that was 0:31:47.040 --> 0:31:49.480 debt that Hey, it's basically like you're paying for the 0:31:49.560 --> 0:31:53.120 tip and you're taking credit for the entire bill. And 0:31:53.120 --> 0:31:56.480 that's essentially what the city's doing. Not to mention that 0:31:56.600 --> 0:31:59.959 one point four to five million dollars this tax taxpayer 0:32:00.160 --> 0:32:04.280 dollars that is being spent from the city budget. Now 0:32:04.720 --> 0:32:07.840 I would rather not focus on necessarily the individuals that 0:32:07.880 --> 0:32:11.160 are getting their debts cleared away, but the timing of everything. 0:32:12.240 --> 0:32:14.760 Why didn't this take place two years ago? Why didn't 0:32:14.760 --> 0:32:18.920 this take place even earlier in the year. Why is 0:32:18.960 --> 0:32:23.080 it exactly, why is it happening just a week before 0:32:23.080 --> 0:32:25.920 early voting starts, and why are these letters being sent out? 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:28.120 And we're hearing a lot of other stuff as well. 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:30.520 It's just part of the playbooks. But that's why it's 0:32:30.520 --> 0:32:32.800 so important the race that we're running, that this is, 0:32:32.840 --> 0:32:35.080 like you said earlier in your show, this is the 0:32:35.240 --> 0:32:38.560 very definition of a grassroots effort of people waking up 0:32:39.080 --> 0:32:41.800 realizing that we've got to get out and vote. We've 0:32:41.840 --> 0:32:44.560 got to be able to make the numbers work in 0:32:44.600 --> 0:32:46.880 our favor, and we got to put in leadership that 0:32:46.920 --> 0:32:51.080 are actually fighting for us. Because the vote for an 0:32:51.080 --> 0:32:54.400 elected official is not a blank check to do whatever 0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:57.560 you want. A vote for an elected official is a 0:32:57.640 --> 0:33:00.520 promise that you are always going to be able to 0:33:00.560 --> 0:33:03.480 hear our voice, that we voted for you to be 0:33:03.560 --> 0:33:06.320 in that office to do. And that's what I'm going 0:33:06.360 --> 0:33:08.560 to see it as, is that I told the FOP 0:33:08.800 --> 0:33:11.320 whenever they gave me the endorsement, and I've talked to 0:33:11.400 --> 0:33:14.600 many other people when an endorsement or a vote for 0:33:14.720 --> 0:33:17.800 me is a confidence I'm always going to listen to 0:33:17.880 --> 0:33:20.200 your voice, and I'm always going to act in the 0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:22.520 best interests of the people of the city. 0:33:23.120 --> 0:33:25.920 Well, Corey Bauman, you're doing God's work. I don't need 0:33:25.960 --> 0:33:27.920 to tell you that. I mean you're you're a pastor 0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:31.880 as well, and keep up the great work. When we've 0:33:31.880 --> 0:33:34.760 got about one minute here. When you go out and 0:33:34.800 --> 0:33:36.880 you're out and knocking on doors and you're going to 0:33:36.920 --> 0:33:39.720 events and you're meeting people, what's the number one thing 0:33:40.560 --> 0:33:43.360 that you hear from people in the city of Cincinnati. 0:33:43.720 --> 0:33:45.680 What's the number one thing that they want to talk 0:33:45.720 --> 0:33:46.240 to you about. 0:33:47.760 --> 0:33:50.320 You know what's funny, Dan, is that I talk to people, 0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:53.400 whether it be in the high income of certain parts 0:33:53.440 --> 0:33:55.280 of town or whether it be in the low income 0:33:55.320 --> 0:33:57.520 of where our coffee shop in our church is in 0:33:57.560 --> 0:34:00.600 the West End, and you think you get different answers, 0:34:01.040 --> 0:34:04.360 But there are three common things that everybody cares about 0:34:04.360 --> 0:34:06.640 in this city, and they don't feel like it's being 0:34:06.680 --> 0:34:08.920 done properly. No matter what side of the aisle that 0:34:08.920 --> 0:34:12.279 they're on, they care about Number one crime. You ask 0:34:12.360 --> 0:34:14.600 a single mom in the West End that's living in 0:34:14.640 --> 0:34:17.600 affordable housing, or you ask somebody that's living in a 0:34:17.680 --> 0:34:20.520 gated community on the East Side, they are going to 0:34:20.640 --> 0:34:23.080 tell you that the crime is out of control, and 0:34:23.120 --> 0:34:26.560 that's from their personal experience, not just from the perception 0:34:26.680 --> 0:34:30.000 of the news. Number Two, they care about the infrastructure. 0:34:30.400 --> 0:34:33.480 They care about these potholes and the cracks in our 0:34:33.600 --> 0:34:39.400 roads and the overwhelming disorganized maintenance of our city roads, 0:34:39.440 --> 0:34:42.560 and even the landscaping and the cleanliness of our city. 0:34:42.840 --> 0:34:45.919 And then number three, they care about where the money's going. 0:34:46.360 --> 0:34:48.200 If you're telling us that you have a one point 0:34:48.280 --> 0:34:51.919 nine billion dollar budget for the city that's proposed next year, 0:34:52.320 --> 0:34:55.160 where is the money going. Is it going into the 0:34:55.239 --> 0:34:59.239 pockets of nonprofits in goos and contractors, or is it 0:34:59.320 --> 0:35:03.320 going towards the city streets and going towards fighting crime 0:35:03.400 --> 0:35:05.799 and making our children safe. And those are the three 0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:08.160 issues that we're running on and we're going to make 0:35:08.200 --> 0:35:10.879 it better starting in January twenty twenty six. 0:35:10.960 --> 0:35:15.040 All Right, well, Corey Bowman, I appreciate the time. I 0:35:15.120 --> 0:35:18.640 know you've you got to be unbelievably busy right now, 0:35:18.960 --> 0:35:21.239 but it's always great to hear from you. Keep up 0:35:21.280 --> 0:35:24.719 the great work and hopefully we'll talk a few more 0:35:24.760 --> 0:35:28.920 times before election day gets here. And keep the faith, brother, 0:35:29.040 --> 0:35:33.640 you're doing You're doing God's work and it looks the 0:35:33.680 --> 0:35:36.799 people who vote in this city. We can't keep going 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:40.439 down this road. We need to do something different, and 0:35:40.719 --> 0:35:42.080 I think this is the guy to do it. But 0:35:42.160 --> 0:35:44.200 Corey Bowman, thanks again, have a great night. We'll talk 0:35:44.200 --> 0:35:45.319 to you again before too long. 0:35:46.239 --> 0:35:47.879 Hey, thank you, Dan, talk to you soon. 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:50.719 All right, there you go, Corey Bowman, Republican from Mayor. 0:35:51.480 --> 0:35:54.800 And I'm telling you, I don't live in the city. 0:35:54.840 --> 0:35:57.640 I don't vote in the city, but if I did, 0:35:58.120 --> 0:35:59.680 that's where it was good. That's where it would go. 0:36:00.840 --> 0:36:03.879 Kevin Gordon is going to join me next day after 0:36:03.920 --> 0:36:08.479 the news top of the hour. He is he does 0:36:08.560 --> 0:36:12.720 the American struck In Network program that runs after this show. 0:36:13.480 --> 0:36:17.640 And I found something that is just absolutely unbelievable as 0:36:17.640 --> 0:36:22.239 it relates to trucking and illegals in this country, and 0:36:22.280 --> 0:36:24.000 we're going to break that down after the news here 0:36:24.000 --> 0:36:25.640 at the top of the hour. So sticking around for that. 0:36:26.080 --> 0:36:28.600 Dan Carroll Thursday Night edition of the Midweek Crisis on 0:36:28.680 --> 0:36:40.479 seven hundred WLW seven WLW ten oh seven Dan Carroll 0:36:40.560 --> 0:36:43.759 till midnight tonight. It is the Thursday night edition of 0:36:43.800 --> 0:36:47.960 the Midweek Crisis. And I was getting ready for the 0:36:48.000 --> 0:36:50.840 show A couple of days ago and I saw this 0:36:50.920 --> 0:36:56.040 headline and it absolutely blew me away. And the headline 0:36:56.080 --> 0:36:59.919 is this no name given is a pretty common name 0:37:00.080 --> 0:37:05.600 on commercial drivers licenses CDL. You drive a big rig, 0:37:06.000 --> 0:37:08.480 you got to have a CDL license. And getting a 0:37:08.480 --> 0:37:15.120 CDL license requires some training, requires that you know the 0:37:15.200 --> 0:37:19.319 rules of the road. And now we have places like 0:37:19.400 --> 0:37:22.160 the state of California and the State of New York 0:37:22.280 --> 0:37:26.319 issuing driver's licenses to people who don't even give a name. 0:37:27.760 --> 0:37:29.920 And I thought to myself, how in the world can 0:37:29.960 --> 0:37:32.680 this even happen? So I reached out to my buddy, 0:37:32.760 --> 0:37:36.520 Kevin Gordon, the main man behind America's truck in networking, 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:38.799 and Kevin Gordon, it's great to have you on the 0:37:38.800 --> 0:37:39.360 show tonight. 0:37:39.400 --> 0:37:42.480 How are you, Dan, Thank you for having me on. 0:37:43.120 --> 0:37:46.240 You know, this just shows that great minds think alike. 0:37:46.480 --> 0:37:49.239 You know, you two you were saying two weeks or 0:37:49.280 --> 0:37:51.239 two days ago, you were doing some show prep that 0:37:51.320 --> 0:37:54.200 came across this story. Well, I was doing some show 0:37:54.239 --> 0:37:56.520 prep over the weekend, not knowing what days we were 0:37:56.560 --> 0:37:58.319 going to be on this week. Yeah, and I came 0:37:58.360 --> 0:38:02.239 across a story by Sean Duffy talking about CDLs and 0:38:02.239 --> 0:38:05.120 how they're issued and whatever. So I was I'm talking 0:38:05.120 --> 0:38:08.120 about this later on tonight on America's Truck and Network. 0:38:08.280 --> 0:38:09.960 So you and I are on the same page here. 0:38:11.080 --> 0:38:12.760 I mean, did this blow you away? 0:38:12.800 --> 0:38:13.000 Though? 0:38:13.120 --> 0:38:15.920 And look, we're not talking about We're not talking about 0:38:16.000 --> 0:38:19.719 fake driver's licenses. I read through the whole story and 0:38:19.800 --> 0:38:23.759 we're talking about driver's licenses issued by the State of 0:38:23.800 --> 0:38:27.920 New York and the state. The state of the state says, well, 0:38:28.320 --> 0:38:32.359 you know, in some countries people only have one name 0:38:32.719 --> 0:38:35.160 or they didn't want to give us their name, but 0:38:35.280 --> 0:38:38.560 we gave him the driver's license anyway, And I'm thinking 0:38:38.640 --> 0:38:42.400 of myself, well, wait a minute, this is America. Shouldn't 0:38:42.440 --> 0:38:45.360 we do things a little differently here in America? I 0:38:45.400 --> 0:38:48.680 mean Kevin Gordon, Look, I used to work overnight news 0:38:48.719 --> 0:38:51.240 with the truck and Bozone and me know Dale Summers, 0:38:51.239 --> 0:38:54.200 I mean he was the original overnight truck and trucking guy. 0:38:54.239 --> 0:38:56.839 Of some people want to claim differently, but I would 0:38:56.880 --> 0:39:00.520 beg the difference. But anyway, yes, I mean, you know, look, 0:39:00.560 --> 0:39:03.200 truckers are my people, and I used to listen to 0:39:03.719 --> 0:39:06.319 the issues that they talked about at that time with 0:39:06.360 --> 0:39:08.160 the truck and bozo. And one of the things they 0:39:08.239 --> 0:39:14.520 talked about was that they they were not considered professionals 0:39:14.560 --> 0:39:18.080 behind the wheel. You had all these imbeciles in Washington, 0:39:18.160 --> 0:39:22.600 d C. Cranking up regulation after regulation after regulation with 0:39:23.040 --> 0:39:27.840 absolutely no idea of what a professional truck driver goes 0:39:27.880 --> 0:39:31.440 through on a daily or a nightly basis, and so 0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:34.839 they were. You know, so many people in DC just 0:39:34.880 --> 0:39:37.719 have this idea that anyone can get behind a big rig, 0:39:38.200 --> 0:39:40.640 step on the gas, and away you go, and it's 0:39:40.719 --> 0:39:44.600 no big deal. And this makes an absolute mockery of 0:39:44.640 --> 0:39:49.240 the professionalism that so many, the vast majority of truck 0:39:49.320 --> 0:39:51.160 drivers try to exhibit every single day. 0:39:52.040 --> 0:39:55.720 Well, absolutely, and the fact that the state of California 0:39:56.239 --> 0:40:00.720 will issue these driver's license Now you mentioned the monnem names, 0:40:01.360 --> 0:40:04.760 Well I look that up and there are very few 0:40:04.840 --> 0:40:09.080 countries that use monoonymes, in other words, mononyms, which is 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:13.239 just a single name for a person. Now, if you 0:40:13.360 --> 0:40:16.720 saw there was a Snopes article, which you can't believe 0:40:16.800 --> 0:40:19.799 because Snopes is a bunch of liars, but the fact 0:40:19.920 --> 0:40:24.120 checking on this said that these licenses were issued to 0:40:24.280 --> 0:40:28.919 people who had mononyms and then where the first name 0:40:29.040 --> 0:40:31.560 is supposed to be, that's where they put no name, 0:40:31.960 --> 0:40:35.160 so it's not a license issue. Okay, all right, it's 0:40:35.200 --> 0:40:38.200 not issued to somebody with no name, but it's listed 0:40:38.280 --> 0:40:43.160 to somebody who only has one name. And they there 0:40:43.200 --> 0:40:46.120 aren't many cultures that do that. They are trying to 0:40:46.239 --> 0:40:49.960 hide from something by doing that. Now, Sean Duffy when 0:40:50.000 --> 0:40:53.120 he laid down the wall last week, he laid down 0:40:53.320 --> 0:40:57.200 this emergency order on behalf of the dot saying that 0:40:57.239 --> 0:41:01.280 there needs to be a crackdown on these driver's license 0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:07.239 that are given to non residential people, non people that 0:41:07.320 --> 0:41:10.239 don't have green cards or people because what they were 0:41:10.280 --> 0:41:14.960 finding is that people were getting issued a driver's license 0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:19.120 a CDL in twenty twenty five when they're in their 0:41:19.200 --> 0:41:22.960 work papers or work visa expired in twenty twenty one. 0:41:23.239 --> 0:41:26.239 So part of having to have a driver's license or 0:41:26.239 --> 0:41:29.760 apply to that, you have to have a work permit 0:41:30.160 --> 0:41:33.680 allowed to be working in the United States. So they 0:41:33.680 --> 0:41:38.200 weren't even doing that step. And in this crackdown they 0:41:38.200 --> 0:41:43.440 were talking about that in California, there are sixty thousand 0:41:44.360 --> 0:41:48.319 truck drivers or CDL licenses that were issued for non 0:41:48.400 --> 0:41:53.240 domiciled people and of that search that they did, twenty 0:41:53.280 --> 0:41:58.279 five percent were not valid, were done illegally, or had 0:41:58.360 --> 0:42:00.560 something that would have flagged that they were the vision 0:42:00.640 --> 0:42:03.440 that So, just in the state of California alone, from 0:42:03.440 --> 0:42:06.680 what they looked at, fifteen thousand people are out on 0:42:06.719 --> 0:42:10.919 the road going cross country putting your life at risk, 0:42:11.040 --> 0:42:13.719 my life at risk, that are driving without having the 0:42:13.800 --> 0:42:17.440 necessary qualifications. And it's just incredible. You know, at the 0:42:17.520 --> 0:42:21.280 mass convention down there, to the Mid America Trucking Show. 0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:23.840 Over the last couple of years, that's been one of 0:42:23.880 --> 0:42:26.400 the driving forces. One of the big things that truckers 0:42:26.400 --> 0:42:28.680 talked to me about down there is the fact that 0:42:28.719 --> 0:42:34.160 the FMCSA Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, were not enforcing 0:42:34.440 --> 0:42:40.960 the English language proficiency portion of the license. And that 0:42:41.120 --> 0:42:44.320 is exactly what happened with that accident down in Florida 0:42:44.719 --> 0:42:49.080 where that hard gender sing tried to do that U 0:42:49.120 --> 0:42:52.640 turn and wound up killing three people because he didn't 0:42:52.640 --> 0:42:55.920 know how he couldn't read road signs, he couldn't speak English, 0:42:56.160 --> 0:42:57.040 So how in the hell. 0:42:56.920 --> 0:42:58.320 Did he get a driver's license? 0:42:58.560 --> 0:43:02.319 That's sanity, Yeah, great question, because he was given a 0:43:02.440 --> 0:43:05.600 test after that accident, and I think they asked him 0:43:05.640 --> 0:43:08.919 to identify what was twenty or twenty five different road 0:43:08.960 --> 0:43:12.000 signs and he could only identify what what was two 0:43:12.120 --> 0:43:15.439 or three? I mean that is there's no way that guy. 0:43:15.480 --> 0:43:18.040 And he's pleaed not guilty, by the way, but you 0:43:18.040 --> 0:43:21.560 know the yeah, he's pleaded not guilty. But the governor 0:43:21.840 --> 0:43:26.279 of Oklahoma, thank god, says he put this statement out. 0:43:26.320 --> 0:43:28.799 He said, if New York wants to hand out CDLs 0:43:28.840 --> 0:43:32.759 to illegal immigrants with no name given on them, the 0:43:32.800 --> 0:43:37.040 moment they cross into Oklahoma, they answer to our laws. 0:43:37.560 --> 0:43:42.160 Oklahoma Highway Patrol performed an enforcement action along I forty 0:43:42.239 --> 0:43:46.840 apprehended one hundred and twenty five illegals, one hundred and 0:43:46.880 --> 0:43:51.279 twenty five illegal immigrants. And that's on one enforcement action 0:43:51.640 --> 0:43:55.239 on one highway in Oklahoma. So thank god, there's at 0:43:55.320 --> 0:43:58.360 least one state out there that has taken this seriously. 0:43:58.480 --> 0:44:01.040 Kevin Gordon. But I think about say says, Look, I 0:44:01.040 --> 0:44:05.359 mean getting getting a cd L and driving that that is, 0:44:05.960 --> 0:44:09.080 if you ask me, that is a major accomplishment. That 0:44:09.080 --> 0:44:13.320 that is something that that is not to be looked 0:44:13.480 --> 0:44:16.919 looked upon lightly. This is a serious thing. 0:44:17.920 --> 0:44:20.239 But you saw how important, you saw how important the 0:44:20.239 --> 0:44:21.920 truckers were back during COVID died. 0:44:22.120 --> 0:44:23.879 Absolutely absolutely. 0:44:24.360 --> 0:44:26.400 If it didn't get on a truck, it wasn't on 0:44:26.440 --> 0:44:26.920 your shelf. 0:44:26.920 --> 0:44:28.480 And everybody's going, well, why. 0:44:28.320 --> 0:44:30.880 Isn't there stuff on the on the shelves. Well, all 0:44:30.920 --> 0:44:33.800 the trucks aren't rolling. Oh, you mean that this stuff 0:44:33.840 --> 0:44:37.120 doesn't magically appear all of a sudden. Truckers were heroes 0:44:37.400 --> 0:44:41.120 until the pandemic was over, and then all of a sudden. 0:44:40.840 --> 0:44:42.880 It was back there business as usual. Yeah. 0:44:43.000 --> 0:44:45.440 Yeah, And I'm looking, I mean, I'm looking at the 0:44:45.480 --> 0:44:47.960 you know, this one article that's got pictures of these 0:44:47.960 --> 0:44:52.160 different driver's licenses, and then these are legit licenses from California, 0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:55.080 from New York and it says right there, no name given, 0:44:55.320 --> 0:44:58.520 no name given. How can I mean think, if you're 0:44:58.560 --> 0:45:01.440 the person at the state agency and you have to 0:45:01.440 --> 0:45:04.480 produce this license, are are you going to give a 0:45:04.520 --> 0:45:08.279 license just as a matter of common sense? Are you 0:45:08.280 --> 0:45:10.600 going to give a license to someone who doesn't want 0:45:10.600 --> 0:45:13.319 to give you their name? How on God's earth can 0:45:13.360 --> 0:45:17.160 you do something like that? And so, I mean, I mean, 0:45:17.200 --> 0:45:20.120 you endanger every person on the road when you do 0:45:20.200 --> 0:45:23.960 something like that, And I mean, this cannot this cannot 0:45:24.040 --> 0:45:24.840 continue to happen. 0:45:25.960 --> 0:45:29.840 It can't and you know they have the requirements. Okay, 0:45:30.160 --> 0:45:34.080 you have to pass the written test, you have to 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:38.720 pass the training requirement, so which means that you had 0:45:38.760 --> 0:45:41.319 to have some training ahead of time, either through a 0:45:41.320 --> 0:45:44.759 trade school or you know, maybe co opting through a 0:45:44.840 --> 0:45:48.600 trucking company that winds up training you. And then you 0:45:48.680 --> 0:45:51.560 have to do a skills test. Then you have to 0:45:51.600 --> 0:45:55.520 present that to a licensing bureau, give them that information. 0:45:55.680 --> 0:45:58.839 And if you are a non resident, you have to 0:45:58.880 --> 0:46:01.200 then produce to them that you have a work permit 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:04.479 or that you're here in this country legally, and if 0:46:04.520 --> 0:46:08.240 that has expired or if you're issue, if it hasn't 0:46:08.280 --> 0:46:12.480 expired yet, you shouldn't be issuing them a license that 0:46:12.600 --> 0:46:17.400 if their work visa expires in three months, that you 0:46:17.520 --> 0:46:20.560 give them a license that's good for four years. That 0:46:20.719 --> 0:46:23.760 just makes common sense. And the fact that if somebody, 0:46:23.760 --> 0:46:25.520 you know, you look at their permits, you look at 0:46:25.560 --> 0:46:29.840 their paperwork, and I doubt seriously whether they had just 0:46:30.000 --> 0:46:31.520 a single name on there. 0:46:31.800 --> 0:46:33.960 I mean, even in. 0:46:32.560 --> 0:46:35.839 The Arab countries you have some of these guys by 0:46:35.840 --> 0:46:39.160 the name of so and so been such and such so. 0:46:39.200 --> 0:46:42.759 In other words, if in the bin refers to the 0:46:42.880 --> 0:46:45.880 father so if I was Arab, my name would be 0:46:46.000 --> 0:46:49.880 Kevin ben Jack because that was my dad's name. So 0:46:50.520 --> 0:46:53.640 everybody has a last name, or most people have a 0:46:53.719 --> 0:46:56.360 last name, and the fact that there are so many 0:46:56.480 --> 0:47:00.160 of these that don't that is highly suspicious. 0:47:00.560 --> 0:47:06.080 Well, why can't we have state agencies or agencies that 0:47:06.239 --> 0:47:11.040 issue driver's license Why can't we say, you know what, 0:47:11.520 --> 0:47:14.320 go back until you can give us a name, don't 0:47:14.360 --> 0:47:18.040 come here asking me if if it was my job, 0:47:18.520 --> 0:47:21.680 I would say I would, and this has never happened before. 0:47:22.480 --> 0:47:24.879 I would say, no, you can't give me a name, 0:47:25.040 --> 0:47:28.160 I can't give you a license. It doesn't it doesn't 0:47:28.200 --> 0:47:30.040 seem like that far of a stretch to me. 0:47:30.600 --> 0:47:32.840 And I don't know what you can't identify, If you 0:47:32.920 --> 0:47:36.680 can't identify yourself, if you can't prove that you are 0:47:36.760 --> 0:47:39.319 who you say you are, I don't think it makes 0:47:39.320 --> 0:47:42.240 sense to put them behind an eighty thousand pound vehicle 0:47:42.960 --> 0:47:46.759 rocket and send them down the road, you know, and 0:47:46.800 --> 0:47:49.960 then we have One of the things they've uncovered is 0:47:50.000 --> 0:47:53.360 that there was this SENS have charged six people in 0:47:53.440 --> 0:47:57.880 connection with a scam to fraudulently issue CDLs, So we 0:47:58.000 --> 0:48:00.600 don't know in some of these case is there some 0:48:00.640 --> 0:48:04.320 of these states, New York, California, if the issuing agency, 0:48:04.600 --> 0:48:08.320 if somebody in that organization wasn't bribed by these people 0:48:08.800 --> 0:48:12.200 or a group of people to get these licenses, because 0:48:12.239 --> 0:48:16.719 they can falsify the skills test, they can falsify the 0:48:16.840 --> 0:48:22.799 training requirement, they can counterfeit, uh, the documents for these 0:48:22.880 --> 0:48:26.200 various skill tests and issue that if they're paid off. 0:48:26.320 --> 0:48:30.719 So were these issues paid off? Were they? And there 0:48:30.719 --> 0:48:32.839 are some people, I mean, I guess if share went 0:48:32.880 --> 0:48:36.080 out wanted to get a CDL, maybe she could get 0:48:36.080 --> 0:48:39.600 by with having one name, or Madonna or somebody like that. 0:48:40.280 --> 0:48:46.399 But Liberachi, uh, you know, probably a CDL with one 0:48:46.480 --> 0:48:49.680 name because he's more known by that. But for the 0:48:49.719 --> 0:48:52.520 most part, everybody seems to have a last name. I 0:48:52.520 --> 0:48:56.200 mean every one of these people that I mean, I mean, what's. 0:48:56.040 --> 0:48:59.960 The was married to Sonny Bono. Her last name is Bona. 0:49:00.200 --> 0:49:04.919 I mean, but you go, I'm reading this piece about 0:49:05.000 --> 0:49:08.680 when Sean Duffy signed the executive order early this year, 0:49:08.719 --> 0:49:11.120 and Donald Trump's the one who put it out. And 0:49:12.360 --> 0:49:15.680 so here's here's what the here's a little bit of 0:49:15.760 --> 0:49:21.280 history on this. M FMCSA regulations provide that a driver 0:49:21.520 --> 0:49:25.800 unable to sufficiently read or speak English or understand highway 0:49:25.840 --> 0:49:29.960 traffic signs and signals is not qualified to operate a 0:49:29.960 --> 0:49:34.640 commercial motor vehicle. However, in twenty sixteen, Kevin Gordon, the 0:49:34.680 --> 0:49:40.560 Obama administration directed inspectors not to place CMB drivers out 0:49:40.600 --> 0:49:45.920 of service for such violations. The failure toally enforced driver 0:49:46.040 --> 0:49:50.839 qualification standards pose a serious safety concerns and increases the 0:49:51.000 --> 0:49:55.040 likelihood of a crash. So Donald Trump knew about this, 0:49:55.880 --> 0:49:59.080 Sean Duffy knew about this, and thank god they took 0:49:59.160 --> 0:50:02.240 action to to reverse this Obama era policy. 0:50:03.120 --> 0:50:06.759 Yeah, and I got to question a little bit, I mean, 0:50:06.880 --> 0:50:09.440 just you know, to be fair here, that this was 0:50:09.480 --> 0:50:12.000 put in the final days of the Obama administration in 0:50:12.040 --> 0:50:16.160 twenty sixteen, So twenty seventeen, eighteen nineteen, during the first 0:50:16.800 --> 0:50:20.640 Trump term, somebody at the Department of Transportation or somebody 0:50:20.640 --> 0:50:24.760 of the FMCSA, unless they were holdovers from the Obama 0:50:24.960 --> 0:50:28.000 not the Secretary, but at least the administers of the 0:50:28.080 --> 0:50:34.239 FMCSA CMA Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Administration CMVSA, if they 0:50:34.280 --> 0:50:37.759 were holdover overs, maybe they weren't enforcing this, but the 0:50:37.840 --> 0:50:40.719 directive had already gone out, so a lot of these 0:50:40.760 --> 0:50:45.440 agencies probably weren't enforcing it because of that. And you know, 0:50:45.600 --> 0:50:49.120 you can't know everything, but the fact that this was 0:50:49.280 --> 0:50:51.719 still on the books and that they weren't somebody should 0:50:51.719 --> 0:50:53.640 have blown the whistle on this and gotten this fix 0:50:54.000 --> 0:50:54.640 a lot faster. 0:50:54.760 --> 0:50:57.080 As I recall it, twenty sixteen, Trump had a pretty 0:50:57.080 --> 0:51:01.840 full plate trying to try to tell the truth about 0:51:01.960 --> 0:51:02.359 the rush. 0:51:02.560 --> 0:51:02.879 The rush. 0:51:03.680 --> 0:51:07.320 Yeah, that way, that's let's look up an affair amount 0:51:07.360 --> 0:51:09.680 of time in this country, Kevin Gordon, let me ask 0:51:09.680 --> 0:51:11.920 you about something else before I let you go. Uh, 0:51:11.960 --> 0:51:16.360 there's a there's a survey that is out today talking 0:51:16.360 --> 0:51:21.480 about trust and American media, and it finds that trust 0:51:21.960 --> 0:51:25.600 in media is at its lowest level in more than 0:51:25.680 --> 0:51:29.240 fifty years. So, Kevin Gordon, you and I have been around. 0:51:29.760 --> 0:51:31.560 You maybe do a little bit longer than me, but 0:51:31.640 --> 0:51:33.839 I can remember fifty years ago. That takes us back 0:51:33.840 --> 0:51:36.799 into the nineteen seventies, and I would I remember as 0:51:36.840 --> 0:51:39.600 a little kid. Uh, And I think this is where 0:51:39.640 --> 0:51:41.640 my love for news came from. Is I used to 0:51:41.719 --> 0:51:45.120 visit my grandparents and they had one of those giant TVs, 0:51:45.160 --> 0:51:48.480 you know, the giant console TVs and uh, and my 0:51:48.680 --> 0:51:51.560 my grandfather would watch Walter conkright on the on the 0:51:51.560 --> 0:51:55.480 news every night. And so I sat there watching Walter conkrite, 0:51:55.520 --> 0:51:57.880 and and you know what his approval reading was what 0:51:57.960 --> 0:51:59.520 probably in the ninety percent time. 0:52:00.040 --> 0:52:04.759 But we'll talk about him being most trusted. 0:52:07.160 --> 0:52:09.480 Go ahead, Well, I. 0:52:10.440 --> 0:52:15.440 Was raised a very conservative woman and dad. But she 0:52:15.560 --> 0:52:18.839 would sit there and point out the adjectives that were 0:52:18.960 --> 0:52:22.160 used and read between the lines of stuff that wasn't 0:52:22.200 --> 0:52:26.760 being covered because she subscribed to that newspaper, Human Events, 0:52:27.440 --> 0:52:30.839 the Wanderer, and some of these conservative publications, and she say, 0:52:30.920 --> 0:52:33.840 what he's not saying here is this. Listen to this 0:52:34.040 --> 0:52:37.160 adjective how he described. That's where you started getting this 0:52:37.239 --> 0:52:42.000 stuff about so and so a conservative commentator. And then 0:52:42.400 --> 0:52:44.680 when you're talking about a liberal, it's just their name 0:52:44.840 --> 0:52:49.000 and they're a commentator, no description there. So even he 0:52:49.160 --> 0:52:51.799 I mean, most of the part, but yeah, there were 0:52:51.800 --> 0:52:54.320 some times when I could tell some of the stuff 0:52:54.360 --> 0:52:56.960 that would creep in that were a little bit bubble 0:52:57.040 --> 0:52:59.879 or two left of center. So but yeah, you're right, 0:53:00.160 --> 0:53:03.439 was very well respected and it's gone downhill since then. 0:53:03.920 --> 0:53:06.640 And what we've seen basically as a result of the 0:53:07.160 --> 0:53:10.439 Biden cover up with I'm sorry with the auto Pen 0:53:10.600 --> 0:53:14.439 cover up the President auto Pen that the spoon fed 0:53:14.480 --> 0:53:18.480 regurgitators in the mainstream media have been basically spoon fed 0:53:18.520 --> 0:53:23.120 this news and handled handed this information by the administration 0:53:23.440 --> 0:53:26.839 and then they just regurgitated to the American public. And 0:53:26.920 --> 0:53:29.759 so the trust there, I mean, they are a propaganda 0:53:29.920 --> 0:53:32.640 arm and have been a propaganda arm of the DNC 0:53:32.920 --> 0:53:36.280 for decades now, and people are more and more finding 0:53:36.320 --> 0:53:39.600 about and that came, I mean as obvious by you know, 0:53:39.600 --> 0:53:42.400 we're seeing the cheat sheets that Biden had call on 0:53:42.480 --> 0:53:45.719 this reporter and then he has the question in front 0:53:45.760 --> 0:53:49.080 of him that the reporter is going to ask. I mean, 0:53:49.160 --> 0:53:52.160 that is collusion right there. You can't trust the media 0:53:52.200 --> 0:53:54.400 that does that. And then you've got the media that 0:53:54.480 --> 0:53:58.160 covered for Biden, I'm sorry for President auto Pen, and 0:53:59.080 --> 0:54:02.560 you know, so you know, they knew what was going on, 0:54:02.680 --> 0:54:04.960 and then all of a sudden Trump comes into office 0:54:04.960 --> 0:54:07.400 and all of a sudden people are going, gee, you know, 0:54:07.480 --> 0:54:09.560 we thought there was a little something off, but we 0:54:09.680 --> 0:54:13.680 just couldn't quite put our finger on it. So, yeah, 0:54:13.760 --> 0:54:17.640 you're right, the trust in the media is is way. 0:54:17.400 --> 0:54:19.799 Down there, all right, Kevin Gordon. We got a run. 0:54:19.800 --> 0:54:22.480 But are we going to hear ATN tonight after I'm 0:54:22.480 --> 0:54:23.680 done here at midnight tonight? 0:54:24.560 --> 0:54:25.919 Yes, sir, we are back. 0:54:26.120 --> 0:54:29.000 Sure we are ATN is back and swaying after a 0:54:29.040 --> 0:54:31.120 couple of late night a couple of late nights with 0:54:31.200 --> 0:54:35.480 the Reds and the Bengals. And yeah, the Bengals too, 0:54:35.480 --> 0:54:37.400 I forgot about that. They did. They have a Monday 0:54:37.480 --> 0:54:39.440 night game this week. All right, Kevin Gordon, You're the 0:54:39.440 --> 0:54:41.319 best man. Always great having you all. 0:54:41.239 --> 0:54:44.000 Brother, Dan, thank you so much for having me on. 0:54:44.080 --> 0:54:44.960 I certainly appreciate it. 0:54:44.960 --> 0:54:45.919 We're going to do this more often. 0:54:46.000 --> 0:54:49.480 Yeah, absolutely, Whenever there's a big trucking issue, we're going 0:54:49.560 --> 0:54:50.960 to do it. We're going to do it because it's 0:54:51.040 --> 0:54:52.840 too much fun. Kevin, You're the best. We'll talk to 0:54:52.840 --> 0:54:54.799 you again soon, brother, Thank you. 0:54:54.800 --> 0:54:55.200 Man. 0:54:55.280 --> 0:54:58.239 There you go, Kevin Gordon from ATN ten twenty five 0:54:58.320 --> 0:55:07.440 on seven hundred WW All right, here we go, seven 0:55:07.480 --> 0:55:11.880 hundred WLW ten thirty seven. It is the Thursday night 0:55:12.040 --> 0:55:14.640 edition of the Midweek Crisis. I'm Dan Carroll, glad to 0:55:14.640 --> 0:55:17.440 be here, glad you are here as well, and always 0:55:17.440 --> 0:55:20.240 glad to welcome in this guy from the Conservative Caucus. 0:55:20.280 --> 0:55:27.640 My buddy, Jim Faff, have you gotten over the the 0:55:27.640 --> 0:55:30.919 the dismissal of the Reds from the from the first 0:55:30.960 --> 0:55:33.080 playoff appearance since nineteen ninety five. 0:55:33.120 --> 0:55:37.960 I think it was I am just I'm down. I'm down, 0:55:38.120 --> 0:55:40.480 and as I as I told you privately, I mean, 0:55:40.520 --> 0:55:43.959 this is such a talented, capable team just at the core. 0:55:44.880 --> 0:55:46.720 You know, we just got to get over the hump. 0:55:46.760 --> 0:55:51.279 And I mean we should be in at least in 0:55:51.480 --> 0:55:55.600 the you know, National League Championship Series every year right now, 0:55:55.760 --> 0:55:58.520 and it's not getting to the World Series. 0:55:59.200 --> 0:56:01.400 But you know, it's just it's a bummer. 0:56:01.560 --> 0:56:05.279 Yeah, there's always next year. Were Reds fans, you know, 0:56:05.400 --> 0:56:08.600 we kind of we pop up in the seventies, pop 0:56:08.680 --> 0:56:10.440 up in the early nineties, and then we have to 0:56:10.440 --> 0:56:11.720 wait again, you know how it goes. 0:56:12.920 --> 0:56:16.959 Well. Ager said something the other day. He said, he said, look, 0:56:17.280 --> 0:56:19.279 I'm not necessarily saying the Reds are going to win 0:56:19.320 --> 0:56:22.319 a championship this year, but he said, I hope it's 0:56:22.360 --> 0:56:27.879 the start of with regularity, this team getting into the postseason. 0:56:28.280 --> 0:56:30.359 And so I'm kind of hanging my hat on that. 0:56:30.440 --> 0:56:31.839 I think that's a good way to look at it. 0:56:32.840 --> 0:56:35.160 I still I think I agree with you. 0:56:35.400 --> 0:56:37.719 And whenever I am at a time like this, I 0:56:37.719 --> 0:56:41.480 always remember coming down from the red seats many years ago, 0:56:41.760 --> 0:56:47.759 standing at the looking down the third base line and 0:56:47.840 --> 0:56:51.080 watching Eric Davison a walk off Homer. That's the thing 0:56:51.120 --> 0:56:52.040 that I always remember. 0:56:52.200 --> 0:56:54.600 How about Eric the red Man. I mean, you bring 0:56:54.640 --> 0:56:57.160 back some you have some great memories, Jim, I swear 0:56:57.200 --> 0:57:00.359 to God. All right, So let's uh, let's talk about 0:57:00.360 --> 0:57:02.440 the issue at hand. Every time I listen to the 0:57:02.440 --> 0:57:06.080 news today, Top of the Hour, Bottom of the Hour, ABC, NBC, 0:57:06.600 --> 0:57:11.279 government shutdown, government shutdown, government shutdown? Does the government ever 0:57:11.400 --> 0:57:13.919 really shut down? I mean does it I mean there's 0:57:14.040 --> 0:57:16.280 you know, there's there's a few things that are closed, 0:57:16.920 --> 0:57:20.280 but I mean, really there's Does it really ever shut down? 0:57:20.920 --> 0:57:21.600 Is it possible? 0:57:21.680 --> 0:57:21.840 Is that? 0:57:21.920 --> 0:57:22.520 Well? 0:57:23.560 --> 0:57:27.880 Yeah, I mean it doesn't in one sense and not 0:57:28.120 --> 0:57:32.160 in another. So really, everything that really matters in government 0:57:32.280 --> 0:57:35.440 that actually needs to be done never shuts down, that 0:57:35.600 --> 0:57:38.920 never goes away. But the other side of it is 0:57:39.040 --> 0:57:44.880 you have federal employees that go on furlough and in 0:57:45.000 --> 0:57:49.000 almost every case, they're sitting at home just waiting for 0:57:49.160 --> 0:57:51.280 this to all be over, and they're still going to 0:57:51.320 --> 0:57:53.960 get the paycheck when they're not working. So you know, 0:57:54.000 --> 0:57:56.080 there are people who don't come into the office. There 0:57:56.120 --> 0:57:58.400 is are things to shut down, but it's all of 0:57:58.440 --> 0:58:00.280 the areas that we don't even need to be doing 0:58:00.320 --> 0:58:03.800 in government anyway. And uh, you know, because social Security 0:58:03.880 --> 0:58:06.240 checks go out, which you know, listen, I don't know 0:58:06.240 --> 0:58:08.080 how we get rid of Social Security, but it's an 0:58:08.120 --> 0:58:13.600 unconstitutional program. But those checks go out, Medicare payments and 0:58:13.720 --> 0:58:18.040 processing happens, Medicaid happens because it's happening at the state 0:58:18.160 --> 0:58:22.200 level mostly, so you know, it's it's it's just it's 0:58:22.560 --> 0:58:27.520 other than those things the military, the judicial system and 0:58:27.640 --> 0:58:30.280 various things they keep going on, and those are really 0:58:30.280 --> 0:58:31.520 about the only things. 0:58:31.680 --> 0:58:32.400 We need anyone. 0:58:32.880 --> 0:58:37.040 But it's really sad because the furlough thing, you know, 0:58:37.080 --> 0:58:37.920 these people. 0:58:37.640 --> 0:58:39.040 Sit at home and then get paid. 0:58:39.160 --> 0:58:41.920 I had to go in the office every day when 0:58:41.960 --> 0:58:45.040 I when I was on Capitol Hill, and I wasn't 0:58:45.120 --> 0:58:48.160 ostensibly getting paid, but then again I ended up getting paid, 0:58:48.160 --> 0:58:50.720 but I was working. The federal employees don't do that, 0:58:50.800 --> 0:58:52.680 So it's it's it's both sides. 0:58:53.200 --> 0:58:54.560 Yeah, you would have you would have done it for 0:58:54.600 --> 0:58:56.800 free if you had to, because you just love. 0:58:56.680 --> 0:58:59.960 You love wonderful working in Congress. 0:59:00.160 --> 0:59:04.480 Not you love the work, but you know, I mean, 0:59:04.520 --> 0:59:09.680 you're really it's almost a necessity to understand what the 0:59:10.520 --> 0:59:13.640 you know, what the syntax is here that's being used 0:59:13.680 --> 0:59:17.680 when you talk about the way that the Democrats are 0:59:17.680 --> 0:59:21.240 trying to frame the issue, and I think the Republicans 0:59:21.240 --> 0:59:24.520 are making it pretty simple. You know, the big beautiful 0:59:24.560 --> 0:59:28.120 Bill Trump cut out the idea that anyone who's in 0:59:28.120 --> 0:59:31.920 the country illegally is going to get free health care benefits, 0:59:32.280 --> 0:59:37.000 and essentially the Democrats, through a trick of the language, 0:59:37.320 --> 0:59:40.920 are trying to reinstate that at the cost of about 0:59:40.920 --> 0:59:45.360 what one point five to two trillion dollars for what 0:59:45.480 --> 0:59:48.720 seven weeks or seven months or hover long? This continuing 0:59:48.760 --> 0:59:53.440 resolution is so the thing is, you know, Jim, I 0:59:53.880 --> 0:59:58.720 look back, and there was a time when Democrats were 0:59:59.080 --> 1:00:03.480 fully on board with the idea of illegals not getting healthcare, 1:00:04.000 --> 1:00:06.600 and chief among them, I want to play a sound 1:00:06.600 --> 1:00:09.520 by here and tell me if you recognize this voice 1:00:09.560 --> 1:00:11.920 from the past, well really not from the past, but 1:00:12.440 --> 1:00:15.400 a younger version of a voice that we hear these days. 1:00:15.680 --> 1:00:19.720 And Joe, let's hear cut number five as to illegal aliens. 1:00:20.160 --> 1:00:23.440 We agree with you that we do not think the 1:00:23.480 --> 1:00:27.120 comprehensive healthcare benefits should be extended to those who are 1:00:27.160 --> 1:00:30.320 undocumented workers and illegal aliens. We do not want to 1:00:30.360 --> 1:00:34.720 do anything to encourage more illegal immigration into this country. 1:00:35.080 --> 1:00:37.240 We know now that too many people come in for 1:00:37.680 --> 1:00:40.480 medical care as it is. We certainly don't want them 1:00:40.560 --> 1:00:44.800 having the same benefits that American citizens are entitled to 1:00:44.880 --> 1:00:46.600 have as to illegal aliens. 1:00:46.680 --> 1:00:51.160 Jim So Jim, who was that, Well, first of all, 1:00:51.320 --> 1:00:53.400 she didn't know how to use email at the time 1:00:53.560 --> 1:00:57.120 and figured it out how to do it illegally later obviously, 1:00:57.240 --> 1:01:01.200 Hillary Clinton, Well. 1:01:01.160 --> 1:01:03.920 I think what like nineteen ninety two or something like that, 1:01:04.000 --> 1:01:08.200 in early nineties, Yeah, what changed? What changed? Because that's 1:01:08.400 --> 1:01:13.800 that sounds like, you know, far right wing conspiracy policy 1:01:14.080 --> 1:01:16.280 to me. Right, you know, it is what the left 1:01:16.280 --> 1:01:17.000 would have you believe. 1:01:17.080 --> 1:01:21.160 Now, well, the difference is this, and it's just it's 1:01:21.200 --> 1:01:22.680 a mere political calculation. 1:01:22.840 --> 1:01:23.920 This is this is. 1:01:23.880 --> 1:01:25.440 How fungible anything that. 1:01:25.600 --> 1:01:29.160 Democrats say is so Back then in the nineties they're 1:01:29.240 --> 1:01:34.240 concerned about immigration, was that the immigrant illegal immigrants would 1:01:34.240 --> 1:01:36.480 take jobs away from union workers. 1:01:36.800 --> 1:01:38.760 So they were standing up for the unions. That's where 1:01:38.800 --> 1:01:39.760 the Union stood. 1:01:40.760 --> 1:01:45.480 Fast forward almost thirty years later, and suddenly all these 1:01:45.520 --> 1:01:49.280 illegals are potential voters for them, and many of them 1:01:49.280 --> 1:01:52.480 are voting. We know that it's happening. The other thing 1:01:52.640 --> 1:01:57.880 is they change the census calculations, which which Barack Obama instituted. 1:01:57.920 --> 1:02:01.920 That helps them to get more seats in Congress than 1:02:01.920 --> 1:02:04.480 they deserve, and we're trying to fix that right now. 1:02:04.840 --> 1:02:10.120 So it's nearly the grabbing for power. That's all that 1:02:10.240 --> 1:02:10.760 it is. 1:02:11.000 --> 1:02:11.920 With these Democrats. 1:02:12.000 --> 1:02:15.400 Democrats are about hour and authority. They're not about the 1:02:15.440 --> 1:02:17.880 American ideal, which is why I'm saying all the time 1:02:18.000 --> 1:02:21.680 right now that the Democrat Party is not an American party. 1:02:21.960 --> 1:02:22.440 It is not. 1:02:22.840 --> 1:02:26.360 Every bit of our problems in this country has its 1:02:26.520 --> 1:02:32.880 origin in Democrat politics and on the margins sometimes the 1:02:32.880 --> 1:02:36.000 weakness of Republicans not going back against it. But that 1:02:36.120 --> 1:02:40.640 calculus is changing in this Trump administration because you have 1:02:40.760 --> 1:02:44.920 new leaders in each of the houses, new Republican leaders 1:02:44.920 --> 1:02:48.360 in each of the houses who are acting differently than 1:02:48.400 --> 1:02:51.680 the Paul Ryans and the John Bahinners and the Mitch 1:02:51.760 --> 1:02:55.600 McConnell's of the world. And they're being led by Donald Trump, 1:02:55.640 --> 1:02:59.120 which is really the real force behind this where finally 1:02:59.160 --> 1:03:01.560 we're out of place where we take a strong stand 1:03:02.320 --> 1:03:05.640 and people aren't going to back down or not likely to. 1:03:05.840 --> 1:03:09.480 So it's kind of a new day on Capitol Hill, 1:03:09.560 --> 1:03:12.280 much different than what I experienced when I was working. 1:03:11.960 --> 1:03:14.800 With Yeah, but it's amazing to me how many mainstream 1:03:14.840 --> 1:03:19.280 Democrats are getting on board with Zorhan Mandani. Or in 1:03:19.320 --> 1:03:21.840 New York City, he was on the View a day 1:03:21.920 --> 1:03:25.000 or so ago and Joy Behar asked him if he 1:03:25.080 --> 1:03:27.880 was a communist, and he said, oh, I'm not a communist. 1:03:28.240 --> 1:03:32.680 I'm a Democrat socialist because because he said, you know, 1:03:32.720 --> 1:03:36.560 you know, we believe in dignity for every human being. Jim, 1:03:36.600 --> 1:03:39.520 can you explain to me how living under a socialist 1:03:39.520 --> 1:03:43.280 system promotes human dignity? Where where you know, under the 1:03:43.600 --> 1:03:47.840 ideas of Mandami, if you if you're able to earn 1:03:47.920 --> 1:03:51.760 a decent living, then his socialist government wants to come 1:03:51.800 --> 1:03:54.160 and take more than half of what you earn. And 1:03:54.200 --> 1:03:57.200 then the you know, there the there's another whole class 1:03:57.200 --> 1:04:02.680 of people to which will be dependent upon the government. 1:04:04.120 --> 1:04:07.640 Where's the human dignity in any of that that Mondnad 1:04:07.640 --> 1:04:08.400 likes to talk about. 1:04:09.640 --> 1:04:13.160 Well, they can make it seem like, or at least 1:04:13.240 --> 1:04:14.760 up to this point, have been able to make it 1:04:14.800 --> 1:04:19.320 seem like it's human dignity because of this idea of equity, 1:04:19.960 --> 1:04:25.920 where you equalize outcomes, which is a message it's easy 1:04:25.960 --> 1:04:28.080 to throw out there in a world where things are 1:04:28.120 --> 1:04:31.760 not perfect, someone or some group of people have lost 1:04:31.760 --> 1:04:36.360 their jobs, or they're having some temporary financial setbacks that 1:04:36.560 --> 1:04:38.960 might be caused by something in the economy. Of course, 1:04:39.520 --> 1:04:43.080 government destroys the economy through the Federal Reserve and inflation, 1:04:43.680 --> 1:04:47.080 and so that helps enhance the message. That's why Democrats 1:04:47.160 --> 1:04:49.080 do like the Federal Reserve. 1:04:49.160 --> 1:04:51.920 And the way it acts. But what it really is, 1:04:51.960 --> 1:04:52.200 it's a. 1:04:52.360 --> 1:04:56.600 Utopian ideal that there is somehow a way, if we 1:04:57.000 --> 1:04:58.520 just get enough power. 1:04:58.640 --> 1:05:01.640 In government and central things in government. 1:05:01.360 --> 1:05:04.120 Enough that that's going to end up allowing all of 1:05:04.280 --> 1:05:08.240 us to live wonderfully. The reality is that's never worked. 1:05:08.240 --> 1:05:12.920 Every utopian idealistic idea related to government of any form 1:05:13.320 --> 1:05:19.040 throughout world history has always failed miserably. Every time that 1:05:19.320 --> 1:05:22.480 someone else says that they're going to come in and 1:05:22.680 --> 1:05:26.120 order society for us in a certain way, it never works. 1:05:26.160 --> 1:05:30.520 I mean, it's happened everywhere. What has been unique about 1:05:30.560 --> 1:05:36.240 the American experiment is from our founding, the idea was, no, 1:05:36.520 --> 1:05:40.560 you cannot have a utopian lifestyle. Yes, there are going 1:05:40.600 --> 1:05:44.000 to be ups and downs in life, but you get 1:05:44.040 --> 1:05:47.120 to the side how you're going to react to that. 1:05:47.760 --> 1:05:51.280 You get the power to do that by yourselves, and 1:05:52.520 --> 1:05:56.400 therefore you can secure how your life runs so that 1:05:56.440 --> 1:05:59.520 you can get all the benefits of the good decisions 1:05:59.560 --> 1:06:02.680 you make, and the fear of God can be in 1:06:02.720 --> 1:06:06.040 you for making bad decisions, because you're going to reap 1:06:06.080 --> 1:06:10.200 the benefits or the disbenefits of your bad decisions. I 1:06:10.240 --> 1:06:15.240 mean this idea of popular sovereignty, the idea that the 1:06:15.400 --> 1:06:19.800 people are the kings of the country, which is stated 1:06:19.880 --> 1:06:21.720 clearly in the beginning of our constitution. 1:06:21.880 --> 1:06:25.120 We the people in order to form a more perfect union. 1:06:25.520 --> 1:06:29.920 That ideal works and when you allow it to happen, 1:06:30.480 --> 1:06:33.280 it works best. And we are on the back end 1:06:33.360 --> 1:06:36.560 of a one hundred year experiment of progressivism, which is 1:06:37.040 --> 1:06:42.280 just the beginning ideas of socialism and communism that democrats 1:06:42.320 --> 1:06:46.000 have since Wodrow Wilson have been eking into our system 1:06:46.040 --> 1:06:51.320 through FBR and LBJ and Obama, and all those negative 1:06:51.360 --> 1:06:54.680 things are coming to roost right now, which is why 1:06:54.760 --> 1:06:58.400 Donald Trump was able to get elected, and it's why, frankly, 1:06:58.800 --> 1:07:02.080 even through all the missmash of what's happening in Washington, 1:07:02.160 --> 1:07:04.840 d C. His poll numbers are still up because he's 1:07:04.880 --> 1:07:06.680 got the right ideal, and I think we have a 1:07:06.800 --> 1:07:09.760 chance that the American people are starting to see, Yeah, 1:07:09.840 --> 1:07:12.640 we got to take a different direction because these Democrats 1:07:12.680 --> 1:07:13.680 don't know what they're doing. 1:07:13.800 --> 1:07:14.000 Yeah. 1:07:14.160 --> 1:07:18.000 Have you picked up your copy of the Kamala Harris 1:07:18.000 --> 1:07:20.600 book yet one hundred and seven days? 1:07:23.120 --> 1:07:30.080 No, but I am, But I am actually really enjoying 1:07:30.840 --> 1:07:36.440 the stand up comedy and freak show of all of 1:07:36.480 --> 1:07:40.560 her interviews and the reminder I'm glad for the reminder 1:07:40.600 --> 1:07:42.000 that everyone's getting. 1:07:42.000 --> 1:07:44.640 About how we really dodged a bullet last November. 1:07:45.240 --> 1:07:48.040 I think I think when when I look at her 1:07:48.440 --> 1:07:50.680 and I see her on this book tour that she's 1:07:50.720 --> 1:07:54.280 doing and the interviews that she's doing, I think she 1:07:54.480 --> 1:07:59.720 thinks that she's really forging a foundation for another presidential run. 1:08:00.800 --> 1:08:05.480 I really think she has put that thought in her 1:08:05.560 --> 1:08:10.440 mind and she's and she's living on that. Are you 1:08:10.480 --> 1:08:11.800 seeing the same thing I'm saying. 1:08:12.960 --> 1:08:16.680 No, I agree with your assessment and what's interesting is 1:08:16.720 --> 1:08:20.760 it just re emphasizes how much of a bubble this 1:08:20.840 --> 1:08:23.639 woman has lived in. You know, it's kind of funny. 1:08:23.680 --> 1:08:26.040 I really wonder how she got a law degree. She 1:08:26.320 --> 1:08:29.040 has had to be a dei thing on her part 1:08:29.240 --> 1:08:33.400 because she's not very smart. She doesn't even show like 1:08:33.400 --> 1:08:36.880 like your standard lawyer, even if they're evil, know how 1:08:37.240 --> 1:08:42.479 to utilize language and twists of logic or ill logic 1:08:42.880 --> 1:08:47.000 to try to, you know, impress people enough to do 1:08:47.120 --> 1:08:48.960 what they want to happen, and you know they can 1:08:49.040 --> 1:08:51.720 hit it from time to time. She doesn't even have 1:08:52.120 --> 1:08:55.680 that skill. So she's lived in this bubble. But it's 1:08:55.920 --> 1:09:01.920 what's even more important is that she has is continuing 1:09:02.840 --> 1:09:11.080 the I don't know, the the absurd freaking uh incompetent 1:09:11.720 --> 1:09:15.600 responses to every question that she gets. The excerpts of 1:09:15.640 --> 1:09:19.040 the books that I've seen fall really show that she 1:09:19.200 --> 1:09:21.080 has no clue. 1:09:20.800 --> 1:09:23.040 What happened last year. 1:09:23.120 --> 1:09:28.240 She just really has no idea at all. And although 1:09:28.280 --> 1:09:30.240 I think in her course, she knows. 1:09:30.000 --> 1:09:32.839 That she failed this thing and has. 1:09:32.680 --> 1:09:36.520 Some degree of embarrassment about having had two billion dollars 1:09:36.720 --> 1:09:40.160 and and I don't know, more than twice the amount 1:09:40.200 --> 1:09:42.160 of money that Donald Trump hadn't still. 1:09:41.920 --> 1:09:46.519 Lost wasted a billion dollars, and she was, you know, 1:09:47.040 --> 1:09:50.280 I read one excerpt from her book where she talks 1:09:50.320 --> 1:09:53.759 about how I guess it was the night of the debate, 1:09:53.880 --> 1:09:57.439 or before the debate. Her people booked her for a 1:09:57.520 --> 1:10:01.040 podcast with this doctor, and so she had to go 1:10:01.080 --> 1:10:03.559 on this Heaven forbid, she had to go on a 1:10:03.600 --> 1:10:08.240 podcast unprepared, didn't get her briefing before she went onto 1:10:08.280 --> 1:10:10.479 the platform. Jim, how how much of a briefing do 1:10:10.520 --> 1:10:12.280 you have before you come on on my show on 1:10:12.320 --> 1:10:16.080 seven hundred WLW. Do you have a whole team of 1:10:16.120 --> 1:10:18.720 people write down, you know, a possible question, you know, 1:10:18.840 --> 1:10:21.040 Dan might ask you about this. You got to prepared 1:10:21.080 --> 1:10:24.559 to talk about that, And so she writes, she writes 1:10:24.600 --> 1:10:27.160 in the book, the doctor comes on and says, Hey, 1:10:27.200 --> 1:10:29.280 we're going to talk with the Vice President of the 1:10:29.360 --> 1:10:32.120 United States today, and I'm going to ask her about healthcare, 1:10:32.200 --> 1:10:34.719 and I'm going to ask her about women's issues, which 1:10:34.760 --> 1:10:38.519 means abortion. Uh, you know, she and it was it 1:10:38.600 --> 1:10:42.400 was five or six boilerplate things. She had been vice 1:10:42.439 --> 1:10:45.080 president of the United States for four years at that point, 1:10:46.160 --> 1:10:50.920 and she and she was freaking out because she couldn't 1:10:50.920 --> 1:10:54.439 handle these these simple questions. And this was a friendly interview. 1:10:55.120 --> 1:10:57.360 And and then and she and she goes on to 1:10:57.400 --> 1:11:00.840 talk about how difficult it is because these people that 1:11:01.000 --> 1:11:03.280 and she gave this, she read them the riot that boy, 1:11:03.760 --> 1:11:05.519 I mean, she let them, you know, these people that 1:11:05.560 --> 1:11:09.439 are working for her. I don't know if she if 1:11:09.479 --> 1:11:11.920 she reads that and thinks that makes her look good, 1:11:12.400 --> 1:11:13.960 it makes her look like an imbecile. 1:11:18.560 --> 1:11:19.759 Yeah, without a doubt. 1:11:20.000 --> 1:11:23.439 Listen, both and speaking both of you, like both you 1:11:23.520 --> 1:11:26.320 and I, we can we can speak off the cuff 1:11:26.800 --> 1:11:30.960 and be ready to go on something quickly because we're like, these. 1:11:30.760 --> 1:11:32.639 Things are running through her mind. I mean, the most 1:11:32.680 --> 1:11:33.240 we have to. 1:11:33.200 --> 1:11:36.800 Do on our own is just verify some facts, double 1:11:36.920 --> 1:11:40.280 check what's really going on. I mean, it doesn't take 1:11:40.320 --> 1:11:42.799 a lot of time at all. If you're not capable 1:11:42.800 --> 1:11:44.760 of doing that. Now, one advantage that both you and 1:11:44.840 --> 1:11:47.080 I have. You know, I spent four years doing a 1:11:47.160 --> 1:11:50.679 daily radio show in Denver, so you know there's something 1:11:50.760 --> 1:11:53.439 to that that that might bring something there. But that's 1:11:53.479 --> 1:11:58.360 what politicians have. If you're doing politics, then you're having 1:11:58.840 --> 1:12:02.040 to be able to speak quickly on subjects that you 1:12:02.080 --> 1:12:05.639 should at least have some knowledge about this just kind 1:12:05.640 --> 1:12:08.080 of re emphasizes to me what I've said quite a 1:12:08.120 --> 1:12:10.479 bit I probably said on your show from time to time, 1:12:10.920 --> 1:12:13.759 is that it scares me the people that we elect 1:12:13.760 --> 1:12:16.479 to Congress. I mean, she's not the only one. 1:12:16.800 --> 1:12:18.040 I've been around. 1:12:17.720 --> 1:12:21.240 These people, and I'm telling you, well, more than half 1:12:21.280 --> 1:12:24.719 of them scare me to death. There's about forty percent 1:12:24.760 --> 1:12:25.360 on either. 1:12:25.160 --> 1:12:26.599 Side of the aisle who. 1:12:26.439 --> 1:12:29.519 I think have competence and skill to at least address 1:12:29.560 --> 1:12:32.200 issues and think through what's going on. Even if they 1:12:32.200 --> 1:12:34.200 make the wrong decision, they thought through it and spent 1:12:34.320 --> 1:12:36.600 some time on it. The rest of them are just 1:12:36.720 --> 1:12:40.679 showing up, and they like the prestige of being able 1:12:40.720 --> 1:12:43.680 to wear that button on their lapel so that they 1:12:43.680 --> 1:12:47.679 can get around all of the metal detectors really easily 1:12:47.760 --> 1:12:49.920 on Capitol Hill. And I've seen the city a time 1:12:49.960 --> 1:12:52.960 at the time, you know, they love the prestige. And 1:12:53.320 --> 1:12:55.719 you know, I worked for Thomas Matthew. Thomas always called 1:12:55.720 --> 1:12:59.040 that button my preshest you know, speaking. 1:12:58.680 --> 1:13:00.559 Of Gullam and Lord the Rings. 1:13:00.600 --> 1:13:04.440 You know, once you put that on, it suddenly immorphs 1:13:04.479 --> 1:13:07.439 you into something else. And she but she's even worse 1:13:07.479 --> 1:13:10.360 than that, and it's really scary when you think that 1:13:10.479 --> 1:13:12.280 she might have become president. 1:13:12.720 --> 1:13:16.639 Man, we dodged literally dodged a dodged a bullet there. 1:13:16.840 --> 1:13:20.000 Jim Fath as always, buddy, great having you on. Conservative 1:13:20.040 --> 1:13:23.439 Caucus is the website. Keep up the great work and 1:13:23.479 --> 1:13:26.679 we'll be talking again before too long. But as always, Man, thanks, 1:13:26.680 --> 1:13:28.679 I really appreciate it. Thanks, thanks for being here. 1:13:29.600 --> 1:13:31.360 Thanks Dan, look forward to talking to you soon. 1:13:31.400 --> 1:13:33.920 All right, Jim Faff the Conservative Caucus. Always great to 1:13:33.960 --> 1:13:35.800 have him. We got to get to a break news 1:13:35.880 --> 1:13:37.920 coming up top of the hour, and then phone lines 1:13:37.920 --> 1:13:42.280 will be open. Five three, seven, the Big One as 1:13:42.280 --> 1:13:45.800 we roll on till midnight tonight on seven hundred WLW, 1:13:53.200 --> 1:13:56.280 seven hundred WLW. It's eleven o six. We go to 1:13:56.280 --> 1:13:59.240 midnight tonight on the Thursday night edition of the Midweek Crisis. 1:13:59.240 --> 1:14:00.920 One of the things Jim for being here. That guy 1:14:01.000 --> 1:14:04.320 is great and Kevin Goon and Gordon from the ATN 1:14:05.040 --> 1:14:07.160 talked about it. I mean, just just think about that. 1:14:08.000 --> 1:14:12.080 You go in to get a commercial driver's license, gonna 1:14:12.120 --> 1:14:16.400 drive a big rig. And let's say that you're the 1:14:16.479 --> 1:14:22.080 person who is working there. It's your job to distribute 1:14:22.080 --> 1:14:27.920 these licenses. You got to see some paperwork. Don't you 1:14:27.920 --> 1:14:29.640 got to put a name on the license. What is 1:14:29.680 --> 1:14:30.000 your name? 1:14:30.040 --> 1:14:30.240 Sir? 1:14:31.600 --> 1:14:34.680 I can't give you my name. Are you gonna go 1:14:34.680 --> 1:14:40.280 ahead and give that person a license to drive a 1:14:40.280 --> 1:14:47.800 big rig? Who does that? Okay? No, no, no name. 1:14:48.280 --> 1:14:51.160 I'll just put no name given. We have no idea 1:14:51.160 --> 1:14:54.360 who this guy is, but by god, he can go 1:14:54.400 --> 1:14:58.200 out there and earn a living driving his eighteen wheeler. 1:15:02.400 --> 1:15:07.439 If you have no name given on a driver's license, 1:15:09.080 --> 1:15:12.720 who does the company make out their paychecks to you? 1:15:12.800 --> 1:15:14.640 Drive a truck? I know, I know a lot of 1:15:14.640 --> 1:15:16.760 guys in the trucking business who have made a lot 1:15:16.800 --> 1:15:20.719 of money. I got a buddy who's in town right now, 1:15:21.840 --> 1:15:27.719 drives a drives a big ring, delivers attractors and farm equipment, 1:15:27.800 --> 1:15:33.320 machinery and stuff like that. If you if you can't 1:15:33.439 --> 1:15:36.639 give a name for your driver's license, who do they 1:15:36.720 --> 1:15:40.760 Who do they make the checkout? I mean, do you 1:15:40.800 --> 1:15:45.800 walk into a bank with your paycheck? And I guess 1:15:45.840 --> 1:15:50.800 most of it's dirrect deposit these days, so. 1:15:50.760 --> 1:15:51.240 They just. 1:15:53.800 --> 1:15:55.599 Put it to a send it to a routing number 1:15:55.640 --> 1:15:59.919 and a bank account, I guess. But if you actually 1:16:00.240 --> 1:16:02.320 and I know that there's some there's some people who 1:16:02.400 --> 1:16:09.160 still get regular paychecks. Take them to the bank. And 1:16:09.200 --> 1:16:12.360 if you're at the bank and the you know, it 1:16:12.400 --> 1:16:16.840 says pay to the order of no name given. How 1:16:16.840 --> 1:16:17.400 do you? 1:16:17.479 --> 1:16:18.120 How do you? 1:16:19.760 --> 1:16:25.000 How do you process that? I don't know? Five, one, three, seven, nine, 1:16:26.600 --> 1:16:29.280 the big one. Uh, let's see, Joe, let's get cut 1:16:29.360 --> 1:16:32.919 number cut, number eight, ready to go. Earlier this week, 1:16:33.880 --> 1:16:36.720 I was on the air when this happened, and you 1:16:36.840 --> 1:16:39.960 had Pete hag Seth and Donald Trump. They uh, you know, 1:16:40.000 --> 1:16:42.080 it's big. There was big mystery there for a couple 1:16:42.120 --> 1:16:45.479 of days because they called all the top commanders, all 1:16:45.560 --> 1:16:50.120 the top military billets to show up at Quantico and 1:16:50.240 --> 1:16:53.880 we're gonna have a little talking to And everyone was like, 1:16:53.920 --> 1:16:58.120 oh my god. You know, Trump's gonna consolidate his power. 1:16:58.240 --> 1:17:00.680 Is gonna make sure they pledge allegiance to him. If not, 1:17:00.680 --> 1:17:03.040 they're going to get fired. All this crazy stuff's going 1:17:05.000 --> 1:17:07.080 and so what do they do. They put it on TV. 1:17:09.479 --> 1:17:12.479 Pete hegg Set's speech was on TV. The Trumpster was 1:17:12.479 --> 1:17:14.559 on TV talked for I don't know about an hour 1:17:14.600 --> 1:17:18.360 and a half. I had it on the studio here. 1:17:18.360 --> 1:17:19.760 I was on the air at that time, so I 1:17:19.800 --> 1:17:23.360 could I couldn't listen to what was being said. But 1:17:23.479 --> 1:17:28.040 afterwards I saw all these folks on the left very 1:17:28.120 --> 1:17:32.840 upset with Pete Heg Seth because he said something about fitness. 1:17:33.600 --> 1:17:39.559 He said something about military people being in shape, and 1:17:39.640 --> 1:17:41.800 maybe you're like me, and you didn't get to hear it. 1:17:42.960 --> 1:17:45.040 And so I found the SoundBite of what he said 1:17:45.080 --> 1:17:47.920 that got so many people upset. And if you listen 1:17:48.000 --> 1:17:53.559 to this now, you tell me what's what's so bad 1:17:53.600 --> 1:17:59.240 about this? What is so upsetting that this is what 1:17:59.280 --> 1:18:02.519 Pete Hegg said. I said to the top members of 1:18:02.560 --> 1:18:06.800 the military. And with that, Joe, let's hear cut number eight. 1:18:06.800 --> 1:18:09.679 Please with physical fitness and appearance. 1:18:10.720 --> 1:18:13.679 If the Secretary of War can do regular hard pt, 1:18:14.760 --> 1:18:16.679 so can every member of our joint force. 1:18:18.320 --> 1:18:20.320 Frankly, it's tiring. 1:18:20.000 --> 1:18:22.679 To look out at combat formations or really any formation 1:18:23.280 --> 1:18:28.160 and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see. 1:18:28.040 --> 1:18:29.839 Fat generals and admirals in the halls. 1:18:29.600 --> 1:18:32.519 Of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country in 1:18:32.560 --> 1:18:32.840 the world. 1:18:32.840 --> 1:18:35.479 It's a bad look. It is bad and it's not 1:18:35.520 --> 1:18:36.000 who we are. 1:18:37.280 --> 1:18:40.080 So whether you're an airborne ranger or a chairborne ranger, 1:18:40.920 --> 1:18:42.280 a brand new private. 1:18:42.040 --> 1:18:43.160 Or a four star general. 1:18:43.400 --> 1:18:45.240 You need to meet the height and weight standards and 1:18:45.280 --> 1:18:46.640 pass the PT test. 1:18:47.600 --> 1:18:49.840 And as the Chairman said, yes there is no PT test. 1:18:51.280 --> 1:18:53.920 But today, at my direction, every member of the Joint 1:18:53.960 --> 1:18:56.799 Force at every rank is required to take a PT 1:18:56.840 --> 1:19:00.439 test twice a year, as well as me height and 1:19:00.479 --> 1:19:08.040 weight requirements twice a year every year of service. Also today, 1:19:08.120 --> 1:19:11.519 at my direction, every warrior across our Joint Force is 1:19:11.560 --> 1:19:12.880 required to do PT. 1:19:13.040 --> 1:19:16.200 Every duty day. Should be common sense. I mean most 1:19:16.280 --> 1:19:20.439 units do that already. So there you go. There is 1:19:20.479 --> 1:19:23.360 the Secretary of Defense, or they don't call it the 1:19:23.360 --> 1:19:25.960 Defense Department anymore. They call it the Department of War, 1:19:26.040 --> 1:19:32.120 the War Department, telling these top military leaders, you know, 1:19:32.400 --> 1:19:35.080 let's be in shape. I don't want to look out 1:19:35.080 --> 1:19:37.280 there and see a bunch of fat slobs wearing the 1:19:37.360 --> 1:19:41.160 uniform of the United States of America. Those are my words, 1:19:41.200 --> 1:19:45.559 not his, But at least that's my takeaway from what 1:19:45.680 --> 1:19:49.280 he said. And there's all kinds of video out there. 1:19:49.320 --> 1:19:54.519 We've seen hegseeth doing those early morning workouts. They'll do 1:19:54.560 --> 1:19:58.400 it with the Marines, do it with the Rangers. They'll 1:19:58.600 --> 1:20:03.760 do the workouts with anyone. Now, maybe he doesn't live 1:20:03.840 --> 1:20:05.760 up to the same physical standards that he used to 1:20:05.800 --> 1:20:08.760 when he was active duty. But the guy is pretty fit, 1:20:09.120 --> 1:20:15.320 in pretty good shape. So what about that speech makes 1:20:15.360 --> 1:20:23.719 you upset? I'm listening to it and somehow the according 1:20:23.760 --> 1:20:28.040 to those on the left, this is anti woman, anti LGBTQ, 1:20:28.240 --> 1:20:36.200 anti this anti that. Now things are changing in the 1:20:36.240 --> 1:20:42.080 military recruitment. Recruitment numbers are way up. There's a spread 1:20:42.160 --> 1:20:46.759 of corps now that we didn't have not that long ago. 1:20:48.400 --> 1:20:55.479 So they're doing good things and being physically fit and 1:20:55.520 --> 1:20:58.920 wearing the uniform of the Army, of the Air Force, 1:20:58.960 --> 1:21:03.800 the Navy, Marines Guard. Those are two things my way 1:21:03.800 --> 1:21:06.040 of thinking that going. If you're going to be a 1:21:06.080 --> 1:21:10.400 warrior for this country, can't hurt you to get a 1:21:10.400 --> 1:21:16.240 little exercise. Mark, you's smelling what I'm cooking? Mark and Monroe, Wisconsin. 1:21:17.120 --> 1:21:18.519 I think I am all right. 1:21:20.600 --> 1:21:22.760 I mean, I mean, did you did you what? What 1:21:22.800 --> 1:21:25.040 did you hear in that that segment of speech by 1:21:25.080 --> 1:21:27.760 Pete Hegseth. That's worthy of condemnation. 1:21:29.200 --> 1:21:35.320 Well, unless you have something drastically against integrity and professionalism, 1:21:35.760 --> 1:21:38.400 I can't think of I can't think of anything. 1:21:38.400 --> 1:21:40.760 Very well, said sir very, I can't say it any 1:21:40.840 --> 1:21:42.280 better than that. That is fantastic. 1:21:43.600 --> 1:21:48.759 Now, the one thing I would say, kind of across 1:21:48.800 --> 1:21:54.000 the board with the US, and I'm not necessarily this 1:21:54.040 --> 1:21:58.599 isn't necessarily the physical aspect of it, but again it's 1:21:58.720 --> 1:22:05.400 the integrity and professionalism. My concern is if we can't 1:22:05.400 --> 1:22:09.839 go across the board, let's say, like with the FBI, 1:22:09.800 --> 1:22:13.160 if we can't get that up to snuff from integrity 1:22:13.200 --> 1:22:17.880 and professionalism, and we can't get the DOJ up the 1:22:17.960 --> 1:22:22.880 snuff and integrity of in professionalism, we could have the 1:22:23.000 --> 1:22:28.799 greatest you know, Department of War or defense from foreign enemies, 1:22:28.840 --> 1:22:33.439 but if we can't clean up clean house with our 1:22:33.520 --> 1:22:39.280 domestic enemies, which I think are so infiltrated, and like 1:22:39.320 --> 1:22:44.400 I said, with the DOJ and the FBI. And that's 1:22:44.439 --> 1:22:48.600 not a knock on cash Pattel, and you know, we 1:22:49.000 --> 1:22:51.679 do have some good personnel out there, don't get me wrong. 1:22:52.439 --> 1:22:56.280 I'm just afraid that over the course of time, you know, 1:22:56.800 --> 1:23:02.400 And I'll go back to paracusaying Obama that I think 1:23:02.439 --> 1:23:10.200 he was a huge uh responsible for the infiltration that 1:23:10.320 --> 1:23:14.120 took place with the US with his transfer transformation of 1:23:15.080 --> 1:23:19.960 the US and his affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood. And 1:23:20.680 --> 1:23:24.680 you know, I don't know how much how many Islamist 1:23:24.840 --> 1:23:29.120 and potential shariass out there that we that we have 1:23:29.760 --> 1:23:32.959 integrated into our US government. 1:23:34.320 --> 1:23:37.240 No, No, I I agree, Mark, and I look, the 1:23:37.280 --> 1:23:40.320 deep state, the deep state is is deeper than anyone thought. 1:23:41.120 --> 1:23:42.880 You know, so much of this is ingrained in the 1:23:43.200 --> 1:23:47.439 different agencies than we have. I like to think that 1:23:47.560 --> 1:23:51.320 because there's a culture of following orders within the military, 1:23:52.000 --> 1:23:56.439 that that maybe the military it would be easier to 1:23:56.760 --> 1:24:00.120 whip into shape than something like the FBI or the 1:24:00.160 --> 1:24:04.400 Department of Justice or the different intelligence agencies that we have, 1:24:04.560 --> 1:24:08.640 because I think that's where the real heartbeat of the 1:24:08.640 --> 1:24:11.800 deep state lies is in those particular agencies. I mean, 1:24:11.840 --> 1:24:14.800 they're so vast, and I mean, you know, there's more 1:24:14.840 --> 1:24:17.920 than over there's more than three million people and depending 1:24:17.960 --> 1:24:20.439 on how you count it, as many as five million 1:24:20.439 --> 1:24:24.519 people or more working for the federal government. I saw 1:24:24.560 --> 1:24:26.920 this thing today where you know, they're talking about all 1:24:27.000 --> 1:24:29.720 these thousands of layoffs that are going to happen, and 1:24:29.800 --> 1:24:33.120 already one hundred and fifty thousand people have left the 1:24:33.120 --> 1:24:36.800 federal government under the Trump administration, and one hundred and 1:24:36.800 --> 1:24:39.799 fifty thousand sounds like a lot, but when you're talking 1:24:39.800 --> 1:24:42.639 about you know, anywhere between three and five million people, 1:24:42.640 --> 1:24:45.680 one hundred and fifty thousand, that's not that much. So 1:24:46.479 --> 1:24:49.800 I mean, you know, these agencies, it is just so 1:24:50.080 --> 1:24:53.040 vast and so cumbersome, and so much of this stuff 1:24:53.439 --> 1:24:55.720 is so deeply ingrained. And I spent a lot of 1:24:55.800 --> 1:24:59.640 time this past week after the James Comey got indicted, 1:25:00.200 --> 1:25:02.599 and you know, this is a guy that couldn't separate 1:25:03.200 --> 1:25:06.599 his job that he is supposed to do on behalf 1:25:06.960 --> 1:25:09.000 of the people of the United States and doing the 1:25:09.000 --> 1:25:11.880 best for the president of the United States. He couldn't 1:25:12.479 --> 1:25:17.519 separate his politics from that. So he single handedly allowed 1:25:17.520 --> 1:25:20.360 the FBI to get to my way of thinking, they 1:25:20.439 --> 1:25:26.880 get dragged into the political sphere and really just ruin 1:25:27.120 --> 1:25:30.559 any confidence that the American people had in that agency. 1:25:32.200 --> 1:25:34.439 I agree with you, Dan. Another thing. I would go 1:25:34.520 --> 1:25:38.720 with this thing just to spin off the government shutdown. 1:25:39.680 --> 1:25:43.679 I would reinvent a form of DOGE, and I think 1:25:43.680 --> 1:25:48.320 it's a perfect opportunity to clean house and to see 1:25:48.320 --> 1:25:52.439 how many of these un American I would just assume 1:25:52.479 --> 1:25:55.599 call him traders and get them out of our system. 1:25:55.640 --> 1:26:00.360 I mean, yeah, you know, Chuck Schumer should be in 1:26:00.439 --> 1:26:03.799 office in the first places, especially after he had threatened 1:26:04.680 --> 1:26:09.320 two Supreme Court judges. And you know, it's guys like 1:26:09.439 --> 1:26:16.000 him that are totally wrecking America, plain and simple. I mean, 1:26:16.040 --> 1:26:21.720 I could I could list probably the whole Democratic you 1:26:21.760 --> 1:26:28.320 know entourage there, you know, with anywhere from Hillary Clinton 1:26:28.479 --> 1:26:33.960 and Pocahontas and Corey Booker, and you know, I could 1:26:34.000 --> 1:26:40.640 go down the whole list. I think they're all substantial socialistic, 1:26:41.360 --> 1:26:46.280 borderline communists that are destroying the country. 1:26:46.400 --> 1:26:48.960 Well, I mean, you know, Elizabeth Warren is on record 1:26:49.040 --> 1:26:53.200 supporting zorhan Loandami, You've got Nadler, You've got all these 1:26:53.240 --> 1:26:58.200 other mainstream Democrats. Kathy Hochele is supporting him. She's the 1:26:58.240 --> 1:27:01.200 governor of New York. So they're talking about how this 1:27:01.240 --> 1:27:04.680 guy is the future of the Democrat Party and and 1:27:04.800 --> 1:27:08.000 he says, you know, you look, he says he's a socialist. 1:27:08.240 --> 1:27:08.960 And Mark, my. 1:27:09.720 --> 1:27:16.120 Question would be, if they obliged to h honor the Constitution, 1:27:17.400 --> 1:27:22.400 why wouldn't they be considered traders by by other you 1:27:22.439 --> 1:27:23.360 know again. 1:27:23.240 --> 1:27:25.920 Well, I think, look, I think that's a good point, 1:27:25.920 --> 1:27:27.720 and I think in a lot of these cases that 1:27:27.720 --> 1:27:30.040 that needs to be talked about in a meaningful way, 1:27:30.640 --> 1:27:32.680 that we start that we start looking at that. 1:27:33.760 --> 1:27:34.400 Absolutely. 1:27:34.479 --> 1:27:38.680 But I but think about it, though, if if if Pan, 1:27:38.840 --> 1:27:42.320 Bondi or Trump, you know, one started talking about you know, 1:27:42.360 --> 1:27:44.720 we're going to look at the treasonous activities of some 1:27:44.760 --> 1:27:47.639 of these individuals, look at the look at the Can 1:27:47.680 --> 1:27:51.000 you imagine the conniption that that the left and the 1:27:51.040 --> 1:27:52.080 media would have about that? 1:27:53.680 --> 1:27:56.479 Well, yeah, I can see the bull back from the 1:27:56.520 --> 1:27:59.519 whole thing. By On the other hand, if you don't 1:27:59.520 --> 1:28:02.160 take that course, what's they going to leave you with? 1:28:03.520 --> 1:28:06.519 Mark? I appreciate the phone call tonight. Okay, thank you, 1:28:06.560 --> 1:28:09.240 all right, there you go, Mark, And he was was 1:28:09.320 --> 1:28:13.240 he Joe? Was he really in Wisconsin? It's pretty cool? 1:28:13.720 --> 1:28:16.720 All right, well, he said he was. So I don't 1:28:16.720 --> 1:28:19.320 have any reason not to believe five one, three, seven, four, nine, 1:28:19.360 --> 1:28:23.240 seven thousand. I touched on this earlier that the media 1:28:23.800 --> 1:28:25.800 trust in the media is at its lowest level more 1:28:25.840 --> 1:28:30.240 than fifty years. The development comes as Donald Trump has 1:28:30.800 --> 1:28:34.720 for almost a decade raged against fake news. Legacy at 1:28:34.800 --> 1:28:37.880 legacy outlets. New media has arisen to combat the left 1:28:37.960 --> 1:28:42.799 leaning bias of mainstream platforms u This is a Gallup survey. 1:28:43.080 --> 1:28:46.400 Twenty eight percent say they have a great deal or 1:28:46.439 --> 1:28:49.599 fair amount of trust in media to report the news 1:28:49.640 --> 1:28:53.559 accurately and fairly. Thirty six percent said they had not 1:28:54.280 --> 1:29:01.719 very much uh faith in the media, and thirty four 1:29:01.760 --> 1:29:07.720 percent say they have no trust in the media at all. 1:29:07.880 --> 1:29:12.200 Thirty four percent, that's more than a third of this 1:29:12.280 --> 1:29:18.600 country has no trust in the media whatsoever. And that 1:29:19.080 --> 1:29:23.120 is it has been well earned by those in those 1:29:23.240 --> 1:29:26.920 various positions. Yeah, here's the number. More than one hundred 1:29:26.960 --> 1:29:32.000 and fifty bureaucrats have exited the federal payroll this week. 1:29:33.200 --> 1:29:37.400 These are the bureaucrats who accepted President Trump's buyout. They'll 1:29:37.400 --> 1:29:40.960 be removed from the federal payroll. This week represents the 1:29:41.040 --> 1:29:45.200 largest one year exodus of federal workers in eighty years. 1:29:45.960 --> 1:29:50.280 Eighty years since as many people have left the federal government. 1:29:51.520 --> 1:29:53.439 I don't know how big the federal government was eighty 1:29:53.520 --> 1:29:58.200 years ago, but if they could afford to shed one 1:29:58.280 --> 1:30:02.240 hundred and fifty four thousand workers eighty years ago, it 1:30:02.439 --> 1:30:05.880 was way too big back then. If he asked me, 1:30:06.800 --> 1:30:09.800 and then my buddy David Strom over at hot Air 1:30:10.520 --> 1:30:14.080 writes about what's going on in Malibu, not LA and 1:30:14.120 --> 1:30:17.160 I texted him when I saw this piece that he wrote, 1:30:17.840 --> 1:30:21.519 and I said, I had this headline five or six 1:30:21.560 --> 1:30:24.120 months ago, but then it struck me it was about 1:30:24.200 --> 1:30:28.559 Los Angeles. Malibu is not Los Angeles, but Malibu had 1:30:28.600 --> 1:30:32.679 the devastating wildfires as well. Seven hundred and twenty structures 1:30:32.720 --> 1:30:39.040 in Malibu were lost during those wildfires, and so far 1:30:39.280 --> 1:30:45.240 they've had two building permits issued for people who want 1:30:45.280 --> 1:30:54.680 to rebuild. Absolutely unbelievable. The slow pace of reconstruction after 1:30:54.760 --> 1:30:58.800 January's fired disaster has touched off a political tempest in Malibu, 1:30:59.080 --> 1:31:04.639 prompting the residignation of the city's volunteer rebuilding ambassador after 1:31:04.720 --> 1:31:09.000 his suggestion and along with some other rebuilding activists that 1:31:09.120 --> 1:31:14.600 may Or Mary Ann Riggins considered gracefully stepping down. The 1:31:14.680 --> 1:31:18.040 controversy continues to boil a conflict that's been simmering for 1:31:18.160 --> 1:31:25.360 months over what Malibu residents say are overly onerous rebuilding requirements. 1:31:27.080 --> 1:31:29.920 Seven hundred and twenty structures in the city burned down 1:31:29.960 --> 1:31:33.160 in January, but just sixty nine have received initial plan 1:31:33.240 --> 1:31:39.080 approval and only two have obtained permits to allow them 1:31:39.120 --> 1:31:44.599 to begin construction. I mean, think about that. Two permits 1:31:44.640 --> 1:31:52.960 in nearly ten months is absolutely horrible. And there's you know, 1:31:53.000 --> 1:31:54.960 there's a lot of people in Malibu who have the 1:31:55.040 --> 1:32:00.559 means to rebuild, and I don't thinket my buddy Michael Monk. 1:32:01.640 --> 1:32:05.519 Michael Monk's back on the show and see if he's 1:32:05.520 --> 1:32:08.360 been following what's been happening in Malibu and all we 1:32:08.439 --> 1:32:10.840 got some more audio to get to. One is really 1:32:10.840 --> 1:32:15.439 good of a great example. You know, we talked about 1:32:16.040 --> 1:32:19.559 how trust and media is at a fifty year low, 1:32:20.720 --> 1:32:26.120 and I've got a great example of how CNN does 1:32:26.160 --> 1:32:30.320 what they can to to earn that rating, to earn 1:32:30.400 --> 1:32:34.280 the distrust of the American people. So we'll get to 1:32:34.280 --> 1:32:38.080 that one. And man, I'm just scrolling through my stuff. 1:32:38.120 --> 1:32:40.160 We've got a ton of other stuff here too as well. 1:32:40.600 --> 1:32:42.800 It just goes so fast, but that's why I love 1:32:42.840 --> 1:32:47.439 being here. Uh five, one, three, seven, four, nine, seven hundred. 1:32:47.520 --> 1:32:49.280 The big one if you want to get on board 1:32:49.280 --> 1:32:52.320 between now and midnight, and we will see what happens 1:32:52.320 --> 1:32:54.559 between now and then. But a lot more stuff I 1:32:54.600 --> 1:32:56.439 want to get to, so hope you can hang around 1:32:56.479 --> 1:32:58.960 till then. It is Dan Carroll in the Midweek Crisis 1:32:59.000 --> 1:33:06.479 Thursday Night edition on seven hundred WLW. Got got the 1:33:06.479 --> 1:33:09.360 Big One, seven hundred w l W eleven thirty seven. 1:33:09.439 --> 1:33:14.080 We go to midnight tonight five one three, seven hundred 1:33:14.080 --> 1:33:16.519 the Big One. Phillip from Colrain is on on hold 1:33:16.520 --> 1:33:18.880 and get to him in just a second. And if 1:33:18.880 --> 1:33:20.479 you want to get on board and pick up the phone. 1:33:21.040 --> 1:33:24.280 And those are the numbers to call. Uh Zohan man 1:33:24.439 --> 1:33:26.200 Don he was on I mean, he's been doing a 1:33:26.240 --> 1:33:29.479 lot of TV lately. He was on MSNBC the other 1:33:29.560 --> 1:33:33.559 day and he was talking about the one of the 1:33:33.560 --> 1:33:37.720 things he's running on for New York. Free buses for everyone. Right, 1:33:37.800 --> 1:33:39.320 you get, you get, You got to go somewhere to 1:33:39.360 --> 1:33:42.719 get on the bus. Doesn't cost you eight dime, doesn't 1:33:42.760 --> 1:33:48.400 cost a dime. Well, in this country, in any kind 1:33:48.400 --> 1:33:50.439 of and any it is. It's not just this country, 1:33:50.439 --> 1:33:54.600 it's anywhere there is no free lunch. Someone's got to 1:33:54.600 --> 1:33:58.680 pay for that stuff. And the word is out that 1:33:59.040 --> 1:34:01.000 the free buses in New York going to cost about 1:34:01.040 --> 1:34:05.120 seven hundred million dollars, seven hundred million dollars for the 1:34:05.160 --> 1:34:08.479 city of New York. How do I know that? Well, 1:34:09.479 --> 1:34:15.640 the guy said it himself, here is mondani On on 1:34:15.880 --> 1:34:19.920 MSNBC talking about buses and Joe, let's go with cut 1:34:20.000 --> 1:34:20.439 number six. 1:34:20.479 --> 1:34:24.120 Please, really, people who ask me questions about is it 1:34:24.160 --> 1:34:27.000 possible to make buses fasten free? I say the costs 1:34:27.000 --> 1:34:29.120 would be about six seven hundred million dollars, which is 1:34:29.160 --> 1:34:31.160 less than Andrew Komo gave to Elon Musk one year 1:34:31.200 --> 1:34:33.280 in tax breaks at nine hundred and fifty nine million. 1:34:33.560 --> 1:34:36.240 Showing people the context that we're in and building a 1:34:36.240 --> 1:34:38.799 coalition where they may not see themselves in me perhaps, 1:34:38.800 --> 1:34:40.840 but they may see themselves in the best in the 1:34:40.840 --> 1:34:42.960 brightest that I'll hire to surround me and city hope you. 1:34:43.200 --> 1:34:46.200 Have the best in the brightest. He's going to hire 1:34:46.240 --> 1:34:48.080 the best in the brightest and it's only going to 1:34:48.080 --> 1:34:53.280 cost six to seven hundred million dollars. And you're going 1:34:53.360 --> 1:34:56.400 to talk about a a what do you say nine 1:34:56.479 --> 1:35:03.160 hundred million dollar tax break for Elon Musk? Anyone believed that? 1:35:04.920 --> 1:35:08.240 I don't think so? And well let's go to we'll 1:35:08.240 --> 1:35:11.400 see what Phillips got on his mind. Phillip seven WW. 1:35:13.120 --> 1:35:14.599 Hello Darren, thanks for taking my call. 1:35:14.760 --> 1:35:16.639 Yes, sir, do you. 1:35:16.640 --> 1:35:22.840 Remember this past January second presidential inauguration speech? When none 1:35:22.880 --> 1:35:26.200 of the Democrats were wanting to stand up and clap 1:35:26.240 --> 1:35:28.679 for anything that Donald Trump was saying. 1:35:28.880 --> 1:35:31.320 Oh, they hated they were hating life that night. 1:35:33.160 --> 1:35:37.599 I'm wondering about all the military people that was sitting 1:35:37.640 --> 1:35:41.679 in the two front rows. None of them should up either. 1:35:41.760 --> 1:35:43.920 Were they all hand picked by Democrats? 1:35:44.720 --> 1:35:48.760 I think. I think when you look at the when 1:35:48.800 --> 1:35:50.720 I watched the State of the Union speech, is you 1:35:50.800 --> 1:35:54.559 got the Supreme Court justices down there. They tried to 1:35:54.720 --> 1:35:59.200 at least outwardly show their impartiality by not standing and 1:35:59.280 --> 1:36:02.439 not applauding for certain things. I think members in the 1:36:02.439 --> 1:36:07.639 military try to maintain that air of you know, non 1:36:07.920 --> 1:36:10.640 be you know, being non political, which I think is 1:36:10.680 --> 1:36:13.280 probably a good thing when you get to that level 1:36:13.280 --> 1:36:16.680 though of you know, whatever branch of service you're in, 1:36:17.760 --> 1:36:21.479 then there's obviously their own brand of politics that goes 1:36:21.520 --> 1:36:26.960 along with that. But no, I think that's just more 1:36:27.000 --> 1:36:30.120 for show than anything else. That they're not going to 1:36:30.280 --> 1:36:33.639 at least overtly applaud the president when he talks about 1:36:34.320 --> 1:36:36.000 different policy and issues. 1:36:37.760 --> 1:36:41.320 So they were just trying to remain neutral. You were 1:36:41.360 --> 1:36:45.160 talking up to that, Okay, thank you, because I was 1:36:45.280 --> 1:36:47.840 very confused about that, and you know, I heard a 1:36:47.840 --> 1:36:51.200 lot of rhetoric about nobody else. 1:36:51.520 --> 1:36:53.719 Well, I guess what struck me is that. 1:36:53.720 --> 1:36:58.000 And previous speeches they would stand up for some things, 1:36:58.120 --> 1:37:01.320 you know, but this was the first time that none 1:37:01.360 --> 1:37:05.920 of the people in military sit up for anything, even 1:37:05.960 --> 1:37:08.439 when those awards were given, you know, so I just 1:37:08.920 --> 1:37:12.800 even the most fuss point, you know. 1:37:12.800 --> 1:37:15.519 They you would have thought that somebody from the army 1:37:15.560 --> 1:37:19.360 would have sit up for that. But that just struck 1:37:19.400 --> 1:37:22.599 me as very odd, and I was wanting to get 1:37:22.800 --> 1:37:23.439 your take on that. 1:37:23.640 --> 1:37:26.040 All right, Philip, I appreciate the phone call tonight, thank 1:37:26.080 --> 1:37:29.080 you very much. Let me give you this is probably 1:37:29.080 --> 1:37:31.080 one of the best examples I've seen in a while 1:37:31.960 --> 1:37:36.280 of how the the main street well I guess not 1:37:36.760 --> 1:37:40.880 well the cable media anyway, in this case CNN, and 1:37:41.400 --> 1:37:44.920 what they did was Mike Johnson was on earlier this week, 1:37:45.400 --> 1:37:51.320 he was having a live news availability, and so CNN 1:37:52.240 --> 1:37:55.840 decided that, you know what this was just wasn't good 1:37:55.920 --> 1:37:59.840 enough anymore. And this is what it sounded like. And 1:38:00.080 --> 1:38:01.760 with that, Joe, let's hear a cut number two, if 1:38:01.760 --> 1:38:02.600 we could police. 1:38:05.520 --> 1:38:09.160 The working families tax cut included a huge provision a 1:38:09.160 --> 1:38:12.559 big chunk of that bill was the health provisions. Now, 1:38:12.560 --> 1:38:14.240 why are we saying that they want to return and 1:38:14.320 --> 1:38:18.960 restore taxpayer funded benefits to legal aliens, because that's exactly 1:38:18.960 --> 1:38:21.519 what they did when they rejected the clean cr that 1:38:21.560 --> 1:38:24.320 we sent over the Senate, filed the Senate. 1:38:25.280 --> 1:38:28.439 Here to Speaker Johnson, he's trying to frame the shutdown 1:38:28.439 --> 1:38:31.599 as a Democratic shutdown. He also also claimed that Democrats 1:38:31.680 --> 1:38:35.360 want to give healthcare scent healthcare to illegal immigrants. 1:38:35.520 --> 1:38:36.599 That is not true. 1:38:36.800 --> 1:38:40.000 Illegal immigrants are not eligible for federal health care program. 1:38:40.200 --> 1:38:44.479 So there you go. Their CNN not only cutting off 1:38:44.560 --> 1:38:49.000 Mike Johnson but running interference for Democrats, and the White 1:38:49.000 --> 1:38:54.360 House put out a memo of exactly how the Democrats 1:38:54.360 --> 1:38:58.479 are trying to do this, buried inside the continuing Resolution 1:38:58.600 --> 1:39:00.960 as a demand to repeal press and in Trump's historic 1:39:01.000 --> 1:39:05.799 American First healthcare reforms, the safeguards that protect US citizens 1:39:05.800 --> 1:39:11.200 from putting the bill for illegal alien medical care. So 1:39:11.840 --> 1:39:18.519 the that's the term is illegal alien. And so what 1:39:18.520 --> 1:39:21.400 what the Democrats are saying is that, well, if you're 1:39:21.400 --> 1:39:25.880 an illegal alien, you don't get health care. And so 1:39:26.360 --> 1:39:29.200 what they're trying to do is classify the people who 1:39:29.280 --> 1:39:34.040 are in the country illegally as parolees. That if you 1:39:34.080 --> 1:39:36.040 if you came in and you had contact with the 1:39:36.080 --> 1:39:39.479 system under the Biden administration, you're ted, you're I guess 1:39:39.880 --> 1:39:43.880 you know, you're just designated a parole ee. You're still 1:39:43.880 --> 1:39:47.680 in the country illegally. But because the Democrats want to 1:39:47.680 --> 1:39:50.840 put a different name on it, they're saying, no, you're 1:39:50.880 --> 1:39:53.000 you're you know, you're illegal, You're never you're a parole 1:39:53.160 --> 1:39:57.160 You're not illegal. So you get health care. Let's see, 1:39:57.160 --> 1:40:03.519 it's it's all it's all semantics. So they put out 1:40:03.560 --> 1:40:10.040 their their memo, and the memo in it talks about 1:40:10.040 --> 1:40:13.559 they want to spend one hundred and ninety make that 1:40:13.680 --> 1:40:21.720 ninety one point four billion restoring Obamacare funding for non citizens, 1:40:23.080 --> 1:40:28.679 thirty four point six billion to reopen California's Medicaid plan, 1:40:29.720 --> 1:40:34.360 emergency care reimbursement for illegals, twenty eight point two billion, 1:40:34.400 --> 1:40:40.080 Obamacare special rules subsidies for non non citizens, twenty seven billion, 1:40:41.640 --> 1:40:45.320 six billion for Medicaid for non citizens, five billion for 1:40:45.400 --> 1:40:49.720 Medicare for non citizens. So they put it all out there, 1:40:49.720 --> 1:40:52.320 but CNN is like, oh, well, they made it. That's 1:40:52.360 --> 1:40:57.800 the speaker Johnson. He made a false claim Ray in Cincinnati. 1:40:58.320 --> 1:41:00.320 You're up next on seven hundred. W w. 1:41:01.880 --> 1:41:03.720 Hey, there was two items. The one was when you 1:41:03.760 --> 1:41:06.000 were talking about the military in terms of how the 1:41:06.040 --> 1:41:10.439 top brass just kind of sat there stoic. Yeah, well, 1:41:10.479 --> 1:41:12.639 in the in the Navy, I mean your air force. 1:41:12.680 --> 1:41:16.440 In the Navy, you're on an enclosed boat. The wardroom 1:41:16.520 --> 1:41:20.000 is your lunch room. So you're still on an enclosed boat. 1:41:20.439 --> 1:41:22.960 What would get you in trouble in terms of conversation 1:41:24.120 --> 1:41:27.080 is two items. And there would be a senior enlisted 1:41:27.120 --> 1:41:29.919 that would nail you because you also had the officers 1:41:30.160 --> 1:41:34.040 quarters or you know, lunch room. But if you started 1:41:34.080 --> 1:41:38.640 talking about women or politics, your ass was reprimanded in 1:41:38.680 --> 1:41:39.160 a hurry. 1:41:39.320 --> 1:41:43.080 That was that was that was round upon Huh, Well, I. 1:41:43.080 --> 1:41:45.839 Don't think about it. You start getting in the fights 1:41:45.840 --> 1:41:48.360 and you're in an enclosing environments like just shut up, 1:41:48.760 --> 1:41:52.360 go away. Though that was maybe one of the reasons 1:41:52.400 --> 1:41:56.080 why that comment is actually accurate, But that would be 1:41:56.080 --> 1:41:58.639 a reason why now they might still hate Trump though 1:42:00.040 --> 1:42:04.439 I could very well have been true. But the other part, 1:42:04.479 --> 1:42:08.280 that's funny when you're talking about this Mundabi because he's 1:42:08.320 --> 1:42:12.080 not a communist. Well, the Soviets said the same thing 1:42:12.080 --> 1:42:15.080 as Soviet Socialist Republic. They didn't, they didn't say that 1:42:15.120 --> 1:42:22.200 they were communists, right, yeah, okay, Well there was a 1:42:22.240 --> 1:42:24.320 girl that was in graduate school with me at UC 1:42:24.520 --> 1:42:28.920 and she's a lot younger, and Inga came from Saint 1:42:29.000 --> 1:42:33.439 Petersburg and her dad was a Russian admiral, Soviet admiral 1:42:33.560 --> 1:42:36.800 back then. And I asked her, I said, Inga, what 1:42:36.880 --> 1:42:39.680 was it like when the wall fell down? She was 1:42:39.720 --> 1:42:42.479 only eight or nine. She's a real pretty woman, real 1:42:42.560 --> 1:42:47.680 big brown eyes and straight round face, real pretty. And 1:42:48.000 --> 1:42:51.719 Inga looked up at me and she says, we were very, 1:42:52.439 --> 1:42:58.800 very hungry. Her eye got her right, her irish got 1:42:58.800 --> 1:43:01.839 bigger than her eye lids. I mean, she she just opened. 1:43:01.880 --> 1:43:05.640 She was it was a very very bad time to 1:43:05.760 --> 1:43:09.760 all of a sudden go to capitalists from socialists. And 1:43:09.840 --> 1:43:12.639 she was coming from class staff too, so she got 1:43:12.680 --> 1:43:14.360 to get to the better grocery stores. 1:43:14.439 --> 1:43:15.280 Sure you know what I mean. 1:43:16.320 --> 1:43:20.439 So no, that's where my mommy, it's called. We all 1:43:20.479 --> 1:43:24.120 equally make the same crap, except for the important people. 1:43:24.640 --> 1:43:27.519 Well, you know, look, he if he if he loves 1:43:27.520 --> 1:43:30.479 socialism so much, he's got his family's got all kinds 1:43:30.520 --> 1:43:33.360 of money. He can go live in a socialist country 1:43:33.400 --> 1:43:36.479 if he wants, but no, he wants to be in charge. See, 1:43:36.479 --> 1:43:39.479 he doesn't want to live under socialism. He wants to 1:43:39.479 --> 1:43:43.960 be in charge of the socialist socialists. Yeah, those folks, 1:43:44.040 --> 1:43:45.759 those folks do pretty well for themselves. 1:43:46.640 --> 1:43:48.600 Did you hear about the Russians in terms of what 1:43:48.640 --> 1:43:53.320 they're they're hiring in Cubans. They're paying these Cubans something 1:43:53.400 --> 1:43:55.760 like two thousand a month when a Cuban makes only 1:43:55.840 --> 1:43:58.559 like twenty bucks a month, because they're desperate to get 1:43:58.640 --> 1:44:00.000 him over into Ukraine. 1:44:00.240 --> 1:44:04.640 To fight in the war. Yeah, it's uh no conscript concerpts. 1:44:04.439 --> 1:44:05.080 It's got. 1:44:07.000 --> 1:44:08.960 He just did a call up for either a hundred 1:44:09.000 --> 1:44:11.679 or one hundred and twenty thousand in the Soviet Union, 1:44:12.400 --> 1:44:16.800 and he said that if you enlist, you were getting 1:44:16.840 --> 1:44:19.439 something like a fifty or one hundred thousand dollars bonus. 1:44:19.439 --> 1:44:23.639 He was that desperate. And at the same time, their 1:44:23.680 --> 1:44:28.040 inflation rate in the Soviet Union or well Russia right 1:44:28.080 --> 1:44:30.200 now is there's every bit of twenty percent. 1:44:31.439 --> 1:44:34.360 I read that that they're the Russia is losing like 1:44:34.360 --> 1:44:37.760 a thousand guys a week. Yeah, think about that. 1:44:37.760 --> 1:44:40.320 There's a reason why, there's the reason why they can't 1:44:40.360 --> 1:44:42.880 anybody paying them a lot of money. 1:44:43.000 --> 1:44:44.720 It might it might be higher than that. Ray, I 1:44:44.760 --> 1:44:47.599 got a run. I appreciate the call out of here. 1:44:47.680 --> 1:44:49.479 All right, thank you. Right, let's go to Lisa, and 1:44:49.479 --> 1:44:51.439 Lisa's been on hold for a little bit. Lisa seven 1:44:51.520 --> 1:44:52.480 hundred WLW. 1:44:56.320 --> 1:45:00.439 I had two things too with the no name given license. 1:45:00.600 --> 1:45:03.040 You know, my sister had to fight the problem of 1:45:03.160 --> 1:45:06.720 license d MD for years trying to get an e 1:45:06.920 --> 1:45:08.880 off of her name that they accidentally put on in 1:45:08.920 --> 1:45:12.400 two eighteen. You know, of course certificate everything. They didn't care. 1:45:12.520 --> 1:45:14.639 They you know, hoops that she had to jump through. 1:45:15.920 --> 1:45:20.560 I mean, dealing with those people. 1:45:21.800 --> 1:45:23.680 Well there, and they're trying to say, oh, he just 1:45:23.760 --> 1:45:26.120 has one name probably, but I don't see that name 1:45:26.160 --> 1:45:31.519 on that ID. But okay, temporary protective status. People don't 1:45:31.520 --> 1:45:34.200 realize that everyone that's here under that can get the 1:45:34.240 --> 1:45:38.320 work authorization, can get licenses, can get Social Security cards, 1:45:38.640 --> 1:45:41.880 you know, and a lot of people don't understand that. 1:45:42.160 --> 1:45:45.760 But my main point was the Democrat Party now like 1:45:45.840 --> 1:45:50.720 they've basically been taken over, you know, by the Democrat socialists. 1:45:51.000 --> 1:45:53.000 You know, they think it's there to put Democrats put 1:45:53.080 --> 1:45:55.760 the name, but the socialists and you know. 1:45:55.760 --> 1:45:57.200 There's groups out there. 1:45:57.479 --> 1:46:00.640 How like AOC got in there. She was recruited, you know, 1:46:01.400 --> 1:46:05.200 her her brother nominated her. And she looked good, she 1:46:05.320 --> 1:46:08.280 talked good, and they can put the words in their mouth. 1:46:09.080 --> 1:46:11.200 You know, did her through the first couple of years. 1:46:11.200 --> 1:46:14.200 That's why any deep questions. You know, she didn't have 1:46:14.320 --> 1:46:19.440 impestis she only knew like the talking point for years. 1:46:19.840 --> 1:46:24.040 But they literally are just recruiting people and putting them 1:46:24.040 --> 1:46:27.799 in Congress. And they said, I don't know how that's allowed. 1:46:28.280 --> 1:46:31.000 Yeah, I read that her her net worth now is 1:46:31.000 --> 1:46:33.840 in excess of thirty million dollars. And then think about that 1:46:34.960 --> 1:46:38.320 she was she was a bartender before she came to 1:46:37.760 --> 1:46:41.040 the Congress and now she's a multi millionaire. How does 1:46:41.080 --> 1:46:41.479 that work? 1:46:46.200 --> 1:46:48.040 And they can see it. But things like that are 1:46:48.080 --> 1:46:48.640 allowed to go on. 1:46:49.280 --> 1:46:51.800 Lisa, thank you so much for picking up the phone tonight. 1:46:51.800 --> 1:46:56.360 I really appreciate it. Good night YouTube. There you go, Lisa, 1:46:56.520 --> 1:47:01.000 and I believe she was in Butler County executives braced 1:47:01.040 --> 1:47:04.960 him for a free fall in the electric vehicle sale 1:47:06.200 --> 1:47:10.599 following the disappearance of the seven thousand five hundred dollars 1:47:10.600 --> 1:47:16.280 tax break for buyers of electric vehicles. That tax subsidy 1:47:16.439 --> 1:47:22.200 ended yesterday. Jim Farley, CEO of a Ford, said it's 1:47:22.240 --> 1:47:27.200 a game changer. He was in Detroit just hours before 1:47:27.240 --> 1:47:31.440 the subsidy expired. He said he would not be surprised 1:47:31.520 --> 1:47:36.320 if electric car sales dropped five to five percent of 1:47:36.560 --> 1:47:41.920 US of total US vehicle sales next month. That would 1:47:41.920 --> 1:47:45.920 be about half the level from August, a monthly record 1:47:45.960 --> 1:47:51.559 as consumers hurried to take advantage of the credit and 1:47:51.640 --> 1:47:54.439 among the lowest level in several years. The EV market 1:47:54.479 --> 1:47:58.479 is going to collapse in October, said the chairman of 1:47:58.600 --> 1:48:05.559 Nissan American Japan's Nissan is still rolling out redesigned versions 1:48:05.600 --> 1:48:10.320 of the Nissan Leaf, the small EV. Let's see what. 1:48:11.080 --> 1:48:15.280 Congress approved a seven five hundred dollars tax credit credit 1:48:15.280 --> 1:48:19.000 in two thousand and eight for buyers of electric cars 1:48:19.000 --> 1:48:24.160 and plug in hybrids. The Inflation Reduction Act extended the 1:48:24.200 --> 1:48:27.799 credit while limiting eligibility to evs built in the US. 1:48:29.800 --> 1:48:34.360 See this is all. This is all government manipulation reaching 1:48:34.400 --> 1:48:40.800 into the sales of automobiles. Yeah, you buy, you buy 1:48:40.880 --> 1:48:43.280 the right kind of Carboy, you're gonna get you gonna 1:48:43.320 --> 1:48:46.920 get a big fat tax credit seventy five hundred bucks. 1:48:49.040 --> 1:48:54.320 And I think that's one of the things that Trump 1:48:54.360 --> 1:49:01.320 and Elon Elon Musk saw differently, and it may be 1:49:01.400 --> 1:49:05.040 one of the uh, one of the more unpleasant things 1:49:05.040 --> 1:49:08.639 that they have between them. Oh that reminds me. Elon 1:49:08.720 --> 1:49:13.000 Musk is not happy with Netflix. Elon Musk has been 1:49:13.000 --> 1:49:15.800 putting out some stuff about Netflix, telling people do not 1:49:15.920 --> 1:49:19.920 let your kids watch Netflix. Apparently they've got all these 1:49:19.920 --> 1:49:24.880 different shows, and I guess we watch I'm trying to think. 1:49:24.920 --> 1:49:28.000 I don't normally if I'm looking to watch a movie 1:49:28.120 --> 1:49:30.439 or I want to see something on TV, and Netflix 1:49:30.479 --> 1:49:33.800 is kind of I've scrolled through the you know, some 1:49:33.880 --> 1:49:35.679 of the stuff they have, and it just doesn't seem 1:49:35.760 --> 1:49:37.760 like there's really all that much there, at least that 1:49:37.880 --> 1:49:42.200 I want to see. But they've got all these shows 1:49:42.479 --> 1:49:46.200 targeting kids and daygone it. I had that article up 1:49:46.200 --> 1:49:49.960 here and I can't find it now. But apparently I'll 1:49:49.960 --> 1:49:52.200 talk about the next time on the air. But Elon 1:49:52.320 --> 1:49:57.200 Musk is apparently blowing the whistle on this. And if 1:49:57.720 --> 1:50:01.960 you're like me and you've got grandchildren, you got to 1:50:02.040 --> 1:50:06.200 look at what they're watching. Because Netflix has all these 1:50:06.240 --> 1:50:11.479 shows that are geared towards kids, and they're pushing the 1:50:11.640 --> 1:50:18.080 LGBT and the transagenda and all this other stuff. So yeah, 1:50:18.200 --> 1:50:21.320 I mean, they're exposing these kids to some of just 1:50:21.600 --> 1:50:25.599 some of the worst stuff possible. They've lost more than 1:50:25.640 --> 1:50:30.040 fifteen billion since Musk put this out, so he is 1:50:30.120 --> 1:50:32.559 not a big fan of Netflix. So you got kids 1:50:32.560 --> 1:50:36.280 and Netflix, stay away from it. Dagone and I forgot 1:50:36.320 --> 1:50:38.600 to talk about that. I waited too long, but my 1:50:38.680 --> 1:50:42.719 time is gone. So Joe Waddell, thank you for everything, 1:50:42.800 --> 1:50:46.600 Thank you for listening, and how about those Reds. We 1:50:46.640 --> 1:50:49.120 will see you next time on the Home of the 1:50:49.160 --> 1:50:53.240 Best Bengals coverage seven hundred WLW