WEBVTT - Dan Carroll 10/1/26 0:00:00.530 --> 0:00:05.090 700-WLW-909 on this Thursday night. This is the Thursday night 0:00:05.130 --> 0:00:07.580 edition of the Midweek Crisis. I'm Dan Carroll. Glad to 0:00:07.620 --> 0:00:14.300 be here. Glad you are here as well. 513-749-7100, the 0:00:14.340 --> 0:00:17.630 big one, if you want to get on board here 0:00:17.670 --> 0:00:21.390 early in the program. Russ Jackson running the big board 0:00:21.430 --> 0:00:28.690 in the 700-WLW Command Center. Guest-wise tonight coming up, A 0:00:28.770 --> 0:00:30.590 person that is going to be the first time I've 0:00:30.630 --> 0:00:39.390 had this individual on the show, Gretchen Smith, is someone I– well, 0:00:40.550 --> 0:00:41.890 how do I say it? What's the right way to 0:00:41.930 --> 0:00:46.730 say this? Someone that I reached out to her yesterday. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:52.380 I noticed one of her posts on my XFeed, and 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.140 she was talking about what's happening in Middle Tennessee where 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.810 she lives. And so I thought it was an interesting comment, 0:00:58.950 --> 0:01:02.420 and then come to find out she's an Air Force veteran, 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.440 runs an organization that reaches out and helps veterans. So 0:01:06.459 --> 0:01:10.140 I'll be looking forward to talking to her. She looks 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.540 like she's a great American, so I am looking forward 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.000 to that. And then at 10.05, Todd Sheets is going 0:01:16.020 --> 0:01:20.369 to be here. He is the author of a newsletter 0:01:20.450 --> 0:01:23.890 on wealth and progress, which you can currently get free 0:01:23.970 --> 0:01:28.240 on Substack. You can see it on YouTube, Spotify, Apple. 0:01:28.819 --> 0:01:31.950 He also has a book out right now that is 0:01:32.250 --> 0:01:37.070 entitled 2008, What Really Happened. And he's all about politics 0:01:37.170 --> 0:01:40.970 and economics and all those sorts of things. And it 0:01:41.670 --> 0:01:47.700 seems unusual that it's only been a week since the 0:01:48.580 --> 0:01:55.990 Xi from China was in Washington, D.C. And it already 0:01:56.030 --> 0:01:59.690 seems like it's ancient history because the news moves so fast. 0:02:00.230 --> 0:02:04.090 But Todd Sheets has an interesting piece out regarding his 0:02:04.140 --> 0:02:08.580 takeaways and what some really significant things that have been 0:02:08.620 --> 0:02:14.160 accomplished because Xi from China was visiting Trump in the 0:02:14.220 --> 0:02:17.520 United States. And we'll talk about that and economic things 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.640 and other things. But the story that has been leading 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.450 the headlines all day today was one that broke last night. 0:02:26.350 --> 0:02:28.840 And I got to be honest with you. Before yesterday, 0:02:28.850 --> 0:02:32.480 when Texas, or not Texas, but Tennessee was supposed to 0:02:32.500 --> 0:02:38.299 be the first time in 200 years they've executed a woman. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.100 And that was supposed to happen last night about this time, 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.560 or maybe a little bit earlier than this time. And 0:02:45.820 --> 0:02:49.530 we come to find out that the execution was botched. 0:02:50.850 --> 0:02:52.890 And it's the first time they executed a woman in 0:02:52.889 --> 0:02:55.370 200 years, which leads me to believe they were fully 0:02:55.430 --> 0:03:00.380 capable of executing someone 200 years ago. If they could 0:03:00.419 --> 0:03:04.560 do it then, why could they not do it now? Well, 0:03:05.419 --> 0:03:09.980 this is what happens when you have to virtue signal, 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.570 when you have to sanitize everything, when you have to 0:03:12.610 --> 0:03:16.570 clean things up, when you have to make everything look pretty. 0:03:17.870 --> 0:03:22.910 Executing someone is not pleasant. Obviously, I've never been involved 0:03:22.970 --> 0:03:26.630 in it, but if I had to carry out my duty, 0:03:27.490 --> 0:03:32.740 then I would do that. And so the whole debate 0:03:33.020 --> 0:03:40.080 on executions, taking out criminal scumbags who are guilty of 0:03:40.420 --> 0:03:47.060 heinous crimes, has been reignited here in the country. I 0:03:47.110 --> 0:03:51.190 like what Senator Marsha Blackburn had to say today. She 0:03:51.250 --> 0:03:55.900 said it's time, and she is a senator, Republican from Tennessee, 0:03:56.940 --> 0:03:58.839 and she said it is time for Tennessee to bring 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.600 back the electric chair for capital punishment. And we had 0:04:02.620 --> 0:04:10.600 the electric chair for a long, long time. Going back to, what, 0:04:10.620 --> 0:04:15.410 the 1930s, the 1940s, the electric chair got the job done. 0:04:16.610 --> 0:04:19.640 Not the most pleasant way to die. Not the most 0:04:19.700 --> 0:04:23.489 pleasant experience for those who had the duty of carrying 0:04:23.589 --> 0:04:28.089 out that procedure, but it got the job done. I 0:04:28.130 --> 0:04:31.570 think maybe in all the times that we have heard 0:04:31.610 --> 0:04:33.650 about the electric chair or known about the electric chair, 0:04:33.690 --> 0:04:38.270 I think maybe there's one or two documented cases where 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:45.180 it may have taken a little longer than necessary. But 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.920 Blackburn is right. She said Krista Pike should have been 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:55.720 executed a long time ago. And the pain for the 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:03.310 family of her victim is going to continue on. Pike 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.250 was convicted in 1996. And the thing is, I know 0:05:06.390 --> 0:05:07.870 way more about this case now than I ever wanted 0:05:08.089 --> 0:05:17.330 to know. I had this in my rundown for the 0:05:17.370 --> 0:05:21.740 show last night. Tennessee executes a woman for the first 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.659 time in 200 years. Is that worth a mention? Yeah, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.500 I'm going to mention on my show. Uh, am I 0:05:27.540 --> 0:05:31.620 going to get into all the details of it? Probably not. And, 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.770 and it definitely wouldn't be spending two nights on it. 0:05:35.700 --> 0:05:38.320 She's a convicted killer. She's dead. She's gone. Uh, we 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:43.560 need to think on her no more. Um, But she 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:49.240 was convicted in 96 for the killing of 19-year-old Colleen 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.980 Slemmer and was slated to be executed on Wednesday. She 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:58.240 survived two rounds of lethal injection. Now she's in the hospital. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:03.810 Her lawyer says she may have brain damage. And it 0:06:03.830 --> 0:06:11.250 turns out that Tennessee also botched an execution last year. 0:06:11.710 --> 0:06:13.940 or I'm sorry, earlier this year in May of 26. 0:06:13.930 --> 0:06:20.090 Tennessee prison officials also botched a lethal injection for a 0:06:20.150 --> 0:06:24.000 dude named Tony Carruthers in May of this year. Doctors 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:28.240 failed to carry out the protocol. The governor, Bill Lee, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:34.260 gave Carruthers a one-year reprieve until May of 2027. So 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.180 now the likelihood is now that that dude is not 0:06:37.220 --> 0:06:43.859 going to be executed in May of next year. And 0:06:43.890 --> 0:06:46.700 the article I'm reading here doesn't tell me if they 0:06:46.740 --> 0:06:51.020 did a full investigation when they screwed up that first 0:06:51.100 --> 0:06:55.200 execution in May of 26. But I would think they 0:06:55.260 --> 0:06:57.159 would have, and I would think they would have corrected 0:06:57.180 --> 0:06:59.300 whatever mistakes they made and got it right this time. 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:04.210 But apparently they didn't. So I have no idea what 0:07:04.270 --> 0:07:09.050 is going on with the people in Tennessee. whose responsibility 0:07:09.110 --> 0:07:13.770 it is to carry these things out. But during the 0:07:13.810 --> 0:07:16.870 course of the day, I kept seeing headlines, uh, some 0:07:16.890 --> 0:07:19.910 of the New York post talking about the, um, oh 0:07:19.930 --> 0:07:23.890 my God, the witnesses, the witnesses who had to, who 0:07:23.940 --> 0:07:28.220 had to see this, they, they were traumatized, very disturbing, very, 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:32.200 very upsetting. She said her arm, uh, felt like it 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:38.030 was swelling up. She was snoring. Obviously she was alive. Oh, Oh, 0:07:38.290 --> 0:07:39.610 the trauma. Oh, the nightmares. 0:07:39.770 --> 0:07:39.910 Oh. 0:07:41.990 --> 0:07:46.110 Well, I wonder if those same witnesses would have been 0:07:46.130 --> 0:07:50.620 traumatized if they would have witnessed what this woman did 0:07:50.630 --> 0:07:56.640 to her victim. In January of 1995, Krista Pike was 0:07:56.700 --> 0:08:02.720 only 18 years old. Her boyfriend, Tadrell Shipp, was 17 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:13.480 years old. And their victim, Shadola Peterson, I'm sorry, Colleen 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.960 Slemmer was the victim. Shadola Peterson was the third member 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.260 of the crew. It was 19 years old, Colleen Slemmer. 0:08:22.620 --> 0:08:29.100 And so back in January of 1995, they lured her 0:08:29.180 --> 0:08:33.020 to a remote wooded area of the University of Tennessee campus. 0:08:35.910 --> 0:08:39.350 driven by jealousy over a suspected love triangle, Pike and 0:08:39.390 --> 0:08:42.880 Shipp convinced Slimmer to join them in a secluded area 0:08:42.940 --> 0:08:47.060 behind a campus steam plant under the false pretense of 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:54.350 smoking marijuana. Once they were isolated, Pike and Shipp turned 0:08:54.410 --> 0:08:58.689 on Slimmer. They tied her up, tortured her for over 0:08:58.690 --> 0:09:05.510 30 minutes. 30 minutes, over 30 minutes, of pure torture. 0:09:06.710 --> 0:09:12.980 So I've been torturing you now for a little over 0:09:12.980 --> 0:09:17.820 10 minutes listening to me speak. This went on for 0:09:17.860 --> 0:09:23.500 over 30 minutes as the two repeatedly slashed, cut, and 0:09:23.580 --> 0:09:29.809 stabbed across her body using a box cutter. They used 0:09:29.890 --> 0:09:35.400 other miniature cutting devices and a meat cleaver. While they 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:43.550 tortured this young woman. Then Pike repeatedly bludgeoned Slimmer over 0:09:43.590 --> 0:09:51.370 the head with a large chunk of asphalt. Repeatedly. Ultimately 0:09:51.470 --> 0:09:58.970 fracturing her skull and causing fatal brain trauma. And she 0:09:58.990 --> 0:10:01.870 wants to argue, I guess, her according to her attorney now, 0:10:01.950 --> 0:10:06.270 she wants to argue that I guess she had some 0:10:06.290 --> 0:10:11.719 bad things happen to her in her childhood. So are we, 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.580 in the wake of the Lindsay Clancy verdict, are we 0:10:16.620 --> 0:10:19.800 supposed to all of a sudden feel sorry for her now? 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:26.670 She's been on death row all these years. And they 0:10:26.730 --> 0:10:29.569 haven't sorted this part of that. Are we supposed to 0:10:29.610 --> 0:10:33.810 believe that? That this whole theory hasn't been examined already? 0:10:34.309 --> 0:10:40.179 I would certainly hope that it has been. Let's see. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:48.430 While Slimmer was incapacitated or dying a satanic pentagram, Was 0:10:48.650 --> 0:10:55.010 intentionally carved into her chest. Court records reveal that ship 0:10:55.070 --> 0:11:02.380 performed the carving. While influenced by occult interests. These two 0:11:02.420 --> 0:11:07.800 went to town. For over a half an hour. They 0:11:07.860 --> 0:11:12.040 carried out this torture. While I guess the third member 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.800 of their crew. Sort of kept watch or kept lookout. 0:11:19.590 --> 0:11:23.750 Before leaving the scene, Pike, the woman who is now 0:11:23.790 --> 0:11:29.650 in the hospital receiving life-saving treatment because of the botched execution, 0:11:30.910 --> 0:11:35.100 smashed a final piece of asphalt into Slimmer's head, breaking 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:41.360 off a fragment of the victim's skull. Pike kept the 0:11:41.380 --> 0:11:45.220 skull fragment as a souvenir, carried it around with her 0:11:45.260 --> 0:11:51.020 in her jacket, showing it off to to classmates, and 0:11:51.070 --> 0:11:56.430 to her friends in the Knoxville Job Corps. That government 0:11:56.450 --> 0:12:01.190 program where, I guess, young people, they go to work 0:12:01.250 --> 0:12:03.010 and do different things and get paid for it with 0:12:03.030 --> 0:12:09.510 tax dollars. Following the murder, Pike confessed to the police 0:12:09.570 --> 0:12:13.390 and even walked investigators through a recreation of the crime scene. 0:12:16.670 --> 0:12:20.150 She was convicted of first degree murder, conspiracy to commit 0:12:20.190 --> 0:12:24.090 murder in 96, making her the only woman on Tennessee's 0:12:24.110 --> 0:12:27.770 death row. And of course, now she's not on death 0:12:27.809 --> 0:12:31.840 row because she's in the hospital. So I don't want 0:12:31.860 --> 0:12:38.059 to hear about witnesses who were traumatized because they had 0:12:38.100 --> 0:12:40.319 to witness this execution that didn't go the way it 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:45.040 was supposed to go. I really don't want to hear it. 0:12:47.710 --> 0:12:52.090 But I like the suggestion of Senator Marsha Blackburn, who 0:12:52.130 --> 0:12:55.089 says maybe we should bring back the electric chair. I 0:12:55.130 --> 0:12:59.170 saw plenty of other people commenting during the day that 0:12:59.190 --> 0:13:06.410 a firing squad would have got the job done. The 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.300 end result for the person being executed is the same, 0:13:10.900 --> 0:13:17.180 whether it's by hanging, guillotine. You pick the method. Firing squad. 0:13:19.620 --> 0:13:23.339 If it was me and I had a choice, I 0:13:23.380 --> 0:13:29.390 think I'd take the firing squad. That's just me. I 0:13:29.410 --> 0:13:34.070 don't know about the lethal. If it was my, and look, 0:13:35.710 --> 0:13:39.130 I've lived most of my life already. The chances that 0:13:39.150 --> 0:13:41.410 I'm going to wind up on death row, I mean, 0:13:41.450 --> 0:13:46.459 never say never, right? Russ, do you think there's a 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.079 chance I could wind up on death row? In the 0:13:50.100 --> 0:13:53.959 time that I've got left on this earth, Russ is 0:13:53.980 --> 0:14:01.130 standing behind me. He's a good man. But no, which 0:14:01.170 --> 0:14:03.530 would you pick, Russ? You want lethal injection, hanging, a 0:14:04.450 --> 0:14:09.770 firing squad? What's the way you want to go? He's 0:14:09.790 --> 0:14:15.209 not answering. Sorry, I would say lethal injection. He wants 0:14:15.270 --> 0:14:16.050 a lethal injection. 0:14:16.250 --> 0:14:16.370 Okay. 0:14:16.390 --> 0:14:16.470 Okay. 0:14:17.940 --> 0:14:19.260 But I think it's been a while since we've done 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.460 that here in Ohio, too. I'd have to check that. 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:26.440 But so the debate is going to be renewed. And 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.300 we're going to have to hear all about this again 0:14:28.340 --> 0:14:31.960 and how tragic it is for this gal to have 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.660 gone through all this suffering. Now, I tend to think 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:40.120 more of the victims and the suffering that they went through. 0:14:41.220 --> 0:14:47.280 Just like those little kids in the Clancy case. And 0:14:47.330 --> 0:14:53.110 I think about the suffering of this young woman who 0:14:53.130 --> 0:14:56.330 thought she was going to smoke a doobie with a 0:14:56.370 --> 0:14:59.830 couple of friends. And they wind up tying her up 0:14:59.930 --> 0:15:03.870 and torturing her for over half an hour. Carving her 0:15:03.930 --> 0:15:11.260 up with a box cutter. Absolutely horrific. I think that 0:15:11.300 --> 0:15:15.260 would have been a little more traumatizing than what happened 0:15:15.300 --> 0:15:17.530 last night. We've got to get to a break. News 0:15:17.570 --> 0:15:18.930 coming up at the bottom of the hour. And then 0:15:19.170 --> 0:15:22.930 my first guest for the night, Gretchen Smith. And she'll 0:15:22.970 --> 0:15:25.510 be a first time on the show here on 700 WLW. 0:15:25.550 --> 0:15:28.290 So we are certainly looking forward to speaking with her. 0:15:28.990 --> 0:15:31.700 It is the Thursday night edition of the Midweek Crisis 0:15:31.860 --> 0:15:32.200 on 700 WLW. 0:15:35.910 --> 0:15:36.750 Bengals! 0:15:36.990 --> 0:15:40.150 It's a big cat clash, and the Bengals are on 0:15:40.170 --> 0:15:42.990 the prowl for a win. To get one, they'll have 0:15:43.010 --> 0:15:46.790 to jolt the Jaguars. And trust me, fur will fly. 0:15:47.690 --> 0:15:51.650 You might call it a pounce-a-palooza. 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Gretchen Smith, welcome to 700 WLW. It's 0:16:40.140 --> 0:16:41.260 great to have you on the show tonight. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:43.140 Thank you for having me. 0:16:43.340 --> 0:16:46.340 Well, thank you for being here. I want to read 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.480 to the listeners what you wrote that grabbed my attention 0:16:50.020 --> 0:16:53.100 and made me want to reach out to you. And 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:55.920 you wrote this, and of course I had it up 0:16:55.980 --> 0:16:57.480 in front of me a second ago, and it's not 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.490 there right now, but here it is. you wrote this, 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.910 I do not want to live in India. I do 0:17:01.950 --> 0:17:04.610 not want to live in the Middle East. I do 0:17:04.670 --> 0:17:07.350 not want to live in Africa. So why do I 0:17:07.410 --> 0:17:11.010 feel like I'm living in a foreign country in Middle Tennessee? 0:17:11.790 --> 0:17:15.929 And I thought that was a very thought-provoking post that 0:17:15.950 --> 0:17:18.210 you put up. And I said, I'd like to have 0:17:18.230 --> 0:17:21.270 you on the show to discuss that. So you wrote 0:17:21.310 --> 0:17:24.970 those words. Give me a report from Middle Tennessee. What 0:17:25.030 --> 0:17:28.500 is happening there that that led to you putting that 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.000 post on your social media feed? 0:17:32.470 --> 0:17:34.850 Oh my gosh, thank you for having me. So for 0:17:34.990 --> 0:17:38.470 three years, I lived in Taiwan, okay? And I got 0:17:38.510 --> 0:17:44.580 back last summer. So I get back here to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 0:17:45.340 --> 0:17:48.859 and when I look around, I don't even recognize it. 0:17:49.090 --> 0:17:51.979 I was just going to the store to look for 0:17:52.030 --> 0:17:56.030 something small. I was looking for, actually, to be honest 0:17:56.070 --> 0:18:00.370 with you, a University of Tennessee t-shirt. So I went 0:18:00.450 --> 0:18:04.850 to Target and I went to Walmart. Both stores. When 0:18:04.930 --> 0:18:11.419 I walked in, I was completely shocked. At the fact 0:18:11.460 --> 0:18:14.310 that I was the minority, I felt like I was 0:18:14.510 --> 0:18:20.409 walking in a foreign country with the hijabs, with the Indians, Muslims. 0:18:22.150 --> 0:18:27.790 I did not even recognize my own community. And, you know, 0:18:27.990 --> 0:18:33.040 and I run my own nonprofit. I help all races, ethnicities, 0:18:33.060 --> 0:18:37.889 you know, religion, politics, it doesn't matter. But when I 0:18:37.990 --> 0:18:40.730 am in my own community and I walk into these 0:18:40.790 --> 0:18:44.910 different stores and I don't even recognize where I'm at 0:18:45.450 --> 0:18:48.950 and I feel like I'm the outsider, Dan, that's a problem. 0:18:49.290 --> 0:18:52.950 Yeah, that's a, that's culture shock. And I did a 0:18:52.970 --> 0:18:56.560 little research before I came in tonight and brought you 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:00.470 on the air. And, um, I found this to be 0:19:00.490 --> 0:19:05.909 a little bit surprising that the growth rate of Muslims 0:19:06.140 --> 0:19:12.500 in Tennessee, that population has increased 50%, 50% over just 0:19:12.540 --> 0:19:16.620 the last five years. And so I have no idea 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.960 if the people you're talking about are here legally, if 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:24.740 they immigrated legally from another country or wherever they've come from. 0:19:25.380 --> 0:19:27.040 But it seems to me. 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.580 I think most Americans and I think most people who 0:19:32.619 --> 0:19:35.000 are listening to you and I talk right now are 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:40.200 all in favor of legal immigration. And maybe we're old fashioned. 0:19:40.220 --> 0:19:43.169 Maybe I'm old fashioned. But I think the idea of 0:19:43.230 --> 0:19:46.490 coming to America means that you want to assimilate. You 0:19:46.530 --> 0:19:50.040 want to to be you want to become an American. 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:54.160 You want to reflect those American values that made this 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.160 country so desirable to come to in the first place. 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.900 And it seems like so many of the people that 0:20:00.940 --> 0:20:02.940 we have now. And I mean, all you got to 0:20:02.980 --> 0:20:07.100 do is watch what's been happening in Minnesota, what's been 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:11.240 going on in California. And it seems like, you know, 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.520 so many of these folks that are here from Somalia 0:20:14.660 --> 0:20:17.330 and other parts of the world are so secretive about 0:20:17.369 --> 0:20:19.930 what they're doing. And so many are defrauding the government. 0:20:20.310 --> 0:20:24.530 So many are just interested in, you know, there's sections 0:20:24.590 --> 0:20:29.440 of town where you've got flags of different countries, Palestinian flags, 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:34.100 whatever the case may be, where people feel uncomfortable going into. 0:20:34.180 --> 0:20:36.600 Because these folks don't want to assimilate. They want to 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.659 create their own enclave. in these certain areas. And it 0:20:39.700 --> 0:20:42.040 sounds to me like that is very much what is 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.200 happening there in, in your neck of the woods. 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:46.780 Yeah. 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.740 In middle Tennessee, we are the Bible belt. And when, 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.810 when you go out into your own community and you 0:20:52.830 --> 0:20:56.370 feel like the minority and you feel like you don't belong, 0:20:56.830 --> 0:20:59.429 then that's a problem. So I, you know, I've been 0:20:59.470 --> 0:21:01.620 out of the country for three years and I come 0:21:01.650 --> 0:21:05.990 back and I'm just like blown away by the I 0:21:06.030 --> 0:21:08.859 can't even begin to tell you what the shift is like. 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:12.420 When you're walking into a store and all that you 0:21:12.700 --> 0:21:17.060 see are people who are speaking different languages, you know, 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:21.970 wearing hijabs, you know, they are not even trying to assimilate. 0:21:22.670 --> 0:21:25.090 That's what I have an issue with. I'm a veteran. 0:21:25.130 --> 0:21:29.430 You know, I run my own nonprofit, and, you know, I– 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:33.030 I embrace immigrants. We are a country of immigrants. But 0:21:33.070 --> 0:21:36.160 when you're coming to our country and you're not even 0:21:36.330 --> 0:21:40.090 trying to assimilate, you're not learning the language, you're not 0:21:40.230 --> 0:21:44.850 embracing the American way of life, that's a problem. And 0:21:45.270 --> 0:21:49.590 that creates distrust. It creates problems in our own country. 0:21:49.609 --> 0:21:56.350 And actually, when we are accepting foreigners, to the extent 0:21:56.410 --> 0:22:00.530 that it can shift the very fabric of who we 0:22:00.650 --> 0:22:03.830 are as a country. That's where we have an issue. 0:22:04.190 --> 0:22:08.760 And I've just been posting about this recently because I'm 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:13.320 going out there and just in my day-to-day life, I 0:22:13.340 --> 0:22:15.600 feel like the minority in my own country, I feel 0:22:15.619 --> 0:22:19.580 like I don't fit in. And that is not okay. 0:22:19.980 --> 0:22:24.220 We have built an incredibly beautiful country, and we have 0:22:24.260 --> 0:22:27.340 to protect what we have built. And I feel like 0:22:27.380 --> 0:22:31.190 there's something happening that we don't understand. 0:22:31.210 --> 0:22:35.570 Well, Gretchen, I'll tell you what, that was so beautifully said. And, 0:22:35.590 --> 0:22:39.230 you know, look, I asked you, and I did it 0:22:39.410 --> 0:22:42.150 in a public way because I don't have the ability 0:22:42.210 --> 0:22:45.179 to send a direct message. So I just said, you know, 0:22:45.220 --> 0:22:46.840 I'd like to have you on the show to discuss. 0:22:47.609 --> 0:22:51.070 And there wasn't a– there was– I mean, for me, 0:22:51.130 --> 0:22:54.310 I don't get a ton of reaction on my X-feeds. 0:22:56.109 --> 0:22:59.960 And so there were plenty of people who, just because 0:23:00.220 --> 0:23:02.179 you and I were going to be on the radio 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:06.800 tonight talking about this, directed a certain amount of hate 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:10.939 towards you and me based on the fact that we 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:14.100 are going to have this discussion. And I want to 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:18.910 say thank you. for having the courage to talk about 0:23:18.950 --> 0:23:24.900 this because we, we have a society where we have 0:23:24.940 --> 0:23:28.260 religious freedom in this country. So we're not supposed to, 0:23:28.300 --> 0:23:30.340 we're not supposed to talk about this kind of stuff. 0:23:30.740 --> 0:23:33.260 We're just supposed to let, you know, under the guise 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:35.939 of religious freedom, we're supposed to let anyone do whatever 0:23:35.980 --> 0:23:38.480 they want, not say anything about it, not bring it 0:23:38.510 --> 0:23:43.510 to anyone's attention. And in the meantime, if you look at, 0:23:44.230 --> 0:23:48.350 you know, Islamic ideology and, It's more than just a religion. 0:23:48.410 --> 0:23:50.659 It's a political philosophy and all the rest of it. 0:23:51.150 --> 0:23:56.290 And there's such a long history of people in this 0:23:56.350 --> 0:24:01.090 religion taking over areas and countries and conquest and all 0:24:01.130 --> 0:24:04.230 the rest of it. It takes a certain amount of 0:24:04.270 --> 0:24:07.990 courage to speak out about that. And I think you 0:24:08.510 --> 0:24:11.730 are one of the few right now who are displaying 0:24:11.770 --> 0:24:13.290 that courage. And I want to thank you for that. 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:16.880 Well, you know, I'm a veteran. My dad lost his 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:20.300 battle with PTSD. You know, he served over in Vietnam. 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:24.180 So now, you know, I am honoring my dad. I 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:29.230 have raised almost $ 8 million and I've assisted over 8,000 0:24:29.230 --> 0:24:32.310 veterans with my veteran nonprofit. But right now in my 0:24:32.369 --> 0:24:37.810 own community, I don't feel like I am safe. And 0:24:37.910 --> 0:24:40.510 I know my dad is watching over me from heaven. 0:24:40.730 --> 0:24:43.490 And I don't care what anybody thinks. I do believe 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:47.399 in our Constitution and our freedom of religion and freedom 0:24:47.460 --> 0:24:50.600 of speech. But right now, there's something going on in 0:24:50.660 --> 0:24:53.900 our country that is sinister. There have been so many 0:24:53.980 --> 0:24:58.129 foreigners that have been brought into our country that are 0:24:58.270 --> 0:25:03.450 not assimilating. And think about this. So our GWAT veterans, right, 0:25:03.470 --> 0:25:07.270 because I assist veterans. So our GWAT veterans who went 0:25:07.390 --> 0:25:10.640 overseas to protect us so that the war and terror 0:25:10.740 --> 0:25:14.149 would not come to our own homeland– So guess what? 0:25:15.090 --> 0:25:21.710 We have so many Muslims, people from the Middle East, 0:25:21.780 --> 0:25:26.220 people from Africa, people from India. We have so many 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:31.240 people coming to our country in such massive numbers that 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:36.889 we cannot absorb them. It is literally changing. 0:25:36.230 --> 0:25:36.810 Who we are. 0:25:36.890 --> 0:25:40.350 When I walked into Walmart just to pick up an 0:25:40.490 --> 0:25:44.659 orange T-shirt and And I felt like a foreigner in 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:49.240 my own country. That is a problem. And these people 0:25:49.359 --> 0:25:52.900 are not even trying to assimilate. They do not speak 0:25:52.980 --> 0:25:56.240 our language. And I'm not ashamed. I'm not going to 0:25:56.280 --> 0:26:00.300 be ashamed. My dad died for our freedoms. And I'm 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:03.060 not going to be one of those people who kowtows 0:26:03.580 --> 0:26:07.460 to political correctness. I'm going to say, hey, something's going 0:26:07.540 --> 0:26:10.879 on here. I don't know what's happening. But this is 0:26:10.920 --> 0:26:14.700 not right. I should not feel unsafe in my own town. 0:26:15.160 --> 0:26:18.500 Well, you know, you're, you're being ridiculed for having a strong, 0:26:18.640 --> 0:26:20.840 a strong opinion on this. I've been ridiculed for the 0:26:20.859 --> 0:26:22.830 same thing because I talk about this sort of thing 0:26:23.350 --> 0:26:26.290 on this radio show all the time. And, uh, you 0:26:26.330 --> 0:26:31.260 mentioned your, uh, your nonprofit code of vets. Um, and, uh, 0:26:31.410 --> 0:26:34.050 and you have been reaching out, uh, in you, uh, 0:26:34.190 --> 0:26:37.430 on your, uh, the X feed page for your code 0:26:37.470 --> 0:26:40.609 of vets talks about, uh, you've raised nearly $ 8 million. 0:26:40.650 --> 0:26:45.860 You're served. over 8,000 veterans. Talk about this. Talk about 0:26:45.900 --> 0:26:48.460 the outreach that you have for veterans and the kind 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:50.899 of work that you do with veterans. And first of all, 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:54.200 you're a veteran yourself, so thank you for your service 0:26:54.240 --> 0:26:55.380 in the United States Air Force. 0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:58.310 Thank you. I'm really proud of what we do. We 0:26:58.470 --> 0:27:04.870 operate on 2%, 2%. So 98% of funds that are 0:27:04.890 --> 0:27:06.690 coming in is going out to the. 0:27:06.650 --> 0:27:09.109 Veterans who have served us and kept. 0:27:08.869 --> 0:27:13.220 Us Yeah, I'm very proud of that. So we have 0:27:13.260 --> 0:27:16.399 veterans all over the country. We've assisted veterans in every 0:27:16.560 --> 0:27:20.840 state of our nation. They were homeless, at risk for homeless, 0:27:20.859 --> 0:27:24.230 they're being evicted, late utilities, their car's being repoed and 0:27:24.250 --> 0:27:28.110 they can't get to work, they're hungry. Whatever the case is, 0:27:28.510 --> 0:27:32.210 we assist those veterans. in real time because we operate 0:27:32.270 --> 0:27:34.810 on social media. So we operate in real time and 0:27:34.869 --> 0:27:38.969 we're rapid response. So as I am raising funds for 0:27:39.010 --> 0:27:42.070 these veterans that we vet, we vet and make sure 0:27:42.109 --> 0:27:45.169 that they've served honorably and that their need is real. 0:27:45.510 --> 0:27:48.100 And as I push them out on social media, I'm 0:27:48.160 --> 0:27:49.020 raising the money. 0:27:49.220 --> 0:27:49.879 And as it. 0:27:49.880 --> 0:27:52.919 Comes in, I'm sending it to them. So this is 0:27:52.940 --> 0:27:55.660 just a very unique way that we operate. I don't 0:27:55.700 --> 0:27:58.500 know of any other nonprofit out there that operates the 0:27:58.540 --> 0:28:01.780 way we do. So I just think there's a lot 0:28:01.820 --> 0:28:03.640 of reasons that I get the hate that I do, 0:28:03.700 --> 0:28:07.270 not only the strong stance that I take about we 0:28:07.369 --> 0:28:11.850 have to protect our country because we have built something incredible, 0:28:12.170 --> 0:28:17.840 something beautiful. And if we don't defend it, it's going 0:28:17.859 --> 0:28:22.940 to disappear. And I see it happening before my very eyes. 0:28:23.040 --> 0:28:24.879 But at the same time, you know, I'm helping all 0:28:24.900 --> 0:28:27.719 these veterans. So, you know, it's a lot to take on, 0:28:28.100 --> 0:28:30.899 but I'm not afraid. I will not. I have the 0:28:30.940 --> 0:28:34.110 freedom of speech. I have served overseas. I am going 0:28:34.150 --> 0:28:36.710 to speak my mind, Dan, and I'm going to let 0:28:36.760 --> 0:28:39.820 people know what I'm seeing because I've lived overseas. I 0:28:39.860 --> 0:28:43.800 just moved back, and I'm seeing all these foreigners, and 0:28:43.860 --> 0:28:47.590 I'm like, you know, there's something wrong here. If people 0:28:47.630 --> 0:28:49.850 want to come here for the right reasons and they 0:28:49.870 --> 0:28:52.850 want to attribute or be a part of America specifically, 0:28:53.170 --> 0:28:56.540 and become an American, I'm okay with that. I embrace that. 0:28:56.820 --> 0:29:00.280 But when you come here and you will not assimilate, 0:29:00.440 --> 0:29:03.240 you will not learn the language, you will not embrace 0:29:03.320 --> 0:29:06.740 the American way of life, I have a problem with that. 0:29:07.740 --> 0:29:10.420 Well, I found a great piece on a website called 0:29:10.460 --> 0:29:13.460 Tennessee Stands. It was written by Ann Lowry in March 0:29:13.520 --> 0:29:16.800 of this year, and she talks about legislation that was 0:29:16.920 --> 0:29:21.660 in the Tennessee legislature, and it was legislation that was 0:29:21.840 --> 0:29:26.180 in part aimed at banning the implementation of Sharia law 0:29:26.680 --> 0:29:29.590 in Tennessee. But that provision of that law has been 0:29:29.630 --> 0:29:33.230 stripped out of there. So you really at this point, 0:29:33.270 --> 0:29:36.590 you really can't depend on lawmakers to take up this 0:29:36.630 --> 0:29:37.550 cause and do what's right. 0:29:37.570 --> 0:29:39.370 Yeah, it's on you and me. 0:29:39.370 --> 0:29:39.960 It's on. 0:29:40.030 --> 0:29:43.410 On average American citizens who are out there. And I'm 0:29:43.470 --> 0:29:46.080 not afraid to talk about the truth because guess what? 0:29:46.120 --> 0:29:49.680 My dad went to war overseas so that communism wouldn't 0:29:49.720 --> 0:29:52.920 come to our country. But guess what? It's here. It's 0:29:52.960 --> 0:29:56.200 showing up. It's creeping throughout our nation. This is not 0:29:56.260 --> 0:30:01.280 an isolated incident. There are foreigners that are not assimilating. 0:30:01.480 --> 0:30:04.640 They're not learning our language. They're not embracing the American 0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:09.700 way of life throughout every community of America. So scale this. 0:30:09.850 --> 0:30:14.750 I'm in middle Tennessee. But this is happening on a 0:30:14.970 --> 0:30:17.890 national scale. That is what concerns me. 0:30:17.910 --> 0:30:21.760 No, you're absolutely right. And if there's someone listening to 0:30:21.840 --> 0:30:24.180 us right now that is a veteran or has a 0:30:24.220 --> 0:30:28.200 family member that's a veteran and they may need what 0:30:28.510 --> 0:30:30.770 help you can offer, how do they find out about 0:30:30.830 --> 0:30:32.570 the services that you provide? 0:30:33.550 --> 0:30:37.270 Please go to CodeofVets.com, fill out a vet in need form. 0:30:37.470 --> 0:30:40.650 We operate in real time. We will get to you 0:30:40.690 --> 0:30:44.380 within 24 to 48 hours and we will address your needs. 0:30:44.440 --> 0:30:47.800 We are rapid response and we are here to service 0:30:47.960 --> 0:30:50.680 you and we want you to know that that we 0:30:50.740 --> 0:30:53.650 thank you for your service and that we've got your back. 0:30:53.730 --> 0:30:56.010 This is not a hand up. This is not a 0:30:56.070 --> 0:30:56.970 hand out. 0:30:57.070 --> 0:30:57.750 It's a hand up. 0:30:57.890 --> 0:31:01.610 And we're, this is family, like this is family helping family. 0:31:01.870 --> 0:31:04.110 And I feel like if somebody had helped my dad, 0:31:04.410 --> 0:31:06.260 he would still be here with us. So that's what 0:31:06.300 --> 0:31:08.000 I do every day. If I want to know, I 0:31:08.420 --> 0:31:11.140 want our veterans to know that we've got their back. 0:31:11.680 --> 0:31:14.380 Well, Gretchen, that is so great. And God bless you 0:31:14.420 --> 0:31:18.090 for what you're doing. Code of Vets is all one word. 0:31:18.710 --> 0:31:20.790 And just Google it and you'll be able to find it. 0:31:21.260 --> 0:31:22.980 And before I let you go, I'm looking at the 0:31:23.020 --> 0:31:27.090 video of you on the range, which I guess was yesterday. 0:31:27.110 --> 0:31:27.190 Okay. 0:31:27.890 --> 0:31:30.500 And what do you got there, a 9mm or a. 0:31:30.470 --> 0:31:30.540 45? 0:31:30.530 --> 0:31:32.980 What is that? 0:31:33.000 --> 0:31:37.660 9mm, yeah, yeah. You know, because I had been over 0:31:37.700 --> 0:31:39.500 in Asia for the past three years, so it's been 0:31:39.540 --> 0:31:41.080 a while since I've been to the range. I was 0:31:41.100 --> 0:31:44.590 a little bit rusty. And people were commenting, they're like, oh, 0:31:44.610 --> 0:31:46.810 my gosh, you don't look comfortable. And I wasn't. It's 0:31:46.870 --> 0:31:49.970 been several years. So I'm just getting back into the 0:31:49.990 --> 0:31:51.810 groove of, you know, handling weapons. 0:31:52.690 --> 0:31:55.739 Yeah, but no, I'm watching it. I can't see what 0:31:55.780 --> 0:31:58.020 you did to the target, but you say you hit 0:31:58.040 --> 0:32:01.100 the target, so I'm going to believe you on that one. 0:32:01.140 --> 0:32:04.100 But your safety on the range looks like it's outstanding. 0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:07.180 But Gretchen, we will let you go. I appreciate the 0:32:07.220 --> 0:32:10.640 time tonight. Thank you so much for responding. It normally 0:32:10.660 --> 0:32:13.490 doesn't happen when I ask somebody like that to join 0:32:13.510 --> 0:32:15.370 me on the show. I get such a quick response, 0:32:15.410 --> 0:32:17.850 but I want to thank you for doing that. Go ahead. 0:32:17.870 --> 0:32:19.110 Can I ask you a question? 0:32:19.130 --> 0:32:19.590 Sure, please. 0:32:20.550 --> 0:32:22.890 So if I have a big case going on, something 0:32:22.910 --> 0:32:25.630 really important, something dire with a veteran, would you let 0:32:25.650 --> 0:32:28.190 me hop on and just share it with people and say, hey, 0:32:28.250 --> 0:32:28.790 help us out? 0:32:29.090 --> 0:32:33.180 Absolutely. You've got my number. You reach out to me 0:32:33.520 --> 0:32:35.780 any time I can be of service to you. And 0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:37.920 the veterans that you help, I'd be more than happy 0:32:37.960 --> 0:32:38.300 to do that. 0:32:39.100 --> 0:32:39.540 Thank you. 0:32:39.960 --> 0:32:40.260 All right. 0:32:40.300 --> 0:32:41.920 Gretchen, thank you so much. You have a great night, 0:32:41.940 --> 0:32:43.500 and we'll be talking to you again before too long. 0:32:44.200 --> 0:32:44.620 Thank you. 0:32:44.850 --> 0:32:49.370 All right. Gretchen Smith and Code of Vets is the website. 0:32:50.310 --> 0:32:52.510 that you want to go to if you have a 0:32:52.510 --> 0:32:56.630 veteran in need. And just let me read this line 0:32:56.670 --> 0:33:02.070 to you, written by Ann Lowry, who is the executive 0:33:02.090 --> 0:33:07.410 director of Tennessee Stands. And she's got a really great piece. 0:33:09.730 --> 0:33:13.500 It's entitled The State of Islam in Tennessee. And she 0:33:13.600 --> 0:33:17.680 sums up her piece like this. She says, the Muslims 0:33:17.720 --> 0:33:19.960 who filled the halls of the Capitol a few weeks 0:33:20.020 --> 0:33:22.590 ago And this was written earlier this year. And you 0:33:22.630 --> 0:33:26.670 may remember when you had all the, at the Tennessee 0:33:26.690 --> 0:33:30.130 state legislature, waving all the Palestinian flags and all the 0:33:30.170 --> 0:33:32.910 rest of that. That was in March of this year. 0:33:34.080 --> 0:33:36.280 She wrote, the Muslims who filled the halls of the 0:33:36.300 --> 0:33:38.720 Capitol a few weeks ago while chanting and waving their 0:33:38.740 --> 0:33:44.740 Palestinian flags are working double time to ensure their way 0:33:44.780 --> 0:33:48.060 of life is protected. And they are depending on the 0:33:48.100 --> 0:33:51.290 rest of us to look away. as they do it. 0:33:53.350 --> 0:33:57.430 Will you look away? I don't think Gretchen Smith is 0:33:57.450 --> 0:34:00.410 going to look away. I don't think I'm going to 0:34:00.430 --> 0:34:04.229 look away. It's a good question. 0:34:04.250 --> 0:34:05.370 955-700-WLW. 0:34:05.450 --> 0:34:06.890 All right, back on the big one. 0:34:06.910 --> 0:34:07.260 700-WLW-1007. 0:34:09.590 --> 0:34:20.170 We roll till midnight tonight on the The Thursday night 0:34:20.210 --> 0:34:24.950 edition of the Midweek Crisis. You know, it seems, it 0:34:25.030 --> 0:34:27.870 almost seems like it was a long time ago now 0:34:28.969 --> 0:34:36.690 that the main man from China, Xi Jinping, I guess he's, 0:34:36.730 --> 0:34:39.250 what is he, the president, the prime minister? It doesn't matter. 0:34:39.739 --> 0:34:45.299 General secretary. Thank you. But it was only a week ago. 0:34:46.200 --> 0:34:49.259 But it seems like, I mean, the news cycle moves 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:52.880 so fast. It seems like it was ancient history. But 0:34:52.920 --> 0:34:56.009 I think the benefits of that visit are going to 0:34:56.810 --> 0:35:01.109 be making themselves known for some time to come. Here 0:35:01.130 --> 0:35:03.290 to talk about it is Todd Sheets. He's got a 0:35:03.330 --> 0:35:06.410 newsletter out. It's called On Wealth and Progress. It is 0:35:06.450 --> 0:35:10.430 currently available free of charge on Substack. Also, available on 0:35:10.469 --> 0:35:14.330 youtube spotify and apple his book is 2008 what really 0:35:14.370 --> 0:35:16.110 happened and todd sheets it is great to have you 0:35:16.130 --> 0:35:20.529 back on 700 wlw how you been great to be 0:35:20.550 --> 0:35:23.410 with you again hey thank you thank you very much 0:35:23.510 --> 0:35:25.669 am i right about that it it almost seems like 0:35:25.730 --> 0:35:28.180 it's uh it was a while ago that g was 0:35:28.200 --> 0:35:30.610 but it was just last week i mean it's a 0:35:30.969 --> 0:35:33.439 you know when when uh you know when the the, 0:35:33.540 --> 0:35:36.610 the general secretary from China comes to visit the United States. 0:35:36.620 --> 0:35:39.069 That's a pretty big deal. And, but I mean, it's, 0:35:39.150 --> 0:35:41.850 it's just amazing how fast the news cycle moves. It 0:35:41.890 --> 0:35:45.509 seems like it was, you know, not, not that it was, 0:35:45.850 --> 0:35:47.370 it seems like it was a while ago that he 0:35:47.410 --> 0:35:47.690 was here. 0:35:48.770 --> 0:35:48.969 Yeah. 0:35:48.989 --> 0:35:49.069 Yeah. 0:35:49.090 --> 0:35:51.549 That's the problem with these weekly newsletters now is it 0:35:51.590 --> 0:35:54.390 feels like what was last week was like three months ago. 0:35:54.510 --> 0:35:54.830 Right. 0:35:54.969 --> 0:35:58.090 So, but we've got to stay focused on these things, 0:35:58.130 --> 0:35:59.930 but you're right. It was just a week ago. It 0:35:59.950 --> 0:36:02.690 was very big news all around the world. The, the 0:36:02.750 --> 0:36:05.879 media played it up in a very big way. So, uh, yeah, that's, 0:36:05.960 --> 0:36:06.700 that's all accurate. 0:36:07.020 --> 0:36:10.759 And, uh, and before she got here, uh, Trump got 0:36:10.800 --> 0:36:13.340 a lot of criticism for rolling out the red carpet, 0:36:13.360 --> 0:36:15.859 the state dinner, uh, you know, the, you know, the, 0:36:15.940 --> 0:36:19.790 the tour around Washington, all the rest of the stuff. And, um, 0:36:21.170 --> 0:36:24.250 Trump knows that you catch more flies with honey than 0:36:24.270 --> 0:36:26.620 you do with vinegar. I mean, it's a, it's an, 0:36:26.650 --> 0:36:28.390 you know, it's an old crutch. It's an old saying, 0:36:28.430 --> 0:36:31.839 but it's the, the sayings get old because they're true. And, 0:36:32.489 --> 0:36:35.549 This is the way Trump does business. He butters up 0:36:35.610 --> 0:36:39.130 his his his I don't want to, you know, I 0:36:39.170 --> 0:36:42.810 guess adversary is maybe the right word here. But, you know, 0:36:42.850 --> 0:36:45.210 he he butters up the person he wants to do 0:36:45.250 --> 0:36:47.730 business with because he knows that's how he's going to 0:36:47.770 --> 0:36:51.660 get the best deal. And so I look at the 0:36:51.700 --> 0:36:54.140 past history and they talked about, well, he's out there 0:36:54.200 --> 0:36:56.840 praising Putin. Well, he was saying nice things about Putin 0:36:56.860 --> 0:36:59.540 because he wanted something from Putin. And so he's going 0:36:59.560 --> 0:37:02.440 to do the same thing. with the leader of China. 0:37:03.020 --> 0:37:07.160 And your piece sort of goes point by point, talking about, 0:37:08.000 --> 0:37:11.860 I think, the benefits that this country can see as 0:37:11.920 --> 0:37:14.480 a result of these two having a good relationship. 0:37:16.040 --> 0:37:18.640 Yeah, absolutely. And I think what so much of the 0:37:18.700 --> 0:37:22.200 media misses is the bigger picture of what's happening. They 0:37:22.239 --> 0:37:26.790 try and focus in on these day-to-day or weekly events 0:37:27.330 --> 0:37:29.830 like we had last week and blow it out of proportion. 0:37:30.380 --> 0:37:34.190 take the angle that you mentioned without looking at the 0:37:34.350 --> 0:37:38.950 total reset of the global picture that Trump is engineering 0:37:39.010 --> 0:37:42.650 right now. If you look at what's happening in Latin America, 0:37:42.670 --> 0:37:45.970 you know, in Venezuela and the Panama Canal, where he's 0:37:46.050 --> 0:37:48.960 kicked China out of their controlling position in the canal 0:37:49.000 --> 0:37:52.720 down there, we've now got a red wave sweeping across 0:37:52.820 --> 0:37:56.220 Latin America for maybe the first time in 40, 50 years. 0:37:56.860 --> 0:37:59.339 You look at what's happened here recently in Greenland. where 0:37:59.380 --> 0:38:03.980 he secured the rights to protect ourselves on the northern side, 0:38:04.440 --> 0:38:06.700 up in the Arctic waters up there and that type 0:38:06.739 --> 0:38:09.060 of thing. And then you look at what's going on 0:38:09.100 --> 0:38:13.460 in the Middle East, where that war is not finished 0:38:13.500 --> 0:38:15.860 and things are not done there. And there is a 0:38:15.900 --> 0:38:19.920 potential for an extraordinary setback for China's ambitions and their 0:38:19.960 --> 0:38:23.280 resistance to American interests in the Middle East as well. 0:38:23.840 --> 0:38:27.069 So he's managing all of these things. He's moving the 0:38:27.120 --> 0:38:32.200 chessboard around. clearly in our favor. And at the same time, 0:38:32.280 --> 0:38:36.740 the last thing he wants is to stir up hostilities 0:38:36.840 --> 0:38:39.979 with China in a way that might make them more 0:38:40.060 --> 0:38:42.950 likely to do something with respect to Taiwan or in 0:38:42.969 --> 0:38:45.750 the South China Sea or some of those things while 0:38:45.770 --> 0:38:48.870 we've got these other agendas going on right now. And 0:38:48.910 --> 0:38:51.310 so one of the easiest things you can do is 0:38:51.370 --> 0:38:55.030 roll out the red carpet, give Xi the international attention 0:38:55.090 --> 0:38:58.299 and exposure that he wants. It doesn't cost us anything. 0:38:58.690 --> 0:39:01.860 And if it buys us some goodwill, as Trump is 0:39:01.920 --> 0:39:05.739 playing this geopolitical chess game, then that's all the better. 0:39:05.780 --> 0:39:07.839 And I think that's exactly what was going on this 0:39:07.900 --> 0:39:08.180 past year. 0:39:08.219 --> 0:39:10.740 Yeah, and you talk about the things that the media misses, 0:39:11.060 --> 0:39:13.930 and it was something, and you might have written this 0:39:15.030 --> 0:39:16.890 months and months ago, and we might have talked about 0:39:16.930 --> 0:39:22.090 it in a previous segment on one of my shows. 0:39:22.550 --> 0:39:27.069 But even though the Chinese economy is as massive as 0:39:27.110 --> 0:39:29.969 it is, it is still It is still pales in comparison. 0:39:30.310 --> 0:39:32.570 to the united states economy and when you look at 0:39:32.610 --> 0:39:35.660 the bottom line china needs us a lot more than 0:39:35.700 --> 0:39:38.880 we need them and and and that i think trump 0:39:38.910 --> 0:39:42.200 understands that and he uses that leverage to his advantage. 0:39:43.400 --> 0:39:47.730 Yeah absolutely and uh you know their economy is large. 0:39:47.770 --> 0:39:50.609 It's about two thirds of the size of ours. But 0:39:50.660 --> 0:39:53.339 what is missed in that is the fact that their 0:39:53.400 --> 0:39:57.339 population is roughly over four times the size of ours. 0:39:57.880 --> 0:40:01.339 So their per capita GDPs are still way below where 0:40:01.400 --> 0:40:05.469 we are. Their economy is really struggling, as is typically 0:40:05.530 --> 0:40:10.110 the case of these command and control systems, especially since 0:40:10.210 --> 0:40:13.230 Trump laid the tariffs on them that he did during 0:40:13.270 --> 0:40:15.859 his first term. And he's increased those again in this 0:40:15.950 --> 0:40:21.020 term But they're very dependent on being able to export 0:40:21.060 --> 0:40:23.939 their goods at low prices around the world in order 0:40:24.000 --> 0:40:27.060 to grow the economy. The demand internally is not that 0:40:27.120 --> 0:40:30.680 strong in China. So you're exactly right. They are incredibly 0:40:30.719 --> 0:40:35.250 dependent on us. We do have some dependencies on them, 0:40:35.290 --> 0:40:37.270 the rare earth minerals and that kind of thing that 0:40:37.290 --> 0:40:40.009 came up at the most recent round of negotiations. If 0:40:40.070 --> 0:40:42.750 it wasn't for that, I think Trump would have hit 0:40:42.790 --> 0:40:48.570 them with even harder tariff increases in this most recent go-round, 0:40:48.610 --> 0:40:50.450 but he had to back off a little bit because 0:40:50.489 --> 0:40:53.180 they played hardball on the rare earths this time and 0:40:53.219 --> 0:40:56.780 with some other things. But we're in the commanding position 0:40:56.820 --> 0:41:01.200 with respect to that relationship, and I think that's basically 0:41:01.239 --> 0:41:01.799 the bottom line. 0:41:01.820 --> 0:41:06.940 Well, certainly a lot better than the previous administration had 0:41:07.000 --> 0:41:10.779 done when you talk about the Middle East and the 0:41:10.800 --> 0:41:13.430 relationship with China and all the rest of it. But 0:41:13.870 --> 0:41:17.170 Todd Sheets, there's a narrative out there that's starting to 0:41:17.230 --> 0:41:20.169 take hold, and I've noticed it, and maybe you have too. 0:41:20.670 --> 0:41:23.410 And I got a call on this show last night 0:41:23.489 --> 0:41:26.200 from an individual. He claimed to be a young man, 0:41:26.239 --> 0:41:30.460 his mid-20s, and he was talking about, well, Trump made 0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:33.819 all these promises, and there's so many promises that he 0:41:33.900 --> 0:41:38.840 hasn't fulfilled. And there's a lot of talk about how 0:41:39.360 --> 0:41:42.700 the economy really isn't all that good right now, and And, man, 0:41:42.739 --> 0:41:46.340 if we really just show, teach those Republicans a lesson 0:41:46.800 --> 0:41:50.239 and elect some Democrats in here, when 2028 rolls around, 0:41:50.280 --> 0:41:54.330 we'll be ready to get more stronger Republicans in there. 0:41:54.890 --> 0:41:59.149 And I'm not buying this narrative. I think this is 0:41:59.989 --> 0:42:03.280 something that was cooked up by the left, by the DNC, 0:42:03.890 --> 0:42:08.800 and they're trying to get more young people that I 0:42:08.840 --> 0:42:11.339 know in my own life. And I don't know where 0:42:11.380 --> 0:42:14.880 they're getting this from, but they've said to me almost 0:42:14.920 --> 0:42:17.620 word for word what this caller said last night, which 0:42:17.700 --> 0:42:22.510 leads me to believe that I don't believe that narrative 0:42:22.570 --> 0:42:25.149 to begin with. And I told this person, I said, look, 0:42:26.190 --> 0:42:28.890 I think there's more opportunity for a young person in 0:42:28.930 --> 0:42:32.219 their 20s right now than we've had in a long, 0:42:32.260 --> 0:42:33.720 long time in this country. 0:42:36.100 --> 0:42:38.540 Yeah, look, I completely agree with you. And I have 0:42:38.580 --> 0:42:41.569 heard similar things from young people also. They're frustrated that 0:42:41.660 --> 0:42:45.210 the affordability issues haven't been taken care of and that 0:42:45.250 --> 0:42:47.750 type of thing. But, you know, they need to understand 0:42:48.350 --> 0:42:54.210 those affordability issues were created by reckless spending programs that 0:42:54.290 --> 0:42:57.790 did not produce economic and job growth that came under 0:42:57.830 --> 0:43:02.169 the Biden administration. And once they're created... You can't just 0:43:02.230 --> 0:43:04.810 wave a magic wand and make those things go away. 0:43:04.950 --> 0:43:09.190 Prices stay high. You try and bring down the continued 0:43:09.270 --> 0:43:12.910 rate of increases or inflation, but prices are going to 0:43:12.950 --> 0:43:15.230 stay high. And the only way to work your way 0:43:15.350 --> 0:43:19.630 out of those things is to reinvigorate the economy and 0:43:19.730 --> 0:43:22.640 job growth and those kinds of things. And the only 0:43:22.700 --> 0:43:25.160 way to do that is to get the private sector going. 0:43:25.739 --> 0:43:28.580 And frankly, I think as we've talked about in the past, 0:43:29.110 --> 0:43:31.190 You know, we're like the largest ocean liner in the 0:43:31.250 --> 0:43:34.430 world out there, our economy. And it's been sailed into 0:43:34.489 --> 0:43:39.210 troubled waters for almost all of the last 25 years. 0:43:39.350 --> 0:43:43.299 But for the previous Trump administration, it takes time to 0:43:43.360 --> 0:43:47.259 get that turned. And it is getting turned now. And, 0:43:47.280 --> 0:43:50.080 you know, I think we're seeing the job numbers here recently. 0:43:50.100 --> 0:43:55.100 We're seeing GDP numbers, corporate earnings, corporate investment at levels 0:43:55.140 --> 0:43:57.560 that we haven't seen, you know, going back to the 0:43:57.620 --> 0:44:00.920 Industrial Revolution. And I think we are on the verge 0:44:00.960 --> 0:44:03.480 of a major turning point in the economy. I think 0:44:03.560 --> 0:44:06.100 six months from now or so, you know, we're going 0:44:06.120 --> 0:44:08.680 to be seeing job growth of a kind that we 0:44:08.719 --> 0:44:10.739 haven't seen for a long time. And then that will 0:44:10.760 --> 0:44:14.390 start translating into the wage growth that can help people 0:44:14.450 --> 0:44:17.870 work their way out of these affordability problems. And it's 0:44:18.090 --> 0:44:21.030 very important for these people to understand, for these young kids, 0:44:21.410 --> 0:44:24.130 you know, you can't spend your way out of a 0:44:24.230 --> 0:44:28.210 spending problem. And that's how all this was created. And 0:44:28.250 --> 0:44:31.310 that's the solution that the Democrats are offering. You know, 0:44:31.570 --> 0:44:35.110 it's Medicare for all and it's free child care and 0:44:35.130 --> 0:44:37.529 it's free this. And that's how we got into this 0:44:37.610 --> 0:44:40.890 problem was all these freebies that drove inflation up so 0:44:40.930 --> 0:44:43.910 much and created the affordability problem in the first place. 0:44:44.310 --> 0:44:46.640 So they understand we can't spend our way out. The 0:44:46.840 --> 0:44:50.439 only way is to invigorate economic growth. And the only 0:44:50.520 --> 0:44:53.239 party that's offering that are the Republicans and Trump, and 0:44:53.260 --> 0:44:54.790 you've just got to give them time to let it 0:44:54.830 --> 0:44:55.469 all take hold. 0:44:55.590 --> 0:44:58.989 Yeah, and the spending side of it certainly needs to 0:44:59.030 --> 0:45:00.930 be addressed, and I would like to see a more 0:45:00.989 --> 0:45:03.390 vigorous effort on that. But when you talk about the 0:45:03.410 --> 0:45:07.340 spending side, I think this administration, and I cannot remember 0:45:07.360 --> 0:45:11.739 a past administration that has been serious when it comes 0:45:11.780 --> 0:45:15.420 to addressing issues of fraud and overpayments and people ripping 0:45:15.480 --> 0:45:19.359 off the government. And, you know, J.D. Vance is out there. 0:45:19.420 --> 0:45:22.520 He's leading the effort on this. And they have identified 0:45:22.560 --> 0:45:25.299 hundreds of billions of dollars and and they want to 0:45:25.320 --> 0:45:28.020 cut these payments off. And when you when you talk 0:45:28.060 --> 0:45:30.799 about cutting back on the fraud and Medicare and the 0:45:30.860 --> 0:45:34.150 fraud and you name the government program, they are just 0:45:35.070 --> 0:45:38.030 just ripe with all kinds of fraud and fraudulent payments. 0:45:38.630 --> 0:45:42.210 The Democrats have a conniption if if one dollar of 0:45:42.250 --> 0:45:44.839 that kind of stuff gets cut. So I think Cutting 0:45:44.880 --> 0:45:48.040 back on that kind of spending should be the low-hanging fruit, 0:45:48.120 --> 0:45:50.710 and we should be able to do that with great ease. 0:45:50.770 --> 0:45:54.549 But look at these headlines. Wall Street Journal, the U.S. 0:45:54.590 --> 0:45:58.270 economy is accelerating. Jobless claims fall to lowest level in 0:45:58.310 --> 0:46:02.410 more than 55 years. Labor market remains sturdy as job 0:46:02.489 --> 0:46:07.100 openings stay above $ 7 million. Construction spending climbs despite headwinds. 0:46:08.100 --> 0:46:12.120 GOP revised up to show stronger growth. in the first 0:46:12.160 --> 0:46:14.859 half of the year. I mean, tell me the administration 0:46:14.880 --> 0:46:17.319 that would not kill for headlines like that. 0:46:18.620 --> 0:46:22.780 Yeah, absolutely. And I think the thing that we haven't 0:46:22.860 --> 0:46:25.450 seen as much as we would like to is having 0:46:25.489 --> 0:46:29.890 that translate into the jobs creation part of the equation. 0:46:30.170 --> 0:46:33.149 Although we've seen the numbers for the last couple months now, 0:46:33.230 --> 0:46:36.770 so it is picking up. But so far, we're still 0:46:36.790 --> 0:46:39.450 at the early stages of that, and that's where real 0:46:39.530 --> 0:46:41.799 people are going to feel this. You know, They're going 0:46:41.820 --> 0:46:44.100 to feel that when the job market is really strong, 0:46:44.500 --> 0:46:46.580 it's easy to get a job or to move up. 0:46:46.940 --> 0:46:49.420 And then so I like to tell people it's a 0:46:49.460 --> 0:46:52.980 three step process. First, it's the economy has to get going. 0:46:53.040 --> 0:46:56.240 That takes time. Then once that gets going, the jobs 0:46:56.300 --> 0:46:59.800 will come. And once the jobs are coming, then the 0:46:59.880 --> 0:47:02.910 wages will start going up. And that is what the 0:47:03.010 --> 0:47:06.050 president has teed up. That's what we're starting to see. 0:47:06.489 --> 0:47:09.100 Like you said, this is the first time since the 90s. 0:47:10.100 --> 0:47:12.200 that we've seen the potential for this kind of a 0:47:12.260 --> 0:47:17.029 recovery going, moving forward. And I think everybody needs to 0:47:17.070 --> 0:47:20.930 get out and I think vote and support this administration, 0:47:21.030 --> 0:47:23.910 give them another two years to have the full opportunity 0:47:24.350 --> 0:47:26.570 to realize the benefits of the things they put in 0:47:26.630 --> 0:47:27.969 motion over the last two years. 0:47:28.010 --> 0:47:28.170 Yeah. 0:47:28.190 --> 0:47:30.589 I mean, it, it too, you know, two things can 0:47:30.610 --> 0:47:33.170 be true at the same time. So it has Trump 0:47:33.190 --> 0:47:36.410 delivered on every single promise that he made during the campaign. 0:47:36.930 --> 0:47:40.060 The answer to that is clearly no, but, Has in 0:47:40.080 --> 0:47:42.140 the time that he's been in office a little over 0:47:42.200 --> 0:47:46.520 two years now, has he accomplished more than, I mean, 0:47:48.340 --> 0:47:52.390 it's ridiculous to think of all the things that this administration, 0:47:54.150 --> 0:47:57.790 the next administration that comes in, there's no way they'll 0:47:57.810 --> 0:47:59.730 be able to live up to the standard that this 0:47:59.790 --> 0:48:02.340 guy has set. And I think we'll really see the 0:48:02.380 --> 0:48:05.259 difference then. And just the other day, he announced a 0:48:05.300 --> 0:48:08.580 new steel mill. Someone would have told you five years 0:48:08.640 --> 0:48:11.400 ago that we're going to build a steel mill in Iowa, 0:48:11.820 --> 0:48:14.080 for God's sake. Would you have believed that? I don't 0:48:14.100 --> 0:48:19.129 think so. And the benefits of that are not going 0:48:19.190 --> 0:48:22.109 to be manifest for another, what, seven, eight, ten years 0:48:22.150 --> 0:48:24.810 down the road. So all these things, the steel mill, 0:48:24.950 --> 0:48:29.560 all the investment that's coming from foreign companies, And countries 0:48:29.700 --> 0:48:33.620 into the United States, those things are great headlines now, 0:48:34.000 --> 0:48:37.830 but the real benefit comes five, seven, ten years down 0:48:37.870 --> 0:48:41.509 the road. And that's when I think the boom is 0:48:41.570 --> 0:48:45.890 really going to start now. And that's why I say 0:48:45.950 --> 0:48:50.049 young people have such a great opportunity now, unlike that 0:48:50.630 --> 0:48:54.110 certainly they've seen in their lifetime and almost unlike anything 0:48:54.140 --> 0:48:55.520 that you and I have seen in our lifetime. 0:48:56.830 --> 0:48:59.569 Yeah, you know, it reminds me of back in the 0:48:59.890 --> 0:49:02.960 early 1980s when Reagan came in. It took him a 0:49:03.000 --> 0:49:06.420 couple of years to get things turned around. And then 0:49:06.440 --> 0:49:09.600 the economy took off and we went on a 20-year 0:49:09.660 --> 0:49:12.700 boom that lasted through the 90s. And Clinton did a 0:49:12.739 --> 0:49:16.990 good job with the fiscal responsibility part and not, screwing 0:49:17.050 --> 0:49:19.879 up the things that Reagan had put in place. But 0:49:20.200 --> 0:49:25.489 I think we're on the beginning edge of potentially another 10, 15, 0:49:25.460 --> 0:49:31.359 20-year boom cycle here that can totally change things for 0:49:31.420 --> 0:49:33.620 young people. I was a young person coming out of 0:49:33.680 --> 0:49:37.660 college at that point in time. Interest rates then were 0:49:37.800 --> 0:49:42.340 in the double digits, you know, 12, 13, 14, 15 percent. 0:49:43.100 --> 0:49:45.580 America thought its best days were behind it. We were 0:49:45.620 --> 0:49:48.450 coming out of the Jimmy Carter era on foreign policy 0:49:48.510 --> 0:49:51.290 and Iran. And, you know, there was a sense that 0:49:51.330 --> 0:49:53.870 we were never going to be the country we were before. 0:49:54.350 --> 0:49:56.390 And it took him a while, but Reagan got it 0:49:56.430 --> 0:50:00.379 turned around. And we took off on a run that 0:50:00.420 --> 0:50:04.020 was unlike anything we had seen for 20, 30 years 0:50:04.120 --> 0:50:05.910 and that kind of thing. And I think that's where 0:50:05.950 --> 0:50:07.180 we're at right now as well. 0:50:07.489 --> 0:50:10.989 All right. Well, Todd Sheets, I'll tell you what, I 0:50:11.350 --> 0:50:15.190 always love the insight. I love the thought process on 0:50:15.910 --> 0:50:19.290 all these issues and the way everything is connected to 0:50:19.330 --> 0:50:22.970 everything else. What are you working on for your next piece? 0:50:24.290 --> 0:50:27.270 Yeah, actually, I'm going to talk this weekend a little 0:50:27.290 --> 0:50:34.500 bit about all the doomsayers with artificial intelligence. And I'll 0:50:34.520 --> 0:50:38.580 give you a quick advance on it. There's this equation 0:50:38.620 --> 0:50:40.500 that people keep putting out there. I don't know if 0:50:40.520 --> 0:50:43.600 you've seen it. It's P and then in parentheses, doom, 0:50:44.120 --> 0:50:47.160 which is supposed to be the probability that we will 0:50:47.200 --> 0:50:51.850 go into a doomsday scenario with AI and with a 10% 0:50:51.850 --> 0:50:56.989 prediction that the population will be extinct. Those claims are baseless. 0:50:57.030 --> 0:51:00.950 They come from people who should know better It's irresponsible 0:51:00.989 --> 0:51:03.529 for those to put out there. And the nature of 0:51:03.590 --> 0:51:07.790 my piece is going to be P prosperity is greater 0:51:07.850 --> 0:51:11.450 than P doom. And it is far more likely that 0:51:11.570 --> 0:51:15.110 this is going to kick off something like the first 0:51:15.200 --> 0:51:19.839 industrial revolution, which was the greatest period of upward mobility 0:51:20.219 --> 0:51:22.980 for working class people in the history of the world. 0:51:23.420 --> 0:51:27.380 It created the middle class. It created shorter work weeks 0:51:27.840 --> 0:51:30.610 and higher wages. And I think that's what we're going 0:51:30.620 --> 0:51:33.230 to see with artificial intelligence if we get it right 0:51:33.390 --> 0:51:34.649 and Trump is getting it right. 0:51:35.290 --> 0:51:40.649 So all the hand-wringing that we have now, especially those 0:51:40.750 --> 0:51:43.130 on the left, the Bernie Sanders of the world and 0:51:43.170 --> 0:51:46.290 Elizabeth Warrens and all the rest of it, how much 0:51:46.330 --> 0:51:48.550 of that is going to last after the midterm elections? 0:51:49.770 --> 0:51:53.570 Yeah, I don't think very much. I mean, we've already 0:51:53.690 --> 0:51:56.069 seen all the people that we're talking about, all these 0:51:56.170 --> 0:51:59.049 jobs being wiped out. They've been proven wrong. I mean, 0:51:59.489 --> 0:52:04.439 You know, unemployment is low. Artificial intelligence is driving GDP 0:52:04.900 --> 0:52:07.960 and it's driving jobs and that kind of thing. And 0:52:08.000 --> 0:52:10.799 I think when this boom gets going, you know, all 0:52:10.820 --> 0:52:14.420 of these, you know, prognostications of these doomsday scenarios and 0:52:14.460 --> 0:52:16.800 don't let data centers happen and all this kind of 0:52:16.860 --> 0:52:19.040 stuff and keep it out of the schools, you know, 0:52:19.060 --> 0:52:21.040 they're all going to be quiet. It's going to be 0:52:21.080 --> 0:52:23.640 just like all of the other catastrophes they talked about 0:52:23.660 --> 0:52:25.390 in the past and gave up on as soon as 0:52:25.410 --> 0:52:26.710 it was obvious they were wrong about. 0:52:27.320 --> 0:52:29.200 All right, Todd Sheets, we'll have to leave it there. 0:52:29.280 --> 0:52:31.000 All the best to you, my friend. I appreciate the 0:52:31.040 --> 0:52:34.439 time tonight. Keep up the great work, and hopefully, God willing, 0:52:34.460 --> 0:52:35.520 we'll be talking again soon. 0:52:36.580 --> 0:52:37.200 That sounds great. 0:52:37.219 --> 0:52:37.630 Take care, Dan. 0:52:37.800 --> 0:52:40.950 All right, there you go. Todd Sheets, and check out his– 0:52:41.320 --> 0:52:44.650 it's on Wealth in Progress, and you can check it 0:52:44.710 --> 0:52:47.870 out on his Substack and iTunes and all that kind 0:52:47.930 --> 0:52:50.229 of stuff. 1026, we've got to get to a break. 0:52:50.450 --> 0:52:51.850 Phone lines are going to be open after this. 0:52:51.870 --> 0:52:51.930 513-749-7000. 0:52:51.930 --> 0:52:57.520 1-800-THE-BIG-ONE. As we roll till midnight tonight on the Thursday 0:52:57.560 --> 0:53:07.160 night edition of the Midweek Crisis, 700 WLW. Right back 0:53:07.219 --> 0:53:13.390 on the big one, 700 WLW, 1035, Thursday night edition 0:53:13.410 --> 0:53:18.370 of the Midweek Crisis. I'm Dan Carroll. We roll till 0:53:18.410 --> 0:53:26.100 midnight tonight, 513-749-7000, 1-800-THE-BIG-ONE. The Iran Revolutionary Guard put out 0:53:26.160 --> 0:53:31.560 a 25-page letter to, I guess, all of us Americans, 0:53:32.760 --> 0:53:37.610 urging all of us to oppose Donald Trump during the 0:53:37.650 --> 0:53:43.330 midterm elections. They say America's national security and the lives 0:53:43.390 --> 0:53:47.089 of its service members are not entrusted to someone who's 0:53:47.130 --> 0:53:51.850 not only a liar, but also, well, they're calling him insane. 0:53:52.510 --> 0:53:55.470 His only motivation in life is the accumulation of great wealth. 0:53:57.850 --> 0:54:01.750 The letter accuses Trump of concealing the peaceful nature of 0:54:01.790 --> 0:54:08.969 Iran's nuclear program. So this is a letter that is 0:54:09.290 --> 0:54:14.540 going out to those who oppose Donald Trump, namely Democrats. 0:54:16.600 --> 0:54:21.339 I'm surprised that AOC hasn't been out there endorsing this letter. 0:54:21.989 --> 0:54:28.319 Maybe Bernie Sanders. Maybe Dick Durbin. But they've still got 0:54:28.360 --> 0:54:32.259 time for that. So if you're a Democrat and you're 0:54:32.300 --> 0:54:36.319 going to vote against Trump in the midterm elections, just 0:54:36.360 --> 0:54:40.580 remember you're doing the bidding of your friends in Iran. 0:54:41.180 --> 0:54:42.880 Let's go to Amelia and see what Tim has on 0:54:42.900 --> 0:54:45.300 his mind. And Tim, you're on 700 WLW. 0:54:46.600 --> 0:54:48.560 Good evening, Dan. How are you doing tonight, sir? 0:54:48.700 --> 0:54:49.319 All right, Tim. 0:54:49.360 --> 0:54:49.680 How are you? 0:54:50.969 --> 0:54:53.170 I'm doing fine. Thanks for taking my call. 0:54:53.230 --> 0:54:53.689 Yes, sir. 0:54:55.530 --> 0:55:00.390 I just want to say, you know, I was born 0:55:00.430 --> 0:55:03.810 a poor farm boy out in East Fork Lake. And, 0:55:04.330 --> 0:55:07.070 you know, you get a dream in your life and you. 0:55:06.950 --> 0:55:07.580 Stick to it. 0:55:07.770 --> 0:55:10.770 And America is the greatest nation. 0:55:10.469 --> 0:55:11.700 On the planet of this earth. 0:55:12.320 --> 0:55:15.020 If you believe in what you do, you can build 0:55:15.040 --> 0:55:18.340 your dream and become successful. I've had my own business 0:55:18.400 --> 0:55:18.640 for 31. 0:55:18.600 --> 0:55:19.779 Years and. 0:55:21.210 --> 0:55:25.650 Um, I thank God for president Trump and I'm really 0:55:25.710 --> 0:55:27.370 lucky that I was born in America. 0:55:28.030 --> 0:55:31.670 Well, that's, uh, that that's you, you have lived the 0:55:31.710 --> 0:55:37.739 American dream, my friend, and congratulations to you for that. It, uh, 0:55:37.969 --> 0:55:41.180 it takes a, it takes some effort and it takes 0:55:41.219 --> 0:55:47.200 some work, maybe, uh, maybe a little bit of luck. Um, but, uh, 0:55:47.380 --> 0:55:50.489 a lot of stick to itiveness. And, uh, and you 0:55:50.510 --> 0:55:51.410 can make things happen. 0:55:52.430 --> 0:55:55.069 Very true. And I'm also a rocket just like you. 0:55:55.110 --> 0:55:57.109 I got my 50 year reunion this year. 0:55:57.130 --> 0:55:58.260 How about that? 0:55:59.300 --> 0:55:59.600 Yeah. 0:55:59.739 --> 0:56:06.520 Go rockets. That's for sure. All right, Tim. I appreciate you, brother. And, uh, 0:56:06.560 --> 0:56:09.450 congratulations on the, uh, are you still in business? Are 0:56:09.469 --> 0:56:10.130 you retired yet? 0:56:10.950 --> 0:56:15.660 Oh, no, I'm 67 years old. I got an award 0:56:15.700 --> 0:56:19.299 for Google Best Jewelry Store in Union Township for the 0:56:19.340 --> 0:56:19.919 second time. 0:56:19.940 --> 0:56:21.239 I got one this year. 0:56:22.110 --> 0:56:24.930 And if you go, can I say my business name? 0:56:24.950 --> 0:56:25.489 Sure, please do. 0:56:26.630 --> 0:56:30.470 If you go look up Tim's Jewelry Shop on Google, 0:56:30.710 --> 0:56:34.580 you can read all my five-star reviews that my gracious 0:56:34.680 --> 0:56:35.940 customers have given me. 0:56:36.440 --> 0:56:37.160 For a long time. 0:56:37.560 --> 0:56:40.840 Well, that is outstanding. Well, Tim, congratulations to you, and 0:56:40.900 --> 0:56:43.940 keep up the great work, and tell everyone at Rocket 0:56:43.980 --> 0:56:44.780 High I said hello. 0:56:46.500 --> 0:56:47.580 Sure will, buddy. 0:56:48.040 --> 0:56:50.070 You take care, and you keep up the good work, too, 0:56:50.100 --> 0:56:51.200 and we need your voice. 0:56:51.450 --> 0:56:55.250 Thank you, Tim. I appreciate you, and that's a good 0:56:55.290 --> 0:56:58.210 call right there from Tim and Amelia. Let's go to 0:56:58.250 --> 0:57:02.430 the other side of town. Westwood will say hey to Bill. Hey, Bill, 0:57:02.469 --> 0:57:02.890 you're on 700 WLW. 0:57:05.230 --> 0:57:07.330 Good evening, young man. It's good to hear you back 0:57:07.410 --> 0:57:07.970 on the radio. 0:57:07.989 --> 0:57:09.730 Well, thank you. It's good to hear your voice, too. 0:57:11.330 --> 0:57:16.640 Well, first of all, your program last night, you mentioned 0:57:17.010 --> 0:57:20.680 the railroad and what they're doing with the money or 0:57:20.800 --> 0:57:23.060 not doing with it so that they can, like, open 0:57:23.080 --> 0:57:25.020 it up and spend it on whatever they want. 0:57:25.060 --> 0:57:29.780 Yeah, we had Todd Zinzer on from the Citizen Watchdog 0:57:29.840 --> 0:57:34.080 is his website. And he was a former inspector general 0:57:34.120 --> 0:57:37.620 for the agriculture department. And so he knows how to, 0:57:38.480 --> 0:57:40.590 you know, he knows how to do, and he did 0:57:40.640 --> 0:57:43.390 FOIA requests when he was an inspector general. So he 0:57:43.430 --> 0:57:45.310 knows how to look at documents. He knows how to 0:57:45.370 --> 0:57:47.870 read government stuff. I mean, he knows where the bodies 0:57:47.930 --> 0:57:51.590 are buried. And he's been uncovering, there's no one that 0:57:51.650 --> 0:57:56.180 I can think of that has really exposed what is 0:57:56.240 --> 0:57:58.360 going on at City Hall more than Todd Zinser has. 0:58:00.080 --> 0:58:03.360 Well, what would trigger a review by the FBI with 0:58:03.400 --> 0:58:08.050 their forensic accounting teams that would be able to investigate 0:58:09.370 --> 0:58:13.910 where all of this money that's disappearing into nothingness is going? 0:58:14.210 --> 0:58:16.730 Well, I don't know if it's disappearing into nothingness. It 0:58:16.750 --> 0:58:19.150 seems to me he's got a pretty good handle on 0:58:19.190 --> 0:58:23.610 where it's going. It's going into... I guess some sort 0:58:23.630 --> 0:58:26.090 of escrow account. Well, not an escrow account because the 0:58:26.130 --> 0:58:31.160 money is getting interest, but they're holding the money somewhere 0:58:31.760 --> 0:58:34.060 and it's getting interest. And then that interest is being 0:58:34.120 --> 0:58:41.700 funneled apparently to other accounts controlled by City Hall. So 0:58:42.400 --> 0:58:45.820 it doesn't, to my way of thinking, that is not 0:58:45.860 --> 0:58:48.350 what the money was intended for. That's not the way 0:58:48.410 --> 0:58:50.760 it's supposed to be used. So At some point, is 0:58:50.780 --> 0:58:52.580 there going to have to be a reckoning on all this? 0:58:52.860 --> 0:58:56.380 I think there will be. I think it may be 0:58:57.080 --> 0:59:00.540 a little premature to suggest that the FBI needs to 0:59:00.560 --> 0:59:01.060 take a look at. 0:59:02.710 --> 0:59:02.870 It. 0:59:03.090 --> 0:59:04.770 Well, I would hope they would. 0:59:05.910 --> 0:59:07.190 Secondly, gas prices. 0:59:07.910 --> 0:59:11.660 Now that the Republican candidate was able to do what 0:59:11.680 --> 0:59:17.220 our so-called Republican governor didn't want to do because he 0:59:17.360 --> 0:59:20.970 cited on Mr. Cunningham's program that we have a bridge 0:59:21.010 --> 0:59:27.990 to pay for. And With the, whatchamacallit, gas prices in 0:59:28.030 --> 0:59:32.920 Butler on Tuesday were $ 3. 87 a gallon. Down here, they're 0:59:33.100 --> 0:59:38.360 still $ 4. 29. I noticed at Sam's Club today that it's 0:59:38.420 --> 0:59:44.110 down to $ 4. 09, and diesel's still like $ 6. 75 or something 0:59:44.150 --> 0:59:44.530 like that. 0:59:44.650 --> 0:59:46.910 I drove past a gas station on my way to 0:59:46.930 --> 0:59:49.830 the radio station tonight, and I saw it was, I 0:59:49.890 --> 0:59:53.870 want to say it was $ 3. 78 a gallon. is what 0:59:53.950 --> 0:59:58.090 I saw. And I don't think– well, today is October 1st, 0:59:58.110 --> 1:00:03.620 so I don't know if that tax relief starts today 1:00:03.780 --> 1:00:05.860 or it starts next week. I'm not exactly sure when 1:00:05.900 --> 1:00:08.320 it starts, but I don't think it's hit. 1:00:09.440 --> 1:00:09.580 Yet. 1:00:09.600 --> 1:00:13.140 No, I think it starts either tomorrow or sometime this weekend. 1:00:13.760 --> 1:00:14.380 You know what? 1:00:14.420 --> 1:00:16.340 I think you're right. I think I heard it starts 1:00:16.360 --> 1:00:18.720 this weekend because I remember thinking, I wonder if I 1:00:18.740 --> 1:00:21.530 can hold off on filling up until the weekend. 1:00:26.240 --> 1:00:29.900 Why is there such a disparity between up in Hamilton, 1:00:29.960 --> 1:00:35.890 Ohio at 387 and 429 down here in Cheviot and 1:00:35.950 --> 1:00:38.990 Dent and all the other places, and especially Harrison? 1:00:40.430 --> 1:00:43.950 That's a good question. I guess it all depends on 1:00:46.060 --> 1:00:50.140 that particular retailer, whether it's a gas station or a 1:00:50.160 --> 1:00:54.120 convenience store or a chain store, you know, whenever they, uh, what, 1:00:54.480 --> 1:00:56.860 whenever they got their tanks filled, uh, Russ is telling 1:00:56.880 --> 1:00:59.680 me the, uh, the, the tax relief goes into effect 1:00:59.760 --> 1:01:02.160 on Sunday. So, uh, if you can hold off to 1:01:02.180 --> 1:01:04.150 filling up till Sunday, you'll do yourself a little favor, 1:01:04.190 --> 1:01:07.530 but I just think it has to do on when 1:01:07.550 --> 1:01:10.730 they bought that, uh, particular, you know, got their tanks 1:01:10.770 --> 1:01:13.550 filled and how much the, uh, the, the price was 1:01:13.590 --> 1:01:16.630 at that time. And so, you know, there, I guess 1:01:16.650 --> 1:01:20.450 there's different lag times and different price points and all 1:01:20.490 --> 1:01:22.330 the rest of that, but, I don't know, someone who's 1:01:22.370 --> 1:01:25.090 got a better handle on that would have to explain 1:01:25.110 --> 1:01:26.610 that better than I'm probably explaining. 1:01:27.910 --> 1:01:31.010 Well, those are the two points I just wanted to 1:01:31.050 --> 1:01:33.380 bring up this evening. And again, it's good hearing you 1:01:33.400 --> 1:01:38.220 back on your regular nights now that baseball's over with. 1:01:38.240 --> 1:01:41.000 Well, thank you, Bill. I appreciate you listening, and don't 1:01:41.020 --> 1:01:41.800 be a stranger, brother. 1:01:43.160 --> 1:01:44.540 You have a blessed evening, young man. 1:01:44.560 --> 1:01:49.030 Yes, sir. Bill from Westwood. I appreciate that. So this 1:01:49.110 --> 1:01:49.350 is the. 1:01:51.270 --> 1:01:56.090 I'm pretty fascinated by this steel plant that is going 1:01:56.130 --> 1:02:03.010 to be built in Iowa. And American Thinker had a 1:02:03.430 --> 1:02:09.150 piece written about this. And they talk about the, in 1:02:09.190 --> 1:02:14.310 America's heartland, Masabi Metallics is the company that's going to 1:02:14.350 --> 1:02:18.290 build the plant in Iowa along the Mississippi River, $ 15 billion. 1:02:18.290 --> 1:02:25.450 $ 15 billion. It's expected to be up and running by 2030. 1:02:25.450 --> 1:02:27.710 The mill will be the largest ever in the United States, 1:02:29.290 --> 1:02:34.500 budgeted to reach approximately 10% of current American steel production 1:02:35.260 --> 1:02:41.300 within a couple of years of startup. The statistics at 1:02:41.340 --> 1:02:50.090 the announcement talked about 6,000 construction jobs, About 1,750 permanent 1:02:50.130 --> 1:02:55.630 employees at the plant. Related influx of jobs and activity 1:02:57.550 --> 1:03:02.530 at the iron mines in northeast Minnesota, which will supply 1:03:02.610 --> 1:03:09.380 the lion's share of the raw materials. 6,000 long-term temporary 1:03:09.440 --> 1:03:14.260 jobs in construction. 1,700 permanent jobs in the steel industry. 1:03:17.180 --> 1:03:23.280 That's good stuff. They talk about most of the benefits 1:03:23.300 --> 1:03:26.400 of the plant don't show up in a story like 1:03:26.440 --> 1:03:29.840 this because they can't be categorized with specific promises and numbers. 1:03:31.460 --> 1:03:33.490 But if we watch this space for the next few years, 1:03:33.510 --> 1:03:38.810 we'll find out much like the natural magnetism we always 1:03:38.850 --> 1:03:40.870 think of when we're dealing with metal in question, this 1:03:40.910 --> 1:03:46.990 project will create many more times the economic opportunities. The 1:03:47.030 --> 1:03:51.340 plan itself means the installation of building materials, overhead cranes, 1:03:51.550 --> 1:03:58.300 steelworking machinery, industrial conveyors, warehouse racking. The billions of dollars 1:03:58.680 --> 1:04:00.720 aren't all spent on the employees of the site. They're 1:04:00.740 --> 1:04:03.840 spent on the manufacturers of all these materials all over 1:04:03.880 --> 1:04:07.380 the country. The transportation to bring these materials to the 1:04:07.420 --> 1:04:11.820 job site. Once it's built there, it's going to be 1:04:11.840 --> 1:04:15.830 a permanent network of transportation activity bringing in ore, from 1:04:15.870 --> 1:04:21.840 northeast Minnesota or eastern Iowa, either by truck or by rail. 1:04:23.660 --> 1:04:26.460 It not only creates jobs for those transportation workers, but 1:04:26.520 --> 1:04:31.920 also creates important volume for port operations and transshipment hubs 1:04:33.620 --> 1:04:37.240 to move goods from rail or truck from lake vessels 1:04:37.300 --> 1:04:41.760 to river vessels. Many of our inland ports have fallen 1:04:41.820 --> 1:04:45.800 into disuse since globalization increased container traffic on the coasts. 1:04:46.580 --> 1:04:51.140 Our inland waterway industry will welcome the new business. Once 1:04:51.160 --> 1:04:53.140 the plant is up and running, it will do all 1:04:53.180 --> 1:04:57.290 these things in the community that a multimillion-dollar business always does. 1:04:59.110 --> 1:05:01.830 It doesn't just sit in its own space without interacting 1:05:01.850 --> 1:05:04.250 with the rest of the world. It joins the local economy, 1:05:04.990 --> 1:05:09.640 creates all sorts of new activity. So this is going 1:05:09.660 --> 1:05:16.430 to be a huge deal there in Iowa where they're 1:05:16.450 --> 1:05:22.230 going to build this steel plant. And these are the 1:05:22.270 --> 1:05:27.850 kind of things that we haven't seen in this country 1:05:27.910 --> 1:05:31.560 for a long time. Trump was on the campaign trail 1:05:31.600 --> 1:05:37.900 today and he was talking to, obviously, is CNN still 1:05:37.940 --> 1:05:42.420 complaining about Not getting to cover, not getting to cover 1:05:42.440 --> 1:05:47.140 Trump or MSNOW, whatever. I've seen plenty of Trump on TV. 1:05:47.640 --> 1:05:51.320 No shortage of Trump on TV. So there's plenty of 1:05:51.360 --> 1:05:54.510 news organizations out there that are still with him and 1:05:54.530 --> 1:05:58.670 still covering him. And he was talking to reporters as 1:05:58.730 --> 1:06:01.729 he was traveling during the day today. And he was 1:06:02.250 --> 1:06:07.290 asked about his economic numbers. Russ, can we hear cut 1:06:07.310 --> 1:06:07.970 number four, please? 1:06:10.970 --> 1:06:12.490 We have to get the message because we have the 1:06:12.550 --> 1:06:15.370 best numbers of any president in history. 1:06:16.130 --> 1:06:17.750 The one thing we don't do, you know, we don't 1:06:17.790 --> 1:06:19.650 get a fair shake from the media if. 1:06:19.610 --> 1:06:20.270 They report them. 1:06:20.290 --> 1:06:21.730 They just don't report the numbers. 1:06:21.790 --> 1:06:24.070 So we were just talking about it. 1:06:24.150 --> 1:06:27.240 So we're watching one of the stations and they're announcing 1:06:27.260 --> 1:06:28.610 the best numbers ever. 1:06:28.640 --> 1:06:31.240 Lowest poverty numbers, best poverty numbers. 1:06:31.300 --> 1:06:35.600 Nobody's ever seen anything like it. The best individual numbers 1:06:35.700 --> 1:06:37.980 that anybody's ever seen. The best. 1:06:39.300 --> 1:06:42.800 The highest stock market 81 times now in. 1:06:42.760 --> 1:06:44.920 A short period of time. The best stock. 1:06:45.080 --> 1:06:46.390 The best 401k. 1:06:46.990 --> 1:06:47.590 Everything. 1:06:47.730 --> 1:06:48.930 Nobody can compete. 1:06:49.450 --> 1:06:52.150 And maybe most of all, $ 21 trillion to be invested. 1:06:52.190 --> 1:06:55.950 Factories being built all over the United States. 1:06:56.310 --> 1:06:58.820 There's never been anything like it. 1:06:58.860 --> 1:07:03.360 But the press doesn't report it. And Trump talked about 1:07:03.380 --> 1:07:07.140 that the other day. He said they've got to do 1:07:07.180 --> 1:07:10.060 a better job of getting that message out. And that's 1:07:10.120 --> 1:07:12.190 part of what he's doing on the campaign trail for 1:07:12.210 --> 1:07:15.450 the next 30 days. Going to be campaigning all over 1:07:15.490 --> 1:07:19.130 the place. He'll be in Vandalia, Ohio. I think it's 1:07:19.370 --> 1:07:23.470 tomorrow or the next day. So he's going to be everywhere. 1:07:25.230 --> 1:07:28.110 And there should be plenty of, I mean, you never 1:07:28.530 --> 1:07:31.000 would see the coverage on CNN or MSNOW or any 1:07:31.020 --> 1:07:32.680 of that anyway. So I don't know what they're complaining about. 1:07:35.140 --> 1:07:37.480 But there's going to be plenty of Trump out there 1:07:38.640 --> 1:07:42.850 the next 30 days. And why the GOP struggles so 1:07:42.890 --> 1:07:48.490 much getting its message out is infuriating. The economy grew 1:07:48.530 --> 1:07:53.470 at a faster pace than previously estimated. In the first 1:07:53.490 --> 1:07:57.210 half of 2025, data from the Commerce Department showed Wednesday. 1:07:58.640 --> 1:08:03.980 Gross domestic product rose at 2.2%. Annualized rate in April 1:08:04.000 --> 1:08:10.740 through June Previous estimate had been 1.5% for growth. The 1:08:10.900 --> 1:08:15.100 upward revision reflected stronger readings for consumer spending, investment, and 1:08:15.200 --> 1:08:24.940 government expenditures. Real consumer spending rose 3.8%. So these numbers 1:08:25.000 --> 1:08:30.480 are fantastic. And that's what Trump is talking about. What 1:08:30.500 --> 1:08:31.929 else was he? I think I've got a whole, let 1:08:31.970 --> 1:08:37.620 me see here. I think I've got another. Trump soundbite. Yeah, 1:08:37.660 --> 1:08:40.050 he was asked to give his administration a grade. What 1:08:40.060 --> 1:08:45.790 do you think? This is the least surprising thing that 1:08:45.830 --> 1:08:48.130 Trump has ever said when he was asked to give 1:08:48.170 --> 1:08:51.030 his administration a grade. Russ, let's hear cut number three. 1:08:52.930 --> 1:08:56.890 We have all these numbers, and honestly, the press doesn't 1:08:56.930 --> 1:09:00.309 talk about it. And I would say this. I give 1:09:00.390 --> 1:09:02.730 us an A-plus on the government. 1:09:02.810 --> 1:09:04.230 On economics, on everything. 1:09:04.570 --> 1:09:05.490 Look at inflation. 1:09:06.050 --> 1:09:09.830 I inherited the worst inflation in history under Biden. Worst 1:09:09.910 --> 1:09:13.140 in history. And now it's great. It's really good. 1:09:13.160 --> 1:09:14.660 We've got it down. 1:09:15.160 --> 1:09:17.340 And oil is going to come down very, very soon. 1:09:17.420 --> 1:09:18.600 Oil is coming down. 1:09:18.740 --> 1:09:22.620 As soon as Iran is finished, and they're finished. 1:09:21.640 --> 1:09:25.490 Pretty much right now. So you could barely hear that, 1:09:25.729 --> 1:09:28.550 a lot of noise there in the background. And I 1:09:28.590 --> 1:09:30.750 believe that is as Trump was getting ready to walk 1:09:30.810 --> 1:09:35.360 out to the helipad, the new helipad there on the 1:09:35.400 --> 1:09:38.280 lawn of the White House, which is just, if you 1:09:38.300 --> 1:09:41.240 haven't seen a picture of that yet, you should go, Russ, 1:09:41.260 --> 1:09:43.679 you seen a picture of that helipad, that new helipad 1:09:43.700 --> 1:09:49.010 that Trump has? I think it's absolutely amazing. And I 1:09:49.050 --> 1:09:53.740 think it's him. If I'm not mistaken, the cover of 1:09:53.800 --> 1:09:57.840 Time Magazine, which, and I'm trying to find that article 1:09:57.880 --> 1:10:01.220 right now. He's on the cover of Trump Magazine. I 1:10:01.260 --> 1:10:04.840 think he's the person who's been on the cover of 1:10:04.900 --> 1:10:07.970 Time Magazine more than anybody else. I think is what 1:10:07.979 --> 1:10:11.280 I read about that. But I believe the picture is 1:10:11.320 --> 1:10:14.570 him standing on that helipad. It's probably, now that I 1:10:14.590 --> 1:10:18.150 think about it, it's probably an AI picture. Because the 1:10:18.189 --> 1:10:22.760 picture I saw, that's how you can tell something. Is AI. Rusty, 1:10:22.800 --> 1:10:24.600 do you think you can tell when you see a 1:10:24.640 --> 1:10:28.379 picture that's AI? It's supposed to look like a photograph 1:10:28.439 --> 1:10:33.200 because it just looks too perfect. You know what I mean? 1:10:33.310 --> 1:10:39.650 If it's a video, I mean, there's nothing that's– you 1:10:39.689 --> 1:10:44.490 can just tell. It's just– I mean, they look awesome. 1:10:44.530 --> 1:10:48.839 They look beautiful. But they're just too perfect. And that's usually, 1:10:49.140 --> 1:10:52.570 at least for me. is the giveaway when something is AI. 1:10:53.330 --> 1:10:56.929 And I really haven't spent a ton of time looking 1:10:56.970 --> 1:11:01.130 at the cover of Time magazine because really, Time magazine 1:11:01.189 --> 1:11:04.729 is pretty much a joke. But Trump's on the cover 1:11:04.770 --> 1:11:07.690 of Time magazine again this week. And I believe it 1:11:07.750 --> 1:11:13.860 is him. Here it is right here. 56, 56 times 1:11:15.660 --> 1:11:21.689 Trump has been on the cover of Time magazine. Trump 1:11:21.710 --> 1:11:25.250 has finally defeated former President Richard Nixon. He was on 1:11:25.250 --> 1:11:30.950 55 times. So Trump is one up on Nixon for 1:11:30.990 --> 1:11:34.970 appearing on the cover of Time magazine. And they said 1:11:35.010 --> 1:11:39.420 they did a 75-minute interview in the Oval Office talking 1:11:39.439 --> 1:11:43.060 about what Trump has built. And so I'm looking at 1:11:43.100 --> 1:11:45.439 this picture on this cover of Time magazine, and it's 1:11:45.479 --> 1:11:49.500 got to be AI. Because it's got. 1:11:51.050 --> 1:11:53.070 Well, there's another one with him standing in front. Well, 1:11:53.510 --> 1:11:56.570 these are the fake ones. But it's him standing on 1:11:56.750 --> 1:11:58.790 the helipad and you see the White House in the background. 1:11:59.950 --> 1:12:03.030 So I'm pretty sure that is an AI image. If 1:12:03.130 --> 1:12:05.769 I had to bet money on it, I would say 1:12:05.830 --> 1:12:11.150 it is. But yeah, 55 times for Nixon and 56 1:12:11.150 --> 1:12:14.599 for Trump. And of course, I'm sure he's very happy 1:12:14.660 --> 1:12:18.420 about that. Let's see. Look at the clock. We got 1:12:18.439 --> 1:12:20.700 to get to a break here. But a lot of 1:12:21.000 --> 1:12:22.700 stuff I want to touch on in the final hour. 1:12:23.280 --> 1:12:27.880 And phone lines are open for you as well. 513-749-7000. 1-800, 1:12:28.120 --> 1:12:30.580 the big one, if you want to get on board 1:12:30.620 --> 1:12:33.930 between now and midnight. And that would be a good 1:12:33.970 --> 1:12:36.770 time to pick up the phone. And again, a lot 1:12:36.790 --> 1:12:38.290 of other stuff I want to touch on. A lot 1:12:38.390 --> 1:12:41.349 of stuff I didn't get to last night. And some 1:12:41.390 --> 1:12:47.090 more audio soundbites, including Mark Wayne Mullen. And this caravan 1:12:48.030 --> 1:12:50.929 of people that is heading up from from the South 1:12:51.930 --> 1:12:53.890 heading to, and I don't know, I don't know what 1:12:53.930 --> 1:12:57.690 they're thinking because when they get to the United States, 1:12:58.410 --> 1:13:03.100 the border is not going to be open for them. But, uh, there's, uh, 1:13:03.180 --> 1:13:07.349 apparently hundreds of thousands of people who are walking the streets, uh, 1:13:07.380 --> 1:13:11.880 heading North. I'm going to, going to be here, I guess, uh, 1:13:11.920 --> 1:13:15.550 right before the midterm elections. So we'll see what happens 1:13:15.570 --> 1:13:20.270 with that. But, uh, uh, Homeland Security Chief Mark Wayne 1:13:20.290 --> 1:13:24.070 Mullen is letting it be known that they're wasting their 1:13:24.090 --> 1:13:25.990 time if they think they're going to get in through 1:13:26.030 --> 1:13:26.710 our southern border. 1:13:26.710 --> 1:13:27.250 1055. 1:13:27.250 --> 1:13:31.170 We've got to get to a break on 700 WLW. 1:13:32.340 --> 1:13:36.260 You've always admired the speed and grace of dolphins and 1:13:36.320 --> 1:13:39.640 wished that one day you could swim like them. And 1:13:39.700 --> 1:13:44.939 now you can. 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A 1:14:56.030 --> 1:15:02.420 group of migrants calling itself fee or Faye E Esperanza 1:15:02.500 --> 1:15:08.260 faith and hope left Honduras around September 20th, headed to 1:15:08.300 --> 1:15:12.160 the U S where they hope to slip past our border. 1:15:12.439 --> 1:15:15.720 Has no one told them that the border is closed 1:15:17.200 --> 1:15:19.760 started with around 200 people, but now has grown to 1:15:19.820 --> 1:15:27.600 an estimated more than 600 or more. Um, yeah, I 1:15:27.640 --> 1:15:31.170 guess they didn't get the message that Joe Biden is, uh, 1:15:31.270 --> 1:15:35.889 is not the president anymore. And even if God forbid 1:15:36.370 --> 1:15:41.020 Democrats win the day in the midterm elections, The Trump 1:15:41.040 --> 1:15:47.599 administration is still going to, just because Democrats win doesn't 1:15:47.640 --> 1:15:50.120 mean Trump is going to acquiesce and open up the 1:15:50.140 --> 1:15:52.160 border all of a sudden. That is not going to 1:15:52.220 --> 1:15:58.760 happen under the Trump administration. And Mark Wayne Mullen, the 1:15:59.000 --> 1:16:02.820 head of Homeland Security, was on Fox News talking about it. 1:16:03.610 --> 1:16:06.970 And here's his message for those folks that are heading 1:16:07.010 --> 1:16:09.750 towards the United States. Russ, let's hear cut number one, please. 1:16:10.370 --> 1:16:13.290 First of all, they just now entered the southern end 1:16:13.530 --> 1:16:17.939 of Mexico. They all claimed asylum in Mexico, which means 1:16:18.439 --> 1:16:20.660 legally they don't have a right to claim asylum in 1:16:20.680 --> 1:16:22.960 the United States because we have a First Nation agreement, 1:16:23.300 --> 1:16:25.360 meaning that when you go into a safe nation, which 1:16:25.439 --> 1:16:28.420 is Mexico considered a safe nation, you consider and you 1:16:28.439 --> 1:16:31.400 claim asylum, you also can't walk through there and then 1:16:31.439 --> 1:16:33.780 go into the United States. Now, the Biden administration turned 1:16:33.820 --> 1:16:36.059 a blind eye to that. Trump administration put a stop 1:16:36.080 --> 1:16:37.519 to that, which is why we have the most secure 1:16:37.550 --> 1:16:41.849 border because of President Trump's strong leadership that we've had 1:16:41.890 --> 1:16:46.050 in America's history. So we don't believe they're getting here, 1:16:46.090 --> 1:16:47.930 but we have been very clear. I have been very 1:16:47.970 --> 1:16:51.390 clear with my counterpart in Mexico. If they allow them 1:16:51.430 --> 1:16:54.179 to continue to come north, when they get to their 1:16:54.229 --> 1:16:57.040 northern border, our southern border, we're not allowing them to enter. 1:16:57.100 --> 1:16:59.260 So now they're just going to have a crisis around 1:16:59.300 --> 1:17:03.620 the southern border, around their northern border. We believe this 1:17:04.430 --> 1:17:07.330 caravan will probably break up. The reason, the intel that 1:17:07.370 --> 1:17:09.810 we're getting, the reason why they formed is because they 1:17:09.850 --> 1:17:14.189 were trying to pressure us. Mexico into accepting their asylum cases. 1:17:14.640 --> 1:17:18.880 Evidently that has happened. So now what takes place between 1:17:19.380 --> 1:17:21.880 now and the next few weeks will depend on Mexico. 1:17:21.900 --> 1:17:24.380 But I will tell you right now, zero chance we 1:17:24.400 --> 1:17:25.820 allow them to enter the United States. 1:17:26.460 --> 1:17:29.540 So I'm going to go with what Mark Wayne Mullen 1:17:29.580 --> 1:17:33.729 says right there. Zero chance they will be allowed to 1:17:33.810 --> 1:17:39.309 enter the United States. So hopefully this is a story 1:17:39.350 --> 1:17:44.910 that we'll dissolve on its own and we won't have 1:17:44.950 --> 1:17:51.479 to deal with anything crazy like that going on at 1:17:51.490 --> 1:18:01.260 the southern border. This story about the flight the jet 1:18:01.300 --> 1:18:10.110 that was on its way to Israel This story is 1:18:10.150 --> 1:18:13.150 just unbelievable. And of course, the mainstream media is trying 1:18:13.180 --> 1:18:17.260 to make it sound like it's no big deal. But 1:18:18.939 --> 1:18:25.890 that was the plane from Dubai headed for Tel Aviv. 1:18:28.729 --> 1:18:35.830 And Andrea Widberg at American Thinker wrote this up. About 1:18:35.850 --> 1:18:39.500 two hours into the flight, Well, let me back up 1:18:39.520 --> 1:18:43.019 a little bit. She writes, here are the verified facts. 1:18:43.280 --> 1:18:49.130 Since the Abraham Accords, Israels love visiting the UAE, which 1:18:49.170 --> 1:18:53.700 now has a great relationship with Israel. That's why 150 1:18:53.700 --> 1:18:57.099 Israelis were among the 174 passengers on a flight from 1:18:57.150 --> 1:19:00.870 Dubai to Tel Aviv. About two hours in the flight, 1:19:01.130 --> 1:19:03.670 the plane suddenly plunged between 14,000 and 18,000 feet in 1:19:03.670 --> 1:19:10.900 30 seconds. That's because of events in the cockpit. the 1:19:10.979 --> 1:19:17.900 Omani co-pilot, had brutally stabbed, and I don't know how 1:19:17.939 --> 1:19:22.310 to pronounce this guy's name, Smit Machar, the Indian pilot, 1:19:22.350 --> 1:19:26.030 leaving him bloodied and with life-threatening injuries in an effort 1:19:26.070 --> 1:19:31.070 to take over the plane. But despite his injuries, Machar 1:19:31.130 --> 1:19:34.070 managed to send an alert and unlock the cabin door. 1:19:36.070 --> 1:19:40.440 The passengers and crew acted instantly, storming into the cabin, 1:19:42.620 --> 1:19:47.160 The hero of the day was Yanov Hayin, a 50-year-old 1:19:47.220 --> 1:19:50.950 plumber traveling with his family. Hayin was the first to 1:19:51.010 --> 1:19:56.270 enter the cockpit and immediately grabbed the Omani co-pilot, dragging 1:19:56.330 --> 1:19:58.990 him out of the cockpit where other passengers subdued him. 1:20:03.970 --> 1:20:06.910 With the airplane still plunging, Hayin grabbed the flight controls, 1:20:06.990 --> 1:20:11.020 pushed back on them, stopping the deadly descent. He had 1:20:11.080 --> 1:20:14.380 never flown an airplane. He said he knew how to 1:20:14.439 --> 1:20:17.939 do it because he liked to watch a show, Aircraft Investigation, 1:20:18.100 --> 1:20:23.610 a Canadian TV show. By the time he acted, the 1:20:23.630 --> 1:20:29.410 plane was apparently about three seconds away from an unstoppable crash. Thankfully, 1:20:29.450 --> 1:20:31.810 other pilots on board helped the plane land safely in 1:20:31.850 --> 1:20:38.519 Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the passengers quickly organized to save Machar, 1:20:38.560 --> 1:20:46.240 the pilot who was bleeding profusely. Um, Currently, he is 1:20:46.280 --> 1:20:52.040 said to be recovering in Dubai. But then she provides 1:20:52.100 --> 1:20:57.099 a list of mainstream media outlets and how they were 1:20:57.160 --> 1:21:01.970 presenting the story to their readers. Here's what CNN had 1:21:01.990 --> 1:21:06.790 to say. A violent altercation between two pilots caused a 1:21:06.890 --> 1:21:10.170 fly Dubai aircraft traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv to 1:21:10.210 --> 1:21:14.479 divert to Saudi Arabia. The New York Times, a plane 1:21:14.540 --> 1:21:18.439 flying from Dubai to Israel, was diverted after an altercation 1:21:19.960 --> 1:21:24.220 between the pilot and the co-pilot. Wall Street Journal, an 1:21:24.300 --> 1:21:28.570 Israeli-bound flight made an emergency landing after an apparent struggle 1:21:29.890 --> 1:21:37.330 in the cockpit. BBC News, Israeli-bound flight diverted after fight 1:21:37.590 --> 1:21:43.280 between the pilots. Sky News. flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, 1:21:43.620 --> 1:21:48.490 land safely in Saudi Arabia after a brawl between pilots. 1:21:51.390 --> 1:21:55.389 I mean, this is what the national and the world 1:21:55.430 --> 1:22:01.610 media does. I mean, how much more drama can you 1:22:01.670 --> 1:22:09.519 get than what Andrea Woodberg just described there? I mean, 1:22:09.560 --> 1:22:13.430 they were seconds away from being at the point of 1:22:13.490 --> 1:22:18.179 no return. And this guy, a plumber, goes in, grabs 1:22:18.200 --> 1:22:22.040 the controls. People tend to the wounded pilot who was 1:22:22.080 --> 1:22:30.270 bleeding profusely. Part of the tail of the aircraft broke 1:22:30.410 --> 1:22:37.150 off because of the extreme stress on the airframe. Donald 1:22:37.189 --> 1:22:43.410 Trump praised Boeing for building such a substantial aircraft that 1:22:43.450 --> 1:22:47.070 could withstand the stress that was put on the aircraft. 1:22:47.090 --> 1:22:53.940 I mean, it's absolutely amazing. Netanyahu said today that the 1:22:54.140 --> 1:23:00.260 co-pilot who tried to crash the jet had undergone Islamist radicalization. 1:23:01.660 --> 1:23:07.570 We know he underwent Islamist radicalization indoctrination, Netanyahu said. He 1:23:07.610 --> 1:23:11.730 said they'll find out soon if that dude is connected 1:23:11.750 --> 1:23:16.950 to Iran. trying to take down that airplane and kill 1:23:16.970 --> 1:23:23.810 a bunch of Israeli citizens. And there was an expert, 1:23:24.030 --> 1:23:27.050 some kind of expert on CNN, on some panel they 1:23:27.090 --> 1:23:29.930 had who was talking about this, and they said, oh, 1:23:29.970 --> 1:23:33.560 it could be workplace violence. And they don't know a motive. 1:23:35.740 --> 1:23:40.500 We don't know why some dude who's a Muslim would 1:23:40.520 --> 1:23:44.479 try to crash an airplane full of Israelis. Really, really, 1:23:44.570 --> 1:23:47.560 Ken from Mason, really tough to figure out those motives sometimes. 1:23:47.640 --> 1:23:47.900 Isn't it? 1:23:49.520 --> 1:23:53.200 Unbelievable. Dan, an aside to the story also, there was 1:23:53.280 --> 1:23:56.400 a dentist on board that saved the pilot's life. He 1:23:56.420 --> 1:24:00.210 was able to stop the bleeding, stabilize his blood pressure, 1:24:00.270 --> 1:24:02.250 and keep him alive until he could get into the 1:24:02.370 --> 1:24:03.610 EMTs at the airport. 1:24:03.750 --> 1:24:07.090 It's absolutely, I mean, they're going to make a movie 1:24:07.150 --> 1:24:10.269 out of this, and it's going to be unbelievable. 1:24:12.290 --> 1:24:16.530 It's a miracle beyond miracles. I mean, 174 people were 1:24:16.570 --> 1:24:22.430 within three seconds of being dead. It's just an amazing, 1:24:22.470 --> 1:24:28.490 amazing story. You know, on Fox this morning, the plumber 1:24:28.530 --> 1:24:30.759 was talking about no one wants to make a big 1:24:30.800 --> 1:24:33.770 deal of it because it was the Israeli people that 1:24:33.810 --> 1:24:37.580 were attacked. And he's right. No one wants to make 1:24:38.000 --> 1:24:41.160 anything out of what they're doing to Israel. People need 1:24:41.180 --> 1:24:45.840 to wake up. What's been going on? October 7th, almost 1:24:45.880 --> 1:24:48.180 three years ago now, is still one of the most 1:24:48.280 --> 1:24:52.010 horrific things. If you ever have the opportunity to watch 1:24:52.130 --> 1:24:56.550 an hour and a half documentary about that, I promise you, 1:24:56.590 --> 1:24:58.930 you will never forget it as long as you live. 1:24:59.010 --> 1:24:59.490 I've seen it. 1:24:59.490 --> 1:25:01.139 I've seen it. 1:25:01.189 --> 1:25:08.170 But you know who hasn't seen it? People who want 1:25:08.189 --> 1:25:14.429 to show the video of Gaza and all the bombed 1:25:14.450 --> 1:25:19.120 out buildings and the wreckage that's left behind and call 1:25:19.160 --> 1:25:21.670 it genocide. They haven't seen it. 1:25:23.040 --> 1:25:25.520 Well, the number of people who were killed would be 1:25:25.580 --> 1:25:29.810 the equivalent of 40,000 Americans being killed. I know. And 1:25:29.830 --> 1:25:31.809 I'm pretty sure we would go to war if that 1:25:32.350 --> 1:25:36.099 ever happened in America. And yet they want to criticize 1:25:36.140 --> 1:25:39.550 the Israelis and want to call, you know, like somehow 1:25:39.600 --> 1:25:43.710 they're eliminating all the people. People understand these people want 1:25:43.750 --> 1:25:47.390 to destroy Israel. I mean, how many more times does 1:25:47.430 --> 1:25:50.150 your listeners have to hear from the river to the sea? 1:25:51.210 --> 1:25:55.880 That means the elimination of the Jewish population. People need 1:25:55.900 --> 1:25:58.160 to understand that. They're singing that in New York, in 1:25:58.200 --> 1:26:00.540 New Jersey, in the state of Washington. 1:26:01.020 --> 1:26:01.559 It's sick. 1:26:03.210 --> 1:26:06.480 I think AOC was at a rally this past weekend 1:26:07.520 --> 1:26:12.219 where they were chanting that. A river to the sea. 1:26:13.560 --> 1:26:17.139 I hope your listeners, when it comes to the Democratic Party, 1:26:18.120 --> 1:26:21.850 they have no policies of any kind. None. All they 1:26:21.870 --> 1:26:24.870 want to do is impeach Trump again and destroy the 1:26:24.930 --> 1:26:27.790 American way of life. They have no other policy. That's 1:26:27.870 --> 1:26:31.910 what they're preaching. Everybody in this country has to wake up. 1:26:32.010 --> 1:26:37.730 What's going on? This is a power grab. They're flim-flamming people. 1:26:37.770 --> 1:26:43.020 They're lying constantly. Everything they say is a lie. It's distortion. 1:26:43.060 --> 1:26:47.320 It's a deception. They are sham artists. They're flip-flam artists. 1:26:47.939 --> 1:26:51.979 These people... I wish one of your callers could tell 1:26:52.180 --> 1:26:56.010 one policy. They talk about affordability. We talked about that 1:26:56.070 --> 1:27:00.090 last night, Dan. This economy is still eons better than 1:27:00.130 --> 1:27:03.950 it ever was under Joe Biden. You know, if we 1:27:04.030 --> 1:27:07.150 hadn't gone to war, the economy would be in phenomenal shape. 1:27:07.510 --> 1:27:09.650 But this is something that Trump had to do, and 1:27:09.680 --> 1:27:12.660 we had to take away the nuclear possibilities. 1:27:14.220 --> 1:27:18.420 Well, and now you've got mainstream media and you've got 1:27:18.500 --> 1:27:23.370 others who want to pretend as if Iran... wasn't even 1:27:23.410 --> 1:27:29.280 close to having a nuclear weapon. They're just completely downplaying 1:27:30.300 --> 1:27:35.920 that entire scenario that Iran was. And it was just 1:27:35.960 --> 1:27:38.740 a couple of years ago that they were talking about 1:27:38.810 --> 1:27:42.650 Iran having a nuke, being days or weeks away from 1:27:43.110 --> 1:27:45.570 being able to deploy a nuclear weapon. They were talking 1:27:45.630 --> 1:27:48.210 about it as fact. And now that Trump is in 1:27:48.229 --> 1:27:51.570 there saying that he's not going to, you know, not 1:27:51.610 --> 1:27:54.189 on my watch am I going to let Iran get 1:27:54.250 --> 1:27:56.840 its hands on a nuclear weapon. Now they're acting like, well, 1:27:57.880 --> 1:28:00.560 you know, their nuclear program was only for peaceful purposes. 1:28:01.820 --> 1:28:06.720 I mean, I read part of that letter that Iran 1:28:06.760 --> 1:28:13.540 sent to the American people. And, I mean, the CNNs 1:28:13.580 --> 1:28:18.400 and the MSNBCs, they might as well be reading– verbatim 1:28:18.620 --> 1:28:22.680 iran propaganda because that's that that's all they that's all 1:28:22.700 --> 1:28:23.719 they know how to do. 1:28:23.580 --> 1:28:29.770 You know i did they were willing to kill 174 1:28:29.770 --> 1:28:32.670 people two days ago with an airplane and they wouldn't 1:28:32.750 --> 1:28:34.930 use an atomic bomb You've got to be kidding me. 1:28:35.390 --> 1:28:40.320 These people are insane. You know, they talk about it 1:28:40.400 --> 1:28:44.720 all the time. These people, they're a death culture. People 1:28:44.780 --> 1:28:48.260 need to accept that. They believe in death. They think 1:28:48.300 --> 1:28:52.400 they get 72 virgins when they work for Allah. These 1:28:52.479 --> 1:28:55.820 people are sick. And I'll guarantee you on this one 1:28:55.860 --> 1:28:59.839 last thing, Dan, with the caravan coming north You know, 1:28:59.900 --> 1:29:02.560 Scheinbaum from Mexico has said that it's going to be 1:29:02.620 --> 1:29:05.780 stopped before it ever gets remotely close to the border. 1:29:06.340 --> 1:29:10.809 But you can bet there's Democratic money behind this caravan. 1:29:11.290 --> 1:29:14.840 These people are being paid. And the timing of it, 1:29:14.850 --> 1:29:18.429 they're going to arrive right around November 3rd, November 4th then. 1:29:19.790 --> 1:29:21.410 Interesting timing, wouldn't you say? 1:29:21.490 --> 1:29:23.720 Well, I mean, you just say, you know, I don't 1:29:23.740 --> 1:29:26.019 know if I just played the cut from Mark Wayne Mullen. 1:29:26.720 --> 1:29:30.520 And he said they can show up if they want, 1:29:30.560 --> 1:29:31.560 but they're not getting in. 1:29:33.740 --> 1:29:37.430 I understand that, but they're trying to create a distraction, 1:29:37.510 --> 1:29:41.110 a spectacle. I mean, the Democrats are going crazy because 1:29:41.450 --> 1:29:45.690 Trump has eliminated three or four million votes, illegal votes 1:29:45.729 --> 1:29:49.229 they would love to use. They're going crazy, and this 1:29:49.330 --> 1:29:53.090 is a diversion. Believe me, they want to create as 1:29:53.170 --> 1:29:57.310 much a political... diversion as they can with this caravan. 1:29:58.810 --> 1:30:00.300 They won't get across. 1:30:00.400 --> 1:30:04.220 I think Democrats would love nothing more than to have 1:30:04.260 --> 1:30:08.520 an incident at the border and to have something go 1:30:08.580 --> 1:30:14.939 completely sideways that looks terrible and something that they can... 1:30:14.939 --> 1:30:19.590 What are the chances? When's the last time CNN or 1:30:19.710 --> 1:30:22.510 MSNBC or any of the networks sent a camera to 1:30:22.530 --> 1:30:25.099 the border? Because they don't want to show how quiet 1:30:25.140 --> 1:30:29.160 and peaceful it is now. But the day that this 1:30:29.220 --> 1:30:31.580 migrant caravan shows up, you think they'll be there then? 1:30:33.380 --> 1:30:35.979 You think they'll be there for that? And you think 1:30:36.000 --> 1:30:39.280 there'll be agitators out there trying to spark some sort 1:30:39.300 --> 1:30:41.880 of incident? Sure they will. Yeah. 1:30:43.120 --> 1:30:46.620 I guarantee you Trump is talking to Scheinbaum already and 1:30:46.640 --> 1:30:49.650 has told her she better make sure this caravan never 1:30:49.689 --> 1:30:53.160 gets close to the border. You know, I mean, it's 1:30:53.280 --> 1:30:56.519 obvious to follow them. You know, and this is a diversion. 1:30:57.400 --> 1:31:00.830 And the typical Democratic money, I guarantee you, is behind it. 1:31:00.860 --> 1:31:04.810 People are getting paid to do this. I hope most 1:31:04.830 --> 1:31:07.710 of your listeners realize most of the protests you see, 1:31:07.770 --> 1:31:11.490 whatever it happens to be, these people are paid. These 1:31:11.530 --> 1:31:14.660 people are paid to protest and generally don't live in 1:31:14.680 --> 1:31:18.379 the areas where they're protesting. Like the protest here locally 1:31:18.439 --> 1:31:21.559 about Kroger. That's all out-of-town people protesting. 1:31:21.930 --> 1:31:24.269 I mean, if you walked from one end of Mexico 1:31:24.350 --> 1:31:26.730 to the other, what do you think you would look 1:31:26.790 --> 1:31:30.790 like while that was going on? Would your clothing look fresh? 1:31:31.350 --> 1:31:33.410 Would you have a cell phone that was powered up? 1:31:34.229 --> 1:31:38.580 Would your hair be done? I don't think so. So 1:31:39.939 --> 1:31:44.280 the signs are pretty obvious that this is not a 1:31:44.320 --> 1:31:46.760 grassroots thing. 1:31:46.780 --> 1:31:49.760 A couple hundred people die every time they do this. Oh, sure. 1:31:49.960 --> 1:31:52.639 But, you know, there's no mention of that. And that's 1:31:52.660 --> 1:31:56.760 the other thing. When Biden had the open borders, there 1:31:56.780 --> 1:31:59.650 were bodies piling up on both sides of the Rio Grande. 1:32:00.330 --> 1:32:02.870 And it was, I mean, you talk about a health hazard. 1:32:03.630 --> 1:32:10.430 You talk about deprivation. You talk about miserable human conditions. 1:32:11.390 --> 1:32:13.110 We had all that kind of stuff going on, but 1:32:14.570 --> 1:32:16.220 they simply don't care. Ken, we got to run. I 1:32:16.229 --> 1:32:17.760 appreciate the phone call as always, brother. 1:32:18.860 --> 1:32:19.710 All right, Dan, have a good one. 1:32:19.840 --> 1:32:22.260 All right, we'll talk to you later. There's Ken from Mason. 1:32:22.280 --> 1:32:25.200 I appreciate him picking up the phone. 1125, we've got 1:32:25.220 --> 1:32:27.740 to get to a break. News coming up bottom of 1:32:27.760 --> 1:32:29.219 the hour. 1:32:29.240 --> 1:32:29.479 513-749-7000. 1:32:29.500 --> 1:32:33.200 1-800-THE-BIG-ONE as we roll until midnight tonight on the Thursday 1:32:33.240 --> 1:32:37.200 night edition of the Midweek Crisis. 700-WLW. On their job, 1:32:39.240 --> 1:32:44.689 the Texas Department of Public Safety, MEFBI, were able to 1:32:44.729 --> 1:32:49.620 locate and arrest a dude, a suspect, Connected to a, quote, 1:32:49.740 --> 1:32:53.379 credible threat to attack the Texas state capitol in Austin, Texas. 1:32:53.420 --> 1:32:59.450 That attack was supposed to happen today. 40-year-old Benny Caldera Jr. 1:32:59.490 --> 1:33:05.650 was taken into custody last night by a Texas public 1:33:05.689 --> 1:33:11.040 safety SWAT team. They found him in a town called Converse, 1:33:11.880 --> 1:33:16.309 a city about 13 miles northeast of San Antonio. According 1:33:16.350 --> 1:33:19.210 to the Department of Public Safety, the agency received information 1:33:19.250 --> 1:33:23.089 concerning a person threatening to attack the Texas State Capitol. 1:33:24.520 --> 1:33:28.349 They deemed the threat credible. So the FBI was on it. 1:33:29.220 --> 1:33:36.790 They got hooked up with DPS to investigate the circumstances 1:33:36.850 --> 1:33:44.290 and identify the suspect. So this doesn't happen. if we 1:33:44.310 --> 1:33:47.070 have law enforcement that has its hands tied behind its back, 1:33:47.850 --> 1:33:50.880 as so many Democrats want to do. They're out there 1:33:50.910 --> 1:33:53.760 talking about getting rid of ICE and getting rid of 1:33:53.800 --> 1:33:55.800 all these federal agencies and all the rest of it. 1:33:58.640 --> 1:34:04.140 But what would have happened? What would have happened if 1:34:04.180 --> 1:34:06.549 this dude would have walked into the Texas State Capitol 1:34:06.590 --> 1:34:09.670 today and started shooting the place up? What would be 1:34:09.710 --> 1:34:11.889 the lead story on the news tonight? Well, it didn't 1:34:11.930 --> 1:34:19.479 happen because We have these federal agencies that are, thankfully, 1:34:19.500 --> 1:34:22.610 at this time, living up to their duties and their responsibilities. 1:34:23.830 --> 1:34:26.270 Penny is in Middletown, been hanging on for a little bit. 1:34:26.330 --> 1:34:27.969 Penny in Middletown, how are you tonight? 1:34:29.410 --> 1:34:31.210 I'm good, and I want to thank you for doing 1:34:31.710 --> 1:34:34.309 such a great job for us. And I just wanted 1:34:34.350 --> 1:34:38.880 to make a comment about the closed border. And just 1:34:38.900 --> 1:34:43.240 because we think the border is closed, people daily are... 1:34:43.660 --> 1:34:47.820 applying and coming on over, flying on over. I know 1:34:47.900 --> 1:34:53.349 just myself, you know, three people this year who have 1:34:53.360 --> 1:34:57.250 brought people from other countries. And I do have a 1:34:57.290 --> 1:34:57.790 little bit of. 1:34:58.270 --> 1:34:59.150 Problem with. 1:35:00.990 --> 1:35:04.110 Bringing so many foreigners in. And I know the country 1:35:04.150 --> 1:35:08.870 was founded on foreigners. We all came over on the 1:35:08.930 --> 1:35:13.099 ship or whatever, but it seems to me we're letting them. 1:35:13.720 --> 1:35:19.910 too many into the country. Let's stop. Really close the 1:35:20.530 --> 1:35:25.450 border as I see it and get this country straightened out. 1:35:25.590 --> 1:35:29.930 So you're saying that people with legitimate asylum claims are 1:35:29.990 --> 1:35:32.189 coming to the border and coming across? 1:35:33.590 --> 1:35:34.710 Yes. 1:35:34.770 --> 1:35:35.630 Is what you're saying? 1:35:36.850 --> 1:35:42.890 Yeah. Well, within the last two years, I know of 1:35:43.070 --> 1:35:45.570 one person who's come to the border and been allowed 1:35:45.590 --> 1:35:48.250 to come up on a cross. But I'm saying other 1:35:48.290 --> 1:35:52.530 people who are applying online and can, you know, just 1:35:52.640 --> 1:35:54.460 apply online. 1:35:55.160 --> 1:35:55.820 Here I am. 1:35:55.920 --> 1:35:58.479 I want to come to the United States. I don't 1:35:58.520 --> 1:36:03.720 know the reasons. One of them is a nurse bringing 1:36:03.780 --> 1:36:08.980 over her mate from the Philippines. Another is a guy 1:36:09.020 --> 1:36:09.979 who works at GE. 1:36:10.420 --> 1:36:11.179 Okay, well. 1:36:12.479 --> 1:36:18.019 china i i just don't think i can exactly say that's. 1:36:18.060 --> 1:36:21.849 Close border okay well penny i appreciate your phone call 1:36:22.160 --> 1:36:25.410 and uh what i would say is that uh if 1:36:25.470 --> 1:36:29.510 these folks are coming into the country then uh obviously 1:36:29.570 --> 1:36:33.889 it's not the same complete chaotic situation that we had 1:36:33.970 --> 1:36:38.170 under the biden administrations where you have gotaways and people 1:36:38.229 --> 1:36:42.950 are turning themselves into border patrol officers and claiming asylum, 1:36:42.990 --> 1:36:44.650 and then they get a piece of paper that says 1:36:44.689 --> 1:36:47.330 show up in court in three years. Those things are 1:36:47.370 --> 1:36:51.520 not happening. So if people are getting into the country, 1:36:51.570 --> 1:36:55.220 it's being done in a process that is orderly and 1:36:55.320 --> 1:36:58.940 I'm sure vets those individuals. And we simply just don't 1:36:58.979 --> 1:37:01.600 have the chaos that we had at the border before. 1:37:02.200 --> 1:37:05.580 So when you talk about the border being closed, or 1:37:05.600 --> 1:37:08.420 when I talk about the border being closed, what I'm 1:37:08.460 --> 1:37:13.450 talking about is we no longer... have the video and 1:37:13.470 --> 1:37:17.030 the people who are coming across the Rio Grande River 1:37:18.090 --> 1:37:21.410 by the hundreds or thousands on a daily basis. People 1:37:21.450 --> 1:37:25.830 who are scaling the walls that are there in the 1:37:25.870 --> 1:37:29.880 middle of the night and trafficking kids and all the 1:37:29.939 --> 1:37:34.520 rest of it. That kind of stuff is not happening. 1:37:34.860 --> 1:37:39.480 I understand that. I'm just saying I want people to 1:37:39.500 --> 1:37:43.450 know that people are still coming, just flowing in here. 1:37:44.350 --> 1:37:49.850 Well, Penny, you know what? I'm going to research this 1:37:49.890 --> 1:37:53.490 a little bit more for my next show. But it's 1:37:53.570 --> 1:37:58.710 nowhere near the rate that it was in the previous minute. But, Penny, 1:37:58.790 --> 1:38:01.229 I appreciate you hanging on. I appreciate your phone call tonight. 1:38:01.930 --> 1:38:02.550 All right. Thank you. 1:38:02.570 --> 1:38:07.260 Okay. And your phone was breaking up a little bit, too. But, yeah, 1:38:07.640 --> 1:38:12.320 I mean, thank God we had. The FBI doing the 1:38:12.360 --> 1:38:15.200 job that they're supposed to do. Let me look at 1:38:15.220 --> 1:38:17.660 my list on the audio here. What have I not? 1:38:18.120 --> 1:38:18.920 What have I not here? 1:38:19.200 --> 1:38:19.460 J.D. 1:38:19.500 --> 1:38:19.780 Vance. 1:38:20.640 --> 1:38:20.900 J.D. 1:38:20.920 --> 1:38:23.750 Vance was in Lakeland, Florida today. So he's out on 1:38:23.770 --> 1:38:29.950 the campaign trail as well. And he was. Look, it 1:38:30.090 --> 1:38:34.130 really is a shame that it has been left pretty 1:38:34.170 --> 1:38:36.910 much up to Trump and to J.D. Vance to get 1:38:36.950 --> 1:38:42.100 the message out about what this administration has accomplished. And J.D. 1:38:42.140 --> 1:38:45.400 Vance was talking about criminal activity today and how the 1:38:45.439 --> 1:38:49.000 administration has done on that score. And so with that, Russ, 1:38:49.020 --> 1:38:50.240 can we hear cut number two, please? 1:38:51.210 --> 1:38:55.549 For 16 months, we haven't released a single illegal immigrant 1:38:55.630 --> 1:39:03.720 at the border. Meanwhile, we're doing something simple. We're stopping 1:39:03.760 --> 1:39:07.080 violent criminals and back in the blue. Now, this is 1:39:07.100 --> 1:39:08.080 not rocket science. 1:39:08.820 --> 1:39:09.540 Look what happened. 1:39:10.060 --> 1:39:13.780 Just six months after inauguration, fentanyl deaths in this great 1:39:13.840 --> 1:39:22.730 state were down by nearly 50%. That's amazing. That means 1:39:22.810 --> 1:39:26.469 more of our neighbors, especially those who are suffering from addiction, 1:39:26.770 --> 1:39:29.610 they get an opportunity at a second chance because we 1:39:29.689 --> 1:39:32.980 stopped flooding our nation with that poison that the Mexican 1:39:33.000 --> 1:39:36.300 drug cartels were bringing in. Because of that, we now 1:39:36.360 --> 1:39:40.270 see violent crime has fallen at its fastest rate in history. 1:39:40.700 --> 1:39:44.510 Did you know that the murder rate is at a 1:39:44.530 --> 1:39:46.710 126-year low? 1:39:46.790 --> 1:39:50.560 Ladies and gentlemen, that's something to be proud of. So 1:39:50.650 --> 1:39:53.439 there's J.D. Vance, and he's doing his best to get 1:39:53.460 --> 1:39:56.019 the message out. And I'm guessing he's going to be 1:39:56.080 --> 1:39:59.520 on the campaign trail for the next 30 days as well. 1:40:01.060 --> 1:40:04.520 But the people in this administration can sit there and 1:40:04.560 --> 1:40:10.340 rattle off just one accomplishment after another. And so when 1:40:10.360 --> 1:40:13.540 you have callers like I had last night who wants 1:40:13.600 --> 1:40:19.020 to complain about Trump not getting everything done that he 1:40:19.040 --> 1:40:22.230 said he was going to do the list of things 1:40:22.250 --> 1:40:27.610 that he has done is, uh, is pretty daggone long. Uh, 1:40:27.670 --> 1:40:31.729 let's see. Uh, so the midterms are coming up and 1:40:32.229 --> 1:40:34.150 of course we say we are talking about, and we, 1:40:34.310 --> 1:40:39.170 I talk about polls almost every night now and, uh, CNN, uh, 1:40:39.189 --> 1:40:41.990 Harry Anton on CNN is it's, it's a one thing 1:40:42.760 --> 1:40:47.340 that I think CNN does well is when, when they, 1:40:47.439 --> 1:40:49.840 when this guy gets on there and starts breaking down 1:40:49.880 --> 1:40:55.740 their polls, uh, And compares them to, you know, does the, 1:40:56.380 --> 1:40:59.000 and I forget what the word is, but, you know, 1:40:59.080 --> 1:41:01.360 all the polls, he talks about all the polls. And 1:41:02.100 --> 1:41:04.230 it doesn't talk just about one poll, but talks about 1:41:04.270 --> 1:41:07.950 all the polls. And he goes and he breaks it down. 1:41:08.010 --> 1:41:10.150 I think that guy does a pretty good job. I 1:41:10.189 --> 1:41:13.410 think he, it's the one, if there's one thing that 1:41:13.430 --> 1:41:16.510 CNN does good, I think they do a pretty good 1:41:16.570 --> 1:41:24.120 job of reporting things. what the polls reflect. And so 1:41:24.300 --> 1:41:27.100 he was spelling it out, how things are not looking, 1:41:27.520 --> 1:41:30.620 despite all the polls that show, uh, you know, Amy 1:41:30.740 --> 1:41:33.599 acting up in Ohio and all these Democrats and other 1:41:33.640 --> 1:41:36.290 parts of the country, El Saeed's got a, what a 1:41:36.410 --> 1:41:40.570 one or two point lead, uh, up in Michigan and 1:41:40.590 --> 1:41:45.750 all these other Democrats. Now he was breaking it down. Uh, 1:41:45.850 --> 1:41:48.639 and the numbers, uh, may not be all that great 1:41:48.680 --> 1:41:51.930 for the Democrats. And here's how that sounded. Let's hear 1:41:51.950 --> 1:41:52.790 cut number five, Russ. 1:41:53.850 --> 1:41:56.889 Yeah, you know, we've had really good Democratic polls coming 1:41:56.950 --> 1:41:57.950 out from Ohio. 1:41:58.410 --> 1:41:59.729 Michigan, Iowa. 1:41:59.750 --> 1:42:02.510 And, you know, fool me once, shame on you. 1:42:02.910 --> 1:42:03.990 Fool me four times. 1:42:04.050 --> 1:42:06.620 I just have to ask the question, could it happen again? 1:42:06.700 --> 1:42:09.780 Because just take a look at this. Okay, Midwest polling misses. 1:42:09.820 --> 1:42:13.479 GOP outperformed September polls by in the major 2024 races. 1:42:13.500 --> 1:42:15.599 That is, President and Senate in the states that had 1:42:15.640 --> 1:42:17.720 a Senate race. In Iowa, where the Democrats have been 1:42:17.740 --> 1:42:20.950 getting really good polls, Republicans outperformed their September polls by 1:42:21.030 --> 1:42:22.610 nine points back in 2024. 1:42:22.610 --> 1:42:24.270 How about Ohio? Six points. 1:42:24.490 --> 1:42:25.290 How about Michigan? 1:42:25.650 --> 1:42:26.309 Five points. 1:42:26.450 --> 1:42:28.750 And I will note that the leads that the Democrats 1:42:28.790 --> 1:42:31.670 have in all of these races right now are under 1:42:32.050 --> 1:42:35.260 how much the GOP outperformed back in 2024. So you 1:42:35.280 --> 1:42:36.120 look at this and you. 1:42:36.000 --> 1:42:37.220 Go, you know what? 1:42:37.600 --> 1:42:40.680 Maybe we should just hold on a second here because 1:42:40.720 --> 1:42:42.939 we've seen this dance before and it was not a 1:42:43.000 --> 1:42:45.400 dance that Democrats like when the votes are actually cast 1:42:45.439 --> 1:42:45.760 and counted. 1:42:45.800 --> 1:42:47.940 Okay, but a skeptic could look at this and say, Harry, 1:42:47.979 --> 1:42:49.849 this is 2024. Donald Trump was on the ballot then. 1:42:49.910 --> 1:42:51.590 What about races where the president's not on the ballot? 1:42:51.610 --> 1:42:51.870 Yeah, exactly. 1:42:51.890 --> 1:42:52.570 Exactly right. 1:42:52.590 --> 1:42:56.810 So, you know, 2024, 2020, 2016, Donald Trump outperformed in 1:42:56.850 --> 1:43:00.030 these three states by significant margins. But what about a 1:43:00.110 --> 1:43:02.490 midterm election? You can go back to Donald Trump's first 1:43:02.530 --> 1:43:05.530 midterm election, and it's the same exact story. Look at this. 1:43:05.570 --> 1:43:09.589 The GOP outperformed September polls in the major 2018 statewide 1:43:09.630 --> 1:43:12.490 races by six points in Iowa, six points in. 1:43:12.490 --> 1:43:14.510 Ohio, and eight points in Michigan. 1:43:14.770 --> 1:43:17.689 The bottom line is this. Over the last few cycles, 1:43:17.729 --> 1:43:23.870 whether it be 2018, 2016, 2020, 2024, Republicans have outperformed 1:43:23.890 --> 1:43:26.750 their September polls by at least five points in all 1:43:26.810 --> 1:43:30.650 these three states where Democrats right now are ahead, but 1:43:30.840 --> 1:43:34.040 not by a wide enough margin whereby if Republicans outperform 1:43:34.060 --> 1:43:37.600 their September polls again, it could become very, very interesting. 1:43:37.620 --> 1:43:42.280 So there's a lot there to unpack. But essentially what 1:43:42.320 --> 1:43:46.340 he's saying is that the leads that are being shown 1:43:46.400 --> 1:43:49.939 right now in these polls are do not hold up 1:43:50.020 --> 1:43:54.479 to the actual results when people vote in November. And, 1:43:54.500 --> 1:43:58.219 of course, the early voting starts. It hasn't started yet. 1:43:58.300 --> 1:44:05.229 It's going to be starting pretty soon. So the polling numbers, 1:44:05.240 --> 1:44:08.330 I think, at least the way he breaks them down, 1:44:08.930 --> 1:44:13.130 I think are more reflective with at least the anecdotal 1:44:13.189 --> 1:44:16.390 evidence that I see in Ohio and some of these 1:44:16.450 --> 1:44:20.870 other races. What else do we have going on? We 1:44:20.910 --> 1:44:26.669 have a ruling now from a federal court that training 1:44:27.210 --> 1:44:36.530 on critical race theory creates a hostile work environment. Hostile 1:44:36.570 --> 1:44:39.610 work environment. Been a little while since I heard that phrase. 1:44:40.340 --> 1:44:41.780 We used to talk about it all the time at 1:44:42.280 --> 1:44:44.220 some of the other places that I worked. We talk 1:44:44.260 --> 1:44:47.460 about it here. You got to watch a video every 1:44:47.500 --> 1:44:51.820 year and It tells you how to do things, say things, 1:44:51.920 --> 1:44:55.400 and treat people so you don't create a hostile work environment. 1:44:57.340 --> 1:45:02.700 But this has to do with Seattle and Seattle's race 1:45:02.939 --> 1:45:09.780 conscience training program for municipal employees might violate Title VII 1:45:09.800 --> 1:45:14.010 of the Civil Rights Act, as well as the Washington 1:45:14.050 --> 1:45:19.070 Law Against Discrimination Act. by creating a racially hostile work 1:45:19.130 --> 1:45:25.150 environment for whites. This is a ruling from a three-judge 1:45:25.189 --> 1:45:31.189 panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. I said 1:45:31.260 --> 1:45:37.640 the Ninth Circuit. And the Ninth Circuit, for as long 1:45:37.700 --> 1:45:42.960 as I can remember, has been maybe the most liberal 1:45:43.020 --> 1:45:47.890 circuit of all the circuits that are out there. I mean, 1:45:47.950 --> 1:45:54.450 just one terrible liberal ruling after another. But this time 1:45:54.510 --> 1:46:01.790 they seem to be making some sense. So the appeals 1:46:01.830 --> 1:46:06.830 court ruled this week. It reinstated former city employee Joshua 1:46:08.830 --> 1:46:14.780 Dimert's nearly four-year-old lawsuit for harassment and retaliation through Seattle's 1:46:14.880 --> 1:46:19.320 race and social justice initiative, which is based on critical 1:46:19.380 --> 1:46:24.660 race theory and cleared it for a jury trial, finding 1:46:24.700 --> 1:46:27.990 that he had established a genuine issue of material fact 1:46:29.830 --> 1:46:37.010 on whether Dymert's treatment violated title seven and, um, WLAD, 1:46:37.070 --> 1:46:41.350 whatever that is. I guess that's Washington's law on, uh, 1:46:43.490 --> 1:46:49.720 Oh yeah, Washington's law against discrimination. The pervasiveness of CRT, 1:46:49.760 --> 1:46:52.519 the academic and legal argument that racism is part of 1:46:52.600 --> 1:47:00.080 everyday American society isn't unique to one Seattle department. Diamond's 1:47:00.140 --> 1:47:03.780 claims mirror those about Seattle public schools and its public 1:47:03.820 --> 1:47:09.960 library system and prosecutor's office. So I don't know about you, 1:47:09.979 --> 1:47:15.639 but If you've ever had to go to these critical 1:47:15.740 --> 1:47:22.200 race theory training sessions, it's my way of thinking they 1:47:22.280 --> 1:47:27.270 are inherently racist. Because you go in there and the 1:47:27.310 --> 1:47:29.889 instructor looks at you and says, oh, you're a white guy. 1:47:29.910 --> 1:47:36.630 Here's the biases that you have. Here's the racism that 1:47:37.030 --> 1:47:38.550 you don't even know you have. And I'm here to 1:47:38.610 --> 1:47:44.650 tell you, That you have racism and you don't even 1:47:44.689 --> 1:47:47.059 know it. That you're a racist and you don't know it. 1:47:47.950 --> 1:47:51.309 And then they start going through all these scenarios, at 1:47:51.330 --> 1:47:59.439 least the training that I was at. And they start 1:47:59.479 --> 1:48:02.280 talking about all these different things that can happen in 1:48:02.320 --> 1:48:06.720 the workplace. And I'm thinking to myself, you know, I've 1:48:06.820 --> 1:48:11.420 already done this in real life. I've met people, and 1:48:11.439 --> 1:48:13.479 I mean, a lot of it happened when I was 1:48:13.520 --> 1:48:17.059 in the Air Force. A lot of it happened at 1:48:17.540 --> 1:48:21.800 previous places that I had worked. where you have people 1:48:21.880 --> 1:48:27.430 of different cultures, different races, and as a human being, 1:48:27.810 --> 1:48:30.690 you're able to talk to them and work with them 1:48:30.770 --> 1:48:36.610 and interact with them. And you, as human beings, you 1:48:36.710 --> 1:48:39.969 find ways that you can find common ground on different issues. 1:48:42.800 --> 1:48:48.600 And they wanted to pretend as if, well, you are 1:48:48.660 --> 1:48:50.820 just not smart enough to do this on your own. 1:48:50.860 --> 1:48:55.799 You need someone like me who has some fancy title. 1:48:56.740 --> 1:48:58.780 And whether it's real or not, I mean, who knows? 1:49:00.000 --> 1:49:02.660 You need someone like me to give you a PowerPoint 1:49:02.720 --> 1:49:06.750 presentation or make you go through these different exercises and 1:49:06.790 --> 1:49:10.330 fill out these little pieces of paper and all that mumbo-jumbo. 1:49:13.439 --> 1:49:16.720 I can see how it would create a hostile work environment. 1:49:17.140 --> 1:49:19.320 And that's what the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has said. 1:49:24.050 --> 1:49:29.870 Let me see. The decision confirms Title VII protects every 1:49:29.950 --> 1:49:33.670 employee from a racially hostile work environment, regardless of race, 1:49:34.729 --> 1:49:39.410 said Dimert's lawyer. No one should have to endure years 1:49:39.550 --> 1:49:48.260 of racial hostility at work. And so it cuts both ways, 1:49:48.340 --> 1:49:54.040 and it should cut both ways. So here's a white 1:49:54.080 --> 1:50:02.290 guy who had to participate in all these idiotic programs 1:50:04.090 --> 1:50:08.230 in hopes of, I guess, reckoning with your own racism 1:50:08.910 --> 1:50:13.910 and all the rest of it. And it was highly offensive. 1:50:15.270 --> 1:50:18.410 I actually, at the end, I told the instructor I 1:50:18.810 --> 1:50:22.070 thought she did a pretty good job because it wasn't 1:50:22.270 --> 1:50:24.370 as bad as I thought it was going to be. 1:50:24.430 --> 1:50:30.590 But still, it was highly offensive, and I don't get 1:50:30.630 --> 1:50:36.150 offended easily. I pretty much had an expectation of what 1:50:36.210 --> 1:50:38.729 I was going to get when I walked in there, 1:50:39.060 --> 1:50:43.200 and it wasn't as bad as my expectation as I 1:50:43.240 --> 1:50:45.150 thought it was going to be. So I guess on 1:50:45.189 --> 1:50:48.929 that score, the woman who taught the program that day 1:50:49.030 --> 1:50:55.450 actually did an okay job. But the premise was still there. 1:50:57.490 --> 1:51:03.559 That if you're white, then you have these built-in biases. 1:51:05.229 --> 1:51:06.720 And I'm here to tell you how to deal with 1:51:06.760 --> 1:51:09.300 that and expose that to you because you don't know 1:51:09.900 --> 1:51:14.040 that you're doing it. And I'm thinking to myself, well, 1:51:14.060 --> 1:51:15.800 you know what? You don't know me. You don't know 1:51:15.840 --> 1:51:17.420 what I've been through. You don't know what my life 1:51:17.479 --> 1:51:21.570 experience has been. And now we have a federal court 1:51:21.750 --> 1:51:26.309 who says, yeah, this can create a hostile work environment. 1:51:28.110 --> 1:51:33.070 And so every once in a while, the Ninth Circuit 1:51:33.110 --> 1:51:37.229 Court of Appeals, they throw you a little surprise. Speaking 1:51:37.280 --> 1:51:40.519 of surprise, here's a little bit of surprise. When I 1:51:40.540 --> 1:51:44.350 was in the Air Force... I spent three years at 1:51:44.390 --> 1:51:47.300 Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. And one of the 1:51:47.340 --> 1:51:50.820 great things about being there was we had the SR-71 1:51:50.860 --> 1:51:56.100 Blackbird that was stationed there. And then I come and 1:51:56.140 --> 1:51:57.660 I said, I'm getting ready for the show today. And 1:51:57.700 --> 1:52:01.769 I see this article about NASA is quietly working to 1:52:01.830 --> 1:52:09.189 return one of the historic SR-71 Blackbird aircraft to flight. 1:52:10.090 --> 1:52:13.170 nearly 27 years after it last took to the skies. 1:52:15.090 --> 1:52:18.809 And I'm telling you, the SR-71 Blackbird, even though it's 1:52:18.850 --> 1:52:22.010 technology from the 50s and the 60s, for God's sake, 1:52:23.729 --> 1:52:26.710 still one of the coolest things you can ever see. 1:52:27.610 --> 1:52:31.760 When that thing goes rumbling down the runway, full afterburner, 1:52:32.960 --> 1:52:36.189 and I don't know, why, but it seemed to me 1:52:36.270 --> 1:52:38.790 like that thing was usually taking off as the sun 1:52:38.830 --> 1:52:41.349 was getting ready to set. Flew a lot at night. 1:52:42.770 --> 1:52:46.070 But that was just one of the absolutely coolest things 1:52:46.100 --> 1:52:51.360 you can see. The afterburners on those huge engines going 1:52:51.420 --> 1:52:55.160 up into the sky. And I thank God I got 1:52:55.200 --> 1:52:57.179 to see that. They bring one of those bad boys back, 1:52:57.580 --> 1:53:00.340 that'll be something to see. And I can't believe it's 1:53:00.360 --> 1:53:07.450 been that long since it's been an SR-71. And it's 1:53:07.490 --> 1:53:11.070 amazing because its altitude and top speed are still classified. 1:53:12.050 --> 1:53:15.650 With that, I got to go. It's 1155. My day 1:53:15.729 --> 1:53:19.170 is done. Have yourself a great Friday and a great weekend. Russ, 1:53:19.210 --> 1:53:22.729 thank you for everything. And stay tuned because America's Trucking 1:53:22.750 --> 1:53:25.070 Network with our buddy Kevin Gordon is coming up next. 1:53:25.870 --> 1:53:28.950 And we'll all enjoy that together. Here on the home 1:53:28.970 --> 1:53:30.160 of the best Bengals coverage, 700 WLW.